Duel

[TJ rock 101]

in medal of honor: HEROS 2 (wii)
i was online in a 16vs16 capture the flag game...
it was going mad because the game had gone on for hours and each team was getting pissed off and while all that was happening me and a enemy i was rivaled with were having private sniper fights, he got to a good place and killed my in my good place then i found a good place to take out his good places and so on... 1 shot kill then move somewhere else lol

 

[FURY_007]

in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 i was playing a heroes game and i was boba fett and another guy was Han Solo, so we jus kept having duels and it was pretty epic becasue we'd do this for a wehile, and we'd always get interuppted by jedi

 

[Silver]

I can't remember any specific fights, because it was a long time ago I played, but Rakion. That game is awesome. I was almost always worse at the game than my enemies, I'm not that good at it, my computer lags a bit, and it's a bit too fast-paced for me. I don't really do that buttonmashing and reflex thing well. I prefer it when there's more tactics involved and you can win even if you don't use cheap moves and have sensitivity on highest, turning around several times a second.

Anyway, the fights in that game, when against an opponent of similar skill is awesome. Pieces of armour flying everywhere, the brutal animations, just gripping someone by the neck and then smacking them with a hammer. It feels a lot like what is described in the link. You are really circling around each other, one move and you're dead. Especially as a mage, or blacksmith which are the slowest classes, and the ones I played the most. The one time I remember, and got reminded of by the link in the first post was when I was in a death match, just me and one other guy. I outmatched this guy, something that doesn't happen a lot. He complained a bit about it, and I took him in as my apprentice. Drilling him, telling him when to strike and when to wait. And commenting while we fought all the time. I circled him, and dodged every attack he made, easily.

Well, after that we fetched another person and went on a quest, I complained a lot about the newcomer, he was really slow, so he challenged me to a duel, my apprentice joined to watch. I had the worst situation every, I was a mage against an archer (to those who don't know, they're both ranged, and the archer is much faster. A good archer can shoot the mage so often the mage can't fire a thing, and runs faster. Even if the mage is to dodge one arrow and instantly try to throw a fireball the next arrow hits). Of course, I got my ass handed to me, over and over. Ashamed as I was to be so beaten in front of my apprentice, I asked permission to switch characters. Then it became a fight. I think I still lost, but this time it was close, and we were almost evenly matched (despite him being 20 levels aboce me I'm lucky that doesn't matter too much in that game). Then of course, before I could train my apprentice further they made some "updates" to the game that made it unplayable. Literally. It won't start on my computer. Or any of my friends. Or for that matter anyone I've talked to about it in Sweden.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

i will always remember you PapaSmurf2169

I've played against that dude! He was one hard b@stard. Like you I grew to respect his skill. Quite often we'd spot each other across the chaos of the battlefield and charge, assault rifles spewing a heavy volume of lead, grenades sounding off behind us, plasma hissing past our ears, until one of us was felled. There was no b1tching or animousity, just pure competitive spirit.

A couple of times I had him on my team. He proved as good an ally as he was an adversary.

 

[AlphaWolf13]

Wonderful story. Reminds me of some Counter-Strike Source matches I played in. Ha, you never forget the ones where you almost single-handily beat an enemy team. Or on PuBs when you miraculously go 8v1 and win the round... (I know 8v1 sounds ridiculous, and I did use a lot of distractions and skill, but I still think I was just lucky and that they must have been newB's)

In any case, the best part about these type of situations, is just how much fun they can be. The adrenaline rush is amazing... Then you tell your team "Hey guys... my arms are numb from the adrenaline rush, you're going to have to play without me this round >.<"

 

[Silver]

I was going to post this in my other post, but forgot it.

Another thing the description in the first link really reminded me off was fighting IRL (not brawling or streetfighting or anything like that). The way it was described was so much like that, seizing up ones opponent, checking out their weaponry and going over probable scenarios in ones head. I've yet to come across that feeling, for real in a game. Some games have some of it, but when you have the real deal to compare it to, it doesn't even come close.

I remember one such fight I had, at a LARP (and before you come with all your prejudice and stuff, this was a real LARP, not one of those American or German atrocoties you can find on youtube). I was a little overly cocky against the captain of the guard in a village, when they were drilling, and he threatened me, he said "maybe we should use YOU as target practice". Of course I agreed, thinking he would get in trouble if actually tried something, but he drew his sword. Starting to panic a bit I draw mine as well, this guy is bigger than me, older than, wears a chainmail and looks pretty experienced. He turns around and begins to walk away, and I he came to his senses, not wanting to start a fight, but instead he walks and picks up a shield. He now has an additional advantage over me. He is on level ground as well, while I'm standing on a rock surrounded by a trench. I draw my dagger in my offhand just to have something to counter the shield with, and he comments about it, then starts advancing. Realising that I can't hold my ground because of the bad balance I have there, I jump forward as fast as I can against him, thinking to get behind him and down on ground, and slash against his legs. He didn't have time to react, not with the shield to block or even to strike against me despite my vulnerable, extended position, so I jumped back again as fast as I could. "You're a fast one, I'll give you that." And now he looks even more prepared, albeit limping a bit, he takes on a lower stance, and faces my new position. In my head I try to find some way out of it, I can't kill him, then I'd get killed, most likely, or thrown in jail. He's captain of the guard after all. And I can't talk him out of it, he looks quite into it now. Just as he's about to strike, a higher ranking officer shouts at us, breaking up the fight. As he gives the captain a lecture, loudly, about his behaviour I sheate my weapons and slink away, with a sigh of relief and a short salute. That was a close one.

The fact that I was there to stake out the mayors housing for an assasination attempt made it even scarier. What if they caught me and found out who I was?

 

[Same River New Water]

I am so confused by that LARP thing. It sounds like a cross between a How To Host A Murder party and lunchtime at primary school.

I think the key to a good duel is the power dynamic. You'd think it's best to be evenly matched with someone, but I find that if I'm on par with another player I kinda blank them out. I focus on players who are better than I am, without having an infuriating playing style, and obsess over counter-attacking them.

 

[Silver]

I am so confused by that LARP thing. It sounds like a cross between a How To Host A Murder party and lunchtime at primary school.

I think the key to a good duel is the power dynamic. You'd think it's best to be evenly matched with someone, but I find that if I'm on par with another player I kinda blank them out. I focus on players who are better than I am, without having an infuriating playing style, and obsess over counter-attacking them.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.62567

I somewhat agree with you about the other part, fighting people who are better than you (except if they are the annoying pricks populating most online games) is much more interesting. To need to press every advantage you can find to even have a chance. If you're on par with someone I often feel like it doesn't really matter, I'll keep up anyway. If I'm better than someone it's just boring. I don't even have to concentrate.

But if you are evenly balanced with someone and both person still feel strongly about winning I think that's even better, especially if both people are good. I usually play against a friend of mine, and while most of the time, in FPS-games he hands me my ass on a silver platter sevaral times before I even see him, when we find a game where we are evenly matched it really becomes interesting (unless I start winning too much in which case he complains and quits). He wants to keep his lead, and I really want a chance to finally beat him, so we desperatly use every little trick we can find, and do all we can to finally beat the other one. Since we're evenly matched this can go on forever, at least in games like Rakion where you can dodge and block your opponent. We hardly even hit each other, and we know that a failed attack will result in the other one winning so it all comes down to timing, and we usually just circle each other looking for that single mistake until some jerk comes around and breaks it up. Fortunately we're often good enough to be able to kill that person without interfering with our own fight, in most games, and can then continue. It's really fun.

 

[Zombie_King]

Epic, dude!

EDIT: Something near this happened to me in real life. The playing field was a little more level though, and we weren't using plasma rifles, but paintball guns.

We were in an urban setting. Two sniper towers, plenty of small buildings for cover. First round, I sniped, I did alright. Two or three guys ate my balls...wait, I mean, I smacked them with my....you know what, forget it. I got two guys out. The second round, I went out. I was in there with a couple of friends, and although we tried to remain non-competitive, it got a little tense at times. Let me clarify: In this urban setting, we started off playing Full Elimination, i.e. get everyone on the other team out to win. First round, I was in the aforementioned sniper tower. Round 2, I scouted the field. I had a friend cover my six. I heard some shooting and we ducked in a small house. I peeked out and saw the sniper got us sighted. The guy who was with me jumped outside and rolled. And was hit with two paintballs. Out. I was alone. There were only two other members of my team, the sniper and another scout. Scout runs up. Scout ducks and weaves through the buildings, only to leave his foot uncovered for two seconds. Scout gets hit. Field is left with a sniper and me. I start running and see that the two buildings to my Northwest and Northeast and guarded. I'm out in the open, meters away from another house. I lunge towards a 'broken down car' put in place for cover. I hear the plinks of paintballs narrowly missing my face. Then I realize something. Our sniper tower's being raided. I yell to our guy, and he manages to get off a round, but two enemies are there. He died (not literally, just play along) fighting, and he got someone out for me. Me vs. Four of them. I jump towards cover and get one of them out. Me vs. Three of them. The sniper shoots in vain at the house I'm guarded in. A botched attempt to raid the house I was in makes it Me vs. Two snipers. I run as fast as I can towards the last building, and run up the stairs. I jump into the room and he's hit. One on One. I try to regain my standing, and I feel blunt objects strike my shoulder and gun. They're splattered with blue paint. The sniper on the other side of the field got me. I'm usually not great at paintball, but I think I did alright. The teams meet up, congratulations go around, and I'm singled out. I know I did a good job, almost good enough. It may not have been a situation like yours, but David got damn well close to killing Goliath.

 

[wewontdie11]

Me and one of my friends have some pretty god dam epic fights on DBZ Burst Limit. Regardless of characters they always seem to be really close and incredibly cool looking, but one fight that will always stand out is a fight we had of Krillin vs Krillin (in both of our opinions he is one of the worst characters) where it descended into us both just chucking chain destructo disks at each other and failing all the time and we found it hilarious. Suppose it was one of those had to be there moments lol.