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[Great Order]

There's something immensely satisfying about finally killing the motherfucking fleet after ten restarts that's been absolutely pounding you in the arse.

Starsector

[Magmacube_tr]

In the particular community gamemode I played, there is only badwater as the map choice. So, you know the drill. If the opposing them rolls soldier or demoman, you are pretty much trapped inside that fucking hole in the ground since the enemy team will spam their explosives on you from above.

But since pyro has airblast, those rockets and bombs can very well be their own doom.

They rolled soldier, we rolled pyro. I reflected a crit rocket back and killed 5 people in one hit.

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Team Fortress 2. Class Wars

[AzyWng]

Finally beat the game solo for the first time. Did so as the Commando.

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Risk of Rain.

[Akura]

Finally got the card I've trying for the past few days. Even better, I pulled off a Same->Combo that flipped almost the entire board in one go, leaving the final score at 7-3.

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Final Fantasy 8, Triple Triad. All it cost me was almost every non-rare card I had, converted into various and mostly-useful items via to reduce the damage Random caused.

[BurnedToast]

A scorchlander walked unarmed and alone into the fortress of okran's shield. Several days later, he stumbled out trailing dozens of bodies and carrying the high paladin commander of the fortress on his shoulder and started the long trip back which would end with a cell for the commander, and a fat bounty payout for the scorchlander.

Actually it's less impressive than it sounds, and was only possible because of stupid AI and some ah... interesting game design choices. Specifically: I walked in, was dogpiled by dozens of guards and immediately dodge-locked (can never attack because endless dodge animations). Some careful micromanagement later to string the enemies out, I got a few attacks off which killed a few enemies and crippled many more but eventually they managed to chip my health down and knock me out. Which is where the stupidity comes in. What do they do? Throw me in a jail cell, which I immediately break out of. I punch a few more guys to death before they bring me down again... and stick me back in the cell. Repeat until all enemies are dead.

See, in order to die, you need to bleed out, or they take a critical body part to -100. With a high enough toughness, you don't really bleed anymore - it would take something like an in-game week to actually die, and you take so little damage per hit you won't ever hit -100 unless you keep fighting at like -90 for some reason. The questionably design decision is that the AI won't ever (and in fact can't) attack you when you're down to execute you, all they can do is stick you in a cell or make you a slave and they don't even take your equipment when they do it. Which means with high enough toughness, you are effectively immortal and can just keep escaping over and over again and kill a few guys each time no matter how out-matched you are.

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kenshi, the grimdark post apocolypse world where unchivalrously sticking a sword in your enemy's gut when he's sleeping is absolutely forbidden.

[Rolan7]

Ah, the Heat Signature incarceration system.

[Sirus]

Nah, at least in Heat Signature they throw you out an airlock into space. This is usually fatal within seconds, but your character can hold their breath for a long time and also apparently cannot be killed by bullets.

[Madman198237]

Holding your breath in the vacuum would actually make your death substantially faster, assuming you could even manage it. The increased pressure inside your body would effectively explode your lungs and then pop your chest cavity and, well, it'd be a big mess.

You really want to breathe all the air out of your lungs and then get re-pressurized really, really quickly.

[Sirus]

Point is, the player characters in Heat Signature can survive something like 30 seconds of vacuum. Other people tend to die in 5-10 seconds tops.

[Mathel]

Maybe everybody else holds their breath, and that's why they die so quickly.

Your characted exhales instead, and thanks to that they get that 0.5 minute of consciousness.

[hector13]

They might also be wearing a spacesuit which gets perforated every time they get shot, and that’s why you lose 6 seconds of space time every time you get shot.

[Rolan7]

Maybe everybody else holds their breath, and that's why they die so quickly.

Your characted exhales instead, and thanks to that they get that 0.5 minute of consciousness.

It's even weirder.  Non-PCs aren't holding their breath because they are instantly unconscious upon leaving the ship.  I used to theorize that this was done by the silicon-based lifeforms we call "windows", but after extensive ethical experimentation I think it's space ghosts.  Fortunately yet tragically these ghosts are exclusively from our side - evidence that faction employees do not have souls (plus the Glitchers for OBVIOUS reasons).

Space is thick with these ghosts.  Whenever a ship is breached there is an instant before the anti-ghost-barriers activate, and the ghosts are ready.  They grab any items and people they can, yanking them out into the nebula.  Enemies are inervated into unconsciousness (especially Defenders!), we are awoken (though not stabilized), and the ghosts even relay any scattered items to our next destination.  So considerate!

Some say this is the void mother but that's stupid, nobody's seen the void mother.  We've all seen the ghosts on Space Halloween.  Poor things.  Please try to act like they're not there, they *really* want to be stealthy but... well obviously they failed at least once.

"Explosive decompression" is just bad sci-fi, air doesn't work that way.  It's space ghosts.
- Void Mother

[Robsoie]

Hellpoint,

After doing a lot of axion grinding in a world polarized to level 2 (the more polarized a world is, the (lot) more axion you'll get from defeating enemies, but everything become also much harder and resilient to staggering), i recessed the world back to level 1 and went to fight the 2nd (there's no order, it's just the 2nd on the order i decided to go for my kill list) cosmic horror deity of the game, "Undisturbed Defas Nemundis".

For this i had my Archon Spear that has been amazing constantly since i crafted it after getting the blueprint from an Archon Knight miniboss(+ the conductor i attached to it was after my grinding at a good level so its damage was even higher), and because i had read how good this weapon was against very large enemies : the Channeler of Hell that i had grinded completely to enable its last power that can summon several pillar of fire in a line, making some kind of firewall that deals constant fire damage to an enemy.
And large enemies are then hurt by a lot of those pillars at the same time.

Additionally Nemundis does not move much, he's meditating and only sometime float around (his attacks are done by his spirit/soul that comes out of his body) and barely moving large enemies are going to get hurt a -very- lot by pillars.

So this way it was surprisingly very easy (good i didn't forgot to recess the world, as i guess in a polarized one it would have been very different ), ran around to avoid the nasty strikes and death rays but with Nemundis burning and my Archon spear poking hard it was a victory for my character.

[Egan_BW]

Nah, at least in Heat Signature they throw you out an airlock into space. This is usually fatal within seconds, but your character can hold their breath for a long time and also apparently cannot be killed by bullets.

They totally can be killed by bullets if they get shot enough times or have the Frail trait.

[MonkeyHead]

Sallied forth from Bridgefort to break the crusader siege. Cast cloudkill using Neera from the drawbridge. This kills 80% of the 25 or so attackers outright, and incapacitates the rest, who are then easily picked off with ranged weapons. A combination of an overpowered spell and buffed wild mage made a joke of a set piece battle.

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Baldurs gate, Siege of Dragonspear. Continuing my chaotic play through of all BG games.