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[IronTomato]

BlitzDungeoneer beat me in one turn.

YGOpro

[itisnotlogical]

Alien soldiers are really tough.

I don't know why I keep relying on the crossbow; any damage it does is outweighed by the slow firing speed, slow projectiles and agonizing reload speed. Almost any other weapon is better for taking on... most situations in the game, really. The crossbow is rather pointless gameplay-wise. It's not even that useful for the fish enemies you first use it against, since the pistol also works underwater and doesn't have any of the crossbow's drawbacks.

Half-Life.

[Tawa]

The crossbow is really powerful. It's good for taking out HVAC soldiers at a distance, before they notice you, [and it only takes three shots from it for each of the Nihilanth's power crystals at the end.]

[Rolan7]

The alien soldiers have those armor plates, though...  Hm, I checked the wikia for details and it's interesting:

• In the original Half-Life, Alien Grunts take significantly reduced damage (roughly 50% to 60% of normal) if shot in the armor instead of in their exposed body with a Colt Python or Black Mesa Crossbow. Lower impact rounds, such as pistol/assault rifle bullets, buckshot, and even the primary fire of the tau cannon will outright ricochet off the armor without doing any damage at all. This is not true in Half-Life: Source, since the Source engine does not support different damage values/effects for different materials.
• The Alien Grunt's armor subtracts 20 points of damage from any attack that hits it. Any projectile that deals 20 points of damage or less will simply ricochet off harmlessly.

Looks like two people tried to describe the same phenomenon...

Oh but then it mentions that, in the Source version, the crossbow stuns them for an extra long time.  Kinda funny that the Source version didn't support that effect though, when it clearly supports extra damage for headshots.

[itisnotlogical]

I think it means material as in the actual texture and lighting stuff applied to a section of the model, ferex the shiny stuff on the pieces of the Alien Grunt's armor, whereas the headshots would be implemented somewhat differently, using different collision pieces. They could have remade the functionality, but from what I understand Half-Life: Source was a lazy port anyway.

All speculation, because I've never made a Source mod or anything remotely similar.

[heydude6]

So after leaving the game for a while, I chose to start fresh and create a new character and world. Having just killed Skeletron, I decided to enter the dungeon.

And Holy crap! it's much tougher than I remember. The angry bones seem faster, the curse skulls are super obnoxious, and for some strange reason I always mange to get hit by dark caster bolts and the traps. I didn't get very far before dieing.

Did they increase the difficulty of the pre-plantera dungeon, or do I just suck?

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Terraria

[Urist Imiknorris]

It's probably because the enemies themselves aren't terribly dangerous alone, but there's always a shitload of them. Add the traps and spikes and water candles and probably potential falls, and the dungeon is really all about tons of stuff happening all at once. That's why I went to the underworld right after Skeletron for a demon scythe, cascade, and molten armor.

[Thexor]

I tried to skimp on thrusters for my mining vessel. The first iteration had plenty of thrust when heading to the asteroids, but once you added a few thousand kilograms of ore the ship became extremely cumbersome. But large thrusters are expensive, not to mention unsightly when you cram them onto an existing design. So I went for the cheap solution: a single large thruster on the rear of the ship. The plan was to accelerate to maximum velocity, then spin around 180 degrees and use the same thruster to slow down again with inertial dampers. What could go wrong?

Well, lots of things, I'm sure. What did go wrong was me spinning slightly off-angle, resulting in me retaining a shockingly-large amount of lateral velocity. While passing right next to an asteroid. I ended up ramming the asteroid side-on at roughly 50 m/s. The ship effectively vaporized with me inside it; after respawning, I was unable to find any trace of the vessel, though oddly I did find one chunk of iron ore from the cargo hold drifting right next to my station.

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Space Engineers

[SOLDIER First]

Funny that the class initially based around parrying (Thief) would be the one I have the most trouble parrying with, and the one I would also have the most trouble with against its equivalent enemy.

Dark Souls

[itisnotlogical]

I was fighting the Ender Dragon on a friend's server. Suddenly, I was launched up into the air, higher than the highest pillar in the End, and I have no idea what might have done it. Either way, I hit the ground quite hard.

Then, later on, after we'd cheated to give ourselves elytra, I smacked into a wall when I had half a heart remaining. Hitting a wall at speed will actually damage you quite a bit, I discovered.

Minecraft.


Gonarch glitched out. Between phases, where it runs through the tunnel to the final phase, it just sat in the tunnel and wouldn't come down, apparently invulnerable to everything. This forced me to noclip to escape, but I consider it a defeat.

Half-Life.

[Tawa]

I paid for my insolence.

Xenoblade.

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Okay, I can buy bosses with bullcrap attacks. I can buy bosses with minions who give them buffs. I can't buy bosses with bullcrap attacks whose minions protect them and can be revived by the boss. >:v

[SOLDIER First]

Snorlax and Pikachu, man. Even though Solaire was distracted by the stupid Bullshit Tank Mages Royal Sentinels I got him inside the boss arena soon enough. The fight was going well enough until Snorlax caught me from behind with a fuckall strong attack that killed me from 3/4 or so health.

Dank Soles

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Roll to dodge.

[SOLDIER First]

Roll to dodge an attack that caught me from behind, instantly killing me, which I had no way to notice, prepare for, or react to, with fat rolling, while also having to deal with a second boss.

.....No?

[Persus13]

Just get a 4, 5, or 6 on the roll and you'll be fine.

More relevantly, Skyrim keeps reminding I haven't saved in awhile by crashing on me. I suppose that counts as a death.