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[Steelmagic]

We were told to rescue an engineer. Through a series of events she may or may not have caught fire and burned to death.

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XCOM 2

After reloading, we still ended up having to leave our sniper behind.

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Still XCOM 2

[Rolan7]

Fricken mimics again.  This time I wasn't fulled, because these are the weirdest mimics ever...  Door mimics apparently cast ranged spells.  They curse for heavy damage, can cause blindness, or... frost bolts.  There's no chance at all of mistaking one of these for a door.  Though they don't move, which makes a set of them especially deadly since I had to charge up to them while tanking their spells.

Here's the kicker, though:  They paralyze in melee.  It's really my fault for not having Free Action at level 26, but I could have sworn I did...  Ugh.  (paralysis is basically a humiliatingly slow instant kill, once you're paralyzed the enemy will keep paralyzing and poking you until you die.)

It's just as well.  I got really unlucky with the random quests, almost entirely Princess quests (who give mere items while Fumble Fingers unlocks cross-class skills).  FF did give me mindcraft though, which turned out to be *great* for cheap dungeon scouting.  Even crossclass and with pitiful wisdom!  So I'm finally rolling up something besides a half-ogre warrior.

Actually half-ogres only have -1 INT, and the 12-sided HD are so nice...  So gonna try a half-ogre mindcrafter.  As priest-likes, they're actually half decent in combat...  Not like a swordmaster sadly, but still.  And it'll be much easier to court Tulkas's combat blessings.

Tales of Middle Earth 2.3

[Eric Blank]

Alright, playing an old game, star wars: starfighter. I remember playing jedi starfighter on the xbox years ago, i loved it. This game has been nothing but nostalgia. And bugs, but hey, it's from like 2002 or some shit. But mission 14 is kicking my ass. I must have died 20+ times. Need to fly into a hangar on a trade federation battleship. Ceiling turrets tear me to shreds in seconds. Fighters and tanks roving the decks kill me in seconds. This mercenary leader keeps firing missiles you can literally only dodge after they've detonated, which gives you maybe 200 milliseconds to make a right angle turn.

I should have remembered I was a total wimp when i was a kid and played the entire game on easy mode. :v

[itisnotlogical]

Plugged in my Xbox to check my save file on that game. Yep, I beat everything on Normal... except the last mission where I switched to Easy.

That merc starfighter is such bullshit though. And the entire outside of the ship is covered in turrets that shoot the same kind of missile. Those missiles never miss and always fly faster than you at infinite range, as well.

[EnigmaticHat]

Can you shoot the missiles down?

[itisnotlogical]

Possibly. I don't remember, but I also don't remember ever trying.

In the meantime, I tried to build a ridiculous rocket-launched glider thing. I quickly realized that there's a reason planes need to taxi and build speed before takeoff, as my contraption promptly rolled off its supports, hit the ground and exploded.

I swear I've built (really terrible, hard to control, low-performance) planes before.

Kerbal Space Program.


I built another plane, with the objective of using anhedral wings to gain some more maneuvering power and make a 180 degree turn sometime this century please.

It flew alright, despite nearly driving off the runway (presumably due to little gremlins living inside the landing gear). Then I turned off SAS, and it promptly tumbled, lost all its forward velocity and hit the ground like a rock full of highly explosive jet fuel.

It exploded and the Kerbal died is what I'm saying.

Kerbal Space Program.

[Akura]

Not really a death, but it was a fairly expensive failure(thankfully I saved before expending too many resources on spawning it in).

Tried to build a VTOL gunship. However, since the game and asset editor are a bit... sparse... on the details of what part does what exactly, the forward thrusters were solely a pair small devices called "carrier jet exhaust". These a short-time use afterburners. They're useful for quick burst of speed, but entirely worthless for normal flight. I tried to correct it by adding forward and rear VTOL propellers to allow for some tilt, but this only gave it a top cruising speed of... 3km/h. 3.2 at best. Their effects are just too heavily countered by the massive lifter engines. This all came at a significant cost to produce as well; many of the gunships components require significant quantities of aluminum, which is fairly rare and the colony generates it very slowly(3 colonists take over 8 minutes realtime to produce 50 units).

Ironically, if I can fix the issue of forward thrust OR get it to tilt effectively, it'd be great as a fast-support gunship. It can jump up, drop down, and turn quite fast and fairly smoothly, and can easily bring its gun to bear on any threat on the ground. And it's not even that goddamned ugly unlike most of my builds.

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Planet Explorers

[itisnotlogical]

I tried to kill Davison, because insane Super Mutants with a pile of Stealthboys does not sound like a good idea in-character and looking up what happens would be metagaming.

Davison caught on to my shit pretty quickly, and immediately set off the frag mines I was in the process of laying. There were five of them. I did not survive.

Fallout: New Vegas

[Arcvasti]

DsFE of Veh, doing reasonably well in Spider. Still, as a purist Fire Elementalist, I'm pretty weak against anything that resists fire, since I haven't found Bolt of Magma or Orb of Destruction yet. Run across Roxanne and assail her, hoping to get a book of the Earth off her so I can get Bolt of Magma. I can barely scratch her with my fire magic OR my artifact scimitar, but I'm wearing her down. I get her into the red and a helpful Balrog shows up to assist grinding this arrogant statue into dust. She then proceeds to hit me with a Lehudib's Crystal Spear in the face for [near]maximum damage. Twice. In one turn.

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

The moral of this story is never use a weapon with a delay of more then one turn.

Taking on an immortal pheonix, because the moon princess I beat the crap of wanted me to "test my guts". The Extra stage itself isn't TOO difficult, but I almost always use a bomb before the midboss. Keine shows up, reveals her TRUE FINAL GOAT FORM and barrages me with stuff. Thanks to Yukari meddling with the Border of Life and Death and my natural faboulousness, I tank her worst hits upon my bombs and gain a life. The rest of the stage isn't noteworthy, besides a rabbit fairy miniboss who is apparently bomb-immune. Then the REAL fun starts.


In general, I think I rate Mokou approximately 1-2 Sans'[Or 1/8 of a Yukari] in boss difficulty. Her second spell sign where she drops firebirds everywhere and Honest Man's Death are both incredibly obtuse. Still, IN means that I get approximately THREE lives per life, so I have to mess up several spell signs to die permanantly. Even with that, I still get consistently dunked by her third-last spell sign and its explodey volcano. I remain much more optimistic about beating her then I am about beating Flandre, so I'll probably keep trying for at least a week or two before getting sad and moving on with my life.

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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

[itisnotlogical]

I completed my first Kerbin orbit and reentry of this Career Mode game, the parachutes were deployed and the landing stage was safely on its way down at less than 10 meters a second.

I change the focus for one second to look at some debris that was still flying away. This causes the game to lose track of the main ship, deleting Jebediah, the science data and all the expensive parts that I could have recovered.

My last quicksave was from actual days ago.

Kerbal Space Program.

[xaritscin]

fighting a legendary in Pokemon Uranium. didnt have potions at the time of the fight and my pokemon were at type disadvantage against it. it was lvl 40 too. fortunately i got the item i needed from her.

[KillerClowns]

Game: Bayonetta 2, which I've been replaying, shooting for platinum trophies.
Cause of death: Daddy issues.

Bayonetta players will know what I'm talking about and laugh/groan in familiarity. For anyone else who wants the spoiler-tastic context:

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One of the bosses, the Masked Lumen, is eventually revealed to be Bayonetta's father, Balder. And he is one hell of a boss fight. Moves like a greased hog on speed, hits like a fighter jet, and forgives no mistakes, especially on the highest difficulties.

[Spehss _]

Running a greater rift level 60, equivalent to Torment 13, the highest difficulty. The highest I played at before was Torment 12. A champion pack with mortars was fighting at a choke point where a forcefield of sand prevents projectiles from progressing beyond that choke point. I was basically standing still and spamming multishot without watching what was going on. My avoid death skill was on cooldown. A single stray mortar shot managed to hit me. I had forgotten to recast my vengeance buff immediately after it had expired. With Vengeance up I took 50% less damage, and without it I was extremely squishy. The one mortar shot, having hit me at a major moment of weakness, instantly one-shot me.

Rest in pieces, demon hunter, you were fun while you lasted. It can all end so quickly.

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Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls. Playing hardcore on season 7. Never played demon hunter much before this season. Pretty fun class. Crazy dps, crazy squishy.

[itisnotlogical]

I wanted to use the Kickback rocket booster to give some tourists a trip into space with just two or three stages. However, the Kickback is the most expensive SRB I've unlocked, so I put a probe body and parachutes on it to try and recover it intact.

The rocket booster and the command pod ended up coming down at the same time. Managing two almost-vertical reentries at the same time did not end well, and both halves of the rocket hit the ground at hundreds of meters per second.

Kerbal Space Program.

[Tawa]

I have wasted eight hours of my life trying to get Markhor so I can get the EZ Gun and never use it. I was two animals or possibly plants short. I even tracked down the Flying Squirrel and spent twenty minutes looking for a Tsuchinoko.

MGS3

I even made a checklist of everything I had to find! WHERE DID I GO WRONG