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[hector13]

I like warping into a fight and getting blown up in the crossfire with my crappy starting ship.

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Endless Space.

Quite fun otherwise, especially with thrusters and turning thrusters that are perhaps a bit too large for your ship.

[Iduno]

I like warping into a fight and getting blown up in the crossfire with my crappy starting ship.

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Endless Space.

Quite fun otherwise, especially with thrusters and turning thrusters that are perhaps a bit too large for your ship.

Although the turning thruster AI for jumps could use some work. "You're 1 degree off target, so I'm just going to turn 270 degrees the wrong way, then all the way back to fix it. Hope you don't have anyone shooting at you right now." Mostly it's a problem when you are doing multiple jumps to get somewhere.

But that makes the joy of getting a non-crappy ship so much better. I chose the clipper, and it's so much faster at everything. I may have to learn how to fight (smaller) pirates now. While carrying 10 passengers and 100 (minus quest delivery items) luxury goods to the next planet.


Edit: Also, I tried to get back into Baba is you. "Ok, I need to make this thing move. So, I'll...uh...well, I can't push it... I think I need to be it, then switch back while it's facing the opposite direction I need to be pushing the words?"

[Akura]

Went into an endless round armed with a glaive-guisarme on one shoulder, a Dane axe on the other, a dirk(a long dagger) on one hip and a healing potion on the other hip. Around wave 25(the only time I bothered to check how many waves I got through), I lost my glaive-guisarme to a physics bug that wrenched it from my hands and sent it and the body it was stuck in off into the blue yonder. A few waves I used my axe, then switched to the knife. Was getting low, my potion had less than 10% left. Was getting close to the end after at least 30 waves.

Then my headset crashed, possibly because one of the batteries in the controllers was almost dead.

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Blade & Sorcery + Medieval Mega Pack for all those weapons above.

[Dunamisdeos]

I built a rover for Duna

Thank you. It's lovely.

[Telgin]

Died about 20 times to the Ninth Sister in Jedi: Fallen Order.

This was particularly frustrating because I almost killed her on my very first try, then proceeded to get worse with every attempt.  I was close to throwing my mouse several times, and wanted to punch whoever programmed the dodge mechanic in this game because it felt like the game literally just flipped a coin when I hit the button to see if I dodged her attacks or not.

Then I accidentally rediscovered, 15 hours into the game, that if I hit the dodge button twice I roll out of the way.  Suddenly the fight is a cake walk.  As would have been numerous fights before this one. 

I want to like this game, but I just don't think I can like something that makes me this angry.

[Mephisto]

I suffocated about four or five times.

Astroneer. I stubbornly refused to touch the landing pad and couldn't figure out why tethers weren't connecting to my hab. I then attempted to drag some power generators I found right on the other side of the hill I landed next to but the hike just really took it out of me, I guess.

I then touched the landing pad and realized I was being dumb.

[Iduno]

Died about 20 times to the Ninth Sister in Jedi: Fallen Order.

This was particularly frustrating because I almost killed her on my very first try, then proceeded to get worse with every attempt.  I was close to throwing my mouse several times, and wanted to punch whoever programmed the dodge mechanic in this game because it felt like the game literally just flipped a coin when I hit the button to see if I dodged her attacks or not.

Then I accidentally rediscovered, 15 hours into the game, that if I hit the dodge button twice I roll out of the way.  Suddenly the fight is a cake walk.  As would have been numerous fights before this one. 

I want to like this game, but I just don't think I can like something that makes me this angry.

I have heard "game doesn't respond well to input" about this game quite a few times, so I don't think it's just you.

[Telgin]

A lot of it comes from the game's lack of mercy invulnerability, I think.  If someone smacks you, you do not get a chance to get up and recover before they can smack you again.  That leads to a lot of button mashing and screaming and wondering why you can't get out of the way of anything when it's just because two [insert random thing that has lightsaber resistant weapons] are beating on you and there's no chance to get a break.

But, in this case it was just her and me hitting the dodge button and sometimes I'd get out of the way of her unblockable attacks and sometimes I wouldn't.  There was no rhyme or reason to it, so I literally started yelling, "What am I doing wrong!?"  At least until I realized that I'd missed or forgotten the roll mechanic.

On a more humorous note, I got beaten to death by a purge trooper not long before.  Using his gun.  It's funny that he can beat you to death with it much faster than he can shoot you to death, and that like everything else in the game, somehow your lightsaber doesn't chop it to bits when you block it.

[Screech9791]

Tanks are fun and all until the enemy starts getting them, and even MK3 laser weapons can't deal reasonable damage to them.

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Xenonauts (with the X-Division mod aka Long War for xenonauts, some context

[Slax]

Got blasted by a doctor wielding a scavenged shotgun while fistfighting a gorilla in a swarm of cops and zombies.

[George_Chickens]

Got blasted by a doctor wielding a scavenged shotgun while fistfighting a gorilla in a swarm of cops and zombies.

whatgame

[SeriousConcentrate]

Sounds kind of like Streets of Rogue but that's just a guess.

[Robsoie]

Stars!
Taking my time fighting the Berzerkers and Pikardis to take their world and retake the ones they took from me with tons of transport and waves of defenders ships to block new attempts at re-invading my new acquisitions.

Then not noticing on the other side of the galaxy, the more technology backward Nulons that were ignoring all of us were instead busy of building colony ships after colony ships and colonizing 60% of the available planets.

Giving them an automatic win, damn my war with the Berzerkers and the Pikardis was going so greatly i should really have focused on colonizing things faster instead of going at with those enemies.

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[Iduno]

Endless Sky

I described my (hard-earned, hence the own) clipper build over in the own thread.

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I figured out some upgrades: Dwarf reactor, Atomic A250 + A255 engines, a radar jammer, 3 cargo expansions, 2 large bunks, toss the weapons, and put on a slightly larger shield. I guess reverse thrusters would be fun for jumping into hostile areas for deliveries and just stopping at the planet instead of turning around, but that's a bit of an edge case. Pirates already have some difficulty shooting me before I'm gone. I'm picking up every mission I feel like (>500 per ton hauled, or as much as I can get for passengers), and I'll be able to afford a nice escort and maybe a second clipper soon. There's even some extra space for scanners and/or solar panels.

I am updating here, because of the part about Pirates having difficulty shooting me. A pirate (even a a class or two larger) barely scratch my shields before I am gone. Two Pirates, (most recently a similar size ship to mine and a smaller ship) can tear me apart easily, because getting hit with a missile means I'm no longer aimed properly to jump out of the system. I can pull in ~2 million credits per real-time hour, but need to avoid pirates (plural, as I have learned).

I am considering dropping the extra bunks and cargo to upgrade the turning engines, add the reverse engines, and upgrade both the power and shields. Not for any particular use, but just to see if I can make deliveries into and back out of a warzone without dying. Or, more reasonably doing a few more missions and buying a pair of Roosts to act as my enforcers.

[hector13]

I think turning is more important than thrust.

Then again, I transport people, so I sell everything on the ship that doesn’t involve speed (thrust and turning) or adding more spots for people/better paying people.

I also discovered the reverse thrusters don’t seem to work automatically, so I sold those shortly after buying them.

I died many times after deleting my most recent save, but I did that while exploring, running out of fuel, being about 6 jumps away from anything approaching civilization, and occasionally being harassed/murdered very quickly by an alien race apparently made of violence and explosions.

My current save is going well, even with my self-imposed Ironman rules.