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[TempAcc]

I lost 4 of my best gals due to a pair of real unlucky missions, one being a mutant pogrom against ratmen and ghouls armed with goddamn tanks and an assault on a trader's guild ship which just happened to be filled to the brim with heavily armored guys (including at least one in power armor) carrying laser weaponry.

Now I have to hire and train more gals cause all the others aren't nearly as experienced.

AUGH

X-piratez mod for openxcom played supermutant (ironman) mode.

[Rolan7]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=954469500

Still not sure which I hate more, rockets or... "echoes?"
At the moment, definitely "echoes" or whatever they're called.  This is the last level of an "episode", too!  There are hundreds of episodes I can (and have) switched to, but I keep going back to this.  4 easy levels, then this.  hrng.

N++

[Akura]

Not really a death per se. Was sitting at Mekala Auxiliary Compound in my Flash, in a very sweet spot that allowed my scout radar to pick up not only the hostiles in the main building, but also everyone respawning and running back to the main building, all without actually being under threat. Just sitting back and letting the XP roll in like a champ.

Then the game locks up. At first I think my PC is crashing, but then the game abruptly closes.

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Planetside 2. At least I ended the session with a positive KDR, 1 death and at least 3 kills, all with the Flash.

[Thexor]

Made a bit of an aggressive play, taking my knight and his entourage east to clear the second portal on that side. Killing a portal spawns a retaliatory wave from the enemies, but I'd already cleared two portals and survived their meagre counterattacks, and finishing off this third portal would clear that entire side of the map, allowing me to build as many undefended farms as I wanted over there. With the portal cleared, I turned around and headed back to base.

I'd barely returned home before the counterattack arrived. A bunch of fliers, nothing I couldn't handle, though their numbers were a bit excessive. No worries, a few lucky catapult shots and a couple of losses later, the threat was neutralized.

And then the game decided to send not one, not two, but three building-sized trolls at me. I can kill one of these pretty easily, two if I'm prepared and sacrifice the outer defensive walls. Three of them tore through all my defenses like a hot knife through butter, slaughtering every soldier I had available without a single loss. And since these counterattacks count as a blood moon, even the coming of dawn did not deter the beasts, and of course they care not for my desperate offerings of gold.

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Kingdom: New Lands. Interesting game, though I kinda dislike the combination of "not telling the player all the mechanics" and "making one mistake can easily cost you the entire campaign".

[Akura]

Saw a damaged-looking mech guarding a room. I figured that with the motley collection of leather gear I had, I could at least check it out and have time to run if it was too dangerous.

When I worked the way around the base to approach it, it was at least a full screen-length away before it's minigun turned me into meat chunks. And it seemed that its spotting range increased slightly after that, making it rather difficult to recover my stuff.

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Signs of Life. Eventually worked out that you can crawl beneath the bullets, then hang from the ceiling to avoid it's laser cannon.

[hops]

Tried the Bat-Antipsychotics on Harvey Dent. He still shot me. I feel like they're only useful when you're too much of a scrub to research the gas mask against the fear toxin.

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Batman Simulator 2055

[Teneb]

Killed a bunch of trolls effortlessly. Find their king. How harder than his goons can he be? Answer: very.

Divine Divinity.

[Greiger]

Titan extreme.  Titan's doing the attack where he makes the outer edges of the platform fall away with a big obvious 'don't stand here or you will die' marker.  One of the healers, apperantly for the lulz, decided to run over to the edge of the platform and use a move called 'rescue' on me.   The move pulls it's target to the healer, intended to pull people out of death.  Naturally since the healer was intentionally standing IN instant death, it did the opposite.

Amount of times I've seen that move used to fuck with people, 3.  Amount of times I've seen the move used legitimately, 0.  Squeenix oughta just rename the spell to 'Troll Pull' and be honest about it.

Final Fantasy 14

[SOLDIER First]

I mean, that's either a testament to the skill of your healers, or coincidence.

[itisnotlogical]

I forgot (or more accurately, never knew) that Last Spells were a thing. Instead of the stage ending, I got an extra-tough Spell Card that I've never seen before for my trouble. I got hit by Wriggle Nightbug, the most pathetic of pathetic Stage 1 bosses, although getting hit during a Last Spell doesn't actually penalize you.

TH08: Imperishable Night.

[Rolan7]

I'd been doing *so well*, in fact I'm pretty sure I got farther than I ever did back in the day, not counting cheats.

But here in the final campaign, I was expected to fight fellow Protoss.  With a sizeable starting fund, but still.  My "basic" tactic of mass scouts wasn't working against their highly-upgraded scouts, and numerous dreadnoughts dragoons.  But I held back and adjusted!  I formed an additional line of turrets, to delay, and built a decent force of dragoons+zealots to counter.  Two waves of reapers (artillery) approached my line, but I managed to take them out with my air force... losing some scouts in the process, but still.

Then an unexpected mass of heavily-upgraded scouts beelined my defences, decimating my air force.  It was a tough battle, but I had somewhat planned for this- my turrets and dragoons won the day.  I utilized my shield batteries and counterattacked with a mass of fresh zealots with air support, looking to at least take out their turrets, and thus open the way for tactical strikes.

Triple psi-storm took out my entire force in a pair of seconds.
You know...  Previous level (fixed amount of troops, lots of "gotcha" corridors) was BS.  And so is this.
Rage-quit for now.

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Starcraft, Protoss campaign.

Edit:  Oh also I was attacked by a single carrier, but it hardly counts.  My scouts knocked it out fast (my turrets did little, of course, since a large part of starcraft's gameplay is that your units are stupid).
I'm not even sure the enemy had the ability to build new carriers.  Maybe not, considering I *definitely* didn't...  Then again, likely so.

[TheDarkStar]

Is that the one where you get a few dark templars including Zeratul? If so, you can rush the nexus in the lower right corner with your dark templars (and maybe a few zealots thrown in there to draw some fire, but iirc you start with those too) and win in like two minutes. Basically there's a completely clear path to move the templars from your base to the bottom middle of the map and from there to the lower right.

[Akura]

Fight against not-quite-Mistral, followed immediately by a fight against not-quite-Monsoon, starting with almost no supplies and health drops only happen during the first fight. The latter has a bullshit invulnerability mode and almost completely unblockable attacks.

Oh, and losing to Monsoon requires you to fight Mistral again.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengance.

EDIT: Okay, now Armstrong is the biggest bullshit I've ever seen.

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MGR:R

[Urist McScoopbeard]

The last section of that boss fight is incredibly difficult, I musta played it 100 times. Also he's just a giant fucking meme.

[Egan_BW]

Armstrong was hard for me the first time because the game never really taught me how to dodge. When an enemy flashes with a red light, you can party it, but when they flash with a yellow light you have to dodge it. The dodge move must be bought, is unintuitively named "offensive defence", and is used by pressing the jump and light attack buttons at the same time. Using that is the only real way to avoid Armstrong's grab attack.