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[Jopax]

Decided I'd go for a power run as the defect, those are always fun. As it turns out, the game agreed because on floor one I got creative AI and a bird faced urn, which needed some work to get going but made for a decent start of the build. Somehow, I then got my hands on a mumified hand (think I bought it on floor two) and a frozen egg. The rest of the build was completed by a handful of random power cards and that block skill that costs less for each power card used that game. Not even the time keeper stood a chance as I happily blasted my way trough infinite power cards that made each other cost zero, channeled lightning orbs and drew more cards as well. Shit was cathartic to say the least.

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Slay the spire

[Iduno]

Decided I'd go for a power run as the defect, those are always fun. As it turns out, the game agreed because on floor one I got creative AI and a bird faced urn, which needed some work to get going but made for a decent start of the build. Somehow, I then got my hands on a mumified hand (think I bought it on floor two) and a frozen egg. The rest of the build was completed by a handful of random power cards and that block skill that costs less for each power card used that game. Not even the time keeper stood a chance as I happily blasted my way trough infinite power cards that made each other cost zero, channeled lightning orbs and drew more cards as well. Shit was cathartic to say the least.

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Slay the spire

I love a good defect run, but they seem more equipment-hungry than other characters. If you don't get good drops (cards or artifacts, if not both), you're gonna have some issues.

[Egan_BW]

Nothing more fun than the Snecko Eye and a few Meteor Strikes, though. ;P

[DeKaFu]

I've never managed the Snecko Meteor Strike combo, but I did finally experience the Dead Branch Corruption dream run with Ironclad a bit before the Watcher patch hit. That was honestly the most fun I've ever had with this game.

Relatedly, for more a recent own: Few things feel as good as beating the final boss designed to punish playing too many cards by playing so many cards that it can't keep up and dies.

I had a fantastic Silent run with a shiv deck where I got both Kunai and Shuriken early, so rolling Time Eater for the final boss was basically inevitable. Turns out he's still a pushover when you're gaining 1-2 strength and dexterity every turn from so many shivs. On Ascension 15, no less!

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still Slay the Spire.

[Iduno]

I had a fantastic Silent run with a shiv deck where I got both Kunai and Shuriken early, so rolling Time Eater for the final boss was basically inevitable. Turns out he's still a pushover when you're gaining 1-2 strength and dexterity every turn from so many shivs. On Ascension 15, no less!

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still Slay the Spire.

This reminds me: has anyone fought a 3rd boss that wasn't Time Eater since the Watcher patch came out? I've fought the Time Eater about a dozen times in a row, then the boss that punishes you for playing power cards twice.

[DeKaFu]

I've fought all three since the patch, but for what it's worth even before the patch hit I was having the same thought. I went through probably 20 runs without seeing Awakened One once, and Donu and Deca only a handful of times...

I think it's probably just unlucky RNG combined with the fact that everyone hates Time Eater so it really stands out when you roll him a bunch of times in a row.

[Iduno]

Donut and Deca is the final boss fight that makes sense, because they keep getting better, and you need to win that race. Players can have a deck that builds an engine and just smashes thing same as they do, so it tests your ability to do that well.

I'd also like to see other possible player playstyles represented as bosses, instead of punishing you for building your deck for a particular playstyle. Force people to win by doing something well, instead of by not doing it.

Edit: Also, I beat them pretty well for ascension 7 (?) with the watcher. The second boss was Collector, which was fun with the bronze scales and mercury timer. As were the byrds.

[Aoi]

After beating my head against the wall of futility for like ten tries against the final boss, I decide to try something different and recruit a new character to specialize them purely for combat.

Her freebie 'catch up' levels put her at only L9, a far cry from my normal combat team's 13/15/20, but that really just influences the number of passives they'll have, and hopefully, I can grab all the ones that are useful for this boss...

She kills him in two turns, leaving the rest of my team to mop up the adds.

Then, due to an ending cutscene,

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I forgot that I didn't trigger the true ending requirements (which takes all of 15 seconds, since I had the questline 99% done)

, so I reloaded and went through the process with Ms. Avatar of Death all over again.

This time, she did it in one turn.

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Dead in Vinland... for those curious what kind of messed up mechanics make that possible, the final boss carries a hefty pile of -dam, which is a global flat reduction, dropping most hits from non-combat specced characters from something like 3-4 to 0-1 (and that's 0,0,0-1, so the odds of 1dam are even slimmer... assuming they're not 0-0), and innately high dodge. Ms. Doom? After taking everything into account, she has an attack (which causes a defensive self-debuff) with a comparatively massive 0-6 damage with a ~30% crit rate that does 2.5x damage, and a 98% hit rate. On top of that, she got three attacks a turn. The downside is that due to her lack of noncom passives, she's pretty high maintenance with low productivity, but that's not a problem by this point, even if she wasn't just joining for the last battle.

[Akura]

Took a few tries, but I was able park a truck up next to a police station, walk inside, steal some ammo and construction supplies, and walk out. The cops inside actually did spot me and sounded the alarm, but I was able to toss everything into the truck and drive off. Apparently, I wasn't compromised despite spotting me, and being in a vehicle makes you much less visible; I drove past the several squads of police troopers who were converging hard on the police station without any of them caring.

Drove to what looked like an abandoned factory outside Kavala, used the supplies to establish a base. Had just enough to place the base and a small ammo crate to store loot. It's a decently defensible spot, and has a capacity for 60 soldiers.

I had no guns to use the ammo, so I drove back to the police station. Freed a captive citizen from arrest on the way. Almost decided to leave when I heard a gunshot, but I don't think it was meant for me since it was inside the building(meaning, somebody got executed). Instead of going back inside the station, I parked next to one of their trucks, and stole the guns from it: 2 P90s and 4 MP5s. I would have taken more goodies, but a citizen ran by and into an alleyway, followed by a cop. I figured that someone getting arrested a short distance away would draw too much attention, so I left.

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Arma 3, Vindicta scenario. Almost thought I couldn't loot the police truck since it's from the Contact DLC which I don't have and probably won't get anytime soon. I'm not happy I had to install ACE to play this scenario, which requires it. The game has been running choppier since I installed it. I would say that it's not better than Antistasi yet, but has potential to be.

[Iduno]

Last time I tried to play Endless Sky, I ended up taking a wrong turn and missing a delivery, then got hit with pirates. So I was stuck in the middle of nowhere with no cargo, zero money, and accumulating debt. I quit for about 6 months, because you couldn't delete a character (unless you find the saves and delete them, which is what I did).

Within a few hours, I was flying around in a terrible little cargo ship with no shield, only an anti-missile turret as a weapon, extra cargo and extra bunks. Also, just over a million dollars.

The clipper seems like a much better ship (it had better be for 3x the price), but I'm not sure how to upgrade it.

Edit: I figured out some upgrades: Dwarf reactor, Atomic A250 + A255 engines, a radar jammer, 3 cargo expansions, 2 large bunks, toss the weapons, and put on a slightly larger shield. I guess reverse thrusters would be fun for jumping into hostile areas for deliveries and just stopping at the planet instead of turning around, but that's a bit of an edge case. Pirates already have some difficulty shooting me before I'm gone. I'm picking up every mission I feel like (>500 per ton hauled, or as much as I can get for passengers), and I'll be able to afford a nice escort and maybe a second clipper soon. There's even some extra space for scanners and/or solar panels.

[Robsoie]

It sure was a Tiny galaxy, it sure was set in Easy mode but the Humanoids prevailed in good old 4X " Stars! "

Had a though time in mid game when the damned Hicardis took advantage of the low population of a world i just colonised (forgot completely to send transport ships to bring tons of colonist) to invade it out of the blue .

Building in panic fleets i managed to slowly reach the world (i was lacking in propulsion research) and destroy their newly built starbase .
Took a while as apparently they were building better ships than mines every turns, until a research finally gave me the upper hand and  fearsome new destroyers and legions of bombers annihilated them.

After that, all my world war effort became focused on their original world, sending lots of ships, they resisted for a while as they were building some nasty warships but in the end the numbers prevailed and we conquered the galaxy

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[Iduno]

I've gotten to ascension 10 with ironclad, just finished 11 with silent, and 8 with the other 2. I'm probably done with the 2 stuck on 8, and maybe with ironclad, but the silent is a fun character who will probably keep going.

3x after image and the card that does 2 damage everytime you play a card makes for hilarious decks. I'll just play this card to gain 6 block and 2 free attacks, which means I gain an additional 9 block and 6 damage for 1 of my 3 energy.

Mummy's hand just makes that better.


Edit:
Hitman 2 has some new (tom me, a person who has not played since June) escalation missions. In the second version of the mission, you need to blow someone up with explosives in the middle of the construction site. I'm apparently still decent at the Goldeneye "remote mine as a grenade" maneuver. Although I did knock the guy out the first time, which caused the mine to fall harmlessly on the other side of a wall.

Edit 2:
Also Hitman 2: I finished the 3rd part of the Raaz Algorithm escalation without going more than 1 step inside the building the 3 targets are in. One guard on the second floor required 1 step inside to snipe him with the pistol (although I could have lured him out after killing all of the other guards, but that's going to take too long). One of the others was nice enough to come looking for me after someone got shot through an open window, and brought me extra pistol ammo. The third kept walking by a door, so I chucked an explosive in.

[Akura]

Dual-wielding arrows is hilariously broken. Not the bows, holding the arrows in hand. A light tap hits with full force, and poking them in the face registers as a headshot. Stuck-ins are negligible since arrows do not penetrate deep and easily fall out. Only downside is that you cannot block anything with them.

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Blade & Sorcery.

[Aoi]

A bit late to the party, but I started up Dead Cells in honor of its newly released DLC and, on my 9th run in, I just clocked my first win.

With my melee weapon of choice being my starter weapon, a frying pan. Because I literally did not find any other melee weapons throughout the entire game, other than a late game Nutcracker which is probably a really bad pick if you don't know enemy attack timing.

Except why do I call this a case of owning? This was also the first time I beat the first boss, so I did the last 2/3rds of the game without knowing the style of traps, enemy attack patterns, or anything... I went into this game entirely blind, other than "It's a Dark Souls platformer roguelike."

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I credit my win to my tools-- a Sinew Slicer with causes poison on bleed and +%dam when the target's burning, an amulet that makes me set things on fire when I stomp, a Wolf Trap with two mods for +%dam when the target was poisoned and bleeding... and my Infantry Bow... which... did... nothing interesting. All in all, it basically meant I spent all the boss fights jumping around trying to dodge while I threw down those traps constantly.

[Eschar]

Yet Another Stupid Own: I found a /oWishing. On dlevel 2. What would be the best thing for me to wish for?

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NetHack.