"Hero Mode" Engaged!

[CleverCover]

It happened while I was playing the ME3 multiplyer demo.

My team and I were on firebase white, silver, and for some reason halfway through wave 9 everyone starts dying. I'm too far away to save everyone and my shield is down. next thing I know, I see a succession of executions on screen and I start cursing.

I reload my shotgun and my submachine gun, get behind cover, and sit in that one spot picking off my enemies one by one while the data is loading. Guardians, Phantoms, Centerions all fell from my bullets.

At the end of the wave, when I pick off the last one, I start cheering on the mike and one of the guys starts going, "You're a girl? But you're good." Sort of killed the cheering, but I was too pumped to really give a damn.

Fuck yes, they just got their asses saved by the chick. That one moment made my entire week.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I went full on Duke mode in Battlefield 3. The enemy had all the points and air superiority. After downing both enemy jets and their chopper I turned onto their tank emptied my rockets and guns into it before bailing. I then killed the engineer attempting to repair it and took out two snipers before retaking the point. Riding on the back of this my team then proceeded to sweep across the map retaking just over half the points after which both sides battled it out over the mid-ground.

I remember back in the day we were playing Bad Company two doing a game of rush and we were down to 3 tickets and we had been damaging the control points because they were too entrenched, so I Rambo'd in on my recon blew away three dudes with my shotgun, dove behind the Com station, tossed a bunch of C4 on it and detonated it, destroying it. That opened up the last two points which we swiftly destroyed.

Rush pretty much writes it's own hero tales. I'd play more of it if it wasn't for the fact that Rush with a bad team can be very frustrating

 

[skywolfblue]

I tend to be too suicidal about trying to save my own team members to get into the "hero" situation very often.

I'll charge into a whole pack of boomers (Gears 3) just to save a teammate at times. It's either be lucky and miraculously save them, or at least die in the knowledge that I tried.

Mass Effect 3 I haven't had such luck with. I've managed to do quite quite a bit of ressing with the infiltrator class, but in most cases they end up dying in the next few seconds anyway, and me along with them because I can't find a decent place to hide after my cloak drops.

 

[AngloDoom]

In Team Fortress 2 years back I was playing as an Engineer, since nobody wanted to play a defensive role whatsoever despite us trying to capture a point while defending our own. The match was going on for hours, the longest I've ever played, and every time there was a push the opposite team would come through and just about manage to fend the attackers off.

It got tiring after a while so I decided to go suicidal. Still an Engineer I sprinted into what had basically become no-man's land, shotgun in hand, at a time when only a few people were milling about. Somehow, luckily, I killed those few people off.
"Now what?" I asked myself, fully expecting to have died by now. "I know, I'll just place down a Sentry here for funsies and see what happens..."

What happened was a rush of other Engineers suddenly following my example, and laying a belt of rapidly-progressing Sentries that soon made the push for the enemy's base all the easier. There was lots of shouting and screaming from different voices "Sentry down on the left! Supercharged Heavy spotted!", it was the most I'd ever seen people band together like that in a game, and after several hours we managed to push through the the enemy's point and, still as an Engineer, I was there, wrenching the crap out of whoever dared to cross the path of my comrades, on the point as the last few seconds ticked away and, finally, BLU team won.

That was the happiest I've ever felt in a game, before or since.

 

[Ix Rebound]

i was playing Dead Island yesterday with my friend and that bit near the end where it has hall ways full of special infected and those fast fuckers.
I told him to just run though it as i had played the game before and just at the last stretch of the hallway, he gets hit in the back by a ram and is on the floor bleeding out, all he says is "im dead" with a sort of finality about it, when i come rushing back for him, dodge the same ram decapitate an infected and revive him. then leg it through the door where he slams it behind us.
It was awesome.

 

[kommando367]

I won a game of speed CTF on reach by doubling our flag count in the last 3-5 minutes with my evasion skills.

 

[Dandark]

Makes me think of a time when I was playing Dawn of war: Dark crusade. I started a 3v3 game and our third guy lagged out instantly. The game was now 2v3, my ally was playing as Chaos and I was the Tau Empire.
We won. It was glorious! They built up their forces and rushed us with the full might of their 3 players, we were outnumbered but held them off at a pass. Part of it was because they were sure they would win and tried to fight us at the pass we heavily fortified with mines, turrets,invisble drones that would pop out of the ground to eviserate any nearby infantry, giant battlesuits with rail guns capable of taking out tanks etc.

It felt so awesome to win that.
More recently I have had some awesome times in LoL, 60 mins in so the respawns are so long that whichever team has one person left standing would win, just a few members of each team left. That kind of thing. It's amazing how many people underestimate Veigar just because he doesn't look threatening.

 

[Bertylicious]

I dunno if it really counts as "heroic" but a stand out moment was L4D on No Mercy. I was playing with this dude who kept ramboing forward leaving the rest of the team, who were mostly noobs but still, trying to poach all the special infected and kept needing to be bailed out. When we were climbing the lift shaft at the end I was covering the rest of team whilst they made the climb, oblivious to Johnny Rambo getting mauled by a hunter right next to me.

Needless to say that when I turned round and booted the thing off him, he was not impressed. He shot me so I blasted him back to the floor, then helped him up. We stared at each other for a tense few seconds and I said "no more of that, alright?". We carry on to the climax.

So there we are, fighting off the waves of zombies whilst the noobs mill about aimlessly, all the while nursing a deep loathing for one another. The Chopper arrives and the object of my emnity goes bounding off for it. I desperately try to help the noobs get out from being cornered by a tank but its a lost cause, so I head off towards the ramp.

The Rambo is laughing at me, rejoicing in my failiure. As the infected swarm me, a tank punches me and I go flying through the air. "ho hum, death", I thought but then I land in the helicopter. Me and the dickhead were the only two survivors to make it.

 

[Waffle_Man]

While I have plenty for Counter Strike and Bad company 2, I feel pressured to name a different game.

In a suicidal game of killing floor with six other people (pre hell on earth), we get off to a bad start. A stupid demo decides to launch a bunch of grenades really close to himself as two flesh pounds enter the room. One of the flesh pounds doesn't die and goes on to kill our medic and support. A firebug holds his own for all of three seconds before a siren sneaks up and scares him right into a scrake. The only two people left are me and another marksman, both level 6, and there were two hundred and twelve enemies to go.

By the end of the round, we had both run out of ammo and had to knife enemies to death.

 

[Deadyawn]

I was playing a bit of TF2a while back (before it was free) and I was still a bit of a noob. I still am actually to be perfectly honest. Anyway, it was a CP game and we were at a complete standstill and had been for almost the entire game. There was only a bit over a minute left on the clock. I went scout and somehow managed to rush past the entire enemy team and capture the final point before they could do anything.
It was a complete bullshit win that we shouldn't have gotten but it was still awesome.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I've had moments like that in a number of games.
Tribes 2 and DotA spring most immediate to mind.

Tribes 2: Team Hunters: Never before had I been so adept with a Plasma Gun and Shocklance in my life.

I air-stabbed a 30 flagger Medium Armor out of the air mere inches from the beacon, then went on a Benny Hill roundup where every man on their team just couldn't quite hit me as I scooped up flags.
The one asshole who almost got me with a hard missile lock was denied by a timely flare grenade.
All of this in Assault Armor (not Scout), and all within the span of about a minute. My screen was blue and grey just about the entire time as six men (and one girl) rained Spinfusor and Grenade fire on me from everywhere above the valley I was collecting the flags.

I managed to scrounge up 27 flags, and dove for the beacon...capped just as I took a fatal Laser Rifle shot to the dome.

End score: 2231 to 2219
The last flag won it. By a nose (flag capture scores in Hunters aren't linear; each extra flag on the stack adds more points than the flag before it).

As for DotA: It was the little Keeper of the Light that Could, but that's another long long story. (hint; it involves some amazing forest ganks, where one man stalled 4 enemy heroes through clever use of the Blind spell, Dagger of Escape, and dual Illuminate positioning I wish I could replicate)

 

[Idsertian]

Zombie snip

Excuse me while I pick myself up and get back in my chair, that was pretty damn funny. What a way to finish with style: punched into the chopper by a tank. Why does nothing awesome like that happen when I play L4D2? (in b4 l4d2 haters)

OT: I had one in the ME3 demo (nothing of the sort in the full game though <_<). I had managed to unlock a Quarian Infiltrator and was doing Bronze Geth on Benning (for comparison, I find Silver hard and Gold fucking impossible). I can't remember which wave it was, though it was after the big guns start dropping on the field. Sometime near the beginning of the wave, both of my team mates went down (the other guy quit early) and I was left alone with just my sniper rifle and low-end powers to fend off some rather pissed off synthetics. Somehow, whether through tactics, cunning or just sheer dumb luck, I managed to get through the entire wave without having to use medi-gel or op packs, though I did have to loose off a rocket at one point. My team mates were somewhat surprised I think and we went on to win the level, which was nice.

Maybe not as awesome as some stories here, but made me feel like a boss.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Once I was playing a match of TF2 as a Scout, soon as the match began I rushed the opposing team and killed every single member so fast that they were all simultaneously waiting for for a re-spawn. After that, not so much as a Spy escaped the supply room and all during the match I was showered with love from my team. I do my best under pressure.

 

[Elamdri]

So this afternoon, I was playing a match on Gold in ME3 and we had a player drop out around round four, we decided to stick it out and managed to get a full extraction with 3 people. Now, considering that I have been on MULTIPLE Bronze missions that have ending in failure with people who were FAR too high level to be failing at Bronze, I want to put this message out to the ME3 multiplayer community: You are on notice. Failure will not be tolerated.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

In single player i`m always the greatest hero against all odds. I fight aliens, win wars and huge firefights, rescue princesses, avenge [insert person here]. Does that count?

In mp i`m the one who is willing to give his life for reaching the goal or rescuing a teammate. I have many heroic deaths.

 

[The Wykydtron]

UMVC3, Phoenix Wright comebacks... Fuck yeah! Ace Attorney definitely takes it's place as best lvl 3 in the game. Full health Ryu? Throw out a "safe" Shinku on incoming? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

And the one Skullgirls comeback was pretty epic, my Filia vs his Parasoul he throws the motorbike rush lvl 1 at me trying to chip me to death since I was on reallllly low health (if you don't know, chip damage is really tiny in Skullgirls) I panic airdash over it and somehow land the jumping MP into combo into Gregor Sampson into the upwards dive super to finish him... I can still never get the second super to come out except for that one and only time

And I can't deal with the pressure of actually getting important kills in League of Legends. I still suck a bit too much for that... Hence I play Lulu and buff the shit out of everyone else instead XD

I wish my UMVC3 disk wasn't annoyingly scratched to hell... How the shit did that happen anyway?!

Doh well, back to Skullgirls...