Funniest Commander Bloopers

radforChrist · June 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Not a flamewar, just for humor</div> Okay, let's lighten this forum up a bit. Someone posted a topic of this nature on the LunixMonster Forums, and I thought it'd be fun to see your stories as well. What the funniest/dumbest things you've seen from a commander/while commanding? Please post any commanding antics.

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<i>o Do not flame any server/player.
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o Try to stay with stories about commander/commanding. Do not argue strats or get too off topic.</i>

Enjoy!

I'll start. The dumbest thing I've done of recent memory. I was commanding on ayumi, hive was hamasaki. I noticed an egg in pressure, pinged it, and saw a gorge finish egging. I was being "proactive" and sent my team to siege it out before it went up, We got in, built phase gate, TF, siege tech, 4 turrets, three sieges, and elec the TF. Ping.... nothing. By then AE35 was up, nodes gone, and onos in oxygen. GG.

BigMadSteve · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (..tim.. @ Jun 1 2004, 01:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I'll start. The dumbest thing I've done of recent memory. I was commanding on ayumi, hive was hamasaki. I noticed an egg in pressure, pinged it, and saw a gorge finish egging. I was being "proactive" and sent my team to siege it out before it went up, We got in, built phase gate, TF, siege tech, 4 turrets, three sieges, and elec the TF. Ping.... nothing. By then AE35 was up, nodes gone, and onos in oxygen. GG. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Pretty much the exact same thing happened to us on Eclipse yesterday. Went to attack CC, didn't ping it or anything. Got a tf, several sieges and a phase. Then someone decided to run in and found there was no hive...<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

My daftest time as comm was on Nothing. You know that elevator just by the vent that leads to rine start? Well, I had a heavy train near it (at the bottom) and they were getting totally hammered so I told them to fall back. The lift was down. They got onto it but I had diverted my attention to something else for a split second. Then I decided to move the lift myself but I, for reasons which I are beyond me, didn't notice the lift with the heavies on it was up so I pressed it and it went down. They all got owned <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> The heavies must have been typing (like how relieved they were) because they didn't move when the lift got up.

Spider · June 2004

The dumbest thing I've done as comm I've done multiple times <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> I'll be managing my buildings in the base or something when I'll hear the cry for medpack, so I'll hit space and the shortcut keys in one motion and *click* only to realise I've dropped an arms lab instead <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

I hate it when I do that .....

Rue · June 2004

Yeh I droped a CC in the escape path of some of my guys once <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> They ran into it and got killed by a few skulks.

<b>WAY</b> back in 1.0 i remember I had a horrable habbit of recycling stuff instead of getting upgrades :/

Hibame · June 2004

Hummm Id say the worst iv done is that I told the team to relocate to cc on ec and it turned out to be the hive <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Align · June 2004

I did something like that once, a long time ago.
I tried to get everyone to move their lazy bums to Alpha Continuum in ns_lost(northmost hive) so we could relocate. When we get there a skulk or two attack, but get killed. Shortly after though a whole lot of aliens appear, and there's a constant rush of skulks coming from the hive room itself, and someone goes in and notifies us that there is a hive there.
I decided that we had pretty much lost already, "but let's give it a go and pretend it was intentional", and built the usual relocation stuff.
We got up the spawn portals, armory, TF which I kept trying to upgrade before it got killed and even an observatory after someone shouted sensory. The TF did upgrade and we did get some sieges up, but the obs was destroyed so cloaked skulks killed at least one marine before they went down, and getting sieges to target a cloaked building when you shoot it is really hard. So I tried to get it back up, and eventually... we died.
It was the best game evar though.

eVox · June 2004

I once seiged upper processing rt node in ns_hera from the other side of the divider in that little room. I wasnt really paying attention.

when learning the hotkeys some would drop armslabs instead of medpacks.

rushing the wrong hive...

on ns_nothing one of the elevators full of LA's with shotguns going to a hive was stopped halfway down by a skulk pressing the switch. they were stuck and the commander panicked and did nothing. A lerk came along and gaseed all 6 of them in a matter of seconds.

hopping out of the chair to save base with out having a loaded gun lol

The worst thing by far was when i accidentally frogot to drop ips. whoops.

We all learn from our mistakes though...I hope

KaMiKaZe1 · June 2004

The worst thing I have seen a commander do is recycling the arms lab when he went to upgrade it, and then recycle the obs and armory. Upon rebuilding them, he recycled them all again. He rebuilt, and did it again.

It was quite humourous. ^^

urinalcake · June 2004

Hmm. Players wanting to end the game started to knife the CC (FF was on) I dont know how, but the rest of the team and the comm didn't notice until the last 2 bars.

But since the players knifing the CC somehow got hold of mines and put them on the CC, the comm got out to kill those knifing it.. he fired at the mines and killed all 3, and I think the commchair blew up.. gg.

kavasa · June 2004

Friend of mine (and usual commander for the Unknown), was caught short by one of the interface tweaks with 2.0's release. See, he used to use his "v" key for voice communication, but 2.0 introduced the grid system for commander keys. In this grid, the "v" key is recycle. The first building to buy it was the arms lab. Then he got on voice and asked if anyone knew why all these buildings were recycling themselves. And of course, the more buildings recycled, the more he clicked on them to determine what the problem was, and the more he talked on voice to express his confusion. Every marine building was recycled in short order.

Paranoia2MB · June 2004

<b>eVo.x
"on ns_nothing one of the elevators full of LA's with shotguns going to a hive was stopped halfway down by a skulk pressing the switch. they were stuck and the commander panicked and did nothing. A lerk came along and gaseed all 6 of them in a matter of seconds."</b>

Is that the one with Generator, Viaduct and Powersilo hives?
If so, I believe I was actually in that game as marines. They started going down, but I said no. And they kept saying that on the mic and i just reply with a F-you no! (in a joking way) and I took the halls. All of a sudden I hear it stop and one lerk kills 'em all with like 1 spore attack lol. Thx god I wasn't in that. I think I got avenge for my team by killing the lerk and the skulks who did that though lol. Funny because I was just around the corner when that lerk came.

I SURVIVED!

Sorry for going OT

My mistakes as a com...losing a game. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

wascally_wabbit · June 2004

Today (actually 5 mins ago... 5th game of comming!) I set up a PG, TF, upgraded TF, set up 2 sieges, before realising that there wasn't a hive there. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

wascally_wabbit · June 2004

BAD HOBO. BAD.

Android_17 · June 2004

Me:"Comm give me a medpack"

Comm:Drops ammo pack

Me:"No a medpack not an ammo pack"

Comm:"I already dropped you one"

Me:dies from skulks

Basicily only "blooper" that happend in my time of NS

Carling · June 2004

Once the commander built up our base all cept ip's :/ didnt relise till the door opened and onos starting eating us :/ lol (siege map)

coris · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spider @ Jun 1 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The dumbest thing I've done as comm I've done multiple times :angry: I'll be managing my buildings in the base or something when I'll hear the cry for medpack, so I'll hit space and the shortcut keys in one motion and *click* only to realise I've dropped an arms lab instead ;)

I hate it when I do that .....  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spider @ Jun 1 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>The dumbest thing I've done as comm I've done multiple times :angry: I'll be managing my buildings in the base or something when I'll hear the cry for medpack, so I'll hit space and the shortcut keys in one motion and *click* only to realise I've dropped an arms lab instead ;)

I hate it when I do that .....</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spider @ Jun 1 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>The dumbest thing I've done as comm I've done multiple times I'll be managing my buildings in the base or something when I'll hear the cry for medpack, so I'll hit space and the shortcut keys in one motion and *click* only to realise I've dropped an arms lab instead ;)

I hate it when I do that .....</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spider @ Jun 1 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>The dumbest thing I've done as comm I've done multiple times :angry: I'll be managing my buildings in the base or something when I'll hear the cry for medpack, so I'll hit space and the shortcut keys in one motion and *click* only to realise I've dropped an arms lab instead ;)

I hate it when I do that .....</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That happens to me all the time, I even did it in a pug once :P

I hate when I storm empty hives because of no obs.

Biggest blooper ever was when I got HA before a1/w1 though I think

TheAdj · June 2004

I normally don't post, but this topic is too awesome to ignore.
My biggest blooper was an entire game on ns_nothing that I continually bungled due to a bad day at work (I'm in the military, bad days aren't fun). First the aliens went silence and skulkrushed base. I heard only one skulk chewing on the arms lab, so I told the team I was getting out to kill a skulk. Little did I know that 5 more skulks were waiting beside the chair with silence. I managed to LMG one down before I got mauled. Thankfully in their haste to kill me one hit a mine by the IP and took them all out except for 1 skulk, so the next spawner took him out. Three minutes later I managed to recycle the arms lab as LVL3 weapons was upgrading, and when the arms lab was rebuilt I researched catpacks instead of LVL3 weapons (gg hotkeys). The entire game I was stumbling around to take rts and save marines. The best part though was not noticing they went sensory for the second hive. I went about sieging powersilo, when suddenly the entire team goes down within a second of each other. Cloak/focus rush, with a sensory chamber nearby. GG me. I quit shortly afterwards and didn't comm for about a week.

Destroyer · June 2004

well today ive managed to drop 2 accidental arms labs and recycled my upgraded armory which was researching nades, ive also reycced my obs researching MT....
terrible

Alcapwn · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rue @ Jun 1 2004, 10:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
<b>WAY</b> back in 1.0 i remember I had a horrable habbit of recycling stuff instead of getting upgrades :/  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
please dont bring that up, thats memory still haunts me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

MrBen · June 2004

God knows many times i've beaconed, went to cancel when the fade ran off but waited too late so the beacon completes and instead of cancelling i end up recycling. GG

Silverwing · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr.Ben @ Jun 1 2004, 04:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> God knows many times i've beaconed, went to cancel when the fade ran off but waited too late so the beacon completes and instead of cancelling i end up recycling. GG  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Hehe, I usually relocate, send my men out for RT's, hear skulks (pl) in base and THEN beacon... gg Commander...

Yeah... done this several times, tbh...

/Silverwing

LittleToe · June 2004

hehe ive done that as well. got to remind my self; relocate = do not use the beacon.

Jean_Luc_Picard · June 2004

Worst thing I've ever done as commander:

Expected PUB marines to understand I actually DO want to reloacate inside the hive within the first 30 seconds of the game (Eclipse hive on ns_eclipse XD)

It's a great tactic... but NOBODY wanted to run in and build anything... my CC was pwned and then they all died... X_X

notalentassclown · June 2004

Well, one time, on siege007, we were in siege room, along with a bunch of aliens. I tried to give em some medspam, but instead, I dropped about five armslabs. All because I used the hotkeys and wasn't paying very close attention at the moment.

NEO_Phyte · June 2004

worlds funniest NS moments...

shotgunrushing the wrong hive with no IPs

Zaggy · June 2004

Heheh, I once had a game (3.4a) were the com gave everyone HA/HMG/Welders, and the group rushed the hive, <b>unfortunately</b> the <b>whole</b> team reloaded there hmg's at the same time! and were all owned by 1 fade and a few skulks..., I've got the demo here, if anyone is interested..

skulk-goes-boom · June 2004

When i try to med spam a marine who is being attacked by a fade, i accidentally press the wrong hot key button and put down 4 CC instead my teams were like "WTH" and the aliens are like "WTH LOL!!!"

Kaze · June 2004

Relocating to Eclipse hive on 1.04, despite knowing in the back of my mind there was something wrong with it. Getting the arms lab up and realising you couldn't upgrade it due to a bug back then. yay!

Buggy · June 2004

I once sent a sg rush to wrong hive in pcw :/
I once sold sieges outside a hive, because i thought it was down, only it wasnt, a minute later, "omg WTH 3 hives?!"

sigh.........

SaltzBad · June 2004

The funniest bloopers usually happen when getting out of the chair. Like in a pug, where our team was continually being schooled - we sent a desperate rush into their only Hive and just let Fades take apart base, but once it was down they got owned by a signle blink-less Fade instead of building a reloc.

"Okay", I'm thinking. "Just one fade in base, and our IP still spawning. I can do this."

I count down from the last spawn, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-eject, and pop out of the chair the exact moment a 'rine spawns. He dies immediately though, and the Fade steps towards me - I empty my entire LMG clip into him before getting knockbacked halfway across MS by his swipe. My lucky day I start thinking, pulling out the pistol to ... *clickclickclick*

To show him my big mean empty chamber. Crap. Switch to LMG, no spare ammo either. Gnah. Lesson of the day? Reload before getting back in the chair. Loaded guns work alot better.

"For optimal performance, load your firearm"
-TSA Manual

Goobag · June 2004

One game in version 2.0x on ns_hera, i dropped a comm chair on an onos in the glass walkway (i believe it was called hera entrance walkway). The onos used the command /stuck and fell through the floor and to his death.

He was not amused -_-.

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