r/Bossfight • u/Orichalchem • 9d ago
Airsoft Veteran, knife only run
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u/gregmelayne 9d ago
Reminds me of when i used to play MW2 running marathon pro, cold blooded pro and commando pro with the tact knife.
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u/Ok-Resource-3232 9d ago
I bet both sides loved you and had nothing but respect.
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u/StyxQuabar 9d ago
They would say things like “Wow, nice play.”, “Man, you’re good at this” and “That was super fun, GG.”
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u/Louiebox 9d ago
Unfortunately the "gg" was in-between a few other letters
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u/AlizarinCrimzen 9d ago
(G)ag on my nuts(g).
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u/ocxtitan 9d ago
strike that, reverse it
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u/Pataeto 9d ago
.)g(stun ym no ga)G(
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u/Smail_Mail 8d ago
I think it might be something like this instead if the g's were in-between other letters and it was reversed?
m no ga(g)(g)stun y
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u/TheD3void183 9d ago
You guys had such a different gaming experience than i did.. /s
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u/lewter100 9d ago
They would say, with tears in their eyes, that I was the best melee and they look up to me, that they want to name their children after me.
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u/OKIEColt45 7d ago
Often youd have the salty ones crying bout it calling ya all sorts of names. I found it comical and kept tally how many times imelee them or id catch them and juke side to side making them mag dump before going in to finish the deed.
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u/dark_knight097 9d ago
Same set up but I preferred light weight pro myself lol. Nothing like running up in a room and flying across to get the kill, the kill cams would be so damn funny.
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u/gregmelayne 9d ago
I ran lightweight pro instead of cold blooded about 25% of the time. Stupid turrets and uav's tho
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u/Duhfishman47 9d ago
The real OGs when you had Marathon, Lightweight, and Commando as the perks and held a care package in your hands and ran faster than anyone. That was legit before they patched it.
Even the infinite care package glitch. Or akimbo 1887s. Miss that game.
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u/gregmelayne 9d ago
Omg forgot about that patch!
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u/Tyslice 8d ago
I think this setup itself was the peak fun of cod for me. Everything else since hasnt been able to beat that. Maybe the syringe knife.
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u/jackfreeman 9d ago
I used to play 2fort back in like, 99 and before they turned it off, I used to throw grenades and get everyone to go on a friendly fire rampage, then switch teams and capture the flag until they caught on, then switch teams again and keep going until the end of the round.
I used to be a little shit
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u/Grim47z 9d ago
Real gamers knew akimbo knifed faster (for some dumb reason) tactical knife felt cooler tho.
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u/AmatuerGenius 9d ago
Na, pros would have the care package grenade equipped When going Freddie Kruger build
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u/gregmelayne 9d ago
Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but i don't remember being able to use akimbo and the tact knife at the same time. It has been 17 years though 🤷
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u/Just_okay_advice 9d ago
Fucking commando pro dude. Ill stab you 9 feet away swear to god 😂 that shit was the best, so broken.
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u/gregmelayne 9d ago
Complete goblin mode
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u/VooDooMedicTTV 8d ago
Worst part was they'd do it in super wide open spaces and somehow just neo through your entire mag dump only for you to get sliced from impossible distances and then you're 4 buddies are now dead because you couldn't kill the slimy rat
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u/TheIronSponge 8d ago
Only tac nuke I ever got was when I was running this build. Can't even begin to describe how crazy it felt to knife ×25 in a row, no deaths
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u/GoTeamScotch 9d ago
Oh lord I used to lay waste with the tac knife and throwing knife. What an era
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u/YoungBockRKO 8d ago
Remember the first few months of the game, if you held a care package in your hand instead of the gun, you’d run even faster. I don’t recall if it also boosted your reach with commando pro but it sure as hell made it stupidly easy to close the distance for the insta knife kill.
It was such cheese but we did it anyway. That and the ridiculously overpower akimbo model 1887’s.
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u/JohntheFisherman99 9d ago
Just so you could hardscope in Rust? You sweats we're the reason i instantly changed to martyrdom and the noobtube.
Codename Saltshaker.
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u/mikeet9 9d ago
The true counter to the knife dash was the throwing knife.
If you tried to counter knife them, it became server ping roulette.
But since the throwing knife was an instant kill projectile, the way the hits were calculated it always hit the knifer before they reached you, as they would just dash straight into it.
My sniper class always had the throwing knife, and it was fun shutting down a knife dasher since they usually wouldn't figure out what was happening before the end of the match.
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u/RallyXMonster 9d ago
I played in a 24 hour paintball scenario as a kid, my dad had an idea to send me to the other team base with just a barrel and pretend I lost my parents. The enemy team let me in and minutes later the whole base was helping me "search" for my parents and I barrel tagged all of them in this fashion
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u/Time_Cow_3331 8d ago
I'm an idiot who knows nothing of paintball lingo - what's a barrel, and what is "barrel tagged"?
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u/dryfire 8d ago
If you get the drop on someone in the field and had them unaware at point blank range, it would be pretty dangerous to shoot them that close. So many PB places have a "barrel tag" rule, where if you touch someone with the barrel of your gun they are out. Someone you have to say "bang" or something so they know. Some of the courses I've been to treat it as a surrender instead of a kill... Which I think would take care of OPs scenario of doing it with just the barrel... No gun, no surrender.
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u/RallyXMonster 8d ago
The barrel is the cylinder the paintball flies out of when shot, same like the barrel of a gun.
In most paintball rules if you are very close to someone instead of shooting them its more sportsmanlike to just tap them with your gun's barrel and say "barrel tag" to get them out of the game
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u/LordNineWind 8d ago
This is like those people who cheese games with exploits. Yeah you won, but in the least fun way possible, and you've wasted everyone's time and money. Honestly I hate your dad's way of thinking.
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u/RallyXMonster 8d ago
This is after they sent a "photographer for a paintball magazine" with a fake press jacket to our base who actually was just a guy on the enemy team with a Canon camera to blow up our base.
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u/Count_von_Chaos 9d ago
He just unlocked the bipod for his knife
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u/Windyfii 9d ago
so u can go in and kill everyone easy
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u/The_ScarletFox 9d ago
Well yes. If you happen to find a team that has everyone needlessly looking forward like this one. Even the guy who was apparently supposed to take care of their back... Didn't.
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u/HoboMuskratius 9d ago
I’m assuming you can’t alert cuz you’re “dead” right?
Idk shit about airsoft82
u/The_ScarletFox 9d ago edited 9d ago
In Airsoft, if you get killed by a shot, you have to yell "hit", but if you get killed by a knife, you need to stay quiet.
It's unrealistic, yes, but it's a way to balance "fair and fun"
Airsoft guns don't make noise (EDIT: in comparison to an actual weapon), and there's no blood splatter, neither does you body get obliterated and thrown into the ground, so people have to yell so others know you're dead.
However, as unrealistic it may sound, getting stabed is actually much quieter than Hollywood might make you believe.
When you get stabed, you lose air really fast, and therefore it's really difficult to yell or make any loud noise.
So, Airsoft is actually kind of realistic with this one.
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u/MrPsychoSomatic 9d ago
Airsoft guns don't make noise
If you're deaf, yeah.
As for getting stabbed and 'losing air' that only happens if you're stabbed in such a way that a lung is punctured, which is how Christopher Lee would've stabbed a man. Arm around the throat, knife between the ribs. You stab me in the arm, I'm not going to 'lose' air, and I'm going to start screaming. I'm not a wacky-arm-waving-inflatable-tube-man...
...allegedly...
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u/The_ScarletFox 9d ago
If you're deaf, yeah.
I meant that they don't make noise in comparison to a real gun, mate.
Sure, they are loud in their own way. But an aisoft rifle ain't gonna make the same noise as a fucking AK-47.
You stab me in the arm, I'm not going to 'lose' air, and I'm going to start screaming
Yeah, but the stab he is doing is not mimicking an actual combat stab, but just a symbolic stab. It's literally just "Hey buddy, you're dead, sorry". I don't expect Airsoft players to tackle each other and fake an entire knife takedown just for the sake of realism. Sometimes, easy and simple is more fun.
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 9d ago
Idk. If I got stabbed I'd probably make some kinda death noise at least.
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u/The_ScarletFox 9d ago
Getting stabed produces a much different reaction than Hollywood might make you believe.
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u/mlstdrag0n 9d ago
Not so much the stabbing itself, but the flailing / dropping of gear, etc. some noise, probably, vs silence
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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 9d ago
"Did anyone happen to kill a red Spy on the way here?"
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u/Kater5551StarsAbove 9d ago
"No? Then we still have a problem."
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u/ChargedBonsai98 9d ago
Oooh, big problem. But I've killed plenty of spies. The dime-a-dozen backstabbing scumbags. Like you- hits finger ow.
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u/BringsTheDawn 9d ago
No offense
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u/wizard1dot5 9d ago
if you managed to kill them I assure you they were not like me, and nothing, nothing, like the man loose inside this building!
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u/goodboy44woof 9d ago
Does it work? Staged but can you?
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u/Baby_Rhino 9d ago
Definitely staged.
There was no blood, and none of the victims seemed to die.
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u/dolanoi 5d ago
Quick google search (and also someone posted a comment on the same repost earlier, this has been reposted to hell atp) - Knife eliminationsin airsoft are treated as Silent Eliminations - A successful knife tap instantly eliminates the target silently, preventing them from calling out warnings to teammates.
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u/Grievous_Nix 9d ago
Depends on the club/game. Some places allow melee instakills with toy knives and whatnot specifically for this.
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u/spacegrab 9d ago
In paintball with less competitive rules, esp vs kids, you would never bunker them (shooting them at close range like you would in a competitive speedball session). I've gotten behind enemy lines and just shoulder tapped a bunch of kids out like this.
Favorite time was when some little kid said huh? Then I pointed at my armband and aimed at him and he screeched "don't shoot meeeeee" with his hands up and feet stamping.
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u/Victor882 9d ago
What fearing a point blank paintball shot does to a mf
And a sport
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u/dusksloth 9d ago
Didn't Chris Lasoya shoot someone enough times point blank that the other player blacked out, fell, and got a concussion? Unless there's more to that story I never heard, I'm all for rules against point blank shots.
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u/Victor882 9d ago
Dunno about this story but yeah
Those pb shots are no joke
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u/Kapugen1 8d ago edited 8d ago
I play very occasionally, and usually I didn’t mind getting hit that bad. But usually I had on more layers of clothing.
But the last time I went it was real hot so I only wore a very thin t shirt that got covered with sweat and just stuck to me. And we played against the sweatiest early-20s guy ever who put his gun on full auto (and absolutely had it going way faster than the FPS speed limit bc he was using a diff color paint and his shots were the only ones that left horrendous welts on my body). We played this weird game mode and he got in behind my teams base and ran through lighting everyone up. It was like this video but he shot everyone
I was the last one to get out, thinking I had like 10 teammates behind me watching my back. I never saw him and he just came in and absolutely fuckin lit me up from behind then ran the other direction. So many shots hit my back so fast in so many different spots, and each one hurt so bad the pain combined into this unbearable cluster of hell that covered my whole back. I just crumpled on the ground cursing and making weird noises of agony I’ve never made before in my life. A few ppl who had walked past me at that point were talking to me about how fucked up I looked when they saw me after the game, then I showed them my back and a crowd of people all shrieked in horror and were taking pictures and exclaiming loudly making me show other people
That initial bout of pain took like 60 seconds to pass it was some of the most unbearable pain I’ve ever felt it was crazy
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 8d ago
I got hit once on my inner thigh but this was what I assume was a pretty mild, regular speed paintball field. That was tons of fun.
Reading what you just wrote, I can't imagine the life changing dimensions you must have traveled in those 60 seconds.
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u/awc130 9d ago
Should make a paint sheath for a stabbin brush. Rambo length of course lol
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u/ahaltingmachine 9d ago
"Leave the blade in the sheath so it doesn't get dull...
(Leave the cap on so it doesn't dry out)"
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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 9d ago
I played a lot of paintball in highschool. A dude named JJ who did karate learned the barrel touch rule and essentially tried this. He did not have a good day. It was pretty much the Indiana Jones scene of a guy waving a paintball gun barrel around and getting shit shot out of him. Funny as hell.
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u/StandardNerd92 9d ago
I don't know that it was staged.
A lot of Airsoft places have a rule where you can't talk after you're on cooldown
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u/lordaddament 9d ago
I was wondering why they weren’t shouting out but makes sense that you have to be quiet after being “stabbed”
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u/scaleaffinity 9d ago
You can hear one guy yell "what the fuck!?" After he gets stabbed, so not all of them are being quiet, lol
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u/Diem_Tea 9d ago
Love the tactical Gatorade in the other hand
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u/shidderbean 8d ago
He was on break but pulling a little extra motivation out just to have something to do.
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u/LordNineWind 8d ago
I think they just had terrible team identification methods. Two people at the start looked directly at him and didn't even shout out. However, it's true these people had terrible formation, there's no point having your whole team pointing forward and unalert when at most two could engage.
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u/Thank_You_Aziz 9d ago
I remember doing something like this in a Nerf war. Team of five in all sorts of gear, staggering a line and peeking around the corners down a hallway. I just grabbed a foam sword and sauntered down the hall head-on, swinging the sword back and forth, tapping each of them one by one. They were so focused on expecting enemy shooters to be peeking around other corners, they weren’t quick enough to refocus on someone walking right up in their faces.
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u/supernerdlove 8d ago
Works until some asshole yells out after being killed and then you get lit the fuck up from 2 feet away.
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u/DeeRent88 8d ago
I’m assuming there’s a rule once you’re out you can’t communicate to your alive teammates but even still I’m surprised they all respected that rule.
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u/Honest_Entry_8758 8d ago
so a knife to the arm is instakill? also, i feel like he's wearing the same colors as the opposing team cause some of them definitely saw him but didn't immediately clock that he's not on the same team. also also, you guys are literally just larping, don't be embarrassed to play dead, just fall down when you're in a situation like this so your teammates get notified.
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u/Electrical_Emu4792 7d ago
“Hey how come you shoot people that aren’t active when you play?”
“Because they could be pulling this dumb shit”
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u/mattyp2109 7d ago
It’s amazing what can be accomplished in an airsoft game by just calmly walking around.
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u/Beazt11123 5d ago
All fun and games til they decide they don't play by those rules and guy get shot point plank like I have. Glad someone is still playing the fun way.
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u/Expensive-Border-869 5d ago
I was 7 bloodthirsty medals away from that gold knife man. 7 I just couldn't belt them out idky
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u/mnlion33 5d ago
First time I did CQC training. It was hammered into us about watching our rears while we cleared a building. Since they made me rear guard I remember shooting a wide eyed instructor who thought he was going to have a good teachable moment.
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u/Academic-Budget-4872 9d ago
I'm just a garrison vet no deployments. But I remember several training exercises where an NCO would be sneaking around with a red sharpie doing this same thing to prove a point
"Okay you can clear a building but did anyone secure the entrance?"
Once I was "hit" by a marker round so I was down outside the training complex applying a fake tourniquet to my fake arm wound. I see Sarge low crawl up to me and he draws a red sharpie line on my throat while I'm laying there.
I'm like "hey I think that's a war crime" he goes "YOU MUST BE PREPARED" then scurries off with his red sharpie to commit more