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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10635 on: June 21, 2024, 11:47:24 am »

Five extra balls, two buy-ins, one billion points and two fragments locked.

Pretty good run in all. Doubt I'll ever "win" this game, but steadily doing better's fine by me.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10636 on: June 22, 2024, 05:44:16 pm »

I've been a Legend scrub for ages. But today, after banging my head against it for 12-14 attempts with bots, I finally broke down and opened up the game to randos... And after a few starts, with their help I managed to break through and complete Dark Omens on Cataclysm.

All for a silly frame, which I'm not even gonna use on the career I managed to take through that process... But man if Warrior Priest doesn't let me feel like I'm still contributing to the team, even if I do play like a mildly concussed chimp.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10637 on: June 30, 2024, 11:41:00 am »

Threw myself into masses of debt doing so, but I beat the absolute shit out of America as Mexico. While troop-for-troop I wasn't as strong, I used the conscription efforts edict to strengthen myself. My army went from about 50 to 200 units. The US just couldn't keep up with that. Got a couple of small territories out of it, revoked their claim on Texas, and released New Africa to damage their economy. Should have done New England, but oh well, didn't think of it.

Next step, invade the US.

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« Reply #10638 on: June 30, 2024, 12:20:43 pm »

Issued a judgement giving harsh punishments to poachers. Then I proceeded to fund further construction of my village with a combination of poaching and robbery. You know, doing things in the proper medieval way.

After returning to Pribyslavitz and dropping off the coin, I encountered a poacher in the woods. First he talked shit to me, so I walked over and just grabbed the meat from the deer he killed(it didn't flag as stolen for me, because the woods - and all game therein - are mine to use as I see fit as Bailiff), which provoked him to raising fists against me. That's right, the tattered-clothed poacher saw the guy covered head-to-toe in full plate armor and had the full legal right(and probably, responsibility) to straight up murder him, and decided to throw hands. After pummeling the crap out of him, he begged to surrender. I said "no", and he pulled an axe. So I pulled my longsword, and mortally knocked him to the ground and then stomped his head in. Also in the proper medieval way.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10639 on: June 30, 2024, 05:22:04 pm »

Game's approaching its end. Mexico has become a major power (Not *the* major power, but one of them, and the only one with a major presence in the New World). I've beaten America back into being about half its size, stalled only because the infamy from conquering a single state is too much for me to be arsed to deal with. The British Republic tried to take the Haudenosaunee nation from me and I won that war, liberating Canada and taking Belize as well as getting a nice 80K/week injection for five years for my trouble. Pretty much nobody can actually stand up to me so long as the war's on my turf.

Next up is turning myself into the predominant communist power. And not the shitty authoritarian communism, the one where everyone has a voice. Might even go for an anarchist state if the opportunity arises.

Mexico enters the 20th century full of hope and power!

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10640 on: July 01, 2024, 02:28:02 am »

Unifier of Africa bro.

The last four counties (of over 400!) were held by the Abassids, who were on par with me in terms of troop number, so I hatched a plan to murder all of the current emperor’s children to make it easier.

Turns out it was even easier than that; the eldest child had twins born three months before I assassinated him, and then he inherited the Abassid title shortly after that.

Their troop numbers went from 30k+ down to 16k, and they had a massive civil war while I took the remaining counties for myself, though I did have to become a truce breaker to do that. Oh well.

Now I just need to mop up the heathens and convert the last few counties to Bori, and I’ll have got the ‘chievo for converting all African counties to a reformed African faith after starting as a particular character.

It only took me 280 years!

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10641 on: July 01, 2024, 12:08:59 pm »

Cleared the final dungeon, got a neat sword.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10642 on: July 06, 2024, 04:30:51 am »

Absolutely nailed the latest PokeDoku. Given I rarely ever succeed, breezing through one felt good.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10643 on: July 06, 2024, 08:04:05 pm »

Random encounter with a slave trader. Bought an assassin girl at a similar level to mine, price was pretty reasonable. Since she's a melee fighter while my other companion was a healer and I'm a spellcaster, she got killed a bunch of times, which tanks their relationship value. Paying to raise them doesn't restore the relationship. She even claimed I treated her badly :'(.

A few careful gifts and conversations(and doing a slightly better job of not getting her killed), I managed to get it back up to a more neutral level.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10644 on: July 09, 2024, 12:42:36 pm »

A mechanoid cluster woke up at the same time a massive sightstealer attack occurred, and immediately afterwards we were attacked by 6 manhunting grizzlies.

Total casualties: Four pigskins from a caravan, three downed-but-rescued (They triggered the cluster). Two downed pawns, one lost arm, one lost thumb, a bunch of minor injuries. Some of my relations with the pigskins.

Total wins: Bunch of stuff from the caravan, materials from the cluster, 22 sightstealer corpses, 6 rotten bear corpses, some recovery of relations with the pigskins from rescues.

All that with one machinegun and two SMGs, and everyone else with various axes, gladiuses etc.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10645 on: July 11, 2024, 06:38:02 pm »

Beat the game's superboss, who is basically DIO voiced by Alucard*.

Setup was a Betelgeuse gun with diamond bullets and Recycler Hat(infinite ammo, pain in the ass to get), Flame Armor, Solomon's and Traverser's Rings for as much attack power as I could. Equipped shards were Welcome Company(to shield me during his timestop), Accelerator for mobility, and a maxed out Firearms Expertise for gun. Betelgeuse is the third-best gun, but second best has issues with actually hitting and the first best is a helluva money grind. Basic enemies outside the main base were taking over 300 points in damage per shot. The boss took a little over 190, and has ~10k.

The main difficulty from the fight is simply reacting to his attacks quickly enough. First move is to flip the room over right away, which avoids the main danger of contact damage. His fire pillar and ice shard attacks can be dodged by running to the opposite side of the room before they fire. The only real danger is his jump attacks which can hit the ceiling, and of course, his timestop. It's pretty much impossible to dodge that, but Welcome Company can block some of the hits.

After one or two failures, the whole fight felt easy.

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EDIT: Broke the game some more before fighting the final boss. Took me waaay too long to find the Augment Gold shard, which causes money drops to increase dramatically. By about 100x more. Quickly got the Gilded Youth achievement, an achievement that, according to Steam's statistics, is the third-rarest non-DLC achievement(I don't know if the Overlord achievement requires the DLC) that's been gotten, with only 16.3% of players having it at the time of writing. Then I spent pretty much all of that money on stuff to enhance other passive shards - fun fact: if you max out the rank of a passive(yellow) shard, it becomes a permanent skill(white) shard that's always active... and you can still equip the yellow one to double up. It also took me way to long to realize that you needed to get extra copies of shards before they really get useful.

Equipped two Traversal Rings, which boosts stats based on map completion - I have literally one single chunk missing for 100%.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10646 on: July 20, 2024, 03:07:00 am »

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I've just cured my fear of cyberdiscs using stolen autolasers. Also helped that some high-ranking academy gimps blasted themselves with sleep blaster bombs. Didn't even have to savescum that much.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10647 on: July 22, 2024, 05:43:40 am »

Sliding in just before the cutoff point for the weekly, I managed to pull through with a win... And a real win at that, not just carried through by other players, as I had multiple clutch moments and was regularly saving/clearing for the other randos who'd joined in. Damn near soloed the extremely rough minotaur who showed up in the final arena.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #10648 on: July 24, 2024, 06:48:35 am »

Finally got around to beating Book of Hours. Two months before release of DLC that will probably make it how it was supposed to be from the start.  >:(

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« Reply #10649 on: August 01, 2024, 03:28:06 pm »

Just barely got one of my Saberdramon to digivolve into Megadramon. The other Saberdramon died almost immediately after. Which means that was a close call for the first one, since they both ought to have had the same lifespan(or close to it). Note that this is the very first generation of partners and my first time playing it, so I don't have a full grasp of the mechanics yet.

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EDIT: First time reaching Mega-stage, which have high stat requirements to digivolve. More so, I got Kentaurosmon, a Royal Knight with even higher stat requirements. Rapidmon was starting to show early signs of old age, so it didn't have much longer. It took a lot of specialized training food and money(for more food, mainly the restaurant) Hopefully, this final digivolution, along with the tamer skills that increase lifespan, will give it a few more days to kick ass.

A few minutes after that the other partner, MegaKabuterimon(Blue) - the third time in a row despite each rebirth being a different egg and only the first starting out in the insectoid line - became GranKuwagamon.

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