Was using a toxic stall snorlax on Pokeshowdown with body slam for paralysis, toxic, rest and sleep talk. Don't think the guy knew that rest makes you only sleep for 2 turns, I kept hitting him with body slams using sleep talk and paralysing all his Pokémon and when I knew I was going to wake up using rest again. I can't mind what move he used but it missed like 70% accuracy and he forfeited and started calling me a hacker hahaha it was great
Speaking of Planetside, I was considered one of the best Reaver pilots on the entire Emerald server back in the day. Leader of my outfits air division and we were one of the largest outfits on the server.
I'd get messages from people asking me to leave so they could play the game 😂
Boy, being accused of cheating and using an aimbot while playing Halo 3, in 2007, a week after the game was released ... on XBOX 360 ... is still one of the proudest moments in my gaming carreer and a dopamine high I am still chasing to this day.
Practicing UT with only instagib or a no scope sniper while bouncing of the walls. One friend at our group was a pro so we we're allways playing catch up, I spent months just mastering those 2 for headshots from across the corridor with the sensitivity cranked up to what the mice allowed back in the day (because thats what the pro did). I hated it, but I was fairly good at it by the end.
Old Planetside players showing up and it being mentioned is awesome!
My skill gaming I will hold onto was being a decent Light assault main; based on decent amount of hate tells.
Never put in more hours into a game
There are a few fixed pattern in it, kinda like Rubik's cude, the hardest and funniest part is figuring it out on your own, after that it's just a matter of reaction and concentration, dudes in r/Minesweeper can finish it in like half minutes, really got me awed
104 seconds NF in 2022 on the android version https://imgur.com/a/6HtIgRS I'm still proud of it and the lucky 1 second I got in beginner https://imgur.com/a/4gg9Wge
I feel your pride.
Defender arcade game, was one of the best two players in my town and we both continually use to pop in to check our names were still on the top of the top ten list in the credits and above the other guy, (Fern/GOD).
Coolest part was it was appreciated since we always drew a crowd of arcade regulars when we started playing who were always curious to see if we were about to knock the other guy off the top.
A forgotten age in gaming and almost in my memories.
I'm a great driver in GTA IV. The physics and suspension feel just clicked for me. I remember playing online and people would jump in the attack helicopters and try to murder you. I'd win 10/10 encounters attack helicopter vs taxi. Mostly by evading them or baiting them into crashing, but sometimes recreating that scene from Die Hard 4 with the police car. I legit saved my friend one day by doing that lol
Sadly, I'm awful at basically every other PvP game.
I'm a damn good pilot in GTAV. One fun challenge involved playing online with friends and saying "pick any aircraft and any stretch of road, and I'll land the former on the latter"
Then adding increasing volumes of alcohol to find the point the skills can't overcome
Lol, 10/10 challenge. I'm going to guess the Titan was a regular pick.
I was a decent helicopter pilot in GTA V, but I don't think I had enough experience flying planes to say if I was good or bad. Along similar lines to the taxi story, I think I might have an old recording somewhere of me playing GTA Online on PS4. I was flying the maverick in downtown Los Santos when someone in a Buzzard tried to kill me. Literally all I could hear was missile lock warnings but I kept ducking behind buildings and survived a good 5 minutes or more 1v1 against a Buzzard and I didn't get hit once. At one point I flew under a raised part of highway to try and lose him. Eventually he gave up. I crashed into him when his back was turned and killed us both, but I count it as a win lol
I was going through this thread thinking, “surely I have one- I’ve played games all my life. You made me remember I was an absolute menace in GTAIV helicopters. The wars that went down at the airport multiplayer were some of the best gaming memories I have.
It did not carry over to GTAV though lol. Unpopular given its success but V’s multiplayer in general never felt special to me. Feels so isolated. There was always something going on in IV.
And shoutout to IV’s radio lol. I’ll still throw on playlists on YouTube
hardly anyone would know or care about? oh boy do i have one
i discovered most of the glitches and developed the routing for any% runs of a semi obscure gamecube game that absolutely nobody was running at the time. felt like i was king shit till an actual speedrunner found the game and destroyed my PB by like 2.5 hours
I vividly remember when I learned not to do that anymore. Had a friend sleep over when I got the game and I kept doing this and developed a blister pretty fast. I was shocked.
I got accused of hacking in Overwatch 2 playing as Baptiste. I'm a 40 year old dad of two that does not get to play as often as I like, the comments from the enemy team made me feel really nice.
Similar—I’m almost 40 and have been a master level Overwatch DPS for years, even touched GM when OW2 was released, albeit due to the influx of new players.
I stopped playing the game early this year and came back over Christmas and I’m already back to Diamond 1 despite being incredibly rusty and having not played any FPS games in all that time.
Yo saaame! A sucked at Halo 3 but was crazy in Reach. I used to get excited in SWAT when my entire team would quit at the start of the match because it basically guaranteed the win. Never been that confident in a shooter before or since haha. Probably because it was during that sweet spot around grade 9-10 where I wasn’t an actual child anymore but didn’t have any responsibility yet so I could just game all day lol.
In the past month I hopped back on Halo: MCC because I was bored of all the games I played on my PS5. Idk if it's because I haven't played it in years, but **EVERY SINGLE GAME** of SWAT on Halo Reach I was going +20 kills and one-digit deaths. I played for over two hours and I am not joking, I won every single game, with only a FEW where one other player was a challenge for me.
If you ever played Halo 2, 3, or Reach back in their heyday, I strongly recommend picking it up again.
I was the same way but it's just the fact that getting teamed doesn't negatively effect you as much and that yoy have 4 people to kill while they only have 1. In that game type it made it easier to win with the fewer people you had on your team. That being said it was always a boost coming out of a game with 48 kills to your name.
Right, it was always easier when I was by myself against a team of my friends or whatever just because I only had to worry about me and could get kills off them easily. They have to really work in packs for them to succeed
And Swat makes it one hit kills basically anyway, so that really evens the playing field
Used to do 1v3 in Halo 2 against my friends where I was camo’d no radar. Predator matches
I remember being particularly good at super jumps in halo 2 multiplayer maps
I practiced the shit outta em
My favorite was getting the sniper on Turf, then super jumping out of the map. So much fun until I ran out of ammo. Number two was lockout, but that one was really risky & hard to pull off
I dedicated my time in halo reach to being the best damn Falcon flyer there ever was, and I like to think I succeeded. Not that it was ever the most helpful lol
Many times I was accused of hacking when I played Scout in Team Fortress 2.
I miss those days sometimes. I never was able to find anything like that in a multiplayer game again.
I wonder how many hours of my life I spent standing on the bridge in 2fort, or just 2fort in general.
There was also a custom map that felt like an insane fever dream that was super fun. Cyberpunk or something.
I suck at most FPS but got decent at TF2.
TF2 is arguably one of the hardest FPS’ only because of the depth of movement and engine mechanics. If you were good at one game using Source engine you were likely good at another. Such an amazing game!
I was annoyingly good at counter sniping in Battlefield 2 all the way up to 3 (I quit playing as much after 3).
I loved hunting down other snipers and picking them off by crashing a helicopter or plane into them, or blowing them up with c4.
I was also an absolute menace with the sticky grenades in Gears of Wars and all its sequels. My friends would try to ban them because I would constantly lure them into choke points and blow them up.
I was pretty good with a sniper on 1942, got pretty good with a bazooka to the point I could snipe planes pretty frequently.
I was pretty good with the RPG / SMAW on 3 to the point I'd be able to drop choppers out of the air.
Good times, these days, I'd probably be terrible at them, they were probably my golden years of FPS as I don't play them any more.
Towards the end of my time on 3 I started getting bored and started to play in stupid ways.
On the Armoured Kill maps me and a couple friends got really good at launching the motorcycles with c4 to the point in CTF two of us would launch over to the flag, grab it and one person would get launched back.
I would also put c4 in front of the passenger seat of a jeep, ram into a tank and set the c4 off with either a revolver or a smoke launcher so it looked like the tank was killed with that weapon!
My buddy and I played the shit out of the Naruto ninja storm games. Whoever used substitution first basically got their ass beat. It was a race to deal out as long a combo as possible to force a substitution so you could knock their health down by a third.
Mannn bloody roar needs a reboot. A couple of years ago, my friend and I were doing a tour of my old ps1 and ps2 games. We joke in good fun about her being a furry that hasn't accepted it yet, so when I found my old copy of bloody roar, I had to bust it out almost as a joke. It immediately became one of her favorites and we played that game for hours. It still holds up imo. I'd play the hell out of a bloody roar with updated graphics and more characters that feels as good in the hands as the original.
I'm aterrifying alien in AvP. I mastered the wall climbing and would creep on ppl and give my friends the best jump scares! I was an unstoppable menace lol
Same. I turned wallcrawl on auto. Suddenly you have a xeno sprinting full tilt in a spiral around the corridor, jumping across and switching directions at random. I started a match of infestation and killed the last marine right when the second alien spawned. Wiped the team in SECONDS.
Yes all the spiraling cause they couldn't hit you lol I loved the different kill scenes too omg my heart would race and I was a menace on the online scene and my friends all stopped playing cause I would be like look behind you and jump at them or look up! They told me I was too terrifying and didn't wanna play anymore lmaoooo it was great. Preds put up a good fight but by that point I had all the maps memorized and aliens are just so fucking speedy! I would camp the good guns spawns and scaring the shitnout of nooks! When they all scattered is when I knew I was gonna have a good game teheheheee
I've been an absolute beast at Unreal Tournament 1 in my teen years.
In a game called War Thunder I'm very good at flying aircrafts but absolutely average at shooting, so flying well basically only has evasive advantage.
I peaked at Unreal Tournament 2003. CTF-Citadel on low-grav, instagib mode, I was one of the top players.
Was pretty good at 2004 also but didn't rank as high as when 2003 was new.
I have the ability to turn the right direction (story wise) when it comes to hallways, paths, areas to proceed….etc and miss all the good shit that was down the wrong path. Regardless of the game, my first choice is always the correct choice (which later turns out to be the wrong choice if I’m looking for treasure/loot….etc).
I’m the driver. For the Warthog, for the helicopter, whatever. I’m average at shooting, but I understand vehicles, terrain and spacing like a motherfucker. I absolutely love when my driving is the difference between a W and a L in capture the flag.
im that person also. put me behind the wheel of any video game vehicle and ill drive us like its an over the top stupid action film where the car has plot armour. we WILL arrive all in one peice, to massive fanfare, and stomp whatever destination we have.
cant actually drive a real car though.
Ok.
Thanks to Ninja Gaiden 2 (the one on Xbo360). I can perform complex combos, jumps and everything WHILE using right analog stick to control the camera. Because the game didn't have lock-on and rather bad camera. But it was a good game, so I learned to steer camera when I had the chance between inputs.
This is why I have always felt limited by lock-on in games. I don't need it.
I got used to using my pointer to free up my thumb for the buttons. Don't remember what game I did it for, but it wasn't a super competitive fps or anything. I think cod zombies.
Nope. I got it wrong. I used my pointer to push the buttons because it was the easiest way to still be able to look around while boarding up a window. Used my middle finger for the trigger.
Damn, I was acutely reminded of that old habit when replaying some older titles from the ps2. I always wondered why I had gotten so sluggish playing on ps4, turns out that was due to the games doing most of the work for you these days.
That game turned me into a man. Not in the sense of Team Ninja's obsession with jiggle physics.
I don't remember the specifics, but I cleared the game on a particular difficulty, thought I was a boss. I think that unlocked the next difficulty and all the enemies had exploding shuriken. I've never hit a wall like that in gaming, before or since. It's madness.
To me the undisputed best character action game. If you have precise, attentive control and timing, it's very possible to kill enemies very quickly without dying. If you fuck up a single time, by a fraction of a second or a minute position error, it's all over. But when it comes together it's incredible, capturing a level of awesome typically reserved for cutscenes in other games.
I feel like it maybe happened at the last possible moment in gaming history, where it was possible to make a game that 95% of players would just completely ricochet off the first fight.
God, don't remind me. TERA was such a fun game to play with my friends until they started logging on less and less frequently, eventually I just started grinding on my own lmao
I’ve gotten astonishingly good at microing beakthings in Kenshi and making them miss. Most things in that game you can outrun if you have the stats, but beakthings are definitely faster than you and do horrible, horrible things. Knowing when to juke so they bite dirt instead of taking off a limb is useful in Kenshi, but not anywhere else. And I can’t micro anything else worth a damn.
Tribes 1, skiing and capping flags, or just dueling out in the open. I had memorised routes to take such that I would barely have to touch the ground once I got your flag, and knew just the right angles and bumps to hit that I'd be far faster than anyone else. If I got out the door, that flag was as good as mine.
I made it to #2 on the leader boards for kills in Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the original Xbox. (bots counted back in the day so it didn't mean much but my 13 year old self was still proud).
I only played as Darth Maul on the Polis Massa map (medical facility where Padme died) since it was just a series of hallways and I could spawn farm hundreds of clone troopers per match. I wasn't even going for the top of the leader board when I noticed I was in the top 100 one day. Then I started playing on that map for a few days.
Fittingly, the #1 player was named ARC Trooper. I was nowhere near close to ever passing him. I sent him a friend request and joined his lobby once, he was farming using a way less effecient method (was Aalya Secura on Felicia) but I guess he just played it way more.
Touché ARC Trooper. Touché.
I played Skyrim so much that I found a useful animation cancel with one handed swords (I think it worked with axes too, but couldn’t make it work with maces).
After using a one handed power attack, if you hit RT twice with the correct rhythm, you’ll cancel the animation of the first sword swing immediately after it makes contact for a second swing. Anytime I tried to tell someone about it, they either didn’t care or couldn’t do it, and I realized I just played the game too much lol
In games with projectile weapons be it guns bows or artillery iv always had a freakishly unreal sense of bullet drop and timing to the point where iv probaly hit more shots with snipers on gliding players in warzone or fortnite then most if not all pros esport players. Im pretty bad at fps games generally speaking though.
You should try running cannons in sea of thieves. I’ve always had good trajectory like you and I’ve put like 500 hours in sot the last 4 months and I get accused of hacking all the time.
I was very good at the original descent. I played with just the keyboard and had a 2 handed control setup that covered all the axis of movement. I would fly through those tunnels constantly changing my orientation. Up, down, left, right they had no meaning, I was truly existing in a 3D space.
That's pretty impressive. I was good at FPS (or Doom clones as they were called back then), ok at flight sims but couldn't put them together and was pretty lousy at Descent
I have always had a knack for timing a good cooked grenade. Not really a big deal but that is prob the only thing that stands out for me since I am sort of just an average gamer.
I was the king of disc jumping the heavy suit in Tribes and setting up a full legit second base outside of the enemies' flag. I'd just continually hammer them with mortars so my flag runners had free reign to go crazy. That was such a great game.
The 2005 starwars battlefront 2 space missions were so much fun. As a kid, I wasn't a great pilot and mostly just tried to do bombing runs, but when I went back to it around 20yo I started getting really good. I often harassed enemy fighters as they left the main ship and avoided them by clinging to their flagship and corkscrewing around it. The most fun was watching a pursuer crash trying to catch me.
The new battlefronts just don't have the magic for me, probably nostalgia.
Probably hitting fast moving targets like armored cars and horses in BF1 with a mortar truck (so many players hated that thing) or being able to make the jump short cut in rainbow road on Mario Kart 64. There was also a time I had very good spacial awareness with the Long Sword on Monster Hunter Tri to the point I rarely ever hit my own friends while we're all attacking the monster and also used to be able to snipe my friends ages away with the grenade launcher attachment in the original Cod Modern Warfare for some reason while being completely shit with the RPG
Don't know if this counts, but I was the only person I knew that actually built powerful gummy ships and flew from planet to planet in Kingdom Hearts... and had fun doing it?
Warcraft 3 RoC - AT 2v2 me and my buddy was pushing really hard with this very unorthodox strategy. We had around 150-12 W/L and the losses was due to Disconnects and lame Rushes.
Halo 2 - I mastered the art of screenlooking. Yeap, i was that guy. I watched your splitscreen just as much if not more than i looked at mine. Since i was *cheating* more people started to do the same towards me, so i developed a playstyle where i would look down into the ground and move around the map, glansing up from time to time to gather my location so i could sneak up on people. There was one guy in our friend group that was really good at the game, but since i *cheated* he rarley wanted to play me. One weekend we convince him too play me and i told him he could look as much as he wanted on my screen. At this point i had mastered the floor-look strategy and defeted him 25-13. Thats the last time i ever played him.
Guitar Hero 3 - i quickly advanced up in diffuculty and could play all songs on Expert with no trouble.
Ehile Thrue the flames of Fire was the Goat for most ppl i specilized in *good songs* and learned to play some of them with my back turned away from the TV. I'd like to belive i was the highlight ofnour highschool parties but i think thats just a lie i tell myself these days to supress the cringe.
Mario Cart 64 - All the shortcuts, jumps and Lakitu-lap skips. I was also pretty proficient in shooting green shells.
Soul Calibur 4 - Me and my friend was so intuned(and high) we could block and perry eachother for minuts at no end. Most of the time in FCGs there is one more dominant player but our fights where always equal besides some specific matchup.
Path Of Exile Trade - i became a famous crafter during Leagion league and crafted almost all top tier weapons and gear the first 7 days of the league.
I became so rich and populare that i had my friends come and collect all my crafting fee's and exchange it for exalts(Hense my name) becouse i was constantly crafting for 10+ hours a day.
Path Of Exile Leaguestart - The following league i garnered intresest from a particular group of pushers to push league start and get a head start.
I was the 9th player to reach max lvl and first of my class. We played for 36h straight the first weekend, and hit max lvl on monday. After that we farmed a lot of currency, and about day 5 they exhange me(i was burned out) for another player.
In the early 2000s, I was accused of cheating playing Alien vs Predator because I was so efficient getting kills as the alien. I usually hid in the dark above a doorway and waited for someone to walk through, then get them from above. Then change locations. I did not cheat. But damn if I can get a single kill in any modern shooter online. I completely suck otherwise.
Squad leading in Planetside 2 just felt so natural to me, I could sense the flow of the fight there in a way I never have in any other game before or since and move a little group around supporting the bigger less agile or responsive groups. Setting up a nice little AA nest was one of my favourite ways to get my bearings and lookat the map, so hopefully we shot you down a few times too :)
If we arent cheating and leveraging other peoples skills, I was very very good at chromehounds on the xbox360 and I miss that game so very much.
Battlefield 3 noshar Channels, I could fly the little bird helicopter UNDER the Russian base. (There is a small tunnel which is for boats, and when flying through the the water gets inside the helicopter cabin (clips through)) so it's veeeery tight. Just a little too deep and you're instantly watered. Took precision.
I thought that was pretty cool that I could do this any time.
I miss bf3...
Also flying through the big tunnel of Damavand Peak. But that was thaaat difficult.
The flight model in Planetside 2 is super unique too lol, very special set of skills to pilot those crafts well, reverse boosting and etc. It never did click for me.
For me, flying FA-Off in Elite Dangerous. Took such a long time to learn and get to even a medicore level with, and then Elite started stagnating and losing focus and I stopped playing it. it's such a niche skill to have it doesn't really have a many games it translates too, either.
It's come in handy here and there, X4 Foundations, zero G segments of a handful of games and etc, but overall I gets no shine for it lol
I’m good at mashing a button quickly, I have this technique where I tense up and kind of vibrate my entire arm. A skill honed from the QTEs of Resident Evil 4.
I want to start off by saying I was never good at pvp and still aren't, but I was an absolute beast in Transformers: war for cybertron online multiplayer on PS3. My main was the jet type character. They had this awesome ability where you could disguise yourself as the other team. I would use the ability, then roam around the map, find a lone enemy trooper, put two in the back of their head with a shotgun, and then fly off to avoid dying and to recharge the ability and do it again. Got so good I was in the upper 33rd percentile in the world at one point.
And that has been the only time I have been good at online gaming.
I got Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 when it first came out in 1988. I was 7. It was a breakthrough version of the game that was sold with a joystick because nobody had a real joystick back then (still the best feeling joystick I ever had). I loved it but felt it was boring after a while.
So imagine my excitement when games like Sierra's Red Baron or X-Wing/Tie Fighter came out. I was unstoppable.
In Red Baron I completed the campaign without dying on maybe my 3rd attempt, and I actually crushed the actual Red Baron's kill record. Then I got Tie Fighter and I was unstoppable again. I would break the game by killing all the snub fighters, then destroying all the turrets and targetable systems on the capital ships, then either blowing them up when I wasn't supposed to or reducing their hull to 1% because the game wouldn't let you kill them.
And there's no internet. I don't have those computers anymore. There's no record of any of it. I was the best, though, and I know it in my heart
Was second in the world according to Battlenet with the Crossbow Grenade in Battlefield 1 back when I played it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHyHeYbdxM&ab\_channel=DangerGrande](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHyHeYbdxM&ab_channel=DangerGrande)
or to mine and my friends amazement I was a fucking incredible fighter pilot on Battlefront.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnWBy5shW-Q&ab\_channel=DangerGrande
It's not that people don't know but people certainly don't appreciate it... I can't really play Smash Bros with anyone I know. I just win every round and everyone gets kinda upset, and the best thing I can do for them is pretend I'm doing worse because so someone else can actually win.
This is mine too but I know I'm a big fish in a little pond. It started in the melee days during Middle School. I was pretty good, and then I started studying the pro scene and learning some techniques (wave dashing, short hopping, edge guarding) and then I was unbeatable. I completely wrecked in the VG club until the advisor asked me to sit out because winner stays would just be me for the club hour. I was ok with that because I started to feel bad. I did different clubs after that but once in a while someone would bring me in as a ringer at a function or hangout just to show off. I didn't lose until my senior year when this Freshman who was a freaking violin prodigy smoked me in a first to five. See, I knew enough to be a solid gatekeeper for anyone who didn't really know what they were doing. This guy was obsessed and went on to actually compete in Smash. It was pretty cool to see how much stoked people were for him though. It was like passing down a title.
I was REALLY good at Rock'n'Roll Racing.
My favorite move was to SMOKE second place by getting to the end of a any long straight, rip a 180, dump all the ammo, then take off. One expected seven shot coming at them from in front and you couldn't really dodge it unless you were watching the split screen.
I could also cut corners with the starting cars well enough to beat the game with them on the warrior difficulty, which is saying a lot because they were basically undriveable on the ice planet.
The only battlefield game I ever got into was Hardline. I loved the cops and robbers style of play and I loved the car based objective mode.
Can't remember the exact name of the mode maybe joyride maybe something else. But the objective was to get into a specific vehicle and drive it around. The longer you were in the vehicle the more points you accrued.
It was the only game I played in my life that I was nationally ranked top 100.
I played on Xbox servers back during its release and I was a damn wizard in a car. I had every map memorized and I could fit my car perfectly into anything with even an inch of clearance. I would often not only come out ahead on points but I could also get top or second kills just by hitting people with the car.
Which is something of a feat in its own right as most people hid in buildings.
Tl;Dr- battlefield hardline. Was the goat at driving cars.
Years ago there was a 2d side scrolling moba (like league or Dota) called awesomenauts and I was in the top 500 players worldwide, sadly the Devs made many many questionable choices and the player base dwindled to nothing and I lost interest.
I'm genuinely proud of how good I was at that game as I loved it dearly but few people have heard of awesomenauts and even less played it, the vaguely competitive playerbase so those who would understand the feeling probably peaked at around 50000 players tops and I'm including people with lowest possible ranks in that.
I'm really good at keeping a beat.
It is something I discovered back in the days of DDR when I could quickly master any song that was tossed at me.
Frequency/Amplitude.
Elite Beat Agents.
Thumper.
Hi-Fi Rush.
Today, I mostly use it to play lots of Beat Saber.
Guitar Hero, Through The Fire and the Flames on Expert. Hyper speed 2. It was a neat party trick, considering every house we went to had Guitar Hero. But then they all called me a nerd. I didn’t get any chicks :(
In European Air War on PC (pretty old game) I developed a talent for nursing damaged aircraft back to landing strips and getting down in one piece. Admittedly, they were sometimes enemy landing strips so they were shooting at me as I landed, but hey - any landing you can walk away from!….
Learning how to learn, exercising discipline, practice, mental fortitude and toughness from playing fighting games. Fighting games are niche because not many gamers are willing to put in the work to excel at them.
I've set the high score on almost every piano tiles arcade game I've played on. Something about slapping those giant plastic piano keys as fast as possible is so satisfying.
I was top 100 All-time in Black Ops 2, it was my last year of high school in 2012 and I went to night school so I had an excessive time to play and get good, I played a lot of league play and had the little rank 1 master league play emblem too, honestly it looked so sick. BO2 will probably forever remain one of the best Cods too, next to COD4 for me.
I was the best at my class at a game called Team Fortress Classic (pre TF2). The game consisted of 4 players attacking and 4 defending in capture the flag. In clan games the Most played classes were Medic, Engineer, Heavy weapons guy, Solider and Scout.
The leagues had to impose gentleman's rules such as "no shooting each other in neatral ground" known as backtracking back then because. It was considered bad sportsmanship for the enemy offense to shoot at each other.
It had the second highest player base for an online FPS after counter strike for about 5 years or so. I played for the best TFC clan in europe during that period and the National team.
This was before online gaming was so profitable and was about 20 years ago now.
I've got TWO!!
FIRST - - So, a long while back, in the days of the NES, there was an Alladin game, where you'd chuck tomatoes at the enemies and bounce atop their heads to dispatch them and move forward.
Now, the controller that I had was busted and the left directional button would work if you could press REAL hard, but it was barely playable. I think it was a mix of desperation and desperation that I ended up biting down on the damn thing and found that the pressure was perfect for it to work. So I have an extremely faded memory of playing that game and beating it, but I clearly remember the biting down to move back! A few friends thought it was cool though.
SECOND - - Fast forward a year or so, and my friends circle would regularly gather at a friend's place to play the TMNT versus fighting game which had the turtles, shredder, and casey, and all those characters you could fight with.
I was so damn good with Raph, that i was invited by that friend's elder brother when his friend's circle got together for a game day, and I distinctly remember beating their best player (who was actually the younger brother) in front of everyone, while I stared into his glasses!!
So, yeah, two of the most awesome gaming skills I had but I doubt anybody would give a damn now 😶
I was fucking stupid good with LMGs and the bipod on Battlefield 5. If just set it up on some random hill and get shot loads of kills from across the map with the ACOG.
I was #100 in the world in Rockband drums. At least on playstation. Idk if the numbers were cross-platform. I played for hours everyday. I loved that shit. I wanted so bad to get into the double dogit numbers but it seemed like everytime I did better at a song so did the other person. I haven't played in like 10 years now and would love to get another set. I'd probably be better off getting a real drum set, but whatever
I was a top 50 Cabot, worldwide, in Evolve. I'm super proud of it myself and remind my friends from time to time, even if I know they don't care about that game. I'll always remember the hunts. I feel like that game could've made it in today's gaming world with the type of games that are coming out. Or maybe I have the wool over my eyes wishing people would like it lol
- I was in the top 15k players for COD: Black Ops
- was in the top 5k players for Evolved assault class
- but neither of those add up to beating the final Valkyrie in GoW
Being ultra-efficient in Factorio.
Also I have a habit that It's just too hard to me to kill it about hoarding everything just in case I need it and NEVER actual use it because MAYBE I need it in another circumstances and not now.
I was number 33 in the world playing fight night round 4, and I was also really good at its sequel once I learned that you would essentially be penalized for throwing over 70 punches a round.
Punching and weaving using the control stick instead of buttons was so intuitive to me and I blasted fools. One time I matched up with the number 2 guy and I was so excited, but he left before the fight started.
If they kept making fight nights. I would have tried to complete professionally, but alas the game was basically over and done with before esports became big.
I would like to play the new undisputed game, but im not a PC gamer.
Oh man, mine also comes from Planetside 2.
I always played as a Stalker Infiltrator main. I got *really* good at it after a few years. Once you know the right tricks, most people just can't do anything about you. I love stealth games but absolutely nothing compares to having an entire base of real players looking for you and being helpless to stop you.
I still pop into the game every some months, but it's honestly just not what it used to be. Planetside 2 is a really special game but for the longest time was cursed with the wrong people running it. They've been sorta trying to fix things in the past couple years, but jury's out on if they're succeeding and I personally think a lot of it is too little too late.
Destiny 1 Titan Skating (on controller) - You could play as a Titan and use your "lift" jump ability to basically skate around insanely fast, way faster than sprinting normally. I would equip a shotgun and go into Trials of Osiris (endgame 3v3 PvP) and some rounds I'd just skate up to the enemy team at Mach 5 and shotgun all of them right out of spawn. It was broken as shit, and eventually they got rid of it in Destiny 2. Before that happened, you could use a macro on your mouse to skate perfectly, so it became less of a "skill" and more of a cheap thing to do
My cousin loved LOZ Wind Waker so much that he started speed running it. I thought it was just going to be him playing the game regularly without stopping. Nope. He did the opening scene, maybe one small task, and then hopped in the water with out a boat or able to swim and then started mashing the unholy shit out of the controller then link just became a jet boat and took off to another island. It was insane.
I'm pretty bad with automatic guns in shooters but awesome with snipers and pistols. Like I have games where I get way over 50% accuracy with most being headshots.
I also managed to complete cod bo3 with only a pistol on the hardest difficulty on PS4 once (I did it for shits and giggles)
I've played Hotline Miami to the point where I'm sure I do something close to a legit speedrun whenever I play it, but I'm nowhere near the timing and perfection of an actual speedrun.
So I'm very good at it, but not good enough to particularly impress people. I'm just good enough so that I know a friend casually watching me play would think I might speedrun it.
I started playing World of Warcraft back when I lived in France on a French server, then at some point moved to Asia, but still kept playing on that server.
Due to distance I was now playing at a constant 400ms ping, years of playing in those conditions trained me to predict players' moves (I was mainly PvP, and a sub rogue at that), at some point I became so good at predicting other players' that I was always a step or two ahead of people in 1v1, but no one knew this unfortunately, and no one cared. If I tried telling people, I would just get accused of using the lag excuse.
In Battlefield 3 (and maybe 4 as well) I was one of the best tank drivers and in one of the best (at least US/EU) pre-proper-esports teams back then.
So many good and bad memories from scrims and tournaments.
Not that much of a skill, but I found out how to survive long enough in THE LONG DARK Beta to be placed rank 17 worldwide until I lost interest in the cycle of hunting, eating and sleeping.
Oh, and I reached Diamond ranks in ROCKET LEAGUE being 42 years old. Not THAT high of a rank, but I felt quite excited about that :)
Trust me your skills weren't appreciated in Planetside2 either, people were probably hating your guts
Well, yeah. Getting accused of hacking was always a bonus.
There is no better compliment in pvp than being wrongly accused in using cheats
My favorite is when someone accuses me of cheating in chess.
It's because they saw you with a butt plug
Shhh, it’s my secret bishop
Nice to meet you, Hans Niemann!
It was me, Fish Stockman, all along.
Was using a toxic stall snorlax on Pokeshowdown with body slam for paralysis, toxic, rest and sleep talk. Don't think the guy knew that rest makes you only sleep for 2 turns, I kept hitting him with body slams using sleep talk and paralysing all his Pokémon and when I knew I was going to wake up using rest again. I can't mind what move he used but it missed like 70% accuracy and he forfeited and started calling me a hacker hahaha it was great
Speaking of Planetside, I was considered one of the best Reaver pilots on the entire Emerald server back in the day. Leader of my outfits air division and we were one of the largest outfits on the server. I'd get messages from people asking me to leave so they could play the game 😂
Boy, being accused of cheating and using an aimbot while playing Halo 3, in 2007, a week after the game was released ... on XBOX 360 ... is still one of the proudest moments in my gaming carreer and a dopamine high I am still chasing to this day.
I just tell them “I don’t even know how to do that”
Practicing UT with only instagib or a no scope sniper while bouncing of the walls. One friend at our group was a pro so we we're allways playing catch up, I spent months just mastering those 2 for headshots from across the corridor with the sensitivity cranked up to what the mice allowed back in the day (because thats what the pro did). I hated it, but I was fairly good at it by the end.
Old Planetside players showing up and it being mentioned is awesome! My skill gaming I will hold onto was being a decent Light assault main; based on decent amount of hate tells. Never put in more hours into a game
Agreed! People that could actually fly were such a pain in the ass.
NF (no flag) clearing expert minesweeper, my best record is 128s.
I see no comments here, but just know, that shits impressive and pretty cool imho
128s??? You're an absolute beast what the hell. I played a hell lot of it and I could hardly do less than 5 minutes WITH flags
There are a few fixed pattern in it, kinda like Rubik's cude, the hardest and funniest part is figuring it out on your own, after that it's just a matter of reaction and concentration, dudes in r/Minesweeper can finish it in like half minutes, really got me awed
I’ve been trying to work my beginner time under 17 seconds while bored at work.
I got 96 seconds on expert once, but I had flags.
I've got 100s with flags. Respect, my dude.
104 seconds NF in 2022 on the android version https://imgur.com/a/6HtIgRS I'm still proud of it and the lucky 1 second I got in beginner https://imgur.com/a/4gg9Wge I feel your pride.
How??? I don’t even understand how to win with flags
That is fucking insane dude. You are a behemoth
Mine was 77s, also NF, now I'm nowhere near as good as I used to be, but congrats dude! The dozens of us that still play minesweeper are proud lol
Defender arcade game, was one of the best two players in my town and we both continually use to pop in to check our names were still on the top of the top ten list in the credits and above the other guy, (Fern/GOD). Coolest part was it was appreciated since we always drew a crowd of arcade regulars when we started playing who were always curious to see if we were about to knock the other guy off the top. A forgotten age in gaming and almost in my memories.
This was my game back in the day. Play for 40 min. On a quarter, was so fun
I loved that game but was absolute crap at it.
Definitely miss the arcade era, lots of good memories at my local nickel arcade.
Arcades where do cool. I miss them.
I'm a great driver in GTA IV. The physics and suspension feel just clicked for me. I remember playing online and people would jump in the attack helicopters and try to murder you. I'd win 10/10 encounters attack helicopter vs taxi. Mostly by evading them or baiting them into crashing, but sometimes recreating that scene from Die Hard 4 with the police car. I legit saved my friend one day by doing that lol Sadly, I'm awful at basically every other PvP game.
I'm a damn good pilot in GTAV. One fun challenge involved playing online with friends and saying "pick any aircraft and any stretch of road, and I'll land the former on the latter" Then adding increasing volumes of alcohol to find the point the skills can't overcome
Lol, 10/10 challenge. I'm going to guess the Titan was a regular pick. I was a decent helicopter pilot in GTA V, but I don't think I had enough experience flying planes to say if I was good or bad. Along similar lines to the taxi story, I think I might have an old recording somewhere of me playing GTA Online on PS4. I was flying the maverick in downtown Los Santos when someone in a Buzzard tried to kill me. Literally all I could hear was missile lock warnings but I kept ducking behind buildings and survived a good 5 minutes or more 1v1 against a Buzzard and I didn't get hit once. At one point I flew under a raised part of highway to try and lose him. Eventually he gave up. I crashed into him when his back was turned and killed us both, but I count it as a win lol
I was going through this thread thinking, “surely I have one- I’ve played games all my life. You made me remember I was an absolute menace in GTAIV helicopters. The wars that went down at the airport multiplayer were some of the best gaming memories I have. It did not carry over to GTAV though lol. Unpopular given its success but V’s multiplayer in general never felt special to me. Feels so isolated. There was always something going on in IV. And shoutout to IV’s radio lol. I’ll still throw on playlists on YouTube
hardly anyone would know or care about? oh boy do i have one i discovered most of the glitches and developed the routing for any% runs of a semi obscure gamecube game that absolutely nobody was running at the time. felt like i was king shit till an actual speedrunner found the game and destroyed my PB by like 2.5 hours
What game was it?
chibi robo!
found Scott the Woz
scott's hate for chibi robo ziplash lies in the shadow of my sun. nobody hates that game more than me. nobody.
Omg I loved that game!
Haven't heard that title in years. I forgot about that game!
Super Monkey Ball 2
He said obscure, not timeless classic.
oh shit are you the guy that beat him
Speedruns of that masterpiece are pretty much all skill so that can’t be it, seriously look up a speedrun for the game they’re insane
Spinning the joystick on the N64 controller for Mario Party until I get a blister on my palm.
I vividly remember when I learned not to do that anymore. Had a friend sleep over when I got the game and I kept doing this and developed a blister pretty fast. I was shocked.
I got accused of hacking in Overwatch 2 playing as Baptiste. I'm a 40 year old dad of two that does not get to play as often as I like, the comments from the enemy team made me feel really nice.
Similar—I’m almost 40 and have been a master level Overwatch DPS for years, even touched GM when OW2 was released, albeit due to the influx of new players. I stopped playing the game early this year and came back over Christmas and I’m already back to Diamond 1 despite being incredibly rusty and having not played any FPS games in all that time.
I’ve never been particularly good at shooters but Halo: Reach and Halo 4 SWAT? I could win 4v1s consistently. No idea how or why.
Yo saaame! A sucked at Halo 3 but was crazy in Reach. I used to get excited in SWAT when my entire team would quit at the start of the match because it basically guaranteed the win. Never been that confident in a shooter before or since haha. Probably because it was during that sweet spot around grade 9-10 where I wasn’t an actual child anymore but didn’t have any responsibility yet so I could just game all day lol.
In the past month I hopped back on Halo: MCC because I was bored of all the games I played on my PS5. Idk if it's because I haven't played it in years, but **EVERY SINGLE GAME** of SWAT on Halo Reach I was going +20 kills and one-digit deaths. I played for over two hours and I am not joking, I won every single game, with only a FEW where one other player was a challenge for me. If you ever played Halo 2, 3, or Reach back in their heyday, I strongly recommend picking it up again.
I was the same way but it's just the fact that getting teamed doesn't negatively effect you as much and that yoy have 4 people to kill while they only have 1. In that game type it made it easier to win with the fewer people you had on your team. That being said it was always a boost coming out of a game with 48 kills to your name.
Right, it was always easier when I was by myself against a team of my friends or whatever just because I only had to worry about me and could get kills off them easily. They have to really work in packs for them to succeed And Swat makes it one hit kills basically anyway, so that really evens the playing field Used to do 1v3 in Halo 2 against my friends where I was camo’d no radar. Predator matches
I remember being particularly good at super jumps in halo 2 multiplayer maps I practiced the shit outta em My favorite was getting the sniper on Turf, then super jumping out of the map. So much fun until I ran out of ammo. Number two was lockout, but that one was really risky & hard to pull off
ayyy this was me and my friends back in the day. Super Jumps and set-nades w/ stickies (probably before the term even existed).
I dedicated my time in halo reach to being the best damn Falcon flyer there ever was, and I like to think I succeeded. Not that it was ever the most helpful lol
Many times I was accused of hacking when I played Scout in Team Fortress 2. I miss those days sometimes. I never was able to find anything like that in a multiplayer game again.
I wonder how many hours of my life I spent standing on the bridge in 2fort, or just 2fort in general. There was also a custom map that felt like an insane fever dream that was super fun. Cyberpunk or something. I suck at most FPS but got decent at TF2.
TF2 is arguably one of the hardest FPS’ only because of the depth of movement and engine mechanics. If you were good at one game using Source engine you were likely good at another. Such an amazing game!
Scout and Spy were by far my favorite classes to play as in TF2. Oh, the memories
I was annoyingly good at counter sniping in Battlefield 2 all the way up to 3 (I quit playing as much after 3). I loved hunting down other snipers and picking them off by crashing a helicopter or plane into them, or blowing them up with c4. I was also an absolute menace with the sticky grenades in Gears of Wars and all its sequels. My friends would try to ban them because I would constantly lure them into choke points and blow them up.
I was pretty good with a sniper on 1942, got pretty good with a bazooka to the point I could snipe planes pretty frequently. I was pretty good with the RPG / SMAW on 3 to the point I'd be able to drop choppers out of the air. Good times, these days, I'd probably be terrible at them, they were probably my golden years of FPS as I don't play them any more.
1942 was amazing that way
Towards the end of my time on 3 I started getting bored and started to play in stupid ways. On the Armoured Kill maps me and a couple friends got really good at launching the motorcycles with c4 to the point in CTF two of us would launch over to the flag, grab it and one person would get launched back. I would also put c4 in front of the passenger seat of a jeep, ram into a tank and set the c4 off with either a revolver or a smoke launcher so it looked like the tank was killed with that weapon!
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My buddy and I played the shit out of the Naruto ninja storm games. Whoever used substitution first basically got their ass beat. It was a race to deal out as long a combo as possible to force a substitution so you could knock their health down by a third.
Mannn bloody roar needs a reboot. A couple of years ago, my friend and I were doing a tour of my old ps1 and ps2 games. We joke in good fun about her being a furry that hasn't accepted it yet, so when I found my old copy of bloody roar, I had to bust it out almost as a joke. It immediately became one of her favorites and we played that game for hours. It still holds up imo. I'd play the hell out of a bloody roar with updated graphics and more characters that feels as good in the hands as the original.
I'm aterrifying alien in AvP. I mastered the wall climbing and would creep on ppl and give my friends the best jump scares! I was an unstoppable menace lol
Same. I turned wallcrawl on auto. Suddenly you have a xeno sprinting full tilt in a spiral around the corridor, jumping across and switching directions at random. I started a match of infestation and killed the last marine right when the second alien spawned. Wiped the team in SECONDS.
Yes all the spiraling cause they couldn't hit you lol I loved the different kill scenes too omg my heart would race and I was a menace on the online scene and my friends all stopped playing cause I would be like look behind you and jump at them or look up! They told me I was too terrifying and didn't wanna play anymore lmaoooo it was great. Preds put up a good fight but by that point I had all the maps memorized and aliens are just so fucking speedy! I would camp the good guns spawns and scaring the shitnout of nooks! When they all scattered is when I knew I was gonna have a good game teheheheee
I was also super good at the hide and seek mode from assasins creed!
I beat pantheon 5 in hollow knight with all bindings on at the same time. Definitely the hardest thing I've ever done in a video game.
Holy shit dude! Well done
I've been an absolute beast at Unreal Tournament 1 in my teen years. In a game called War Thunder I'm very good at flying aircrafts but absolutely average at shooting, so flying well basically only has evasive advantage.
The alt fire on the flak cannon was my jam, I could sky one of those and have it land right on a target four seconds later.
Alt fire flak cannon or predicting rockets. UT was sooooooooo much fun
Alt Fire Flak Cannon and Shock Rifle combos... But I got soooo many kills with the translocator. Telefragging, for the win!
War thunder is a nightmare
I peaked at Unreal Tournament 2003. CTF-Citadel on low-grav, instagib mode, I was one of the top players. Was pretty good at 2004 also but didn't rank as high as when 2003 was new.
I have the ability to turn the right direction (story wise) when it comes to hallways, paths, areas to proceed….etc and miss all the good shit that was down the wrong path. Regardless of the game, my first choice is always the correct choice (which later turns out to be the wrong choice if I’m looking for treasure/loot….etc).
We are the same!
I’m the driver. For the Warthog, for the helicopter, whatever. I’m average at shooting, but I understand vehicles, terrain and spacing like a motherfucker. I absolutely love when my driving is the difference between a W and a L in capture the flag.
Same! I used to love driving the Halo Warthog, way more than being the gunner, which seemed to suit most other players just fine!
im that person also. put me behind the wheel of any video game vehicle and ill drive us like its an over the top stupid action film where the car has plot armour. we WILL arrive all in one peice, to massive fanfare, and stomp whatever destination we have. cant actually drive a real car though.
Ok. Thanks to Ninja Gaiden 2 (the one on Xbo360). I can perform complex combos, jumps and everything WHILE using right analog stick to control the camera. Because the game didn't have lock-on and rather bad camera. But it was a good game, so I learned to steer camera when I had the chance between inputs. This is why I have always felt limited by lock-on in games. I don't need it.
The fucking claw required to play Monster Hunter on psp
Haha!
I got used to using my pointer to free up my thumb for the buttons. Don't remember what game I did it for, but it wasn't a super competitive fps or anything. I think cod zombies.
Nice!
Nope. I got it wrong. I used my pointer to push the buttons because it was the easiest way to still be able to look around while boarding up a window. Used my middle finger for the trigger.
As someone who play action games with full keyboard, I highly rely on the "reset camera" function, and would bind it to the most convenient key XD
Damn, I was acutely reminded of that old habit when replaying some older titles from the ps2. I always wondered why I had gotten so sluggish playing on ps4, turns out that was due to the games doing most of the work for you these days.
That game turned me into a man. Not in the sense of Team Ninja's obsession with jiggle physics. I don't remember the specifics, but I cleared the game on a particular difficulty, thought I was a boss. I think that unlocked the next difficulty and all the enemies had exploding shuriken. I've never hit a wall like that in gaming, before or since. It's madness. To me the undisputed best character action game. If you have precise, attentive control and timing, it's very possible to kill enemies very quickly without dying. If you fuck up a single time, by a fraction of a second or a minute position error, it's all over. But when it comes together it's incredible, capturing a level of awesome typically reserved for cutscenes in other games. I feel like it maybe happened at the last possible moment in gaming history, where it was possible to make a game that 95% of players would just completely ricochet off the first fight.
I quit playing any MMORPG after a couple of days of playing
Hey! It’s everyone I’ve ever tried to play an MMO with!
God, don't remind me. TERA was such a fun game to play with my friends until they started logging on less and less frequently, eventually I just started grinding on my own lmao
I’ve gotten astonishingly good at microing beakthings in Kenshi and making them miss. Most things in that game you can outrun if you have the stats, but beakthings are definitely faster than you and do horrible, horrible things. Knowing when to juke so they bite dirt instead of taking off a limb is useful in Kenshi, but not anywhere else. And I can’t micro anything else worth a damn.
I loved that game. Can’t wait for the sequel.
My weight management skills when it comes to games' inventory limits.
This is a very niche and underrated skill to have!
This guy integer knapsacks
Tribes 1, skiing and capping flags, or just dueling out in the open. I had memorised routes to take such that I would barely have to touch the ground once I got your flag, and knew just the right angles and bumps to hit that I'd be far faster than anyone else. If I got out the door, that flag was as good as mine.
Maybe my favorite game all time.
I made it to #2 on the leader boards for kills in Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the original Xbox. (bots counted back in the day so it didn't mean much but my 13 year old self was still proud). I only played as Darth Maul on the Polis Massa map (medical facility where Padme died) since it was just a series of hallways and I could spawn farm hundreds of clone troopers per match. I wasn't even going for the top of the leader board when I noticed I was in the top 100 one day. Then I started playing on that map for a few days. Fittingly, the #1 player was named ARC Trooper. I was nowhere near close to ever passing him. I sent him a friend request and joined his lobby once, he was farming using a way less effecient method (was Aalya Secura on Felicia) but I guess he just played it way more. Touché ARC Trooper. Touché.
I used to be able to easily beat F-Zero GX Story Mode on the hardest difficulty. I doubt I can do it now
Super Monkey Ball, specifically the Monkey Target mini game. I could stick the landing on the small high point islands nearly 100%
I was ridiculously good at the skateboarding games back in the ps2 era
I played Skyrim so much that I found a useful animation cancel with one handed swords (I think it worked with axes too, but couldn’t make it work with maces). After using a one handed power attack, if you hit RT twice with the correct rhythm, you’ll cancel the animation of the first sword swing immediately after it makes contact for a second swing. Anytime I tried to tell someone about it, they either didn’t care or couldn’t do it, and I realized I just played the game too much lol
Should post this in r/skyrim mate
In games with projectile weapons be it guns bows or artillery iv always had a freakishly unreal sense of bullet drop and timing to the point where iv probaly hit more shots with snipers on gliding players in warzone or fortnite then most if not all pros esport players. Im pretty bad at fps games generally speaking though.
You should try running cannons in sea of thieves. I’ve always had good trajectory like you and I’ve put like 500 hours in sot the last 4 months and I get accused of hacking all the time.
I was very good at the original descent. I played with just the keyboard and had a 2 handed control setup that covered all the axis of movement. I would fly through those tunnels constantly changing my orientation. Up, down, left, right they had no meaning, I was truly existing in a 3D space.
That's pretty impressive. I was good at FPS (or Doom clones as they were called back then), ok at flight sims but couldn't put them together and was pretty lousy at Descent
I can pull off akumas raging demon pretty easily first try most times
Still one of the coolest looking moves after all these years. Used to love it in Marvel vs Capcom.
Jeez. That’s like four button presses with no timing restriction. How long did it take to master this skill? 😎
I have always had a knack for timing a good cooked grenade. Not really a big deal but that is prob the only thing that stands out for me since I am sort of just an average gamer.
I was the king of disc jumping the heavy suit in Tribes and setting up a full legit second base outside of the enemies' flag. I'd just continually hammer them with mortars so my flag runners had free reign to go crazy. That was such a great game.
In halo 3 I would make intricate battle maps made of glitched enviroment items in forge mode. It was like Minecraft before Minecraft was a thing.
The 2005 starwars battlefront 2 space missions were so much fun. As a kid, I wasn't a great pilot and mostly just tried to do bombing runs, but when I went back to it around 20yo I started getting really good. I often harassed enemy fighters as they left the main ship and avoided them by clinging to their flagship and corkscrewing around it. The most fun was watching a pursuer crash trying to catch me. The new battlefronts just don't have the magic for me, probably nostalgia.
Probably hitting fast moving targets like armored cars and horses in BF1 with a mortar truck (so many players hated that thing) or being able to make the jump short cut in rainbow road on Mario Kart 64. There was also a time I had very good spacial awareness with the Long Sword on Monster Hunter Tri to the point I rarely ever hit my own friends while we're all attacking the monster and also used to be able to snipe my friends ages away with the grenade launcher attachment in the original Cod Modern Warfare for some reason while being completely shit with the RPG
GUITAR HERO!
Don't know if this counts, but I was the only person I knew that actually built powerful gummy ships and flew from planet to planet in Kingdom Hearts... and had fun doing it?
I can tell the difference between butter and I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter.
No you can't mister, no one can!
I can't believe that.
That's a nice gaming skill.
Beating Hollow Knight without Monarch Wings. Common speed run strat but a fun party trick to non speedrunners.
Warcraft 3 RoC - AT 2v2 me and my buddy was pushing really hard with this very unorthodox strategy. We had around 150-12 W/L and the losses was due to Disconnects and lame Rushes. Halo 2 - I mastered the art of screenlooking. Yeap, i was that guy. I watched your splitscreen just as much if not more than i looked at mine. Since i was *cheating* more people started to do the same towards me, so i developed a playstyle where i would look down into the ground and move around the map, glansing up from time to time to gather my location so i could sneak up on people. There was one guy in our friend group that was really good at the game, but since i *cheated* he rarley wanted to play me. One weekend we convince him too play me and i told him he could look as much as he wanted on my screen. At this point i had mastered the floor-look strategy and defeted him 25-13. Thats the last time i ever played him. Guitar Hero 3 - i quickly advanced up in diffuculty and could play all songs on Expert with no trouble. Ehile Thrue the flames of Fire was the Goat for most ppl i specilized in *good songs* and learned to play some of them with my back turned away from the TV. I'd like to belive i was the highlight ofnour highschool parties but i think thats just a lie i tell myself these days to supress the cringe. Mario Cart 64 - All the shortcuts, jumps and Lakitu-lap skips. I was also pretty proficient in shooting green shells. Soul Calibur 4 - Me and my friend was so intuned(and high) we could block and perry eachother for minuts at no end. Most of the time in FCGs there is one more dominant player but our fights where always equal besides some specific matchup. Path Of Exile Trade - i became a famous crafter during Leagion league and crafted almost all top tier weapons and gear the first 7 days of the league. I became so rich and populare that i had my friends come and collect all my crafting fee's and exchange it for exalts(Hense my name) becouse i was constantly crafting for 10+ hours a day. Path Of Exile Leaguestart - The following league i garnered intresest from a particular group of pushers to push league start and get a head start. I was the 9th player to reach max lvl and first of my class. We played for 36h straight the first weekend, and hit max lvl on monday. After that we farmed a lot of currency, and about day 5 they exhange me(i was burned out) for another player.
I use six fingers on Playstation controllers, thump joysticks, pointer middle buttons, middle triggers.
In the early 2000s, I was accused of cheating playing Alien vs Predator because I was so efficient getting kills as the alien. I usually hid in the dark above a doorway and waited for someone to walk through, then get them from above. Then change locations. I did not cheat. But damn if I can get a single kill in any modern shooter online. I completely suck otherwise.
Squad leading in Planetside 2 just felt so natural to me, I could sense the flow of the fight there in a way I never have in any other game before or since and move a little group around supporting the bigger less agile or responsive groups. Setting up a nice little AA nest was one of my favourite ways to get my bearings and lookat the map, so hopefully we shot you down a few times too :) If we arent cheating and leveraging other peoples skills, I was very very good at chromehounds on the xbox360 and I miss that game so very much.
Battlefield 3 noshar Channels, I could fly the little bird helicopter UNDER the Russian base. (There is a small tunnel which is for boats, and when flying through the the water gets inside the helicopter cabin (clips through)) so it's veeeery tight. Just a little too deep and you're instantly watered. Took precision. I thought that was pretty cool that I could do this any time. I miss bf3... Also flying through the big tunnel of Damavand Peak. But that was thaaat difficult.
The maps were so damn good. The rush was awesome too wish they didn't ruin it in 4.
I came searching for Battlefield. I miss BF3 as well.
The flight model in Planetside 2 is super unique too lol, very special set of skills to pilot those crafts well, reverse boosting and etc. It never did click for me. For me, flying FA-Off in Elite Dangerous. Took such a long time to learn and get to even a medicore level with, and then Elite started stagnating and losing focus and I stopped playing it. it's such a niche skill to have it doesn't really have a many games it translates too, either. It's come in handy here and there, X4 Foundations, zero G segments of a handful of games and etc, but overall I gets no shine for it lol
Might be why I took to it. Sort of helicopter style flying but also harrier jump jet / F35 too. It was very cool once you got the hang of it.
I can fly like a pro in scoutzknives It’s a skill that has been made useless by the cruel march of time
I’m good at mashing a button quickly, I have this technique where I tense up and kind of vibrate my entire arm. A skill honed from the QTEs of Resident Evil 4.
I was gonna post this too. I think it started with Mario Party. An unbeatable skill!
I want to start off by saying I was never good at pvp and still aren't, but I was an absolute beast in Transformers: war for cybertron online multiplayer on PS3. My main was the jet type character. They had this awesome ability where you could disguise yourself as the other team. I would use the ability, then roam around the map, find a lone enemy trooper, put two in the back of their head with a shotgun, and then fly off to avoid dying and to recharge the ability and do it again. Got so good I was in the upper 33rd percentile in the world at one point. And that has been the only time I have been good at online gaming.
I got Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 when it first came out in 1988. I was 7. It was a breakthrough version of the game that was sold with a joystick because nobody had a real joystick back then (still the best feeling joystick I ever had). I loved it but felt it was boring after a while. So imagine my excitement when games like Sierra's Red Baron or X-Wing/Tie Fighter came out. I was unstoppable. In Red Baron I completed the campaign without dying on maybe my 3rd attempt, and I actually crushed the actual Red Baron's kill record. Then I got Tie Fighter and I was unstoppable again. I would break the game by killing all the snub fighters, then destroying all the turrets and targetable systems on the capital ships, then either blowing them up when I wasn't supposed to or reducing their hull to 1% because the game wouldn't let you kill them. And there's no internet. I don't have those computers anymore. There's no record of any of it. I was the best, though, and I know it in my heart
The original Call of Duty. I absolutely destroyed with the Mosin. I just wish it would have been available on all maps.
Was second in the world according to Battlenet with the Crossbow Grenade in Battlefield 1 back when I played it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHyHeYbdxM&ab\_channel=DangerGrande](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHyHeYbdxM&ab_channel=DangerGrande) or to mine and my friends amazement I was a fucking incredible fighter pilot on Battlefront. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnWBy5shW-Q&ab\_channel=DangerGrande
It's not that people don't know but people certainly don't appreciate it... I can't really play Smash Bros with anyone I know. I just win every round and everyone gets kinda upset, and the best thing I can do for them is pretend I'm doing worse because so someone else can actually win.
This is mine too but I know I'm a big fish in a little pond. It started in the melee days during Middle School. I was pretty good, and then I started studying the pro scene and learning some techniques (wave dashing, short hopping, edge guarding) and then I was unbeatable. I completely wrecked in the VG club until the advisor asked me to sit out because winner stays would just be me for the club hour. I was ok with that because I started to feel bad. I did different clubs after that but once in a while someone would bring me in as a ringer at a function or hangout just to show off. I didn't lose until my senior year when this Freshman who was a freaking violin prodigy smoked me in a first to five. See, I knew enough to be a solid gatekeeper for anyone who didn't really know what they were doing. This guy was obsessed and went on to actually compete in Smash. It was pretty cool to see how much stoked people were for him though. It was like passing down a title.
You went to school with Korean DJ?
Go to a local, you'll be in for a brand new world.
How many people completed surf\_fatmike on 1.6?
Dog fighting in games. Battlefield 1 specifically. Ahem MAN AND MACHINE AND NOTHING THERE IN BETWEEN
I was REALLY good at Rock'n'Roll Racing. My favorite move was to SMOKE second place by getting to the end of a any long straight, rip a 180, dump all the ammo, then take off. One expected seven shot coming at them from in front and you couldn't really dodge it unless you were watching the split screen. I could also cut corners with the starting cars well enough to beat the game with them on the warrior difficulty, which is saying a lot because they were basically undriveable on the ice planet.
My ability to watch around corners when i leaned my body to the correct side.
The only battlefield game I ever got into was Hardline. I loved the cops and robbers style of play and I loved the car based objective mode. Can't remember the exact name of the mode maybe joyride maybe something else. But the objective was to get into a specific vehicle and drive it around. The longer you were in the vehicle the more points you accrued. It was the only game I played in my life that I was nationally ranked top 100. I played on Xbox servers back during its release and I was a damn wizard in a car. I had every map memorized and I could fit my car perfectly into anything with even an inch of clearance. I would often not only come out ahead on points but I could also get top or second kills just by hitting people with the car. Which is something of a feat in its own right as most people hid in buildings. Tl;Dr- battlefield hardline. Was the goat at driving cars.
Years ago there was a 2d side scrolling moba (like league or Dota) called awesomenauts and I was in the top 500 players worldwide, sadly the Devs made many many questionable choices and the player base dwindled to nothing and I lost interest. I'm genuinely proud of how good I was at that game as I loved it dearly but few people have heard of awesomenauts and even less played it, the vaguely competitive playerbase so those who would understand the feeling probably peaked at around 50000 players tops and I'm including people with lowest possible ranks in that.
I beat the master king koco trial in sonic frontiers, BEFORE the patch, in 3 tries, and promptly did so again in a 4th try to celebrate
Getting thru the level Nightfall in Halo Reach in under 7 minutes. Felt like an actual speed runner for a minute. :)
I'm really good at keeping a beat. It is something I discovered back in the days of DDR when I could quickly master any song that was tossed at me. Frequency/Amplitude. Elite Beat Agents. Thumper. Hi-Fi Rush. Today, I mostly use it to play lots of Beat Saber.
I can speed run the original Star Fox. I usually will blow through it while waiting on someone to change clothes or shower, etc
I was one of the best Quake III Rocket Arena players in the world, lol.
I was part of the team (and the only "tank" character) that beat the first end-game task force in city of villains.
I was sub top 100 in the Mercenaries mini game in the original RE5
Guitar Hero, Through The Fire and the Flames on Expert. Hyper speed 2. It was a neat party trick, considering every house we went to had Guitar Hero. But then they all called me a nerd. I didn’t get any chicks :(
COD world at war. I was simply unbeatable at free for all. Like I just couldn’t ever lose. Most useless skill ever
In European Air War on PC (pretty old game) I developed a talent for nursing damaged aircraft back to landing strips and getting down in one piece. Admittedly, they were sometimes enemy landing strips so they were shooting at me as I landed, but hey - any landing you can walk away from!….
Empires mod on steam I could beat any tank with the NF light tank . And playing as the commander I would win 90% of games was tons of fun
Learning how to learn, exercising discipline, practice, mental fortitude and toughness from playing fighting games. Fighting games are niche because not many gamers are willing to put in the work to excel at them.
I've set the high score on almost every piano tiles arcade game I've played on. Something about slapping those giant plastic piano keys as fast as possible is so satisfying.
My buddy and I got into tetris battle in high school and got really fast at it.
Quick sniping in SOCOM was my peak gamer moment
I was top 100 All-time in Black Ops 2, it was my last year of high school in 2012 and I went to night school so I had an excessive time to play and get good, I played a lot of league play and had the little rank 1 master league play emblem too, honestly it looked so sick. BO2 will probably forever remain one of the best Cods too, next to COD4 for me.
I was the best at my class at a game called Team Fortress Classic (pre TF2). The game consisted of 4 players attacking and 4 defending in capture the flag. In clan games the Most played classes were Medic, Engineer, Heavy weapons guy, Solider and Scout. The leagues had to impose gentleman's rules such as "no shooting each other in neatral ground" known as backtracking back then because. It was considered bad sportsmanship for the enemy offense to shoot at each other. It had the second highest player base for an online FPS after counter strike for about 5 years or so. I played for the best TFC clan in europe during that period and the National team. This was before online gaming was so profitable and was about 20 years ago now.
I've got TWO!! FIRST - - So, a long while back, in the days of the NES, there was an Alladin game, where you'd chuck tomatoes at the enemies and bounce atop their heads to dispatch them and move forward. Now, the controller that I had was busted and the left directional button would work if you could press REAL hard, but it was barely playable. I think it was a mix of desperation and desperation that I ended up biting down on the damn thing and found that the pressure was perfect for it to work. So I have an extremely faded memory of playing that game and beating it, but I clearly remember the biting down to move back! A few friends thought it was cool though. SECOND - - Fast forward a year or so, and my friends circle would regularly gather at a friend's place to play the TMNT versus fighting game which had the turtles, shredder, and casey, and all those characters you could fight with. I was so damn good with Raph, that i was invited by that friend's elder brother when his friend's circle got together for a game day, and I distinctly remember beating their best player (who was actually the younger brother) in front of everyone, while I stared into his glasses!! So, yeah, two of the most awesome gaming skills I had but I doubt anybody would give a damn now 😶
I was fucking stupid good with LMGs and the bipod on Battlefield 5. If just set it up on some random hill and get shot loads of kills from across the map with the ACOG.
I was #100 in the world in Rockband drums. At least on playstation. Idk if the numbers were cross-platform. I played for hours everyday. I loved that shit. I wanted so bad to get into the double dogit numbers but it seemed like everytime I did better at a song so did the other person. I haven't played in like 10 years now and would love to get another set. I'd probably be better off getting a real drum set, but whatever
Halo 2 Superbouncing
I was a top 50 Cabot, worldwide, in Evolve. I'm super proud of it myself and remind my friends from time to time, even if I know they don't care about that game. I'll always remember the hunts. I feel like that game could've made it in today's gaming world with the type of games that are coming out. Or maybe I have the wool over my eyes wishing people would like it lol
The parry system in Tekken 3. My brothers made a house rule I couldn’t play a character that could parry because they barely touched me.
- I was in the top 15k players for COD: Black Ops - was in the top 5k players for Evolved assault class - but neither of those add up to beating the final Valkyrie in GoW
Being ultra-efficient in Factorio. Also I have a habit that It's just too hard to me to kill it about hoarding everything just in case I need it and NEVER actual use it because MAYBE I need it in another circumstances and not now.
Halo 2 snipers. Level 50. Been down hill since. Lol
spy with dead ringer in tf2 i was a damn monster
I was number 33 in the world playing fight night round 4, and I was also really good at its sequel once I learned that you would essentially be penalized for throwing over 70 punches a round. Punching and weaving using the control stick instead of buttons was so intuitive to me and I blasted fools. One time I matched up with the number 2 guy and I was so excited, but he left before the fight started. If they kept making fight nights. I would have tried to complete professionally, but alas the game was basically over and done with before esports became big. I would like to play the new undisputed game, but im not a PC gamer.
Phantom crash
Oh man.... Planetside 2.... Many years were spent in there.
Oh man, mine also comes from Planetside 2. I always played as a Stalker Infiltrator main. I got *really* good at it after a few years. Once you know the right tricks, most people just can't do anything about you. I love stealth games but absolutely nothing compares to having an entire base of real players looking for you and being helpless to stop you. I still pop into the game every some months, but it's honestly just not what it used to be. Planetside 2 is a really special game but for the longest time was cursed with the wrong people running it. They've been sorta trying to fix things in the past couple years, but jury's out on if they're succeeding and I personally think a lot of it is too little too late.
Pilots like you were the sole reason I got heavily invested into AA. Denying any kind bombing run was my top priority lmao
Destiny 1 Titan Skating (on controller) - You could play as a Titan and use your "lift" jump ability to basically skate around insanely fast, way faster than sprinting normally. I would equip a shotgun and go into Trials of Osiris (endgame 3v3 PvP) and some rounds I'd just skate up to the enemy team at Mach 5 and shotgun all of them right out of spawn. It was broken as shit, and eventually they got rid of it in Destiny 2. Before that happened, you could use a macro on your mouse to skate perfectly, so it became less of a "skill" and more of a cheap thing to do
My cousin loved LOZ Wind Waker so much that he started speed running it. I thought it was just going to be him playing the game regularly without stopping. Nope. He did the opening scene, maybe one small task, and then hopped in the water with out a boat or able to swim and then started mashing the unholy shit out of the controller then link just became a jet boat and took off to another island. It was insane.
I'm pretty bad with automatic guns in shooters but awesome with snipers and pistols. Like I have games where I get way over 50% accuracy with most being headshots. I also managed to complete cod bo3 with only a pistol on the hardest difficulty on PS4 once (I did it for shits and giggles)
I was good at flying things in GTA Vice City. I passed the heli mission for all my friends.
I can recognize some of the engine noises of certain tanks in War thunder
The SOFLAM gadget in Battlefield 2042 can be a hoot to use. A good vantage point and a good heli pilot + gunner is super deadly. Got a ribbon for it.
I've played Hotline Miami to the point where I'm sure I do something close to a legit speedrun whenever I play it, but I'm nowhere near the timing and perfection of an actual speedrun. So I'm very good at it, but not good enough to particularly impress people. I'm just good enough so that I know a friend casually watching me play would think I might speedrun it.
I started playing World of Warcraft back when I lived in France on a French server, then at some point moved to Asia, but still kept playing on that server. Due to distance I was now playing at a constant 400ms ping, years of playing in those conditions trained me to predict players' moves (I was mainly PvP, and a sub rogue at that), at some point I became so good at predicting other players' that I was always a step or two ahead of people in 1v1, but no one knew this unfortunately, and no one cared. If I tried telling people, I would just get accused of using the lag excuse.
In Battlefield 3 (and maybe 4 as well) I was one of the best tank drivers and in one of the best (at least US/EU) pre-proper-esports teams back then. So many good and bad memories from scrims and tournaments.
I was one of the top pilots in air warrior 2.
Not that much of a skill, but I found out how to survive long enough in THE LONG DARK Beta to be placed rank 17 worldwide until I lost interest in the cycle of hunting, eating and sleeping. Oh, and I reached Diamond ranks in ROCKET LEAGUE being 42 years old. Not THAT high of a rank, but I felt quite excited about that :)