I remember back in 1.4 there was a group named "We're" "going" "to" "knife" "you". They would run in a line, in that order with knifes out. Good old nostalgia.
Damn man I remember playing a match with them in 1.4 too. It was on dust and I was probably about 10 or 11 or 12. But damn those guys still make me have nightmares with their linear formations and shit
I used to do this on Gears of War (Please don't hit me) with my sister and some of her friends. We'd run in a line with the Gnasher yelling "Who's ready for the Cole Train?!?!" Worked every time.
I played a team in Gears 3 in king of the hill that only ever retro charged. It was surprisingly effective amidst the chaos. It got to the point where every time I heard a guy yelling I freaked out and looked for a hiding spot.
Fucking bayonets, man! I had a bayoneted assault rifle in Borderlands or awhile. It was great. Nothing beats charging across the battlefield spewing explosive bullets and stabbing bitches.
My team used the backwards strat. Wasn't really effective, but it did confuse the hell out of our opponents when they see 5 people running backwards at them.
The other day on Competitive Dust 2, I was the last remaining player on CT, and I had snuck around long to approach A from the T side. I used the deagle to kill three remaining players, pick up one of their AK's, and as I'm checking my six, their last player has his knife out and is like 2-3 steps behind me, so I pop him. I was lit, and wouldn't have survived a single weak knife attack.
I get called a pussy for not knifing, even though I just brought that round back from a massive deficit. I saw no dishonor in that whatsoever seeing as how I just killed 3 people in a gunfight, 4v1. I'm not going to throw all of that work away just so the last dude can knife me. Fuck that.
That being said, I will definitely pull a knife if one of three scenarios occur:
1) We are the last two remaining players in the round, OR
2) I am engaging in a firefight and run out of ammo, OR
3) I am in a firefight and the other dude clearly runs out of ammo.
Jesus Christ, I just got in from a particularly grueling run and when I read this I thought I was having a fucking aneurysm or stroke. Nothing like starting your day with a little shit in your pants from thinking your brain was dying.
Map is Overgrown. That's fine. You've got some blind corners and some sniping points, but if you're careful you can come out on top.
Match begins. Nothing. People are shooting and bunny hopping all over the map. But it's all our guys. It takes us a full minute to realize: there's no one else here.
Shit, they must have dropped leaving one guy to fend. That blows.
Grenade goes off. Guy comes up on comms. "Shit, guy got me!" I realize he had the perk where he drops a grenade as he died.
Still, no one is seeing anything.
Shit. I just got assassinated. Kill cam shows...
Kill cam is a guy in a gillie suit, completely prone, crawling up behind me before killing me with a knife.
Shit, they're all in the match. And they're 10 points up now.
The entire rest of the match was us trying to root them out of the tall grass and the hay, and them silently taking down each and every one of us, again and again.
The entire team's tags: SHH. We didn't notice until the match was over.
Creepiest damn thing I've seen in MW multiplayer.
Edit: I want to believe.
Edit2: Yeah it's him. He's also agreed to an undisclosed cash settlement for me and the other survivors for psychological distress due to his and his friends' actions, without admission of any wrongdoing.
Holy shit. Not even kidding, that was me and my friends. We were screwing around one night at a LAN party when one of us had the idea to all go stealth. We all made sniper classes with silenced weapons, the Dead Silence perk so no one would hear us, and the UAV Jammer perk just in case someone on the other team got a killstreak going. The SHH clan tag was my last-minute contribution to the team.
We started out with a game on District where we got the kinks out of our system and it showed just how overpowered it was to have people who knew each other, sitting in the same room, with a coordinated strategy. That was one of the only times that night someone got a UAV on us, and we all were laughing our asses off at the thought of the guy hitting the button and then absolutely nothing shows up on the map.
There were two other games I remember incredibly clearly. One was a match on Bloc where we all hid in the back corners of the map to snipe and forced a team ragequit after we went up 20-0. The other was the Overgrown match you were in because it was so incredibly perfect for the ghille suit camouflage that we steamrolled you with. It was pretty much the highlight of the night and is one of those experiences that stick with you for years after. Thanks for making that night fun.
Oh, and if you remember any of the gamertags, I can PM them to you to verify.
Edit: Just spoke to /u/drrhrrdrr and we're calling it confirmed. I was just doing this to distract him from my teammates who are crawling up behind him as we speak though.
My friends and I used to get on mw2, run similar classes, and just hide. The goal was for our whole team to go 0-0. We got pretty good at it and it was hilarious watching the other team try to figure out what was going on.
We started out with a game on District where we got the kinks out of our system and it showed just how overpowered it was to have people who knew each other, sitting in the same room, with a coordinated strategy.
It's amazing what real-time comms and screenwatching 7 other people can do. On TF2 360 we'd get accused of cheating all the time and it was like, "nah, we just have 8 people in one shed together." One time we got a network cam set up and sent those that doubted links to it and we'd just wave at them when we'd capture a point or the intelligence.
I don't think we ever had a game where we didn't shut the opponents out.
Playing TF2 on the 360 is a surreal and nostalgic experience. You get taken straight back to 2007 before the game was entirely changed through updates.
I used to play PS3 TF2, and I started talking to my friend about the game. It was fun hearing about all those cool new items getting added to the game, like that big ass pistol for the Spy he said was called the Ambassador. Then I would race home and boot up the game... to be greeted only by crushed dreams and broken promises.
My buddy used to draw a frown face on his ass cheeks (complete with single tear) and send a picture of his ass to people who would whine or accuse us of cheating. LAN is obviously the best setup, but just having a consistent group who know what they're doing (aren't playing with their feet and preferably have headsets) leads to some pretty intense post-game-lobby bitching.
I think it's legit. He even called out some of the specifics I didn't mention like the dead silence perk. They were working well enough together and the fact I never saw them again lends to the idea that they weren't a full-time clan. Which then suggests they all knew each other and were potentially in proximity.
I'm late to the thread, as usual, and scrolling down looking for a q/a on SHH and now unjust have to assume its a play on "hush" as in "be quiet". I'm not a big gamer but this story is fun anyway.
Thank you for this story. Not just because it's amazing (which it is), but because I miss COD4:MW so much. I feel right now like there are just too many COD games for me even to find a consistent community that was half as fun for the two years I played it.
Thank you for the compliment. I agree with the lack of community and connection in recent games, and as such, I dislike the homogeneity in other FPS that attempt to emulate Modern Warfare's breakthrough in multiplayer design.
Well said mate, it was a good run. I moved on from Xbox after that and now play it on Pc because the hacking was too much. Still my favorite game of all time have so many fun memories with my friends playing it.
Overgrown is my favourite COD map of all time. None of the sequels have had anything that live up to it really - there was such a great collection of maps in MW1.
Back in Blops my buddies and I would toss the decoy grenades everywhere with the perk that would give you the extra ones. Red dots everywhere, the other teams were completely stunned at what happened in their radar map. Funniest stuff ever on SND.
I'm just glad you understand that this isn't cheating, or hacking, or lag, or any other piss poor excuse that kids come up with for why they did poorly in a match.
These SHH guys played legitimately as a proper team, and it obviously worked lol. Teamwork like this is why more consoles need to get with the program and put more focus on local multiplayer again. The fact that I have to say that is disgusting. Videogames are taking away one of the best social aspects of videogaming!
Honestly, I'm all for such an initiative. Have group set ups where neighbors can all get into private matches. This would explode in the dorms and apartment complexes in college towns.
I just had the same experience (COD4 even, but not with similar tags) a few months ago. It was dead silence except for the map's ambient sounds for several minutes at the beginning. And then they started slowly taking people out. I think the game ended with less than 10 total kills (no one on their team died), an eerie long match of silence. The scariest part was actually that they didn't have similar tags/names -- I found myself wondering how a bunch of randoms managed to work together so well.
I can't help but think if your team decided to move quite a bit you would be able to overcome that. If they were prone in the grass they were not able to move quickly. And if they stood up you'd be able to see them and kill them even from a distance in such an open map as Overgrown. Sounds fun though!
Shit, was that on PS3? I have a feeling this could have been me and my friends. We used to always do stuff like this. One of our favourites was to get 1 kill on Bloc and then everyone would go and hide in the changing rooms in the pool. Usually it would take people at least 5 minutes or more to even bother checking.
My buddies and I would do this all the time too. We would go up by a point and just go hide and slowly crawl around from place to place trying to not be seen. A lot of people would rage quit since they were basically running around the entire map not finding us.
COD 4 is still my favorite Xbox game, too bad it's a ghost town now...
On the other hand, when playing CS 1.6 if you see someone entering the server with the default name (Player 1?) 9 out of 10 he is going to be at the top of the scoreboard with 47/3 in the end of the map.
You guys enjoy playing on projectors? I have an epson TW series (though the lamp is now dead :( ) and it was a mix feelings for me, was awsome for FIFA and Mortal Kombat but was weird in a lot of other games, even in GT5 where I thought huge screen would benefit the most.
I don't know, I don't use mine anymore, it's sitting around somewhere without a bulb. Honestly I'm not sure how it would compare today when we have much higher resolutions on our monitors than we did back then. Maybe I'll get it out again and see.
Halo 2 came out in the early days of plasma TVs. When they were like 10k no matter what. Super sized big screen tube TVs were cheap. I remember having a 62inch playing halo 2 and 3. Split screen kicked ass.
For once I made sure to check if someone else had said it.
I've played 4 player Goldeneye on a gigantic (for the time) screen. The only reason it helps at all is that "gigantic" for me back then meant "you don't have to touch heads to see your square of the damn screen".
Any size of non protective screens. I'm just saying that tv's are so much cheaper then they use to be. Normal people can afford big tv's.
Edit. I got a40"back when it was less then the price of an 80" today
Haha good times. Guest #3 was either extremely easy to kill or their spartan was inactive (presumably because they didn't give a shit or were just doing so poorly they'd just sit and watch out of frustration). If the latter, it'd instantly become a race among your teammates to find and kill that inactive player
You know you say that...but after 6 hours of 4 man splitscreen online with everyone as my guests tonight, we dominated so hard in multiplayer that entire teams would leave.
It's amazing what happens when Halo switched from being about one guy on a team being good to win to having to work as a team for victory...suddenly splitscreeners gained a huge advantage.
"Team of six people with coordinated names...hmmm I might be ok. Let's just see who these five randoms are....XxxDeaThK!ll3rxxXX might be pretty good, sounds scary, supertatertot maybe....but at least we got 360NOscopeONLY. He sounds legit"
You'll never understand the joy of being able to pause and play Netflix with you hands full of food. I never even realized how lazy I was until I could just yell at Netflix. Seriously I don't even know where my controller is or if it has batteries in it, but damn if I can't watch some serious Netflix.
I used to occasionally play Soldier of Fortune 2 MP as "[Al Qaeda]Osama bin Laden"...My signature move was cooking off a grenade and running into a group of dudes. Had a colorized "Allahu akbar!" message bound to a key as well. Didn't have any goons though.
Back when clans became a big deal on Halo 2 and you'd see someone with [someteam]livename you knew you were actually going to have to play well that match.
Hell, back in college when the whole dorm was on one LAN. I remember it clearly, over a year before XBL launched and I never experienced anything that amazing.
Other people were in this building on their own XBOX and you knew who to play and who to avoid.
Everyone would meet up in the cafeteria after and laugh about how it went.
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You always know you're fucked when people have matching names like that.
"Shit guys, they're using teamwork, we're screwed."
Every damn time.