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[Robsoie]

Finally completed the last mission (the 13th one)  of Shadow Tactics : Blades of the Shogun.

At some point i was facing a situation in which i wasn't able to move through without getting an alert, maybe due to a wrong move at some point earlier.

Oh alerts aren't a game over situation, it just increase the amount of enemies as reinforcements are coming in, i went through some alerts in several missions already, but i really wanted to get this one done entirely stealth.

So i checked around to see if there was a solution as i know there are plenty of speedun at the highest difficulty with that game.

And learned that in this mission there was an alternate way to complete it, circumventing half of the mission , and that without being an exploit or cheat, just me unaware that the ability of one of my ninjas was also able to lead into this rather funny situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWPKRI9QS_0&t=180s

I did it too, allowing me to avoid the difficult situation as i then didn't needed any of the ninjas that were blocked there and completed the mission this way and avoiding to go to the various parts of the castles in order to get keys/disguise.
Took a few tries though as it seems that ability for me only worked on the 2nd serie of the 3 demonstration shots those guards will do for the target when asked.

My favorite Commando-like game by far, the difficulty is very well tweaked allowing even me to complete the game, i still remember the "Beyond the Call of Duty" expansion for the 1st Commando was, unlike the original game this expansion was just an exercise in masochism .

[Akura]

Made one my best shots ever. Caught an enemy's arrow on my bow - as in, it embedded itself in the wood of the bow, and believe me, that's blocked plenty of my shots before. Pulled it out, fired it back, and hit the shooter in the middle of the forehead. Wasn't even a particularly simple shot; they had the high ground, another archer was in the way, and I was being attacked by a melee enemy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery.

[Frumple]

Got one of those 18000% crit damage (masterwork/quoozmade/acute enchanted) quooze sniper bows on a void archer. Currently diving hard to try to get the castle to gen again for some belated regicide, but... well.

Extremely late game, hyper scaled enemies in special areas might have, like, 30-50k points of mixed armor/health, things that are level 150-190 when you're 60-70. Plenty of builds literally can't damage them after a point, their mitigation stats just completely outmatch the damage output.

This thing is critting for up to literally half a million damage (usually a more modest 10-50k, but the rolls involved can stack up), from equally literally several rooms away (the major distinctive ability of void archers is that they can shoot through walls, which is exactly as busted as it sounds). It's blowing up things in this game I didn't even realize could get blown up! Presumably I'll get bored eventually, but... right now, it's a trip.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

dredgers, with a 53 floor deep, 68th level blood fallen bow user

E: Wow, I just actually one-shot the king. I didn't think that was actually possible, like, mechanically possible -- I've had other high damage builds take a regicide detour and they still had to deal with the king's phases. Not, uh. Not this critter, though. This critter deleted the king with one attack, and then deleted the king's laser beam buddy, too.

Most anticlimactic boss attempt I've made in this game, ha!

[Iduno]

I got Wordle in 2 guesses today. First guess got me 3 letters, including one in the correct spot (which is a good amount of information for a 5-letter word), then figured out which letter made most sense at the end. Then I could only come up with one word that could help me place more letters, with the downside it was a stupid guess. Then the game told me "yeah, that's the word I was thinking of."

[Robsoie]

Remnant from the Ashes

Super happy i finally managed to defeat Ixillis, the boss of Corsus, what a giant pain this one was after dying so much to "him", finally opening me the path to the Yaesha world as i prefered to help the Undying King (avoiding another very hard fight) that despite him being super arrogant was still slightly on the better side in term of lore (as he will try to help his world) than the fairy queen that was trying to convince me with insect boobs that having a parasite mind controlling my brain and thoughts, removing all my sense of self and the one of everyone else was a good idea ...
But it was after i learned that Ixillis as Corsus world boss was level 9, and so my gear score of 7 was in fact putting me in a big disadvantage explaining why i was dying so fast and damage to the boss(es) wasn't optimal.
The fight went much better once i leveled to 9 (probably helped by the fact that having grinded in adventure mode a lot for obtaining some traits and items i wanted i also much more levels in my traits when refighting Ixillis for the last time)

But still, so far no boss has been as insanely stupidly hard (having me nearly uninstalling the game due to the rage of how broken it is) as "Riphide" was on one of my adventure on the Earth world.

Spoiler: Riphide (click to show/hide)

Riphide can throw a spear that immediately hit you if you didn't rolled when the spear preparation sound play, huge damage
Riphide can run and strike you very hard if you didn't rolled before being hit
Riphide can generate a shockwave that you must roll over as it goes through every obstacle
Riphide can pause and regenerate his health

So far told like this it does not seem much different than every other boss.
But wait : Riphide can divide himself in 2 Riphide, and each Riphide has the same abilities as mentionned and both do the same high damage (they share the same boss health bar though)
And if it was not enough, the 2 Riphide can divide again into 4 Riphide, then into 8 Riphide, all of them of course as high damaging as the original and all of them with the same abilities. And when you have some Riphide regenerating health while other are throwing shockwaves after shockwaves while a few are rushing to claw you, this became utterly insane if you don't have lightning reflex and old me sure has no more of that anymore  
 
Managed to defeat that piece of broken wooden crap boss after checking some video in which some guy had a specific weapon i had previously obtained in Rhom world but never thought of using, a weapon that seems actually designed as the anti-Riphide : the Particle Accelerator that is gained by killing the Rhom boss the alternate way (you need to kill all his summons everytime he does before he absorb them back or the reward will be something else).

Oh the weapon itself is basically a sniper rifle (so you can use its scope if you want) , but where it shines is its weapon mod that create some kind of gravity well that attract everything close to it and after a while explode with the damage multiplied by the amount of enemies that are stuck in the gravity well.
And in the case of Riphide, what happens if you have 8 Riphide and manage to get them all in the gravity well ?  Absolute massive damage to his health bar and exactly what i needed to get rid of that thing.
The difficulty was to survive Riphide until he was split in 8 as weapon mod recharged so slowly (i didn't had yet the Spirit trait)

But man, i pity the guy that has Riphide generate in his campaign before accessing those kind of exploding weapons.

[EuchreJack]

I successfully reached Oregon in the original Oregon Trail with ONE person in poor health.  Yay me!

[Frumple]

... wait, only one person out of the group in poor health, or with just the one sick critter still alive?

[EuchreJack]

... wait, only one person out of the group in poor health, or with just the one sick critter still alive?

The game lets me keep going after all my humans die?!

But yes, one person out of the group in poor health.  But hey, I started as a Farmer, so Triple Points!
Also for the lutz I started as late as possible.  July I think?  So yeah, Hard Mode was ON.

[Robsoie]

YES ! finally destroyed the final boss in Remnant : From the Ashes.

Spoiler: finally ! (click to show/hide)

Once you know the trick it's probably one of the easiest boss fight of the game, but if you don't know it seems to be never endingly boring.

Spoiler: the boss trick (click to show/hide)

The 1st form of the boss is just a classic "shoot the head and avoid its attacks" it does not last too long assuming all your equipped weapons and armor are leveled correctly for that fight (you should have Gear Score 12 to not be under disadvantage in damage dealing and resisitance, as it's apparently that boss level).

The problem start with its 2nd form, when you start to shoot at that big thing for a while you notice you barely take half of a pixel of his gigantic health bar, fortunately his attacks are super easy to avoid by just sprinting to the side when the boss shoot.

After some time the boss will teleport you into some dark area (that progressively lower your health bar) with randomly spawning root warriors and a portal in the end of that area.
So you run to the portal to exit and you're fighting the boss again, you eat bloodwort to regen the health lost in the dark zone, but still barely making any damage to the boss while easily avoiding his attacks until he re-teleport you back into the dark zone
Repeat until you run out of ammo and ammo refilling item or have stopped playing because it's taking way too long.

Now the trick to not fall in this never ending repetition is that once you're in the dark zone, instead of just running to the portal to exit , kill as much of the root warriors that spawn as possible (tip : get your summons there to help kill faster) and as fast as possible (as if you take too long elite/boss version of those root warriors will start to spawn and make things much harder), between 5 and 10 kills are enough , and be cautious of your ever lowering health, make sure to have bloodwort items with you to spare your dragon hearts.

Murder Dog is a great mod to have in the dark zone, his damage dealing is excellent and helps a lot in getting root warriors killed fast, so if you go to Rohm and meet the blind merchant, make sure to pet his dog to obtain the related summon as a weapon mod.
Murder Dog is a good Dog


Killing root warriors will add some "stack" on the bottom of the screen.
What those "stacks" do is that once you exit the dark zone through its portal, they massively increase the damage you're going to do to the boss shield, good idea to use machinegun/continuous beam type of rifle to build up damage even faster. After a while the boss shield will explode for a dozen of second, during that time shoot the head of the dreamer stuck inside to deliver insane amount of damage to the boss health bar.

After the time is elapsed the shield reform and the boss throw you back to the dark zone, re-accumulate some kills and go back to explode the boss shield again and shoot the dreamer head until he boss dies.

A pity the devs probably rushed that part, as when you're back to the base, absolutely none acknowledge things have changed, that the root can't entry anymore and that there's some hope now or whatever you have been doing.
I just wish as a final reward for defeating the boss once you are back in the base, the dev would have allowed you to punch the moron McCabe in her face, would have been so satisfying after enduring her moronic reactions since the beginning.

[Aoi]

My first run checking out the new Neon Abyss DLC gameplay mode:

Every time I jump, I spawn a sprite. Every time something dies to an explosion, I spawn a sprite. When there's an explosion, I can spawn a sprite. When I fire, I can spawn a sprite. When I pick something up, I can spawn a sprite. When I get injured, I can spawn a sprite.

When sprites die, they explode. When sprites die, they can leave health items. When sprites die, they can other other items. When sprites die, they leave flames. When sprites die, I get money.

When in combat, sprites get bigger and can block attacks. When in combat, sprites will no longer die, but will still trigger their on-death effect due to overcap or leaving combat.

While I'm not attacking, sprites assume a defensive ring.

Yeah, that got stupidly broken.

[axiomsofdominion]

I won Star Dynasties in 3 turns on Easy. Takes 5 turns on Medium sadly. I haven't been playing a ton of games lately. Programming sucks away all my energy.

[Hanslanda]

I wiped the Prison Village without being noticed.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

[Akura]

I have proven myself to be... a Fool.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hollow Knight, the Colosseum of Fools, the Trial of the Fool, which is the hardest level. God Tamer was actually pretty easy, considering it's the first time I've ever faced her. She barely got close enough to attack, her beast telegraphs its attacks, and I spent the battle wailing on it since God Tamer gives up once you kill it(the reverse is not true).

[pisskop]

I dont know if they made it easier, but I'm feeling pretty happy with this current character.  It's a lot of fun to build something you don't typically try out and have it work out amazingly.

Spoiler: noita (click to show/hide)

[SQman]

Played Binding of Isaac; killed Hush by shooting once, then the game crashed without unlocking Purity. Probably because my laptop is too shitty, and there was too many projectiles on screen.