The longest multiplayer match you've ever played!

[Nicky 0123]

Post the rough length of time your longest multiplayer match on ANY game was, name console/PC too.

On PC - TF2, about 4-5 hours on a single Dustbowl server. I came off because I got numb arms from not moving for about 3 hours straight.

On 360 - Last night with one of my friends, we played a 3 hour Civilization Match because he didn't want to end it so early. It ended with an hour or so war against Alexander the Great of the Greeks. We plan to have a rematch this afternoon :D

Post yours!

[Eejit]

Probably a goddamn awesome stalemate during a game of Natural Selection... I think ns_tanith perhaps. Played for a few hours on the one game. Back and forth stalemates in NS are the pinnacle of gaming.
The feeling when you finally win one - usually due to the other team making a mistake - is beautiful.

[knut]

A Project Reality game on... I forget the map, but it was a hilly mountainside with British forces (me) against Russian militia fighters. About three hours or so in length until we finally made a push up the hill towards their final stronghold. We had to assemble first at the base of the hill to make a proper co-ordinated attack, which meant getting the armour safely across the however many miles long map. We had disabled and taken every checkpoint but still sneaky militia members were sneaking past us in every direction through the thick of the woods and setting ambuses for our troop trucks and Warrior tanks.

Took forever to get everyone in the right place, and then we absoloutly stormed them. Epic game.

[Bad^Hat]

Played a few matches of C&C that broke the 5 hour mark. Just turtling with friends, building up our bases and armies until we had the most perfect, unstoppable force, then sending them at each other and crashing the game. Also a couple of Diablo marathons over modem way back in the day, if that counts. Then there's WoW, but... well yeah.

Can't think of any shooters, since the games/servers I play tend to have time limits.

[Nibwoddle]

I had a TF2 match about half a yea ago in which, on 2fort, both sides were engie spamming so anyone seen moving from their position would be shot in fear of a spy. It went on for about 2 hours until someone finally caught the intelligence once. I left after that. Who knows how long it went on for.

[ríomhaire]

Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne: Lord of the Rings Footman Frenzy. There were these keys lying around the map and I wondered what would happen if I collected them all. I found out. I ended up bringing about the apocalypse. Archimond came down from the sky, with six anhks of reincarnation and hundreds of infernals. It took everyone who was playing calling a truce and two hours to get rid of him.

[Hectic Glenn]

3-4 hours playing Command and Conquer Renegade. I have the end of game screenshot somewhere. It was incredible, playing C&C Field I believe. I was on GDI and we had 5 Mammoth tanks lined up outside the front of the NOD base, just held back by the obelisk. We had 3 MRL shooting on the obelisk for a good 2 hours until it went offline. Then we moved the entire mammoth fleet forward with a couple medium tanks into their base. The NOD team had a lot of resources from defending so had flame tanks hidden around the base which were really problematic. They also had 4 stealth tanks abusing mammoths. The struggle to finish them off lasted another hour, until we took their refinery, cut their funds and slowly took the airstrip, hand of nod & powerplant with pure attrition and an ion cannon. It was exhausting yet amazing. I seriously miss Renegade :(

[mgpetkos]

In early World of Warcraft, I remember the old, pre cross-realm battlegrounds. There were single matches in Alterac Valley that would literally go on for more than a day. 8-12 hour matches were common, if you didn't mind waiting in a 1 hour queue to get in, after waiting in a 1 hour queue just to log in to the server. Ahh, the good old days.

[StardogChampion]

Probably 3-4 hours when Natural Selection wasn't a dumbed down game for CoD fans.

[Reflex]

not much at most 1-2 hours.

[Kula Meenur]

Probably 3-4 hours lol nothin too drastic

[Insano]

Probably a goddamn awesome stalemate during a game of Natural Selection... I think ns_tanith perhaps. Played for a few hours on the one game. Back and forth stalemates in NS are the pinnacle of gaming.
The feeling when you finally win one - usually due to the other team making a mistake - is beautiful.I absolutely agree.

I remember times that I was playing on our public clan server for hours, and had to go. When I came back several hours later, the game was still going. Epic times.

[Ren.182]

Erm, the most recent long multiplayer game I played was on Left 4 Dead. Went on for 6 hours 20 minutes or something like that. Coop on Expert, Blood Harvest. We beat the first 4 levels pretty quickly considering it was on expert. So the director got pissed at us and made the finale very hard. It took us 20 retries on the finale to beat it. D:

Other mentions:
Project Reality - Games can last ages on this D:
TF2 nights where I just play forever :D

[soulslicer]

I remember an epic Unreal Tournament 2004 game many years ago, on the Torlan map. All I remember is that there were 16 players on each side, and it was ****ing epic. About 2 hours + I think.

[Darkside55]

Once, I played on a TFC server that had no end. There was neither time nor cap nor frag limit on the map. I don't even remember what map it was anymore.

I was there for TEN HOURS.

[Bakurei]

Do lan partys count? If they do, 7-9h, unreal tournament, facing worlds, 4on4 frag limit set to over 1k.

[G(ordon)-man]

An epic Rise of Nations match, lasted for about 4 hours. Was cool, with 8 players and extensive diplomacy. We played as Northern European nations, and it was cool. I was Estonia and grew a big empire into Baltics, but Russia started to harass me and i moved my power into southern Sweden. Big naval battles lasted in the shores of Stockholm for about 2 hours. I tried to conquer it but Swedes always pushed me back. Stockholm fell into ruins and Swedes backed to Finland. But then Germano-Danes came and ended the reign of Baltic Empire. Very epic game, again.

[Kakashi623]

Used to play in the Forgotten Hope tournament, an d a few BF2 tournaments each battle lasted 6 hours, but I usually played half of the time.

[nipples]

Somewhere between two and three. We had a 4vs4 ctf match on Valhalla in Halo 3.

God I hate Halo, but it was awesome.

[BHC]

3-4 hours playing Command and Conquer Renegade. I have the end of game screenshot somewhere. It was incredible, playing C&C Field I believe. I was on GDI and we had 5 Mammoth tanks lined up outside the front of the NOD base, just held back by the obelisk. We had 3 MRL shooting on the obelisk for a good 2 hours until it went offline. Then we moved the entire mammoth fleet forward with a couple medium tanks into their base. The NOD team had a lot of resources from defending so had flame tanks hidden around the base which were really problematic. They also had 4 stealth tanks abusing mammoths. The struggle to finish them off lasted another hour, until we took their refinery, cut their funds and slowly took the airstrip, hand of nod & powerplant with pure attrition and an ion cannon. It was exhausting yet amazing. I seriously miss Renegade :(

Oh god, Renegade was so ace. I miss it dearly.

[Hazard.Squared]

13 hour run on free roam w/ a bunch of friends on GTA 4, good times, good times.

[Vigilante]

Back in high school when we had snow days my friends and I would have 5+ hour long matches in the Philippines map for Battlefield 1942.

[Dalamari]

Few years back when I was heavy in EverQuest I'd play 16 hours a day, take a few short breaks here and there but pretty much played 16 straight hours

[Reginald]

Planetside used to have campaigns that lasted about 10 hours and I occasionally played for about 7 hours of that. One particularly epic battle was on a continent split by a river down the middle and our team (Terran Republic) held the east side and the other team (New Conglomerate held the west side. It was utter stalemate but we needed to take it to force the New Conglomerate into a corner.
One of my best ever gaming experiences. It was fun in the kind of way you can only get from a stalemate and yet had such exciting tactics and managing to get a couple of amphibious vehicles across the river out of their line of sight to set up a forward base... Wow.

But I frequently play about 3 hours of Left 4 Dead a night.

[Shift]

I remember the Company of Heroes matches usually lasted hours. I remember a particular 4v4 match that must have gone up to 6 hours, both mine and their teams were so evenly matched and none of us wanted to give in, it was just a matter of fighting for the fuel supplies in the center and housing districts nearby, attack followed counter attack, artillery rapage, trying everything to break the stalemate.

But my god to finally win was probably one of the most satisfying gaming experiences of my life. Relentless, combined assaults down their right side, aided by constant artillery and missile rapage finally started to cripple their defenses and as we now held a strong grip on the fuel we had essentially broken their back by the time we went in for the kill, was a pure battle of attrition with cunning tactics thrown in. I was tired, broken and drenched in sweat, but happy as hell, felt like all the proceedings of a proper battle.

Then my router broke...

[Bob_Marley]

Project Reality matches have streched into the 3 to 4 hour mark on numerous occasions.

[Pesmerga]

lol...

World of Warcraft Molten Core raid lasted about 10 hours.

[Adabiviak]

Alien v. Predator II and Team Fortress II I'd play on occasion for all-night stints. Twelve? Fourteen? I'd just write the weekend off if the servers were full of fun people.

[Wanted Bob]

Supreme Commander matches for me. The longest one I had was just over two hours.

[Acepilotf14]

Oh oops, I haven't played a TF2 match longer than 1-2 hours, but I've certainly played Civilization 4 for a full day.

[SamuraiKenji]

I play about 5+ hours every day throughout the day

[Dog--]

Diablo 1 and 2 easily break the 5+ hour mark. I think I went like 10 hours once (obviously with bathroom breaks and food). I think that was Diablo 2.

[Nicky 0123]

Getting off topic, I had a 6 hour long HL2 streak yesterday, but since it was Singleplayer it doesn't count. Otherwise, I have a gamer girl friend who once played Resident Evil for about 17 hours straight. Crazy! :D



but awesome.

[CyberPitz]

Well over 5 hours on Supreme Commander....

We agreed to just go get a bite to eat and resume in 30. ****ing game and I LOST IT!

[The Monkey]

I have played Age of Empires III for 3.5 hours, it was the most awesome game ever. 4v4. No one was allowed to attack during the first 1.5 hours of the game, so everyone build up nearly impenetrable defences until nearly the entire map was covered with walls, towers and military training buildings. The battle to conquer took two hours, with fortune of war going back and forth.

Then my team changed tactics. One of my allies deleted all his other units and build 30 or so cannons that paved a way through the walls where the other three armies, with a combined strength of about 400 men attacked. We reached their core and smashed all resistance, with our reinforcement routes guarded by cavalry and towers.

The opposing team gave up their bases after heavy fighting and tried to attack our bases, which were now empty of troops, but we caught up with them and let the bullets and the canon balls rain upon them. I think that by the end of it I had killed 3000 men and lost an equal amount.

[Sledgehammer]

Custom maps in Age of Mythology. Played some RPG map for 6 hours.

[Seppo]

I think I've played WoW for 10 hours straight, but it's not really "a match".

[Krynn72]

I got bored of multiplayer gaming very quickly. I'd say my longest match ever was probably like 3 hours. On average though my matches usually only last like 45 minutes.

[Darkside55]

facing worlds
It's not hard to imagine dumping a lot of hours into one of the greatest maps of all time.

[Laivasse]

Not sure how long, but it was probably several hours, back in the day when I first tried my hand at HL1DM and was still overwhelmed by the whole online Experience.

To this day, the smell of really foul BO still reminds me of Stalkyard.

[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 :p

[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.