Neo Helios on 19/10/2003 at 04:00
Crushed by an elevator. Happened to me one time too many.
Loricatus on 20/10/2003 at 21:49
It wasn't me dying, but I just encountered the funniest way yet to see NPCs die! In the statue, level one, freeing Gunther. I snuck past the guys in the lobby and zapped the guards in his little brig area, but I must have missed one that was patrolling ... I popped the door open to Gunther and ran in. Being a good little copper, I didn't give him a weapon so he could rampage through the guards outside ... however just as the conversation was finishing, that patrolling guard walked in. He pulls his weapon, while I fumble for mine ... but instead of greasing me (playing on realistic), he shoots at Hermann. Since I denied him a weapon, the big Teutonic automaton pulls a knife and cuts him down! And as the gunfire has now attracted all the guards outside, they come storming into the confinement area, only to be butchered one by one by Gunther ... it was so very funny. The best is when he knifed one almost to death and it started running ... so he chased it around the lobby of the statue for a good 20 minutes before finally catching up and stabbing him to death.
Priceless.
sergeantgiggles on 21/10/2003 at 02:14
Climbed on the trellis on the cathedral, activated speed aug to jump to a different building, jumped and was shot out of the air by a sniper, perfect headshot. Amazing.
redem on 21/10/2003 at 11:01
Some sacrily good snipers in the game. you would think they would have to aim, but noooo.
Swimming along in a tunnel, need a piss, hits esc and walk to bathroom, get back find I actually hit the wrong key. Oops.
BlackCapedManX on 22/10/2003 at 03:54
Being an ammo nazi, I see to it that every enemy in a level dies so that I can loot their bodies, while expending the least amount of ammo of my own. What I discovered, is in the NSF HQ level, after you blow out the generator, when Gunther appears on the roof, if their are still enemies around, he'll kill them. Which means more ammo for me. So I go and take a pot shot at an enemy or two to get them to all follow me up to the roof where Gunther is. They all come rushing up, to be met by liberal amounts of firepower from the German killing-machine. Well, I find myself with a gradually increasing pile of dead foes, and what's a guy to do but loot them all? It turns out that attempting to loot a body which is laying the ground between gunther and his next victim, while gunther is armed with a flamethrower, while playing on Realistic difficulty, is not benefical to your health.
I also inadvertently discovered a means by which you can survive a fall from any height. While missing the jump from Ms. Chow's window into Jock appartment, I find my self falling dozens of stories though the air. Not waiting for the depressing death scene where the camera spins around what my pulpated corpse-peices, I hit esc, go to load, and click on the top file. It was highly unfortunate that I happened to have gone into the save section instead of the load section. Hoping to god that I had not saved over the file, I load it up again. Sure enough I had saved about ten feet from above the streets of hong kong. I start up falling through the air, prepared to be turned into kibbles and bits when I hit the ground. The I hit the ground. And take zero damage. apparently when the game loads up the file it doesnt take into account that you just fell thirty stories.
Using the above stated strategy, I managed to make it to the ground level in the first level in paris bu jumping. I save just before I hit the ground, load the file and find myself stuck outside of that little enclosed area where you come up from through the manhole. LAM climbing reveals little hiden invisible walls surrounding the top of the fence. However, this does lead to the silliest death of all time. Apparently, if you walk counter-clockwise around the enclosed area, you encounter and invisible wall of death. That's right, it's just like SHAS in theif, only this is like explosive SHAS. Where you're just walking along, and not only do you fall over dead, you also explode into little meaty chunks. Definately the most hillarious way to die. The greatest thing is, you don't encouter this phenomenon when approaching from the other dirrection.
And of course there's the flying door in the last part of A51. "So, how'd you die?" "Well it was this door man, it just came outta no where, and WHAM!"
