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[Iceblaster]

Damn Enclave Patrols.

Damn random encounters.

Damnnable travel speed.

Why can't I just get to San Fran so I can finish this

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Fallout 2.

Navarro Run.

'Nuff said.

Do you have the car yet?

Nope.

However, surprisingly, after posting that I got extremely lucky and was able to get to San Fransisco and subsequently Navarro!

[Sinistar]

Stomped down Anima using Shiva, then Seymour proceeded to one-shot Shiva, then start one-shotting party members faster than I could raise them.

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Final Fantasy X. Screw you Seymour, screw you.

Hmmmm, which fight is this? Where/when? I remember I struggled with one, but one was pretty easy, maybe I can share some tips?

[Mr Space Cat]

Flagship. Again. By this point I just wanted to reach system 8 so I could get layout C for the Kestrel...except it didn't unlock. So that's cool. Guess I need to get to system 8 with Kestrel layout B to get C, rather than getting there with A. I don't have B unlocked either.

What a waste of time that run was.

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FTL

[HFS]

Rebel Flagship.

...You were expecting something else?

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FTL, of course.

[Akura]

Stomped down Anima using Shiva, then Seymour proceeded to one-shot Shiva, then start one-shotting party members faster than I could raise them.

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Final Fantasy X. Screw you Seymour, screw you.

Hmmmm, which fight is this? Where/when? I remember I struggled with one, but one was pretty easy, maybe I can share some tips?

First one, in Macalania. I beat him on the second try because I realized he resumes his attack pattern from before he summoned, then Hasted Yuna and her cast Nul- spells. He didn't even touch anyone.

[tryrar]

Speaking of, I was 6 scrap away from unlocking the Lanius B(with the 600 scrap achievement), but I was in the Last Stand. So I decided to go to the Rebel Cruiser spawn....and found out the hard way when they say it's extremely dangerous, they mean it. I had flak and vulcan too...

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FTL, if you didn't notice

[Thexor]

I thought I had a solid run. 4 shields, cloaking, Flak II, hacking... I had it all, save for a teleporter. I crushed the first two flagship phases with barely a scratch!

But then I lost control of the situation on phase 3. The AI unfailingly targeted my weapons system, and that plus the super-shield prevented me from destroying their rocket launcher. Next went the cloaking system, making the missiles even more painful. My crew was constantly injured from repairing hull breaches, delaying my essential system repairs while my hull slowly failed.

In the end, I still had a chance. Most of my ship's core systems were repaired, and a lucky flak blast finally downed the rockets. Sadly, I failed to dodge 4 of the laser blasts in a single overload volley, with the one extra shot making it through my shields and destroying my ship. (I'm pretty sure it hit the weapons room again, too...)

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FTL. I could've won that fight, which makes dying just that much worse. 

[WillowLuman]

M
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Oh, fuck those things. It's an accurate depiction, though.

[pisskop]

I decided I would learn nethack if it killed me.  it has.

:/  It feels like tgere is soo much im already supposed to know.  its discouraging to tgink tgat atm I can live until my equipment is bested.

[flame99]

I decided I would learn nethack if it killed me.  it has.

:/  It feels like tgere is soo much im already supposed to know.  its discouraging to tgink tgat atm I can live until my equipment is bested.

Spoiler: Nethack tips. May be considered spoilers to some. (click to show/hide)

Don't try to fight everything you meet. In fact, fighting personally should actually be pretty rare in the early game, if it ever happens at all. Let your pets do the dirty work. They're faster and stronger.
The reason you don't want to fight for yourself, however, is that Nethack is one of those rare few roguelikes where monsters scale with level rather than depth. This seems fair at first, until you realize that leveling up carries much less benefit than getting better equipment, and you get equipment much slower than you get experience if you fight everything you see.
Also, you can make your pets check if an item is cursed by trying to get them to walk over them. A pet will almost never step on a cursed item, and when they do, it'll give you the message [Pet Name] moves only reluctantly. If a pet steps on it without giving this message, you're good to go. If they avoid it, don't touch the item. This goes doubly for gray stones; I won't spoil that for you, but there are some nasty possibilities with those.

Feel free to look things up on the wiki. The game's extremely difficult with it, and even more so without it.

[kisame12794]

MISERY mod for CoP. Dear god. I survive a bloodsucker attack, only to be killed by an anomaly, then spend the next five lives avoiding three mutated cats that down me in three hits. Oh, and they're faster than me, and shotguns don't seem to have been given a damage boost. I really need new equipment, but everything kills me too fast for me to get anything done.

STALKER: Call of Pripyat, MISERY 2.1 Mod.

[Akura]

Get jumped by sabertooth cats. I kill them all, but both my lungs are bruised and I suffocate.


Outsider necromancer started in a goblin village. Goblins don't like necromancers, apparently.


I met a thunder dragon goddess, name started with a "J"-something. Whyever the hell I decide to attack, she dodges and smacks me on the head.

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DF Adventurer mode, Genesis Reborn mod, all three. The last one, I'm not sure why I thought I could take on the DF Adv. mode equivalent of Janet.

[mastahcheese]

Both of the enemy riflemen and one of the enemy rocket launchers are all in a very tight grouping at the north-west corner. The last rocketeer is way off to the south-east. My guys are somewhat scattered around the map.

I order my rifleman to go take out the guy by himself, shouldn't be hard.
I tell my rocketman to shoot at the tight cluster, hoping to get all of them, with my shotgun following behind him in case any survive.

The rocket hits a wall and takes out the enemy launcher, but both riflemen got clear of the blast, one of which hiding behind a wall, the other shoots my rocketman in the head.
My shotgun guy runs up and exacts revenge, with the other rifleman still hiding.

On the other end of the map, I expected my rifle to take out the enemy launcher with no problem, however, he got hit by the jerk's blast right before he could get any shots off, so I'm now down to just my shotgun man, against a rifleman and a rocket launcher at opposite ends of the map.

I decide I don't like the idea of an enemy launcher at long range, so I go after him first, he goes down pretty easily, but takes out a building beforehand.

So now I'm down to just taking on the enemy rifleman, who has superior range, at a long distance, with almost no intervening cover for an approach.

That didn't end well for my guy.

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Frozen Synapse Demo, I like this game, even when I lose. I'll remember next time to take out the rifles first, since dodging a launcher is actually somewhat doable without the need for cover.

[Thexor]

There is BS, and then there is hardcore BS. The latter takes the form of an automated ship in Sector 1... with a beam drone, a beam weapon, and the event that hacks your shield, forcing it offline. Seeing as how this was my 3rd jump, I only had one shield.

Oh well, at least I wasn't that far into the run before dying. 

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FTL

[Mr Space Cat]

The rebel flagship's swarms of drones destroyed my cloning bay. All my crew was either dead or boarding the rebel ship, so there was no one left to repair the cloning bay. My crew died off one by one in the cloning tanks until there was no one left.

Welp, probably should've shot the flak cannon's first volley at the flagship's drone control instead of at the missiles. I could've sent boarders to sabotage the missiles in peace. On the brightside, I beat the first stage of the ship with a primarily boarder based ship.

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FTL