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[AzyWng]

It's equal parts worthless, overpowered

Just to nitpick here - In my mind those two words have opposite meanings. But yeah, outside of "Gives Survival players a potentially powerful alternative to Stimpaks" it doesn't exactly seem all that great.

Unless you're playing a modded version - one of the mods I have (One of the balancing mods, I think it was Project Mojave or Yukichigai's Unoffical Patch) causes Blood Sausage and Thin Red Paste to be affected by the Survival skill (and thus restore much more health than in vanilla).

As for the rest of your statement, well...

Even though I'm flush with caps courtesy of the New Vegas Bounties mod series (And thus can afford all the stimpaks in the world, maybe even literally), I feel a bit odd about always using Stimpaks for every injury. Here, I can resist the urge to pick up things like bottles of Nuka-Cola that all weigh one pound a piece in favor of simply using these items to heal out of combat without having such a significant impact on carry weight.

Due to one of the mods I mentioned earlier, I'm sure my next hardcore run will be a bit easier courtesy of the perk, if I choose to take it.

[GiglameshDespair]

It's equal parts worthless, overpowered

Just to nitpick here - In my mind those two words have opposite meanings. But yeah, outside of "Gives Survival players a potentially powerful alternative to Stimpaks" it doesn't exactly seem all that great.

Seems to me he's deliberately saying them both. It's excessively good at one thing while rubbish at the actual intention of the perk - hence overpowered and worthless at the same time.

[Kagus]

See, I played vanilla my first time through, so no beefing up their healing capabilities. I also played on hardcore mode, because what else are you supposed to do?

Never used a single stimpak the entire game, except for one point when I felt bad for all the stimpaks I was hoarding and used one out of pity. Never needed to. There was always something I could eat, or some survival recipe I could slap together or whatnot. It wasn't an intentional handicap, I just... Really never needed to use one, since food was always enough even in the heat of combat.

I did pick up Them's Good Eatin' at one point and ended up stockpiling a bunch of sausages and paste, but I ended up selling most of them because they're not very good on their own without skill bonuses. So, yeah... Weren't very good healing items, which they're nominally supposed to be, but they were ridiculously good bartering items, which I kinda doubt was the original intention.


It's all kinda chalked up to "DLC power creep", but while still somehow managing to be pretty lackluster as far as burning a perk slot goes. So, yeah... Worthless and overpowered.

[AzyWng]

Fair enough, I suppose.

Most recent death:

New Vegas Bounties 3 has a whole new slew of deadly enemies, and your only companion is basically a vastly more likeable Ricky (not sure how good he actually is as a combatant) who can boost your luck by a huge amount (I think this companion appears due to Wild Wasteland, since the sound effect triggered when I first met him).

One of the first bounties was this Hispanic guy who had a harem of three women with knives - proper combat knives, mind - and I kept getting shanked to death when I tried to bring Sweet Revenge or my Hunting Shotgun to a knife fight.

Objectively Better Ricky was having similar difficulties, since The Ferguson Rifle (Which I’d given him) isn’t a close-combat weapon by any means.

After a few deaths, I did wise up and pull out the Two-Step Goodbye (From the Gun Runners robot, probably a mod that lets it sell unique weaponry), but even then I had to stop to use stims after a few nasty hits.

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Fallout New Vegas: New Vegas Bounties 3.

[Kagus]

After a few deaths, I did wise up and pull out the Two-Step Goodbye (From the Gun Runners robot, probably a mod that lets it sell unique weaponry), but even then I had to stop to use stims after a few nasty hits.

Nope! Or, well, I suppose you *could* class the Gun-Runners Arsenal DLC as a "mod" of sorts, but that weapon is in the vanilla version of GRA and is only available from the vendortron.

And it's a good weapon too, right up until you accidentally blow up three NPCs when slapping a rat or something because of the crit effect...

[EnigmaticHat]

In Arkham Knight, I had officer Owens

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fire his gun into the air while effected by the fear toxin.

Since he fired the gun the game still reacted like he went on a murder spree.

[drilltooth]

Sucked down a sinkhole while trying to swim away from the zombie that jsut hurled a javelin though my chest.

Minecraft, Best I can figure is a trident updated some unstable gravel in the bottom of the river.

[Gornova]

Xcom2: perform an hack on codex, killing it, then Avatar shows up, kill it, then trying to deactivate a transmission bean but.. a mech decide to show up and.. he kill all my team

[IronTomato]

Those kinds of things are why spamming explosives seems to be the best strategy in XCOM 2 (or it was when I played through it at least)

[Egan_BW]

Spamming explosives is the best strategy in every x-com game. Maybe excepting vanilla EU, where they don't give you lots of the stuff.

[Kagus]

Spamming explosives is the best strategy in every x-com game. Maybe excepting vanilla EU, where they don't give you lots of the stuff.

It was definitely a good tactic in UFO and TFTD (yeah, let's just throw grenades underwater, that'll work fine!).

It may not have been a very good idea in Apocalypse, but it was definitely the best idea.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

On the other hand if you try explosive heavy runs of Xenonauts remember they don't have dead man's switches. Zero turn delay means it will explode in your hands. I learnt that the hard way a fair while ago.

[Kagus]

On the other hand if you try explosive heavy runs of Xenonauts remember they don't have dead man's switches. Zero turn delay means it will explode in your hands. I learnt that the hard way a fair while ago.

I think for Xeno I basically just went "Shotguns for EVERYBODY!" and went full reactions mode on some X-files mofos.

But, I mean, the basic grenades in Xenonauts are horrible... For throwy crowd control, I think I just gave people flashbangs and let them shoot things. I'm guessing the upgraded xenonades are better, but ain't nobody got time for that.

[Sirus]

Hollow Knight is pretty tough, but mostly fair. Finally defeating a tough boss, or clearing a difficult room, feels like an achievement.

Except for this one corridor in the crystal mines. It's complete bullshit. Actually most of the crystal mines are various forms of bullshit. Least favorite area by far.

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Hollow Knight, natch

In other bug-related news, I tried to start a new game as the Hivers. Just a few turns in, I decided to click on a news ticker message about completed ship construction on a whim. Instant crash, followed by what was essentially a CTD. I can't recall the game ever crashing for me before. Certainly not on something so innocuous.

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Sword of the Stars

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I think the only time I have seen SOTS crash was when I took 5 morrigi dreads vs 3 hiver dreads where both sides had high level armour and either stormers or pulsed phasers. The deflections ate the FPS for dinner then killed the game. Pity the AI loves stormers and sticks them on everything.