Re: What's your favorite battle you've ever fought in?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:33 pm
I got SWBF2 years ago and I adored it. Then, when I tried to mod something, I broke the game so I went to reinstall. Whoops! Lost my seriel key. No more SWBF. Then A couple months ago, I found a forum. The forum closed down just about a week after I found it, too. Called 'Ultimate Gift Forum'. So I go there and I'm thinking 'How cool' and I see someone asking for a CnC Renegade key, lost in similar circumstances to mine. I never play mine, it's not even installed anymore, so I gave my key to him. Same guy replies to my request a day later for a SWBF2 key. I was thrilled.
Now, in just the last couple of weeks, I've regained my enthusiasm. And, just like riding a bike, you never forget how to own with a shotgun.
Not exactly in-game, as you can see, but a very pleasant occurance nonetheless. And now for the show.
Recently I was playing on Naboo, as CIS, single player. I was the engineer (suprise, suprise!) And let's just say - the battle ended in about 5-10 minutes, I had 0 deaths, and I had an AWARD Shotgun, War Hero, and around 100 kills. That was pure glee.
I had even more experiences before and these are the ones so awesome I can recall them very well to this day.
Before I decided to get good with engineers, I was a rocket trooper man. I still am, on occasion. You see, I don't snipe with a sniper rifle. I snipe with a rocket launcher. I kid you not. Just recently I was on Geonosis online, and at the other end of the map? Assassin droid. Me? Heavy clone trooper. Again, pure glee. I hit him at least once, but I didn't get a kill. So I switched to a sniper rifle for sake of the zoom after a while and picked him off. I laughed.
So back, to the heavy trooper thing, I'll start with the least impressive of two similar scenarios first, which was also first chronologically. I was on Kamino, online, with a bazooka man. I am not looking well where I'm going, but I'm nearing an enemy CP (in the outdoor area, specifically the one with a ramp leading up to it, and a ramp leading across past a platform to one of the interioir areas) so I decide to lay a mine. Instantly, Kaboom. Also, Obi-Wan's dead body. Not to mention several other clones. Thus began my comprehension of the power of the mine.
Hoth. Empire. I was determined to get in the rebel hangar and steal one of those blissful airplanes. And I mean determined. And so, I finally make it. Five, maybe six rebels. Blam, blam: I'm dead. But not before I got the chance to lay a couple happy mines. I respawn, and about 5 seconds later I read in the top left-hand corner of my HUD that I defeated Luke Skywalker along with one or two other guys. Win.
This one was Naboo. I don't know that I'll ever forget it, it's the entire reason why I play Battlefront. I was CIS, I was an engineer. I was in a tank. It was fairly late through the battle, so jet troopers were everywhere. I mean everywhere. And the thing was, I was not alone. There were about five? six? maybe more of us engineers and we had two tanks. We just went around the perimeter, taking CPs as we cruised along, destroying all who stood in our way. I remember, in the tank, at the CP on the rightmost of the map, the one near that square fountain and the path that has a lower and upper level leading near it, the jet troopers came in scores. And I mowed them down. They kept coming, and I kept blasting. We won eventually, but that battle is ingrained in my memory forever. That's what BF2 is all about and one of the primary reasons why Naboo is undyingly my favorite map.
Death Star - another favorite of mine. I was the Mangaguard at this point. I'm sure all of you are quite familiar with the part near one of the southern CPs that is elevated, with a lengthy staircase leading to and from it. Well, until I finally ran out of ammo, that was my invincible stronghold, and the nearby CP was hostile. My trusty grenade launcher and I, boy did we have a ball in there.
Also, something that happened in one of the first battles I fought online, and it was on the Death Star, was a thermal detonator duel. Seriously. One guy, me, and a blast door. Dets flying between us everywhere. Again, bliss.
One more. Mos Eisley duels as TEH LAWNMOWER!!1one!eleven. (Grievous) I got called a noob so many times, but hey, I played fair. I just owned.
That's all for now. G'bye, my friends. Time for sleep, it's getting a bit late.
Alright, time for some more goodies.
A couple days ago, on Mustafar, online, We were down to one CP. This was the one with the two bridges leading to it, but the repair terminal is on the other side. So I'm defending the door leading to it. Nobody gets past. Hey! A hevy trooper! KABOOM. Detpack'd. None of them got past, and none knew what even hit them. And I had no clue either, until I looked at the map on my HUD. You see, I got hit in the back and killed before I knew what was going on. Apparently, those blasted rebels had come across the bridges and defeated my allies behind my back. So I was the sole survivor, but only until I got killed.
Oh, a side note, I remarked about Mos Eisley assault before, I really wonder why more servers don't encourage organized duels anymore. They were a real joy.
Also recently online, I was playing conquest on Kashyyyk, and I was an engineer on the CIS. We were losing, you know, and it wasn't for my doing (or lack thereof, for that matter.) But I was cruising along the far left side of the map, on that big hill, because I wanted one thing, and one thing only. To land a nice shotgun round into the back of every one of their cruel, cruel snipers. So I try once, and a couple republic troopers see me and take me out after I kill one of them. Next time, I make it inside the big fortification, and I chuckle to myself while everyone spawns, completely ignorant of my presence. Thinking back, maybe I should have detpacked them all to heck and back, but vengance was the only thing on my mind at the time. So I get on top of the big wall uneventfully, and I'm ready to slaughter some snipers. Well, we must have been low on reenforcements, because before I get to kill anyone, the red letters of defeat mark my screen. That was immensely dissapointing.
And Tantive. Oh how I dearly love conquest on Tantive IV, but I utterly despise CTF on it. Why, you query? Because I am always - no joke. ALWAYS - without exception, on CIS or Empire. Now, normally I like that. Droidekas and Dark Troopers can be an absolute joy to play as on nearly any map. But on Tantive, CIS and Empire always lose. Yea, and I know exactly why, too. You know that big room with the generator-type thing in it? This place is the only spawn point for these two sides. And there are 3 ways to go. The main way, where all the action takes place, and the most direct route to the flag and to the enemy CP, is the one on the right, with the small door, that some bozo on the enemy team always finds some way to mine. If you go out this way, the rebels, you see, have a much easier and less bottlenecked route for getting here, so whenever you're there, you're fighting not for aquiration of the flag, but rather so the rebels don't make it inside the generator room, for this is the shame above all shames. The other two lead to almost the same place, and they're on the left. Nothing ever happens on the left. What happens on left stays on the left. I don't know what's with it, but nobody ever goes that way. I do. I do. Then I get dead by the enemies all in the area where that path inevitably leads to. So, alas, my woes.
Also, just yesterday, on Naboo, (cheer) I was CIS and we weren't doing to superb. I can't recall in whose favor that the battle ended, but I was a droideka. One pathetic little droideka. And I must have captured, over the course of he battle, something like four CPs. And that's discounting the close ones. And boy do I hate those detpack idiots. They all say to themselves, "Hyuck hyuck, hey Jerry, is a one of dem thar's droodekaez! I knoz, les go an' run rite up to em! Hyuck hyuck, I knos, les ditpack im now! Yarr!" Oh, the billions of taxpayer dollars lost to my poor droidekas due to these blasted engineers. And Obi-Wan came after me individually on several occasions, as if he knew when he saw me, just isolated, I was up to no good. Which I was, but it was entertaining trying to escape nonetheless.
One word: Wampas. Okay, another, I guess: Acklays. That makes two. Ancient Research Facility, single player, is mayhem. Unrivaled mayhem.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Now, in just the last couple of weeks, I've regained my enthusiasm. And, just like riding a bike, you never forget how to own with a shotgun.
Not exactly in-game, as you can see, but a very pleasant occurance nonetheless. And now for the show.
Recently I was playing on Naboo, as CIS, single player. I was the engineer (suprise, suprise!) And let's just say - the battle ended in about 5-10 minutes, I had 0 deaths, and I had an AWARD Shotgun, War Hero, and around 100 kills. That was pure glee.
I had even more experiences before and these are the ones so awesome I can recall them very well to this day.
Before I decided to get good with engineers, I was a rocket trooper man. I still am, on occasion. You see, I don't snipe with a sniper rifle. I snipe with a rocket launcher. I kid you not. Just recently I was on Geonosis online, and at the other end of the map? Assassin droid. Me? Heavy clone trooper. Again, pure glee. I hit him at least once, but I didn't get a kill. So I switched to a sniper rifle for sake of the zoom after a while and picked him off. I laughed.
So back, to the heavy trooper thing, I'll start with the least impressive of two similar scenarios first, which was also first chronologically. I was on Kamino, online, with a bazooka man. I am not looking well where I'm going, but I'm nearing an enemy CP (in the outdoor area, specifically the one with a ramp leading up to it, and a ramp leading across past a platform to one of the interioir areas) so I decide to lay a mine. Instantly, Kaboom. Also, Obi-Wan's dead body. Not to mention several other clones. Thus began my comprehension of the power of the mine.
Hoth. Empire. I was determined to get in the rebel hangar and steal one of those blissful airplanes. And I mean determined. And so, I finally make it. Five, maybe six rebels. Blam, blam: I'm dead. But not before I got the chance to lay a couple happy mines. I respawn, and about 5 seconds later I read in the top left-hand corner of my HUD that I defeated Luke Skywalker along with one or two other guys. Win.
This one was Naboo. I don't know that I'll ever forget it, it's the entire reason why I play Battlefront. I was CIS, I was an engineer. I was in a tank. It was fairly late through the battle, so jet troopers were everywhere. I mean everywhere. And the thing was, I was not alone. There were about five? six? maybe more of us engineers and we had two tanks. We just went around the perimeter, taking CPs as we cruised along, destroying all who stood in our way. I remember, in the tank, at the CP on the rightmost of the map, the one near that square fountain and the path that has a lower and upper level leading near it, the jet troopers came in scores. And I mowed them down. They kept coming, and I kept blasting. We won eventually, but that battle is ingrained in my memory forever. That's what BF2 is all about and one of the primary reasons why Naboo is undyingly my favorite map.
Death Star - another favorite of mine. I was the Mangaguard at this point. I'm sure all of you are quite familiar with the part near one of the southern CPs that is elevated, with a lengthy staircase leading to and from it. Well, until I finally ran out of ammo, that was my invincible stronghold, and the nearby CP was hostile. My trusty grenade launcher and I, boy did we have a ball in there.
Also, something that happened in one of the first battles I fought online, and it was on the Death Star, was a thermal detonator duel. Seriously. One guy, me, and a blast door. Dets flying between us everywhere. Again, bliss.
One more. Mos Eisley duels as TEH LAWNMOWER!!1one!eleven. (Grievous) I got called a noob so many times, but hey, I played fair. I just owned.
That's all for now. G'bye, my friends. Time for sleep, it's getting a bit late.
Alright, time for some more goodies.
A couple days ago, on Mustafar, online, We were down to one CP. This was the one with the two bridges leading to it, but the repair terminal is on the other side. So I'm defending the door leading to it. Nobody gets past. Hey! A hevy trooper! KABOOM. Detpack'd. None of them got past, and none knew what even hit them. And I had no clue either, until I looked at the map on my HUD. You see, I got hit in the back and killed before I knew what was going on. Apparently, those blasted rebels had come across the bridges and defeated my allies behind my back. So I was the sole survivor, but only until I got killed.
Oh, a side note, I remarked about Mos Eisley assault before, I really wonder why more servers don't encourage organized duels anymore. They were a real joy.
Also recently online, I was playing conquest on Kashyyyk, and I was an engineer on the CIS. We were losing, you know, and it wasn't for my doing (or lack thereof, for that matter.) But I was cruising along the far left side of the map, on that big hill, because I wanted one thing, and one thing only. To land a nice shotgun round into the back of every one of their cruel, cruel snipers. So I try once, and a couple republic troopers see me and take me out after I kill one of them. Next time, I make it inside the big fortification, and I chuckle to myself while everyone spawns, completely ignorant of my presence. Thinking back, maybe I should have detpacked them all to heck and back, but vengance was the only thing on my mind at the time. So I get on top of the big wall uneventfully, and I'm ready to slaughter some snipers. Well, we must have been low on reenforcements, because before I get to kill anyone, the red letters of defeat mark my screen. That was immensely dissapointing.
And Tantive. Oh how I dearly love conquest on Tantive IV, but I utterly despise CTF on it. Why, you query? Because I am always - no joke. ALWAYS - without exception, on CIS or Empire. Now, normally I like that. Droidekas and Dark Troopers can be an absolute joy to play as on nearly any map. But on Tantive, CIS and Empire always lose. Yea, and I know exactly why, too. You know that big room with the generator-type thing in it? This place is the only spawn point for these two sides. And there are 3 ways to go. The main way, where all the action takes place, and the most direct route to the flag and to the enemy CP, is the one on the right, with the small door, that some bozo on the enemy team always finds some way to mine. If you go out this way, the rebels, you see, have a much easier and less bottlenecked route for getting here, so whenever you're there, you're fighting not for aquiration of the flag, but rather so the rebels don't make it inside the generator room, for this is the shame above all shames. The other two lead to almost the same place, and they're on the left. Nothing ever happens on the left. What happens on left stays on the left. I don't know what's with it, but nobody ever goes that way. I do. I do. Then I get dead by the enemies all in the area where that path inevitably leads to. So, alas, my woes.
Also, just yesterday, on Naboo, (cheer) I was CIS and we weren't doing to superb. I can't recall in whose favor that the battle ended, but I was a droideka. One pathetic little droideka. And I must have captured, over the course of he battle, something like four CPs. And that's discounting the close ones. And boy do I hate those detpack idiots. They all say to themselves, "Hyuck hyuck, hey Jerry, is a one of dem thar's droodekaez! I knoz, les go an' run rite up to em! Hyuck hyuck, I knos, les ditpack im now! Yarr!" Oh, the billions of taxpayer dollars lost to my poor droidekas due to these blasted engineers. And Obi-Wan came after me individually on several occasions, as if he knew when he saw me, just isolated, I was up to no good. Which I was, but it was entertaining trying to escape nonetheless.
One word: Wampas. Okay, another, I guess: Acklays. That makes two. Ancient Research Facility, single player, is mayhem. Unrivaled mayhem.
And that's all I have to say about that.
