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[Eschar]

Let my eyes off the road for ONE second...

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Text and Drive

[Greiger]

A simple destroy the convoy contract.  Rated 2 skulls out of 5.  Nothing too hard.  I'm running 1 heavy and 3 mediums.

Convoy as a straight shot to their goal, so looks like I'll have to rush the vehicles, that means I'm gunna take more damage from their escorts than I expected.  Vehicles down main objective complete, my blackjack is missing an arm but otherwise all is good.  Considering whether I should head to evac or defeat the escorts, a lance of 4 mediums.   Including a kintaro which is a mech I want.  I decide to stay and regret it immediately.

New contacts, a big mech type I never saw before that looks beefy as hell (turns out it was actually an assault).  And my gunslinger takes a pounding, 3 injuries in one turn, a knockdown both arms lost and all armor got stripped off.  I eject the pilot, shit is going pear shaped.  I look for the evac point, and wouldn't ya know it it's behind that assault.  I rush the assault hoping to get to the evac point, and it only laughs at my puny weapons.  The assault tears my blackjack a new one, allowing one of the original escorts to finish it off, taking my MC out of the fight.  A firestarter that joined the fight with the assault lights up my griffin forcing a heat shutdown, and my Centurion loses a leg, falls over, and isn't getting to the evac anytime soon.  I swallow my pride and do a withdraw, failing the mission.  Whatever that was, that was not a 2 skull difficulty mission, that was more like 4 or 5 skulls.

Battletech

[AzyWng]

I was fighting a zombie that invaded the base I made at the evac shelter.

I tried to get it to walk over the small fire I had going inside a brazier. (I'd managed to kill a zombie hulk this way, don't knock it.)

Instead, the zombie destroyed the brazier. With the fire still going.

Yay.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

[Greiger]

Congrats! I thought losing a base to fire died when lightning strikes were removed.  I bet the fire killed the zombie at least.

[AzyWng]

Congrats! I thought losing a base to fire died when lightning strikes were removed.  I bet the fire killed the zombie at least.

Killed more than just the one zombie, in fact, given that fires attract more zeds.

The way the hulk died was super anticlimactic - it killed an NPC I'd run into, had slammed me into walls and floors two times, and then when it walked over the fire it just keeled over.

[Akura]

I was supposed to be checking some air-dropped supply crates for a humanitarian aid group. I check the first two, and as I bend down to check the third... I'm dead before I even hear shots fired.

Second attempt, I see that I'm ambushed by a technical*, but I was in the open and am dead before I can even get my gun raised.

Third attempt, I get clever and decide to use my Strider Armored Personnel Carrier to ram the assholes. I'm guessing these things don't have the various safety features that would allow someone to survive a head-on collision. It stops bullets, but not trucks.

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Arma 3, the Laws of War campaign.

[EnigmaticHat]

Got poisoned, couldn't easily get a venom gland to make antivenom.  Decided to outlast the poison using yellow mosquito sacks, healing salves, and mushrooms.

Died in a giant field of mushrooms two hours before night, when the blue mushrooms would have bloomed.  This after eating 8 cooked red mushrooms (for one health each...) and thus driving myself insane.  Afterwards I took another look at the wiki for mushrooms... you can destroy them with a shovel for 2 freebies whenever you want :/

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Don't Starve: Shipwrecked.  For reference, poison gets worse near the end; it probs did at least 200 damage to me total and it wasn't done

[Egan_BW]

The zombie brute decided to break all my limbs and bash both my head and my torso NEARLY to death before killing me. I died alternating between trying to crawl away and ineffectually poking it with a kitchen knife, as it bashed me down the road like a soccer ball.

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Cataclysm DDA

Edit:
Next life, I was an unwilling genetic experiment. Out in the woods, in the snow, with no idea which direction civilization is. The guy who randomly spawned next to me, out in the middle of nowhere, refused to travel with me. How rude.
Anyway, I set out to hopefully find a structure to shelter in, passed out in the cold, and got stung to death by a giant wasp before I could even realize.

[AzyWng]

Remember that running is always an option, except when it isn't.

Keep your distance from enemies, and try get objects like cars and buildings between them if you can, to slow them down and (possibly?) make them lose interest in you.

Manipulate zombies into climbing atop things like tables, shrubs, half-built walls, etc to slow them down. This helps you both hurt them and run from them if needed.

Stay away from boomers and bloated zombies. If you must fight them, throw things, but by all means keep them away from you, because if they explode life gets much less pleasant.

NPCs can help take off the heat from zeds like brutes, but of course that's not always going to help. Consider running away and preparing a trap or something - lots of fire, for instance.

And there's probably some other tips people would give you, like stay away from brutes in general. I'm not sure my advice will help, though, since I've only managed to survive about 2 days at most (I think).

[heydude6]

Does the fire trick still work? I’ve even managed to kill shocker brutes that way.

[pikachu17]

I was a rogue with a kukri, when an NPC came by, demanded I drop the kukri, and told me he would kill me if I didn't go away. Rude.
So I tried to teach him a lesson in manners.
Except, while I did pick up the kukri, I forgot to wield it.
I ended up punching him in the face a few times, and got shot in the head with an arrow for my troubles.

-Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead

[pisskop]

Fire is weaker, and brutes and grapplers are the two types you do not want to try fire on.  The former will smash you away from the fire and walk past it; the latter might pull you into it.

You know what works okay?  Molotovs and PKs_Rebalancing mod

[AzyWng]

You know what works okay?  Molotovs and PKs_Rebalancing mod

Very, very subtle shilling there

All the same, it's still better than the plans I had, which were mainly "poke at it util it dies". You can guess how well that turned out.

EDIT: Actual death:

Just finished the "Kill Brigand Vvulf" quest.

I brought along four heroes and came back with three. Reynauld had fallen as we were mopping up the mess Brigand Vvulf had left for us. A brigand's blade had severed a blood vessel, and before we could even begin to apply a bandage Reynauld collapsed on the ground. It was already too late for him.

My details of the battle are hazy, but I can distinctly remember the three other party members becoming Fearful, Irrational, when Reynauld had bled out, Masochistic.

In retrospect... I should have used the holy water I packed. But lessons like these are, in my experience, learned all too late.

Reynauld was a Legend Crusader (Resolve Level 6) at the time of his death.

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Darkest Dungeon.

[IronTomato]

Just finished playing Forza 7 and having the same fucking idiot intentionally ram me off of the first corner of Suzuka twice in a row, the first time being 10 seconds into the first lap. I caught up to them yet again, this time proceeding to gently rear-end them as my way of saying "fuck you", and then attempted to pass, only to get sidewiped off of the track again. They then proceeded to, for the next three races, sit on the track waiting for me to pass by so that they could hit me.

Luckily I've got plenty of replay footage to make a dank youtube video of it, so expect to see that eventually I guess

[hector13]

You’re meant to do the PIT maneuver in racing games when people annoy you.