The Fall of Meatshield
Background
Over the course of 2017-20, the zerger not yet called Meatshield created 45 new zergs to fight the Gulsonside-based zombie zergs Clubbed to Death, naming most of his new army after CtD accounts. Zergs created included ClubbedtoDeathSucks, cytisinezerg and matchingzerger. Clubbed to Death lost the zerg battle and disappeared in August 2020.
What would the victorious zerger do next? Ironically, he has a passionate hatred of zergers, so he went looking for more zergers to fight. In late 2021, the original 20 Meatshield zergs were created by a different zerger. As soon as the zerger not yet called Meatshield noticed them, he created 7 of his own Meatshield zergs, causing the two Meatshield zergers to be confused by many in the UD community. The original Meatshield didn't use the original Meatshield accounts for long, whereas the 7 imposter Meatshield zergs were used extensively and gained thousands of XP. The imposter of Meatshield became known as Meatshield.
Meatshield 23 meatshield 25 Meatshield 26 Meatshield 27 Meatshield 28 Meatshield 29 Meatshield 33
Control of Fort Perryn
In early 2022, the new Meatshield's zerg army took over Fort Perryn. The zergs were mostly run as survivors and dedicated to keeping Fort Perryn in survivor hands. Despite the use of zerging, the fort changed hands frequently. Meatshield was not happy about this and hostile graffiti accusing opponents of zerging became a permanent fixture, especially in the fort but often slapped all over Whittenside. He made more new zergs: 9 in 2022, 9 in 2023 and 8 in 2024. A belief that one high XP zombie called The Tomb ran most zombies as his zergs became a key aspect of Meatshield’s graffiti to the point of obsession. Fort Perryn Defense Force was also a graffiti target for not helping Meatshield and for PKing his zergs.
By 2023, Meatshield was naming new zerg accounts after Whittenside-based zombie players who opposed him. Here's a few examples:
- Liche has Herpes is a tribute to Liche
- Rotting Zerg McNally is a tribute to Rotting Ted McNally
- The Tombs other zerg is a tribute to The Tomb
- Zaron the Zerging is a tribute to Zaron the Everliving.
In September 2023 the two Fort Perryn player groups, the Fort Perryn Defense Force and the Fort Feral Zombies, set up a zerg hunting alliance to share zerg lists and oust Meatshield from Whittenside. This forced Meatshield to keep his accounts in dark buildings and reduced his control of the fort for a few months but ultimately could not deter Meatshield’s zerging or toxic behaviour. Into 2024, both FFZ and FPDF began to stagnate as members struggled to play around the zerg army.
The Halloween Hack
On around 28th October 2024, an enemy of Meatshield exposed Meatshield’s zerg password, used for the majority of his zerg army. Meatshield does not tend to use his zergs disposably, many of them have thousands of XP from daily use, so this was a huge blow for the zerger. On Halloween 2024 the zergs were moved to the northwest corner of Malton for a Halloween party and a speech given, summarised here: "We are all gathered here to finally admid that Clubbed 2 Death was always better than us! We were just copycat wannabes, but with sad little micro wangs. Stay here forever in this small wang lovers corner. WE LOVE SMALL WANGS! WE LOVE CLUBBED 2 DEATH! Happy Halloween all!!!"
Somebody then relentlessly kept Meatshield’s army in that corner and spent the following months logging into them all to ensure they stayed there, attacked each other and wore slur groups until they got banned.
Other zergers such as Alwayz, Cats and Rigger also fell victim to password hacks around this time, but these hacks are thought to be the work of AlphaDog. When AlphaDog hacks you, he doesn't tell anyone, he just uses your account. When Clubbed hacks you, he broadcasts the password via in-game radio and has a big party.
RIP Banned Meatshield Zergs
Meatshield's 5 oldest known zergs date to 2017. Their bio of "Magical Fairy Princess" and the slur group tags were added by whoever got them banned in 2024.
Anna Hind https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282034 ClubbedtoDeathSucks https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282902 cytisinezerg https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297695 matchingzerger https://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2283290 SecondCorpse https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282033
The 2018-20 accounts are nearly all tributes to Clubbed to Death accounts. 40 zergs were made in this period.
a worker II 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326880 Antiantiman 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320568 antizerg zerger 16 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321301 antizerg zerger 17 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321302 astrazombie2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2294785 asudesu2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297371 Betty Will2 2018 https://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2290083 bernie lormax return 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321235 Browim 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326607 buda hilton2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2296167 clubbedtodeathonezer 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320078 cytisine2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297655 deadman27 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2316120 Edmund Zerg 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2324662 famouszerg72 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321177 geismodo2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2295811 grandpapa zerg 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2324661 infernozerg2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2290082 Joseph Clear 2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2291988 KURT COBAIN2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2295177 logout22 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2314649 MassDeletion 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2313326 matchinghero 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321010 my broken fag 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312142 New Char 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312139 nukar is a zerg 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321236 phartizerg 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2298574 physicyst2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2293621 pyrojoke2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297274 RageAgainstTheClub 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2327108 Reviver27 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2314222 scrapses2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2291986 Snoopy Rotting 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326608 suiciderun2 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2316121 TheManny 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312141 therealscoutmaster 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2329101 Ultimate Hero 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321011 Zerg Hunter 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320173 ZergedtoDeath 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2313325 Zombie Jesus 9001 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326606
In late 2021, Meatshield becomes Meatshield by creating 7 Meatshield accounts.
Meatshield 23 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349798 meatshield 25 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349819 Meatshield 26 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349821 Meatshield 27 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349823 Meatshield 28 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349824 Meatshield 29 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349825 Meatshield 33 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349847
In 2022-24 the new crop of zergs referenced Fort Perryn players. 28 new zergs were made in this three year period.
Aputhe5thBeatle 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356722 Aust1nMan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372707 Battleshift 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356756 BlazerHell 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356755 ColaWars2022 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356674 D1slycan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372708 D1stycan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372706 Fart Vader 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371338 Fort Feral Zerg 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371241 Grand Moff Fartin 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371339 Han so Low 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371340 Hugo Arms 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371022 JebbusChrist 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2376410 Liche has Herpes 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371240 Megatron69 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356547 Parrot Geode 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356788 Rotting Zerg McNally 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372633 Sam Walson 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356602 spray can eddie 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371337 tapz2 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2370322 The Orville 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356565 Therapist Hardcore 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356611 The Tombs other zerg 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2370294 WineandCheese 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356537 xmasdecore 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377297 xmasdecore2 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377298 xmas decore3 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377299 Zaron the Zerging 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371272
What now for Meatshield?
To continue zerging, Meatshield will need to start new accounts from scratch. He broadcast on radio 28.01 that he was quitting the game, but then remained active for more whining on 28.01. By December, his trademark salty graffiti began to reappear around Whittenside and suspicious new accounts emerged. Watch this space!
