(hugorl’s masterful Buzzard airmanship left GwRockstar3 feeling the heat.)

Big thanks to everyone who turned up for our most recent Social Club Multiplayer Event on Xbox LIVE featuring The Ballad of Gay Tony on December 17th.  We were glad to see a few familiar faces in Mr Floppay, DAEDALUS17, IITONYSOPRANOII, as well as all our noobs.  Good times.  Good, bloody times.  

At the start of the night, we warmed up with several games of Team Deathmatch before turning auto-aim off to see who had the steadiest sharpshooter skills.  As soon as we saw that we were matched up against GANTZmastah and WTB2PI3C3, both highly ranked multiplayer veterans, we knew we were in for trouble (based on a max leaderboard skill ranking of 10, GANTZmastah and WTB2PI3C3 are ranked 10 and 9 respectively).  This was one of the few times Rockstar got outmatched (props to you, good sirs).  Full of determination but with a slightly deflated ego, GwRockstar5 proclaimed over the mic that he would "put my sandwich down for the next game".  The score gap narrowed in each successive match as the Rockstar team got their bearings versus the ringers.

As the night progressed, the Rockstar teams split and rounded up three different parties to go head-to-head in one gigantic Team Deathmatch.  Unsatisfied with his performance on the trigger, GwRockstar3 disgustedly shed his firearms and whipped out the knife.  His newfound success with the blade (three kills in a row) left many verbally in awe of his swashbuckling skills.  Several others followed suit and the match quickly degenerated into an all-out knife fight – Sharks versus Jets status.  Towards the end of the round, a dicey game of cat-and-mouse broke out between the knifers and the Explosive Shotgun wielders (shotgunners being the hunted). 

Bowing to popular demand from our spectators in the Social Club Chatterbox, we switched the game mode to GTA Races with Sports Bikes as the starting vehicles.  In the middle of the second lap, poor Brooksr lost his ride and began to make his way on foot.  GwRockstar3 slowly stalked him and, to everyone’s surprise, proceeded to mercifully drive right past him. The Chatterboxers had eagerly anticipated a flat-out steamrolling but were left scratching their heads.  The camera shifted to the rearview and everyone was treated to a huge explosion that turned Brooksr into a crater.  Well placed and well played Sticky Bomb, GwRockstar3.  Ha.

We ended the night with a final session of Free Mode for all-out mayhem.  Most of our time was spent evading hugorl, who clearly had a vendetta against GwRockstar3.  Let’s just say that hugorl is a virtuoso of a Buzzard pilot (see screencaps).  The chopper's minigun fire was literally inches away from GwRockstar3's neck the entire time.  Hugorl finally closed the deal by smacking GwRockstar3 with helicopter blades as he bailed out of a burning car. GwRockstar3's body flying across Star Junction and over a rooftop billboard was a dramatic end to a wild night.

For anyone looking for a rematch, or if you’ve missed out on our sessions so far and want to join the action – we'll be kicking off our next event in the upcoming weeks.  Stay tuned here for an announcement and details.  

By the by, a quick shout to just some of the fine players we met that night.  Great playing with you all: 

(GwRockstar3 feigns mercy towards an on-foot Brooksr, only to flatten him seconds later with a Sticky Bomb explosion dropped in his wake.)

(GwRockstar3 incurs a bit of collateral damage after igniting a few explosive barrels with a shot.)

(GwRockstar3 and GwRockstar5 in a Rockstar vs Rockstar family feud knife-fight showdown.)

(This was the first and last civil picture of all the participants in our first GTA Race – before all out mayhem ensued.)