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[Teneb]

Getting better at speedrunning SW: Battlefront II (classic). Managed to finish the game in 59 minutes late yesterday.

[Parsely]

Getting better at speedrunning SW: Battlefront II (classic). Managed to finish the game in 59 minutes late yesterday.

Wow, that's really good! That puts you at around 25th in the world according to https://www.speedrun.com/swbf2

Edit: Oh wait there's your spot at 23rd! Congrats!

[Rolan7]

Oooh, that's really cool    Congrats, Teneb!

I really enjoyed SW: Battlefront II (the original one) but I don't think of it as a speedrun game.  Any tips you feel like sharing?

[Teneb]

Oooh, that's really cool    Congrats, Teneb!

I really enjoyed SW: Battlefront II (the original one) but I don't think of it as a speedrun game.  Any tips you feel like sharing?

There is really only a single glitch that needs to be learned (though in my last run (the 23rd place one) I barely used it so it's not required unless you want to go sub-50): infinite sprinting. It is as simple as it is hard: you need to hold (and keep holding) the roll button just as your stamina bar empties from sprinting. This will allow you to sprint infinitely as the name implies.

Other than that it is just routing, knowing that the sniper is the fastest-running class (dark trooper is still favoured because of the jet pack), that sort of thing. And praying for good RNG so you don't get sniped in a bad moment.

[Jopax]

Decided to finally get Monster Train (has a nice discount atm), easily justified purchase after a few runs, scratches that StS itch real nice and has a bunch of it's own stuff going around. Anyways, after my first few runs I unlock the Stygian faction so decide to pair them with the Awoken (I love the thorny tanks for some reason), starts off ok, but then I manage to get the Animus of Speed which is a glass cannon basically with super high dmg, almost no hp and the first strike ability. Makes it a really good pair to the default champion and the hollow dudes which are super buff. What makes it even more brutal is when I get some upgrades for it, namely more damage and double-strike. This means it's clearing most mooks before they get a chance to strike. I then duplicate it several times throughout the run and manage to luck out and score an artifact which basically summons 4 random units from your deck onto the middle floor at the start of every encounter (ignoring unit capacity limits in the process). This in turn creates a literal death floor which is capable of bursting down pretty much anything that comes up to it. Add in some bonkers spell buffs to damage and the ability to silence nasty things and the run pretty much played itself afterwards.
The end boss was almost a threat tho since he had the ability to attack every turn which could've been super bad if he hit any of the glass cannons, luckily the Stygian side provided both a silence and a massive massive attack debuff which meant that he was dealing no damage for most of the fight, and by the time the debuff wore off he was pretty much dead.

[MaximumZero]

Figured out trade in Caesar 3. I'm now rolling in denarii on every meal.

[Rolan7]

Won a comfy Gaian diplomatic victory in SM Alpha Centauri.  Relatively low difficulty, but I always signed treaties and never broke them.  AKA, I only gained territory due to defensive wars (Stellaris Pacifist mode).

Not that much of a challenge considering how bellicose the AI is, even in the face of oceans of mindworms.  Oh no, Zakharov, my Green Democracy appreciates Wealth?  I suppose that justifies you throwing your people's lives away.  (I understand he prefers Knowledge, but frick...)

(I may have "missed" some peace offers from Yang, but I wanted to liberate the Peacekeepers he had conquered)

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

[Iduno]

Once you get rolling in Caves of Qud, you really start finding some stuff. I traded in my flawless crysteel set (mostly found on the floor above on a corpse, but some found previously) for a visored zetachrome hat and zetachrome gloves to match my pumps (shoes) and one of my axes. As long as I remember to wear the good hat instead of my knollwood skull, I'm at 21 AV and over 10 DV. I also found 2 antimatter cells (one in one of the 3 nano-neuro animators I found laying on the ground on the 30th floor) and traded with a broken blast turret for another. I used the max-tier tinkering bits to upgrade the axe to sharp and masterwork. The level 12 carapace doesn't hurt, and neither did having one of my cooked eaters' nectar meals working (1/4 chance to give +1 to all stats instead of 1 random stat is an improvement).

I still haven't managed to find a schematic for jeweled so I can use the Mechanimists' donation well to get the to really like me. Once I do, I'll dive through Bethesda Susa and go to endgame stuff. I've got 3 Schematics Drafters in the Stilt, and 3 in Grit Gate (1 clone in each area), so I should have seen it by now.

Won a comfy Gaian diplomatic victory in SM Alpha Centauri.  Relatively low difficulty, but I always signed treaties and never broke them.  AKA, I only gained territory due to defensive wars (Stellaris Pacifist mode).

Not that much of a challenge considering how bellicose the AI is, even in the face of oceans of mindworms.  Oh no, Zakharov, my Green Democracy appreciates Wealth?  I suppose that justifies you throwing your people's lives away.  (I understand he prefers Knowledge, but frick...)

(I may have "missed" some peace offers from Yang, but I wanted to liberate the Peacekeepers he had conquered)

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I remember playing as the UN faction and almost having a diplomatic victor prior to building a new type of very fast air unit. I flew the unit from one of my bases to another, and everyone declared war on me for having nukes. It had not been clear before that what exactly I had built, but at least it landed safely. Luckily, being the only faction with nukes means people don't declare war on you for long.

[Rolan7]

Dangit now I have SMAC feels again.  I'll get them out here.

    “You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants. Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the trace elements required for life. Often, one destroys the other. Here, they are tended with care and kept well nourished. They thrive together, and the native fungus does not unleash its terrible defenses. As you can see, competition is unnecessary when resources are plentiful and population growth is controlled.”

[This] quote also serves as a succinct statement of the core of Deirdre’s unique philosophy. One might expect a deep ecology movement like the Gaians to be enthralled with nature in all its aspects. And the most salient feature of ecology is the reality of Darwinian selection. A brief look at any nature documentary shows the basic themes are always the same. It’s all about the intense struggle for life: surviving in order to eat, mate, and ensure the perpetuation of the next generation.

So it’s quite interesting to note that the brutal reality of nature is much more congenial to several of the other factions than to the Gaians, the faction that supposedly worships the natural world. For instance, Morgan would readily agree that life is a struggle and man’s attempts to try to buffer himself from that truth have historically led to the tragedy of socialism. Santiago believes might makes right. The right to life is won by victory; defeat brings extinction. Even Yang has gone on record as saying that the only purpose of life is life itself, which implies the height of enlightenment is the growth of the group and the greater race.

But with this quote we see that Deirdre actually doesn’t believe in “Nature, red in tooth and claw”. She sees competition itself as wasteful, destructive, and ideally unnecessary at this stage of human advancement. Her view of the good is not the wild jungle; rather, it’s the carefully cultivated garden, where each flower can bloom in its own ideal conditions.

Not primal violence, but diverse yet measured growth in tranquility.

[Aoi]

I've always preferred the quotes from Zharkov and Morgan:

"What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that."

"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by the future. By what right does this unseen future seek to deny us our birthright? None, I say! Let us take what is ours, and eat our fill."

...Hope I got them right. It's been over a decade since I touched SMAC.

[Rolan7]

You did <3 
It's amazing how much I love the quotes from leaders I disagree with.  Even the doomed Evangelical makes very cogent points about retaining humanity in the face of horrific transhumanism.

[Teneb]

Got two PBs today, catapulting me to 20th place in the Battlefront 2 leaderboard. Gotta go fast.

[Akura]

Having no previous (character) experience with bows, I was nonetheless able to construct a composite bow from scratch, which was... surprisingly cheap and quick to make. Afterwards, I made a few batches of crude arrows and spent a few hours practicing to gain a couple levels in archery. Made a batch of makeshift arrows as proper arrows require a full forge setup to make, which I don't have yet. Traveled to a nearby town that I had only touched a scant few buildings due to zombie density. Had my NPC partner helping.

This thing murders zombies. It does at least twice the damage my wooden spear was doing, sometimes triple. The sheer number of zombies I was facing meant I only could clear an intersection or two before I was exhausted and had to retreat, but some of what I killed included a brute and several dissoluted devourers. My partner almost lost her leg, but I think that's because she ran in front right when I fired my bow, just HAD to go pulp that corpse in the middle of battle. All in all, I only lost around 20 arrows, recovering the rest.

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Cataclysm: Bright Nights.

Spent many an hour trying to locate the unique weapons. So far, I had found but two; one on the skirmish mode version of a capital I had already taken in campaign and the other on the main menu map. Kept searching through every other skirmish map but found nothing. Then I realized, I had to take(or at least attack) these locations in campaign before the weapons appear.

Attacked Eastbourne, the capital of the Eastbournian faction(most factions are named that). Since every other kingdom had all but annihilated them already save but their capital and their main town, it was an easy attack, too short to look for the weapon. Loaded the map in skirmish, jumped off the walls, and almost immediately found a two-handed sword that burst into flames when I held it. Proceeded to carve through most of the enemy army, killing more enemies personally than the total losses on my side(which were only because of the time it took to find the sword and get back to the battle).

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Tales of Glory.

[hector13]

I managed to do the last Ultimate battle in the climax battles on my first try, which involves facing all the story mode bosses in succession with one (admittedly maxed out) health bar.

Much abuse of the Komaki Tiger Drop was done.

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Yakuza Kiwami

[Enemy post]

I beat Outer Wilds without looking anything up. I think that'll be one of my favorite video game achievements ever.