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[FArgHalfnr]

Lost a friend to a madness induced hallucination and got killed by a giant tentacle while running away from it.

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Don't starve together. Winter is much harder than expected. There were hands trying to kill our fire every night, which didn't help our already low sanity. That and resources are so hard to get. Couldn't get enough twigs to replace my broken bunny traps. Now that we've discovered tents and have a twig, grass and wood farm next to our camp we might have a chance to survive a bit longer.

[Akura]

Got instantly shredded by several Xenon fighters before I could react upon the conclusion of a horribly lengthy tailing mission.

X3: Terran Conflict

Is this the "Scan Pirate base" mission?

That's pretty impressive, building fighters out of an inert gas. Funny how nogoodnames didn't react.

[nogoodnames]

Got instantly shredded by several Xenon fighters before I could react upon the conclusion of a horribly lengthy tailing mission.

X3: Terran Conflict

Is this the "Scan Pirate base" mission?

Yes. Attempted it again, this time going back to the previous sector to save first. Managed to pick off a few fighters who had split off from the group leaving just two Novas to guard the base. I figured I could take them, but no. The first one depleted my shields with its rear turret and then the second came up from behind with an extremely loud rapid fire weapon that took two seconds to kill me.

[EuropeanDorf]

I got trolled by Plantera.

Blah, there's a obvious difference if you're trying to take the thing down buffless (though it's doable, especially when you have endgame breakers).

[Tawa]

* EuropeanDorf has been struck down

[Urist Imiknorris]

It's Terraria.

[andrewas]

Yes. Attempted it again, this time going back to the previous sector to save first. Managed to pick off a few fighters who had split off from the group leaving just two Novas to guard the base. I figured I could take them, but no. The first one depleted my shields with its rear turret and then the second came up from behind with an extremely loud rapid fire weapon that took two seconds to kill me.

Probly PRG if I remember right. One of a number of weapons that were added to increase the difficulty by eliminating the players ability to dodge. Their weakness is their short range, but actually exploiting that in anything other than a one-on-one duel is difficult. I'd much rather they increased the difficulty by improving the AIs ability to fight, but the game is what it is.

Best advice for this mission is to ignore it for a while and come back in a properly outfitted ship. You can do that in almost any Egosoft plot line though they are always written to imply otherwise. Just fly away and do your own thing for a while.  Alternately, try it again till the RNG equips those Nova's with more reasonable weapons.

[nogoodnames]

I ended up waiting for the defenders to disperse then sneaking around the back of the base. The fighters started coming back once I got there, but my ship was so much faster than any of theirs that I completed the mission and made my escape without any of them getting in range.

Edit: And now a new death. Randomly exploded while following the target of an escort mission. I can only assume the autopilot crashed into something and the timewarp caused the damage to be registered after the actual event.

Still X3:TC

[Rince Wind]

Started in a lab, opened the one and only door just to see a turret. Make it to the other side of the corridor, almost dead, only to be brought down by a pair of skitterbots.

C:DDA

[Spehss _]

Entered the nether for the first time. For some reason it plopped me next to a creeper, which exploded as soon as the game loaded, which knocked me off a cliff and killed me from fall damage.

Well, there goes that whole world. GG, hardcore, GG.

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Minecraft

[monk12]

"Those are Black Sun fighters!"

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Star Wars: XWing Alliance. If I only had an A-Wing instead of this shitty transport I'd mop the floor with all of them, and destroy their mothership to boot...

[Tawa]

Entered the nether for the first time. For some reason it plopped me next to a creeper, which exploded as soon as the game loaded, which knocked me off a cliff and killed me from fall damage.

Well, there goes that whole world. GG, hardcore, GG.

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Minecraft

It couldn't have put you next to a creeper. They don't spawn in The Ways Nether. A ghast must've taken a potshot at you.

[Rolan7]

I'm pretty sure creepers can wander through the portal, though, kinda like zombie pigmen can in the other direction.

[monk12]

I'm pretty sure creepers can wander through the portal, though, kinda like zombie pigmen can in the other direction.

Yeah, if he was creeping up on you right when you were going through he could have followed you.

[Spehss _]

It couldn't have put you next to a creeper. They don't spawn in The Ways Nether. A ghast must've taken a potshot at you.

No. It was definitely a creeper. It was right in front of me, in my face, when the game loaded. Then it exploded.

Probably it wandered into the portal. I guess I hadn't lit the underground in which I built the portal enough to keep baddies away. I found a creeper had somehow spawned in an adjacent underground room with similar lighting earlier, buuuut there was a door separating it from the two rooms with me and the portal. I figured it was just one creeper sealed in one room, nothing to worry about, right? ...It's never just one creeper.