5 Clever (But Evil) Gaming Trolls Who Caused Mass Chaos

But while all eyes were aimed at the sky, 48 players suddenly plummeted to their deaths. Their observation tower had collapsed, presumably due to those notoriously lax in-game building codes. Then they were informed they had in fact been killed by someone called Elemental_Ray. Instead of enjoying the spectacle, he'd kept his eyes on the prize: winning the battle royale. So when he saw a group of players build a tower and then leave its base unguarded, he knew a sure way to get 48 kills with one swing of a pickax.

But Elemental_Ray got a bit more infamy than he bargained for when it turned out he'd griefed his way into the Fortnite world record for most kills in a single game. The community got as angry as it could, going as far as to call Elemental_Ray "the kind of person who pours milk before the cereal." To this, the world record holder replied, "Even Jesus had haters."

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Turns out modders always had access to an admin tool used to kick unwanted players out of online lobbies, and that it could also be used to kick players out of their own story mode. The only obstacle was that it was impossible to find another player's ID if they weren't connected to you. That all changed when a fall 2018 update allowed people to find other players' Rockstar Social ID numbers, opening the doors for digital heart attacks galore. And because we now live in the "always online" stage of invasive internet, that meant assholes could even creep into single-player games to silently snip your virtual strings.

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In late October 2018, Soulcalibur VI's lobbies were invaded by a custom character that looked like a giant multicolored cube. This funky box was created by streamer Abbock (aka Cryin' Brian), who managed this abomination by employing a minor cheat which allowed him to increase the size of small aesthetic character apparel. Underneath the weird blocky exterior was still a regular Soul Calibur man/woman/freaky skeleton warrior with a regular moveset.

Nonetheless, the Cube utterly destroyed its opponents. That's because, unless you adhere to the sacred martial arts school called the Way of the Random Button Mash, fighting games are all about strategy and predicting your opponent's moves. And obviously, that's pretty hard to do when you're fighting a solid chunk of bright colors and don't know if your enemy's coming at you with a sword slash or skittering around on the ground like an S&M spider.

Abbock only made the character as a bit of fun, but The Cube did raise eyebrows in the pro Soulcalibur community, which saw it as clear evidence that custom characters shouldn't be allowed in ranked competition. And that makes sense. While it's not illegal to fight using a lizard man who wields a giant dong, it can be considered ... distracting.

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See, No Man's Sky only supports a certain amount of bases claimed per planet. So the imperial troll travels around looking for planets with unguarded human bases, and then spends hours of his fleeting, limited life claiming enough bases to "erase" the previous ones, like some weird beach bully who ruins sand castles by chucking his own, worse sand castles at them.

SeriousGamerX finally became the game's most hated troll when a prominent community leader reached out to him to engage in some friendly diplomacy. He replied by betraying her, destroying her base, and then mocking her for being a woman. He then cemented his true villain status by being kicked out of the known universe.

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