The Darwin Awards. NS2 Chapter
Calego
Join Date: 2013-01-24 Member: 181848Members, NS2 Map Tester
Join Date: 2013-01-24 Member: 181848Members, NS2 Map Tester
Alrighty for those of you who don't know, the Darwin awards are given to people who remove themselves from the Gene pool in extremely stupid ways.
So, post your best self killing scenarios. Or the best ways people kill themselves without realizing it.
For me, I don't know how many times I've fended off a phase gate attack and then the last skulk runs up and detonates a mine on me that I placed... not cool.
So, post your best self killing scenarios. Or the best ways people kill themselves without realizing it.
For me, I don't know how many times I've fended off a phase gate attack and then the last skulk runs up and detonates a mine on me that I placed... not cool.
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Me and another onos were in crossroads killing marines, and we both chased one marine who jumped over a railing...naturally we both followed to get the kill only to realise he had jumped into the abyss.
Team was like: "Where the hell are those 2 onos?"
LOL I love those "oh... shit." moments. Personally, I got terminally stuck and fell in a hole in mineshaft after patiently saving for my onos.
The abyss in the gap is a great one. I have baited onos to charge to their death a few times there but not too often. As a skulk I like to hide under this little rock ledge and pop out for ambushes. I am not sure if they are trying to chase me or just get enough over the edge to snipe me, but marines will fall off.
I bet he knows now why the room is called Crusher.
I'm also a big fan of the Crevice, like Hugh. I can manage to fall down there in the stupidest ways when in combat.
Despite knowing this, I often try to jump on pipes beside the walkway in Lava Falls when chased by more than 1 skulk. I always hope they will miss-time their jumps and fall into the lava. Yeah. Guess what. Skulks are sticky to walls... marines not so much.
The underneath of landing pad is my worst problem for this. I like to pop under there as an escape route if I can't get into terminal/cafe safely. As a skulk, I almost ALWAYS miss the careful walk from the side of landing pad to the underneath of it. So annoying! Also as lerk there, it's great to fly underneath to wind up for a quick exit or to attack marines from another angle.. only the death zone is REALLY high up (this really should be lowered a bit, or some visual indicator of where it is tbh). A couple of times now I've just flown a little too low under there and BAM. Natural causes.
I guess this is why they call it Natural Selection.
*applauds*
One time in crusher I tried to sneak in the vent but a skulk comes to bit me, I killed him but I lost too much time (he was blocking me) and I died crushed.
Crusher again, just after the crusher was added I said to a friend "hey check the new thing in the vent!" he walked in with a gorge & died ^^
On cave I was shooting the hive from behind the waterfall and 2 skulks tried to kill me and jumped to their death. A lerk got me later.
Once I tried to evolve to gorge in landing pad to bile cafet or terminal. My egg fall through the floor
*ba-dum tshh*
So basicly any lava pit has killed my skulk or fade at least once.
Also I often forget a window has glass in alien view so I get splattered by bullets while I try to figure out why I can not get passed it. hahaha
A month or so after release, I was lone wolfing it into refinery and killed 2 skulks at the very beginning of mid-game. Out of the blue comes a fade and I get pretty anxious and know I'm screwed so I hopelessly shoot and try to dodge. Well, turns out the fade held down strafe as he was shift blinking towards me and he ice skated off sideways right into the lava and died. Many laughs were had
Another not-so-embarrassing but equally funny event:
When your mouse wheel decides to scroll causing you to switch to parasite right as you engage a marine. lol. Always da bes.
Guess how 1 gorge vs 5 marines does. I was supposed to bile bomb from a safe distance, but something went wrong in my brain processes.
It's a very close game on summit and our 2:nd hive in Data Core is getting attacked by almost the full marine team. I've just reached 50 res while biting a node in Flight contro, and we have no lifeforms to defend the hive with. So even though I'm not a very good fade I decide to evolve to try to help the team push the marines out. I run over to Summit reception and evolve there since it is infested, so I can get misted. Since I'm a communicative player I yell "I'm going fade to help defend the hive, will be done in a few seconds!". I pop out of the egg and try got get as fast as possible to Data core, proceeding to shadowstep right over the railings in Crossroads and plunge to my death within 3 seconds of evolving. Half a minute later someone says something along the line of "Where is the fade?!". My reply was uncharacteristically short: "I died". 50 res not well spent.
Runner up:
On Refinery I was doing pretty well as a lerk and the Marine team didn't seem to have any awesome players on it. I was at something like 24-3 and felt like I was playing great. When I finally died I had enough to go fade and try it our again (I normally just play skulk, gorge or lerk). I get over to lava falls and encounter two marines, who at this time have no shotguns or serious upgrades, and aren't very good players. I've probably killed these two as lerk 4 times each already. I take *one* down and then just keel over and die to the second one, just getting one swipe in. At least that took care of any potential hackusations.