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[Spehss _]

Hofig the Half-Orc Warrior made the terribly short-sighted decision of walking into a room full of crows of Durthang. The corridor back out of the room was several tiles long before turning a corner, and a brown yeek came up from behind and caught him between a pack of magical crows and...whatever a yeek is. Each crow in line of sight of him could curse him to bleed each turn, and the crows were fast enough that they got multiple attacks on him each time he got an action. At first Hofig tried killing all the crows, but after several missed attacks and losing half his health in that timeframe he realized it'd be better to get the hell out and read a scroll of recall. Then started chugging every potion of healing he had on him.

Hofig quickly lost all 135 of his hitpoints before the scroll of recall activated. He died from a thousand cuts from magical crows.

Whew. Monster packs are proving to be really dangerous. Cave spiders, hill orcs, and now super fast magic crows that can magically cause bleeding and come in packs of 10 or more.

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Oangband

[Rolan7]

This freakin ruined hospital.  So many doorways, and guys with shotguns.  Really awkward in forced third person!  The cover system helps I guess but only when the enemies advance, and I'm pretty sure the cops (in the second stage) eventually reinforce.  Well plus they have a helicopter with a machine gun.

I actually got away and lost the police once, nearly dead, and just had to drive the drugs to a dropoff point.  In my relief I... kinda bungled stealing a new car.  Then killed the police who tried to arrest me, because... well I'd just fought off literally 20 of them.  Naturally I was back at three stars, and got shot as I tried to lose the backup.  STUPID STUPID DUMB XD

Anyway it's almost like I was set up or something   (Pretty sure this is that mission)

GTA 4

[Twinwolf]

There's a first-person mode in 4? Thought that was new in the next-gen versions of 5.

[Rolan7]

Nah there isn't, and that's largely my problem
Only in these areas with doorways, though.  3rd person is generally nice for peeking around corners, but it's making it kinda hard to tell if someone's taking cover behind a doorway I'm about to go through.

[Mech#4]

As odd as it seems for the games premise, I do consider the shooting in GTA 4, San Andreas and 3 to be one of the weaker aspects. I think 5 has first person, but third person shooting has always felt awkward to me in GTA.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I really like the first person stuff, actually.

[hector13]

Fackin' weirdos.

I remember the good ol' days when it was top down shooting, and you only had a choice of your fists, a pistol and a machine gun. You only had 1HP too!

[Catmeat]

I remember the good ol' days

Sure you do gram gram, how about some tea and a warm quilt? Do you want to watch the chase?
 

[Mech#4]

GTA 1 was even worse. Trying to do precision aiming using tank controls? The machine gun was how I dealt with it mostly. Spray and pray, like you were whipping a hose around the backyard.

[itisnotlogical]

I took out a blue gang operation, which already nearly did me in until I figured out grenades. Killing twenty or so gangsters and miscellaneous civvies gave me way more notoriety than I knew how to deal with. Being chased by vehicles full of gangsters up and down the street, I eventually ran out of ammo for the pistol and had to use the crappy submachine gun to defend myself. Then my car caught fire and I had to run away on foot.

The blue teleporting girls got me in the end, although I'm proud to say I put up a pretty long fight before I got killed.

Saint's Row the Third.

[Akura]

TIP: If you own a nearby store or crib(not the brown "properties" you can buy as you cannot enter them), you can go inside to wipe all notoriety.

[Rolan7]

The mission where you try to save Roman...
Actually went pretty well, mostly.  Stayed in cover, used the AK.  Shot a couple of explosive barrels.  There were a couple of rather bs ambushes, but there was a convenient set of body armor.

After [stuff], Roman and I went to the stairs...  Where he tripped.  I wasn't even that close to him!  He fell down three flights and just lay there with his head at a funny angle.

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But this is how did *you* last die.  And he wasn't dead
After he got up (and fell down the last flight) we got in a crappy truck and made to leave the worksite.  The police were en route, and he was trying to explain away his gambling, and I didn't notice the little red can of gas.  *boom*

Checkpoints?  What are those?
To be fair it let me jump back to the construction site (this particular mission doesn't have a driving portion, usually you have to redo that too) though all my armor and bullets are still expended.  Which is fair except that Roman's captured again... not sure how that works causally

GTA 4

[Akura]

Ragequit after: 1. Trying to blow up a hacked terminal only to step on a mine. 2. Actually blowing up the hacked terminal, rebuilding it, spawning a tank, and immediately running over(you cannot control a vehicle until it autopilots away from the pad) several anti-tank mines from the same guy(whose statscreen showed him as an Infiltrator - AT mines are Engineer-only). 3. Looking at the base I was in and noticing every single terminal was hacked, so I switch to Infiltrator. On the way back, they start overloading the shield generators. On the way to deal with that, I see them capturing the control point - which was impossible since they controlled only one adjacent territory which we were in the process of capturing(which breaks the link to the next base). I go inside the main base, find they have a Sunderer in a spot that's nearly impossible to park(unsure if it was deployed, it was certainly in the no-deploy zone). I un-hack a vehicle terminal, spawn my own Sunderer and flee from the large number of enemies in the base, and deploy right next to an enemy Sunderer. I hit that Sunderer with three AT mines, and only broke the shields. One second later, a Magrider cuts right through my own Sunderer shield, killing me.

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Planetside 2. Prior to that, someone shot me through a wall and then teabagged my corpse. I probably should have reported that asshole. And them capturing our base was most certainly impossible, since you need to have at least one adjacent territory and that territory must be fully controlled - even if you recap the point, you need to what for the timer to zero out.

[Rolan7]

Why else would they call it Magrider?

[Akura]

Wasn't ramming. Main gun, probably a copilot in the turret gun too. I still don't get why they keep saying the Magrider is underpowered. I've taken on NC Vanguards in a Lightning. The trick is to use the Lightning's speed and maneuverability. The Vanguard lacks that, the TR Prowler completely lacks it(it has to immobilize itself to maximize range/DPS), but the Magrider outmatches any ground vehicle. They say that the gun being a hull gun is bad, except that means the driver always knows exactly where the tank is pointed, and the fact the tank can strafe means it can always run circles around a target while keeping both the front armor and main gun on it(all other tanks trying to circle expose the side armor). And it doesn't have to worry as much about obstacles, and the fact that it hovers in the air means you can't climb on top and plant AT mines.