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[Akura]

Muscle vs Omnicidal Hell-Cow.

I miscalculated how much damage the fourth hit of Rollout would do to the Machop, but Miltank was barely hanging on herself. I sent out Pidgey, nearly screwed EVERYTHING up by accidentally selecting Gust instead of Quick Attack(Miltank was faster), but luckily the last shot from Rollout missed. Which was a good thing since nearly my entire team would instantly die to Rollout otherwise.

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Pokemon Crystal.

[Sirus]

Imma do something different. The name of the thing will be unspoiled, and there will be two spoilers afterwards. These are real legit spoilers for something released recently, so if you look at them it's all on you.

Delta Rune.

Spoiler: Minor Spoiler, the ownage (click to show/hide)

Defeated a very difficult, apparently bonus boss. Took more than a few tries but eventually prevailed.

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Holy fuck Jevil. Hits like a truck, has some attack patterns that feel impossible to properly dodge, can easily take down two party members on some of the nastier attacks. Still. I took him down non-violently. At least the music is kinda catchy.

[Akura]

Had bots driving a jeep while I manned the HMG on the back. As we were driving over a small bump, a fully-crewed Raven jeep tried to do a Dukes of Hazard-style jump by us on the same bump. I turned around and fired, killing all three before either of us hit the ground.

We were immediately blown up by an enemy TOW launcher after that.

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Ravenfield.

[Greiger]

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Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

[heydude6]

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Holy fuck Jevil. Hits like a truck, has some attack patterns that feel impossible to properly dodge, can easily take down two party members on some of the nastier attacks. Still. I took him down non-violently. At least the music is kinda catchy.

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I managed to beat him on my first try, but I was extremely liberal with my items (Thank God for mints). In spite of a couple of lucky pirouettes where he ended up not attacking, it was still extremely close. All of my party members were one hit away from death and the only healing items I had left were the cake, a choco diamond, and the lancer cookie

[EnigmaticHat]

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Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

Not scripted lol.  Its great that you thought so tho, and its certainly appropriate.

[Teneb]

Finished Skittergate on Champion, which is kind of silly because it's the fourth Champion mission I finish ever.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

[Akura]

Quilava somehow took out a Hitmonchan a few levels higher... while frozen. He was able to burn Hitmonchan, got hit with Ice Punch, and survived until the flames brought Hitmonchan down.

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Pokemon Crystal. Silly me I thought Fire-types were immune to being frozen. Also I severely need to grind my team. Average level of 23 against Chuck's Lv.30 Poliwrath, won but only because of a Lv.25 Kadabra.

[Hanslanda]

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Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

Not scripted lol.  Its great that you thought so tho, and its certainly appropriate.

Speaking of XCOM 2, I just finished like seven flawless missions in a row, got fucked up a bit on the Blacksite but still beat it.

[Akura]

Designed a partial steam-powered metal ship that can launch itself out of the water at only 6% of its drive setting and 100% fuel burn rate.

While normally a sea-going ship trying to become a spaceship is normally a bad thing, this does represent a significant improvement on using steam-based engines. It's also not a finished vessel yet.

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From the Depths. It irritates me to no end that you can't interchange differently-sized parts. It also irritates me you cannot change the direction of a shaft line.

[EnigmaticHat]

Things that could cause a flying boat in FtD:

Your ship is back heavy;
Your propellers are under the center of mass and are acting like a lever to flip the nose upwards;
or you have flat surfaces in the front of the ship.

Not criticism, just advice.  When its done you should put a picture in the FtD thread.  Also WTF did the update do to naval propulsion, there's no way you could have done that by accident under the old system.

[MrRoboto75]

If you're not in the know, there's new water props you can connect to steam engines.  They are quite stronk.

[Akura]

I know there's a certain threshold of power where it suddenly goes from around 12m/s to loop-de-loop, but I can't find it. Doesn't help that steam pressure takes so long to change.

Propellers are almost certainly under center-of-mass though. Definitely not back-heavy, as I put a lot of weight into the front plus an ACB to manage air-pump buoyancy for this exact problem. My understanding is, steam propellers are frickin' powerful. And I'm using three 3m ones. Might explain why they cost 5000mt each.

[EnigmaticHat]

In my experience if there's a loop-de-loop threshold, that indicates a deeper problem that will show up later.

Just imagine your boat is a model being held up by a string from its center.  If you put your finger on the propeller and pushed the model forward, which way would it turn?  For example if your propellors were on the left side of your ship pushing it would cause the model's nose to tip to the right.  Since your propellors are on the bottom, imagine if you pushed the model forward from below.  It would cause the nose to tip upwards.  This causes the props to change orientation upwards and thus the boat goes out of the water.

A good boat should have the center of mass *slightly* lower than the propellers.  That way the boat is constantly tipping down.  But as the front of the boat submerges, the buoyancy increases, and as a result the upward force on the nose increases.  In calm water at any (reasonable) speed, the nose will always remain stable.  Boat speeds up, buoyancy increases.  It stays in equilibrium.  Your boat doesn't stay in equilibrium, because as the nose exits the water the buoyancy decreases but so does the water resistance.  Water places greatly more drag on a vehicle than air.  As your vehicle noses up, it wants to do two things.  The sudden decrease in buoyancy makes your boat want to fall.  But the sudden decrease in drag makes it want to speed up.  At low velocities falling wins and your nose goes back down.  At high velocities going forwards wins, and since your nose is aiming upwards that means the boat goes upwards.  That's your loop de loop threshold.  Put a bunch of lead at the lowest and most forward point on your vehicle, I guarantee it will speed up despite being heavier.

[Akura]

Took above advice, and several hull designs later finally got a metal steamship that can go about 15m/s without becoming a rollercoaster. It noses up, but not far. Some quick research puts that near the speeds of many modern destroyers today. That'll drop down once I arm it, of course. Max fuel consumption is 3mt a second, but I had to separate engineering and the boiler through the decks.

Also might have found a bug: deleting the only material storage doesn't starve the boilers of material if your avatar is still giving resources to the ship.

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From the Depths.