Worst night of RO in my life

[mgbosshogg]

I tend to find drinking large quantities of beer also causes such issues. Dunno why

Reverse for me. At least in my head anyway.

And OP , I have lots of games like that.

 

[|Brothers|-ktabz]

you guys forgot getting killed thanks to "cannot prone here" and "cannot deploy here"

 

[Gudenrath]

you guys forgot getting killed thanks to "cannot prone here" and "cannot deploy here"

Never got killed on account of that. Firstly because it is no longer a viable option while under fire to go prone to try and avoid getting shot (the best option in that case is to run for the nearest cover or shoot the one shooting at you), secondly because I don't play MG or AT.

 

[Wookie87]

Heh, after many years of drinking and playing fps' I have found that I gradually become better at playing with the first 3-4 beers, but drinking more than that my skills drastically decline.

Hah! This.

 

[CrossTrain]

Directed at OP: It seems you are emotionally attached to video games. Get a life.

You know, until this post (and fortunately it has only been this post) this thread is a breath of fresh air. Heck, reading through this post I even see guys that are usually on opposite ends of a discussion fraternizing. Refreshing. Thanks guys! If I had enough +1s to go around, I'd buy a round of them!!

To CMK, take your own advice. The thread is a good-natured one that ANY gamer can empathize with. Lighten up.

 

[Marza]

To CMK, take your own advice...

Eh, unfortunately CMK seems to exist purely to troll, a bit like effidy on the Killing Floor forums.

As for my worst night of RO? Deffo goes to me running around Pavlov's House as AT role for a whole round before realising tanks were disabled on the server. Derp.

 

[how2skate_com]

In this game I can kick *** one day and get humiliated the next. One day is awesome, the next day can suck.

It's like that with this game more than any other I've ever played, and for the most part it depends on your team.

For me, I just learned to quit when everything fails, because I know I can't enjoy the game like that.

 

[sbr32]

Heh, after many years of drinking and playing fps' I have found that I gradually become better at playing with the first 3-4 beers, but drinking more than that my skills drastically decline.

Sounds like me playing pool.

 

[ROII4Me]

Directed at OP: It seems you are emotionally attached to video games. Get a life.

I never spend much time on anything I do not care about.

For me this game is similar to playing a pickup game of basketball, where it is a relatively intense 20 minutes that allows me to test my own skills and set my ability against or along side the skill of others.

It is great fun and greatly frustrating at times, not unlike other pastimes like playing golf or pool.

It also requires teamwork, even if in a loose and sometimes chaotic matter.

It appeals to my competitive spirit. Does not matter if it is tic, tac, toe, I play to win and when playing with others I do everything I can to help my team win.

If we lose, I want to be able to feel I did whatever I could and did it well.

As for having a life, I have a full time job and otherwise spend a good deal of time answering email from all over the world seeking my opinion relating to acoustic guitars and I am a guitarist of some reputation as well. But I am known more for my writing than my playing.

I am not as busy with performing as I once was and I am no longer the artistic director of a NYC acting company, so I do have more spare time for RO than I had when I was playing Red Baron or Medal of Honor. But I cared about my team winning those matches no less then I do the RO matches I am in these days.

RO is a pastime that allows me to be an active participant rather than a passive couch potato in front of the TV. But it being a pastime is no excuse to not care about how well you do or how your performance affects your team's performance.

I wrote the OP with the intention of being funny. The abysmal level to which that evening sank was indeed absurd, made more so by my refusal to give in until I literally gave up.

RO is a great way disengage form the real world for a while. To each their own in terms of how much they care about the game.

But those who care not at all would be doing me a big favor if they always played for the other team, or better yet, uninstalled the game from their PC so they were not clogging up the servers with dead weight.

 

[GRIZZLY]

Heh, after many years of drinking and playing fps' I have found that I gradually become better at playing with the first 3-4 beers, but drinking more than that my skills drastically decline.

sounds like my guitar playing

edit: looks like someone beat me to it only it was pool lol

 

[RJ_MacReady]

Heh, after many years of drinking and playing fps' I have found that I gradually become better at playing with the first 3-4 beers, but drinking more than that my skills drastically decline.

I might have just found my clone. I don't even approach RO2 unless I'm after a devastating beer evening with my friends (and I mean that - devastating as my organism can soak up to 12 half-litre beers of 5.8%) ...
I come back home dizzied and I begin to wonder: wha the heck should I do with my time until it's a okay to watch the Internet porn. And the filler is almost always the RO2.
Yeah, I'm joking. But you get the big picture, don't you?
It's bloody hard to assault enemy positions while being sober. And its getting even harder when you overdose the beer... It's a matter of a golden balance.
But, now I know why the Soviets were giving out vodka before those BIG assaults, ye see?

 

[Grabbed_by_the_Spetsnaz]

Teetotalism FTW?

 

[Destraex]

It can certainly happen like that. Sometimes you get so frustrated.
Then you figure out its either bad luck or your just too tired to play and have not realised it yet.

 

[GRIZZLY]

Teetotalism FTW?

I lol'd

 

[RJ_MacReady]

Today, I've been:
- Mowed down by an MG-34-wielding JerrysunovayouknowwhatJohnnyRambo right after he entered a building and raised his weapon within a matter of miliseconds (Grain Elevator basement)
- Got stabbed lots of times by guys strafing around me while I was trying to stab them with my sharpey bayonette (I suck at strafing and CQB, I openly admit).
- Was vaporized by artillery ten times on a single round.
- My team was loosing every match
- I couldn't hit a fish in a barrel...
It was a terrible, terrible I tell thee. Half of the time, on the maps I dislike (like Train Station or whatever it's called), I ended up almost on the last place.

Still, it had its pleasant moments:
- I managed to incapacitate three Jerries in a row with my bayo on the first floor of A(?) objective of Apartments map, by sneaking through the basement.
- Took out an MG-34 gunner on a second floor of one of the objectives of Barracks map, by shooting through the wall with my trusted Mosin (most satisfying, heh heh).
- Killed an enemy commander while he was looking through his binoculars on Spartanovka map. This poor chap thought he was perfectly safe while sticking up his head from a shell hole near gullies.
- Nailed a Jerry (wielding MP-38 or 40, whatever) with a bayonet on Grain Elevevator's construction site while he was reloading. It was funny, because I tried to shoot him with my Mosin, but ran out of ammunition and I have hid my sorry *** behind a concrete pillar while he was spraying si vis pacem, para bellums at me. But at one moment he shouted something about his magazine being empty, so I rushed and poked him with my sting right in his eye.

So I guess that every cloud has its silver lining.

P.S. Oh, I forgot to add this. A Jerry literally jumped over my avatar in the park objective of Apartments and killed me. I was speechless. I didn't know you could jump in RO2? Or was he a cheater (it was a green PB server)? I don't really know what to think about it. -shrugs-