The most awful thing you've ever actually done to someone during online play

[Sarge034]

Playing Left 4 Dead on versus and we got beaten so badly as survivers on the one of the rounds and i was in a really bad mood that day.

On the map No Mercy at the end of the second part just outside the safe room is a piano that can actually be moved by the infected if they put in enough time. So me being in an ass hole mood decided as my infected round to move the piano so it covered the safe room door so the survivors couldnt finish that part of the map.

Wait a second... I had a piano moved in front of that door after we crushed the enemy team...

But yeah. I played L4d with this one guy and we were gods. We used to run people through experts just for fun and went to versus for our challenge. Very few teams could stand against us. Most times the enemy team would have completely cycled at least twice by the end of the match from people leaving and joining. For example we were survivors first and got through with everyone at 95+ health and med kits, their furthest progression was 15 feet out of the safe room. This one time in the beginning of No Mercy the enemy team got a tank at the bottom of the apartment building. We ran the tank around inside of the building without being hit, dashed to the end, tea bagged the safe room, went back and killed the tank while yelling, "GET HIM! HE'S DIFFERENT!!!". My reputation still has yet to recover from all the "too aggressive" feedback. Ahhhh, good times.

 

[EvilMaggot]

have i done terrible things on the great vast online experience of gaming... yes.. do i regret anything. No.

 

[ChaosBorne]

probably luring low level players into hell on diablo and killing them for their ears.
and all because they had the nerve to ask a higher level player for help.

 

[Omega Pirate]

In Demons Souls. I invaded a guy in the first storm area, the one with that axe miniboss in the middle of the map. He had 2 blue phantoms helping him, so of course I ran right to the miniboss. When he tried to kill him I would come out from behind and swipe at him. I managed to get both of the blue phantoms and him in the end. That's probably my most memorable moment.

Flining people off the boat while doing the Jhen runs in MH3U. Never gets old, especially if they are being difficult.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I'm generally a pretty amicable player. I suppose on BFBC2 I was a bit of an annoyance, I'd often use a C4 build on Search and Destroy, and on that massive desert map I'd hop in a Humvee immediately, hightail it over to the enemy base and steal a helicopter or tank before they knew what was happening, and either drive it back to my base or wreck the other vehicles and them. But that's not really being awful to someone in particular.

Oh wait, I had a stint in Dark Souls as a RTSR low-SL Int build where I would wait just outside the Four Kings boss fight, disguise myself as a pot, and Crystal Soul Spear the host when I saw them. But to be fair, half of them messaged me afterwards for my help against the Four Kings and I obliged. Also once - against the spirit of the thread, I know - I was playing a low-SL invader and came across someone trying to shoot the tail off the Hellkite Drake, and they had no idea I was there because they were viewed in with the bow and arrow. I watched them switch arrows a few times, then run out. So I dropped them a few fire arrows, 5 at a time, until they got the tail off. Then they walked off the bridge after bowing.

At that point in the game it's a long, annoying trek back to Oswald the Pardoner to get uncursed, not to mention that not too many people even know he sells curse cures, especially not new players.

Actually that moss lady sells curse cures after some patch or another. But they probably didn't know that.

 

[Falcondynamite]

About a month ago I invited some friends to come join me on a minecraft server were I was OP. Took them to one of the sealed off area under construction to help finish of an overly elaborate dungeon. Go afk to take a leak and grab some food. Get back to find they were killed a dozen times and then banned w/o a chance to explain why they were there.

SOOooo... I made a countdown clock (was suppose to go off a week later but I screwed something up and it only waited 4 days) to cause a command block to infinitely teleport every player to 0,0,0. After 5 days, the server owner finally reset to a previous save file... only for my countdown clock to be on day 3. Needless to say it started all over. Apparently the owner didn't want to lose anything he didn't have to, so he kept jumping back only a couple of saves each time, but never far enough to before the clock was turned on. Since yesterday, the server has been shut down and the owner has posted on his site that he's do with minecraft for now.

Dear god, that's impressively sadistic.

 

[Falcondynamite]

Dark Souls, where being awful is a part of the game.

I spent a whole 3 hours invading Anor Londo as a low level siver knight.
You all know that infamous part in Anor EVERYONE on the Escapist talks about right?
Yes, I'm talking about the legendary Anor Londo rafters with the 2 silver knight archers.
I became the 3rd. For 3 hours.
Awful yes, but the hate mail was glorious. Definitely going to Undead hell though... :3

You could do that part and also the part right after (right over the painting that leads to the other world right near the chandelier and wait on the other side while shooting Dragon slayer arrows/ long range magic. If they dodge, they fall. If they block, they fall. If they take it like a man, they fall.

 

[Falcondynamite]

Basically an engineer would usually be sat in a really nice little spot with his little engineer sentry and his little engineer dispenser and his little engineer teleporter. And I'd just walk up to it all and put a sapper on each of them. The engineer's first reaction to this is to wack the sapper off of his sentry. I of course then replace it instantly. He wacks it off, I replace it. Meanwhile his other buildings are dying and I'm still taking down his sentry, just at a slower rate. Then, with all his buildings destroyed I proceed to shoot him in the face with the ambassador.

This of course could be easily stopped if he just shotgunned me in the face, but you'd be surprised how easily engineers get stressed out to the point of forgetting they even have a gun.

Totally done that myself, always get a nice little destruction bonus at the end of the game.

 

[Adultism]

Too much to name, I troll a lot in game but very passively. I never get angry or loud I just focus on something they dislike (for instance when people say stop talking to me I'll keep talking to them like they are my friend and they get pissed) One time I got this girl to give me her nudes and I posted them on a forum, but I was younger, stupid, and a horrible person back then)

 

[Fifty-One]

Not really horrible, but back in they day when I played World of Warcraft my guild finally had Onyxia on farm status. After I few weeks of farming I had all my gear and was extremely bored with the whole thing. We killed Onyxia and two members of the guild started fighting over one of the drops. Annoyed, I sprinted through the whelp caverns, vanished and snuck out of the instance as all hell broke loose.

 

[michael87cn]

I'm the same way in RL that I am in game. A normal person.

I am who I am - I don't pretend to be 'normal' or 'nice' IRL. So I don't go crazy and 'let loose' online, because I have no reason to.

 

[The Enquirer]

I occasionally camp people in WoW be they high lvl or low lvl until they log off or call for help. If you get so mad you feel the need to create a new character as my faction just to flame me I get even more pleasure from it lol. I'm a troll in WoW :/

I do something similar in Dc Universe Online. In open world pvp a lot of time high level players will camp the areas where low level quests are and grief players there. A lot of time I see myself as a bit of a guardian of those areas. My friend and I made characters to work in tandem with one another. Certain powers interact with one another (ie if someone is electrocuted and you use another power on them it will light them on fire) so we set up our characters to work really well together. Our main thing is turning invisible and the gadgets power set tree has powers that retain stealth. So we will just walk along planting mines right in people's paths or stunning them. When we were lower leveled and would encounter a higher level trying to protect someone of our own level (we don't pick on people much lower than us unless it is a large group) we would quickly kill the player our own level and then stealth, when the higher level came over and kept trying to revive the player we would keep using our attacks that retain stealth to stop him from reviving the downed player. It is incredibly irritating as we would sometimes let them hit us a couple times making it very obvious they would beat the crap out of both of us but then used a damage immunity power and would simply turn invisible again, so they knew they could beat us up and save his teammate but could not.

As per something that is evil, playing Rainbow Six Vegas a while ago I made a kid cry. The thing I like about that game is that there is a fairly difficult learning curve, but more so you actually need to be patient and think things out and know the other team and their play style so it pushes the Call of Duty crowd away, mainly the little kids. But I digress. The little prick kept being very annoying over the mic (to the point where his own team was asking me to kick him. I changed the game to free for all as you can hear everyone's mic in that game mode. This kid, who by no means was close to good (using assault rifles for close range, trying to quick scope, spraying and praying. Things that work only by luck in that game most of the time) continued to trash talk going on and on about how good he was at call of duty. Back when I used to play I was either killing you with a submachine gun or a sniper rifle (and good snipers in that game were the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (hard to find and nearly non-existent) so I had been sniping in that case. He places a breaching charge on a door, and it blows and killing the two people who were shooting it out behind the door. The thing is, he didn't blow up the breaching charge. From across the map, I shot the very small charge with a sniper rifle and took the kills that a split second later would have been his. Then shot him and the match was over. He started crying about how I was a noob and he was better though the score begged to differ. At that point almost everyone in unison told him to gtfo. T'was my proudest moment in that game.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm very respectful to people online... usually. I even have trouble talking online, just like real-life. If somebody sends me a friend request, I'll accept it out of guilt or not to dissapoint them, ect.

But really, the worst thing I've ever done is in Minecraft, after he robbed my house, I filled some guy's house with obsidian, stole all of his pickaxes, rounded up all of his animals and books, and burned them all. I then just kept throwing splash potions of slowness at him as he was trying to come at me with a sword. It was amazing. Stupid griefer.

It was hilarious.

For an MMORPG, Runescape. I'd generally either annoy or confuse people why my sheer strangeness. This actually stems from my real personality, which is very different from the personality I try to show whenever I'm online. In reality, I'm a very naive and sheltered person, and I try to keep the two personalities apart.

The fact that I got an entire guild of about ~90 people pissed probably tells you a lot about me, simply shows you a lot about me. I didn't even do it on purpose, it just happened. Somehow.
The only time I did it on purpose was following people; y'see, Runescape has a "follow" button, it means that you can basically join the loosely termed "party" of that player. In other words, conga line. I'd follow new players, and when they were in fights and dying, I'd just sit back and watch. The things that I were called were hilarious.

 

[Echopunk]

First off, I have to qualify. I don't usually play games online. That said, one of my friends got me started on Black Ops 2 multiplayer hardcore team deathmatch. We usually end up playing a few (thirty) rounds whenever we hang out at his house. I've been the victim of lag switching and hosting tricks, and also the victim of just plain not being as good at video games as I used to be when I played them all the time.

During this one match, I kept killing this poor guy over and over. I'm anti-camp and generally anti-bullshit when I play, so I was doing this hit and move routine. It seemed like I was *right there* every time he respawned. I think I earned my whole score streak off him. I went to stalk a different area of the map and let my hunter killer fly. It killed the same guy, and it was the last kill of the match. That guy must have thought I was a complete dick.

 

[MaxwellMurder]

I'm one of those people that find the asshole with a short fuse and a mic and poke at him the entire game as he swears at me and I laugh at it. I jump in front of his scope, give away his position, intentionally feed....... whatever. Also sometimes if I'm feeling especially brutal i join ever lobby he is in just to piss them off further.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I've got two that come across as memorable to me.

1: I played a league of legends game a few days ago with a couple friends. We were in a game with a really toxic Zed who was just miserable to deal with. (every time anyone including himself would die it was "WOWOWOW WTF REPORT FEED OMFG UNINSTALL CANT CARRY THESE NOBS ILL AFK IF I DONT GET A GANK") So we turn the game around, ace their team, and EVERYBODY dies but Zed. As he was breaking the enemy nexus to win the game, we surrendered. He didnt say anything in the postgame chat, he just left. I'd like to think he threw his laptop across the room or something.

2: In halo 3, me and a friend of mine made a map called MLG Guardian 7.7 (or whatever the guardian map variant was called at that time.) We would go into a game, suck horribly, talk shit to our teammates all game, and then challenge our newfound pissed off friends to a 2v2. They would almost always agree, since at this point we were relatively high ranked and everyone was a tryhard.

MLG Guardian was just not a map anyone could win on without knowing about it. The gametype was such that if you killed yourself, it put you 25 points down, and everybody spawned literally on the very edge where you would slide off if you didnt jump backwards immediately. Without fail, the other team would end up at least 50 points behind from the start. Everybody spawned with plasma pistols, and all the resources were hidden. Guardian has a lot of vines and walls you can clip weapons through that make them pretty much invisible. So they would be running around trying to find anything they could use, meanwhile we were coming at them with rocket launchers and fuel rod canons. Some of the reactions were priceless.

 

[Moktor]

Does dropping 50000 coppers on a new EQ player count? That was always my favorite deterrent for beggars. First they would beg for money for an hour. The next hour they would be begging people to help them carry it to the bank. Ahhh there were so many ways to grief noobs in those days. Equipping lv 2 skeletons with combine weapons was also endlessly entertaining.

How about a high level druid dropping damage shields on low level mobs? Mod rods? The list is endless. EQ was so much fun...

 

[Auron225]

This'll sounds cute to lots of other things here;

My brother used to play Halo 2 online quite a lot, along with a friend of his that lived on our street. My bro wasn't bad but his friend was just better - I had only played it a couple of times so I was pretty awful. Anyways - they were playing 1-1 and my brother was winning for once. So we decided to troll him by turning on the headset and having me talking to him to him as if I was the one playing him and kicking his ass.

It was wondrously hilarious listening to his ego shatter as this kid who's almost never played this game before was destroying him

 

[Lightknight]

In WoW, there was a higher level character competing with me for mining resources. They were of an opposing faction and this was saronite ore in a pvp zone (saronite was the best at that time). But he thought him being a higher level meant that he could easily defeat me since we were the same class. But he attacked me twice and lost. He managed to grab an ore or two from me through trickery (attacking me to draw me away from the ore and then running from me to arrive at the ore with just enough time to get one) and so I proceeded to hunt him over and over again any time he was there. This was over several weeks or even months and I only got higher in level and stronger so it just became simpler. I was great at harvesting ore due to the way I'd augmented my character and so I was getting very wealthy and that money buys good gear in addition to my fruitful raids. I think by about the time I was the same level as him he finally gave up. I always knew he was there by how quickly ore was respawning so he didn't have a chance to do it secretly. When I was lower level I'd usually have just enough time to use a special skill of mine to kill him (something that usually had a long respawn time but I'd leveled down) and so he just couldn't compete and wasn't smart enough to do the same himself.

I don't feel bad for it necessarily, he usually attacked me first as if he'd forgotten me and sometimes got me but quite rarely as his first sneak attack always met me with all of my special attacks ready to go. But from then on he was my unrelenting target until he gave up and left for the day, mostly empty handed because my path harvest all the ore in that region, getting me back to the start just as they respawn. I guess you can say it was somewhat provoked but it's easily the worst thing I've done because I'm not generally a jerk.