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[Nighthawk]

Beat a giant praying mantis that did two damage with every hit, effectively reducing me to only four HP in a battle where there are no openings long enough to heal oneself. Fought tooth and nail (pun intended) and managed to emerge victorious with only one HP remaining.

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Hollow Knight. Damn, this game is good. I should have played it sooner.

[Akura]

One of the new random events added is the Aerial Anomaly. During this event, all aircraft are free. The anomaly spawned over friendly territory, though it moves over time.

What happened next is pretty much what you can expect when you put up a literal giant flashing sign that says "free aircraft!!" and a waypoint. Much hilarity was had, and I even managed to score several air-to-air kills with the Needler(the default, and generally best air-to-air nosegun). Like, legitimate 1v1 kills even. Best kill, was tumbling about trying to get away from an enemy Valkyrie whose pilot just ditched. Said pilot dropped right onto me and died, giving me a Roadkill bonus.

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Planetside 2. Won the event, all I got was shitty implants that I already have upgraded versions of. Also, for some reason, my first aircraft was not free, but I was not also charged the full nanite cost of it.

[Robsoie]

After learning from my previous failure in openxcom extended + ... I ... I won !
Couldn't believe it after losing so many squaddies, we defeated the alien invasion !

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After capturing with lots of losses a Etheral commander (so many losses in that mission that i had to bring the unconscious etheral in a squaddie inventory back to the entrance and run away to avoid losing the whole mission and the prisonner) in one of the alien bases we discovered in the USA (that had made a pact with the aliens a long time ago) , it was time to interrogate him before being able to research the Cydonia mission.


After everything required was researched, we finally completed the mighty Avenger.
It was time now to set our sight to Cydonia.
Hired a bunch of rookies in order to filter the best guys in term of psionic strength (to avoid the huge screwup we had in the Etheral base) to complete my assault team.


Only 2 losses due to the rookies missing too many shots (the guy selected in my screenshot was my first loss, poor rookie, first on Cydonia and first to die), but at least they resisted the psionic assault from some of the sectoids, and once we cleared the pyramids ground , it was time for the assault of the alien headquarter underground


A big battle, lots of blaster launchers and unfortunately half the squad was killed, but the survivors finally managed to find the elevator to the aliens mastermind room, and to show my willingness in negociating, i used the best tool for that


Blaster launcher ! Lyudmila saved the world !



(odd the "deadliest alien" is a Floater, Mutons and Etherals have been pure nightmares)

So happy to finally get a victory, even if it's in beginner difficulty, the game is hilariously unforgiving, 160 xcom operatives were killed in that run !

Not mentionned in the stat was the loss of 2 interceptors and 1 skyranger, this set me back for a lot of time in early game.
Oh and plasma beam weaponry just rules the sky, destroy nearly everything from far enough to be out of alien range, only battleships are a threat if you don't research and build more advanced aircraft.

Super annoying that when you win a mission you recover everything excepted for armors from your dead squaddies, having to constantly re-manufacture armors isn't really great.
But in the same time, when you think your half of the time a power armor protect nothing and your squaddie die from 1 shot, you wonder if it's worth manufacturing, at least the flying version of the power armor has an obvious good use.

[AzyWng]

Why do you have soldiers dual-wielding two-handed weapon?

[Robsoie]

Probably because the game let me do that ?
(and the accuracy loss of it is nearly negated by just kneeling)

[Khan Boyzitbig]

You also don't particularly need accuracy with blaster bombs just someone who is resistant to mind control.

[Robsoie]

Blaster launchers are fun when carried by squaddies with low psionic strength

An additional interest in dual wielding is that you don't lose any TU from switching between weapons between your hands and the inventory backpack , as it can cost some very precious TU that can mean either an additional shot or being unable to shoot at all :
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Inventory_TU_Table

Now obviously you don't really want to have a rookie that has been generated with low accuracy to dual wield, as missing most of your reaction shots can lead into hilarity, between friendly fire, aliens walking with their own blaster launcher or surprise chryssalids coming from a corner

[Hotfire90]

Survived the Path of Pain.

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Hollow Knight

[IronTomato]

Why do your windows look like Win98 windows?

[Akura]

Why do your windows look like Win98 windows?

It's entirely possible to set that in Windows Control Panel(at least in Windows 7). As for why, it probably uses less memory than Aero.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, I still do that on my desktop.  I'm not sure how much resources are saved, I've just stuck with that classic style on that "machine" through several hardware and OS upgrades (including a motherboard).

[Hanslanda]

I found all the Frost Giants, both Shellbugs, and stripped the Vale of secrets, treasure, ingredients, enemies, and Dragons. Epic Orc chick is epic. I literally killed most of the Frozen Falmer with a single swing in the boss fight.

Skyrim

[pikachu17]

0 to 7 scores.
I made three of those goals.
In the hockey version.

Rocket League.

[Rince Wind]

I killed Kurt Dierker.

The Saboteur

[Akura]

After several failed attempts, I beat Mondo Mole. Prior to that, I was constantly racing against the decreasing HP counter after taking mortal damage to get LifeUp α used(this is an actual feature - if you can win/heal before your HP hits 0, you're alive). Obviously, that wasn't going to work.

All it took was one PSI power: Paralysis α. Poor fool never got an attack in, only tried to heal and buff.

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Earthbound. I had thought you had to do this before rescuing Paula, but I guess I was wrong. Consequently, the cult leader was a complete joke. Unfortunately, on the way back to her home, a tree exploded, killing her because she starts at Level 1(Ness was at Level 20 at this point and that still hurts him significantly).