Reply with your "cheapest" KF story

[nutterbutter]

I'm on Foundry on Hard level. I joined when there were 3 players about wave 3 or 4. As they died, they would quit and new players joined. The trader was at the back of the map and 3 or 4 other players were at the third floor corner (sigh).

One specimen was left so I left the big double wheels (where I fight on foundry) and headed for the trader. I got about halfway there and another player killed the last specimen. I get to trader, refill, and get out. As I'm running up the big pipe, the other players are finally arriving. As I get to the first set of stairs, the spawning players pass me. I typed "Don't get caught down there. Bad joo joo." I make it to the double wheels and the wave starts.

5 seconds into the wave new guy killed by flesh pound. Then another drops to a siren or something. Then another. And another. They got caught down there and they didn't fight they way out. Then another. I get the message "You're the only one left." I quick check show 220+ specimens left. Fantastic.

I stay in the middle for as long as I can then I start the loop and I kill specimens. I've got the xbow, dual cannons and the 9mm. Nothing is really a threat to me except multiple Husks shooting from across the map. I'm doing the loop and I'm doing ok. Armor is gone but so are many specimens.

For some reason, I'm going counter-clockwise on the loop and I'm getting ready to go up the steps on the right, next to the big wheel. I've got 37 health so I heal. There are a little over 40 specimens left. I equip dual cannons so I can take take of anything on the steps. Everything is behind me, a quick scan up the steps shows nothing on the steps or the next level. I run up the steps make a left a second later "Your squad was wiped out" WTF? I look and a scrake had spawned directly on me. Insta-kill. No chainsaw sound. Just dead when a scrake happened to spawn between the half second I looked up and when I turned to the left and took a step. Pretty cheap. But yes, this is why I love the game.



Second "cheap" moment.

I'm on foundry on the bottom floor between the dual wheels again. A group is in the third floor. I think it is wave 9 or 10. I've fighting as usual and holding my own then there is an FP RIGHT THERE. I'm dead. I type 'WOW" Turns out the FP was on the third floor and did a swan drive right on top of me. Gotta love it.

 

[koneko]

A sharpshooter and I are sitting inside the house on Manor. He's level 6 and apparently has no idea how to play the class, because he's standing 2ft in front of an FP and isn't even hitting it in the head with his x-bow(this is noting that he couldn't hit it in the face while it was walking down a long hallway toward him too).

I'm ready to start unloading on the FP since I knew he was about to enrage it. The FP enrages right on top of him, but before I could shoot at it, it knocks him out of the way and rushes 20ft across the room to kill me. I wasn't surprised when it proceeded to kill him seconds later.

 

[Undedd Jester]

Had a number of cheap deaths that are pretty much the same except to location, but this was easily the one I remember most. Nice story btw Nutter, Fleshpound one made me LoL .

I was playing as a Firebug in Offices with a bunch of mates, I was deliberately holding back my fire to allow them to rack up their kills throughout the game, however on wave 6 things started getting a little bit rough.

We were holding the second floor to third floor stairwell and I switched location to assist the upper group as they were taking a pounding from endless waves of gorefasts and crawlers (they were only level 3 on hard bless em). So I gave a quick hosing to beat the group back to give them some breathing space. As I did 2 husks came around the corner, little threat to me, but a clear distraction on rest of the team.

Sadly at this moment our commando decided to come up stairs with us for a piece of the action leaving the medic to deal with the far more quiet lower stairwell alone... it was that exact moment a Scrake comes around the corner with a siren in toe and quickly closes in on our boy. Too late he realised the threat and being alone he fired a panic shot and angered the Scrake to charge at him.

With a Scrake chewing on his hide the Medic quickly dropped to the Sirens scream. Knowing my own weakness against a severely agitated Scrake I ignited it to hopefully bring it down to handling level for the others but focused on knocking out the Siren. Meanwhile the Husks were bombing the upper group and cutting their way through the team. The combination saw the Scrake slice his way through 2 more players and assisting the Husks in taking out another before he dropped. The other player was quickly blocked in under a shower of clots stalkers and crawlers and dealt with mercilessly.

Reasonably trapped myself, I hosed the area down and cut my way through the Zeds to make my way downstairs. My armour gone and around 75% health I quickly healed up to 95 and faced off towards the stairs to eliminate the threat surrounding the 2 Husks. At that moment I heard the familiar chatter of those spidery bastards and realised I was stood underneath a crawler vent.

Slightly panicked I fired up into the vents to try and knock them out before they could reach me and jumped to the side to avoid their attack... as I did one of the husks fired to my side and although it did no damage it propelled me out of the the window to the floor below. I fell a little further than normal onto the car and only had 4 hp left.

My syringe still recharging from the heal seconds earlier I flared trying to ensure nothing from the window was going to reach me... only to have a clot spawn on the truck a meter behind me and nibble my ear for the kill...

... there were 8 specimens left

Cheap, but rather awesome

 

[Yomommassis]

(im playing off the buggy specimen attack system)

Westlondon suicidal wave 5 6 man team holding the gate (pre husk update, no lvl 6's) welding the gate as a lvl 5 support specialist holding it at 100% a single gorefast runs up onto the gate and a commando opens up on it with his machinegune causing it to do the rapid fire attack bug, instead of
ting ting......ting ting.....ting ting.....
i hear
tingtingtingtingtingtingtingtingtingting
the gate goes from 100% weld to 10% instantly then explodes, the gorefast continues to swing with lightning fast blade and i explode on impact.
we lost that round due to that bug.




there are other times when playing where i managed to get one shotted by a gorefast and another time by a stalker while having 100% health 100% armor

 

[synecdoche]

I was playing on departed recently and people have figured out how to get on top of a building near the train tracks. No specimen can get up there so everyone is just shooting at the huge pile beneath them. What's the fun in doing that?

I think that part of the map needs to be fixed. I could understand if it was just a custom map, but it's up there with the official ones. Sitting and shooting specimen without any possible threat seems cheap to me.

 

[Deafmute]

So I was playing suicidal Manor with random pubs. We were doing alright for a pub game; someone died pretty much every round but we made it to wave 10. Toward the end of wave 10 with ~40 specimens remaining, a Sharpshooter messes up (I was Commando) and two Scrakes kill everyone except me and this level 6 Zerker.

At this point we're trying to kite the specs around the map and doing pretty well until we turn the corner into the caves and two FPs, a Husk, three Sirens and a bunch of Gorefasts spawn literally right in front of our eyes. Just dropped down out of goddamn nowhere and slaughtered us.

Worst. Death. Ever.

 

[SMIFF]

Laying pipebombs getting ready for the patriarch, when 3 of them decide to blow up for no reason at all, killing me instantly.

 

[Archanghel]

^^ probably, you just haven't heard patty exclaimed his "One in the pipe!!" i experienced this a couple of times while holding or laying pipes and patty rocket launched my position even several miles away..

ontopic:
cheapshots mostly by a raged Fleshpounder who can smell me up even if i'm the farthest player several meters away and being the number one in his list to "tenderize". and everybody knows that commandos sucks on fps and almost always wont survive even if other players valiantly tried to kill it.

 

[HalfDemon]

Patriarch spawned literally on top of me, despite being in the middle of my team on Flithscross Suicidal. Enough said.

 

[vealck]

I described my cheapest death moment on another topic, when I was arguing with Nutterbutter about insta-kill spawns.

Basically, I was running from medium horde on waterworks (suicidal), I'm on full health and with decent amount of armor remaining, but gotta reload everything, so I'm putting my back in small room near the conveyor belts - things (the one with trader doors and a banner 'great work day') - It's empty and there are no vents there. As I reload and face the oncoming zeds, a fleshpound, bloat and two sirens spawn in that tiny room right behind me, and my head explodes from their screams, before even fleshpound has a chance of touching me.

 

[Sammers]

Normally FPs appear on wave ten in pairs. You'll usually get a pair at the beginning of the wave, then maybe a couple more dotted about across the wave. We got FOUR AT ONCE. Our Xbox-man wasn't able to handle them all along with the usual swarms that accompany them, so we all got boned in about 10 seconds flat. We were all trying super hard to get an achievement for a friend and weren't prepared in the slightest for four at once...
It was only on normal though, since I was playing alongside friends who just bought The Game in the sales and I went Medic to let them get more kills. Recipe for disaster.

Another one was the usual dude kiting as level 6 medic once the rest of the team died on Hard. He had 120 specimens to kill and had full godly medic armour to help. He whittled them down to 22 zeds after tearing through Fleshpounds, Scrakes and pretty much anything The Game could throw at him. In the end, three Sirens appeared right next to him and killed him INSTANTLY after a simultaneous scream of death...
Raging.

 

[Deadbolt]

i was playing dreamhouse with some friends, where we held the stairwell, 2 ppl watching the top, the other 4 at the bottom. moderately far trader makes it so half the team makes it back on time for wave 10, while our 2 sharpshooters arent back in time. 2 fleshpounds spawn in between us, another one comes from upstairs hallway, along with 2 sirens. we manage to take down them all leaving only 1-2 of us left with low health, when another fp rolls in with 2 sirens. insane wave 10.

 

[Niemand²]

My cheapest KF story ... I once played a round with the M14.

 

[Privateflake]

I've had many cheap moments, but there are only a few that have made me angry. One of those moments was on biotics lab, me and my uncle were waiting for the big bad boss man himself we stood next to the trader on the top floor. He spawns around the corner at the end of the hall, we spent the next few moments watching him walk around the corner and unload his machine gun at us. I remember trying to run to cover but since we we're still viewing that spawn cam of his, I ended up running in a circle.

There was another time, i remember a time I through down a pipebomb at the very beginning of a wave, only to have a group of clots spawn all around me and my now active bomb, my teammates heard a very disappointed "Son of a-" *BOOM* and a quick message stating that my innards we're covering the wall. I had quite a laugh over that one however.

 

[DarkLiberator]

My favorite would be I'm in the map KF-Offices on the third floor in the room next to the window, my three teammates are dead, and I'm about to lay pipes when the Pat appears like right outside the door, then rushes me and proceeds to "slap" me backwards, naturally, backwards meant the window and nothing else after that and I fell down to my death.


I laughed for like ten minutes.

 

[outofrealman]

One time I (6lv support) play biolab with one of my friend (6lv ss), we are defending the U room like most of the players did. We did good until wave 10.

Two flesh pound spawned right at the begining like they usually did. I lay down a pipe at the door, of couse, they set off the pipe and rages, we killed they first one before he even finish his raging animation. But the seond one is a ninja fleshpound, he ran at S shape like many gorefast did making me miss my hutting shotgun, I thought I have to take one hit before I can kill him. But what happens was I am instan killed with 100 armour and 100 health (the other zeds are still hitting the doors, I dont see ANY other zeds before I die).




And countless times I die from the cheap spawing. An empty hallway will most likely be full of zeds when you turn you face to the other side for 3 seconds. And you will either chop by 5 gorefasts/instan-killed by 2-3 sirens/puke by a bloat and then grab by a clot and die in seconds before you even have time to think "Oh ****!"

 

[outofrealman]

Normally FPs appear on wave ten in pairs. You'll usually get a pair at the beginning of the wave, then maybe a couple more dotted about across the wave. We got FOUR AT ONCE. Our Xbox-man wasn't able to handle them all along with the usual swarms that accompany them, so we all got boned in about 10 seconds flat. We were all trying super hard to get an achievement for a friend and weren't prepared in the slightest for four at once...
It was only on normal though, since I was playing alongside friends who just bought The Game in the sales and I went Medic to let them get more kills. Recipe for disaster.

Is that on manor? It seems some of the spawn points can spawn 4 fleshpound TOGETHER. I sometimes get 4 fleshpounds at the begining of wave 10 even on solo.... I think some spawn points of that map is bugged. The lagerest number of fleshpounds I faced on this map is 5 on SOLO. The first group spawn 4 fleshpounds and the second group spawn one more fleshpound with one siren and one scrake.

 

[Xolat]

And countless times I die from the cheap spawing.

L4D has the same problem, zombies appearing out of thin air in your line of sight. Shouldn't there be some script that prevents zombies spawning in locations where there is no visible entry point?

For example in Arcade Skatepark they spawn in completely sealed rooms...

 

[Crusher]

I westlondon last tradertime, me(lvl6 support) and 4 others go the trader in the dark basement. We buy our things and run out to the place with the large fence. I leave the trader last, the others are already there when suddenly patty spawns in the dark basement. I panic and try to run as fast as possible to my teammates. Luckely I make without damage. Just to give us a bit more time I start welding the door leading to the basement. But then pat shoots a rocket at it and the door explodes and I fly away, making everyone lol. And then pat kills everyone.

 

[Sammers]

Is that on manor? It seems some of the spawn points can spawn 4 fleshpound TOGETHER. I sometimes get 4 fleshpounds at the begining of wave 10 even on solo.... I think some spawn points of that map is bugged. The lagerest number of fleshpounds I faced on this map is 5 on SOLO. The first group spawn 4 fleshpounds and the second group spawn one more fleshpound with one siren and one scrake.

Nope, was on Bedlam I recall. And I know what you mean about Manor spawns. About half a year ago, there was a bug on manor that spawned an entire wave(nearly) of just one kind of specimen. Usually with me it happened with bloats or sirens, but It's been known to be Scrakes before.