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[McTraveller]

Mauled by a Watcher - Scrapper pack.

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I finally picked up a copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn as it was cheap.

[Kagus]

Mauled by a Watcher - Scrapper pack.

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I finally picked up a copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn as it was cheap.

Spear is love, spear is life. For a game about being techno-Merida, the true bows are honestly a bit lackluster compared to a few of the other alternatives. Like SPEAR.

[Akura]

Got halfway through Waterfall...

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that you get no indication that you've started a Genocide run until you've actually Genocided the Ruins. Meaning I killed a bunch of innocent people, but failed to kill ALL the innocent people. Had to reset and start over.

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Undertale.

[Sirus]

I'd call you a monster, but that'd be an insult to the poor monsters you're fighting.

[hector13]

It’s fun though.

There’s also really good music, that you’ll be hearing a lot.

[JimboM12]

ah, this is cool, i remember this... what the fuck's that thing?

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resident evil 2 remake. won't spoil what took me out, play the game, its awesome

[EnigmaticHat]

A relatively new soldier got hit by an unseen alien and reduced to 3 health.  He also was bleeding, meaning he'd take 5 damage at the end of the turn.  He also panicked and fled... into mid air.  Using his $60,000 sentinel armor.  Which was permanently destroyed next turn when he fell 3 storeys to his death and gibbed himself.

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Xenonauts.  Fortunately in his rush to flee he dropped his $120,000 gun, so it was saved the fate of his armor

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[MCreeper]

Continuing with X-piratez "derail".
Me, after looting sonic something from underwater mission, researching it and getting submarine cannon from it: "There are underwater UFOs!?
Me, after seeing someone's comment few posts up: "There are Bloodborne enemies!?"
Me, after getting my base attacked second time: "There are Doom enemies!?"
And since i just can't be bothered to build another barrack and get some more people to defend my base and make some cider, i got to defend with just one of my starting six armed with heavy shotgun. What followed was 130 turns long ordeal, at the end of which i looked up some cheats, since i just wasn't able to find that damn third last enemy to make last two visible on the map. Also, she killed 36 enemies and has drunk whole barrel of grog to not drop unconscious from wounds and exhaustion (it does not makes sense in context).
Just after the end of the mission, 10 UFOs begin circling above my base.
Me: "Hell, no!"
*bunch of fresh meat comes in*
Base is under attack!
Me "You got to be kidding me."
And what do you think, it's Doom people again!
And so i fought with this fresh meat and few soldiers that recuperated before this attack, multiple times. Lost in all, mostly due to atrocious weapon pick (i could have just restarted properly, but...). And imps and tough guys with plasma guns (quite a jump in technologies!), who come mostly behind the initial wave of trash. Who would have thought that humble fireball will turn into huge AOE bomb that sets everyone on fire and nullyfies TU's on next turn due to morale damage, and of which those accursed things can spew out three per turn. Anyways, since i'm such a jerk, here are the saves of this thing, if someone wants to look at it. 

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 http://www.mediafire.com/file/021mjm21kraqpye/piratez.rar/file
.sav should go into *main game folder*\user\piratez. "1" is save for beginning of base attack.

At least enemies also can have horrible spot check failures. Also, damn, those names of "meat". Such larks, such larks!

[Akura]

There’s also really good music, that you’ll be hearing a lot.

In particular, Battle Against a True Hero.

It tends to fall apart around the second red segment. While I've learned to use X to slow down and dodge the spears, it doesn't always work. And the next two turns while green, the spears move too fast for me to see if they're blue or yellow.

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Undertale.

[itisnotlogical]

I assumed the weapon that single-handedly won the first battle for me was the musket. It was actually the shotgun, combined with Large Vixen's high Firing skill. I couldn't staunch any bleeding that occured, because my recruited peasants can hardly carry their own weapon let alone bandages and a torch. To top it all off, Serious Herring accidentally brained a nearby Uber with her hammer instead of the Academy nurse right in front of her.

I think that'll be a restart. Despite the faster pace and different setting this game is still 100% as scary and tense as X-Com.

Is there any way to tell what faction a ship belongs to before it lands and you attack it?

X-Piratez.

[Rolan7]

If you intercept the ship (even without weapons) there's a button to "view" it, which is a clue.  Otherwise you need the hyperwave decoder which is moderately far in.  I haven't unlocked it again yet.

The hammer counts as a "ranged" weapon, but with only 1 tile of range, so I consider it useless for attacking enemies since they'll very often shove it out of the way like a gun.  Bit of a shame, but it's an engine limitation which does allow it to target walls.

[itisnotlogical]

The hammer counts as a "ranged" weapon, but with only 1 tile of range, so I consider it useless for attacking enemies since they'll very often shove it out of the way like a gun.

I noticed when an enemy tried firing point-blank at my melee units, some of the shots went wild. Is that supposed to represent them grabbing the gun and forcing it away?

[Rolan7]

That's correct, yeah.  Theoretically there's some arcane roll, but I generally just assume most defenders will make it.  Your units do it too though, so it's very useful.  Closing to melee pretty much negates their guns.

It does cost a significant amount of energy per shot, though, and doesn't happen if the defender runs out.

[deoloth]

The CQC chances formula is given in one of the numbered techs (ex. #123). I think you can get it from the decoded discs.

[Greiger]

Relatively lategame, I finally get to survey a system one of my hostile neighbors has been keeping me from surveying.  They couldn't survey it themselves either due to the crystal aliens in the system, (though they should have been able to overpower the crystals, I don't know why they didn't) but as I had the tech to pacify the crystal aliens they were no threat to my survey crew.

Anomaly, a SOS beacon.  Apparently a civilian ship had somehow been captured by pirates. What a civilian ship was doing in what was until a year ago behind enemy lines, and what the pirate base was doing in the most heavily guarded part of my empire I guess I won't know, but I go to rescue the captives.  I send my 30k fleet power to attack the 200 fleet power pirate base.  The captives say they will try to escape once I start attacking the pirate station.

Fleet battlestations, the fleet capital ship fires it's tachyon lance....   and one shots the pirate station.... Seems the captives did not reach the escape pods in time.   Oops.

Stellaris