7 Worst Ways to Screw Over Your Friends in Games 

I cannot believe the omission of that time Luke and Ian teamed up and covered for each other despite knowing they weren't on the same side,, gotta be one of the most heinous (and also my favourite) acts of co-op shenanigans I've ever seen

"None of you believe me because of my rage and passion!" -Andy during Among Us

"Many hands do Mike's work," is such a glorious pun that it surely makes it all worthwhile?

"I said I was sorry! I'm not, but I said I was!" 😂

Wait, you mean co-op doesn't stand for Constant Opposition?!

So this is just an opportunity to bring up past grievances with the team? Also, let’s not forget the ultimate co-op ruining move - lying when you shouldn’t, like in the Westaway gambit.

Guys, how could you miss “not getting out of Ellen’s way” in Overcooked. The ever famous “GET OUT OF MY WAY!” from Ellen as she flew around the whole kitchen because Luke wasn’t operating at maximum capacity is still one of my Xtra highlights.

The biggest co-op dick move in Among Us is being a crewmate who teams up to cover for an imposter because "space buddies." LUKE.

The proudest moment of my childhood was the day my brother and I, on a rainy summer day in 1989, had our friends over and put on a show by beating Contra in co-op on one life. The part of my childhood I've conveniently chosen to forget was every day my brother and I played Contra together because there was only one NES and Mom said we had to play two-player leading up to that triumph. Because it takes a lot of sibling anger, "hey hey HEY let me catch up!", and "I thought you were gonna shoot that guy!" to git gud. The moral of the story is that maybe letting Mom take the NES away and reading a book is a lower-stress way to have fun. But then again, a room full of seriously impressed friends is the best thing you can give to a 12 and 10-year-old on a rainy summer day. Which makes the moral of the story "learning to work with someone toward a common goal is the most important lesson that video games can teach to kids."

When 7 came up and you started talking about running ahead to get your friends killed, all I could think about was LEEEROOOOY JEEEENKIIINS!

There's also re-trolling, like in the Trine 5 stream when Mike left Luke trapped in a puzzle, Ellen freed him, but Luke refused to come out until Mike apologized.

the sheer audacity of having the creator of the "luke gambit" whereby one decides to out oneself as the imposter, when you aren't, for... reasons, be the one complaining about other people acting sus when they aren't the imposter...

Any Lego Game Peace was never an option. We have to kill each other to test our newfound immortality

8:40 I saw amoung us and immediately thought of that one time Luke announced himself as the imposter And then wasn't

The fact that most cuts are to scenes of you guys failing each other, and not just random gameplay scenes, makes this golden

How on Earth did the Among Us segment go by with no mention of the Westaway Gambit???

Even when the slower player doesn't die when being left behind, it really sucks when someone just rushes ahead of the group. They just solve the dungeon, kill every enemy, hoard the loot and impatiently bounce at the door to the boss room - unless there is no door and they just trigger the cutscene and pull everyone into it. This can only be redeemed by having everyone else co-op properly, right before the boss is defeated, and kick the rusher from the mission, leaving him without the important reward. There really is no better feeling.

9:40 A classic Higton moment in Among Us, poor guy.

I play a lot of survival builders. Sometimes I play with friends. I've come to dread the sudden "Oh, oh no..." in voice that inevitably comes when one of them has wandered off and manages to get into a Situation. Then it comes down to the question: "Am I showing up to give backup, to revive, or to retrieve gear off the corpse?"

Co op trolling, especially among friends is fine if just done for a little laugh. What gets annoying are the friends/people who don't know when to stop the bit and it crosses from friendly fun to annoyance. I'm talking to you Eric!

It started snowing this morning but thankfully I won't have to put out any salt because OX already dropped this video.

AKA '7 moves that make it a No-op game'...

Among Us. Mike not opening the map even once to see which tasks he had to do and where to find them. He was always an impostor, even when not being one.

DbD is always a tough, contextual one. If no one's doing repairs, you're losing and in order to rescue a survivor, another survivor needs to not repair. And when you rescue someone from the hook, they're actually closer to death, which is distastrous if the killer is nearby and you can't properly defend the rescuee. Then again, it's *usually* because the other survivors couldn't be bothered with you in the first place. Solo queue life...

We need a video of 7 coop mechanics that should be in EVERY coop game. First entry: hugging. Never gets old.

I am assuming there are about 90 extra minutes of Ellen raging about Overcooked that were cut in edit because it would have needed to have been 90% bleeped out.

what I got from this is that we need more of the oxboxtra gang playing Among Us

Separate duvets *is* a good shout though

Rushing ahead like an idiot. I'm still picking over loot back here, checking my corners, exploring branches, talking to NPCs, etc. x10 for when they rush ahead of the HEALER. You want to live? You go at my place.

I've recently watched the GOTY 21 video where Jane mentions hitmans Berlin clubs bathrooms and my brain decided it would be great to see 7 best and 7 worst bathrooms in video games😅😅 now seeing you are on the Co op topic, and seeing we missed the biggest most dangerous friendship co op challenge this year, the XMAS charades, how about a oxtra vs oxbox charades where the winnersget to do the best video game bathrooms and the losers have to 'thoroughly' report the 7 worst ones😭😭🤣🤣😍😍

What about greedily taking all the resources. Healing items, ammo, weapons, etc.

Playing Borderlands(one of them, anyway, I'm not sure) with my nephew, I go into ffyl, get one enemy down to where I can kill him for a second wind... Nephew steals the kill out from under me. Could I, since we're in the same room, communicate better that "hey, *I* need the kill on this guy"? Sure. Is there a chance he didn't know I was down? Maybe, but we're on the same TV screen and if we're in co-op, there's no reason for a "no screen-peeking" rule, I knew when he was downed.

The worst a most infuriating though is when someone on your team pushes you just as you're about to shoot an enemy. So you fluff your shot just because your teammate wasn't paying attention (or didn't care) and now the enemy player is free to kill you both. Alternatively when you're in cover and a teammate pushes you out of cover, into the line of fire, just so they can take your spot.

An excellent episode! I’m surprised Luke didn’t mention Space Buddies that lie for impostors or the Westaway Gambit. I may have recently rewatched some of the Among Us livestreams. 🙂

I have a big one!! I like to check every crevice of every area in every game for any treasure or gear or collectibles. My hubby likes to rush ahead to the action. There's a lot of games where I have to just follow him around and not look for supplies or he'll get killed because I'm not up there reviving him and backing him up. 😒 How can he live with himself, knowing he didn't do any scavenging?

Those Among Us videos are great. I periodically rewatch them because they are so damn funny.

I remember the Sea of Thieves playthrough Ellen is talking about. Mike did pull his weight in that. Ellen and Andy were just assuming Mike was goofing off and treated him like he wasn't doing anything the whole time. Ellen even tried to gaslight him about saying she told him to take cargo to the pier when she and Andy actually told him to put it on the deck.

Man, after seeing among us again i really miss seeing those 8 player streams of it. Was always hell of a lot of fun. Hope Oxbox & Friends may get together again sometime to play a coop game like that again.

Kids today will never know the pain of losing a round of Mortal Kombat that you should have won, bc player 2 unexpectedly snatched the cord to your wired controller, and made an unhindered comeback as you scrambled to plug your controller back in. Good times

Nothing ruined friendships more than Nintendo 64 four player multiplayer. It was so infamous it became a marketing gimmick here in the states.

A video that includes a bunch of funny clips of oxboxtra co-op shenanigans? Yes please! 🤣

I remember playing Trine with a group of friends. One of them refused to acknowledge it was a co-op game, and would try to beat everyone to the exit, despite every level being designed to work as a co-op experience and him not understanding that you can't beat any level solo.

What a wonderful video! 😂❤ Although there were two entries missing - Space Buddies (buddies in space!) and Ellen running the kitchen in Overcooked.

While it was fun in retrospect, I think that if you’re playing a co-op mode like in Doom (1993), you shouldn’t decide to run headfirst into any room, grab all the supplies, then run into the next room only to die almost immediately to either the demons in the level, traps, or your rocket launcher’s splash damage, which in turn causes you to lose all your stuff and forces the other team members to help you get better firepower while lacking the resources to do so. Yep, my friend did this to me.

Gunners and archers in Monster hunter games causing melee players (you) flinch by shooting through you. The amount times ive gotten wopped or stomped cause I couldnt react or heal is innumerable.

Nothing quite like having someone explain to you a co-op puzzle, and then that person refuses to listen to anything you say because they want to solve it by themselves. Even when they told you the bit they are fiddling with is useless because the bit before that part needs to be solved first, but they refuse to listen to you when you say it.

Battlefield having a mechanic that tells you if a medic is nearby, usually ignoring you, was always my biggest source of fustration. Bad enough I am dead and not being revived, but to know that the guy who could revive me is also 0 meters away running through my corpse is the last straw.

Well done not mentioning leory Jenkins for the last one.

As someone who is also named Mike...I feel personally attacked by the Mike slander.

I remember playing The Chaos Engine on the Amiga 500 in two player, with my mate John and he would always run ahead to get the weapon upgrades leaving me with a puny starter gun while he had a multi shot rocket launcher!

11:11 honestly expected a Mom Can't Cook plug lol

a notable omission of both the westaway gambit AND space buddies there, luke

Oof, yeah. I was that friend who played _Among Us_ as the kicking boy for the rest of the players. As a rule, though, when I know what tasks need to happen I'm very serious about getting it done. I have brothers who are trolls and I intend to get a good grade in cooperation, a thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve.

I had a few friends come over back in the day to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles when it originally came out. I was usually stuck with the stupid chalice as we walked through the stage and one of my friends was notorious for chasing monsters. So he would run out of the safe circle to kill the enemy all alone then run back yelling "heal me, heal me" because the miasma almost killed him. I was the magic caster so I always had the heals. I quit chasing him after awhile and would let him run to his death. Eventually he got out of the habit.

Honestly, as the one who is always disbelieved, I feel it's everyone else mistrusting me when I'm telling the truth that ruins friendship, not the other way around.

Honestly, Luke and Mike's coop gameplay are the most fun and hilarious especially when they are paired with either Ellen or Andy, the more competitive ones of the crew, just to wind them up.

Come on now, this wasn't suggested by a commentator was it? It was just a way for you all to vent your frustration at admittedly "mainly Luke." In your co-op streams. I'm having flashbacks to the infamous "Overcooked Incident."😂

Killing Floor 2: When the one glory hound runs off from the group, dies within seconds, and blames the group that they ran away from. More specifically; the team’s medic. You only have yourself to blame, Rog. I’m not healing you!

Co-op could also be short hand for Counter-Operative, which was a GREAT mode in Perfect Dark lol

I have never been more glad to have no friends with which to play co-op games. Unless I count stare contests with my cat, which never work because she gets distracted.

One of the more aggravating co-op behaviors I've encountered is when someone just doesn't take time to understand how to get something out a side mission or quest. In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for example, you can get certain things if you go about a parallel quest in a certain way. Instead, many online players will just bum rush the target without understanding the procedure. It's super unhelpful when you're to get the drop and don't have someone to regularly work with.

Idle rune farming in Elden Ring is the worst. People who summon me and just stand there expecting me to kill things for them have a special place in hell.

"Friends are there, to help you off of a meat hook" Heck, Orson's Farm really took a turn in the latter episodes!

And here I thought this list is about co-op 'features' that are inevitably used to troll others. (e.g. revive mechanics, ability to pick others up, emotes, platform controls, and etc)

This feels less like a list video and more like a chance for Outside Xtra and Xbox to vent about the things their co-workers have done that annoyed them. And if it helps them I'm all for it.

I once tried to do a Co-op move in a Mortal Kombat game... It ruined the Friendship.

Here's an old classic: Ninja looting. Few things in co-op games will piss people off more than working together to take down a big bad enemy, and then volunteering yourself to take the awesome loot.

One that's pushed my limit a couple of times is when someone tries a little *too* hard to be the team leader. Nothing wrong with a little organization and guidance, and sometimes, you need someone who can take charge. But if all you're doing is bossing your friends around, and shooting down all of their ideas...you may find you have fewer friends to play with.

I feel like there's a companion video to this. Each member tell a story where they felt betrayed by the other. I mean, it might be the last video on the channel. 😂

I like how item #6 is legitimately just, "Playing Among Us."

5:20 - That penguin double-faceplant made me laugh much harder than it should've.

I'm really enjoying how the OXBOXTRA crew managed to turn airing out their grievances with each other into a legitimate list video.

I am APPALLED at the omission of the greatest betrayal in the history of this channel: The Space Buddies.

"What do you think...." Eye Daggers Intensify

Less a move more game design but in Baldurs gate dark alliance in co-op you had separate gold totals so one player tended to get much more than the other which combined with the experience being split 60-40 meant one player often ended up levelling faster and getting better than the other

I would add another to this list; friends/co-op-ers who get too impassioned while we were supposed to be having a nice, relaxing time! I've been at gaming events and whenever there's a multiplayer set-up, a lot of us just want to have a go, but there's always one or two who take it way to intensely, even seriously, and it just ruins the fun for the others!

When they talk about running ahead, all I could think of was "LEROOOOOOYY....JYENKYINS"!!!!!

Some Beat-em-Ups have friendly fire; in that regard, the mere presence of another player scales up the number of enemies. If one of the players decides not to cooperate...

The fact that it includes footage of the OX team playing only makes it more special. 😂

I love that “my health bar is right there, everyone” quip 😂 you can taste the salt in that line

Wow raiding failures that make everyone rage, Pets/animals interrupting, getting spawn camped by "friends", shoved off ledges, friendly fire, rage quits, and people who die and immediately do something else not paying attention to the the fact they've revived, etc..... There's a lot of potential here lol.

"I was born with a mistrustful face!" 😂

Loved how unhinged this vid was

My brother and always had a hard time getting past the first few levels of Battletoads because of how tempting it was to be the loving snot out of each other. Especially the second level. We'd basically just permanently turn ourselves into bells and launch back and forth trying to crush each other.

the worst one of them all is, you buying a game to play exclusively co-op and the others either bugger off without a word playing a other game or advance solo because they have more free time and you a stuck there either alone or behind.

5:25 for some reason this made me laugh so hard 🤣🤣

i'mma be honest, the best fun i've ever had playing portal 2 co-op wasn't when we were both trying to move things along, it was when we were both trying to constantly out-troll the other.

I love the excuse to call out one another for past experiences. 🤣

The one that springs to mind is when you’re playing operation with another person and that other person is really incompetent or won’t listen to your advice but keeps doing whatever he wants and insisting he is right and we are playing operation on a real patient and now the patient is either gonna wake up worse off than when they went under the knife or is gonna die. That’s the worst co-op. Sometimes it’s not even just friction between different surgeons as their egos inevitably get the better of them. Sometimes the anaesthetist is the ahole and probably gonna kill someone just to prove a point. This is fine :)

Agree with the communication one. In BG3 I got hit with my friend's ice storm spell because this was the one time she didn't mention she was doing an aoe. I got annoyed that I got a lot of damage then even more annoyed because when I tried to hit another person (because she'd killed everyone in my reach) I fell prone on the ice :/

It's better than co-op games that force you to go against your partner like in A Way Out. The betrayal resentment is so strong, that it’s referenced in Hazelight Studio’s next game, It Takes Two.

This should of been saved for the Festivus airing of grievances.

Co-op survival games like Minecraft and Don't Starve Together two things happen with those: when you die and drop all your stuff and somebody else comes by and grabs it and either lies they stole your stuff or outright refuses to give back what they took or when you and your friend(s) agree to share resources and even have a communal storage area yet one person hoards ALL the supplies and lies about it only revealing just the shear amount they were hoarding from everybody when they get killed and all their stuff drops

When your co-op partner leaves you to fight a hard enemy or boss on your own.

You can hear the anger in Ellen’s voice throughout this one 😂

I have the feeling this list was made to vent some frustrations within the Outside crew. 😂

I know in the video you talked about people running ahead and getting their teammates killed, but the thing that I see more often, especially as someone who tends to main support classes/builds in co-op games, is people running ahead of the team, and more importantly out of the healer's range, and getting themselves killed. I have one friend, whom I love very dearly, but they do this all the time. That leads into a second one actually, overconfidence. In regards to that same friend, whom I repeat, I love dearly, we have a bit of a joke in our friend group that the moment they say something along the lines of "Don't worry about it" or "I got this" the it is is most definitely time to worry about it. I know I already gave two things, so I might as well go for a full trio, right? My other main co-op pet peeve are the people who tell you to play a game that they play because they want to play it with you. So you get the game, boot it up, connect with them and start playing, and since you've just started playing this game it's only natural that you might ask, "Hey, how do I do this thing?" and they proceed to repeatedly refuse to help you learn how to play the game in any way. Like, come on, you were so gung ho about getting me to play this game and you're not even gonna help me play it? At least send me a youtube tutorial link or something.

Nothing more frightening than sudden dead silence, then sniggering from your coop partner

The Mario Party one reminded me of when my family did a game where the goal for one team member was to sabotage the team and the other was to win, both teams had this. Unfortunately for me, my Mom didn't quite understand the idea, either that or I should never have agreed to let our Mom be on the same team as the Youngest, meanwhile my sister was a master of sabotaging me. Honestly I'm surprised the gap was only 2 stars... and that I got any stars at all for that matter since the game seemed to want me to lose too 😂

Why isn't Trine here ? I died laughing while Luke was sulking!