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[BurnedToast]

Not exactly a death but....

Building a construction complex to make more microchips. Apparently I misplaced a station by a inch or something and it clipped into another station and I didn't notice.... the game, by the way, is perfectly happy to let you do this with absolutely no warning or indication whatsoever. Sitting in the sector taking care of my business, when suddenly the complex explodes, because the shields finally got worn down from the constant low collision damage.

Fortunately I have a save from before I placed the stations, but it was like 3 hours of gameplay ago and placing large numbers of stations is super tedious and frustrating so I'm considering just giving up and never doing that mission or cheating in the microchips I need.

X3: terran conflict. It's a decent game but man, the station building is so unforgivably terrible and you have to build hundreds of stations to get

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the 75,000 required microchips for the hub mission.

Even ignoring the time spent getting the money, and ignoring the time spent by the factories actually producing the goods, you're looking at several hours just building stations using the worst station building UI ever and watching the same short, unskippable cutscene hundreds of times.

[itisnotlogical]

Working on a custom mission, trying to make it appear that a large battle is underway without making it so dangerous that the player is blown away as soon as they step off the chopper.

This is pretty difficult. Having even a single rifleman within eyesight of the landing zone usually results in the squad being slaughtered, as the AI needs a second to think after getting off the helicopter, and also between waypoints.

ARMA.

[Spehss _]

Hadn't played Project M in a while. Hadn't played 3.6. Load it up, decide to warm up by fighting randomly chosen cpu players of progressively higher levels.

Get to level 7. RNG picks Roy. Holy shit I kept getting bodied by CPU Roy. Getting combo'd and edge-guarded and basically rekt. One point I get 4-stocked. At one point the AI literally DACUS'd three times in a row across the length of Final Destination. (A DACUS is where the character uses dash attack and cancels into an up smash and slides along the floor.)

This Roy isn't even level 9 and it regularly kicks my ass. I'd be impressed if it wasn't an AI.

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Super Smash Bros

[Tiruin]

I died when I realized that B12 has the self control of a toddler.

Puns are a sign of wit! That's why everyone loves em \o/

So I finished Homeworld1, and moved into Homeworld2, and...then mission 4 happened :v

Got swarmed by Lance Fighters (mini Ion cannon fighters), Laser Corvettes (minor Ion cannon corvettes), and a ton of enemy bombers all because I decided to use all the RUs to fill up my fleet at the end of Mission 3.

I thoroughly dislike that I have no choice on when to hyperspace in Homeworld2 :I
But I also dislike that fleet scaling difficulty being put in place AGAIN (also salvage/capture isn't a viable...idea anymore, unless you start with a tiny fleet, because of how many enemies there are and the capacity limit of 4 salvage...frigates. Set in the future, I am baffled by why salvage corvettes have been scrapped due to their utility, especially repair corvettes/frigates!)

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Homeworld 2

[Astral]

Scaling fleets is what killed Homeworld 2 for me. I can see it working to an extent, but punishing you for doing well is just bad game design.

On topic:

• Threw a molotov, which proceeded to clip some invisible geometry and explode me.
• Rounded a corner into a raider who had a minigun, who shredded me instantly. The spin up time is a lie.
• Had a Protectron I hacked decide to turn hostile for no reason and team up with an until-then unnoticed machine gun turret.
• Lucky shot from a super mutant killed me in one hit.
• Random unnoticed alpha mongrel out of nowhere decided to one shot me.
• Oh, I forgot that doorway was trapped with a bomb. Yeah, there goes my leg.

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Fallout 4 Survival mode. Shit's no joke, you can die as quickly as the raiders on Very Easy... but so can enemies. So it becomes a bit more strategic game of sneak and rocket tag.

All of the above examples ended up costing anywhere from 5-30 minutes worth of work, depending on how far I was from a bed at the time.

[Greiger]

Fighting a bunch of demons around some floating platforms.  Backpedaling from a hell knight while doing a jump over to another platform, plasma rifle firing.  I'm stopped dead in midair over an endless pit.   I turn just fast enough to catch a glance of the cacodemon that bodyblocked my jump before falling to a gibby death.

Doom 4

[Rolan7]

This game has an odd tendency to kill me after bossfights or reaching secrets
Generally due to silly mistakes, though, and the bossfights aren't especially difficult.

I beat up some nun with a sword.  Then I went back to save but there was a skull in the way, so I attacked it without thinking.

Momodora:  Reverie Under the Moonlight

[IronTomato]

Tried to fight Dalamadur again, this time with a party of 4 othee hunters who were all equal in rank to me. We lost in 5 minutes because one of them was an idiot who managed to get hit by absolutely everything and never bothered to heal. I haven't found anyone else who wanted to fight this yet.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

[EnigmaticHat]

Literally the first thing I type in the chat is "supporting top", but because of my hero choice everyone on my team assumed (?) I was carrying.  A guy on our team who picked Clockwerk convinced me to switch with him so he could play carry Naga Siren (my character).  Unfortunately:
A the last person on our team to pick seemed to think they were carrying, which meant I shouldn't have swapped in the first place.
B. I've never played Clock before, except once when I was really bad at the game.
C. the clock pick didn't make any sense.  Clock is a character who can fire off a hook to get close to someone and then surround them with a circular wall.  Unfortunately everyone on their team was either a deadly melee character you don't want to get close to (Pudge, Undying, Legion Commander, PA) or someone who could do some kind of nastiness to overcome the wall or damage me through it (PA, Undying, Lion, Pudge).  I would be hard pressed to think of WORSE matchups for Clock.  Insofar as I even understand the character.

The Naga player tried valiantly but in the end they ended up being one of only two competent team members (I was NOT one of them) and our mid Viper flamed them both constantly.

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DOTA 2

[itisnotlogical]

I was bored and didn't feel like going to bed, so I tried to pick out an easy game that I could win at and feel good for a minute.

I know! Touhou!

TH06: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

[Arx]

Fighting the Bell Gargoyle. Thought it was awfully convenient only one of the four (E: Two?) woke up. Halfway! Oh, 'ello, matey. And of course friendly fire doesn't happen.

Oh well. Dark Souls is still my favourite combat game by several miles.

[Arcvasti]

I was bored and didn't feel like going to bed, so I tried to pick out an easy game that I could win at and feel good for a minute.

I know! Touhou!

TH06: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Whenever I do that, I end up having a hard time getting to sleep because the colourful bullets have imprinted themselves on my retinas. Touhou is definitely a very calming game for me, though. Listening to neat music and watching pretty patterns while executing familiar maneuvers is quite relaxing.


I decided to try Easy mode. It turns out that Easy mode is harder then Normal. Sure there are a lot less bullets, but you also get WAY less extra lives. And the difficulty drop on Easy isn't significant enough for the massive decrease in bonus lives to be that helpful. I staggered my way to Patchouli[At one life] and then got dunked on by a Spell Card I'd never seen her use before[Princess Undine or something?].

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

[Akura]

Yeah, Patchouli has more spellcards than any other boss. Her lineup is based on both difficulty and your own character/spellcard choice. She uses Princess Undine on Normal as well, with Marisa/Master Spark if I recall.

Please tell me you didn't die to Cirno's Icicle Fall on Easy, did you?

[Arcvasti]

Yeah, Patchouli has more spellcards than any other boss. Her lineup is based on both difficulty and your own character/spellcard choice. She uses Princess Undine on Normal as well, with Marisa/Master Spark if I recall.

Please tell me you didn't die to Cirno's Icicle Fall on Easy, did you?

Not with Marisa/Master Spark, since that's my usual character choice.

No, I dodged it easily. Which is actually quite neat, since I usually have a hard time with it on Normal. I DID die to Perfect Freeze, because one projectile was half offscreen right next to me and I didn't notice it.

[Akura]

I DID die to Perfect Freeze, because one projectile was half offscreen right next to me and I didn't notice it.

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On Easy, she doesn't fire waves of yellow danmaku directly in front of her, only the icicles. That means she has a wide-open blind spot directly in front of her. You can sit there the entire time and shoot her right in the face.