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Adventures in Griefing

In Halo 3 there's a ramp on The Pit that you can squeeze yourself into and hide under. Unless you already know about this area it's pretty hard for people to find you. A friend and I once got a single kill in Team Doubles then hid under said ramp for the entire game. It was hilarious and always got really tense when they would show up on the motion tracker right above us but have no idea where we were.
 
Only ever really griefed while playing NHL online. When the other player was using glitching goals to score, I'd slow the game down as much as possible. Take a ton of penalties as time flows in real-time during a powerplay, not skip the pauses in action/intermissions. And if he was being very annoying, I'd quit with about a second to go in the game.

Only did that to people who deserved it though. I'd always finish out my games properly if I was getting blown out by a proper player.
 
adventures in accidental griefing: anytime I find the courage to pilot the helicopter in battlefield
 
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Inspirational.
 
My brother used to run a tank across the runway in Warrock (Battlefield clone) as planes were taking off.

Many times it was just an inconvenience but other times we laughed as pilots crashed into the radar tower.
 
I was part of the infamous "Fenpenny Expedition" in Wurm Online. It consisted of over a hundred people from /v/ getting together and blazing a trail of misadventure across the laggy, ugly countryside on a futile mission to establish a new settlement called "Brohalla." We didn't actually break anything, and were in fact aided by some of Wurm's admins, but the regular playerbase seemed to be very, very annoyed with out presence, since we were a very large, rowdy, and goofy bunch.
 
I was a master troll in Soldat. I would go on a server with maybe 20-30 people on it and friendly fire on, then the following would happen.

I would shoot one of my teammates until their health was maybe 10% or so. This would usually cause them to retaliate my killing me, because they thought I was going to finish them off. I would let them kill me. After that, I would complain in the chat and tell the server to look at the kill console to see that the guy teamkilled me. I would do this several times until most everyone on the server was sufficiently against the guy (and whoever on my team was defending him as well). I would then attempt to votekick the players that I had been screwing with.

Surprisingly, this worked a good amount of the time. I cleared more than a few servers from 30 players to basically no one by using this method. Very dickish thing to do but in my defense it was really engaging.
 
Recarpo said:
More fun to bail out as the rest of your victims are hurtling over a cliff while you live, imo.
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If you run off the cliff with them you can claim it was an accident and do it again. Stop thinking like a douchebag and more like a griefer.

In Demon's Souls, one of the gimmicks for a certain world is that you can be summoned as the final boss against another online player. Since it takes the victim a while to make his way to the boss room, I hid near the door so that he wouldn't be able to see me when entering the room. I backstabbed the guy for most of his health, then let him attempt to run away to heal, then finished him off.

Later on I let myself get summoned as the boss again. Same dude, still hadn't beaten the level. He disconnected from PSN immediately.
 
Barrow Roll said:
In Halo 3 there's a ramp on The Pit that you can squeeze yourself into and hide under. Unless you already know about this area it's pretty hard for people to find you. A friend and I once got a single kill in Team Doubles then hid under said ramp for the entire game. It was hilarious and always got really tense when they would show up on the motion tracker right above us but have no idea where we were.
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Never knew about that! :-O
 
Bad Company 2: if there was some Gustav/noob tube spammer, I'd switch over to their team and pop smoke rounds in their face every chance I could get.
 
I only ever griefed in games that are static i.e. not like Minecraft etc. Ever since I got my unusual hat me and my buddy sometime pretends that he tricks me into giving it to him for a scrap. I get all mad and say I'll call the police and people on the server always flips out.

Oh and scammers who try and scam me out of my hat I'll always grief too. Yea sure I want 5 refined for it, don't have it? Oh.. well just craft it ;)
 
Barrow Roll said:
In Halo 3 there's a ramp on The Pit that you can squeeze yourself into and hide under. Unless you already know about this area it's pretty hard for people to find you. A friend and I once got a single kill in Team Doubles then hid under said ramp for the entire game. It was hilarious and always got really tense when they would show up on the motion tracker right above us but have no idea where we were.
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Some people came up with a fun minigame in the first two Modern Warfare games (not sure if MW3 map design support this sort of play) known as Hush. Essentially, find a large map with dense foliage, equip perks that prevent the enemy from finding you, and relax as the the ten-minute match ends with a final score of 0-0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAdc1Dc2vE
 
Ichabod said:
At one point or another, we've all done it or had it done to us. Sometimes its just good natured trolling to get a few laughs out of our friends, while other times its completely personal. Let's share the ways we've griefed and been griefed back by our friends, family, and random people while gaming. I'll start.

Mario Kart 64:
During this game's prime, anytime my cousins and I got together (which was like every weekend) we were playing MK64 til the wee hours of the morning. A common way we'd grief each other was whenever one of us got three red shells, we'd use the first shell to knock an opponent into the air, stop behind them, and wait for them to recover. As soon as their cart would land we'd hit them with the second and third shells each time they recovered from the previous hit. Of course this did nothing to help our chances at winning the race, but damn the rage that would ensue was delicious.
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In addition to MK64, I would intentionally pick Wario's Stadium, and race in last place so I can nab the lightning bolt and shrink everyone, because everybody knows, last place = best items. Getting struck by lightning and not being able to clear the big jump = infinite rage.
 
Worst griefing I've ever experienced was in Dungeon Siege. In the server options, you can enable a setting that makes it so you drop all items on death.

I avoided these servers precisely because people would just kill you once you got inside to steal your equipment.

Well, I neglected to check the settings on one server before joining it, and I was killed instantly upon spawning into the world.

At that point, the host basically started taunting me and killed me every time I tried to take my stuff back. I quit the game shortly after that.
 
I try not to grief at all because I know how annoying it is being on the receiving end of it when all you want to do is play and have fun after a long day. I'm not going to make someone else rage just for the hell of it unless the person was doing it to others or was REALLY disrespectful and was a waste of space. We've all dealt with them before and know how annoying it is when you just to unwind after a long day, so doing it to others who've done nothing wrong after complaining about trolls myself would be hypocritical of me. It's basically only reserved for my brother or extreme assholes online. :P

The only times I really remember doing anything is when I was really young and would play NASCAR with my brother who gets pretty intense at times since he's competitive, so if he's being a douche, I'd turn my car around and race the track backwards until I found him and would run into him at full speed knocking him out of first place and usually into second to last place just in front of me. That's when I was younger and thought it was funny.

The other thing I can really even think of is destroying the cover a sniper was using in Bad Company 2 if he was bitching at his team to get the objective as he brags to the other team about owning them with a score of 14-0 or something, so I'd make sure to let him know how worthless he is to the team and help the enemy get their revenge on him. I just can't do it otherwise. Even messing with someone's shitty building on Minecraft after they lured my friend into a trap which killed him and destroyed his masterpiece causing him to lose all his gear he was carrying and whatever was in his chests due to the lava below was hard for me but we did manage to raid their shit to at least get gear back for my friend.

When someone griefs the team I'm on, usually I don't give them the attention they're seeking so they're doing it for nothing since they aren't getting any responses or I make sure to instigate with them until he definitely crosses the line with admins who end up kicking them. People who grief strangers online need to find servers that allow that sort of shit because some people actually like playing the game. I laugh at the ones that play like a normal person for a few rounds/maps but suck really bad so then get bored and try to find a new way to entertain themselves since dying apparently wasn't fun enough. :D

WORLD PEACE in games. Well, besides killing the other team.
 
zsswimmer said:
I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.
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I actually laughed out loud at this.

Never really did any griefing, besides playing Quake II split-screen MP on PS1 against my friend. Since I'd learnt all the maps, I'd just go grab the railgun, watch his part of the screen, camp and wait for him to show up near me, and then kill him. Over and over and over again.
 
I can't find it right now, but that TF2 video (I think it was from the GAF server a year or two ago) where this guy was desperately trying to hit on a girl in the server by gifting her Left 4 Dead.
 
Demon's Souls. Would invade 4-1, run right up to Vanguard, stand next to him, and wave.

I'm sorry :(

Feel like a jerk for doing that now.
 
Cosmo Clock 21 said:
If you run off the cliff with them you can claim it was an accident and do it again. Stop thinking like a douchebag and more like a griefer.

In Demon's Souls, one of the gimmicks for a certain world is that you can be summoned as the final boss against another online player. Since it takes the victim a while to make his way to the boss room, I hid near the door so that he wouldn't be able to see me when entering the room. I backstabbed the guy for most of his health, then let him attempt to run away to heal, then finished him off.

Later on I let myself get summoned as the boss again. Same dude, still hadn't beaten the level. He disconnected from PSN immediately.
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Demon's Souls is so good for this kind of thing. My favorite was a griefer reversal I did.

Some dude jumped into my game as a Phantom completely pimped out with a huge sword and great armor and whatever. He probably could have taken me down in a fair fight, but I was ready for him. It was on the last level where the dragon is strafing the walkway with timed fire blasts. I hung out on the other side and as he was running to beat the fire, I blocked his way *just* out of range of the fire myself. He was not very fire-resistant and died immediately as the Dragon fire caught up to him. This cracked me up. Afterwards, he took the time to PM me on PSN to tell me how cheap I was - whatever. It still cracks me up thinking about the wave of disappointment and shock that must have washed over him when his raid on my game went south in a Black Phantom bonfire. :)
 
Mmm... griefing. Sometimes I ignore them, sometimes I join them, sometimes I just watch them.

TF2:
Healing an enemy spy. Usually a friend. But sometimes I just act like the noob medic and keep healing a stranger carrying the Eternal Reward (instant disguise with backstab).

With the cloak 'n dagger, hiding around a/some engineer(s). Constantly voice spamming and watching them 'wrenching' or shooting all over the place.

Make teleporters that go back to the previous spawn. Or sometimes to make people stuck. Then taunt them.

Uber a heavy or a demo before storming into a group of sentries. The moment we're in sight of the sentries, I run away, leaving the heavy or demo without an uber infront of 2 or more sentries.

Far Cry:
Like someone else mentioned here for Halo, I too would gather some folks around in a car and drive off a cliff or something. And I have one fond memory that still makes me burst out laughing out loud.
See, in Far Cry you have this jeep-like vehicle with a turret at top that a passenger can occupy. The passenger can rotate 360 degrees in this thing. Now, unlike Halo, Far Cry had an instant get in/get out interaction. So once you pressed "F" or whatever, you would be instantly on the ground without any momentum whatsoever.
One time I drove the jeep with a passenger, in the turret, into the opposite direction of the enemy. Comforting the guy that I knew a secret area (which is true). So there I drove, towards a cliff, at full speed. At the last moment I jumped out and watched the jeep dive into a deep trench. And the passenger just looked at me helplessly, having no idea what just happened, while diving deeper and deeper into the trench, eventually exploding along with the jeep.

Battlefield 3:
Get into a jet and just crash into a control point or something. Trying to aim for an enemy, of course. :P


Yes, I'm a dick. I'm a fucking douchebag. But I don't care. For years now I stopped playing online games 'seriously'. There's very little I care about winning or losing anymore. And I've never been mad about being griefed either. 's all fun and games to me. :)
 
I kited a few world bosses to Ironforge back in vanilla WoW, my first character was also a rogue on a pvp server so it was rather easy to grief if I felt like it.

My favourite times griefing though was when I played Halo 3 and had annoying team mates. I'd follow them around, shoot their shields down then stop. As soon as it started regenerating I'd shoot it down again. Eventually they got so enraged they killed me and I booted them for team killing. Wish I took pictures of the pure anger I got in messages.
 
Ichabod said:
At one point or another, we've all done it or had it done to us. Sometimes its just good natured trolling to get a few laughs out of our friends, while other times its completely personal. Let's share the ways we've griefed and been griefed back by our friends, family, and random people while gaming. I'll start.

Mario Kart 64:
During this game's prime, anytime my cousins and I got together (which was like every weekend) we were playing MK64 til the wee hours of the morning. A common way we'd grief each other was whenever one of us got three red shells, we'd use the first shell to knock an opponent into the air, stop behind them, and wait for them to recover. As soon as their cart would land we'd hit them with the second and third shells each time they recovered from the previous hit. Of course this did nothing to help our chances at winning the race, but damn the rage that would ensue was delicious.
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my friend did something similar. when i was beating him by a lot he would then go in reverse and get a bunch of red shells and then wait for me to pass him by and then shell my ass. one of my fav things to do in rtcw enemy territory was kick my friends off of high places and kill them. that or push them into danger and watch them get killed.
 
This is going back a while, anyone remember GYROMITE on the NES? You could use R.O.B. the robot with it but my siblings and I always used to just play two player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9IOnosRPvU
So it was a plaformer/puzzle type game, you had to navigate the 'hero' through the level avoiding the enemies (smicks) and collect all the dynamite before the timer ran out. They also had these colored pipes one red, one blue both corresponding to the buttons on the NES controller. You had to press the right button to raise or lower the pipes so the Professor could get through safely, you could also kill the smicks with pipes.
This for me was where the fun was.
When you played two player one played as the Professor and the other controlled the colored pipes. When my sister wanted to play we would always do our best to get her killed anyway we could. Locking her in-between two pipes with a smick or squish her using the pipes. If you were quick enough you could squish the Professor but not enough to kill him, was the funniest thing ever when we did it.

We also used to tell her, when she was playing Super Mario, if she jumped down the hole she'd get a life obviously gullible enough to believe us.
 
effingvic said:
in starcraft 2, whenever im protoss and im about to lose, i always build pylons in little nooks and crevices and inside the enemy base where he cant find them. even after they destroy all my shit, they spend like 45 minutes looking for it

i actually made a friend doing this lol. dude spent a long time looking for my last pylon while we discussed music and anime and stuff. was awesome :D
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Heh, I remember doing this in command & conquer, where you'd hide one stealth unit or a submarine in a corner somewhere and as long as the objective was set to destroy all they'd have to scour the entire map.
 
A friend of mine did this back in StarCraft (I swear its not me!)

For those of you that played SC, there were these UMS maps call "Sexy Pics" where basically the mini-map shows a pornographic image. One of my friends found one where it shows a couple of dicks instead of boobs, vag, or whatever. So he would create the game, start the game then immediately pull his ethernet cable so he would create the lag screen. This basically made the other players looked at the dicks for about 45 seconds.

Probably the stupidest form of griefing I've ever seen. We still laugh at him for it to this day.
 
"Griefing" in Warcraft 3 TFT's multiplayer was quite fun. I was mainly a 1v1 or 2v2 AT player, but fooling around in the 4v4 was great since my technique usually angered both teams.

I'd choose either Humans or Orcs and tech straight to tier2 with only a burrow/farm + workers to keep the income steady. Then I'd make an altar before t2 finished so I could go straight to t3. While teching I'd build Workshops/Beastiaries and begin massing bats/gyrocopters, which are basically quite useless at this point (anti building units, anti air, cheap to produce in masses). This whole time my team would be quite unimpressed with my performance and I'd get flamed.

At tier3 I would upgrade them with the needed upgrades and move the masses of flying units along the map borders undetected and wait for a team fight, during that I could basically wipe out the enemy bases / main buildings while they were gone. Sometimes the enemy would choose to teleport out of a battle to save their town, but teleport has a cast time during which I could just fly to the next base and keep going effectively destroying their economy without them being able to do a thing.

Doesn't work always etc. but it was fun enough even when it failed.
 
aznpxdd said:
A friend of mine did this back in StarCraft (I swear its not me!)

For those of you that played SC, there were these UMS maps call "Sexy Pics" where basically the mini-map shows a pornographic image. One of my friends found one where it shows a couple of dicks instead of boobs, vag, or whatever. So he would create the game, start the game then immediately pull his ethernet cable so he would create the lag screen. This basically made the other players looked at the dicks for about 45 seconds.

Probably the stupidest form of griefing I've ever seen. We still laugh at him for it to this day.
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that's brilliant, i've gone through much more trouble for much less laughs. you should be laughing with him.
 
GTA4, loaded up the chopper with random team members and flew off to the sea...

after about 3 or 4 minutes I bailed out and watched the other guy drown in the ocean while my brother rescued me with another chopper (he was amazing at flying choppers, hovering over the sea was no easy task as he really had to be about 5 to 10 cm away from sealevel for me being able to grab onto the chopper)

Oh all the nice hate filled messages I've gotten. lol.
 
Ultima Online provided an excellent environment for griefers to exploit the game's many poor design decisions.

Pickpocketing - One could trap an NPC beggar in one's house and practice this skill to 100%. Now, a master thief can steal anything from a player's inventory, including house keys. The act of pickpocketing flags one as a criminal, allowing another player to attack the thief without repercussion, so the trick is to pass off all loot to a third party "Great Lord" character before the pickpocket can be killed by the city guards or the injured parties. AFK players would be picked bare in a matter of seconds.

Reputation System - In UO characters with good reputation could, ironically enough, murder everyone else with impunity. And it was often the case that someone performing a noble act would take a hit to their reputation and be temporarily branded as a criminal, allowing the real villains to gangbang them. It's like the Prima Nocte of Braveheart coded into game form.

Recall - This level 4 spell allows a griefer to escape instantly to any place in the game world.

Incognito - This spell allows a griefer to instantly change his name and appearance.

Skill System - UO employs a skill system similar to that of the Elder Scrolls games, except that there is a hard cap of something like 700 skill points to be distributed in 20 or so skills. So if you are capped out and learn, say, alchemy then your maxxed out magery skill will drop by an equivalent amount. Oh, and you can learn skills just by observing other players using them. So you will have trolls running around the city building campfires to increase the worthless camping skill of other players at the expense of their grandmastery in blacksmithing or whatnot.

Bugs - So many bugs. Item duping, house break ins, etc.

Traps - My friends and I had a good laugh when we read an angry forum post by a player named Alias Acrylia who stumbled upon a treasure chest in the wild. Unfortunately for him this chest was trapped and exploded when he opened it, killing him instantly. Poor AA (don't feel too bad for him; he exploited a ton of bugs to rob houses) was carrying his house key at the time so he elected to resurrect instantly in order to prevent another player from looting it from his corpse. When he did this, his skills dropped from grandmaster level 100 down to the 80s, causing him to quit the game in disgust.
 
lol loading up a vehicle with people and then running off a cliff is totally something i would do. makes me want to play games with vehicles.
 
Smash Bros. (the original)

I would play Donkey Kong occasionally (Pikachu was my main) and then deliberately pick that really small level (Peach's Castle I think?) and then would decide either to cockblock whoever was winning by repeatedly grabbing him and then committing murder-suicide until I had no more lives left or simply fuck with whoever had annoyed me recently/was talking lots of smack.

Always nearly came to blows afterwards.

Smash Bros. Melee
I would play Bowser occasionally (Luigi was my main) and then would deliberately pick smaller levels so I could abuse his forward+B move which was a grab move that would bodyslam the opponent while moving a considerable ways forward. This let me decide to either cockblock whoever was winning by repeatedly grabbing him and then committing murder-suicide until I had no more lives left or simply fuck with whoever had annoyed me recently/was talking lots of smack. This was superior to the Donkey Kong murder-suicide because if used at the very end of a match the opponent would die before Bowser would get a chance to reach the bottom making him the winner.

Always nearly came to blows afterwards.

Smash Bros. Brawl
I'd almost always pick the Wario Ware and Pictochat levels when I would win (winner chooses in our group).

Always nearly came to blows afterwards.
 
I used to like taking my time so the players think you are a normal player then grief the game and make them kick the wrong person. The last one i remember doing that is minecraft, finding ways to flood the map with out being noticed takes some time.

The original battlefield was great with so many opportunities to grief, especially liked driving the aircraft carrier onto shallow water so it was stuck. The ship used to lean over and they go crazy haywire.
 
I love trolling/griefing in L4D2. It's hilarious to grief in that game because of how riled up people get in versus mode. I would sometimes team up with other people to grief but I preferred to grief on my own(other people are too flagrant in their griefing while I prefer a more subtle approach).
 
Griefing in Diablo 2 was the best. During grinding runs or magic find runs with friends, I would randomly run off to town and turn PVP on, then hop into a Waypoint I know they're all probably running to. After killing the ones I can, I'll just stay near the bodies and camp the bodies with AOE attacks over and over.

Good times. :D

vazel said:
I love trolling/griefing in L4D2. It's hilarious to grief in that game because of how riled up people get in versus mode. I would sometimes team up with other people to grief but I preferred to grief on my own(other people are too flagrant in their griefing while I prefer a more subtle approach).
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In my L4D2 games, the other players no longer even have to ask why if we're all suddenly surrounded by fire. It's a standard duckroll thing.
 
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