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[Akura]

For some reason had a compulsion to play this again. The feels, they're killing me. No wait, that's just Undyne's spears in my face.

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Undertale.

Have you considered trying an exorcism for your Arma?

Reloaded the save, barely scrounged up enough cash for an AA truck unit(two guys and truck with a mounted Titan) by stripping the garrison from Panochori. Adding my own missiles, I was actually able to stop them from taking Panochori... but unfortunately the AA truck was destroyed, and I don't know if it was from taking fire from a helicopter, a helicopter crashed into it(there was wrecked heli nearby) or if it was the enemy squad that managed to land... who subsequently shot me as well. Apparently respawning after dying also despawns enemy troops in the area.

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Arma 3

[Dutrius]

Bloody cliffracers. I thought I'd taken the proper precautions (casting Resist Magicka 100pts 1sec) when putting on the Boots of Blinding Speed (to counter the constant Blind 100pts effect), but I forgot to take my birthsign's Weakness to Magicka 50pts effect into account. So I effectively had a constant Blind 50pts on me.

You can't hit a bloody thing with Blind 50pts on you (I found that out after much wild sword flailing), so I tried to run to nearby Molag Mar, aggroing what seems like every bloody cliffracer in the Molag Amur region. Even with the Boots of Blinding Speed buffing your Speed by 200pts, you can't out run cliffracers.

Yes, I know magic will hit even when you're under the Blind effect. My Magicka bar was empty at the time.

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Morrowind. The walking and running animations are tied to the Speed stat, so boosting Speed by 200pts is hilarious in third person.

Not technically a death, but still an epic fail on my part.

I took the pilgrimage to Mount Kand. Saw a Flame Atronach in the caverns, so my immediate response is to kill it with magic from a safe distance. Only after I got to the non-hostile Frost Atronach further in did I realise I was supposed to talk to them.

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Morrowind. I knew a few Deadra were non-hostile, but I didn't expect these ones to be.

[nenjin]

I didn't die. I took a single hit.

Rinse and repeat for two solid fucking hours.

(For Honor Warrior Tests. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, this is not a game that does you any favors in "take no damage" challenges.)

[AzyWng]

I was waiting on docking clearance to enter a station that was taking forever.

I pressed on the mousepad by accident and shot the station.

Several Galcop vipers were positioned outside the station and they tore my ship to shreds in barely a few seconds.

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Oolite.

[Mephisto]

Doing a bit of B&E. Park my car around behind the target for ease of possession reassignment. Throw a brick through the window as I don't have any glass cutting tools. Hide in a dumpster as I know someone will call the police. No one knows where I am.

Police come around behind the house. "This car is parked strangely." My guy helpfully hops out of the dumpster he's in to claim the car. Time to load my last checkpoint.

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Thief Simulator

[MCreeper]

Noticed zergs rushing on one of my planets. Thinked that it's not a big deal and sent 15 cannon ships there. All massacred, zergs has taken no loses, because they just dodged all the things flying in them. Then i noticed second zerg rush, and sent 50 laser ships there (because you can't dodge a damn laser). With the same results. Turns out, it's Star Wars red pew-pew lasers.  Should have tried homing rockets, probably? If they even exist there.

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Sword of the stars

[George_Chickens]

Prepared for an incoming enemy air attack. I didn't know exactly where they'd strike, but I set up camp on the peak labeled Tafos, just north of Panchori. It was a good spot - the best spot since Panchori turned out to be their target. I took a truck, loaded it with with about a dozen Titan AA missiles(expensive since Titans never unlock infinite supply), some extra other supplies, and parked it at Tafos.

Saw about 6-7 helicopters and at least one UAV plane. Started firing as soon as I could get a lock. Enemy helicopters started dropping like flies. After clearing most of the wave, I look back towards the direction they came from, and see twenty more helicopters coming this way. I'm not even joking. Even with the extra MAAWS I brought with me, there's no way I can engage that. Even though I tried.

Oh, and if the helicopters reach their destination, it's apparently an instant win for them even with the defensive garrison I placed there.

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Arma 3: Antistasi.

Wow, that feels cheap. Is it not possible to play as a guerrilla and use completely temporary bases, being constantly on the move and abandoning them instead of defending?

[Akura]

Well yes, that's the idea even, except I had just taken the town and I was getting tired of the constant instant-loss attacks reclaiming my towns. After all, how can I expect to make any progress if I just keep handing everything back to the enemy?

Granted it probably would have been a whole lot easier(and cheaper) to let them have it and just do a supply mission to regain support. On the other hand, after eventually winning the anti-air battle, popular support(needed to claim towns) in Panochori went from ~55% to 97%.

[Akura]

I think I've got the scripting of how attacks are generated mostly figured out. Predicted an attack, and after a few save-scums nailed it down to the road the enemy was using to attack.

First attempt I didn't even realize it was a land attack, and prepared for an air raid. While building up my position I accidentally fired my rifle into the ground. Apparently this was enough that when the land attack came about 5 minutes later they instantly zeroed in my position and drove their APCs up the hill I was on. It was actually a tank that continued along the road; I shot it with a MAAWS directly in the rear from a few hundred meters away and it immediately turned its turret and hosed me with its coax-MG.

Last attempt, I set up a pretty fortified ambush point along the road. One APC ran over up to four AT mines(probably less), continued driving, and took two Titan AT missiles simultaneously(one mine, and a mounted one I had an AI squaddie use). Then in less then a second it sniped me with its main gun despite the fact that the rest of my squad were closer. What the hell are these things' armor made of? Fuckyounium?

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Arma 3. The Arma wiki states the Titan AT missiles can disable/kill a MBT in one or two shots, and lighter vehicles are pretty much screwed. Also, I'm not running any mods other than what Antistasi has integrated into the scenario.

[Madman198237]

The wiki fails to mention that shot placement matters, and that randomness may also play a part. Yes, it'll kill an MBT with two direct-fire shots to the rear. No, it may not kill (or even damage!) the same MBT with two shots to the front, or two top-attack shots, etc.

Also, mines suck unless you use enough in one spot to literally blow the tank off the road, or send a Marshall or lighter MRAP flipping through the air in a column of flame.

[PTTG??]

Arma would be a great game if the AI was at all plausible.

[Greiger]

Started playing monster hunter world.  Learned I can run around on maps without needing a quest set.

I'm gunna go look for that big t-rex looking thingy I found in the last story mission but was told to stay away from and kill it.  Show them for telling me what to do.

30 minutes later

Holy shit is that a Rathalos?    It is!  Now If I remember from the monster hunter game I played on the 3DS a rathalos is a late game monster.... 
*looks at level 1 bow and great jaggi armor*

I can take him.

Spoiler:  I could not.

[Mephisto]

Learned I can run around on maps without needing a quest set.

Sold.

[drilltooth]

Noticed zergs rushing on one of my planets. Thinked that it's not a big deal and sent 15 cannon ships there. All massacred, zergs has taken no loses, because they just dodged all the things flying in them. Then i noticed second zerg rush, and sent 50 laser ships there (because you can't dodge a damn laser). With the same results. Turns out, it's Star Wars red pew-pew lasers.  Should have tried homing rockets, probably? If they even exist there.

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Sword of the stars

if I recall, Point-defense is your best friend for that event.

[Burnt Pies]

Point Defense, or bring a tanker ship along. They explode rather energetically, so if the tiny stuff is swamping them when they boom, that's all the tiny stuff gone.