Killed TheB33f, got all proud of myself, set 100% throttle, and, typed, "B33f! It's what's for dinner!" As I typed, his team-mate circled behind me and blew out my shoulder... Kinda hard to boast when you make yourself such an easy and foolish target. Dumbass me.
LOL, AWESOME! My buddy ShadowPuppet got his 5 seconds of fame after he stole (or secured) my kill on the B33f in his latest Poptart video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVPcoUN7m_Y&list=UUmxv6LmrmYXZxX0mt-cNQiA&feature=share&index=2
For being such a short video, I love that one. But it was his Dovahpult video that convinced me to go back to a direct-fire CPLT-C1 build (Very similar to the "Soy's Thunder-CAT") I will admit, any time I die and do less than 100 damage (*coughithappenscough*) I always look to see if something heavier did worse than I did. That way I don't feel my death is quite as "Embarassing" as being the assault to score less than a light 'Mech that got blewed up early.
There was a similar thread a while ago. I'll never forget being in the middle of a great round for the solo tourny, River City Night, just demolishing a huge group of enemies at their base [the lower one w/ the ship in the back]. I was hugging the edge of the zone and rocking back and forth on it, well, I forgot to rock forward at one point and just killed myself. It would have been an amazing round but I basically violated one of the cardinal rules - be aware of your surroundings, especially if those surroundings are flashing a capital-lettered warning in your face for several seconds.
Ahhh you just reminded me of my most rage inducing death... :angry: HPG... you know whats coming when I say that right? Was on a good but not brilliant fight - 3 kills and they were down to 1 irritating LL stalker (from memory) that was on the outer wall. Being a firestarter I thought... easy kill (though I'd not been on the wall before......)!!!!!!!!!!!! Ran up there from the ramp and sneaked towards his back. Somehow his esp sense went and he swivels right around pointing straight at me and unleashes the ll's on me. Sadly my armour was already red so as i was totally in the clear I jumped off and jj'd to soften my fall. ... except apparently the back side there is out of bounds... No way to get to safety again .... Boom. Raged at myself. Was raged at by someone that was dead.... and counter raged back... Took smug satisfaction that the ll stalker then killed the other two survivors and we lost.
Just gave a Griffin a death he should have found excruciating embarassing... :whacko: Standing on top of HPG in my Firebrand and the other side have a good firing line on the tier just below - three are pop tarting up. A griffin jumps up and I think "bonus" as I'm pointing straight at him at maybe 200-250m ... blam with dual AC5/PPC. Well that was easy... free damage on a pop tarter is never to be sneezed at. Then he jumps up again in the same spot... ok... blam... He'd never do that again right.... huh?!?!? ... blam.... Well he did actually try a fourth time. To give him his due he did move a bit to the side... and then jump up straight pointing in my direction... swivel... BLAM! Thanks for the free kill. Their name will remain anonymous and they'll probably poptart volley me from behind when I'm not paying attention sometime for revenge.
I am pretty sure I was on your team that game. I also think I had been recently killed by you a few rounds earlier, so I was thinking to myself "Yea! You show them! I'll show those fools how awesome my CAT A1 Is too!" And then having a wonderfully embarassing sub 100 damage game... I've had my fair share of depressingly horrible deaths, I'll have to screencap some. (I may have a video of one somewhere, I'll have to check)
Found Tounce's most embarrassing death... although HE had nothing to be embarrassed about... Still makes me giggle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-KBd_5M2aI
Last night, on HPG Manifold. My Thud was cherry-red in the CT. They were down to a single mech. We still have about 4 or so. I come running up a ramp and not paying attention to the blue triangles, I stepped in front of an allied mech, whom I was on TS with, and BOOM. TKed mere moments before the Banshee offed the last enemy - he was trying to get a shot off on the last remaining mech so he could get an assist and I crossed in front just before he clicked his trigger. D'Oh.
Something similar happened to me yesterday. Skirmish on Tourmaline, two unfriendlies left, 1 Catapult. I lined up my shots, 1st dual ER PPCs, while the Streaks acquired a target lock, then streaks (I held the button pressed, when targeting acquisition began). The same moment the streaks lock and go off, an Orion stumbles in the missiles' flight path, just in front of me, even blocking complete LOS to the Catapult, and explodes. No chance to release the trigger in time. Usually I express my regrets when hitting a team mate, but I was just too stunned.
Not an embarrassing one, but had a match the other night where I started off, took 3 steps...and ate a teammate's AC/20 to the back and died in 1 shot. :angry: Only good point was where the other two teammates (one with Gauss, one with AC/20) immediately turned and back-shot him to death in return. Jerk... Edit: Adding in this one as an "embarrassing kill" Had a guy distracted by teammates, but not hitting them much, in a Victor trial mech. He was under the middle area in Manifold...problem is, my Jenner was behind him and 3 teammates. I unload 6 MLas into his back...guy doesn't budge. I alpha again, STILL doesn't budge. I alpha a third and final time, coring and killing him. "WTF, 1-shot insta crit kill? You frigging hacker!" Spent the rest of the match laughing at him more and more as I killed 4 more of his teammates from behind while he raged. Best part? His name was Noobatron 9000...so he fulfilled the requirements
Wasn't embarrassing for me, but it was hilarious non the less and I had to share. On-top of the hill on Alpine (I9) in my 3-Gauss Ilya. A spider ran through our team and retreated over the ridge (G8) I typed in chat "oh no! Come back spider! I want to play!" he said "is there cookies?" I responded "uh... yes... three large cookies..." I see him come over the hill toward us (H9). I immediately legged him @ ~500m with the first alpha only seconds after he came into sight. Second shot ripped through his torso. First Blood I couldn't stop laughing. Then he typed "you lied, there were no cookies..." I wish I had recorded that... I thought I had a screen-grab but I couldn't find one.
It's always nice to meet friendly and fair pilots. Too many players would have called you a noob faggot aimboter and blame their useless PUG teammates for their death.
I recently dropped and the first chat that popped up was a guy yelling, "IT'S A NARC BEACON NOT A NARC MISSILE!" To which, I replied, "NARCotics? " Hoooooo boy. That set him off. He started yelling at me to, "change my tampon," and, "grow the f*** up." I was beside myself! I jokingly tried to say something light, and, his reply was blind hatred. I, once again, tried to lighten the spirit, and, said, "Whoa! Lotta hostility, buddy! Let's all just get along and smack some robots! " More hate. Well, he (of course) marched to the center of Mordor, was the first man killed and started screaming about how no one supported him and we were all a bunch of "limp dicks." I tried to ignore him, but, evidently he was spectating me, and, started trying to call me out for everything I did... "Chattahah, what the f***! Shoot the legs!" - "Chattahah, HIS SIDE IS OPEN!" ect. At this point, I had just nabbed my third kill, and, responded, "'Player Name' You've been dead for five minutes, let me do my thing, don't worry, I'll get your win, and, give you some C-Bills." End of round, our team wins, I had around 700 damage, and, 4 kills. The Hateful Basher had less than 50 points of damage, and, still felt the need to say, "Chattahah is a faggot. Just waited for his team to die and killsteal." I have no words. I don't understand. I tried to joke around and he was blindly aggressive. So, yes, it is very nice to have friendly and fair pilots with a sense of humor. The opposite is quite irritating! Much love to all MechWarriors! Let's have some fun!
Last spring when I'd been playing a couple of weeks I'd just layed down the jack on my first heavy a shiney new Cat K2. Very first match after outfitting it with the 2 ERPPC/2 LLas build. I'm last one on my team alive against what I know is a Jenner cause I'm in a spinning fight with him in the water and one other mech somewhere. Only thing holding my K2 together is a prayer and the Jenner overheats right in front of me. I bust off my 2 ER's and I get the 'Roosterfish killed so and so' message. So I spin about to go back up high to snipe the other mech thats left. I take about 3 steps and I take 6 MLas up the poop chute. Yes, only 1 ERPPC bolt hit the Jenner, the other goes past his shoulder and kills the other mech a Commando as he rounded a building like 500m away. That's when I learnt the value of Zombieland Rule #2 'The Double Tap'.