https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2022/07/22/killzone-shadow-mercenary-rigs-servers-to-be-shut-down/
Sad times, RIGs was the first VR game I really loved and the only game I actually got seriously into online gaming for. Nothing before and nothing since. This game was and is just so fucking cool. Pilot a mech, aim to fuck up other mechs. 3 v 3, may the best team win. Good shit, but sadly ahead of its time. Deserved better.
Nonetheless yesterday I noticed somebody on Twitch streaming RIGs. This is pretty rare, but now that the server shutdown has been announced trophy completionists are mobilising before online capability is gone. Anyway, I figured I'd jump on for a game with the dude. Why not. So I play against him and his friend, and frankly I fucking wreck them. They are just bad at the game and I'm a mythical RIGs OG, so it was only ever going to end in annihilation. People fear the OGs for a reason. We were and always will be ruthless af.
Anywho, after this match I would have just left the guy alone as he clearly sucked at the game and wasn't a challenge for me. I'd question trying to get trophy completion on a game you suck at, but w/e. This guy did not take to getting utterly ruined paticularly well though. Initially just the usual manbaby stuff of the game being broken, unfair, etc, but then moves onto suggesting I'm cheating, using hacks and making sarcastic comments about myself being "good at a game that's being shut down, really cool dude". Well, as a RIGs OG I couldn't really let those comments slide. Shut down it may be, but it beats the shit out of other franchises that have run 3-4x times as long without even half of the awesome factor.
So I decide I have no choice but to troll this guy. I follow him into every match he attempts to connect to. He keeps quitting out, but I just quit out right along with him and connect at the same time he connects on his stream. He tries waiting a while and then connecting, but I just wait the same amount of time. Eventually he gives up and tries to play another match against me, but again gets hammered. At this point I'm just embarrassing him on purpose. He's just getting more wound up.
Next he comes up with an ingenious idea - he'll quit out mid-way through a match instead of at the start. In his own words, I "won't have the time" to catch up with him if he does that. He finds out in the next match that I did, in fact, have time, as I'm on the opposing team again. At this point the headset starts to literally shake as the dude begins breathing heavily, the stream cuts off as he makes an "uurrrggghhhhh" sound and then he decides to play single player instead
I then went to volunteer at the usual animal charity, so two good deeds in succession.
Cool story bro, etc... point is I'll miss RIGs online, as there was always fun to be had on the days when more than 1 person was on the server. Which admittedly was not very often since 2018. It's kind of a miracle the server lasted this long, honestly.
