The longest multiplayer match you've ever played!

[Ennui]

I've had multiple 5+ hour 2fort matches without a win by either team. I've also been known to spend all day playing Day of Defeat on one particular server. I don't think anything rivals Civ in terms of long-ass games though (except maybe Sins of a Solar Empire). My roommate and I had an epic Alpha Centauri match that lasted for something like 16 hours.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

If your talking longest multiplayer run, it would be World in Conflict at 3 hours on PC

 

[bam23]

5 hour rise of nations match. everyone had artificial intelligence and enough resources to make the game last another 5 hours. eventually people started crashing from the amount of units on screen.

 

[Asuka]

5+ hours.

A all night 1v1 playing Quake 1 (did this a few times)
A all night 1v1 playing Half-Life Deathmatch (Use to do this all the time)
A 5 day counter-strike 1.6 De_dust Marathon (1 time and almost died)
Numerous nights of random Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source (for around 6 years straight, about a year ago)

Sourceforts! ****ing 2+ hours of building 20 mins of combat LOL! Great times...

 

[CyberPitz]

We have an equal number of 28 for people with 5+ hours, and everybody else....this bored is sad

 

[CombineHunter]

My longest multiplayer? its got be Operation Flashpoint by far they regurly used to go into 3-4 hours though i still play sometimes it never lasts that long anymore.

 

[Gorgon]

Q3 = 7 hours
TF2 = 5.45 hours
L4D = 6.30 hours
BF2 = 8 hours

 

[Stigmata]

Probably the time I played Halo 2 on Headlong over Xbox Live for eight hours, flinging crates around and up the air vents so I could build a house.

 

[nurizeko]

Not sure, been a couple of games of Dawn of War with me and Kase that lasted 2 hours or more.




The longest game I played was Homeworld 2.

played for a while then my team started losing but the map was huge so I hid my last ships in the vastness of space and waited out the enemy, they spent hours trying to find me and shit, they left until it was just me and one guy, he was adamant he would beat me so I spread my surviving ships around and started churning out new ships, then I went to watch TV, couple of hours later I came back and had won, patience is a winning tactic all of its own, even if I was never in any position to defeat the enemy team militarily with what I had left.

 

[Shift]

Not sure, been a couple of games of Dawn of War with me and Kase that lasted 2 hours or more.




The longest game I played was Homeworld 2.

played for a while then my team started losing but the map was huge so I hid my last ships in the vastness of space and waited out the enemy, they spent hours trying to find me and shit, they left until it was just me and one guy, he was adamant he would beat me so I spread my surviving ships around and started churning out new ships, then I went to watch TV, couple of hours later I came back and had won, patience is a winning tactic all of its own, even if I was never in any position to defeat the enemy team militarily with what I had left.

Yeh that works sometimes on DoW with the eldar, if you know how to use them properly you can stay hidden for ages and sometimes they will leave before finding you.

 

[CyberPitz]

Well, if you've ever been to a LAN, you could count that...got there at 10AM, left at 5AM.

 

[Dynasty]

WoW - Alterac Valley

Started one at like 8pm for a laugh with almost my whole guild. We *bragging moment* were pretty much the best guild on the server therefore had the best PVE gear, and like I said we just went in for a laugh. We had been constantly farming BWL at the time. So, before Sunwell.

And naturally, we got thrown into a PVP fight the battlegroup's most notoriously successful horde PVP guild.

Ive never had so much fun whilst feeling nackered at the same time. We were like machines, it was just clash of the titans.

We faught for about 4 hours and people started slowly dwindling off and getting replaced with random people from other realms etc.

I didnt leave my seat until about 3 am. Thats 7 hours of constant healing. It was epic.

 

[ktimekiller]

Ive had times where I didnt stand from my seat playing WoW for more than 6+ hours probably

 

[phantomdesign]

Age of Empires 2
8+ hours

First time I ever played the game, the guys in my dorm begged me to join. Fine . . so I start playing and there are 8 of us. I start to figure it out after about an hour, then proceed to wipe 2 people off the map. Seeing that I'm a threat, 3 of the guys band against me and proceed to wipe out my base camp.

Unknown to them, I had peasants spread across the entire map, and an ungodly ammount of resources. They wiped out all the infantry & peasants in about 45 minutes, and as they were wasting their time attacking those buildings (it takes a while to destroy them), I had built up 3 other base camps on far corners of the map & planted peasents in every corner imaginable.

After they finally finished my last building, I sent over 100 horses (plus a steady stream from 4 horse stables) through every base-camp I could find, slaughtering peasants, ignoring most of the buildings. One of the guys surrendered.

The 4 remaining opposition again banded together, found one of my base-camps and proceeded to launch a heavy assault against it . . . which I just kept sending out an endless stream of horses (I had so many farms, lol) . . . not really trying to save myself, but rather keep them busy.

In the mean-time I built more town-centers, defenses, and farms in other corners of the map. I also worked on building a solid offensive force with the most durable and destructive units (the heavy horses, some cannon-guys, etc). Then I slowed production at the base they were attacking, built up a large force of cheap horses on the opposite side of the map as my main assault force, and started the stream from the east . . .

So all their forces were to the south, and then they're getting hammered from the east . . . as I snuck in my main assault force from the west and in a matter of minutes I destroyed one of the opposition, the cheap-horses had basically disabled another player, and by the time my expensive assault force was killed I had destroyed most of the base of another player.

The only problem with my heavy assault force is it requires gold & I had to trade food for gold, which was at like 800 food for 100 gold (or something). They found my east and west bases, I knew it would take them a while to take them out, but those bases would eventually be a lost cause. So I started fortifying and preparing my south-east and north-west bases. Eventually I was able to send another assault force and severely damage 2 of them, but didn't quite wipe them out. I should have kept sending cheap horses into their base to slaughter peasants and keep them busy, but I withdrew, which was a mistake.

Anyway, this cycle continued and continued until . . . well, until it was 4am and they got sick of wiping out base after base after base . . . I was like a ****ing virus, multiplying like crazy. The only problem is I could only micro-manage so much at once (building farms, creating resources, creating defenses, sending offense, defending X base, re-queing more trash-horses for distraction, setting up secondary bases) . . . but it was a lot of fun.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

8-10 hours on a single UT2004 invasion server.