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While sharing some gaming stories with a friend, I was tempted to share with everyone here. I'll start with one I had a few years ago.
Game: Operation Flashpoint
This is from a custom mission I created that involved a supply convoy traveling through Everon to an outpost. The mission is scripted so that our convoy is ambushed on a one-way road in some central-Everon town.
As the last vehicle of the convoy turned onto the road, the enemy opened fire on us. The lead vehicles were destroyed almost immediately, and most of our squad was killed within thirty seconds. I rushed into an abandoned building, but took a few hits before I could get some cover. An enemy T-72 then destroyed the remaining vehicles in the convoy and anyone else that was still moving. I picked a window in the building I was in to spot the enemy.
After I fired approximately a dozen rounds at enemy infantry, the T-72 began to open-fire into the window I was near. I moved into the next room and ran out the back door. Realising the futility of my situation, I positioned myself on the crossroad approximately fifty meters from the T-72 and opened fire on it with my M-16 rifle. After the second shot from my rifle, the T-72 began to move towards my position. I fired my third round and the T-72 exploded. Looking around, I noticed an A-10 flying overhead.
I limped towards the burning T-72 and tried to spot any remaining enemy forces in the area. At this point, I spotted friendly reinforcements making their way through the town when I noticed a few medics running towards me. The mission then ended as a success.
I remember saying "angels on our shoulders" after I spotted the A-10 overhead as a homage to Saving Private Ryan. I didn't consider that movie at all when I was creating this custom mission and only realised the similarities after the T-72 was destroyed. I had a hard time recreating this moment in later playthroughs. Usually, we all die immediately when the ambush is sprung, or some of us survive until the A-10 arrives. So I consider this a rare gaming event that turned out to be a great homage to Saving Private Ryan.
So, what's your gaming moments you'd like to share?
Game: Operation Flashpoint
This is from a custom mission I created that involved a supply convoy traveling through Everon to an outpost. The mission is scripted so that our convoy is ambushed on a one-way road in some central-Everon town.
As the last vehicle of the convoy turned onto the road, the enemy opened fire on us. The lead vehicles were destroyed almost immediately, and most of our squad was killed within thirty seconds. I rushed into an abandoned building, but took a few hits before I could get some cover. An enemy T-72 then destroyed the remaining vehicles in the convoy and anyone else that was still moving. I picked a window in the building I was in to spot the enemy.
After I fired approximately a dozen rounds at enemy infantry, the T-72 began to open-fire into the window I was near. I moved into the next room and ran out the back door. Realising the futility of my situation, I positioned myself on the crossroad approximately fifty meters from the T-72 and opened fire on it with my M-16 rifle. After the second shot from my rifle, the T-72 began to move towards my position. I fired my third round and the T-72 exploded. Looking around, I noticed an A-10 flying overhead.
I limped towards the burning T-72 and tried to spot any remaining enemy forces in the area. At this point, I spotted friendly reinforcements making their way through the town when I noticed a few medics running towards me. The mission then ended as a success.
I remember saying "angels on our shoulders" after I spotted the A-10 overhead as a homage to Saving Private Ryan. I didn't consider that movie at all when I was creating this custom mission and only realised the similarities after the T-72 was destroyed. I had a hard time recreating this moment in later playthroughs. Usually, we all die immediately when the ambush is sprung, or some of us survive until the A-10 arrives. So I consider this a rare gaming event that turned out to be a great homage to Saving Private Ryan.
So, what's your gaming moments you'd like to share?
). I cannot describe the awesomeness that Radian AI is sometimes : the ghosts followed her down the ship, into the water because she was not dead but unconscious which probably meant, in their minds that the combat was not over. Suddenly, three or four people see the tragedy from the docks and decide to intervene ! They all jump into the water from the docks in order to save poor invincible Varulae. A combat follows, leaving the two undead and two good samaritans dead, floating like dead fish along the ship. Then hilarity ensued when the two others and Varulae got back on the docks by swimming and when two of them started a conversation about a local gang of female thieves while they were still in the water...
