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[Screech9791]

Are those steel walls? Are they still flammable?

Nope, marble. I'm pretty sure steel used to be 20% flammable, but now it's 40% flammable.

As for how the colony is currently faring, production is slowly getting back to normal, and the former medbay is now infestation bait and a cooler exhaust room, which will (hopefully) cause the insects to burn in a painful superheated fire. Using the devmode view menu, it turns out that the medbay was the only valid infestation place, but now that it's walled off, they'll either spawn in the enclosed and extremely hot former medbay, or (rarely) in the workshop.

[Rolan7]

Half Life 2 gets really fricken hard towards the end, actually?  Like 2-4 striders at a time, with allies blocking your cover, and the box of rockets you need is hidden in an alley at the end of a winding maze with their precious verticality.  Not to mention all the Overwatch troopers who spawn in flanking positions above you all the time.  Gotta love hitscan weapons - it's a blessing when they pause to throw a grenade or launch an energy ball (lol gravity gun).

Striders, though.  It takes like 6 RPG rockets, so even once you run the maze (using brave rebel soldiers as... distractions), it still takes a while - and literally one second out of cover can take away half your health.

What a strange game.  The last chapter is a cakewalk by comparison, but nice and moody.

Half Life 2

[Dostoevsky]

Right as I finally get around to starting construction of a proper perimeter wall, over a dozen raiders coming from three different directions decide to swing by. Lost a couple of good folks (and pets).

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Rimworld.

In retrospect, modded races with below-average body sizes don't really make for good melee soldiers, brawler trait or not. Little goblin shieldbearer still fell like a house of cards.

[Greiger]

Yea you can learn very quickly how fragile the little guys can be.  Even if they don't have any built in health or combat disadvantages like many do, their small bodysize alone reduces max hp significantly.  The only thing a small bodysize helps in combat is making them harder to hit with guns.

I remember losing an avali colonist to a fox once, just because they had so little hp.  While at the same time my Centaur is a melee goddess but it's almost like she is made out of something that makes bullets curve so they can hit her through 4 embrasures a wall and a window with a smg from the next map over.

[itisnotlogical]

Things were going swimmingly in the tutorial mission, I had the orc leader surrounded with all sorts of fighters, rangers and shamans, I was just waiting for an opportunity to attack at daytime...

And Ballsack the elf ended the mission because I took too long. It's not like the orcs are going anywhere, they're producing one unit per turn and don't get very far before I cut them down. After a long period of extremely generous escape sequences, I've started to remember why I hate time limits in games.

Battle for Wesnoth.

[Mathel]

Yeah, without there being a stated reason for a time limit, they can get very annoying. But they are there for a gameplay reason. At least in campaigns, that is. Without a time limit, you could just get all the villages, recruit/recall exactly so that you would be still gaining money and then stand there farming both XP and money.

All it takes is for the story to give a reason why you can't just do that for them to be less annoying.

Oh and funny thing from Wesnoth as well: In an MP scenarios with multiple players, if turns run out, everyone loses. I guess that the gods of Irdya just nuke the place or something.

[itisnotlogical]

I do quite like Wesnoth, I think, but a time limit on every single mission is a pretty big caveat.

It must be a consequence of being able to "recall" units across a scenario, a feature of Wesnoth I really like, but time limits do seem like the only way to balance it against the potential for XP and gold farming. Another way might have been to make it so that player-controlled villages run out of gold; perhaps if they were gold mines or other large-but-finite resources. XP farming would be harder to solve, but there's probably a way.

[Mathel]

It would be easy enough to give an event that drops g/village to 0 after certain conditions are met (current turn, enemy/player strength, etc.)

About XP farming, I am not sure. I have an idea that would prevent it but could be a memory drain.

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#define AUTOMATIC_UNRECALL DELAY
[event]
    name=recruit
    first_time_only=no
    [set_variable]
        name=to_unrecall
        value=$turn_number+{DELAY}
    [/set_variable]
    [event]
        name=turn $to_unrecall
        first_time_only=yes
        delayed_variable_substitution=no
        [store_unit]
             [filter]
                  id=$unit.id
             [/filter]
             variable=unrecalled
             kill=yes
        [/store_unit]
        [unstore_unit]
             variable=unrecalled
             x,y=recall,recall
        [/unstore_unit]
    [/event]
    [clear_variable]
        name=to_unrecall
        value=$turn_number+{DELAY}
    [/clear_variable]
[/event]
[event]
    name=recall
    first_time_only=no
    delayed_variable_substitution=no
    [set_variable]
        name=to_unrecall
        value=$turn_number+{DELAY}
    [/set_variable]
    [event]
        name=turn $to_unrecall
        first_time_only=yes
        [store_unit]
             [filter]
                  id=$unit.id
             [/filter]
             variable=unrecalled
             kill=yes
        [/store_unit]
        [unstore_unit]
             variable=unrecalled
             x,y=recall,recall
        [/unstore_unit]
    [/event]
    [clear_variable]
        name=to_unrecall
        value=$turn_number+{DELAY}
    [/clear_variable]
[/event]
#enddef
The macro I just wrote should automaticaly unrecall every unit {DELAY} number of turns after it is recruited or recalled. It could be tweaked to only apply to player units by adding further filters to the primary events.

Edited because I realised I made an error in the code.

[Iduno]

Yeah, the time limit in Fallout was removed, even though it was loose enough that neither of the players who ran into it should have. It was removed because it just adds stress to the player unnecessarily.

Or it's like in the Pathfinder computer game, where they don't tell you how anything is supposed to work, because the answer is always disappointment or the devs don't know either.


Edit: And my point about Pathfinder was going to be that the time limit is to prevent you from interacting with the game more than is necessary. Probably the best use of a time limit, except it's way too long, doesn't always apply, and doesn't do the right thing by just uninstalling the game for you after you've played enough.

[Teneb]

I was very, very close to completing a 100% Skryim run.

Then my saves got corrupted. Damn you and your bugs, Bethesda!

[Iduno]

Meanwhile, at Bethesda:

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[itisnotlogical]

I was very, very close to completing a 100% Skryim run.

Then my saves got corrupted. Damn you and your bugs, Bethesda!

My Fallout 4 Hardcore game was nearly killed by a bug in the Memory Den that killed all the scripts and made it impossible to advance. On Xbox without the cheat console, I would have been screwed; luckily, I somehow discovered an autosave that the game had made for me prior to the Memory Den.

[Kagus]

I've been talking with someone who was 70 hours into Assassin's Creed: Odyssey when the main quest softlocked and she had to start the game over from scratch

[pisskop]

I was very, very close to completing a 100% Skryim run.

Then my saves got corrupted. Damn you and your bugs, Bethesda!

My Fallout 4 Hardcore game was nearly killed by a bug in the Memory Den that killed all the scripts and made it impossible to advance. On Xbox without the cheat console, I would have been screwed; luckily, I somehow discovered an autosave that the game had made for me prior to the Memory Den.

Never Ironman.  even when playing with ironman conduct.

[hector13]

Rolling saves. If I’m doing something I expect to take a lot of time, 3 save files used in sequence until they’ve all been used, then overwrite them as necessary in the same sequence.