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

[Mistilteinn]

I'm generally a nice player, but if I'm trying something out with the intent of messing with people, I can do some nasty things.

Demons' Souls comes to mind more than Dark Souls, as I remember making a build with the express purpose of invading other players and laying as many status effects as possible, while also trying to break their gear. So, naturally, I did a lot of invading in the Valley of Defilement's poison swamp. I invaded this one player's world, and he had two blue phantoms helping him. So, naturally, I rushed ahead of them and got to the shanty town at the end of the level and waited on a ledge. The moment they passed I shot an Acid Cloud at them to start breaking their gear, followed by a Death Cloud to plague them. Anyone who's been in that section of the game knows that the camera's a ***** at the best of times, and all of these clouds didn't help, so I ran up behind one of the phantoms and backstabbed him--immediately killed him. The other two players ran out and I chased after them and killed the other phantom with a roll-backstab. The host had just cured himself of plague when I ran up and killed him by stunlocking him in an R1 spam. Surely people have done worse, but it's still a dick move to kill someone at the very end of this level--especially just before they open the shortcut.

 

[Callate]

I threw a clusterbomb grenade into the spawn room in Team Fortress Classic, once.

But given that

a) doing so took incredible, once-in-a-lifetime timing and
b) all it would have taken the respawning players (who saw me doing it, as I had just killed them) to avoid the ensuing explosion would be waiting a couple of extra seconds before respawning,

I still have to rate it somewhere between "that was a bastard thing to do" and "heh, that was awesome."

 

[The Funslinger]

I used to grief a lot in Left 4 Dead on Versus, playing as the Infected, like pushing a dumpster over the manhole so the players couldn't progress. OR in Team Fortress 2, I would play as the Engineer and exploit glitches to make my team "skywalk" and make them difficult to kill while they picked off enemies effortlessly from the safety of the sky. I destroyed my brother's account reputation, as I did not have my own account. Looking back, I was quite the little shit online.

I can't remember how, but I was an engineer and my friend was a spy on 2fort, and we managed to get my turret to hold open the door to the enemy spawn room. They would spawn in and be automatically mowed down in an endless cycle.

I was on this minecraft server with huge, huge forests and one massive city that was constantly being expanded. If players were found to be disruptive, they weren't kicked from the server right away. Instead, the admin set their spawn to very far away from Player City, out in the forest. Once every couple of in game days, Players from the city would be given flight, as well as inventories full of arrows and buckets of lava to commence a hunt.

I was booted from the city over a misunderstanding, and I met a fellow exile. We decided to each build small shacks (separate from each other so if one was found, the other wasn't compromised). All our major construction was done underground. Still separate.

One day, I came back up into my shack after mining resources to see that my chests had been emptied. My iron, my diamond, my obsidian, my armour, etc. All gone.

The next night, my traitorous fellow was killed trying to farm gunpowder from a creeper. He respawned, hid in a hole until daybreak. But we'd built our shacks quite far away from the spawn, and as neither of us had yet to die, he was lost. He messaged me: "can't find my house. Make a signal for me?"

"Oh, I'll give you a signal," I thought. With a newly made flint and steel, I went into his house, started lighting up portions of his underground labyrinth and finished with the surface shack itself, which spread to nearby trees, etc, creating a huge forest fire.

 

[Signa]

I asked to borrow someone's Horadric Cube in Diablo 2, and then logged off. I did it because I thought it would be funny, but then I just felt like an ass almost immediately after. They had been so cool about it before handing it over.

 

[Quazimofo]

I stole a freighter full of moon minerals in EVE Online worth approximately 1.2 trillion ISK.

That sounds like a story friend, do tell.

As for me, I honestly can?t remember a time i?ve been an ass online. Haven?t played mmos in a while and when I did I made a point of being cordial at all times: partially to mask the fact that I was?. 12 I think when I started playing wow, and 15 when I stopped, so, young; partially because I never felt like being an ass; and finally because I took my sweet time leveling and reading the quest text and chatting I was always behind the curve in terms of gear, and mained a fury warrior so I was pretty much fucked when it came to pvp, thus griefing was nigh-impossible.

For other online games?.
Well there?s always the ?strap c4 to a bike/quad/jeep and ramp it at enemies? battlefield tactic. That?s about it though for anything close to griefing. At least to my memory.

 

[Saika Renegade]

I suppose verbally destroying rage-induced egomaniacs in multiplayer FPS matches would be more awful if they didn't deserve it so thoroughly.

However, there's probably a very bad place set aside for those of us of us who are creatively evil and misuse the tools at their disposal...namely, me, for affecting an androgynous/feminine voice pitch on voice chat when I hear dudebros on the server. When one of them ends up bugging me for pics (and there's always someone who just -has- to be a douchebro and actively harass me for pics), I break out the line "Okay, but I'm pretty long and thick down there, you don't mind right?" while keeping pitch and tone the whole time.

The sound of shameless, lecherous, homophobic minds slamming head on into their own mental traffic is worth the effort of keeping my voice sounding feminine for half a match. At least twice it has caused someone in the game to apparently mishandle their controller, because they would do something clumsy like grenade a wall or fall off a high place not long afterwards.

Maybe they deserved it (I always start with a brush-off, and those who take the hint are spared. When someone starts getting aggressive and demanding, that's when I go for the deal-breaker) but it's still pretty evil I suppose. As an aside, female and transgendered gamers, I sincerely apologize for the crap you have to go through with abusive and exploitative players on servers. I know my brand of bad probably isn't helping the situation, so again, apologies.

 

[Harleykin]

if i'm bored and dick around in multiplayer games i tend to try humiliating kills.
WoW druid has (had?) a spell that pushes ppl backwards. now add a cliff to that and wave them goodbye.
TF2 scout's sandman is fun too if you hit from really far away run over and finish them.
TF2 pyro airblasting ppl off cliff's or juggling them in a corner while keeping them lit on fire.(just to take your axe out that does additional dmg to ppl on fire if they come down)
oh and everything about the spy in TF2 lol
i just love playing with mechanics to get the anger out of the system!

trolling in channels obviously
but i only do this when i read sth that's too dumb to be ignored.
that's why most of the time i don't join channels in multiplayer games.

and like all of us here "i don't usually do stuff like this 'cause i'm nice!"
actually i am but if you gotta vent take a multiplayer game you are good at and then piss ppl off!
and then i brag about it ... like ya do!

 

[Cybylt]

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

If you weren't doing it like this, you weren't doing it right.

I got a souls story of my own, an anti-invasion setup so I guess it wasn't so bad... but it was Cloud of Acid, Toxic Cloud, and Scraping Spear. Even if they kill me there was no profit in it at all, I wanted them to have their absolute most miserable invasion experience.

In Dark Souls I spent a lot of time as a Darkmoon with Force and Wrath of the Gods as my main method of messing with people, I'd bait them into precarious locations then toss them off, nobody ever sees them coming. I ended up stopping when Bead and Pursuers flooded the pvp scene though. Game needs a new patch to nerf that BS.

I was particularly proud when I spent a couple of hours in Anor Londo and eventually found a couple of signs warning people about me.

 

[Multi-Hobbyist]

Welp, back when you could move items by melee in Left 4 Dead, I'd block means of escape for survivors. Even when I was a human, I'd help zombies move things into the way in exchange for safe passage to the end lol.

Or, how about Battlefield 3, I'd drive a tank onto the jet runway and pretend to leave but get back just in time to block their final takeoff and watch them crash into the nearby hillsides from sustaining too much damage. Ahh, good times.

Any Halo multiplayer is easy, just grab a warthog and get an enemy team member in the gunner seat and drive them all around my team.

Great laughs all around. Sure I did it for my own amusement, but that aside, because getting a rise out of people taking the game far too seriously was more than enough a reward. If those tossers would just breathe and take a joke once in a while, they'd be happier off in life.

 

[Vale]

I tell people horrible things online. Not gonna repeat them.
"wowwee goo kel urslef"
"nobody liks u go awai"
"just surndr alredy"
"nobody caers"
"you ar just not gud enough"
"uninstl you wil suck forver"

You know, real spirit-lifting stuff.
I suppose I am the problem, not other players.
But, really, it's just because I'm miserable! If I was happy, I would share it with others and I would be nice to them and stuff!
...
I'll see myself out. I'm a lousy drunk.

 

[DugMachine]

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 :/

Just yesterday I was in an LoL ARAM game with buddies and we were stomping them so bad and could have finished multiple times but we just kept running onto their spawn pad and suiciding, running back acing them and then doing it again. Good fun for us but I'm sure they were quite upset.

 

[Voulan]

I once sent someone an angry message because they kicked me out of their BL2 party after I spoke on a mic and they found out I was female, even though we'd been playing for over two hours. I may have even used the dreaded "S" word. The one that ends in "ist".

What I'm basically saying is that I'm not a terrible person, other people are horrible to me.

 

[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.