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...I had was in the mission where you first see the Santhanas (It was the first time I played FS2, a looooooooong time ago). Near the end of the mission I saw lights in the nebula (which made a beautiful effect in my current angle) and went to investigate. 2 or 3 seconds later I discovered what the lights were...

So... what was your most stupid (or is it stupidest?) death till now?

Just curious!

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In Bearbaiting. I'd just taken out all 4 cannons on the Sathanas and it had jumped out. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself.

The Demon destroyer jumps in and I start heading towards it to take out the beam cannons. I'm locked on and holding my bombs until the last second so that they won't be shot down.

Unfortunately I forgot the cardinal rule of attacking beams cannons. Don't fly in front of them as they fire. You would have thought the big red muzzle glow might have been a clue as to the stupidity of what I was attempting but for some reason I ignored it.

I got about 100m away from the cannon and was about to fire when suddenly GAME OVER

The sad thing was that I'd already completed FS2 and I should have known what muzzle glows meant

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I once took a Myrmidon against a terran gas miner, armed with a pair of helios. I'd already knocked the hull down to about 30% with my kaysers, but I wanted overkill. So I doubled up my secondaries, locked onto the miner, put all power to engines, and afterburnered my way in.

I close to 500 meters, a good range for most bombing runs; no, not close enough, has to be perfect. Closed to 400 meters, well safe for the bombs; no, not yet, too early. I close to 200 meters, getting close, but nah, wait a bit more. 100 meters comes, I'm rocketing in at full thrust, figure its about time, dump the bombs, and angle up slightly so I could go over the hull of the miner as she blows. Big mistake - I angled too slow too late, I end up clipping the upper edge of the hull and bouncing back, just as the bombs hit.

I forgot the most basic lesson in bombing, don't kill yourself with the shockwaves from your own bombs.

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FS1, Black Omega;

I had jut knocked the Anvil down to 6% Hull, when my engines were blown out. I urgently call for suport, since the Anvil had just fallen to 2%. My engines repaired, i afterburn my way away from the Anvil. A Thoth starts hitting me, and my shields drop quickly, and my weapons are destroyed. I press C-5, right as the Anvil blows. The support ship is still near the Anvil, and is disabled by the blast. My rearming status displayed 00:00, yt Suport 1 was 700M away. Beta 3, the last remaining fighter, is destroyed by a Horus, leaving Omega 2 unprotected. The turret on the Elysium manages to take down the Horus, whos sields must have been down, while I attempt to get repaired before the wing that launched bfore the Anvil was destroyed reached me. I see now way t convince Suport to depart while it was disabled, so i aim at it, and kamakazie my way into it, hoping to damge it enough for it to either be destroyed or depart (even while disabled). I was hit by the Thoths as i neared the support ship. As i hit, i looked at my hull; "Hull Integrity 2%" 'Bang'... "Hippo was killed by a colision with Support 1"

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Dunno if this counts as one, so I'll try for 2:

I decided to try a MOD idea (before anyone else even brought up the ide aof trying this) which was to fly a Sathanas.

Well, Me being lazy and all, I decide I'm just going to add 4 firing points to the Sath and replace the myrmadon's pof with this modified Sath. I enter a mission with which I fly a myrmadon, and *boom* Sniper997 was killed by a collision with Alpha2. They also died, needless to say. (Look for origin of "Ram them till they give up!")

The other has to be... *thinks*

There was that mission, where... bah! I don't remember, I'll reply later...

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I can't remember any particularly stupid deaths. Though one that always gets me is sometimes you're trying to defend a ship from getting blown apart from Shivan Bombers, and while you're attacking the bombers your own ship's AAAf beams cut you down along with the enemy. That's always lots of fun.

Also those Basilisk pilots always seem like the dumbest of them all. The crazy-nebula SOC mission in the FS2 campaign always had me taking more damage from collisions with the Basilisks than from actual enemy fire. That is of course, until I ran into Piranha-totting bombers near snipes.

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Last mission of Silent Threat...don't ask me how, but I crashed into the Hades' debris..."Solatar was killed by a collision with debris".

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Last mission of Silent Threat...don't ask me how, but I crashed into the Hades' debris..."Solatar was killed by a collision with debris".

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This took place in the FS2 mission where you hit an NTF rally point - the one before the Knossos battle.

I attacked the Vindicator with a pair of cyclops aimed at it's primary port BGreen beam turret. I saw the beam charging up and thought to myself "There're no capships in that cannon's FoV... uh oh. Runawayrunawayrunawayrunaway!!!"

One third of a second later FS2 calmly informed me that: [Deathstorm was killed by a beam from Vindicator].

Damn.

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Oh rebel intercept! Best level ever!</comic book guy>

More fun in multiplayer tho... I'm usually killed by ships exitting subspace, or by collisions with my wingmen...

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Being "accidently" sandwiched by to friendly players in multiplayer and then getting harpooned in the face by a pair of astaroths.

I'm sure there a many more lame deaths that have happenend to me but that's the only one I can think of right now.

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In High Noon, right after I completely disarmed the Sathanas before the Colossus lost a single point of hull integrity, the big C spun about and used my fighter to hit a home run. It was actually a slightly longer, more drawn out death as I was grinded along the Colossus' surface, but you get the picture.

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I remember 3 cases which were extraordinary.

1) I have just finished work with the FRED2 and wanted to test the completed mission. Everything was fine, capship hull went down to 52% and I made a clue so that if you damage the hull quickly enough the whole ship explodes when hull is 49 %. Another shot and another, and

BOOOOOM !

"Hayabusa was killed due to unknown reason"

well I realized I`ve forgotten to end the clue so it went:
if
hits left
self destruct
Alpha 1



Another one was my firts try with a mod weapon, the Trinity bomb.

I was about 1000 meters from the target and due to enormoud radius had to launch bombs at that distance.
I`ve launched them and in the same second single laser shot hit the torpedoes. I`ve managed only to say "Oh **** ! " and this was the end.

The last one was sad. I was escorting the Iceni with quite good results. I know the mission is rather easy but I`ve got quite good result in shooting Vsudans down.
I was about 1500 m from Iceni and turned on the afterburner to return to the ship after short skirmish with Taurets. I was just between the Corvette and Iceni, as the Corvette shooted at Iceni with the main beam. Pure coincidence cause I was EXACTLY on the way of the beam...

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I have been killed by a Shivan landing on my fighter.

If you want to be, too, play Silent Threat: Reborn, coming... soon.

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Hee hee hee...

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I have been killed by a Shivan landing on my fighter.

If you want to be, too, play Silent Threat: Reborn, coming... soon.

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That was you in the Thoth?

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It's not lame or stupid but once when I was playing the last mission of FS1, I'd got all but one of the Lucifer's reactors and then I got killed. Without going back to the main hall, I went up to my brothers room to talk to him about something and then I strt hearing speech from mine. I get back and it's the FS1 ending cutscene: My squad had wasted the Lucy without me! The best part was that it was registered as a campaign ender meaning that even though I died, I'd still beaten the game.

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Cool. Then you can win both FS1 and FS2 by dying.

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Cool. Then you can win both FS1 and FS2 by dying.

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Only in the 50 seconds alotted 50 seconds... Otherwise, you have to reschedule

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