I love all these 'Back in the day' and the game was out in '99 or '00

Let's really go back since my fondest multilayer memories steam from Heretic. Anyone remember it?

We had a LAN in a friend basement and were playing death match for fun.

First was the time when I discovered something a Power Tome'd Mace would do. Now when tome'd it would fire a large bouncing explosive ball. When it hit someone BAM! instant death. The splash was nice too. Better still was the fact that it would teleport through the teleporters, still armed.

I was running toward a teleport pad. Thought why not I'll fire one. *pop* it when through and I heard a "WHAAA!!!" from my friend on the other side of the room. I caught him just as he was stepping into it. A big steel gray ball appeared suddenly, then he was re-spawning.

They all wanted to know how I killed him through the teleporter.

Needless to say hopping teleporters became much more interesting after that.

Second, was a map that had 4 dark corners one could hide in. You had you back to the wall to 90 degree narrow corridors and no one could see you until way too late.

I got five or six kills rather fast.

The funny part was later I was running into one of these corners myself and though "Gee I wonder if they would have picked up on this and try it themselves." So I fired proactively into the corner.

*whooosh!* someone went up in a fireball.

He shouted "How did you know I was there?"

My reply "I didn't."

He wasn't happy about that.

I never ran into those corners without firing as I went again.

The last one was a recent LAN party and we loaded up Shogo for old time sake.

Eight bots conga lined using grappling hooks to form a chain through the air.

Most of use laughed ourselfs until we hurt.

Helped kill a Titan supercapital ship in Eve Online, along with about a hundred other people. It's not every day that you get to do 100 billion isk worth of damage in less than 30 minutes (around $9000 if you convert it to timecards).

I used to play MechWarrior 4 competitively, with a group of some of the most thoroughly bizarre people ever. Naturally, I've got several good stories.

There was one night in practice that the team was playing on a map that consisted primarily of a hilly bog, but with high points that offered good long-range vantages. A typically-drunk British member of our clan, Hengist, was piloting aheavy 'Mech loaded to the gills with long-range, instant-hit weaponry. As he reaches one of these high points, he spies movement at the very edge of his screen, something moving vertically and away from him very fast. he snap-twisted to aim (this game was played primarily by joystick, by the way) and let off a full salvo. his target burst into flames in mid-air and exploded before it hit the ground. He was elated... only to discover moments later he'd blown the legs clean off of a jumping scout 'Mech from his own team. We gave him a Drunken Sharpshooter medal for it.

Another involves my first competition match with the group. I was brand new to competitive playt, and had no idea what to expect. The drop commander ordered us to move towards a defensible position close to the edge of the map. We got there in two minutes, expecting the opfor to show up any minute. five minutes go by... nobody shows. The back-and-forth in global chat begins to feature comments such as "Come out wherever you are" and "You can't hide forever." The drop commander decides to move us a bit further towards another likely place, a process that takes about three minutes. No dice. A question from the OpFor, "Where are you?" is answered by a teammate: "We're by the tree. The green one." At this point people are getting flustered and so the commander has us move clockwise around the map until we run into hostile. We do this for about ten minutes, bantering back and forth with what apparently is an equally-confused opposing team, until finally, with five minutes left in a thirty minutes match, we make contact. The first shots are fired... and then the server crashes out. Turns out that the other team had been circling the map in the same direction that we had been the whole time...

i used to get a kick out of solo piloting the helicopters in bf2 and switching to the gunner seat to TV missile other vehicles and aircraft... really cool when some guy in a jet is harassing you and you pop him in the back with the TV missile... they don't know what hit 'em. That and air acrobatics was fun.

My best memories gaming are from AQ2, we had a really strong community in NZ and I met a lot of cool people through that game. Doesn't hurt that its a really fun fast paced game that is extremely competitive either :)

A few stories...

Counter-Strike (beta days, probably beta 5.x days) was a pure blast! So I'm playing CT on de_dust and we've been ... destroyed by the Ts for the last few rounds. I save up, get the AWP with no additional ammunition or armor. Rush the far base and start blasting. I ended up killing 8/10 of their guys with only 10 bullets. I've done several times 6-7 guys/round (before and after that incident), but never 8/10 (except on 32 person servers).

Playing on a local LAN party, I ended up meeting some people from Netzwerk Terror. My first time visiting was circa ... Quake3Test. My Quake3 skills ... were good and I ended up taking over the local teenage kid with the railgun. This wasn't too big a deal, so I ended up bringing my brother over the next weekend for Q2CTF. We ended up quad camping, flag capping and general mayhem that they really never say before and had nothing to stop us with. Even after several breaks of trying to even out the teams, it was the two of us there were killer on D, or just an unstoppable force on grabbing the flag.

I was watching a friend play CS:S online in the office map. He was at a crossroad in the hallway where there are filing cabinets. Somebody throws a grenade and sends a filing cabinet flying across (imagine someone running a red light at an intersection perpendicular to you to get an idea). Well he simultaneously throws a frag that hits the flying cabinet, bounces off and smacks him in the face for the funniest unintentional suicide I have ever seen.

My funny momment. I'm playing an the pier map at a small lan party (we just played team deathmatch, no bombs). I'm the last person on ct and there are 2 terrorists left. So I run out to the end of the pier and camp for a minute. I see them off in the distance running around looking for me. Lots of frantic "where the hell is he?" I start sniping with the 57 and hear "hes taking pot shots at me!" More panic. And last it's "OH F*** I only have 2 health left!" End of story I killed both of them.

Those are my stories. Not hillarious but they bring back good memories.

Quake2 multiplayer and the very first Unreal Tournament were the best for me. Particularly Q2 - it was the first FPS multiplayer game I played, and it was also the first time I could actually hear everyone else running around unleashing ammo. The maps in Q2 were amazing.

Sure graphics have improved, but what about ambience, audio, and of course gameplay? Even the original Half-Life had incredible audio with A3D enabled.

If you could have the original Diablo, Quake2, or Unreal Tournament with updated DX9/DX10 graphics would you buy again? What about some of the other older games?

I know I would.

My favorite multiplayer memory: CS 1.6, de_cbble, pub server. I was last man standing on my team and outnumbered 1:3

I'm coming up the big ramp from CT spawn, and lo and behold all 3 Ts are running up the main courtyard to meet me!

As they run up to me I unload my wimpy mp5: headshot, headshot, headshot! I sprayed a full clip across the screen and somehow headshotted all three of em!

Needless to say, I got kicked for cheating, even though it was blind luck.

I was playing a Halo deathmatch when a guy on the other team randomly asked me if I was a girl. I kept giving him responses along the lines of maybe and possibly, and he eventually concluded that I was a girl. My favorite part was that I was owning him in that particular round, so he probably thought that he was getting beat by a girl. :)

Serious Sam and Serious Sam SE. Said and done.

About 10 years ago I was playing Unreal (the oringal, not 2 or Tournament). I used to play Team Deathmatch mostly, and while I didn't have anything like 1337 skillz I did have one advantage: I was on DSL, at a time when virtually everybody else was on dial-up, so I was almost always the LPB by a fair margin. I have a lot of memories of running up good scores only to be called a hacker, a cheat, and so on.

So I started doing things in unconventional ways, both to keep myself interested and to make things a little fairer. I'd avoid certain weapons, or try oddball strategies like trying to get all my kills with grenades only. One of weapons had a secondary fire mode that was a grenade launcher, and if you held down the button you'd queue up more grenades that you could then all launch at once. But once you queued up 6 (IIRC) they'd all launch whether you wanted them to or not.

So in one Team Deathmatch game the server rotated to an unfamiliar map where there was a room with a shaft in the floor leading to another small room below it. The other team (who apparently knew the map) decided their strategy was to all hide in this tiny lower room, and send one guy out as a rabbit to try to lure our team into chasing him -- he'd jump through the hole and they'd pulverize whoever came through after him. Unaware of this, I chased their rabbit into the upper room, not firing because I was queuing up grenades. But one of my teammates was there waiting, and he killed the guy. I had just maxed my grenades so they were all going to pop; not wanting to kill myself or my teammate, I dumped them down the shaft. Ultrakill.

I have been team killed in more ways then humanly possible, I've been run over by vehicles, I've had allied tanks just up and shoot me, In BF2 I once had an ally run up and shoot me, no apparent reason he just runs among and bam-bam-bam I'm dead, I've also been naded by team mates. FPS makes me cry :(

Being the Manta-whore in UT2k4

2 instances stand out for me

1) I'm playing CS on-line, and the map is dust2. I'm a CT, and as soon as the match starts, I start off for bomb site A, then run towards the stairs that lead to the double doors. I get to the top of the stairs, and jump, and low and behold, their's a Terrorist right at the bottom. While in mid-air, I swing my M4 around, and shoot him right through the top of the head. That was a sweet shot.

2) I was playing MOHAA with a couple of friends, and I can't remember the map, but it was essentially a road, with a bridge over water, where players spawned on either side. On one side was a high church steeple, perfect for sniping. I can't remember if I was the guy on the ground, or watching, but there someone in the church steeple, and he jumped from the steeple. And was promptly sniped through the head on his way to his death from falling. You just see his limp body fall the 50 feet to the ground. That was talked about for a few days.

Some of the best multiplayer stories I have are with strategy games, it's amazing sometimes how a good strategy game can mirror the politics of the real world.

Mine is an oldie from Master of Orion 2. A friend and I were deep into a cold war, we had beaten the other races and were working as hard as we could to get to the end of the tech tree. Early in the game we had decided to outlaw Stellar Converters, beastly weapons that destroyed entire star systems. Of course...that was the tech I was working hardest to get. I soon built a massive cloaked fleet of Steller Converter bearing ships to ensure that no matter what, even if he won, he would only win a clump of rocks. :) However, he eventually gained the tech to see cloaked ships. What followed was a heated "debate" that would rival any UN meeting lol. We ended up agreeing to a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) and I was limited to only 1 Steller Converter Doomstar per starsystem that I owned, which put me at a disadvantage. It was hilarious, every few turns I'd have to submit to "weapons inspectors" and he'd look over my shiplist to make sure I hadn't built any new outlawed ships. I don't even remember who won, it was the politics and the long argument about the horrors of a Steller Converter war that I still remember to this day lol

I had an awesome moment is CS:S a while back.

I was playing office, in the back hallway, camping a bit. I heard on enemy coming, so i whipped out a flashbang around the corner, and charged after it, when it went off. I see the guy run behind the corner, and another run in from behind him.

We start firing our pistols at each other, bullets flying everywhere, not a lot of damage being done by either of us. So we both run out of ammo at about the same time, so i whip out my knife! He does the same, and we're in a knife fight!

We knifed each other, but i killed him, while he left me with ~4 health, and i continued on around the corner, to find 3 of his buddies, standing there shooting down the hall, not looking at me. So i knifed them all 1-2-3! 4 knife kills in less than 10 seconds!

The greatest part? It was the first time i have ever been accused of hacking... :D

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When me and my clan mates were training. I was still a bit befuddled from the flash when the screenie was taken.

Mine story is about Americas Army.

I was beginning AA player and together with my friend (over the TeamSpeak) we were paying pipeline map. In AA when you shoot down a player before he toss a granade it is droped and you can pick it up.

At one point I noticed a lying fragmentation granade, and said to my friend "Hey - come over here! I found an extra nade!" He happily run in tried to pick it up, at which point it went off killing us both.

We were laughing sooo hard ;-))))))))))))

back in college, a group of us closed up the computer lab on fridays, and quaked, doomed, unrealed, screamed, cursed, fragged and enjoyed every minute of the lan party. there is no doubt in my mind, it was the best time in my life! online multiplayer sucks, as your lag determines your win.

Having logged over 500 hours playing on Drippy's 2Fort alone, it is hard to pick a moment... there are so many (as rat-a-tat-tat and the old school regulars can attest)

Maybe this is it..

I crouched, crowbar drawn, walked backwards from my fort all the way across into the enemy fort, retrieved the flag and capped it without getting killed... and did so by walking backwards the entire time playfully swinging my crowbar.

I laughed so hard when I finally capped, that I had to wipe tears from my eyes to continue playing.

There is something so childlike about characters in TFC when they start crowbarring... like watching preschoolers with nerf weapons..

Railing 3 people at once in Quake 3. I was at a LAN party and they just sort of lined up right. It was totally unintentional but hilarious.

My first multiplayer experience was connecting two 486 systems together via a serial cable in my high school to play hours of DOOM. To this day, no game has captured that multiplayer experience that was felt in the Doom days. Probably because it was the first one.

The music throughout that game is so nostalgic to me now.

I use it as a reference to how far we've come now with modem and networking technology. Doom would play decently over a 2400 baud modem that transfered data at a few k a second. And even tho we couldn't look up and down, jump, or zoom, it was the most fun I had ever had in a game.

Long live DOOM.

netrek FTW!

I started playing FPSes online when I was 9 years old. I remember my favourite used to be the original Unreal (not UT) and by the time I was 12 I could own any server. I was only one of maybe 10 people still playing that game but I used to be pretty proud of myself back then.

Looks like they've patched TF2 again, BTW.

Among other things, they changed the Demoman so that his grenades don't explode on impact after the first bounce and they changed the Pyro so that the flame thrower is more accurate and does more damage at point blank range, which I thought was badly needed to make it a viable class.

In DFLW I killed the entire enemy team and blew up all of the targets in a search and destroy mission without firing a single shot. All I did was run around planting mines in spots you couldn't destroy, and then I got lucky when I blew them all up.

BF2

Wake Island

I am in the Chinese jet, I drop a bomb on US air craft carrier hitting the black hawk full of people just as its lifting off deck.

Left side of screen fills with my game name killing 6 people at one time.

You just can’t buy that kind of MP game love.

I try to take screen shots of the most interesting times. (If I remember to that is).

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The original Enemy Territory was one of my favorites.

I played a game of Unreal Tournament (the original) with a friend of mine. We had a great deathmatch going on Deck 16. I was up in the sniper gun spawn area, and my friend was down by the lava. Both of us had sniper rifles trained at each other. The awesome moment was when we essentially recreated the sniper scene from the beginning of Saving Private Ryan (the German sniper got shot right through his gun sight). I landed the fatal sniper shot, but it was so exactly like the movie scene that we both got a thrill.