Yeah, I've lost many promising characters to the bloody enner beast. And a good trick is to drop all your equipment before entering a new level...
Maybe debuff a little as well. Or polymorph into a rabbit, for maximum cheatishness.
Anyway, Nenjin eventually died to me being ignorant of the fact that wands of acid rain can apparently explode and do extra damage. I wasn't paying too much heed to mines, since I wasn't carrying any explosives and I had a cloak and ring of fire resistance, but the acid rain wand exploded and insta-killed him.
Especially annoying because I had gained a
lot more loot since my last post... An arcanite fullhelm and... I think it was an enchanted meteoric steel platemail from the corpse of an old character; I had enchanted my belt of carrying and my meteoric steel scythe was up to +4. Still quite a bit of ownage before my death, but I sure hope I stumble upon that loot in a future game...
Onto my latest ownage: So, after getting Steam to work I tried out TF2. It's better than I expected. (Which is to say, my expectations were pretty low.
) But I'm not good enough at it to own online yet, that's not where I'm going with this.
I also bought the bundle of the original X-Com games, and I've been playing UFO Defence. After a disastrous 3-or-so missions which lost me several soldiers, a skyranger and a heap of funding, I started to get a bit more of an idea what I was doing. Frequent interceptor patrols, heavily-armed squads(no armour yet sadly), plenty of covering fire...
But the ownage part was having one of my soldiers promoted for the first time.
The newly recruited Shigeo Kojima, a promising soldier due to a combination of reaction speed and accuracy, was bumped up to sergeant after his first mission. Scoffing at his teammates, pinned down before the crashed UFO, trading ineffectual shots with a sectoid rifleman taking cover behind it, Shigeo strode up, marched around the corner and shot it in the face with his dual-wielded laser pistols.
Shigeo's next mission, another downed UFO, would net him two more alien kills- although at a cost.
This was my first mission where the UFO had landed amongst buildings, and also my first encounter with what I assume was a blaster launcher. One of my more competent soldiers had just ducked across the street from the skyranger, under cover of a smokescreen, when she was obliterated by an alien missile that leveled one wall of a building.
The rest of the squad was busily chucking rockets in the direction of another alien, who had already killed one squad member with a plasma shot. Its reign of terror ended when it showed its face as Shigeo left the ship, shooting it once and killing it.
Then the remaining four soldiers split into two groups, the rocket-launcher guy and the hopeless bumbling moron with the heavy cannon heading around one side of the building next to the UFO, Shigeo and a rookie taking the other.
Long story short, they didn't find anything in the building, and couldn't catch more than a glimpse of the remaining aliens, until Shigeo planted a high explosive charge on the UFO and retreated to crouch beside a wall. His partner was around the other side of the UFO, checking for aliens. (The other two were derping around in a field achieving nothing.)
The charge went off, and while it didn't seem to damage the alien ship at all, it drove the last alien out of hiding and it fired twice at Shigeo's back- both shots missing, fortunately. Shig' spun around, but couldn't see it through all the smoke from the blast. Not wanting him to leave his cover when the alien could be right there, I had him stay put while the rookie circled around the UFO. Oddly enough, there was no sign of the alien.
I ended the turn there, with Shig' and the poor rookie looking at each other in bewilderment.
Then, BAM, the alien steps out of an unseen door on the UFO, Shig' fires... And hits his poor, green colleague. As the dead rookie collapses, doubtless with a look of shocked betrayal on his young face, the alien returns fire, missing again. Shig' shoots again and kills it.
Mission complete.
Man, sorry for rambling, but I am loving this game.
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