Things in games that you didn't realize until WAY after you started playing

[CPA]

Kind of related, but not really. I didn't realize my tv had a power button until over a year after getting it. I lost my remote once and had to unplug it to turn it off lol. I accidentally hit it when swiveling it one day, they are touch sensitive.

lol, found out the same thing with my newest TV (about 6 months old). Was cleaning the bevel one day and the damn thing turned on. Come to find out it had touch sensitive power.

 

[Joemonkey]

I didn't know that in TF2 when playing as an engineer you could hold down your left mouse button to build stuff. I'd always bring out a sentry and left click over and over as quickly as possible until one day someone was over at my house playing and told me

 

[MajorMullet]

I bought Dragon Age: Origins when it came out and played a good chunk of the game before I realized you could press Tab to highlight interactive items.

Fast forward to last week, I'm playing the Ultimate Edition that I picked up during the Steam sales week. I made it out of Lothering and was in the Mage tower when I remembered again that you could press Tab. At least I hadn't completed half the game this time before I realized it

 

[Dankk]

I didn't know that in TF2 when playing as an engineer you could hold down your left mouse button to build stuff.

Err... as someone who has over 200 hours in TF2..

You can do this?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Err... as someone who has over 200 hours in TF2..

You can do this?

I don't even have TF2 installed anymore and I knew that. Hold down left click with the wrench and you will continuously swing it as fast as possible, which makes construction go faster.

Learn something new every day!

 

[bobdole369]

In DAOC I didn't realize sitting caused your health/mana to come back faster until I was in Thid. I could never figure out why everybody was always sitting down.

 

[Joemonkey]

Err... as someone who has over 200 hours in TF2..

You can do this?

at first I thought you were making fun of me for having more than 200 hours played http://steamcommunity.com/id/Joemonk3y/games?tab=all

Then I realized what you meant... I think I figured it out well into ~50 hours of gameplay if it makes you feel any better

 

[Karstein]

Back when I was a lot younger, a friend of mine and I used to have typing competitions on any computer that we came across (usually at school). The challenge? To type 'the cat sat on the mat' as fast as possible.

One day we were playing a game called Free Fall on my old BBC back home, and my friend, by habit, started typing 'the cat sat on the mat' while waiting for it to load.

He was still typing it when he got into the game, and when the first enemy emerged on the screen, it spontaneously blew up. We absolutely freaked at this point, and he carried on typing it - 'the cat sat on the mat'. More and more enemies were blowing up. The mat-lounging feline held the secret to the ultimate cheat! We were geniuses!

Turns out that the explanation for this was a lot more simple - someone had coded the cheat into the game so that if you simply pressed 'e' on the keyboard then it would cause all enemies on the screen to be wiped out. This was not documented anywhere, and I'd been playing the game for a good few years without ever discovering it. I'll never forget our reaction when it first happened, though - good times.

 

[Daverino]

I believe I was a few months into World of Tanks before I discovered that there were multiple levels of zoom, and not just the one that you get by clicking shift. Using the mouse-wheel in a TD you can zoom way the hell in.

 

[gothamhunter]

It took me a few months to actually figure out how to play Diablo2, because I got it after a friend of mine did after he hit close to max level and he just rushed me. After that character and the abomination that was my skele master/poison necro, I played over from the beginning, doing all the story parts and everything.

 

[Kev]

When I was like 5 I got this star trek LCD game ( http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Kona.../dp/B004SUP0TE ) for christmas. I could never tell what was going on with the game because the image on the screen never moved. So I just put in a drawer.

Years later, when moving out of my bedroom, I found it. I realized that it had a protective sticker on the screen that showed what the game looked like and thus covered the actual screen. Once I pulled that sticker off it was much easier to see what was going on! EPIC FAIL.

 

[Alienwho]

Let me get this straight. In TF2 you guys are saying that as something is in the construction phase (not the upgrade phase) and it is automatically building itself - it will construct faster if you hit it with the wrench? Obviously you can hold the button down when upgrading it to level 2 or 3. But from the way you are wording it you are making it sound like it will actually construct phase 1 faster if you strike it.

 

[gothamhunter]

Let me get this straight. In TF2 you guys are saying that as something is in the construction phase (not the upgrade phase) and it is automatically building itself - it will construct faster if you hit it with the wrench? Obviously you can hold the button down when upgrading it to level 2 or 3. But from the way you are wording it you are making it sound like it will actually construct phase 1 faster if you strike it.

If you play as an engineer, if you hit the object you are building (the initial level 1 build phase) with your wrench, it will build faster. So yes, the way he worded it was correct.

In fact, if you have more than 1 engineer, it will build really fast

 

[I Saw OJ]

Another one for Fallout 3, I played probably halfway through the game before I realized you could do that fast traveling...

 

[NoCreativity]

Went through Arkham Asylum just button mashing and wondering why the hell it was so hard.

Started playing the "tournment" type rounds and discovered timing and combos. Made the game much less frustrating.

 

[GullyFoyle]

I played 3/4 of the way through Half Life 2, conserving ammo, before I figured out I could use gravity gun in just about any situation. I finished the last 1/4 using it almost exclusivly, just picking stuff up and smacking people with it...

 

[stahlhart]

I played 3/4 of the way through Half Life 2, conserving ammo, before I figured out I could use gravity gun in just about any situation. I finished the last 1/4 using it almost exclusivly, just picking stuff up and smacking people with it...

It was while going for the Zombie Chopper achievement that I realized just how much fun this was. There are opportunities for blunt force trauma everywhere.

 

[Snock514]

When I was like 5 I got this star trek LCD game ( http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Kona.../dp/B004SUP0TE ) for christmas. I could never tell what was going on with the game because the image on the screen never moved. So I just put in a drawer.

Years later, when moving out of my bedroom, I found it. I realized that it had a protective sticker on the screen that showed what the game looked like and thus covered the actual screen. Once I pulled that sticker off it was much easier to see what was going on! EPIC FAIL.

:thumbsup:

 

[shortylickens]

When I was like 5 I got this star trek LCD game ( http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Kona.../dp/B004SUP0TE ) for christmas. I could never tell what was going on with the game because the image on the screen never moved. So I just put in a drawer.

Years later, when moving out of my bedroom, I found it. I realized that it had a protective sticker on the screen that showed what the game looked like and thus covered the actual screen. Once I pulled that sticker off it was much easier to see what was going on! EPIC FAIL.

AHUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS!

D:

what the fuck? Wish I hadnt tossed mine 20 years ago.

 

[gorcorps]

AHUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS!

D:

what the fuck? Wish I hadnt tossed mine 20 years ago.

Not that they'd be new, but I had a ton of those LCD games.