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[Parsely]

I did this to myself without needing master mode because I just kept walking into high level areas and trying to finesse the enemies because it's fun playing games in unintended ways and succeeding. In certain ways it's not that different from a SL1 Dark Souls playthrough, which I had a blast with.

[Hanslanda]

Did the Codex coordinates mission. My Ranger with Arashi, Katana, Bladestorm, Reaper, Blademaster, Wraith armor, and Talon rounds got to fight like 12 Chryssalids and a Gatekeeper by himself. I made the Chryssalids look like a bunch of idiots. Half got Reaped, the other half Burrow-reaction attacked during the Reaper sprint and died to Bladestorm. The Gatekeeper got stabbed once them shot at the end of the Reaping. Feels good man.

XCOM2

[Rolan7]

A ratman warband struck my main base just as my 4 healthy gals flew out.  The 13 wounded gals refused to leave the onsen, so I had... 3 dogs and a cat.  Versus 2 blood hounds, 2 dogs, a mob lieutenant, and 5 brigands.

The cat turned out to be an agility-tank, they just couldn't hit her in melee.  And dogs can do a lot of damage, particularly when ambushing low-armor targets.  It was a massacre!

The only hit I took was the last brigand, who apparently slipped past and hid in the opposite corner of my base    I kept passing the turn until he got revealed on 15, then chased him down.  He shot my cat with a crossbow.
(she survived)

I remembered dogs are amazing in base defense, and it was only ratmen, but still pretty happy about that.  I'm just imagining the away team returning to blood-streaked walls, mysterious lack of corpses, just some happy dogs holding wallets and other loot in their mouths.

X-Piratez

[Robsoie]

On X-Piratez i recently researched overcharged radars (they're on the way for hyperwave decoder, though i am still missing several researches as it's a long path before reaching them)
After building one of this kind of radar in every of my bases i noticed it simply doubled the detection range and got me a nice coverage of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Still missing a base in central america that should cover both continent on i have an overcharged radar there.

That's great as i am now spotting a lot more of those landing shipping than usual.
According to description that radar jam stuff in landing ship and can make them crash instead, but i didn't observed that so far, not sure it's working.

In the same time i'm starting to get some stronger opposition on mission, a good thing that every Gals have grenade launchers to complement their recently acquired combat shotguns (the main attraction of those shotgun is they can go auto , dealing 3 shots in a row).
On the latest mission it was a medium ufo landing, a dark ship of nice design filled with osiron troopers (that seems now to all have soem kind of mini rocket launcher that create big blue explosion on impact) , some small saucers and for the first time 2 big saucers (the saucers that was found in old xcom) .

I quickly understood those big saucers are really resilient and utterly devastating, i'm not sure yet what weaponry they're using but it's a green thing that insta killed a good (as she was a long time survivor) peasant that was replacing one of the several Gals that were in recovery at one of my base.

Grenade direct hits didn't seemed to have any noticable effect on them (but they do absolutely great on those armored osiron guys) , i decided to not try to go melee as the peasant death proved they have some good reaction for opportunity fire, and power to probably kill or seriously wound my Gals.
So i decided to ambush one of them , using my skybus as hard cover and get my Gals all shooting their combat shotgun auto shots.

I was wondering if it would work, and how fantastic it was, those 2 big saucers with their green shots of murder just went down after several Gals went auto shot on them.
Lucky me there was still some distance when the ambushing started, because those big saucers explode on death exactly like the ones of old xcom.
It was a triumph that the Gals partied on by re-equipping the grenade launchers and exploding the remaining osiron security troopers still roaming around their big ship.

I was close to simply edit the save in notepad++ to avoid a second month of negative score to end this current run i'm enjoying, but this victory actually rewarded lots of point, giving me a positive score this month.

[CABL]

Backstabbed then kicked and dropped Paladin Leeroy (an invader NPC) into the darkness far below.

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Dark Souls 1: Prepare to Die Edition

[Akura]

First Terror Mission. And only two soldiers died! And about a dozen civilians.

Battle took place at a gas station in South Africa. At night. The highest-ranked soldier, Captain Rui Albano, was rushed by a Reaper... and was completely unharmed... which was good since he was holding a primed grenade(with a timer set to 0) and my troops were still disembarking the Skyranger. I mistook them for another melee enemy that would fully justify holding a grenade without the pin in. And I didn't have the TUs to throw it away.

The last two enemies, a pair of Floaters, took cover inside a house on the edge of the map. Moved my troops up to attack from two sides. One guy fired full auto on one, missed all his shots, but one of the missed shots instead killed the other Floater. The other team brought down the remaining Floater.

The South African government was so impressed that I saved a civilian from that massacre, they felt I could do more with less funding. I'll certainly take that into consideration next time I have to decide if I should send troops across the Atlantic.

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X-COM: Enemy UFO Unknown Defense- the first one where people tend to die a lot.

[Egan_BW]

With the right mods, lots of soldiers will die in the newer games as well!

[AzyWng]

I was caught on the bridge at (I think) Riverside, and the person who was right next to me had just been shot and killed. I carefully lay down, crawled over behind a box, and waited for the shooter to approach - and I somehow got him before he got me. Quickly turning around, I was lucky enough to spot the second guard who somehow failed to kill me despite the fact I was fiddling around with reloading my weapon at the time.

I'm not sure I encountered any more resistance on my way to the briefcase and to extraction.

Another time, a colleague and I went on top of the bridge, and, just beneath the skylight on the other side, I heard some guards talking to each other about an enemy they had just shot at. Just as soon as the guard said "I think he's dead", I shot him through the glass, saying "You are!"

I think I like this game.

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Intruder

[Akura]

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

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Undertale. Did take all my good healing items though. Not sure how I'm going to be able to sufficiently stock up before Sans, unless the stuff Burgerpants sells is good enough.

[Egan_BW]

just don't get hit

[Akura]

just don't get hit

hahahaha

...I couldn't even survive to the first turn.

EDIT: Wow, a Terror mission where nobody but maybe half the civilians died. Especially bad since there were two sectoids covering the Skyranger's ramp right at the start. Nearly got ambushed from behind by another sectoid in area I thought I had cleared. And I might have leveled a few buildings killing Cyberdiscs.

Just upgraded the main strike team to Laser Rifles. They feel more damaging but less accurate. Not sure how I feel about that, but I guess I'd rather shoot and kill rather than shoot and royally piss off.

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X-Com.

[Telgin]

Cleared the room of decayed guardians beneath the shrine labyrinth.  Destroying guardians is surprisingly fun once you get the master sword, but can still be quite dangerous if you're not really careful.  Slicing the legs off stuns them, but you sometimes have to shoot them in the eye to stun them first, else they may backpedal too fast to cut their legs off.

I went through a couple of fairies after I opened the chest and the stationary decayed guardians started attacking.  I had to snipe kill a few with arrows to the eye since there wasn't any safe way to approach them.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

[EnigmaticHat]

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

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Undertale. Did take all my good healing items though. Not sure how I'm going to be able to sufficiently stock up before Sans, unless the stuff Burgerpants sells is good enough.

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When you're having a bad time, there's not much difference between 20 health and 80 health.  It'll all feel like 1 health, in the end.

[Akura]

Captured a landed "Very Large"(I haven't completed enough research to identify types) ship. Filled with Mutons. Ended up with several extra million just from selling the excess stuff.

For some reason, there's a ton of ships, both small and large landing on Montreal, and I just captured a scout ship landed at Chicago(my HQ is near D.C.) - landed directly on top of the city marker. Are they building a base?

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X-Com. Before posting this, I looked up the floor plan of the UFO. It was a frigging Battleship.

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

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Undertale. Did take all my good healing items though. Not sure how I'm going to be able to sufficiently stock up before Sans, unless the stuff Burgerpants sells is good enough.

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When you're having a bad time, there's not much difference between 20 health and 80 health.  It'll all feel like 1 health, in the end.

Good thing it's 92HP I have, then. I've found that it's helpful to allow the Karma damage to finish before healing, and sometimes it's better to just attack(since attacking is required to progress the battle) if you've still got plenty of Karma'd HP left.

[Rolan7]

Captured a landed "Very Large"(I haven't completed enough research to identify types) ship. Filled with Mutons. Ended up with several extra million just from selling the excess stuff.

For some reason, there's a ton of ships, both small and large landing on Montreal, and I just captured a scout ship landed at Chicago(my HQ is near D.C.) - landed directly on top of the city marker. Are they building a base?

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X-Com. Before posting this, I looked up the floor plan of the UFO. It was a frigging Battleship.

I'm pretty sure you're going to get the answer in a month or two.
Actual spoiler:

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A diplomatic mission

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Capturing the scout ship was a good try, but the diplomats (Thin Men, it's implied) had already left.  This is probably the most difficult type of mission to stop, and has an unreversable effect.  You should be able to tank it, though.

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

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Undertale. Did take all my good healing items though. Not sure how I'm going to be able to sufficiently stock up before Sans, unless the stuff Burgerpants sells is good enough.

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When you're having a bad time, there's not much difference between 20 health and 80 health.  It'll all feel like 1 health, in the end.

Good thing it's 92HP I have, then. I've found that it's helpful to allow the Karma damage to finish before healing, and sometimes it's better to just attack(since attacking is required to progress the battle) if you've still got plenty of Karma'd HP left.

I still haven't won that fight, but to be fair I didn't really want to.