First, thanks for one of the the most fun mods I played in *many* years. In fact, together with Fall from Heaven 2 for Civ 4 I think this might become one of the most professional mods ever done. I can't even begin to comprehend how much hard work has gone into it. Kudos where it's due.
Anyway, I thought I'd start a thread were people could write short but sweet stories about situations in the game that made them go "OMFG!" or just stuff they found neat, be it that time you got sniped out of your Atlas by a 50k mech or BA, or maybe it was you who brought down the Atlas?
I'll start off with one of my own: We were having a great game at Marshes, it had been pretty to and fro, none of the teams really having the upper hand. Most people ran around in brawler mechs or snipers. At the moment I was piloting the pulse laser Awesome, I like it mainly for the fact that it's still pretty good at medium range sniping without having the heat problems the other variants have. The other team were pushing hard towards the base most of us spawned in, and while we brought down a few of them a lot more friendly mechs went down around me. I took down some medium mech, maybe a Shadowcat but was under fire from all directions and started getting pretty badly damaged. Suddenly I discovered I was utterly alone, every blue dot on the radar had disappeared and some had started spawning at the second base, I counted at least 4 red dots within a 400m radius. With the damage display showing only dark reds, reds and orange I thought I was done for for sure. Since I wasn't under fire at just that instance I quickly went passive and went over the nearest island, towards our mech bay, some 200 meters away. Maybe, maybe I could buy some breathing room. No such luck, suddenly I saw a red dot closing in on the passive radar (which is what, 200m or something?) and just an instant later, a second red dot. "fappfappfapp" I muttered under my breath, every step anticipating a killing salvo in my back torso.
Slowly, slowly I was getting closer to the hangar, the red dots were closing in faster though. But, as a miracle, I entered mech bay 2 without getting shot even once, maybe they were playing with me, waiting till I stood there as a sitting duck, I don't know. Red dots even closer now, I turned so I faced the exit of the bay and shut down my mech anyway, maybe I could fool them, or at least get enough repairs done to survive long enough to kill them. Just a few seconds later though, a Madcat rounded the corner and entered the bay, all those weapons pointing straight at my wounded mech. A split second later another one came at the hangar from an angle so it had line of sight at me. Very little repairs done and severely outgunned I powered up as I received two salvos from both mechs, SRMs and god knows what else. "Imdeadimdeadimdead" I thought, but no. The mech came online, showing blacks and reds, but all the lasers were still operational! I aimed at the cockpit of the closest cat and held down the trigger, no luck. The mech still stood there, pilot still in, still weapons at me. I knew I might have a second chance, pulse lasers have faster recycle times than most other weapons. Tenths of seconds went by, feeling like minutes, adding up to seconds, 3 mechs frozen, locked at each other, waiting for weapons to recycle. It all happened very fast, the second Madcat fired its salvo at me, my lasers recycled and I shot at the cockpit of the first one. I died... Mech exploding. Blue pulses from my lasers striking the cockpit of my closest enemy as I went down in flames. And, he died as I did. Regardless to say, even if I died I saw it as a small victory.
So, anyone else with stories to share?
