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[Tiruin]

I skipped about half of "Assault on the Control Room" on Heroic by stealing a Banshee that I wasn't supposed to get. Normally it's part of a scripted event and there's no way you can get to it in time to steal it, but I carried a rocket launcher with me way past the point of practicality just to kill the Elite that's supposed to use it. It still took a number of tries (the level exit is guarded by a huge mob of enemies that can shoot down the Banshee near instantly), but I finally did it.

Halo.

._.
I wondered why me killing the Banshee pilot (by total accident...with a sniper rifle) equaled much fun that way.
That was a fun part. Flying.

And I'm uncertain if that was a really scripted event, because if so, then I wouldn't be able to have got into one (in any other way than provided). Another method is using grenades to make splash damage to 'tip' over the Banshee and then get the pilot.

[Spehss _]

I... thought mega brutal was free?  It was free for me :/

Maybe this is one of those things where there's a different payment model on different platforms or something.

I have megabrutal on my Plague Inc copy. It's on PC and the copy was purchased through Steam though, I've heard there's differences between PC and mobile versions.

[Hanslanda]

The change came from Marius. Legionaries are being produced in all the Julii cities in the Roma region. The remaining armies of early legions were gathered and sent out to conquer lands for themselves.

Amulius the Profane led one such army against the city of Mediolanium. His mighty early legion laid siege against the city, and was attacked from behind by a supplemental force of Gauls. He stood against three thousand, five hundred Gauls, with one thousand good Romans at his side.

The battle began, a pair of wooded copses flanking either side of a gentle rise, towards a vast plain which the first Gaul army approached from, mostly Warbands. The second force came in directly behind Amulius. Amulius sent his four cohorts of Equites to hide in the eastern copse, while his six units of Triarii and four units of Archers hid in the other copse. Amulius and his silver experience bodyguard took the center of the glade. They charged the first army while the second advanced into the ambush laid for them. Amulius and two cohorts of Equites charged out, encircling and drawing out Virsuccius, leader of one Gaul army.

Virsuccius died, and his army swirled after the retreating cavalry, but Amulius took his men around the army and charged into the right flank of the enemy forces that were now embattled with his men. The other two cohorts of Equites also charged forth, striking enemy units in the rear. Gaulish cohesion started to break, units began running, but one Gaul leader remained, and he was rallying troops, despite his depleted bodyguard of five men.

The archers received an order, and four hundred Romans fired a single arrow each at five men.

With the fall of Tesciouvantus of Cassilovellanus, the remaining enemies fled.

Rome Total War

Goddamnit, Campaign on Very Hard is awesome.

[Zangi]

For some reason, my earlier forays into Helldivers, I seemed to have very little trouble with friendly fire.  But, now... after I got a reward for being high level, specifically the escape-teleport before I die gear.  The escape-teleport can be pretty disorienting when it procs.  I've since noticed that I am getting shot up by my own teammates, a lot. 
It may just be that I've just been pretty durn lucky with pugs in my first games...
Another possibility is that I may have become more aggressive, rather then cautious.  I may have used to prefer taking up rear guard.  Hmm... yea, that is probably it.  ...  I didn't notice that change till now.
Cause it is pretty glaring when some asshole carrying an automatic weapon sweeps the whole durn place, with me(or some other ally) obviously in the line of fire there.  Especially the ones sitting in a mech, shooting from across the screen.

Anyways, that feeling when I've managed to die zero times, while my allies have died more then 5 times each.   It basically means I've avoided death by enemy, by airdropped support and by friendly fire.  Heck yea.  Too bad that does not happen often.

... I can see myself playing this as much as L4D, at least for now.  Though... them Illuminates.  Fighting them sucks.  Their big guy unit has the highest potential of wiping out the whole crew in a matter of seconds if they catch us in a heavy firefight.  And the snipers are really annoying(but still dangerous).
Actually, the Illuminate big guy unit is the only unit that can instantly tip the balance and cause a party wipe when the whole party is spread out.  It also doesn't help that they do not have that distinct a look compared to its more common brethren... so reaction to their presence is slowed in a huge firefight.

[Akura]

After dealing with Whitney, Morty is just... pathetic. I only lost Butterfree, and even then it was to his overleveled Gengar that used Mean Look.

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HeartGold.

[Blaze]

Game is noted for difficulty.
Game is noted for slight control issues.
First run through a game.
PLAY ON HARD.

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Day One:
Ganging up on my character by enemies with upped stats being able to dodge regular attacks with 70-80% effectiveness. Yes, even the slimes.

Day Two:
GODDAMN BATS.

Day Three:
Boss battle with an enemy that moves faster, swings faster, hits harder, blocks, occasionally ignores hit stuns, and casts an area sleep spell.
Reward? Character that does absolutely nothing. (Okay, well it does pickup dropped coins).

Day Four:
Regular mook that deals as much damage as the first boss, flies, has a ranged attack, moves fast, and has an area sleep attack. Occasionally comes in packs of three.
Regular mook that swings faster, has longer range, and appears in packs in areas where I am forced to use my squishy wizard.
Said squishy wizard's magic takes time to cast. Enemies are resistant to all one of her attack spells.
Regular mook that spams ranged spell that paralyzes and can heal other enemies with no apparent limits.

Day Five:
Lose party healer.
POISON.
Mook recolor with previous weak point now its strongest attack.
GODDAMN RATS.

Day Five point Five:
Sudden character change from level 7 warrior to level 2 wizard/rogue. Enemies still same level.
Switched back to main character after long and painful dungeon dive... directly into forced boss battle with no equipment.
AREA SLEEP ATTACKS FOR EVERYONE.

Day Six:
Cave where all enemies have AREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAM.
Several sections where you're forced to use your squishy wizard. All enemies resistant to all two of her attack spells.
Forced to backtrack through same dungeon.

Day Seven:
Lose party healer. AGAIN.
new enemies in dungeon. One moves and swings faster, one spams unblockable attacks, and archers; which are of course, placed on the ledges of precarious jumps.
Enemies are almost always encounter in threes.
EVERYTHING BLOCKS. EVEN THE ARCHERS.


Is it worth it to go through this?

You tell me.

[KingofstarrySkies]

WHAT GAME :C

[i2amroy]

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

[Noel.se]

I didn't prepare properly for the war and my enemy has way more troops than me. Turns out the battle preview  is a loose guideline at best. Just because it tells you "very likely defeat" doesn't mean you can't win. Twice. Granted, the city walls helped.

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Age of Wonders 3.

[Akura]

Okay. I should not be able to completely wipe Jasmine's team like that. Goddamn, her Steelix was 11(about 50% more) levels higher than Quilava. Quilava only took scratch damage(from Sandstorm - Steelix did not last long enough to attack twice). What the hell is wrong here? Jasmine was always a problem for me on the GBC games mainly because of that level difference.

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Pokemon HeartGold. Okay, so Quilava had Flamethrower(thank you Game Corner), but still that was ridiculous.

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

I hadn't even looked at or even thought about Fortune Summoners for a very long time and it was also my guess. Never bought it, only played the demo.

[Spehss _]

I shot a ghast fireball right back at the ghast that shot it at me and killed it. Ha, achievement get. Totally meant to do that.

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Minecraft Hardcore

Was trying to hit a ghast that was super far away. Had shot it once, but it flew out of range. Me trying to shoot it again lead to me hitting the fireball and yeah.

Also nearly died in the nether again. Was suspicious of the shelf of gravel I was standing on and decided to build a more structurally sound bridge on top of it. Upon placing the first block the whole shelf collapsed. I survived the fall with half a heart. That was crazy. Lesson learned, never trust gravel in the nether. Never stand on gravel in the nether. Never even breathe on gravel in the nether.

[Arx]

As long as you don't trigger a block update, it's safe. So you can walk, run, jump, whatever, but the instant you put a torch down or a ghast clips it...

[NRDL]

Been havin fun with DF raws, copied the human creature template with only a few changes, namely I maxed out the speed for everything and named this new overpowered race "Speedster".  Tested it in arena mode, I can now easily outwalk dragon fire.

[Reudh]

Okay. I should not be able to completely wipe Jasmine's team like that. Goddamn, her Steelix was 11(about 50% more) levels higher than Quilava. Quilava only took scratch damage(from Sandstorm - Steelix did not last long enough to attack twice). What the hell is wrong here? Jasmine was always a problem for me on the GBC games mainly because of that level difference.

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Pokemon HeartGold. Okay, so Quilava had Flamethrower(thank you Game Corner), but still that was ridiculous.

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

I hadn't even looked at or even thought about Fortune Summoners for a very long time and it was also my guess. Never bought it, only played the demo.

While Steelix has pretty titanic defenses, its Special Defense is not so good. (For reference, a maxed out Steelix can have up to 548 defense, but maxed out Special Defense only 251 at level 100.)

Hence, because Flamethrower is a "special" move, it affects Steelix's shaky Special Defense, and probably melted the steel snake easily.

[Thexor]

Besides the Sp. Def., it's also worth noting that Steelix is Steel/Ground, and thus has a 2x weakness to Fire. I mention this because I always thought he was Steel/Rock, which would be neutral to Fire.
His HP is also low (base stat 75, compared to 95 Sp. Def. and 230 Def.).

In summary, hit Steelix with a special Fire attack, and he melts. Literally and figuratively.