Your best moments in HD

Should this be a different thread to the worst moment in HD thread, I don't know, but if it needs to be moved please do.

Thought it would be cool to start one about your best moments.

Doesn't have to be about winning races or fast times, could be about anything from meeting someone or eliminating some poor sod. :)

1: The night I met Greenix was one of the funniest moments I had, never heard of him before but he was super fast and kept beating me. We got chatting and it turned out he was the cheekiest bleeder I had met on line (closely followed by Yeldar) :nod, we were comparing race times and he was a bit faster than me on most tracks. Found a couple that i was faster on and said he didn't have a chance at beating them just to wind him up, to which his reply was 'give me a couple of minutes'. The cheeky ****er!!!! Well I gave him a couple of minutes and he beat the times :bomb WTF! It just turned into a slanging match after that but I was laughing my arse off all night.

2: Greenix again. Continuing our battles on the track a few weeks later, the usual banter was going on between us. He was getting the better of me more than I care to recall and i was getting a bit pissed off. Then on Vineta K rev on the last lap he shot past me as only he can do. I was thinking here we go again. Then I got a quake in the tunnel near the end.... BAM!!...Got him! I saw him labouring a bit at the top of the hill, picked up a Cannon and fired one shot and eliminated him. Very funny moment :p Pay back. I was practicaly hysterical at this moment and couldn't see the finish line through the tears. (little things please little minds)

3: Joined a game with Asa and Rapier Racer one night, hadn't played them before but seen them on the forum, so was a bit nervous, wondering if I was going to make fool of myself or not. Couldn't believe that I managed to win two races in a row against them!! I turned to mush after that, but it didn't matter as I had done OK against some very, very good pilots.

4: The day I downloaded HD and joined this forum of course. :)

Anyone else like to share some good times from their HD/FURY careers?

Good thread KGB - makes a change to concentrate on the positives rather than the negatives.

Some of my best moments are as follows -

1 - Avalon - Last time out was the first time I've fully participated in one. And what great fun it was. Top pilots and great fun in the chatrooms as well. Without the chat it wouldn't be half as good.

2 - England World Cup Qualification - this was the first time I'd raced against 7 other really fast pilots and what a learning curve it was. Again, what made it was the banter in the chatrooms.

3 - Getting the WR on rev VinK zone (now sadly gone). I started about 80,000 away from the record and slowly got to within 30,000. Thanks to GTP_Rorschach (who kept beating my score and motivated me to do better) I managed to get to within 20,000 and then 1 day had the record breaking run. Thought it would last longer than it did but massive respect to Kingheim for breaking it.

4 - The day I joined this site. I didn't find it until Dec or Jan and then seeing a lot of names who I'd seen as global leaders and inspirational to me were quite happy to chat and share tips. And also, what a welcoming friendly place it is. After my previous experiences of online gaming Wipeout has proven to be a real joy.

5 - The anticipation of Fury. Those few days before release were pretty cool and never seen the site so busy.

6 - Hearing Zone 100 cleared for the first time. Sweet.

My single best moment was breaking zone 100 on Anulpha Pass.

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1. Ever since Tordmulen told me about Team Nordic, this has been my third child :)
All those guys are just bloody great - on the track and outside the track, as well. We´ve had an awful lot of hillarious weekly Nordic Sessions. Of course it´s about winning (no doubt!), but just experiencing the chat-room surrealism is more than enough to make your evening. (No one beats Soccermums or Zoth being in a funky mood :)). If the chat-room had some kind of "print-function", I would publish it as book. Or maybe not.
2. Enthropic Decay. My WO-brother, Zoth, and I, have had several great matches vs. you guys and girl (!) from WO-zone. Great racing all of you. And great meeting you as real virtual persons in The ED Headquarter.
3. All The Organizers; the people who made an effort arranging events, which are making WO an even better experiment for all of us, especially:
Kanar´s Avalons: I remember one specific friday morning in the spring. Coffee, cigs, kids institutionalized, wife at work and - for the first time this year - a beautiful sun bashing the windows. Kanar almost asleep, but talkative as ever. I´ll put a picture of you on the wall one day, Kanar :)
Astral League: Always a pleasure attending The Astral. Big thanks to Epsilon (where are you?!) - Nyctalopian and Kaori, as well!
The Doubles Ladder: Thanks to Feisar31 and Yeldar for putting this up.
4. The Inventors. Thanks for making progress a bit easier for me to all of you guys, who are not afraid of sharing videos and new techniques.

I see myself Posting alot on this thread But I think one of my favorite moments was a 1 on 1 race with yeldar, he pulled ahead of me where I proceded to Quake, Rocket then missile him in less then 4 seconds.

The Resulting FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU from my chat box notification afterwords put me into stitches.

Well first of all for buying the game all the way back in November had to be one of the best decisions of my life. I've had so many great races and met so great people that it's hard to pick my best moment.

Recently i hit zone 106 so that could be considered a great moment.

Getting a full transendence was also a satisfiying feeling. Beating zico and zone zeus gave me a huge feeling of accomplisment, one i'll never forget.

Setting personal bests, beating the very best racers out there (on rare occasions:p), meeting and chatting to old and new zoners alike, all of these are my favourite moments :)

i won an online zone battle in a room with problemsolver :beer UAHAHAHAHHAHAH put that in your zone 100 and smoke it. zone zues was another big one for me as it probably is for plenty of people. its not really a moment but once i spent like 2 hours of epic back and forth racing against an O_BR. totally friend'ed.

my best moment in HD was last night playing in single race with problem solver and olouk and TarquinFarqhuar, and other players of similar high skill levels.

It was my first time i got to play with some super elite players and i really enjoyed it.:nod:nod

problem solver kept parking up on the track to wait for me and as i flew past he would shoot a rocket into my ass.lol.:dizzy:dizzy:dizzy

Every time I learn a new track on Phantom (wasn't playing during the PSP era) and for the first time get into the rhythm of the track.

when i first started playing, its was on metropia and i was last but
when on the mag strip i fired a plasma for poops and it jumped the
gap to the strip when it's vetical and killed a player.

I was ecsatsic about it not only beeing a kill but a sweet one at that!!

I think i finished 7th :)

Got to say the first Avalon meet I played in was pretty good moment. Joined Kanar's room on Moa reverse, by the time we got in the tunnel, first lap, no weapons, I had been eliminated!!!!!! Welcome to Avalon :). Always feels like a real happening when I have played in them. Kanar's the man.

:redface:... aww.

Thanks guys... Well I just tried to set up a wipeout "All star game", opened to all, one time a month. A scheduled/ranged event, with several host spots available during 3 days. "Setting a date, gathering pilots, and race"... And you all realized this dream. The so-called avalon is nothing more than a friendship party, where you can have a good bunch of races, all over the week-end, with pilots from all over the world. Of course my best moments in HD took part with you all, during these events. And when Asa, kaori and Leungbok came at my place to share this crazy passion in "LIVE" :beer
As Blackwiggle said recently, Sony should support more its game (and SL polish his beta-testing policy LOL), and sponsor some events like the upcoming world cup. We can see clearly that WZ and HD are growing quickly, maybe an official offer will be better than some initiatives took by some poor lost boyz like me.
My life has changed since last month. A hand hyperephidrosis, a detox (lol) and the fact that my wife simply don't play videogames slowly kept me away from world of wipeout. I must admit I haven't practiced for the next week-end. I'm definitely not in the mood for speed lapping at the moment, last times I played I finished rage-quitting all alone after 5 or 10 minutes lol. It will be a real nightmare for me to just finish the races... But as promised, I'll be up to run the show with my friends. We'll host again several rooms all over the week-end, just for the joy of racing together again :rock. By the way if you're interested to be part of the host crew, feel free to pm me or post in the event's thread). Gah, maybe I'll find enough motivation to practice a little this week.

Another moment for me.

Every single Groan I hear when I eliminate an opponent online. Their destruction is like a turbo boost for my Craft!

I now have a new found appreciation for zone battle!

I hated this mode when I first tried it, and steered away from it. But on a trophy hunt this weekend, I'm now hooked.

I'm by no means very good, but I like the mix of tactics and timing! Really great mode once you get into it.

There were a lot of great online moments in HD but I'll stick with the most recent one.

This one is starring JJohnEames, myself and a nice Plasma last Saturday on SC fwd phantom:

I was on 3rd, final round ?, ~3 sec behind JJ - I think he was having a good fight for #1 w/ oolproo (?). Anyway I had a plasma but no one anywhere to shoot at. Though I jumped and BR'd over the hill before the looong straight down the tunnel and just shot the plasma. Ok, normally the chance of a hit or direct hit is nil. But this time the Plasma went perfectly straight, with a little right spin down into the tunnel where JJ just tried to take the corner up to the chicane. But he never got there :rolleyes: The Plasma gained on him with every second and just as he started the right turn he got hit and destroyed .... Well, I passed and finished 2nd. My estimate is that the Plasma flight time was between 3 and 4 secs. It was so nice to watch, esp. when the Plasma really found the target and did a prefect job. It was like wel - yes - Yes - YES - YEESSSS!

JJ appreciated getting hit with a 'beautiful!' after the race :D. I have to second that ;). Indeed, it was beautiful and my best Plasma ever. It's a pity there is no replay to enjoy this again, and again , and ... btw, I just received a destroyer badge for this. This should have been a 5 times Plasmafier - at least.

New good moment in WOHD...playing problem solver on AP reverse.super tight race.he shoots me takes the lead i shoot him back i take the lead and visa versa. If only all races were so action packed.:hyper:hyper:hyper

Every time I set a new record that is better, same, or near one of you find people. Gets me all happy inside seeing our names together on the global rankings.

my best moment was when i got my first online single race time in the 200 something (long time, ago i dont remember the precise place on the list ;))

And ofcourse when i first met Zoth-Ommog, my best races were with him :D

I was doing a time trail and wasnt doing to bad then noticed i was on flash and not phantom so i quit and it said i was on phantom..
Its a good sign when the game looks slow. it means i am improving.:)
:dizzy:dizzy

At several occasions, in Eliminator modes, (human) ennemies and I ended destroying each other at about the same time (like, using missiles on each another).
It cracks me up each times it happens:)

anulpha pass reverse..phantom ..race...rank 42..im happy for myself :) :)

Had a nice moment on Eliminator a few days ago. I was playing the Fury campaign at a friend's. I think it was The Amphisium reverse on Rapier speed. I had a rocket, and just before the drop to start/finish, I turned around and fired at a few ships behind me, destroying three of them with one set of rockets! :bomb

Oh! I also managed to get the Pristine badge. I thought I'd never get that.

One of the best moments for me involved a plasma.
It was on Sol 2 forward. I was in 2nd position. Infront of me was a really fast player. Near the finish-line, i got a plasma und fired it. In that moment, the player in leading position deployed a bomb. The plasma ripped the bomb apart and also hit the other player. I screamed all the way to the finish lol

Just had a nice moment in a race on Moa Therma reverse.

I was leading on the last lap with OLOuk close behind. I wasn't getting any useful weapons and could see he was catching up, making me quite tense indeed.

Sure enough, a couple of corners before the second mag-strip, he gets me with a missile and goes tearing past with a sheild up so I couldn't even retaliate. :bomb

I regain control and pick up a misslie of my own on the mag-strip, let it fly and pick up a sheild, which I use as I pass. I was grinning all the way to the finish. :g

getting zone zeus and arcade elite perfect in one night .:nod:nod

Quake-surfing! Now that's a rush:rock

Quake surfing, is the best rush :rock

First time I did it was in Fusion, with a shield and a turbo :lol, and I been looking for the oppo to do that ever since :lol

Only got to do that once more in Pulse and again, recently in HD-FURY -and yes, awesome moments there.

Learning that WipEout was coming on PS3:hyper
I was simply ecstatic with joy! After the mediocre Fusion chapter, i was the most happiest guy on earth knowing that my all-time favorite racing game was coming in hi-res, and that WipEout was still alive after all those years.

Being considered as a pilot for the [former] North American Team:eek
I never expected Feisar31 to mention me when the selection was taking place. I was honored that someone such hi-ranked remembered me and judged that i should be in the line-up. My performances at this time were OK, and didnt really improved while we race together in the former team, but i enjoyed it so much. We had Vart and TCK and we were unbeatable :P

The renaissance of North American Team:D:+
And after the sad moment when Vart and TCK gave up on the team at its best, i decided to reform the team. It never really died, but at this time it was clear nothing would be the same and that it was on the decline. But i stood up and kept the spirit going on. I felt we had a role to play in the legacy of the greatness that WipEout is, nothing less. We had a responsibility toward our friends online and to the huge organization of WWC '09 that was deployed. We didnt win the finals, but it didnt really bothered me; i was able to recruit formidable pilots. IDReaper, DeepMix, Iwillbuildaduck, Boo4ever, TehRedScar, Rezatron and Coatlketzal, i thank you all for believing in this team again and we'll get back on the top for 2010 like it should be.8):+

The recent victories against France and England:rock
Again, in the same order of idea, we prove that we're still a solid and efficient team, even if those races were unofficial. We were able to win against some of the most illustrious pilots around. So much that France wants to have revenge on us!:D

Scoring the 15th best time on Talon's Junction FWD Phantom
:D Never thought i would get so close to the top!

Elite Gold on Chengou Project for Elite Arcade Perfect. I had to fight for Sebenco and CP for Elite Gold.
After several races on CP (well, less than for Seb, Seb almost drove me mad), I'm first since lap 3... Icaras close to my ass. Last lap, after the jump, I screw the small turns... Icaras gets first. Fortunatelly, I got a boost with the weapon pad just before the turns, I take it and fly over the Icaras just on the line... I wait for the final decision and... yeah, I'm first !!! \o/

This was a revenge for this race : http://goondy.free.fr/Images/wohd/wo...%20exaequo.jpg (~ 30 KB) ... and for sake of clarity, yes I'm first (ex-aequo) and NO, THIS IS NOT VALID FOR ARCADE PERFECT !!!!! :dizzy

Oh, and as a very modest Pilot, I was sooooo happy after a victory against Asa after an epic fight of several laps! (I usually lose, and by far, let's be honest :) )

Watching the England v Japan game live, I can't remember who hosted, rerealm maybe?? It was like watching a Premier league match. Funny chat and watching the best players in the world take each other on, wish we could do it again.

One of my best moments in HD was probably our first friendly Xpand match against the Inglorious Basterds. It was a 2 v 2 match and myself and KGB needed to get 1st and 2nd in the last race in order to secure a draw and we managed it - right on that last corner of Sol 2 :rock

Playing against Motorsagmannen - last lap of Anulpha Reverse - he hits me with a quake - I fly over a weapon pad and get.... A quake. (this was before you could see opponents weapons). I slam on the brakes so hard, he slams into the back of me. He refuses to pass, because he knew I had something and wanted revenge. Finally - after a LONG period of just sitting there (a few seconds waiting - but in a race - that's eternity) He passes, I quake him (of course) - and we STILL got 1st and 2nd place. (in a full room, no less).

I think I remember one of his - on Moa Reverse we brawled the entire race (not much choice on Moa Rev) I hit him, he hit me, wash rinse and repeat. So I'm hurting on energy on the final lap, and get a lucky break (a boost) - so in the final stretch / last corner I shoot past him - he has ONE - SINGLE bullet left in his gun - literally the last round, and I hear "clack" followed by my Auricom asploding and falling just INCHES short of the finish line.

Staying neck and neck with other accomplished pilots from the Zone

Landing on top of someone after a BR and boosting from their ship lol :P

AG-Wolf, putting up a vid of our races on youtube, that was awesome! :)

I never seen myself race on hdfury. Cheers AG-Wolf :+

1. Transcending in my Qirex by bombing SaturnReturn to get my AG-Assassin trophy.

2. Being invited to play in my first ASTRAL tournament.

3. Being invited to race for TFD

4. Playing a Doubles League match with Asa.

5. Avalon, every one of them (except the first one because I didn't actually know what 'Avalon' meant/involved :P).

Good times :g

This is going to sound pretty weak, compared to some of you guy's achievements, but

1. Zone Zeus. managing to not blink between zone 60 and 75 and somehow squeezing a perfect lap on zone 74 with the energy warning beeping in my ear all the way through the lap.

2. During Elite campaign getting gold on Sol 2, speed, wait for it, Flash. Yes, Flash. (shameful I know) I eventually posted a top 600 time to beat the damned AI

3. Getting my first top 1000 time. Looking forward to my first top 250!

Gordo - one of my friends who plays this game is an old, retarded fart. If he can post a top 10 time (actually, he's gotten a couple 1st place globals) - then so can you.

Practice, side shift, barrel roll a lot - and don't be stingy with your pickups (if you get a boost - don't want an entire lap for the "sweet spot" to use it - just use it) and with a little luck, you'll break into the top 50 no problem.

:D

Oh yes, 2 more favorite moments of mine: Getting killed by Boo4ever on the hairpin on Chengou and I had a plasma. I didn't absorb it in time for his surprise quake. I hit "fire" right before I exploded, respawned - and as I respawned (sideways) I started falling off the track - he comes around the bend, and as he passes I'm looking at his ship side-on, the plasma flies fourth - and he blows up. It was the most insane lucky timing ever.

The rare occasions where I can barrel roll off another players ship when they're bumping me around the track. (sometimes you get pushed upwards when in the pack and on top of another ship) I love it when that happens.

Getting 17th best time in a race on Modesto fwd, and getting around 23rd best time on Talon rev on a time trial. yeldar is still 2 seconds ahead of me lol!

Also, being able to keep up with racers like themaderfacker, ProblemSolver and SaturnReturn. Even if I'm two seconds behind it still feels like a big accomplishment! :hyper

... Cannon and on and on and on... :D

I love it when I pull it off, a full set of cannon bullets, tearing totally into one ship all the way til it eliminates - sahweet stuff :)

Getting top 50 in online MP races is a good start too, love that :)

Dunno how I missed this one, must have been mashed but how did I forget the time when KGB1971 invited me into Team England... I haven't raced for Queen and Country yet, but one day that will change :rock and I will feel proud and honoured to represent my Country on the international AG circuits of the FX350 league.

Oh - Barrel Roll Barbarians... I'm one :g And that's some cooool schitt too imo ;)

Winning 15 online MP races in a row, on phantom without PA or Weps Hints - EGO! :lol ok, yeah, but I did feel kinda large after that session. :D

It may be crappy compared to all of yours. But winning an Elite Gold in Campaign is good to me since I have the game for over two months and went from Novice to Elite, skipping Skilled.

Oh and finishing an online race with member of the zone. Now only, if i can win those races. (Rank 13 currently)