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[WolvesX]

:DISCLAIMER: I noticed that the formulation of some of my statements in the past didn't bring the point I wanted to make across in a good way. This is meant to be a light-hearted thread about the funniest team killing / team damage stories players experienced. No critique and moaning about game mechanic is implicit.

Greetings fellow Mechwarriors!

I recently started to play light mechs and noticed the increasing amount getting killed by my own team. This maybe has to do with the light mech of choise: A gift from a friend of mine: The Pirates Bane.

I don't think that its intentional, but its just funny to watch how often you get killed in it then you dance around a heavy/assault and *BLÄM* killed by teammate. Sometimes I even feel sorry for them, if you link 2 PPC and hit me, even if the mech is undamaged, there is a high change to instagib a Locust, because of the low armour & HP.

The funniest experiance however I had in my FLAME, where my front armor wasn't damaged at all at the end of the match, but my back was cored and red and I even lost my side because I hugged a MAD-IIC and my team behind me didn't stop shooting. I laught my *** off.

This even happens to myself sometimes:
--- Do you know the situation where a teammate of yours matches perfectly the red borders of a target you pressed R on and start shooting the poor fellow because you think that HE is the enemy?

[Escef]

[Baulven]

Cored out an assault and killed the guy behind him in the same alpha. They guy I wound up tking was on of my unit mates.

[Rakshasa]

Piloting my Locust many moons ago on Canyon Network, a friendly Catapult reversed into me and totalled one of my legs Pilots, beware friendly Locusts for they are small and fragile and crunchy!

[WarHippy]

I have two events that come to mind with one I feel bad about while the other just felt like karmic justice. The one(s) I feel bad about occurred when there was a bug that sometimes made teammates not show any markers as if they were an enemy mech protected by ECM. I thought I had swung in behind the enemy team on Crimson and destroyed 3 "enemy" mechs before it occurred to me that none of the 3 I just killed can even have ECM so why did they not have any indicators? I hit tab and realized my disastrous mistake and apologized which everyone was very forgiving of given the circumstances.

The second event was when I was in a Dire Wolf. I was moving forward and taking aim at an enemy mech while going through a choke point when the person behind me decided my 100 ton was too slow for his liking and jumped over me only to receive my full alpha into his back as he came down in front of me. Poor guy didn't even have a chance nor did I to react to his impatient ill advised move.

Edited by WarHippy, 20 February 2017 - 09:17 AM.

[knight-of-ni]

Anytime a friendly mech is between you and an enemy mech in such a way that the red brackets line up perfectly with the friendly mech.... wammo! I am quick to apologize.

[Alistair Winter]

In over 4 years of playing MWO, I have only once killed a mech with death from above, i.e. jumping into the air with jump jets and crushing a mech with my heels of doom.

It was on Viridian Bog.

And it was, of course, a teammate.

[Aiden Skye]

Cheetah hangs right, runs through PPC trails but didn't escape the goose.

I've also had many instances where I've fired long burning CERLL or even CERML, and pilots just walk into it to get where they want to go, or to push in-front of me to steal the kill.

Edited by W A R K H A N, 20 February 2017 - 09:38 AM.

[knight-of-ni]

Rakshasa, on 20 February 2017 - 09:10 AM, said:

Piloting my Locust many moons ago on Canyon Network, a friendly Catapult reversed into me and totalled one of my legs Pilots, beware friendly Locusts for they are small and fragile and crunchy!

I can agree to that, but this reminds me of a time when the opposite happened.

I was standing completely still on uneven terrain on (the old) Terra Therma when a friendly Locust approached, bounced off my leg, and legged himself. He began shooting me with his macine guns. I told him he was an idiot and just backed away to let the other team finish him off.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

I had a very funny one once. It was on tourmaline with those long high cliffs. One teammate who I didn't see at all, was on top of one cliffs, I was somewhat below him. I peeked forward, saw a large group of enemies very close to each other, and then dropped an airstrike right between them and pulled out from their vision.

I didn't notice the team kill until scores, and then I noticed the guy had asked why I killed him. I replied I had no idea, I didn't even see it happen, then he goes to ask "was it an airstrike?"

And then I'm thinking, hmmm, wait a minute, there was no friendlies near the enemy group but they were actually under one of those cliffs, so yeah, the airsrike probably got the teammate right from behind, I had very little team damage done, was it maybe 15.

It would have been really hilarious to observe from zoomed out position, but still it was pretty hilarious once you realised how things unfolded.

[Monkey Lover]

Rakshasa, on 20 February 2017 - 09:10 AM, said:

Piloting my Locust many moons ago on Canyon Network, a friendly Catapult reversed into me and totalled one of my legs Pilots, beware friendly Locusts for they are small and fragile and crunchy!

Lol but when i laser alpha 68 into them they're armor only turns slightly yellow. I think i need to start kicking them

[SmokedJag]

Had a Grasshopper walk right into a 2+2 ERLL to the back because he wanted him some of that firing lane I'd just sent the previous ones down. So hey, walk in front rather than behind. I swung them away in mid-burn so he did *live* but WTF. Would you walk in front of a pair of heavy autocannons?

[meteorol]

I can only really remember three TKs i did.

First one was shooting an enemy DDC under ECM with Double Gauss/PPC (back in the days when the DW still was the best assault), Gauss killed it, PPCs passed through through it because it was already dead and hit the friendly mech behind it.

Second one was gauss/ppc again, shooting an enemy WHK... friendly firestarter was running into it from behind, thanks to PGIs awesome collision detection it glitched through it, warped infront of it, ate the PLPPD and popped.

Third one was a TK on a spider, which i remember pretty well because the pilot raged for the rest of the match. Was back in the days when the Gauss/Laservomit DW was a thing. The enemy team didn't really pay attention to me, and i was having a field day (ended the match with ~1400 dmg 7 kills). I was working on an enemy stalker, which i already had down to 1 shot. Said spider pilot decided that this stalker he hadn't shot before was obviously his to claim. So as i was lining up my alpha to finish the stalker off, he jjed above me, right into my line of fire. He ate the alpha into the rear torso and popped before touching the ground. He than ranted the whole match about how i should l2p.

[MacClearly]

Well the best one I have is when I was a month in and working on my first set of three mechs (hunchie of coarse). Was on HPG up top by a 'friendly' Atlas when he saw enemies and headed down the ramp I went over beside him (not behind him on the ramp as I was not going to leave the top) fired my ac/20 and killed the guy the Atlas was shooting. He then turned and full on alpha'd me.. Then he said never to hide behind him and called me a tier 1 newb scrub that would never make it in tier five like he did. I exited the client and fired up the YouTube and started watching tutorials for my new quest to get out tier five and away from players like this guy.

[Dr Hobo]

I had a Dakkawolf friendly kill me once in HPG in my Hunchy I think it was. I was in front of him going around a corner and he was aiming at the mech in front of me and squeezed his entire payload onto my back.

Take from that what you will.

I've had numerous people accidentally tag me in EBJs and other very wide mechs.

[Weaselball]

In closed Beta, in old Frozen city, I was in an Atlas that had my head armor popped off early on in a brawl. I was like, orange/red internals. So I decided to park myself near a building and power-off (we were winning, I'd done my part). Well, my teammate Suko just them dropped an arty on the other side of the building to kill off an enemy mech. Arty dropped, one shell hit my head (back when arty always hit the head) and killed me. Feels bad man.

[chucklesMuch]

In a game tonight, one of my teammates (I think) dropped arty on the point we were capping. Nearly killing my locust PB... I shutdown, from over heating, after barely firing a laser a few moments later... over heated and died. (Counted as suicide)... it seemed like the perfect murder (TK)...

[DovisKhan]

Dr Hobo, on 20 February 2017 - 11:36 AM, said:

I had a Dakkawolf friendly kill me once in HPG in my Hunchy I think it was. I was in front of him going around a corner and he was aiming at the mech in front of me and squeezed his entire payload onto my back.

Take from that what you will.

I've had numerous people accidentally tag me in EBJs and other very wide mechs.

That's your fault really, you never, ever walk in front of a ballistic assault and block it's firing angles. Since he's of bigger frame he's getting hit while you are not letting it counter.

[Dr Hobo]

DovisKhan, on 20 February 2017 - 11:52 PM, said:

That's your fault really, you never, ever walk in front of a ballistic assault and block it's firing angles. Since he's of bigger frame he's getting hit while you are not letting it counter.

Yep and i agree it was. I've had Mechs I thought were small enough to avoid that (like a Locust or Urbie) and I've gotten pasted by mounts I didn't expect.

I was trying to swing wide when I was in front of him. Oh well it happens.
At least theb33f didn't direstar my back.

[Reverend Herring]

Not long ago I was chasing some enemies in my MAD IIC. All of a sudden a Timberwolf with no ID-blib of any kind walks in to my view. I immediately fire my AC10's at his back ST. Right after my shots left the barrels a blue indicator appears on the Timby. I felt horrible and apolgized. Luckily he didn't lose a ST. Is there a bug or a feature that prevents friendly markers? Because I think I've made the same mistake at least twice before...

Once on Tourmaline I managed to get to the back of a lone Battlemaster with my cyclops. Shots were fired, components were lost. I managed to limp backwards and dropped an arty as the Battlemaster overheated and shut down. Despite my warning in the VOIP a friendly close range Timber (again!) ran straight to the Battlemaster to crab the kill. They both got killed by the arty. We did win though...

Edited by Reverend Herring, 21 February 2017 - 04:22 AM.