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[EnigmaticHat]

Remembered why Guns of Icarus pisses me off.

Fly a Goldfish in a 2v2, with a ramming loadout, heavy flak in front and two flamethrowers.  It does decently against the enemy Junker, despite never hitting shots except at extreme close range and the level one engi constantly hogging the main gun.  Pretty sure both our kills were carried out via gravity and ramming damage.

Anyway, we get handily locked out of close range with the enemy Galleon because its loaded up with Hwacha rockets.  This makes sense; its been my opinion ever since they fixed the projectile glitch in beta that the Galleon is on a whole different level compared to all the other ships.  Strongest armor AND three guns, two of which are medium, all with the same firing arc?  Yes please.  So I switch my ship to the Innocent Trader Ship, my galleon.  Flamer in back, minigun to left, and a Hwacha and heavy flak on each side.  Or so I thought, turns out each type was on the same side, so to fight on our strong side people needed to hit with Heavy Flak.

I gave them what had to be literally ten minutes with the left side facing enemy ships, and we hit less than a dozen flak shots total.  The only one who spent any time bottom deck was one of our engis.  I would call out "we're running away, repair the engines" and then watch as everyone ignored me and the engines died from Kerosene/Tar/the fact that the enemy Spire's gunner can actually aim their flak cannon.

Now this might be partially my fault, I'm a fairly micromanaging pilot who constantly adjusts elevation and speed.  Its also possible I didn't understand the flak's arc as IRRC its pretty narrow.  Or maybe they nerfed heavy flak.  But back when I played regularly and it was called medium flak it was like a 4 shot kill on a Goldfish, and it wasn't THAT hard to aim.

[pisskop]

My first ironman month is up.  Just in time to lose 7 boys to mutons.  Most of them were ones I wasnt too attached to, but . . . 7?

What happened was that I usually split into 2 squads of 4, who will occasionally split into two to clear small buildings.  Mutons charged out their ship and suppressed us into running into a side building, where a third was waiting.

Meanwhile, across the map a muton is running from cover to cover while I snipe and suppress him and a MG runs around to flank him.  Turned out one of my riflemen was next to a door with another muton.  three were dead (and one bleeding out of his everything) when I called it off.  But then my heavy flipped out and ran into the street.  In a misguided effort to save him I sent both my snipers into an office building, but it they were overrun and only one was able to make it back to the ship.


And all the while a cop with a handgun was killing mutons.  Two of them, right in front of us, with minimal help from us.  I should have just recruited him, and skipped all these terrible 38 tpu heavies.  He was taking three shots at the buggers from inside, and suppressing them!  I hope he lived.

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Xenonauts
All said and done, I have relatively good record, I think.  20% fatality rating?  W.e.  Terror missions should be right around the corner.

[BlackFlyme]

New to a dungeon. Everyone in the party was new, in fact.

This ended poorly for us. Tons of party wipes on the final boss. Mostly due to the mages being unable to dodge area-of-effect attacks effectively.

That and adds that greatly boost one full-arena AOE attack if they get to the center of the room.

Some of the banter between us was funny though.

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Final Fantasy XIV, in Tam-Tara Deepcroft Hard Mode

The dungeon is kind of creepy and kind of sad.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Goddamn it, Glitch village! It was a misclick! I WAS DOING SO WELLLL

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Starbound: Permadeath. FUCK.

[Rolan7]

I finally savescummed... several times in a session.

First the aliens beamed directly into my secondary base, full of scientists and engineers and no weapons.  I could manually control the 30-some non-combat personnel to the exit lift, but that would have been tedious and resulted in the base's destruction.  Kinda crap since my attack craft full of soldiers was seconds away, theoretically, but meh. 

So I savescummed and transferred a bunch of energy rifles an hour before.  Sure enough, the aliens attacked the same way.  The scientists looked at the big pile of deadly energy cannons (they'd constructed earlier) and just shrugged.  Only soldiers can carry firearms apparently...  I'm going to believe that's one of the cities many ridiculous "ordinances".

So I savescummed again and stationed the few crappy (IE human) troops I could spare, again about an hour before the aliens arrived.  The aliens somehow noticed this and attacked the Senate building and Transtellar spacedock instead.  Heh, so it was a scripted response to an undefended base...  I scrambled my fighters anyway, including my massive troop transport/gunship.  The thing costs a whole week's funding (about 10 tactical missions, these aliens don't let up).  Aaaand it got shot down.  Since we haven't researched alien seatbelts yet (not actually a thing, sadly) my entire active squad was wiped out.

So I savescummed again and watched the aliens shoot up Transtellar a bit and beam infiltrators into the government.  It's cool.  My ground team secured the area after their ships left, and now Transtellar isn't nearly so chummy with the aliens (yes, the game tracks things like that).  Sometimes the best course of action is to let your enemies make you friends.

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XCOM: Apocalypse (the third XCOM game)

[Satarus]

Shouting 'Mortis Longdistimus,' the wizards spell set me on fire and threw me into the air.  My final rock struck true, but alas, I plummeted to my death.
Damn you, Merasmuuuuus! You are the worst roommaaaaaaaaate!

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Team Fortress 2, Playing the Scream Fortress map from 2012

[pisskop]

Night mission.  In the desert.  All of my officer+ ranked soldiers

Xenonauts

[Jacob/Lee]

1) Security turret.
2) Overcharged my cryokinesis. It blew up in my face.
3) Demon magic failed genetic experiment monkey
4) Overcharged my cryokinesis. Again.
5) Searched one of the monkey corpses. While I was looking: "I'm.. Sorryyyy.." Point-blank shot to the head with a shotgun.

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System Shock 2. Impossible difficulty.

[Akura]

Why would you bother searching a monkey? Aside the brain, which is useless unless you've already researched it, all they drop is a bag of chips.

[Levi]

Why would you bother searching a monkey? Aside the brain, which is useless unless you've already researched it, all they drop is a bag of chips.

Rule of gaming man.  You gotta search everything everytime.  Because you never know when there is a 1 in 1000 chance to find the ultimate maguffin.

[SaberToothTiger]

Why would you bother searching a monkey? Aside the brain, which is useless unless you've already researched it, all they drop is a bag of chips.

Rule of gaming man.  You gotta search everything everytime.  Because you never know when there is a 1 in 1000 chance to find the ultimate maguffin.

Or the super big bag of chips that only appears on monkey corpses and which gives you double the benefits of the standard one.

[Rolan7]

Why would you bother searching a monkey? Aside the brain, which is useless unless you've already researched it, all they drop is a bag of chips.

1 HP of healing is still healing!

I started up the game after months of not playing.  Flew some dragon somewhere.  Got ambushed by a couple of dragons and undead.  The dragons almost no damage and died to a few arrows.  The skeletons with swords were foiled (heh) by my stepping backwards as they swung.  This one skeleton with a bow killed me in a few shots, though.

My amnesiac protagonist is going to wander the land a bit to re-learn the secrets of stealth archery, not to mention the stupid way arrows are fired a couple degrees over the reticule.  I should just mod that... I also don't remember the item interface being so time consuming to navigate...  Also I like how it activates caps-lock seemingly at random.

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The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

Edit: Whoops    I guess I forgot more than I thought!  Or maybe I was claiming Arena doesn't count or something...  Yeah, that's it...

[SaberToothTiger]

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The Elder Scrolls 4: Skyrim

RAWR! WOOF-WOOF WAGH! *elder scrolls 4 is oblivion, elder scrolls 5 is skyrim* EOOEEK AGHHEE!

[pisskop]

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The Elder Scrolls 4: Skyrim

RAWR! WOOF-WOOF WAGH! *elder scrolls 4 is oblivion, elder scrolls 5 is skyrim* EOOEEK AGHHEE!

I would have preferred they just called it:

A decent action-adventure game with very heavy emphasis on homely roleplaying:  Where barbarians stab romans.

Could have just made it its own game series.  You go to work, stab your oppressors, go home, bake a sweetroll, and get a bonus for sleeping with your wife.

[Professor Lemur]

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The Elder Scrolls 4: Skyrim

RAWR! WOOF-WOOF WAGH! *elder scrolls 4 is oblivion, elder scrolls 5 is skyrim* EOOEEK AGHHEE!

I would have preferred they just called it:

A decent action-adventure game with very heavy emphasis on homely roleplaying:  Where barbarians stab romans.

Could have just made it its own game series.  You go to work, stab your oppressors, go home, bake a sweetroll, and get a bonus for sleeping with your wife.

Or you can call it "Skyrim".

Overestimated my car's speed over driving the incomplete bridge in Liberty City.
GTA 1