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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: varus on September 28, 2004, 03:19:10 pm
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I don't doubt that someone has put up a post like this before, but what were your most embarassing FS2 deaths? For me, it would have to be in Argonautica, the second 'rescue the Aquataine' mission.
After all my wingmen were vaporized by the annoying fighter supression missiles carried by the Shivan bombers, the Aquataine finally made it to the Gamma Draconis node, as I wiped out a quartet of Nahemas. However, as I moved to engage the next incoming wave of bombers, I happened to pass right in front of the Aquataine, as it went to jump out. Being in a Tauret, there was no chance of me getting out of the way.
"See you in Gamma Draconis Alpha"...."Alpha 1 was killed by a collision with Aquataine."
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Mine was the first asteroid mission in FS1... the Galatea was down to about 80% hull and the two Shaitans were having a field day slinging bombs. My wingman was down, and there was no way a support ship would have gotten to me and given me Furies to finish off the Shaitans. So I resigned myself to flying intercept and popping off asteroids here and there... until I actually got to the first bomb and shot it down from about 300 meters.
"Alpha 1 was killed by a missile shockwave" :mad:
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I killed myself with my own missiles! (not bombs... missiles)
:nervous:
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I can think of two deaths...
Once the Iceni rammed the Hinton when it went to jump out and the Hinton bounced off hiting me. My fighter bounced of right in the Iceni's path, got hit and with 2% hull landed right infron of the Hinton as it warped out....
I felt like I was in a pinball machine
The second death is when I made the Claymore heavy bomber ad put into the campaign. I allso gave it the Redeemer ballistic cannon. the cannon itself was an anti-cap weapon and had 10 shots, long range, big damage and a big shockvawe..
So I go to kill the Ravana, and just as I'm about to shoot a basalisk flies infront of me. The Redeemer hit him and we both died in the blast...
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Taking a direct hit from a pair of Cyclops bombs I was trying to chase down...yes, that DOES hurt.
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Killed by the arse-end debris of an exploding Nightmare destroyer.
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Killed by a support ship on my back exploding
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Yeah, i did that Annorax... That is probably one of my worst as well... (except it wasn't the first asteroid mision :p ) ...
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Hit by friendly beam, bounced into ship I was supposed to escort (Omega 1, an elysium transport, which was down to 2% integrity), killed Omega 1, failed mission, yelled angrily and accidently rebooted my computer by kneeing my CPU.
Technicaly counts as a death, doesn't it?
:ick: Man, that was so horrible.
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i've got a picture of my most embaressing death that explains it all- but i've gotta find it first! *scurries off*
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A somewhat embarrissing death is when I'm trying to take out a Beam Turret, particularly LReds of BFReds, often I try to get as many shots in there as I can so this means breaking away at the last second. And since you're just flying towards some big glob of light, it's hard to know how far you are away.
Needless to say, I have frequently and still do fly into the discharge sphere at the tip of the turret and consequently get vaporised in short order. The "it'll turn off before I get there" doesn't always work either.
On an aside, in a similar thread of this nature some guy named Hades said he got killed by the Hades exploding. When I was playing Dante's Ascension I noticed that the rear end of the Hades was flying off at about 600+ when it blew. So if you take out a Hades, do NOT sit behind it.
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Killing yourself with bombs reminds me of another silly one I had. In the 'slay ravana' mission, everything is blown up or left except me, a support ship and a pair of basilisks. The only missiles I have left are a pair of cyclops, and trying to rearm with two basilisks going after you is bad news. So, I manage to lock on one, and dump the cyclops after him. Then go after the other with primaries. Well, at least one of the cyclops hits the basilisks, but he happened to be right behind me at that time...
So only Support 1 lived to tell how the Ravana was destroyed.
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not diving and hitting my burners...
if i know how to get to the Independence war 2 forum, theres a nice thread that deals with very funny deaths there.
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In the last mission of the Aeos Affair, the Sathanas exploded, and a large chunk of the upper hull ended up smacking me in the face at 800m/s. (I was about 2500m away, 3 seconds is not enough time to fly out of the way.)
I had to redo that one. :nervous:
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InfernoGod, something like this?
(http://www.geocities.com/ghostavo2003/lol.JPG)
:nervous:
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In the first release of the B5 mod, using the area suppresion missile, I forgot how big the explosion range was. but raming bombs is allways a good second.
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I had a lot of problems with accidently running into bombs in the FS1 port. Never was a problem in FS1 though.
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I remember getting smashed by the Sathanas so many times it told me I could skip the mission, I kept trying to fly over it :hopping:
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I was killed by my own allies. Only because I shot down a Herc without targeting. (was not an enemy after all, ooops.) :nervous:
Ah and I was killed by the Lysander's beams, while I got the "avoid the beams" message. I felt pretty dumb after that one. :rolleyes:
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The whole point of that is you or one of your wingmen is supposed to get at least brushed by the beams. That whole bit about "avoid the beams and you won't get hit, pilot" was pretty useless.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Killed by the arse-end debris of an exploding Nightmare destroyer.
My fault, I suppose.
I can't remember how many times I've been killed by a friendly Orion warping out without warning. They really ought to be more careful.
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My stupidest death has got to be in the Belesarious (sp?) mission at the beginning of FS2.
I parked my arse above the Psamtik's main beam to get a cool view of it zapping the corvette, but as it turned out I'd parked my arse IN FRONT of the Psamtik's main beam...
That was kinda embarassing...
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I got killed by the beam I was taking out once. also, I've been rammed to death by just about every ship the fleet has.
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The worst is when you get caught in front of a warping out capital ship (like an orion, ravana or demon) and sometimes you live with like 3% health or you die instantly.
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I dunno if this is embarrasing but, I had just destroyed a Lilith(god I hate them so) and as it was exploding or wutever it shot off its fighter beam and took me out:(
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Originally posted by Cyker
My stupidest death has got to be in the Belesarious (sp?) mission at the beginning of FS2.
I parked my arse above the Psamtik's main beam to get a cool view of it zapping the corvette, but as it turned out I'd parked my arse IN FRONT of the Psamtik's main beam...
That was kinda embarassing...
:lol: The fact that specifically tell you to get out of the way makes that one even funnier :)
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"The Sathanas is jumping out, get out of the way, pilots!"
Yeah, way to go, command. Could've given me the heads up when the frickin' thing was charging its drives, but noooo. Got crushed instantly (well, sorta. Got pushed 10,000 meters first).
Oh! Oh! And during the first nebula mission, I ran SMACK into some floating debris near the Trinity.
I was killed on the mission where you first see the Knossos by the Carthage jumping in. I was half dead from the Maras, and i'm like, YES! REINFORCEMENTS!
Smack.
:ick:
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More than once I've pulled in behind a wing of Nephilem in my little interceptor fighter, start rocking them with guns and furies, hahaha so you want to drop bombs on my destoryer huh? Chew on some of these! when all 3 of the bombers pivot on the spot and pump me full of little red bursts of frustration before I bother to notice that they're actually moving. I forgot those damn things had so many guns on them...
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LOL...my death still beats all those!
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Originally posted by varus
I don't doubt that someone has put up a post like this before, but what were your most embarassing FS2 deaths? For me, it would have to be in Argonautica, the second 'rescue the Aquataine' mission.
After all my wingmen were vaporized by the annoying fighter supression missiles carried by the Shivan bombers, the Aquataine finally made it to the Gamma Draconis node, as I wiped out a quartet of Nahemas. However, as I moved to engage the next incoming wave of bombers, I happened to pass right in front of the Aquataine, as it went to jump out. Being in a Tauret, there was no chance of me getting out of the way.
"See you in Gamma Draconis Alpha"...."Alpha 1 was killed by a collision with Aquataine."
Me? Uh...I was escorting the Psamtik and when the Sath fired its BFReds...
Alpha 1 was killed by a beam from SJ Sathanas 2
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I just got rearmed during a heated fight and hit burners right after I got the go signal from the support ship.
Then I got 3 balistiks on my butt shooting at me. I went to evasive manuvers spinning, pitching, rolling, you know, everything but they kept on hitting me wiping out my shields and bringing down my hull to 5%. Then before the last volley of swarmer missles finished me off I look at the speed meter and it was in "0"
I boosted my afterburners but forgot to turn on my throttle :D
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Heh, I've done that many times too. Although I usually hit the burners before I get the go-ahead since there's a delay after the last secondary has been loaded.
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Strafing a capship's anti-fighter guns in a fighter during a bombing run by AI pilots. Pulled up from fragging an AAA beam only to plow cockpit-first into an incoming bomb.
I'm sure the bomber pilot thought it was funny as hell though he didn't get long to laugh seeing as he had just fired the bomb and went up with me and it.
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I need a place to put up the pic of my most embarresing death. Any suggestions?
And Ghostavo, that has happened before, lol, but definately not as embarassing- or actually, as stupid as the pic of my death.
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try ripway.com
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Imageshack.us is a good, free image host...
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For me it would be getting rammed by the Sathanas jumping out of Gamma Draconis