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[SeriousConcentrate]

Some undead angel looking jerk kept firing lazers at me til I was deadified.
Some undead angel looking jerk kept firing lazers at me until I hid in a house with a couple mushroom crabs, then used some aoe light attack to turn me into crystal. Because hiding is against the rules.
Some undead angel looking jerk kept firing lazers at me until I hid in a different building that was unfortunately already occupied by the hard to hit 20 attacks a second wall climbing bastards.
Some undead angel looking jerk kept firing lazers at me til I was deadified through my shield.

You be you Dark Souls 3.  You be you.

Dunno if you already know this or not, but ignore the flying hollow. Look instead for a sort of cocoon coming out of the ground and kill that. Doing so gets rid of the flying hollow permanently.

[Rethi-Eli]

The whole Souls series is just so punitive. I decided to try Dark Souls again for the heck of it.

I really really really really hate Blighttown.

Fuck those mosquitoes.

Those godawful mosquitoes.

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Dark Souls if you didn't catch that first sentence

[Egan_BW]

It's good to have a ranged backup for the mosquitoes. I think an unupgraded shortbow with wooden arrows will still oneshot them, and throwing knives too.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Weapons with a wide vertical range work well too.

[Arcvasti]

The whole Souls series is just so punitive. I decided to try Dark Souls again for the heck of it.

I really really really really hate Blighttown.

Fuck those mosquitoes.

Those godawful mosquitoes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls if you didn't catch that first sentence

The upper[Skippable] part of Blighttown is terrible, true. The mosquitoes can be bad depending on your weapon. The Combustion Pyromancy is quite good at dealing with them, since its got just the right hitbox and they're vulnerable to fire. Failing that, rolling quickly is good for just avoiding them.

[Greiger]

I've almost always played a primarily archer character in souls games.  A good bow will wreck them once they get in lockon range.  You could probably just carry a weak little crossbow or something in an off weapon slot and shoot them once or twice when they get in lockon range.
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Dark souls 3 related death, fighting 2 demons.  Get invaded....during the boss fight? wtf?  That's supposed to happen later, not here.  Npc phantom is taking one demon, and I tank the other while a friend I'm in voice comms with (we're co-oping the dlc) goes to fight the invader. 

Unfortunately my friend is not very good at pvp. (I'm not either but I always win our duels so I must be at least built better for it.) Friend drops to the invader and I'm now fighting a demon and a moundmaker.  Moundmaker is predictable as all hell and I parry him....with an offhand rapier no less... and kill him.

Unfortunately the npc phantom dies to his demon and I can't seem to take the demons 2v1.  I run out of estus and my friend is getting impatient for a resummon, so I just go super aggressive to see what I can get away with and die.

Dark souls 3

Spoiler: Miniranty PS commentary (click to show/hide)

After the night's session I look up what happened and find that there is a bug that allows invaders to invade boss fights now.  Apparently people are begging FROM to keep it in because it makes invading fun.  If these people are anything like that moundmaker that invaded me they are begging to keep it in because they are too pathetic to invade successfully without a boss's help, and get the 'fun' out of being successful without needing even a remote amount of skill.  I don't think I parried anyone in pvp before, least of all with a rapier, probably one of the worst things you can try to parry with outside of things that simply don't have a parry.

I'm not good at pvp, but that guy was baaaaad.

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 Also WTF people want giant seeds removed?  Seriously?  I can see people running away to get help from mobs when I have a phantom buddy, but I'm not going to hesitate to giant seed those tools that run into mobs when it's a clear 1v1.  They deserve the surprise gank.

[itisnotlogical]

I'm playing Metal Gear Solid in Spanish, to stay sharp and experience the game in a new way. I get the gist well enough, but didn't know a word that kept coming up. I put Snake behind a forklift and look it up in my Spanish-English dictionary. A guard found me; I forgot that one guard periodically peeks behind it. By the time I picked the controller back up, yo morí.

"Rehenes" are hostages, by the way.

Metal Gear Solid, Spanish version.

[EnigmaticHat]

I hit a cursed crystal at close range with a nuke launcher, and then made the classic anime mistake of "nothing could have survived that."  I bumped into it and the contact damage killed me.  Maybe it teleported while the nuke was going off and that saved it?

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Nuclear throne (not looped and I wasn't immune to explosions, I was just very careful about the blast radius)

[TheDarkStar]

I had four or so soldiers (two-thirds of the one still alive) killed by one alien grenade. Cue squad wipe a few turns later.

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XCOM: UFO Defense

[Rethi-Eli]

The whole Souls series is just so punitive. I decided to try Dark Souls again for the heck of it.

I really really really really hate Blighttown.

Fuck those mosquitoes.

Those godawful mosquitoes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls if you didn't catch that first sentence

The upper[Skippable] part of Blighttown is terrible, true. The mosquitoes can be bad depending on your weapon. The Combustion Pyromancy is quite good at dealing with them, since its got just the right hitbox and they're vulnerable to fire. Failing that, rolling quickly is good for just avoiding them.

The thing is, I'm not exactly the best at Dark Souls (I'm absolute trash if you must know) and I'm a knight with a halberd. I've used all of my humanities, all of my throwing knives, and I'm nearly out of arrows. I have no more purple moss, and I can't find the bonfire at the bottom of Blighttown, so I have to start at the top every time.

It's a bad situation, and the walkthroughs don't help.

At least it isn't as hard to learn as DF.

[Mathel]

On the 28th of Jantuary, the aliens attacked Beijing. The X-COM bravely rushed thor the rescue.

Then it turned out that the terrorists are sectoids with cyberdiscs and the only weapon on the mission usable by X-COM, which can wreck them is the rocket launcher. With 2 cyberdiscs and 4 sectoids down, there were no more rockets or grenades, and at least 2 cyberdisc remained.

The remaining 5 out of 10 soldiers retreated. The tank was already destroyed.

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X-COM: UFO Defence

[EnigmaticHat]

The whole Souls series is just so punitive. I decided to try Dark Souls again for the heck of it.

I really really really really hate Blighttown.

Fuck those mosquitoes.

Those godawful mosquitoes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls if you didn't catch that first sentence

The upper[Skippable] part of Blighttown is terrible, true. The mosquitoes can be bad depending on your weapon. The Combustion Pyromancy is quite good at dealing with them, since its got just the right hitbox and they're vulnerable to fire. Failing that, rolling quickly is good for just avoiding them.

The thing is, I'm not exactly the best at Dark Souls (I'm absolute trash if you must know) and I'm a knight with a halberd. I've used all of my humanities, all of my throwing knives, and I'm nearly out of arrows. I have no more purple moss, and I can't find the bonfire at the bottom of Blighttown, so I have to start at the top every time.

It's a bad situation, and the walkthroughs don't help.

At least it isn't as hard to learn as DF.

If I remember correctly they have basically no health, so you should be able to take them out with a junk weapon that's got the right animations.  Even if your character isn't built for it.

If you still have a certain two handed sword from a certain graveyard, I killed them with that... like I killed most things...

[itisnotlogical]

Found my first Ethereal. Tried to stun said ethereal. 90% chance to succeed, so of course it failed. Colonel Cheng, the most badass soldier in XCOM, died like a rookie while her comrades looked on in disbelief.

Now that I'm pretty close to beating the game, it's starting to feel like the difficulty all disappeared after the Alien Base mission. The panic reduction meant I could spend money on equipment rather than satellites for once, research finally caught up to the new alien types, and titan armor means that even squaddies can come along and contribute. I haven't even savescummed that heavily, except for bullshit bad luck like my death above.

XCOM.

[Arx]

I use the Whip, conveniently found on your way down. You do need some dex, but it's good for mosquito swatting.

[AzyWng]

The X-COM bravely rushed thor the rescue.

If only.

My own death: The grand hero battle with Anna Navarre has been present for two days now. Unlike the battle with Ursula, I was able to breeze through the Hard difficulty on my first try.

The Lunatic continues to give me problems, probably because I only have Takumi at level 40.

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Fire Emblem: Heroes