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[Lossmar]

Started multi planet start in Sol.
Earth Federation vs Martian Reich/Venus Union/Kissaki Syndicate based on Europa - 250 mil each, TN, shitload of minerals each vs my 500 conventional empire.
Despite truce countdown, each AI turned hostile in two years. They blew up my survey ships so i responded by building PDC with Interplanetary MIRV and launching 1 x 150 MIRV salvos against both Union and Reich .... 30 000 explosions later both Mars and Venus are devoid of any lifeforms, average temperature dropped by 150 degrees celcius and both planets have -150% penalty to industry.

I just killed more than 500 milion people in 5 seconds ... Feels good.

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Aurora 4x

[Graknorke]

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

[flabort]

Just got that game on sale. Going to try it today.

[MonkeyHead]

Thanks to a lucky combination of placement of SAM sites, an odd alien flight path, and blind chance on hit evasion, I shot down the first "Corrupter" class UFO to appear in the skies above Earth, a full year before the aliens usually start using them in serious numbers, way before my air combat tech usually allows such endeavours. Winning the ground combat was a challenge considering that the aliens that survived the craft were armed with pretty much the best the aliens can field (carbon nano-tube armour, particle beam based weapons, plasma blades...) but it was done with only 2 casualties on a challenging mission, which involved storming a high rise from the roof heli-pad. The implications of this are immense - basically jumping to the top of the tech tree waaaaaaay early (possibly as much as 18 months before the norm), allowing such things as snipers armed with antimatter coilgun rounds, power armour, interceptor and transport craft based on advanced alien tech, but most importantly, thanks to the capture of an intact alien plasma blade, is the development of encased plasma rounds that operate with traditional human weapons. These lil beauties are only supposed to be available in the last few months of the game as they are a counter to heavy alien armour, but here I am sending rookies into combat with them to tear through the alien hordes. Awesome.

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UFO:Alien Invasion. The aliens are now doing so badly they are sending hardly any missions any more. I suspect my constant total wipes of even the biggest ground teams they can assemble is hitting the resources the game can throw at me.

[Dark One]

Started up with a new character, a Breton with custom Dark Mage class (main magic skills Destruction and Alteration, advantages 3x int in spell points, resistance to shock, immunity to paralysis, rapid healing and only disadvantage is being unable to use magic in daylight - this kept leveling difficulty low, while still having good bonuses). As starting spells I've got Shock, Slowfall and Chameleon. Knowing the layout of Privateers Hold (starting dungeon), and combining ebony dagger with shock I quickly cleared the whole dungeon of enemies and loot, and also advanced to 2nd level. Then I moved to Wildertown, one of the bigger cities, sold the loot and signed up for mages guild. As a first quest, I had to enter The House of Vladingus dungeon, and kill crazed mage Belladayne Gaerslay. Travelling by daytime, I had no mana, and entering the dungeon I had no place to rest and regenerate it - the whole dungeon was swarming with rats, bats and nightblades. Wandering the dark corridors I occasionally heard screams of skeletons from the upper levels of dungeon. After a good while of wandering, I reached the mage and slain it with my ebony dagger, which I used to clear most of the dungeon due to lack of mana. Then I ran to the exit, and checked the loot - some armors took from nightblades, lots of books, ingredients, holy tomes and holy daggers, an enchanted talisman with open spell - wih lots of dunegons having locked doors it's a mana and weapon (no need to bash when everything else fails) saver, and some clothes. The loot was worth over 4k, though merchants lowered it down to 2k. I kept the talisman, and as a quest reward I've got steel gauntlets with Feet of Notorgo spell (fortify speed), which I kept with me too. Dungeon crawling well done.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, where not getting lost in a labirynthine dungeon is already a huge reward.

[Itnetlolor]

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

Neat. Sounds like Uplink+ with how it plays. Just from this little scuffle, I'm ignoring the negative reviews. I mean, Uplink would end with being disavowed, but this has a better dynamic that allows fighting back.

[BFEL]

First launched mission of the game landed safely on the VAB, this can only mean good things for my GRAND CAMPAIGN!

KSP

[McDonald]

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

Neat. Sounds like Uplink+ with how it plays. Just from this little scuffle, I'm ignoring the negative reviews. I mean, Uplink would end with being disavowed, but this has a better dynamic that allows fighting back.

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Unless I missed stuff, this is the only time you get hacked, not counting when you fail to disconnect before a trace finishes. I didn't get to do what Graknorke did, because my game crashed and loaded up again with the mission finished :<

[Sirus]

Just had an absolutely ridiculous run on Binding of Issac as Cain. It started out fairly meh, the first floor treasure being a Dry Baby familiar which blocks enemy projectiles and occasionally fires off a room-wide AoE attack. But since it can be difficult to position the familiar without getting hit by the projectile you're trying to block, it's mostly useful for tanking the occasional hit.

Second floor, I got the Midas Touch. Turns enemies into gold on contact and deals a decent amount of damage. Also bought the Magic Fingers (uses coins to deal AoE damage).

Third floor, I found something awesome: The Gnawed Leaf. With this, if you remain stationary for a few seconds and don't shoot, you turn into an invincible statue.

So let's review: I can turn into a statue pretty much at will. Enemies that touch me will be turned to gold and take damage/die. If they shoot at me, they can hit the Dry Baby and possibly deal massive damage to everything in the room. And if I encounter anything this tactic doesn't work for (laser-beam spiders, for instance) or get bored, I can spend some of the coins earned from Midas-Touched enemies to deal damage whenever I want. I barely ever fired my tears unless it was to put fires out or something.

Mom was wrecked. It Lives was wrecked. Satan didn't deal a single point of damage. And I unlocked the Negative. All in all, my best Cain run ever.

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

[Akura]

Admittedly, I thought I lost more vehicles than I did:
PzKpfw-35(t): 4 - armored car
PzKpfw-IIc:   5 +1 that was abandoned - light tank
SdKfz 251/HT: 8 - halftrack

Isn't PzKpfw-35(t) a czech tank and not an armored car
And how in the hell did you manage to fight that big battle? I get bored like half way if there are more than 1-2 companies per side, oh and do you use fast artillery?

You're quite right, it is a Czech tank. I don't know why I thought it was an armored car.

And I managed to fight it by playing over most of the week.

[TheDarkStar]

I used the name oooooooooo, used only the letter o, punctuation, and the occasional smiley emoticon and won as SK against 5 mafia and 7 town.

Town of Salem. (Admittedly, this was on All Any, but it was still silly.)

[Twinwolf]

On my third playthrough, first on the classic setting. I've heard that most people reload saves when anyone dies, but didn't want to do that so I prepared myself to lose people. I'd lost people almost every map on my first, Casual playthrough.

It turns out that when I actually use healers, tactics, and the weapon triangle, I can get through missions without anyone dying pretty easily.

Fire Emblem: Awakening. You know, if you're just going to reload the save whenever someone dies, why not just go on Casual?

[Sirus]

Simple, really. You touched on it yourself: On Casual you can't lose people; even if someone goes down they're back at the end of the map. Tactics don't matter, really.

On Classic, folks die for good. You need to play smart. If someone dies you can either push on, or refuse to accept your failure and try again. In the process you get better at playing the game because you learn how to identify potential dangers ahead of time.

[Steelmagic]

Decided to try my new tank out, since I was fortunate enough to win it. It was absolutely ungodly.

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War Thunder. My God.

[tryrar]

Decided to try my new tank out, since I was fortunate enough to win it. It was absolutely ungodly.

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War Thunder. My God.

What tank?!