Your biggest overkill

[Ironman126]

BBC2: Guy ran into a building, was behind a door. I used my 40mm grenade launcher to open the door from about 30 meters away. He knifed the door open first, just as i fired the grenade. It hit him squarely in the face. My friend who was on TeamSpeak with me was watching. All i hear was "Jesus, dude, that was brutal."

 

[JPArbiter]

Biggest intentional overkill was using a Fat Man in fallout 3 to see if I could plug a bloat-fly with a 22% V.A.T.S. chance. I nailed it.

the bigest unintentional overkill was last weekend when I was playing Gears of war 3, used the "One Shot" to take the body of a locust off, but he dodged out of the way and hit a pack of tickers... I don't quite know what happened after that but the Ikea Guy pooped in the bathroom...

 

[Sojoez]

Supreme Commander. I had a bad day and launched the '4 island' map. Set the enemy on easy and made 200 tier one bombers. ( I was UEF)
They flew in a beautiful formation, annihilated the base and when the ACU detonated I lost 140ish bombers.

still... one hit/strike kill.

 

[RuralGamer]

BBC2; I finally reached this sniper who had killed me a half dozen times; I snuck up behind him and emptied an entire MG3 magazine into his back, switched to pistol and emptied a couple of MP-443 Grach magazines into him just to make sure.

I've ended more than one game of Supreme Commander or Total Annihilation by obliteration ever last enemy unit and building with nuclear fire; one game I launched somewhere approaching 50 nukes; there was no evidence there had ever been a base. 'Purified' an enemy spawn on a World in Conflict assault map (I-95 or whatever the bridge map was called) with three nukes, turning the entire area into a massive radiation zone which pretty much insta-killed anything that spawned, winning us the round with no positions lost.

I also like finishing games of AOE3 by sending in my entire military might, with naval support off shore if possible. Similar approach in CoH; often I use excessive artillery support to destroy the enemy's last building.

I defeated the Marathan Confederacy in Empire Total War when they were the last faction left besides me with around 30 full armies and six fleets of heavy first rates; they fell in less than ten turns, despite controlling all of India (besides Hindustan and Ceylon), the Caucasus, south-eastern Russia and the area around Persia.

Oh and who can forget using the Fatman in Fallout 3 and New Vegas; that weapon realistically has no practical use, besides looking awesome and the new Big Kid Mini Nukes in GRA are just even more obscene. I practically killed myself laughing when my friend used the Experimental MIRV to kill Moriarty when he was having his morning smoke.

 

[deckai]

A multiplayer match in Command & Conquer: Generals, my enemy wasn't the best, he let me built several particle cannons, which I used to write my name into his base. After that, he decided to surrender.

 

[Cazza]

In AC:B. The top player got 3-4 players hunting them (whatever the max is). All of us found him at the same time. chased him down an alleyway, cornered him. We all draw our hidden guns and firing squad him.

 

[Wushu Panda]

Was in a Halo Reach match on the map known to most faithful players as 'new bloodgulch'. Game started and I rushed for the wraith as I usually do. Started driving around a short distance from my base and I started unleashing hell, I led my team to victory with a 42 kill streak.

I was tearing through everyone that came near me. They did manage to kill me but by then we had a 40 some kill lead and the match was ours in no time.

 

[Creepybard]

Magic the gathering, was playing Duels of the Planeswalkers. Used the green/black elves deck, and managed to do something like 1000 damage in a single turn. Was epic.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Going 30-0 on Derail in MW2 and sighting the last kill on the map through my barrett scope, I cried mercy and flipped the switch on my nuke instead.

 

[maninahat]

Shooting a torpedo at a fishing boat in Silent Hunter III.

Some context: the torpedoes are almost as big as the fishing boats themselves and carry enough explosives to crack the back of an aircraft carrier. That sucker almost flew out of the sky box.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

In Age of Mythology there is a map with two small islands and a large island in between them. I remember building a large army, transported them to the island opposite of mine, and wipe out all the force on it. Then, after I had built upon their former Town Centers, I created a huge army and invaded from both sides and utterly destroyed the enemy forces.

It was pretty fun.

 

[SangRahl]

Sadly, not my overkill... but I was on the receiving end...

America's Army (early release version... maybe 2.0?)... tasked to defend a house/compound.

I head up to a small hill just outside the building to try and get a bead on the offensive team. Didn't make it three steps up the hill before I fell to the ground in a heap, and this scrolled on the chat box: "SangRahl has been pegged by [insert name here]."

Yep, I got taken out by an inactive m203 grenade to the noggin.

As for my own overkill-type actions...

"kinda" overkill:
Was recently playing RDR again, and trying for the 'shoot the hats off two gunfighter's heads' sharpshooter challenge... and forgot that I'd just purchased the sawed-off shotgun. Needless to say, my aim was precise, but I took off more than just his hat. "Pleased to meetcha, just call me Mr. Cheney."

"wait, what?" overkill:
Fallout 3; somewhere just outside DC proper, in the middle of a traffic-jammed freeway...
I ended up getting the attention of a moderately-sized band of raiders who were screaming bloody murder as they chased me through the cars. I make it past a trailer and lobbed my last grenade (it might have been a Nuka-'Nade, but I'm completely sure) behind me to gain some breathing room. *boom*...*K-BOOM**K-BOOM**K-BOOM**K-BOOM* (ad infinitum...). I missed the raiders, but I set off one of the vehicles and learned a valuable lesson about the use of atomic engines in street vehicle and chain-reactions. In the end, the raiders were no longer an issue, and I had to wait a while before I could scour the, now radioactive, ground for salvage. ~10+ obscenely gibbed kills in a little under 10 seconds.

 

[A Weakgeek]

OH NO! Not the amazing pulpul sword! Seripusly what does pul stand for?

 

[demoman_chaos]

In the final duel of RDR, I didn't realize I had the Mauser equipped and wondered why I was able to put so many magic X's on the big bad. A lot of shots later, I had to push him out of the water to loot his corpse. For what he did, I'd say tis still underkill.

Does blasting a lone Imp in Doom 2 with the BFG count as overkill?

What about blasting a small battle armor in Mechwarrior 4 Mercs with 4 UAC-20s?

 

[honestdiscussioner]

Probably on Duke Nukem 3-D. I used the cheat codes to keep replenishing my pipe bombs on the first level. I laid pipe-bombs nearly everywhere I could, and blew up everyone in the level at once . . at least I think that's how many, this was way back in the 90's.

Another possibility would be in original starcraft. I'd love to get a dark archon to mind control an scv and then I'd have two armies. So I'd mine a bunch of resources and build a full 24 fully upgraded battlecruisers and 24 fully upgraded carriers and sent them all to wipe out the enemy base. What single opponent could hope to defeat that without copious defenses and a lot of very well placed psi storms?

Edit: Ooo, GTA4. I placed like a dozen sticky grenades on a single vehicle.

 

[Brandon237]

Minor Fallout 3 spoilers ahead.

During a game of Fallout 3, I came across the hotel that marks the beginning of the evil path (where you blow up megaton) and one of the missions there is take care of these ghouls that want admittance. The ghouls counter offer with the idea to leave a door unlocked so they can kill everyone inside. Frankly, I didn't want to be a part of either idea, but I found a third option. There WAS a diplomatic solution, if you can convince those in the hotel to welcome the ghouls into their community. So I worked on it, quite hard. I reloaded saves, I read charisma books in order to convince the harder guests. It took a good hour or two just to get it done, but in the end, the ghouls were welcome and everything was peaceful.

Then, after a week or so had passed, I was listening to my old buddy three dog, who chooses to reprimand me for killing all the humans inside the hotel. Strange, I thought, I'd done the awesome peaceful resolution, but its still playing me the evil one. The game must be bugged (Not a surprise, with that game) but I still stopped by the hotel to see how things were going.

The place was a wreck on the inside, with the bodies of humans everywhere as ghouls walked around. Furious, I found their leader (standing over the body of the previous hotel owner) who told me that they humans had 'annoyed them' and thus, had to be killed.

I had a Fatman on me I was saving for a day like this.

The ghouls didn't enjoy their hotel very much.

Lol, same mission for me.
Except I was a little angrier than that.
So I looked up the game's spawn codes.
And spawned an army of robots, the Mister Gutsy ones. And they didn't like the ghouls very much XD
When I say I spawned an army, I mean that when they started moving the entire compass was just green dots! And you couldn't see land not covered by them. Roy Phillips went down like a little *****!

Probably any time I used the Gauss Rifle on any game ever.

 

[FightintheShade]

I've always liked browsing this forum but haven't felt the need to post until I saw this. There are some amazing stories. Speaking of, how come every story on here seems to be about civ or COD? The best overkills are the ones the game wasn't really expecting.

My favorite is probably that the weapons in FF7 were giving me trouble, so I ground AP until I could mime w-summoned knights of the round with all three party members. I don't quite recall the numbers, but using the max dmg from the wiki that's nearly 800k per turn. For comparison the end boss rocks 80k.

In the same game, my chocobo got so good at racing i could let go of the controller completely and win, since there wasn't a button for normal speed. The buttons were for sprint and slowing down.

In FFX, my blitzball team became so good (after beating the goers in that first game btw) that I literally couldn't be beaten. My Forwards could break/skill around/throw through the entire enemy team and score, and my goalkeeper's stats were so high the probability of scoring was negligible, even in a 1-1.

Maybe I play too much final fantasy...

 

[The Funslinger]

In Alpha Centauri (or Civilization IV for that matter), I pretty much end every game by stockpiling so many planet busters (nukes) that I can wipe out my enemies 2-3 times over. Then I proceed to wipe out my enemies 2-3 times over. It's a lot more satisfying in Alpha Centauri though because you can literally destroy continents with planet busters.

I have Civ IV. Got it for cheap during a Steam deal. Never got into it too much. When does it get interesting as opposed to moving cavemen around and having to be nitpicky with units because only one can build anything good?

OT: Oh, I'm never any good in these thread...

I landed a jet fighter on an individual soldier's head in Just Cause 2 while I hookshotted away to freedom.

 

[Jodah]

Civilization 5. I was playing on the lowest difficulty (for the lulz). The other civs had Swordsmen and Knights. I had tanks and nukes...bad things happened.

 

[Lord Kloo]

On Spore, the original game I was in the final space stage of the game, playing as a militaristic race I decided to make war on everyone with lasers, proton missiles and phasers.. I then discovered the Grox, another military based race.. they f***ed up my spacecraft and my colonies so I went nuts and committed my vast fortunes to investing in planet busting weaponry and committed every major grox planet to exterminatus.. Twas hard to actually get the money but it was worth it to see the galaxy's greatest enemy turned to planetary dust..

In the same game I put 4 defensive satellites onto one planet because it keep getting attacked by every enemy that exists, note that 1 of these is quite enough to take out any invading forces, 4 just obliterated the opposition before I had a chance to join in..

Also Rome Total War: I was besieging Rome itself as the Greeks, and as Greeks seriously suck at attacking (your main unit the phalanx has some serious problems trying to fight in cities) I was waiting for the Romans to come and attack me, finally they did and I destroyed their army in the field only their general escaped with a few remanents of his army back to Rome, I then went back to siege it almost instantly when my catapults arrived, I had all switch to flaming rocks and we burned down a good chuck of their walls as well as destroying several city blocks.. collateral damage..