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Have you ever been in a Descent game where something out of the ordinary happens and things fall into place in just such a way that it makes for an epic-couldn't-repeat-if-you-tried-100-times-kill?

I was playing a Descent 3 anarchy game last night in Waltz n' Matilda and I was in a dogfight with another pilot (Fireball), both of us were using Vauss. For you non D3ers(or D3 haters, as is more commonly the case ), Vauss is the Descent 3 version of D1's Vulcan, except you don't lead, it hits your opponent instantaneously. We fought for a minute in one of the open rooms, dodging each other as best we could, and then we killed each other at the same time! That doesn't happen often. It's pretty common with Mass Driver or other weapons, but not Vauss. He said that that was the best fight of the week for him, and I thought it was pretty cool myself.

Maybe this doesn't quite classify as epic but I thought it was great!

Does anyone else have any tales to tell?

A moment of lag that resulted in an entire room filling up with spreadfire....
That smart that exploded in-front of my face as it timed out (it didn't hit a wall)
The lone missile that traveled down a hallway in time for a person to fly into it.
I think I was once flared to death in a DCL.

Yeah, there are plenty of epic moments.....

Well, earlier this season I had what I think just might be the greatest comeback of all time (any generation). It was a DCL match Jediluke vs DJCJR.

Here is the long winded play by play from my war journal post and I'll include a DEMO link at the end.

“The Comeback”

I have played Djcjr only twice in the history of the DCL. The first match was a really difficult loss for me in a massive overtime match. 28-30.

This time around it ended up in yet another overtime match in Athena but it was my turn to win 23-21.

I must admit, I didn't expect Djcjr to put up this much of a fight. I thought he would be a little rusty by comparison. I was wrong. This guy was thoroughly embarrassing me. At one point he was up 16-9 on me. That's a 7 kill lead against me. How does anyone overcome that!? He's 4 kills from winning this game and publicly humiliating me and yet we are only 32% done with the game by this point. That seems hard to imagine.

At 17-11 he's 3 kills from winning and we're 45% done. At 17-12 I get a lucky smart missile kill on him and he immediately goes for his spew after respawning and I get another quick kill to bring it to a less embarrassing 17-14.

Dj takes a Warlord timeout and then goes up 18-14. He's a mere 2 kills from winning and we're now 50% done according to the demo. At 18-15 I set him up with what looked like was going to be a beautiful sure kill but at the last second he chooses to turn...not knowing he was about to die with my trap and thus completely avoids it. UGH!

Now he's up 19-15 and we're 54% done. He wins a confrontation and I go from 100 shields to 38 instantly so I quickly decide to suicide. Now we're 19-14 and I then get a direct smart missile kill on him. 19-15 again and this time I'm a little over 100 shields. I'm flying around looking for him and I can't seem to find him. I come out of the door under the grate hall way and I start to decide to slide up in to the upper corner of the dog room but my Jedi senses start tingling and I change my mind last second about doing that and low and behold Dj slides down from that spot and knocks me down to 64 shields. He would have gotten the winning kill had I slid up to that spot. As I'm running away from this confrontation a reactor blob hits me and now I'm at 45 shields grrrr! We then run into eachother in the dog room and a homer of his hits me knocking me down to only 6 shields!! So......suicide. 19-15.

I'm flying full speed down the grate hall way about to turn right towards the reactor but we ended up meeting at that corner unexpectedly. I fired my single smart I had but it missed him. He's shooting vulcan but is missing as this was such a sudden encounter. I get off one homer as he was escaping...and several moments later he died! OMG, so close to losing in that moment.

19-16 he's up and I have 56 shields. He gets me down to 36 shields and I get uncomfortable so.....suicide #3. I get my own shield orb to get to 105 shields. I almost take a direct smart to the face fired from far away which would have ended the game but I was lucky it barely missed.

I'm at 80 shields and he surprises me in the tiny little room near the reactor and brings me down to 40 shields and I'm in a bad spot so I decide to immediately suicide just in case so we're 19 - 14.

I then get a long distance kill on him and we're back at 19-15 and I have 74 shields. I'm flying backwards immediately after this kill and unfortunately end up bumping right in to him...here it is...I'm going to die. He takes me from 74 shields to 35 but I manage to get my smart off and hit him directly and I get the kill. I collect 2 shield orbs and I'm at 47 now. Yet again, another close encounter and I go down from 47 to 40 shields but he goes from 100 to 0 and I get the kill! 19-17. Then I throw several homers and primaries towards the middle door in the dog room and luckily Dj opens that door right as this barrage is arriving and he eats it all. 19-18 he's up by 1 and still 1 kill from winning but my confidence is growing. I have 48 shields to work with. His homers take me down to 20 so.....suicide. 19-17 (77% done) He takes me down to 66 shields then 39. Instead of suiciding I decide to fight with my new found confidence. I end up in a good position on him and I get the kill. 19-18 44 shields. A smart blob floater hits me and I'm down to 8 shields...so...suicide 19-17 yet again.

He slowly works me down to 60 shields then 31...suicide again. 19-16 (83% done). I almost eat another direct smart and on the 2nd encounter with him I get the kill. 19-17 and I'm over 100 shields. He takes another Warlord moment before respawning. I get the next kill and my shields are at a healthy 94 at 19-18 Dj's lead. He gets me in another bad position and I make an instant decision to double back and I know my death is likely in this very moment but I managed to get behind him as he came in for the kill and I deal him some damage but he survives. Next encounter I kill him with a small dose of vulcan.

19-19 and I'm at 100 shields! I want this win and I can taste it! I go up 20-19 for my first lead in forever and Djcjr vents some frustration (a truly rare occurrence). He says something like “Maybe you won't suicide this time!” I say, “I want this bad!” He says, “Then you can f'n take it”

Now, Dj being Dj he doesn't let me have it...I have to take it. He gets me down to 10 shields so...of course I then decide NOT to suicide and I keep fighting after all...I'm 1 luck kill from winning. I hit him and he hit me and I'm now at 1 shield. We end up surprise bumping in to each other and we BOTH die!!

20-19 I'm in the lead and we both have 100 shields. He gets in behind me and takes me from 100 to dead in a heart beat and now it's 20-20. He works me down to 36 so I go to stupidly suicide by reactor and it hits me once and then dawns on me that if I do this he'll be 1 kill from winning again. GRR!!! Stupid Jedi! I now have 22 shields to work with but I end up getting the kill!! 21-20 and I have 22 shields. He gets the next kill 21-21 and then I get the next one to go up 22-21 and I have 89 shields. He gets me down to 45 but I get him with one final barrage and get the winning kill for the greatest come from behind in the history of my Descent career!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggu0xrnqah8el ... k.dem?dl=0

My favorite moment was in Vamped playing against Mark392. He had just come up the ramp to the upper part of he grate tunnel. I was headed toward the ramp but was still around the corner. He rounds the corner first, just as I am coming up on it. He fires a smart into the wall, and backs away around the corner again. I dodge it, miraculously for someone of my skill level. In stunned silence I sat in the bottom right corner of the tunnel, still facing the corner, afraid to move in case I hit a slow moving blob. Mark392 then rounded the corner again, but was facing way down the tunnel, and not at me. I managed to kill him. Caught him off guard. I suspect he thought I was running from the blobs, and that was why I hadn't died yet. Either way, I was proud of myself. Final score was 20-5, but he had to suicide twice to keep it that way.

Top one has to be my first DCL vs Blarget2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa-S96q7Xc

The other one is the ending of my Octave Pro match vs Entropy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhzFkVwiIU

It wasn't a kill, but I was playing DKH for the first time in Take2.

I was in the large red room, facing toward the energy center, my back to the little cubby-hole and grating. I had fired two fusion shots out, one to the back red hallway, the other to the middle red room. At this point it was more spamming because I wasn't getting any cues from DKH.

Then the ESP kicked in. I felt eyes on the back of my head. I whipped my pyro around in a 180 and shot fusion through the grate at a sharp angle that it would reach the junction with the back green hallway. Didn't see DKH there or anything, but I knew that's where I needed to shoot right now.

CLANG!

"Nice, how did you see me?"

lol idk

I don't have any particular epic moments I think, but this one part sort of sticks with me:

I've been playing for a few weeks/months now. I feel like I have a grasp of the game and when I play pilots better than myself I get small glimpses of how the flow of the game really goes and what I can do to win. Then I'm messing around and find a derpy map called Rainman. I like it because it's pretty simple, and it's also basically the inverse of most Descent levels. It's a big open box with structures in the middle to provide cover. Instead of being in tunnels and using the map around you as cover, these structures are like tunnels and it's as if you're outside of them.

I end up playing Mark392 on this level. And while we're flying around, chasing each other around, me dying way more than Mark392 is dying, I start to understand something. I start to really notice how Mark392 is flying around. The angles he's checking and how he's pursuing me. I start to notice that when I do something it actually puts pressure on him and he changes his position. Those small glimpses I normally get become wider and wider until I get to a point where I scoot through the small passage in the middle of the map and Mark392 swoops in right in front of me and kills me and I say to myself "I knew he would be there." And I knew it because of my previous movements and how he covered those.

Nothing super epic or amazing, and it wasn't the first time this happened. But because of how Mark flies this sticks out in my head. That and I like that level.

LOL @ Roncli's DCL vs Blarget2

Morfod: cool, albeit creepy

I was in a tiny 1 on 1 CTF game a few days ago in Veins (I know, I know ::shakes head::) I saw my opponent WAY across the large middle court, almost in the other tunnel, and foolishly fired a mega missile in his general direction before moving on. (not sure what I was thinking) Several seconds later as I'm flying on my merry way down the opposite tunnel, I'm notified that I killed him? What the...???? Turns out it went invisible on the poor guy... hehe
Oh D3, please get all your ducks in a row...

::pauses to reflect for a moment::

hmm...
no
well, wait...
No, no there isn't



EDIT: at the time of posting this, Morfod has posted a total of 96 posts, and I have posted a total of 69. creepy? lol