Annoying deaths/failures

Wedge009

Wedge009

Rogue Leader
I've already described how my ship ploughed into two colliding Paradigms during autopilot after destroying the Steltek drone, plus any death from the Cerberus's plasma gun is annoying.

What's your most excruciating failure/death?
 
Friendly fire from Hobbes\Maniac\Hunter\Stingray.

Cerberus' plasma gun.

Being stuck between two cap ships.

Afterburning into your own torpedo. (DOH!)

Getting caught in the Morningstr's nuke blast.
 
What's really annoying is that if you DON'T kill any enemy in one of the Jontunheim Missions (SM1) where you find the Exeter that has been taken over by the Kilrathi, you get a Bronze Star.

However, if you kill everyone, you don't get anything.

Very weird Origin, very weird.
 
I think i got all yall beat. How many of you can say that you have crashed on takeoff before? or what about landing? I have!
 
Zor, i can! After having all my armor stripped off in a collision, i tried to land on the Lexington but i wasnt flying straight on, i was under it and i tried to turn up and in but the landing bay didnt "go 3-D" where it looked like it wasnt just a picture of a landing bay, and i smashed into it and died. As for taking off, my joystick would calibrate correctly so it would jump around every few seconds and boom. Started bouncing around like a ping pong ball and that was it.
 
My most annoying death was in WC2 when the COnnie fired an AM at a Khamek and I was caught right in the middle, ouch!
 
Well, I was once flying around, and all of a sudden I find myself landing. As usual, I try to land in one of thoes little rooms int he bay on the Intrepid, but I crashed right into it, I was blowing up, but th intrepid started to shoot at me. I hda the shing with the big gun on the Cerberus too. Also, I have this habit when in a banshee of flying to fast and ramming the bearcats in the Paleus mission. ouch.
 
Yes, that Cerberus' plasma turret has killed me about 10 times. Then, anotherone. When I have "rescued" Flint in that bioweapon mission in WC3, when we get back to the Victory she rams my Arrow whit her Longbow. I dont have to tell you whichone goes down. Also in Prophecy my wingmens shoot me whit their torpedos when Im completing my own torpedorun.

Once again. Im sorry about my english but german is my primary forreignlanguage at school.
 
The mission in wcIV, where you need to tractor in the ejected pilot comes to mind. I was going to tractor him in , but then Maniac flew into him killing him. Failing that mission doesn't matter anyways , but it's still iritating. Of course killing yourself with your own flashpak or mace ranks up there too.
 
my most annoying death... i said somewhere before that my stick is jumpy. so i was on the victory, i increased speed, and my ship turned real hard to the left. i thought "oh crap" and i hit autopilot. only to see my ship bounce around the flight deck like a pinball. after about 6 collisions on autopilot my ship exploded. another annoying one is when the intrepid turns sharply as im about to land, then i smack into the walls of the flight deck and die.
or in wc1, flying real slow through an asteriod field (about 50 kps) and an asteroid comes from nowhere, real quick, and destroys me. its unavoidable. another 1 in wc1 is trying to land on that annoying tigers claw. you have to line it up just right or boom. but the top one is getting shot down by maniac. you both get on the tail of a fighter and he thinks nothing of blasting u up. but if you do it to him, your dead
 
Originally posted by Master_Anarchist
or in wc1, flying real slow through an asteriod field (about 50 kps) and an asteroid comes from nowhere, real quick, and destroys me. its unavoidable.
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The recommend speed is 300 kps, and that's the best. If you go to fast, you get the "asteriod-out-of-nowhere" problem.
 
try afterburning through, if you hit an asteriod you lose all your armour but you bounce off backwards, at something like 2500 kps (only sometimes tho, most of the time you just die)

the minefields are annoying too
 
I found it most annoying in the later WC games when one of my wingmen flew into my gunfire while I was shooting at an enemy. Suddenly all dots on the radar screen went red and everybody was yelling at me: "Die you traitorous scum!"
 
Originally posted by redwolf
What's really annoying is that if you DON'T kill any enemy in one of the Jontunheim Missions (SM1) where you find the Exeter that has been taken over by the Kilrathi, you get a Bronze Star.

However, if you kill everyone, you don't get anything.

Very weird Origin, very weird.
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Actually, this is not necessarily true. I flew this mission last night. Against the Gwenhyvar. Killed everything at nav1 (bunch of kilrathi). Met another group between TC and NAV 1. Killed everyone. Flew to nav 2 and the Gwenhyvar. Killed all the Rapiers and the G. herself. Then flew back to TC. Met a pack of Krant on the way. Killed them all. A second wave of Gratha showed up. Decided I'd had enough fun so afterburned home.

Result? Got bronze star.

So it IS possible to kill the Gwenhyvar and her escorts
and get the bronze star.

Respectfully,

Brian P.
 
I use Super Wing Commander for WCI (Although I DO have Wing Commander I), so it doesnt matter where I land, even thogh ont he simulator i never died, so ii jsut quit after about 500 rounds. Anywayz, in prophecy, we were autopiloting with the Midway, and when we came off I do my normal MIssile first thing. amnd Stiletto flew right into it. Then of course everything started shooting at me at once, so i was dead pretty quick.
 
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