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[Akura]

After several hours, 17 years in game time, I've scouted out from Sol. The one jump point in Sol led to Barnard's Star, which has no planets. The one other jump point in Barnard's Star led to WISE 0855-0714... which also has no planets and no other jump points. This effectively kills this game.

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Aurora. I don't know how to spacemaster in new systems or connections to them.

[Iduno]

I got freezelocked by freezeray turrets with one rifle turret slowly chipping away at my health in Caves of Qud. I almost escaped when one of the freezerays missed, but couldn't quite break free. I guess I should have gotten around to putting the wooly modifier on some of my stuff, especially as I was prepping for a trip to Bethesda Susa (which gets colder as you progress through it).

[Haspen]

After several hours, 17 years in game time, I've scouted out from Sol. The one jump point in Sol led to Barnard's Star, which has no planets. The one other jump point in Barnard's Star led to WISE 0855-0714... which also has no planets and no other jump points. This effectively kills this game.

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Aurora. I don't know how to spacemaster in new systems or connections to them.

You sure there's absolutely no other jump points in Sol?

[Akura]

None. All systems are fully surveyed.

EDIT: Okay, I figured out how to SM new jump points. I wasn't sure it was working at first since the system view doesn't immediately show them unless you also SM a full gravsurvey for the system - even gravsurvey ships with standing orders won't find them.

[Robsoie]

Playing Shadow of the Wyrm (SotW is a good ADoM-like roguelike, meaning you have an overworld map and each tiles of it can be entered at will, dungeons, castles, towns, npc to talk and get quests from , etc.. are to be found too).

After completing a few quests, clearing barrows and roaming around the dungeon in the island and killing some named uniques, i was feeling that my now level 13 human warrior was actually good, i could just use the boat to leave that starting island and go explore other ones in the world, or try to explore the upper section of the ruined castle northwest of the starting town.
As i got the keys from the locked doors in those upper sections

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found them in one of the 2 basements of the ruined castle, beware the couple of crones there, kill them as fast as you can as they can paralyze you with spell and destroy your stats if left unchecked as a previous character of mine learned

I decided to go there, thinking my strong warrior and his good damaging magic hammer (obtained as a quest reward) would be enough, i opened the first door.
A drakeling showed up immediately, firs time i spotted such creature, having no idea if it was any stronger than anything i faced so far.
Hammered the drakeling that didn't seemed to want to die, hmm ... i'll hit it a few more time , nope it didn't seem to die at all, my health was still going down.
Before i could wonder if i should just use my healing potion (no idea how much HP it can heal as i never used one yet) to keep hammering, 2 more drakelings showed up.

Ok, time to escape and go to the boat to grind more levels elsewhere and come back. So i ran to the stairs and noticed ... i can't climb them down. What the hell ? tried a few more time to go down until the 3 or 4 drakelings finally killed my character.

Wondering if it was some artificial difficulty "can't use stair when fighting" crap , i noticed that nope, there's a skill named Escape that i never leveled in the several level up and that purpose is to check if you can flee through combat.
Oh well, lesson learned : don't leave the Escape skill at its lowest starting value

[Akura]

Learned it's a really bad idea to use Bayonetta's aerial down-smash over a pit; she drops like a brick and it seems impossible to cancel.


Also learned I am terrible with Palutena. No, I didn't ragequit that match against a CPU Lv5 Pikachu, I had to go back to work. Seriously.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

[SOLDIER First]

It lasts 57 frames after you input it (almost a second of realtime), so if you're high enough up you can definitely survive after using it. Better save that jump, though.

[Yoink]

Nuclear Throne has a pretty cool weekly challenge going on currently. Starts as Melting, with an energy sword.   

[MCreeper]

Went AI because in this game Marignon is forever allied with Ermor.

Dominions 5.

[Great Order]

I've not died, but I'm evacuating.

A massive mech cluster appeared. I'm still running around with Lee-Enfields and, at best, .303 AP-HE cartridges. I'm deconstructing everything important, packing my bags, and initiating my "migrate north" plan sooner than expected.

Rimworld

EDIT: Automortar strike directly on my stockpile. My FSX and prometheum went up in flames and took most of my resources with them.

[Iduno]

I've been trying to get the Watcher to defeat the 4th boss in Slay the Spire. I did manage to get it down to 12 hp before dying once (had calipers and kunai, 3 upgraded wishes, and 3-4 wallops in a 20-ish card deck), but missed block for a turn and took 100+ damage.

I either die to that boss, or have to choose between getting the third key from the campfire or surviving the third boss. The Watcher just doesn't have a good way to scale unless you have the expensive +energy power and the top (infinite cards) and probably also the calipers. The Ironclad can just play the +1 strength each turn forever card and/or the always keep all leftover block card with the 0-cost damage=your block card. Silent can use poison; with strange spoon and catalyst if you're impatient. Defect can probably do something, I beat that 4th boss, but never really liked defect in practice.

[Dostoevsky]

Industries on crapsack worlds really need to label their dangerously explosive structures better.

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Finally got around to playing Brigador. Great fun, but have plowed right into explosive structures a few too many times, and when in some of the really tiny vehicles that's instant doom. I'm learning, at least?

[AzyWng]

Gas stations are infamous among the Brigador community.

If/when you get to making your own maps, don't forget to add at least one somewhere.

A massive exploding deathtrap (a fuel pipeline, for instance) is an acceptable substitute.

[Great Order]

Combat Extended doesn't play well with psionics sometimes.

I've savescummed because this death was completely moronic. I told my guy to skip an enemy so they'd be out in the open and shot to shit. To get in range he had to be out in the open.

So he decides he'll skip them, but first he HAS to reload. Headshot, brain destroyed, guy dead.

Rimworld

[Iduno]

I picked FTL back up because I was too tired for a new game. I was doing very well with the Engi B ship, having gained 2 humans and brought my pilot, engines, and shields up to 2 stars each. Then I hit an ion storm that knocked out my shields, weapons, and something else (drones?) while a beam drone took me apart. Full health to dead, because I couldn't do anything but sit there and die.