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[TheBiggerFish]

Not entirely sure because it happened so fast, but I think a giant owl crashed into me.

Game?

[miauw62]

Came up against an agent.  A fleet of user created ships that are AI controlled.  I went with my usual plan of charge into them, ram them and fire all the things.

The agent's ship seems to have been roughly 90% armor spike.  So basically a massive spike wall with a rocket engine.  I might as well have flown into a woodchipper.  My ship simply ceased to exist.

(I have since modified a few of my ships with armor spikes, if is fun flying through meteors if they didn't exist)

Reassembly

Yeah, armor spikes are the best. Just wait until you get nukes, though...

[Akura]

A centrifuge smacked me in the back of the head. Oh, and said centrifuge is apparently what powers an artificial gravity well capable of hauling the better part of an entire planet around.

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Dead Space.

[SOLDIER First]

As one would expect, seemingly-abandoned buildings with a fresh corpse outside accompanied by a recording of the tape's owner being murdered, followed by shuffling noises and growling coming from above your head in the basement, are usually not abandoned. This was one of those buildings.
Turns out Savage Deathclaws are even more difficult to kill than regular ones, especially in an enclosed environment, and my Power Armor only kept me alive for a rather short time. Even with a shit ton of Yakety Sax.
Fallout 4, specifically at

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the Museum of Witchcraft

if you don't like surprises.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I did quite well up to this point, I never lost more than 1 or 2 soldiers in any shootout, even did something close to tactics!

... But none of that prepared me for the terror mission...

I was doing well in this mission too, until I ran into Chryssalids. They also had with them around 4 zombies... That also turned into Chryssalids.

They then proceeded to take out all of my well trained soldiers who were literally the best guys in the whole base... So yeah.

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XCOM Enemy Within: Long F*cking War mod.

Can't wait to get utterly f*cked in XCOM 2.

[heydude6]

Did you start long war without playing vanilla first?

[Culise]

Heh, I've had that issue myself, and I've finished the vanilla game twice.  Early on, it's all too often a coin-flip whether I end up retreating from the first terror mission or not (the most amusing for me personally being when I accidentally triggered three packs of Chryssalids on my second turn and my soldiers just "noped" out). 

[hector13]

As one would expect, seemingly-abandoned buildings with a fresh corpse outside accompanied by a recording of the tape's owner being murdered, followed by shuffling noises and growling coming from above your head in the basement, are usually not abandoned. This was one of those buildings.
Turns out Savage Deathclaws are even more difficult to kill than regular ones, especially in an enclosed environment, and my Power Armor only kept me alive for a rather short time. Even with a shit ton of Yakety Sax.
Fallout 4, specifically at

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the Museum of Witchcraft

if you don't like surprises.

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That gosh darn thing. I had MacReady with me the first time I went there, and he was all "deathclaw, let's gtfo" and I'm like "I've dealt with deathclaws, son, chill" before proceeding to get molested.

Next time I went in alone with a Fatman and stealth. It took three hits, at least one of which hit it direct.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

Heh, I've had that issue myself, and I've finished the vanilla game twice.  Early on, it's all too often a coin-flip whether I end up retreating from the first terror mission or not (the most amusing for me personally being when I accidentally triggered three packs of Chryssalids on my second turn and my soldiers just "noped" out).

You were able to leave the terror mission?

I never got the option, for some reason :/

Did you start long war without playing vanilla first?

I played vanilla, never got around to really finishing it though (i.e Repetition, lack of Enemy Within content etc.) but was at a point where I could confidently complete Classic.

Long War is like impossible on steroids it seems, because I went from slaughtering many aliens, to getting my entire squad slaughtered within about a half hour :/

[Rolan7]

I don't think it produces a popup or anything, you just have to move your units back to the landing zone and abort.  Those not in the zone, are lost...

And yeah, Long War is simply very difficult, despite what people say.  It gives you more tools but gives the enemy even more, and makes them scale far more dangerously.  Not to mention the missions you're not supposed to win (early supply ships).

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I don't think it produces a popup or anything, you just have to move your units back to the landing zone and abort.  Those not in the zone, are lost...

And yeah, Long War is simply very difficult, despite what people say.  It gives you more tools but gives the enemy even more, and makes them scale far more dangerously.  Not to mention the missions you're not supposed to win (early supply ships).

I knew about the evac, but never knew about being able to evac during a terror mission, it never had the rectangle of the evac zone show up for me on any of them :/

And I actually do have a lot of fun with the difficulty of it, it's more fun than the original, tbh, because it has challenge in the late game, as well as majorly in the early game.

But man, losing always sucks, but losing is half the battle. In Xcom anyway.

[EnigmaticHat]

There's a glitch where the evac zone doesn't appear and you have to reload to see it.  Killed my very first run of the game :/

[Akura]

Got too close to this... thing attached to a wall. I think it was a guy, but it kept shooting out babies. Babies that had a tentacle that shoot needles at me. The daddy part also had tentacles. I got too close. One tentacle slapped my head clean off in one hit.

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Dead Space.

[the1337doofus]

I guess this is the right thread for this, since I went down fighting.

Committed fatal, deliberate malpractice on two of my extremely annoying patients (the graphic details of which I should, in hindsight, spare); both of them I nailed with the hypospray full of chloral and gutted them in under a minute. Got found out by the HoP when he decided to go poking around my little lair of murder, so I had to hit him with the hypo too.  He didn't go down, though, so I ended up getting every person in medical chasing me around; hit two people with a fire extinguisher full of polyacid and melted their faces off; ended up going down after a cyborg stunned me, and one of the surviving pursuers took my extinguisher and melted my face with it. Hoist by my own petard, darn. At least I died with a kill count to my name.

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Space Station 13.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

There's a glitch where the evac zone doesn't appear and you have to reload to see it.  Killed my very first run of the game :/

Dammit, so I lost my squad of badasses for nothing :/

And I saved over that save... Well, I suppose it makes a cool story to tell.