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[Tawa]

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I don't want to spoil it too much, but think of it this way. You're playing an RPG, you're making a character, and you're reading up the little class descriptions. One class is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with a sword, and has a variety of combos for handling all sorts of different situation. It's a cool class. Then the next class in the list is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with mace, but they have the exact same combos that apply in the exact same situations as before. Repeat that process for axes, staves, spears, and halberds. Just about the time you're ready to psychically punch the developer in the soul for the self-derivative drivel, you find a class that's a wizard base who specializes in defeating opponent and solving problems using nothing but the growth and manipulation of body hair. Then you see a class that's a rogueish type, except you don't remember rogues riding crocodiles or being able to prop up the corpses of their slain foes into threatening meat puppets. Still a little surprised, you flip the last class tab to find a class that contains individuals who have separated their minds from their bodies and live entirely as body jumping parasites that feed upon the emotions of their hosts and can control their actions.

That's what I mean by standout. They just... stand out, they can't really help it.

I kinda figured you meant something like this already. I'm not really afraid of spoilers, so can you tell me what, exactly, actually makes them so special?

[Spehss _]

I kinda figured you meant something like this already. I'm not really afraid of spoilers, so can you tell me what, exactly, actually makes them so special?

Spoilers.

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One is a brain-infecting parasite worm that controls the host's mind and can do things such as make them worship the worm as a god, make them do incredibly stupid and risky things such as reopen ports despite the huge epidemic of brainworms going around, or legalize gladiator events, or make public suicide booths for all the people committing suicide in the name of the glorious god BrainWorm. Or you can just devour their brains.

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One is simian flu which makes apes smart. Basically you control the Planet of the Apes disease. Haven't played this yet.

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And one is zombies. It becomes less about infecting everyone to death and more about managing the millions of zombies you have spread around the earth while combating anti-zombie agencies and keeping your zombies from starving or rotting to death before everyone's dead.

The rest are just different takes on the "infect everyone and kill everyone to win" bacterial disease.

There's also unique scenarios simulating actual diseases like the Black Plague or swine flu, but again, I haven't tried any of them yet.

[Eric Blank]

Bad glorious good time tonight. Conquered entire nord nation, including four castles and both Sargoth and Tirh on my own. King asshole didnt award me Sargoth. >:c Captured king Ragnar not once, but twice, and got a castle in my name. Now if only the castle wasn't on the opposite side of the nation from the village I run...

Mount & Blade: Warband

[acetech09]

I dust off tf2 to derp around with a friend (it's still one of the best lighthearted play-with-friends games I know of atm) and end up with a 7 killstreak - as a punch heavy.

We were trying to do taunt kill heavies but we just beat everyone to a pulp with soviet fists.

[nenjin]

I was the last man standing on my team, playing Medic. I was almost completely out of ammo, and facing a wounded Skrake who was keen to chop me up into little bits. Even with my movement speed boost from Medic, I was barely able to stay ahead of him, let alone walk to reload my weapon or heal myself.

So finally I said fuck it, turned around and bitch slapped him in the face with the butt of my weapon. He stumbled back a few feet, and I turned and ran again. When I'd made some distance, I turned around to meet his next charge, and bitch slapped him again. The third time I did it, his head exploded into gore in slow motion, and the wave ended. It was an amazing experience.

Killing Floor 2.

[acetech09]

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Melee Stun: It saves lives.™

It also makes berserker a feasible class.

[TheDarkStar]

It also makes berserker a feasible class.

I thought that was the demoknight + charge?

[bluejello]

er, pretty sure that snip was relating to killing floor 2, not TF2

[nenjin]

er, pretty sure that snip was relating to killing floor 2, not TF2

Yuh.

[DreamThorn]

I destroyed three entire space fleets with only four spaceships, no time for repairs in between, and only lost one ship.

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The game is StarDrive 2.  It is mostly a worthy successor for Master of Orion 2: it just needs a few balance changes and AI tweaks.

[Akura]

Apparently the best way to deal with a wave of fireballs coming at you is to drop-kick the fire.

Alternately, you can throw a ball of pure spite at them and watch them collide, but that was slightly less awesome and I didn't feel like changing equipment.

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Castlevania: Order of Ecclessia.

[Greiger]

Apparently lizardman > goblin.  Once their chainsaws and bombs and ball and chain fanatics were off the field they were completely destroyed. (Even with them around I still scored, it was just harder)  Even my skinks were strong enough to get 2 dice blocks on the majority of the goblins, and by my third goal about halfway through the second half there were more goblins dead or wounded in the hospital than there were on the field.

The last play of the game was even a kickoff and I got a defensive blitz bonus turn where one of my skinks rushed forward and caught the ball my own team kicked 2 spaces from the goal line. and the goblin team came within one space of pushing my guy into a touchdown trying to tackle him. I don't know if that would have counted as a touchdown though, consitering it was the other team's turn, and game would have ended before my next turn.  Game ended with a score of 4-0.

The goblin team's value started at 1600 ish at the start of the match, and after my team was through with them it was in the low 700s.

Bloodbowl Chaos edition

[TempAcc]

This reminds me of the time I went against a halfling team with an underworld team that had 2 skaven blitzers with block, mighty blow, horns, claws and frenzy + a warpstone troll with mighty blow, claw and block. By the end of the match there were only the treants left on the field.

Anyways, on topic: Got isolated in a battle against a polish army and was being chased down on foot by 3 pikemen/halberdiers and 3 scottish mercenaries. I turned my back to them and started running, causing them to form a line, then  turned around, pulled out my dutch double barreled pistol and shot two of them down, then pulled my dutch double barreled carbine and shot down two others, finally pulling out my broadsword and slashed the last two to death. Some time later I found myself a horse and managed to escape that losing battle.

Mount&Blade: With Fire and Sword.

[Greiger]

Yea those damn treants man.  A couple matches before I was up against a halfling team and had to settle for a tie.  Those 2 treants managed to consistently get 4 or 5 saurians locked up in midfield, since only a couple have break tackle.  Usually I dominate midfield, and it was hard to work with the other way around.

[Blaze]

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Although I technically lost, I consider it a win since I beat 4 out of 8 with no losses using one destroyer flagship and 4 freighters turned impromptu missile boats.

These things are insane, their fighters are as tough as some frigates and hit like cruisers. I lost 2/3 of my hull to a single missile.