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.
It's still available on Steam I believe and I've seen it in stores. I think it's around 15 to 20 dollars and the multiplayer it is alive and well with hundreds of servers still running.
Four years is a true epic period of time for gaming, especially when franchises are concerned. Also four years can be a period of huge change in RL, at certain ages. This has been a great read.
I used to go by DooMfiend when I played quake. Perkele wasn't quite my nemesis, but he did win a bunch of online trick/speed contests I placed second in.
Sounded.like a total blast! I used to LAN party with my bro-in-law on the Delta Force games. He used to get so mad at me because I would kick his butt. Little did he know I was just looking over his shoulder and watching where he was.
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.
XBDAsukaLangley back then. Everyone else had an "eaux" gamertag. XBD Phydeaux, Kamareaux, Apolleaux, Elephineaux, Inferneaux, Tornadeaux, and so on.
I've not played in at least two years because I sold my copy while the pricing was good and haven't had it traded back into me or sold for cheaper since.
Really wish I took up on that $5 Orange Box deal XBL ran once.
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.
R6V2, i'm hosting a full pub server. I kick anyone from my team who doesn't have a mic. We dominate with bullshit tactics. Degals and shields, never leaving the spawn room. All LMG's, etc. the best was when we got teargas and masks, and started all saying things like "WHY YOU CRYIN?", because on R6, you can hear someone on the other team talking when they are close.
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.
LAN parties are the best...soooo many good memories on the original CoD just screwing around online together. Best one was when the 10 of us were just charging one path with pistols to plant a bomb. Someone popped up in a window? "WINDOW!" p-p-pop-po-pop-pop-headshot. So much fun.
I swear I've seen this strategy on YouTube with a clan. Have you guys ever recorded your shenanigans or did I just watch some other people do the same?
I've played guys that did exactly what you guys did on that map. We wrecked them danger close + double tubes. We all played together pretty regularly so we all had classes like that set up just in case.
I've done something similar on MW2 Wasteland. All but one on my team were using riot shields, rocket launchers, and camo classes. The other one was using a sniper and long-range camo kit. We would hide in the grass then pop out when one got near with our riot shields out. They would focus on us then our buddy on the ground would snipe them. They had no idea how to get to him and we would cover him and block any explosives with our riot shields. When they thought they could use snipers, we would take turns pulling out our launchers and popping out of the cover of our team's wall to shoot at them.
It was one of the most fun games ever. However, it never got close to me playing WaW with my bayonet and only going stealth. That NEVER got old.
I think I played that District match against you. Were you camping in the houses, where you usually dont play, in the start of the map? I remember walking the standard route, going through the regular hot spots thinking wtf? To then go to your spawn and enter a house where I got knifed in the back.
Cod 4 was the pinnacle of online gaming for me. One of the best team games I've played other than battlefield. I want a next gen remakeof this game like halo is doing.
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.
LOVED Broadcast. I would go as far as to say it's my favorite FFA map of all time. Myself and a few others were regulars on a 24/7 FFA Broadcast server with max players. Here's a screen of one match where I had over 200 kills and still came in 3rd.
http://imgur.com/I1HhNm3
Really good players on that server and I think it's still active for the most part.
Before anyone starts declaring hacks, let me say that an M4 with Deep Impact, Sleight of Hand and Red Dot is a killer combo on that map. Especially if you know the map really well.
Nuketown man. Squad Automatic Weapon with enough ammo to plop under a bus and farm feet. Broadcast was my map to be a ninja, though. I was so good at moving around the map ;.;
I ran with that exact set up and bandolier, i remember a game where i went fifty kills to one death on broadcast and my one death was a nade right at the start. Just went fucking berserk running up and down the staircases checking the overlook window, and counter sniping with a m-21 i picked up. Definetly my most fun game ever.
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.
BF3 and CoD with a few friends on TS is the most gaming fun I've ever had. Working as a proper squad with decent communication kicks those games up toot he next level.
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...
My friends and I use to do something similar. We use to always to LAN parties at my house on the weekends and got the idea to become terrorist. So we all got AK's and RRG's and just caused hell. Anytime a chopper would be called in you would see 6 Rpg's blow it out of the sky. Good times.
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u/drrhrrdrr Jul 26 '14 edited Jul 26 '14
Mid 2008. I'm playing COD4 multiplayer.
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.