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[xaritscin]

testing different civilizations in modded AoE3 (Wars of Liberty), Incas were good as a testing ground but wanted to expand what i could pick in multiplayer. Malta has been the best so far, i can start churning out the economy quickly and have some kind of defense force before the AI starts sending raids against my base. the issue with this game is that you can no longer build the Armory in Age 2 so you have to keep going until Age 3 before being able to improve the survivability and damage of the military. so far the only nuissance have been against Peru but that was mostly because of their early game cavalry patrols. the rest has been churn out AoE2-like units then save the best resources to upgrade them and make an organized assault with Trebuchets (yes, Trebuchets in AoE3, Malta is basically old school save for a few cannons in the Arsenal), perhaps i should jump the difficulty a bit but im trying to level up the home city.

[Akura]

Spoiler: Been working on a ship (click to show/hide)

Obviously nowhere near done. As you can see, the gun deck is still wide open. The cargo deck, below the gun deck, is mostly done, just the AI section needs its various bits to function. Not sure one how wide the sails should be as well. Current cost is 6000mt(remember, AI module cost alone is 400mt), and I don't expect it to go above 10kmt, and be maintenance-free due to being a sailing ship. Cargo capacity is 56kmt.

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From the Depths

EDIT: Attacking Lithcorp Fortress, TR vs NC vs VS(who owned it). While the rest of my faction was trying to take the point from the VS, I, by myself, had to hold off the entirety of the NC attack. There was about three or four of them respawning from a Sunderer parked under that small grav-lift down the hill from the control point. I got 9 kills before they finally got me. By that point, we had failed to take the control point, but we also had regrouped and began focusing on the NC Sunderer, destroying it and preventing them from stopping us from eventually capturing the base.

The weapon I used was an AMR-66. It was equipped with an under-barrel smoke launcher and a muzzle compensator, but no scope.

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Planetside 2.

[Hanslanda]

Two specialists with guardian and covering fire on an elevated central position with clear fields of fire and extended mags, laser sights, and autoloaders (with that RO to increase weapon mod effects) are goddamn op as hell. The rest of my team was basically only there to crack the sarcophagus and mop up any unlikely survivors.

My Grenadier never even used his grenades or Shredstorm. Compared to the Assassin, this Chosen died badly.

XCOM 2 WOTC

[Robsoie]

In the middle of an ocean of bad luck, sometime good luck is coming.

On a new X-Piratez game the Gals were doing pretty well with very nicely positive score.
Even freed many castaway gals that i "manufactured" into usable Gals for my pirate crew.

So much i thought it was time to make a new base to cover more of the globe and after making radar and barracks, i sent several extra Gals there instead of only weakling peasants to defend against possible invasion attempts.

Then i forgot about doing more for that base, focusing more on my primary one.
oh, an invasion is coming, i have to defend the base, and it's the new base .. good i thought about sending 4 Gals there, as it's early game they should have a chance to win this one.

Okay, let's equip them with ... wait a minute ... did i just forgot to make a vault and ship weaponry there since all that time ?
Yes i did.

So the base was defended by 4 Gals with their punches as only weapon and castaway default "clothes" as their armor.

Oh man, and the fight went on with many basic academy troopers and a few saucers (fortunately the saucers aren't as strong and self-exploding as the one from old xcom, they sill can hurt though, especially unarmored Gals).

As the only real possible strategy there to have a chance i decided to try to just knock down enemy troopers by punching them and then equip the unconscious enemies own weapons, hoping reaction shots wouldn't happen. I wasn't expecting this to work of course as they were many, armed and with a few saucers.

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Can't believe it actually worked and most of my Gals found domestic shotguns that were used to take out everyone and the few saucers, 2 Gals paid with their life that lack of base maintenance and foolishness of their boss (saucers reaction shots) but 2 survived despite their wounds (one of them fell unconscious a  turn before the end) and won the day , capturing 4 of the troopers that were then sent to motherbase for interrogation.

building a vault, buying some good weapon and ammo for this base and sending peasant reinforcement were the next steps i did

[Hanslanda]

Three specialists, a Blade ranger, and a psiop on a elevated position, with a Grenadier flanking opened a concealed overwatch ambush.

Instantly killed an Elite Trooper, Elite Shieldbearer, Andromedron twice, two mutons, and a codex. Six of nine enemies died with firing a shot.

XCOM 2 WOTC

[Akura]

Beat Vah Medoh's cannons without missing a single arrow. One of them also targeted me instead of the other guy running decoy, but I calmly shot it twice before it could fire.

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Breath of the Wild.

EDIT: Windblight Ganon was pretty easy. Afterwards, by chance I found myself at(fell into) the Coliseum Ruins... where I encountered a Silver Lynel. Which, from what I hear, has more HP(5000HP) than the final boss.

Brought down about 40% of its health using a combination of the Master Sword, Urbosa's Fury, and several well-timed backflips. Broke a Thunder Spear and a Flameblade finishing it off. Took a lot of food, and one Fairy. Loot was various gems, a new Flameblade, a Savage Lynel Bow and Savage Lynel Shield, in addition to a Royal Shield I picked up earlier.

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Breath of the Wild. Can anyone confirm if the Master Sword's power boost activates merely by the presence of Malice pools and/or Malice-infected creatures(like Guardians)? Because the Coliseum has Malice in and around it and I think was doing more damage, but I didn't stop to check if the sword was glowing.

[Telgin]

I was under the impression that the master sword did bonus damage to all lynels for some reason, but I don't know why I thought that nor can I find any information to back it up.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

I'll try to remember to test it when I unlock it in this game.

[Egan_BW]

I don't remember it activating for anything other than guardians and bosses.

[Akura]

It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

Silve Lynels are actually stated in the in-game compendium to actually be influenced by Ganon - their purple stripes may actually be Malice flowing through them. As for the boost activating, a quick search suggests it only happens near Guardians, Blight bosses, inside the Divine Beasts or Hyrule Castle, and fighting Ganon himself - so not near Lynels or Malice pools. So I guess it wasn't actually getting a boost there.

[Nighthawk]

I was under the impression that the master sword did bonus damage to all lynels for some reason, but I don't know why I thought that nor can I find any information to back it up.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

I'll try to remember to test it when I unlock it in this game.

The Master Sword's powered-up mode will also be active permanently after one passes the Trial of the Sword, so it's possible you got confused after watching a video of somebody whacking a Lynel with the weapon after passing said trials.

[Egan_BW]

what that's op

[Nighthawk]

what that's op

Kinda is, yeah. That's why it's locked behind a pretty lengthy series of difficult arena fights where you start naked and itemless and have to survive with limited resources.

In Master Mode, where all of the enemies are a level higher (red bokoblins become blue, blue become black, black become silver, silver become GOLD), it's nigh unfair, because the weapons provided in the arenas don't scale up with the enemies, forcing you to resort to bomb spam and other absurd tactics or else break all of your weapons against the faces of enemies who have way too much HP.

Honestly, Master Mode was not very well thought-out, but that's just my opinion on it. Stick to normal mode and enjoy exploring Hyrule; that's where the real game is.

[Madman198237]

Master Mode is not for people who want to enjoy their time wandering Hyrule and occasionally bashing some goblinoid faces in before leisurely strolling into the final boss fight several times in order to listen to the AMAZING music.

Master Mode is for absolute masochists who don't enjoy videogames unless said games torment you with absurdly difficult situations, and aren't happy unless they must think tactically or exploit silly bits of the game in order to win every fight, even just a low-level encounter with a bokoblin with a pointy stick.

[Akura]

Master Mode is for absolute masochists who don't enjoy videogames unless said games torment you with absurdly difficult situations, and aren't happy unless they must think tactically or exploit silly bits of the game in order to win every fight, even just a low-level encounter with a bokoblin with a pointy stick.

So, basically, Dwarf Fortress players.

[Telgin]

Wow, spending 5 minutes tossing bombs at camps of bokoblins at the start of the game because every one of them has 72 HP and can one-shot you does indeed sound like masochism.  Then you inevitably screw up after killing three of them and blow yourself up or don't run away fast enough and get murdered.