Longest you've played (informal survey)

[fatalsushi83]

Now that the 1.3 preview and news of the stand-alone have made us even more impatient, I thought of this informal survey to hopefully make the time go by a little faster. I'd like my fellow players to answer the following:

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

Rules: Anything longer than 5 minute breaks for bodily functions has to be mentioned. So if you stopped playing to have dinner with the family or your girlfriend called you or whatever, you have to mention it (to your embarrassment).

2. What kept you going?

Mention any food, drinks, or drugs (prescription or otherwise) that helped keep you going.

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?

Here are my answers:

1. 17 hours, from 3:00 PM to 8:00 AM, at which point I had to get ready for classes. Took a break for a 30 minute phone call.

2. Kebabs, sushi, and chu-hais, which are Japanese canned cocktails consisting of hard alcohol, citrus juice, sugar, and soda water.

3. After I stopped playing and let out a sigh from the exhaustion, I swear my brain, which had been saturated with PR sound effects, made it sound exactly like the chest-pumping noise the medic makes. On another occasion after playing for too long and having been sleep-deprived, I actually told my wife to "turn the car towards 280" instead of just saying "go left." That was pretty damn weird.

[Nate.]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?
~13 hrs (16:00 - 05:00)

2. What kept you going?
Water and Bread

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?
Using peripheral vision to see further in real life

[Tackleberry86]

1. Last week, Friday Morning till Saturday Morning (08:00-06:00) -22hrs
Had some breaks during that (calling girlfriend and smoking on the balcony, i would say together 1,5 hour)
2. Coffee/Energy drinks and Tobacco

3. Lost 95% of my brain activity xD

[fatalsushi83]

Damn, bread and water is actually pretty hardcore because that's what a prisoner in medieval dungeon would get to keep him barely alive.

22 hrs new record.

[Nate.]

1. Last week, Friday Morning till Saturday Morning (08:00-06:00) -22hrs

2. Coffee/Energy drinks and Tobacco

3. Lost 95% of my brain activity xD

wow, what's your ingame name?

bread and water is actually pretty hardcore

Well, I put Nutella on top, so it's fine Also, Bananas.
Hate to eat stuff that makes fingers all dirty and fat.

[Jacksonez__]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

Probably 15 hours (15:00 - 06:00), I had some bathroom breaks and made some coffee and refilled my water supplies

2. What kept you going?

didn't eat anything just drank a lot of water and coffee.

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?
I was pretty tired and thought "what a well spent friday/saturday night"
I was too hungry to feel hunger. I also tried to use commorose to spot a helicopter that I saw flying (probably aerial photography copter).

[Rudd]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

Haven't played more than 2 rounds in years, but longest was 12hrs a long time ago. Breaks were during loading only (slow loading computer has some advantages)

2. What kept you going?

Coffee/energy drinks + sausage rolls

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?

Well after 5hrs I'm so in the zone! but once I stopped playing it was just sheer exhaustion

[SANGUE-RUIM]

1. ~16h (don't do that anymore)
2. the will to win!
3. headaches, stress due to noobs, nervousness, insomnia

[Jutsch]

1.: It was one of these PRTA-Special-Gamemode-nights, no one wanted to go out that evening and i had holidays this week so i played from around 22:00 (10 pm) to 4:30
2.: one (?) RedBull Cola, one (?) Blueberry-RedBull, some cups of coffee, mineral water and a bowl of cereals, also i had my windows open wide because i like fresh air at night

[gwa1hir]

1.I think it was around 10 hours from 11pm to 9am without a break.

2. the first hours i was drinking beer. later then i drank like 1,5 liters of earl grey.

3. it wasnt nice at all afterwards. my head was so full of PR that i couldnt control my thoughts anymore. i was lying in bed and i remember my thoughts drifting into PR all the fucking time. i was lying there probably 1 additional hour unable to sleep because my brain started to think about random PR stuff all the time. every time i tried to force myself into thinking of something else, i suddenly realized few minutes later that im thinking about random PR stuff again and probably only managed to think of something else for a few seconds. it didnt even make sense what i was thinking about PR. at some point it became really scary and i thought i was going crazy or something. but luckily at some point my brain was that exhausted that i fell asleep anyway....of course dreaming only about PR....
it only happened once before in my life and that was after a 12 hours Dota 2 session.
the weird thing is when i was younger i had multiple 40hours+ sessions on LAN-parties with friends without having problems like this. im getting too old for that shit...

[FluffyThumper]

1. 11 hours from 10am to 9pm.

2. Tea. Lots of it. Hot dogs included.

3. My heart was about to have a breakdown, i was hearing mortar explosions, tanks firing and bombs in my head, and surprisingly enough i didn't want to go to sleep.

[Fir3w411]

1PM to 2/3AM

About 16 hours with plenty breaks and some intermediate stuff.

Never again though... Was mentally exhausted afterwards.

[ctbear1996]

10 hours is the most.
Nothing to eat....

[Jamaican]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

around 8am to 11pm

2. What kept you going?

coke, fizzy jellys, and crisp, ate my dinner while playing too, and a very comfy new desk chair also the fact my girls mates where there entertaining her so she left me alone to play.

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?

my left little finger was kinda stuck in a bent position for awhile, i use it for the sprint key <L Shift>

[oblivio69]

1. About 20 hours, I had to wait 1 h for the map to end to go to the toilet, it was painfull.

2.Juice, some snacks and my electronic cigarette.

3.It was morning when I stopped playing and went to my local airsoft field for my weekly game(a forest) and fell asleep in a bush while defending our teams flag (we play capture the flag), guys there woke me up after 3 hours ...

[KillJoy[Fr]]

1. About 20 hours, I had to wait 1 h for the map to end to go to the toilet, it was painfull.

2.Juice, some snacks and my electronic cigarette.

3.It was morning when I stopped playing and went to my local airsoft field for my weekly game(a forest) and fell asleep in a bush while defending our teams flag (we play capture the flag), guys there woke me up after 3 hours ...

lmao

I can play a whole day but i need to make a break of 1 hours every 3 hours or less.

[Vista]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

For like 11 hours straight.

2. What kept you going?

I was really enjoying my matches - I wanted more

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?

I was sweating really hard, probably because it was summer.

[SIDEKILL3R]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?

I remember when the last patch came out i was off work 2 days and i got up around 6am and didnt end my PR session till 3am the next day. Yeah PR is life

[Dragon7722]

1. What's the longest you've played PR for in one stretch?
From about 16:00 to 5:00 - about 13h's.

2. What kept you going?
Coke, Beer and lots of interesting rounds.

3. What were the unexpected results afterwards?
I kept hearing soundeffects in my ear and my thoughts drifted back to PR while i fell asleep.