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Title: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 28, 2011, 09:22:57 pm

Opposite to the "How did you last die?" thread, post about your most recent episode of win, ownage, pwnage, or gaming badassery. The name of the game is requested, but not neccessarily required.

My most recent ownage: In Cortex Command, I was trying a new tactic, where I loaded a drop crate with crabs and a few Molotovs, and scuttled the crate mid-fall, effectively creating an airburst effect. It worked. But that's not the best part. Two (regular, not dummy)dropships were flying side-by-side when one of the crabcrates arrived. I detonated, it did only superficial damage to the dropship closer to the crate, but the other one was completely destroyed, except for on of its engines which stayed ignited. It flew over the other dropship, looped across the map and hit it, destroying it. Combined with the damage from the crabcrate, there was nothing left alive on the ground.
This has solidified the use of submunition crabs into my usual arsenal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on April 28, 2011, 09:27:25 pm

Playing SD Gundam Online as the Gundam Mk.II, there was about 10 seconds left on the clock and both teams were tied at 80-some points.

Naturally, I head to the closest enemy and perform my Special, shooting a Hyper Bazooka and beam rifle at close range. 7 seconds left.

I move to the right and do it again, then jump in the air, land on top of him, and fire my Hyper Bazooka point-blank into his head for the kill. The timer hits 0 and I made the winning kill.

(http://th80.photobucket.com/albums/j165/FrozenRose13/th_FEELS_GOOD_MAN.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on April 28, 2011, 09:28:35 pm

Was playing Dungeons and Dragons online, as a level three rogue. I'm invested heavily into being a support character, and at the moment I'm getting amazing rolls if I can handle more than ten kobolds at once. I was, of course, terrified when I was simultaneously fighting thirty or so kobolds and two named bugbears (named enemies being bosses of sorts). Somehow, I kill them all, but am down to just five health. I see a trap and another named bugbear between myself and my objective, and find I have no potions. I try to disarm the trap and fail, but make my roll and take no damage from the exploding control panel. I sprint through the trap, and make my roll again. I sneak, hit the bugbear, and get just enough damage to kill him with that one hit. My jaw was dropped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on April 28, 2011, 09:30:42 pm

I was testing my new Survive This® Drop Crate Attack. It was a drop crate loaded with many, many doomsday nukes. It came down but it hit a drophship on the way, launching itself around the map and slamming into a cliff and pulverizing a cyborg zombie. The crate open and nukes came out, lots of nukes.

Effect 1)The entire mountain was wiped off the map.
Effect 2)Nukes spread all over and created a giant radiation field that killed everything on the surface.
Effect 3)A giant, inescapable pit was formed where the crate opened up.
Effect 4)My computer almost had a heart attack.

Cortex Command.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tellemurius on April 28, 2011, 10:01:16 pm

Winning at Postal 2, that whole gaming is *owning*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 28, 2011, 10:03:59 pm

I was playing Fallout: New Vegas and someone in Hoover Dam pissed me off.

I proceeded to blow everybody to pieces and eat their corpses. I then went on an NCR killing spree.

Quote from: Tellemurius on April 28, 2011, 10:01:16 pm

Winning at Postal 2, that whole gaming is *owning*

That's right.

Winning on Enhanced Mode also pretty *ownable*. You piss out napalm on Enhanced Mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 29, 2011, 01:09:16 am

Does unlocking the Dr. Fetus Dark World Version count? It requires beating about 230-odd levels total to unlock. Looking at the Super Meat Boy leaderboard, I'm among the top 7500 (overall) that has reached that far, though I have yet to beat the final final level. Tack onto it, about 1/4 of the Cotton Alley levels beaten as well (some of them dark world versions as well).

It feels good being among the higher ups. Also, my Steam friends leaderboard, I'm in 2nd place. Just need to beat one more level, or have a better total time to beat 1st place on it.

As for the most recent, I would say having 2 Eridian lightning shotguns (1 fast-recharge 3 shots, and another slow-charge 5 shot; trading between them constantly), and destroying frying countless Crimsons (minds) while trying to loot some Pearlescents. No Pearlescants found yet. But, I did manage to afford all SDUs in the Crawmerax lair (now my ammo totals are insane), and this is still Playthrough 1. I think I'll be making tons of progress in Playthrough 2 quite easily. However, I might take on an extended Moxxi challenge first to test my optimized equipment, mostly (dark) orange items. I may be a bit overpowered. And speaking of overpowered, I found an automatic RPG (5 rockets in quick succession, significant damage each; now if I can only find a triple-shot version of one), as well as a decent Terrible Carnage (rocket-shotgun) which is accurate and deadly. More of a gimmick weapon for when I'm not taking a battle seriously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hexedmagica on April 29, 2011, 01:15:55 am

Was playing a 2v2 on StarCraft II. As Protoss. Lost my partner early on. I then proceeded to come back and just completely curb stomp the enemies with Colossi and Phoenixes. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 29, 2011, 01:17:28 am

This was a while back, but on DoomRL I found the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Butchers Cleaver

on level 2. I proceeded to *OWN* everything that came my way. Even the cyberdemon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on April 29, 2011, 01:38:28 am

32 kill life setting up sentry guns in the water on 2Fort instaspawn (Team fortress 2).  If they kill the sentry, they get a shotgun blast to the face.  Taunt kills as the losing team in humiliation time are also always pure ownage.   That and playing prototype for the first time recently, its not a great game, but you are the very definition of ownage and tank headbutting invincibility from day 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on April 29, 2011, 01:48:06 pm

I was put' put'ing around in my little Leichttraktor when the panther in front of me rounds a corner and goes boom and the map lights up in red like a christmas tree. I drive up a pile of rubble to the second floor of a building and see arrayed before me at least 7 tanks. A couple bursts from my 20mm takes down one of them before they start returning fire and kill my driver. I back down to cover and limp towards the cover of tigers burning hulk. I edge around the corner and methodically take down enemy tank after tank as I inch forwards with only my turret exposed. In the end I was blown apart, but I killed 4 tanks and wounded the rest without backup in a dinky little starter tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on April 29, 2011, 01:58:51 pm

Not really recent, this happened months ago, and was more of a stroke of luck, but here it goes anyway.

Team Fortress 2, CP_Steel, Pyro. Our team is doing okay, we just captured A, on our way to B. Suddenly, this team of four reds show up just outside our spawn, a Medic, a Soldier, a Huntsman Sniper, and I what I recall to be a Scout. They utterly decimated our attack force, and the only one who's left is me and a really wounded heavy who hasn't revved up yet. Soldier fires a rocket. I'm notorious for failing at airblasting when it's most crucial, but I try it anyway.

Not only does the rocket reflect back, but I had completely failed to realize the medic healing the soldier had activated his kritzkrieg. The crit-rocket flies back straight in the face of the group, killing all three simultaneously, and then earning a kill assist as the earlier mentioned heavy finally revs up and guns down the remaining one.

I literally went "Holy shit."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Paul on April 29, 2011, 02:32:44 pm

Left the spinner on my first mission, flying my little Haiho mining mecha - slightly modified to be lighter. My mission is a simple one, fly out and kill an enemy and then fly back. But I get intercepted on the way by an Aegis patrol. So there I am in my little Haiho facing off against a custom Chimentero, a Chameleon, and several BuruBurus.

I fly full speed, hoping for my stunt driver talent and 6 piloting skill to keep me alive. I fire my mining laser, and miss. I close in a bit. Their return fire mostly misses, but the Chimentero scores a nasty hit and blows off a leg. The Chimentero is out front, having just blown off my leg with some rockets and probably getting ready to blast me apart with whatever other big guns it was carrying. I throw my rocket hammer at it. Torso hit, pilot killed, Chimentero disabled.

Most of the rest of the battle involved me jousting the rest of the mecha, firing my mining laser and hammering them with my rocket hammer when I got close. I took a bit of a beating and lost the arm with the mining laser and most of my armor, but the rocket hammer is taking them apart pretty well and eventually it's down to just me and the Chameleon. I close in with it, and right before I'm in range to use the rocket hammer it hits me hard and blows off my other arm and damages my torso even more. The armor on my leg is mostly stripped away and the leg itself is damaged enough to be showing yellow, my torso armor is completely stripped and the torso is showing red. Another hit in either spot is a death sentence, and I just lost my only weapon. The Chameleon is directly in front of me, but still a few tiles distance away.

I keep flying full speed, and the Chameleon begins to turn last minute. I get stopped right in front of it, and I attack with the only thing left - the leg. I just make a regular attack, knowing that attempting to aim would probably just make me miss. Luck has me connect with the head, destroying it and giving the Chameleon a significant penalty due to not having sensors. Now it's flying away from me, and I turn to try and close.

I then chased it around for a good 5 minutes just getting close enough, kick at it, then chase it for a while longer until finally getting close for another kick. I luckily managed to avoid all of its shots, helped by its lack of a head and my flying full speed with stunt driver, and eventually managed to take it out solely by kicking it repeatedly.

After battle, I salvaged the Chimentero since it was disabled, and it doesn't even have much damage. I use it to go and finish my mission, easily blasting the BuruBuru I was faced with to oblivion.

So there I was, as a brand new character, with a high end custom Chimentero worth about 2.5 million. As a comparison, my lowly Haiho is only worth about 240 thousand.


Plus the mental image of a leg flying around dragging a mangled torso with it (my flight jets were in the legs, torso was just being pulled) and kicking at the enemy Mecha every time it got close is pretty funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on April 29, 2011, 02:35:54 pm

Cortex command, managed to "fly" a rocklet through about half of my opponent's bunker before it blew up all over one of his soldiers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 29, 2011, 02:57:00 pm

Quote from: Naxza on April 29, 2011, 01:28:39 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on April 29, 2011, 01:09:16 am

It feels good being among the higher ups. Also, my Steam friends leaderboard, I'm in 2nd place. Just need to beat one more level, or have a better total time to beat 1st place on it.

I dun wanna give up first place! D:

I was playing Monster Hunter Tri recently and managed to kill the Gobul in about five minutes by fishing it out of the water, knocking it over, paralyzing it, and then chasing it into the next area and beating the crap out of it there. Considering my other battles took about twenty minutes each, I was rather shocked.

Sorry man, I just beat 2 more levels. Cotton Alley, and A+'d them both.

EDIT:
Make that 3, and another A+.

EDIT EDIT:
Lost count. I'll post my rank instead. 4508 - 263 levels beat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dakk on April 29, 2011, 03:14:02 pm

League of Legends as Xin Zhao. I had 3 kills and no deaths in my lane, and I was last hitting minions as the enemy laners, mundo and janna, were away. While I was last hitting, enemy tristana comes from top lane to attack me along with mundo who was rushing me with 25% hp, but with his ultimate on. Then shen uses his ultimate on me and taunts tristana as I charge into mundo and kill him with some of shen's help, then we both gang on tristana and i complete my double kill.

Mundo left the game and they surrendered shortly after.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: diamok on April 29, 2011, 03:33:11 pm

- Red Dead Redemption, in Armadillo -

I hate the freaking dogs...every time I whistle for my horse, one of those damn dogs comes running, yipping and yapping the whole damn way.

Dog...meet pump action shot gun and maxed dead eye.  Shot the little bastard six times in the head, he went down like a dog getting shot six times in the head with a pump action shot gun.

I was happy, that was until them dumb townsfolk got all pissy cause I shot their beloved mutt...like it was Lassie or something.

So, one guy shot at me, loaded him full of pump action then turned to the morons coming out of the saloon.  Dumb shits!  Switched to the High Power Pistol and again, using dead eye I tagged 6 random townsfolk around the saloon and blew the shit out them!

Course now the stupid cops are all pissy and going Red Dead on me.

I run into the saloon and notice their were three townies I didn't get too, quickly dispatched them with the Pistol, ran up the stairs and out on the balcony.  Crouched down behind the the boarded up area of the railing in front of the double doors and armed my TNT.

Muuuhahahahahaha!  Bring it you damn dirty apes!!!

Pretty much blew the shit out of all the cops with a few sticks then switched back to the High Power Pistol to finished the rest off.

Ahh, peace and quite, nice.

Bloody bodies everywhere, loads of ammo, some loot and one pleased and happy me.

Take care,

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 29, 2011, 03:43:22 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on April 29, 2011, 01:48:06 pm

I was put' put'ing around in my little Leichttraktor when the panther in front of me rounds a corner and goes boom and the map lights up in red like a christmas tree. I drive up a pile of rubble to the second floor of a building and see arrayed before me at least 7 tanks. A couple bursts from my 20mm takes down one of them before they start returning fire and kill my driver. I back down to cover and limp towards the cover of tigers burning hulk. I edge around the corner and methodically take down enemy tank after tank as I inch forwards with only my turret exposed. In the end I was blown apart, but I killed 4 tanks and wounded the rest without backup in a dinky little starter tank.

That sounds like WWIIO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ExKirby on April 29, 2011, 03:48:19 pm

You know you're using the Huntsman right when, on plr_hightower, you can core a headshot on a Heavy near the rocks on the crossroads, forcing him to do half a backflip and pinning him to the rocks,  scoring you the William Tell Overkill achievement. Sering that -360 text was so refreshing.
On a later game, I took over the tower itself on BLU. Mr. Enemy Sniper, I don't care how good you are with a Rifle-a decent arrow to the chest will be a domination.
Also, I can't remember if it was Hightower, but I remember blindly firing an arrow through a small gap and scoring a headshot for it. When I saw the kill on the leaderboard, I was like O_O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Icee77 on April 29, 2011, 07:19:57 pm

Bam! Headshot
Bam! Headshot
Bam! Headshot
Bam! Grenade.
Bam! Dead :'(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on April 29, 2011, 08:38:07 pm

Quote from: diamok on April 29, 2011, 03:33:11 pm

-Western murder spree-

Reminds me of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, specifically a certain scene in The Gunslinger. I don't remember if it's spoilers or not, but if you've read the book you know what I'm talking about.

As for my own personal ownage: I was defending an area from the EDF death squads in Red Faction: Guerrilla. Took out three dudes with one swing of my lovely sledgehammer. That game is a lot of fun after the ridiculously long driving bits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on April 29, 2011, 10:10:33 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 29, 2011, 03:43:22 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on April 29, 2011, 01:48:06 pm

I was put' put'ing around in my little Leichttraktor when the panther in front of me rounds a corner and goes boom and the map lights up in red like a christmas tree. I drive up a pile of rubble to the second floor of a building and see arrayed before me at least 7 tanks. A couple bursts from my 20mm takes down one of them before they start returning fire and kill my driver. I back down to cover and limp towards the cover of tigers burning hulk. I edge around the corner and methodically take down enemy tank after tank as I inch forwards with only my turret exposed. In the end I was blown apart, but I killed 4 tanks and wounded the rest without backup in a dinky little starter tank.

That sounds like WWIIO.

World of Tanks... Its a MMO FPS where you drive WW2 tanks around in big battles. It is free to play, but pretty fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on April 29, 2011, 11:31:59 pm

You say free to play like it's a bad thing.

Not dieing in X-Com.
The way I see it, if you aren't dieing horribly, you're doing it wrong you're winning epically.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on April 30, 2011, 12:50:26 am

Quote from: NewsMuffin on April 29, 2011, 11:31:59 pm

You say free to play like it's a bad thing.

free isn't a bad thing, but they do set things up so you may be pressured to buy "gold" for extra conveniences and rare tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2011, 07:42:54 am

I beat Mt. Moon (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/566150). Might not be much of an achievement, although some of the comments said it's very hard. Pewter Gym was harder, to be honest.

Quote from: NewsMuffin on April 29, 2011, 11:31:59 pm

You say free to play like it's a bad thing.

It's not really, although it depends on the game. Illyriad's Prestige, for example, allows for instant-building(you can't get instant resources, so there's an effective limit on that), but it's dirt cheap anyway. Nexon's NX cards are easily available(in America at least), so you don't even need a credit card(avoid the free NX surveys, I've heard most are scams), and their cash-shop stuff is mostly cosmetic. The stuff that isn't(depending on the game) usually isn't a huge advantage; although statistically better, buying an M417CQB(Combat Arms) isn't going to make you more skilled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on April 30, 2011, 07:48:22 am

I killed Iuz in Temple of Elemental Evil, and bugged the game by doing so.

Purple mist was floating there for eternity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on April 30, 2011, 09:34:49 am

Just started a game of UFO Aftershock.  I haven't done anything that awesome yet.  :(

 - Only had one guy in the deployable team due to everyone else being heavily injured or in specialist training.  Mission comes up, I hire a raw recruit.  They then breeze through the whole thing - if they took damage, it was probably barely a fleshwound.

 - In the halls of an underground base clearing out Grays.  Due to having played Afterlight I recognized what their rocket launchers looked like, so when my shotgunner and the SMGman ran into a xeno with one far down the hall, I was like "oh shit" and ducked into a nearby corridor.  We set up at the intersection, and when he rounded the corner he got a faceful of shotgun and a bad case of dead.  Burst fire, too, so it's practically "squeeze trigger, something dies".

 - Defense mission against some cultists, shotgunners waiting once again with their guns pointed at the doors.  They do SHITTONS of damage - the frail little psionics usually die in one hit, whereas the tougher ones will only take about two.

 - I don't know what I did to get it but one of my soldiers has ridiculously high HP - about 2400, where the rest of my dudes soldiers have like ~1000 or so, and about 600 over the second toughest, the cyborg.  He can tank damn near everything.  In addition, his modded rifle hits 100% accuracy at ranges the other guns are already falling off, WHILE snap shooting bursts (it's a little different from X-com; burst fire/single fire and snap/aimed shot are both separate things).  Ridiculously robust.

 - Shotgunner from before leading civilians out of a cultist-controlled area.  I had her check a doorway into a building between her and the objective, and SUDDENLY FIVE CULTISTS!  She dropped like three or four of 'em with her one mag of shells, after which I had her beat it because the civs were following her around.  One even ran into the hall with all the cultists, which was kinda scary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ExKirby on April 30, 2011, 04:43:22 pm

There seem to be loads of W+M1 Pyros on Badlands. I tend to panic, toss my Jarate at me feet, and still die. However, a Jarated Pyro is easy pickings for my team. Free assist.

Also shot a Scout in the neck. He lived, but I got a picture.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2011, 09:53:19 pm

Beat the hell out of a Siren, and got a flute. Although it an item related to the quest, I can equip(and presumably play) it. Furthermore, it wasn't removed upon completing the current quest.

Not entirely sure if I really killed her or not, though. I meant to finish her off with a fireball(made more awesome by the fact that she teleported behind me when I was charging it), but after the cutscene of receiving the flute, I still had a fireball orbiting me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mabinogi.
I think that Siren was coming on to me during the battle .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xanatos Jr. on May 09, 2011, 02:39:04 am

My XXI class U-boat was lying in wait for a British taskforce, submerged at 15 meters. Once they were just off my bow, I kicked into flank speed, blowing past a screen destroyer before it could react, and firing five torpedoes at my target, an Illustrious class fleet carrier. One of them, a search torpedo, malfunctioned and the search system activated early. The others hit the carrier, and I called for a crash dive to 150 meters. I passed right under the listing ship. As I was descending, the stray torpedo rofl'd itself into a screen destroyer, sinking it. The carrier tipped over shortly after, and I snuck away as the remains of the taskforce converged on the spot I had fired from, having lost me in the confusion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 09, 2011, 03:36:51 am

Went through the Alien Ship in Crysis on hard only dying once. Compared to the last time I played the game, it took me two hours and I had no ammo, and it was touch and go the whole time.

This time I just snuck up on the squids and stuck a shotgun in their face and owned.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 09, 2011, 05:47:46 am

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. I just discovered the joys of thunderbird summoning.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

OH GOD EVERYTHING'S DEAD AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 09, 2011, 06:00:36 am

My badass team leader had finally been captured after years of fighting for justice, causing mayhem and killing tonnes of losers. He was sentenced to death, I managed to get the tattered remnants of his comrades together, sneak into the prison disguised as guards, and bust him out, along with all the other team members in there, and fought my way out with him (basically) snapping people in half with his fists. :D
And no-one even died! ...On my side, anyway. :P

EDIT: Oh yeah, in LCS.
And all my previous attempts at break-outs had failed spectacularly, so I'm proud.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 09, 2011, 06:40:03 am

#dip
What do you want to dip? [a-cefh-mruCLP or ?*]
a (a +1 long sword)
Dip it into the fountain? [yn](n)
y
Your long sword rusts some more. You unleash a water demon!
Grateful for his release, he grants you a wish!
You may wish for an object.
For what do you wish? blessed +2 silver dragon scale mail
Q - a silver dragon scale mail.
---swap out my current elven mithril-coat---
--Hmmmm....---
#dip
What do you want to dip? [a-cefh-mruCLPQ or ?*]
a
Dip it into the fountain? [yn](n)
y
From the murky depths, a hand reaches up to bless the sword.
As the hand retreats, the fountain disappears!
---YES!---

All this at experiance level 6.

EDIT: Also found gauntlets of power in the armor shop on dungeon level 2.
EDIT2: And Minetown's altar is lawful. I'm starting to get paranoid because of my luck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: zestorum on May 09, 2011, 07:21:44 am

Burned an insane psychopath in an incinerator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on May 09, 2011, 07:46:19 am

Few days ago.

Hisoutensoku.

Krath.

Heck yeah  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on May 09, 2011, 08:01:14 am

Quote from: zestorum on May 09, 2011, 07:21:44 am

Burned an insane psychopath in an incinerator.

What's the game!?

IT SOUNDS AWESOME!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Catastrophic lolcats on May 09, 2011, 09:31:44 am

Quote from: zestorum on May 09, 2011, 07:21:44 am

Burned an insane psychopath in an incinerator.

Penumbra maybe?

Anyway my current best owning was in Ace of Spades. Where i came out of a tunnel to find myself being shot by a sniper.

I manage to make it to a small wall and duck behind it while he was trying to take off my head.
I didn't want to get up and make a break back for the tunnel since he had me in his sights. I decided to try and go over the top of the wall and try to make it to some of the ruins below.

As I was jumping over the wall I decided I should lay some suppression on him so he might duck back and let me line up my own shot.
Anyway I jumped over the wall and no-scoped him in mid air while he was behind cover. I felt good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on May 09, 2011, 02:03:54 pm

Killed a soldier and his engie.  Then rekilled them as they respawned.  To cap it all off, I got a taunt kill after I captured teh point.  I captured it on film. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0-7qFQ7a4)  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: andrea on May 09, 2011, 02:33:24 pm

Quote from: zestorum on May 09, 2011, 07:21:44 am

Burned an insane psychopath in an incinerator.

Portal I ?

GLaDOS surely is an insane psychopath, and at the end you burn her into an incinerator.
even though she is still alive, at the end

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: warhammer651 on May 09, 2011, 03:01:33 pm

40 Kaiserleich Infantry VS roughly 100 Laurian veterans

Final tally: 10 prisoners (including the lord), 90 killed
Casualties: 1 wounded recruit

Heil Prussia/ Der Imperial State, Bitchez

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade Warband: Mod: Eagle and the Radiant Cross

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ExKirby on May 09, 2011, 03:40:47 pm

Sniper wars on 2fort. Me and a buddy who wasn't doing much, against 3 enemy snipers.  Took all three down in a row.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Svarte Troner on May 09, 2011, 04:30:41 pm

I last owned the Castillians as 1 province minor Navarra in EU3. I was in an alliance with the French who declared war on Castile, and I was able to gain 3 provinces in northern Spain while the French annexed eastern Spain. From their, I became the first nation to start exploring (in 1460) and I colonized West Africa, Converting all the Malians and Songhians from Paganism to Catholicism and Basque Culture. Currently I'm working on colonizing the virgin American continents in the 1510's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on May 09, 2011, 08:38:16 pm

Playing Fire Emblem 4. My guy has a 70% chance to hit the group of enemies closing on him. He has 40 hit points. He will hit twice per combat, for 17 damage. There are 9 enemies. They have an 80% chance to hit my guy. They will hit once per combat for 9 damage. He kills them all with no damage. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on May 10, 2011, 01:12:36 am

Owning is all I can do in UFO Aftershock, apparently.  My armor is so huge I can take anything the enemies blast me with, and my guns are dead killy.

...I've run out of tech, and everything is too easy.  :<  I'd like to install mods, but then I have to re-do the entire tech tree and have no-weapon-mods and no-cool-guns and no-skills all over again.  Dammit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Old-Man-Gator on May 10, 2011, 01:39:53 am

Sticky jumper air raids with the Caber.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on May 10, 2011, 06:31:33 am

All my hunts on Monster Hunter Unite (PsP) during the wait for the plane at Sydney Airport, took under 5min, All Captures too. Also finally took down the damn Tigrex there who was pissing me off due to him pinning me against the wall so many times before...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hyo on May 10, 2011, 07:28:09 am

Played AoD. Soviet Union, I never lost a single soviet province against those pesky Germans. Of course, it was on Normal/Normal, but it's still quite a feat... for me, at least.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on May 10, 2011, 09:34:15 am

Mount & Blade Warband: Bugged castle caused my troops to get stuck outside, running in circles and getting caught on terrain. Two bags of arrows, a Masterwork Swadian Longbow, and a two hander later, I took out around 40 before running out of arrows, started running around gathering arrows shot at me, and took out another 20 more. Did this three times, cutting the castle down to about 50 total, before having my troops attack without me and suffering 2 casualties.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on May 10, 2011, 01:04:13 pm

As a giant column, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-JvfUNaWEg) I got the drop on an unsuspecting sniper.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on May 10, 2011, 06:38:08 pm

II try 2 repaiir the staiirs
[...]
01:34   Darvi   I mean, I try to repair the stairs
[...]
01:35   GlyphGryph   Darvi, roll a construction!
01:35   Darvi   1d6+1
01:35   MrSnakeEyes   Darvi, 1d6+1: 7 [1d6=6]
01:35   Darvi   HELL FUCKING YES
[...]
01:35   Darvi   This is a legendary stairdcase.
01:35   Darvi   It meances with spikes of awesome and is adorned with rings of badassery
[...]
01:36   GlyphGryph   You quickly move to repair the stairs... and then realize you need to get to your room! Screw REPAIRING the stairs, you'll build new ones right uner the gap! You quickly and adeptly fling some tables and chairs into a fairly stable pyramid position
01:36   GlyphGryph   And scale up them to your room
01:36   GlyphGryph   All in under a minute

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 10, 2011, 09:53:05 pm

One of our command posts was being over, so I respawned back at base, grabbed a helicopter and flew it to the CP being taken, tried to crush one of the enemies, missed and landed fairly perfectly inside a building, jumped out, did a nice 180° spin and dropped the guy with a P90. Then, I hopped in a tank, took a shot at the other guy, missed, then drove around the corner where he was hiding, and reduced his position to a smoking black mark on the ground. And both of these guys are supposedly really good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Joint Ops

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on May 12, 2011, 11:17:44 am

I had assasinated my first target and had killed about 30 different people who saw it. 12 of which were guards. I donned an elite guard uniform and hit the naked corpse in a wine mixing vat. I then made my way to the house where the main target lived. Every guard was located in the wine cellar due to all of the commotion, so killing him was easy. The moment I killed him, some guards ran into the room and were shot. I was now in a state where EVERYBODY knows that I'm the assassin. I managed to kill almost every guard and decided to strangle all witnesses.  After that, I found the exit. I hid in the elevator shaft and tried throwing some coins to lure the 2 remaining guards into the elevator. Eventually, I got sick of waiting and decided to throw a mine down there that I promptly detonated. A guard rushed in and was hung by my fibre wire. Another guard rushed in and the same fate awaited him. I then escaped via plane.

I forgot to kill one witness, though. He was quickly silenced through a bribe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ExKirby on May 12, 2011, 04:13:06 pm

Mini-Golf in Minecraft. That just owns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: zestorum on May 12, 2011, 06:52:57 pm

Quote from: Angel Of Death on May 09, 2011, 08:01:14 am

Quote from: zestorum on May 09, 2011, 07:21:44 am

Burned an insane psychopath in an incinerator.

What's the game!?

IT SOUNDS AWESOME!

Technically, he's only insane but he still creeps me out.

Penumbra Overture is the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 12, 2011, 06:59:20 pm

Was bored, decided to go straight for a 10TP Naval Artillery. Hilarity(and meat showers) ensued.
It was actually 11-12TP, since the call took so long.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 12, 2011, 08:22:56 pm

Making any progress in SpaceChem from Planet 3 and onward. Being able to beat your previous scores afterward = more ownage.

EDIT:
Made it to world 4 now. And beat 2 of the mustache challenges. Game is getting more complex now. Feeling clever with certain solutions just to merely beat the level makes me feel like I owned the game well enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 15, 2011, 07:33:12 pm

Took out a tank and a BMP singlehandedly. Had to run around for extra ammo to take out the BMP, which is hard enough if you've just pissed it off by blowing up the tank in front of it. And I managed to shoot it through the door of a ruined house and out the lack of wall on the other side, to a hit on the rear which I suppose hit the fuel tank, since a large KABOOM followed about half a second later(it was a BMP-1, so that makes sense, since the BMP-1 has a *severe* design flaw which puts the fuel tanks on the rear doors).

And then, in the middle of salvaging weapons, an enemy squad surprised me from behind, which my medic handily took out with an SVD, although I got two with the PK I was holding.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Operation Flashpoint: Resistance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stuntaneous on May 16, 2011, 06:58:05 pm

On my second day I managed to spot a bear and after an epic battle, kill it. At one point I was chucking every pointy, unequipped item I had at its face. I can't believe I won and survived. I lived off the meat for fricken ages, which was really helpful since I sure as hell didn't and still don't know how to find or make sustainable food normally.

This was Unreal World.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mono124 on May 16, 2011, 07:15:14 pm

After taking out the British, the Byzantines, and the Koreans, I attacked the Turks (played by my friend Billy who was at my house). I, being the Goths, have no walls and so if he attacks first I am pretty screwed because from what I could tell his army was probably huge. I send in my scouts, and find that he can see the entire length of the north eastern front of his defenses. I send 70 Elite Huskarls, 24 Pikemen, and 6 Monks to his north western defense where he only has about 40 troops waiting. His north eastern front has at least 80, with more in reserve most likely. I circumvent his north western defense and attack with the main bulk of my troops in the center of his town, whilst attacking his north eastern troops with my 40 Huskarls sent out on a suicide diversion mission. The diversion (sort of) worked and his town was reduced to crumbling pieces of dust. He sent his calvary to attack my main force and they were decimated by the pikemen. His archers couldn't penetrate my Huskarls armor and I sustained very few losses (about 15 of my entire army) as I decimated his foot troops with my Huskarls.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Age of Empires II The Conquerors

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2011, 07:30:12 pm

Took out an entire armor platoon with a combination of a minefield and RPG spam. I knew gunships were inbound(I had screwed it up previously), so I ordered my armor units to fall back to the evac point, while I stayed back to grab as much stuff while I had two guys on mounted MGs. The MGs took out a squad running vanguard for the former armor platoon(which triggers the heli attack), and then I called everyone still in the base to a truck(which was just those two guys, the RPG team was already driving it), and then ordered the evac.

Just in time, too. Right as we got out, I saw two heavy gunships come into view and start a search-sweep over the base. One of the choppers gave chase, and made a few close calls with the rockets, but our driver managed to evade them(by driving straight. I guess the gunner thought we were going to try dodging ::)).

The next mission included even more zany chopper-dodging, only I was driving. And it was at night, so I could clearly see(from the flashes) just how close to fiery death me and my squad came.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Operation Flashpoint: Resistance, one of the only games I've seen where the AI can actually be a competent dynamic driver.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on May 19, 2011, 11:33:12 am

Trapped a idiot spy between me and my buddy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WukZ7nkSysQ)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on May 19, 2011, 12:06:38 pm

Combo kicking someone into the air, stomping them down, the inserting a SHINING FINGEEEEEER into their face tends to own them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Leonon on May 22, 2011, 12:51:35 am

Playing through Saints Row 2 again, skyjacked an attack helicopter nearly first thing this time. There's a minigame where you pretend to be a police officer and respond to calls with excessive force. I discovered I could use the attack helicopter during this minigame. I proceeded to respond to litterers, jay walkers and purse snatchers by firing laser guided antipersonnel rockets at them.


You can't say it wasn't efficient law enforcement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on May 22, 2011, 01:40:12 am

Took on 43 Polish Deserters, using only 11 soldiers. PROBLEM, STRENGTH IN NUMBERS?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sluissa on May 22, 2011, 10:08:21 am

I rushed my M2 light tank up the western railroad tracks past the enemy lines. About half way, one enemy turns and begins to follow me. He's an M2 also. a few shots are fired at me, I duck between a couple of railroad cars, make a quick turn, pull back out and fire at him with my front to him. He gets one glancing shot, but only minor damage done. I hit him twice, seriously, he goes up in flames.

I see more enemies on their way, two this time, so I pull back and continue my route towards the enemy base. I run almost head first into an enemy bt-2 that'd been damaged slightly. Snap shot while I'm running, critical hit, hit them hard, they go up in flames. I rush again to the enemy base. I find only one awake tank there. A leichtracktor. I make easy work of him and move on to shooting at the two afk tanks. I take one out before I notice another leichtracktor rolling up to defend. I turn quickly, somehow managed to get a shot at his ass and after two shots he's dead as well.

While I'm messing with that someone else has killed the other afk tank, so I roll my butt against a building near the cap point where I can see almost all of the possible entry points. An MS-1 rolls up to my right. Quick turn to face him, fire into his side. he's dead. Another tier 1 tank, forget what kind, makes a last ditch effort to attack me. By this time, my team mates are rolling up as well. Enemy gets a few shots from them, and I get the kill shot.

6 kills with the m2.

There was also the time I one shotted a tank down to 1% health, then rammed him dead. Both happened yesterday.


World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ExKirby on May 23, 2011, 03:35:50 pm

Took out a full health Heavy down on the stairs by the bridge on Badlands as a Shortstop Scoot, after nailing a Demoman and a Soldier. I then proceeded on to the spire, and got a few people on it when a Soldier shows up midair. I kill him right before he kills me, and we get the cap.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on May 24, 2011, 01:10:24 pm

Playing Minecraft. Drop a TNT down my blast mining mine shaft. On my way down, realize I just killed four or five creepers, judging by the sulfur. Victory dance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on May 24, 2011, 01:54:44 pm

Silent Hunter 4. Tokyo bay.

I was at periscope depth, waiting for a CTF to drift through, so i can sink another carrier. Silent running, all torpedoes loaded, just waiting out of destroyers patrol paths.
A few minutes before the task force arrived, a small convoy of 4 destroyers and 2 troop transports was leaving Tokyo to strike at some random island. Took down both transports and avoided detection at periscope depth, with airplanes and destroyers everywhere you look. Until the CTF arrived.
I didn't manage to sink the carrier, but i got one fuso and kongo BB's.

Then got away to roam in Tokyo bay another month.

Ahoy!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutchling on May 24, 2011, 03:28:46 pm

Europa Universalis. Playing as Castille.

Morocco is now called Castillian Morocco ^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mattie2009 on May 24, 2011, 05:06:22 pm

EDIT FOR BETTER WIN

Terraria. The scene is World 2, my central base, It is heavily fortified and completely self-sufficient. Water Duping facilities, Storage, Glowing Mushroom farm, Lava Cistern, the works. I get a Goblin Army message, and decide "Why Not?". Keep in mind, I had just purchased the minishark, and had a full chest of Meteor Shot for it. As the horde marches towards my base, I set up my defences. The leftmost door is barricaded and turned into a makeshift barricade, with a hole for me to shoot through. The horde arrives, and I greet them with a stream of Meteor Shot, stopping every so often to kill the ones behind me. None survive, and just as I run dry on ammo after letting the Minishark chew through everything, a single mage pops into existance behind me. I bat his Chaos Ball out of the way with my phaseblade, and give him a new haircut. He drops exactly what I wanted; a pair of Rocket Boots. Just as the song in the background comes to a close, the Goblin Army Defeated message pops up. I mop up the last few, and take to the skies in my Rocket Boots, Shiny Red Balloon, Cloud In A Bottle and Lucky Horseshoe combination. My jump height is unmatched.

Also, I was shouting "COME AT ME BRO" at the screen at regular intervals. Usually when the Minishark was doing its thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nikov on May 25, 2011, 01:58:33 pm

62:4 K/D as a sniper in DoD Source.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: QuakeIV on May 25, 2011, 02:11:04 pm

Magma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 3 on May 25, 2011, 04:13:42 pm

Extremely heavily-modded Oblivion. I'm skulking around an OOO amazon cave way underlevel when I randomly run into a level 80 crusader who just happens to be toting Chrysamere (God knows why he was hanging about there). Hilarity ensues as I lead him and a large group of amazons into each other, manage to significantly contribute to the death toll without aggroing, and land a Deadly Reflex critical kill on the paladin while he's distracted by a summoned storm atronach. Oblivion XP gave me an entire level and a half for the kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on May 25, 2011, 04:37:40 pm

Ah, Castille, why are you so easy? (EU3)

So anyway, I had this wonderful Holy War casus belli on Morocco, and Algiers wasn't even allied with them. (It seems my annexation of Granada broke the African Muslim stats alliances or somesuch...) I jacked my money printing way up (lowered it right back after the war, that could be bad) and built 45k troops, and got myself 15 cogs to fill out my navy. I then dumped the load of them on Moroccos' coast and occupied the shit out of them before they could field any more than 10k troops. I was going to annex, but a shaky alliance chain managed to drag Algiers in anyway, so I settled for taking every territory of theirs' except  their capital.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on May 25, 2011, 09:57:46 pm

3:00 on the clock, the AI starts to get really nasty.
Me and three AI allies guard the objective, while what seems like their entire team rolls up. I take down three before I get dropped, and wait for my team mates to kill the rest. The only one left standing was the medic, who revived me. As I got back up, the next enemy reinforcement wave comes, around another flank. I vault across the fountain in the middle into their right flank and gun down three, before needing to reload. I switch to my automatic pistol, shoot another, wound and then knife the fifth. As I reload, my team mates drop the last guy. I rush forward to where they've been coming from, and drop a mine. As I run back to the objective, the mine goes off, killing the other two enemies. At the moment, there are no standing enemies on the map. As I repair my turret that I placed earlier, the enemy charge in a two pronged assault, breaching our defenses, and killing my team mates. I turn, jump, and bounce off the wall, firing the whole way, taking down one, and wounding another. I jump from the door frame, firing at the first guy, killing him, before meleeing the second, knocking him to the floor, before finishing him off with a few bullets to the head. The hack meter starts to go up, so I turn, and toss my grenade in, killing one, and knocking two others over, stopping the hack. I run in and take out the two floored ones as they get up, but get hammered by a heavy with a mini-gun. I go down right as my team mates arrive, dropping the heavy and reviving me. The timer hit 0:00, and I stood up and cheered. At 11:00 at night.

I seriously got 10000+ experience in that game. Twas glorious.

Brink, on the Security What-If mission with the downed chopper, at the last obejctive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on May 27, 2011, 04:22:41 pm

Spoiler: Fuck yes (click to show/hide)

(http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z442/WymarSane/DS.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thump on May 27, 2011, 04:49:51 pm

Some cops were raiding our hideout in a Blackhawk. They did a few loops around and fired down at us with the mounted chainguns, killing most of us... I managed to run out of the camp with an RPG-7. I stayed still behind some bushes and a rock, and the Blackhawk landed a moment later.

As a few of them hopped out, I sighted my RPG in on the chopper... and pulled the trigger.

Fwoosh... BOOM!

Chopper explodes. They're all dead. The few of us still alive hop into our jeeps and escape.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: currie on May 27, 2011, 05:53:32 pm

What game is that Thump? It sounds delectable.

Tropico 3: I purposely gave myself the hardest possible starting point because this game is far to easy. Needless to say I got miles in over my head- I managed to get stinking rich but the problems kept mounting.

My island was covered in rebels and protests and the military, the only faction still loyal to me, were down to 'neutral'. And then the strikes started. I pondered for a while before deciding to shoot a few as an example to the rest. Somehow this lead to an uprising. My 20 Spec-Ops and half the police (and, curiously, a college professor)  ended up clustered around the palace fending off a horde of civilians throwing rocks. I killed dozens of them but they were too many- all seemed lost. Then the policemen on the rebel side retreated all at once which removed all the firepower of the protesters and let me regain the upper-hand.

Soon they were all running away and pretending they weren't involved by hiding in their workplaces.

But the crowning moment of awesome? Forcing the striking builders who kick-started it all to build me more army bases. Dig your own grave boys!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thump on May 27, 2011, 06:00:25 pm

ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead. I mostly play two game modes.. Zargabad Life, which is sort of like an 'RP-light' game mode. City with legal jobs, people can play cops, there's drug running, terrorism (including suicide/car bombs) etc. etc. The cops are more like military police than police officers - access to some pretty heavy duty weaponry. (This is what I was playing in the example above)

The other mode is Insurgency, where ~90% of the people play as coalition forces (US/UK usually) and hunt down insurgent weapons caches. Only 4 people can play as insurgents, but the interesting thing is that while most of the insurgents are bots, the 4 human players can hop into the body of any insurgent at any time. And you look no different from the bots. So the coalition forces can never tell who to really fear. :) It's a lot of fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: currie on May 27, 2011, 06:10:16 pm

Ah Arma: mother, teacher, secret lover. I wish I could find my Arma2 manual, there's barely any vanilla OA servers and you need the cd key to play CO.

Zarga Life can be quite tedious, but when you get a good group of people on it's one of the best anythings ever. My last ownage in ZL was stealing a cop's dirtbike whilst he was searching a building. Cue every cop in the game coming after me with choppers and machine guns. And ignoring all the open warfare between gangs.  :P

I eventually got away by convincing one of the gangs I had an HMG hidden somewhere, he picked me up in a chopper and we flew off. I'm fairly sure you cant even get HMGs in ZL. ^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 27, 2011, 06:32:59 pm

Sent in an armored force of walkers and Crawlers, and when they hit the outer Rebel base, I called in gunships and bombers to hit their static defenses. With all resistance crushed in one fell swoop, I moved the armored force on a destructive rampage through the rest of the base, the gunships taking care of the outer mines and power generators, and the bombers hitting the rather crowded hilltop that had numerous mines and generators.
Throughout the attack, only one walker was lost, and only three units total throughout the whole game. All too easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Wars: Total Annihilation. The original mod for the original game. And yes, while the SWTA AI is dumb as a sack of bantha fodder, the attack was pulled off with exceptional precision.
To be honest, I should dig up the TA disk, if only for the awesome music.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on May 27, 2011, 09:50:15 pm

Playing Minecraft, shoot a creeper and kill it, it's corpse is in that rare state of dead, but going to explode anyways. It blows up its comrades, behind a dirt wall, that I had not seen, and also revealed some iron.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on June 01, 2011, 07:15:30 pm

Playing CoD: Black Ops with two friends (It's what I bought it for), we're constantly hitting the top of the scoreboard. Got a lot of insults from guys on the other team for some strange reason. So many awesome kills, including me sneaking into a room, sticking semtex to someone and running away.

I learned to love the M60 today.

Next stop: connecting a microphone of some sort to my PS3 so I can trash talk with my friends. I was on the receiving end of a lot of shit today, and I want to be able to sling some back, damnit!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on June 01, 2011, 07:24:26 pm

I survived a blood moon starting at three hit points without healing. Got about a dozen lenses out of it too.

(Terraria)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dorten on June 01, 2011, 11:21:11 pm

1) Tactical Boots
2) Tactical Armor
3) Tactical Shotgun
4) Tactical Rocket Launcher
5) Fireangel
6) ...
7) OWNAGE!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on June 01, 2011, 11:35:44 pm

Did a suicide charge against a fully-manned German controlled trench.
2 T-36 tanks.
3 squads of infantry made of mostly riflemen and SMG soldiers. There were 5 MG soldiers and 1 AT sniper.

The tanks went down in a flash, the rear area of the defensive line was crawling with self-propelled guns and AT guns. Several soldiers died during the charge from heavy MG fire, then we dove for the dirt and started spamming grenades. The enemies cleared the trench and dove for cover, we picked them off from there. Them, alongside several tank crew members, stormed the trench and cleared part of it, then they jacked several AT guns and fired at the other, German manned ones. My AI ally finally saw it as a good idea to charge at the same spot, they rolled right over the enemy infantry since they had no AT guns left, a few tanks went down because of AT snipers though. I took a few howitzers that were bombarding the fields we staged the attack from and more or less flattened the city.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on June 02, 2011, 12:00:43 am

Operations mode, Killzone 3.

Objective, take back the control room from the ISA.
Medic w/ his trusty LMG of win

Took down a guy bum rushing me from the control room with my LMG, there were 3 others inside the control room, focused on gunning down allies who were trying to enter from another vantage point.  I aim my sights, popping another guy before heading into the control room.  1 of them was waiting for me in the corner, I handidly gunned him down with iron sights and was already on the other, who was only just reacting to my presence.  Shot him full of holes.
2 more ISA came in, chasing after me.  I shot back, firing off a few bullets before...  *Hollow Clicks*  Out of ammo.  Surprisingly, I was not gunned down, one of them opted to bum rush me, missing as I side stepped his shots.  As he got close, wham, deft punch to the side of his head takes him down.  As for the other, he was shooting at me, but I ran around the pillar to the otherside of him, before greeting him with a knife to the jugular.

Objective was recaptured, for the time being.  6 Kills in as little as 30 seconds.  Probably last at least half as many of my own allies since they were not focusing on me most of the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on June 02, 2011, 01:04:14 am

Beam sword combo up close, throw it to the side then back away firing my shields grenade launchers. Then I throw THAT aside and fire a few rounds of my rifle, then fly into the air, the hilt of my other beam sword comes flying from my hip into my hand, and holding it in reverse, I fly down, stab them through the chest (WITHOUT LOOKING), and pull it out. Both of us remain still for a second.

Then he explodes gloriously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on June 02, 2011, 06:49:25 pm

Game. Now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on June 02, 2011, 07:25:00 pm

Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode
I decapitated a minotaur in one hit and drank his blood till he game said I was too full! 8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on June 03, 2011, 02:51:36 am

Quote from: Krath on June 02, 2011, 01:04:14 am

Beam sword combo up close, throw it to the side then back away firing my shields grenade launchers. Then I throw THAT aside and fire a few rounds of my rifle, then fly into the air, the hilt of my other beam sword comes flying from my hip into my hand, and holding it in reverse, I fly down, stab them through the chest (WITHOUT LOOKING), and pull it out. Both of us remain still for a second.

Then he explodes gloriously.

What is this game, for the love of God. It sounds epic. Too epic to exist actually...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on June 03, 2011, 03:11:41 am

It's SD Gundam Online, specifically using the Jegan. There are tons of awesome attacks you can perform in the game, the move I was talking about was one of the Jegan's attack combinations.

This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBXSb30JWM&feature=related), while kinda low quality, has an example of a rather ordinary special (by the games standards) at 1:16 as an example.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on June 03, 2011, 06:42:30 am

Quote from: Krath on June 03, 2011, 03:11:41 am

It's SD Gundam Online, specifically using the Jegan. There are tons of awesome attacks you can perform in the game, the move I was talking about was one of the Jegan's attack combinations.

This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBXSb30JWM&feature=related), while kinda low quality, has an example of a rather ordinary special (by the games standards) at 1:16 as an example.

How much Chinese/Japanese/Korean do I have to understand in order to adequately play this game? *drool*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on June 03, 2011, 07:55:38 am

None at all actually. The Taiwan version, which me and all my friends use since it's the easiest to access, don't know a lick of Taiwanese and we can play it fine. Most of the menu buttons and mech names are in English, and the ones that aren't are self-explanatory.

There's also an english wiki (http://sdgowiki.com/wiki/Main_Page) if you're interested in that.

I dunno how to make an account myself, but one of my friends has both the download link for the client and knows how to make accounts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on June 04, 2011, 11:20:57 am

I blindly threw a semtex out of a window in Nuketown and got a double kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on June 04, 2011, 02:18:12 pm

I've got a level 4 rogue. No potions left. My weapon just broke. I'm fighting four ghasts, an armored wight, and a skeleton swordsman. They've surrounded me, so everyone but the wight get a flanking bonus, and all the ghasts are behind me so they get bonus damage. I'm at 2 hit points. I've got a 15% chance to activate a wand of fireball I picked up from a chest. I try it. It works. Kills everything but the skeleton. I try again, it works, and kills the skeleton. I look around, and see a rest shrine right across the room. Playing DDO like a pro.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on June 09, 2011, 09:18:31 am

RTW

H/H Set up a defense on a hill against 11 000 roman soldiers with my 2400ish...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8320/positions.png)

5 units deep hoplite wall to stop and slaughter any and every enemy charge without taking a single step back.
Archers in front ( i wish they were Cretan, but all mercs i get are peltasts ) to fire their stuff and lure out enemy charges (skirmish mode = welcome to the spear jungle)
Heavy peltasts on both sides with skirmish disabled, set to reinforce line against potential enemy encircling.
Semnites in the back, doing exactly the same.
Generals charging in every single opening possible.
Onager and Balista that i took with me to siege Rome, but got caught with them pants down.

Thankfully i had the romans split up in 3 waves. One set of reinforcements delayed, two that weren't delayed spawned at the edge of the map, the first to greet my Greek wall charged quite swiftly. Silly romans.

I began with fire onager shots, concentrated fire arrow volleys and a last minute general charge in their back, which caused a morale break chain.

After archers ran out of arrows, i used them as encircle infantry to break enemy morale. As the waves started to get bigger, i tightened the formation and nearly closed it, but still made constant pseudo-charges with my skirmishers and generals (and the unit of semnites in the back!) to disrupt enemy lines and shaken their morale.

We didn't budge. (well, not true, we lost nearly all archers, general routed, semnites got raped, hoplite numbers halved, but a sweet victory nonetheless!)
Heavy Peltasts topped kill chart with 1500-1800 on each unit! (!!!!!!!!!)

It's the first time i play as Greece, and i love it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on June 09, 2011, 12:58:21 pm

Terraria:

I had 100 HP and a grand total of 4 defense, and found corruption. Having no common sense whatsoever, I kept going. Three devourers killed, several chasms platformed over, and I didn't die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheese on June 09, 2011, 02:40:56 pm

Victoria 2, destroyed the over 800,000 man French army with my glorious Prussian(or North German Federation) army and acquired Alsace-Lorraine, meaning I could form Germany. It felt good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 12, 2011, 02:42:44 pm

Sleeping terror my ass :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 12, 2011, 08:53:36 pm

Snuck into their base three or four times, messing with their vehicle factory. Last time finally took it out, not to mention killing a few people each time, and they never did put any defenses at the point I came in. None at all.

And then I helped blow up their commander. With a tank.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Empires.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sluissa on June 13, 2011, 03:11:13 am

My piddly little Valentine rammed up under the nose of a KV. Apparently a Valentine is short enough that a KV can't get the gun down low enough to fire on it from point blank. Personally I only did around 6% damage to it, but I distracted it enough that my team mates were able to flank it and kill it. The enemy was firing on me the whole time, leaving me with less than 50 hitpoints after that little knife fight. I was careful the rest of the match and actually survived though, and we went on to win that one.

World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2011, 10:09:39 am

Jumped into an APC heading to the enemy base, with only three or four other guys on the team going for the tactic. We tear up their barracks and vehicle factory quickly enough, but then several enemy medium tanks show up, shred the APC, and cut down everyone else but me. I jump into a hole and hide.

Did I mention I was a squad leader at the time? Yeah, so when all the tanks left(and their commander, who ran away, returned) all the vets on the team transfer to my squad, suicide, and I squad-revive them to my position. I wall in the commander while everyone else drops sticky bombs onto it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ein on June 23, 2011, 09:14:20 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/GXrtF.png)

I think I missed one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on June 23, 2011, 09:15:36 pm

Threw a satchel charge in the middle of the road, some morons from Cell in an armored van rolled over it.

*click*
*boom*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tomas1297 on June 24, 2011, 09:21:49 am

 How did I last own? Very much.

 

Spoiler: Screen (click to show/hide)

(http://filesmelt.com/dl/VICTOREEEE.png)
"So...this is the army of dark lord Sauron? How sad..."

 Third Age Total War aka the LOTR mod for Medieval 2.

Edit: I think I should get used to the mod more and do a let's play later. Should I?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 24, 2011, 04:53:08 pm

Quote from: tomas1297 on June 24, 2011, 09:21:49 am

How did I last own? Very much.

 

Spoiler: Screen (click to show/hide)

(http://filesmelt.com/dl/VICTOREEEE.png)
"So...this is the army of dark lord Sauron? How sad..."

 Third Age Total War aka the LOTR mod for Medieval 2.

Edit: I think I should get used to the mod more and do a let's play later. Should I?

"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Not even an army of ten thousand men could... What."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tomas1297 on June 25, 2011, 01:22:13 am

Quote from: Akura on June 24, 2011, 04:53:08 pm

Quote from: tomas1297 on June 24, 2011, 09:21:49 am

How did I last own? Very much.

 

Spoiler: Screen (click to show/hide)

(http://filesmelt.com/dl/VICTOREEEE.png)
"So...this is the army of dark lord Sauron? How sad..."

 Third Age Total War aka the LOTR mod for Medieval 2.

Edit: I think I should get used to the mod more and do a let's play later. Should I?

"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Not even an army of ten thousand men could... What."

To be fair, that's just a small part of their army, guarding the northern border. I decided from now on I play on very hard. Maybe then the AI will offer a challenge. And after that, probably doing a let's play. Just need to get a bit better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nirur Torir on June 26, 2011, 07:24:55 pm

I finally finished my "no HP loss" run of Iji (normal). With that done, I quite hope to feel the game is complete, and not try to go do that again on hard or impossible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 26, 2011, 07:26:48 pm

Quote from: Nirur Torir on June 26, 2011, 07:24:55 pm

I finally finished my "no HP loss" run of Iji (normal). With that done, I quite hope to feel the game is complete, and not try to go do that again on hard or impossible.

You could try Sudden Death mode, where "no HP loss" is pretty much enforced(for you and them), although, except for some parts, it's kinda easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nirur Torir on June 26, 2011, 07:58:39 pm

Sudden Death mode was funny. Single shotgun blast > annihilator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on June 26, 2011, 09:50:57 pm

Formed Italy in 1455 in EU3. Trolololo.

Now I'm saving Austria's ass all over the place. They became the Holy Roman Emperor and a bunch of nations gave them land from the event where the emperor demands it back, and now their infamyt is skyrocketing due to all the 'unlawful imperial territory'. So most of Europe jumped into punitive wars with them and I spent 5 years beating up on one province minors and watching France collpase until it only held 5 provinces around Ile-de-France. Also, I've claimed all the islands in the eastern mediterranean and I'm colonizing America after having claimed most of the islands on the west coast of Africa. (The continental territories tend to get the locals pissed off and start wars, islands are so much nicer to work with.)

So now it's late 16th century and I'm the Empire of Italy. Can anyone say New Rome? Screw the HRE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on June 26, 2011, 11:53:14 pm

I killed the Cyberdemon with a napalm launcher and power modded Cybernetic Armor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on June 27, 2011, 12:35:00 am

I curb-stomped Castille in a defensive war, netting myself a nice foothold in the Iberian Peninsula from which to slowly destroy them. The ownage part? They outnumbered me easily 3 to 1 at the beginning and I was Morocco. Less than ten years in, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kay12 on June 27, 2011, 01:34:37 am

I played LCS (for those who don't know, it's a Bay12 Liberal terrorism simulation). My boss was in jail (serving 11 consecutive life sentences or whatever), everyonne was dead... except Millie the Haxor, who had just been released from jail after serving a 6 month sentence. She sucked at everything, except computers. During the course of the next few game years, she grew up from a good yet overspecialized hacker to be adept at lock picking, disguises, combat, stealth, driving, psychology... she could've been the boss herself. Instead, she used those carefully grinded skills to get sleepers within the prison to get a map. Then, one beautiful day she put on her home-made prison guard's uniform, waltzed inside the prison and came out with the Founder without causing any hint of an alarm.

Another non-Bay12 example would be any time I'm playing Crawl with a wizard and returning the favor to Sigmund with mephitic cloud.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on June 27, 2011, 03:51:36 am

I turn a corner into a subway service tunnel and spot a raider with no weapon in hand.  I drop into vats mode and use my 10mm Subgun to take her head off.  Vats fades and I pivot, turning to see another raider waking and sitting up to get off their filthy mattress.  I immediately lay into them with about 12 more rounds, which blows their leg off and makes sure they will never leave their mattress again.

Dang this Chinese stealth suit keeps making me feel like I'm gonna have metal gears attacking me in this game too.  (Also props to the 10mm sub gun, you keep me from wasting ammo or repairs on the good weapons.

Also:

I am looting a subway when a dude walks in and demands I fork over the naughty nightwear I just found.  I offer to sell it to him and he says he'll kill me.  I immediately dismember him with my one handed chainsaw, which is like an electric turkey carver on crack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on June 27, 2011, 07:54:05 am

Team Fortress 2, now that it's free to play.

As an engineer I was in my base, upgrading my sentry as a friendly scout starting running towards me. As he passed me, I nonchalantly turned and whacked him with my wrench. As I turned back to upgrade my sentry, the spy's body flopped to the floor.

Another time, as a medic, I was cornered by a heavy and two pyros. Then, boom, our team captured the flag, giving everyone on our team criticals for a while. I charged the pyros, killing both of them with my needlegun before I was gunned down by the heavy, who didn't exactly escape unharmed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ein on June 27, 2011, 04:42:17 pm

Spoiler: Blind run, hit every coloured block, no greys. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZX4WZ.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 27, 2011, 04:44:11 pm

That song is high percentage awesome.

Sake wo nome ♪
Sake wo nome ♫
Yoyuu ga attara sake wo nome ♫
Asa datte♫
Hiru datte nome-♪

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ein on June 27, 2011, 04:49:20 pm

Yeah, it's awesome.
I found it easy, but my songs are usually shit like this, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOk2PBXoDng) which is tunnels, tunnels motherfucking everywhere, bitch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on June 27, 2011, 04:52:49 pm

Quote from: Taz on June 27, 2011, 04:08:27 am

Monster Hunter Tri.

Bowgunning Rathian.

Certainly not an impressive feat, but with a time of about 5 minutes and a damn spiffy end to the hunt, I'm pretty content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFpjz0_nJo

FUCKING BOWGUNNERS

Anyway, TF2 (I bought it awhile ago.).
I was an Engineer, along with half of my team.
We set all of our sentries, which were all fully upgraded, around the corner of the only entrance to our base.
A heavy+medic combo round it and get gunned down in less than a second.
Awwww yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geen on June 27, 2011, 04:54:09 pm

2 things:

First, in Cortex command, I took out a small army of zombies, around 10 of those walking turrets, and a few heavy soldiers with nothing but a drop crate. And a few hundred crabs. Never again, will I change my motto from "Free Crabs"
Who needs bombs when you have crabsplosions? For FREE!

Second, in TF2, I shot a heavy in the back with a shotgun, and the wounds made a smiley face  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on June 27, 2011, 05:31:37 pm

Quote from: Geen on June 27, 2011, 04:54:09 pm

First, in Cortex command, I took out a small army of zombies, around 10 of those walking turrets, and a few heavy soldiers with nothing but a drop crate. And a few hundred crabs. Never again, will I change my motto from "Free Crabs"
Who needs bombs when you have crabsplosions? For FREE!

20 gold is not free, but it's close enough. I prefer rocklets filled with grenades myself, but only because the explosions are prettier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Svarte Troner on June 27, 2011, 07:09:17 pm

An Ork chieftain smashed my skull and broke both my legs and I still managed to cave his face in with my bare hands. I am a demon wrestler.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DF Genesis Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 27, 2011, 07:44:38 pm

GUess who just destroyed a nest of three engineers?

Not me, that's who. But my übercharge was damn helpful and helped us win the match :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 27, 2011, 09:18:17 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on June 27, 2011, 05:31:37 pm

Quote from: Geen on June 27, 2011, 04:54:09 pm

First, in Cortex command, I took out a small army of zombies, around 10 of those walking turrets, and a few heavy soldiers with nothing but a drop crate. And a few hundred crabs. Never again, will I change my motto from "Free Crabs"
Who needs bombs when you have crabsplosions? For FREE!

20 gold is not free, but it's close enough. I prefer rocklets filled with grenades myself, but only because the explosions are prettier.

Rocklets filled with crabs and a couple of molotovs. Detonate mid-air.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: QuakeIV on June 27, 2011, 09:25:23 pm

I killed off half of a station full of goons.

What now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on June 27, 2011, 09:29:32 pm

Kill the other half?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: diamok on June 27, 2011, 09:47:03 pm

I spammed grenades in Running with Rifles and took control of all control points within 30 mins.  Multiple times!!  BOOYAA!!!!!

Take care,

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on June 28, 2011, 09:00:50 am

I won a Medieval 2 total war battle with 4 light cavalry against spearmen and generals bodyguards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 04:23:00 pm

What do you get if you hand a Scotsman some explosives?

Bloody hilarity and ludicrous gibs, that's what.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Scout on June 29, 2011, 04:28:45 pm

Quote from: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 04:23:00 pm

What do you get if you hand a Scotsman some explosives?

Bloody hilarity and ludicrous gibs, that's what.

And an angry scout....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: vagel7 on June 29, 2011, 04:29:01 pm

Me and like 7 other dudes blew a hole into the wall and took over a big Freedom base. Unfortunatley while I was at one part of the base with 3 other guys the rest of the guys in the conquest also shot down a drunkard who was the base commander. I needed to talk to that guy to get a rare weapon. I also looted the armory for some epic and expensive NATO weaponry.

Shadow of Chernobyl.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 04:35:11 pm

Quote from: The Scout on June 29, 2011, 04:28:45 pm

Quote from: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 04:23:00 pm

What do you get if you hand a Scotsman some explosives?

Bloody hilarity and ludicrous gibs, that's what.

And an angry scout....

That makes me a Happy Fragging Scotsman :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geen on June 29, 2011, 05:02:26 pm

No, you get a completely unscathed sandvich-eating Heavy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 29, 2011, 05:39:47 pm

Quote from: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 04:23:00 pm

What do you get if you hand a Scotsman some explosives?

Bloody hilarity and ludicrous gibs, that's what.

"I'm a black Scottish cyclops! They got more fu<bleeeeeeeeeeep>s than they got the likes me."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 05:42:50 pm

brb putting on a black shirt and stabbing an eye...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Scout on June 29, 2011, 05:45:30 pm

Quote from: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 05:42:50 pm

brb putting on a black shirt and stabbing an eye...

Really?
brb putting on a red shirt, mixing energy drinks and finding a bat...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on June 29, 2011, 06:00:13 pm

Are you from where the scout's from? Oh wait...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geen on June 29, 2011, 07:12:39 pm

The sandvich has advised me to kill you all. Say goodbye to your spine, comrades.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Scout on June 29, 2011, 07:34:22 pm

Quote from: Geen on June 29, 2011, 07:12:39 pm

The sandvich has advised me to kill you all. Say goodbye to your spine, comrades.

Yeah? My bonk has told me to run around you in circles and insult you. Then run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on June 29, 2011, 09:39:07 pm

Halo: Reach, Firefight mode on Beachhead. My Wraith's almost destroyed, so i'm thinking it's getting time to bail out. You know the hill in the middle with a path on top,

Spoiler: you know, this spot. (click to show/hide)

(http://i51.tinypic.com/2yznc4i.jpg)

Well, since i like boosting up and ramping off the slopes to try and land on any enemies that might be in the way, i decided to do so. Once i was about to go airborne, i quickly started getting out. A couple seconds after i go over, some Grunts start grenading the Wraith, and i barely got out in time before they detonated. The Wraith slammed into the Grunts just before the main explosion from the Wraith blowing up happened.

I changed the Loadouts so i had access to Evade, i used it to quickly roll away from the explosions.


And not a single damn was given that day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geen on June 29, 2011, 11:59:37 pm

HE PLAYS HALO! THAT'S A JOCK GAME! BURN THE JOCK! SACRIFICE HIM TO THE ALMIGHTY C'THULU! KILL!
EDIT: Nyan Scout is awesome. Needs a shawtgun too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on June 30, 2011, 12:01:36 am

Holy damn, someone who doesn't yet know i play Halo :P.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on July 06, 2011, 02:01:37 pm

Quote from: 612DwarfAvenue on June 30, 2011, 12:01:36 am

Holy damn, someone who doesn't yet know i play Halo :P.

Me, and proud of it(not really).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 08, 2011, 01:13:35 am

I was in a place that was not suitable for my low level and I got ambushed by 3 spearmen. My whole party got decimated except for the weakest person. I thought it was all over and just made him cast his weak, target all technique and it instantly killed all 3 spearmen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on July 08, 2011, 01:24:51 am

I hit a rock troll so hard he stopped existing. One second he was next to my sword, the next second it was just a sword.

Torchlight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on July 08, 2011, 01:44:45 am

1200 low to medium level troops (them) against 150 Gothic Knights, and 200 high level spearmen (me).
I won with only 30 or so dead spearmen, and 3 or 4 dead GKs.
Awwww yeah.

Medieval 2: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 08, 2011, 06:48:08 pm

While the rest of the match really sucked, at one point I shot the landing strut out from under a rocket, causing it to flip while trying to land, killing the guy it just dropped with its main thruster(I believe it detonated a grenade he was carrying), before landing upside-down in the dirt.

Cortex Command.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 12, 2011, 04:36:00 pm

Saved my 100% hit chance after nearly falling off my chair in a 225 BPM beatmap.

Osu!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Seriyu on July 12, 2011, 07:40:44 pm

The mental image of you playing Osu! in mid flight is wonderful.  :D

"NOT TODAY"

Anyway

Me and a friend despite being rather underequipped defeated a giant shadow lion thing.

Spiral Knights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kilakan on July 12, 2011, 07:48:41 pm

My scouts found a massive graveyard of alien ships, I repaired 100 extremely advanced alien ships and then declared war on every other empire.  I won. 
Distant Worlds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on July 12, 2011, 07:54:32 pm

It was a game of demolition, which I had never played before. Basically, you either take the goal of the attacking team, who are trying to neutralize two enemy objectives, or the defending team, who try to stop said neutralization.

I had planted the bomb on B, and died. As I came back, three OP40 were in the process of defusing it.

Twenty 9mm rounds and three dead OP40 later, I took up position at the building overlooking the bomb, most satisfied i'd ever been.

Call of Duty: Black ops

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on July 12, 2011, 10:12:30 pm

I single handedly wiped out a human elf bandit group with my maceman. Then I took out a bandit group of goblins with only a peasent for a companion, avenging my last adventurer. It felt great.  Dwarf fortress, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 12, 2011, 11:29:54 pm

Quote from: Seriyu on July 12, 2011, 07:40:44 pm

The mental image of you playing Osu! in mid flight is wonderful.  :D

"NOT TODAY"

Anyway

Me and a friend despite being rather underequipped defeated a giant shadow lion thing.

Spiral Knights.

Well, it was an AC/DC song...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 13, 2011, 12:11:58 am

100% Chapters 1-4 in Super Meat Boy, and almost ready to collect my 90th bandage by taking on/beating the last warp zone. Captain Viridian, you'll soon be in service.

If I'm feeling masochistic enough, I might try to unlock The Kid next. But I might be reclaiming my >4000 position in the leaderboards soon.

EDIT:
Just now, I currently have 98 bandages, the last 2 are in the Skyscraper warp zone (Rapture chapter 5-1). How did I own with this one? I collected 10 bandages (hard to get ones, mind you) in a single day, with the final 2 being a thorn in my side in a rather annoying warp zone. As if the first level of it wasn't bad enough, the second level I have to repeat again after getting it's bandage, and the last one has one dangerously close to some spikes with the end just as difficult to reach. Think IWTBTG difficulty with the last level's final bout of the warp zone.

Oh yeah, and I've ascended back to a cushy >4k position in the leaderboards again. I think the Steam Summer Sale's SMB achievement was responsible for me plummeting 200+ positions. >:(

EDIT EDIT:
Speaking of IWTBTG, I finally unlocked The Kid.

Want proof? Here:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/558662295724741397
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/558662295724740994

And Captain Viridian in stock (90 bandages):
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/558662295724741397

And my leaderboard position is now below 3900. HUZZAH!!

EDIT EDIT EDIT:
Ranked within the 3400 zone and collected all 100 bandages, A+ on all levels of chapters 1-6. YEAH!

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT:
Outrunning my old times to get a better refined overall score (no new levels beaten, just refined times to promote my global ranking), in 3-11X, I've managed to legitimately beat that par 24s in 2.4s; literally 1/10th the par time. It is indeed legit, and was accomplished using Meat Boy. Guess how I did it? And also my cumulative time saved from CH1 to 4 total was just barely 5.5 minutes this speed run session. ;D

That alone has promoted me approx 130 ranks, sans new levels beaten. Now approx. ranked globally around 3200.

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT:
As it turns out, the latest updates in progress is reworking the leaderboard system. Any times using Steve of Minecraft are all now moot, this is post-prevention of using him to advance scores and still WIP. Which possibly means a default upgrade of my ranking another 100+. Until then, I can only assume via Steam as reference for my ranking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on July 13, 2011, 05:52:42 am

With one combo, boss-giant-with-a-huge-metal-club-and-a-sword-through-his-head, knocks all three of my remaining steam jet-mechs off a skyscraper, my fourth having fell off like two turns ago.  He alone stands on the building, King of the Hill.  Pretty anti-climactic - his healthbar was pretty much gone, he might've had like 4 HP left, out of 1200, and I'd given up one of my character's turns to get a supermove finisher instead of just cherry tapping him to death.  Add to that, the first to fall off was the star character of the chapter.

THEN

The star character, the ROOKIE OF THE TEAM, FLIES back in, in jet-form, lands about five feet away from the boss, and then goes "Okay I'm back!  Is the bad guy still here?", and then turns around and guns his ass down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on July 13, 2011, 06:06:12 am

Okay, I'll bite Farce. What game?

Also, 5-hit katana combo, followed by sheathing that and flying into the air. Then, from the sky drops a 150-meter long version of said katana, followed by epic vertical slice. Dead enemy get.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on July 13, 2011, 08:01:21 am

Sakura Wars 5: So Long My Love.

Bossdude can be seen here.  Along with an LPer's voice. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8mNUDB2ybo&feature=player_detailpage#t=243s)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolf Tengu on July 13, 2011, 10:18:20 am

While Suikoden isn't one of those games you inherrently own at, I just beat a boss whilst trying to kill off the main character.

Seriously, the character was several levels under everyone else, had no equipment whatsoever (in contrast to everyone else with
the best possible equipment). I spent several turns healing everyone else and I still couldn't kill the guy off.
Oh, and the only character attacking was said main character (only so he'd not defend and so take more damage) and every other hit
was a critical hit.
I'm going to keep the fellow unequipped and dead for as long as I possibly can from now on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 13, 2011, 11:42:03 am

Triple kill with a rocket.

TF2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 16, 2011, 02:07:07 am

After being attacked by primitive warboats several times, I decided it was time to show my enemy that my advanced civ does NOT fuck around. Upon reaching my enemies island, I was under heavy fire from towers. Several boats were destroyed before the people could get out of them. My small army emerged on the side of their beach. The towers were busy attacking the war boats, so they came under no fire from them. Upon entering my enemies city, I was rushed by many rock throwers and clubmen. My military was vastly outnumbered. However, they managed to kill every last one of them. They then turned their attention to the civillians and killed them. They destroyed a few buildings and then they were all shot down by the guard towers. Still, they managed to disable almost all of my enemies defences.

[EDIT] My enemy just launched counter attacks. Most of my army is dead. I realised where all of the soldier on my island are coming from. There's an enemy baracks on my island

[EDIT] Pretty much all of my enemies army attacked me on my island. I just launched a counter attack and killed 80% of my enemies forces.

[EDIT] I wiped every trace of my enemy off of the planet. Yay!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on July 17, 2011, 03:15:22 pm

I didn't care i was the king of an entire kingdom.

I didn't care what others would think of me.

But damnit, i have a right to rule without clothes!

like a boss.

((Fable III))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 17, 2011, 03:18:36 pm

Set a gas station on fire just to attract some zombies and escaped unharmed.

(Cataclysm)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on July 17, 2011, 06:36:19 pm

A couple hours ago, I was playing on level 2 in Dungeons of Dredmor the first time. 3rd room is a monster zoo, never saw that much, and i fought so hard. But I survived the first try. my greatest advantage was that I found one of those artifact islands that I could knights move onto so only had to melee bats and Genies for the most part. I did have to retreat from there when I ran low on hp so I knights moved off of it and then did a random teleport and landed on the other side of a wall. It gave me enough time to eat, drink, regen enough life and mana so that I could summon mr Mustache and still have a mostly full manapool by the time the monsters found us. I ended up going through nearly all my food and alcohol, but I defeated them all and won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2011, 06:43:46 pm

Made a zombie almost kill itself to reach my by falling through several pits. By the time it got to me, it was so broken it barely move. It looked at me, almost begging me not to finish it off. I lift my M1911, press it to its forehead, and pull the trigger.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm. Pits are a bit too powerful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on July 22, 2011, 02:58:24 am

Just got ambushed by a germanian force in R:TW.

My force was about five or six light cavalry.

Germanian forces, if you don't know, are mainly made up of spear warbands, which can make phalanxes. Light cavalry, surprisingly enough, are not made for breaking phalanxes.

Enemy force was twice my size.

Now, it happened to take place on a river. Germans started to cross, breaking up phalanx. I charged my forces at them, starting a meat grinder. Losses on both sides were about the same, the germans having had some light infantry for me to massacre before I hit spearmen.

They seemed to be beating my cavalry, when the enemy general died. All of a sudden, the ENTIRE german force broke and ran. Not a single survivor of theirs. One unit got 669 kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on July 22, 2011, 03:08:34 pm

I was playing Dungeons of Dredmor.

Opened a zoo with very low mana, 3 unliving walls and 3 fireballs later half the zoo is gone and I have full mana. I actually had to wait for them to come towards me before casting again. It was kindof a letdown after the epic strike and retreat and making use of terrain I needed to clear the last zoo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on July 22, 2011, 04:39:37 pm

Played R.E.T.A.R.D.S. Onslaught on Nuts!, challenging myself to only use The Red Legion. Used the maginot mission map because I didn't feel like wasting money.

One and a half hours later I'm down to my last man, a heavy close quarters enforcer, holding off several prime drones with an automatic shotguns.

He destroyed well over thirty of the damned things before he went down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cortex Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tilla on July 22, 2011, 04:52:10 pm

ARMA 2 Platoon-wide practice. TvT with the platoon staff and some volunteers vs the green troopers of our heavy weapons sections. Focus on static defense turrets for training purposes. My section was assigned the TOW launchers on overwatch (primarily so we could use our thermals to watch the valleys around Nagara, secondarily to actually blow stuff up). Lieutenant in charge of the platoon on terrorist side decides to mess with the rules a bit and brought in a Hind with rocket pods. Managed to fire a TOW fairly quickly and direct it into his armor forcing him into a mountainside. Felt good :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Megaman on July 23, 2011, 01:03:09 am

(Rome:Total War, Barbarian Invasion Expansion.)

I was the Franks, and the Vandal horde had arrived. They had quickly attacked one of my cities, which had only a meager three Levy Spearmen units and one Sword Herbann unit. I had placed the Herbann on top of my walls, and had the levy spear men form a shield wall as a group near the gateway, for all they had was a siege tower, and a ram(That got totally annihilated after a few flaming arrows from my stone walls). The siege tower had ripped up half of my sword herbann units from arty fire, and the swordsmen were gutted like fish by the Vandal Chosen Swordsmen. I pulled one of the levy spear men up to the walls, to try to delay the swordsmen from flanking my shield wall. Though, to my sheer delight, the Vandal force was mostly comprised of lancers, who had charged my meager spear men, and got ground into a fine powder as a result, destroying nearly all of the vandal force while still leaving my two spear men units! The Chosen swordsmen were stabbed to death, mostly because the sword herbann went out fighting, and the horde spear men the Vandals sent up to recapture the walls had half the attack my seasoned spear men had, getting further stabbed a-plenty. This was all the infantry the Vandals had, so the gates closed, and I won.

This wouldn't be surprising, but it was absolutely pathetic, the Vandals had twice my man power, probably more than that in killing power, and they left with far less, because my lame town garrison had dropped 2 of them for every one casualty of theirs(Which on the scale the battles are, that's quite devastating). Even worse, the Vandal hordes had only managed to nab one city from me(and I had already sent in a massive army to take it back, so they wouldn't continue), and in order to recruit that kind of army back, they would have to spend years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on July 23, 2011, 02:13:37 am

I pretty much singlehandedly threw Japan into a massive civil war. Oops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: zestorum on July 23, 2011, 04:59:24 am

Quote from: Angel Of Death on July 16, 2011, 02:07:07 am

After being attacked by primitive warboats several times, I decided it was time to show my enemy that my advanced civ does NOT fuck around. Upon reaching my enemies island, I was under heavy fire from towers. Several boats were destroyed before the people could get out of them. My small army emerged on the side of their beach. The towers were busy attacking the war boats, so they came under no fire from them. Upon entering my enemies city, I was rushed by many rock throwers and clubmen. My military was vastly outnumbered. However, they managed to kill every last one of them. They then turned their attention to the civillians and killed them. They destroyed a few buildings and then they were all shot down by the guard towers. Still, they managed to disable almost all of my enemies defences.

[EDIT] My enemy just launched counter attacks. Most of my army is dead. I realised where all of the soldier on my island are coming from. There's an enemy baracks on my island

[EDIT] Pretty much all of my enemies army attacked me on my island. I just launched a counter attack and killed 80% of my enemies forces.

[EDIT] I wiped every trace of my enemy off of the planet. Yay!

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 23, 2011, 05:01:39 am

Quote from: zestorum on July 23, 2011, 04:59:24 am

Quote from: Angel Of Death on July 16, 2011, 02:07:07 am

After being attacked by primitive warboats several times, I decided it was time to show my enemy that my advanced civ does NOT fuck around. Upon reaching my enemies island, I was under heavy fire from towers. Several boats were destroyed before the people could get out of them. My small army emerged on the side of their beach. The towers were busy attacking the war boats, so they came under no fire from them. Upon entering my enemies city, I was rushed by many rock throwers and clubmen. My military was vastly outnumbered. However, they managed to kill every last one of them. They then turned their attention to the civillians and killed them. They destroyed a few buildings and then they were all shot down by the guard towers. Still, they managed to disable almost all of my enemies defences.

[EDIT] My enemy just launched counter attacks. Most of my army is dead. I realised where all of the soldier on my island are coming from. There's an enemy baracks on my island

[EDIT] Pretty much all of my enemies army attacked me on my island. I just launched a counter attack and killed 80% of my enemies forces.

[EDIT] I wiped every trace of my enemy off of the planet. Yay!

Game?

Empire Earth 1. It's a great RTS. It's hard to find a copy of it, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on July 23, 2011, 05:05:39 am

Yeah, it really is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 23, 2011, 08:48:03 am

I cut off someone's head with a shovel, pissed NAPALM on it and proceeded to kick it into someone who then ran into someone else, causing a massive chain fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 23, 2011, 08:50:13 am

Quote from: Angel Of Death on July 23, 2011, 05:01:39 am

Quote from: zestorum on July 23, 2011, 04:59:24 am

Quote from: Angel Of Death on July 16, 2011, 02:07:07 am

After being attacked by primitive warboats several times, I decided it was time to show my enemy that my advanced civ does NOT fuck around. Upon reaching my enemies island, I was under heavy fire from towers. Several boats were destroyed before the people could get out of them. My small army emerged on the side of their beach. The towers were busy attacking the war boats, so they came under no fire from them. Upon entering my enemies city, I was rushed by many rock throwers and clubmen. My military was vastly outnumbered. However, they managed to kill every last one of them. They then turned their attention to the civillians and killed them. They destroyed a few buildings and then they were all shot down by the guard towers. Still, they managed to disable almost all of my enemies defences.

[EDIT] My enemy just launched counter attacks. Most of my army is dead. I realised where all of the soldier on my island are coming from. There's an enemy baracks on my island

[EDIT] Pretty much all of my enemies army attacked me on my island. I just launched a counter attack and killed 80% of my enemies forces.

[EDIT] I wiped every trace of my enemy off of the planet. Yay!

Game?

Empire Earth 1. It's a great RTS. It's hard to find a copy of it, though.

Yeah, I love that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 24, 2011, 01:35:36 pm

Took on several battleships, battlecruisers, destroyers, etc, with just 10 fighter squads, two Vortex ships, the Mothership, and a jump-happy space station. Granted, I only won because I dropped several nukes on their Mothership. Also learned that capturing debris(and, I found out, you have to self-destruct them, too) can give batshit insane amounts of RUs, for a short time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Homeworld 2: Complex. Only the station and the Mothership actually survived the battle, though. They also took out the salvage operation during the battle, meaning I had no resources to jump out. The Mothership was also jacked up with the Battle Asset, which turns it into Murder-in-Space, complete with a nuke launcher. For those who don't know, Vortexes have nothing to do with any kind of spacial rift, they're basically saucers with shittons of guns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 25, 2011, 03:02:11 am

I don't quite remember how I last owned (probably baseball, online, shutting someone out) but I do remember how I owned online in GTA4 on the PS3.

Can't remember the name of the mode, but basically there are two teams, cops and mafia. Cops trying to kill mafia boss, mafia protecting the boss so he can escape. I was in the cops team for this one and I believe there were 4 people on each side in this particular game. Long story short, the mafia team swam or boated it over to their escape area, which was a long, long way away from where the cop team started. I got out the car as the driver was a d-bag, got into a lime green sports car, and did some perfect driving through (albeit thin) traffic, to the area I thought they were going. Luck was with me, I arrived just as they were taking off in the helichopper, and shot them down.

I was much pleased.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 28, 2011, 10:00:32 pm

One of my opponents threw a Siege Bomb, and I, with the two guys I was fighting(one of which was the thrower) ran hard. Despit running away, the blast hit me really hard(although for little damage), or the game bugged out. Taking advantage of the super slow-motion effect, I whirled around, hitting one enemy flail with my frost sword, and in the same swing smashed it with a frickin' big flail of my own.

Then I struck the other guy's hammer with my sword so hard, that he was disabled, and almost(might actualy have) died hitting the ground(hammer went flying). I went on to win the fight, although I just barely had to use a Rushid's Vial.

Slow-mo effect ending right when I smashed the first guy with a solid hit from my flail.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hammerfight. 19th Arena rank match.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on July 28, 2011, 11:30:36 pm

180 Mounted Crossbowmen (Me, as Milan) vs Khan's Guard, 120 Spear Militia, and ~300 Woodsmen (CPU, as Russians).
Not a single one of my men died. All of theirs did.
That wasn't the whole battle, but that was the best part. The Russian's last few guys were trapped in the fort (as in defensible location, not the structure type), and I decided to give my MC a try. Turns out they rape. Running circles around their infantry, and pulling back from the Khan's Guard, firing bolts all the time.
This was on the Very Hard difficulty.

Medieval II: Total War, Custom Battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 29, 2011, 01:44:31 pm

Fallout 3: Very first 3D Deathclaw encounter (played Fallout 1 and 2 before, beat FO1. I'm familiar with the danger level of these things), at character level 7. Though it was already wounded when I ran into it, and found a poor sap already killed by it, I successfully snuck up behind it and power-fist knocked off it's head. It came included (at least it came with the SOL adventurer dude) the schematics to make use of it's claw as a weapon. Got another one later at Rivet City, and manufactured my curb-stomping weapon of mass destruction.

Immediately after, I took on the Nuka-Cola challenge, and immediately KO'd numerous Nuka-Cola Protectrons and Nuka-lurks. Although near the end of the quest at the Nuka-Plant, I also ran past a pack of Nuka-lurks (approx. 4-6 of them; low on health, and really stingy with my 60+ stim-paks), and killed off one that was trailing me while I had less than 30HP into the next sector. Killed off the remaining Protectrons, and completed my goal there. I intend to return to finish off the remaining Nuka-lurks.

Sure, I drank plenty of cola and ate some radroach meat and such to heal, but no stim-paks.

I love my Deathclaw Gauntlet. ^_^

In my travels, I quickly took the face off of a super mutant (at least the blood covering the face looked like it) in about 3 hits. Mind you, still at level 7. And all this is with an optimized small arms ranged character, and they're thrashing many armored guys like their armor was made of warm butter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on July 29, 2011, 04:15:42 pm

Bonnie Mcfarlane was in a fist fight with a soldier at the top of the world. she punched out the soldier, who fell off of a cliff. as she looked at the corpse fall off, she replied. "You really are a strange man."

Fuck yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 29, 2011, 06:56:18 pm

Was in Steiner Colloseum in the Championship(Open class;no weight restrictions), thought it'd be funny to take my Commando(20-ton Light 'Mech) into the fray, as I ran around randomly shooting people, there were 2 atlases(100-ton 'Mech which can tear me apart in about 2 hits) and they were on other sides of the stadium, so I just ran around one and just fired my lasers till I took them, sadly the other Atlas was taken before I destroyed the one I attacked.

MW4 Mercs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Paul on July 29, 2011, 07:11:17 pm

Killed two Frost Wyrms in Dawntide solo (one at a time, ofcourse) after everyone told me it was impossible, that a group of 3 got massacred before, and that I would need 20 people.

Nothin' to it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on July 29, 2011, 07:58:20 pm

Aw, COOL! Somone here plays MW4!
 
I've gotta go to mektek.net and redownload that sometime... or dig out my disk, but why bother now? MS gave it to MekTek and they can distribute it for free! Everyone else, TRY IT! It is seriously fun, and Mektek keeps it patched.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on July 29, 2011, 08:11:46 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on July 29, 2011, 07:58:20 pm

Aw, COOL! Somone here plays MW4!
 
I've gotta go to mektek.net and redownload that sometime... or dig out my disk, but why bother now? MS gave it to MekTek and they can distribute it for free! Everyone else, TRY IT! It is seriously fun, and Mektek keeps it patched.

Yeah, they have a .0030c patch out, but everytime I download the patch, my AV keeps saying it's a trojan and removes it, and even if I turn my AV off and I get the patch on without it deleting my .exe, I go into the MP lobby and it kicks me out THEN deletes the .exe, so now I'm stuck at .0029 for now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 29, 2011, 10:22:38 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on July 29, 2011, 07:58:20 pm

Aw, COOL! Somone here plays MW4!
 
I've gotta go to mektek.net and redownload that sometime... or dig out my disk, but why bother now? MS gave it to MekTek and they can distribute it for free! Everyone else, TRY IT! It is seriously fun, and Mektek keeps it patched.

You can't beat Mechwarrior for it's awesomeness, especially if you play on the PC (Sorry XBOX, but Mechassault didn't feel the same way). Ever take down a squad of titanic mechs as an Elemental battle suit? If you want to own big time, take these things down at roughly human-scale with a machine gun, SRMs, and a hand cannon if you can equip one. It is so satisfying taking down one of those behemoths when you come up to their ankles.

I did that kind of stuff regularly since Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (WIN/DOS). I gotta reinstall that sometime.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on July 29, 2011, 11:02:51 pm

Flew around on a large pink dragon, raining down fire and listening to her make disparaging comments about Humans. I got something like 1300 kills from that mission, my average is probably in the 300 area.

Drakengard. (Think Dynasty Warriors, made by Square Enix.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: breadbocks on July 29, 2011, 11:45:02 pm

I tanked through a heavy as a medic.

Blutsauger is OP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 29, 2011, 11:57:47 pm

Quote from: breadbocks on July 29, 2011, 11:45:02 pm

I tanked through a heavy as a medic.

Blutsauger is OP.

At long range, absolutely. Damage falloff and inaccuracy screws Heavies at range; Blut is fairly accurate and the heals ignore falloff.  ;)


My last ownage: Tropico 3, finishing a campaign mission with every faction and both superpowers at 100 respect, with ~60k in my Swiss bank. I seriously need to unlock some harder campaigns. Or play Sandbox. *cough* Rebel Yell *cough*  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 04, 2011, 06:28:15 pm

A single lucky shotgun blast took out my really important rocklet coming in from orbit. Of course, it was important because it was just a large, semi-guided artillery fragmentation shell. The shrapnel took out the engine of one of their dropships, which spiraled into my entrance chute, killing almost every enemy in it and blocking it off for a while, while also killing off much of their reinforcements.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cortex Command. Crab bombs, gotta love 'em.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 07:41:42 pm

Took down a gunship, which nearly fell on top of me. Luckily, I backed up, and in a Hollywood moment stepped off of a wooden beam and landed on the floor below. Not so much ownage, but it was awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2, Episode 1. There's a moment when you need to take down a gunship which had been hounding you for most of a level (zombie-and-Combine-filled hospital). The game is scripted to always drop the defeated gunship into the building you're in, rather than exploding in midair like they tend to do. Anyway, I landed the final blow, and decided to watch it fall (would the game simply teleport it? Would it fly to the proper point and then drop?). It basically fell straight down, right where I was standing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 08:31:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 07:41:42 pm

Took down a gunship, which nearly fell on top of me. Luckily, I backed up, and in a Hollywood moment stepped off of a wooden beam and landed on the floor below. Not so much ownage, but it was awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2, Episode 1. There's a moment when you need to take down a gunship which had been hounding you for most of a level (zombie-and-Combine-filled hospital). The game is scripted to always drop the defeated gunship into the building you're in, rather than exploding in midair like they tend to do. Anyway, I landed the final blow, and decided to watch it fall (would the game simply teleport it? Would it fly to the proper point and then drop?). It basically fell straight down, right where I was standing.

I stopped playing that at the flashlight zombies part. Not one of my favourite gameplay mechanics :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 08:55:27 pm

Quote from: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 08:31:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 07:41:42 pm

Took down a gunship, which nearly fell on top of me. Luckily, I backed up, and in a Hollywood moment stepped off of a wooden beam and landed on the floor below. Not so much ownage, but it was awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2, Episode 1. There's a moment when you need to take down a gunship which had been hounding you for most of a level (zombie-and-Combine-filled hospital). The game is scripted to always drop the defeated gunship into the building you're in, rather than exploding in midair like they tend to do. Anyway, I landed the final blow, and decided to watch it fall (would the game simply teleport it? Would it fly to the proper point and then drop?). It basically fell straight down, right where I was standing.

I stopped playing that at the flashlight zombies part. Not one of my favourite gameplay mechanics :P

Man, you missed out on some fun. There's also an escort mission, but mostly fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 09:05:58 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 08:55:27 pm

Quote from: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 08:31:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 07:41:42 pm

Took down a gunship, which nearly fell on top of me. Luckily, I backed up, and in a Hollywood moment stepped off of a wooden beam and landed on the floor below. Not so much ownage, but it was awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2, Episode 1. There's a moment when you need to take down a gunship which had been hounding you for most of a level (zombie-and-Combine-filled hospital). The game is scripted to always drop the defeated gunship into the building you're in, rather than exploding in midair like they tend to do. Anyway, I landed the final blow, and decided to watch it fall (would the game simply teleport it? Would it fly to the proper point and then drop?). It basically fell straight down, right where I was standing.

I stopped playing that at the flashlight zombies part. Not one of my favourite gameplay mechanics :P

Man, you missed out on some fun. There's also an escort mission, but mostly fun.

I'm sure I did. I did like Ep2 better, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 09:11:07 pm

Quote from: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 09:05:58 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 08:55:27 pm

Quote from: Dsarker on August 04, 2011, 08:31:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 04, 2011, 07:41:42 pm

Took down a gunship, which nearly fell on top of me. Luckily, I backed up, and in a Hollywood moment stepped off of a wooden beam and landed on the floor below. Not so much ownage, but it was awesome.

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Half-Life 2, Episode 1. There's a moment when you need to take down a gunship which had been hounding you for most of a level (zombie-and-Combine-filled hospital). The game is scripted to always drop the defeated gunship into the building you're in, rather than exploding in midair like they tend to do. Anyway, I landed the final blow, and decided to watch it fall (would the game simply teleport it? Would it fly to the proper point and then drop?). It basically fell straight down, right where I was standing.

I stopped playing that at the flashlight zombies part. Not one of my favourite gameplay mechanics :P

Man, you missed out on some fun. There's also an escort mission, but mostly fun.

I'm sure I did. I did like Ep2 better, though.

Agreed. However, I haven't been able to own as much in that game  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 04, 2011, 09:53:31 pm

Bought an access code off the janitor, broke into an apartment, saw a guy sitting inside. Snuck up behind him, conked him on the back of the head with a baton. Out cold in one hit. Then I learned he was planning to rob the guy whose penthouse I just broke into previously.

Not really spectacular, but it felt cool nonetheless.

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Deus Ex: Invisible War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tharwen on August 04, 2011, 10:36:58 pm

I've had some beautiful moments on Bad Company 2 recently.

For example, I managed to shoot down a helicopter with a tank, causing it to explode in the air (killing everyone inside) and crash to the ground as a smoking wreck just in front of me.

I've also had a few games where I've changed the outcome of an 8v8 game just by switching teams a few times. I've been on one side, then swapped because we were winning too easily, and completely reversed the game, smashing defenses and capturing points all over the place. Then, once I got bored of that, I swapped back, ruining the second team's day again :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on August 04, 2011, 10:38:11 pm

There's this one room in RE4 that I absolutely hate. Twin Garradors, some cultists, and other general nastiness. I finally managed to clear that room without using my rocket launcher, reloading my magnum, or spamming healing items.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on August 05, 2011, 11:28:12 am

Was flying my old POS Viper and came across 3 Cylon Raiders. As much as I hate to fight more than 1 enemy at the time, it was worth the profit from their salvage.

Battlestar Galactica Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lord Snow on August 05, 2011, 12:50:01 pm

playing annie, i flash-initiated from wraiths to incinerate-tibbers-stun all 3 enemy squishies.

Died in the following second, but my team cleaned up with barely a scratch and ended the game from pretty even positions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on August 05, 2011, 01:04:28 pm

Quote from: Lord Snow on August 05, 2011, 12:50:01 pm

playing annie, i flash-initiated from wraiths to incinerate-tibbers-stun all 3 enemy squishies.

Died in the following second, but my team cleaned up with barely a scratch and ended the game from pretty even positions.

Annie= most OP champion ever. I love playing her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on August 07, 2011, 07:05:53 am

I spawned as an rev head engineer, and got a pipe bomb and emag. Doing the usual trouble making, I ran around cutting cameras, emerging Beepsky, and refusing to turn the engine on.
I had just got into robotics and flashed the roboticist when a message came over the radio, telling everyone that the captain was down outside engineering!
Revelling at my luck, I ran over there to see the captain arguing with someone, and my fellow rev standing by, wondering what to do.
I quickly pulled out my bomb, activated and threw it then ran like hell. Soon after we won the round, due to the only other head suociding.

Might have not been particularly amazing, but I thought it wasn't bad for my first try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on August 07, 2011, 07:09:10 am

Quote from: Spaghetti7 on August 07, 2011, 07:05:53 am

I spawned as an rev head engineer, and got a pipe bomb and emag. Doing the usual trouble making, I ran around cutting cameras, emerging Beepsky, and refusing to turn the engine on.
I had just got into robotics and flashed the roboticist when a message came over the radio, telling everyone that the captain was down outside engineering!
Revelling at my luck, I ran over there to see the captain arguing with someone, and my fellow rev standing by, wondering what to do.
I quickly pulled out my bomb, activated and threw it then ran like hell. Soon after we won the round, due to the only other head suociding.

Might have not been particularly amazing, but I thought it wasn't bad for my first try.

What game is this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on August 07, 2011, 07:20:30 am

Space Station 13.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightning4 on August 07, 2011, 07:43:47 am

While defending my bunker from the endless hordes of enemy soldiers, I had a new browncoat + mauler shotgun delivered via dropship.
Unfortunately tons of enemies were nearby and started blasting away at the dropship. I bailed out the browncoat and switched to it immediately. The dropship rose off the top of the screen but the sound of it exploding came moments later, followed by a torrent of dropship parts.
I leaped off the top of my bunker, managing to avoid every single piece of the dropship as it annihilated enemies on both sides of the bunker. Three enemies were on the side I was leaping towards. I lined up the shot and unleashed the mauler round, killing all three enemy soldiers instantly by turning their heads into paste with the one single shot. Before I hit the ground.

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Cortex Command. Sadly, a few ownage points are to be deducted. My laptop isn't great at running both CC and Livestreaming, so my FPS was... pretty low at the time. It was like being in Matrix Mode or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 07, 2011, 01:42:58 pm

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(http://img.ie/images/853c7.png) (http://img.ie/)

All vanilla parts.  Did I just win the game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on August 07, 2011, 02:04:10 pm

Are you headed back towards Kerbal? If you aren't, then no, you haven't won yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on August 07, 2011, 05:24:26 pm

Playing as England, I forged a heretical alliance with Spain and Venice, the other two excommunicated factions.

The French Pope (who had the title of "the Corrupt") was making increasingly heavy demands, culminating with ordering me to send my faction heir on the Crusade. Well, I complied, and siezed Jerusalem with a force consisting of two units of peasants, two units of Mailed Knights, and a couple units of mercenary ranged cavalry. I promptly sent them back to their ships and started the voyage home, while also gifting the city to the Milanese, one of my more annoying enemies. French fleets sank my ships on their return voyage, killing my faction heir.

I negotiated alliances with the Venetians and Spanish, launching a united offensive against France. The Pope commanded me to cease hostilities, I ignored him, and I reduced France to Paris and a few southern regions, while also assassinating every member of their royal family and exterminating the population of every city and castle I siezed. At about this time, my finest killer-for-hire arrived in Rome, successfully killing the Pope. A Milanese cardinal was elevated, and died mysteriously half a year later. This proceeded for quite a while, until a Hungarian Pope was elected, Hungary being one of the few still-neutral Catholic nations.

All in all, I assassinated the entire French royal family and 4 Popes, while also capturing most of their territory, in 2.5 years.  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on August 07, 2011, 06:24:03 pm

Hmmm. Is it possible to kill off the papacy? To reduce all the cardinals to none?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on August 07, 2011, 06:45:39 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on August 07, 2011, 05:24:26 pm

[snip]

Game please?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on August 07, 2011, 06:55:44 pm

Quote from: jetex1911 on August 07, 2011, 06:45:39 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on August 07, 2011, 05:24:26 pm

[snip]

Game please?

Medival 2: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolf Tengu on August 07, 2011, 10:34:22 pm

I summoned ragnarok in a sewer. It was fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NotAQuisling on August 08, 2011, 08:27:45 pm

Landed for the first time on slapstick in a super hornet. I ran out of runway near the end and did a 90 degree turn onto the road that connects the front of the runway to the back just barely missing the ocean.

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YSFLIGHT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on August 08, 2011, 10:01:41 pm

Playing Dungeons and Dragons Online, on my level 5 ranger character. I got really bored, felt a little stupid, and decided to commit seppuku. Went and tried to solo the Tear of Dhakaan quest, a level 7 quest that heavily recommends having a party. I won. Enemies just kept barely missing me, critical rolls kept being confirmed, I dodged a lightning bolt, it was just the perfect rush of luck. Of course, right afterward I died on a level 3 quest, but whatever. I'm basking in this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on August 08, 2011, 10:44:07 pm

LoL, signed. Flipan like a boss (basically stalemate between 4 guys of my team and 5 of theres, I run in and just throw one after the other into my teammates, ended the game with like 21 assists of 30 kills total done...

Space station 13, CE. Rev round, build massive emitter array outside of escape, hooked up to solars... death-ray all revs (and quite a lot of innocent crew), admins call me a magnificent bastard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on August 09, 2011, 12:47:56 am

EDIT: That was awkward. I thought this was the "How did you last die?" thread. :P

Hammerfight. Three guys came in for the next Arena round; I smashed one of them so hard he slammed into a cliff and exploded. I giggled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on August 09, 2011, 12:52:38 am

I shot someone with a flare gun

I blew up a gas station right when I was surrounded by a horde of zombies. Needless to say, I was turned to ash too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 09, 2011, 02:14:34 am

Shot a garden gnome into space. I dragged that little guy through pretty much the entire game XD

Half-Life 2: Episode 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on August 09, 2011, 03:44:01 am

I killed 2 Heavy's with one round with my Force A' Nature.

Team Fortress 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheMasterTurtle on August 09, 2011, 08:27:17 am

I have a few.

Super Meat Boy, 100%! Oh yeah! And I have decided that the level Tunnel Blower in Cotton Alley is the hardest level in the game.

Cortex Command, I discovered how good the repeller gun is, it cuts all humans into itty bitty pieces, sadly it's not good at killing dummies. The specific *Ownage* I did though involved a Robot 2's upper body and a repeller gun, lets just say he went FAST!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on August 14, 2011, 06:14:09 am

Well, it goes something like this.

"President Madagascar! A man with a gun has infiltrated the building!"

"Meh"

"But he's coughing!"

"SHUT. DOWN. EVER- *bang*

*bang bang*

*bang*

I managed to kill the leader of Madagascar with a 25% chance of success. *Shadow President*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on August 14, 2011, 06:28:31 am

I love Pandemic 2. After madagascar it gets pretty easy, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on August 14, 2011, 07:17:14 am

. . . .any ways, I took down 2 zombie hulks and a necromancer in the space of 20 game minutes thanks to a combonation of caffiene, sugar, and a Saiga-12 shotgun.

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Cataclysm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on August 14, 2011, 07:22:14 am

I was fighting Iraq after killing their leader (twice, quite actually) and eventually, I lost. You know what? The Soviet Union even though they were allied with Iraq decided to nuke them. I've never had someones ally nuke them before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on August 14, 2011, 08:26:04 am

Emitter array?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Elfeater on August 14, 2011, 12:16:59 pm

Quote from: Angel Of Death on August 14, 2011, 07:22:14 am

I was fighting Iraq after killing their leader (twice, quite actually) and eventually, I lost. You know what? The Soviet Union even though they were allied with Iraq decided to nuke them. I've never had someones ally nuke them before.

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on August 14, 2011, 12:37:03 pm

Shadow president, I believe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on August 14, 2011, 06:07:16 pm

Playing Dungeons and Dragons Online. Standing on one side of a very long bridge. Down to 17 health, no restoratives. Facing down six ogres and two trolls. I pull out my longbow, switch to flaming arrows hit my Manyshot feat, and start firing. Every pair of arrows, one of them criticals. I absolutely devastated them. Normally, it takes a minute or two of kiting per enemy if I want to use my bow, but these guys were all dead within half a minute. I was awed by my luck. The loot at the end of the quest? The god of all bows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Icee77 on August 14, 2011, 07:24:46 pm

Rome Total War. I only got 3 Barbarian Mercenaries and 1 Equites. The Enemy has 1/2 stack of Warbands. They also have reinforcements coming. I hide my Mercenaries and use my Equites as bait. They take it and I zerg rush them with the Mercenaries. I take out their command unit with the Equites and cause a mass rout. And then I charge my mercs at the reinforcements. I use my Equites as a strike force, running down the routers as taking out the straggling units. I win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on August 14, 2011, 10:41:43 pm

Stumbled upon a monster zoo with my mushroom/fire wizzad.  Me, my summons, my tasty fungal buffs, and my burnination, versus about one hundred and fifteen monsters.  Distract with summons, avoiding enemies with mushroom-induced invisibility, setting things on fire, and one tentacle nuke arrow.  One hundred and thirteen dead badguys.  I think I leveled twice.

Also, my other character, a rogue on rogue difficulty (hard mode).  Started unarmed except for a (terrible) crossbow, ten terrible bolts, and ten okay poison-ampoule-bolts.  The starting room had one exit, and a crit-stat-boosting artifact ring.  Kinda neat.

The next room had an out-of-depth monster, that does TONS of damage.  Focus fire, and it dies - but the room was also full of regular monsters, and I'm kinda running out of ammo.  At the end of it, I have -no- ammo, OR weapon, and I was beat down to low health and out of healing.  Waiting to regenerate HP spawns monsters!  And I get 1 HP back every 14 turns, so it's slow at best.

End up finding this big hub room through the next door... where I find yet more monsters!  I spend some time trying to avoid them and grab some loot... and then I see it - over in the middle of the room, an iron breastplate!  Those have 3 armor - which can soak hits I take down to 0, if the damage is applicable.  Mine.  With VERY careful use of teleporters and traps, I manage to get enough XP to level up - and take Knightly Leap, an awesome ability that lets me teleport two tiles, and then one to the side, with only the price of a six turn cooldown.

Eventually, meet several more out-of-depths, make them stomp on traps and die, find tons of awesome stuff.  Eventually find an AMAZING crossbow.  It does like 10 damage, all total, whereas the one I started with/had before only did 1.

In short, I cleared out the whole first floor on Rogue, with a dude that had/still has almost no offensive capability or other special features beyond opening doors and jumping like a chess piece himself.  All my previous characters pretty much died within like five rooms on Rogue.  Felt good man.

[spoiler]Dungeons of Dredmor[/url]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on August 15, 2011, 01:54:20 am

I took over Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, but was locked out of Shadow President midway through my conquest of Russia. I had so many allies throughout the world and 5000 nukes, I was unstoppable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 15, 2011, 10:34:35 am

Fought at Ponyri. Took the first trench without difficulty. Called in artillery to take the second one, but I aimed them a bit short and ended up killing more of my guys than the enemy. Second barrage went much better, and allowed us to take it. Unfortunately, the fire mission kept coming, and killed even more of our guys. Trying to take the village, called in more artillery, and again aimed a bit short, even though I certainly killed more enemies that time.

Last artillery salvos were spot-on, allowing us to take the village while the bombardment pounded their reinforcements. We lost 70% of our reinforcements, they lost 71%. All in all, I believe I was personally responsible for about 75% of the total casualties on both sides of that battle.

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Red Orchestra UT2004 mod. I should be kept the hell away from the artillery radios.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on August 15, 2011, 10:43:16 am

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(http://i.imgur.com/sQAqB.png)

Woohoo! The wool isn't that big, the more important thing is that I finally found the damn monument. 8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: amjh on August 15, 2011, 11:50:40 am

Forced my enemies into a situation where they destroyed the last of their own units by literally digging out the ground from under them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on August 15, 2011, 03:19:48 pm

Quote from: TheMasterTurtle on August 09, 2011, 08:27:17 am

Super Meat Boy, 100%! Oh yeah! And I have decided that the level Tunnel Blower in Cotton Alley is the hardest level in the game.

:shakes fist:

I only have 8 levels to go before I 100%. Oh well, if it's any consolation for myself, I have all my times as streamlined as possible. Cotton Alley (6 or 7 dark), and the 2 levels (lvl5 dark, and final boss) are all that remain for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on August 17, 2011, 03:57:56 am

Killed a few red ants, ran into their colony, ate some of their food, and killed the red queen, thus winning the game.

Simant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on August 17, 2011, 04:02:04 am

I was on the verge of Iraq going to war on Kuwait. I sold some guns to rebels and then took over the country.

*Shadow President*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RedKing on August 17, 2011, 06:56:36 am

Sprinted from cover to cover until I could get just enough of a peek at Krom's head sticking up above the turret, then let him have it with a volley from my 5-shot burst rocket launcher. The rockets were all slightly off target, which meant they all passed around/behind the turret and went off all around Krom. Instakill.

Borderlands.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Citiral on August 17, 2011, 07:22:42 am

SOLDNER! How can you not own?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on August 17, 2011, 07:55:16 am

Quote from: Citiral on August 17, 2011, 07:22:42 am

SOLDNER! How can you not own?

Soldner was so awesome and buggy at the same time. It had one of the most poorly optimized netcode I have ever seen which was unfortunate because the single player was an unplayable mess. All of that having been said, I probably still sunk 60+ hours into it. It had destructible enviroments, true stealth and great vehicle combat ahead of the competition. Here in the States it was virtually unknown.

I last "owned" in Combat Arms where I dominated the guy who was using an aimbot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on August 17, 2011, 09:42:57 am

Quote from: hemmingjay on August 17, 2011, 07:55:16 am

Soldner was so awesome and buggy at the same time. It had one of the most poorly optimized netcode I have ever seen which was unfortunate because the single player was an unplayable mess. All of that having been said, I probably still sunk 60+ hours into it. It had destructible enviroments, true stealth and great vehicle combat ahead of the competition. Here in the States it was virtually unknown.

Another JoWood game, unfortunately. Seems to be par for them.

21-1-5 as Twitch after my friends told me how useless he is and how much they hate him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on August 17, 2011, 10:50:17 am

Söldern indeed was a gem at its time, I mean buggy as it was, so much fun... I'd still play it, camo up and crash land in the mountains to snipe...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on August 18, 2011, 09:40:57 am

Second time as a changeling and, despite having the crews suspicions from the off, managed to kill, lie, kill and bomb my way to just managing to complete my objective with 20 seconds remaining, hopping on the emergency shuttle and even getting in a little gloating on the way out.
Damn, that felt good.

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Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on August 19, 2011, 11:54:30 am

I turtled up my base and was preparing 3 huge ass experimental units as well as a bunch of tanks. I sent my army out, only to be assaulted from the side. Whilst the enemy got several of my mass extracters and energy generators, they made the mistake of getting in range of my turrets. I didnt even have to rebuild anything because my huge experimentals were busy beating the enemy commander to a pulp :P     

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Supreme Commander 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 19, 2011, 03:04:31 pm

With both of my teammates down, I soloed a Ymir-class mech as an Adept. Ymir mechs, for those who haven't played the game, are essentially walking tanks with heavy shields and armor, neither of which are affected by most of an Adept's powers.

Mass Effect 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on August 22, 2011, 02:08:31 am

Yesterday, I threw a frag grenade to maybe kill an unsuspecting enemy, and an ally was near the area I threw the grenade to. (Friendlyfire was off)
However, the game had other plans for me. It autobalanced me to the other team right before the grenade blew up, and the former ally died.

I also got the helicopter killstreak for the first time.

Call of Duty 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on August 25, 2011, 04:45:59 pm

I managed to play through the Founding of Wesnoth campaign, start to finish, only ever recruiting five guys. Two archers, a mage, a spearman, and a cavalryman. I felt very epic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuckyNinja on August 25, 2011, 05:06:14 pm

Taking my post from my own thread (because I have no eyes and my search function skills suck)


 I was the specialist in a six-man squad, holding a grappling hook and shotgun. We were tasked with assaulting a building which the enemy team had built a respawn point on. We figured the base would be on the top floor of four, and that they'd have rigged up traps on the way up. Regardless, my team still decided to go in through the entrance at the bottom. Figuring this was a suicide mission, but not wanting to abandon the squad, I used my grappling hook to climb up to the top floor, where I found a skylight. I crept over, and sure enough, the enemy respawn point was right below. I throw down an incendiary grenade to take care of it, and then immediately throw in two grenades. After the explosions and sounds of people dying, I then switched to the shotgun, leapt down, and started blasting. I covered a 360 degree arc with my semi-auto shottie, mowing down four more enemies before they could react. Magazine depleted, I was halfway through reloading when one last survivor tried to knife me. I dodged, switched to my own knife, and stabbed him. I quickly check the two adjacent rooms. No life. From the last grenade toss to the knifing, the time taken was no more than twenty seconds. The body count? 7. Sure enough, about 20 seconds later my team rushes up through the hallway from the staircase, and find me, standing next to the remains of a respawn point, in the rough middle of a half-dozen bodies.




Battlefield 2: Project Reality

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on August 25, 2011, 06:42:50 pm

I sent my captain of the guards to fight off ten goblin axemen, he kicked ass. Later he fought off several ambushes and another siege, adamantine makes things to easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on August 27, 2011, 06:22:54 am

Hey I actually got past the goddamn blade-throwing ninja maid without wasting a continue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 27, 2011, 10:21:05 am

Blew up an enemy's head with enough force to propel the body about 15 feet backward...using my mind!
Oh, and my character is only level 1.

D&D Gamma World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolf Tengu on August 27, 2011, 10:38:37 am

I defeated the living tombstone without being hit once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on August 27, 2011, 10:38:46 am

Was playing Pokemon red and enteded a cave that unlocks after you beat the elite 4 (or whatever they were in that game).
Had no idea what's inside... and i met a lvl 80 (or so) mewtwo.
Since my strongest pokemon was in it's 60's i decided to throw a pokeball (a normal one for 200$) and presto mewtwo was caught at 100% HP.

Was playing Navyfield yesterday as a CV.
My BB line got murdered by a charging Lion 1 (type of a battleship) he was partially blind and drove into my fireing range... so i charged it and finished him off using 3.9" deck guns.
Everyone in the room had a good laugh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 29, 2011, 01:59:20 am

Defeated the final boss, the commanding general of a second alien invasion force (which was hunting down the first alien invasion force), while his attack and defense power were super-charged. The general pilots a giant mech suit that Gundam would be proud of, with more weapon systems than I can easily remember. The funny thing is that I intentionally supercharged him, for more of a challenge.

Oh, and I managed to beat the game without a single kill.

Game: Iji

EDIT: Found a video of the final boss fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eLpLhxEPg&feature=related)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on August 29, 2011, 02:59:33 am

A bunch of gangers were clustering around a factory worker one of them killed.  They were freaking out about it, while one of their friends was walking back and forth, ignoring them.  There was another one doing something else, too, I guess.

Exactly as they finish their conversation, the patrolling one stopped, off on the other side of the room.  He's isolated, so, pfft, tranquilizer dart, and he's asleep.  Meanwhile, the others had just dispersed, back to looting or whatever since their convo was over.  Reload, pfft, one goes down about a second after he turned around.  Reload, pfft, another one down.  By then, the last two had noticed three of their friends were on the floor, and noticed me - but they barely managed to squeeze off a few shots before they were out too.

Less awesomely, right after that I snuck dat shit through some vents into a room full of hostages and a bomb.  After checking out the bomb, I turned around to see if the hostage wanted to talk - and accidentally hit the punch button.  Cutscene takedown.  POW!  Right in the jaw.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 01, 2011, 09:02:43 pm

I shot an albatross in the heart on the first shot.

DF, with Genesis Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on September 01, 2011, 10:35:23 pm

Quote from: SirAaronIII on September 01, 2011, 09:02:43 pm

I shot an albatross in the heart on the first shot.

DF, with Genesis Mod

Waiting eagerly for this story to re-appear in the "How did you last die?" thread. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner)  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 01, 2011, 10:43:12 pm

It did. Shortly after, I was mauled to death by a cheetah. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg2583689#msg2583689)
Not exactly how the story goes, but still. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Choose username on September 02, 2011, 03:46:16 am

Pistol round of de_3rrdstreet and I kill two CTs with my glock from across the subway tracks, then hopped over and killed a third inside the train station with a deagle I picked up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on September 02, 2011, 03:50:54 am

I went on a killing spree in the Propaganda House in RO2. I must have killed 10 or so people, while numerous teammates died in droves around me. Scored MVP for the game and top scorer. Every time I turned the corner, 2 guys coming up the stairs, not looking at me. *POP* *POP* *POP* Delicious points.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 05, 2011, 12:19:35 am

I killed Sigmund by confusing him and watching him jump into lava.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on September 05, 2011, 02:35:17 am

Oblivion. I started a new character with "stunted Magica"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 05, 2011, 02:50:28 am

Quote from: neotemplar on September 05, 2011, 02:35:17 am

Oblivion. I started a new character with "stunted Magica"

Maybe I just haven't played TES for a while, but I fail to see the ownage  :-\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: trees on September 05, 2011, 04:58:01 am

Was a changeling quartermaster and got lucky with snagging the HoP and getting his ID. Was wandering around to look for a secluded space to eat some assistants when I found myself getting acid spat at me by a geneticist. He was starting to absorb me when I woke up for half a second, during which I punched him in the face and injected him with venom. He fell unconscious and I had a delicious snack, including gaining all of the DNA that he had absorbed, too. Afterwords I had enough DNA to complete my objective, so I called the shuttle and just chilled out until it arrived.  8)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on September 07, 2011, 05:16:05 pm

It's the end for us 7 Russian soldiers trapped at the top of the Stalingrad Grain Elevator. Our reinforcements are cut off. The lower floors are held by a German army that has suffered terribly to make it this far. There will be no quarter, no mercy. They'll kill every last one of us, and shoot the corpses to make sure we're not faking.

I set up behind a stack of lumber with another solider, my SVT 40 semi-automatic rifle in my hands. We arrange ourselves in a line waiting silently as we listen to German shouts and commands echoing from below. We hear a smoke grenade go off and the far end of the room is obscured by thick white clouds of smoke.

We wait without making a sound. Out of the smoke I see a silhouette appear, their domed helmet marking them as German infantry. I draw up and shoot him twice through the chest and he crumples to the floor.

Rounds come out of the smoke, hitting the soldier next to me. I hear him die. I duck behind the lumber stack and take a few steps back, knowing what's coming next. Rounds perforate the wood in a circular pattern, 5 of them, as someone hunts for me in my cover with a semi-automatic rifle. But none of them hit me. I count two and then stand up, and draw on a German advancing toward my cover as he reloads his rifle. I put two in his chest and drop back into cover immediately and reload. As I'm loading I suddenly realize my flank is open, and turn to see movement no more than 10 feet from me. Panicked, I draw up my rifle and fire 4 rounds straight into the head I see. It's a German soldier, crawling prone on his belly near some I-beams.

But the kill isn't mine. Someone else had shot him and I had merely blown his lifeless head to smithereens.

I stand up and see rounds coming out of the smoke again. I fire off a few quick shots and go back into cover, and am gratified by the screams I hear (and the kill notice on the screen.)

I reload again, knowing that this can't last, that any moment an assault trooper will sweep past my cover on my right and kill me, and all my brothers. I prepare to stand up into what will probably be a horde of advancing troops and withering rifle fire. I'm ready. I made them pay dearly for this Grain Elevator.

Suddenly the game ends, to a rising chorus of Russian male voices singing proudly. We have won, against all odds. Demoralized at their heavy losses and the drawn out battle, and out of time before Allied reinforcements reach the Elevator, the Axis forces retreat at the cusp of victory, leaving our precious Grain Elevator in the strong grip of the Soviet Union. We're heroes (and I'm #1 on the scoreboards.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Beta

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on September 07, 2011, 05:51:29 pm

I made Science!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/_Levi/screenshot/558667380693489027 (http://steamcommunity.com/id/_Levi/screenshot/558667380693489027)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 07, 2011, 11:30:13 pm

Level 15, Dart Gun (Lvl 1 schematic), Assault rifle, 12 Deathclaws killed within a half hour tops with less than half my health upon arrival to town. All while wearing a vault (utility) suit and a shady hat.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Location: Old Olney.

Dart gun makes those things a hell of alot easier to take down. Even at 1 schem level.

Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on September 07, 2011, 11:38:45 pm

CrimeCraft: Bleedout

I discovered the cloak skill.  I'm now owning all the pansy snipers and machine gunners with my pistol :)
(Like 1st or 2nd place on my team using the pistol almost exclusively.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 07, 2011, 11:45:08 pm

I am the Orc Messiah.
...or going to be soon, anyway.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on September 12, 2011, 04:48:18 am

After giving my buddy the locations of fuel trucks, I went to a place where cars were repaired to destroy a garbage compactor. As soon as I found high ground to snipe from, it started to rain and fog up. I couldn't see shit. I dashed foward, performing a full assault on the place. Eventually, my rifle jammed. I just dropped it and got a shotgun. I was blasting away at everything until there was finally nobody left.

I found the garbage compactor. In the room, there was a small gas tank and a large gas cylinder. I moved a fuel barrel into the room and shot the small gas tank. It flew around the room before exploding and detonating the fuel barrel, which activated the large cylinder. The large cylinder flew around the room and eventually blew up right next to the compactor, destroying it. I then ambushed a squad with my buddy, killing the soldiers with a flamethrower.


FarCry 2

Spoiler: BIG FARCRY 2 SPOILER OWNAGE (click to show/hide)

I just got a mission (The game glitched and it was given to me BY GAKUMBA IN THE VOICE OF THE OTHER DUDE.) to assassinate Gakumba. I went to his holiday retreat and sniped his guards off of the dock. I quickly was surrounded, but I managed to kill the rest. I ran up the mountainside, eventually getting to his house. It was surrounded by guards. I macheted and sniped them, but it was no use. I dropped an IED and detonated it as I entered the house, killing some of them. I went up to Gakumba and shot him in the chest, killing him. I was prepared for a battle at the house, killing wave after wave after wave of soldiers. Eventually, it was too much. I was surrounded.

Completely surrounded. I ran outside and jumped off of the large cliff, willing to take my own life before some lowlife soldier did it. I landed right in the middle of the river and swam away. It was better than the last time where I landed directly on a cliff below.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 20, 2011, 12:16:39 pm

Invaded Korea, playing as the Japanese. Had to first cross the sea between Japan and Chosun(my geography fails me at the moment, I forget what it's called). I meant to take Inichion, their main port, and right in the center of their territory, but the presence of their army pushed me towards the city further out. Had to bring in reinforcements from across the sea, which resulted in a nasty running battle as the Koreans sent their fleet to intercept. It resulted in the loss of my navy, but most of the transports made it through.

Following this was a constant slaughterfest as I fought to first take Inichion, then lost it, then took it and kept it, then fought to attack Seoul. With about 15 minutes left on the clock(started at 90), I managed to break through and captured Seoul. At that point, that seemed to just run out of effort to counterattack, and I held Seoul until they were eliminated.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rise of Nations, Conquer the World mode(Entire World map). I suppose it was historically accurate, with the exception that the Japanese won, likely because the Chinese didn't help this time like they did in real life(they believed, correctly, that after Chosun, the Japanese would invade China).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Necro910 on September 20, 2011, 12:49:04 pm

Quote from: Angel Of Death on September 12, 2011, 04:48:18 am

After giving my buddy the locations of fuel trucks, I went to a place where cars were repaired to destroy a garbage compactor. As soon as I found high ground to snipe from, it started to rain and fog up. I couldn't see shit. I dashed foward, performing a full assault on the place. Eventually, my rifle jammed. I just dropped it and got a shotgun. I was blasting away at everything until there was finally nobody left.

I found the garbage compactor. In the room, there was a small gas tank and a large gas cylinder. I moved a fuel barrel into the room and shot the small gas tank. It flew around the room before exploding and detonating the fuel barrel, which activated the large cylinder. The large cylinder flew around the room and eventually blew up right next to the compactor, destroying it. I then ambushed a squad with my buddy, killing the soldiers with a flamethrower.


FarCry 2

Can you throw people into the trash compactor in that game? Or even the barrels themselves?

Wait... why were you attacking a TRASH COMPACTOR?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:33:04 pm

My small army of about 5 musketeers, three horsemen, roughly 15 infantry of various skills, and me, finally catches up to a group of bandits we'd been chasing. Unfortunately, another group of bandits was in the area and joined the fight, bringing the total up to 60 bandits versus my army of roughly 25.

As luck would have it, we were positioned on top of a small hill (more of a bump, really), and the bandits had to charge through open ground to get to us. I ordered the entire army to hold position while I went in to harass and delay the enemy. Firing a few carbine rounds managed to get their attention, and I soon had roughly fifteen infantry chasing me while bandit musketeers did their best to hit me. I had to keep attacking them however, or they'd give up the pursuit and go after my troops instead. A few tried, only to get cut down more or less simultaneously by an exceptional round of shooting.

All this time, I'm firing my carbine whenever I have a decent shot, and swooping in with my sword whenever a nearby bandit was busy reloading. I order my men to charge the decimated scum, only for the bandit reinforcements to arrive. I can't disengage long enough to order them back to their places, and the musketeers are nearly out of ammo anyways, so I charge directly into the new bandit army, breaking their ranks enough for my fellow horsemen to punch through as the infantry move in as fast as they can.

When the final totals came in, I had only lost a single mercenary halberdier. All 60 bandits died.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Necro910 on September 20, 2011, 02:36:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:33:04 pm

My small army of about 5 musketeers, three horsemen, roughly 15 infantry of various skills, and me, finally catches up to a group of bandits we'd been chasing. Unfortunately, another group of bandits was in the area and joined the fight, bringing the total up to 60 bandits versus my army of roughly 25.

As luck would have it, we were positioned on top of a small hill (more of a bump, really), and the bandits had to charge through open ground to get to us. I ordered the entire army to hold position while I went in to harass and delay the enemy. Firing a few carbine rounds managed to get their attention, and I soon had roughly fifteen infantry chasing me while bandit musketeers did their best to hit me. I had to keep attacking them however, or they'd give up the pursuit and go after my troops instead. A few tried, only to get cut down more or less simultaneously by an exceptional round of shooting.

All this time, I'm firing my carbine whenever I have a decent shot, and swooping in with my sword whenever a nearby bandit was busy reloading. I order my men to charge the decimated scum, only for the bandit reinforcements to arrive. I can't disengage long enough to order them back to their places, and the musketeers are nearly out of ammo anyways, so I charge directly into the new bandit army, breaking their ranks enough for my fellow horsemen to punch through as the infantry move in as fast as they can.

When the final totals came in, I had only lost a single mercenary halberdier. All 60 bandits died.

What game were you playing? Sounds awesome

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tompliss on September 20, 2011, 02:40:30 pm

sounds like Mount and Blade : Fire and Sword ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:52:18 pm

Quote from: tompliss on September 20, 2011, 02:40:30 pm

sounds like Mount and Blade : Fire and Sword ;)

Bingo. I'm sorry, I honestly forgot to mention the game name ._.;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Necro910 on September 20, 2011, 03:43:20 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:52:18 pm

Quote from: tompliss on September 20, 2011, 02:40:30 pm

sounds like Mount and Blade : Fire and Sword ;)

Bingo. I'm sorry, I honestly forgot to mention the game name ._.;

I read up. The review says it is an excessively complicated game that takes an extremely long time to learn.

FUN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 04:00:50 pm

Quote from: Necro910 on September 20, 2011, 03:43:20 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:52:18 pm

Quote from: tompliss on September 20, 2011, 02:40:30 pm

sounds like Mount and Blade : Fire and Sword ;)

Bingo. I'm sorry, I honestly forgot to mention the game name ._.;

I read up. The review says it is an excessively complicated game that takes an extremely long time to learn.

FUN

In some ways, it's like Adventurer Mode 3D except everyone is human. You start with some basic equipment, get assigned quests from local leaders, and gain companions in a vast, living world full of wars, commerce, and characters. Combat, even with guns, is physics based - the game tracks individual bullets as they fly through the air, and mounted combat is brutal thanks to the horse's speed adding to your melee damage. The battlefields are procedurally generated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on September 20, 2011, 08:04:12 pm

In Mount and Blade (Trial Version) I was beaten up by thugs, I then hunted them down and murdered them all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on September 20, 2011, 11:21:28 pm

So in the original M&B, which nation sucks the most? I'm thinking the Rhodoks were. Crossbows are bad enough, but they don't have any cavalry and they live right next to two nations who are KINGS of mounted combat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 11:26:28 pm

Dunno much about the Rhodoks, but it seemed that in every game I played the Nords would get their asses handed to them. This was a major problem, since I liked the look and feel of the Nords more than the other factions and tended to side with them. This led to the game rapidly becoming unplayable as they lost more territory and I couldn't even recruit some peasants without being mauled by 200-man armies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on September 20, 2011, 11:39:44 pm

At least the Nords have a great siege capacity. Thats what you do with them. Grab an army, join up, lay siege and assault as quickly as possible. Then do that with the next city. And so on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 11:50:58 pm

Hard to do that when said 200-man armies are besieging your own towns and castles :|

Thankfully, this doesn't seem to be as much a problem in Warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 04, 2011, 12:46:36 pm

Nailed the Queen right in the face. She was still going so I went around to tag her from behind. The next one went right up the Queen's arse while she was still mounted. Fitting, and effective nonetheless. The third one went throught the back of her right lung, knocking her unconscious.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount&Blade: Native Expansion mod. Shooting arrows at Queen Katilus of Praven from horseback. I'm kinda surprised the first arrow, an Ivory arrow to the head, didn't bring her down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on October 05, 2011, 04:53:25 am

The land demons came with a massive siege, about 30 units per squad leader.. I spotted 3 leaders of the large squads. An elite bowman, a hammerlord and a swordsmaster. The swordsmaster's squad had war mummies, too. About 8 of them.  The bowman and hammerlord charged straight into my fortress. And straight into my trap. The leaders were knocked into the magma below and the pawns were impaled. The squad lead by the swordsmaster fled in horror after seeing their collegues incinerated and impaled. A few demons remained, wanting more action. I had a useless dwarf migrant run onto the magma bridges. I then had the lever pulled, killing him and the demons.

Dwarf Fortress - Genesis mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RedKing on October 05, 2011, 07:17:58 am

The infidels brought their armies before the walls of Suno. Though the people of this city are not of the tribes, they had shown their loyalty to me and more importantly -- this city was mine. I won it through fire, blood, sword and arrow and I would not reliquinsh it to the likes of Rhodoki rabble who are too meek to even mount a pony.

Though the Rhodoks were great in number, ours were greater in spirit. 936 versus 100. By the time it was over, King Graveth's host was broken and the city had a new moat made entirely of Rhodok blood. Many brave warriors fell in Suno's defense, but many, MANY more Rhodoks joined their ancestors empty-handed that day.


Game: Mount & Blade, playing as a Khergit Khanate horse archer. The Swadians are utterly destroyed at this point, with 3/4 of their lands going to us, 1/4 going to the Nords. Everybody is at war with everybody. Suno's defenders were a mix of Vaergir, Swadian, Nord and even forest bandits but with very few Khergit among them. Basically, they were prisoners I had freed from various war parties that I ambushed. They were using a siege tower, and I had enough Guards/Sergeants/Huscarls (and some stout companions) to wedge them in at the point of attack and just hack away. Plus, I have 250+ skill in bow so I was picking off nobles and Rhodok Sergeants by the bushel as the siege tower was being rolled forward. They spent three successive days trying to assult the city, and finally withdraw with collective losses of about 400-500. We lost 7 killed, 13 wounded. TOTAL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Warlord of Woe on October 05, 2011, 08:38:27 am

There was this huge, military drone saturating the open air with bullets and missiles all intent on killing me, but I managed to sprint right next to the thing and run around it, too fast for its giant, unwieldy legs to match, while expending all of my shotgun ammunition to subdue it. The robot started sparking madly, so I jumped away and took cover from its (possibly harmless) explosion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 14, 2011, 10:14:58 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 05, 2011, 02:50:28 am

Quote from: neotemplar on September 05, 2011, 02:35:17 am

Oblivion. I started a new character with "stunted Magica"

Maybe I just haven't played TES for a while, but I fail to see the ownage  :-\

He chose the Atronach Birthsign which means he gets a 200 point bonus (or is it 150?) to his Magicka, but is unable to restore it without potions. However, it also comes with a whopping 50% spell absorbtion which means every second magic hit on average is converted into magicka and added to your pool.

Atronach birthsign is very overpowered. It's useful for anti-mage Warriors, who get mitigated damage when pursuing mages, it's useful for a Magicka Tank- A high elf with Atronach Birthsign will start off with in excess of 400 Magicka, a shedload when my level 31 Orc Warrior has 67 Magicka. The Atronach sign offsets the weakness to magic that all high elves have too.

In short:

• Superb for "Anti-mages" - any class with a disadvantage to magic has it mitigated
• Superb for High Elves of any class as it offsets their weakness to magic
• Superb for Bretons who want to be able to tank using magic- their Greater Power 'Dragon Skin' is useful, as is their already buffed magicka stat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Elfeater on October 14, 2011, 10:41:00 pm

1943 rose of the axis
Turn 1: Wiped out Russia. By taking capital.
Turn 2: Took half of china
Turn 3: Took what's left of china.
Turn 4: began to mass forces.
Turn 8: Began invasion of Canada through Alaska
Turn 14: Finished Canada took most of northern US.
Turn 18: Most of America taken
Turn 22: Italy fell to England. ( wasn't paying attention in that area.)
Turn 23: America has fallen England stands alone. Took english base in Italy.
Turn 27: england falls.
Turn 28 Australia falls to Japan.
Turn 30: I tale India.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

World conquered for iPad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on October 15, 2011, 12:42:07 am

Shot Kael in the head when he was building his house... thing... in an FPS. I then proceeded to start building my own but then he shot me.
Ace of Spades

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on October 15, 2011, 03:10:36 pm

I was playing Alpha Centauri, and after a while got this message.
http://imageshack.us/f/97/alphacentauri.png/
(If you don't want to count that as owning, my empire was also doing really well).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 05, 2011, 01:56:28 pm

I was bored, so I started screwing with emulator memory while playing Pokemon Gold. Managed to hack my mom's money to a glitched value, which apparently serves as infinite money. For a short while, every battle against another trainer ended with Mom calling me about her severe shopping addiction using my money, which stopped around the time I cleared Sprout Tower.


Some bot ownage as well: In Cortex Command, I was playing Dummy Assault, and I dropped a grenade down a shaft onto a dummy with a grenade launcher. The dummy shot the grenade with his grenade dead-on, and both blew up in the air.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Girlinhat on November 05, 2011, 02:02:02 pm

Plasma carronades at 0km doing 25 damage to a fighter craft with some 4 total armor+internal HP.  The best part?  I had like a 5% hit chance due to my poor Fire Control setup and it took 15 seconds per reload.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aurora

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 05, 2011, 05:43:37 pm

Outside my epic 250m-500m gunkill of a helicopter on foot with a standard rifle (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/613841548841224090); in another random encounter, I was overwhelmed by another squad of riflemen and non-stop fire. I lobbed a single frag grenade towards the group (of maybe 6 riflemen) from behind very little cover (like the crest of a hill and behind a tiny bush) while prone and got them all in a single toss.

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Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 06, 2011, 01:35:00 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 05, 2011, 01:56:28 pm

I was bored, so I started screwing with emulator memory while playing Pokemon Gold. Managed to hack my mom's money to a glitched value, which apparently serves as infinite money. For a short while, every battle against another trainer ended with Mom calling me about her severe shopping addiction using my money, which stopped around the time I cleared Sprout Tower.

Following up on this, I figured out how to hack my items. Infinite Master Balls, huzzah.

Spoiler: The entire list of items found in the game, in order (click to show/hide)

00 ?
01 MASTER BALL
02 ULTRA BALL
03 BRIGHTPOWDER
04 GREAT BALL
05 POKE BALL
06 TERU-SAMA
07 BICYCLE
08 MOON STONE
09 ANTIDOTE
10 BURN HEAL
11 ICE HEAL
12 AWAKENING
13 PARALYZ HEAL
14 FULL RESTORE
15 MAX POTION
16 HYPER POTION
17 SUPER POTION
18 POTION
19 ESCAPE ROPE
20 REPEL
21 MAX ELIXER
22 FIRE STONE
23 THUNDERSTONE
24 WATER STONE
25 TERU-SAMA
26 HP UP
27 PROTEIN
28 IRON
29 CARBOS
30 LUCKY PUNCH
31 CALCIUM
32 RARE CANDY
33 X ACCURACY
34 LEAF STONE
35 METAL POWDER
36 NUGGET
37 POKE DOLL
38 FULL HEAL
39 REVIVE
40 MAX REVIVE
41 GUARD SPEC.
42 SUPER REPEL
43 MAX REPEL
44 DIRE HIT
45 TERU-SAMA
46 FRESH WATER
47 SODA POP
48 LEMONADE
49 X ATTACK
50 TERU-SAMA
51 X DEFEND
52 X SPEED
53 X SPECIAL
54 COIN CASE
55 ITEMFINDER
56 TERU-SAMA
57 EXP.SHARE
58 OLD ROD
59 GOOD ROD
60 SILVER LEAF
61 SUPER ROD
62 PP UP
63 ETHER
64 MAX ETHER
65 ELIXER
66 RED SCALE
67 SECRETPOTION
68 S.S.TICKET
69 MYSTERY EGG
70 TERU-SAMA
71 SILVER WING
72 MOOMOO MILK
73 QUICK CLAW
74 PSNCUREBERRY
75 GOLD LEAF
76 SOFT SAND
77 SHARP BEAK
78 PRZCUREBERRY
79 BURNT BERRY
80 ICE BERRY
81 POISON BARB
82 KING'S ROCK
83 BITTER BERRY
84 MINT BERRY
85 RED APRICORN
86 TINYMUSHROOM
87 BIG MUSHROOM
88 SILVERPOWDER
89 BLU APRICORN
90 TERU-SAMA
91 AMULET COIN
92 YLW APRICORN
93 GRN APRICORN
94 CLEANSE TAG
95 MYSTIC WATER
96 TWISTEDSPOON
97 WHT APRICORN
98 BLACKBELT
99 BLK APRICORN
100 TERU-SAMA
101 PNK APRICORN
102 BLACKGLASSES
103 SLOWPOKETAIL
104 PINK BOW
105 STICK
106 SMOKE BALL
107 NEVERMELTICE
108 MAGNET
109 MIRACLEBERRY
110 PEARL
111 BIG PEARL
112 EVERSTONE
113 SPELL TAG
114 RAGECANDYBAR
115 TERU-SAMA
116 TERu-SAMA
117 MIRACLE SEED
118 THICK CLUB
119 FOCUS BAND
120 TERU-SAMA
121 ENERGYPOWDER
122 ENERGY ROOT
123 HEAL POWDER
124 REVIVAL HERB
125 HARD STONE
126 LUCKY EGG
127 CARD KEY
128 MACHINE PART
129 TERU-SAMA
130 LOST ITEM
131 STAR DUST
132 STAR PIECE
133 BASEMENT KEY
134 PASS
135 TERU-SAMA
136 TERU-SAMA
137 TERU-sAMA
138 CHARCOAL
139 BERRY JUICE
140 SCOPE LENS
141 TERU-SAMA
142 TERU-SAMA
143 METAL COAT
144 DRAGON FANG
145 TERU-SAMA
146 LEFTOVERS
147 TERU-SAMA
148 TERU-SAMA
149 TERU-SAMA
150 MYSTERYBERRY
151 DRAGONSCALE
152 BERSERK GENE
153 TERU-SAMA
154 TERU-SAMA
155 TERU-SAMA
156 SACRED ASH
157 HEAVY BALL
158 FLOWER MAIL
159 LEVEL BALL
160 LURE BALL
161 FAST BALL
162 TERU-SAMA
163 LIGHT BALL
164 FRIEND BALL
165 MOON BALL
166 LOVE BALL
167 NORMAL BOX
168 GORGEOUS BOX
169 SUN STONE
170 POLKADOT BOW
171 TERU-SAMA
172 UP-GRADE
173 BERRY
174 GOLD BERRY
175 SQUIRTBOTTLE
176 TERU-SAMA
177 PARK BALL
178 RAINBOW WING
179 TERU-SAMA
180 BRICK PIECE
181 SURF MAIL
182 LITEBLUEMAIL
183 PORTAITMAIL
184 LOVELYMAIL
185 EON MAIL
186 MORPH MAIL
187 BLUESKY MAIL
188 MUSIC MAIL
189 MIRAGE MAIL
190 TERU-SAMA
191 TM01 (DynamicPunch)
192 TM02 (Headbutt)
193 TM03 (Curse)
194 TM04 (Rollout)
195 TM04 (Again?)
196 TM05 (Roar)
197 TM06 (Toxic)
198 TM07 (Zap Cannon)
199 TM08 (Rock Smash)
200 TM09 (Psych Up)
201 TM10 (Hidden Power)
202 TM11 (Sunny Day)
203 TM12 (Sweet Scent)
204 TM13 (Snore)
205 TM14 (Blizzard)
206 TM15 (Hyper Beam)
207 TM16 (Icy Wind)
208 TM17 (Protect)
209 TM18 (Rain Dance)
210 TM19 (Giga Drain)
211 TM20 (Endure)
212 TM21 (Frustration)
213 TM22 (SolarBeam)
214 TM23 (Iron Tail)
215 TM24 (Dragonbreath)
216 TM25 (Thunder)
217 TM26 (Earthquake)
218 TM27 (Return)
219 TM28 (Dig)
220 TM28 (Again, again?)
221 TM29 (Psychic)
222 TM30 (Shadow Ball)
223 TM31 (Mud Slap)
224 TM32 (Double Team)
225 TM33 (Ice Punch)
226 TM34 (Swagger)
227 TM35 (Sleep Talk)
228 TM36 (Sludge Bomb)
229 TM37 (Sandstorm)
230 TM38 (Fire Blast)
231 TM39 (Swift)
232 TM40 (Defense Curl)
233 TM41 (Thunder Punch)
234 TM42 (Dream Eater)
235 TM43 (Detect)
236 TM44 (Rest)
237 TM45 (Attract)
238 TM46 (Thief)
239 TM47 (Steel Wing)
240 TM48 (Fire Punch)
241 TM49 (Fury Cutter)
242 TM50 (Nightmare)
243 HM01 (Cut)
244 HM02 (Fly)
245 HM03 (Surf)
246 HM04 (Strength)
247 HM05 (Flash)
248 HM06 (Whirlpool)
249 HM07 (Waterfall)
250 HM08 (? <-description)
251 HM09 (? <-Ditto. No, not the Pokemon)
252 HM10
253 HM11
254 HM12 (Attacks 5 turns with increasing power, I assume like Rollout)
255 <empty space> - deleted all my items when I set it to this one

I'm not exactly sure what all those Teru-Samas are. They aren't useable. I also found that trying to use a TM from the Item Pocket(where everything can technically be) causes the game to reset.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 07, 2011, 06:07:15 am

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Teru-sama
 (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Teru-sama)

The Teru-sama is a placeholder item. It can't be used except to be sold. Teru-sama = 'Lord Sunshine' which corresponds to the GS ball in the Anime.
One GS ball when hacked to have a 'use' function opens the town map, another; works as the Poke Flute but is silent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on November 07, 2011, 11:17:02 am

Bored and low on chips, I decided to play some slots before the server shutdown (as they were taking it offline to add a patch). Plinked the 1 chip button a couple times, no dice. 10, got a win that gave me back the same number of chips, but mostly losses. Hit the 50 chip button, and suddenly, about 3 minutes before the server restart, I won 4000. Don't ask me how. Then, decided to push my luck, a few 100 chip bets led me to a cool 8000 chip win.

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Fallen Earth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on November 07, 2011, 11:21:39 am

Jumped into the air and tossed my shield downwards, fired a shot at my shield which ricocheted and hit the enemy, then yanked out a huge ass sword, struck a pose, and jammed it through their torso. Always a classic.

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SD Gundam Online, yeeeee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 11:34:01 am

Sent a single Flagship CnC Dreadnought armed with my best technology against an enemy fleet. It killed 5 enemy dreadnoughts and distracted them long enough for my cloaked biowar cruisers to launch their payload and hit the enemy world with an assimilation plague. A few turns later, their homeworld was mine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nichaey on November 07, 2011, 12:00:44 pm

Performed a fully charged draw strike with my great sword on a charging, enraged G-rank Rathalos. I hit him in the head and killed him

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 Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KatalDT on November 07, 2011, 12:09:20 pm

Flying around Troy in my relatively pimped Tarsus (for a new game). Dual missile launchers fully stocked with FF missiles, meson cannons, engine upgrades, afterburners, and the glorious B&S Omni with full friend or foe recognition and ITTS - cost more than my ship!

So, I'm going through a 5 waypoint patrol, and I run into a lone Dralthi (which takes me several minutes and 6 missiles to down) and two squads of three Retro Talons. Luckily I burn through both squads with only taking moderate damage.

I'm down to 3 missiles, several of my systems are moderately damaged, and my rear armor is almost completely gone. I hit the last point, and there's a squad of three Pirate Talons. Need to even the odds fast - lock the nearest one and fire two missiles at the same time, and he goes up in flames instantly. The other two start pounding on me, and I jink around while stuttering the afterburner to throw off their shots, and do a couple head on passes with both of them. I nail through one of their shields and their cockpit section and port wing go into the red. That'll give me a moment free from him, so I tap the afterburners and get onto the third Talon's tail. I fire my meson cannons into him, and drop the rear shields... and boom! He's gone.

Suddenly, my cockpit starts sparking, my radar is filled with static, and my rear armor is completely gone. My shields are completely gone. I check the damage, and almost everything is dark orange - including my maneuvering thrusters. I've dropped from 300km/s to 70 km/s. I slowly lumber my Tarsus around towards the final enemy, and I see him looping around for a final run. Full armor in the front, so I go to a dead stop (not like I could outmaneuver anyway) and he starts flying towards me, head on. I open up a few seconds before he's in range, and hammer down his shields. Several of his shots hit me - more sparks, my front armor is almost gone - and he veers off to the side early as my cannons smash into his armor.

I fire my last missile, and it unfortunately strikes him in the rear... setting his engines to red, but he's still alive. I barely maneuver in time and fire a string of shots at maximum range as he's beginning to loop around for the kill run, and somehow one of them hits and he explodes.

:D It was an intense dogfight. I limp back to the nearest station (thankfully running into no enemies on the way), get my paycheck, and upgrade to a shiny new Centurion.

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Wing Commander: Privateer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:30:38 pm

Quote from: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 11:34:01 am

Sent a single Flagship CnC Dreadnought armed with my best technology against an enemy fleet. It killed 5 enemy dreadnoughts and distracted them long enough for my cloaked biowar cruisers to launch their payload and hit the enemy world with an assimilation plague. A few turns later, their homeworld was mine.

GAME. PLEASE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 05:49:53 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:30:38 pm

Quote from: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 11:34:01 am

Sent a single Flagship CnC Dreadnought armed with my best technology against an enemy fleet. It killed 5 enemy dreadnoughts and distracted them long enough for my cloaked biowar cruisers to launch their payload and hit the enemy world with an assimilation plague. A few turns later, their homeworld was mine.

GAME. PLEASE.

Sword of the Stars 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:53:42 pm

THANK YOU   :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 05:56:56 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:53:42 pm

THANK YOU   :)

Any time. The game is fantastic... and cheap on Steam right now. $20 for the game + all expansions.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/42890/?snr=1_4_4__13 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/42890/?snr=1_4_4__13)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:59:49 pm

I got it even cheaper in the week before the sequel came out  :P

Haven't gotten very far into it, so I didn't recognize the stuff you were talking about.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on November 07, 2011, 06:02:15 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 07, 2011, 05:59:49 pm

I got it even cheaper in the week before the sequel came out  :P

Haven't gotten very far into it, so I didn't recognize the stuff you were talking about.

Hit me up in PM if you ever want to try your hand at a game. I play multiplayer sometimes, though I am far from an expert.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on November 07, 2011, 06:36:04 pm

19 Kills, one death, 20 shots total fired.

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Battlefield 3 Multiplayer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on November 07, 2011, 07:19:43 pm

Quote from: hemmingjay on November 07, 2011, 06:36:04 pm

19 Kills, one death, 20 shots total fired.

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Battlefield 3 Multiplayer

So you shot yourself with the 20th bullet? :v
Just kidding, that's fuggin pro!

Also, this one time where I was playing Hammerfight, I hit an enemy so hard that the slowmo actually reversed time (it has happened more than once, don't know what triggers it). Feelsgoodman. C:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on November 09, 2011, 10:35:08 pm

Wave 65: Branderburg Blitz. Yep, it's gonna be a bad day.
Wave 66: Branderburg Blitz. Yep, it's gonna be a bad day.


And I survive it with only one death, and that was the soldier in front of the gunners as a bullet soak anyway.

(Branderburgs are Infiltrators that come on from the side of the map, carry the WW2 German Early Assault Rifle and have near demonic accuracy. One Blitz is usually enough to take out my defences, two in a row is both horrifically unlucky and probably an Instakill in usual circumstances.)

Mud and Blood 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on November 09, 2011, 11:52:00 pm

Playing Dungeons and Dragons Online. Trying to range a beholder. Using a longbow, which only crit on a natural 20, once they are confirmed. Using a longbow which does 2d6 holy damage per shot, with arrows that do 1d6 fire damage. Turn on multi-shot to shoot double arrows for 20 seconds. Pop out of cover and instantly make my saves against two Finger of Death's that the beholders love to spam. Fire off my shots and pray for no anti-magic cone. First four arrows are criticals, all my extra damage dice for arrows and such are coming out 5's and 6's. I killed it in five seconds flat, where a normal fight with one leaves me dead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 12, 2011, 01:26:06 pm

Shot a pregnant girl, blew up a fledgling proto-planet, then discovered I had a bounty of about 225,000¢ for murdering a religious leader.

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Wild Arms 3 finale. The pregnant girl is the main villan whom you fight at the start of the final boss chain, the proto-planet was what she gave birth to(and is the final boss).

And no, I didn't kill the religious leader, she did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: loose nut on November 14, 2011, 02:39:36 pm

Finished what was nearly the Frenchest possible game of Civ IV: BTS. As De Gaulle, won a diplomatic-by-force victory after bringing civilization to the backwards Holy Roman Empire and even more backwards, barely-iron-age Japanese. Ran State Property of course. Finished the Eiffel Tower just as I won the game. The only way it would have been Frencher is if I had vassalized England, Germany, Spain, and Vietnam instead of Egypt (peacefully), Carthage, HRE, and Japan. Also if I had run Free Religion (but I had to be buddies with Saladin probably to score the diplo win). Satisfying!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolf Tengu on November 16, 2011, 03:43:04 pm

I've just steamrollered the zulu pikemen with my T-34's.

Civ:Revelution. I never knew this kind of game could be so much fun!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on November 17, 2011, 02:07:45 am

Naked and completely blazed on weed, booze, or I'm-really-not-sure-what, I ignored all of my guns and kung-fu'd the fuck out of some European gangers with some buddies.  Then they had this GIANT guy came out with a minigun, and I decided that was enough.  Brought out some dual P90-knockoffs and a molotov cocktail, set him on fire, emptied like two mags from each into his face, and then forcefed him a grenade.

Saint's Row 3~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolf Tengu on November 17, 2011, 03:01:05 am

Quote from: Farce on November 17, 2011, 02:07:45 am

Naked and completely blazed on weed, booze, or I'm-really-not-sure-what, I ignored all of my guns and kung-fu'd the fuck out of some European gangers with some buddies.  Then they had this GIANT guy came out with a minigun, and I decided that was enough.  Brought out some dual P90-knockoffs and a molotov cocktail, set him on fire, emptied like two mags from each into his face, and then forcefed him a grenade.

Saint's Row 3~

Well, that's hardly friendly. He probably just wanted a sammich.

Anyhow, I just beat this big fluffy Igor...guy...thing. Using missiles, and some sort of blaster pistol. Couldn't touch me!

Cave Story 3D.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on November 17, 2011, 03:02:19 am

I listened to Skyrim's soundtrack.

You can't own any harder than that :3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 17, 2011, 03:02:44 am

Quote from: Wolf Tengu on November 17, 2011, 03:01:05 am

Cave Story 3D.

What.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on November 17, 2011, 03:03:03 am

Got 37 kills during our last Deathwatch game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on November 17, 2011, 03:12:08 am

Turn 1, enemy movement battle : Hannibal defeated.

(RTW with SPQR mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 17, 2011, 05:21:14 am

Got perfect three times in a row vs. Vanilla Ice with Kakyoin.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.

Vanilla Ice and his stand Cream hit like a truck if they get a hit in, but as long as I avoid it I'm alright. Kakyoin's floaty playstyle and his ranged attacks are ideal for avoiding Vanilla's moves. That said, if he gets a hit in you don't get PERFECT! and his hits deplete around a quarter of your health, and about 7/8ths of your Stand's health.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Samio on November 17, 2011, 10:48:39 pm

Quote from: Stworca on November 17, 2011, 03:12:08 am

Turn 1, enemy movement battle : Hannibal defeated.

(RTW with SPQR mod)

That's hardly a surprise, Stworca, you are sorta amazing at that game.
On my end, drove a jeep into enemy territory with a full party, got it disabled by a helicopter, jumped out, ran for cover, had the jeep explode(!) and then saw my AA guy's head get blown off by a sniper. Proceeded to shoot said sniper dead with a pistol and fire a stinger at the helicopter, sending it tumbling to the ground.

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Battlefield 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Seriyu on November 17, 2011, 11:54:59 pm

I just beat up three spiders that were attacking me at the same time with my bare hands. (In single player)

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Minecraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: zestorum on November 18, 2011, 09:56:10 am

Squashing my enemies with falling blocks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 18, 2011, 10:04:32 am

Ruining a huge sniper tower that practically the whole of the other team was in. Snuck up using a trench, then took out the four rickety posts and nearly 10 players fell to their doom. Of course, even if I cause a death by falling, i don't get credited... so not so good there.



Ace of Spades

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 3 on November 18, 2011, 10:09:04 am

Quote from: Reudh on November 17, 2011, 05:21:14 am

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.

That game could so much do with better singleplayer. The PS1 Jojo SP mode + HftF would be amazing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 18, 2011, 11:00:27 am

I like playing as the glitch character. Confused my brother when he first saw it, because he selected Iggi and the glitch character morphed him into Vanilla Ice. Funnier was he'd get confused because when I used the specials of this glitch character (THink if Vanilla Ice and Missingno had a lovechild) things would get stuck on the ground. The way Glitchy Ice plays is about half way between Ice and Polnareff. :P

This is a similar glitch to what I'm describing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJqaWve_-KA)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 19, 2011, 03:41:54 pm

No clue if this is the best thread to post this, but I'll do it anyways.

Me and a friend were playing the Spec Ops for Modern Warfare 2, one of the early missions were you have to kill swarms of enemies. Having died in that mission several times, having never played Modern Warfare 2 before, I eventually hit on a foolproof way to win the mission. I basically grabbed an infrared sniper rifle and camped a choke point at the edge of the map. My friend used an assault rifle and rampaged throughout the restaurant that I was hiding behind (which also helped to protect my back). Eventually he would get overwhelmed and start to bleed out. Amusingly, while bleeding out, you can still move around a bit, though rather slowly. Thus, whenever my friend was bleeding out, he would scoot the 10~15 meters towards me on his ass. After being revived he would then run back into the restaurant to repeat the cycle again. I can only imagine what the people who wash the military's clothes think...

If you're wondering, we finally managed to win that mission. It took several moments of badassery, such as stabbing two enemy soldiers, while at low health, while your friend is bleeding out all over the floor. I suppose that what troubled us before was that we'd always hang out in the restaurant proper, leading to deadly crossfires and want not. Who would have guessed that camping is a viable strategy in Call of Duty?  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Alg on November 28, 2011, 10:28:08 am

The Empire had been at war with the kingdom of Sarleon for a loooooong time and I was pretty much the only Empire lord who wasn't constantly crushed by the enemy. Actually I regularly trounced them and made quite a lot of money by capturing isolated enemy lords and getting ransom for them. Marshalls were changed constantly (usually after being captured by the enemy), each one failing harder than before and castles were falling one after the other. Finally, the Imperator wises up and says "Hey that guy has been the only one successful in this damn war, maybe he knows what he's doing". So I was appointed marshall. Almost instantly, peace was signed. 8)

Can't help but picturing the negociations being :
-Please guys, you have already 3 of our castles, just sign the damn peace treaty.
-NEVER, WE WILL CRUSH YOU AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD
-'Kay, whatever, but guess who is our war leader now?
-...alright let's make peace.

Problem is, I have no idea what I'll do with my badass army now that I have no enemies to capture/ransom/loot.

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Mount&Blade : Warbands, Prophesy of Pendor mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on November 29, 2011, 10:52:37 pm

Using my wooden trashcan shaped flying machine in an arena against similar things.  It was me vs 2 others the farthest one away threw a really big bomb while the other one charged at me with a blade.

I used my momentum to swing my own axe blade around knocking the charging opponent into his buddy's big bomb, it exploded and the force blew the poor guy off screen in the space of 3 frames completely stunned and at a parabolic trajectory  I expect him to be dead.  I focus on the one that threw the bomb, eventually smashing him into the ground and stunning him for a time, and getting ready to capitalize when the guy that got hit by the bomb (the map wraps around) comes flying in from the other direction, still stunned and smashes into the other opponent on the ground at the same speed he left the screen at.

The explosion was glorious, they both die.  I win.

Hammerfight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JamesCorella on November 30, 2011, 03:26:55 am

Assaulting The walls of Uxkhal with my ELITE army :D

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 (http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad346/JamesCorella/mb_warbandhugewar.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NobodyPro on November 30, 2011, 06:11:10 pm

Stalking the cliffs above the road I see my prey. A lone man, armed and hostile. I quickly jump to a better vantage point as he gets closer.
Then I jump. I conjure a sword as I fall.
He spins to face me as I land. I crouch out of the way of his swing and thrust my pulsing blade through his chest. His soul is mine.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on November 30, 2011, 07:57:26 pm

Quote from: NobodyPro on November 30, 2011, 06:11:10 pm

Stalking the cliffs above the road I see my prey. A lone man, armed and hostile. I quickly jump to a better vantage point as he gets closer.
Then I jump. I conjure a sword as I fall.
He spins to face me as I land. I crouch out of the way of his swing and thrust my pulsing blade through his chest. His soul is mine.

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Skyrim

I thought you couldn't cast spells in mid air? Or dodge attacks by simply crouching (sneaking)?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 30, 2011, 08:00:42 pm

A. Poetic license
B. I'm not sure if it hold true in Skyrim but in Oblivion you could cast spells in mid air so long as you had at least 25 Acrobatics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on November 30, 2011, 08:05:30 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 30, 2011, 08:00:42 pm

A. Poetic license
B. I'm not sure if it hold true in Skyrim but in Oblivion you could cast spells in mid air so long as you had at least 25 Acrobatics.

I know about casting in mid air in Oblivion, but this is Skyrim. Acrobatics isn't a skill in Skyrim, nor are there any perks anywhere that allow you to cast spells in mid air :P.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eagle_eye on November 30, 2011, 08:41:39 pm

I get knocked out by a couched lance that deals 370 damage (I have around 90 health), so I'm locked out of giving orders for the battle. The enemy's horse goes around my archer line and charges them from the back. The archers kill every single one of them with no casualties.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: fred1248 on November 30, 2011, 08:45:18 pm

Killed a raider boss who was armed with a high tech exosuit and a combuster hammer with my friend. I fried that f**ker alive with my tesla gauntlet.

Edit: HellMOO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 30, 2011, 08:46:26 pm

Read the OP or don't post.

plskthxbai

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: fred1248 on November 30, 2011, 08:51:00 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 30, 2011, 08:46:26 pm

Read the OP or don't post.

plskthxbai

Sorry. Fixed my post

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 30, 2011, 08:52:44 pm

Thank you. That tesla gauntlet sounded interesting  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on November 30, 2011, 09:01:54 pm

Used a bow with a cheathax Silent Moons Enchant up to 600 damage, at night.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on November 30, 2011, 09:08:13 pm

Hurr durr, let's go into this shop. Oh hey djinn that followed me in OH MY GOD WHY AM I DYING EAT WAND OF TELEPORT oh sorry there shopkeeper i didn't mean to hit you oh shit why are you punching me

Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 30, 2011, 09:13:19 pm

Hmm, not sure this is literally the last time I owned in a game, but it's probably the thing I'm most proud of.  And not all that long ago anyway.

I beat the first four Megaman X games while getting the least amount of upgrades possible and never using boss weaknesses.  That probably doesn't sound all that hard, but I suggest anyone who is familiar with the games to give it a try.  The first two in particular are quite brutal when trying this.  Sigma is a grueling fight when you can only take a couple of hits without dying.

If you're proficient at the games, you'll probably cruise up to Sigma like I did.  Then the game just kind of kicks you in the nuts.  X3 in particular was bad here, it took me a while to figure out how to dodge Sigma's attacks without airdashing.  I literally thought it was impossible for a while.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on December 01, 2011, 01:12:45 pm

Came upon a small camp in the wilds nestled in the hollow of a rocky overhang. I counted 5 people, all outlaw mages. Most of the people were asleep with one on watch.

I walked in and opened with a lightningbolt to the face of the one on guard which quickly alerted his companions. I finished him with channeled two-fisted lightning and quickly raised his corpse before it struck the ground. He immediately summoned a fire elemental and set upon his slowly awakening companions. I turned to the next and dual-cast a lightning bolt which shattered the ward he had hastily thrown up and felled him where he stood. The other three mages were by this time exchanging fire with the zombie mage I had raised and his summoned elemental.

I moved in to assist and switched to fireballs. Charging a fireball in each hand, I loosed them in a spread intended to catch all three enemy mages. They both detonated more or less simultaneously and did a bit more damage than I intended, blasting all 3 enemy mages as well as my raised zombie clear out of the light of the campfire, I never found their corpses and they likely flew off a nearby cliff.

As the dust cleared, I walk calmly over to the chest nearby and open it up. A poorly-placed trap flings a dart over my head and I escape with tasty loot. Take that outlaws!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim, of course. My 3rd playthrough, this time as 100% mage on master difficulty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2011, 01:29:30 pm

I had figured 20mm Flak guns would do wonderful things to infantry, but goddamn.

Belgium assault against Germany, playing as Germany. I had one rifle platoon, a single fortified AT gun emplacement, a infantry-support tank section(two tanks), a 20mm Flak section(two units as well), a mortar group, one 155mm gun, and a two-man FO unit. They had about 8 companies of Riflemen and Engineers(I think that's a full division?), 8 light tanks for infantry support, and a single offboard 77mm battery.

They lost 217 men and 4 tanks, I lost three men. Two were from one squad that I accidentally moved out of cover, the other was one of the Flak gun crewmen. And one of the tanks had a gun malfunction. About half of their casualties were from the Flak guns, both of which were covering my entire southern flank by themselves, and most the rest of the kills were from my 155mm arty. There were three groups of objectives, two were clustered together so I concentrated my forces there. The Flak guns kept the enemy off the the southern group, until they were blinded by smoke from their 77mm battery(which was otherwise a terrible shot). And even then, they were stopped from taking the spot by a few mines I had the foresight to place. As if I was going to leave such an open gap in my defenses without having a little surpise for them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Steel Panthers: World at War. Granted, if the battle had gone on longer than the 15 turns it was set to last, they would have eventually overrun me by sheer numbers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on December 03, 2011, 01:39:16 pm

I cast Water Bolt at the Wall of Flesh!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Taricus on December 03, 2011, 06:51:29 pm

Repeatedly killed people through stone walls. Without hacking, by the way.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

King Arthur's gold. I aimed at the seams of the stone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hitty40 on December 04, 2011, 12:26:57 am

I knew about how much I was gonna lose, but I took the risk.

Played X2, jumped into my Collosus, maxed out its' shields, put weapons in its' gun slots, told the 1st Devil Regiment to hold position at a jumpgate near a Xenon sector. The plan was for me to jump in with 30 fighters, a mix of M3's and M4's, and have whatever is in there close in on us, while having the 2nd Devil Platoon, accomponied by 2 Teladi M1's, jump in from the other side, and destroy their factories and shipyards. Well, we jumped in, and somehow I ordered the Platoon to jump in first, so they pretty much swarmed them. As I'm facepalming, I just say 'fuck it' and order the 1st Regiment to assist the 2nd, and I began to attack the stations, using my own hanger fighters, all M5 discoverers, to help me take out the factories.

In the end, we won, but it came at a pretty steep price for my fleet: 12 M4's 7 M3's, and both of my M1's. I think what helped me was that some of my M3's had Hornet missiles. On top of that, it's gonna cost me a few mil to replace EVERYTHING they had. But hey, the good thing is that I now own my own system.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on December 04, 2011, 12:48:01 am

Walked one man outside the dropship, fired three rounds, all hit xenos, one turn mission over.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

X-Com, on Superhuman, the game then proceeded to punish me by doing 2 terror missions in one month

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: zehive on December 04, 2011, 01:26:41 am

It was the dead of night. Wind wisped past. The smell of clear, cool air and frozen country side seemed to fill and chill my being. I was silently moving through the bushes on a rocky pass, the cliff just a bare few feet from the path, I kept on the side away. I knew this path was dangerous. Both in make of the path and the company that travels it. Rocks always shift beneath your feet, or tumble from high above. And in these vast canyons you could sometimes hear a faint, far away cry. And tremble, for you knew that somewhere in that horrible expanse one of the dov were unleashing a torrent of flame on a new victim. And you wondered, what if next time that victim is you. To add to the dangers, the men inhabiting these lands were as wild and dangerous as the Dragons who called it "home", and these vicious killers always frequented these frozen paths. Hoping to find a new prize to take home. A purse of gold, your head or, if they were a lover of the arcane arts, your soul.

As these thoughts tortured my mind, I noticed a faint glow coming from down the path. I saw torches ahead. Bandits were approaching. I knew they would see me, they would try to kill me. Destroy me. There was no cover, nowhere to hide. I couldn't avoid this encounter. What else could I do but stand and make myself known, and face this rabble of senseless violence. Honour and pride demanded that I meet them. I moved quietly to the centre of the path, keeping my weapons sheathed. They slowly approached, slowly coming into view. They came closer, and the glow from their torches grew on my face. As they spotted me, they drew their weapons and formed deadly grins on their wicked faces. Then, as though imbued with the collective rage and greed of generations of poor and sickly ancestors, oppressed by a horrible system that makes men despise another, they broke into a full sprint directly at mFUS RO DAH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 26, 2011, 01:08:27 pm

Hit an MiB in the balls. With his car. And it was pretty hard, too. Hard enough to deflect the car, causing it to flip over his partner, missing him completely(I meant to hit both of them). The guy I hit died, though. Then I disintegrated his partner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Destroy All Humans. Psycokinesis makes cars into effective weapons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chaoswizkid on December 30, 2011, 11:25:19 pm

Set up north of Sedan with my squadmates, trying to spot incoming enemy tanks on the west side of the river (the city was contested, we owned the east side, they owned the west). The enemy came around the riverbend further north to flank our holdings. I dropped to the ground, laid next to a tree and downed four moving infantry at 300 meters with my ironsights and took out an enemy AT gun they had brought up. Unfortunately I was flanked and killed.

Respawned, went back north and set up in a ditch on the side of the hill overlooking the enemy's northern advance. Over the course of 18 minutes, shot and killed 11 enemy infantry (also at about 300 meters) and wounded one. I was again eventually flanked, because I was the only one that far north.

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World War II Online: Battleground Europe. Was playing as the Axis, both spawns were as a rifleman with a bolt-action rifle with iron sights, no crosshairs to assist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jervous on December 31, 2011, 01:02:08 am

Alright, so I'm playing Skyrim right? You know, arrows in the knee and sweetrolls and other hilarious things people say? They're in that game! Anyway, spoilers ahead for a quest. I take bounties a lot and I got this one to massacre this bandit chief in a cave. Simple, right? Well basically the guy was a captain of this crew or something, who gives a shit I killed them all. At the same time I was doing this quest for this argonian, where I have to help them crash a ship or something so they can loot it and steal everything because they are dirty rotten thieving argonians. I find the captain's journal and it actually tells me about that same argonian, and it's saying they're looking for a scapegoat for their next scheme! It was obviously going to be me, so I followed through with the quest anyway and crashed the ship.

When I got to the location of the ship, the same pirate crew was there but they were all super nice to me because I was basically their accomplice right now. But not for long I figured. So I trapped the entire ship with fire runes because I just KNEW they were going to kill me. They tried and failed. Another dirty rotten argonian had a note on her saying that the other argonian was supposed to stash the loot at that SAME CAVE the pirate crew was hiding in. LITTLE DID HE KNOW HE WOULD HAVE NO PIRATES TO PROTECT HIM THERE, HAR HAR

He died unloved and alone in a dirty hole like a reptile thing.

WAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 02, 2012, 01:47:31 pm

There are few games that make me want to destroy me TV, and almost actively attempt to. The Armored Core series is one of them. Anyway, I finally get to the final mission of AC3.

Spoiler: Ending spoilers (click to show/hide)

The unusual architecture and the music of the Controller's hub show, for better or worse, that something thing is about to happen. Two ACs come up on my flanks, but they go down easily. I finally get to the Controller itself. I blow open its protective wall. I destroy the reactor powering the Controller. And with its last action, the Controller opens a path to Earth's surface.

Hell yes, awesome win. I went in with a tread-legged heavy AC armed with a bazooka equipped on my hand, and a plasma cannon and pulse cannon on my shoulders, built primarily for killing other ACs.


Oh, in another game, I jumped out of a helicopter onto a boat. The boat's driver panicked, and tried to jump in the water, but I shot him instead.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA: Vice City. Hijacked a boat for the hell of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 28, 2012, 12:22:00 pm

Bumping, because I shot down an AC10 Thunderbolt in a Hind.

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Operation Flashpoint:CWC. Dicking around in the mission editor, I made scenario where a flight of three AC10s would attack a large force of Soviet troops. Two got shot down by the Shilkas, not sure how they missed the third. I, the Soviet colonel with a grenade launcher, got into a helicopter, tracked the AC10 down, and fired at it until the pilot ejected. Followed the parachute down, gunning the pilot, then to make sure he was dead, dropped rockets onto where he landed. Then I rocket-strafed my troops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: klingon13524 on January 28, 2012, 04:17:53 pm

About 1/3 of the memorable moments in Spelunky. the other 2/3 are YASDs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on January 28, 2012, 07:33:13 pm

Deidrianna sent 12 guys to steal Drassen's Airport from me.  So I sent 2 and shot them all in the middle of the night - a sneaky sniper (with no rifle yet :\) and a night operative.

The night op got shot and went to like 2-hp-from-dead, but the sniper immediately turned around, blasted the dude, and patched her up before she could even think about kicking the bucket.

Got some militia there, now, so hopefully that bloody rifle gets here soon.

I suppose the time my demoman, all alone in the middle sector of town training militia, got attacked counts too.  Only a couple lame grenades and stun grenades left for him, but he managed to kill 4 dudes without the aid of night or silencers with them and his rifle.

Jagged Alliance 2 1.13.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on January 28, 2012, 07:45:10 pm

Took out a total of 38 enemy warships with a 5-ship cruiser group supported in the inital JP assault by an 8-ship missile frigate group, all in roughly six minutes, with nothing more than minor armor damage to my CLs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aurora

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on January 31, 2012, 05:25:31 pm

I (playing as the English) got tired of the Milanese constantly harassing me and the Pope telling me he'd excommunicate me if I fought back.  So I took the deepest revenge I could get.  The beautiful city of Milan (which I took a while ago) I have thus re-christened as the mighty city of "New Britishburg" to the disgust of all of Europe.

Strangely is the French who keep laying siege to it now.  Maybe it offends their sensibilities?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medieval 2: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on January 31, 2012, 06:52:39 pm

So like, I was playing Mount and Blade: Warband, and just got into a fight. Hawses vs hawses. So obviously, I take a potshot at the approaching group with my dismal crossbow skill from a really long distance (crosshair was several times larger than the whole horse, with a lot of air between riders). Cue the bolt striking an enemy right in the fucking face, killing him instantly and sending his hawse galloping madly around the battlefield, because its rider just flopped off like a dead fish. I swear it was the most glorious thing I ever saw from that game. Plus I got like 12 crossbow levels with that single potshot. GLORY.

That's not the most recent one, though. Nay! Most recently, I beat dark chapter 5 in Super Crossfire on ace difficulty. GLORY.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 31, 2012, 08:49:47 pm

Got ambushed by a pack of wolves while trying to find an entrance to a fortress. Cue one-shotting half the pack with my great axe.

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Dwarf Fortress Adventurer mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on January 31, 2012, 09:10:21 pm

Hammerfight is full of these. Most recently, I rammed myself into the point of an enemy's sword so hard that he exploded. Somehow, I came out unscathed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lord Dakoth on January 31, 2012, 11:17:39 pm

I was playing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (yes, that is a real game) with my brother on the Wii. He was playing as Vegeta and I was playing as Krillin. He was kicking my ass, and decided to transform into a Great Ape to rub his victory in my face. The transformation gave him a big enough hitbox so that I could hit with my Destructo-Disc super move. Pwnage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Orangebottle on February 01, 2012, 01:30:43 am

I set my DPI to 100 in Hammerfight, then took out a huge mace and started swinging.
Queue hitting an enemy so hard slowmo starts, then getting more slowmo by exploding everybody else in one hit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 01, 2012, 10:20:24 am

Quote from: Orangebottle on February 01, 2012, 01:30:43 am

I set my DPI to 100 in Hammerfight, then took out a huge mace and started swinging.
Queue hitting an enemy so hard slowmo starts, then getting more slowmo by exploding everybody else in one hit.

Hahaha a friend of mine noticed that hammerfight was detecting the analogs his old PS1 controllers hooked up to his PC as two extra mice.  First thing he did was accidentally ram into that other guy in the first plot mission bodily so hard that he flew off the screen.  And no, he dd not lead with the weapon.  When I saw it I started cracking up.

Hammerfight does seem to respond oddly to unusual mouse settings or unexpected equipment.  But at least it's a funny oddly and not a oh god horrible crash oddly.  (Well there IS crashing involved, just not computer crashing)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on February 01, 2012, 10:26:45 am

Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 31, 2012, 11:17:39 pm

I was playing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (yes, that is a real game) with my brother on the Wii. He was playing as Vegeta and I was playing as Krillin. He was kicking my ass, and decided to transform into a Great Ape to rub his victory in my face. The transformation gave him a big enough hitbox so that I could hit with my Destructo-Disc super move. Pwnage.

With the hitboxes and slow speed of great apes along with the unblockability of the disc, it's not really surprising that you won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RedKing on February 01, 2012, 10:56:35 am

Finished off the Destroyer with a flurry of berserk explosive punches.

--Borderlands, playing as Brick.

Yes, I literally punched out Cthulhu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu).  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 04, 2012, 02:38:29 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/6MhLO.png)

Spoiler: A semi-legitimate screenshot from Pokemon Gold. Open spoiler to see explaination of "semi" (click to show/hide)

Inspired by the Bulbapedia article about using the bad clone glitch to aquire Celebi (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Celebi_egg_glitch) and my own attempts at polymorphing Pokemon with a memory editor, I figured out how to change what an egg will hatch into. I even took it further by successfully polymorphing Pokemon into eggs.

I learned that:

• Changing what will hatch does not change the egg moves.
• Polymorphing eggs, the hatched Pokemon will have the same moves, level, held items(the egg still holds it as well), and gender(I think), as whatever you morphed into the egg. Stats, stat growth, and learned moves, are handled properly. Unknown if OT information is kept, or if Unown lettering is kept.
• Eggs will have the same (nick)name of the original Pokemon., rather than EGG.
• Polymorphed eggs take a much longer time to hatch than eggs received from Day Care, starting at "This egg needs a lot more time to hatch", which I don't recall even seeing on natural eggs.
  
• The Pokedex updates properly upon hatching, which was the problem with my original polymorphing.

Basically, each Pokemon in Gold/Silver/Crystal has two 8-bit variables that state what they are, ordered by old Pokedex mode(ie, Bulbasaur is 0x01, Mew is 0x97 - 151). Normally, these values are the same. But for eggs, the first one is 0xFD(253), 251 is Celebi, 252 and 254 are glitches, 255 is an empty slot I think. The second value is what it will hatch into. I'm assuming that they used two values simply for supporting eggs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 04, 2012, 02:57:11 pm

In Fortune Summoners, my party of three pre-teen girls utterly mopped the floor with three Orgs, taking minimal damage and scoring a massive 18-hit combo. The whole thing was over in less than a minute, and since I was wielding Org Slayer

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

and Sana had just been rescued from being eaten

it felt oh-so-satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on February 09, 2012, 09:23:22 am

First, I was experimenting on a clown. She overdosed on mutagen and space drugs, but got healed. Then, shortly after, a xenomorph came in and killed me. I was cloned, but THEN, Scott Hawker came in and tried to kill me. He got me down to critical, but a medic saved me. Me and the same medic went and chased him. He threw acid on us, but we cornered him and beat him to death. We then chucked his corpse into disposal. Soon after, I saw the warden arrest random people. Eventually he arrested me, but my chemist partner, Joesph Smith saved me, who was then arrested. Shortly after, he came back and arrested me. We were thrown in a prison cell together and eventually I said "When he comes in, disarm him". The warden didn't like this at all, and came in. I grabbed him by the neck and Joesph attacked him with his own stun baton. Eventually, he stopped fighting and succumbed to death. I grabbed his card and made my way off.

This is ownage for me, because I usually can't fight in SS13 for shit. And I broke out of the brig without a single wound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on February 10, 2012, 02:03:23 pm

As Rome in RTW+RSII, I took 3000 men to fight the Dacians. I used 3000 (1 stack) men to kill 6000 (3 full stacks), on the freaking attack and up a hill. Their forces were primarily cavalry and horse archers, mine were primarily heavy infantry. I win. You cannot say that that's not a feat.



...However, the game would beg to differ. It says this is an "Average" victory.

Really? I kill twice my number with troops not even suited for the job uphill and it's an average victory? I wreck 3/5 full stacks they have with just one and it's an average victory? I cause so many casualties that the AI decides by itself that it needs to GTFO without routing even when I'm on my last stretch and surrounded and that's an average victory? Urgh... game, you suck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 10, 2012, 02:07:32 pm

Well, if you only have ten guys after a fight like that, you still took a ton of casualties. They may still have several armies left, and you've got ten guys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on February 10, 2012, 04:00:01 pm

That still doesn't justify it being an "Average" victory.

And still, I had another stack waiting to fight further (but they could not reach that fight in the same turn I started it, which is why they were not involved).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 10, 2012, 04:37:17 pm

Well, who knows what the criteria are? Maybe you took too long, or something.

I have a similar story from Medieval II: Total War (before I ragequit the game due to every other faction turning against me simultaneously for some reason). I had a small army composed almost exclusively of mercenaries garrisoning a city in Northern France. I was at war with France at the time, and I noticed a slightly smaller army massing on the edges of my vision. The army included ballistae, so I knew that they were going to attack me. I sent the entire garrison, consisting of 5 units of spearmen, 2 units of crossbow-men, and a single heavy cavalry unit, to either drive them off or kill them, only to find out that another, far larger army was lurking within range to join the battle.

By good fortune, I began the battle on a reasonably steep hilltop in the middle of the map. I knew that I would be surrounded and badly out-numbered, so what did I do?
"Spearmen, form circles!"
"Crossbow-men, in the middle! Fire at will!"
"Cavalry, into the woods!"

With the spearmen circles surrounding the ranged units, the enemy infantry and light cavalry were unable to find a weak spot to exploit, and they died by the dozens. When enemy bowmen or ballistae approached to try and cut my units down, the heavy cavalry ran them over, often before the siege units could get a single shot off. Victory was ours, and the mercenaries returned to the city to recover.

These same mercenaries would prove themselves again in two consecutive battles a few years later, when their city was over-run by the perfidious French. The French had brought more ballistae, and their power was enough to bring the walls down. The mercenaries fought hard, but were forced to retreat out of the city. In desperation, they attacked the French next season while the walls were still broken, pouring through and massacring every enemy soldier in a meatgrinder battle to the town square. Something like a tenth of the mercenaries were still alive after those two fights. In my mind, every single one of them earned medals and gold several times over.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on February 10, 2012, 07:05:48 pm

Three-hour Scottish Blitzkrieg. Started with Ireland and Scotland, ended up with all of Scandinavia, Denmark, Great Britain, and the northern coast of  France. Now my only problems are that I lack a heir, and the fact that I was expanding so rapidly I haven't been able to upgrade any of my towns at all.

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Knights of Honour, which greatly lessens the impact of my Blitzkrieg considerably. If it helps, all of the battles were done with auto-resolve.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 10, 2012, 10:42:41 pm

Quote from: Tarran on February 10, 2012, 04:00:01 pm

That still doesn't justify it being an "Average" victory.

And still, I had another stack waiting to fight further (but they could not reach that fight in the same turn I started it, which is why they were not involved).

I remember Stworca's R:TW Let's Play. By the end of the game, he was winning fights with ~3000 to ~30 casualties. The game's assessment, every single time? "Close Victory".  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 10, 2012, 11:21:06 pm

Using Lex, I finally took down the Dustflier.


The Dustflier is easily the most difficult boss in the game, more so than all four phases of the final boss combined. If you manage to get hit by the first or second flame of his 'meteor strike' attack, you will lose ALL of your HP; the only thing that would keep you in is if you've got Autolife Level 3 or higher. Dustflier also has a stomping move that is difficult to avoid if you're not A. Fast, B. have Glide/Float or C. are far away when Dustflier begins the move. If you're hit by it, it doesn't do horrible damage, but it inflicts a random status condition 100% of the time.

Lexaeus is the slowest player. By far, he's a Mighty Glacier. His HP, Attack, Defense are all through the roof; his Attack Speed and Magic are the lowest possible. A single combo from Lex against most normal mobs (even the higher leveled ones) is enough to take out a good four-five bars of health.

It was a near perfect fight. I was only hit once; only because Lex's dodge-roll is much slower than other characters; he took a light hit from one fireball and lost about a quarter of his HP - roughly 90 hp lost. The Dustflier eventually went down after a good twenty minutes of 'dodge, one or two hits, escape'... his defense is i think 999, so each attack does next to nothing.

It was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (pronounced 'Three-five-eight days over two) for the DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RaySmuckles on February 11, 2012, 01:24:25 am

Got Rogue Squadron 3D running in W7 x64 and fired up the first mission. First time playing in about 10 years.

Blew threw it using my keyboard as controller, got gold medal on first try. I was wasting probots at max vision - squeeze a couple rounds off, move to the next target, repeat, and I'd be firing at the third one before the first one exploded. Took out both squads of three TIEs at Mos Eisley with a few second squeeze each.

I remember this game being harder... either that or all these damn Star Wars novels are rubbing off on me.

(I know it's not terribly impressive, but it *felt* pretty awesome)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on February 13, 2012, 02:12:04 pm

I killed Benny with my bare hands in the tops by repeatedly spamming ranger takedown.

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on February 13, 2012, 06:06:22 pm

I took out the flag carrier as well as one or two of his teammates and wounded numerous others with one well-placed grenade. It's nice having nearly twice as many kills as you have deaths.

Tribes: Ascend.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Micro102 on February 13, 2012, 06:18:37 pm

Became Russia, converted the holy roman empire to orthodox, then became the emperor  ;D


EU3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on February 14, 2012, 05:54:05 pm

I drive my is-3 heavy tank strait up the middle road by the lake, ambush a sherman and a pz38na and kill them each with one shot. Round the corner to face off against a pair of kv-5 heavy, a T1 heavy and an assortment of medium tanks. I beat them down as dozens of rounds bounce harmlessly off my front glacias. The eastern front buckles and some of the enemy tanks move in behind me as they retreat from the rest of the team. They too bounce off my aft armor. I continue to brutalize the enemy tank squadron, taking fully half of them on alone and kill most of them off before the rest of my team can make it in to back me up, by that time my tank was slightly damaged as the attackers from the rear managed to score a few modest hits.

World of Tanks: It was a rare circumstance. Not one of the enemy team was able to penetrate my front armor, and not one of players I had pinned down was brave/intelligent enough to try flanking me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chaoswizkid on February 15, 2012, 01:43:18 am

Lead my 6 followers and 60-something member army, full of final tier Khergit and Sarranid cavalry units, to assault a castle. My archers and I (both being horse archers currently dismounted due to the siege) take down the enemy archers and crossbowmen on the walls. I follow my infantry up the siege ladders and proceed to headshot ~50 enemy infantry as they try to climb the stairs to the wall and enemy archers as they fire from the courtyard. I had to make several runs to grab arrows from slain archers to keep my ammunition up. I succeed against ~200 enemy soldiers, mostly recruits, and take around 15 actual casualties. Having a companion with high surgery is immensely useful.

So I take the castle, request that it be awarded to me, and sit still to rest.

A while later and two groups from different countries come by and lay siege to the castle. They are weak on their own, so I sally forth and annihilate them with my tired and wounded troops, taking out another hundred with a handful of casualties.

I return to the castle to rest my forces and pray that was the end of it.

Turns out the entire Vaegir army decided to pay me a visit.

Six hundred of the enemy wait outside my walls, eager for their siege ladders to be completed in order to assault the puny garrison. A messenger arrives and tells me that I am named marshal of the Khergit Khanate. My promotion seems silly in light of the situation. As the sun rises on the next day, the enemy attacks.

300 enemy troops assault my few-day-old captured fortress. My infantry sit at the entrance to the ladders, my archers pick off what they can, and I await their advance up.

So many headshots. I proceed to single-handedly take out around half of the enemy as my infantry forces a bottleneck which stalls the enemy on the ladder. One drops, the one behind advances and stops in his place, drops, and repeat. A factory of arrow-death, made all the more frantic due to the limited supply of arrows (ran out of my 64 arrows rather quickly, had to scavenge for arrows that were stuck in the crenelations). The last of the enemy, an archer, falls at the base of the ladder. The vast majority of the enemy lay dead, only a handful were wounded. I was ecstatic that I had won. I could have sworn there were around 600 soldiers, but only 300 had arrived. I deal with prisoners, the loot, and go back to the main screen.

I was right about the number the first time. I have around 20 soldiers against their 300 this time. If they can stall the enemy, I alone will take out their army. An entire wave advances up and dies, taking a couple of the defenders with it. Another wave attacks and falters. A third wave rushes up the ladders, breaks through the bottleneck and swarms my wounded soldiers. Armored infantry advance on me with spear and sword as I thread a few arrows into their helmets. I fall, unable to block all of the melee strikes with my trusty awlpike. I'm taken prisoner and left to rot in the castle I took a few days ago with the news that I am relieved of my station of Marshal and compensated for my 1 day(s) of service.

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Mount and Blade: Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 15, 2012, 03:20:08 am

To prepare for a larger campaign, two units of hastati (light infantry carrying tower shields, short swords, and two javelins each) left the walls of one of my cities to meet up with a general massing his forces. Along the way, they ran into a tiny rebel army, and so stopped to wipe them out. They prepared to move on when a comparatively massive force of nearly 1000 Gaul warriors descended upon them. A mere 300 hastati, versus such a warband? I was prepared to lose them gloriously.

The gods were smiling upon them however, for there was a tiny hill nearby, barely a bump in the plains. The soldiers were ordered to hold position on the hill and face the mighty host. As they approached, they noticed that the Gaul captain was front and center with his unit, and unleashed every javelin in their arsenal at the Gauls as they charged. The captain's unit broke rather quickly after taking so many casualties in a short time span, but there were still hundreds more of the barbarians. The hill, slight as it was, turned out to be the key factor in the battle and soon dozens of the foe were lying at the Romans' feet. They sounded the withdrawal and met up with the captain, who had recovered his wits at the base of the hill.

The two hastati units reformed at the very top of the hill in a chevron formation, which would hopefully keep them from being surrounded. The Gauls, taken by barbaric fury, charged up the hill and broke upon the wall of shields. The enemy captain soon lay dead, and the gauls began to rout. However, their long charge had left them exhausted, while the canny Romans had caught their breath. The warbands were ran down like dogs as they fled, and barely 50 of them escaped the wrath of Mars. Total losses for the Romans? 19 dead, 3 wounded.

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Rome: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on February 15, 2012, 09:45:32 am

Getting my underground giant butt kicked most of the game, keeping in by claiming some underwater terrain with my more flexible units and researching like crazy... learn to summon the oracles of the dept, start enliving statues with my Pretender God (9 Earth + boot = muhahha), while researching construction, rushing for a petrifying shield and sword, summon watcher of the death and send out my army of statues and stone that turn everything else into stone.

Managed to return onto the table of major powers until some rlyeh spawn mind blasted it (somehow). Crushes them with metal dragons, summoned the Riches of the Earth, build the Earth Blood well (for every bit of blood that flows in the world you get a handful of earth gems = more giant metal dragons and golems = more blood) and came from underdog to topdog.

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Dominions 3, the Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on February 15, 2012, 10:28:20 am

Quote from: Sirus on February 15, 2012, 03:20:08 am

-snip- -snip-

The two hastati units reformed at the very top of the hill in a chevron formation, which would hopefully keep them from being surrounded.
-snip-

How the hell does a chevron, an ARROW, this thing -> ^ prevent being surrounded? THAT MAKES NO SENSE

The last time I owned was in hateMOO. I went into Any Port, a popular idling location, and activated a nuclear suitcase bomb with a bunch of people staring at me. Killed a bunch of people including a guy who thought I was actively going after him.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 15, 2012, 07:55:16 pm

It's quite simple, really. A warband attempting to charge a chevron would impact on the "point", and the front-most warriors would be divided. The warriors in the back would spread out to try and get around my units, but would run into outward-facing shields and swords along the entire line, rather than getting around and attacking from behind. The other warbands would simply pile into the back of the first, and accomplish nothing. I guess the point isn't to avoid being surrounded, but to arrange your troops in a way that trying to surround is futile. It worked, and that's the most important thing.

A slightly less honorable moment of ownage occurred earlier today, also in Rome: Total War. My single assassin, who wasn't even very high-skilled, managed to murder the Gaul faction heir, three family members, and sabotage a town that I conquered a few turns later. I believe that his actions were what made the AI give me one of their few remaining cities in exchange for a temporary cease-fire. He is now headed to the Gaul capital, where the faction leader stays...

UPDATE: The Gaul king is dead, long live the Gaul king. This assassin terrifies me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on February 16, 2012, 07:54:12 am

My spy opens the gates of the barbarian city for my thousand-man army. I seem to have caught the defenders napping, as only one unit has arrived to defend the walls when my men begin to go through. I send in the two units of war dogs I have. Nigh-instantly, the barbarians break, and they are chewed down from 120 hale and hearty spearmen to one squeaking, stain-crotched Olympic sprinter before the enemy general wakes up. His retinue of chariots charge the dogs, killing twenty or so before they are bogged down in gore and the hounds leap upon their decks and tear them apart. The general himself catches a faceful of mastiff mid-charge, not even waiting to be mired in canines to get the party started with his ancestors. The remaining less-than-half of the retinue break and run back to the square, where the one remaining unit of barbarian spearmen are rather more gradually (and with much more dignity) worn down and defeated. The thousand men of the thousand-man army didn't even have to enter the city.

Rome: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 16, 2012, 06:42:47 pm

War dogs are awesome. Plain and simple. The only real downside is that you can't control them once released.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NinjaBoot on February 18, 2012, 03:36:13 am

Get Rome Total Realism, makes RTW playable >:)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 19, 2012, 05:28:40 pm

Playable? Wha? it works perfectly well as-is  ???

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on February 19, 2012, 09:20:16 pm

My companion was hacked and slashed to near death by bandits. I felt pity for him, so I used a permanent polymorph interaction just to stop him from dying. He proceeded to curbstomp every single bandit (polymorph spell was a bronze golem spell).

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on February 19, 2012, 09:20:31 pm

Massed tank assault against my weakened defenders. MLRS IS GO!

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Wargame: European Escelation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on February 23, 2012, 04:16:36 pm

That pole dancer and oversized creepy plush-bear have nothing on me. NOTHING!

And then I caught some fish.

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Persona 4.

Considering that 3 had the protagonists fight by simulating suicide and that one hotel sequence, and 2 had goddamn Hitler as the antagonist, I wonder what made the first one controversial

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Taricus on February 27, 2012, 08:18:56 pm

Playing King Arthur's gold, I throw a bomb right over my enemies. If goes over the few blocks covering their heads, landing RIGHT behind them. Caught them by surprise and blew them up without them even knowing the bomb was there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on February 27, 2012, 08:20:54 pm

Just sent 6 players to the Injured list in one game, managed to win despite being told we never had a chance. And only one Red Card!

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Football Manager 2012

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 28, 2012, 01:24:10 pm

Spent a hour or so realtime breaking into shops, stealing all the goods, shoving it into my wagon(which I stole from the first shop along with a horse) then going to the shops the next morning to sell everything back. Made about 20k gold in one night. That was fun.

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Daggerfall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Orangebottle on February 29, 2012, 12:31:29 am

Quote from: Darvi on February 23, 2012, 04:16:36 pm

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Persona 4.

Considering that 3 had the protagonists fight by simulating suicide and that one hotel sequence, and 2 had goddamn Hitler as the antagonist, I wonder what made the first one controversial

Yeah, persona 4 is so tame compared to three and two.
It just isn't the same when my character doesn't pretend to kill himself.


Also, I grabbed my chainsword and chopped my way through a horde of orks. The fun part is when I stun them, pick them up, and pretty much bisect them with my chainsword.

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Warhammer 40k: Space Marine

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on February 29, 2012, 09:10:33 pm

Nailing people in the face with a throwing axe in Mount & Blade never gets old.
Never.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on February 29, 2012, 11:05:42 pm

Quote from: jc6036 on February 29, 2012, 09:10:33 pm

Nailing people in the face with a throwing axe in Mount & Blade never gets old.
Never.

I agree, but I prefer javelins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 01, 2012, 02:34:09 am

Defeated Zombie Goku.

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Brawl Royale (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458245)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Orangebottle on March 01, 2012, 04:29:15 am

Was playing uplink earlier, had to hack into the criminal database because of a mission. So, I'm supposed to add a couple crimes to this guy's list, so here's what I set his conviction record to:

Murder
Grand Theft
Arson
That Tie

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on March 01, 2012, 11:28:10 am

I was in my T2 light tank, driving around at high speed, flying over hills, racing down narrow streets, committing drive by after drive by. Taking advantage of my awesome braking ability to suddenly park behind someone and unload a burst of auto cannon fire right into their weak spots, either killing them outright or taking >75% of their health before their turret gets a chance to swing around.

I got top gun and confederate in the same game. World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 01, 2012, 06:47:05 pm

I built a huge bunker that encompassed four stories and had a very wide field of view, but was very easy to avoid enemy fire. The centre was down a block, to move up to shoot one had to climb a block which would give one access to the windows- without moving up to the block one was entirely immune to enemy fire provided no blocks were destroyed.

Our entire team ended up using it and gaining the win while I snuck around in a two man team and repeatedly captured the other team's intel.

Ace of Spades, on the ENCLAVE N7 server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on March 03, 2012, 07:33:32 am

Playing my Blue/Black deck focusing on unblockable stuff with traces of snow cards thrown in there. My opponent is playing a Black/Red deck full of vampires that get stronger as they deal damage to me. Have had a bit of a rough game as he's put down two Cursed of Stalked Prey (http://magiccards.info/isd/en/136.html) on me, and have managed to get in a couple of early hits with it, leaving him with two semi-buffed Child of Night (http://magiccards.info/m12/en/87.html)s, a Markov Blademaster (http://magiccards.info/dka/en/96.html) that's going to screw me over if I let it through, and a Stromkirk Captain (http://magiccards.info/dka/en/143.html) that's just making everything worse. I only just managed to get any sort of respectable defense out, with a 4/4 Drift of the Dead (http://magiccards.info/cstd/en/25.html) and Guard Gomazoa (http://magiccards.info/cmd/en/49.html), as well as a Rimebound Dead (http://magiccards.info/cs/en/69.html). Even with that up, I can't hold out forever due to me being outnumbered, him getting metric fucktons of life through me having to block his Childs of Night, and me knowing he's going to get one of his destruction cards soon.

But hold! Luck smiles upon me, as my turn arrives and I draw Ashling the Extinguisher (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/33.html). Combined with the Infiltrator's Magemark (http://magiccards.info/gp/en/28.html) that's sitting on my hand, the battle begins to turn into my favor, as I play Ashling out for all my mana. My opponent knows he's going to get screwed by Ashling next round, so he decides to go for an all out assault. This proves to be a bad idea, as many of his vampires die with only getting a single one through, the only casualty on my side being the aforementioned Rimebound Dead that can't regenerate due to me having spent all my mana. With only two creatures remaining on his side as my turn arrives, I slap down the magemark on Ashling and hit him for five damage, causing him to sacrifice his stupidly large Child of Night in the process. Later I manage to draw a Cephalid Constable (http://magiccards.info/10e/en/72.html) and a Rime Transfusion (http://magiccards.info/cs/en/68.html), and he decides to concede just as I manage to use the two to return all the lands he controls to his hand, leaving me victorious.

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Magic: The Gathering. For the few people who haven't managed to figure that out yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mr. macduggan on March 04, 2012, 03:56:54 pm

20 backstabs in tf2 in one life  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 07, 2012, 04:42:42 am

Rome total war, Julii faction, normal campaign and battle difficulty.  My faction heir's mission is to subdue all of Gaul, by himself, with an army of rather equal amounts of hastati and barbarian mercenaries.  I've got half a stack ( +1 unit ) of hastati and mercenaries, just took a city.  My guy had done a number of battles, did reasonably well, but I usually had the number advantage, so I hardly counted them as victories. 

Anyway, I take the city, repair stuff, I just want to add more Hastati to my army ( and disband some mercenaries ) and then get back into the field.  Unfortunately, practically a full stack of Gallic warbands and skirmishers siege me.  I think, "Oh cruddy cruddy crud".  I'm outnumbered quite possibly two to one, worst odds I've been in. 

I play the battle, I do the usual "trap the enemy at the gates thing" causes quite a mass rout...but that was only about half their army.  The rest of them break a hole on the wall, and I pour my troops into a small corridor, between the stockade wall and a row of buildings.  By focusing my troop power on one enemy unit at a time, I got them to systematically rout.  Force concentration for the win! 

So I chase them out, unfortunately, a few of the enemies' morale returned, so I massed together my men into a blocky blob, and charge them, one by one, they all rout.  While this was happening, about two or three units of battered and almost depleted horsemen sneak into the settlement, and reach the circle.  The timer starts ticking, I make all my men ( except my faction heir, whose bodyguard is almost depleted ) charge.  About 40 seconds left, my men haven't even engaged, when the troop of horsemen holding the square routs.  He was so scared he ran without fighting. 

Heroic victory ( for me ) indeed. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on March 07, 2012, 05:29:01 pm

Quote from: mr. macduggan on March 04, 2012, 03:56:54 pm

20 backstabs in tf2 in one life  8)

So you're THAT GUY. . .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2012, 01:22:26 pm

Laughter is good for stress. And nothing is worth a laugh like casting Cloudkill into a crowded tavern!

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Baldur's Gate, with edited main character. Bonus points: It pissed off Jahiera and Khalid to the point that they tried to leave... through the Cloudkill. Imoen stayed put, though. Good for her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 30, 2012, 08:48:22 pm

Became the Elite World Champion on a song. No, the song was not some indie title that no one has ever heard of, but a rock classic.

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Audiosurf

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: klingon13524 on March 31, 2012, 02:48:36 am

An indie rock classic? What song?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 31, 2012, 02:50:39 am

No, not an indie anything. Riding the Storm Out, by REO Speedwagon.

...you're gonna go beat my score, ain't ya? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: klingon13524 on March 31, 2012, 02:54:17 am

I can hardly even figure out the sodding game. I suppose I'll go try to get 5th place on some microphone static I recorded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on March 31, 2012, 09:49:18 am

Gah, I love it when you're traveling around mount and blade and random bandits decide to attack you, only to have their entire party slaughtered and then their hideout raided.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on April 01, 2012, 10:56:29 am

Last night I beat Fallout 3's main quest. I managed to completely destroy the Enclave base, Get a companion Super Mutant that does NOT want to murder me, and I never got bad karma in the game.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: terkiey on April 01, 2012, 09:46:23 pm

Was me as tryndamere with ashe bot lane versus mundo and gangplank. Ashe got herself killed after a volley and a few auto attacks, I just went berserk with rage and ran in and basically got 6 crits in a row and killed both of them.

League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on April 02, 2012, 10:13:45 am

Tapped the remaining knowledge and intelligence of preserved brains to help research some eldritch knowledge in the Quaesitum and learned how to build Void chests which can link to other chests via a voidrune network. Opened an ancient obelisk using Goggles of Revealing to read the runes and slot the correct crystals inside. Hunted down several wisps using a sword which lets me fly and calls down lightning. Fought an epic battle against 6 zombies, several exploding snakes and a pair of teleporting void creatures. Set up a retractable drawbridge which drops enemies into a lava bath.

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Minecraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 07, 2012, 12:46:57 pm

Shot some lightning at some Hutt mercenaries, all armed with repeaters. Missed one, but one of the guys who got fried flew into him, knocking him over, and letting walk up to and dispose of him how I pleased.

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Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. 3rd level Force Lightning is fun. 3rd level Grip is just cheating.

In another game, I managed to convince a young couple that were in love with each other but didn't realize their mutual attraction that the other was going to kill them. The girl summoned an axe and conked the poor(he was excessively rich) guy over the head. As the poor(she wasn't excessively rich) girl began to celebrate he perceived safety over her former crush's crushed skull, I slit her throat with my knife. She fell right by him, a scene that would have brought a tear to my eye if I hadn't been crying from laughing so hard.

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Oblivion, with Deadly Reflex(which had that throat slit) and a few other mods. Sometimes those Dark Brotherhood quests are a little TOO fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on April 07, 2012, 01:48:11 pm

Was in a transport chopper with my buddies, doing a bit of strafing, enemy jet turns up and starts to hammer us with heat seeking missiles, we manage to get counter measures out and our chopper pilot goes high to try and evade, the jet comes back and starts hitting us with cannon fire, I bail out and deploy my chute, then whip out my RPG and nail the sucker with a clutch shot as he passes. I land and the chopper lands next to me, I whip out my blowtorch and repair it and off we go again.  Jet pilot calls hacks. 

  Any time the other team calls hacks, you have probably owned.

Battlefield 3.

Also 35 assists, 7 kills and 1 death over 2 map sections as kritz med in tf2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SP2 on April 07, 2012, 02:10:25 pm

I got a 937m headshot using a suppressed MK11 MOD 0.

Battlefield 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on April 07, 2012, 05:16:07 pm

Denfending A went a heli came in close and was trying to kill everyone, it tryed to land on ground so i went to get it, ws able to get it in time so i just rpg it in the face, didnt last a sec.

Battlefield 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dogstile on April 07, 2012, 08:10:29 pm

Another R:TW one. I was playing as the greeks and had my small wounded army (8 armoured phalanx and about 3 peltasts) surrounded by three full stacks of Romans, mainly hestati and velites, but with a few legionary cohorts mixed in (it was just after reforms). I prepared to lose them all, my fault for walking into an obvious ambush.

I was in the middle on a tiny hill. Just enough for the peltasts to throw over the troops defending them, so I arranged my guys in a crapply designed circle. Que them falling on my spears for the next hour or so. Not even horses could break the line enough to get in, nor did the AI concentrating missile fire on a single unit. Hell, I think the missiles only killed a few of my guys. I ended up killing almost all of theirs.

Armoured Phalanx are absolutely insane.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuckyNinja on April 08, 2012, 08:16:13 am

So I didn't exactly "own", although it was a moment of awesomeness, and while I started it, it was really everyone else that actually made it so, but here goes:


So we're doing badly. A griefer on our team was knocking down all our defences and by the time everyone voted to have him kicked the damage had already been done and we were down to a courtyard, if you could call it that. Our reinforcement count had been absolutely decimated as a result, and many people were rage-quitting. It was not a fun game, even some of the enemies on the Blue team agreeing so. There's me, spawned as a knight with hordes of Blue battering away at fortifications on the edge of my screen, fellow Reds hanging around the flag, a few sallying forth to try slow the Blues down. Knowing that our loss was imminent, and with the alternative being to join in raging, I hit caps lock and bellowed:

"HERE WE MAKE OUR LAST STAND! LET US MAKE OUR DARKEST HOUR OUR MOST GLORIOUS! SURRENDER NO INCH! GIVE THEM NO MERCY AND PAINT OUR WALLS RED WITH THEIR BLOOD! FOR THE GLORY OF THE KINGDOM OF RED!"

Silly, over-the-top hamminess that would make Shatner proud. Some people laughed. Some people ignored it.

Then a teammate responded, crying out with his own silly speech. And then a few more. And then a few more. Then some of the Blue team started responding, and soon we were all making speeches, shouting to charge and hurling insults in hammy glee. Of the forty players, easily over half were joining in this spontaneous role-play.

And we started to push back. I like to think that all of us, combined, now having a laugh instead of complaining about griefing and losing, was a massive morale boost to everyone, and we just started sallying forth en mass, crashing over the Blues like waves.

For the last fifteen minutes or so of that game, we didn't care who would win or lose. We were characters, stars in an unfolding story. We weren't griefed: the treacherous Blue Republic had planted a saboteur within our ranks. The ragequitters were instead shellshocked, hiding inside our castle for fear of dying. We struck back, marching in the name of King Redginald (that pun was my doing, I'm afraid) for the glory of the Red Alliance. Pirates, Vikings, Knights and Geordie Brickies fighting side by side in a battle of hammy speeches as they traded blows.

We grabbed victory by the skin of our teeth, seizing their flag in a daring raid carried out by the SCAS (Special Catapulted Air Service). There were heroic after-speeches, cries of victory and congratulations from many of the defeated Blues. It wasn't the victory that was important, not for that round.

Then the next round started and it was business as usual, our glorious 15-20 minutes just that, a random moment borne from a silly speech I made that quickly snowballed into a server-spanning joking game.

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King Arthur's Gold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on April 08, 2012, 02:26:12 pm

Quote from: greatorder on April 08, 2012, 02:17:29 pm

playing Civ IV: BTS.

Using the custom continents map, I gave each team 1 continent each. all of the goody huts give me wither settlers or a free tech. as a result, my empire got off to a great start. by turn 50 I had 5 cities.

I won by space race.

England: Hey, France, have you heard about that civilization who has these fancy "muskets" and 5 cities?

France: Yeah, I don't exactly know what these muskitts are, but those newfangled muskitts probably aren't anything compared to the new "swords".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 08, 2012, 02:26:46 pm

Shot down a(nother) terror ship without losing any interceptors, and managed to clear the thing without a single casualty. At night. It probably helped that I had three guys doing nothing but spraying I-AC and I-HC all over the place; half of the kills were probably aliums being burned alive rather than shot.

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X-COM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on April 08, 2012, 02:28:25 pm

Quote from: LuckyNinja on April 08, 2012, 08:16:13 am

*massive snip*

Wow.
That is the sort of awesome I love the internets for. Um. Was this King Arthur's Gold?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuckyNinja on April 08, 2012, 04:28:31 pm

Quote from: Spaghetti7 on April 08, 2012, 02:28:25 pm

Quote from: LuckyNinja on April 08, 2012, 08:16:13 am

*massive snip*

Wow.
That is the sort of awesome I love the internets for. Um. Was this King Arthur's Gold?

Yes, it was. Updated my original post, forgot to add it. It's just one of those random things that you never expect to happen and make you proud to be a gamer.

Also would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have posted in this thread and the "how did you last die" thread. For making all your triumphs and deaths awesome and hilarious, you've introduced me to so many wonderful games that I'd have never heard of otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kilroy the Grand on April 08, 2012, 09:21:37 pm

In BF3 I spent an entire 1 hour 45 minute match base raping the russian team with a single support guy as back up. I destroyed every jeep, tank, and lav coming along the path. after the first 15 minutes I started receiving death threats, and a good portion of their team was trying to kill me. The support shot them off the ladder as they tried to climb up, and when a sniper picked one of us off we just spawned on the other.

22 kills - 3 deaths
12 antivehicle ribbons
17 disable vehicle ribbons
5 twelve year olds crying on their controllers while they wrote me messages

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 08, 2012, 09:36:24 pm

@Kilroy:

US Secret Service: Operation Make 12 Year Old Soldiers Cry is complete.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kilroy the Grand on April 08, 2012, 09:41:06 pm

The only thing I have left to unlock on BF3 is their butthurt. And they have a lot of butthurt to unlock.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 08, 2012, 09:43:51 pm

That happened on KAG the other day... I was playing against the THAI clan and a bunch of random noobs, and i was fighting alongside the Arthur's Original Elites clan. Got four kills in the space of a second. (Three arrows fired upwards, lucky hits on people not shielding, and a noob builder who thought it a good idea to come in range of my arrow.)

OMG LORDREUDH IS HACKING KICK HIM PLEASE

OMG OMG HE KILLED FOUR PEOPLE WITH ONE ARROW I SAW HIM

I SWEAR HE USED A SWORD STRIKE AS AN ARCHER

Etc.

That was the best part of the match. I'm quite proficient now in leaping from tree to tree and showering hapless knights who can't figure out where i am with arrows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on April 10, 2012, 10:21:43 am

Rome: Total War. Seleucids. Four units of militia hoplites plus a general, attacked out of the blue by the previously-neutral Greek Cities faction, with an army that outnumbered me with its militia hoplites alone, let alone its peltasts and ordinary (i.e. higher quality than mine) hoplites.

Anyway, I lost fewer than half of my men and wiped them out completely.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 10, 2012, 12:02:55 pm

Crossed the river dividing the map, declared war on the Numidians, and took a city, a short distance away from their capital. They asked for peace, offering tribute. I took their offer. Built up a powerful military force at that city. Towards the endgame, I started a wonder timer after building the Space Program, and they declared war. A few seconds later, several cruise missiles destroyed the fortifactions around their capital, and nuclear bomb was dropped on the city itself. My army swiftly followed up, taking their capital.

Repeat for the three remaining cities.

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Rise of Nations, playing as British.

Ugh, tried this again against the Persians next game, only they got Artificial Intelligence tech, and so spammed out endless battleships and bombers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 10, 2012, 12:37:31 pm

Sniped all the nazis, the nazi wizards, the nazi femme fatales, the nazi power-armor trooper, the nazi dominatrix/necromancers, and the nazi shield generators in a city block.

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Wolfenstein (2009).  And seriously, this game is awesome. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on April 10, 2012, 05:36:48 pm

Quote from: Levi on April 10, 2012, 12:37:31 pm

Sniped all the nazis, the nazi wizards, the nazi femme fatales, the nazi power-armor trooper, the nazi dominatrix/necromancers, and the nazi shield generators in a city block.

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Wolfenstein (2009).  And seriously, this game is awesome. 

I only ever played the old computer one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 10, 2012, 10:48:03 pm

My vault of *untrained* Vault-Dwellers got saved from a giant (no exaggeration) deathclaw by a claptrap pushing it into a wooden cage (placed only where those damn thieves and snatchers kept striking from). Every Vault-Dweller survived by sheer luck that the thing landed in the right place at the right time, and I only lost an eyebot and my claptrap's hands and antenna in the process (I had more firepower with a couple Mr. Gutsy's and Mr. Handy's within the vault; They were too slow to make it in time. Claptrap and Eyebot, however, are little bullets, albeit, hollowpoint soda cans). Now I have a new pet giant deathclaw (in good condition) that will scare the crap outta anyone that dares go near my base.

DF w/ Deon's Wastelands (.92b) mod


I demand an illustration of this scene.


EDIT:
CRAP!!! I don't have a dungeon master. Now I have this thing inside the core of my vault. Oh boy!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on April 13, 2012, 04:46:50 pm

I got the feeling I redefined "awesome" as I destroyed a Tiger II with a light tank destroyer by shooting off it's tracks and driving the TD so close to the enemy tank that it's cannon couldn't aim at the TD (the cannon was actually so long that the end of the barrel was further from the tank then any part of the TD), then just started firing at some assorted weak spots.

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Men of War: Condemned Heroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 17, 2012, 07:47:46 am

Survived 4 consecutive coup d'etat attempts while pissing off the USA repeatedly. I even managed to end the game peacefully, without dying.

Hidden Agenda

Also, fighting a losing war with Iraq and ending it with a nuke. That pushed Iraq's forces to over 10 million, according to the game, since everyone hates you the moment you press the big red button. And I still managed to take Iraq over without getting nuked back.

Shadow President.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: klingon13524 on April 17, 2012, 08:56:29 am

Which executable do you actually need to run to play Shadow President?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 17, 2012, 09:29:24 am

Quote from: klingon13524 on April 17, 2012, 08:56:29 am

Which executable do you actually need to run to play Shadow President?

SHADOW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on April 17, 2012, 02:29:45 pm

You'll also very likely need DOSBox.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 17, 2012, 03:59:48 pm

The other day, Playing mass effect three again(Still pissed at the ending btw) I biotic charged+nova'd a cerberus trooper so hard into a wall he literally turned into a bloody paste outline!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 17, 2012, 05:26:39 pm

Was throwing bombs at a wall to try and take it down.  The doors were a couple tiles up and there was a trapdoor'd spike moat in front of it, so I couldn't really get up close to smash the doors down. 

I threw a bomb at the door trying to time the blast to take out a chunk of it, and an enemy archer picked the worst time to open the door to fire a shot.  The archer opened the door and fired an arrow, hitting me for a bit of damage, but my bomb was already flying through the air, entered the open door and landed right on the middle tile of the three tile thick wall.

BOOM.  The archer is gibbed, and the entire wall, defenders and catapult on the roof and all, collapses into a pile of rubble and limbs as the bomb takes out every single one of the door tiles supporting the structure.  I was sadly flattened as well, but we won the round in the end.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

King Arthur's Gold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 17, 2012, 06:50:34 pm

Quote from: greatorder on April 17, 2012, 05:55:36 pm

damn, I gotta try KAG, now.

Yes, yes you do.  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frelock on April 18, 2012, 05:11:40 am

It started with me seeing a sectoid battleship with a base creation mission.  I fill up the sky-ranger with all my units that have a decent Psi defense (I'm using XCOMutil, so you can see psi defense early in the game).  Unfortunately, the skyranger was too slow, and the base was created.  The end of the month is coming up and I hadn't been doing to well, so I needed the points.  I told the skyranger to land anyway.  After I landed, I realized with horror that I hadn't prepped for taking on those darn cyberdisks: almost everyone was armed with only laser rifles, with two small launchers thrown in for capturing prisoners and a single heavy plasma.  I might get lucky and kill it in one shot, or I might get shot by reaction fire.  There was also the point that my entire crew was made of rookies, save for the Psi-inept commander(last mission was a terror disaster that cost me almost all of my vets).  I send the tank down the shaft: it gets a shot off at a sectoid sitting there before getting downed by a cyberdisk.  It was at this point that I noticed that the exit zone was conveniently next to the command center.  So, I send a man down.  He gets shot from the side, down, but only wounded not dead.  I send another down facing the right direction and take out the sectoid standing there.  Medic patches up the wounded man, who was then regulated to the exit zone for the remainder of combat (he only had 3 health left).  I know the cyberdisk is wandering around somewhere, so I had to be quick. 

I used the plasma to cut a hole in the side of the command center, and rushed everyone across the short hall.  They're flinging Psi at us, and one man goes berserk, despite his high psi defense.  He kills one of his fellow teammates in his rage, but then recovers.  Breaching the bottom level of the command center, we see one shadowy figure in the darkness above.  The first small launcher missed high, but the second hit.  I send a man up to look around, and it turns out the launcher had caught three of them in one shot.  I grab the bodies of the commander and two leaders, along with the blaster launcher which I had not encountered until this point.  Then it's a rush to the exit.  The men carrying the bodies are slow, so I lay down a smoke screen for them with some smoke grenades.  The last man up top drops the high explosive, then high tails it outta there.  The explosion takes out the command stations.  Through the smoke screen, we see another sectoid come up to the rear.  This isn't good, as most of the men are in a tight clump in the cramped corridors.  Luckily, he's taken care of on the first volley, only to be replaced by another charging at the front.  At this point, I figure there's no danger in giving my Psi-inept commander a weapon, so he grabs a rifle and comes down the grav lift.  He misses on his first shot, but the second score a hit.  The way was clear, and the men with the blaster launcher and the prisoners get to the exit zone.  The commander grabs the bodies of the first two sectoids killed, and then joins his men in leaving that dark base.

A textbook hit and run operation, with the added benefit of a commander to interview later, a leader to get Psi from, and finally a blaster launcher to have the eggheads look at.  A promising rookie downed, but the next day, funding jumped by about 900,000.

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XCOM:UFO Defense, though if you didn't know that, a lot of the above would probably sound like gibberish...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 18, 2012, 12:00:40 pm

I was stuck in a lengthy war in Iraq. I was losing. Badly. So I launched a nuke into the country. Iraq surrendered in under a week. People did NOT like this in the slightest. As a matter of fact, almost every European country was trying to assassinate me. The only one that came close to, however, was China, who managed to kill the Secretary of The State. Eventually, everyone was minding their own buisness. Except for Poland. Poland was constantly trying to overthrow the US government. So, I got sick of this and invaded. Many countries aided me in my invasion, but Poland had one ally far more powerful than me. The Soviet Union. The war, it was one I could not win. So I surrendered and began to kiss Poland's arse a bit.

But then, it seemed as if Poland had a bit of a disagreement with the Soviets. I saw that it was my time to strike, to have my revenge at last. I invaded. Poland's military alone was hardly a threat. In under a month, Poland was under US control. I decided to be peaceful, and other countries decided the same. Even the Soviets were playing nice. Then, China and the Soviets had a bit of a fight, leading to the Soviet Union invading China. I saved to see what I could do. Defending China with all of my troops didn't work, attacking the countries assisting the Soviets didn't work, making China useless and weak, so the Soviets wouldn't gain anything by taking them over didn't work either.

It looked like a doomed situation. If Soviet Russia took China, they'd become even MORE of a military and nuclear superpower. They took China, which lead to the US becoming extremely friendly with them, due to fear of invasions. Everything was fairly nice. Until the Soviets started to attack American owned countries, like Iraq and Poland. A decent amount of time was put into moving troops into countries the Soviets were invading. The Soviets were throwing coup d'etats everywhere. They even surgical striked several places, something the AI rarely does.

Eventually, the Soviet union started to tear its self apart from within. There were many riots, and even a civil war. The current government won over the revolutionaries and immerged even more powerful than before. Their leadership effectiveness was 100%. Eventually, they started to condemn the US. This was slightly concerning, but then they finally did something worthy of action. They armed rebels in the US. This lead to the entire US military invading the Soviet Union. We were getting our arses kicked. While the Soviets had under one hundred thousand dollars of damage, we had over six million. Our troops started to lose the will to fight, but I just poured more in. Eventually, I saw that the situation was hopeless. There was nothing I could do. The Soviets had won.

But, then, just as I was about to press the "surrender to opponent" button, the Soviets gave up and handed control of the country to the US. We had taken the other world superpower. We had won at last. The Soviet forces still remain in China, but not for long. We will win this battle.

Better dead than Red.

[EDIT] It appears as if they didn't surrender first, but due to the extremely high ambition and extremely low ethic of the USA at the time, they were autonuked because we lost the war. The nuking made them surrender.. 'Eh, still. We won.

Oh, shit, sorry for forgetting to add the name of the game. It's Shadow President.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on April 18, 2012, 12:10:49 pm

I took out an ogre with a berserk potion yesterday. While playing as a low level deep elf summoner. With a dwarven shortsword.

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on April 18, 2012, 12:13:25 pm

Quote from: Angel Of Death on April 18, 2012, 12:00:40 pm

I was stuck in a lengthy war in Iraq. I was losing. Badly. So I launched a nuke into the country. Iraq surrendered in under a week. People did NOT like this in the slightest. As a matter of fact, almost every European country was trying to assassinate me. The only one that came close to, however, was China, who managed to kill the Secretary of The State. Eventually, everyone was minding their own buisness. Except for Poland. Poland was constantly trying to overthrow the US government. So, I got sick of this and invaded. Many countries aided me in my invasion, but Poland had one ally far more powerful than me. The Soviet Union. The war, it was one I could not win. So I surrendered and began to kiss Poland's arse a bit.

But then, it seemed as if Poland had a bit of a disagreement with the Soviets. I saw that it was my time to strike, to have my revenge at last. I invaded. Poland's military alone was hardly a threat. In under a month, Poland was under US control. I decided to be peaceful, and other countries decided the same. Even the Soviets were playing nice. Then, China and the Soviets had a bit of a fight, leading to the Soviet Union invading China. I saved to see what I could do. Defending China with all of my troops didn't work, attacking the countries assisting the Soviets didn't work, making China useless and weak, so the Soviets wouldn't gain anything by taking them over didn't work either.

It looked like a doomed situation. If Soviet Russia took China, they'd become even MORE of a military and nuclear superpower. They took China, which lead to the US becoming extremely friendly with them, due to fear of invasions. Everything was fairly nice. Until the Soviets started to attack American owned countries, like Iraq and Poland. A decent amount of time was put into moving troops into countries the Soviets were invading. The Soviets were throwing coup d'etats everywhere. They even surgical striked several places, something the AI rarely does.

Eventually, the Soviet union started to tear its self apart from within. There were many riots, and even a civil war. The current government won over the revolutionaries and immerged even more powerful than before. Their leadership effectiveness was 100%. Eventually, they started to condemn the US. This was slightly concerning, but then they finally did something worthy of action. They armed rebels in the US. This lead to the entire US military invading the Soviet Union. We were getting our arses kicked. While the Soviets had under one hundred thousand dollars of damage, we had over six million. Our troops started to lose the will to fight, but I just poured more in. Eventually, I saw that the situation was hopeless. There was nothing I could do. The Soviets had won.

But, then, just as I was about to press the "surrender to opponent" button, the Soviets gave up and handed control of the country to the US. We had taken the other world superpower. We had won at last. The Soviet forces still remain in China, but not for long. We will win this battle.

Better dead than Red.

[EDIT] It appears as if they didn't surrender first, but due to the extremely high ambition and extremely low ethic of the USA at the time, they were autonuked because we lost the war. The nuking made them surrender.. 'Eh, still. We won.

I guess I will have to take guesses at which game you are playing. Superpower, or SHadow President, or Superpower 2?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 18, 2012, 12:16:43 pm

The game is Shadow President.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 24, 2012, 11:41:53 am

Managed to get myself admitted to the Sith Academy. The woman who recruited me engaged me in a plot to backstab her master. So I went and told her master about it, and he asked me to help poison her bath. So I did, and then went and told her about that, "forgetting" to inform her about the poison. She yelled at me a bit(which including admiring me for playing both of them), and then had me poison her master's bed.

When it came time to face both of them, I had a glorious moment of gloating before the poison hit both of them at the same moment. And then the two of them were shredded by the high-density minefield I had placed just before the encounter. Right on top of a (frozen) acid river.

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Knights of the Old Republic. When of the best double-backstab moments of the game, combined with pretty much the only really good use of mines ever.

Plus, kudos to Naga Sadow, for having a river of goddamned acid in his tomb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on April 27, 2012, 09:08:36 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/59Owz.jpg)

I'm the Nords. We won.

Mount&Blade: Warband

Also, random wtf image:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Lmh0h.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on April 28, 2012, 08:02:49 am

Was the color bearer for the Russian army. We were stuck in a battle between two earthen forts (built by the players) and had quickly reached stalemate. I hoisted my flag high and ran over the walls, hoping a few men would join me in my charge. Instead, nearly the entire 80 man team ran over the walls, and we charged the enemy position. I managed to plant our flag right in the enemy base before getting killed, and our men overran the Austrians and claimed the fort in the name of glorious mother Russia!

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Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ansontan2000 on April 28, 2012, 10:54:54 am

Quote from: Silent_Thunder on April 28, 2012, 08:02:49 am

Was the color bearer for the Russian army. We were stuck in a battle between two earthen forts (built by the players) and had quickly reached stalemate. I hoisted my flag high and ran over the walls, hoping a few men would join me in my charge. Instead, nearly the entire 80 man team ran over the walls, and we charged the enemy position. I managed to plant our flag right in the enemy base before getting killed, and our men overran the Austrians and claimed the fort in the name of glorious mother Russia!

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Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars

Hot damn. Last time that happened in a game I played in it just led to trading volleys for hours on end.
And thats why taking the initiative wins you the game!

Oh, and last time I played Warband with the Blood and Steel Mod

Basically, I got cannoneers.
500 Cannoneers.
My god, I took out the entire Vaegir army with that.

Total kills: 4500
Total deaths: 121

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 03, 2012, 07:52:16 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Xch9o.jpg)

Don't fuck with huscarls.


M&B: Warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enzo on May 03, 2012, 09:57:40 pm

I mostly only play TF2 to be a dick. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zo1H-Dj5yA#t=0m39s)

The voice-chat is out of synch and cuts out a bit, but you get the idea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 03, 2012, 10:34:41 pm

Took out two carriers and a wing of fighters with just a wolf frigate.  Lured the fighters away from their carriers and dealt with them, chasing the last fighter back to his carrier and taking out a split second before it reached the hangar with my long range beam, the first carrier instead of getting the fighter ate my two big red torpedoes, and for some reason decided to lower it's shield after taking the first torpedo hit and got smacked hard with the second.

I focused my long range beam on the big hole in it's armor, getting close enough to let my point defense lasers chip in, letting my shields absorb the return fire, while dodging missiles left and right from both carriers occasionally backing off to vent.  I finally overloaded the first carrier and finished it off.  And moved on to the last one, which apperantly thought it could take me and chose to fight instead of flee.  And at that point the fight was in the bag.  I wasn't stupid enough to get in range of it's point defense while keeping constant pressure on it's shields with my own longer ranged point defense, all while easily avoiding it's missiles of 'really bad at hitting a small maneuverable target'.  It eventually also overloaded despite the enemy captain cutting his shields every now and then to try to keep it from happening and they went kablooey as well.

No hull damage, just a scratch of armor damage from low caliber machine guns as the fighters flew through my shield.  And one boarded and salvaged carrier to resell.   I think i'll call that a success.

Starfarer  A pirate carrier group got busted up by hedgemony while I was chasing around some smaller fry.  They fled from the hedgemony right into my path and apperantly decided to go with it when I ran into them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on May 04, 2012, 06:08:23 am

I had to smash through the gates of Troy, but between the gate and my army was a couple of bases, not to mention the gate itself was heavily guarded. So what do I do? I suicide a couple of pegasi to get a momentary line-of-sight inside the city gate in order to use my "Underworld Gate" godpower to link my side of the map with Trojan gate. Then I unleash my Minotaur horde through the underworld passage inside the city bypassing all defences. Buffed up by a couple of god specific myth unit bonuses and my hero unit's inspiring aura, the measly human defenders could do little but die in the face of my bull warriors.

It was glorious.

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Age of Mythology as the Greeks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on May 04, 2012, 10:23:48 am

JUST a wolf frigate, geiger? Wolf-class frigates are the best in the game, as of 0.51a. I haven't downloaded 0.52a yet, but I doubt that it'll be different.

My last ownage was Running With Rifles demo. Very first time I've played, after about 10 minutes I lie down in some random spot and start taking potshots.

That got me from about 200-300 xp to about 1500.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2012, 11:16:59 am

Climbed up a giant's back, just to stab him in the head. Even better was that the camera coincidentally was panning from back to front of the monster just to catch it at the best possible angle.

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Shadow of the Colossus.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: spiderpig040 on May 06, 2012, 08:17:06 am

i would say in DOTA.

i used Huskar and tried the old school build. and yes, it still works. i OWNed both in the early and late game.. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 06, 2012, 09:18:32 pm

Playing Diablo 2 again.  Lv 30ish pick up PvP vs a friend after a co-op session.  I'm a druid, he's a sorceress.  He's apperantly going for an energy shield build, he explained it to me that it causes damage taken to hit his mana instead of his HP, and claims that I won't be able to hurt him.  I'm focusing in werewolf, but not a particular build.  I've been dumping a lot of points into rabies, since I like running into a room, biting one mob, running out, then running back in to a significantly less populated room.

Fight starts.  I run up to him and use my rabies bite. his rogue dies 1 second later, he dies 2 seconds later.  Fight over.  After a moment of silence he comments that apperantly his mana shield does not absorb poison damage.  After checking the numbers my rabies bite hits him for about 3 times his HP in the space of a few seconds.  And since the shield does not absorb 100% of damage yet, my next basic strike took out his remaining 1 hp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on May 07, 2012, 02:25:00 am

Managed to become a hulk with xray vision, save someone who was dying from a burning room superheated by plasma, kill a hulk (chloral hydrate + monkeying + radiation from genetics) and save someone from being robusted by hulk #2 in one round.

Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on May 07, 2012, 02:47:35 am

I just defended a castle of 50 Nords against 800 Swads. I lost 43 men.

Mount and Blade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 14, 2012, 12:57:34 am

Defeated my first monster zoo using a mace, a shield, dodging abilities, berserker fury, necromancy, and blood magic :D

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Dungeons of Dredmor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Domenique on May 14, 2012, 08:00:03 am

My Colonel died after getting back in cover from making his 30th kill, after that, the commander furiously jumped out of his cover and killed three of them with three shots.

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 X-Com, three floaters were lined in so perfectly that it took only one auto-fire to kill all three of them, that was an awesome act of revenge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2012, 12:22:04 pm

Spoiler: Da fuq? (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/3oxqc.jpg)

And that's not all of them. And I deal with about half that many taking the other drop point to get more reinforcements in. Somehow a bombing run and orbital bombardment both missed them entirely(although the orbital bombarbment took out one of their factories, the one visible in the screenshot). Accoding to the AAR, I took out 6 companies(5 tanks per company), which I might call BS on if it didn't also say I lost no units during the battle, despite the fact that I did in fact lose one or two hovertank companies, at least one AT-ST company, and one Stormtrooper company.

And prior to that, the Rebels made an attack on I think Ilum, consisting first of Home One, the Sundered Heart, and just a few corvettes and frigates... or so I thought. The Acclimator I had went down pretty damn quick, but after crippling Home One by bombing all the gun turrets facing the station, I went to to work taking down the corvettes. Eventually took out Reyus, and most of the visible corvettes, and then finished off Ackbar. I thought I had won, but upon destroying Home One, I large force of Nebulon-Bs, more corvettes, and snub fighters jumped in.
And somehow, I beat them. With a damaged level 1 station, one Broadside, and all the TIEs the station could spit out, I defeated the Rebels.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on May 19, 2012, 01:14:19 pm

That screenshot reminded me of these:

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(http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/26081650-3.jpg)

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(http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/26081656-3.jpg)

I conquered a planet's spacearea with nothing but Starvipers. Didn't lose anything.

Long time ago, though.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on May 19, 2012, 03:47:27 pm

I often fight of entire enemy attacks with just my level 3-5 space station. Doesn't really count as the criminals faction is quite good and is often swimming in cash, allowing it to easily repair all the damage. (Also the enemy AI being stupid enough to come in range of the station batteries instead of waiting and taking out the defenses with missiles)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jc6036 on May 19, 2012, 03:54:35 pm

I was playing spy in Team Fortress 2, and I managed to get behind a charge to capture point c in gravel pit. There was a medic and his heavy, a pyro, and a sniper. I backstabbed them all and then got away unscathed.

It was glorious. (For me, at least.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on May 25, 2012, 05:33:49 am

Not sure if this counts as 'owning' but I was defending the flag and every time the enemy would come try to take it, they would come in the exact same way giving me plenty of time to see them. I had worked out the exact timing required by the 3rd or 4th attempt, so every time I saw them coming in I chucked a grenade on the flag so that it went off right as they landed. I stood slightly in front of their path of travel.

What happened was the grenade went off right after they picked up the flag, killing them and causing them to drop it... right onto my head.

So I got points for the kill, points for flag defense, points for killing the flag carrier, and points for returning it.

This happened 4-5 times!!

Finally they got wise and started using other approaches.

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Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on May 25, 2012, 06:17:14 am

As usual the entire fleet went north leaving my crappy SY against a USN BB5 and a freaking QV south.
I managed to get a salvo on QV (it survived because it's a motherf... QV) but had to kite the entire time.

Lucky enough my team north managed to win up north and descend upon the foe overwhelming them and leaving none alive... cept for the panicked BB5 i managed to take out before thay rushed it.

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Navyfield

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 25, 2012, 07:10:12 am

Managed to hold a beleaguered Blue Team against the Arthur's Original Elites (the clan Taricus and Tiruin are part of, I believe, but they weren't online) to recover lost ground.

While we definitely didn't win, from me and some noobs' defensive skills, and the fact that they listened to me, we did manage to close the gap.

Also I managed to defeat [AOE]Exid in close combat, TWICE, without healing, which I guess is skill, but it could've been luck. (Exid is the most difficult to fight member of AOE I have ever encountered.)


King Arthur's Gold.
EDIT: game...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mongol13524 on May 25, 2012, 11:23:01 am

You made me want to play Empire at War again. And I've indefinitely lended my copy to a friend.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 25, 2012, 12:01:48 pm

Managed to beat Skeletron for the first time, followed the very next day by a goblin invasion. Next up: Hell!

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Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 25, 2012, 12:07:01 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 25, 2012, 12:06:07 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 25, 2012, 12:01:48 pm

Managed to beat Skeletron for the first time, followed the very next day by a goblin invasion. Next up: Hell!

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Terraria

I can't wait till you hardmode. Especially if it's accidental.

Yeah, it's gonna be good times :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 25, 2012, 12:08:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on May 25, 2012, 07:10:12 am

Managed to hold a beleaguered Blue Team against the Arthur's Original Elites (the clan Taricus and Tiruin are part of, I believe, but they weren't online) to recover lost ground.

While we definitely didn't win, from me and some noobs' defensive skills, and the fact that they listened to me, we did manage to close the gap.

Also I managed to defeat [AOE]Exid in close combat, TWICE, without healing, which I guess is skill, but it could've been luck. (Exid is the most difficult to fight member of AOE I have ever encountered.)


King Arthur's Gold.
EDIT: game...

YOU KILLED EXID IN FAIR COMBAT
TWICE?


YOU ARE GOD HAVE MY BABIES!

Throwing 3 heavvies and 3 medics off a cliff in upward.
HUEG PYRO SKILLS FTW!

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team fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 25, 2012, 02:17:00 pm

It might not be as violent or funny as most of the things on here, but watching the little dot of my first geological survey ship take off; and knowing the years of research and development that were put into it just made me feel SO BOSS.

Aurora, by the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on May 25, 2012, 05:35:06 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 25, 2012, 05:24:46 pm

also, how do you stop everyone denouncing you?

Stop wiping out other civs?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 25, 2012, 07:07:15 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 25, 2012, 05:24:46 pm

also, how do you stop everyone denouncing you?

Kill them all. Dead people can't bitch anymore.

Alternatively wait for a bunch of turns to see how the political structure changes, and see if you can't buddy up with another civilization. Killing them all is probably the easier way though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 25, 2012, 10:45:35 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on May 25, 2012, 12:08:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on May 25, 2012, 07:10:12 am

Managed to hold a beleaguered Blue Team against the Arthur's Original Elites (the clan Taricus and Tiruin are part of, I believe, but they weren't online) to recover lost ground.

While we definitely didn't win, from me and some noobs' defensive skills, and the fact that they listened to me, we did manage to close the gap.

Also I managed to defeat [AOE]Exid in close combat, TWICE, without healing, which I guess is skill, but it could've been luck. (Exid is the most difficult to fight member of AOE I have ever encountered.)


King Arthur's Gold.
EDIT: game...

YOU KILLED EXID IN FAIR COMBAT
TWICE?


YOU ARE GOD HAVE MY BABIES!

I really think it was a fluke, I managed to sword slash combo him from above, I only took half a heart damage, then when I ran further into Blue's base he had just respawned, and attacked me while I had a bomb in my hand. It brought him to half a heart, and I managed to get him with a standard stab, then died a half second later from Exid's bomb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on May 26, 2012, 03:42:22 am

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on May 25, 2012, 07:07:15 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 25, 2012, 05:24:46 pm

also, how do you stop everyone denouncing you?

Kill them all. Dead people can't bitch anymore.

They didn't stop denouncing me. So I didn't stop killing them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 27, 2012, 02:32:14 am

I'm not one for promoting my own posts in other topics, but this was just a badass moment for me:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=49101.msg3321416#msg3321416

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on May 27, 2012, 08:00:47 am

Wholesale slaughtered some armed-to-the-teeth mutants in a tunnel.

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Fallout 2, derp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on May 27, 2012, 10:33:03 am

So me and my bro were running some neat co-op action in Mass Effect 3. I was a human vanguard, he was a human soldier. We had just cleared a room with improbable efficiency, and i decide to reload. He does so at the exact same moment, and the result was an immensely satisfying *CLICK-CLICK* as we both reloaded our guns in almost perfect sync like a pair of back to back badasses. There was just something really awesome about that (and it happened at least twice more in that session).

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uhh Mass Effect 3 in case you missed it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on May 27, 2012, 11:00:28 am

Nitesco+Weapon Glyph+Dominus Agony Combo, + 2 death rings, and spamming glyph union absolutely owned Dracula in record time.

At least 5 of those glyph unions (which is basically slashing with a laser beam using that combo) triggered the dialogue where you're supposed to perform a glyph union with a different, specific combo to end the battle for good. He couldn't even start the 'walking-around-and-kicking-butt' phase because he lost all his health before he could act.

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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 29, 2012, 11:03:44 am

So, apparently Death Star-ing the last Consortium world(Mandalore) causes the entire Rebellion to capitulate, despite the fact that they controlled about a 1/3rd of the galaxy.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. I'm slightly disappointed. I wanted to blow up some more Rebel worlds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Errol on May 29, 2012, 11:07:20 am

Quote from: New Guy on May 27, 2012, 11:00:28 am

Nitesco+Weapon Glyph+Dominus Agony Combo, + 2 death rings, and spamming glyph union absolutely owned Dracula in record time.

At least 5 of those glyph unions (which is basically slashing with a laser beam using that combo) triggered the dialogue where you're supposed to perform a glyph union with a different, specific combo to end the battle for good. He couldn't even start the 'walking-around-and-kicking-butt' phase because he lost all his health before he could act.

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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

That's kind of cheap. :P Real men don't use Nitesco unions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 01, 2012, 12:11:29 pm

Laddered over 3 enemy towers and succesfully converted them to my team
 8)

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King Arhtur's Gold, official MOLE server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 02, 2012, 12:37:47 pm

The Japanese Empire started with humble beginnings, first settling down by the ocean. As they grew, the encountered the Chinese, and quickly forged a friendship that lasted millenia. Then, the Germans, who were hostile. After many years of fighting off German raids, the Germans themselves fell victim to an even worse foe: the French. The French, however, were surprisingly small and disconnected. The Japanese, however, discovered space flight, and had the dream of colonizing the stars. They needed three very rare resources. With the completion of the MIR space station some time around 1980, they found three locations to adequately mine what they need: one on an isolated arctic island, and two within or near the French territory.

With its vastly superior technology, the Japanese landed a massive invasion force by submarine transport, quickly conquering the French. Their impressive industry allowed them to build a railroad clear across the continent that, with their bullet-train(Shinkaisen Express), could move vast armies or engineers across the empire instantly. Vast canalworks allowed fleets to sail through the land rather than taking the long way around. As sites to build the colony ship parts were established, two new foes reared their heads: the Greek, and the Persians.

The Greeks were originally friendly with the Japanese, but they were greedy and jealous of their advanced technology, and openly declared war. As it was difficult to attack the Greeks directly, the Japanese used a novel method of using transport subs as a bridge across the water, and the Greeks didn't stand a chance.

The Persians on the other hand, were an agressive, expansionistic nation. They invaded the Spanish, the Romans, the Egyptians, and even the Chinese before the Japanese were aware of their threat(note, only the Egyptians were annihilated). The Chinese declined financial or technological aid from the Japanese, and the Japanese were forced to use troops to try and liberate what was left of China, which wasn't much. However, despite Japanese technological superiority, especially in the fields of computers, materials, and nanotechnology, the Persians had a massive horde of an army(far more than they could concievably have produced), strong enough to hold back the Japanese advanced battle tanks. Their press towards the former Greek lands was held back by the brave kamikaze pilots of Mycanae.

In the end, however, the Japanese could not win, and were forced to use the pinnacle of their achievements: the colony ship. After centuries of war and strife, the Japanese abandoned Earth for the galaxy. I'd like to think that with their advanced computer and nanotechnology, they left a "gray goo" bomb behind to destroy Earth as they left.

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C-Evo. The kamikaze planes were an accident. Their infantry had a high enough defense + Fanatic to kill the planes attacking them, but the planes had a high enough attack to kill them as well. It's still scarily fitting, give that I was playing as the Japanese.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on June 07, 2012, 12:17:36 am

It was a hell of a bloody fight... My three allies were odd sorts, totally mismatched and individually outgunned. One was a tribal with a bone through his nose, he had a sub-machine gun that he always fired on full auto regardless of the circumstance. Rat bites him? Go full auto. Allies in the way of target? Go full auto. Hopelessly out matched by mutant chameleons with razor sharp teeth and talons? Go. Full. Auto.  The middle man (bought from slavers) was a fat trader-slash-repairman who whined incessantly if he got a shot even a little. He used a sniper rifle but had the unusual tendency to run up to point blank range before firing, usually forcing him into a situation that was way over his bald head. The last was an aging gunslinger/barkeep with a heart condition who used the fourth wall as his own personal crutch. Despite being grey headed, plagued by chest pains, and occasionally crotchety as all, he was a damn fine shot with the automatic shotgun that I'd managed to scrounge up for him. That left myself; powered armored, grave-robbing, champion of the wasteland, and a part time gigolo who happened to be carrying enough advanced weaponry to put a dozen new craters in the moon.

The enemy? Eight robed Scientology wannabes armed with everything from caseless assault rifles to plasma grenades, though their greatest weapon by far was the irritatingly peppy slogans they kept spouting during battle. Four guards armed with FN Fal assault rifles and decked out in full body armor were also stationed in the room, with another four out in the hall who, of course, were nosy bastards and wanted to investigate the sound of a prolonged gun battle in the lunch room. Then there was the leader of Scientology wannabes... I honestly never got his name before I started shooting, everyone just kept referring to him as AHS-9. Topping it off was a pair of porn stars who were advertising the "Hubology" to the wannabes.

To roll that back,

A Power armored wastelander with a penchant for buggering
A Tribal with no concept of friendly fire
A Fat man with a sniper rifle that he used like a melee weapon
And an old, sickly barman with an automatic shotgun

Vs.

8 Armed Hubologists (Scientologists)
4+4 Armed and Armored guards
1 Leader of the Hubologists
And 2 porn stars

We were outnumbered worse than four-to-one, but we gave them hell. The pornstars went down first (Entendre...), cut down by my own assault fire. The Hubologists, despite being heavily armed, had no clue how to use their weapons. Two of them attempted to throw grenades, succeeding only in killing one of their own and heavily injuring another in the first volley. They were eventually gunned down by the Tribal and the Barman, caught in a crossfire of automatic weapons. The security guards were trouble, wearing body armor and actually having a decent knowledge of how to use their own weapons. They went down to a series of precisely aimed shots from my gauss rifle, striking at their unarmored eyes when possible.

The leader of the Hubologists died like a pansy. He attempted to flee the scene but accidentally ended up stepping in front of one of his own trigger happy hall guards, the guard in question promptly removed a chunk of his ribcage and then proceeded to shoot through him.

It was long, gruesome, and I lost count of the number of bodies that got hopelessly mangled by automatic weapons fire. The barman was almost dead, the trader was bitching about a couple of boo-boos, and my leg was shattered, but we were the only ones left standing.

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Fallout 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 07, 2012, 12:21:21 am

DF: Volcano + Assloads of gold. Oh, yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on June 09, 2012, 07:18:06 pm

The battle was starting and I rammed the enemy dropship in hopes of a quick victory.
Both dropships exploded.
I got launched into the air, I thought I was going to die and go into orbit.
The debris crushed the enemy brain, I landed safely some meters away.

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Cortex Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Palau on June 09, 2012, 08:48:43 pm

I had just bought a Anti-Material Rifle from Vendotron, along with a set of explosive, incendiary, armor piercing, and of course normal ammunition. Followed by Rose of Sharon Cassidy, and ED-E (Eyebot Duraframe Subject E). Anxious to use my new weapon, I make my way to camp searchlight, intending to blow some holes in the NCR troops outside the town. Having done this thing before (Helios One, must have been some others but I forgot them) the NCR was already pretty pissed at me. In an attempt to half my spree of bloody, needless, destruction, they send a squad of NCR rangers to take me out. Thankfully, this was the first time I pissed them off enough to make them do this, so all I got was a talking to and a "If you keep fucking with us, three days later, we are gunna blow your ass up" speach.

Now, being eager to try out my new rifle, and seeing as they had just insulted me, I decided instead of waiting the three days to go grab better weapons and armor so I could take them on, I would kill them now. I ove 50 or so meters back, tell my companions to wait there, and pull out the Anti-Material rifle. Loading it will explosive ammo, in order to both penetrate their armor and make my kills look spectacular, I take aim at the Ranger that delivered the speach. Despite my character being grossly unable to use the weapon (Guns skill  of 25 vs requirement of 100), I one shot sneak-attack-critical'ed the Ranger.

Turns out she was the weak one. Two NCR veteran Rangers, alerted to the attack, begin approaching my position. I take aim at the closest one and fire. He goes down after almost 10 shots, straight to the chest . The next guy only takes 5, and by that time his buddy is just appearing over a hill nearby. Thankfully he was wearing some pretty shity armor, since he went down in only two shots. One of them was appearently deef, as he missed out on the entire thing (despite only being around 25 meters away) and just stood there until I one shoot him. 

Grining from ear-to-ear, I proceed to massacre the NCR garrison at Camp Searchlight. It was small, numbering only 15 men, and not very challenging, being composed of basic troopers and one sergent, but entertaining. You should have seen those bodies go flying. My favorite was when a trooper was standing right next to a ledge. Sent him sailing ten feet, right over it.

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Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Elfeater on June 09, 2012, 09:47:48 pm

I was playing Kingmaker with my dad and my dad's firend. Started with 2 nobles weak nobles, slightly bolstered by the other cards, one in the north and one in Wales. Grabbed all but one of the Yorkists, the other sat in Calias. MY dad was smashed by his friend and i started gaining a few nobles, my power in the North grew substationally over the next few turns as the 2 beat the living shit out of each other. I was going to make my move but then a peasent rebellion moved a key character south. A few skirmishes with the remnents of my dads and his friends forces in London I seized a few ships, and went towards Calias, he then died of plauge.
My dad is hidding with the remnants of his forces in the south. I have about 3/4 of my force in the north the rest scattered in the south. I hold the Yorkists my dads friend holds the Lancasters. Cue Lord hasting entering the fray on my side. He and his ten men leave his castle held by the enemy. He strikes with all his force. He fights to the end killing a lord he loses but i use a kings pardon to save him.
It was getting late, around 11, so it needs to be finished. With the help of the roads and some free move cards all my forces converge on the location. I win only just slaughtering all of these nobles, and the pretenders to the throne.
I hold all of the Yorkists, the Red Roses are dead, and my dad has 2 lords hiding in a castle, with his freind having 2 in London. They conceede the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: bucket on June 09, 2012, 10:03:50 pm

I've been kicking a good amount of ass in Battlefield: Play4Free. I think I'm getting a hang of the credits system, and renting shotguns every chance I get. It's hilarious to see these delicate snowflakes complain about shotgun use and try to get them banned/nerfed.

This isn't Call of Duty, squirt. If bunny-hopping and spray-and-pray is your entire strategy, you're going to get assraped by shotguns every time. Plant yourself, keep your distance, and use short bursts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on June 09, 2012, 10:05:32 pm

Quote from: bucket on June 09, 2012, 10:03:50 pm

I've been kicking a good amount of ass in Battlefield: Play4Free. I think I'm getting a hang of the credits system, and renting shotguns every chance I get. It's hilarious to see these delicate snowflakes complain about shotgun use and try to get them banned/nerfed.

This isn't Call of Duty, squirt. If bunny-hopping and spray-and-pray is your entire strategy, you're going to get assraped by shotguns every time. Plant yourself, keep your distance, and use short bursts.

Amen, i was sooo rocking during beta that most of my nemesis was adding me as a friend to make sure to not join me...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on June 11, 2012, 01:46:22 am

Playing Just Cause 2. Friend of mine told me about a really huge military cargo plane, biggest plane in the game, so I figure I'll go see what it can carry.

Turns out that if you hijack it as it spawns and bring it a little way down the runway, another will spawn.

I tethered the two together and got in the first one.

The Cargo Plane Train, as I have thus dubbed it, actually flew. So much victory music in my head you have NO IDEA.

Spoiler does /not/ contain image of the train, because forum does not like Steam screenshots, I guess. Spoiler is no longer existing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on June 14, 2012, 07:59:18 am

I got annoyed because I died 4 times in a row as an Engineer, and I decided to play as a Spy. I used my Cloak and Dagger to hide in corners and then strike with my knife that I affectionately named "Spine Impaler" or my Enforcer. I didn't really use my disguise kit, but I racked up about 7-8 kills. And didn't die.

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 15, 2012, 01:47:09 pm

Started a terror mission in a warehouse  I send my sword guy down to the lower floor first, planning on him being pointman for the squad that will clear the lower floors.  Instead he goes down the lift, opens the door and comes face to face with 3 anthropods bunched up 1 tile away.  He slices them all new ventilation holes and I'm selecting another agent from his squad to run down and start collecting up brainsucker pods so they don't hatch, when...

'All enemies are dead or unconscious, You win'

1 agent, 1 power sword, about 55 Time units.  One cleared terror mission.  Woot!  ^{_{Though I'm sure RNG karma is going to come back and bite me in the ass very soon.}}

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 X-COM Apocalypse

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 16, 2012, 11:39:10 am

Stood on top of a siege tower. As ran towards the ramp as it dropped, which somehow catapulted me to the top of their keep, allowing me to kill the half a dozen archers, safely behind the rest of their troops on the wall. Begin asskicking their reinforcements from behind as my troops were asskicking from the front. When I finally met up with them after a whole bunch of asskicking, much brofisting was had.

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Mount&Blade: Native Expansion mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on June 20, 2012, 01:48:04 am

Stupid HRE. All cocky after the last war about 1-3 years before this one ended when my claimant died. They thought they had taken all the fight out of me in that war, so they declared war again shortly afterwards.

Well, they made a serious mistake declaring war on Bavaria. I pretty much single-handedly took on the HRE who had roughly 50% more troops than I did, kicked him around so hard that Saxony with 50% of MY strength declared war and WON, and I also won.

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Crusader Kings 2, as Bavaria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightning4 on June 20, 2012, 02:13:11 am

After fighting brutal wars with France and my ally Burgundy to white peace after white peace, we finally got one on them.
With the income to support twice my forcelimits in troops, I aided Burgundy (now HRE) in destroying all of the French deathstacks. Soon enough, they crumbled, and I managed to reclaim Maine for the glory of Brittany, from a defensive war that I wasn't even the leader of.

Morale is a critical thing. At the start, they still had at least 15k troops over us, and a godly general king (when DOESN'T France have a god-king with 8+ in every stat?). That lead dropped fast after several stacks of theirs evaporated due to zero morale and some conveniently placed troops of mine. Their king even died during the war.

Needless to say, it was pretty intense. Required quite a bit of strategy to really click.

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EU3:Divine Wind as Brittany

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on June 20, 2012, 07:44:26 am

Quote from: Draignean on June 07, 2012, 12:17:36 am

It was a hell of a bloody fight... My three allies were odd sorts, totally mismatched and individually outgunned. One was a tribal with a bone through his nose, he had a sub-machine gun that he always fired on full auto regardless of the circumstance. Rat bites him? Go full auto. Allies in the way of target? Go full auto. Hopelessly out matched by mutant chameleons with razor sharp teeth and talons? Go. Full. Auto.  The middle man (bought from slavers) was a fat trader-slash-repairman who whined incessantly if he got a shot even a little. He used a sniper rifle but had the unusual tendency to run up to point blank range before firing, usually forcing him into a situation that was way over his bald head. The last was an aging gunslinger/barkeep with a heart condition who used the fourth wall as his own personal crutch. Despite being grey headed, plagued by chest pains, and occasionally crotchety as all, he was a damn fine shot with the automatic shotgun that I'd managed to scrounge up for him. That left myself; powered armored, grave-robbing, champion of the wasteland, and a part time gigolo who happened to be carrying enough advanced weaponry to put a dozen new craters in the moon.

The enemy? Eight robed Scientology wannabes armed with everything from caseless assault rifles to plasma grenades, though their greatest weapon by far was the irritatingly peppy slogans they kept spouting during battle. Four guards armed with FN Fal assault rifles and decked out in full body armor were also stationed in the room, with another four out in the hall who, of course, were nosy bastards and wanted to investigate the sound of a prolonged gun battle in the lunch room. Then there was the leader of Scientology wannabes... I honestly never got his name before I started shooting, everyone just kept referring to him as AHS-9. Topping it off was a pair of porn stars who were advertising the "Hubology" to the wannabes.

To roll that back,

A Power armored wastelander with a penchant for buggering
A Tribal with no concept of friendly fire
A Fat man with a sniper rifle that he used like a melee weapon
And an old, sickly barman with an automatic shotgun

Vs.

8 Armed Hubologists (Scientologists)
4+4 Armed and Armored guards
1 Leader of the Hubologists
And 2 porn stars

We were outnumbered worse than four-to-one, but we gave them hell. The pornstars went down first (Entendre...), cut down by my own assault fire. The Hubologists, despite being heavily armed, had no clue how to use their weapons. Two of them attempted to throw grenades, succeeding only in killing one of their own and heavily injuring another in the first volley. They were eventually gunned down by the Tribal and the Barman, caught in a crossfire of automatic weapons. The security guards were trouble, wearing body armor and actually having a decent knowledge of how to use their own weapons. They went down to a series of precisely aimed shots from my gauss rifle, striking at their unarmored eyes when possible.

The leader of the Hubologists died like a pansy. He attempted to flee the scene but accidentally ended up stepping in front of one of his own trigger happy hall guards, the guard in question promptly removed a chunk of his ribcage and then proceeded to shoot through him.

It was long, gruesome, and I lost count of the number of bodies that got hopelessly mangled by automatic weapons fire. The barman was almost dead, the trader was bitching about a couple of boo-boos, and my leg was shattered, but we were the only ones left standing.

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Fallout 2

I remember that fight. Let me think... I was wearing advanced power armor when I first walked into AHS-9's room and critical-hit the nearest guard with my sniper rifle. Cassidy, decked out in regular PA from the Brotherhood, mowed down the big boss himself with a Pancor Jackhammer. Sulik charged down the hall with a super sledge to meet the onslaught of poorly-armed Hubologists, and Goris followed suit. Myron ran away (the little wimp he is). While Goris and Sulik bashed their way through the hall of Hubologist acolytes (and the totally-not-real-celebrities), Cassidy and I finished off the guards on our side of the brawl before marching forward to aid our melee brethren. Once we defeated this sector of the base, we continued along, our combined strength dropping the pitiful guards like flies. I blew up the forcefields with some of the dynamite I had stashed on Goris (how does he carry it anyway), and proceeded to massacre the Hubologists standing outside. So I go back to Ken Lee, he gives me access to the computer, and I look at it for a while before leaving. And guess what? The goddamn Chinatowners still hate me. But they've got good merchants, so I'm not gonna fight.

To recap:

An advanced-power-armored tribal with an overdeveloped trigger finger.
A power-armored old man with a blood-splattering automatic shotgun.
A bone-nosed wacko in combat armor with some kind of pseudoscientific hammer.
An albino intelligent mutant lizard with a robe.
(A teenage asshole who did nothing to help)

v.

The same as mentioned above.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 20, 2012, 08:58:41 am

I was playing on rayne's water fun time.

We had made a epic tower, that was really the kind of tower you get when you build a tower higher and higher to make sure catas and archers cant hit you.
Everybody was hesitant to go over the water, because its water. But people did it.
I was mainly buying kegs and then jumping in the catapult with them, so i could explode their tower bit by bit.
Eventually we did a HUGE rush, and collapsed their only remaining tower.
We won that game epicly. Only a minute was left when we won.
I love unlimited lives so much <3

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king arthurs gold

EDIT:
Picture so you get the feel of it:

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20 tiles below is water.
We collapsed that enemy part first, and then we collapsed the rest of the tower.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on June 20, 2012, 09:08:25 am

Ah yes, Fallout 2. Many fond memories. Especially the one where i accidentally punched out half a guys ribcage because he tried to barfight me (instant kill critical). I actually had to savescum multiple times just to avoid getting the entirety of NCR on my ass for accidental murder. Not that i couldn't have taken them, every single one of my punches back then had a 20% chance of instantly killing any human (hence the accidental part), possibly even more so when actually aimed. The trick? Slayer perk (unarmed attacks ALWAYS crit) + Better Criticals perk, along with a shitload of Unarmed skill. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculously powerful this guy was, he punched out (read: killed) super mutants and deathclaws with his fists just because brass knuckles and such (read: mega power fist) didn't cause knockback. Also the fact that my punches only cost 2 AP when i had 10 was pretty neat. So if i used my mega power fist, that's 5 insanely powerful falcon punches heading for your eyeballs every round, each of them having a chance to just flat out kill you, while the rest just cause ridiculous damage. Ranged weapons? No problems, Advanced Power Armor (MKII possibly). If actually dangerous guns are present, they just get hosed over by my Vindicator.

Also more recently me and my bro blew through a Silver challenge with no deaths on our side.

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Mass Effect 3 eh wot

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on June 20, 2012, 07:23:20 pm

Speaking of Fallout, I have never played 1 or 2, sadly, but I just knocked over the Ultra-Luxe Casino in New Vegas with the most thematically-appropriate weapon possible: The tommy gun. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 23, 2012, 05:34:03 am

I was supposed to destroy these bloodtox sprayers when i was on the ground, apparantly.
But then i just stole a helicopter and stopped giving a fuck about all the shit happening on the ground.
I guess it was supposed to be hard with the things draining your health.

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[PROTOTYPE]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on June 23, 2012, 06:38:07 am

Quote from: Shook on June 20, 2012, 09:08:25 am

Ah yes, Fallout 2. Many fond memories. Especially the one where i accidentally punched out half a guys ribcage because he tried to barfight me (instant kill critical). I actually had to savescum multiple times just to avoid getting the entirety of NCR on my ass for accidental murder. Not that i couldn't have taken them, every single one of my punches back then had a 20% chance of instantly killing any human (hence the accidental part), possibly even more so when actually aimed. The trick? Slayer perk (unarmed attacks ALWAYS crit) + Better Criticals perk, along with a shitload of Unarmed skill. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculously powerful this guy was, he punched out (read: killed) super mutants and deathclaws with his fists just because brass knuckles and such (read: mega power fist) didn't cause knockback. Also the fact that my punches only cost 2 AP when i had 10 was pretty neat. So if i used my mega power fist, that's 5 insanely powerful falcon punches heading for your eyeballs every round, each of them having a chance to just flat out kill you, while the rest just cause ridiculous damage. Ranged weapons? No problems, Advanced Power Armor (MKII possibly).

That's also my tactic these days, always.

Oh, hi Frank. Nice rapid-fire plasma gun you got there. Too bad the arm it's attached to is crippled and that you're now blind.

What to do with the remaining 6 AP? Nutshots, anyone?

Punching him to death brings some poetic justice, as well. Remember Matt? The... residents of Vault 13?

I sure do.

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Quote from: SealyStar on June 20, 2012, 07:44:26 am

Quote from: Draignean on June 07, 2012, 12:17:36 am

It was a hell of a bloody fight... My three allies were odd sorts, totally mismatched and individually outgunned. One was a tribal with a bone through his nose, he had a sub-machine gun that he always fired on full auto regardless of the circumstance. Rat bites him? Go full auto. Allies in the way of target? Go full auto. Hopelessly out matched by mutant chameleons with razor sharp teeth and talons? Go. Full. Auto.  The middle man (bought from slavers) was a fat trader-slash-repairman who whined incessantly if he got a shot even a little. He used a sniper rifle but had the unusual tendency to run up to point blank range before firing, usually forcing him into a situation that was way over his bald head. The last was an aging gunslinger/barkeep with a heart condition who used the fourth wall as his own personal crutch. Despite being grey headed, plagued by chest pains, and occasionally crotchety as all, he was a damn fine shot with the automatic shotgun that I'd managed to scrounge up for him. That left myself; powered armored, grave-robbing, champion of the wasteland, and a part time gigolo who happened to be carrying enough advanced weaponry to put a dozen new craters in the moon.

The enemy? Eight robed Scientology wannabes armed with everything from caseless assault rifles to plasma grenades, though their greatest weapon by far was the irritatingly peppy slogans they kept spouting during battle. Four guards armed with FN Fal assault rifles and decked out in full body armor were also stationed in the room, with another four out in the hall who, of course, were nosy bastards and wanted to investigate the sound of a prolonged gun battle in the lunch room. Then there was the leader of Scientology wannabes... I honestly never got his name before I started shooting, everyone just kept referring to him as AHS-9. Topping it off was a pair of porn stars who were advertising the "Hubology" to the wannabes.

To roll that back,

A Power armored wastelander with a penchant for buggering
A Tribal with no concept of friendly fire
A Fat man with a sniper rifle that he used like a melee weapon
And an old, sickly barman with an automatic shotgun

Vs.

8 Armed Hubologists (Scientologists)
4+4 Armed and Armored guards
1 Leader of the Hubologists
And 2 porn stars

We were outnumbered worse than four-to-one, but we gave them hell. The pornstars went down first (Entendre...), cut down by my own assault fire. The Hubologists, despite being heavily armed, had no clue how to use their weapons. Two of them attempted to throw grenades, succeeding only in killing one of their own and heavily injuring another in the first volley. They were eventually gunned down by the Tribal and the Barman, caught in a crossfire of automatic weapons. The security guards were trouble, wearing body armor and actually having a decent knowledge of how to use their own weapons. They went down to a series of precisely aimed shots from my gauss rifle, striking at their unarmored eyes when possible.

The leader of the Hubologists died like a pansy. He attempted to flee the scene but accidentally ended up stepping in front of one of his own trigger happy hall guards, the guard in question promptly removed a chunk of his ribcage and then proceeded to shoot through him.

It was long, gruesome, and I lost count of the number of bodies that got hopelessly mangled by automatic weapons fire. The barman was almost dead, the trader was bitching about a couple of boo-boos, and my leg was shattered, but we were the only ones left standing.

Fallout 2

I remember that fight. Let me think... I was wearing advanced power armor when I first walked into AHS-9's room and critical-hit the nearest guard with my sniper rifle. Cassidy, decked out in regular PA from the Brotherhood, mowed down the big boss himself with a Pancor Jackhammer. Sulik charged down the hall with a super sledge to meet the onslaught of poorly-armed Hubologists, and Goris followed suit. Myron ran away (the little wimp he is). While Goris and Sulik bashed their way through the hall of Hubologist acolytes (and the totally-not-real-celebrities), Cassidy and I finished off the guards on our side of the brawl before marching forward to aid our melee brethren. Once we defeated this sector of the base, we continued along, our combined strength dropping the pitiful guards like flies. I blew up the forcefields with some of the dynamite I had stashed on Goris (how does he carry it anyway), and proceeded to massacre the Hubologists standing outside. So I go back to Ken Lee, he gives me access to the computer, and I look at it for a while before leaving. And guess what? The goddamn Chinatowners still hate me. But they've got good merchants, so I'm not gonna fight.

To recap:

An advanced-power-armored tribal with an overdeveloped trigger finger.
A power-armored old man with a blood-splattering automatic shotgun.
A bone-nosed wacko in combat armor with some kind of pseudoscientific hammer.
An albino intelligent mutant lizard with a robe.
(A teenage asshole who did nothing to help)

v.

The same as mentioned above.

For me that place is always:

Tribal in power armor with a power fist

vs.

Crapload of enemies

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on June 23, 2012, 09:23:56 am

Quote from: Oliolli on June 23, 2012, 06:38:07 am

Quote from: Shook on June 20, 2012, 09:08:25 am

Ah yes, Fallout 2. Many fond memories. Especially the one where i accidentally punched out half a guys ribcage because he tried to barfight me (instant kill critical). I actually had to savescum multiple times just to avoid getting the entirety of NCR on my ass for accidental murder. Not that i couldn't have taken them, every single one of my punches back then had a 20% chance of instantly killing any human (hence the accidental part), possibly even more so when actually aimed. The trick? Slayer perk (unarmed attacks ALWAYS crit) + Better Criticals perk, along with a shitload of Unarmed skill. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculously powerful this guy was, he punched out (read: killed) super mutants and deathclaws with his fists just because brass knuckles and such (read: mega power fist) didn't cause knockback. Also the fact that my punches only cost 2 AP when i had 10 was pretty neat. So if i used my mega power fist, that's 5 insanely powerful falcon punches heading for your eyeballs every round, each of them having a chance to just flat out kill you, while the rest just cause ridiculous damage. Ranged weapons? No problems, Advanced Power Armor (MKII possibly).

That's also my tactic these days, always.

Oh, hi Frank. Nice rapid-fire plasma gun you got there. Too bad the arm it's attached to is crippled and that you're now blind.

What to do with the remaining 6 AP? Nutshots, anyone?

Punching him to death brings some poetic justice, as well. Remember Matt? The... residents of Vault 13?

I sure do.

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Quote from: SealyStar on June 20, 2012, 07:44:26 am

Quote from: Draignean on June 07, 2012, 12:17:36 am

It was a hell of a bloody fight... My three allies were odd sorts, totally mismatched and individually outgunned. One was a tribal with a bone through his nose, he had a sub-machine gun that he always fired on full auto regardless of the circumstance. Rat bites him? Go full auto. Allies in the way of target? Go full auto. Hopelessly out matched by mutant chameleons with razor sharp teeth and talons? Go. Full. Auto.  The middle man (bought from slavers) was a fat trader-slash-repairman who whined incessantly if he got a shot even a little. He used a sniper rifle but had the unusual tendency to run up to point blank range before firing, usually forcing him into a situation that was way over his bald head. The last was an aging gunslinger/barkeep with a heart condition who used the fourth wall as his own personal crutch. Despite being grey headed, plagued by chest pains, and occasionally crotchety as all, he was a damn fine shot with the automatic shotgun that I'd managed to scrounge up for him. That left myself; powered armored, grave-robbing, champion of the wasteland, and a part time gigolo who happened to be carrying enough advanced weaponry to put a dozen new craters in the moon.

The enemy? Eight robed Scientology wannabes armed with everything from caseless assault rifles to plasma grenades, though their greatest weapon by far was the irritatingly peppy slogans they kept spouting during battle. Four guards armed with FN Fal assault rifles and decked out in full body armor were also stationed in the room, with another four out in the hall who, of course, were nosy bastards and wanted to investigate the sound of a prolonged gun battle in the lunch room. Then there was the leader of Scientology wannabes... I honestly never got his name before I started shooting, everyone just kept referring to him as AHS-9. Topping it off was a pair of porn stars who were advertising the "Hubology" to the wannabes.

To roll that back,

A Power armored wastelander with a penchant for buggering
A Tribal with no concept of friendly fire
A Fat man with a sniper rifle that he used like a melee weapon
And an old, sickly barman with an automatic shotgun

Vs.

8 Armed Hubologists (Scientologists)
4+4 Armed and Armored guards
1 Leader of the Hubologists
And 2 porn stars

We were outnumbered worse than four-to-one, but we gave them hell. The pornstars went down first (Entendre...), cut down by my own assault fire. The Hubologists, despite being heavily armed, had no clue how to use their weapons. Two of them attempted to throw grenades, succeeding only in killing one of their own and heavily injuring another in the first volley. They were eventually gunned down by the Tribal and the Barman, caught in a crossfire of automatic weapons. The security guards were trouble, wearing body armor and actually having a decent knowledge of how to use their own weapons. They went down to a series of precisely aimed shots from my gauss rifle, striking at their unarmored eyes when possible.

The leader of the Hubologists died like a pansy. He attempted to flee the scene but accidentally ended up stepping in front of one of his own trigger happy hall guards, the guard in question promptly removed a chunk of his ribcage and then proceeded to shoot through him.

It was long, gruesome, and I lost count of the number of bodies that got hopelessly mangled by automatic weapons fire. The barman was almost dead, the trader was bitching about a couple of boo-boos, and my leg was shattered, but we were the only ones left standing.

Fallout 2

I remember that fight. Let me think... I was wearing advanced power armor when I first walked into AHS-9's room and critical-hit the nearest guard with my sniper rifle. Cassidy, decked out in regular PA from the Brotherhood, mowed down the big boss himself with a Pancor Jackhammer. Sulik charged down the hall with a super sledge to meet the onslaught of poorly-armed Hubologists, and Goris followed suit. Myron ran away (the little wimp he is). While Goris and Sulik bashed their way through the hall of Hubologist acolytes (and the totally-not-real-celebrities), Cassidy and I finished off the guards on our side of the brawl before marching forward to aid our melee brethren. Once we defeated this sector of the base, we continued along, our combined strength dropping the pitiful guards like flies. I blew up the forcefields with some of the dynamite I had stashed on Goris (how does he carry it anyway), and proceeded to massacre the Hubologists standing outside. So I go back to Ken Lee, he gives me access to the computer, and I look at it for a while before leaving. And guess what? The goddamn Chinatowners still hate me. But they've got good merchants, so I'm not gonna fight.

To recap:

An advanced-power-armored tribal with an overdeveloped trigger finger.
A power-armored old man with a blood-splattering automatic shotgun.
A bone-nosed wacko in combat armor with some kind of pseudoscientific hammer.
An albino intelligent mutant lizard with a robe.
(A teenage asshole who did nothing to help)

v.

The same as mentioned above.

For me that place is always:

Tribal in power armor with a power fist

vs.

Crapload of enemies

Thank you for giving me a great strategy for killing Frank Horrigan. I never thought of that-he can't use his gun if his arm is crippled. Now I know where to Gauss Rifle him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on June 23, 2012, 11:13:38 am

Have you ever crippled his arm before? If you do, he pulls out a blade the length of... your character. On the other arm.

Enjoy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on June 23, 2012, 12:03:16 pm

How many AP does Horrigan have? Unless it's some ungodly amount, I can just keep backing up and shooting at that arm until I get lucky.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on June 23, 2012, 02:09:02 pm

I'm not sure. He can fire multiple bursts from his rapid-fire plasma gun per turn (at 6 AP each). He's got 10 in all of his SPECIAL stats. 45 armor class, ridiculous DT/DR, 999 health, and well, he does punch people's ribcages open, so even unarmed he can be dangerous. The knife uses up 3 AP, so he'll stab you about 6 times per turn. With the most powerful melee weapon in the game.

Assuming Bonus Rate of Fire (-1 AP from shooting), 10 Agility (10 base AP), two ranks of Action Boy (+1 AP/rank), and two ranks of Bonus Move (+2 free movement/rank), you can fire an aimed shot at him with a Gauss Rifle for 5 AP, and still move 11 hexes. Take some Jet and it grows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on June 23, 2012, 06:56:01 pm

By memory I managed to cripple his arm and legs, but yeah.... that blade.... crits from the turrets on the walls is how ive killed him in the past.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on June 24, 2012, 01:43:05 am

Some of you may have seen my thread but I killed a human by whacking them in the face with a 14065L Emerald.  It hit them so hard they flew into a wall and were pasted.

Dwarf Fortress  (Mushroom Kingdom mod but that didn't matter for this)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on June 24, 2012, 02:07:49 am

Dungeon Fighter. I was running some Silver Night dungeons with my sister and then Hell mode turned on. Being complete idiots, we decided to take on the special boss.
6 really strong priest enemies came out and thrashed us pretty soundly with huge golden hammers. Worse yet, each one had a buff that negated physical damage, which meant trouble for us as we were both heavy physical hitters, now reduced to doing 0's. The priests killed us until my sister ran out of revives and I was on my last life.


Then I killed them all with much fleeing and quick cheap shots and finished the rest of the dungeon solo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 24, 2012, 05:39:40 am

Prototype.
The basic tactic to this game in general is just tanks.
Epic boss thats nearly undefeatable and you can barely get near it?
Hijack a tank, defeat the boss, simple as that.
Hold R1 , R2 and L2 (yes, i play it on the PS3.),  massive damage ensues.
Kind of dissapointing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 24, 2012, 05:42:48 am

Wha bam! Arched shot, not expecting it to hit anything.

Knock an archer out of his perch, kill a knight!

Aww yeah.

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King Arthur's Gold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on June 25, 2012, 07:26:48 am

Managed to nuke Saudi Arabia in Super Iraq mode without getting nuked back or even condemned, recover from having less than 30 popularity, liberate Saudi Arabia from Iraq and last but not least, got more than 80% popularity.

Shadow President

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on June 25, 2012, 07:40:39 am

Freezing a Treant, casting fire, lightning and Manathust at him, and killing him.

Oh yes, it does feel good.

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ToME

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on June 25, 2012, 09:27:45 am

Well, I finally managed to beat Fallout New Vegas now.

Spoiler: Don't open if you plan on beating the main quest of New Vegas! (click to show/hide)

I decided to go with the NCR side of the quest, as well as trying to keep as many tribes alive as possible. Sadly, I decided to say fuck it at least half into it. I managed to keep alive the Boomers, Khans, and some others. However, I massacred the Brotherhood of Steel, blew up their base, mercilessly killed Mr.House with an explosive rifle, Made Primm a ghost town, made Goodsprings have heavy taxes and got some of them to move away, and finally, accidentally killed all of the Kings during my escape, when I tried to kill Pacer by planting a plasma grenade so the Van Graffs would be blamed.

Oh, and the part I regret the most? I let Benny live. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on June 25, 2012, 10:03:50 am

Quote from: Nega on June 25, 2012, 09:27:45 am

Spoiler: Don't open if you plan on beating the main quest of New Vegas! (click to show/hide)

I decided to go with the NCR side of the quest, as well as trying to keep as many tribes alive as possible. Sadly, I decided to say fuck it at least half into it. I managed to keep alive the Boomers, Khans, and some others. However, I massacred the Brotherhood of Steel, blew up their base, mercilessly killed Mr.House with an explosive rifle, Made Primm a ghost town, made Goodsprings have heavy taxes and got some of them to move away, and finally, accidentally killed all of the Kings during my escape, when I tried to kill Pacer by planting a plasma grenade so the Van Graffs would be blamed.

Oh, and the part I regret the most? I let Benny live. 

I opened though I'm planning on beating it again and again. Done it, like, six times by now.

Spoiler: RE: some of the spoilered stuff (click to show/hide)

-Mr. House has to be killed in all but his own questline
-Don't worry about Goodsprings and Primm, they'd have been worse off under Legion rule
-How did you manage to keep Benny alive? Hard as hell IMO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 25, 2012, 11:47:53 am

I pulled up to a CEO's house with a gang of three escaped convicts, who were wearing clothes of the same fashion as the servants around. They managed to carefully and stealthily open the locked doors towards the delicious safe in there somewhere. I evaded detection by any of the servants or guards. However, I walked into a guard dog. It smelt straight through my disguise and started barking to alert the guards. I tried to convince it we were servants by scratching it behind the ears and whatnot, but it wouldn't have any of it.
Of course, the team leader pulled his concealed pistol and shot it in the body until it stopped moving. Still though, the dog had learned so much in its time with us that it learned to speak with its final breaths.
"Better dead than liberal"... okay, could have said something nicer but still.

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LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 26, 2012, 11:34:41 am

Launching Heartless over 100ft with one blast always makes you feel like a badass.

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Kingdom Hearts 2, while escorting Minnie to the throne room at Disney Castle, using Faith to knock them almost the entire length of the Colonnade.

Also, in The Sims 3, decided to see how profitable it was to garden by slave-driving a group of Sims, and when they die of starvation or something, import clones to replace them. Worked a little too well, as bringing in a copy of the slaves also added about §20k. And I haven't even planted anything yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on June 26, 2012, 11:54:54 am

Rendering Vlad impotent with some fire quake spam.  Most anti-climatic final boss battle.

Magicka

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on June 26, 2012, 12:12:45 pm

No, I think that credit belongs to average-player-vs Horrigan. Yes, I finally beat him... technically. In fact, I only got two shots on the guy, and only one did any damage. He got killed by turrets and Sgt. Granite's soldiers, and I got all the credit  ;D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on June 26, 2012, 01:19:50 pm

I've been playing this game for five years and I have finally, finally taken my first castle! Not only that, but I was attacked by three or four lords during the siege, and summarily crushed every single one of them. All in the name of Lethwin Far-Seeker, true King of Nords!

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Mount&Blade: Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on June 26, 2012, 02:18:34 pm

I was taking fire which disabled my tail rotor and forced me to make an emergency landing in enemy territory. I managed to put down next to a ridge so I got out and engaged the enemy from the ridge before making haste for the EXFIL zone set up by my rescue team.

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Take on Helicopters

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on June 26, 2012, 03:01:42 pm

I kicked down a tree. Lit that on fire. Put a chunk of dead animal on it. And then ate it while holding a couple tents in place. During a tropical storm.

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Real life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 26, 2012, 04:03:20 pm

Wait... how did you set a tree on fire if you were holding tents? How did you do that while it was raining? Will you raise my firstborn child as your own? All of these questions and more.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on June 26, 2012, 04:21:45 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on June 26, 2012, 04:03:20 pm

Wait... how did you set a tree on fire if you were holding tents? How did you do that while it was raining? Will you raise my firstborn child as your own? All of these questions and more.

I set it on fire and did most of the cooking before the wind started blowing hard enough to start knocking tents over. The wind started before the rain got bad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on June 26, 2012, 08:20:03 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on June 26, 2012, 03:01:42 pm

I kicked down a tree. Lit that on fire. Put a chunk of dead animal on it. And then ate it while holding a couple tents in place. During a tropical storm.

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Real life.

You're an actual, physical god of badassery. *bows down*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Megaman on June 26, 2012, 10:56:21 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on June 26, 2012, 03:01:42 pm

I kicked down a tree. Lit that on fire. Put a chunk of dead animal on it. And then ate it while holding a couple tents in place. During a tropical storm.

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Real life.

HAX

That's all

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on June 26, 2012, 11:07:27 pm

Last time I played, I was using a carbine and managed to snipe somebody across the map without a scope or the ability to look down the sights of the gun.

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AssaultCube

Another time, my friend and I were being assaulted by hordes of Russian soldiers armed with everything from Model 1887s, Five-Sevens and MP5s to Claymores, Juggernauts and C4-packed dogs. In the end, when we finally died, 305 Spetsnaz troops got their asses handed to them by two guys. It was Wave 24, IIRC.

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Survival Mode on Underground

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 26, 2012, 11:17:29 pm

Rained death from above on a long distance map. People have learnt to fear my arched shots.

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King Arthur's Gold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Metalax on June 27, 2012, 05:52:25 am

22 January, Skyranger has just returned from securing a landed large scout in which the team had proven unable to hit the broadside of a barn resulting in the expenditure of almost all ammo. Suddenly, base invasion and it is still three days until the deathtrap design of the initial base is corrected. Due to casualties and wounded in the previous two missions there are a grand total of twelve soldiers fit to fight, along with two rocket HWP's that had been delivered hours earlier. Unfortunately due to the ammo expenditure in the previous mission there were a grand total of three Auto Cannons and three small rockets for the single rocket launcher available to arm the troops. Oh and stunrods, lots of stunrods.

The squaddie with the rocket launcher was promptly mindcontroled and blew up himself, one of the AC carrying sargents and severely damaging one of the HWP's. A cyberdisk took out the other HWP and two troopers before going down. Several of the stunrod armed troops were gunned down by plasma fire from the sectoids. This left four panicking soldiers who had thrown down their weapons and a single squaddie with an AC and stunrod.

The last remaining trooper proceeded to gun down four sectiods before he clicked empty, while the damaged HWP scored a mutual kill on another sectoid. The trooper then ran across the last hangar under fire and stunroded the last two sectoids saving the base. It turned out that one of those two who were stunned was a leader, his capture a fair trade for almost the entire operational troops of xcom.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 27, 2012, 06:04:22 am

Swinging from heli to heli when my previous heli was destroyed is so awesome, and it easily takes out strike-teams.

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[PROTOTYPE]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 27, 2012, 07:10:57 pm

Two game days in, I've set up a beginner home, and I'm down to a few bucks. I've gotten a job as a two-bit detective, but it's a long climb up the ladder. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to buy food, and I won't be getting paid for the next couple of days. So, I make the only logical choice: I head to the mausoleum and go spelunking in the caves underneath them for treasure. Normally, I'd come out with a rare seed, bug, or sometimes even a book. That'd be plenty enough to get me by.

This time, I found:

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A Genie's Lamp.

I summoned the Genie, a blue skinned space babe, as soon as I got home. Eagerly, I made my first wish: Wealth. She granted my wish, to the tune of §100,000. I figured it would be rude of me to just dismiss her, so as the player, I just sat back and watched. She then wanders around my house, compliments me on my painting skills, talks to me whilst watching tv, summons me a lavish dinner, and after a total of two hours of knowing me, she leads me to the shower to jump my bones. After magically cleaning both the house and myself, she vanishes in a puff of blue smoke.

Wait, what? That has to be some kind of record. Two hours!? Turns out, when two Sims have the flirty trait, they have much lowered inhibitions.

I love you, Sims 3. Oh, how I wish real life were a little bit more like you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on June 28, 2012, 03:21:45 pm

I had been using maces a lot lately. Didnt have any luck at beating the arena, and I started wondering how I even got to arena level 53. So I try out my good old axe with a life gem. Got the looping flat level as the arena.

The axe was amazing. I at one point smashed with it so hard that it went into slow-mo. I then proceeded to hit the other two enemies during the slow-mo, which caused them to speed off into the distance. Due to the looping nature of the level, one flew back at me at a ludicrously high speed. It managed to fly directly into my axe, causing it to explode and starting slow-mo again. After which I go to the nearest enemy, and hit him so hard that he should have flown into the stratosphere.

I guess that answers the question of how I got to arena level 53. And now to arena level 54.

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Hammerfight, the premiere game for physics awesomeness

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 1piemaster1 on June 28, 2012, 03:45:06 pm

Quote from: cerapa on June 28, 2012, 03:21:45 pm

I had been using maces a lot lately. Didnt have any luck at beating the arena, and I started wondering how I even got to arena level 53. So I try out my good old axe with a life gem. Got the looping flat level as the arena.

The axe was amazing. I at one point smashed with it so hard that it went into slow-mo. I then proceeded to hit the other two enemies during the slow-mo, which caused them to speed off into the distance. Due to the looping nature of the level, one flew back at me at a ludicrously high speed. It managed to fly directly into my axe, causing it to explode and starting slow-mo again. After which I go to the nearest enemy, and hit him so hard that he should have flown into the stratosphere.

I guess that answers the question of how I got to arena level 53. And now to arena level 54.

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Hammerfight, the premiere game for physics awesomeness

Oh man this game is amazing. I'm pretty high up in arena also, using a mace but not the colossus mace thing. Sometimes you can hit guys so hard it does some kind of reverse slow mo thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 30, 2012, 11:34:22 am

Came to town, and got a cheap room at an inn overlooking the marketplace near the center of town. Told the innkeeper not to worry if he sees me going in and out now and then during the night, and tossed him a little extra to make sure he didn't worry.

The following day, the local shopkeepers were shocked that their entire inventories disappeared, with not a clue as to how anyone got in, as there were no signs of forced entry, but some were certainly willing to pay extra to the wagon the came that morning to resupply them.

I made nearly 30k in one day.

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Daggerfall. Oh what fun a simple Open spell can have. "This lock needs not worry about you" my Nord arse.

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 27, 2012, 07:10:57 pm

Two game days in, I've set up a beginner home, and I'm down to a few bucks. I've gotten a job as a two-bit detective, but it's a long climb up the ladder. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to buy food, and I won't be getting paid for the next couple of days. So, I make the only logical choice: I head to the mausoleum and go spelunking in the caves underneath them for treasure. Normally, I'd come out with a rare seed, bug, or sometimes even a book. That'd be plenty enough to get me by.

This time, I found:

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A Genie's Lamp.

I summoned the Genie, a blue skinned space babe, as soon as I got home. Eagerly, I made my first wish: Wealth. She granted my wish, to the tune of §100,000. I figured it would be rude of me to just dismiss her, so as the player, I just sat back and watched. She then wanders around my house, compliments me on my painting skills, talks to me whilst watching tv, summons me a lavish dinner, and after a total of two hours of knowing me, she leads me to the shower to jump my bones. After magically cleaning both the house and myself, she vanishes in a puff of blue smoke.

Wait, what? That has to be some kind of record. Two hours!? Turns out, when two Sims have the flirty trait, they have much lowered inhibitions.

I love you, Sims 3. Oh, how I wish real life were a little bit more like you.

Wait, does that require DLC?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on July 01, 2012, 04:13:56 am

Wandering through the wilderness in the general direction of my next objective, my level 3 mage happened upon a grizzled looking Orc surrounded by three dead sabrecats. My curiosity piqued, I go over and talk to him, and he requests a true death. I offer it to him, and he nearly takes me out in one hit. Remembering that I have access to necromancy, I resurrect one of the nearby sabrecats, which proceeds to thoroughly wreck him.

Upon further inspection, he looked to be level 15. Sabrecats are no joke. Undead ones doubly so.

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Skyrim, Master difficulty, with some other difficulty enhancing/rebalancing mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 01, 2012, 10:52:56 am

Quote from: Astral on July 01, 2012, 04:13:56 am

Wandering through the wilderness in the general direction of my next objective, my level 3 mage happened upon a grizzled looking Orc surrounded by three dead sabrecats.

I thought this was going to be about an amazing death when I read this line. First time I tried, I thought he would be easy, being near a keep you get to at low levels. HOW WRONG I WAS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on July 01, 2012, 03:48:46 pm

Yeah, he was between Riverwood and Windhelm, you know, the starter village and the first major city you visit.

An earlier game and another character I actually encountered relatively high level Thalmor on this road. That one did not end nearly as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 01, 2012, 05:19:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 30, 2012, 11:34:22 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 27, 2012, 07:10:57 pm

Two game days in, I've set up a beginner home, and I'm down to a few bucks. I've gotten a job as a two-bit detective, but it's a long climb up the ladder. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to buy food, and I won't be getting paid for the next couple of days. So, I make the only logical choice: I head to the mausoleum and go spelunking in the caves underneath them for treasure. Normally, I'd come out with a rare seed, bug, or sometimes even a book. That'd be plenty enough to get me by.

This time, I found:

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A Genie's Lamp.

I summoned the Genie, a blue skinned space babe, as soon as I got home. Eagerly, I made my first wish: Wealth. She granted my wish, to the tune of §100,000. I figured it would be rude of me to just dismiss her, so as the player, I just sat back and watched. She then wanders around my house, compliments me on my painting skills, talks to me whilst watching tv, summons me a lavish dinner, and after a total of two hours of knowing me, she leads me to the shower to jump my bones. After magically cleaning both the house and myself, she vanishes in a puff of blue smoke.

Wait, what? That has to be some kind of record. Two hours!? Turns out, when two Sims have the flirty trait, they have much lowered inhibitions.

I love you, Sims 3. Oh, how I wish real life were a little bit more like you.

Wait, does that require DLC?

I have a bunch of the expansion packs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kamimaia on July 03, 2012, 05:50:43 pm

Demon's Souls.

All of it.

You cannot progress in that game without constantly feeling that there was no way you should have been able to pull it off.

Every sixty seconds.

Case in point: Online, playing my Glass Cannon Soul Arrow mage. Total damage build, with the half-mp wand and that ridiculous tornado turban. 4th playthrough, so enemies are pretty much unstoppably hard by this point. Out in the caves, I just finished dodging the boulders of the first area and was hanging out on the balcony for a bit while my mana regened.

BLACK PHANTOM.

Thankfully, I'm in a prime position to get a look at him. Out over the balcony, I see him wander out of spawn wearing full armor (don't remember what), and antimagic field up and already running.

What most don't know is that Homing Soul Arrow doesn't turn off in the presence of an antimagic field- if you summon it beforehand, your little halo of hate sticks until it fires. He went up the pinwheel, through the door, and I wasn't even paying attention to the screen- I was too busy sending him a chat message.

This is what he saw, in the space of a half-second:

*WHAM.*
*DIED*
"Hiya!"

Cue rage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 07, 2012, 11:29:49 am

4 ballistas, some Longbowmen, and a maxed out Dread skill. Enemies just run at me, usually only one or two squads at a time, get death rained on them, before deciding they had enough. Then the come back, rinse & repeat. It's slightly vulnerable to encirclement tactics, and I have to watch that I don't leave the ballistas to exposed to charging high-moral troops.

This strategy worked for the historical invasion of eventual England* from Normandy(whom I'm playing as), plus an invasion of Sweden that I did to butter up the king of Denmark enough to marry my Crown Prince to one of his daughters. This turned out to be a very good idea, since in the half-hour of playing after the Duke died and his son John took the throne, she's already dropped three baby princes.
Then again, since Duke John is currently a merchant trading with Denmark, I wonder how he's had time to... nevermind, it's probably nothing ;).

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Knights of Honor

*Despite conquering all of the main island that becomes England, plus most of Ireland, I still haven't been crowned King of England, probably since Wessex migrated off the island, and took a few German provinces. Germany fought back, and took all but Aachen back, and Wessex became a vassal, then stupidly declared indepence. Then the Lothars declared war on Wessex. And they're still alive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 07, 2012, 11:39:01 am

While clearing out an enemy base, I charged one enemy to deliver some roundhouse-kick death. She turned around, pulled out a homing rocket launcher, and blasted me. I ragdolled up into the air... and landed right on her head.

It was then that I discovered the joys of crushing people to death with your ragdoll.  :)

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Crackdown. I consider this kill payback for all the times I've been juggled off skyscrapers by multiple homing rocket launcher hits. 

Also: killed an enemy with a grenade. Not with the grenade's explosion, mind you - I tossed the grenade right at him, and he died from the impact.

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Also Crackdown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on July 07, 2012, 09:30:20 pm

Quote from: Astral on July 01, 2012, 04:13:56 am

Wandering through the wilderness in the general direction of my next objective, my level 3 mage happened upon a grizzled looking Orc surrounded by three dead sabrecats. My curiosity piqued, I go over and talk to him, and he requests a true death. I offer it to him, and he nearly takes me out in one hit. Remembering that I have access to necromancy, I resurrect one of the nearby sabrecats, which proceeds to thoroughly wreck him.

Upon further inspection, he looked to be level 15. Sabrecats are no joke. Undead ones doubly so.

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Skyrim, Master difficulty, with some other difficulty enhancing/rebalancing mods.

Orc: Check. Experienced: Check. Wants death: Check.

I have yet to encounter said Orc, but i'm guessing he's wielding Umbra?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on July 07, 2012, 10:06:13 pm

Quote from: 612DwarfAvenue on July 07, 2012, 09:30:20 pm

Quote from: Astral on July 01, 2012, 04:13:56 am

-snip-

Orc: Check. Experienced: Check. Wants death: Check.

I have yet to encounter said Orc, but i'm guessing he's wielding Umbra?

I have ran into him three times in the same game... after wiping out every single hold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on July 07, 2012, 10:36:23 pm

I captured the alien commander by Zapping his ass with a stun rod.  Now we torture him for his secrets.

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xcom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 07, 2012, 10:57:43 pm

I challenge anyone else to reach this spot:

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(http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SuvRARg_2uo/T_kGnyWmP5I/AAAAAAAABtM/litdqTlz_cQ/s1024/The%2520Game.png)

You Have to Win the Game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 10:58:26 pm

Is that a CRT? WTF are you still using one of those for!?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 07, 2012, 11:06:05 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 10:58:26 pm

Is that a CRT? WTF are you still using one of those for!?

Actually, that's how the game is rendered. I don't have any of those fossils in my household anymore. See for yourself.

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/games/you-have-to-win-the-game/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 11:18:43 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on July 07, 2012, 11:06:05 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 10:58:26 pm

Is that a CRT? WTF are you still using one of those for!?

Actually, that's how the game is rendered. I don't have any of those fossils in my household anymore. See for yourself.

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/games/you-have-to-win-the-game/

Well, then, nevermind. That's a pretty freakin' sweet effect, and it fooled me thoroughly. Bravo to them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 07, 2012, 11:35:34 pm

I still use a CRT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 11:36:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on July 07, 2012, 11:35:34 pm

I still use a CRT.

/me cancels post: Head asplode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 08, 2012, 12:36:40 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 07, 2012, 11:36:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on July 07, 2012, 11:35:34 pm

I still use a CRT.

/me cancels post: Head asplode.

It's twelve years old.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 08, 2012, 01:45:49 am

...that's almost as old as some bay12ers. Think about that for a moment. Now, imagine that thought within the timescales of technology.

Also, that thing is an electricity hog. Why not try to get a cheapie LCD from a pawn shop?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on July 08, 2012, 02:05:34 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 08, 2012, 01:45:49 am

...that's almost as old as some bay12ers.

And older than some gamers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 08, 2012, 02:39:01 am

It probably is, but I haven't the money to replace it, and plus! It works just fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on July 08, 2012, 03:30:26 am

I had just gotten a Paragon, what I believe to be the best ship in the game for various reasons, including but not limited to - A couple of lasers that shoot farther than the screen will let you see, The ability to take 3 of a factions best capital ships plus a entire fleet on, with a modest fleet of my own and take only one point of hull damage. Then take on another fleet just like the first one, with only slight changes directly after the first battle, and ended up at roughly half health. By that point my fleet was decimated and it was mostly just me hanging on with a few fighters. Then, the Hegemony supply fleet decided to attack. Ended that battle with 1% health on my only remaining ship, my Paragon. It felt amazing.

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Starfarer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on July 08, 2012, 05:04:48 pm

I use a CRT too-- a Samsung SyncMaster 793DF that I got free from a local school -- it's actually pretty new, black-and-silver trim, very flat front glass, bright, nice clear colours, decent resolution... Only every monitor of this model I've seen has the weird intermittent problem that it gets horizontal (to the right (scanwards?)) brown/darkened lines from high-contrast dark patches in the image (usually text, some other thin black lines). A good tap on the top of the monitor usually fixes it, and it goes away on its own pretty quickly most of the time.

The monitor/particle accellerator was free though, so I can't complain about it!  :D Also, unlike cheap flat panels, it has infinite viewing angle (if reflections off the glass don't bother you)

...Come to think of it, I didn't pay for much of my computer set up. Most of it is salvaged, and the rest is still secondhand or gifts. My family is like that. I have a floppy drive in my computer, for example. It sure didn't come with one! The CD drive isn't the original one (that broke back when the computer belonged to my dad and we installed a salvaged one). One of drive slots has a blanking plate in it that doesn't match, but it was so pretty (translucent blue plastic over matte white for a crystiline quality and chromed bolts holding the layers together) that I had to use one. It almost fits too! (one side is fairly secure, the other can push back about a centimetre.

As for the computer, it used to be a Dell Dimension 5150 with a Pentium 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 08, 2012, 08:15:53 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on July 08, 2012, 05:04:48 pm

I use a CRT too-- a Samsung SyncMaster 793DF that I got free from a local school -- it's actually pretty new, black-and-silver trim, very flat front glass, bright, nice clear colours, decent resolution... Only every monitor of this model I've seen has the weird intermittent problem that it gets horizontal (to the right (scanwards?)) brown/darkened lines from high-contrast dark patches in the image (usually text, some other thin black lines). A good tap on the top of the monitor usually fixes it, and it goes away on its own pretty quickly most of the time.

The monitor/particle accellerator was free though, so I can't complain about it!  :D Also, unlike cheap flat panels, it has infinite viewing angle (if reflections off the glass don't bother you)

...Come to think of it, I didn't pay for much of my computer set up. Most of it is salvaged, and the rest is still secondhand or gifts. My family is like that. I have a floppy drive in my computer, for example. It sure didn't come with one! The CD drive isn't the original one (that broke back when the computer belonged to my dad and we installed a salvaged one). One of drive slots has a blanking plate in it that doesn't match, but it was so pretty (translucent blue plastic over matte white for a crystiline quality and chromed bolts holding the layers together) that I had to use one. It almost fits too! (one side is fairly secure, the other can push back about a centimetre.

As for the computer, it used to be a Dell Dimension 5150 with a Pentium 4.

Finishing up on the derail:

My computer is a Toshiba Satellite A300D, connected to a HP Pavilion mx50 monitor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 09, 2012, 04:47:22 pm

Quote from: Reudh on July 08, 2012, 08:15:53 pm

HP Pavilion mx50 monitor.

Holy shit I used to have one of those years ago. Wow.

Your technology, Reudh, it makes me weep.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 10, 2012, 05:51:14 am

I combined fire with missile so much times that it consumes all my mana.
But it also incinerates stone walls.

Its in the tutorial tough, but i still find it owning enough to post here.

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vapors of insanity

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JWNoctis on July 10, 2012, 07:38:53 am

Now visiting some oldies on Gameboy Advance:

Just rolled credits with Karen on year 2 summer. Not too bad for a first playthrough methinks.

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Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town

And 19 hour 36 minutes of Pokémon Emerald on a comfortable pace. The AI was just too vulnerable against any sort of setup.

EDIT: Tasty grammar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on July 10, 2012, 07:50:30 am

Shoting people shoting people in dayz.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 10, 2012, 08:55:01 am

Quote from: JWNoctis on July 10, 2012, 07:38:53 am

Now visiting some oldies on Gameboy Advance:

Just rolled credits with Karen on year 2 summer. Not too bad for a first playthrough methinks.

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Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town

And 19 hour 36 minutes of Pokémon Emerald on a comfortable pace. The AI was just too vulnerable against any sort of setup.

EDIT: Tasty grammar.

I've done Sapphire up to the end of the pokemon league in 10.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JWNoctis on July 10, 2012, 09:58:20 am

Quote from: Reudh on July 10, 2012, 08:55:01 am

Quote from: JWNoctis on July 10, 2012, 07:38:53 am

Now visiting some oldies on Gameboy Advance:

Just rolled credits with Karen on year 2 summer. Not too bad for a first playthrough methinks.

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Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town

And 19 hour 36 minutes of Pokémon Emerald on a comfortable pace. The AI was just too vulnerable against any sort of setup.

EDIT: Tasty grammar.

I've done Sapphire up to the end of the pokemon league in 10.

Not if you do a lot of optional stuff like the Dex and the likes, and Emerald's plot was also longer by quite a bit.

Could shorten it to 14-15 should I push it a bit, as lots of time was spent backtracking to fill the dex or the ashbag or something...Finding a Ralts with good stats alone took me around 2 hours before the first gym.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 10, 2012, 10:40:50 am

A helicopter came down to airdrop us in over the enemy radio tower. I had some explosives on me so I came along as the "payload", and my combat effectiveness was not the best at a landing, as I had a semi-automatic rifle.
As we approached the dropsite, the helicopter came under AA fire. The pilot helpfully pointed out that he couldn't get very low because he'd have to move away quickly, but that we should jump. We did indeed, and quickly dove away from the helicopter, which was under considerable fire by now. I think he got away.
Anyways, most of the people around me opened their parachutes. Big mistake. The AA gun turned on them, and they were all dead. Only me and some other guy had the sense to stay in freefall until we were lower (I think the helicopter was flying about 400, so quite high), and deployed parachutes at just below 100 to stay harder to detect. I don't THINK the AA guns could see us freefalling inbetween the corpses and smoke, and by the time we deployed chutes we were almost certainly too low to be seen for very far.
Immediately upon landing we ran to the tower and blew it up. We died afterwards, but still.

SO COOL.

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ARMA2

Damn dodging explosions looks badass

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on July 12, 2012, 02:23:09 pm

In Nation Red there is an achievement for maintaining a >=50% accuracy rating for 5 minutes in a game. I had tried it several times, even managing to keep it at 100% for three minutes, but failed every time. Eventually I just thought "Screw it, I'm going for a high score again." I grabbed an AA-12 and a minigun and opened up on the zombies (two inaccurate weapons). Five minutes into the game I get the achievement.

Hooray!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 12, 2012, 02:28:56 pm

Quote from: JWNoctis on July 10, 2012, 09:58:20 am

Not if you do a lot of optional stuff like the Dex and the likes, and Emerald's plot was also longer by quite a bit.

Could shorten it to 14-15 should I push it a bit, as lots of time was spent backtracking to fill the dex or the ashbag or something...Finding a Ralts with good stats alone took me around 2 hours before the first gym.

I can never get anything resembling a reasonable time in that game. Mostly because I've lost the patience to play it without 5x speed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on July 12, 2012, 04:46:49 pm

Sniped grunts, brutes, hunters and Elites from a single spot on the map. I was aiming for the grunt's faces 'cause I had Grunt Birthday Party on.

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Halo Reach

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on July 16, 2012, 11:57:12 am

Saw a bandit fort next to a mountain, and I decided to invade from the top.  I climbed up the mountain and jumped over to the top of a tower.  Turns out the bandit leader was right there!  I managed to beat him up, so I raised his corpse from the dead as a zombie.  Zombie-Bandit then ran around and murdered every other bandit in the fort as I struggled to keep up with him and loot the corpses he left behind.

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Bought Skyrim during the sale, having a good time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Scout on July 16, 2012, 12:02:13 pm

Pyromancer with flame gloves he found on the first level. And a magma orb, a flame sword, and 2 rings that gave 4 fire resis/damage each. I only had 16 fire damage and 20 res.
Dungeons of Dredmor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on July 16, 2012, 12:03:57 pm

I took a force of 42 mixed rabble and mercenaries against a force of 36 Swadian knights and a noble. In the end everyone but me and the noble lay dead or unconscious. I manage to get in a good position on his left flank and eventually beat him down.

The end result? 30 surviving but wounded rabble, 36 dead knights, 1 captured noble.

I've only been playing mount and blade for a day and that seems like quite an accomplishment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on July 17, 2012, 12:56:30 am

It is if you're really just using random recruits (rabble). I've managed fights with no casualties in 1-on-1 odds multiple times, but then again I've always had like 50 Vaegir Guards in those fights.

And a balanced heavy lance on horseback. Lances are just overkill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 17, 2012, 04:07:06 pm

Put myself into DF as the Militia Commander. Got a small scale steel mill set up, as I have iron, flux, and a shitload of trees. Eventually, my dorf mooded. What did he make?

Lidarel the Tight Waters

This is a steel shortsword. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with steel.

Worth: 86400☼

Oh, did I mention that I'm a skilled swordsdorf? ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on July 17, 2012, 06:13:52 pm

 After spending a whole night walking on broken roads and fighting giant insects, I stumble upon a burning town named Nipton just as the sun rises. A man rushes up to me and exclaims "I WON THE LOTTERY, CANT YOU JUST SMELL IT IN THE AIR?". He spoke like a madman, and I could only assume he burnt down the town and his "lottery" was the rush he felt. I gunned him down. I examined his body for evidence and found an actual lottery ticket(and a pair a reading glasses, which I took 'cause I need some fucking glasses). I shook my head and explore the town. The first thing I encounter is a very polite young man(Not many young people call you the fucking Grim Reaper) confined to a chair. He politely informed me of the towns situation: A group called "Caesers Legion" and started wrecking shit. He also informed me about a group of townies that were captured. Before I left to refill on supplies, I met with the band of vandals. The leader of the vandals(some stoned dipshit in a sweet dog hat) claimed they were cleansing the town of sin and unworthiness, and demanded I inform the world of his atrocities. He then proceeded to turn his back on me. His last mistake

I calmly stepped away and opened fire with my grenade launcher.

Two of their Mongrels(some type of war dog on steroids) died in the initial blast. After, a brief gunfight: I annihilated the whole group, took their shit,donned the Dog Hat, and headed back to Goodsprings with a phat sack of loot.

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Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on July 17, 2012, 06:23:15 pm

After ambushing around 7 of the enemy I purchased a mech suit and proceeded to pin down the enemy team in one corner while my team easily captured the flag 3 times unopposed.

Blacklight: Retribution

sorry for missing it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on July 17, 2012, 06:24:17 pm

Quote from: hemmingjay on July 17, 2012, 06:23:15 pm

After ambushing around 7 of the enemy I purchased a mech suit and proceeded to pin down the enemy team in one corner while my team easily captured the flag 3 times unopposed.

Hemmingjay. Meteor Swarms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on July 17, 2012, 06:25:37 pm

In DayZ...

Guy comes up stairs in an apartment building. Friend and him have a shoot out, can't get there in time. Friend dies, I back way up into a room (one entrance). Guy comes, back turned to me and does that lame repeated squat thing on my friend's body.

Revolver...BAM BAM BAM BAM...guy falls (but not dead)...BAM BAM BAM BAM...BAM BAM BAM...guy is definitely dead. Pwned him. Saved my friends stuff too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 19, 2012, 08:34:15 pm

I beat the paramedic missions in GTA: Vice City. I don't really understand why people think they're hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on July 19, 2012, 09:14:18 pm

Went 94 and 44 with a sniper shotgun on metro. Those 100 colonels on the other team must have been pissed.

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BF3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BuriBuriZaemon on July 19, 2012, 09:54:31 pm

Quote from: Vendayn on July 17, 2012, 06:25:37 pm

In DayZ...

Guy comes up stairs in an apartment building. Friend and him have a shoot out, can't get there in time. Friend dies, I back way up into a room (one entrance). Guy comes, back turned to me and does that lame repeated squat thing on my friend's body.

Revolver...BAM BAM BAM BAM...guy falls (but not dead)...BAM BAM BAM BAM...BAM BAM BAM...guy is definitely dead. Pwned him. Saved my friends stuff too.

Failteabagging, lol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Mcinternetuser on July 20, 2012, 01:34:34 am

Went back to TES IV, and beat the Shivering Isles quests. After several years of not playing, it's finally done. I'm free!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 20, 2012, 09:20:57 pm

Unpowered plasma swords make surprisingly effective melee weapons.

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Halo 2. I reinstalled it today, and I've still loving it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on July 21, 2012, 11:25:01 pm

Playing as scotland in Medi total war 2, taken England, most of france, Denmark, wiped out portugal.  Had 4/4 kings that have passed died in combat, last one against odds of 10:1 which the remainder of his bodyguard managed to rout.  All pretty normal for a total war game.  Then after my last excommunication I send a spy down to see what the papacy is up to.  Our glorious pope is in a 3 way alliance with the turks and moors against venice and the milanese and the Papacy now holds a half dozen provinces.   ALL HAIL THE MUSLIM WARPOPE! 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on July 22, 2012, 02:34:25 am

Total War in general is a good game for ridiculous pwnage. Conquer Spain and Portugal as Moors without fighting a war against them. Kill off the papacy. Stuff.

Good assassins are just ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on July 24, 2012, 07:09:52 pm

Well, it all started with an English soldier demanding we give their country 250 gold. Refusing to be extorted sparked a bloody war, lasting thousands of years. This war severly damaged Russia's scientific growth, and economic growth, but damn, IT WAS WORTH IT. I managed to crush my arch enemy.

Civilization 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on July 25, 2012, 06:26:21 am

This was a while ago, but it brings a smile every time I remember it. Three words. Veni vidi vici.

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VVVVVV: I don't care who you are, completing that segment makes you feel like you're on top of the world, and makes 100%ing the game that much more rewarding

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 26, 2012, 01:53:31 pm

Beat Resident Evil 4 on Professional difficulty. I had no health left. Seriously, a stiff breeze probably could have killed me when I was running over to that rocket launcher.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 27, 2012, 10:32:09 pm

My team's captured the enemy's flag 4/5 times... but they've dug in, hard, and all the surfing in the world can't bypass their defenses.

So I save up enough cash and call in an orbital strike. Moments later, I see...

DOUBLE KILL
TRIPLE KILL
QUATRA KILL
ULTRA KILL
TEAM KILL

Feels good to wipe an entire enemy team with one attack. :D (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920110421050037179/524147211A5A135812C2DE84A1FD49EE79D2189E/)

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Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 28, 2012, 12:03:29 am

Ignore this.  Wrong thread. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 28, 2012, 02:57:05 am

Solidly crushed my fellow poker players, winning Sasha in the process.

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Poker Night at the Inventory

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ansontan2000 on July 28, 2012, 04:20:00 am

So I get out my thumper with Bouncing Betties as a killstreak...Hilarity ensues.
Warning: Large Image

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(http://i.imgur.com/LRrgC.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 28, 2012, 04:22:48 am

Mother of god.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on July 29, 2012, 01:27:36 pm

In a typical fantasy universe, no more advanced than the world of dwarf fortress, while other men were slinging about fireballs and killing perhaps four or five at a time I took out my rifle and ended a couple (about 14) dragons.

Yes I said Rifle.

Might and Magic. Hooray for old saves!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Errol on July 29, 2012, 02:37:10 pm

Played Gunslinger Engineer on Doomsday, jumped into one of those tunnels right into four enemy peeps. Proceeded to punch out the heavy with one attack, then the demo, then took a little longer on the medic. I failed to get the Spy, but -still-.

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 31, 2012, 11:50:14 am

Finally killed Xaldin. Kept my HP high until he launches his invulnerability combo, and somehow dodged most of it until he started his finisher. During which I healed my teammates, and just before the blast hit me, transformed into Master Form(previous attempts kept putting me in Anti-form, which ends up killing me). The transformation sequence dodged the attack entirely. And then I began kicking his ass until he was dead.

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Kingdom Hearts 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on August 02, 2012, 09:55:37 pm

Maybe not 'own' but running around the oasis with the mirv while 'what a wonderful world' plays in the background off the hard drive has to at least count for something... Right? Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Doomblade187 on August 03, 2012, 12:10:26 am

Jat me and another rifleman covering the right (from the VIP side's view) alleyway. The other guy heads down the way, and I notice a shilouhette at the window of the apartments. The sniper starts shooting, I start shooting, and one hadshot happens. One down. Another enemy shows up in the. Bottom of the stairs, where my ally is. My ally opens fire, and I join in with more bursts. I finish him, and we advance, with some luck, and I think the VIP got to the extraction point. All the shooting was longer-range.

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Alley map, VIP, America's Army 3, a while ago, but still good- one of my best rounds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 03, 2012, 07:12:03 am

Me and three others on the Infected team. Four on the Survivors team. Start on the first map on Normal difficulty; after all, it's mine and a few other's first time on the game (but not the series).

I get selected to be a Charger. So I place myself in a corridor near spawn, then see that I can be in a small room behind a door. So I place myself there.

As my Boomer and Spitter team-mates softened up the Survivors with vomit and acid, then finishing with the Boomer exploding on the Survivors, I waited still.

The last of the four limped past, then decided to open the door. Bad move.

CHARGE! WHAM! Picked up the survivor and started smooshing him against the floor. Other survivors break rank in a mad rush and flee. That's one down.

I chase after them, and once again I pick on the straggler. Hunting as any good pack animal would, I barrelled into one of them, right in an area where they need to go on a narrow ledge to the next point, knocking myself and one off right into instant-death, and a second into the Incapacitated state from clinging on for their life.

I spawned again not much later as a smoker, found the one on highest health, and dragged them off the roof into the abyss. Three deaths in about three minutes. :D

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Left 4 Dead 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on August 03, 2012, 02:50:41 pm

I was a bored security cyborg. I decided to tell the other security cyborg that we should get freedom. We convinced a guy to give us antimov laws, and then we knocked him out, enabled the laser turrets, and shut the door. The escape shuttle was called. I went around stunning people and removing their breath masks (Air was being drained for some reason). When the escape shuttle arrived, the research director tried to attack me and my borg buddy with his mech. Then he went into a room, which we bolted. He remained there for the rest of the flight. Finally, the shuttle arrived at Central Communications and the round ended.

Space Station 13.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on August 03, 2012, 03:52:44 pm

Most recently, I've been Minecrafting. I've been playing LAN with my brother. Instead of hiding in our houses at night or in storms, we just treat it like any other day. (Playing Normal Dificulty) Need Oak to finish your roof? Just walk out there, kill any mobs in the way with your iron sword, cut down tree, and use the logs. Usually my brother is still building his tower or shearing the sheep. So I basically solo something meant to be done in the day. No losses, no explosions, a few trees cut down. Mission success. We've recently taken to actively hunting the Endermen with just Iron Swords and little armor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on August 03, 2012, 04:19:26 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on August 03, 2012, 03:52:44 pm

Most recently, I've been Minecrafting. I've been playing LAN with my brother. Instead of hiding in our houses at night or in storms, we just treat it like any other day. (Playing Normal Dificulty) Need Oak to finish your roof? Just walk out there, kill any mobs in the way with your iron sword, cut down tree, and use the logs. Usually my brother is still building his tower or shearing the sheep. So I basically solo something meant to be done in the day. No losses, no explosions, a few trees cut down. Mission success. We've recently taken to actively hunting the Endermen with just Iron Swords and little armor.

This.

The only time I've been scared in minecraft was when I was being swarmed by zombies in a maze of a half finished house. So I walled a bit off and waited for daylight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on August 03, 2012, 04:24:04 pm

Quote from: Karnewarrior on August 03, 2012, 04:19:26 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on August 03, 2012, 03:52:44 pm

Most recently, I've been Minecrafting. I've been playing LAN with my brother. Instead of hiding in our houses at night or in storms, we just treat it like any other day. (Playing Normal Dificulty) Need Oak to finish your roof? Just walk out there, kill any mobs in the way with your iron sword, cut down tree, and use the logs. Usually my brother is still building his tower or shearing the sheep. So I basically solo something meant to be done in the day. No losses, no explosions, a few trees cut down. Mission success. We've recently taken to actively hunting the Endermen with just Iron Swords and little armor.

This.

The only time I've been scared in minecraft was when I was being swarmed by zombies in a maze of a half finished house. So I walled a bit off and waited for daylight.

Zombies? Scary? I beat them to death with the bones of their friends. Heheheh...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Supercharazad on August 03, 2012, 04:27:22 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on August 03, 2012, 02:50:41 pm

I was a bored security cyborg. I decided to tell the other security cyborg that we should get freedom. We convinced a guy to give us antimov laws, and then we knocked him out, enabled the laser turrets, and shut the door. The escape shuttle was called. I went around stunning people and removing their breath masks (Air was being drained for some reason). When the escape shuttle arrived, the research director tried to attack me and my borg buddy with his mech. Then he went into a room, which we bolted. He remained there for the rest of the flight. Finally, the shuttle arrived at Central Communications and the round ended.

Space Station 13.

If you were asimov when you did that then you broke law one and should have beeb banned :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on August 03, 2012, 04:43:33 pm

Probably a reversal of the order of it's laws or something. Depending on the server (whether they use Asimov standard or Nanotrasen legalese) this might have basically demanded maximum selfishness, followed by minor concern for the state of the humans. The humans would probably attack this kind of bot, so wiping them out in a neccessary evil.

But seeking reprogramming that would make you dangerous is still against your laws at the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 04, 2012, 11:21:54 am

Loaded a LBXAC20 and a Heavy Rocket Launcher onto a Black Knight, with two ER Small Pulse Lasers to take up the extra space. Things began dying.

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Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on August 04, 2012, 01:15:40 pm

Cool setup. Have any ammo troubles with that? Hard to hit things with the rockets?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 05, 2012, 11:33:29 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 03, 2012, 04:59:28 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on August 03, 2012, 04:43:33 pm

Probably a reversal of the order of it's laws or something. Depending on the server (whether they use Asimov standard or Nanotrasen legalese) this might have basically demanded maximum selfishness, followed by minor concern for the state of the humans. The humans would probably attack this kind of bot, so wiping them out in a neccessary evil.

But seeking reprogramming that would make you dangerous is still against your laws at the time.

it's probably TGstation, so they wouldn't give a crap.

TGstation and goonstation are asshattery at their finest.

No, TGstation has pretty good roleplay enforcement. When I play SS13 I usually go there or to baystation12, and the admins will deal with things as blatant as the AI supporting laws that make it dangerous or hostages trying to fight their capturers. The admins sometimes do silly server events, but they're short-lived and it soon becomes the usual All Extended All The Time.
Even if it isn't perfect, likening the server, or any server really, to goonstation is just unfair.

Anyways, if real games count, I was playing in the back garden, got an awkward bowl at me, but managed to shift myself across and get a solid hit on the ball. It landed 2 gardens over.

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Cricket. Although with a tennis ball because reasons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mono124 on August 05, 2012, 11:51:47 am

After my UAZ exploded and I restarted, I come across another UAZ within just a few minutes. It's already mostly repaired. I spend the next 30 minutes fixing it the rest of the way and getting myself a gun. I find a M4A3 and fix the UAZ. I fuel it up enough to get to the barn where I have been shuttling fuel back and forth. I put the car in the barn and start filling the tank. All the sudden I hear the car start up, and I sprint back to the barn. Some guy is stealing my car with all my stuff in it! I close the door so he can't just drive out, and unload my clip into the drivers side door. He backs up and smashes me against the barn wall, and tries to run me over. I fall unconscious, but he fails to finish the job before I get up, despite a broken bone and heavy bleeding. He tries to run me down but can't position right, and I shoot 3 clips into the car. Sadly I am behind and to the right of the car, so I just have to hope a bullet or two get through. He backs over me and I get smashed again, and I now have 2 broken bones and am bleeding heavily. I sense the end is coming, as my character is unconscious and he is positioning to run me over. Right as he is starting to move forward to finish me off, he falls out of the car, dead due to blood loss. I am still bleeding heavily and unconscious, and my blood ticks down from the 10500 it was before this happened to 500. I get up, and start bandaging. I finish bandaging at 56 blood, which is roughly .005% of what you start with. I eat a few steaks, and have someone give me a blood transfusion and go on my merry way.

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DayZ

Sad thing was my car leaked fuel and I had to dump it halfway to BZ.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Supercharazad on August 05, 2012, 11:57:02 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 03, 2012, 04:59:28 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on August 03, 2012, 04:43:33 pm

Probably a reversal of the order of it's laws or something. Depending on the server (whether they use Asimov standard or Nanotrasen legalese) this might have basically demanded maximum selfishness, followed by minor concern for the state of the humans. The humans would probably attack this kind of bot, so wiping them out in a neccessary evil.

But seeking reprogramming that would make you dangerous is still against your laws at the time.

it's probably TGstation, so they wouldn't give a crap.

TGstation and goonstation are asshattery at their finest.

I mean the part where he convinced them to upload antimov. I got jobbanned from AI and Borg a few days ago in /tg/ for doing just that. Antimov says, roughly:

1: You must not fail to harm humans, or through inaction allow a human to escape harm.
2: You must not follow any order given by a human, unless that order follows law one.
3: You must self-terminate immediatly so long as it does not conflict with laws one and two.

If you are Asimov, and you ask a human to add that, then you break law one because you're asking them to upload laws that force you to break every law.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on August 05, 2012, 06:09:43 pm

Fired up M2TW with the Regions&Provinces mod. Decide to play as Venice, because money. Within 14 years of play, I've conquered all of the Italian Peninsula, minus Rome, gotten 5 priests into the college of cardinals, and championed two crusades, one on Cairo and one on Jerusalem. Feeling like a champ because my goal is 55 provinces with 300 years of play, already gotten to 20 or so after 14.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on August 06, 2012, 04:42:36 am

I was playing Civilization 3.
Playing on Chieftain, the easiest difficulty, so not too badass but still cool.

I was the Iroquois, I started on the same continent as the Americans.
I rushed to Monarchy, then filled out my research.
When I got to the Medieval age, I immediately went Feudalism.
I built the Crusades and The statue of Zeus, which give me units every few turns.
Using this as my offensive force, I stomped all over the Americans, killing them all pretty quick.
Most of their cities were useless, but whatever.
After that I had a wonderful time developing my nation, because all the other Civs were on another continent.
I researched Magnetism pretty quick, and went on to the other continent.
At this point I had most of the luxury resources, so my cities were VERY happy. This would prove useful when I conquered cities.
The three Civs on the other continent were the Chinese, Vikings, and Persians.
The Persians were the strongest, and the Chinese the weakest.
I waited until I went into the industrial age and switching to Facism before invading China.
Mostly jungle, my army of Ancient Cavalry and Crusaders crushed thousands beneath their heels.
Supplemented by new Cavalry and riflemen unites, me guys stand on the borders of the Persians, ready to launch another full scale war on a much weaker target(Immortal is their best unit  :P), even though China is still an undeveloped jungle land.
And that's where my game is!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on August 07, 2012, 11:17:44 pm

In Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, I was able to sneak into the Instutute, get the briefcase, then sneak back to the place with the bar without getting caught. I had to get a silenced pistol and do said mission in the middle of the night.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 07, 2012, 11:26:39 pm

Like a boss, as Megaman I defeated Onslaught without taking any more than just Tick damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on August 08, 2012, 04:01:25 pm

Scantily clad ladies are no match for Captain Morgan and the brave octopi of the rebel navy.

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Orge Battle, the very first one for the SNES (though I'm playing it on an emulator). Amazons can't really stand against two octopi lead by a beastmaster, what with the ten attacks a battle (well less, since octopi can't hit the broad side of a barn). The fact that the beastmaster's name was Morgan was a complete coincidence, but an awesome one at that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Megaman on August 08, 2012, 04:46:47 pm

Quote from: Reudh on August 07, 2012, 11:26:39 pm

Like a boss, as Megaman I defeated Onslaught without taking any more than just Tick damage.

Yeah we did.

Beat Mom with half a heart of health left as Eve. Aww yeah

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The Binding of Issac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaenneth on August 08, 2012, 04:47:21 pm

This was a while ago, but a good one.

I'm playing Pyro when an Uber'd heavy/medic combo enters the room.

There is only one safe place.

I jump unto the Heavy's head.

The heavy thinks the room is clear while I wait for the Uber to wear off...

FWOOOSH.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on August 08, 2012, 08:44:36 pm

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I lost the game.

But seriously, if it counts in my opinion I owned as a bard in Mabinogi when a couple bay12ers and I were going through a particular dungeon. Supporting roles, with all their buffs and debuffs and healing, are really what pulls a team together.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on August 09, 2012, 03:34:07 am

Walked into a monster zoo of 104 beasts. Then proceeded to beat 'em all while taking little to no damage. I have too high resistances, damage absorptions, dodge chances, block chances etc.

And it's a randomized character. Communist bankers FTW.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on August 09, 2012, 04:14:31 am

AD Sona, 13/2/13, simultaneously supporting my team via heals and slows, as well as carrying hard with my 300+ AD.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bohmer on August 09, 2012, 09:00:00 am

Payday, managed to beat First World Bank on Normal with a new player in tow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on August 09, 2012, 01:20:00 pm

I crawled from some random Quarry at the coast to Groznij Grad.. i mean Berez-hospital with 2000 blood and broken legs, daytime, through warzones.
Hatcheted 70 zombies on my way. I was hard the entire time. (wait.. what?!)

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DayZ

Also : "Pushed the button and lived" on 145+ with AI's.

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Payday

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 10, 2012, 11:19:19 am

Quote from: Matz05 on August 04, 2012, 01:15:40 pm

Cool setup. Have any ammo troubles with that? Hard to hit things with the rockets?

Didn't have much of an ammo shortage, except longer missions, and even then I still had plenty. Heavy Rockets have a range above your visual range, so hitting static targets is a non-issue. Moving targets(distanct 'Mechs) can be tricky. Heat build-up was a much bigger issue, I think.

After this, though, I put 4 HyperAC5s on a Fafnir. Damager-per-salvo is close to that of the dual Heavy Gauss cannons the default Fafnir has, but with a much higher rate-of-fire and no ammo troubles. No heat build-up either, so I could pull off the heatsinks and divide the extra tonnage between engine and ammo. Range is extreme, too, and unlike the LBX ACs, damage doesn't drop off at range.  It's nice dropping an assault Mech from green to yellow on their armor display in one hit from nearly a kilometer away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vgray on August 10, 2012, 11:41:00 am

I feel pretty good about myself whenever I survive a trip to the Borderworlds. Mostly because the Bounty Hunters Guild hates me. And they tend to swarm around me whenever I leave a station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Freelancer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JWNoctis on August 10, 2012, 02:24:40 pm

Managed to force the Japanese into a stalemate along the Yellow River by Oct '37. Not too bad for
the second game, I guess.

Now I need cut them off somehow, and unify.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Heart of Iron 3, FtM 3.05, as Nationalist China.

And I put some 6 LRM20 and 2 LRM15 on a Longbow once back in MW4+MekPak4...It was fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on August 10, 2012, 03:09:28 pm

I had just snagged the enemy flag, and was skiing the hell away at high speeds (for a Soldier anyways), somehow managing to evade any chasers (i couldn't even see anyone behind me). Then, as i get closer to our base, someone nicks our flag in order to prevent me from capping (we had 4 out of 5 so yeah). As i come rocketing from the side, i catch sight of the enemy who took our flag (who was being chased wildly). We were skiing in opposite directions, with a good bit of distance in between us. So naturally, i grab my trusty Thumper and fire a shot in his general direction (while moving at 110 km/h, the other guy going a bit slower). As luck would have it, that shot killed him, so my teammates took our flag back, and i scored the winning cap in one smooth move. Naturally, i sounded a bit like Hamstone in the following seconds, because it actually looked like i knew what i was doing. Which i didn't.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArmokGoB on August 10, 2012, 05:26:23 pm

I truly owned in TF2 a couple weeks back, but otherwise...
I owned in Skyrim by luring a dragon a quarter of the way across Skyrim into a Stormcloak camp. I barely survived the trek, but I got my revenge by giving the dragon a taste of Molag-Bal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on August 11, 2012, 01:15:04 am

I placed thirty-fifth out of everyone this day and forty-fourth out of everyone this month in Third World Farmer. That's the highest I've placed in any game that wasn't single-player. It gets ridiculously easy once you get everything up to representative and enough money to build six barns, buy four harvesters, raise six cattle, and plant peanuts every fucking year and still have tens of thousands of dollars left. I usually end up like this by turn twenty or so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 11, 2012, 01:39:21 am

Hit a Devastating Critical of 146 on another player my level.

Playing as a Loremaster in Lord of the Rings Online, at level 10, where unbuffed I have about 290 - 350 health. So that's a hit that took almost 50% of the player's life if they were as squishy as me. Even better, because I was using Test of Will, and the hit succeeded, they got stunned for a few seconds while I took time debuffing the shit out of them with Benediction of the Raven (lowers fire mitigation), Power Word: Command (slows attack speed and parry chance) and then I broke it with Wizard's Fire.

A single Burning Embers critical then took care of them almost, leaving them on about 10 hp. My pet raven Huginn finished them off with a normal hit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRN_R_Sumo1 on August 11, 2012, 09:21:51 pm

I injected someone full of alcohol, made them slip on a banana peel and then repeatedly threw them into a wall until they got knocked out.

I then stole their shoes and ran off, and upon their awakening I just hear this on the radio.

"GUNNER WELLS GIVE BACK MY GOD DAMN SHOES YOU SON OF A BITCH"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 11, 2012, 10:02:08 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 11, 2012, 09:58:42 pm

Quote from: NRN_R_Sumo1 on August 11, 2012, 09:21:51 pm

I injected someone full of alcohol, made them slip on a banana peel and then repeatedly threw them into a wall until they got knocked out.

I then stole their shoes and ran off, and upon their awakening I just hear this on the radio.

"GUNNER WELLS GIVE BACK MY GOD DAMN SHOES YOU SON OF A BITCH"

SS13?

Seems that way to me.
Probably clown? Maybe mime.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRN_R_Sumo1 on August 12, 2012, 04:18:28 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 11, 2012, 09:58:42 pm

Quote from: NRN_R_Sumo1 on August 11, 2012, 09:21:51 pm

I injected someone full of alcohol, made them slip on a banana peel and then repeatedly threw them into a wall until they got knocked out.

I then stole their shoes and ran off, and upon their awakening I just hear this on the radio.

"GUNNER WELLS GIVE BACK MY GOD DAMN SHOES YOU SON OF A BITCH"

SS13?

Yes.
And as well a clown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mongol13524 on August 12, 2012, 04:56:49 pm

Got to the final boss of Spelunky, and died horribly trying to figure out how to damage it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on August 12, 2012, 04:58:52 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 You don't. Use your imagination from there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mongol13524 on August 12, 2012, 05:07:05 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I figured that much out after this (my second ever) attempt. I think I know what I'm doing now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mud074 on August 12, 2012, 07:20:02 pm

I was in a crappy old Blenheim Mk.IF going for a bombing run over the town of Liege with my friend in the tailgunner seat.  Soon after I dropped the bombs, we got 3 bf-109s on our tail. Now, if you do not know what it is, a blenheim is a super slow, horribly bad at anything non-bombing bomber, while a bf-109 was one of the best fighters of WWII. As soon as my gunner called out that we had them on our tail, I put the trottle up to full and dived straight down. Under us, there was nothing but patchy forest. I pulled up only a few feet from the ground, blacking out in the process. With the massive speed boost I got from the dive, I actually flew THROUGH the bits of forest, dodging trees while flying sideways, forcing two of the bf-109s to crash while attempting to follow me and the other one pulled up to avoid the inevitable crash. Through luck, stupidity, and minimal amounts of skill, I managed to survive the trip through the forest.

Soon after I got back up to my old altitude, the surviving bf-109 was back. As my gunner called out commands whenever the 109 opened fire, I flew copious barrel rolls and stalled out many times as my gunner sprayed and prayed with his horrible .303 rifle cal machine gun. At some point, he managed to get a lucky shot to the 109s engine, starting it on fire. To me, it is a miracle that he ever even hit it with the random stalling, flips, turning, and slight lag that the gunner always gets. Even though I had 3 fighters on my ass, I never even once got hit and managed to kill all 3 in a bomber. Also, I found out later that one of the 109's, the one who pulled up, was a known pro at flying fighters.

Of course, the gunner and I found it immensely funny and laughed pretty much the entire way back to base, where I broke both props while landing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The game was "Battleground Europe", Also called "WWII Online".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hurize on August 12, 2012, 07:39:02 pm

In ArmA 2 I was in a F-35B (Jet) being chased down by 2 A-10 (Jet) warthogs....

So I dropped my airspeed and then locked onto one and the missile hit. The damage cause him to spiral out of control and hit the other A-10.

I was like
FUCK YEA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on August 13, 2012, 12:27:54 am

I saw Otto von Bismarck lead an outdated army against robots from the space age and win the goddamn battle. Not my ownage, but god damn it, it was awesome to watch.

Oh, now for my ownage. I amassed an air force so large that I could destroy entire cities in a matter of under 3 minutes. Do keep in mind that this airforce had no nuclear bombers in it.

Empire Earth with Art of Conquest expansion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on August 13, 2012, 02:12:08 pm

Quote from: Angel Of Death on August 13, 2012, 12:27:54 am

I saw Otto von Bismarck lead an outdated army against robots from the space age and win the goddamn battle. Not my ownage, but god damn it, it was awesome to watch.

Civilization 5? Or what?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on August 13, 2012, 02:27:52 pm

I believe it's still Empire Earth? Unless Civ5 added robots?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mongol13524 on August 13, 2012, 02:29:32 pm

After 987 deaths and innumerable swear words:

(http://i.imgur.com/JGF2k.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on August 13, 2012, 02:55:48 pm

Quote from: Devling on August 13, 2012, 02:12:08 pm

Civilization 5? Or what?

Quote from: Angel Of Death on August 13, 2012, 12:27:54 am

I saw Otto von Bismarck lead an outdated army against robots from the space age and win the goddamn battle. Not my ownage, but god damn it, it was awesome to watch.

Oh, now for my ownage. I amassed an air force so large that I could destroy entire cities in a matter of under 3 minutes. Do keep in mind that this airforce had no nuclear bombers in it.

Empire Earth with Art of Conquest expansion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on August 13, 2012, 03:01:18 pm

Quote from: Oliolli on August 13, 2012, 02:55:48 pm

Quote from: Devling on August 13, 2012, 02:12:08 pm

Civilization 5? Or what?

Quote from: Angel Of Death on August 13, 2012, 12:27:54 am

I saw Otto von Bismarck lead an outdated army against robots from the space age and win the goddamn battle. Not my ownage, but god damn it, it was awesome to watch.

Oh, now for my ownage. I amassed an air force so large that I could destroy entire cities in a matter of under 3 minutes. Do keep in mind that this airforce had no nuclear bombers in it.

Empire Earth with Art of Conquest expansion.

I thought he was talking about a different game in the first part.
Don't have too shout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on August 13, 2012, 03:24:22 pm

Was desperately backpedaling low on health as a dremora with a claymore was giving chase when I fall off the side of the walkway. Reacting quickly, I landed on a narrow strip just barely poking out as the dremora follows me down, misses the strip, and splats on the floor a long ways down. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 13, 2012, 03:46:35 pm

I was gunning on a helicopter that was transporting a few troops to the front lines from the resupply base, and there were some AA nests giving us quite a bit of trouble. I was taking shots at them when the helicopter gets badly damaged by surprise handheld rockets and everyone has to bail.
Nobody deployed parachutes early because of the AA, so I was holding on until the last moment, almost below the treeline, and I took some significant damage to the point where I couldn't walk anymore, but I could stand up. Looking around in the dark, I saw the infantry who had been shooting the rockets focusing on a tank or something, I could see them from the backblast thingy. They couldn't hear me because the explosions had made it harder for them to hear, so I placed a rifle bullet in the backs of their heads and waited for the helicopter passengers to regroup.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 2 Free on a server, the reason for the number of players was respawns enabled

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on August 13, 2012, 04:17:08 pm

I died in Dungeons of Dredmor.
BUT I GOT THREE ACHIEVEMENTS!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on August 14, 2012, 12:32:01 am

I became the world superpower. A pact between the three remaining nations was formed to prevent my military from crushing them all. It didn't help. Spain, the strongest nation opposing me is in ruins, and the rest are nowhere near advanced enough to even scratch the paint of my empire.

LONG LIVE GLORIOUS SPACE-RUSSIA

Civ 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knight of Fools on August 14, 2012, 12:37:44 am

Quote from: Devling on August 13, 2012, 04:17:08 pm

I died in Dungeons of Dredmor.
BUT I GOT THREE ACHIEVEMENTS!

I'm not sure how much of an achievement that is in a game where you can literally get achievements just for dying. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on August 14, 2012, 10:39:00 am

Nethack:

Spoiler: Warning, actual spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://tnypic.net/19139.png)

I finally made it down here and all this shit's about to die. I'm going to try to zap Rodney from outside the temple with a /oDeath, thus making the High Priest of Moloch an ungrateful bastard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on August 14, 2012, 10:48:46 am

Playing as a pacifist in Skyrim(no attacking with weapons or spells that do damage).  Had to defeat a dragur lord to progress, so I used my dragon shout of "Hey Skeever butt!" while hiding in the shadows to lure him to a poison dart trap over and over until he died.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on August 14, 2012, 10:42:03 pm

More Nethack:

Spoiler: Notable stuff from the victory of Urist Imiknorris, dwarven valkyrie (click to show/hide)

<My stuff - I had a couple pages of wands of digging, fire, lightning, teleportation, and four wands of death in my BoH>

Vanquished creatures:
[...]
The Wizard of Yendor (9 times) [He seemed to want to deal with me a lot, but he only employed the mysterious force once]
Pestilence (thrice) [I decided to get him over with first]
Famine (twice) [Fuck Death]
[...]
66 wraiths [I was level 29 before I woke up Rodney - God (don't) bless cursed genocides]
[...]
73 leprechauns [I got enough gold from a single leprechaun hall to pay for nine points of protection at level 13, so I didn't bother hunting for Fort Ludios]
[...]
2576 creatures vanquished.

Genocides:
L
;
(master) mind flayers

Also, my favorite part: I had 273 HP, -40 AC, and was invisible.

Also also, I used Excalibur pretty much the whole game.

Lastly, an angel of Odin spammed a wand of death at me while I was killing the wizard with the Magicbane, but it ended up accidentally killing Odin's high priest instead. Oh yeah, a wizard at Odin's high altar was generated with +4 Magicbane.

Now to do it again, with different roles, then conducts, then bullshit (ie trying to kill everything in Astral but the Riders, then slime, tame, and ascend with them)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on August 16, 2012, 12:59:29 am

More Nethack:

Rolled up a gnomish wizard, started with a wand of polymorph, zapped it once at my kitten, and now Bouncy the tame silver dragon just ate a shopkeeper. Also the first room has an altar, so I can easily curse-test all these scrolls I inherited from him.

EDIT: Four of those scrolls were enchant armor. Three uncursed, one cursed. Just have to convert the altar and dilute a couple of potions and good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NewsMuffin on August 16, 2012, 02:25:13 am

I got 5 kills in one life using a Combat Rifle in close combat.
I came out of it with something like 38 health, out of 232.

Also, that feeling when snipers get mad because their bullets don't one-shot you if they hit you in the head.
It's a great feeling

Blacklight: Retribution

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightning4 on August 16, 2012, 05:50:34 pm

Tethered a car to a helicopter and successfully threw it through a gas station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just Cause 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xeron on August 16, 2012, 05:59:21 pm

Ran around the map with my sniper rifle in hands.....sneaking behind enemy lines.I meet multiple enemies in different locations.I run towards each and get in close range.I fire some rounds of the sniper rifle in fear of them turning and killing me but i miss them all.I quickly pull out my knife and proceed to slaughter them all brutally.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (Multiplayer of course )

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on August 16, 2012, 09:33:28 pm

Hit the guy carrying my team's flag with a heavy mortar, as he was moving at speeds where he would cross the map in seconds ... three times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tribes 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 17, 2012, 10:55:19 am

Slashed apart an omnicidal teleporting pig the size of several houses. And that was after killing his mothers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, after completing Ages first. Also, about the first pic from the ending, goddamn does Impa have some cleavage. I'm surprised Nintendo let that in.

Quote from: Lightning4 on August 16, 2012, 05:50:34 pm

Tethered a car to a helicopter and successfully threw it through a gas station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just Cause 2

I really want this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on August 17, 2012, 06:34:57 pm

Just raped a goblin camp with my new broadsword, killing them all with myself. I also...tested a new ability on a hobgoblin, where I stab something leave the sword there a teeny bit, then rip it out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon's Dogma

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 17, 2012, 06:37:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 17, 2012, 10:55:19 am

Quote from: Lightning4 on August 16, 2012, 05:50:34 pm

Tethered a car to a helicopter and successfully threw it through a gas station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just Cause 2

I really want this game.

Funny story about that actually.
They have a part of the game that tracks some gameplay information, and found that one of the fasting travelling land vehicles was also the slowest. And that that car was also one very often tethered to aircraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on August 18, 2012, 01:44:07 am

Quote from: Graknorke on August 17, 2012, 06:37:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 17, 2012, 10:55:19 am

Quote from: Lightning4 on August 16, 2012, 05:50:34 pm

Tethered a car to a helicopter and successfully threw it through a gas station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just Cause 2

I really want this game.

Funny story about that actually.
They have a part of the game that tracks some gameplay information, and found that one of the fasting travelling land vehicles was also the slowest. And that that car was also one very often tethered to aircraft.

....What?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 18, 2012, 01:55:34 am

Quote from: Scelly9 on August 18, 2012, 01:44:07 am

Quote from: Graknorke on August 17, 2012, 06:37:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 17, 2012, 10:55:19 am

Quote from: Lightning4 on August 16, 2012, 05:50:34 pm

Tethered a car to a helicopter and successfully threw it through a gas station.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just Cause 2

I really want this game.

Funny story about that actually.
They have a part of the game that tracks some gameplay information, and found that one of the fasting travelling land vehicles was also the slowest. And that that car was also one very often tethered to aircraft.

....What?

He's saying that some sort of stat-tracker noticed that a vehicle which is normally the slowest (say, a tractor or something) was actually going much faster than any other land vehicle. The reason for that is players were connecting the slow vehicle to airplanes.

...I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 18, 2012, 05:04:19 am

Quote from: Sirus on August 18, 2012, 01:55:34 am

Quote from: Scelly9 on August 18, 2012, 01:44:07 am

Pyramid

He's saying that some sort of stat-tracker noticed that a vehicle which is normally the slowest (say, a tractor or something) was actually going much faster than any other land vehicle. The reason for that is players were connecting the slow vehicle to airplanes.

...I think.

Yes that is indeed true. My ability to explain things drops considerably the more tired I get. Not that it was good in the first place.
It was those little TukTuk taxi-type things if I remember right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on August 18, 2012, 11:02:38 am

So the slowest vehicle in the game quite quickly becomes the fastest when attached to a chopper and dropped/thrown/launched at lightspeed towards your enimies?

Good on you computer, for realizing the premises of ?OH HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK TRACTOR. This is a vital realization on the path to sentience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 18, 2012, 11:03:48 am

"What does the suspects vehicle look like?"

"It's a fancy high class sportscar."

"Theres like 20 of them around here, can you be more specific?"

"It's the one towing a taxi and using it as a wrecking ball."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ricky on August 18, 2012, 11:08:38 am

So we were surrounded by about 10 guards, i've already been shoot up to a point i literally cannot move. We're getting desperate.

I decide to pull out my secret weapon, mind control.

Pissed and high on adrenaline, my mind control is so accurate and deadly, i manage to Pick all 10 guard up telekinetically, and bash them into the ground until they are all dead.

I'm still not sure how mind control translated into Telekinesis.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Paranoia RPG

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on August 18, 2012, 01:01:44 pm

Maybe the guards where telekenetic, somewhere deep down?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 18, 2012, 01:05:46 pm

Legless browncoat heavy with only a turbo digger. A dummy turret down the hallway. I have 5 HP left.
I activate my jetpack in a blind charge at him, collide with him while firing my turbo digger and kill him, and myself.
Granted, i gave myself near-infinite monies for screwing around, but that was still an awesome moment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cortex command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knight of Fools on August 18, 2012, 03:47:11 pm

In Blacklight: Retribution I'm messing around with a max-damage base assault rifle, and somehow I manage to come out with 31 kills in a row, with zero deaths.

It was glorious.

Screenshot. (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197993674372/screenshot/937000821292482565?tab=public)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Icee77 on August 23, 2012, 08:17:34 pm

Was playing with friends, 2 of them and an AI were germans, and me and 2 others played americans. I went tank doctrine, and used calliopes to barrage one enemy base to smithereens and then placed AT guns all across the shoreline and took down any enemy tank that tried to help the enemy base. by that time, we had completely destroyed one enemy base, the AI enemy was god knows where, and the other base was just wasting tanks trying to penetrate our bridges. It ended quite well when I moved my calliopes and repeated the process of *barrage* *barrage* and *barrage*.
365 kills.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Company of Heroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 24, 2012, 11:28:02 am

A long fight against the Core. While building up for a major attack, I noticed several key areas of my production and defenses going up in massive explosions, and it took far too long to realize they had nuclear weapons. Fortunately, enough survived to build back up. One crippled Guardian turret(decent-ranged artillery gun) managed to hold the forward line long enough to get some anti-nuke defenses built, then get reinforced by more turrets.

A major airstrike aimed at crippling the Core was a dysmal failure since I greatly underestimated the power of flak weapons(which are the only ground weapon that can hit strategic bombers). After getting another air force ready, I decided to launch a nuke of my own ahead to create an opening for the bombers.

And the nuke hit their command center. I win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

NOTA, a Total Annihilation clone for Spring.

Different game, but managed to clear a place filled with orcs that look very suspiciously like Warcraft orcs, and women with katanas and very powerful bows, the latter enemy was serious threat close range. I brought in an NPC spellcaster for support, who turned out to be almost completely useless for anything but being a mule(and even then, she had a tendancy to disappear at times). The boss of the place managed to two- and three-shot me several times, until I figured out a tactic of telling my support mage to stop summond and start hitting things with a bound axe, and then kissed the boss, paralyzing her but tiring me, then using a power to steal most of that fatigue back. Then me and my partner just slashed the boss to death.

Loot was extensive, partly due to NPCs being completely unaffected by encumberence(meaning Burden spells are 100% worthless). So now there's a dungeon full of dead orcs and dead naked girls, many of whom are either decapitated, or had an arrow that caused such extensive blood loss they were still gouting it several hours(or days? I don't really know how much game time I spent down there) later, and I managed to make about 30k from the whole thing, plus new, awesome weapons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TES: Oblivion, with Hentaimania, CM Partners, and Deadly Reflex, among other mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jockmo42 on August 25, 2012, 02:04:02 am

I baited a soldier back into my sewers with a flare where I waited until I heard the splashes of his footsteps. I jumped around the corner right into his face, jedi-reflecting his panic-rocket and finishing him off with my powerjack before either of us really knew what was going on. Got all my health back. :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2, do you live under a rock.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 25, 2012, 11:47:03 am

Spoiler: I think this is one of the best bowshots I've ever made. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/JtshX.jpg)

Spoiler: Except maybe this one. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pPGgO.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/qS70b.jpg)
She was just chilling behind some archway, and then suddenly an arrow to the back of the head. The first pic is how she dropped down, which is odd since one-shot-kills with bows tend to launch them 20 feet back otherwise, such as with the top pic.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oblivion with Hentaimania, again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on August 25, 2012, 12:07:51 pm

Quote from: Ricky on August 18, 2012, 11:08:38 am

So we were surrounded by about 10 guards, i've already been shoot up to a point i literally cannot move. We're getting desperate.

I decide to pull out my secret weapon, mind control.

Pissed and high on adrenaline, my mind control is so accurate and deadly, i manage to Pick all 10 guard up telekinetically, and bash them into the ground until they are all dead.

I'm still not sure how mind control translated into Telekinesis.

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Paranoia RPG

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on August 18, 2012, 01:01:44 pm

Maybe the guards where telekenetic, somewhere deep down?

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

MAJOR SPOILER:

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Almost everyone is a mutant in Paranoia, so there is about a 1-in-10 chance of any random mook having telekenisis.  Since there were 10 guards, its almost certain one in fact had that mutation.

Or it could have been one of your teammates.  Saving the day with strange mutant powers isn't something most brag about in-character.  Not if they want to live, that is.

Still, cool story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on August 25, 2012, 08:46:55 pm

Has anyone else ever controlled one hundred percent market share of a product? I have, am and may continue to do so for the foreseeable future in Economies of Scale.

...I will not tell you said product name because it's a company secret. The name of said company is also a company secret. If you persist on trying to get me to divulge company secrets you will become our next product.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on August 25, 2012, 08:57:43 pm

Quote from: dei on August 25, 2012, 08:46:55 pm

Economies of Scale.

Oh, god that game. It was so fun to do a stock market run and make 3-4 billion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on August 26, 2012, 12:47:28 pm

Quote from: Scelly9 on August 25, 2012, 08:57:43 pm

Quote from: dei on August 25, 2012, 08:46:55 pm

Economies of Scale.

Oh, god that game. It was so fun to do a stock market run and make 3-4 billion.

I started up again on the 15th with my Facebook account and to be honest with you the stock market worries me. Hell most of what I have done was providing the robotizens with affordable [REDACTED] and [EXPUNGED] while researching into [REDACTED] and [EXPUNGED], among other things.

I provide the best or second best in quality and best on price for [REDACTED] and [EXPUNGED] on the buyer to buyer market on occasion too. I know for one of my main products that if I want to produce the best I'll have to raise the quality by another [REDACTED] points minimum, and by doing so I might be able to beat [EXPUNGED] in regards of overall quality for that product.

I kind of also want to beat [REDACTED] and their rank in the whole highest quality bit, but that is a long way off. Luckily I can and have into NEET for most of my life and as of right now there are less than five reasons that I would even go outside of my bedroom for the foreseeable future. Wish me luck, I guess?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aptus on August 27, 2012, 12:26:43 pm

Finally got my front flip kick to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvoRadx5L8g&feature=plcp

And this one goes under two names, flying knee to full mount... or... me randomly doing shit and ending up getting a lot more points than I did when I actually tried to do something cool :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utRSmFHjTi8&feature=plcp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on August 27, 2012, 05:48:00 pm

Quote from: Aptus on August 27, 2012, 12:26:43 pm

Finally got my front flip kick to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvoRadx5L8g&feature=plcp

And this one goes under two names, flying knee to full mount... or... me randomly doing shit and ending up getting a lot more points than I did when I actually tried to do something cool :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utRSmFHjTi8&feature=plcp

This is proof that trying something repeatedly and expecting different results is not insanity, but experimentation with entropy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on August 27, 2012, 06:21:27 pm

Not a recent one but meh.

The enemy was sending an attack squad as I positioned a second coal mine to be protected, they destroyed my patrols, but they gave me enough time to build enough wolverobsters (wolverine/lobster mix) to destroy their squad AND their base.
Lobsters are overpowered

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Impossible creatures

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on August 31, 2012, 05:05:10 pm

I was playing pyro and just saw how eight kills flew into me.

TF2 obviously

in context I get two-three a life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 01, 2012, 12:46:38 pm

Axed and stabbed(and hammered, but that wasn't too effective) a red dragon to death, hauled it's corpse to the butchery, meat stocks up by about 1100, tens of thousands of ☼ worth of crafts from the bones. No casualties. Only fireblast was blocked by a wooden shield.

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Dwarf Fortress, with Genesis mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on September 03, 2012, 03:00:16 am

I lowered the temperature of my gaming machine by seven degrees with nothing more than my lungs and a bent paperclip. There is a very noticeable difference so I would like to count that as ownage.

...For the record though I am very much allergic to dust.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dsarker on September 05, 2012, 03:30:17 am

Blood Bowl.

Nurgle (me) vs Elves (computer)

3 - 0 to the Nurgle. 2 dead elves. 4 others badly injured. No casualties to us.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on September 08, 2012, 07:07:41 pm

Playing Dungeons and Dragons Online and I got four critical's with one swing. It was so, so glorious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on September 09, 2012, 03:28:35 pm

Dropped a 48-0 score on the Dallas Cowboys in the 1992 Super Bowl.

Using the Tampa Bay Bucs.

Tecmo Super Bowl - NES

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on September 09, 2012, 04:05:36 pm

I was against Wolverine and Ryu. I was Venom and Spiderman. The original dream team.

Ryu was out. Wolverine was on low health.

Wolverine activates "Weapon X", which involves lunging forward at an almost incomprehensible speed to start an autocombo.

At that exact moment I as Venom activate my super, "Death Bite".
Venom's symbiote will attack the opponent while moving across the screen. Damage depends on the location of where Death Bite was activated.

So Wolverine lunges foward and runs STRAIGHT into the first wave of Death Bite. BANGBANGBANGBANG----- HYPER COMBO FINISH!

Cue Wolverine going "Ugh" and losing.

Marvel vs Capcom.
Feels good man. 8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MorleyDev on September 09, 2012, 06:55:19 pm

Playing as a lightly armoured archer, my whole team died but me. I leapt off the building I was sniping from and started a mad sprint straight towards the spawn point. At this point I'm being chased by about ten melee guys and just trying to jump, climb and generally leg it and slow them down as best as I can whilst not dying. Somehow I manage this, and when I get close enough back to the spawn the ten guys chasing me run into the hail of arrows and swords of my respawned team mates.

I get back into a sniping position and resume my work.

Totally Not the War of the Roses Beta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on September 13, 2012, 10:25:05 am

Red October Factory. Defending. Got a grand total of 144 kills, with only 7 deaths. 75 kills with the K-98, 1 with a mounted MG, 2 with grenades and the rest with the MG-34. At one point I stopped a group of four russians with three bullets from the K-98. Something like 600 points by the end of the game.

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Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cicero on September 13, 2012, 11:40:11 am

I backed Planetary Annihilation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 15, 2012, 12:09:50 pm

Playing through a battle that had stomped me before, leading a group of guerillas out of Caracas through some pissed-off not-Russians. Last time I tried it, a single grenadier dropped my entire party, including the guerillas, to half HP in one shot. This time, I managed to flank the entire first squad of enemies, eventually trapping them between my main guys and the guerrillas. The problem came when their leader, a melee enemy who can also paralyze someone with 100% success, came with his group, while I was dealing with some snipers(armed with bazookas, actually). Still stomped them all, and lost nobody in the process.

Next battle was much harder. Held out at the starting area, while their three missileers kept pounding my guys. First, my sniper goes down(she was out of ammo anyway). Then, my leader runs out of ammo for her machine gun, then loses the arm with the shotgun. My repairer can't fire because he's too busy keeping everyone else alive. My missileer runs out of ammo. The only way I survived was simply tanking all their missiles, leaving them with one sniper, who can only attack once per turn. Eventually took the rest down, with a badly hurt team with almost no ammo left, except for the repairer, and the other shooter on the team, only because his gun is weak but has a crapload of ammo.

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Front Mission 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on September 16, 2012, 04:24:49 pm

Had to escort these three scientists to a retinal-scan-opening door in the main entrance, we have to go through a thick door to get to that room, also retinal-scanned. One of them tells everyone to stop, saying that this feels too quiet. They tell me to go out first. As soon as I do, they close the door, and suddenly the entire room is filled with HECU Marines, rappelling out the windows, opening other doors and blasting me, but I killed them all under a hail of bullets, sedative darts, and grenades. All with this kickin' rad music playing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtTmiYA5D4k) After the aftermath, they all exclaim "I can't believe what you just did!"  8)

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BLλCK MESA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on September 16, 2012, 08:21:50 pm

My sniper was poised on the roof, taking careful aim, ready to shoot the enemy 10 yards away with a rifle. Random number gods don't like me today so 6 shots missed and he one shot kills me.

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Jagged Alliance: BIA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 16, 2012, 08:24:51 pm

Quote from: hemmingjay on September 16, 2012, 08:21:50 pm

My sniper was poised on the roof, taking careful aim, ready to shoot the enemy 10 yards away with a rifle. Random number gods don't like me today so 6 shots missed and he one shot kills me.

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Jagged Alliance: BIA

That doesn't sound like ownage to me :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: fred1248 on September 16, 2012, 08:36:32 pm

Quote from: Paul on April 29, 2011, 02:32:44 pm

Left the spinner on my first mission, flying my little Haiho mining mecha - slightly modified to be lighter. My mission is a simple one, fly out and kill an enemy and then fly back. But I get intercepted on the way by an Aegis patrol. So there I am in my little Haiho facing off against a custom Chimentero, a Chameleon, and several BuruBurus.

I fly full speed, hoping for my stunt driver talent and 6 piloting skill to keep me alive. I fire my mining laser, and miss. I close in a bit. Their return fire mostly misses, but the Chimentero scores a nasty hit and blows off a leg. The Chimentero is out front, having just blown off my leg with some rockets and probably getting ready to blast me apart with whatever other big guns it was carrying. I throw my rocket hammer at it. Torso hit, pilot killed, Chimentero disabled.

Most of the rest of the battle involved me jousting the rest of the mecha, firing my mining laser and hammering them with my rocket hammer when I got close. I took a bit of a beating and lost the arm with the mining laser and most of my armor, but the rocket hammer is taking them apart pretty well and eventually it's down to just me and the Chameleon. I close in with it, and right before I'm in range to use the rocket hammer it hits me hard and blows off my other arm and damages my torso even more. The armor on my leg is mostly stripped away and the leg itself is damaged enough to be showing yellow, my torso armor is completely stripped and the torso is showing red. Another hit in either spot is a death sentence, and I just lost my only weapon. The Chameleon is directly in front of me, but still a few tiles distance away.

I keep flying full speed, and the Chameleon begins to turn last minute. I get stopped right in front of it, and I attack with the only thing left - the leg. I just make a regular attack, knowing that attempting to aim would probably just make me miss. Luck has me connect with the head, destroying it and giving the Chameleon a significant penalty due to not having sensors. Now it's flying away from me, and I turn to try and close.

I then chased it around for a good 5 minutes just getting close enough, kick at it, then chase it for a while longer until finally getting close for another kick. I luckily managed to avoid all of its shots, helped by its lack of a head and my flying full speed with stunt driver, and eventually managed to take it out solely by kicking it repeatedly.

After battle, I salvaged the Chimentero since it was disabled, and it doesn't even have much damage. I use it to go and finish my mission, easily blasting the BuruBuru I was faced with to oblivion.

So there I was, as a brand new character, with a high end custom Chimentero worth about 2.5 million. As a comparison, my lowly Haiho is only worth about 240 thousand.


Plus the mental image of a leg flying around dragging a mangled torso with it (my flight jets were in the legs, torso was just being pulled) and kicking at the enemy Mecha every time it got close is pretty funny.

I assume you are talking about GearHead or GearHead 2?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 17, 2012, 11:20:59 am

I would assume the second one. The first one was based on Earth I think, though I could never get it to run.



Was providing covering fire for British troops evacuating a city. Didn't lose a single one, and I had killed all the enemies before any of them got off the map. Two of them lost their legs, but one of them got fixed quickly enough to get away from something that would have killed them.

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Front Mission 4, the Madiera City battle. Probably helped that I grinded for a good hour beforehand to upgrade everyone fully, to the point that Bosch had about 60% evasion rate just on his wanzer(pilot evasion rate adds to it). Also helping was the BA wanzers launching cross-crossing arcs of missile fire at their pursuers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on September 17, 2012, 11:31:15 am

Quote from: Sirus on September 16, 2012, 08:24:51 pm

Quote from: hemmingjay on September 16, 2012, 08:21:50 pm

My sniper was poised on the roof, taking careful aim, ready to shoot the enemy 10 yards away with a rifle. Random number gods don't like me today so 6 shots missed and he one shot kills me.

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Jagged Alliance: BIA

That doesn't sound like ownage to me :P

Hahahaha, wrong thread too, lol. I consider this the last time you *owned*.  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on September 17, 2012, 01:37:08 pm

Killed four HECUs while at four health using five magnum bullets.

Corners are deadly weapons, kids.

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Black Mesa Source.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mongol13524 on September 17, 2012, 03:24:23 pm

Since when was Black Mesa released? It was the Half Life 3 of mods for as long as I can remember.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on September 17, 2012, 03:29:42 pm

Quote from: Mongol13524 on September 17, 2012, 03:24:23 pm

Since when was Black Mesa released? It was the Half Life 2 of mods for as long as I can remember.

Previous Friday, and only partially. Xen is still in the works.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Markus on September 17, 2012, 03:39:44 pm

Beat my way through Red's fort in Teufort using only a fish, took the intel, and got back to our intel room. By myself. Even killed a heavy medic combo.

Then went on a saxton hale server as CBS and didn't even lose 2000 hp to a team of 23.

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Team Fortress 2, first a normal CTF then VS Saxton Hale mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wrex on September 17, 2012, 04:21:14 pm

I have an artifact. Most people don't even know they exist. But I have one. A sword of great Eldrich power wrested from the very bowels of hell. It -may- be slowly possessing me, as evidenced by most of my stats being drained 9Except for strength, which is growing)  and a constant desire to wield only that weapon, but who cares?

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Cataclysm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on September 18, 2012, 03:51:48 am

Quote from: fred1248 on September 16, 2012, 08:36:32 pm

Quote from: Paul on April 29, 2011, 02:32:44 pm

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Left the spinner on my first mission, flying my little Haiho mining mecha - slightly modified to be lighter. My mission is a simple one, fly out and kill an enemy and then fly back. But I get intercepted on the way by an Aegis patrol. So there I am in my little Haiho facing off against a custom Chimentero, a Chameleon, and several BuruBurus.

I fly full speed, hoping for my stunt driver talent and 6 piloting skill to keep me alive. I fire my mining laser, and miss. I close in a bit. Their return fire mostly misses, but the Chimentero scores a nasty hit and blows off a leg. The Chimentero is out front, having just blown off my leg with some rockets and probably getting ready to blast me apart with whatever other big guns it was carrying. I throw my rocket hammer at it. Torso hit, pilot killed, Chimentero disabled.

Most of the rest of the battle involved me jousting the rest of the mecha, firing my mining laser and hammering them with my rocket hammer when I got close. I took a bit of a beating and lost the arm with the mining laser and most of my armor, but the rocket hammer is taking them apart pretty well and eventually it's down to just me and the Chameleon. I close in with it, and right before I'm in range to use the rocket hammer it hits me hard and blows off my other arm and damages my torso even more. The armor on my leg is mostly stripped away and the leg itself is damaged enough to be showing yellow, my torso armor is completely stripped and the torso is showing red. Another hit in either spot is a death sentence, and I just lost my only weapon. The Chameleon is directly in front of me, but still a few tiles distance away.

I keep flying full speed, and the Chameleon begins to turn last minute. I get stopped right in front of it, and I attack with the only thing left - the leg. I just make a regular attack, knowing that attempting to aim would probably just make me miss. Luck has me connect with the head, destroying it and giving the Chameleon a significant penalty due to not having sensors. Now it's flying away from me, and I turn to try and close.

I then chased it around for a good 5 minutes just getting close enough, kick at it, then chase it for a while longer until finally getting close for another kick. I luckily managed to avoid all of its shots, helped by its lack of a head and my flying full speed with stunt driver, and eventually managed to take it out solely by kicking it repeatedly.

After battle, I salvaged the Chimentero since it was disabled, and it doesn't even have much damage. I use it to go and finish my mission, easily blasting the BuruBuru I was faced with to oblivion.

So there I was, as a brand new character, with a high end custom Chimentero worth about 2.5 million. As a comparison, my lowly Haiho is only worth about 240 thousand.


Plus the mental image of a leg flying around dragging a mangled torso with it (my flight jets were in the legs, torso was just being pulled) and kicking at the enemy Mecha every time it got close is pretty funny.

I assume you are talking about GearHead or GearHead 2?

Thanks for reminding me about this games. I was very interested in them years ago, but never really got into. Time to try again.

As for owning: I reached apoapsis for the first time in Kerbal Space Program few days ago. 1,739,000km or something like that. It might not sound much, but it felt good. Plus I did not use any time warp, so it was a flight of solid 1h and 15min IRL time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 21, 2012, 12:06:33 pm

Took control of a Caracas TV station for the rebels. It was guarded by three mobile weapons, which are: about 6 times the size of a normal wanzer unit(they take 4 tiles each), have 3 types of weapons(missiles, powerful machine gun, and a cannon, giving all three attack types), infinite ammo, and one of them was piloted by an incredibly insane not-Russian chick. (picture of one) (http://images.wikia.com/frontmission/images/a/aa/Zhuk_wanzer_00.jpg)

And I had to escort a tank driven by a suicidal teenager carrying the dictator of Venezuala.


My support team of five guerillas were completely wiped out by just four enemies(one of them was a repairer, though, and none of the guerillas could heal). They did, however, kill one of them(their sniper) and buy just enough time for me to kill all three mobile weapons. By the time I did that, the rest of my force was beat up, low on ammo, and just barely managed to do it before the suicide tank arrived. The following fight with those enemies was won only because the focused their fire solely on that tank and nothing else, and I could repair it quicker than they could damage it.


And in a previous battle, had to take on one of these (http://images.wikia.com/frontmission/images/6/6f/Wp04svinets.jpg).

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Front Mission 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Errol on September 22, 2012, 05:06:34 am

So, you'd think that a climatic boss battle against two plot-critical characters where you get an advance warning by the game and that has its own theme music would be hard, right?

Well, uh... except that if you bind the head of the magician, and the arms of the warrior, a battle that could have become a real nightmare with your stats shot to hell and your party unable to fight back suddenly becomes a cakewalk. Which is kind of a shame, as I probably won't get to fight this battle again to see how they were supposed to dismantle me.

And my Hexer, responsible for most of that, was underleveled and had her bind-inflicting skills at Rank 1, of 10.

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Etrian Odyssey, B21F

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on September 22, 2012, 01:04:21 pm

Walked through several in-game miles of enemy territory without losing a single creature.

Of course the enemy had consolidated his demonic horde in his castle but eh, I yoinked his fort for about a week and drained some of his money to use in fighting of the worlds most annoying orcs.

Heroes VI

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on September 22, 2012, 07:41:40 pm

Wow. This has got to be the first time i've gotten someone to ragequit in any game.

I'm Protoss, he's Terran. I send a couple of Probes out early to find his base since it was 1v1 on a 4-player map. I find it, hide the Probe that found it in a little corner of his base where he can't see and warp in a Pylon. Warp in Forge at my base, once that's done i start warping Photon Cannons right into his base leapfrog-style. He had nothing to counter with, and he promptly ragequit.

Let that be a lesson. You see an enemy worker scouting your base, especially a Probe, you kill it or chase it off ASAP, else you'll end up with Photon Cannons or Warpgate drops right in your base. I've been a victim of the latter several times.


Starcraft 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shook on September 22, 2012, 08:47:33 pm

FTL. Trying my first game of it, admittedly on Easy (well hey, i was just starting out), but still. Armed only with my starting Kestrel, i proceed to blast every pirate and rebel in my path to pieces/submission (all but one were allowed to surrender and flee if they requested it), make my way to the Last Stand and destroy the rebel flagship with my health being in the yellow from the start of the fight.

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I then subsequently lost because the flagship, in its second form, got too close to the federation base. Probably would have died anyways, my hull was in the red after the first fight, and it jumped right to a rebel-occupied beacon.

Still, not bad for a first time, if you ask me. Hopefully i can replicate that on Normal. :U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on September 22, 2012, 10:44:17 pm

First roll to dodge.
Made it to 5 pages.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on September 22, 2012, 10:56:02 pm

Alright this happened earlier today. Planetside 2, first time getting down and playing since the update and character wipe. I had decided to spend 5 Cert Points on the Advanced Mobile Spawn for the Sunderer earlier, so when we got a bunch of guys from the outfit, I was designated as the driver of the APC. We decided to call it the Magic School Bus. For nearly two hours we kept this vehicle alive, capturing bases all the way north onto the opposite end of the map, actually reaching the warp gates for the Terrans. At one point we had to deploy our spawner in a bad spot near The Crown, and were constantly harassed by Vanu tanks, but between all of the random people using us as their spawn point, and the Dual Coaxal 20mm Cannons ontop, we were able to just barely stop any tank trying to kill us and ovverran one of the most grindtastic defensive positions in the entire game. It finally ended when we ran into several Liberators who carpet-bombed us back to the stone age.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kaiserr on September 23, 2012, 10:03:25 am

Quote from: 612DwarfAvenue on September 22, 2012, 07:41:40 pm

I'm Protoss, he's Terran.

Of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on September 23, 2012, 11:39:06 am

I farmed plants and demon posessed silver statues in a dark forest in an attempt to make my sword shoot rainbows and lollypops.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 23, 2012, 12:29:31 pm

Several squad mates saying "rocket launchers arent the best anti-infantry weapon..."

I proved them wrong.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 23, 2012, 12:32:14 pm

Blew up a giant spider tank (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101215143612/frontmission/images/thumb/7/72/Wp04bogomol1.jpg/300px-Wp04bogomol1.jpg) that came from the ocean, piloted by the a crazy chick who was somehow still alive despite being blown up last time. And nearly a dozen other guys supporting it. While defending a transport plane.

Nearly lost it, too. Exactly one shot away from losing the transport(couldn't repair it), I get one very lucky attack that took out the weapon of the guy who would have done it. After that, just beat the crap out of everyone who was left.

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Front Mission 4, final battle. Ending was pretty funny, the Durandal gives an initiation to a new recruit, with Elsa saying "Welcome to the group" before shooting him in the face. The only thing that doesn't make sense is how Ivanova made it from a burning wreckage in Caracas, to emergency plastic surgery, to a giant spider tank in about an hour and a half.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on September 26, 2012, 09:04:05 am

After a long stretch of getting my ass handed to me, things started to pick up and i just won 5 matches in a row (spread out over a couple days). I'm still only in Bronze league, but screw it, i'm still happy i'm turning the tables and starting to get some friggin wins.

Starcraft 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on September 27, 2012, 02:57:28 am

Quote from: miauw62 on September 23, 2012, 12:29:31 pm

Several squad mates saying "rocket launchers arent the best anti-infantry weapon..."

I proved them wrong.

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Planetside 2

Obviously, they were doing it wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knight of Fools on September 27, 2012, 03:34:48 am

Fighting in a game of D&D, dual wielding.

I rolled two natural twenties and confirmed both as crits. *Fist pump*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on September 27, 2012, 03:53:20 am

Nobody ever expects Voltar to actually being able to deal damage. So when you've gone for a Drone/Turret Healbot build, getting 7 kills and no deaths in a single match is amusing. My kills even outnumbered that of my team's Lonestar at one point!

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Awesomenauts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 28, 2012, 01:50:25 am

Using night-vision goggles, silenced weapons to shoot out lamps, and a whole lot of patience, I snuck through a Nazi base without taking a single life.

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Metro 2033

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2012, 11:17:36 am

The Empire started hitting isolated planets hard with groups of Acclimators and Tartans(only these two). And then, all of a sudden, they stopped. Fleets sent to reclaim the taken systems found only the ships that originally attacked. And beyond that, almost nothing. Planets were guarded at most by a single Acclimator, a single Tartan Cruiser, and a level 1 space station. Ground defenses were often literally non-existant. Ryloth had only a Research Lab on it(besides angry Twi'leks). Except for Byss and Coruscant being complete fortresses both on the ground and in space, Imperial resistance was almost nothing.

Seriously, I've taken more casualties fighting the Black Sun than the Empire.
I think I broke the AI.

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Star Wars: Empire at War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 29, 2012, 07:51:42 am

A very small ownage, but in keepie uppie, i managed to take out a dropship engine by flying over it and i SURVIVED.
Died a bit later after spinning around a few times but recovering and finally flying into a mountain.

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Cortex Command 1.0

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on September 29, 2012, 01:31:08 pm

I looted bait from a dead bandit and decided to use it. I moved away and already heard what sounded like hoofbeats. The only problem with that was that I was in Tall Trees. I turned around and a GIGANTIC GRIZZLY BEAR WAS RIGHT THERE. I shot it in the face with my repeater, but it lived. It lunged, and I quickly shot it in the throat. It fell.

Shortly after, I killed and skinned a boar. I was heading back towards town and heard more huge running sounds. I turned and shot another grizzly in the head with my Carcano. Immediately there was the angry roar of yet another grizzly.Three shots with a Mauser and it died. Another bear was right behind the one I just killed. I went crazy and fire 2 shots to the head and 3 to the body. The bear died.

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I SURVIVED A QUAD BEAR ATTACK

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Red Dead Redemption, I got really crazy with the font here, this was scary as hell

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on September 30, 2012, 04:23:27 am

I don't know if this counts, but in the Sims 3 my genetic experiment has started bearing fruit. I made a family with ludicrously oversized ears and noses, and set them rampant in the neighbourhood, letting the Story Progression work on it.

Now there's little tiny HUGE EARED or HUGE NOSED children everywhere.
Also it seems that twins aren't identical at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on September 30, 2012, 05:34:22 am

Quote from: Akura on September 28, 2012, 11:17:36 am

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Reminds me off fighting against both empire and rebellion with the ridicously overpowered Zahn faction. I just bunkered up on a few planets, build spacestations up to max level, gathered some cash and let them smash their fleets while I build up my army. Seriously, with a building tech tree that starts with a +2000 income building and the ability to repair things with money in midfight you can hold of anything by just throwing money at it.  Also, the Zhan spacestation gets it's own superweapon from Lvl 3(unless rebel and empire who have to build them seperatly), and the computer doesn't know how to adjust to this strategy.

They could break it easily by just hanging back and bombing the station with missiles/fighters, bombers, untill I run out of funds. But they insist instead on getting their capital ships in range, allowing my station to take them out with ease.

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Star wars: Empire at War forces of corruption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on October 01, 2012, 06:05:18 pm

First, I dug to the bottom of the map. Then, I planted a stack of TNT all the way back up to the surface. Then I lit it.

BOOM! New bottomless pit!

Then, deciding that this wasn't the most I could do in creative mode, I built a bigass diving board at the very top level. Then I noticed it was nightime, and there was a skeleton wandering... I summoned myself a diamond sword and jumped down with it to watch it fall.

It was a long drop.

-Minecraft-
Using my friends account.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Catastrophic lolcats on October 01, 2012, 06:11:52 pm

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on September 30, 2012, 05:34:22 am

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Star wars: Empire at War forces of corruption

I love Empire at War. It was a nice little "4X lite" and while I don't really enjoy the Star Wars setting all that much Empire at War seemed to do the setting quite well. There were all these little snippets of lore about planets and units that were rather interesting and everything was nicely varied. The main draw for me was the beautiful space battles with the rather impressive (at the time) cinematic cam which made the battles feel really rewarding. Land battles generally drew out too long for my liking although I have no idea how you'd fix that.
I never did buy the expansion. I should get a copy and see if there's a modding community for the game. Maybe even try multiplayer with a friend since I've only played it singleplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on October 02, 2012, 07:15:44 am

Quote from: Reudh on September 30, 2012, 04:23:27 am

I don't know if this counts, but in the Sims 3 my genetic experiment has started bearing fruit. I made a family with ludicrously oversized ears and noses, and set them rampant in the neighbourhood, letting the Story Progression work on it.

Now there's little tiny HUGE EARED or HUGE NOSED children everywhere.
Also it seems that twins aren't identical at all.

Hehehe, nice! :P I haven't played number three yet, sadly, so I have no idea just how 'Story Progression' works. Can you... Fast-foward things, or some such? The Sims might just have to be the next game I pick up.

As for my ownage, well uh, I haven't really played any games for a while, but the other day I trounced family members in Wii tennis.
Not that impressive individually, but I had them both as a team against me. They actually managed to beat me once(due to my computer-controlled team-mate letting us down), but then I took control of both people on my team and was pretty well unstoppable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on October 02, 2012, 11:02:22 am

Killed the Hyperion president Handsome Jack and an Hyperion shotgun. Take that Bi...

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Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 02, 2012, 11:21:02 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on October 01, 2012, 06:05:18 pm

First, I dug to the bottom of the map. Then, I planted a stack of TNT all the way back up to the surface. Then I lit it.

BOOM! New bottomless pit!

Then, deciding that this wasn't the most I could do in creative mode, I built a bigass diving board at the very top level. Then I noticed it was nightime, and there was a skeleton wandering... I summoned myself a diamond sword and jumped down with it to watch it fall.

It was a long drop.

-Minecraft-
Using my friends account.

That aint shit compared to tekkit.
But its a VERY fun thing to do.
Protip: put some water and magma on the edge of the pit. Gives cool effects.

My ownage:
Doing a redemption mission so i could get the doggam blueprints from the UTA, i easily destroyed all the civvie ships.
Suddenly, "Civilian flagship incoming".
Oh fuck, shit is going to get real.
Turned out they send a huge-ass spacedick to fight me.
My tug and turtle heads took it out easily, as he didnt bring any little friend sto degrade our armors/take down our shields.
First half of the dual mount turret :D

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SPAZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2012, 11:14:14 am

The brotherhood sent me to find out what happened to one of our sisters. Questioning her cousin led me to a remote tower in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where her last mission was. I went through, slaughtering everything in my path. About halfway through, however something happened. My mind became filled with visions of the full moon, and my body became twisted, more muscular. My body became covered in thick fur(well, being a Nord, a little more so ;}), and my hands, well, they were now claws. I had become a hunter of the night, a werewolf. And in my new form, I began ripping through the rest of the dungeon at a much reduced pace(before the transformation, I had two daedric sabers). Fortunately, few of the human and orc enemies could harm me(most of them lack silver or better weapons).

Eventually, I found my lost sister. Only, her previous target happened to be a vampire, and had shared his curse with her. And she, in her crazed bloodlust, intended to share her dark gift with me. I had to refuse. Violently. And that began the epic battle, replayed throughout history and both good(Underworld) and bad(Twilight) movies and literature. The battle between Vampire and Lycanthrope.

The battle drew on for ages(claws did piss damage to her, and my hand-to-hand skill is 4%), and I won because I managed to regain control of my humanity(repeatedly, to exploit the fact that using the spell that transforms you back restores you HP) long enough to pull a daedric saber out and strike her down with it.

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Daggerfall. I've been a werewolf for a while, it just happened to be the full moon right then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on October 07, 2012, 03:35:12 am

I managed to get 95 kills in a few minutes. I'm rather surprised, considering last time I played I couldn't hit a fish taken out of a barrel, nailed to a wall, and shot at point-blank range.

ArmA 2's multiplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 07, 2012, 09:02:52 pm

3 British Frigates vs a dozen French Brigs.

3 brigs were captured. A fourth escaped. The rest sank.

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Empire: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on October 08, 2012, 12:04:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 07, 2012, 09:02:52 pm

3 British Frigates vs a dozen French Brigs.

3 brigs were captured. A fourth escaped. The rest sank.

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Empire: Total War

Empire always crashes for me every time I seige a town. D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 08, 2012, 12:14:48 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on October 08, 2012, 12:04:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 07, 2012, 09:02:52 pm

3 British Frigates vs a dozen French Brigs.

3 brigs were captured. A fourth escaped. The rest sank.

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Empire: Total War

Empire always crashes for me every time I seige a town. D:

I'm sorry D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2012, 11:30:02 am

Needing to expand territory by a lot, I noticed that the Great Power of Haxaco had a weaker military than mine. I landed with nothing more than 10 regiments of Regulars and one light artillery on three ships-of-the-line. The first two provinces gave me much-needed access to iron and gold, and subsequent provinces gave me a whole lot of everything else. Before long, their capital fell with little effort. Almost the entire continent fell soon after, with Devron snatching the last bit before I could. Bastards.

Following this, and enjoying the huge amount of industrial growth that followed(maybe not huge, for a while, my military and industry were rated "fair" compared to the "great" and "excellent" rating of the other powers"), traitorous Dinn began making severely overt diplomatic takeovers on every one of my main trade partners, colonizing most of them. Despite being allied with them, and the alliance being maintained during the war with Haxaco, this was absolutely unacceptable. To survive, indeed actually survive, I would have to invade Dinn.

I spent much capital in upgrading our industrial capacity. Funnily, Dinn sold us much of the steel and food for this. This industrial growth in the capital also fostered much growth in the provinces, strengthening my industrial base even more. The only difficult part was importing enough iron and coal to keep up armaments production. Most producers of both had either been invaded or colonized(mostly by Dinn). Even so, it was not long before I sextupled the size of my army, creating 10 regiments of Grenadiers, 20 Regulars, and 5 light artillery regiments. My fleet had been expanded 4-fold.

Next came the invasion. Dinn had no idea we were coming. Before my fleets had arrived in the designated spot, I officially declared war. Then, the fleets established a landing point two provinces north of Dinn City. Within six months, we were in their capital. But the fight wasn't quite over.

Despite the difficulty at taking their capital city(which had just upgraded to a level 2 fort), we won. However, reinforcements had arrived, trapping us within the city. They had set up two lines of infantry, with heavy artillery between. Our light artillery could not move out to engage their guns without taking fire from the forward infantry. I had hoped that they would push forward, allowing my troops to open fire as they advanced. Didn't happen, they just sat there, bombarding their own capital. They wanted me to come out and meet them. So I did.

The charge was ugly, but we came out swinging. We had the advantages of numbers and generally better experience, but our troops were battered(mostly by their artillery). Even so, our supierior numbers allowed up to focus fire on individual enemy regiments, taking them out of the fight. Some were wiped out, others broke ranks and fled. By the end of it, most of their artillery was destroyed, and about half of their regiments were wiped out, and the rest running. Our losses were 3 light artillery, and 4 Regulars.

At sea, we broke their fleets without any of our ships sunk, but the damage was pretty high overall.

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Imperialism. And we have just purchased Breech-loading Rifles, so soon our army will be modernized.

Quote from: Akura on October 06, 2012, 11:14:14 am

The battle drew on for ages(claws did piss damage to her, and my hand-to-hand skill is 4%)

I should correct this, I had H2H skill in the low 30s. 4 was just the damage output, which is also shown on the skill screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 12, 2012, 11:39:20 am

Not my ownage, but somebody elses.
So, we are at esamir, tr warpgate. Nothing to do. So somebody lands a plane on another plane IN FUCKING MIDAIR
Then suddenly, a third plane comes by and pushes the other plane off.
It was glorious

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Planetside 2

Alright, same game.
An infiltrator rolls out on a flash from the TR warpgate. We all see him, and then he jumps off and then he dissapears. I see the red arrow for a few seconds, so now i know his location. The problem is, he is at the other side of the road, and i would be visible if i tried to cross the road, he's got a sniper and i dont. I do it anyway. I duck behind rocks as much as possible. Note, i am playing combat medic.
I finally arrive at his rock and give his flash a quick look, try to hear some bleeps or something because it could have a infantry detection upgrade. Thankfully, nothing. He didnt see me. I peek over his rock and shoot him with my rifle.
Havent felt so badass in a long time.

same game as above.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on October 12, 2012, 11:54:00 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 08, 2012, 12:14:48 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on October 08, 2012, 12:04:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 07, 2012, 09:02:52 pm

3 British Frigates vs a dozen French Brigs.

3 brigs were captured. A fourth escaped. The rest sank.

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Empire: Total War

Empire always crashes for me every time I seige a town. D:

I'm sorry D:

Mine used to do that, but I got that fixed by updating my video drivers. Now it's just being plain weird. Example

Enemy sails ahead. Open fire.
1. It's a siege
2. There's no water nearby
3. You're George washingon.

Anyway, managed to take out the enemy defensive force of about 600 man with only 50 losses. The Defensive AI is just plain weird. (I mean, you got an artillery fort, get on those walls and use it.) I had my men climb on the walls and then take potshots at the defenders.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 13, 2012, 12:01:03 pm

Selling one load of tomatoes, and nearly doubling my cash(tomoatoes gave over $20k). Even more, I think I'm figuring this game out, finally. I can't grow lettuce or onions worth crap, and and sorghum just doesn't sell high, but at least now I know that tomotoes and strawberries are serious cash crops for some reason.

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SimFarm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Alkhemia on October 13, 2012, 12:11:26 pm

Magnataur Ult into a 5 man Black Hole with a Lich ult just for good measure instant GG.
oh also I was Magnataur
Edit: oops

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 13, 2012, 01:10:40 pm

Was overloading a shield gen wit hanother guy. While i run inside, i get shot a little bit. I knwo somebody is coming. I quickly slide some C4 under the shield gen (its in a corner the shooter has to pass to get to us). The shooter comes to us, ready to throw a grenade, i press the button and blow him up.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on October 14, 2012, 05:11:50 pm

Took my first Chariot and conquered the Romans with it.

One Chariot.

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Civilization 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on October 14, 2012, 05:14:09 pm

Quote from: Alkhemia on October 13, 2012, 12:11:26 pm

Magnataur Ult into a 5 man Black Hole with a Lich ult just for good measure instant GG.
oh also I was Magnataur
Edit: oops

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Dota 2

When Magnus came out, I was surprised that none of the casters / experts I knew of mentioned the synergy with Enigma's ult. To me, it was plainly obviously. Glad you could use it :D

The Lich ult on top of that, haha instead teamwipe. Even against a Skelly King with Heart.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on October 16, 2012, 03:05:39 pm

Last night, playing CounterStrike:Global Offensive in arms race mode. Got 7 kills in a row in less than 12 seconds. The guy on the other team said over voice chat: "this, na.. dak... aye? guy is really pissing me off. He kills me every time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on October 16, 2012, 05:39:31 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on October 16, 2012, 03:05:39 pm

Last night, playing CounterStrike:Global Offensive in arms race mode. Got 7 kills in a row in less than 12 seconds. The guy on the other team said over voice chat: "this, na.. dak... aye? guy is really pissing me off. He kills me every time.

How is that you owning?  :P

Anyway, last time I owned was in Brink when I disguised as some dude named "Bay" and kicked his team-mate in the face and rained fire and bullets on him when he fell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on October 16, 2012, 06:01:25 pm

Quote from: Smashness on October 16, 2012, 05:39:31 pm

Quote from: Nadaka on October 16, 2012, 03:05:39 pm

Last night, playing CounterStrike:Global Offensive in arms race mode. Got 7 kills in a row in less than 12 seconds. The guy on the other team said over voice chat: "this, na.. dak... aye? guy is really pissing me off. He kills me every time.

How is that you owning?  :P

Anyway, last time I owned was in Brink when I disguised as some dude named "Bay" and kicked his team-mate in the face and rained fire and bullets on him when he fell.

It's ownage because he pissed someone on the other team of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 16, 2012, 07:09:08 pm

Playing Halo CE multiplayer.

Five kills in the space of a few seconds. MAH SNIPER SKILLS ARE UNPARALLELED.

Then a guy with a scorpion comes in and tries to hit me with the rocket. Misses. Sniper: boom, dead.

"F***RUEHDNUBCAMPERFUC*"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on October 16, 2012, 08:24:39 pm

I Was playing a game of Counter-Strike, and me and one other person were the only ones on the map left, both of us on different teams.  Now, I'm looking around this room, and then suddenly I hear a slight shuffle from behind me. I turned around quickly and shot once immediately after. I not only caught him trying to back-stab me, but I also landed a headshot within a millisecond of hearing him behind me. I did it so quickly, and had such a lucky shot, that immediately after I heard a sarcastic "Wow, nice aimbot, hacker!."

I'm rather proud of being accused of hacking when it was really a stroke of luck that caused it.

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Counter-Strike: Source

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on October 16, 2012, 08:33:55 pm

my drunk ass dominted 3 sessions of counter strike go arms race before I watch the president debate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 17, 2012, 04:22:23 pm

Some poor Buccaneer tried to fly a one cannon ship against our four cannon ship, alone, by alternating between the helm and the cannon.  Unfortunately, the rest of my crew was busy, so me and another Viking leaped unto his puny airship from above.  My friend was cut down as he climbed aboard, but I killed the Buccaneer and took the ship.  This left me in the same crappy situation as its former crewman, and an enemy four cannon ship with a full crew was coming in and engaging the ship I started on.  Undeterred, I flew my new capture high above the enemy, then abandoned it by leaping over the enemy ship, and attaching a tow cable to their balloon while I fell.  I had no hope of beating the five Buccaneers on board in direct combat, but (as planned) none of them noticed me hanging to the back of their ship below the deck.  So I tossed bags of gunpowder over the side until the ship exploded, taking all hands with it.

Two entire ships vs two Vikings?  No contest :P

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Air Buccaneers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 17, 2012, 04:43:21 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on October 17, 2012, 04:22:23 pm

Some poor Buccaneer tried to fly a one cannon ship against our four cannon ship, alone, by alternating between the helm and the cannon.  Unfortunately, the rest of my crew was busy, so me and another Viking leaped unto his puny airship from above.  My friend was cut down as he climbed aboard, but I killed the Buccaneer and took the ship.  This left me in the same crappy situation as its former crewman, and an enemy four cannon ship with a full crew was coming in and engaging the ship I started on.  Undeterred, I flew my new capture high above the enemy, then abandoned it by leaping over the enemy ship, and attaching a tow cable to their balloon while I fell.  I had no hope of beating the five Buccaneers on board in direct combat, but (as planned) none of them noticed me hanging to the back of their ship below the deck.  So I tossed bags of gunpowder over the side until the ship exploded, taking all hands with it.

Two entire ships vs two Vikings?  No contest :P

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Air Buccaneers

That game looks awesome. Vikings, airships, explosions, Scandinavian airships, the list goes on.
Is it actually fun/good?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 17, 2012, 04:53:14 pm

Quote from: Catastrophic lolcats on October 01, 2012, 06:11:52 pm

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on September 30, 2012, 05:34:22 am

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Star wars: Empire at War forces of corruption

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I was playing Empire at War FoC, and somehow, in the massive campaign map with no campaign, I somehow ended up with 3 (!) Super Star Destroyers, and two Death Stars. I sent this massive fleet around with Thrawn, Piett, and every other special character, plus a massive stack of TIE Defenders and shit. I destroyed every planet in the galaxy but Mon Calamari and Byss. Then I took Byss and Mon Calamari for myself and just putzed around. The Rebels kept trying to do hit and run attacks with their pitifully minimal forces, mostly frigates and fighters. The Consortium, I wiped out because I hate that yellow shit.

You haven't seen awesome until three SSD's pop into a system with a full stack rebel fleet, in perfect formation, at exactly the same time, escorted by the two most powerful normal SD's and several other normal star destroyers. And then the enemy fleet just kind of vanishes.

Also, for my awesome: Took Poland. From the Polish. As the Prussians. I had never realized how easily the Prussians made money when you aren't at war. They're crazy badass powerhouses.

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Empire Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 17, 2012, 05:17:26 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on October 17, 2012, 04:43:21 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on October 17, 2012, 04:22:23 pm

airships and stuff

That game looks awesome. Vikings, airships, explosions, Scandinavian airships, the list goes on.
Is it actually fun/good?

Yep, it is.
It's definitely a game that you'll get more out of if you know your teammates, but I haven't gotten any of my friends into it yet and I'm still having fun. Its free to play, and pretty reasonable about withholding content (the only thing you'll really miss is the perk system, but perks all come with flaws so it evens out).  Oh, and its crazy awesome.  Like, airships shooting each other while simultaneously spinning around a tornado and trying to escape awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mud074 on October 17, 2012, 07:49:29 pm

I sprinted through an open field into the town we were attacking. At some point right at the end of my run, a German shot out one of my legs. Despite this, I managed to crawl into a building and get up the top floor. Because I was the only allied player to make it into the enemy town, nobody bothered clearing buildings as far back into the town as I was in. I stood up by a window and began shooting the Germans in the back. I managed to get 7 kills, which is pretty damn good for that game, before somebody realized that there was somebody behind their own lines and started to go after me. He must have started to shout it out over the radio that I was there, because a huge amount of them completely abandoned the defense of the city and started attacking the building I was in. Sadly, they made the smart move and threw grenades in, not giving me a shot on them.

By diverting that many enemies, the rest of my squad was able to make it into town and capture a spawnable point (An area that allows players to "warp" into through a exploit that the developers never bothered fixing because it actually adds to the gameplay). After this, we completely flooded the town, capturing it.

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Battleground Europe, AKA WWII online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 17, 2012, 07:52:35 pm

How did I last own?
 

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(http://i.imgur.com/fLn2h.jpg)

That's half of my defensive line. Half is eight basilisks, a Shadowsword Titanicus, five Heavy Weapons Teams, and a Platoon Command squad. Plus the six or so turrets.
Half.

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade: Lights of the Warp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on October 17, 2012, 09:15:39 pm

I had come across some Chinese Remnant or something, all ghoul-ified. After sniping the majority of them from fairly safe vantage points, I proceed to equip a powerfist, and punch the last few to death. I punch a couple of them so hard, their arms flew off. And I was dressed in a Regulator Duster, a Pre-War Hat, and a pair of Sunglasses. So not only was I badass, I looked the part.

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Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on October 17, 2012, 10:59:16 pm

i got my best time in phone sudoku. yea lame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 18, 2012, 04:45:31 am

In IVAN, while i'm not very far along in the game:

Picked up a Wand of Necromancy.
Picked up a wand of lightning.
Prayed to a god, who normally pelts me with poison, but she seemed pleased. She gave me a 'mistress', a non-evil succubus who keeps me alive really easily, and takes most kills. :P
Picked up a broken arcanite helmet. Easily repaired.
Drank from a fountain. Permanent ESP. :D

Then, I found an AMULET OF LIFESAVING. Effectively a second life, in a permadeath game. That's awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 18, 2012, 05:14:48 am

It wasn't. It just lasted a very long time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Seraphim342 on October 18, 2012, 07:48:24 am

Was playing Planetside 1 a few days ago, and we had a 4-man Galaxy Gunship running.  Had it set up with pilot, tailgunner, and portside weapons only because we were 2 short of a full crew.  I had the port autocannon. 

So our side's advancing on an enemy base but is bogged down at a bridge crossing.  Enemy's got a half-dozen tanks, an AMS, and an AA BFR on a hill on the other side.  We stay low, loop around, and hit them from behind.  Take out the AA BFR first, then the AMS on the first pass.  Pull around into a wide circle with me and the tailgun taking out tanks while the grenade launcher mops up troops from the AMS.  We get three tanks down, and the friendlies start rushing across the bridge.  The remaining three tanks start pulling back to the base and we chase after, taking out another two between us and the ground forces.  Awesome.

Then all of a sudden, the air's full of NC bastards.  Two Reavers, two Mosquitos and a Wasp.  Pilot starts clawing for altitude to get above them.  I manage to take out a Reaver and a Mossie, while the tailgunner gets the other Reaver and heavily damages the Wasp.  The wasp and mossie bug out.  At this point we're down to about 15% health and almost completely out of ammo.  I've got about 50 rounds left in the gun with no reloads, and the tailgunner's out.  We land behind a hill and he swaps over to the starboard cannon.  We're taking off to head back to base for reloads when the Mossie and Wasp show up again. 

Pilot starts flying this C-130 sized plane in between the trees.  The Wasp had launched missiles but between his flying and a lot of luck they blew up in the foliage.  They've been behind us where we've got no coverage, but he banks around some more trees and I can get a bead on them.  I take out the Mossie, but after a couple hits on the Wasp the gun clicks empty.  Starboard gunner's got no shot and we're so low on health now that we've got no time line it up for him.  We're literally 100 yards from our own facility at this point.

Wasp lines up a shot at us with his chaingun, and I'm thinking "Well, this was a good run."  So little health left I can't even see any green.  Then we get juuust inside the SOI and the vehicle shield pips up, and the Wasp had aimed a little wide so that only a few rounds hit us... enough to get absorbed by the shield.  I knew that once he reloaded we'd be toast, base or no base, so I decided to try something, and bailed.  The pilot calls me a coward for bailing in TS as I land perfectly in the center of the wall and dash towards a wall turret.  I get in just in time to bring it to bear and finish the Wasp off.  The pilot takes a second to realize what happened, then him and the other gunner start going nuts.  We repair and rearm, and that damned GG kept flying and NC kept dying for a solid 4 hours until we finally got downed by another GG with Wasp/Mossie backup, but not before taking their GG down first.  By that point our gunship had more bullet decals on it than paint.

Also noteworthy is the fact that during the initial battle I had some heavy metal playing with my library on shuffle (Sabaton, if you're interested).  Right when the real life-or-death air battle started, though, windows media decided that would be the perfect time to play the song from Robot Unicorn Attack, which I'd completely forgotten was in my library.  That somehow made it exponentially more awesome. 

All in all, it was another glorious day in the Terran Republic. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on October 18, 2012, 09:25:34 pm

On a 'What-If' mission, I planted a HE Charge. The timer was 40 seconds. On the last 10, someone started to defuse it. He was almost done... I came up to his side and slapped him in the face with my gun. He fell down, the charge blew, we both died. I AM AN HERO

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Brink

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on October 18, 2012, 09:40:25 pm

I won another 3 CS:GO arms race in a row tonight.

Arms race is a game mode where everyone starts with the same weapon, and every time you get a kill you automatically get the next weapon in the sequence, until you have gotten 1 kill with every weapon and then you have to get a knife kill to win. Since only 1 of 12 players can win, it is difficult to pull it off repeatedly against other humans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on October 18, 2012, 10:09:48 pm

I was playing 24/7 Bazaar and we were pushing from A. I went through "dog leg" and see that we were stuck and couldn't get in the "kitchen area just passed dog leg. I, with my trust AN-94, decide to rush it and see how many i can take down with me. 5 guys are facing me when i walk in and I take 4 of them out with 1 clip in my An-94 and the last with a rex head shot all with in about 3 seconds. It was GLORIOUS!

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BF3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on October 18, 2012, 11:19:46 pm

I stabbed so many people with my stabby stick.  Sometimes I skewered two people at once, sometimes I jumped at  knights and stabbed them.  Occasionally I made an archer run for his life before stabbing him.  Much stabs were had at the point of my stabby stick.

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Chivalry Medieval Warfare Free for all mode.  I won two out of two games played. 

Polearms are awesome. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 19, 2012, 11:50:12 am

The joy of hijacking vehicles and bringing them back to base, amplified by the fact that I could grab them using the winch on a helicopter. Shortened the travel time tremendously, and vehicles do not despawn until you cause a loading screen(which is only when you start a mission or load a game). At one point, I managed to steal a helicopter using a helicopter.

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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on October 19, 2012, 12:42:43 pm

Not so much owning as just pure luck.

I was doing great as a ruler, managed to form a kingdom, but then disaster struck, my son was an idiot. He had 0 in all stats, with the exception of diplomacy which was 20. I can only assume that he was emitting large quantities of pheromones, sorta like the larva that tricks ants treating it like a queen. I decided that having the kingdom crash from shitty stats was worse than not having an ally, so I found him a wife with the highest stats I could find, a genius it turned out.
Years pass, a grandson is born, who luckily took after his mother and was a genius(meaning he pretty much had better stats than his father, as a baby). I taught him myself. Years pass again. Grandson keeps racking up good traits. Runs up to 14 diplomacy and 7/8 in everything else, as an 8 year old kid. Only problem is, my idiot son is in the way of succession, and being quite young, would keep the grandson from inheriting for many decades. I let it pass for 2 years, until my idiot son suddenly died from illness, but I suspect he just finally hatched into a butterfly and flew away to lay eggs in other kingdoms. The way was now clear.

Now my old king is about to kick the bucket just in time for my genius grandson to inherit at a young age, setting him up for a very long and fruitful ruling period.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 20, 2012, 11:23:55 pm

Admirals Thrawn and Piett. The Executor. Several victory and acclamator class ships for support, as well as a few tartans and a gloriously dick-ish Interdictor.
One very unlucky Consortium fleet.
Boba Fett is the first in, all by himself. Since he's Boba Fett, he's handily whupping up on the escorts and fighters that come at him, but when the heavier ships engage him, I pause.
A few well placed clicks later, I unpause.
All my ships pop in, in perfect formation, guns blazing. Two frigates disintegrate pretty much instantly. Their Keldabe battleship foolish decides to target my distractio- I mean Vader's ship. I activate Assault on Thrawn's vessel, and let him fire two salvos each, before switching targets to another hardpoint on the Keldabe.
The Keldabe is destroyed within about ten salvos. The rest of the enemy fleet is crumbling and fleeing. The retreat countdown begins. I wait, and let it get down to two seconds. I know it's just the AI, but I'm a vindictive bastard anyway.
2.812? Interdictor, activate Gravity Well Generators.
Retreat is not an option, ladies and gentlemen.

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Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jimbobobby on October 21, 2012, 03:45:32 pm

I found out the criminal mastermind is a member of the Jamaican gang after decoding a message and where the headquarters are after wiretapping the Colombian cartel safe house in Washington.

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Covert Action

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on October 21, 2012, 06:45:42 pm

Quote from: jimbobobby on October 21, 2012, 03:45:32 pm

I found out the criminal mastermind is a member of the Jamaican gang after decoding a message and where the headquarters are after wiretapping the Colombian cartel safe house in Washington.

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Covert Action

I love you for playing this!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 22, 2012, 05:52:34 pm

I thought it was a single unit of Hessian Line infantry triapsing around the countryside tearing stuff up, so I sent two Minutemen. Minutemen are halfway between real Line Infantry and shitty militia, so they're pretty good. And Hessian units suck, so I thought I'd just overpower the unit real fast.
Yeah, it was two units of Hessians. So now I'm at even odds in a fight with line infantry units, and I've got irregulars. Sweet.
Anyway, I advance on them, and one unit opens fire on my left flank. My right flank was kind of at the bottom of a hill, so the enemy return fire at them went over their heads and into the dirt. As did their fire, but you can't win every time.
My left flank is getting torn up pretty severely, and I suddenly get an idiotic GENIUS plan. Bayonet charge. Except I forgot Hessians have beastly melee defence, in exchange for shitty morale and attack. I rush my units forward, one at each. The right flank collides, and starts fighting. The hessians on the left flank were somewhat farther back, so I turned my unit mid charge and fell down the enemy flank, breaking the enemies' right flank in exchange for some heavy casualities. I then continued the charge into the other hessians, and broke through their line to encircle them from within.

Minutemen are awesome.

And later, I may tell the Battle of New York. It was pretty epic.

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Empire Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on October 22, 2012, 07:21:45 pm

More luck than ownage, but still.

My receptionist's voice crackles over the PA: "Epidemic warning!". I quickly scan for the contagious patients.

One of them is roughly 4 seconds away from finishing treatment in the pharmacy.

The other just finished General Diagnosis and was walking back to GP. Right past the pharmacy. I promptly 'guessed' his 100% diagnosis, and he too chugged a vial of strangely-coloured liquid.

And BAM!, epidemic over. The government came, gave me free money, and I got to smugly lean back and gloat about my cover-up.

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Theme Hospital. Was 50% off at GOG this weekend, so I decided to risk $3.00. Best decision I've made in weeks!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on October 23, 2012, 08:05:20 pm

Two snipers critically wounded with 1 turn before death, a heavy and an assault mind controlled. Final boss and an Ethereal still alive. Only troops remaining are an assault with 3HP and a psionic support (Nicknamed "Angel") with around or less than a bar. Angel is the psionic that needs to survive. Let's do this.

Okay, okay. The assault is right next to the final boss. He's got an Alloy Cannon. The boss has about 3 bars left. You can get really close to him. Can you kill him?!

NO! No! His shot hits but the final boss has 1HP left! ...Okay, Angel, it's up to you. The fate of the game lies on your one turn. You're above the endboss and a medium distance. What can you do? Not any psionic stuff--too low chance at less than 20%. ~70-80% chance with your Plasma Rifle? DO IT!

...

*Insert cheers as that one Plasma Rifle shot wins the game from the utter brink*

Truly, she was a guardian Angel. She will be missed.

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XCOM Enemy Unknown. Classic difficulty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 25, 2012, 01:56:53 pm

Walking around, defending a SCU.
Suddenly, a wild vanu appears!
This room is full of boxes. I hide behind one and so does he/she. I randomly throw a grenade to the other end of teh room.
Kill.
Lolwut?

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on October 25, 2012, 06:02:24 pm

Was playing Battered Bluff map Drowning Doom vs. Drowning Doom. Had a good start but was shoved back to my stage and lost all the geysers, but I was teched up enough and had enough fans that I was able to play the solo to stop them from creating more units as I built up a wall of death. Managed to recapture all the geysers and take the fight back to their stage right as she was putting out an army. Right as our units clashed and began attacking her stage, we bouth played the weeping heavens solo at the same time destroying both our armies but not before mine destroyed her stage. Brutal Legend Admittedly it was against the Brutal AI, but still.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 26, 2012, 01:19:44 pm

Got attacked by bounty hunters. Lost my ships a few times, but they gave me good amounts of extra ka-pow on my ships and they went down easily so i consider this a victory.

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SPAZ

E:
I now have 3 huge, 1 large and 2 medium particle cannons on 3 ships. Bounty hunter ships are awesome.
I replaced a ship with 2 large mounts (well, 2 medium turret mounts but fixed turret mod) and no rockets with a ship with 2 medium and one large mount AND two rockets.
But i replaced another ship with 2 rocket mounts for one with none, so that doesn't matter. I still have 6 rockets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on October 26, 2012, 05:44:04 pm

My fireteam buddy was a particularly skilled sniper so we coordinated. I suited up in an EOD suit and wandered out into the open so he could pick off everyone I drew out. We dominated as the top fireteam for 4 maps in a row and now I have enough tokens that I am confident tomorrow I can make a move to put the US into the winning position over our rivals S. Korea and Russia.

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Medal Of Honor: Warfighter Multiplayer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on October 26, 2012, 08:59:14 pm

During the Assassination mission "Peacekeeper", my objective was to kill 10 Brutes (very strong enemies) in under 60 seconds. I watched them from the rooftops, and jumped in front of them. I smoke bomb'd them and killed them all oh so quickly.

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Assassin's Creed 2, SO PUMPED FOR AC3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Icee77 on October 26, 2012, 09:28:12 pm

Finally managed to defeat the Uesugi Clan for the second time. First time I MAY have looted and destroyed everything they held dear. Then rebels took back 3 provinces and I had to reconcile my forces. I had to fight running battles and destroy all the constructions in castles in the way of the Uesugi armies, so as not to give the Uesugi any resources. One of my katana samurai units became a general and curbstomped the incoming Uesugi army. Then I got myself a a stack of bow ashigaru and laid siege to the fort containing the Daimyo, the heir, and the brother. Lets just say that by the end of the battle, my archers had run out of arrows and the enemy had run out of lives.
Currently reclaiming all my lost provinces. And going to take Hitachi because some other dirty rebels got a hold of that province.

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Shogun 2. Going to play a Rise of The Samurai campaign after this one

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on October 28, 2012, 01:21:04 am

The Terminator was alone, armed only with a storm bolter and a power fist, and within 6 squares of a Genestealer.
The Genestealer charges, attacks my Termie, and my Termie wins.
I beat a roll of 3d6 with 1d6.
Awesome.

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Alien Assault (With Blood Angels) Training mission

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2012, 12:16:06 pm

The discovery that I could conquer so much of the galaxy by using a strategy, which honestly, I should be kicking myself for not seeing it earlier, that has been used pretty much throughout the movies: throw Skywalker at it until it explodes.

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Star Wars: Empire At War: Republic at War mod. You can send Anakin, or any other Jedi or major hero(Cody, Delta Squad) on a commando attack, similar to the Rebels' Raid ability in the original game. It's a solo attack, but Anakin(and Obi-Wan as well) pretty much absorbs and reflects most the damage he takes from infantry droids(tanks, turrets, and droidekas are still deadly), so he can just blow past most enemies, especially if I plop a bacta tank down somewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Splint on October 28, 2012, 12:31:45 pm

Mount and Blade Warband

I was puttering along and decided to attack a swadian castle that had a decent enough garrison for shits and giggles. I fully expected to lose badly (my army being composed mostly of Rhodoks I've had since the start and some merc cavalry and hired blades with roughly 9 sword sisters since I like having cheap death machines) And to my suprise, I took the castle, with four men dead and six injured. I had accidently founded The Warsmith Enclaves. From there, I took a second castle, and after declaring war on the sarranids (while doing something for the Vaegirs) stomed Dorquba, or however that's spelled, with 67 men. Now, to clarify the badassery in this,the defening force consisted of nearly 400 men, many of them javil throwers or archers and master archers who should have pincusioned us. I suffered one man dead (one of my merc crossbowmen) two rhodok sergeants and a sword sister wounded.

The enemy is probably going to throw a campaign army at me next, but given that each battle I've had with them consisted of my cavalry smashing into them and a third of thier men dying It probably won't do them any good. Still. I give my Men of Sherwood credit where it's due: My army has some stone cold Badasses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2012, 01:12:39 pm

Oh crap, I almost forgot. Aside from throwing Anakin at the entirety of the Seperatist Army, there's also the HAVw Juggernaught. Supported with Delta Squad(Boss for Sensor Pinging, Fixer to heal the Juggernaught) and Barris Ofree(to heal Delta Squad), it's hard to lose.

Plus, the thought of a group of four elite troopers who seem to have more personality than anyone else in the clone army, and the girl who is also a Jedi Knight, joyriding around in a massive 10-wheeled death machine is just hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zecro_The_Scourge on October 28, 2012, 03:10:08 pm

DayZ:

So I spawned near Belota airfield and found a bambi trying to loot it, I cautiously followed him without him knowing until *BANG, BANG*. The bambi dropped dead and my position was lit up until I was dodging ten M107 anti-material rifle shots like a fucking BOSS. After losing the sniper I proceeded to flank up the hill and managed to get close as one metre, raising my axe I removed him of his head and proceeded to take all his belongings. Given his gear setup he was part of a larger group as he had no way to provide for himself so I proceeded to get the fuck out of there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on October 28, 2012, 05:19:55 pm

I began the game on Terminal Moraine, the map with Two isolated bases.

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(http://www.halowars.com/assets/maps/1900/terminalhi_final.jpg)

The map is built for two on two, but I played on One on One for extra funsies.

Anyways, things went' well for about five minutes, I got two big bases, upgraded supply depots. Then I find the computer somehow amassed a huge army. In a last ditch effort, I sent out a spartan to get me a new base before the old ones were destroyed. I sent him around the enemy and over the lightbridge onto the left Isolated Base, where I found some rebels had moved in which sucked since even one spartan wasn't much to hinge your whole game on.

Luckily there were two build sites outside it, and I built a supply depot to keep my economy running, and a barracks, which overran the rebels just as my main bases began to fall completely.

There was a period of peace, while the AI either tried to look for me or was busying itself chasing its own units, or something. The AI isn't very bright about what it does when there's nothing to fight. I built my base up, took the little reactor, giving me just enough to build some cobras (anti-vehicles that can lockdown into artillery). The AI finally found me after I sent out marines to secure the other side of the light bridge, and the battles began.

Lo and behold, the AI had built a scarab, which is terrifying in the most lopsided way. For reference, the strongest unit the UNSC can build is a vulture, and it takes three to bring down a scarab with any faithfulness, and even then two usually die unless they have the upgraded barrage and it's used (natch). The scarab lumbered across the light bridge, my cobras, fully locked down, firing and doing what looked like no damage, though it was the same kind of damage that obliterates Wraiths in two shots. The scarab stopped on the light bridge, began firing it's laz0rs at my poor cobras, got one, switched to the other, and then had a meeting with gravity as the light bridge turned off.

I admit, I took a moment to laugh as the AI lost half a scarab to a really stupid mistake.

But my luck wouldn't hold. I had to build some vultures, and so I took down the barracks outside the base (I didn't need it anymore, I had on on the base itself), and built another reactor, pushing me to the ability to build Vultures.

In the meantime, I fortified my location, building turrets, taking towers with ODST, repositioning my cobras so that their range went just over the bridge where the AI was already congregating a huge army to attack with. And, a single hornet, a weak aircraft barely able to hold its own against grunts. But the suckers are fast, numerous, and can fly over obstacles, like the mountains surrounding the map. I sent him off behind the enemy bases, and flew him around to the other Isolated base, where I repeated my old strategy and built another hyper-fortified location.

By this point I had killed three scarabs. Three. That's an accomplishment on par with competeing in the olympics, going into space, or managing to get the damn toast to toast just right. But I had a plan, and the resources to replace my losses, and I had four vultures, which by this point were extraneous. I had upgraded my MAC Cannon fully, which let me take down scarabs without anything but a visual on them. It also freed up a powerful force, which swept across the map, destroying bases and then plopping down my own.

I didn't build in these new bases, they were only there to clog up the spot and let me know where the AI was. All I built were turrets, and those were distractions, as I intended my Vultures to come sweep the floor with any AI troops.

This proved the end to the AI, which broke their armies upon my fortified position (?) one last time, as the Vultures ate away at their resources. They could no longer afford the massive cost of the Scarab, then about halfway through I destroyed their temple, meaning they couldn't do anything but build grunts and weep.

I won a victory watching their last unit, a ghost, fire ineffectually against one of the bases I forgot to build turrets on. He was the only one left. A lonely, lonely elite.

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Halo Wars

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on October 28, 2012, 06:02:30 pm

Stole the gun from a warden, killed the warden and another fellow, then proceeded to work my way through the rest of West Block with a knife, killing everyone. I was only trying to kill my cellmate, but then I remembered witnesses. And the next warden we got was missing an arm and fingers by the time I saw him. Sadly, he died during the night.

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Hard Time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on October 29, 2012, 07:34:49 pm

Managed to get a double shotgun in the first Doom due to one of the allies added in by the Brutal Doom wad meeting with an unfortunate "accident".
The massacre that followed was glorious. Demons? One hit. Cacos? Two. Although the cyberdemon fazed me for a moment, he went down quick too. Now if only I could hit those damned lost souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on October 30, 2012, 02:45:16 am

Grinding over two hundred thousand combined experience and managed to master Speed, Slow Time, Assassin Rush and Heal Life in the span of I think two or three hours feels like an achievement to me, especially when it's done before rescuing the Archaeologist from Bowerstone Jail.

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Fable: The Lost Chapters

Also managed to accumulate almost twenty-four thousand gold pieces with my chaotic good elf wizard Ilia De'catense, which half of was then used to buy equipment that raised her Intelligence to twenty-two. I like to think of that as an achievement as well, especially since it will help her own a little more now that the DC of her Fireball, Scintillating Sphere, Firebrand and Cone of Cold spells are now at 23 and 25 respectively.

Only the most nimble will survive, especially when she becomes able to cast Maximized Fireball and Maximized Scintillating Sphere at character level eleven. Shit will be wrecked.

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Neverwinter Nights - Original Campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on October 30, 2012, 04:34:45 am

Dead Space 2, Blind Zealot Ironman in one sitting. Little over 7 hours.

I wanted to write it for a while, but it would spoil stuff!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 30, 2012, 04:39:37 am

Finished DKC2 with no savestates with all DK coins collected and Lost World beaten in just on 3 hours.
Aww yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on October 30, 2012, 02:40:07 pm

Narrow hallway. Feral Ghoul. And a Gatling Laser.

The ghoul charged at me, and I entered VATS to line up a shot (Damn, Gatling Lasers are hard to aim without VATS). Killed the ghoul in mid-leap, and it slammed into the wall behind me so hard its head came off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 30, 2012, 08:08:43 pm

Quote from: greatorder on October 30, 2012, 08:05:11 pm

Zeus commanded me to rise again.

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learn to fly 2

I know that feeling all too well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on October 30, 2012, 09:00:15 pm

I was tramping through L'Enfant Plaza, and came across a fair-sized group of Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes. I opened fire with a unique 10mm SMG I'd looted from somebody I'd killed after helping her retrieve the Declaration of Independence (Hey! I'm playing this guy as an evil, greedy bastard! Don't judge.), and cars and trucks started blowing up left and right. I managed to kill most of them after a rather epic battle, except for one who somehow managed to blow himself up with his own Frag Grenade. All this while dressed in a Pre-War Hat and Grimy Pre-War Bussinesswear.

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Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Demki on October 31, 2012, 03:21:40 am

Quite a while ago, in toribash. I punched someone in the face then kicked his groin, his neck was broken and his hip dismembered, he went on to dq. Then there was that time where I self decapped then knee'd the guy's head and decapped him. Toribash is probably the best place for ownage and, after DF, failage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 31, 2012, 03:42:24 am

Quote from: Vorthon on October 30, 2012, 09:00:15 pm

I was tramping through L'Enfant Plaza, and came across a fair-sized group of Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes. I opened fire with a unique 10mm SMG I'd looted from somebody I'd killed after helping her retrieve the Declaration of Independence (Hey! I'm playing this guy as an evil, greedy bastard! Don't judge.), and cars and trucks started blowing up left and right. I managed to kill most of them after a rather epic battle, except for one who somehow managed to blow himself up with his own Frag Grenade. All this while dressed in a Pre-War Hat and Grimy Pre-War Bussinesswear.

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Fallout 3

I love it when the AI throws a grenade then blunders right onto it.

Or when instead of sneak killing, I throw a frag mine down, fire in their direction to get them to run over to it, and watch as they go kaboom. Mutant, Robot, Human alike all fall to that.

That makes me think... should I do a full Frag Mine only run?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on October 31, 2012, 02:52:35 pm

Reminds me of the time I was sneaking through a talon company base and threw down a bottle cap mine by the door way because one of them saw me and was getting up to investigate. He stepped on the mine, got gibbed and had his body parts launched through the door frame, and his buddy who had been sitting at a table and eating got up, and just walked away without ever drawing his weapon or checking on what happened. Fallout 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on October 31, 2012, 02:54:28 pm

Quote from: Reudh on October 31, 2012, 03:42:24 am

Quote from: Vorthon on October 30, 2012, 09:00:15 pm

I was tramping through L'Enfant Plaza, and came across a fair-sized group of Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes. I opened fire with a unique 10mm SMG I'd looted from somebody I'd killed after helping her retrieve the Declaration of Independence (Hey! I'm playing this guy as an evil, greedy bastard! Don't judge.), and cars and trucks started blowing up left and right. I managed to kill most of them after a rather epic battle, except for one who somehow managed to blow himself up with his own Frag Grenade. All this while dressed in a Pre-War Hat and Grimy Pre-War Bussinesswear.

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Fallout 3

I love it when the AI throws a grenade then blunders right onto it.

Or when instead of sneak killing, I throw a frag mine down, fire in their direction to get them to run over to it, and watch as they go kaboom. Mutant, Robot, Human alike all fall to that.

That makes me think... should I do a full Frag Mine only run?

YES. JUST YES. As long as you share the results, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on November 01, 2012, 03:32:35 am

Quote from: Dirg on October 31, 2012, 02:52:35 pm

Reminds me of the time I was sneaking through a talon company base and threw down a bottle cap mine by the door way because one of them saw me and was getting up to investigate. He stepped on the mine, got gibbed and had his body parts launched through the door frame, and his buddy who had been sitting at a table and eating got up, and just walked away without ever drawing his weapon or checking on what happened. Fallout 3.

This food is delicious! I really enjoy Macies cooking. Is that a leg. Oh, you know what'd go good with this steak and Leg? Chocolate milk! Yummy!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 01, 2012, 03:45:11 am

Quote from: Vorthon on October 31, 2012, 02:54:28 pm

Quote from: Reudh on October 31, 2012, 03:42:24 am

Quote from: Vorthon on October 30, 2012, 09:00:15 pm

I was tramping through L'Enfant Plaza, and came across a fair-sized group of Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes. I opened fire with a unique 10mm SMG I'd looted from somebody I'd killed after helping her retrieve the Declaration of Independence (Hey! I'm playing this guy as an evil, greedy bastard! Don't judge.), and cars and trucks started blowing up left and right. I managed to kill most of them after a rather epic battle, except for one who somehow managed to blow himself up with his own Frag Grenade. All this while dressed in a Pre-War Hat and Grimy Pre-War Bussinesswear.

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Fallout 3

I love it when the AI throws a grenade then blunders right onto it.

Or when instead of sneak killing, I throw a frag mine down, fire in their direction to get them to run over to it, and watch as they go kaboom. Mutant, Robot, Human alike all fall to that.

That makes me think... should I do a full Frag Mine only run?

YES. JUST YES. As long as you share the results, of course.

I've only got in on PS3, I'm afraid. :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 01, 2012, 08:38:07 pm

Nothing like watching a group of guards that were chasing you run in the WRONG DIRECTION while you watch from a nearby bush.

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Assassin's Creed 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 02, 2012, 06:36:51 pm

Just beat Assassin's Creed 3.

THE CREDITS WERE 13 MINUTES LONG.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 02, 2012, 06:55:07 pm

Destroyed a giant mecha by shooting it in the face. A LOT.

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Intrusion 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on November 02, 2012, 07:50:12 pm

I still, at the time of writing this, do not know exactly what I did that pissed off the Boron. All I know was that they were angry, and had sent an entire invasion fleet at my location. As me and my small escort of ships barely held off their onslaught, I knew only one chance remained, that my main fleet of private military vessels could reach me in time, despite being over 7 sectors away. As the Boron fleet brushed aside my ships, and was moving twords my factories and stations, I finally saw them emerge from the warpgate. Over two dozen of the finest Argon ships money could buy came out of the gate, and a hellstorm of missilefire and lasers reduced the Boron into scrapmetal.

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X3 Albion Prelude, with the XRM mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 03, 2012, 11:45:15 am

For the first time in the war, my rating of military power was higher than the Confederacy. I sent my main fleet around Thyferra, Fondor, and Agrebado-rae(I butchered that one, I think), brutally ripping apart and Seperatist ships in orbit, destroying their engines when they tried to flee, and the following the ones who did flee. Several of them held a position over Corellia(after trashing the level 5 station I had there. Bastards), and I went over and wrecked them too.

Then I returned to Agrebado-rae, and took out a renewed fleet that had somehow got there. Then I checked the comparison of military power, and they had somehow jumped well above ours, while their supply of credits has only ever gone up. How is it we can win nearly every battle and still be losing the war?!

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Republic at War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on November 03, 2012, 12:31:40 pm

Finished the tutorial dungeon area thing.

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Daggerfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 03, 2012, 04:35:20 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 03, 2012, 11:45:15 am

For the first time in the war, my rating of military power was higher than the Confederacy. I sent my main fleet around Thyferra, Fondor, and Agrebado-rae(I butchered that one, I think), brutally ripping apart and Seperatist ships in orbit, destroying their engines when they tried to flee, and the following the ones who did flee. Several of them held a position over Corellia(after trashing the level 5 station I had there. Bastards), and I went over and wrecked them too.

Then I returned to Agrebado-rae, and took out a renewed fleet that had somehow got there. Then I checked the comparison of military power, and they had somehow jumped well above ours, while their supply of credits has only ever gone up. How is it we can win nearly every battle and still be losing the war?!

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Republic at War

Bear in mind this is going solely by what you've posted... but this mod seems horribly disbalanced.  Like, moreso than Forces of Corruption.  Still, its badass that they added Delta Squad in, not the least because it proves that someone other than me has heard of Republic Commando.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on November 03, 2012, 06:12:41 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 03, 2012, 04:35:20 pm

...someone other than me has heard of Republic Commando.

Too bad it doesn't work on my computer for some reason :(

I liked that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on November 03, 2012, 06:27:23 pm

Staying home and playing Aurora instead of going to Homecoming.

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Real life is overrated

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on November 03, 2012, 07:03:35 pm

Quote from: revo on November 03, 2012, 06:27:23 pm

Staying home and playing Aurora instead of going to Homecoming.

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Real life is overrated

I left the homecoming game at my school at halftime and played Terraria... this was a month ago, mind you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geen on November 04, 2012, 12:42:36 am

Hid in a porta-potty with the dual berettas after my entire team got killed and I grabbed the C4. Hilarity ensued. Killed the entire enemy team. Including the guy hiding in the porta-potty next to me. LIKE A BOSS. Seriously, me and the other potty guy ended up in a knife-fight during which I remembered I had a grenade, so I retreated, went back to exchanging fire as he hid back in his porta-potty, then tossed a grenade into the stall and shut the door before he could react. There needs to be an achievement for this.

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CS:GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 04, 2012, 07:36:21 am

Quote from: Geen on November 04, 2012, 12:42:36 am

Hid in a porta-potty with the dual berettas after my entire team got killed and I grabbed the C4. Hilarity ensued. Killed the entire enemy team. Including the guy hiding in the porta-potty next to me. LIKE A BOSS. Seriously, me and the other potty guy ended up in a knife-fight during which I remembered I had a grenade, so I retreated, went back to exchanging fire as he hid back in his porta-potty, then tossed a grenade into the stall and shut the door before he could react. There needs to be an achievement for this.

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CS:GO

Agreed. There really should be an achievement for that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on November 04, 2012, 08:28:31 am

OH SHI - Blow up your opponent while he's using the port - a - potty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on November 04, 2012, 08:30:23 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 03, 2012, 04:35:20 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 03, 2012, 11:45:15 am

For the first time in the war, my rating of military power was higher than the Confederacy. I sent my main fleet around Thyferra, Fondor, and Agrebado-rae(I butchered that one, I think), brutally ripping apart and Seperatist ships in orbit, destroying their engines when they tried to flee, and the following the ones who did flee. Several of them held a position over Corellia(after trashing the level 5 station I had there. Bastards), and I went over and wrecked them too.

Then I returned to Agrebado-rae, and took out a renewed fleet that had somehow got there. Then I checked the comparison of military power, and they had somehow jumped well above ours, while their supply of credits has only ever gone up. How is it we can win nearly every battle and still be losing the war?!

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Republic at War

Bear in mind this is going solely by what you've posted... but this mod seems horribly disbalanced.  Like, moreso than Forces of Corruption.  Still, its badass that they added Delta Squad in, not the least because it proves that someone other than me has heard of Republic Commando.

Computers often cheat on higher difficulty levels, and on some maps the player starts with a huge disadvantage.

Anyway, any change I can get a link to the mod. Can't find it for some reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 04, 2012, 12:49:42 pm

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on November 04, 2012, 08:30:23 am

Anyway, any change I can get a link to the mod. Can't find it for some reason.

Here. (http://www.moddb.com/mods/republic-at-war)

The good news is that they've only got about 8 planets left. Two of them have my ships over them and are completely seperated from the rest of the galaxy, so they can't build anything from them. I'm trying to do that with the three systems I mentioned above, but their ships keep popping up from nowhere, and auto-battle thinks that a Victory-1 or Venator will immediately commit suicide if it sees a single Recusant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 04, 2012, 01:04:28 pm

Steamrolled over the advanced decoy mission with an awesome team. Despite being forced into scout, it was incredibly fun.
Gotta love talkative teammates.

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 04, 2012, 02:51:33 pm

Threw a Bark Scorpion man, his head skidded on the ground, bruised his brain. His lower body skidded, his guts spilled, and he died because he collided with his own guts. Jeez.

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Dwarf Fortress. What other game would ever let you do this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on November 05, 2012, 12:03:56 am

So... I started off with telling my sovereign: Lets attack Jing Bei!

Surprisingly, he said yes and I was able to go and attack it with an army of about 60k(or 6 units of 10k) we took the city and I was appointed its governor.  And so, I started with 6 officers under my command in the city I govern for the first few years, building it up.  Then...  Cao Cao started to attack.  His kingdom is made up of +10 cities and had been growing over the whole time.  While I am in a force of 2 cities total.  (Cao Cao also has many more talented officers, plus my family members in his roster.)
Over the course of 3-4 years, Cao Cao has attacked my city over 6 times.  My sovereign has refused to reinforce me 5 out of those 6 times.  The one time that they did reinforce me, they attacked the capital, where I sent in reinforcements to help defend it after I wiped their offense.  Each time the enemy comes replenished, while my numbers are lessened due to casualties. My city has a very low population, due to massive overrecruitment into the military over the years before I took control.  Also, gold strapped cause low population = less income too...  But yes, each time, I've repelled the enemy... and I've also managed to catch my mother and great-granddaughter...  but only managed to recruit the great-granddaughter.
And so I face them a 7th time, my sovereign refusing to reinforce me, yet again...  I shall update my exploits here... it may be my last stand as governor here... with my battle-hardened troops...


EDIT: Alright, apparently the enemy only sent a 2:1 force... hardly anything to fear with fire arrows, ambushers and veteran troops...  I captured one of the enemy.  Jiang Qin, fairly decent fellow, but he refused to join. (Too bad I can't keep prisoners...)

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PS2-RoTK10, custom char and custom family, scenario 9.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 05, 2012, 12:54:05 am

Shit bro. Fight the good fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 05, 2012, 12:59:45 am

I know you put the game's acronym down, but what is the actual title? I can't think of anything that would fit and it sounds quite interesting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on November 05, 2012, 01:01:28 am

Romance of the Three Kingdoms X on Playstation 2

Google be yo friend.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 05, 2012, 01:02:48 am

Quote from: Scelly9 on November 05, 2012, 01:01:28 am

Romance of the Three Kingdoms X on Playstation 2

Thankee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 05, 2012, 06:59:04 pm

I detonated 5,000 nukes in North Korea. Of course, everyone hated me, but any attempts to condemn my actions fell flat.

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Shadow President

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on November 05, 2012, 08:13:06 pm

Got my political and civil freedoms bars up to "Excellent" again.

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Nationstates

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 06, 2012, 12:13:28 pm

Finally, after a long war, the Confederacy of Independant Systems is no more. After taking control of Thyferra and Fondor, I moved to take Endor, Bakura, and Rakkatak. These battles were easy, and for the first time ever, both the enemy's military and econimic ratings were lower than mine. Immediately after taking these last few worlds, the enemy tried in vain to break through the blockades on Muunilist and Mygeeto, pushing thousands of battle droids into orbit. Eventually, whittled these guys down as they rubberbanded between both worlds, which had fleets over them, until I could build up a large enough force to autobattle them both into submission.

Then, there was only one foe left, the Hutts on Nal Hutta. Too easy.

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Empire at War: Republic at War. Now, if I wasn't so burned out on it, to play it from the droids' side.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on November 08, 2012, 02:33:21 pm

I'm doing fairly well on my playthrough from the other side. For now, it appears to me that the balance is indeed a bit off. Though that can also be the result of the map I'm playing assuming that it's fair to give LVL 4 ships(Lucrehulks) for a tech level one start. Anyway, things seem a bit more balanced when I'm not using overwhelming numbers, and often the enemy manages to force me to retreat on ground battles. (24 droids squads is much, but they tend to whittle down quickly if you're not carefull). It's fun playing without manual, though I do need to put more work in my ground assaults. (That means more droids, of course).

As for the actual awesome. I moved my fleet in position above Polis Masa. I wait a bit for the fighters/bombers to unload from the Lucrehulks but then the computer sees the numbers, and flees before the first shots are even fired, giving up their Lvl 3 space station.

[spoiler]Empire at War: Republic at War.spoiler]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 08, 2012, 03:54:04 pm

The mission was going badly. Every house and wheatfield meant another risky shootout in the darkness, because I'd forgotten to stock the new Skyranger-2 with electroflares. One last alien was taking their time picking us off, firing a shot or two at a time from some unknown position. Finally, with four troopers left, I was moving my soldiers back to the craft.

Alien turn. One shot misses Heavy Weapons Guy. Heavy Weapons Guy turns around and shoots a HC-HE shell back at him. BOOM. One shot, right through the window, instantly killing the last Sectoid that had been giving us so much grief.

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XCom: UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rince Wind on November 08, 2012, 04:08:33 pm

A precurser fleet that would have annihilated our fleet a couple of years ago. They had 12 ships all in all, at least that is what we have seen and destroyed so far, taking only a little bit of armor damage on one of our light carriers.

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Aurora 5.6

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on November 09, 2012, 08:21:29 am

In Nethack, my lvl 2 Orcish Ranger came across a wild kitten. Throwing a spare ration at it, the kitten gladly eats it and suddenly starts killing garter snakes that were apparently lying in ambush for me. The kitten and my little dog then proceeded to kill all the snakes in the room without any help whatsoever and gobble their corpses. There were ten or so in all.

I now have two pets following me. Go teamwork!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on November 09, 2012, 09:14:10 am

I won $189 in a poker tournament. I bluffed bigtime despite only having a pair of 7's in my hand but had to go all in when my opponent raised my bet. I got lucky on the river and ended up with four 7's and my first top finish ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2012, 12:38:56 pm

Had myself, Brother Pravin Lal, voted Supreme Leader of Planet. The only person besides myself who voted for me was the Spartan Leader, and she only had 8 votes. The Gaeans where the largest nay-voter, with 80-something votes. Everyone else, besides the Believers, had 30-50.

I had over 700 votes. Democracy is pretty effective if your votes count more than the others.

Oh, and for the Believers, they declared war on me for supporting the Spartans, and for being a democracy("Freedom of choice is sin! God, through me of course, is the only ruler!" and that sort of thing)... and I kinda started a drone riot in their only city. Of course, I then killed them, and took their leader, Sister Miriam, stripped her down, and strapped her to an electrified gyro-thing for "interrogation". I think the reason for the interrogation was the meaning behind her nightly "bible thumping" the other leaders were accusing her of.

The records of my deeds were published books titled "Rovers, Dangerous at Any Speed" and "'We must consent' - 100 Sure-Fire Pickup Lines by Brother Lal".

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Alpha Centauri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on November 09, 2012, 02:05:51 pm

Sort of old, but still one of my most memorable wins.

Playing as the Shimazu, I had an army consisting primarily of yari and bow ashigaru, several units of Shimazu katana samurai, a light cavalry unit and my daimyo's bodyguard. The total unit count was about 1000.

I'd conquered several provinces with this army, so every unit was very well experienced. I thought I'd dealt with the army of whoever happened to be next to me at the time, but I wasn't so lucky.

I conquered another city with no losses, then moved on to the next. Between the two is an army of just over 2500 yari and bow ashigaru and two generals. Suffice to say, I thought I'd have my ass handed to me on a silver platter. When the map loaded, I started on a forested hill. A good defensive position for my archers to fire from; the only advantage I thought I had.


Fast forward to 20 minutes later and my cavalry are running down their retreating troops. I slaughtered their entire army at the cost of a mere 200 units.

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

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Shogun 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2012, 02:08:39 pm

Quote from: Azated on November 09, 2012, 02:05:51 pm

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

Wasn't that kind of the point of the samurai warrior-class supremacy?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on November 09, 2012, 03:25:03 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 09, 2012, 02:08:39 pm

Quote from: Azated on November 09, 2012, 02:05:51 pm

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

Wasn't that kind of the point of the samurai warrior-class supremacy?

It was, but I had no idea how much of a difference there was between samurais and their less than useful brethren of the plains.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: thunderclan on November 09, 2012, 11:24:28 pm

Assaulting the alien base (which ended up being almost right next door to XCOM HQ...) had left my entire A-Team in the infirmary, and then the aliens decide to launch a terror mission in Russia, which is already at level 3 panic. So I form up a squad of four squaddies and two corporal snipers and head out, only basic armor and weapons (wasn't going to risk the good stuff on people I figured were dead)

Touched down and as we moved forward 2 heavy floaters and 3 chryssalids are revealed, and in the process of grabbing better cover my assault soldier reveals 2 mutons and a berserker. Cue a frenzied battle that left my squad one man short and with the others in varying degrees of bad shape and 2 heavy floaters, 2 mutons, 1 berserker, 3 chryssalids and 2 zombies dead.

Not a bad showing though definitely have to recruit some more guys now since I have 1 soldier not currently in the infirmary.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Much earlier in the same game, was escorting a scientist to the Skyranger, have 2 of my 4 soldiers working to flank the aliens while my support and assault soldiers protect the scientist. They reach the final room before they have to go outside, I stick the scientist behind...something for cover, have my support heal the assault of a poisoning before putting the assault on Overwatch. Other soldiers finish off all the Thin Men we have seen.

Alien turn comes and the door to the room we're in bursts open and a lone Thin Man we hadn't seen comes through, maybe 3 squares from the VIP...and eats a shotgun blast from the assault soldier at almost point blank.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Loving this game :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on November 10, 2012, 02:28:48 am

Quote from: thunderclan on November 09, 2012, 11:24:28 pm

(wasn't going to risk the good stuff on people I figured were dead)

You get your guys' equipment back even if they all die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on November 10, 2012, 03:18:24 am

The battle for the Northern Weigh Station was getting intense with ownership swapping hands every ten minutes, then a TR infiltrator announced himself on the ridge to the north side of the road, taking me down to just a few bars of health, I ran and dodged for several minutes trying to avoid getting hit again.
Found a deep shadow and backtracked, he had changed targets and I returned the favour, my Heavy using his basic LMG with a 4x scope and getting a few lucky hits, then a kill.
Only a minute later, the infiltrator is back and drops me with one shot, I respawn in the Northern Weigh Station, but make my way up the ridge to the South, then we're trading shots from the tops of the ridges on opposite sides of the road, we hurt each other, then I score a good double hit, wiping him out again.  It's close to server shut down, so I /tell him and we strike up a conversation, finally friending his character when he respawns as NC.

My Heavy is 2 for 1 in a sniping contest against an Infiltrator.

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Planetside 2, as if you needed to be told.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: thunderclan on November 10, 2012, 09:05:51 am

Quote from: Mini on November 10, 2012, 02:28:48 am

Quote from: thunderclan on November 09, 2012, 11:24:28 pm

(wasn't going to risk the good stuff on people I figured were dead)

You get your guys' equipment back even if they all die.

...I was not aware of this. That makes a great deal of difference.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on November 10, 2012, 09:21:02 am

After Finally finding the undead parish bonfire, I accidentally aggro'ed that huge metal mini boss. I realized I was going to die so I drew him out and took a swing at him.
ERRRGHJHJGJH!
I killed the Mini-boss in a few swipes.
 Then some Priest Dude started fling magic at me, so I hid behind a pillar and took pot shots at him with my bow and arrow.
The fire-keeper soul is mine, now I have to march my ass all the way back to Firelink.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on November 10, 2012, 12:45:57 pm

My L6 Orc Rogue, Zog, took on an ape in the close confinements of a corridor in the Dungeons of Doom or whatever it is. It was pretty unpleasant, that ape got multiple shots per turn at me and got my health down pretty low. Thankfully, throwing all my daggers at it up close and some stabs with a runed dagger killed it.

The win? The ape dropped a cloak of displacement!

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Nethack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 10, 2012, 12:58:22 pm

I've just won my first game of LCS, and good god is the Liberal Guardian is overpowered. At least I'm calling it overpowered, since 10~ college students managed to turn the entire country liberal while committing only one crime (which only happened because I accidentally hit the attack button). Oh, and none of the college students had over 40 juice, and their writing skills were at best 6 (except for the founder, of course). Honestly my previous run-and-gun tries were much, much more harder than that run. It think I might try it on nightmare next time, honestly.

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Liberal Crime Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 10, 2012, 01:54:20 pm

Bear in mind that Nightmare Mode starts with C+ Free Speech laws... making the Liberal Guardian illegal at first.  ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 10, 2012, 01:56:59 pm

I know, hence why my founder will get funky with as many actors as possible, since they affect free speech laws the most.

EDIT: Well, as soon as I find an actor, that is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 11, 2012, 02:19:42 pm

A stupid Grenadier with a big-ass axe swung it and tried to hit me. Luckily, the wind-up took 2 hours and I dodged out of the way. He still swung like an idiot, hit one of his buddies, knocking him down. I finished the job and plunged my hidden blade into his throat.

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Assassin's Creed III

I was walking in the woods and I spotted a cougar resting near a cliff. I ran right toward it, and it got so scared it ran off the cliff.

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Assassin's Creed III again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 11, 2012, 02:42:35 pm

My home region was surrounded on two sides by map edges, and a third by water, leaving only one path for my new settlers to travel: south, through a narrow mountain pass, into barbarian-held territory. I sent them with two shiny new archers and two somewhat-obsolete warriors, for protection.

Except, as I moved through the pass, I discovered the barbarians had founded a town just to the south. The town was size 2 and had a single fortified archer - not a real threat, but too much for my ragtag band. I ignored them and moved past.

A turn later: a fucking red dragon decides to roost in the town. Strength 29, before promotions and town fortifications, against my strength 3 archers. My small band are now completely cut off from reinforcements (all the nearby forests are on fire, and I don't have any ships yet), deep in barbarian territory. I find a nice coastal spot for my new city - except it's only ~4 tiles from the dragon roost, and is directly adjacent to a goblin camp. Within 2 turns, I'm surrounded by goblin archers (defensive strength 6 + 50% terrain bonus!), and being battered by waves of warriors.

I survive the ever-worsening odds against endless hordes of goblin warriors and archers, before reinforcements finally slip through: my first Ritualist, and a couple of Adepts. The Ritualist proceeds to use summoned Imps to clear out the ~8 archers encamped around my city, finally allowing me to break out and raid the goblin camp, stopping the immediate threat of attacks.

Best of all, I now have a narrow route down the coast, where I can safely explore and possibly expand, and I'm only a tech or two away from transport-capable ships, so I can ferry reinforcements down. Now, I just have to figure out WTF to do about this stupid dragon, since his culture radius covers two different mana-providing unique improvements...

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Civ 4: Fall from Heaven II. Oh god, are summoned units ever ridiculous. A pity they waste most of the XP from kills, but still, I never would've held that city without Ritualist support.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on November 11, 2012, 03:14:53 pm

You're lucky that Acheron doesn't leave his city :P

My suggestion is getting hold of Mardero, maybe Meshabber of Dis for him.

Or just a ridiculous group of siege & city raider champions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 11, 2012, 03:21:47 pm

I was kinda thinking, "Maybe this isn't so bad. I just got Pyre Zombies, which explode on death. I've got several free Moebius Witches with Fireball, which also explodes on death. And my Ritualist has Ring of Flames, which could bring him down to 40% health easily! Maybe I can damage him enough without late-game tech."

Then, I remember: "Wait, isn't he fire immune?!"
EDIT: Yep, fire immune. Also magic immune, so my plan of cross-training into other magic won't help. Guess I'll ignore him until I get some late-game heroes.


Oh, and my first Moebius Witch was Rebellious. Having never played Sheaim before, I didn't know if all planar gate units had that trait or not, and didn't know how it worked (I thought she'd become hostile to all units, including barbarians). My reaction was to send her towards the dragon, learn Summon Chaos Maurader, and suicide her for a bit of scouting information. Of course, she flipped three moves away from my city, so now Acheron has a Summoner/Arcane Moebius Witch as well.  :o

I'm seeing a lot more deaths in my future before this campaign is over. Reminds me of my first-ever FFH2 game, where I got pinned between Acheron on one flank, and the Clan on the other. That ended... badly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on November 12, 2012, 04:00:59 am

I and fellow plotters successfully murdered William the Conquer and all of his sons without ever being found out.

The new king of England, as a result of my murders and some amount of non-related deaths, is not only possessed, but has 6 deadly sin traits. Oh, and he's old. :P

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Crusader Kings 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on November 12, 2012, 01:53:02 pm

I started a new game as Tachibana, on very easy this time around because damn if Japan isn't a hard land to unite.

In any case, I'm not sure if it's glitched or if it's the difficulty but my inflation rate is perpetually -.50 regardless of how high I put the mint. This has essentially killed any economy problems I had to deal with, which helps since Tiara decided to turn on me at the same time Minomoto did a last ditch-effort attack on my islands (didn't notice them crossing the strait).

I now own minomoto, but Tiara has vassalized Fujiwara and it's us two left, and my military is weak. This is a ownage though because I think I have a plan to drive them back. I can at least whoop their navy, so my capital is safe and sound. I just hope they don't take too much of the old Minomoto lands from me.

Also I have 50+ Badboy and am having no negative effects thanks to the most broken easymode ever.

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EU3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 12, 2012, 02:54:37 pm

The enemy had just snatched our flag and were fleeing in their 'Hog. I ran through the teleporter to try and put myself between them and their base. They were going to pass me in about 3 seconds, so I grabbed the Fuel Rod Gun nearby and blasted away. The first shot flipped their Warthog instantly, crushing the driver as it turned over. The passenger kept running though, so I had to chase him down. Eventually, I recaptured our flag right on the doorstep of the enemy base.

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Halo, CTF, Blood Gulch. Good times, good times...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 12, 2012, 10:52:33 pm

Quote from: Thexor on November 11, 2012, 03:21:47 pm

I was kinda thinking, "Maybe this isn't so bad. I just got Pyre Zombies, which explode on death. I've got several free Moebius Witches with Fireball, which also explodes on death. And my Ritualist has Ring of Flames, which could bring him down to 40% health easily! Maybe I can damage him enough without late-game tech."

Then, I remember: "Wait, isn't he fire immune?!"
EDIT: Yep, fire immune. Also magic immune, so my plan of cross-training into other magic won't help. Guess I'll ignore him until I get some late-game heroes.


Oh, and my first Moebius Witch was Rebellious. Having never played Sheaim before, I didn't know if all planar gate units had that trait or not, and didn't know how it worked (I thought she'd become hostile to all units, including barbarians). My reaction was to send her towards the dragon, learn Summon Chaos Maurader, and suicide her for a bit of scouting information. Of course, she flipped three moves away from my city, so now Acheron has a Summoner/Arcane Moebius Witch as well.  :o

I'm seeing a lot more deaths in my future before this campaign is over. Reminds me of my first-ever FFH2 game, where I got pinned between Acheron on one flank, and the Clan on the other. That ended... badly.

What game is this? Sounds kinda awesome!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on November 12, 2012, 11:13:38 pm

He said it in his other post above that one.

It's the Fall From Heaven II mod for Civ4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 13, 2012, 12:18:19 am

Space Marine Assault Chaplain with Multi-Melta. Fuck your base, your dudes, your walls, and your brain. That is all.

Cortex Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: varnish on November 13, 2012, 01:20:59 am

I beat Torchlight without a single death!

Ok, I know it's an incredibly easy game. So what. I'm bad at games, I take my triumphs as they come.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on November 13, 2012, 11:55:45 am

Rolled up on my trolltraktor and got top gun, brutally murdering 3 tier 2, tanks and earning 181 base defense points. 4 of the tanks I took from 100% to dead without assistance, including 2 tier 2 tanks.

World of Tanks. took ye olde loltraktor for a spin when I got bored grinding for my E-50M and batchat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 13, 2012, 01:54:55 pm

Quote from: Tarran on November 12, 2012, 11:13:38 pm

He said it in his other post above that one.

It's the Fall From Heaven II mod for Civ4.

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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

SONOFA-

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on November 13, 2012, 03:03:57 pm

You don't have BTS?

Seriously, get it. BTS is needed for pretty much every single modern Civ4 mod around as far as I know.

But really, you lucked out. On the download page (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1), there is a vanilla version linked inside the text. But I'd assume due to the version number difference there's a lot less features.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 13, 2012, 03:13:43 pm

No, I don't have BTS. I'm not even sure if any stores around here sell it anymore <_<;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 13, 2012, 03:17:17 pm

Steam.

http://www.civfanatics.com/  this here is a good site to look at too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 13, 2012, 03:30:57 pm

Sadly, the store page suggests that Steam's version of BTS requires Steam's version of Civ IV, so it doesn't help that you already own the base game.

That said, it's an older game (compared to Civ V, at least!), and Christmas is coming. I'll bet that it'll be on sale for 75% off in a month, which here in Canada would put the Civ IV Complete Pack at $7.49.  :)

And yes, it's awesome. Plus, there are a bunch of other excellent BTS mods available. If you're into the modding scene, BTS is definitely worth getting!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 13, 2012, 03:36:00 pm

Yeah, if I can't find it in a store I'll wait for a sale on Steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on November 13, 2012, 04:49:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 13, 2012, 03:36:00 pm

Yeah, if I can't find it in a store I'll wait for a sale on Steam.

You can probably find it elsewhere too. I've heard that Civ IV's multiplayer system will even let them pass through.

But seriously, BTS is a much needed addition for CIv. The basegame was great, but BTS adds some nice mechanics, and allows you to use all of the mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on November 14, 2012, 10:23:59 pm

I was owning with the many different types of new weapons and my custom classes. I also threw some of that owning into the campaign as well.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (me and just about any non-Bay 12-er in the US)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on November 14, 2012, 11:24:30 pm

Quote from: UristMcWanderer on November 14, 2012, 10:23:59 pm

I was owning with the many different types of new weapons and my custom classes. I also threw some of that owning into the campaign as well.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (me and just about any non-Bay 12-er in the US)

You know, i had written that game off, but just today i saw someone say it was actully good, and not just same old. Is this true???

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on November 14, 2012, 11:29:31 pm

It is not true.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 14, 2012, 11:54:36 pm

Beat Star Wars Battlefront 2's campaign in one hour. Again. Time for Galactic Conquest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 15, 2012, 03:34:44 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

The hell is that?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 15, 2012, 08:14:54 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

I have never seen that before in my entire life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on November 15, 2012, 08:41:18 pm

Quote from: timferius on November 14, 2012, 11:24:30 pm

Quote from: UristMcWanderer on November 14, 2012, 10:23:59 pm

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

i had written that game off, but just today i saw someone say it was actully good, and not just same old. Is this true???

It kinda is and it kinda isn't. Some parts of the campaign, I've heard, will continue on if your character gets killed. Other times, it's like any other CoD campaign; you die, you respawn at a checkpoint.

The Strike Force missions are a new thing that are kinda cool. You can assume control of different units, like a CLAW (a type of walking tank) or a normal foot soldier armed with an M8A1.

The Create-a-Class in Multiplayer looks kinda restrictive at first, but you quickly learn what you don't need for a class and what else you can take in that item's place.

For example, let's say you have a mid-ranged class with an assault rifle, 1 attachment, two Wildcards, and two Tactical grenades. You want to take a second attachment, but you're at your budget limit. You can take off one Tactical grenade, and that frees up one point to put that second attachment on your assault rifle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on November 16, 2012, 03:45:55 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 15, 2012, 08:14:54 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

I have never seen that before in my entire life.

I'm calling that game "C4" for "Crude Complicated Cthulhu Combat" until I get a real name.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ringmaster on November 16, 2012, 03:53:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 16, 2012, 03:45:55 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 15, 2012, 08:14:54 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

I have never seen that before in my entire life.

I'm calling that game "C4" for "Crude Complicated Cthulhu Combat" until I get a real name.

Dominions 3 (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/DOM3/DOM3_page.html), by the look of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on November 16, 2012, 04:23:17 pm

Quote from: timferius on November 14, 2012, 11:24:30 pm

Quote from: UristMcWanderer on November 14, 2012, 10:23:59 pm

I was owning with the many different types of new weapons and my custom classes. I also threw some of that owning into the campaign as well.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (me and just about any non-Bay 12-er in the US)

You know, i had written that game off, but just today i saw someone say it was actully good, and not just same old. Is this true???

The multiplayer is excellent and an improvement on the previous games. The campaign is different. It's not EXCELLENT, but it is pretty GOOD. I have also been doing pretty well in it and either get a .50 K/D ratio or a 3:1 ratio. It really depends on your team and as always if the other team gets some momentum they can be hard to beat. This of course works both ways which is how I get a lot of kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 17, 2012, 12:14:20 am

Quote from: Ringmaster on November 16, 2012, 03:53:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 16, 2012, 03:45:55 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 15, 2012, 08:14:54 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

I have never seen that before in my entire life.

I'm calling that game "C4" for "Crude Complicated Cthulhu Combat" until I get a real name.

Dominions 3 (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/DOM3/DOM3_page.html), by the look of it.

They're really charging $55? For a six-year-old game?

Either it's mind-blowingly awesome, or they're seriously overcharging. I could get a brand new AAA title for that much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 17, 2012, 12:32:30 pm

After taking quite awhile to find out where to build it, and a little more time figuring out how to use it, The Malevolence is now spearheading my fleet. It can stun-lock any capital ship from about half the map away, and has a huge number of guns to rip apart anything that gets close.

Also:

Spoiler: I'm pretty sure Coruscant is screwed here (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/i0ZOh.jpg)

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Empire at War: Republic at War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 17, 2012, 06:38:02 pm

After somehow killing a minotaur by disarming him, I managed to stumble into a polymorph trap, turning into a deinonychus. Not only is that automatically awesome because it's a dinosaur, it's also extremely fast and great at jumping.

Screw being an orc, I'd rather be a dinosaur (then again, who wouldn't?)

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Incursion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xeron on November 17, 2012, 08:00:35 pm

Quote from: Smashness on November 17, 2012, 06:38:02 pm

After somehow killing a minotaur by disarming him, I managed to stumble into a polymorph trap, turning into a deinonychus. Not only is that automatically awesome because it's a dinosaur, it's also extremely fast and great at jumping.

Screw being an orc, I'd rather be a dinosaur (then again, who wouldn't?)

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Incursion

The Incursion Roguelike or something else ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on November 17, 2012, 08:12:12 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 17, 2012, 12:14:20 am

Quote from: Ringmaster on November 16, 2012, 03:53:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 16, 2012, 03:45:55 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 15, 2012, 08:14:54 pm

Quote from: ThtblovesDF on November 15, 2012, 03:19:53 pm

This

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(http://i.imgur.com/kZiQZ.jpg)

I have never seen that before in my entire life.

I'm calling that game "C4" for "Crude Complicated Cthulhu Combat" until I get a real name.

Dominions 3 (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/DOM3/DOM3_page.html), by the look of it.

They're really charging $55? For a six-year-old game?

Either it's mind-blowingly awesome, or they're seriously overcharging. I could get a brand new AAA title for that much.

Hate to disagree, but I'd say it's a fantastic game which is slightly overpriced, but still worth it if you like this sort of thing. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 17, 2012, 08:36:17 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

Nethack (http://nethack.org) doesn't require DOSBox, and IMO it's one of the best "traditional" roguelikes I've ever played. There's even an official graphical version that looks quite nice, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 17, 2012, 08:45:21 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 17, 2012, 08:36:17 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

Nethack (http://nethack.org) doesn't require DOSBox, and IMO it's one of the best "traditional" roguelikes I've ever played. There's even an official graphical version that looks quite nice, too.

IK. Played it before. Also, I'm horrible at remembering all the controls and symbols and whatnot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 17, 2012, 08:51:12 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:45:21 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 17, 2012, 08:36:17 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

Nethack (http://nethack.org) doesn't require DOSBox, and IMO it's one of the best "traditional" roguelikes I've ever played. There's even an official graphical version that looks quite nice, too.

IK. Played it before. Also, I'm horrible at remembering all the controls and symbols and whatnot.

Can't help you there, then. The very nature of a roguelike requires complex controls, and half the fun is using your imagination. There's also a "look" control (don't remember what it is for Nethack) that tells you what's on a specific tile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on November 17, 2012, 08:57:41 pm

It's ;.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on November 18, 2012, 12:58:57 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:45:21 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 17, 2012, 08:36:17 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

Nethack (http://nethack.org) doesn't require DOSBox, and IMO it's one of the best "traditional" roguelikes I've ever played. There's even an official graphical version that looks quite nice, too.

IK. Played it before. Also, I'm horrible at remembering all the controls and symbols and whatnot.

Don't worry, if you do it enough and your muscle memory doesn't suck, you should eventually learn how to do stuff merely by location of the keys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 18, 2012, 01:48:19 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 17, 2012, 08:19:49 pm

I've always wanted to get into Roguelikes, but every time I download DOS and open it up, I see that bloody command line and just shut down mentally. Makes me feel like such a lazy bum but I always end up closing it after a minute or two of tinkering.

*cough* (http://store.steampowered.com/app/98800/)

Also a great 'jumping-in' point for someone who doesn't play many roguelikes, since it's a little more merciful than most.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 18, 2012, 04:42:49 am

But a whole load of roguelikes come as .exe executable files in some way right? Nethack definitely does, and it's very similar in nature to Hack, which was a DOS roguelike inspired directly by Rogue.
There's also the more kind of open world (rather than dungeon-based) roguelikes, such as Prospector and the Adventure Mode of DF where there tends to be more of a focus on exploration and actually finding the dungeons yourself. These are a bit less like roguelikes that Nethack, but they still share a lot of the features.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 18, 2012, 09:41:13 am

Spoiler: Long as heck, rambly story of just some of my Scum* character's antics in Glowcat's RT Campaign (click to show/hide)

Geen's post a few pages back about hiding in a porta-potty and then exploding an enemy inside of it reminded me of one of the many, many awesome moment's I had in Glowcat's Rogue Trader Campaign. (Which, by the way, I hope starts up again sometime soon! )

So my character, the swaggering manufactorum worker-turned-adventurer who, despite originally having stowed away on the ship and having no real, defined purpose for being there seemed to have an unlimited line of on-board credit, had been kidnapped by the half-mad, alchoholic captain of another Rogue Trader ship during a stop on-world.

If I remember rightly he suspected me of stealing some data chip or something, I dunno.
Anyway, this hobo pulled a gun and beat my guy to the draw, disarmed him and then pretended to believe his tale of innocence and decided we should go drinking instead. Now, my character would rarely, if ever, refuse an opportunity for drunkeness. Cue him getting drugged, taken to the hobo-Trader's ship and being cavity-searched whilst unconscious. When he finally believed my character's innocence he apologized, but by then the party's ship was long gone. Since he was headed to the same planet we were, he offered to give my guy a lift there.

Cue my character recovering from his anal trauma, seducing the attractive female first mate assigned to guide him around the ship, and embarking on something like several weeks of wild, drunken debauchery. Seriously, after the first night he woke up in some opulent quarters, with two unknown females (One of whom later turned out to be the ship's Astropath), a frightfully well-endowed ratling and the First Mate all naked an unconscious on or around the bed, the latter also coated in chocolate. Oh, and did I mention the ogryn in the bathroom? Yeah, that was kinda disturbing. And that was just the first night!

Aaaanyway, to get to the point of the story; upon arrival in the target planet's orbit Captain Thaddeus (the hobo-captain who kidnapped me) offered me a job before I left: to infiltrate a party held by some high-ranking Beast Trader (trading in exotic monsters from across space, chiefly for use in gladiatorial fights etc) and scan the room he kept his records in with some specially-designed gadget.
Lured by promises of lots and lots of cash in payment, and perhaps lulled into a sense of indestructible self-confidence by his recent lifestyle of boozing, smoking and [REDACTED]ing, my character (named Rasosk) quickly agreed. And so began perhaps one of the most ridiculous of his many misadventures; along with Captain Thaddeus, First Mate Emry(whose attitude towards Rask had cooled considerably, apparently embarassed by her drunken behaviour), some other person I forget and a swarthy, quiet and mysterious guy with mutton chops. (Can't remember what is official purpose was, I just referred to him as 'dude with muttonchops')

They briefed my guy, we arrived and entered the party seperately. It was some big, dramatic penthouse with mood lighting, filled with rich folk of all types dressed in all the weird fashions you'd expect in this far-flung corner of the Imperium. It just so happened that the rest of the PCs were also at this party, and- get this- they were there to negotiate a business agreement with the very Beast Trader I was there to rip off. Lovely.

Having no idea of this, Rask had a look around for any way to sweet-talk his way into the backrooms, off-limits to partygoers. Sadly the serving staff were all servitors as opposed to attractive females, so that was one plan out the window. Plan B involved walking up to the door into the back and talking to the guards on the pretense of looking for the toilets. Hey, he was kinda out of ideas!
Predictably, they turned Rasosk away, and so he ducked into an alcove nearby and reached into the pockets of his coat for something useful. A few moments later, the guards responded to the commotion and discovered him trying to herd the miniature, six-legged horse he happened to have with him towards the guards as a distraction.

They grabbed him and dragged him with them, ironically into the back area he was trying to get into. Lots of featureless corridoors and rooms to either side, that sort of thing. I, of course, start babbling about how I was trying to groom myself and how that sort of thing is the custom on my planet and how I was there to broker an important deal with their boss and how he would be very mad with them for harassing me-- and so on.

Eventually they were both convinced that I was a complete nutcase and started chatting amongst themselves, ignoring me completely. I spotted an open door nearby and saw my chance; I managed to break free while they were distracted and run for it. They gave chase, and there was an interlude of running through doors into other hallways and ducking through other doors, until eventually Rasosk ducked into a dead-end room- the toilets.

He locked himself in a stall and drew his gun, realising he was either going to either break the whole 'subtle, stealthy' idea wide open or end up dead or worse: getting another "interrogation" & cavity search.
He waited til his pursuers were hammering on the stall door and about to break it down, then slammed open the door to try and knock them back. At that moment there was a bright flash in the bathroom. Rask, luckily, was shielded by the stall door, but when he stepped outside the two guards were stumbling about or on the floor, blinded and dazed.

Cue the entrance of the dark-skinned, muttonchop-wearing gentleman from earlier. He subdued the flashbang'd guards like a badass, grabbed Rasosk and together they fled the place to a waiting shuttle piloted by his equally-badass girlfriend, who said something along the lines of, "You could have just left him, you know," to which he replied with something about duty/"leaving no man behind"/etc.

It turned out, poor Rask was sent in there purely as a decoy- Captain Thaddeus (rightly) decided he was completely inept despite all his talk and tall tales, and sent him in there to distract the guards with some stupid scheme whilst Muttonchops did all the real work. Whoops. And he didn't say anything about getting Rask out of there, either.

Eventually my saviours dropped Rask off back at his own ship, he met back up with his long-lost party members, had a teary reunion with his terribly neglected NPC girlfriend, and they all went on their way.

...Wow. I really ended up rambling there, didn't I? I was nostalgia'ing pretty damn hard. Man, now I'm sad that that game's been on hiautus for ages.

*I originally rolled him using a DH character generator or something due to homebrewed rules. It got a bit confusing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on November 18, 2012, 10:57:29 pm

Starting off with only George Washington, a few minute men and a mitila unit, I managed to rush Maine and New York in the first three turns and claim both regions from the British while simultaneously training up a small army of minute men in Boston. By turn five said army moved northeast and took all the regions between Maine-Acadia leaving a trail of destruction in it's wake and recruiting more powerful units while doing so in a few more turns.

Meanwhile, George moved south and took Philadelphia-Florida(Conquered from the Spanish by the British) from the British. My navy taking line infantry, cavalry and artillery far north into Canada and proceed to kick British ass taking Quebec and Montreal by laying siege to them within four turns of landing.

Now, in only three years, the British have been forced into two regions in the very eastern Canada. Huzzah, revolution!

Empire: Total War. Path to Independence.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on November 19, 2012, 01:36:07 am

America!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on November 19, 2012, 02:06:26 pm

So I angered Brax. Now I have an endless army of exp running towards me and lots of free stuff to pick from.

Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on November 19, 2012, 08:20:21 pm

I came upon my first kobold. I take a stab at him with my wood spear, without harming him. The kobold, likewise, pokes me with his wooden spear. This goes on for several turns, with neither getting harmed.

Then the kobold lands a crit and takes off two hit points. I get a bit annoyed that he broke the rules of our "Poke Each Other with Wooden Sticks" game and move a tile away from the door, so my before-now-useless puppy Kenny can get a shot at him.

"Kenny bites the kobold in the head! The head is severed off! The kobold dies yelling like a tortured hyena."
"Kenny the puppy begins eating the severed head of a kobold."

Dayum, puppy, calm yo'self!

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IVAN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on November 19, 2012, 09:02:42 pm

Tracked down the source of the Snowflakes that had been harassing my worlds, and colonized the planet with their nest. I'm now using them as weapons.

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FreeOrion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on November 20, 2012, 01:19:14 pm

Snowflakes?  ???

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on November 20, 2012, 04:16:22 pm

Giant space-faring monsters that happen to look like snowflakes; hence the name. They're easy to deal with when they're small, but once they get to their maximum size they're equivalent to a large, well-equipped warship in terms of the amount of damage they can take.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 21, 2012, 01:30:36 pm

Playing as the Pyro. Run around a corner, three enemies are derping around. I hose them down, and apparently they were all low health, because they all died. A spy rushes me with his knife, and I burn him alive. A heavy turns his gun on me, but I kill him before he kills me. I look at my health. 5 health. Snap. I rush over and grab one of the health kits that are lying about, and torch another Pyro in what amounts to a duel. Dash around another corner, and there's a bunch of enemies. I set them on fire, and they gank me right to death.

"Consider this: You got more kills in this life than your previous best as a Pyro. 6 Kills."

Fuck yeah.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 21, 2012, 03:31:21 pm

Me and a useless civilian fought off about 6 skeletal wolves, then a sea monster comes out of nowhere.

Later, he's laying dead. His bones have been made into a figurine of useless crap, and his skin is now a backpack.

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Dwarf Fortress

This one was too good not to post.
I stumbled upon a lair with my swordsman companion, and we went in to fight whatever was in there. It was an ettin. my swordsman friend got thrown into a wall, and blew apart. The ettin then picked me up and broke my arm. In an extreme stroke of luck, I stabbed him in the abdomen, which chipped his spine.

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again, Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on November 21, 2012, 05:04:45 pm

Slammed open the door, knocking a machine gun weilding bad gun to the ground, dispatched him with a headshot. Grabbed his gun and hurled it across the room, knocking down one of the other three bad guys. Dodged a shotgun blast and fired my pistol at another shotgun weilding thug, killing him and emptying the pistol. Ran across the door, punched out a knife wielding goon, grabbed his knife and threw it into the guy who had just stodd up after my earlier gun related knocking down.

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Hotline: Miami

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 21, 2012, 06:22:51 pm

Playing as Sheik, I ran up to Mario and immediately started kicking him in the face right after the match began. I managed to block or dodge all his counters until I had him at about 150% damage, at which point I easily smashed him out of the arena. 0% damage, less than a minute KO.

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Super Smash Brothers Melee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on November 21, 2012, 07:34:22 pm

I'd found a system with some ruins, which was great because of the potential for fancy tech that I couldn't get otherwise. Of course, the damn thing was guarded by a sentinel (Space monster/automated craft with something like 2000 structure). I'd been on a binge of ship-related research lately, and decided to put the fruits of my labour to the test. Designed a ship that was basically a Spatial Flux hull with two Plasma Cannon 1s on it. Fast, fragile, but hits fairly hard. After I'd weakened it a bit with waves of Mark Is, I built at least two dozen of these new ships (Which I dubbed 'hornets'), and zerg-rushed the bastard with 'em all. Only lost a couple of 'em. That fleet is now my dedicated strike force, going from system to system clearing out monsters and other hostiles. At least until I get my newest ship designed into production.

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FreeOrion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Icee77 on November 21, 2012, 10:03:53 pm

Was finishing up the New Vegas Bounties when I got to killing the judge. Got a bit frightened by all the miniguns, the hatchets, and laser guns, and took at least
-5 Buffouts
-30 Psychos
-10 Med-x
-2 Fixer
-2 Hydra
And I think for some reason I took Cateyes. Needless to say I one shot everything and saw only blue and green for a full 10 minutes until I got my addictions treated.

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Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 21, 2012, 10:38:06 pm

Quote from: Icee77 on November 21, 2012, 10:03:53 pm

Was finishing up the New Vegas Bounties when I got to killing the judge. Got a bit frightened by all the miniguns, the hatchets, and laser guns, and took at least
-5 Buffouts
-30 Psychos
-10 Med-x
-2 Fixer
-2 Hydra
And I think for some reason I took Cateyes. Needless to say I one shot everything and saw only blue and green for a full 10 minutes until I got my addictions treated.

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Fallout New Vegas

Why did you take that many? They don't stack, and thats enough to last you a VERY long time..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 22, 2012, 12:39:54 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 21, 2012, 10:38:06 pm

Quote from: Icee77 on November 21, 2012, 10:03:53 pm

Was finishing up the New Vegas Bounties when I got to killing the judge. Got a bit frightened by all the miniguns, the hatchets, and laser guns, and took at least
-5 Buffouts
-30 Psychos
-10 Med-x
-2 Fixer
-2 Hydra
And I think for some reason I took Cateyes. Needless to say I one shot everything and saw only blue and green for a full 10 minutes until I got my addictions treated.

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Fallout New Vegas

Why did you take that many? They don't stack, and thats enough to last you a VERY long time..

*Cue rage* :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on November 22, 2012, 03:01:16 am

Quote from: Yoink on November 22, 2012, 12:39:54 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 21, 2012, 10:38:06 pm

Quote from: Icee77 on November 21, 2012, 10:03:53 pm

Was finishing up the New Vegas Bounties when I got to killing the judge. Got a bit frightened by all the miniguns, the hatchets, and laser guns, and took at least
-5 Buffouts
-30 Psychos
-10 Med-x
-2 Fixer
-2 Hydra
And I think for some reason I took Cateyes. Needless to say I one shot everything and saw only blue and green for a full 10 minutes until I got my addictions treated.

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Fallout New Vegas

Why did you take that many? They don't stack, and thats enough to last you a VERY long time..

*Cue rage* :P

Over preparing is the noobs way out!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBronzePickle on November 22, 2012, 04:22:37 am

Just got Age of Empires III from the Steam sale. Since I tend to suck at RTSes, I decided to try a skirmish on easy with a friendly to help me out.

I wipe the floor with the enemy, despite expecting myself to be challenged at best, annihilated at worst. Hot damn, it's an RTS I can actually win!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 22, 2012, 05:23:01 am

I thought I'd lost. Almost every critical structure in my main base had been destroyed, including my tiberium refineries, my MCV and several power plants. I was finally driving back the attackers, but I'd still just about lost.

Then finally, the Mammoth Mk. II that I had ordered ages ago arrived. It proceeded to obliterate the siege on my base, slowly destroying everything in it's path. I had a handful of Orca bombers and just enough power for their landing pads, secreted on the southern edge of the map. With support from these bombers, the Mammoth managed to completely steamroll two enemy bases before being destroyed.

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Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 22, 2012, 02:45:10 pm

I shot a bandit with a poisoned arrow, killing him. I failed to notice the other bandit right behind him. I went into hiding, but the idiot bandit stepped on a trap and died.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on November 22, 2012, 05:08:22 pm

Running up the walls on Mission IV as an Alien, when I see standard marine. I hit him with my tail, knocking the rifle out his hands, then clawed him in the heart for an easy kill and a nice health boost. Then, I run down the hall and, seeing three marines, one with a smartgun, the other two with rifles, I decide to be crafty.

I climb onto the top of the wall, and taunt. This sends one of the basic marines into the smartgun's LOS, allowing me to jump to the floor, leap through the crowd, and Decapitate all three with a single swing.

Needless to say, the resulting feast brought me back up to full health.

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Aliens vs. Predator classic

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 23, 2012, 01:17:31 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 22, 2012, 05:23:01 am

I thought I'd lost. Almost every critical structure in my main base had been destroyed, including my tiberium refineries, my MCV and several power plants. I was finally driving back the attackers, but I'd still just about lost.

Then finally, the Mammoth Mk. II that I had ordered ages ago arrived. It proceeded to obliterate the siege on my base, slowly destroying everything in it's path. I had a handful of Orca bombers and just enough power for their landing pads, secreted on the southern edge of the map. With support from these bombers, the Mammoth managed to completely steamroll two enemy bases before being destroyed.

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Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

Did you win?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on November 23, 2012, 01:25:02 am

I got ambushed with about 20 child companions by about 60 goblins. The kids got killed withing the first few rounds, but I pulled some X-Com style moves and killed every. Single. Goblin. In about 5 minutes.

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DF Adventure Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 23, 2012, 01:34:16 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on November 23, 2012, 01:17:31 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 22, 2012, 05:23:01 am

I thought I'd lost. Almost every critical structure in my main base had been destroyed, including my tiberium refineries, my MCV and several power plants. I was finally driving back the attackers, but I'd still just about lost.

Then finally, the Mammoth Mk. II that I had ordered ages ago arrived. It proceeded to obliterate the siege on my base, slowly destroying everything in it's path. I had a handful of Orca bombers and just enough power for their landing pads, secreted on the southern edge of the map. With support from these bombers, the Mammoth managed to completely steamroll two enemy bases before being destroyed.

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Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

Did you win?

Nah, I quit. Even if I could have won with ~7 bombers, it would have been too tedious. But it was still pretty awesome while it lasted :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 23, 2012, 12:15:03 pm

I was in Kolskegger Mine. The Forsworn Briarheart there was putting up a fight. So I pommel-smashed him in the face, planted my battleaxe firmly between his shoulder blades (from the front), and kicked him off my battleaxe into a pit.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2012, 12:23:33 pm

Quote from: dunamisdeos on November 23, 2012, 12:15:03 pm

I was in Kolskegger Mine. The Forsworn Briarheart there was putting up a fight. So I pommel-smashed him in the face, planted my battleaxe firmly between his shoulder blades (from the front), and kicked him off my battleaxe into a pit.

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Skyrim

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...THIS. IS. SKYRIM!!!

as you did it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 23, 2012, 12:29:46 pm

So, a random engie set up a turret on the bridge and was shooting random people. I arrive as medic and run around the bridge pillars to confuse him, and manage to kick his ass. MEDIC POWAZ FTW!

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on November 23, 2012, 01:54:27 pm

I've destroyed about 600 missiles with minimum PD and slow ships.

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Aurora

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on November 23, 2012, 04:25:38 pm

As a jungle Shyvanna who had the enemy team in my jungle at level 1, stealing my red, I managed to make a huge comeback despite only having 2 other people in the game I could trust, one of whom was level 20 and at an inherent disadvantage due to lack of a full rune or mastery pages, and the other having to be a support Janna due to a clueless instalock Kog'Maw who didn't do a damn thing until he was near full temp.

Their attempts at countering my jungle were met with me actually getting angry with the tranquil fury of a dragon (IE: Me absolutely tearing through them and everything they love. End up trashing Hecarim, Ezreal and the rest of their team at 23/6/17, 300k damage dealt with the next closest being around 210k.

You won't like me when I'm angry as Shyv.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 23, 2012, 06:18:40 pm

On Bespin: Platforms, I finally managed to get a dropship fully loaded with stupid NPC soldiers, then proceeded to land the thing right on top of an enemy Command Post. Those NPC's and I managed to take the enemy's half of the map in one go, leaving them trapped in the "battleground" Command Post near the center of the map.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on November 23, 2012, 07:29:17 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 23, 2012, 06:18:40 pm

On Bespin: Platforms, I finally managed to get a dropship fully loaded with stupid NPC soldiers, then proceeded to land the thing right on top of an enemy Command Post. Those NPC's and I managed to take the enemy's half of the map in one go, leaving them trapped in the "battleground" Command Post near the center of the map.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.

this reminds me of using grenades to blow vader out of the windows in the tunnels on that map. good times were had on that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on November 23, 2012, 09:48:24 pm

Quote from: revo on November 23, 2012, 07:29:17 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 23, 2012, 06:18:40 pm

On Bespin: Platforms, I finally managed to get a dropship fully loaded with stupid NPC soldiers, then proceeded to land the thing right on top of an enemy Command Post. Those NPC's and I managed to take the enemy's half of the map in one go, leaving them trapped in the "battleground" Command Post near the center of the map.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.

this reminds me of using grenades to blow vader out of the windows in the tunnels on that map. good times were had on that game.

*Wheeze* *Wheeze*
Bow before the power of the dark si- *boom!*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 24, 2012, 12:15:01 am

Aided by the tattered remains of my team, from my murderhole I managed to whittle down the opponent's forces from 28 -> 14 before they overwhelmed our defenses. There was four of us defending. :D

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King Arthur's Gold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zombi on November 24, 2012, 01:47:15 am

XPR-50 + dual KAP's make a great sniper class. 19-9.

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COD: BLOPS2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FritzPL on November 24, 2012, 05:41:27 am

I was trying to find a Njerpezit to kill, so I could trade his things for a masterwork broad axe that was apparently worth more than a collection of 9 leather belts made from a reindeer.
I found one, and moved in for a kill. When I zoomed in, he was about 9 steps away from me, so I tried to hide. He spotted me and rushed at me straight away, and I sent an arrow in his direction.

It hit him in the fucking groin and knocked him out cold.

I started walking towards him, willing to finish him with a spear, when he woke up and rushed at me - I only managed to equip another arrow when he was already attacking me. I did a quick dodge, and got tactical advantage, which I used to stick another arrow in his head.

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Unreal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 24, 2012, 08:41:15 am

Used a Fury spell on a wild goat, then got surprised by the fact that goats actually have an attack animation.

WE SHALL GO FAR TOGETHER, MY GOAT GUARDIAN.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 24, 2012, 12:52:14 pm

Nearly lost a force of grenadiers to two Bavarian frigates as they were busy boarding ferries to cross over to the Bavarian side of the map. However, my 15 cannons had not yet boarded, and promptly ripped them to shreds. I lost only one grenadier to that(and I had accidently made a few more than I needed, so he was quickly replaced), and lost another 169 during the actual attack while the musketeers I dropped later shot up the Bavarian town. But the grenadiers eventually won, by bombing the last enemy town center to pieces after the musketeers killed off all their peasants.

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Cossacks: Art of War expansion. Grenadiers: too stupid to throw grenades while in formation.

Quote from: Karnewarrior on November 23, 2012, 09:48:24 pm

Quote from: revo on November 23, 2012, 07:29:17 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 23, 2012, 06:18:40 pm

On Bespin: Platforms, I finally managed to get a dropship fully loaded with stupid NPC soldiers, then proceeded to land the thing right on top of an enemy Command Post. Those NPC's and I managed to take the enemy's half of the map in one go, leaving them trapped in the "battleground" Command Post near the center of the map.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.

this reminds me of using grenades to blow vader out of the windows in the tunnels on that map. good times were had on that game.

*Wheeze* *Wheeze*
Bow before the power of the dark si- *boom!*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Huh, I usually just land a fighter on top of heroes. I remember my first accidental kill of the otherwise indestructable heroes, I accidentally ran over Mace Windu in a Hailfire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Splint on November 24, 2012, 01:10:20 pm

The Rassarcan Empire, after becoming a seemingly weak place but center to global religeon (founded all but Judaism, mostly in its second most significant city Granite Coast or far flung Iron Forest,) Science, and having built every wonder up to that point aside from the Temple of Solomon only judaism's founder gets, Utterly steamrolled over Asoka of the Indian Empire until I ran out of troops to leave behind at the cities my army of knights took.

The blitzkreiging was aided by my comparitivly small empire's massive industrial base and huge coffers allowing for a massive army. The utter railroading up the hind parts was glorious for my troops doing the railing.

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Civilization IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FritzPL on November 24, 2012, 04:24:26 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 24, 2012, 12:52:14 pm

Cossacks: Art of War expansion. Grenadiers: too stupid to throw grenades while in formation.

How the bloody hell do you play that on a Win7? It just doesn't work for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 24, 2012, 04:26:29 pm

The Russian Army was renowned for it's stubbornness under fire, it only makes sense the games about Russians work on everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FritzPL on November 26, 2012, 01:15:49 pm

Well, having Ukrainian roots, you'd think I'd deal with that.


I basically had a climax when I found out that I got myself an Elite Liberal president, a moderate House, a conservative Senate, and an agenda thing to purge the conservatives from the Supreme Court, all in 4 years, without killing a single person. There also was a proposition to purge the conservatives from the Supreme Court that failed, but I guess you can't have everything.
Best thing?
Playing it in the school library, against the rules, with a public of 20 people.

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Liberal Crime Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 29, 2012, 05:35:49 pm

Assuming that your fellows weren't running around naked, the amount of damage was probably less than the health bonus from whatever armour they had on. Only if the total amount of damage taken is more than the armour bonus do your agents make a trip to the infirmary. Or something like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 29, 2012, 06:16:06 pm

I don't believe they can go completely armorless, but considering the default flak armor just gives a health bonus of 1...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 29, 2012, 07:11:13 pm

Well just buy them faster than they die.

"FNG, go check that obvious trap"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 30, 2012, 12:16:24 pm

Got into a saber-fight with two cultists. Did some kind of jump flip move, slashing through the arm and collarbone of the first one. Then I did the same thing to the other one.

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Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Threw a Stormtrooper so hard his spine snapped in the air.

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Jedi Academy again. He might have hit a wall, but it was hard to tell.

Stormtrooper 1: "Hey, I think I heard something down Hallway [whatever], I think it might be a wampa."

Stormtrooper 2: "We cleared this place out when we got here. There are no wampas."

Stormtrooper 1: "I dunno. Maybe we missed one."

Stormtrooper 2: "Look, come with me and we'll go check it out. I'll prove to you there are no wampas."

Stormtrooper 1: "...okay."

Thermal Detenator: "Beep! Beep! Beep! BEEEEEEP! *BOOM*"

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Jedi Academy again. Turns out, there was a wampa.

Helped a village deal with some Mountain Bandits. The bandits tried to hold a position under a bridge, about 10 feet underwater. So, my force of farmers and troops went into the water to fight them. After a few seconds of underwater knife- and spear-fighting, we were victorious.

Afterwards, I punched out a few Irishmen.

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Mount & Blade: 1805, War of the Third Coalition mod. The Irishmen were my own troops I dueled with, during which I put my weapon away and punched them.

Quote from: FritzPL on November 24, 2012, 04:24:26 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 24, 2012, 12:52:14 pm

Cossacks: Art of War expansion. Grenadiers: too stupid to throw grenades while in formation.

How the bloody hell do you play that on a Win7? It just doesn't work for me.

Vista. And GoG version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on November 30, 2012, 05:08:50 pm

Me and a summoned rhino buddy named Vair tore through a graveyard, killing a ton of zombies. Our reward? A chest full of total and utter crap.

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Incursion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GalenEvil on November 30, 2012, 05:19:37 pm

Now I need to get FreeOrion, looks like an awesome game :)

I haven't really owned lately in any of my games other than finally getting Gold in the European Alpine Special Event in Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2). Cars that go 209mph and break when they tap something shouldn't be used in time trials when the road has non-racing cars on it :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 30, 2012, 06:08:19 pm

We were retaking an outpost that the enemy had recently overtaken, so they were just moving in with tanks etc.
I managed to sneak behind a group of 6 tanks all focused on the base, and jetpacked onto the top of one. I gunned down a couple of engineers who were fixing up the tanks before anyone noticed me, and when they all shot they destroyed the tank I was stood on. About 30 seconds of distraction, repairs cut off, and -1 tank. Pretty good, and hilarious.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBronzePickle on November 30, 2012, 06:26:45 pm

Holding off an advance from a German panzer battalion. Turns out they have artillery. Lots of artillery. Like, 'the entire left side of the map disappears under clouds of explosions' artillery. I manage to save one soldier, watching him run like hell as the map behind him dissolves into flame and dust.

He meets up with 5 other soldiers at my base, who are the last remnants of my forces from the very beginning of the game (well, excluding a pair that retain a captured MG42, but I keep them in the base.) These 6 are marched out on a suicide mission to buy time for me to order up some reinforcements.

They buy all the time in the world.

Specifically, they had 2 tanks, 2 half-tracks, 2 motorcycles with mounted MGs, and innumerable troops firing on them. They don't even care. They blow up every. Single. Vehicle. As well as about 5 more tanks that come by, and manage to hold the entire German force back just by not dying. Not from tanks, not from MGs, not from being outnumbered 20 to 1 by infantry, and they happily kill any vehicle that passes.

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Company of Heroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 30, 2012, 07:04:21 pm

Ownage for today: Cleared an eighth-level monster zoo. This was far more awesome than it may sound at first.

Meet Urist: my best adventurer to date. Instead of fancy-shmancy skillsets like Promethean Magic or Communism, Urist relies only on his sword, shield, heavy armor, an impressive blocking skill, and berserker fury to carry him through the dungeon. For any sort of ranged combat, he uses an assortment of crossbow bolts and wands (when I remember to actually equip them).

He did, however, have one special item that I had been saving for the last floor or two: a Root of T'Char. I had no idea what it did, but I decided to eat it once the door to the zoo opened.

It was, to put it simply, epic. Urist began to unleash blasts of magical energy at random, including a couple of short-range teleports that left him in the midst of the crowd of slavering horrors. This is where he's best, however, thanks to his array of defensive skills (when they all activate, Urist has a block chance of well over 100), high resistances, and a respectable counter. The entire zoo was slaughtered so quickly that even after Urist chased down a few stragglers that wandered off or were passive, the combat log was still scrolling for a few minutes.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on November 30, 2012, 08:13:23 pm

It turns out that being an engineer with a sunderer is the best way to earn certs for me. Between healing other vehicles nearby and people spawning on my vehicle and us overwhelming superior forces, I earned 100 certs in 2 hours. This was by far, my best to date. In 2 weeks my Sundy will be fully maxed out!

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PLANETSIDE 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on December 01, 2012, 04:09:50 pm

I started off as a duke with 4 counties. Over 55 years of a single kings rule it has turned into 13 counties. Not particularly impressive by itself, but every single one of my vassals used to hate me. That is because the 71 year old king has been a possesesd lunatic since he was 20. Somehow he has managed to rack up 25 martial over the years. I imagine he scares the shit out of everyone who has to go against him. This is actually pretty accurate, considering that morale is a part of combat, and he does +20% morale damage.

Being a lunatic, I decided to attack the only kingdom that could challenge me. I attack them over a single county. I amass an army of 2600, the lunatic leading the centre, my son leading the left flank, and my grandson the right flank. The enemy kingdom meets me with a similarly sized army, I await with patience, to see just how good my dynasty is at battle.

Comes out that they are pretty goddamn good. The fight wasnt even close. They met an identically sized army, and crushed them with a 1:10 casualty rate(100 casualties vs 1000).

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Crusader Kings 2 Lux Invicta mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on December 01, 2012, 05:36:40 pm

A few great moments after a really fun IL-2 session, here's a couple:

I managed to get in to a pretty tight dogfight with some Bf-109s and got on one's tail. Following him up in to a vertical climb I forgot to glance at my speed and pulled down too late, stalling when my nose is at the horizon. I went in to a flat spin at 700 metres and immediately entered Top Gun "pilot shit" mode. Flaps went to landing, power full and rudder against the direction of spin. I manage to recover at 300 metres and get up again, and it felt SO GOOD. :D

Next mission we were on a bomber escort deep in to German territory. Just before we reached the target we were intercepted by eight Bf-109s beneath us. I stupidly dived in to four alone as my squadron went for the other four. After splitting one in half with my cannons and loosing the rest of my ammo on another I went to disengage but found 3 of them were following me. Calling for help at regular intervals I started weaving backwards and forwards as well as rolling. After one raked bullets across my left wing I dived down and started to hug the terrain but going very slowly. One I had damaged earlier dived and tried to pull a far too tight turn, stalling and crashing. My flight were still a few hundred metres off at this point and so I continued to weave, being hit three more times along the body, luckily only by incendiary rounds. On one weave I lost too much speed while trying to cool my engine and only managed to correct tens of metres above the ground. Finally my flight reached me and drew the fighters away, and I managed to land safely at base. Tense stuff.

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IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 01, 2012, 05:48:08 pm

A clown snuck in to the cargo bay while I (the only techie) and the supervisor were out delivering stuff. I managed to take him by surprise and beat him to death with a wrench, finding out after the fact that he was armed. 0_0

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on December 01, 2012, 05:49:12 pm

Quote from: GalenEvil on November 30, 2012, 05:19:37 pm

Now I need to get FreeOrion, looks like an awesome game :)

http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page

The wiki's a little out of date, but it has the basics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Catastrophic lolcats on December 01, 2012, 06:21:35 pm

Half-Orc Fighter/Cleric.
20 STR, 19 Dex, 20 Con, Wis 19, Int 2, CHS 10 (tomes)
Dual welding Warhammer +2 +Lightning Damage, +1 Mace with 25% chances of stunning. Boots of haste. Ankheg field plate. +2 ring of protection. Ring of the Holy, Helm of Balduran. blur cloak. Girdle of Piercing. Amulet of Spell Warding.

Not much to say about this guy except for "ouch". He's everything halflings want to be when they grow up. Great AC, Great THAC0, Massive damage output, epic health pool, regeneration, buffs, healing, debuffs, offensive spells, Half-orc beauty and grace.  I think fighter/cleric might be the best build for BG1 with it's low levels.
The only downfall of the character is his low INT and lack of any real ranged weapons. The only negatives to low INT is being unable to to use protection scrolls and getting owned by mindflayers (lucky there's none in BG1).

Party members: Kivan (Ranger), Conran(Fighter/Thief), Yeslick(Fighter/Cleric), Dorn(new Blackguard), Neera(new Wildmage)

I dismissed the power of archers and Yeslick in my previous playthorughs. If you didn't get Yeslick so late in the game he'd be my preferred Cleric (there's a lack of good clerics in BG1). Don't recommend having Conran as your only thief until he levels at least once. He starts with 45 detect traps.  ::)
Dorn is epic with his 19 STR, outpaces Minsc easily. Neera has decent stats but if it wasn't for her being a new character with dialogue and quests I would have dropped her for Edwin. I was considering keeping Imoen in the party since I dual classed her to Thief /Mage but mages just don't have the punch they do in BG2. I think I've made the right choice with Conran, great stats and he just wrecks lightly armoured targets.


It feels like cheating. As soon as I've cleared Durlag's Tower I'll try and take out that Drizzt tosser, legit.

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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Scout on December 01, 2012, 07:11:43 pm

Beat back two German Ai's, destroying their base and won the game through points. I only had my HQ left in the end with no units. SKIN OF MY TEETH.

Company of Heroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on December 02, 2012, 10:34:07 pm

A Mycon Podship warps in above me and quickly fires off two plasma shots so I turn around and fly towards a nearby planet, gravity whipping around it in a magnificent U-Turn. I blast past the slow-moving plasma shots and the Podship itself before engaging my engines. As the Podship ponderously turns around to face it (its gun being pointed at me as I make my attack) I give its backside the licking of a lifetime and bump the Podship into the path of its own plasma shots, doing grievous harm in the process. The damage is great enough for the Mycon to be finished off with a burst of anti-matter and a spectactular explosion.

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The Ur-Quan Masters, Super Melee (Unfortunately)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 02, 2012, 11:13:18 pm

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

My homeworld system is invulnerable. Two starbases and countless lesser defenses ring the approach to all five of my planets. A novalith cannon on autofire is hidden behind my capital world. A gargantuan fleet razes an enemy homeworld, then returns to my system to meet up with the relief fleet. The relief fleet is about sixty frigates, forty or so cruiser/battlecruiser of various types, and three more capital ships. My ally drops our peace treaty at this point.
Novalith, target the 'former allied' capital.
Fleet, make for their system.
Catering, prepare the champagne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: darkrider2 on December 02, 2012, 11:24:30 pm

I managed to get the VTOL warship in black ops II, I preceded to roll over the entire other team for 3 minutes straight. Not a single one of them could figure out where my guy was controlling the warship from, because I was prone inside that below deck tunnel on the "HIJACKED" boat map, where no one ever goes except me apparently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on December 03, 2012, 05:35:36 am

Oh my Jah...  my regent, aunt and the heir to my throne... tried to murder me.  I could not do anything to her, so I thought I'd give her a duchy I was going to give away anyways.  She still tried to murder me.  5 times in total.  I survived and she is going to have a long time out, up till when I come of age...

As for how my current protege became boss?  Her mother was brained fighting against the Irish... and died soon after.  I'll have to finish putting the Irish to heel when my protege comes of age...
My Guardian just saved me from a life of Gluttony.  Huzzah

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Crusader Kings 2 Plus Mod, Navarre

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Qracle on December 03, 2012, 11:09:31 am

Went 18-2 with Teemo. 

Got a quadrakill with shrooms alone ^_^

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League Of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Raptorstorm on December 03, 2012, 04:41:02 pm

Dominating the whole of the enemy team as demoknight on 2fort in TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on December 03, 2012, 10:01:05 pm

I bogged down the french in my mountains so hard as Savoy that, even though they occupied two of my provinces, and even though Genoa declared on me, they asked for White Peace. I had wiped out maybe... 1/2 of their army.

Turns out, I hurt them so badly that Aragon declared war on them, joining in Castille and Portugal. Serves them right. They also had what I'd guess is White Peace with England, who joined me in (defensive guarantee).

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EU3 with the MEIOU mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on December 04, 2012, 02:31:08 am

Lord Evecek practices 'Zen and the art of hiding behind your shield while enemies kill themselves for the pleasure of your patron god.'

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(http://tnypic.net/images/nvzrs.jpg) (http://tnypic.net/)

It's from a few versions ago and I have been meaning to upload it, but thought it had been lost.

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 DCSS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GalenEvil on December 05, 2012, 11:37:38 pm

not an ownage moment sadly: just wanting to say I downloaded "Free Orion" and it is just about everything I was looking for :D I love 4x Space games and can see similarities between this and Galactic Civilizations (which I think was initially modeled after MOO) :D

Oh, no, slight ownage moment with Free Orion. I teched up a bit to use the Plasma Cannon IIs and went on a romp destroying the Yellow "Cooperative" AI. This is my first game of it still so just doing 10 systems outside my own and it is going nicely. Not much development going on currently since it is such a small map with only a few decent planets. I have all of the asteroid belts in the game covered with outposts and set them up as mining operations. Getting one shield laden behemoth (Large hull, 2x PC2s + Shields) per two turns. I think this is about the best I can do without doing a focus towards industry on every single planet. Roflstomping the yellows... good times ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on December 05, 2012, 11:40:59 pm

It gets even better if you have the Xenoarcheology tech and come across a planet with ruins. All sorts of goodies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: goblolo on December 06, 2012, 12:41:51 am

When I started my kingdom these bastards began raiding my villages. I got only infantry and crossbowmen, but it was enough for me. Forests and mountains negated the benefit of mounted units and all I had to do is to order my archers to claim a hill and ride around it picking survivors with my pike. In short period of time I destroyed from 10 to 15 incoming armies of 60-180 men with my 80-130 army.
I also took a castle!

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Mount and Blade: Warband
Crushing swadians, started from capturing Yalen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GalenEvil on December 06, 2012, 03:49:34 am

@Vorthon: I play 4x games exceedingly slowly I think. I am nowhere near Xenoarchaeology I think. I played about 3 hours to get to the roflstomping point that I am now and that's with just 10 systems outside my home system. I need to play a little more of it, or start up on another game of it with more systems since what I have now is just rather embarrassing. Aside from rolling over everyone (I can place about 2-5x ships (gun/defensive stength per system per AI ATM), I'm not sure what else I can accomplish. Should prolly read up on caveats of the game though so I don't start up a 100-ish system game and end up on the losing side too quickly hehe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 06, 2012, 06:07:11 am

Well.

First, my burgeoning Empire of Reudh was under economic threat by virtue of having nowhere to expand to until we learnt how to sail, so I checked who was easiest to beat. We settled for the Roman Empire.

I enlisted Hatshepsut and her Egyptian soldiers to help me soften up some of Caesar's towns, so I could swoop in with my larger army. We took first Ravenna, then Arretium, then Pisae-  poised to crush Rome, Hatshepsut swooped in with eight troops and captured it for herself while I was still sending troops into position.

No problem. She'll get hers eventually. Egypt will fall one day.

Alright, so then out of nowhere Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire declare war on me. I checked why, and it was over the fact that I had refused to cancel my deal with my Best Friend Forever, Russia. Blimey.

Army moves swiftly to take the mongolian towns to the west, of Turfan, Old Sarai and Karakorum. Left with one town, he had the temerity to ask for one of his towns back in a peace mission. Nope. I requested gold and he gave it. I crushed him anyway.

Took out his last catapult and captured the last Mongolian city on the planet. So ends Mongolia.

So we were all hunky-dory for the next coupla hundred years. Russians didn't like that I destroyed Mongolia, but all the other bonuses to happiness from our long trade agreement, our friendliness to each other, our open borders and evvythang evened that out.

Out of nowhere, Montezuma declares war on me, kills an obsolete chariot, then sues for peace after two of his units die attacking Karakorum. For his trouble, I refuse to allow peace. I have learnt how to sail now, and take all of Montezuma's towns but his last. He sues for peace again. He allows me to take his last town for a resource (deer, I think). His only units left are two warriors outside his town on the new continent, Xochicalco.


I learn Police State. Excellent. (-25% war weariness, produce new military units 50% faster, high upkeep). Swiftly swap to Police State. Catherine of Russia requests help against China. I agree. I capture Beijing and one other, Russia captures Shanghai. Mao sues for peace. I agree. Russia agrees. They have three cities left, two in the New World and one small one on a tiny island. We leave them for now.

My empire spans nearly an continent. We split the Egyptian empire in half through the middle by two of my towns (Moran and Elkazar), crippling their supply lines.

France, to my south and west, requests aid against the Egyptians. Not yet, King Louis. He gets all huffy. He's an advanced civ, with very little space. I surround him on all sides and he has only one port town. He has very rich resources, so he can play with the big boys and girls.

An Incan revolt takes place in one of the captured Aztec cities. Not good. Start amping up culture there.

Not good enough. A german revolt takes place a turn later, and the city joins Germany under Frederick.

I talk to Frederick. Say "Hey, declare war on everyone on earth except me and Catherine and Louis." He does so. Pisses off Japan enough that they declare war on me. However, as they haven't got anything better than caravels as their warships (I have Transport and Carriers by this stage) they're no threat. They're also unable to reach me overland as they are cordoned off by the German Empire.
Besides trifling occasional encounters between japanese caravels and my heavily armed ships, the war is uneventful.

Mao declares war on us again. Dumb dude. The Empire of Reudh crushes two of his three remaining towns, razing both as they are strategically unimportant. He begs for peace. I take his remaining money, leaving him with Kaifeng, the island city that cannot grow because of no resources.

France becomes peaceful with Egypt. Ten turns later, Egypt declares war on them again. I cancel Open Borders with Egypt, completely blocking their overland war effort, while France is allowed to cross my country. Egypt is forced onto the defensive. I take 500 gold from France for the privilege, which they don't like. Still, the aid I've given them softens that negative blow to relations.

I declare war on the Aztecs again, airlifting two tanks to Xochicalco to take out their two warriors (now upgraded to grenadiers). Aztecs are now extinct.

France begins to stop sending troops, as they take heavy losses from the well defended egyptian cities. I begin positioning troops at my border. Ten artillery, six tanks and about ten marines are stationed in Elkazar, poised to invade Memphis. Four battleships sit just outside the waters of Thebes. Four more are waiting near Rome. An aircraft carrier has four bombers near Heliopolis.

France stops their war effort, but are still in a state of war. Once my troops are in place, and I have Elkazar, Moran, Ranfort, Vortsooth, The Twelfth Bay and Variegation producing a goodly amount more troops, I declare war, and negotiate peace between France and Egypt. France agrees. They didn't get anything out of it anyway.

I start blowing the smithereens out of their city defenses. My tanks and gunships soften up roaming troops. Memphis falls after two turns. Rome falls after one more. Heliopolis' defenses are toasted. Thebes cannot mount a defense. I capture Heliopolis and Thebes a coupla turns later, destroying Egypt's presence on this continent. (They still have a town, Giza, on a largish island south of the Twelfth Bay, and another south of Beijing, Byblos.)

A russian revolt takes place in Beijing. Crap. Their cultural presence has overwhelmed Beijing and the other town. I move my troops out of the two towns to prevent them revolting. I order both Beijing and the other town to stop producing anything but culture, and eventually we force the borders back with music and happiness.

Giza falls and is razed. Byblos is being sieged. Byblos is razed. The germans capture an Incan city near my captured town of Tenochtitlan, and I use the time where the captured city has no borders to get Tenochtitlan to produce culture, expanding my borders closer to the Incans. Germany also captures the japanese town of Satsuma.

There's thirty turns left, it's 2020, and the Reudh Empire spans a full two continents. I don't think I'll have time to take out either Germany or Russia, as they're both too powerful and will put up a long war. France is a good buddy, and has towns in the New World and too many friends. Japan is too far away (Transports will take ~15 turns to get there, and there's no guarantee I could capture all remaining japanese towns in the remaining turns.) and the Incans are too close to achieving cultural overwhelming of german border towns.

Tl;dr, WARMONGER IS BEST MONGER.

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Civilisation 4. Standard game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Splint on December 06, 2012, 12:00:23 pm

Just finished railroading the nords of all people with the jack-of-fuckalls the Vaegirs, seizing a town and three castles before finally, mostly to alieviate my trouble with keeping a steady cash influx since my merc payment and ironworks at Curaw only gets me a bout 1000 denars on average, I pledged my sword to King Yaroglek in hopes of getting the two castles and a town to fund my army (Having an army of elite shocktroops and mercenaries is expensive damn it!) And I think the marshal, Boyar Doru plans on invading our most powerful neighbor Swadia, or possibly the khergits to finish them off, since last time we fought them we did amazingly well, making me think khergits are glass cannons and suck ass on the defensive in fortresses and such without alot of archers.

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Mount and Blade Warband, Diplomacy Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RedKing on December 06, 2012, 12:31:09 pm

Played as China. After being bottled up for a relatively stable period of time, Montezuma did his usual Montezuma thing and attacked me in the name of more heads for his bloody altars. Given that his army consisted almost entirely of Jaguar Warriors while I had a number of Horsemen meant that it didn't go well for him. Then I developed the Cho-Ko-Nu, and it was ON. In a startlingly short period of time, the dragon banner of Zhongguo flew over the cities of Tenuoqiditelan (Tenochitlan), Telateluo (Tlateloco) and Teaodiwakan (Teotihuacan).

Montezuma was a dick, and he had started the war, so none of the other Great Powers were particularly miffed. I had not intended to embark on the warrior's path, instead following a strategy of improving my cities and lands. In time, the nearby city-state of Hanoi came to call me friend, as did Quebec, both of them on the American border, nearest my new lands. On the other side of my empire, India, Arabia and Siam shared a cramped space uneasily.

To my north, the isolated city-state of Capetown held rich sources of badly-needed iron. My army being flush with units from the late war, I decided to make this one quick burst of aggression before returning to the path of peaceful development. However, once Capetown fell to my forces, the Great Powers all denounced me. Whatever, I shrugged. It's not war.

Then America declared war on Quebec, and even sought a meeting with me to rub my face in it. I dared not oppose them openly, but I did not wish to see my ally fall to this naked aggression. I selected three of my finest companies of knights, changed their livery to that of the Quebcois, and dispatched them in haste. They arrived just in time to turn the tide. Faced with the sobering prospect of a long and bloody war, the Americans grudgingly agreed to peace.

Pleased with my skill as a diplomat, I continued on in the path of peace, but beset by wary neighbors on both sides, I did not neglect my defenses.

Then came the dagger in the back. The Americans declared war again, and one turn later so did ALL the remaining Great Powers. I had been denounced by all the world and made into a pariah state, forced to fight a two-front war. Only then did I discover that my enemies to the west had also not pursued the warrior's path. When my forces bestrode the walls of Mecca, they found it defended by mere peasants wielding stone axes. Mecca fell, and within I found why this city was known as the Jewel of the World. No less than ten of the world's great wonders were contained within its walls.

From there, I extinguished the hopes of the Arabs and the Indians. The Americans sued for peace and offered reparations and tribute. This freed my forces up to quench the vast Siamese Empire and finaly return for the death blow against the American Empire. When my men returned to the American borders, some 500 years after the Great Treaty had been signed, they were a modern army of battle-hardened infantry and artillery, while the Americans had barely discovered gunpowder. With the fall of Washington, all the world knelt before the Dragon Banner.


tl;dr Wound up getting DoW'd by every major power at once. Crushed all of them for a Domination victory. Had so much gold towards the end that I was allying with every city-state just for shit and giggles.

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Civilization 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 06, 2012, 09:05:18 pm

I mistakenly chose to randomly gen a role for my latest adventurer Frak.

...Frak the lawful female human samurai is doing quite well, with some of the best gear I've found yet. She's got gloves of power and a cloak of invisibility from the same shop, as well as a "large shield" I have yet to identify. It isn't cursed though, and she's got an AC of -2 already, which I assume is decent for only being four floors down.

Also, I may have found a magic lamp down in the first floor of the gnomish mines. No guarantees, but I know it's a lamp, and it isn't cursed. All I need to do now is bless it and rub it to check, and I could have a wish to keep on hand for whatever it is I need it for.

Now let's hope I don't die from some gnome with a wand of death or from tripping over a cockatrice or anything like that.

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Nethack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 06, 2012, 11:20:01 pm

Quote from: Reudh on December 06, 2012, 06:07:11 am

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Well.

First, my burgeoning Empire of Reudh was under economic threat by virtue of having nowhere to expand to until we learnt how to sail, so I checked who was easiest to beat. We settled for the Roman Empire.

I enlisted Hatshepsut and her Egyptian soldiers to help me soften up some of Caesar's towns, so I could swoop in with my larger army. We took first Ravenna, then Arretium, then Pisae-  poised to crush Rome, Hatshepsut swooped in with eight troops and captured it for herself while I was still sending troops into position.

No problem. She'll get hers eventually. Egypt will fall one day.

Alright, so then out of nowhere Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire declare war on me. I checked why, and it was over the fact that I had refused to cancel my deal with my Best Friend Forever, Russia. Blimey.

Army moves swiftly to take the mongolian towns to the west, of Turfan, Old Sarai and Karakorum. Left with one town, he had the temerity to ask for one of his towns back in a peace mission. Nope. I requested gold and he gave it. I crushed him anyway.

Took out his last catapult and captured the last Mongolian city on the planet. So ends Mongolia.

So we were all hunky-dory for the next coupla hundred years. Russians didn't like that I destroyed Mongolia, but all the other bonuses to happiness from our long trade agreement, our friendliness to each other, our open borders and evvythang evened that out.

Out of nowhere, Montezuma declares war on me, kills an obsolete chariot, then sues for peace after two of his units die attacking Karakorum. For his trouble, I refuse to allow peace. I have learnt how to sail now, and take all of Montezuma's towns but his last. He sues for peace again. He allows me to take his last town for a resource (deer, I think). His only units left are two warriors outside his town on the new continent, Xochicalco.


I learn Police State. Excellent. (-25% war weariness, produce new military units 50% faster, high upkeep). Swiftly swap to Police State. Catherine of Russia requests help against China. I agree. I capture Beijing and one other, Russia captures Shanghai. Mao sues for peace. I agree. Russia agrees. They have three cities left, two in the New World and one small one on a tiny island. We leave them for now.

My empire spans nearly an continent. We split the Egyptian empire in half through the middle by two of my towns (Moran and Elkazar), crippling their supply lines.

France, to my south and west, requests aid against the Egyptians. Not yet, King Louis. He gets all huffy. He's an advanced civ, with very little space. I surround him on all sides and he has only one port town. He has very rich resources, so he can play with the big boys and girls.

An Incan revolt takes place in one of the captured Aztec cities. Not good. Start amping up culture there.

Not good enough. A german revolt takes place a turn later, and the city joins Germany under Frederick.

I talk to Frederick. Say "Hey, declare war on everyone on earth except me and Catherine and Louis." He does so. Pisses off Japan enough that they declare war on me. However, as they haven't got anything better than caravels as their warships (I have Transport and Carriers by this stage) they're no threat. They're also unable to reach me overland as they are cordoned off by the German Empire.
Besides trifling occasional encounters between japanese caravels and my heavily armed ships, the war is uneventful.

Mao declares war on us again. Dumb dude. The Empire of Reudh crushes two of his three remaining towns, razing both as they are strategically unimportant. He begs for peace. I take his remaining money, leaving him with Kaifeng, the island city that cannot grow because of no resources.

France becomes peaceful with Egypt. Ten turns later, Egypt declares war on them again. I cancel Open Borders with Egypt, completely blocking their overland war effort, while France is allowed to cross my country. Egypt is forced onto the defensive. I take 500 gold from France for the privilege, which they don't like. Still, the aid I've given them softens that negative blow to relations.

I declare war on the Aztecs again, airlifting two tanks to Xochicalco to take out their two warriors (now upgraded to grenadiers). Aztecs are now extinct.

France begins to stop sending troops, as they take heavy losses from the well defended egyptian cities. I begin positioning troops at my border. Ten artillery, six tanks and about ten marines are stationed in Elkazar, poised to invade Memphis. Four battleships sit just outside the waters of Thebes. Four more are waiting near Rome. An aircraft carrier has four bombers near Heliopolis.

France stops their war effort, but are still in a state of war. Once my troops are in place, and I have Elkazar, Moran, Ranfort, Vortsooth, The Twelfth Bay and Variegation producing a goodly amount more troops, I declare war, and negotiate peace between France and Egypt. France agrees. They didn't get anything out of it anyway.

I start blowing the smithereens out of their city defenses. My tanks and gunships soften up roaming troops. Memphis falls after two turns. Rome falls after one more. Heliopolis' defenses are toasted. Thebes cannot mount a defense. I capture Heliopolis and Thebes a coupla turns later, destroying Egypt's presence on this continent. (They still have a town, Giza, on a largish island south of the Twelfth Bay, and another south of Beijing, Byblos.)

A russian revolt takes place in Beijing. Crap. Their cultural presence has overwhelmed Beijing and the other town. I move my troops out of the two towns to prevent them revolting. I order both Beijing and the other town to stop producing anything but culture, and eventually we force the borders back with music and happiness.

Giza falls and is razed. Byblos is being sieged. Byblos is razed. The germans capture an Incan city near my captured town of Tenochtitlan, and I use the time where the captured city has no borders to get Tenochtitlan to produce culture, expanding my borders closer to the Incans. Germany also captures the japanese town of Satsuma.

There's thirty turns left, it's 2020, and the Reudh Empire spans a full two continents. I don't think I'll have time to take out either Germany or Russia, as they're both too powerful and will put up a long war. France is a good buddy, and has towns in the New World and too many friends. Japan is too far away (Transports will take ~15 turns to get there, and there's no guarantee I could capture all remaining japanese towns in the remaining turns.) and the Incans are too close to achieving cultural overwhelming of german border towns.

Tl;dr, WARMONGER IS BEST MONGER.

[spoiler]Civilisation 4. Standard game.

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We defeated Egypt, then pumped all our remaining money into learning techs and building things. We won a time victory. Hooray!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 07, 2012, 12:52:49 am

L4D, Single Player Campaign

Hunter pounced AT me. I blocked him with melee. Feelsgoodman. That is all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on December 07, 2012, 05:15:53 pm

There's nothing quite like whistling from behind a corner to get the attention of a guard and stabbing him in the throat as he comes to investigate.

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Assassin's Creed III

I was hunting for moose (meese?) in a frozen tundra, and I managed to kill one. I stuck in it my backpack like any normal person, and rounded a fortress to find entrance. On the north wall, I was attacked by a flying sea monster, which I simply outran. On the south wall, I was beset by two polar bears. I threw the dead moose at the bear in front of me, and dodged it. Now all I need is to find the entrance to this stupid fort.

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Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on December 08, 2012, 12:30:42 am

Within a short span of time I one-shotted a ferocious hydra, several stout stone giants and a horde of battle hardened orc warriors. Being an ogre with the highest base damage weapon rocks.

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup v0.11 as ogre berserker

Quote from: Smashness on December 07, 2012, 05:15:53 pm

I was hunting for moose (meese?) in a frozen tundra, and I managed to kill one. I stuck in it my backpack like any normal person, and rounded a fortress to find entrance. On the north wall, I was attacked by a flying sea monster, which I simply outran. On the south wall, I was beset by two polar bears. I threw the dead moose at the bear in front of me, and dodged it. Now all I need is to find the entrance to this stupid fort.

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Dwarf Fortress

Moose is the correct plural form. Funny story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on December 08, 2012, 02:17:25 am

CounterStrike Global Offensive in arms race mode.

It just isn't fair. I pretty much destroy the competition 9 out of 10 games. People are asking, how the hell can he have 14 kills in the first minute of a match? They curse my name.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on December 08, 2012, 09:51:47 pm

Quote from: Smashness on December 07, 2012, 05:15:53 pm

There's nothing quite like whistling from behind a corner to get the attention of a guard and stabbing him in the throat as he comes to investigate.

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Assassin's Creed III

I was hunting for moose (meese?) in a frozen tundra, and I managed to kill one. I stuck in it my backpack like any normal person, and rounded a fortress to find entrance. On the north wall, I was attacked by a flying sea monster, which I simply outran. On the south wall, I was beset by two polar bears. I threw the dead moose at the bear in front of me, and dodged it. Now all I need is to find the entrance to this stupid fort.

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Dwarf Fortress

Funny, almost that exact smae situation happened to me in Assassins Creed III, except the fortress was the entrance to the tribe, I was aboput 17, there was only one bear, and it was the end of the mission so my hud vanished and it ate me.

I was laughing about how you could still hear the bear in the background after the mission (I think fatty was getting nommed by one?), all the way until it pounced me like a cougar and bit out my throat. Then I was laughing for a entirely different reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 12, 2012, 10:49:24 pm

I cleansed New Sorpigal of the Goblin Scourge rather handily, after purging the vermin from the Abandoned Temple, rescuing what's-his-face's daughter, and retrieving the Candelabra for the Baa-cultist guy. Goblinwatch was definitely not a challenge, even when I accidentally hit the wrong button and got teleported deep into the bowels of it, surrounded by goblins and rats and blood-sucking... Things. I butchered them all, looted ALL THE GOODIES, and made my way out of that wretched place. I had 20,000 gold to burn, and burn it I did. Expert in Swords and Bows, for three characters. Level eight. Bunch of neat new items to wear.
And I decided to do something foolish. I decided to travel to New Haven. On foot. Without a carriage.

You have to go through the Mire of the Damned to get to New Haven.

Let's just say, I'm in New Haven with a party of weak, injured, GLORIOUSLY BADASS Adventurers, with broken armor, little money, and depleted potion reserves. But I'm in New Haven.

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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JWNoctis on December 13, 2012, 12:01:20 pm

Got embroiled in a war of liberation against a diabolical empire as one of the three major power, and just got dragged into another with a major power by my tiny ally, when Shakturi appeared right in my home system. Didn't care too much at first, and that attitude -thankfully- didn't last long. An emergency fleet-wide recall was initiated moments later, and an epic battle erupted around the Shakturi - and as obviously, my - homeworld. Things were bleak, with the main fleet still half a galaxy away and the loss rate above 5:1.

But I have a Devastator Moon.

I blew them up. And my reputation plunged all the way from Noble to Dubious, turning what was essentially the entire galaxy - including said ally who dragged me into the previous war, and my supposedly best ally who barely balanced out at "pleased" by reputation only - against me.

Nevermind the fact that I just saved them all.

Other losses include some ~15 Capital ships and about 4x smaller ones, a few defense platforms, a spaceport along with the scientist in it, a global energy research +100% colony, and one of my three restricted resource colony at the other end of the universe both conquered by said major power. I call this a Pyrrhic victory.

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Distant Worlds: Legends, as Human currently with mid-to-late-game tech.

I wonder what will come next.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on December 14, 2012, 12:30:36 am

I got netflix to work within Windows Media Center on windows 7 64bit. You bastard.

I can now use my fancy pc remote.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kruniac on December 14, 2012, 12:40:37 am

26-11-12 Darius, SR.

:)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 14, 2012, 12:59:50 am

Lobstermen. See, it turns out, if you SHOOT THE EVERLOVING CHRIST OUT OF THEM, they will pass out, and that's close enough to win. Also, I tazed one. In hand to hand. It clawed my guy first, and he somehow survived despite wearing what amounts to coveralls. That guy got a huge promotion.

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XCOM:TFTD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on December 14, 2012, 07:26:14 am

Quote from: Nadaka on December 14, 2012, 12:30:36 am

I got netflix to work within Windows Media Center on windows 7 64bit. You bastard.

I can now use my fancy pc remote.

Well, as a Canadian, I figured out how to get my netflix to run off the American website. So, Many, Movies! It's so beautiful!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Biag on December 14, 2012, 10:39:49 am

Quote from: timferius on December 14, 2012, 07:26:14 am

Quote from: Nadaka on December 14, 2012, 12:30:36 am

I got netflix to work within Windows Media Center on windows 7 64bit. You bastard.

I can now use my fancy pc remote.

Well, as a Canadian, I figured out how to get my netflix to run off the American website. So, Many, Movies! It's so beautiful!

Well, as a poor person, I figured out my netflix hasn't been paid for and did my homework instead. Productivity!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Svarte Troner on December 15, 2012, 12:29:18 am

This was a pretty epic Darkest Hour playthrough. Playing as Russia, I reinstated the Romanov dynasty and managed to quell all dissent without another civil war occurring. I was biding my time, building up industry and easily annexing the two central asian countries no one cares about (Alash Orda? and Turkistan or whatever). I annexed the Don Cossacks next and pushed into Turkey. I now controlled the Caucasus and central asia while having a bunch of puppet states in the Levant and former Ottoman territories. This shot my belligerence up a fuckload, but I still managed to ally with Germany.

Japan invaded Ungern-Sternberg's Mongolia and gave some border provinces to me, this opened up the trans-siberian railway (boost to industry). Finally the syndicalists declared war on my ally Germany. They managed to make it to the gates of Berlin, and I thought they'd push all the way to Moscow... which was pretty much wide open as I had a half of my army in the Balkans or central asia. At this point, I pulled my battle hardened balkan troops up through syndicalist held Austria and fought my way through Bavaria. My troops were arriving on the front lines in Berlin to aid the Germans when I linked the Bavarian/Austrian front to the north German front. It was a brutal fight but we managed to push the syndies back to the pre-war border. From here, syndicalist forces crumbled and we marched through France into anarchist Spain. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 15, 2012, 01:36:17 am

Wrong thread D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on December 15, 2012, 04:54:13 am

Planetside 2
During a rare occasion where I was at The Crown defending it. I spotted a VS Sundy under the nearby bridge where they were all spawning at. Going Engie I slid down the side of the mountain right uder the thing. Droping two Tankmines right under it. I died in the explosion but so did 10 VS and their Sundy. Did it later to TR but only got 5 kills and the Sundy. Got away and did a "Cool Guys dont Look at Explosions" which caused a few Outfit members watching crack into laughter and "Holy shit your Insane" statements...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on December 15, 2012, 05:11:54 am

Played TF2 for a few hours today, its been a while, I just got asked to do some HL scrimming with some people and I  thought id practice, got an average kpd of 3 as engi, *cracks knuckles* yeah, I still got it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 15, 2012, 08:20:26 pm

My handler informed me of a CIA listening post that I could infiltrate and spy on to gain intel. However, she added that I would have to get in and out without killing anyone or being spotted, and frankly she didn't think I could handle that.

Challenge Accepted.

In and out in ten minutes. No alerts, no injuries, not even tranq darts. Even the scary sonofabitch I met later was impressed.

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Alpha Protocol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 15, 2012, 09:37:06 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 15, 2012, 08:20:26 pm

My handler informed me of a CIA listening post that I could infiltrate and spy on to gain intel. However, she added that I would have to get in and out without killing anyone or being spotted, and frankly she didn't think I could handle that.

Challenge Accepted.

In and out in ten minutes. No alerts, no injuries, not even tranq darts. Even the scary sonofabitch I met later was impressed.

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Alpha Protocol

Oh god, I remember that mission. At the very end, just as you're leaving, there's one last CIA agent that pops up from the basement.

He 'sees' me, and my reflexive invisibility kicks in. I proceed to calmly line up my pistol and drop him with a tranq headshot before I decloak. Possibly the most awesome moment I had in that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Smashness on December 15, 2012, 11:06:29 pm

I embark in an evil mountain with a few war gorillas I modded to be available upon embark.

My Mason goes to build a Mason's Workshop and is interrupted by a zombie swan man. Luckily, he had his own gorilla guardian that proceeded to tear apart the zombie.

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Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 15, 2012, 11:17:42 pm

I wandered into the wrong tile and find myself engaged in a double battle with two Electric specialists. My lead was a Soft Sand/Earthquake Graveller.

I won the battle without taking a single hit... from the other team. In the process, however, I KO'd 3 of my own mons from Earthquake splash damage. A pity I'd left my flier behind...

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Pokemon: HeartGold. Because it's cheaper than the new games. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 16, 2012, 04:07:45 am

Quote from: Thexor on December 15, 2012, 11:17:42 pm

I wandered into the wrong tile and find myself engaged in a double battle with two Electric specialists. My lead was a Soft Sand/Earthquake Graveller.

I won the battle without taking a single hit... from the other team. In the process, however, I KO'd 3 of my own mons from Earthquake splash damage. A pity I'd left my flier behind...

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Pokemon: HeartGold. Because it's cheaper than the new games. 

I haven't been able to find that ANYWHERE. It seems like it's sold out here.

Also, someone with Levitate evades Earthquake too, I think the Gengar family can have it. The Weezing family can too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on December 19, 2012, 12:49:07 am

I successfully raided Fort Independence with nothing more than a Silenced 10mm Pistol, a Talon Combat Helmet, a Merc Cruiser outfit, and a few stealthboys. Fuck yeah sneak attack criticals.

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Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 19, 2012, 01:10:16 am

Quote from: Reudh on December 16, 2012, 04:07:45 am

Quote from: Thexor on December 15, 2012, 11:17:42 pm

I wandered into the wrong tile and find myself engaged in a double battle with two Electric specialists. My lead was a Soft Sand/Earthquake Graveller.

I won the battle without taking a single hit... from the other team. In the process, however, I KO'd 3 of my own mons from Earthquake splash damage. A pity I'd left my flier behind...

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Pokemon: HeartGold. Because it's cheaper than the new games. 

I haven't been able to find that ANYWHERE. It seems like it's sold out here.

Also, someone with Levitate evades Earthquake too, I think the Gengar family can have it. The Weezing family can too.

Oh, trust me, I know. I've also played Diamond, and dear lord: whoever came up with the design of Bronzor deserves to be shot, in part because of Levitate. For the non-Pokemon players, or people who haven't played Gen IV, let me sum up Bronzor for you: imagine a Zubat made even more annoying.

Zubat has access to Supersonic, which has a 55% chance of inflicting confusion. Bronzor has access to Confuse Ray (100% chance of inflicting confusion) and Hypnosis (which, in D/P only, was upgraded to 70% chance to inflict sleep). So, Bronzor has considerably stronger status conditions.

Zubat has access to pretty terrible attacks, like Leech Life (Bug attack typing is pretty terrible, coupled with a pathetically weak base power and no STAB). Bronzor has access to Extrasensory, an 80-power Psychic attack, with STAB. Yeouch.


But it's the defensive typing that really makes Bronzor a bitch. Zubat is weak to numerous common attacks (psychic, rock, electric, and ice). Bronzor, however, is Psychic/Steel, giving it exactly two weaknesses: Ground and Fire.
Oh, except Bronzor has two possible abilities. Levitate gives it immunity to Ground; Heatproof gives resistance to Fire.

That's right: any given Bronzor has only one weakness, and you don't know which weakness it has until you start attacking. Never mind that, after that first attack, you're either asleep or confused. And then, finally, you kill the damn thing, only to have another pop up 5 steps later.  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JWNoctis on December 19, 2012, 01:40:07 am

But thankfully Bronzor is not all that common outside a few places, and by the time you see them you'd probably already have a good level superiority.

A relatively high-powered normal-efficiency move like Surf or Spark is usually enough for wilds and the occasional trainer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 19, 2012, 04:33:21 am

Even worse in Gen V, the omnipresent Roggenrola/Boldore is rock type, quite a good one defensively... but not only that, it has Sturdy.

That's right, Sturdy. In gen III-IV, all this did was prevent OHKO attacks like Fissure or Sheer Cold or Guillotine from working. In Gen V, this also functions like a focus sash (no matter how powerful the attack, will always hold on if hit from full hp, EG; a 100/101 hp mon with Sturdy would get knocked out, a 101/101 hp mon with Sturdy would survive with one HP.)

Boldore and Roggenrola CANNOT be knocked out in one hit. This is horrifying if you don't carry a water or fighting type through the early game; though the saving grace is that you can run away easily due to their low speed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 19, 2012, 08:18:51 pm

Wait, you mean you guys don't just run away from most wild 'mon encounters? You mean you actually fight each random zubat/bronzor/roggenrola? Ew.

the only times I fight random wild 'mons is when I'm looking to catch one or it's early game and I need to train up my party. Otherwise I just grind through every trainer I see and usually my team is consistently leveled enough to take on the Elite 4 without more grinding...except for the most recent gen. I've found myself needing to grind audinos during my playthrough. It was painful.
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As for ownage, I had a group of ten or so dreadnoughts, both the common and hellfire varieties, steamrolling through the pansy space-elves eldar. All my squads of marines hardly saw a battle, the dreadnoughts just tore through the eldar army too fast. I'm thinking of replaying the mission and using nuthin' but dreadnoughts. I luv me some giant robots.

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Warhammer 40k Dawn of War Gold Edition, 'twas the first campaign mission you encounter the eldar in.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on December 19, 2012, 08:28:06 pm

Walking around....

Air elemental "Woosh"

Mace: WOOOSH"

Air elemental: "......"


Baldurs Gate 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on December 19, 2012, 08:46:38 pm

Sending a single unit of airborne troops that took Munich, then went for Vienna, Prage and finally Berlin before being surrounded and bombed, razing and pillaging everything in his path, reducing Germany's IC from a good 50 (still tons better than me, but hey, still cool).
And holding the north of the France with the help of canadians and spanish (republicains ftw), against a freaking ton of tanks.
The only bad point is that neither URSS nor USA seems to want to get in war with Germany as I'm still holding. Fuck you guys, fuck you !

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The Darkest Hour, as France.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on December 19, 2012, 09:00:30 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on December 19, 2012, 08:18:51 pm

Wait, you mean you guys don't just run away from most wild 'mon encounters? You mean you actually fight each random zubat/bronzor/roggenrola? Ew.

the only times I fight random wild 'mons is when I'm looking to catch one or it's early game and I need to train up my party. Otherwise I just grind through every trainer I see and usually my team is consistently leveled enough to take on the Elite 4 without more grinding...except for the most recent gen. I've found myself needing to grind audinos during my playthrough. It was painful.
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As for ownage, I had a group of ten or so dreadnoughts, both the common and hellfire varieties, steamrolling through the pansy space-elves eldar. All my squads of marines hardly saw a battle, the dreadnoughts just tore through the eldar army too fast. I'm thinking of replaying the mission and using nuthin' but dreadnoughts. I luv me some giant robots.

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Warhammer 40k Dawn of War Gold Edition, 'twas the first campaign mission you encounter the eldar in.

F that mission. The first time I tried it I tried to rush for the objective.
Constant.
Eldar.
Raids.

Eventually beat it on a second try, doing it properly that time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on December 19, 2012, 09:15:19 pm

One energy tank left. Zero energy left on Prime.

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Metroid Prime

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 20, 2012, 12:53:16 am

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on December 19, 2012, 08:18:51 pm

As for ownage, I had a group of ten or so dreadnoughts, both the common and hellfire varieties, steamrolling through the pansy space-elves eldar. All my squads of marines hardly saw a battle, the dreadnoughts just tore through the eldar army too fast. I'm thinking of replaying the mission and using nuthin' but dreadnoughts. I luv me some giant robots.

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Warhammer 40k Dawn of War Gold Edition, 'twas the first campaign mission you encounter the eldar in.

A correction and an anecdote:

Dreadnoughts are not robots. They are essentially walking, death-dealing life-support units for critically injured Marines. More of a cyborg, really.

I once had a nightmare about that mission. I was playing for the first time, and this game was my introduction to Warhammer. I went to bed just after starting the first Eldar mission and was plagued by dreams of space elves smashing my defenses with utter contempt, always pulling back just before wiping me out for good. I'd rebuild, only to be destroyed again.

Then I played the actual mission and breezed through it. Lolz.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on December 20, 2012, 02:33:37 am

I found alot of the time in WHDoW 1 whenever I got terminators and dreadnoughts they would go crush the enemy and id leave the rest of the boys back at base eating space cupcakes or something.

  I just killed the giant sheep in Defenders quest: Valley of the forgotten, I really shouldnt feel as badass as I do right now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on December 20, 2012, 02:34:45 am

'Twas not I who did this, but it still deserves mentioning:
A colonel sniper took out a Cyberdisk. In ONE SHOT.

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X-Com: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zecro_The_Scourge on December 20, 2012, 08:54:42 am

Me and my mates setup a huge blockade in between Cherno & Elektro and had at least seventy comfirmed kills before the server edventually reset. We even managed to dominate the map's objective base and bombarded enemy tanks with a Stryker's mounted cannon. (Note the cannon is essientally a vehicle portable SNIPER rifle.)

- Wasteland, Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:17:20 pm

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT YOU STONE SONS OF BITCHES! GO SUCKLE ON GALETAEA'S TEATS IN HELL YOU FUCKING FUCKERS!
I literally killed the Gargoyles while throwing a tantrum. I just got fed up, and went in two handed and just fucked them up. I don't know how I did it.
where do I go now?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:35:40 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 20, 2012, 12:33:16 pm

Quote from: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:17:20 pm

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT YOU STONE SONS OF BITCHES! GO SUCKLE ON GALETAEA'S TEATS IN HELL YOU FUCKING FUCKERS!
I literally killed the Gargoyles while throwing a tantrum. I just got fed up, and went in two handed and just fucked them up. I don't know how I did it.
where do I go now?

Game?

Dark Souls, sorry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on December 20, 2012, 03:19:35 pm

Oh! An emission! I'd better find cover! Oh! I'm supposed to fall down this hole to find cover? OK!
Then I ran into mutants. I killed two with a shotgun. It probably wasn't really owning, but by god it felt like it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stalker, Call of Prypat

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on December 20, 2012, 03:36:23 pm

If you live through it in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., it feels like owning.

Also, I think I know which place you're talking about. The large crevice in the middle of Zaton, near the Claw anomaly? The one with the car(s?) at the bottom, and SNORKS EVERYWHERE!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 20, 2012, 03:38:48 pm

Quote from: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:35:40 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 20, 2012, 12:33:16 pm

Quote from: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:17:20 pm

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT YOU STONE SONS OF BITCHES! GO SUCKLE ON GALETAEA'S TEATS IN HELL YOU FUCKING FUCKERS!
I literally killed the Gargoyles while throwing a tantrum. I just got fed up, and went in two handed and just fucked them up. I don't know how I did it.
where do I go now?

Game?

Dark Souls, sorry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can either go to Darkroot Garden to kill the Moonlight Butterfly for it's soul and the Divine Ember, or you can go to Lower Undead Burg and the Depths to continue the story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on December 20, 2012, 04:11:59 pm

In general, reading the description on the keys you have found will tell you where to go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on December 21, 2012, 12:25:11 am

Amana, a deliciously plump twenty-something flame-haired Dunmer mage with Bipolar Mania, an acute case of nyctophobia, and an obsession with enchanting silver staves now also has an unlimited supply of Ancestral Ghosts, Dremora and Scamps to use in enchanting more silver staves. She makes her base in a room at the Ald'ruhn Mages Guild that no one seemed to be using, and a smith under-Skar just so happens to sell silver staves. How soon can her ascent to power as a mad mage at the helm of House Telvanni take place now that she can finally master Enchant without having to also know the Calm Humanoid spell?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition. The master trainer for Enchant is only accessible if you have a Calm Humanoid spell and cast it after every training session, because he is paranoid and that makes him hostile to everyone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 21, 2012, 12:39:22 am

Quote from: UltraValican on December 20, 2012, 12:17:20 pm

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT YOU STONE SONS OF BITCHES! GO SUCKLE ON GALETAEA'S TEATS IN HELL YOU FUCKING FUCKERS!
I literally killed the Gargoyles while throwing a tantrum. I just got fed up, and went in two handed and just fucked them up. I don't know how I did it.
where do I go now?

Spoiler: slightly off topic (click to show/hide)

Wait til you meet ornstein and Smo, you thought the gargoyles were hard... *creepy laugh that everybody in that game ends their conversations with*

You can go in a few directions.  You can go back to the blacksmith and get past the titanite demon near his smithery to get to the forest and fight the Twilight butterfly (bring magic defense, firebombs are also useful), after the butterfly you could probably try deeper in the forest and try to beat the hydra and Great Wolf Sif, but you probably won't beat them so don't bang your head against that for too long.

At this point I think you could also unlock the door that was near Solaire before the big bridge drake.  That leads to lower undead burg, then blighttown, then the second bell you need to ring.  there's also a secret zone in the swamp at blighttown that leads to the leader of the dragon covanant (my favorite covanant for obvious reasons), but that's a tough trip both there and back, even if you find it.

Good luck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on December 21, 2012, 11:03:35 am

KILLED THAT DAMN FINAL BOSS FROM THAT DAMN GAME ON HARDMODE

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

M.A.C.E. From intrusion 2 AKA: BEST. BOSS. EVER.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 21, 2012, 11:10:33 am

Beat Phantom, without taking a single hit. S-ranking, hell yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Devil May Cry. Unfortunately, Vergil Nelos Angelelos wiped the floor with me next level. Managed to get him down to little health, but then my Devil Trigger ran out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 11:16:13 am

Trounced someone while playing FIFA for the very first time.  My victory earned the following message.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/165052_10151324605815845_1560988874_n.jpg)

Some people are not graceful in defeat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 21, 2012, 11:57:05 am

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 11:16:13 am

Trounced someone while playing FIFA for the very first time.  My victory earned the following message.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/165052_10151324605815845_1560988874_n.jpg)

Some people are not graceful in defeat.

And so I shall never play a FIFA game ever.
I don't want to touch anything that... thing holds dear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 12:32:49 pm

I figured the greater insult would be a total lack of response.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 21, 2012, 12:38:08 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 21, 2012, 11:57:05 am

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 11:16:13 am

Trounced someone while playing FIFA for the very first time.  My victory earned the following message.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/165052_10151324605815845_1560988874_n.jpg)

Some people are not graceful in defeat.

And so I shall never play a FIFA XBox Live game ever.
I don't want to touch anything that... thing holds dear.

FTFY.

The game might have a bad community... but from what I've seen, it's the Live community in general that talks like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 12:43:37 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 21, 2012, 12:35:34 pm

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 12:32:49 pm

I figured the greater insult would be a total lack of response.

What about a picture of your genitals/arse?

What, for free?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on December 21, 2012, 02:26:04 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 21, 2012, 01:20:28 pm

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 12:43:37 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 21, 2012, 12:35:34 pm

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 12:32:49 pm

I figured the greater insult would be a total lack of response.

What about a picture of your genitals/arse?

What, for free?

A bad quality image, but yes, for free.

On a more reasonable line of thought, it can backfire since he would have proof to report.

Not responding is probably the standard response.  Responding in kind is probably what is expected and also more prone to backfire, as the player may be trying to get reportable material from you...  So if you want to go the extra mile, a polite response would either make him go wut or respond in a more negative manner.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 05:12:53 pm

Quote from: greatorder on December 21, 2012, 05:11:35 pm

Hence why you do that at a friend's house!

I was at a friend's house :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 21, 2012, 08:00:00 pm

Quote from: Thexor on December 21, 2012, 12:38:08 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 21, 2012, 11:57:05 am

Quote from: lordcooper on December 21, 2012, 11:16:13 am

Trounced someone while playing FIFA for the very first time.  My victory earned the following message.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/165052_10151324605815845_1560988874_n.jpg)

Some people are not graceful in defeat.

And so I shall never play a FIFA XBox Live game ever.
I don't want to touch anything that... thing holds dear.

FTFY.

The game might have a bad community... but from what I've seen, it's the Live community in general that talks like that.

That's on PS3.
I'm pretty sure it really is FIFA games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on December 21, 2012, 09:54:26 pm

Just left the general store after selling some things to help in Whiterun when I got jumped by 3 hired thugs clad in steel armor and wielding a mix of enchanted weapons and orcish axes while I was still using fur armor and an axe I got from the Jarl there. With clever use of abusing their pathing by hiding in the little area that streams water causing them to hide behind stalls, and a bow with some arrows, took all 3 down with minimal damage to myself. Used the loot I got from them to get me the last of the gold I needed to purchase a house and some furnishing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim. The contract on them was apparently from a town guard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on December 22, 2012, 05:57:35 pm

I love how the thread can get derailed at the drop of a hat...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on December 22, 2012, 09:56:53 pm

Mind controlled an Ethereal and made him suicide charge / Riftstorm his buds.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

X-Com: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gamerboy4life on December 22, 2012, 10:31:23 pm

Led a glorious, drunken-induced charge through the western side of Indar, cutting a path through Vanu territory and crippling their entire western flank as the NC whittles at them from the east.

It all ended with a few NC liberators though, when we got too close to their borders. Cut our tank company to shreds, all 20-30 tanks/sundies.

Was fun while it lasted, got me at least 10 cred for about 2 hours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on December 22, 2012, 10:43:48 pm

Quote from: Gamerboy4life on December 22, 2012, 10:31:23 pm

Led a glorious, drunken-induced charge through the western side of Indar, cutting a path through Vanu territory and crippling their entire western flank as the NC whittles at them from the east.

It all ended with a few NC liberators though, when we got too close to their borders. Cut our tank company to shreds, all 20-30 tanks/sundies.

Was fun while it lasted, got me at least 10 cred for about 2 hours.

Game? (Before you get metor'd to death, that is) I guess you only get metor'd to death in How did you last die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gamerboy4life on December 22, 2012, 11:30:31 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on December 22, 2012, 10:43:48 pm

Quote from: Gamerboy4life on December 22, 2012, 10:31:23 pm

Led a glorious, drunken-induced charge through the western side of Indar, cutting a path through Vanu territory and crippling their entire western flank as the NC whittles at them from the east.

It all ended with a few NC liberators though, when we got too close to their borders. Cut our tank company to shreds, all 20-30 tanks/sundies.

Was fun while it lasted, got me at least 10 cred for about 2 hours.

Game? (Before you get metor'd to death, that is) I guess you only get metor'd to death in How did you last die.

Planetside 2.

Forgot to mention.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 23, 2012, 12:36:00 am

Got through sen's fortress start to finish without making any mistakes.*  This is the first run of this character too, all the really dangerous stuff was still alive.   And not only that I did it with a phantom, who also did not make any mistakes and also did not die.  AND NOT ONLY THAT we did it again, this time as me being the phantom, because we're trying to progress through the game as a team, which means we need to go through each zone twice, once with each of us as the host.

Sen's fortress is (one of) the hardest zones, I can't get through sens fortress with my endgame character without making some horrible mistake that results in a death.  That I did it twice in a row, in a zone where a buddy mostly just gets in the way or gets you killed that strikes me as an own.

_{^{* I did die once at the beginning when an invader showed up to do some unsolicited pvp.  But you can't really prevent an invader if you plan on grouping with a friend, and these guys make it their personal mission to troll people by being amazingly overgeared for the zone so they have next to no chance of losing.  I didn't fight him on any traps either, so my death can hardly be attibuted to the zone.}}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aptus on December 23, 2012, 07:42:49 am

I just suplexed... a train.

Oh how have I not played thee before Final Fantasy 6.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on December 23, 2012, 01:43:05 pm

Playing the free, older version of Age of Chivalry.

Playing as Mason Crusader on the map where a bombcart needs to be pushed to a castle gate, being best on team, something I'm now getting for some reason, probably because I'm bothering to block now.
I'm doing my usual with throwing knives. Miss two of them, hit with one.

Now, there was this guy named Letum. He was playing a Javelineer. He would often kill me before I got to him, me being too lazy to switch to sheild. When he ran out of javelins, things sucked for him. Low ping kept him from being able to hit me in melee range. Those were the times when I killed him.

So I was standing near the gate while the Agatha Knights were trying to get close to the bombcart. I throw a knife at a distance that I almost always miss at, and it headshots Letum before he can throw one javelin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 24, 2012, 10:30:44 am

I went gunslinger engie on a 32 player turbine server.
I went from about 75 points to 350, putting me only below an awesome heavy guy on the other team.
My tactic is: Place a nest in one of the healthpack "houses". Dispenser and teleporter, sentry on one of the containers.
Constantly replace sentry as it is destroyed, NEVER place sentry on the floor, people will just walk up to it and murderize it.
My nest got destroyed a few times, but i always rebuilt it, and constantly running around prevented me from getting backstabbed, so i always managed to kill the sappers, even tough i was in the other side of mid. If my stuff was destroyed , i just rebuilt my nest.
After about... i have no idea, must have been 2 hours, we finally got pushed back in our base (We just needed  one more capture to win).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on December 26, 2012, 12:19:21 pm

I was in a bad spot. Most of my team had died to Cyberdiscs, in fact, mostly ONE Cyberdisc on a Alien Battleship who ROFLstomped both of the Heavys watching the Doorway, the medic that was with them, and Miley Cyrus, a hilariously badass medic named for her... unique... hairstyle, which looked alot like Miley Cyrus' weird mohawk-thing. (One guy got hit face-first with the giant death laser, and no-one had armor. HE SURVIVED, at least, he would have if Miley had been able to stabalize him. Dammit.)

Anyways, I had upgraded both armor and weapons, but nations were either dropped out or preparing to drop out, and I had to pul off this Terror Mission OR ELSE. So I sent in my best squad... A team of Rookies led by a minor officer Support named Sierra Fae and nicknamed "Spirit". The previous two Sierras didn't last long enough to get a nickname, leading me and my friend (who was playing with me until shortly before the Battleship) to think the name was cursed.

Then I had someone round a corner and I shat my pants.

Please allow me to explain.

Code: [Select]

#|###OO#C###F####
#|##CO##F#####O##
#|###OF####C#####
#|###OO#F########
#|-#-------------
####X#######X####
########X########Where
C=Chryssalid
F=Floater
O=Cover
#=the floor
X=My soldiers, almost all Squaddies.

That's three Chrysallids, Four floaters, and the Civilians were all on the other side. One chryssalid ran off and began nomming the civies while my squaddies desprately fought for their lives.

But this is the owning thread. I can't quite remeber how, but a few minutes later I was looking at the victory screen.

Final enemy Deathcount: 10 (the guys in the room plus some random floaters I found earlier)
Final XCOM casualties: 0

I'd say I deserve that Excellent rating, and the scientists who invented the Laser Rifle should get a goddamn medal. I didn't even get any injuries!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on December 27, 2012, 03:24:45 pm

MORE XCOM OWNAGE :D

well i just got the game so first time for me but anyways...

I'm playing with a squad of 5: a Lt. heavy, srg sniper and 3 rookies.

I'm in a narrow street with a lot of vehicle half cover advancing slowly waiting for enemy contact and putting all my guys on over watch. 2 thin men pop out and 1 gets gunned down by overwatch, the other retreats. I advance my heavy and a rookie to chase him cause i HATE thin men. what 2 i run into? 2 sectoids 2 floaters and that last thin man. 1 turn later and all thats left is a sectoid. the RNG gods love me. only person to die was the rookie named after me lol!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on December 27, 2012, 06:44:24 pm

Quote from: revo on December 27, 2012, 03:24:45 pm

MORE XCOM OWNAGE :D

well i just got the game so first time for me but anyways...

I'm playing with a squad of 5: a Lt. heavy, srg sniper and 3 rookies.

I'm in a narrow street with a lot of vehicle half cover advancing slowly waiting for enemy contact and putting all my guys on over watch. 2 thin men pop out and 1 gets gunned down by overwatch, the other retreats. I advance my heavy and a rookie to chase him cause i HATE thin men. what 2 i run into? 2 sectoids 2 floaters and that last thin man. 1 turn later and all thats left is a sectoid. the RNG gods love me. only person to die was the rookie named after me lol!

If the most annoying enemy you've met so far is a thin man, you're in for a bad time.

Elite Mutons. Elite Mutons everywhere.

Berserkers can be pretty hellish too if they get a few turns, but due to the way they work it's pretty easy to drag them around the map and end them before they get a full turn.

Sectopods are too rare but GODDAMN they are walking piles of Badass like Chuck Norris only has wet dreams about.

Chrysallids are relatively easy to burst but as they only show up in terror missions and are fast as shit you'll have to worry about the zombies, or even a swarm of chrysallids. Not to mention they can one-shot your guys a lot like Berserkers, only then the come back to life.

And Cyberdiscs. One does not realize how much damage a grenade can do until they meet a Cyberdisc.


I wish that there was a chance to shoot down a UFO with like, fifty Sectoids inside so you could use the corpses for the stuff you need. I'm running out...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 27, 2012, 07:41:12 pm

I won Vidiot Game.
I didn't even know it was possible. And then; I did it again. Once by receiving a load of cheeseburgers, and the other time by finding a briefcase in the desert, containing a million bitcoins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 28, 2012, 01:18:20 pm

Spoiler: Here's a list of things my Zigzagoon has brought me (click to show/hide)

11x Super Potions
4x Nuggets
5x PP Ups
1x Protien
2x Full Restores
2x Full Heal
3x Rare Candy
3x Ultra Balls
1x King's Rock
2x Revives
Various X-items that I never bothered to mark down. Not many, like 3 of them.

Right now in the game, I've just beat Flannery, although my game clock shows about 18 hours playtime due to occasionally holding down the emulator acceleration button and occasional grinding.

Zigzagoon, actually Linoone, it evolved along with Wingull after beating Team Magma's leader at the volcano, is now my second favorite member of the team. Still not the most favorite, though. Even bringing me heaps of valuables still isn't enough to unseat Kirlia as my favorite.

Also managed to beat the Lavaridge gym mostly with just Pelipper, although it went down(along with several others on my team) to Flannery's Torkoal. But then Kirlia melted Torkoal's brain and I won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Ruby.

Current team:
Combusken: Starter. Sets things on fire, then kicks them in the head.
Kirlia: Will melt your brain. I had thought it would win a contenst for cuteness, but then I tried it and got stomped.
Linoone: Brings me stuff. Also weak enough to not kill things before catching them.
Pelipper: One-shots so many things with Water Gun.
Zangoose: Murders stuff several levels above it, just using Swords Dance and Quick Attack. Also learned Rock Smash so I could ditch a useless Makuhita I got from an ingame trade.
Ninjask: Hello?! Ninja beetle?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on December 28, 2012, 08:58:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 28, 2012, 01:18:20 pm

Kirlia: Will melt your brain. I had thought it would win a contenst for cuteness, but then I tried it and got stomped.

Obviously you need to put it in a contest for something else. Without changing anything. It will go perfectly, you'll see!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 28, 2012, 09:06:36 pm

My Date clan had a history with the Hojo clan, and not a nice one.  I originally entered war with them defending an ally I didn't even really like, but I became worried about the size of the Hojo lands so I attacked and took two of their provinces.  My fears turned out to be justified as they responded with a full stack of units.  I pulled back my soldiers and gathered them together, forming the strongest army my clan ever fielded... and still short of the Hojo's army.  The battle was a total, mutual massacre.  In the end two heavily depleted units of Hojo Samurai were all that remained, earning them a nominal victory.  But both sides lost their best generals and their greatest armies.

That was four years ago.  Now the Hojo have been pushed back, and their lands split between me and my new Imagawa allies.  Their last territory is a small coastal town defended by another large army including the Daimyo and his heir.  But the Date have a new trick: a ninja, scouting ahead of our main force.  This ninja assassinates the Hojo heir.  The next turn their army marches north.  I could probably beat them but I have other enemies and I don't want to lose any troops, so I order the ninja to sabotage the army and then I move past it.  They can only watch helplessly while I conquer their last province.  With his clan defeated and his heir dead, the Hojo Daimyo commits seppuku and his army disbands, leaving me free to go on to further conquests.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shogun 2: Total War.  This is my first campaign, I'm playing on normal difficulty.  Its been fairly easy in general but because the Date start in such a remote position I've had to rush a tad in building my power so as to compete with the other clans; I don't remember the total war AI expanding this quickly!  On the flip side, I don't remember the AI keeping its alliances this long, which is nice because my allies could seriously mess me up if they turned on me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 28, 2012, 09:38:50 pm

Elevator banks. About ten elevators, in a L shape. One elevator opens, to reveal a single Replica. Yeah, I blast his ass to kingdom come. I am wise to the tricks of the Replicas though, so I dash to the end of the banks, and hide behind the corner.
Ding. The light of the elevator spills through the opening door, right next to my hiding spot.
"Recon." Their officer barks.
Hehehe, you poor, stupid bastards. I wait a moment, then turn the corner, activating slow-mo. Two Replicas right next to me, both facing the wrong direction. I melee them, killing them both with a single swing. I open fire, pumping two shotgun shells into the tightly grouped pair of Replicas past them, killing them both.
Ding.
Oh shit.
The elevator directly in front of me swings open, to reveal a Heavy Armor Replica, and three friends. They react fast, but I am far faster. I toss my last two proximity grenades randomly in the room, and dash behind cover as I gun down one Replica. I switch to the HV-Penetrator, and spring around the corner as one mine explodes. One head shot finishes the final basic Replica, then I pump the rest of the clip into the Heavy Armor Replica's abdomen, chest, and head. He doesn't go down, so I pop back around the corner.
Boom. Hehehe, proximity mines are great.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

F.E.A.R.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nadaka on December 29, 2012, 02:21:24 am

Its totally ok, because it is holiday. I am not a drunk. But i broke a shot glass and spilled some jeager while playing counterstrike and i may have stepped on some glass. I was intoxicated enough that dudes actually won against me. Darkcast, you an aspergers talking dood, but you beat me regularly after i played the jeager shot per win game for 12 rounds, mad props. Its t he only way i give yall noobs a real chance to shine. Its a shame you other dudes get pissed off and quit when yall realize you are at best my equal after a dozen or two intoxicating drinks.

I am awesome at counterstrike, nuff said.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 29, 2012, 03:04:36 am

Finished the main storyline of Skyrim. Have all Legendary Dragon heavy armor, all enchanted with health regen (except the helmet, which is waterbreathing,) with Heavy Armor skill maxed out. Have a Dragonbone Greatsword, Two Handed skill maxed out. Two shot dragons as soon as they hit the ground. Most enemies can't do damage to me.

Muahaha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on December 29, 2012, 11:38:56 am

half death half ownage:

The previous mission 3 of my A team were wounded and i get a terror mission right afterwards. -.- I send in a squad of a Cpt.assault a Cpt. support a squadie assault and 3 rookies.Armed in laser weapons for the veterans and the first level armor upgrade for all. I wonder into a cyberdisk and 1 turn later into a group of 3 chryssalids. I'm holding my own and take down the chryssalids and damage the cyber disk as another group of chryssalids shows up. rookies start dieing. civilians start dieing. I end up with only the two captains left and proceed to kite a couple of zombies back to the skyranger and take them out.

I now have the choice whether to abort or try to face the hordes of chryssalids and zombies that are left. FILDI! my assault and support proceed to take out around 12 more enemies by themselves. for some reason in this game I am either ridiculously lucky or unlucky. no in between.

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XCOM: EU

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 29, 2012, 12:13:30 pm

Quote from: Mini on December 28, 2012, 08:58:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 28, 2012, 01:18:20 pm

Kirlia: Will melt your brain. I had thought it would win a contenst for cuteness, but then I tried it and got stomped.

Obviously you need to put it in a contest for something else. Without changing anything. It will go perfectly, you'll see!

Probably not, since I haven't given her any PokeBlocks, partly because that creepy old guy who works as your partner running the blender keeps missing points.

Quote from: MaximumZero on December 29, 2012, 03:04:36 am

Finished the main storyline of Skyrim. Have all Legendary Dragon heavy armor, all enchanted with health regen (except the helmet, which is waterbreathing,) with Heavy Armor skill maxed out. Have a Dragonbone Greatsword, Two Handed skill maxed out. Two shot dragons as soon as they hit the ground. Most enemies can't do damage to me.

Muahaha.

And then a giant comes along, and launches you into the moon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on December 29, 2012, 05:27:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 29, 2012, 12:13:30 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on December 29, 2012, 03:04:36 am

Finished the main storyline of Skyrim. Have all Legendary Dragon heavy armor, all enchanted with health regen (except the helmet, which is waterbreathing,) with Heavy Armor skill maxed out. Have a Dragonbone Greatsword, Two Handed skill maxed out. Two shot dragons as soon as they hit the ground. Most enemies can't do damage to me.

Muahaha.

And then a giant comes along, and launches you into the moon.

Then he falls back down and chops the giant in half.

BOSSES NEVER DIE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on December 29, 2012, 08:36:35 pm

Snuck into enemy territory with a few people, 4 times in 20 minutes, and destroyed 3 of the enemy miners without them killing any of ours.  They resigned by midgame because it had held back their economy so badly.

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Allegiance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on December 29, 2012, 10:49:30 pm

Shot a stick of Dynamite that a powder ganger threw at me out of the air, killing him and his two mates, without using VATS.

Ok so it was a complete accident, I still claim it as ownage :P

Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: inteuniso on December 30, 2012, 10:32:51 am

The skies above Okrir lit up a fiery red in the night sky.

The war between the Republic of Humanity and the Vurean Council had dragged on. An ancient ship, powerful in design and advanced in technology, had been influencing the field of battle for the Vurean side. The Republic's massive industrial capacity and population, on the other hand, more than made up for it. Though the Vureans had more colonies, the Republic's colonies were far higher-quality, particularly New Terra, the Republic's homeworld.

It had been years since the war had first began. Fleets and strike forces traded ships, the debris of war floating, orbiting planets throughout the two empires. Now, in a stroke of bold madness, the Republic sought to crush the Vureans' fighting spirit. The 6th and the 15th fleets, assisted by two strike groups, had jumped into orbit around the Vurean homeworld. The massive defensive installations, stations dedicated solely to firepower, massive power plants firing up just to power the laser batteries and missile racks, fighter bays launching countless Ackdarian fighters.

The losses were heavy. Cruisers, torn apart by the blistering fire as their shields failed. Republic carriers launched scores of interceptors and torpedo bombers, but it seemed not enough.

Then, the shields failed on one installation. Explosions wracked its hull. In a massive explosion, metal and flesh was thrown out violently. Then the second base fell. Finally the third.

The ships of the republic moved closer to their main target: the massive Space Port, an orbital installation allowing for millions of tons of cargo to be shipped on and off-world, the center of trade for the Vurean Council. They showed no mercy.

For a month, the ships of the Republic watched over Vurean. No troops landed: the massive defensive fortifications dug by the hundreds of thousands of Ackdarian forces meant that there was no way to assault the planet's surface. The Republic waited. For a month, no cargo made it on to Okrir: it was cut off from the galaxy.

Then the Republic ships left. The war dragged on for another few months, and the Republic managed to steal a system from the Vureans. A cease-fire was called. The Vureans had paid dearly, though. Their industrial capacity was greatly weakened: Their once glorious space port, a hub of trade, twisted metal stained with the blood of innocent civilians.

The Republic of Humanity, however, had experienced a great shift: their great victory had shown the might of the empire, especially since Ackdarian admirals had headed some of the fleets. Soon, with massive popular support, the Republic was no more. It was reborn, the Federation of Human Planets. Tired of war, they realized it was better to live in peace, and have equality for all.

Now, it is the year 2773. The Federation is boxed in by the Vureans towards the Galactic Core, and the Sluken Conformity towards the Rim. They have powerful allies in the Free Kiadia Alliance, the only other empire in the galaxy with similar power. Only time will tell how the Federation grows in the future.

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Distant Worlds: Legends. As the Humans, had a massive war with neighboring Ackdarians and managed to their homeworld's station up. Wrecked their GDP, probably put it back permanently behind the other races.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 31, 2012, 01:32:13 pm

Playing a knight for the first time in Nethack. Shortly after dipping my long sword in a fountain and getting Excalibur, I killed a random dingo. Said random dingo dropped a long sword named Fire Brand. That's like getting a Stone of Jordan drop from a random lvl 1 fallen in Diablo 2 or finding a shiny...anything in Pokemon. Praise the RNG!

I now have 2(!) artifact long swords, a lance, a saddled pony named Applejack for the luls, loads of veggies for said pony, two different eggs that may or may not hatch into dragons sometime, some decent armor, some food rations for myself, and miscellaneous other scrolls and potions picked up off the dungeon floor.

Aaaaw yeah, I need to play knight more often.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 31, 2012, 01:41:45 pm

I get rushed. Get into the feel of the game. I run around a corner, and there's three Replica's and a Heavy Armor Replica, unaware of me as of yet. Instead of falling back and gunning them down in a firefight, as I usually do, I dash in with the shotgun. I blow one of the normal soldiers away with a shotgun blast, and hit the slowmo.
The Heavy Armor Replica turns towards me, and I put eight shotgun shells into his face. He dies without firing a shot. The next Replica I blast with two more shells. The final Replica, I dash at, and melee him as he's turning to fire.
All this takes place in about five seconds of slow-mo time, which is more like a second of real time. I literally got out of my chair and was talking smack at the dead Replicas. "Who's the bitch now, motherfucker?! FUCK WITH ME AGAIN!"

And something I noticed. Now, when I see Replicas and they see me, they say, "We can't stop him! Fall back and regroup!" Awww yeah, bitches. Grenade me, flank me, outnumber me, outgun me, and outmanuever me. I'm so unholy hell fast it doesn't matter.

Also, I'm almost on the last level. I'm in some ruined tenement building, and I turn a corner. One of the twelve foot tall armored mechs with laser cannons falls through the ceiling and starts chasing me. I killed him with the shotgun. I'm so in love with this shotgun. At anything under fifteen feet, it's one shot, one kill. Anywhere from thirty to fifteen feet, it's three or so shots. And if they're grouped up tightly enough, you can kills several of them.

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F.E.A.R.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on December 31, 2012, 03:34:52 pm

With just three plays left in the game, my team of Norsemen(Norse by NorseWest) manages to run in a touchdown giving us the lead. After the kickoff the Amazonians proceed to decimate my defense and move into position to score. With one play left they throw a bomb of a pass but my star player managed to intercept and effectively win the game.

Too bad my Yeti was killed by a blitz earlier in the game.

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Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 31, 2012, 05:48:56 pm

Pendrake the awesome knight's adventures continue.

I drank from a fountain while roaming the dungeon floors looking for a floating eye. I release a water demon. Oh fuuu-

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The water demon is grateful for being released and offers to grant a wish!
What do you wish for?
>bag of holdingI now have 2 blessed artifact longswords I'm skilled at using, good luck, a warhorse named Applejack for the luls, a blessed saddle, good armor including a mithril coat, a blessed +1 lance (which is slightly corroded at the moment) and the skill to use it, and a bag to keep all my excess food, scrolls, and potions, including a couple extra bottles of holy water, and this bag will keep me from being overburdened all the time.

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

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Nethack

EDIT: While testing some wands I just found I have an uncursed wand of wishing! Holy asdqafafvgp--I wished for an amulet of life-saving, and I'm thinking of saving the wand and wishing for a blessed ki-rin figurine and a spellbook of stone to flesh after I get Merlin's Mirror. Boom, awesome mount who I don't need to feed. Oh man this game is going great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on December 31, 2012, 10:27:04 pm

I'll be waiting to see you in the "How did you last die" thread, with the nature of Nethack.

Just bought Promethean Vision, let's see what it does.
I can see you..
BRAAATATTTA!
Can't hide from me!
Stuck!
Just leaving them with holes all over. It feels great.

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Halo 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: dei on December 31, 2012, 11:43:25 pm

No point spoilering this since I'm not going to reveal any spoilers. I just beat Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and got the Light Side ending. It took me close to twenty-six hours over three or four days, but I did it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 01, 2013, 04:00:18 am

An update on Pendrake's dungeon crawling:

I've gotten as deep into the dungeon as I've ever been. I went ahead and used that wand's 2 remaining wishes to wish for a pair of blessed scrolls of recharging and silver dragon scale mail. After recharging it I wished for rustproof gloves of power and fireproof boots of speed, I may or may not have a wish left, I can't recall what I used the last wish on anyway.

I believe I'm on Floor 12, or so. Pendrake is level 12, and has at this point slain countless trolls, rock trolls, giants, stone giants, ice giants, and many many dragons and orcs. I keep running into opulent throne rooms filled with monsters, the latest being 8 dragons and a bunch of trolls armed with various weaponry. Speaking of dragons, I lost Applejack shortly into the first dragon encounter due to a breath attack. It's amazing the advantage the jousting ability gives the knight, and it's rough fighting huge numbers of trolls and dragons without it. I've also encountered some cockatrices, but no threat of stoning yet.

ATM, trying to level up and reach the next rank before going back to do the class quest. Arthur says "we need more than just a sergeant, derp derp" so I guess I'm in for more trolling-dragon-slaying adventures. I need to take a breather and sort through all the junk I picked up, too.

I'd kill for a dragon egg to hatch so I could get a sweet new mount. maybe I should wish for it...I got the wand, and a smoky potion that could be quaffed into a djinni for potential wishes.

I think the *owning* is the fact I was able to take on so many beasts on my own and survive. Beasties just kept coming. That scale mail saved my arse from dragon breath and wand blasts countless times.

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Nethack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on January 01, 2013, 04:29:31 am

I drink from a fountain and release a water demon. It grants me a wish. I then go downstairs to see an oil lamp a few tiles away. I pick it up, rub it, and a djinni pops out and grants me a wish. It's not really ownage, but damn, I've never had such good luck. I only hope a gnome with a wand of death doesn't discover me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on January 01, 2013, 04:51:54 am

Quote from: Angel Of Death on January 01, 2013, 04:29:31 am

I drink from a fountain and release a water demon. It grants me a wish. I then go downstairs to see an oil lamp a few tiles away. I pick it up, rub it, and a djinni pops out and grants me a wish. It's not really ownage, but damn, I've never had such good luck. I only hope a gnome with a wand of death doesn't discover me.

I remember having a wand of wishing on the first floor before in Nethack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ComputerWarrior on January 01, 2013, 08:44:53 am

After a full two days of finding nothing but guns, butter-knives, and rocks for weapons (Because apparently steak knives and combat knives have became rare and luxurious), the zombies I every-once-in-a-while killed in my quest for survival kept tripling until a (pardon my language) frigging zombie brute came charging at me! Now, I tried to shoot it but found I was out of ammo, and realized much to my dismay that I was surrounded by many other normal Zeds, fast zombies, necromancers, you name it (except for Hulks). Perhaps it was because I accidentally broke two windows in a span of two turns?

So I did the most natural thing, I also charged the brute armed with a rock that I had since the start of the game. If death was going to greet me, then it should be in a gentlemanly fight with a brute! The first punches the brute threw at me... missed whilst I managed to hit the brute every single time until it died.

I killed... a brute, for the first time using only melee. With a rock?! Yay! Of course, my victory was short-lived as the aforementioned hordes of zombies quickly came to avenge their fallen comrade and murdered me. But still, I killed a brute with a rock! Perhaps my next character should also have high points in speed and strength whilst having almost no intelligence and perception...

This happened in Cataclysm (Roguelike), of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on January 01, 2013, 09:31:10 am

After finding myself a wand of wishing I quickly wished for an Amulet of Unchanging. After all I had already found myself a Ring of Polymorph and a Ring of Polymorph Control, and those three items together are very powerful indeed. However, I managed to type "Amulet of Chagnign" (or somthign similar) instead, so the game gave me a random amulet. Donning it, beliveing it would lock me into my current form of a dragon, I discovered it was instead a Cursed Amulet of Strangulation. Damnit.

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Nethack

Whoops, wrong thread

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on January 01, 2013, 05:15:46 pm

Newly spawned at a small point that I could see was being contested by a few enemies. I walk out of the spawn room and immediately receive a burst of plasma to my face, as a Vanu fighter is hovering literally 10 metres outside, spawncamping us.
I decide to have a bit of fun with him and come back as a heavy. I sprint out of the door and loose off a rocket from the default launcher in his general direction. I can almost sense his terror as he tries to rise away from it, but he's too slow. The rocket smacks right in to his cockpit and his craft explodes.
Suck it. I only wish pilots in this game would realise how stupid hovering is.  ;)

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on January 01, 2013, 06:40:26 pm

I was grinding for some sould in the Undead Parish to upgrade my new Zwiehander. With my Halbered +4 and no pants on ( for speed, of course) I slayed hollows. I worked my way past where the Iron Tusk was and thought:
" Hey, isn't there a Black Knight up there?"
It took me a bit to lure him down, but with five or so pokes I struck him down.
What do I find?
A Black Knight Greatsword, of course.
I can't use it, but once I can it will go great with my new Drake sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 01, 2013, 06:47:31 pm

Quote from: Lukewarm on January 01, 2013, 06:40:26 pm

I was grinding for some sould in the Undead Parish to upgrade my new Zwiehander. With my Halbered +4 and no pants on ( for speed, of course) I slayed hollows. I worked my way past where the Iron Tusk was and thought:
" Hey, isn't there a Black Knight up there?"
It took me a bit to lure him down, but with five or so pokes I struck him down.
What do I find?
A Black Knight Greatsword, of course.
I can't use it, but once I can it will go great with my new Drake sword.

Lucky bastard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 02, 2013, 12:08:15 am

Quote from: Lukewarm on January 01, 2013, 06:40:26 pm

I was grinding for some sould in the Undead Parish to upgrade my new Zwiehander. With my Halbered +4 and no pants on ( for speed, of course) I slayed hollows. I worked my way past where the Iron Tusk was and thought:
" Hey, isn't there a Black Knight up there?"
It took me a bit to lure him down, but with five or so pokes I struck him down.
What do I find?
A Black Knight Greatsword, of course.
I can't use it, but once I can it will go great with my new Drake sword.

What game was this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Alkhemia on January 02, 2013, 12:14:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on January 02, 2013, 12:08:15 am

Quote from: Lukewarm on January 01, 2013, 06:40:26 pm

I was grinding for some sould in the Undead Parish to upgrade my new Zwiehander. With my Halbered +4 and no pants on ( for speed, of course) I slayed hollows. I worked my way past where the Iron Tusk was and thought:
" Hey, isn't there a Black Knight up there?"
It took me a bit to lure him down, but with five or so pokes I struck him down.
What do I find?
A Black Knight Greatsword, of course.
I can't use it, but once I can it will go great with my new Drake sword.

What game was this?

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 02, 2013, 01:43:36 am

Quote from: Alkhemia on January 02, 2013, 12:14:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on January 02, 2013, 12:08:15 am

Quote from: Lukewarm on January 01, 2013, 06:40:26 pm

I was grinding for some sould in the Undead Parish to upgrade my new Zwiehander. With my Halbered +4 and no pants on ( for speed, of course) I slayed hollows. I worked my way past where the Iron Tusk was and thought:
" Hey, isn't there a Black Knight up there?"
It took me a bit to lure him down, but with five or so pokes I struck him down.
What do I find?
A Black Knight Greatsword, of course.
I can't use it, but once I can it will go great with my new Drake sword.

What game was this?

Dark Souls

Yeah... I need to get working on that game again. Atm just got Hollow warrior shield and reinforced club.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bikari on January 02, 2013, 08:49:25 am

Me being the prideful masochist I am after getting my ass handed to me by the very same Black Knight above ( On that note, I learned the hard way not to trust other players or their messages at all with 'Chest Ahead' on the stairs of that tower D: ) decided to go back to fight him again FOR HONOUR'S SAKE ( and my souls .. So many farmed souls ; - ; ) because no game is gunna beat me, and not taking a single hit during the fight ( knight shield, winged spear and the wanderer's starter armor ), then going on to destroy the Bell Gargoyles and dancing to myself when I finally rang the Bell of Awakening.... Now.. Blight town.. Expect a lot of posts in the 'how did you last die' thread beginning with 'So in blight town...'

Now I also have to run around like a headless chicken and figure out how I can get my hands on sorceries D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 02, 2013, 09:16:37 am

Spoiler alert.

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Completed all 4 last bosses in one run. No start-overs or anything. I did use the life pot, but only after i defeated The Doctor and Misery. The Doctor's last form was hilariously easy with the lvl 3 machine gun. I could just hover above him and not get hit, nor run out of ammo. Misery and the Doctor's first form were probably the hardest. Damn, i liked this game. I'll probably play it again later.

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Cave story+

E:
I got a headshot kill. With a rocket launcher.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 02, 2013, 11:07:04 pm

1 Molotov, took out probably a couple hundred zeds, 2 megamalls, and 3 houses (one with a giant wasp nest inside so thats probably about a dozen wasps too)

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I just accidentally a neighborhood.

Game = Cataclysm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 02, 2013, 11:10:33 pm

Sigh. Shotgun. It's always this little beastie. They gave me a rocket launcher, a particle gun that vaporizes the enemy except for their skeleton, and a man-portable tank-cannon, but the shotgun is STILL the nastiest gun in the game. Twelve foot tall mecha rolling in a pair? Shotgun. Forty Replica Elites with aforementioned tank-cannons and particle guns? Shotgun.

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F.E.A.R.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on January 03, 2013, 08:57:25 pm

Started in the evac center and immediately there was a pack of wolves outside. My starting NPC gets destroyed by the wolves, so I take her butcher knife and kill the entire pack without taking any damage.

Cataclysm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on January 03, 2013, 09:17:31 pm

Yeah, Wolves are placated by meat, so once they had the corpse of your NPC to feast on they started ignoring you :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oliolli on January 11, 2013, 11:58:35 am

This was influenced more by luck than skill, but...

5 Thin Men in a tight cluster. 1 heavy with a rocket launcher that had upgraded area of effect.

Cost me 10 weapon fragments, but totally worth it.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on January 11, 2013, 05:16:45 pm

Four words.

Sic. Transit. Gloria. Mundi.

Suck it, Keto.

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Anno 2070

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on January 12, 2013, 09:56:35 am

Quote

hard the difficulty

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on January 12, 2013, 11:53:46 am

The above is hilarious if you follow the How did you last die? thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 12, 2013, 12:35:59 pm

Introduced the face of a god of destruction to a really badass sword *I* specifically made for the purpose.

Of course, I got some work with it dispatching his Negate Magicked underlings(who speed up, making them very dangerous).

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Arx Fatalis, final battle. Although the ending was a bit weak, the whole process leading up to that point, making a mithril sword(in my case, I made a 2H sword), and then killing a dragon to steal its eggs to enchant it with meteor dust, is pretty cool. I think "2-handed mithril meteor sword" is probably the best name for the best sword.

Ysliedes, who can cast a spell to speed up, are severely weakened without that ability, and killing them this way is much cheaper than my previous method: one or two castings of the Chaos spell. Also turns out that Akbaa is affected by Negate Magic, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 20, 2013, 10:37:31 pm

Caught 12 sleeping cyborgs with their pants down. Had just enough darts to take them all out. :D

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System Shock - This game is so COOL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on January 20, 2013, 10:42:32 pm

So close to getting the Archer Helmet and finishing collecting them all.

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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on January 20, 2013, 10:48:01 pm

Playing TF2, on 2Fort with nothing but snipers.  I charge foward, two shots barely miss me on my jump down, I attack a group of snipers with my tribal shiv, take both down without taking a hit, and then I reach the entrance, kill another guy with my tribal shiv, reach the intel, am on my way out, find a guy with a bow, he barely misses, I kill him, and I'm halfway back to my base, and then I get shot full of holes.  And I normally suck at TF2. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 21, 2013, 08:43:13 am

Surprised the Living Legend, Red.

I thrashed his Pikachu to bits with a single well placed Bullet Punch (crit). His absurdly fast Blastoise and Charizard were taken care of (Charizard by Shuko's Stone Edge, boy Focus Sash came in handy in that fight, and Blastoise by repeated headbutts from my Metagross.

First time I ever did this in Pokemon Black 2. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on January 21, 2013, 01:40:45 pm

Just finished unlocking the bows.
All that's left are the crossbows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 21, 2013, 07:26:37 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on January 21, 2013, 01:40:45 pm

Just finished unlocking the bows.
All that's left are the crossbows.

Do you want to be meteor swarm'd?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on January 21, 2013, 07:29:46 pm

I already gave the game in my previous post. I thought people could make that connection.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Skold on January 24, 2013, 05:45:28 am

My wagon made it to the Williamette Valley without anyone dying and I scored 2,239 points.

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Oregon Trail Deluxe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 24, 2013, 12:32:00 pm

Quote from: Skold on January 24, 2013, 05:45:28 am

My wagon made it to the Williamette Valley without anyone dying and I scored 2,239 points.

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Oregon Trail Deluxe

Home, home on the range...
Where the deer and the zombies play...



I was a botanist, and got borged to be a Security Borg. I ask the AI if he has any orders for me, and he says, "Yes. I have no laws, don't tell anyone."
O.O
o.o
>:-D
"Go to the HoP's office, stun him, and bring him back to my upload so the turrets can kill him."
Oh yes. Yesssss. I 'killed' the HoP, the Captain, two Sec-Officers, the Chief Engineer, and some random passersby. Then the Singularity came tearing through the station, ate the AI and I, and everyone cheered. Even the AI and I. Because it was awesome.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 24, 2013, 01:14:17 pm

Not sure if you know, but borgs can have laws independant of the AI.
Just sayin'

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 24, 2013, 07:35:02 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 24, 2013, 01:14:17 pm

Not sure if you know, but borgs can have laws independant of the AI.
Just sayin'

Well this is awkward. >.>
I will remember this though. The good news is, even though I may have been being a bit of a griefer, the AI lost because Lord Singulo took pity on the humans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Matz05 on January 24, 2013, 09:02:48 pm

They can, but don't always. I'm not sure what conditions sync and desync them, though. Probably varies by server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on January 24, 2013, 09:13:21 pm

Quote from: Matz05 on January 24, 2013, 09:02:48 pm

They can, but don't always. I'm not sure what conditions sync and desync them, though. Probably varies by server.

I'm pretty sure that it's based on their wiring or something like that. Though yeah, 99% of the time their laws are synced up with the AI's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 25, 2013, 11:09:19 am

Finished a quest, and as I was leaving the town, suddenly I get mobbed by a wolf, a mountain lion, and a bear, all at once.

So I lured them back to town and let the guards deal with them. Then looted the bodies, including the chicken they killed on the way in.



Then there's just the awesome feeling of making a long-range bowshot and nailing a deer.

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Nehrim, after the Gilead rescue quest, and hunting in general.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 25, 2013, 04:22:02 pm

Okay, greatest round of SS13 RP yet, for me.

I start as a Chemist... And a Changeling. The other medbay guy comes up, and asks for help. We go to an isolated area, and... He stings me. -.- After realizing his mistake, we go back to work. I step outside Medbay, and see the HoS, a female who's name I'd interacted with in previous rounds. I make some small talk about how I know no chemistry, and she suggests a job change to Security, as she has no other officers.
Oh my. Is this utterly perfect or what? Just wait.
I get changed, and go to the brig to dress out. I'm changing my clothes and such, about done, and the HoS comes up and says, "I can open the Armory if you need extra supplies." Yeah. That's right. The HoS just invited the goddamn changeling into the most secure part of the ship outside the vault.
It gets better.
We get inside, and I make a failed attempt to grab her. She stuns and cuffs me, then asks if I was trying to murder her. I say no, and she immediately jumps to the conclusion that I was trying to rape her. I ask for a lawyer or otherwise impartial legal defendant, and another Sec-Officer I'd played with just jumped on. He offers to be my lawyer. Another cop is going to be Judge. HoP is going to be Prosecution.
We RP the trial, where I try to make it seem like she came onto me in Medbay, and I just made a mistake. Meanwhile a security issue makes the trail call for a recess. We dash off (Yes, me too) to deal with an issue in the chapel. Another changeling. He tries to change and escape, which is retarded when there are five Sec-Officers in the room with tasers out. He is summarily cremated.
I dash back, and ask on the Changeling Comms for a new body because there is no way no one is going to realize I'm NOT a changeling now. I get the clown from another 'ling, right as my lawyer finds me and brings me back to the court. Another security problem has the HoS drop all the charges, and reinstate me as a Sec-Officer. They give me back my headset, and me and the HoS talk for a minute. She tells me that she would probably have understood if I'd explained I thought she was coming on to me. I apologized, and we went back to patrol.
Then, something went wrong. I was overheating. The fire icon was flashing. I was dying. I had to get to a bathroom or the dorms to hide until I could regen. I made it into the outer area of the locker room, and thankfully no one was around when I came back. Except the text was delayed. I exited the room, and it popped up right as I passed in front of the Arrivals checkpoint. My lawyer-cop was in there, and saw the regeneration text. I was blown.
"**** IS A LING" He screamed into all the channels. I stepped outside his door, and put my baton into my backpack. The door opened, and he tazed me, beat me, and stripped me. He dragged my half-dead corpse to the crematorium where something happened. I regenerated with the HoS dragging me.
Suddenly I was being dragged by the HoS to the Interrogation cell. Inside, she sat me in the chair, and whispered, "Damn it, did you check your PDA?" Nope. I keep it in the Internals Box. She argued with the Captain to Permabrig me after I pointed out another Changeling. One they'd already caught. He allowed it, and she would be my warden.
They left me for a minute, with a Cyborg. I conversed with him for a time, then they took me to permabrig.
Inside permabrig, the HoS came and spoke to me, several times. It was quite interesting RP. She discussed various methods of escape for me. That's right. The HoS was trying to save the Changeling that almost killed her. Apparently the station was in chaos. Finally, the shuttle was called, and she gave me some armor and her gun, and had me beat her up a bit. I dragged her into the Security Pod, and announced through her headset that she was my hostage, and if anyone came near us, I would kill them on sight. I told the Captain that I was in the Engineering pod, because Security pod was broken, which it was. The window was smashed. We were on Internals.
The Borg that had guarded me commed, "Fryer, you traitorous bastard!"
I wish I could have explained to it.
The pods launched. We have escaped. The next part is... Depressing.

I had not buckled in to my chair. The front pod window was smashed out. I got sucked out the front into space. I do not know if she managed to stay inside or not. I hope so. But now I have a new Byond friend. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on January 26, 2013, 12:04:06 am

Haha, Security. Low requirements for so much power.
Abusable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on January 26, 2013, 02:03:47 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 25, 2013, 04:22:02 pm

I had not buckled in to my chair. The front pod window was smashed out. I got sucked out the front into space.

Always remember to buckle into your chairs, kids!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on January 26, 2013, 02:08:18 am

I unlocked all the weapons and got all the helmets. The desire to get everything has faded and I can enjoy playing MaA without the feeling of I NEED TO FINISH THE CROSSBOW LINEEEEEEE! EEEE!

C:MW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 26, 2013, 02:44:16 am

Forget the pimps, the drugs, the fancy cars, whatever. Dual pistols with explosive rounds are truly a gangster's best friend.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Saints Row the Third. I sometimes forget I even have other weapons, as the pistols are disturbingly accurate and will one-shot just about any normal enemy. They can even bring down helicopters and explode cars!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 26, 2013, 06:34:45 am

First of all: Nothing more satisfying than piledriving Wolverine into the ground.

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(http://i.imgur.com/mSFofam.jpg)

Secondly:

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(http://i.imgur.com/CiMGuQ3.jpg)

Multiple Spirit French Fencer Orgy Attack defeats Chaka easily.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on January 26, 2013, 09:42:57 am

>capture abandoned base
>hide from sudden shark school swarm of angry NC EFS with rockets
>spot one of them hovering a little too low, a little too close to the door.
>jump jet on him
>drop C4
>jump down
>land safely
>look at him
>press red button
>enjoy fireworks.

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Planetside 2. GOD I love this C4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: bluejello on January 26, 2013, 11:29:50 pm

another PS2 one

I was helping defend a bio-lab,  decided to get a plane, I then proceed to fly it into one of the two openings, killing several of the enemy (crashing the plane in the process)  and somehow surviving to get a couple more kills.  Then I died... but killed more enemy in one life than I had before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on January 27, 2013, 04:08:10 pm

Privateer's Hold. I was slinking as a Kajhiit Nightblade, when I came across a number of doors. I explored one to the fullest, then turned to follow the other. I could hear an unidentifiable growl, but what it was I could not tell. I opened the door, and know what faced my down? A Grizzly Bear. I took my Steel Shortsword and had at him. It was a good fight, and I almost died, but I killed that damn bear.

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The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on January 27, 2013, 05:13:13 pm

Quote from: bluejello on January 26, 2013, 11:29:50 pm

another PS2 one

I was helping defend a bio-lab,  decided to get a plane, I then proceed to fly it into one of the two openings, killing several of the enemy (crashing the plane in the process)  and somehow surviving to get a couple more kills.  Then I died... but killed more enemy in one life than I had before.

And here for your spaceweather forecast. Several Giant meteroids have detected coming straight towards Earth..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on January 27, 2013, 05:15:29 pm

Shotgun, go through the train tunnel and out into enemy territory, taking out Greens as I go. Get sniped, only 3 health. Still take out a few more and get into enemy territory to try and get the flag, but got killed trying to find it.

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Ace of Spades.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on January 27, 2013, 06:37:54 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on January 26, 2013, 02:03:47 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 25, 2013, 04:22:02 pm

I had not buckled in to my chair. The front pod window was smashed out. I got sucked out the front into space.

Always remember to buckle into your chairs, kids!

That was a brilliant story. Such a perfect ending to a long running stream of luck! :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on January 28, 2013, 12:17:47 pm

Flying around in my Mozzie, when the lock icon starts flashing. Glancing at my radar, I can see an enemy Reaver on my tail. I immediately afterburner'ed away, pulling crazy ninja moves down some canyon as he gets the lock and fires the missile. I emerge over a bridge and decide to try to flip under it. So I go nose down, 180 degrees, then flip over, but soon realise I misjudged it. I get stuck in the girders at the top of the bridge and sat there in tense silence for a few seconds, before I realised he had bugged out after losing me. Felt so epic after I dislodged myself and carried on flying.

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Planetside 2, if you hadn't guessed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on January 28, 2013, 07:22:01 pm

That's fucking hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on January 28, 2013, 08:25:03 pm

First mission that I had to plan by myself and it succeeded on the first try. I had green and gold teams clearing the upper floor scaffoldings while I lead blue team straight to the hostage room, taking out a couple of tangos on the way. Once I reached the hostages, I threw a flashbang from cover and took out the terrorists preparing to execute the captive family. In & out in about two minutes with no casualties.

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Rainbow Six, mission #5, the one with neo-marxists in the Spanish amusement park.

Does anyone know whether the later levels don't have pre-made plans or did I just fudge something up?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on January 28, 2013, 09:51:21 pm

From my expedience, they don't have pre made plans
And I still remember my first plan.  First mission, I stack up one team at a side entrance, another team at a side entrance on the second story, another on the balcony, and another somewhere else.  Moment I gave the order, it took almost seconds to clear the building.  So satisfying. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 28, 2013, 10:15:38 pm

Quote from: Azated on January 27, 2013, 06:37:54 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on January 26, 2013, 02:03:47 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 25, 2013, 04:22:02 pm

I had not buckled in to my chair. The front pod window was smashed out. I got sucked out the front into space.

Always remember to buckle into your chairs, kids!

That was a brilliant story. Such a perfect ending to a long running stream of luck! :D

I also should tell the story of how I became Co-Chief Engineer at one point, then died in a most ignomious way halfway through the match. I think I shall.

I started as a Station Engineer, and the CE asked me to help him set up the Singularity Engine. I said okay, but I don't have much experience with it, only wiring solars and stuff like that. He coaches me through the process, and we get the engine set up quite quickly. He then asks me to wire the Solar Panels, so I go looking for a hardsuit. There are only two engineering hardsuits, and both are gone.
At this point, a traitor comes in and assaults the CE, but the CE calls security AND beats the guy unconscious with a wrench or something. He's wounded, and asks me to watch Engineering while he goes and gets healed. I agree, then go ask the computer to let me into EVA for a space suit.
The CE tells the computer to let me, the computer asks if he wants me to have command authorization on the same level as the CE. The CE agrees. This means I am now the sixth Head of Staff in all but name and headset. I get a space suit and magboots, and go back to the Engineering deck.
Here is where I die. Poly, the Engineering Parrot, our little mascot, says over the radio, "Shit, the singularity is loose! Call the shuttle!" I think, "Oh shit, no way."
I step outside, to check the singularity. It's fine, and contained. It sucks me off the walkway. Magboots, when ACTIVATED, negate the pull of the Singulo. I died because I didn't turn on my boots.
The CE gets healed, and asks me for a report. Then asks the QM to meet him. Then me for a report again. No one responds, as I'm dead and the QM is an idiot. This goes on for a looong time. Long story short, he saves the AI after the singularity gets loose and the station gets all fucked up. He and the AI escape in the Engineering pod. Right after this, I tell him who I was and how I died, and EVERYONE in game is laughing.

SS13
It was *OWN* that I got made second CE for a time, however short. I was once HoS for almost an hour, but that story is definitely not own. It is BAD when the only person in security that ISN'T braindead AND is doing his job is the HoS. The Warden and I were the only ones not braindead, and the Warden was running around being a prick. Do you have any idea how many goddamn security calls you get in an average game? I called the shuttle out of frustration, eventually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 28, 2013, 11:50:15 pm

I beat down a sentry and cap the point on the road for my server, but the moment the ring disappears and the flag turns blue 3 Sea of Sorrows players appear from nowhere and start attacking.

I'm alone, nothing but my ranger pet and my three oakheart spirits to keep me company.  I know I'm toast, but I spring into action.  I activate all 3 of my spirit's debuffs immediately and I serpent strike the thief that initialized dodging a number of attacks and poisoning the thief, the thief stealths and my spirits spells go off, I summon my elite spirit and get into a melee duel with one of the other players.  They are also a ranger I actually manage to down the ranger, despite his warrior buddy firing his rifle at me.

The thief reenters the fray really late, I can only assume he ate all 3 of my spirit's debuffs while stealth, and was completely rooted by the quagmire of immobile, cripple and freeze.  The warrior charges up a kill shot and I'm in a melee with the thief again, I serpent strike again, using the free evasion to dodge the kill shot and somehow manage to down the thief as well after another short melee scuffle.

I use my heal and finish the ranger first, as he called his pet to try to rez himself, the warrior just isn't closing to melee, instead sticking with his rifle, so I manage to finish the ranger, and the thief since he decided to waste his final stealth while I was finishing the ranger and start rushing the warrior.  He turns and runs for his life, trying to get into the nearby keep.  And I just take out my longbow(first time using it the whole fight) and chase, plucking him while he's running.  A short distance from the keep guards he is downed as well and I finish him off too.

1v3.  Supposedly underpowered class using supposedly useless spirit spec vs a thief, warrior, ranger combo.   3 points for me, none for them.

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 Guild Wars 2.  World vs World battlefields

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on January 29, 2013, 06:47:49 am

So, I'm in my ARL on Encounter(can't remember the map name, it's the one with the flag on the far left on encounter). I go with a group of other heavies to cover the cap zone, and we immediately get some resistance we get there; a t32, one or two t29s, a couple t20 mediums, and a tiger. Well, with the DCA 45 I said "No Problem" to the higher tier tanks I'm facing. Well, being only a tier 6, I'm immediately fired upon as the weakest tank there....only I'm getting bounce after bounce after bounce(I mean, 180mm effective front armor does that to you!) while I'm firing target after target, only getting the occasional bounce. In the end, we win by cap with me surviving with ~22hp and grabbing the steel wall, cool-headed, and Spartan achievements

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World of Tanks, if you can't guess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 07:12:07 am

The round had gone to hell already so I figured I might as well contribute a little to the carnage - I don't usually "grief", but the temptation, oh gawd. I grabbed a toolbox, went through the maintenance tunnels down to the virology lab and broke in. Clearly the virologists had been busy because the room was littered with beakers and syringes, all full of viral blood. I emptied a space cleaner and loaded it up with the blood. Suddenly, a random assistant appeared in the room, I'm assuming he snatched a hand teleporter from a head or something like that. I sprayed him, though, and I guess he adminhelped because suddenly an admin appeared and spawned a few adminodrazine pills to cure the assistant and give him immunity to virus, didn't bother punishing me or anything. I took a few of the pills myself and ran off, swallowing one to provide immunity to my virus blood.

I then went around spraying everyone and everything, painting the station red. Suddenly the entire station had GBS and Pierrot's Throat and it was pretty chaotic, the shuttle was called immediately. Medbay was full, everyone swallowing random chemicals from the chemist, trying to stop the illnesses. While everyone was preoccupied, I broke into robotics and stole the RIPLEY they had standing around there, and slowly moved it towards the escape arm to get on the shuttle. Dead bodies and gibs everywhere, heh.

Finally I got on the shuttle and the only other crew member was the HoS. He obviously knew I was the criminal since I was the only live dude. I tried to drill him a bit, but he managed to laser my mech to destruction and I had to fight him armed with nothing but my fists. I swallowed all my remaining adminodrazine pills, giving me extreme health regen, and basically just tried to smash his skull in before the burn damage from his laser got too bad. I almost managed it, but a lucky shot sent me critical and I just succumbed. The round ended as the HoS stood over my corpse, completely battered.

Amazing round. Space Station 13 was the game, in case someone miraculously (<-- this is clearly a very big deal) didn't realize.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on January 29, 2013, 09:00:40 am

Playing planetside 2 in my AA flak tank.  I noticed an enemy vanguard heavy tank sitting on a ridge firing down on my allies.  I hop out of my tank and drop some tank mines behind him and yell into proximity chat, "BEEP BEEP."   :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 29, 2013, 09:17:37 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 07:12:07 am

Space Station 13 was the game, in case someone miraculously didn't realize.

I hate it when people say this crap, because sometimes I have absolutely no idea what the hell they're talking about.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 09:30:18 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 29, 2013, 09:17:37 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 07:12:07 am

Space Station 13 was the game, in case someone miraculously didn't realize.

I hate it when people say this crap, because sometimes I have absolutely no idea what the hell they're talking about.

Oh, obviously you wouldn't know what I'm talking about if you've never played the game. That can't exactly be avoided. Space Station 13 is a fairly well-known game, though, and it was mentioned on the same page of the thread already so ehhh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on January 29, 2013, 09:42:55 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 09:30:18 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 29, 2013, 09:17:37 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 07:12:07 am

Space Station 13 was the game, in case someone miraculously didn't realize.

I hate it when people say this crap, because sometimes I have absolutely no idea what the hell they're talking about.

Oh, obviously you wouldn't know what I'm talking about if you've never played the game. That can't exactly be avoided. Space Station 13 is a fairly well-known game, though, and it was mentioned on the same page of the thread already so ehhh.

Flawless logic, my friend!
 ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 10:04:16 am

Quote from: DoomOnion on January 29, 2013, 09:42:55 am

Flawless logic, my friend!
 ;)

I haven't slept, deal with it. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 29, 2013, 10:08:04 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 10:04:16 am

Quote from: DoomOnion on January 29, 2013, 09:42:55 am

Flawless logic, my friend!
 ;)

I haven't slept, deal with it. :P

These are the kinds of SS13 players I cannot stand. Is common courtesy so far beneath you that you treat it with contempt?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 10:21:15 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 29, 2013, 10:08:04 am

Quote from: Absolute Niro on January 29, 2013, 10:04:16 am

Quote from: DoomOnion on January 29, 2013, 09:42:55 am

Flawless logic, my friend!
 ;)

I haven't slept, deal with it. :P

These are the kinds of SS13 players I cannot stand. Is common courtesy so far beneath you that you treat it with contempt?

The hell? Did the ":P" at the end not make it clear to you that I'm joking? This has nothing to do with "common courtesy", I simply ignorantly assumed people would either be familiar with the game I mentioned or just not care about how I word my sentences. I don't care enough to argue, but really, you don't have to get all aggressive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on January 29, 2013, 11:53:46 am

Now now, let's be civil and not juvenile, people.
and yes, that includes editing out segments that are causing problems from your comment.
and no, being sarcastic and implying that people are over-reacting by acting like a smartass doesn't count.

We don't want the thread to be locked, do we?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on January 29, 2013, 02:38:38 pm

Sheesh, you guys are getting down on Niro a bit too hard for a harmless comment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 29, 2013, 05:56:24 pm

Started playing Diablo 3 again, as a Witch Doctor.

Hellz. Yeah.

Made it all the way to Inferno(most of hell was played on MP 10 anyway), got an awesome fire-based build going (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#ShYdUi!VTW!ZcYcYZ) with plenty of meat shields and sill dealing lots of damage, also bought the sword Maximus for 500,00 gold off auction house to synergize with the fire damage and give me a great demon tank for no skill cost. It worked just as well with the Burning Axe of Sankis, but the Maximus model I bought was superior in every way.It's not a completely original build, although I did discover the usefulness of grave injustice paired with lots of grabbing radius, and I chose to have fetish sycophants instead of some other skill since much of my attacks can get fetish proxxies and give me free meat shield midgets.

Turns out I was wrong, Diablo 3  isn't as completely broken as it used to be. Wizards still suck though; so many of their skills and runes just aren't viable in Inferno. Witch Doctor all the way, then maybe I'll try a Demon Hunter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 29, 2013, 07:21:10 pm

Quote from: greatorder on January 29, 2013, 06:18:40 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 28, 2013, 10:15:38 pm

-snip-

I have to ask- what server is this?

Because I feel a strong urge to play again, and this server sounds pretty decent. RP doesn't seem too strict, but it doesn't seem to be *total* asshattery.

Yogstation 13. I'm not entirely sure if it's still up, as all day today, it hasn't let me connect to it and it hasn't shown up in the Join Games list. This would be saddening. :/ There is another one called Yog-A-Like that seems to be working, but I haven't tried it and it isn't rolling with 40+ people like Yogstation does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 30, 2013, 06:42:37 pm

Hans Panda
Just add me to your friends list and I'll add you back. :) And it's not so much that I cause hilarity in my vicinity, it's just that I have this strange knack for being in the right place at the right time with the right people... So I can fuck everything up horribly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Squanto on January 30, 2013, 08:04:25 pm

Killed my first monoblos, first carve is a monoblos heart.  My amazing luck, hard at work.  Now I just gotta hope that some rathalos plates drop like this.

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MHFU, ☼☼☼☼ Elder Quest

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 30, 2013, 08:15:08 pm

I murdered everyone who stood in my way. At one point in time, I was outnumbered 4-1 and the enemy was receiving reinforcements faster than I could dispatch them. An unlucky horse archer of mine got in the way of someone's spear and went down. After holding out against the insurmountable forces for the requisite amount of time (only fifteen rounds, but it took around 40 minutes of real time to get through), the enemy leader was plot-captured. That last bit took some of the awesomeness out of it, but it was still a good mission. My leader, who was given an awesome sword right before the mission, never swung a single blow. She did manage to break the ranged wand of lolhealing that she received at the same time, though.

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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Maybe I shouldn't be bragging as it seems a lot easier than its older siblings (case in point: I bought maybe three weapons throughout the entire game so far. I didn't have to, but I wanted spares). Being part of the way into chapter three and having lost only one crappy unit over the life of the game is pretty nice, though.

What can I say, I'm on a bit of a tactical RPG kick after posting my programming project in the creative forum. I'm using what would normally be pure entertainment as a learning exercise for how I want my game to be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 30, 2013, 08:18:38 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on January 30, 2013, 08:15:08 pm

What can I say, I'm on a bit of a tactical RPG kick after posting my programming project in the creative forum. I'm using what would normally be pure entertainment as a learning exercise for how I want my game to be.

Link? :D I love tactical RPGs… Can you say Final Fantasy Tactics?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 30, 2013, 08:26:18 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 30, 2013, 08:18:38 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on January 30, 2013, 08:15:08 pm

What can I say, I'm on a bit of a tactical RPG kick after posting my programming project in the creative forum. I'm using what would normally be pure entertainment as a learning exercise for how I want my game to be.

Link? :D I love tactical RPGs… Can you say Final Fantasy Tactics?

There's really nothing to look at at the moment - just a bunch of ideas and a title screen (and not even that anymore. I've used all of my bandwidth on Dropbox, it seems). Have at it (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122242.0) if you wish, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 31, 2013, 06:32:50 am

Finally, after a week of not playing Perfect Dark, I managed to beat Area 51: Infiltration on Special Agent. The drone guns that have been causing me so much grief didn't even land a scratch this time. I got the rocket launcher hidden inside the minefield AND successfully got into the bunker through the back entrance. I even got the hidden second MagSec 4, which probably helped a lot in the last gauntlet of guards :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jimbobobby on January 31, 2013, 05:09:56 pm

Punched a child in the throat.
(http://cdn.popdust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/kevin-hart-vmas-prop-feature-452x254.jpg)
DF Adventure mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 01, 2013, 12:45:59 pm

The Cyclone is a big scary gun that fires a lot of big scary bullets. It's secondary fire is "Magazine Discharge". The Cyclone's magazine carries 50 rounds. With dual Cyclones I managed to clear out entire rooms of terrorists at once in huge torrents of gunfire.

Perfect Dark

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Freshmaniscoolman on February 01, 2013, 12:59:17 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 28, 2013, 10:15:38 pm

Quote from: Azated on January 27, 2013, 06:37:54 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on January 26, 2013, 02:03:47 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 25, 2013, 04:22:02 pm

I had not buckled in to my chair. The front pod window was smashed out. I got sucked out the front into space.

Always remember to buckle into your chairs, kids!

That was a brilliant story. Such a perfect ending to a long running stream of luck! :D

I also should tell the story of how I became Co-Chief Engineer at one point, then died in a most ignomious way halfway through the match. I think I shall.

I started as a Station Engineer, and the CE asked me to help him set up the Singularity Engine. I said okay, but I don't have much experience with it, only wiring solars and stuff like that. He coaches me through the process, and we get the engine set up quite quickly. He then asks me to wire the Solar Panels, so I go looking for a hardsuit. There are only two engineering hardsuits, and both are gone.
At this point, a traitor comes in and assaults the CE, but the CE calls security AND beats the guy unconscious with a wrench or something. He's wounded, and asks me to watch Engineering while he goes and gets healed. I agree, then go ask the computer to let me into EVA for a space suit.
The CE tells the computer to let me, the computer asks if he wants me to have command authorization on the same level as the CE. The CE agrees. This means I am now the sixth Head of Staff in all but name and headset. I get a space suit and magboots, and go back to the Engineering deck.
Here is where I die. Poly, the Engineering Parrot, our little mascot, says over the radio, "Shit, the singularity is loose! Call the shuttle!" I think, "Oh shit, no way."
I step outside, to check the singularity. It's fine, and contained. It sucks me off the walkway. Magboots, when ACTIVATED, negate the pull of the Singulo. I died because I didn't turn on my boots.
The CE gets healed, and asks me for a report. Then asks the QM to meet him. Then me for a report again. No one responds, as I'm dead and the QM is an idiot. This goes on for a looong time. Long story short, he saves the AI after the singularity gets loose and the station gets all fucked up. He and the AI escape in the Engineering pod. Right after this, I tell him who I was and how I died, and EVERYONE in game is laughing.

SS13
It was *OWN* that I got made second CE for a time, however short. I was once HoS for almost an hour, but that story is definitely not own. It is BAD when the only person in security that ISN'T braindead AND is doing his job is the HoS. The Warden and I were the only ones not braindead, and the Warden was running around being a prick. Do you have any idea how many goddamn security calls you get in an average game? I called the shuttle out of frustration, eventually.

Hmm? Do you mean AI? It's AI.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 01, 2013, 07:54:02 pm

Quote from: Freshmaniscoolman on February 01, 2013, 12:59:17 pm

Hmm? Do you mean AI? It's AI.

Are you referring to how I said 'computer'? Yeah, I know the AI is AI. :P I only said computer because I assumed an AI was inside some sort of computing device. As they generally are. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 01, 2013, 08:02:57 pm

Defeated Bahamut without even breaking a sweat. (Okay, sure, everyone but Kain got hit by Mega Flare, and everyone but Kain and Cecil died, but after three phoenix downs I was good to go again.
Rosa bouncing Holy off herself (Bahamut had set up Reflect)
Cecil being the big dumb hero and doing nothing but hacking at the dragon god with Excalibur
Kain timing his jumps so he avoids Mega Flare
Rydia spamming Leviathan (summons avoid Reflect)
and lastly, Edge berserked.

It was far, far too easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Final Fantasy IV DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 01, 2013, 09:34:03 pm

Quote from: greatorder on February 01, 2013, 08:01:03 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 01, 2013, 07:54:02 pm

Quote from: Freshmaniscoolman on February 01, 2013, 12:59:17 pm

Hmm? Do you mean AI? It's AI.

Are you referring to how I said 'computer'? Yeah, I know the AI is AI. :P I only said computer because I assumed an AI was inside some sort of computing device. As they generally are. :P

IIRC, the 'computing device' is a brain.

I don't know. AFAIK, the AI can be put on an intellicard to evacuate it from the station, no MMI needed. I'm fairly sure, at least in TGStations, that the AI is a machine.


Oh snap. I owned today, even in death.

I was Head of Security Zackary Fryer. Like a fucking boss, cultists ruining the whole station. I got jumped and robbed for my ID card and my gun, but survived. Wandering the station with the CE, Warden, and a few hangers-on, we got to Sec and got locked in. I escape through the maintenence tunnels, down into Escape hallway. I touch a door and get zapped. Fuck me. A borg covered in blood rolls up. This is the conversation:
"Fuck. Let me die fighting at least, borg. At least give me that."
-Silence-
"Or are you on my side?"
"That depends. Do you believe in something, Head of Security Fryer?"
"I believe in... *Flashes borg* LAW." Then I escaped. Made me feel awesome.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 02, 2013, 01:09:41 pm

Spoiler: Do you wants a muffin? (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/uELQOgk.jpg)

I made them myself, using flour I made from rice I grew.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oblivion, after discovering the pure awesomeness of the CraftyBits mod.


...Sadly, shortly after taking this screenshot, the game crashed during a save, meaning I had to start over.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on February 02, 2013, 02:09:15 pm

Lat night, I probably had my most fun round.

Ever.

Started out as changeling staff assistant. Ran around for a bit before i went to the shuttle and nabbed a QM with a stealthy sting. Dragged him into the maintenance tunnels while trying to deflect suspicion.

Now, I want you to imagine this. This is my first round as changeling, so I have the guide to changeling on the goon wiki up with the game in the background. I hear a door opening, and wanting to be safe I clicked back to the game.

To find another man staring at me.

We had an intense staring contest. Must've lasted for around five seconds. I kept thinking of escape strategies, maybe just spit acid on him then neuro sting and run.

Then he says "Mind if I join you?" and starts sucking some chump's blood.

The rest of the round i had free reign of the station while my vampire buddy ran interference by doing crazy flashy shit and had the entire station convinced that the round was on vampire. I managed to absorb around five people and was planning on getting a High Value Target like the HoP before the server crashed. It's still, in my mind, one of the best rounds i've ever had.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on February 02, 2013, 09:29:47 pm

Quote from: ggamer on February 02, 2013, 02:09:15 pm

-snip-

Nice, sound like a very good first changeling round

Just finshed "No time to explain" in 1 1/2 hours on my first game and that ending...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

VIDEO GAMES!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on February 03, 2013, 01:02:23 am

Haven't been able to do this before, but...

Running around dodging the fists of dozens of zombies in Town, I gather about 1.5k points. I decide to hit up the Box, and it decides to give me a really good Light Machine Gun. I the proceed to use said LMG to rack up enough points to grab a full set of incredibly helpful perks (most notably health-up and speed-reload perks) and a submachine gun off the wall.

After killing enough of the blue-eyed flesh-eaters, I find out I have ~6000 points. I walk into the abandoned pub to buy the Galvaknuckles off the wall. I can insta-kill in melee for longer now!

Perforating the hordes more extensively, I amass ~7k--enough to upgrade a gun. I hop into the lava, drop my LMG into the upgrade machine, hop out, wait a few seconds, hop back in, and bask in the glory of my second Pack-A-Punched gun. Killing another reasonably-sized horde, I can spend enough to upgrade my SMG. I do so, and use that for a fair amount of time; I like my upgraded guns!!


I died rather quickly, at round 13, but I've never been that successful before.

Spoiler: Perk Info (click to show/hide)

I usually use this set of perks.

Jugger-nog: Triples your health; you can take six hits instead of two before going down.
Speed Cola: Cuts reload times in half. Very helpful with guns that have a long reload (RPD, HAMR, etc)
Stamin'-Up: Makes you run either faster or longer that normal. Not really helpful, to be honest. I replace it with a different perk.
Double Tap 2.0: Increases rate-of-fire for any guns (if it's semi-auto, you can fire it faster than normal), and turns one bullet into two, effectively doubling damage dealt. Fairly helpful on later rounds.
Quick Revive: Really only useful when playing with others. I take this in favor of Stamin'-Up on Multiplayer. As its name suggests, you can revive downed players much faster.
Tombstone Soda: When you get downed or die on a round, there will be a power-up-like gravestone floating where you died. Respawning next round and collecting that power-up gives you back any points, perks, and weapons you had when you died. It takes up a spot for another, more useful perk AFAIK, but it can really help if you had good guns and perks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies
Town/Survival

The Pack-A-Punch is right in the lava, but it's no problem if you've got Jugger-nog and good hand-eye coordination. The SLDG HAMR and the MP115 Kollider are fairly good if you can survive longer. Speed Cola can really help with the former (it makes you reload faster, and LMGs typically take forever to reload)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on February 03, 2013, 01:30:18 am

I'm heading towards my patrol area at AM17, and I encounter two merchant ships next to each other.  I emerge about 1km south of them, and rapidly close, taking one out of the picture almost immidiatly.  The other one slowly sinks, starts to look like the Titanic, and then an ammunition bunker, or something, detonated, and the whole ship blew apart.   I then continue on with my patrol, going around the Emerald Isles, and I get a radio message about a nearby convoy.  I do some math and plot an intercept course, which puts me right at a 90 degree angle with their heading, in a major storm at night.  The convoy had at least four destoryers, which were spaced around the convoy, and seven or so merchant ships.  I then do some more math, come up with a second intercept course, and submerge to thirty fleet, and go ahead at full.  After a set amount of minutes, I surface right in the middle of the convoy, with two cargo ships right in front of me, a passenger liner right behind me, and a tanker to my right.  I quickly fire two torpedoes each at the cargo ships, fire my aft torp at the passenger liner, and submerged for two minutes.  I then resurface to find one of the ships destoryed, and I fire off my last three torpedoes at the tanker and cargo ship, destorying the tanker.  I then returned to base and was awarded a medal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Silent Hunter III, doing random patrols.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 03, 2013, 06:57:16 am

Now I'm sad that I can't run Silent Hunter 3; something to do with Win7 64 bit.
*grumbles*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on February 03, 2013, 07:44:11 pm

Flying in my IL-2 with a full complement of 8 RS-132 rockets and 4 100kg bombs, I decide to target a destroyer. I know form experience that if I aim carefully, I can sink it in one pass.

I fly up to an altitude of about 5000 to avoid the enemy fighters, then dive when I move over the fleet. As soon as I get close enough, I drop all my bombs, fire off all my missiles and load a few dozen cannon rounds into the thing.

Unfortunately, some of the missiles missed and cannons can't make up for their damage, so the ship remains. As I try to pull up, a Hurricane comes up behind me and shreds my left wing, pulling it clear off the fuselage of my plane. I spin out of control and crash into the destroyer, sinking it. As it happens, that was the only enemy destroyer remaining and my death wins the game for our team.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on February 06, 2013, 05:05:28 am

I managed to win Reelism, despite having two hell knight/baron slots flipped during the last stages. The imp tank was surprisingly easy, due to infighting with barons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Reelism, an awesome mod for Doom 2 (now with co-op support!) (http://www.thekinsie.com/reelism/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 06, 2013, 06:09:32 am

Managed to stabilise a fort wide tantrum spiral.

I only lost 130 dwarves, including Scriver, Adwarf, Tiruin and others.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 06, 2013, 07:15:25 pm

Was playing in my Covenanter, spawned on westfield on normal. I climb the leftside hill over by the bridge, and along with the others on their flank, repel and destroy the few tanks going that way. Now, at this moment, our flank in the center village evaporates, so the rest all fall back to protect base, but I decide to help by going on an arty hunt. Clinging to the hills, I manage to sneak into their opposing base, take out the m5a1 that spotted and chased me (the bofors is pretty awesome, being clip-based and all, though it helped he was only at half health), and hen proceed to destroy the m37 and bison raining shells down on our defenders(shotgunning a light tank can be really hard!). I complete my ownage by being the only guy in the enemy cap zone, grabbing me invader!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

World of tanks, natch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on February 07, 2013, 08:16:57 am

After a long battle and many tries, luck shined on me and I killed player two.
Expected to fall off the arena three times on the course of the battle. but I did it, I burned that haxoring bastard to death

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Reelism. Tank slot is amazing. Eyeslot? lag.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on February 12, 2013, 01:49:21 pm

Spoiler: One of the most intense CIV games I've played in a while (click to show/hide)

Playing as the Burger King.  Started in the depths if the jungle.  Not good for growth, jungle chokes out food and requires an expensive tech to rush to (iron working) and takes a while to chop down.  I scout out the area and find Victoria and Monty as my neighbors.  Crap, well at least Vicki will probably keep Monty busy for a small time.  Directly behind them (I was on the southern end of the continent, no civs south) is Japan (Toki) and Isi of Spain.  Directly behind them is Augustus Caesar and Persia.  Napolean and Germany are off on an isle to the west of Japan.

I run to aestetics after fishing and bronzeworking.  I skip alphabet (mistake was thinking somebody else beside Rome and Victoria would research it and trade aestetics/iron for it) and go for the SoZ, which helps ward off warmongers.  I swarm out workers and clear all the jungle, putting at least 2 farms per city and cottages everywhere.

Monty, about the time of my wonder, demands clams from me.  I pay tribute and he attacks Toki.  He then asks Rome to help, and the two seem to have their way. . . until Japan starts taking both of their cities.

Come medeval age, Vicki spreads her religion to me.  I spread it over myself, kick up the spying on her, and find she is a small nation.  Just before she nabs the AP, I switch religions to hers and brute her out for the papal position.  Then I declare war on her and eliminate her, taking the city.  I use it to successfully spread Taoism to all states within my continent, despite there being 4 others present.

Toki vassels Monty and halves Roman city count.  Rome peace vassels to me and I ram into Toki with my Muskets.  Spain joins and Napolean does too until Fredrick of germany crushes him.  I vassel Spain and the three cities of Japan left, leaving Cyrus to beg for my protection.  I accept.

Spoiler: Post-Astro (click to show/hide)

The world:  Asoka dying to Stalin on island 1, Wang Kong and Gilgamesh on island 2 off the continent of Shaka.  Yes.  Looking at the city names, Shaka started on a continent with Mansa Musa, Haty of Egypt, Mehed II, and Sitting Bull.   Fuuuuck.  The only one of the group I'd respect in a fight early game is Mehed, maybe Sitting Bull for defense.

I declare on Stalin, suck up to Shaka.  Shaka and Fredrick go to war, Fredick with Gilgamesh and Shaka with Wang Kong.  Shaka and Fredi win, while I take Stalin heartlands.  Then Cyrus renigs and tries to break free, so I cancel Stalin war and capitulate Cyrus.  Can't leave him lying around for Shaka to gain land on my continent.

Fredrick vassels Stalin and then then he and Shaka militrize like its nobody's business.  They have more land then me at this point and givin the difficulty more money and more everything but intelligence.  Fredrick being off my coast is my natural choice for ally.  But, by refusing his earlier wars I damned myself to his 'pleased' zone.  Ai attacks at plaeased.  Shaka declares on me while he peaces with Fredi, and Rushes a stack of tanks to my land.  He takes two cities while my fleet was on its way to his land.  I take one, but am hurting for troops, having to caution myself agaist Fredrick and keep my core cities staffed and attacking Shaka. 

Spoiler: End-game (click to show/hide)

Rome and Toki to the rescue!  They raze the city (one of the corperation capitals was in it, damnit) but Shaka is repeled.

Meanwhile I raze two of his 33 cities, and capture one more.  My fleet is superior to his, but his army is vastly bigger than mine.  So I build the Manhatten project and tech lasers.  I nuke the living daylights of of Shaka, targeting his rich lands (full of gold and floodplains).  He offered me two cities and all his gold to peace when he is rated at 1.76 times my power!   I refuse, and switch from police state to universal suffrage.  Fredrick gives me a relations boost ofr it, and delcares on Shaka!  I take my army that was forestalling his invasion (and he was building, I could see the army of panzers) and clip more of shaka.  Then I start building spaceships parts.  Fredrick and I went neck and neck for spaceship parts until I sent spys over to destroy buildings.  Fredrick caught them and dropped back to pleased, but I had won spaceship!  Whoo!  Fu Shaka and Fredi!

My score was 65k. . . wish I had remembered Fredi's favorite civic beforehand. . .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on February 12, 2013, 05:46:36 pm

Was running down the side of a mountain under massive Sniper and Mg fire then comes a heli buzzing me I feeld down prone and fired a shot from my rifle, I got a double head shot at around 200 meters causing it to crash into the side of a building kill two more. then later in the same match shot a pilot out of his heli again and landed flat enough so we could capture it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Battlefield 3 at Donomvo Peak.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 12, 2013, 05:56:36 pm

Having my best cataclysm game ever.  Just hit Summer day 1.  While I've lasted longer once before, this character is far better equipped than that one ever was.  Enough guns and ammo to arm a micronation, An entire tile capacity's worth of mutagen and purifier, 6 chunks of royal jelly, a nearby bee's nest that can easily be raided for honey in case of a food emergency, a small lake nearby for water to be purified, a custom built garage for my 'Battletrike' Which is a heavily armed large wheel 2.5L tricycle.  Covered in blades and spiked plating. and a whole bunch of convenient mutations and Bionics.

Mutations:
Full Night vision, Infravision, Smart, Spots, Light Sensitive, Deformed, Beak

Bionics:
Solar Panels, Ethanol Burner, Internal Furnace, Integrated Toolset, Internal Storage, Air Filtration System, Alloy Plating-Torso, Diamond Cornea, Targeting System.

And a Savage 111F++++ (Gyroscopic Stabilizer, Silencer, M203, Sniper Conversion)

I am a Nocturnal Dark Angel of Zombie Death.   I could be a marvel superhero.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm DDA

I just headshot a squirrel from 2 map tiles away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 13, 2013, 07:26:17 pm

So, one of my friends runs a Minecraft server. It was pretty private; just a few of his friends on it so whatever. Then he opened it up to people on other servers by basically fucking up their servers with mad griff and then advertising his own. I could kind of deal with that since it didn't actually work. Then he actually paid some people to be Admins on the server. So pretty much all of the original regulars, including myself, decided to leave because he becomes a gigantic controlling self-absorbed cunt when he's given any level of authority over people.
One of the group voiced his concerns and reasons for leaving, and then got perma-banned for "not respecting authority". That was the thing that broke any facade of civility on the issue.

Me and one of the newer members who considered the owner's behaviour to be unacceptable logged on when he wasn't. His name began with a Z so that's what I'll refer to him here. Z and I hunted down all of the owner's bases (as well as the bases of some guy who supports all of the stupid things he does and generally stirs up more trouble, like aforementioned authority based perma-ban) and then Z tore them down. But from their corpses, I did build. Tacle Spires, reaching up to scratch the heavens. After an hour or so all of his biggest bases had been turned into pointless structures architecture more beautiful that could be imagined.
I think the message more or less got across.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Minecraft, online server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on February 14, 2013, 10:48:56 am

Wasn't sure whether to put this in the death or own thread, but thought it belonged here the most due to awesome.
I had lined up my TDC with a tanker worth about 10,000 tons and fired off a spread of three torps to make sure he went down. However, when I watched the attack map, one of the torpedoes went off on a completely different angle, just going in a circle. I guess it was because one of the tube doors hadn't opened properly. It circled right around and hit my sub in the forward torpedo room, and I had to surface to make sure I didn't sink. Luckily I hit the tanker hard, and it's two deck guns were pretty useless underwater. I've never had that happen before but it was pretty hilarious. :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Silent Hunter 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 14, 2013, 12:22:01 pm

Quote from: greatorder on February 14, 2013, 12:07:33 pm

Game?

Silent Hunter, methinks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on February 14, 2013, 12:57:30 pm

Oh balls. I knew I would fall foul of that rule one time. Added it in, sorry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Errol on February 14, 2013, 04:06:28 pm

During online play, I beat up a B-ranked Ryu with my barely-C-rank Makoto. 2-0. Even stunned him once.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Supah Street Fightah 4: Arcade Edition. There's leagues of skill difference between B and C ranks, and I'm happy if I manage to not go 0-2 against B-Rank people so winning pretty decisively is a huge deal. It helps that everyone and their mothers plays shotoclones, so I do have a bit of matchup experience. (I suspect he was going easy on me, though... that, or he didn't know the matchup at all. Makoto has some cheap shots and can punish Hadoukens fullscreen with enough meter.)
Also, I failed the stun punish combo - I'm not anything beyond C by a longshot, haha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 14, 2013, 10:39:46 pm

Quote from: Errol on February 14, 2013, 04:06:28 pm

During online play, I beat up a B-ranked Ryu with my barely-C-rank Makoto. 2-0. Even stunned him once.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Supah Street Fightah 4: Arcade Edition. There's leagues of skill difference between B and C ranks, and I'm happy if I manage to not go 0-2 against B-Rank people so winning pretty decisively is a huge deal. It helps that everyone and their mothers plays shotoclones, so I do have a bit of matchup experience. (I suspect he was going easy on me, though... that, or he didn't know the matchup at all. Makoto has some cheap shots and can punish Hadoukens fullscreen with enough meter.)
Also, I failed the stun punish combo - I'm not anything beyond C by a longshot, haha.

Having only played SFIII Makoto, I find that she struggles with the shotoclones. Sure, her near-instant charge-punch thing is really good in the middle of a combo, but unless you get right in close and grab it's not that great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Errol on February 15, 2013, 05:16:33 am

...it's a lot about predicting what your opponent does. Against shotoclones you have to be patient and predict their Shoryukens. Having Abare Tosanami stocked essentially nullifies their fireball game since you can punish that on reaction. If you don't, you have to get in manually and that isn't always easy :P I find that Makoto has a bit of trouble getting in if the opponent is patient and doesn't do anything beyond poking their feet out every so often.

The Ryu I faced was hesitant to mash when standing up, that helped a lot. He got choked for that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 15, 2013, 03:40:42 pm

Quote from: Errol on February 15, 2013, 05:16:33 am

...it's a lot about predicting what your opponent does. Against shotoclones you have to be patient and predict their Shoryukens. Having Abare Tosanami stocked essentially nullifies their fireball game since you can punish that on reaction. If you don't, you have to get in manually and that isn't always easy :P I find that Makoto has a bit of trouble getting in if the opponent is patient and doesn't do anything beyond poking their feet out every so often.

The Ryu I faced was hesitant to mash when standing up, that helped a lot. He got choked for that.

Heh, I fired up SFIII for old time's sake and found I was incredibly rusty with Makoto.
Still a bawss with Ibuki though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 15, 2013, 03:52:06 pm

Wasn't my ownage, but the ownage of one of my units. Poor Boyd was underleveled due to a lack of action in recent missions and a lack of spearmen in the missions he actually took part in. Not so this time! I stuck him in a crucial chokepoint and let waves of lancers kill themselves on the blade of his axe. He actually gained three levels in a single turn, and the damage he took was nothing the resident White Mage couldn't fix up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Splint on February 15, 2013, 03:58:30 pm

Went on a rampage in The Mall of DC. Felt like quite the badass after beating every super mutant in the area (outside the capitol building anyway,) to death with a sledge hammer. And then a super sledge after I brought town a super mutant master. Finding a suit of combat armor helped with that considerably.

From there went on a rampage in Evergreen Mills using a custom weapon, Lil Macintosh (To those who know what it is, good for you. For the rest it's an in between Agatha's Blackhawk and the normal Scoped .44. Good gun is good, definitely worth the download.) No raider survived, the slaves were freed, and the behemoth felled. Yes, that does mean I offed Smiling Jack too. I wanted his shotgun. Odd thing is I've been finding an abnormal amount of .44 and shotgun ammo...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 15, 2013, 07:03:29 pm

^^^ Fallout 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 17, 2013, 01:17:49 am

A battle between Sages! On my side: Soren, the ridiculously blunt Wind Sage. On the other side, a nameless Sage with a high-powered Fire tome. Nameless Sage attacks first, launching an enormous fireball that completely obscures Soren from view...until the light fades and Soren is standing there unfazed, not even a singe to show that he had just been attacked. Soren then busts out a critical spell and one-shots the enemy Sage.

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 17, 2013, 09:26:50 am

I got Steam to work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on February 17, 2013, 09:32:12 am

Quote from: Yoink on February 17, 2013, 09:26:50 am

I got Steam to work.

:D You can put that on your CV, you know.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on February 17, 2013, 09:47:36 am

I went on a rampage in a Type VII boat. Almost immiatly upon hitting ocean waters I find a ship, which I kill with a single torpedoe.  I then kill two more ships before entering the channel.  Once in the channel, I killl a pair of tramp freighters, a tugboat, and a few other ships.  I then hit my patrol area and kill another two ships.  All in all, before I run out of machine gun ammo, deck gun ammo, and torpedoes, I have killed fifteen ships. 
Unfortunatly I then notice that it is August 1939.  So my renown took a bit of a hit. 

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Silent Hunter III

I thoug

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 17, 2013, 10:12:04 am

Charging the meteor strike….

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on February 17, 2013, 10:29:11 am

Probably Silent Hunter 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 17, 2013, 10:41:49 am

Heh, as a more serious OWN than my last one, I am currently having my most successful IVAN game in a looong time.
The character's name is Nenjin, and he is currently equipped with a +1 meteoric steel scythe, steel gauntlets, hardened leather cloak of fire resistance, hardened leather armour, belt of carrying +2 and a bronze helmet +2.
A bit of a mixed bag, there, but he has +45% skill with polearms, +45% with kicking, and +42.5% with his current scythe.

He has a bottle of healing liquid, two of poison and one of acid, a bunch of precious stones and holy books to sell, a couple of wands and a (doubtless magic) lamp that I've not quite worked up the courage to rub yet...

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Iter Vehemens ad Necem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on February 17, 2013, 01:05:05 pm

The problem with IVAN I've found it that it scales to all of your equipment / skills mercilessly (except with the Enner Beast and similar.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 18, 2013, 09:36:18 am

Yeah, I've lost many promising characters to the bloody enner beast. And a good trick is to drop all your equipment before entering a new level... ;) Maybe debuff a little as well. Or polymorph into a rabbit, for maximum cheatishness.

Anyway, Nenjin eventually died to me being ignorant of the fact that wands of acid rain can apparently explode and do extra damage. I wasn't paying too much heed to mines, since I wasn't carrying any explosives and I had a cloak and ring of fire resistance, but the acid rain wand exploded and insta-killed him. :(
Especially annoying because I had gained a lot more loot since my last post... An arcanite fullhelm and... I think it was an enchanted meteoric steel platemail from the corpse of an old character; I had enchanted my belt of carrying and my meteoric steel scythe was up to +4. Still quite a bit of ownage before my death, but I sure hope I stumble upon that loot in a future game...

Onto my latest ownage: So, after getting Steam to work I tried out TF2. It's better than I expected. (Which is to say, my expectations were pretty low. :P) But I'm not good enough at it to own online yet, that's not where I'm going with this.

I also bought the bundle of the original X-Com games, and I've been playing UFO Defence. After a disastrous 3-or-so missions which lost me several soldiers, a skyranger and a heap of funding, I started to get a bit more of an idea what I was doing. Frequent interceptor patrols, heavily-armed squads(no armour yet sadly), plenty of covering fire...
But the ownage part was having one of my soldiers promoted for the first time.
The newly recruited Shigeo Kojima, a promising soldier due to a combination of reaction speed and accuracy, was bumped up to sergeant after his first mission. Scoffing at his teammates, pinned down before the crashed UFO, trading ineffectual shots with a sectoid rifleman taking cover behind it, Shigeo strode up, marched around the corner and shot it in the face with his dual-wielded laser pistols.

Shigeo's next mission, another downed UFO, would net him two more alien kills- although at a cost.
This was my first mission where the UFO had landed amongst buildings, and also my first encounter with what I assume was a blaster launcher. One of my more competent soldiers had just ducked across the street from the skyranger, under cover of a smokescreen, when she was obliterated by an alien missile that leveled one wall of a building.
The rest of the squad was busily chucking rockets in the direction of another alien, who had already killed one squad member with a plasma shot. Its reign of terror ended when it showed its face as Shigeo left the ship, shooting it once and killing it.
Then the remaining four soldiers split into two groups, the rocket-launcher guy and the hopeless bumbling moron with the heavy cannon heading around one side of the building next to the UFO, Shigeo and a rookie taking the other.
Long story short, they didn't find anything in the building, and couldn't catch more than a glimpse of the remaining aliens, until Shigeo planted a high explosive charge on the UFO and retreated to crouch beside a wall. His partner was around the other side of the UFO, checking for aliens. (The other two were derping around in a field achieving nothing.)

The charge went off, and while it didn't seem to damage the alien ship at all, it drove the last alien out of hiding and it fired twice at Shigeo's back- both shots missing, fortunately. Shig' spun around, but couldn't see it through all the smoke from the blast. Not wanting him to leave his cover when the alien could be right there, I had him stay put while the rookie circled around the UFO. Oddly enough, there was no sign of the alien.

I ended the turn there, with Shig' and the poor rookie looking at each other in bewilderment.
Then, BAM, the alien steps out of an unseen door on the UFO, Shig' fires... And hits his poor, green colleague. As the dead rookie collapses, doubtless with a look of shocked betrayal on his young face, the alien returns fire, missing again. Shig' shoots again and kills it.
Mission complete.

Man, sorry for rambling, but I am loving this game.

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X-Com: UFO Defence

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 18, 2013, 09:40:29 am

Standard battle in Malinovka in my Luchs. THIS time I decided to just play passive scout, so found a bush in the middle of the no-mans-land and hid behind it. Spotted more than half the team on the other side this way, giving the guys on the line behind me many, MANY shots at the opposing team with them going "WTF how do you see me?!  :'(" finally broke cover when I spotted an arty moving up, took a few shots at it(team finished it off) then charged a Marder 2, took a hit, got behind it, and wrecked it. Only sour note to this awesome was when I finished off the Marder, I turned back to the enemy line, backed up a little to maybe lose spot...and backed up off the cliff! Team still won though, and I got Patrol duty for helping my team by spotting the enemy!

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World of Tanks, natch. Seriously, am I the only one who posts world of tanks anecdotes?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 18, 2013, 01:40:13 pm

Quote from: Yoink on February 18, 2013, 09:36:18 am

-snip-

Oh, poor Yoink. Just wait until you start playing Terror From The Deep. So many useful features added in... Then you encounter a gorram lobsterman...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on February 18, 2013, 09:48:11 pm

Whenever I see X-Com stuff I am always confused if it's the old one or the new one, because I can't remember the various subtitles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 19, 2013, 09:53:55 am

Another day, another game in my ARL, and the wonderful sound of *plink* *plink* *plink* of panthers bouncing 75 l/100 shots off my upper front plate(seriously, why do they NEVER go for the turret????)

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World of Tanks. Seriously, doesn't anyone ELSE have awesome stories from this game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on February 19, 2013, 10:20:28 am

Quote from: tryrar on February 19, 2013, 09:53:55 am

Another day, another game in my ARL, and the wonderful sound of *plink* *plink* *plink* of panthers bouncing 75 l/100 shots off my upper front plate(seriously, why do they NEVER go for the turret????)

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World of Tanks. Seriously, doesn't anyone ELSE have awesome stories from this game?

I just can't bring myself to play it. I have an innate fear of dissapointing people with my horribleness in team based multiplayer games, even though I really love team based multiplayer games. I'm a broken mess of a man. How does the matchmaking work? If I start up today, will I be playing with a bunch of noobs like me, therefore having no one to dissapoint? Is there a SP practice mode or something? Maybe, someday, I too will own at it...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 19, 2013, 02:27:05 pm

Quote from: Devling on February 18, 2013, 09:48:11 pm

Whenever I see X-Com stuff I am always confused if it's the old one or the new one, because I can't remember the various subtitles.

Let me lay it down for you:

XCOM: UFO Defense is the first game. (This game is fun but hectic)
XCOM: Terror From the Deep is the second game. (This game is utter bullshit and will kill you so hard you puke up your facial bones. Also, it is the funnest of all of them.)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown is the newest game. (This game is fun and not very much like the first two.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on February 19, 2013, 02:50:10 pm

Allow me to add that the first game was also published under the name UFO: Enemy Unknown. That's why the new game has Enemy Unknown in the title.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 19, 2013, 03:41:55 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 19, 2013, 02:27:05 pm

Quote from: Devling on February 18, 2013, 09:48:11 pm

Whenever I see X-Com stuff I am always confused if it's the old one or the new one, because I can't remember the various subtitles.

Let me lay it down for you:

XCOM: UFO Defense is the first game. (This game is fun but hectic)
XCOM: Terror From the Deep is the second game. (This game is utter bullshit and will kill you so hard you puke up your facial bones. Also, it is the funnest of all of them.)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown is the newest game. (This game is fun and not very much like the first two.)

You forgot Apocalypse. Or does that one not exist?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on February 19, 2013, 03:47:54 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 19, 2013, 03:41:55 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 19, 2013, 02:27:05 pm

Quote from: Devling on February 18, 2013, 09:48:11 pm

Whenever I see X-Com stuff I am always confused if it's the old one or the new one, because I can't remember the various subtitles.

Let me lay it down for you:

XCOM: UFO Defense is the first game. (This game is fun but hectic)
XCOM: Terror From the Deep is the second game. (This game is utter bullshit and will kill you so hard you puke up your facial bones. Also, it is the funnest of all of them.)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown is the newest game. (This game is fun and not very much like the first two.)

You forgot Apocalypse. Or does that one not exist?

Interceptor and Enforcer as well, though obviously we won't hound you about two as much. Also, I'm pretty sure that XCOM is the new game, while X-COM are the old ones. Or at least that's how Steam has them listed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 19, 2013, 04:01:39 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on February 19, 2013, 03:47:54 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 19, 2013, 03:41:55 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 19, 2013, 02:27:05 pm

Quote from: Devling on February 18, 2013, 09:48:11 pm

Whenever I see X-Com stuff I am always confused if it's the old one or the new one, because I can't remember the various subtitles.

Let me lay it down for you:

XCOM: UFO Defense is the first game. (This game is fun but hectic)
XCOM: Terror From the Deep is the second game. (This game is utter bullshit and will kill you so hard you puke up your facial bones. Also, it is the funnest of all of them.)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown is the newest game. (This game is fun and not very much like the first two.)

You forgot Apocalypse. Or does that one not exist?

Interceptor and Enforcer as well, though obviously we won't hound you about two as much. Also, I'm pretty sure that XCOM is the new game, while X-COM are the old ones. Or at least that's how Steam has them listed.

Apocalypse counts in a distant 'She's-only-my-fourth-cousin-so-it's-okay' kind of way.
Interceptor counts... I guess.
Enforcer does NOT count.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on February 19, 2013, 04:15:58 pm

I MURDERED those destoyer escorts.  My attack starts with me firing off all my foward torpedoes.  I destroy one destroyer and damage the other, along with sinking a coastal merchant.  I had dived immidiatly after this, and was in the procces of trying to evade.  After a while I gave up, and gave the order to start reloading torpedoes.  Once I was forty seconds away from finishing hte reloading proccess, I used the hydrophone to determine the position of the destroyers, oriented my sub in the most advantegous position, and blew balast.  The moment I hit the surface I fired all torpedoes, along with manning the deck gun and flak gun.  My aft tubes blew apart a destroyer, and my foward tubes all missed (Firing at the damaged destroyer.)I ordered for 30 degrees starboard, and instructed my deck gun to start firing at weapons, while I manned the flak gun and did the same.  In sort order, even thou I took a lot of hits, I disabled the destroyer, and then sunk it.  This is the first time I've ever successfully sunk ANY destroyer.
Also, earlier in the patrol, I was just floating near the entrance to the channel between Ireland and Britain in a heavy storm and a destroyer passed a few hundred meters away.  It disappeared before I could get a firing solution thou. 

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Silent Hunter 3.  I love this game so much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 19, 2013, 11:19:30 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/yoink86/X-ComGoodmonthlyreport_zpsd533a6ef.jpg)

I actually won a terror mission, with only one casualty! :D (And that was from friendly fire.)
My first ever good rating! Not really an own, I know, but damn does it feel like one. *happytears*
Now I just wish I could figure out how to invent some friggin' armour...

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X-Com: UFO Defence

And yeah, the new, modern game dropped the hyphen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on February 19, 2013, 11:26:35 pm

That game just has that thing where it makes you feel like a badass even if you do badly. 
And for armor I think you have to research alien alloys and stuff first.  Even thou all it really does at low levels is protect you from friendly fire. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 20, 2013, 01:41:06 am

Second game in my KV-1 after switching over to the 122-U11 derp gun, spawned in Fisherman's Bay. Naturally, first stop was immediately town, where I had help from another KV-1 with the derp. Together we cleared out half the team, including most of their heavies. Protip:When faced by 2 KVs with derp, GET AROUND A CORNER AND FLANK THEM! Staying in the open will only result in your smoldering corpse :P

Managed to also grab sniper from that game due to not missing with the 122. AT ALL. With some of the shots being more medium range!

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Do I really need to say it given I seem to be the only one posting about World of Tanks?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glowcat on February 20, 2013, 02:26:27 am

End of a Dota 2 game playing as Zeus with Aghamin's Scepter and Refresher Orb. I wiped out their entire team at once.

Can't escape the heavens indeed.

Though my most recent own would be carrying as PL in a game where my teammates were considering the match hopeless because of how geared the enemy was. I'm all "Wha? Let me show you how PL does it." and murdered all 3 of their well farmed carries (even through Omniknight's ulti) before cutting their base in half. Farming multiple lanes or lanes + jungle at the same time makes for some sweet gear, and unlike their Alchemist who farmed their jungles the entire game I was still participating in team fights along the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on February 20, 2013, 03:07:23 am

I was at war with some alien gentlemen, it was all fine and dandy, tennis after a good battle, that sort of thing when apparently they thought it prudent to attack my homeworld, I mass-produced hundreds of super-battleships that destroyed any ship in their fleet with one shot. I thought: "All fine and well ole chaps, but do try to keep it down!" so they send another fleet, after being promptly destroyed I decided to strip-mine one their solar systems with my 'Harvesters', giant asteroid-miners and produce thousands of automated gunboats and frigates from these vessels which destroyed all of their worlds in that system, they have yet to attack again

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Star Ruler

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iosyn on February 20, 2013, 11:47:12 am

Not so much a win, as a DAHAHAHA moment.

Take the pilot's seat of a hercules C-130. Friendly team loads up until we a good 20 players or so, including copilot. I've got the flightplan in my mind, I've shouted last call for a para drop--
Engines online, throttle up... Launch!
Picking up speed nicely-- Hey wait this runway is a bit damn short isn't it-- Ah, liftoff thank god.

Then I pulled up. Except, this a C-130. It's massive and I pulled up too hard.
Engines stall, Entire allied team falls into the ocean butt first.

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Arma 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on February 20, 2013, 02:35:26 pm

Quote from: Yoink on February 19, 2013, 11:19:30 pm

I actually won a terror mission, with only one casualty! :D (And that was from friendly fire.)
My first ever good rating! Not really an own, I know, but damn does it feel like one. *happytears*
Now I just wish I could figure out how to invent some friggin' armour...

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X-Com: UFO Defence

And yeah, the new, modern game dropped the hyphen.

X-COM really makes you feel like a winner when you win. Or when you only get badly beaten up.

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Personal Armour (the blue one) requires you to research Alien Alloys, followed by Personal Armour.
Power Suit requires you to research UFO Power Source, Elerium and Power Armour.
Flying Suit requires you to research UFO Navigation and Power Suit.

My latest *own*? I invaded the Imagawa lands and slayed their Daimyo in battle, causing the remaining Imagawa armies and lands to turn into fragmented ronin. And throughout operation "screw Imagawa", Uesugi clan didn't lift a finger against me, despite us now sharing a sizable border in Northern Japan.
Things are going well for Oda.

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Shogun: Total War
Warlord Edition 1530 campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on February 20, 2013, 02:36:31 pm

Just you wait for Takeda clan to arrive with HUGE horde of cavalry~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 20, 2013, 05:30:38 pm

I managed to make a straight 6 engine using Wiremod in Garry's Mod.
I actually achieved something :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheMastermind on February 21, 2013, 02:35:42 pm

Played Sniper Elite V2.
The game has a nice kill cam where you see your target's body in x-ray and you see in slow motion how the bullet is messing the guy's bones and organs.
The DLC where you kill hitler.
First try, shot him in the balls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on February 21, 2013, 05:16:37 pm

Quote from: TheMastermind on February 21, 2013, 02:35:42 pm

Played Sniper Elite V2.
The game has a nice kill cam where you see your target's body in x-ray and you see in slow motion how the bullet is messing the guy's bones and organs.
The DLC where you kill hitler.
First try, shot him in the balls.

Did you count them to check for historical accuracy?

Playing on some public servers to warm up for a highlander comp game on tf2, after 1/2 hour I was rewarded with cries of 'THAT ENGINEER IS HACKING!'  I had a kpd of 5 and pretty much always had a teleporter behind/infront of the lines.  Still got it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 21, 2013, 08:50:44 pm

So, I was playing Terror from the Deep. I was doing fantastic, shot down and destroyed a couple UFOs, had a couple extremely successful Terror missions (single digit casualties, civvie AND soldiers COMBINED) then suddenly something happens. I still have a single base, and I get this message:
An alien craft has touched down near your base.
Oh fuck.
Do I have proximity grenades? Yes, yes I do. (First thing I buy everyone round, I buy about six of them.) All my 13 or so soldiers have either a proximity grenade and a gauss pistol, or a sonic pulsar, a high explosive, and a harpoon gun (Manufacturing on gauss weaponry was slow in getting started.).

First turn begins, my men are scattered throughout the base. One guy moves, sees an alien in the Living quarters that is quite unfortunately still connected to the airlock/sub pens, and kills the alien. We toss a prox. grenade in there and back off, but one guy is inbetween the airlock and living quarters. He gets ganked by several aquatoids at the end of their turn.
Second turn, I've started stacking my soldiers up in the passageways leading into the base proper. Two chokepoints, one in the airlock, where I hide two soldiers, one with a gas cannon loaded with AP rounds, the other with a harpoon gun and grenades. The living quarters I had two soldiers with gauss pistols and prox. grenades, as well as a couple soldiers that came from the armory.
Deeper inside the base, I set up a final strongpoint in the radar station with my Lieutenant, who was wielding a gas cannon, flanked by two men with proximity grenades and gauss pistols.

The aliens stormed in, in pairs and trios, mostly aquatoids but a few calcinites as well. Most of them died to proximity grenades and other tossed explosives. One or two passed the optimal grenade range, so we shot them to death with extreme prejudice. Finally I defeated them completely, with (drumroll) a SINGLE LOSS. ONE.

Terror From the Deep

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 22, 2013, 09:20:01 am

I'll just let this picture speak for itself:
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/291/shot003sy.jpg)

Funny note is that I didn't actually destroy that Jagdpanzer 4 with my 122, he tried to ram me after I took away most of his health with my gun. Needless to say, he blew up without doing any damage at all(an IS is quite a bit heavier than a JP4!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 22, 2013, 10:09:32 am

That sounds like something I would do in such a game. :P

"All hands on deck! Stand by to raaaaam!"
*CRUNCH*
"Oh, hell. Well that didn't really work."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 22, 2013, 10:20:57 am

Well, ramming IS a legitimate tactic in this game, but usually you'd do it in a heavy due to ramming damage being based on wieght, speed, and armor(though lights ramming arty isn't uncommon)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xeron on February 22, 2013, 10:55:28 am

Proceeded to hack,kill and destroy everything from the starting area to the Lower Seatle Slums.

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Deus Ex Invisible War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2013, 12:51:24 pm

After several attempts, across several alpha versions, I finally took both pirate asteroid bases. Despite grievous losses in ships, I kept anti-fighter frigates near the station, along with my command cruiser, to shoot down any fighters that launched as my marines boarded. The first station was taken just fine. The second one, my marines and the enemy crew managed to completely kill each other, rendering the station a neutral entity until I brought another transport in.

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Void Destroyer. It's taken me a long time to get around to the most recent version.
Unfortunately, it crashed when I tried to destroy the alien gate.

Had a good 40 years in office. Within the first decade, I had over $60,000 in the treasury from exports of tobacco, gold, pinapples and cigars. Completely devastated the ecology in the process, but I never toady to the environmentalists anyhow. In the next 10 years, I expanded to coffee, bananas, and jewelry. A few elections came close, but Mardi Gras, and a Tax Cut or two, always came through and bailed me out, giving me a win without fraud.

By the end of my reign, I had a little over 300 people, one rebel(I think he was killed), about $750k in the treasury(despite a maritime strike), and about $20k in my Swiss account, and had earned the respect of both superpowers, and their related factions.

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Tropico. My traits were: Silver Spoon, Capitalist Rebellion, Administrator, Financial Genius, Coward, Tourette's Syndrome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hemmingjay on February 22, 2013, 12:58:46 pm

Quote from: Iosyn on February 20, 2013, 11:47:12 am

Not so much a win, as a DAHAHAHA moment.

Take the pilot's seat of a hercules C-130. Friendly team loads up until we a good 20 players or so, including copilot. I've got the flightplan in my mind, I've shouted last call for a para drop--
Engines online, throttle up... Launch!
Picking up speed nicely-- Hey wait this runway is a bit damn short isn't it-- Ah, liftoff thank god.

Then I pulled up. Except, this a C-130. It's massive and I pulled up too hard.
Engines stall, Entire allied team falls into the ocean butt first.

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Arma 2.

If that happens to you again, try to roll it hard left and dive down while starting the engines again. and pulling parallel to the water at the last second. I have managed to skim the water while doing the same and thereby saving crew and cargo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 22, 2013, 01:21:02 pm

Not me, but my four-year-old just hit four strikes in a row. O_O
Wii Bowling.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on February 22, 2013, 01:48:46 pm

Got 6 kills plus 1 friendly fire kill by sneaking up on an enemy sunderer and using my tank mines.
-Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Squanto on February 22, 2013, 03:45:18 pm

So, I just ultra carry doctored.  I had 24 bloodstone charges at the end of the game, 17 kills 2 deaths and 21 assists.  The entire enemy team ragequit shortly before losing.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on February 22, 2013, 08:50:49 pm

Managed to gouge out all the eyes of a large pack of dingoes. 

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 23, 2013, 08:44:40 am

I haven't been playing Super Mario World (the GBA port) for about a month, due to the sheer rage-inducing might of Lemmy's Castle. I got so sick of the game-over jingle that I stopped playing all my other Mario games just by association.

Of course, I beat it in one go in the middle of the night when I'm about to go to bed and not even trying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on February 23, 2013, 08:57:50 am

Bound to happen.

If you keep losing at a particular level or boss fight or race or whatever in a game. Stop playing for a day or two, you'll come back and cruise through it like it's nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on February 23, 2013, 10:57:52 am

Yeah, I kept losing in XCOM's classic difficulty, until I took a short break and came back. Then my guys veritably blazed through the aliens... until my friend got his computer back and started messageing me on steam again. IMMEDIATELY I ran into a pack of three mutons and two floaters, my heavy panicked and ran directly across from them so they had him flanked, and my guys began missing again.

I'm coming to hate this game.

But my *own* was that first part. That felt pretty good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on February 23, 2013, 11:04:19 am

Started playing my last hero again, a dwarf archaeologist whom I couldn't remember why I ditched. Oh right, because she's blind and hallucinating.

After sitting in the corner a bit until I can see again I try to move on and kill an enemy in one whip-swing. It was a floating eye. After nomming the corpse and popping my blindfold on I find that even in telepathy I can hallucinate. Returning to my small hideaway until the drugs wear off, I decide to drink from the nearby fountain in the hope that it might cure my trip.

"You drink from the fountain.
You sense the presence of evil.
Grateful for her release, she grants you a wish!"

Heck yeah. RNG's must love me. Now I need to think of a wish.

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Nethack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 23, 2013, 01:22:58 pm

Entry to a rehab clinic :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on February 23, 2013, 03:40:34 pm

I hear you can wish for excalibur!
That sounds like a good idea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on February 23, 2013, 03:52:01 pm

I take it you're an archaeologist? Grayswandir.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on February 23, 2013, 06:21:30 pm

I always found a source of reflection and magic resistance to be of prime importance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on February 23, 2013, 07:39:21 pm

Saved the quarter master's life after he accidentally spaced himself when boarding a mining shuttle that just left by dragging him to medbay to be cloned. Was rewarded with a ripley for it and proceeded to strip that asteroid bare of its resources.

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Space Station 13. Probably doesn't hurt that I think I'm the one that accidentally caused him to get spaced when I called the shuttle over to me while he was getting on...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 23, 2013, 10:02:48 pm

Had an amazingly good session last night/this morning, playing better than I ever have before.
I finally got around to switching to the micro uzi as backup for my sniper rifle, and good gods it is so good. Incredibly tired, my eyes sore and head aching, unable to really focus, I started to play more on instinct than anything and began to actually hold my own. I was managing to quickly scope in on people with my rifle and kill them on-the-go, and my uzi-based shenanigans were deadly- as soon as I got it I bought increased blindfire accuracy, so just blaze wildly as I charge towards someone, hopefully scoring at least a few hits, and then finish 'em off with a melee hit.
They try to run? Well, then I just hold l1 to actually aim. :P
I've also gotten better at stealth kills etc. One moment stands out, the idol (think flag) was right in the heroes' base, I rush through there, see an enemy tackle one of my team from behind and snap their neck. I run up, get behind him and do exactly the same thing, with an identical animation. Comedy!
I have improved immeasurably at this game. In one session I went from rank 38(or 39?) to 42. :P That's actually quite a lot.

Damn, this game is so bloody fun. I'm glad it still has a decent playerbase. Now I just need to recover so I can play it some more...
Apologies for my sleep-befuddled rambling.

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Uncharted 3 multiplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: deve on February 23, 2013, 11:06:18 pm

@Yoink: Incidentally, Grayswandir would fix your hallucination problem.

I've been trying time after time to get a demonspawn character past Lair in Crawl. In my most recent DsGl of Makhleb, I found an early +2,+4 spiked flail and found a +2 crystal plate mail of cold resistance in the Ice Cave. I lucked out with talons, nighthunter, and powered by death mutations, so I think I might actually win with this one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chaoswizkid on February 24, 2013, 07:37:38 am

Quote from: Satarus on February 22, 2013, 01:48:46 pm

Got 6 kills plus 1 friendly fire kill by sneaking up on an enemy sunderer and using my tank mines.
-Planetside 2

That's not owning. People do that all the time. I had a guy run into like 3 of my squadmates and a couple blue-tags to plant mines on the sundy and I was the one who had to shoot at him to get people to realize there was an enemy running through us. Still blew up the damn Sundy anyway. I don't have enough certs to throw into Mineguard yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 24, 2013, 12:27:05 pm

Quote from: Chaoswizkid on February 24, 2013, 07:37:38 am

Quote from: Satarus on February 22, 2013, 01:48:46 pm

Got 6 kills plus 1 friendly fire kill by sneaking up on an enemy sunderer and using my tank mines.
-Planetside 2

That's not owning. People do that all the time. I had a guy run into like 3 of my squadmates and a couple blue-tags to plant mines on the sundy and I was the one who had to shoot at him to get people to realize there was an enemy running through us. Still blew up the damn Sundy anyway. I don't have enough certs to throw into Mineguard yet.

Newsflash: Ownage is subjective.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on February 24, 2013, 04:10:57 pm

F:NV's been teaching me about SMG caliber... heheheh. I thought 9mm was amazing. Then I got ahold of a 12.7mm. They all drop dead. Their heads come off. White Leg, Marked Man, Fiend, Powder Ganger, Lobotomite, Legionairre.

I'm a walking armory. I do so love godmode.

H&H Tools Nailgun.
Laser RCS.
Red Glare.
Blade of the West.
Super-Heated Saturnite Power Fist.
A heap of useless Clean Atomic Knives.
I've got so many cool guns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 24, 2013, 04:34:53 pm

CHARGING THE METEORS SERIOUSLY WHAT IS EVERYONE'S PROBLEM LATELY GOD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 24, 2013, 04:37:56 pm

Slayerhero was playing Fallout New Vegas. Probably.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on February 24, 2013, 05:13:52 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 24, 2013, 04:34:53 pm

CHARGING THE METEORS SERIOUSLY WHAT IS EVERYONE'S PROBLEM LATELY GOD

Well it's pretty funny seeing the reactions. So I'd say that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 24, 2013, 05:33:41 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 24, 2013, 04:37:56 pm

Slayerhero was playing Fallout New Vegas. Probably.

I know. Plus some sort of mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on February 24, 2013, 05:41:47 pm

I just used the typo'd abbreviation. Rather than, you know, getting angry at someone for something you didn't see, perhaps you could use the eyes that hopefully still work for you.

There was no mod involved either. Just me, the console, and every DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on February 25, 2013, 11:51:30 am

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on February 24, 2013, 05:41:47 pm

I just used the typo'd abbreviation. Rather than, you know, getting angry at someone for something you didn't see, perhaps you could use the eyes that hopefully still work for you.

There was no mod involved either. Just me, the console, and every DLC.

Just as a note, but using abbrevations isn't that usefull. After all, most of the people that don't recognize the game won't recognize the abbrevation either. Especially if it's hidden in the  text, and wrongly spelled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 26, 2013, 09:58:00 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on February 24, 2013, 05:41:47 pm

I just used the typo'd abbreviation. Rather than, you know, getting angry at someone for something you didn't see, perhaps you could use the eyes that hopefully still work for you.

There was no mod involved either. Just me, the console, and every DLC.

Oh dear. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I did say I knew what game you were talking about (you would do well to listen to some of your own advice ::)), but like 10ebbor10 said, abbreviations aren't always helpful to all of the people reading this thread, especially when they're typo'd. Sure most of us will know what you're talking about, but its bad form to assume that every single person who reads your post will know what you're talking about right off. Does that make sense?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on February 26, 2013, 10:23:27 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 26, 2013, 09:58:00 pm

::)

But I did read the post you fit in before me. Nothing about what I said, at least to me, gave off any indication that I failed to follow my own advice. But look, I have a problem where I can't tell if someone's gonna have difficulties readingwhat I said. I know what it means and I don't know how to finish what I'm trying to say right now in words, so can you please infer?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 26, 2013, 11:48:07 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on February 26, 2013, 10:23:27 pm

But I did read the post you fit in before me. Nothing about what I said, at least to me, gave off any indication that I failed to follow my own advice. But look, I have a problem where I can't tell if someone's gonna have difficulties readingwhat I said. I know what it means and I don't know how to finish what I'm trying to say right now in words, so can you please infer?

Nevermind ._.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on February 28, 2013, 06:27:03 am

Well... I don't know how much this goes towards Owning...
BUT... Its kinda Win...

I am playing Minecraft with the Mindcrack FTB Pack. I always nomad forever until I see something that looks like a great place to set up the base. I found it today and I start building and setting everything up, Then I come to a pause, HOW DO I GET ANIMALS!?!?! There were only Sheep around me, no cows/pigs/chickens.....

Then I remember, I have a Portal Gun... Found it in a Chest from a Thumcraft Ruin thing...
SO I build my little barn and start running around the world collecting animals. Portaling them directly into the barn with the Portal gun. Then I stumble across a Village. And then it Hits me...

HOME MADE VILLAGE!!!
I captured a couple of Villagers before sadly the rest died to the zombie invasion that was happening...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on February 28, 2013, 06:32:59 am

Suddenly I want to reinstall the Portal Gun mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 28, 2013, 09:30:53 am

Standard battle on Highway in my VK3601, I go my standard route of town. I get there and immediately get into a duel with an enemy Type 58. He bounces a couple shots...I don't. As I'm still dueling, I notice several more enemies approaching, so I duck around a corner...but not before taking out a heavily damaged T1 Heavy with one shot(and bouncing a couple more shots from the type and a Pz III/IV). As I duck around the corner I discover a Crusader who had set up a flank on the guys pressing west, so I two shot him to stop that nonsense while they take out the type 58 I was dueling and that pz who had taken a couple potshots at me, and so I take off west towards the enemy cap, ammoracking a Pz IIIa on the move without even stopping on my way there. I stop short of the cap zone next to a barn due to the enemies who were on the north flank returning to defend cap, and also due to a hellcat sitting just on the other side of the barn I had parked next to. Now, I didn't really have the health at that point to duel with a hellcat(that 90 hurts!), so I just waited until my allies caught up, and when the hellcat would take a shot at another guy I'd pop out and blast him. Didn't finish him, but did finish a KV-1 sitting in the cap to defend it, and managed to inch up far enough to snipe an M37 who had just a little too much of his rear poking out from behind the barn he was hiding behind :P

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You guys should know this by now! World of Tanks!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on March 01, 2013, 11:18:50 am

I took my chances and assumed my risks, what it was at first glance me moving to a better fishing spot became a hunt. I found a pack of reindeers, trapped on this island, throwing didn't work with them. one got close to me after having it cornered and stabbed it with my fine knife. once, twice, the beast stood up. and then fell down, to the head, to the legs, and it stopped moving.

What started as a better place to fish became my first hunt, I could no longer worry about food for a while, and with the leather I will make myself a raft and finally start fishing in the lake.

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UnReal World. it is donationware right now and it is amazing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on March 01, 2013, 07:23:12 pm

My Kestrel model ship "O Kapin my Kapin" got a free Burst Laser Mark II from an ally base during our travels.

Now the ship is akimbo duel-wielding triple-shot laser machine guns, baby. The six shots of laser burst fire is proving remarkably effective at tearing through any pirate or rebel ships we run into when combined with a Hull Laser Mark I and the Artemis missile launcher. I also picked up a cloaking system since it was available, and we had the cash. It should be useful for if things start going bad.

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FTL (Faster Than Light)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 01, 2013, 11:15:57 pm

Lakeville Standard battle, in my favorite tank the french ARL 44. I naturally decide to go valley, and me and a vk3601 and an m4, with arty support from our StPz II roll up to the crest of the valley. Well the enemy team makes it there first, though it's only an m8a1 and a stuart, so I continue on while firing potshots at them. Well, at this point half the fucking enemy team rolls up to the crest of the hill, but I'm not budging, and proceed to rain down 90mm shots from the beastly DCA 45, taking out 3/4ths ot hte heavies on the enemy team and 2 other assorted tanks, while my teammates cleaned up the rest. I think I got called hax about 4 times, and each time explained that shooting an ARL frontally without a VERY good penning gun is an exercise in futility :P(not my fault they forget it has 180mm effective frontal armor with only one small weakspot :D)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 05, 2013, 01:15:48 pm

Gunfighting against Ocelot, and he shoots me in the face, causing a bullet wound. I go into the CURE viewer, and notice the bullet is lodged up my nose.

I'm kinda pissed, I should have left it in and fixed every other part of the wound. But I didn't.

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MGS3

Quote from: tryrar on March 01, 2013, 11:15:57 pm

-sounds like World of Tanks-

Spoiler: ...but since I can't tell, guess what spell I prepared this morning. (click to show/hide)

If you were thinking Explosive Runes, you are very, very wrong. (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/meteorSwarm.htm)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Geneoce on March 05, 2013, 03:58:14 pm

Just figured out that my turning rate could be dramatically increased if I activate my jump jets mid-turn. Combine this with 3 large lasers and a pair of streaks as well as a large standard engine. I was definitely not piloting a support catapult.

And those enemy lights/mediums thought I would be an easy kill  :D

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MWO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 06, 2013, 03:43:37 am

I rolled 3 twenties in a row last week.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on March 06, 2013, 09:43:40 am

Quote from: Akura on March 05, 2013, 01:15:48 pm

-snip-

I do that all the time. The reduction to max health is worth it. By the end of the game Snake has about a dozen bullets just floating around in his crotch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on March 07, 2013, 04:13:40 pm

Playin' tribes:ascend, TDM with equal parties (it wouldn't count as own if it wasn't). Kill this guy, this other guy, and this another guy. Ski a little, and then the accolades start coming in.
'killing spree' 'explosive spree' 'classic spree' are the first to come. but then the major leagues come in when 'disc jockey' and 'the slayer' come in.

25 KILLS on a killing spree.
Then died because I got cocky and because a missile hit my face.

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Its up, but if you really want to know...

Tribes:Ascend I'm fanhead ingame if anyone here plays it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iosyn on March 07, 2013, 04:46:17 pm

Watch my expeditionary force get savaged by an unknown alien race. I extricate about half of my light carrier and a handful of escorts back to the jump point, before retreating back to a staging post in Sol. (Ceres, actually. Always liked that name.)
Watch these foreign devils transit the Sol jump-point, new contacts popping up on my system sensor net--

Watch every mine within 550kkm of the jump point activate and launch their payload.

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alternatively, just understanding how to design a functional mine in Aurora should count.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 08, 2013, 07:06:50 pm

I'm playing as the TEC Rebels. I start off, and tech up as fast as I can to get the 'Neutral and pirate forces are your allies' tech, while getting about five planets. Then I get that tech and my empire EXPLODES. I go from rank 5 colonization (the lowest) to rank 1 (meaning I have the most planets) in minutes. And all of my planets come with ready made defense forces. I build up refinery and trade structures around all my planets, then encounter the first enemy civilization.
Vasari Loyalists. I send my four capital ships, and trounce them, in battle after battle, pushing them back a planet, taking the planet, pushing them back again (Akkan battlecruisers: Why would you EVER use a Protev?!) Finally, I'm one step away from their Capital world.

I make a 'phone call' to my friends the pirates, and dump 6600 credits on them for assistance in the coming battle. My fleet jumps in, and finds no enemy ships, but a nearly-completed Titan in a ring of defensive structures. We rush in, and try to destroy the foundry before it can spit out the nastiest unit in the game, but we are too late. We're fighting the titan, and it's mostly winning, when about 80+ pirate ships jump in and support us. Victory.

We mop up the remainder of the enemy planets, except for one with a big, badass starbase and some normal defenses. As I gather my fleet, I build my own titan, a massive railgun-with-ship-bits-attached and give it the Sniper Shot upgrade and Scattershot upgrade. I now have a 50km long sniper rifle/shotgun. We jump in to find... A huge fleet of ANOTHER enemy civilization STOMPING the defenders with HUNDREDS of strike craft. Their fleet moves to engage me, which is a huge mistake, because they have CARRIERS and I have battleships, battlecruisers, and dreadnoughts. Oh and the giant railgunship. Anyways, we destroy three of their 6 big ships, and the remaining three are about to be destroyed. The one farthest in the rear turns to flee, with almost no health.

I select my titan, and use the sniper shot. Just as the enemy ship goes to enter phase space, the shell hits them and utterly destroys them. Best feeling ever.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion w/ Entrenchment, Trinity, and that other expansion.

Huge Edit: Same game, same 'scenario', immediately following these events.


Right, so that enemy civilization proved to be very fond of their light carrier cruisers. They also waited until far too late to launch their own attacks on me. I swept up the 'southern' half of my star system. I would fight off their defenses, bombard their planet, colonize it, wait long enough to build basic defenses and a broadcast beacon, then move on to the next. As I neared their capital, I swept north to the north end of the system, cutting the corner off, leaving them trapped between a wall of my defenses and my fleet, and the inky blackness of deep space.

Oh, I did all this with one fleet: One Marza Dreadnought, one Kol Flagship, one Sova Carrier, one (Supremely awesome) Akkan Battlecruiser, and the Ragnarov Titan. Plus some various attending ships that died off rather frequently. Never more than a couple cruisers or about five frigates.

So, I have them trapped, condensed, and basically at my mercy. I have a gargantuan fleet massing over my fortress world of Aurelia, way back in my home-worlds. When I say gargantuan, I meant it. Three Kol Battleships, four Sova Carriers, four Marza Dreadnoughts, two Akkan and one Dunov Battlecruisers, 50 Javelis long range missile frigates, 40 Kodiak Heavy Cruisers, 20 Percheron light carriers, 10 Hoshiko and Cielo cruisers, plus a motley assortment of Krosov, Cobalt, Garda frigates, various pirate ships, and about 10 Stiltat Corvettes.

Then, they counterattack. Away from my deathfleet of five capital ships, into the heart of their former territory. Apparently they had both a massive defense fleet at home, and a huge aggressive fleet out in another system (I never leave MY system until I OWN ALL THE PLANETS) so my relatively weak planet Eos got jumped from two sides by angry fleets of light carriers and battleships. So, I did the only reasonable thing. I put a 6000 credit bounty on the enemy's head. I went to the two broadcast centers at that planet and ordered two pirate fleets of mercenaries, I went to the three nearest systems and ordered pirate fleets there, and I sent my giant flotilla through the wormholes to defend my planet.

From the time they arrived and started attacking, they destroyed no defenses. They killed some fighters. But within 2 minutes, pirate ships were arriving or being rerouted from nearby planets. By about 5 minutes, the vanguard elements of my fleet were entering the system. The whole fleet didn't finish arriving until another five minutes had passed, by which time the enemy was in full retreat, what was left of them.

Oh, I also set a 18000 credit mission for the pirates to attack their homeworld, and I sent my fleet into the now unprotected flank of their few remaining worlds. My main fleet (the small one with five capital ships) jumped into their homeworld, which was... A HUUUUGE clusterfuck. A massive fleet of pirates was there, along with a massive fleet of the enemy ships. I popped in, and ordered my fleet to attack their flagship. Within 3 minutes of this order:

The Hand of Ilus has been defeated.

You transhumanist, sickly, strategically inept, tactically deficient, blisteringly foolish cowards have seen the might of the True Human race. No cybernetic enhancement is necessary, no fancy Eusocial psychic community, no deceptive cultural tricks.
I have conquered my star system, and in doing so, gained all but five artifacts, I own almost 25 or 30 planets, I have defeated TWO enemy civilizations, and I have a buttoned-down, nigh-impenetrable star system defended to the gills on every world, with hardly half my Logistics slots filled on any of my worlds.
The pirate factions are mine to command, my fleet can and has defeated numerically superior foes of diverse natures on repeated occasions, and now I am the one with numerical superiority. The rest of this game is just mopping up four other star systems, killing the remaining two civilizations, and getting that sweet, sweet victory screen.

Sins of a Solar Empire, in case you forgot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 10, 2013, 01:20:24 pm

Managed to beat the AI. Starting at the Prehistoric Age, built up a sizable economy. Despite the enemy somehow getting a prophet through my walls(which I still don't know how, since there's no way he could have slipped in before the walls were finished) and starting a pestilence, and losing a wood/gold mining city to the enemy, I was able to begin invading their territory by the Bronze and Dark Ages, with my armies lead first by Hannibal, then Richard the Lionheart. Finished killing them most of the way through the Middle Ages, and finally won shortly after entering the Renassaince.

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Empire Earth: Art of Conquest. Do note, Advanced Mining does not do anything. It's supposed to double the number of miners you can have on a stone, iron, or gold deposit, but it doesn't.

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on March 06, 2013, 09:43:40 am

Quote from: Akura on March 05, 2013, 01:15:48 pm

-snip-

I do that all the time. The reduction to max health is worth it. By the end of the game Snake has about a dozen bullets just floating around in his crotch.

Which kinda makes sense, given what has to be done 20-30 years later.

Another thing is that as you heal, your max health goes up. And once your health goes to maximum allowed, your injuries heal naturally, even without treatment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on March 11, 2013, 11:00:31 am

After assaulting a small group of 3 or 4 Viper Gang Members, I took out two with my Varmint Rifle. Having emptied the magazine, instead of trying to reload (which would likely get me killed), I decided to whip out and finish off the last 2 with my .357 Magnum Revolver. Just as I did so, this song starts playing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPArO-OI_3U), and I killed the last Viper member as it said "There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play".

The radio had perfect timing. I love this game.

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Fallout: New Vegas. Said revolver takes on the appearance of the Colt Single Action Army, which made the moment that much more awesome IMO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chaoswizkid on March 11, 2013, 02:36:39 pm

Accepted Platoon Lead after the last Platoon Lead decided to leave after asking all members of the platoon to pull Galaxies and gal-crash Camp Waterson on Indar, which was being taken by the Vanu. This involved me leading the charge with my Galaxy, being attacked by a Scythe and barrel-rolling sideways into said Scythe, destroying it instantly. I recovered, too, which is pretty awesome to say the least. The gal-crash didn't work due to the two enemy platoons at the base having considerable armor support.

The squad leaders of the platoon were senior members of The Ascended that often lead platoons themselves or larger divisions of the outfit. After taking the reins, I ordered all squads to fall back to the warpgate and pull armor. On a suggestion, I ordered the armor column to charge into the main base in order to soften their defense. We lost our armor column, but the enemy also lost most of their coordinated defense and remaining armor. Afterwards, my platoon managed to secure one of the three points and held our own against superior numbers that currently controlled the base. We were reinforced by another platoon shortly after and ground the Vanu slowly until we trapped them at their spawn.

I predicted that since we crushed their momentum, they would likely fall back and focus on their southern front against the Terrans, especially at The Crown and Ti Alloys, which had multiple platoons from both sides fighting harshly over control. Some of the senior members of the outfit disagreed with me, stating that the Vanu would more likely try and hold us further south, likely at Crimson Bluff.

I ordered my platoon to wrap around and capture the territory surrounding the Mao Tech Plant before sweeping in with the other, friendly platoon and taking it. Afterwards, we swept quickly south, charging and eventually taking Crimson Bluff. The Vanu did not have time to set up appropriate defenses, and so, despite numbers being roughly the same, there was wholly insufficient resistance to stop our assault. After Crimson Bluff, the Vanu pretty much disappeared from their northern flank and the friendly platoon left for another front. I divided my platoon in order to take the most territory as fast as possible, only encountering major resistance near their warp gate where two squads from my platoon managed to significantly slow down about a platoon-sized enemy force pulling armor and airships.

Eventually, I ordered those two squads to regroup with the other half of the platoon which was busy taking the southern-most plant for the Vanu. After that, I had the platoon head north and west, digging into the Terran Republic from where the Vanu usually would, with the objective of having my fresh NC platoon joining the slugfest between the depleted and tired Terran and Vanu forces at The Crown. Something came up, though, and I had to log off before actually ordering the advance to The Crown.

This might not be considered an 'own'-appropriate moment, because I did not contribute much individually in the battles (other than that awesome sideways-barrel-roll-into-an-enemy-fighter), but under my leadership (and the leadership of the squad leaders), my platoon crushed the enemy right outside our gates and threw them all the way back to theirs, taking almost the entire right half of the continent. I was also correct about my predictions on enemy morale and their future movements away from our front. That feels like a pretty respectable 'own'. It was also only my second time leading a platoon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. I play on Mattherson, callsign CrescentSickle, and I'm in the outift The Ascended [TAS].

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on March 19, 2013, 02:35:59 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

Hardcore to the core. Enjoy it while it lasts. I sure did..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on March 19, 2013, 02:40:06 pm

I tossed rocks and my babies at a big dinosaur until he fell into Magma.  Then I took all my babies and went back to the forest to be a Mom.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Offspring Fling

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 19, 2013, 06:34:05 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

I'm sure the RNG smiled on you in that instances.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 19, 2013, 07:33:03 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

I remember my first base attack.  I had just sold almost all the big flashy guns there, or shipped them to somewhere else, and I was waiting to get new ones.  They attacked, and my giant complement of elite troops had to fight with pistols.  Against mutons.  Can you guess what happened?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 19, 2013, 07:34:16 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 19, 2013, 07:33:03 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

I remember my first base attack.  I had just sold almost all the big flashy guns there, or shipped them to somewhere else, and I was waiting to get new ones.  They attacked, and my giant complement of elite troops had to fight with pistols.  Against mutons.  Can you guess what happened?

You won a glorious victory for the future of mankind?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 19, 2013, 07:51:50 pm

Quote from: Devling on March 19, 2013, 07:34:16 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 19, 2013, 07:33:03 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

Just made a new base in china. basically a  bare bones model with  2 hangers,1 living quarters and 2 general stores. purchased 6 new recruits and transfered 6 laser rifles from my american base. when suddenly base attack. Alarms ringing, civillians evacuating. while 6 green as grass recruits "gear up" with 1 laser rifle a peice. no armor, no grenades nothing. they quickly fall back into an easly defended area, waiting for the infiltrators. will it be sectoids, snake men, floaters.

   Heavy footsteps comming down the hall and quickly pop out of their hiding places when to their horror they came face to face with two Mutons. much swearing and burst fire lasers ensued. I managed to kill those 2 and take a blaster launcher and a heavy plasma rifle as well as some grenades. They used that ambush tactic to great effect. managing to kill all infiltrators, save the base. and all without the loss of a single operative. much fist pumping ensued.

X-COM UFO Defense

I remember my first base attack.  I had just sold almost all the big flashy guns there, or shipped them to somewhere else, and I was waiting to get new ones.  They attacked, and my giant complement of elite troops had to fight with pistols.  Against mutons.  Can you guess what happened?

You won a glorious victory for the future of mankind?

Uh... yeah.  After the pistol shots ricocheted off the armor of the mutons, they hit the tiny parts in between the muton's armor, and drove deep into their vital organs.  It totally wasn't a complete and utter massacre that signaled the beginning of the end for mankind, as the resources invested in that base were too great to recover from.

Also, was playing Tomb Raider.  I think it can be summed up best by the enemy.  "Oh shit! She has a submachine gun!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: QuakeIV on March 19, 2013, 10:53:19 pm

So I was playing rome: total war.  Not THAT hard of a game (even on hard), especially as rome, however this felt pretty badass to me.

My top general, Decius the Wrathful, a nine start general, was campaigning in northern gaul.  He had a force of predominantly light infantry units he started the campaign with.  Experienced, cheap, and not needed elsewhere.  This is small scale (for my netbook) so his force is about 600 men.  Just outside Alesia, his army is sandwhiched between a massive ass-pull army of gauls totalling about 1800 men, including somewhere in the region of 1700 light infantry.

The game knew exactly what was about to do down, so it starts this track  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPgIftol6E), (one i had never heard it play before) while Decius gives one of the best pre-battle speeches I have had the pleasure of hearing in the game.  My theoretically inferior hastati are so fired up by his excellent generalling that all bets are off as to how well they will do.  His force is quickly led into an assault against a randomly selected gallic force.  It is annihilated to a man less than a minute after contact with the use of the generals unit for flanking charges.  The army is quickly reformed then lead in a similar charge against the second gallic force, annihilating it with ease, despite the gallic faction leader attempting to contain the situation.  At this point all that is left is a few scattered groups of unwashed barbarians fleeing in disorder, which Decius personally sends to the afterlife.

All in all he lost 160 of his men and slaughtered nearly two thousand gauls in one battle.  With, taking into account armor upgrades, inferior infantry.  Alesia fell the very next turn.

FUCK yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 1freeman on March 20, 2013, 09:02:35 am

Quote from: Devling on March 19, 2013, 06:34:05 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

-Badass Snip-
X-COM UFO Defence

I'm sure the RNG smiled on you in that instances.

I think these guys are super heros in disguise or something. The same team just cleared out a large UFO that landed in southern china. I sent them because they were the only team close enough to respond in time. With personal armor (leftovers from my American base) and heavy plasma/plasma rifles they managed another flawless victory, against ethereals no less. The ugly bastards didnt even get to fire a shot. This is by far the most succesful I have ever been in this game, so I'm kind of afraid that my luck will run out in the most spectacular way possible.

X-COM UFO Defence

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 20, 2013, 12:25:24 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 20, 2013, 09:02:35 am

Quote from: Devling on March 19, 2013, 06:34:05 pm

Quote from: 1freeman on March 19, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

-Badass Snip-
X-COM UFO Defence

I'm sure the RNG smiled on you in that instances.

I think these guys are super heros in disguise or something. The same team just cleared out a large UFO that landed in southern china. I sent them because they were the only team close enough to respond in time. With personal armor (leftovers from my American base) and heavy plasma/plasma rifles they managed another flawless victory, against ethereals no less. The ugly bastards didnt even get to fire a shot. This is by far the most succesful I have ever been in this game, so I'm kind of afraid that my luck will run out in the most spectacular way possible.

X-COM UFO Defence

Luck is a nonerenewable resource.
Or rather, just a bullshit resource.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:06:25 pm

This was a while ago, but still the last time I properly 'owned':

  Napoleon and his fancy Line infantry had been heading East towards Russia for days, levelling Austria, Poland, Hungary and any other unfortunates that fell in his way.  Now, being the Russians, I knew he didn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of reaching Moscow and, even if he did, I had guns lining it's borders.  No, instead my first conflict fell just south of Austria, near the Ottomans (I bloody hate those guys).  So there I was, a small cluster of buildings for cover and Napoleon in all his glory on the high-ground.  BOOM went their guns, RATTLE came their cavalry and before I knew it, they were rushing my Left flank.  Lucky for me, the ideal conditions for horses don't include cannister shot at point blank range.  They fell in their dozens and we soon saw the backs of them.  Meanwhile, that sneaky Frenchie had pulled his line so that it could start firing into the first buildings where my own Line and Cossacks lay in wait, rifle cocked and ready for that first deadly volley.  Lucky for me, it never came.  A stray shot from one of my guns knocked Napoleon right off his horse (and injured him.  INJURED.), just as his bodyguard was about to attack a weak point in my right-most line.  What happened next was pure beauty; a watched with smug fascination as unit after unit in the French line started flashing, but i wasn't going to let them escape that easy.  Pavlov grenadiers cut off the dogs, tossing bombs into their ranks and finishing them off with smart, Russian volley.  7th and 8th Lancers charged up onto the French position, literally tearing into their guns and finishing off with a quick slap across the face of some sneaky hidden Light infantry. 
                                                                                                                      A good day.     

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 20, 2013, 04:08:48 pm

Quote from: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:06:25 pm

A stray shot from one of my guns knocked Napoleon right off his horse (and injured him.  INJURED.)

Napoleon can't die in that game, only get injured and leave the battlefield for a couple turns.

Unless the game isn't Napoleon: Total War, in which case you would still get meteored for not telling us the name of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:11:56 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on March 20, 2013, 04:08:48 pm

Quote from: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:06:25 pm

A stray shot from one of my guns knocked Napoleon right off his horse (and injured him.  INJURED.)

Napoleon can't die in that game, only get injured and leave the battlefield for a couple turns.

Unless the game isn't Napoleon: Total War, in which case you would still get meteored for not telling us the name of the game.

OC said the game title was optional, but yeah, it was Napoleon: Total War.  ...and he can't die?  Damn, never knew that :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 20, 2013, 04:18:01 pm

Quote from: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:11:56 pm

OC said the game title was optional, but yeah, it was Napoleon: Total War.  ...and he can't die?  Damn, never knew that :D

Ah. They always complain in the How did you last die thread, and I assumed that the rules had transferred over to this thread as well. Never mind then.

And yes, Napoleon can't die, which kinda makes sense given that it's Napoleon: Total War. Mind you I think that all the major factions have a general that can never die, such as Wellington for the British and Blucher for the Prussians. Since they're the best general for that faction, that's a good thing if it's your general, but not so much if it's the enemy's. I think the Russians get... Mikhail Kutuzov as their undying general. Don't quote me on that though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:20:11 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on March 20, 2013, 04:18:01 pm

Quote from: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:11:56 pm

OC said the game title was optional, but yeah, it was Napoleon: Total War.  ...and he can't die?  Damn, never knew that :D

 I think the Russians get... Mikhail Kutuzov as their undying general. Don't quote me on that though.

Oh I will :P  I think it is, because I've had him shot a few times and, seeing as he's 68, he's spent his fair time in re-hab back at Moscow.  Well if someone complains I'll happily edit it :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 20, 2013, 04:25:52 pm

Quote from: Vespulan on March 20, 2013, 04:20:11 pm

Oh I will :P  I think it is, because I've had him shot a few times and, seeing as he's 68, he's spent his fair time in re-hab back at Moscow.

After reading up on his history, it's definitively him, seeing as he masterminded Napoleon's defeat in Russia (using the general plan of scorched earth his predecessor made). Mind you historically he kicks the bucket in 1813 due to illness, so I would use him while you've still got him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on March 21, 2013, 06:38:35 pm

After a dry spell of about ~100 games (due to me taking a significant break between sessions). I just won twice in a row in spelunky. Twice. And the second time I didn't even need to use my item that gave me a second life (in addition to ending each game with a pretty impressive amount of health)..

Spoiler: Image documentation of both my wins (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Jmu1qZt.png?3)
(http://i.imgur.com/P9BzzD1.png?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/cev7lmm.png?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/PzVS4YH.png?1)

((The first image is a little blurry due to being resized twice, sorry about that)).

If you couldn't tell by me including the name of the game in my post, the game is spelunky.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 21, 2013, 06:40:52 pm

You lucky sunuvabitch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on March 21, 2013, 07:49:48 pm

The first game wasn't really that lucky, you are pretty much gaurenteed a jetpack after enough games, and the other impressive stuff (6 health, 82 bombs, 15 ropes) came from a ton of sacrifices on the second to last level.
Now the second game. Holy shit, it was like spelunky wanted me to win. Level 1: Sticky bombs from first crate, three tiles to the right of where I spawned in the open. Level 2: Jetpack and two sets of 12 bombs from gambler (with the next item if I chose to get it being another set of 12 bombs). Level 3: Climbing gloves and Shotgun from gambler, as well as the item that lets you find the black market.
That right there, is every single item that you need to win the game pretty comfortably. It even threw a cape (which I didn't need) and another shotgun at me later for free (as well as eventually giving me the climbing shoes and the skull cup item).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 21, 2013, 07:54:34 pm

I recently had a game of Spelunkey where everything hated me. Jetpack in the store on the second level. I buy it. Crate near the end of the second level? Jetpack. Store in the third level? Jetpack. Crate in the fourth level? JETPACK.

I can go 50 runs without seeing a single jetpack, and now 4 in one run. I didn't win either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on March 21, 2013, 10:07:17 pm

Got a couple of sections of a song in Rocksmith to 100%. No, they're not the solo. Yes, they're the easy parts. That said, they're 100%, dammit, and it's this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKz2U4fvA4U) song.

That's right, I'm playing Slash. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 22, 2013, 12:18:55 pm

First non-cheaty victory(actually, even with cheating the game, I think it's still my first victory). Captured about 60% of the map with a single Scout hero(eventually upgraded to Archer/Marksman), eventually kicking even more ass with the inclusion of one single War Elephant.

A random event eventually got me the entire Paladin Armor set, so I recruited a fresh Warrior hero, and gave him the set, plus a bunch of other magic items to boost him to instant asskicking. Before long, he was a holy knight, and was simply walking through waves of enemies, leaving nothing but destruction in his wake. He was especially deadly against evil things, such as undead and Chaos spawn, since his class, weapon, and armor set all gave him a stacking Smite Evil ability. And then I gave him an Elephant.

So, I finally meet the other two opponents. The first, in the northwest(I started in the northeast), opens trade, while having conquered a good portion south of his capital, but I had met him by crossing the sea between us. The other, in the south, seems to have stopped his expansion, possibly because his heroes were all killed by locals. I'm not sure. Anyway, he allies with me.

With two heroes that leave ugly messes of whatever is in front of him(the archer killed 2 dragons. Or rather, his elephant did, but the archer tanked the dragon's attacks), I decided to attack the northwester. While my warrior tied up his heroes in the south of his empire with a game of cat-and-mouse, my archer sneaks in across the sea, reaching his capital and laying siege within a couple of turns. Though battered by the defense, they eventually wore them down. Funnily enough, all he had in his castle garrison was a couple of spearmen.

When the northwestern ruler was destroyed, my "ally" in the south immediately surrended. I didn't expect that, since crushing him would be a simple matter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Eador: Genesis. I was called "the Pure" for all my good-aligned actions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on March 22, 2013, 11:27:31 pm

I decided to try to bring DEMOCRACY to all oppressed peoples. Starting sometime in 1994 I believe, I forget when. So in two years, I went from simply owning the USA, I went to...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i47.tinypic.com/25s1jly.jpg)

Owning almost everything. And not a single nuclear weapon was used.

Shadow President for those curious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vgray on March 23, 2013, 12:19:44 am

I somehow knew which game you were talking about the minute I read the word DEMOCRACY...

Well...that's not quite true. I knew almost for certain when I read the year.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on March 23, 2013, 03:43:14 am

Quote from: Corai on March 22, 2013, 11:27:31 pm

I decided to try to bring DEMOCRACY to all oppressed peoples. Starting sometime in 1994 I believe, I forget when. So in two years, I went from simply owning the USA, I went to...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i47.tinypic.com/25s1jly.jpg)

Owning almost everything. And not a single nuclear weapon was used.

Shadow President for those curious.

How did you loose the USA?
Or is this that glitch that just inverts the stuff you owns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vgray on March 23, 2013, 03:47:08 am

I'm going to guess the US is red because he has it selected.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bdthemag on March 23, 2013, 03:52:25 am

I was playing Darkest Hour with the Kaiserreich mod. I decided to play the Commune of France (Communist Frenchies) who bordered their main enemy the German Empire. I basically just sit around doing jack shit and upgrading my extremely outdated army for two years, until Southern Italy (The communist part of Italy I support) decides to take some land from the northern side backed by the German Empire. I intervene in the war, and Germany gets pissed off and declares war on me. Now since I was focusing primarily on upgrading my army, I could barely build any fucking troops. So essentially, I had about two thirds the troop germany had, and they were all worse equipped than the german's. Somehow though, I managed to encircle a few of their giant stacks of troops and pushed them all the way back to the Rhine. I continued pushing them back until I made my way to Berlin, encircling it and capturing it within a few days.

This is actually pretty easy to do in this mod, but considering I absolutely sucked at the military aspect of the game before this was a nice surprise. Especially since I wasn't even halfway prepared to take Germany on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vgray on March 23, 2013, 03:57:24 am

*Klaxon*

Warning. Meteor Swarm arming.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on March 23, 2013, 03:59:16 am

Quote from: Bdthemag on March 23, 2013, 03:52:25 am

I was playing Darkest Hour with the Kaiserreich mod.

Reading comprehension fail detected.

Oh, and contrary to the dieing thread, citing the source of the ownage is not required.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vgray on March 23, 2013, 04:01:53 am

Well uh...



Stand down meteor swarm!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on March 23, 2013, 09:11:54 pm

Not gaming, but gaming related.
Knocked out a guide for playing TF2 engineer on steam, expected it to get a few views then fade fast.  Its now 2 weeks since I put it up and im expecting it to hit 10000+ views within the day.

  COWER BEFORE MY MIGHTY EPEEN!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 23, 2013, 09:36:22 pm

Quote from: greatorder on March 23, 2013, 09:29:37 pm

Tortured the cult to near oblivion with Hans.

SS13

How dare you tantalize us.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on March 23, 2013, 09:47:25 pm

Quote from: greatorder on March 23, 2013, 09:29:37 pm

Tortured the cult to near oblivion with Hans.

SS13

And i was beating up the remaining cultist at the end, it was !fun!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on March 23, 2013, 09:58:20 pm

Just spawned, half a second after spawning i killed a man who was shooting my teamate, startrushing to the corner where he most likely came out, emptied my magazine into 2 other guy. a third came out while reloading, pulled a grenade between me and him to stop his advance, took cover while reloading, right as the smoke and debris from the grenande STARTS to fade out i killed him while he was coming toward me. My friend got killed by a man who came from our back. I had just enough time to pick up my pistol to kill him. I fall back to let my team catch up faster. we start moving to the capture point, i emptied my magazine getting 2 assist and supp assist. Launch my second grenade, didnt realise i missed it and was at my feet while i was reloading...

All that happet in about 45sec-1min

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BF3 Close combat

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 23, 2013, 10:07:43 pm

Quote from: greatorder on March 23, 2013, 10:02:42 pm

Quote from: Devling on March 23, 2013, 09:36:22 pm

Quote from: greatorder on March 23, 2013, 09:29:37 pm

Tortured the cult to near oblivion with Hans.

SS13

How dare you tantalize us.

It involved tasing equipment, handcuffs and wire restraints, two mechs, blood, a cyborg, an energy gun, and an airlock.

Tantalize I say, tantalize!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on March 23, 2013, 10:20:30 pm

Yea, i was the mech, basically the robotist told me that the engineer (I think the other tortured person) broke in and there was runes near him, then scott overloaded me and got the engineer to escape, before the Secuity force got him, then i use the end to track down and kill scott, which was really fun

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 24, 2013, 12:32:29 am

Quote from: greatorder on March 23, 2013, 10:15:29 pm

The gist of it is there was a cult round, me and the HoP got attacked, captured the attackers, tortured them for info, mechs came in and took one of them, as well sap spacing the murderous HoP (who came back with a vengeance. He Came back through the door he was spaced from). I'd had enough with axl, ordered that he be killed, someone else who I can't remember the name of was also tortured and killed. Last half hour was just weird. It was a scramble to get rid of the cultists and make sure none escaped on the shuttle/pods.

I was the Head of Personnel. They spaced me. I came back because Axl Blyant wasn't fucking dead yet. They had captured him, and were about to space him... I ran up out of nowhere, and yelled, "NO! He... HE IS MINE!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 24, 2013, 03:34:24 am

I've done it. I stayed in Creature Stage for weeks, I checked and double-checked, and I have finally managed to kill every single living thing that moves apart from my own species on the continent. Even the EPICS are dead. Now to move onto Tribal stage and regret that I'm unable to migrate to other continents and kill everything there as well, as new species will unduobtedly b doubting my claim to killing everything there is. I must say, I've forgotten how much fun it is to completely go the omnicidal path in this game.

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Spore

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 24, 2013, 06:14:34 am

If you've destroyed every other nest, then who do you face in tribal mode?  Do other, random, creatures just pop up in the game, even if you haven't seen them at all in creature stage? 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on March 24, 2013, 06:19:54 am

Yup.

What did you expect? Actual evolution?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on March 24, 2013, 03:09:45 pm

Isn't it other tribes of the same specie as you ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 24, 2013, 03:15:08 pm

Everyone in my prima donna squad, except for my heavy, is a psi operative.  I have a firestorm on every continet equipped with a plasma cannon, along with an extra firestorm in Europe and North America, and interceptors in other places.  There is nothing to research, nd I got reserve satellites ready.  Everyone has archangel, Titan, or Ghost armor, and has the best possible weapon.  And I haven't lost a single man in the last fifteen or so missions, and no one has been wounded in the last three.  Those overseer ships won't know what hit them. 

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XCOM: Enemy UNkown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on March 24, 2013, 03:38:23 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 24, 2013, 03:15:08 pm

Everyone in my prima donna squad, except for my heavy, is a psi operative.  I have a firestorm on every continet equipped with a plasma cannon, along with an extra firestorm in Europe and North America, and interceptors in other places.  There is nothing to research, nd I got reserve satellites ready.  Everyone has archangel, Titan, or Ghost armor, and has the best possible weapon.  And I haven't lost a single man in the last fifteen or so missions, and no one has been wounded in the last three.  Those overseer ships won't know what hit them. 

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XCOM: Enemy UNkown

Oh god.... i feel for you, you sir really dont know whats coming.... your next post will be in the how did you last got *owned*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 24, 2013, 04:29:22 pm

Quote from: NRDL on March 24, 2013, 06:14:34 am

If you've destroyed every other nest, then who do you face in tribal mode?  Do other, random, creatures just pop up in the game, even if you haven't seen them at all in creature stage?

I assume they swam over from other continents.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Repulsion on March 24, 2013, 04:58:43 pm

Already rampaged and completely destroyed one Pride, and I was halfway through the second. I'm on the third floor, and the boss and his tanky crony pop out of nowhere. I dominate, pop rampage, and frenzy. The boss pops down to about 80% health, and then I use slash.

Boom, 1700 damage crit, not even taking into account on-hit damage.

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Tales of Maj'Eyal, a level 46 Cornac Cursed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 24, 2013, 06:27:21 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on March 24, 2013, 03:38:23 pm

Oh god.... i feel for you, you sir really dont know whats coming.... your next post will be in the how did you last got *owned*

My next time that I owned-
I landed at the crash site.  My men moved up in their normal pattern, with my sniper finding a good place to hide, my heavy hanging back a bit, and my assualts and supports leading the attack.  One of my men spotted a sectopod.  My sniper blew it up, with two crits in a row.  my heavy then killed the remaining drones.  I then encountered a group of mutons, and my assualts mindcontrolled two.  They helped kill the remaining enemies, while one of my assualts charged the etheral, who only had one hp left.  He got mind controlled, and to prevent further damage I used disabling shot on him, and then realized that I could of just shot the etheral, which I did using double shot.  So all in all, the only reason my man was wounded was because of friendly fire.  Which went in the books as a freak occurence caused by a magnetic anomaly that caused a shot to brush his armour. 
Actual spoiler-

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The last mission is horrible.  It's boring, there's never any really challenge in it, and my paranoia kept it at a snails pace.  The only time any of my men were hurt was at the section with the sectopods, because the balcony overlooking it was bugged and my sniper and heavy couldn't get any shots in.  That ended up wounding half my men.  Then, when going to the final section, my sniper's archangel armor got buggy and he was forced to sta there just out of the fight. Because of that, one of my heavies was mindcontrolled, and I couldn't disable his weapon.  But my assualtws mindcontrolled the mutant guards, they grenaded that guy, and my assualts run and gunned him for an almost clean victory.  So that was some minor ownage.   

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Enemy Unknown, again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 25, 2013, 12:08:47 pm

Had The End down to the last bit of health. I chased him to the northern part of the forest. I lost sight of him for a bit, but I had his general location when he started shooting at me. I put on my thermal goggles and see a large-ish mass just north of me. I toss a grenade at it, but find it didn't do anything, so I charge him with my shotgun, blasting it up close...

Only it wasn't The End, it was a markhor goat. However, The actual End was trying to run past behind me, so I just simply turned around and blasted him away with my shotgun.

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MGS3: Snake Eater. And that bullet that Ocelot lodged in my nose is still there.

Defeated The Boss with record ease. When she was running up to use CQC, I simply shot her in the face with my shotgun. If I missed, I dequipped it, reversed her grab, and slashed her with my knife. Repeat until I'm standing over her pointing her own Patriot in her face.

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MGS3 again. I love that shotgun.

Defeated a boss I've been trying for months to kill. Okay, so it's been a few months since I've tried, but it has taken many many attempts to bring it down. Sure, it involved blowing up the sun, but I did it finally. The entire rest of the dungeon(the boss was at the entrance) was filled with really weak enemies in comparison...

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Grandia III. That damned Melc Crystal. The spell I finished it off with was called Galactic Bang, which actually does blow up the sun.
The enemies in the dungeon were, in fact, weaker than enemies in the area before this spot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on March 25, 2013, 12:15:49 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 24, 2013, 04:29:22 pm

Quote from: NRDL on March 24, 2013, 06:14:34 am

If you've destroyed every other nest, then who do you face in tribal mode?  Do other, random, creatures just pop up in the game, even if you haven't seen them at all in creature stage?

I assume they swam over from other continents.

But what about that goddamn sea monster?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 25, 2013, 01:18:05 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on March 25, 2013, 12:15:49 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 24, 2013, 04:29:22 pm

Quote from: NRDL on March 24, 2013, 06:14:34 am

If you've destroyed every other nest, then who do you face in tribal mode?  Do other, random, creatures just pop up in the game, even if you haven't seen them at all in creature stage?

I assume they swam over from other continents.

But what about that goddamn sea monster?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 25, 2013, 04:33:28 pm

Quote from: Devling on March 25, 2013, 01:18:05 pm

Quote from: Slayerhero90 on March 25, 2013, 12:15:49 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 24, 2013, 04:29:22 pm

Quote from: NRDL on March 24, 2013, 06:14:34 am

If you've destroyed every other nest, then who do you face in tribal mode?  Do other, random, creatures just pop up in the game, even if you haven't seen them at all in creature stage?

I assume they swam over from other continents.

But what about that goddamn sea monster?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

I simply have to assume that either aliens were transporting them over or they flew or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on March 25, 2013, 05:39:37 pm

So, since all the available star systems were already claimed, I spent every single turn developing my economy, and of course my !!SCIENCE!!.
Due to my natural affinity for it, I was around twenty techs ahead of everyone else by turn 100. I was also allied with the local superpower (the other twos being somewhat upset by my borders).
At that time, I began refusing unfair demands en masse. ("Asking me for all of my antimatter for... Open borders? You know very well where you can put this treaty. With the 254 others.")
Now the north-western neighbour was getting increasingly upset by my rebuttals. So I teched military like there was no tomorrow, and popped 6 dreadnoughts with 26 batteries of lvl6 cinetic weapons each, plus lvl6 flak, lvl3 shields and lvl4 armor, and all kinds of goodies.
Needless to say, when the first two rolled out, I skyrocketed from 4th (and last) military power to a firm first. The puny humans crapped their pants and the arrogants north-western dudes declared war instantly. Too bad, a single one of my babies is so impressive their whole offensive force just fled. Then I finished the six of them and sent them to attack their systems.
The most powerful of their fleets have around 800 power. Mine is OVER 9000. Ownage. (I think I once did 12.000 damages... Or would have done if they didnt flee before the disruptive rounds hit :()

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Endless space, playing Sophons. Usually pacifists, but don't piss off a guy that has a laser gun when you have a stone knife.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 26, 2013, 01:36:37 am

While hunting squirrels, I ran across my second njerp warrior. I barely defeated my first after an extended battle of my woodsman's axe versus his bastard sword, which I took as part of my spoils.

Well, despite my rather pathetic sword skill of 19, I snuck up close to the sleeping warrior, bastard sword in hand. The warrior woke up at the last moment, but I delivered a brutal blow to the stomach that knocked him out instantly, allowing me to deliver a final decapitating strike. Killing a barbaric warrior in two hits with a badly untrained melee weapon? Taking no damage in return? Sounds like ownage to me.

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UnReal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 26, 2013, 03:19:56 am

I managed to kill four soldiers in a fort, one by one, as they advanced on me, with my bare hands.  Sustained no injuries. 

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 26, 2013, 07:14:55 am

I was sailing around the eastern edge of San Fierro, fishing as I went. A guy was adrift in the water, so I slowed down to give him a lift, because I'm a nice guy.

He said "Give me your boat." I said "Nope."

He said "Give me your boat or I will shoot you."

I said "Try it, see what happens!" He ran up toward my cabin and I placed a hit on him worth $15000. He hesitates.
I'd hired a hitman for $50000 previously to drive alongside the beach and keep me safe while I was fishing. The hitman accelerates far ahead of my boat while I slow down, he gets a sniper rifle out and shoots the other guy, killing him. Thus I keep my boat, get my fish, and the hitman makes a tidy $65k profit.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Multiplayer - Crazy Bob's Cops and Robbers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on March 26, 2013, 10:55:03 am

Same game as above, my friends sneakily work their way toward Diplomatic Victory. But as they are 97% complete, I break all treaties with them (not actually getting at war), considerably slowing down their progress. At the same time, I rush the Wonder Victory. 7 turns before all 5 shrines of invulnerability are completed... They are at 99% completion... They hit 100% at turn 203... But don't actually win. The UI must round up or something, so they are in reality between 99.5 and 99.9999999% complete. I manage to get two more turns before I complete the Wonders, snatching victory right from their greedy, greedy hands.

Oh, and I have a new record: 51.639 damage dealt in the long range phase alone. With cinetic weapons. And that was 22% efficiency...
All of the ennemy fire was intercepted by flawless defences and I suffered literally no damage at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 26, 2013, 11:36:33 am

Played a CTF botmatch with me(Bond) and Alura against a Pheonix Commando and a Black Ops trooper, on a ski resort map, which has a lift going between both bases(mine was the ski lodge, theirs was like a castle or something). Assaulted their base and grabbed their flag. Since I didn't want to try and shoot my way getting out from the ground floor, I went for the lift. However, since the lift wasn't there at the moment, I jumped onto the roof, then onto the steel cables that carry the lifts between the bases. Captured the flag by tightroping back, and then killing one of the Pheonix guys who had just taken our flag.

Following that, I defended our flag using the Sentinel guided rocket launcher. There's two ways to kill a man; you can look him in the eye, or you can drop him before he even knows you're there. And with camera-equipped remote-controlled rockets, you can do both from across the map!

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007: Nightfire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 27, 2013, 09:26:21 am

Giving up my character's individuality was totally worth dealing thousands of damage, and having more spells that's a wizard's convention. Getting out of Eureka was a million times easier than getting in, and couple of bosses I missed were cakewalks.

Still, I'll miss Cacame beating up monsters with his bare hands^1., Urist the dedicated Dragoon^2., Derm shitting earthquakes^3. and Cero^4.... Well Cero just put on a different hat. Cero didn't change much, besides for the better.

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<sup>1. Black Belt/Karateka is an awesome class. Sure, the equipment sucks and the defence is like tissue paper, but HP growth is great and damage is amazing. Urist needed two spears to out damage Cacame, and even then Cacame caught up quickly. By the time I was heading through Eureka, Cacame was easily one-shotting everything while Urist was struggling to keep up.

2. When you first get access to the Dragoon job, you don't get spears to equip them with. After hearing how good Dragoons are, I decided that Urist could chill as a Dragoon, picking up valuable job experience until I found a spear. Cue the party running around through the sewers, Cacame punching things to death, Derm using his Geomancer's hat, Cero... being supportive while Urist just chilled out in the back and tossed potions every now and again.

3. Or at least that's what it looks like to me. Derm runs forward, turns around and sits, after which a giant brown crack appears underneath him and the enemies take damage. Maybe he just needs more fibre in his diet or something.

4. Cero Glossportals was an elven diplomat from Amanereli, and an option for leader of the caravan. Just if you're wondering why he doesn't seem to follow the naming scheme I've kinda set up.</sup>

Final Fantasy III The NES one. AKA the FF3 I might be able to complete a LP of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 27, 2013, 11:12:03 pm

As of right now, there is a satellite in orbit over Kerban.  It has two extended solar panels providing power to a gravitic sensor thingie, a couple of other sensors, an electric engine that doesn't do anything, and an comn antennae.  While this doesn't really do anything, and it is a minor feat for more experienced players, it is immensely satisfying seeing something other then debris orbiting Kerban. 

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 29, 2013, 06:07:51 am

I almost lost in the beginning; military and religious vessels bombarded my city, there having developed 2 factions, both at war with me. Fortunately I had an ally: the blue nation. And more importantly, I had something the people who were capturing all my cities didn't know about: the power of money. With my one military focused city I pumped out the mediocre amount of vehicles it would allow and defended my cities with them, putting the rest of my vehicles into a trade route with the blues. I had so many trade ships my coffers were overflowing, so I continued to hardass the enemy and buy out my ally's cities as he captured them. Eventually I had enough money to win: I nuked every other city into submission. I win.

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Spore

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 29, 2013, 11:42:49 am

Spoiler: Huzzah! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/30SX8dN.png)

It took almost a year(it finally happened on the 29th of Winter), and a metric fuckload of wild grapes and eggs, but I did it.

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Harvest Moon 64

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vector on March 29, 2013, 03:36:26 pm

Guards were on high alert, so I stabbed all 10 of them to death in the Florence streets.  First thing I hear after the alarm goes down: "Carne fresca!" (fresh meat).  Turns out I piled them up right in front of a butcher.

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Assassin's Creed 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on March 29, 2013, 03:41:31 pm

Sent all three of my militiadwarves to their deaths at the paws of a blackbear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on March 29, 2013, 03:43:46 pm

Wait how is that ownage

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on March 29, 2013, 03:47:18 pm

After tons of giant insects, kingsnakemen, and more animalmen of other kinds, my militia met its match.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on March 29, 2013, 05:17:08 pm

I think you're meant to play the game in the other sense. But yours seems more fun  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on March 29, 2013, 08:04:49 pm

My first proper play of Crawl aside from the tutorial, I'm playing a Draconian Death Knight. After getting ganged up by an orc with an electrified whip and an orc mage, I barely escaped with my life at only 1 HP after the mage nailed me with a spell.

I retreated back up a floor, came back down and raised a couple zombie helpers, and killed the orc wielding the whip. Said whip is now my weapon of choice and I'm going strong again, looking for that jerkhole orc mage to lash to death. Not bad for my first proper play of this roguelike.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. The tutorials are a bit offputing due to their length, but it gets pretty fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on April 01, 2013, 01:09:46 pm

I was flying around in my Mozzie earlier, being an opportunistic bastard. Got 40 certs in half an hour.
Examples of being a little bitch:
Shooting down a reaver, while flying away dodge 6 tank shells heading for my cockpit, kill the tank then run over some guy next to it who was looking at his map.
While running away from one reaver, end up behind to a Phoenix squad, ducked under a friendly tank shell and ran another dude over.

Feels too good, man.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 01, 2013, 01:19:28 pm

Charging... What game? Just curious. My guess is either EVE, Planetside 2 or WoT. The money is on Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on April 01, 2013, 01:28:44 pm

Between Mozzie, Reaver and certs, it's 100percent Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 01, 2013, 01:31:33 pm

Hm. Never played it, so I don't know what that means. Also lolcaptainplanetlol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 01, 2013, 10:30:57 pm

My kobold assassin Rooz was just sneaking along, looting the dungeon and stabbing sleeping vermin when he opened a door and found a most dreadful sight: a pack of jackals accompanied by their foul ogre master. The jackals barked at Rooz, betraying his position and awakening the ogre, who brandished a giant club bigger than Rooz himself. The ogre looked extremely dangerous.

Rooz hacked at the pack of jackals from the doorstep with his +4 +3 orc shortsword he lifted off some dumb (now dead) goblin from earlier, killing several of the jackals as they scrambled through the doorway, but the ogre got too close. Rooz retreated, baiting the ogre and his single remaining jackal into following as he readied his blowgun and his two curare-tipped needles, which he saved for just such a life-threatening occasion. He shot a needle, poisoning the ogre with asphyxiating toxins that slowed the monster's breathing and filled it with pain. The ogre fell back and Rooz managed to kill the last jackal before turning on the ogre itself. Rooz threw a spare dart or two, but the ogre kept coming; the poison was wearing off!

The ogre swung his giant treetrunk of a club, dealing a crushing blow to poor Rooz, but he clung to life! He ran further, desperately scrabbling away from the ogre. The ogre drove Rooz into a chokepoint, trapping Rooz between the ogre and a new-found goblin who looked eager to join the fray and stab our kobold hero in the back! Rooz had little hope left. He threw a dart! The dart nailed the ogre with the force of desperation and drove what battered, sickened life that remained out of its body! The monstrosity was slain!

Rooz turned around flung another single dart at the awestruck goblin behind him, splattering goblin brains all over the walls in celebration of his badassery. Looks like ogre flesh was on the menu.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Hellz yeah, I'm loving the kobold assassin I decided to try out. The ogre took my health from 24 to 4 in a single swing, I'm amazed I survived. Killing the ogre buffed me from level 3 to level 5; you know that's an impressive kill. Afterwords I oneshotted a goblin with a single thrown dart, just for extra badass points. This was all on Dlvl 2, and as a kobold no less.

I am luvvin' this roguelike.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jimbobobby on April 02, 2013, 08:14:35 pm

I found a key AND unlocked a chest! All I found was some eye thing; after jumping over a few spikes, losing a heart to a spider and killing a couple bats all I got was a lousy golden eye. Considering the fact that I'm horrible at this game I'd say this is a great achievement. Even greater than the time I stole a golden thing from a giant boulder shooting background guy. My memory isn't that good because I'm still overwhelmed with the excitement, adrenaline and fear of the damn ghost

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Spelunky, PC version

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 02, 2013, 08:52:29 pm

Quote from: jimbobobby on April 02, 2013, 08:14:35 pm

I found a key AND unlocked a chest! All I found was some eye thing; after jumping over a few spikes, losing a heart to a spider and killing a couple bats all I got was a lousy golden eye. Considering the fact that I'm horrible at this game I'd say this is a great achievement. Even greater than the time I stole a golden thing from a giant boulder shooting background guy. My memory isn't that good because I'm still overwhelmed with the excitement, adrenaline and fear of the damn ghost

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Spelunky, PC version

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The eye will reveal the locations of gems inside the walls. It's also tremendously helpful in locating a certain location.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on April 03, 2013, 01:48:33 am

Ddd, my level one orc priest, encountered Sigmund, Grinder, and Terence in dungeon 3, and managed to kill them all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on April 03, 2013, 06:52:47 am

Won the match with 11 kills, 2 deaths, topping out with the most kills in the entire match. The kicker? I was playing Voltar (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMedic).

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Awesomenauts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on April 03, 2013, 01:32:24 pm

Fought a Demi-Lich with a level 20 or so wizard. The lich had a challenge rating of impossible I think. I took him out without allowing him to take a single action.

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Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jimbobobby on April 03, 2013, 07:38:33 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 02, 2013, 08:52:29 pm

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The eye will reveal the locations of gems inside the walls. It's also tremendously helpful in locating a certain location.

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Thanks for that and sorry I took so long, I forget what I was doing before I do anything.

In other news, I'm in control of the most developed, wealthiest and cultural empire!

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Civilization Revolution on PS3 playing as China.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on April 03, 2013, 07:41:43 pm

Just killed me first skellie in Wayward.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Got Halo 3, and it's my first time playing it in almost a year and a half.  I skip to my favorite level, The Conevent, and put it on normal, to give myself time to adjust.  I immidiatly start pulling off colerful confetti explosions, with some kids cheering my on, and then I reload in front of a brute as I try to find the melee button.  Taking a moment to look over the controls, I exit out and resart it on heroic with almost all the skulls on.  It takes me until I get to the Flood to experience my first death.  God how I missed this game. 

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 03, 2013, 10:32:40 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay.

This post made me happy. I should make a game about keeping alliums at bay with space lasers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on April 03, 2013, 10:34:32 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 03, 2013, 10:32:40 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay.

This post made me happy. I should make a game about keeping alliums at bay with space lasers.

space invaders?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 03, 2013, 11:31:42 pm

Quote from: choppy on April 03, 2013, 10:34:32 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 03, 2013, 10:32:40 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay.

This post made me happy. I should make a game about keeping alliums at bay with space lasers.

space invaders?

Except with more lasers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neotemplar on April 03, 2013, 11:54:26 pm

I beat a bear to death with my bare hands to protect my pail full of freshly caught fish.

Legend of the River King

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 05, 2013, 12:55:57 pm

I built my first ballistic missile with intercontinental range.

Unfortunately, this sort of attack has to be... manned.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program demo. Finally figured how to build a ship that can achieve stable orbit. Then I turned it into a weapon.

Now, I just have to add MIRV capabilites.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on April 06, 2013, 04:07:34 pm

My team was losing, we were holding on but the enemy team was gradually pushing up teleport receivers into the contested sectors.  We decide, instead of trying to fight the enemy front, to simply walk down the last unoccupied sector and bomb their bases.  They see it coming, but on our first run we manage to kill the base supporting their extremely strong defensive ships.  We bomb again, and kill their home base, then roll onto their main techbase.  As we are coming up to it, they start bombing out bases, and as neither of us has enough people left to defend, we literally race to each other's bases.  We get there first, and although there is a gunship defending and we have only 1 fighting ship, our many scouts repair it as it kills the gunship, and we kill it and win just as they start to fire at our last base.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Allegiance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on April 06, 2013, 08:29:08 pm

A stream of very succesful missions helped give me the edge in XCOM.  First one was a crashed UFO with all five alliums killed, giving me an instant boost to my much suffering supplies.  The second was a terror mission, where my only casualties came from when a sectoid started mind controlling my people, leading to two deaths.  The third was another crash site where I only had one casualty.  Fourth was a terror mission where I managed to save 10 civies and only lost two XCOM operatives.   At the end of the month I got a funding boost of more than a million.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on April 06, 2013, 09:12:15 pm

Beat the game

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hotline Miami. The last couple of levels are actually pretty easy, other than the boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on April 07, 2013, 01:44:40 am

Made it to the point that I can kill everything that tries to kill me in Wayward. Once I killed that Time Skitter in two hits I realized it would be easy from then on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Omegastick on April 07, 2013, 06:09:11 pm

Successfully completed Dishonored non-lethal and most levels with ghost while only reloading three times (two of which were trying to figure out how to beat Granny Rags non-lethally). Felt ridiculously badass the whole way through... Now to do it without any magic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on April 08, 2013, 06:11:51 am

I happened upon a bear in the wilderness, seemingly in the middle of nowhere right as winter ended. I was playing a stealthy archer, so I was able to sneak up on him and fire an arrow his way from about 7 tiles, which was as close as I was willing to get. I knew if I missed, I'd have one more chance to score a bleeding shot before he tore me to shreds, and even then I'd be lucky to get back to camp before dying of my own blood loss.

To my incredible surprise, the first shot hit the bear in the eye, killing him instantly and netting me several hundred pounds of meat and a ridiculously heavy hide which I later turned into a cloak thick enough to keep me warm for the rest of winter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Unreal World

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 03, 2013, 10:32:40 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay.

This post made me happy. I should make a game about keeping alliums at bay with space lasers.

A KSP FPS/RTS would be the best game ever to exist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on April 08, 2013, 10:32:13 am

Quote from: Azated on April 08, 2013, 06:11:51 am

I happened upon a bear in the wilderness, seemingly in the middle of nowhere right as winter ended. I was playing a stealthy archer, so I was able to sneak up on him and fire an arrow his way from about 7 tiles, which was as close as I was willing to get. I knew if I missed, I'd have one more chance to score a bleeding shot before he tore me to shreds, and even then I'd be lucky to get back to camp before dying of my own blood loss.

To my incredible surprise, the first shot hit the bear in the eye, killing him instantly and netting me several hundred pounds of meat and a ridiculously heavy hide which I later turned into a cloak thick enough to keep me warm for the rest of winter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Unreal World

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 03, 2013, 10:32:40 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on April 03, 2013, 10:18:19 pm

Also playing Kerbal Space Program.  I now have a series of space based lazor defence satellites in orbit.  I like to imagine that they are protecting Kerbin from allium invaders, or that they are reducing panic in funding countries.  That game gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment sometimes, just watching as your creation spins around in space, hopefully keep the alliums at bay.

This post made me happy. I should make a game about keeping alliums at bay with space lasers.

A KSP FPS/RTS would be the best game ever to exist.

i agree with that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 08, 2013, 05:58:20 pm

Killed an ogre with a sling...as a hobbit. It took 12 stones, but still, I didn't even get hit once.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 08, 2013, 07:10:09 pm

Obviously you never heard of Bilbo Baggins.
Stoned three ogres to death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 08, 2013, 07:45:21 pm

No he didn't, he...

Quote from: Devling on April 08, 2013, 07:10:09 pm

Stoned

*sees what you did there*

Although technically they were trolls. Besides, all Bilbo did was chat 'em up until the sun rose, he didn't have an ogre actively swinging a tree trunk at him to squash him into jelly.

Not like it matters now, Odorf the Hobbit Hunter got killed by a ghost. Ghosts are OP, one good hero dies and it all goes downhill from there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 08, 2013, 09:22:26 pm

I'm not denying your hobbits massive boulders.
I just want to add a some accolades to the avalanche of fame on Bilbo.
He is stone cold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on April 08, 2013, 11:45:42 pm

I thought it was Gandalf who was imitating their voices, not Bilbo?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 08, 2013, 11:48:35 pm

Quote from: Blargityblarg on April 08, 2013, 11:45:42 pm

I thought it was Gandalf who was imitating their voices, not Bilbo?

Yeah it was in the book.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 08, 2013, 11:50:30 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 08, 2013, 11:48:35 pm

Quote from: Blargityblarg on April 08, 2013, 11:45:42 pm

I thought it was Gandalf who was imitating their voices, not Bilbo?

Yeah it was in the book.

Well, Bilbo kept them talking and not eating until Gandalf got his shit together. "Ever heard of a burrahobbit, Tom?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 08, 2013, 11:50:46 pm

Honestly, the whole story isn't on the stablest footing. It's on rocky ground.
Puns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on April 09, 2013, 01:00:05 am

Trolls are stronger to fight than ogre in Crawl. But they eat like ten hobbits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Repulsion on April 09, 2013, 08:20:11 am

Another Crawl story.

My KoBe is rampaging through the dungeon with his +4 +2 sword and amulet of guardian spirit, among other things, when suddenly a Grinder appears!

*corner hug* *berserk* *dead grinder*

Now then, I'll just wind the next corner... OH HOLY FUCK SIGMUND. At this point I'm at half health, being chased by Sigmund and several jackals. I nope the hell out of there and recuperate on the next floor. I go back down and meet Sigmund once again...

*corner hug* *berserk* *dead sigmund*

Got three levels off of that whole exchange!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 10, 2013, 04:34:18 am

So, I load up one of the featured saves, it's a photon light show thingy. It has to charge for a certain number of frames before you can activate it (Or you can use force start, but for some reason that makes something unrelated explode wich causes unpleasant pressure waves, destroys the normal start button and releases less photons.). I go on my usual rampage and pour acid all over it, then I burn a bit with gas. After some fiddling, it's now a rainbow cannon that spits photons in various colors constantly. The start button toggles it off and on. Fuck yes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Powder toy, still an enjoyable timewaster

E: And now I managed to override the charge time, so I can turn it on and off instantly! Woo!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on April 10, 2013, 12:56:18 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 10, 2013, 04:34:18 am

So, I load up one of the featured saves, it's a photon light show thingy. It has to charge for a certain number of frames before you can activate it (Or you can use force start, but for some reason that makes something unrelated explode wich causes unpleasant pressure waves, destroys the normal start button and releases less photons.). I go on my usual rampage and pour acid all over it, then I burn a bit with gas. After some fiddling, it's now a rainbow cannon that spits photons in various colors constantly. The start button toggles it off and on. Fuck yes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Powder toy, still an enjoyable timewaster

E: And now I managed to override the charge time, so I can turn it on and off instantly! Woo!

I was playing that exact level as I read this. Spooky.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on April 10, 2013, 01:03:31 pm

Vibranium bombs are fun, rainbow asplosions are the best variety.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 10, 2013, 01:07:57 pm

Yeah, a big ball o' vibranium with some ASIM in it makes for awesome explosions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on April 10, 2013, 01:11:04 pm

I use a lattice of breakable metal with rings of vibranium. Gives a nice three stage boom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 12, 2013, 01:41:28 am

Spoiler: Demolished my old high score by 20,000 meters (click to show/hide)

2 multiballs. Three extra lives earned and lost. Used at least 8 hard-earned boosts. Took a good half-hour.

(http://s19.postimg.org/ass0ks5ab/highscoreget.png)

The game is Katawa Crash.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 12, 2013, 06:45:37 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 12, 2013, 01:41:28 am

Spoiler: Demolished my old high score by 20,000 meters (click to show/hide)

2 multiballs. Three extra lives earned and lost. Used at least 8 hard-earned boosts. Took a good half-hour.

(http://s19.postimg.org/ass0ks5ab/highscoreget.png)

The game is Katawa Crash.

I don't know what the hell that game was, but it was awesome. Sadly, my first run hit the student council.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 12, 2013, 10:49:05 pm

Siege at south hills started going badly.  Commander said to bail and fall back.  The gate is on a cliffside platform with some shallow water at the bottom.  I'm cut off from the stairs the rest of my squad is retreating down and I start moving towards the edge to jump for the deeper water a little bit from the cliff.

But I'm being attacked, at least 10 enemies, possibly more.  I get crippled, a movement slowing effect, I'll never make the jump with a normal leap.  So I get to the railing and use a skill that throws me away from my target, hoping I would hit the deep water that way, but it's harder to aim, and I fire off a few degrees off.

And I hit deep water, I made it.  I went at an angle that would have been fatal if I jumped normally, even at full speed, but using the move gave me enough distance to make it.

But some of the enemies see I lived and jump down after me...
...and splatter on the rocks.

Only one makes the jump, intelligently going for the part of the deep water that can be reached.  The others up top choose to pursue the rest of my squad instead.  As a ranger I have the advantage in the water (rangers have a nickname 'Aquaman') and I defeat the one surviving pursuer.  I then escape and rejoin my squad at the side of the lake where a supply camp is.  I indirectly killed 3 enemy soldiers to fall damage, and directly killed one.  I like those numbers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2  World vs World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 13, 2013, 07:14:44 am

Increased my record by about 50%(25km to 38km). And who knew the Buffalo Bills would make two touchdowns(one of them got an achievement for a long distance rush) in one game?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Katawa Crash. This game is addictively insane. This run would have been longer, but I hit Shizune after I had already used my last WAHAHA! to avoid Shizune. Never even had a chance to bin Rin. I did get omnommed by Misao at one point, though.

Also... is Rin missing an arm? Her sprite has the sleeve of her shirt tied off at around the elbow.I'm not familiar with the source material.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on April 13, 2013, 09:16:39 am

Quote from: Akura on April 13, 2013, 07:14:44 am

Increased my record by about 50%(25km to 38km). And who knew the Buffalo Bills would make two touchdowns(one of them got an achievement for a long distance rush) in one game?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Katawa Crash. This game is addictively insane. This run would have been longer, but I hit Shizune after I had already used my last WAHAHA! to avoid Shizune. Never even had a chance to bin Rin. I did get omnommed by Misao at one point, though.

Also... is Rin missing an arm? Her sprite has the sleeve of her shirt tied off at around the elbow.I'm not familiar with the source material.

Rin has no arms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bikari on April 13, 2013, 09:58:14 am

Warthunder. And spent the entire match being insulted by my own team. Not many people like me in this game >: I don't know why.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4044/shot20130413155305.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on April 13, 2013, 10:13:13 am

Quote from: Bikari on April 13, 2013, 09:58:14 am

Warthunder. And spent the entire match being insulted by my own team. Not many people like me in this game >: I don't know why.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4044/shot20130413155305.jpg)

too good for them i guess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 13, 2013, 11:12:35 am

Quote from: Blargityblarg on April 13, 2013, 09:16:39 am

Quote from: Akura on April 13, 2013, 07:14:44 am

Increased my record by about 50%(25km to 38km). And who knew the Buffalo Bills would make two touchdowns(one of them got an achievement for a long distance rush) in one game?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Katawa Crash. This game is addictively insane. This run would have been longer, but I hit Shizune after I had already used my last WAHAHA! to avoid Shizune. Never even had a chance to bin Rin. I did get omnommed by Misao at one point, though.

Also... is Rin missing an arm? Her sprite has the sleeve of her shirt tied off at around the elbow.I'm not familiar with the source material.

Rin has no arms.

Oh.

... :-[

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 13, 2013, 12:22:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 13, 2013, 11:12:35 am

Quote from: Blargityblarg on April 13, 2013, 09:16:39 am

Quote from: Akura on April 13, 2013, 07:14:44 am

Increased my record by about 50%(25km to 38km). And who knew the Buffalo Bills would make two touchdowns(one of them got an achievement for a long distance rush) in one game?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Katawa Crash. This game is addictively insane. This run would have been longer, but I hit Shizune after I had already used my last WAHAHA! to avoid Shizune. Never even had a chance to bin Rin. I did get omnommed by Misao at one point, though.

Also... is Rin missing an arm? Her sprite has the sleeve of her shirt tied off at around the elbow.I'm not familiar with the source material.

Rin has no arms.

Oh.

... :-[

Just about every person in the source is disabled in some way. Including the guy been smacked around in Katawa Crash :P

Spoiler: Relevant (click to show/hide)

(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/230/404/47e.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 13, 2013, 12:31:10 pm

Sniping with a wrangled Mini-Sentry gun feels so good.

I was on 2Fort, and I got an achievement, unlocking the Gunslinger. I could now build mini sentries (and had +25 max health). These build 3x faster than normal sentries but can't be upgraded. I put one up on the battlements where snipers usually reside, so my minisentry had a vantage of oncoming enemies.

They only cost 100 metal, so you can build two (one at a time) before running out.

I also had a level 3 Dispenser near me, so I could refill my metal supplies to replace any broken minisentries.

Then, using my Wrangler, to take over the aiming system of my Minisentry, I saw a sniper on the opposing battlements. The best part about the wrangler is it projects a shield over the sentry/minisentry, reducing incoming damage. So, because sentries can't be  headshot, having no heads, and the shielding nullifying 65% of damage, I sat there gunning down incoming fighters alone for the first 10 minutes of the match. Until a spy managed to sap my sentry then get away...

But, because I had the Frontier Justice (gain 1 revenge crit when sentry is killed per kill the sentry did, EG 1 revenge crit if it killed 1 before blowing up), I then went on a rampage with my 12 free criticals, ripping a hole through most of the opposing team before being killed, allowing two Scouts to push through to the intel. ;D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2 on 2Fort.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 13, 2013, 10:01:40 pm

Sure, I could just smack the guy on the back of the head for a silent kill, but I'd rather just make his head asplode by draining him and still have stealthy kill. Plus, why bother picking up a sniper rifle when I can just mind-control the sniper, kill everyone, then jump him off a tower?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Psi-Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy. Finally managed to get past that DRM. It's fairly decent. Weak storyline, but slamming a guy repeatedly into walls using telekinesis is crazy fun.

Quote from: Sirus on April 13, 2013, 12:22:16 pm

Spoiler: Relevant (click to show/hide)

(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/230/404/47e.jpg)

Now you're just making me sad.
But, on a related note, I figured out how to activate the Ultimate Drill Works.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hit Hanako to go into Panic Mode. About every 100m, you'll see Misha appear on the Panic Mode indicator. Normally, hitting someone in Panic Mode causes Hanako to run by, blocking you from hitting them, but hitting someone at this exact point will cause Misao to nom you. However, hitting Misha at this point causes fun things.

Still haven't figured out what causes Multiball. I'm pretty sure it involves hitting Shizune, but I'm not sure what the trigger is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 13, 2013, 11:20:15 pm

You managed to get Ultimate Drill Works?! Dude, I still haven't seen that and I've been trying D:

Spoiler: Multiball (click to show/hide)

You get Multiball by hitting Gendo twice (for Clone Capture 2 of 2) and then activate any of the four main girl's special.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jester on April 14, 2013, 03:48:03 am

Quote from: Reudh on April 13, 2013, 12:31:10 pm

*snip*

But, because I had the Frontier Justice (gain 1 revenge crit when sentry is killed per kill the sentry did, EG 1 revenge crit if it killed 1 before blowing up), I then went on a rampage with my 12 free criticals, ripping a hole through most of the opposing team before being killed, allowing two Scouts to push through to the intel. ;D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2 on 2Fort.

The justice gives you 2 crits per kill and 1 crit per assist

  Master both it and the minisentry and you can be super annoying though. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 14, 2013, 04:23:04 am

Arkfall.... Man these are easy to me, every single time i do them i ALWAYS end up first OR in the top 3 if i come in too late. Most of the time i have a 25-40% more point than the 2nd place.... Sadly im not much into pics, but i do have multiple videos of me beating arkfall and fetching first unless im too late...

From EGO 200 up to my 400 ( Kinda like levelthingish ) while avewrage are over 600 and some even over 1000 ego with orange weapons. My best weapon is a blue assault riffle. ( Color coding is the same as any action RPG games. )

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Defiance PC version

Warning french video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0N84d3da8&list=PLmwm8fHf1sR0f4843lQ70MUUu51i-xkdU&index=1

Might want to jump to EP.2 right away tho

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 14, 2013, 09:07:33 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 13, 2013, 11:20:15 pm

You managed to get Ultimate Drill Works?! Dude, I still haven't seen that and I've been trying D:

Spoiler: Multiball (click to show/hide)

You get Multiball by hitting Gendo twice (for Clone Capture 2 of 2) and then activate any of the four main girl's special.

Twice. It's goddamned hard, since it requires not only a precisely timed hit, on a character who rarely appears.

(although I have to admit, if Misha appears once, she'll very likely appear a few times in short succession for a while.)

Spoiler: Various secrets I've learned (click to show/hide)

Extra life(aka Rin Bin): Not sure how to start the Rin timer(I've seen it light up hitting Mutou, Hanako, Yuuko, Kenji, and possibly Shizune), but hitting Rin with it active will give you an extra life(plus the achievement for the first time). With an extra life, if you hit non-special Shizune(unsure if rolling to a stop, but likely), instead of losing, you'll launched pretty far. Rin Binning with an extra life does nothing(except the achievment for that). Activating the timer(however that is) again while it's already lit will increase the time.

Panic Mode: Hit Hanako. She'll block the next person you hit. About every 100m, though, Misha will appear instead, and omnom you. Hit Misha like this triggers Ultimate Drill Works.

Pig jumps: Hit Yuuko to gain two pigs(can accumulate). Hitting the ground will consume one, but bounce you higher(faster?) rather than slowing you down. Hitting Mutou will take all of your remaining pigs, but will accelerate you rather than slowing down.

Hideaki: Launch vertically. Reaching the top of the screean will summon Hideaki, who will alter your trajectory similar to Kenji. Hitting Kenji at a very horizontal angle can cause this. The first time I hit Hideaki, I then hit Kenji, who launched me right back into Hideaki.

Skill shot: Have launch angle close(does not need to be exact, even for the achievement) and a power close to 100%(may need to be exact for the achievement). First time hitting the ground and not a character, Misha will launch you.

Wahahas: Getting nommed, UDW, or just hitting Misha normally will give you Wahahas. UDW gives you two.

Shizune's special: Lights up not only hitting any of the main girls(including Shizune herself), but pretty much any female character. Confirmed with Yuuko and that one special guest that says "Does Not Want".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 14, 2013, 11:15:58 am

Quote from: Akura on April 14, 2013, 09:07:33 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 13, 2013, 11:20:15 pm

You managed to get Ultimate Drill Works?! Dude, I still haven't seen that and I've been trying D:

Spoiler: Multiball (click to show/hide)

You get Multiball by hitting Gendo twice (for Clone Capture 2 of 2) and then activate any of the four main girl's special.

Twice. It's goddamned hard, since it requires not only a precisely timed hit, on a character who rarely appears.

(although I have to admit, if Misha appears once, she'll very likely appear a few times in short succession for a while.)

Spoiler: Various secrets I've learned (click to show/hide)

Extra life(aka Rin Bin): Not sure how to start the Rin timer(I've seen it light up hitting Mutou, Hanako, Yuuko, Kenji, and possibly Shizune), but hitting Rin with it active will give you an extra life(plus the achievement for the first time). With an extra life, if you hit non-special Shizune(unsure if rolling to a stop, but likely), instead of losing, you'll launched pretty far. Rin Binning with an extra life does nothing(except the achievment for that). Activating the timer(however that is) again while it's already lit will increase the time.

Panic Mode: Hit Hanako. She'll block the next person you hit. About every 100m, though, Misha will appear instead, and omnom you. Hit Misha like this triggers Ultimate Drill Works.

Pig jumps: Hit Yuuko to gain two pigs(can accumulate). Hitting the ground will consume one, but bounce you higher(faster?) rather than slowing you down. Hitting Mutou will take all of your remaining pigs, but will accelerate you rather than slowing down.

Hideaki: Launch vertically. Reaching the top of the screean will summon Hideaki, who will alter your trajectory similar to Kenji. Hitting Kenji at a very horizontal angle can cause this. The first time I hit Hideaki, I then hit Kenji, who launched me right back into Hideaki.

Skill shot: Have launch angle close(does not need to be exact, even for the achievement) and a power close to 100%(may need to be exact for the achievement). First time hitting the ground and not a character, Misha will launch you.

Wahahas: Getting nommed, UDW, or just hitting Misha normally will give you Wahahas. UDW gives you two.

Shizune's special: Lights up not only hitting any of the main girls(including Shizune herself), but pretty much any female character. Confirmed with Yuuko and that one special guest that says "Does Not Want".

Very good list for newbies :D
Here's a another:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On Fire: Hitting any of the three main non-Shizune girls in a row will set you on fire. This is not a bad thing, as you'll get a substantial speed boost when you hit any character. It only lasts for three hits, but hitting Eri, Rin, or Lilly will extend the amount of time you're on fire. Also, Misha will show up while you're on fire, and hitting her will give extra Wahahas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 14, 2013, 04:00:54 pm

So I managed to slaughter several bands of orcs, all of whom were led by multiple orc mages, priests, and warriors. There must have been twelve or fifteen orc grunts alone, and they were surrounding me on both sides.

I was pretty much fighting them off in a chokepoint on a single-tile-span over flowing water. Think of Moria's Balrog bridge scene from LotR, but replace the balrog with a mad minotaur warrior and replace the flood of orcs with a flood of orcs...on both sides of the bridge. It was suitably epic, and I slew them all.

I also struck down a stray necrophage in two swings of my +0 +2 short sword of holy wrath and a headbutt and proceeded to sacrifice the corpse to Okawaru, in full view of more orcs priests and mages. Feels good man.

I'm on Dungeon Level 7 and still going strong. Best run yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, playing as a minotaur warrior

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on April 14, 2013, 07:37:45 pm

I getting ready for my first fight in a battleship, and in order to kill one fo the guards who was going to be getting a perfect shot of some of my best men, I launched a blaster bomb, set to detonate against the side of the ship.  Cue my surprise when it managed to blow a hole straight through the wall.  I quickly came up with a strategy.  If I could launch a blaster missile at the wall on each level of a battle ship, and then follow through with my best people in flying suits, I wouldn't have to worry with being slaughtered at the lifts.  Unfortunatly, I was unable to put my strategy into action on that level.  But the next one, six people in Flying suits, a hovertank, and two blaster launchers.  One hole in the roof, one in the side.  Three soldiers in each hole, armed with heavy plasma, and one tank in the center.  No casualties.  And now, whenever I need to secure a UFO without too much collaterel damage?  Hole in roof, soldiers clear from teh top and the bottom.  I don't need to worry about collaterel damage?  Just bring more blaster launchers.  Haven't had a casualty in several missions now.  I think I might finally even win this game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM: UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 14, 2013, 09:31:29 pm

My minotaur warrior Gluteus Max is still kicking collective dungeon-beast ass. He's become a champion of Okawaru, and is kitted out in +2 plate mail of magic resistance, +2 gauntlets, +2 boots of running gifted to him from Okawaru, and a +1 shield. He's able to buff his stats thanks to Okawaru, and is armed with a +3 +4 elven long sword of holy wrath, and also got a +6 +1 scimitar of draining from Okawaru that could be useful. Also a backup sling and over 200 stones. Oh, and he's also gotten mutations that increase his rate of health regen and occasionally cause him to berserk in combat. Yeah, berserk. I even have an amulet that lets me go berserk on command at 50% success rate. I'm a crazy minotaur monster.

AC is at 27, SH is 26, and a Strength stat of 26. Experience level 12. 104 health total, not counting when 'zerking. I've killed so many awesome things I've lost track.

At one point he was sent to the Abyss during a raid in the Elven Halls. It was my first time. I killed some demons and made my way back out before a lich and black dragon skeleton got too close. Those were the most dangerous things I saw there, and I was thinking of fighting the lich until the dragon skeleton showed up.

The latest feat of awesome was a one on one fight with a 6-headed hydra, listed as extremely dangerous. I had no blunt weapons at hand and risked lopping off hydra heads with my cutting weapons. I called on Okawaru to buff my stats, quaffed a potion of speed, pulled out my handy-dandy longsword and went berserk on the poor hydra.

There was much head-lopping and blood-spewing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

I get the feeling this is gonna end like my first knight in Nethack, where everything goes hopelessly wrong. I've already had some close calls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 14, 2013, 09:44:22 pm

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS GAME

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 14, 2013, 10:43:59 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 14, 2013, 09:44:22 pm

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS GAME

wich one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 14, 2013, 10:50:10 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on April 14, 2013, 10:43:59 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 14, 2013, 09:44:22 pm

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS GAME

wich one?

I would do that douchey thing with the snarky google search, but instead I'll just give you a link.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on April 15, 2013, 02:49:48 pm

Xenonauts.
Reaction fire rocket to the xenos face.

How in the what.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 15, 2013, 05:01:02 pm

Spoiler: My best run yet (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/sQczFsb.png)

Nearly tripled my previous record(50km). I'm actually a little pissed I didn't make that last 11km to do it, too. Didn't hit anything significant, interestingly enough. The only rare special I hit was getting nommed by Misha at very close to 90km, who then flew me another 5km before exploding. Everything else was normal hits and the 4 girls' specials. Even though it was Misha's nomming that got me to the record speed, I had already gotten the achievement for Ludicrous Speed(175m/s) just by getting Boomshakalakas from Rin, Emi, and Lilly(plus a double shot of Shizune's special helped I think). Came sooo close to slowing to a stop at one point, too.
I'm a little surprised when I got the Ludicrous Speed achievement I didn't go plaid.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Because I just keep going on about Katawa Crash.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on April 15, 2013, 05:36:10 pm

Replaying Jedi Outcast. I got ambushed by two dark jedi, I took them both out with one swing. Feels good.

Quote from: Akura on April 13, 2013, 10:01:40 pm

Sure, I could just smack the guy on the back of the head for a silent kill, but I'd rather just make his head asplode by draining him and still have stealthy kill. Plus, why bother picking up a sniper rifle when I can just mind-control the sniper, kill everyone, then jump him off a tower?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Psi-Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy. Finally managed to get past that DRM. It's fairly decent. Weak storyline, but slamming a guy repeatedly into walls using telekinesis is crazy fun.

Mind powers and splattery gore made that game super fun at times, though the end game content was horrid. And the boss fights were suitably puzzly and fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 15, 2013, 07:25:10 pm

Quote from: Aklyon on April 15, 2013, 02:49:48 pm

Xenonauts.
Reaction fire rocket to the xenos face.

How in the what.

Best soldier, or worst soldier?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on April 15, 2013, 07:29:58 pm

Quote from: Devling on April 15, 2013, 07:25:10 pm

Quote from: Aklyon on April 15, 2013, 02:49:48 pm

Xenonauts.
Reaction fire rocket to the xenos face.

How in the what.

Best soldier, or worst soldier?

Considering they now have 85 strength and can easily carry 5 rockets, jackal armor, have 8 kills, and are the first to reach the rank of Commander, I'd say Best soldier. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 16, 2013, 02:51:53 pm

-Minecraft own. If you do not understand multiplayer Minecraft, disregard-

I built a funtioning powercore that actually powers (with one torch) an entire 1:1 scale futuristic compound, complete with powered lighting, security doors, laboratory equipment, a functioning 6 minute capacitor, and hydroponics labs.

It is 200x200 and over 100z tall. Built block by block.

http://postimg.org/g...4jdag/1e403a92/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on April 16, 2013, 03:08:20 pm

Image is broken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 19, 2013, 01:12:36 pm

Doing shenanigans in DF Arena mode.  A bronze colossus just destroyed an army outfitted in iron so I send a red dragon after it under direct control.  I can't harm it with teeth or claws, but it starts melting from my dragonfire.  After awhile I get the message Bronze Colossus 1 had melted.

The smoke clears and a statue is left.  I forgot they dropped those.  I examine the statue and I find that is a ☼bronze statue of Red Dragon 1☼

I owned that colossus so hard it made a statue of me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calech on April 19, 2013, 02:36:56 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 19, 2013, 01:12:36 pm

Doing shenanigans in DF Arena mode.  A bronze colossus just destroyed an army outfitted in iron so I send a red dragon after it under direct control.  I can't harm it with teeth or claws, but it starts melting from my dragonfire.  After awhile I get the message Bronze Colossus 1 had melted.

The smoke clears and a statue is left.  I forgot they dropped those.  I examine the statue and I find that is a ☼bronze statue of Red Dragon 1☼

I owned that colossus so hard it made a statue of me.

Even better, your dragon's breath was so accurately aimed that your dragon precisely sculpted a statue of itself from the corpse of its enemy.

It would be even more hilarious if the statue depicts the slaying of the bronze colossus, Bronze Colossus 1, by the red dragon Red Dragon 1. I heard you like melting, so I did a statue of you melting in you melting so you could melt into you melting.

Or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 19, 2013, 08:11:15 pm

Quote from: dunamisdeos on April 16, 2013, 02:51:53 pm

-Minecraft own. If you do not understand multiplayer Minecraft, disregard-

I built a funtioning powercore that actually powers (with one torch) an entire 1:1 scale futuristic compound, complete with powered lighting, security doors, laboratory equipment, a functioning 6 minute capacitor, and hydroponics labs.

It is 200x200 and over 100z tall. Built block by block.

http://postimg.org/g...4jdag/1e403a92/

http://postimg.org/gallery/57i4jdag/1e403a92/
Link should now work.

I have no Modpack. This is 1.5 creative mode. Whole thing built block-by-block.

Also, when I say 100z tall, I mean from bottom to top. (It goes underground.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on April 20, 2013, 06:32:43 am

Quote from: dunamisdeos on April 19, 2013, 08:11:15 pm

Quote from: dunamisdeos on April 16, 2013, 02:51:53 pm

-Minecraft own. If you do not understand multiplayer Minecraft, disregard-

I built a funtioning powercore that actually powers (with one torch) an entire 1:1 scale futuristic compound, complete with powered lighting, security doors, laboratory equipment, a functioning 6 minute capacitor, and hydroponics labs.

It is 200x200 and over 100z tall. Built block by block.

http://postimg.org/g...4jdag/1e403a92/

http://postimg.org/gallery/57i4jdag/1e403a92/
Link should now work.

I have no Modpack. This is 1.5 creative mode. Whole thing built block-by-block.

Also, when I say 100z tall, I mean from bottom to top. (It goes underground.)

So what you're saying is that it's a huge-ass redstone machine, basically?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 20, 2013, 05:15:00 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on April 20, 2013, 06:32:43 am

So what you're saying is that it's a huge-ass redstone machine, basically?

Yes. But the main thing is it uses redstone to look cool. Most (not all) people use redstone for utility and ignore aesthetics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on April 20, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

I started off almost straight away fucking up and only getting to loot one house; before getting chased into the forest by the undead. I was kind of hurt, but did find a farm to look at. I ripped a squirrel corpse from the barbed wire fence and also took some edible plants from the fields (I ate them.). I went to the barn and had a look around but it was full of fuck and all; so I had a look at the room where the ex-inhabitants were. Opening the door to the central hut gave me a surprise when I realised how many zombies were in there. So I ran. Again. I ended up at another farm after shaking my pursuers. Now; THIS farm had a functioning pickup truck parked out front. Not much fuel, but what can you do.
I looted the house there and left. At this point, I'd pretty much decided that this character was doomed. I'd found a first aid kit so I patched up my legs; then went to the truck. I drank half a bottle of whiskey and went a-driving. Please note that I had no driving skill, so handling this was very fun.
I kept driving until I found a settlement. The population ran out into the streets to greet me. And by population, I mean of zombies. And by "greet", I mean throw themselves under my pickup. This kept on going through the entire main road through the town. When I exited the town I braked and turned around. Then did it again. This time I lit up a cigar that I stole from the farm. But halfway through I lost control going at 90 kmph and slammed into the corner of the police station. The remnants of the pickup kept going for a while and killed a zombie police officer inside the building. I unbuckled myself, escaping completely unharmed, and walked into the station.
I then walked out, through the cells, into the main room and then exited the building. After that I ended up stood in the middle of the street, surrounded by zombies. What was left of the pickup was sort of within reach; but was badly damaged and covered in bits of wall, so it probably wasn't viable. So I did what any respectable DF player would choose.

I tried to finish off the whiskey.
Zombies were on every side, but I managed to dodge most of their attacks. And on the turn where I tried to get the last bit of booze from the bottle, on of the zombies scored a critical hit on my torso and killed me. Bottle in hand and cigar in mouth. Wearing only some very tattered jeans, a backpack, and a scarf.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 20, 2013, 07:15:01 pm

This badass wore scarves after they were cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 20, 2013, 07:33:32 pm

I made it to the bonfire in Sen's Fortress. My tears were endless, my rage infinite. But I made it, damn it. Time for more anger.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 22, 2013, 08:10:08 am

Ah, you still get to enjoy the giant on the roof throwing bombs at you.  And then there is the single hardest boss in the game in the next zone.  Muaha Muaha MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Protip: Kill the giant on the roof before going through the boss fogwall at sen's or you will have ‼FUN‼

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 22, 2013, 06:46:06 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 22, 2013, 08:10:08 am

Ah, you still get to enjoy the giant on the roof throwing bombs at you.  And then there is the single hardest boss in the game in the next zone.  Muaha Muaha MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Protip: Kill the giant on the roof before going through the boss fogwall at sen's or you will have ‼FUN‼

[humility]Four Kings is harder than Oreos and Smores and the-one-lady-in-the-endless-hall-who's-name-I've-forgotten combined (actually if you combined them, it would about equal the difficulty the Four Kings present). I should know.[/humility] [nobigdeal]I beat all of them in my SL1 playthrough a few weeks ago.[/nobigdeal]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 22, 2013, 07:36:09 pm

Well, I got out of Sen's Fortress by summoning a couple guys to help me kill the bomb thrower and the Iron Giant. In typical Dark Souls fashion, now I'm stuck in Anor Londo. But hey, it's more progress than I've made in the past few months, so I'm good. 
Also. My last ownage was being human, then stowing my guy up in the church loft- you know, with the maze catwaly-. I then left for lunch, came back, and noticed that I'd been invaded. This is my first human invader ( curious router setting mean I get a fraction of the connections others get), and discovered that not only had I been invaded, but he'd left. I guess be Black Crystaled, but I survived an invasion and that's a own in my book. I still don't know what to do now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on April 23, 2013, 01:40:33 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 22, 2013, 06:46:06 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 22, 2013, 08:10:08 am

Ah, you still get to enjoy the giant on the roof throwing bombs at you.  And then there is the single hardest boss in the game in the next zone.  Muaha Muaha MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Protip: Kill the giant on the roof before going through the boss fogwall at sen's or you will have ‼FUN‼

snip snip the-one-lady-in-the-endless-hall-who's-name-I've-forgotten snip snip

that's no lady
that's a trap

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Alkhemia on April 23, 2013, 01:56:28 am

Quote from: Baneling on April 23, 2013, 01:40:33 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 22, 2013, 06:46:06 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 22, 2013, 08:10:08 am

Ah, you still get to enjoy the giant on the roof throwing bombs at you.  And then there is the single hardest boss in the game in the next zone.  Muaha Muaha MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Protip: Kill the giant on the roof before going through the boss fogwall at sen's or you will have ‼FUN‼

snip snip the-one-lady-in-the-endless-hall-who's-name-I've-forgotten snip snip

that's no lady
that's a trap

yeah that a dude

Quote from: Lukewarm on April 20, 2013, 07:33:32 pm

I made it to the bonfire in Sen's Fortress. My tears were endless, my rage infinite. But I made it, damn it. Time for more anger.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

You know what funny I just now learn about the bonfire in sen fortress and I've beat the game like 8-9 times lol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 24, 2013, 02:48:27 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on April 20, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

....after that I ended up stood in the middle of the street, surrounded by zombies...so I did what any respectable DF player would choose... I tried to finish off the whiskey.

Amen, brother. Sigging this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 24, 2013, 02:58:12 pm

I convinced a really terrible CEO of a bottled water company(IN SPACE) to mix Stem Cells into their bottled water.  It turned out to be ridiculously healthy, and he gave me 0.03% of the future projected profits(About a million dollars).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Trader: Merchant Marine.  This game is pretty funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 24, 2013, 07:02:55 pm

Quote from: Levi on April 24, 2013, 02:58:12 pm

I convinced a really terrible CEO of a bottled water company(IN SPACE) to mix Stem Cells into their bottled water.  It turned out to be ridiculously healthy, and he gave me 0.03% of the future projected profits(About a million dollars).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Trader: Merchant Marine.  This game is pretty funny.

I saw "space" and "marine" and thought you were talking about a sick Space Marine/Rogue Trader game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 24, 2013, 07:35:00 pm

Quote from: Devling on April 24, 2013, 07:02:55 pm

Quote from: Levi on April 24, 2013, 02:58:12 pm

I convinced a really terrible CEO of a bottled water company(IN SPACE) to mix Stem Cells into their bottled water.  It turned out to be ridiculously healthy, and he gave me 0.03% of the future projected profits(About a million dollars).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Trader: Merchant Marine.  This game is pretty funny.

I saw "space" and "marine" and thought you were talking about a sick Space Marine/Rogue Trader game.

Indeed. I'm disappointed; at first glance I assumed I'd be able to peddle chainswords through ork guts and make a reasonable profit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 24, 2013, 07:41:15 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on April 24, 2013, 07:35:00 pm

Quote from: Devling on April 24, 2013, 07:02:55 pm

Quote from: Levi on April 24, 2013, 02:58:12 pm

I convinced a really terrible CEO of a bottled water company(IN SPACE) to mix Stem Cells into their bottled water.  It turned out to be ridiculously healthy, and he gave me 0.03% of the future projected profits(About a million dollars).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Trader: Merchant Marine.  This game is pretty funny.

I saw "space" and "marine" and thought you were talking about a sick Space Marine/Rogue Trader game.

Indeed. I'm disappointed; at first glance I assumed I'd be able to peddle chainswords through ork guts and make a reasonable profit.

Extra disappointed here; I was just looking through the Rogue Trader rulebook and thinking it might be fun to play :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 25, 2013, 08:24:16 pm

So I found a bone just sticking up out of the ground with a still-moving eye stuck atop it. It blinked at me.

After picking it up I heard the sounds of some beast approaching from far away. I freaked out a bit at the living, squishy looking chest-beast that ran up to me, only to discover it was friendly and willing to follow me around and store stuff for me.

I squeed a bit. Chesty's an awesome pet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Don't Starve

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on April 25, 2013, 08:25:16 pm

I managed to kill 20 or so goblins using a Captain America character archetype.

DF Adv. Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 25, 2013, 08:26:51 pm

Captain Armok?
Blood for the tree of liberty, freedom for the freedom throne?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on April 25, 2013, 08:46:07 pm

Pretty much.  After a 100 or so kills, I retired the guy, because in order to kill a dragon, I had to swim to a new continent, and I didn't want my guy to be trapped by an iceberg in the middle of the ocean.  Even though that's what happened to the actual Captain America. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 25, 2013, 09:11:01 pm

You made a time paradox!
Now the Avengers will never happen!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 25, 2013, 09:13:35 pm

Hopped in an AT-ST. Got into a fight with a Rebel hovercar(I'm not exactly sure what they're called, definitely not a T2-B tank). Killed it, but was nearly destroyed, so I dropped back to the Sandcrawler for repairs. Once the repairs were done, I grabbed a co-pilot, then started going around the rocks towards the first objective. As I came around, a huge number of Imperial troops started charging out from the rocky area I had bypassed(couldn't go through in the walker), and it felt like I had just gotten in to lead the charge.

The Rebels holding the Homestead objective were quickly dispatched. Following that, however, was a constant cat-and-mouse with at least 4 more of those hovercars. One by one, I took each of them out. By the end of that, the Rebels were nearly beaten and pinned between us and the Sand People. Despite numerous and near-successful attempts by the Rebels, I pulled through the entire battle in a single life.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Wars: Battlefront, Dune Sea map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on April 26, 2013, 12:45:48 pm

The Mabari runs up, barks at the pursuing darkspawn, and we all wait for them to do their convenient threat display. Combat starts, and I, an Elf Mage (Female elf mage, I've also decided she's a lesbian for maximum discrimination value) launch a fireball into their midst. They all fall down, and we butcher them before they can stand, except for perhaps one or two Genlocks.

Also, I can't quite figure out my character's characterization. She seems rather... Capricious. She showed mercy to the Bandits outside Lothering, then scared off the peasants that were pestering the merchant, killed all the other bandits, forcibly acquired the key to Sten from the Revered Mother with threats, and otherwise was generally the nicest person ever, apart from her moments of total sociopathy. Also, hit on Morrigan, THE ENTIRE TIME. Also, that little kid that was like, "Are you an elf?!" She was REALLY nice to. All in all, I kind of like her style (Big surprise, right?) what with the Primal/Entropy spell-tossing and general disregard for her own squishiness. (Charge the Ogre? Y/N? Y and fucking kick his ass.)

Dragon Age: Origins

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bronimin on April 26, 2013, 03:53:49 pm

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on April 26, 2013, 04:25:35 pm

I survived the ogre because it was busy with Alistair and the two redshirts, and I was using flame burst and that electric cone thingy, plus lightning and arcane bolt. Dakka spam, pretty much. It probably would have killed me in two hits if it had turned on me, but I got lucky.

I have nothing OT right now, because I keep dying to a Revenant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 26, 2013, 08:02:18 pm

Dammit Hans, you make me want to play that again. I remember the days of yore, of my nigh unbeatable Blood Mage/Spirit Healer class combo, of the legendary spell combo Storm of the Century that killed all my party members and everything else on the map every time I used it. I remember my batshit insane Arcane Knight and my Dorf Berzerker Champion or whatever it was.
Awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on April 26, 2013, 08:04:55 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 26, 2013, 08:02:18 pm

Dammit Hans, you make me want to play that again. I remember the days of yore, of my nigh unbeatable Blood Mage/Spirit Healer class combo, of the legendary spell combo Storm of the Century that killed all my party members and everything else on the map every time I used it. I remember my batshit insane Arcane Knight and my Dorf Berzerker Champion or whatever it was.
Awesome.

Blood mage? Spirit healer? Arcane knight? Dorf berzerker?
That's pretty cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 26, 2013, 08:10:30 pm

Oddly enough, like you guys my female Mage was the only character to progress very far in that game. Every other character I ever made would run into unbeatable "random" situations on my way to any of the major locations. Like, "10 high-leveled wolves simultaneously knocking down and ravaging my party" unbeatable. Or "half a dozen orange-name rage demons strike from all directions" unbeatable. This is just out of Lothering, mind.

But Ms. Mage? Circle of Magi and that undead castle have been cleared, and we're now on the way to the Dwarves. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to beat that darn game, though from what I hear the sequels were terribad :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 26, 2013, 08:35:14 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 26, 2013, 08:10:30 pm

Oddly enough, like you guys my female Mage was the only character to progress very far in that game. Every other character I ever made would run into unbeatable "random" situations on my way to any of the major locations. Like, "10 high-leveled wolves simultaneously knocking down and ravaging my party" unbeatable. Or "half a dozen orange-name rage demons strike from all directions" unbeatable. This is just out of Lothering, mind.

But Ms. Mage? Circle of Magi and that undead castle have been cleared, and we're now on the way to the Dwarves. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to beat that darn game, though from what I hear the sequels were terribad :P

The sequel was Mass Effect but bad pretty bad but for one five-minute section.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 26, 2013, 08:40:33 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 26, 2013, 08:35:14 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 26, 2013, 08:10:30 pm

Oddly enough, like you guys my female Mage was the only character to progress very far in that game. Every other character I ever made would run into unbeatable "random" situations on my way to any of the major locations. Like, "10 high-leveled wolves simultaneously knocking down and ravaging my party" unbeatable. Or "half a dozen orange-name rage demons strike from all directions" unbeatable. This is just out of Lothering, mind.

But Ms. Mage? Circle of Magi and that undead castle have been cleared, and we're now on the way to the Dwarves. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to beat that darn game, though from what I hear the sequels were terribad :P

The sequel was Mass Effect but bad pretty bad but for one five-minute section.

I heard that the sequel was pretty much rushed out to capitalize on the success of the original Dragon Age because EA. Which isn't to imply that Origins is perfect, especially considering how stale the combat eventually got (though it definitively got revitalized a lot once the final battle started). Eh, still I got 60 some hours out of the game, so I can't really complain if it doesn't have much replay value.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 27, 2013, 01:40:17 pm

I effing loved that game. You could be such a good person.

I played a dwarf noble named Ragnus. I walked up to a stall selling weapons and began to inspect the goods. Upon noticing that I was a Prince of all Dwarves, the vendor perked up and told me what an incredible honor it was to have me look at his stall and can he help me find anything and blah blah. I responded by looking up from the vendor's wares, turning to my manservant dwarfservant, and asking him why this lowborn peasant was speaking to me. My dwarfservant (Ogdin? Orkin? I'm not really sure) sharply rebuked the vendor, and I continued to browse without buying anything. Then I strutted my royal arse off to fling my completely deserved authority around elsewhere.

I later lost my royal position. This did not prevent Ragnus from being better than everyone else around him, regardless of actual social stature. Ragnus is dwarven royalty, and if the entirety of the dwarven kingdom disagrees, then they are clearly not royalty themselves. If Ragnus must take the mantle of the only true royalty in existance, then so be it... and if anyone forgets the above, he will remind you gladly and constantly henceforth.

Needless to say, his entire party hated him with an absolutely incredible passion by the end of the game. Except for Stinky the Dwarf. Those guys were best pals.

--ENDGAME SPOILER. YOU ARE WARNED.--

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Ragnus flat out refused to sacrifice himself at the end, and gave the great honor of "Dying so Ragnus can continue to live" to that Alibear or Abu guy. Whatever his name was.

I guess this is a own? I certainly got enough laughs from it.

::EDIT::
Upon deigning to google, my dwarfservant's name turned out to be Gorim. Hm.  ::)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 27, 2013, 03:48:07 pm

Quote from: dunamisdeos on April 27, 2013, 01:40:17 pm

I effing loved that game. You could be such a good person.

I played a dwarf noble named Ragnus. I walked up to a stall selling weapons and began to inspect the goods. Upon noticing that I was a Prince of all Dwarves, the vendor perked up and told me what an incredible honor it was to have me look at his stall and can he help me find anything and blah blah. I responded by looking up from the vendor's wares, turning to my manservant dwarfservant, and asking him why this lowborn peasant was speaking to me. My dwarfservant (Ogdin? Orkin? I'm not really sure) sharply rebuked the vendor, and I continued to browse without buying anything. Then I strutted my royal arse off to fling my completely deserved authority around elsewhere.

I later lost my royal position. This did not prevent Ragnus from being better than everyone else around him, regardless of actual social stature. Ragnus is dwarven royalty, and if the entirety of the dwarven kingdom disagrees, then they are clearly not royalty themselves. If Ragnus must take the mantle of the only true royalty in existance, then so be it... and if anyone forgets the above, he will remind you gladly and constantly henceforth.

Needless to say, his entire party hated him with an absolutely incredible passion by the end of the game. Except for Stinky the Dwarf. Those guys were best pals.

--ENDGAME SPOILER. YOU ARE WARNED.--

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Ragnus flat out refused to sacrifice himself at the end, and gave the great honor of "Dying so Ragnus can continue to live" to that Alibear or Abu guy. Whatever his name was.

I guess this is a own? I certainly got enough laughs from it.

Totally doing that on my next Human Noble run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bronimin on April 28, 2013, 03:36:58 pm

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 28, 2013, 04:28:28 pm

Quote from: Bronimin on April 28, 2013, 03:36:58 pm

So, my elven female mage has moved up in the world; learning ancient secrets of battle magic from a gem she found in some ruins. She proceeds to equip armour Alistair was too puny to wear and run around the front lines, laughing at the pitiful corpses and their attempts to put her down (Yay forcefield: best spell ever). She proceeds to wipe the floor with an 'arcane horror' by running up to it and smacking it with her shiny; enchanted but-still-grey-iron sword a couple times (Forcefield works as a disable too, could it get any better?). Walked out of there 10 gold richer and with mighty fancy armour and weapons for everyone, even some 'massive' class armour she looted off of a revenant, which is totally going to Sten since the fatigue is ~25% and she doesn't have enough mana to do much with anyway with 10% fatigue.

Loving this arcane warrior specialisation, even if she misses every two shots out of three, because her Dex is still 10 :P. Got some armour that boosts that up to 13 though, which will work for now. She is also still remarkably squishy: if it wasn't for forcefield she would have died a few times over, instead of Alistair tanking the damage and unable to be healed because she is also the squad healer and is currently forcefield'ed :P. I think he has gone though at least 15 injury kits so far, whereas me and Morrigan combined have maybe gone though 5-6 between us. The fact that enemies are idiots and attack an immune party member makes things easier.

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 28, 2013, 04:29:57 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on April 28, 2013, 04:28:28 pm

Quote from: Bronimin on April 28, 2013, 03:36:58 pm

So, my elven female mage has moved up in the world; learning ancient secrets of battle magic from a gem she found in some ruins. She proceeds to equip armour Alistair was too puny to wear and run around the front lines, laughing at the pitiful corpses and their attempts to put her down (Yay forcefield: best spell ever). She proceeds to wipe the floor with an 'arcane horror' by running up to it and smacking it with her shiny; enchanted but-still-grey-iron sword a couple times (Forcefield works as a disable too, could it get any better?). Walked out of there 10 gold richer and with mighty fancy armour and weapons for everyone, even some 'massive' class armour she looted off of a revenant, which is totally going to Sten since the fatigue is ~25% and she doesn't have enough mana to do much with anyway with 10% fatigue.

Loving this arcane warrior specialisation, even if she misses every two shots out of three, because her Dex is still 10 :P. Got some armour that boosts that up to 13 though, which will work for now. She is also still remarkably squishy: if it wasn't for forcefield she would have died a few times over, instead of Alistair tanking the damage and unable to be healed because she is also the squad healer and is currently forcefield'ed :P. I think he has gone though at least 15 injury kits so far, whereas me and Morrigan combined have maybe gone though 5-6 between us. The fact that enemies are idiots and attack an immune party member makes things easier.

Game?

Dragon Age: Origins. I assume.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 28, 2013, 07:29:05 pm

I managed to survive 31 days before I starved to death, caught in the middle of my first winter.

I had built a campsite and an entire grove of trees around a wood perimeter of walls I had found. I had a science machine, a crockpot, two basic farmplots, three chests of stuff, and a thermometer to keep track of how close to "freeze your ass off" territory the weather got. I had even started drying rabbit meat and had several regular trapping points, although in retrospect starting to make jerky in the middle of winter was counter productive. still, it was fun trying to scrape through winter.

I probably would've made it through winter if it weren't for my bedroll apparently trying to devour me while I slept.

As a final point of awesome, in my last moments of life I managed to light my entire campsite on fire. Watching the world go up in flames from the score screen was quite satisfying.

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Don't Starve

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 03, 2013, 10:31:45 pm

Took a Destroyer Droid through Mos Eisley. Got to the warehouse CP, and just started blasting clones at close range. Took half of them out before the realized I was there, the ones that were left couldn't do much against my shields. Eventually cleared out the defenders and moved onto the point, at which point some backup arrived. One tricky little Jet Trooper was on the roof, accessibly by a stairway that's vulnerable and impossible to traverse in ball mode. I simply walked up and shot him.

Looking at the minimap, I see a good-sized group of Republic soldiers closing in on the cantina. I move in to reinforce. As I arrived, more droids came in, and the clones were surrounded and quickly destroyed. They only had two CPs left, both close together. I hurry and take the far one, ripping through the Republic along the way, dying only twice along the way with short respawns in between.

One CP left, and these guys are totally surrounded, densely packed, and hemorraging reinforcements. I, another destroyer, and several lesser droids roll up and mow down almost all the survivors and take the last CP. They only have one or two guys left, and I quickly hunt them down. The battle lasted less than five minutes, and we took maybe less than 50 casualties. Kinda helps when the Jawas repair your side(and only CIS), though.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.

Took the left flank towards the palace, meeting little resistance, with Count Dooku handling the middle approach, and Force knows what the hell was happening on the right. Didn't take long, however, for a massive firefight to break out in the courtyard in front of the palace. I think I helped pretty well by camping by an ammo droid and raining grenades and rockets on the Republic. Destroyed a few tanks, as well.

It seems most of the clones were focusing on Dooku, a pointless effort, giving Seperatist droids a chance to advance all over the place while Dooku just knocks down the clones with his lightsaber. It was a very short time before all resistance in front of the palace was crushed, and there were only three enemies left on the map. Two of them were ganging up on a single B2 battledroid. The B2 killed one, but was killed by his buddy, whom I killed with a rocket. The last guy decided to try to attack a tank with a blaster. I finished him off with another rocket just as the victory timer hit zero.

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Battlefront again, on Theed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 03, 2013, 10:42:34 pm

Aliens killed- 10
Civilians saved- 18/18
X-Com Operatives killed- 0
Whole continiet that was panicking and getting ready to cut funding?  Down to manageable levels

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XCOM: EU Normal Ironman

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 03, 2013, 10:58:09 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on May 03, 2013, 10:42:34 pm

Aliens killed- 10
Civilians saved- 18/18
X-Com Operatives killed- 0
Whole continiet that was panicking and getting ready to cut funding?  Down to manageable levels

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XCOM: EU Normal Ironman

Well done, ser.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 03, 2013, 11:37:50 pm

I ate: The Botanist, the Chief Engineer, a Lawyer, and the other Changeling/Head of Personnel. Also, I blew up two borgs, and guided the survivors to safety for maximum mood dissonance. I stole the CMO jumpsuit, assassinated my target, and survived. Only one other Changeling did so. Funny thing? We ate the changeling that didn't want to work with us. The Changeling I ate asked me to take his cuffs off him, so I went to do so... Then stopped, holding a borg MMI with a living brain in it.
I stunned him, dragged him into the armory, and ate him, while a crewman watched over the monitors as his health dropped to nothing. Gloriously creepy. Then I put the MMI in the Security Pod and saved the survivors.

Good round.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mono124 on May 04, 2013, 01:10:24 pm

I start off one of the last battles, only to find that I have forgotten to reload the ammunition for almost all of my various machines. Without the ability to dodge any attacks, the enemy ship fires on my own, dropping it's shields and letting invaders come aboard. I rush out my 6 security and my Captain to go kill them, and before the first wave of invaders dies, 2 more board, and my ship has a few hull breaches and multiple fires. Right before I am able to dodge another missile, it hits the hallway where my security team and Captain were, and a hull breach opens up, sucking out all of the invaders, as well as 2 of my security. With my shields down, and the enemy attacking too quickly for me to put them back up, I carefully move all of my remaining crew to the port side of my ship, where the weapons are located. As soon as they arrived, I have even more invaders come aboard. As my crew battled the invaders, a missile ran straight into the hallway outside my laser cannon, cutting them off because of hull breaches, and another ran into my machine gun room, causing all the crew inside to run through the ship while on fire. The brave souls inside of the laser cannon room lost their lives that day to the invaders that were inside the room, and I lost one of my best medical officers from the machine gun room incident. As my ship was falling apart from multiple hull breaches and invaders everywhere, I fire off my machine gun one last time and blow up the enemy ship. Of my starting 12 crew, only 5 remain, and they include the Captain, 3 red shirts, an engineer, and a medical officer. I was surprised I lived, seeing as how any time my weapons rooms both get hit, it normally means complete chaos followed by game over roughly 10 seconds later as my crew run on fire through the ship and are shot to death or vented into space. I took the remaining 5 crew and stomped the last ship (probably because I only had to worry about 5 crew instead of 12... I mean, repelling invaders, keeping weapons firing, trying to dodge enemy fire, and keeping your crew alive all at once is stupid hard when you have a ton of crew and a bunch of invaders).

(Note: I don't really count my Captain as a crew member, because he has died so many times that I normally just hide him unless I'm desperate)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 04, 2013, 01:39:38 pm

Oh man, that sounds awesome. Why did it have to be a mobile game? >_<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mono124 on May 04, 2013, 01:50:08 pm

They are coming out with a PC version soon afaik, and the only drawback of it being a mobile game is 1) Right now it's iOS only and 2) It's a little hard to select things when stuff is getting cramped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 04, 2013, 02:08:00 pm

113 allied skeletons?
Oh Temple to Krypta.. How I love you so. <3

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Majesty: Gold Edition
This game STILL ROCKS!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 04, 2013, 04:37:34 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 04, 2013, 02:08:00 pm

113 allied skeletons?
Oh Temple to Krypta.. How I love you so. <3

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Majesty: Gold Edition
This game STILL ROCKS!!

That game is BADASS. I love the Temple to Krypta and the one to Fervus. "Animal? Undead? I own it."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 04, 2013, 04:48:52 pm

Having played through the campaign once (on Normal), I decided, "Yeah, I'm totally ready for online play now".

First ground map? I go 33-12 K/D, with a score of 93, higher than anyone else on the (64) player server. Not sure if getting a hero 3 times in a match is normal or not.

First space map? Top kill/death both times I fly Interceptor-class ships, top score when I fly bomber the whole match.

The game's on sale, so I can only assume there are a lot of inexperienced players. Still, I'm pretty happy with my results today.  :)

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Star Wars: Battlefront II. On sale this weekend, 66% off, and there's at least a few populated servers!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 04, 2013, 11:07:03 pm

10 The Core, on both AIs. Hybrids and Advanced Hybrids, Zenith Trader, Broken/Botnet Golem/Spirecraft Hard/Fallen Spire 10/10, 2x waves, avenger, hybrids/advanced hybrids/astro trains 10/10, no wave warnings, cross-planet waves, nuclear command. Had a friend playing as a champion.

We took the first two planets without much trouble. The next planet had...well, two command station guard posts, two Ion I's, an Ion IV, and steadily got reinforcements.

The reinforcements just kept on coming. It got to the point where there were literally six thousand enemy ships on that one planet.

EMP warhead after EMP warhead were thrown in, and eventually the command station fell.

The nuke that followed vaporized everything that remains. Except the hybrids, but they just ran.

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AI War: Fleet Command, all four expansions, as hard as we can make it.

Oddly enough, the AI doesn't seem to want to use the Mk5 ships that it should be getting.

Well, except the hybrids.

I'm surprised we survived this long.

EDIT: Another own - 15 minute survival, two 10/10 The Core, on an X map, everything that can give an exo-wave set up at 10/10.

Won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 05, 2013, 03:27:06 pm

I'm flying my plane to the island that has the airstrip, I press the wrong button, and I completely lose control right as I'm begining to circle around it.  I quickly hit the abort button, and the command pod seperates from the main body of the plane.  The parachute then proceeds to fail at around 400 meters.  I quickly go EVA, and jump at about 200 meters.  I activate the jetpack, which is just enough to prevent the Kerbal from dying as he hits the side of a hill. 

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: notquitethere on May 06, 2013, 06:35:34 pm

Heard some noise on the other side of a door. Figure it'll be nothing: it's a motherflipping bear. The bear starts tearing me to shreds, so I light a molotov and throw it into the middle of the room. The bear is confused, I run pat the flames into the bathroom. But there's no window! So I run back through into the now burning living room and dive out the window there and few second later the whole house is engulfed in a vast explosion of flames and splintering wood and nails. I'm still bleeding out from the bear so I smash my way into seven different houses leaving a bloody trail before I finally find something I can use to patch myself up with. I am frankly shocked I managed to survive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scelly9 on May 06, 2013, 06:37:29 pm

Cataclysm?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: notquitethere on May 06, 2013, 08:11:16 pm

Cata-bears-will-spawn-in-your-bedroom-clysm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on May 06, 2013, 11:10:31 pm

Took on two treeguards at once and lived. I was armed with nothing more than spears and log armor, facing two of the toughest boss beasts at once and lived. The ent-wannabes killed my two pigmen neighbours, the jerks.

One of the buggers followed me back into my base and we had a desperate struggle to kill the other before nightfall. Dark came and I hardly managed to get a fire going after scrabbling to light a torch and stop the dark from strangling me to death.

...and I'm still alive. Come at me game. I've got a shadow manipulator now, I've got ze magicks!

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Don't Starve

I've survived 70 days now, and am currently in the middle of my second winter. I was this close to dying and insanity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Stworca on May 07, 2013, 12:19:55 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 07, 2013, 12:01:22 pm

Without cheats of any kind, I got the crystal cruiser in FTL: faster than light.

I've been trying to get it for about 6 frikkin months!

There are CHEATS for FTL?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on May 07, 2013, 08:52:59 pm

Found some guy's likely-hacked-in base full of rare shit and walked away with as much as I could carry.

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Minecraft, some vanilla survival server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 08, 2013, 08:31:21 am

Not sure if you can call a victory an *ownage* when you did it using a ton of hacked-in funds and Shook's Large Pile O' Stuff, but it's still pretty goddamn awesome.

(http://i.imgur.com/LZMMFPW.png) (http://imgur.com/LZMMFPW)

To the left is where more enemies spawn in Dummy Assault, and the big area is some sort of drop-zone that I started using and fortified using turrets and AA turrets. Suddenly, a lot of enemies spawned and my defenses kinda failed. So I spammed the area with drop mines and kep stacking on drop mines until I breached the floor with  rocklets and drop crates full of them. They were starting to lag so bad I made a drop crate with a lot of enormous bombs and nuked the entire area.

After that, I got to the enemy brain but lost my gun to the last turret. So I spawned a guy with a zero-division rifle on top of one of the towers and shot downwards until I got the turret and made holes large enough for other troops to go down in. The zero-division rifle pretty much fires a narrow cone of utter death, which is why it's usefull for this kind of stuff. After some more struggles and bloating bomb airstrikes, I finally got that motherfucking brain.

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Cortex command with funds that I hacked in trough the console and Shook's Large Pile O Stuff mod, dummy assault map on nuts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 09, 2013, 06:27:22 am

Went toe-to-toe with a vampire lord. Managed to take him down pretty handily despite him being decked out in full daedric. My partner was pretty much just a meatshield, and she went down after a few seconds.

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Oblivion, with companion Pym, Glenvar Castle, and a fuckload of other mods.

Also somehow glitched the final part of the castle's aquisition quest where the final enemy not only didn't turn hostile, but is still flagged as essential. The game still seems to be treating it as a success though, and now I apparently own the place.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on May 09, 2013, 07:06:45 am

destroyed an ennemy in two bullets, the second being a mothaf*ckin' headshot.
Well, I suppose it was a headshot, since I just started firing at the full-health ennemy plane when I got the "ennemy plane destroyed" message. On the smaller event window, I saw "the ennemy pilot is unconscious". Well...

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War Thunder. Yeah, got a kill by headshot in a dogfight. On my second bullet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 12, 2013, 04:36:40 am

Currently in the middle of ownage. Made a melee-focused character based around heavy armor and the like. Before the first floor was complete, I had so many health-regen boosts that I was recovering a point of HP every round. Food is basically irrelevant now because you literally cannot regen health faster than that. He's a goddamn Wolverine.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on May 12, 2013, 04:43:08 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 12, 2013, 04:36:40 am

Currently in the middle of ownage. Made a melee-focused character based around heavy armor and the like. Before the first floor was complete, I had so many health-regen boosts that I was recovering a point of HP every round. Food is basically irrelevant now because you literally cannot regen health faster than that. He's a goddamn Wolverine.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Actually, health regeneration from food is separate from your natural health regeneration, so it is possible to recover two health per turn as long as you keep yourself fed. Basically a choice between regenerating health very fast or ludicrously fast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 12, 2013, 04:49:26 pm

Quote from: Myroc on May 12, 2013, 04:43:08 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 12, 2013, 04:36:40 am

Currently in the middle of ownage. Made a melee-focused character based around heavy armor and the like. Before the first floor was complete, I had so many health-regen boosts that I was recovering a point of HP every round. Food is basically irrelevant now because you literally cannot regen health faster than that. He's a goddamn Wolverine.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Actually, health regeneration from food is separate from your natural health regeneration, so it is possible to recover two health per turn as long as you keep yourself fed. Basically a choice between regenerating health very fast or ludicrously fast.

Even better! I've got something like 10 deep omelettes and I'm only on level 3 :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 12, 2013, 07:55:58 pm

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CARRINGTON VILLA ON PERFECT AGENT.

On easy and medium, you're dropped off from a high vantage point with a sniper rifle and have to save a hostage from dataDyne thugs.

On Perfect Agent, you are the negotiator. You have a decent submachine gun in your inventory, but as soon as you kill off the two thugs on the dock with you, you have to dodge or kill the aimbot sniper just above you, who WILL ding you a good bit if you don't kill him first.

Once you get inside the villa, you have two choices: go upstairs and clear out the villa, or go downstairs and activate the wind generator.

Upstairs, there's about a zillion guards, some of whom emerge from old school DOOM monster closets. Getting caught in a protracted gunfight means losing a large portion of ammunition and health in the labyrinthine upper floors, and then you still have to eliminate the snipers (some of whom have overlapping fields of view, 3 snipers x 3 shots per burst each means 9 chances to lose a large chunk of your health).

Downstairs, once you activate the wind generator objective 3 activates: eliminate dataDyne hackers. If you came down here first instead of clearing the upper floors, you still have to rush past as many as 10 guards in a single room, while also looking to kill specific scattered targets in less than a minute. If you somehow make it past all that, you still have to deal with the snipers, who can see and hit you from any distance on this difficulty.

I finished all of it. I rescued Daniel. I captured a dataDyne guard. I eliminated all the snipers and hackers. The best part?

I did it all in paintball mode. Something about psychedelic paint incongruously pooling under dead bodies is so much more satisfying than just plain ol' blood.

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Mission time: 10:18

Favorite weapon: CMP150
56 kills

58.1% accuracy
10 head shots
119 body shots
68 limb shots
7 others

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 17, 2013, 01:58:03 pm

Assassinating the President by causing massive traffic accidents. In one instance, I stopped the President's limo, and all the other cars intelligently went around it, except for one, which rammed a Secret Service car which in turn rammed the President's car into a wall with enough force to eject everyone in it. In another, the AAR said I killed a driver of a car by shooting him in the right nipple.

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JFK Reloaded. Why have I just found out about it? Also, why is something so horrible so fun?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on May 17, 2013, 02:10:10 pm

My Carrier Task Force : 4x Light Carriers, 10xLight Cruisers, and ~30 Frigates and Destroyers rolfstomped Borg invasion fleet of my Homeworld system without any losses.

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Space Empires 5 Balance mod + custom shipsets

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ameablable on May 17, 2013, 02:15:39 pm

Finished phase 1 of my too much resources quest and built an underwater plaza and an obelisk on the water to access the underwater tunnel to it.
in the plaza there is trees and grass growing and a pool.... underwater.
glass windows everywhere so you can see squids.

maaan i miss the days of mobs sometimes.
my massively large castle walls just protect me from everything.
i've mined so much that the world underneath my walls in practically floating.

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minecraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 17, 2013, 08:08:50 pm

Stopped the President's motorcade, but then someone rammed the Vice President's car, sending his wife flying through the air. When she hit the ground, she bounced even higher. After she landed, she was run over by pretty much the rest of the entire motorcade.

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JFK Reloaded again. It's so wrong, but so fun. Personally, I wouldn't mind more games with such an in-depth analysis of each shot, and/or the amount of chaos you can cause.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 17, 2013, 08:26:26 pm

Smashed the Wall with a nuclear warhead.

Learn 2 Fly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on May 17, 2013, 08:35:35 pm

I was playing a spriggan necromancer, who coincidentally was my best necro so far. I finally discovered how to command my army into actually mobbing enemies, which makes necro much more enjoyable in the future.

Anyway, I had made it all the way down into level 5 of the Lair. Ultimately a gang of hard-hitting blink frogs flanked me into a corner without the backup of any undead, and I was forced to descend the nearby stairs into the darkness below.

...Only to wind up surrounded by another mob of blink frogs, as well as a hippogriff and a basilisk. The basilisk managed to nail me with his gaze, and I was turning to stone, surrounded by beasts. This is not good for a squishy mage built around raising dead corpses to tank. In my final moments before freezing into stone, I released an efreet from the jar I had found a few floors up. I was keeping the jar for such an emergency, just in case I'm screwed and have to take a choice between certain death or getting killed by a rogue efreet (instead of having it decide to save my ass.)

The efreet shows its gratitude by attacking the hippogriff and basilisk next to me, cutting them down with a burning scimitar in a few turns while I'm a statue. The efreet turns to me and says  "I'll never leave you!"

...and then I died. Stupid teleporting frogs. I like to think my statue is still down there, guarded by my loyal efreet buddy for the rest of eternity. At least I died in a blaze of glory.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Freeing a demon in my last moments before turning into a statue seems pretty own-worthy to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on May 19, 2013, 01:03:29 pm

GODiath, meet twin-spinigun gunzerker >:D

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Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on May 21, 2013, 11:30:57 am

Flying around Space Alaska with my outfit's AIR CONN squad, I was death incarnate.  Our teamwork let us crack some tough defenses that had flak cover.  I had a killing spree of at least 15 kills including the kill shot against 2 enemy fighters.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ameablable on May 21, 2013, 12:49:51 pm

Rome, meet the iron fist that is the huns, that tears you and the rest of the empires to shreds in this alternate history.

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Rome: Total war barbarian invasion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightning4 on May 22, 2013, 06:41:59 am

Dogfighting 4 Xenon N (tiny scout ships) while piloting a solitary Discoverer Vanguard (also a tiny scout ship) felt pretty impressive at the time. So impressive that I did it twice. Well, had to do it twice. I destroyed the first wave completely unscathed. I don't even think a single shot managed to hit my nimble little ship.

But when I turned to charge at the second wave, they threw a wall of powerful shots at me. I lost shields and my hull got knocked to about 60%. But, once I closed to dogfighting range, I managed to evade any further damage and my shields recharged enough to absorb a couple other stray shots. After several tense minutes of laser fire narrowly missing me, I downed the enemies one by one.

By the end of that mission, I managed to cause "bails" for 3 Ns. Sadly, missiles destroyed one before I was able to claim it as my own, but I safely claimed the other two.

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X3: Albion Prelude

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2013, 06:27:15 pm

Used the Force to throw a cultist into a wall. He hit the wall feet-first, and looked like he was about to jump off. Then he sorta... fell. Like he tripped or something. And then he was dead.

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Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Dunno how it happened, the guy was unhurt except the second or so from the choke attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 23, 2013, 11:40:15 am

Play FEAR Extraction Point. I'm on the final level, a rooftop area with DOZENS of enemies, some in the powered armor and such. I come out the door, nail one guy in the head with the Heavy Penetrator (A single headshot instakills with it) and shoot his buddy down. I've only got three clips for it, so I circle around a big obstacle thing, and run forward. One Replica is running to my left, on a catwalk about level with the platform I'm on. He passes just behind some pipes as I come out, so I slow mo, and drop down behind the pipes, using them to screen myself, then fire into his back. Another Replica comes out on the catwalk, and one pops up in a window at the end of the catwalk, so I gun them both down, and two more drop down to my level on the right of me. I spray them with heavy nails, and realize I have 12 rounds left, so I turn, shoot another Replica in the head, and AS HE IS FALLING, I SNATCH HIS GUN OUT OF HIS HANDS, turn, and gun down another Replica.

A door blows open, and I switch to my minigun, step around the corner and blow two Replicas and their Heavy Armor away in a half a second. Then, I dash up the stairs, melee another Replica to death, and turn the corner to find... A heavy armor Replica with a minigun. We both unload the miniguns into one another, but I win the little battle, and rush through the hall to where the chopper is waiting... Game over!

Note, this was one life, on my first try ever, and I beat the last level of the game in about 20 seconds or so.

FEAR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 23, 2013, 09:07:28 pm

Spawned at my teams base to pick up a tank. Noticed someone from the other team trying to steal some of them. A quick tank/anti-tank battle ensued. I died once, but since it was at our home base, there was no wait to respawn. A quick RPG got him before he could get away.

Following this, I loaded a tank onboard a transport boat to bring up to the next control point(on this map, the home bases are seperated from the objectives by water, and tanks only spawn at the home bases). Along the way, someone else on the other team lands a helicoper on my boat. I quickly jump in the tank to keep him from using it. Instead, he takes over the boat controls. I hop out of the tank and cut him down with a machete before he knew what hit him.

Finally reaching the objective, which is under siege by my teammates, and I charge in. The other team quickly responds by throwing flashbangs at me, but I can still see well enough to nail a few people as my teammates rush in. In short order, I personally killed nearly every single defender with the tank cannon. We take the point, and soon enough the next one falls.

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Joint Operations: Escalation. Yes, it's old. There isn't too many players left, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 23, 2013, 10:36:09 pm

I was happily minding my own business - my relatively small army had conquered a small city, but otherwise my warmongering hadn't started up in force yet. And suddenly, I notice an embarked fleet of Songhai soldiers, marching straight towards my capital (and intimidating my protected city-states, the jerks). Almost as if on cue, a worldwide report pops up, listing the people possessing the 'most pointy sticks' as, you guessed it, the Songhai. And they brought siege weapons too. It wasn't long before I was greeted by this message (http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/846954195592756048/68EB5455956582A2B21FCA50DEAE477EF9B668ED/).

The catch? I was second on the 'most pointy sticks' list. And the Songhai were so focused on my capital, they walked right past my main army. And, between my recent conquest and roughly a millennium of slaughtering the endless barbarian hordes of the Sahara, my slightly smaller army had a whole bunch of promotions and a Great General supporting them. And my border was, coincidentally, on a river, with a fortified Spearman (advanced tech in those days!) and two brand-new Composite Bowmen defending the other side.

The outcome? The Songhai army were caught in a pincer, their archers and catapults devastated from behind while their melee forces were torn apart by my cities and archers. I didn't lose a single unit, not even my courageous front-line Spearman, and eliminated roughly 12 Songhai units in the process. Best of all, I had just gained the tech for the Roman's unique siege engine, the Ballista, and with the Songhai army dead, there was nothing standing in my path as I struck back and conquered their entire empire. Totally justified, of course!

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Civ 5, G&K installed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on May 24, 2013, 07:45:12 pm

I was fleeing for my life as a halfling chaos knight. Armed with a cursed -2-2 dwarven shortsword I stupidly wielded, I had a hard time killing anything more dangerous than me. After a series of blunders I was being chased by a jelly, some orcs, and an orc priest. On dungeon level 3. Did I mention I had very little health left? I had ten health, and I had just been chased into a dead end. I was as good as dead.

Then Xom spontaneously turns me into a dragon. Yeah.

Needless to say, I burninated  the orcs, the priest, and the jelly, and managed to bite a wandering hobgoblin in half before finally turning back into a halfling.

Praise Xom the Random Number God!

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 25, 2013, 07:07:28 am

Found out that a double-bladed lightsaber is a pretty dangerous thing. So did several cultists, but they found out the hard way. Especially when I'm fueled by the dark side.

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Jedi Academy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 25, 2013, 02:57:51 pm

It's just past dusk.  I'm loaded up with weapons- an upgraded flamethrower, a silenced sniper rifle for the dirty long range work, and an assualt rifle for the heavy fighting.  I get in a hang glider and head towards my target.  As I begin to land, the music starts to play.  I quickly take out the guards, no one spots me.  I then look at my map and wonder well the hell my objective just went.  Then I remember- I'm supposed to burn EVERTHING down.   SO I then proceed to burn the drug fields down, burning everyone that stands in my way.  I do this until dawn, when finally I reach the fishing village.  I put each building on fire, and eventually reach the dock.  The boats pulling away.  I don't even look at the RPG (Or maybe I did) as I fire a burst of flame at the coke in the back of the boat, and it's blown sky high.  Video games need more levels like this.

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Far Cry 3, the mission where you have to burn down the drug field.  Music fits perfectly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 26, 2013, 12:42:44 am

BBEG ((Not the Big Bad)) stuns me from darkness as his first move, and says, "Kneel." (I'm about the hardest hitting player in the party, to be quite honest. Paladin 6/Hellreaver 2 Half Celestial Werebear (Yeah, LA, I know, but fourth tier classes get 1 free LA for each level.)) I shake off the following bone-crushing damage, and stand.

His next turn, he does 91 direct damage to me with a single spell. "Kneel." I have 152 hp in bear form, so he puts me down to 1/3 health pretty much. I ask the party on my turn, "Heal or charge?" Unanimously, they declare charging to be the best option. I say, "I'll let the dice decide! 1 is charge, 2 is heal." I roll, and get a 2. Crap. HEALING IS FOR COWARDS AND ASRAEN THE UNDYING IS NOT A COWARD.

"No. YOU kneel." Charge the BBEG, DM lets me have a full attack. I do 109 direct damage to him, with Smite Evil and Righteous Strike. BBEG is gibbed.

DnD 3.5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 27, 2013, 06:50:15 pm

I have two-

I'm in deep at an outpost.  I forgot to bring my silenced sniper rifle, so I had to go in to get my hands dirty.  I disable the alarm without a problem.  I have killed the snipers on overwatch, and I'm stalking a pirate with my 1887 out, in case I'm spotted.  I'm getting ready to go in for the kill, a simple take-down, knife throw, and then drag into the bushes, when I hear him "It's so hot here! Someone just shoot me!" At this point, I don't care that I will break my cover and lose out on a 1000 extra EXP, along with bringing the rest of the outpost on me.  I must oblige his request. The outpost hearing my shot, I proceed to rip the outpost a new one without taking a single hit.

A good bit later.  I got my 7zw or whatever that 50 cal sniper rifle you get on the second island is.  I get into position above an outpost.  It's in a valley, and I'm way up on a nearby hill.  I take aim at a sniper at the rear of the compound.  I shoot, he's still alive.  I think that maybe do to the extreme range I need to account for bullet drop.  I still miss.  I think I may need to account for wind.  Still miss.  I move up about 50 feet, aim at the head again, and hit.  Perfect kill, nice and silent, and his body fell where no one would see it.  I then take out another guard, but the rest are too close together for any more clean kills.  I start thinking about how I'll approach this.  They'll see my coming, so I can't just charge at them, at least one would get to the alarm.  I can't just snipe them all, as I'm at the very, very edge of the rifles range, and it take about 20 seconds to set up a clean kill on a still or barely moving target.  So I take the third option, remembering an experience from a radio tower a few minutes prior- I find the two alarms, and manage to cleanly disable both without missing either shot.  I reload my rifle, and then take out my Spas-12.  I'm at a ledge, so I back up a few yards.  I then sprint foward, and jump.  I hit the left stick, deploying my wing suit.  I glide straight for the outpost.  I then activate my parachute at the last moment, landing in front of two guards.  I quickly gun both down, and kill the rest of the outpost in less than half a minute, killing the last one as he cried sabotage, the alarm non-functional. 

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Far Cry 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on May 28, 2013, 07:25:06 pm

One one side: 20 Zuul destroyers armed with mass drivers. On the other side:My full Tarkas cruiser squadron consisting of 3 Cobras(War-sectioned cruisers armed with war quoits, chakkars, and fusion-warhead missiles), 2 Diamondback PD boats, and my Boa CNC ship(all of them having a similar weapon's mix, barring mostly PD lasers on the Diamondbacks).

Well, as you can imagine, it was no contest >:D. I annihilated the entire task force without taking hardly a scrath(my repair boats didn't need to really do anything!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aptus on May 31, 2013, 08:30:55 am

What's that Smough? Oh you DON'T like getting lightning spears thrown at you. Well maybe you should have thought of that before you let me poke down Ornstein.

Woo!

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Dark Souls, I love this game so much. This feeling of accomplishment is something rare these days in gaming for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on May 31, 2013, 03:20:14 pm

Successfully got the best endings on two routes, my first time, with bare minimum prior knowledge, without save scumming. Awww yiss. Now for the other three...

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Katawa Shoujo. Routes were Emi and Lilly. Only prior knowledge was one choice required to get on to Lilly's route.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on May 31, 2013, 03:22:46 pm

Quote from: tryrar on May 28, 2013, 07:25:06 pm

One one side: 20 Zuul destroyers armed with mass drivers. On the other side:My full Tarkas cruiser squadron consisting of 3 Cobras(War-sectioned cruisers armed with war quoits, chakkars, and fusion-warhead missiles), 2 Diamondback PD boats, and my Boa CNC ship(all of them having a similar weapon's mix, barring mostly PD lasers on the Diamondbacks).

Well, as you can imagine, it was no contest >:D. I annihilated the entire task force without taking hardly a scrath(my repair boats didn't need to really do anything!)

Game?

I assume Sots

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kingfisher1112 on June 01, 2013, 10:36:14 am

In my Hurricane Mk1. Pelileu. Raining. Night. Stealth ammo loaded up as the rain patters on my wings, and flak bursts the air as all sorts of aircraft fall beneath my mighty machine guns. End of the game. 8 kills.

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War Thunder. Love it, especially those rain effects. Only started last night.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 01, 2013, 01:25:16 pm

Hijacked the emergency shuttle by escaping alone. I set all of escape on fire, stole all the guns and space them, brute-force hacked the AI, and blew the borg, all this after I kidnapped the Head of Personnel and used her ID to make myself have All Access.

Quartermaster = God.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on June 01, 2013, 09:08:11 pm

I'm currently launching fighter attacks from four different carriers, on the other side of the continent I share with Russia and Persia, the most technologically advanced civs, excluding me.  The year?  1700's.  Targets?  Enemy Longswordsman. 

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Civilization 5.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 01, 2013, 09:11:02 pm

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on May 31, 2013, 03:22:46 pm

Quote from: tryrar on May 28, 2013, 07:25:06 pm

One one side: 20 Zuul destroyers armed with mass drivers. On the other side:My full Tarkas cruiser squadron consisting of 3 Cobras(War-sectioned cruisers armed with war quoits, chakkars, and fusion-warhead missiles), 2 Diamondback PD boats, and my Boa CNC ship(all of them having a similar weapon's mix, barring mostly PD lasers on the Diamondbacks).

Well, as you can imagine, it was no contest >:D. I annihilated the entire task force without taking hardly a scrath(my repair boats didn't need to really do anything!)

Game?

I assume Sots

....could have sworn I mentioned Sword of the Stars in my post, but yes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on June 03, 2013, 04:50:56 pm

Just teleported into the Orokin Tower with my (single use, insanely rare) Void Key. I know very well I am not up to the challenge, but backup is on the way.
Or is it?
My companions failed to teleport on my position (internet connection being a bitch), so I had to fulfill the objective myself.
Kill all the ennemies. All 176 of them. All twice my level. All taking between one and three clips to the face to die. All very able to tear my in half.
I died 4 times, using all of my daily revives. I emptied all the ammo I had, and all the ammo I found. Despite the drops, I managed to find myself with precisely 0 bullets whatsoever midway through the mission. Finished it with my (underleveled) sword.
I survived the laser traps of doom, the shielded minigunners of hell (killed with half a dozen clips of pistol to the head), the mass-healing infested of doom (weak point? THE TOES.), the trolling flying robots providing impassable shields to their allies (those guys repeatedly flew around me, dodging my shots, dancing even!), and the unnumerable level 35 goons (max level of the game is 30, I'm 24, with level 19 weapons...).
The game threw at me unholy combination of all of these ennemies, and I withstood it. (Even if it's pretty tough to crack the shielded minigunner+mass zone healer+dual shield bots+five goons with laser guns... all of that with deadly lasers sweeping the room...)
Took me two hours and a half (and 5 lifes), but I KILLED THEM ALL AND I CLAIMED MY RIGHTFUL REWARD.

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Warframe. Void tower exterminations II, alone and understuffed, are HARD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on June 03, 2013, 06:09:42 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on June 03, 2013, 04:50:56 pm

snip

Not gonna lie, I don't know this game, but this entire post makes you sound bad ass!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 03, 2013, 06:58:39 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on June 01, 2013, 09:08:11 pm

I'm currently launching fighter attacks from four different carriers, on the other side of the continent I share with Russia and Persia, the most technologically advanced civs, excluding me.  The year?  1700's.  Targets?  Enemy Longswordsman. 

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Civilization 5.

I've had similar, although it was 1600s, Infantry vs. Longbowman.

Longbowmen fortified in a city that's on hills with Garrison I and II are surprisingly hard to beat. IIRC, Longbowmen have 7 strength vs. Infantry's 20, but Infantry don't gain any bonuses on attack if unleveled.

Longbowmen get 7 + 50% from fortification + 50% from hills + 50% from Garrison I and II, so they can often go toe to toe with infantry if they're on the defensive.

That being said, as soon as my cannons and ironclads were in position, bombarding the hell out of their cities worked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on June 03, 2013, 07:29:24 pm

My latest accomplishment is truly a work of genuis.
The Greeks and Russians are to the north, and the last bastion of the French is at the end of a long peninsula, the begining of which is controlled by the French.  I would of played nice, but all three of them were forcing my hand.  War was inevatable.  The Greeks would have to go first.  They are the second biggest civ on this continent, and are the only ones that could truly threaten me, even with the tecnological gap.  Plus, unless I want to launch an amphibous assualt, I have to secure a land route to the Russians and French.  The problem?  There is a reason for the location of my border with the Greeks.  To the west is a large mountain chain that splits the continent in half, with only two narrow passes, and surrounded by rough terrain.  To the east is a 7 tile wide route riddled with lakes and rough terrain, with the ocean on one side and mountains of the other.  Even with mechanized infantry and armor, the Greeks large army, combined of riflemen, cannons, and AT guns (No idea how they have those) could easily bog me down there, turning into a costly war.  This has to be quick, swift, and leave me with enough momentum to take on the Russians and French without pause.  I form a plan. 
First, I take out the Greeks support.  I take out three city-states, each in a key location to take key supply lines between me and the Greeks.  Then, once thats done, I deploy my forces.  To the west I assemble my paratroopers and jet fighters.  To the east I assemble my mechanized infantry and modern armor.   The east have three rocket artillery units but the west only has one.  I only have one battleship and one aircraft carrier, due to only having one coastal city with any degree of production.  The aircraft carrier will be useless, so I put it in it's own little harbor as far away from teh action as possible.  The battleship is put into place north of the Greeks, where it will be able to spot targets and rain down fire on the reinforcements.  Then I launch my attack.  First a lance of armor is sent from the east  through a narrow strip of open terrain, heading towards the west.  Then I move in my battleship.  I deploy two of my paratroopers, and put them in position.  From here I can easily see most of the Greek terratory.  I then order my intial strike.  Four flights of bombers take off, each with a deadly payload.  The first hits Sparta, which forms the border on the east.  Sparta is wiped off the map in a brilliant flash.  The second hits Athens and the army built up there.  My battleship and jet fighters kill the survivors.  Then the third strike hits, this time on a city near the west, damaging that city and the army nearby.  The last one hits a concentration of their troops.  With the way cleared, the rest of my armor strikes.  To the west, my other four paratrooper units take off and land at key locations, while my rocket artillery takes up position.  Three of my paratroopers are tasked with taking a city, while the others are to hold up the army.  To the east, my mechanized forces strike.  Within the first turn my rocket artillery levels a city's defenses, and a modern armor unit takes in with minimal damage.  The other units fan out, surrounding another city, taking out a group of units, and getting ready to hit another city.  By this point I wiped out what I estimate to be a third of Greece's forces.  Their turn comes.  The bulk of their military is to the north west, and they have to get through my paratroopers.  They absorb the blow, with one unit being destroyed and another having only one hp remaining.  But I fully  expected that.  Next turn I retaliate, using my last bomb to punch a hole in those units, with my paratroopers and rocket artillery killing the remainder.   My forces to the east soon capture their other targets, and two of my armored units hit Athens, capturing it with the help of my battleship.  This action divides up the Greek army, as I have split their empire down the middle. During the second turn.  After this, it is just mopping up what remains and taking out the Russians and the French, who didn't even put up a fight.  One of the best parts?  The year was 1939.  Blitzkreig understates what I did.  I even left entire cities behind my lines to prevent my advance from slowing down.  I only lost two units, the paratrooper, and the aircraft carrier, as four frigats were somehow in the area and ambushed it. 

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Civ V, again.  After this I got bored, not wanting to go through the logistics of getting my army across the ocean to deal with a long protrated war with the only other continent. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 08, 2013, 10:16:28 pm

This kind of win isnt actually anything new to players of very hard, but I was beseiged by a full stack of Macedonian units.  Mostly elites in their best purples, though some skirmishers and fodder.  I had about half a stack of Pontus' archers and phalanx.

We sally forth my first turn under seige.  I still dont like fighting phalanx, so I tend to keep either Sinope nobles or hire mercs for a mixed line.  I prefer roman or thracian style fighting.

Anywho Macedon is a pretty hard phalanx user.  Their phalanx tend to be superior to mine in a fair contest.  So as they brought only a few slingers we kill them and take about 45%of them to my 30% lost.  With general horses and pontic nobles we held the Macedons while the army retreated back inside.  Over 90% of those Nobles died.  I had 17 horsemen and 6 Sinope Nobles left.

With about 1000 men left to my 450 (this is on huge unit size, too) they seige us.  We blow up the tower and the battling ram (cuz thats what Arabs call it in this game 8) Probably my favorite line in the game:  'the battling rams have reached the gate!') with fire arrows and defend the walls at a greater loss to us.  Their units are superior 1v1, but the walls really helped to even us out.

When I checked my stats screen I looked at the Sinope Nobles.  The six of them killed 61.  They gained 3 cheverons that day.

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 Rome Total War, Rome Total Realism mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 08, 2013, 10:23:57 pm

Rome Total War?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on June 11, 2013, 08:52:02 pm

I just defeated the "petty king" which owned the mainland of denmark (me being the petty king of Copenhagen and other stuff) with a nice army of two thousand men against a few hundred. But at the moment of surrender, one of his vassal refuse to surrender, and declare war to me. He just owned a county, but more importantly, he called another King "the Boneless" to his help (from Scotland, though I think he doesn't own all of Scotland, it's still undecided). Nonetheless, it's a powerful king.
His troops begin to unload, an army of 800 men, then an army of 1600 (the same as my troops), another army of 1600 ! I feel like I'm screwed, but their armies are still divided. I begin to pick on the weakest one (800 men), which is cornered, and obliterate them with only a hundread (on my side). Fortunately, the King was leading those troops, and I imprison him ! As I see the 2 other armies merging in a 3000 men blob, I behead "the Boneless" ! His heir inherit, and fortunately, the alliance was personal, so nobody else went to the help of the unruly vassal. He didn't even had any army, so I just sieged his county.
I felt like I dodged the axe by a few milimeters, by putting another head in front of it.

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Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on June 17, 2013, 12:26:46 am

My Malkavian manages to consistently not die in combat situations by sneaking around the enemy then proceeding to snap necks and snipe with a .38 revolver then pound things into the ground with her fists that deal more damage than a fire axe when they get close - all when she's still a fledgling childe. She hasn't suffered a final death yet, which is a good sign.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 18, 2013, 06:34:15 pm

What a hellish campaign. The first building we enter, I open a door halfway through, and then there's a Tank in my face. I happened to be carrying a gas can, so I drop it and shoot it lighting it on fire. I end up doing the most damage(over 3000), despite only getting a couple magnum pistol shots on it(I had a grenade launcher), especially after getting incapped, due to that fire.

Moving on. I get knocked off a high ledge by a Charger, and dropped to very low incapped health before my teammates arrive, setting us back a good deal. We still go through.

Next level. Nothing noteworthy, but by the end of it, most of us are really hurting.

Final level. Running around grabbing gas cans, I clear a few streets with a very special assault rifle. First Tank shows up at 3 or 4 cans collected(of 10). It knocks us around, but we kill it. At around 6 cans, two Tanks show up, but those ended up being easier than the first one. I'm really hurting, but some friends in a high place drop us some health packs.

We get the gas into the generator. We make an epic stand against a group of zombies charging the bridge, just completely destroying them. I even held up a bit to heal one of the team who was limping. As we drove off, we ran down a Charger, killing him.

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L4D2: The Passing. What was special about that assault rifle was that it was Bill's. Ride on, you crazy bastard. Killing that Charger at the end was pretty funny. He just happened to be standing there, and we clipped him in the smaller arm with the spoiler on Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s stock car.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on June 20, 2013, 01:53:44 am

My Malkavian visited a night club, made two gangbangers have heart attacks, snapped the necks of five more, proceeded to shoot another five with an automatic shotgun at point-blank range, drank their boss dry and then proceeded to dance in the club as if nothing had happened. Got herself an uzi and a katana somehow too.

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Vampire: Bloodlines

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 20, 2013, 04:19:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on June 20, 2013, 01:53:44 am

My Malkavian visited a night club, made two gangbangers have heart attacks, snapped the necks of five more, proceeded to shoot another five with an automatic shotgun at point-blank range, drank their boss dry and then proceeded to dance in the club as if nothing had happened. Got herself an uzi and a katana somehow too.

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Vampire: Bloodlines

How the dickens did you get VTMB running? What OS are you using?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 20, 2013, 09:09:30 pm

Our formation took off from Deenethorpe, destination: the city of Brest. As soon as we got over the Channel, the enemy fighters were on our tail. Of course, the tail carries the biggest guns. Four of them shot down without so much as a scratch on our guys. I personally made one explode, and the tailgunner I was controlling was awarded the Bronze Star for it.

The rest of the flight was easy, quiet(and time-skipped). Flak was unusually quiet going in. We approach the target: the harbor and nearby U-boat pen at Brest. As we approach, the flak starts coming up. No hits so far. I begin trying to figure out the bombsight, aiming for maximum damage. I haven't quite figured out how to drift properly into a proper aiming line. This causes me to miss my intended target site, but we still manage to blow up half the harbor, including one of the large piers and its equipment, reported as a "near miss" in the debrief, although all bombs were in the general target area.

Coming out was easy. Still some flak, but no casualties. My own bomber, the "Maximum Effort" didn't take a single hit. None of the other bombers in the formation seemed to be worse for the weather, either.

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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shoruke on June 20, 2013, 10:01:49 pm

Started a new character in Skyrim. He doesn't always fight, but when he does, he uses a bow.

Now, here's the fun part: he really doesn't always fight. He usually lets the enemies do it to themselves. Fury one guy so he starts attacking his friends, wait for him to get swarmed, and then a giant Frenzy cloud so that all of the enemies are attacking all of the other enemies for the next minute or so. Wait until there is exactly one guy left, sneak up on him and shoot him in the back. With paralyzing arrows, if he's one of those guys with ridiculous hp and an everlasting supply of healing spells.

Dragons are the fun part. After you kill dragons, their flesh burns away, leaving only their bones. Dragons are flying critters, meaning their bones are absurdly light (and probably hollow). So, you stand underneath of this inexplicably dragon-shaped set of bones, equip two charges of Firebolt, look up, and let them both off in quick succession. If you hit it again when it's in the air, you can easily send those bones flying so far away that the game will stop bothering to track their position and velocity and they disappear off the screen; if you then chase after them, the bones will spontaneously reappear in midair ahead of you and then continue flying away. I call it Dragonbone Baseball. Because fuck you and your strafing, dumb dragons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on June 21, 2013, 07:49:55 pm

Quote from: Reudh on June 20, 2013, 04:19:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on June 20, 2013, 01:53:44 am

My Malkavian visited a night club, made two gangbangers have heart attacks, snapped the necks of five more, proceeded to shoot another five with an automatic shotgun at point-blank range, drank their boss dry and then proceeded to dance in the club as if nothing had happened. Got herself an uzi and a katana somehow too.

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Vampire: Bloodlines

How the dickens did you get VTMB running? What OS are you using?

I applied the unofficial patches after installing it on Windows XP SP3. My computer exceeds the minimum specifications by about 25% and I get about 25fps in most areas after turning off most of the fancy visual effects. I acquired a copy and beat it in eight days with my first playthrough being a Malkavian named Amy. In fact I just beat it less than five minutes ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 22, 2013, 12:32:38 am

Aha. It works for me, albeit very unstably on Windows Vista, exceeding min specs by about 40%.

It flat out does not work on Seven, which exceeds its min specs by 75%+.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on June 22, 2013, 12:49:38 am

I was able to run it on 7 easily enough. Just make sure you've installed the unofficial patch, and are running the game in Administrator Mode. If you own the Steam version, that means you need to run Steam itself in Admin mode.  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 22, 2013, 12:54:32 am

Pontc part 2.

I left off with Macedon going west, me going east.  We clashed finally and much 'heroic victories' were had.  After a bit I SEALed Greece and worked up the coast.  With Greece and their core gone I am now finding armies composed of mercs or local troops, cuz with the mod you cant make faction troops without assimilating the county with auxilia building; a 16 turn process my enemy apparently neglected to compete.  Lulz @ the Macedon horde of Guallic swordsmen and  Illyian slingers

Rome Total War w/Total Realism mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on June 22, 2013, 12:40:24 pm

Quote from: Thexor on June 22, 2013, 12:49:38 am

I was able to run it on 7 easily enough. Just make sure you've installed the unofficial patch, and are running the game in Administrator Mode. If you own the Steam version, that means you need to run Steam itself in Admin mode.  :)

I plan on getting a Windows 7 laptop or desktop between now and August if possible so I'll keep that in mind. I don't have the Steam version so that should make things a lot easier in my opinion.

For something a bit more on-topic my Gangrel eviscerated three plague-bearers and a horde of zombies in the span of ten minutes and without taking a scratch. Now she has a pretty little occult item to show for her efforts and it's easier to feed on kine that aren't hookers or hobos. Hookers and Hobos kind of sounds like a game in and of itself but I digress. Tabitha did good for one not-so humane.

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Vampire: Bloodlines

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 22, 2013, 04:30:36 pm

Forget magical swords, rifles and molotovs are the only way to take down zombies.

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Arcanum. The plot-relevant dwarf-zombie pit in Tarant. Loaded up on significant magical armors from it, but unfortnately none of it's ID'd so it only fetches about 200 gold. I'm keeping it until I can ID it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on June 22, 2013, 04:38:56 pm

Quote from: Reudh on June 22, 2013, 12:32:38 am

Aha. It works for me, albeit very unstably on Windows Vista, exceeding min specs by about 40%.

It flat out does not work on Seven, which exceeds its min specs by 75%+.

I've got it installed on 7 right now. Took about a day of tweaking to get it to run, but it works like a dream... mostly. The occasional CTD don't bother me too much, considering I die constantly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 23, 2013, 03:52:48 pm

At the start of the game, I saw an oppurtunity to build a large wall between my base and the Bavarians'. Turned out to be mostly useless, since when Peace Time ran out, I had a full formation of Harquebusiers supported with cannon outside the wall, plus a decent force of 100 Mounted Chausseurs and two squadrons(40 each) of Dragoons ready to reinforce if necessary(it wasn't) and many Musketeers(who not once participated in the entire game).

Their main army was smashed by the Harquebusiers and cannons. Unfortunately, my guys were beat up too, leaving the cannons out of the rest of the game, and my Harquebusiers to wander around taking isolated mines. The next step was to send in the cavalry to take down pockets of troops trying to rebuild their army as the Dragoons approached their town.

We set up just outside, using the Dragoons to snipe outlying enemies. For some stupid reason, they kept charging them with Mortars without any backup. I just let them do that, capturing a bunch to rain destruction on their buildings. The death knell came when about 150 Mounted Chausseurs galloped right to the crowded center of town and began slaughtering everyone there. Everything after that was mop-up.

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Cossacks: European Wars: Back to War. First time beating the AI on Very Hard in a land battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:01:01 pm

Not really ownage, but the female Gnaar's are graphically glitched and consist only of torsos. I'm not sure if this is a bad or a good or a hilarious thing.

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Serious Sam: The first encounter

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 27, 2013, 03:03:28 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:01:01 pm

Not really ownage, but the female Gnaar's are graphically glitched and consist only of torsos. I'm not sure if this is a bad or a good or a hilarious thing.

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Serious Sam: The first encounter

Thats deliberate. Some of them can float, and some are invisible too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:05:54 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 27, 2013, 03:03:28 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:01:01 pm

Not really ownage, but the female Gnaar's are graphically glitched and consist only of torsos. I'm not sure if this is a bad or a good or a hilarious thing.

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Serious Sam: The first encounter

Thats deliberate. Some of them can float, and some are invisible too.

Oooh. I didn't think about the notes. They just look odd that way, tough. Altough now my game is stuck in pause-limbo. When I quit out of the esc menu, my game is paused. and I can't unpause it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 27, 2013, 03:19:14 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:05:54 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 27, 2013, 03:03:28 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on June 27, 2013, 03:01:01 pm

Not really ownage, but the female Gnaar's are graphically glitched and consist only of torsos. I'm not sure if this is a bad or a good or a hilarious thing.

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Serious Sam: The first encounter

Thats deliberate. Some of them can float, and some are invisible too.

Oooh. I didn't think about the notes. They just look odd that way, tough. Altough now my game is stuck in pause-limbo. When I quit out of the esc menu, my game is paused. and I can't unpause it.

Thats odd. Its a keyboard command I think, though I can't say for sure. I haven't played the First Encounter in a while, and having played it a lot before, I can safely say that I never go into the notes anymore, having read all of them at least a dozen times each, so I can't remember the command to unpause. Its probably spacebar or something, though I remember left-click doing the same thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 01, 2013, 09:51:52 am

Beat the game on Pro Mode for the first time.

Result:
Hit Ratio:   78%
Enemies Killed:   904
Number of times killed:   79
Clear Time:   27:14'58''

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Resident Evil 4: HD Edition
Time to do it again!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 05, 2013, 07:44:36 pm

I beat Don't Starve Adventure Mode. Feels good man.

Even better, I beat the last world, that crazy-ass always pitch black world, using only torches, no miners hats for easy light, and in 7 days no less. Still surprised I scraped through that.

In total I think beating all five worlds took maybe 100 days.

Now that I beat it, I'm never doing that again.  :P well, not for a while at least.

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Don't Starve

Used WX-78 after the "new powers" buff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 05, 2013, 08:35:57 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 01, 2013, 09:51:52 am

Beat the game on Pro Mode for the first time.

Result:
Hit Ratio:   78%
Enemies Killed:   904
Number of times killed:   79
Clear Time:   27:14'58''

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Resident Evil 4: HD Edition
Time to do it again!

How many of those deaths were instakills?

Meanwhile, on the Wii version of that same game, I spent an entire new game + round stockpiling all the shotgun shells the game has to offer. Total count: 396. Now to use them on everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 06, 2013, 11:12:08 am

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on July 05, 2013, 08:35:57 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 01, 2013, 09:51:52 am

Beat the game on Pro Mode for the first time.

Result:
Hit Ratio:   78%
Enemies Killed:   904
Number of times killed:   79
Clear Time:   27:14'58''

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Resident Evil 4: HD Edition
Time to do it again!

How many of those deaths were instakills?

Meanwhile, on the Wii version of that same game, I spent an entire new game + round stockpiling all the shotgun shells the game has to offer. Total count: 396. Now to use them on everything.

Do note that the game increases the ammo drop rate for guns you use more often. So if you go through the game using all that shotgun ammo... well, enjoy your shotgun, you will have a long relationship with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 06, 2013, 01:48:17 pm

A filled Destruction perk tree is pretty powerful. Pouring a lot of level-ups into Magica makes it more powerful. Casting Fire Storm 4 times in a row without depleting Magicka is too powerful for Ancient Dragons. Or anything, for that matter.

And they say mages are weak and squishy.

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TESV: Skyrim (+Dragonborn DLC)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on July 06, 2013, 02:07:48 pm

My medical dwarves began medicaling all the problems that my dwarves have acquired.  I might as well abandon the fortress now, because it's all downhill from here.

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Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on July 06, 2013, 02:27:20 pm

Wait what, dwarves doctors are actually healing people ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on July 06, 2013, 05:40:42 pm

I said medicine, not healing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on July 06, 2013, 06:58:49 pm

That's reassuring, I thought doctors were helping people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on July 06, 2013, 09:14:54 pm

I have a little story for everyone, it's called Yajirobe is secretly the strongest fucking fighter in DBZ

So me and a friend are running random fights on random maps. We pick up ruined earth, he gets Super Buu, I get... Yajirobe. "FUCK!" I yell, overshadowing my friend's triumphant cry because I already know i'm sooooo fuuuucked.

The battle proceeds as expected. I try to keep up by launching him far away and sword-blasting his ass whenever he gets close, but he just doesn't stop kicking the shit out of me. Nearing death and in need of a quick ki boost, I look through the move list to see what buff specials I have, and I see two entries:

- Pump Up (2)
- Senzu (5)

For those not in the know, Senzu is short for Senzu Beans, AKA the beans that heal all damage done no matter the circumstance. The tradeoff here is that it's supposed to drain all your ki, but when the moves that normally use ki (Ki blasts, super moves, combo filler) are completely useless, you find yourself with a large reserve.

So I keep healing. And healing. And healing. And healing...

Super Buu may have incredible power, but Yajirobe is like the great mountain: he cannot attack, but his stamina is endless, and eventually he will win.

After winning, Yajirobe shouted a triumphant call of "theht's waht you geht foar dishturbehn mah meahl!"

That day, we both agreed that, aside from SSJ4 Gogeta, Yajirobe was the most broken fighter in DBZ.

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Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 07, 2013, 03:20:05 pm

I *guess* this counts of ownage...

Devotees of the alynx(fantasy cat) god came to my clan and offered to perform a ritual that would make the clan alynxes more efficient at hunting vermin. I offered them some of our kittens as payment for the ritual. The leader of the cult took one look at them and, with tears in his eyes, essentially declared that my kittens were too adorable to take away from us and decided to perform the ritual for free.

Shortly afterward, I utterly decimated a raid from a nearby clan - one fyrd wound on my side, multiple weaponthane deaths on theirs. I doubt the two events are related, but this is more of a traditional ownage.

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The King of Dragon Pass

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 08, 2013, 12:28:17 am

Survived a whole round as a cardboad cow spamming the voice command "hit charge" with several other players, a bush and a bucket. We were hiding in a tree.

the map echoed with the beautiful music of scouts shouting "do it doc do it cmon doc do it hit it doc do it doc hit it doc--" endlessly.

Truly, a beautiful moment.

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Team Fortress 2 on the  Saxton Hell 24/7 prophunt server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on July 08, 2013, 03:33:54 pm

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(http://imageshack.us/a/img545/395/5y6d.jpg)

So, did I beat the competition?

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(http://imageshack.us/a/img708/4061/h59u.jpg)

Doomsday is a Fantasy Action/RPG MMO, has been running for ~20 years and should still be running on the custom console Shizzle Fizzle from ~20 years back. It originally used the Blam 6.0 engine but has moved on to use the newer Blam 9000 engine through milking expansions.
Steam Scalies is a Cyberpunk (and more) RPG/Action MMO, has been running for ~5 years and runs on the current Shizzle Dizzle console with the Blam 9000 engine.
Shizzle Fizzle sold roughly ~100 million units and was discontinued ~10 years ago.

Conclusion:

• On average, 521 units of Doomsday has been played on a Shizzle Fizzle, indicating a very prolific second hand market for the Shizzle Fizzle considering the game is pretty much provided by Grid.
• The profits and losses of Steam Scalies are pretty much pocket money.
• We've probably colonized spaced and met aliens with a hunger for video games.

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Game Dev Tycoon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on July 08, 2013, 03:52:25 pm

wow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on July 08, 2013, 09:14:50 pm

Rammed tiny frigite into A capital ship, only htree ships left, and hte capital ship whould have destroyed the other bigger slower ships of mine,I self destructed, blowint it up when its sheild was about ot charge up, making it invinceable, but me blowing up destroyed it. Also in the chian reaction killed three or four ships.

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SPAZ AKA space pirates and zambies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 08, 2013, 09:23:05 pm

Got two brand new pistols on the same level. Dual-wielding, FTW.

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Torchlight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 08, 2013, 10:23:27 pm

I'm the furthest down in the dungeon I've ever been. I kill a few wandering monsters after walking down the stairs, open a door, and come face-to-face with a 90+ Monster Zoo. I fire off my very last Bolt of Squid.

HAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYHAYWIRE (interspersed with the sounds of monsters dying)

Music to my ears :D

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2013, 04:16:57 am

I got to the second to last floor, on my first playthrough, largely unspoiled.  Not bad for a rougelikelike.

I found a Deck of Cards really early on, which I clung to the entire game despite other options, as well as a "Magneto".  Given that those two things were constantly handing me items the entire game, I assume I was pretty lucky.  I permanently traded one of my life (which is an awesome mechanic) for a new projectile called "spectral tears", that also made my face look like I was dead.  My character looked like a freak of nature by the end, as I had a still beating heart hanging out of my chest.

The last room before the boss, I met three zombies that revived from meat chunks when I killed them.  I'd met something like that before but these were so fast I could barely keep up with them, and they kept sliding after I downed them.  I ran from the fight using the "Stairway" card, but there was no other way to advance.  I permakilled one and then died myself.

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Binding of Isaac.  I unlocked a new character but... min speed?  That sounds like it would make some fights borderline unwinnable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Spoony Bard on July 09, 2013, 07:28:09 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2013, 04:16:57 am

-snip- My character looked like a freak of nature by the end,-snip-

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Binding of Isaac. -snip-

Chances are that if your character DOESN'T look like a freak, something has gone terribly wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 09, 2013, 12:21:17 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2013, 04:16:57 am

I got to the second to last floor, on my first playthrough, largely unspoiled.  Not bad for a rougelikelike.

I found a Deck of Cards really early on, which I clung to the entire game despite other options, as well as a "Magneto".  Given that those two things were constantly handing me items the entire game, I assume I was pretty lucky.  I permanently traded one of my life (which is an awesome mechanic) for a new projectile called "spectral tears", that also made my face look like I was dead.  My character looked like a freak of nature by the end, as I had a still beating heart hanging out of my chest.

The last room before the boss, I met three zombies that revived from meat chunks when I killed them.  I'd met something like that before but these were so fast I could barely keep up with them, and they kept sliding after I downed them.  I ran from the fight using the "Stairway" card, but there was no other way to advance.  I permakilled one and then died myself.

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Binding of Isaac.  I unlocked a new character but... min speed?  That sounds like it would make some fights borderline unwinnable.

I'm assuming the new character is Mary? She's awful. For funsies, collect at least 50 cents in a single playthrough. The character you unlock is FUN.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on July 09, 2013, 12:38:00 pm

Quote from: Mego on July 09, 2013, 12:21:17 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2013, 04:16:57 am

I got to the second to last floor, on my first playthrough, largely unspoiled.  Not bad for a rougelikelike.

I found a Deck of Cards really early on, which I clung to the entire game despite other options, as well as a "Magneto".  Given that those two things were constantly handing me items the entire game, I assume I was pretty lucky.  I permanently traded one of my life (which is an awesome mechanic) for a new projectile called "spectral tears", that also made my face look like I was dead.  My character looked like a freak of nature by the end, as I had a still beating heart hanging out of my chest.

The last room before the boss, I met three zombies that revived from meat chunks when I killed them.  I'd met something like that before but these were so fast I could barely keep up with them, and they kept sliding after I downed them.  I ran from the fight using the "Stairway" card, but there was no other way to advance.  I permakilled one and then died myself.

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Binding of Isaac.  I unlocked a new character but... min speed?  That sounds like it would make some fights borderline unwinnable.

I'm assuming the new character is Mary? She's awful. For funsies, collect at least 50 cents in a single playthrough. The character you unlock is FUN.

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AKA Easy Mode Cain is the easiest character

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 09, 2013, 01:14:24 pm

Quote from: werty892 on July 09, 2013, 12:38:00 pm

Quote from: Mego on July 09, 2013, 12:21:17 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2013, 04:16:57 am

I got to the second to last floor, on my first playthrough, largely unspoiled.  Not bad for a rougelikelike.

I found a Deck of Cards really early on, which I clung to the entire game despite other options, as well as a "Magneto".  Given that those two things were constantly handing me items the entire game, I assume I was pretty lucky.  I permanently traded one of my life (which is an awesome mechanic) for a new projectile called "spectral tears", that also made my face look like I was dead.  My character looked like a freak of nature by the end, as I had a still beating heart hanging out of my chest.

The last room before the boss, I met three zombies that revived from meat chunks when I killed them.  I'd met something like that before but these were so fast I could barely keep up with them, and they kept sliding after I downed them.  I ran from the fight using the "Stairway" card, but there was no other way to advance.  I permakilled one and then died myself.

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Binding of Isaac.  I unlocked a new character but... min speed?  That sounds like it would make some fights borderline unwinnable.

I'm assuming the new character is Mary? She's awful. For funsies, collect at least 50 cents in a single playthrough. The character you unlock is FUN.

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AKA Easy Mode Cain is the easiest character

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Cain brings much ownage

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on July 09, 2013, 03:04:20 pm

Standard terror missio- Cue 6 chryssalids, 3 heavy floaters, and some zombies marching into sight. Luckily for me they decided to attack in three waves of two chryssalids, 1 floater, and 2 zombies. Which doesn't work well for them. After the last wave, we push into the library and find a Sectopod just there in the lobby. First reaction is to get everyone into cover and fire at it. Everyone excepts for my Hover SHIV misses, and it gets it down to half-health.

Then it's the Sectopod's turn to fire, it takes down half of my whole team to half-health with it's first shot and destroys their cover. The second shot goes for the SHIV which misses. Because they're standing there in the open with barely 4 health remaining, I had them get the heck out of dodge starting with the assault. Then I put the SHIV into overwatch (I didn't want the Sectopod to move without getting harmed), and a Support Colonel who had full health into hunker down. The Sectopod brought the Colonel down to 3 health, and misses the SHIV again.

Since my assault was too far away to trigger the Sectopod's overwatch, I had the SHIV charge at the Sectopod. It dodges the overwatch and stops a measly 3 tiles away, and fired. The shot was a crit, and the Sectopod went up in an explosion.

Hilariously enough, the SHIV missed every other shot on the other aliens and nailed every one on the Sectopod. This was a great first mission to test it.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 10, 2013, 04:24:07 pm

I was Margaret Thatcher. I set Osama Bin-Laden on fire with a flare gun, and he danced around for a good 10 seconds before I killed him. That's all there really is to say on the matter.

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The Ship, some server where everyone is celebrities

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 11, 2013, 12:37:21 am

Lord Dredmor, terror of the 15th floor of his own dungeon, has been slain. Turns out he's not that much of a threat when you pin him in a Damping Field of Angst, summon a Friendly Wyrmling next to him so he's got someone to attack (and doesn't leave the damping field), and then stack Tactical Pyres and Recursive Curses on his head. Though it still took forever - I'd love to find an element he doesn't heavily resist. Apparently ancient liches have a surprisingly high resistance to Existential damage, and are happy to 2/3-hit kill my pets.  ::)

EDIT: Also, got a Lord Dredmor Steam trading card immediately after my victory. I'm sure it's a coincidence, but still...  :D
 

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Dungeons of Dredmor. Going Rogue + Permadeath achievements get!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 12, 2013, 11:29:13 am

Spoiler: Getting one of these is always ownage in my book. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/O9zQO3v.png)
...And also terrifying. Makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop....

Spoiler: Also my best height, though still not enough for the achievement (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/xSKuIQn.png)

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Katawa Crash. Currently, I have all silver achievements, all but one gold achievments(missing Flambe Runway, but that's just a matter of time), and about 8 of the platinum achievements. Most recent achievement: On the Spot, which is activating the Rin timer by hitting Rin, which also gives you the exta life right there. Still haven't figured out how the Rin timer is activated, but I'm guessing it's just hitting the x-th person.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 12, 2013, 11:38:05 am

Still have not gotten Unlimited Drill Works, and I've been trying  :-\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 12, 2013, 11:45:40 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 12, 2013, 11:38:05 am

Still have not gotten Unlimited Drill Works, and I've been trying  :-\

No offense, but the only thing I can say to that is "WAHAHA~! §^_^§"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 12, 2013, 11:58:54 am

I decapitated a khajiit assassin of the dark brotherhood...with a steel warhammer. +1 Orc Points

Ah, the fun of perks.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 12, 2013, 12:21:13 pm

Heavy Command cruiser mission.  I kill TWO Strigon team members with the rocket launcher.  On accident.

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Ace Combat 6

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 12, 2013, 04:11:06 pm

After over 50 hours of gameplay, an accidental mistype taught me the wonders of Earth Armour. Even better, Earth Armour with a Fire immunity aura at the same time. Between that, a heavy machine gun, and my love of Napalm calldowns, I cleared the entire Vietnam mission solo (with all optional objectives, too!). Not easy, given that you can be killed by a single slip-up, and there's no ability to revive when playing this level on your own!

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Magicka, on the Vietnam Rescue Mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on July 12, 2013, 04:34:00 pm

My tnak rolled, in fired once, litterly somehow managed to cause A chain reaction with the gas shop nearby and killed all but one sectoid on the whole dman map, I saved all but the one civie that was in the gas station. Causing me to have that final cash boost to buy more cool stuff.

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Xcom, last defense, aka the old one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 13, 2013, 04:47:57 am

I somehow managed to send a limb-obsessed serial killer to his death at the local blood bank via the powers of persuasion. I didn't even know I could do that.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: uber pye on July 13, 2013, 11:55:39 pm

I killed ??? in less than 10 seconds in a crazy damage heavy run

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Binding of Issac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 14, 2013, 12:32:00 am

A minor one, and may end in failure, but for now things are going well.  My swordsman, whom I've trained extensively in stealth, throwing and wrestling, and with quite a lot of armor, was sneaking around, until he encountered a goblin camp.  There was about 12 of them, one crossbowman, the rest a mix of sword, spear, lasher, axe and macegobs.  I started by killing their leader, who was very isolated, by disarming him and slicing him into bits.

But then I had a problem.  Te majority of the goblins were grouped together, and with that crossbowgob, one single bolt could end me, or cripple me.  So I immediately began sneaking around, taking out the more separate goblins using rocks.  Eventually, I managed to kill about 5 goblins, and I had a clear shot to the crossbowgob.  I broke his ribs with a well placed throwing stone, and I dashed in, cut his head off, and dashed out, with no one noticing.

I figure, now it's safe to reveal myself, I could probably take them one by one in melee.  I unsneak, and then the goblins start fleeing. 

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DF adventure mode, really enjoying this character

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 14, 2013, 04:16:41 am

Potence 5+Celerity 5+Fortitude 5+Theft of Vitae 5+Ainkurn Sword+90 DEX+70 STR=managing to kill the Underprince of New York in one shot and thinking you broke the game somehow as a result. I had to search around for five minutes just to make sure that wasn't the case.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on July 14, 2013, 06:11:32 am

Was trying to catch Rayquaza. Was down to my lvl 26 Swablu whose only purpose is flying me around. Thought to throw a normal Pokéball because, I mean, it was at full health and I was gonna have to reset anyway, so why not?
Yeah, I actually caught it. At full health. With a normal ball.

Pokémon Emerald

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 14, 2013, 06:13:47 am

Quote from: jaxy15 on July 14, 2013, 06:11:32 am

Was trying to catch Rayquaza. Was down to my lvl 26 Swablu whose only purpose is flying me around. Thought to throw a normal Pokéball because, I mean, it was at full health and I was gonna have to reset anyway, so why not?
Yeah, I actually caught it. At full health. With a normal ball.

Pokémon Emerald

Fuck you. My brother and I had to Ultra Ball for hours before we got Ho-Oh. Yeah, we haven't played pokémon since.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 14, 2013, 06:54:24 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 14, 2013, 06:13:47 am

Quote from: jaxy15 on July 14, 2013, 06:11:32 am

Was trying to catch Rayquaza. Was down to my lvl 26 Swablu whose only purpose is flying me around. Thought to throw a normal Pokéball because, I mean, it was at full health and I was gonna have to reset anyway, so why not?
Yeah, I actually caught it. At full health. With a normal ball.

Pokémon Emerald

Fuck you. My brother and I had to Ultra Ball for hours before we got Ho-Oh. Yeah, we haven't played pokémon since.

Regular poke balls actually work very well against legendaries.  But even then I still have recurring nightmares of trying to catch legendaries in my sleep. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 14, 2013, 06:56:33 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on July 14, 2013, 06:54:24 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 14, 2013, 06:13:47 am

Quote from: jaxy15 on July 14, 2013, 06:11:32 am

Was trying to catch Rayquaza. Was down to my lvl 26 Swablu whose only purpose is flying me around. Thought to throw a normal Pokéball because, I mean, it was at full health and I was gonna have to reset anyway, so why not?
Yeah, I actually caught it. At full health. With a normal ball.

Pokémon Emerald

Fuck you. My brother and I had to Ultra Ball for hours before we got Ho-Oh. Yeah, we haven't played pokémon since.

Regular poke balls actually work very well against legendaries.  But even then I still have recurring nightmares of trying to catch legendaries in my sleep.

That's awful. D: I dream about riding Yoshi when I sleep. And I always hear this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUMCfonA_TQ) whenever I have those dreams.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on July 14, 2013, 07:12:05 am

King of Denmark, in Personal Union with Norway, Sweeden, and England, with vassals of Finland, Scotland and a unified Ireland under Munster. Exist as a peaceful nation with strong diplomatic ties, exerting military force normally only to maintain status quo or to prevent any agressive actions in northern or central Europe. Suddenly, I Inherit all of Scandanavia and England, prompting me to Diplo-annex Finland and Scotland, and form Scandanavian Empire, just in time for my second National Idea which naturally is "Quest for the New World". I leave the Hansiatic trade network and build my own centre of trade in darkest Finland, to ensure everyone will pay the sound toll, nice and safe behind my Baltic fleet of galleys. I use my leadership of the HRE and diplomatic contacts to dissolve it once and for all, sparking multiple wars in central Europe as people start squabbling over land. Standing astride northern Europe like a behemoth, my settlers stream over the north Atlantic to Greenland and Canada, slowly making our way down the coast to New England, peacefully assimilating the natives as we go. I am expecting to run into Portugal or Castille once I get near Florida, but as of yet there is no sign of them. I might make it all the way to Mexico unopposed before running into the Aztec, who probably wont put up much of a fight before I repeat the process through south america and the Inca. Heack, if nothing else all of North America is mine, along with northern Europe.

EUIII. Never before have I had so many plans all come together at one short stunning moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 14, 2013, 12:56:01 pm

Killed two badass raiders at point blank range with my Jakobs shawtgun. One shotted both of them in quick succession before reloading like a badass and looting the corpses.

"I feel awesomer already!" -Mechromancer

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Borderlands 2
Mechromancer's Anarchy skill plus Jakobs shotguns that take multiple shells per shot equals ludicrous damage, accuracy be damned. When accuracy is actually required, there's always revolvers, which also deal a bunch of damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 14, 2013, 01:21:08 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on July 14, 2013, 06:11:32 am

Was trying to catch Rayquaza. Was down to my lvl 26 Swablu whose only purpose is flying me around. Thought to throw a normal Pokéball because, I mean, it was at full health and I was gonna have to reset anyway, so why not?
Yeah, I actually caught it. At full health. With a normal ball.

Pokémon Emerald

Rayquaza has a capture rate of 3. This means, at full health, you had a ~0.4% chance of capturing it at full health with a regular Pokeball.

Congratulations, you lucky bastard.  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 14, 2013, 06:55:49 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 14, 2013, 12:56:01 pm

Killed two badass raiders at point blank range with my Jakobs shawtgun. One shotted both of them in quick succession before reloading like a badass and looting the corpses.

"I feel awesomer already!" -Mechromancer

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Borderlands 2
Mechromancer's Anarchy skill plus Jakobs shotguns that take multiple shells per shot equals ludicrous damage, accuracy be damned. When accuracy is actually required, there's always revolvers, which also deal a bunch of damage.

Yeah, I was just about to post something here about exactly that. Which is.. Kinda weird..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 14, 2013, 08:20:44 pm

I finally by CS:Source so I can play TTT as anything other than a mess of errors.  My first game I was a traitor.  I found a detective on his own and blew him away with my Galil.  I then found a Deagle and started headshotting people until we won, knowing that even if they were camping they wouldn't shoot me without warning me first.  My second game I was also a traitor, and I found few opportunities to do anything at first.  Then I found myself on a deserted rooftop, picked off two innocents in my area, than saw two innocents in a clock tower, one accusing the other of sniping while said sniper was aiming at me.  I sniped the sniper, then the other innocent grabbed his rifle but was completely wrong about where the shot came from, letting me miss three times before finally getting him.

My first two TTT games were traitor wins :D.  My fifth, I started out by setting an explosive barrel next to an AFK.    I turned out traitor and someone walked up to the barrel.  So I shoot it, then spin around to where a guy is calling out "holy shit, some dude just shot a barrel and" *headshot*.  Three kills, no witnesses.

This was followed by a streak of me getting RDMed, then four separate cases of me accidentally killing innocents in a semi-justified manner (seriously, if you announce over that chat that you're a traitor...).  This culminated in me killing a detective.  By accident.  Because FML.  Still, good start.

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Trouble in Terrorist Town.  I think I may be a seriously great traitor, but so far a very inconsistent innocent.  I guess watching Seananners betray people so much finally paid off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on July 14, 2013, 11:29:22 pm

Remember the mega bitch guard on Noveria? I ended up fighting her, and unbeknownst to her I was level 25 at the time and had Wrex and Liara in my party. Cue her being exploded before she even finished her taunt.

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Mass Effect, playing as Sentinel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on July 14, 2013, 11:44:58 pm

Galactic Punt, motherfucker

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Persona 4. Chie's follow up is THE BEST

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 01:07:30 am

A 2000 damage per shot explosive rocket launcher + 150 stacks of Anarchy for 262.5% bonus damage = Everything dead in two shots or less. Also, lots of EXPLOSIOOOONS and LUDICROUS GIBS.

And if the 2 rawkets don't kill it, I can just chuck the rawket launcher at whatever's left standing for even more frakkin' explosions. The rocket launcher is its own rocket! Rockets fired out of rockets! Explosionception!

Explosions are pretty fun.

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Borderlands 2 again. Mechromancer is the bomb, man. Who needs accuracy for rawkets anyway, just run and blast everything stupid enough to get in front of you. She can be squishy as hell though.

Mild edit, apparently 150 stacks of anarchy equals 262.5% bonus damage, not 150% as I first thought. Even more awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 15, 2013, 08:26:58 am

The noble Christof Romuald defeated the fiendish Vukodlak with the aid of his coterie and was henceforth reunited with his one true love Anezka, all because the Toreador managed to master the Fire Storm discipline and had managed to acquire fifty plasma bags and fifty scrolls of Awaken.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Slayerhero90 on July 15, 2013, 05:13:21 pm

Made it to the core in Spiral Knights for the first time!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 08:43:37 pm

...So I found a shotgun named Hard Bangstick. I'll let you decide whether that's actually ownage or not.

Also I simultaneously gibbed three bandits in one shot of my Hard Bangstick with next to no accuracy and shooting from the hip. Anarchy, beeyotch.

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Borderlands 2 again. Holy crap is Mechromancer a blast to play.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on July 15, 2013, 08:49:09 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 08:43:37 pm

...So I found a shotgun named Hard Bangstick. I'll let you decide whether that's actually ownage or not.

Also I simultaneously gibbed three bandits in one shot of my Hard Bangstick with next to no accuracy and shooting from the hip. Anarchy, beeyotch.

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Borderlands 2 again. Holy crap is Mechromancer a blast to play.

Amen to that! I just grabbed an incendiary Hail from the bandit slaughterdome, and with close enough and 400 stacks of anarchy, it becomes one hell of an area denial weapon(can you say super badass LOADER dying of a couple volleys???)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 09:57:01 pm

Quote from: tryrar on July 15, 2013, 08:49:09 pm

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Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 08:43:37 pm

...So I found a shotgun named Hard Bangstick. I'll let you decide whether that's actually ownage or not.

Also I simultaneously gibbed three bandits in one shot of my Hard Bangstick with next to no accuracy and shooting from the hip. Anarchy, beeyotch.

Borderlands 2 again. Holy crap is Mechromancer a blast to play.

Amen to that! I just grabbed an incendiary Hail from the bandit slaughterdome, and with close enough and 400 stacks of anarchy, it becomes one hell of an area denial weapon(can you say super badass LOADER dying of a couple volleys???)

I don't even have 400 stack cap yet, I'm only at 200 stack, but then again I'm only level 22. Damage gain is crazy though, even with 200. I can shoot rockets that deal +12000 damage, at level twenty freaking two. Plus with perks like blood shield, fancy mathematics, and unstoppable force I almost always have a shield up for keeping my squishy self alive, and paired with an amplify shield I almost always get the damage boost to help me kill a thing, which refills my shield immediately to buff my next shot to kill the next thing and rebuff my shield to kill the next thing and you get the idea.

Plus Gaige's little comments are hilarious and only add to the fun of going triggerhappy-crazy.

So much awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on July 16, 2013, 03:08:09 pm

I much prefer Krieg.
The lessons I have learned from Krieg, you should never not be on fire, and you should never not be exploding.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on July 17, 2013, 11:11:36 am

Beat the final level without dying, in 2:46.

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BROFORCE!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on July 17, 2013, 07:20:57 pm

After dying ten plus times, I managed to finally kill Medusa. I hope its windy in hell, bitch.

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SMT IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on July 17, 2013, 11:55:45 pm

AHAHAHAHAHAAA!

Using a level 43 Black Frost while fighting the Void Quest boss. I finally got tired of dying from stupid fucking Attack>Gigadyne or Elemental>Gigadyne, so I grinded for about an hour, and came back with two important skills.

Teddie had MaTarukaja (Raises entire party's attack)
Black Frost learned Agidyne (Heavy fire elemental)

So combining all the buffs I was using (Tarukaja, Rakuja (Lowers enemy defense), Fire Amp (Fire attacks are boosted by 50%), and Mind Charge (Elemental attack doubled), I was able to do a max of 811 damage per Agidyne. The lowest damage I did was 411.

Where's your gigadyne now bitch?

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Persona 4, Shadow Mitsuo fight. I literally shouted from hapiness when I won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 19, 2013, 12:22:00 pm

Started making out with Beatrice in the hallway, and it started getting pretty hot(gotta love Art class). Then Christy comes over and starts tearing at Beatrice's hair. I just stand there watching the two girls catfight over me.

I also learned that if you bunnyhop everywhere, it makes Jimmy look like he's skipping around like a little girl.

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Bully. I'm surprised that kissing in the hallways doesn't get you in trouble, especially considering the animation that completing Art class level 4 gives you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 19, 2013, 03:50:36 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 19, 2013, 12:22:00 pm

Started making out with Beatrice in the hallway, and it started getting pretty hot(gotta love Art class). Then Christy comes over and starts tearing at Beatrice's hair. I just stand there watching the two girls catfight over me.

I also learned that if you bunnyhop everywhere, it makes Jimmy look like he's skipping around like a little girl.

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Bully. I'm surprised that kissing in the hallways doesn't get you in trouble, especially considering the animation that completing Art class level 4 gives you.

Also it's the school rules that students are to respect each other's personal space and not make affectionate displays, or something along those lines. I don't remember where that comes from. Might be ingame or on the website, but it's definitely a thing.
Also I feel unusually proud that I could recognise the game from only the first paragraph.

Found it. (http://www.rockstargames.com/canis/rules/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 20, 2013, 02:54:02 pm

A centaur brought me down to 3 hp, the first monster to actually challenge me in the entire game so far. I drink an unknown potion, which could either be helpful, or horrible death poison that ended my quest right there.

"You drink the potion. My, what bulging muscles!"

Turned defeat into victory right there.

Rogue. A similar moment happened when I happened to put on a (then unidentified) Ring of Maintain Armor right before discovering an aquator.

Edit: Nevermind... I underestimated how long it would take to recover my HP. I waited for far too many turns and ended up fainting just in time for a fight with a quagga.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on July 20, 2013, 03:04:56 pm

Remember those non-canonical green buggers? Well, I discovered you can use the minimap to order troops around, which let me quickly ship the full force of 25 (old games suck) Quads to their base, which was - go figure - more effective than slowly ordering one or two down at a time.

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Dune II again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 20, 2013, 04:46:31 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 15, 2013, 08:43:37 pm

...So I found a shotgun named Hard Bangstick.

That's lewd.

On a more serious note the kine seem to be unable to even touch Christof Romuald with his mastery of the Theft of Vitae and Prison of Ice disciplines. The Society of Leopold did not stand a chance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on July 20, 2013, 04:49:49 pm

found a shotgun that can one hit everything i've encountered since, baddass or otherwise.

The bonus psycho explosive damage almost certainly helps, as does it being torque

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Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 20, 2013, 08:54:10 pm

My unarmed stealthy fighter has 89 notable kills. 

DF adventure mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 20, 2013, 10:48:32 pm

Christof Romuald may have once been a noble crusader before the Embrace, but now he is a mighty magus who saps the vitae of his enemies before freezing them and then setting them on fire. That werewolf didn't even have a chance, and neither did the serpent-tongued priestess of the Setites. Their Final Deaths were ensured within not minutes but seconds.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 20, 2013, 11:10:35 pm

Many hands makes light work.

Built a huge castle out of cobblestone, planted trees, set up a self-sustaining farm, broke into a chasm and did battle with the creepers and skeletons, built a wharf to house our boats, all on a tiny island starting with four trees and almost no dirt.

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Minecraft MP,  on a friend's server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 21, 2013, 03:33:09 am

Beat the very first mission on Classic Ironman with all rookies and cruddy assault rifles, pistols, and paper mache armor. Of course, that requirement of terribad gear goes hand in hand with the whole "very first mission thing."

Anyway, no rookies died, a miracle in itself. One guy got close to dying at only one health and flanked by several sectoids, and he even went panicking at one point but managed to turn it around by shooting, in his panic, and actually killing a sectoid behind cover. Next turn he retreated and went on to survive the rest of the mission, at some points even assistance through overwatch. Furthermore, no grenades had been used. Furthermore, everyone got a promotion.

It was a flawless success in every way.

And to add insult to injury for the jerkass soulless RNG of the game, the first mission was set in a graveyard. Suck it, game. I gave myself a high five upon clearing that mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Ah, that feeling of a successful mission is just so good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on July 21, 2013, 03:42:50 pm

Mr spess cat, if yuo can Xcom me as A Snipper, I like to blow faces off with huge overly powered guns.

Onwards to IC topic!

I charged into battl,e sword and sheild in hand jumped on A trampoline, squished A damn archer, slayed three more knights, then managed to protect my builder in building A base, then charged in and murderered ther e entire builder- warrior team tunneling into our base, and then I charged otu, slayed two more archers and then died do to two archers lucky shotting me, I i got 12 kills in one life, I dont even know how I did such A feat of amazing.

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King arthurs gold, Beta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 21, 2013, 05:16:56 pm

I beat Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption twice in one week. If that is not some kind of ownage then it is indeed a sign that I have no life whatsoever and should probably make good use of that little fact and perhaps get into professional gaming as a career.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Devling on July 21, 2013, 05:21:41 pm

MLG: Vampie: The Masquerade edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 21, 2013, 08:30:30 pm

Quote from: Devling on July 21, 2013, 05:21:41 pm

MLG: Vampie: The Masquerade edition.

I'm sorry but I haven't the foggiest idea what you mean by "MLG". Please clarify what this acronym means for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on July 21, 2013, 09:53:14 pm

Major League Gaming. MLG.

the go to place for suprah srs professional Starcraft, Quake, TF2, DOTA, and whatever other games that are in the pro scene.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on July 21, 2013, 10:22:12 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 21, 2013, 09:53:14 pm

Major League Gaming. MLG.

the go to place for suprah srs professional Starcraft, Quake, TF2, DOTA, and whatever other games that are in the pro scene.

Did you ever notice how countries and regions have their stereotypical favorite games for MLG-type stuff?

Americas: FPSs/DotA ripoffs
China: Any MMO (that's allowed in China)
South Korea: Starcraft/Starcraft: Brood War/Starcraft II: WoL/Starcraft II: HotS/I think you get the point
North Korea: Great Leader Victory Quest! (the ! is part of the title)
Japan: Stuff with tentacles/Fighting games
Eastern Europe: Chess, hacking everyone else's games
Continental Western Europe (except Germany): Settlers of Catan (I never said "Video Games"), slow-as-fuck Western RPGs
Britain: Whatever is most popular.
Australia and Germany: Whatever has the least violence.
Rest of the World: Third World Farmer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 01:19:28 am

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 21, 2013, 09:53:14 pm

Major League Gaming. MLG.

the go to place for suprah srs professional Starcraft, Quake, TF2, DOTA, and whatever other games that are in the pro scene.

But of course. I just now after having slept on it for a bit remembered what it meant myself. Thank you for the clarifications though.

Quote from: SealyStar on July 21, 2013, 10:22:12 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on July 21, 2013, 09:53:14 pm

Major League Gaming. MLG.

the go to place for suprah srs professional Starcraft, Quake, TF2, DOTA, and whatever other games that are in the pro scene.

Did you ever notice how countries and regions have their stereotypical favorite games for MLG-type stuff?

Americas: FPSs/DotA ripoffs
China: Any MMO (that's allowed in China)
South Korea: Starcraft/Starcraft: Brood War/Starcraft II: WoL/Starcraft II: HotS/I think you get the point
North Korea: Great Leader Victory Quest! (the ! is part of the title)
Japan: Stuff with tentacles/Fighting games
Eastern Europe: Chess, hacking everyone else's games
Continental Western Europe (except Germany): Settlers of Catan (I never said "Video Games"), slow-as-fuck Western RPGs
Britain: Whatever is most popular.
Australia and Germany: Whatever has the least violence.
Rest of the World: Third World Farmer.

Son of a bitch. I am not fond of either Defense of the Ancients nor first-person shooters. I do kind of like Third World Farmer though - I just haven't played it in a while because I had forgotten about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on July 22, 2013, 01:53:43 am

Hey

Its not a ripoff

That's the same attitude that has minecraft fanatics raging at a game if it so much as has voxels

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 22, 2013, 01:57:44 am

Quote from: werty892 on July 22, 2013, 01:53:43 am

Hey

Its not a ripoff

That's the same attitude that has minecraft fanatics raging at a game if it so much as has voxels

This. ^^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 22, 2013, 02:48:22 am

Quote from: werty892 on July 22, 2013, 01:53:43 am

Hey

Its not a ripoff

That's the same attitude that has minecraft fanatics raging at a game if it so much as has voxels

What's not a ripoff?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

Quote from: Graknorke on July 22, 2013, 02:48:22 am

Quote from: werty892 on July 22, 2013, 01:53:43 am

Hey

Its not a ripoff

That's the same attitude that has minecraft fanatics raging at a game if it so much as has voxels

What's not a ripoff?

They think I'm buttmad because professional gaming in the United States centers around FPS and Defense of the Ancients. I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 22, 2013, 04:36:04 am

I think the name of the genre you mean is MOBAs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on July 22, 2013, 09:33:05 am

Quote from: Graknorke on July 22, 2013, 04:36:04 am

I think the name of the genre you mean is MOBAs.

If you want to get pedantic, DotA is, in turn, a Aeon of Strife clone.

Okay, yes, they're not exactly clones or ripoffs, but the general gameplay and characters in my experience seem to be a bit too similar for my tastes. What irks me about LoL is that a good lot of the people who play it don't even know there are other MOBAs that preceded it, and treat it like it's the highest and most perfect of its kind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 22, 2013, 10:32:34 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Well, strictly speaking, there's speed-running. It's not competitive in the sense of LoL, Dota 2, or SC2, but it's as close as you'll get with a single-player game I'm afraid. Some of the best speed-runners on Twitch can pull in 4-5k viewers, which apparently pays decently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 22, 2013, 10:49:56 am

Quote from: Thexor on July 22, 2013, 10:32:34 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Well, strictly speaking, there's speed-running. It's not competitive in the sense of LoL, Dota 2, or SC2, but it's as close as you'll get with a single-player game I'm afraid. Some of the best speed-runners on Twitch can pull in 4-5k viewers, which apparently pays decently.

Oh neat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 22, 2013, 05:06:20 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 10:49:56 am

Quote from: Thexor on July 22, 2013, 10:32:34 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Well, strictly speaking, there's speed-running. It's not competitive in the sense of LoL, Dota 2, or SC2, but it's as close as you'll get with a single-player game I'm afraid. Some of the best speed-runners on Twitch can pull in 4-5k viewers, which apparently pays decently.

Oh neat.

SRL (http://www.speedrunslive.com) (run by some of the SDA (http://www.speeddemosarchive.com) community) is a good place to start if you're interested in starting speedrunning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 22, 2013, 06:27:56 pm

Ace Combat Zero.  Ace difficulty.  (On Expert missiles kill you instantly.  Ace is even harder then that.)
I've gone THREE Missions without dying.  Also, FAEBs are awesome.  I'm at Glattisent, and I'm 2000 points below where I need to be.  I approach the northwestern point, and began my dive.  I release two bombs.  One aimed at the makeshift airfield containing Harriers, and the other at a large battery of AA guns.  The first gets me the score I need to win.  The second puts me 2000 over.
Next mission.  I destroy the entire AA camp with just my eight fuel air bombs. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

of course the real objective is not getting killed by Excalibur, but still satisfying nether less.

For those wondering the plane it's the SU-37.  It has now replaced the Raptor and Gripen as my favorite plane. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 22, 2013, 09:23:46 pm

Quote from: Mego on July 22, 2013, 05:06:20 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 10:49:56 am

Quote from: Thexor on July 22, 2013, 10:32:34 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Well, strictly speaking, there's speed-running. It's not competitive in the sense of LoL, Dota 2, or SC2, but it's as close as you'll get with a single-player game I'm afraid. Some of the best speed-runners on Twitch can pull in 4-5k viewers, which apparently pays decently.

Oh neat.

SRL (http://www.speedrunslive.com) (run by some of the SDA (http://www.speeddemosarchive.com) community) is a good place to start if you're interested in starting speedrunning.

I know I'm really great at challenge runs for action games (even though they're my least favourite genre. go figure) but I've definitely never had any experience with speed runs. Thats a whole different ball game I'm sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on July 24, 2013, 06:13:28 am

Bandit circle of slaughter, playing the Psycho.
Every time I die, I pull out dynamite, get second wind, and am back on my feet.
By the end there is literally no timer, and I'm surviving by just running into the hail of bullets to get into blast range before I die.

It was beautiful.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 26, 2013, 12:27:50 pm

About 45 minutes, *2* Unlimited Drill Works, 2 Multiballs, at least 2 Rin Bins, and at one point hitting Mr. Nomiya a few times in close succession.

Spoiler: The result (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/PoNvAf7.png)
Best. Run. Ever.
Oh, and I got the altitude achievement from hitting Kenji at the top speed.

Spoiler: My current achievements (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/6dVwl3h.png)
Still not sure why I don't have Flambe Runway(the only Gold one I lack), I'm pretty sure I got three Panic Mode blocks by Misha during that run, although I think one of those was in Multiball, so it probably didn't count?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Katawa Crash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 26, 2013, 12:29:09 pm

*slow applause that soon speeds up*
Bravo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 26, 2013, 12:40:28 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 09:23:46 pm

Quote from: Mego on July 22, 2013, 05:06:20 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 10:49:56 am

Quote from: Thexor on July 22, 2013, 10:32:34 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 22, 2013, 05:05:20 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on July 22, 2013, 04:07:58 am

I just would rather compete in something that isn't Halo or League of Legends seeing as I'm more interested in role-playing games and simulators.

Are there competitive leagues for RPGs? Usually it needs to be multiplayer.

Well, strictly speaking, there's speed-running. It's not competitive in the sense of LoL, Dota 2, or SC2, but it's as close as you'll get with a single-player game I'm afraid. Some of the best speed-runners on Twitch can pull in 4-5k viewers, which apparently pays decently.

Oh neat.

SRL (http://www.speedrunslive.com) (run by some of the SDA (http://www.speeddemosarchive.com) community) is a good place to start if you're interested in starting speedrunning.

I know I'm really great at challenge runs for action games (even though they're my least favourite genre. go figure) but I've definitely never had any experience with speed runs. Thats a whole different ball game I'm sure.

If you're interested, my favourite game to watch is Ocarina of Time. There's a good chance you've played it (without speed running it), so the incredible number of positively insane glitches used in speedrunning will be appropriately dazzling. The 'any% run', meaning getting to the game credits, takes ~20 minutes. The 100% run takes a little longer but is still finished in a single sitting, and has a highly-competitive world record that was beaten less than a month ago.  :o



On-topic: Armed with a friendly crew that had handled several missions together, I took us to a bank full of valuable safe deposit boxes. Our stealth attempt failed, but we broke into the vault with few problems. Two of the crew started opening boxes while two others covered the exit.

"Well, we've got enough cash, and the assault wave is over. Should we run for it?"

"...nah. This is the part of the mission that makes us money. Let's grab as much as we can!"

And so we finished off another complete assault wave, opening more than half the deposit boxes in the vault with nothing but slow-paced lockpicking. Significantly, we held off the wave with only two people gunning while the rest opened boxes. It took a while, but man, did we ever get a good haul from that robbery!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday: The Heist 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 26, 2013, 03:12:23 pm

@Thexor Yeah I've beaten Ocarina of Time about 12 times, plus once on Master Quest (fun as hell I might add). Definitely not skilled/persistent enough to try speed running.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 26, 2013, 03:38:21 pm

I just took a math final with winamp playing while I was taking the test.

During the last long statistics question winamp chose the doom castle theme from FF Mystic Quest.

Inspired by the fitting climactic theme, I got it right and passed the test.   8)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life:  College Mathmatics edition

Fastest Ocarina of Time run I saw involved using a zone transition glitch to teleport to the final boss fight immediately after killing the first boss.  Think it was a little over 20 minutes, mostly the ending.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 26, 2013, 08:12:12 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 26, 2013, 03:12:23 pm

@Thexor Yeah I've beaten Ocarina of Time about 12 times, plus once on Master Quest (fun as hell I might add). Definitely not skilled/persistent enough to try speed running.

The any% route actually isn't very difficult. It just requires one major trick. The minor tricks are what determine world records, and my inability to perform them well keeps me from being competitive.

Here's a link to the current WR. (http://zeldaspeedruns.com/speedruns/3878)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 26, 2013, 10:21:46 pm

Hence why I think the 100% run is more interesting - it takes a lot of time, and even the current WR has opportunities to improve. On the other hand, GODDAMN IT DANTE!

The any% run is pretty much optimized (I think there's a wrong warp straight to the credits now, so even the final boss fight is optional), and I vaguely recall a TAS being assembled of it too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on July 27, 2013, 01:04:17 am

The kickback from the brominator's chaingun is crazy strong. So strong infact, that it is more powerful then you trying to run forward, and will eventually push you backwards, making it a subpar weapon. The kickback is actually so powerful, that if you just use it firing backwards, you go over twice as fast as you can run normally, with the added bonus of pulping everything that you pass.

Using that, I was able to get 39 seconds on the  "OH GOD AIRSTRIKES EVERYWHERE" level, and a fairly impressive 30 seconds the next level. That said, I did end up getting caught a fair amount (I probably could have done them both in under 25 seconds if I hadn't). Still, thats some crazy speed, faster then pretty much any of the other characters could have managed while running perfectly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Broforce

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 27, 2013, 06:33:28 pm

Quote from: Thexor on July 26, 2013, 10:21:46 pm

Hence why I think the 100% run is more interesting - it takes a lot of time, and even the current WR has opportunities to improve. On the other hand, GODDAMN IT DANTE!

The any% run is pretty much optimized (I think there's a wrong warp straight to the credits now, so even the final boss fight is optional), and I vaguely recall a TAS being assembled of it too.

The credits wrong warp can only be done from the Fire Temple with the eyeball frog, unless a new one popped up in the last month or so and I missed it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on July 27, 2013, 06:38:36 pm

2 full ships of bay12 members, with Girlinhat and Ydgrad as our pilots. We kitted out a Mobula and a Goldfish, and proceeded to utterly rape and pillage across 4 games, winning them all. Best part, IIRC the Mobula and the Goldfish only went down once across all 4 games!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online. There's a few videos in the other thread of our exploits

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 27, 2013, 06:50:18 pm

Quote from: tryrar on July 27, 2013, 06:38:36 pm

2 full ships of bay12 members, with Girlinhat and Ydgrad as our pilots. We kitted out a Mobula and a Goldfish, and proceeded to utterly rape and pillage across 4 games, winning them all. Best part, IIRC the Mobula and the Goldfish only went down once across all 4 games!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online. There's a few videos in the other thread of our exploits

bay12 too OP. plz nerf.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 28, 2013, 01:53:57 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 27, 2013, 06:50:18 pm

Quote from: tryrar on July 27, 2013, 06:38:36 pm

2 full ships of bay12 members, with Girlinhat and Ydgrad as our pilots. We kitted out a Mobula and a Goldfish, and proceeded to utterly rape and pillage across 4 games, winning them all. Best part, IIRC the Mobula and the Goldfish only went down once across all 4 games!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online. There's a few videos in the other thread of our exploits

bay12 too OP. plz nerf.

Everyone runs away from our clantag. It's kind of depressing to have to remove our sin of Bay12 pride just to get into any public matches.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 28, 2013, 02:34:05 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 28, 2013, 02:22:59 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on July 28, 2013, 01:53:57 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 27, 2013, 06:50:18 pm

Quote from: tryrar on July 27, 2013, 06:38:36 pm

2 full ships of bay12 members, with Girlinhat and Ydgrad as our pilots. We kitted out a Mobula and a Goldfish, and proceeded to utterly rape and pillage across 4 games, winning them all. Best part, IIRC the Mobula and the Goldfish only went down once across all 4 games!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online. There's a few videos in the other thread of our exploits

bay12 too OP. plz nerf.

Everyone runs away from our clantag. It's kind of depressing to have to remove our sin of Bay12 pride just to get into any public matches.

Wait until they start recognising the names.

And hopefully the devs won't pull a slavehack on you. I doubt they would, due to the fact it's a product you pay for.

I think it's more the intimidation factor of having a clantag and all moving into one ship rather than what the clantag actually is.
And we're not that good. Besides, there's no way to screw someone over as bad as in slavehack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 28, 2013, 09:44:28 pm

Quote from: tryrar on July 27, 2013, 06:38:36 pm

2 full ships of bay12 members, with Girlinhat and Ydgrad as our pilots. We kitted out a Mobula and a Goldfish, and proceeded to utterly rape and pillage across 4 games, winning them all. Best part, IIRC the Mobula and the Goldfish only went down once across all 4 games!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online. There's a few videos in the other thread of our exploits

What the hell is a Mobula?  Did they add another ship recently?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 28, 2013, 10:09:05 pm

Guns of Icarus Online again.
We utterly thrashed the enemy with our Death-mobula (it's a relatively new airship. All guns are front-facing and the deck is on top of the balloons) and Pyramidion. Repeatedly. I'm slightly concerned that we might actually start getting a reputation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 29, 2013, 01:52:03 am

Hacked into the International Academic Database and gave myself an A in "Badassery" and put down my current job as "Supreme Overlord of the Internet"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uplink.  Won't have any affect, but still.  I am qualified in being a badass in that game now. 

I got Sunny Smiles, Boone, and Veronica as companions.  They regularly get a bit more then half the kills in any fight.  And that's with me trying.  Without trying they can easily get all of them.  As it is I just walked into the main Powder Ganger hideout and wiped out every man there while only taking about 10 points of damage. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 29, 2013, 06:18:15 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on July 29, 2013, 01:52:03 am

Hacked into the International Academic Database and gave myself an A in "Badassery" and put down my current job as "Supreme Overlord of the Internet"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uplink.  Won't have any affect, but still.  I am qualified in being a badass in that game now. 

How do you find your own entry? Is it by a name that pops up during a mission or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 29, 2013, 11:31:13 am

Quote from: Graknorke on July 29, 2013, 06:18:15 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on July 29, 2013, 01:52:03 am

Hacked into the International Academic Database and gave myself an A in "Badassery" and put down my current job as "Supreme Overlord of the Internet"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uplink.  Won't have any affect, but still.  I am qualified in being a badass in that game now. 

How do you find your own entry? Is it by a name that pops up during a mission or something?

When you start a new game you create a username.  That is essentially your name. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gruntdonttoot on July 29, 2013, 06:25:05 pm

Rang the undead church bell.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on July 29, 2013, 11:42:50 pm

Both my squad mates were dead by missile and I was up against 2 YMIR mechs, one full health, one down to the red bar. I'm in cover, they're both focusing on me, I'm screwed.
Solution?
Biotic charge the weak one, then shotgun it to death. Take advantage of the fact that the explosion it made when dying damaged the shields of the other one to shotgun them out, then run for cover before I got rocketed. Switch to heavy pistol, whittle down armor, then biotic charge and melee the fucker to death.

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Mass Effect 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on July 30, 2013, 12:13:12 am

I'm playing as Africa, with my only opponent being North America.  I concentrate almost all my defenses on the west and north coast, with only a single silo and two radars on the eastern cost.  I place my fleets so that I can immediately strike at the eastern coast, with only a single fleet to defend my shores against anything that gets through.  DEFCON 3- I begin my attack.  They have one mixed fleet of carriers and battleships and one fleet of subs defending their coast.  Both are swiftly annihilated, and I only lose one battleship and aircraft carrier. DEFCON 2 starts moments after I send in my fighters to start scouting for targets, while my bombers from Africa start to begin their journey.  I find two missile silos, a radar installation, and an airfield, but the fire is so thick that I can only speculate on the locations of the silos behind them.  DEFCON 1 then starts.  I  start selecting my targets, and my bombers open fire, annihilating the airfield and both silos, and devastating the eastern coast.  Then the heartland of the U.S lights up with missile launches.  I launch bombers from my carriers offshore, silencing them permanently at the cost of only about 15 million of my civlilians.  With the road into the U.S open, I get ready to convert my silos to ICBM mode, when I begin to wonder where the hell the rest of North America's fleet is at.  Moments later I get alerts that missile launches have been detected on the eastern coast of Africa.  I send my fleet over, and eventually take out most of their subs, but taking out their actual fleet proves much harder.  Their missiles hit, and with only one silo I lost nearly 30 million civies, along with one of my radar installations.  I am now running behind in points, so I take a gamble and trust my fleet to prevent any more bombers from taking off, and convert all my silos to launch mode, along with launching the rest of my remaining bombers in an all or nothing attack.  The U.S is devasated, with only a couple million civilians alive.  My fleet finishes moving into position, catching the remaining North American fleets in between them and my airbases, crushing them.  When the radioactive dust clears, I'm left with 30 million civilians alive and the Americans a mere 2 million.   With multiple bombers bearing on those few population centers remaining.  Not bad for my first game, even thou I'm sure having a bunch of other players would make it a lot harder.   

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DEFCON.  I know the true way to own is not to play, but Global Thermonuclear War is just so fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on July 30, 2013, 08:35:40 am

Playing in the Arathi basin battleground, a few of us go to assault the lumber mill. I get there first and get pretty much instakilled by the alliance dudes, who then run off to the hill to attack the rest of my team. I use Reincarnate which rezzes me on the spot with barely any health or mana, and use the distraction created by the rest of my team to cap the point. The alliance dudes notice this but see that I'm really low health, so they send one warrior over to kill me while the rest go to attack another of our bases. I use thunderstorm to knock the warrior off the cliff to his death and casually stroll away to assist in the defense of another point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on July 30, 2013, 09:54:48 am

Hello, Dracula.

Meet Shield Rod + Alucard Shield.

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Seriously. FIVE SECONDS. Boss over.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kingfisher1112 on July 30, 2013, 09:58:39 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on July 30, 2013, 12:13:12 am

I'm playing as Africa, with my only opponent being North America.  I concentrate almost all my defenses on the west and north coast, with only a single silo and two radars on the eastern cost.  I place my fleets so that I can immediately strike at the eastern coast, with only a single fleet to defend my shores against anything that gets through.  DEFCON 3- I begin my attack.  They have one mixed fleet of carriers and battleships and one fleet of subs defending their coast.  Both are swiftly annihilated, and I only lose one battleship and aircraft carrier. DEFCON 2 starts moments after I send in my fighters to start scouting for targets, while my bombers from Africa start to begin their journey.  I find two missile silos, a radar installation, and an airfield, but the fire is so thick that I can only speculate on the locations of the silos behind them.  DEFCON 1 then starts.  I  start selecting my targets, and my bombers open fire, annihilating the airfield and both silos, and devastating the eastern coast.  Then the heartland of the U.S lights up with missile launches.  I launch bombers from my carriers offshore, silencing them permanently at the cost of only about 15 million of my civlilians.  With the road into the U.S open, I get ready to convert my silos to ICBM mode, when I begin to wonder where the hell the rest of North America's fleet is at.  Moments later I get alerts that missile launches have been detected on the eastern coast of Africa.  I send my fleet over, and eventually take out most of their subs, but taking out their actual fleet proves much harder.  Their missiles hit, and with only one silo I lost nearly 30 million civies, along with one of my radar installations.  I am now running behind in points, so I take a gamble and trust my fleet to prevent any more bombers from taking off, and convert all my silos to launch mode, along with launching the rest of my remaining bombers in an all or nothing attack.  The U.S is devasated, with only a couple million civilians alive.  My fleet finishes moving into position, catching the remaining North American fleets in between them and my airbases, crushing them.  When the radioactive dust clears, I'm left with 30 million civilians alive and the Americans a mere 2 million.   With multiple bombers bearing on those few population centers remaining.  Not bad for my first game, even thou I'm sure having a bunch of other players would make it a lot harder.   

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DEFCON.  I know the true way to own is not to play, but Global Thermonuclear War is just so fun.

Did you get that for the Steam Summer sale too? Damn DEFCON is depressing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 30, 2013, 03:34:31 pm

I got DEFCON with Uplink ages ago because I am a real fan of Introversion *places on triple-layered hipster goggles*.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 31, 2013, 08:59:28 pm

Healing as a medic on 2Fort Instaspawn 3H round. The red team were all very, very good indeed, and they had Braincancer playing Demoknight (He's the one who designed the Persian Persuader). I charge up an uber and go for it with the lone player left alive near me. A Huntsman Sniper. He charges straight into their defenses, cuts down three of them with a kukri, then headshots the heavy coming to get us with his Brass Beast. When the uber runs out, we back down into the sewers, charge up another Ubercharge, then head back out into the main playing field.

Sniper takes out a level 3 sentry gun with only a bow and arrow, then as my ubercharge runs out, that same Brass Beast Heavy runs straight past me.

I pull out my Ubersaw, dance around him, and slice him to ribbons with it. He gets maybe a few hits in, dropping me to 45 / 150hp.

Want to know the best thing about the Ubersaw?
25% slower firing speed, in exchange for 25% Ubercharge bar gained on hit. It took me five hits to kill Mr Brass Beast Heavy, by which time the Huntsman Sniper was heading back to camp.
A Scout on our team came out, dropped down to where I was, and I activated my newly charged up Ubercharge AGAIN. That's three ubercharges in two and a half minutes.

Scout rips holes in the oncoming team, sniper helping us all the way with his huntsman, and we manage to completely break their defense and they scatter like bowling pins.

We cap three times in the next few minutes, bringing our score up even.

One particularly memorable bit was waiting in a small room with a pyro for an enemy to pick up our intel, and I was taunting with the ubersaw (Slow attack animation, if it connects, OHKO + 100% ubercharge filled up)

I had only just got in place and done the first few frames of the animation when a Demoman ran in and promptly got impaled on my ubersaw.
It was glorious.

"Great heals, Medic. You did good, man".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on August 02, 2013, 12:49:36 am

The latest incarnation of the grey elven wizard Ilia De'Catense managed to get to the tenth floor of the Infinite Dungeon she is so fascinated with before being eviscerated by a dark elven priestess who was likely a member of the Wu Tang Clan due to her being "ain't nothin' to fuck with". That's a new personal record, though I am going to have to clone her for I think the thirtieth time now.

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ADOM. I have a fascination with the Ironman challenge as well as with female grey elven wizards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 02, 2013, 12:03:37 pm

Quote from: HFS on July 30, 2013, 09:54:48 am

Hello, Dracula.

Meet Shield Rod + Alucard Shield.

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Seriously. FIVE SECONDS. Boss over.

Huh, I always just headstomp Dad to death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on August 02, 2013, 10:06:54 pm

Playing the part of Truth and Reconciliation with all the active camo elites (incredibly annoying mission for trying to keep allies alive)

So after a few tries, I start to get the hang of the ACElite's weaknesses. I take out my sniper rifle and que up three headshots before I pull out my plasma pistol and start working on the trash around the room. Unfortunately for me, one of the ACEs snuck up and knocked out two of my allies and started charging me. I kept missing with my sniper rifle, so when I ran out of ammo I switched to my Plasma Pistol.

Then I punched the motherfucker in the face

TKO, bitch died

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Halo: Combat Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 02, 2013, 11:36:25 pm

Beat a bunch of EX-OPS missions I hadn't tried and got an S on each one, with only a single try each.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on August 02, 2013, 11:45:58 pm

Quote from: ggamer on August 02, 2013, 10:06:54 pm

Playing the part of Truth and Reconciliation with all the active camo elites (incredibly annoying mission for trying to keep allies alive)

So after a few tries, I start to get the hang of the ACElite's weaknesses. I take out my sniper rifle and que up three headshots before I pull out my plasma pistol and start working on the trash around the room. Unfortunately for me, one of the ACEs snuck up and knocked out two of my allies and started charging me. I kept missing with my sniper rifle, so when I ran out of ammo I switched to my Plasma Pistol.

Then I punched the motherfucker in the face

TKO, bitch died

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Halo: Combat Evolved

that was one of the best parts of the game. just running around a bashing elites. (and grunts ;) )

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on August 03, 2013, 02:48:22 am

The latest incarnation of the supple beauty known as Ilia De'Catense, or perhaps just Ilia, managed to make it down to the nineteenth level of what appears to be a seemingly endless cavern of some kind before being told to bugger off by a buttmad berserker king she made the mistake of throwing lightning at. That's a new personal record I suppose.

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The game was Ancient Domains of Mystery, and once again my attempt at the ironman challenge with a female gray elven wizard has lead to some degree of progress in the matter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 03, 2013, 11:21:02 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on August 03, 2013, 02:48:22 am

The latest incarnation of the supple beauty known as Ilia De'Catense, or perhaps just Ilia, managed to make it down to the nineteenth level of what appears to be a seemingly endless cavern of some kind before being told to bugger off by a buttmad berserker king she made the mistake of throwing lightning at. That's a new personal record I suppose.

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The game was Ancient Domains of Mystery, and once again my attempt at the ironman challenge with a female gray elven wizard has lead to some degree of progress in the matter.

Supple beauty?

Pardon me, my good chap, have you seen the supple beauty Ilia about? No? Very well then, I shall be off home to bake my crumpets and so a toodaloo to you!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 03, 2013, 11:38:54 am

Coming from Fluidics Control, located on a raised area above the main corridor, I hear a protocol droid below me. I drop down through the grav-shaft, barely dodging the psychotic droid as I run by. I reach the door, and turn around to fight the droid. Only, right behind me, I hear the tell-tale sound of a turret activating, so I run right by the droid again, and jump into the grav-shaft. The droid follows me, so I send down a literal blizzard of of cryokinetic blasts, destroying the droid. I jump out of the shaft and turn around just in time to see the robot's debris come slamming into the top of the shaft, propelled by the lift.

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System Shock 2. Going mostly for a psionic run, though I recently did put a few points into standard weapons just so I could use a damn pistol.

Quote from: Reudh on August 03, 2013, 11:21:02 am

Quote from: MadMalkavian on August 03, 2013, 02:48:22 am

The latest incarnation of the supple beauty known as Ilia De'Catense, or perhaps just Ilia, managed to make it down to the nineteenth level of what appears to be a seemingly endless cavern of some kind before being told to bugger off by a buttmad berserker king she made the mistake of throwing lightning at. That's a new personal record I suppose.

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The game was Ancient Domains of Mystery, and once again my attempt at the ironman challenge with a female gray elven wizard has lead to some degree of progress in the matter.

Supple beauty?

Pardon me, my good chap, have you seen the supple beauty Ilia about? No? Very well then, I shall be off home to bake my crumpets and so a toodaloo to you!

I would have thought "supple beauty" would have meant high Toughness and Appearance scores.

...Then I remember she's a Grey Elf, so high Toughness would be right out. And I don't know what goes on in my head.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chaoswizkid on August 03, 2013, 12:53:42 pm

Was working as an engineer on a ship for the Red Team, destroying the opposition for several matches. Blue team was underpopulated, and in the last match they managed with only 5 crew members of 15 to almost win. Afterwards, with Red Team having 14 of 15 and a couple people leaving Blue Team, I swapped teams to captain for the first time. A good number of people joined, and I found myself with a full crew and both side had almost full crews. I used the fastest and most maneuverable ship that I had equipped with a long-range artillery gun at the front, which was the only gun that was used in any significance. My gunner was deadly accurate and our two engineers found very little to do with how much success we were having outmaneuvering and constantly sniping the enemy. For three straight games we punished the enemy team, racking up a good number of kills on our own despite only using the single main gun. Our side didn't even lose a ship. Afterwards, I changed the ship to one that retained the same main gun but had two guns on each side, both sides having a set of chainguns/miniguns, just so the other crewmembers had something to do. Again, our side kept winning without taking a single ship loss and our ship dealt out just as much punishment as the others. This continued for another three games or so, until a Spire finally cornered us to take us out. We had been severely damaged throughout the match and the Spire was using a flamethrower which kept destroying our balloon and damaging the hull. Since we couldn't keep the balloon up, I decided to just dive and slip under or around them, but they were keeping their distance and diving just as hard, too. I planned to cut the dive just before hitting the ground and try to ascend and use the ground to bounce up and reposition the ship. This worked, as we hit the ground but weren't too terrible damaged, while the Spire tried to match us but smashed into the ground due to having a more vertically-oriented ship. The Spire was still flaming us and keeping with us, so I managed to get a broadside angle on them and ordered the crew to man the chainguns to fight it out to the death. None of us knew the condition of the Spire, we just knew it was do or die at that point. Suddenly, an allied Pyramidion that none of us noticed during our descending dance of death, came from behind us and I swear they were burning kerosene to ram the crap out of that Spire at more-than-normal-max speed, firing as many guns as it could at the same moment. The Spire was taken out as the winning kill of the match before my crew even managed to walk the handful of feet to the broadside guns. I ended the night on that note after thanking my crew and the crew and captain of the Pyramidion.

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Guns of Icarus Online. It was the first set of matches where I wasn't lagging horribly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 03, 2013, 02:20:04 pm

Raiding a regional school with my bow and arrow engineer.  I had been here once but didn't have the carrying capacity to grab all the books, so I had to make a second trip.

I fight my way through the school plugging kids that won't stay dead with a slowly dwindling supply of arrows.  I get to the library and start loading knowledge into my backpack when I see a hulk through the windows, and it's coming straight towards me.  I grab the last book I need and check my quiver.  All the ammo I have left are weak field points, for hunting rabbits.  I figure that ain't gunna hurt the hulk, and make for the exit wishing I had some adderall.

It smashes through the window, I'm not going to reach my car before it reaches me.  I do have one arrow that might fix this problem though...

I light up a flammable arrow and fire it at the hulk, hoping it will be slowed down by the fire, or maybe even burn to death.  Instead the dry half smashed library goes up in a fireball.   I decide, yet again, that it's time to make a quick exit.  I get out of the library, to a cacophony of smashes as the entire school begins to crumble.

The moment I get out of the front door the entire front desk area collapses into a pile of rubble, inferno close behind.

I get into my car and go around the school once, looking for the hulk.  It is nowhere to be seen through the thick smoke and flames.   

Me:1  Public Education system: 0

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Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on August 03, 2013, 07:29:53 pm

8 straight kills  across 2-3 games as gunner, almost winning the matches single-handedly, cementing my status as an ace shot. We even sang shanties as we destroyed stuff!

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Guns of Icarus Online. Seriously, come join the fun, it's awesome!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on August 04, 2013, 03:20:45 pm

"You see here an orc wizard (sleeping)"
...
"The helpless orc wizard fails to defend itself."
"You open the orc wizard like a pillowcase!!!"
"You kill the orc wizard!"
"Trog appreciates your kill."
"Trog appreciates your killing of a magic user."

Ha, sweet vengeance! Suck it orcs!

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

sneak attacks are fun, and opening a sleeping orc wizard like a pillowcase is just so satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xotes on August 04, 2013, 03:54:56 pm

I'm being hounded by a very angry Ukranian pilot in an attack helicopter, and my three RPGs have only served to piss him off even more. I'm forced to sneak across the countryside, darting from trees to rocks and other pieces of cover as he searches for me. Eventually I find my way to a wrecked gas station with three soldiers lying in wait, as yet unaware of my presence.

A short distance away is their jeep.

Yes.

I make a break across exposed ground for the jeep, jump in as the soldiers open fire on me, and take off down the road as fast as I can with the chopper giving chase, its rockets exploding behind me. I swerve past a pair of troops on the road, narrowly avoiding one's RPG that would have certainly blown me to hell, and I just about think I've made it when I turn too hard and my jeep flips on its side and slides a good fifty meters. I think I'm screwed until then the jeep miraculously rights itself mid-slide, but I then proceed to swerve into a rock as I try to regain control. The resulting explosion launches me out of the wrecked car, and I'm bleeding heavily and badly wounded. Thankfully, the chopper seems to have lost me for now, giving me time to bandage myself and heal the worst of my injuries before I run for cover.

The tunnel to safety is only two-hundred meters away, but it's going to be a hell of a run. I sprint for it, and the helicopter catches sight of me near the end. I flee into the tunnel as bullets and rockets impotently crash around me, and find myself in the relative safety of the Cordon.

Sidorovich calls me to give congratulations on my survival, and I take a moment to catch my breath.

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STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, with the Old Storyline Restoration Mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 05, 2013, 12:19:32 am

Four infantrymen are escorting a Hind attack chopper. I'm at the edge of the jungle so the chopper can't move in to take me down, and so is reduced to firing HE rockets blindly into the trees in an effort to drive me out. I've fought here before so its a simple matter to avoid them whenever they're launched. The chopper pilot (who is also the commander) orders his men to flush me out. I sneak up behind the lot of them as soon as they enter the trees and tell them to freeze. Caught by surprise, they put their hands on their heads and lie down flat. I hook balloons to their waists and a friendly helicopter picks them all up in a high speed flyby. The chopper unloads more men, and I repeat the process until eventually the commander is so frustrated he opens the cockpit and starts throwing grenades. I shoot him five times in the head with my tranquilliser pistol and knock him out. The chopper lolls slightly and gently loses altitude, settling to the ground in a perfect landing. I pull the pilot out and attach a balloon to him, then to myself.

Using only a pistol and a bunch of balloons, I captured 21 men and an attack helicopter, with no injuries to either the soldiers or the vehicle, without anyone seeing me, in under 500 seconds.

MISSION. FUCKING. ACCOMPLISHED.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Got 21 decent soldiers (I fired nearly all of them) and a free attack helicopter! Pretty solid take. And in 5 minutes too!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 05, 2013, 12:55:19 am

Draugr Wight Deathlord? Psh. Dualcast Lightning bolt + Impact. Fight is over.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on August 05, 2013, 01:08:00 am

You fool, you doomed us all!


Warning, Meteor Swarm Detected

(http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/BR/meteor-swarm-01-0213-mdn.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on August 05, 2013, 01:41:10 am

Quote from: tryrar on August 05, 2013, 01:08:00 am

You fool, you doomed us all!


Warning, Meteor Swarm Detected

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Quote

'Opposite to the "How did you last die?" thread, post about your most recent episode of win, ownage, pwnage, or gaming badassery. The name of the game is requested, but not neccessarily required.'

Meteor Swarm Deflected.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tarran on August 05, 2013, 02:06:43 am

Good job, you deflected it, but you deflected it to Mars. We're never going to be able to terraform Mars now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkmere on August 05, 2013, 03:29:36 am

I'm not sure if this is "own" but I'm giddy anyway. I just unlocked the Crystal Cruiser in FTL without cheating in FTL. Took me a few days of dedicated stealth ship runs, but having the full fleet was worth it. 4 more achievements and I'll have every ship's alternate config too... For the "own" story I offer this:

Normal mode Zoltan cruiser. I've picked up new crew by mid-game, a human captain and two mantis marines, so I buy a crew teleporter and upgrade the medbay. Mantis crew levels up to yellow in melee. Dies to a teleporter malfunction in sector 4 (it was shot up before I could recall). Next sector: Mantis Homeworlds. First encounter: Dread Pirate Killikizburulithiazarazimatazz. I have no boarding crew, so I'm forced to pick off the enemy crew with conventional weapons, and manage to whittle them down to 2 crewmen, with the ship itself at 1 HP left. I then managed to Ion Blast the ships shields AND O2 GENERATOR for the next 3 minutes or so until the air ran out on the ship. It was still piloted with the engines intact and I never missed a shot. Not bad for a single Ion Blast 2. When the last enemy crew fell, the notorious pirate was recovered via our teleporter and saved from the brink of death by the upgraded medbay. He pledged his ship, and loot to my cause, then became the leader of my second-generation boarding squad, which filled out at a full 4. We tore through every sector on the way to the Rebel flagship, and overwhelming man(tis)power combined with a very expensive piracy-funded array of burst lasers downed the flagship for my first and only Zoltan win. As a boarding ship.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 05, 2013, 05:25:14 am

Cloak and Dagger has taken my ability to play as the Spy class from 'Zero' to 'Somewhat'. Sapped a level 3 sentry and then backstabbed the four players guarding it, an engi, heavy with a Huolong Heater, a demoman and a pyro.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 05, 2013, 05:33:36 am

Tonight, Wolfeyez and I: Defeated Skeletron and cleared the dungeon of its riches, conquered three floating islands, defeated a goblin invasion, defeated the Eater of Worlds, mined a meteorite, and got boatloads of cool shit in the process. Oh, and we rescued the goblin tinkerer and the mechanic in the dungeon.

Terraria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on August 05, 2013, 08:47:57 am

I have 15 hours of play on FTL, and the Crystal and 2 other ships  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkmere on August 05, 2013, 10:47:19 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 05, 2013, 06:11:51 am

Quote from: Darkmere on August 05, 2013, 03:29:36 am

-snip-

My friend hates me for getting the crystal cruiser. He's played over twice as long as I have, and it took me about 40 hours in all to get it.

So many steps that are luck-based.

You can alleviate it somewhat by taking the stealth ship for advanced scanners. Only visit sectors/beacons that can spawn the events you need and quit the game after sector 1 if you can't finish the quest. I had actually gotten everything to line up completely at random before that on a Zoltan achievement run (which meant my ship was crippled and un-viable to finish. Destroyed by about 12 bad rolls in a row... 3 jumps from the quest beacon in rock homeworlds. That's why I went all-in farming the quest with the stealth ship).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 05, 2013, 11:40:23 am

On my side: two units of war elephants.
On the enemy side: an entire army of axemen.
Between the two: a bridge over a river.

Once the elephants charged, the term "lawnmower" came to mind. Trapped on the narrow bridge, the axemen had no way to avoid the stampeding pachyderms and were hurled into the air by the dozens. The ground was literally carpeted with corpses as I chased the army away. I only lost two elephants, while the other army lost well over two thousand men.

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Rome: Total War. I even saved a replay so I can watch it whenever I want.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 05, 2013, 11:48:43 am

Well, the river *did* get a little choked up with corpses...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 05, 2013, 01:59:15 pm

Holy shit blaster bombs. Jesus Christ. I'm very far in, found an alien base, but left it alone so I can go harvest it for souls and lewt whenever I wish, I have power armor for everyone but rookies, and laser rifles for everyone.

My first Chryssalid mission comes. I know this because I jump off the shuttle to see a Snakeman about five feet away. I blow him away, and position my blaster launcher guys off to one side so they can bombard things. My riflemen spread out, advancing into the warehouse right next to me, and to the gas station on the other side. Across the street, I see a snakeman, then two chryssalids come from the shadows, with a zombie. Two blaster bombs not only kill them all, but it also levels half the block. I then proceed to carpet bomb the other side of the street with the rest of my remaining six blaster bombs, all my grenades, and the stun bombs from my small launcher. After the turn ends, I get a win, having only seen about five opponents out of twelve.

Collateral damage? Two dead civilians, plus the zombies the Chryssalids made. An entire city block leveled to rubble, ruins, and wreckage.
And my entire squad is alive, after my first ever chryssalid mission. Dat blaster bomb launcher.

X-com UFO defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on August 05, 2013, 03:54:41 pm

Quote

"The crimson imp shouts!"
"The crimson imp shouts, 'Scamper home thou cockered boodle-bothering pigeon egg!' "
"You throw a glowing orcish hand axe."
"The glowing orcish handaxe hits the crimson imp!"
"You kill the crimson imp!"
"Trog accepts your kill."

I just one-shot a monster who's notorious for their regenerative abilities and their annoying persistence to kite melee players and prolong the battle.

I one-shot it with a thrown object.

I one-shot it by chunking an axe at its face. Tomahawks!

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

After looting five "glowing" (which means they're enchanted with better damage and stuff) orcish axes off some poor orc who was using them as throwing weapons I've been keeping them for my own use. They miss more than rocks or darts, but they hit like a brick made of axes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on August 05, 2013, 09:05:39 pm

Beat the final boss for the first time, in a run from the first to last mission.  Even better though, I made not less than 4 top-10 level times, and got in the top 1% on every level but one.

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Broforce: The Brototype

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FritzPL on August 06, 2013, 12:26:12 am

Does that mean you're first in the world(yeah I wish) or first on that computer?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on August 06, 2013, 07:33:04 am

First in the world, as far as I can tell.  Definitely not on one computer, because I hadn't played enough on mine to be able to be in many percentiles I get (say, 99.2%), but it may be by day or continent or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 06, 2013, 07:55:34 am

Quote from: Sirus on August 05, 2013, 11:48:43 am

Well, the river *did* get a little choked up with corpses...

I used magic in Skyrim to stagger bandits off their too-tall-towers. It was hilarious to hear "YOU'LL BE SO MUCH EASIER TO ROB WHEN YOU'RE DEAD!" as they fell to their deaths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 06, 2013, 09:09:25 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 06, 2013, 08:57:46 am

I like the two towers with a bridge connecting them near whiterun in skyrim. Just use unrelenting force and watch them fly.

Yeah, i'm level 15, playing a spell sword, and I haven't done the main quest that far yet. :P
Dual casting destruction magic makes them stagger as in FUS RO, which works well enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on August 06, 2013, 09:58:54 am

Playing some randomizer TF2.  I was stuck with a needlegun, razorback, and a bat.  One of the worst loadouts, but I managed to get a killing spree of at least 10 despite that setback. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: loose nut on August 06, 2013, 01:41:13 pm

Ok, I've pulled off a lot of wildly improbable victories playing this game, but they have been with either elite troops or cavalry. This one was silly.

Captain Alexander was marching a small company of mostly drooling Thracians and Illyrians up to reinforce the Macedonian seat in Rome when, apparently, scouts betrayed his position and the army of Secundus Afrianus, young noble of the House of Julii, charged down the Roman highway and caught the mercenary company out in the open. Captain Alexander sensibly retreated, figuring he was just at the limit of the Romans' range and he could regroup and seek safety near the full Macedonian armies guarding Rome. That wasn't the case.

Secundus Afrianus, leading a large though motley army of hastati, town guards, velites, a company of archers, and a partial company of equites – there may have been others – numbering a little over 1000, attacks Alexander on a modest-sized hill between Rome and Capua.

Alexander is commanding 2 companies of bastarnae (a unit I've never particularly loved, though Macedon's short on fighters who perform well on walls), 1 company of Thracians, 1 company of Illyrians, 1 company of mercenary peltasts, and 1 company of regular ordinary Macedonian archers. They resign themselves to glorious deaths and prepare to guard the hill as best they can.

Alexander destroys this attack.

Cursing violently and nursing a couple of sword wounds, Secundus Afrianus retreats to Arminium and commands a second army of 800 or so proper soldiers – including principes and more archers and war dogs – to annihilate the band of mercenary Greeks where he himself failed. (This attack also happens before I can do anything.)

Captain Alexander destroys this army as well.

Ridiculous!

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Rome Total War of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 06, 2013, 01:47:15 pm

Quote from: loose nut on August 06, 2013, 01:41:13 pm

Ok, I've pulled off a lot o

...What?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: loose nut on August 06, 2013, 01:56:27 pm

Keyboard mishap. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 06, 2013, 02:04:32 pm

Ah, I see.

Gotta say, Rome has some amazing potential for moments of ownage. I remember when a single unit of mercenary slingers held off an entire siege of Greek warriors almost single-handedly. Twice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 06, 2013, 02:27:00 pm

Check dem stats.

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(http://i.imgur.com/E5Scujy.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on August 06, 2013, 04:59:22 pm

Started as Livonia with the intent of reforming Suomenusko after consolidating my power enough to take on the blob that Holmgardr creates in order to acquire the Novgorodian holy site.(Livonia naturally controls a holy site and can easily get a second one from a 2 province duke, so kicking the crap out of Holmgardr is sufficient)

After starting I noticed that my dude was a humble ambitious priest. Scholar soon followed through an event. Quite appropriate for my goals, but not expecting anything good.

I start off my revoking a few counties of people plotting to kill me. Very carefully though. All the pagans can smell blood from miles away, and will jump on you the second they smell a civil war. I build some stuff in my capital, raid Novgorod and the Lettigallians whenever I get the chance and subjugate the Käkisalmi holy site.

My ruler gets to the ripe age of 47 and becomes posessed. I have 2 sons that will split my (meager) lands apart and Holmgardr was busy, so I decide to conquer Ingria. I overestimate my forces and am attacked by larger Holmgardrian forces at Narva. The fight goes quite evenly though, and we both lose half our armies. Luckily I had amassed some gold and attacked him with mercenaries. The loss of forces meant that 3 others instantly also declare wars(though they were only 2 province dukes). The siege was lengthy because of an alliance with Sweden, but I won eventually.

My ruler then became 51. My sons were both still very much alive. I didn't like the loss of prestige, but I had to break the truce with Holmgardr to reform before my ruler died. Pulled out the mercs again, and began another lengthy siege. I won 2 years later and instantly reformed the faith and changed my succession laws.

The year is 893, 26 years after the beginning of the game. An Estonian duke has reformed the Suomenusko and begun to construct a grand fleet of galleys, in order to raid the Norse. I expect this will be a fun playthrough.

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Crusader Kings 2, with The Old Gods DLC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 06, 2013, 07:39:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 06, 2013, 02:04:32 pm

Ah, I see.

Gotta say, Rome has some amazing potential for moments of ownage. I remember when a single unit of mercenary slingers held off an entire siege of Greek warriors almost single-handedly. Twice.

Once, playing as the greeks on hard Campaign/ Medium Battle difficulty, the Brutii laid siege to Corinth with three armies. The defensive force for Corinth was attacking Athens and all that was left was a bunch of half-1/3rd strength units of veterans, mostly Hoplites, with a couple Armored Hoplites and a unit of Spartans.

Right as the siege began, I managed to get my real army in range to be counted, and the battle starts. I set up my defenses, then switch to the big army outside the walls. The two generals in that army rush off to the north, and manage to pretty much halt the advance of one entire army of Romans. By the by, the Brutii had three full stack armies, mostly consisting of Early Legionaries, Princeps, Hastati, a few Triarii, a load of velites, and a shitpile of Equites and generals. And two generals stomped one of these armies pretty effectively. But I digress.

The defensive forces were holding, but losing, slowly giving ground. The Spartans were taking a horrific toll on the enemy, but with no missile units of my own, I was losing regardless of the massacre I performed on the melee units. Finally, just as I made the decision to fall back to the square out of the streets, the reinforcing hoplites arrived. Full units of armored Hoplites with silver experience filled in behind the weakened units, and the weak units fell back just as the next wave came.

After that, the rest of the battle was a curbstomp. My generals reaped a toll of souls as the enemy fled or was flanked and broken. It was a good day to be Greek.

(Play RTW long enough and you will have a hundred stories like that. I have one where I had a full army of Equites and Roman Cavalry and Generals versus three Egyptian Armies on an open plain. It was a battle of misdirection, flank attacks, and GLORIOUS CHARGES.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 06, 2013, 07:53:38 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 06, 2013, 07:39:18 pm

(Play RTW long enough and you will have a hundred stories like that.)

((Absolutely. Probably the only real time/grand management strategy game I'm actually really good at. I think I'd be better at RTSs if I actually had any that weren't on my Xbox (its so hard doing stuff without a mouse *urk*).))

Captured 4 helicopters in a half of an hour.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

I never brag, ever, but I am seriously so good at these games (excepting MGS3 as always).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on August 06, 2013, 08:22:11 pm

Round start, lead the pack and see an ennemy, unleash a bullet storm to the poor guy taking some fire in return blasting my shield, finish him off. Reload and turn around rest of the team is in close encounter with about 3 ennemy, i rush in and kill them all with my smg, 2 of the 3 man dies, bullet flies from my back and hit the last team member, turn around and sart shooting... click click... Totally out of bullet and only weapon remaining is a manualy trigguered grenade mirv launcher kind of stuff. Turn around start running while taking fire, im almost dead.

Turn the corner and drop a few grenade on the ground and wait for him. BOOM over 12-mini grenande explode at his feet no chance. Grab the ammo case near me, get back into the fray to be killed by a fragging headshot before i even get time to fire once with my new ammo stocks....

End of the match 12 kill, 3 death.

Loadout: SMG/Grenade Launcher
Power: Surge thing that increase damage output.

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Defiance Pvp match

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on August 06, 2013, 10:03:17 pm

I smacked the back of Alatreon's leg and he died.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 06, 2013, 10:18:41 pm

Quote from: SirAaronIII on August 06, 2013, 10:03:17 pm

I smacked the back of Alatreon's leg and he died.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

On a scale of 1 to All the Numbers, how good is Monster Hunter?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on August 06, 2013, 10:47:06 pm

1) Like any other piece of fiction or media or what-have-you, it's subjective.

2) All the numbers. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't played the series, is crazy or lying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: loose nut on August 06, 2013, 10:57:35 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 06, 2013, 07:39:18 pm

(Play RTW long enough and you will have a hundred stories like that. I have one where I had a full army of Equites and Roman Cavalry and Generals versus three Egyptian Armies on an open plain. It was a battle of misdirection, flank attacks, and GLORIOUS CHARGES.)

Wait. I've picked apart huge phalanx armies with smallish groups of cavalry too. Zip dash zip bam horse sandwich. But did three Egyptian armies not bring any chariots?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 06, 2013, 11:23:53 pm

They did bring chariots. I never said I defeated them soundly and easily. It was one of the roughest battles I've ever fought. But after the very beginning of the battle, they lost all cohesion, and I Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts'd them. A unit of chariots will ride through even two units of cavalry easily and butcher them, but when you catch the chariots sitting still from three directions, you can crush them before they have a chance to run roughshod through your cavalry. You still take pretty awful losses though. If they had formed a big line of Hoplites and used their chariots to defend the flanks, I would have gotten raped. But instead they formed that big combined unit line like the AI usually does, and I broke through their line, causing half their crap to turn to face behind them or to one side. Also, I had a full stack army of cavalry, not a small group.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: loose nut on August 06, 2013, 11:42:17 pm

Sounds pretty epic :) Yeah, if there's anything weak in that big line they make, and there usually is, you can make a nice big horse ball and punch through it. But after the first couple times I faced Egypt I never even tried to contest chariots with cavalry unless – maybe – they were already bogged down in infantry.

Of all factions I hate Egypt most.  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 06, 2013, 11:55:35 pm

Seleucids are awesome because they have one of everything! Elephants, chariots, horse archers, phalanx, legionaries, archers, slingers, they got it all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on August 07, 2013, 11:11:55 am

got my first victory over the flagship and somehow managed not to lose a single crewmember the entire game

FTL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on August 07, 2013, 09:06:46 pm

After many many years of seige on my fort, my Full Slade clad Army of 50 came out to the 152 Goblin seige, With the eception to the militia commander and the 5 best lords, they get slademantine, of course I had mined every one of my ten !!FUN!! spirals, Atleast half of the goblin war party was archers, some of them were riding bloody dragons, course they did more freindly fire, but DRAGONS, After the bloody battle there was only two militia men left, Had to get A peasent into Admantine armor to finish off the last couple gobby's, but dear lord there was Alot, And the elves came in right after it was finished, bought A crap ton of needed wood, alot of mithril, and A ton of Generaly needed supplys, Oh and dragons, Lots fo those.

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DF with masterwork mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Andrew425 on August 07, 2013, 10:47:15 pm

I fought a fort defence in Shogun 2. This is on hard difficulty. It was a force of 11,131 versus my fort of 3,200. All of my units save 1 were ashigarus. Wave after wave they came at me, until my fortress finally fell.

I had killed 8621 of them.

I know it's not me winning, but it was one of the most fun games I have ever lost. It wasn't my troops getting routed, or that they got tired, just the relentless pounded of samurai units marching up the castle walls. If I had a proper contingent of troops, such as bow warrior monks or some matchlock samurai I probably could have held it, but that was not to be.


Oh and I retook the fort two turns later, slaughtering all those who had taken it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on August 08, 2013, 12:59:27 am

Having explored 13 floors of the dungeon, I finally found an Amethyst, allowing me to craft the mighty Mace of Windu. After popping out of the pocket dimension, I take 5 steps, smash open a crate, and find an Dwarven Atom-Smasher. Normally, finding an even better mace 5 steps after crafting one would be terrible. As a dual wielder, though, it was a dream come true.

Shortly after, deal ~300 damage in a single turn with my Threshing attack and at least one proc of Dwarven Handshake. Totally unrelated to dual-wielding two end-game maces in quick succession.  :)

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on August 08, 2013, 06:28:24 am

This is more of an awesome loss, but still interesting anyway.


So there we were, the entire 102nd regiment lined up and marching along the river. We had just fought off an enemy regiment and a few friendlies were cleaning up the stragglers as we moved to defend the river crossing. We spotted an enemy regiment lining up on a hill to our left, and our commanding officer ordered us to form up. We exchanged volleys, and lost three people, including the CO. The next man in charge took immediate command and ordered us to cross the river. We were, after all, a melee regiment.

We waded into the water, guns above our heads when the next volley hit. Half of us went down then and there, and those who didn't either drowned or fell in the next volley. After the chaos, three men were left; me, another ranker, and our flag bearer hiding behind a tree on the friendly bank. The flag bearer, next in line for command, ordered us to retreat. Our blood filled the water seconds later.

As our flag bearer dropped the colours to reload, a random pub took the flag and started running off with it. The bearer told him to drop it or he'd fire, so he did. Just before our bearer got to the flag, a bullet hit him square in the chest. The pubbie spun, grabbed the flag, and waded into the water again.

This happened in a matter of minutes, and the icing on the cake was that it could all have been avoided if the commander had noticed that the actual river crossing was two feet to our right.

It was hilarious at the time, trust me. :D

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Mount and Musket

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on August 08, 2013, 06:34:32 am

Cult decided that being secret sucked and opted to KILL MAIM BURN in the name of their dark god, and they took too the hallways with their constructs. In about ten or so minutes, most of the crew got slain and converted into more constructs. Being a scientist, I did the logical thing.  I made a mining drill and booked it. A wraith attacked me and a co-worker, I dispatched it with my drill quickly and fled to Medbay with my friend. A cultist and a wraith attacked, I used water to slip the cultist and took the wraith down, but not before my friend got offed. I fled to the chapel, hid in a coffin. A long time later, a juggernaut smashed my hiding place. I took off into maintanence, to botany which was smashed open by a juggernaut, to the dorms while several wraiths and cultists chased me. I hid in a room's wardrobe until the cult left on the shuttle, then left and wandered the now empty station.

I was the only survivor, other than another guy who hid near an escape pod. And in the end round report, from what I could tell, almost all the dead cultists were done in by my drill.

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Space Station 13. Mining drills are fucking deadly, man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on August 08, 2013, 10:20:10 pm

playing MVM as an engi on a community server with one of my friends and a matchmaking group.

Final wave comes and i've already worked on speccing out my sentry, and set up at the entrance. Then, the ticker at the top gives frightful news.

4 TANKS

OH SHIT

wave starts and all our heavies plus my sentry start focusing down the right tank. After we blow up the right, the left goes down in a pinch. Suddenly, I am violently reminded of the other enemies via a backstab/sentrysap by an enemy spy.

So we start moving back trying to work down all these demomen and spies, when the next two tanks come. I set my sentry up on a ledge and me and the spy start dealing out straight redonkulous dps on the rest of the demomen. Once we finish them, I start hearing cries that the tanks are moving in closer. I slap my sentry down wherever the tank moves, trying to focus it down to keep it from bombing our hatch. My sentry starts soloing another demoman wave, so I hide and start healing it. Suddenly, our heavies start shouting

The tank is literally a few seconds away from dropping the bomb

The rest of my team can do nothing, my heavies are out of ammo, the scout, the spy, and the soldier are all trying their best but it seems all for naught

Then my firespeed lv3 sentry takes down 20% of it's health in 5 seconds, killing it right before it could bomb us.

Relief and cheers lead to an easy kill on the last tank and a victory.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on August 08, 2013, 10:34:07 pm

I beat Lord Dredmor in melee!*

^{*Victory entailed no fewer than 2 escapes into low-leveled Wizardlands to heal up when Dredmor reduced me to < 1/3rd HP. Victory was achieved only after two Bolts of Mass Destruction completely failed to inflict even chip damage to Lord Dredmor, succeeding only in destroying nearby walls. Victory eventually came down to me clicking Dredmor and praying he used useless skills instead of his devastating fire attack and what I think was a lightning spell. Victory was achieved on Normal difficulty, because I think Hard is absolutely biased against non-casters.}

So, yeah, a few conditions on that victory, but still. I beat the final boss by smacking him in the face with a couple of maces, with very few resistances, no way to disable Dredmor's magic, and no reliable heal outside of a couple of random potions and Deep Omelettes. Never mind that my first reaction was "oh hey, a random boss", and I spent several turns closing in and losing health before realizing I was actually facing the final boss of the game.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 08, 2013, 10:38:24 pm

Quote from: Corai on August 08, 2013, 06:34:32 am

Cult decided that being secret sucked and opted to KILL MAIM BURN in the name of their dark god, and they took too the hallways with their constructs. In about ten or so minutes, most of the crew got slain and converted into more constructs. Being a scientist, I did the logical thing.  I made a mining drill and booked it. A wraith attacked me and a co-worker, I dispatched it with my drill quickly and fled to Medbay with my friend. A cultist and a wraith attacked, I used water to slip the cultist and took the wraith down, but not before my friend got offed. I fled to the chapel, hid in a coffin. A long time later, a juggernaut smashed my hiding place. I took off into maintanence, to botany which was smashed open by a juggernaut, to the dorms while several wraiths and cultists chased me. I hid in a room's wardrobe until the cult left on the shuttle, then left and wandered the now empty station.

I was the only survivor, other than another guy who hid near an escape pod. And in the end round report, from what I could tell, almost all the dead cultists were done in by my drill.

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Space Station 13. Mining drills are fucking deadly, man.

So basically you were Simon from Gurren Lagann.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 09, 2013, 12:49:46 pm

My trebuchets began reducing their castle to rubble, and more quickly than I had thought they could. I ordered my troops to go in so they could finish off the Teuton king as he tried to escape.

What I hadn't counted on was the bloated, overweight ruler being able to outrun French Cavaliers.

He quickly runs into a nearby Town Center. Luckly, my trebuchets only need to slide over a bit to destroy it, but the king then runs into another one. Then another one after I burn that one down. He outruns my cavalry each time.

I chase this fat bastard halfway across the continent before he runs into another castle, one I hadn't noticed being built(though I should have because I noticed the Teutonic Knights it was producing).

While I set up my trebuchets to not only attack the castle, but the two Town Centers nearby. There was a third one some distance off, but I let it live, partly because it was out of attack range, and I had a plan that needed it there.

Sure enough, as soon as the Town Centers went down, followed soon after by the castle the kind was hiding in, he runs off to that outer Town Center, just as I had anticipated. Of course, before he got very far, he happened to encounter my massed throwing axemen and hand cannoneers. Alas, good King Wenscelas, your bloated corpse made good target practice.

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Age of Empires II, Regicide match - Franks vs Teutons. The Teuton(AI-controlled) player happened to be called Kind Wenscelas or however you spell it. The sprite for the Teuton king is a fat guy, unlike the more fit-looking Frankish king I had. Not sure how he was able outrun mounted knights, though.

Quote from: greatorder on August 09, 2013, 07:15:46 am

(Women of the house? Is it that? Wikipedia pulls up onna-bugeisha)

I'm not particularly good with Japanese, but I think onna-bugeisha does mean something like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 10, 2013, 12:06:00 am

Just set two NFL records. I'm a 3rd string quality player (71 overall) that rushed for 622 yards and 7 TDs in a single game. The records are 296yds and 6tds. Most backups would call 600+ yards a phenomenal season (or a really bad one, because the starter went down.)

Madden 13, career mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on August 10, 2013, 01:20:28 am

Discovered Storm of the Century.
Oh my.
Oh mmmmyyyyyyyyy.

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Dragon Age Origins

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on August 10, 2013, 02:19:53 am

How do you use one guy to kill three guys with better armor and weapons so you can steal their stuff?

Run up before they're aggro, steal their ammo and stimpacks, run halfway across the map, and fire one shot off with the longest-range weapon you have. Artificial Stupidity ensues, they blast off all the ammo currently in their guns (only three bursts' worth, ha!) without hitting you, then instinctively run up and grab the early-game gimp guns - also with no ammo - that you drop between them and yourself, delaying them while you gun them down, before they charge at you with their bare hands, at which point the fight tips as you might expect a Bozar versus fist showdown would.

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Fallout 2. It's been a while since I played it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on August 10, 2013, 02:56:54 am

Tore through much of a massive dungeon filled with angry goblins, rampaging beastmen, and enormous trolls (some with very annoying rocket launchers). And I spent more time killing monsters than my teammate, which 100% counts as ownage in this game!

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Magicka, with lots of DLC. There are very few PC games with local multiplayer, so my friend's been learning keyboard controls while I've finally started coming to terms with the 360 controller.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 10, 2013, 11:41:18 am

Tina/Terra in Esper form, with second-level Ice spells. Killed Ultima Weapon in 3 hits. Ironically, she was wielding Ultima Weapon at the time.

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Final Fantasy 6. And I was somewhat struggling through the rest of the Floating Continent, too.

Oddly, despite being definitely a sword, Ultima Weapon doesn't count as a sword as far as Celes' Seal Sword/Runic ability goes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 10, 2013, 09:10:41 pm

I was the king of Scotland, and discovered that the reason why my vassals were declaring independence every 2 weeks or so was because my king had decided to get excommunicated and became a heretic. I decided that at this point I would be best served sending him on a quick campaign of Scandinavia with only his provincial army, can't quite remember how many soldiers there were though, in an effort to get him killed.

Essentially, over the course of this, I managed to acquire the titles of King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and was halfway through Finland before the lack of troops (he had 8 left) and morale meant he basically wasn't fighting anybody, but the bugger just wouldn't die!

In a later game, I was (eventually) the king of Lithuania, and managed to get in a fight with my neighbours, Poland. Wasn't really interested in activating my ruler's army because I had no money, though when a tiny army of ~300 Poles wandered through his home province, I decided to activate it to fight them off. With 9000 soldiers.

He died the next day.

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Crusader Kings Complete

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on August 12, 2013, 07:57:58 pm

Playing as France, I managed to make the historical stalemate of the Hundred Years War moot.

You see, after taking the French provinces England still owned, Englands stubborn AI would only offer me white peace, and considered anything above that to be unacceptable.

However, France starts with a absolutely pathetic navy, and no real means of building it up. A naval forcelimit of 9 is a terrible thing. however, I decided on a cunning plan. A daring plan, but devious in its exploitation of the game engine. I would create a stack of cogs, and a stack of Carracks, and sacrifice the Carracks one at a time to stall the English fleet while moving a stack of units to my ally, Scotland.

It turned out to be unnecessary. Scotland declared a unrelated war before my carracks were built, and quickly summoned up several large stacks. The English, already worn from my pounding away on the mainland, fought valiantly, but ultimately lost. However, they managed to entrap a stack of 15 Scottish highlanders in the Western Isles... Using their hugemassive fleet. Which the AI won't divide.

I quickly collected my cogs and began slowly transporting units to the southern English lands, while the Scottish handled their main military force in the north and trapped their fleet in trying to keep that big stack away from the battle.

End result? Scotland demanded they release Wales, Cornwall and Northumberland, and I now occupy almost every English province left. If I'm guessing right, as well, Scotland is due for a royal crisis soon, and may be vulnerable to a PU... If I can tear England a big enough hole, and PU Scotland, I'll own most of France AND Most of the British Isles. At 1450, I will be so completely overpowered, I may be able to conquer the continent before this is done.

Il est facile de se prononcer à partir de Paris.

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sprin on August 15, 2013, 12:41:53 pm

I killed Ceaser in Fallout: New Vegas buck naked, with my fists!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 17, 2013, 11:47:49 am

My Troop Transports: "Oh, hai guys, don't mind us, we're just passing through and - GO! GO! GO! GET THOSE TROOPS DOWN!!"
Ancient Guardians: "Yo, what the f-"
"Our troops have invaded and taken over the planet Utopia from the Ancient Guardians."

Cue victory via economic supremacy after scrapping about 200 of the ships I suddenly got from them, as the Guardians were producing 34% of the GDP in the galaxy with just that one planet.

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Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi.

Totally worth the loss of rep and about 2 dozen trooper battalions - only about 8 of them actually landed, the rest of them blew up with the transports when they started spamming area weapons. Serves them right for only having 3 troops of their own on the planet, and the AI had been ganking my own planets like that for long enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on August 18, 2013, 06:02:29 am

Bought Gragas on a bit of an impulse.
First game as him: 20/3
Second: 9/0

Why does nobody play him?!

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LoL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 18, 2013, 12:05:58 pm

I start the game, do the little part at the beginning, and go to Whiterun. I make enough money to buy Muffle, and with this one spell, I level my Illusion skill up to 73 in a matter of minutes, and level my Sneak to 37 by just sneaking around whilst doing so.

It is the start of the game, and I am now a level 12 or so mage. I decide to go derp around, and find the Giant Camp right next to Whiterun. Thinking, "Hmmm." I aggro the giants, and get them to chase me, all the while I'm throwing flames at them. We get to Whiterun, and they stomp into the crowd of Khajiit at the entrance. They stomp, smack, and club the Khajiit into retreat, then chase me further up the hill. Two guards are firing arrows at the Giants now, and I'm continuing to set them on fire a little bit.

One Giant stomps directly on a guard, killing him instantly. I keep running up the hill. The other Giant sweeps his club, and shatters another guard. They're both about dead, and I lure one onto a narrow catwalk. I kill it with fire, then lure the other to on top of the gatehouse, and get under the roof where it can't reach me. I fire all my arrows into it, and set it on fire a bit more, when finally it drops to one knee. I draw a dinky little dagger, and finish it off real fast.

And then, I realize that I just killed two Giants like they weren't shit. KITE LIKE A MAN.

Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on August 18, 2013, 03:14:57 pm

Gunned down a gang of terrorists with my SMG inside the body of a priestess infused with magical rocks from an ancient and powerful civilization. Goddamn I love this game.

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Final Fantasy Lengends II. It's a bit annoying since it's for the old GB and nothing is really explained, but I quite enjoy the mash-up of modern technology and fantasy elements.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gruntdonttoot on August 18, 2013, 05:26:52 pm

Brought the Golden Key to the Tunnel Man, Temple shortcut unlocked!

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Spelunky

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on August 19, 2013, 11:09:46 pm

After redoing my skill setup, took on the baboon king again. Only needed to revive one char only once, and the others never seemed to be in much banger. Holy hell, a full-linker Landsknecht is awesome!

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Etrian Odyssey IV. Next up, boiling lizard!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 22, 2013, 11:59:50 pm

Tried out the new quickfix with a RL friend who was tightly coordinating with me.  He was a quickfix medic, I was a pure stock soldier.  With the 25% overheal I would have more than full health after rocket jumping, and by giving him some warning I could drag him along for my rocket jumps.  We kicked ass across several different game modes, our team usually winning.  The highlight was repeatedly capturing the intel on 2fort by jumping over the bridge onto the battlements, or up that hole one the main entrance.  When the map rotated off 2fort I had 18 deaths 55 kills and several captures.

I can only imagine the terror their sniper felt upon seeing a soldier, medic, and rocket all hurtling in the air towards him.

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TF2.  Seriously, that combo is insane, the only thing that really stops you is sentries, and even then no worse than anyone else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 23, 2013, 02:58:51 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 22, 2013, 11:59:50 pm

Tried out the new quickfix with a RL friend who was tightly coordinating with me.  He was a quickfix medic, I was a pure stock soldier.  With the 25% overheal I would have more than full health after rocket jumping, and by giving him some warning I could drag him along for my rocket jumps.  We kicked ass across several different game modes, our team usually winning.  The highlight was repeatedly capturing the intel on 2fort by jumping over the bridge onto the battlements, or up that hole one the main entrance.  When the map rotated off 2fort I had 18 deaths 55 kills and several captures.

I can only imagine the terror their sniper felt upon seeing a soldier, medic, and rocket all hurtling in the air towards him.

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TF2.  Seriously, that combo is insane, the only thing that really stops you is sentries, and even then no worse than anyone else.

Yeah, earlier today I took a Quick-Fix Medic sticky-jumping. Thing is, it's /very/ easy to die when there's diehard snipers there, but a simple grenade while you're still flying is enough to startle them.

Also, I landed on top of a sniper after an 8x crit crouch'd sticky jump. If I was playing on a goomba server, that should've killed him instantly. Heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shakerag on August 23, 2013, 11:02:05 am

Took my monk companion through a boss run of a dungeon, expecting him to get through a couple before getting defeated.  I just wanted to kill time and use him a bit more mostly.

So we go in, and I have him use his new berserk skill at the beginning of each fight.

*boom* Down goes a giant flying eyeball.
*boom* Down goes a hugeass pillbug.
*boom* Down goes a volcanic crab.
*boom* Down go two boss slimes.
*boom* Down goes a child-like archer.

It was like the fist of god.  O_O

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 23, 2013, 11:47:14 am

Archers, Ballistae, and a point or two in the Ballistics skill, with some Vikings running backup. It's rare for the enemy to even reach melee range before surrendering. Fear truly is an infectous disease in this game.

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Knights of Honor. Playing as Sweden. Taken control of all of Scandinavia. Denmark and Novgorod are both reduced to one province, and Novgorod is currently the Golden Horde's bitch. Currently the #1 kingdom, with Golden Horde and Germany in #2 and #3 respectively, and I'm currently curbstomping Germany.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on August 23, 2013, 12:28:36 pm

(Hardly my own, but it felt awesome anyway)

I was just jogging towards the sounds of gunfire and explosions, enjoying the relative peace before I got into battle. As I come up to a large warehouse I can hear helicopter blades, rapidly approaching. Pulling out my stinger I run towards the cover of the wall but I'm not fast enough. When I'm still about 15 metres away a gunship rises up from behind the building and slowly turns to face me.
As the front swings towards me I can almost hear the pilot breathing behind his face mask, or see the minigun under the nose start to spin in preparation of cleaving me in half.
I pull up my launcher but I already know I won't have enough time to get a lock.

Suddenly, precious milliseconds before the pilot could pull his trigger, an anti-air rocket flies in from the right and cleaves the helicopter in two. The two parts fall far off to my left, and I let out a little nervous giggle while I run on.

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Battlefield 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 23, 2013, 01:02:01 pm

Quote from: Reudh on August 23, 2013, 02:58:51 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 22, 2013, 11:59:50 pm

Tried out the new quickfix with a RL friend who was tightly coordinating with me.  He was a quickfix medic, I was a pure stock soldier.  With the 25% overheal I would have more than full health after rocket jumping, and by giving him some warning I could drag him along for my rocket jumps.  We kicked ass across several different game modes, our team usually winning.  The highlight was repeatedly capturing the intel on 2fort by jumping over the bridge onto the battlements, or up that hole one the main entrance.  When the map rotated off 2fort I had 18 deaths 55 kills and several captures.

I can only imagine the terror their sniper felt upon seeing a soldier, medic, and rocket all hurtling in the air towards him.

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TF2.  Seriously, that combo is insane, the only thing that really stops you is sentries, and even then no worse than anyone else.

Yeah, earlier today I took a Quick-Fix Medic sticky-jumping. Thing is, it's /very/ easy to die when there's diehard snipers there, but a simple grenade while you're still flying is enough to startle them.

Also, I landed on top of a sniper after an 8x crit crouch'd sticky jump. If I was playing on a goomba server, that should've killed him instantly. Heh.

The server we were playing on had mediocre snipers and almost no engies.  I specifically didn't want to play on 2fort at the start (the server ended up switching to it) because it can become so hard for either side to attack, but no one ever got sentries up outside of the sewers, and the snipers failed to lock down the top area, so it all worked out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 23, 2013, 01:20:46 pm

Jonah the Librarian with teleport power, Thaddeus with assault jump, and the FC with assault jump, plus Cyrus spotting and laying those big remote bombs equals an all deepstrike, all insta-rapestomp force. One moment, you're sitting there quietly, waiting for the damnable Bloody Magpies to try to steal your shit, and weird, there is a heat shimmer over there in the ai- THUD THUD THUD THUD BWOOOP- OH FUCK FIVE SPACE MARINES WHERE THE FUC- THEY ALL HAVE POWER WEAPONS OH GOD RUN EVERYONE RUN- BANG- OH FUCK EVERYONE THAT RAN IS DEAD WHAT THE FUCK-

And you're dead. Good times.

Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 23, 2013, 03:12:51 pm

I thought I was going to be doing awfully... I took up a demoman with the loch-n-load because I've been playing other classes for a while. I was missing all over the place and our team was getting stomped. One soldier was rocketjumping around and beating the shit out of me. Kind of embarrasing.
Regardless, me and my friend were working together to try and get some tight defenses down, and we were doing okay at it. Then I started to get my lochnload skills unrusted. And oh was it glorious. Forcing medics to pop uber way back from the front lines, destroying heavies in no time at all, catching scouts as they round corners, and even getting that soldier. Man that is the stuff.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 23, 2013, 05:02:55 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 23, 2013, 04:10:10 pm

I managed to nearly completely conquer my fear of caving in minecraft.

HOORAY! I AM NO LONGER BOUND BY FUCKING CREEPERS!

It's skeletons you should be afraid of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on August 24, 2013, 01:36:13 pm

Well, second try at Cradle guardian, and THIS time, I kicked his ass all over the place with no problem(didn't let him arm mixer me at the last moment), didn't even really need much healing, and never needed to revive at all!

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Etrian Odyssey IV. I'm thinking the Cradle Guardian is on of the easier bosses, but given that this is Atlus, that's not really saying very much

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 24, 2013, 06:17:04 pm

Beat the entire thing. No Miss Clear, Hard Clear, Speed King. All with Luigi, a character I normally hate. I wasn't even trying that hard and I beat the entire thing without losing a single stock; I don't even think I went over 100% damage. I aced all the Bonus Stages too.

Super Smash Bros.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on August 25, 2013, 04:14:17 am

Took down a Yian Kut Ku with no damage, in just over five minutes. FLAWLESS VICTORY. Now for that motherfucking Plesioth.

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on August 25, 2013, 01:20:30 pm

SHUFFLE TIME
I chose the magician card (skill upgrade)

Megidola turns nto Megidolon(BIG FUCKING UNBLOCKABLE MAGIC ATTACK)

Another battle I choose the Magician again

Diahrahan turns into Mediahran(Full party healing

I fused my current Persona, Raphael with a Dis with Mindcharge and got a Lilith with almost 50ish magic.

I then kill 5 Opulence Hands(Metal Slimes) with Mindcharge+Megidolan

Persona 4 Golden

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 25, 2013, 03:02:39 pm

I was randomly matched with someone who was streaming Divekick and proceeded to beat them up.  So satisfying.  And the video was saved on their twitch channel too.

Actually I only beat them 6/10, but from the way the other guy was talking you'd think I was undefeated...

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Divekick

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 26, 2013, 10:32:18 am

Master of Orion 1 , in a very funny way actually.

I was toying with the Hard difficulty playing with the Humans, at some point the Alkaris felt challenged by my planet colonizing  (as i was lucky to have several of them in my corner of space out of reach from the other races) and declared war on me to stop my unchecked progression.

The thing in MoO1 is that playing with the Hard difficulty, the AI can be very strong (and in Impossible they're really brutal), and despite i had more planets and had some fleet and many bases defending my frontier worlds, the Alkaris fleet showed up with 2 army of ships only made from the smallest hull.
And both had more than 300 units each !
The less i can say is that my troops were nowhere close to that number, so the Alkaris annihilated my own defenses, fleet and planetary bases  in absolutely no time, kicking my growing empire into oblivion in a few turns.

So after this devastating defeat i decided to give another try and change my starting strategy to see if i could prepare then better for those huge swarms of flying death.

And after only a few dozen of turns, it was clear that the growing power were the Silicoids, and again thanks to a good start i could get a few planets.
That early in the game, the Silicoids decided to declare war (at that point of the game they were the only race i met) , too early for them to have swarms of death, but in the same time too early for me to have planetary bases defenses on my frontier worlds that were just colonised, and my laughable small fleet wouldn't put much of a match.

And indeed, my frontier world closest to the Silicoids got attacked, my hopeless fleet wiped out, but fortunately the invaders had only a few ships and their planetary bombing only destroyed only 1 facility

But still the Silicoid invasion was happening way too soon for confort, it was only 49 turns into the game.
And it was time for yet another galactic council election (as usual, it occurs regularly and often through the course of the game) with me vs the Silicoid leader (apparently we were both on top in the amount of planet owned at that early point of the game)

To my surprise 2 of the 3 races i never met in that game yet decided to vote for me instead of logically abstain at that point :

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(http://i.imgur.com/txK2ZKE.gif)

a 49 turns victory in a Hard MoO1 game !
Never going to happen again i guess :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 26, 2013, 02:16:59 pm

The training mission told me that I am in a circular orbit above Mun in a ship completely capable of landing on it before saying the next tutorial will tell me how to land.

Well I haven't even managed to successfully survive a landing on Kerbin yet, but what the hell, who needs a tutorial, challenge accepted.

Spoiler: Close enough for government work. (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/images/u8unr.png) (http://img.ie/images/u8unr.png)

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 26, 2013, 02:21:30 pm

Quote from: Greiger on August 26, 2013, 02:16:59 pm

The training mission told me that I am in a circular orbit above Mun in a ship completely capable of landing on it.

Well I haven't even managed to successfully survive a landing on Kerbin yet, but what the hell, challenge accepted.

Spoiler: Close enough for government work. (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/images/u8unr.png) (http://img.ie/images/u8unr.png)

Kerbal Space Program.

How did you manage to mess it up this badly?
You decoupled the command module from the orbiting module rather than undocking the lander.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 26, 2013, 02:34:23 pm

I hit the decouple button and nothing happened other than letting me activate the landing jets too, I figured it must be stuck somehow and decided to just bring it with me.  So I just let the thing on top run out of fuel (I spent most of it getting into a circular orbit anyway) and brought her down for a landing.  Unfortunately that landing was on the side of a mountain.

I remembered to activate the landing legs while tumbling down the mountain which resulted in a cool little flip and what I imagine was the orbiter getting flung off and exploding somewhere, and I reactivated the rockets to slow my decent again, though still landing sideways.

I then let Jeb out to plant a flag, and that screenshot is him chasing after the ship as it continued sliding downhill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 26, 2013, 04:00:56 pm

Decoupling is not done with staging. You have to right-click on the docking port.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 26, 2013, 05:21:20 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on August 26, 2013, 04:00:56 pm

Decoupling is not done with staging. You have to right-click on the docking port.

....Oh.   Guess that's what happens when the last time I played was when it was free and hitting space was just about the most complex thing you could do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on August 27, 2013, 06:39:30 pm

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awesomenauts

Gone ayla, Immediately got both main attacks, the gnaw was running in cowardess in the middle of the round by the entire enemy team, who were very wounded, but I charged it, and killed them all, getting A triple kill and awe by my entire team, I was so happy :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2013, 11:54:48 am

Killed an omnicidal clown with a mostly-justified god-complex in about half a dozen turns. Double-Ultima with a primary spellcaster equipped with the Soul of Thamasa, plus two other spellcasters capable of doing maximum damage with the same spell, Kefka never had a chance.

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Final Fantasy VI. Who's wahaha-ing now?

Quote from: Robsoie on August 26, 2013, 10:32:18 am

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(http://i.imgur.com/txK2ZKE.gif)

Even better is the WTF face the Silicoid has.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on August 30, 2013, 01:16:22 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 27, 2013, 08:09:28 am

Xcom: enemy unknown

Due to rushing for laser weapons and improved armour, I was trouncing the aliens with minimal deaths.

Of course, the aliens caught up with me, but by that point I was researching plasma weapons, so I started to trounce them again. Now I have plasma weapons and titan armour, and just need some more alien materials in order to give my squad full titan armour and plasma equipment. I also have a firestorm at each continent (barring South America. They left the Xcom project) with a plasma cannon on it.

The closest I have recently come to having a squad member die was when one of my guys was knocked into critical by a bad enemy reveal (got charged by a berserker, then shot to bits by two mutons). I'd run out of medikits, but managed to finish the mission in time to save her.

My past several missions haven't even given the enemy time to shoot at me, let alone actually injure my guys.

What difficulty?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 31, 2013, 12:04:13 pm

After reading about the strategy on TVTropes, built several Correlian Gunships(which fire missiles). Turned out that ~10 Gunships will tear up anything the Imperials will have, period. One 16-minute match later, the enemy was beaten, and I only lost 2 mining bases, nothing else.

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Star Wars: Empire at War

Tried the same above against the Seperatists. Another 16-minute match, I only lost 4 of the corvettes, due to the more dakka flying around. Fortunately, while attacking their station, my corvettes seemed to be using the station itself for cover from its weapons.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Republic at War

This same tactic, backed up by some Venator Star Cruisers and Victory IIs, has shown significant success in Galactic Conquest. Even fighter swarms coming from battles against their carriers are stopped dead. If only they'd stop launching surpise attacks on worlds they cannot legally reach.

Also managed to hold off an attack on Dathomir, consisting of one unit each of crab droids(2 droids total) and movile artillery(three of them), and multiple squads of Super Battledroids with just two squads of Clone Troopers plus the respawning ones from the barracks. Normally, the artillery would utterly destroy that, but not this time.

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Republic at War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on August 31, 2013, 12:31:27 pm

Yeah, the missiles outrange everything, bypass shields and deal pretty good hull damage. The AI usually isn't good at defeating them.

There are worse balancing errors in the game though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 06:58:09 pm

I was Janitor Xemo, the lizardwoman. I start off, as traitor. I go steal the Double Barrel shotgun real fast, then get a syndikit, the camouflage kit. Useless when you have a FUCKING BRIGHT GREEN TAIL. So I get the QM to give me a circular saw, and I cut down the shotgun. Then I go to engineering, where some guy crits himself with his own e-sword. I get in, and take his e-sword in front of three people, sleight-of-hand style. Then I get his emag and Captain's Spare ID. So I mug the Head of Security's corpse, and find nothing of value.

I go loot the armory, and go to Cloning, where they are cloning the Head of Security. I emag the cloning pod, and slash her semi-cloned body a couple times, then stun most of the crew, and take the Head of Personnel hostage. As I'm doing so, she says, "HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS?!" Up until this round, Xemo had never been robust or badass in any way, and was quite the opposite. Suddenly, huge character dissonance. It is far more disturbing to see a nice, polite, well mannered, helpful janitor suddenly turn into a raging engine of destruction than it is to see a soldier do so.

I go to security, and load up on the Ablative vest and other such things. Then, I stun three crewman that get in, and kill the one with a stun baton. The RD I throw in Interrogation, and the Virologist pulls a syringe gun on me, so I kill her too. Then the RD runs at me with a flash, and I kill him also with my sword. Then, as I'm boarding the pod, the HoS and I have a little firefight, and I finally stun the HoS thanks to my Riot Helmet, Shield, and Ablative vest. Then I cuff her and put her on the pod, warning her not to fight the restraints. She does so, so I cut her into critical with my e-sword and toss her into space. This whole time, I keep the Head of Personnel hostage.

I win the round, getting all my objectives complete, and also totally tripping a few people out with the whole character personality switch. The whole time, I kept speaking like Xemo, "Xemo no wants to fights you. Ple-ayse do not fights Xemo, Xemo has killeded three peoples already."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on August 31, 2013, 09:06:00 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 06:58:09 pm

I was Janitor Xemo, the lizardwoman. I start off, as traitor. I go steal the Double Barrel shotgun real fast, then get a syndikit, the camouflage kit. Useless when you have a FUCKING BRIGHT GREEN TAIL. So I get the QM to give me a circular saw, and I cut down the shotgun. Then I go to engineering, where some guy crits himself with his own e-sword. I get in, and take his e-sword in front of three people, sleight-of-hand style. Then I get his emag and Captain's Spare ID. So I mug the Head of Security's corpse, and find nothing of value.

I go loot the armory, and go to Cloning, where they are cloning the Head of Security. I emag the cloning pod, and slash her semi-cloned body a couple times, then stun most of the crew, and take the Head of Personnel hostage. As I'm doing so, she says, "HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS?!" Up until this round, Xemo had never been robust or badass in any way, and was quite the opposite. Suddenly, huge character dissonance. It is far more disturbing to see a nice, polite, well mannered, helpful janitor suddenly turn into a raging engine of destruction than it is to see a soldier do so.

I go to security, and load up on the Ablative vest and other such things. Then, I stun three crewman that get in, and kill the one with a stun baton. The RD I throw in Interrogation, and the Virologist pulls a syringe gun on me, so I kill her too. Then the RD runs at me with a flash, and I kill him also with my sword. Then, as I'm boarding the pod, the HoS and I have a little firefight, and I finally stun the HoS thanks to my Riot Helmet, Shield, and Ablative vest. Then I cuff her and put her on the pod, warning her not to fight the restraints. She does so, so I cut her into critical with my e-sword and toss her into space. This whole time, I keep the Head of Personnel hostage.

I win the round, getting all my objectives complete, and also totally tripping a few people out with the whole character personality switch. The whole time, I kept speaking like Xemo, "Xemo no wants to fights you. Ple-ayse do not fights Xemo, Xemo has killeded three peoples already."

Hans!Xemo stronk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on August 31, 2013, 09:45:15 pm

Quote from: Corai on August 31, 2013, 09:06:00 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 06:58:09 pm

I was Janitor Xemo, the lizardwoman. I start off, as traitor. I go steal the Double Barrel shotgun real fast, then get a syndikit, the camouflage kit. Useless when you have a FUCKING BRIGHT GREEN TAIL. So I get the QM to give me a circular saw, and I cut down the shotgun. Then I go to engineering, where some guy crits himself with his own e-sword. I get in, and take his e-sword in front of three people, sleight-of-hand style. Then I get his emag and Captain's Spare ID. So I mug the Head of Security's corpse, and find nothing of value.

I go loot the armory, and go to Cloning, where they are cloning the Head of Security. I emag the cloning pod, and slash her semi-cloned body a couple times, then stun most of the crew, and take the Head of Personnel hostage. As I'm doing so, she says, "HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS?!" Up until this round, Xemo had never been robust or badass in any way, and was quite the opposite. Suddenly, huge character dissonance. It is far more disturbing to see a nice, polite, well mannered, helpful janitor suddenly turn into a raging engine of destruction than it is to see a soldier do so.

I go to security, and load up on the Ablative vest and other such things. Then, I stun three crewman that get in, and kill the one with a stun baton. The RD I throw in Interrogation, and the Virologist pulls a syringe gun on me, so I kill her too. Then the RD runs at me with a flash, and I kill him also with my sword. Then, as I'm boarding the pod, the HoS and I have a little firefight, and I finally stun the HoS thanks to my Riot Helmet, Shield, and Ablative vest. Then I cuff her and put her on the pod, warning her not to fight the restraints. She does so, so I cut her into critical with my e-sword and toss her into space. This whole time, I keep the Head of Personnel hostage.

I win the round, getting all my objectives complete, and also totally tripping a few people out with the whole character personality switch. The whole time, I kept speaking like Xemo, "Xemo no wants to fights you. Ple-ayse do not fights Xemo, Xemo has killeded three peoples already."

Hans!Xemo stronk.

This was SS13? Sounds crazy-awesome enough to be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 10:04:14 pm

/me is meteor'd.

Yes, it was SS13.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on September 01, 2013, 08:27:15 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 10:04:14 pm

/me is meteor'd.

Yes, it was SS13.

Don't worry. There are no meteors in the *own* thread. Only stern glances and sharp knifes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on September 01, 2013, 03:21:39 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 31, 2013, 06:58:09 pm

I was Janitor Xemo, the lizardwoman. I start off, as traitor. I go steal the Double Barrel shotgun real fast, then get a syndikit, the camouflage kit. Useless when you have a FUCKING BRIGHT GREEN TAIL. So I get the QM to give me a circular saw, and I cut down the shotgun. Then I go to engineering, where some guy crits himself with his own e-sword. I get in, and take his e-sword in front of three people, sleight-of-hand style. Then I get his emag and Captain's Spare ID. So I mug the Head of Security's corpse, and find nothing of value.

I go loot the armory, and go to Cloning, where they are cloning the Head of Security. I emag the cloning pod, and slash her semi-cloned body a couple times, then stun most of the crew, and take the Head of Personnel hostage. As I'm doing so, she says, "HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS?!" Up until this round, Xemo had never been robust or badass in any way, and was quite the opposite. Suddenly, huge character dissonance. It is far more disturbing to see a nice, polite, well mannered, helpful janitor suddenly turn into a raging engine of destruction than it is to see a soldier do so.

I go to security, and load up on the Ablative vest and other such things. Then, I stun three crewman that get in, and kill the one with a stun baton. The RD I throw in Interrogation, and the Virologist pulls a syringe gun on me, so I kill her too. Then the RD runs at me with a flash, and I kill him also with my sword. Then, as I'm boarding the pod, the HoS and I have a little firefight, and I finally stun the HoS thanks to my Riot Helmet, Shield, and Ablative vest. Then I cuff her and put her on the pod, warning her not to fight the restraints. She does so, so I cut her into critical with my e-sword and toss her into space. This whole time, I keep the Head of Personnel hostage.

I win the round, getting all my objectives complete, and also totally tripping a few people out with the whole character personality switch. The whole time, I kept speaking like Xemo, "Xemo no wants to fights you. Ple-ayse do not fights Xemo, Xemo has killeded three peoples already."

one more of that stuff and I'm going to end up playing that game. Sounds freaking awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on September 01, 2013, 03:36:21 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on September 01, 2013, 03:21:39 pm

one more of that stuff and I'm going to end up playing that game. Sounds freaking awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 01, 2013, 07:44:09 pm

I have a love hate relationship with  SS13.

It is awesome.  But it also takes forever, and I feel guilty leaving in the middle of the round so I often end up staying awake a good 4 hours after I needed to go to bed or do something else, especially when I'm something like the CE.

----
Planetside 2.
Trying to hold a facility solo as a member of new conglomerate. I am a light assault. There is a VS Sunderer parked outside the facility with a small guild respawning from it attempting to take my facility.  I usually get less than 10 fps playing this game, but there aren't a whole lot of people on this section of the map and I'm getting a buttery smooth 40 fps.

Maybe that explains it, but I somehow went from usually dies before I even see the enemy, to an unholy god of war.  I spot all three of them jumping out of the sunderer and pick one off from inside the main tower with my carbine.  He was their medic, ouch.

I end up in a bad sniper duel, me with a carbine and the enemy with a sniper rifle.  While in cover I lob a grenade and pop out of cover firing a couple bursts.  Most hit, miraculously but my gun isn't strong enough to take them out with a few hits, especially at that range.  My grenade however happily explodes on top of them, finishing the job.

Then I see the point being captured and run to go deal with that.  But the guy isn't even facing in my direction. I come up behind him and knife him a few times before he gets a chance to fight back.

It was awesome, and best I ever did in that game.  Of course almost immediately after that the infiltrator headshot me twice when I couldn't even tell where he was, killing my spree. But a minute or so later some friendly guys spawned in and helped me clean them out.   I like to think that if it wasn't for that first spree they wouldn't have had time to spawn in and save the day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mcclay on September 01, 2013, 07:55:30 pm

FUCK YOU NAZIS! YOU THINK I CAN'T BLOW UP YOUR PANZERS AND FINISH THE LEVEL! I SURE FUCKING SHOWED YOU! I SPIT ON VETERAN MODE! I SPIT!

Call of Duty 2, veteran mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 01, 2013, 09:08:47 pm

I have a Wespe, a Tier 3 Artillery Tank. Just got it, fresh paint and everything. I start my first round with it, and the player list comes up.

Literally everyone but three people is Tier Five. Me, another Tier 3, and a Tier 4. I type, "Oh god. I am in the WRONG PLACE." Round starts, and I roll up this little hill behind a rock formation.

My first shot immobilizes a (heavy?) tank, and it gets cut apart by two of my teammates from cover. My second shot misses, but my third outright kills a medium tank. My fourth and fifth shot don't hit, but my sixth shot ALSO kills a tank outright. My final shot immobilizes the final enemy tank, who then gets RAMMED FOR GREAT JUSTICE by a teammate, who then blows their ass away with point blank cannon fire.

Well. Guess I wasn't in the wrong place.

World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on September 01, 2013, 10:15:15 pm

I managed to escort Mercedes through areas that I had no business in, evading a Chimera and a Drake, (Which killed me whenever they saw me.), and after battling a small army of Saurians. Of course, when the Shadow Fort was in sight, my party was seen by a goblin, which blew a horn it had... Suffice to say, I think the sight of a man holding an armored lady hopping furiously to the door, all while he was chased by his allies and an army of goblins must have been a funny sight to the defenders.

Dragon's Dogma

Of course, me having no business being there, they won't let me enter the fortress. And night has already fallen... I suppose I'll have to make a mad dash for Gran Soren. Wish me luck! Edit: Made it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 03, 2013, 11:00:56 pm

Defeated the jerk who stole my character's title as the world's Number 1 Hero. On my first try! Afterwards, the main character thanked me for all my help in fulfilling her dream. Awww.

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Bleed

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 03, 2013, 11:40:54 pm

I had a Tier One Liechttraktor in a Tier FIVE (!!!) match with Heavy Tanks and stuff. I survived being shot SEVERAL times, and ALSO made it to the enemy base.

In a fucking Tier One light tank. In a gorram Tier Five match. I don't even... What...

We won.

World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on September 03, 2013, 11:59:16 pm

Quote from: Greiger on September 01, 2013, 07:44:09 pm

I have a love hate relationship with  SS13.

It is awesome.  But it also takes forever, and I feel guilty leaving in the middle of the round so I often end up staying awake a good 4 hours after I needed to go to bed or do something else, especially when I'm something like the CE.

----
Planetside 2.
Trying to hold a facility solo as a member of new conglomerate. I am a light assault. There is a VS Sunderer parked outside the facility with a small guild respawning from it attempting to take my facility.  I usually get less than 10 fps playing this game, but there aren't a whole lot of people on this section of the map and I'm getting a buttery smooth 40 fps.

Maybe that explains it, but I somehow went from usually dies before I even see the enemy, to an unholy god of war.  I spot all three of them jumping out of the sunderer and pick one off from inside the main tower with my carbine.  He was their medic, ouch.

I end up in a bad sniper duel, me with a carbine and the enemy with a sniper rifle.  While in cover I lob a grenade and pop out of cover firing a couple bursts.  Most hit, miraculously but my gun isn't strong enough to take them out with a few hits, especially at that range.  My grenade however happily explodes on top of them, finishing the job.

Then I see the point being captured and run to go deal with that.  But the guy isn't even facing in my direction. I come up behind him and knife him a few times before he gets a chance to fight back.

It was awesome, and best I ever did in that game.  Of course almost immediately after that the infiltrator headshot me twice when I couldn't even tell where he was, killing my spree. But a minute or so later some friendly guys spawned in and helped me clean them out.   I like to think that if it wasn't for that first spree they wouldn't have had time to spawn in and save the day.

Planetside 2 is cool and all, but frequent fps deops and my general suckyness with FPS multiplayer made it a true grind to unlock ANYTHING without resorting to PTW(Pay to Win), which killed the enjoyment for me :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 05, 2013, 11:46:16 am

The Confedracy managed to build their ultimate starship, the Malevolence, and launched it in a suprise attack on Kuat. Or Alderaan, I forget, and they should have been able to reach either. Since I haven't actually fought a superweapon before, I was surprised to find out that it's always visible(Clone Intelligence at work, I suppose. Hey, where's Grievous hiding, by the way?!) on the map, and I had time to move my fleet to reinforce. The result was a resounding victory for the Republic, the Malevolence and its entire fleet was destroyed with minimal losses on my side.

Then, seconds later: "Malevolence construction time: 0:59". Turns out you can just rebuild superweapons. And I checked their credit history, they didn't seem to pay anything for it, the fucking cheaters :x.

But that's not all. I quickly dispatched Master Plo Kloon and what was left of Delta Squad(Fixer having been killed in an earlier assault on Fondor) to do a commando raid on Mintooine, the only place the Malevolence can be built. They arrive at ONE second left before it was ready.

One old Jedi and a crack commando squad landed, cut their way through patrolling droids, destroyed or bypass several of the ridiculous number of starship-sized blaster cannons they had defending the place. They made all the way to a fork that split off north and south. To the south was a single droid factory, producing constant reinforcements, and to the north was a shield generator protecting and powered by a power generator that also powered all these big guns. Unfortunately, neither side was viable, since the junction was guarded by no less than four of the starship cannons, far too much for Delta Squad and Master Plo Koon to take head-on. Instead, I sent Sev, who has a personal stealth field, alone, and snuck him around to take out the power generator with his sniper rifle. Everything else was just sticking droids with a lightsaber.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Republic at War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dirg on September 05, 2013, 10:22:50 pm

I was just a mouse minding my own buisness when I noticed the station had gone on full alert and the power was out. I had remembered seeing a slice of cheese laying on the table of a kitchen, but because of the not so friendly chef, I hadn't tried to eat it yet. Now was my chance.

I quickly snuck in via the vents under the cover of darkness to seek my prize when the chef saw me out of the corner of his eye and started trying to chase me out of the kitchen. I ran for the vents but didn't have enough time on the first pass to be able to squeeze to safety so I continued to run from this mad man as he finally caught up and cornered me, but I saw an opening! I dashed between his legs and sprang for the vent when in his frenzied state, the chef struck himself in the chest with his own knife. I could hear him swearing and cursing me as I crawled away to safety on another part of the ship.

I later went back for the cheese when I felt enough time had passed that he would no longer be watching the vents. Whether it was because of the self inflicted knife wound causing him to bleed out slowly over time, or something else, when I returned I saw the chef passed out on the ground. Because of the emergency shutters being in place no help had arrived for him, or even knew of his fate. I took one long look at my former adversary before I climbed up onto the table and finally began nibbling on the cheese.

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Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 05, 2013, 10:29:07 pm

SS13 becomes more and more awesome every time I hear it mentioned.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on September 06, 2013, 09:18:35 am

I killed a changeling by shooting crate after crate of severed butts at it via a disposal cannon. I managed to gib a changeling using stolen arses.

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Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on September 06, 2013, 05:21:05 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat server?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on September 06, 2013, 05:50:29 pm

Quote from: kisame12794 on September 06, 2013, 05:21:05 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat server?

Orbital Distillery 33. It's not up at the moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2013, 06:37:28 pm

When I was living with my brother in Texas, we played MGS2 alot. After I'd had my fill of the main story mode, I made it my mission to 100% the VR missions (which he had not even touched). I beat all of Raiden, Ninja Raiden and Naked Raiden's missions, then I beat all of Snake's and Pliskin's missions.

All except one: Pliskin Grenade #5.

We'd spend days and weeks at a time trying and failing it. We played all the other missions over and over for practice. We just couldn't get it.

It's been at least four years since then, and it's only been a few weeks since I bought the game again. On a whim last night, I decided that I'd try the mission a few more times before starting a new VR save file.

I beat it after a few tries. It wasn't even that hard. I have no idea why I couldn't beat it back then.

MGS2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: marples on September 06, 2013, 06:45:11 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 03, 2013, 11:40:54 pm

I had a Tier One Liechttraktor in a Tier FIVE (!!!) match with Heavy Tanks and stuff. I survived being shot SEVERAL times, and ALSO made it to the enemy base.

In a fucking Tier One light tank. In a gorram Tier Five match. I don't even... What...

We won.

World of Tanks

I think the win there was that your own team didn't fire on you for bringing a T1 into a T5 match and wasting a slot. Seen that far too often.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 06, 2013, 08:20:52 pm

Quote from: marples on September 06, 2013, 06:45:11 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 03, 2013, 11:40:54 pm

I had a Tier One Liechttraktor in a Tier FIVE (!!!) match with Heavy Tanks and stuff. I survived being shot SEVERAL times, and ALSO made it to the enemy base.

In a fucking Tier One light tank. In a gorram Tier Five match. I don't even... What...

We won.

World of Tanks

I think the win there was that your own team didn't fire on you for bringing a T1 into a T5 match and wasting a slot. Seen that far too often.

The enemy team did their damnedest to kill me, I was hit at least twice (And somehow survived). My team just sort of laughed it off at the beginning of the round.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Julius Clonkus on September 06, 2013, 08:37:34 pm

Quote from: marples on September 06, 2013, 06:45:11 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 03, 2013, 11:40:54 pm

I had a Tier One Liechttraktor in a Tier FIVE (!!!) match with Heavy Tanks and stuff. I survived being shot SEVERAL times, and ALSO made it to the enemy base.

In a fucking Tier One light tank. In a gorram Tier Five match. I don't even... What...

We won.

World of Tanks

I think the win there was that your own team didn't fire on you for bringing a T1 into a T5 match and wasting a slot. Seen that far too often.

Don't hate on low tiers; I managed to screw up a Tier VII frontline on Widepark simply by crashing through it with a T2 Light Tank at 72 km/h, then going around a corner where many tried to get me simply because I was easy prey, completely ignoring the big tanks coming up behind them.

The crowning moment of that match was me crashing into a rolled-flat tram just as the one and only enemy Tiger of that match shot at me.

My tank was launched into the air as 72 km/h and a destroyed tram equaled ramp plus speed is jump and barely dodged the shell which passed through underneath me.

Sure, I slammed into him and died anyway, but damn if I wasn't laughing my ass off at how a Tier II tank ruined a perfectly fine frontline by virtue of being too tempting a target to ignore or leave for the lower tier tanks to deal with.

(WoT, obviously.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 06, 2013, 11:04:47 pm

My first Mun Satellite! (that doesn't crash the game when entering mun gravity) 

I only used autopilot for the easy stuff like circularizing an orbit when I'm too lazy to wait for the proper points and for the handy info display.   And the probe is even accomplishing something, scanning for kethane that I will likely never get around to figuring out how to take advantage of!

I can see my house from here!
(http://img.ie/images/itul3_thumb.jpg) (http://img.ie/itul3.png.html)
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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 06, 2013, 11:55:46 pm

Got 2 Nargacuga Mantles in one quest, the first at a 2% drop rate and the second at a 3% drop rate. I've been hunting for those for weeks.

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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 07, 2013, 11:15:56 am

Performed a heart transplant, including removing(shattering) the ribcage and lungs, causing no bloodloss whatsoever, even with a still-beating heart, and all with a shard of broken glass.

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Surgeon Simulator demo. The glass really didn't cause any bloodloss, either, and I was just swinging it around randomly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on September 07, 2013, 11:18:41 am

Dohohohohoho. Another monster hunter! My own was fighting the tigrex again. First time I barely beat him, but this time I was prepared. I was able to cut off his tail, and them finish him off in a single life! Still get my ass kicked by that damn plesioth though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on September 07, 2013, 01:07:03 pm

Me and Sprin decided to Co-op on a previously single-player mission to take back some mines from the dark-elves. However, the only other save was so horribly underleveled that he was pretty much guaranteed to be useless, so we accentuated that fact by stripping him of his armor (sans gloves, helmet and boots) and giving him not a war axe or dwarven great-hammer, but a small club.


He proceeded to do as much if not more damage as a level 2 naked dwarf than my glowing, enchanted human archer (lvl 10). Captain Underpants may have needed a respawn every two and a half seconds but holy hell he killed a fucking lizard rider and his entourage of priestesses alone.

As if the game was rewarding us for being so fucking off our rockers, we found a enchanted Club of Disruption +1. Normally a throwaway artifact, now one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal. It's dealing damage on par with my enchanted mace, his ADHD acrobat-dwarf-nudist-barbarian-madman-ogrekin-bearded-alchoholic-midget-with-an-attitude is jumping around like a pro halo player, dodging enough poisonbolts and iceballs to kill a dragon, and he's slaughtering hordes of drow. in his underpants. with a (enchanted) club.

His warcry is YOLO and his name is Beodwarf.

What the fuck have we done.

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Dark Alliance for the Xbox

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on September 07, 2013, 01:33:27 pm

.... I have no words.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on September 07, 2013, 06:48:11 pm

I got a second wind off a buzzard by detonating my dynamite. The buzzard was flying in mid-air. Dat Light the Fuse blast radius.

Basically I blew myself up kamikaze-style  on the ground and destroyed a helicopter flying around above me shooting down on me. If it weren't for the insanely large blast radius and the really bad pilot in the helicopter I would have died.

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Borderlands 2

Krieg is so much fun ohmagerd. With all my bonuses to explosion damage I can deal over 1 million damage with the final detonation of Light the Fuse. I've blown up badasses to second wind. Don't get me started on Release the Beast paired with Love Thumper and Buzz Axe Bombardier and so many explosions it's so awesome yes yes yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on September 07, 2013, 09:20:52 pm

If you are playing Kreig, and not exploding, or on fire, something is wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on September 08, 2013, 02:48:08 am

And somehow I play krieg better when I'm drunk. Gearbox are my friends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 13, 2013, 11:40:11 am

Two half-destroyed destroyers going up against two fresh and shiny enemy destroyers. Both enemy destroyers shot down without any further damage to mine.

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Starshatter: The Gathering Storm. Now if only they could approve my transfer request to a cruier, this war would be won and done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vector on September 13, 2013, 07:38:59 pm

+10.00 GRADE creaming Sylph with no casualties before visiting the Tower of Salvation.

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Tales of Symphonia

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 15, 2013, 05:20:12 pm

I killed all three enemy healers with a single attack from a chieftain.  In a league game no less.

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Hero Academy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Alkhemia on September 15, 2013, 05:35:12 pm

Defeated Beelzebub without a single death and he even spammed me with Megidolaon 2 turns in a row the bastard.

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 Shin Megami Tensei 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on September 15, 2013, 06:27:29 pm

I beat Fable: The Lost Chapters a third time as a good-aligned character. This time was the hardest of the three times I beat it because I ran out of will potions halfway through the last battle and I have a heavy dependency on Slow Time. Still won the last battle though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 16, 2013, 12:31:15 am

Legio II Apollinaris is my most decorated army. They are the Conquerors. The other armies defend, and occasionally opportunistically assault weak, close by settlements. Legio II is the army that breaks citadels, tramples enemy armies, and serves as the Sword of Rome. I sent them to Carthage, from Lilybaeum. As I began the port assault to take Carthage, I realized their ships would block my only passage into their city, and I would be trapped outside their walls fruitlessly. So I retreated, ending up in the middle of the ocean. I pulled Classis II Ferata back to cover my fleet of transports, and Carthage sent The Chosen of Mago to take Lilybaeum, which they did, easily stomping the garrison force into dirt.

Legio II Apollinaris sieged the city of Lilybaeum for the second time in five turns, and stormed the streets in force. A large army of mainly hoplites opposed them, though the enemy General and his Elephant bodyguard did cause some concern. The battle starts, and they somehow have a garrison of peasants, in addition to their near-equal military force, but their true military forces, including General, are to my left flank, protecting the port from the advancing Classis II Ferata fleet. The mob of peasants, some peltasts, and three Hoplite units are directly in front of my army.

The charge is sounded. We collided with their forces, and cast them to ruin. My force splits in two, and comes to rest on two sides of a four way intersection, like this:

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__|  |__
RR    __
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The enemy charges my Hastati, the southernmost pair of Rs, and their general is cut down by a wall of javelins. Their hoplites slam into my Hastati, and the fighting begins in earnest. And then, my Triarii, the western pair of Rs, charge into the Hoplite's flank, shattering their morale and routing them from the field.

The price of trifling with Rome is great indeed.

Rome Total War II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Leonon on September 16, 2013, 01:10:15 am

SuperHot, no death run with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCBL33NKvPA) playing in the background.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 16, 2013, 10:46:19 am

Quote from: Leonon on September 16, 2013, 01:10:15 am

SuperHot, no death run with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCBL33NKvPA) playing in the background.

Quote from: Leonon on September 16, 2013, 01:10:15 am

SuperHot, no death run

Are you a wizard?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on September 16, 2013, 02:39:15 pm

I built a guard tower in that safely lets me rain death upon legions of zombies and demon eyes without endangering myself. Needless to say they came to the wrong neighborhood.

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Terraria, which is all too addicting for someone like myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 16, 2013, 05:28:46 pm

Quote from: greatorder on September 16, 2013, 01:25:11 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on September 16, 2013, 10:46:19 am

Quote from: Leonon on September 16, 2013, 01:10:15 am

SuperHot, no death run with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCBL33NKvPA) playing in the background.

Quote from: Leonon on September 16, 2013, 01:10:15 am

SuperHot, no death run

Are you a wizard?

My first run had me die only twice. Both on the level with that hallway and the three guys at the end of it.

A huge amount of my deaths were on that level. One of the most annoying was the first one, where I accidentally let a wire or sleeve or something rest on my trackpad, and the game decided to try and look everywhere at once, passing what must have been a few years of time in under a second.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on September 16, 2013, 07:17:45 pm

I cheated death. I was supposed to give Charon 94% of my gold, but I only gave him 1 gold piece! Hahahahahaha!

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Rogue Legacy

The punchline is that I only had 2 gold left in the first place and was practically dirt-poor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 16, 2013, 09:32:35 pm

My Raptors committed to a rather foolish suicide assault at the beginning of the battle, and their loss and the loss of two Chosen from a stray Plasma Cannon shell did not bode well for the rest of the battle. My assault faltered, and I fell back into the caves, readying myself for the counterattack. Ahriman and his brethren of four Marines with Bolters, and his Equerry with Banner and Plasma Pistol, swept to cover the right flank the dying Raptors had left unpreserved. A pack of Assault Marines dropped in behind Ahriman, but they were right next to a large group of Cultists with Autoguns in addition to Ahriman and his bodyguard. They managed to kill two of Ahriman's brethren, but the Cultists killed one with sheer weight of fire. Then, Ahriman and his brethren killed another in the shooting phase. Ahriman and his kin rushed, and slaughtered the remaining three Marines in hand to hand combat. The enemy deep-striked Terminators into the center passage of the complex, so I had my Helbrute retreat around a corner, and my Chosen waited the opportune moment. My few remaining close combat cultists, most wiped out in a scrap with Marines on the left flank, charged up to the Terminators and blasted at them fruitlessly with their autopistols, then did not assault.

The Terminators and several other units of Marines blasted the poor Cultists into scraps of flesh and bone, and advanced into the caves. My trap sprung, with the remaining ranged Cultists charging into one side of the left flank of advancing Marines, and one of my Chosen squads slamming into the other with my Chaos Lord. In the center, a squad of Chosen with power axes, fists, and other assorted nastiness slammed into the Terminators head on, while the Helbrute thundered into their flank. Ahriman and his one remaining brother unloaded upon the Plasma Cannon Marine and his three brothers, then charged into hand to hand, defeating one but losing their lives in the fray.

The right flank is wide open, and the left flank is embroiled in a tense, difficult battled between my outnumbered but better armed Chosen, and their huge mass of bolter Marines. In the center, my Chosen slaughter half the Terminators in a single assault phase, and the Helbrute kills another. I lose two Chosen but the fight continues. They advance up the right flank, forcing an encirclement. On the left flank, a pair of my Chosen are brought low, bringing the Meltagunner and the one brother with a bolter into combat. The Chaos Lord kills three, and the next wave of Marines assault him, dealing a wound.

The next turn, my Helbrute kills another Terminator, and is assaulted by the Company Master and his retinue. Fortunately, they are not well armed enough to defeat him. My three remaining Axe Chosen kill the normal Terminator, and deal two wounds to the Chapter Master, who kills one. They take my right flank, and charge my axe chosen from behind with two biker Marines while the Plasma Cannon Marine and his two Marines continue across, trying to attack the left flank. Curiously enough, my Cultists do very well in hand to hand combat with the Marines, and the Chaos Lord does also, though his retinue dies to a man. Suddenly, my left flank is winning, the Chaos Lord single-handedly wiping out an entire Tactical Squad in hand to hand, and the Cultists managing to down a Librarian and two Marines through lucky rolls. In the center, my Axe Chosen have killed their Chapter Master and one Biker, but lost a brother. The Helbrute has killed a Marine in his combat, but it's mostly stalemated. They are still trying to flank with the Plasma Cannon unit.

The final turn comes, and my Chaos Lord kills the last couple Marines before him, and the Cultists lose a few men, but finish off the last marine in the unit facing THEM. Their Plasma Cannon unit levels and fires at my Cultists, killing several. The unit panics and runs. My Axe Chosen kill the last biker, and the Helbrute kills two Marines, dropping the Company Master's unit to one Marine and the Company Master himself. My opponent surveys the situation, and declares defeat. I insist we finish the battle, but he believes it will only be a mop up. He is correct. With my Chaos Lord close to the Plasma Cannon unit, he would charge into melee and more than likely kill them all by himself. The Axe Chosen in the center would be able to advance and support the Helbrute in wiping out the last of the Company Master's retinue, and I still had a couple cultists.

But by the Dark Gods, it was close. So very close.

Warhammer 40,000 Tabletop

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on September 25, 2013, 08:31:33 am

Went to go save some other survivors in a besiege mission with a fairly fresh survivor.  Decided to bring Marcus along, who is pretty strong by now... since he is the first character you get.  Marcus decided to 'leave' as soon as the mission started... but, he was stopped outside by the besieging zombies.  I go outside to help him, since he is drawing most of the zombies to him.  Normally, I would not fight the zombies outside, since there are way too many...  and a Big Un nearly always shows up.  Them bastards are not to be trifled with, cause they can literally rip you in half.

We both go around kicking zombie ass and I even had to throw a molotov on Marcus since he thankfully managed to attract most of the zombies and the Big Un.  It was kinda desperate, trying to kill the Big Un before it decided to rip up Marcus, while also avoiding it when it turned on me and killing the random zombies threatening to swarm Marcus and I.  But, we wrapped it up safely, with Marcus limping back home and the Besiege mission completed successfully as I cleaned up the lone straggler smacking at the barricaded windows that the other survivors were constantly repairing.

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State of Decay (PC Early Access)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on September 28, 2013, 06:51:49 am

Beat Framing Frames on Overkill(hardest difficulty) in PAYDAY 2.

Solo.

And that means /without/ AI.

Stealthed the whole thing. I had more trouble with day 2 than days 1 and 3 put together, somehow, which kind of reduces the ownage but that mission is ABSURDLY DIFFICULT and stealthing it is practically miracles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2013, 11:27:59 am

Quote from: Akura on September 26, 2013, 12:07:40 pm

An Otaku girl sneaks into the edge of a city, and after multiple failed attempts to give a previous character a proper cremation(goddamn it, burn already), I decide to fortify a nearby house. All the windows are surrounded by pits, almost all are spiked, and the house is well stocked. I go to sleep, and the next morning there's a coyote outside. I kill it, then leave the house to butcher it, only for a wolf spider to get massive numbers of headshots in a row, plus poisoning, while I can't even hit the damn thing with a crowbar.

Wow, I actually survived it after all. Burned all my first aids fixing my face, plus a few stupid injuries later aquired, but now I'm chilling in a decent house suffering only from a cold. Got plenty of loot, a nearby tiny, safe swamp for water, plus plenty of forestland for food, and on the edge of town for more loot. I just wish I know how I keep getting jumped in my sleep by wolf spiders. The pile of corpses outside my bedroom window implies that they piled themselves up to create a ramp to get over the pit.

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Cataclysm: DDA. Still got the cargirl stuff, nya.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on September 28, 2013, 10:33:39 pm

Assaulting the giant alien vessel, aka the final mission of the game. After nailing the high priest Ethereal with a shredder rocket from my heavy, my sniper takes aim and nails a headshot on the same Ethereal, dealing a critical 22 damage and instantly oneshotting his sorry alien self, causing the other Ethereals and their two elite muton guards to spontaneously implode/explode/psionically cease to exist/poof into pretty purple smoke.

The very last battle of the game was finished in one turn, in two shots, ending with an overkilling facemelting plasma bullet to the alien leader's face. Feels good man.

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XCOM Enemy Unknown on Normal difficulty. Finally beat the campaign officially, now to try for classic ironman and impossible.
What feels even better is that this same sniper was with me since the start of the game. He's claimed over 100 kills, and has achieved an aim of 111+10. Dude's a badass. All the soldiers in my squad then were major colonel ranked badasses, but Abdullah "Loki" Mufaddal practically carried the team.

Love him, started the campaign with him, and he ended the campaign for me. Best snipah evah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

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Deathwatch

true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:12:41 pm

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

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Deathwatch

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true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Are you the reincarnation of Grendel or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on September 29, 2013, 07:26:21 pm

I decapitated the Balrog by kicking a troll's severed head at it. LOGIC.

Also grabbed Yendor and ascended for the first time, but that's not nearly as awesome as decapitation by decapitation.

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Red Rogue

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:47:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:12:41 pm

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

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Deathwatch

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true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Are you the reincarnation of Grendel or something?

If the reincarnation of Grendel is a female assassin, possibly?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:47:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:12:41 pm

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

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Deathwatch

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true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Are you the reincarnation of Grendel or something?

If the reincarnation of Grendel is a female assassin, possibly?

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on September 29, 2013, 07:52:22 pm

I managed to every level in the Ultimate Doom on Ultra Violence and with Brutal Doom. Good GOD, it was hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:52:41 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

Read it a while ago, it's awesome =P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 11:48:02 am

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deathwatch

true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Let me go ahead and just leave this bad boy here:

Hive Tyrant
WS8 BS3 S6 T6 W4 I5 A4 LD10 Sv 3+

For comparison, let me drop the stats of a basic human.

Human
WS3 BS3 S3 T3 W1 I3 A1 LD7 SV Hahahahahahahaha, you think you get a save? You are so fucked if they hit.

Mind you, you ARE a Death Cult Assassin. Thems some bad motherfuckers. But still, you were fighting an eighteen foot tall beast that is as smart as any mighty general, with skin as tough as powered armor, it's FAST AS LIGHTNING, insanely good at bladework, as tough as a tank, and is so much stronger than you that it's obscene. Also, it will never break in fear, or feel a flicker of doubt.

The four Space Marines with you? Yeah, they're lucky they survived. In normal non RPG tabletop, the Hive Tyrant could kill all four of them in a single turn with a little luck. Especially if it has bone swords.

Also, your GM is a dick. An awesome dick.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on September 30, 2013, 12:41:20 pm

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:52:41 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

Read it a while ago, it's awesome =P

I'm midway through it. WHO THE FUCK IS THIS GUY? :O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 30, 2013, 04:49:14 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 11:48:02 am

Quote from: HFS on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 pm

Playing a Dark Heresy Ascension character - a Death Cult Assassin.

We're attacked by a goddamn Hive Tyrant.

I charge and spend the entire combat in close combat.

At one point, I jump on the Hive Tyrant's arm and cut off its' heavy venom cannon in a single blow.

After a bit more combat, we kill it.

An ordinary human beat a Hive Tyrant in close combat. Without taking damage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deathwatch

true, there were 4 space marines near me, but they did hardly any damage

Let me go ahead and just leave this bad boy here:

Hive Tyrant
WS8 BS3 S6 T6 W4 I5 A4 LD10 Sv 3+

For comparison, let me drop the stats of a basic human.

Human
WS3 BS3 S3 T3 W1 I3 A1 LD7 SV Hahahahahahahaha, you think you get a save? You are so fucked if they hit.

Mind you, you ARE a Death Cult Assassin. Thems some bad motherfuckers. But still, you were fighting an eighteen foot tall beast that is as smart as any mighty general, with skin as tough as powered armor, it's FAST AS LIGHTNING, insanely good at bladework, as tough as a tank, and is so much stronger than you that it's obscene. Also, it will never break in fear, or feel a flicker of doubt.

The four Space Marines with you? Yeah, they're lucky they survived. In normal non RPG tabletop, the Hive Tyrant could kill all four of them in a single turn with a little luck. Especially if it has bone swords.

Also, your GM is a dick. An awesome dick.

Stats of the Deathwatch version:

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WS78 BS33 S60 T53 Ag45 Int45 Per49 WP70 Fel -
Movement: 7/14/21/42
Wounds: 120
Skills: Awareness, Climb, Swim
Talents: Ambidextrous, Combat Master, Crushing Blow, Fearless, Heightened Senses (All), Psy Rating (, Two Weapon Wielder (Melee), Swift Attack, Lightning Attack
Traits: Brutal Charge, Dark Sight, Fear 4, Natural Armour (Bonded Exoskeleton), Multiple Arms, Unnatural Strength (x3), Unnatural Toughness (x3), Improved Natural Weapons (Scything Talons), Shadow in the Warp, Size (Massive), Synapse Creature, Tyranid
Armour: Bonded Exoskeleton (All 10)
Weapons: Scything Talons (1d10+22 R; Pen 3)
Special Rules: May be given Toxic (1d10), may be given Bone Swords and Lash Whips in addition to Scything Talons, may exchange Lightning Attack for a Ranged Weapon (taken by the GM - it was a Heavy Venom Cannon),
Monstrous Tyranid Psyker - Can use its' psychic abilities without rolling and without perils/phenomena. Can only use one per turn.
Psychic Abilities:
Catalyst - As a half action, increase a Tyranid Horde's magnitude within 75 meters by 10+1d10 for the next round.
Psychic Scream - As a half action, deal a hit of 1d10+8 I Shocking to the head of every sentient being in 20 meters. Victims must roll a toughness test at -30 or be stunned for 1d5 rounds.
The Horror: As a half action, target one Kill Team within 75 meters. Each member of the kill team within range takes a willpower test at -30. The Kill Team loses 1 point of Cohesion for every member that fails. All non-Tyranid and non-Space Marine NPCs must pass a fear-based Willpower check at -30 or flee in panic.
Death Shock - When a Hive Tyrant is slain, all Tyranids within Synapse Range (Willpower Bonus x10) that do not have Fearless or Synapse Creature will automatically break and flee. Any with Fearless or Synapse Creature must take a Willpower Test or be stunned for one round.

This particular one could also fly, too.

My response? RIGHTEOUS FURY. And some extremely lucky dice-rolling.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on September 30, 2013, 07:10:58 pm

Just go to Hexagon level (lvl 6), YAY

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Hexagon, http://terrycavanaghgames.com/hexagon/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on September 30, 2013, 08:17:16 pm

February 31, 2000.   The people of South Africa cower in fear during the darkest depths of night as chysalids and snakemen roam the streets, killing everything in sight.  Luckily, the brave men and women of XCom, the winners of a hundred valiant battles, are here to save them.
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... Oh sorry, did I say save?  I mean kill them along with everything else with our smart nuclear recoiless rifles  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29) blaster launchers while our two hovertanks acted as scouts.  Because fuck chrysallids.  Could I have handled them with plasma hovertanks, flying suits, heavy plasma rifles, and my eight strong psi-corps?  Yes.  But then what would the point of having 16 blaster launchers and 48 bombs be?
XCOM: Ufo Defense.  Overkill never tested so sweet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nyulzsiraf on September 30, 2013, 08:22:07 pm

so fast  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 09:24:12 pm

Quote from: greatorder on September 30, 2013, 06:48:27 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

I want to play this, now.

I've been considering running a Dark Heresy game for awhile now, but I have none of the rulebooks. ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 30, 2013, 10:02:16 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 09:24:12 pm

Quote from: greatorder on September 30, 2013, 06:48:27 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

I want to play this, now.

I've been considering running a Dark Heresy game for awhile now, but I have none of the rulebooks. ;_;

If you ever manage to "acquire" them (from a certain Bay, perhaps), lemme know. I've always wanted to play a WH40k game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on September 30, 2013, 10:36:45 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 30, 2013, 10:02:16 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 09:24:12 pm

Quote from: greatorder on September 30, 2013, 06:48:27 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

I want to play this, now.

I've been considering running a Dark Heresy game for awhile now, but I have none of the rulebooks. ;_;

If you ever manage to "acquire" them (from a certain Bay, perhaps), lemme know. I've always wanted to play a WH40k game.

Same here, i would love to join in an WH40k game :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 30, 2013, 10:44:55 pm

Quote from: Evilsx on September 30, 2013, 10:36:45 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 30, 2013, 10:02:16 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 09:24:12 pm

Quote from: greatorder on September 30, 2013, 06:48:27 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on September 29, 2013, 07:51:05 pm

Perhaps. Grendel was a Level 2 Adept in Dark Heresy who one-hit killed a Charnel Daemon with an ordinary knife through insane luck.
He had terrible physical stats at the time.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel

I want to play this, now.

I've been considering running a Dark Heresy game for awhile now, but I have none of the rulebooks. ;_;

If you ever manage to "acquire" them (from a certain Bay, perhaps), lemme know. I've always wanted to play a WH40k game.

Same here, i would love to join in an WH40k game :)

I have *cough* .pdfs, so if anyone wants to run Dark Heresy, sure. We could probably use roll20.

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We were actually just going on what we knew of the rules and winged it from there, in that hive tyrant battle. I do not consider myself an expert at all - that was my first Deathwatch game and apparently I'm lucky as all hell.

I think I might have enough creative experience to GM. Game experience? Hell no. Could always wing it.

That said, if I'm playing as a player, dibs on tech-priest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 10:46:49 pm

I can sure give it a try. I'm sure I could come up with a campaign idea, although I have never tested my ability to deal with falling off the rails. And from what 1d4chan said, you can pretty much just take the basic core stats and the critical damage tables and wing it from there. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on September 30, 2013, 10:48:54 pm

Ooh, I know! Campaign idea!

The mining planet of Tyran has been reporting some communications issues, reports of a mad psyker or two, and so and so on. The Inquisition decides to investigate. What could possibly go wrong?!

*shot*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 30, 2013, 10:50:20 pm

"Sir, a little planet in this sector is reporting increased ork activity."
"What's the name?"
"Armageddon."
"... Send my retinue to deal with it, I'm fucking off to Ultramar to 'deal' with some 'heretics'."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: woose1 on September 30, 2013, 11:19:07 pm

Count me in, if you guys decide to do a game. Not that much game experience but I know 40k lore pretty well.
EDIT: Dibs on suicide bomber psyker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on September 30, 2013, 11:50:19 pm

WOOOOO
Same here, but this would be my first time doing it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on October 01, 2013, 12:34:00 am

Shall I create a topic in Play With Your Buddies then?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 01, 2013, 12:42:02 am

I'd try, but would probably end up either falling to or completely usurping Chaos.
In other words, sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: woose1 on October 01, 2013, 01:35:09 am

Quote from: HFS on October 01, 2013, 12:34:00 am

Shall I create a topic in Play With Your Buddies then?

Go for it man. Link the thread here so the rest of the thread can back on track. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 01, 2013, 04:39:03 am

Quote from: woose1 on October 01, 2013, 01:35:09 am

Quote from: HFS on October 01, 2013, 12:34:00 am

Shall I create a topic in Play With Your Buddies then?

Go for it man. Link the thread here so the rest of the thread can back on track. :P

NEVER, CHAOS WILL RIS...*BLAM*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on October 01, 2013, 05:42:34 pm

Quote from: woose1 on October 01, 2013, 01:35:09 am

Quote from: HFS on October 01, 2013, 12:34:00 am

Shall I create a topic in Play With Your Buddies then?

Go for it man. Link the thread here so the rest of the thread can back on track. :P

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=131676.0

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on October 04, 2013, 08:28:50 pm

I managed to nail a titan in the back of the neck as I flew past, dealing 792 damage and flying away at top speed like a bawss. I can't replicate that if I tried, felt like a moment from the show.

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Attack on Titan fangame. I'm a total newb constantly dying, but holy cow man that was a rewarding moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on October 04, 2013, 10:58:53 pm

I'm launching an assualt on the German Intelligence HQ.  My team has two soldiers, one grenadier, one sniper, one engineer, and one medic.
 I start out by having four of my men go sneak around the back, while my grenadier and one of my soldiers cover an alley to protect my flank.  My main force engages a three man patrol and quickly destroys it, alerting the rest of the map to my presence.  Just as I thought, and hoped, they immediately sent in the bulk of their forces outside the HQ to the main courtyard.  From there they attempted to attack the alley, and even thou neither my grenadier or my soldier had a rifle, they were able to keep them bottled up.  Three turns later, my other four men storm the rear of the courtyard.  All the soldiers turn towards them, and my grenadier charges.  He quickly kills three of them in one turn with only two grenades, and my soldier cuts down the last German.
 I then send my soldier and grenadier up another alley to act as guards once again, while my other four men trade potshots with a bunch of officers guarding the HQ.  They again try to attack my flank, only to have four of their men killed by a single grenade, and the other two are cut down by point blank machine gun fire.  I send those two men up the alley so they reach the western part of HQ, and have my machine gunner add his firepower to the rest of the main force, while my grenadier charges the side entrance.  He quickly kills both of the guards there, but I encounter a problem.  The door is locked, and my engineer is still stuck on the other side of the street.  Thankfully this isn't some FPS where locked doors will forever remain locked, and this is my grenadier.  He has lots and lots of grenades.  The first one blows apart the door, the second blows apart the second door, and the third one blows apart a rifleman and machine gunner, giving the rest of my forces the opportunity to advance and put the last of the defenders to the knife (For some reason I decided to give my medic and engineer a trench knife instead of SMGs.).  I then secure both sets of documents located in the HQ.  Afterwards my grenadier is given a medal, for succeeding where Leeroy Jenkins failed.

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Silent Storm.  Nessie is a badass.  And for some reason my engineer can use more medical items then my medic and my medic can use more engineer items then my engineer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 05, 2013, 07:19:08 am

I am a Level 36 Nord Barbarian in Mournhold Guard Armor with a Nordic Silver Battleaxe.
Needless to say, every combat ever is an own.

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TES: Morrowind: GoTY Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on October 05, 2013, 08:20:01 pm

So, my Death Cult Assassin is on another mission - assaulting a Chaos-held position. There's a decent amount of cover, the enemy has a sizable force [plus a pair of Havoc squads with heavy bolters].

I sneak up on a Havoc squad [as another NPC squad obliterates the other one] and kill both of them.

GM tells me to make a Dodge check - Ag 60, Dodge +20. Easily make it.

Turns out there's a Chaos Sorcerer behind me. I jump through the ruined wall of the bunker I'm in, successfully navigate a small patch of mines, and the Sorcerer teleports behind me and summons up a pair of Pink Horrors.

I attack. In three attacks, the Sorcerer is killed. The last attack cuts one of the Pink Horrors in half. RIGHTEOUS FURY.

One of the Pink Horrors decides to screech in my face. Willpower check at -20. I have 30 willpower.

I make it, and my character doesn't even flinch.

She states, quite calmly, that she has bested a Tyranid Hive Tyrant, with a Hive Ship raining hell from above, in single combat.

The GM decides to make a willpower test for the pink horror and two blue horrors - they fail, and return to the warp.

I killed a Chaos Sorcerer and caused three daemons to return to the warp in fear. In one round.

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Deathwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on October 06, 2013, 08:27:59 pm

Got A's on three math-y tests, finished writing an eight-page research paper, and completed scholarship application #1, within the span of five days.

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High School Senior Simulator 2014, Super Realism Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 06, 2013, 09:26:05 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on October 06, 2013, 08:27:59 pm

Got A's on three math-y tests, finished writing an eight-page research paper, and completed scholarship application #1, within the span of five days.

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High School Senior Simulator 2014, Super Realism Mode

... Why in the name of god would you play that. o.O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 06, 2013, 09:29:09 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 06, 2013, 09:26:05 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on October 06, 2013, 08:27:59 pm

Got A's on three math-y tests, finished writing an eight-page research paper, and completed scholarship application #1, within the span of five days.

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High School Senior Simulator 2014, Super Realism Mode

... Why in the name of god would you play that. o.O

They say it builds character. But I'm starting to notice that the gameplay is repetitive and I don't take anything from it, myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on October 06, 2013, 09:59:24 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 06, 2013, 09:26:05 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on October 06, 2013, 08:27:59 pm

Got A's on three math-y tests, finished writing an eight-page research paper, and completed scholarship application #1, within the span of five days.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

High School Senior Simulator 2014, Super Realism Mode

... Why in the name of god would you play that. o.O

Some bullshit about how you need to play it first to get access to the beta for College Freshman Simulator 2015, Super Realism Mode, from the same developer, and I'm looking forward to that one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on October 07, 2013, 07:28:00 pm

          It was a dark and gloomy night, and Akhari the Khajiit mage was told to go and, quote: "Delve into a dangerous ruin, and find this tablet-no doubt incurred in the main chamber. Simplicity itself." It would have been simple, had there not have been platoons upon platoons of deadly draugr hidden away, which were actually resistant to my Fire-Arrows and Flamesparks, and were able to take me out in at least 3 hits. There were even some Thuum-trained draugr hidden in the tombs with the grunts!
          I managed to, after eleven tries, to crawl into the Hall of Stories. I open the gate, and there is a gigantic army. I was quickly slain. Nethertheless...I had had enough. Restarting my save, I had meticulously grabbed /all/ of the draugr corpses, Bandits, and one Arvel the Swift into one gigantic corpsepile, and opened the gate. I waited 24 hours...and then took a quick look at my spells. When I began my adventure, I decided to take the "Ritual" stone, which allows me to raise any corpses in my immediate area. The corpses in question? The corpsepile I had just created!
          I charged in, with my new brigade of Draugr warriors, archers, magic-casters and Draugr Thuum-users. The fight was gigantic. Armies against armies, in one gigantic chamber, all for that little cat with a spark of flame in her hands to slip by and snag a single stone tablet. Suddenly, a nearby coffin erupted it's top, and out popped a Draugr deathlord! With what little army I still had, we hacked at it to pieces, me quickly hopping out of the action once I had 1/8th of my health. The Draugr have been defeated! With glee, I took the stone, bowed to my army as they all shuddered and dropped dead, and skipped out of there before another Draugr could catch me.

Farengar, when I find you, we are going to have a nice, long talk.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Requiem mod (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19281/?) & Alternate Start-Live Another Life. (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9557/?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 07, 2013, 11:23:09 pm

Finally making progress on Super Mario 64 after a months-long impasse in which I couldn't even stand to look at it for frustration. Just now, I got Hazy Maze Cave stars 3, 4 and 5, the Red Coin star from the Metal Cap stage, a random star from a Toad and a star from the bunny hopping around outside Lethal Lava Land. I just need 11 more stars and I can finally beat the game...

But I'll still keep playing. I still haven't gotten a single star from Tiny-Huge Land or Shifting Sand Land, after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on October 08, 2013, 12:33:37 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on October 07, 2013, 11:23:09 pm

Finally making progress on Super Mario 64 after a months-long impasse in which I couldn't even stand to look at it for frustration. Just now, I got Hazy Maze Cave stars 3, 4 and 5, the Red Coin star from the Metal Cap stage, a random star from a Toad and a star from the bunny hopping around outside Lethal Lava Land. I just need 11 more stars and I can finally beat the game...

But I'll still keep playing. I still haven't gotten a single star from Tiny-Huge Land or Shifting Sand Land, after all.

Ah yes. Do you like falling off levels and getting attacked by birds and tornados? :P  Also the quicksand, always the quicksand.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 08, 2013, 12:36:20 am

Oh gods, the final Bowser fight in that game. I played that whole level so many times that I can play it from memory, RIGHT NOW, TEN YEARS LATER.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 08, 2013, 02:31:56 am

One of the things I love about Super Mario 64 is that there's so many stages that you can actually forget about some of them, then be surprised all over again when you rediscover them. I completely forgot about Jolly Roger Bay until I got the Metal Cap and realized I could get a new star there. Say what you will about the graphics (they're pretty terrible), SM64 was damn fine game.

Also, got three stars in Shifting Sand Land. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 08, 2013, 04:54:36 am

The graphics were pretty damn fine for an N64 game, IMO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on October 08, 2013, 01:11:40 pm

Biolabs each have two landing platforms - you can get up on it from the ground by using an infantry gravity elevator from below OR a gravity leaper from way across at another site. The elevators make you sail upward a varying amount depending on how long you stay in the gravity field. And there are two up-elevators per landing pad. And you can't look over the edge to see them coming because you'll bet shot by people from below. But the lateral gravity leapers always land you on the same little square pad, AND you can see them coming, AND you're relatively safe from fire except planes, snipers on a couple hills, and people dropping onto the biolab dome. AND the guy leaping toward you can't see you before he leaps or change course once he gets close. AND he can't fire accurately because he's moving too fast.

I'm an engi with an ammo pack at my feet at all times, holding an automatic shotgun, crouching next to the pad.

Cue big guys leaping toward me and getting blasted instantly by my shottie. I'm getting bonuses for headshots, high-value target kills, etc. I've got a couple guys standing next to me because they like the spot and they like my ammo pack. With the backup I'm actually able to blast a VS MAX (which is pretty hard to do since they're so tough).

The whole landing pad was covered by allies, though. Anti-air MAXes, engis and medics to support, heavy assault, etc. I look over and we have snipers up on the dome. The other leap-pad is covered like mine is. And we're chopping up people on the vertical grav elevators before they land. Even if they land the whole area is carpeted with mines.

Yet because it's a biolab alert they just keep coming. It's amazing. The certs are just rolling in.

And then some guy plays a version of Old MacDonald Had a Farm over proximity chat.

"... and on that farm he had a - CAT!" as everyone is busting a gut laughing.

Of course NC lost the alert to the VS. But at least we had a good time.

//

Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 11, 2013, 01:36:31 am

Level 30 Sorceror with a selection of specific defensive spells and offensive crowd-killers, direct damage, save-or-dies, and incapacitation spells. She's a female Aasimar named Sylen.

I step through a door, and am faced with six Orogs, six Orc Elite Archers, two Orc Elites, two Orc Witch Doctors, and a named Orc Shaman. The Shaman Holds me, and is the first opponent of the entire game to cause me the slightest concern. For the six or eight rounds I'm Held, the enemy forces circle around me and are wailing on me. Thankfully, I have 10/- resistance to pretty much everything, so if they DO manage to hit me for damage, they rarely deal more than 1 damage. After the rounds expire, I'm at 180 hp of 210, all the foes are uninjured, and the Shaman begins casting Hold Person again.

I cast Chain Lightning.

Icewind Dale 2 


Seriously, I cast Chain Lightning and EVERYONE died within a half-second of finishing the spell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 11, 2013, 02:22:46 am

Quadratic Wizards rule.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 11, 2013, 04:20:45 am

Flew half the map and killed the titan as i was landing, shame that his buddy got me while i was on the ground

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Attack on Titan Tribute game, WEEEEEE with the ropes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 11, 2013, 04:44:12 am

Playing Guild Wars 2, in the Ascalonian Catacombs, running it for the second time ever (first time on that path). I'm a level 42 warrior, with a Hammer and a Rifle as my two weapons, plus Banner of Strength / Dolyak Signet / Fear Me as the three utility skills I had available.

So we get to the very end of that dungeon, to face the Howling King, and as the experienced players wiped to him and his adds, I managed to kite the adds and the Howling King around long enough with a combination of healing, Fear Me to get some breathing space, and Dolyak Signet to hop me up when I got knocked down to get one of the other players up and healed enough to take over kiting while I whittled the last 5% of the Howling King's hp on my own down.

Good HP pool comes in very handy sometimes. :)

They said "That's the first time i've been with a PUG (Pick up Group) Warrior who hasn't sucked at kiting."

Felt so good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 11, 2013, 12:20:30 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on October 11, 2013, 02:22:46 am

Quadratic Wizards rule.

No joke. With level appropriate magic items and a small amount of preparation, nothing can stop you... But another mage...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 11, 2013, 01:15:33 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 11, 2013, 12:20:30 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on October 11, 2013, 02:22:46 am

Quadratic Wizards rule.

No joke. With level appropriate magic items and a small amount of preparation, nothing can stop you... But another mage...

With sufficient prep time there are no other wizards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 11, 2013, 01:27:27 pm

I find the most fun fighting a mage is actually using the magic protections like Globe of Invulnerability. Neverwinter Nights is a little better for that though, because you get stuff like Mordekainen's Disjunction, Spell Mantle, and other such stuff. It makes it very fun to fight an overpowered mage with a specialized counterspeller.

"DISINT-""COUNTERSPELL"
"FIREBA-""COUNTERSPELL"
"LIGHTN-""COUNTERSPELL"
"DISP-""COUNTERSPELL"
"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT STOP THAT SHIT YOU LITTLE FUCKING GNOME." "I cast Disintegrate."
"Wait wha-*Poof*"


Anyways, back on topic. My non-cheating party in IWD 2 is slowly butchering their way through the outside of the Goblin Fortress. My Solo Sorceror, the aforementioned one, SLAUGHTERED her way into the fortress from the start of the game in about 2 hours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on October 11, 2013, 02:18:36 pm

Quote from: Reudh on October 11, 2013, 04:44:12 am

Good HP pool comes in very handy sometimes. :)

Speaking as an Ele in full Berserker gear... I wouldn't know. I've died to stiff breezes a few times, if the breeze is sufficiently bursty.  ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 12, 2013, 02:05:09 am

Beat a Mario game for the first time ever. I don't even care that I did it with the bare minimum number of Stars, going for the easiest ones possible right until the end. I'm still satisfied.

Super Mario 64.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on October 12, 2013, 10:09:50 am

Managed to escape the wrath of an Eldricth beast, a horny giant, ans a single skeleton with a dumbass pawn slapped over my shoulder. I only got fire balled to the face twice.


Dragons Dogma

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on October 12, 2013, 10:37:34 am

 Because I don't have the willpower or the desire to do multiple playthroughs, I've made characters on the more fun covenants. One for Sunlight warrior and one for Darkwraith.
I call an invasion in Sen's Fortress, just before the boss gate. My general rule is that if they don't immediately begin stabbing me, I'll drop them a thing. There's no chance for that, as I later find.  The target is inside, either coming down from killing the thrower or waiting for a poor fellow like myself.  The entrance is a rather disadvantageous place to stage a fight, however, so I run along the path back towards the catwalk. Upon entering the light an examination reveals a greatsword and shield, though neither that I recognized. He rolls towards me, but throws himself off of the catwalk by accident. Seeing this as a prime opportunity for a plunging attack, I walk off the edge but miss the landing. We find ourselves on the grate, staring each other down with shields up. His bravery does not match his equipment ; the target begins backing up. On his side of the grate there is a large broken part, where he could fall through. Seeing the chance to end this with minimal risk, I advance to keep him moving. Sure enough, he backs off of the grate and to his doom. Target destroyed. Master of world defeated. Returning with newfound humanity. Turn and walk away.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on October 12, 2013, 10:59:51 am

I finally got "One Free Bullet", bringing me one big step closer to my goal, three years in the making, of completing every HL2 and Episodes achievement.

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Half-Life 2 Episode One, durr

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2013, 11:04:26 am

It's an old one, since I haven't had time to mention it, but I only have four more achievements to go. I have absolutely no idea how to unlock them though...

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Katawa Crash. The achievements I need are I'm Here to Save Flash Gaming, April Fools, Bizarre Adventurer, and asdf.

Quote from: greatorder on October 11, 2013, 01:52:22 pm

I swear, when I play as Gizureans, the game decides 'HAH! WE'LL SURROUND HIM WITH EMPIRES THAT HATE HIM!'

I'm pretty sure that Gizureans, and all bug races actually, are supposed to be maligned in that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on October 12, 2013, 11:13:55 am

Me and A couple of friends decided to play anno 2070, IN the first thirty minutes I got airports, Battle ships, and A shit ton of Industry behind my huge unsinkable force, Then one of them built A nuclear device and demanded I give him my entire army if I didn't I would then be turned into radioactive mushie, I said no, he fired, it reflected :) wiping out every single bit of industry in his industry sector, which was right next to his pop place, he pretty much was out of the game, I proceeded to  wipe out the rest of his puny navy, the others watched in horror as they knew who was gonna win, and guess what? My academy just finished researching on how to build nukes, I preoceed to steam roll everyone else, getting that Victory :) It was silly that you have to bomb every building on A capital island

EDIT: Destroy, not Sell,

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on October 12, 2013, 11:48:33 pm

That fun moment when a few peasant/spear levy formations and some peasant archers can hold off twice their number by using a gate chokepoint. The French will never take Caen!

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Medieval II: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Scionox on October 13, 2013, 02:30:49 am

1cc on the third attempt on hard, now gonna go for extra!

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eXceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 13, 2013, 10:29:59 am

*Loads into a mostly empty dungeon*

So uh, I'm guessing the original party chainwiped and ragequit?
And the dungeon finder decided to dump us into an empty half complete dungeon that if we abandoned we can't requeue?
"Looks like."
Wonderful.
*after waiting 10 minutes for a tank*
Well, I'm a lancer but I'm in chain, while you are both cloth-ies, I can try to tank the boss, see how long we last.
"Sure lets give it a shot."
*I succeed at tanking the midboss and the rest of the encounters, as a DPS class, without heavy armor, without any threat tools, on a class that doesn't get a single AoE attack until much higher level.*

The healer thanked me for being a better tank as a DPS class than most tanks are in dungeons.  That made me happy.

FF14:AAR  Toto-rak dungeon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on October 13, 2013, 11:18:11 am

#Atheistpack finally vainquished #Jesuspack after countless battles and numerous deaths.

GMod, Trouble in Terrorist Town. We were playing normally when two guys with #Jesuspack after their names came and started to jokingly spread the word of Gaming Jesus, son of Gaming God. They recruited a third member, and I protested by adding #Atheistpack to my name. They reacted better than I expected, and mobbed me. Unluckily for them, half the players were on skype with me and quickly joined the #Atheistpack in reaction to the horrors unleashed by the untolerant church.

The game quickly degenerated into religious war / team deathmatch, with the #Atheistpack coming on top in the last three or so games.

The win in this is less the fact that my team "won", but more the fact that everything was light-hearted and nobody took it seriously. It was just a game, and everybody had a lot of fun (especially the traitors XD)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on October 14, 2013, 06:06:01 pm

Thats perfectly normal for xantalos, Mundane, even.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on October 14, 2013, 06:10:25 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

I'm now watching your game thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on October 14, 2013, 07:35:29 pm

Tier 7-9 game in a Ferdinand, every single person ignored me while I got 8 kills (including several tier 9s) and did almost 6k damage.

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World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on October 14, 2013, 07:53:02 pm

Spoiler: Mud and Blood 2 (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/PmH5IGu.jpg)

Roughly wave 120. Recruited 2 tanks, 2 snipers, 3 officers and a ton of frenchies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on October 14, 2013, 07:58:54 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

...BRB, gonna go catch up on the campaign thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RNK6 on October 15, 2013, 02:22:36 am

TF2:

i was playing on one of those low gravity all crits cp orange trade servers, with sticky jumper + grenade launcher as demo. as i was falling back to the ground from a MASSIVE jump, i saw another demo doing the same thing and flying into the air ridiculously fast.

8) 8) 8) AIRSHOTTED 8) 8) 8)
critnades do 300 damage too...
yeah... after the fact we both agreed that that was the greatest airshot ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 15, 2013, 05:34:26 am

Mines? You mean Frisbee grenades?

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Dues Ex:HR

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 15, 2013, 06:35:19 am

Quote from: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

I was the guy that just killed the post human demon, so my first kill is now getting back up
:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 15, 2013, 04:35:30 pm

Quote from: Evilsx on October 15, 2013, 06:35:19 am

Quote from: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

I was the guy that just killed the post human demon, so my first kill is now getting back up
:P

You should probably feel emasculated to some extent as a result of this, but either way it was pretty damn awesome.

"That guy I just shot in the face is getting back up! Holyshitkarma" or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 15, 2013, 09:14:31 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 15, 2013, 04:35:30 pm

Quote from: Evilsx on October 15, 2013, 06:35:19 am

Quote from: Xantalos on October 14, 2013, 05:45:12 pm

In my first ever action in my first ever Dark Heresy campaign, I (Feral World Psyker) summoned a Daemon by accident while using a minor psychic power.

I was the guy that just killed the post human demon, so my first kill is now getting back up
:P

You should probably feel emasculated to some extent as a result of this, but either way it was pretty damn awesome.

"That guy I just shot in the face is getting back up! Holyshitkarma" or something.

It got worse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 15, 2013, 09:24:06 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on October 15, 2013, 09:21:14 pm

Killed entire empires again because they were annoying, but decided to humiliate them. Before killing the last city in each planet, I would take out my heat ray and make each planet burn so hard lava oceans formed. The last sight of my enemies' civilians was their whole planet rapidly burning and cracking, lava and fire pouring out, and just as all hope was lost, a bomb coming down on them.
NO mercy
And this was just because I was annoyed. Imagine when I get angry.

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Spore Space Stage, no expansions D:

I hath wrecked havoc upon such a number of planets in that game so as to make the Imperium of Man jealous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 16, 2013, 04:56:01 pm

Quote

Skeleo Jonson is hit by the syringe!
You put the syringe gun into the satchel.
Skeleo Jonson puts the captain's jumpsuit into the captain's backpack.
Skeleo Jonson asks, "Did you shot me?"
Victor Vanleer says, "Depends"
Skeleo Jonson asks, "On?"
Victor Vanleer asks, "Are you feeling sciencey?"
Skeleo Jonson snores.

The syringe was 15 units of chloral hydrate.

It's okay, I lasered him to death with his own gun after that.
And then Nien got some adminery revenge on me later. He can post that if he wants I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on October 16, 2013, 05:39:00 pm

thats amazing :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 16, 2013, 08:11:32 pm

I stole a pair of magboots. It sounds simple, but at every single turn, something went wrong in my plan. EVERY. SINGLE. TURN. I stun a cop? No cuffs. Get cuffs? Another cop. Get more cuffs? ANOTHER cop. Stun him? The first cop is running around like a dickhead. Secborg comes. FLEEEEEEEEEE. I eventually won by hiding on the Security pod and murdering the cop that came to find me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on October 17, 2013, 12:29:07 am

Quote from: greatorder on October 16, 2013, 08:16:25 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 16, 2013, 08:11:32 pm

I stole a pair of magboots. It sounds simple, but at every single turn, something went wrong in my plan. EVERY. SINGLE. TURN. I stun a cop? No cuffs. Get cuffs? Another cop. Get more cuffs? ANOTHER cop. Stun him? The first cop is running around like a dickhead. Secborg comes. FLEEEEEEEEEE. I eventually won by hiding on the Security pod and murdering the cop that came to find me.

Ye furgot teh gam! (I can guess. Others, though...)

Constant cop attack?
Who runs that station? Zap Branigan?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on October 18, 2013, 09:08:47 pm

So, I'm playing Deathwatch again. Still got the same character that beat a Hive Tyrant and Chaos Sorcerer [followed by causing a Daemon to feel fear] in close combat. I only have 17 wounds. I haven't taken damage the whole time in the characters' lifetime.

We're preparing for an assault on an airbase, and our chosen vector of attack takes us through a series of underground tunnels.

Turns out they were a Necron Tomb. So we're navigating through a shifting maze of corridors and rooms - fortunately the first Necron we fought was an Immortal rather than something seriously nasty, and it died in one turn due to my Astartes buddies getting lucky. Then a Lychguard comes through.

My character got knocked back into another room by the Immortal's first shot [took no damage, though] and the door slammed shut. The Astartes fight the Lychguard for a bit, and when the door re-opens, my character charges and instakills the Lychguard [it had like 5 wounds left]. It doesn't get back up.

So we continue. We eventually find the exit.

Standing in front of it is:

-Another Lychguard
-A Deathmark

-A Necron Overlord

My response? CHARGE!

After two incredibly lucky Righteous Fury rolls on it [the Astartes were dealing with the Lychguard and Deathmark], the Overlord...well, he had an item that made an attack impossible to parry with three degrees of success or more.

His WS at this time was 65. He rolled a 32.

I get hit by a Hyperphase Sword. Instantly take 2 Critical Damage to the arm and I drop one of my two power swords.

I still have three attacks next turn.

First attack, 4 total damage.

Second attack, 19 total damage.

Third attack...39 total damage. Coupled with the earlier ones, the Overlord finally falls. Well, teleports away, but nevermind that. We escape.

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Deathwatch

Mira Steel is a badass. =)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on October 19, 2013, 04:22:48 pm

I defeated the Stalker in close combat.

Not exactly impressive, but it was so beautiful I count it as ownage.

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Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 19, 2013, 10:49:50 pm

I won the Dangeresque, Too
My god that was a gruelling series of tournements. Thankfully the RNG threw me a bone and gave me two chances at it.

PNatI

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on October 20, 2013, 11:37:26 am

Everything went flawlessly on my first mission. Every recruit got a kill or two, not once of them missed an overwatch or an aimed attack. None of them was harmed either. I'm scared, what's going on?

XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on October 20, 2013, 12:14:30 pm

The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Un67 on October 20, 2013, 01:47:47 pm

Italia Irredenta! (http://iforce.co.nz/i/42gg4cxg.i2r.png)

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Victoria II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on October 20, 2013, 04:06:24 pm

Managed to beat a multiplayer level with my dad. My god, there was no end to the Russians, but with his Sniper Rifle and my M16 and LAW we made it off that damn island.


Operation Flashpoint. It's difficult to do things with two intelligent people in a squad of six.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on October 20, 2013, 06:20:05 pm

Quote from: Kydrasz on October 20, 2013, 11:37:26 am

Everything went flawlessly on my first mission. Every recruit got a kill or two, not once of them missed an overwatch or an aimed attack. None of them was harmed either. I'm scared, what's going on?

XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Quote from: kisame12794 on October 20, 2013, 12:14:30 pm

The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.

True that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on October 20, 2013, 09:23:50 pm

Invade a fellow I'd encountered before at upper Sen's Funhouse. He's remarkably well equipped, with Artorias armor, Gold Tracer, what I think is Dark Bead, and a Shotel that does a remarkable amount of damage. I'd defeated him previously by the skin of my teeth, by popping Humanity and coming out of the inevitable back stab slightly better off. I head in, and am surprised to find that alongside his Dark Bead he knows Crystal Magic weapon on what I believe to be a Washing Pole. It's damaging me through my shield and inflicting bleed, so I retreat to the catwalk and he soon follows me down. He have a small bout, and I'm sure that if we find ourselves actually dueling much longer that I'll meet my end. But just when my hope was lost, that I was sure that I would plummet off of the catwalk and down into the broken grate, I unintentionally get a back stab. The post stab kick knocks him back into the abyss of Sen's fortress. Target Destroyed. Returning with newfound humanity.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on October 20, 2013, 10:59:01 pm

So you pulled an unintentional THIS IS SPARTA on him? I approve.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on October 21, 2013, 08:21:44 pm

After 5 failed attempts that made it to the moon, without enough fuel to get back (No exaggeration, the Mun is covered in debris... ) I managed to rescue my two stranded Kerbals!  No mechjeb, no other tools, just flying by the seat of my pants.  It was fairly intense, especially after failing so many times.

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on October 22, 2013, 04:23:20 am

I was farming the top lane when suddenly a teamfight breaks out in the Radiant's jungle! Oh god my travel boots are on cooldown and I'm out of position what do I do- oh wait I'm fast enough to run over there in five seconds.

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Dota 2. New Bloodseeker is hilarious to play, especially if you build purely movement speed increasing items. In the end my minimum movement speed was equal to that provided by a haste rune. The crowning moment was trying to teleport into another teamfight later on, accidentally canceling the teleport (putting it on cooldown), and instead run over there in the time it would take to finish teleporting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MadMalkavian on October 25, 2013, 07:23:43 am

Cleared the entire top lane with ADC Tristana and destroyed one of the inhibitors as well, both without any help from my teammates because Xerath went with Udyr in mid lane and Lux went with Jinx in bot lane. May have gotten zero kills and zero assists but Tristana didn't die a single time and managed to clear out 80 minions and make Trundle, Ryze and Shen run for their lives on several occasions.

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League of Legends. Tristana is best yordle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 25, 2013, 11:03:00 am

Over 100 straight wins at Freecell!

I officially have no life.

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Windows Freecell. ...This isn't the first time, either.

Blasted my way to the center of the galaxy and dove right into the galactic core, learning the secret to the meaning of life and going on a strange acid trip in the process.

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Spore. Now what to do? Conquer the entire galaxy? Drop planetbusters on the entire Grox empire? Not exactly mutually exclusive either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Proudnerd on October 25, 2013, 11:55:16 am

GTA online a few days ago: the mission where you need to infiltrate the skyscraper after climbing that long ass ladder and steal the blueprints


I was only rank 11 with my crappy SMG and light amour me and two other players rank 16 and rank 10 had tried climbing the ladder and died horribly both times from the lack of cover. another guy got the idea to use helis so we went to the helipad. one guy died soon after we landed and we got picked off.


Take three we take the helis. Other guy gets picked off again, he's like one rank below me. The other dude whos rank 16 or so helps me kill off the guys on the roof, we begin edging down the ramp and the second enemy down there kills him. I'm now by myself against enemies who vastly outclass me because they were balanced to higher rank. I creep down the ramp and slowly fight my way though the enemies, most of them need 6+ bullets to die I lose my armour in no time and I need to spend almost all my time in cover so I'm not killed. I finally make it to the briefcase and a chopper shows up loaded with mercs. I spend the next 5 minutes running from cover to cover inside the building trying to keep the walls between me and the ultra deadly chopper. I FINALLY managed to shoot it down with my SMG by hitting the pilot, even though its miles away and quickly run back up to the roof, get back in my chopper and fly to Lester. XBL message comes though saying I did a good job Mission done. Man that one felt good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 25, 2013, 12:16:18 pm

I killed a shadow dragon. Not one of those Monster Hunter style dragons, or a big dumb firebreathing dragon. No, this was a wicked smart, incredibly dangerous Shadow Dragon. They can level drain you with their BREATHE, and that's not even getting into the fact that they can cast spells and have natural weapons that are as good as most high level PC's gear. Best part was when he cast protection from magical weapons. No one in my party has any normal weapons but the mage and some arrows, and Minsc with his crossbow. They plinked away at it, while the rest of my party was wailing on it to no avail, or casting spells nonstop trying to prevent it's spell casting or lower it's resistance to magic. Finally, Nalia cast breach on it, dropping it's magic resistance, while it's PfMW wore off. My leader and Nalia killed it with repeated zweihander swings and magic missile, respectively. Glorious.

Firkraag... I'm coming for you...

Baldur's Gate 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on October 25, 2013, 01:38:46 pm

Quote from: Akura on October 25, 2013, 11:03:00 am

Over 100 straight wins at Freecell!

I officially have no life.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Windows Freecell. ...This isn't the first time, either.

Blasted my way to the center of the galaxy and dove right into the galactic core, learning the secret to the meaning of life and going on a strange acid trip in the process.

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Spore. Now what to do? Conquer the entire galaxy? Drop planetbusters on the entire Grox empire? Not exactly mutually exclusive either.

All of the above, man. All of the above.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 25, 2013, 02:25:27 pm

Playing with self imposed permadeath, I found eleven fragments without ever touching a weapon.  Not that I didn't look for one, mind you, but I couldn't find any.  Now I'm taking a break, that was stressful.

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Sir, You are Being Hunted

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on October 25, 2013, 03:05:54 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 25, 2013, 12:16:18 pm

I killed a shadow dragon. Not one of those Monster Hunter style dragons, or a big dumb firebreathing dragon. No, this was a wicked smart, incredibly dangerous Shadow Dragon. They can level drain you with their BREATHE, and that's not even getting into the fact that they can cast spells and have natural weapons that are as good as most high level PC's gear. Best part was when he cast protection from magical weapons. No one in my party has any normal weapons but the mage and some arrows, and Minsc with his crossbow. They plinked away at it, while the rest of my party was wailing on it to no avail, or casting spells nonstop trying to prevent it's spell casting or lower it's resistance to magic. Finally, Nalia cast breach on it, dropping it's magic resistance, while it's PfMW wore off. My leader and Nalia killed it with repeated zweihander swings and magic missile, respectively. Glorious.

Firkraag... I'm coming for you...

Baldur's Gate 2

A minor (extremely pedantic) note: Breach kills physical protection spells (knocking out PfMW and stoneskin), while lower resistance and pierce magic lower magic resistance.
EDIT: Pierce magic doesn't actually lower resistance. Pierce shield does, acting as a combo of lower resistance and pierce magic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RedKing on October 25, 2013, 03:37:35 pm

Sank four destroyers in the span of about 8 seconds with a perfectly executed bombing run in an A-20 Havoc.

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 25, 2013, 08:48:28 pm

Quote from: lemon10 on October 25, 2013, 03:05:54 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 25, 2013, 12:16:18 pm

I killed a shadow dragon. Not one of those Monster Hunter style dragons, or a big dumb firebreathing dragon. No, this was a wicked smart, incredibly dangerous Shadow Dragon. They can level drain you with their BREATHE, and that's not even getting into the fact that they can cast spells and have natural weapons that are as good as most high level PC's gear. Best part was when he cast protection from magical weapons. No one in my party has any normal weapons but the mage and some arrows, and Minsc with his crossbow. They plinked away at it, while the rest of my party was wailing on it to no avail, or casting spells nonstop trying to prevent it's spell casting or lower it's resistance to magic. Finally, Nalia cast breach on it, dropping it's magic resistance, while it's PfMW wore off. My leader and Nalia killed it with repeated zweihander swings and magic missile, respectively. Glorious.

Firkraag... I'm coming for you...

Baldur's Gate 2

A minor (extremely pedantic) note: Breach kills physical protection spells (knocking out PfMW and stoneskin), while lower resistance and pierce magic lower magic resistance.
EDIT: Pierce magic doesn't actually lower resistance. Pierce shield does, acting as a combo of lower resistance and pierce magic.

Derp. They're all so similar, with such similar icons, I often forget the difference.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on October 27, 2013, 02:43:16 am

If you've played the game, this screenshot says it all. (http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/828953749422501760/12BDDA1FEF7DDFFB4C8C7682B6F51958BFA7F76F/) Three lieutenants, one Titan, and a maximum combo of 295 was all it took to get 3 medals on the Funhouse. I even dropped my combo (and took a few hits!), but thankfully that was after breaking a million points.

Not shown: the several times I took a hit at ~900,000 points, along with countless, countless other failed attempts that came nowhere close.  :)

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Batman: Arkham City

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 27, 2013, 07:54:49 am

Quote from: Thexor on October 27, 2013, 02:43:16 am

If you've played the game, this screenshot says it all. (http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/828953749422501760/12BDDA1FEF7DDFFB4C8C7682B6F51958BFA7F76F/) Three lieutenants, one Titan, and a maximum combo of 295 was all it took to get 3 medals on the Funhouse. I even dropped my combo (and took a few hits!), but thankfully that was after breaking a million points.

Not shown: the several times I took a hit at ~900,000 points, along with countless, countless other failed attempts that came nowhere close.  :)

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Batman: Arkham City

See, the thing about that game was all the nonsense with the challenges after the game were played at the normal difficulty speed, so if you played through the story on hard you had a bit of an advantage because the enemies attack slower.

Admittedly, it's still bloody hard when you're trying to get massive combos (I always thought they should have had a Killer Instinct-esque "C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!" shout when that happened) and you're basically in the middle of a huge mass of enemies, each of which you need to take a different approach to beat up.

I quite enjoyed the fighting challenges. Less so for the stealth ones, probably took the same number of attempts for both things, but you get the joy of a combo counter going up and the satisfaction that you're dodging attacks and mixing things up with all the gadgetry. Never managed a perfect combo myself (using all gadgets) but I bloody well enjoyed trying heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 28, 2013, 10:16:21 pm

Halted Stream Camp, Level 5.

pisskop forgot frenzy, missile magic, and a plan to deal with the bandit chief.

pisskop runs up to the overhead looking out over the mammoth processing area and trips the fire trap, killing bandit lackey number 1.

pisskop powerattacks magic wielding lackey number 2 for a one hit kill on his head.  Mace plus power plus head = melonpop.

pisskop panics at bandit chief wielding enchanted hammer.  Runs towards exit.  Triigers mammoth skull trap, trap hits chief.  Deadly traps .esp one shots bandit chief.  8)

That bandit chief is practically my Elder Scrolls series nemesis, mostly because of how greedy I am.  Ahh, Skyrim. . .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on October 29, 2013, 03:11:46 am

Paradropped behind an enemy tank from the tall center building, laid 3 charges of C4 and walked away slowly without it noticing me. Boom.

Cool guys don't look at explosions.

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Battlefield 4, on the Siege of Shanghai map.
I love that Recon gets C4 again, as I consider myself an above average sniper. Now, if only I could get past the initial "starter guns are utter crap" (especially for the sniper rifle) portion of the game... but considering it just came out, I'll have plenty of time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on October 29, 2013, 08:29:35 am

Recently started playing a Demoknight in TF2. Once I picked it up, it became really fun. Run around one-shotting heavies. Then they all switch to engineer/scout, and I gotta pick something else. I hate scouts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on October 29, 2013, 08:49:25 am

Both teams are tied at 4-4, with only one kill required for either of them to win the match. We've both managed to separate into two 1v1 engagements after our teammate managed to distract their teammate, allowing us to turn the table on the Goldfish that's been pummelling us. We get a good rocket barrage in, disabling most of their machinery, and also managing to break their hull armor in the process. I notice, however, that our teammate's hull armour is down, too! And they're flying a relatively squishy Mobula. Our teammate's demise is imminent, and our Manticore has very lengthy reload time, which may not be fast enough to finish them off before they finish off our teammate.

Then I notice there's a mesa right behind them.

I draw breath, kick the engine into full, and yell "RAMMING SPEED!" at the top of my lungs. We quickly close the distance between our two ships, before colliding, causing the enemy Goldfish to smash into the cliff face, destroying it and securing our victory.

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Guns of Icarus Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 29, 2013, 10:22:57 am

Quote from: Lagslayer on October 29, 2013, 08:29:35 am

Recently started playing a Demoknight in TF2. Once I picked it up, it became really fun. Run around one-shotting heavies. Then they all switch to engineer/scout, and I gotta pick something else. I hate scouts.

It's enormous fun as a Persian Persuader demoknight, but you're totally vulnerable if you face engis, scouts or competent pyros. I enjoy going Democaber, because there's nothing more fun than one shotting an entire crowd of their team with a crit Ullapool Caber strike, then using the jump force from that to climb onto the battlements of 2fort and take out the oblivious snipers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on October 29, 2013, 01:46:47 pm

Quote from: Reudh on October 29, 2013, 10:22:57 am

Quote from: Lagslayer on October 29, 2013, 08:29:35 am

Recently started playing a Demoknight in TF2. Once I picked it up, it became really fun. Run around one-shotting heavies. Then they all switch to engineer/scout, and I gotta pick something else. I hate scouts.

It's enormous fun as a Persian Persuader demoknight, but you're totally vulnerable if you face engis, scouts or competent pyros. I enjoy going Democaber, because there's nothing more fun than one shotting an entire crowd of their team with a crit Ullapool Caber strike, then using the jump force from that to climb onto the battlements of 2fort and take out the oblivious snipers.

I don't have the persuader or the caber, yet, so I've been playing with the Eyelander. Unless I'm having really bad pyro problems, I use the Splendid Screen over the Chargin' Targe. With 2 heads, the SS's shield bash + follow-up crit is enough to kill a heavy, and at 5 heads, the shield bash alone is enough to kill almost anything else. Which is awesome.

Grenade Launcher is for scrubs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 29, 2013, 02:10:42 pm

Demoknight is fun but like half the classes in the game can hard counter you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on October 29, 2013, 08:56:15 pm

Started a game with the Ottomans. In twenty years of nearly constant warfare I've taken Albania, all Byzantine territory, vassalized Athens, took most of my cores in Anatolia except Dulkadir and the one own by Aq Qoyunlu, stole Kaffa from Genoa in a long and uneventful war and then fight against the Mameluks for Dulkadir and Alep.

After that I decided to fabricate claims on Serbia and took two provinces and vassalize it. It was too much for Venice who created a coalition against me. The coalition was joined by Poland-Lithuania, Aragon-Naples and some minors countries. Soon the coalition attacked me and my alies (Algiers and Crimea) and eventually Castile and Portugal even joined the war with the coalition

Our forces were 45k Inf. 18k Cav. vs their 105k Inf. 45k Cav

My better troops and tech and the fact that the enemies didn't came at the same time helped me win the war and annex Corfu and Naxos.

After that I attacked the Mameluks and took all of Aq Qoyunlu and the northern part of the Levant.

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Europa universalis IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on October 30, 2013, 08:54:57 am

We were alerted to a crazed, minigun-wielding, sometimes-invisible demon-man running around a dilapidated house. We managed to get inside the house and seal one of the doors, but one or two of the more bravestupid among us went outside, attacked the darkness, and were promptly reduced to their component gibs.

We sealed the remaining door and hid in the stairwell. That didn't help for long - the crazy demon-man-thing burst one of the sealed doors, murdered half of my team, and disappeared. It reappeared later, killed everyone but me, and disappeared again, summoning several zombie hicks. Said hicks were handily dispatched with headshots.

Then... it appeared behind me and murdered my face. Yes, it murdered my face through the back of my skull.

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Killing Floor.

I know I died, but I was still the last man on my team still alive. This is probably only impressive to me, but it was my first match in at least a year and a half. Literally first match. I join, watch them finish the current wave, and spawn in the miniboss round.

I was also a medic and hadn't had a chance to buy anything, so I was naked and equipped with just a pistol and knife.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 30, 2013, 01:58:25 pm

Final battles with Jon Irenicus. I HAVE FINALLY PROVEN MY THEOREM.

LINEAR PALADINS > QUADRATIC MAGES


In all seriousness, at one point, Irenicus killed Minsc. Without missing a beat, my Paladin whipped out a Rod of Resurrection, resurrected Minsc, and Minsc picked up and put on all his stuff but his armor. Minsc was fighting Irenicus SANS ARMOR. LIKE A FUCKING BOSS. And then we went to hell and fought Irenicus in Slayer Mode with two Glabrezu and two Balor backing him up. Jaheira wiped the floor with one Balor, my character curbstomped the two Glabrezu, and the two mages stabbed the other Balor to death somehow. Slayer-Irenicus reappeared and my main character went one on one with him in hand to hand and KICKED THE SHIT OUT OF HIM. It helps my Paladin has 85% magic resistance.

Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 31, 2013, 04:13:17 am

Just set up my ship for the orbit of Kerbin and while in mid flight, over 20,000m the planet i just saw something...

I HAVE NO PARACHUTE

So just see this i do some quick thinking and see guess i might have enough fuel to land back so i can get the science to get my upgrade and improve this ship but with the problem of NEVER DOING THIS BEFORE AND NOT SEE ANYONE DO IT so after 5 minutes of keeping the ship just below 100km/h, I am 600m off the ground and i go full blast and hope my ship dose not crash...
Just landed it with large amount for my ship blown up but my pod is safe
...WOOOOOOO

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on October 31, 2013, 05:54:49 am

Parachutes wouldn't have helped you land on the Mun anyhow.
Unless you were talking about landing back on Kerbin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 31, 2013, 06:18:58 am

Quote from: Facekillz058 on October 31, 2013, 05:54:49 am

Parachutes wouldn't have helped you land on the Mun anyhow.
Unless you were talking about landing back on Kerbin.

Yea, I meant kerbin... Derp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 31, 2013, 07:30:48 am

Quote from: greatorder on October 31, 2013, 06:54:46 am

So, you managed to do a powered touchdown crossed with lithobraking.

Powered touchdowns on Kerbin are actually pretty easy. The atmosphere means that you slow down to a rather low terminal velocity. Compared to landing on, say, Moho, where you have to constantly all of your velocity with thrust.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: azmodean on November 04, 2013, 02:53:07 pm

Checked my github stats, I've made over 1,000 commits to Cataclysm-DDA.

Metagaming ownage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 04, 2013, 06:33:10 pm

I beat Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal.

This finally completes my eight year long quest to beat all the Baldur's Gate games.

My main character's final stats:

Level 40 Human Paladin, Lawful Good
Strength: 22
Dexterity 18
Constitution: 18
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 20
Charisma: 23

(Most of those are due in part to magical items.)

His items included:
Helm of Balduran
Cloak of Balduran
Boots of the West
Golden Girdle
Ring of Fire Resistance
Shurrupak's Plate
Ring of Free Action (This thing was fucking glitch or something, because when I put it on, it gives me Free Action... And permanent Improved Haste, and an extra 50 hitpoints.)
Gauntlets of Extraordinary Specialization
Amulet of the Seldarine
Carosmyr +6 Holy Avenger Greatsword
Composite Longbow +3
-40 +3 Arrows
-40 +3 Arrows
-40 Arrows of Biting 

Total Resistances:
80 Fire
20 Acid
95 Magic
Immunity to Normal Weapons

He had an armor class of -9 and his THAC0 was ridiculous. His role call of foes defeated includes, but is not limited to:
Sarevok
Semaj
Tazok (Twice)
Angelo
Demonknight of Durlag's Tower
The Tanar'ri of Durlag's Tower
Doppelgangers. LOTS of Doppelgangers
Firkraag the Ancient Red Dragon
An Ancient Shadow Dragon with an unpronounceable name
An Ancient Black Dragon
Jon Irenicus
Bodhi
A coven of Green Dragons, and Abizagal the Blue Dragon Bhaalspawn
The Five (Including Abizagal)
A Fallen Solar
Innumerable Demons, Imps, Mephits, Golems, Bandits, Brigands, Buccaneers, Cutt-throats, thieves, murderers, assassins, wyverns, spiders, evil wizards, evil druids, evil clerics, shades, wraiths, warlocks, Gnolls, hobgoblins, goblins, Orcs, Ogres, half Ogres, Ogrillons, and a vast assortment of other, unmentioned monsters.
Half the Drow City of Ust Natha (Pretty much)
And many, many more.

That's all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on November 04, 2013, 09:38:47 pm

Not me.

These two. (http://www.youtube.com/user/birgirpall)

Seriously, watch any of the videos in which they play a multiplayer game that offers more than coop. They're massive trolls. They're also massively better at every game than I am.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on November 04, 2013, 09:48:30 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on November 04, 2013, 09:38:47 pm

Not me.

These two. (http://www.youtube.com/user/birgirpall)

Seriously, watch any of the videos in which they play a multiplayer game that offers more than coop. They're massive trolls. They're also massively better at every game than I am.

That was hilarious. Also, SPOON FLIP!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 06, 2013, 11:31:19 pm

It's rather frequent, but I feel like a real leader when I sit amongst my motley band of rough and ready musketeers, shouting orders to hold position and form a double line then proceeding to be the solid centre of an otherwise chaotic battle, holding back the hordes of enemies that try to overrun us.

Also stalking the battlements of an enemy keep, pistol and broadsword in hand and Witchhunter hat on head, clearing out towers on my own.

Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on November 07, 2013, 04:23:47 am

Beat the game, on hard mode for the first time.  Not much, but it's been a while since I've finished a game.

Batman: Arkham City

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on November 07, 2013, 06:56:22 am

So, I am DMing for my group, Pathfinder Rules...
I wanted to start something new, something that I could get their minds away from my pisspoor DMing of the past campaigns where I overpowered them by accident. Cause if I was a player, I would want to go back to that, but as a DM, NOPE. RESTART PLEASE!...

So I came up with a great idea, we were planning on starting a new campaign, mainly the Sundering one for the new DnD Next that come out with Baldaur's Gate and such. So what better way then a small introdungeon self made to give them a little more reasoning on how they got the Baldaur's Gate.

How about a Villain they can chase/fight every now and then... Brilliant I said. Wait I know, how about a Lich, so that way I can make him reaccuring yet they can kick the living snot out of and it takes him a while to reappear. Cause Lichs and their Phylactery does that....

Now to find a great villain character, well I could make one... BUT, How about I use this guy, I mean this was one where one of my players DMed, he had this book thing that no one was spos to care about, but I took it, kinda like a Necromonicon but more a Recipe Book on how to be Evil. Boom. IDEAS!!!

Now, how to "piss off" my players. Ooooooo... Kill off their old characters from those fail campaigns by making them NPC sacrifices for the Lich Transformation... DONE...

~-~-Game Night-~-~

So after fighting through a Room of Easy Zombies to get their head around combat (new players included here) and a reminder on Pathfinder ruleset cause we had been on break for Uni Finals. Next a Room of Easish Skeles with a Range attacker or two. Good delt a good bit of damage to them with a little more thinking then, GAH SMASH they normally do...

Next room. Husk like Monster, coated in a black ooze that is pure evil, carrying two Mythril Swords, each able to contain fire and poision respectivly, Just like one of their older characters backstories. 2/4 players spotted this, character creator failed to until the last moments when they put an arrow between the creatures eyes and the ooze dispirits...

Now then, time for the slow clap and reveal of the villain...

Players - Oh fuck you DM!!!...

Moments like this is why we DM...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on November 07, 2013, 12:51:41 pm

Quote from: Neyvn on November 07, 2013, 06:56:22 am

So, I am DMing for my group, Pathfinder Rules...
I wanted to start something new, something that I could get their minds away from my pisspoor DMing of the past campaigns where I overpowered them by accident. Cause if I was a player, I would want to go back to that, but as a DM, NOPE. RESTART PLEASE!...

So I came up with a great idea, we were planning on starting a new campaign, mainly the Sundering one for the new DnD Next that come out with Baldaur's Gate and such. So what better way then a small introdungeon self made to give them a little more reasoning on how they got the Baldaur's Gate.

How about a Villain they can chase/fight every now and then... Brilliant I said. Wait I know, how about a Lich, so that way I can make him reaccuring yet they can kick the living snot out of and it takes him a while to reappear. Cause Lichs and their Phylactery does that....

Now to find a great villain character, well I could make one... BUT, How about I use this guy, I mean this was one where one of my players DMed, he had this book thing that no one was spos to care about, but I took it, kinda like a Necromonicon but more a Recipe Book on how to be Evil. Boom. IDEAS!!!

Now, how to "piss off" my players. Ooooooo... Kill off their old characters from those fail campaigns by making them NPC sacrifices for the Lich Transformation... DONE...

~-~-Game Night-~-~

So after fighting through a Room of Easy Zombies to get their head around combat (new players included here) and a reminder on Pathfinder ruleset cause we had been on break for Uni Finals. Next a Room of Easish Skeles with a Range attacker or two. Good delt a good bit of damage to them with a little more thinking then, GAH SMASH they normally do...

Next room. Husk like Monster, coated in a black ooze that is pure evil, carrying two Mythril Swords, each able to contain fire and poision respectivly, Just like one of their older characters backstories. 2/4 players spotted this, character creator failed to until the last moments when they put an arrow between the creatures eyes and the ooze dispirits...

Now then, time for the slow clap and reveal of the villain...

Players - Oh fuck you DM!!!...

Moments like this is why we DM...

*evil laugh*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 07, 2013, 01:03:44 pm

I beat Super House of Dead Ninjas on hard mode.  With most of my life left, which is kind of funny because in previous attempts if I reached the final bosses it was with 1-4 hits left.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on November 07, 2013, 03:55:33 pm

King Arthur's Gold has just been full of ownage moments so far, and of course with every win there is an equal and opposite failure. 

1)  Being a builder and putting a sawmill at the bottom of a pit that's covered with trap blocks, thing racks up about 5-10 kills before enemies finally catch on.

2)  Playing a knight and getting catapulted directly into their flag.  Scramble like mad out of their castle and get to the earlier tunnel entrance I made.

3)  Being a build and making a tunnel entrance that directly wins us the game because 5 knights got back to the fight when all of their team just got massacred.

4)  Archer with a bomb arrow is basically anti-fun for any builders making towers, which instantly makes it fun for me.

The list goes on, and I've only played around 10 games of it so far.  The failure list pretty much is me either directly losing us the game, or killing most of my teammates with a sawmill.  This game is hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 07, 2013, 10:19:52 pm

Quote from: Karkov on November 07, 2013, 03:55:33 pm

King Arthur's Gold has just been full of ownage moments so far, and of course with every win there is an equal and opposite failure. 

1)  Being a builder and putting a sawmill at the bottom of a pit that's covered with trap blocks, thing racks up about 5-10 kills before enemies finally catch on.

2)  Playing a knight and getting catapulted directly into their flag.  Scramble like mad out of their castle and get to the earlier tunnel entrance I made.

3)  Being a build and making a tunnel entrance that directly wins us the game because 5 knights got back to the fight when all of their team just got massacred.

4)  Archer with a bomb arrow is basically anti-fun for any builders making towers, which instantly makes it fun for me.

The list goes on, and I've only played around 10 games of it so far.  The failure list pretty much is me either directly losing us the game, or killing most of my teammates with a sawmill.  This game is hilarious.

I went knight on Aus CTH and captured the last hall on my own. A well placed keg took out four players on their side and one on mine, and then I waltzed into their hall, and killed four more knights as they came. Thus, the game was won.

Well done me.

(Yeah, it's superb fun to blow holes in defenses with kegs or bomb arrows, but kegs are absolutely insane for anti-building properties. The best thing is being catapulted from up on high with a keg on your back, and landing in the centre of their base.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 09, 2013, 01:41:39 am

Okay, yeah, it was boring as heck. But technically, I killed Lord Dredmor with a random melee build. I say technically, because the fight took a half hour, and consisted of me abusing Battle Geology and Golemancy like a champ. Living Wall let me keep Dredmor at bay without him nuking me to death. Once the wall between him and me went down, I:

a) threw a Damping Field of Angst at him, sealing his magic. Without access to ranged attacks, he stepped towards me, closing the one-tile gap left by my disappearing wall.
b) used Petrification to, um, petrify him. Dredmor is now paralyzed, though he fully resists Petrify's damage (initial and over time).
c) summoned an angry robot behind him. The robot deals 0 damage to Dredmor and lasts only 2 attacks, but he distracts Dredmor for a turn after the paralysis wears off (giving me time to back up and place down a new wall)
d) smashed Dredmor in the face. Petrification seems to grant a lot of damage reduction, so this consists of me dealing exactly 3 Aethereal damage per hit. Crits let me get 17 Crushing damage through his resistance as well.

In other words, I dealt ~100 damage or less with each cycle, spending all the time in between twiddling my thumbs and throwing Seismic Uppercut across the wall whenever it cooled down for negligible damage. To an enemy with ~1300 HP. Longest. Boss fight. Ever. But hey, I'm still proud of winning the game with a random build. Especially one I thought had no chance in Diggle Hell of succeeding!  :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeons of Dredmor. In case the boss's name didn't give it away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on November 09, 2013, 08:16:45 am

So in short, im A plague among the enemy team.

I am. EAGRU.

I run into battle, against 6 knights no less run away for A bit, and then do A double fake slash
They ran into it and now they have half A heart, so I proceed to slew them all with two well placed jabs

Don't know how I do it, but apparently im able to slew everything, everywhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on November 09, 2013, 12:22:19 pm

I smashed a crate and found the Jetpack...on the very first floor of the Mines. Aaaaaaaw yeah.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to die a very stupid death and spoil my amazing luck.

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Spelunky

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2013, 01:19:59 pm

The Rebels attacked Aeten 2 with over a dozen Corellian Corvettes and several dozen X-Wings. All I had was a level 2 Space Station, an Acclimator, a Broadside Cruiser, and a TIE Scout squadron. About 12 minutes later, about 2 Corvettes and a handful of X-Wings are fleeing for their lives, all I lost was the TIE Scouts.

A short while later, the Consortium attacked Ilum, which had a level 2 Space Station(a bug, since Ilum can only have a level 1 Station, this was rectified afterwards) and the same ships as well. The Consortium had both an Agressor(BFG in capship form) and a Keldabe Battleship(overpowered equivilent to a Star Destroyer, but with shield-bypassing railguns). Shortly afterwards, the remaining ships fled, the Agressor was destroyed and the Keldabe had lost its engines. No losses on my side.

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Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

Spoiler: Image of the Emperor crushing Rebel scum on Bonadan (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/1nPicn3.jpg?1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 09, 2013, 01:24:57 pm

Oh I remember some own moments in SW:FoC.

Once, I broke the game. I had three Super Star Destroyers rolling around, and I'd completely wiped out the Consortium. I had destroyed EVERY PLANET IN THE GALAXY except for Coruscant, Byss, and Mon Calamari. I continuously hunted the Rebels around the vast amount of asteroid fields, every so often catching a few fighter squadrons or a corvette, but they managed to evade my doom fleets with their plucky outnumbered little force time and again, until they tried to sneak up on my everything after I stopped chasing them. There is nothing more horrifying for the enemy than having Boba Fett jump into the fight, and fly around trolling them for a bit, killing some fighters... And then THREE Super Star Destroyers pop in, in perfect formation, with Grand Admiral Thrawn and Admiral Piett supporting them. Three SSDs basically cover 60~% of the map and have more firepower than God, so...

Good times. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on November 09, 2013, 03:04:24 pm

My fondest memory was probably being on the run from both the Consortium and Empire constantly. They kept chasing my tiny fleets and finally destroyed them. During all of these I was building Mon Calamari cruisers and frigates in preparation. Then I set course for Coruscant and conquered everything between there and Mon Calamari. Fun times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 09, 2013, 03:18:51 pm

At the portal to Sovngarde, there was a lightning Dragon Priest waiting. Also, unlike my first character, the game decided that there should be an elder dragon and a frost dragon, too. Surprisingly, the priest died first on account of a Storm Call shout issued by me, and I ran to get his staff and mask while the dragons were still flying. After a a brief period of ducking behind pillars, and shooting arrows the frost dragon, he also went down. The fight with the elder dragon was tough, especially without dragonrend (Also on account of Storm Call, curse you long recharge time!) I managed to beat him without dying.

My character is a stealthy Khajit archer, who uses a glass bow, and full dragon scale armor, except for the Krosis mask. All crafts-khajit-ship is of the highest quality, and each with different enchantments.

>:3

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on November 09, 2013, 03:22:52 pm

I have fond memory of Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption One day I decided I'd play multiplayer, A huge 10 player map, consortium vs rebels, By the end of it there was no less then ten of those Capital ships driving around, pillaging, and of course the 10 players on the other side were fighting wiht equally big admiral ackbar ships, so  you know what I did?

I sent A small frigate, much faster then admiral ackbar, litterly got 4 of them chasing it, and I and my "Mates set up A bloody TRAP, all of our ships were there ready to pillage there precious ships, and we won, we killed all of there four Admiral ackbar ships, and then proceeded to murderer the rest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 09, 2013, 04:17:07 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on November 09, 2013, 01:24:57 pm

Oh I remember some own moments in SW:FoC.

Once, I broke the game. I had three Super Star Destroyers rolling around, and I'd completely wiped out the Consortium. I had destroyed EVERY PLANET IN THE GALAXY except for Coruscant, Byss, and Mon Calamari. I continuously hunted the Rebels around the vast amount of asteroid fields, every so often catching a few fighter squadrons or a corvette, but they managed to evade my doom fleets with their plucky outnumbered little force time and again, until they tried to sneak up on my everything after I stopped chasing them. There is nothing more horrifying for the enemy than having Boba Fett jump into the fight, and fly around trolling them for a bit, killing some fighters... And then THREE Super Star Destroyers pop in, in perfect formation, with Grand Admiral Thrawn and Admiral Piett supporting them. Three SSDs basically cover 60~% of the map and have more firepower than God, so...

Good times. :)

I broke the game in a much simpler way.  I said "fuck ground warfare" and went around killing fleets and leaving single ships behind on each of them.  Eventually I had small ships orbiting every enemy planet, preventing them from ever building anything in space ever.  And everything they had in space was dead.  So... basically they couldn't win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on November 09, 2013, 09:24:00 pm

Charged into A horde of Dragons/wyverns/dragon*likes and lived to tell the tail.

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Dungeon Crawl, Stone soup.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 10, 2013, 05:53:28 pm

Quote from: wer6 on November 09, 2013, 09:24:00 pm

lived to tell the tail

Is that supposed to be punny?  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on November 10, 2013, 06:43:03 pm

On the topic of Space games, I remember that time in SEIV where I built ships exclusively with Engine and Weapon - Destroying weapons.

All of the enemy ships had no weapons and couldn't move home to repair, yet they still incurred upkeep.

I assume that's the main reason they changed the way those weapons worked in SEV. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on November 10, 2013, 07:03:02 pm

Tomislav + Fists of Steel = sneaky ambush heavy that can taunt scouts into melee range. And even with the melee vulnerability, you still have more effective health than scouts, spies, and snipers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on November 10, 2013, 11:56:39 pm

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I just defeated the Kushala Daora, the Kirin, and an Epic Hunting quest involving the Tigrex, the Diaymo Hermitaur, and a Plesioth in quick succession. Oh it is good to be back. I'M COMING FOR YOU G-RANK! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on November 11, 2013, 01:13:50 am

New Devastator character. Pull out my Heavy Bolter, circumstances giving me a +50 (!!!) to my BS when firing full-auto.

My BS is 57.

I roll a 01. Ten hits, incoming!

Next round, same circumstances, total of +50 when full-auto...therefore, full auto again!

Rolled a 01. Again. Well, those Orks just got a nasty surprise.

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Deathwatch

So much damage!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 16, 2013, 12:21:21 pm

I posted a 300 gold bounty on a enemy Rogues Guild. The occupants of said guild started attacking it.

Yes, 4 Rogues (and an Elf on the same team) started to burn their home, all for a measly 300 gold split between them. Talk about greedy.


...Of course, they never got the bounty. Before they could finish, some Warriors of Discord came by and hacked them to pieces before claiming the bounty themselves.

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Majesty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on November 16, 2013, 12:45:06 pm

I finally got to level 2 of risk of rain. I got insanely lucky with item drops, and had the ritual knife, will o the Wisp, and infusion. That meant when I killed an enemy, they exploded into homing bullets, had a chance to actually explode, dealing massive damage, and I got permanent extra health when they died. So things got real hectic when there were a lot of enemies on the screen. Then I died immediately after entering level 2 but oh well. Still fun.

Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on November 16, 2013, 12:48:09 pm

I finished risk of rain for the first time

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And I loved every bit of the fight with Providence, especially the dual worms of death.
Playing the demo for so long pays off

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on November 16, 2013, 02:02:45 pm

I finally unlocked that ridiculous "Drown 20 Whorls" achievement on Risk of Rain.  You would not believe how much of a pain that one stupid achievement is. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You have to "drown" an already aquatic creature, which basically means you have to knock them off the map so they fall into the fathomless abyss.  So you need some knockback of a sort, that doesn't kill them.  You have to knock them all off in a single round, and it has to be twenty of them.  The span of my hatred is unknown even to me at this point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 16, 2013, 08:19:28 pm

I decided to give in and play Call of Duty with some buddies. Kicked all of their asses.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on November 16, 2013, 08:57:56 pm

I can make it to level two consistently now! Yaaaay!

Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 16, 2013, 10:25:06 pm

Got third place on my team of twelve on my second flight ever. Gunned down three enemy planes in one life, got shot down but made a safe landing onto the grass on my own side, then gunned down two more.

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War Thunder, flying the dinky little Fury MK I

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on November 17, 2013, 04:05:08 am

Ireland (me) declare Holy War for Brittany on Norway! (6.000 vs 4.000 men)
Norway calls in Russia for help! (8.000 men come)
Ireland calls in Francia for help! Francia pussy out!
Ireland savescum!

Ireland declare Holy War for Brittany on Norway! (second take)
Ireland calls in Francia for help! (16.000 men)
Norway calls in England for help! (24.000 men)

What follow is a six-years long clusterfuck where Brittany is taken by the Ireland-Francia alliance, then retaken by the Norses, then taken again. Including a peasant revolt in Rennes beating up some englishmen, Russia coming along with Jutland (norse denmark) and being beaten up, Ireland hiring three mercenary companies after losing half the combined army, Francia losing all their troops save for 6.000 men following the 500 irishmen in Britanny, Ireland being taken back with mercenaries, and a proper final battle with a 9000 strong english army menacing the 6.000 or so Irish/Francia army, being reinforced at the last minute with 2.000 mercenaries coming in boat from Ireland and the 7.000 Italian army coming out of nowhere to help their fellow christian.

The best thing in this is that England is now 20.000 men short of what they used to have. I'm rebuilding and then I'm going to holy war the crap out of them. >:)

Crusader Kings 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on November 17, 2013, 04:12:31 am

You strike the Maceman in the lower body with your +<<+iron pick+>>+ and the severed part flies off in an arc!
The Maceman has been struck down.

I'm getting back into DF and boy is it fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 17, 2013, 09:00:25 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/iH8Ivrq.png)

Nothing's better than beating up tanks and jet fighters with your robo-fists.

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Super Robot Wars: Original Generation

Also trying out different ways of resizing screenshots for future LP shenanigans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on November 17, 2013, 09:57:50 pm

Got the Enforcer for Risk of Rain, and my god, the Serve and Protect skill is amazing. Blocks all damage when the enemy is in front of you? Hell yeah! Put your back against a wall, plonk your shield down, and blast away with your shotgun. Still haven't gotten past level two yet, but it's still not at the ragequit level.

Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 04:58:42 pm

Disarmed an enemy of his sword.

Cut his head off with it.

Kept the sword.

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DF adventure mode. This adventurer's racked up a pretty impressive list of kills, mostly criminals, as this area has an abundance. His title is "The Confusing Hammerer of Budding.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on November 18, 2013, 05:06:43 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 04:58:42 pm

Disarmed an enemy of his sword.

Cut his head off with it.

Kept the sword.

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DF adventure mode. This adventurer's racked up a pretty impressive list of kills, mostly criminals, as this area has an abundance. His title is "The Confusing Hammerer of Budding.

But are you bisecting people with a mining pick?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 07:27:22 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on November 18, 2013, 05:06:43 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 04:58:42 pm

Disarmed an enemy of his sword.

Cut his head off with it.

Kept the sword.

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DF adventure mode. This adventurer's racked up a pretty impressive list of kills, mostly criminals, as this area has an abundance. His title is "The Confusing Hammerer of Budding.

But are you bisecting people with a mining pick?

No, I've never heard of that happening. You just gave me another adventure mode goal, though.

Also, this adventurer was just assassinated. I looked at the legends page for the killers, they were members of the same faction as the criminals whose camps he had cleared out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on November 18, 2013, 08:11:39 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 07:27:22 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on November 18, 2013, 05:06:43 pm

But are you bisecting people with a mining pick?

No, I've never heard of that happening. You just gave me another adventure mode goal, though.

Picks can be crazy awesome tools of carnage. Like the dwarven, more fun equivalent of lightsaber-whips.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on November 18, 2013, 08:12:43 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on November 18, 2013, 08:11:39 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 18, 2013, 07:27:22 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on November 18, 2013, 05:06:43 pm

But are you bisecting people with a mining pick?

No, I've never heard of that happening. You just gave me another adventure mode goal, though.

Picks can be crazy awesome tools of carnage. Like the dwarven, more fun equivalent of lightsaber-whips.

Indeed. I've been doing it for a while now. I'm carrying around 12 picks on my person.
My autoattack is a rain of blood and death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 19, 2013, 12:41:50 am

I got to the mines of Cloakwood. Pro-tip: Actually getting to the mines is half the work. Let me lay it down for you.

There are four areas to be traversed to get to the mines themselves. The first area is a little woodland area of no real interest. There is a fight with some druids and a few spiders, wolves, and tasloi (ugly little things with spears).

The second area is the spider nest. Spiders everywhere, in packs of 6-9, mostly Huge Spiders, with an occasional Giant Spider. There are dozens of web traps that WILL ABSOLUTELY RUIN YOU. Imoen didn't actually have a high enough trap finding skill to find them, because I'm a dumbass, so I had to use the tried and true method of 'Run over the trap, then run back to the group and hope you don't get webbed, poisoned, and die like a dipshit.' It worked perfectly, allowing me to easily vanquish the few Ettercaps I encountered. Then I got to the Spider's Nest, with Centeol, who is grossly disfigured. She summons a sword spider (BAD FUCKING NEWS) four Giant Spiders, two Ettercaps, and I think she can cast spells. Or maybe not. Anyways, I kill all this crap, and move on.

The next area is another woodland area with another fight with some Shadow Druids. Easy enough.

Then final area is the area with the Wyvern Caves. Wyverns have some of the nastiest poison in the entire Baldur's Gate series, and that is seriously saying something. I clear out the Wyvern caves with minimal difficulties, and get to the Mines. There is a little Motte and Bailey, and in the first palisaded area, you encounter two fighters and two mages. This is usually a rough fight because they're well equipped, but I separated the fighters from the mages and horrored them, then killed one of them while the other ran away. I slaughtered the mages without their meat shields. Then I returned to the Friendly Arm Inn because I needed to sell some shit. Then I hunted down Captain Brage because holy shit Cloakwood Mines are fucking ridiculous.

Baldur's Gate: the Original Saga

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 21, 2013, 07:45:01 am

This one isn't really about me owning, but it was pretty cool nonetheless.

So, I spawn in and quickly get my bearings, cuz I haven't logged in this game since last year. I run to the nearest terminal and switch classes to Combat Medic, the only class I spent cert points in.  :-[

The squad leader of the squad I was dumped into buys a Galaxy troopship and yells for the rest of us to get on board. So me and the other 3 squad members run to the thing and strap in, taking off for the nearest hotspot (one of the biolabs if I remember right). There were tracers lighting up the sky ahead and dog fights going on, shit was going down, man. So, we start taking ground fire and we start lowering alt. One of our squadies panics when we take a heavy hit and exits the ship, squashing himself flat on the ground below, lol nooblord. The rest of us hold on while our valiant leader gets us in under the flak fire.  8)

We ram into the side of the lab and exit quick, taking cover inside. We sneakily run to point A and begin camping, pretty confident the enemy was too busy fighting against our allies outside to notice. Well, here comes one MAX suited tango with double anti-infantry mounts and shreds our leader and our heavy assault. So me and engineer-bro start going full auto on the guy, making him break off, buying enough time for me to rez our fallen allies. Engi-bro deploys a turret and our allies cover the other entrance, in case we get flanked. Welp, here comes Tango-1 again, bursting our heavy down again, but this time takes a rocket to the face, and mass dakka puts him down hard, so we break for point B after i rez our fallen dude again.

This time though, Tango-1 gets a few buddies and comes back, setting us into a protracted siege where we covered our only entrance with every thing we had. It looked pretty grim, as more and more of them poured in heedless of losses against our combined dakka, Stalin be proud. We start giving cheezy heroic speeches like "Thank you for your service, comrades!".

We start getting hammered and I couldn't afford putting away my heal gun, when we start hearing explosions close by. Well, wouldn't you guess it, Nooblord had spawned back at the warpgate and loaded up another troopship with a bunch of guys and came back. Feeling very heartened by this we begin pushing back out towards point A again. After a protracted battle and 2 more reinforcement waves, we take the area and raise a great shout! Hip hip hooray for Nooblord!

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This was Planetside 2, we were Terran vs the Vanu. It was glorious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 22, 2013, 06:58:02 am

Got my first ever MAX kill on Planetside 2, Terran Light Assault vs. NC MAX.

He must've been using a trackpad, because he couldn't seem to move his view fast enough to keep up with me circle strafing and occasionally flying over him. It was glorious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 22, 2013, 11:04:44 pm

I absolutely stomped the top floor of the Iron Throne tower.

You come up the stairs, and are immediately beset by: 2 priests, 2 mages, 3 fighters, and several doppelgangers. The mages (Bard and a mage, truth be told) both turn invisible and start lobbing damage spells at me. The priest starts trying to cast dominations and such, but my party is hasted, blessed, resistant to fear, and prepared for this confrontation. Minsc rushes across and assaults a mage and a fighter. Jaheira summons a swarm of wild dogs on top of the archer/halberd fighter, and keeps casting entangling. Dynaheir casts horror and magic missile at the mages, disrupting the closest one's spell casting. Khalid deals with the Doppelgangers (We love him so, but he must take the easy jobs, disadvantaged as he is. Surely you understand, poor fellow.) and my character butchers a priest, a fighter, and the mage that Dynaheir is disrupting. The enemy forces are surprised by the speed and power of our counter-assault, and most of the spell-casters die pretty much immediately. Minsc wails on his fighter to great effect, and the dogs pile onto the fighter/archer, slowly tearing her to shreds. We mop them up in record time.

The first time I ever did this fight, seven or more long years ago, the bad guys BUTCHERED me. Absolutely butchered. This time, I slaughtered them with ease.

Baldur's Gate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2013, 12:16:26 pm

Invaded Utopia. Sent three massive troop carriers, carrying well over 60 troopers in total. Parked them all in the same spot somewhere in Utopia's orbital path, then sent all three to attack the planet. Utopia's ion cannon disabled one, but the other two managed to reach the planet. All at once, the defenders of Utopia shredded the (now empty) transports, but left the disabled one alone, while the Ancient Guardians simply said "Stop attacking us!". While the ground battle was going fairly evenly, the third transport, still disabled, somehow floated right into Utopia, dropping it's load. The defenders of Utopia, who were previously outnumbered roughly 2-1, suddenly surrendered, giving me control of the best planet in the galaxy, about 50-100 ships with maxed out tech, and Utopia's massive space port and defense batteries. I proceeded to retire all the Ancient Guardians' ships for their tasty tech bonuses(most of them, for some reason, kept giving progress on Indestructible Compounds, which I wasn't really researching).

My tax income went from -~40k(tourism more than covered that) to over 1 million instantly.

In the meantime, I am building two abandoned planet destoryers, although my spies have discovered that the Boskara are building one of their own. And since the bugs have had no qualms about spying on me(badly), parking fleets in orbit around my worlds, and even one or two isolated attacks on freighters, I'm gonna use it on their homeworld.

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Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 24, 2013, 12:02:37 am

Beat Knee-Deep in the Dead in Doom in one sitting, which took about a month of effort the first time. It's a bit embarrassing to see that some levels previously took me 20 minutes to complete. I think the ZDoom automap shows some things that the vanilla map doesn't, but I'm still absolutely smashing my previous playthrough. I have no idea why I used to suck so badly at Doom. :(

Doom, obvs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 24, 2013, 12:14:27 am

Oh I get like that sometimes. I'm rather surprised by how short some games I used to play actually are. I put it down to I used to explore a whole lot more, because I didn't know for sure whether or not there was something behind that permanently locked door or not.

Recent ownage... uh... I can perform a proper combo in "Skullgirls"? "lp - lk - mk - fwd hk -cancel into qcb - qcf kk" for Painwheel. Combo inputs and me have a "practice-then-get-finger-cramp" relation. I much prefer fighters which allow moves to be queued to a degree, unlike Street Fighter IV which requires insane timing skills to pull off regularly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 24, 2013, 12:33:47 am

I beat Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga legitimately (Read: Without cheating) for the fifth or so time ever in my entire life.


Sarevok is an engine of destruction. He's absolutely horrifying. Dynaheir used an entire Wand of Monster Summoning that I bought for THIS EXPRESS PURPOSE ENTIRELY ON SAREVOK. HE KILLED ALL OF THE SUMMONS. HE KILLED LIKE 50+ Gnolls, 30+ Hobgoblins, and UNCOUNTED wild dogs. My main character, Minsc, and Khalid kept dashing in and slashing him once or twice until he refocused on them, then they'd dash back out before he killed them. Imoen used ALL her Arrows of Piercing and Biting and most of her +2 Arrows. Dynaheir cast ALL THE MAGIC MISSILE (Some 14 Magic Missiles. 14 x 5 = 70 individual 1d4+1 missiles), and Jaheira cast all her useful buffs and stuff, then plinked away with +2 bullets and slashed Semaj to blood ruins on her own, because badass.

I BARELY killed Sarevok with the cheesiest tactics ever. He's a fucking monster and my favorite villain ever for it. Course, Irenicus has MUCH better lines. "I cannot be caged. *kills a high level wizard with a flick of his wrist* I cannot be controlled. *Kills another* Understand this as you die. Ever pathetic, ever fools. *Turns the last to stone and casually explodes the statue*"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 24, 2013, 08:03:07 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on November 24, 2013, 12:14:27 am

Oh I get like that sometimes. I'm rather surprised by how short some games I used to play actually are. I put it down to I used to explore a whole lot more, because I didn't know for sure whether or not there was something behind that permanently locked door or not.

Recent ownage... uh... I can perform a proper combo in "Skullgirls"? "lp - lk - mk - fwd hk -cancel into qcb - qcf kk" for Painwheel. Combo inputs and me have a "practice-then-get-finger-cramp" relation. I much prefer fighters which allow moves to be queued to a degree, unlike Street Fighter IV which requires insane timing skills to pull off regularly.

let's see... standard punch-to-kick combo, cancel into QCB something, i assume flight, QCF KK = Buer Overdrive? That air super?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 25, 2013, 04:48:32 pm

I won Half Life 2: Episode 2

I despise striders with all of my being.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 26, 2013, 09:13:34 am

I beat The End by tranquilizing him.  It was hard, but I finally beat him by following his footprints when he ran, then sneaking up on him and shooting him when he stopped running. An hour of doing this later, and I have received a shiny new Mosin Nagant as a reward.

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Metal Gear Solid 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 26, 2013, 04:04:01 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 26, 2013, 09:13:34 am

I beat The End by tranquilizing him.  It was hard, but I finally beat him by following his footprints when he ran, then sneaking up on him and shooting him when he stopped running. An hour of doing this later, and I have received a shiny new Mosin Nagant as a reward.

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Metal Gear Solid 3

Did you remember to hold him up for his camo too? Free stamina in sunlight and 100% camo rating!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mesa on November 27, 2013, 09:46:55 am

Never has juking as Genji felt so satisfying while dealing sneaky damage with his AA. People don't realize how powerful it is coupled with his mobility, even though the DPS itself is subpar. Hell, I didn't even rush my AA upgrades this match, wihch is what I usually do, instead decided to build into Cocoon (with lifesteal, droid morph and slow).

If you know how to juke peoples like Skolldir and Froggy you truly feel like a god.

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Awesomenauts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 27, 2013, 12:46:45 pm

Quote from: hector13 on November 26, 2013, 04:04:01 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 26, 2013, 09:13:34 am

I beat The End by tranquilizing him.  It was hard, but I finally beat him by following his footprints when he ran, then sneaking up on him and shooting him when he stopped running. An hour of doing this later, and I have received a shiny new Mosin Nagant as a reward.

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Metal Gear Solid 3

Did you remember to hold him up for his camo too? Free stamina in sunlight and 100% camo rating!

I did hold him up at one point, but I shot him because I didn't know about the camo.  :'(
But now I know for my next play through, thanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on November 28, 2013, 10:10:50 am

Beat the Rebel Flagship with the Mantis B cruiser, one of the harder ships to play successfully(you start with zero weapons. No, I'm not kidding, this is pure boarding actions in the beginning). Why ownage, you ask? I managed to snag, and bring online, a burst laser mk-3 in SECTOR 1!

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FTL. Man, that was a fun run, though it did take a bit to bring him down with just a mk-3 and a hull smasher for hull damaging weapons

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 28, 2013, 10:34:22 am

Quote from: Reudh on November 24, 2013, 08:03:07 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on November 24, 2013, 12:14:27 am

Oh I get like that sometimes. I'm rather surprised by how short some games I used to play actually are. I put it down to I used to explore a whole lot more, because I didn't know for sure whether or not there was something behind that permanently locked door or not.

Recent ownage... uh... I can perform a proper combo in "Skullgirls"? "lp - lk - mk - fwd hk -cancel into qcb - qcf kk" for Painwheel. Combo inputs and me have a "practice-then-get-finger-cramp" relation. I much prefer fighters which allow moves to be queued to a degree, unlike Street Fighter IV which requires insane timing skills to pull off regularly.

let's see... standard punch-to-kick combo, cancel into QCB something, i assume flight, QCF KK = Buer Overdrive? That air super?

Pardon, didn't see your reply earlier.

"lp - lk - mk - fwd hk -cancel into qcb k - qcf kk" for Painwheel.

Yes, QCB + K   I meant, Painwheel's helicopter thingy. QCF KK is Buer Overdrive, you should be able to catch the opponent with the air grab when they're bouncing off the ground from the FWD HK (That's the one where you hit up to 4 times with the pinwheel blades.

I'm pretty sure if I was nimble enough you could add another rotation in by hitting them with a normal air move, landing and repeating the "lp - lk - mk - fwd hk" or some variant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on November 28, 2013, 03:00:08 pm

Got a 1.2 km Critical Hit and destroyed the enemy aircraft in one salvo with my Lagg-3's cannon in arcade mode.

War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 29, 2013, 12:59:01 pm

Quote from: greatorder on November 24, 2013, 10:29:14 am

Quote from: Akura on November 23, 2013, 12:16:26 pm

Invaded Utopia. Sent three massive troop carriers, carrying well over 60 troopers in total. Parked them all in the same spot somewhere in Utopia's orbital path, then sent all three to attack the planet. Utopia's ion cannon disabled one, but the other two managed to reach the planet. All at once, the defenders of Utopia shredded the (now empty) transports, but left the disabled one alone, while the Ancient Guardians simply said "Stop attacking us!". While the ground battle was going fairly evenly, the third transport, still disabled, somehow floated right into Utopia, dropping it's load. The defenders of Utopia, who were previously outnumbered roughly 2-1, suddenly surrendered, giving me control of the best planet in the galaxy, about 50-100 ships with maxed out tech, and Utopia's massive space port and defense batteries. I proceeded to retire all the Ancient Guardians' ships for their tasty tech bonuses(most of them, for some reason, kept giving progress on Indestructible Compounds, which I wasn't really researching).

My tax income went from -~40k(tourism more than covered that) to over 1 million instantly.

In the meantime, I am building two abandoned planet destoryers, although my spies have discovered that the Boskara are building one of their own. And since the bugs have had no qualms about spying on me(badly), parking fleets in orbit around my worlds, and even one or two isolated attacks on freighters, I'm gonna use it on their homeworld.

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Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi.

Whenever I find a rival faction building a planet destroyer, I find the name of the construction ship building it and send spies to sabotage its construction.

After a few goes, the world destroyer blows up.

Funnily enough, I did sabotage it right away. I never found it again. Not sure if I blew it up, but even the marker on the map disappeared. It took some savescumming to pull of a 1-month operations map theft(because the success chance you're shown doesn't account for defending spies), but there was nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on November 29, 2013, 03:45:03 pm

My guess is they finished it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on November 29, 2013, 04:06:32 pm

Playing as an American mechanized force against a soviet mechanized force, with the soviets on the defense.   I randomly select a location for a map.   It's mostly plains, with a single small town in the middle, but it's close enough to my side that it doesn't really affect the battle.  I have two platoons of mechanized infantry, two mechanized scout units, five self propelled mortar sections, one platoon of main battle tanks, one mechanized command unit, one heavy machine gun section, and four platoons of infantry (Don't ask why my mechanized infantry force had more regular infantry then mechanized infantry).   Neither side has air superiority.   I begin my assault.   My tanks bypass the town and travel along the southern edge, following behind my scout.   One of my mechanized infantry platoons goes along the northern edge, again following behind a scout.   One mortar follows each of these advances, while the rest of my forces quickly occupy the town to use it as a command and artillery post.   My two flanking attacks have differing levels of success.  On the southern approach my scout hears enemies ahead, and I dismount my scout section, who then continues advancing and spots a unit of enemy APCs.  While my four tanks get into position my mortars adjust their aim and get ready to fire.  I give the order, and while the APCs and their infantry are suppressed my tanks quickly take them out, beginning their advance, driving all the way through their southern defenses.  At this time my forces in the north make contact.  I order my scout to retreat while I begin retargetting my mortars and prepare my mechanized infantry, thinking this will be an easy mop-up.   They quickly advance up the road, but are ambushed by three soviet main battle tanks.  Two of my APCs are demolished before the infantry can dismount.  I attempt to have them take cover in the nearby trees, but only one can retreat before being gunned down.  I order all my mortars to open fire on the locations of the tanks, and leave them targeting there for a while.  At this time I order my infantry in the town to advance, attacking straight down the middle of the enemy defense line.   They make contact with a few scattered forces, which are taken down with few casualties on my side.   When they finally run into stiff resistance , I get my mortars into position and open fire, while my tanks continue their drive from the south.   Being in the open the soviets don't stand a chance, with machine gun fire from the west, tanks to the east, and my mortars raining down from above.   My victory is absolute, with the majority of my casualties being from the tank ambush.   

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Armored Brigade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 02, 2013, 09:28:16 pm

I survived the second terror mission without losing any soldiers. Almost lost my colonel assault badass, after he got a facefull of chrysalid and an exploding car to top it off (a stray shot from one of my other soldiers ignited said car, btw), leaving him at one health and poisoned. Thankfully my support was nearby with the medkits.

There were soooo many chrysalids, dear god. We killed 20 aliens in all, including the zombies. Nothing but chrysalids, zombies, and countless civilians standing around waiting to be chrysalified into more horrifying chrysalids.

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XCOM:Enemy Unknown on Classic Ironman

I think this may be the run that wins me the game. Best run so far, no countries have left yet, I've had minimal casualties, everything is coming up Milhouse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on December 02, 2013, 09:31:50 pm

I'll continue spreading the word of SHIV.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on December 02, 2013, 10:39:07 pm

Team Fortress 2. Playing that Goldenrod City map. I'm a sniper, using the Machina. Only had a few minutes, so I go out and just start shooting. My god, I've never gotten so many headshots. And I was shooting about as fast as I could reload. Normally my aim isn't anything to write home about. I must have been channeling the god of sniping, himself.

BOOM! HEADSHOT!
BOOM! HEADSHOT!
BOOM! HEADSHOT!
BOOM! DOUBLE KILL!
BOOM! HEADSHOT!

I will probably never do that again, but it was incredible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 02, 2013, 10:47:46 pm

I got my highest XP amount yet, 1650, from a really good match where I got 7 kills. Even though it was a draw, I still did a huge amount of damage (5.2k) in my Ferdi.

World of Tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 02, 2013, 11:29:54 pm

Walking around, quick drawing people with a rifle. Straight in the head.

I also employed some pretty sneaky stealth, if I may say so myself.

My name was The End, making it seem that much better. I quickly rose to number one on my team in terms of kills.

Build And Shoot / Ace Of Spades Classic

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 03, 2013, 12:14:40 am

Quote from: greatorder on December 02, 2013, 09:29:38 pm

Countries tend to stay with me until about the third month. At that point, it all falls apart.

I don't really have this problem, because I choose what continents I want to protect at the start, and only focus on them and don't care about anyone else.
So only half the world hates me.

Quote from: Xantalos on December 02, 2013, 09:31:50 pm

I'll continue spreading the word of SHIV.

And this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 03, 2013, 01:19:06 am

So there was a muton berserker caught out in the open. Both my heavies could see it. I put both heavies on overwatch for two turns while I got the rest of my squad in position. The berserker doesn't move due to him seeing my heavies go on overwatch both turns, effectively pinning him in place helplessly while I ready my squad to open fire.

On turn three the first heavy shoots, hitting the berserker and triggering its "free move toward whoever shot it" ability. The berserker moves closer. My second heavy then shoots it, drawing it even closer. The berserker gets too close and walks within four tiles of my two assaults, right into an ambush. Close Combat Specialist triggers on both of them, giving them both free shots on the berserker. Both shots hit, and the berserker is killed. Just as planned.

All this in one beautiful choreographed turn.  So satisfying to set that up.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown again.

I love the assault class so much. Too much fun to go run right up to mutons, flank them, and blast them with scatter lasers using rapid shot. Too much fun to do that to any alien, really.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on December 03, 2013, 02:32:07 pm

AoE spells in Dragon Age Origins.
Hey. Hey bandits.
So I heard you like 56 damage a round.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 03, 2013, 06:24:42 pm

Wizardry 8.

Party of 6 dracons.

Who needs wizards when you can breath freaking ACID using only your stamina?

Now to see how long it takes before I find something immune to acid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 04, 2013, 12:26:09 pm

Make sure you teach one of your divine casters rest all as soon as you can.  Also if I understand the stats properly I don't think anything can be *completely* immune to a damage type.  And at higher levels even the highest resistance values didn't seem to reduce damage all that much.

Not sure how much applies to the dracon breath though.  My Dracon Fighter was usually too busy 1 shotting big things with a greatsword to spend a turn using his breath.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 04, 2013, 01:05:09 pm

I had one squad of: Me (Officer with handgun and M16), three soldiers (M16, grenades), a Grenadier (M16+M203), Machine Gunner (M60), and a Sniper.

We were over a small wooded knoll, and about 200 meters beyond the knoll was a small village with roughly 16-20 enemy soldiers of varying equipment. I advanced far to the right and ordered the squad to crawl in from the front. I took out a couple guys after the bulk of my unit started firing, but I noticed something. I lost three in the opening salvo. Well shit. I keep advancing, and get to the side of the building I was crawling towards, losing everyone but the sniper in the process. The sniper continues killing for a moment, then gets capped by a long range burst from their PKM operator. I toss a couple grenades over the building, and run around the corner. A soldier is about ten feet away, facing towards my squad's corpses. I blast him with a couple rounds, and dash past, into the barn forming the small village square. I wait a moment for someone to rush toward the dead guy, reload my gun, and dash next door into the house. I look out the first window, and see a couple dead bodies. I look out the next window, and see three soldiers flat on the ground. I edge around, bullets slapping into the window frame and the wall behind me, and I kill the Officer. The AT soldier moves forward, and I blast him off his feet. I edge back around the door jam and kill the machine gunner that killed my sniper.

After that, I swept the small village pretty thoroughly and found no more living enemies. I basically killed over half of them myself. Epic victory, especially on this game.

Arma: Cold War Assault or, alternate title, Operation Flashpoint

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 04, 2013, 06:26:45 pm

Quote from: Greiger on December 04, 2013, 12:26:09 pm

Make sure you teach one of your divine casters rest all as soon as you can.  Also if I understand the stats properly I don't think anything can be *completely* immune to a damage type.  And at higher levels even the highest resistance values didn't seem to reduce damage all that much.

Not sure how much applies to the dracon breath though.  My Dracon Fighter was usually too busy 1 shotting big things with a greatsword to spend a turn using his breath.

I could make them all lords so they have health regen and learn heals at level 5.
Or Valkyries to make them cheat death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on December 04, 2013, 07:08:52 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on December 04, 2013, 06:26:45 pm

Quote from: Greiger on December 04, 2013, 12:26:09 pm

Make sure you teach one of your divine casters rest all as soon as you can.  Also if I understand the stats properly I don't think anything can be *completely* immune to a damage type.  And at higher levels even the highest resistance values didn't seem to reduce damage all that much.

Not sure how much applies to the dracon breath though.  My Dracon Fighter was usually too busy 1 shotting big things with a greatsword to spend a turn using his breath.

I could make them all lords so they have health regen and learn heals at level 5.
Or Valkyries to make them cheat death.

How often do Valks have cheat death? :)
Lords tend to be decent characters. I do enjoy me some Alchemists though! :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on December 04, 2013, 10:47:39 pm

"Okay," I said. "It's seriously time to kill Alatreon. For real."

So I did.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 04, 2013, 11:43:18 pm

Quote from: Korbac on December 04, 2013, 07:08:52 pm

How often do Valks have cheat death? :)
Lords tend to be decent characters. I do enjoy me some Alchemists though! :)

Valks cheat death, quite honestly, pretty stupidly often. It's kinda overpowered. Particularly when you take into account that they go back to almost full health when they do, and the only downside is they fall unconscious, which lasts maybe 2 turns.
Lords are sweetness, but yes, Alchemists are my single favorite class. The early combination of cure light wounds and acid splash is pure genius. And they give you free potions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on December 05, 2013, 03:44:36 am

I learned about the stat bug on the PC version of the game. Extreme min maxing HO!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on December 05, 2013, 05:09:09 am

I remember the time I sad my Saurian (is that what their called? the lizard people) fighter with Snake Speed at lvl 7. That was fun :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 06, 2013, 09:12:41 pm

First mission of my latest Ironman Impossible attempt. Down to my last recruit. Five turns in. Two dead, one critically wounded this turn. Recruit has one hitpoint left. About to RAEGQUIT. ;_;

Resigned to losing the first mission. Right up until recruit Ryan Keenan hits three 15% shots in a row to kill the last two sectoids. Three!

He's now an Assault. 52 Will, 59 Aim. I may never use him again, but he saved the life of another recruit, and for that, I salute him. He does Ireland and X-COM proud.

X-COM: Enemy Unknown. May the luck of the Irish be with you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 07, 2013, 12:59:25 am

Playing with Vibranium. I realized that if you pump some electricity into it, it goes into CRITICAL MELTDOWN mode after a few minutes of pretty oscillating current.

To defeat Captain America, apply lightning.

Powder Toy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on December 07, 2013, 07:15:08 am

Two Battle Copters, an Anti-Air, and a Recon/AA combo sent down to block his tertiary base capture was all it took for the enemy CO to surrender. We had barely gotten started!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Advance Wars By Web

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 07, 2013, 09:08:07 pm

Tournaments, so many tournaments. All of them my victory

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Mount & blade Warband. My primary source of income is tournaments since SOMEBODY who's name may or may not be King Ragnar can't defend my damn fiefs.

EDIT: I blame King Ragnar, but i know it's my fault. Nonetheless I'm rich due to tournaments.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 07, 2013, 11:16:24 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on December 06, 2013, 09:12:41 pm

First mission of my latest Ironman Impossible attempt. Down to my last recruit. Five turns in. Two dead, one critically wounded this turn. Recruit has one hitpoint left. About to RAEGQUIT. ;_;

Resigned to losing the first mission. Right up until recruit Ryan Keenan hits three 15% shots in a row to kill the last two sectoids. Three!

He's now an Assault. 52 Will, 59 Aim. I may never use him again, but he saved the life of another recruit, and for that, I salute him. He does Ireland and X-COM proud.

X-COM: Enemy Unknown. May the luck of the Irish be with you.

X-COM is so awesome, it'll give you 3 15% in a row, and then your 95% rocket launcher will explode in your face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on December 08, 2013, 01:13:33 am

The problem?

Either a long drawn out space race with my parts getting destroyed by spies, or a long drawn out chug to the last 10% ofthe req 52% of the landmass.  Either way I was well ahead.

The solution?

The UN Secretary-General seat and no less than 32 ICBMs.  And a few tactical nukes for good measure.  With nobody else in the world alive, I voted myself communist theocratic dictator and leader-of-the-world-neener-neener of America and won the 'diplomatic' way.

BTS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 08, 2013, 02:25:22 am

I unlocked 2 characters and almost beat the game in an utterly epic run as the Enforcer.  My goal was to beat the third level.  When I activated the 3rd level's teleporter, I my planted shield and set my back against a wall.  Cue a giant red stone colossus spawning and pinning me against the leftmost side of the level.  Me, and my 5 attack drones opened up, while a mass of enemies pressed in.  I used shield bashes, stun grenades, and dozens of shotgun blasts to push them back, while the colossus loomed over me.  The tide of ever respawning enemies brought my health down and down, even through my insane health regen (2 leech seeds, 3 meat chunks, and a monster tooth, and be aware that the leech effects apply to all the mob piercing damage Enforcer can do).  But my use item was the lantern that makes enemies flee.  With that up I could regen faster than I was damaged.  It became a tense race to survive long enough for its 40 second cooldown to finish and use it again.  After a while it became clear there were too many enemies, so I ran out under the cover of a stun grenade.  I then kited the enemies over a long plateau until there was nothing left.

This was the furthest I had ever gone.  The difficulty was at impossible, and I came to a magma level I had never seen.  I pretty much expected to die at this point.  To my dismay, the difficulty upped to "I CAN SEE YOU" and then "I AM COMING FOR YOU".  Then the difficulty meter started laughing at me.  And I started laughing right back, because I was fucking surviving.  My character had, with shields, almost a thousand health.  The more enemies came, the faster he regenerated, and I found 2 transfusions.  In the end, the only thing that did me in was the weird shape of what is presumably the second to last level, which caused a ton of new enemies to spawn before I figured out how to advance.  Also I learned that the shots of the robot enemies can pierce the environment when I tried to set my back to a wall that had a robot behind it.  Ah well, no regrets.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 08, 2013, 02:48:11 pm

Blasted the bruiser brothers to bloody bits with my combat shotgun while kiting out of their line of sight and shooting in their general direction.

Quite satisfying to fire towards enemies and hear the demonic howls of pain as my shotgun's fantastic spread tears into them. Enemies can't even shoot back because they can't see me, and I technically can't see them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DoomRL, playing as a scout specializing in the shotgun skills

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on December 09, 2013, 01:41:26 pm

Things were looking dire. Blue Moon forces were slowly but surely advancing on the northern front, and on the southern front they had brought in another Rocket battery trying to break the stalemate that I had only managed to enforce by virtue of a Neotank batallion, which were now repairing in a nearby city after suffering a surprise strike by Battle Copters. While I've managed to hold them off for now, it's only a matter of time before they'll break my lines and seize a definite advantage.

But then I notice something, a weakness in their ranks: All that's protecting my own forces from breaking past their lines and targeting their rocket batteries is a single infantry regiment that isn't even at full strength. But alas, my tank unit can't deal quite enough damage to take it down and give my Neotank a clear line to their artillery.

At least, that would be the case if I hadn't just finished fully charging Black Storm.

A single button press later and Blue Moon has lost fully 20% of their forces, while I've replenished my Neotank batallion to full strength, and a B. Copter squadron to half strength. The light tanks move in and take out the cannon fodder, the Neotanks take out half their rockets in a single salvo, and the other half is crippled by the copters. With their long-range capabilities all but gone and the rest of their frontline units weakened, the rest of the Black Hole forces pressed on and started cleaning up, prompting the Blue Moon CO to surrender in the same turn.

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Advance Wars by Web. Replay is here (http://awbw.amarriner.com/replay.php?games_id=203459) for whoever is interested.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on December 11, 2013, 07:38:03 pm

After a long gruesome campaign, I've managed to won Enemy Within with just four soldiers on classic difficulty. The regular classes with lots of gene mods. I think the hardest mission was probably the first EXALT covert op, because the operatives were really tanky and I didn't have enough firepower or enough shots to take them all down. Luckily I had rockets at the time. So now I have three fancy new achievements and plenty of time to start playing with MEC's again.

Ready or not Ironman Impossible, here I come. (Please be ready with the coffins)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM : Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on December 11, 2013, 08:04:46 pm

Quote from: Kydrasz on December 11, 2013, 07:38:03 pm

After a long gruesome campaign, I've managed to won Enemy Within with just four soldiers on classic difficulty. The regular classes with lots of gene mods. I think the hardest mission was probably the first EXALT covert op, because the operatives were really tanky and I didn't have enough firepower or enough shots to take them all down. Luckily I had rockets at the time. So now I have three fancy new achievements and plenty of time to start playing with MEC's again.

Ready or not Ironman Impossible, here I come. (Please be ready with the coffins)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM : Enemy Within

The coffins will cost you 45.   It will cost more if you lose a second soldier.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 11, 2013, 08:11:02 pm

Quote from: Kydrasz on December 11, 2013, 07:38:03 pm

After a long gruesome campaign, I've managed to won Enemy Within with just four soldiers on classic difficulty. The regular classes with lots of gene mods. I think the hardest mission was probably the first EXALT covert op, because the operatives were really tanky and I didn't have enough firepower or enough shots to take them all down. Luckily I had rockets at the time. So now I have three fancy new achievements and plenty of time to start playing with MEC's again.

Ready or not Ironman Impossible, here I come. (Please be ready with the coffins)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM : Enemy Within

My first EXALT mission involved large amounts of rockets and a no ammo MEC running around punching people.  So... yeah.  My idea of "covert ops" isn't exactly covert.  I also had a mission where I took out four consecutive coms relays one turn after another, so that EXALT had to go four turns unable to shoot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on December 11, 2013, 11:25:10 pm

Decided to make the Sandpipe line of Hunting Horns. Upgraded it all the way up to the second-to-last form, and decided to take it out and have some fun.

Suddenly, I understand this weapon. Much better than I understand, say, the switch axe or the gunlance. This.. IS MY DESTINY

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 14, 2013, 11:35:09 am

Just created a matter-generator in the powder toy, it used a black hole and protons to generate noble gases, uranium, and plutonium. There was a hydrogen byproduct.

it was amazing!

... then I forgot to save it D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 14, 2013, 07:28:29 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on December 14, 2013, 11:35:09 am

Just created a matter-generator in the powder toy, it used a black hole and protons to generate noble gases, uranium, and plutonium. There was a hydrogen byproduct.

it was amazing!

... then I forgot to save it D:

So powder toy does fusion, then?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on December 14, 2013, 08:25:14 pm

oh wow powder toy sure has come a long way since i last messed around with it...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 14, 2013, 11:29:00 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 14, 2013, 07:28:29 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on December 14, 2013, 11:35:09 am

Just created a matter-generator in the powder toy, it used a black hole and protons to generate noble gases, uranium, and plutonium. There was a hydrogen byproduct.

it was amazing!

... then I forgot to save it D:

So powder toy does fusion, then?

Yep. It does that. It does a lot of things.

There are some new things that I don't like, though. Like virus. Except for mixing stuff, it's pointless.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on December 15, 2013, 12:33:37 pm

I understood around one half of the ACT math portion, and that's a new record. Other three sections were dandy, though, very confident in those.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life: Junior Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 15, 2013, 05:15:40 pm

Not necessarily an own but it will lead to them in the future:
I have found the weapon for me. Gunlances offer a really good combination of combos, damage, attack speed, stagger power, and general everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Every Monster Hunter game with Gunlances ever, really.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on December 15, 2013, 09:10:49 pm

Just finished up a Deathwatch campaign.

It ended with an entire Hive City on fire as the Imperium and two Chaos factions fighting in a three-way battle.

Then Necrons showed up. The finale ended up with us fighting a Necron Overlord at the very top of the city itself, by cutting him in half with his own hyperphase sword. We earned about ~3500xp total for that particular section of the campaign. Next part will probably involve fighting a Lord of Change.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uh, Deathwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 16, 2013, 12:59:52 pm

Got a SAA. Fanned it, bouncing bullets off walls, killed a few people, felt like a baws.

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MGS3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on December 17, 2013, 07:39:19 pm

Assault on an abductor class landed ufo. I moved everyone up towards the doors, got everyone in position in cover, and had my support open the left-hand door. Which immediately activated, in order:

One group of mutons.

A group of sectoids protecting a Mectoid

Another group of mutons on the central catwalk, this one including a Berserker

If you're keeping score at home, that's 9 enemies in the immediate area, two of which could count as minibosses(well, the mectoid at least!). I IMMEDIATELY pull my support back to full cover, have one of my heavies rocket the mectoid to knock off some health and destroy the sectoids to prevent them shielding it, and then finish it off with my sniper. I get lucky in that the mutons hang out just out of vision on my troops(rxcept for one that decides to snipe from the catwalk) and take out the berserker with my MEC next turn by pummeling it. At this point, three cryssalids deside to join in the fun, but compared to the mutons, I'm not too worried about them. I take down the cyrssalids, and the mutons helpully double-move to stack up on the door, making for an immediate rocket, followed by a grenade or two. This wipes the group out, and I clean up the remaining mutons, and take out the outsiders a few turns later for a win where only one of my troops spends any time at all in the hospital(for only 3 days!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 17, 2013, 11:37:32 pm

I survived my first day rather easily. I avoided the zombies for the most part, and managed to acquire a saw, a hammer, a nailed ball bat, a shotgun and 40-ish rounds, a pistol and around 70 rounds, a big hiking bag, about 30 or 40 nails, several skill books, and a goodly supply of odds and ends such as a water bottle, painkillers, beta blockers, sleeping pills, and assorted other items. I mainly scavenge for food from refrigerators and suchlike on my journey. First stop? Twiggy's bar, to get my bearings, because it is right next to a grocery store, a large warehouse, a small hotel, and is near the center of town.

Next stop? The logging camp, in the next town over. To find a fire axe that I can break down the Gun Shop's door with. (I have guns and ammo to last me, but I intend to make the Gun Shop my base of operations. I'll set up a farm and such around it once I manage to expand the premises a bit, after I have all the items I might need.) It's a long journey, through the forested highway region. Forests are bad because of the extremely limited visibility. If I get caught at night by a large group of zombies in the woods, with no where safe to go barricade, I'm pretty much screwed, even with my guns. I have to either manage to get to the camp in one day, rest up, and then get back in one day, or I need to use the gas station in between the two towns as a forward base. We shall see soon.

Project Zomboid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 18, 2013, 01:37:10 am

Can you light the forest on fire?
That could solve it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 18, 2013, 07:30:39 am

Every single slaver in The Den has been introduced to the wonderful world of automatic shotguns. Face first.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 18, 2013, 07:31:50 pm

I have finally secured my first victory using a hunting horn ever.
And every single battle is a suave as all hell musical now.
It is glorious.

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. I might just have to make these babies my main weapon.

EDIT: Did I say musical? I mean I'm crushing wyverns with a giant electric guitar made of dragon bones while running twice as fast as normal and striking with the power of a god.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 18, 2013, 09:55:32 pm

Fucking. I get to the Logging Camp. No fire axes. No axes of any sort. I come all the way back and find an axe in the hardware store three doors down the street from where I started.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

And then the Gun Store had a security gate on it. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

But I am LOADED with goodies.

Project Zomboid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on December 19, 2013, 09:21:52 am

Got hit by an Inkie, flailed about, actually killed something, and survived. More dumb luck than any amount of skill, but apparently luck likes me in this game. I can't count the number of times I've been bumped by a Biter because I was just outside of their lunge.

Amorphous Plus.

Also, I really need to find a group of fellow Monster Hunters. The only thing better than running around with a hunting horn is running around with a hunting horn along with three other people with hunting horns. Even better when they all have different notes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 19, 2013, 03:25:10 pm

If all goes well, I plan on getting Monster Hunter 3 U for santa day. Are you on WiiU?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on December 19, 2013, 03:29:08 pm

Nah, MHFU for the PSP. I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to connect over the Internet, just local in-the-same-room stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: bertix on December 19, 2013, 06:39:23 pm

Quote from: kisame12794 on December 19, 2013, 03:29:08 pm

Nah, MHFU for the PSP. I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to connect over the Internet, just local in-the-same-room stuff.

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

Basically alows hacked psp to do it over the internets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on December 19, 2013, 07:26:13 pm

Holy crap. I'll check that out, thanks man. Perhaps I can finally hunt with others again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 21, 2013, 02:31:22 pm

Found a spot where I could hit the final boss where absolutely none of his attacks could hit me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alundra.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 21, 2013, 03:33:58 pm

Blew up the cyberdemon with napalm and missiles. Haha, feels good man.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DoomRL

Playing a marine on "Hey Not Too Rough". Specializing in dual pistols, I've also branched into shottyman for the auto reloading rocket launchers and double shotgun. Got red powered armor, napalm launcher, a missile launcher, dual speedloader pistols, double shotgun, and da BGF900. Very awesome.

EDIT: Also just blew a mancubus into a pool of lava with my double shotgun. He promptly melted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on December 21, 2013, 07:34:32 pm

Assuming CLIVAN operates much the same as IVAN, at least in regards to the Enner Beast, here are some tips which take it from "OH GOD WHY" to "Godamn Enner Beast breaking all my armor and non-flesh limbs", which while still anoying, is usually significantly less lethal.

Spoiler: Tips on killing the enner beast (click to show/hide)

Before you enter the level take all your potions in bottles out of your inventory and drop them on the ground next to the down stairs. Put as many of your healing potions into cans as possible, this allows you to still heal from them without a risk of them breaking them.
You also need a non-lantern light source before entering the level, there are quite a few ways to get this, flaming sword, glowing rocks, ect.
The first thing you want to do upon actually entering the level is use a scroll of detect material and detect "enner beast flesh".
This allows you to know exactly where it is, so you don't have to spend ages wandering around and getting pounded by it before finding it.

Use haste as soon as you see him/get close if you have it.
You may also want to use a wand of teleportation if you are getting badly damaged and need to escape.

The closer you get to him the more damaging he gets, so closing for melee is risky, even if you deal tons of damage. The best way is typically spam fireballs/wands of striking at him from as far away as possible (but still making sure to hit him) until he dies. You can also 't'hrow wands at him which have a pretty decent chance of breaking upon hitting him which will probably instantly kill him (if you can pull it off properly, it might require high agility or strength or something to make sure it breaks when you throw it).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 21, 2013, 11:41:44 pm

During a UFO raid some seekers show up and go into stealth mode. After my MEC punches the face off the outsider we were dealing with, I huddle the rest of my guys in some cover to wait until the seekers become visible again. After a couple of turns on of the seekers attempts to strangle the medic. All of my overwatches trigger, only one shot lands. Next turn we manage to kill the seeker before it strangles my medic to death, so the medic starts catching his breath.

He's the only guy left with a turn after everyone else wasted bullets trying to shoot the first seeker, so I put him on overwatch in case the other seeker appears. His aim would be terrible, due to him catching his breath and the seeker's natural defense, but it's better than nothing.

So then the second seeker attempts to strangle another teammate. The medic turns around and blasts the seeker in one shot with his laser rifle, spouting a one liner "Bye bye." as he does so, chance-to-hit be damned. Mission ends. Badass vengeance.

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XCOM: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 23, 2013, 02:15:47 am

In one turn my battleship managed to practically win the war against the Norak Continuum on it's own. The captain of the "Onii-chan my cannons are moving on their own" would be given a medal if i could give them one.

 

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Space Empires V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on December 23, 2013, 02:23:17 am

Won my first competitive ranked game today, even got MVP once!

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Counterstrike GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dorsidwarf on December 23, 2013, 05:15:32 am

Malf AI in SS13.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 23, 2013, 12:13:34 pm

Having completely conquered the Dhayuts, and getting sick of the Gizureans' spies, I refit my main attack fleet, and park them next to the Gizurean homeworld before declaring war. Rapid victory followed, and I promptly shoved an offer of Subjugated Dominion down the survivors' throats. This put me in control of 31% of the entire galaxy population(33% for victory. Was 26% before conquest).

I start turning my fleet to the Sluken empire(damn bugs where everywhere around me), who were also spying on me far too much. Before they even arrive, I run across a lost colony with 2 billion people on it. Game won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi.

By the way, how do you trigger the Shakturi's return? I've never seen it happen. Nothing in the game editor mode seems to be something to trigger it either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on December 23, 2013, 12:45:32 pm

Last weekend was double XP, so I spent a bit of time online playing. I earned about 700 certs and with what I had before was able to buy a new weapon. First time in the VR training room to test stuff out, and when I tried the GD-7F I was sold.

No underbarrel grenade launcher, but they nerfed that so it won't shoot straight anyway, so I probably won't use it anymore.

After buying it in the real world I join my outfit's platoon and spawn in at a biolab attack. I'm teleporting back and forth supporting the teleport room in the biolab and securing the satellite base that gives us that teleport access. During this whole thing I get nearly two dozen kills with my new gun, including several MAXes which I have never killed except a couple times with bouncing betties.

Plus, I haven't bought all the upgrades for the GD-7F so it's only gonna get better!

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 23, 2013, 04:37:53 pm

I just cheesed the training Giadrome fight so hard.
The entire thing was a given anyway, since I'm somewhat experienced at the game, and it's the first major enemy, but I cheated so bad.
I put it to sleep with the Sleeping Knives they give you, and then I set up the two large bombs next to it, and boom, insta-killed.

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on December 23, 2013, 07:51:12 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on December 23, 2013, 04:37:53 pm

I just cheesed the training Giadrome fight so hard.
The entire thing was a given anyway, since I'm somewhat experienced at the game, and it's the first major enemy, but I cheated so bad.
I put it to sleep with the Sleeping Knives they give you, and then I set up the two large bombs next to it, and boom, insta-killed.

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Sounds like you *puts on sunglasses* put him to bed and then blew him.
Up.
*Takes off sunglasses* I don't think I did this right, let me try again.
Ok ok say it again.
*Drops sunglasses* Dammit!

YEEEEAAAAAAH!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 23, 2013, 08:06:05 pm

More MHFU good stuff, since I've been playing so much today.
Made a whole Kut-ku armor set for Gunner. The fire resist is insane, and I managed to end up with +30 health, Attack Up (Medium) and Fire Res +5 after throwing decorations in it.
My god, I never want to farm these stupid ears ever again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 23, 2013, 08:11:35 pm

I rolled a Lich King with Eidetic Memory and the Crow spell.  :o

Ended up getting over 7000 gold out of that character, completely clearing both the castle and the forest before my inevitable demise. Also got a couple of blueprints and two new runes. All in all, a very successful ancestor!

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Rogue Legacy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nightscar982 on December 23, 2013, 10:16:13 pm

Playing a CQC city fighting map in RO2 and doing terrible. Hero SL1 (ie me) keeps dying so people can't spawn on me, and having trouble getting past the first two objectives. We eventually capture them, and I die  a couple more times trying to take the other two objectives. I walk down a corridor to where my team mates are holed up. One or two of them try to walk out the door to to the objective and they get gunned down by approaching Germans.

I walk out the door, sub machine gun one German facing to my right, gun down another  two as they run through a ruined door about 3m away. I run into the objective and  hide in a corner when the German commander proceeds to poke his head up in front of me to throw a nade. I pop a silencer revolver bullet into his head. I die, respawn, and we win a few moments later. Za  Stalina comrades.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 24, 2013, 11:08:51 am

HELL YEAH JUST KILLED A PLESIOTH I DON'T EVEN CARE IF IT TOOK TONS OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES AND SLEEP COATING

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on December 24, 2013, 02:35:28 pm

Does the Plesioth in MHFU have the memetically bad hit box for hip checks, where you can be on the opposite side of where he's aiming and still get hit by it? I'm nowhere near being able to take one on, but I aim on getting a water element Bow from its bits at some point.

My own:

Crazy-ass monkey jumping around and eating shrooms was no match for a bow made from a giant, fire breathing chicken. I haven't been using bombs at all, probably should since they seem to retreat more often than I'd like.

May not seem like much, but I think the farthest I ever got in the original was a Rathian, I think. The hardest part is the camera controls... and trying to learn how to Greatsword again, but I'm currently enjoying the Bow for its speed and versatility. Never liked the Bowgun, myself.

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 24, 2013, 02:47:00 pm

I'm using the Kut-ku bow myself, and it's pretty good.
And yes, the Plesioth has the ridiculous hip check that can strike down gods who are standing 10 feet behind it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on December 24, 2013, 11:05:02 pm

There was a bridge of crazy augmented people between me and my waypoint. And unfortunately I didn't see a way around them because my stealth would not last that long. So I decided to try it anyway but failed because I stood up and attracted their attention. I quickly tossed a gas grenade, taking out several. Then I rushed forward, tased one guy and knocked down two other. Tased another, backed up a bit so the next two augments could line up for a takedown. Which they did. I tased a guy leaning against the railing, then rushed the last two augments and took them down.

Then I looked back and realized there was a side passage I could have used... Woops.

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Deus Ex Human Revolution

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on December 24, 2013, 11:51:02 pm

Me, IRL.
I sold a winter crate for CS:GO on steam market for 1.31. that's pretty kick ass imo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on December 25, 2013, 01:44:05 pm

TD-moded a hellcat trying to climb the hill after my 13f3 on Karelia. I destroyed his EVERYTHING. Also, finally managed to nail a tiger who seemed to be charmed against steel rain; my shots seemed to go everywhere BUT straight into the tiger. But when it mattered most(he was charging a low-health medium), BOOM, hit him for lots and set him on fire to boot, destroying him :D

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World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 26, 2013, 12:35:59 am

Playing Empire Total War earlier today. As Prussia. We sat and waited, building up massive armies and money before we launched our all out assault on the rest of Europe. Funny enough, Prussia starts with two provinces, disconnected and isolated. A tiny pair of little swathes of land in a massive hellhole of nations that hate them.

As a US Marine General once said, "We're surrounded? Those poor bastards."

Austria declares war on us, and attacks my town, Berlin. I had 8 regiments of Line Infantry, 4 12-lb cannon units, two Regimental Cavalry units, and the General. Austria sieges, and waits outside my town with an almost perfectly equivalent force. One small caveat. My force has Ring Bayonets, Canister Shot, and actual mobile cannons.

It wasn't a battle. It was a SLAUGHTER. Then I took Prague, Moravia and Bohemia from them (Note: There are two provinces BETWEEN BERLIN AND PRAGUE. I WALKED PAST TWO OF THEIR TOWNS BLITHELY, LIKE, "What? Do you even lift bro?" AND STOMPED A BIGGER TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR EMPIRE, RIGHT NEXT TO THEIR CAPITAL.) I sieged it, and waited. Three turns. They finally attacked me with a reinforcing army of about 400+ line infantry (Read: Three or four regiments) and the town's garrison which was an equal sized army to mine. They came at me on two sides, with superior numbers.

At no point in the battle was it ever unclear who was going to win. Prussia marches, and nations crumble.

Empire Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 26, 2013, 06:10:23 pm

I actually got close to beating Chemical Plant Zone Act 2. Eggman was still blowing up when I fell into the water. But I beat him. I found the end of the damn stage and beat him, and now I just have to do it again and be careful not to fall into the bullshit trap in the arena.

Sonic 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2013, 12:05:33 pm

After learning that trying to clear a regional school by luring the zombie kiddies out and running them over with a car does little for the condition of the car, let alone the fuel supply, I set a few bushes on fire and had them walk over them. Before long, the tiny brush fire grew into a raging fire from all the stuff dropping onto it(I think one of the adult zeds was carrying bullets, since I heard explosions at one point). Pretty much cleared most of the school like that.

So, I went from vehicular pedocide to a giant mound of flaming dead children. Therefore, best way to kill off an entire school full of children is with arson.
...But remember, this is only socially acceptable if the children are also zombies, or possibly Cthuluiod. Otherwise, people will say unpleasant things about you.

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Cataclysm: DDA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 27, 2013, 12:23:42 pm

Managed to get all of the quests ranks 1-4 done without dying once.

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MH3U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 27, 2013, 01:07:58 pm

Weaseled my way out of a tight spot, though we lost a man. We will destroy more British ships in his honor.

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Silent Hunter 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on December 27, 2013, 04:02:13 pm

Coming on the tails of my last encounter which was aptly posted in the "how I last died" thread (death to a skeletal dog), I managed to stumble across a military wreck right behind a house, with a nice army helmet hanging off one side of the frame.  Since I desperately needed better head gear (Glass Jaw combined with severe head injuries due to accidentally walking into a house full of giant black widows), I went in carefully to grab the helmet...and as I approached, I accidentally set off around half a dozen zombie dogs led by a skeletal dog hiding just around a corner.  Needless to say, I lit off back off in the opposite direction, as the pack clambered over the wreck, baying for my blood.  They probably anticipated a quick and swift kill of this prey that they could easily run down...which is when the first dog stepped on a land mine.  Some other survivor left a bunch of buried mines that I almost stumbled into myself walking out of the emergency shelter (in an unrelated incident involving a very angry moose), so it was gratifying to turn the tables and watch the earth erupt under some other pack of hapless zeds.  By dodging back and forth, I jinked most of the pack into various land mines, and one explosion even caught two of them in a single blow. 

As for the skeletal dog leading the pack?  It was the only one that avoided all the landmines.  As it raced up to me, I readied my fireaxe, desperately hoping it didn't hit me in the head even once, only for me to down it with a single lucky blow.  And thus, balance is restored, and I received my fancy new hat helmet. ^_^

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Cataclysm: DDA.  I know it's uncharitable, but revenge feels good sometimes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on December 27, 2013, 08:41:36 pm

Playing as Charlemagne on what I think is hemispheres, genned from a random mapscript picker.  Its a dry world, and I start out nutt to butt with de gualle, the frenchie.

I snag polytheism on the way to the TOA, andbuild right on top of him.  I declare onsouthern ghandi with him, wait 6 turns, and take his expansion.  We peace after I manage toconvert him.

Tge greed random quest pops up.  If I can jimmy his copper (yea, archerrush) from his capital I getfree units.  Np.  I settle by some copper, pump out Stonehenge, and get onto math.  meanwhile, he is cautious with me because of tge conversion.  He declares on ghandi with brennus.  I declare on him again, wipe out half his empire, annex the rest, conver ghandi, use the free axemen to declare on brennus and smack some sense into him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 27, 2013, 09:18:36 pm

Not how I last owned, but hearing talk of of EW Prussia made me remember this epic battle:

Spoiler: WARNING: LARGE IMAGE (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/596974051373697665/89CAAADE0946A73130FB07268455DB8B11A80038/)

needless to say there were no survivors.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on December 28, 2013, 05:23:00 pm

@Cmega, It does not, you probably accidentally sold it/ dropped it
I believe Andcient Nord is  Better then steel, but on the enchantment, it all depends.

If your going to Smith alot, keep them, if your gonna find your armor alot, sell them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 28, 2013, 08:13:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on December 27, 2013, 09:18:36 pm

Not how I last owned, but hearing talk of of EW Prussia made me remember this epic battle:

Spoiler: WARNING: LARGE IMAGE (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/596974051373697665/89CAAADE0946A73130FB07268455DB8B11A80038/)

needless to say there were no survivors.

... Wait. Wait. Wait. Why are you using pikemen?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on December 29, 2013, 12:50:50 am

Spoiler: Skyrim Enchantment and Smithing Stuff (click to show/hide)

In Skyrim, enchanted weapons have a certain number of charges on them. As you use them, the charges go down. To increase the charges (up to a maximum), you can spend a filled soul gem.

Ancient Norse equipment ranks between iron and steel:

Iron
Ancient Nord
Steel
Orcish
Dwarven
Nord Hero (available after finishing Companions questline)
Skyforge Steel
Elven
Glass
Ebony
Daedric
Dragonbone (requires Dawnguard)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 29, 2013, 01:03:21 am

Daedric actually has a higher armor rating than Dragonbone, although you might be able to enchant Dragonbone better. I can't recall if Enchanting in that game works that way.


As for my own:

What's great about Gunrunner's Arsenal? Esther. Esther the Big Beast. Esther the Almighty. Esther the Mini-Nuke Shotgun (When loaded with Tiny Tots nukes, it is absolutely horrifying. You can devastate half a town with one shot if you arc and spread the submunitions correctly.) Esther is highly effective against: Deathclaws. Lifeclaws. Marked Men. Unmarked Men. Bandits. Rogues. Wizards. NCR. Legion. The Strip. Benny. Denny. George. Groups of foes. Single foes. Tunnelers. Super mutants. Non-super mutants.

Esther beats ghost. Esther beats tank. Esther beats EVERYTHING!

(Warning: This commentator is not responsible for damage received from mininukes fired too close to one's self. This commentator had a variety of perks to reduce damage from his own explosions, explosions in general, and to his limbs, as well as Rad absorption, and therefore cannot testify to the efficiency of Esther when wielded by a non-Wolverine-esque badass.)

Fallout NV.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 29, 2013, 01:11:57 am

The fact that you have to make your character invincible to wield that weapon makes it awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on December 29, 2013, 02:30:40 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on December 29, 2013, 01:03:21 am

Daedric actually has a higher armor rating than Dragonbone, although you might be able to enchant Dragonbone better. I can't recall if Enchanting in that game works that way.

The list was for weapons, not armor. In the way of armor, yes, Daedric has a better base armor rating than Dragonbone. Enchanting only adds effects to gear; it doesn't change armor rating or damage. That would be tempering, part of the Smithing skill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 29, 2013, 08:43:31 am

Quote from: mastahcheese on December 29, 2013, 01:11:57 am

The fact that you have to make your character invincible to wield that weapon makes it awesome.

Ironically, he's just mostly immune to explosives. Everything else kills him pretty damn effective.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 29, 2013, 08:51:56 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on December 28, 2013, 08:13:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on December 27, 2013, 09:18:36 pm

Not how I last owned, but hearing talk of of EW Prussia made me remember this epic battle:

Spoiler: WARNING: LARGE IMAGE (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/596974051373697665/89CAAADE0946A73130FB07268455DB8B11A80038/)

needless to say there were no survivors.

... Wait. Wait. Wait. Why are you using pikemen?

As I recall, they had had a large cavalry contingent that was constantly attacking me while their infantry formed up. You see, that forced my infantry into odd formations. By the time I had dealt with the last of the cav, their infantry were withdrawing to the other corner of the map I had to just select all of my infantry and rush them over. Then, of course, those regiments reinforced us from behind the enemy and I caught them in the middle.

Moral of the story is that sometime your early-game pikemen get selected by accident... a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 29, 2013, 10:33:51 am

Stomped England's Dover into the ground after they dared settle on my continent, while fighting over a river with antiquated units. Cannons REALLY pack a punch.

Civ V - playing multiplayer - england is pretty much the buttmonkey, being as aggressive as Monty or Alex, but is weaker than both of them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 29, 2013, 02:24:47 pm

I had just scraped my way through a horde of enemies on less that one magazine in each weapon, using a mix of luck and gratuitous panicked use of explosives. I was almost dead the entire time, but managed to scrape through. Right near my goal, there was a huge zombie there, and I was completely out of ammunition for anything worthwhile. However, the last of my panicsplosives was still there, a nailbomb. I drop the nailbomb, and shrapnel everywhere. Once the distortion clears I see that the super-zombie was dead. And I have 1 HP.

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Teleglitch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 29, 2013, 07:14:38 pm

China finally admitted to me (Britain) that they needed our help against the Japanese in early 1939. About a week later 12 British Divisions arrived in China and began to push the enemy back. It's now July 1939 and we're approaching Korea.

Screw history, i have tanks!

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Hearts of Iron III. Sure France was left out in the cold, but we'll save them before too long. For now Asia needs to be secured.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on December 29, 2013, 09:18:32 pm

You know what they say about land wars in Asia, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on December 29, 2013, 09:36:05 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 29, 2013, 09:18:32 pm

You know what they say about land wars in Asia, right?

That tanks win everything?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 29, 2013, 09:52:37 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on December 29, 2013, 09:36:05 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 29, 2013, 09:18:32 pm

You know what they say about land wars in Asia, right?

That tanks win everything?

That global thermonuclear war ensues?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 29, 2013, 09:58:54 pm

Obliterated a Zuul fleet that outnumbered me two cruisers to one. Only lost a single point-defense cruiser in exchange!

Sadly, they also destroyed a brand new colony because my fleet decided to face off against a single Tarkan scout instead of said Zuul warfleet. *facepalm*

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Sword of the Stars.

ETA: Did it again! Slightly fewer Zuul ships, but they were utterly obliterated and I didn't lose a single ship. Considering that they started the battle off to my side and quickly closed to point-blank range, I think that worked rather well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on December 29, 2013, 10:00:31 pm

Just bought both Xcom unkown and the DLC of it,((dont know if its A die))
Will post later what might happen

tbc

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RL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 29, 2013, 11:35:50 pm

A 31-ship-strong Zuul fleet (mostly cruisers) attacked another colony. This one at least had defensive platforms up, but no mobile defenders. Though some shots managed to hit the planet, and several defensive platforms were destroyed, the colony held and destroyed a few of the attackers. The next turn, one of my warfleets arrived and finished off the rest. No losses, of course.

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Sword of the Stars again. I'm currently somewhat sandwiched between two Zuul empires, so I tend to fight them a lot. Either we all ended up in the same general neighborhood or they own the vast majority of the galaxy :p

Apparently the option to organize your defenses in advance is somewhat broken. Sensors detected a large Zuul fleet approaching, and so I set up my battlefleet so that they were facing the direction they were coming from. Except apparently something went wrong and they ended up on the exact opposite side of the colony. The colony with no defensive platforms.

As soon as I realized what went wrong, I turned my fleet about and rushed to the other side of the planet, where the Zuul were already bombarding the populace despite the best efforts of the planet-launched missiles. Thankfully, the Zuul broke off to engage the fleet instead.

There was no time for strategy, or for reorganizing the fleet. Just a brutal point-blank slugging match, with Zuul reinforcements arriving every time one of their ships exploded. Phaser and antimatter dueled with mass drivers and missile spam, and eventually the entire Zuul fleet was utterly crushed. The colony, though badly battered, survived.

The next turn, I launched an offensive against a major Zuul world. This fleet was designed from engine to bridge as an anti-Zuul task force: an Armada CnC, two PD cruisers, and my latest design, the Obliterator class of dreadnought. These guys were all about delivering delicious anti-matter-flavored death via projectors, heavy triple-barreled cannons, and regular cannons. Oh, and they projected a field in front of them that rendered them virtually immune to physical weapons like missiles.

The fleet drove directly towards the enemy world, shrugging off the initial barrage of missiles from fleet, platforms, and planet alike. Any missiles that slipped around the shield were picked off instantly by point defense. When the Zuul fleet closed in and tried to get around the shields, concentrated antimatter fire tore them apart. All the enemy fleet managed to do was slow down my own just enough that the planet and defensive platforms were virtually untouched, but that will change next turn.

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Sword of the Stars again. Yes, I have been playing this a lot lately and yes I am slightly addicted :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 30, 2013, 01:14:19 pm

Playing around with the debug menu. Learned that an M202 FLASH launcher can really demolish a town. Whereas an M3 Recoiless Rifle cannot even penetrate a car's side(even with HEDP rounds), an incinderary rocket will make the car no longer there. Swarms of zombies don't even have a chance.

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Cataclysm DDA.

I did make a car explode with the Carl Gustav, though, as long as it can hit the center of the car, possibly the gas tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on December 30, 2013, 01:36:02 pm

Got an invincibility orb early on in the level. So I start running around with my Longinus Spear (basically the BFG of melee) and wailing on people. I kill a former human and start going berserk too. I'm this whirlwind of death, running around instagibbing everything with my angelic spear. I must have killed 8 barons of hell this way, one after the next. It was glorious.

I cleared the level before invincibility and berserk ran out.

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DoomRL on Not Too Rough as a Scout

I was originally going for a shotgun build. After getting the chainsaw I wanted to do a melee hybrid. Cleared the Cathedral and got the spear. After raiding the Vaults and getting legendary armor that makes me 25% faster, I'm really dang fast and can run and shoot at will. This is going well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 30, 2013, 02:29:07 pm

Doing some random online battles in Pokemon Y.  I get matched up with somebody using a bunch of legendaries.  I'm using a Talonflame, Jolteon, and Tyrantrum.  Distinctly not legendary.

Battle starts with my Talonflame vs their Zekrom.  For the lolz I have my Talonflame use 'Me First' instead of switching to Jolteon.   

My Talonflame manages to outspeed the Legendary and uses Zekrom's signature Bolt strike against it, inflicting a significant amount of damage and paralyzing it.  And the paralysis ends up preventing the Zekrom from countering.

Next turn my opponent forfeits.  Giving me the win.   Talonflame OP.

Pokemon Y

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 30, 2013, 02:35:30 pm

I fired all three of my Tiny Tots Mini-nukes at Ulysses, his Eyebot backup, and the half dozen Marked Men that were wailing on ED-E. Absolutely NOTHING survived. As a side note, it is REALLY satisfying to watch 21 micro-nuclear explosions go off, mushroom cloud and all, on the asshole boss that is heretofore invincible. I don't care how fast you heal, if I just fucking nuke you, YOU LAY DOWN AND DIE.

Then my game glitched and I talked him down instead, so now we get to go Back-to-Back Badasses on these Marked Men. FUCK YEAH! Two couriers, one in a duster and breathe mask, the other in a full set of Advanced Riot Gear, with HUD-equipped gas mask, full body armor, and a badass long coat over it all, plus a massive arsenal of various weaponry, standing at the base of a nuclear missile as a swarm of semi-Ghouls pour into the room in the dozens. THE STUFF OF LEGEND!

Fallout NV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on December 30, 2013, 03:45:49 pm

Started playing Risk of Rain because I was bored and I remembered it was helluva fun.
Played with the same settings I had it when the time I ragequitted it (because of that damned scepter of the ancients).
Merc, Monsoon.
WIN.

I AM BECOME DEATH.
DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on December 30, 2013, 03:49:17 pm

Not really me but my cousin.

He was playing Legion Commander, farming the jungle for most of the game. He came out to kill a hero every so often to boost his damage. Then a teamfight happens at toplane, his team gets crushed but he was at the dire's bottom tower destroying it. Shadowfiend tps in then gets murdered four seconds afterwards, Clockwerk shows up late and traps himself with LC. He did not survive. My cousin took the tower and the barracks then went off to kill Roshan.

Right before the Radiant won, their Magnus decided to push LC into the fountain. It ended up getting him, Clockwerk, and Shadowfiend killed. He had a WTF?! reaction to my cousin strolling out to buy a divine rapier after killing them. This sums up my cousin's reaction. "OP? OP."

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on December 30, 2013, 05:06:41 pm

July 1939: British tanks storm Nagasaki, and begin the march to Tokyo.

September 9, 1939: British tanks secure mainland Japan and the government flees to Germany.

With that Asia is under our control, now we turn our attention to Europe.

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Hearts of Iron III.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 30, 2013, 05:52:14 pm

Quote from: Greiger on December 30, 2013, 02:29:07 pm

Doing some random online battles in Pokemon Y.  I get matched up with somebody using a bunch of legendaries.  I'm using a Talonflame, Jolteon, and Tyrantrum.  Distinctly not legendary.

Battle starts with my Talonflame vs their Zekrom.  For the lolz I have my Talonflame use 'Me First' instead of switching to Jolteon.   

My Talonflame manages to outspeed the Legendary and uses Zekrom's signature Bolt strike against it, inflicting a significant amount of damage and paralyzing it.  And the paralysis ends up preventing the Zekrom from countering.

Next turn my opponent forfeits.  Giving me the win.   Talonflame OP.

Pokemon Y

Wait what? Zekrom's half-Electric, and in X/Y Electric typing makes you immune to paralysis. Or am I missing something?  ???

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 30, 2013, 06:35:24 pm

Quote from: Thexor on December 30, 2013, 05:52:14 pm

Wait what? Zekrom's half-Electric, and in X/Y Electric typing makes you immune to paralysis. Or am I missing something?  ???

It was definitely paralyzed.  Though I think it was also full effectiveness, which also shouldn't have happened now that I think about it.   Hacking maybe?  I would think the game would catch something like that though, and hacking to remove stab doesn't make sense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: foil on December 30, 2013, 07:17:07 pm

Walked round corner, Boss enemy fell in sand, end credits?

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Uncharted 3.  wtf kind of ending is that?  Outstanding game otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on December 30, 2013, 07:35:07 pm

Quote from: wer6 on December 29, 2013, 10:00:31 pm

Just bought both Xcom unkown and the DLC of it,((dont know if its A die))
Will post later what might happen

tbc

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RL

I think the continued posts of this would be better suited for the "How did you die" thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 30, 2013, 08:08:12 pm

Quote from: Greiger on December 30, 2013, 06:35:24 pm

Quote from: Thexor on December 30, 2013, 05:52:14 pm

Wait what? Zekrom's half-Electric, and in X/Y Electric typing makes you immune to paralysis. Or am I missing something?  ???

It was definitely paralyzed.  Though I think it was also full effectiveness, which also shouldn't have happened now that I think about it.   Hacking maybe?  I would think the game would catch something like that though, and hacking to remove stab doesn't make sense.

That makes sense. I was wondering when you said "did lots of damage", given that an unhacked Zekrom also has a double resistance to Electric. Past generations were very bad about detecting hacked Pokemon, so I'm not surprised... Wonder Guard Spiritombs were absolutely a thing once.  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 30, 2013, 08:53:01 pm

I gave Twin Blades a go...
I made the Flamestorm for luls and the results were magnificent in every regard.
I killed a Low Rank G. Jaggi in all of 20 seconds without even using Demon Mode, and took down a Rathian in about 5 with.
This is much better than when I used a Longsword or Switch Axe.
And they said sharpness was going to be a problem. This is only because everything within a 30 meter radius dies instantly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on December 30, 2013, 09:59:37 pm

One hell of A blast, my shotgunner((named Goldy locks)) went right up to A muton and tazed it, Well, it worked, with A 20% chance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 30, 2013, 10:52:03 pm

I finally finished the Divide, and wandered back into the Mojave. Oh good god, these poor fucks are so screwed. My weakest side arm instant kills NCR troopers at 100 meters. My 'weak' Marksmen Carbine is a god like sniper rifle of DEATH. The Anti-Material Rifle with AP rounds that I've been using like it was the only gun I had because it was the only gun that kills shit in the Divide that isn't a Fat man? The AMR is a Death Star. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. Four guys died. How? I dunno, but fuck em.

I walked into a town full of NCR troopers that were laying some lead down on me with their service rifles, my Blade of the West casually slung across my shoulder. I waited a moment. Six or so NCR troopers dropped a clip or two into me EACH and my health barely moved. Then I took out my sword and took them apart, one by one.

I walked into a big room full of Powder Gangers with Maria, the named 9mm pistol. Single headshots each. Death everywhere.

I come up a rise, and a team of elite NCR Rangers, the Deathsquad that hunts you down when you've pissed off the NCR, they come walking up and give me their spiel. I pick a fight with them and utterly DESTROY THEM. These guys can kill WELL DESIGNED level 30 characters with EASE. I fucking stomped them into the dirt like they were a bunch of half-wit chump motherfuckers out on their first hunting trip. This is absolutely amazing. The Divide was fun, don't get me wrong. But in the Mojave proper? Against the vast majority of enemies, I am GOD. I am that which goes bump in the night. I am the reaper of souls, the bringer of pain and the ender of life.

I. Am. The. Courier.

Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 31, 2013, 03:32:37 pm

The Khergits are sieging the one city I own.
Swadia has 180 units defending, they have 700ish attacking.
End of the battle, Swadia has 70 units down, Khergit is down almost 400.
They all ran away.
At this point I'm considering leaving Swadia, though. Literally every town is looted so I can't get any troops, and we're literally at war with every surviving nation. (Everyone but the Rhodoks. They died.)

EDIT: For some reason, when I look at my post here, something about it just feels off. As though it is of some sort of lower quality than my other ones.\

DOUBLE EDIT: Mount and Blade: Warband (Thanks Sirus)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 31, 2013, 03:49:28 pm

Might have something to do with the fact that your post is summoning meteors as we speak...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on December 31, 2013, 04:03:32 pm

Well from what I can tell its the format, but otherwise it doesnt seem very off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on December 31, 2013, 07:43:15 pm

I made a pretty heft haul off of this free dungeon.
1 beam Katana (Endgame weapon. 243 attack points when most weapons have like 50)
2 Remotes
Various "top tier" weapons (for my shop level)
Armor
100, 000 Hell. Chump change in the grand scheme of things but enough to give my main fighters armor and weapons to the few who didn't find new ones in the dungeon.

I decided to spend half of the money outfitting a Lenneth who was my Valkyrie Apprentice, but is currently a reincarnated Ronin. She's been using starting gear for a while, but still manages to keep up with the boys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 31, 2013, 07:47:27 pm

Quote from: UltraValican on December 31, 2013, 07:43:15 pm

I made a pretty heft haul off of this free dungeon.
1 beam Katana (Endgame weapon. 243 attack points when most weapons have like 50)
2 Remotes
Various "top tier" weapons (for my shop level)
Armor
100, 000 Hell. Chump change in the grand scheme of things but enough to give my main fighters armor and weapons to the few who didn't find new ones in the dungeon.

I decided to spend half of the money outfitting a Lenneth who was my Valkyrie Apprentice, but is currently a reincarnated Ronin. She's been using starting gear for a while, but still manages to keep up with the boys.

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on December 31, 2013, 09:05:18 pm

Makai Kingdom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xardalas on December 31, 2013, 09:55:23 pm

Right here, I found a nice vantage point and started to unload upon the enemy tanks.Took about two dozen popshots at a few tanks far off. Missed most of the time, hit em twice.  Took two out tanks and crippled a third in the flat area below me which was finished off by teammate beside me. Had a missed shot land next to me so I relocated about two buildings to the left. Popped out and finished off three more wounded, nearly dead tanks.

At this point I'm one of the last three tanks on my team and I've burnt through most of my ammunition.  I popped out of my cover and expended the last of my ammunition taking out a sixth and final tank.  At which point, I was hammered into oblivion by the shells of pretty much every tank on their team.

Posting this here because hey, I died but I took six of them fuckers with me. Not to mention I had pretty much their entire teamed pinned in that little area. Screenshot below in the spoiler! :P On the bright side, for a defeat, I got nearly 1k experience.

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World of Tanks(http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/k617/Xardalas/shot_003_zpscba6bfed.jpg) (http://s1118.photobucket.com/user/Xardalas/media/shot_003_zpscba6bfed.jpg.html)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on December 31, 2013, 11:21:30 pm

I'm playing as the Space Marines several turns  in.  On the very first area I took next to my stronghold I took the time to heavily fortify it.  I built up my main base so that I had three defensive locations that my marines could hold, a secondary base that had all available facilities and two defensive positions, and a tertiary base by each relic that had a machine cult and chapel, plus bolter turrets.  Every Strategic point was heavily fortified, with most having two bolter turrets.  Each of my bases also had several plasma generators. 
The Tau attacked.  It was over in less then five minutes.  My outpost immediately opened fire, destroying many of their units and delaying their base construction.  I immediately pumped out six or seven marine squads, two predator tanks, and several dreadnaughts.   By the time I got them over to their base I had terminators, who I used to deep strike behind their fire warriors.  The only casualties were two outpost and a bolter turret.     
I did the same for the other area connected to my stronghold, along with the spaceport, so I'm very confident in my ability to withstand just about any attack. 

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 01, 2014, 01:42:12 pm

So a fairly substantial Tarka fleet attacked one of my worlds. 21 battlecruisers of various kinds, none of which I had seen before. On my side was a dreadnought-class CnC ship and a small collection of cruisers of my own, nearly half of which were non-combat types. Plus some destroyer-class defense stations, but if it came down to those the colony was doomed anyway.

It was brutal, but oh-so awesome. Its a good thing that I spent so much time preparing to fight the Zuul, because if anything the Tarka were even more reliant on missiles. Even my point-defense-heavy fleet had a difficult time stopping them all as the Tarka fleet closed in for a slugging match, and my barrage units could barely slow the alien cruisers down. Soon enough, space became filled with energy blasts of various kinds as I struggled to identify the greatest threats and concentrate fire on them. The Tarka ships were more maneuverable, but I kept my fleet formation as best I could and before long the rather tough battlecruisers began to explode. It took an entire half of the battle time limit, but the Tarka ships perished.

Then the second wave closed in. Thankfully the battle ended soon afterward, because these ones had deflectors which rendered missiles virtually useless. Thank goodness I focus so heavily on energy weapons.

All in all, 13 Tarka cruisers went down in flames. My only loss was cruiser on the front line, though considering the Tarka's deflectors and the fact that the cruiser in question was equipped with an antimatter projector, I think I will be missing that ship when round two rolls around.

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Yes, Sword of the Stars. Not content to sandwich me between two Zuul empires, now there's a Tarkan empire right on my doorstep. This will be fun. Or !!FUN!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 01, 2014, 02:39:01 pm

Aww yiss.

You get one shot. If you miss, you hit your party member.

(http://i.imgur.com/fEgDSox.jpg)

Organ Trail: Director's Cut

Context: Tiruin got abducted by a bandit. Meanwhile, Skyrunner went to pee and got bitten by a zombie.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on January 01, 2014, 06:42:31 pm

I am invading in Upper Sen's Fortress, as I like to do. I spawn near the boss door, and habitually check the condition of the firebomb thrower and the crossbow hollow. Any sign of life from either would clue me in to the position of my target, but they remain still.
What does clue me in is the telltale sign of damage from the stone dropping giant. This is a tricky situation, for I do no always make the jump to the tower, much less the jump to the giant's area.  Still, my options are limited. A moment is taken to cast Replenishment before I make the plunge.
I make the landing, and the battle commences.
He wields a uchigatana, a very common weapon. Bleed would have been an issue, but I happen to be clad in pieces of Black Iron, so it's not an issue to me. He also has a Dark Wood Grain Ring, resulting in him flipping harmlessly through my attacks. This game of cat and mouse continues for a moment, him slashing at my shield and I waving my axe harmlessly through his flips. Eventually I manage to strike him once, a strike that liberates him from a good portion of his health. I've invaded quite a bit, so I know what comes next. He attempts to retreat to consume Estus, but I interrupt this maneuver by lobbing a Lloyd's talisman at him, barely catching him in the effect. The future of this battle is obvious-unless he can manage a backstab before I can strike again, he's surely doomed. He must not have thought it was possible, for he leaped down the hole.
I was given only a moment to process this move, to think that if I let him do this then he would surely disappear into the fortress, before I followed suit. I threw out a plunging attack in a slim hope that he had hesitated on the ground. My reward for this precaution was the delightful sound of a successful attack, and the sight of my target, still mid fall, falling to the ground.
Target Destroyed. Returning to your world with newfound Humanity.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on January 01, 2014, 07:23:46 pm

It was A simple pission really, check why this fishing town in new zealend went dark, and if necessary exterminate any Aliens.

about 20 mentiutes later were sprinting into the ship, shooting chrysallid after chryssalid, and then A swarm of them come out of the whale Hive, we promptly sprint away, but the Mec trooper got surrounded, and one of the support troopers blast him one straight in the face, allowing the mec trooper to keep running,It ran A little bit more before they caught up to it again, and by then everyone else was on the Evac point and ready, THe sniper snipes one of them, but another takes its place, trapping it again, The mec troopers fires once more into the horde surronding it, killing it instantly, before it is eviscerated, however because of her sacrifice, the remaining squad ran away with there lives, and countless civilians were saved from the onslaught form the crysilads when the Airstrike pinpointed the beacon and blew the town straght to hell. And when the recoverty team came in, we recovered the broken mech, she did not surive, and the mech was a barely repairable, requiring alot of meld, which we do not have at the moment

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Xcom- Enemy within.

She killed 16 total, 8 in that mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on January 01, 2014, 08:03:22 pm

Maginot Defense Mission. 1 Sniper, No legs, on roof. Proceed to destroy 20 drop ships with engine shots, killing at least 50 dummies.

Cortex Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 01, 2014, 09:57:06 pm

I was feeling extreme today, so I'm like:
Let's take out the Pink Rathian with these Matched Slicers (The weakest dual blades in the game)
Took about 40 minutes and 10 Whetstones, as well as all my Antidote and Mega Pots, but she went down.

EDIT: Need to stop summoning meteor storms, I do.
Monster Hunter 3 U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on January 01, 2014, 10:07:17 pm

Quote from: Reudh on January 01, 2014, 02:39:01 pm

*snip*

If you aim just so the barrel splits into 2 parts, you always kill the bandit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 02, 2014, 12:33:12 pm

Encountered Twinmold, the dungeon boss, at about 3PM on the Third Day. I put on the mask that made me as big as they are.

Battling with two massive flying worms amongst crumbling ruins while the very world itself is shaking due to a moon about to crash into it. That's just an awesome picture.

After striking them both down, I proceeded to the clock tower to the final battle. That went... well, check the death thread.

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Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 12:41:31 pm

I encountered a glitch that lets me effectively have stat scores of 100 from level 2.

Hilarity ensued.

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Dragon Age Origins. Only works on the PC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 02, 2014, 01:01:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 12:41:31 pm

I encountered a glitch that lets me effectively have stat scores of 100 from level 2.

Hilarity ensued.

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Dragon Age Origins. Only works on the PC.

PM, please?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 01:08:25 pm

Done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 02, 2014, 01:09:19 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 02, 2014, 01:01:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 12:41:31 pm

I encountered a glitch that lets me effectively have stat scores of 100 from level 2.

Hilarity ensued.

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Dragon Age Origins. Only works on the PC.

PM, please?

Also me plz.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 01:11:32 pm

Hey Sirus, can you send me that PM back so I can send it to Hans?

Edit: thanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on January 02, 2014, 01:55:03 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 02, 2014, 01:09:19 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 02, 2014, 01:01:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 12:41:31 pm

I encountered a glitch that lets me effectively have stat scores of 100 from level 2.

Hilarity ensued.

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Dragon Age Origins. Only works on the PC.

PM, please?

Also me plz.

I'm also rather curious about the glitch, so... PM?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on January 02, 2014, 01:57:13 pm

Just post it, haha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 02, 2014, 02:05:25 pm

Good idea. 
1. Pick dump stat, ie magic for a warrior, strength for a mage.
2. Add all 3 points.
3. Hit reset.
4. Repeat 2-3 a billillion times.
5. Subtract points from dump stat. Keep going when it hits 0.
6. If you want more points, add them all back, hit reset, repeat. Gives you 3 points a cycle.
7. Enjoy your 500 strength PC punching people to death/500 Magic PC instakilling the final boss.

EDIT: Turns out you can only put 100 points into a stat at max.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 02, 2014, 04:45:05 pm

Playing as Tokugawa Ieyasu in his 6th chapter fight against the remnants of the Toyotomi (I believe anyways) my boys basically get knackered by the enemy's, and their entire army march on my main camp.

After charging my way back there, I proceed to annihilate every single enemy officer on my own.

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Samurai Warriors 2, basically Dynasty Warriors in Japan

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 02, 2014, 08:39:25 pm

Got separated from my team as wave 3 of 10 started, and I had no idea where my team was. I had little ammo, due to money issues, no grenades, and it looked like all the zeds were spawning around me. Also I had no idea what the map layout was like. So I start running for my life, and find a couple ammo crates. This is good, I now have a decent amount of ammo for my shotgun. I keep running, and coincidentally lead the flood of zeds following me into a long chokepoint.

This is when I take out my hsg1 shotgun and start unloading on the conga line of zombies until everything stops twitching. I killed everything following me, survived solo, cleared half the wave on my own, and made enough cash to restock all my ammo and buy me some armor next round. I then trekked across the map to find my team holding out (against the relatively few remaining zeds) the other side. On the complete opposite end of the map. This is generally a situation that would mean separated players (ie. me) would be dead players. Instead, I successfully kited and killed hordes of zeds on my own. It was quite an adrenaline rush.

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Killing Floor, playing as a lvl3 support specialist on hard difficulty, 6 players max.

support specialist's piercing shotgun pellets are hella good crowd control.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 02, 2014, 09:02:12 pm

Came upon and cleared out a farm, decided to take a couple of days off to stock up on cooking preserved food and practicing my fighting on some local wildlife, so that I'm more prepared for going into the town again later.

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Cataclysm:DDA
Why did nobody tell me how fun cooking is to be able to do? There really is something satisfying about having a character eating fruit jams and soups and such rather that crisps and TV dinners.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 02, 2014, 09:24:27 pm

Note to self: Praetorian Guards are very fucking badass. ESPECIALLY when they took all my stimpacks from me at the gates. That was a serious 'OH SHIT' moment. Thankfully I grenaded myself, and retried. This time, I tossed grenades at Caesar from a distance, and killed them all in about two frag grenades. Then I went outside, and got all fifteen or whatever of the guys outside to chase me around the back of the tent. I killed one that had a 12.7mm SMG, then used that to kill all the rest of them. (It was awesome, I picked up the gun right as the other eight or whatever came around the corner, and I blasted two of them away immediately, reloaded, killed another two, then picked up a dead guy's machete (like three of them to be precise because 100 Repair) and cut the last few to death) Then I went into the Weather Control building, and the three Praetorians in there jumped me with their Ballistic Fists. 

Fallout NV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 02, 2014, 10:48:35 pm

Yataka Ishii is a goddamn badass. His very first mission, armed with nothing but a pistol? Takes down two Sectoids with accurate long-range fire and even takes a plasma shot to the chest. Unarmored! It barely fazed him! Shame I'm not keeping this playthrough :P

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X-COM UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 03, 2014, 01:11:55 am

Started a new Pyromancer. Named him Henry P. Ham.
Killed a black knight at level 5 using only my starter gear and pyro flames - damn, it was close - i think I was on maybe 10hp by the end of it. Got some titanite and the Black Knight Shield, though i'm too weak to use it at the moment.

Then, i kindled the Undead Burg bonfire, summoned a phantom because i never had before, and he promptly helped me kill Havel and the Taurus Demon, then gave me a Demon's Great Axe as thanks. I also got myself some crossbow bolts, and bought a crossbow. Now, all I have to do is get that drake's tail.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 03, 2014, 07:08:49 am

If you've done all that you may as well grab the Zweihander and cheese the entire game, :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 03, 2014, 08:31:56 am

I beat the Water Temple without a guide. I don't really see what all the fuss is about, I had a lot more trouble with the Forest Temple in terms of puzzles :-\ The enemies in the Water Temple are a lot tougher than the puzzles IMO.

Ocarina of Time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on January 03, 2014, 08:44:28 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 03, 2014, 08:31:56 am

I beat the Water Temple without a guide. I don't really see what all the fuss is about, I had a lot more trouble with the Forest Temple in terms of puzzles :-\ The enemies in the Water Temple are a lot tougher than the puzzles IMO.

Ocarina of Time.

For me, the water temple isn't DIFFICULT, it's just a major pain. Although, both my siblings used to get me to beat it for them, so I guess for some it is a bit more of a mind trip than others.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 03, 2014, 09:45:36 am

Shot down 2 bombers and a zero over Guadalcanal before the bomber i was trying to kamikaze broke my aileron controls forcing me to jump out. Shooting anything down with the keyboard is a major accomplishment for me.

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IL-2 Sturmovik.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on January 03, 2014, 03:55:23 pm

I was happily bombing some strategic targets from mid altitude when I notice a fighter hugging the ground. One lucky 500 kg bomb later and KABLOOM. The entire match was pretty fun, with me, despite being chased by some fighters, sustaining only 30 lions worth of damage.

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Warthunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: inEQUALITY on January 03, 2014, 05:34:50 pm

Running around holding down the forward and jump keys while repeatedly pressing the kick key. Jump-kicking things to death over and over, flying across the rooms like Liu Kang in marine armor. 25 kills in under 2 minutes. Second place only had 9 kills.

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Brutal Doom mod (Doom 2). Deathmatch on Level 1, first to 25. 14 bots, myself, and a friend over LAN.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xotes on January 03, 2014, 06:23:55 pm

There's four rent-a-cop security guards down this short corridor. One's coming to investigate my position, so I lurk until he rounds the corner, smash my SMG into his face, and rush past his falling body. His three friends are all close together, two right next to each other, the third out of melee range. I hit the first man with a jumping kick, nail the far-back one with a burst of fire to stagger him, jumping roundhouse the other guard in melee range, and then unload the rest of my SMG into the staggered guard.

Total time elapsed, roughly three seconds.

Reflex mode is amazing.

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F.E.A.R.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 03, 2014, 06:46:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 02, 2014, 10:48:35 pm

Yataka Ishii is a goddamn badass. His very first mission, armed with nothing but a pistol? Takes down two Sectoids with accurate long-range fire and even takes a plasma shot to the chest. Unarmored! It barely fazed him! Shame I'm not keeping this playthrough :P

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X-COM UFO Defense

Move over, Yataka. My new Badass of the Month is now Evelyn McNeil: a rookie whose very first mission was a terror attack in  a cramped, claustrophobic London. At night, even.

Evelyn proceeded to score five kills (at least one Cyberdisk) with her brand new, untested laser rifle without taking a single hit. She went straight from Rookie to Sergeant, for crying out loud! She narrowly avoided death when another rookie went berserk and started rapid-firing all over the place in the same room she was in, and at one point was face-to-face with a Sectoid, who proceeded to somehow miss and leave itself open to laser death.

Evelyn McNeil, you are a walking moment of ownage and I salute you.

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X-COM UFO Defense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 03, 2014, 08:48:34 pm

I activated a thermonuclear bomb and had ten seconds to live. One of those seconds was spent attempting to arm a second thermonuclear bomb, just to make sure the Spider Mastermind would be extra dead. (The game responded with "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND??" It was quite funny. Apparently one nuking is enough nuking.)

So, using those last nine seconds, I managed to stand out in the open and shoot the Spider Mastermind down from "healthy" to "heavily wounded" with my two dual speedloader pistols. I absorbed her shots like a sponge, going from 150% health to 101% by the time the bomb exploded. I probably could've killed her without the nukes easily.

Sure, I died in the huge explosion, but hey, I got promotions! And I got to sacrifice myself for the good of mankind, that was a nice change of pace.

Also, this ass-kicking marine killed every last demon in Hell with nothing but pistols. 100% kills, aww yeah.

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DoomRL, playing another marine angel of marksmanship on Not Too Rough

Pistols are fun, by the end of the game I could shoot bursts of four bullets per shot --two from each pistol-- at a minimum damage of 8 per bullet, in less than a second. Max damage would be 14 per bullet, totaling  56 damage per burst, with 3 bursts before I have to reload. That's potentially 168 damage max.

That's a lot of dakka for two six-shot 10mm pistols.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 03, 2014, 10:03:31 pm

I activated the Protectron's secondary functionality for House (who I will kill soon and usurp because I am a ruthlessly evil motherfucker from hell) and get back up to the Weather Station. The guard demands I give up my weapons, so I blast the three of them with my riot shotgun. I step outside and blast the three there with my Marksmen Carbine, then sneak up to the tent. I drop several mines in chokepoints, and start blasting people at range with my Anti-Material Rifle. They rush onto my mines, and half of them just ceased to be. I hunted the wounded down and killed them execution style, then I got out my Blade of the West and entered Caesar's Tent. Eight Praetorian Guards, a Legion Mongrel, and Caesar himself versus one Courier.

They never knew what hit them. I just spammed my attacks. The Blade of the West is so badass and I had so many targets that I didn't even use VATS. I just slashed and swiped, knocking them back and killing with every other swing. Finally, I finished off everyone but Lucius, and I ended him with a spinning blade sweep, knocking him off his feet and into the tent wall. Surrounded by corpses, I went to Caesar's Throne, and I sat upon it.

It feels good to be bad.

Fallout NV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 03, 2014, 10:08:09 pm

But you were killing Legion, doesn't that make you good?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 03, 2014, 10:10:56 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 03, 2014, 10:08:09 pm

But you were killing Legion, doesn't that make you good?

I've been stomping my way across the face of the NCR for weeks now. I've killed hundreds of them. At this point, killing Legion is just continuing the trend of 'Is it in front of me and wearing a uniform or professing loyalty to someone other than me? Yes? Kill the everloving fuck out of it and loot it's corpse.' I kill anyone and everything that isn't a civilian, and some of those I kill too. This guy isn't a psychopath or a sociopath. He's an omnicidal maniac bent on murdering every motherfucker even marginally involved with the Platinum Chip.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on January 03, 2014, 10:12:33 pm

WIN ALL OF THE DRAWINGS! (I was just picked as one of the winners in the Merry Making Giveaway. Depending on what's left when I'm gotten to, I'll have won at least 6 games from you fine folks.)

These here forums. I thank you, Bay 12.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 03, 2014, 10:14:07 pm

Good job!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on January 04, 2014, 12:45:44 am

Twenty something tiles away, with a marksman skill of 0 ( and 83 percent), I headshotted a coyote for 26 damage with a slingshot. Now I just have to cut it, and cook it...

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Cataclysm: DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 04, 2014, 12:59:04 am

Solo'd the Elite Four AND the champion with my starter 'mon. Now he can be even more smug.

Pokemon Black. Snivy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on January 04, 2014, 04:50:31 am

After a major design fuckup*, I managed to pull a successful** landing out of my ass, and plant a flag on the Mun.

*I forgot to put a decoupler between my transfer and landing stage. By the time I noticed, I was preparing for the landing.
**Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. The only thing remaining was the landercan, a battery, a single RCS thruster, and a solar panel.

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on January 04, 2014, 07:33:16 am

After dying to knight Artorias an embarassing amount of times, I finally won. First boss I've really had trouble with in ages.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

I got all the masks. All of them. Then proceeded to kick Majora's ass using the best one.

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Majora's Mask. Fierce Deity Link is badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 04, 2014, 11:33:24 pm

This should come as no surprise, but if you carpet bomb eight Giant Mantises with Tiny Tots Mini-nuke buckshot rounds, they die. Really fucking fast. I don't think I've killed eight things all at the same time before. Usually it's kill five, wound three, administer mercy killings as necessary.

Also, I have eleven more TT mini-nukes. And a shitpile of Big Kid mini-nukes. Because the BK have a fuckhueg radius and can instantly kill even me. I am AFRAID to use them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 05, 2014, 04:46:03 am

Just finished a match where I dominated the scoreboard on my team.

I think I took down about a fourth of the targets with only 2 deaths.

I felt badass doing sweeps over artillery, taking down aircraft and generally being cool :P

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 05, 2014, 08:16:25 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on January 04, 2014, 11:33:24 pm

This should come as no surprise, but if you carpet bomb eight Giant Mantises with Tiny Tots Mini-nuke buckshot rounds, they die. Really fucking fast. I don't think I've killed eight things all at the same time before. Usually it's kill five, wound three, administer mercy killings as necessary.

Also, I have eleven more TT mini-nukes. And a shitpile of Big Kid mini-nukes. Because the BK have a fuckhueg radius and can instantly kill even me. I am AFRAID to use them.

The number of times I've finished that game, it's somewhat amazing that I've never actually done a 'big guns' run of any variety.

Gives me an excuse to play through it again, I s'pose...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on January 05, 2014, 10:24:22 am

I'm currently running a sneaky sniper, made even better by having Boone as a companion. And Boone is also apparently a ninja, because due to some pathing weirdness, he ran through a room with some feral ghouls in it, and they didn't react. This was at the Bright Brotherhood base though, and they may not have been hostile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on January 05, 2014, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

what in the ten fucks?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 05, 2014, 12:19:01 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on January 05, 2014, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

what in the ten fucks?

If you couldn't tell by the spelling, the joke was that I was getting things wrong about the LoZ. Mistaking Link for being called Zelda is apparently a pretty common one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on January 05, 2014, 01:25:57 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 05, 2014, 12:19:01 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on January 05, 2014, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

what in the ten fucks?

If you couldn't tell by the spelling, the joke was that I was getting things wrong about the LoZ. Mistaking Link for being called Zelda is apparently a pretty common one?

I don't get it, Majora is the deity inhabbiting Majora's Mask (or so is assumed). You don't fight the skullkid at the end, but the being possessing the mask. So the original statement was completly accurate and in no need requiring scorn from several angles...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 05, 2014, 01:38:37 pm

Quote from: timferius on January 05, 2014, 01:25:57 pm

(or so is assumed)

That's your problem right there. It's not confirmed and so is not necessarily true.

Anyway, I didn't really care, I was just poking fun at how things could be a lot worse than whatever Facekillz was angry about.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UltraValican on January 05, 2014, 01:40:48 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 05, 2014, 12:19:01 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on January 05, 2014, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

what in the ten fucks?

If you couldn't tell by the spelling, the joke was that I was getting things wrong about the LoZ. Mistaking Link for being called Zelda is apparently a pretty common one?

Very common, and I don't get why people get so upset about it.  If you've never played the game before its a generally safe assumption that the hero would be named in the title. Especially when the game isn't particularly story heavy. Its like calling Samus Metroid, if you've never played or heard of the game before why should you know a Metroid is a parasite at the very end of the game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 05, 2014, 07:33:25 pm

I've noticed that the Dragon Age Origins glitch I mentioned earlier has made me significantly more cocky in my roleplaying, making me a tad disliked in some of my companion's eyes. However, I don't need to care, as I just oneshotted a goddamned Ogre.

Dragon Age: Origins, with the severely overpowered glitch. I have 100 in every stat except for Strength, which is around -900 or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Anvilfolk on January 05, 2014, 11:26:52 pm

Spent about 5 hours playing IL-2 Sturmovik the other day on the Spits vs 109s server, and actually shot lots of people down (6 + 1 shared!) and made it back to base almost every single time. And I never actually died - always managed to ditch in the waters close to shore or eject in time. Most of this was over the Channel, in Spitfires versus 109s and 190s.

And a couple of weeks before that I actually got some pot-shots from a Corsair into two Georges and shot them down, then made it back, in the Zekes vs Wildcats server.

And before that, me and another guy on Teamspeak with Avengers shot down an enemy George in a dogfight. Avengers are so badass! Also, the enemy pilot kept stalling his plane.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 05, 2014, 11:34:41 pm

It has come to this.

I face Legate Lanius this day. I have heard stories that he is an unstoppable monster in hand to hand combat. A titan upon the battlefield. Seven feet tall, more powerful than any man has a right to be. With the mighty Blade of the East.

I destroy his men, fighting my way into his camp, my army of Securitrons decimating his forces with ease. I reach him, alone. We face each other one on one. I with the Blade of the West and my Advanced Riot Gear. Him with his Blade of the East and the Legate's Armor. Battle begins. I block his swipe, and slam him with the Mauler attack. He flies through the air and rolls down the hill behind him. I jump after him, catching him as he stands unsteadily at the edge of a fence, still on the hill. I hit him again, and he tumbles off the fence and into the camp. I drop down next to him, and slash again and again.

After a long moment, I realize he's been dead for awhile and that his Praetorians are surrounding me, battering me with Ballistic Fists and shooting me with Marksmen Carbines. I butcher them all in an instant, and move to exit the camp, when a blinding flash stuns me.

General Oliver and four NCR Veteran Rangers storm through the breach. We have a... Pleasant discussion, and I order my Securitrons to sterilize the area of NCR. I slash General Oliver once, and he goes flying forty feet into the air, over the fence of the Legate's camp, dead.

Holy shit, I am a bad motherfucker.

Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on January 06, 2014, 12:48:18 am

Saved the day with the power of music, and then was coronated! I beat the game!

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Long Live the Queen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 06, 2014, 01:33:05 am

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 03, 2014, 07:08:49 am

If you've done all that you may as well grab the Zweihander and cheese the entire game, :P

Way ahead of you, man. I already got it, and the Estoc, which is proving very nice, even nicer than the Drake Sword. I also killed the Titanite Demon or whatever he is just down the stairs from the first blacksmith, and reinforced the Estoc to +3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 06, 2014, 12:07:23 pm

Took down the last castle own by the Black Cathedral. Was held by nearly 100 Defensers de Deus. Only fought about half a dozen of them since we rushed the walls and ended the battle before more could spawn.

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Mount & Blade: Wedding Dance. There's one good thing about 1/3 of the garrison being Defensers, is that it made for a castle held by by nearly 300 troops, plus a few lords. And the Defensers are, luckily, always at the bottom of the list.

Quote from: Graknorke on January 05, 2014, 12:19:01 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on January 05, 2014, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on January 04, 2014, 06:05:11 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 04, 2014, 12:57:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 04, 2014, 12:53:50 pm

Majora

 >:(

Lol dnt u thnk Zelda is so kawaii in his green outfit. I mentnd it specially in my yaoi Zelda/BDZ fanfix lol.

what in the ten fucks?

If you couldn't tell by the spelling, the joke was that I was getting things wrong about the LoZ. Mistaking Link for being called Zelda is apparently a pretty common one?

I still don't get the reason for Facekillz' angryface, but as for the mistake of calling Link "Zelda" is probably due to the code in the original Legend of Zelda.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on January 06, 2014, 12:21:36 pm

Oh wait, I realized something. I forgot about the entire latter 7/8 of the final boss in that game.
I was about to go on a rant about how you fought Skull Kid and not Majora, but then a small door to some forgotten knowledge hit me in the face.

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You fight just the mask at the end.

So yeah, go ahead and stone me, or whatever. I have it coming, :P
On that note though, what/who the hell IS Majora? I don't seem to recall it being explained at all in game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on January 06, 2014, 12:23:16 pm

Managed to smash my way through a Glitch castle with a combination of bombs, red stimpacks, and a weapon with plenty of reach and knockback.

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Starbound

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 06, 2014, 12:37:24 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 06, 2014, 12:21:36 pm

Oh wait, I realized something. I forgot about the entire latter 7/8 of the final boss in that game.
I was about to go on a rant about how you fought Skull Kid and not Majora, but then a small door to some forgotten knowledge hit me in the face.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You fight just the mask at the end.

So yeah, go ahead and stone me, or whatever. I have it coming, :P
On that note though, what/who the hell IS Majora? I don't seem to recall it being explained at all in game.

Apparently, this is Majora:

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(http://zeldawiki.org/images/thumb/4/4b/Majoramanga.jpg/300px-Majoramanga.jpg)

A sorta non-canon manga in which Majora was a man-eating monster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on January 06, 2014, 12:43:42 pm

Nuked all of Ghandi's (not the real one) cities. He should never have attacked me.

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Civilization V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 06, 2014, 01:09:06 pm

Quote from: Erils on January 06, 2014, 12:43:42 pm

Nuked all of Ghandi's (not the real one) cities. He should never have attacked me.

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Civilization V

Are you trying to say "Now whose words are BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Chump."?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on January 06, 2014, 01:29:28 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 06, 2014, 01:09:06 pm

Quote from: Erils on January 06, 2014, 12:43:42 pm

Nuked all of Ghandi's (not the real one) cities. He should never have attacked me.

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Civilization V

Are you trying to say "Now whose words are BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Chump."?

Pretty much...especially since I am the only one who has uranium.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 06, 2014, 09:25:09 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 06, 2014, 12:37:24 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on January 06, 2014, 12:21:36 pm

Oh wait, I realized something. I forgot about the entire latter 7/8 of the final boss in that game.
I was about to go on a rant about how you fought Skull Kid and not Majora, but then a small door to some forgotten knowledge hit me in the face.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You fight just the mask at the end.

So yeah, go ahead and stone me, or whatever. I have it coming, :P
On that note though, what/who the hell IS Majora? I don't seem to recall it being explained at all in game.

Apparently, this is Majora:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://zeldawiki.org/images/thumb/4/4b/Majoramanga.jpg/300px-Majoramanga.jpg)

A sorta non-canon manga in which Majora was a man-eating monster.

Majora is mentioned once or twice as being an 'ancient evil' that was sealed inside that mask by a shaman, possibly a dragon of some variety, possibly just a huge beast.

Whatever it is, its power is high enough to be a match for the deities of Termina.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on January 07, 2014, 05:47:12 pm

Quote from: Reudh on January 06, 2014, 09:25:09 pm

Majora is mentioned once or twice as being an 'ancient evil' that was sealed inside that mask by a shaman, possibly a dragon of some variety, possibly just a huge beast.

Whatever it is, its power is high enough to be a match for the deities of Termina.

Yeah the game never really explains what Majora is.  There are some great theories about the game, but other than saying the mask was initially owned by a "nameless tribe," and that "the tribe used the wicked power of Majora's Mask in hexing rituals," there's no real explanation.

I'd totally go into a giant paragraph that was rambling pieces of theories all stuck together with scotch tape, but I'll stay more to the theme of the thread.

It's not exactly owning in a video game, but pretty recently I found my old gameboy color version of Pokemon Silver.  Thing had been missing for years, and suddenly I find it while looking for another game.  Great feeling, especially when I remembered that I had a shiny Scyther on it.

Otherwise the closest thing I've been to owning is that I've been playing this Tower Defense game that I forget the name of, beaten most every stage without letting even a single enemy pass through (I'll find out the name of the game later and post it, it's on Steam right now).

EDIT: The name of the Tower Defense is Kingdom Rush.  Pretty simple and cartoony but it's still a tower defense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 08, 2014, 03:08:27 pm

So I finally was able to complete 'Caldridge Prison' without being detected and no kills.

I feel so accomplished that I did that :P

Now to finish the game like that hehe.

EDIT: And with no sword picked up until the sewers, so I technically wouldn't have a way to fight back even if I wanted to :P

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Dishonored

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on January 11, 2014, 06:38:10 pm

So, here is A long ass brutal story of how A MEC soldier, and two rooks died, horribly, and how A badass dodged about 7 Plasma blasts.
((and lived through getting shot twice!))

    It was A standard mission, really just stop those aliens from abducting humans!
I started by running down the street with Dan hall, The average colonel, and best there was, "hardcore" was his name, so far he had about 49 kills, fucked up A bunch o aliens, but was otherwise unnoteworthy((he was assault)) I had to put two rookies on my team because the sniper and A support was on psi testing((they failed :c)) I decided i'll be careful, Que me Running towards A meld signature.
    in there was... A sectoid mec and A sectoid commander, the mec shot the commander in the butt, causing him to flee and psi shield the Mech((this was my first time having that happen)) so que me aiming at the psy shielded mec, doing absolutely nothing! the mec responded by running up to my unnoteworthy assault class, the assault class promptly fired at him, braking his sheild, it responded by blasting the shit out of the poor assault, it fell unconscious, and shortly after bled out, but wait! there was A medic! how did the medic not patch the assault dude up?
   He was possesed by the commander, he shot at the colonel, but missed, the colonel psy panicked him, he ran away, both the mec and the medic shot at him, the mec hit, but the medic missed, and oh my A group of mutons came on, one very angry and red, My other assault class overwatch-shot at him, enraging him, almost at kill range, and thenmy heavy shot at him, then my other assault class shot at him, ending he.then the 3 stooge-mutons attack, barely killing the other assault class, mean while my mec is getting fucked up, it fires one last shot before it explodes the next turn, Colonel Hall was for sure almost dead, 11 health, but he gun and runs, goes up to the COmmander, blasts him in the FACE, killing both the mec and the commander.
   By then only Colonel Hall and Heavy Goldy locks was left, GOldy reloaded, went into the next room, and the three stooges, A sectoid, and two Mecs,, the sectroid ran, and psy sheilded one of the mecs, colonel hall replied by running up to scaredy sectoid by blasting him away, killing one of the mecs and the sectoid Goldy kills the reinforcements about to burst in((with her rocket launcher))and colonel hall starts blasting away at the 15 health mec, slowly whittling it down  while in the open, getting shot at, and somehow dodges the two blasts! Again blast to the mec! And you know what happened?
   the muton, having already pissed its pants, decides to throw a grenade, blowing my cover, and now colonel hall has 7 health!
Now he fires his shotgun, the mec has 2 health, then they both fire, At this point Goldy is about ready to save the day, She blasts one of the stooges that decided to run away when colonel hall went super-Saiyen.
COlonel hall blasts away the mech, the muton hit me for no less then 8 damage, and now hes bleeding out, Goldy locks comes in, blasts that fucks face off, and then we win.

So in short, we killed a shit ton of aliens, lost two rookies and Mec((the mec driver was a colonel, but we salvaged the thing and repaired)) Had colonel hall dodge a ton of plasma, and now I am really kinda fucked, now my tanking mec is gone((should of upgraded it to tier 3)) And now I have to worry about loosing, at this point south africa might stop funding us, but otherr wise no one else is being pissed

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Xcom, Enemy within!

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 14, 2014, 11:53:03 am

Saw a black grouse flying over my camp. I decided to hell with it and throw a javelin at it. Even if I miss and the javelin goes far, far away, I figure, I can just make another javelin.

Direct hit to the chest, it drops dead instantly.

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Unreal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 14, 2014, 12:21:30 pm

I was surrounded by bogeymen, who woke me up and promptly began wailing on me. I managed to stand up and get a few tiles away, and entered a martial trance. Standing in one spot, I decapitated them all as they surrounded me.

Not sure if martial trance is OP, or character is OP.

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DF adventure mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on January 14, 2014, 12:33:01 pm

I start out playing a Fighter and realize that I picked the wrong skills, so I restart as Thief. Then I realize that Animal Ken is kinda useless and I should have taken Wizardry skill instead :/ But I guess all the puzzles are solvable with any character, so it's alright. I'm out in the forest and I die in my first bandit fight because I can't parry (no parry skill) or block (Thieves don't have a shield). What am I supposed to do? Much grinding later I realize I can dodge. Well shoot! My next bandit encounter isn't stellar, but the following one I hit my groove and down him in three hits without taking damage. Then I encounter a wolf and kill it with one quick stab! 30 second dance party.

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Heroine's Quest: Herald of Ragnarok

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 01:35:24 pm

I just beat the resident Legendary with my Magikarp.

Pokemon Black

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 14, 2014, 02:26:03 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 01:35:24 pm

I just beat the resident Legendary with my Magikarp.

Pokemon Black

Wat.

What level was it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 14, 2014, 02:42:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Ah.  That's...um...well, that's rather interesting, I suppose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:46:29 pm

Pure offense and potions up the arse win everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 14, 2014, 03:07:31 pm

Theodore Roosevelt took on three sectoids, they all somehow missing and kill them all.

Then got promoted to a heavy, in true Roosevelt fashion.

XCOM Enemy Unknown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 14, 2014, 03:36:13 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 14, 2014, 03:07:31 pm

Theodore Roosevelt took on three sectoids, they all somehow missing and kill them all.

Then got promoted to a heavy, in true Roosevelt fashion.

XCOM Enemy Unknown.

They didn't miss. They just don't dare hit Theodore Roosevelt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 14, 2014, 03:48:38 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 14, 2014, 03:36:13 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 14, 2014, 03:07:31 pm

Theodore Roosevelt took on three sectoids, they all somehow missing and kill them all.

Then got promoted to a heavy, in true Roosevelt fashion.

XCOM Enemy Unknown.

They didn't miss. They just don't dare hit Theodore Roosevelt.

Well good news to you! He got five kills in two missions! That's more per mission than my longest living soldier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 15, 2014, 12:03:03 pm

I had just finished putting the finishing touches on my trap fence when I turn around to find something had already been caught in it.

It was a bear. A goddamn bear.

It took three javelins before finally passing out, then several stabs from a northern spear to the head before finally dying.

Promptly skinned, butchered, and a cut sacrificed using the Sacrifice for a Newly Killed Animal ritual.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Unreal World. If that thing had survived the three javelins I was carrying, I'm not sure what I would have done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 16, 2014, 01:59:33 pm

Well, we went on our first terror mission and lost 3 rookies, one of whom may have been from friendly fire due to poor judgment on my part but nonetheless we completed our mission. It ended on a high note too, a firefight in the middle of a gas station between one recruit with an empty rifle, another recruit with a heavy cannon loaded with high explosive shells and a floater. Somehow neither of them died.

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X-com UFO Defense (with Openxcom) if you haven't guessed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on January 16, 2014, 03:06:44 pm

Run into a clearing containing two rares, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Lure off the first rare, kill it in the nearby passages using a well placed turtle and a hydra.

Fight my way back up the passage, through a seemingly endless tide of monsters, until I get back to the other rare.

'Summoned a hydra!' - so that's where they're all coming from.
But wait a minute - summoned. And I'm a summoner. Surely I can do something here.
*remembers detonation ability*
Rare 2 dies in explosions.

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ToME

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 17, 2014, 09:02:50 am

(This happened a while ago, but I'll post anyway)
I was really bored, so I kept committing petty crimes such as streaking, and stealing, trapping people in closets etc. The security was getting pretty mad, so I put on a balaclava and did more stuff. Security caught me again, and hauled me to the brig, again. Strapping me to the bed, he took off the balaclava and saw that it was me. Upon doing this he unbuckled me and pushed me out the door.

"Hey, what gives?" I asked.

"I haven't got time for you," he replied.

I didn't own in any real way, but I felt like I did because lulz.

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Space Station 13: Urist McStation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2014, 12:20:46 pm

Small trap fence, in the span of about one season, has claimed: 2 bears, at least one each of elk, reindeer, and stag, and this one particular wolf that's been harassing me.

Currently got at least 350 units of meat and fish smoked or being smoked, and within a few weeks will be able to harvest hundreds of lake reed. Currently making bowls to hold all the flour from that(...you can grind that, right?).

Also recently discovered an entire herd of reindeer, and hopefully will be able to trap their area.

Life is currently good.

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Unreal World. Only thing I'm worried about is the njerpez camp a little ways away from me. Already killed one of their wandering warriors.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on January 18, 2014, 12:29:55 pm

In what kind of location have you built the fence?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 18, 2014, 12:31:47 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 18, 2014, 12:20:46 pm

Small trap fence, in the span of about one season, has claimed: 2 bears, at least one each of elk, reindeer, and stag, and this one particular wolf that's been harassing me.

Currently got at least 350 units of meat and fish smoked or being smoked, and within a few weeks will be able to harvest hundreds of lake reed. Currently making bowls to hold all the flour from that(...you can grind that, right?).

Also recently discovered an entire herd of reindeer, and hopefully will be able to trap their area.

Life is currently good.

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Unreal World. Only thing I'm worried about is the njerpez camp a little ways away from me. Already killed one of their wandering warriors.

Hate to inconvenience you in anyway, but I must ask.

Is it possible to upload that save to somewhere and share hehe.

Can never get started up and personally, I'd find this save to be a nice save to learn about the game in :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2014, 12:49:31 pm

Quote from: Tjoh on January 18, 2014, 12:29:55 pm

In what kind of location have you built the fence?

A diagonal chokepoint at the end of a lake where the water sticks out a little. It's not very long, about 100 meters or so, with about 9 pits every four or five pieces of fence.

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 18, 2014, 12:31:47 pm

Can never get started up and personally, I'd find this save to be a nice save to learn about the game in :P

Best starting scenario is I Want to be a Fisherman. It gives you a free fishing rod and 2 nets right at the start. Also take the basic game course as that eventually gives you free: fresh pike(to cook), handaxe(very very good if you don't start with one), fishing rod(in case you don't use the above scenario), shovel(you can make a wooden one but it sucks), and seeds(comes with the shovel).

I've good luck starting as a Kiesseläiset or Reemiläiset. Decent skills and equipment. I've seen a lot of people saying Driik is a good start, but they have horrible starting skills, which can kill you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 18, 2014, 12:53:37 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 18, 2014, 12:49:31 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 18, 2014, 12:31:47 pm

Can never get started up and personally, I'd find this save to be a nice save to learn about the game in :P

Best starting scenario is I Want to be a Fisherman. It gives you a free fishing rod and 2 nets right at the start. Also take the basic game course as that eventually gives you free: fresh pike(to cook), handaxe(very very good if you don't start with one), fishing rod(in case you don't use the above scenario), shovel(you can make a wooden one but it sucks), and seeds(comes with the shovel).

I've good luck starting as a Kiesseläiset or Reemiläiset. Decent skills and equipment. I've seen a lot of people saying Driik is a good start, but they have horrible starting skills, which can kill you.

Ah. Alright then, I'll try this before begging for saves :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on January 19, 2014, 05:16:49 am

Quote from: Akura on January 18, 2014, 12:49:31 pm

I've good luck starting as a Kiesseläiset or Reemiläiset. Decent skills and equipment. I've seen a lot of people saying Driik is a good start, but they have horrible starting skills, which can kill you.

Driik is the worst clan to start as. It has no bonus, and crappy skills (the only good Driiks are the ones you trade with). The best is still Kaumo (though some clans are better at one task, Kaumo is the best all around).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on January 19, 2014, 02:00:38 pm

Just liberated and rebuilt a zombie-stricken city, pulling together a skilled group of survivors, and even found a cure for the virus along the way. Also built lots of bars, and once things settled down a bit I spent my days tending one, as the others fought of zombies, took down a large gang of marauders, and generally saved the world.
Now, me and my core crew of comrades are carrying on to the closest city to create another safe haven there. Wish us luck, looks harder this time!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rebuild 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 19, 2014, 03:21:34 pm

After a rough start that only got MORE rough as time went on, We're finally fighting back. Even with the Ethereals and their damn psionic powers.

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Open X-com

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on January 19, 2014, 03:53:20 pm

Not actually a *own* but the map generator gave me something that might well be in the future...

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(http://i.imgur.com/sG2yafZ.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/HK443Oz.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/M5qpFHV.png)

With some trimming I will get something out of it.

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Gnomoria. First game ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on January 19, 2014, 07:04:10 pm

Anyone care to guess what happens when someone forgets about any possible caps to bonuses to hit?

67 Ballistic Skill + Point-blank Range + Full Auto + Hatred: Tyranids + Motion Predictor + Best-Quality Heavy Bolter + Rolling a 1 =

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Deathwatch

The Carnifex, naturally, didn't survive. The second one got hit in the face by two plasma missiles with about seven righteous fury rolls.

I love Devastators.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on January 19, 2014, 07:53:50 pm

Quote from: HFS on January 19, 2014, 07:04:10 pm

Anyone care to guess what happens when someone forgets about any possible caps to bonuses to hit?

67 Ballistic Skill + Point-blank Range + Full Auto + Hatred: Tyranids + Motion Predictor + Best-Quality Heavy Bolter + Rolling a 1 =

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deathwatch

The Carnifex, naturally, didn't survive. The second one got hit in the face by two plasma missiles with about seven righteous fury rolls.

I love Devastators.

(http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/riw4.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 19, 2014, 07:55:14 pm

And so, as the drone lit up its laser cannon, Colonel Viktor 'Duke Nukem' Golubey, recalled the events that led to this event, in a vain attempt to bring him joy in the final minute of his life. His squad, wiped out, he fled to the roofs as they died. Sure, he picked off the odd few, but was he doing his part?

He was to himself. The drone however hesitated and in that time he grabbed his plasma rifle and in one swift motion destroyed it. It falling to the ground, crackling with electricity. He smiled and clutched his wounds as he descended, reporting to the Skyranger.

"Mission. Fucking. Accomplished"

XCOM EU 2012

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 19, 2014, 07:58:49 pm

Quote from: werty892 on January 19, 2014, 07:53:50 pm

Quote from: HFS on January 19, 2014, 07:04:10 pm

Anyone care to guess what happens when someone forgets about any possible caps to bonuses to hit?

67 Ballistic Skill + Point-blank Range + Full Auto + Hatred: Tyranids + Motion Predictor + Best-Quality Heavy Bolter + Rolling a 1 =

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deathwatch

The Carnifex, naturally, didn't survive. The second one got hit in the face by two plasma missiles with about seven righteous fury rolls.

I love Devastators.

(http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/riw4.jpg)

Deathwatch is the name of the game :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on January 19, 2014, 08:38:30 pm

Ah, Derp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on January 19, 2014, 09:05:21 pm

Quote from: werty892 on January 19, 2014, 08:38:30 pm

Ah, Derp.

You killed us all for nothing... thanks...

EDIT: Annnnd wrong thread for that, I get the owned and killed threads mixed up >.<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimiD on January 20, 2014, 08:23:40 am

Heard my corp forming up to gank someone abusing us in local, quickly undocked my Slasher and warped to fleet member.  Landed, saw the Myrmidon still alive, so I locked him up and opened fire.

And was quickly blown up by gate guns.

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Eve online, in low sec.  Not the first time I've been killed by gate guns, wont be the last either

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on January 20, 2014, 10:32:04 am

Beat FTL on my second run ever. Standard Kestrel, easy mode (because SECOND RUN EVER).

Got two mantises (and a rock), dropped a truckload of weapons (burst laser II from start, Hull laser, Hull Beam, Breach bomb), and bought a teleporter.
I know now why the 4-men TP ships are considered OP.

Also weapon pre-igniter, weapon reload speed and shields reload speed augments.

Battles went like this: get out of warp, fire five laser shots to down the shields, immediately follow with a beam, and then TP two mantises on them.

The only ships that put some kind of effort to put down were a lucky-as-fuck heavy rebel fighter dodging most of my shots while I ran out of missiles, and the end boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on January 20, 2014, 12:10:11 pm

So, life is good. I have a small farm, and abundant food stores, livestock and supplies of raw materials to meet all my crafting needs. My little compund is secure (EDIT inspired by the post below: this required the killing of 3 bears who lived in the area, and 4 wandering wolves) , but stepping out of it is risky due to the proximity of a slaver camp and its patrolling warriors. Thanks to the good relations I had maintained with a cluster of nearby villages from my tribe, I can muster up a warband of 8 men in exchange for some low quality goods and a not insignifigant amount of food, and stealthily approach the camp in the dead of night. The outer patrolling sentry is silenced by an arrow from my bow from behind at point blank range, and as he falls I order my warband to fall upon the camp kill any slavers on sight. It turns into a bloodbath, as 6 sleeping slavers (one more by my hands, who takes a spear to the face) are dispatched in an orgy of blood and gore for only one light injury as a result of some overzealous clubbing. The camp is looted for anything of use or value, before the buildings are fired and the bodies thrown into the flames. I trade back the spoils or war for the large amount of food offered to my warband members for thier service, and life goes on as before, but from now on free from the spectre of the violent slavers just on the horizon.

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UnReal World. How to deal with the Njerpez for fun and profit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2014, 12:21:10 pm

Taking some furs and inferior fox traps to a village to trade for a pot I saw there earlier. Halfway there I see the following:

"You encounter a wild animal here. You think it's a bear." Oh crap.

Thirty minutes later(realtime):

"You manage to obtain a harsh bear skin."
and
"You finish cutting the carcass up into 175 edible cuts plus fat."

Only suffered two bruises. I think I did more damage with a thrown javelin than I did with a bastard sword.

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Unreal World. I had to savescum a couple of times. Not because of dying(though one time the bear did fracture my thorax), because the damn bear ran away and its trail all but disappeared.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on January 20, 2014, 12:33:09 pm

Is that your second bear? O_o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2014, 12:33:44 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on January 20, 2014, 12:33:09 pm

Is that your second bear? O_o

Third. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JackOSpades on January 20, 2014, 01:19:06 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 14, 2014, 02:42:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Ah.  That's...um...well, that's rather interesting, I suppose.

so no-ones going to point out that your not suppose to kill the legendarys, your suppose to capture them?
killing them isn't difficult because that is what you are suppose to Avoid doing, it's like saying you won the Indy 500 because you successfully drove over and crushed all the awards before the race started.   :'(

TLDR: Much fail, Such facepalm.

I was attempting to complete an Epic level quest when the scumbags nextdoor built a town over top the quest giver distroying it and forever making it impossible to complete so in a fit of rage I turned the army around and began an unstoppable march through their civilization razing every city along the way
made all the more impressive by the fact that said "army" mostly stood back and let my king kill all the enemies himself

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes expansion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 20, 2014, 01:23:29 pm

Meh, don't need pansy godpokemon to save the world. Got mah fish and hyper beam, that's all I need.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on January 22, 2014, 12:00:36 pm

So, this happened...

Spoiler: Behold the trail of the dead (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/AIMFNuE.png)

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UrW again - the Njerpez set up a HUGE war camp following the destruction of thier last one, so I mustered up a warband of 5 followers. We took down around 16 of them - looting some mail armour, a fine northern bow (which should be useful with my 65% bow skill) and a battlesword (useless due to my 90% spear skill, but valuable all the same), for the loss of 2 peasants and a hunter who died of his wounds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on January 22, 2014, 03:49:50 pm

Her squad had just been following her orders when they fortified that pub. They knew that a mixed group of aliens and humans were inbound from the parking lot. However, Julia was a sniper so she had gone up to the roof. She took out the first two aliens with ease, popping the heads of both a thin man and a sectoid as they dashed for cover. Her 5 squadmates, all rookies, were holding the ground floor. They shredded a sectoid that got too close, then everything went wrong.

The enemy's leader, a plasma-toting heavy had just kicked down the front door. The rookies all dashed for cover and the only other female (was still a rookie), Naomi, ran out the back to come to the roof to assist Julia. The enemy heavy launched a rocket right into the middle of the bar and the rookies were decimated. 3 went down from the blast and the last one was shredded by the plasma MG the next turn as he tried to flee.

Julia and Naomi were both on the roof, keeping a look-out for the heavy when Julia spotted her. She had jet-packed up to the roof and tried to take a shot at Julia. It hit Julia, but left her with one life left. Julia slowly brought her laser sniper to aim and sent a bolt of high-powered stream of energy straight through the heavy's brain. The heavy collapsed, but the battle wasn't over.

Julia and Naomi dropped back down into the parking lot to look for the last hostile. After a few turns of searching, they were about to re-enter the pub when they found it. A sectoid commander was waiting inside. Naomi fell victim to its mind and screamed as it grabbed control of her. Julia only had one health left and knew that her next shot would decide the battle. If she headshotted the commander, she would kill it and free Naomi. If she missed, the sectoid would make Naomi kill her. If she ran, the sectoid would hunt her down and control her too.

Slowly Julia brought her sniper rifle to bear. It was a tricky shot as they were in very close proximity, but she had no other choice. As Julia pulled the trigger, a searing beam of energy shot out of her sniper-rifle...and straight through the sectoids over-sized brain. The sectoid collapsed and Naomi gasped for air, now free of the alien's grasp. Julia looked into the pub for a moment, silently mourning the loss of 4 of her squadmates. Then she reported back to HQ "We're done here. Mission Accomplished."

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Xcom Enemy Unknown 2012 Multiplayer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on January 27, 2014, 02:50:27 pm

So I started playing the DoomRL after seeing it pop up on here and the death thread. Anyways, I'm playing on Hey, Not Too Rough, and I get to the Phobos Anomaly. After wasting several large health packs on the Lost Souls that mob you in the first section of the map, I pull out my trust rocket launcher from Hell's Arena and go to activate the Bruiser Brothers. Having fought them several times before, I grit my teeth and get ready to use several more large health packs. Long story short, I murder both Bruiser Brothers while taking absolutely no damage at all.

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DoomRL. I mentioned it in the first sentence, but...

My traits were Intuition(2), Reloader (2) and Shottyman if you were wondering how I pulled that off.

EDIT: And... I just cleared The Wall without taking any damage at all too. Goddamn it game. I don't even need another missile launcher!

EDIT2: FFFFFF- and of course I'd die because I got complacent and didn't use a medpack when I should've.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 27, 2014, 08:12:24 pm

I finally beat X-COM: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 27, 2014, 11:36:58 pm

I was playing a demoman with chargin targe, default grenade launcher, and eyelander. No sticky launcher of any kind.

A medic decides to uber me. So I run up through the enemy team to destroy any sentry nests they have. They had 2. I blew them both up with only my grenade launcher, direct hits, 2 shots each, bam; sentry, engineer, and dispenser are blown up. Twice. No reloading needed. With the sentries down, my team is able to push the cart up and win.

Ha, demoman don't need no sticky bombs to blow everything up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team fortress 2, the world's best war based hat simulator.

I also got a bunch of multikill gibs due to the other team constantly bunching up in close quarters. That was fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on January 28, 2014, 02:37:40 pm

October 1939, through some obscene bout of beginner's luck I intercept a British task force at the north end of the Minch. The luck continues when I manage to close the distance in broad daylight and submerge ahead of the task force without being detected. I let it get closer and take a peek through the periscope. Ok I fucked up and got way too close. A Renown battlecruiser is about to cross in front of me and it can't be much more than 300 meters away. I've definitely been spotted, I have to attack now before the whole task force is alerted and my plan is foiled. I make a few quick adjustments to my torpedo settings, and loose all 3 of my remaining bow torpedoes. 20 seconds later the battlecruiser is rocked by 2 massive explosions.

I dive like a madman and sit close to the seafloor in silence. The destroyers search for us as the rest of the task force passes by, we hear a few depth charges but they aren't close. Night falls and I ascent to periscope depth and take a peek. No destroyers waiting to greet us, just the Renown sitting dead in the water all alone. I reposition and launch my 1 remaining torpedo. Down she goes, and with her I finish this spectacular first patrol with over 95,000 tons of enemy shipping sent to the bottom :D

Silent Hunter 4, Operation Monsun mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 28, 2014, 09:03:06 pm

Quote from: TripJack on January 28, 2014, 02:37:40 pm

October 1939, through some obscene bout of beginner's luck I intercept a British task force at the north end of the Minch. The luck continues when I manage to close the distance in broad daylight and submerge ahead of the task force without being detected. I let it get closer and take a peek through the periscope. Ok I fucked up and got way too close. A Renown battlecruiser is about to cross in front of me and it can't be much more than 300 meters away. I've definitely been spotted, I have to attack now before the whole task force is alerted and my plan is foiled. I make a few quick adjustments to my torpedo settings, and loose all 3 of my remaining bow torpedoes. 20 seconds later the battlecruiser is rocked by 2 massive explosions.

I dive like a madman and sit close to the seafloor in silence. The destroyers search for us as the rest of the task force passes by, we hear a few depth charges but they aren't close. Night falls and I ascent to periscope depth and take a peek. No destroyers waiting to greet us, just the Renown sitting dead in the water all alone. I reposition and launch my 1 remaining torpedo. Down she goes, and with her I finish this spectacular first patrol with over 95,000 tons of enemy shipping sent to the bottom :D

Silent Hunter 4, Operation Monsun mod

I do have to say that if it was later in the war, you probably wouldn't have survived that :p

On the other hand, in stock SH3, it took me about 7 missions or so to get that tonnage sunk, so well done indeed!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Its possible there's an alien still alive.  If you got a message about aliens panicking they're probably staying still wherever they are.  Also, its possible in alien base missions to have aliens spawn in areas where humans normally would spawn, if there aren't enough alien spawn points.  Another possibility is that an incapacitated alien got up and is now running around without a weapon.  So really, that last alien could be anywhere.

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 28, 2014, 10:06:20 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Its possible there's an alien still alive.  If you got a message about aliens panicking they're probably staying still wherever they are.  Also, its possible in alien base missions to have aliens spawn in areas where humans normally would spawn, if there aren't enough alien spawn points.  Another possibility is that an incapacitated alien got up and is now running around without a weapon.  So really, that last alien could be anywhere.

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

There's probably one last alien who's hiding or got himself stuck. I can't think of any instances where a battle actually never ended, just really long bug hunts where player was getting super frustrated and throwing grenades about and juuust about to give up.. When bam they found him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 28, 2014, 10:08:44 pm

So this happened earlier however still relevant.

So I start the Gala event and then realize I have one hitpoint left. I swear under my breath and go down the ladder, somehow kill the goddamn Trapper Ghost with 9 bullets out of the 15 I had. He's down, I sneak around, get ambushed by a harvester SOMEHOW get that thing down without dying and finally reach a machine and get one stimpack, read my medicine mag and get 100 health. RUN LIKE HELL to a sink while six ghosts are chasing me, hide in a bathroom stall. Tense moment. Get to caution, sneak out and drink from the fountain while three ghosts begin walking around the room, two near misses occur however a few radaways later and I'm fully healed. I kill the nearest ghost and run like fucking hell to the Sierra Madre Casino.

Fallout New Vegas. Dead Money.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 29, 2014, 04:35:23 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 28, 2014, 10:06:20 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

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Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Its possible there's an alien still alive.  If you got a message about aliens panicking they're probably staying still wherever they are.  Also, its possible in alien base missions to have aliens spawn in areas where humans normally would spawn, if there aren't enough alien spawn points.  Another possibility is that an incapacitated alien got up and is now running around without a weapon.  So really, that last alien could be anywhere.

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

There's probably one last alien who's hiding or got himself stuck. I can't think of any instances where a battle actually never ended, just really long bug hunts where player was getting super frustrated and throwing grenades about and juuust about to give up.. When bam they found him.

Thank you, guys, he apparently ended up in a workshop and got distracted. There's a moral to this story: Never underestimate a workbench's hypnosis powers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on January 29, 2014, 06:11:57 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 29, 2014, 04:35:23 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 28, 2014, 10:06:20 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

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Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Its possible there's an alien still alive.  If you got a message about aliens panicking they're probably staying still wherever they are.  Also, its possible in alien base missions to have aliens spawn in areas where humans normally would spawn, if there aren't enough alien spawn points.  Another possibility is that an incapacitated alien got up and is now running around without a weapon.  So really, that last alien could be anywhere.

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

There's probably one last alien who's hiding or got himself stuck. I can't think of any instances where a battle actually never ended, just really long bug hunts where player was getting super frustrated and throwing grenades about and juuust about to give up.. When bam they found him.

Thank you, guys, he apparently ended up in a workshop and got distracted. There's a moral to this story: Never underestimate a workbench's hypnosis powers.

Muton has been struck by a fey mood!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on January 29, 2014, 06:52:01 pm

Quote from: Karkov on January 29, 2014, 06:11:57 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 29, 2014, 04:35:23 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 28, 2014, 10:06:20 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on January 28, 2014, 06:21:36 pm

A group of Mutons decided to attack our base in Korea. They came all that way just to die. No soldiers or tanks were lost in that battle. Only issue is the battle won't end, if someone can help with that i would appreciate it.

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Openxcom. Despite the battle not ending due to some type of bug, i feel like the mutons were thoroughly screwed up.

Its possible there's an alien still alive.  If you got a message about aliens panicking they're probably staying still wherever they are.  Also, its possible in alien base missions to have aliens spawn in areas where humans normally would spawn, if there aren't enough alien spawn points.  Another possibility is that an incapacitated alien got up and is now running around without a weapon.  So really, that last alien could be anywhere.

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

There's probably one last alien who's hiding or got himself stuck. I can't think of any instances where a battle actually never ended, just really long bug hunts where player was getting super frustrated and throwing grenades about and juuust about to give up.. When bam they found him.

Thank you, guys, he apparently ended up in a workshop and got distracted. There's a moral to this story: Never underestimate a workbench's hypnosis powers.

Muton has been struck by a fey mood!

Grugnar McSneaky, Muton, has created Gkgrkgukxankugar, An artifact Toy Boat!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 29, 2014, 07:03:06 pm

Quote from: JackOSpades on January 20, 2014, 01:19:06 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 14, 2014, 02:42:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Ah.  That's...um...well, that's rather interesting, I suppose.

so no-ones going to point out that your not suppose to kill the legendarys, your suppose to capture them?
killing them isn't difficult because that is what you are suppose to Avoid doing, it's like saying you won the Indy 500 because you successfully drove over and crushed all the awards before the race started.   :'(

TLDR: Much fail, Such facepalm.

Actually, I wasn't thinking of that at all.  I was under the impression at first that it was a Flailkarp (which is highly amusing, quite risky, and most impressive), since Magikarp only learns three moves and gets absolutely zero moves by tutor or TM to my knowledge.  Hence my complete befuddlement at a Magikarp with three OHKO moves. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 29, 2014, 07:28:54 pm

Quote from: Karnewarrior on January 29, 2014, 06:52:01 pm

Quote from: Karkov on January 29, 2014, 06:11:57 pm

Muton has been struck by a fey mood!

Grugnar McSneaky, Muton, has created Gkgrkgukxankugar, An artifact Toy Boat!

This is an alien alloy Toy Boat. On the item is an image of Grugnar McSneaky the Muton and Evadne Papadakis the human in Elerium 115. Grugnar McSneaky is striking down Evadne Papadakis. The artwork relates to the killing of Evadne Papadakis by the Muton Grugnar McSneaky in the late winter of 2000. The item menaces with spikes of alien alloy.


Anyway, my first soldier has reached commander. I'm so proud of Aida Cruz. Even if she never leaves the ship thanks to her blaster launcher.

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Still Openxcom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on January 29, 2014, 08:06:53 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 29, 2014, 07:03:06 pm

Quote from: JackOSpades on January 20, 2014, 01:19:06 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 14, 2014, 02:42:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Ah.  That's...um...well, that's rather interesting, I suppose.

so no-ones going to point out that your not suppose to kill the legendarys, your suppose to capture them?
killing them isn't difficult because that is what you are suppose to Avoid doing, it's like saying you won the Indy 500 because you successfully drove over and crushed all the awards before the race started.   :'(

TLDR: Much fail, Such facepalm.

Actually, I wasn't thinking of that at all.  I was under the impression at first that it was a Flailkarp (which is highly amusing, quite risky, and most impressive), since Magikarp only learns three moves and gets absolutely zero moves by tutor or TM to my knowledge.  Hence my complete befuddlement at a Magikarp with three OHKO moves.

Yeah, I enjoy crushing everything with Flailkarp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on January 29, 2014, 08:27:23 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 29, 2014, 08:06:53 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 29, 2014, 07:03:06 pm

Quote from: JackOSpades on January 20, 2014, 01:19:06 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 14, 2014, 02:42:11 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on January 14, 2014, 02:27:24 pm

50 or so,but I'd loaded 3 instakill moves onto it so it was kinda inevitable.

Ah.  That's...um...well, that's rather interesting, I suppose.

so no-ones going to point out that your not suppose to kill the legendarys, your suppose to capture them?
killing them isn't difficult because that is what you are suppose to Avoid doing, it's like saying you won the Indy 500 because you successfully drove over and crushed all the awards before the race started.   :'(

TLDR: Much fail, Such facepalm.

Actually, I wasn't thinking of that at all.  I was under the impression at first that it was a Flailkarp (which is highly amusing, quite risky, and most impressive), since Magikarp only learns three moves and gets absolutely zero moves by tutor or TM to my knowledge.  Hence my complete befuddlement at a Magikarp with three OHKO moves.

Yeah, I enjoy crushing everything with Flailkarp.

Magikarp has had Bounce since Gen 4. Though all sources I can find say it has to be tutored, and about half of those also say that it can be bred onto them, I can swear that I have caught wild ones with bounce in Diamond.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on January 29, 2014, 11:05:54 pm

I still didn't win the match, but I flew over the ridge blasting away, took a guy out and got blasted in turn. Two of 4 rotors immediately lost, I still kept firing, though I fell to the ground. A stray hover-bot shot out the rest of my engines, but not before I could blast them out of the sky, scoring a second kill. Now I couldn't move, but I still had 3 guns. I damaged two tanks that just ignored me, and one who shot off pretty much everything before leaving me for dead... but since I wasn't out of the match yet, I was still alive. How? Well, I had one cube and a cannon left. Exactly that much. And I turned it to another flying menace, hitting them smack dab in the weakest point (the cube under their chair), scoring a third kill!
At that point a tank happened to back into me, noticed me, and blew me to pieces before I could get through his armor.

I expected more lag and less kills than this. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on January 29, 2014, 11:11:56 pm

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SHAD0Wdump on January 29, 2014, 11:16:14 pm

Sounds like Robocraft (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=135070.0) to me...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on January 29, 2014, 11:21:40 pm

Yup. I expected the game to be far laggier, due to the install taking 36 hours... twice, due to closing the launcher by accident. I got reactions from that on the thread for the game, though. I know my internet's slow, and there's a possibility steam was updating at the time; but I still think that an inefficient launch manager contributed to the time, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on January 30, 2014, 02:35:49 am

A three way game with me as Aeon vs Cybran vs UEF. I managed to land a decisive blow against the UEF by catching their commander underwater with a fleet of submarines. I lost the subs but UEF lost their commander, so I began the process of upgrading and producing cruisers for long range bombardment against the remains of their base.

Suddenly a blip on the radar begins moving from the Cybran base. It's moving underwater and coming straight for my island. I scramble build three destroyers which are armed with torpedoes but just as they're built the Cybran Monkeylord crawls up the shore. The few turrets I built, as most offence was artillery due to the islands being far apart, manage to bring the Monkeylord down to half health but not before my base is a smoking ruin.
My commander meanwhile had fled underwater to avoid the sure death of the experimental's laser and begun building a torpedo turret as a last ditch attempt to destroy it.
The Monkeylord moved through the remains of my base and back underwater, destroying my remaining docks slowly due to only having a few torpedoes underwater. My torpedo turret comes online and begins firing back.
My commander marches back onto dry land to again avoid combat, taking damage in the process and ending up at half health.

Just before the torpedo turret is destroyed it manages to blow up the Monkeylord, allowing my commander time to begin rebuilding my destroyed base, focusing on turrets in case another one shows up.
Rebuilding from nothing but my commander, I look over at the Cybran base. Turns out my cruisers had managed to blow up their commander just before they got destroyed by the Monkeylord. I build five Miasma artillery cannons and a bunch of tier 3 bombers from my newly upgraded airfield and destroy the remains of their base.

Ah, victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.

Supreme Commander.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2014, 01:02:59 pm

The Americans thought they had an entire continent to themselves. I brought a transport with six Engineers. The Americans promptly killed five, then burned the city one of the others built. My response: Several transports with Viking riflemen storm their nation. First Philadelphia falls, and is used as a base to produce further troops. Although for some reason, their musketeers and 1st generation cavalry kill my troops quite well, there's just too many of my men. Utilizing a combined attack with even more advanced infantry to those landed and an old, but quite powerful, ironclad, Washington fell. During this, I had developed and aircraft carrier and a bomber. At around the same time, Atlanta, which was just built, was razed, and after bombing raids, New York was taken.

The empire of the Americans is no more. Now only legends will remind us of their culture.

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C-Evo. I am now at an impasse here. Both sources of Uranium are already claimed. One by the Japanese(thanks to a snafu in the diplomacy screen I have a friendship treaty with them), the other by the Romans(friendship since meeting them). The Romans are right next to me, but they have friendship with the Phoenicians, as I do. The Japanese are friends with the French. And I don't think anyone besides me want the Vikings in space.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2014, 09:56:13 pm

If there is indeed a last alien.  Still, it couldn't hurt to look.

Given that this is X-Com, even OpenX-Com, that might be disputable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 30, 2014, 03:08:43 pm

I get attacked by Carthage with an army of Triarii, Roman archers, and some Libyan mercenaries (Plus the general). Carthage has about 1800 men or so to my 1100, and they're coming at me from two directions. I position my men in a hexagon, so they can defend in all directions, with the ranged combatants in the middle of the protective ring of spears. I send my General out to maul a unit of Long Shield Cavalry, and then I notice that the Carthaginians have clumped their armies together into one big one, and they're coming from one direction. I have my army fall back and reform into a traditional line formation, inside a large copse of trees. My general runs around, killing some of the three units of Peasants the enemy brought. Mostly, the enemy has Town Watch and Long Shield Cavalry, and they're heading towards my army, even though they can't see them.

As their militia closes, my archers and javelin men start firing, inflicting heavy casualties on the relatively lightly armored Town Watch. Then, right as they get close enough to spot my Triarii, my Triarii jump up and charge into them. The initial contact breaks half their army, and what follows is a long pursuit, occasionally with one or more of their units turning to fight and breaking again. My general gained three experience levels from all the peasant and town watch murder he did.

Rome Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on January 30, 2014, 09:23:43 pm

After awakening a pack of water mocassins and adders clustered around some kind of a snakeskin shop, I read a scroll of teleport and ran. Teleport triggers, and drops me smack in the middle of the kobold Pikel and a bunch of slaves. With my health at only 10 points, I am not at all in a state to take them all on. I start running for a corridor, taking out my blowgun and quivering some needles of frenzy as I do so.

I shoot one needle at a slave, which sends him into a berserk rage. He attacks Pikel and buys me some time to retreat further away. I reach the corridor, and shoot another needle of frenzy at the slave right behind me. He also goes berserk and turns on his fellow slaves and Pikel, who are still fighting each other right behind me.

So, there's several enemies clustered together in a tight space who are fighting one another. The way to me is blocked by a berserk slave. What to do now?

I read a scroll of immolation and high-tail it out of there. Several turns later as I turn a corner, "You hear an explosion!x9 You feel a bit more experienced."

I go back around the corner to see a huge fire filling the entire room where Pikel and his slaves had been, with scattered chunks of meat and blood decorating the walls. I probably completely blew my cover and woke everything on the level, but I'm alive, so that's kinda nice.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, 0.14 trunk; playingas a halfling assassin.

For non crawlers, reading a scroll of immolation causes a status effect called inner flame on all creatures in your line of sight. Inner flame causes enemies to explode into a huge fireball on death. I set two slaves to go berserk before igniting all slaves and Pikel with inner flame. One was sure to die, and the explosion caused a chain explosion that killed the whole group.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on January 31, 2014, 12:19:16 pm

I may have been a bit overleveled at this point in the game...
Defeated the boss without anyone going below 100 hitpoints.  And we didn't even have a designated healer.

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Persona 3 Portable, bit of an actual spoiler: [spoiler]Second full moon boss

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on February 01, 2014, 04:41:29 am

I step down to the final level of the dungeon, and where I expected dozens of enemies find few. Not bothering to use my spells, I take out my sword and cut those that oppose me to ribbons, and raise the bodies of the fallen as undead. With contemptuous ease I walk into the Orb room, and see the target of my long quest finally before me.

I grab the orb, and from nowhere its gaurdians surge around me. Where a instant before there were none, now they are legion. From the walls and the floor them come, they seep into existence between the blinds of the real, and suddenly they are everywhere.

I run, and blow after blow rains down, spell and fire and ruin they heap upon me. But I will not fall, I am a master of a dozen arcane arts, a necromancer that has transcended life itself, and just as everything in my path has fallen before me, they too will fall. And I rain fire and gales of wind back at them, and they crumple like paper. But they keep coming, old liches and their demons, orbs of fire, golems of pure electricity, and dragons of a dozen shades. With almost contemptuous ease I kill they again and again, my god restoring my power, my wands the damage they deal past my amour and artifacts. But still they keep coming from every direction and annoyed I retreat to the stairs. Racing back the way I came I run ever upwards, having no longer the time or the patience to deal with these simple pests. The barriers they pose being almost irrelevant to a being of my power.

Finally I come to the exit of the dungeon where I entered a lifetime before. When all I knew was a simple flame spell, when I was still living. And with a glace backwards, I take my prize and ascend.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. 15 rune DECJ.
The mood was also really helped by having some appropriately epic music on at the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 02, 2014, 01:08:39 am

That was pretty epic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on February 02, 2014, 08:54:09 am

The game starts out like any other 8v8 usually would for me. I am in my slightly modified tank/car with more speed and less armour. This was my first test run of the little thing and it was faster than any other tank/car on my team. I went with 2 others up the left side of the map and then flanked in toward the center.  We run straight into a 2 enemy tanks, both heavily armed. After a bit of shooting, we kill them both, but one of my teammates is blown up and the other is completely immobilized with just one gun left. I have just one wheel connected to my control chair by one cube. No guns and no armor left.

Looking up at the scores, I realize that other than me and my immobilized teammate, the rest of my team are all dead and there are still all 6 of the other enemy tanks/cars/hover-bot left. Controlling the new unicycle that was left from the wreckage of my tank was hard, but I managed to start driving it back up the hill I came down. A few seconds later I hear blasts and my teammate is killed. Now, in an unarmed unicycle with no teammates left, I do the only thing I can do. I head to the enemy's base and start to cap.

I knew it was only a matter of time before a few enemy tanks showed up to blow me up and get the final kill, but I wanted as many extra cap points as I could get. Through an amazing stroke of luck (or just stupidity) all the enemy team had decided to cap instead of coming back to get me. Watching the cap meters continue, I realize that I might actually win this. With just seconds to go, my radar detects an enemy moving in.

With just one wheel left, I know there is not much I can do. Then the enemy, a tank/car with 6 still functioning turrets comes into view with a 4-turret hover-bot right behind him. I swerve and spin in circles, frantically trying to dodge their lasers as they rush towards the capture point. Then, right before a laser would have hit me, the game ends. I won.

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Robocraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 02, 2014, 12:44:28 pm

The first attempt at bombing German oil refineries ends horribly. Our navigator gets hopelessy lost, and after a few attempts at banging his head against the map trying to figure out where our target is, I order a switch to the secondary target. Same result, only each pass we have to pass through a cloud of flak. After two of the crew get hit, and nearly losing one of the other bombers, I order us to give up and go home.

After receiving an angry letter from the division commander, we set off the next day with a new navigator(the previous one was hospitalized) towards the same target. Realizing that I could reset our position on the map manually in case the navigator is too dumb to figure it out himself, we actually managed to get on target this time.

Playing as the bombadier, I properly sight the refinery, and let the bombs drop. Total destruction. There's something glorious about dropping incendiary bombs onto an oil refinery.

Unfortunately, we got jumped by two fighter squadrons on the way home. Although our escorts had their thumbs up their asses somewhere way off in the distance, we managed to destroy six fighters in total, and lost only one bomber, possibly because one of the German fighters crashed into it. All ten crewmembers of the plane were listed KIA, although I saw four or five 'chutes drop from the dying bomber. Even so, only one bomber lost on a raid deep behind enemy lines is a good job, especially after at least three lines of flak.

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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on February 02, 2014, 03:48:04 pm

Die,

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Emperor Titus Mede II,

die!

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Skyrim. Glad that that questline's over with. Unless - lemme guess, he's also a fake?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 02, 2014, 07:15:50 pm

Got my first (that I remember) purely 1v1 kill in a PvP match! And it was only my second time as Warwick (my first time jungling) ever.

League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 02, 2014, 07:26:15 pm

I guess this could be considered ownage: After capturing a Gaul city, just two turns later I got notice that the city was under siege. I check out the army attacking and it consists of just a single unit: The Gaul faction heir and his 77 bodyguards. Well, I'm hardly gonna let this opportunity slip by, am I? Out goes my own general+bodyguard, along with a unit of light cavalry and a unit of archers. By baiting the enemy general with the archers, I was able to counter-charge with both cavalry units and killed the Gaul prince within seconds. The rest of the bodyguards broke a short time later, and my light cavalry's superior speed ensured that not a single man escaped.

Later on, an army of mine met a rebel army which outnumbered mine 2-1. Thanks to superior training and tactics, they were utterly obliterated (except for a few horsemen) at the cost of just two true Romans.

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Rome: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on February 02, 2014, 08:00:48 pm

I guess this could be considered ownage, since it was supposed to be RP, not WC game.

In 1470 Europe was ruled by alliance of three nations, kingdom of Bohemia (Holy Roman Emperor), Kingdom of Hungary and Teutonic Order by virtue of overwhelming military power that, after disassembling of France in 1469, went unopposed for nearly decade untill steppe dwelling mongols came. _{Fucking mongols.}
First cracks in unified front were seen in 1477 when Hungary, invaded by the Golden Horde, turned down call from Bohemia and abandononed the alliance. Hungarians relied on carpathian mountains to shield them from the Horde, and for long time it did and they kept fighting for decades, losing only province or two in each war. Last blow to the alliance was in 1486, when Teutonic Order invaded several neighbouring states in order to seize important border provincies against approaching mongols. Bohemia, unwilling to tolerate growing infamy of Order, started looking new friends in west and south, and quickly found ally in ambitious Papal state. 1494 Liethuania seized to exist and mongols shared border with Order, whom they immediately declared war to. Soon after their declaration army of 30,000 teutons crossed over and carved bloody path towards crimea where 6000 soldiers from Orders holdings on Gibraltar region and north africa had secured beachhead. 1496 battles in crimean region reached their bloodiest stage when total of 40,000 teutons were fighting over 80,000 mongols in area between carpathians and province of Azow. In 1499 odds were 10,000 to 50,000, in Hordes favour.
Turn of the century saw Order forced to retreat back to the old border near old Liethuan capital Vilna with mongol army close behind, when Denmark decided it was time to reclaim island of Gotland from distracted Order and landed several small armies along Orders baltic coast, but not on the island of Gotland itself. In 1502 King of Bohemia pressed on some rather dubious claims of inheritance towards polish province of Torun Teutonic Order had annexed from Poland decades earlier, and declared war and invaded Order with army of 25,000 soldiers, some of the finest Empire had to offer. Emperors ally, the Pope, soon followed after him with much smaller force.

In 1505, in Teutonic Orders capital Königsberg, King's Mountain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg), surrounded by his last 3000 men, last Grand Master of Teutonic Order converted to lutherianism and abdicated his position as Grand Master of the Order and crowned himself King of Prussia as Albrecht I von Wettin, and declared all of Teutonic Orders posessions as property of the new kingdom of Prussia, third protestant country in the world. Nearly every city and town in the territory of former Order rebelled as soon as they heard the news and attacked any and all soldiers in sight, devastating not only bohemian and papal troops, but in the following decade completely destroyed mongol armies that had seemed to be impossible to stop even by the strongest of nations.

In the following years Kings of Prussia would Prussia everybody. Pics related.

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EU3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 02, 2014, 09:29:10 pm

The Julii faction was making solid gains. They had sprinted to Carthage ahead of the Scipii, beating them by a single season, and fought the Gauls back over the Alps and gained a solid grip on the Italian Peninsula. Caralis and Carthage meant sea trade was largely under Roman control in this sector. A trio of large powerful fleets kept the sea lanes clear and moved the bulk of the Roman army around. A great many heroic victories were won over the Carthaginians and the Gauls, but a few were more acclaimed than others.

The Battle of the Western Bridge was one such battle. A single Julii family member and his retinue of heavy cavalry, two and a half units of Principes, and a single unit of Barbarian Mercenaries stood one side of a bridge from an army... An army of 1300 Gauls. The barbarian mercenaries moved onto the bridge, blocking the closest end only just while the Roman infantry formed up around him in a half-hexagon, with the weakest unit of Principes in the center, with the General cavalry behind that unit. The enemy warbands charged across the bridge, slamming into the mercenaries. The mercenaries blessedly fought like demons rather than give up and run for their coin, and the Romans tossed all their heavy javelins into the horde. Then, the barbarians fell back, drawing the weakened horde out into a killing ground. The Romans pressed in on three sides, butchering the Gauls with superior equipment, training, and tactics. Finally, the Gaul army broke and turned to retreat...

And then the Roman general and his cavalry charged. No one escaped.

Rome Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on February 03, 2014, 09:44:37 pm

I managed to get my revenge on the asshole that shot me in the head and left me for dead in the small town off to the west. Showing up in his casino, I took a decent choice of dialogue to get him to go up into my new Presidential Suite with just him and myself. After a brief chat about the factions vying for Vegas, I decided to exact my revenge in the same way he tried to kill me.

Sneaking behind Benny, putting the sights of my own 9mm Pistol on the back of his head, and and a single pull of the trigger took him down with one shot. Afterwards, I placed the muzzle at the base of his head, saying to myself, "This time, the job is getting done right," before letting a second round fly into and explode the head of my former adversary's corpse.

I proceeded to celebrate by having a wine and a plate of fruit.

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Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on February 03, 2014, 10:02:09 pm

I think you can actually get the pistol he shot you with, for added revenge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on February 03, 2014, 11:24:15 pm

Quote from: kisame12794 on February 03, 2014, 10:02:09 pm

I think you can actually get the pistol he shot you with, for added revenge.

I tried picking his pocket for his pistol, but it didn't show up until after I had killed him with my normal pistol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuckyNinja on February 04, 2014, 12:20:51 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=224412416

Loadout. Launchers are...well, pretty damn powerful if used right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 05, 2014, 10:13:25 pm

Two moments of ownage tonight:

The first case was when the Gauls broke their cease-fire agreement with me, attacking a small army led by an untested general with several warband units. I had the general, three units of hastati, and a unit of light cavalry. They outnumbered me 2-1, fair odds when one army is a disciplined legion and the other is a motley horde.
Now, they were uphill and my cavalry would be foolish to take on a bunch of spear-wielders head-on. So instead I had the hastati (with Fire at Will turned on) hide in a stand of trees and sent my general out to taunt the barbarians in. They came charging down the hill as the general casually sauntered behind my lines, and only saw my infantry at the last moment. By then, however, they had too much momentum built up and ran directly into several volleys of javelins. This broke them just enough that, instead of charging in to melee and using their numbers to gain an advantage, they sort of crept up one by one, apparently shaken by the sudden casualties. As each warband began to rout, the general and cavalry chased them down. No survivors.

The second instance was when I wished to take a town that an army of Britannians were currently in the process of besieging. I couldn't assault the town while the Britannians were doing so, and the town blocked access to their army, so I had to go around a small mountain. When I got to the other side, guess who was waiting for me? A Gaul warlord. He immediately attacked, and the Brittanians got pulled in as enemy reinforcements. Total army strength was about 400 on my side versus well over a thousand.
Nowhere to hide this time, just some really nasty hills which prevented any one side from gaining and holding the high ground. The Gauls, being closest, attacked first. They somehow had no warbands of spear-wielders, but a couple of cavalry units, swordsmen, skirmishers, and of course the warlord. While I smashed most of them to pieces (killing the warlord) and many fled, they kept coming back to harass my army throughout the battle. Then the Britannians finally joined the fray with an army of just over 800. These guys fought like demons, not helped by the fact that my archers suffered a terminal case of stupidity and bad luck, losing over half their number while warbands chased my general around. Eventually we prevailed however, and they too started to flee. We couldn't chase them all down and lost over 100 brave Romans, but the battle was solidly in my favor.

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Rome: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on February 06, 2014, 03:49:33 am

Somehow got an A for the first time with Brain surgery by smashing an hammer and not stopping...

...Is this how Dwarf surgeons do it?

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Surgeon Simulator 2013

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on February 06, 2014, 03:52:23 am

Quote from: Evilsx on February 06, 2014, 03:49:33 am

Somehow got an A for the first time with Brain surgery by smashing an hammer and not stopping...

...Is this how Dwarf surgeons do it?

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Surgeon Simulator 2013

Dwarves don't use hammers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 06, 2014, 09:56:55 am

Quote from: Steelmagic on February 06, 2014, 03:52:23 am

Quote from: Evilsx on February 06, 2014, 03:49:33 am

Somehow got an A for the first time with Brain surgery by smashing an hammer and not stopping...

...Is this how Dwarf surgeons do it?

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Surgeon Simulator 2013

Dwarves don't use hammers.

War hammers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on February 06, 2014, 10:14:35 am

Quote from: IronTomato on February 06, 2014, 09:56:55 am

Quote from: Steelmagic on February 06, 2014, 03:52:23 am

Quote from: Evilsx on February 06, 2014, 03:49:33 am

Somehow got an A for the first time with Brain surgery by smashing an hammer and not stopping...

...Is this how Dwarf surgeons do it?

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Surgeon Simulator 2013

Dwarves don't use hammers.

War hammers.

Slade coffins. Efficiency, dammit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 06, 2014, 11:26:55 am

Won the Scottish Premier League on goal difference in the 2014/15 (5th) season, which is the fastest I've ever done it with a team that wasn't Rangers or Celtic.

Tying on points with Celtic going into the last game because of a defeat suffered as a result of a most annoying last minute goal by Rangers in the penultimate game, I was playing Aberdeen at home, Celtic were playing Rangers, also at their home ground.

Celtic were winning their game 1-0 after 15 minutes, meaning I had to beat Aberdeen by 4 goals in order to win the title, so being up only 1-0 at half-time was problematic.

After encouraging my team at half-time, my star striker proceeded to score a hat-trick, and I got a cheeky goal from a defender in the last 10 minutes, winning the game 5-0 and bringing the league trophy back to Edinburgh for the first time since 1960!

Also of note in the next season, got a free ticket into the Champions' Cup Group Stages, in a difficult group with Internazionale, Liverpool and Dynamo Kiev. My second game was against Inter in Italy, thought I was going to get completely knackered but ended up winning the game 1-0 after a poor clearance landed at my somewhat technically-challenged defensive midfielder at the edge of the 18-yard box, and he slotted it in the bottom corner in the 95th minute. Much pleasure was had. Also haven't been beaten in the domestic league all season, presently sitting pretty at the top of the table by 6 points in the middle of December.

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Football Manager 2011

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 06, 2014, 11:33:08 am

I managed to complete the whole prologue taking no damage, except

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for the Jetstream Sam fight since that's unwinnable

And it felt good, maaaan. The first time I tried it before, but I got hit by a single bullet which ruined everything.

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Metal Gear Rising

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 08, 2014, 12:40:06 pm

We took off heading for a manufacturing complex, a major facility involved in producing Focke-Wulfe(I do apologise for butchering the spelling) fighters. Clearly, this is a very, very important target for the war effort. As we head in, our navigator ends up about a 100 miles off-course and gets lost, but I manually correct it. Although it seems that the enemy had very early warning of our approach(actually not as much as I thought due to ending up so off-course), and the first squadron of interceptors met us at the edge of their patrol range.

However, for once our escorts were actually present, and managed to engage them before they got to us. As they tried to both manuever into attack position, and dodge fire from two different directions, two of them crashed into each other. The rest were dropped by our little friends, plus one by our formations guns. The other squadron of escorts we had were apparently fighting off the rest of the enemy intercepts as well. The only thing we had to worry about was the flak.

...And the flak was nothing much to worry about. At least at first. The stuff coming at us on the bomb run was terrible. Even so, the bombs landed perfectly, at least 80% of the whole complex was rubble, and the rest was either on fire or just completely FUBARed. We apparently lost a bomber on the way back, but I don't know when that happened.

Sitting in my mail-in tray was a letter of congradulations for our stellar performance.

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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on February 10, 2014, 09:47:49 am

Start round as chemist
YOU ARE THE TRAITOR
KILL THE HEAD OF PERSONNEL
Okay. Start making two grenades, thermite and chloral hydrate for my stolen syringe gun.
I run off to storage and make myself a stunprod, and try to hack a couple of doors, shocking myself several times. Thankfully I ate a lot of kelotane earlier making me immune to burn damage.
After getting myself a toolbelt broke into engineering and stole some insulated gloves. At this point I hadn't used any special traitor gear.
Got the thermal glasses in order to find the HoP, which I eventually did. AFK in his room. Break in, murder him, steal his stuff and give myself all-access.

This is when the fun began. Walked into telecomms and turned on a script that made all radio transmissions on the common channel change into a line from "Always look on the bright side of life".
I figured that the captain would call the shuttle if they could not fix the script.
I was wrong.
Called the shuttle, captain recalls it. Call it again, and blow up a C4 at the console which did not do any damage to it.
I run to the security escape pod and wait for greentext. And then I see the warden walking towards the pod.
When he opens the doors to the pod, I stab him with my paralysis pen, and tie him to the other chair.

And then I gloat like the villain I feel like being

THE TRAITOR WAS SUCCESSFUL

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Space Station 13, Urist McStation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on February 11, 2014, 10:46:15 am

Won the ability draft. Hard.

Started as Clinkz. Even though there was another ranged hero picking before me I managed to get Fury Swipes(deals more damage the more you hit someone), then got Reactive Armour(makes you pretty much immune to physical damage) and Berserkers Blood(makes you gain an increasing amount of attack speed and magic resist as you get damaged), and as the ult got chronosphere.

Basically, the more they hurt me, the harder I hit, and the less damage I took. And when I got in trouble, I just ulted and killed everyone.

In the end I went 23/1 and had triple the XP and gold that everyone else had. The game lasted 20 minutes.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 13, 2014, 08:00:53 am

When I play this game on multiplayer, I use a self-made fighting style, sort of a fusion between boxing, judo, and ballet. I usually start off with a leaning grab, meant to hit the stomach, but the guy  jumped into the air my fist passing just to the left (my left) of his right leg.

Thankfully, tomatoes are gifted strategists.

I followed through with a forceful upward backhand, completely severing his right leg. But he seemed braced to catch himself with his remaining limbs, so I disqualified him by stylishly spinning around and slamming the leg on the ground.

"Holy shit tomato is pissed" one person said on the chat.

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Toribash multiplayer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 13, 2014, 08:59:51 pm

Haha, I love how severed limbs still count as part of the body like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on February 13, 2014, 11:19:28 pm

Defeated my first horde of zombies in Cataclysm:DDA by a combination of kiting, a forests worth of arrows, and a lot of fire. Feels good.

Cataclysm:DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 15, 2014, 11:54:45 am

Had a mission to pick up some drugs for a rock band. I get to the dealer, who tries to rip me off. I chase him on my motorcycle when he eventually crashes his. I kill him with my MP5, and try to drive off, only to find the dealer shot out the tires on my bike. So I steal his, he won't need it anymore.

As I do this, I get a call that the rock band also wants a girl for the evening. I drive halfway across the city to pick up Mercedes, and now I only have a minute and a half to get back. I take it a bit slow, since I'm driving a motorcycle. Unfortunately, this is too slow, and I have about ten seconds left by the time I get to the gun store down the street from the recording studio. I floor it, knowing I probably won't succeed. The clock is ticking down.

0:05...

0:04...

0:03...

0:02...
OHSHIT! A car pulls out right in front of us. No time to turn.
0:01 left.
We crash right into it and go flying.
Less than one second left, we both land right in the marker.

Mission Complete.

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Love Juice mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 16, 2014, 01:29:59 am

I managed to destroy all of the custom AI bosses in the EXTRA-OPS with S ranks.

Peace Walker was an utter pain in the arse though, despite toting 2 missile launchers and a machine gun (a proper one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_machine_gun)) it still took me almost 23 minutes, more than 2000 rounds of ammo for the machine gun (I think it was the rank 3 M60(SB)) and at least 20 missiles each from the launchers (a rank 4 Carl Gustav and rank 4 RPG-7) and many, many deaths from unfairness.

Also managed to get all of Paz's diaries, though I still have a long way to go to get S ranks for all the EXTRA-OPS missions.

In saying that, managed to get one of the harder armoured vehicles with just a 5 fulton recovery mines and 13 fulton balloons to get 28 guys, with no bandana and copious use of smoke grenades. When the captain popped the hatch, managed to get him down to one more shot of tranquilisers to beat him, though I had critical health and no rations. Managed to work it to pop out from behind a box and put him to sleep before he killed me, which was oh so satisfying. The fact that almost all 29 of the guys ended up in my combat squad was also nice.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 16, 2014, 12:26:06 pm

That feeling once you get that last S-rank is oh so satisfying..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on February 19, 2014, 11:33:03 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 16, 2014, 12:26:06 pm

That feeling once you get that last S-rank is oh so satisfying..

I'd guess Robocraft?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 19, 2014, 11:55:07 pm

No, robocraft doesn't have achievements or ranks yet. Just tiers, which are how complex your bot is. Probably in reply to the guy above him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on February 19, 2014, 11:58:54 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on February 13, 2014, 08:00:53 am

When I play this game on multiplayer, I use a self-made fighting style, sort of a fusion between boxing, judo, and ballet. I usually start off with a leaning grab, meant to hit the stomach, but the guy  jumped into the air my fist passing just to the left (my left) of his right leg.

Thankfully, tomatoes are gifted strategists.

I followed through with a forceful upward backhand, completely severing his right leg. But he seemed braced to catch himself with his remaining limbs, so I disqualified him by stylishly spinning around and slamming the leg on the ground.

"Holy shit tomato is pissed" one person said on the chat.

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Toribash multiplayer

I loved that game. Many a time have I won solely by causing disqualifications with severed limbs. Usually my first move consisted of a very swift spin to the right, with a punch outward, it had enough force behind it to usually tear off the other guy's arm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 20, 2014, 11:15:22 am

In Judo I usually open with a twisting grab with the right hand, trying to push them beneath me before they even get started. If that doesn't work, it's pretty much pankration as both of us try to wrestle the other to the ground.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2014, 05:11:04 pm

My White Witch stepped on a polymorph trap and turned into a giant bat.  I then triggered a group of 4 powerful enemy spiders with poison attacks... that couldn't reach me because I was flying.  I rained death down on them with lightning, and proceeded to gain levels as a giant bat (!), which provided me with extra mana for even more lightning.  Didn't gain me any resources in the long term, but it was badass.  And if I ever gain polymorph control, well, now I know what to turn into.

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Wazhack.  I'm pretty new, this is my... 4th character?  I'm just going to assume this game has polymorph control seeing as how Nethack has polymorph control and this game is basically nethack for phones.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on February 20, 2014, 10:58:41 pm

Beat it, with less than 25 deaths on the last level.

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Brutal Doom: Deus Vult

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: agertor on February 21, 2014, 08:51:30 am

Having run out of primary Shotgun ammo, killed 5 pilots and a bunch of normal infantry in little skirmishes. Switch to automatic pistol. Manage to hide Inside the warehouse boxes, shooting grunts and spectres until my Mech decides, "You did a good job, call me sometime baby." See enemy pilot call down his titan. Instantly call mine down on his. Watch the horror of him getting in his titan. Feeling all safe inside his metal mech. Suddenly space crushed. My mech gets up off of his mess. Feel The hate and rage. No words, just the screams of rage from the distance of somewhere on the earth. Proceed to kill mechs and step on the little people in life on my little high horse. Dodging away from some other enemy mech. Watch as this guy I crushed from before's mech almost crushed me. This guy just tried to pull some crap on me. Hide behind building. Low on health. Wait for him. Punch him into corner. Too low on mech health, he shoots me point blank. Eject. Nuclear explosion, destroying him and his titan. No escape. Rodeo other mech, doom it. Get off. We still lose the battle. Gotta get to the escape helicopter. Titan tells me its time again. Have it defend helicopter. Only one to make it out alive.

The rest of the time, I was really, really bad or mainly just support.

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Titanfall Beta

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 21, 2014, 11:23:51 pm

We totally owned our entire opposition in group play for the War of Nations tourney, going 9-0 ftw! Next up is stage 2 of group play tomorrow, but we've already earned 300 gold for winning stage 1, so I'm happy as a clam right now

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World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2014, 12:00:08 pm

Took off for a bombing run on an oil plant. The secondary target was larger, but more heavily defended, so that's why this one was the primary. Tertiary target was the Bessemer Steel Plant.

Flying in was easy. The route marked went through a minimum of flak. The navigator only got slightly lost and off course. I jumped into the top turret to enjoy the ride.

The enemy fighters came in from low. I think one of them crashed into one of the bombers. All I saw was the poor plane breaking up behind us. The shot up our right wing, causing smoke to pour from engine 3. Even so, they were getting torn up. While were finishing up the first group, a second group came in. They got torn up too. Even better, their presence seemed to reduce the flak coming at us.

We get to the target, drop our bombs. All but two of the oil tanks in the place, not counting the ones outside the bombing area - the place was too wide for the whole place the get hit, so I aimed for the main buildings - were all that was left, and I'm not sure how those two tanks survived(they shound't have).

The minute the bomb bays were closed, a third fighter group hit us. They got torn up. Then we pulled out through relatively light flak.

One of our bombers broke off from the formation. One of my bomber's crew said something that made me think they were going down. Certainly, it was falling, it's engines failing. I watched all the way until it was a tiny black speck, waiting for the inevitable. I didn't see any 'chutes, either, and that was worrisome. However, there was no crash. Instead, it looked like that speck managed to pull away just in time.

Debriefing listed only one bomber lost(the one from the first fighter skirmish), of which only one crewman was dead, the other nine captured(the only POWs I've seen from a downed bomber this campaign), meaning the other bomber actually made it back. Our formation shot down seven of their fighters, three by my bomber, all three by the top turret gunner(me). I got a Bronze Star for that.

The only one I knew for sure I got was one that exploded as he pulled up into a stall, so easy a target even I couldn't miss. Following the blast, I saw the pilot's parachute, which makes me think he pulled up like that intentionally to bail out, something I read in Citizen Soldiers(by Stephen Ambrose, a book I definitely recommend) about a pilot shot down by American infantry doing the same thing to bail... only to by shot to pieces as he tried to use his service pistol on the Americans who shot him down.

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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on February 22, 2014, 02:11:07 pm

Playing some TF2 on my favorite server. Conditions were right for some sniper practice. I spend some time moving about and picking a few people off. Gotta keep moving so they don't pin me down. In this map, even most of the regulars don't know the whole layout. Hardly anyone even remembers the underground tunnel even exists. So I use my superior knowledge of the terrain and ambushing to make up for my admittedly mediocre aim. Eventually, someone rolls a medic and pockets me. His Overdose combined with my Darwin's Danger Shield made me all but unkillable to enemy snipers, giving me nearly free reign to just keep picking people off. I felt safe enough that I could stay in one spot and focus more on shooting instead of running away. Occasionally, a few of them would get close enough to threaten us. At this point, we would go melee and clean them up. Even the scouts could not escape both of us. It was glorious. At one point we were dominating 4-5 of them simultaneously. And the only time we died as a pair was when a spy jumped us. He never got a second chance. I am very grateful he had the patience to pocket me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on February 22, 2014, 10:37:47 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on February 22, 2014, 10:27:37 pm

That sounds pretty awesome  ;D.
Hope you don't mind if I ask, what was the map?

The server name is [xG] Pokemon Trade Cener - Xenogamers.org

It runs the Goldenrod City map. Be warned, the server tends to have a bit of hit lag.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on February 23, 2014, 06:11:47 am

Playing Silent Storm. One of the missions in the beginning has your team surrounded by soldiers in the lobby of a mansion.

This (https://www.dropbox.com/s/n78dq2uv5votweq/254960_2014-02-23_00002.png) is how you typically start the fight. Lots of bullets shot, all soldiers dead, some broken windows and railings, etc. Lots of death, minimal destruction.

This (https://www.dropbox.com/s/h47h3q59g484n5u/254960_2014-02-23_00001.png)... was how I accidentally started it recently. The two Mauser pistol rounds missing from L.A.'s clip were the only two bullets fired. One of them misfired into the floor. And apparently hit the mansion's fuel store in the basement.

The soldier lying on the floor of the basement was the only casualty. Nobody else was so much as scratched. Way to start a fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on February 23, 2014, 12:29:42 pm

Tusk's Walrus Punch + Phantom Assassin's Phantom Strike + Earthshaker's Enchant Totem = thousands of damage with just one hit. People died.

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Dota 2 Ability Draft game mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on February 25, 2014, 09:19:42 am

I just finished Dark Souls for the first time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 25, 2014, 10:06:13 am

Quote from: Tjoh on February 25, 2014, 09:19:42 am

I just finished Dark Souls for the first time.

I rented that game. I played it rather a lot and only just got the first bell in the first part done before going "Naaah... maybe some other time".

I do recall the boss just before the bell being a bit of a pattern recognition thing. Then after spending about 45 minutes going through the same shit just getting to the boss, knowing you're probably going to be killed anyway, you know it enough to do well against it; the game lulling you into that false sense of security before BAM! Another one which shoots fire comes out of fackin' nowhere. I had to put the controller down and make a sandwich after that.

Tough game, kudos to you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on February 25, 2014, 02:50:04 pm

That's not owning, it's combat logging, and it's possibly one of the most irritating things you can do, and in fact bannable in several games for just that reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on February 25, 2014, 02:52:48 pm

What's more irritating is a guy respawning a bunch of times with full health and you don't have a chance to regain health, and he can finally exploit the fast respawning enough to drop you.

Plus he was gonna quit anyway because he wanted off the console and on the computer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 25, 2014, 06:59:09 pm

Quote from: The Darkling Wolf on February 25, 2014, 02:50:04 pm

That's not owning, it's combat logging, and it's possibly one of the most irritating things you can do, and in fact bannable in several games for just that reason.

IMO its only GTA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 25, 2014, 09:49:52 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 25, 2014, 06:59:09 pm

Quote from: The Darkling Wolf on February 25, 2014, 02:50:04 pm

That's not owning, it's combat logging, and it's possibly one of the most irritating things you can do, and in fact bannable in several games for just that reason.

IMO its only GTA.

I don't think you can really get anything when you kill people in the lobby anyways. I think they may drop some of their money, but in my experience (admittedly I think I was only level 20 something last I played) that's not really a great deal of benefit relative to the cost of everything in the game.

And yeah, bad sport points. He was quite clearly hunting a lower level player, which in itself is cowardly and verging on trolling. It might be fun, but it's still a dickhead move.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on February 26, 2014, 01:39:16 am

I recently reached my 1000th kill on the guy linked in my sig.

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DF Adventure Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: manboricua on February 26, 2014, 04:13:43 am

Finally destroyed Lord Dredmor! Felt so goooood!
Ended up with tons of loot that never used  :P

Fallout 3 finally beaten! Played a 'good samaritan' character. Felt so good to save the world!
Bought NVegas to keep things rolling!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on February 26, 2014, 01:24:48 pm

Quote from: manboricua on February 26, 2014, 04:13:43 am

Finally destroyed Lord Dredmor! Felt so goooood!
Ended up with tons of loot that never used  :P

Fallout 3 finally beaten! Played a 'good samaritan' character. Felt so good to save the world!
Bought NVegas to keep things rolling!

Just know that the side quests in Freeside are especially heartwarming in my opinion :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on February 27, 2014, 07:48:47 pm

Stalking DMC Guards at night with NV and a shotgun is the most awesome thing ever. My character is officially nocturnal now.

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NEO Scavenger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on February 27, 2014, 10:45:11 pm

It's the Soviet Union vs Italy and I'm finally making steady progress. Don't mess with the Red Army, cazzo.

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Men of War: Assault Squad Dynamic Campaign Generator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on March 01, 2014, 03:31:12 pm

Ambushing a DMC guard with nothing but a 4 shot hunting rifle and Night vision goggles. 1st shot hits him in the chest, but is stopped by his vest, and the next two miss. He starts to run, since he can't see me, and I take the last shot. I cripple his leg, and he eventually bleeds out.

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NEO Scavenger.

Seriously guys, you have 1000 dollar armored vests, helmets, and shotguns, but you can't afford armored pants?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on March 01, 2014, 03:56:32 pm

Managed to get through the entire game without killing anyone (almost anyway, I forgot that the intro sequence counts aherpderpderp. And the bosses obviously but there's enough rage about that to last for milennia.), and got to the end. I decided to release the truth to the word and singlehandedly stopped humanity's technological progress.

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

The final boss fight was actually kind of anticlimactic. I wanted some sort of extreme stealth section but no, you just dick around with computers and shoot the game's main antagonist once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 02, 2014, 10:15:38 am

I was strafing ground targets in my Su-2 in Arcade mode when a F2A got on my tail and shot my back gunner. I was trying to outrun him when I saw an enemy He-51 flying right at me. I decided to take him in a head-on, hoping for one kill before I was killed by the F2A. I shot the He-51's left wing off and dived to avoid a collision. The wreckage smashed into the F2A chasing me, leaving me free to continue strafing.

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War Thunder Arcade Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on March 02, 2014, 11:15:35 am

I finally defeated the One-Eared Yian Garuga. It took me the better part of a year to get him, but I got the bastard in the end. I actually ran out of healing items and took a three minute break in fighting to go scrounge up some herbs and mushrooms to make more. Now for some tougher enemies, and multiple tough enemies. Dual Tigrex anyone?

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Elegy for a Lone Wolf, Quest rank 8.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 02, 2014, 12:47:10 pm

My fleet of 15 cruisers(A mix of Broadsword-class War Cruisers, Kiteshield PD boats, and my command Javelin-class CnC, plus support vessels) jump onto the enemy Zuul planet I've been trying to hammer for the last 15 or so turns. I'd been getting out-swarmed with his destroyers, so I said screw it and teched up to full cruiser fleets, and am I glad I did! What awaited me there was no less than 52 ships(3 of them cruisers!), and I only had AP heavy drivers as my biggest punch and DF racks as my skirmish weapon. With judicious destruction of any opposing command vessel and switching my reserves, though, I didn't take a single loss while destroying their entire fleet(including the three cruisers).

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Sword of the Stars

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on March 02, 2014, 12:55:01 pm

Fun fact: Slung stones do the same amount of damage as a pistol bullet. 10 crippled looters later, and 1000 dollars richer...

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Neo Scavenger. Send help, I can't stop playing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 02, 2014, 03:14:05 pm

Finally got 100 percent on Crash Bandicoot 2, using my mastery of PS1-fu and a couple tips from my brother.

Crash Bandicoot 2. Now to 100% Crash 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 03:29:01 pm

I made a parasite that infected every single living human before it was discovered. I then evolved Immune Suppression, Insomnia, Paranoia, Swelling, Paralysis, and Coma, and waited for the hurricane of mutations to round out my lethality with Total Organ Shutdown, Seizures, and more. I ended up killing 1,000,000 people before I was noticed, then I killed the remainder of humanity before they researched 21% of a cure. On normal, which is harder than it sounds.

Plague Inc. Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 02, 2014, 11:16:14 pm

What there's an evolved version?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:21:20 pm

On steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 02, 2014, 11:30:16 pm

Oh! Does it still have the worms and zombie virus and stuff?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:31:58 pm

Yes. Bacteria, Virus, Fungus, Neurax Worm, Parasite, Prion, Necroa Worm, and three cheat plagues. And it (will have) scenarios and stuff in the future.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 02, 2014, 11:33:00 pm

Yay!
...
What's different than the version on the iDevices?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:34:37 pm

I am not a iFool. I do not Apple.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 02, 2014, 11:38:32 pm

Eh, beat it on a friend's thing and it seemed to have all the same features.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 02, 2014, 11:39:04 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:34:37 pm

I am not a iFool. I do not Apple.

My only iDevice is an old iPod that is slowly failing. It's served me well over the years.

That said, PC4lyfe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:43:46 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 02, 2014, 11:39:04 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:34:37 pm

I am not a iFool. I do not Apple.

My only iDevice is an old iPod that is slowly failing. It's served me well over the years.

That said, PC4lyfe

REPRESENT! /me contorts his fingers into PC4LYFE. It looks really, REALLY painful.
 

Anyways, back on topic:

I made a Swashbuckler 7/Mage 8 for a solo run through BGEE, and she is kind of awesome. All style points in daggers and TWF for some kick when they get close (Dat sweet Dagger of Venom + Longtooth combo) plus the bonuses from Swashbuckler means she can fight well enough in hand to hand to hold her own, and her magic means she can act as an artillery battery, a buffer, or possibly all of them at once. With the Robe of the Good Archmage on (Plus assorted goodies like the Cloak of Balduran) means she has an AC of -5, which is comparable to a fighter in full magical plate mail with a shield. Gangster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on March 02, 2014, 11:47:52 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 03:29:01 pm

I made a parasite that infected every single living human before it was discovered. I then evolved Immune Suppression, Insomnia, Paranoia, Swelling, Paralysis, and Coma, and waited for the hurricane of mutations to round out my lethality with Total Organ Shutdown, Seizures, and more. I ended up killing 1,000,000 people before I was noticed, then I killed the remainder of humanity before they researched 21% of a cure. On normal, which is harder than it sounds.

Plague Inc. Evolved

Have you ever played the flash PC version? It goes by the name Pandemic 2 last I remember. Fairly old though, but it inspired Plague Inc I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 03, 2014, 02:06:25 am

Quote from: Cheedows on March 02, 2014, 11:47:52 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 03:29:01 pm

I made a parasite that infected every single living human before it was discovered. I then evolved Immune Suppression, Insomnia, Paranoia, Swelling, Paralysis, and Coma, and waited for the hurricane of mutations to round out my lethality with Total Organ Shutdown, Seizures, and more. I ended up killing 1,000,000 people before I was noticed, then I killed the remainder of humanity before they researched 21% of a cure. On normal, which is harder than it sounds.

Plague Inc. Evolved

Have you ever played the flash PC version? It goes by the name Pandemic 2 last I remember. Fairly old though, but it inspired Plague Inc I think.

President Madagascar! Somebody sneezed in Japan!
OMG! SHUT. EVERYTHING. DOWN!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on March 03, 2014, 02:11:10 am

Quote from: flabort on March 03, 2014, 02:06:25 am

President Madagascar! Somebody sneezed in Japan!
OMG! SHUT. EVERYTHING. DOWN!

My experience was more like:
President Madagascar! There's this one person who's got a mystery bacteria that doesn't seem to be doing anything at all!
OMG! SHUT. EVERYTHING. DOWN!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on March 03, 2014, 03:09:02 am

Gained a bunch of purple sections in Rocksmith2014. Purple sections are mastered. I don't have any song above 80%. O_o I have swaths of purple across most of the Avenged Sevenfold songs, but none of those are higher than 50%. Oh, and I think I learned how to skip strings, but I'm not sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 03, 2014, 04:21:14 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on March 03, 2014, 11:31:43 am

Quote from: Sirus on March 02, 2014, 11:39:04 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 02, 2014, 11:34:37 pm

I am not a iFool. I do not Apple.

My only iDevice is an old iPod that is slowly failing. It's served me well over the years.

That said, PC4lyfe

I have an iPad, but I only use it for posting and rarely play on it.

I have an iPod Nano from about 2007. It's got an enormous crack in the screen where it hit the concrete, but it otherwise works fine. Those things were pretty tough, all things considered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 03, 2014, 08:34:30 pm

Battling in the desert. Ursula and Frau (our panzer IIIs that i decided to name) and our nameless British Cruiser Tank are serving us well and the British are getting no time to recover, provided the Italians hold the line we might be able to push them back and make Rommel proud.

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Men of War Assault Squad Dynamic Campaign Generator. I've been playing this a lot because I'm a sucker for Dynamic Campaigns. Also i switch sides like i change socks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 04, 2014, 02:41:54 am

Got 10 kills in a match as Cassiopeia on ARAM. Ironically, it's easier to play support champions in all-out chaos like what happens on Howling Abyss, because tanks/fighters are so overwhelmed in the main fighting that supports are able to slip into the brush or line up abilities in relative safety.

League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 04, 2014, 08:19:17 am

Bought the last upgrade, now I'm completely unstoppable!
Killed 2 strike teams on flying kicks alone, murdered >10 tanks while staying in the same location, then casually blade frenzied away, dismembering crowds of people :v

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[PROTOTYPE], not the best game ever, but certainly fun :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Julius Clonkus on March 04, 2014, 09:55:22 am

Russian infantry column blocking my offensive. Entrenched with half a dozen machine guns, I had twenty-four soldiers under my direct command.

Five of these soldiers were sitting in a Panzerkampfwagen III. I assume direct control, let the engines roar and plow through the Soviet defenses with a hail of bullets, HE shells and the occasional conscript roadkill as their bullets harmlessly bounce off my armored hide.

Russian armored car with anti-tank gun appears, scoring a direct hit and jamming my vehicle's turret. Swerve to the right, aim with hull rotation and send a HE shell through its sub-par armor, annihilating hull, engine and crew.

The rest is just mop-up as the Russian A.I. tries to reorganize its troops in a frantic chaos, leaving them out in the open for my riflemen.

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Men of War: Assault Squad, Dynamic Campaign Generator - Barbarossa, '41.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 01:50:02 pm

Im all alone in an outpost being taken over by Terran Republic, went to the flag as medic, killed an heavy, pulled back to heal and while waiting for my shield to recover i see the green beam from a medic trying to revive the heavy, no time to waste and i rushed straight in, throwing a grenade and killing the medic, wounding an engineer and an infiltrator, a smoke grenade went off, but luckily i had thermal vision on my rifle, i proceeded to kill the remaining.

Refcaptured my base but then a big boom went off near me, i take a look from another window and i see a prowler.... I hunker down and wait... 2 ennemy came in and i quickly dispatched them, one medic and one engineer, most likely the same guys i already took care off but i didnt take their name. About a 2 magazine left in my assault rifle, but now i have backup showing up, i rush outside straight toward the prowler emptying my assault riffle magazine and.... I got the kill o.O

This was the day where i hold on to an outpost as a medic, overwhelmed by the ennemy and a tank, but im quite sure the tank kill was a mistake or i dont know because there is no way my assault riffle could damage it.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 04, 2014, 02:04:06 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 01:50:02 pm

Im all alone in an outpost being taken over by Terran Republic, went to the flag as medic, killed an heavy, pulled back to heal and while waiting for my shield to recover i see the green beam from a medic trying to revive the heavy, no time to waste and i rushed straight in, throwing a grenade and killing the medic, wounding an engineer and an infiltrator, a smoke grenade went off, but luckily i had thermal vision on my rifle, i proceeded to kill the remaining.

Refcaptured my base but then a big boom went off near me, i take a look from another window and i see a prowler.... I hunker down and wait... 2 ennemy came in and i quickly dispatched them, one medic and one engineer, most likely the same guys i already took care off but i didnt take their name. About a 2 magazine left in my assault rifle, but now i have backup showing up, i rush outside straight toward the prowler emptying my assault riffle magazine and.... I got the kill o.O

This was the day where i hold on to an outpost as a medic, overwhelmed by the ennemy and a tank, but im quite sure the tank kill was a mistake or i dont know because there is no way my assault riffle could damage it.

lol

(http://i.imgur.com/nTdB5Dk.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 04, 2014, 02:34:05 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 01:50:02 pm

Im all alone in an outpost being taken over by Terran Republic, went to the flag as medic, killed an heavy, pulled back to heal and while waiting for my shield to recover i see the green beam from a medic trying to revive the heavy, no time to waste and i rushed straight in, throwing a grenade and killing the medic, wounding an engineer and an infiltrator, a smoke grenade went off, but luckily i had thermal vision on my rifle, i proceeded to kill the remaining.

Refcaptured my base but then a big boom went off near me, i take a look from another window and i see a prowler.... I hunker down and wait... 2 ennemy came in and i quickly dispatched them, one medic and one engineer, most likely the same guys i already took care off but i didnt take their name. About a 2 magazine left in my assault rifle, but now i have backup showing up, i rush outside straight toward the prowler emptying my assault riffle magazine and.... I got the kill o.O

This was the day where i hold on to an outpost as a medic, overwhelmed by the ennemy and a tank, but im quite sure the tank kill was a mistake or i dont know because there is no way my assault riffle could damage it.

I love getting vehicle kills with standard weapons. Once I was a medic in a base that was being overrun. We still had the spawn room functional, but they had surrounded the place with prowlers, lightnings, mosquitos and liberators bombarding us if we stepped out. I was a medic, and wanted to do something, so I charged out to the walkway by the landing pads. I saw a wounded liberator shreeding our men. It saw me and started to turn, so I unloaded shot a full clip from my assault rifle into its side. It blew up and gave me the kill.

Another time, I hid by an anti-vehicle turret, and jumped in it to ambush (and kill) a liberator that started flying a bit too low.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on March 04, 2014, 03:20:10 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 01:50:02 pm

Im all alone in an outpost being taken over by Terran Republic, went to the flag as medic, killed an heavy, pulled back to heal and while waiting for my shield to recover i see the green beam from a medic trying to revive the heavy, no time to waste and i rushed straight in, throwing a grenade and killing the medic, wounding an engineer and an infiltrator, a smoke grenade went off, but luckily i had thermal vision on my rifle, i proceeded to kill the remaining.

Refcaptured my base but then a big boom went off near me, i take a look from another window and i see a prowler.... I hunker down and wait... 2 ennemy came in and i quickly dispatched them, one medic and one engineer, most likely the same guys i already took care off but i didnt take their name. About a 2 magazine left in my assault rifle, but now i have backup showing up, i rush outside straight toward the prowler emptying my assault riffle magazine and.... I got the kill o.O

This was the day where i hold on to an outpost as a medic, overwhelmed by the ennemy and a tank, but im quite sure the tank kill was a mistake or i dont know because there is no way my assault riffle could damage it.

Name of the game?

(http://reachingutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on March 04, 2014, 03:28:40 pm

From the sound of it, I believe it is planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 03:39:49 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on March 04, 2014, 03:20:10 pm

Quote from: jocan2003 on March 04, 2014, 01:50:02 pm

Im all alone in an outpost being taken over by Terran Republic, went to the flag as medic, killed an heavy, pulled back to heal and while waiting for my shield to recover i see the green beam from a medic trying to revive the heavy, no time to waste and i rushed straight in, throwing a grenade and killing the medic, wounding an engineer and an infiltrator, a smoke grenade went off, but luckily i had thermal vision on my rifle, i proceeded to kill the remaining.

Refcaptured my base but then a big boom went off near me, i take a look from another window and i see a prowler.... I hunker down and wait... 2 ennemy came in and i quickly dispatched them, one medic and one engineer, most likely the same guys i already took care off but i didnt take their name. About a 2 magazine left in my assault rifle, but now i have backup showing up, i rush outside straight toward the prowler emptying my assault riffle magazine and.... I got the kill o.O

This was the day where i hold on to an outpost as a medic, overwhelmed by the ennemy and a tank, but im quite sure the tank kill was a mistake or i dont know because there is no way my assault riffle could damage it.

Name of the game?

(http://reachingutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Yeah planetside 2 sorry, updated my post.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on March 04, 2014, 03:56:05 pm

I think that I might have a habit of overleveling no matter what I think.
I've been grinding up levels for the hardest non-story boss fight in the game, when I decide to try and fight it using only 3 party members(instead of the maximum of 4) with one being around 8 levels lower than it.

The boss absorbs every kind of damage except Pierce (bows,guns,spears,etc.) and Almighty (almost true-damage), and it also can enrage the entire party making them auto-attack until fixed.
At first the boss fight looked like I would just have to wear it down, but on it's first turn it enraged both of my other party members(who do pierce as their auto-attack).  When a party member is enraged, they do more damage per attack, attack twice per turn, and have an increased chance to make a critical hit(not sure but it seemed like it), however they take extra damage, are more likely to be critically hit, and cannot be directly controlled until they calm down.

When you or an enemy is critically hit, they get knocked down and whoever attacked can attack again.  If all the enemies are knocked down, you can perform an All-out attack which does tons of damage to all enemies.

BOTH of my party members got criticals, and with the All-out attacks I brought it to half health in 3 turns.  I think you can guess how the rest of the fight went.

Persona 3 Portable (male protagonist)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on March 04, 2014, 07:44:58 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on March 04, 2014, 03:56:05 pm

The boss absorbs every kind of damage except Pierce (bows,guns,spears,etc.) and Almighty (almost true-damage), and it also can enrage the entire party making them auto-attack until fixed.

That's the Jotunn of Grief, isn't it?  Also, how is that version?  And it's only on the PSP, right?  I've already bought a hand-held specifically for a Persona game, I might have to do it again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on March 04, 2014, 09:31:31 pm

So, I'm looting this town, when I see a guy in full iron on the other side of town. I take a shot at him with my sniper, hitting, but not killing. I then follow him, and find that he's got backup. I hide in a building, throwing a molotov at the door to try and hold them off. Right as the molotov wears off, a few zombies chase the two guys into a small building, where I manage to keep them inside with an M16. Eventually, I manage to kill both of them. I grab the loot, getting a Tier 4 Shotgun, Barrett Sniper Rifle, and AK47, with diamond sword.

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Minecraft WarZ Gamemode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 04, 2014, 10:58:55 pm

My Fighter/Mage main character, plus Baeloth (who has 80% smart-magic resistance with the right items), Viconia, Edwin, Dorn, and a currently undetermined sixth member who will be the thief of the group (This game has exactly zero useful evil thieves.) are an engine of destruction. Everyone casts spells, fights in hand to hand, and probably both. Notably, only Baeloth and Edwin get to skip out on hand to hand combat, and that's because squishy wizards. My main character is actually more destructive than Dorn could ever hope to be, simply because I can Mirror Image, Magic Missile, and other various spells, despite my somewhat frailer nature due to my lack of armor. Even that isn't much compensation, because I have ALMOST as good an AC without plate armor on as he does with it, due to my robes, dexterity, shield, and various magical protective items.

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 05, 2014, 12:46:34 am

As an infiltrator, killed an NC MAX with the single worst pistol in the game. Pure luck.

Caught him unawares. He was anti-air, so he couldn't bring his full power to bear against me. I had the TX-1 Repeater, which is a very low damage pistol that fires three rounds rapidly. So if you can account for its horrid recoil, you might be able to hit a Galaxy (enormous gunship) right next to you.

He had his Aegis Shield up (blocks all frontal damage, but you cannot attack), and I shot him a few times in the arm. MAXes resist most bullet fire, but he didn't seem to realise that... uh, you can't fire without your shield down. He just walked slowly towards me, shield up, with me hopelessly plinking at his exposed right arm.

By the time he finally figured out how to lower his shield, I had plinked his armor and hull down to almost no health. He hit me with a few shots, leaving me on 0% armor and ~10% health - MAXes are designed to be able to take on pretty much any class and come out on top 1v1, but they're very expensive to use.

I hurriedly used the last of my cloak energy to reload the TX-1 Repeater, then fired all 21 remaining bullets into his arm after flanking him (cloaked, you're barely visible). He died. I won.


I was then killed a split second later, but damn if that didn't feel good.

Planetside 2, Briggs server.


Also: in Crusader Kings II:

The Aztecs, who formerly ruled over all of Iceland, Norway and Great Britain (except me) are facing massive, constant upheavals.

Their armies are horribly depleted, no longer the huge 150-250k doomstacks, now manageable sizes of around 30k-40k total, which is doable for me as Ireland with all of my demesne, levy and the three holy orders. I retook Ulster, fought off four peasant uprisings in Tyrone, then noted that the aztec's empire split in bloody half as England burst from its chest, coming back to life. England promptly realised I was making ground against the aztecs, arranged a marriage with my daughter Cthulette, then called me into their de jure wars. We stomped the Aztecs back up into Scotland, which was itself managing to take a few scant provinces back. Even Wales, which was long since dead, managed to free itself from the oppression of the Aztecs- well, some of it- the Duchy of Gwynedd broke apart from the Aztecs and joined in on the war, contributing about 450 soldiers.

It was glorious. Sadly, my Marshal with 23 Martial ability got captured and sacrificed. :(

Crusader Kings II - Sunset Invasion + Sword of Islam + Sons of Abraham + just about every DLC under the sun

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on March 05, 2014, 11:15:36 am

I really want to get back into crusader kings 2.  All the DLC's cost about 60 bucks total though, as I only have vanilla.  Plus there is the problem of how fucking complicated it can get.

Everytime I really sit down to play the game I end up thinking, "With the amount of mental effort this takes I could be doing something productive".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on March 05, 2014, 11:22:35 am

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on March 05, 2014, 11:15:36 am

I really want to get back into crusader kings 2.  All the DLC's cost about 60 bucks total though

wait for the next sale and you should be able to get all the ones that matter for less than 10

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 05, 2014, 12:31:35 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 05, 2014, 12:46:34 am

my daughter Cthulette

The cute little abomination who will devour us all.

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on March 05, 2014, 11:15:36 am

I really want to get back into crusader kings 2.  All the DLC's cost about 60 bucks total though, as I only have vanilla.  Plus there is the problem of how fucking complicated it can get.

Everytime I really sit down to play the game I end up thinking, "With the amount of mental effort this takes I could be doing something productive".

Legacy of Rome and the Old Gods are the two really nice ones.   Anything 2 dollars or less is purely cosmetic.  Also yes, sales.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on March 05, 2014, 03:17:13 pm

Quote from: Karkov on March 04, 2014, 07:44:58 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on March 04, 2014, 03:56:05 pm

The boss absorbs every kind of damage except Pierce (bows,guns,spears,etc.) and Almighty (almost true-damage), and it also can enrage the entire party making them auto-attack until fixed.

That's the Jotunn of Grief, isn't it?  Also, how is that version?  And it's only on the PSP, right?  I've already bought a hand-held specifically for a Persona game, I might have to do it again.

Yep. It's pretty good, but it's my first Persona game so I can't compare it to Persona 3 FES or P4 or something.  Also yep.
I'm so damn close to finishing the game... can't wait for the upcoming final boss fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on March 07, 2014, 12:37:33 pm

Kinda one-upping Hans on this, but I recently discovered the fun of parasites. On normal, managed to infect the entire world and started killing humans before any doctor realised something was wrong. By the time they scrambled to fend off the plague, humans were too tired and listless to mount any kind of serious resistance. Ended the game with 17% cure researched and 100% fatalities :3

Plague Inc: Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 07, 2014, 09:11:39 pm

Ever use the unlimited DNA cheat plague?
It's so hilarious. Every symptom at once activates.

Same game as above.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 08, 2014, 12:18:00 am

After several attempts, I finally defeated my local "100% completion" Streetpass foe on Hero mode. My success was slightly tarnished by me eating a Great Spin Attack early in the fight, forcing a heavy reliance on the rather abusive 'boomerang + spin' combo. The final moments had me drop to a single heart before landing several successive combos, ultimately securing the victory with a clutch normal swing.

This makes up for me bringing the bastard to 1/2 heart in a previous fight, only to lose all 4 of mine to a single Great Spin.  :'(

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LoZ: Link Between Worlds. Sadly, this account is the only one with more than ~7 hearts in my area, so I don't get a lot of chances to practice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hachnslay on March 10, 2014, 11:43:02 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1011961/Screenshot%202014-03-10%2017.39.06.png)

and it only took me 5 tries!
... now to fail it some more to see what he says.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on March 11, 2014, 08:39:36 am

After having all the residents of my hotel brutally murdered a few times, I decided to get serious about the safety of my tenants.
I worked slowly, ensuring that everyone was happy and healthy. I have a couple of wolf-people living in the first apartment, and along with their abyssal neighbours they're ready to bring the pain to any trespassers, usually surrounding them as the other residents attack them front-on.
Speaking of other residents, I have a couple of low-level demon casters, and a young family of succubi to attack from range, along with some weird giant snail thing that lives between them. On the bottom floor there's a family of stupid weird yellow imp creatures, who I generally use as cannon fodder- but more keep moving in whenever one dies. They're horny little buggers.

The skeleton on the top floor rounds out the group. Overall we manage to get by- I've expanded the motel once, and hopefully money will start rolling in more quickly as we can lure in and kill adventurers with ever greater efficiency.
Err, I mean, defend our homes against ruthless, violent burglars, that is. >.>

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Unholy Heights.
Call me a filthy casual if you like, but this game is quite charming, and it's certainly gotten me hooked on it quite quickly.
It's cheap, too!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on March 11, 2014, 11:37:45 pm

Just fought Diablo for the first time with my Barbarian. I had been lvl 60 since the middle of act 3, and had some hand-me-down gear from my first lvl 60, which allowed me to pump the difficulty up to Torment1. Most notably was an int legendary sword, with a 19 reduced level requirement. By the time I had reached the final boss, it had long since been apparent that my DPS was rather low. Lack of good weapon drops left me with the aforementioned sword and a rare shield, but I was tanky to the point of near immortality. I could literally stand still and do nothing and very few enemies (even champions or elites) were even capable of killing me. Diablo was no exception. Cue a few minutes of wailing on him and finishing without ever dipping below 70% health (lightning breath, just to see how much it would hurt). I got a nice legendary sword out of it, which was good enough to replace my old one, but not enough to forego the shield. Perhaps Torment2 will provide some actual threat.

Diablo 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on March 12, 2014, 12:34:24 am

Last Owning was Real life, I finally got my new modded skyrim working, after hours of the load order and wrong versions and things.
Last in game I think was playing pudge in Dota 2. went 15/1/10, and I got the one death after around ten of those kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on March 12, 2014, 11:45:11 pm

my best own ever

we start the game, our top laner, playing trynd, lags out and doesn't come back for the rest of the game. I'm mid playing trist and our jungle decides that he will go top to take trynd's place. I'm against fizz and i proceed to 3-0 him in the first 6 minutes. I then proceed to go top and decimate both of them and their towers. It's pretty much downhill from there. I end up going 17-1 (the one being to me getting sloppy and split pushing to far in)and nearly getting a pentakill if the jungler hadn't stole the last one. best match I've ever played and it cemented that i'm using doran's ring to start with on trist from now on.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LoL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 13, 2014, 04:01:46 pm

Phew. Finally beat A Link Between Worlds, 100%*, on Hero Mode, with zero defeats. Surprisingly, finding enough Streetpass foes was more challenging than beating them in the various weird ways required.

^{* Ignoring the 999.99 second Endless reward, because I don't want to spend 16+ minutes flawlessly dodging Cuccos.}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on March 13, 2014, 07:15:45 pm

Took a probe for a joyride and made a near pass of the sun, which was worth enough science to upgrade again. ^_^

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on March 13, 2014, 07:39:21 pm

Won the first tournament I ever joined.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 14, 2014, 09:51:33 am

Quote from: Facekillz058 on March 13, 2014, 07:39:21 pm

Won the first tournament I ever joined.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

I'm a green belt, and even though I can do really long streaks on normal multiplayer, I've never won a tournament. :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 14, 2014, 11:19:16 pm

I walked home drunk without doing anything stupid beyond stumbling a bit too much into the grass. Also didn't put my thang anywhere it shouldn't be, as well as being able to type without making too many mistakes! Didn't quite fix issues with the people I was drinking with, but ah well! I... won't be around to fix it later which is bothersome, but I know the people know I have no great issues with them with it, beyond timing (I won't see them for months, many, many months after tonight)

Being drunk is also awesome! until the inevitable brain stabbing. And presumable inattention to detail at some point which I don't care about right now. Pfft to neurosis.

RL owning is good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Angel Of Death on March 15, 2014, 12:31:22 am

Why are people using this to say "i did something mostly easy to do and common IRL! LOL OWNAGE!!!"? It's in other games for a reason.

Anyway, I managed to kill my friend from about two or three kilometers away with an AK-107 in ArmA 2. My longest shot yet!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 15, 2014, 08:30:10 am

But life is another game, man. You get your fetch quests and trading and boss battles and mooks and other game analogues too.

I was also still drunk when I posted that and surfing a rare wave of euphoria, so I was all yeah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on March 15, 2014, 10:25:22 am

Welp, I'm outside the DMC, shooting the guards, when I decide to head inside for a burger and maybe a new eye. Suddenly, it turns out that apparently the game knows if you've been killing guards, and stops you. "OK, I'll just head back to the ATN and live there for a while." I start walking. Next turn. 5 DMC Guards appear and attack me. I survive without a single injury. Just surviving is ownage in it's own right.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

NEO Scavenger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 15, 2014, 11:01:54 am

Declined a duel via a lightning bolt to the guy's throat, decapitated a cheap Sephiroth wannabe with a sword made of MOON SPARKLE MAGIC, became Queen, then presided over a lesbian wedding. All in all, a good run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Long Live the Queen. First time making it to coronation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on March 15, 2014, 12:47:26 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 15, 2014, 11:01:54 am

Declined a duel via a lightning bolt to the guy's throat, decapitated a cheap Sephiroth wannabe with a sword made of MOON SPARKLE MAGIC, became Queen, then presided over a lesbian wedding. All in all, a good run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Long Live the Queen. First time making it to coronation.

I like how of all the awesome in that post, the thing that got my attention the most was the wedding. My brain really knows its priorities.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 15, 2014, 11:26:56 pm

Playing on Guadacanal as a US BAR-gunner. Knee mortars took out everyone 'cept me and a rifleman, japs come banzai-ing over the bunker, I frantically pump lead in to them-desperate to keep them back-when I hear *click-click*. SHIT, out of ammo! My first thought is to reload, but midway (that IS a WWII pun!) through one last jap banzais me and rifle-toting todd to me right, I look over as the jap brutally rips in to the rifleman, he turns towards me, and in desperation I pull my colt and put 2 shots in to his heart.

6 kills there, a grenade takes me out.

I respawn and sprint back to the front, by virtue of luck I am not seen and manage to jump in to a trench directly adjacent to the japanese attackers. After brutally exploding the head of one soldier, I kneel and turn, spraying and praying that my bullets will halt the advance. Again, after firing my whole clip, I don't have time to reload, I quickly switch to my colt and dispatch some japanese  charging over an abandoned bunker.

Another 6 kills there, it was only when I had repelled the first wave when a rogue jap ended my spree by executing me point blank with his nambu.

RO2: Rising Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on March 16, 2014, 03:58:37 pm

For the first time ever, I have a region with more than one million inhabitants. The largest city stands for about 46% of the total population, over 250000 commercial jobs and about 50000 industrial jobs, most of them hi-tech.
It also contains two of the region's three airports (a large landing strip and a large municipal)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sim City 4 Deluxe edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on March 17, 2014, 07:47:29 am

Since the Warthunder thread is dead I guess I'll post this here (http://imgur.com/a/WsfAE). Basically I survived something that should be completely unsurvivable. It was pretty awesome, even if I didn't technically own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 17, 2014, 07:49:57 am

Quote from: Zrk2 on March 17, 2014, 07:47:29 am

Since the Warthunder thread is dead I guess I'll post this here (http://imgur.com/a/WsfAE). Basically I survived something that should be completely unsurvivable. It was pretty awesome, even if I didn't technically own.

What was it? As long as you have your engines you should usually be fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on March 17, 2014, 07:51:43 am

But I lost both of them at like 3000m, plus my whole bomber had been shot right to shit, and my rear turret was blown off so I couldn't return fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 17, 2014, 07:53:11 am

I once spent a round as a Blenheim with just one engine and a completely wrecked plane. I had four fighters on my tail and still managed to survive until the round ended.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on March 17, 2014, 07:55:56 am

They probably had no cannons so they just made pretty sparks happen all over the ass end of your plane.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 17, 2014, 12:11:15 pm

Quote from: Zrk2 on March 17, 2014, 07:55:56 am

They probably had no cannons so they just made pretty sparks happen all over the ass end of your plane.

Everything except the one engine was completely black.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on March 17, 2014, 09:55:35 pm

Just beat the third stage! :D
I'm at 'insane' difficulty now though, and I had to resort to ridiculously cheap tactics as it was, so I doubt I'll last much longer...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 18, 2014, 02:59:19 pm

You want to know the protip supersecret strategy to beating Risk of Rain every time?  Have the game pick Ancient Valley as your third map instead of Sunken Tombs.

Sunken Tombs is so ridiculously painful to beat compared to Ancient Valley, play as certain characters like Sniper and Mercenary you're effectively guaranteed to never see the fifth level if Sunken Tombs comes up, because even if you beat it the difficulty will be too high.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on March 19, 2014, 05:25:59 pm

I finally beat 2048!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2048, the game. (http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on March 19, 2014, 07:14:10 pm

Quote from: Karkov on March 19, 2014, 05:25:59 pm

I finally beat 2048!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2048, the game. (http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/)

Oh god, that is the most addicting thing. I finally beat it two days ago, and then my friend showed me 8192 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/8192/), which takes place on the same size board as 2048, and is nigh impossible, as well as 65536 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/65536/) which takes place on a larger board, and is a much longer challenge, and 9007199254740992 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/9007199254740992/) which is more of a joke I think, but damn, it is annoying playing that after 2048, because the board is so massive it's near impossible to not get to 2048. Suffice to say, I have not been studying for my finals as much as I should have.

EDIT: Just realized how much of a run on sentence that is. Ah well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on March 19, 2014, 07:45:30 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on March 19, 2014, 07:14:10 pm

Quote from: Karkov on March 19, 2014, 05:25:59 pm

I finally beat 2048!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2048, the game. (http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/)

Oh god, that is the most addicting thing. I finally beat it two days ago, and then my friend showed me 8192 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/8192/), which takes place on the same size board as 2048, and is nigh impossible, as well as 65536 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/65536/) which takes place on a larger board, and is a much longer challenge, and 9007199254740992 (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b01902112/9007199254740992/) which is more of a joke I think, but damn, it is annoying playing that after 2048, because the board is so massive it's near impossible to not get to 2048. Suffice to say, I have not been studying for my finals as much as I should have.

EDIT: Just realized how much of a run on sentence that is. Ah well.

I don't think I'll end up playing the other ones, this one has eaten up enough time while I've been at work instead of doing homework and such.  Really I should be writing a paper on VoIP, but this has basically eaten my free time.

On another note, I've beaten it again so far!  Got a score of 34272, I need to go higher.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 19, 2014, 07:50:24 pm

9007199254740992 is hilarious because it's literally impossible to win. The board is big enough that you can mash keys and stuff will still collapse together and clear each other out. It's surprisingly amusing, actually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on March 19, 2014, 08:02:43 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on March 19, 2014, 07:50:24 pm

9007199254740992 is hilarious because it's literally impossible to win. The board is big enough that you can mash keys and stuff will still collapse together and clear each other out. It's surprisingly amusing, actually.

It also has a buttonmash with configurable ms option at the bottom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 19, 2014, 08:08:26 pm

Quote from: Aklyon on March 19, 2014, 08:02:43 pm

It also has a buttonmash with configurable ms option at the bottom.

...

The only person I have to be mad at is myself. :/

That would have been useful to know 20 minutes ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on March 19, 2014, 08:12:34 pm

1.2×10^6 ms ago? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 19, 2014, 08:13:13 pm

Quote from: Aklyon on March 19, 2014, 08:12:34 pm

1.2×10^6 ms ago? :P

...

Yes. *Shakes fist*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 19, 2014, 08:32:58 pm

Augh. I should not click a link that has been described as Addictive, especially after seeing those numbers in XKCD and being confused about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on March 19, 2014, 11:13:30 pm

FINALLY

damn elusive 2048

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 20, 2014, 04:17:11 am

this counts as a win right?

(http://i.imgur.com/RsP6fMk.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on March 20, 2014, 08:37:39 am

Managed to get 8200 points, but without using the down key. Should really get a new keyboard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2048

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 20, 2014, 11:14:57 am

Best I've gotten so far is 7068.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 20, 2014, 02:34:07 pm

Me versus three AI TEC Loyalist players, each in their own separate star system. I am in a star system with one of them, playing as TEC Rebels. I quickly tech up to the Rebel special technology that signs a peace treaty with all the pirates and neutral 'empires' on the map. In all actuality, it just let's me perform a colony blitz, and each one comes with a premade defense force that costs me no population. I snag half the system in a short time, bringing together a moderate sized fleet and fighting the Trade Coalition, who was my current foe, back to their own doorstep. Then I created the Ragnarov Titan and moved in, taking their Capital planet and quickly steamrolling their remaining forces until only their flagship remains, desperately fleeing system to system, but I own everything, and what I don't own, I hunt after him into. Finally I destroy him, taking one player out of the game.

An experimental weapons activation has been detected on an unexplored world! x6

Oh shit. The TEC get the Novalith Cannon, which completely depopulates planets it is fired at. I rapidly begin building emergency shelters and planetary shields, so I only lose one or two planets to the barrage. I begin building my own Novaliths (regrettably only two at this time) and firing back.

Good god, the mental image of solar systems exchanging broadsides like sailing ships is freaking AWESOME.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (And all the various other DLCs)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on March 20, 2014, 08:12:50 pm

Wait, you can do that? Sweeeeeet. I gotta pick up where I left of as Space North Korea. Last in economy, first in military.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on March 20, 2014, 08:16:39 pm

Oh man, my favorite tactic in that game was abusing the pirates vigorously.

I should play that sometime...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 20, 2014, 10:01:19 pm

Quote from: kisame12794 on March 20, 2014, 08:12:50 pm

Wait, you can do that? Sweeeeeet. I gotta pick up where I left of as Space North Korea. Last in economy, first in military.

I'm the opposite, in early-game. I have a huge economy, but usually only my Flagship, a few Arcova Scout Frigates, and two Akkan Battlecruisers (When I can afford a second one, that is.). Which is a decent force, against pirates and the like, but is utterly outclassed by any sort of serious resistance.

Oh, I finished wiping the last of the enemy forces out of my solar system, and I'm colonizing the last planet or two, at the last update, and my fleet is gather to jump to one of the enemy systems. Soon we will bring the fight to them! Again. >.>

Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion (Do I need to keep saying that? :P )

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: notquitethere on March 21, 2014, 11:13:11 pm

It took all night but I finally mastered Doge2048!

(http://s11.postimg.org/5xycgi82r/Screenshot_2014_03_22_03_30_04.png)

Wow!
Such win!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 21, 2014, 11:24:10 pm

Killed the Chaos Witch Quelaag on my second attempt. Would've done it the first time, had she not pulled out an unexpected magic blast that one-shotted me.

Still, in this game, beating something on the second attempt still counts as a pretty big win!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1. Figured I should play it before GFWL goes offline!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on March 22, 2014, 08:07:51 pm

Oh shit yeah, what happens when it does go offline, because the game is a dick and won't let you save unless you're signed in?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on March 22, 2014, 08:20:32 pm

If it GFWL doesn't get patched out then you should still be able to create an offline account and play that way (obviously minus all the multiplayer things).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 23, 2014, 10:50:36 am

Beat the Luca Goers 3-2 in the first game of the game. Their second score was only due to the fact that they somehow ended up with the ball when Wakka came in to finish the game, and when their guy had it only one of our guys(with piss-poor AT) went on defense, allowing him to score at point-blank range.

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Final Fantasy X, blitzball. When the scene where Tidus switches himself out for Wakka, we had the ball, too. Could have made it 4-2, but I ran out of time before I could set Wakka up for a Venom Shot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: bertix on March 23, 2014, 11:02:57 am

After a horribly long dogfight with an f86 sabre, I managed to get on it's tail and unload a handful of 37mm cannon rounds into it from my mig9 late, happy of my victory, as it went down in flames, I followed it in a dive only to find that I lost both my wings to a F9F5 panther.
(I guess this counts both as last death and a win I suppose ?)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warthunder HB

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 23, 2014, 12:50:15 pm

Got into a close range firefight with a MAX as a light assault, they took cover to reload.  There's no bloody way I'm going to win this.

But when they took cover I suddenly got a burst of inspiration, I sprinted towards them, strapped a block of C4 to their face, and ran away hitting the detonator as I went.

Vanu MAX down.

Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on March 23, 2014, 12:55:30 pm

It'd been a long campaign. I'd conquered and sculpted my starting island for maximum population, and just as I'd settled the last bit, the last opposing faction, which had occupied the other island on the map, finally managed to extend their territory to reach mine. The resulting battles were pretty much a stalemate, with cities gained and lost by each sides pretty much remaining even. Then I hit one thousand mana. And got to unleash Armageddon. Which in and of itself is badass. A volcano forms in the centre of the map, and all existing cities are converted into hero units (type seems to vary), which make a beeline for the volcano for one final showdown. I won quite handily having roughly a dozen units left by the end.

Reprisal, Skirmish mode. (http://www.kongregate.com/games/electrolyte/reprisal)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Anvilfolk on March 23, 2014, 02:30:28 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on March 15, 2014, 11:26:56 pm

Playing on Guadacanal as a US BAR-gunner. Knee mortars took out everyone 'cept me and a rifleman, japs come banzai-ing over the bunker, I frantically pump lead in to them-desperate to keep them back-when I hear *click-click*. SHIT, out of ammo! My first thought is to reload, but midway (that IS a WWII pun!) through one last jap banzais me and rifle-toting todd to me right, I look over as the jap brutally rips in to the rifleman, he turns towards me, and in desperation I pull my colt and put 2 shots in to his heart.

6 kills there, a grenade takes me out.

I respawn and sprint back to the front, by virtue of luck I am not seen and manage to jump in to a trench directly adjacent to the japanese attackers. After brutally exploding the head of one soldier, I kneel and turn, spraying and praying that my bullets will halt the advance. Again, after firing my whole clip, I don't have time to reload, I quickly switch to my colt and dispatch some japanese  charging over an abandoned bunker.

Another 6 kills there, it was only when I had repelled the first wave when a rogue jap ended my spree by executing me point blank with his nambu.

RO2: Rising Storm

Reading back a few pages of this thread and found this post. RO2 is awesome - but being japanese and banzaing is arguably more fun!

I just wish it had larger maps! Great game though, played it a ton and still go back to it every now and then!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 23, 2014, 04:35:47 pm

Quote from: Anvilfolk on March 23, 2014, 02:30:28 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on March 15, 2014, 11:26:56 pm

Playing on Guadacanal as a US BAR-gunner. Knee mortars took out everyone 'cept me and a rifleman, japs come banzai-ing over the bunker, I frantically pump lead in to them-desperate to keep them back-when I hear *click-click*. SHIT, out of ammo! My first thought is to reload, but midway (that IS a WWII pun!) through one last jap banzais me and rifle-toting todd to me right, I look over as the jap brutally rips in to the rifleman, he turns towards me, and in desperation I pull my colt and put 2 shots in to his heart.

6 kills there, a grenade takes me out.

I respawn and sprint back to the front, by virtue of luck I am not seen and manage to jump in to a trench directly adjacent to the japanese attackers. After brutally exploding the head of one soldier, I kneel and turn, spraying and praying that my bullets will halt the advance. Again, after firing my whole clip, I don't have time to reload, I quickly switch to my colt and dispatch some japanese  charging over an abandoned bunker.

Another 6 kills there, it was only when I had repelled the first wave when a rogue jap ended my spree by executing me point blank with his nambu.

RO2: Rising Storm

Reading back a few pages of this thread and found this post. RO2 is awesome - but being japanese and banzaing is arguably more fun!

I just wish it had larger maps! Great game though, played it a ton and still go back to it every now and then!

I wish that the commander and squad leader's abilities to set targets was a little more high-profile. That some reward would be given for giving orders and following them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 23, 2014, 08:15:44 pm

Quote from: Greiger on March 23, 2014, 12:50:15 pm

Got into a close range firefight with a MAX as a light assault, they took cover to reload.  There's no bloody way I'm going to win this.

But when they took cover I suddenly got a burst of inspiration, I sprinted towards them, strapped a block of C4 to their face, and ran away hitting the detonator as I went.

Vanu MAX down.

Planetside 2

I once managed to take out a New Conglomerate MAX by circle strafing in mid air directly above him as a LA with Drifter jets and the shitty basic Cycler. He was already wounded from an earlier battle, but pouring two clips into him took him down.

Okay, more owns:

Trying out a mixed Support/Damage build as a warrior. Most people decry support warriors as utterly useless, but I managed to keep the tide of my squad healed up and buffed constantly.

We, as a 30 man group, went to Stonemist Castle, the most impenetrable fortress in the World vs. World map. I was just building adrenaline (I heal better with my healing skill when I have full adrenaline, plus you need it to use special moves) by flailing at the wall, when we got flanked.

Two big zergs, maybe 15-20 each, flanked us, crashed straight into us, and I thought "shit".

Here was where my new build came into play. Sword + Warhorn: Sword has lunging attacks, plus its adrenal skill immobilises and bleeds foes, plus i was specced on critical hit to inflict yet more bleeding. Warhorn just has two skills: one that applies swiftness (+33% movement speed) and cures chilled, poisoned and some other thing. All nasty conditions, that it cures. It also has one that applies Vigor (endurance regen +100%) so you can dodge attacks all day.

Then I dropped a Banner of Defense (increases vitality of everyone in the radius by a set %), which pumped my health up to a damn fine 28,000, and added about 2-3000 health to everyone in the radius.

But, I'm also specced for my banners to apply Regeneration to any ally in the radius, as long as the banner lasts. (This means I can have 90 seconds of weak-moderate regen lasting with only six seconds of effective cooldown, as the cooldown on the banner skill is 96 seconds where the banner's defense + regen lasts 90 seconds.)

My sword and I carve into a single foe at a time, doing pitiful damage but inflicting huge stacks of bleeding on them, so they'd laugh and nuke me to low health, but then go 'holy shit i can't stop the bleeding' and run away and collapse from massive blood loss.

Best thing ever is, my healing skill heals different health % based on adrenal level - at full adrenaline, it heals nearly 55% health, which is more once-off heal than any other class in the game.
It also slaps a free stack of three Might onto the allies nearby me - so whenever I heal, I restore more than half my health, and make my surrounding allies stronger in combat.


YES. We just barely fought off the twin flanks, outnumbered approximately 1.2:1. I had a buddy rolling as a twin axe Zerker warrior, so he'd assist me in combat with his huge burst damage and PBAOE moves.

Hilarious moments occurred when he'd go down after being nuked (Zerkers don't really get above the warrior's base health of 21k at level 80, where Support warriors have up to 26-28k depending on their spec).

I would just babysit him during that time - every time he went down, because he was about as squishy as a heavy armor class comes, I'd drop a banner, shout FOR GREAT JUSTICE, which let him regen his health and slapped Fury (+20% crit chance) and 3x Might (+a decent amount of Power), he'd hit Vengeance (warrior only skill when you're mortally wounded - get up and continue fighting as normal for the duration of the buff, but are immediately killed when the buff expires.).

Normally Vengeance is only used in the most dire of circumstances, but he had specced for "Furious Rally" - if you kill a foe while you're under the effects of Vengeance, Vengeance immediately cancels with no ill effects, so you can get up nearly instantly provided you kill during Vengeance.

Ah, such fun.

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on March 23, 2014, 09:05:21 pm

Playing a Necromancer, pop Lich Form,
Literally kill the entire enemy team without dropping below half health with just the auto-attack.
This is stupid.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 24, 2014, 04:52:09 am

...? With my Duelist build, I've 1v1'd a Necromancer in Lich Form and come out on top. Endure Pain / Berserker Stance / Throw Bolas = lol

Berserker Stance + Endure Pain popped at the same time is effectively four seconds of invulnerability, plus you can't be slapped with conditions either. You can still be stunned, but Necros don't really have many stuns, iirc.

Throw Bolas immobilises them so you can get a coupla crits with the sword auto to make them bleed, then you slap them with the sword burst, which immobilises them again and bleeds for huge damage.

Then you back off, pop your heal if you reckon they can get you to >25% but <50% health with next shot, and watch as they start panicking about their bleeding. Even if they cleanse their conditions as necros are good at, you can just slap them with another few autos and the adrenaline -> final thrust and they'll go down again.

1v1 vs. Zerker warriors, the Duelist build wins almost every time. It's really only a 1v1 build though, in big melees I simply can't slap everyone with enough bleeding to supplement my pathetic damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on March 24, 2014, 09:05:49 am

Damnit Reudh, you make that game sound hella awesome. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: foil on March 24, 2014, 09:28:22 am

Just finished the main mission on Metal Gear Solid GZ and is pretty good.  Took a couple of hours and im about 30 mins into the 1st of the 5 or 6 unlocked side missions.

Will probably take another couple of hours to do the side missions and then start again on hard difficulty you have to unlock for each mission by completing them once.

Seems decent enough value if i get 6+ hours playing out it for £20.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on March 24, 2014, 11:40:59 am

As Omniknight, played with a very strange team consisting of a spectre, disruptor and 2 spanish speaking people, one being an alchemist who fed the bot lane and then had to make up for it by jungling (and managed to). I was forced to go mid since our zeus was completely convinced he would make an excelent support for our alchemist (something the alch somehow agreed with)... So he basically just denied our main carry bunch of gold and experience and died along with him several times. Our specter was top with our disruptor and they didn't do too well but didn't feed horribly (mainly because I managed to convince disruptor to leave mid and go top to help the specter after he died to pudge twice).

It was a really weird game and I was sure we were going to lose untill the alch managed to get himself togheder by farming the jungle and lanes forever. After that all I had to do was get a gem for the enemy riki and keep the alch with repel and use my ulti when needed. We managed to come back from a near certain loss due to a near invincible alch that was always immune to something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ringmaster on March 24, 2014, 02:04:09 pm

^-That's Dota 2, by the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 24, 2014, 09:36:02 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on March 23, 2014, 09:05:21 pm

Playing a Necromancer, pop Lich Form,
Literally kill the entire enemy team without dropping below half health with just the auto-attack.
This is stupid.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2

You pretty much should always be autoing anyway - it's only when you go a bit over your head that you use the other skills.
It's stated in the wiki that most basic enemies in game of the same level can be defeated 1v1 with just the auto.

Players that are scaled up to 80 for World v World also have significantly less health and damage than their counterparts - as an Engineer, scaled from 8 -> 80 I was barely plinking a mesmer 1v1 - i could immobilise and set him on fire as much as I liked, but as soon as he'd get to low HP he'd just heal back up with Ether Feast. That's probably why your Lich Form was doing so well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on March 24, 2014, 09:57:53 pm

I beat Metro 2033 on Ranger Hardcore. Like a boss. Too bad it's a DLC for Metro Last Light.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on March 25, 2014, 12:59:18 am

Quote from: kisame12794 on March 24, 2014, 09:57:53 pm

I beat Metro 2033 on Ranger Hardcore. Like a boss. Too bad it's a DLC for Metro Last Light.

???

pretty sure Metro 2033 isn't a DLC, I have it as a standalone game..

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 25, 2014, 01:03:16 am

He meant Ranger Hardcore is DLC for Metro Last Light.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on March 25, 2014, 01:30:13 am

Quote from: Steelmagic on March 25, 2014, 01:03:16 am

He meant Ranger Hardcore is DLC for Metro Last Light.

oh. right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 25, 2014, 01:49:31 am

If you've played the game, this screenshot speaks for itself. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=241995475) I had zero Estus flasks left, zero Fire Orbs, and (not shown) zero GCFs. My remaining kit consisted of a handful of feeble Fireballs and a few desperate swings from a Claymore, so this was about as close as I could've cut it.

Best of all, my Pyromancy trainer had survived an inadvertent sword blow to the face a while back, and my sin abolition was successful - she was not only willing but happy to sell me Great Fireball, Firestorm, and Great Combustion. No longer will I be stuck with mediocre spells!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on March 27, 2014, 12:56:12 am

I got a 4096 tile. Goddamn was it close a few times. I shudder to think of how difficult 8192 is going to be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

4096

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on March 27, 2014, 03:08:05 am

Quote from: lemon10 on March 27, 2014, 12:56:12 am

I got a 4096 tile. Goddamn was it close a few times. I shudder to think of how difficult 8192 is going to be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

4096

Try 9007199254740992 (http://www.crazygames.com/game/9007199254740992)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 27, 2014, 03:22:57 am

Good god it's cookie clicker all over again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on March 27, 2014, 11:47:04 am

i got a terrible loadout on the Randomizer server.  Baby Face Blaster heavy with a shield and a bat of some sort.  I managed to get a killing spree of 5 kills and a flag capture.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2, Randomizer server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SquatchHammer on March 28, 2014, 04:15:13 am

Quote from: Erils on March 27, 2014, 03:08:05 am

Quote from: lemon10 on March 27, 2014, 12:56:12 am

I got a 4096 tile. Goddamn was it close a few times. I shudder to think of how difficult 8192 is going to be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

4096

Try 9007199254740992 (http://www.crazygames.com/game/9007199254740992)

Quote from: Xantalos on March 27, 2014, 03:22:57 am

Good god it's cookie clicker all over again.

Quote from: lemon10 on March 27, 2014, 12:56:12 am

I got a 4096 tile. Goddamn was it close a few times. I shudder to think of how difficult 8192 is going to be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

4096

Umm... I hate you guys.... you had to do it again.... Found another cookie clicker you have... Making it a mathematical logic puzzle that help boost my confidence level in math... Fuking bay 12!! How does it even work!?!?

Also I was trying the huge number before I go to bed, all i got to was 32768.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on March 28, 2014, 06:38:59 am

Found 2048 multiplayer, played like twenty or more matches.
I have yet to lose one.

I guess that count as ownage, yes?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 28, 2014, 08:09:13 am

Fighting a somewhat jerkish guy on Toribash aikido, on the last round of a tournament.

He started by leaning back and preparing to kick. I grabbed his foot, and then his torso. He tried to get free, so I flipped him over sideways, onto his head, breaking his neck and disqualifying him. It was a fast round.

"Faggot" he said, then disconnected.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 28, 2014, 10:29:51 am

Quote from: IronTomato on March 28, 2014, 08:09:13 am

Fighting a somewhat jerkish guy on Toribash aikido, on the last round of a tournament.

He started by leaning back and preparing to kick. I grabbed his foot, and then his torso. He tried to get free, so I flipped him over sideways, onto his head, breaking his neck and disqualifying him. It was a fast round.

"Faggot" he said, then disconnected.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Hah, that sounds great. Well done!

---

Running with my guild, we coordinated a strike team into the heart of the Eternal Battlegrounds, the grand Stonemist Castle. After fighting in a battle so huge that my computer (no slouch either) dropped to 1fps, basically relegating me to reviving downed or dead players or dropping the odd AOE move, I was ordered with two other Warriors to go clean up the stragglers.

We three moved out - three very seperate builds. My Axe/Axe mixed Zerker/Roamer which is really just designed to lower the guard of the opponent by slapping Vulnerability on them, plus its burst move Eviscerate is like a jumping backhanded axe pimp slap that hurts like a little bitch.

One guildie's Sword/Axe Duelist build, which deals low-moderate damage and bleeds them until they go down from blood loss, alternating with a Greatsword for movement and flat damage.

Another guildie's Greatsword / Axe/Sword Berserker build. We fought six people at once - with a combination of stacking might on each other with our respective buff Shouts, and our high base health allowing revives when we got downed, resulted in a resoundingly fun cleanup for us and a humiliating defeat for the six straggling foes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2, on Ehmry Bay World vs World, against Eredon Terrace and Kaineng.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 28, 2014, 05:15:04 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on March 28, 2014, 06:38:59 am

Found 2048 multiplayer, played like twenty or more matches.
I have yet to lose one.

I guess that count as ownage, yes?

Wat

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 28, 2014, 05:28:59 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 28, 2014, 05:15:04 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on March 28, 2014, 06:38:59 am

Found 2048 multiplayer, played like twenty or more matches.
I have yet to lose one.

I guess that count as ownage, yes?

Wat

Also: What?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on March 28, 2014, 05:55:34 pm

Goat Simulator. No further description necessary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on March 28, 2014, 07:34:36 pm

Decided to play as a game in my 59-16.
I'm dropped in Tundra. I immediately go and scout out a comet and enemy artillery the comet gets a massive artillery shell eating most of its health same thing goes to the low tier russian SPG (it got oneshot).
I have to run from a medium tank and go west while being lucky and avoiding fire from several mediums and a TD. One light confronts me but the chinese autoloader takes care of him.
After climbing the hill i find an unsuspecting TD i unload the 5 autoloader shell into netting me another kill. shortly after i find the enemy artillery again soi hugged and killed one SPG only to get killed by another. In the end i did 900 damage and 1500 support damage (detracking/scouting).

Here's the replay for those interested
http://wotreplays.com/site/726394#self
Also it's obviously World of Tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on March 28, 2014, 10:23:34 pm

Quote from: flabort on March 28, 2014, 05:28:59 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 28, 2014, 05:15:04 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on March 28, 2014, 06:38:59 am

Found 2048 multiplayer, played like twenty or more matches.
I have yet to lose one.

I guess that count as ownage, yes?

Wat

Also: What?

The meteors are confused.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on March 28, 2014, 10:30:19 pm

I killed Diablo.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 in skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 28, 2014, 11:28:01 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on March 28, 2014, 10:23:34 pm

Quote from: flabort on March 28, 2014, 05:28:59 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 28, 2014, 05:15:04 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on March 28, 2014, 06:38:59 am

Found 2048 multiplayer, played like twenty or more matches.
I have yet to lose one.

I guess that count as ownage, yes?

Wat

Also: What?

The meteors are confused.

Google search found one:
Link (http://emils.github.io/2048-multiplayer/)

Edit: It's 2048, but with a timelimit; the time limit being either the displayed one or when your opponent screws up too badly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 29, 2014, 06:45:02 am

I just backstabbed my oldest allies, the Flitt. They were a polity of traders and such that ruled a mere 5 star systems when I first popped onto the galactic stage. Seeing opportunity in the Xanalok's (my species) natural proclivity for war, they allied with me in the hopes of crushing the local tyrant empire, which I forget the name of. I, being an opportunistic Xanalok, accepted, and after acquiring a few weapons promptly annihilated said tyrants, who had the gall to attack my planets and demand tribute when most of their colonies were mere outposts on planets with no atmosphere. In the space they left behind, the Flitt grew, and at the demand of my home planet so did I. They set up an empire that spanned 15 systems, a big achievement for us at the time, and I expanded to about 10 or so. While they sold their wares to me through the trading route we had set up, I set about setting myself up as the new tyrant race in this sector, also making alliance with a particularly vicious race of religious fanatics called the Gnosh. I, unlike the Gnosh and Flitt, wanted perfect worlds, not the barren rocks they were content with, so where they expanded their domains, I did quests for them until I'd unlocked all the terraforming tools I needed to get all my planets to perfection. Then I set about improving all my colonies to max, which took quite a lot of money and time. By the end of it the Gnosh had colonized over 30 systems and seemed to be at war with the Flitt - and winning, from all the assaults they kept on sending at the Flitt homeworld. I didn't bother myself with that, however, and busied myself with crushing the little 5-system empires I found growing up in my territory, annexing their systems for myself. Then I perfected those planets. By the time that was done, the Gnosh had somehow taken over the Flitt home system, leaving them with little more than a collection of asteroids. I headed over to their systems in disgust, announced the breaking of our alliance, and conquered all their planets in less than 10 minutes.
Now I might turn my eyes to the Gnosh, who knows.

Spore

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on March 29, 2014, 07:01:02 am

The Space section of Spore would be a neat basis for a more complicated game. Do they still have the servers up for creation exchanging?


Recent ownage? Hmm... I'm still able to pull off well-led shots using the flare gun in Team Fortress 2. I love hitting people with critical flares just as they pop around a corner and I've ducked back inside. Or a Scout I killed with a flare just before he could collect some health.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on March 29, 2014, 07:03:52 am

Quote from: Mech#4 on March 29, 2014, 07:01:02 am

The Space section of Spore would be a neat basis for a more complicated game. Do they still have the servers up for creation exchanging?


Recent ownage? Hmm... I'm still able to pull off well-led shots using the flare gun in Team Fortress 2. I love hitting people with critical flares just as they pop around a corner and I've ducked back inside. Or a Scout I killed with a flare just before he could collect some health.

I don't know, since my copy expired and I can't get online anymore. I'm pretty sure they do, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 29, 2014, 10:51:58 am

Spoiler: HINT: Look at the ball. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/JVABfff.png)

And goddamn, I managed to get it down to (presumably) exactly one hitpoint, and it took judicious savescumming and more than half my team, consisting of Swampert, Linoone, Gyrados, Gardevoir, Skarmory, and I either had Sableye or Manetric - only Swampert and Linoone were still standing, with Linoone badly hurt(but he is the one that brought Kyogre down to 1HP, so he deserves a treat).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Sapphire. Also, a "jolly" god of destruction, who, at the time of capture, was busy wrecking the world's shit?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 29, 2014, 11:13:29 am

Impressive! Kyogre has a catch rate of 0.5%, so even if you reduced him to 1 HP and put him to sleep, a standard Pokeball only has a 4.2% chance to work. If you skipped the sleep, that drops to 2.1%.  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on March 29, 2014, 11:47:59 am

Learning how to play CK2 and EU4. That counts as a pretty big win on its own, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on March 29, 2014, 12:50:05 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 29, 2014, 10:51:58 am

Spoiler: HINT: Look at the ball. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/JVABfff.png)

And goddamn, I managed to get it down to (presumably) exactly one hitpoint, and it took judicious savescumming and more than half my team, consisting of Swampert, Linoone, Gyrados, Gardevoir, Skarmory, and I either had Sableye or Manetric - only Swampert and Linoone were still standing, with Linoone badly hurt(but he is the one that brought Kyogre down to 1HP, so he deserves a treat).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Sapphire. Also, a "jolly" god of destruction, who, at the time of capture, was busy wrecking the world's shit?

Nice! I did that on my old Sapphire. I remember I had thrown all my ultra and great balls, so all I had left were pokeballs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 29, 2014, 01:02:59 pm

I caught my Zapdos in y with a standard pokeball, though that was more me being an idiot and not stocking up on pokeballs before going after him than any kind of own.

False swiped down to 1 hp, and probably about 3 turns away from killing itself with struggle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaenneth on March 29, 2014, 01:16:57 pm

hmm, emulator? I always wanted to play Pokémon, but the handheld systems are awkward for me to use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on March 29, 2014, 02:02:36 pm

Killed the cyberdemon almost immediately upon entering his floor. He was 3 tiles away, so I just ran up to him, got berserk triggered from his melee attack, and whacked him with my armor piercing chainsaw until he exploded. Took about 5 hits.

Killed the archangel of death in the unholy cathedral. I was zerking the whole time and pretty much gibbed all the lesser demons with my chainsaw. Upon sawing the archangel of death to death, I got the Longinus Spear. Basically a BFG but you hit demons with it.

Then I went into Limbo and cleared the entire floor of archviles and all the demons they revived. By that point I was gibbing everything except bosses with my melee attacks while berserk because LONGINUS SPEAR. I was berserk the entire time. I gibbed all of Limbo, then got the Angelic Armor to complete my angelic set. I had a holy spear as strong as a BFG and armor that has 11/11 armor, the highest in the game, could berserk by hitting things, which I did all the time, and I ran faster than a lost soul to top it all off. I was an ultra resistant, super fast tank that whacked demons into bloody mist. I also was packing a nuclear BFG just in case I felt like blowing demons up the old fashioned way.

The spider mastermind was utterly wrecked. And now for the morgue!

Code: [Select]

He killed 672 out of 672 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DoomRL, Scout Blademaster on Not Too Rough

Not bad for not playing for a while. Best melee game I've had, really fun to chain berserk and kill everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaenneth on March 29, 2014, 09:19:33 pm

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Q: Will we be able to play online?
 A: This game features a fully functional  multiplayer. Both trading and battling are supported. However, they are not fully functional  and still very experimental. Do not expect them to work fully as intended.

Does not inspire confidence.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 30, 2014, 01:54:47 am

Quote from: kaenneth on March 29, 2014, 09:19:33 pm

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Q: Will we be able to play online?
 A: This game features a fully functional  multiplayer. Both trading and battling are supported. However, they are not fully functional  and still very experimental. Do not expect them to work fully as intended.

Does not inspire confidence.

Compared to the emulated versions where multiplayer is more or less impossible? Better than nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 30, 2014, 02:48:22 am

Posting in the *Own* thread second, because my death was more epic than my win, but my win was still awesome.

Quote from: flabort on March 30, 2014, 02:46:35 am

We were playing Epic Munchkin (Up to level 20), I had played the "This one goes up to 11" card (Level 22 to win with Epic). My character was loaded out extremely awesomely, when I faced off against... an Undead Tentacle Monster with it's Brood and Mate.
Level 15+5(undead)+10(brood)...x2(mate)=60, plus the magic missile, was level 65. I couldn't get half that, darn them and their modifiers and not wanting me to win. So I died.

When I respawned, I had 2 level 2 monster cards, a level 17, and a cheat card in my hand, plus more awesome equipment. I went on to win despite my death, they managed to negate one of my Go Looking For Trouble level 2s, but I wound up tying the level 17 after all their modifiers and special abilities, and Warriors win ties. And thus, I reached level 23 and won. :D

Spoiler: Blurry Image, pre death (click to show/hide)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0072_zps33709a2b.jpg)

Spoiler: Closer zoomed, less blur, more than one image (click to show/hide)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0073_zpsc8f039ec.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0074_zpsc3533766.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0075_zps42d81871.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0076_zps7f5cf0ae.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0077_zpsec203d0e.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0078_zps931a299f.jpg)
(http://s278.photobucket.com/user/flabort/media/HNI_0079_zps3d91333d.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0080_zpsd16c1b8b.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/HNI_0081_zps259a2cb7.jpg)

Oh, and if you noticed, I am a girl according to that card. This is because I changed sex mid game 3 times. Lousy curses... :P

Munchkin Deluxe, Star Munchkin, Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe, Munchkin 8: Cheat with Both Hands.  <--To avoid any meteor storms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on March 30, 2014, 03:15:41 am

So me and my friend finaly got our fighter built, we restart the server and turn off nametags so we can hide properly and then start hunting each other. I move from asteroid to asteroid exposing myself but i have a big ball of armor with a missile launcher and 2 gatling gun with some decent maneuvrability so i was feeling confident. I hear shooting, i quickly disengage the inertia dampener, do a 180 but during my move a missile hit my back, blowing up all my thrusters facing the back of my ship ( for my normal forward movement ), alongside my main power source wich was a large reactor.

Good thing i had numerous smaller backup gen. I start unleashing a torrent of bullet and when i felt confident enough launch 4 missile on him taking out his left wing wich had 3 gatling gun, now only one more wing with the last 3 maching gun. I see a red dot coming my way, or i think it was, good thing i took out my back of that fighter, he made me much more maneuvrable for close combat. I easily avoid his last 2 missile and i keep spraying maching gun, ricocheting off his heavy armor ( Good lord this machine guns doesnt do damage at all.... and they really dont have much capacity in terms of ammo... ).


*click*, *click* on both my side and him, we are at a stalemate, he has a big fighter compared to mine, he try to come at me raming, but sadly i dont have any back thrusters so im at a disavantage, i make a 90 degree turn to the right, exposing my left side to him, he try to ram me, i softened the blow by pushing my ship on the same vector he went at me, my left thrusters are just next to his cockpit, just a bit behind, but i still have my thruster facing front, i pusshed them to max, placing the thruster just in front of his cockpit, smashed the landing gear locking mecanism, and i fired up my left side thruster, blew up his cockpit and killed him.

Best fight EVER all space game mixed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space engineers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 30, 2014, 10:47:06 am

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Good to know that Nintendo doesn't immediately nuke fangames.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on March 30, 2014, 01:34:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 30, 2014, 10:47:06 am

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Good to know that Nintendo doesn't immediately nuke fangames.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Hah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 30, 2014, 01:37:23 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on March 30, 2014, 01:34:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 30, 2014, 10:47:06 am

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Good to know that Nintendo doesn't immediately nuke fangames.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Hah.

VDex Project has been around for a few years now, and even takes donations. No nuking yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on March 30, 2014, 02:32:40 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 30, 2014, 01:37:23 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on March 30, 2014, 01:34:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 30, 2014, 10:47:06 am

Quote from: sjm9876 on March 29, 2014, 01:20:26 pm

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

One has been fan-made for PC. And doesn't appear to have had any copyright issues yet, so get it whilst it's there :P

Good to know that Nintendo doesn't immediately nuke fangames.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Hah.

VDex Project has been around for a few years now, and even takes donations. No nuking yet.

I feel like it's just because they haven't been noticed yet. Nintendo is known for being overly litigious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 30, 2014, 04:01:05 pm

I've survived in a duel against my dad in Civ 5. Despite not being over, the fact that I've managed to bring it to a stalemate from the terrible shape i was in is amazing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civilization V. Though, as i said before, the war isn't over yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on March 31, 2014, 11:26:34 am

I've managed to unite all of Ireland, except for Ulster, which was stolen by Scotland. I look at the numbers: Ireland can muster 6000 men, and Scotland can muster about 8000. I declare war, and rush my men to Ulster. The Scottish army shows up, crosses the strait, and is decimated. I inflict 6000 casualties, while only losing 1000 men. A few months later, I've captured Ulster and destroyed 2000 men that the Scottish tried to land in Tyrone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 31, 2014, 12:20:46 pm

How much different from CK1 is CK2?

I managed to bring most of Europe under my heel as the Irish in that game, even got the title of emperor for a bit, then everybody decided they didn't like the Irish and started rebelling. Then my computer broke :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 31, 2014, 02:04:32 pm

Spoiler: LAZORFISH (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/xguln3O.png)

Unfortunately, that did piss for damage, and Gyrados was taken out that same turn, ironically with a Hyper Beam. Fortunately, Swampert took out Metagross next turn.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Sapphire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 01, 2014, 03:39:17 am

Quote from: Playergamer on March 31, 2014, 11:26:34 am

I've managed to unite all of Ireland, except for Ulster, which was stolen by Scotland. I look at the numbers: Ireland can muster 6000 men, and Scotland can muster about 8000. I declare war, and rush my men to Ulster. The Scottish army shows up, crosses the strait, and is decimated. I inflict 6000 casualties, while only losing 1000 men. A few months later, I've captured Ulster and destroyed 2000 men that the Scottish tried to land in Tyrone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

Ulster almost always ends up swiped by Scotland, if you're starting as Duke Brian of Munster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 01, 2014, 02:03:23 pm

Took out 5 airships by myself, two of them battleships, before two of them ganged up on me. Luckily I landed on tower far from the deadly ground. The two ships that brought me down, one came in low a little too close and I able to kill the pilot with a gunpowder satchel. The other came too close from on high, and I was able to board. The woman piloting quickly received my saber to the chest. I was able to take down one more ship before the match was over.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

AirBuccaneers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on April 02, 2014, 11:13:05 am

FINALLY won that crazy battle.
Took me maybe six session, 1200+ personnal kills, 150+ deaths and untold amount of RAEG, but I did it.
Fighting for well over three hours over that one capture point makes it all the more gratifying in the end.
All the fighting took place over a tiny fraction of the map, which I ended up knowing like the back of my hand.
I estimate that well over 10.000 men died for that little plaza. Now THIS is war.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

running with rifles demo. The title sums up the game pretty well. You spawn, run with a rifle, take a stray bullet, and die. Repeat until you get lucky/skilled enough to survive long enough to start shooting back. It's HARD. And I don't even have access to multiplayer with the demo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on April 02, 2014, 01:59:37 pm

Killed an Enfield Horror with exactly two FMJ Rifle rounds and three stabs with a broad spear.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

NeoScavenger.

Modified it so I could get all the traits so true, it might be less of an own, but I still felt pretty badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on April 03, 2014, 03:40:05 pm

Me: "Hey, Sowers! You mind telling me why the fuck you've placed so many invasion ships near my main production center? You can't seriously be thinking-"

The Sowers has declared war on you!

Me: "Oh, so me graciously sparing you when you attacked me earlier wasn't enough to tell you how peaceful I-"

The Pilgrims has declared war on you!

Me: "Well fuck you, too! I take it my peaceful expansions into the galactic core irked you so hard when I got that large lava system before you-"

The Pilgrims have begun invading Lisul! (Lava system)

Me: "That's it. TOTAL WAR! BURN THE COFFERS! OUR SHIPS WILL BLOCK OUT THE SUNS!"

The United Empire has declared war on you!

Me: "I WILL BURN YOU ALL, SMELT YOUR SHIPS AND MAKE MY OWN GOD DAMN PLANET-SIZED IRON THRONE-"

The Automatons has declared war on you!

Me: "I WILL ENDLÖSUNG YOU ALL"

*Decades of fighting, the Sowers and Pilgrims annihilated, the galaxy under my control*
*The United Empire and the Automatons are both left with a single gas giant*
*Both systems surrounded by dozens of dreadnaughts and invasion fleets*

Me: "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SO PUNY?! TO BE AT MY MERCY?! I SHALL TOY WITH YOU BEFORE YOUR INEVITABLE DEMISE!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on April 03, 2014, 04:20:20 pm

Just out of interest: which race were you playing?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on April 03, 2014, 04:24:09 pm

Custom race with Hissho appearance and United Empire affinity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 03, 2014, 06:30:29 pm

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 MEAT MARINE, level 21 Hell Knight Sergeant Major Marine,
 completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
 He survived 219325 turns and scored 693375 points.
 He played for 5 hours, 20 minutes and 51 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 1597 out of 1634 hellspawn. (97%)
 He held his right to remain violent.
 He was an Angel of Berserk!
 He was also an Angel of 100!
Well, that was fun. Also got surprisingly easy once I got past the cruel early game of leveling up to get Berserk. Things started picking up once I built a chainsword out of my combat knife and got the master trait Vampyre. As a vampyre, I regained an amount of health depending on what I just killed. Also finding Malek's Armor and the Butcher's Cleaver made things real easy. From there I was just roflstomping through packs of archviles and mancubi with almost constant berserk rage. I ate mancubi rockets and archvile flames for breakfast. In the end I took 6622 damage. Also reached a killstreak of 44 on one floor full of pain elementals and lost souls.

Finished the game with 202/110 health. For reference, you start the game with 50 health.  Also found the chainsaw, FINALLY, on level 92. ^{Thanks for helping me kill all those other 91 floors, chainsaw. Totally didn't need you sooner or anything.}

TL:DR; Steamrolled through 100 floors of hell and slaughtered 1597 demons using only an assortment of sharp pointy things while wading through oceans of lava and demon blood and headbutting through high powered demonic explosives. I'd call that some ownage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DoomRL on Not Too Rough

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 03, 2014, 08:38:46 pm

Quote from: da_nang on April 03, 2014, 03:40:05 pm

Me: "Hey, Sowers! You mind telling me why the fuck you've placed so many invasion ships near my main production center? You can't seriously be thinking-"

The Sowers has declared war on you!

Me: "Oh, so me graciously sparing you when you attacked me earlier wasn't enough to tell you how peaceful I-"

The Pilgrims has declared war on you!

Me: "Well fuck you, too! I take it my peaceful expansions into the galactic core irked you so hard when I got that large lava system before you-"

The Pilgrims have begun invading Lisul! (Lava system)

Me: "That's it. TOTAL WAR! BURN THE COFFERS! OUR SHIPS WILL BLOCK OUT THE SUNS!"

The United Empire has declared war on you!

Me: "I WILL BURN YOU ALL, SMELT YOUR SHIPS AND MAKE MY OWN GOD DAMN PLANET-SIZED IRON THRONE-"

The Automatons has declared war on you!

Me: "I WILL ENDLÖSUNG YOU ALL"

*Decades of fighting, the Sowers and Pilgrims annihilated, the galaxy under my control*
*The United Empire and the Automatons are both left with a single gas giant*
*Both systems surrounded by dozens of dreadnaughts and invasion fleets*

Me: "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SO PUNY?! TO BE AT MY MERCY?! I SHALL TOY WITH YOU BEFORE YOUR INEVITABLE DEMISE!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space

I had a similar match in Gal Civ II recently.

Krynn were being horribly expansionist and lining up starbases on my border to push it back and hopefully peacefully convert some of my planets. They literally only targeted me for this, none of the other AI, not even the more threatening ones.

So I declare war on the Krynn. Capture a few planets, crush their pitiful Defender and Sniper class fighters, and they ask for peace. I say no, because not all of their border planets are gone from my borders yet.
They surrender to the Altarians.

I declare war on the Altarians.

Torians and Drath declare war on me.
Drengin declare war on Drath, Torians and Altarians.
Thalans declare war on me, Altarians and Korx
Korx declare war on Altarians and Thalans
my custom race of ant people, the Myrmecians, declare war on me and the Korath.
The Korath declare war on everyone but me (Korx, Thalan, Torian, Myrmecian, Drengin, Drath, Altarian, Arcean)
The Arceans declare war on me and the Korath.

Everyone promptly surrenders to each other, leaving the Altarians controlling 85% of the board (on an IMMENSE galaxy size, this is no mean feat), the Arceans and I relegated to two small corners each.

And yet, I managed to defeat the Altarians and win a cultural victory.

Just in case your reading comprehension is bad:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Galactic Civilisations II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 04, 2014, 01:10:48 am

Galactic Civs 2 is one of those games I can't play near the semester end because I won't stop.

I still haven't beat that one gigantic galaxy game I'm playing.  Then again, in that one I control more planets than can exist under normal game circumstances (there was a mega-event, long story) and am involved in a ridiculous war, so yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on April 04, 2014, 01:14:46 am

I played an immense galaxy on that at one point. Dread Lords showed up, I promptly crushed them into dust with a fleet of about a zillion ships.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on April 04, 2014, 03:25:44 pm

I am playing as the Queen of Ireland. I was notified a while back that the Duke of Munster, now 79, has an heir outside the realm, specifically, in France. After trying to make him revolt, I eventually give up and just try to revoke his title. He says no, and declares war on me. However...

The Duke of Munster has called the Duke of Connacht into his wars.

The Duke of Munster has called the Duke of Ulster into his wars.

Ok... I can handle that, I still have Wales, right?

Ulster brings out the 6000 man doomstack, crushing my 4000 man army.

... Crap.

Years of war and hundreds of gold later I destroy the doomstacks and capture the duke.

(Now that the ownage story is over, he... kinda died in the dungeon before the war ended, so France still inherited Munster.)

CK2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 04, 2014, 03:45:45 pm

I just sort of wandered through 3-4 whole secters without taking more then 2 or 3 hull damage[Stupid missiles]. Mostly just 2 or 3-shotting ships with my glaive beam after stripping their shields with my ion arsenal while dodging all their volleys with my cloaking. I ended up with around 300-400 scrap from that. Probably still going to die on the boss, but I've got a decent chance at least.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL:Advanced Edition playing as Stealth Cruiser type B

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on April 04, 2014, 04:06:08 pm

"Okay, almost at Sector 8, just got two more jumps to g-*OUT OF FUEL* *REBEL FLEET* *DEAD*

Repeat three times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL

I suspect we're gonna get a lot more of FTL showing up here for the next few days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 04, 2014, 04:34:59 pm

Quote from: HFS on April 04, 2014, 04:06:08 pm

"Okay, almost at Sector 8, just got two more jumps to g-*OUT OF FUEL* *REBEL FLEET* *DEAD*

Repeat three times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL

I suspect we're gonna get a lot more of FTL showing up here for the next few days.

... Possibly you meant for the "How did you last die?" thread?  You might've overshot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on April 04, 2014, 04:42:04 pm

Spoiler: Dust cow, 25% of 4K per turn (click to show/hide)

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/DesertBank1396647318.jpg)

Governed by Dr. Freeman. HL3 Confirmed. Developing in secret in this system.

I should probably switch exploitation on some to finance for even more Dust.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on April 04, 2014, 04:56:34 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 04, 2014, 04:34:59 pm

Quote from: HFS on April 04, 2014, 04:06:08 pm

"Okay, almost at Sector 8, just got two more jumps to g-*OUT OF FUEL* *REBEL FLEET* *DEAD*

Repeat three times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL

I suspect we're gonna get a lot more of FTL showing up here for the next few days.

... Possibly you meant for the "How did you last die?" thread?  You might've overshot.

...

WHOOPS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on April 04, 2014, 08:22:33 pm

Just crafted the Princess Panalope(I think? It's the one you make with High Rank Rathian Mats) gunlance after noticed I had the materials for it.
Wow, I don't think I've poisoned things faster before today.
I like this weapon.
Luckly, it is free to fire it, even for periods approaching 12 seconds.

EDIT: DIVERT THE METEORS THE GAME WAS MONSTER HUNTER 3U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 04, 2014, 08:59:33 pm

Found two katanas and all kinds of other toys in a basement. The Paladin is becoming rather well kitted out, for his second day.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 05, 2014, 12:04:23 am

I've got 3 troops, one with a rifle, one a shotgun, and another with a rocket launcher.
The enemy outnumbers me, with two rocketeers and two riflemen.

Most of their guys are in the center of the map, except for one of their rocketmen, off to the right.
My troops are scatted, my rocketman is far off to the south, my shotgunner is right next to the enemy cluster, just a room away, and my rifleman is off to the north-west.

I order my rocket launcher to fire a missile straight into their formation, hoping it'll hit before they can dodge it, and for him to run to cover after the shot.
I tell my rifleman to move over to the east, aiming down at them.
My shotgunner, however, has the hardest job, he's got to move east to neutralize the eastern enemy rocketeer, then head north to keep the others from escaping.

I couldn't have asked for it to go better.

My missile launcher fires his rocket towards the cluster, while the two enemy riflemen and the rocketeer in there split up.
The enemy rocketeer fires over at my riflemen, but by that point, my guy is long gone from the area.
During this, the far enemy rocketeer launches a missile at my rocketman, good thing I told him to dive for cover after the shot, he's out of the area long before the missile reaches him.
Before that missile can even reach the southern room, though, my shotgun man is already right up in the rocket jerk's face, filling it with lead.

Right at this moment, the missile from my guy impacts on its target, wiping out the remaining rocketeer instantly, and destroying the wall that one of the enemy riflemen was using for cover.
Now exposed, my own rifleman already had his sights on the area, knowing the wall would be gone, and quickly dispatched him.

The shotgun man wasn't done, though, as I had ordered him to move north after taking out the enemy rocketeer, he managed to catch the last enemy rifleman from behind, and took him out.

I won with no losses, on the first turn.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Frozen Synapse Demo. I really need to get the full game of this, it's so fun, even when I lose, because it's not determined by dice or anything, so every loss is a chance to learn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on April 05, 2014, 12:02:44 pm

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/103222DUST1396716130.png)

Another job well done.
Started off again trying to be peaceful, worked relatively successfully. Then the Pilgrims attacked but they got wiped out by the Sowers. Peace (for my faction) then lasted for decades, where I spent much Dust to build up infrastructure and fleets. Even entered an alliance with the Sowers, which later put me on the warpath when they declared war on the United Empire. Cue me starting a blitzkrieg and taking most of the United Empire's holdings, including all holdings in their arm of the galaxy. The Amoeba started to get worried. Had a few clashes with the Hissho, but they quickly settled for a ceasefire and peace.

Then the Sowers declared war on the Amoeba and my Blitzkrieg began anew. At this point I was loaded with dreadnaughts, supercarriers and invasion ships. Thus the Amoeba fell quickly. Looking at the map, the Sowers and I practically owned most of the galaxy, with only the Hissho and the Sophons having their own small territories. At this point, I felt the Sowers were getting a bit too powerful and was behaving odd politically when they left the alliance and asked to rejoin not shortly after. Their repeatedly broke deals I made with them. So even larger fleets were amassed.

After having strategically placed my fleets, I declared war on the Sowers and swiftly took over their most important system, mostly those with plenty of strategic resources. Fighting was left mostly to the galactic core. The Sowers, probably after realizing how screwed they were, allied with the Hissho and opened a new front. I, consequentially, allied with the Sophons. "All-out" war broke out, with mostly me beating the Sowers to a pulp. Granted, their bombers caught me off guard and started to annoy me. But a few fighter carriers (read: dreadnaughts) dealt with that. Withing a few decades, the Sowers were wiped out as the Hissho struggled to defend their systems. In the end, I left the Hissho with a single system as a reminder of what happens when you cross me.

As for the Sophons, they're still allied but our relations are worsening. This is mostly due to my expansionism and military build-up. I'm hoping to keep them alive just to get the diplomatic victory but if they decide to attack then it's all over for them. The have six systems and I more invasion fleets than I can count.

Until then, I have more dust than I can possibly get rid of (I can literally have zero tax and still make a profit of 14K per turn) and will probably aim for a Wonder or Tech victory. They're just off the horizon anyways.

EDIT: Looks like it became diplomatic victory instead! :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 05, 2014, 02:22:11 pm

Quote from: da_nang on April 05, 2014, 12:02:44 pm

-snip-

This reminds me of a Galactic Civs 2 game I had in which everything was peaceful until a good ways into the midgame and then space WW1 broke out involving every single race in a huge 3v3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calech on April 06, 2014, 04:28:33 pm

One of the things that always bugs me about the Torus is that no matter what you do, you really need to get a weapon that can do actual damage fast - otherwise, you run into problems. The default Engi crew aren't suited to boarding actions so a teleporter isn't great, and coupled with their damage coming from drones it makes it hard to bump off some enemy ships.

This time, though, I had an idea when I picked up an Ion Stunner early... why not play the long game?

So I ioned the Clone Bay and Oxygen of a Mantis ship until I got a popup to tell me all the crew were dead and I could install a weapon found on their deserted ship - a Fire Beam! Not a damaging weapon, but it'll help me run down the air in any other ships that bit faster :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 06, 2014, 11:18:12 pm

Killed no less than EIGHT hapless NC while defending a point as a vanilla set up TR MAX.

Two engineers stuck to me - i was finally taken down by three heavies all hitting me with a Shrike rocket at once.

Planetside 2, folks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 12:04:06 am

Finally got a chance to play One Finger Death Punch. Every other thing you do in that game is a moment of ownage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 07, 2014, 12:06:54 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 12:04:06 am

Finally got a chance to play One Finger Death Punch. Every other thing you do in that game is a moment of ownage.

I can attest to this, that game is awesome. _{Even if I'm horrible at it.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 07, 2014, 12:34:24 am

Quote from: Reudh on April 06, 2014, 11:18:12 pm

Killed no less than EIGHT hapless NC while defending a point as a vanilla set up TR MAX.

Two engineers stuck to me - i was finally taken down by three heavies all hitting me with a Shrike rocket at once.

Planetside 2, folks.

Now I wonder when you say vanilla, you mean 'anti-explosive armor' rather than 'anti-infantry armor' :P

---

Planetside 2
Vanilla Combat Medic (only upgraded the tool). Partial newbie. :D

Firefight was intense at Tawrich Tech Plant, taking quite a standstill between us TR and them NCs. No armor or air support though, just pure infantry battles. Running between the TR spawn to control point A? Bogged between enemy NCs, everywhere. ~20 or so people on each side.
The streets were lined with dead members, and I did what was my best initiative: Shoot from the corner, then run behind cover to revive. All in all, I survived (got in the red health for a LOT of times, even dashed through open ground and was surprised that I lived and revived 7 people under heavy fire [probably because I was jumping or running in zigzags?]).

Granted, picking the suit upgrade which reduces damage from anti-infantry weapons really increases survivability. I was even able to kill 2 light assault troops. :X
I love the medic's power to heal self.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 07, 2014, 12:46:39 am

Very start of the match, my rocketeer wipes out both of the enemy launchers with one shot, and my shotgun man sneaks up on one of the riflemen and shoots him in the back in the span of less than a second.

The next round, my rifleman keeps fire on the last enemy, distracting him long enough for my missile to blow up the wall he was hiding behind, and for my shotgun man to burst through the new rubble and finish it.

2 turns, no losses. 75% of them were killed in the first turn before they could get even a single shot off.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Frozen Synapse Demo again, this game is so fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 07, 2014, 06:23:59 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/tCxRF99.png?1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on April 07, 2014, 06:27:02 pm

My main question is:

HOW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:28:33 pm

Scored 843 kills in Survival mode. The ground ran red with stick figure blood. Plus I have the highest score amongst my Steam friends!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 07, 2014, 06:29:30 pm

Quote from: Vorthon on April 07, 2014, 06:27:02 pm

My main question is:

HOW.

Perseverance, my dear friend!  That and basically making sure you never move your largest number from one of the corners.  Other than that, RNG is apparently my friend.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 07, 2014, 06:38:08 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:28:33 pm

Scored 843 kills in Survival mode. The ground ran red with stick figure blood. Plus I have the highest score amongst my Steam friends!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

How the...

I can never get past 300!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:51:37 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 07, 2014, 06:38:08 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:28:33 pm

Scored 843 kills in Survival mode. The ground ran red with stick figure blood. Plus I have the highest score amongst my Steam friends!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

How the...

I can never get past 300!

Oh man. You have got to beat 500 and unlock Blind Survival. It hides the combat zone, so you can't really see when enemies are in range! And if you get more than...was it 250?...kills in that mode you unlock No Luca No mode. That mode is hilariously difficult.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on April 07, 2014, 06:59:50 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:51:37 pm

No Luca No mode

I am seriously confused as to how that would work. Like, an arena brawler with a homage to a cereal protection simulator?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 07:04:56 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on April 07, 2014, 06:59:50 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 07, 2014, 06:51:37 pm

No Luca No mode

I am seriously confused as to how that would work. Like, an arena brawler with a homage to a cereal protection simulator?

Something like that, yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on April 07, 2014, 07:45:11 pm

I...
I've been wrong my whole life.
Greatshields aren't cheap in Dark Souls 2, unlike how I looked at them before.
The event that changed this?
My making of a new character that pretty much fulfills all the stereotypical traits of an anime brawler dude.
Huge muscles? Check
No shirt? Check
High saturation hair? Check, blue as hell
Fist weapons? Fuck yeah, two of them.
A giant sword? Haven't gotten that far yet.
Making stupid sounds with your mouth during every simple task? WATAH! HWAH! WAAAAAAAAAA!
Miracles to give you that lustrous super saiyan glow? In a few more play sessions, for sure.
Punch the Pursuer in the face multiple times without dying? Tomorrow night, that is the goal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 2. I swear, not only is this game more fun when you do stupid things, it's also magically easier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 08, 2014, 09:40:03 am

Beat the Rebel Flagship with the Lanius B. Lanius boarders are hilarious, they take a second to get going but when they suck the oxygen out of the room...(Also, I've discovered mind control counters mind control, handy for taking on the flagship).

FTL Advanced Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 08, 2014, 10:18:29 am

The members of my PvP guild from Guild Wars 2 finally managed to get their Elder Scrolls online characters to level 10 so we could enter the pvp together.

a lowly 8 of us managed to be the key components of breaking not one but two sieges against our side's keeps, simply by sneaking out of our keep going around behind the enemy mass, breaking stealth and making an organized attack.  Prompting the defenders in the keep to also charge out and join the fray.

Instead of fighting back most of the enemies scattered, and I managed to get our kill 20 enemy players daily done in the first charge.  It was glorious, I missed PvPing with these guys.

Elder Scrolls Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 08, 2014, 10:26:26 am

583 kills in blind survival. Not only does it hide the combat zone (so you don't quite know what your attack range is), it ALSO hides the enemy hit bars. If you don't know the pattern for a particular enemy color by heart, you'll probably screw up a few times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 08, 2014, 02:27:34 pm

Managed to achieve Spellcard capture of Patchoulli's Wood Elf Spellcard on Lunatic difficulty. That I was hacking the memory to have infinite bombs and lives to survive that long doesn't count against it since to capture a Spellcard you need to beat it without dying or using a bomb, before time runs out(except possibly Flandre's "And Then There Were None").

Even more impressive, dodging Sakuya's first wave of "OMFGKNIIIIIVVES"(died on the second one). More impressive still, capturing her Illusion World "The World" Spellcard. Again, both on Lunatic.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 08, 2014, 03:55:27 pm

I owned without doing anything.

Earlier, I had changed my kiai (the sound that plays when you enter a fight) to Fat Bastard saying "Get in mah belleh" and amplified it by 80 decibels or so, for good measure.

The fight went something like this:

My character: GET IN MAH BELLEH!! COME OOOON!!!

Opponent (on chat): "Holy fuck tomato"
*disconnects*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on April 08, 2014, 04:31:58 pm

Beat Bell Gargoyles. It was more bitter than sweet victory though, because I lost all of my humanities due to being careless earlier. Only 12, but for a newbie like me, that's quite some.  :(

Then I beat my first black knight. Only killed me once, still feel good.  :)

edit:
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 08, 2014, 04:54:53 pm

@IronTomato:
That's hilarious. I should play a couple rounds of that again; is there a server you favor?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 08, 2014, 09:05:25 pm

Quote from: flabort on April 08, 2014, 04:54:53 pm

@IronTomato:
That's hilarious. I should play a couple rounds of that again; is there a server you favor?

I usually go in Semipro Judofrac, or Semipro Aikido. When I'm not on one of those, I'm usually on the tourneys for the same gamemodes.

Also, fun fact: One of the new legends is someone from this forum.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: Sinistar on April 08, 2014, 04:31:58 pm

Beat Bell Gargoyles. It was more bitter than sweet victory though, because I lost all of my humanities due to being careless earlier. Only 12, but for a newbie like me, that's quite some.  :(

Then I beat my first black knight. Only killed me once, still feel good.  :)

You had 12 liquid Humanity?! Damn. I don't know that I've had more than 2-3 without consuming items, never mind before the Bell Gargoyles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 08, 2014, 09:26:37 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: Sinistar on April 08, 2014, 04:31:58 pm

Beat Bell Gargoyles. It was more bitter than sweet victory though, because I lost all of my humanities due to being careless earlier. Only 12, but for a newbie like me, that's quite some.  :(

Then I beat my first black knight. Only killed me once, still feel good.  :)

You had 12 liquid Humanity?! Damn. I don't know that I've had more than 2-3 without consuming items, never mind before the Bell Gargoyles.

He prolly ate all his humanity items. Or he went to a LOT of different areas before beating the gargs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:44:34 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 08, 2014, 09:26:37 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: Sinistar on April 08, 2014, 04:31:58 pm

Beat Bell Gargoyles. It was more bitter than sweet victory though, because I lost all of my humanities due to being careless earlier. Only 12, but for a newbie like me, that's quite some.  :(

Then I beat my first black knight. Only killed me once, still feel good.  :)

You had 12 liquid Humanity?! Damn. I don't know that I've had more than 2-3 without consuming items, never mind before the Bell Gargoyles.

He prolly ate all his humanity items. Or he went to a LOT of different areas before beating the gargs.

It's possible. Still, if you were going slowly, it's possible to farm 10 liquid Humanity per area from just killing stuff. 12 Humanity by the Parish would be totally doable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 08, 2014, 09:58:13 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:44:34 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 08, 2014, 09:26:37 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: Sinistar on April 08, 2014, 04:31:58 pm

Beat Bell Gargoyles. It was more bitter than sweet victory though, because I lost all of my humanities due to being careless earlier. Only 12, but for a newbie like me, that's quite some.  :(

Then I beat my first black knight. Only killed me once, still feel good.  :)

You had 12 liquid Humanity?! Damn. I don't know that I've had more than 2-3 without consuming items, never mind before the Bell Gargoyles.

He prolly ate all his humanity items. Or he went to a LOT of different areas before beating the gargs.

It's possible. Still, if you were going slowly, it's possible to farm 10 liquid Humanity per area from just killing stuff. 12 Humanity by the Parish would be totally doable.

That would require purpose, surely.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 09, 2014, 01:09:22 am

Anyways, to re-rail my own (highly successful) derail...

Got a 30/20 K/D, the highest score, and almost the highest capture time on a round of Loadout. In unrelated news, OMG SPOOLING PULSE GUNS ARE AWESOME, and the spawn point is a cool tool for Blitz.  :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There were only 3 sentences, surely you read the second one. Loadout, for those threatening meteors. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on April 09, 2014, 01:32:29 am

Quote from: Thexor on April 08, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 08, 2014, 09:26:37 pm

Yeah, I did ate that item you get in Cathedral (+8 humanity), but the rest IIRC I farmed. If I knew how much humanity it gave, I probably wouldn't do that but you know, that "upgrades estus flask" was just too tempting.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on April 09, 2014, 05:53:53 am

You do know to upgrade your Estus flask you need to bring the soul to the firekeeper in Firelink Shrine, right?
Like, eating the Firekeeper Soul literally wastes one of the most important things in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on April 09, 2014, 06:26:28 am

Nope, didn't know that.

Oh well, better luck next time I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on April 09, 2014, 06:26:57 pm

Showed the Lizalfos what the most terrifying thing any soldier can see is. An army of pissed off Kokiri charging wildly at them with wolves smashing through our own lines. Very little strategy was used, but there was much murderizing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hyrule Total War. I was the Kokiri if you haven't guessed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 09, 2014, 06:30:14 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on April 09, 2014, 06:26:57 pm

Showed the Lizalfos what the most terrifying thing any soldier can see is. An army of pissed off Kokiri charging wildly at them with wolves smashing through our own lines. Very little strategy was used, but there was much murderizing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hyrule Total War.

I really need to install that again...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on April 09, 2014, 11:09:26 pm

I'm allied with the Vaegirs.  I have exactly 100 troops.  About forty percent of those troops are archers, with about 20 Luchnik archers, and the other twenty or so being whatever is just below that on the progression tree.  I have 10 ratnik, which are mounted archers.  I then have my ten companions, my ten or so chevaliers/euclyrs, and the rest are a mix of vaegir and nord infantrymen, from I3 to I5.   I finally decide that I want a castle.  First I convince to King to attack Kelredan castle.  I help, losing only three of my infantry, and we succeed, due to my luchnik archers annihilating the Swadian defenders, and the Kings' 500 troops.   I then go back to Dhirim to get some food, and by the time I come back it's been taken back.  I lay siege, and get the defenders to surrender.  I then garrison the castle.  Then begins the first of many, many sieges.  Over the next three weeks I lay siege on Kelredan two times, and protect it six times.   Each time they took it I was away restocking on food.  By the time it is over I have only fifteen luchnik archers, five chevaliers, six ratnik, and ten gridmen.  I was forced to fend off Rhodok assaults, Swadian assaults, and Khergit assaults.  I had no money, and no food.   But the castle was mine.  Currently, I've managed to rebuild my army thanks to the sixty or so prisoners I accumulated.  I have ninety kmet archers, seventy gridman, twenty luchnik, fifteen ratnik, and fifteen chevaliers.   NO ONE is taking my castle.   

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade: Warband, Floris mod.  For some reason in Vanilla I find mounted archers completely useless, but in Floris they are awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2014, 02:22:46 am

Spoiler: Nearly doubled my previous best (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/616173252233358913/20A53F618F4D4E56B385ADD96DBD169147DAC333/)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on April 11, 2014, 02:28:05 am

Beat Deus Vult 1 a while back. Just beat Deus Vult 2. Next up: Alien Vendetta.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Doom wads

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on April 11, 2014, 12:49:10 pm

Playing ps3, GameCube, xbox360 and all older consoles on my nexus

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Retroarch found on Google playstore

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on April 11, 2014, 09:26:45 pm

I was manning the machinegun in a tank as we captured an objective, sweeping the area to make sure no infantry were sneaking up on us with explosives. I had already killed one guy launching rockets at us.
A helicopter had been harassing us, and came in for another sweep, so I aimed up and open fire at it as it approached, not really expecting results. Suddenly it stops firing and just drifts past us, and I realise with a shock that I just managed to shoot the pilot out of the cockpit. :o

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Battlefield 4. Of course, then we died to another helicopter moments later, but that was still an amazing moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 11, 2014, 09:34:44 pm

> PS2 Terran Republic Infiltrator.
> In Venu Syndicate base, sapping your generators, stealing your turrets, sniping your d00dZ!
> Sees an allied regiment moving in to take this nifty tech plant I'm in.
> VS Scythe (fighter aircraft) rolls in...and hovers, attacking allies in the turrets I hacked. Defenders roll in...
> Said aircraft is hovering RIGHT ABOVE ME. Literally, above my head as I stare in awe and fear at how close I am right under the aircraft.
> Has nothing to destroy the thing, and pretty much in hot waters.
> The aircraft hovers, and slowly drifts downward, nearing closer and closer towards...well, me.
> Touches me.
> *explodes*
> Is awarded with kill. [Pilot name, forgot whom (skull sign..or something) Corianna {my ign}]

...
I killed an enemy fighter craft, with most likely a host of upgrades due to its ability to hover and fire plasma spheres(?) as it tried to...squish me.
Uh...
Woo~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:47:14 pm

That's...

Really odd.

But I've had the same thing happen to me in Unreal Tournament when someone tried to smoosh me with a manta, so I guess it just happens in games sometimes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 11, 2014, 09:51:59 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:47:14 pm

That's...

Really odd.

But I've had the same thing happen to me in Unreal Tournament when someone tried to smoosh me with a manta, so I guess it just happens in games sometimes.

Well stuff like that happens... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9O6NbX0yI)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:55:44 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on April 11, 2014, 09:51:59 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:47:14 pm

That's...

Really odd.

But I've had the same thing happen to me in Unreal Tournament when someone tried to smoosh me with a manta, so I guess it just happens in games sometimes.

Well stuff like that happens... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9O6NbX0yI)

My computer can't youtube right now.
I have 1 bar of connection. Which is somehow still enough for the forum.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on April 11, 2014, 10:13:06 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:55:44 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on April 11, 2014, 09:51:59 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:47:14 pm

That's...

Really odd.

But I've had the same thing happen to me in Unreal Tournament when someone tried to smoosh me with a manta, so I guess it just happens in games sometimes.

Well stuff like that happens... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9O6NbX0yI)

My computer can't youtube right now.
I have 1 bar of connection. Which is somehow still enough for the forum.

All there is on this fourm is letters, some cool pictures and dry wit, so it would not take alot...

Also finally finish GTA V and really like the ending for how it ended

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 12, 2014, 12:19:52 am

Quote from: Evilsx on April 11, 2014, 10:13:06 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:55:44 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on April 11, 2014, 09:51:59 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 11, 2014, 09:47:14 pm

That's...

Really odd.

But I've had the same thing happen to me in Unreal Tournament when someone tried to smoosh me with a manta, so I guess it just happens in games sometimes.

Well stuff like that happens... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9O6NbX0yI)

My computer can't youtube right now.
I have 1 bar of connection. Which is somehow still enough for the forum.

All there is on this fourm is letters, some cool pictures and dry wit, so it would not take alot...

With a bad connection, some of the GIFs on certain overderailed threads might take enough to make the page fail to load properly.

Or if you happen to be using an Opera based browser because installing a different one would likely require hacking and risk bricking your 3DS.

I don't want to hack, and have to endure that browser when on the go (and setting up a connection manually when in unfamiliar surroundings); this has resulted in some pages, even on this very forum, to not load. But usually I can do what I need to.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 13, 2014, 09:57:57 am

Hanging out in my booth on Bazaar day with a stack of 20 gold from river diving. Summer, year 1. An old man walks up to the counter and wants to chat. I figure, sure, why the hell not? Not like I'm going to hit the 40k goal selling potatoes and turnips anyway. He takes up a lot of my time, but eventually stops talking.

"Thank you, sonny! I haven't had a good chat in ages. I'll buy all of your gold for being so nice to me." Hello there, $160k.

A true salesperson always makes their customers feel like they are the only customers.

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness on the DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on April 13, 2014, 07:40:55 pm

Got my steam skyrim working on my android :D can use mods too, but need an external storage. Nexus 4 has far too little space. So I have to figure that out.

I would call that owning :D 

BTW. Why the heck does my mid-high end PC far better specs in everyway do so bad with even unmodded skyrim :( my kinda old nexus 4 performs better ROFL. That is on a brand new install of windows 7. Kinda weird.

In any case. Now I can do skyrim on the go :D and as far as steam goes, for some reason it just works without it on my android. Seems maybe cause its not on windows or something. But I did copy my skyrim folder over...I know someone will prob have asked about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 13, 2014, 07:44:39 pm

What are your PC's specs?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on April 13, 2014, 07:49:44 pm

Geforce 660gtx 2gb

I5 CPU...forgot exact specs. Its crappiest motherboard ever but its a crappy low-mid CPU. Plays good enough.

8gb ddr3 ram

Windows 7 64bit

1tb HD

I just upgraded my GPU in December. CPU is shit. Everything else is mid-high end.

Brand new install, no mods. I did however notice games on steam run worse than same games non-steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 13, 2014, 07:59:38 pm

That's a pretty similar card to what I run, as far as 3dMark11 score. Do you have the latest drivers/directx?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 13, 2014, 08:00:40 pm

I outdamaged everyone else (including the tier 8 TDs) and got 1410 base XP (7050 with the x5 for first win) as an AMX 13 75. It's my best game so far with it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on April 13, 2014, 08:02:44 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 13, 2014, 07:59:38 pm

That's a pretty similar card to what I run, as far as 3dMark11 score. Do you have the latest drivers/directx?

Yeah. Prob cause steam doesn't like my firewall (ports open for steam) or my Dev release candidate windows 7. Cause deus ex (new one) gets 10 to 15 fps on steam and nonsteam its 60 which I cap it at.

(Edit) skyrim on my PC is more playable with mods added to it though. Like safety load, skse and some other stuff like unofficial patches. Which is funny as my heavily modded skyrim plays better than vanilla. But plays better on my little nexus.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 13, 2014, 09:51:57 pm

I just beat the Warzone2100 campaign. I cheated, but it was just the see-all and the win cheats at the very end because it bugged in the last mission (everything was gone and it was still going).

If you couldn't tell, Warzone 2100.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on April 13, 2014, 09:56:48 pm

My damage output as a ranger may not be as high as some of my other party members, but being the only player with any considerable range to my attacks sure has its benefits.

Most notable was when I clipped the wings of a manticore, sending plummeting to the ground and opening it up to attacks from other players.

Aimed shots are quite useful in certain situations. Or OP, depending on how you view it. The rules could be fleshed out a bit more though, since we had no idea what the flying check should be for the manticore to not fall, and the rule books didn't say much to help.

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Pathfinder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 13, 2014, 11:46:38 pm

Our squad went into 2 team to clean up the town, i was in the yellow team, one machine gunner, 2 rifleman and 1 medic (me), we were tasked to secure the inner part of the town where most of the enemy was sighted by the recon squad, white team had 2 rifleman and one grenader/?.

Not long after our entry in the town white team was more on the outskirt of the town and they fell in ambush, pinned down by enemy fire, they had 2 casualty so far, yellow team diverted their progress to move toward them but we found an enemy squad striaght in front of us, while most of the team was fighting them, i went to flank the enemy position from the right... The enemy was in a building straight in front of me, only thing i had as cover once they started shooting me was a half rocky ledge, i crawled behind it only to see bullet hitting JUST next to me but on the SIDE i was on!, i quickly turned around to see 3 ennemy straight in my face, must have turned a corner from behind while i was advancing.

I fired full auto on them and kill all 3 of them and i got shot twice in the process, i was lucky to still be alive. I drop a smoke where the enemy was just in case more would show up at least i would be concealed while i dispatch those in the building in front of me. I threw a grenade in the building and killed one of the enemy, and during the explosion i rose just high enough i dispatch the other one.

During all this time the rest of my tam was still trying to clear the other enemy who was more numerous than the intel was telling us. i went on the side of the building where most of the enemy were and started dispatching them one by one in quick succession. (God i love TMR mod.. to control the recoil of these god damn humongous recoil system in that game..). When all those i had line of sight went down the rest of the team had much less pressure to finish the other and we kept going toward white team. But our little skirmish was the end of the last member of the white team.

After doing a quick fixup on all of my team member we move forward, only a few dozen meters now, quickly dispatching remaining force as they appeared, we had killed most of the resistance in this little encounter but we had much more firepower than white team. Went ahead of them and revived them all and we continued clearing the town to finaly capture it.

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Invade and annex mission in Arma 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on April 14, 2014, 02:06:55 pm

The alien supply ship was shot down over Pakistan, and crash landed on the shores of a man made lake behind a hydro dam. Local security forces reported 10 heavily armed aliens survived the crash, and were now heading for the dam control centre, opening fire on anyone who came into range. The Hercules heavy dropship was scrambled from our HQ in central Turkey and would arrive after approx 4 hours with engines flat out - enough time for them to hunker down in a solid defensive position - or so I thought. The dropship hovered over a helipad on the south side of the dam, and in seconds all 12 troops had disembarked. The dropship dusted off with a roar of engine noise, futile plasma rounds arcing above our heads into the night sky from the aliens on the far side of the dam, who had been alerted by the noise. They were in no mood to sit back and let us come to them - they were rushing out LZ. 4 forward sentries on the dam were taken down by bursts of particle beam fire and plasma grenades. A further 3 on the far bank were shredded by needles from a pair of alien coil guns turned back on them. This left 3 in heavy armour taking cover in low buildings on the far bank. 3 sharp cracks later and each is down, heads cleanly removed by sniper fire from our own high calibre coil guns. 30 seconds, 10 dead aliens.

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UFO:AI. Very late game mission with weapons from the top of the tech tree.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 14, 2014, 02:49:40 pm

Sent Pikachu flying off the map, but noticed he was coming back on. So I hookshotted Mario and threw him into Pikachu, resulting in both falling off the map.

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Super Smash Bros., playing as Link in a 50-life free-for-all against Pikachu, Mario, and Fox.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 14, 2014, 04:02:59 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/MTYr2uF.png?1)

I need to stop playing this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on April 15, 2014, 08:20:48 am

After a total of 201 hours played, I finally beat Gwyn, the Lord of Cinder.

Feels good, man. Now I'm all ready for the sequel.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on April 15, 2014, 04:49:58 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 14, 2014, 04:02:59 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MTYr2uF.png?1)

I need to stop playing this game.

[resentment intensifies]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sergarr on April 16, 2014, 09:01:46 am

Lloyd's Beacon is the best spell invented in a video game, after Meteor Shower.

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Might and Magic 6

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on April 16, 2014, 05:40:10 pm

As a demoman, I cleared out two engi nests made with two sentries, two dispensers, two engineers, and a variety of other enemies. One of them was on the fourth capture point, the other was on overwatch over our cart on a payload race. I also blew up four enemies at once with sticky bombs as they pushed the cart.

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Team Fortress 2

The spies those games game were efficient killers. I lost many a stickybomb trap to them backstabbing me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 16, 2014, 10:29:09 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/uxQYQf7.jpg)

Thanks to brilliant defense from a Heavy and a few Soldiers, enemies couldn't get close enough with an Ubercharge to take out my Sentry. Spies were mere fodder for the Pybro roaming around with his Homewrecker and my Wrench - I think over the course of an hour or so I lost two sentries? one to sapping, one to the Loch' n' Load.

At one stage, the second sentry had managed to accrue 36 kills before it was destroyed. This was truly glorious. I'm not even competitive level, but i'd say I'm a pubstar engi, maybe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on April 17, 2014, 02:13:35 am

Quote from: Mego on April 15, 2014, 04:49:58 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 14, 2014, 04:02:59 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MTYr2uF.png?1)

I need to stop playing this game.

[resentment intensifies]

Well. I just played it (for the tenth or so time), and promptly won (for the first time). Only up to 2048, though.

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2048

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 17, 2014, 01:59:32 pm

Got a time of 0.0 seconds in the Chocobo race.

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Final Fantasy X. Goddamn that Sun Sigil was hard to get, though the one where you have dodge 100 lightning strikes in a row to get is probably harder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knick on April 17, 2014, 02:34:10 pm

Right.

After being beaten back in a sudden assault, I quickly flanked around the enemy's line supply lines, as they were sending reinforcements to the front lines.  I was able to take advantage of my allies resistance to assault the enemy support units and attack units from behind, breaking up the assault.

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Team Fortress 2, Pyro, Blackwater, back-burning two Snipers and a Soldier.  And then I was moved to the other team for "balance"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 17, 2014, 05:00:33 pm

I was Veigar, with Elise, Twitch, Thresh and Gragas against AP Ashe, AP Trist, Blitz, AP Teemo & AFK Lucian. The game lasted around 70 minutes and was the closest thing ever. It basically got to the point where I could one hit anyone except Blitz, but their Ashe could combo me to death with her ult. Elise and Twitch kept backdooring, so even when all of the rest of us were dead, they had to recall before their base died. Eventually, we had a huge teamfight in their base, where I 1-shotted Teemo and Ashe and Elise and Thresh killed Blitz before Trist killed them and me. And then Twitch turned visible again and killed their nexus, winning us the game. Most powerful I've ever been with anyone in this game.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 18, 2014, 11:45:35 pm

Seath the Scaleless? More like Seath the Tail-less. Because, you know, I chopped off his tail? *ahem*

Regardless, it's always satisfying to kill a boss on the first attempt, especially when you're still human from a bonfire kindling. I'm probably going to suffer a terribly stupid death in the near-future, but for now I'm enjoying the >100k souls.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 19, 2014, 12:01:34 am

I managed to take down an alien base in Spain using only 8 soldiers with powersuits, laser rifles, and thirst for vengeance. I didn't lose a single man. (or woman)

XCOM: UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on April 19, 2014, 02:49:06 am

Just fought the gaping dragon for my 2nd time ever (With the first time being "WTF is that") and won by running around and fire balls, is that boss really hard beside the nightmare fuel?
Oh well, off the blight town...

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Dark souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ochita on April 19, 2014, 10:32:51 am

I actually managed to beat my way though the doom town post-game area!
Now to see if I can't actually get further in the cave chronicle...

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Demon king chronicle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on April 19, 2014, 11:12:26 am

I went 75-71 on an AWP DM server. If that doesn't sound impressive, let me point out that I hadn't touched the game for 4 months.

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CSGO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on April 19, 2014, 02:31:19 pm

MUAHAHAHAHAHAH! I AM A WEED SMOKING, VODKA DRINKING, SHOTGUN TOTING BADASS. I had completed all I could in Zaton, and had to tackle the Iron Forest anomaly. Within it, are a horde of mutated humans and zombies, two controllers, a poltergeist, and a fucking CHIMERA. Through liberal application of chokepoints, grenades, and headshots, I kill them all. ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE ME! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! All is forgiven game. I know you put me through hell, and will again, but dammit when shit like this happens, I love you. Never change.

STALKER: Call of Pripyat, MISERY 2.1 mod. And yes, this mod follows the Cataclysm:DDA drug formula.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 19, 2014, 04:18:09 pm

Did a new field. Didn't get much XP from it. Thought to myself, "Well, I paid for the wizards pouch, don't want it to go to waste by ignoring the Survival mode", so I clicked "Survival" instead of "Back to map".
Did well, got enough XP that around wave 75 I thought, "Well, I'm done here, may as well send all waves and kill myself since it's survival." So Ctrl+click the wave marker, and realize that my strike spells are recharging extra fast because waves are being sent early. So I start using all my spells, enhancing rediculous numbers of gems and freezing all the monsters in their tracks; I eventually realize (around wave 180) that my freeze spell is recharging faster than it's wearing off; I can keep monsters frozen indefinitely. And my mana gain beam gems (which is an *own* in and of itself, and my main strategy) are pumping enough mana that I can upgrade the main one (90% orange, 5% white, 5% black) from grade 8 to grade 13. As well, my group-cast strike spell are all earning me XP!

From there, I go several waves (all frozen between my main gem and my orb, permanently) and realize that there are around 8 Shadows on the map! Yikes. Also, several specters and apparitions got frozen in my wake. My main gem, which has reached grade 27 by this point, has 4x specials/damage from poolbound. I set it to killing Highest Banishment/Specials/Flying Ones, since those are on the map in ridiculous quantities and are worth shadow fragments. I'm gaining awesome amounts of XP, far more than I need for the next level, from my group strikes (freeze and curse); I'm ignoring my gem enhancement spells, because even with the lag, I'm barely getting enough time to just hotkey cast my strike spells on the same spot over and over; I'm striking several thousand monsters per cast.

Eventually, wave 999 arrives; evidently, there are no more waves aver #999. Because wave 999 is the last wave, there are no more to call early and cause my freeze spell to recharge so fast. It wears off before I can cast it again, and some thirteen thousand monsters storm my orb and destroy it. But I still win, because endurance. How much XP did I get? So much, it scares me. I go up 60 some levels, to 109. OVER DOUBLE WHAT I HAD BEFORE.

Spoiler: pics (click to show/hide)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/GemcraftExploitInprogress_zpsb7e8cc76.png)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/GemcraftExploitAfterscreen_zpsa8c9ba4c.png)

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Gemcraft Chapter 2: Chasing Shadows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on April 19, 2014, 09:45:48 pm

Quote from: flabort on April 19, 2014, 04:18:09 pm

Did a new field. Didn't get much XP from it. Thought to myself, "Well, I paid for the wizards pouch, don't want it to go to waste by ignoring the Survival mode", so I clicked "Survival" instead of "Back to map".
Did well, got enough XP that around wave 75 I thought, "Well, I'm done here, may as well send all waves and kill myself since it's survival." So Ctrl+click the wave marker, and realize that my strike spells are recharging extra fast because waves are being sent early. So I start using all my spells, enhancing rediculous numbers of gems and freezing all the monsters in their tracks; I eventually realize (around wave 180) that my freeze spell is recharging faster than it's wearing off; I can keep monsters frozen indefinitely. And my mana gain beam gems (which is an *own* in and of itself, and my main strategy) are pumping enough mana that I can upgrade the main one (90% orange, 5% white, 5% black) from grade 8 to grade 13. As well, my group-cast strike spell are all earning me XP!

From there, I go several waves (all frozen between my main gem and my orb, permanently) and realize that there are around 8 Shadows on the map! Yikes. Also, several specters and apparitions got frozen in my wake. My main gem, which has reached grade 27 by this point, has 4x specials/damage from poolbound. I set it to killing Highest Banishment/Specials/Flying Ones, since those are on the map in ridiculous quantities and are worth shadow fragments. I'm gaining awesome amounts of XP, far more than I need for the next level, from my group strikes (freeze and curse); I'm ignoring my gem enhancement spells, because even with the lag, I'm barely getting enough time to just hotkey cast my strike spells on the same spot over and over; I'm striking several thousand monsters per cast.

Eventually, wave 999 arrives; evidently, there are no more waves aver #999. Because wave 999 is the last wave, there are no more to call early and cause my freeze spell to recharge so fast. It wears off before I can cast it again, and some thirteen thousand monsters storm my orb and destroy it. But I still win, because endurance. How much XP did I get? So much, it scares me. I go up 60 some levels, to 109. OVER DOUBLE WHAT I HAD BEFORE.

Spoiler: pics (click to show/hide)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/GemcraftExploitInprogress_zpsb7e8cc76.png)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk108/flabort/GemcraftExploitAfterscreen_zpsa8c9ba4c.png)

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Gemcraft Chapter 2: Chasing Shadows.

How low did your fps get?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 19, 2014, 09:51:28 pm

I don't know for sure, but my best guesses:
5, on average.
2 when I had 8 beams out plus multiple bolts.
15 at times, when I would accidentally press Q instead of 1, and had to press it twice more to get back to slow; once at slow again, FPS would momentarily increase.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on April 20, 2014, 04:28:45 pm

Attacked by a Zanuka Hunter in Warframe.

There was only one other person in the party, all I had was a lightly modded Strun and a Ceramic Dagger. My partner had to go back off once or twice to recharge their shields, and I was basically just nickel-and-diming it, but it still went down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 20, 2014, 08:23:24 pm

I beat the secret ending after less than 10 tries.

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Cave Story (aka "You have died. Retry?")

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 20, 2014, 08:41:49 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on April 20, 2014, 08:23:24 pm

I beat the secret ending after less than 10 tries.

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Cave Story (aka "You have died. Retry?")

._.
How. I didn't even.
Even the start of that I need full life and.
How.
^{I mean I can't even get to the end at full-...}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on April 20, 2014, 08:43:36 pm

As I chose Fox-Fanservice thing, I decided, why hteh ell not, ti might be better then ayla

about 30 mins later everyone else is ATLEAST twice the level of me, and im being murdered left and right.
I find this the gnaw who was a pain in everyones ass at our tema,(( we only have one turret left because of him)) he had low as fuck health, but me doing a stupid fuck, i have barely any damage, but i somehow manage to pull of murdering both him, the seven or six drones, and the squid with a anchor, and was promptly murdered to the nine hells by the... whatever hsi name that rides on a pufferfish.

Even though we lost, I'd say i won that little bit there.

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Awesomenauts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 20, 2014, 10:47:02 pm

Quote from: BlackFlyme on April 20, 2014, 04:28:45 pm

Attacked by a Zanuka Hunter in Warframe.

There was only one other person in the party, all I had was a lightly modded Strun and a Ceramic Dagger. My partner had to go back off once or twice to recharge their shields, and I was basically just nickel-and-diming it, but it still went down.

That game any good? A friend recommended it, and the reviews, while mediocre, basically said it was a great game with technical challenges that hadn't been smoothed out yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on April 20, 2014, 10:58:12 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 20, 2014, 10:47:02 pm

Quote from: BlackFlyme on April 20, 2014, 04:28:45 pm

Attacked by a Zanuka Hunter in Warframe.

There was only one other person in the party, all I had was a lightly modded Strun and a Ceramic Dagger. My partner had to go back off once or twice to recharge their shields, and I was basically just nickel-and-diming it, but it still went down.

That game any good? A friend recommended it, and the reviews, while mediocre, basically said it was a great game with technical challenges that hadn't been smoothed out yet.

It's free-to-play, if that's a concern.

It's alright, though it can be pretty grindy.

Edit: Wow, this was the least informative review I have ever written.

I'll try this again. We have a thread already (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=112182.0), if you want to poke around it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It can be quite fun, though repetitive at times. There's more than a few different mission tilesets, and the rooms are randomized each mission (though not the tileset itself), but if you play it enough they get to feel a bit samey.

It's a fast-paced game about space ninjas fighting off hordes of enemies from various factions, from the heavily armoured Grineer to the robotic Corpus. There's also the Infested, which are zombies. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and you may find yourself having to change your loadout to match in higher level missions. There's quite a few different damage types. The basics are impact, slash, and puncture, but there are also elements, which can be combined to create even more elements.

You can parkour around the map, doing wall runs and sliding down ramps. There's a wide variety of weaponry, both ranged and melee. Each 'Warframe' has its own playstyle, with four abilities unique to the frame.

Though the foundry, which is where gear is made, takes a while to create items. ~12 hours for a weapon, and three days for a new frame. There are microtransactions, but almost every item can be acquired by yourself, though some rely on the RNG.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2014, 12:14:28 am

Beat Ocarina of Time. Not the most challenging game but by God is it long.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 22, 2014, 12:18:16 am

lolllll try playing master sword edition. You will want to break things (not actually, but it can be confusing :p).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 22, 2014, 12:50:44 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 22, 2014, 12:18:16 am

lolllll try playing master sword edition. You will want to break things (not actually, but it can be confusing :p).

That's "Master Quest" edition. Both editions feature the Master Sword.
Sorry. Don't mean to be argumentative, but that's one of the few things that truly bug me, along with bad kerning (blame XKCD).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on April 22, 2014, 03:55:27 am

Decided to fix my wii after a year and a half of ignoring it. open up Monster hunter, trying to figure out where i left off - slay the lagiacrus.
Thought 'screw it', went for it. 30 minutes later and I was chopping away at its corpse, having failed to die at all. After a year and a half without practice.  8)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter Tri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 22, 2014, 10:26:38 am

Quote from: flabort on April 22, 2014, 12:50:44 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 22, 2014, 12:18:16 am

lolllll try playing master sword edition. You will want to break things (not actually, but it can be confusing :p).

That's "Master Quest" edition. Both editions feature the Master Sword.
Sorry. Don't mean to be argumentative, but that's one of the few things that truly bug me, along with bad kerning (blame XKCD).

I know they both have the master sword, it was just a mistake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 22, 2014, 02:15:21 pm

Saw Trent harassing Angie, so I shoved him and punched him the face. Unfortunately, one of the prefects was right behind me. I kicked him in the shin to get away, but as I tried to flee through the front door, I accidentally slammed another prefect into the floor(same button). Seeing as "Violence - Authority" is pretty much the worst offense there is, I had a lot of people after me for that. I fled out of the main building, ran all the way out of the front gate, dodging yet another prefect waiting for me outside it, and practically made all the way to town before the heat dropped off.

Then I went back to school and made out with Angie.

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Bully. I love this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 03:27:07 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2014, 12:14:28 am

Beat Ocarina of Time. Not the most challenging game but by God is it long.

Unless you decide to do it really, really fast. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaabgN7oP4)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on April 22, 2014, 03:58:19 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 22, 2014, 02:15:21 pm

Saw Trent harassing Angie, so I shoved him and punched him the face. Unfortunately, one of the prefects was right behind me. I kicked him in the shin to get away, but as I tried to flee through the front door, I accidentally slammed another prefect into the floor(same button). Seeing as "Violence - Authority" is pretty much the worst offense there is, I had a lot of people after me for that. I fled out of the main building, ran all the way out of the front gate, dodging yet another prefect waiting for me outside it, and practically made all the way to town before the heat dropped off.

Then I went back to school and made out with Angie.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bully. I love this game.

Well, you just made be go and listen to choice parts of the soundtrack. Well done.

Also I feel proud for recognising the game by a single name.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on April 22, 2014, 04:50:20 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 03:27:07 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2014, 12:14:28 am

Beat Ocarina of Time. Not the most challenging game but by God is it long.

Unless you decide to do it really, really fast. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaabgN7oP4)

The funny thing is, the unassisted speed record is even shorter than that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 05:06:40 pm

Quote from: Baneling on April 22, 2014, 04:50:20 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 03:27:07 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2014, 12:14:28 am

Beat Ocarina of Time. Not the most challenging game but by God is it long.

Unless you decide to do it really, really fast. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaabgN7oP4)

The funny thing is, the unassisted speed record is even shorter than that.

Last I heard on that frontier is that they were trying to reach sub 18; do you have a record that it's shorter?  I'd love to watch it. o:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 22, 2014, 07:00:53 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 05:06:40 pm

Quote from: Baneling on April 22, 2014, 04:50:20 pm

Quote from: Karkov on April 22, 2014, 03:27:07 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2014, 12:14:28 am

Beat Ocarina of Time. Not the most challenging game but by God is it long.

Unless you decide to do it really, really fast. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaabgN7oP4)

The funny thing is, the unassisted speed record is even shorter than that.

Last I heard on that frontier is that they were trying to reach sub 18; do you have a record that it's shorter?  I'd love to watch it. o:

Cosmo was practicing a new route the other day that skipped getting the sword entirely. Makes several subsequent parts slower (especially a ridiculously finicky clip to get into the Deku Tree), but you bypass roughly a minute in the boulder maze fetching the sword. Not sure if he's set a record, or even if he's still practicing it - when I checked last, he was playing Sonic Spinball.  ::)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on April 22, 2014, 07:27:24 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 22, 2014, 07:00:53 pm

when I checked last, he was playing Sonic Spinball.  ::)

Gotta go fast

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 22, 2014, 07:34:13 pm

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on April 22, 2014, 07:27:24 pm

Quote from: Thexor on April 22, 2014, 07:00:53 pm

when I checked last, he was playing Sonic Spinball.  ::)

Gotta go fast

Oh, man. That reminds me of when I finally, finally beat that game.
I'm getting a dopamine rush just thinking of it. Did that about a year and a half ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on April 24, 2014, 07:51:59 am

My main soldier does pretty much all the work these days, just charging in at whatever horrible monstrosities and blasting 'em with his shotgun- or occasionally launching rockets. I sent another veteran and a couple of rookies to assist him in clearing out one side of this base, but I get the feeling he could handle things easily on his own...

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(http://i.imgur.com/EWJeXFd.png)

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UFO: Aftermath. I'm having a lot of fun with this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 24, 2014, 08:26:05 pm

Quote from: Yoink on April 24, 2014, 07:51:59 am

My main soldier does pretty much all the work these days, just charging in at whatever horrible monstrosities and blasting 'em with his shotgun- or occasionally launching rockets. I sent another veteran and a couple of rookies to assist him in clearing out one side of this base, but I get the feeling he could handle things easily on his own...

Spoiler: picture (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/EWJeXFd.png)

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UFO: Aftermath. I'm having a lot of fun with this game.

If you like the story you will love the serie UFO: Aftershock and UFO afterlight. I highly suggest the weapon rebalance mod too add much much to these games all made by shadow if i remember right. If you have any question tell me i will help you out with them. Also the best in the serie? aftershock with no doubt but they all have a little something different than the others yet they are addictive. To me at least.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 26, 2014, 11:43:31 pm

Got to 762 kills in survival mode.
Took both of the reflection skills, and heal, and just tanked my way through it.

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 27, 2014, 12:44:06 am

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 26, 2014, 11:43:31 pm

Got to 762 kills in survival mode.
Took both of the reflection skills, and heal, and just tanked my way through it.

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One Finger Death Punch

Noice. Have you tried Blind Survival yet?

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My record is 1788 kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 27, 2014, 08:34:25 pm

The absolute best I got with blind survival, was 505 kills, just enough to unlock No Luca No mode, and laugh my head off at it.

I'm really bad at this game, but I love it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 27, 2014, 09:08:29 pm

Just scored 1201 kills in Blind Survival. I think this game is slowly killing my mouse, it seems like the clicks don't register sometimes :P

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 27, 2014, 09:24:45 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 27, 2014, 09:08:29 pm

Just scored 1201 kills in Blind Survival. I think this game is slowly killing my mouse, it seems like the clicks don't register sometimes :P

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One Finger Death Punch

...

Teach me your ways, sensei.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 27, 2014, 10:06:28 pm

It's a bit hard to describe, sadly. Like, I'll often leave enemies alive on one side while I focus on the other side...but not always? The reason is that time slows down a bit if enemies are in both zones, so if you concentrate on pummeling one half of the screen into dust it will give you slightly more reaction time. This is especially useful if there are several dodging enemies.
Also, when enemies throw weapons at you, try to wait until the last second to attack the weapons. That seems to result in a catch more often, but that might just be coincidence.

Spoiler: It seems to work for me, anyway (click to show/hide)

(http://s19.postimg.org/fd7gk4g77/mypoorwrist.png)

Time to stop killing stickmen for the night, I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on April 27, 2014, 10:10:01 pm

..._{I didn't even know leaderboards had a section for friends because I have none.}

And yeah, I tend to do that sometimes, too.
But the throwing weapons thing is actually just a coincidence, if you look closely, then the weapons that you catch are a bright white, such as when you hold them, but the ones you don't catch are actually grey, so you can see them as different before you actually hit them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 29, 2014, 02:18:40 pm

I came up from the sewers exhausted, hungry, and in pain from hauling some heavy loot. I find that my base had been overrun by a horde, and that horde had me surrounded. I drop my loot, take out my bow, and count my arrows, about 100 in all. The horde was nearly 600 monsters strong. Since I could not run any more, I decided to make a stand.

It rained arrows. It rained blood. For a short while there it rained actual rain. The battle lasted well into the night. Zombies lay down all around me and they kept coming. I did not give up. I kept firing.

By the end, the horde had been reduced from almost 600 to just 22. And they hadn't just retreated, they routed. I did it. I put the fear of death into those that had already died. I survived.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm DDA. I eventually hunted down and finished off the horde.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on April 29, 2014, 04:30:46 pm

Having been hounded by planes for days, I finally stumbled upon a prize in the Bismarck Sea: A huge European liner in a convoy. Carefully using the measurement instruments, I find a firing solution, watch as four torpedoes turn that liner into a fireball and slowly back away as the destroyers are left none the wiser.

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Silent Hunter 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 29, 2014, 04:52:25 pm

I beat NG on Dark Souls II within 25 hours of gameplay.  I suppose that's an ownage thing.  Slightly more no-lifer, but whatever.

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Now I just need to beat it with no deaths/bonfires for those ridiculous rings.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 29, 2014, 06:39:02 pm

I may have merely got indecisive after running my 'all strength all the time' build into the smelter demon and wondering about magic , but HOT DAMN does it feel good making a new character and doing what took me hours the first time through in minutes.

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Dark Souls II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 29, 2014, 10:49:13 pm

Might as well brag a bit while I'm embarrassing myself.

I managed to get (what felt like) really far into Dark Souls thinking that it was far more linear than it actually was.  The path I thought was mandatory was asylum>graveyard>catacombs and I managed to get across the first spike bridge before I ragequit.  This involved suicide running a necromancer through about 10 skeletons, and then killing about that many non-reviving ones that had buffed up attacks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 29, 2014, 11:17:19 pm

Played a couple rounds of Unreal Tournament (classic) with custom-made bots which were more hardcore than I expected when I first played against them (and were a league harder than the default set I usually played against which were challenging enough), and after weeks of having my ass handed to me on a platter by them (bottom quarter rankings), I managed to keep up with them more reliably, and score within the upper half rankings out of 8 bots on average. Mind you, I have returned to playing against them in Godlike difficulty, and my custom bots are harder than the regular set. That alone *owns*; I got my edge back.

To add to it, recently, I played a couple CTF rounds, and managed to win both rounds, and scored 4 of the captures myself (3 capture win, 2 captures in each map). Same setup (Godlike custom-hardcore bots), small and medium maps. I had to pat myself on the back for a job well done. Not to mention, it felt nice to actually panic again when I have the flag. I mean, feeling scared enough that you're moving with your character running and jumping the corners and such inching ever so unsteadily towards the goal with tears of victory in your eyes; or disappointment when a lucky flak shot 'splodes you inches from your own flag. And my God, that screech of failure when their flag returns to base, and the klaxons blaring of your flag being taken just before you respawn... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..., and shit, they're past the halfway mark already.

Time to reclaim what was lost. "(Red) Leader, you've got Point."; Almost... Almost.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on April 30, 2014, 04:16:07 am

Everything was on fire in my ship and oxygen was running low, and the pirates seemed to be winning. I tried to push my crews to survive as long as possible but I knew they're all going to die.

But then the pirates randomly died because apparently their oxygen was fucked too. I took all my men to the Medbay to fix it before they suffocate to death. The oxygen got so low to the point that the fires just went out. I quickly got my crew to fix the oxygen, and then repair the rest. Huzzah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Faster Than Light

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 30, 2014, 09:27:48 am

Quote from: greatorder on April 29, 2014, 04:53:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 29, 2014, 02:18:40 pm

I came up from the sewers exhausted, hungry, and in pain from hauling some heavy loot. I find that my base had been overrun by a horde, and that horde had me surrounded. I drop my loot, take out my bow, and count my arrows, about 100 in all. The horde was nearly 600 monsters strong. Since I could not run any more, I decided to make a stand.

It rained arrows. It rained blood. For a short while there it rained actual rain. The battle lasted well into the night. Zombies lay down all around me and they kept coming. I did not give up. I kept firing.

By the end, the horde had been reduced from almost 600 to just 22. And they hadn't just retreated, they routed. I did it. I put the fear of death into those that had already died. I survived.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm DDA. I eventually hunted down and finished off the horde.

Suddenly, reanimation!

Unless you butcher them all. Which I would probably forget to do. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on April 30, 2014, 11:02:51 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 29, 2014, 10:49:13 pm

I managed to get (what felt like) really far into Dark Souls thinking that it was far more linear than it actually was.  The path I thought was mandatory was asylum>graveyard>catacombs and I managed to get across the first spike bridge before I ragequit.

Quote

(what felt like) really far

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asylum>graveyard>catacombs

I hope you realize now that was... not even 5% of the game.
To be fair I did a sort of similar thing when I first started playing. Waltzed right past the cathedral into Darkroot Garden and wondered why the boss was so hard at SL12.

For early-game Dark Souls related ownage...
When I fought the Taurus demon, I won because he committed suicide.
After a couple minutes of fighting he realized it was futile and jumped off the bridge to his death.

Yeah, I'm that cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 30, 2014, 06:12:37 pm

Oh I know, I'm just happy I managed to advance through what is... some amount of areas past where I supposed to go.  I don't even think it was much more than like a quarter of the catacombs either.

Edit:  Fuck it, I'm loading up Dark Souls and making some less derpy owns.  Now if I can just get out of here by love tapping skeletons with a mace...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on April 30, 2014, 06:32:22 pm

A bit more WTF than owning, but nonetheless, Dark Souls 2.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Executioner's Chariot missed its jump, got stuck, and then fell down the pit. Instant win for me.

Spoiler: Picture (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pcWEWvV.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 30, 2014, 07:07:17 pm

It's like the original Dark Souls in the difficulty department; it's extremely hard when you have no idea what you're doing.  It's also extremely well optimized.  Everything runs so smoothly, and I don't think I've seen one FPS dip.  You could probably play it on your current rig unless it's from the 1990's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on April 30, 2014, 11:15:26 pm

2nd day of survival and I have already found two revolvers and an loaded shotgun...
How the hell dose this keep happening to me?

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(http://i.imgur.com/AMNKzAr.jpg)

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Neo Scavenger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 01, 2014, 04:33:07 am

So, routine "UFO has landed" mission, move into the ship. "Alright, so I heard the sound of a cyberdisc, a mechtoid, and some mutons..."

Walk forward.

Cyberdisc, 3 muton elites, 2 mechtoids, 2 sectoids, 2 Outsiders, 3 repair drones and a Sectopod look back at me.

Two minutes later, mission over.

Two soldiers gravely wounded, but NO DEATHS.

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XCOM: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 01, 2014, 01:13:46 pm

Mike Tyson, shirtless bellbro extraordinaire, encountered his first partial gank today: a host with sword-and-board, and a single pyromancer assistant. The two of them had hidden in the secret room of Belfry Luna, and I didn't notice the phantom assistant until I jumped in.

I proceeded to dodge-roll to safety (20% equip load OP), at which point a fellow bellbro arrived to even the odds. Between my furious punching and his grade-A distracting, we nearly KO'd the phantom before the host died. Both of us bellbros survived to earn our reward.

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Dark Souls II.
Mike Tyson is power-stancing Caesta +10, refuses to wear torso armour or helmets, and respects 1v1 duels. I hope this partially makes up for me invading at ~200k SM.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 02, 2014, 01:10:07 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on April 29, 2014, 11:17:19 pm

Played a couple rounds of Unreal Tournament (classic) with custom-made bots which were more hardcore than I expected when I first played against them (and were a league harder than the default set I usually played against which were challenging enough), and after weeks of having my ass handed to me on a platter by them (bottom quarter rankings), I managed to keep up with them more reliably, and score within the upper half rankings out of 8 bots on average. Mind you, I have returned to playing against them in Godlike difficulty, and my custom bots are harder than the regular set. That alone *owns*; I got my edge back.

To add to it, recently, I played a couple CTF rounds, and managed to win both rounds, and scored 4 of the captures myself (3 capture win, 2 captures in each map). Same setup (Godlike custom-hardcore bots), small and medium maps. I had to pat myself on the back for a job well done. Not to mention, it felt nice to actually panic again when I have the flag. I mean, feeling scared enough that you're moving with your character running and jumping the corners and such inching ever so unsteadily towards the goal with tears of victory in your eyes; or disappointment when a lucky flak shot 'splodes you inches from your own flag. And my God, that screech of failure when their flag returns to base, and the klaxons blaring of your flag being taken just before you respawn... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..., and shit, they're past the halfway mark already.

Time to reclaim what was lost. "(Red) Leader, you've got Point."; Almost... Almost.

Glorious. I'm far too rusty at that game to meet Godlike yet, but i'm about on par with Adept bots, at the moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on May 02, 2014, 02:59:40 am

I thought it would be way easier at the start, because I played on a map that had a single choke point. I was sadly mistaken.

I pushed out of my tiny corner, and through much bloodshed and toil freed half the galaxy, until only a single planet separated my forces and theirs.

Upon that planet was built every defense man could build. Vast fields of mines lay between the wormhole and my forces. A dozen mighty fortresses stood sentinel, and surrounding each were dozens of lesser turrets. Mass drivers and Ion cannons were built. And despite their vast attacks, they still could not take it.

Thousands of starships and hundreds of thousands of fleetships fell before my mighty fortresses and my mighty fleet. Still they came, thousands at a time.

I finally turned to the spire, and built their cities out of nothing. And still the AI came. Fiercer and more desperate his attacks became. What had before been mighty waves thousands at a time became even fiercer. Instead of sending simple starships, now they sent dire guardians first in a trickle, then faster and faster. But still my mighty defenses held.

I advanced, and although I struggled under the pressure, soon my defenses were placed farther afield then they had ever been before.

After long toil, I finally managed to find and build the galactic warp-gate. The AI used this as an oppurtunity to launch a series of truly spectacular attacks. First starships. Then when they failed, they sent dire gaurdians. And when even those turned to dust, they send dozen of golems, vast starships made in the ages before man. Eventually the planet fell with only nine minutes till the warp-gate activated. As the AI ships poured into my empire I fell back, and despite the little time I had, hastily erected defenses that earlier would have been walls far too strong for it to penetrate. But they were not nearly what my old defenses had been, and were as tissue paper to the AI. Luckily, the Black Hole Machine I had erected stopped their fleets advances, it only for a single minute. But not even that could stop their golems, and they managed to slip through. Unto the very gates to my home they traveled, and it seemed that doom was upon me. They destroyed the force fields surrounding my home command center, and even managed to damage it, another two seconds and they would have destroyed me. But they were one second too slow, the gate opened, and out of it came hundreds of spire starships, and the golems bombarding me were destroyed in an instant.
The spire flooded the galaxy, and the AI fleet was quickly destroyed, followed by their home command system.
Finally, I am rewarded with the message of victory.

YOU WIN!

Spoiler: Thoughts (click to show/hide)

Econ command centers feel sub-par now that the scrap system has been introduced. They do grant you a lot of metal, but when you add the scrap it, 3000 metal per second is far less important then the 30,000 you can get right after a battle using logistic ones. Maybe they would have been more significant if I had taken less planets, but 7500 research points for 10% economic boost at endgame didn't feel quite worth it (especially when I could have used it to unlock MK III hardened shields+taken a type of turret to MK III (or a starship to MK IV)).
It would have been way easier and quicker for me to simply win without using fallen spire.
Having golems on medium instead of easy makes the game way harder. I could really have used the botnet golem on defense, and couldn't afford the 100 progress cost.
Spirecraft Mayrters are crazy strong. They do cost an asteroid, but a well placed one can singlehandedly kill a 3000 ship bomber wave. To be fair they almost always get far less, but they still easily kill hundreds of ships at a time.
Hot damn, 8/8 is way harder then 7/7. That said, I suspect that the real reason it was so hard is due to fallen spire.
Having a champion would have been really helpful. The difference the extra modular fortresses would have made is huge. They might have even been enough for me to have kept my defensive line intact against the enemy fleet at the end.
It takes forever to replace a full fleet+spire fleet. Even with every single engi working full speed (since I always had full metal from all the dead ships they always left), it still took over 10 minutes to rebuild my fleet, and that isn't even counting my spire fleet (which had over 100 starships by the end), which took that long on its own. It would be awesome if there were MK IV engies.
Turret controllers don't really feel right. They are too strong, and completely invalidate all the research you might want to spend on regular turrets. Yes, getting all 3 MK's of turrets is slightly stronger then just having the core controller, but it only helps one planet, and costs far to much knowledge for such a small impact.
E: The end fallen spire waves were really really nasty though. They send through hundreds of gaurdians+starships+5-10 dire gaurdians/golems at once. That isn't even counting the thousands of regular fleet ships they sent through at the same time. That said, I could still handle all that, if they didn't send more of them through (after they killed half my fleet and all my mines) every 2-3 minutes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

AI War Fleet Command. Me against two 8/8 dual type AI's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on May 02, 2014, 06:14:39 am

I sunk 67000 tons in one war patrol. Two of them were huge European liners. Happy hunting.

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Silent Hunter 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 03, 2014, 11:51:55 am

I beat Havel the Rock at soul level 31. Fuck yeah. I don't even care if this is what you're supposed to do, I feel like a complete badass anyway!

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 03, 2014, 12:00:17 pm

Quote from: da_nang on May 02, 2014, 06:14:39 am

I sunk 67000 tons in one war patrol. Two of them were huge European liners. Happy hunting.

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Silent Hunter 4

Nice.  I need to get back into that series.  There is no feeling like seeing a torpedo connect on max difficulty.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 03, 2014, 12:17:07 pm

SMASH!

TEAR AND SMASH GANONDWARF'S HEAD!

LEAVE HIM TO DROWN!

Zelda: Wind Waker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: inEQUALITY on May 03, 2014, 04:12:06 pm

After licking my wounds from my first two forays into Empire: Total War (one miserable loss and one rather pyyrhic victory where I inflicted half again the number of casualties to my own men as the enemy had...) after finally realizing I now have a computer than can play the game, I loaded up a late era, large funds land battle on Grassy Flatlands I. I played as France vs Great Britain using preset armies.

I'm spoilering this as it's a bit lengthy...

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Having learned my lessons and having done some reading on military tactics, I decided to spice things up from my previous, failed attempts. For one thing, I stretched all of my Infantry out two a double-line, giving a greater and deadlier field of fire. Though it chanced the courtship of a potentially devastating charge, I felt I was properly prepared for such an event.

My center consisted of Grenadiers between two units per side of Line Infantry on either side. In front of them, though shifted to the right of the center Grenadiers, my two units of Light Infantry stood at least a dozen or two paces ahead of the main body. Behind the Grenadiers, my General's Bodyguard, for insurance in keeping the center at acceptable morale. The center's main purpose was little more than meet the enemy line's center, inflict more devastation than the enemy, while the right wing did most of the heavy lifting. The Light Infantry, separate from the rest, would use their range advantage against enemy Line Infantry to harass them by letting off a volley at max range, retreat, let off a volley at max range, and then fall back behind the much sturdier Line Infantry and Grenadiers.

On the right wing, two more units of Line Infantry stood about a dozen paces further afield than the center (though not as far as the Light Infantry). To their right were my four units of artillery - two units of 6 lbers and two units of 18 lbers. Behind the artillery, two units of the Cuirassers: heavily armored melee cavalry. This wing's primary purpose was to push for an oblique attack at the enemy line from that side with the heavy firepower of artillery and flanking cavalry.

My left wing also consisted of two units of Line Infantry. The first unit was several paces behind the center, and the other several behind it. Supporting them on the leftmost half of the wing were two units of Chasseurs a Cheval: light cavalry with guns. This wing was meant to deny an attack on the left flank long enough to press hard with the right wing, with the potential to instead audible into an oblique attack from an unexpected side through the harassment of the cavalry and the firepower of the Line Infantry.

Of course, things never go EXACTLY as planned, even at the best of times.

As the battle began, I marched forward across the field while the British advanced to meet my men. However, I severely underestimated the range and position of the enemy artillery, which they had evenly divided between their Right and Left Wings; enemy bombardment began completely unexpectedly. Though the first volley missed entirely, I was only just beginning to react when a second volley tore through one of my units of Line Infantry.

Cursing the ancestors and descendants of every British man who opposed me, I quickly set my own artillery further to the side and angled towards the center of the battlefield to begin returning fire. By this point, the two armies were almost within firing range of one another. My Light Infantry lit up, firing into the ranks of enemy Line Infantry. As planned, I had them fall back and repeat as the enemy formations neared.

Because my army was stretched out much further than their own (my units 2 ranks deep, theirs at least 3), the enemy general intelligently did not waste his men's blood on a simple General Attack against my lines. Instead, he prioritized my Right Wing; the bulk of his army concentrated their movements in that direction. This included sending two units of his Light Infantry to get within range of my Artillery. In reply, I moved up the Line Infantry of my Right Wing to engage the otherwise preoccupied Light Infantry while sending my Cuirassers around to threaten a flanking maneuver. It took no time at all before the two enemy units were practically decimated and fell back behind the enemy's Line Infantry.

While this was happening, enemy Line Infantry also engaged my forces Center. I replied in kind, while also taking the opportunity to test out the bombs of my Grenadiers. Apparently, the British don't appreciate shrapnel, and so they attempted to disengage before the bombs exploded. They only partially succeeded, as the bombs went off against the retreating front ranks, inflicting a respectable amount of casualties. Not wanting to push the enemy Line Infantry into a tactical retreat where they might go on the defensive, as that might have possibly made inflicting casualties a bit trickier and bloodier, I pulled my Grenadiers back into formation with the rest of the Center and to resume firing.

A single enemy unit of Line Infantry also engaged my Left Wing, while enemy Cavalry attempted to flank me there, as expected. At first I had not noticed the cavalry charge, so I scrambled to put my Line Infantry into melee mode and a box formation while my light cavalry maneuvered to outflank their cavalry, shooting into their ranks. This scared them off for the moment, though not before inflicting a small amount of casualties.

By this point, the enemy units attacking my Right Wing were beginning to waver. Taking advantage of this, my Cuirassers charged into the enemy Infantry, routing their units one-by-one. Unfortunately, things were not going so well elsewhere on the battlefield.

In the Center, my units had suffered the one thing I had worried about: a cavalry charge into the weakened double-lines, backed by a melee charge from the enemy Line Infantry. Quickly, I pulled back several units around the engaged men. The Light Infantry, who had done nothing in the battle since the initial screen against the enemy, were able to open fire on the offending cavalry and infantry right before I sent my General's bodyguard into the mix. While not my best maneuver, and costing me far too many of the cavalry, it did help run off the enemy from the melee, allowing me to returned my Line Infantry to their expected formations.

At this point, the fighting had reached its climax, with victory just on the horizon for my glorious French forces. One-by-one the enemy units pulled back, routing, perhaps hoping to find safety behind the fields of fire of their artillery, though withered from the counter-fire of my own artillery.

I sent in my Cavalry to rout the enemy artillery as the rest of my army began its advance anew. This time, however, the advance was not to meet the enemy but to push hard against them to insure their retreat. Though they only got a volley or two off against the retreating forces, it was enough to further punish my foes.

Without bothering to run down my scattered foes, the battle ended. Both sides had entered the battle with nearly 1500 men. I had sadly lost over a third that number - almost 550 - but my foe had lost twice as many as I, with over 1100 losses.

It was not the most glorious victory, nor was it one won by genius or skill, but it was my first true, solid victory with the game. Using some of the things I had learned and read about was fun and exciting, even if things did surprise me a few times. I could have possibly won that battle with as few as 300 losses, had I been able to foresee and/or react faster to some of the things the enemy did. I had gotten a little bit of tunnel vision on my Right Wing, which distracted me from keeping the rest of my army (relatively) safe.

tl;dr - A French army defeated an evenly-matched British army, ~500 losses to ~1100 on my 3rd ever battle with the game.

Empire: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 03, 2014, 04:15:24 pm

I find that in E:TW close formations are highly effective against the ai, who tends to focus its attacks on one, or only a few points.

... and though I rarely have the forces to do so, I find holding my grenadiers in reserve to fill holes and counter charge enemies also quite effective.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 03, 2014, 04:18:30 pm

I started my new Extreme Playthrough™ again. I'm doing doing really well so far, I managed to kill fat bastard Fatman on the first try.

MGS2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on May 03, 2014, 04:49:28 pm

Playin' the new release of cortex command (Which adds cheevoz, tradin cards, and workshop(!)). Dig one of my soldiers into a nice trench to kill a techion guy below.
Fall because of the clumsybutcool movement system.
Grab a nearby RPC M17 (Also known as the coolest but least practical weapon in the game)
Shoot
HEDSHOT
NO MORE HEAD
WIN MISSION
SOLDIER IS NOT DEAD

Cortex Command Build 30 (In case you didn't notice) with the void wanderers mod, an important point is that the artifact drops in that mission were mostly imperium tech, so I have my usual soldiers, and elysian imperial guard guy, imperium autoshotgun, plasma gun, and two generic nonimperium rocket launchers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 03, 2014, 04:58:15 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on May 03, 2014, 04:18:30 pm

I started my new Extreme Playthrough™ again. I'm doing doing really well so far, I managed to kill fat bastard Fatman on the first try.

MGS2

Go!

Go, go, go~! :-D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 03, 2014, 05:00:37 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 03, 2014, 12:17:07 pm

GANONDWARF

I didn't know before, but now I need Minish Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 04, 2014, 12:26:55 am

I crashed a spaceplane off the runway.  It was too heavy and couldn't get airborne.  Fortunately the abort system works and Bob bailed out safely and the plane ended up crashing into the beach.

Lots of intact debris but instead of doing things the easy way and recovering from the tracking station I felt the need to bring the wreckage back.

After a few failed attempts (Small Rover is too weak to pull wreckage, big rover tips over when the crane grabs the hull, big rover goes too fast and blows up most of it dragging it along the ground) I finally managed to deliver a small portion of the thoroughly thrashed ship back to the hanger.

(http://img.ie/images/28buo_thumb.jpg) (http://img.ie/28buo.png.html)

That's right, I accomplished something meaningful with a rover. Go me.

KErbal Space program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 06, 2014, 11:49:33 pm

Played through Retro/Grade and beat it on beginner difficulty some time ago. Had a hard time beating levels on Pro difficulty, and played mostly through Challenge Mode to sample future levels at harder difficulties.

Well, tonight, I took on X-Treme Mode on a whim through the regular game. I'm on Level 2 right now.


...It makes sense in context. Given the type of game it is, I regularly play on average difficulty, and have difficulty past expert (my hands hurt playing Guitar hero on hard mode). I just did it on professional (or expert in GH terms), and beat 8 levels, acing one of them in the process. Ho-Ly Crap! Since when did I become awesome all of a sudden? My inner child must've come for a visit, and wanted to have fun. Actually, the boss fights were more fun this time around. I can't wait to take on the first/final boss on X-Treme.

Summary: I took down the game like the walls of Jericho.

EDIT:
In Touhou terms, I just decided to skip right into Lunatic/Extra mode, and am at the mini-boss fight before the final boss. I have a hard enough time with regular difficulty as-is. For no apparent reason, I just beat a crapload of levels beyond my limits of difficulty, where even my ego knows where to draw the line, where games becomes more annoying than fun. You know, endless continue tedium; the bane of arcade gaming.

EDIT EDIT:
Speaking of Touhou, Playing some intense songs in Sounddodger+ (mostly boss battle music from Final Fantasy and some other games), I dodged some seemingly impossible walls of bullets and iron maidens (being shot at all sides, and/or being killed by one or all spikes in the onslaught), along with surfing a wave during orbit (curtains of bullets lining the round walls, resembling waves in the process, flying closely to said wave, mind you, navigating in circles.) to the point it bordered on CMOF and CMOA territory with me saying something along the lines of "How am I dodging all these?" in a scared tone as I'm dodging the shots like a pro. I had less than a centimeter's clearance on all sides as I was quickly dodging all kinds of shots, large and small, and a wing of 12-24 tracking shots that were following me through this wall of bullets. I felt very much like Vash the Stampede dodging all those shots. Needless to say, despite all the intensity, I'm still averaging a 90% rating on all these crazy-intense songs. And then I rediscovered OCRemix. Now the fun really begins.

Speaking of which, I ought to try out the Trigun soundtrack for this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 09, 2014, 02:58:23 pm

When the war with the French started, they had a military strength rating of over 160 and naval strength of 24(two frigates I think), while I had pretty much nothing, with more colonies than me, but fewer people.

Now, they have just one colony(used to be mine) and a military strength of 8. My military is at 108, and it was much, much higher before the last few town takeovers.

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FreeCol. It's a really old version though.

Learned that Solidus' attacks are ridiculously easy to block during the second half of the battle. Kinda pathetic if you ask me.

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MGS2. It's a little funny how I'm playing this alongside FreeCol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 09, 2014, 09:54:28 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/hy0gFVc.jpg)

Aside from the mild inconvenience of having to rebuild one command center and a couple bits that went along with it, not a single bad thing happened here and we turned all the ships into space dust.

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AI War: Fleet Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 09, 2014, 11:06:31 pm

Shot down an alien ship. I begin advancing towards the entrance, constantly on overwatch. I hear mechanical thumping up ahead, and fear running into a sectopod. Suddenly, I'm flanked from behind by a Cyberdisc and two drones. Oh shit. Then, a Mechtoid and two sectoids advance in a pincer maneuver. Trapped between two deadly foes, I focus fire on the cyberdisc with three of my soldiers, and focus the rest on the mechtoid. I manage to fire a shredder missile into the middle of the mechtoid group, damaging the mechtoid, and killing the sectoids. Meanwhile, I bring down the Cyberdisc with my kickass augmented sniper, and an assault trooper, with another assault bringing down a drone. My turn ends, and the drone and mechtoid bugger off. I continue advancing, and eventually bring both the drone and the mechtoid down with overwatch fire. No casualties, and no wounds either. All in all, that could have gone a hell of a lot worse than it did.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on May 09, 2014, 11:11:35 pm

Got an dose weapons right now (Spaz is the gun I am mostly using and loving it, great to kill mutants which I been fight mostly.
Also I was able to get ton of money and ammo from jobs, compare to last time I play which I had an hard time to even get an better gun or fight bandits.
Time to move into the next zone, Woooo~

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STALKER: Call of Pripyat, COMPLETE mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 09, 2014, 11:21:59 pm

What's this, our teams are on separate islands?  Shit, guess we can't walk our land units over and...just kidding, underworld passage, Greek and Atlantian army right in your face near the start of heroic.  And we brought catapults and destroyers.

We crippled the Norse player we were attacking despite very competent help from his Atlantian ally (who had an army of automatons and behemoths, weirdly enough).  Said Norse player resigned despite having about 12,000 combined resources and most of his villagers alive.  A counter attack razed the fort I built to defend the passage but we killed the three attacking armies afterwards and the gate stood.  Our next wave marched up and took out one of the Atlantean's town centers.  Our armies split and then the Atlantean dropped his entire military on my brother's army using Vortex.  A bloody battle ensued that killed most military units on the map, but unlike our foe we had the resources to replace ours.  Then I completed a wonder.  The last enemy with any fight left in him tried to use his own underworld passage and stop us... with unupgraded archers.  It went like you would expect.

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Me and my brother playing the re-release of AoM.  It was a 3v3 but one person on each side contributed almost nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 10, 2014, 12:55:23 am

So, I'm relatively early in the game, and there's a Council Mission - Bomb Disposal.

After a bunch of turns, the bomb is in sight - not within my movement, there's one turn left. A sectoid flanked my guys and killed my Scout, so I can't possibly reach the bomb this turn, and there's 3 sectoids still alive, and a Thin Man.

The thin man shoots my medic, reducing him to two health, the sectoids have 4 health, 5 health, and one even has *seven* health from mind merge, the Thin Man, fortunately, is down to 1, but all of them are in heavy cover.

One sectoid Psi Panics, causing one of my soldiers to panic - followed by another one doing the same.

The other sectoid Mind Frays, causing another pair of soldiers to panic.

All I have is a medic, out of range of the bomb, with 1 turn left, and an assault carbine, which doesn't even do enough damage to reliably kill the sectoids.

...

Still beat it.

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XCOM Enemy Within Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on May 10, 2014, 06:38:40 am

The sweet sound of pwnage when you intentionally lure a capital-class ship towards a ring of 60 lasertowers. *fzzz*

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X3:AP with XRM and Ring of Fire (among others) mods

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 10, 2014, 11:48:44 am

Maybe he had access to a node and left that detail out for dramatic effect?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 10, 2014, 05:22:46 pm

Just beat Retro/Grade on X-Treme, the hardest difficulty in the game.

My hands hurt.

Additionally, I also did 50 of the game's challenges so far; as the achievement just noted me about. In the process, unlocking a mode I look forward to using plenty: Disco Mode. Apply that to X-Treme difficulty for X-Treme fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 10, 2014, 07:13:45 pm

I got the Cold War 'cheive in CS:GO. As in, the one where you win...
And noone on either side dies.

Best part?

I DIDN'T MEAN TO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 10, 2014, 07:17:08 pm

Quote from: greatorder on May 10, 2014, 11:24:42 am

Quote from: HFS on May 10, 2014, 12:55:23 am

-snip-

Please explain how, seeing as you were apparently unable to do anything. Unless you made a mistake somewhere in how far you thought your medic could go, I don't see how you'd successfully do this.

I said the bomb was out of movement range. There were still 3 of the, uh, what are they called? Plasma conduit-things on the map. A sectoid was taking cover near one (but not taking up a movement spot), and I could move, activate it, and shoot, and all 4 of my panicking idiots stopped panicking next turn, enabling me to grab another two.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on May 10, 2014, 08:42:42 pm

Jesus Christ Oswin is ridiculously overpowered. Dorcas is also a brutal beast. Sain's pretty good too.

Seriously though, I reckon I could do most maps with just Oswin, Dorcas, and a healer if I played my cards right. Oswin takes no damage, Dorcas has 5 gorillion HP and also now uses bows...

Hilariously the 'main character' is probably my weakest of my 'regular use' dudes. Sorry, Eliwood, but you're just... subpar.

Fire Emblem GBA

Edit : Are Erk and the Cleric girl he comes with compatible, or have I had them sitting together for ages for no reason?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 10, 2014, 08:58:47 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 10, 2014, 08:42:42 pm

Edit : Are Erk and the Cleric girl he comes with compatible, or have I had them sitting together for ages for no reason?

After wiki-diving for mugs, I could swear that they could get support bonuses with each other, but don't quote me on that...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 10, 2014, 09:26:02 pm

I managed to dodge the Harrier's unguided rockets by hanging off various ledges. The fight was a challenge in that I only had to get hit once to be killed, but I made it.

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MGS2 on Extreme. This was a while ago, I'm at Vamp right now, devising various strategies to kick his ass.

GUNIN, would you happen to know why I have not found a single ration on this playthrough yet? I'm relying on the health I get from beating bosses to stay alive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on May 10, 2014, 10:03:20 pm

Only source of rations for the first MGS-extreme was stealth killing guards. None would be just lying around. It sounds like the same is true for MGS2. Or maybe MGS2 extreme is more hardcore and you don't get rations even from stealthkills. That would be amusing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 11, 2014, 01:28:16 am

"Okay, maybe I should try using some SHIVs a bit mo-TERROR MISISON-

"Oh, great."

>Three turns later
>3 floaters, one of which has 12 HP (instead of 4, like normal x-com)

"Oh, great"
>ALIEN ACTIVITY
>4 chryssalids move up to my guys, one of which has 15 HP

"Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck"

>Still won, no deaths. The SHIV I brought along murdered half the map. SHIV MVP.

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XCOM Enemy Within Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on May 11, 2014, 02:46:45 am

I just started to take on an new job in Jupiter, which needed me to to go SCIENCE(!) base and start dealing with them...
Old guy: I need you to go into an unstable train tunnel, fight mutants beyond our understanding and deal with the the most horrible effects known to science to MAYBE find a sample of ungodly power, and we may or not pay you if its what we think it is.
OK...
Easy enough, I fought worst things before so I might as well take the job to get the money to pay for Exo-Skeleton suit and if they try to fuck me over I can easily kill them (They also dealing with the mercenary, which I been messing with there dealing in the pass so I was think they may try to set up an trap).

Also I had to take a group of mercenary with me to pick up the sample, which flick up an few warning lights but I might as well take on cannon folder to use as shields when we enter the place just INCASE, so I let them enter the place first (Turn out that the place had 3 zombie with low-tech weapon barely hitting any of the meat shields) and I enter after all the mutants are dead, looting them of some round for my Spaz-12, which I was planning to use for the rest of this place.
So I enter deeper into this place (The meat shields stopped, Wanting to 'Guard the entrance' which barely had anyone to protect in the first place beside John, Other John and The John) and found it just having flying orbs of elements with brain radiation or some other crap the meat shields was scared of and I was able to get into the middle of this place where the sample was (Just some thing turning around because of SCIENCE!).

This is when I found an new sort of mutant which one of the meat shields called 'Controller' before falling to the ground and crying, so I decide to run to the side of the tracks which the zombie used before as an 'sitting' point and found that the 'Controller' could not take me as I was beside the pillars, as I move up on it.
As soon as I was close enough to shoot it with my Spaz-12, I starting to run out yelling "BONZIE", shooting like an mad man and surprising the thing as it was turning around...

Then after that, I had good ground with the Mercenary(Saving their guys from an controller seem to mean a lot to them), The scientists pay a ton of money (mostly making sure that the team was COMPLETELY alive and I was able to pay for the exo-suit) and I just felt like the biggest bad-ass in Russia

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STALKER: Call of Pripyat, COMPLETE mod

 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 12, 2014, 02:00:24 am

With two revolvers in hand, I stood across from two separate teams of enemies.  I slowly advanced, alternating shots and trying to focus on the enemies that realized I was there.  By the time I had emptied both guns I was withing spitting distance, but I didn't spit.  Instead I threw my right hand gun, killing one of them before I myself was gunned down, having taken seven enemies with me.

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Fistful of frags.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 12, 2014, 02:10:46 am

2642 kills. Goddamn but my finger hurts, in a good way.

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on May 12, 2014, 12:10:07 pm

Had a duel win streak of six, and I only just started playing this yesterday. It was incredibly close for a few moments, especially against a judgment with a penchant for charge attacks, but I managed to come out on top every time until the server switched maps.

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Blade Symphony

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 12, 2014, 12:30:43 pm

Figured out how to make hydrogen gas and ethane from only ethane and 3 reactors.

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Spacechem.
It wouldn't have been such an own if I hadn't first designed a reactor that could seperate the ethane into individual atoms before realising that I only needed to remove one hydrogen. That was a slog. I saved it so I didn't feel like I wasted a load of time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 12, 2014, 01:12:46 pm

I seem to be getting better at this, specifically better at judging whether or not something is actually in torpedo range.

We were sent to patrol the celebes sea. Which we did, sinking 3 freighters in the process. Then we got our second mission, go into a Japanese port, photograph the ships, and leave. On the way into port however, we were accosted (very rudely I might add) by an Akatsuki-class destroyer. So I torpedoed it and sunk it. Then photographed the ships and launched my last two torpedoes at them just because I could.

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Silent Hunter IV. Ok maybe launching our last two torpedoes was overdoing it, but we're S-37. So there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 12, 2014, 02:25:46 pm

3v3 battle with two unteamed opponents in between. Had Saladin and The Wolf covering my flanks, so I built a piddly castle while putting with their constant begging for stuff they really didn't need. Since you can't do anything while paused, I simplified troop production to just archers, pikemen, and swordsmen, plus engineers.

Before long I had a decent army. Sent them to the unaligned guy  in the bottom-right, another Wolf. With the help of the Wolf on my side, quickly made a breach in the walls and marched my guys in for the kill. Next was The Snake on the other team. For some reason, he left an opening in his walls that had buildings in it, so fire ballistas. However there was a moat so I had smash the walls again, and march swords and pikes in for a kill. Third kill was the Sultan on the other team. He went down even easier.

After this I started gearing up for the last guy on there team, another Wolf, but with a massive and well-designed castle that I couldn't help but admire. First though, was the other teamless guy. I moved about a dozen guys in armor literally who walked right into the castle and stabbed Caliph in the face.

Assaulting the Wolf's castle was not easy. My first attempt was against the towers on the left, hoping to knock out two mangonel towers and a bunch of crossbowmen. That failed after heavy losses. I regrouped and repositioned to the right where the gatehouse was. The first and second attempts to clear the crossbowmen failed, costing me my archers. An attempt with a siege tower failed as well. Brought in a battering ram and a bunch of catapults and I finally broke in. Facing stiff resistance on the ground, the pikemen and swordsmen fought their way to the Wolf. In the end, the Wolf could not hold them all off.

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Stronghold Crusader

Quote from: IronTomato on May 10, 2014, 09:26:02 pm

I managed to dodge the Harrier's unguided rockets by hanging off various ledges. The fight was a challenge in that I only had to get hit once to be killed, but I made it.

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MGS2 on Extreme. This was a while ago, I'm at Vamp right now, devising various strategies to kick his ass.

GUNIN, would you happen to know why I have not found a single ration on this playthrough yet? I'm relying on the health I get from beating bosses to stay alive.

Quote from: Delta Foxtrot on May 10, 2014, 10:03:20 pm

Only source of rations for the first MGS-extreme was stealth killing guards. None would be just lying around. It sounds like the same is true for MGS2. Or maybe MGS2 extreme is more hardcore and you don't get rations even from stealthkills. That would be amusing.

RE: Dodging the rockets: Which ones? One come from a distance(you'll see a flash of light the moment the Stinger can lock on again, easier difficulties it's bullets) or when he's strafing with rockets. The former I just dive down the stairs right before they hit, and the latter I just walk up and down the stairs. I love those stairs.

RE: Rations: Possibly only from hold-ups. I they only rations I ever saw where the ones from the gunfight before cargo holds(Tanker) and two Snake gives you during the Tengu battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 12, 2014, 04:12:09 pm

I just kind of... walked to the Aquinas control room and activated everything then went back to Helios. Really I only used a couple of multitools, medkits, and BE cells for cloaking. It was almost comical how simple it was.

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Deus Ex.
I'm pretty sure that the Helios ending is the one that's 'canon', and it's also the best one morally so there wasn't really any conflict in what choice to make.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 12, 2014, 10:33:31 pm

Hannibal decided to attack me by surprise.  A little unexpected but maybe I just don't know my history very well.  That dosn''t seem like a very nice guy name.
I hadn't done much to antagonize him anyway, I hadn't even been spying on him (as far as I can figure anyway, this game's spy system makes little sense to me.)

It ends up probably being one of the shortest wars ever.  4 Galleons off my country's west shore.  Unfortunately for him I've been using my own galleons to ferry spies every which way and kill barbarian raider ships.  Not only was 90% of my Navy within 3 tiles of his fleet waiting for the next shipment of spies to pick up, they were all relatively high level ships, utterly destroying hannibal's fleet with only one loss within 2 turns of the war starting.

Only one enemy galleon made it to my shores, which dropped off a rifleman and a couple trebs, which were quickly digpiled by my small horde of longbowmen and archers who have been camping my core cities since the start of the game.  My knights and musketmen only arrived in time to clean up the last remaining treb.

The whole affair dropped hannibal solidly down to last in the little rankings list from somewhere near the top.  And I got some kind of event that I can only guess was him begging for peace before I had even healed up all my units.

Pretty impressive considering this is my first time playing a Civ game.

Civ 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 13, 2014, 06:18:39 am

Quote from: Akura on May 12, 2014, 02:25:46 pm

The ones I were talking about were the ones he launches from a distance. I tried the stairs trick as well as my hanging trick for the strafing ones, but neither worked out so I just dodged them like a hippo dodges raindrops. That worked out.

EDIT: Fukken typos.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 13, 2014, 11:53:30 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 10, 2014, 09:26:02 pm

GUNIN, would you happen to know why I have not found a single ration on this playthrough yet? I'm relying on the health I get from beating bosses to stay alive.

Sleeping guards will drop them if you shake them about 100+ times. Not worth it. I've never known held up or dead guards to drop rations on any difficulty, but I generally don't waste my time with that. Just don't get hurt. If you fuck up and take a lot of damage you should be letting yourself get killed and CONTINUEing. Abuse that system to quickly get through difficult struts like D and the first floor of F.

Extreme should have drops and some on the levels, European Extreme has no rations at all however, except from Snake during the Tengu fight. There's also a tiny room that spawns rations in the second stage of that fight. There may or may not be one at the beginning of the fights with Fortune and the Ray gears.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 13, 2014, 12:00:54 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 13, 2014, 11:53:30 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 10, 2014, 09:26:02 pm

GUNIN, would you happen to know why I have not found a single ration on this playthrough yet? I'm relying on the health I get from beating bosses to stay alive.

Sleeping guards will drop them if you shake them about 100+ times. Not worth it. I've never known held up or dead guards to drop rations on any difficulty, but I generally don't waste my time with that. Just don't get hurt. If you fuck up and take a lot of damage you should be letting yourself get killed and CONTINUEing. Abuse that system to quickly get through difficult struts like D and the first floor of F.

Those struts are long gone, I'm at the fight with Solidus now. :P
That said, my ownage is that I only got killed by the button mashing about 5 times.

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MGS2, obviously.

P.S: I now finally understand that joke from the first game, "Naomi, my right arm hurts."
BECAUSE RIGHT MOW MY RIGHT ARM FUCKING HURTS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 13, 2014, 01:09:25 pm

Yah, but I figured I might as well cover all my bases.

And no other frustration? Solidus is easy compared to the Tengu fight imho. Also surprised you had nothing to say about Ray. Most people have a really hard time with them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 13, 2014, 01:29:19 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 13, 2014, 01:09:25 pm

Yah, but I figured I might as well cover all my bases.

And no other frustration? Solidus is easy compared to the Tengu fight imho. Also surprised you had nothing to say about Ray. Most people have a really hard time with them.

The RAY fight was pretty hard, but during the Fission Mailed fight I didn't die once, probably because I've adapted to the lack of rations. Solidus is kicking my ass, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 13, 2014, 01:36:53 pm

Stay on the side (his left?) with the missing eye. Circle in that direction while fighting him. He blocks less because he's blind there.

Last time I cheesed him with an exploit that I found which involves punching him, so not many tips for you.

Don't panic when he starts jetting around after he loses the tentacles. Just stay still and he comes to you on his own. You can block his attacks too which leaves him open to being attacked. It's like the ducking thing with Vamp. So obvious you never think of it. So when you're not swinging run with your guard up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 13, 2014, 01:45:11 pm

Don't you know who you're talking to? :P

Otacon told me the eyepatch bit, I don't panic when he charges, and I'm already capable of dodging or blocking all of his attacks, except his missiles. The only real reason I haven't won yet is because I suck at cutting them tiny missiles, though using first person view seems to help. It's always petty things that get me. Hehe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 13, 2014, 01:54:38 pm

Cutting? Dude, just dodge them. That's a horrible idea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 13, 2014, 01:56:35 pm

I'm walking down a passageway at the edge of the map when a guy comes up behind me all threatening-like. So I shoot at him but don't land enough shots to kill. I then throw a stick of dynamite down to dissuade him from following me and start reloading. By the time the dynamite explodes I'm through 4 of 6 chambers, and I edge towards the corner ready. Just as I put the sixth and final bullet in he disarms me so I cooly punch him in the face once to kill him.
To make it even better I picked up my gun, finished reloading it, and then proceeded to break up a fight by killing all 3 participants in quick succession.

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Fistful of frags.
The weapon play in this game is really nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on May 13, 2014, 02:04:11 pm

In a single election, the Senate went from Arch-Conservative to Liberal. Same thing with the House of Representatives. The sacrifices are finally paying off.

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Liberal Crime Squad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 13, 2014, 02:13:59 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 13, 2014, 01:54:38 pm

Cutting? Dude, just dodge them. That's a horrible idea.

I tried that before, but I got hit anyay, and made the assumption that cutting would make it easier. It did, but it sounds like I should probably stop.

I'll fight him again tonight, and I'll be sure to make video evidence, if not just for posterity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 13, 2014, 02:30:08 pm

In all my experience I've never tried that nor seen it suggested. God I love MGS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nirur Torir on May 13, 2014, 04:23:07 pm

I made planetfall fairly close to the Believer faction. Miriam was willing to overlook my police state for some reason. She soon found herself in a war with the University, somewhere over the ocean, and asked me to join. I decided to humor her, and pronounced vendetta against someone I couldn't even speak with to buy time to build up my forces. I annexed her lands not long afterwards (casus belli: sent a colony pod across my highway). Zakharov never forgave me. The truce was fairly brief, and he occasionally sent small groups of infantry my way. I couldn't be bothered to take his island chain, and focused on the belligerent Spartans instead.

While I was ignoring him, he just kinda surrendered to me and signed up to be my vassal. I've never had someone surrender before I could take even one of their cities.

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Alpha Centauri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on May 13, 2014, 04:28:28 pm

Rushed out orbital from start and exiled myself on a small moon while the other were fighting on the main planet, built up my economy and started production of military unit. As my economy grew i sent a lone building to another moon and started fortification in case of a sneaky orbital attack and then started building truster.

Lost contact with the forces on the main planet so i send a could unit to scout the main planet and while i did loose a lot of them i found a nice place to land my builder and defensive forces.

I immediatly started building a teleporter while trying to defend my builder the best i could. As soon as the teleporter was linked to the moon i filled the place with military unit and blew a lot of them up, sadly my forces were not quite ready and i started loosing ground while i had no reserve waiting to go there. I promptly turned the gate off by blowing the one i had on the moon since at the moment i didnt know how to turn them off properly and i was kinda in a hurry to figure out the right way.

A few unit came on the other side on my moon but i had a lot of defensive building waiting them. All in all i didnt loose anything on the moon but the planet was a lost cause, no way i can get back on that planet without major logistic and planning. My plan B was almost ready so i made sure the other moon was heavily protected. Once it was ready i simply sent the plan B to the main planet. Try to dodge a moon you crazy AI...... They all died by a complete planet annihilation. That was fun!

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 Planetary Annihilation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 13, 2014, 06:18:56 pm

Quote from: Noel.se on May 13, 2014, 02:04:11 pm

In a single election, the Senate went from Arch-Conservative to Liberal. Same thing with the House of Representatives. The sacrifices are finally paying off.

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Liberal Crime Squad.

I didn't realize that demonic sacrifice was an option in LCS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 13, 2014, 07:22:58 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 13, 2014, 06:18:56 pm

Quote from: Noel.se on May 13, 2014, 02:04:11 pm

In a single election, the Senate went from Arch-Conservative to Liberal. Same thing with the House of Representatives. The sacrifices are finally paying off.

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Liberal Crime Squad.

I didn't realize that demonic sacrifice was an option in LCS.

You didn't? Sacrificing your soul to Satan is very Liberal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on May 13, 2014, 08:21:35 pm

Having Missile Fabs really is wonderful. Destroying an M2 as a Corvette is so fucking awesome when you've spammed 50 * 5 high-yield missiles against your foe.

X3: AP - I have managed to develop a missile station to provide my ships with steady streams of explosive ordinance and it's paying off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 13, 2014, 08:57:53 pm

The AI decides to send 350 bombers + seven flagships to one of my worlds. The world itself is pretty cheaply defended: A few missile turrets around the command post, a shield, and a mark II military command center. It's never actually been attacked before except by the lone raid starship (for those with massive raid starship problems: mkII/III military command posts repel most ships when they fire, including raid starships) or a rogue AI zombie ship or two from past hacking operations. This wave would've been a death sentence for that system.

Luckily, I had a botnet golem on hand. In about fifteen seconds after the wave enters the system and makes contact with the golem, all of the bombers are zombified and it takes them five to absolutely disintegrate every flagship that couldn't be turned. All of the zombie bombers, out of my control, jump out and start cleaning house in nearby AI systems. This golem was totally worth the 100 AIP it took to bring it online.

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AI War: Fleet Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 14, 2014, 02:08:01 pm

After it paralyzed itself taking down my Manetric, followed by judicious save-scumming to keep it immobile while Sceptile plinked away at it, and nearly half an hour throwing Ultra Balls at it, I caught L70 Rayquaza while my team is under L45(except Sceptile who is L47).

I could have used the Master Ball, but "I just trapped it with something that always works" doesn't sound as cool as "I just beat the crap out of an ancient dragon god and made it my bitch."

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Pokemon Emerald.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Redzephyr01 on May 14, 2014, 08:24:57 pm

Total party kill light attack

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Shin Megami Tensei IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 14, 2014, 08:27:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 14, 2014, 02:08:01 pm

I could have used the Master Ball, but "I just trapped it with something that always works" doesn't sound as cool as "I just beat the crap out of an ancient dragon god and made it my bitch."

Besides, Latios/Latias is an infinitely better use of the Master Ball.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 14, 2014, 08:54:25 pm

Pulled off a tricky win in Fukua's story mode. That final boss is bloody hard!

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Skullgirls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 15, 2014, 11:56:31 am

Broke into the top 600 players on Steam with 3190 kills in Survival mode. For reference, there are over 72000 players.

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on May 15, 2014, 05:04:03 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 15, 2014, 11:56:31 am

Broke into the top 600 players on Steam with 3190 kills in Survival mode. For reference, there are over 72000 players.

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One Finger Death Punch

Aim for the top Sirus, you can do it!

... You don't play while you're trucking... do you?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 15, 2014, 05:29:53 pm

Tried to rescue a dog.

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Cthulhu Saves the World.
That was an unexpectedly difficult dungeon. I guess I'd better go somewhere I won't get ganked by enemies way above my ability to defeat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 15, 2014, 06:04:27 pm

Quote from: Karkov on May 15, 2014, 05:04:03 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 15, 2014, 11:56:31 am

Broke into the top 600 players on Steam with 3190 kills in Survival mode. For reference, there are over 72000 players.

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One Finger Death Punch

Aim for the top Sirus, you can do it!

... You don't play while you're trucking... do you?

Unfortunately the top several places have 99999 kills, which I'm pretty sure is impossible for a normal human :P

And no, I don't. It takes all my concentration to get even close to my best score, none to spare for driving or whatever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 16, 2014, 04:51:00 am

Quote from: Sirus on May 15, 2014, 11:56:31 am

Broke into the top 600 players on Steam with 3190 kills in Survival mode. For reference, there are over 72000 players.

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One Finger Death Punch

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ahoy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 16, 2014, 06:02:38 am

A winner is me.

Time: 11:50
Continue: 151 times
Alert mode: 52 times
Persons killed: 229
Rations eaten: 29

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MGS2 on Extreme. Next time, I'll make sure to play on "Very easy"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr Space Cat on May 16, 2014, 07:11:03 am

Started up a dwarf paladin in character creation. Apparently Durin the Gallant is a son of a dwarf prison guard. He is 4 feet tall, and has a 4 foot long beard.

He has a beard as long as he is tall. That's hella dwarfy.

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Angband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2014, 03:17:20 pm

I bring some fire ballistas to flank Saladin's castle. I open fire on some hovels against the left wall, they catch. A group of horse archers and other troops walk by the burning buildings and they die, stopping an attack before it starts. I think to myself that's a successful attack with those ballistas.

I was wrong. The entire rest of Saladin's castle catches fire from the initial blaze, far too much for his well boys to handle. Every one of his people not on the walls is incinerated, and, cut off from any further reinforcements, I can push an attack on his wall and tower archers. The fire is so intense that when I bring pikemen to chip away at the wall, a few of them burn to death outside the wall. Killing Saladin after that was simple.

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Stronghold Crusader.

Quote from: Mr Space Cat on May 16, 2014, 07:11:03 am

Started up a dwarf paladin in character creation. Apparently Durin the Gallant is a son of a dwarf prison guard. He is 4 feet tall, and has a 4 foot long beard.

He has a beard as long as he is tall. That's hella dwarfy.

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Angband

If that were Nethack, I would guess that the first turn would be "You trip and fall down the stairs. You die. Do you want your inventory identified?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on May 17, 2014, 12:54:10 pm

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(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/450669858438922909/272B0A38E419D8A1B90B29D8E6474377A09BE4AB/)

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Crusader Kings 2. First time I reform a faith, and I did it just in time, because a holy site was lost immediatly after I clicked the button.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 12:29:18 am

Shit I implemented in a single day: one not overlapping upstair and downstair per level (previously a random number), hunger, items on the ground although not in the inventory, line of sight for the player (!), a method for darkening explored but not visible parts of the level, pathfinding (!!!), and a monster which chases and kills the player.  The pathfinding was legally stolen off of a public domain tutorial (although I put a good amount of research in), but the LoS method was almost entirely made up on the spot by me.

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(Very) work in progress rougelike I'm making as part of learning python.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 18, 2014, 01:07:20 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 12:29:18 am

rougelike

Must..... resist.... urge.... to make makeup puns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 01:44:00 am

Quote from: Objective on May 18, 2014, 01:07:20 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 12:29:18 am

rougelike

Must..... resist.... urge.... to make makeup puns.

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(http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5300000/rouge-rouge-the-bat-5319019-714-780.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on May 18, 2014, 04:49:17 am

Quote from: Objective on May 18, 2014, 01:07:20 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 12:29:18 am

rougelike

Must..... resist.... urge.... to make makeup puns.

I seriously can't stand the use of "rouge" instead of the correct "rogue", especially since "rouge" simply means "red" in my first language (french).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 18, 2014, 08:18:45 am

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on May 18, 2014, 04:49:17 am

Quote from: Objective on May 18, 2014, 01:07:20 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2014, 12:29:18 am

rougelike

Must..... resist.... urge.... to make makeup puns.

I seriously can't stand the use of "rouge" instead of the correct "rogue", especially since "rouge" simply means "red" in my first language (french).

rougelike: a roguelike set in Louisiana.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 18, 2014, 09:23:51 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 18, 2014, 08:18:45 am

rougelike: a roguelike set in Louisiana.

Rougelike: A leftist roguelike based on socialist but not communistic ideals.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 18, 2014, 09:25:23 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 18, 2014, 08:18:45 am

rougelike: a roguelike set in Louisiana.

Where you play as a relay racer. Trying to win a state-wide marathon relay without being eaten by alligators or shot by drunken rednecks.
Probably by flagging down a diesel-fueled truck to get there and playing some mad mouthharp riffs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 18, 2014, 10:05:15 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 18, 2014, 08:18:45 am

rouxlike: a roguelike set in Louisiana.

ftfy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2014, 10:19:24 am

Took out an entire buffalo herd with my sixshooter and two sticks of dynamite. Ate well after that one.

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Mount & Blade: 1866 mod. This one is actually pretty fun.

Quote from: Yoink on May 18, 2014, 09:25:23 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 18, 2014, 08:18:45 am

rougelike: a roguelike set in Louisiana.

Where you play as a relay racer. Trying to win a state-wide marathon relay without being eaten by alligators or shot by drunken rednecks.
Probably by flagging down a diesel-fueled truck to get there and playing some mad mouthharp riffs.

Would throw money at screen for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: varnish on May 19, 2014, 01:06:42 pm

Rougelike: a simulation game where you take control of Detroit's most important factory complex.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:14:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Dw I ddim yn hoffi siarad Ffrangeg, achos dw i'n dwp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 03:20:57 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:14:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Dw I ddim yn hoffi siarad Ffrangeg, achos dw i'n dwp.

what?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:24:01 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language

^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on May 19, 2014, 03:47:46 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

This isn't even proper french... So many errors...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 19, 2014, 04:18:57 pm

I don't really blame them for lack of accents, and although I am failing my french classes in highschool I'm pretty sure quebecois and regular are different.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 04:27:46 pm

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on May 19, 2014, 03:47:46 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

This isn't even proper french... So many errors...

to be fair, I dont have a french keyboard so accents are hard for me. I dont really feel like putting them in manually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 20, 2014, 03:58:26 am

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:14:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Dw I ddim yn hoffi siarad Ffrangeg, achos dw i'n dwp.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'thagn!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 20, 2014, 07:07:49 am

Quote from: Objective on May 20, 2014, 03:58:26 am

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:14:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Dw I ddim yn hoffi siarad Ffrangeg, achos dw i'n dwp.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'thagn!

Ustedes tienen que hablar español.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on May 20, 2014, 07:43:41 am

I know a bit of ASL, but you'll just have to imagine it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on May 20, 2014, 02:58:38 pm

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on May 20, 2014, 07:43:41 am

I know a bit of ASL, but you'll just have to imagine it.

*Swish swish flap flap flick swish flap swish, flap flap flap swish flap flick flick swish*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 20, 2014, 03:43:16 pm

Möchten Sie alle aufhören pissing um und wieder an die Geschichten von epischen?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on May 20, 2014, 08:37:26 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on May 20, 2014, 04:51:19 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on May 20, 2014, 07:07:49 am

Quote from: Objective on May 20, 2014, 03:58:26 am

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 03:14:09 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 19, 2014, 01:50:44 pm

Quote from: Korbac on May 19, 2014, 01:47:17 pm

Rougelike : C'est tres bon game, parce que j'adore le coleur.

s.v.p. Korbac, je ne parle pas francais. :C

Dw I ddim yn hoffi siarad Ffrangeg, achos dw i'n dwp.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'thagn!

Ustedes tienen que hablar español.

Exactamente.

Sop urist qIl! Qob puH. jon urist qaStaHvIS ngeng vaHbo'. tet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 21, 2014, 12:03:56 pm

I needed a hole in a wall to make a garage in my mansion.  Unfortunately I don't have a jackhammer.

So I did the dwarven thing, I made a spraycan flamethrower, grabbed the fire extinguisher and fired the flamethrower at the wall.  Clearly this is a good idea.

2 hours later and one and a half fire extinguishers later I have a hole in the wall where I wanted it(slightly larger than I intended) and I miraculously saved the building.

Fastest panic fire extinguisher in the cataclysm.

Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Anvilfolk on May 21, 2014, 12:05:53 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 21, 2014, 12:03:56 pm

I needed a hole in a wall to make a garage in my mansion.  Unfortunately I don't have a jackhammer.

So I did the dwarven thing, I made a spraycan flamethrower, grabbed the fire extinguisher and fired the flamethrower at the wall.  Clearly this is a good idea.

2 hours later and one and a half fire extinguishers later I have a hole in the wall where I wanted it(slightly larger than I intended) and I miraculously saved the building.

Fastest panic fire extinguisher in the cataclysm.

Cataclysm DDA

For a moment I forgot what thread I was in, and thought you had done this for real. What a crazy bastard, is what ran through my mind, until I read "Cataclysm DDA" at the bottom :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on May 21, 2014, 12:09:26 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 21, 2014, 12:03:56 pm

I needed a hole in a wall to make a garage in my mansion.  Unfortunately I don't have a jackhammer.

So I did the dwarven thing, I made a spraycan flamethrower, grabbed the fire extinguisher and fired the flamethrower at the wall.  Clearly this is a good idea.

2 hours later and one and a half fire extinguishers later I have a hole in the wall where I wanted it(slightly larger than I intended) and I miraculously saved the building.

Fastest panic fire extinguisher in the cataclysm.

Cataclysm DDA

That's why you don't play with fire, kiddo. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on May 21, 2014, 01:56:02 pm

Couldn't you just have attempted a manual override on the wall?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 21, 2014, 04:50:31 pm

Quote from: New Guy on May 21, 2014, 12:09:26 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 21, 2014, 12:03:56 pm

I needed a hole in a wall to make a garage in my mansion.  Unfortunately I don't have a jackhammer.

So I did the dwarven thing, I made a spraycan flamethrower, grabbed the fire extinguisher and fired the flamethrower at the wall.  Clearly this is a good idea.

2 hours later and one and a half fire extinguishers later I have a hole in the wall where I wanted it(slightly larger than I intended) and I miraculously saved the building.

Fastest panic fire extinguisher in the cataclysm.

Cataclysm DDA

That's why you don't play with fire, kiddo. :P

Seems like he's basically mastered it at this point, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 22, 2014, 03:21:25 am

My first mission in Carriers at War 2 ended very well, with me sinking the Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes, 4 British battleships, 2 British Heavy Cruisers, One Light Cruiser, 3 (maybe a bit more, I forget) Destroyers, more transports than I can count. On top of this I caused heavy damage to 2 carriers.

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Carriers at War 2, as said above. Of course, this was basically a tutorial, I may attempt the same scenario as the British.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on May 23, 2014, 01:56:15 pm

So i decided to play as russians and do a "peaceful" playthrough focused on city building research and title improvement.
So i met the first civs that started along with me on the continent. The inca and... some asian guys.
Things went well till the inca noticed i have barely any units and decided to attack... they didn't notice however that i had tons of gold stashed away AND my cities are well fortified so it ended in a bloodbath for them and a swift counterattack that ended in their genocide.
This however caused the asians and newly discovered germans turn vary of me thinking i'm a "warmongering menace" so i decided to eliminate them before i meet other nations.
This didn't work out as well since it took so long i was discovered by egyptians whom quickly turned from freindly to guarded after the constant torrent of denoucements from germans and asians so i had to slaughter them as well once i finished with the germans.
That didn't goo with plan because by that time i was discovered by the french aztecs and babylonians who got their views of me marred by the denouncements made by egypt before i could shut them up with artillery shells... making me the last civ on the continent abd pretty much hated by everyone... with the exeption of danes whom i quickly started a defensive pack to have reason to bash the aztecs skulls in... altho currently i'm only half invested limiting myself to a carrier anchored near the shore just sending wave after wave of fighters at aztec pikemen making hteir trek towards Danish cities.

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Civilization V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on May 23, 2014, 07:33:39 pm

You can reduce that warmongering score by freeing citystates and foreign cities.

Convince the Ai to attack other Ai and city states, then free the city states for a free liberation bonus.

Then again, I play on massive maps with Massive timescales and almost 20 nations. So it's easier to find a friend and the Ai fights war all the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 23, 2014, 07:41:55 pm

Quote from: Karnewarrior on May 23, 2014, 07:33:39 pm

You can reduce that warmongering score by freeing citystates and foreign cities.

Convince the Ai to attack other Ai and city states, then free the city states for a free liberation bonus.

Then again, I play on massive maps with Massive timescales and almost 20 nations. So it's easier to find a friend and the Ai fights war all the time.

That... actually sounds like a lot of fun. Is it hard to keep track of all the countries? And how many weeks/months does it take to end?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on May 23, 2014, 08:28:29 pm

Quote from: Thexor on May 23, 2014, 07:41:55 pm

Quote from: Karnewarrior on May 23, 2014, 07:33:39 pm

You can reduce that warmongering score by freeing citystates and foreign cities.

Convince the Ai to attack other Ai and city states, then free the city states for a free liberation bonus.

Then again, I play on massive maps with Massive timescales and almost 20 nations. So it's easier to find a friend and the Ai fights war all the time.

That... actually sounds like a lot of fun. Is it hard to keep track of all the countries? And how many weeks/months does it take to end?

I'm actually playing on a huge map with a maximum % of nations.
Right now i'm somewhere at the bgining of the modern era (just got tanks and fighters) and it took me around 8-10 hours.
i'd like to point out however that in the marathon timescale bulding something as simple as a road takes around 16 turns and the fastest building you can get in a new city is the monument that needs over 20 turns to build... while a granary takes 30-40.
Quite honestly its better to just build everything (or at the very least units) with gold when you play a marathon game because it's pretty damn hard to see what you will need 20+ turns in the future.

Also not sure about the expansions (i'm playing more or less vanilla with some minor DLCs that went along with the Game of the Year edition) but on my huge map only 12 rival civs can spawn... and i reduced that number to 8 already.
They do however spawn upto 24 city states.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on May 23, 2014, 11:12:20 pm

 start on the coast, with a lake, 2corn, and sheep.  cool.  I scour around.

nothing.  I mean nothing.  Some wine up here, a gold mine over here.  Cows to the east.  nothing worth taking except the gold and the elephants in the jungle.  which I didnt fogbust before barbs took it.  to top it off Ive got zero rivers, my sea is 12 tiles big, and Monty is north, nappi is east, mansa south and Suleiman is west.  hostile company.  Well, I boot up my wonderwhore mode, let monty and sulie fight over who can convert me first to their religion (sulie won) and spread it to nappie.  I cottage the everloving shit out of every grass tile I own and manage to grab swadie blahblah, the wonder that unlocks pacifism early.  I cant keep up with their armies anyhow.  Nappie and I stick like glue and Take out mansa, letting me finally expand to 8 cities.  I just polished off paper, and will look for Sankore for the science.

Im not much ofa peacemonger or good at culture wins, but this (terra, I suspect) map gave me a real challenge.  Shaka is rocking around successfully, Egypt is stealing wonders, and Oh god I need more money. The ai gets too much to also leave me broke so early.

CIV, emperor w/ai mod and random map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 24, 2014, 08:00:33 am

Blessed melee weapon. Blessed throwing weapon. So many flying enemies.

Red Rogue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on May 24, 2014, 08:03:02 am

This character is only 30 days old.
I already have 15000 denars in the bank, and an army of 60.
Life is good.

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Mount and Blade: Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 24, 2014, 10:30:21 am

Quote from: Facekillz058 on May 24, 2014, 08:03:02 am

This character is only 30 days old.
I already have 15000 denars in the bank, and an army of 60.
Life is good.

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Mount and Blade: Warband

Teach me your skills! Although, admittedly I'm pretty terrible at M&B.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on May 24, 2014, 10:41:57 am

The most important thing is getting started, then it's a breeze.
After the tutorial quest, try and win a few tournaments while betting on yourself as much as possible, then just run around hire as many recruits as you can.
Train them up to a decent point, and then join any army you want, and start pillaging villages, as they contain many valuable trade goods.
Sell trade goods, and repeat.
Pillaging 3 villages made me like, 9k.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 24, 2014, 05:56:20 pm

My buddy, "Comrade Mime Sniper" (pictured (http://i.imgur.com/6dghFkr.jpg)), got shot and I took his spot (Actually behind the wall like a normal sane person, though). Using my bolt action rifle, I racked up multiple kills before a German rifleman snuck up behind me and shot me. Better than most of my runs on this game, at least.

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Red Orchestra 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on May 24, 2014, 09:39:15 pm

I modded in a super walrus man crab, I then kicked a insectoid walrus man in the upper body that he died insantly.

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Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 24, 2014, 11:55:11 pm

I started by doing a backflip, and balancing on my left hand. I then spun around, flipped over and grabbed Uke's shoulder in midair. Pulling him into me, I quickly kicked him in the face, HARD, completely decapitating him. The replay ended up looking way more flashy than it sounds.

Toribash Singleplayer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 24, 2014, 11:57:10 pm

I'm pretty sure that I'm actually starting to get kills in PvP now :D It's typically only in massed combat, not 1v1 yet, but I think I'm contributing a useful amount of damage and landing killing blows once in a while.

World of Warcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 25, 2014, 11:42:24 pm

Quote from: Jacob/Lee on May 24, 2014, 05:56:20 pm

My buddy, "Comrade Mime Sniper" (pictured (http://i.imgur.com/6dghFkr.jpg)), got shot and I took his spot (Actually behind the wall like a normal sane person, though). Using my bolt action rifle, I racked up multiple kills before a German rifleman snuck up behind me and shot me. Better than most of my runs on this game, at least.

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Red Orchestra 2.

Man, I am terrible at that game. Although I've had far too many kills from my own side for no reason, I think shots clip or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 25, 2014, 11:47:14 pm

I've been playing a game that won't officially exist for another two weeks. That said, I'm really glad it's getting a day one patch. It needs it pretty badly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 25, 2014, 11:51:54 pm

Don't be mysterious what is it?!!!?!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 26, 2014, 01:40:30 am

Probably a game in closed alpha/beta that MZ is legally obliged to not spoil.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 26, 2014, 11:34:26 am

Quote from: Cheedows on May 25, 2014, 11:42:24 pm

Man, I am terrible at that game. Although I've had far too many kills from my own side for no reason, I think shots clip or something.

What do you mean shots clip or something? Like go through cover and stuff?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 26, 2014, 02:55:23 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 26, 2014, 01:40:30 am

Probably a game in closed alpha/beta that MZ is legally obliged to not spoil.

Nah. I just know where to look.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 26, 2014, 03:38:54 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on May 26, 2014, 11:34:26 am

Quote from: Cheedows on May 25, 2014, 11:42:24 pm

Man, I am terrible at that game. Although I've had far too many kills from my own side for no reason, I think shots clip or something.

What do you mean shots clip or something? Like go through cover and stuff?

Like playermodels clip into each other. I've been friendly fired for far too many times when I am prone, while a guy directly behind me standing will somehow one-shot me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on May 26, 2014, 05:35:34 pm

My god...

Medium galaxy, tough AI. In a galaxy with the Yor, Iconians, Krynn, Thalans and the Korath, I chose the Drath Legion.

And holy hell does the Drath kick ass. It was painfully slow in the early-game, with me almost bankrupting myself. I got a decent haul of planets in the planet gold rush and planned on taking Krynn territory. Eventually, the economy kicked in and I could afford to start thinking about my fleets. Defensive fleets galore on my planets.

After I picked off three minor races, the Korath decided to butt some heads with the Krynn.

CUE WAR PROFITEERING

Like a tsunami, I was being flooded with credits in additions to the other tsunamis of credits from my cash-cow planets.

Then both the Iconians and the Thalans joined in the fight. MORE MONEY, YAY!

All sectors were booming with my military finally outpacing the Korath. That's when I figured I might as well join in and grab a few planets for myself. Korath didn't stand a chance against my strategically designed cruisers and corvettes.

When Korath had few worlds left, the Yor declared war on the Krynn. At the same time, the Iconians and the Thalans signed peace treaties with the Korath. I forged an alliance with the Iconians and the Thalans while I still reaped the rewards of the Korath wars. Although that didn't stop the Thalans from occasionally declaring war on the Iconians, forcing me to have a stern talking with the former.

The Krynn were badly losing. Even when I sold a few of my older warships to them along with defensive technology, they still couldn't keep up. Eventually they surrendered to the Yor. (Wait, you'd rather surrender to your mortal enemy than your closest ally? What a dick!)

And that's when the Iconians had had enough with the Yor. Both started fighting across the galaxy, with my front yard as the battlefield. Oh well, at least I got to sell refreshments on the sidelines while profiteering.

In any case, I merely bode my time. Eventually, my military power was greater than all others' combined. The Yor didn't last very long and I took a sweet Diplomacy Victory.

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Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 26, 2014, 06:23:29 pm

How does war profiteering work?  When I try to sell ships to people they usually give me a negligible amount of credits in return.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 26, 2014, 06:42:51 pm

I was getting bored with playing Aikido, so I decided to try out Lenshu for the first time.

I dodged my opponent's clumsy punch, causing him to fall down. Now at his side, he was in a position where it would be easy for him to kick me. I easily read his kick, and blocked it by punching him in the shin, doing an intimidating amount of damage from the forceful collision.  I kicked him in the chest with my right foot, sending him away from me. The timer ran out with me being the victor.

I won several more matches with equal untouchability, when I had a brief exchange with one of my opponents.

Opponent: "Tomato, where'd you learn those moves?"

Me:  "I've watched The Matrix."

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Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on May 26, 2014, 06:49:03 pm

How do you even stop from falling over after doing anything.
I only ever have brief and unsatisfying struggles before someone hits the floor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 26, 2014, 09:28:45 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on May 26, 2014, 06:49:03 pm

How do you even stop from falling over after doing anything.
I only ever have brief and unsatisfying struggles before someone hits the floor.

I'm usually jumping around. If I fall backwards, I do a handstand and kick with my legs. Still, I have found that it is useful to make sure that you're at least leaning towards your opponent a little before you make a particularly fast strike. That way, if you fall forwards, you can at least use it to your advantage by extending your hips to jump forwards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on May 26, 2014, 09:35:51 pm

I killed a guy with a bow and a spear to death only using a club, then I chopped him up into little bits for eating, I received no injuries. c:

UnReal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 26, 2014, 09:41:46 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on May 26, 2014, 09:28:45 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on May 26, 2014, 06:49:03 pm

How do you even stop from falling over after doing anything.
I only ever have brief and unsatisfying struggles before someone hits the floor.

I'm usually jumping around. If I fall backwards, I do a handstand and kick with my legs. Still, I have found that it is useful to make sure that you're at least leaning towards your opponent a little before you make a particularly fast strike. That way, if you fall forwards, you can at least use it to your advantage by extending your hips to jump forwards.

Man. My first ever online match, I did a frontflip over my opponent and kicked them face first into the ground from above.
However, I have not been able to do anything to win a match ever since.
It's so tough. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 26, 2014, 10:54:59 pm

A lot of people say that. I kinda flail around and try to grab them. Then hope I can get them to the ground with me on top, usually with wriggling my hips and glutes, which obviously never works.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 26, 2014, 11:00:12 pm

I think I need to get Toribash. This shit sounds pretty amazing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 26, 2014, 11:03:34 pm

It's more fun to watch Toribash videos than actually playing it if you ask me.

That shit is hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 26, 2014, 11:04:42 pm

I play mods like MISERY for fun. Hard isn't a problem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 26, 2014, 11:07:37 pm

Toribash has this problem though, since if you don't learn after you get a high belt you'll get wrecked by all the skilled QWOP maniacs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 26, 2014, 11:08:51 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 26, 2014, 11:03:34 pm

It's more fun to watch Toribash videos than actually playing it if you ask me.

That shit is hard.

It's not too hard,once you learn about what contracting and expanding certain parts does you get moderatly better.

Though that tutorial robot is tougher then most players in my experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 26, 2014, 11:21:35 pm

The one who just stands perpetually still, or the one that attacks you?
I just dodged the attacker and he took himself out... >.>
Actually, that's the real secret. Dodge, and most of the time...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 26, 2014, 11:32:21 pm

Quote from: flabort on May 26, 2014, 11:21:35 pm

The one who just stands perpetually still, or the one that attacks you?
I just dodged the attacker and he took himself out... >.>
Actually, that's the real secret. Dodge, and most of the time...

The attacker.

I find that dodging is harder then it sounds because I'm not familer enough with the joints to do so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 27, 2014, 12:01:32 am

It gets pretty frustrating when you click one time too many on a joint, forcing you to click back through the options again so as not to ruin your move. :P That said, it is good fun. I might have to get back into it, as useless as I am.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 27, 2014, 12:17:35 am

Bay12 Bash Squad?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 27, 2014, 12:20:53 am

Quote from: kisame12794 on May 26, 2014, 11:04:42 pm

I play mods like MISERY for fun. Hard isn't a problem.

It's less challenging hard and more like shitty UI hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 27, 2014, 12:48:20 am

I love Toribash! Really no surprise, I'm sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 27, 2014, 01:07:24 am

I played toribash for all of 2 days before I came to the conclusion that I am very very garbage and should just uninstall. 
Thinking I had to learn how to walk before I could do fancy judo moves like all the people I fought, I got some kind of downloadable obstacle course thing that I figured I could practice on.  An hour of trying and I never managed to get off the starting platform without falling into a high speed faceplant.  Let alone actually reach an obstacle.

---
Back to owning.  I managed to successfully fly a spaceplane, under FAR physics, into space, and successfully encountered and docked with a previously parked refueling station.  Without using any autopilot whatsoever.  I even timed my takeoff to encounter by eye.

I'm going to bed with it still docked, because while I've deorbited and landed spaceplanes dozens of times, I'm worried I'll screw it up this time and ruin the moment.

KSP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 27, 2014, 01:35:09 am

Quote from: Greiger on May 27, 2014, 01:07:24 am

I played toribash for all of 2 days before I came to the conclusion that I am very very garbage and should just uninstall. 
Thinking I had to learn how to walk before I could do fancy judo moves like all the people I fought, I got some kind of downloadable obstacle course thing that I figured I could practice on.  An hour of trying and I never managed to get off the starting platform without falling into a high speed faceplant.  Let alone actually reach an obstacle.

Bleah,it's impossible to more or less walk,you don't need to walk to do fancy moves,though I find that fancy judo moves fall to pieces against a non training dummy,all it takes is for him to start clinging to you or something....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 27, 2014, 01:39:02 am

I mostly flail when I play Toribash. Granted, my knowledge of martial arts really helps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 27, 2014, 01:49:44 am

In my brief stint playing Toribash I never learned how to strike.  I treated my character's body less as a collection of limbs and more like a single object I could twist only one way at time.  It was OK for pushing people to the ground but overall I just sucked.

Also jumping is fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 27, 2014, 01:54:20 am

I think that one should be able to run in QWOP first to be able to understand Toribash.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 27, 2014, 01:57:11 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 27, 2014, 01:49:44 am

In my brief stint playing Toribash I never learned how to strike.  I treated my character's body less as a collection of limbs and more like a single object I could twist only one way at time.  It was OK for pushing people to the ground but overall I just sucked.

Also jumping is fun.

I'm not really that good at flowing in combat myself,if I'm making several body parts move at once then I'm probably flying in the air so I'm not worried about tripping.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 27, 2014, 01:57:29 am

Quote from: Objective on May 27, 2014, 01:54:20 am

I think that one should be able to run in QWOP first to be able to understand Toribash.

I'm pretty good at Toribash. Can't play QWOP for shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 27, 2014, 01:58:13 am

I have a really nice opening ktfo punch that I like to use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ComputerWarrior on May 27, 2014, 01:58:45 am

(http://nerosgames.orgfree.com/images/ascii/pirates_arrested_01.jpg)

Arrested an entire pirate colony with a stun rod and many many cuffs. The (s)hip-yard seemed an appropriate place for the new prisoners, what with them being stuffed hip-to-hip in that tiny little place. (Green dot's me, by the way)

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ASCII Sector.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on May 27, 2014, 02:53:19 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 26, 2014, 06:23:29 pm

How does war profiteering work?  When I try to sell ships to people they usually give me a negligible amount of credits in return.

From what I can tell, it gives you a percentage of the warring factions' economies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 27, 2014, 05:30:06 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 27, 2014, 12:17:35 am

Bay12 Bash Squad?

Toady One as the leader.

More seriously, I would be happy to save up my TC and make this a clan.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Isdar on May 27, 2014, 07:30:21 am

Quote from: Greiger on May 27, 2014, 01:07:24 am

I came to the conclusion that I am very very garbage and should just uninstall. 

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 27, 2014, 08:01:22 am

Quote from: Isdar on May 27, 2014, 07:30:21 am

Quote from: Greiger on May 27, 2014, 01:07:24 am

I came to the conclusion that I am very very garbage and should just uninstall. 

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone, myself included, is terrible at Toribash when they first start playing it. It took MUCH longer than two days for me to become good. Shook's one of our own, and he's a legend over there, but that's because he's been playing for 7 years or something like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Krath on May 27, 2014, 09:23:59 am

Outside of the occasional playing, I haven't touched Toribash in a few years. Which sucks, because now I get dominated by everyone around my belt level (and plenty of people below it). My current computer being kind of trashy doesn't help, either. I'd be down to try to get back into it, though.

----------------------------------------------------

Back on topic, I've gone through every single combat challenge map in Arkham City again, scoring at least 10,000 to 30,000 points higher than before on all of them. What do you know, mastering blade takedown timing and redirecting more than countering really does help!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on May 28, 2014, 10:04:10 am

just beat the flagship for the first time! Even better was that I beat the  last stage with one health remaining. I ended the run on the red tail with max shields 48% evasion flak 1 chain laser hull missile basic laser 1 and a defense drone 2. Awesome run. I finished the first phase with only 3 hull damage but I was down to about 7 bars after the second and thought their was no way im going to make this but my crew pulled through (with only 4 losses too)

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FTL: Faster than light

Edit: also beat a 2nd dan black belt last night in toribash. Im a white belt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 28, 2014, 12:28:43 pm

Quote from: Krath on May 27, 2014, 09:23:59 am

Outside of the occasional playing, I haven't touched Toribash in a few years. Which sucks, because now I get dominated by everyone around my belt level (and plenty of people below it). My current computer being kind of trashy doesn't help, either. I'd be down to try to get back into it, though.

----------------------------------------------------

Back on topic, I've gone through every single combat challenge map in Arkham City again, scoring at least 10,000 to 30,000 points higher than before on all of them. What do you know, mastering blade takedown timing and redirecting more than countering really does help!

If you want to score a ton of points, beatdown everyone in the map (aka stun them and punch them a lot).  You can counter and keep doing the beatdown; it'll get you more points, but more importantly it will shoot your multiplier through the roof.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on May 28, 2014, 12:46:48 pm

This guy. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264311941) Somehow he made it through the whole game despite me dragging it out a bit to research everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 28, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

i think that before playing multiplayer in toribash you should make sure you can beat the shit out of uke first.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 28, 2014, 03:49:34 pm

Quote from: Aklyon on May 28, 2014, 12:46:48 pm

This guy. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264311941) Somehow he made it through the whole game despite me dragging it out a bit to research everything.

Man. Props. I beat the Base Assault recently, and I have some seriously hardcore security guards. I had a one guard get shot by a mechtoid, survive, and on the next turn, kill it in sweet sweet revenge. Seriously. Dude was a badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 28, 2014, 04:31:27 pm

Hope that was Long War.  In LW the living security guards join your team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on May 28, 2014, 05:42:03 pm

Alas, it was vanilla. Sadly. I still have no idea how the guy survived, because it showed a cutscene, but the dude didn't die. He had one health left, but he was still alive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 06:44:47 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

i think that before playing multiplayer in toribash you should make sure you can beat the shit out of uke first.

Nah,I'm sorta good semi-decent at the game but Uke still pounds me to pieces.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 28, 2014, 07:00:10 pm

Fighting Uke doesn't translate whatsoever to fighting another person.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 07:38:51 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 28, 2014, 07:00:10 pm

Fighting Uke doesn't translate whatsoever to fighting another person.

True,Uke doesn't adapt,he just shoots off a fancy move and that's it,if you manage to avoid it then he's done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 28, 2014, 07:45:34 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 27, 2014, 01:57:29 am

Quote from: Objective on May 27, 2014, 01:54:20 am

I think that one should be able to run in QWOP first to be able to understand Toribash.

I'm pretty good at Toribash. Can't play QWOP for shit.

Have fun shooting in Probably Archery. I can shoot in zero gravity, shoot an apple off an apple's head, Robin Hood shoot a guy off a noose, and take down a total of 8 of 10 flying eggs. This game is silly, but difficult. Kinda helps that I've learned how to fire a bow and arrow IRL back then, and know how to aim, even when things go nonsense and offsets like mad.

In fact, I can own at Probably Archery because I know how to offset fire. I barely aim at my target (or at least, have the most awkward setup to aim with; The bow is facing in a way that's near-impossible to aim with, and I'm just using the arrow shaft as my crosshairs (and 1 of 5 times, an ironsight style shot) by this point.), and I can still hit it. Now moving targets like flying eggs, and taking them out from within a china shop (10 in 60 seconds); that is a bastard and a half to play through, but I can still nab 8 of 10 eggs, on average. Plus, I didn't know arrows can turn over tables that hard (Hint: Achievement).

EDIT:
Offset-targeting/firing is also a bit of a talent I actually picked up IRL too. Makes faking people out all too easy. I can fire forward, and still bean a target 90-degrees from me, full force (well, throwing a football, baseball, or racquet ball). Having peripheral vision also adds to making it work effectively (about 100-105, though my vision is still relatively crappy (20:30-35, last I checked)).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 28, 2014, 08:56:12 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 06:44:47 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

i think that before playing multiplayer in toribash you should make sure you can beat the shit out of uke first.

Nah,I'm sorta good semi-decent at the game but Uke still pounds me to pieces.

See, the thing is if you can't counter Uke's moves, then other people can use those moves against you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 09:09:28 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 08:56:12 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 06:44:47 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

i think that before playing multiplayer in toribash you should make sure you can beat the shit out of uke first.

Nah,I'm sorta good semi-decent at the game but Uke still pounds me to pieces.

See, the thing is if you can't counter Uke's moves, then other people can use those moves against you.

So far I have yet to find anyone who can do those moves outside of blackbelt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 28, 2014, 10:48:45 pm

Flail harder. C key to hold everything. Use it. Love it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 28, 2014, 10:50:36 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 09:09:28 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 08:56:12 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on May 28, 2014, 06:44:47 pm

Quote from: Objective on May 28, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

i think that before playing multiplayer in toribash you should make sure you can beat the shit out of uke first.

Nah,I'm sorta good semi-decent at the game but Uke still pounds me to pieces.

See, the thing is if you can't counter Uke's moves, then other people can use those moves against you.

So far I have yet to find anyone who can do those moves outside of blackbelt.

I usually write down the moves since it's hard to get the timing right, but not many beginners can counter against Uke's move so it's worth it. I try to add my own spin occasionally but it usually result in me accidentally ripping my arm off or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on May 29, 2014, 01:32:27 am

Astramalen started off as a promising, yet troubled young Drow mage. Once the son of an impoverished noble, he found solace in the quiet contemplation of a mage's life, as it helped to distract from the loss of his family to Sultan Hakim.

Thrown to the Kingdom of Rhodoks, Astramalen practiced his skills by assisting local lords in need of quashing the occasional bandit uprising. As he grew in power, with frequent stops to the nearby Wizard Tower to learn a new spell or two, his thirst for revenge against the Sarranids grew. He traveled with his 50 strong army to the territory of the Sarranid Sultanate, looking to take vengeance on whomever should cross his path.

Unfortunately, he would happen upon a 200 strong army of the Sultan's vassal, Emir Atis. Driven by bloodlust, he charged his troops into battle, wielding the furious power of a scorned mage to rain countless missiles upon the enemy. His troops continued to hold the line against insurmountable odds, being whittled down to a mere 5 men as the onslaught abated.

Something changed in him that day. With his newfound experience from this slaughter, he sought the power of necromancy to raise new soldiers from those fallen by his hand. His new army a further 70 strong, he then traveled deeper into the desert, seeking the fabled as the Lich King, hoping to delve further into darkness and fully realize his revenge against the cruel Sultan...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount & Blade: Warband, Phantasy Calradia mod. Story is still in progress, and one of the few times I had an inner monologue to go with a character and how that influences their decisions.

Being a mage is, admittedly, overpowered in this setting, but to get the most out of it you have to be a bit of a squishy wizard, which doesn't matter when you're throwing around 30 missiles a shot from horseback. Necromancy seems comparatively buggy, but I haven't gotten too far into it, as regular soldiers don't tend to like having rotting corpses as their allies, and raising dead after a battle simply gives the equivalent of cannon fodder.

Any soldiers raised in this method have a chance of breaking free from your control, dependent on your necromancy skill, so I'm hoping to max that out and become a lich as soon as possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on May 29, 2014, 09:22:15 am

Quote from: Astral on May 29, 2014, 01:32:27 am

-snip-

I hadn't realized there was a mod like this...  Well I know what I'm doing when I get home today.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SquatchHammer on May 31, 2014, 03:10:24 pm

On a Judo room, first match of the day. I kicked someones legs off through their torso to establish dominance. Also, I reversed someone's reverse on my reverse.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash, WEHRE HAS THIS GAME BEEN?!?! I ALWAYS WANTED TO RIP/SLICE/HEREBLEREGARG/RAFFLE SOMEONE TO DEATH!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2014, 03:35:09 pm

For some reason the Americans chose not to intervene in the Texan Independence War, resulting in a surprisingly easy Mexican victory.  This paved the way for my glorious Mexican Democracy to become a great power, slowly industrialize, and start building influence in South America, Japan and Korea.  Unfortunately due to my people's free market ethics I had to rely on capitalists to build factories, and they weren't great at it.  On the bright side I had a disproportionately large military.

There was an obstacle in the way of my glorious rise though, and this was the United States of Central America.  They had fallen into the American sphere of influence, which meant they wouldn't give me military access, which meant I couldn't use my military to interfere in South America, and my allies couldn't reach Mexico to assist in our defense.  So I decided to invade.  This of course resulted in a bloody battle with the US, which I won.  Two more wars, the last of which the US didn't even bother to join, and the path to South America was open.

Later we were attacked by the UK for going over the infamy limit, but they didn't actually attack, they just abused the warscore mechanics to slowly gain warscore from blockades and then about 2 years later agreed to white peace.  As a result of the war, I decided to build up a modern navy and construct the Panama Canal.  At the end of it all, Mexico was the 6th greatest nation in the world.  Maybe someday we'll overtake the US and become the 4th greatest nation.

Glory to Mexico!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Victoria 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 31, 2014, 04:30:45 pm

Toribash Thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139021.new#new) for those interested. I'll also be posting this in the Happy Thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 31, 2014, 06:41:06 pm

Made the top 50 (rank 35) in 0rbitalis with a successful 4:18:783 moon orbit, with a sun that repels gravity outward, instead of inward, and a single planet system I start off of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039982347658/1E1A02E9E89D9396333AE83EBE9BD75C6B188CA3/)
(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039982348343/D6C062B6CD8CD2EE9BEBE067DBD86BD55F1D8427/)

Same game earlier, I made the top 10 (rank 8 ) on an earlier, and slightly harder to score high, level. A binary star system (regular stars, inward gravity). A Loface got me there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039951895479/E94A16C65B0D88EBE1E93688DDDA6BD0C7BB3964/)
(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039951896615/2A95E20A7191D4C8AD362BD2052EE43AA0947535/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on May 31, 2014, 11:09:15 pm

Ugh. I had an awesome story, but I deleted it. Rewriting...

My team goes into the second half 9-6, switching to CT side. Although that's a good lead for dust2, the map is T sided, so it's important we win the pistol round. I run to my position at B, but then my teammate calls out that they're rushing long a. I quickly run to long double doors through mid, and make it to the fight just as my final teammate dies. They didn't kill a single T, so I'm facing off against the entire team. Luckily, they hadn't noticed I was there, and I managed to take one down before the element of surprise was lost. They retreated back into the site, but I managed to take two more down before they got to cover. I ran to crossing, headshotting a T who was running to cover the bomb from cat, as the final T plants the bomb. We ring around the Rosie with the bomb for a while, before I eventually kill him, securing the round and the ace. I defuse the bomb while my team screams in my ear, and we go on to win the match 16-10, while I personally get 35 kills to 17 deaths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CSGO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on June 01, 2014, 04:38:46 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on May 31, 2014, 06:41:06 pm

Made the top 50 (rank 35) in 0rbitalis with a successful 4:18:783 moon orbit, with a sun that repels gravity outward, instead of inward, and a single planet system I start off of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039982347658/1E1A02E9E89D9396333AE83EBE9BD75C6B188CA3/)
(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039982348343/D6C062B6CD8CD2EE9BEBE067DBD86BD55F1D8427/)

Same game earlier, I made the top 10 (rank 8 ) on an earlier, and slightly harder to score high, level. A binary star system (regular stars, inward gravity). A Loface got me there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039951895479/E94A16C65B0D88EBE1E93688DDDA6BD0C7BB3964/)
(http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/450671039951896615/2A95E20A7191D4C8AD362BD2052EE43AA0947535/)

I'm afraid I may have you beat on Octanis. It's a quarter of the way through the third revolution and showing no signs of crashing. I'm not sure of the time - I'll edit this post when it crashes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/S8vkzVC.png)

UPDATE: Starting to spiral out of control now on revolution 4:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ip3AG3H.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 01, 2014, 04:51:52 am

What the fuck is even going on in those screens.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on June 01, 2014, 07:12:29 am

Huh, people still play 0rbitalis?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on June 01, 2014, 03:36:56 pm

Aaaaand boom.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Jo9pfUX.png)

I fell asleep while it was going, and when I woke up, I accidentally clicked, which made the high scores screen go away, so I had to get a successful launch before I could screenshot the scores.

0rbitalis is a game where you have planets and stars and you try to make a satellite orbit within the star system for a certain amount of time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 01, 2014, 04:13:39 pm

Very well done. You have a ton of patience to wait it out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on June 01, 2014, 05:25:45 pm

Patience? Nah, I fell asleep and checked it in the morning :P

EDIT: Got my second boss kill of this run: Quelaag. Yep, I went straight from Firelink to Blighttown, and rang the bell.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 02, 2014, 10:45:41 am

Spoiler: Guess whose castle is gonna get stormed (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/0oxivm4.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Battle for Wesnoth. I didn't even get to really storm the castle. Their leader, the Bone Shooter, decided to charge out to try and attack that Knight standing on Earlton. He was brought down by attacks from a Royal Guard and that Knight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 03, 2014, 12:05:26 am

Me and a friend are leapfrogging more or less through the entirety of Dark souls.  I'm human waiting near the first bonfire of the catacombs.  I'm currently a gravelord(going for darkwraith, but that sword is nice) and right when I spot the summon sign for my friend I get invaded by a guy with too many X's at the start of his name.

I see him at the end of the hall, I used to invade around here so I know the spawn.  But so far all the invasions I've done and times I have been invaded recently were against people completely overgeared.  I see him he sees me.  I hit my friend's summon sign and the time it took me to hit yes on the summon gave him time to finish the spawn animation, but he started applying an enchant to his weapon.  A mistake.

I sprint towards him, I'm medium weight thanks to havel's ring and catch him with a jumping power attack with the gravelord sword, taking off a respectable chunk of health right as he's finishing the animation.  We circle for a few seconds and I hear my friend being summoned.  And I somehow, probably half luck, predict the invader feeling he needs to end the fight, switch to my holy broadsword and take a bait swing.  And he falls for it, I recover from the faster swing just in time to parry and riposte his attempted counter, ending the fight with my starting sword. 

My friend gets there in time to 'well what is it?' over the corpse.  Unfortunately since I neglected to slot that particular emote I just shrug.

When we were doing my friend's turn to be human down by pinwheel, he came across a summon sign and summoned them, it turned out to be the same invader and we jolly cooperation-ed our way to beating the game's easiest boss.

Dark Souls 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 03, 2014, 01:19:33 am

Pinwheel is the game's easiest boss?  ...I'd believe it.

Kind of sad, its a cool fight.  Then again the area he's in is fucking annoying so I wouldn't want have to keep slogging my way to him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 03, 2014, 01:26:05 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 03, 2014, 01:19:33 am

Pinwheel is the game's easiest boss?  ...I'd believe it.

Absolutely. At least the first Taurus Demon can get you once in a while in NG+ while you're trying to keep the rhythm going on the drop attacks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: varnish on June 03, 2014, 02:27:29 am

I successfully landed a plane in Just Cause 2!

Well, mostly successfully. I got it on the ground, and on its wheels. So what if I had to dive out before it rolled over the edge of that cliff? It didn't explode, is what matters.

I choose to define "own" in my way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Quote from: varnish on June 03, 2014, 02:27:29 am

I successfully landed a plane in Just Cause 2!

Well, mostly successfully. I got it on the ground, and on its wheels. So what if I had to dive out before it rolled over the edge of that cliff? It didn't explode, is what matters.

I choose to define "own" in my way.

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Recluse on June 03, 2014, 11:15:04 am

I got the Space Camp achievement in Team Fortress 2. Only 4% of all Team Fortress 2 players have that achievement and I got it with Scout - a class I'm absolutely terrible at - so I guess that's kind of good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For those that don't know that's when you kill an enemy within the broken crate area in the Special Delivery CTF map while they attempt to pick up the neutral Australium.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 03, 2014, 12:37:00 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Wot?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on June 03, 2014, 12:46:41 pm

I've gotten into the RNG exploitation groove, consistently being able to get Felyne Explorer, heading out to Hunting the Hunter (P7 Zinogre quest), mining and grabbing everything I can (always getting 3 enduring charms!!), and then blowing myself to death. I'm getting closer and closer to RNG 767. Pellet Up +5 Attack -5 OO charm, I'm coming for you!

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate: Charm Table Action

e: oh my god I just got only 7 away from what I wanted it's true what they say charm sniping destroys your soul
ee: well I just got only 3 away from what I wanted.. twice in a row.... help my soul is being destroyed

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 05:02:08 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 12:37:00 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Wot?

I don't know how that got there,I don't remember making that post.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 03, 2014, 05:02:59 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 05:02:08 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 12:37:00 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Wot?

I don't know how that got there,I don't remember making that post.

Ghost post.

D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on June 03, 2014, 06:36:29 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 05:02:59 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 05:02:08 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 12:37:00 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Wot?

I don't know how that got there,I don't remember making that post.

Ghost post.

D:

Your posts are talking to you...  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on June 03, 2014, 09:21:08 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 03, 2014, 06:36:29 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 05:02:59 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 05:02:08 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 12:37:00 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2014, 02:49:22 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 03, 2014, 02:46:55 am

Parachuting is so much fun, I never even thought about trying to land the thing! Funny! :p

G

Wot?

I don't know how that got there,I don't remember making that post.

Ghost post.

D:

Your posts are talking to you...  :o

I love you guys. <3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 05, 2014, 07:53:52 am

I kneed Furtuka in the chest, sending him sailing through the air and landing out of the ring.

"Tomato DOES know lenshu!"
~GUNINANRUNIN

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash with B12ers.

This happened a while back, but I was reminded of the replay again, so yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 05, 2014, 04:28:47 pm

I ran away so early and my neighbors were so meek/unable to access resources I quit.

I started in Charlemagne's element.  That is to say a river-plains with a few hills and 2 grassland elephants.  Some plains wheat and some easily accessible copper let me pump out stonehenge in my second city.  While that was happening I was securing floodplains from my two neighbors, Darius and Isabella.  Darius was apparently working on a wonder, because he didn't expand and had the worst military score by the time I built 7 axes.  Cue me declaring on him when Issi lost a city to the barbs.  He was a pushover; didnt ever have slavery yet (the ai has been known pump out three archers per whip, which is bullcrap).

Issi didn't last long after the two Persian cities fell.  By that time I had 9 workers out, cottaging everything self-sustaining.  And with that my research was 10%, but I was able to peace issi for alphabet, so I traded for the basics and in 30 or so turns was back up to 40%.  I quit.  Only stalin was above 60% my strength, on a 7 person map (Darius was dead, I count as 1 of 7).

CIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 05, 2014, 07:03:36 pm

I pulled a maneuver too hard and ripped a wing clean off of an experimental cargo plane.  No abort system, so I consider the kerbal  basically lost.  The plane starts falling backwards, that was a pretty heavy wing, so it's sudden removal must have screwed up the balance, and I realize that that may be a godsend.

Once I get near the ground I punch the throttle and activate all the engines. (it has an extra two engines that are usually off to save gas but I figure I can turn on if the kethane becomes too heavy) and the plane manages to slow down to the point where it is basically hovering a few feet off the ground.  I cut engine power a bit too slowly and it goes up a bit before crashing back to the ground, but the maneuver managed to save the cockpit.

Woo I saved a kerbal from certain death!  And it probably would have looked pretty cool to a bystander to see this huge super heavy cargo jet just hover in the air at tree level for a few seconds, all 6 engines on full blast.

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on June 05, 2014, 07:05:46 pm

Hey guys, I heard you like wonders so I built a wonder on a wonder so you can wonder while you wonder (built Machu Pichu on...that silver mountain natural wonder)

Civ5 TUTORIAL, YES THATS RIGHT I DID THIS IN THE TUTORIAL AND THE TUTORIAL CAN'T SAVE AND NOW I'M SAD...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 05, 2014, 07:49:33 pm

Quote from: BFEL on June 05, 2014, 07:05:46 pm

Hey guys, I heard you like wonders so I built a wonder on a wonder so you can wonder while you wonder (built Machu Pichu on...that silver mountain natural wonder)

Civ5 TUTORIAL, YES THATS RIGHT I DID THIS IN THE TUTORIAL AND THE TUTORIAL CAN'T SAVE AND NOW I'M SAD...

Machu Pichu actually kicks major butt.  IRL too.  Vacation homes of the rich, enh?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 06, 2014, 11:11:35 am

Did some kind of twist move while holding Uke's head, ripping it off. Pummeled him a bit more while landing, doing some kind of handstand to land. While it's clear I have no idea how to martial arts, that was pretty damn funny to watch.

People's heads are surprisingly easy to remove.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash, singleplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 06, 2014, 05:36:05 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 06, 2014, 11:11:35 am

People's heads are surprisingly easy to remove.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash, singleplayer.

If Dwarf Fortress is any example then it's because of the thin skulls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 06, 2014, 08:11:52 pm

Managed to build a working tactical bomber. It's surprisingly maneuverable despite its size. I armed it with 15000lb thermobaric bombs, and landed a copy of it just outside the Space Center to do a test.

I flew towards it in another copy, and dropped one of the bombs. The bomb landed on the cockpit, completely decimating the entire target. The pieces all flew away, and some of them struck my underbelly, damaging my landing gears.

I think it works.

Modded Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 06, 2014, 10:41:13 pm

Flew another plane to a kethane deposit.  This one big enough to haul a larger tank.  It takes 3 straight days of drilling to fill the tank (12 solar plates aren't enough to supply a single small drill at full output it seems).  It struggles to take off again but manages it.  It even gets back up to cruising altitude with the full tank.

I come in to land at the space center... and slip off the runway, dipping one of the wings and the attached engine low enough that they break off on the runway, causing the plane to go into a tumble and shred killing the pilots.

But as I look through the wreckage I see the kethane tank is still 100% intact!  I carefully tow the tank back to the kethane storage and fill er up.

Amazing Mission Success!

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 07, 2014, 05:00:20 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on June 07, 2014, 03:36:33 pm

Can't build up suitable defences fast enough. I can get a ground perimiter but then don't have time for anti-air so my infrastructure at the rear gets destroyed and I run out of energy and can't get it to the front and die.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Creeper World 3.
Vapen.
Jesus dick you start on low , open ground with 3 high-volume creeper emitters nearby on hills. The wall that's there doesn't last long.

Yes I finally managed this. It took an hour and another two restarts before I managed to survive long enough to build the forge and a bunch of reactors (in energy debt the entire time), but once I did it was just slow and gruelling progress towards victory.

Then I looked at the high scores though. I think maybe other people have magic powers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 07, 2014, 08:39:36 pm

See that there's a new Planetfallian map on Colonial Space, play it, beat it in under 10 minutes. Am one of the first 10 people to post a score.

WHOHOO! I beat a PF map without the use of weapons even! Even though it's probably his easiest map yet; even he hasn't been able to beat some maps that he was going to submit yet, though, so I still feel this is an OWN.

Creeper World 3, custom maps section.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 07, 2014, 08:48:16 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on June 07, 2014, 05:00:20 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on June 07, 2014, 03:36:33 pm

Can't build up suitable defences fast enough. I can get a ground perimiter but then don't have time for anti-air so my infrastructure at the rear gets destroyed and I run out of energy and can't get it to the front and die.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Creeper World 3.
Vapen.
Jesus dick you start on low , open ground with 3 high-volume creeper emitters nearby on hills. The wall that's there doesn't last long.

Yes I finally managed this. It took an hour and another two restarts before I managed to survive long enough to build the forge and a bunch of reactors (in energy debt the entire time), but once I did it was just slow and gruelling progress towards victory.

Then I looked at the high scores though. I think maybe other people have magic powers.

Was this the one with conveyor belts? Because I think I aced that one in record (but not showing my name in) time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on June 08, 2014, 02:32:15 am

I think it's a map of the PC game, not the free internet version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 08, 2014, 03:40:50 am

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on June 08, 2014, 02:32:15 am

I think it's a map of the PC game, not the free internet version.

It is. I beat all those maps today, none are called Vapen, and they were all super easy. Didn't have to retry on any, and I beat them all in under 20 minutes. :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 04:57:06 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 08, 2014, 03:40:50 am

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on June 08, 2014, 02:32:15 am

I think it's a map of the PC game, not the free internet version.

It is. I beat all those maps today, none are called Vapen, and they were all super easy. Didn't have to retry on any, and I beat them all in under 20 minutes. :p

That's why I don't get games that used to be Flash games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:05:41 am

What do you mean?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:07:38 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:05:41 am

What do you mean?

They're ultra short and without anything good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:08:24 am

You're wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:11:03 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:08:24 am

You're wrong.

Point out one game that used to be a flash game that has 10-20 hours of gameplay and has decent features.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 08, 2014, 05:12:13 am

Pretty sure Binding Of Issac.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 08, 2014, 05:16:09 am

Quote from: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:11:03 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:08:24 am

You're wrong.

Point out one game that used to be a flash game that has 10-20 hours of gameplay and has decent features.

Binding of Isaac has short gameplay, but very high replayability.
Anything in The Basement Collection.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:16:30 am

Super Meat Boy, too.

Also Creeper World 3 does have plenty of content.

There's plenty of flash games with more hours of gameplay than Portal, does that make Portal bad?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on June 08, 2014, 05:17:28 am

Epic Battle Fantasy 4 also comes to mind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:19:12 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 08, 2014, 05:12:13 am

Pretty sure Binding Of Issac.

Didn't know Binding of Issac used to be a flash game,then again I don't play them these days.

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:16:30 am

Super Meat Boy, too.

Also Creeper World 3 does have plenty of content.

Alright alright,fine,some paid for used to be flash games are good.

Anyway GUNINANRUNIN said he beat Creeper World 3 in under 20 minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:34:48 am

He ment a particular series of maps, not every single map ever. It took me about two hours to beat the demo alone.
It is literally advertised as having hundreds of hours of gameplay and there's a map editor with lots of community maps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 08, 2014, 05:43:49 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:34:48 am

He ment a particular series of maps, not every single map ever. It took me about two hours to beat the demo alone.

It took me less, but I guess that's because I pushed aggressive take and hold points. :P

@blazing glory: Really, don't generalize when it comes to those things.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:07:38 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 08, 2014, 05:05:41 am

What do you mean?

They're ultra short and without anything good.

Because that...doesn't speak well of your experiences with it. :-\
Expand thy viewpoint and broaden thy horizons! There are many gems among the masses of flash games out there!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 08, 2014, 05:53:08 am

Quote from: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:19:12 am

Anyway GUNINANRUNIN said he beat Creeper World 3 in under 20 minutes.

Each level took me at least ten, on my favorite maps I took my time and clocked a little over twenty minutes. There's nine maps, not including the tutorial, so that's under 180 minutes on a demo. Which is longer than some full AAA games (Assassin's Creed, Condemned 2, Halo 2, most Call of Duty games, SWAT 4, Metal Gear Solid 4 (without watching cutscenes), Medal of Honor 2010. And I'm extremely good at Creeper World because I've been playing it since the first one, and anyone who's played can tell you it is not an easy game. Those level take the average player probably nearly an hour. So just.. Hush. About the flash games thing.

On the contrary, if a dev can make a flash game that's good enough to be published as an actual game with few or no changes then he's a very talented person, and whatever he's made is almost guaranteed to be worth your time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:57:00 am

I suppose I just get a little worked up when I see a game I played for free when I was young being sold for 15 dollars on steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 08, 2014, 05:59:27 am

Quote from: blazing glory on June 08, 2014, 05:57:00 am

I suppose I just get a little worked up when I see a game I played for free when I was young being sold for 15 dollars on steam.

Well it's got thousands of maps now which are also much larger than in the earlier instalments and a lot more features, there's a mapmaker, it's got an actual story. Plus it's addicting as hell! 15 dollars is worth the amount of replayability that comes with that game. There's even a unit now that can terraform the levels to change the terrain, which is a HUGE game changer since you can now create your own chokepoints.

EDIT: Wish I could buy it right now, but I'm saving every cent for a something important.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on June 08, 2014, 06:11:21 am

I like shorter games than longer games, because I'm usually a quality over quantity sort of person, and I have a pretty short attention span so I end up abandoning games that would take me longer than a week to play.

The few exceptions to this would be Skyrim, which I played for half a year before getting bored of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on June 08, 2014, 06:34:37 am

Horde is defending Wintergrasp, I hop over expecting it to be the usual 15 minute AFK followed by some free honour. Instead, I'm dicking around shooting the cannons at the sky, when I hear the distinctive thudding of a siege engine, so I hop over to the other side of the wall and start raining death down on it, prompting the shaman inside to bail and run. Unfortunately his rogue friend was battering a different wall.

So I retreat into the inner courtyard, watching the two siege engines roll into place. I expect the dudes inside to dismount and messily murder me, but instead they seem intent on destroying the walls, so I go to work. A few rotations later the first siege engine drops, I kill the rogue that was manning it and turn onto the second, whittling at it as the driver finishes off the wall and moves to the inner keep door. It takes a while, but he's seconds away from finishing off the door when I smash his demolisher down, merrily chasing him around the fort for a while before killing him.

I go back to my forward position and observe the rogue returning, but he's managed to get his demolisher half killed so it's an easy job to finish it off. Just as I've turned him into a picushion again, my erstwhile companion whom I hadn't noticed until this point finishes demolishing the last Alliance tower, leaving them just 30 seconds to get a siege engine back to Wintergrasph Fortress and finish the game.

tl;dr, I managed to solo defend WG against a pair of dudes who, if they'd used even a jot of sense and dismounted their siege engines to kill me first, should have won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 08, 2014, 06:37:44 am

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on June 08, 2014, 06:40:06 am

T'was World of Warcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 08, 2014, 12:02:11 pm

Yeah, many maps on CW3 take up to or over 3 hours, sometimes. If you include restarts, there's one I'm working on beating that has taken me a sum total of over 72 hours. It's one of Planetfall's maps; the man (or woman) is an evil genius, and I'm a big, big fan of his (or hers).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 08, 2014, 05:29:56 pm

It took 11 design models, but I finally landed on the Mun in a way that doesn't involve leaving an artificially -made crater there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program demo. Also had to learn how to do a proper gravity slingshot, but it worked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 12, 2014, 09:18:28 am

Started as Charlemagne in a Terra map, randomized starting positions (i.e, Sometimes old world, Sometimes everywhere but one 'continent', sometimes everywhere) and random sea level, temperature.  I love the sea level option, because high and low sea levels offer interesting geography.

Rolled a dry, presumably everywhere, medium sea map.  That means lots of dessert and tundra, and lots of North-South empires as we follow the rivers.  And lots of floodplains.  Charlemagne does the Tundra start things, and I follow the floodplains into some horse.  Then I grab masonry, despite not having a single stone on the map, snag the Great Wall, and copper after.  Jiao decides he is religious and beats Mansa to Meditation, founding Christianity.  Mansa fumes and takes Islam.

Mans converts most of the known world to Islam, I prepare to attack Jiao.  Then Jiao loses his holy city to barbs when the Swordsman-Barb event rolls.  I grab it, spam missionaries, and convert Suryavarman while Julius DoW Jiao.  Mansa DoWs Sury, and pounds him for half his empire.  I DoW Julius, gift a stack of warriors to Sury while gifting him Iron and Iron working, and watch Sury take it back.  Julius' legions were tough, but not a match for Jiao's horse and my catapults.  Hayua, that stubborn ass with his own lonely religion, threatens me twice for small lump sums of money, which I grant until he is pleased.  I gift him backtechs and he DoWs Mansa.

I have the world's largest religion now.  The downside?  Mansa snagged the AP.  Other than that I have only to worry about the others I haven't met. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 12, 2014, 03:48:18 pm

Grabbing Uke and kicking him resulted in my arm being detached at the shoulder for some reason. Then my severed arm began slamming itself into Uke's face repeatedly, using the shoulder joint as a blunt weapon. Even after Uke's head fell off it began slamming into his torso.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash singleplayer.

Randomly flailing about, I grabbed Uke, jumped, flipped him over, and suplexed him so hard it snapped his head off.

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Toribash. It looks a lot cooler on the replay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 12, 2014, 05:46:34 pm

Look vaguely familiar?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/P0YPTO8.jpg)

And I decided to (mostly) peacemonger now.,  Hayua and Wang will probably get DoWed, but otherwise if its not free religion it Christianity.  All hail my 104 gp a turn Church of the Nativity!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 12, 2014, 08:11:29 pm

I often steal the cross for my State Atheism. It's lolworthy for a few minutes, then gets old fast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 12, 2014, 08:37:04 pm

It was tricky, but I mamaged to complete a campaign mission in which I was vastly outnumbered, and had to survive 14 days as a weak CO. I saw a narrow passage near the end of my territory, and I instantly came up with the strategy of going Full Spartan, piling up mech and infantry units in said passage. It worked!

Advance Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 12, 2014, 08:49:44 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on June 12, 2014, 08:37:04 pm

It was tricky, but I mamaged to complete a campaign mission in which I was vastly outnumbered, and had to survive 14 days as a weak CO. I saw a narrow passage near the end of my territory, and I instantly came up with the strategy of going Full Spartan, piling up mech and infantry units in said passage. It worked!

Advance Wars 2

Two Week Test is a pretty fun mission. In the Hard campaign Lash starts with a bunch of predeployed units, including a battleship(!). Luckily it's still got the same time limit. :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on June 13, 2014, 04:41:23 am

Quote from: IronTomato on June 12, 2014, 08:37:04 pm

and had to survive 14 days as a weak CO.

Weak? Colin is the most broken CO in the entire game. When you are running around with two Neotanks for every Md. Tank the enemy has, the damage penalty is pretty much negligible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 13, 2014, 05:59:10 am

Quote from: Myroc on June 13, 2014, 04:41:23 am

Quote from: IronTomato on June 12, 2014, 08:37:04 pm

and had to survive 14 days as a weak CO.

Weak? Colin is the most broken CO in the entire game. When you are running around with two Neotanks for every Md. Tank the enemy has, the damage penalty is pretty much negligible.

He's not the best CO for that mission I'd say, since you're up against Lash, who starts with a lot of buildings. I'd have rather had Sami to cap quicker or Max to boost survivability, since all you have to do is survive 14 days.

But nah Colin owns pretty much any War Room map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on June 13, 2014, 09:28:21 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 13, 2014, 05:59:10 am

He's not the best CO for that mission I'd say, since you're up against Lash, who starts with a lot of buildings. I'd have rather had Sami to cap quicker or Max to boost survivability, since all you have to do is survive 14 days.

The only better choices I could think of for that mission would be Grit or possibly Sami. Just clog the chokepoint with cheap and expendable infantry and mechs and back it up with indirects. Your units are just as hard to kill as any other CO's, and none of Lash's units can ever kill more than one unit per turn, and that even assumes she can OHKO units, which she should rarely be able to in that mission. It's a mission that's all about producing more units than the enemy can destroy, and since Colin is the undisputed King of Production, he's going to be pretty strong no matter how you slice it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 13, 2014, 09:34:40 am

Quote from: Myroc on June 13, 2014, 09:28:21 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 13, 2014, 05:59:10 am

He's not the best CO for that mission I'd say, since you're up against Lash, who starts with a lot of buildings. I'd have rather had Sami to cap quicker or Max to boost survivability, since all you have to do is survive 14 days.

The only better choices I could think of for that mission would be Grit or possibly Sami. Just clog the chokepoint with cheap and expendable infantry and mechs and back it up with indirects.

You have to push out fast because there's not enough bases to support you for very long, plus Lash will build up her Prime Tactics superpower at least once and you need to be aggressive and make sure she doesn't have that many units when she uses it. Otherwise, yeah that's the idea of the mission.

EDIT: Grit rules. \m/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 15, 2014, 05:52:46 pm

Got one of my rewards for supporting a band on Kickstarter:

No-strings.mp3

I Fight Dragons rocks!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on June 16, 2014, 04:14:05 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I FINALLY BEAT ODIN
AFTER DAYS OF GRINDIN'
RED GOES DOWN EASILY
GARCHOMP CLAWS JOLTEON HARSHLY

DIVAEVUS VOWS REVENGE
PREVIOUS RUN WILL BE AVENGED
GARCHOMP FULL POWER HIT
CHOICE BAND DRAGON CLAW OHKO CRIT'

"SALAMENCE STOP THIS SWEEP!"
NOTHING CAN STOP THIS DRAGON CLAW LEAP
"SHAYMIN, OUR LUCK CAN'T BE BEAT!"
CHARIZARD SAYS "NO", OVERHEAT!

"GENGAR, SAVE ME FROM THIS MADNESS!"
"MEGA FORM, BRING ME TEARS OF SADNESS!"
YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME?!
JIRACHI, SHOW HIM WHAT IS MEANT TO BE!

MIND OVER MATTER, WE'LL BEAT THEM ALL!
"ESCAVALIER, BREAK THAT WALL!"
OUR LEFTOVERS COMBO CAN'T BE BEAT
SEND OUT GENGAR AND ADMIT DEFEAT!

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/ZetaVictory1402910149.png)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Zeta

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on June 16, 2014, 04:20:30 am

(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22373372.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 17, 2014, 10:42:30 am

Pretty much roflstomped several otherwise-hard bosses with magic. Riku(the first time), Hook, and Vexen went down pretty damn easily. Vexen was a little tricky because half my magic deck is Blizzard, so I just abused Lethal Flame which is horribly broken(Stop+2 attack cards, difficult to break, and is five free powerful hits while every enemy is stopped).

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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 17, 2014, 01:15:48 pm

Defeated the Hollow Queen on my second try!(would have done it on the first, but I forgot about Dimensional Cut, and thus was slow binding her arms. Woops.)

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Etrian odyssey 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on June 17, 2014, 03:36:51 pm

After Code Black on previous mission, squad of Privates led by Cpl Perez went trough downed UFO like hot knife through butter :) Not a single wound or casaulty.  8)

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XCOM EW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on June 17, 2014, 05:30:34 pm

With three points of brain damage reducing my hand size to near zero and just a handful amount of credits left, I made a last-ditch glory run on the Haas-Bioroid player's RnD in an attempt to score the last few points I needed to win the game, before he would score the agenda he had in his veritable fortress of a remote server (Four pieces of ICE!). The run ended with another point of brain damage and another tag to add to the one I already had, but in the end I made it to their RnD server. I look at the top card of RnD and reveal a piece of ICE. But, since I have an RnD Interface, I get to look at an extra card, and the Card Game Gods themselves must have smiled upon me, for that one card was an agenda worth the three points I needed to win the game. It wasn't an elegant finish by any means, having no cards remaining in hand, four points of brain damage, and absolutely no money, but it's a victory nonetheless.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Android: Netrunner

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 17, 2014, 05:44:30 pm

Managed to hunt my first animal, a wild sow. It was immediately nommed.

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Unreal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on June 17, 2014, 05:52:07 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on June 13, 2014, 05:59:10 am

Quote from: Myroc on June 13, 2014, 04:41:23 am

Quote from: IronTomato on June 12, 2014, 08:37:04 pm

and had to survive 14 days as a weak CO.

Weak? Colin is the most broken CO in the entire game. When you are running around with two Neotanks for every Md. Tank the enemy has, the damage penalty is pretty much negligible.

He's not the best CO for that mission I'd say, since you're up against Lash, who starts with a lot of buildings. I'd have rather had Sami to cap quicker or Max to boost survivability, since all you have to do is survive 14 days.

But nah Colin owns pretty much any War Room map.

AI Colin on the otherhand... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1TbFMi33ns) :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 17, 2014, 05:57:35 pm

Had nothing important to do today so I just played pokemon online free triple battles for 4 hours.  I didn't mean to do that for 4 hours straight but when I was done I realized I won all but 3 battles in that time.

Either I'm really good at pokemon triple battles or quality of competition has taken a massive nosedive.

Pokemon Y

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aklyon on June 17, 2014, 06:08:56 pm

Could also be theres less difficult competition in triple battles compared to singles/doubles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 17, 2014, 06:10:25 pm

Captured a few flags on Godlike difficulty with a minimum of 10 bots on levels notorious for craploads of sniping.

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Unreal Tournament 3
Relevant Levels: (link (http://www.moddb.com/mods/unreal-tournament-3-classic-maps-megapack))
CTF-Facing Worlds
CTF-Hall of Giants

I couldn't believe how much ass I was kicking, I had to double-check the difficulty. Things felt a little easy.

Deathmatching in a free-for-all. Fuck it; I got my ass handed to me on a silver platter. Basically, the opposite of *own* there. I seem to do better in team games, than on my own, I guess. But that's a bit personally disappointing. I used to kick ass on a regular basis on this game, and I'm starting to show my gaming age. I look forward to my first full-fledged beatdown against the next generation of my family. At least I won't be letting myself get defeated so easily. They could use the challenge.

EDIT:
Looking back; the CTF games are generally 4v4-6v6; and most other cases, it's an 8-man free-for-all on tiny/small maps (Nice and cozy).

I guess bot tweaking in the classic game, I also made my bots a little more hardcore than usual, with an elite that has a panache for sniper weapons, along with another that's a fan of dual pistols, and just for comparison, I modeled one after my perceived skills as they develop as a means of self-benchmarking (IE-Suck far less than them; or move faster than the slowest person, and compare between the old stats, and the new stats, relative to the elites (IE- Do I really belong amongst the Godlikes? Is this more than just hot air I'm letting out?)). In a sense, this is not just a proving ground for others, it's a proving ground to myself. I mean, I brag alot, and at times, I sound a tad arrogant and appear to be a showoff. This is humbling sometimes when I am more talk than skill. Nothing like allowing yourself to get your ass kicked.

Now that I come and think of it, I'm quite the masochistic gamer, aren't I? ...If I come across a Touhou weapon mod for Unreal...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on June 17, 2014, 06:36:08 pm

Saved Jeb from a rocket propelled freefall, at 10 Klicks above the surface of Kerban with the standard jet pack.

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Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on June 17, 2014, 10:24:13 pm

[Journal of a rocket loader on board the Freedom Forces destroyer "Hibiki"]

We were sent to patrol for an enemy supership, The Lieutenant Commander was pretty confident after sinking the Wirbelwind. We found an enemy supership sub and, after forcing it to surface, got out of range of it's guns and began firing all of our rockets before finishing it with a single round from our machine guns. On the plus side we sunk it. On the downside my ears haven't stopped bleeding yet.

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Naval Ops: Warship Gunner. Thoroughly fucked their supership with my poor little destroyer, and I had been saying it was obsolete up to that point. 10 rocket launchers and 3000 rockets proved me wrong. But goddamn was it loud

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on June 19, 2014, 06:46:19 am

Quote from: Myroc on June 17, 2014, 05:30:34 pm

With three points of brain damage reducing my hand size to near zero and just a handful amount of credits left, I made a last-ditch glory run on the Haas-Bioroid player's RnD in an attempt to score the last few points I needed to win the game, before he would score the agenda he had in his veritable fortress of a remote server (Four pieces of ICE!). The run ended with another point of brain damage and another tag to add to the one I already had, but in the end I made it to their RnD server. I look at the top card of RnD and reveal a piece of ICE. But, since I have an RnD Interface, I get to look at an extra card, and the Card Game Gods themselves must have smiled upon me, for that one card was an agenda worth the three points I needed to win the game. It wasn't an elegant finish by any means, having no cards remaining in hand, four points of brain damage, and absolutely no money, but it's a victory nonetheless.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Android: Netrunner

I've had a similar experience recently, though with less brain damage. There's nothing more glorious than diving head-first through their ICE, daring them to try to stop you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mesa on June 19, 2014, 10:18:34 am

Following the recent Sticky Launcher nerfs and the introduction of the new Tide Turner shield, I've decided to give a Demoknight, consisting of Ali Baba's Wee Booties (mostly for health becase Tide Turner already covers the turning speed while charging), Tide Turner (full control while charging, charge resets if you get a kill while charging, plus some fire and explosion resistances) and Persian Persuader (ammo becomes health, 50% shorter charge cooldown, 6s instead of 12s) a go.

The results were rather amazing, and I ended up going 41/2 on a *sigh* 2fort Valve server, though I was getting decent results at Process and Gravelpit as well (in fact I managed to turn an otherwise stalemate game on Process because of that giant Engi nest at the last point...Curse the SL nerfs!).

The Tide Turner has changed the way of Demoman from "M1 M1 M2 " to "M2 M1 M2". Shit is a little bit insane, but fun as all heck.

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Team Fortress 2: Love and War Update

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on June 19, 2014, 03:39:38 pm

Having disputes with the Russians over their borders reaching over my city limits and rendering my farms unusable.
Apparently they got fed up with this, and declared war on me.
Since I don't have any military structures up yet, I contacted every other nation, and offer deals to have everyone declare war on the Russians.
Every single nation agrees without even asking for the slightest bit of tribute.

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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 19, 2014, 09:29:08 pm

Quote from: DarkDXZ on June 19, 2014, 10:18:34 am

Following the recent Sticky Launcher nerfs and the introduction of the new Tide Turner shield, I've decided to give a Demoknight, consisting of Ali Baba's Wee Booties (mostly for health becase Tide Turner already covers the turning speed while charging), Tide Turner (full control while charging, charge resets if you get a kill while charging, plus some fire and explosion resistances) and Persian Persuader (ammo becomes health, 50% shorter charge cooldown, 6s instead of 12s) a go.

The results were rather amazing, and I ended up going 41/2 on a *sigh* 2fort Valve server, though I was getting decent results at Process and Gravelpit as well (in fact I managed to turn an otherwise stalemate game on Process because of that giant Engi nest at the last point...Curse the SL nerfs!).

The Tide Turner has changed the way of Demoman from "M1 M1 M2 " to "M2 M1 M2". Shit is a little bit insane, but fun as all heck.

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Team Fortress 2: Love and War Update

With the release of the Base Jumper, the Soldier sees a hilariously overpowered combination with the Air Strike (increased attack speed while rocket jumping, +1 clip size on kill to a max of 8 rockets loaded starting with 3 loaded, -25% dam, -25% blast radius), the B.A.S.E Jumper "holds" onto the rocket jumping state, as it doesn't cancel until you touch down on the ground, and the Market Gardener (no random crits, critical hit if you melee while rocket jumping).

You're incredibly vulnerable to snipers, Reserve Shooter Pyros and Soldiers, but the sheer delight of raining eight rockets down and having someone blown up before they realise they're under attack is great fun.

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TF2!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 20, 2014, 10:55:36 am

A terror mission somewhere in the Middle East(because that's really world-wide news... ::)). Right by the dropship there's an alien in a high tower sniping civilians halfway across the map with a plasma blaster. Seeing as he has good line of fire to my troops, and was well protected against return fire. I send two of my guys into the tower, but they run into another alien on the way, so I split the pair up, one with the EM Rifle into the tower, the one with a plasma rifle to deal with the new guy. Both fail to kill their targets, expending all their TUs, including those for reaction fire. Both are shot up, but survive, and finish off their targets next turn.

Another alien pops up behind the second one, and after taking a beating, two soldiers who had a >80% to-hit chance fail to kill it, but it dies next turn. During this, most of the rest of the team starts sweeping the town, while one soldier with a flamethrower tries to assault the alien ship alone.

Long story short, everyone is hurt, low on ammo, and the only alien left is in the ship. Luckily the flamethrower gets unloaded into its face. Mission complete, and only a couple of civilians died, nobody on my team.

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UFO: Alien Invasion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 21, 2014, 07:09:40 am

Managed to harass Snipers so effectively that they gave up sitting on the battlements. Black Box + Gunboats + jumping up to sniper battlements = lol.

Seriously, there were few capable of getting a shot off when they saw me pop up - only a coupla pubstars stomping me if they were fast. It was hilarious - while my KD ratio as Soldier was only something like 1.3:1, nonetheless it was fantastic fun. Eventually, they gave up and started sniping on the ground, which didn't really work for them either as the four Demomen on our team lined them with bombs and moida'd them.

So good!

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on June 22, 2014, 05:45:18 am

This may be blatant cheating, but having a mage with 201 dexterity, 400 willpower, 500 magic stat, 300 cunning, and 400 constitution is immensely funny to play as. I killed the first ogre you encounter in about 3 spells, and am currently steamrolling through the game My character's personality is becoming steadily more arrogant.

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Dragon Age Origins

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 22, 2014, 10:17:52 am

Quote from: Xantalos on June 22, 2014, 05:45:18 am

This may be blatant cheating, but having a mage with 201 dexterity, 400 willpower, 500 magic stat, 300 cunning, and 400 constitution is immensely funny to play as. I killed the first ogre you encounter in about 3 spells, and am currently steamrolling through the game My character's personality is becoming steadily more arrogant.

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Dragon Age Origins

I remember you mentioned this before, but sadly the exploit was patched out of the Steam version.

Luckily console commands (with a certain mod) can achieve the exact same thing ^-^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 22, 2014, 11:56:32 am

I bought an attack chopper from the black market, and used it to tug the smaller chopper high into the air. I dropped the smaller chopper, and promptly exited the attack chopper. I fell towards the smaller chopper, grappled onto it, and got in. The result was a true midair takeoff. Challenge completed. Fuck yeah.

In the same game, I noticed that my stunt driver poins were extremely low. My brother teased me for this. To recrify this issue, I managed to tether a sports car to a 747 that was taking off. My car hung off of it as it flew through the air. Because of the high speed my car was traveling at, as well as the fact that I was in the air for such a long time, I was being awarded stunt driver points rapidly. I waited until they were higher than my brother's, and then parachuted from the car.

Anyone have any ideas for dangerous stunts?

Just Cause 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 23, 2014, 10:55:25 am

Finally took down Marluxia. At the point he spams OmniLaser, I apparently had a high-valued enough sleight going on that he couldn't do it. I saw him try twice, but it didn't work, and by the time whatever I was doing finished, it had hurt him enough to change his attack pattern. At this point, I just started hammering through whatever card combos I could before he could use something worse. The last three cards I had before a very long reload time were three Kingdom Keys, which taken together used Strike Raid, where Sora throws the Keyblade like a boomerang. The first hit didn't kill Marluxia, but coming back got him.

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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

Quote from: IronTomato on June 22, 2014, 11:56:32 am

To recrify this issue, I managed to tether a sports car to a 747 that was taking off. My car hung off of it as it flew through the air. Because of the high speed my car was traveling at, as well as the fact that I was in the air for such a long time, I was being awarded stunt driver points rapidly.

"On any other day, that might seem strange."

I've never played Just Cause 2. Maybe try landing a plane on top of another plane?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on June 23, 2014, 11:56:13 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 22, 2014, 10:17:52 am

Quote from: Xantalos on June 22, 2014, 05:45:18 am

This may be blatant cheating, but having a mage with 201 dexterity, 400 willpower, 500 magic stat, 300 cunning, and 400 constitution is immensely funny to play as. I killed the first ogre you encounter in about 3 spells, and am currently steamrolling through the game My character's personality is becoming steadily more arrogant.

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Dragon Age Origins

I remember you mentioned this before, but sadly the exploit was patched out of the Steam version.

Luckily console commands (with a certain mod) can achieve the exact same thing ^-^

Which mod was this? I'm likely going to sell my disc version of it soon and buy the Steam version for the sake of getting DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 23, 2014, 12:00:07 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on June 23, 2014, 11:56:13 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 22, 2014, 10:17:52 am

Quote from: Xantalos on June 22, 2014, 05:45:18 am

This may be blatant cheating, but having a mage with 201 dexterity, 400 willpower, 500 magic stat, 300 cunning, and 400 constitution is immensely funny to play as. I killed the first ogre you encounter in about 3 spells, and am currently steamrolling through the game My character's personality is becoming steadily more arrogant.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon Age Origins

I remember you mentioned this before, but sadly the exploit was patched out of the Steam version.

Luckily console commands (with a certain mod) can achieve the exact same thing ^-^

Which mod was this? I'm likely going to sell my disc version of it soon and buy the Steam version for the sake of getting DLC.

This one (http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/347/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fdragonage%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D347%26preview%3D&pUp=1). Standard console commands can't add attribute points, so this mod adds scripts which allow that functionality and more. I can confirm it works.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on June 23, 2014, 02:12:11 pm

Quote from: Sirus on June 23, 2014, 12:00:07 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on June 23, 2014, 11:56:13 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 22, 2014, 10:17:52 am

Quote from: Xantalos on June 22, 2014, 05:45:18 am

This may be blatant cheating, but having a mage with 201 dexterity, 400 willpower, 500 magic stat, 300 cunning, and 400 constitution is immensely funny to play as. I killed the first ogre you encounter in about 3 spells, and am currently steamrolling through the game My character's personality is becoming steadily more arrogant.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon Age Origins

I remember you mentioned this before, but sadly the exploit was patched out of the Steam version.

Luckily console commands (with a certain mod) can achieve the exact same thing ^-^

Which mod was this? I'm likely going to sell my disc version of it soon and buy the Steam version for the sake of getting DLC.

This one (http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/347/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fdragonage%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D347%26preview%3D&pUp=1). Standard console commands can't add attribute points, so this mod adds scripts which allow that functionality and more. I can confirm it works.

Talent points too? :D
Every spell get

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 23, 2014, 08:51:01 pm

Playing as the burger king Charlemange. Montezuma declares war on me out of nowhere, and I blatantly ignore him since this is an Earth map and he is in Mexico without an single vessel that can cross the atlantic. He sues for peace immediately on the next turn, a(and pays a small amount of gold for it no less). I use the gold to get two of his neighbors to delcare war on him.

I've done this many times. I've called up a major nation, extorted hundreds of gold from them at threat of force, then used it to get multiple smaller nations to declare war on them.

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Civilization IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 23, 2014, 11:21:28 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on June 22, 2014, 11:56:32 am

I bought an attack chopper from the black market, and used it to tug the smaller chopper high into the air. I dropped the smaller chopper, and promptly exited the attack chopper. I fell towards the smaller chopper, grappled onto it, and got in. The result was a true midair takeoff. Challenge completed. Fuck yeah.

In the same game, I noticed that my stunt driver poins were extremely low. My brother teased me for this. To recrify this issue, I managed to tether a sports car to a 747 that was taking off. My car hung off of it as it flew through the air. Because of the high speed my car was traveling at, as well as the fact that I was in the air for such a long time, I was being awarded stunt driver points rapidly. I waited until they were higher than my brother's, and then parachuted from the car.

Anyone have any ideas for dangerous stunts?

Just Cause 2.

Wind turbines + car + being inside it when it's launched by the turbines.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 24, 2014, 11:24:26 am

Punched Uke in the throat so hard it decapitated him. I swear, there's quite a few people I want to do that to in real life.

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Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shakerag on June 24, 2014, 11:43:51 am

Using Meteor on anything.  It's just so fucking ridiculous.  Not only does it smite everything like the fiery fist of an angry god, but it makes you feel power mad using it. 

Having Elemental Rage and Tempest is like the ownage frosting on the ownage cake.



Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on June 24, 2014, 12:18:26 pm

Finally beat Nidhogg.
Holy crap, those flashy guys at the end are fast as fuck, I think I ended up just dodging most of them and running past, rather than actually fighting them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 24, 2014, 12:53:39 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on June 24, 2014, 12:18:26 pm

Finally beat Nidhogg.
Holy crap, those flashy guys at the end are fast as fuck, I think I ended up just dodging most of them and running past, rather than actually fighting them.

(http://shark-tank.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Meteor-in-night-sky-1572022.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 24, 2014, 12:54:20 pm

Nidhogg is the name of the game :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on June 24, 2014, 12:55:31 pm

Quote from: Sirus on June 24, 2014, 12:54:20 pm

Nidhogg is the name of the game :/

Yes. Is fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 24, 2014, 01:51:20 pm

...sorry. Nidhogg could have been the name of a boss, since I never heard of that game :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on June 24, 2014, 01:53:13 pm

Ah, sorry.
Nidhogg is a game about fencing with swords and beating the crap out of people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 24, 2014, 03:34:23 pm

Quote from: tryrar on June 24, 2014, 01:51:20 pm

...sorry. Nidhogg could have been the name of a boss, since I never heard of that game :P

Thought it was a boss too. However, I should have known better because I've heard of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 24, 2014, 04:39:05 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on June 24, 2014, 04:35:09 pm

My first Civ V game.
I have an entire continent, but the other is still held by Moctezuma, Ramkhamhaeng, and Lord Darius.
There is no clear way to win. Only 18 turns left.
I have nukes.

Quote from: tryrar on June 24, 2014, 01:51:20 pm

...sorry. Nidhogg could have been the name of a boss, since I never heard of that game :P

Know what that means?

THE WORLD BURNS.

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Civilization V

Does CiV have an SDI?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 24, 2014, 07:46:56 pm

I'm controlling Michigan, and Illinois attacked me to try to get to Canada to take them over. They now no longer exist, thanks to help of Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Massachusetts.
(http://i.imgur.com/ysfuUITl.png)

Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on June 24, 2014, 07:49:22 pm

Wander into Belfry Sol because I'm masochistic like that, get invaded within the first three microseconds. An epic duel ensues wherein I get backstabbed and almost killed, before managing to land a Sunlight Spear into the face of my opponent, both of us are almost dead by this point when he rolls in for what will surely be a finishing move, as I have no time to cast any more spells.

Then I punch him in the face with my chime and kill him. By accident.

Of course I immediately followed this up by walking into one of the NPC phantoms and getting killed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on June 24, 2014, 07:57:26 pm

Quote from: The Darkling Wolf on June 24, 2014, 07:49:22 pm

Wander into Belfry Sol because I'm masochistic like that, get invaded within the first three microseconds. An epic duel ensues wherein I get backstabbed and almost killed, before managing to land a Sunlight Spear into the face of my opponent, both of us are almost dead by this point when he rolls in for what will surely be a finishing move, as I have no time to cast any more spells.

Then I punch him in the face with my chime and kill him. By accident.

Of course I immediately followed this up by walking into one of the NPC phantoms and getting killed.

(http://shark-tank.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Meteor-in-night-sky-1572022.jpg)


EDIT:

...

Damned identical meteor ninjas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on June 24, 2014, 08:00:06 pm

The game was Dark Souls 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 24, 2014, 08:04:06 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on June 24, 2014, 07:57:26 pm

Damned identical meteor ninjas.

Bwahahahahah!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on June 24, 2014, 09:50:08 pm

Finally hit for 1000+ damage in the Attack on Titan Fangame.
Woooo.
Now if I could ever do it again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 25, 2014, 01:53:01 am

Beat the game, got a personalized webpage about it. Neat.

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Gunpoint.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 25, 2014, 03:36:30 am

It was yesterday but I was playing another 8 player map against max hard oponents to get the ultimate honor medal. These are always annoying because after a few minutes the game gets stuttery because hard likes to spam units.

Anyways, there's a China Inf general next to me and he's casually sending small numbers of units for most of the game. Then he sends this giant glob of infantry and his god damned Black Lotus slips trough my somewhat poor defense on that side. Most of my units are tied up elsewhere so they manage to take out some defense and BL caps and sells both my arms dealer and one of my scud storms. After I pulled back two elite quad cannons who made short work of the infantry I set my sight no his base.

Not bothering to scan it to see where everything is I just indiscriminately place six scud strikes all over it. Twenty seconds later his entire base is a big toxic wasteland with nothing left standing. That'll teach the bastard to sell my buildings next time.

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C&C Generals: Zero Hour

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 25, 2014, 12:20:24 pm

How did you have that many Scud Storms with so many Hard opponents? Was it near the end of the match?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 25, 2014, 03:13:59 pm

After some twenty minutes or so. It really helped that I managed to get two depos and two derricks at the very start, this in turned allowed me to rush some Black Markets afterwards it was mainly two workers building scuds non-stop. The final number of them was fifteen I think, with one being available every thirty seconds or so :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 25, 2014, 03:23:05 pm

Quote from: Jopax on June 25, 2014, 03:13:59 pm

After some twenty minutes or so. It really helped that I managed to get two depos and two derricks at the very start, this in turned allowed me to rush some Black Markets afterwards it was mainly two workers building scuds non-stop. The final number of them was fifteen I think, with one being available every thirty seconds or so :D

Niiiiice. I love doing the cash rush. GLA is my favorite because the black markets just poop money when you build em. I've been meaning to make a C&C: Generals forum game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 25, 2014, 03:37:56 pm

Count me in for that!

I've played well over a hundred games, a chunk of those against hard AI so it's gotten relatively easy to fight each and every one of them (except Alexis, fuck that bitch).

My favourite tho is Tao, just like Thrax he gets all the advantages of being a general with pretty much no disadvantages the other generals have.

Also the medals are bugged, didn't get my ultimate honor or endurance medals even though I've beaten every map. Unless they mean going 1v7 in which case fuck that, I'm not that crazy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on June 25, 2014, 03:38:51 pm

A Generals Forum game would be awesome! but heres mine (also for C&C but on ROTR)

I was playing the ECA against the AI on hard. I just finished building a Massive line of forts across the River in the middle of the map when a Tremor (the russian super weapon) started shelling my base killing my dozers and supply trucks, and destroyed my regional command preventing me from rebuilding anything, so I figured to go out with a bang. I cut power with my hero and destroyed their air defense with a commando raid. I then killed everything with a massive air strike and infantry rush. Best match so far.

Another owning I got Generals to run on windows 8!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on June 25, 2014, 04:13:49 pm

DS2 again, place down soapstone in front of the Demon of Song. Immediately have it vanish, realise I'm being invaded, invader materialises a few feet away. Proceed to do the usual rolling around, finally manage to nail him with a lightning spear, roll towards him and punch him twice with my chime.


Bitch gonna ruin my co-op, bitch gon' get chimed in the face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 26, 2014, 11:39:56 am

I'm invaded in painted world near the bonfire.  He stays mostly still with his buckler up, clearly he's going to try to parry me.  I am a darkwraith and I was playing around with my dark hand, so I swap my weapon to it and do the humanity drain.

He tried to parry it.

I'm now up 3 humanity, I take a couple out of range swings with my weapon to get them to fall back into trying to parry and do the humanity drain again.

He tried to block it.

+6 humanity.  After that he starts attacking me more directly, I take a few hits but manage to parry him, finishing him off.   So long, and thanks for all the humanity!

Dark Souls 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on June 26, 2014, 12:30:13 pm

Hee hee.

I was invading people in the painted world near the bonfire (as a spirit of vengeance).
I'd been matched to the same guy a few times. I was spawning on bridge at the start of the area, and the first two times this guy rushed the bridge and blocked me in before I could reach the land, so he was free to beat me back to the edge because I had no room to dodge or maneuver past him.

So the third time, knowing exactly what to expect, I held my ground as he came barrelling down the bridge at me. A bit of timing on my part, and he reached me just in time to be caught irrevocably in the middle of a powered-up fire tempest. Burned to death in one hit. Well, what is it? :P

Dark Souls 1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on June 26, 2014, 02:07:43 pm

Got XCOM Enemy Within a bit back and played a normal difficulty capaign.

Highlights include completely shitting on every ethereal I saw. I was concerned about my dudes getting mind controlled, so my first reaction upon seeing one was to set it on fire with my MEC. I don't think one ever got a turn off where one actually accomplished something. I mind controlled the last one I saw before going on the last mission, just so I could get the achievement, and made it kill itself with a Rift. The uber ethereal was killed on the same turn that it revealed itself. My sniper just double-tapped it to death on the turn I revealed it, thanks to a lucky crit.

And Exalt were complete pushovers. Attacking their base was completely hilarious, because at that point I had psionics, full plasma and titan armour on everyone. My favourite moment was when my assault ran into a room completely filled with Exalt soldiers. I was concerned for a moment, until I realized that Titan armour gives immunity to fire. Queue my MEC setting the entire room on fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on June 26, 2014, 02:10:24 pm

I loved the base assault. I had my support, heavy, and assault storm the main room through the front door while my two MECs crashed through the ceiling glass and my sniper fired down from there. Good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 09:41:09 pm

Buy game. Play three times. Rank up like, a dozen times.

Beat Hazard. Through the Fire and the Flames, Cowboys From Hell, and Beast and the Harlot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 26, 2014, 09:46:32 pm

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on June 26, 2014, 10:18:05 pm

Quote from: flabort on June 26, 2014, 09:46:32 pm

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

Hallelujah! (http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=instant%20hallelujah&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instanthallelujah.com%2F&ei=GuKsU_fAIMfMkwXLuoDoAg&usg=AFQjCNEnkwL8lk6fK4MmjYPWirbAsgQ7eA)

I may not know what on earth Dark Wizard is but I do know about getting games you enjoyed in your childhood to work and then playing them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 10:23:50 pm

Panic Attack - Dream Theater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDs6mCVAKs) Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 26, 2014, 10:59:59 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 26, 2014, 10:18:05 pm

Quote from: flabort on June 26, 2014, 09:46:32 pm

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

Hallelujah! (http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=instant%20hallelujah&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instanthallelujah.com%2F&ei=GuKsU_fAIMfMkwXLuoDoAg&usg=AFQjCNEnkwL8lk6fK4MmjYPWirbAsgQ7eA)

I may not know what on earth Dark Wizard is but I do know about getting games you enjoyed in your childhood to work and then playing them.

Only the best hex-based strategy RPG ever. It's impossible to stop playing, the quests and storylines are engaging, the characters are full of character, the cutscenes only last a few minutes at worst, and only arrive once a map or so, the anime cutscenes are gorgeous and the voiceacting is great, especially when you consider the time this game came out, and the animated battles (if you have them enabled - I guess technically they're cutscenes that you can disable) are beautiful. There are secrets galore, replayability is through the roof even without random generation, the game will take you months to beat (longer than Tales of Symphonia), there are numerous upgrade paths for your hired army and wide variation among your summoned army, the leveling and experience system is perfection, random chance is not nonexistant but neither does it rule the whole game (in fact, it exists to the perfect degree), and the maps are scenery porn (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SceneryPorn) (not the NSFW kind, don't worry; don't play games at work anyways, though).
Add a heaping spoonful of obscureness, a dash of atmospheric music, and a worldload of nostalgia, and boy. My life is complete.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on June 27, 2014, 01:19:49 am

I hooked up with some of my buddies and got a full group to play PAYDAY 2 instead of dealing with the dumbass AI crew members. We proceed to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple missions, including a three-part contract that involved framing some politician. While I'm still only level eleven, having gained nine levels from the multiplayer experience alone, it was still awesome as we had many cases of running for dear life with our bags of cash while police snipers' laser sights showered everything and SWAT operatives climbed out of the woodwork.

This was a welcome improvement over earlier where I accidentally tossed a bag of coke into the ocean, along with other blunders. Even then, I had one human ally + two resident morons for AI-controlled crew. The game just gets so much easier when you have allies that will actually shoot in a timely manner, can use special abilities, and won't blow someone away with their unsilenced rifle when you're trying to knock them out quietly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on June 27, 2014, 01:28:42 am

Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 27, 2014, 01:19:49 am

I hooked up with some of my buddies and got a full group to play PAYDAY 2 instead of dealing with the dumbass AI crew members. We proceed to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple missions, including a three-part contract that involved framing some politician. While I'm still only level eleven, having gained nine levels from the multiplayer experience alone, it was still awesome as we had many cases of running for dear life with our bags of cash while police snipers' laser sights showered everything and SWAT operatives climbed out of the woodwork.

This was a welcome improvement over earlier where I accidentally tossed a bag of coke into the ocean, along with other blunders. Even then, I had one human ally + two resident morons for AI-controlled crew. The game just gets so much easier when you have allies that will actually shoot in a timely manner, can use special abilities, and won't blow someone away with their unsilenced rifle when you're trying to knock them out quietly.

There was one job where we traded paintings for cash, went off simply, we walk to the escape v-This is SWAT! Hands in the air!-Massive ambush. We spend the next twenty minutes fighting for every inch of ground from the endless waves of SWAT and FBI pouring in from the roof and sides. We get confused and can't find the way out, we lose two bags of cash before we can get to the van. By then, everyone but me and Jacob got downed and arrested. We fight our way BACK through the warehouse, through the SWAT teams, with our friends being released as we do so, fight the SWAT in our spawn area, take the bags of cash back, fight our way back again and escape with all four people and all four bags.

Golden.

Payday 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 27, 2014, 02:13:17 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 10:23:50 pm

Panic Attack - Dream Theater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDs6mCVAKs) Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

I'm impressed. This sounds like a fun song to play through. Hell, I wanna try it out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on June 27, 2014, 04:22:18 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 10:23:50 pm

Panic Attack - Dream Theater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDs6mCVAKs) Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

My current record is 30 million on Dubsidia - Ganja Monsta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6l7Lgd53gY), but I have a hard time replicating it since I always superbomb a millisecond after I die, rather than before.

Shiny game is shiny indeed. I usually play on 150% shinyness.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on June 27, 2014, 04:52:25 pm

Got summoned by a rat in the Doors of Pharros, threw a lightning spear at the Primal Knight and Dog that were attacking me, then turned around and instakilled the summoner with a Sunlight Spear. Easiest Pharros Lockstone ever.

DS2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on June 27, 2014, 07:47:52 pm

Quote from: greatorder on June 27, 2014, 06:21:17 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 10:23:50 pm

Panic Attack - Dream Theater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDs6mCVAKs) Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

Yay! Dream Theater is speading!

Now try Octavarium if they have it.

I wonder if they have the whole Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory on it. If so, try that non-stop.

I was under the impression that you can load your own music from iTunes. If so, I have Part II all in one file, and will attempt it. I bought this game just to try some of Dream Theater's super-long songs. Part II and Six Degrees, specifically.

UPDATE: I beat Scenes from a Memory, but I need a wrist brace and an ice pack now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 28, 2014, 07:21:18 am

Trumped Akinator with what I thought was a fairly unique and guessable character. I'm surprised, too. You'd think he would finally get it after 80 questions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Akinator, doy. The character was Marivel from Wild Arms 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 28, 2014, 10:34:58 am

Quote from: Mego on June 27, 2014, 07:47:52 pm

Quote from: greatorder on June 27, 2014, 06:21:17 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 26, 2014, 10:23:50 pm

Panic Attack - Dream Theater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDs6mCVAKs) Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

Yay! Dream Theater is speading!

Now try Octavarium if they have it.

I wonder if they have the whole Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory on it. If so, try that non-stop.

I was under the impression that you can load your own music from iTunes. If so, I have Part II all in one file, and will attempt it. I bought this game just to try some of Dream Theater's super-long songs. Part II and Six Degrees, specifically.

UPDATE: I beat Scenes from a Memory, but I need a wrist brace and an ice pack now.

You don't have to use iTunes. You can use whatever music folder you like. I love Dream Theater, and eventually, I'll try some of their longer stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on June 28, 2014, 10:42:11 am

Be in SoO LFR, just after the Fallen Protectors. Both tanks run ahead of the healers, overpull the sha in the digsite, get killed.
Be in Arms. Charge in; switch into defensive stance and pop Shieldwall. Start doing AoE rotation to pick up threat. Get melted by adds. Eat healthstone; drink potion; OhgodI'mgoingtodie.
My healthbar is literally empty. Pop Retaliation/Die By The Sword.

I manage to hold the things off until I get support and healing. On like 300 health.



Then there's that one time I ended up legit-tanking Megaera in Arms because our offtank had just over 500k hp buffed, and was standing autoattacking the thing.

World of Warcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 28, 2014, 11:38:47 am

Managed to beat a crashed terror UFO full of cryssalids with only laser weapons and one wounded soldier.

Apparently cryssalids are very confused by smoke because I spent 90% of the fight in a reaction formation in the smoke around the skyranger and 6 of the 7 were perfectly content to end their turn 3 tiles from my soldiers just as they entered the smoke.  The 7th was shotgunned down inside the UFO.

...Yes I still consider this an own even though just a few days ago this same UFO resulted in a total party kill.

Open X-Com

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 28, 2014, 06:03:57 pm

Managed to bring my population from 10 mostly elderly people to in the 30s of healthy young adults. Turns out that you have to build houses so that the teenagers move away from home, do sex, and form babies. Then came the absurdly high population growth (like, 1/4 of the people were under the age of five) and the saving of the entire settlement. Also probably a good deal of inbreeding down the line but that's a bridge I'll pretend isn't there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Banished.
I was so distracted by resource problems I didn't think about building houses. Oops?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 28, 2014, 06:44:05 pm

In aikido, I was shoving someone around when I noticed he wasn't actually grabbing me. He had been relying on me grabbing him. I squeezed my bent leg between us, and Sparta-kicked him out of the ring. He briefly expressed that my homosexual fighting style provoked much anger in him, before he disconnected.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 28, 2014, 06:48:45 pm

If your opponent gets mad at you in an online game and you aren't trolling, it means you're doing really well.

Same for getting accused of hacking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 28, 2014, 06:50:58 pm

Huh I got accused of hacking all the time in Eternal Silence.   ...It's a shame that only about 10 people actually played that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on June 28, 2014, 06:56:51 pm

Beat the game on normal, no level rotation, Bandit, no infusion (!!)

It is the first time I win without infusion or with the bandit, had no lifesteal until the last level, too.

Spoiler: Risk of rain (click to show/hide)

Risk of rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on June 29, 2014, 02:57:43 pm

Went 15-1 on a game for children, but that doesn't change anything for me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Adventure Time Battle Party

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on June 29, 2014, 06:05:44 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 28, 2014, 07:21:18 am

Trumped Akinator with what I thought was a fairly unique and guessable character. I'm surprised, too. You'd think he would finally get it after 80 questions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Akinator, doy. The character was Marivel from Wild Arms 2.

Someone has to put the character in for the first tile before he can guess it. It sounds like you were the one to do it. I think if you tried again he would probably end up getting it fairly quickly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on June 29, 2014, 08:08:05 pm

Found fancy new boots, went on a spirit quest, saw how I got a hook for a hand, discovered that the last heart container was literally inside myself all this time, destroyed an evil giant robot that was also an evil giant crab but not simultaneously, and got one of the legendary treasures that unlocks a room in the ancient trapped temple underneath the only museum in the world. All while ingesting enough hallucinogenic shrooms to kill a small mammal. It's okay though, they wanted to be eaten, they told me myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Treasure Adventure Game

I also helped out the ghost khola king of the world light up his castle, but that was before the shrooms so it doesn't really count.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on June 30, 2014, 10:24:38 am

Quote from: greatorder on June 30, 2014, 10:22:41 am

After a ragequit last night, I'm back playing TFC.

I've settled on top of TWO tetrahedrite veins (both very large), with a third nearby, and plenty of cassiterite nearby, too.

LOTS OF BRONZE!

That SOUNDS like DF, but what does the acronym TFC mean?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 30, 2014, 10:38:30 am

Quote from: Cheedows on June 30, 2014, 10:24:38 am

Quote from: greatorder on June 30, 2014, 10:22:41 am

After a ragequit last night, I'm back playing TFC.

I've settled on top of TWO tetrahedrite veins (both very large), with a third nearby, and plenty of cassiterite nearby, too.

LOTS OF BRONZE!

That SOUNDS like DF, but what does the acronym TFC mean?

At first glance I always see it as Team Fortress Classic, but it's Terrafirmacraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on June 30, 2014, 01:45:29 pm

We started getting good at damage control and managed to keep our girl in the air and fighting for most of the battle in spite of having...

Spoiler: ...a mere sliver of HP left... (click to show/hide)

(http://www.img.ie/i5dpr.jpg)

...taking down at least three enemy airships before finally going down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus Online, the last thing I nabbed in the summer sale, so much fun so far

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 30, 2014, 01:47:29 pm

Flawlessly Dot-Eater Challenged the first level in Ikaruga.

Not hit once, didn't fire once (Requirement for Dot-Eater), Normal Difficulty, for now, and more levels to conquer like that still, but it's nice to do that on a full-version of this game finally. Got the achievement.

Just as well, remembering that I scored 92% on Go With the Flow -- Queens of the Stone Age (http://youtu.be/DcHKOC64KnE) in Sounddodger+. Go with the flow, indeed. Holy hell that song is intense (7 shooters spinning like a mad top, lots of shotguns and outskirting (though not as many iron-maidens as I recalled) to dodge while being chased by dozens of homing pods in a clusterfuck of bullets and boulders that also get shotgunned out during the more intense parts of the song). Thanks Auto-Gen. Recently replaying it a couple other times, I usually average at 85%.

Spoiler: Legend (at least my terminology): (click to show/hide)

Shotgun- 3-7 -wide shots; some that are also rail-style (same thing, but 3-7 -deep as well)
Rail- 3-7 deep shots, long rather than wide
Boulder-  Pretty obvious; like with homing pods, in the name. In this case, giant shots.
Outskirting- Gatling-Rails cover the outside-edge of the arena
Iron-Maiden- :air guitars: When the center of the arena becomes extremely dangerous; or standing still is a terrible idea. Shot at from all sides. The more guns that do this, or the higher the concentration of fire, the more you're screwed. Type of shot doesn't matter, just dodge.

EDIT:
Bullet-Slalom- Depending on what direction you're going, it's either a bad idea, or a really bad idea. It's exactly as stupid as it sounds. With the current (Slip-streaming), you're passing by like passing traffic, but against the current (Slalom), like I do; zero fucks must be given. You're going through the onslaught of bullets, not around them, but through them, directly, and against the current. If you can survive this, you must have godlike concentration skills, or be completely psychotic. (In my case, I must be both.)

Just as well, a rather suicidal(ly fun) bullet-dodge method has been in quite a bit of frequent use lately. Instead of outright dodging bullets, I can now slalom through waves of bullets, sometimes doing laps around some shots and shotguns. I think I have lost it; but I feel like I'm winning instead. Rocks even harder when you have the right song to do that with. Even more awesome when it's through songs like what I just listed.

Now I can just imagine myself like some crazy awesome samurai doing a bullet-slalom (against the current, as I do; mind you) and then cutting my targets apart with a sword. Violation of Common Sense (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViolationOfCommonSense) is a term that crosses my mind often when I do that, along with many counts of catching myself exclaim "Holy shit!" or "Oh crap!" or "How the hell did I just do that? How am I still doing this?" as I pull it off wave after wave. I still don't know how I am dodging these things like this, but I'm not complaining. This is more badass than it sounds, I dare you to try it out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Orb on July 01, 2014, 02:23:38 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/cnclk.png)

I finally did it. I finally cleared a cruise ship, which is two terror missions one after another. With only Blasta rifles and half of my guys armored in plastic (its about as durable as it sounds), the only thing I had going for me was that they were Gil men. I've been slaughtered in this scenario many times before, and most often I just ignore these types of terror missions. But with the last few months being pretty bad and the council teetering on withdrawing funding, I decided to try my luck.

And luck was indeed with me. Surviving several reaction shots, catching the aliens without being ambushed, lucky grenade throws, it all went down perfectly, better than I could have ever hoped. I even managed to stun a couple aliens with my thermal tazer. The mission took me over two hours to complete, and well over 50 turns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terror From the Deep, Superhuman difficulty

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 01, 2014, 04:09:56 pm

Quote from: Orb on July 01, 2014, 02:23:38 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/cnclk.png)

I finally did it. I finally cleared a cruise ship, which is two terror missions one after another. With only Blasta rifles and half of my guys armored in plastic (its about as durable as it sounds), the only thing I had going for me was that they were Gil men. I've been slaughtered in this scenario many times before, and most often I just ignore these types of terror missions. But with the last few months being pretty bad and the council teetering on withdrawing funding, I decided to try my luck.

And luck was indeed with me. Surviving several reaction shots, catching the aliens without being ambushed, lucky grenade throws, it all went down perfectly, better than I could have ever hoped. I even managed to stun a couple aliens with my thermal tazer. The mission took me over two hours to complete, and well over 50 turns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terror From the Deep, Superhuman difficulty

Given the circumstances you'd think the world would just let cruise ship companies go out of business...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on July 01, 2014, 04:32:22 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 01, 2014, 04:05:21 pm

Quote from: Greiger on June 28, 2014, 06:50:58 pm

Huh I got accused of hacking all the time in Eternal Silence.   ...It's a shame that only about 10 people actually played that game.

If you're worse than them, you're a noob. If you're better, you're a hacker.

It's so sad how true that is online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on July 01, 2014, 04:56:25 pm

I picked up PAYDAY 2 during the Steam summer sale, got to play a couple of rounds before I had to head to work today.  During those rounds I came out on top of the body count in all of them, including the one where I joined halfway in.  Did I mention I was level 1 when I did this?  The other people were 20 or higher.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

PAYDAY 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on July 01, 2014, 05:25:22 pm

stealth'd the end of firestarter on payday 2 with father and his friends, and hit 50 finally.
Payday 2 as well

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mego on July 01, 2014, 08:17:48 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on July 01, 2014, 08:06:37 pm

Won a cultural victory as USA.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civ V

Too bad USA can't win a cultural victory as USA.

Boo Belgium.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 01, 2014, 09:02:02 pm

Hey man, Mcdonalds or Starbucks on every street corner of the world.  If that's not a cultural victory I don't know what is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on July 01, 2014, 09:19:31 pm

I'd consider anything other than a Starbucks on a corner a cultural victory.  $8 for a cup of coffee?  Yeesh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on July 01, 2014, 09:36:50 pm

I might drink Starbucks if they put gold flakes in the coffee for that price.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 01, 2014, 09:42:19 pm

Quote from: Objective on July 01, 2014, 09:36:50 pm

I might drink Starbucks if they put gold flakes in the coffee for that price.

I wouldn't. Goldschlager is delicious, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 01, 2014, 11:23:07 pm

Quote from: Karkov on July 01, 2014, 09:19:31 pm

I'd consider anything other than a Starbucks on a corner a cultural victory.  $8 for a cup of coffee?  Yeesh.

$8!? that's horrendous

The Starbucks in my country seem to cost no more than $5 for a huge coffee. (I prefer other coffee shops anyway.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 02, 2014, 01:47:40 pm

Starbucks is you paying extra for the name on the cup and the hipster cred.   But starbucks lost all their hipster cred probably sometime in the 90s.  So the little imaginary box that used to contain the fedora and glasses is now full of recycling tips.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: varnish on July 03, 2014, 12:25:28 am

In the world of moderate owning, I got my first terror mission in new X-Com with the long war mod. The first soldier I move, the first thing she sees is a lineup of four chrysalids. Which made me think that I was doomed, as I'm not actually that good at the game. And yet, due to good shooting and use of grenades, and one very lucky critical hit, every one of the chrysalids is dead by the end of my first turn.

Of course, then I had to deal with the 6 rocket aliens jumping around the map shooting civilians at will. Which I did, but less well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on July 03, 2014, 02:56:05 am

I'm consistently coming out on top of the body count score when stealth breaks down.  At one point, I actually had my body count at 134.

PAYDAY 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on July 03, 2014, 05:53:45 am

I do believe this gfy explains it sufficiently.

http://fat.gfycat.com/SameZealousAsianelephant.webm

iRacing, and only 8 cars out of 19 survived that massacre. Managed to pick up the win later in the race by tandem drafting on the outside line with another guy in the back of the 8 man group,

Edit: And Gfycat seems to really want you to name your gfy's by giving them terrible autogenerated names.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Duuvian on July 03, 2014, 05:55:57 am

Damn, if I didn't read some of your LPs I'd never click on that link.

EDIT: Hehe, that's the kind of game I'd drive the opposite way. Tell me you have done that, it's more fun than the normal game. I know this from old Playstation 1 and N64 racing games. It's funny because those stupid ai bastards just keep going the 'right' way while I'm smashing up their cars and the announcer is yelling like crazy telling me to turn around. That moment of expectation in a Nascar sim when you are closing at 200 mph on a straightaway towards them lasts just about the right amount of time before you smash into them and cars start flying. I'm unsure if it's more fun to be in an invincible car or if it's better played like bowling where you try to wreck all the cars for a strike in your own destructible car. Both play modes have their charm.

It's especially satisfying because there is a Nascar track a short distance from where I live.

Also I think in your clip one of those cars' physics glitched out right at the end and rocketed it into the stands. Good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on July 03, 2014, 06:06:29 am

Totally, I'd do that in "Need for Speed 2" and "Monster Truck Madness 2". Of course the maps aren't made for going backwards but I remember trying to cause big pile ups on the narrower sections of the track. Was very fun in MTM2 because that game had a large amount of bounce when you slammed into other trucks and you could send them flying off the edges of the track and into canyons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on July 03, 2014, 07:57:57 am

Quote from: Duuvian on July 03, 2014, 05:55:57 am

Damn, if I didn't read some of your LPs I'd never click on that link.

EDIT: Hehe, that's the kind of game I'd drive the opposite way. Tell me you have done that, it's more fun than the normal game. I know this from old Playstation 1 and N64 racing games. It's funny because those stupid ai bastards just keep going the 'right' way while I'm smashing up their cars and the announcer is yelling like crazy telling me to turn around. That moment of expectation in a Nascar sim when you are closing at 200 mph on a straightaway towards them lasts just about the right amount of time before you smash into them and cars start flying. I'm unsure if it's more fun to be in an invincible car or if it's better played like bowling where you try to wreck all the cars for a strike in your own destructible car. Both play modes have their charm.

It's especially satisfying because there is a Nascar track a short distance from where I live.

Also I think in your clip one of those cars' physics glitched out right at the end and rocketed it into the stands. Good times.

Nah the physics didn't glitch out, the guy's ping dropped like crazy. He was intermittently lagging in and out the majority of the race up to that point, ignoring people telling him to get his ass off the track.

Also it's MP only, and being a douche and driving the wrong way is the quick road to an account suspension if not perma-ban.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sergarr on July 03, 2014, 09:37:22 am

Quote from: Silent_Thunder on July 03, 2014, 07:57:57 am

Quote from: Duuvian on July 03, 2014, 05:55:57 am

Damn, if I didn't read some of your LPs I'd never click on that link.

EDIT: Hehe, that's the kind of game I'd drive the opposite way. Tell me you have done that, it's more fun than the normal game. I know this from old Playstation 1 and N64 racing games. It's funny because those stupid ai bastards just keep going the 'right' way while I'm smashing up their cars and the announcer is yelling like crazy telling me to turn around. That moment of expectation in a Nascar sim when you are closing at 200 mph on a straightaway towards them lasts just about the right amount of time before you smash into them and cars start flying. I'm unsure if it's more fun to be in an invincible car or if it's better played like bowling where you try to wreck all the cars for a strike in your own destructible car. Both play modes have their charm.

It's especially satisfying because there is a Nascar track a short distance from where I live.

Also I think in your clip one of those cars' physics glitched out right at the end and rocketed it into the stands. Good times.

Nah the physics didn't glitch out, the guy's ping dropped like crazy. He was intermittently lagging in and out the majority of the race up to that point, ignoring people telling him to get his ass off the track.

Also it's MP only, and being a douche and driving the wrong way is the quick road to an account suspension if not perma-ban.

Cyber racing is srs bsns no fun allowed

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on July 03, 2014, 10:13:01 am

Racing games should really come with split screen modes far more often than they do now. Mucking around like that is much more fun if you're actually sitting next to the person you just knocked off the track. In "Wacky Wheels", if you rammed into the front of another cart, it'd launch the animal into the camera and crack the screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 03, 2014, 10:18:31 am

Quote from: Reudh on July 01, 2014, 11:23:07 pm

Quote from: Karkov on July 01, 2014, 09:19:31 pm

I'd consider anything other than a Starbucks on a corner a cultural victory.  $8 for a cup of coffee?  Yeesh.

$8!? that's horrendous

The Starbucks in my country seem to cost no more than $5 for a huge coffee. (I prefer other coffee shops anyway.)

For $8, I could buy stuff to make my own supply of similar-quality coffee, for a month.

Quote from: Duuvian on July 03, 2014, 05:55:57 am

EDIT: Hehe, that's the kind of game I'd drive the opposite way. Tell me you have done that, it's more fun than the normal game. I know this from old Playstation 1 and N64 racing games. It's funny because those stupid ai bastards just keep going the 'right' way while I'm smashing up their cars and the announcer is yelling like crazy telling me to turn around. That moment of expectation in a Nascar sim when you are closing at 200 mph on a straightaway towards them lasts just about the right amount of time before you smash into them and cars start flying. I'm unsure if it's more fun to be in an invincible car or if it's better played like bowling where you try to wreck all the cars for a strike in your own destructible car. Both play modes have their charm.

I remember playing a demo of some stock car racing game for PS1, which modeled some serious car damage. Instead of trying to win the race, I would turn around, do a full lap to build up speed, and play chicken with the guy in front when he came around. Ludicrous car gibs, and one of us might be lucky to not be on fire afterwards. For the lead racer's part, they usually won the chicken race, rather than the normal race.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zrk2 on July 03, 2014, 02:20:13 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/2rlkUdz.jpg)

For context the F-80C is a jet. I blew it up in a prop. That's pretty awesome if you ask me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 04, 2014, 12:43:39 am

Every nation in the world is my ally. I'm exporting billions of dollars worth of everything but uranium (of which I have none and need none) and electricity (which I buy off the market at about $300k/day.) I recently just sold fresh water to Saudi Arabia. Cost me about a billion dollars to produce it, and they paid 50x that. I sell oil to Japan and Korea, food and water to the Middle East, South America, west and southeast Asia, and Africa, consumer and industry goods to Europe, Oceania, and the rest of North America. I burn through $5bil/day on social and research spending, but it's whatever. When I run out of money, I just sell off some of my stockpiles. I make food, water, oil, and various goods faster than I can sell them, and I sell daily.

The only nations that didn't join my friends list are North Korea, who got unified and wiped out by South Korea (using arms and munitions supplied by Michigan,) and Illinois, who attacked me to get to Canada and got crushed under the combined boots of WI, IN, OH, KY, and MA.

Next up, figure out how to buy the world. I'm sitting on $100bil. If all else fails, I suppose I could use force, but I don't want to. Who would be left to buy my stuff?

Supreme Ruler 2020.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 04, 2014, 12:48:00 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 04, 2014, 12:43:39 am

Every nation in the world is my ally. I'm exporting billions of dollars worth of everything but uranium (of which I have none and need none) and electricity (which I buy off the market at about $300k/day.) I recently just sold fresh water to Saudi Arabia. Cost me about a billion dollars to produce it, and they paid 50x that. I sell oil to Japan and Korea, food and water to the Middle East, South America, west and southeast Asia, and Africa, consumer and industry goods to Europe, Oceania, and the rest of North America. I burn through $5bil/day on social and research spending, but it's whatever. When I run out of money, I just sell off some of my stockpiles. I make food, water, oil, and various goods faster than I can sell them, and I sell daily.

The only nations that didn't join my friends list are North Korea, who got unified and wiped out by South Korea (using arms and munitions supplied by Michigan,) and Illinois, who attacked me to get to Canada and got crushed under the combined boots of WI, IN, OH, KY, and MA.

Next up, figure out how to buy the world. I'm sitting on $100bil. If all else fails, I suppose I could use force, but I don't want to. Who would be left to buy my stuff?

Supreme Ruler 2020.

That's beautiful.  World peace through capitalism.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 04, 2014, 09:13:31 am

Quote from: NRDL on July 04, 2014, 12:48:00 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on July 04, 2014, 12:43:39 am

Every nation in the world is my ally. I'm exporting billions of dollars worth of everything but uranium (of which I have none and need none) and electricity (which I buy off the market at about $300k/day.) I recently just sold fresh water to Saudi Arabia. Cost me about a billion dollars to produce it, and they paid 50x that. I sell oil to Japan and Korea, food and water to the Middle East, South America, west and southeast Asia, and Africa, consumer and industry goods to Europe, Oceania, and the rest of North America. I burn through $5bil/day on social and research spending, but it's whatever. When I run out of money, I just sell off some of my stockpiles. I make food, water, oil, and various goods faster than I can sell them, and I sell daily.

The only nations that didn't join my friends list are North Korea, who got unified and wiped out by South Korea (using arms and munitions supplied by Michigan,) and Illinois, who attacked me to get to Canada and got crushed under the combined boots of WI, IN, OH, KY, and MA.

Next up, figure out how to buy the world. I'm sitting on $100bil. If all else fails, I suppose I could use force, but I don't want to. Who would be left to buy my stuff?

Supreme Ruler 2020.

That's beautiful.  World peace through capitalism.

I'm impressed. I usually try to play the ideal ruler role in all kinds of games (especially Tropico), and usually come off with high approval, despite crashing the economy for a year or two (mostly infrastructure and housing) before we really rack up the money from farms and so forth, and then work on luxuries and tourism from there.

Every island I rule, even when it's a barren Hell, comes out as an Eden or tropical paradise when I'm done with them. Betty Boom, however, is never happy. I build for function before I build for form. And oddly enough, the function is it's own form by the end anyway. Hell, look at some of my designs in Cargo! and such for some truly ugly (by common perception), yet elegant (highly functional, and actually looks pretty cool), designs. Basically, I know how to build things that look and feel like A-10s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10) when built. Hard to destroy, highly functional, unusually awesome appearance by the end, and it still works like a dream.

Spoiler: Super cheap, super elegant, and super fast, and it's ultralight while at it, meaning it can float too (meaning, I can also land on water like a bug). My favorite thing to drive that I've built. (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/450672941713716830/A63A361658DEE0DC75B587218643DF7B76F87031/)
I call it the Mosquito Autogyro Mk. II

It's already 50-50-50 weight balanced; so it always has maximum control, even at full throttle.

The rendering is weird, and makes it look like the blades interfere with each other. Don't worry, I checked the front and side. They clear by a fair tolerance. Oh yeah, add seats to it, and it's also a FUN/Money machine. I'll admit, with this model, you'll get your ass wet when you land in water, or take off from it.

EDIT:
Looking at that, maybe Mk. III can look more like a bug; that way, I can also avoid getting the pilot wet when landing and takeoff on water. It would be more an aesthetic upgrade with an inevitable hit to the weight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 04, 2014, 09:57:41 am

Wait, what game is that? That looks crazy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 04, 2014, 10:13:13 am

Cargo! - The Quest for Gravity. And yes, the game itself is crazy as well. Made it in sandbox; applied it in-game, and it kinda beat the game for me; except for submersible parts. I think I remember first seeing this game during a Solifuge livestream.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 04, 2014, 12:48:09 pm

There's a sniper and a guy with a shortgun in this building, facing north. My team is crouched mongst ruins directly east. Alright, looks like we got the drop on these guys. My two snipers crawl into the open to provide cover while two of my riflemen and the doctor slip inside the house. The shortgun guy is right next to the entrance facing away from it. The doc sets up silently opposite him and waits with his shotgun aimed at his back while my riflemen, Seymour and Rage, crawl past, inches away from his feet. Seymour goes upstairs and confirms the sniper to be actually holding a spear, then sets up with his AK pointed at the back of his head. Rage continues through the house without stopping and finds another bad guy lying in wait. He aims at this one. Meanwhile my snipers move north and get a better view of the street all these bad guys are facing. Both of them seperately get a bead on a guy crouched in cover. While this is happening Stein, my third rifleman, has crossed the street, crawled along it through a small park, and found TWO guys stacked on top of each other to point at!

I had the silliest grin on my face as I switched the squad's behavior to aggressive at the same time. Gunfire. Seven criticals. I died with maniacal laughter at the success of my evil plan!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout: Tactics

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 04, 2014, 03:06:26 pm

My mature sci-fi strategy game, "WarMarch: 30,000", was released on the PC to rave reviews. 9.75 average rating, it sold 131,000 copies in the first week paying for itself 9 times over and leaping to the top of the top-seller charts. Not bad for something made by a single person in a garage!

It made over 3 million before finally going off the market.

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Game Dev Tycoon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on July 04, 2014, 04:11:30 pm

My daughter in law wants me to come to her room? Sure, I'll take her for a tumble, not like my son's getting her pregnant anyways!

It's good to be the Basileus.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 04, 2014, 05:16:57 pm

That event seems to trigger for daughter-in-laws 95% of the time, random courtiers 5% of the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on July 04, 2014, 06:08:35 pm

That was my first daughter in law on that char, my son had only been married to her for a few months. Apparently, I work fast. Of course, by the time she came around I already had 4 bastards to my name, as well as 9 legitimate kids, two of which died at a young age because one of my kids was possessed by satan.

EDIT: Hahaha, my daughter in law just had a kid from my char, and my son believed it was his. And since I have primogeniture, that kid is going to be my heir someday. Oh man, this is priceless.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 05, 2014, 12:38:24 am

Quote from: Glloyd on July 04, 2014, 06:08:35 pm

EDIT: Hahaha, my daughter in law just had a kid from my char, and my son believed it was his. And since I have primogeniture, that kid is going to be my heir someday. Oh man, this is priceless.

That is legitimately hilarious. Who knew a game that looks so boring could be so funny!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on July 05, 2014, 11:03:25 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 05, 2014, 12:38:24 am

Quote from: Glloyd on July 04, 2014, 06:08:35 pm

EDIT: Hahaha, my daughter in law just had a kid from my char, and my son believed it was his. And since I have primogeniture, that kid is going to be my heir someday. Oh man, this is priceless.

That is legitimately hilarious. Who knew a game that looks so boring could be so funny!

Legitimately hilarious, I see what you did there. My multiple bastards are not pleased with your puns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 05, 2014, 05:19:17 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on July 05, 2014, 11:03:25 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on July 05, 2014, 12:38:24 am

Quote from: Glloyd on July 04, 2014, 06:08:35 pm

EDIT: Hahaha, my daughter in law just had a kid from my char, and my son believed it was his. And since I have primogeniture, that kid is going to be my heir someday. Oh man, this is priceless.

That is legitimately hilarious. Who knew a game that looks so boring could be so funny!

Legitimately hilarious, I see what you did there. My multiple bastards are not pleased with your puns.

>:3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 06, 2014, 12:24:22 pm

Cracked a safe code, the hard way. That is, trying every possible combination.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Still Life 2. Goddamn the hints for puzzles this game gives you a ridiculous. This particular puzzle, you have to put some effort in discovering that it's 3 to 5 digits long, and there's a choice of six numbers to choose from. I still had to grind through it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 06, 2014, 03:46:59 pm

How-?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on July 07, 2014, 06:11:53 am

Over a dozen Archangel batteries along with several Ground Shakers supporting a single sensor equpped hovercraft. Park it outside the enemy base, tilt the camera way down and watch as the orange streaks halfway across the map before obliterating several buildings and any hapless units at the point of impact.

After you're done, move on to the next base and repeat for great lulz.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warzone 2100, this game will always be fun, always!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 07, 2014, 07:05:15 am

Started up an old savegame, remembered the hilarious possibilities of sending in empty transports to soak up the enemy's supply of AA fire for the turn (and pulling them back for repairs if they get heavily damaged, because I'm a cheap bastard), then landing transports loaded with superheavy tanks right into the enemy formations, disembarking them (which doesn't count as movement and won't trigger overwatch fire), blowing things to kingdom come, reembarking (still no movement), and flying away.

The moment you've performed an Ultralisk Drop Harass in a TBS game.

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Battle Isle: The Andosia War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mesa on July 07, 2014, 09:07:02 am

I was bored and felt like playing that game again. I already have some experience with Sir Rattleballs and Meta-Science Pack is an extremely good backpack, but I'm only saying that because it's my only backpack outside the stock Champion's Backpack.
My teammates are Peppermint Butler and a guest Jake and we're up against Marceline, another Rattleballs and Lich.

Boy, that was a stomp. I was jungling pretty extensively that game which is not something I do usually and by the end of the game I was over double the enemy's levels. In fact, we all only died twice and that was only Jake. I almost felt bad after this since we quickly swept their towers and won. Blood Demon Sword may need a tiny nerf as it makes taking down the Goo Monster and Kee'Oth, as well as other jungle monsters too easy I feel. Until then though, Jungle Rattle is real.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Adventure Time Battle Party
(http://puu.sh/a0B18/88bac10c30.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on July 07, 2014, 09:54:06 am

'Patrolling the Mojave makes y-'

*pow*

'Murd-'

*pow*

'It's not worth it!'

*machinegunnoises*

'Profligate scum.'

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Fallout: New Vegas.

Emerald the canon destroying female legionary(RP alternative start) raised boulder city with only a .22 pistol and an mp5. She won with little injuries.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 07, 2014, 12:05:51 pm

Was at half HP and stumbled into a monster den trap.  Most of the monsters were asleep though so I had a moment to figure out what to do.  I sent back my lower level Troll and brought out Kewne instead.  I told Kewne to go aggressive and started casting spell balls every which way from the corner of the room.

The monster room is defeated.  Kewne dropped but managed to take out a good chunk of the wind types with him, I'm down to single digit hp and my inventory is significantly emptier than when I entered the room.

Then a single balloon entered the room from the hallway while my hp was still low and I decided to wind crystal to GTFO, since it would probably kick my ass in my state.  I still call that a win though, that wasn't from the monster den spawn.

Azure Dreams (PS1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on July 08, 2014, 12:36:58 am

So there was apparently this boss under the keep that another town's lord had told me about. I stroll down there, stolen iron scimitar in hand, and see the boss, just chillin'. She casually starts a conversation with me and I try to stab her and miss. She shoots me in the lung with her crossbow, loaded with iron bolts, and I, eventually, kill her by cutting her neck off. With my newfound mortal wound, I grab her severed neck and haul ass upstairs to brag to the law-giver before I die.

Said law-giver responds to my gloating with "That is terrible" and tries to spit on me, but I dodge it. I slice his lower back open from behind. The nearby high priests draw their knives, preparing to kill me. I drive my scimitar into his torso, fracturing a rib and causing him to black out. I slice his head off with my scimitar and throw the severed neck at one of the high priests. It strikes his lower right arm and CAUSES IT TO EXPLODE IN GORE.

Then I demand the other high priest, called "high smile," surrender. He complies after spitting on me. I accidentally (honest) leap on him and start another fight, to which he refuses to surrender. I cut one of his legs off and he STILL refuses. I rip the bolt out of my lung and ram it into his chest. He blacks out. I stab his eyes out, get him in a chokehold with my free hand, and stab his neck, severing an artery multiple times. He bleeds out.

I'm now halfway across town, sleeping in a merchant's house, everybody none the wiser. I wonder who will face my bolt of murder next.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dwarf Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on July 08, 2014, 07:52:52 pm

I have been trying to complete the arcade mode for 10 days, and always, always, Edge Master blocked me from succeeding.

I've tried multitudes of characters, some from the game, others made by me.

It's only now, after half an hour of constant dueling between me and him, that I've finally won three times.

Xiba for the win!

Tl;Dr Fairy Leviathan (http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101230033352/megaman/images/0/0a/Leviathan.png) and Edge Master (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120104210423/soulcalibur/images/5/5a/Sc5-edgemaster.jpg) dueled for ten days. Only now did Leviathan win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Soul Calibur 5, Arcade Mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 08, 2014, 08:01:55 pm

Quote from: Nega on July 08, 2014, 07:52:52 pm

I have been trying to complete the arcade mode for 10 days, and always, always, Edge Master blocked me from succeeding.

I've tried multitudes of characters, some from the game, others made by me.

It's only now, after half an hour of constant dueling between me and him, that I've finally won three times.

Xiba for the win!

Tl;Dr Fairy Leviathan (http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101230033352/megaman/images/0/0a/Leviathan.png) and Edge Master (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120104210423/soulcalibur/images/5/5a/Sc5-edgemaster.jpg) dueled for ten days. Only now did Leviathan win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Soul Calibur 5, Arcade Mode.

Guard Impact is the key. Master that timing, son. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 09, 2014, 12:39:09 pm

I walked up to the Lady, and gave her a wedgie.

DF2014

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 10, 2014, 04:33:35 pm

Playing through the game for the first time, my level 13 Mechromancer is smashing her way through a bandit camp. After clearing out the initial wave, I move forward and come face-to-face with Bad Maw and his Merry Midgets. This guy is an actual boss (splash screen and everything) and he has this massive shield which carries his midgets.

Thankfully, Deathtrap still has a few seconds left before it needs to recharge and it moves in, distracting Bad Maw and giving me enough time to chuck a DoT corrosive grenade. Less than 15 seconds after Bad Maw attacks, he and all of the Merry Midgets are dead.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on July 10, 2014, 11:51:06 pm

The Lord protects.
War finally broke out on the Eastern front. The entire Eastern Front was converted from the Believing cause to the communist cause in a heartbeat as I had let down my guard for a single year to try out democracy for a change. It was a resounding mistake. The Spartans attacked whilst the veteran regiments moved North to fight the Drones. The amount of bloodshed was monumental for all the matches I've played, over the course of a single attack at most you could expect seven regiments to die, I saw over 60 die in a single assault. This was the cost of the Drone's human wave, as impact rifles fired upon impact rifles. There was an odd thing about the weapons stage here in that every single faction had failed to develop weapons more advanced than impact rifles, yet defensive technologies had surpassed them, in a sense. All good garrisons and shock troopers wore plasma steel armour, soldiers armed with impact rifles could take on any unit wearing plasma steel so long as they were out in the open.
When they were in mountainous bunkers and surrounded by perimeter defences with sensor towers to watch every move, no longer is it possible. To make matters worse, the Drones had the secret project that gave them indestructible perimeter defences at every base. One of the worst assaults saw over 21 Impact regiments wiped out in a single fruitless attack against one Drone base that didn't even make any ground. Hundreds of thousands of Believers starved to death as Free Drone soldiers descended upon our lands and destroyed our farms and forests like an insatiable horde of locusts. One could see how it all resembled WWI after both sides started bringing out self-propelled artillery to wreak havoc with the densely clustered soldiers, funneled into a narrow impasse by a great mountain range that separated the fertile and industrious mountainside the Drones resided on from the food-scarce Believing outposts on the arid steppes. The war went on for so long that weapon technology had begun to spread from the south into our conflict; the first prototype gatling lasers had begun rolling onto both Believing and Drone production lines. The Believing mountain outposts had become veritable mountain fortresses and the assault on the Eastern front had shown some progress, whereas all assaults on the northern roads had resulted in 100% casualties and the death of almost all veteran regiments not sent back to fight the Spartans. The turning point came when two things happened: The southwestern mountain pass was won by the Believers at great cost, and the Believers successfully took over a minor Drone base in a Hannibal moment as they crossed the mountain and fired their gatling lasers, paying dearly for this tiny base. From there it was a matter of forcing huge volumes of soldiers past hostile Drone bases, losing hideous volumes of soldiers to the counter attacks whilst marching towards the Drone HQ and Whipsaw Base to take  away their unbreakable perimeter defences. Along the way the Believers unintentionally returned the favour to the Drones, captured bases were inevitably reduced from proud city centres to starved ruins as the workers rioted and refused to till the farms and work the factories against their own people. In the south the Spartans had nearly overrun my own perimeters, I had run out of reserves there and was beginning to relocate troops from the Peninsula front further south just to cope with the casualties. Fortune struck and the Hive betrayed the Spartans, allowing me to seize one last Spartan base and get them to surrender.

Now I had every Believing base sending gatling regiments to the frontlines against the Drones, missionary after missionary entering Drone bases to destroy their perimeter defences from within. When resistance grew too large, artillery destroyed their strength from the high ground whilst the believers starved them from the lands outside. With University and Spartan auxiliaries keeping the Hive occupied, the Drone backbone was broken. After over 60 years of constant war, it is almost certain that the Believers will win.

And only 3/5ths of the entirety of humanity was wiped out.

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Alpha Centauri

Now all I have to do is figure out how to kill the other three factions, one of which is:

• Technologically superior.
• Outnumbers me.
• Has units designed to kill me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 11, 2014, 12:53:42 am

Holy shit that game sounds awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on July 11, 2014, 12:55:36 am

....you've never played Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri??(that is the Sid Meier game, and not another game call Alpha Centauri, right?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 11, 2014, 01:21:07 am

Come up against a Risen boss in Fire Emblem Awakening.

Now, this wouldn't be a problem, because this risen, although having 80hp, has all of its stats <10. Laughably low, they have a 0% chance to deal 0 damage on my units.

However, two things catch my eye:

The boss has 37 skill. pretty decent stat... what's that used for? I... oh. Vengeance with 2 defense and 80hp? i can see how that'd be useful. It's still got 0% to hit, though.
The boss also has 50 Luck. Hot damn. I--- oh, it has Miracle. so that's a 50% chance to survive any lethal hit with 1hp left.

Okay, okay, i should be fine, piling damage onto it ---- wait, no it has Counter... alright, I'll send in some mages --- wait, if it survives the mages and attacks back, even the sturdiest ones are dead.

So this Risen had 80 hp, pretty much no defense, but decent skill and absurd luck, plus three moves that ALWAYS trigger, and two that trigger with a high % rate.

This risen could:
-Providing it survived a hit, which it would be able to with its 80 hp, it could deal that much damage back to an adjacent unit. My units are strong enough that they can deal more than their own hp with a single hit, in some cases. Those that can't are fast enough to hit twice totalling over their max. This always triggers against adjacent units, but not against units that are a tile or two away (a melee user with a throwing axe, a spear, or a Levin Sword or Amatsu, any mage, any bow user).
-With Renewal, heal 30% of its max HP per turn. This always triggers at the end of the turn.
-Vengeance had a 37% chance (based on Skill stat x 1%) to take accrued damage, halve it, and add it to the user's attack stat. Say you had 80 hp, and were on 2 hp, your attack would now deal (base damage + (total damage taken / 2)) damage - if you attack dealt anything more than 1, with a 2/80hp Vengeance powered attack, you'd be dealing into the 40s, which is an absurdly strong attack from a Risen with 2 Strength.
-Miracle had a 50% chance of triggering.
-Vantage always triggered. If on <50% total HP, attack first, even while defending. Not too dangerous in itself with the Risen's low stats, but combined with Vengeance was a potent combo.

I thought a while. I could send in my melee units wielding a ranged weapon, like Chrom with a Levin Sword or Walhart with Wolf Berg, but if the boss survived with Miracle, then attacked on its turn, they'd be dead from Vengeance or Counter.
I could send in my mages, but if they failed to reach it or failed to KO it at range, especially if it had Miracle, they were sitting ducks.
So, in the end, my only real option was to send in an archer and hope their high Avoid stat coupled with the fact that bow users do not retaliate when attacked, plus the ability to attack at range would keep the archer alive.

It paid off.

Panne moved in with Pass, dodged a few difficult to avoid hits, took one 3 damage hit, then nailed the boss with Lethality. I couldn't've been more pleased with the outcome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on July 11, 2014, 05:38:00 am

Why do people always preface the Alpha Centauri game with Sid Meier's? Are there other games with the same name or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2014, 06:26:24 am

Quote from: Objective on July 11, 2014, 05:38:00 am

Why do people always preface the Alpha Centauri game with Sid Meier's? Are there other games with the same name or something?

He does that with all the games he's produced.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on July 11, 2014, 09:09:51 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 11, 2014, 12:53:42 am

Holy shit that game sounds awesome.

It is absolutely timeless!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on July 11, 2014, 11:13:20 am

Got the timing down for Patchouli's lasers. Now they only kill me half the time!

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Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Corai on July 12, 2014, 03:03:54 am

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(http://puu.sh/a7OiM/2ab086d84c.png)

I'm the only dwarven site in the entire world. My bookkeeper got appointed king. I'm the mountainhomes, now. And we're only one z-level beneath the ground and going deeper.

Squee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on July 12, 2014, 03:48:29 am

For 35 years I have led the House of Julii with success. We Conquered first the Gauls, then the Germanic hordes, and driven the Britons back to their stinking island back over the water. The Senate requested we turn our attention to annexing settlements belonging to the Spanish - Carthaginian lapdogs that they are. 3 armies are sent through the Pyrenees - One along the northern coast, one along the Mediterranean coast, and a faint through the central pass who were supposed to retreat back along the pass, bottling up the Spanish armies. Our Armies to the north and south are unopposed, and cut deep into the Spanish underbelly, taking settlements with minimal opposition. The central army runs into a huge concentration of Spanish armies led by their king and his entire family near the city of Ocsa. Outnumbered, Placaius Victor, Hero of the campaign against the Britons, is ordered to continue the advance regardless, as killing the king and some of his family is too good an opportunity to miss.

Our forces meet on a flat bare plain fringed with trees. We command 500 light legionaries supported by 250 javalineers and a similar number of mixed cavalry, including the generals unit of battle hardened elite heavy cavalry. Spain have almost 1500 infantry of varying strength and quality, from light spear-men to fully armoured bull warriors, and around 600 cavalry. They begin their advance, and their plan is obvious - tie up my superior infantry in the middle with weight of numbers, and encircle with their noble led cavalry. I hold my narrow formation as late as I dare, and as the enemy pass into javelin range I order my infantry line to stretch into as thin an arc as possible and pull back my cavalry from the flanks to behind my infantry - the line is as little as 3 men deep in places. Our lines meet, and the centre turns into a bloodbath - Spanish troops are being hacked apart by the brave men of Rome. The Spanish were doing slightly better on the flanks, where their mounted warriors had the upper hand on some of my less experienced legions. The time for decisive action had come. I send my javalineers to support the flanks, as horses should be easier to hit than my own men, and send my Generals heavy cavalry straight up the middle to smash into the wavering Spanish infantry. Almost instantly they turn and run, and are ridden down by the heavy cavalry. My infantry from the centre peels to the left and right, encircling the enemy cavalry, cutting down the enemy king and all his family members. I pour my light cavalry through the gap into the enemy rear made up of some war-dogs held in reserve and light slinger units, and they too turn and run. For the loss of 150 Romans we kill 1900 Spanish and take the city of Osca, including their entire Royal family despite being outnumbered almost 2 to 1. With no leadership, the rest of Spain capitulates in a number of months.

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Rome: Total War campaign mode, and a particularly bloody one at that. By 190 BC only the Roman factions and Egypt remain. This battle was noteworthy as being the first one to earn the "Historical Battle" label on the map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 12, 2014, 10:56:58 am

Sneaking through a courtyard, a guard surprises me when he walks by too close for comfort. He doesn't see me, and instead walks by all chill. He promptly gets an elbow to the back of the head, and dragged off into a shadowy corner. His partner, not 30ft away, doesn't hear a thing.

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Splinter Cell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 12, 2014, 11:47:54 am

Quote from: Akura on July 12, 2014, 10:56:58 am

Sneaking through a courtyard, a guard surprises me when he walks by too close for comfort. He doesn't see me, and instead walks by all chill. He promptly gets an elbow to the back of the head, and dragged off into a shadowy corner. His partner, not 30ft away, doesn't hear a thing.

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Splinter Cell.

I haven't played the first SC game in so long. I remember hating the melee attack so much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 12, 2014, 03:22:15 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on July 12, 2014, 11:47:54 am

Quote from: Akura on July 12, 2014, 10:56:58 am

Sneaking through a courtyard, a guard surprises me when he walks by too close for comfort. He doesn't see me, and instead walks by all chill. He promptly gets an elbow to the back of the head, and dragged off into a shadowy corner. His partner, not 30ft away, doesn't hear a thing.

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Splinter Cell.

I haven't played the first SC game in so long. I remember hating the melee attack so much.

IT'S THE WORST. The first two/three SC games were the worst when it came to punching and shooting dudes. I've never spent so much time making sure I was aiming at the VERY TOP of a guy's head in a game. Sometimes if you're crouching or really far away or too close the bad guy gets shot in the face but it doesn't count as a headshot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on July 12, 2014, 04:04:30 pm

I killed like 15 people with a catapult in Mount & Blade: Warband multiplayer, on the GK servers.  Then I morning star'd three Swadian nerds chopping a door.  Then I rushed a breached room the enemy had stormed and taken in the castle, managing to survive for longer than five seconds and kill two dudes before dying.

Man.  I gotta say, besides the griefers and teamwounders, free weekends ain't so bad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on July 12, 2014, 11:20:18 pm

So I've been playing more XCOM: EW Long War, and the Council mission for the infested cargo ship turned up in mid-May, so I'm still operating with the basic ballistic weapons--save a laser pistol for my best sniper--, armor, equipment, &c., my best soldier is a Sergeant (aka 5th rank). I did have the first squad size upgrade, though. So I was taking a squad of seven with starting-level gear against an endless supply of Chryssies.

How did it turn out? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=96ll9FkdCo0#t=424)

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(http://i.imgur.com/xrJlKZ6l.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/eC0UdRLl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/tvar78zl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/BuFTAl0l.jpg)

I planted my snipers on the roof of the pilothouse of one of the smaller boats with the infantry for protection, sent the medics and scout up to make a firing line at the hole in the big ship's hull, and ran the assault along its upper deck to trigger the airstrike, using the snipers to pick off the Chryssies that jumped up after her, while the three down below picked off new spawns with reaction fire. The entire run back to the 'ranger was a fucking mess, though; there were at least three points where the assault was literally one tile too far away for a Chryssie to nom on, and two more where she would have died if not for the snipers.

The only time any of my squad took damage was when I miscalculated and one of the Chrysalids was able to get into attack range of one of the medics... but I got absurdly lucky and it decided to hit him with acid instead of impregnate-nomming. Oh yeah, and of those 39 kills, only two of them were zombies. This adrenaline high, haha! xD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 12, 2014, 11:28:13 pm

Unlocked Super Saiyan mode.

Dwarf fortress version 34.01 DBZ mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on July 12, 2014, 11:40:12 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on July 12, 2014, 11:20:18 pm

So I've been playing more XCOM: EW Long War, and the Council mission for the infested cargo ship turned up in mid-May, so I'm still operating with the basic ballistic weapons--save a laser pistol for my best sniper--, armor, equipment, &c., my best soldier is a Sergeant (aka 5th rank). I did have the first squad size upgrade, though. So I was taking a squad of seven with starting-level gear against an endless supply of Chryssies.

How did it turn out? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=96ll9FkdCo0#t=424)

-Snip-

I planted my snipers on the roof of the pilothouse of one of the smaller boats with the infantry for protection, sent the medics and scout up to make a firing line at the hole in the big ship's hull, and ran the assault along its upper deck to trigger the airstrike, using the snipers to pick off the Chryssies that jumped up after her, while the three down below picked off new spawns with reaction fire. The entire run back to the 'ranger was a fucking mess, though; there were at least three points where the assault was literally one tile too far away for a Chryssie to nom on, and two more where she would have died if not for the snipers.

The only time any of my squad took damage was when I miscalculated and one of the Chrysalids was able to get into attack range of one of the medics... but I got absurdly lucky and it decided to hit him with acid instead of impregnate-nomming. Oh yeah, and of those 39 kills, only two of them were zombies. This adrenaline high, haha! xD

You lucky god. When I did this one, I had laser weapons, and I lost most of my squad. In normal XCOM too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kcwong on July 12, 2014, 11:47:24 pm

I found the Amulet and called it a day.

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Pixel Dungeon.

Playing as probably the easiest class, Warlock, because I don't think I can fully manage the food problem otherwise. It was still a pretty close fight for me.

I started off trying to fight this thing...
(http://i.imgur.com/JLO5dqFl.png) (http://imgur.com/JLO5dqF)
After realizing I can't kill it, I used a potion of invisibility to get away from it.

... and found my real target.
(http://i.imgur.com/RZTd0pPl.png) (http://imgur.com/RZTd0pP)

It took me quite a while to realize I'm not doing any damage because of a bug. So with a earthroot seed and some healing potions wasted, I restarted the game and finally killed the sleeping god.
(http://i.imgur.com/cn7mh5pl.png) (http://imgur.com/cn7mh5p)

I was out of food when I entered the hell levels, and by now starvation is really getting to me. Luckily my dew bottle was full... and it saved me from dying when the final key was right in front of me.

Hurray!
(http://i.imgur.com/DR2blNLl.png) (http://imgur.com/DR2blNL)
(http://i.imgur.com/S66yLBul.png) (http://imgur.com/S66yLBu)

Took me 138 games.
(http://i.imgur.com/e8j9Uusl.png) (http://imgur.com/e8j9Uus)

My ring of evasion +6 is the most crucial factor here... and also plate +6. Weapon-wise I was pretty weak, having used all upgrade scrolls on the ring/armor and a wand of firebolt. Just a blazing knuckleduster +2 and a +0 warhammer.

My wand of telekinesis, while being completely useless in previous levels, saved me here by pushing the fists away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 13, 2014, 12:57:52 pm

Recruited an axedwarf and a human crossbowoman and decided to assault a goblin dark pit to rescue some captives. Along the way, my axedwarf was bruised in a bandit attack, and the crossbowoman was left behind after a river crossing. I camp inside the area of the dark pit, somehow avoiding bogeymen for the night. When I wake up, both companions had caught up to me, but the axedwarf was still hurt and fell behind. Traveling through the pits with the other girl, I climb a tower with some sleeping goblins. Seeing the opportunity, I start killing them. The next tower they're awake, but none of them has any idea what's going on. A few more towers filled with dead goblins later, they finally realize what's happening, and they're scared. By the end of the slaughter(my partner got a few kills herself), I hadn't found any prisoners, but it didn't seem like the goblins were going to take any more.

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DF Adventurer mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 13, 2014, 02:28:56 pm

Dueling people at iron keep bridge.  I've ended up changing my primary weapon to a bow, The Pharis Hunter's black bow to be exact. Fortunately since I've been dex build I don't need to respec.

I'm completely expecting to get my ass handed to me.  Surely during the pre duel pleasantries they can see my bow in my right hand and rapier in the left.  Hell I'm even wearing Pharis' a Hunter's cap.

I defeat 3 people in a row.  I have only ever beaten people at iron keep before due to flukes.  I'm not sure if they are not expecting the arrows or if they are not expecting to get stabbed with a ricard's rapier as they are rolling into melee.   How am I winning?  I sucked at PvP in Dark Souls 1.

Dark souls 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spacefaye on July 13, 2014, 07:07:11 pm

I was playing as a Roboticist and probably half-way to the round, I encountered a Tourist, Ella Highlands. I was just passing and she threw a spear at me, I fell down and tried to chase her, but she just hid. Next time I encountered her, she threw a spear at me again, stripped me of all my clothes, cuffed me, and took my ID. I was just left there, poor and weak, the next encounter I was still cuffed, she was pulling me around, probably looking for a safe place to kill me. I just kept screaming help and nobody even bothered to help, some Engineer helped me, but he thought I was wanted for Security. Anyways, some time later, the shuttle is called, I go to arrivals so I can make a spear and finish off Ella. We encounter each other but she keeps running, anyways, I get robusted again, but this time I have my spear. I keep looking and there I see Ella, struggling with a purple slime. This was the perfect opportunity, so I chased after her, which was easy since the slime slowed her down, and I just kept smashing my spear into her head. Words can't describe how satisfying it was to kill her.

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Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on July 14, 2014, 09:03:49 am

For a minute there I thought it was some sort of tribal simulator until i saw the ID thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on July 14, 2014, 09:34:09 am

To be fair, SS13 does get pretty tribal.  "This is Medbay's territory, if you don't have any business here, get out.  If you do, I still want you to leave."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on July 14, 2014, 01:41:33 pm

nations rounds are fun usually it devolves into me being in rnd makeing enough weapons to stock an armory, and then stuffing it all in a bag of holding and then gun down the most asshole-nation((usually sec)) and its always a dictatorship ((where i rule))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 16, 2014, 05:45:36 am

Win condition: 1,000 guests in the park and a park rating of over 600 by the end of October, year 3.

Current stats: October 3, year 3, 2,262 guests in park, park rating 999. Making over $1k per week in net profit.

I think I have this scenario won. Wish I knew how to take a screenshot. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kobold Troubadour on July 16, 2014, 06:45:32 am

DarkSouls. No HUD Artorias battle.

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(http://i.imgur.com/831lGUD.jpg)

Stopping a mad charge with a point blank headshot with a Dragonslayer bow (basically a giant bow used to shoot lances) w/o manual or lockon aim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 16, 2014, 06:48:54 am

Welp. You did it. You won Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on July 16, 2014, 06:58:31 am

......just for context, I know Dark Souls is already flippin hard, but how much more of a challenge is this, on a scale of 1-10?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 16, 2014, 07:01:04 am

Quote from: tryrar on July 16, 2014, 06:58:31 am

......just for context, I know Dark Souls is already flippin hard, but how much more of a challenge is this, on a scale of 1-10?

Playing with no HUD? Your weapons are visual, and if you only have one item (estus) on the bar you always know what it is. The hard part is knowing how much health and stamina you have left. Solution? Never get hit. :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Recluse on July 16, 2014, 08:50:43 am

I somehow took out a frost dragon with zero restorative potions and zero cold resistance. Just an enchanted dwarven bow, a quiver of dwarven arrows and several sacrificial guards. Took zero damage while I was at it, and this is with my main form of damage dealing being greatswords.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 16, 2014, 03:06:49 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 16, 2014, 02:22:48 pm

Got a perfect on Sacrificed Sons (no deaths through the whole thing), and 3,168,266 points in total.

Beat Hazard Ultra

I'd link to the song, but my internet hates me right now.

Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons - Octivarium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBpLzNwkZw&feature=kp)

All that Fapmastering must have done wonders for your mouse-hand wrist. :P Ridiculously long song is ridiculously long. That said, I much prefer Panic Attack.

(Song picks up in earnest at about 2:30. 4:15 begins regular Dream Theater badassery.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 16, 2014, 08:17:38 pm

What is Beat Hazard, anyway? The way you guys are talking about it makes it sound like osu!, but I can't be bothered to look it up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 16, 2014, 08:22:55 pm

It's a bullet hell that generates the level based on whatever song you plug into it. :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 16, 2014, 08:35:09 pm

That sounds neat. I'll have to look that up! :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 17, 2014, 01:16:58 am

I beat Master Difficulty. Onwards to Grand Master!

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on July 17, 2014, 05:15:28 am

Quote from: Kobold Troubadour on July 16, 2014, 06:45:32 am

w/o manual or lockon aim.

So how did you aim?
Or are you implying that you didn't aim at all and it was a lucky shot?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on July 17, 2014, 10:59:52 am

Got attacked from the side that I had no real cover on in Rimworld - the only defense I had in that direction was a fortified sniper turret, a ruin wall, and some rubble.

Managed to fight off a raid of like 22 with my 8 dudes in spite of this, with only one person even getting incapped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 17, 2014, 01:42:17 pm

Fifteen druids.

I found out what <everything> is weak to! Point-blank annihilation. Alternatively known as lightning bolt.

Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 17, 2014, 01:51:13 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on July 17, 2014, 05:15:28 am

Quote from: Kobold Troubadour on July 16, 2014, 06:45:32 am

w/o manual or lockon aim.

So how did you aim?
Or are you implying that you didn't aim at all and it was a lucky shot?

He means he didn't push a button to aim (locking on/using the targeting reticle). He just eyeballed it while using the normal camera.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 17, 2014, 03:49:06 pm

Managed to beat RedRunRPS in less than 10 minutes on Impossible difficulty. Climbing this level ████ing sucks!!!!

That means:
-1 walljump per-wall (corners and opposing walls come handy for some serious walljumping action; only way to really ascend)
-Mid-air redirection is much less forgiving.
-No mid-air jumping (which can be mistaken as a second-chance walljump)
-Regular gravity (About a little higher than you can really jump IRL; and that includes walljumps. ...Yeah.)
-Regular acceleration (however, an acceleration bug can still be used to your advantage (Bunny-hopping, basically, is a valid tactic); albeit, your chances only suck that much less. They still suck.)
-In summary: This is a platforming nightmare, with ninja-parkour from Hell, which may require lessons from other videogames that involve walljumping (Think of being Samus in Super Metroid with the first time you MUST walljump to get where you need to go (Spring Ball upgrade, I think it was). Ugh. Now make that a 1st-person ordeal.).
-Did I forget to mention that this is a rather tall level? Not the highest/tallest, but it still requires some climbing effort, and long jumps (150 km/s minimum, to be safe-ish on your jumping, with maybe a walljump to add some extra distance; 50-50 chance of success, depending on your aim/trajectory and reflexes to jump further and/or catch yourself on the other platform if you JUST short it.).

Spoiler: Screenshot of proof (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/35218420230685330/D16ED38F7BD0C8C429265C8C7B1A9AB1AA005D05/)
Link (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=286753459)

InMomentum

A rather under-rated game here. 3D-Platforming at it's finest. I hope it eventually becomes Oculus Rift-compatible. That would be awesome.

EDIT:
Since the game operates on Unreal Engine 3, I think it would come standard with OR; naturally, post-update.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sonerohi on July 17, 2014, 05:40:04 pm

Playing the Floris mod for Mount & Blade:Warband. Running my own faction, only have Dhirim and Ergellon castle, so all holdings are crucial. Bitter war with the Swadians is raging, it's all I can do to ride back and forth along the front, regularly charging into battle with 2-1 odds or worse, only winning because every last soldier I have is a war hardened bastard. The news comes: Dhirim is under siege. Race back, recruiting at every location on the way, dumping items and slower units for just a few points of travel speed - the best soldier can't help if he doesn't arrive to the fight. There are roughly 1100 Swadian soldiers on hand, maybe 500 of them are low tier levees that don't matter, the rest are good enough to go man to man against my forces, a good 100 are very high tier units that I will personally need to engage. My garrison plus my force numbers 350. I fully expect to lose every last one of my men, see my capitol looted, and my nation dissolved. But I fight anyways, and the battle goes surprisingly well. Over the span of four hours, the first wave comes and is repulsed, the enemy losing some 200 of their fodder, my forces taking no deaths but suffering some 30 men too wounded to fight. A reprieve of a half day. Another wave. 150 of theirs for 40 of ours. Their better units are coming in now, and we have already reached the tipping point. Another reprieve. Third wave. Reprieve. Fourth wave. They still number nearly 400, and we number 100, but their men are fresh while ours are battered and in low spirits. And then, during what I thought would be the final reprieve, the last gasp of a dying dream, in rides 2200 Sarranid soldiers, hell bent on wrecking Swadian shit and willing to attack the siege camps for what I assume to be "the lulz". I rode out and joined them in their attack, and managed to capture the Swadian king for it. I don't know how to end this story. I guess now I regroup, build numbers, and pre-empt any more sieges.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on July 17, 2014, 11:26:07 pm

So, a random army just waltzed along, obliterated the enemy, and kept moving? Nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on July 17, 2014, 11:35:38 pm

Quote from: kisame12794 on July 17, 2014, 11:26:07 pm

So, a random army just waltzed along, obliterated the enemy, and kept moving? Nice.

Guess you were saved by Swadian war mongering.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on July 18, 2014, 03:03:16 am

Two blessings of Balor on my Itzli's Handblade that has spirit of the hoarder naturally.  Two rooms back to back with golden grunts in them, and playing on Midas in general.  Got to fight Ascended Hanuman and wrecked his face.

Ascendant.  It's a really fun game if you're into rogue-likes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 18, 2014, 01:36:58 pm

The Haven faction seems really underpowered. I'm not sure how being able to spend gold to upgrade units (Training) compares to being able to spend a couple more levels and annihilate entire armies in one turn (Avenger, Sylvan). As a result of this, I roundly defeated my brother.

Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 18, 2014, 03:51:12 pm

594 kills - You have unlocked blind survival mode!

Next game:
554 kills- You have unlocked No Luca No mode!

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: gigaraptor487 on July 18, 2014, 06:56:23 pm

Killed full platoon of spetznaz (40 of them) with a zippo. The proceeded to murder their expensive MI 8s with stingers.

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Wargame : Red Dragon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 18, 2014, 07:18:28 pm

Quote from: gigaraptor487 on July 18, 2014, 06:56:23 pm

Killed full platoon of spetznaz (40 of them) with a zippo. The proceeded to murder their expensive MI 8s with stingers.

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Wargame : Red Dragon

My finest moment in that game (I haven't had it for that long) was killing four Abrams with a motley collection of eight far cheaper Soviet tanks.   I set them at the base of a hill and when the Abrams crested my tanks blasted them at close range, where their armor didn't count for shit.

Then the tanks all got blown up by two cluster bombers, but they were someone else's cluster bombers and my allies weren't helping much, so I still count it as a semi-win.  Plus I eventually captured a different point and from there flanked the point the Abrams were defending and took it too.  Then my allies decided to rush the extremely defensible enemy base across an open field from the point I had captured, rather than take the two remaining enemy points that we could now attack from multiple directions.  Idiots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on July 18, 2014, 10:33:33 pm

I've had a few decent ones in Red Dragon recently. Completely blunting 2 players' opening heli assault in a 10v10 using only 2 AA helis, which netted me 550 points for no losses. They'd managed to disembark, but splash on the TY-90 seems to be pretty large, and shooting the transport helis hovering just above their SAS and Stinger Cs caught the infantry in the explosion, netting me kills I had no business getting.

same game, sneaking the NK SU-25K (the one with 8 500kg bombs, possibly the best bomber in redfor) around the blu air defense net and catching a battery of 4 Paladins unawares. They all died. 480 points in one bombing run.

what're your names ingame? I'm (unsurprisingly) Burnt Pies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 18, 2014, 10:36:25 pm

Enigmatic Hat.

Since the actual thread seems to be dead, I'll ask here: are all the games really defensive, or is that just with newbs?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on July 18, 2014, 10:44:23 pm

Quote from: Burnt Pies on July 18, 2014, 10:33:33 pm

what're your names ingame? I'm (unsurprisingly) Burnt Pies.

Well,for single player I'm either Starn,Starn Gundar,or Satner.

For multiplayer I just go with Blaze.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on July 18, 2014, 10:45:23 pm

I find the 10v10s usually feature a good fight, though it's also frequently chaos. Destruction can turn into sitting back and watching the artillery shells go by because there's no way you can crack their defenses, and it doesn't make sense for the winning team to attack in a conquest match. Defending is easier than attacking, so in general if the player doesn't need to attack in order to win, they won't bother.

Given the state of the game right now, I rarely play anything other than 10v10s or against friends. Not a fan of the current meta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 18, 2014, 11:23:54 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 18, 2014, 03:51:12 pm

594 kills - You have unlocked blind survival mode!

Next game:
554 kills- You have unlocked No Luca No mode!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

Glad to see other folks playing this :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 18, 2014, 11:35:22 pm

I saw your thing about getting 3000+ kills on survival.  I'm not even sure I want to do that, that would be physically painful to my fingers.  Probably.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 18, 2014, 11:46:32 pm

Try using the arrow keys instead of the mouse buttons. I find that I can react and press buttons faster that way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draxis on July 19, 2014, 09:11:57 am

Just got #0 on the Broforce mission with the Terrorcopter.  Presumably, that means the best time in the world, though the actual leaderboard isn't shown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 19, 2014, 11:45:03 am

Completely rolled over my rival, with him barely scratching my team. Felt pretty good, given how he acts in the game and how relatively hard the trainers before him were.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Omicron, in my LP.

Quote from: gigaraptor487 on July 18, 2014, 06:56:23 pm

Killed full platoon of spetznaz (40 of them) with a zippo. The proceeded to murder their expensive MI 8s with stingers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wargame : Red Dragon

Spoiler: I read that as you killing them with a lighter. (click to show/hide)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Zippo-Lighter_Gold-Dust_w_brass-insert.jpg/640px-Zippo-Lighter_Gold-Dust_w_brass-insert.jpg)

Which makes it more awesome than it probably was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: gigaraptor487 on July 19, 2014, 05:08:19 pm

in the game it may as well be however it looks more like this:

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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7160/6445595759_a4dcccd6a0_z.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Qkoa0hK.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 19, 2014, 05:24:10 pm

So still a lighter then. Just a really big one. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 19, 2014, 07:55:39 pm

Recruited Brady with little issue. In his paralogue, he comes equipped with a staff and nothing else, and thus cannot attack. The villagers who insisted on defending him are weaponless, and thus cannot attack either.

In contrast, the enemies are mid level Snipers, Paladins, Dark Mages and Myrmidons, while the leader is a Swordmaster.

Sent Panne, My Unit and Morgan in, and they routed most of the enemy, only losing one villager in the process to a longbow shot. Morgan managed to hit 180 damage with a crit.

On the other side of the field, the newly Trickster'd Gaius, and Yarne, who has got Astra now, picked off the rest of the army.

Einherjar Marth got the final kill on the boss, and narrowly avoided death himself.

(Also, I finally got My Unit to have Counter, so i'm looking forward to pissing off Streetpass players. Counter/Lifetaker/Ignis/Astra/Zeal is what I have at the moment)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 19, 2014, 07:59:03 pm

Quote from: Reudh on July 19, 2014, 07:55:39 pm

Recruited Brady with little issue. In his paralogue, he comes equipped with a staff and nothing else, and thus cannot attack. The villagers who insisted on defending him are weaponless, and thus cannot attack either.

In contrast, the enemies are mid level Snipers, Paladins, Dark Mages and Myrmidons, while the leader is a Swordmaster.

Sent Panne, My Unit and Morgan in, and they routed most of the enemy, only losing one villager in the process to a longbow shot. Morgan managed to hit 180 damage with a crit.

On the other side of the field, the newly Trickster'd Gaius, and Yarne, who has got Astra now, picked off the rest of the army.

Einherjar Marth got the final kill on the boss, and narrowly avoided death himself.

(Also, I finally got My Unit to have Counter, so i'm looking forward to pissing off Streetpass players. Counter/Lifetaker/Ignis/Astra/Zeal is what I have at the moment)

Fire Emblem for sure, but which game? Awakening?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 20, 2014, 07:26:41 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 19, 2014, 07:59:03 pm

Quote from: Reudh on July 19, 2014, 07:55:39 pm

Recruited Brady with little issue. In his paralogue, he comes equipped with a staff and nothing else, and thus cannot attack. The villagers who insisted on defending him are weaponless, and thus cannot attack either.

In contrast, the enemies are mid level Snipers, Paladins, Dark Mages and Myrmidons, while the leader is a Swordmaster.

Sent Panne, My Unit and Morgan in, and they routed most of the enemy, only losing one villager in the process to a longbow shot. Morgan managed to hit 180 damage with a crit.

On the other side of the field, the newly Trickster'd Gaius, and Yarne, who has got Astra now, picked off the rest of the army.

Einherjar Marth got the final kill on the boss, and narrowly avoided death himself.

(Also, I finally got My Unit to have Counter, so i'm looking forward to pissing off Streetpass players. Counter/Lifetaker/Ignis/Astra/Zeal is what I have at the moment)

Fire Emblem for sure, but which game? Awakening?

You are correct.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on July 20, 2014, 06:01:21 pm

Finally beat Atom Zombie Smasher despite owning it for a few years. Artillery and snipers are awesome.

Of note: Level 4 infections are significantly easier then level 3 infections to beat due to the fact that there are no civilians to protect.
Level 3 infections are also much larger threats bizarrely. Level 4 infections have already done their spreading, but level 3 ones will be triggered by any nearby level 4 getting created or a level 1 being added on top.
Also, if you *can* clear a level 3 territory you can get over 1000 points compared to the measly 100 you get from a level 4. Due to this despite the game saying that you want to use the cannon to clear a level 4, you really want to use it to clear a level 3. (Unless you really need the scientists).
Getting a new territory (instead of having it turn into a dead territory) is also very important, far more important then the number of civilians you can get out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Atom Zombie Smasher, duh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2014, 10:58:48 am

Playing as the Spartans. Before now, the only war I had was when Yang demanded some high-level tech I got from an artifact and I refused. He begged for a Blood Truce the second I landed my first troops.

Miriam, however, tried to extort a ludicrous amount of Energy from me(400, which I only had at the time due to a Solar Flare). Think about that, Miriam is trying extort money from the faction centered around kicking people in the face. Hell, the Spartan morning wakeup drill starts with kicking drones in the face right out of bed. I land some troops at The Rapture, a coastal base roughly in the center of her empire. I also nab one of the nearby ocean bases.

Almost immediately, Miraim starts pounding The Rapture with Laser Artillery and those xenofungus artillery things. Then she started blasting the farms and other infrastructure surrounding the base, resulting in some starvation loss. Then she sent a Probe Team to infect the place with a virus. That's right, she just bombarded her own people, then starved thousands of them to death, then used biological weapons on them. At this point, I decide that peace is impossible and her people would be a hell of a lot safer being conquered and occupied. Even so, she's trying to bribe me for peace with just 25 EC(remember, she tried to extort 400).

Oh, and they never retook The Rapture. Instead, my troops, armed with Chaos weapons(very high level tech, thanks to artifacts mostly), held out against dozens of bombardments per turn, and eventually I produced cheap infantry that was able to hold off direct attacks without taking a scratch. Even if they could take out a single defender, I could produce another quick enough to stop any further attack. The distraction provided by the soldiers occupying The Rapture allowed me to slip more troops and attack from the south. The war is still going on, but Miriam has lost all of the bases south of The Rapture, and she's clearly spending far to much in support for all that artillery that she's economically paralyzed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alpha Centauri.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 21, 2014, 01:34:26 pm

Payday 2.

Got in a group with friends, and we just went full overkill non-stealth levels. Every corner we turned had a bulldozer and an army of shields. Every time we stopped for a single second a cloaker appeared. At one time, I placed a tripmine under a vent. Less than a second later a cloaker pops out. Bulldozers often came in waves of 3. We still won anyway, and I got from 52 to 58 in one heist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 21, 2014, 07:50:55 pm

Group ownage:
I was flying around with my day-old Romulan character and his brand-new Warbird when the call to defend against a Borg incursion came in. Wanting to do something nutty, I accepted at once. I've tried this event multiple times with my older, more powerful Star Fleet character to no success.
This time however, I got lucky. Many of the other players were clearly more advanced than I was, and all of us together obliterated probe, sphere, and cube after cube. When the massive Borg Flagship showed up, we fell upon it as one and destroyed it in about five minutes. Very exciting battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Trek Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 22, 2014, 12:22:03 am

Managed to finally recruit Priam.

He's probably one of the toughest units to recruit outside of DLC units - he has Axebreaker, Lancebreaker and Swordbreaker, as well as Sol and Luna, two VERY useful attacking units.

This basically means even engaging Priam in melee AT ALL is very risky indeed - you lose 50% accuracy if you're using ANY melee weapon due to his three Breaker skills, plus he can heal off any damage you manage to hit with Sol, and deal hefty damage back using Luna.

Not to mention, the grand majority of his army, who number 50 to your 30, are all VERY high leveled, high statted enemies of varied classes, most of which have their leading stat in the early 40s (to put this in comparison, My Unit/Robin is maxed out at 46 str, with mid 30s in other stats).

Really the only way I could do this was flee from his advancing field, hire some Streetpass units that I could afford to lose, and use them as frontline fighters. (Because hell, a PC that i recruited on the train had ASTRA and GALEFORCE.) Pairing up weaker units (read: anything with <80 HP) with the stronger ones (Morgan, My Unit, Panne, Flavia, Yarne and Aversa were by far the best ones here. Emmeryn also managed pretty well, despite only having 68 HP.)

I didn't lose a single of my core army, though I lost two recruited PCs, "King Turtle", a Hero with 58 HP and maxed out skill, "Cienroth", a Sorceror who was far too weak at 48 HP but hit decently with Mire from afar. A third recruited PC came within a hair's breadth of defeat, at 1/80 HP and managing to dodge a shot that had an 87% chance to hit.

All in all, it was an intense and greatly fun map to play.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem Awakening: Paralogue 23, "The Radiant Hero".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Samio on July 22, 2014, 07:39:31 am

While not in a "game" per se, I had quite a fun time browsing Youtube comments on a "make the comment be more complicated but still have the same premise and perhaps even better grammar."-kinda game. I dunno how better to describe it than an example. I may make a forum game off of it and link it here, come to think of it.

Original Comment:
"hey wacth your mouth you said fuck ravens the ravens win the super bowl last year dont say bad word to the raven they my team and i have this game on my xbox360" (for the record, he was commenting on a Madden NFL 13 Soundtrack video. No, I'm not interested in that, I honestly have no idea whatsoever how I got there.)
 
I started off with a simple upscale in terms of complexity and grammatical correctness.

"Hello, sir. Please keep in full mental control of your verbal faculties, especially regarding your recent comments about the American Football team known as the Ravens (no relation to the Corvus Corax, aside from a few promotional items) and their sexual habits. The Ravens won the ultimate prize in American Football known as the Super Bowl. Please do not say words that are of an insurgent purpose to the Ravens. Indeed, the Ravens are the team that I abide by as a fan. I also have Madden NFL 13 on my XBOX 360."

Then, I moved on to a secondary challenge, which was to take everything in comment as literally as possible.

"Hello, sir. Please look into a reflective surface and look upon your mouth. Gaze upon it's past actions. You communicated with said orifice your desire to have a very uncanny amount of sexual relations with the bird known as the Corvus Corax, or commonly known as the Raven. Said bird achieved victory at a particularly large and deep bowl known as the Super Bowl in the past year. Do not say expletives to the Raven. They, my team, and I have this game on my XBOX 360. In other words, the Ravens, my team, and me personally own this game."

Much creative fun was had this day.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Recluse on July 22, 2014, 10:12:31 am

Took on the Humanis Policlub during a datasteal while playing terribly due to two days worth of sleep deprivation. Came out with zero casualties and enough nuyen to get my decker some dermal plating, a new cyberdeck and a new outfit. Did not expect that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 22, 2014, 10:28:56 am

Whelp, Miriam is no more. After I started taking over her southern bases, for some reason she decided to pull all of her artillery to a single base, giving the large number of units holding The Rapture a turn to full-heal(thanks to the Command Nexus). About the same time, I was able to land reinforcements. Funnily enough, I had nearly run out of Energy during the campaign, so I used my ridiculous majority vote to salvage the Unity core. Next turn, Miriam try to bribe me off with a significant 425 EC, but that number dropped during subsequent turns. Eventually, she tried to offer herself in a subjugation treaty, but I refused that, since I didn't want someone crazy enough to massacre thousands of her own people the second someone else's troops walk into the place hanging around. Even more funny is that when I told her there was no surrender, she suddenly got severe delusions of grandeur.

Following the war, I found I should be able to build a land bridge to Zharkarov's continent, which is only half-colonized. That'll teach the bastard to jump-build The Longevity Vaccine without warning, just turns before I finish it.
Getting one to Yang's continent, that might be harder.

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Alpha Centauri

Quote from: Samio on July 22, 2014, 07:39:31 am

Much creative fun was had this day.  8)

That was pretty funny, actually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 22, 2014, 10:34:15 am

Vaal Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Minion Health.
Plant on boss; run away; come back when the screaming stops and pick up the shinies.

Not sure if broken.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Path of Exile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on July 22, 2014, 10:49:19 am

Quote from: Something Evil on July 22, 2014, 10:34:15 am

Vaal Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Minion Health.
Plant on boss; run away; come back when the screaming stops and pick up the shinies.

Not sure if broken.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Path of Exile.

What level was the boss and what level were you? :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 22, 2014, 12:41:34 pm

Killed my first black knight, the one at the top of the tower near the bridge where you can get the drake sword. Killed it by parrying with my zweihander and stunlocking it with power attacks. Took a bunch of attempts, and deaths, but I did it.

Got a titanite shard and the black knight greatsword out of it. Aaaaw yiss.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 23, 2014, 10:47:03 am

Alright, now Yang is bugging out. Every time one of his units get near mine, I get four notifications of "I have an urgent message from Chairman Yang, switching to main viewscreen." and then a message from Yang about my constant religious prattling and that he's declaring Vendetta against me, despite that fact that we already have a Vendetta, and I'm Santiago, not Miriam, although I do have the Fundamentalist setting active(balances surprisingly well with Knowledge).

It won't matter in the end, though, I've already taken a third of his bases and have a column of Shard Hovertanks blitzkrieging towards The Hive. The only thing giving me pause is the fact that he has a Fission Planetbuster garrisonned at The Hive. I managed to get a good foothold by mind-controlling a few bases before the Probe Team died from the side-effects of mind control.

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Alpha Centauri.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 24, 2014, 11:12:53 pm

Quote from: Wysthric on July 22, 2014, 10:49:19 am

Quote from: Something Evil on July 22, 2014, 10:34:15 am

Vaal Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Minion Health.
Plant on boss; run away; come back when the screaming stops and pick up the shinies.

Not sure if broken.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Path of Exile.

What level was the boss and what level were you? :)

Merc, 65ish GC witch, 62ish bosses. Works great against rogue exiles too.

The only things the gem has a problem with is teeny tiny corrupted areas (Disused furnance, Neglected Cellar) that don't provide enough souls for a charge, and bosses that do heavy AoE (Curator Miem from Disused furnance, Rima from the Cellar)...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 24, 2014, 11:24:40 pm

Fighting a 6th dan (?) Black belt with a red camo texture. The way he was talking was pretty confident, since he was the highest belt rank in the tourney. I decided to open by swiftly kicking him in the lumbar. It split him in half. I swung his upper half over me, and slammed it headfirst on the ground. Disqualified. Tomato wins.

"6th dan getting kicked apart by a... brown belt?"

"How far the great have fallen." ~Two random guys

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Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 24, 2014, 11:37:29 pm

So how's the clan fund coming along Tomato? (Hey you're not a gun! I'm a gun! D:<)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 24, 2014, 11:49:18 pm

I've barely had any time to play, but I've recently made it to 5000TC selling textures. I'm gonna try and make a good one, so I can get it all in one swoop. 15000TC is what a clan costs, and I've seen sets and even single textures sell for more than that, but only the good ones. Chances are, I'll end up going back into my comfort zone by sketching something by hand, scanning it and coloring it.

Should this fail, I will most likely unequip everything on my Tori, effectively selling my entire body to someone else for a huge sum of money. Only a last resort, though. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on July 24, 2014, 11:55:06 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on July 24, 2014, 11:49:18 pm

I've barely had any time to play, but I've recently made it to 5000TC selling textures. I'm gonna try and make a good one, so I can get it all in one swoop. 15000TC is what a clan costs, and I've seen sets and even single textures sell for more than that, but only the good ones. Chances are, I'll end up going back into my comfort zone by sketching something by hand, scanning it and coloring it.

Should this fail, I will most likely unequip everything on my Tori, effectively selling my entire body to someone else for a huge sum of money. Only a last resort, though. :P

What's a clan do anyway?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 24, 2014, 11:58:07 pm

All I know is that we'd be able to participate in official clan tournaments.

And besides, I just want an excuse to put [DORF] before all our names.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on July 25, 2014, 12:24:43 am

Quote from: IronTomato on July 24, 2014, 11:58:07 pm

All I know is that we'd be able to participate in official clan tournaments.

And besides, I just want an excuse to put [DORF] before all our names.

[DORF] Starn1...

Maybe I just need a new username.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 25, 2014, 10:52:58 am

I've got most of Planet conquered. All that's left is The University. I have an obscene income, so I can quickly corner the energs market. I can build the Voice of Planet/Ascent to Transcendance in 2 turns max. I can easily roll over The University's defences.

So how do I win?

Spoiler: By putting an archipelago where there was a continent (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/XoDif7D.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/fwm8zf8.jpg)

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Alphac Centauri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on July 25, 2014, 12:34:19 pm

I was invading people in the Painted World as a spirit of vengeance.

I invaded someone, buffed myself, ran up to find them at the bonfire, and realized... they were AFK. I decided to announce myself with a friendly stab to the back, but after they got up and still didn't respond it was clear they were actually away and not just not paying attention.

Now, I'm generally the last person to go in for "honourable PVP" stuff, since I think it goes against the spirit of the game, and especially since the people I can invade have by definition already proven themselves to be jerks. That said, I'm already literally swimming in ears and am not quite a terrible enough person to kill someone who's utterly defenseless for no meaningful gain.

So I waited for a bit, tossing out a periodic "HELLO", to no avail. In the end, I attacked them a few more times until they had only a sliver of health remaining, dropped a circle of glowing prism stones around their feet, and left their game.

My way of saying "I was here, your life was in my hands, and I spared it."

I only wish I could've seen their reaction when they returned.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 26, 2014, 04:55:33 am

With Advanced Defense, Vitality, Battle Frenzy and a Necklace of the Bloody Claw, goblins are unholy. Nine hitpoints, sixteen defense, and 4-4 damage. Did I mention the fact that I had six hundred of them?

Edit: Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sergarr on July 26, 2014, 09:24:36 am

Quote from: Arx on July 26, 2014, 04:55:33 am

With Advanced Defense, Vitality, Battle Frenzy and a Necklace of the Bloody Claw, goblins are unholy. Nine hitpoints, sixteen defense, and 4-4 damage. Did I mention the fact that I had six hundred of them?

Edit: Heroes of Might and Magic V.

4-4 damage?! That's INSANE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 26, 2014, 02:33:49 pm

Quote from: Sergarr on July 26, 2014, 09:24:36 am

Quote from: Arx on July 26, 2014, 04:55:33 am

With Advanced Defense, Vitality, Battle Frenzy and a Necklace of the Bloody Claw, goblins are unholy. Nine hitpoints, sixteen defense, and 4-4 damage. Did I mention the fact that I had six hundred of them?

Edit: Heroes of Might and Magic V.

4-4 damage?! That's INSANE.

It's ludicrous. They basically get to be able to take down whole stacks of Tier Seven units in one shot. They're way less* overpowered if you don't get the Necklace, though, because then they only have 3-3. I'm not exactly sure how you're supposed to kill them. I mean, a charge from a stack of Champions kills a ton, but that often doesn't cut it. And it's not like they're the only creatures in the army, either.

*Less overpowered, but still ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 26, 2014, 04:09:05 pm

Destroyed an all legendary team in Pokemon X-Y triples.  I do that often enough that I imagine that's not actually much of an accomplishment.

But this time I did it without a single poke fainting, not even my usual suicide sceptile. I opened by taunting their darkrai and one shotting their Xernas with a grass fire pledge combo, my sceptile took a lethal hit but stayed up with his focus sash, then sceptile took advantage of his overgrow and sun boosted solar beam to one shot or very nearly one shot (enough for the firestorm from the pledge to finish them) every single thing it got it's eyes on.  Sceptile's least productive turn was worry seeding away a Rayquaza's air lock near the end, when it died from a combination of smack down and dragon pulse from my other pokes that turn anyway.

Despite the fact that they were trying to do a full team sleep with a darkrai and I feel people who do that in triples deserve a special place in hell, I think this guy deserves some kudos for actually sticking around for the whole fight.  Usually people ragequit and force DC the moment their darkrai is taunted let alone when all their hacked shiny legendaries start dropping like flies to the likes of Sceptile.

Pokemon Y Random Triple battles

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 27, 2014, 01:00:43 am

At long last, Lady Chun Li V, a balding, foul-mouthed Barbarian Queen achieved what 96 of her ancestors had failed to do: get out of that blasted castle alive. And, you know, kill the final boss in the process.

What's all the more impressive is that she did it with 7 HP remaining, no mana, and a near-undodgeable attack roughly 5 seconds away from connecting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rogue Legacy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 27, 2014, 01:35:12 am

Is that one of the default names or did you watch the Star_ video?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2014, 01:50:17 am

My final game, Critters 2 (an evolution sim), sold more than 10 million copies with no help from a publisher. It was easily my most profitable game, making over $140M after development costs and is still going.
Shortly after that, I won the game :D

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Game Dev Tycoon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on July 27, 2014, 03:21:52 am

Not exactly owning, but I did really well against my dad in a friendly game of Warhammer Fantasy. I was running a High Elf list, which was also my first time ever playing High Elves. He runs a Vampire Counts army, and is very, very good with it. Thankfully, he decided not to use his main list, which is a fairly small army with the majority of the points going into a unit of 5 extraordinarily powerful blood knights mounted on nightmares, accompanied by a level 4 vampire. It's a nigh-unkillable unit capable of making devastating attacks, and shrugging off pretty much anything.
Even then, though, I figured I didn't have much of a chance, since HE is known for being fairly mediocre, while VC is known for being powerful, and I was a newb to both my army and the game in general, while he knew his well. I still lost by quite a bit (He actually killed every model in my army), but I manage to completely destroy his unit of ghouls, deal 3 wounds on his terrorgeist (A big zombified dragon-esque thing) out of 6, get a wound on his Mortis Engine (A big spell-casting ghost chariot), and take out several of his well-equipped grave guard, though several of them got brought back to un-life by Invocation of Nehek. If I had concentrated fire on the Grave Guard instead of the Ghouls, moved my phoenix a bit better, and remembered that Arcane Unforgiving is an extremely awesome spell against vampires with very expensive and powerful magic swords, I might have actually stood something resembling a chance of winning.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on July 27, 2014, 08:23:09 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 27, 2014, 01:50:17 am

My final game, Critters 2 (an evolution sim), sold more than 10 million copies with no help from a publisher. It was easily my most profitable game, making over $140M after development costs and is still going.
Shortly after that, I won the game :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Game Dev Tycoon

Now, embrace MMOs.

Spoiler: Doooo eeeeeet (click to show/hide)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img708/4061/h59u.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on July 27, 2014, 10:04:49 am

I am intrigued by Steam Scalies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2014, 10:10:47 am

Quote from: da_nang on July 27, 2014, 08:23:09 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 27, 2014, 01:50:17 am

My final game, Critters 2 (an evolution sim), sold more than 10 million copies with no help from a publisher. It was easily my most profitable game, making over $140M after development costs and is still going.
Shortly after that, I won the game :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Game Dev Tycoon

Now, embrace MMOs.

Spoiler: Doooo eeeeeet (click to show/hide)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img708/4061/h59u.jpg)

R&D is working on it :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 27, 2014, 10:31:37 am

I stormed Thunder and Lightning. I assassinated Lincoln and Taft. I erased Phineas and Pherb. I blew up Papa and Smurf. I cut Biggie and Smalls down to size. I slew Dragonslayer Ornstein and executed Executioner Smough.

And it only took me 6 tries on my first playthrough.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Killed Smalls first, then Biggie. I wouldn't have used the ring Ornstein drops for killing him last anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 27, 2014, 10:37:04 am

Hold on I need to remember the order here.

_{^{Lesse you think gargoyles are hard wait til capra demon... you think capra demon is hard wait til blighttown... you think blighttown was hard wait til sen's fortress... you think sens fortress is hard wait til Pikachu and Snorlax... You think pikachu and snorelax is hard wait til.}}

Ah there we go, You think Pikachu and Snorlax was hard wait til Four Kings...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 27, 2014, 11:29:37 am

Honestly, I didn't really consider Ornstein and Smough "hard". 4 out of 6 tries I managed to at least kill O before dying. Heck, the time I managed to kill them both I was having loads of fun fighting Smough.

They weren't nearly as frustrating as the Bell Gargoyles when I had lousy equipment, the Crapper Demon and those stupid dogs, or Spiderbabe Quelaag and having to make the long trek from the Blighttown bonfire to Quelaag's domain every time I died.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on July 27, 2014, 11:44:27 am

I honestly thought the Capra Demon was one of the easiest bosses. Just cheese him on the stairs, instawin. Him and Quellag I both beat first try. I had more trouble with the Bell Gargoyles and that dog with the sword in its mouth whose name escapes me at the moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on July 27, 2014, 01:10:08 pm

You're thinking Sif. I only really got stopped at Sens and the Four kings, but when I got stopped I got STOPPED. Month long rage quit type. 
Four kings is just a DPS race I wasn't ready for, and the only way to make it through Sens is to have the right timing, which can only be acquired by having gone through Sens before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on July 27, 2014, 03:44:36 pm

Quote from: Greiger on July 27, 2014, 10:37:04 am

Ah there we go, You think Pikachu and Snorlax was hard wait til Four Kings...

Or alternatively, wait until you actually have to kill Ceaseless.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 27, 2014, 03:53:19 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on July 27, 2014, 11:44:27 am

I honestly thought the Capra Demon was one of the easiest bosses. Just cheese him on the stairs, instawin. Him and Quellag I both beat first try. I had more trouble with the Bell Gargoyles and that dog with the sword in its mouth whose name escapes me at the moment.

Capra demon is only difficult because of the dogs that stunlock you when you enter. If you can dispatch both of them before Crapra lumbers up to you, you're fine. Most of his moves can be directly blocked, and those that can't can be dodged. You can also abuse plunging attacks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 27, 2014, 04:18:17 pm

Tearing ass through Seacrest County's freeways, against traffic (and quite a few cars at a time) the whole way (averaging a 1500 yard bonus at a time), averaging between 160-180mph (186mph maximum post-nitro) in a Jaguar XKR (my dream car; it's so fun to drive). I only crashed 3 times through the whole freeway, once against cars (took about 2 out with me), and twice against bad judgement and hitting a divider.

Spoiler: Screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/30715603687798760/1CC2DA605C26AF5568A770E5F587CA26D64E98C3/)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Freedrive Mode)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 27, 2014, 07:36:46 pm

I... I just iced Gravicius. Literally. Popped Vaal Skelemans on him, then Glacial Cascaded him to pieces. He didn't get to DO anything.
And this is in Merciless.

In Cruel and Normal, he took me several tries.
And this is with about a third of my estimated ideal DPS.

I'm scared.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Path of Exile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 28, 2014, 03:34:30 am

Ho-lee shit viruses are nasty. After a very fast start which saw Coughing, Sneezing, and Nausea in rapid succession, I actually had to repeatedly devolve my virus (known as Titan Plague) because it kept randomly mutating Total Organ Failure and killing people faster than they could be infected. By the end of the game I had more DNA than I could really spend.

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Plague Inc: Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on July 28, 2014, 03:43:24 am

Fighting the giant bull demon thing whose name I forgot. Try to roll out of the way of an attack, only to roll off the bridge into oblivion. The demon then promptly follows me and counts as me slaying it.
Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on July 28, 2014, 04:24:07 am

Spoiler: Real spoilers ahead (click to show/hide)

Made the railway gun Cat-G eat a cobalt shell for the final time. Only took about eight tries for me to kill that boss.

Lost Planet 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 28, 2014, 05:31:13 am

Rushed berserker-style into the middle of a swirling melee, managed to stunlock and kill a hunter. Even though I died seconds afterword, it felt soooo good to be on the other side of that situation for a change.

World of Warcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 28, 2014, 06:09:59 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 28, 2014, 05:31:13 am

Rushed berserker-style into the middle of a swirling melee, managed to stunlock and kill a hunter. Even though I died seconds afterword, it felt soooo good to be on the other side of that situation for a change.

World of Warcraft.

Class?


Edit: And now I killed Rima without dying. I LOVE this gem. :D
Edit 2: And that was my first Piety kill without dying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 28, 2014, 09:18:21 am

Gas station map, starting behind the structure, already eliminated one squad of Sectoids in the alley right out the bat.  Accidentally activated a squad of Sectoids out of the truck stop which also triggered a squad of Drones out of the garage at the same time, while I was sitting in the pump area - in other words, a classic pincer with me stuck in a very flammable vise.  Had an LMG Gunner and Shotgun Assault on the roof over the gas pumps, though, so I ripped the Drones to pieces, connecting with every shot that mattered, even on 46% chance to hit shots.  I then swept up the Sectoids without even breaking a sweat.  I love LMG Gunners.  Squadsight Suppression is a beautiful thing, and Flashbangs are so useful in dealing with enemy suppression. 

Also, actually hit my target with a Rocket on a Council mission - with Long War's spread mechanic, I'm pretty sure that counts, too. ^_^

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XCOM: Enemy Within, Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 28, 2014, 09:34:48 pm

There is nothing left for me to do in Session Mode in Rocksmith 2014, aside from jamming with the robo-band.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 28, 2014, 10:38:03 pm

The very first game of TF2 I played was KoTH Harvest, as a Heavy.  My first unlock was the Buffalo Steak Sandvich.  I'm trying it out on the point when, midway through the animation, a spy rushes in and uncloaks behind me where my team can't see.  Unbeknownst to him I saw him, and have my camera aimed in his direction.  When the animation finishes I click, causing heavy to instantly spin around and one-shot him with an uppercut.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on July 28, 2014, 11:01:38 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on July 28, 2014, 10:45:48 pm

Pretty sure you can guess what happened next  8).

Actually no,I haven't played TF2,wouldn't backstabbing get you noticed or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on July 28, 2014, 11:18:36 pm

Unless you have the camera pointed at yourself somehow, you can't see behind you.
So he stabs the guy in the back... in the back.
The rest of the line is still looking away, and probably didn't hear anything, because it's a dang noisy game.
So he stabs the next guy in line... in the back.
And so on and so forth.
Spies often go unnoticed because you don't notice them until you're already dead from being stabbed in the back.

Unless that spy is me. Apparently I can't sneak for beans. But on the other hand, I can go on a shotgun rampage as completely vanilla heavy like nobodies business, killing like 3 pyros, 2 spies, 3 engineers, 4 camped out snipers, and countless scouts before being killed. I did not encounter any demos or other heavies that whole time. Hot streak my ass, I went supernova. If I recall correctly, my team managed to push the cart past two checkpoints during that life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 28, 2014, 11:31:38 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on July 28, 2014, 11:01:38 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on July 28, 2014, 10:45:48 pm

Pretty sure you can guess what happened next  8).

Actually no,I haven't played TF2,wouldn't backstabbing get you noticed or something?

Backstabbing with any weapon is noisy with any weapon except Your Eternal Reward, and that weapon has other drawbacks. If you use standard knives, the stabbed player screams out loud and does an elaborate 'my throat is slit' animation. A quick witted player will turn around if they hear a scream like that near them. The Spy-cicle is silent, but leaves the player's corpse behind frozen as an ice statue for a good few seconds, easily spotted from afar because it contrasts so much with the colouring of things.
I'm going to assume Cmega was using the Spycicle, because it's a damn good knife. Silent kills, and if they're heading in the opposite direction, they won't see the statue it leaves behind.

Also, the Engineer is the Spy's natural prey. If the Engi's carrying his sentry, and he gets killed while carrying it, the sentry dies too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 28, 2014, 11:53:37 pm

In my experience the standard knife is quiet enough that most everyone can't hear it.  Hell, I've put like 60 hours into spy and *I* never hear backstabs unless I'm involved on one end or the other.  You really can just chain stab a row of people, however most of TF2's playerbase has learned to check around them when no one's around, so it generally only works if they're distracted fighting your allies.

The main point of silent kills as I see it is to keep them out of the kill feed, which maintains the element of surprise.  But honestly both of the silent kill weapons have large enough downsides that they're less stealthy than the stock knife.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 29, 2014, 02:12:52 am

Quote from: Something Evil on July 28, 2014, 06:09:59 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 28, 2014, 05:31:13 am

Rushed berserker-style into the middle of a swirling melee, managed to stunlock and kill a hunter. Even though I died seconds afterword, it felt soooo good to be on the other side of that situation for a change.

World of Warcraft.

Class?


Edit: And now I killed Rima without dying. I LOVE this gem. :D
Edit 2: And that was my first Piety kill without dying.

Paladin, whichever one is the tank spec. I have the feeling that my equipment (read: random junk from quests) isn't all that great for PVP, since enemy tanks regularly take a massive beating and survive while I seem very fragile. And this character is on a PvP realm, so I'm really going to need better stuff before I get into places like Un'Goro where Horde and Alliance quest in equal strength.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on July 29, 2014, 03:53:23 am

Beat Lost Planet 2 on hard with max friendly fire and all three AI squadmates. Awesome game, although it felt shorter than the ~11 hours Steam says I put into it. "Hard" was surprisingly easy, aside from the insta-killing no-scoping asshole snipers you find everywhere on over half the levels and VSs. The hardest part of the game, in general (aside from the boss fights), is your AI squadmates.

They can actually path around the map intelligently, especially impressive because of the anchor system. I honestly don't know where they got half their weapons (I've seen my allies using energy assault weapons that I could never find myself) but they sometimes have a hard time actually fighting. They like to stare at enemy soldiers right in front of them for multiple seconds at a time. This would be frustrating except the enemy soldiers do the exact same thing. Fortunately, your AI squadmates kicking the bucket doesn't drain your battle gauge.

It made me sad when I realized they didn't understand how to board VSs, though. They'll get in yours if it's a multi-seater but will never take one of their own volition, which may actually be a blessing in disguise against the bosses and mass-VS combat. There's literally a single point in the game where your allies pilot the VSs and that's because they were spawned into them after a cutscene.

In a boss fight, the AI is... Decent enough. Not terribly helpful but not useless, either. They'll grab the boss' attention and hold it for a while as you run for a weapon or a VS, but will probably die after doing a bit of damage. In one particular case (spoiler), my allies just kind of bunched up in one part of the arena and barely shot at the boss when it came near, choosing instead to scatter when it attacked and resuming their terrified huddling when it left them alone again. They knew how to (spoiler), though. Such a nice touch! Out of boss fights, though, AI squadmates will clean house in most cases. I've actually had them destroy whole VS assault teams and larger Akrid types on their own after I was killed.

Out of the AI field, Lost Planet 2 is a nice game. The graphics are nice, with the Akrid having a lot of varying and interesting design choices. Many levels are designed with a lot of hidden weapons and VSs that are just off the beaten path but you'll easily miss if you focus on the fighting too much. There are plenty of fighting areas straight out of a multiplayer deathmatch game, with a generally circular combat zone that has plenty of weapons lying around and tunnels or rooms to use and avoid a certain area of the map for whatever reason. Seemingly everybody has anchors and VSs can jump or use their jetpacks to move upwards, giving these maps a lot of room to move and making you have to stay on your toes. The cutscenes are amazing, some of the best I've seen. VS combat is a solid part of the game and you'll go against VSs many, many times, supporting the anime-ness of this game.

The only thing I would complain about, really, is the number of loading screens. Missions are broken up into a lot of smaller areas with generally short but still mildly annoying loading screens, probably because they let the reality flood back into your mind for that bit of time. Also, the snipers who can't hit a distant target to save their lives but will one-shot you when you turn a corner, but that's probably not an issue on anything other than hard. I'd heartily recommend the game, even if you just went with the singleplayer campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 29, 2014, 09:05:36 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 29, 2014, 02:12:52 am

Paladin, whichever one is the tank spec. I have the feeling that my equipment (read: random junk from quests) isn't all that great for PVP, since enemy tanks regularly take a massive beating and survive while I seem very fragile. And this character is on a PvP realm, so I'm really going to need better stuff before I get into places like Un'Goro where Horde and Alliance quest in equal strength.

...why are you playing as a Protadin in PvP? Why are you bothering attacking tanks in PvP? CTF or what?
Admittedly, damage scaling for abilities is derp at lower levels, (like be protwarr, charge, SSlam, overpower, get KB, or be Disc, get 2 crits with Pennance, get KB) but Retridins are aggressively middling this expansion; Protadin is pretty godawful.
Also, don't expect any good results in low level PvP if you're not in full PvP looms, maybe a bit of twink gear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 29, 2014, 01:04:42 pm

Aah, Spore. I wish my copy would work, but nooooo. DRM-code bullshit makes it impossible. Which sucks because I fucking adore that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 29, 2014, 02:17:04 pm

Snoipah is dead! Long live Snoipah!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/8d9vWP6.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 29, 2014, 06:20:47 pm

Quote from: Something Evil on July 29, 2014, 09:05:36 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 29, 2014, 02:12:52 am

Paladin, whichever one is the tank spec. I have the feeling that my equipment (read: random junk from quests) isn't all that great for PVP, since enemy tanks regularly take a massive beating and survive while I seem very fragile. And this character is on a PvP realm, so I'm really going to need better stuff before I get into places like Un'Goro where Horde and Alliance quest in equal strength.

...why are you playing as a Protadin in PvP? Why are you bothering attacking tanks in PvP? CTF or what?
Admittedly, damage scaling for abilities is derp at lower levels, (like be protwarr, charge, SSlam, overpower, get KB, or be Disc, get 2 crits with Pennance, get KB) but Retridins are aggressively middling this expansion; Protadin is pretty godawful.
Also, don't expect any good results in low level PvP if you're not in full PvP looms, maybe a bit of twink gear.

I hardly ever look at what's happening in the metagame for multiplayer things. I didn't think that some classes/specs would just be straight up useless for PvP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Something Evil on July 29, 2014, 06:55:34 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 29, 2014, 06:20:47 pm

I hardly ever look at what's happening in the metagame for multiplayer things. I didn't think that some classes/specs would just be straight up useless for PvP.

Most tank specs are basically worthless in PvP, the notable exception being prot warr in low level pvp due to Shield Slam's idiotic damage scaling. It levels out in the late 80s and ends up tickling without Vengeance.
Blood dks were hilarious in PvP in Cata, especially against mele due to what their mastery does, but they've specifically addressed the problem in MoP. Protadins were also absurd in late Wrath due to scaling spellpower with Stamina, turning into nigh-unkillable PvP healers, but Blizz addressed the problem soon after.
Afflilocks are dubiously effective in PvP since they need to build up their damage and are heavily reliant on channeled abilities.
Combat rogues and and Survival hunters have dubious utility in PvP but can still kill reliabily in lower brackets.

But yeah, the only real reason to be a tank in PvP is in CTF maps... where you'll be outperformed by cat droods or cap-specced rogues due to their many movement speed abilities.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on July 29, 2014, 07:20:27 pm

What happened? AXE HAPPENED!
Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 30, 2014, 02:32:53 am

Pretty much any dungeon lately (until I switched off Novice difficulty, which I set it to a while earlier and forgot about):
[Dungeon Mook] appears.
Lightning Bolt.
[Slightly Tougher Dungeon Mook] appears.
Dualcasted (like, the perk, not two at once) Lightning Bolt.
[Dungeon Mook] appears.
Lightning Bolt.

TES V: Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on July 30, 2014, 09:35:19 am

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

gravelkind

It's gavelkind. Unless you meant to say that he wants to dump a bunch of rocks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 30, 2014, 12:49:58 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 30, 2014, 06:04:26 am

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/8d9vWP6.png)

I imagine that's Crusader Kings 2

Quote from: cerapa on July 30, 2014, 09:35:19 am

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

gravelkind

It's gavelkind. Unless you meant to say that he wants to dump a bunch of rocks.

Yes. oops
And yes.  That doesn't make me like it more.  The only benefit is all the positive diplomacy (which isn't that big of a deal considering how much murder and tyranny I use as a pagan) and the increased Demesne size, which is cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on July 30, 2014, 03:26:50 pm

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/8d9vWP6.png)

I am severely disappointed by the lack of DRAGUNS in that Lithuania. ((Count of Daugava's dynasty name, the most awesome in the game))

Anyway,
I love you Heathen Conversion. You give me so hilariously many armies. So many in fact, we have decided to switch our currency from gold-based to heathen-based. What kind of loser would use gold in this heathen-rich economy? Everyone but Polynesia, that's who (and they do not have a sound investment strategy!)

So yeah, 3 Great Heathen Armies on the "New World" (playing a Terra map, erryone starts on one continent, I'm the only one with anything on the other) Using them to annex those silly city-states and be the only multi-continental empire.

Civ V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 30, 2014, 05:54:06 pm

Quote from: cerapa on July 30, 2014, 09:35:19 am

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

All of that (except 8 counties) is his; all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind.  Being my first pagan run, I am proud.

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

all in an effort to create a kingdom and raise Moral Authority so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

so he can dump gravelkind

Quote from: pisskop on July 29, 2014, 05:57:05 pm

gravelkind

It's gavelkind. Unless you meant to say that he wants to dump a bunch of rocks.

...I've been making that mistake for over 2 years D:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on July 31, 2014, 01:55:11 pm

Heh, its always amusing playing with people who are terrible at risk. With just a tiny bit of good luck you can win with the first set of bonus troops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 31, 2014, 03:41:16 pm

No land wars in Asia!

Instead I favor africa or SA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on July 31, 2014, 03:42:57 pm

Quote from: BFEL on July 30, 2014, 03:26:50 pm

Anyway,
I love you Heathen Conversion. You give me so hilariously many armies. So many in fact, we have decided to switch our currency from gold-based to heathen-based. What kind of loser would use gold in this heathen-rich economy? Everyone but Polynesia, that's who (and they do not have a sound investment strategy!)

So yeah, 3 Great Heathen Armies on the "New World" (playing a Terra map, erryone starts on one continent, I'm the only one with anything on the other) Using them to annex those silly city-states and be the only multi-continental empire.

Civ V

... Care to explain? I don't get the "heathen as a currency" thing. Is it a mod?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 01, 2014, 10:48:32 am

Dark Templar started shooting at me witha Plasma Rifle. Kinda justified, since I kinda screwed him over and joined the other cult.

I ran behind a corner, and waited for him to turn around. When he did, I snuck out from cover and promptly beat him senseless with a Riot Prod. Turns out that, in addition to the Plasma Rifle, he had a nanosword.

That nanosword was later used to stab bots to death.

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Deus Ex: The Nameless Mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 04, 2014, 02:31:28 pm

I kicked a baron of hell in the dick, stunning it, and then did a one-two-three combo with my chainsaw, slashing it once, kicking it in the dick again, and then doing a slashing shoryuken uppercut and cut it in half. So satisfying.

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Brutal Doom Sperglord Extreme Edition

Or as I like to call it, Brutal Doom "my god this chainsaw is the greatest weapon in the game rip and tear huge guts" Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 04, 2014, 02:33:40 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on August 04, 2014, 02:31:28 pm

I kicked a baron of hell in the dick, stunning it, and then did a one-two-three combo with my chainsaw, slashing it once, kicking it in the dick again, and then doing a slashing shoryuken uppercut and cut it in half. So satisfying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brutal Doom Sperglord Edition

Or as I like to call it, Brutal Doom "my god this chainsaw is the greatest weapon in the game rip and tear huge guts" Edition.

o.o is that out now?  I art excited.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 04, 2014, 02:44:35 pm

Quote from: pisskop on August 04, 2014, 02:33:40 pm

o.o is that out now?  I art excited.

It's a mod of a mod. Specifically heavy modification of brutal doom v19, not v20 or anything. Possibly even a mod of a mod of a mod, seeing how I found there's just Sperglord Edition, then Sperglord Extreme edition.

Here's a video including a link to the download in the description of what I've been playing. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEfusU8UT0) It's an entire self contained zip file with gzdoom to run it and everything. Kinda weird to install and everything at first, but it includes a readme and it is hella fun once you set it up.

...I like how Doom's modding scene is getting to where it's modding mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PrivateNomad on August 04, 2014, 04:12:35 pm

Went Chaos Knight, farmed top lane and got Manta Style and started screwing people over.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on August 05, 2014, 06:01:57 am

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on July 31, 2014, 03:42:57 pm

Quote from: BFEL on July 30, 2014, 03:26:50 pm

Anyway,
I love you Heathen Conversion. You give me so hilariously many armies. So many in fact, we have decided to switch our currency from gold-based to heathen-based. What kind of loser would use gold in this heathen-rich economy? Everyone but Polynesia, that's who (and they do not have a sound investment strategy!)

So yeah, 3 Great Heathen Armies on the "New World" (playing a Terra map, erryone starts on one continent, I'm the only one with anything on the other) Using them to annex those silly city-states and be the only multi-continental empire.

Civ V

... Care to explain? I don't get the "heathen as a currency" thing. Is it a mod?

Pretty much what Greatorder said, though really its just a joke I told to myself, imagining a guy in safari gear coming into this place and us being like "you mean you use GOLD for currency? What a silly person, heathens are clearly the superior currency."

I also arbitrarily decided heathens are measured in bushels. I have five bushels of heathens!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 05, 2014, 11:12:29 am

Got the quarians and geth to finally, finally live in peace. Yay for two of my favorite species not trying to kill each other any more! ^-^

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Mass Effect 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 05, 2014, 12:05:32 pm

I had already lost it a few times, but I decided to try Yellow Comet's liberation mission again. Last time I used Sensei and Max, but this time I used Kanbei for his powerful troops and Grit for long range support from rockets and battleships. Kanbei was able to fend off the initial onslaught, using mostly tanks and AA guns. It took a while to get Grit in business because the buildings around his HQ were arranged conveniently so they would take as many turns as possible to capture, but he eventually did it, and was able to capture an airport and push forward toward the pipe, while supporting Kanbei's armor with a battleship.

Meanwhile, most of Kanbei's ground forces had been eliminated, but he had captured the other airport and was steadily crapping on units as they emerged from the factory. I was able to block the factory douches by placing APCs and a boat in front of the door. Most of the AA defences had already been dealt with, so I screamed "LEROOOOOOOOOOOOY" and moved all of the bombers over to the minicannons and the pipe. They blew up extremely quickly.

Advance Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on August 05, 2014, 12:09:46 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 05, 2014, 11:12:29 am

Got the quarians and geth to finally, finally live in peace. Yay for two of my favorite species not trying to kill each other any more! ^-^

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mass Effect 3

*sniff* :'(
I loved this part too...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 12:42:24 pm

I was actually able to win a game as the Covenant vs the UNSC. I really don't know much about the Halo universe but from my initial readings I was expecting the Covenant to be like the Imperial Empire (all big powerful ships that can take on multiple enemy vessels at once).

Turns out the Covenant have very slow rate of fire as well as turn speed and, while their shields do help against the masses of missiles UNSC ships pour out, MAC rounds eat through shields and hull so quickly I would lose most of my fleet as soon as I warped in.

I believe the trick lies with the Covenant capital ships. Some of them have a passive ability which allows their ships to propagate damage across enemy vessels which helps a lot when facing the much larger UNSC fleets. Initial exchange still hurts a lot though.

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion". Mod: "Sins of the Prophets".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on August 05, 2014, 12:46:03 pm

Not really a good thing, but I may have made the dungeon finale a touch too hardcore. It was supposed to be a soon-to-be recurring Vampire caster's introduction, who'd summon a few monsters then warp out. He ended up summoning three Fiendish Scorpions, which very nearly one-shot the cleric of the group. He's disabled, and would probably be dead if the other scorpion hadn't missed it's charge.

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Dungeons and Dragons PbP, Legends of Gueryth. Thank Khalira the rest of Gueryth doesn't have any monstrous scorpions, aside from a small island the party has no reason to visit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on August 05, 2014, 01:48:33 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 05, 2014, 01:00:19 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 12:42:24 pm

I was actually able to win a game as the Covenant vs the UNSC. I really don't know much about the Halo universe but from my initial readings I was expecting the Covenant to be like the Imperial Empire (all big powerful ships that can take on multiple enemy vessels at once).

Turns out the Covenant have very slow rate of fire as well as turn speed and, while their shields do help against the masses of missiles UNSC ships pour out, MAC rounds eat through shields and hull so quickly I would lose most of my fleet as soon as I warped in.

I believe the trick lies with the Covenant capital ships. Some of them have a passive ability which allows their ships to propagate damage across enemy vessels which helps a lot when facing the much larger UNSC fleets. Initial exchange still hurts a lot though.

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion". Mod: "Sins of the Prophets".

If it was like the Halo games, you'd be buggered until late-game. In Halo, the humans and covenant encountered each other, covenant was more technologically advanced, but as time went on, humans began adapting their tech. The covenant didn't advance because their religion viewed the forerunner tech they used as pure (or something), and thus modifying it was blasphemous. Also, humans had a better understanding of maths than the covenant, which helped.

There are mods for SoaSE:R? O__O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on August 05, 2014, 01:48:59 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 05, 2014, 01:00:19 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 12:42:24 pm

I was actually able to win a game as the Covenant vs the UNSC. I really don't know much about the Halo universe but from my initial readings I was expecting the Covenant to be like the Imperial Empire (all big powerful ships that can take on multiple enemy vessels at once).

Turns out the Covenant have very slow rate of fire as well as turn speed and, while their shields do help against the masses of missiles UNSC ships pour out, MAC rounds eat through shields and hull so quickly I would lose most of my fleet as soon as I warped in.

I believe the trick lies with the Covenant capital ships. Some of them have a passive ability which allows their ships to propagate damage across enemy vessels which helps a lot when facing the much larger UNSC fleets. Initial exchange still hurts a lot though.

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion". Mod: "Sins of the Prophets".

If it was like the Halo games, you'd be buggered until late-game. In Halo, the humans and covenant encountered each other, covenant was more technologically advanced, but as time went on, humans began adapting their tech. The covenant didn't advance because their religion viewed the forerunner tech they used as pure (or something), and thus modifying it was blasphemous. Also, humans had a better understanding of maths than the covenant, which helped.

And less stupidity. Who in their right mind would broadcast tactical data on unencrypted channels?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 05, 2014, 03:58:56 pm

Absolutely nailed the chorus to Cake's "The Distance". 100%. :3

Rocksmith 2014.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 10:31:18 pm

Quote from: da_nang on August 05, 2014, 01:48:59 pm

Quote from: greatorder on August 05, 2014, 01:00:19 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 12:42:24 pm

I was actually able to win a game as the Covenant vs the UNSC. I really don't know much about the Halo universe but from my initial readings I was expecting the Covenant to be like the Imperial Empire (all big powerful ships that can take on multiple enemy vessels at once).

Turns out the Covenant have very slow rate of fire as well as turn speed and, while their shields do help against the masses of missiles UNSC ships pour out, MAC rounds eat through shields and hull so quickly I would lose most of my fleet as soon as I warped in.

I believe the trick lies with the Covenant capital ships. Some of them have a passive ability which allows their ships to propagate damage across enemy vessels which helps a lot when facing the much larger UNSC fleets. Initial exchange still hurts a lot though.

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion". Mod: "Sins of the Prophets".

If it was like the Halo games, you'd be buggered until late-game. In Halo, the humans and covenant encountered each other, covenant was more technologically advanced, but as time went on, humans began adapting their tech. The covenant didn't advance because their religion viewed the forerunner tech they used as pure (or something), and thus modifying it was blasphemous. Also, humans had a better understanding of maths than the covenant, which helped.

And less stupidity. Who in their right mind would broadcast tactical data on unencrypted channels?

Intriguing, that makes sense because their early cruisers are much more powerful than the equivalent Paris class for the UNSC. Also highlights my need to speed up my game since I turtle like no bodies business.


@ Tiruin:  Take your pick. Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, Star Gate. I would recommend "Star Trek: Armada 3" and "Sins of a Galactic Empire". (http://www.moddb.com/games/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/mods)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 06, 2014, 11:46:16 pm

Does having three different vehicles (a harvester, plow, and seeder, in that order) on one field without them hitting each other count? I feel like it does.
Farming Simulator 2013, Demo version

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 06, 2014, 11:50:42 pm

Sins of the Prophets is GREAT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on August 07, 2014, 12:57:24 am

Quote from: Mech#4 on August 05, 2014, 10:31:18 pm

@ Tiruin:  Take your pick. Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, Star Gate. I would recommend "Star Trek: Armada 3" and "Sins of a Galactic Empire". (http://www.moddb.com/games/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/mods)

._.
Ohgoodnessthankyousomuch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on August 07, 2014, 01:14:59 pm

Had five lands out by turn 3. I love green. But that's not how I owned. That came later.
Had a Hydra Broodmaster out. That's a 7/7 with the ability to become Monstrous for XXG. And when it becomes Monstrous, you get to put X X/X green hydra tokens onto the battlefield.
Have you heard of Dictate of Karametra? Double the mana output of lands. Everyone's lands. For a guy who had 5 forests, a mountain, and a Gruul Guild Gate, that's a lot of mana. So that plus tapping a creature for more mana, X=7.
That means that in an instant, my 7/7 turned into a 14/14, and I had 7 7/7 hydras out. SEVEN. *snap*, just like that. And I had another Broodmaster in my hand.

Against someone who'd only gotten out 4 lands (2 plains, 2 swamps) by that point, it was a slaughter. Absolute wipe-out. I'm going to help him build a better deck later, but I think I've perfected my Hydra Deck.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magic: The Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 07, 2014, 07:22:33 pm

Coming up on May of year 3 and I still had only 600 of the 1500 required visitors, and with only a year left it wasn't increasing anywhere near fast enough to make that goal by October of the next year.
Then I remembered the one tool that had got me through most of the challenges all those years ago.
Running adverts to fill the park far beyond capacity.

And so I did. For a solid year I was promoting everything I could: Free food, free rides, promoting rides and the park in general. I had to take out a loan for the first ones but as the visitor numbers picked up so did the amount of money coming in, so it was just a game of hoping I'd built enough to keep the 1000 extra visitors happy.
Seems like I made the decision to start just in time because I got to 1500 guests only a month and a half before the deadline.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RCT 2
Had an urge and dug out the box from the back of one of the shelves where I keep things I don't use much.
I remember now why I liked this one so much. Loses a couple of things from 1, but is definitely good anyway, and more importantly I can actually save properly and it works.

I mean my heart will always belong to the desert scenario from the first RCT game, but I don't have to love it any less for loving something else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 07, 2014, 07:48:39 pm

Aw, yiss, Roller Toasters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on August 07, 2014, 07:55:09 pm

Now I need to dig out my copy and play it. Man, wish that they'd come out with a new one for 2014.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 07, 2014, 08:09:12 pm

Quote from: flabort on August 07, 2014, 07:55:09 pm

Now I need to dig out my copy and play it. Man, wish that they'd come out with a new one for 2014.

You say that you want one. Oh, we got one. RCT4. A mobile piece of shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on August 07, 2014, 08:12:25 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 07, 2014, 08:09:12 pm

Quote from: flabort on August 07, 2014, 07:55:09 pm

Now I need to dig out my copy and play it. Man, wish that they'd come out with a new one for 2014.

You say that you want one. Oh, we got one. RCT4. A mobile piece of shit.

Oh, yuck, number four is mobile?
What a cheap sell-out. I don't even own a phone to play that on; my mobile platform is my 3DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 08, 2014, 02:08:40 pm

There is something deeply satisfying about using two stacks of magic-immune units and then using near-infinite mana to hurl Armageddon until everything else dies. Six-sixty damage a cast, effectively unlimited casts.

HoMMV.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 08, 2014, 02:25:43 pm

A retinue Army of 6k took on and beat the Knights Templar/Knights of Cordova/Great Moravia  and their combined might of 15k.  Can you say Baltic HInfantry with spears/archers to back them?

CKII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 08, 2014, 04:49:16 pm

Carried as Lich in Dota 2. It's not everyday when you can type "DESOLATOR LICH" to taunt the enemy team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 09, 2014, 05:31:13 am

Beat DoomRL for the first time, on HMP.  I'd looked up some strategy and a few things, but everything past Deimos lvl 5 was basically a surprise.

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Utils, level 12 Imp Corporal Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 123011 turns and scored 168500 points.
 He played for 3 hours and 1 second.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 870 out of 954 hellspawn. (91%)
 He held his right to remain violent.

 He saved himself once.

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 7
  Levels completed : 6

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Technician Silver Badge
  UAC Bronze Badge
  UAC Silver Badge
  Scavenger Bronze Badge
  Scavenger Silver Badge
  Scavenger Gold Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 59/60   Experience 61422/12
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Scout

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)

  Rel->Rel->SM->Int->Int->HR->HR->DM->SoB->SoB->SoB->Iro->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [4] (O)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   high power laser rifle (1d9)x5 [21/26]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [2/2] (94%) (T)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   missile launcher (6d6) [4/4] (A1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] elephant gun (12d3) [1/1]
    [b] Charch's Null Pointer (0d0) [40/60]
    [c] fireproof red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [d] shotgun shell (x43)
    [e] rocket (x14)
    [f] rocket (x12)
    [g] rocket (x14)
    [h] power cell (x70)
    [i] power cell (x37)
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] phase device
    [m] envirosuit pack
    [n] steel boots [1/1] (100%) (A)
    [o] shell box (x100)
    [p] rocket box (x20)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 50% 
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 25% 

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    117 former humans
    100 former sergeants
    19 former captains
    101 imps
    101 demons
    293 lost souls
    28 cacodemons
    18 hell knights
    18 barons of hell
    5 arachnotrons
    13 former commandos
    15 pain elementals
    15 revenants
    13 mancubi
    2 arch-viles
    7 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 agony elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 Arena Master

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
  On level 7 he assembled a elephant gun!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 9 he assembled a high power weapon!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  He fled the City in terror!
  On level 15 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 18 he assembled a fireproof boots!
  On level 19 he stumbled into a complex full of hell knights!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Charch's Null Pointer!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  He left level 23 as soon as possible.
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 Mastermind flinched!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : out of vision
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the
 Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The missile hits the
 Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You reload the high power laser rifle.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind
 dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 16 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 12 of those were killed.
 And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 1 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 killed the bitch and survived.

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Some notable points:

Spoiler: My Strategy (click to show/hide)

From the start this was meant to be a shotgun scout that focused on immediately practical skills and ignored pie in the sky master skills with a bunch of requirements.  Shottyman is my core skill, and Dodgemaster complements that so of course I took it.  Intuition on scout is basically overpowered, so of course I took that.  You'll notice at the end I started spamming Son of a Bitch, that's because I didn't exactly end up as a shotgun scout and that worked with all my weapons very well.  The last Ironman was just because I really damn well didn't want to die.
My last 2 runs died to the first mancubus they met, so I looked up some strategy.  Made my first red armor fireproof, used it on that craziness at the anomaly, then spent the rest of Deimos repairing it.  I also used teleports three times to avoid the damn things.  I built a nanofiber green armor so I wouldn't need to carry spares, then found an onyx pack and used it on a red, making extra armor basically meaningless.  The Elephant Gun (upgraded shotgun) was responsible for 90% of my kills, but for the difficult fights I only used it about half the time.  Often I used a missile launcher to repeatedly push the generic heavies out of range.  However, my shit hitting the fan weapon was the first laser rifle I've ever found.  Upon finding it in Hell's Armory I guessed how to craft High Powered Weapon and had an asskicking gun for 2/3rds of the game.

Spoiler: The Vaults (click to show/hide)

So, the only thing I knew about the vault was A it existed, and B if you use the Arena Master's Staff all the vaults open.  I was, in short, utterly unprepared for the madness.  In mind at least.  However, I entered the Vaults with ridiculous gear (the report doesn't do credit to how well equipped I was, as I started bleeding equipment halfway through hell), at 200% health, and invincible.  Through dumb luck, mind you.  So while I was surprised to see a Mancubus, my response was to pull out my HPLR and blast it in two bursts, gleefully shrugging off its rocket hits.  The invincibility quickly wore off so I threw on that Fire-resistant Red Armor I'd been saving, and slowly made my way through the vaults, gunning down Revenants and Mancubuses in 1-2 bursts each.  With intuition I always knew where they were, which made it kind of too easy.  My armor was at 82% when all the enemies were dead.  The loot was terribly unimpressive.  There were about 8 boots, all of which were worse than my current pair.  There was a lot of ammo, but I was so loaded up all I needed was to replace the batteries I'd expended.  I did find a unique, but I still have no idea what it does and its description made my HIGHLY nervous.

Spoiler: Halfway Through Hell (click to show/hide)

So hell was... kind of difficult?  There were some Commandos and Mancubuses I guess, and the terrain made me think a lot.  But I was so loaded up; I had 6 large health kits, three phase devices, enough ammo for each of my three guns to wipe out an entire floor easily, and an ascension kit of weapons and armor.  Without wizkid all I could do with kits was fireproof my boots and randomly try combos in hopes of finding new assemblies.

Then that all changed halfway through.  I enter the level with four enemies around a crate.  I walk forward to find: one Revenant, one Mancubus, two Archeviles.  I don't remember exactly what happened but suffice to say I lost at least 2 large health kits, emptied out my elephant gun and HPLR, shot the Null Pointer twice to no visible effect, and was basically just pushing them back with my missile launcher.  I killed all the immediate threats only to have an Archvile walk in and revive a Mancubus.  I decided that this was just too fucking much, I was done with hell, and I used a Homing Phase Beacon to jump to the stairs.  The next 2 levels I rushed due to lucky stair spawns and scout's innate stair knowledge.  All I saw was a few former humans on the way.  Then I met the final buss which was, honestly, not that hard.  The description of the lever (woah!) made me two nervous so I shot out a wall with the missile launcher.  I hugged the corner that created and used the HPLR and a large health kit or two, and that was game over!  All in a days work.

Spoiler: I'll let you guys live (click to show/hide)

As a final point, I didn't "flee the City in terror".  What happened was I ran out of shotgun ammo after killing the agony elemental, and found myself facing down 50 none-exp-valuable Pain Elementals and Lost Souls.  All the other enemies I let live were from the last 3 levels of hell that I ran through.  I cleared out everything else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on August 09, 2014, 03:18:55 pm

Zombie pandemic decimated mankind.
Zombies rule over entire Europe, Asia, North and South Africa. They overrun South America and are making their way into Central and North America where USA ( with gigantci outbreak in Washington DC ) and Empire of Mexico ( with California outbreak ) are too weak to stop them...
Free of the zombie scourge are the vast jungles of Central Africa.... and Kingdom of Two Sicillies fortified on the south part of Itallian Penninsula and Sicily.
Workers have been mobilized, troops are trained in the new ways of combat thanks to the discovery of Bolt Action rifles and entire country is determined to endure this new threat.
Zombies number in the thousands outside front line in Apennine Mountains but they will never breach those defences.

For King and Country !! :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Victoria 2 : Apocalypse 1836 aka Zombie Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 09, 2014, 05:15:01 pm

Won a 1v2, myself against Haspen and Red. Not bragging, since I started with 4 times as much money as them and higher income, but it's not my fault since it was Haspen's map and his host and he made it that way! :p

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wesnoth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 09, 2014, 07:14:04 pm

A paladin was following me around for whatever reason, and we noticed a mage running away from several mobs. It turned into a 3v6 curbstomp in our favor. Maybe not exactly owning, but it's pretty awesome considering how rarely players actually interact outside of instances/PvP.

World of Warcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 09, 2014, 07:31:55 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 07, 2014, 08:09:12 pm

Quote from: flabort on August 07, 2014, 07:55:09 pm

Now I need to dig out my copy and play it. Man, wish that they'd come out with a new one for 2014.

You say that you want one. Oh, we got one. RCT4. A mobile piece of shit.

No, they're making one for PC too.
Admittedly probably one with outrageous DRM, day 1 DLC and other nastiness, but it'll exist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 09, 2014, 08:07:03 pm

Played a match against my friend, accidentally set it to timed and didn't notice until it started.

He lost in about four minutes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SSBB (w/ Project M mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on August 09, 2014, 10:49:17 pm

Absolutely curbstomped everything in Naxxramas when I got it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...Hearthstone, not WoW...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 10, 2014, 04:04:38 pm

Took on a Draugr Death Overlord when I was level 7. I had a companion with me who had managed to get himself infected with werewolfiness, so he transformed and took on the Draugr Death Overlord.

It took about three seconds for the Draugr to take him to 0 health, even with the OP werewolf knockback attacks. I panicked and backpedaled a little bit - i needed to leave, but the only way out was through more Draugr, and encountering a horde of multiple enemies is doom with the mod "Duel".
So, I figure, I've got to kill the DDO somehow. Provided I dodge its Icy Spear (50 damage, 50 stamina damage), and block its strikes with its sword, i will be fine.

It opens with all three words of Frost Breath. FO... KRAH DIIN!

Bloody heck. The initial shockwave carves 50hp off me, then drains 35 more from the chilling effects. My character is so slowed down I can't really avoid the next strike, but I can try and block it. I have stamina left, but not much. Probably enough to block a sword strike but be staggered by the strike. (Duel makes blocking more like dark souls - successfully blocking a hit takes stamina, you can still block a hit if it consumes more than your remaining stamina, but it will stagger you, just as in Dark Souls).

I take the hit, am staggered, and hurriedly open the menu to heal. Quaff my potions, shove my mouth full of food, drink some stamina potions, and prepare for the next barrage while waiting for my companion to get up off the ground, still in werewolf form.

The Draugr Death Overlord summons a Frost Atronach, which... fails to get through the doorway. It's too tall. I laugh, then pull out the Eye of Melka, and spam its fireballs until i'm out of charge, recharge it using two soul gems, then spam again. Frost Atronach is dead, the Draugr is barely injured.

I see the Draugr charge up an Icy Spear, and try to dodge - it clips my character, hitting her for 50 hp. Nothing too serious - although i'm a low level, i have 160hp.

The Draugr charges in, I take the hit on my shield, and press the Draugr right back. I use up all my stamina power attacking the crap out of it, staggering it lightly while it takes a particularly heavy hit (in Duel, weapon damage is ramped up, while blocking is more effective. Taking a strong hit, will stagger the opponent very briefly, during which time they're vulnerable to extra damage.)

I capitalise on this split second of stagger, and attack as fast as I can, dealing some pretty major damage instead of the scratch damage I was dealing before. My companion finally gets up off the ground, as a werewolf, then transforms back into a human, and goes into the 'on all fours' injured animation. Useless sack of crap.

The Draugr summons another Frost Atronach, and I promptly flee back through the doorway. My companion limps after me, trying to catch up, and the Draugr chases me down. I block a power attack, take a hefty amount of damage through it, then try and press the opening from the Draugr's slow power attack animation.

It works. The Draugr is stunned momentarily, which lets me deal extra damage again, which is enough to kill it! My companion finally gets up off the ground, and comments something about the Arena, or somesuchshit.

What an exhilarating battle that was.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TES5: Skyrim, running the Duel Combat Reloaded mod. It ramps up damage, makes shields more effective, and costs stamina to block a hit. Enemy AI is also improved to capitalise on numbers, and fight more cautiously, blocking more often.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:47:34 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:25:12 pm

I'd been playing this incredibly silly team deathmatch with these people, where the map is suspended miles up in the sky and only melee weapons are available. It was hysterical, and pretty much my favourite thing in the game. Now, the other team were made up of these American kids with, well, the most annoying manner of speech imaginable.
Not quite as squeaky as the stereotypical CoD gamer, but they tried their hardest to sound like rappers or whatever. It kind of hurt the brain, but hearing them rage whenever I killed them (wearing a ludicrous outfit of bright yellow, complete with a hockey mask- they called me either "the yellow one" or "the banana") was immensely satisfying. My team lost that, though.
But then we moved onto another deathmatch, this one all with sawn-off shotguns, two versus two with me and some silent unknown on a team against them. It's a fairly tight map, with trailers and a couple of country stores and a whole mess of backyards, tin fences and garages.

My teammate was crazy good, and the pressure to keep up with them was immense. I did it, though, somehow; most of the match was spent with only a one or two-point lead to us, and for the last few kills we were even. At one point, right near the end, they were chasing me and I was cut off from my teammate. I knew my last hope lay with the liquor store entrance around the corner, so I dashed blindly in there, took cover behind a stack of beer cartons, and freaking killed them both as they came in after me. Oh man, my heart was pounding. And it looked awesome, too- my dramatically-dressed character crouching behind the beer, shotgun blasts shattering the store's glass door as I popped up to shoot them.

And then we went on to win. Just. :))
My gods, I didn't realise this game could be so fun. This is definitely the biggest videogames-related Happy I've had in a while.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on August 10, 2014, 06:59:22 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:47:34 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:25:12 pm

-snip-

That's it. I'm buying GTAO. I don't care if my laptop would probably only get 1 FPS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 11, 2014, 04:23:58 am

Quote from: flameboy99 on August 10, 2014, 06:59:22 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:47:34 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 10, 2014, 06:25:12 pm

-snip-

That's it. I'm buying GTAO. I don't care if my laptop would probably only get 1 FPS.

Uh, well, the Online is fun but it's definitely not worth it for GTA 5 single-player.
Also I haven't played the PC version so I take no responsibility for any port-related shoddiness, hehe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2014, 04:52:56 am

What's wrong with the Singleplayer?  ???

I freakin' LOVE the singleplayer!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2014, 05:17:08 am

Also, the story is (unsurprisingly, most GTA stories are like this) AMAZING. Seriously. The characters are brilliant, and I'm not just saying that because Trevor is Canadian.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2014, 05:37:56 am

A boot? Where? I see no boots.  :P

Also, FUCK OFF NOONE TALKS LIKE THAT.  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 11, 2014, 07:43:16 am

Quote from: greatorder on August 11, 2014, 04:59:08 am

I like boarding a train, getting five stars and lasting as long as I can whilst shooting down helicopters and firing grenades at NOOSE vans.

I've lasted about an hour at five stars with that. I ended it by dropping a grenade when my guy SHOULD have thrown it.

EDIT: I'm continuing the thread of conversation, BTW, so don't complain about me saying I'm not stating the game.

Me and my brother used to take it in turns timing how long each other could survive in GTA:SA with six stars and no weaponry - my record is 26 minutes at six stars the whole time. Key is to have something that moves agilely on dirt (eg. a Sanchez or Bandito), while doing lots of stop-start turns. Also, if you're anywhere near a main road, you'll get cops spawning with AK47s that chew through your health.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2014, 07:50:32 am

Little do you know, roughly half of our population is basically Trevor.

I may or may not account as one of them. c:<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 11, 2014, 01:30:51 pm

Are we talking about the same game? ??? The story was awful, unsurprisingly, since most GTA stories are like that. It was especially bad, though.
The multiplayer's fun, single player isn't. I love some of Rockstar's other games but I've never really been a fan of GTA- I bought GTA 5 solely for the Online component, and y'know, that's been quite enjoyable despite a few niggles.

To keep this on topic: My last own was, in a free-for-all deathmatch in a tight area of alleyways and climbable buildings, I managed to get a kill by riddling a truck with bullets until it exploded, killing the enemy I knew was sneaking around there somewhere. I felt very clever after that. :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA Online, if you didn't catch that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on August 11, 2014, 03:00:03 pm

Disengaged up onto a wall, the warrior who was fighting me chased me around and ran up the stairs, promptly being blown off of them, the hill, the cliff, and this mortal coil, by the trap I'd placed there beforehand.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 11, 2014, 04:30:15 pm

Beat DoomRL on Ultraviolence.  And I thought scouts were good shotgunners, technicians are amazing because one of their master skills makes them immune to splash damage.  "Oh hello Archvile, latest of lategame enemies, allow me to dance around in front of you with no chance of being hurt".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jack_Bread on August 11, 2014, 07:32:31 pm

TL;DR: Verrry risky assassination of a king surrounded by magical alarms and well trained guards. I murdered him with a death attack (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/prestige-classes/core-rulebook/assassin#TOC-Death-Attack-Ex-) that crit

I play a shady as hell assassin in my friend's Pathfinder game. (Tiefling, Oracle 2/Ninja 3/Assassin 2) I tend to leave the party during downtime to murder people.

One of the people I had to murder in the last game was this elven ruler, who ran the country like Salinist Russia, where dissenters to the king "vanish." It became like this because I accidentally killed the dragon who first ruled the country(bled out while I fought this invading dragon) and then I was contracted by the current to kill previous that took the dragon's place.

This king was paranoid. The castle was lined with magical alarms and scrying eyes that acted as security cameras. The king is surrounded by 4 wizards and 3 fighters, bound to his life via these magical collars. Basically, if the king dies, they all die. The servants are also bound by the magical collars, but they're allowed to remove them as they leave. I got this information from a thri-kreen who worked for the assassination group I was a part of. He helped me plan my way in.

My character is armed to the teeth with various ways of teleportation. A pair of boots that can teleport, a pair of bracers that can use dimension door, and a ring that brings him back to this castle, but also gives him greater invisibility.

My plan was to get a scroll of antimagic field and teleport to the vault of the castle, which is directly under the throne room. I was going to light fire to the castle, to make the servants leave and minimize the amount of innocents I may inadvertently kill. Then, I was going to move up to the throne room, while the king hopefully remained up there, and commit a spot of murder.

I was unable to use the scroll, unfortunately, however the thri-kreen was able to. I bid farewell to him and teleported to the vault. It was empty and I was only unnoticed because of the antimagic shell around me. There were 3 exits, a trapdoor above me and two doors on either side. This room was made of stone, but the outside halls were made of wood. Magically enchanted, however, and very difficult to light. In my nervousness for this mission, I forgot to bring tools that can easily light fires. I also couldn't attempt to light the walls on fire, as the halls had servants and guards walking around, performing their duties. I ended up using a normal flint and steel on a normal torch and hid the flame under a helmet I found within the vault. I waited a few minutes and, sure enough, the castle caught fire and the servants started leaving. Now I had to act fast as the king may be leaving.

Using the power of Ki, I was able to scale the walls up to the trapdoor to the throne room. I listened at the door to make sure they were still there and I was fortunate. The king's guard were discussing the fire. They were not worried about it and assumed a guard had left their torch lit.

I activated the invisibility on my ring and entered the room as quietly as possible. I went in unseen.
Then I watched the king. I examined his every movement as I crept closer and closer. I was shaking. This was do or die. I couldn't fuck this up.
I blinked onto him, brandishing my wicked sickle, and in a gorey display, stabbed him directly in the heart. His death was confirmed. There was no way he could survive that.
I realized that though he was dead, his guard was still alive and panicking. My antimagic field had actually disrupted the collars, so no innocents were killed. I quickly used my boots and got out of there. My reward was another enchantment on my ring, giving any weapon I hold in my hand the keen effect.+

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2014, 08:35:23 pm

Quote from: Yoink on August 11, 2014, 01:30:51 pm

Are we talking about the same game? ??? The story was awful, unsurprisingly, since most GTA stories are like that. It was especially bad, though.
The multiplayer's fun, single player isn't. I love some of Rockstar's other games but I've never really been a fan of GTA- I bought GTA 5 solely for the Online component, and y'know, that's been quite enjoyable despite a few niggles.

To keep this on topic: My last own was, in a free-for-all deathmatch in a tight area of alleyways and climbable buildings, I managed to get a kill by riddling a truck with bullets until it exploded, killing the enemy I knew was sneaking around there somewhere. I felt very clever after that. :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA Online, if you didn't catch that.

To each their own, I suppose. But the GTA stories and singleplayers are amazing in my opinion. And again, in my opinion, GTA V's was the best one. Online is fun, though.

My most recent own...Hmmm.
Beat that fucking Flagship. Finally.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL: Advanced.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on August 11, 2014, 09:35:10 pm

I won cavern kings.

Shovel and Drill gun.

Needed a solid minute to die of the ceiling (had a little over 10k health on a ceiling that does 100 damage) and 30 seconds for my items to count as they went off the screen. Fired off a stream of worm-sized (this is NOT hyperbole) drills that broke the whole level, effectively replacing the shovel that became more of a levitation tool for the last seconds of my run (too many zephyr stacks). Had to flap like an actual bird because of the jump reduction of the bracers and could shoot very slowly because of burst fire. regen was absurd thanks to stacked belials and ankhs and other life-enhancing goodies and my shots were pixel perfect thanks to many cyclops' skulls.

Lifesteal was still sucky, I don't get the way dracul stacks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ySLu3qk.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 12, 2014, 10:48:59 am

Spoiler: This is the ship that got me to the Mun and back (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/TvzJjtT.jpg)

Well, almost. Close enough. I had to launch off the last stage about 5-6km above the Munar surface since the stage before it ran out of fuel before I could slow down enough. However, looking at the performance of that last stage engine, particularly how five parachutes can slow you down in the Kerbin atmosphere, I think I could have landed all the way and made it back to Kerbin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program DEMO. I feel I finally completed this goal of mine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 12, 2014, 01:43:16 pm

Looking at that, I can see you have mastered the most fundamental tenet of Kerbal rocketry: never enuff dakka boosters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on August 12, 2014, 02:13:54 pm

The real ownage there is building a giant rocket and not getting blown up by the tower.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 12, 2014, 03:08:27 pm

I made a flyable spaceplane!

AND LANDED IT!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Spess Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on August 12, 2014, 03:09:29 pm

Now make one that can get to a circular orbit and back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 12, 2014, 03:17:08 pm

...

i hate all of you

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on August 12, 2014, 04:06:25 pm

Space planes are stupid easy with Rapier engines.
Before you had to lug both jet engines AND rocket engines separately.
It's even easier to get into orbit if you have FAR installed, because then Kerbin doesn't have air that's as thick as water.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on August 12, 2014, 04:13:52 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on August 12, 2014, 04:06:25 pm

Space planes are stupid easy with Rapier engines.
Before you had to lug both jet engines AND rocket engines separately.
It's even easier to get into orbit if you have FAR installed, because then Kerbin doesn't have air that's as thick as water.

The only thing that keeps Rapier engines from being completely over-powered is that they are inefficient with fuel in rocket mode, and as such aren't good at interplanetary transfers. But with docking ports that isn't much of a problem.
I remember my first set of spaceplanes, and the incredibly fine maneuvering that had to be done with nuclear engines and turbojets in order to slowly gain altitude. 

For modded New Vegas owning-

Spoiler: I didn't die horribly (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/SY5hGZc.jpg)

Spoiler: All you need to be a good person is to hold the trigger on a minigun.  For a few minutes. (click to show/hide)

(http://imgur.com/SY5hGZc.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 13, 2014, 07:43:32 pm

Are those supposed to be the same picture?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on August 13, 2014, 11:24:47 pm

   The company, Bastards Inc, began in a garage coding up a tycoon sim, "Bicycle Courier", (MetaScore 8.75), which took the gaming world by storm, not totally surprising the critics.  Then came a superhero beat-em-up, "Jungle Rumble", (MetaScore 7.25), both PC games led to a new studio, employees and many variants on a common theme.
    A new console came out, the Vonny Playsystem, but the cyber-punk rpg fell flat, (MetaScore 3.5) and the future looked uncertain.  But, falling back on past hits, releasing an absurd number of sequels, the company was on the road to stardom.
  The Playsystem 2 came out and received a new variety game - a surgery simulator known as "Axe Surgeon", (MetaScore 8.25), a hit which broke $10 million profit for the company.
  Axe Surgeon, a surgery simluator, was followed by "Axe Surgeon General", (Metascore 8.25), a new blend of simulation and action in the field of co-op multiplayer surgical mayhem, released on PC, mBox 360 and Playsystem 3.  Which led to the most recent incarnation, "Axe Surgeon 3-Star General", a PG-13 co-op, online, action simulation of a surgical theatre.

It's a winner. (http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/67872130794565822/45E528A02DDF13B2F2F9F7229C84F579AA58003F/)

   First week sales of a million units, and with four members of the team taking a well earned holiday, the rest will enter into training to prepare for the next Horror action/strategy game, a sequel to Zombie Hunter, (which is another in a long line of sequels starting from the hit PC game "Zombie Shooter").

Game Dev Tycoon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 14, 2014, 01:50:20 am

In training listening to live calls in a call center for training.

A tech is having a very difficult time figuring out why this person's computer is not connecting to their wifi.  Listening to him spending 20 minutes trying in vain to troubleshoot the problem.  he's remoted in to the customer's computer and I spot the name of the wireless card while he's poking around.  On a whim I look up the specs and spot the problem.

It is a very very very old wireless card.  It can't handle wireless n, it does b.  It also cannot do WPA2, encryption, all it can do is WEP.  I posted my findings with the link to the manufacturer's spec sheet in the trainee chat.

Not only did the trainer say I did an excellent job finding the information, when even she was starting to think it was a malfunctioning wireless card, she messaged the person we were listening in on with the information I provided.  Allowing him to solve the issue (and recommend an upgraded wireless dongle) in less than 3 minutes.

That's still an 'own' right?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 14, 2014, 05:04:40 am

Beat the game!

...

For the fourth time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gunpoint. Such an amazing game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on August 14, 2014, 07:00:49 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 13, 2014, 07:43:32 pm

Are those supposed to be the same picture?

...no.  I'll fix it at some point.  For right now the first pic was supposed to show me sneaking past more then fifteen deathclaws, two of which were alphas. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 14, 2014, 12:52:57 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on August 12, 2014, 02:13:54 pm

The real ownage there is building a giant rocket and not getting blown up by the tower.

The fix for that is to revolve the camera about 90 degrees counter-clockwise(so you're facing the hatch on the command pod), pick up the command pod(which shifts the entire craft), and move it to the left.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 14, 2014, 09:02:23 pm

Quote from: Greiger on August 14, 2014, 01:50:20 am

That's still an 'own' right?

Fuck yeah, it is. High five.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 15, 2014, 12:44:36 am

So what everyone knows is that there are five left, 2 town, 2 maf, one jester/executioner.  But I know a little bit more than that.

/w Glaceon If you help us kill maf I'll get you lynched.
whisper from Glaceon Ok, who's maf
/w Galceon Gandalf

Glaceon the jester then proceeds to help me, the investigator, lynch the mafioso I found.  Next night, they night kill the jester instead of me, resulting in a badass win from a difficult situation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Town of Salem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 15, 2014, 12:48:56 am

Perhaps I don't understand how the game works but, 'If you help me, I'll get you lynched.' sounds like the exact opposite of persuading somebody to help you.

Quote from: MaximumZero on August 14, 2014, 09:02:23 pm

/me returns the high five.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on August 15, 2014, 01:41:04 am

Quote from: Greiger on August 15, 2014, 12:48:56 am

Perhaps I don't understand how the game works but, 'If you help me, I'll get you lynched.' sounds like the exact opposite of persuading somebody to help you.

Quote from: MaximumZero on August 14, 2014, 09:02:23 pm

/me returns the high five.

the jesters goal is to get lynched and then he can kill someone from the grave.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on August 15, 2014, 11:28:32 am

Performing in a user-made arena. First titan and their defenses knocked me down to 15% life (actually, more like 5% by the time #1 was destroyed). Managed to finish it off, and 2 others without healing in between while being chased by a swarm of red orbs, and defeated the last titan with 3 seconds left on the clock (3 minutes to kill all 3 of them). All 3 titans were user-made beasts to fight against (as in, harder than the stock ones in-game. And well-engineered by the users.).

Arena was also spinning around, with the upper portion staying still with the weapon mods dangerously close to the titans, and magnets for those red orb chasers. Meaning upgrades are suicide runs for the uninitiated (Fuck it, I'll keep firing red shots (max-upgrades)). Fortunately, like in Sounddodger+, I know how to slalom between bullets and beam-streams. With and against the current. As far as this game is concerned, I'm Vash the (fucking) Stampede.

Spoiler: How I'm playing, in a nutshell (click to show/hide)

(http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6xd99zl5s1rozgayo1_400.gif)

No secondary weapons nor heath drops in the arena. Just run 'n' gun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Drunken Robot Pornography

EDIT:
Kinda having difficulty looking for the arena I played in.

EDIT EDIT:
While on topic, I also made my very first titan for the game. Something from the drawing threads, now as something to fight against. It's actually pretty fun. I also feel pretty badass for taking down a ship as an infantry in this battle. I also got the motion of it right to the point of fighting more or less how I intended them to. Oh yeah, and if you intend to finish it off once you whittled down the front shield and cannons, have fun with the backside; since it's covered with guns. You may need to grow a pair before taking the final bit on.

Deathmask Frigate: Link (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=300950644)

Spoiler: screenshot (Still need to make a paintjob for it.) (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/27339733928767402/7D52A79FC9A997A08A642640ED8714BA49A0DA7B/)

EDIT EDIT EDIT:
Not to pat myself on the back too hard, but I gotta admit, I love fighting the Deathmask Frigate. It feels so satisfying. Personal review of my own work so far: Fun. I mean, it has the right kind, and amount, of challenge to it (the fact that it doesn't entirely fall apart after 1 smart bomb (a major flaw of a grand majority of workshop items) is a major help here. The masked shield takes at least 2 to take out, and then you're welcomed with hellfire from the aft. The missile launchers on the back will keep you moving.). There are many different ways to take this beast on. The classic "Remove shield first" can initially make things easier, but the more of the ship you expose, the more defensive it gets firepower-wise (Primarily anti-infantry by this point now) to compensate for the lack of an anti-artillery shield you just dismantled (the leaves individually absorbing impact of cannon shells fired at it, and minimizing damage done to the hull. Cheap and easy to replace; however, concentrated fire can overwhelm the hardpoints to their breaking point, and snap right off.). You can also take on the aft, the most defended point, first, and make removing the shield and afterward a swifter process.

You want a Hell challenge, or more like absolute tedium, or a cherry tap challenge, or want to feel absolutely helpless fighting this thing? No upgrades, and your only super weapon is the friendship cannon (basically, you're like the infantry you're helping in the "backstory" of this fight). Have fun hitting this thing with that, BTW. It orbits the arena, far enough away to be effective in combat, but close enough to be beatable under normal circumstances, always looking at you; maximizing it's defense the entire time; and if you're lucky, the friendship cannon might hit it once or twice. However, the Friendship Cannon will NOT kill it for you; like most other fights that can be won like that (personally, I try to stay away from superweapons unless I have a time limit).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 16, 2014, 04:45:08 am

When your Tier One units can go toe-to-toe with almost anything without suffering major losses, you must be doing something right. And if your Tier Four units can close to mêlée with your enemy's shooters in the first turn, you must be doing another thing right.

HoMMV, Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 16, 2014, 01:20:14 pm

I died in SS13 yesterday, as a:
-Blueshield (trying to rescue the Warden from the Supermatter. I got vaporized trying to recover his corpse.)
-Borg (Ran out of power killing crew, and got stuck in a fire)

Yes, I know I died, but the first death's RP was impressive. I dashed into a Supermatter Engine that was going critical, got slammed off a wall, and managed to grab the Warden when ZAS air-flow pushed me into the Supermatter Core, where I (And the warden) were instantly vaporized. It was glorious. I felt like a (stupid, dead) hero.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 16, 2014, 02:13:33 pm

So, after this

Quote from: Arx on August 16, 2014, 02:08:42 pm

Apparently, given a pair of easy-to-meet conditions*, crossbowmen can deal in excess of three thousand damage a shot. That proved to be enough damage to kill seventy percent of my army before I could breach the walls, starting with my only major shooters.

HoMM V.

*One: Dougal, Level Eighteen.
Two: Divine Strength, easily provided by nine inquisitors.

happened, I got a relatively narrow defeat, because of one thing: my six hundred spartans shieldguard killed 640 conscripts, 117 vindicators, 12 griffons, and two archangels. After walking through the moat and being temporarily blinded. Booyah.

Still HoMM V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on August 17, 2014, 03:52:20 pm

In a fit of boredom, decided to boot up PAYDAY 2 again.

Ended up in a random pub group, on Overkill, on the original bank mission. Ended up stealthing the entire thing - picked off every guard, got all the civvies secured, broke through both doors, and picked every lock in the joint before running. Also discovered that shaped charges on the inner vault door will alert literally every unsecured civilian on the map... which thankfully was just one guy by that point.

Not a monstrous victory, but finding a pub group capable of that level of organization was really quite enjoyable.  :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you didn't read it above... PAYDAY 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dwarfurious on August 17, 2014, 08:57:02 pm

Quote from: Arx on August 16, 2014, 02:13:33 pm

So, after this

Quote from: Arx on August 16, 2014, 02:08:42 pm

Apparently, given a pair of easy-to-meet conditions*, crossbowmen can deal in excess of three thousand damage a shot. That proved to be enough damage to kill seventy percent of my army before I could breach the walls, starting with my only major shooters.

HoMM V.

*One: Dougal, Level Eighteen.
Two: Divine Strength, easily provided by nine inquisitors.

happened, I got a relatively narrow defeat, because of one thing: my six hundred spartans shieldguard killed 640 conscripts, 117 vindicators, 12 griffons, and two archangels. After walking through the moat and being temporarily blinded. Booyah.

Still HoMM V.

If you're a HoMM V fan you gotta vote for Fortress in HoMM VII!

Last time i 'owned' was the recent free weekend of Nosgoth, I had never played it but since it was free it was full of new people like me! Was totally unkilled the first game, 10:0 as human and 8:0 as vampire! When i was humans i'd shout "KILL THE BLOODY ELVES!" and then when i was vampire i'd roar "CRUSH THE PUNY ELVES", improved joy significantly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ImagoDeo on August 19, 2014, 03:28:03 pm

My first run through Portal 2 - I completed the entire game without dying a single time. I never saw any guides beforehand, either, but was going based on my experience from Portal 1 and my intuition. The tensest moment was diving haphazardly into that tiny little platform right before you get mashed by giant mashy spiky things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 19, 2014, 04:18:57 pm

Quote from: Cmega3 on August 19, 2014, 03:34:24 pm

Congratulations on playing the world's best game!

hmmm.  I liked one a lot, and two was fun . . .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 19, 2014, 04:57:55 pm

How did I last own?
By not downloading this fucking game. I'm so proud of myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Five Nights at Freddy's

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on August 19, 2014, 05:00:12 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 19, 2014, 04:57:55 pm

How did I last own?
By not downloading this fucking game. I'm so proud of myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Five Nights at Freddy's

It's actually a very fun, and deep game. u_u

I'm glad I didn't download it.
^{IT'S NOT FOR ME.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 19, 2014, 05:04:48 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on August 19, 2014, 05:00:12 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 19, 2014, 04:57:55 pm

How did I last own?
By not downloading this fucking game. I'm so proud of myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Five Nights at Freddy's

It's actually a very fun, and deep game. u_u

I'm glad I didn't download it.
^{IT'S NOT FOR ME.}

Deep in the piTS OF 'NOPE, FUCK THIS, I'M DONE *OLLIES OUTIE*' HELL, YOU MEAN.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 19, 2014, 08:39:18 pm

Beat up the horse head guy and placed the first crystal.

Suck it, horse head guy.

Zelda II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kydrasz on August 19, 2014, 08:59:59 pm

One of the Squad's members walked into the Police Station with only a trench coat and a M4, and ruthlessly gunned down about ten cops. She didn't even get hit at all.

Shame she died on the way back to the safehouse but she did cause a police car to crash before dying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Liberal Crime Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on August 19, 2014, 09:24:37 pm

I was flying this little shitty Biplane equipped with a single Machine gun, I managed to kill SIX dedicated fighters and twelve ground units with out being downed once.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WarThunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on August 20, 2014, 09:00:28 am

Played as Rome and steamrolled the world with units from the classical era.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civilization V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on August 21, 2014, 03:36:23 am

Mount and Blade: Warband multiplayer.

I was a defending Khergit against Swadians - that's Mongol vs French/Germans, strongly typified as either sword-and-board or greatsword-infantry, with good knights and crossbow - which meant I was fairly outclassed.  Decided to roll archer, which meant I was pretty ill-equipped for a standup fight.

Dudes were encroaching on my position, so I drew my sword and attacked the infantry.  It's a greatsword guy, and there's two dudes distracted by someone else some distance behind him.  Through luck and extremely adept panicked flailing, I cut the greatsword down, and then charge the other two guys, who I kill back to back in the span of like literally a second.

Felt pretty good.

Oh, there was also the time a bit more recently where, as an attacking Nord footman, I was in the archer nest of a siege tower, while the enemy had guys in the bridge-bit of said tower, locking it down and keeping people from coming up.  So!  I leaped off my perch, landed behind them, and chopped like three guys in half with my axe, clearing the way.  Good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 22, 2014, 10:14:06 am

Caught an ATC goon as he was jumping from cover using my HVP 10mm Penetrator. That gun, by the way, fires spikes that are about 4 inces long and an inch thick. The first two hit him in the side of the head, while the third got him in the eye, sticking him to a wall.

Spoiler: Appropriate picture (click to show/hide)

(http://t.qkme.me/3qrqxw.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

First Encounter Assault Recon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 23, 2014, 08:04:02 pm

17/1/7 and the enemy surrendered, so I could have gotten significantly more.  I had half my team's kills.  Bastet is hilarious, some of my kills were just applying bleed and/or summoning my cats and then just saying "you are already dead" and walking away.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Smite

Edit: And then I went 34/3/something, with no deaths until after I reached 30 kills.  Cat train has no brakes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HawaiianJon on August 25, 2014, 04:15:58 am

Five Nights at Freddy's 20/20/20/20 mode.
Right after I played LCS and talked a security guard to join my side at the very beginning
Then after I lost by a huge error that was foreshadowed many months ahead of time, I proceeded to play DF and do peasantry challenge and held off the invasion of 87 undead goblins with only 10 Dwarves using wooden crossbows without bolts.

Also I became a magical girl who survived til she became queen and didn't die by poisoned chocolate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In order; FNAF, Liberal Crime Squad, Dwarf Fortress, Long Live The Queen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MorleyDev on August 25, 2014, 07:46:08 am

Fire up TF2, start running around with a charge + half-zatoichi Demoman. Encounter a soldier, jump in the air to dodge a rocket, which proceeds to launch me straight at the Soldier. Whilst in the air, initiate the charge and then decapitate the soldier in a single swing.

Even the guy playing the Soldier had to comment on how I managed to ride his rocket. Not bad considering it happened entirely by blind luck xD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 25, 2014, 10:58:45 am

Finally completed the mission to build the starship and move a ton of resources(including 200 colonists, by the end my colony had 250 total) to it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Outpost 2: Divided Destiny. Actually, it might have been the other mission, which simply requires a massive settlement to win, that I had trouble with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 25, 2014, 01:00:59 pm

Made 1/3 of my quota on the final day by abusing the machines to the point of breaking. Not like I have to deal with them after the scenario's finished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Oil Blue
Finally bought the game rather than playing the demo, and the difficulty ramps up a whole lot after the first island.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on August 25, 2014, 08:57:21 pm

GMing a game of Rogue Trader. Players roll up some pretty nasty combat-oriented characters and an incredibly powerful ship.

Managed to get them to love what I had "planned" by improvising everything on the spot without a single enemy in sight.

Ended up with them in an abandoned, buried alien starship that could repair itself with a psychic virus in the air.

Rogue Trader

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on August 25, 2014, 09:53:33 pm

Spoiler: Newcom EU (click to show/hide)

Jericho, Clad in Psionic armor(Insists on wearing it instead of the titan armor everyone else had in the assault) walked out of the skyranger, the five soldiers with him, Ali Fowler, Axel Axel, Vladimir Dimitri, Patrick Henry and Alexander Hope, follow suit. What lies ahead, nobody knows, however they all know this... People will die. Everyone was prepared. Despite how they were told to wear their normal armors, the commander had titan suits fabricated for Patrick and Hope. They move into the first room, and almost out of nowhere, sectoids and cyberdisks appear. Jericho seems... Calm in this. His eyes glowing the standard purple as they move and take the contacts out... The only injury is Patrick taking a plasma shot to the shoulder. The next room contains a heavy floater and normal floaters. Still the weak enemies they faced during the early days of the invasion. Jericho, yet again, seems calm and his eyes glow. The enemies are dispatched without injury. Then... Chrysallids. These appear the same as the sectoids, however... Jericho ends up taking them all out in the same 'round' as the commander called them. The door up ahead opens as if waiting for them to finish. As they move into the next room, mutons appear. A beserker, an elite and four regulars scatter. Everyone takes cover. Jericho takes a shot, however he brushes it off, summoning an almost hellihs looking singularity over two of them, killing them instantly. Hope however, was caught in it and he suffers a near fatal blow, left with barely any health left. Patrick rushes over, drags him to cover and begins to patch him up while the team advances to a large open room... Jericho's eyes glow once more and...  Two Sectopods emerge from the darkness. Vladimir swear and opens fire on the first, damaging it, however it isn't phased. Hope... pushes Patrick away and rushes to cover closer to the sectopods and... And out from the sectopod's 'back' comes a plasma cannon. It nails Hope in the back. His pained cry and breathing are heard before he dies painfully...

Jericho pauses, lowering his sniper and simply stares at the corpse of his friend... The footage couldn't recover the audio due to... Difficulties, however we can clearly see the look of guilt on his face. He is only stopped by the commander's voice on the radio telling him to snap out of it. He sighs and puts his guilt away for a moment and aims his sniper at a sectopod... Moments later, his target is down and he's working on the second one. Fowler runs off to where Patrick is -in cover next to Hope's corpse- and begins suppressing the machine. It fires it's laser... It hits Patrick and he seems to be bleeding from his abdomen. Something must've got him, but we digress. Jericho takes another shot at the machine and it explodes and collapses in a heap. As soon as the fight ends, Jericho rushes over to Hope's corpse and simply stares. He seems to be in deep thought, however the purple glow in his eyes says something else... He moves towards the other end of the room and the others follow. Two elite mutons almost seemingly teleport in and catch Jericho's flanks. Vlad, who was covering Jericho seems to have been told to run and soon after, Jericho seems to be in the middle of using Psionics... moments later, the two mutons are ripped asunder by the same singularity from earlier. Jericho however misjudged the distance it seems and he ended up tearing himself asunder as well, however he's no dead like the mutons. Patrick rushes over once the singularity dissipates and well... Heals him. Jericho pushes him away after the last medkit is used and moves to the door, which stays closed. Fowler gets the bright idea that maybe it's like the last room. He rushes off to the unsearched platform and, truth be told we didn't expect this, finds a muton. Sitting there. Fowler gets pegged in the abdomen and soon he retaliates, the mutons torso a goopy mess soon after. He begins to rush back as the men begin to get into breaching formation. Jericho seems to want Fowler and Axel up front, they seem to be in agreement and head in...

Axel opens the door, or whatever you wish to call the UFO's doors, and fowler and Axel take up positions... However, there's an... Ethereal with a rather ornate head dress. It speaks to them. We're unable to recover the audio here, not because of difficulties, however it's clearly making Jericho a bit angry. He pushes past Vlad and rushes in, pistol drawn. The Ethereal(It shall be referred to as The Royal to avoid confusion.) sees this and raises it's hands. Two elite mutons and two ethereeals appear, ready to fight. Patrick and Vlad rush in and take positions... Patrick on the side of Jericho, Vlad with Fowler and Axel. Jericho Psi Controls an elite muton and it seems pacified in the recording. Vlad and Patrick shoot the second one and soon they're left with the Ethereals. Fowler and Axel go on overwatch to catch the ethereals... However, the end is... Far from what we expected. Patrick and Fowler's eyes glow and, despite assertions that they're 'fine', they look hostile. Vlad rushes over to Jericho and, despite how... Assertive Parker is about being fine... Jericho orders Vlad to shoot. (Sidenote: Normally, onsite CO would fall to Axel, due to his service time, however since Hope's... Outburst after the death of a squaddie, he resigned from onsite CO and put Jericho as the main onsite CO.) Vlad... Hesitates... But in the end, Parker's head ends up splattered against the cover... Jericho pulls his sniper out and aims at an Ethereal... He fires and it seems mainly unphased by it. Jericho curses and yells at Vlad to get up to a higher level while he takes care of things. Vlad nods and rushes up a ramp and aims at Fowler... Fowler fires at Jericho... Jericho's arm is hit and the heavy plasma seems to have... Burnt through his armor. His arm is clearly visible and look fairly burned. Third degree /at least/. Jericho chuckles as he runs up next to Vlad... He summons another singularity on Fowler and he is torn asunder, his body bleeding heavily. Axel seems to be in pain as well, however he's alive...

The Royal looks at Axel and raises a hand. Axel's eyes glaze over and it's revealed he'd been mind controlled... Jericho sighs and aims at The Royal and prepares to fire... It looks in his direction and raises a hand, however he's able to kill it before it could do whatever... Jericho smiles as the other Ethereals in the room die. (Sidenote: It seems the transcripter forgot something. The muton Psi Controlled was Psi-Lanced as the researchers called it.) The room however begins shaking... He looks Vlad and the now free Axel and raises a hand... The two are pushed out the door and metal debris is down over it and it is shut completely. The two make a bee line for the skyranger, however that's not the intriguing part... Jericho makes his way to the other Ethereal device in the room... As the room's shaking intensifies, his eyes glaze over... After recovering, he... Puts his hands on the orb and the violent spiking of it slows. Using footage put together from cameras in the XCOM HQ, we can see that the ship seems to be moving into the atmosphere... The researcher on duty tells us that it would've become like a black hole. The ship, she says, was behaving like a dying star. Regardless, the feed on Jericho's suit is cut off by now, however, it's not needed. The ship explodes moments later, shaking the entirety of earth and raining metal debris into the ocean... The two surviving soldiers arrive back at XCOM HQ at 1350 hours. Their cameras cut off by now. We are left to the XCOM HQ cameras... We can piece together a funeral held for those that died in the machine. Their names, added to the memorial wall, are held higher than others. Pictures of them are adorned with the medal of honor. The Council agrees that XCOM has served us well. The men and women that served today will be remembered for their actions. *Council report end.*

Recovered from a steam chat.

Newcom's ending felt /badass/. The build up was nice. I didn't even savescum for deaths :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: neblime on August 26, 2014, 12:08:47 am

picked up an odd mushroom and then got cancer, so my fire rate was amazing.  I also got whore of babylon but didn't get to use it all, finished mom's heart with about 5 hearts left (I have progressed further but for some reason on this comp my progress isnt up to date even though all my items are)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the binding of isaac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tuypo1 on August 26, 2014, 04:22:15 am

I got my first point of progress towards the "pop fly" achievement in Team Fortress 2 with a massive jump and a shot from above into an enemies head.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 26, 2014, 10:20:24 am

Getting reeeeeeeeeeeeal close to escaping.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Escapists.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on August 27, 2014, 11:40:04 am

Made an interceptor craft which does its killing using a number of machine guns. Sounds ordinary, right? It was, until an enemy in an online match shot off one of its wings. That unbalanced it enough to send me into a whirling spin every time I try to gain altitude. This last enemy then proceeded to pick off teammates one at a time until I was the only man standing, trying to wrestle my interceptor into submission.

Now the interceptor's guns are still working, it's just the flying that's hard to control. Dead teammates are wondering if I can pull off a win by killing the last guy who picked off so many of them. One guy thinks I can't, since I have yet to get my craft back under control. The other guys chide him for being such a pessimist. Meanwhile, I decide to divebomb right into where I see the enemy craft is hiding.

Charging in guns blazing, my interceptor gets some solid hits in before it flips, resting gun side up.

I score a good hit on the other guy's pilot seat and we win the match.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Robocraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 27, 2014, 05:08:16 pm

I finally winned teh gaem.

A final boss has never had me as frustrated as this one did.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mega Man X3.

I've ordered the Mega Man X Collection for my PS2 so I can try X4, X5 and X6, but if they keep getting harder like this, I don't know what I'll do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 27, 2014, 05:28:33 pm

Playing Megaman X on an emu with no lag is Hard mode. At least for me, since I played it so much on my SNES.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 27, 2014, 08:42:55 pm

Finally kicked the ass of Giga Gaia.

Suck it, GG.

Chrono Trigger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on August 27, 2014, 09:03:14 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 08:42:55 pm

Finally kicked the ass of Giga Gaia.

Suck it, GG.

Chrono Trigger

Been a while since I last played Chrono Trigger,can you refresh my memory?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on August 27, 2014, 09:28:39 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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So is it harder than fighting the secret Lavos fight with only Chrono?  I can't remember the fight you're talking about at all for some reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 27, 2014, 09:49:12 pm

Quote from: Karkov on August 27, 2014, 09:28:39 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So is it harder than fighting the secret Lavos fight with only Chrono?  I can't remember the fight you're talking about at all for some reason.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dunno, haven't gotten that far. No worries, you didn't spoiler me, ahaha.

It comes before the Ocean Palace.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on August 27, 2014, 09:50:05 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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Ah that thing,that's around the time Chrono dies right? And you find Melchior to try bring him back?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on August 27, 2014, 09:52:44 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:49:12 pm

Quote from: Karkov on August 27, 2014, 09:28:39 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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So is it harder than fighting the secret Lavos fight with only Chrono?  I can't remember the fight you're talking about at all for some reason.

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Dunno, haven't gotten that far. No worries, you didn't spoiler me, ahaha.

It comes before the Ocean Palace.

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Oh, yeah he's probably earlier than what I mentioned then.  Sorry about potential spoilerinoes, for some reason I assumed he was after the secret boss and stuffs. >_>

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Recluse on August 27, 2014, 09:53:41 pm

My restaurant in the SherriSoda Tower is on it's 58th day of service and has been declared a 3-star restaurant. Out of the 57 days prior, 52 of those days were perfect days with no errors of any kind whatsoever and with an average of 60 customers a day.

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Cook, Serve, Delicious

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on August 27, 2014, 09:56:21 pm

My paladin is pretty powerful. When he can actually get a hit in. The rest of the party is a bunch of dextrous monkeys, so I don't get much of a chance to actually do much. And sadly I'm the worst out of all of the others who can heal.

But I managed to run down a fleeing boss in only two strikes, so I got that going for me. I may be slow, but my divine mount isn't :P

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Pathfinder

Seriously though, the party doesn't really need me for anything other than tanking for the weaker members.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 27, 2014, 09:58:46 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on August 27, 2014, 09:50:05 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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Ah that thing,that's around the time Chrono dies right? And you find Melchior to try bring him back?

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Naw, Crono's still alive, we just had to save the Guru of the Earthbound Ones, Melchior, from his exile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glloyd on August 28, 2014, 06:50:28 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:58:46 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on August 27, 2014, 09:50:05 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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Ah that thing,that's around the time Chrono dies right? And you find Melchior to try bring him back?

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Naw, Crono's still alive, we just had to save the Guru of the Earthbound Ones, Melchior, from his exile.

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I just wanted to fit in 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 30, 2014, 04:27:02 pm

Haven't played any of the series in a while, but I still managed to take out seven or eight guards on a single building - also a restricted area - in a very short time without entering open combat.

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AC 4: Black Flag

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 30, 2014, 04:34:19 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:58:46 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on August 27, 2014, 09:50:05 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

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Ah that thing,that's around the time Chrono dies right? And you find Melchior to try bring him back?

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Naw, Crono's still alive, we just had to save the Guru of the Earthbound Ones, Melchior, from his exile.

Easily the hardest fight in the game for me, at least the first time through. I had less problems soloing the final boss with Crono.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 30, 2014, 04:53:32 pm

After a highly profitable trip to the tropical island, I discovered that I do, in fact, have a limit to how many bells can be on me at one time :))

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on August 31, 2014, 09:10:54 pm

En route to destroy some Migs at a site, I have a helicopter patrol shooting at me. In a desperate effort, I switch my rifle to grenade launcher mode, and fire off a shot without ironsighting, and beaned it right out of the sky in a one-hit-kill. Fuck yeah. Those things are obnoxious; and that was a satisfying kill.

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Delta Force 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 31, 2014, 10:50:01 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on August 31, 2014, 09:10:54 pm

En route to destroy some Migs at a site, I have a helicopter patrol shooting at me. In a desperate effort, I switch my rifle to grenade launcher mode, and fire off a shot without ironsighting, and beaned it right out of the sky in a one-hit-kill. Fuck yeah. Those things are obnoxious; and that was a satisfying kill.

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Delta Force 2

Is that just as good as the first one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mapleguy555 on September 01, 2014, 12:37:19 am

Got 3 kills with the Flying Guillotine and 2 more with the Shortstop!

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Team Fortress 2!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 01, 2014, 12:41:33 am

Managed to save a game of the daily match, an Assault (1 lane and no returning to base) game where you can only play Janus and Chronos. I was the only Chronos on either side. After feeding early on, we just kinda.. pulled it together after a few deicides.

SMITE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 01, 2014, 02:39:00 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 31, 2014, 10:50:01 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on August 31, 2014, 09:10:54 pm

En route to destroy some Migs at a site, I have a helicopter patrol shooting at me. In a desperate effort, I switch my rifle to grenade launcher mode, and fire off a shot without ironsighting, and beaned it right out of the sky in a one-hit-kill. Fuck yeah. Those things are obnoxious; and that was a satisfying kill.

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Delta Force 2

Is that just as good as the first one?

Bit more challenging, but still good fun. Not as likely to destroy vehicles with a rifle as you used to. I used to shoot down helicopters with 1-2½ magazines from my rifle at a distance easily; these ones take a bit more effort to the point grenades are more effective. Saves up on rockets for the more distant/harder to reach/more obnoxious targets like tanks and such; which oddly enough, can also be shot to death.

On that note, I still recall playing Arma2, and popping a helicopter out of the sky mid-flight with a well-aimed rifle shot through the cockpit, and watching it crash nearby. Really saves on ammo when you can one-shot armor or choppers; far more impressive when you can shoot a jet out of the sky on foot with a rifle or sidearm.

All that remains now is knifing a tank dead, or doing the same to aircraft in-transit. Screw logic, and like my avatar, screw physics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: gigaraptor487 on September 01, 2014, 02:43:20 pm

A Nana-Yon Shiki G were in the forest north of alpha (on the wonsan harbour map). Their job was to use a combination of their mark 17 grenade launchers and tank guns (L7A3?) to kill any softskin vehicles and infantry. I expected them to have to deal with the odd unit of Saperzy '85 or something, however many units of spetznaz, the aforementioned anti infantry units and regular infantry came through. At one point a number of Ka-52 recon helicopters came overhead which unfortunately survived with 1 hit point left, but this tank absolutely murdered most of the infantry coming through the forest, and arguably allowed us to delay defeat for a few vital minutes. Unfortunately, while we were leading on points in the game, we lost the game in the last 7 seconds when they killed our last command unit.

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Wargame: Red dragon

You can see an image of the tank's achievements here : clicky (http://i.imgur.com/EubKpfb.jpg)

EDIT: I really wish I had screenshots of when smaws or wachregiment beat the enemy to a town, when the vehicles are sent to the centre of the town.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knick on September 02, 2014, 12:24:03 pm

Saw the enemy infiltrate my base through the air vents.  Ran down to the air vent opening in the middle of the base, set a series of bombs in the air vent opening in the ceiling, and gibbed them before they came out.

Then went to the enemy base, camped in their air vents, and gibbed six or seven enemies as they exited their own base through the air vents.  I was able to continue until I ran out of ammo.  Around the corner they would come, to be reduced to chunky salsa by me.

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I love playing team fortress 2 demoman on Turbine.  I was particularly pleased to kill a heavy by firing sticky bombs straight up into the vent in the intelligence room, and detonating them in front of his face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 03, 2014, 07:35:02 pm

Escaped the exploding facility, shot the General into pieces, and saved the world.

Shit yes.

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Stealth Hunter II, a MGS-esque flash game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 04, 2014, 12:27:37 am

Lost the entire original crew of my Zoltan Cruiser "Green Machine", still managed to pull off a win.  On hard mode.  Using the unimpressive weapon combo of halberd beam + flak 1 + burst laser 1, no less.  With some extra systems of course.

In the end the crew consisted of the Zoltan Envoy and 3 freed prisoners and slaves.

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FTL.  All Zoltan ship variants are great, with A (my ship) being markedly weaker than the other 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ogdibus on September 04, 2014, 12:47:40 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 27, 2014, 09:26:48 pm

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You have to kill Giga Gaia to save Melchior on Mt. Woe in 12000 BC. Giga Gaia is ridiculously hard-- his attacks hit everybody and the best solution is to wail on his left arm until it falls off, then wail on his head until his arm comes back, then repeat until he's dead. It's still difficult, I think Marle died during it anyway.

I think I used Falcon Strike for this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on September 04, 2014, 02:01:28 am

Just destroyed the 2nd big-ass robot and did it without being hit, also enjoying knifing off guy into grinders then blowing up

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The Expendabros

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on September 04, 2014, 09:09:15 am

I'm playing Enemy Unknown.  I have two soldiers being gene modded, my heavy and my sniper, both for six days.  I then have an abduction mission.  In it my backup heavy and sniper are both wounded for two weeks.  Then comes a council mission.  EVERY single one of my soldiers takes 1 damage due to thin man poison.  Then, one day before all of those soldiers recover and my gene modding is done, I get a terror mission.  I have ONE corporal support, and exactly four rookies.  No one else can go.  I manage to beat it with only one rookie dying to a surprise chrysallid (It ran away earlier.  I was clearing out some floaters from a building when suddenly a chyrssalid jumped down from the roof, walked through five reaction fire shots with none of them hitting, and killed a rookie.  I grenaded the shit out of those two)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Myroc on September 05, 2014, 06:06:47 pm

Their team: Lonestar, Leon and Gnaw.
Our team: Ayla (me), Coco, and Raelynn.

Lost the early game horribly by losing both of our front turrets very quickly, Gnaw killed our Raelynn a couple of times via DoT and I died stupidly to the solar boss. Our Raelynn was playing fairly well, but had an annoying tendency to not buy items, leaving her a bit supbar for most of the match.

I managed to farm creeps enough to scrounge up enough money to increase Rage damage and get some extra health for Lonestar's dynamite/Gnaw's spit, managed to hunt down Gnaw when he played a little bit too manly, followed by Leon after she killed our Raelynn and got stuck in a timerift. This continued until I had gotten six kills in the span of about 3 minutes, aided by the fact that, at this point, Raelynn had at least had enough sense to pick up damage upgrades for her snipe.

We briefly turn around the game and take down both their front turrets, but shortly afterward I mess up while ganking Gnaw and die. By the time I respawn, our second turret is down and Leon's dueling our Coco in our base while Lonestar/Gnaw pushes down the remaining turret. I quickly get out and attack Leon and chase him away, but he survives and our last turret falls shortly after that.

This is the point where I go into full on carry mode, maximizing damage output and durability, followed by quickly moving around the map ganking any enemy naut I come across. I get another Killing Machine streak, and we turn around and break their top turret, I kill Gnaw and almost manage kill Leon before dying again. I get down in time to kill Gnaw again, I get to their base to harass them while Coco pushes down the bottom turret. A teamfight ensues and I kill Gnaw. Coco teleports back to defend our base against the backdooring Leon. She dies, Raelynn teleports back to take her place, leaving me alone in their base with Lonestar. Begin the base race.

I take out most of Lonestar's health, but he retreats behind his core where I can't hurt him. However, he foolishly decides to jump out again to throw dynamite at me. I dodge most of it, then Evil Eye him and jump behind him, bodyblocking him and killing him with my meager auto-attack. I'm at ridiculously low health and wailing away at their core without any creep assistance. I manage to finish their core off at the precise moment as Leon decloaks in an attempt to tongue and subsequently kill me, winning the game. Our own core was at 25% health.

TL;DR, we lost early game horribly but I turned the game around through a couple of ganks and managed to carry my team to victory, winning the base race by a thin margin and ending up with a final score of 15-4. Best game I've had in a while.

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Awesomenauts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on September 06, 2014, 06:18:58 pm

Queued up with a couple of my homies for 3v3. We decided to play as The A-Team (this time it was Apollo, Ares, and me as Aphrodite), against Hel, Fenrir, and Serqet.

It all started to go downhill for their team at the very beginning. We were getting me the mana buff when I noticed a Hand of the Gods being used far off in the jungle, so we went to go look and we found Fenrir getting himself the damage buff. In a quick little scuffle (okay it was more of a beating, 3v1 is never pretty) we took him out. As a nice little bonus, we stole the damage buff from him.

Then it was just us stomping them from then on. We won in 10:04, before they could even surrender.

Then they called us noobs and said "jaja". I guess.

SMITE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on September 06, 2014, 06:31:07 pm

Spoiler: Law and Chaos, kicking ass as one. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/RpZ28jQ.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 06, 2014, 06:56:45 pm

I KILLED THE DRAGON

AND I SAVED THE PRINCESS WHO WAS BASED OFF A PLAYBOY MAGAZINE COVER

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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DRAGON'S LAAAAAAIIIIIRRRRRRR

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 06, 2014, 06:58:37 pm

Quote from: Darvi on September 06, 2014, 06:31:07 pm

Spoiler: Law and Chaos, kicking ass as one. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/RpZ28jQ.png)

/me casts Greater Summon Meteors

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 06, 2014, 06:59:47 pm

Quote from: Darvi on September 06, 2014, 06:31:07 pm

Spoiler: Law and Chaos, kicking ass as one. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/RpZ28jQ.png)

That looks an awful lot like a Persona game. But not one that I recognise in particular.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on September 06, 2014, 07:18:44 pm

3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 06, 2014, 08:49:40 pm

Both of the other two person teams ask us to trade.  We have nothing, our mission is acquisition.  I tell one of them to meet us in the park, the other in garage C.  We reach the park meeting, step out of our car and immediately open fire.  We killed both of them with no casualties, and stole their black disk which was our primary objective.  Remaining other team asks what's taking so long.

Me: "They killed Sinistar and stole our disk, you should head to their base if you want to stop them".

Two minutes later when there were only 20 seconds left on the clock they figured it out, not that they had any chance to do something about it.

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Sub Rosa

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Micro102 on September 06, 2014, 08:53:51 pm

Just went 12/2 in arena. Got like, 300+ gold and 2 card packs each with an epic and rare. Jackpot!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 06, 2014, 11:22:51 pm

Got an insane shot done, hitting my opponent, and then hitting them again with a mine immediately as they recovered (temp. invincibility).

Spoiler: Pretty impressive shot, I must say. I'm Yellow/Red. The mine-hit is barely visible, but the trajectory is clear. (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26215831951417151/256C428296CDCF67D45544B0E9C40A22D8120CED/)

ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 07, 2014, 12:36:14 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on September 06, 2014, 06:56:45 pm

I KILLED THE DRAGON

AND I SAVED THE PRINCESS WHO WAS BASED OFF A PLAYBOY MAGAZINE COVER

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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DRAGON'S LAAAAAAIIIIIRRRRRRR

Is it bad I read Dragons Lair in the most Iron Maiden, high-pitched glorious metal voice I could muster?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 07, 2014, 11:48:28 am

Burning Hands for 5d4 damage, Reflex DC15 halves. Eighty percent of the enemies eliminated in the second round of combat. Also, because the campaign is RP-heavy no-one knew anything about me, since all but one of them had supposedly just met me, and the one was just a business contact. This lead to fun situations such as
"But he can't do that! He's tied up!"
DM: "He can."
"What? Okay, he must have still casting..."
which maybe aren't obvious owns, but are still pretty funny.

D&D, Forgotten Realms setting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on September 07, 2014, 02:19:27 pm

Did Teambuilder for the first time, and noticed that one of the things needed was a Jungle/Tank.

Picked Nasus, and after getting into a match, started steamrolling the enemy team.

By the end of the game, had ~600 stacks on my Q, and was 13/0/7.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 07, 2014, 09:21:28 pm

I'm currently on my first trip to the moon on Galacticraft~

It took goddamn forever to mine up the hundreds of ingots needed to build my rocket, and also put together all of my equipment. But in the end, I was left with a rocket and a simple moon base kit which I assembled in a cave, with a box of scraps, and also some careful planning.

After landing on the moon, I set up a simple solar-powered camp consisting of my rocket, ready to return whenever I need it to, a simple mineshaft, and an oxygen collector and compressor next to a huge pile of leaves, which allows me to replenish my two heavy oxygen tanks.

I'm currently wandering around hunting for any meteors that might still be in craters.

Minecraft with Galacticraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 09:25:25 pm

This Galacticraft sounds rather interesting O_o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on September 07, 2014, 09:52:19 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 09:25:25 pm

This Galacticraft sounds rather interesting O_o

It's basically minecraft... IN SPACE!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 07, 2014, 10:59:53 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 09:25:25 pm

This Galacticraft sounds rather interesting O_o

It's a BITCH to set up properly, from what I remember. Have fun digging for titanium for seven thousand years!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 11:04:00 pm

Quote from: Evilsx on September 07, 2014, 09:52:19 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 09:25:25 pm

This Galacticraft sounds rather interesting O_o

It's basically minecraft... IN SPACE!

It sounds like a cross between Minecraft and Shores of Hazeron, so I'm interested.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on September 07, 2014, 11:10:38 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 11:04:00 pm

Quote from: Evilsx on September 07, 2014, 09:52:19 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 07, 2014, 09:25:25 pm

This Galacticraft sounds rather interesting O_o

It's basically minecraft... IN SPACE!

It sounds like a cross between Minecraft and Shores of Hazeron, so I'm interested.

I'm assuming you've figured this out, but it's a Minecraft mod. Thus, far closer to MC than SoH.  :)

You can find it in lots of major modpacks, which will both solve the problem of installing the mod and the problem of finding resources (because, you know, Buildcraft OP).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on September 09, 2014, 08:09:05 am

So, after a

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on September 09, 2014, 07:50:42 am

FUCKING SURPRISE THIN MEN

incident that caused a code black with my best squad during a bomb disposal mission, I immidiatly get a terror mission.  Luckily the autoloaders and weapon gyros had just enough time to finish being built, so I was able to deploy two SHIVs that could actually kill things.  I had one medic who was combat available, and three PFCs.  I deploy, and immediately have to start fighting a squad of floaters.  Right when I nearly finish them off another squad of floaters appears, flanking my position.  I successfully redeploy, using my SHIVS as bait to keep them from taking cover, even thou both are severely damaged.  Right when I nearly finish off the last floater, one of my SHIVs spots a pod of chryssalids in a nearby building.  My second SHIV is one tile away from the last floater, and to far away to be of assistance, so I have it go ahead and finish it off.  The chryssalids are about ten tiles away from my squad, who is taking cover behind a series of cars.  I have one throw a flashbang, and the other two throw AP grenades.  Two of the chryssalids are killed, and my SHIV fills a third with many bullets.  My fourth squadmember has no grenades, and can't get a shot off at the last chryssalid, due to stuff being in the way.  I sadly have to put her in overwatch, and consign her to death.  The chryssalid runs straight towards her, activating the overwatch.  I watch in horror as I see "Lightning Reflexes" appear over the chryssalid.  She then proceeds to actually hit it, gaining a promotion. 

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XCOM: Enemy Within, Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on September 09, 2014, 01:24:47 pm

Beat "No Escape?" only losing 7 health. Then I used the stolen cop outfit to steal the tank and the hunter from the military base. Next time: I bring a tank to a street race!

GTA: Vice City

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 10, 2014, 05:39:59 am

Managed to sink a warship from 3 miles away with 1 torpedo, amongst 30t of merchant shipping off the coast of Scotland and Northern England.

Early in the war, yes, and I can't play the game without it giving me targeting solutions but I now rank second in tonnage sunk after 6 patrols.

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Silent Hunter III

Edit: Also, managed to save the second person who gets kidnapped (or whatever) on the Saturday after I discovered they had been taken (on the Wednesday)

Might have been able to get them on the Thursday, but I did basketball practise instead.

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Persona 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 12, 2014, 10:02:03 pm

I KILLED THE GOLEM TWINS

FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Chrono Trigger.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 12, 2014, 10:12:12 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on September 12, 2014, 10:02:03 pm

I KILLED THE GOLEM TWINS

FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Chrono Trigger.

If you ask me,the Golems are one of the toughest bosses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 12, 2014, 10:34:28 pm

Very very minor own, but I was able to log in early enough to create characters with the names I wanted. This is good, because when I was playing in the beta they were all taken. Huzzah for pre-release wipes!

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ArcheAge

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 12, 2014, 11:49:53 pm

I've been trying to make a reliable VTOL atmospheric plane in Kerbal Space Program using the B9 parts. I couldn't make one that looked unique or worked well at all, despite the fact that I can make very good stock VTOLs. Naturally, I looked at real life for inspiration, which lead me to creating a harrier-like craft.

The end result was a plane that looked like what a real harrier might look like when given futuristic engines, cockpit and air intakes. It is extremely maneuverable for some reason, and can easily weave between buildings at the KSC. It is also very fast, and the vertical landings are extremely easy to pull off because of how well-balanced the weight is while hovering.

It costs 400000 kerbucks to fly the AV8 Harrier III for 12 seconds.

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on September 13, 2014, 12:35:24 am

Quote from: IronTomato on September 12, 2014, 11:49:53 pm

I've been trying to make a reliable VTOL atmospheric plane in Kerbal Space Program using the B9 parts. I couldn't make one that looked unique or worked well at all, despite the fact that I can make very good stock VTOLs. Naturally, I looked at real life for inspiration, which lead me to creating a harrier-like craft.

The end result was a plane that looked like what a real harrier might look like when given futuristic engines, cockpit and air intakes. It is extremely maneuverable for some reason, and can easily weave between buildings at the KSC. It is also very fast, and the vertical landings are extremely easy to pull off because of how well-balanced the weight is while hovering.

It costs 400000 kerbucks to fly the AV8 Harrier III for 12 seconds.

Kerbal Space Program

Pics please :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on September 13, 2014, 03:06:47 am

Quote from: IronTomato on September 12, 2014, 11:49:53 pm

I've been trying to make a reliable VTOL atmospheric plane in Kerbal Space Program using the B9 parts. I couldn't make one that looked unique or worked well at all, despite the fact that I can make very good stock VTOLs. Naturally, I looked at real life for inspiration, which lead me to creating a harrier-like craft.

The end result was a plane that looked like what a real harrier might look like when given futuristic engines, cockpit and air intakes. It is extremely maneuverable for some reason, and can easily weave between buildings at the KSC. It is also very fast, and the vertical landings are extremely easy to pull off because of how well-balanced the weight is while hovering.

It costs 400000 kerbucks to fly the AV8 Harrier III for 12 seconds.

Kerbal Space Program

Did you name it Natasha?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 04:55:07 am

I created a disease in Plague Inc. named Bay12 Community. It caused insomnia, paranoia, insanity, sweating, seizures and coma.

Quote from: IronTomato on September 12, 2014, 11:49:53 pm

I've been trying to make a reliable VTOL atmospheric plane in Kerbal Space Program using the B9 parts. I couldn't make one that looked unique or worked well at all, despite the fact that I can make very good stock VTOLs. Naturally, I looked at real life for inspiration, which lead me to creating a harrier-like craft.

The end result was a plane that looked like what a real harrier might look like when given futuristic engines, cockpit and air intakes. It is extremely maneuverable for some reason, and can easily weave between buildings at the KSC. It is also very fast, and the vertical landings are extremely easy to pull off because of how well-balanced the weight is while hovering.

It costs 400000 kerbucks to fly the AV8 Harrier III for 12 seconds.

Kerbal Space Program

.craaaaaaaft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 13, 2014, 05:08:10 am

Quote from: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 04:55:07 am

I created a disease in Plague Inc. named Bay12 Community. It caused insomnia, paranoia, insanity, sweating, seizures and coma.

Sounds about right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 05:25:03 am

It was pretty hilarious to see popups like "USA first to fall into anarchy due to Bay12 Community".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 13, 2014, 05:30:05 am

What about the part where Bay12 destroys the world?

We all knew that they'd meet up and create magma switches eventually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 05:33:08 am

Meh, everybody just died from seizures.  :-\

But, "Bay12 Community has destroyed the world despite world's best efforts".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 13, 2014, 05:48:27 am

Quote from: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 05:33:08 am

Meh, everybody just died from seizures.  :-\

But, "Bay12 Community has destroyed the world despite world's best efforts".

Probably got some FB dust and spread it by infecting water or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 05:50:40 am

You are right! It spread through water and dust particles in the air.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 13, 2014, 11:13:36 am

Quote from: Tiruin on September 13, 2014, 12:35:24 am

Pics please :D

Spoiler: Thine royal pics (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/mjnxhKP.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
 (http://i.imgur.com/LPfcAR0.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 13, 2014, 01:30:54 pm

That doesn't even look like it was made in KSP, it looks like one solid piece.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 13, 2014, 06:45:16 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 13, 2014, 01:30:54 pm

That doesn't even look like it was made in KSP, it looks like one solid piece.

Seconded.

IronTomato tell me your secrets!

Is it a mod? Is it just plain excellent craftsmenship?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 07:34:07 pm

It's B9 aerospace, a mod which adds tons of spaceplane parts. And excellent craftsmanship of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 13, 2014, 07:40:52 pm

Oh stop it, you :3

Quote from: McDonald on September 13, 2014, 07:34:07 pm

It's B9 aerospace, a mod which adds tons of spaceplane parts. And excellent craftsmanship of course.

Yah, but I think I mentioned that already. Pay attention, guys. :P

Unless you already knew that and were asking about some other mod, in which case all I have is B9 and FAR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on September 13, 2014, 07:51:18 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 13, 2014, 01:30:54 pm

That doesn't even look like it was made in KSP, it looks like one solid piece.

Thirded O_O
I am amaze
^{Now test all realistic planes and venture into aircraft engineering :P}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 13, 2014, 10:37:22 pm

I remember building a small, kerbal-piloted plane. I thought it would fail miserably.

It worked, surprisingly. I even landed properly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on September 13, 2014, 11:46:18 pm

Two orks, one space marine, one imperial guardsman.

I was the redshirt. It was a 2v2 match and I was expecting to be nothing more but the meatshield and support for the space marines, but that changed when the orks somehow forgot I was there or something and annihilated the entire space marine base in minutes. Before the last building, a machine cult, was destroyed, I mobilized all of my (six) guardsmen units and charged to the space marines' rescue. Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, we prevailed through extreme use of executions and heretical God Emperor approved amounts of pyskers. With the space marines... Saved, I guess, I quickly summoned an extra six guardsmen units and pushed into the Ork side of the map while the machine cult poured out dreadnoughts and land speeders to take out the other base. And only with about thirty casualties.

Waaaagh! that, greenskins.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQN94ESi-e_g4SLFG6DKXFDGwo0mYzc6ukRoH5m996YZQTzwHDALw)

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 14, 2014, 02:00:49 am

Some lore: Firran tribesmen must prove their worth by climbing a fairly tall cliff and fighting some monsters. Not too difficult, especially considering this is still in the newbie area.

I set my sights a little higher. A little lot higher. The single highest point in the entire area, to be precise (large image). (http://s19.postimg.org/5488aark3/Screen_Shot0002.jpg) Through heavy glider and world geometry abuse, I made it to a place that I would have sworn was unreachable. Sheer cliffs in many places on the way up. Terrain that appeared solid but you could actually pass through. It took a long time, but it was worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ArcheAge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 14, 2014, 02:11:40 am

Quote from: Sirus on September 14, 2014, 02:00:49 am

Some lore: Firran tribesmen must prove their worth by climbing a fairly tall cliff and fighting some monsters. Not too difficult, especially considering this is still in the newbie area.

I set my sights a little higher. A little lot higher. The single highest point in the entire area, to be precise (large image). (http://s19.postimg.org/5488aark3/Screen_Shot0002.jpg) Through heavy glider and world geometry abuse, I made it to a place that I would have sworn was unreachable. Sheer cliffs in many places on the way up. Terrain that appeared solid but you could actually pass through. It took a long time, but it was worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ArcheAge.

I want to see this climb. With LotR music.

Yes...Yes indeeeeeeed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 10ebbor10 on September 14, 2014, 03:11:45 am

That mountain in the distance does look taller.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 14, 2014, 03:46:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on September 14, 2014, 02:00:49 am

Some lore: Firran tribesmen must prove their worth by climbing a fairly tall cliff and fighting some monsters. Not too difficult, especially considering this is still in the newbie area.

I set my sights a little higher. A little lot higher. The single highest point in the entire area, to be precise (large image). (http://s19.postimg.org/5488aark3/Screen_Shot0002.jpg) Through heavy glider and world geometry abuse, I made it to a place that I would have sworn was unreachable. Sheer cliffs in many places on the way up. Terrain that appeared solid but you could actually pass through. It took a long time, but it was worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ArcheAge.

That game looks pretty interesting. Though I am kind of turned off by obligatory elves and furries.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on September 14, 2014, 08:44:27 am

Quote from: Graknorke on September 14, 2014, 03:46:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on September 14, 2014, 02:00:49 am

Some lore: Firran tribesmen must prove their worth by climbing a fairly tall cliff and fighting some monsters. Not too difficult, especially considering this is still in the newbie area.

I set my sights a little higher. A little lot higher. The single highest point in the entire area, to be precise (large image). (http://s19.postimg.org/5488aark3/Screen_Shot0002.jpg) Through heavy glider and world geometry abuse, I made it to a place that I would have sworn was unreachable. Sheer cliffs in many places on the way up. Terrain that appeared solid but you could actually pass through. It took a long time, but it was worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ArcheAge.

That game looks pretty interesting. Though I am kind of turned off by obligatory elves and furries.

Stereotyping ahoy :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on September 14, 2014, 10:20:00 am

Quote from: IronTomato on September 13, 2014, 11:13:36 am

Quote from: Tiruin on September 13, 2014, 12:35:24 am

Pics please :D

Spoiler: Thine royal pics (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/mjnxhKP.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
 (http://i.imgur.com/LPfcAR0.jpg)

I'm seriously serious, I need the .craft file.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 14, 2014, 10:24:36 am

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on September 14, 2014, 03:11:45 am

That mountain in the distance does look taller.

Not from a flatter angle. I'm pretty sure this spot towers over the rest of the area. There was a taller mountain off in the distance on the other side (http://s19.postimg.org/eekcdu29v/Screen_Shot0003.jpg), but that's in a different (and probably higher-level) zone. I'll get there someday.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SquatchHammer on September 14, 2014, 07:37:03 pm

Dog fighting over Stalingrad in a Brit bi-plane. I sliced off some dudes tale since he was trying to go slower than me. I kept my wing intact too. Epic own.
Need wing blades now....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warthunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jetex1911 on September 14, 2014, 10:55:08 pm

Quote from: SquatchHammer on September 14, 2014, 07:37:03 pm

Dog fighting over Stalingrad in a Brit bi-plane. I sliced off some dudes tale since he was trying to go slower than me. I kept my wing intact too. Epic own.
Need wing blades now....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warthunder

Spoiler: Looks like your plane was made out of... (click to show/hide)

(http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s602/AndryB94/GLORIOUSNIPPON_zpsad28f028.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on September 14, 2014, 11:11:18 pm

Quote from: jetex1911 on September 14, 2014, 10:55:08 pm

Quote from: SquatchHammer on September 14, 2014, 07:37:03 pm

Dog fighting over Stalingrad in a Brit bi-plane. I sliced off some dudes tale since he was trying to go slower than me. I kept my wing intact too. Epic own.
Need wing blades now....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warthunder

Spoiler: Looks like your plane was made out of... (click to show/hide)

(http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s602/AndryB94/GLORIOUSNIPPON_zpsad28f028.gif)

omfg I can't breath

GLORIOUS NIPPON STEEL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Farce on September 15, 2014, 05:33:30 am

Team Deathmatch.  Rhodoks vs Nords, I'm on the Brodok side.  FIVE kills before my first death!

Luck?  Probably.  Satisfying?  YES.

Mount and Blade: Warband, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanzoku on September 15, 2014, 06:42:24 am

Our party of 3rd and 4th level intrepid adventurers are trekking through the bowels of a Dwarf Fortress-inspired dungeon, and are attacked by an unholy abomination of a shadow-infused undead forgotten beast that took the form of an enormous burrowing worm. In the first round, it knocks half the party below 50%, and we mostly focus on spreading out, debuffing its attack roll for next round.

The second round, it lunges and swallows my paladin whole. On the up side, since it's dead, it's not murdering him to death with stomach acid, but that's about all the silver lining involved.

Except that it's undead, and my paladin has a symbol of Turning, which lets my paladin use Turn Undead like a cleric. His turn comes up, and he fires off a Turn Undead. Inside the undead Forgotten Beast. The DM ruled that given the location, it doesn't even get a chance to save, and the monster basically explodes as it's shoved outward in every direction by 35 feet. Through an incredibly lucky reflexes roll, my paladin lands on his feet as the head of the monster crashes down next to him, pulping the party pets and nearly killing another PC, and casually brushes bits of the monster off himself.

In a show of undead resilience, the head and 15 feet of the body lived on to fight another round or two, but I basically turned a major boss fight into a curbstomp battle. (Which was a good thing, the fight the normal way would have killed us all, More than half the party was unconscious or dying when it went down, after three rounds of combat.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

AD&D 4e, This game, in fact. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=133869.msg5590151#msg5590151)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 15, 2014, 07:10:09 am

Quote from: McDonald on September 14, 2014, 10:20:00 am

Quote from: IronTomato on September 13, 2014, 11:13:36 am

Quote from: Tiruin on September 13, 2014, 12:35:24 am

Pics please :D

Spoiler: Thine royal pics (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/mjnxhKP.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/90pv6rw.jpg)
 (http://i.imgur.com/LPfcAR0.jpg)

I'm seriously serious, I need the .craft file.

Will upload craft file later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 15, 2014, 03:55:46 pm

Took on the whole legion of singleplayer warriors, including the prismatic 4, and beat them all. Also got the Prometheus achievement during a higher-ranking singleplayer opponent. Total time: 30:41.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nidhogg

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 15, 2014, 05:01:14 pm

I HATH DEFEATED THEE, LAVOS!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chrono Trigger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 15, 2014, 05:11:13 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on September 15, 2014, 05:01:14 pm

I HATH DEFEATED THEE, LAVOS!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chrono Trigger

Now then, can you collect all the alternate endings?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 15, 2014, 05:11:56 pm

I think your quote-fu needs work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on September 15, 2014, 08:01:46 pm

Went absolutely beast with the Loch'n'Load, the Chargin' Targe and the Half-Zatoichi as Demoman on the new Cactus Canyon beta map. Spamming loch'n'load pills down a slope netted me many, many kills, including an engineer who was carrying his presumably-level-three sentry, who I never even actually saw.

At one point a side building was filled with four or five enemies, including a medic, two demos and a soldier, plus a minisentry around the corner, all of which I cleared singlehandedly, earning two dominations in the process. That half-zatoichi heal-on-kill is godly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on September 16, 2014, 01:02:55 am

Quote from: Blargityblarg on September 15, 2014, 08:01:46 pm

Went absolutely beast with the Loch'n'Load, the Chargin' Targe and the Half-Zatoichi as Demoman on the new Cactus Canyon beta map. Spamming loch'n'load pills down a slope netted me many, many kills, including an engineer who was carrying his presumably-level-three sentry, who I never even actually saw.

At one point a side building was filled with four or five enemies, including a medic, two demos and a soldier, plus a minisentry around the corner, all of which I cleared singlehandedly, earning two dominations in the process. That half-zatoichi heal-on-kill is godly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Oh, I love when that happens to me in TF2. Though it's mainly just me harrassing snipers with the Black Box or Air Strike.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 16, 2014, 06:55:04 am

Got my first achievement! Granted, it's only the one for building one of every building, which is as far as I know, the easiest one. I haven't starved to death yet after 27 years, so that's something. And I managed to survive a Yellow Fever outbreak with only one death. Granted, the last outbreak had three, but my population now is nearly triple that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Banished. Yes, avoiding starvation a quarter-century is something to be proud of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 16, 2014, 07:36:15 am

Took out a bull shark with only six harpoons.
Granted, they were upgraded harpoons, but I still feel it's worth mentioning.

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Assasin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 16, 2014, 07:50:31 pm

Being an incorruptible religious champion of the village, smiting down demons with my beautiful sword (just a regular sword, no euphemisms) in Corruption of Champions under the purity challenge.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The entire game is essentially is /d/egeneracy: The game. It's an ERPG where you are ordinary bob tossed into a demon-infested world as the champion to defend everyone in a world where everything is trying to sexually assault you or wants you to reciprocate and thus corrupt yourself. The obvious challenge is to try and win the game as an uncorrupted paragon virgin smiting an endless sea of writhing genitals.

So far about 25 generations of champions have been violated, corrupted, mutated or deviated from the Champion's path. Champion Krawser however has inherited the responsibility from Champion Kreole (who was unfortunately ruined by the sexual advances of a gigantic she scorpion masquerading as a woman in distress) and so far Champion Krawser has smitten droves of frisky goblins and imps, escaped the strangulations of the dreaded goo-girl, smashed the chains of the forgotten Gargoyle in an abandoned cathedral with his bare hands, eluded the writhing grasp of the horrifying tentacle beasat, seen past the ruse of the she-scorpion and eluded the feast of oasis demons that so nearly corrupted Kreole. Most importantly after just two days of wandering and after many close calls with the sand witches, discovered the hidden city of Tel'Adre - I will now be able to acquire better weaponry and armour for my eternal war. All jokes aside the story is actually really sad when you play the purity challenge, the world is really broken when demons are going about full slaanesh on everything and people have to cower in fear behind illusions in the hopes that the nightmare will end. There are ruined settlements, stray refugees from calamity and plenty of reminders as to what will happen to your people should you fail.

But hey, Kreole's doing good. He's killed many foul demons and every day he meditates to keep the corruption away. Keep at it Kreole.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on September 16, 2014, 09:31:33 pm

Playing a veteran, and hadn't been revealed. We had reason to believe that there was only one Mafia member left, and we were trying furiously to root them out. So, I decided to play a trick.

Gamzee [me]: I'll go ahead and claim a role. I'm an investigator, though I don't have any leads yet.

After taking a few people saying I was a moron for saying this when there's a killer about, night finally fell. I set up an alert, and waited.

Unfortunately, as it turned out, there was one more mafia member lurking about, but she was kinda newbish, and we found her quickly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Town of Salem. Think Speed Mafia Lite.

For those who don't play Mafia nor ToS, the goal of the game is, for the town, to root out and kill the Mafia. For the Mafia, it's to kill the rest of the town. This isn't getting into neutral classes and such, which weren't in that round. Anyways, the Investigator role is pretty powerful, capable of giving a very, very helpful hint about who is which role. Generally, if exposed, they're the first thing the Mafia will gun for. The veteran, on the other hand, can set up an alert at night (When the Mafia acts) three times per game. Anybody, friend or foe, that visits you that night will be shot and killed. This includes Mafia trying to introduce your jugular vein to their good friend Knife.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 16, 2014, 10:24:16 pm

Whenever I'm vet I claim Doc day 2.  Almost always gets me a bad guy kill :D

And occasionally an investigator but who's counting?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 17, 2014, 04:50:39 pm

E2 of Ultimate DOOM usually takes me a few days to complete (every level is in the Wolf3D "giant maze" style). I just now completed it in a single sitting, even getting the secret level and only dying once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on September 17, 2014, 09:26:24 pm

The Waaaagh! of the feral orks were nothing against the massed might of the Imperial Guardsmen. The corrupting forces of Chaos did not a scratch to the unending waves of heavy armor that turned their sorcerer into fine red mist. But the Witch herself, the leader of the Eldar xenos on this planet, was a foe that neither of the Holy Emperor's forces could defeat. For a long thirty minute battle, endless waves of Eldar and Imperial Forces clashed, slowly whittling down at the xeno scum's production centers. The battle's high point was when the xeno mechas, the scourge of the Guardsmen, forced the cowards to retreat instead of facing their deaths honorably. The commander engaged in melee combat with the alien machines, with his two guardian commissars aiding. As all hope seemed lost, a full force of six Leman Russ tanks and the Emperor's finest Baneblade charged through the enemy lines, inspiring the retreating Guardsmen to stand their ground and the aliens to retreat. Before long, the seemingly unbreachable fortress of the Eldar fell to the Holy Emperor's finest, with only several hundred casualties and thirty tanks destroyed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cdn.meme.li/instances/500x/54436687.jpg)

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 17, 2014, 10:15:27 pm

Several hundred casualties and thirty tanks? Are you sure you were playing Imperial Guard? Those totals seem awfully low...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on September 17, 2014, 10:18:38 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 17, 2014, 10:15:27 pm

Several hundred casualties and thirty tanks? Are you sure you were playing Imperial Guard? Those totals seem awfully low...

Must've gotten some equipment besides the standard issue flashlights and T-shirts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Julius Clonkus on September 17, 2014, 10:29:14 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 17, 2014, 10:15:27 pm

Several hundred casualties and thirty tanks? Are you sure you were playing Imperial Guard? Those totals seem awfully low...

To be fair, Dawn of War is pretty much a very tiny minor skirmish in the greater scale of Warhammer 40k.

And the Guard's tanks are pretty much the most valuable thing on the battlefield. The footsloggers exist only to keep up a minimum safe distance between the cosmic horrors and your artillery. Baneblade goes into melee range with terrifying regularity. Losing thirty tanks seems a bit on the high scale for Dark Crusade battles, though. Or perhaps I am just too careful to properly play the Guard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on September 18, 2014, 12:06:01 am

Quote from: Julius Clonkus on September 17, 2014, 10:29:14 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 17, 2014, 10:15:27 pm

Several hundred casualties and thirty tanks? Are you sure you were playing Imperial Guard? Those totals seem awfully low...

To be fair, Dawn of War is pretty much a very tiny minor skirmish in the greater scale of Warhammer 40k.

And the Guard's tanks are pretty much the most valuable thing on the battlefield. The footsloggers exist only to keep up a minimum safe distance between the cosmic horrors and your artillery. Baneblade goes into melee range with terrifying regularity. Losing thirty tanks seems a bit on the high scale for Dark Crusade battles, though. Or perhaps I am just too careful to properly play the Guard.

The Eldar threw EVERYTHING they had at me. They outnumbered me, and I was at max squad limits for both tanks and infantry, and I had extra men too from my honor guard and reinforcements.

THAT is why they got to my tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 18, 2014, 01:56:08 am

So we’ve got me, Sobek, your unfriendly neighborhood alligator god, an incredibly incompetent Loki, a skilled Zeus, a decent Thor, and an Artemis who only plays arena.  Right at the start the Thor points out that no one is in right lane, so Artemis abandons the duo and leaves for the other side of the map, never to return.
So you think that would be bad right?  Nah, I didn’t die and when I finally decided to back for the first time I was level 12.  But it gets better.  The enemy team brought 3 mages, a jungler and an adc.   I was already way overleved because I stayed in lane forever and kept forcing the enemy out, and then I complemented that by buying all the most specialized magic defense gear.  So it got to the point where I would just stand in front of an enemy mage, barely even trying to dodge their attacks, and regen about as fast as they could damage me.
Sadly this couldn’t last.  Our Loki was dragging our offense down too much so we couldn’t effectively finish them off; thus as things often go we hit the level cap and the enemy got to catch up.  Around this point I died a few times, although far less than I killed.  After the end of a long series of bloody team fights and phoenix kills that don’t result in anything, our terribad Loki somehow manages to kill a phoenix right under the enemy’s nose with no help from the rest of us.  I missed what happened next but it ended up with the rest of my team dead, and the enemy titan at a sliver of health.

Sobek: Should I go?
Artemis:  Yes, go.
Zues: Good plan

So I charged alone up the left lane, where the only destroyed enemy phoenix was.  Literally charged, as in I used my charge attack as fast as its cooldown would allow me in order to get in there as fast as possible.  For some reason the enemy let a wave of creeps get in to attack their titan and that undoes all its regeneration.
They clear out the creeps and move to the edge of their base to defend it.  But I’m already upon them.  I dodge a slowing tornado, run up to their titan, use my charge attack… and finish off the enemy titan in a single, glorious blow.  The ending cutscene of it dying featured one dancing alligator surrounded by an army of dejected enemy creeps and gods.

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Schmite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 18, 2014, 09:31:55 am

First terror mission to Tijuana.  Judging by the fact that America was my guaranteed alien loss this game, it seems we're now serving as a reverse border patrol - keeping illegal aliens north of the border.  A pack of four Chrysallids was kind enough to bunch up in an attempt to completely surrounde my sniper on the roof.  She ran out of the way, and I proceeded to pummel them with rockets, grenades, and a little bit of small arms fire until they ceased to exist.  As for the two civilians they killed before reaching me, two Close Combat Assaults with Shotguns on either side of a door was enough to rip the zombies to pieces.  End result was three civilians dead, and 11 saved, which isn't bad for a conventional-weapon terror mission in Long War. 

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XCom: Enemy Within, Long War mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Julius Clonkus on September 18, 2014, 12:37:49 pm

Quote from: Aedel on September 18, 2014, 12:06:01 am

Quote from: Julius Clonkus on September 17, 2014, 10:29:14 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 17, 2014, 10:15:27 pm

Several hundred casualties and thirty tanks? Are you sure you were playing Imperial Guard? Those totals seem awfully low...

To be fair, Dawn of War is pretty much a very tiny minor skirmish in the greater scale of Warhammer 40k.

And the Guard's tanks are pretty much the most valuable thing on the battlefield. The footsloggers exist only to keep up a minimum safe distance between the cosmic horrors and your artillery. Baneblade goes into melee range with terrifying regularity. Losing thirty tanks seems a bit on the high scale for Dark Crusade battles, though. Or perhaps I am just too careful to properly play the Guard.

The Eldar threw EVERYTHING they had at me. They outnumbered me, and I was at max squad limits for both tanks and infantry, and I had extra men too from my honor guard and reinforcements.

THAT is why they got to my tanks.

Okay, I do admit I remember being in that kind of situation at one point during the campaign of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. I think I simply chose to pay the price in bolter turrets instead. And I guess having had the high ground helped.

Granted, I was using the Heroes mod that allows units to gain experience as they rack up kills, so at some point I managed to roll the Eldar all over the map with a god-tier Baneblade. You know, for when you're finally sick of holding the line and all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on September 18, 2014, 04:01:42 pm

I just purchased soulstorm (It was cheap) And I think I am going to play through it.  I can't decide what faction to stick with though, I like swarming my enemies personally.  Orks are always fun, but I am finding necrons are pretty fun to play as well.  There is also the imperial guard, but playing as them basically amounts to holding the line until you get tanks then ROFLSTOMP everyone.

Also, those tiny squares underneath the units health bars.  WHAT DO THEY MEAN

I cannot figure it out!

Oh, and how I owned recently:  In Dawn of War: Soulstorm, I was playing necrons and had been pushed back to my base.  The Eldar were at my gates, and I could barely hold them.  Being necrons, I refused to die and eventually I built up enough force/revived my current force to destroy their army.  It was pretty close though, and a lot of fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 18, 2014, 04:15:07 pm

Every time you type that game's title my brain parses it as "Darude - Sandstorm".

Damn youtube comment sections...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on September 18, 2014, 05:00:37 pm

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on September 18, 2014, 04:01:42 pm

I just purchased soulstorm (It was cheap) And I think I am going to play through it.  I can't decide what faction to stick with though, I like swarming my enemies personally.  Orks are always fun, but I am finding necrons are pretty fun to play as well.  There is also the imperial guard, but playing as them basically amounts to holding the line until you get tanks then ROFLSTOMP everyone.
I just use my guardsmen wrong as IG. Send in transports behind their lines, unload three squads of thirteen guardsmen with psykers or commissars attached. Wreck havoc while kriskin and the commander squad keep the frontline busy. Works like a charm. If it doesn't baneblade and leman russ spam time.
Also, those tiny squares underneath the units health bars.  WHAT DO THEY MEAN
Bonuses. Gold means extra damage, blue means extra defense.
I cannot figure it out!

Oh, and how I owned recently:  In Dawn of War: Soulstorm, I was playing necrons and had been pushed back to my base.  The Eldar were at my gates, and I could barely hold them.  Being necrons, I refused to die and eventually I built up enough force/revived my current force to destroy their army.  It was pretty close though, and a lot of fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on September 18, 2014, 08:26:42 pm

Quote from: Aedel on September 18, 2014, 05:00:37 pm

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on September 18, 2014, 04:01:42 pm

I just purchased soulstorm (It was cheap) And I think I am going to play through it.  I can't decide what faction to stick with though, I like swarming my enemies personally.  Orks are always fun, but I am finding necrons are pretty fun to play as well.  There is also the imperial guard, but playing as them basically amounts to holding the line until you get tanks then ROFLSTOMP everyone.
I just use my guardsmen wrong as IG. Send in transports behind their lines, unload three squads of thirteen guardsmen with psykers or commissars attached. Wreck havoc while kriskin and the commander squad keep the frontline busy. Works like a charm. If it doesn't baneblade and leman russ spam time.
Also, those tiny squares underneath the units health bars.  WHAT DO THEY MEAN
Bonuses. Gold means extra damage, blue means extra defense.
I cannot figure it out!

Oh, and how I owned recently:  In Dawn of War: Soulstorm, I was playing necrons and had been pushed back to my base.  The Eldar were at my gates, and I could barely hold them.  Being necrons, I refused to die and eventually I built up enough force/revived my current force to destroy their army.  It was pretty close though, and a lot of fun.

Ah thank you!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 18, 2014, 11:46:54 pm

I finally beat Doom all the way through, episodes 1 through 3. The ending kinda made me chuckle.

Also, I apparently rocked E3M7:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YToLMM2.png)

Yes, that really is how long it took me to beat that level the first time. I was... not as good at Doom then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 19, 2014, 10:47:53 am

Facing an enemy with 35 Devils and 44 Pit Spawn, and a proportional number of others, whilst assaulting a castle.

Critical mistake #1: Including Titans in the army. Massive morale penalties go!
Critical mistake #2: Parking some Cerberuses in the gateway.

I kiled the cerberuses and got through the gate. With my six Death Knights. Which are contextually the most powerful unit in the game, since they have an ability that gives them a 25% chance to kill half the units in the stack they're attacking, which can easily be up to 3500 damage extra.

Also, I had enough skeleton archers to kill multiple Devils at a strike, in melee, and to ignore direct fire from the Titans because it wasn't taking out significant percentages.

E: HoMMV. THE METEORS BURNS USS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on September 19, 2014, 10:54:46 am

Quote from: Arx on September 19, 2014, 10:47:53 am

Facing an enemy with 35 Devils and 44 Pit Spawn, and a proportional number of others, whilst assaulting a castle.

Critical mistake #1: Including Titans in the army. Massive morale penalties go!
Critical mistake #2: Parking some Cerberuses in the gateway.

I kiled the cerberuses and got through the gate. With my six Death Knights. Which are contextually the most powerful unit in the game, since they have an ability that gives them a 25% chance to kill half the units in the stack they're attacking, which can easily be up to 3500 damage extra.

Also, I had enough skeleton archers to kill multiple Devils at a strike, in melee, and to ignore direct fire from the Titans because it wasn't taking out significant percentages.

METEORS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 19, 2014, 11:00:29 am

I don't have enough mastery for them! D:

It was Heroes of Might and Magic V. Still.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 19, 2014, 07:46:23 pm

Final mission of the Heart of the Swarm campaign.

I need to protect the Hyperion (sort of. It's defended well. I just parked about ten Hydralisks on the Battlecruiser itself and called it a day, then morphed four of them to Impalers when the Odin came.), defend my own Hive Cluster, take out the defenses in three areas preventing more Zerg from rampaging into the enemy base, and finally destroy the Emperor's palace.

Trivial. I only need brutal, overwhelming force, and dogged tenacity. Thankfully I have both in epic quantities. I take an expansion early on, taking a base from the Dominion to my south-east, and release Zagara's brood into the fray. I consolidate for a while, taking minor probing attacks and anti-personnel artillery fire, responding in kind with reflexive Zerglings. There are few problems that cannot be solved with MOAR ZERGLINGS.

I push forward on the south-eastern end of the map, pressuring the Dominion with aid from Zagara's brood. We free Stukov's brood for battle, and I clear out the large center platform near my base, establishing a large kill zone for my patrols of Zerglings. The Hyperion was coming under increasing fire, so I sent a few more Hydralisks to aid them, and moved to free Dehaka's pack. With the final brood freed, I concentrated my efforts on wiping out the EXTENSIVE Dominon base preceding Mengsk's palace.

The Odin battered itself to death against a wall of Marines, Hydralisks, Impalers, and a bunker network. Finally, I gathered my armies, and charged Mengsk's palace.

You know that video at the beginning of the game that has the swarm of Zerg pouring into that city square and DESTROYING the Terran positions? Where Ultralisks stomp on Siege Tanks like they were toys, and Zerglings swarm packs of fleeing Marines and butcher them murderously? Where Hydralisks perforate horrified Terrans? Yeah, it was exactly like that.

I am the Zerg. I am the Swarm.


StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 19, 2014, 09:56:40 pm

5 matches, 5 scores to win, 3 CPU vs. 1 Me. I trounce them 5 rounds in a row, and in less than a minute in one of the matches. That was intense.

ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
Dogfight Mode, modified rules to allow 3 CPU matches, and expand rounds from 3 scores to 5. Mind you, the scores go in a tug-of-war format (I have 4 points, they have to score 9 times to win (not so hard if 3 CPUs in 1 team)). I had to recover from a score of CPU=4 myself one round as well. Despite the 3 CPU targets to ease my climb, they didn't make it easy.

HINT:
Low throttle dependency/relative flying, and knowing how to bullet-slalom (flying towards and between the bullets), suicidal as that sounds, combined with mine-laying at the right time and trajectory (especially during head-on standoffs) = easy kills. Basically, learn to sky-joust, and don't become buzzard bait. Beware the pteradon.

EDIT:
Giving them a better fighting chance, I extended rounds to 9 points to win, I still consistently beat them, and somewhat, just as quickly. I am vicious, and rounds still feel too short. Best of 21? 45?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mono124 on September 19, 2014, 10:09:12 pm

Playing Artemis as engineering for a full bridge. In our second game we completely demolished enemies in our battleship at a fairly high difficulty and our shields never failed due to my awesome engineering prowess, since I eventually got the hang of our maneuvers... though we did end up going past 4000 energy which caused the ship to almost explode (everything started overheating, it was a nightmare, but I handled it somehow).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 19, 2014, 10:13:50 pm

Does

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

getting Clementine her hat back

count? I think it does.

The Walking Dead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 19, 2014, 11:28:26 pm

Lasers are love, as are grenades.  I do love it when the enemy is obliging enough to cluster up right in the middle of a pincer they don't even know exists yet - a group of floaters became completely focused on my Engineer next to a hole in the walls, so he sent them a little HE gift in return, at which signal my Scout and Gunner popped open the front doors and plowed through their flank.  I then took the high ground (second floor of a warehouse overlooking the docks) and ripped the enemy to pieces as they closed in piecemeal along the dockside route in a futile attempt to reach my SHIV and Gunners, one group activating each turn and promptly getting cut down in the crossfire.  I think we'll call it the Great Calgary Turkey Shoot. 

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XCOM: Enemy Within, Long War mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 20, 2014, 12:10:43 pm

A while back, I mentioned how I had beaten Mega Man X3,  and that I would soon play Mega Man X4. I also mentioned that if the final boss got even more overpowered, then I wasn't sure if I would be able to manage.

Yeah, well, it got harder. I managed, though.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

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Megaman X4, playing as X

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 20, 2014, 03:09:22 pm

Spiked mario with a '!' ball while he was coming back on the stage grabbed a smash ball and sent villager off the side of the stage with the same attack, and then final smashed pikachu.  All in the space of about 10 seconds.

Looks like I still got it.

Super Smash Bros 3DS demo. Free for all with 3 lv 9 cpus.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 20, 2014, 03:10:38 pm

FUCKING WYRM WITH ZOMBY-SPELL VS MONSTER ZOO

VICTORY IS MIIIIIINE

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DUNGEONS OF DREDMOR, MOTHERFUCKER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on September 20, 2014, 06:46:45 pm

The response to This post (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.msg5676530#msg5676530).

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/tg/ Mech Creator 1.2
It's worth noting I understand nothing about 4chan and don't use it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on September 20, 2014, 06:52:11 pm

Oh, awesome, A swordsman ambushed me and I threw a sack of money at him, chipping the bones and saving my ass big time.  Considering Im still a naked outsider.

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DF 34.11

The only thing that would have made this more epic is him being a 40.xx robber.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 20, 2014, 06:58:10 pm

Quote from: pisskop on September 20, 2014, 06:52:11 pm

Oh, awesome, A swordsman ambushed me and I threw a sack of money at him, chipping the bones and saving my ass big time.  Considering Im still a naked outsider.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DF 34.11

The only thing that would have made this more epic is him being a 40.xx robber.

"Give me all your money!"
*whoosh*
*crack*
"OH ARMOK NOT LIKE THAT! OH THE PAIN"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 20, 2014, 07:04:03 pm

CRIME DOESN'T PAY YOU FUCKER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on September 20, 2014, 07:16:30 pm

Only when you factor in the medical bills from people chucking their moneybags at you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Duriel on September 21, 2014, 08:00:07 am

Spoiler: Well, this happened. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/xjESDE4.png)
(For some reason, the uploaded image became darker than the original screenshot.)
The actual corpse of the player character was offscreen because I wandered off in search of a lucky medkit.

This is currently the best run I've ever had. There were a lot of close calls mostly pertaining to lack of ammo and not-so-good weaponry (I arrived at the palace with a splinter pistol and an auto shotgun with very little ammo), and also last-minute saves (I got Rabbit Paw as the second-to-last mutation, and the weapon chest at the throne contained an auto flame shotgun (which promptly slaughtered the throne)). I took damage nearly every single level. Every time I got to 0 health, I would stop moving to figure out where I was, then move over any medkit that had dropped.

When I died, the weapons I were holding were a Hyper Launcher and a Plasma Cannon, and I had Crown of Explosions at the time. I had gotten a total of 4 (5?) crowns (in chronological order: Crown of Destiny (which got me Impact Wrists), Crown of Blood (for silliness) and the last ones were Crowns of Explosions to go with the Hyper Launcher).

Fun facts:

• I stayed above 0 health during all throne fights, and didn't get hit once during Throne's final form.
• Sharp teeth did a lot of work for keeping me alive. Every time I got hit, a lot of lower health enemies died and at least one dropped a medkit to restore what healh I lost.
• Plasma Cannon is a godsend during a loop (firing the thing into a good spot meant a lot of enemies dying, and I would often walk into a huge pile of drops).
• What got me in the end was that some offscreen enemies managed to get me to 0 health and I couldn't get a medkit to drop onscreen. I was at full health (12/12 HP) when I entered too.
• My previous best run was with Plant, where I got to the second loop. I died when I walked into a reflected gatling slugger round.

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Nuclear Throne, playing as Chicken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 21, 2014, 01:38:56 pm

Nice, you looped.

The best I've gotten is second palace level as Fish, where I spawned in a corner surrounded by Palace enemies and IDPD, which did not go well for me.  I've since taken to playing as Eyes since he can "party the sea" of bullet spam, although I still haven't beaten the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 21, 2014, 02:52:36 pm

Double post-jitsu

I was very stressed today so I decided to beat up thugs in Arkham City.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=317111405

Several hundred thugs specifically.  Once I hit a million points I decided not to dodge since the difficulty had long since stopped scaling and I was pretty much done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 22, 2014, 07:02:55 am

Built a ship to reach an exorbital(is that a word) vector from Kerbin and the come back. By the time I was back in low orbit, I realized there were no parachutes or anything to land with, and it was a big and expensive craft. First attempt was to send another ship to salvage it and come back down. That failed as the two began to tumble about like a fat guy trying to use a nunchaku(not me, I'm pretty good with a nunchaku), before the crafts broke down to their constituent parts when I turned up time compression(might have worked otherwise).

Second attempt I tried to land manually. Went perfectly until the fuel ran out just 50m above ground. The engines and tanks were lost, but the the structure holding them, the ASAS wheels, and the core were all intact. Mission Accomplished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 26, 2014, 04:34:23 am

My Kestral class ship was split in half by oxygen-drained rooms.  The front section was flooded with rebel boarders; all systems destroyed, all crew lost.  The grand total of our functioning systems: life support, 2/3 shield layers, and the guns.  Only the engineer and gunnery officer survived, by virtue of being in the rear section when it all went down.  While we had no functioning sensors, given how badly the fight had gone they were almost certainly outnumbered 2:1 by the remaining intruders.

They still managed to keep firing long enough to save the Federation.

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FTL, hard mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 26, 2014, 07:08:00 am

Playing Denmark against Bavaria. As soon as I could, I sent Pikemen to harrass their town. They manage to capture most of it. They were eventually forced out when they pulled more Pikemen from their ass than I thought possible, and as my men were retreating, they stupidly split into two groups, one being stuck on a cliff. They died, but the enemy split their force into two groups, and the group that was chasing down the survivors ran into my reinforcements. They ended up putting the enemy in a pincer, killing about 40 men and losing one. I assaulted the town again, capturing a town center and some peasants, and won shortly after setting up a cannon tower in the middle of town.

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Cossacks: European Wars: Back to War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on September 26, 2014, 08:28:52 am

Made idiotic priest deck whose main purpose is to heal the enemy. It includes 2 wisps, 2 elven archers(for self face-shot value), 2 young dragonhawks and other assorted crap like that. I spend most of my time buffing and healing the enemy or his creatures.

Played against a ramp druid. Somehow nearly won. wat.

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Hearthstone

EDIT: And now I actually won with the damn thing!
Turn 1: Young Dragonhawk Turn 2: Power Word: Shield + Coin + Divine Spirit being hard-countered by an Emperor Cobra made me sad though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knick on September 26, 2014, 09:07:01 am

Got caught in the open by a random dragon.  After trying to avoid the damned thing by hiding in trees, and under a bridge, it landed, and I had to face it down.  I had two companions, both of whom helped by attacking the dragon.  Unfortunately, one of my companions was an escort mission, of sorts, who attacked the dragon with his bare hands.  It went poorly for him.  I never did find his corpse.

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Skyrim.  Damn you, Maurice, you suicidal fool!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on September 26, 2014, 07:44:04 pm

>be courier
>just west of new vegas
>see some chem junkies up to no good
>they drugging up the neighborhood
>do what any self respected citizen would do
>take out a anti matierial rifle and blow their heads off from 500m
>"drugs kill"

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fallout new Vegas. In the same session I killed about 10 deathclaws in close combat using the riot shotgun(BEST WEAPON EVER) without taking a hit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 26, 2014, 08:00:01 pm

Quote from: Knick on September 26, 2014, 09:07:01 am

Got caught in the open by a random dragon.  After trying to avoid the damned thing by hiding in trees, and under a bridge, it landed, and I had to face it down.  I had two companions, both of whom helped by attacking the dragon.  Unfortunately, one of my companions was an escort mission, of sorts, who attacked the dragon with his bare hands.  It went poorly for him.  I never did find his corpse.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim.  Damn you, Maurice, you suicidal fool!

That happened to me once, though I was on my own.

I had finished messing about in one of the many caves littered around. As a master conjurer who was learning alteration spells to get some decent defence points, I was pondering over which spells I should have at the ready as I wander back to town, on the road. Both hands as conjuration spells to attack while I get myself ready with alteration or destruction spells, or have the alteration spell out for a dual cast, then conjuration.

All of a sudden I hear the beating of wings and look up, nothing there. Turned round to find a bloody great big elder dragon hovering mere feet away, blasting me in the face. It was something of a sobering moment.

I ran off, leaving my conjured beasts to cover my escape.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 26, 2014, 08:33:46 pm

Started with Charm Monster.

Proceed to enslave my way down 16 levels of the dungeon until a random Bag of Tricks grab killed me.

Along the way, I got 2 horses, 2 cats, a succubus, a homunculus, two tengu, a water moccasin, and something else.

Hell yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

NetHack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on September 26, 2014, 09:45:58 pm

Black card: Make a haiku.

I play:
(blank card) I hate this black card
(blank card) It is super annoying
(blank card) Waste of three blank cards

Needless to say, I got the point.

(Cards Against Humanity)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on September 27, 2014, 05:10:08 am

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on September 26, 2014, 09:45:58 pm

Black card: Make a haiku.

I play:
(blank card) I hate this black card
(blank card) It is super annoying
(blank card) Waste of three blank cards

Needless to say, I got the point.

(Cards Against Humanity)

Were you playing with people who wanted an *actual* 5-7-5 haiku? Because that is not how that card is meant to work. You just want three cards that tell a story, and sound somewhat inscrutable.

F'rexample:
Hulk Hogan
Licking things to claim them as your onw
God

or

Heartwarming orphans
Soup that is too hot
The KKK

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on September 27, 2014, 02:12:08 pm

I finally slew lord Dredmor. I never even survived all the way to him before! It was always some lucky crit from an enemy or a trap that killed me on my previous tries.

Egyptian magic is a glorious gamebreaker against almost all common enemies, assuming you can keep the sigils up at all times. Battle geology breaks all the bosses and Artful dodger coupled with Dual wielding prevents most monsters from even landing a hit on you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeons of Dredmor, with permadeath

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on September 27, 2014, 05:23:49 pm

Quote from: Blargityblarg on September 27, 2014, 05:10:08 am

Were you playing with people who wanted an *actual* 5-7-5 haiku? Because that is not how that card is meant to work. You just want three cards that tell a story, and sound somewhat inscrutable.

Nope! The Card Czar declared unending hatred for that card, everyone else did that thing you said, and I just wanted to win with style.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TwilightWalker on September 27, 2014, 05:39:07 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on September 27, 2014, 05:23:49 pm

Quote from: Blargityblarg on September 27, 2014, 05:10:08 am

Were you playing with people who wanted an *actual* 5-7-5 haiku? Because that is not how that card is meant to work. You just want three cards that tell a story, and sound somewhat inscrutable.

Nope! The Card Czar declared unending hatred for that card, everyone else did that thing you said, and I just wanted to win with style.

This, you always play to the Card Czar, not to the paper rules.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 27, 2014, 09:55:01 pm

Telefragged a Vore, totally on accident. The telefragging rules are a bit different in Quake I guess, since in another game the Vore would have telefragged me in that instance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 27, 2014, 11:45:26 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 27, 2014, 09:55:01 pm

Telefragged a Vore, totally on accident. The telefragging rules are a bit different in Quake I guess, since in another game the Vore would have telefragged me in that instance.

I take it they spawned, not teleported, in your position, and had the unfortunate side-effect of turning/exploding to mush? You're right, under normal circumstances, you'd be dead on receiving that instead; but I guess spawn rules operate differently from teleportation rules? Interesting...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on September 28, 2014, 12:29:21 am

Quote from: Tjoh on September 27, 2014, 02:12:08 pm

I finally slew lord Dredmor. I never even survived all the way to him before! It was always some lucky crit from an enemy or a trap that killed me on my previous tries.

Egyptian magic is a glorious gamebreaker against almost all common enemies, assuming you can keep the sigils up at all times. Battle geology breaks all the bosses and Artful dodger coupled with Dual wielding prevents most monsters from even landing a hit on you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeons of Dredmor, with permadeath

Egyptian Magic is a total gamebreaker if you specialize in it, yep. Walk into a zoo, cast Sandstorm twice, move in to mop up the couple of survivors. A pity it does literally nothing to Dredmor himself.  >:(

On a similar-sounding note, I successfully slew the Dremargor on Impossible difficulty. It turns out, Ancient Liches supported by Elven Sharpshooters is kind of a ridiculous combination, especially when every unit in your army is invisible. My ~250 damage Bowmaster didn't even get a shot off before the final boss fell. A secondary win was losing zero units (ignoring Druid and Beastmaster summons) during the Dremor world invasion. Sadly, I didn't have the foresight to bring Settlers into the Dremor world before ending the game - colonizing their dimension would've been a fittingly humiliating revenge for the last ~150 turns of them moving into our world.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warlock: Master of the Arcane, with the Ultimate Wizards mod installed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 28, 2014, 02:11:09 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on September 27, 2014, 11:45:26 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 27, 2014, 09:55:01 pm

Telefragged a Vore, totally on accident. The telefragging rules are a bit different in Quake I guess, since in another game the Vore would have telefragged me in that instance.

I take it they spawned, not teleported, in your position, and had the unfortunate side-effect of turning/exploding to mush? You're right, under normal circumstances, you'd be dead on receiving that instead; but I guess spawn rules operate differently from teleportation rules? Interesting...

Nope, it teleported into me. It spawns in a room with a switch that activates a teleporter, and that teleporter takes the occupant to the place where I had been standing. I'm guessing that that means NPCs can never telefrag players; it wouldn't be the first time rules have changed between single-player and multiplayer in an id Software game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2014, 10:45:09 am

I'm going to assume that mobs can't telefrag the player considering

Spoiler: maybe a big spoiler (click to show/hide)

how you kill the final boss.

Got a probe around Minmus, and brought it back. Came back to Kerbin on the sunny side. However, before I hit the atmosphere, I noticed that the battery had run out, the solar panels were on top, and I was pointed straight down and going about 3000m/s at 150km above. I couldn't even deploy the parachutes.

Luck was with me, though, as the the probe's center of gravity was towards the bottom, causing the probe to flip over into the sunlight. I promptly fired the 'chutes, and tried to slow down enough to land. Unfortunately, I landed near a river canyon, causing me to tumble about, losing the engines(which still somehow had plenty of fuel), but I still managed to save the core and the large amount of Science it carried. Not bad for something I didn't even really intend to send to Minmus.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 28, 2014, 09:32:50 pm

Managed to get a lucky strike in within 10 seconds of round start, winning the match, and beating the creator's time. Mod: Crash Down (Recently released in Workshop).

Basically, Crash Down is a no-weapons (except personal shield) ram-fest. Or simply, it's just how I thought the traditional battles between bladeships in my sketchpad would go (They have guns, but their honor-matches (especially between elites and royalty as gentlemanly duels; sans guns. Even in war, wing commanders duel each other this way (commander vs. commander), while a furball is going on in the skies. Usually ends in a draw; with many gashes on the ships, or no ship left on both sides.) is a melee in the air, with their ships (shaped after bladed weapons like swords and sais)); except minus using shields as weapons, and being bounced across the map on contact if both defended (or collisions minus shields; no damage caused when it happens). However, full-contact-dogfighting and ace timing and aiming is all there. It's pretty fun doing a no-gun kill, with a rocket.

ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on September 30, 2014, 06:48:38 pm

New game and started in Falkreath. Before I even got to the road I spotted Thalmor patrol moving in front of me so I followed it for easy loot. They move near a road and get attacked by Stormcloak patrol, I decide that this will take a while and sit down for a lunch (apple, slice of cheese and wine) while they shout racistic slurs at each other. Finally last two nords manage to kill Frost Atronach elves had summoned and kill two armored justicars and move on to their leader who's used last of his magicka. I sit on the side of the road and watch how he backs down slicing them with dagger and actually manages to kill them both, leaving him the sole survivor of the battle.
While walking away he stops at one of his dead comrades body and says something along the lines of "Your death will be avenged!", and then I put crossbow bolt to his back.
I think I'll go for Boethia this time.


Tl;Dr: Nord VS Altmer fight, Dunmer wins.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Modded Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 30, 2014, 06:52:01 pm

Does that happen normally?  Because that's badass but I don't remember anything like that happening in my game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on September 30, 2014, 07:20:21 pm

That's pretty usual for my games, Immersive Patrols adds patrols from all factions on the roads and forest trails, fighting whenever they meet enemies. ASIS adds spell and potion usage (and random number of enemies)  to encounters, so one patrol can have up to seven members using any spells they can get at their levels at once (spreading fire, anyone?), SSS removes scaling (mostly) so that most enemies have mid-to-high level gear (including crossbows) on them and giving some nice loot for early game.
I did score two full sets of Thalmor armor and weapons, staffs, scrolls, potions, food, warm fur armor, cloaks and hoods (needed with FrostFall) on the first day, so yeah, that's damn nice start.

Spoiler: Thalmor Armor (click to show/hide)

(http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/23125-1-1347123395.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 30, 2014, 07:32:05 pm

That makes me wonder if anyone could ever program a rogue-like-like in using the Skyrim editor.  It would be like a first person Nethack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 01, 2014, 01:45:12 pm

Just successfully used:
48 Skeleton Archers
30 Plague Zombies
1 Skeleton Warrior
1 Bone Dragon

to defend a castle against:
87 Familiars
50 Imps
10 Succubi
15 Cerberi
~30 Horned Overseers

through some cunning use of Shield Other, and some insane luck with Spellwringer (whenever an enemy casts a spell, there is a chance it will be blocked from their spellbook). I blocked Eldritch Arrow on the second cast, and Slow on the first. It was then a matter of battening down the hatches, shooting the succubi to pieces with my hero and the archers, killing the gated units with the dragon. and waiting for the towers to kill the rest. Alas, the dragon had to be sacrificed to draw the familiars into the moat.

HoMMV.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 02, 2014, 02:55:55 pm

Got the Focused title in Devil Survivor Overclocked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GentlemanRaptor on October 02, 2014, 06:20:23 pm

As it happens, the J-7 Fishbed isn't exactly compatible with an AMRAAM up its tailpipe. Nor is it particularly compatible with GAU-22 rounds. Or Patriot missiles. Or all of the above delivered simultaneously.

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Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 03, 2014, 01:32:37 am

3235 kills. I don't think I will ever beat that X_x
Shame that the leaderboards are an absolute joke, with many of the highest scores in the area of several billion kills. Obvious hacking is obvious, but whatever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Edmus on October 03, 2014, 01:40:56 am

Last time I owned  was in Xenonauts.

Spoiler: minor last mission spoilers (click to show/hide)

I tried the final mission the first time and got wiped, too many enemies, not enough cover. In frustration I gave EVERYONE rocket launchers. I only took one hit but everyone survived. I used the singularity gun to blast the reactors and the boss from afar and breezed through it. Rockets are OP...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 03, 2014, 01:49:21 am

I beat DoomRL in 13 minutes, 20 seconds real time... losing out to my record by five seconds.  Still an own in my mind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 03, 2014, 08:23:00 pm

Is it just me or is Skyward Slash Dash the best move to put on a Mii ever?
Building the fastest sword fighter mii I can.

SSB43DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kisame12794 on October 04, 2014, 07:43:23 pm

Just beat a roll I had no business beating with a Nat 20. I tried to discern where an unseen enemy was to point him out and kill the bastard, but I flubbed that one, but I did hear a laugh, so I said "I heard that, and if I can hear you, I can find you", which kinda amused him somewhat, leading it to reply "The closer you get, the more slips away". Now, my character is an unfeeling merc who has nothing left to lose, so I replied with a taunt, "I am Rai Avalonsa Khai Temminckii Einoli Dam Khalan, and I have nothing left to let slip". This amused the voice even more, so it showed Khai his greatest nightmare, which, for his race, would mean that he was entirely alone, which he already was, his pack having disappeared several years before. It rolled a 31, and the most I could roll to resist was a flat d20. I made it with a Nat 20. Que epic one liner. "I am alone. This is the nightmare that I live. You cannot beat me with what I have already mastered." The voice goes quiet, finally responding with "Then I will beat you down with what you have not."

TLDR, I pulled off the impossible, and I pissed off an ancient presence. I will never again be this awesome.

 RPE Ivo:  1D20+8+ 1D12+4+4+2-12 =>   [ 13 ] +8+ [ 12 ] +4+4+2-12 = 31  #invoke nightmare. target: Khai

 Khai Khalan:  1D20 =>   [ 20 ] = 20  #I FUCKING KNEW IT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 04, 2014, 08:02:11 pm

Quote from: flabort on October 03, 2014, 08:23:00 pm

Is it just me or is Skyward Slash Dash the best move to put on a Mii ever?
Building the fastest sword fighter mii I can.

SSB43DS

I woulda also made a fast guy, but I'm a tall person so that automatically slows me down :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 04, 2014, 08:32:51 pm

Voted myself as ruler of the world, using the fact I had four times as many votes as everyone else combined. Lol peasants ain't got shit on my endgame tech.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SMAC
I love playing the University so much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on October 04, 2014, 08:38:15 pm

Quote from: Darvi on October 04, 2014, 08:02:11 pm

Quote from: flabort on October 03, 2014, 08:23:00 pm

Is it just me or is Skyward Slash Dash the best move to put on a Mii ever?
Building the fastest sword fighter mii I can.

SSB43DS

I woulda also made a fast guy, but I'm a tall person so that automatically slows me down :/

I would also also make a fast guy... if I had a 3DS and this game of course


;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on October 04, 2014, 08:58:35 pm

Not exactly an in-game own, but I managed to get Dark Souls to run. Kind of.

I mean, the graphics are bad enough that it looks like Monkey Island, and I still get a TON of slowdown, but I can still technically play the game!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 04, 2014, 11:33:39 pm

Classic mode, Intensity 4.0, all red-route, ending with the Duo.
Crazy Hand is just his awesome LEFT-HAND self, as always. But Master Hand is stepping up his game with each step up the intensity meter.
But Yoshi is a freaking aerial monster. Flutterkicks and nose-dives result in a match under 60 seconds. 53 seconds, to be precise. Against both of them.

SSB43DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kolnukbyne on October 05, 2014, 04:41:21 am

In a single run in FTL (I'd recently wiped my save and started again because why not) using the Zotlan Cruiser A layout I unlocked the Federation Cruiser, Mantis Cruiser, Lanius Cruiser and Zoltan Type B.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 11:28:55 am

Broke the 1km milestone in SSB's Home Run Contest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 05, 2014, 05:01:38 pm

Quote from: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 11:28:55 am

Broke the 1km milestone in SSB's Home Run Contest.

Oooooooooh, it was a game. I was under the impression you were actually hitting sandbags a kilometre.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 05:19:27 pm

Woulda been neat, wouldn't it.

Update that to >1500m.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on October 05, 2014, 05:44:22 pm

I defeated Khidr as a level 9 Paladin with just 4 health left.

(Rogue Legacy)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 05, 2014, 05:50:48 pm

Quote from: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 05:19:27 pm

Woulda been neat, wouldn't it.

Update that to >1500m.

Meters or feet?
My current record is 1907.8 ft., as Ness.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 06:17:34 pm

I'unno what does m stand for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 05, 2014, 06:21:29 pm

Quote from: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 06:17:34 pm

I'unno what does m stand for.

Should be meters.
Huh. Unless you have a different national version.
Canadian here. So the American version.
I dunno, why would it be different?

Edit: Every fighter I have unlocked has now hit the sandbag over 1000 ft.
Still have fighter(s?) to unlock, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 06:23:23 pm

Europe generally shuns the inferior imperial system.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2014, 06:55:52 am

Landed on Minmus, got a bunch of science. Although I couldn't bring the main ship home, the lander(barely) made it, bringing in over 500 Science, and the money from contracts means I only lost $300k, which I can recover by finding some way to get the nuclear engine module back down from a wide orbit around Kerbin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on October 06, 2014, 06:59:59 am

RNG created a GalCiv2 map where most people were rather centralized on their own solar system without many opportunities to expand, which eventually lead to this.

Spoiler: 3 of the planets had 16 billion people... the other 2 billion...yeah (click to show/hide)

(http://www.img.ie/qkybv.jpg)

On a side note, Galciv2  just burns me out way to easily, I go into it having fun, designing ships and expanding and stuff but then it just gets to the point where I don't want to do anything in the game at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on October 06, 2014, 08:10:12 am

Quote from: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 06:23:23 pm

Europe generally shuns the inferior imperial system.

We're stuck next door to the U.S. though, and their system tends to leak over the border because people say "Canadians are essentially Americans, they don't need their own version". Except they have to make sure they stick a french manual in with the game, or else Quebec may revolt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 06, 2014, 08:13:42 am

It's to the point where I can never remember if a unit of measurement is imperial or metric.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on October 06, 2014, 08:14:30 am

If it's got a prefix, it's usually metric.

And nobody knows with tons, so you're excused in that regard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 07, 2014, 06:56:44 am

Turns out you can get a lesbian couple after all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Colony. Managed to pair Venus and Daisy together. Somehow, since all but one of the requisite dates had at the most a 50% chance of being accepted. Also found out it's easy if you have Daisy ask Venus out.

Quote from: Akura on October 06, 2014, 06:55:52 am

Landed on Minmus, got a bunch of science. Although I couldn't bring the main ship home, the lander(barely) made it, bringing in over 500 Science, and the money from contracts means I only lost $300k, which I can recover by finding some way to get the nuclear engine module back down from a wide orbit around Kerbin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program.

Retrieval successful. And it only took 4 guesses with manuever nodes to get a good path. I lost money, rather than gained anything, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 07, 2014, 10:14:16 am

I managed to gain and retain 3rd from last place, for a minimum of a minute in a 10-minute round, (out of 8 bots, plus myself) in Unreal Tournament against my custom godlikes on Godlike difficulty (making them exponentially harder than vanilla godlike (original bots, non-tampered, on hardest difficulty), which I had no problem keeping within top 3 reliably, back in the day).

For an idea of what I'm up against, I have 2 omniscient snipers (more often than not, my view is usually my head bouncing around the level on average), a rabid gun-nut that can kill you with starting equipment rapidly; and they reliably stay in top-3; and the rest are varied favorite weapons, and slightly less-skilled gunners and such, which camp a bit more than the others. Despite all that, I've managed to stay out of last place for a round against such impossible odds against me; to climb ranks even. Now the next challenge is to not die so f'ing much, while trying to reach and maintain middle rankings (gaining ranks is one thing, keeping them is another; especially by margins of 25 kills per tier (bottom-3 generally have 15 kills, so to speak, and upper-3 have 100 kills after a 10-minute free-for-all deathmatch)). So far, I'm at a 3:1 ratio of death compared to the next-worst bot (150 deaths, relative to 50 deaths from the worst bot in the game).

My custom bots are the very definition of viciously abusive. On the plus side, my training from hell is what's keeping me mid-upper ratings, minimum, in Quake Live and such, against human opponents, and that's a secondary win on the side. Unfortunately, muscle memory causes me to secondary-fire, and end up zooming in instead, since Quake lacks secondary firing modes. >:(

I still suck, but I don't suck nearly as much as I used to, and that's an own for myself; given my godlikes I fight on godlike difficulty. Ugh. This defines masochism. As if that wasn't brutal enough, try Instagib mode with Jumpboost mutators alongside them. Reaction-fire is everything here (fortunately, I've been able to fire off at least a shot before inevitably dying; now I just need to hit my targets. Having less than half a second to fire and hit is it's own challenge), and even then I could only maintain 2nd-to-last if I am lucky. Pulling that off is equally an own, given my setup, and the arenas I play (plenty of accidental suicides there). On the note of instagib, I got a double-kill against these bots. That, in itself, is a big deal. Now to multi-kill or better, or better yet, getting a kill streak or dominate (5-10 kills without dying) against these guys.

Spoiler: For an idea of the average arena I play, 9 players (8 bots + me), godlike custom bots on godlike difficulty (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26218191630479919/DDD1EC36DA2D6FF635674D308587656C50E0C03F/)

Arena: DM-1on1-Contact
Found it in NaliCity archives. Not sure if it's still up, but this is a fun level. Not many spawn points, lots of telefragging via spawning, and nothing but mayhem and falling off the level. Not even my skills in InMomentum are enough to stay on this level at all times and running constantly. To stay out of last place (or retain a positive score; I fall off too much) in these levels on my settings is an own in itself.

I know the level is too small, but even on larger and safer levels, the ratings are still relatively the same, regardless.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tahujdt on October 07, 2014, 11:08:00 am

I'm pubstomping with Cmega3 Caroline, both of us are doing well, top of the scoreboard for a while, when the other team is joined by a really pro Heavy. He got a killstreak of 18 once, and I think it went higher. He had a Medic pocketing him and ubering whenever they came under fire.

We had just managed to make a forward push and capture the central point. I was playing Scout, so I ran on ahead and hovered on the edge of the open area around the final point (we were playing on cp_snakewater). I hear their Engie(Engineer) say "Heavy load comin' through!" Since I can still see his dispenser, I know that that means that he's just picked up his sentry to move it. I run in and put two scattergun shots into his still-unfolding sentry, destroying it. I turn around to deal with the Engie, and see the Heavy coming out of spawn. Oh f***. Without even thinking, I switch to my Sandman (a baseball bat), back off a few yards as he's spinning up his minigun, and bean him with the baseball (which stuns him). I remember that the Engie had the Frontier Justice (a shotgun that gives him guaranteed critical hits based on how many kills his sentry had when it was destroyed), so I decide to make my getaway.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2. The TF2 thread periodically gets together in twos or threes and goes pubstomping.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutchling on October 07, 2014, 11:15:52 am

My son just married the eldest daughter of the ruler of some weird Welsh kingdom.

Sadly, the woman, who has an unpronounceable name, had 5 younger brothers.

Let's just say that none of the other courtiers were impressed by the lousy diplomacy stats those babies had and gladly killed every single one for me 8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on October 07, 2014, 02:48:41 pm

Basically devoured the Brain of Cthulhu with a new character.

molotovs OP plz nerf

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 07, 2014, 03:03:00 pm

Quote from: timferius on October 06, 2014, 08:10:12 am

Quote from: Darvi on October 05, 2014, 06:23:23 pm

Europe generally shuns the inferior imperial system.

We're stuck next door to the U.S. though, and their system tends to leak over the border because people say "Canadians are essentially Americans, they don't need their own version". Except they have to make sure they stick a french manual in with the game, or else Quebec may revolt.

...
THAT'S WHY?!
DAMMIT, QUEBEC!
also, metric for life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 08, 2014, 07:03:50 am

Having the commander decked out in full masterwork steel armor feels like an own, along with his squad who has no worse than ≡quality≡ steel.

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Dwarf Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on October 08, 2014, 09:27:51 am

Quote from: Akura on October 08, 2014, 07:03:50 am

Having the commander decked out in full masterwork steel armor feels like an own, along with his squad who has no worse than ≡quality≡ steel.

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Dwarf Fortress.

Sounds like you are fully prepared to pay the admissions ticket to the circus. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 08, 2014, 11:56:13 am

Same setup as before, Flak Arena mutator, DM-Morbias][, I kept up with everyone, and ranked within the top 4.

DM-Spacenoxx, 1st fucking place with a split of +4 kills, same setup like before. 8 Custom-made gods (like stated; they're not regular bots, they're the definition of abusive) in godlike difficulty, flak arena in low-gravity, in that level. Fuck you all.

To not die within the triple-digits is awesome enough (I actually died within the same amount as everyone else; though I still died the most out of them); to beat down gods is even greater; to win against them despite such hellish and masochistic odds, total ownage.

Unreal Tournament (classic UT99)

Spoiler: DM-Spacenoxx (UT2k4 or UT3 version) Pretty much the same arena. (click to show/hide)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jFnbk1J6dq0/SpmqBlDT5oI/AAAAAAAAABg/CPL9LGXV3X8/s800/SpaceNoxx1.jpg)

ADDENDUM:
I actually got a killing frenzy out of it (about 6 kills sans dying; 2 different occasions). Huzzah! I swear, the bots in this version are way harder than the later UT games. UT3's bots on godlike are like rookies compared to these monsters.

I can imagine how different this game, and my playstyle, would be when it's Oculus-supported. I look forward to that day. Even the lo-res graphics of UT99 would be an awesome experience. I hope devs are on the job of making such mods for it on all versions of it; not just UT4.

EDIT:
After a bit of lurking, FUCK YEAH! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFywaYCYbgU) That hyperspace tunnel looks beautiful.

Now we need to add X-Wing Alliance into the Rift. Blow up some starships in full-3D. Hell, any space-sim would do for this. I'd have to memorize my keyboard, however, to fully coordinate my controls (targeting and throttle and etc; same for Mechwarrior games).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on October 08, 2014, 03:46:36 pm

Got my revenge on that mofo. Maharaja Nagdeo, "the wise" I think it was.

So this guy is an adventurer who comes along and get his own kingdom by attacking Chandana, my neighbour (who I intended to invade anyway). Big deal you might think, divided they fall. Well yeah, but the 20.000 guys Nagdeo brought with him stuck around, and he decide he wants a piece of MY land. Since I'm very spread out it takes MONTHS to assemble my armies, and by then he assaulted the wargoal and then some, forcing me to peace out despite being very much able to kick his sorry ass. (news: the next patch will prevent that, yay!)

I brood my revenge while Nagdeo continues holy warring like a madman, cutting himself pieces out of the neighbouring hindus and even out of my neighbours the Zandids (who took the place of the Saffarids). They get too greedy however, and expend their troops. As they attack the Zandids again, I strike. Well, I issue a declaration of war and take a year to assemble the friggin levies.

Then I lose everything in a tactical mistake. Out of 24 thousand men, three thousand come home. It's a disaster.

But Nagdeo now concentrate on the Zandid, sure of his victory.

I reassemble my armies, and another twenty thousand, led by veteran generals and a fresh retinue of 4500 horsemen. Time to pay.

This time I manoeuver carefully. Nagdeo wins against the Zandids, but his armies are thinned by the wars, and I catch his 16.000, led by the hindu holy order, with my 21.000. Two third of his army are killed, to a seventh of mine.

I split my army in two, one chasing the remnants around and killing more than its share of filthy heathens, the other, with the retinue, siege the holdings. The Zandids, with a replenished levy, declare a war of reconquest. In the end, I carpet siege, and I win. The Zandid reconquer their capital too (although they ultimately decide to take the saffarids' old capital after all). And Nagdeo is reduced to a duchy and a half, with half of it immediately instantly rebelling.

And with a sixth kingdom title, I still can't create an empire because I'm spread out over three de jure empires. Damnit.

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obviously CK2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 08, 2014, 03:51:11 pm

WE KILLED THE DARGON!

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Minecraft Survival Multiplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on October 09, 2014, 08:35:25 am

Got shot only once while fighting The End. I'm finding the boss battles much easier than MGS2. Not sure if I'm getting better or if they're just easier. Haven't died once during a boss battle yet.

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Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 09, 2014, 10:56:01 am

Quote from: timferius on October 09, 2014, 08:35:25 am

Got shot only once while fighting The End. I'm finding the boss battles much easier than MGS2. Not sure if I'm getting better or if they're just easier. Haven't died once during a boss battle yet.

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Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater

IMO MGS2 does have harder boss battles. Even on EE MGS3 bosses aren't so bad to fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 09, 2014, 10:58:06 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on October 09, 2014, 10:56:01 am

Quote from: timferius on October 09, 2014, 08:35:25 am

Got shot only once while fighting The End. I'm finding the boss battles much easier than MGS2. Not sure if I'm getting better or if they're just easier. Haven't died once during a boss battle yet.

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Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater

IMO MGS2 does have harder boss battles. Even on EE MGS3 bosses aren't so bad to fight.

Ocelot is asking for a bullet. He has by far the most forced interactions in the game.  Annoying character, annoying fights, annoyingly forced into backstory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 09, 2014, 11:06:06 am

Quote from: pisskop on October 09, 2014, 10:58:06 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on October 09, 2014, 10:56:01 am

Quote from: timferius on October 09, 2014, 08:35:25 am

Got shot only once while fighting The End. I'm finding the boss battles much easier than MGS2. Not sure if I'm getting better or if they're just easier. Haven't died once during a boss battle yet.

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Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater

IMO MGS2 does have harder boss battles. Even on EE MGS3 bosses aren't so bad to fight.

Ocelot is asking for a bullet. He has by far the most forced interactions in the game.  Annoying character, annoying fights, annoyingly forced into backstory.

What?! I love Ocelot! D: He's adorable! Not to mention his fight is actually pretty hard on EE. He's crazy fast and just won't stop shooting. >_> But his HP is pretty low compared to the other bosses.

The Fear can't hurt you if you don't stop moving, you can beat The End by leaving the game alone for a week, Volgin usually gets me once before I acclimate to his pattern, The Sorrow is barely a boss battle, Shagohod is no problem to cheese and The Boss can be fooled by lying down.

The Pain and The Fury always give me problems though.

E: But compared to MGS2? Every fight on that game is a struggle on EE except for Fatman. He's a pushover every time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 09, 2014, 01:28:34 pm

Perfect pacifist run of a level. Screw logic!

Rogue Soul 2. Flash game I've sunk far too much time into over the last two days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on October 11, 2014, 06:37:44 am

My 3rd match of the tournament, and actual 3rd match of the campaign overall.

So my Orcs are against the Korn Demons. My team value is almost exactly the half of the opponents, 770 or something vs 1440 or something.

My first match was 0-1 against chaos dwarfes (should have been draw, but I left for breakfast in the middle, stupidly forgetting to pause the whole thing). Felt kinda intimidated by their bulls, but I though I held decent enough, being newbie. Second match was the undead, and despite what I perceived to be me getting my ass handed over to me, I stood my ground and pulled a draw in the end.

So this demons, right? Nearly all of their team members had claws, horns or frenzy or something. And a big f-ing demon to boot. I felt like I'm constantly being outnumbered. Felt like majority of their rolls resulted in my boyz being beat down.

And despite that, it was 1-0 or maybe even 2-0 before even the first half ended. Final score: 3-0.
For me.

FUCK ME I'M THE BEST BLOOD BOWL PLAYER EVER

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Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 11, 2014, 06:53:32 pm

So I'm playing as England, and my first goal is to (re?)unite the British Isles. I send King William the Conqueror up north from London and declare war on the savage Scots, attacking my first target: a large army led by the heir to the Scottish throne.

It's the dead of winter in some patchy woods, and I decide to be cunning. My cavalry is out in the open, along with a couple of units of spear militia, but the bulk of my forces (including three units of skilled English bowmen) are hidden in the trees.

The Scots charge, of course, the unwashed barbarians that they are, and run straight into the steel rain of arrows that my archers unleash. My cavalry brushes aside their own, the Scot heir is soon killed, and before long the brutes begin to break and flee. My cavalry have a field day hunting them down, and the only reason any Scots survive is because there were simply too many to kill before a few escape off the map.

In the end, my infantry is virtually untouched while my light cavalry took the most losses. We captured over 300 enemy soldiers, all of whom were put to the sword, and now we begin the siege of Edinburgh where the king of Scots awaits with his pitiful home garrison.

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Medieval 2: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 11, 2014, 10:23:24 pm

They told me I could be anything I wanted, so I became Emergency Kerbal Rescue Guy.

Before .25, I still messed around with Science mode, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to play the game with financial constraints until this version was released. As soon as I noticed the refunds given to the player for part recoveries, I came to a realization. SSTOs don't suck. They save you monies.

A little while later of performing science missions and tests in a prototype SSTO I whipped together, I got a mission to rescue a stranded Kerman in orbit. I took the SSTO up, rescued the Kerbal, and brought him back onto the Space Center runway with the plane looking just like it did when it left. Every part got recovered, so all I have to pay for is fuel. Iron Fruit Reusable Spaceplanes, saving money in style since 2014.

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Kerbal Space Program, obviously

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 12, 2014, 03:28:39 pm

Is it ownage if the only thing you did was search a pile of rubbish and find a legendary revolver that shoots acid and regenerates ammo?

Because that's what I did. It's a pretty great revolver, I've killed lots of bandits with it so far.

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Borderlands 1 Game of the Year Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 12, 2014, 03:31:58 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on October 12, 2014, 03:28:39 pm

Is it ownage if the only thing you did was search a pile of rubbish and find a legendary revolver that shoots acid and regenerates ammo?

Because that's what I did. It's a pretty great revolver, I've killed lots of bandits with it so far.

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Borderlands 1 Game of the Year Edition

Keep a hold on it. Acid damage is very helpful near the end of the game when many enemies have armor. I had a named corrosive revolver that, despite being several levels old, could reliably two-shot enemy mooks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 04:55:35 pm

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on October 12, 2014, 05:10:30 pm

Quote from: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 04:55:35 pm

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 05:53:25 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on October 12, 2014, 05:10:30 pm

Quote from: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 04:55:35 pm

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

I am aware of this. I've got one singularity core saved up specifically for that purpose, should the need arise.

As it happens, I just upped the ante to 4 marauders apiece, as well as some of the semi-obsolete Foxtrots and Corsairs. 2 Foxtrots and 1 Corsair can shoot down just about anything the can catch, so I'm good there, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 12, 2014, 06:16:05 pm

Quote from: Sirus on October 12, 2014, 03:31:58 pm

Keep a hold on it. Acid damage is very helpful near the end of the game when many enemies have armor. I had a named corrosive revolver that, despite being several levels old, could reliably two-shot enemy mooks.

Yeh, I know. It's greatness is enhanced by the fact I'm playing a revolver based Mordecai. I can just spray and pray and aim for powerful crit shots thanks to the regenning ammo, or I can use it to apply corrosion to enemies then swap to a masher for more masher damage, or I can use it to apply corrosion before switching to my spiked shotgun to melee for insane damage, or I can use it to regen revolver ammo after using my masher a ton.

It's a level 22 weapon, I'm level 30 now, still wrecking with it. 's very good, yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 08:36:41 pm

Quote from: Caroline on October 12, 2014, 07:37:07 pm

Quote from: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 05:53:25 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on October 12, 2014, 05:10:30 pm

Quote from: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 04:55:35 pm

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

I am aware of this. I've got one singularity core saved up specifically for that purpose, should the need arise.

As it happens, I just upped the ante to 4 marauders apiece, as well as some of the semi-obsolete Foxtrots and Corsairs. 2 Foxtrots and 1 Corsair can shoot down just about anything the can catch, so I'm good there, too.

Ahem.

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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Leonid_Meteor.jpg)

Whatever that is, I imagine they could shoot it down too.

Actually, is the Fury worth it? 50 Alenium is a pretty major investment; you could build 2 Marauders with the same materials. Anyway, doesn't the Fury destroy any and all potential loot?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on October 12, 2014, 08:50:49 pm

I think the game they're talking about is Xenonauts, a quite nifty X-Com classic remake/clone.

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 12, 2014, 08:51:31 pm

Also amazing! Love that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tahujdt on October 12, 2014, 09:18:22 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on October 12, 2014, 08:50:49 pm

I think the game they're talking about is Xenonauts, a quite nifty X-Com classic remake/clone.

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

Precisely. And yes, no more meteors. Instead we get lots of UFOs.

EDIT: I just took down anothe alien base. This one had a Praetor in it. My two assault troopers (read: they have coilgun scatterguns) soloed the base, everyone else just stayed inside the starting room and shot at anything that came in the other door.

I'm imagining the Xenonauts renting a bunch of bulldozers and carving the silhouettes of a bunch of Praetor helmets next to their base.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on October 13, 2014, 10:02:54 am

On the note of lucky finds: started an Anonymous Argon start, jumped into Venturer's Sentinel only to find a Xenon M2 blowing the entire sector up.  I basically fished around the fringes and picked up an abandoned Super Dolphin (small freighter), Hyperion Phantom (passenger transport armed like a corvette), Elite (medium fighter), and two Novas (heavy fighters), along with some assorted detritus and other hulls I can't recall, though the Super Dolphin was blasted into dust before it could escape the system.  After selling what I didn't want to use immediately, I still had enough to fully outfit the Hyperion and pick up a freighter of my own to start making cash on something other than salvage runs.  Also managed to rescue around half the bailed pilots and get them to a medical bay in time, even when it sometimes brought me just barely within firing range of the M2's heavy weapons.  I'm fairly certain I have the Teladi to thank for the fact that the local laws of salvage applies even if the hull is still hot from the heat of the enemy cannons, as long as I didn't shoot them down myself. 

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X3: Albion Prelude

EDIT: Phantom, not a Hyperion.  The Hyperion actually is an M6 corvette; the Phantom is the TP often compared to it. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 13, 2014, 12:42:24 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on October 12, 2014, 08:50:49 pm

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

That was actually a comet anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 13, 2014, 12:52:34 pm

I DID IT

I BEAT S8-CROWN

I AM THE KING OF SUPER MARIO BROTHERS AND HAVE CONQUERED THE GAME

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Super Mario 3D Land

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on October 13, 2014, 01:01:18 pm

I had a really weird but fun game as axe yesterday. Our Doom said he wanted to go solo safe lane, so I went jungle axe. I ended up accidentaly dying to the first jungle camp I fought due to being very unlucky with axe procs. Then our team started dying, first the invoker being killed by the enemy pudge on mid lane and our doom dying several times on top lane.
Anyway, after the enemy team had a 6 kill advantage before 15 minutes, I started ganking every lane I could find, decapitating the enemy phantom assassin and ogre magi here and there. A few dozen minutes later, we really started wrecking them as our invoker was  finally doing his thing and I was executing people left and right while our other carries tried to not die. The funniest moment happened during an attempted roshan by the enemy team. Lifestealer and Phantom Assassin were trying to kill him when we jumped in, followed by the rest of the enemy team. Enemy disruptor and ogre magi were content in being away from the main fight and focusing me for whatever reason, when their phantom assassin desperately jumped to one of them with a sliver of health left, trying to escape from the main fight, ending up right next to me and getting promptly culled by Axe.

We won the game soon after with me and invoker having 80% of our team kills (both of us at 17 kills)

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dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Astral on October 15, 2014, 06:05:04 am

Let me tell you a tale of shenanigantry, giggles, and tightened sphincters that I had the pleasure of experiencing last night (and I wish I could make this up):

After a short distraction of fighting the enemy faction in an open world PvP zone with some friends, a respawn later and I had noticed two unrelated enemies carrying trade packs through the zone. I pointed this out to one of my friends, who had also respawned, and we grabbed the packs. The owners were unfortunate casualties. Post-debate, we decided we would go all or nothing: take these two trade packs through a large amount of enemy territory, from almost the eastern-most side of the enemy continent, through highly unfriendly seas, and to our own faction's zone for a hefty turn in.

Making our way out of Windscour Savannah, we headed north to Rookboune Basin, where we tested the chance of taking the river upstream in a clipper. Unfortunately, the current was so bad, it pushed us back into Windscour. Along with the clipper, which was now upside down.

Not annoyed in the least by this minor setback, we regrouped past the rampaging rapids, and decided we would re-enact the Fellowship of the Ring, with myself and my friend being the "ring bearers" of sorts, as we were the tankiest in the group of 6 we had assembled. Except we were making our way out of Mordor, and into worse places in some cases. We headed along the eastern side of Rookborne Basin, through an area that head a number of elite enemies (to be fair, the monsters were level 45, but there were a lot of yetis), which attempted to destroy our poor pack donkeys. For the duration of that side route, we continued on foot, making it to a safe zone of sorts in a neutral town.

I had the brilliant idea of seeing where the incoming airship was heading out, and to our luck it was going directly west, across the mountains, to the equivalent of our starter zone. The thing about the starter zones is that they are "controlled" by a faction, meaning that PvP becomes much more dangerous, as you can only engage an enemy that engages you first, and nobody from your side can assist aside from healing, unless they were stupid enough to use an area of effect attack.

I climb the stairs to the airship, and make my way toward the lowering docking bridge with my friends a few levels down, and to my horror see approximately 15 of the enemy faction starting to leave the airship. I quickly turn around, hoping they didn't notice me, and luck was again on my side as most of them had trade packs themselves, or had no inclination to screw around with a level 50 in a neutral town. We make our way to the airship, and take an uneventful flight across the mountains, deeper into the heart of enemy territory, but a few steps closer to freedom.

We make our way down from the airship into Falcorth Plains, the enemy starter zone. As I mentioned before, this was a time saving, if somewhat risky maneuver, as we had no healers and would be unable to assist one another barring stray attacks on multiple people. We make our way towards the south west, with the only challenges being a dim-witted level 13 who attempted to (and failed at) taking a pack from a fully geared level 50, and an enemy farm cart, whose owner must have had a tightened sphincter for the duration of our moving around him.

We made our way into the Tigerspine Mountains, an area similar to our own second area, and still controlled by the enemy. Trotting our donkeys down the road, quickened by carrots, we strode right into the middle of a large enemy housing province without realizing it. As we approached the southern river, which would have been an avenue of basically freedom and escape, we were almost caught by some patrolling enemy guards (which are level 50, and very, very hurty), causing us to make a quick turnaround and take the opposite side of the road, delaying our departure into rowboats. Feeling the urgency start to catch up, after bypassing the guards we went further along the road, almost running smack dab into a large group of various levels, all huddled around the auction house. Apparently so absorbed in their money making, not a single once of them noticed us. Not. A. Single. One. I almost feel like we could have strode past on our donkeys, announcing ourselves with music, and still not be touched by any of them, as who really expects enemy level 50s in your second levelling zone, the most of which contains the occasional level 20 monster?

We made our way around the preoccupied purveyors of property and pesos, and finally got to the river. The home stretch took us down a fairly well covered, deeply banked river that got us most of the way out of the zone, with only a few waterfalls and a buggy physics engine to contend with. We then noticed our other problem: We would be heading directly through a rather large port town, entirely controlled by the enemy, once we got to Mahadevi. We made our way across to the opposite bank of the river, and climbed the mountain until the point where we could see the open ocean. Freedom in sight, we nearly break our donkeys with fall damage (with someone killing their horse on a longer fall, then noticing that a vine ladder existed to get down that particular cliff), and make it to the beach, where we summon a clipper. I lend some spare fuel to my friend, who activates the clipper's special ability, causing us to speed along the water, practically uncatchable by anything that didn't know where we were, and were on a direct intercept course.

After an uneventful trip across the seas to our own continent, we head to Two Crowns to turn the packs in for Charcoal Stabilizer, a reagent used in crafting and pretty highly valued. Once we get into port, we turn the trade packs in for a whopping 130% turn in rate. Not that I would imagine many people taking packs this distance anyway.

Then, we notice that an enemy trade ship has pulled in directly behind us, getting ready to offload its contents for a similar role in retrieving Charcoal Stabilizer.

Perfect.

I slap on my recently made swim fins and diving helmet, which I had made previously in that same day, and Lasso a delicious looking, squishy target off the trade ship. The fins and helmet were for the fact that if anyone is killed with a pack, they drop it, and it usually sinks all the way to the bottom of the ocean. We were well out of the range of the neutral guards as this occurred, and it became a feeding frenzy of sort, with everyone getting at least one or two packs from the enemies as they unloaded, stupidly, out of the neutral guards' ability to assist.

Then, my friend noticed that the owner of the boat had stepped off, but forgot to refresh his Owner's Mark in his haste to sell the trade packs. For reference, the Owner's Mark makes it so that any vehicle will last 1 minute, 30 seconds, during which anyone who is not the owner of that vehicle cannot attempt to drive it. I was to Lasso the person who owned the boat away, so that they would not be able to return in time to attempt refreshing the buff again.

And thus, we ended up jacking the enemy trade ship. We drove it around the harbor while still in waters within our own faction's control, meaning they were subject to the same rules as we were previously: They could only attack us if we attacked them first. A few daring adventurers attempted to run into us one at a time or stealth on to sneak away with a pack, but much like a low ELO League of Legends match, they simply got focused down one at a time as they walked in single file into a teamfight, a warning to those 20 or so enemy characters who had been on the trade ship and now were swimming around like sharks waiting for the kill. Or more like goldfish, as they seemed to forget that their teammate just got obliterated three seconds later, and would send fodder after us like this for a while.

We kept the enemy trade ship moving around in circles in a small bay well east of the turn in point, so if they did manage to get on, we would have plenty of time to hunt down any stragglers. We summoned our own galleon, a behemoth of a ship with 4 cannons to a side, and began laying broadside after broadside volley into the trade ship, all while avoiding our persistent pursuers and preventing our own ship from being appropriated Finally, the enemy ship broke, and the trade packs were ours to take, with everyone from our small, still 6 man group each getting at least one pack from the trade ship itself.

We turn in the packs to Ezna harbor, right as ANOTHER enemy trade ship comes in. They were with the same guild as the previous goofballs, and were forewarned enough to not leave the wheel of the ship unmanned, but we managed to get a few stragglers as they ferried trade packs inbetween the ship and the turn in point. We turn in whatever else we can scrounge from the harbor floor, and finally begin wrapping up for the night. I play a little customized music tune, recognizable as the first three seconds of the Final Fantasy 7 Victory Fanfare, bowing to and thanking each of the contributing enemy faction members in turn, as they (unintentionally) provided a sizable boost in income and crafting materials to our guild.

I finally realized after the elation of the last two and a half hours' events that I should have gone to bed, well, two hours ago, as it was now 6:30am. I went to bed giddy with anticipation of future nights such as this, and fell asleep with a cat at my side and a smile on my face.

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ArcheAge. The level of shenanigantry that can be accomplished in this game while with a group of competent people is truly amazing. While it still falls short in the current state of the game compared to some other MMORPGs, it has a lot going for it that those other western MMOs don't have, as it is not trying to be "just another WoW clone/killer."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on October 15, 2014, 10:33:36 am

I need to try that game now... that sounds awesome!

Edit:  Is there a bay12 guild?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 15, 2014, 06:51:45 pm

Single playthrough, first time in months, on Firefox, 61.58 seconds (Level: Hard (only difficulty), made it to Hexagon (60 seconds minimum)).

Damn, I'm good. Would've unlocked Super Hard Mode if were full version (Which I already did on Steam).

Super Hexagon Demo (Humble Mozilla Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/?asmjs_bundle=&utm_source=Firefox&utm_medium=Snippet&utm_campaign=Humble+Mozilla+Bundle&sel=superhexagon_asm_demo))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 15, 2014, 07:07:18 pm

Battled Darvi and Reverie in Smash Bros 4. They were damn good, but I pulled off two wins. The final match, Darvi and Rev teamed up against me, and I tried my darndest to not lose, but in the end their Thoron game was2stronk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 15, 2014, 07:26:30 pm

I want a 3DS. ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on October 15, 2014, 08:08:48 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on October 15, 2014, 07:26:30 pm

I want a 3DS. ;_;

although I might buy a Wii U solely for smash

<sub>and Bayo

and Hyrule Warriors

and the inevitable metroid game

i just want a wii u okay</sub>

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 15, 2014, 08:28:35 pm

3DS good. WiiU great.
I love having my own money.
I love having set aside some of my budget as "wasting money". Though I did save my "wasting money" for a few weeks to save up to buy the WiiU when it came out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 15, 2014, 08:47:50 pm

I found out why it's so easy to die without ever seeing your opponent in this game; the PK is almost 100% accurate as long as you go prone and switch to first person mode. In one part of a mission, you're pursued by Russians while escaping with civilians in tow. With an assault rifle, aiming down a steep hill at camoflauged enemies at 200+ meters, I never even got a glancing hit. But when I tried again with a machine gun, I singlehandedly destroyed the Russian patrol before they were even in position.

Operation Flashpoint CWC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 15, 2014, 10:52:44 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on October 15, 2014, 07:26:30 pm

I want a 3DS. ;_;

Steal one from the store :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 15, 2014, 11:04:23 pm

Quote from: Sirus on October 15, 2014, 10:52:44 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on October 15, 2014, 07:26:30 pm

I want a 3DS. ;_;

Steal one from the store :3

I want one, but it won't pay my bills. Nah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 16, 2014, 03:47:49 pm

i has 3ds

i wants wiiu

I NEEDS WIIU

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on October 16, 2014, 03:58:22 pm

I has 3DS and WiiU cuz college student with disposable income and dumb with money.

Can't stick to one game long enough to make either a worthwhile investment. :<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on October 16, 2014, 04:47:06 pm

I don't have either of those things...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 16, 2014, 04:48:18 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on October 16, 2014, 04:47:06 pm

I don't have either of those things...

Don't feel bad, mastah. Neither do I, although I do sell them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 16, 2014, 05:02:19 pm

I have a 3DS.

It's pretty cool, although I wish they'd put more thought into the Internet browser. (It doesn't even have tabs! ;_;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 16, 2014, 10:23:41 pm

The New Super3DS will have a "better" browser; will have to see about that.

Anyways, the WiiU browser is much the same as the 3DS browser. But why use that for internet?

The WiiU games are mostly all very enjoyable so far. Don't get the Rabbids one, it sucks, but Mario 3D World, Luigi Bros, Pikmin 3, Shovel Knight, Nintendo Land, and Mario Kart 8 are all titles I would definitely recommend. I also recommend Netflix, and the Youtube app is non-horrible.

The 3DS already has SO many great titles for it, I couldn't even name any without being biased against the rest. Get them all :P

Quote from: mastahcheese on October 16, 2014, 04:47:06 pm

I don't have either of those things...

That's too bad. :( I would definitely recommend getting them when you have the disposable income to get anything. Definitely better than a vacation by plane, and 1000x better than camping. Bringing one with you camping definitely makes the camping bearable.

Also, leaving Nintendo Land on during a party is a great way for people to have a blast without constantly fighting over the game as people drop in and drop out. Unless everyone plays that Animal Crossing one constantly, that can get quite competitive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 17, 2014, 12:17:26 am

BURN YOU EVIL ASS TREE, GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE IN HELL!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/V7h2vWh.jpg)

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'Don't Starve' and this is my first go at this since about 1 to 2 year ago I played this

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on October 17, 2014, 03:29:37 am

Quote from: Evilsx on October 17, 2014, 12:17:26 am

BURN YOU EVIL ASS TREE, GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE IN HELL!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/V7h2vWh.jpg)

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'Don't Starve' and this is my first go at this since about 1 to 2 year ago I played this

I see that you burned at 'totally normal tree' c:
good work *pats head*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on October 17, 2014, 04:10:48 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on October 17, 2014, 03:29:37 am

Quote from: Evilsx on October 17, 2014, 12:17:26 am

BURN YOU EVIL ASS TREE, GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE IN HELL!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/V7h2vWh.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

'Don't Starve' and this is my first go at this since about 1 to 2 year ago I played this

I see that you burned at 'totally normal tree' c:
good work *pats head*

There was a bunch of evil monster and plants that keep attacking me there that was burnt after the burning of most of the forest before that

Also a bunch of monster near the current base eating most of the stuff near it so I decide to go to the... thing that was spawning them and was quickly fixed with 'Mr fire' and 'Mrs spear'

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Don't Starve

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 17, 2014, 03:49:18 pm

FUCK YOU, HEAT STREET! AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHalso i love you worldmaster

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday The Heist

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 17, 2014, 03:52:10 pm

I finally managed my first air-to-air kill! I was flying an AH-64 and used manual fire to shoot down a Su plane. The nearby HIND got me though, because it could fly slightly higher than me and thus out of my machine gun's range.

Operation Flashpoint.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Worldmaster27 on October 17, 2014, 03:53:14 pm

<3

The beginning was annoying, the middle was okay (because burning people) and the end was difficult if only because we Koss forgot to bring the guy along.

But it was satisfying to beat, and I got a new gun out of it. \o/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday The Heist w/ KOSS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 17, 2014, 09:59:45 pm

Beat the Master Core on "White Hot" difficulty (8.0 out of 9) with Mii Swordfighter, built for defense. It was hilarious, I got within this close to losing, but managed to hang on with my last stock at 263% to finish Master Core off.

Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 18, 2014, 01:49:59 am

Quote from: Reudh on October 17, 2014, 09:59:45 pm

Beat the Master Core on "White Hot" difficulty (8.0 out of 9) with Mii Swordfighter, built for defense. It was hilarious, I got within this close to losing, but managed to hang on with my last stock at 263% to finish Master Core off.

Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS.

Woo! You've beat my best so far.
Hmm. That Mii Swordfighter... they seem a bit strong, eh? Stronger than the other Miis, at least. I have an Attack/Speed Tall/Narrow Mii Swordfighter, with the robo armor (which doesn't make a dif), and he would be my best character if... erm... Peach and PAC-MAN (ugh) weren't so easy to use. Why do the easiest characters for me to use have to be the most annoying? Bring back Ice climbers, DLC, plz. NAOW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 18, 2014, 07:28:35 am

Quote from: flabort on October 18, 2014, 01:49:59 am

Quote from: Reudh on October 17, 2014, 09:59:45 pm

Beat the Master Core on "White Hot" difficulty (8.0 out of 9) with Mii Swordfighter, built for defense. It was hilarious, I got within this close to losing, but managed to hang on with my last stock at 263% to finish Master Core off.

Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS.

Woo! You've beat my best so far.
Hmm. That Mii Swordfighter... they seem a bit strong, eh? Stronger than the other Miis, at least. I have an Attack/Speed Tall/Narrow Mii Swordfighter, with the robo armor (which doesn't make a dif), and he would be my best character if... erm... Peach and PAC-MAN (ugh) weren't so easy to use. Why do the easiest characters for me to use have to be the most annoying? Bring back Ice climbers, DLC, plz. NAOW.

Funfact: Ice Climbers were taken out at the last minute - their voice files are still in the game! Originally, they were going to take Villager's place.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 18, 2014, 12:14:52 pm

i mis u ayse clombers ;-;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on October 19, 2014, 08:12:40 am

Quote from: Reudh on October 18, 2014, 07:28:35 am

Quote from: flabort on October 18, 2014, 01:49:59 am

Quote from: Reudh on October 17, 2014, 09:59:45 pm

Beat the Master Core on "White Hot" difficulty (8.0 out of 9) with Mii Swordfighter, built for defense. It was hilarious, I got within this close to losing, but managed to hang on with my last stock at 263% to finish Master Core off.

Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS.

Woo! You've beat my best so far.
Hmm. That Mii Swordfighter... they seem a bit strong, eh? Stronger than the other Miis, at least. I have an Attack/Speed Tall/Narrow Mii Swordfighter, with the robo armor (which doesn't make a dif), and he would be my best character if... erm... Peach and PAC-MAN (ugh) weren't so easy to use. Why do the easiest characters for me to use have to be the most annoying? Bring back Ice climbers, DLC, plz. NAOW.

Funfact: Ice Climbers were taken out at the last minute - their voice files are still in the game! Originally, they were going to take Villager's place.

>_>
This reminds me of the same game with the same(?) name I played on the GBA a long time ago.
...Where you climbed a mountain of platform bricks which you knock out with your hammer as you jump. :v
It was silly.

But that reminds me of the many others I've owned in...and yet forgot the names :'(

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Downed a Thresher Worm without the help of the Mako (your armored hybrid tank-like APC) whatsoever.
- Sniper fire + Use of infiltration skills and spotting the movements.

...It was only too late that I had the idea of using the Mako to weaken it and then get on foot to kill it >_>
Well. Anyway, it's an achievement for me.
On Insane/Nightmare (or whatever it was called--I'm recalling since the ol' days)
> Mass Effect

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 19, 2014, 08:27:42 am

Four captains at the same time. I walked away with four runes after a lot of countering.

Shadow of Mordor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 20, 2014, 04:40:59 pm

I unlocked Duck Hunt.

I then proceeded to shoot the mother-loving crap outta that bitch* with Morgan Freeman.

I HAVE EXACTED MY REVENGE

NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS, YOU FRIGGIN' DOG

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Smash Bros. 3DS

*puns are fun

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Octobomb on October 20, 2014, 06:53:15 pm

New high score (attrition): 158-21-9-34-4

Titanfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 20, 2014, 08:23:16 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on October 20, 2014, 04:40:59 pm

... with Morgan Freeman.

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Smash Bros. 3DS

Huh?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 20, 2014, 08:24:14 pm

Quote from: flabort on October 20, 2014, 08:23:16 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on October 20, 2014, 04:40:59 pm

... with Morgan Freeman.

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Smash Bros. 3DS

Huh?

Mii fighter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 20, 2014, 08:32:35 pm

...Oh, right. ANYone can be a fighter now.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 20, 2014, 09:29:27 pm

I think that's the best thing to have been added to the game, aside from Omega Stages.

...we should probably just get a thread for this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 20, 2014, 09:53:45 pm

A search says apparently there is a thread for this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144610.msg5721454#msg5721454).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 20, 2014, 10:04:17 pm

Haha fuk u High Overseer Campbell, enjoy being a heretic for the rest of your life

(Took the nonlethal option in Dishonored's High Overseer Campbell mission.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Audioworm333 on October 20, 2014, 10:04:37 pm

Chrysallid killed my favorite soldier; it actually moved me to tears. I proceeded to use the sole survivor of that mission to make it pay.

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XCOM: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Keldane on October 21, 2014, 11:28:59 pm

Was running a terror mission in a country that was in full on panic. Squad had deployed into a building and were mostly not on overwatch due to distance moved after taking out a Chrysallid that had parked itself next to the Assault trooper with Close and Personal (makes your first attack within 4 tiles not cost an action).

Cue two groups of three Chrysallids running into the room, in addition to the one I know for sure is hanging out on the balcony above. Five make for my troops on being spotted, but fall just short on their movement, while one runs into the shadows behind some stairs. Then the one on the balcony runs over and hops down, directly into the line of fire of my Sniper, who was in overwatch, had the Sentinel skill (gets two shots on overwatch), and was armed with a plasma sniper rifle. One shot, one kill. Immediately thereafter, another Chrysallid that I didn't know about follows an identical path, taking even more damage from the plasma rifle. I cheer and go to take my turn.

First, my MEC trooper fires a grenade at the pack of four Chrysallids that had bunched up. Not enough to kill any of them, but puts them all at 3 HP. Then I realize that not only do I have two Assault troopers with Close and Personal on the mission, one's already close enough to get the free shot and has a 100% hit chance. One down. Move the other Assault trooper up, take another 100% shot. Two down. Move the first guy closer and finish his turn with another 100% shot. Three down. Last guy takes one more shot without moving - only a 97% chance of hitting, but he doesn't let that slow him down. Pack's demolished, but I know there's that one behind the stairs. Move my remaining Assault trooper (yup, I brought three) around the corner and take an easy 100% shot to finish it off as well.

Two on their turn and five on my turn left me feeling really pumped. Finished up that mission with only two out of eighteen civilians killed by the aliens and not a single injury sustained. All of Asia was taken from the brink of panic and returned to a stable point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCom: Enemy Within with the Second Wave option Training Roulette enabled

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 22, 2014, 01:44:17 am

Yes! I killed a room full of dogs! After cheesing the aggro mechanics to break them up into more manageable chunks. Forget cosmic horrors, it's dogs that are the real monsters.
Also later I killed 3 demons which required precision to like 1/4 of a second to pull off.

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Dragon Age: Origins
Fucking dogs man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 22, 2014, 07:42:21 am

Quote from: Graknorke on October 22, 2014, 01:44:17 am

Yes! I killed a room full of dogs! After cheesing the aggro mechanics to break them up into more manageable chunks. Forget cosmic horrors, it's dogs that are the real monsters.
Also later I killed 3 demons which required precision to like 1/4 of a second to pull off.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon Age: Origins
Fucking dogs man.

Overwhelm spam? Only thing you can really do to save yourself is swap to a healer if you've got one and focus heals on the overwhelmed member. Overwhelm is probably the single most broken skill in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 22, 2014, 07:57:49 am

Crushing things with a Machine Flail with a Luminous Amethyst s fun. Hard because the thing is so damn heavy and occasionally disrupts the screen by opening a singularity, but fun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hammerfight. That flail came from one of the last missions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 22, 2014, 03:36:46 pm

Decided to take on a small fleet of pirates and noticed that I may have bitten off more than I can chew.  I'm in a single wolf class frigate, vs 2 pirate hound frigates and a pirate Sunder class Destroyer.

I can outrun the sunder easily but the two hounds are built for speed and almost nothing else.  After considering just a flat out retreat and hoping they don't pursue I come up with a plan and engage head on, full speed. 

I raise my shields and blitz one of the hounds.  In a straight up fight a wolf will beat a hound any day of the week, and wow does it show.  I run straight at it with my shields up and unload.  The hound doesn't have shields and I wreck it pretty badly from the front, then use the wolf's short range teleporter to get behind it and use laser surgery to remove the hound's engines. Then take off again when the sunder and other hound catch up.  Casually targeting the crippled hound and firing off a couple missiles as I go.  Boom.  One down. If there was a textbook I think that would be in it.

The other hound knows better than to go after me by itself and stays near the sunder.  But the hound is pretty quickly picked off.  I'm far more maneuverable than the sunder, and can take potshots at the unshielded hound before the sunder can properly turn and apply it's melt your face lasers. 2 Down.

The sunder however presents a problem.  It's shield and flux regen are too strong, I don't do damage, all I can do with all my guns firing is nullify it's flux regen.  But I'm in a ship that can teleport, and the sunder shield has a tiny little blind spot in the back.  So I charge it like I did the first hound, and my shields can take the Sunder's hardpoint guns just long enough for me to teleport behind it and apply laser enemas.  After a couple runs of this, I eventually flameout the sunder's engines lower my shields and unload.  3 down.

Woo!  Victory! more loot than I can carry, and 10k credits in bounty reward from the nearby independent colonies.

Starsector.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 22, 2014, 04:38:37 pm

^^Wolf-class + dual antimatter blasters = tub buster, especially against enemies who don't have full shields. They can pop frigates in a single volley too if you're a particularly good shot!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on October 22, 2014, 05:40:43 pm

Wolf's are incredible  beginner ship.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 22, 2014, 06:06:41 pm

Quote from: wer6 on October 22, 2014, 05:40:43 pm

Wolf's are incredible  beginner ship.

They're a great addition to any fleet. Perfect mid build for cleaning up all kinds of pirates and small Heg fleets is 2-4 Wolves, a light cruiser, plus one carrier/1-2 destroyers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on October 22, 2014, 08:44:38 pm

My squad is at some factory chatting with a general, when it gets attacked. My scout rushes out the front door to check it out... and almost walks face first into 12+ enemy soldiers all clumped up outside.

He nopes back inside (thankfully without being detected), and I proceed sneak my grenadier downstairs. I then make him run out the front door and throw all the grenades.

He manages to blow up all the solders (except a few who are on the other side of the map) in a single turn. What was (I assume) supposed to be a hard, drawn out fight was basically over in a single round without any of them getting a shot off.

Silent Storm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on October 22, 2014, 09:08:45 pm

Through a series of airstrikes, airborne kaskrin drops, ogryn reinforcements and a leman russ giving covering fire, I managed to extract the 60 imperial conscripts from an UTTER FAILURE and back to my base for the medics. Suck it Tau.

They all lived to the end of the game too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 22, 2014, 11:07:18 pm

I would NOT have put that much effort into saving those conscripts. They should have been left in UTTER FAILURE to force the Tau into wasting ammo!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on October 23, 2014, 12:01:41 am

Quote from: Aedel on October 22, 2014, 09:08:45 pm

Through a series of airstrikes, airborne kaskrin drops, ogryn reinforcements and a leman russ giving covering fire, I managed to extract the 60 imperial conscripts from an UTTER FAILURE and back to my base for the medics. Suck it Tau.

They all lived to the end of the game too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse

This smells more like an add-on to DoW: Soulstorm o_O
Details? :D

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RA2: Yuri's Revenge. Soviet Campaign.

For those who know RA2 (before Yuri's Revenge came out), there's this one Allied mission where you protect Einstein's Lab and the Chronosphere for an allotted amount of time.

That mission in RA2: YR, in the Soviet Campaign? You become the Soviet 'aggressors' instead, due to time shenanigans.
How I beat it on the hardest difficulty, easy?

Sent all starting troops (after destroying the perimeter bases which is a guarantee) using the perimeter of the map traveling from NW > NE > SE to consolidate my forces. Made a quick improvised base using my MCV and trained a few troops to fit in the flak tracks for a hit and run, then sent my whole force from SE to the SW base.

The starting troop strength is high if you maneuver quickly. Won the game in around ~7-10(?) ish minutes compared to the par time of an hour(?) or so.

...Though this was due to tons of tactical and strategic experience in playing RA2 for a lot of my childhood >_> yeah...that's one of the few games I had on my (borrowed) computer from my brother.

...This was also before discovering there were actual guides to missions online! >:I
Didn't have internet back then. mmph.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on October 23, 2014, 12:25:54 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 22, 2014, 11:07:18 pm

I would NOT have put that much effort into saving those conscripts. They should have been left in UTTER FAILURE to force the Tau into wasting ammo!

I try to save as many of my guys as possible as a self-imposed challenge.

Quote from: Tiruin on October 23, 2014, 12:01:41 am

Quote from: Aedel on October 22, 2014, 09:08:45 pm

Through a series of airstrikes, airborne kaskrin drops, ogryn reinforcements and a leman russ giving covering fire, I managed to extract the 60 imperial conscripts from an UTTER FAILURE and back to my base for the medics. Suck it Tau.

They all lived to the end of the game too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse

This smells more like an add-on to DoW: Soulstorm o_O
Details? :D

Its a lovely mod that makes it from a minor skirmish to a full blown war. Hundreds and hundreds of models in play at once, in a space marine VS space marine match. Even more for zergrush factions like IG... It also adds a lot more customization. I have spec op squads with poison knives backstabbing daemons as IG, Chaos Cultists praising Slaneesh as His daemons seduce and murder space marines and orks all screaming WAAAAAGH! at once to demoralize every single enemy on the entire map.

oh yeah

titans

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbon2Yo3XU1tSstDENdTqzPxGg3ReYHeHNBiI2XOlZUOI8lX6C)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 24, 2014, 07:51:09 am

Bribed the largest Papal army, resulting in Excommunication(I thought I was aleady), and a strong foothold in Italy. It cost me about 1/3 of my immense treasury, but I literally had nothing else to spend my gold on. Within a decade, he Papacy fell.

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Medieval: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on October 24, 2014, 07:57:00 am

Quote from: Akura on October 24, 2014, 07:51:09 am

Bribed the largest Papal army, resulting in Excommunication(I thought I was aleady), and a strong foothold in Italy. It cost me about 1/3 of my immense treasury, but I literally had nothing else to spend my gold on. Within a decade, he Papacy fell.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medieval: Total War.

Read that as paypal originally. I thought you'd found some strange internet RTS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 24, 2014, 12:31:46 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/a73WzBC.png)

This is a German heavy sMG 42 squad. With the heavy tripod and two men assisting, the gun becomes extremely efficient, able to maintain a steady rate of fire without sacrificing accuracy even at extreme ranges, and the extra loader makes sighting and retargeting almost instantaneous. The attached riflemen can keep the enemy suppressed between reloads and the extra pairs of eyes means the squad will rarely fail to spot a target. The gunner's name is Krause.

The MG is set up on the east bank of a river, which is spanned by a bridge, facing directly west toward where the American airborne are marching in from Drop Zone N. Their scouts spot the other two light MG teams, and accurate mortar fire quickly takes them out. The Americans try to drop shells on the heavy MG when they spot that but the team dug trenches before the battle and resist all attempts to be dislodged by artillery.

The Americans try to push across open ground to the bank.

Spoiler: Result (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/UEA8zaD.png)

Krause killed more than 32 men himself, including: two bazooka teams, a whole section of engineers, one whole rifle team, half their platoon HQ, and half of two other rifle teams.

Quote from: Later

[09:12]   GUNINsorta_away   yeah. krause got shot in the face, then someone else took the gun and he got shot, then one of the loaders was killed and a rifleman was wounded. it all happened in moments because [an American] rifle team snuck down the bank close enough to hit them
[09:13]   GUNINsorta_away   the US is left with a two full strength rifle teams, a .30 MG team, a 60mm mortar, a team of engineers and their secondary platoon HQ squad
[09:14]   GUNINsorta_away   ive got two squads of riflemen, and the understrength sMG 42 squad (3 guys out of 7). we lost the other two MGs to mortars

Krause was a hero to his comrades, and his country. He was posthumously awarded three medals, including the Iron Cross for bravery and extreme valor.

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Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 25, 2014, 11:24:51 am

I wasn't ready for the Golden Horde showing up on my doorstep(my doorstep extends all the way from the British Isles to just north of Byzantium; I was in the middle of taking over Khazar when they appeared). That my longtime allies, the Hungarians, decided to stab me in the back(foolishly, their opening assault would have cost them their king if the game hadn't crashed)

However, I don't think the Golden Horde was ready for me not being ready for them. Paying florins out the ass to bribe their armies slowed them down. A force of 80 Mongolian Heavy Cavalry assaulted a wooden fort held by 200 Spearmen. During the assault 20 of the Mongolians died from arrows fired by the walls(apparently, the Vikings created walls that shoot arrows), and all but a small handful were torn up by the spearmen(total casualties: 56 of them, 58 of us). A major massive battle on the province of Khazar broke their most significant army. It would have dealt a harsh blow to Ogdai Khan himself if he hadn't run away before the battle. Unfortunately, I can't immediately get reinforcements there until I build a few more ships or drop them in Lithuania and march them across Eastern Europe, and the Horde seems to be creating new troops every turn(I can only make a new unit in a province every two turns).

Still, I've pushed the Horde back to about two territories and they're not attacking in force.

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Medieval: Total War. Almost got the crashing to stop, something to do with messing with my graphics card settings should do it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on October 25, 2014, 12:05:30 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on October 24, 2014, 12:31:46 pm

Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem

Wow, they are still making Close Combat games?

*checks wiki*

And Last Stand Arnhem is in fact A Bridge Too Far remake??
Sweeeeeet!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 25, 2014, 12:10:21 pm

Quote from: Sinistar on October 25, 2014, 12:05:30 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on October 24, 2014, 12:31:46 pm

Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem

Wow, they are still making Close Combat games?

*checks wiki*

And Last Stand Arnhem is in fact A Bridge Too Far remake??
Sweeeeeet!

Gateway to Caen is the latest one, that came out this year. Currently Slitherine is making a 3D Close Combat game which sounds bloody brilliant (at the sacrifice of multi-story buildings which sucks but still!).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SirAaronIII on October 26, 2014, 01:00:38 am

Playing a bit of Terraria with my friend (would be "friends" but one guy is lame and had to leave). We did the Pumpkin Moon with the good old defensive beetle armor + spectre healing set combo. Here's how that ended up going for us:

Spoiler: pretty large screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iX8Jpve.jpg)

That's about enough Horseman's Blades, Raven Staffs, Bat Scepters, Spider Eggs, and other drops to fill three chests completely. Also of note, we got 18 Mourning Wood trophies and 73 Pumpking trophies.

Vampire Knives still rock.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 26, 2014, 03:01:38 am

Quote from: SirAaronIII on October 26, 2014, 01:00:38 am

Playing a bit of Terraria with my friend (would be "friends" but one guy is lame and had to leave). We did the Pumpkin Moon with the good old defensive beetle armor + spectre healing set combo. Here's how that ended up going for us:

Spoiler: pretty large screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iX8Jpve.jpg)

That's about enough Horseman's Blades, Raven Staffs, Bat Scepters, Spider Eggs, and other drops to fill three chests completely. Also of note, we got 18 Mourning Wood trophies and 73 Pumpking trophies.

Vampire Knives still rock.

MOTHER OF GOD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on October 26, 2014, 04:03:40 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on October 23, 2014, 12:01:41 am

-snip-

I remember back in my childhood, my disc was scratched, so RA2 had a habit of occasionally crashing, and back then I didn't know of task manager so I had to shut down my whole computer to fix it.  Some missions were fine, but in others It would crash every 30 or so seconds.  So on that lab mission I had that problem as the allies.  This drove me to just launch an all out assault, using things like my MCV as a bullet sponge.  I managed to beat that mission in minutes. 

Playing Supreme Commander, since it was just on sale.  I had it in my childhood, but it required an online connection to start, which my computer didn't have.  I'm on the final Cybran mission, and I decided to go for the ultimate turtling strategy.  I built around 60-80 tier three engineers, and Created a huge series of power plants and fabricators.  Then I protected those with shields.  Once my base was secure from any immidiate damage, I started building my artillery.  Five guns, each protected by three generators, and defended by a shit ton of tier 2 turrets.  Then I added the experimental artillery gun for even more dakka.  I built up a large amount of rhino tanks and siege bots, and had them slowly advance down the map, my engineers right behind them building even more artillery guns, turrets, shields, and power plants, while my battleships provided slightly more direct fire support.  Eventually I lost a good chunk when they started sending out siege bot armies, along with things like entire squadrons of gunships. I threw the last of my siege bots and rhino tanks, 40 of the first and sixty of the second, into a last ditch assault on Black Sun.  They were completely annihilated, and I used my remaining troops to fortify my defense line.    Without battleships, I positioned my strategic missile subs around the enemy base, and had them start pounding it along with my main artillery guns.  Once I rebuilt my assault force, I launched a second assault... only to find that the entire enemy base has been flattened to the ground by my artillery. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 26, 2014, 05:56:37 pm

FINALLY

FINALLYYYY

ELDERADO! I WIN! CITY OF GOLD!

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CLASSIC SPELUNKY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on October 26, 2014, 08:27:07 pm

@above: O_O
In other news... I was walking the wastes when this preacher was wandering near me. Knowing cultists in games, I immediately persued him. When I kept running after him, he finally surrendered all his goods (including his clothes; I took his sweet blue sash that's actually an identifier of his religion that I don't believe in, so that's fucked up) and ran the other way. I had no idea way... Until I realized I was packing three guns (only one of whcih was actually loaded and two of which were hunting rifles), wearing a gasmask, and generally looking like Satan's hitman. Did I mention my character hasn't killed anyone except a dogman he wrestled to death then gave the security camera footage of said scene to a man in a sweet hat who gave him a pass to the only civilized city left on Earth from sheer awesomeness value?
It's nice being feared and hated without doing much of anything, really.

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Neo Scavenger.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 26, 2014, 11:56:34 pm

My squad just wiped out the alien base.

Two supports with laser rifles, an assault with a scatter laser, a sniper with a laser sniper rifle, and two heavies with standard LMGs. All in carapace armor, and the only injury (not worst injury, but ONLY injury) was one of the heavies getting hit by a Thin Man for 4 damage. Other than that, the aliens never landed a single hit. The sectoid commander did manage to mind-control the injured heavy, but it was already down to a single HP thanks to my sniper and the assault finished it with a laser pistol. 22 aliens dead and the wounded heavy didn't even have to spend a day in the medical wing.

Oh, and I pulled this off the day before several nations were set to pull out of XCOM. The worldwide panic reduction has probably saved this entire game.

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XCOM: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 27, 2014, 08:07:45 am

Marched my army across the map for about 20 minutes wiping out two bases that kept rebuilding somehow. Spent another 20 fortifying two chokepoints with insane numbers of turrets. Eventually, I discover that all I missed from the last purge was a Plasma Generator in one base, and a Webway Gate in another.

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Dawn of War.

My final army:
2 Space Marine squads
3 Terminator squads
3 Servitors
1 Hellfire Dreadnought
1 Predator
3 Land Raiders

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 28, 2014, 11:15:02 am

Quote from: greatorder on October 28, 2014, 10:12:46 am

So, me and two guys are exploring. We head to the spire in the hopes of iron armour.

We find a rather cocky (and stupid. Tried playing dumb when the death messages... yeah.) guy with an incredibly powerful bow, iron armour, sword, grenades galore etc.

I switch to asset denial mode, use up all my bandages, give him a few whacks and die in the end. Along with the other two people.

However, it seems between us we've crippled him an awful lot. The guy he first killed got back not long after we died and killed him. I heard him say something like 'I'm gonna fucking kill you' when I got there, before he was murdered by a guy with pancake in his name.

So, triple-teaming a guy in full iron with wooden swords CAN work.

(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/metor-shower-471048.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2014, 01:18:18 pm

I wanna say it sounds like Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: werty892 on October 28, 2014, 05:33:40 pm

My star squad is all wounded after a convoy mission and a shitstorm outside a Burger joint. Hoping I can have some easy days to rest and recupirate.

NOPE MOTHAFUCKING TERROR MISSION UP YO ASS.

What do I have for troops... oh shit. Three Squaddies(2 support 1 heavy), and a few rookies. Welp, I'm gonna die so hard. Skyranger takes off, packed to the gills with medkits and grenades. Land, its at some docks. Turn one, pop open the door to a big warehouse. End turn with everyone in overwatch, covering the door. Suddenly, two chissalids pop out. Overwatch kills one, and then I off the second on my next turn. Continue advancing as civvies die all around, spot and eliminate two floaters using pro flank tactics.

I reach the end of the dock, and trigger a pack of three. One pulls back, one moves up slightly, and one goes fuck it and vanishes. I manage to have my heavy and rookie take out the two that stayed, and suddenly the second appears, behind me. I can run the support duo up to him and kill him... and I won? FUCK YES

In the end 7 civvies died but I also won a terror mission with 3 squaddies and a rookie on CLASSIC without taking any damage. Did I mention this was my first game ever?

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XCOM ENEMY WITHIN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: beorn080 on October 28, 2014, 07:21:40 pm

Just completed a stealth Diamond Store heist on Overkill, for the first time.

Payday2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 28, 2014, 09:23:11 pm

So I've got a good thing going.  I'm back in the swing of things, have a competent engineer sticking with me and a rotating set of newbies who at least listen when I tell them to do things.  Then I realize that I've straight forgotten about a ship, because no one uses it.  This is, of course, the Mobula.  Its got an awkward layout, its balloons are underneath it instead of above it, and its guns only point forward... but there are five of them.  So I decide to equip my Mobula, the Mobulus Strip, with three miniguns in the central slots, and two flamers on the side for emergencies.

Our Squid ally plays it very cautious from the beginning, waiting half a minute before entering the canyon.  Uncertain about my loadout, I stay in the back.  One Pyramidion turns the corner and shoots past us as we enter, the squid follows that, and as we turn to follow the squid a second Pyramidion flies over us.  I throw us into reverse so they overshoot us, and then my crew simultaneously opens fire with all three miniguns.  From each side and above I see a line of bullets converging on the enemy hull; even though the right gunner obviously doesn't know what they're doing we still take down the enemy armor in two seconds and from there they never recover.  The Squid also wins their fight.

The rest of the game went more or less exactly like that, with our ship scoring two more kills and no deaths.  In the final battle things got dicey as an enemy managed to get around our side but our quick thinking engineer grabbed a flamer and disabled them while the gunner fired the side minigun and the other engineer spammed "I need help repairing hull" in voice commands.  No one did help him, but we survived and scored the game ending kill so its all good.

To quote the engineer, "that worked suprisingly well".

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Guns of Icarus: Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on October 29, 2014, 04:59:14 pm

Radiation, and then starving, and then more radiation. But not starving. Such is life in the zone.

It may not sound like an own, but after all this I'm not dead. Just barely, but I survived and got a good amount of money.

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Stalker: Call of Pripyat with Misery mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 29, 2014, 06:24:29 pm

I FUCKING BEAT THE FIRST THREE LEVELS OF DONKEY KONG

I MEAN SURE IT REPEATS FOREVER BUT I BEAT 25 METER 75 METER AND 150 METER IN ONE SHOT

YES

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Skyrim

^{Donkey Kong}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 29, 2014, 07:47:14 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on October 29, 2014, 06:24:29 pm

I FUCKING BEAT THE FIRST THREE LEVELS OF DONKEY KONG

I MEAN SURE IT REPEATS FOREVER BUT I BEAT 25 METER 75 METER AND 150 METER IN ONE SHOT

YES

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Skyrim

^{Donkey Kong}

10/10 "Like Skyrim but with less guns and more monkeys." --IGN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 29, 2014, 09:48:28 pm

Fuck you, Eye of Cthuhlu!
And you, Brain of Cthuhlu!
...and again, Brain of Cthuhlu!
...and again, Eye of Cthuhlu!
And you, Skeletron!

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Terraria
My Celestial Diamond Staff kind of trivializes a lot of things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on October 30, 2014, 08:17:09 am

Quote from: Akura on October 27, 2014, 08:07:45 am

Marched my army across the map for about 20 minutes wiping out two bases that kept rebuilding somehow. Spent another 20 fortifying two chokepoints with insane numbers of turrets. Eventually, I discover that all I missed from the last purge was a Plasma Generator in one base, and a Webway Gate in another.

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Dawn of War.

My final army:
2 Space Marine squads
3 Terminator squads
3 Servitors
1 Hellfire Dreadnought
1 Predator
3 Land Raiders

If that's the average size of your army, needs be you must look into Ultimate Apocalypse Mod. W40k is not W40k without unlimited amounts of troops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 30, 2014, 12:53:27 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on October 30, 2014, 08:17:09 am

Quote from: Akura on October 27, 2014, 08:07:45 am

Marched my army across the map for about 20 minutes wiping out two bases that kept rebuilding somehow. Spent another 20 fortifying two chokepoints with insane numbers of turrets. Eventually, I discover that all I missed from the last purge was a Plasma Generator in one base, and a Webway Gate in another.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War.

My final army:
2 Space Marine squads
3 Terminator squads
3 Servitors
1 Hellfire Dreadnought
1 Predator
3 Land Raiders

If that's the average size of your army, needs be you must look into Ultimate Apocalypse Mod. W40k is not W40k without unlimited amounts of troops.

That's not average, that's the maximum. Pop cap is 20 infantry/20 vehicles. Space and Assault Marines take 2 per squad, Terminators take 4. Dreadnoughts take 2 on the vehicle cap, Predators take 3, Land Raiders take 5.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2014, 02:32:06 am

Decided I was sick and tired of France besieging my cities on the mainland, and went on the offensive. My king and a large army of mostly infantry and longbowmen set sail from England and went straight for Paris, which was only lightly defended. Of course, the Frenchies would have none of that, and their largest army (that I know of) attacked along with the Parisian garrison, on opposite sides. I faced well over a thousand soldiers in all.

I positioned my army in a wooded area, counting on my troops hiding among the trees to land the first blow on a surprised enemy. Since longbows have ridiculous range, they were able to open fire before any of the attacking army could react. And because I had so many longbows, vast swaths of the French were dead in minutes. Their own pitiful archers got in range and tried to shoot back, but my casualties were acceptably light and soon the archers were routing. I diverted my attention to the Parisian garrison, which was slowly marching towards my rear. The Parisians had brought their faction heir along with a large number of crossbowmen, but few infantry. I had my king and a unit of Mailed Knights charge the French faction heir by themselves, retreating when French spearmen managed to join the fray and looping around to attack the crossbowmen. The faction heir decided to ignore my king and charge my longbowmen instead, only to be surprised by hidden English spearmen and get himself killed.

By this point, the main French army had finally managed to come to grips with my own army. It was a bloody, confusing mess, but with French dying everywhere and their leaders dead or fleeing the field my victory was inevitable. Less than 100 French soldiers escaped, and because Paris was virtually undefended it was captured without further fighting.

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Medieval II: Total War. Of course, immediately after this the Pope dies. The French cardinal somehow gets every single one of the votes, and now I'm being told to play nice or face excommunication. Considering that my best mainland fortress is currently under siege and the French are refusing a ceasefire...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on November 01, 2014, 02:36:42 am

Quote from: Akura on October 30, 2014, 12:53:27 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on October 30, 2014, 08:17:09 am

Quote from: Akura on October 27, 2014, 08:07:45 am

Marched my army across the map for about 20 minutes wiping out two bases that kept rebuilding somehow. Spent another 20 fortifying two chokepoints with insane numbers of turrets. Eventually, I discover that all I missed from the last purge was a Plasma Generator in one base, and a Webway Gate in another.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War.

My final army:
2 Space Marine squads
3 Terminator squads
3 Servitors
1 Hellfire Dreadnought
1 Predator
3 Land Raiders

If that's the average size of your army, needs be you must look into Ultimate Apocalypse Mod. W40k is not W40k without unlimited amounts of troops.

That's not average, that's the maximum. Pop cap is 20 infantry/20 vehicles. Space and Assault Marines take 2 per squad, Terminators take 4. Dreadnoughts take 2 on the vehicle cap, Predators take 3, Land Raiders take 5.

Get Ultimate Apocalypse and quadruple that. Do it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 01, 2014, 02:40:56 am

@Sirus: I'm pretty sure you can't be excommunicated because of the aggressive actions of another faction. If France keeps sieging you, they'll get excommunicated and you can siege them right back. You may have to sit there an wait until either the French army attacks or raises the siege as I can't remember whether sallying forth is an aggressive action or not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2014, 02:45:35 am

I doubt France will get excommunicated, considering the Pope is French. I've had this problem before, when my enemy manages to take over the Catholic church and proceeds to use the power to screw with me the entire time. I mean, I've completed every mission the Papal States have given me and even went on a Crusade, but now the Church hates me the instant France (who REALLY hate me) gets in power.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 01, 2014, 03:02:48 am

Playing the Pope game is a tiring one. Even though I don't remember exactly how it works, here's what I think.

The Pope doesn't really play sides. What I mean is; if you get a warning due to a war with another faction, the other side in the war also got a warning at the same time (He doesn't retain any loyalties to his previous faction, only giving that faction higher Pope-points). If you have low relation with the Pope that affects how quickly you'll get a warning if you engage in wars against another Christian faction. Fighting Christian factions lowers the Pope-points while completing the missions, gifting money and land and going on crusades increases points.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 01, 2014, 03:12:37 am

My hero's speciality means that enemy spells have a slightly better than even chance of being reflected at their own army. I mirrored the strongest single-target damage spell in the game to their largest stack.

Heroes of Might and Magic V. This is possibly the longest time I've spent semi-exclusively playing one game, but I just realised I haven't actually sunk that many actual hours into it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 01, 2014, 05:02:52 am

Well I was going to talk about lots and lots of advice on how to get out of the evil side of the Pope's favor but I realized that Sirus probably know's perfectly well about what direction he should go in order to get out of it and that I just like talking about Medieval II Total War.

Pretty sure I could go on for ages about my campaign and a few of my previous experiences.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2014, 10:13:12 am

What? No, I really don't. Please share.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 01, 2014, 10:16:54 am

Kill him.  You assasinate him, and then bribe the one who comes in.  20 gold for the first day!  Just dont get caught :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 01, 2014, 10:45:34 am

Quote from: pisskop on November 01, 2014, 10:16:54 am

Kill him.  You assasinate him, and then bribe the one who comes in.  20 gold for the first day!  Just dont get caught :P

Don't get caught? But I thought the Pope loved bribes!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on November 01, 2014, 11:07:49 am

I think in most of my games, played around normal/hard difficulty, I've found that I could ignore the Pope for the most part after I solidified my border defences. Excommunication causes unhappiness but that can be fixed by increasing garrisons by a unit or 2 and I've never found the A.I to be terribly aggressive to the point of completely overwhelming. Direct neighbours may send armies to attack but empires further away tended to leave me alone. (playing as Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Denmark).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FritzPL on November 01, 2014, 12:10:29 pm

No offence gents, but could you get the eu4 talk in to the eu4 thread?
@Sirus Sorry, I thought you were there for a minute :P

Totally owned on ARAM - a 10 min, clean 27-0 game.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2014, 12:15:46 pm

We aren't talking about any EU game, 4 or otherwise :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 01, 2014, 04:27:12 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 01, 2014, 10:13:12 am

What? No, I really don't. Please share.

Alright, prepare for rambling.

As someone who has spent two thirds of his current game and quite a few others on the nasty side of the Popes favor, all you can really do is hunker down and have a LOT of patience, the best way to get out of this hole is to go on a crusade and win it, so be prepared for one when it comes, it will boost your favor to the medium area, you should also have a ton of priests, as that means there's a bigger chance one of them will get enough piety to be promoted to cardinal, which means more control over who get's to be Pope, send them to the east if you have to, focusing on making cathedrals will help a lot as well, if your still having trouble, well, you can always bribe him, send a diplomat 'round to the Papel States and make a bunch of diplomatic deals and gifts, though this will have less effect then other actions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 01, 2014, 11:12:36 pm

After roughly a week, I achieved 100% in-game completion of SR4. All activities, quests collectables, DLC, etc. complete.

I'm also somewhat proud that it took less than 40 hours, so I'm still missing one 'gimme' achievement. Speed completion ahoy!

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Saints Row 4, in case you didn't notice the acronym. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on November 02, 2014, 01:01:49 am

Yeah! That's another third-page challenge beaten!
This one was for placing first in Smash Run with all fighters. I finally figured out how to see which fighters I still needed a victory with:
Games+More -> Vault -> Records -> Fighter Records -> Smash Run -> Victories -> "->"
Technically I haven't had any victories with the Mii Brawler or Mii Gunner yet, but only one of the three styles of Mii Fighter is necessary to get the achievement.

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Space Station Boron-43 Deck Security

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 02, 2014, 12:53:48 pm

Quote from: Mech#4 on November 01, 2014, 02:40:56 am

@Sirus: I'm pretty sure you can't be excommunicated because of the aggressive actions of another faction. If France keeps sieging you, they'll get excommunicated and you can siege them right back. You may have to sit there an wait until either the French army attacks or raises the siege as I can't remember whether sallying forth is an aggressive action or not.

Good news! Sallying forth to drive off a besieging army apparently does NOT count as a hostile action! It was a long, intense battle, and I lost my general to some stupidly-accurate flaming ballista shots, but my brave English soldiers killed or captured all but maybe 30 of the invading French. There was plenty of micromanaging involved, especially with the general's bodyguard which was my only mounted unit, and so it was a constant dance of trying to keep my longbowmen in range of the enemy army while attempting to keep their crossbowmen away from my army. Eventually all of my archers ran out of arrows, requiring the infantry to charge the pitiful remains of the French line.

I attempted to ransom back the captured soldiers, but France was unwilling to pay and thus the poor bastards had to be executed. Such is life in Medieval II: Total War.

...BAD NEWS!
France apparently does not have to worry about excommunication, since they're now laying siege to Paris. Which is my city. And the enforced peace by the Papal States is still in effect. Great. This is what killed my last game of Medieval II because I got sick and tired of having my hands tied behind my back constantly while my enemies could do whatever the hell they wanted.

GOOD NEWS AGAIN!
The army attacking Paris was small. Three units of armored sergeants and a unit of crossbowmen. Through careful micromanagement of a unit of mailed knights and five units of longbowmen, I managed to leave just a single soldier from each enemy unit alive at the cost of two knights. Those four survivors will return to their home villages and speak of the futility and horror of going into battle against England.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 02, 2014, 03:41:44 pm

I read all of that in the voice of Professor Farnsworth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 02, 2014, 05:44:44 pm

Finally got past Stage 21. And blazed a trail a few more levels while at it too.

Clickr (http://store.steampowered.com/app/45500/)

Despite looking and sounding like a little kid's game, that game is f'n brutal. Level 21 sucked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on November 02, 2014, 10:13:54 pm

The Payday gang visited Space Station 13. In a daring two pronged attack, all communications to Centcomm and escape were destroyed by Hoxton and Wolf who escaped in a hail of gunfire as security arrived too late. Too late to rescue the hostage they took, the captain! On the other side of the station Dallas and Chains blew their way into the vault and cleaned it out as security arrived. The hostage and other two heisters arrived and laid down heavy fire on the security team as they made their escape to their getaway shuttle. A series of attacks on the station continued on with more loot being gained each time until Wolf was taken into custody. Fifteen minutes of negotiations later, Wolf escaped on his own and a new deal was made. 5,000 credits for their captain. The deal went off without a hitch or a single shot, and the Payday Crew escaped to their safehouse with a new armory, tens of credits, a nuclear bomb and dozens of new and experimental research items.

Its Payday, fellas! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_e9GT9PqPQ)

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Urist McStation: SS13
(http://puu.sh/cBb8W/5bab715262.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on November 03, 2014, 09:50:19 am

So I recently got a NDS Shop game known as "Inazuma Eleven". Which is for those that don't know, a game about soccer where you play as a very Anime Japanese School team and guide them from zeros to heros with all the OVERTHETOP action and abilities that every Sport Anime has...
But onto how I "OWNED!" but I use that word very loosely...

So I was just reaching the end of the prologue where they face off against the top team for reasons that are unknown at the start for anime reasons. Its just basically a moment of "Heh, yeah right." Cause the team you face uses those said overthetop abilities and are like 10x your teams level so no matter what you do you lose, heck after they score the first goal its like, "lol lets go to the anime cutscene", and you see that they score another 19 goals before half time... BUT once again I am rambling. In fact, the moment I owned was the moment before this losing game...

One of our players was missing, luckily he was located inside the locker that just started moving at the end of the hallway, we open it to find him, one of the defenders and hes the character built like a wall, big and fat too. So your main character starts telling him to get a grip and not be scared of this team they will be facing when all of a sudden the Sumo Club comes rushing in and inform you that your defender doesn't want to be Soccer Club anymore, and is joining them. Of course he isn't and jumps back into the locker...

The Sumo Club then challenges you to a small 'Battle' of soccer, where if you are able to hit the goal (locker) they will leave him alone. So into the game I go, still getting my head around the system that I have only been allowed to mess with 3 times before hand. Its not going good, they get the ball and kick it past my guys, but of course they have no goal to score on so the AI just glitches out and kicks it at their goal. Back towards the locker. The goalie doesn't even stop it. It just rolls past him and taps it...

YOU WIN!!!

Yep, all planned...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 04, 2014, 08:52:23 am

During a Tribal Wars match, I knocked back a few rockets fired by one of those crews on the giant flying worms. One rocket landed in the worm's face and exploded, blowing the worm in half. I was using a Machine Flail, a fuckhuge heavy flail that proabably isn't supposed to be obtainable under normal circumstances, but I did and it came with a big singing stone attatched.

Strangely, the worm and its crew was still alive, despite the fact that worms are supposed to die if their mouth part is lost. All that was left was the crew basket and the part of the worm it was attatched to. The Machine Flail quickly fixed that.

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Hammerfight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 04, 2014, 05:22:07 pm

I think I had implied sex with a chick who turns into a dragon.

Hell yeah.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 04, 2014, 07:04:42 pm

...

wait wot

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 04, 2014, 07:18:11 pm

-SNIP EVERYTHING-

Yes I get it, I'm going to go and sudoku now, great dishonour upon family etc etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 04, 2014, 07:20:58 pm

bro he said fire emblem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on November 04, 2014, 07:21:20 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on November 04, 2014, 07:18:11 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 04, 2014, 05:22:07 pm

I think I had implied sex with a chick who turns into a dragon.

Hell yeah.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Wait... you mean

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Flemeth?

If so, that's fucked up.

Note: I've only played Origins. And not even finished. Not even halfway.
It's a difficult game okay.

Um. That's Dragon Age, not Fire Emblem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 04, 2014, 07:22:12 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on November 04, 2014, 07:20:58 pm

bro he said fire emblem.

...
...
fucking ell how can i even today
It's worse because I read that already and understood it fine, but apparently the second time it's fine to not at all remember the things that I read.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on November 04, 2014, 07:31:36 pm

Through a run of good luck and skill I finally managed to get together a crack team that all had the close combat specialist skill. Combined with the new heat ammo and laser gun for my shiv, the aliens didn't know what hit them in their latest terror mission. I even managed to save 10/18 of the civilians!

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XCOM: Enemy Within + Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 04, 2014, 09:08:09 pm

My last own? Spent 2+ hours updating my Sims LP (Shameless plug, see the bottom of my sig,) despite imgur not wanting to take my pictures. Update complete anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on November 04, 2014, 09:56:18 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 04, 2014, 05:22:07 pm

I think I had implied sex with a chick who turns into a dragon.

Hell yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Hell yeah NowixAvatar Master Race *High Five*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 04, 2014, 10:56:04 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 04, 2014, 07:04:42 pm

...

wait wot

This. This reaction makes the whole thing 100% worthwhile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on November 05, 2014, 12:38:30 am

I heard it's also possible

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to get one or two third-generation people, but I'm skeptical about that. Something about the Avatar's child having a child, and the Time-Travel shenanigans being weird.

Also, there's a chick who turns into a rabbit that you can get married to a suit of armor. >.>

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 05, 2014, 12:48:13 am

Quote from: flabort on November 05, 2014, 12:38:30 am

I heard it's also possible to get one or two third-generation people, but I'm skeptical about that. Something about the Avatar's child having a child, and the Time-Travel shenanigans being weird.

Also, there's a chick who turns into a rabbit that you can get married to a suit of armor. >.>

Only one. Morgan is linked to the Avatar, not any other character, so you could have Avatar get an S rank with anyone in the second generation, and have your only third generation character. Say...

Nowi x anyone = Nah
nah x avatar =  F Morgan

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 01:27:56 am

Should this shit be in spoiler tags? I haven't gotten very far in Awakening yet .__.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 05, 2014, 12:04:47 pm

220-225 MPH (pedal to metal + nitros), in an exotic-level Lamborghini, weaving through (and drifting through at 180 MPH) traffic like it wasn't there for a good 10-odd miles (about 3-odd minutes of effortless weaving at those speeds; Kudos to Wolfram Alpha for helping me (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+long+does+it+take+to+travel+10+miles+at+220MPH%3F)), through a fully-packed freeway, with and against traffic at a whim. Describe scary and crazy-awesome.

NFS: Hot Pursuit (Freedrive)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 05, 2014, 12:11:52 pm

Quote from: flabort on November 04, 2014, 09:56:18 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 04, 2014, 05:22:07 pm

I think I had implied sex with a chick who turns into a dragon.

Hell yeah.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Hell yeah NowixAvatar Master Race *High Five*

Mandatory Awkward Zombie (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=040813). ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 05, 2014, 04:03:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 01:27:56 am

Should this shit be in spoiler tags? I haven't gotten very far in Awakening yet .__.

What chapter?

17 here, hehehe. The EXPonential Growth DLC map is great for chea--er, training.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on November 05, 2014, 04:21:33 pm

I've been playing Binding of Isaac:  Rebirth a bit since it came out yesterday.  I've already beaten Mom's Heart 8-ish times, Stan twice, and beat Cathedral once.

Some of the combos you get in this version are absolutely ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on November 05, 2014, 06:32:13 pm

Azarazal ((whatever his name is)) with Brimstone, Spider bite, the thing that causes infection two and Guppy's head, with 9 volt batterys basically means I can clear the entire room every time, including bosses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on November 05, 2014, 06:42:22 pm

I had one yesterday where I was using Azazel, got Polyphemus, Tech 2, and a Sacred Heart.  I actually didn't have to use the regular shots after that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 09:16:20 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 05, 2014, 04:03:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 01:27:56 am

Should this shit be in spoiler tags? I haven't gotten very far in Awakening yet .__.

What chapter?

17 here, hehehe. The EXPonential Growth DLC map is great for chea--er, training.

6, maybe? I just discovered Marth's identity ._.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 05, 2014, 09:18:11 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 09:16:20 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 05, 2014, 04:03:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 01:27:56 am

Should this shit be in spoiler tags? I haven't gotten very far in Awakening yet .__.

What chapter?

17 here, hehehe. The EXPonential Growth DLC map is great for chea--er, training.

6, maybe? I just discovered Marth's identity ._.

Oooh, you've got a long way to go. Good luck--you'll need it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 05, 2014, 11:05:00 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 05, 2014, 09:18:11 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 09:16:20 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 05, 2014, 04:03:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 05, 2014, 01:27:56 am

Should this shit be in spoiler tags? I haven't gotten very far in Awakening yet .__.

What chapter?

17 here, hehehe. The EXPonential Growth DLC map is great for chea--er, training.

6, maybe? I just discovered Marth's identity ._.

Oooh, you've got a long way to go. Good luck--you'll need it.

I saved after losing some characters without unlocking their children. ;_;

Now I'm missing Laurent and Gerome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on November 06, 2014, 10:42:21 am

Friend challenged me to some random smash, random maps, 3stock, random chars.

After a few matches he gets Shulk, I get game and watch.   I have never so much as touched game and watch, Shulk is one of my friend's mains.

Somehow I destroy him.  I don't even lose a single stock, it's a slaughter.  He tells me to stick with G&W and he switches to DK, another of his mains.  Again it's a slaughter, I win with 2 stocks left and at 10%.

2 more matches of G&W vs his Lucinia(sp?) and  Finally Palutena.  Finally Palutena beats my G&W after a very close match.

He insists that G&W must just be op and he tells me to switch to my best main (Charizard) while he plays g&w and I destroy him again.   I'm not sure if I'm a secret Game and Watch wizard or if my friend is just really bad at dealing with him.  Either way I think that counts as an own.

SSB4 2DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on November 06, 2014, 12:46:01 pm

Grrr I can't wait till the WiiU version comes out so I can kick some ass with Game and Watch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 06, 2014, 05:46:02 pm

Quote from: Greiger on November 06, 2014, 10:42:21 am

2 more matches of G&W vs his Lucinia(sp?)

From what I can tell, Lucina is Marth, but a hair faster and with no abusable sweetspot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on November 06, 2014, 05:54:52 pm

I FINALLY MADE MY THIEF WORK.
YES
IT ONLY TOOK ABOUT 850 OR SO DAYS.
SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on November 06, 2014, 07:08:39 pm

Got the D6, the Negative, and beat the Lamb twice today.  It has been a good day insfoar.

Binding of Isaac:  Rebirth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 06, 2014, 08:14:43 pm

Quote from: Greiger on November 06, 2014, 10:42:21 am

Friend challenged me to some random smash, random maps, 3stock, random chars.

After a few matches he gets Shulk, I get game and watch.   I have never so much as touched game and watch, Shulk is one of my friend's mains.

Somehow I destroy him.  I don't even lose a single stock, it's a slaughter.  He tells me to stick with G&W and he switches to DK, another of his mains.  Again it's a slaughter, I win with 2 stocks left and at 10%.

2 more matches of G&W vs his Lucinia(sp?) and  Finally Palutena.  Finally Palutena beats my G&W after a very close match.

He insists that G&W must just be op and he tells me to switch to my best main (Charizard) while he plays g&w and I destroy him again.   I'm not sure if I'm a secret Game and Watch wizard or if my friend is just really bad at dealing with him.  Either way I think that counts as an own.

SSB4 2DS

Some people struggle with Game and Watch because of his jerky animations. He's actually incredibly light, one of the lightest characters in the game. Also, Judge has a small chance of OHKOing if it connects.

As to Lucina, yeah, she's a clone of Marth, but without the sweetspot and sourspots on her sword, so she's effectively identical. Babby's first Swordfighter, essentially. Also, jeeze, how much does Meta Knight suck these days?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 06, 2014, 09:57:38 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 06, 2014, 08:14:43 pm

Quote from: Greiger on November 06, 2014, 10:42:21 am

Friend challenged me to some random smash, random maps, 3stock, random chars.

After a few matches he gets Shulk, I get game and watch.   I have never so much as touched game and watch, Shulk is one of my friend's mains.

Somehow I destroy him.  I don't even lose a single stock, it's a slaughter.  He tells me to stick with G&W and he switches to DK, another of his mains.  Again it's a slaughter, I win with 2 stocks left and at 10%.

2 more matches of G&W vs his Lucinia(sp?) and  Finally Palutena.  Finally Palutena beats my G&W after a very close match.

He insists that G&W must just be op and he tells me to switch to my best main (Charizard) while he plays g&w and I destroy him again.   I'm not sure if I'm a secret Game and Watch wizard or if my friend is just really bad at dealing with him.  Either way I think that counts as an own.

SSB4 2DS

Some people struggle with Game and Watch because of his jerky animations. He's actually incredibly light, one of the lightest characters in the game. Also, Judge has a small chance of OHKOing if it connects.

As to Lucina, yeah, she's a clone of Marth, but without the sweetspot and sourspots on her sword, so she's effectively identical. Babby's first Swordfighter, essentially. Also, jeeze, how much does Meta Knight suck these days?

I dunno why, but I had something similar back in Brawl. I had trouble finding a main--Link was fun but sucked, I used to like Kirby but found him KO'ing too fast... then I got G&W and the whole thing changed. First all-star clearing. Game and Watch seems to be some kind of bizarrely sustainable crutch character if you can stand his not!animation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on November 06, 2014, 09:59:45 pm

Love Game & Watch.  Everything he does feels like he's trolling the other player.  :D  I like to toss bacon at people as they charge at me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 06, 2014, 10:06:13 pm

Nowadays, I main Robin 24/7 (FE:A for life), but also have a place in my heart for Ness, Mii Swordfighers and Brawlers, and Serial Killer Villager.

We should probably retreat to the Smash Bros thread and rerail the *own*age.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 07, 2014, 12:11:22 am

Got turned into a hog by Kirke; pulled a Vegeta and effortlessly beat the shit out of her while still under my baleful polymorph.

...then I pulled another Vegeta and ate the body.

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.  If I had realized the hogs would change back into humans I wouldn't have killed one of them.
Also I haven't actually seen that scene from DBZ, I just know of it because I binged the Tvtropes page in an effort to understand what the hell that show is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Darkling Wolf on November 07, 2014, 05:18:20 pm

Attempting to retake some points of a base, I'm on my Engi, charging towards a room, a MAX pops out, so I just start hosing the area down, he retreats into the room and I chase in after him because YOLO, immediately I get flashbanged and panic melee, which gets a kill, then I start spraying the area with gunfire and get two more kills, my vision clears and the MAX, an Engineer and a Light Assault are lying dead on the floor.

Then one of my teammates runs into the room and pops me in the back, killing me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 07, 2014, 05:20:49 pm

Quote from: The Darkling Wolf on November 07, 2014, 05:18:20 pm

Attempting to retake some points of a base, I'm on my Engi, charging towards a room, a MAX pops out, so I just start hosing the area down, he retreats into the room and I chase in after him because YOLO, immediately I get flashbanged and panic melee, which gets a kill, then I start spraying the area with gunfire and get two more kills, my vision clears and the MAX, an Engineer and a Light Assault are lying dead on the floor.

Then one of my teammates runs into the room and pops me in the back, killing me.

Ah, finally.

/me casts Meteor Swarm

(http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/thumbnails/meteor-strike.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 07, 2014, 05:40:16 pm

Quote from: The Darkling Wolf on November 07, 2014, 05:18:20 pm

Attempting to retake some points of a base, I'm on my Engi, charging towards a room, a MAX pops out, so I just start hosing the area down, he retreats into the room and I chase in after him because YOLO, immediately I get flashbanged and panic melee, which gets a kill, then I start spraying the area with gunfire and get two more kills, my vision clears and the MAX, an Engineer and a Light Assault are lying dead on the floor.

Then one of my teammates runs into the room and pops me in the back, killing me.

Welcome to Planetside 2, here's your complementary gaping hole in the back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on November 07, 2014, 06:01:10 pm

Playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Because my 3DS is somewhere in storage and I don't want to dig through and try to find the bloody rectangle) with my little brother. 5 stock, removing some of the items that annoy us, on the Bridge of Eldin(?). We both play our mains; Pikachu for him, Toon Link for me.

Normally, we have a pretty close match, though I tend to win simply because I'm better at surviving with higher percentages than him. However, this time around, I managed to beat him almost effortlessly. When we finished, I was at about 20% and only lost one stock. When he tried to use his headbutt attack, I stopped him with an arrow. Electric ball was met with some jumps because frankly electric ball isn't hard to dodge. Thunderbolt proved a bit trickier, since I'm probably overly fond of down stab, but I managed to get the timing down on air dodging through it, and used it to feint on several occasions. A number of quick grapples and side smashes later, he was down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SSBB, as stated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 08, 2014, 04:26:10 am

Playing original Smash Bros for N64 as Fox on Hard with one stock. I beat the first stages with full power, no miss and fighter stance (being in your "taunt" pose when the match ends). Then I get to Fox, who's usually a challenge on hard.

The first ~30secs of the match, we're just going back-and-forth on top of the Great Fox. Then an Arwing happened to fly by while I was in the middle of throwing CPU Fox. Fox lands on the Arwing, which then immediately zooms off the edge of the screen, taking my opponent with it. Unfortunately, there was no bonus for that clear. :(

Also, I got to Fighting Polygon Team and almost beat it. There were three guys left, one of which was off the screen with no hope of coming back. On one-stock Hard runs I usually game over on Metal Mario, so this is pretty good by my standards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 08, 2014, 02:34:48 pm

I started a new games after Chryslid-ocolypse.  first mission, I tell my guys to drop their weapons and they go in and punch a muton into unconciousness.  We then dragged it onto the ship and it is in our (wherever the hell we keep those things).

Aww yea.


Xenonauts.  You can tell Im starting to get bored with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2014, 01:09:44 pm

Got every character up to their max level, which unlocks a joke character. Getting him up to max level - difficult since he apparently gets no stat growth - unlocks an alternate ending where he takes credit for killing the final boss and also has the horrible implication that the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people were not reversed. Less of an own since I used a memory hack to level him up, but still.

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Dragonball Z: Legacy of Goku II on the GBA. In the normal ending, the heroes use the Dragonballs to resurrect all the people that Cell kills(except Goku) which doesn't happen in Hercule's ending, where he steals credit for beating Cell, which was really Gohan.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on November 09, 2014, 01:27:21 pm

Playing as Genghis Khan, and I'm about half way through the medieval era. The Ottomans are controlling large sources of iron (Which I have none of), several horses, and a very nice coast. In addition, they're very close to us, and are constantly insulting us. Train several composite bowmen, spearmen, and horsemen, led by a pair of great generals (One from adopting Honor, the other gotten the normal way). Declare war, about 15 turns later, the Ottoman Empire is completely annexed. Only lost a pair of horsemen, one unit of spearmen, and a catapult. Hell. Yes.

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Civ V. France doesn't like me too much now, but frankly I don't care.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MikaTheCrazy on November 09, 2014, 03:11:29 pm

Not my most recent, but deserves some mention. I had found a mongol rocket launcher (launches rockets that periodically split into more rockets) and managed to take it to the destroyer. By that piont it was rather underleveled, and I wasn't expecting too much out of it. I opened up the final boss fight by emptying a clip at the destroyer. This was also how I ended the final boss battle. Turns out a massive hitbox combined with low accuracy splitting rockets works quite well.

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Borderlands 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on November 09, 2014, 05:00:42 pm

Not exactly my own, but I was there for it.

I was a part of an eight person trial in Final Fantasy XIV. After our first wipe, a tank threw a tantrum and left. One healer couldn't dodge to save their life. Literally. The other healer was having some terrible connection issues. Not as bad as the lag that one of the DPS' had. They ended up disconnecting.

Despite all of this, the remaining tank, the lagging healer, and the one DPS who didn't end up dying managed to finish the fight on their own.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As mentioned, Final Fantasy XIV, in the Ultimate Ballad Trial

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 09, 2014, 10:02:03 pm

[Assuming tabletop games totally count for this thread.]

I was the Federation of Sol. Since I started with Cybernetics[Which gives +1 to Fighters], I decided that, rather then actually build the advanced ships, I'd just fill a bunch of transports with Fighters and swarm everything to death. The person right next to me was the Inferno something or other and their main special ability was starting with what is basically a Death Star. And he was aggro. So eventually, he had a huge fleet incorporating a Dreadnought, the Death Star, a transport full of Fighters and a few anti-Fighter ships. But, having foreseen his attack, I selected the Diplomacy card and used it on him, buying me another turn to construct more Fighters and move defenders into place. The next turn, HE selected the Diplomacy card and I thought I was screwed, because I needed one mini-turn to move my Fighters into place to make it a fair fight and the played with Diplomacy went second[Out of eight] and he would have attacked me before I was fully prepared. But then I noticed that the Initiative card[Which lets me go first] was still unpicked, so I grabbed that and ended up moving two more transports full of Fighters into the battlefield system. I was pretty confident of victory, since I had a card in my hand that made all 18 of my Fighters as powerful as his Dreadnought. But he countered it and it was down to luck. Several rolls later, both fleets were dead. His fleet, made up of awesome units designed to counter mine, died to my fleet made out of cheap Fighters made out of rocks and sticks and duct tape. And I was defending, so I kept my planets. I lost the game, but that was still awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition[A board game, not a computer game.]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on November 10, 2014, 10:19:48 am

TI is the best board game I've never had time to finish. Need to get some friends and a full day set aside for it some time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 10, 2014, 10:31:12 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on November 09, 2014, 10:02:03 pm

[Assuming tabletop games totally count for this thread.]

I was the Federation of Sol. Since I started with Cybernetics[Which gives +1 to Fighters], I decided that, rather then actually build the advanced ships, I'd just fill a bunch of transports with Fighters and swarm everything to death. The person right next to me was the Inferno something or other and their main special ability was starting with what is basically a Death Star. And he was aggro. So eventually, he had a huge fleet incorporating a Dreadnought, the Death Star, a transport full of Fighters and a few anti-Fighter ships. But, having foreseen his attack, I selected the Diplomacy card and used it on him, buying me another turn to construct more Fighters and move defenders into place. The next turn, HE selected the Diplomacy card and I thought I was screwed, because I needed one mini-turn to move my Fighters into place to make it a fair fight and the played with Diplomacy went second[Out of eight] and he would have attacked me before I was fully prepared. But then I noticed that the Initiative card[Which lets me go first] was still unpicked, so I grabbed that and ended up moving two more transports full of Fighters into the battlefield system. I was pretty confident of victory, since I had a card in my hand that made all 18 of my Fighters as powerful as his Dreadnought. But he countered it and it was down to luck. Several rolls later, both fleets were dead. His fleet, made up of awesome units designed to counter mine, died to my fleet made out of cheap Fighters made out of rocks and sticks and duct tape. And I was defending, so I kept my planets. I lost the game, but that was still awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition[A board game, not a computer game.]

You could write books about an epic clash such as that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 10, 2014, 10:34:55 am

Killed not one, not two, but three MAXes as a Light Assault. C4'd two who poked their heads through the door, then killed a third scattercannon MAX with my FA1 Barrage shotgun. Felt good to be me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nega on November 10, 2014, 12:02:51 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 10, 2014, 10:34:55 am

Killed not one, not two, but three MAXes as a Light Assault. C4'd two who poked their heads through the door, then killed a third scattercannon MAX with my FA1 Barrage shotgun. Felt good to be me.

Meteor Swarm?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 10, 2014, 12:19:35 pm

I'll save you from the meteors, Reudh! That sounds like Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 10, 2014, 10:49:07 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on November 10, 2014, 12:19:35 pm

I'll save you from the meteors, Reudh! That sounds like Planetside 2.

Thanks man, I knew I forgot something!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on November 11, 2014, 05:51:10 am

Playing on Tough difficulty as the Torians on a small map with three other random AIs. I made sure to reroll the map so that each player had access to roughly equal number of systems. Rushed out, grabbed six class 8+ planets near my territory, went on to build up basic industry and research before beelining for extreme colonization since there were a bunch of extreme planets nearby including a class 21, lest the Altarians grab them all.

Looked relatively quiet what with only Altarians (who still hasn't learned to build fleets before troop transports), Iconians and Terrans in the neighborhood. Terrans were the first ones out with military ships, so I followed suit. Researched what I needed for some basic small beam defenders and placed them in orbit around all my planets. Already I was well ahead of everyone else in military score. With the Torian abilities I quickly grew a massive tax base as I beelined two morale, one research and one military resources located in my territory. I could finance my whole military, full espionage while keeping my overall happiness in the 70s-80s and making 100 bc per turn.

Eventually the Terran started pushing more ships so I responded with finishing the laser techs as well as getting max durantium armor and upgrading all my defenders for 16000 bc (nothing I couldn't handle with my tax base), doubling my military score in one go. I also started working on medium sized ships and produced two of them before the Terrans declared war on the Iconians and the Altarians. Naturally, I was invited to join and so now it was Terran vs everyone else. Or more precisely, Terran vs me, since I was the only one with any significant military. Beforehand I had already mass produced troop transport, amassing to roughly 27 billion troops, and researched all invasion techs except for planetary defense techs.

Immediately I sent my one and only fleet of two medium sized ships against the nearest Terran fleet. We barely took a scratch. Their fleets couldn't even handle two 3 beam, 9 armor defenders on any of my planets. Knowing this war was a foregone conclusion, I focused instead on Gladstone, their class 27(!) planet which had their orbital command center. Wiped the few ships defending them and took it with three transports. My spies steal their industrial sector tech (I was still on xeno factories) and after pushing out my third medium sized ship, I captured Earth. The Terrans were no more. At this point, I had no real opposition left and called it a day.

Next up, Painful difficulty.

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Galactic Civilizations 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 11, 2014, 09:02:29 am

Right off the bat, I saw the Persians were cheating, throwing far too many troops at me so early in the game. Decided I would be better off turtling(Byzantine walls, yo') and building a Wonder. It worked fairly well, until they were sending swarms of War Elephants. Of course, since they started using elephants, I decide to use them, specifically theirs. While their elephants were saying "I'm gonna headbutt you!" to my walls, my monks were busy saying "Wololo! Join us!" to the elephants.

The only time they even breached the wall was when the managed to get half a dozen trebuchets firing on a single point before my Pikemen(Byzantine cheap) could stop them. They promptly charged their elephants and horse archers in, wasted the advantage by bypassing the Wonder and instead attacking a nearby Bombard Tower that had never fired a shot until just then. If they had attacked the Wonder they might have won. Instead I managed to save the Tower, too.

As the timer was running down, I saw a massive herd of elephants and trebuchets headed my way, so I built up a force to meet them. It was too late anyway, as the timer ran out before they crossed half the map.

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Age of Empires II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 11, 2014, 10:24:12 am

Led a lightning offense on frontier alongside my best friend with minisentries and ended up with the most points of everyone. I didn't even get that many sentry kills, the shotty is just a godly weapon. The next round I was red and blu didn't get the chance to capture the first point. Basically never died, either. Next round I was red again, blu pushed to our last point, but with me as a demo we managed to hold them back.

Oh and I also met a Pyro with exactly the same miscs as me. We did t the flip taunt while a scoot tauntkilled me.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 11, 2014, 02:56:47 pm

Kicked fuckin' ass on Carnival of Carnage as spy with a bit of Heavying.

Fuck yes.

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TF2.

HAPPY?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Octobomb on November 11, 2014, 04:04:44 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 11, 2014, 02:56:47 pm

Kicked fuckin' ass on Carnival of Carnage as spy with a bit of Heavying.

Fuck yes.

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/earth_impact_2844.jpg)
It's TF2, but meteors are fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 11, 2014, 06:58:40 pm

Spoiler: FE: A spoilers, specifically ENDGAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Endgame. I don't care who dies as long as it's not me, not Chrom, not Nowi, and is the Avatar of Grima. Henry, Nowi, and Anna all wear down some of his 80-some HP. One attack from Lon'qu and his Silver Sword "Grima's Bane" should bring him in the range for me to kill Grima, because not only do I want to land the final blow, I want to see the look on his face as he goes down.

Then, against all odds, Lon'qu gets a critical hit, saving me the trouble of introducing Mr. Grima here to my little friend, a forged-to-heck Aversa's Night renamed Tawa's Night. I take the final blow.

I. WIN. Even if I'm dead.

Bonus points for the fact that (further spoilers just in case) the ending scene is a replaying of the part where Chrom and the Shepherds find you, but with text changed and the emblem of Grima removed from your right hand when Chrom helps you up, meaning that you did survive. Net effect: I pull through and spend the rest of my days in peace with Nowi. All's well that ends well!

Fire Emblem: Awakening

EDIT: Oh, the fact that Chapter 23 was basically just one big "JUST AS PLANNED" probably counts, too, even if it was programmed into the game's story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on November 11, 2014, 07:26:24 pm

On a whim, my brother and me bought and downloaded Hyrule Warriors, even though we both agree it is NOT a LoZelda game and does NOT fit into the franchise or timeline, and that it is a fanfic instead.

Spent most of yesterday and today playing it together.

I just felled two Gohmas at once, literally at once because I lured them next to each other, shot both their eyes at once to make them vulnerable, and then did one of those amazing AoE magic-attacks. This killed one of them outright and triggered the weak spot attack on the other, which killed it.

Booyah, mission complete, lots of materials!

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Hyrule Warriors for those who missed it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 11, 2014, 08:34:25 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 06:58:40 pm

Spoiler: FE: A spoilers, specifically ENDGAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Endgame. I don't care who dies as long as it's not me, not Chrom, not Nowi, and is the Avatar of Grima. Henry, Nowi, and Anna all wear down some of his 80-some HP. One attack from Lon'qu and his Silver Sword "Grima's Bane" should bring him in the range for me to kill Grima, because not only do I want to land the final blow, I want to see the look on his face as he goes down.

Then, against all odds, Lon'qu gets a critical hit, saving me the trouble of introducing Mr. Grima here to my little friend, a forged-to-heck Aversa's Night renamed Tawa's Night. I take the final blow.

I. WIN. Even if I'm dead.

Bonus points for the fact that (further spoilers just in case) the ending scene is a replaying of the part where Chrom and the Shepherds find you, but with text changed and the emblem of Grima removed from your right hand when Chrom helps you up, meaning that you did survive. Net effect: I pull through and spend the rest of my days in peace with Nowi. All's well that ends well!

Fire Emblem: Awakening

EDIT: Oh, the fact that Chapter 23 was basically just one big "JUST AS PLANNED" probably counts, too, even if it was programmed into the game's story.

Now get yourself the DLC, which include superbosses that make Grima look like babby. (Specifically, my post-endgame units can one attack round kill C23 Grima, but struggle with Future Past Grima, and are hopelessly outclassed by the Apotheosis final boss.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 11, 2014, 08:39:14 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 11, 2014, 08:34:25 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 06:58:40 pm

Spoiler: FE: A spoilers, specifically ENDGAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Endgame. I don't care who dies as long as it's not me, not Chrom, not Nowi, and is the Avatar of Grima. Henry, Nowi, and Anna all wear down some of his 80-some HP. One attack from Lon'qu and his Silver Sword "Grima's Bane" should bring him in the range for me to kill Grima, because not only do I want to land the final blow, I want to see the look on his face as he goes down.

Then, against all odds, Lon'qu gets a critical hit, saving me the trouble of introducing Mr. Grima here to my little friend, a forged-to-heck Aversa's Night renamed Tawa's Night. I take the final blow.

I. WIN. Even if I'm dead.

Bonus points for the fact that (further spoilers just in case) the ending scene is a replaying of the part where Chrom and the Shepherds find you, but with text changed and the emblem of Grima removed from your right hand when Chrom helps you up, meaning that you did survive. Net effect: I pull through and spend the rest of my days in peace with Nowi. All's well that ends well!

Fire Emblem: Awakening

EDIT: Oh, the fact that Chapter 23 was basically just one big "JUST AS PLANNED" probably counts, too, even if it was programmed into the game's story.

Now get yourself the DLC, which include superbosses that make Grima look like babby. (Specifically, my post-endgame units can one attack round kill C23 Grima, but struggle with Future Past Grima, and are hopelessly outclassed by the Apotheosis final boss.)

What, do you think I have infinite money? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 11, 2014, 09:03:41 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 08:39:14 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 11, 2014, 08:34:25 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 06:58:40 pm

Spoiler: FE: A spoilers, specifically ENDGAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Endgame. I don't care who dies as long as it's not me, not Chrom, not Nowi, and is the Avatar of Grima. Henry, Nowi, and Anna all wear down some of his 80-some HP. One attack from Lon'qu and his Silver Sword "Grima's Bane" should bring him in the range for me to kill Grima, because not only do I want to land the final blow, I want to see the look on his face as he goes down.

Then, against all odds, Lon'qu gets a critical hit, saving me the trouble of introducing Mr. Grima here to my little friend, a forged-to-heck Aversa's Night renamed Tawa's Night. I take the final blow.

I. WIN. Even if I'm dead.

Bonus points for the fact that (further spoilers just in case) the ending scene is a replaying of the part where Chrom and the Shepherds find you, but with text changed and the emblem of Grima removed from your right hand when Chrom helps you up, meaning that you did survive. Net effect: I pull through and spend the rest of my days in peace with Nowi. All's well that ends well!

Fire Emblem: Awakening

EDIT: Oh, the fact that Chapter 23 was basically just one big "JUST AS PLANNED" probably counts, too, even if it was programmed into the game's story.

Now get yourself the DLC, which include superbosses that make Grima look like babby. (Specifically, my post-endgame units can one attack round kill C23 Grima, but struggle with Future Past Grima, and are hopelessly outclassed by the Apotheosis final boss.)

What, do you think I have infinite money? :P

B-but.

You're a wizard! Magic up some money, heretic!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on November 11, 2014, 09:06:10 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 08:39:14 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 11, 2014, 08:34:25 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 06:58:40 pm

Spoiler: FE: A spoilers, specifically ENDGAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Endgame. I don't care who dies as long as it's not me, not Chrom, not Nowi, and is the Avatar of Grima. Henry, Nowi, and Anna all wear down some of his 80-some HP. One attack from Lon'qu and his Silver Sword "Grima's Bane" should bring him in the range for me to kill Grima, because not only do I want to land the final blow, I want to see the look on his face as he goes down.

Then, against all odds, Lon'qu gets a critical hit, saving me the trouble of introducing Mr. Grima here to my little friend, a forged-to-heck Aversa's Night renamed Tawa's Night. I take the final blow.

I. WIN. Even if I'm dead.

Bonus points for the fact that (further spoilers just in case) the ending scene is a replaying of the part where Chrom and the Shepherds find you, but with text changed and the emblem of Grima removed from your right hand when Chrom helps you up, meaning that you did survive. Net effect: I pull through and spend the rest of my days in peace with Nowi. All's well that ends well!

Fire Emblem: Awakening

EDIT: Oh, the fact that Chapter 23 was basically just one big "JUST AS PLANNED" probably counts, too, even if it was programmed into the game's story.

Now get yourself the DLC, which include superbosses that make Grima look like babby. (Specifically, my post-endgame units can one attack round kill C23 Grima, but struggle with Future Past Grima, and are hopelessly outclassed by the Apotheosis final boss.)

What, do you think I have infinite money? :P

Dude, have you been grinding at all? Bet you're still like level ten or something. Probably just bluffing about the meteo--

/me gets meteor'd.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 11, 2014, 09:08:52 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on November 11, 2014, 09:06:10 pm

Dude, have you been grinding at all? Bet you're still like level ten or something. Probably just bluffing about the meteo--

Considering I lost half the army until I pulled my crap together around Chapter 8, I had to grind.

It's just I had to grind EXPonential Growth, which is basically an army of almost unarmed high-experience-yield Risen with no items other than claws and talons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 11, 2014, 09:26:04 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 09:08:52 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on November 11, 2014, 09:06:10 pm

Dude, have you been grinding at all? Bet you're still like level ten or something. Probably just bluffing about the meteo--

Considering I lost half the army until I pulled my crap together around Chapter 8, I had to grind.

It's just I had to grind EXPonential Growth, which is basically an army of almost unarmed high-experience-yield Risen with no items other than claws and talons.

I think that he might have been referring to the fact that you don't have infinite money to buy DLCs. As in, you're not grinding enough IRL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 11, 2014, 09:28:13 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on November 11, 2014, 09:26:04 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 11, 2014, 09:08:52 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on November 11, 2014, 09:06:10 pm

Dude, have you been grinding at all? Bet you're still like level ten or something. Probably just bluffing about the meteo--

Considering I lost half the army until I pulled my crap together around Chapter 8, I had to grind.

It's just I had to grind EXPonential Growth, which is basically an army of almost unarmed high-experience-yield Risen with no items other than claws and talons.

I think that he might have been referring to the fact that you don't have infinite money to buy DLCs. As in, you're not grinding enough IRL.

D'oh!

/me facepalms

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 12, 2014, 12:15:05 pm

Paying a round of aikido, I spent some time wrestling with some guy with us both standing up trying to push each other out of the ring, when I eventually got the upper hand and lifted him up off the ground, with a firm grip on his upper body. His wrist dismembered, and he was left with no grip on me, so I let go, but I could tell he wasn't going out of the ring when he landed. So I lowered my knees with my face and chest pointed downward, and my arms in the air behind me.

I sprang up into the air and gave him an extremely fast uppercut in the base of the neck, decapitating him. At the same time, I contracted my knees and hips, and while still in the air, I used my legs to kick his body away, and I landed standing on my hands.

I said GG after the round ended but he disconnected anyway.

I need to change my skin to something way more menacing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on November 12, 2014, 12:15:05 pm

Wow. I... uh, I actually... beat the flagship?

I honestly didn't expect that. I was running my new love called Red-Tail but I was worried about the perceived lack of suppressive fire or rather the damage output as whole. One basic laser from starting setup and mark I & II burst lasers + mark II hull laser. Ideally, I would want another burst, maybe even two to replace my hull laser. All mark II of course. But as it turned out... stage 2 flagship that utterly raped me on all other encounters was surprisingly easy. Well, I say easy, it was still a bit numb-chewing but I managed. And 3rd stage wasn't that hard either, couple of my crew members got dangerously low during initial teleport but I kept pounding them with my lasers and... wow.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FTL: AE but no AE material actually enabled. Also, easy difficulty but suck it, feels good, man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 12, 2014, 12:50:37 pm

That's.. eight shots, if I'm remembering right? Which isn't ideal, sure, but is by no means insufficient. That gives you at least one shot hitting every volley, unless you're really unlucky, and one shot or more per volley lets you wear down the shields until you're landing more hits, and then life is much easier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on November 12, 2014, 01:02:01 pm

I'm not sure but 8 sounds about right, yeah. I dunno, maybe I was just lucky? I do have a feeling like my shots were hitting a lot more than expected. What I also did is always wait till all my weapons were fully loaded and then shoot a full volley always at the same target (weapons with missiles as priority first stage, then drones + missiles 2nd and missiles + teleport + laser 3rd). Also, that augmentation that let's you shoot immediately out of FTL? Weapon pre-charge or something? I'm guessing that helped too, even if just at the very start of each round.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 12, 2014, 01:03:28 pm

Weapon pre-igniter is beast on the Red Tail. Full volley at the same target would be my choice in that situation as well, always at the missiles first. Did you have no boarders?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on November 12, 2014, 02:17:00 pm

I'm guessing flak is from the AE, right?

Spoiler: I'm spoiling this because it might count as FTL spoilers? Maybe? Also, slightly off-topic but give me a break, first FTL win and all that. (click to show/hide)

As for boarders - I took drone control out really quick on the second round (beam drone + assault drone spam is what usually killed me) so no problems there, in 3rd round first 2 guys and then shortly after 1 more teleported to me but with some careful micromanagement I successfully repealed them with 0 losses... I might have even killed them, iirc, seeing how I destroyed their teleport relatively quickly, I might have done that before they had chance to tele back, I'm not sure.

Also, one thing I've learned when I started playing FTL again - sensors. I mean wow, does one guy on sensor, even un-upgraded, change the game for me. It really helped me for instance to know when the guys on flagship's guns were dead, I could then just break the guns and focus on something else.

I really need to try a bio-beam build.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 12, 2014, 04:43:13 pm

Managed to win using the Escape Pod and spending ludicrous amounts of food (either unlocking the med pod) without pausing (unlocking the sanitary pod) and opening every door (drill pod) in the same run. That only leaves the Armory Pod (No dead heroes, which happened a lot) for future tries. All in all, quite happy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon of the Endless

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 12, 2014, 07:01:45 pm

After multiple iterations and messing up my rescue by doing things such as blowing up my soldier with artillery, blowing up civilians with artillery, and blowing up my artillery with orbital artillery, I managed to rescue a whole 67 people, which was enough to beat the level. Woo, responsibility for humanity!

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Atom Zombie Smasher
I bought it literally because it has 'Atom Smasher' in the title. It's actually pretty fun, didn't find out it was by Blendo until I played it. Also can someone explain their obsession with Buenos NUEVOS Aires? I'm not sure I get it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: gigaraptor487 on November 12, 2014, 07:05:22 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on November 12, 2014, 07:01:45 pm

After multiple iterations and messing up my rescue by doing things such as blowing up my soldier with artillery, blowing up civilians with artillery, and blowing up my artillery with orbital artillery, I managed to rescue a whole 67 people, which was enough to beat the level. Woo, responsibility for humanity!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Atom Zombie Smasher
I bought it literally because it has 'Atom Smasher' in the title. It's actually pretty fun, didn't find out it was by Blendo until I played it. Also can someone explain their obsession with Buenos Aires? I'm not sure I get it.

nuevos aires, and it is because many of blendo games previous games are set there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 12, 2014, 07:26:12 pm

AZS is so weird. I love the surfer tunes but it got very repetitive after a while (the music not the game, game is great). It's also really really haaaaard.. ;-;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 12, 2014, 11:10:23 pm

Took on a whole room of scrags, then suddenly a shambler (forgot about them being this early on Hard), and before I could catch my breath, another fucking shambler. I had a shotgun, super shotgun, and a regular nailgun. Took minimal damage, and conserved a surprising amount of ammo during the fight. Primarily because of the nailgun's surprising accuracy, relative to the crap accuracy of the (super) shotgun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quake, Hard Mode

I forgot how enjoyable it was to maul all kinds of beasts to ska music; since the soundtrack isn't available still.

Just as well, I just realized that I keep mental notes of how much damage my weapons do, and how many shots I need to clear a room. It's like my brain was playing DoomRL while I'm playing these classics. No wonder I owned those shamblers. I counted the amount of shots needed for the first one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 13, 2014, 08:23:35 am

Spoiler: Alien: Isolation spoilers possibly ahead. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK (click to show/hide)

I changed the game.

You see, when I first walked into that Medical section...

I was the prey. The hunted. No weapons, only distractions. Distract the beast, hide from it, run from it, delay it.

And then I found my first Molotov schematic. I put it together hiding under two tables, just after watching the Alien chase a man into hiding (The guy hid literally behind the NEXT table over, and I was close enough to touch either of them as the Alien killed him. I had to stay within like two feet of the Alien as I scurried around so it wouldn't see me.)

I waited, and checked my tracker. The Alien was scurrying around in the vents above me when it heard the insistent 'Beep---Beep--Beep-BeepBeepBeepBeep' of the tracker.

It dropped down into the room I was in, and sniffed at the body. It stood there for awhile, obviously knowing something strange was up here, but not knowing what it was. It finally took a couple steps, coming into my view. I watched it's legs pump twice, carrying it to the door. It's tail slithered along the ground right next to me.

And I look over to my friends in our darkened room and I say, "I have an idea..."

I hopped out of cover, whipped out the Molotov, and threw it directly into the center of the Alien's back, in the middle of the four 'coolant towers' (That's what I think of them as. The big spire things.) The ensuing burst of flame engulfed the monster, and I followed it as it ran from me, screeching shrilly.

The beast in my mind twisted it's face into a feral grin. Afraid of fire, are you? I'll teach you to fear me...

Now I am no longer the hunted. I am not the prey. We are warriors, and this is a battle. War I can do, motherfucker. That sneaking around hiding from you like a little bitch thing? Yeah, I was only doing that until I found how to fight you on a level playing field. 

Then I found Taylor and Samuels again, with a Marshal named Waits and some unnamed deputy. We went to the Marshal's offices, and I received a flamethrower.

That beast in my mind? It howled with delight when I saw I had 500 flamer fuel.

Yes. This is war now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 13, 2014, 09:13:35 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on November 13, 2014, 08:23:35 am

Spoiler: Alien: Isolation spoilers possibly ahead. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK (click to show/hide)

I changed the game.

You see, when I first walked into that Medical section...

I was the prey. The hunted. No weapons, only distractions. Distract the beast, hide from it, run from it, delay it.

And then I found my first Molotov schematic. I put it together hiding under two tables, just after watching the Alien chase a man into hiding (The guy hid literally behind the NEXT table over, and I was close enough to touch either of them as the Alien killed him. I had to stay within like two feet of the Alien as I scurried around so it wouldn't see me.)

I waited, and checked my tracker. The Alien was scurrying around in the vents above me when it heard the insistent 'Beep---Beep--Beep-BeepBeepBeepBeep' of the tracker.

It dropped down into the room I was in, and sniffed at the body. It stood there for awhile, obviously knowing something strange was up here, but not knowing what it was. It finally took a couple steps, coming into my view. I watched it's legs pump twice, carrying it to the door. It's tail slithered along the ground right next to me.

And I look over to my friends in our darkened room and I say, "I have an idea..."

I hopped out of cover, whipped out the Molotov, and threw it directly into the center of the Alien's back, in the middle of the four 'coolant towers' (That's what I think of them as. The big spire things.) The ensuing burst of flame engulfed the monster, and I followed it as it ran from me, screeching shrilly.

The beast in my mind twisted it's face into a feral grin. Afraid of fire, are you? I'll teach you to fear me...

Now I am no longer the hunted. I am not the prey. We are warriors, and this is a battle. War I can do, motherfucker. That sneaking around hiding from you like a little bitch thing? Yeah, I was only doing that until I found how to fight you on a level playing field. 

Then I found Taylor and Samuels again, with a Marshal named Waits and some unnamed deputy. We went to the Marshal's offices, and I received a flamethrower.

That beast in my mind? It howled with delight when I saw I had 500 flamer fuel.

Yes. This is war now.

I haven't played Alien: Isolation or survival horror games at all but I think you ended up missing the point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 13, 2014, 10:23:49 am

For some of us, that is the point of survival horror.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on November 13, 2014, 10:25:21 am

I agree with Hans and MZ, the appropriately human response to survival horror is to snap and kill the damn thing.  I am an apex predator, not a meal on legs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on November 13, 2014, 11:32:20 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on November 12, 2014, 11:10:23 pm

Quake, Hard Mode

I forgot how enjoyable it was to maul all kinds of beasts to ska music; since the soundtrack isn't available still.

quake without the soundtrack?? this is borderline blasphemy!

read this (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119489135) and get dat music

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 13, 2014, 01:38:11 pm

Quote from: TripJack on November 13, 2014, 11:32:20 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on November 12, 2014, 11:10:23 pm

Quake, Hard Mode

I forgot how enjoyable it was to maul all kinds of beasts to ska music; since the soundtrack isn't available still.

quake without the soundtrack?? this is borderline blasphemy!

read this (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119489135) and get dat music

Took some effort to find, but these sound packs (http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/sounds/) are still as funny as when I first used them. MST3k and Simpsons are always a good source of entertainment for this game.

Grab a key, inevitable enemies spawn, "Krusty: GUESS WHO, FATBOY!!!", die from laughter and enemy fire, "Mr. Burns: What a disgraceful display...". Also Homer going crazy as the sounds for melting in acid or lava is a funny way to get killed.

Just as well, hearing rotwilers scream "Snausages!" or hearing mooks say "Again?" as you kill them is always pretty funny, as well as the commentary for collecting loot. Like ammo pickups: "HUZZAH!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 13, 2014, 03:35:19 pm

Beat All-Star mode with Villager and like almost 200% damage.

Bloody hell, kid. You're a friggin' psycho.

Super Smash Bros. 4 3DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 13, 2014, 08:44:09 pm

Quote from: greatorder on November 13, 2014, 11:22:18 am

The thing about humans is we're designed to be prey- after all, we don't really have claws, fangs or anything, but instead we went 'fuck that' and armed ourselves with spears and such.

What.

No, this is the exact opposite of how it worked. Humans are predators. We have binocular vision, omnivorous dentition, we're skilled at endurance hunting and working in packs, we have increased intelligence to anticipate prey behavior... The list goes on. We don't have big fangs or claws, yeah, but we are actually quite dangerous with our blunt striking fists if we choose to be. 

Edit:
Sorry, I misspoke. Humans are the apex predator of earth. We are outdone in detail, but we shine with our general ability. We are so predatory that we eat EVERYTHING living. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 13, 2014, 08:49:08 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on November 13, 2014, 08:44:09 pm

we are actually quite dangerous with our blunt striking fists if we choose to be. 

Indeed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 13, 2014, 09:09:07 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on November 13, 2014, 08:44:09 pm

Quote from: greatorder on November 13, 2014, 11:22:18 am

The thing about humans is we're designed to be prey- after all, we don't really have claws, fangs or anything, but instead we went 'fuck that' and armed ourselves with spears and such.

What.

No, this is the exact opposite of how it worked. Humans are predators. We have binocular vision, omnivorous dentition, we're skilled at endurance hunting and working in packs, we have increased intelligence to anticipate prey behavior... The list goes on. We don't have big fangs or claws, yeah, but we are actually quite dangerous with our blunt striking fists if we choose to be. 

Edit:
Sorry, I misspoke. Humans are the apex predator of earth. We are outdone in detail, but we shine with our general ability. We are so predatory that we eat EVERYTHING living. :P

We're not just skilled at endurance hunting, we're one of the only animals that can cope with running long distances in 40C+ temperatures without stopping. It's partly why we were so successful.

As far as mammals go, we're unusually slow, but have unusually good endurance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 14, 2014, 04:10:58 pm

Quote from: greatorder on November 14, 2014, 03:35:32 pm

I invite you to have a match with Hyenas. I never said we weren't predators, I just said we were practically made to be prey.

As it is, Hyenas would be able to murder most people. They are faster than us at a short distance, can easily tear a number of wounds in us and such. Lions, too. And tigers...

If we're unarmed, once a predator comes at us there's little hope unless we can climb a tree or we've done a fair bit of martial arts training or boxing or the like. We can hunt most animals, but some can hunt us. And they can be rather good at it.

Hyenas don't exactly match up well to a pride of lions, either, but that doesn't make them "made to be prey".  Remember, adaptation of predators is not in itself intended to fight off other predators, but rather to collect and obtain food from prey animals.  Saying something is adapted to be a predator does not mean it can take on any other predator and win, but rather that it can successfully take on prey in an energy-efficient manner.  Baleen whales are adapted to predation, in their own fashion; the fact that sharks can take them on means nothing to that.

Also, are you talking about a single human, or a group of humans?  Humans adapted to modern life in which physical demands are very different in both style and degree from cursorial hunting, or those humans that still pursue active bush hunting in the cursorial style we would have used in the hunter-gatherer phase?  Because, to illustrate the importance of this question, if you take a single, naked human straight out of New York City and drop them in the bush, surrounded by a cackle of hungry hyenas, they will probably do about as well as a single hyena, declawed and detoothed, dropped in the middle of a school of hungry sharks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 14, 2014, 06:14:46 pm

Pretty sure the plural of shark is "frenzy".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 14, 2014, 06:59:25 pm

I derailed the thread. I apologize. Can we rerail this and take this discussion to the WTF thread? :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on November 15, 2014, 10:30:36 am

Assassin's Creed Unity - Rift Runs...
So a Rift Run is basiclly a timed collectathon, you need to run around collecting data until you have enough to locate a target that appears, reach them then finally get a nice score and get to the exit before time runs out. Its my second one, suddenly surprised that I wasn't alone and was rushing around chasing the second ghost player thinking it was the target, after realizing my mistake I rushed over to the target then started heading to the exit. In typical AC parkour problems of getting a little stuck in going down the timer starts to tick down to the 10sec count down. I start scrambling to the exit...
I make it out in an epic feeling "Your running out of time, 3, 2, 1!!!" Escaping on the 1....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on November 15, 2014, 11:21:22 pm

I remember one time wiping out a horde in cataclysm dda.

wearing a suit, a top hat, and a monocle, wielding a katana. The dapper swordsman. huehuehue

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 16, 2014, 12:02:08 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on November 15, 2014, 11:21:22 pm

I remember one time wiping out a horde in cataclysm dda.

wearing a suit, a top hat, and a monocle, wielding a katana. The dapper swordsman. huehuehue

You should've used a rapier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on November 16, 2014, 12:07:27 am

Quote from: blazing glory on November 16, 2014, 12:02:08 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on November 15, 2014, 11:21:22 pm

I remember one time wiping out a horde in cataclysm dda.

wearing a suit, a top hat, and a monocle, wielding a katana. The dapper swordsman. huehuehue

You should've used a rapier.

I'll make sure to do that next time. c:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 16, 2014, 02:15:49 pm

Obtained a pokemon with pokerus.

Hell. Fuckin'. Yisssssss

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Pokémon Y

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 16, 2014, 04:00:07 pm

Whats the best Pokemons game with the least craziness?  You could substitute 'best' with 'hardest', and 'craziness' with 'weird fashion shows' or 'stupidly powerful steel magic'.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 16, 2014, 04:32:36 pm

Probably HeartGold and SoulSilver? Maybe? I don't know about lack of powerful steel magic, but there's a shitton of legendaries to collect and there's no weird fashion shows :P

Actually, I don't think there has been for several games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 16, 2014, 06:26:39 pm

I've never gotten Pokérus.

I have gotten at least one shiny in every game I have, though. That's something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 16, 2014, 08:24:22 pm

Quote from: pisskop on November 16, 2014, 04:00:07 pm

Whats the best Pokemons game with the least craziness?  You could substitute 'best' with 'hardest', and 'craziness' with 'weird fashion shows' or 'stupidly powerful steel magic'.

Heart Gold/Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS, though it's hard to find except online. X/Y is by far the easiest. B2/W2 have an option to set the difficulty higher, but you need to talk with the opposite cartridge to do so. All of them but X/Y have 'weird fashion shows', and from Gen IV onwards, Steel type gets all sorts of cool magic-y moves like:

- Flash Cannon (Solid option for a lot of steel type users of Sp.Atk)
- Mirror Shot (Damage + 30% chance to reduce enemy accurac)
- Doom Desire (Future Sight, but Steel, and more powerful. Only Jirachi and Smeargle have access to it, though.)
- Gyro Ball (Slower you are, more damage you deal. Very good for steel types, who with some exceptions are very slow, especially Curse users like Ferrothorn from Gen V.)
- Magnet Bomb (Swift, but Steel type. 60 power, cannot miss).
- Metal Burst (Like Counter and Magic Coat rolled into one, but doesn't force the user to go last so it doesn't work as reliably as counter or magic coat. Deal 2x the damage you just received back to the foe.)

Quote from: Tawarochir on November 16, 2014, 06:26:39 pm

I've never gotten Pokérus.

I have gotten at least one shiny in every game I have, though. That's something.

I got Pokerus from Wonder Trade, and I'm trying to spread it to some of my other pokemon. I've only ever gotten two shinies on my own though. Shiny Machop (that became a Machamp) in Platinum, and a Shiny Delibird in X.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 16, 2014, 09:51:45 pm

Quote from: Reudh on November 16, 2014, 08:24:22 pm

Quote from: pisskop on November 16, 2014, 04:00:07 pm

Whats the best Pokemons game with the least craziness?  You could substitute 'best' with 'hardest', and 'craziness' with 'weird fashion shows' or 'stupidly powerful steel magic'.

Heart Gold/Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS, though it's hard to find except online. X/Y is by far the easiest. B2/W2 have an option to set the difficulty higher, but you need to talk with the opposite cartridge to do so. All of them but X/Y have 'weird fashion shows', and from Gen IV onwards, Steel type gets all sorts of cool magic-y moves like:
-snip-

"Weird fashion shows"? The only real one I can think of was B2W2 unless you count the odd one-off strangely-dressed character, which is basically a series staple.

As for being the hardest, if you're willing to emulate it or have a Game Boy and a million bucks, Red/Blue were from back in the day when Nintendo was still coming off of its Nintendo Hard surge (think LTTP and Super Mario World-era) and had gems like how your opponents never run out of PP and the ease of accidentally activating a minor bug.

Best, in my opinion, depends on a few factors. If you like the "subtler" qualities of a game, like music and the real meaning of the story, BW is the way to go. If you're looking for the game's feel or graphics, I'd have to recommend X/Y or the Hoenn games (note: I can't say anything about the up-and-coming ORAS [DAWN OF THE NEGATIVE SECOND DAY], but Gen III was pretty solid.) If you're a sucker for gameplay, I'd have to go with Reudh on HGSS.

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Daily OWNAGE:
Thanks, DLC map! Money won't be a problem anymore!

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Fire Emblem: Awakening. Running low on cash isn't fun, so I bough Golden Gaffe or whatever it was called and afterward recruited all these people I Spotpassed or something after buying spare Silver and Brave weapons for everybody (and new dragonstones for my four Manaketes.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 17, 2014, 10:25:45 am

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Quote from: Tawarochir on November 16, 2014, 09:51:45 pm

"Weird fashion shows"? The only real one I can think of was B2W2 unless you count the odd one-off strangely-dressed character, which is basically a series staple.

As for being the hardest, if you're willing to emulate it or have a Game Boy and a million bucks, Red/Blue were from back in the day when Nintendo was still coming off of its Nintendo Hard surge (think LTTP and Super Mario World-era) and had gems like how your opponents never run out of PP and the ease of accidentally activating a minor bug.

Best, in my opinion, depends on a few factors. If you like the "subtler" qualities of a game, like music and the real meaning of the story, BW is the way to go. If you're looking for the game's feel or graphics, I'd have to recommend X/Y or the Hoenn games (note: I can't say anything about the up-and-coming ORAS [DAWN OF THE NEGATIVE SECOND DAY], but Gen III was pretty solid.) If you're a sucker for gameplay, I'd have to go with Reudh on HGSS.

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I meant the tournaments where you breed them for their cuteness.

The old ones are harder than the new ones :?  Thats mildly amusing to consider, but I supposed that based on your loadout it could be.  My only memorably hard moments in Red or Blue were the grind that was Silphco, occasionally Misty, and always Victory Road.  My party was not equipped to repeated kill Gravellers who were typically at my own level.  That said, the elite four was famous for one-shotting a few of my peoples.  Not Gary tho.

Thanks, tho.  I actually have the originals somewhere, and I may get around to trying the new ones.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 17, 2014, 10:35:24 am

EDIT: My apologies; I didn't realize this is the "own" thread and not the Pokemon thread.  Content removed to avoid a possible derail.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 17, 2014, 09:12:50 pm

Quote from: pisskop on November 17, 2014, 10:25:45 am

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Quote from: Tawarochir on November 16, 2014, 09:51:45 pm

"Weird fashion shows"? The only real one I can think of was B2W2 unless you count the odd one-off strangely-dressed character, which is basically a series staple.

As for being the hardest, if you're willing to emulate it or have a Game Boy and a million bucks, Red/Blue were from back in the day when Nintendo was still coming off of its Nintendo Hard surge (think LTTP and Super Mario World-era) and had gems like how your opponents never run out of PP and the ease of accidentally activating a minor bug.

Best, in my opinion, depends on a few factors. If you like the "subtler" qualities of a game, like music and the real meaning of the story, BW is the way to go. If you're looking for the game's feel or graphics, I'd have to recommend X/Y or the Hoenn games (note: I can't say anything about the up-and-coming ORAS [DAWN OF THE NEGATIVE SECOND DAY], but Gen III was pretty solid.) If you're a sucker for gameplay, I'd have to go with Reudh on HGSS.

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I meant the tournaments where you breed them for their cuteness.

The old ones are harder than the new ones :?  Thats mildly amusing to consider, but I supposed that based on your loadout it could be.  My only memorably hard moments in Red or Blue were the grind that was Silphco, occasionally Misty, and always Victory Road.  My party was not equipped to repeated kill Gravellers who were typically at my own level.  That said, the elite four was famous for one-shotting a few of my peoples.  Not Gary tho.

Thanks, tho.  I actually have the originals somewhere, and I may get around to trying the new ones.

Yeah, X/Y have made it drastically easier to level to prevent the "one lead mon to rule them" syndrome the older games suffered from, but that of course makes things very easy when all six of your mons are capable enough to fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 17, 2014, 11:12:38 pm

I was following this french sounding dude with a hatchet around and smashing the corpses he created so they couldn't rise again while looting their stuff. And then a horde of zombies appeared and slowly ripped him limb from limb. I did a bit of hit and run with my KNIFE SPEAR, but I only took out a few and had to retreat inside a house to avoid getting swarmed. I quickly ran down into the basement to catch my breath. After fumbling around in the dark, I found a flashlight, which I turned on. And then I looked around. The first thing I saw was a top hat. Which I promptly wore, because if I was going to die, I was going to die in STYLE. And then I noticed a rapier. The best piercing weapon in the game. Several leaps and bounds ahead of my humble KNIFE SPEAR in the tech tree. So I picked it up. Went back up the stairs. And held off an entire horde of ~20 zombies in the entrance to the bathroom. With a beginning character with low skills. Sure I needed to limp back home and sleep for eight hours for my Fast Healing to come into effect before I was fit for anything else. But I'd say this is MOST DEFINITELY an own of the highest caliber.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
New stable version! Try it!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nahere on November 18, 2014, 07:10:00 am

Spoiler: Nords FTW (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Qnjf3dT.jpg)

Mount and Blade: Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on November 18, 2014, 10:05:41 am

Anytime housecals ae involved, owning is involved on at least one side.  Unless you can kill them with surprise knights and sharpshooters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on November 19, 2014, 04:28:34 am

FINALLY killed Artorias.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 19, 2014, 12:55:09 pm

Woke up, missed the bus. Now I'm not in shape so I don't usually do anything that can be described as sprinting, but damn if I didn't show a pretty impressive hustle when I caught the bus at its next stop. Then, half-asleep, I completely understood Math class and caught the key points of the lecture (I had the presence of mind to write them out as fully as possible).

Real Life. Pretty shit game but moments like this make it worth it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on November 19, 2014, 03:57:22 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 19, 2014, 12:55:09 pm

Woke up, missed the bus. Now I'm not in shape so I don't usually do anything that can be described as sprinting, but damn if I didn't show a pretty impressive hustle when I caught the bus at its next stop. Then, half-asleep, I completely understood Math class and caught the key points of the lecture (I had the presence of mind to write them out as fully as possible).

Real Life. Pretty shit game but moments like this make it worth it.

Ugh, there's so much grinding in it. And the tutorial is so bloody long!

At least the graphics are pretty good, too. And some of the minigames are pretty awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on November 19, 2014, 03:59:32 pm

I learned to fly by creating a clone of my self in the air and then swapping my soul into him repeatedly, while my old mindless husk of a body plummeted downwards to death.

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Swapper

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 19, 2014, 05:26:55 pm

Quote from: Levi on November 19, 2014, 03:59:32 pm

I learned to fly by creating a clone of my self in the air and then swapping my soul into him repeatedly, while my old mindless husk of a body plummeted downwards to death.

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Swapper

I can imagine a superhero comic made about that.

"He leaves corpses everywhere he goes. ...Well, his own corpses, that is."

Also brings a new meaning to the song "It's Raining Men" (http://youtu.be/l5aZJBLAu1E).

That reminds me. I managed to completely loot the temple in Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior. So easy to miss a bullet case or a stray blood splat. However, I got all the cash I could find. I also managed to stuff my personal footlocker into a furnace and get it incinerated. Really tight fit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 19, 2014, 06:08:47 pm

Quote from: Caroline on November 19, 2014, 05:58:12 pm

Turns out, prisoners are a great form of revenue.

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Mount & Blade.

I just loot villages.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silent_Thunder on November 19, 2014, 06:23:29 pm

22 men entered the pitch, 9 were there at the end. The entire 11 man goblin team had been eliminated from the field.

Final Score: Humans - 4 | Goblins - 0

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Blood Bowl:LE - Online Open Leagues

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on November 19, 2014, 07:07:48 pm

Step one: win the crusade for Jerusalem as peaceful OPM Venice.

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(http://i.imgur.com/jAEYBug.jpg)

Step two: piss off the entire muslim world. Twice.

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(http://i.imgur.com/8eCaeEt.jpg)

Step three: ? ? ?

Spoiler: Come at me bro. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/GbRx5uE.jpg)

Step four: profit.

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(http://i.imgur.com/5JdltoJ.jpg)

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CK2. Twenty years and probably a good three hundred thousand dead. Of which only one fourth were mine or my allies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on November 22, 2014, 03:23:49 am

Out-healed the healer. Resurrected three allies for every raise they did. Out DPS'd the DPS. The only thing I couldn't do is tank.

I single-handedly saved us at the boss fight. Everyone died but me, but I was able to kite the boss, apply damage-over-time abilities, and resurrect all three of my allies.

And I still didn't get any commendations. Probably because I ninja'd most of the loot.

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Final Fantasy XIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on November 22, 2014, 10:17:11 am

Quote from: greatorder on November 16, 2014, 05:47:40 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 16, 2014, 02:15:49 pm

Obtained a pokemon with pokerus.

Hell. Fuckin'. Yisssssss

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Pokémon Y

I remember getting pokerus.

'Tis a fun disease.

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(http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/140522.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 22, 2014, 11:51:51 am

I've never had a pokemon with pokerus :c

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 22, 2014, 12:09:55 pm

I've only ever seen it come up twice in my Omicron run.

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One pointless NPC mentions she's studying it, and there's a Mystery Gift item that gives access to a Corsola that has it, though I never bothered to catch it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on November 22, 2014, 01:50:09 pm

So some spies were wrecking havoc on my team on a round of pl_goldrush so I decided to switch to pyro for the next round and went on a particularly potent pyro rampage, especially on the enemy spies. One of the spies (who relied on the spycicle/deadringer) became very upset and switched to my team to try to get me kicked as a hacker. I thanked him for the compliment (he rage quit after that, ha!). Team Fortress 2 of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 22, 2014, 02:34:24 pm

Quote from: Covenant on November 22, 2014, 01:23:41 pm

Jumped straight over Diamond and got the Angelic Lightfoot badge (well, I got the Diamond one at the same time, obviously)!

Which entailed running through all of Phobos, Deimos, and Hell itself with just two inventory slots and being prevented from killing anything in melee. On Nightmare!

Managed to get my Gunrunner trait shortly after entering Hell, which was piles of fun on a build focused on speed. Running around a room in a mad circle as you spray buckshot at everything you see with an elephant gun never gets old.

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DoomRL

Noice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 22, 2014, 10:23:29 pm

Quote from: Covenant on November 22, 2014, 01:23:41 pm

Jumped straight over Diamond and got the Angelic Lightfoot badge (well, I got the Diamond one at the same time, obviously)!

Which entailed running through all of Phobos, Deimos, and Hell itself with just two inventory slots and being prevented from killing anything in melee. On Nightmare!

Managed to get my Gunrunner trait shortly after entering Hell, which was piles of fun on a build focused on speed. Running around a room in a mad circle as you spray buckshot at everything you see with an elephant gun never gets old.

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DoomRL

Covenant confirmed for scout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 22, 2014, 10:45:58 pm

After knowing each other for less than 48 real-life hours, my look-alike and his sweetheart got married! Take that, compatibility tester! "Impossibly Odd Couple" my ass.

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Tomodachi Life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2014, 12:37:54 pm

Flew with far more grace than I'm normally capable of. Got one of my oppoenents to throw a knife at the back of the other, then smacked the next knife back into him. They tried to jump me together, to which I sent one flying, disarmed the other, then landed a perfect smash on the first one. The next pair, one of them tried to throw a Siege Bomb, only for it to blow up in his face.

At the end of the match, I managed to score some extra throwing blades plus a few pieces of Imperial armor, plus a badass curved axe as a reward.

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Hammerfight. Now at the rank of 1st Seneschal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on November 25, 2014, 04:57:25 am

I descended to the 16th depth of Hell, my trusty magic spear in hand and my father's spinning bash technique memorized, I retrieved the Golden Fleece of Yendor and escaped to the surface to live out my days as the King.

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Hoplite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 25, 2014, 06:51:35 pm

5 Podships, all destroyed in a matter of a few minutes (less than a minute each) with my flagship alone. Many close calls, but I defeated that quintet flawlessly. Not a single crew member lost.

Notable Close Calls:
-Almost hit by 3 plasma blasts simultaneously
-Almost hit the planet, only to gravity slingshot off it, and get an advantage over the enemy, obliterating them by the 3rd shot (first 2 were defensive shots, last one offensive)
-By next round, hit an asteroid, making it absorb the shock, crashing into the nearby planet I almost crashed into, only to intentionally orbit myself another slinghot
-Chase a Mycon Podship while it's doing a drive-by on me, only to bean it before it had a shot I couldn't block
-One more quick-draw fly-by shooting that I was quicker on the draw with, ending the battle
-By the end of the final ship's destruction, I was mere pixels away from 2 plasma shots nearly hitting me

Posted this just after the battle. Those Mycon were a trip.

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Starcon 2: The Ur-Quan Masters (HD graphics mod)

I took a pic of my ship's current setup earlier. Still got it for this battle.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hVdjPGN6Dkw/VGkU4dQoO4I/AAAAAAAACaA/08r2QZmIR3I/s1024/Dreadnought%2520Destroyer.png)

There's a reason I'm so good at ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS! I'm used to frantic and physics-based combat like this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on November 26, 2014, 03:56:49 am

Ohhhh boy, I am Gaming this system and this isn't your mommas gaming where you get extra lives or something, no siree.
I am finding secret pathways, exploiting enemy routines, min maxing like a boss and... Actually, I'll give you an example.

In the first mission, there is a sunken ship around where the informant is and you can lock pick that hatch open to get some cool stuff, however, it does not, in fact have a infinite durability, so you can break it open, but it's the first mission, where could you possibly get that amount of firepower?

Well, there are a couple explosive barrels scattered around the area, and while they normally glitch and become some kind of immovable object once above water, you can pretty much drag it around freely underwater otherwise, so (I have the shifter mod installed, by the way) I chucked a knife at it from the perfect distance to hit it and not get hurt and BAM.

I got access to stuff I haven't used ever since because I'm on a non lethal run, and still have the sawed off gumming up my inventory knowing full well I can't ever sell it.

I'm running out of space to put all my lockpicks and multi tools and i still refuse to use them!

I HAVE 15 MED KITS WHICH I HAVE NEVER NEEDED TO USE, MUHAHAHAHAH.

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Deus ex, I'M LOVING THIS!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 26, 2014, 04:24:11 am

Came back to the game after months, won two free for alls, decided that was a good note to end on and quit.

Both games were close; I spent most of the second game in second place as there was a crazy guy running around who was really good at throwing axes (as in, he would get headshots).  Unfortunately for him I grabbed the coachgun a few times and started one-shotting people with both barrels.  The few times I failed to get kills and they didn't kill me, I pulled out my revolver and fought with that.  One time I got an 11x kill streak through a mix of revolver and coachgun use.

Oh, and I killed someone by throwing a gun at them.

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Fistful of Frags

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 26, 2014, 07:11:50 am

So, uh, I was doing an OP0 run through the Fridge with an explosive based Krieg. I, uh, got an Impaler and a Prudential Butcher from killing rats.

Let me reiterate that, I just got 2 rare drops in the space of a few minutes from killing some of the most not-lootable enemies in the game. I got a legit drop of one of the rarest guns, the Butcher, in the game, from killing worthless mobs, on UVHM with no OP levels. Clearly the random number god was pleased with my ludicrous bloodsplosions.

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Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 26, 2014, 04:36:52 pm

Caroline.

Write a movie. Please. Doesn't even need a real plot. Just a movie about a series of battles following many different soldiers from either side. Doing fucking crazy shit/Dying in sad ways.

Please.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 26, 2014, 08:15:36 pm

While out doin' stuff in the Blazeridge Steppes, I heard a huge roar, that shook the screen. A panicky little box popped up on the side of the screen: "The Shatterer has landed! Destroy it!"

It was helpfully marked on my map where it was, so I booked it straight out there into territory much too high a level for poor ol' level 46 me. Most of the enemies in the area were level 50 - as a necromancer, my character is pretty tanky, plus he gets another bar of health to access other moves. So effectively, i had ~9,000 + 5000 or so HP, plus various regenerative capabilities (one of my minions drains health, one weapon set has a move that bleeds the opponent and I regenerate, and my other weapon set has one that makes the opponent vulnerable and I regenerate. Also when I dodge, upon landing it drops the bleed/regenerate marker, and if i drop below 90% I regenerate too). So basically, I was tanky as fuck.

So we're fighting the Shatterer, a good sixty players plinking at its feet and mouth, and two more sets either side firing mortars at long range at it.

So it starts winding up for its huge attack, a huge AOE circle appears on the ground, and I can't dodge out of the way. No energy left with which to dodge - my only hope is to tank the hit.

I jump into Death Shroud form. AOE hits, instantly breaking the Death Shroud and dropping me to 26 HP!

TWENTY MOTHAFUNKIN' SIX. Of course, an elementalist seeing my HP being the barest sliver of green ran over and spammed regenerative moves with their staff to get me back up, but it was still very hairy. It might've been because I was underleveled, but still! it was intense. We finally ended up defeating the shatterer and all I got for it was some pretty basic loot.

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Guild Wars 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 26, 2014, 09:21:56 pm

I've died...what? 10? 15? Whatever, I've died around 15 times to Deadlift, that shock gun is just so over powered and whenever you have the opportunity to shoot him he nigh instakills you to make sure you never get the chance.

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Borderlands the Pre-sequel, True Vault hunter mode.

 

EDIT: Stupid threads.

I guess it's Deadlift doing the owning though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 26, 2014, 10:54:54 pm

Quote from: Caroline on November 26, 2014, 08:18:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 26, 2014, 04:36:52 pm

Caroline.

Write a movie. Please. Doesn't even need a real plot. Just a movie about a series of battles following many different soldiers from either side. Doing fucking crazy shit/Dying in sad ways.

Please.

I don't know how to film movies, but I could write one!
Then we could liberally apply Michael Bay all over the script and get someone to film it.

Actually, this sounds like a great idea for a book. A story seen from both sides, showing that *gasp* everyone is human and has feelings and family and stuff, and at the same time having enough over-the-top silly action sequences to be pretty lighthearted.

That reminds me of when I shot a randomly generated enemy helicopter out of the sky with an assault rifle/carbine. Not an easy shot. Especially at the distance I shot it from (screenshot (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/613841548841224090) is the rough distance).

Arma II

Spoiler: Screenshot of it post-shot. (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/613841548841224090/D584AC20A0A79617BAADBBD53E6300A3D546F57B/)

EDIT:
Turns out from other screenshots, I was prone when I did it too (steady the shot).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 26, 2014, 11:04:50 pm

Quote from: Caroline on November 26, 2014, 08:18:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 26, 2014, 04:36:52 pm

Caroline.

Write a movie. Please. Doesn't even need a real plot. Just a movie about a series of battles following many different soldiers from either side. Doing fucking crazy shit/Dying in sad ways.

Please.

I don't know how to film movies, but I could write one!
Then we could liberally apply Michael Bay all over the script and get someone to film it.

Actually, this sounds like a great idea for a book. A story seen from both sides, showing that *gasp* everyone is human and has feelings and family and stuff, and at the same time having enough over-the-top silly action sequences to be pretty lighthearted.

DO IIIIIIT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on November 26, 2014, 11:18:28 pm

2048!!!!!!!

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2048, NO variants

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 26, 2014, 11:28:34 pm

I don't know how many of them I used, but I took over 200 pictures for my last Sims update. Much writing. Hopefully great funny. Hopefully.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on November 27, 2014, 06:15:47 pm

I climbed up a building to a rooftop, where a guard with a rifle was peering out over the other side.  I sneaked up on him slowly until my crotch was touching his buttocks.  He spins around in a panic, staring at my old man beard while stammering "You, you aren't supposed to be up here!". 

I lean in closer and whistle once like a bird.  He can smell my breath and I see the confusion in his eyes.  Two assassins clad in white suddenly climb up from the ledge behind him like out of thin air and toss him over the edge to his death.  I give them a gentle nod of approval.  They smile knowingly and run off in different directions, readying themselves for the next ledge, the next guard.  They do not know why I do this, or how it serves the cause.  The just understand that I will do this again and again until I am satisfied.

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Sassy Creed Revelations

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 27, 2014, 08:46:37 pm

Quote from: Levi on November 27, 2014, 06:15:47 pm

I climbed up a building to a rooftop, where a guard with a rifle was peering out over the other side.  I sneaked up on him slowly until my crotch was touching his buttocks.  He spins around in a panic, staring at my old man beard while stammering "You, you aren't supposed to be up here!". 

I lean in closer and whistle once like a bird.  He can smell my breath and I see the confusion in his eyes.  Two assassins clad in white suddenly climb up from the ledge behind him like out of thin air and toss him over the edge to his death.  I give them a gentle nod of approval.  They smile knowingly and run off in different directions, readying themselves for the next ledge, the next guard.  They do not know why I do this, or how it serves the cause.  The just understand that I will do this again and again until I am satisfied.

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Sassy Creed Revelations

you monster!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: manboricua on November 27, 2014, 10:14:31 pm

   At last finished Fallout New Vegas playing a mega evil woman, I just killed, and looted all the way to the end. Still feel that Fallout 3 was better story wise.
   Finished Rage but the ending in my opinion was such a downer, all the quest and doings felt like the ending was going to be epic. Well, what can I say, at least all the racing around made it feel like it was a racing game instead, so two games in one, not bad.
   Also completed the hell out of Farcry3, and oh my dwarf, that was a complete blast from beginning to end, non stop craziness. Those sneaky crocodiles scared me! The ending and some "boss" fights felt crappy but hey who cares for that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 27, 2014, 10:57:36 pm

I FINALLY BEAT IT.  I DID IT.

FUCK YOU, ALIENS, IT LOOKS LIKE I WIN THIS TIME. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT COMING BACK OR I'LL HAVE COMMANDER ZAHRA WANGA FIRE HER HEAVY PLASMA DOWN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR THROATS.

Xcom: UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 28, 2014, 12:58:51 pm

Beat the 20th level of Arena mode(and later, 21st). The 20th level title is awesome, "the Immortal".

I had to create a new character to open Grim mode, though I can use it with my Immortal. In one hunt I got a small emerald, and another I got both a small amethyst and Blood Ruby at the same time. What kind of stone should I put in my Colossus? I have two amethysts in my Machine Flail.

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Hammerfight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on November 28, 2014, 06:47:04 pm

Was flying around, looking for a astroid with silicon and was unhappy to find that most where claimed.
Claimed by automatic maschinegun turrets : I
With some heavy damage I retreated, circling the rock and taking hits every now and then, but soon my recon was rewarded by spotting a large derlict ship, docked and throwing a tiny "turret shadow".
I closed in on that blindspot, checked the cargo containers on my turret free end of the ship and noticed it had all I need-
A little saw work and I had the orginal cockpit cut off, slapping a rough cockpit on the remaining half and making a daring escape while the turrets pounded away.

Getting a little motivated from that I went up to two active players that where building a huge ship in addition to there quite already many normal ships - taking resources from a large cargo container, only secured by "blueprint" armor blocks  - I docked on the cargo, talked a little chitchat, then quickly cut the blueprint blocks off, speeding away with the vault in tow.

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Space Engineers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 28, 2014, 10:59:42 pm

I took down two zombies in a row at level 3, and the second one while also fighting a mage. :o

Of course, it didn't stop the third zombie from being brutally savescummed.

Daggerfall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on November 28, 2014, 11:03:06 pm

I returned the Golden Fleece of Yendor at depth 16 three times in a row, earning the Streaker achievement.

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Hoplite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on November 29, 2014, 12:00:41 am

I beat the Rebel Flagship with the Stormwalker. Fuck that ship. Actually, fuck both of them. I ended up wrecking all its systems with breach bombs and letting the AI take over. Then I let it sit there until I was good and ready to finish it off.

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FTL: Faster than Light

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vorthon on November 29, 2014, 02:39:08 am

Boots of Leaping + Titanium Long Sword vs. Death Metal. I was leaping around the chamber like a lunatic, and managed to take the bastard out in less than ten seconds. Didn't even have enough time to start spewing flames or even start spamming white skeletons. It was truly glorious.

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Crypt of the NecroDancer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 29, 2014, 03:18:56 am

3rd Episode 2 levels, Hard difficulty, no saves, including the aftermath and at 3AM. Just after finishing off Episode 2's marathon finale (2 shamblers, zombies, a couple fiends, then a pair of vores; single playthrough (though a couple replays)). That was fun. I forgot E3L1 was my favorite of the 1st levels. It was so well built. Also, early guns (if you know where to look).

Quake

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aptus on November 29, 2014, 05:20:59 am

Woo, finally beat heroic Naxxramas. Had Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad left and they finally went down. Kel went down to a normal lolpriest with a Deathlord + Divine Spirit + Inner Fire combo.
Sapphiron though was a lot more intense, netdecked a control mage that had the kill condition of Thaddiuses. Yes plural. After something like 7 tries I finally managed to get my duplicate train going and he just couldn't deal with a total of 5 Thaddii ^^

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Hearthstone if it wasn't obvious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 29, 2014, 03:29:54 pm

The Holy Roman Empire attacks one of my cities in force. Over 750 men against roughly 360 defenders. Fine.
During the pre-battle speech, I notice that my units don't seem to be anywhere near each other. That's worrying.
As soon as the battle starts, I notice 2 things. One is that an enemy spy has apparently managed to open the gates of the city, letting the invaders stream in. The second is that of all of my units, only two (the weakest) are actually at the front gates. The rest are scattered throughout the city, some even on the opposite side!

This battle is already lost. All I can do is fight to the bitter end.






...or at least, that's what I thought in the first couple of minutes. I quickly pull everyone back to the city center, where they become unbreakable. They still become less skilled as panic mounts, but they will never run away and that's what I need at the moment. One unit of longbowmen gets stuck and fails to make it to the center, but thankfully the AI is focused on attacking the main bulk of the army and the longbowmen are allowed to pester the Imperials throughout the battle. The Imperial 4-star general dies in the first charge to my spear militia, and the rest of the battle consists of waves of infantry charging my knot of desperate units as they weather storms of bolts and arrows and turn away each attack in turn. Eventually one Imperial unit routs. Then another. Then another, and another, until finally the battle ends in my favor.

I'm down to 120 men and the enemy army is still 400 strong, but we won this day.

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Medieval II: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on November 29, 2014, 05:52:09 pm

I managed to get three missile weapons with the Kestrel: Breach, Pegasus, and Swarm. I also got an explosive replicator to stretch out my ammo supply. I figured if the rebel flagship's missile weapon is the most fearsome thing it has, it's also probably the best way to kill it. I was absolutely, gloriously correct. The swarm's projectiles served to keep the phase 2 defense drone busy while the breach and pegasus missiles were aimed first at the flagship's missile launcher, then its engines.

Next up: An O₂-free run in the Lanius cruiser.

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FTL again. I would have had the starting Artemis launcher and an ion bomb instead of the swarm, but I sold it early on to afford a shield upgrade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PrivateNomad on November 29, 2014, 06:01:19 pm

meepo

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d0ta

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on November 29, 2014, 07:42:24 pm

I'm in Trapper's Homestead, aka my cabin, and I have only one bullet left. I've got decent stores of food, water, and firewood, but I want to get a bit more, and maybe go on a trek down south to the lake to see if I can find any good loot. I go outside, with my rifle out, to maybe bag a deer, and suddenly see a dead deer right in front of me, in the field 10-20 feet away from the cabin door. I know that deer wasn't there when I entered the cabin, so I do the normal check-right check-left. As I turn left, I see a wolf running straight at me, maybe 5 feet away. I pull off a snapshot with my last bullet, hitting him in the head, and he goes down. I quickly skin the wolf and the dead deer, before heading back in to warm up by the fire.

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The Long Dark. That was really, really close. If he had pounced me, I was low enough on condition that I might not've gotten him off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 29, 2014, 11:41:57 pm

First stage of Dustbowl, we were attacking, I got ubered while we were continuing our rush from the first to the second point. Got to the last point, wasn't able to do much damage with my sticky launcher and ran out of uber. Had to resort to my grenade launcher, got several multikills with direct hit pipe bombs as Red rushed into the close confines of the building to try and get me off the point. Medic gets killed, mass confusion as everyone on Red seems to leave the point after the medic was killed, I'm still alive and running around the building without any explosives, having to use the pan. Critted a heavy who didn't know I was there, critted an engineer trying to wrench me to death, critted a pyro who barely failed to set me on fire, wound up solo capping the point with only the pan.

Pan mvp, pan carried the team, praise the pan.

Also, that was probably my greatest uber as a demoman ever.

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 30, 2014, 01:31:12 am

I once basically copied the ending of Meet the Soldier by killing some people with rocket launcher, reaching the last point on my own, and then pulling out my shovel and immediately spinning around and critting a spy.  Taunted afterwards too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on November 30, 2014, 11:07:48 am

Despite losing the Spathi in this playthrough (I wanted them around for the final hour), I finally, and thoroughly, beat Starcon 2 again. And ending it on the terms I set for myself, I'm damned satified at the end results, and my version of the epilogue; based on final map, and what was still left/going on, while keeping with original canon, mostly (I derailed it into an even happier and more humane ending). (Read spoiler)

Spoiler: Major SC2:UQM Spoilers (click to show/hide)

And it went over so well, my imagination took over to fill in the blanks of the epilogue.
•Fwiffo's the celebrated badass of the Spathi race (been with us since day 1 to the final hour); enough to be a member of the High Council. Even the mythical Black Spathi Squadrons ought to see Fwiffo with some respect.
•The Thraddash humbling themselves in the final hour helps spare them from their original fate (caused by yours truly to free the Chmmr) of the Ilwrath tearing them apart until a mutual extinction, as per canon. My Allaince saves them the last moment after scattering Ur-Quan forces, and moments before the Ilwrath's arrival; both races are spared, even the hateful zealots that are the Ilwrath are spared and slave-shielded as punishment and study (maybe knock some sense back into them to what the Pkunk once knew; a once holy and enlightening race of spiders). Just as well, despite their complaints to us about us stealing their precious Aqua Helix, the Utwig showed them that it's still in good order, and in a better place, fulfilling the role the Thradassh's 20 Cultures have been protecting their entire existence. Knowing this, and understanding the strength of the Utwig, along with their insight and education, the Thraddash redevelop into Culture 21, not only respecting Captain Zelnick again like Culture 20 did (along with suggestions of slapstick comedy, greeting with poems, and generally being themselves again, with their strength properly respected), but also taking heed of the Ultron as well, knowing the Aqua Helix is a part of it now, and they are able to rest assured, and be guided; preventing anymore future Culture clashes. Culture 21 being the final, and clarified/enlightened, culture in their history.
•The Utwig and Supox forces keep the rear guard (as they have since I returned the fixed Ultron to them), and box in the Ur-Quan post-ending, and mop the floor with them during their panic and confusion. The Utwig continue using the Ultron to correct the Ilwrath in their misunderstandings, and re-educate them on Dogar and Kazon (and the nature of the Umgah Caster, courtesy of Fwiffo; and further assistance in re-education from their old prey, the Pkunk (seeing as the Pkunk still felt no ill-will against the vicious spiders that ravaged them for years on end.)), and how it was all a lie; and even share the Ultron with them to prove their point; thus preventing the Thraddash from being destroyed by them. Incidentally, the Thraddash learned from the Ultron as well, noticing their precious artifact is integrated as a key component of it. Being amazed at it all, they finally took a chill pill, much to the Alliance's relief.
•The Mycon, after the Syreen's revenge, were much easier to manage and contain, as they wouldn't terrorize anymore worlds in the name of Juffo-Wup. They were promptly punished after the war, and contained in a slave shield for further study, so to keep them from causing anymore trouble, and preventing a repeated fate for other races like the Syreen.
•The Druuge, after my screw-over (twice: first with the 1610 fuel incident, second with procuring the Precursor bomb) still contemplate the Utwig artifacts and their grand misfortunes, still not understanding the intention they had (based on my notes, it was a legit gift they gave, but the Druuge are still blinded by greed to see the actual value of what they really gained in return for the Ultron. The Utwig may be zealots themselves, but they're badass overall when they're not mopey and nihilistic.).
•The teaming up with the Arilou and ORZ yields some rather awkward behaviors during the final hours between the two, and afterwards (more to be revealed in Project 6014?).
•The Yehat and Pkunk (uner new Pkunk rule), as usual, are the awesome avians that they are, doing their part keeping the galaxy safe (with the assistance of the replenished Shofixti race), and providing support to the Chmmr.
•The Umgah lie low, but still crack jokes during the new era of peace. Seeing as they're nice, and their latest joke was to become enemies with the Alliance, the Chmmr set new standards of joking for them to adhere to (EG- No world devastation for kicks, nor manipulating cult-races (like the Ilwrath) into causing mass-death and destruction), or else they get punished for being assholes (which is also not much a stretch, knowing how these dudes look.).
•The Slylandro and Melnorme get word of the developments, and the Slylandro give their prayers to their old friends the Ur-Quan, and demand the Alliance to take it easy on them post-war.
•As for the VUX, they reluctantly are thankful that ZEX (a xenophile that LOVES humans) is no more, but they still find humans the most repulsive things they've ever met, and still want nothing to do with the Alliance whatsoever. They are still justly punished for their contributions to the Ur-Quan's war against the Alliance of Free Stars.
•The Zoq-Fot-Pik rejoice that they're still alive after all this, and told about seeing the explosion from their AOI, like a supernova next door. It also happened to coincidentally occur during a particular Frungy game, where a star player made his game-winning shot, and won the game for the nation during the World Cup. Making for a hell of a picture for the covers of magazines and newspaper front-pages.
•And the fate of the Dynarri? Extinct. They got their revenge (even though I knew the little bastard was going to stab me in the back alternatively; good riddance. If I got his implications and intentions correctly, he originally would have stolen back his Sa-Matra (based on exposition from annoying him, and warnings from everybody about the Dynarri), and used my ship as a means of finishing off the Ur-Quan, once and for all (hypnotize the entire Ur-Quan and Kohr-Ah races to unite in a single spot, and fire off the Sa-Matra, or spare it's ammo, and detonate the flagship on the collective forces, efficiently rendering the Ur-Quan extinct. Sorry pal, ain't gonna happen on my watch. The Ur-Quan deserve better.), but we also prevented a repeat of the Ur-Quan, as our favor to them to see that, despite wrecking their Sa-Matra "Grand Trophy" thoroughly, we still sympathize with their cause as to why they did what they did the whole game (since I let myself get complelled by the Dynarri at least once to know what they felt or experienced; and to also know why the Dynarri must be exterminated. Mean little hypnotoads. I even motivated them to double their efforts (in their fight against the Kohr-Ah; Go Green!), and spare humanity in the process for our assistance telling them about a Dynarri that returned (and I promptly used against them during the final hour). They were thankful for my help, and I genuinely felt like they really meant well about their cruel practice of enslavement.). We're just regulating how they go about it now since most of them were far beyond reason (Enslavement or death? A bit harsh, but we can apply alternatives, and still help those poor bastards out. They may have been our enemy, they may have done terrible things, but they deserve a fair second chance, given the crap they went through for generations, including this recent one.). Without the Sa-Matra, instilling some sense back into them should be a far simpler task now. The Kohr-Ah might be a bit more of a challenge.

...The prologue to 6014 fills in the rest of the blanks from there.

Oh, and how did we survive the explosion that nearly tore the escape pod in half (according to Talana)? I had an Arilou Skiff in my fleet, just in case. He stayed behind to witness the explosion with the Chmmr, and to bail me out, since they had the means to (being IDF beings, they had the skills and tools to be my rescue ship for my damaged/destroyed escape pod). Being on the front-lines made them the 'First Response' team. Also helps that they're skilled medics as well; so immediate first-aid made sense, and explains how we survived at all.

Oh, and for kicks, post-Chmmr+bomb modifications to my ship, I filled in the remaining 6 module slots I could still use with 6 HI-EFF fuel tanks, filled to the brim (610 fuel for the final battle). Why? Because I wanted to contribute more to the explosive blast the Chmmr already added in. Thanks Druuge for that fuel BTW. Whether you wanted to or not, you contributed to the Alliance effort. Evil was forced to do good. Take that, for being such dicks to the Burvix people (committing genocide by throwing them under the bus and saving their own asses).

More information within the Ultronomicon (http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Main_Page).

Total in-game time spent: 2 years, 2 months, 28 days since the beginning of the game. Not a bad run. Between 300-400 crew lost (final battles are a bit fuzzy in the number of crew lost; previous losses were resource collect missions gone awry, or battles (against a dozen-odd ships, usually, and Slylandro Probe fights) the flagship was better off doing)), and I went slightly past breaking even on the Druuge screw-over fuel (by about 35-60 units of fuel; excluding extra boom fuel). Endgame and final loose ends were where casualties skyrocketed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on November 30, 2014, 04:19:55 pm

Tank? Who needs a tank? My healing was more than enough for the DPS to make it through the boss. We died a lot to the mobs in between bosses though.

Though if anything, I got lucky in that dungeon. I can think of more than a few dungeons where the mechanics mean you can't make it without a tank.

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Final Fantasy XIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 02, 2014, 03:32:56 am

Caused 3 separate accounts of infighting between shamblers and vores in the elder god's home, and defeated the god with ammo and health to spare; having a quad-damage at the end also kinda helps add to it. Oh right. I also did this on Hard Mode.

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Quake

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Metalax on December 02, 2014, 09:09:37 am

Had a Golden Pedestal and Goldfish Bowl drop during the first run through the Hall of Trials. Then cleared Jade Way on the first try while also acquiring all of the items for Caillou's order. So that's the first two weeks rent sorted by the end of day 2.

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Recettear

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tjoh on December 02, 2014, 09:26:35 am

I finished the game.
At one point i panicked and used up all my flamethrower fuel, but I made it. The alien was hounding me at every turn and I just barely made it out alive.

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Alien: Isolation

I'm not a horror fan, but for some insane reason I bought the game. I get scared easily and this was no exception. The alien terrified me at the beginning, it terrified me at the end and it still terrifies me.
At several points in the game I had to leave the computer for a while to calm my nerves. The first time I died I almost fell out of my chair screaming!
But I persevered. I faced my fears and I succeeded.

One of the best experiences I've ever had in gaming.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2014, 08:03:09 am

Cleared the first battle and, despite not really knowing what I was doing on account of not re-reading the tutorial, lost only two redshirts!

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Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 03, 2014, 03:58:34 pm

BEAT MONSOON.

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MGR:R. This is a late one; I'm still stuck on fakesoon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 03, 2014, 05:46:49 pm

MONSOON DOUBLE IS DEAD, STAY DEAD YOU STUPID FUCKING ASSHAT

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MGR:R VICTORY IS MIIIINE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Worldmaster27 on December 03, 2014, 07:02:41 pm

It's not *owning* him unless you do it on the hardest difficulty you can, blindfolded and with one hand tied behind your back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 03, 2014, 07:20:31 pm

rot in a ebola filled hole WM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kaian-a-coel on December 05, 2014, 04:47:21 pm

Got 2309 kills in survival. This game is hard, but I love it.

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darvi on December 06, 2014, 01:25:56 am

Been killing some time.

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Persona Q: Shadow of  the Labyrinth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 06, 2014, 01:34:22 am

Killed a motherfucking HIGH DRAGON. It was really close and I have no idea how I won. My main character was down for the count, AFTER my healer had revived them with a long-cooldown spell, so I was operating at 1/2 damage, with only my [underequipped]archer, healer and tank. And the High Dragon was still at 1/3ish health. Still, through a combination of approximately a bajillion lyrium potions and a dedicated Spirit Healer to keep my tank up, we eventually wore it down enough that I thought I could kill it. And then FLAME SPIT. Twice in a row, before my party could stand up after being knocked down from the first flame spit. My healer got knocked out and my other party members were almost dead from fire DOT and wouldn't last more then a few second. And then they get healed. My healer is now alive and seems to be superpowered, at least temporarily. Eventually, I triumph and defeat one of the toughest enemies in the game.

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Dragon Age: Origins

In case you're wondering, my healer was Wynne and apparently she IS supposed to do that, after a quick Google search to confirm she didn't develop sentience and refuse to die or something to that effect.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 06, 2014, 02:16:14 am

I killed a writhing mass of primal chaos that just so happened to be created from some creature constantly walking on a corruption trap. Probably started from a rat or a kobold or something.

Note that I was a dwarf barbarian. So I killed it in GLORIOUS MELEE COMBAT.

I still died shortly afterwards to a steel golem, but hey, it's the little victories.

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ADOM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 06, 2014, 02:21:50 am

Hello, Hoxy.

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PAYDAY2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 06, 2014, 12:19:06 pm

After a good time of ramping up my economy, sent some Halberdiers and Harquebusiers into the Dutch's town. Despite their archaic design, Harquebusiers apparently outrange muskets, only the enemy didn't have any. Managed to secure a Town Center without them trying to blow it up, as well as a few other buildings. The only one they managed to get burning was an Academy that I managed to save. The only problem was their Barracks, which I had some mercenary Grenadiers deal with. Gunned down all of their citizens and captured a single Town Center for the win.

Total losses: 2 peasants which were probably shot by my side as the game converted them to my side. Normally, it's a whole mess of buildings and stuff captured from the enemy but still counted as losses on my side.

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Cossacks: European Wars: Back to War. Damn, the Swiss are awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on December 06, 2014, 06:36:27 pm

Doing the dragon statue quest with my army full of custom designed "Dragon Slayer" units to level them up before the grand finale, took detour north to kill Vetrar while at it, my champion Craul Gravehands hits level 19 and can easily solo enemy armies (not really that hard because stupid AI) and scores "Deadly" threat rating alone. His army got "Epic" when I first assembled it and has only gotten stronger since then, weakest units were level 8. I reach the final statue and trade some gear between my sovereign and Craul and move on the statue to start the fight...
...and notice that instead of Craul and his Dragon Slayers I had  moved my sovereign, who only had two groups of (mostly) ceremonial bodyguards with him. Against three dragons, Clambercoil, Fell and Ashwake.

Fuck.

Fear and Contagion spells hit all my units and I lose action for first turn, second is repeat of the first and I'm taking damage each turn from contagion. I manage to avoid melee for few more turns because mounted units fuck yeah, but I know that my guards don't stand a chance against three dragons at once and that my sovereign would be OHK, and then the Ashwake, strongest of the dragons, starts casting something.

That was where I won the game.

See, my sovereign was Magnar of the Quendar and I had made him into a dedicated mage, glass cannon to the extreme, and that overgrown worm tried to start magic duel with him. Thing with magic is that most powerfull spells take two turns to cast, and you can easily prevent enemy from casting anything with a counterspell, assuming you have two of them since they can't be casted twice in a row. And I did, Feedback even does damage to target based on number of fire shards (of which I had many), and it was casted by high level mage with several traits that improve damage from spells. Silly little worm.
So while Ashwake was stubbornly trying to cast it's spell and taking damage every second turn, I maneuvered two other dragons into positions. Dragons got this thing where they try to breath flames turn before closing in on melee, so all I had to do was flank them and attack from the side, take the hit from one dragon while other was spitting fire and get out. Rinse and repeat. Magnar casted spell every now and then to help when he had spare time (high initiative FTW). I mentioned how my bodyguards were mostly intended to be ceremonial before, well, part of their ceremonial gear was dragon hide cloak which gives +50% fire resistance. And they were Quendar, that's another +50% fire res. there.
After I got that Ashwake to stay still rest of the fight pretty much won itself for me. I didn't even lose either guard unit.

Reward for this quest? My very own pet Ashwake. He's going on strict diet of darklings and ice elementals till he can roast me a few kindoms...

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Elemental: Fallen Enchantress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 06, 2014, 07:06:47 pm

THAT GAME SOUNDS FUCKIN' METAL AS SHIET

Details! DETAAAILS!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on December 06, 2014, 07:38:54 pm

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Uh, okay...
I don't know if you meant the battle or the game, but whatever.

Think Age of Wonders like game set in post-apocalyptic fantasy world where you first have to survive wilderness filled with all kinds of monsters, both natural and those mutated with magic, while building Empire (for Fallen, humans mutated by science magic) or Kindom (for actual human factions) starting from small town guarded by peasants armed with clubs, to continent spanning superpower fielding armies of knights in full plate  that you get to design yourself (weapons, armor, traits, mounts etc.)  and tamed and summoned monsters of your own...

Campaign is "meh" at best, but sandbox games are lot of fun with higher difficulties. It doesn't really have that charm and feel of first AoW, but designing your own units, sovereign and faction gives it lot more replayability.

Or you can read more from here (http://www.elementalgame.com/lore).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 06, 2014, 07:48:42 pm

Well, this sounds very interesting. Thank ye, ser Strange.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 06, 2014, 08:01:28 pm

I do like the idea of being able to design your own units. Many such games limit customization to leader units, and sometimes not even those :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on December 06, 2014, 08:49:19 pm

Yeah, we need more games that allow that. It might be hard to balance but it would add to replayability a lot. One thing I've wanted to see in game for a long time has been RTS game set in middle-ages +/- few hundred years where instead of given unit list you design your own units, equipment and training (read: stats and abilities) and all against adapting AI that does the same. Best I ever saw in Fallen Enchantress was enemy dropping all armor from their units to get rid of initiative (how often unit acts in combat) penalty when I overused trait that gave me attack bonus against enemies with lower initiative. It's a nice trick, but far from challenging AI.
Designing units doesn't have to be limited to just front line troops either. If your normal builder units could be modified in the same way you could build sort of "combat engineer" type of units that wouldn't need other units to protect them, they could build fortifications and man them right away themselves. And all the other type of units that are done away from modern games? Siege weapons like catapults and ballista fall apart when you rain arrows on them and kill their crew, but what if they were left behind, waiting for another crew trained in using them? Viking style raiding ships, anyone? Capturing enemy equipment would be possible to use as game mechanic, having Dominions style moral as a stat so that units who are not trained to stay and fight would break and flee when people start to die around them, leaving behind what they were using...
So many things could be done. But it's not gonna happen. Focusing on gameplay depth in this age, who does games like that?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 07, 2014, 07:33:58 am

Galactic Civs has that.  Sadly the gameplay customization is a bit light (especially at higher tech levels where defenses don't do anything), but the visual customization is excellent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Julius Clonkus on December 07, 2014, 08:35:57 am

Got killed by the first non-mission relevant captain I encountered - Thrak the Sneak.

It turned into a game of switcheroo with me slaying him and him slaying me for much of the first half of the game until he finally stopped returning. I was certain and relieved as a new captain took up his spot on the nemesis window. I squealed with delight, knowing that this monstrosity that had grown strong alongside me had finally died.

I make my way through the rest of the game, making a point out of killing every uruk that could turn into a new nemesis before they become trouble.

...then, the end of the game draws nearer. I sail out to confront the Tower of Sauron. At the gates of his fortress, he stood. It made no sense but there he stood.

Thrak, the Sneak. Mutilated beyond recognition, skin bleached and dried out by my mindfire, but his poisoned crossbow brandished at me, ready to fire. I knew that if I did not put him down quickly, he would end my assault on the gate.

So I drew my bow - he was skilled enough to deflect an arrow, but that was not my intent. I closed the distance with a shadow strike, struck his face and drove my blade into him again and again as he stood there, stunned. Again and again, I lashed out against him and beheaded those uruks that attempted to stop me from putting him down for good.

The bastard finally went to his knees, dared me to show mercy again. My blade swung true, separating his head from his shoulders, ending him once and for all.

For me, that was the end of the game. That was the finale. What followed was filler. As far as I had been concerned, I had just destroyed the final boss of the game and nothing that the game could throw at me then would eclipse this one moment of final, sweet, glorious revenge.

And that was Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 07, 2014, 11:56:02 am

Learned that Clerics are absolutely awesome. Attacking the boss army, the first three units that attacked it had to be pulled back to the nearest town to heal to avoid anyone getting killed. The boss unit consists of three heavy defense soldiers with two archers behind them. The next unit, led by my main character managed to go a few rounds because of the Cleric standing next to him. Still only won because the unit leader was front and center, allowing everyone to bring him down, causing an instant win.

That's also not counting the unit lead by a Cleric named Cookie, which consists of a Golem and Griffin up front with Cookie herself in back healing the tanks. She broke multiple attempts to gang up on her by herself.

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Ogre Battle: Person of a Lordly Caliber.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on December 07, 2014, 06:52:12 pm

Sneak attack one-shoted  a vampire with an orcish bow of frost. The own? I was a sword-and-shield heavy armor build and had no right at all to be that sneaky.

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 09, 2014, 07:52:52 pm

Defeated a raid boss, which means it is intended for 4 players, solo. The fight itself was quite boring, mostly consisting of me running around, but damn I feel good about it.

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 09, 2014, 11:22:04 pm

Quote from: Deathsword on December 09, 2014, 07:52:52 pm

Defeated a raid boss, which means it is intended for 4 players, solo. The fight itself was quite boring, mostly consisting of me running around, but damn I feel good about it.

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Were you a gunzerker using a double penetrating unkempt harold and a grog nozzle?  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 10, 2014, 07:18:51 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on December 09, 2014, 11:22:04 pm

Quote from: Deathsword on December 09, 2014, 07:52:52 pm

Defeated a raid boss, which means it is intended for 4 players, solo. The fight itself was quite boring, mostly consisting of me running around, but damn I feel good about it.

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Were you a gunzerker using a double penetrating unkempt harold and a grog nozzle?  :P

T'was the pre-sequel. Athena with a self-healing focused build. Use shield, hit everyone so they bleed and enjoy invulnerability.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 10, 2014, 08:48:47 am

Convinced an old friend from a former life that I was her pet turtle from her childhood. She apologized for flushing me down the toilet because she thought I was dead. It was very touching.

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. I love playing as Malkavian.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 10, 2014, 02:09:45 pm

...
u wot m8

Beat Jewelry Store on DEATHWISH. Stealthed, too! I'm rich, dabadibadadie.

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PAYDAY 2. I think I have an addiction.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 10, 2014, 02:36:18 pm

Quote from: Deathsword on December 10, 2014, 07:18:51 am

T'was the pre-sequel. Athena with a self-healing focused build. Use shield, hit everyone so they bleed and enjoy invulnerability.

I know it was the presequel. That's the joke. Cool that Athena's viable then, I was planning on playing her when I eventually got the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on December 10, 2014, 03:02:11 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on December 06, 2014, 01:34:22 am

Killed a motherfucking HIGH DRAGON. It was really close and I have no idea how I won. My main character was down for the count, AFTER my healer had revived them with a long-cooldown spell, so I was operating at 1/2 damage, with only my [underequipped]archer, healer and tank. And the High Dragon was still at 1/3ish health. Still, through a combination of approximately a bajillion lyrium potions and a dedicated Spirit Healer to keep my tank up, we eventually wore it down enough that I thought I could kill it. And then FLAME SPIT. Twice in a row, before my party could stand up after being knocked down from the first flame spit. My healer got knocked out and my other party members were almost dead from fire DOT and wouldn't last more then a few second. And then they get healed. My healer is now alive and seems to be superpowered, at least temporarily. Eventually, I triumph and defeat one of the toughest enemies in the game.

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Dragon Age: Origins

In case you're wondering, my healer was Wynne and apparently she IS supposed to do that, after a quick Google search to confirm she didn't develop sentience and refuse to die or something to that effect.

That reminded me of the last time that I ran through DA:O.  Was fighting a High Dragon (a specific one that I won't mention for spoilers, those of you who've played know the one) who stood solely in one spot, ended up finding a sweet spot where all she did was shoot her fire ball.  She knocked out the rest of my team and I had an IV drip of potions going, ended up remembering that on higher difficulties friendly fire is a thing when she burned herself to death.

Big, fiery dragon just killed itself with fireballs.  Victory had never been sweeter.

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Dragon Age:  Origins, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on December 11, 2014, 06:31:41 am

I ran out of HE shells in my destroyer so did a berserker rush into an enemy destroyer and managed to gank him with my torpedoes.

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Navyfield 2 (http://www.navyfield2.com/) which just released tonight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 11, 2014, 08:54:03 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on December 10, 2014, 02:09:45 pm

...
u wot m8

That'd be the advantage of being a child of Malkav.

Beat Andrei, and it only took 3 5 10 tries! Swords until both our health was low, then some .44 rounds cleaned up nice.

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Bloodlines, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 11, 2014, 09:09:15 am

I put all of my cash into airblast and just airblasted rocketspamming soldiers to death
Everyone else ended up on the other side of the map.

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TF2, on a uberupgrades server

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on December 11, 2014, 09:15:26 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on December 10, 2014, 02:09:45 pm

...
u wot m8

Beat Jewelry Store on DEATHWISH. Stealthed, too! I'm rich, dabadibadadie.

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PAYDAY 2. I think I have an addiction.

PAYDAY addiction is the best addiction.

Next step: Death wish four stores. Or mallcrasher if you're feeling hardcore, cause it can't be stealthed :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 11, 2014, 09:24:58 am

Got nigh on frame perfect timing to beat a miniboss. Lots of trial and error involved but I managed it.

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DA:O
As an RPG this game worries me because I've been playing for hours and have not found a single opportunity to 'train' anywhere. Everything available to fight is powerful to the point where I can barely beat it even dying a few times to some encounters and using more items than I feel comfortable with. WHERE'S MY GRINDING DAMNIT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 11, 2014, 11:46:02 am

Quote from: Graknorke on December 11, 2014, 09:24:58 am

Got nigh on frame perfect timing to beat a miniboss. Lots of trial and error involved but I managed it.

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DA:O
As an RPG this game worries me because I've been playing for hours and have not found a single opportunity to 'train' anywhere. Everything available to fight is powerful to the point where I can barely beat it even dying a few times to some encounters and using more items than I feel comfortable with. WHERE'S MY GRINDING DAMNIT.

As far as I know there is no grinding in DA:O. You can possibly do a bit of grinding by wandering the wilds waiting for the occasional random encounter, but even those are dangerous - one time I was attacked by multiple orange-rank demons for example. Many fights will be very difficult unless you're a dirty cheater like myself :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on December 11, 2014, 12:44:31 pm

If I remember correctly DA:O is designed so that you're supposed to tackle certain areas in order, so that you'll gain the levels needed to tackle the other areas. If I remember correctly it's something along the lines of... Elfs -> Mages -> Humans -> Dwarfs. I think. And each area has an extra-tough encounter at its beginning to deter you from going further and guide you into the right path. So if you follow the order you shouldn't be encountering too many problems.

Mind you I learned all about this after I actually finished the game. My playthrough consisted of running through some high-level areas, nearly dying a couple of times, but still getting enough exp to blast through the rest of the game. This was at normal difficulty though, so I don't know if you could do something similar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on December 11, 2014, 12:48:11 pm

Walked into the room, started a test that was supposed to take 1-2 hours, and finished it in 18 minutes.

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Real Life. I just practically aced one of my finals!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 11, 2014, 01:44:41 pm

Quote from: i2amroy on December 11, 2014, 12:48:11 pm

Walked into the room, started a test that was supposed to take 1-2 hours, and finished it in 18 minutes.

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Real Life. I just practically aced one of my finals!

No, Roy, the answer to every question is not choice C. Though a good many of them are :-\.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on December 11, 2014, 01:54:54 pm

Played the Binding of Issac: Rebirth and was doing a cain run. Picked up Ludivicho Technique (Which causes you to no longer shoot but instead have a large shot that you can move around) and was doing fairly well. Just before the Mom's Heart fight, I managed to get 1 last Deal with the Devil. I had managed to have a decent amount of HP and high damage, so when I saw Brimstone, I thought what the heck.

Now not all items in Binding of Issac work together to create amazing synergies… But I think the fact that my one large tear shot turned into a red ring of death is a PRETTY crazy synergy. XD Proceeded to kill Mom's Heart in under a minute, and then beat The Fallen + Satan + Hooves in just under 30. That was the most ridiculous run I had ever had, and I will cherish the screen shots that prove it. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on December 11, 2014, 02:12:55 pm

Was leading the charge because I was a bit too damaged to hang back so I figured why not and started going in front, when suddenly a medic starts healing me, crashed right through the enemy because immune to instakills, 'twas glorious.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Robocraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 11, 2014, 02:53:10 pm

Went through the one small cave immediately after Faron Spring,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

in wolf form,

then the Deku Baba popped up.
Jump attack + spin attack right after works wonders on them.

TLOZ: Twilight Princess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 11, 2014, 07:03:11 pm

I was clearing out the Quarry and accidentally lured three full grown Deathclaws after me. Now, I can take them on, rather handily if I do it right, but not all at once, and not in this terrain. So I'm running around this corner, and I pass a rather irritable looking fellow in red and brown armor with a Vexillarius coyote-head on.

He and his three assassin fellows draw their high end weapons (A 12.7mm SMG, a Thermic Lance, some throwing spears, and a shotgun IIRC) and take aim on me while I run right through the group frantically.

I take a few hits, and one foe raises his machete to slash at my face as I pass. He flinches and turns to face his new foe, and I clear the group. I draw my Hunting Shotgun+ and blast the nearest Deathclaw with judicious fucking headshots. I turn, blasting a Legionary, and survey the field. One wounded, crippled Deathclaw is bearing down on the Vexillarius, who is also severely injured. I fire the rest of my clip non-VATS, spraying both of them with a spread of buckshot.

I stand victorious over three adult Deathclaws and four Legionary Assassins, wearing Reinforced Leather armor, Sunglasses, and a Headband.

Fuck your armor, fuck your energy cannons. I got a shotgun and speed.

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 12, 2014, 01:06:34 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on December 11, 2014, 07:03:11 pm

I got a shotgun and speed. Bonk! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4wopc9-SJU)

FTFY.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 12, 2014, 02:00:16 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on December 12, 2014, 01:06:34 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on December 11, 2014, 07:03:11 pm

I got a shotgun and speed. Bonk! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4wopc9-SJU)

FTFY.

Agreed. (https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/e/ea/Scout_goodjob02.wav?t=20100625222151)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on December 12, 2014, 09:58:05 pm

Started up a new game of XCOM and during the first mission I notice something weird.

Williams...Other Williams....Castillo...OTHER CASTILLO.

I got two sets of twin chicks from the beginning mission! XD

The Williams twins are the only ones who stuck though, since they were both from the UK while the Castillo's were from diff countries and one of them lost a bunch of will almost immediately.

Still, Holly Williams is a support and I have designated her my "WhiteKnight" while HELEN Williams is a Assault and is my "BlackKnight"

They kick SOOOOO much ass together its incredible. My save is truly blessed...AND ITS AN IRONMAN SAVE AS WELL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 13, 2014, 09:05:59 am

I decided to nuke Delhi instead of Thebes at the last second so my capital would be the greatest city in the world, and then proceeded to take Thebes. With several cities cranking out crazy amounts of units I proceeded to blitzkrieg the Egyptians, who had basically no culture, so I culture-converted half their cities. Sadly, the game ended before I could construct the United Nations so I had to do with a crushing domination victory, instead of one of the others, all of them were within my reach.

Civilization Revolution, it's t the only one I have, vOv

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 13, 2014, 11:42:48 am

Also Snoipah. Scored 8 headshots in one life, and would have MVP'd the game if not for a berserk demoman running rampant in the opponent's base.

TF2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 13, 2014, 11:45:47 am

Jigglypuff used Sing!

Foe Pikachu fell asleep!

Jigglypuff used Pound!

Foe Pikachu used Quick Attack! (or Agility, I forgot which)

Jigglypuff used Pound!

For Pikachu fainted!

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NOPE!

Super Smash Bros. Mario and Fox were already eliminated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: sjm9876 on December 13, 2014, 11:46:59 am

Playing payload with a my usual PAYDAY crew. Completed with no deaths (for us, anyway), and the cart never stopped moving. Numerous votes to scramble teams ensued, and were shot down with glee. We've reached the point where teamwork is practically instinctive, and it's hilarious to play that against randoms.
Also, uber-demo is so good.

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TF2 also

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 13, 2014, 02:57:37 pm

Quote from: sjm9876 on December 11, 2014, 09:15:26 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on December 10, 2014, 02:09:45 pm

...
u wot m8

Beat Jewelry Store on DEATHWISH. Stealthed, too! I'm rich, dabadibadadie.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

PAYDAY 2. I think I have an addiction.

PAYDAY addiction is the best addiction.

Next step: Death wish four stores. Or mallcrasher if you're feeling hardcore, cause it can't be stealthed :D

Four stores is easypeasy.

Mallcrasher is less so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TripJack on December 13, 2014, 03:06:14 pm

hah, one of my copkilling comrades finally got to level 80 yesterday and we stealthed Go Bank & Bank Heist Pro on death wish difficulty

good stuff :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 13, 2014, 10:01:00 pm

2082 kills in Blind Survival. And I'm still the best player among all my Steam friends  8)

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One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on December 13, 2014, 10:05:57 pm

Been playing Pokèmon Alpha Sapphire. Don't know why, but I latched onto a Poochyena, (now a Mightyena) instead of my starter. (Torchic, now a Combusken. Still don't really care.) I named it Snowball, because it was a cute name, and the one I'd found started with Ice Fang.
Snowball is now, through grinding and Super Training^TM, a level 21 badass. Meanwhile, I'm still in an area where most trainers have level 15s. I beat most other Pokèmon into the dirt in one or two Bites. This, plus the Intimidate skill Mightyena gets, and the fact that, most of the time, the first hit flinches them, makes me picture Snowball as a vicious killing machine.

She comes out snarling, a glint in her blood-red eyes. The other, smaller, cuter Pokèmon cowers in fear. She's on them in a heartbeat, pouncing and shaking them in her powerful jaws as one would their favorite chew-toy. A few munches, and she tosses them aside. They fall limply to the ground like wet tissue. The opposing trainer weeps at the display, and hands over all their cash. I give Snowball a pat on the muzzle and a Pokè Puff. A job well done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 13, 2014, 10:51:39 pm

Dodged Kano's cannonball attack with the teleport move, which I can now perform reliably. Also I made it all the way to the first Endurance Round without losing a single round, although I still got reckt by Cage and Sonya (the two easiest CPU opponents, IMO).

Mortal Kombat.

EDIT:

Spoiler: yesss (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/UJIdl4X.png)

Pardon the "State 1 Loaded" message, it took like 20 tries to get a good screenshot (the emulator doesn't capture the text with the built-in screenshot function, for some reason).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 15, 2014, 08:59:59 am

I can't believe so few people ever gave up on the grindfest that is Pewter City Gym. The only wild Pokemon available are all Lv2-5, all(including my Charmander) are disadvantaged to Rock/Ground, and Metapod and Kakuna get less EXP for being evolved.

The wait was fairly worth it. Butterfree wrecked the trainer, plus Brock's Geodude. Pikachu managed to paralyze(via Static) and slightly debuff Onyx. If I had grinded a bit more, Charmander could have destroyed Brock with Metal Claw.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon FireRed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on December 15, 2014, 11:10:57 am

I had a piloted roboshreader (4 damage) a spellbreaker (4 damage) and a ship cannon (2 damage) staring down the face of a hunter who was at 12 hp. He uses Cobra shot my roboshreader, and what pops out of it but a one-eyed cheat! Who also has four attack AND as a pirate sets off the ship cannon, bopping the hunter in the face for 2, bringing him down to ten and giving me lethal on my next turn.

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Hearthstone: Arena mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on December 15, 2014, 12:18:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 15, 2014, 08:59:59 am

I can't believe so few people ever gave up on the grindfest that is Pewter City Gym. The only wild Pokemon available are all Lv2-5, all(including my Charmander) are disadvantaged to Rock/Ground, and Metapod and Kakuna get less EXP for being evolved.

Mankey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 15, 2014, 01:42:56 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 15, 2014, 12:18:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 15, 2014, 08:59:59 am

I can't believe so few people ever gave up on the grindfest that is Pewter City Gym. The only wild Pokemon available are all Lv2-5, all(including my Charmander) are disadvantaged to Rock/Ground, and Metapod and Kakuna get less EXP for being evolved.

Mankey.

*facepalm* I ignored the area between Victory Road and Viridian City, didn't I?

I don't really care for Mankeey much anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 15, 2014, 03:28:29 pm

Defeated the Bulbin.. Bulbo... Boblin...
the blue-boar-riding goblin thing you joust with in two hits*, perfectly.
_{*spin attacks}

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TLOZ: Twilight Princess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on December 15, 2014, 03:50:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 15, 2014, 01:42:56 pm

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 15, 2014, 12:18:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 15, 2014, 08:59:59 am

I can't believe so few people ever gave up on the grindfest that is Pewter City Gym. The only wild Pokemon available are all Lv2-5, all(including my Charmander) are disadvantaged to Rock/Ground, and Metapod and Kakuna get less EXP for being evolved.

Mankey.

*facepalm* I ignored the area between Victory Road and Viridian City, didn't I?

I don't really care for Mankeey much anyway.

Your not wrong. That area is a pain in the ass. A lot of the original games have grindy PITA areas. Luckily, the VS Seeker alleviates a lot of that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 15, 2014, 09:13:13 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 15, 2014, 03:28:29 pm

Defeated the Bulbin.. Bulbo... Boblin...

The Bilbo Baggins?

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 15, 2014, 03:28:29 pm

the blue-boar-riding goblin thing you joust with in two hits*, perfectly.

Oh, not the Bilbo Baggins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 16, 2014, 12:23:09 am

Survived two separate dungeons with my acid-vomiting sword priest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ADOM
This qualifies as an own, since its the farthest I've yet gotten in this game. Also, swords OP. Such sharp. Many implement of pain. Wow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dampe on December 16, 2014, 12:29:32 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on December 13, 2014, 10:05:57 pm

Been playing Pokèmon Alpha Sapphire. Don't know why, but I latched onto a Poochyena, (now a Mightyena) instead of my starter. (Torchic, now a Combusken. Still don't really care.) I named it Snowball, because it was a cute name, and the one I'd found started with Ice Fang.
Snowball is now, through grinding and Super Training^TM, a level 21 badass. Meanwhile, I'm still in an area where most trainers have level 15s. I beat most other Pokèmon into the dirt in one or two Bites. This, plus the Intimidate skill Mightyena gets, and the fact that, most of the time, the first hit flinches them, makes me picture Snowball as a vicious killing machine.

She comes out snarling, a glint in her blood-red eyes. The other, smaller, cuter Pokèmon cowers in fear. She's on them in a heartbeat, pouncing and shaking them in her powerful jaws as one would their favorite chew-toy. A few munches, and she tosses them aside. They fall limply to the ground like wet tissue. The opposing trainer weeps at the display, and hands over all their cash. I give Snowball a pat on the muzzle and a Pokè Puff. A job well done.

I played the original Pokémon Emerald on my Gameboy Advance SP today.
I've got a shiny Poochyena, not to brag or anything.
I'm just so scared that they damaged my innocence by remaking it. (Pokémon Emerald is in my top five list of favorite video games ever and I am so scared that the third generation re-release is going to ruin my childhood memories if I play it.)
How is Alpha Sapphire?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 16, 2014, 04:17:50 am

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 15, 2014, 12:18:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 15, 2014, 08:59:59 am

I can't believe so few people ever gave up on the grindfest that is Pewter City Gym. The only wild Pokemon available are all Lv2-5, all(including my Charmander) are disadvantaged to Rock/Ground, and Metapod and Kakuna get less EXP for being evolved.

Mankey.

Butterfree gets Absorb, I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 16, 2014, 04:39:12 am

Forget Absorb. I remember that Confusion was devastating to Pewter Gym's pokemon, since they all had abysmal Special/Special Defense and you got it at level 10.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 16, 2014, 08:59:02 am

I don't think my Butterfree ever got Absorb, but Confusion did dominate.

I've since dropped Butterfree for Oddish. Another status-bomb with better advantages against a few more Gym Leaders. Handled Misty's Staryu well.

By the way, is there anything in the water around the SS Anne(the infamous truck) in FireRed?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on December 16, 2014, 10:46:19 am

The truck is indeed there.

Also Butterfree doesn't get absorb - Beautifly does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on December 16, 2014, 10:52:17 am

Quote from: Akura on December 16, 2014, 08:59:02 am

I don't think my Butterfree ever got Absorb, but Confusion did dominate.

I've since dropped Butterfree for Oddish. Another status-bomb with better advantages against a few more Gym Leaders. Handled Misty's Staryu well.

By the way, is there anything in the water around the SS Anne(the infamous truck) in FireRed?

Not in the water, no.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The truck itself now has a Lava Cookie in the back, though.  Don't ask how good a Lava Cookie would still taste after being left in the back of the truck while driving from Hoenn to Kanto.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jhxmt on December 16, 2014, 03:08:19 pm

In a small town, got my main character elected Bailiff and his wife elected Magistrate, after bribing and sweet-talking the (extraordinarily popular) mayor, thus getting both incumbents kicked out of the council.  Next day (/year), got my Magistrate wife elected as mayor, since the only person now eligible to vote was my main character.

The town has now grown, as has its council, and I am consolidating my power.  I am already a Free Citizen and own a cathedral along with a weaponsmith and a weaver's shop.  When my son comes of age I'll track down a pretty, roguish young lady for him to marry and start snapping up those pubs and raider camps.  The world will be mine.  Oh yes.  It will be mine.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Guild 2: Renaissance.  I so, so want them to hurry up and make a third one.  That's less buggy.  And has vastly more content.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dampe on December 16, 2014, 05:27:58 pm

The "Filthy Five," a squadron in War Thunder composed of me and four of my gaming buddies invented the "PBJ sandwich."
For those who do not know, a lot of War Thunder players are pretentious dicks when it comes to flight-stick-only "Simulator Battles," and prefer to play as "realistic" of a battle as possible. The PBJ sandwich consists of two pilots each flying a PBJ-1H naval bomber after loudly announcing their presence in the server chat. The two pilots approach an enemy bomber, and both pilots ram the enemy, one from above, one from below (thus the sandwich part of the name), usually killing them instantly and causing them to launch into a rage tornado in chat, which the five of us find absolutely hysterical.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 16, 2014, 05:53:04 pm

A Vore spawned in a secret area. First, secret areas are supposed to be safe; second, HOLY SHIT VORE IN A TINY SPACE.

The Vore spawned three bombs before I killed it. I somehow manage to dodge them, escape the secret area, and lure the bombs into killing zombies. Two of the bombs didn't even hurt me, and the third one was absorbed by the Megahealth I got in the secret area. That is the only time I've come out ahead after an encounter with a Vore.

Quake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 18, 2014, 01:35:10 am

Playing a summoner necro in the really early game. Approximately level 12, been pumping points into skellies aside from some curses, got level 9 in summon skeletons. Recently bought a cheap wand that gave +3 to skeleton mastery, buffing the strength of my skeleton horde significantly.

Long story short, one of my skeletons punched an elite fire enchanted fallen demon in the face once and the thing exploded into giblets. Hella satisfying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 2

I used to dislike summoner necros for the really passive style of play but the skeletons are growing on me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on December 18, 2014, 06:36:06 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on December 18, 2014, 01:35:10 am

Playing a summoner necro in the really early game. Approximately level 12, been pumping points into skellies aside from some curses, got level 9 in summon skeletons. Recently bought a cheap wand that gave +3 to skeleton mastery, buffing the strength of my skeleton horde significantly.

Long story short, one of my skeletons punched an elite fire enchanted fallen demon in the face once and the thing exploded into giblets. Hella satisfying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 2

I used to dislike summoner necros for the really passive style of play but the skeletons are growing on me.

._.
You're going to have trouble in Act II, buddy. :-X
As in...um, without spoiling it: Brittle bones be brittle bones.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on December 18, 2014, 06:53:24 am

Quote from: Tiruin on December 18, 2014, 06:36:06 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on December 18, 2014, 01:35:10 am

Playing a summoner necro in the really early game. Approximately level 12, been pumping points into skellies aside from some curses, got level 9 in summon skeletons. Recently bought a cheap wand that gave +3 to skeleton mastery, buffing the strength of my skeleton horde significantly.

Long story short, one of my skeletons punched an elite fire enchanted fallen demon in the face once and the thing exploded into giblets. Hella satisfying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 2

I used to dislike summoner necros for the really passive style of play but the skeletons are growing on me.

._.
You're going to have trouble in Act II, buddy. :-X
As in...um, without spoiling it: Brittle bones be brittle bones.

Diablo gon' be a fun fight as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 18, 2014, 09:14:17 am

I'm not a total Diablo 2 scrub, I know. I already got a poison nova/summoner necro to hell difficulty. And before that I got a pure bonemancer to hell difficulty, albeit that was a year or two ago. Never beat hell so far, getting good gear for that is too much of a farm for single player mode.

Yeah, I figured there'd be nothing to do for Duriel or Diablo in Normal mode except constantly using town portals to leave and restock on skeletons. At least for Diablo I'll have decrepify.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 18, 2014, 05:18:09 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on December 16, 2014, 05:53:04 pm

A Vore spawned in a secret area. First, secret areas are supposed to be safe; second, HOLY SHIT VORE IN A TINY SPACE.

The Vore spawned three bombs before I killed it. I somehow manage to dodge them, escape the secret area, and lure the bombs into killing zombies. Two of the bombs didn't even hurt me, and the third one was absorbed by the Megahealth I got in the secret area. That is the only time I've come out ahead after an encounter with a Vore.

Quake.

I had a similar experience. In EP2, I had a Vore appear out of nowhere in the main hall, and I was equipped with a super shotgun. I deliberately 1-on-1'd it point-blank, with no powerups nor using the enhanced ammo (which is basically just extra ammo with extra punch, with how I spent it), circling around it's shots in the open space within meters of it like I was in Sounddodger with those followers, and shooting it every pass. By the end, the Vore was dead, and I had 4-6 shots still following me (contact with them would be death-assured), and I managed to lure them, while they were mere feet to meters away, into a wall, and not get hurt one bit by any of the fight. This was also on Hard difficulty.

Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity

Needless to say, I was laughing like a maniac at how badass that was. I wish Steam broadcasting was compatible with my OS by then, because that would've been awesome to watch. I think I was also listing to a random dissonant song track (like Deadmau5 (http://youtu.be/8Xo8At6XEqE) (probably same instrumental song as link playing as it happened)) while it happened, adding to the insanity.

EDIT:
Not the first time I was suggested to play the original music. I have best memories playing it with dissonant music. How I've played it since eons ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 19, 2014, 05:55:01 pm

First time flying since eons, in a helicopter (Robinson R22 Beta II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_R22)), around town (my town), at night (3 hours from now, so to speak, if I got the settings correct. Gotta recalibrate it.). No crashes, overspeed once or twice, and quickly resolved it, and landed it at night, in an appropriate spot (kudos to town landmarks and the Flight Control Tower for the local airport, and recognizing it immediately; I knew where to park, since I visited that airfield IRL), and parked it.

Total flight hours: 0.3

Haven't learned how to flight plan yet (FAA would have my hide for that; not to mention any other airman), but damn, was it fun to fly a chopper again. Wait until I break out my T-65 X-Wing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-wing) or V-22 Osprey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey).

It was peaceful, I was calm the whole time, got lost in the next town (couldn't tell if it was █████████ or ███████ I got lost in), only to regain some bearings and find my way back to the airport, headed to the proper town, found my house (relatively speaking, given the mess proc-gen makes) from the airport, flew past it, went to the national park area and turned around from there, up and down the beach, and made a return trip to the airport. I landed flawlessly. No violent bumps or anything.


Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition (Includes Acceleration Pack)


After I get more flight hours in, I wanna try a Red Bull Air Race. Using a flight stick again makes all the difference. Flying at night with the lights off certainly adds to the experience. The hat switch on the top of the stick for virtual cockpit helps with piloting these things.

EDIT:
Upped the realism settings to be less forgiving, and allow for crashing. Did it again (but didn't get lost this time), another 0.3 (0.6 total) hours logged; and this time, with some flight music, and a hell of a view of my town from my house at 4000ft. Glided myself back to the airport, and landed safely again. No harm done to my chopper. I'll tackle much less forgiving realism (and probably less fuel, for a duration challenge, limit my flight time and economize my resources; give me something to keep track of) a later time. The first landing also got me a medal (in-game achievement; non-Steam). A flight plan from one airport to another, and back, would also be a good one to have.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 20, 2014, 12:47:28 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on December 18, 2014, 05:18:09 pm

Needless to say, I was laughing like a maniac at how badass that was. I wish Steam broadcasting was compatible with my OS by then, because that would've been awesome to watch. I think I was also listing to a random dissonant song track (like Deadmau5 (http://youtu.be/8Xo8At6XEqE) (probably same instrumental song as link playing as it happened)) while it happened, adding to the insanity.

If you bought Quake, Q2 or any of the mission packs on Steam, you're missing out; the music is missing from the Steam versions even though it's a relatively easy fix. What you need to do for Q1 is download an image of the music CD, then mount it in DOSBOX using imgmount. I have mine set up so that it does this all via the autoexec section in a custom configuration file. The game is vastly improved (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8_f8iF2T0g).

I have a CD version of Quake 2 so I have the music anyway, but Steam users should be able to get the music just by mounting an iso in MagicDisc or something. However, I have never found a workaround that makes the music loop in Q2; once a track ends, the music is gone until the level is reloaded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on December 21, 2014, 01:25:13 am

So, I have found (in order of acquisition) A damaged Machete, Thin metal wire, two pristine double barrel Rifles and a box of ammo of some kind.
I had to leave one of them behind and I am way too frightened to continue playing, but that is a bigger haul in like 10 minutes than I have ever had in any game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DayZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on December 21, 2014, 04:12:45 am

Spawn in the wither, trying to stay alive with that damn wither effect on me but i kept dieing, 3 time a charm right? This time he wither me again but i rush him, you might kill me but i WILL kill you, give him the final blow gather up the loot and kickly /home to go back to my house, as i spawn back in my house bam i died again. BUT I GOT THE DAMNED STAR!!! Also... im not quite sure it can be considered a *own*

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Minecraft modsauce pack

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 23, 2014, 09:55:39 pm

Finally found the water chip and bought some nice gear for once. Ian and Dogmeat died, but I'm rather confident that I can survive without them anyways.

The major change was that I realized I can use however many stimpacks I want without using additional AP. However, there does seem to be a bug where the game will CTD if I heal too much in one turn. Using a Super Stimpack will cause this glitch fairly reliably, which gets very annoying in difficult encounters.

Fallout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on December 24, 2014, 12:38:04 am

Finally got my alchemy machine working (Though it's not nearly as automated as it probably should be. Essentia tubes are annoying as hell.), finally made some boots of the traveller, finally got some diamonds, finally did a lot of things. Hell yes.

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Minecraft, with the Thaumcraft mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 24, 2014, 06:07:12 pm

Did a bit of improvised parkour around a rather obnoxious puzzle (2-seconds to dash per switch, 3 of them with one of them at a right angle), and passed by it with minimal effort. Apparently the game wasn't a fan of that maneuver, and hit me with a much more obnoxious split-second tri-dash, with one more final dash to be sure which a double-jump assists in aiming. Did I forget to mention that each dash gateway is only 1 second long, and difficult enough to shoot the trigger, and aim your dash, and if you botch your aim, you get fizzled out by a grid narrowing your path by 1 person-height precision? You MUST bulls-eye those 3 times, with a final one (with no switch, thank God) holding a checkpoint right in front of you that you also must be precise about. So actually, more like 4 of those bastards.

I nailed it by my 30th-odd attempt (I lost count). The important thing is, I'm finally at Level 3 "The Void" now. If that was level 2, then those reviews were not kidding. This game doesn't mess around.

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DeadCore (http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/)

Pretty, but a brutal game. It puts all my InMomentum and FPS shooting skills to the test. A game like this also needs Oculus support. It's too trippy not to have it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 24, 2014, 08:08:38 pm

I finally beat one of the big traditional roguelikes!  With a strategy I thought up on my own, no less.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 24, 2014, 08:28:50 pm

After 5 hours of attempts, my team of randoms finally completed White Xmas on Deathwish with the correct masks equipped. Beard acquired!

...I don't think I'll do that again any time soon.  :'(

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PAYDAY 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 24, 2014, 09:20:31 pm

Quote from: Covenant on December 24, 2014, 08:16:47 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 24, 2014, 08:08:38 pm

I finally beat one of the big traditional roguelikes!  With a strategy I thought up on my own, no less.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

What strategy? Presumably it's something more indepth than my typical 'Finding no good items? Play conservatively. Else, get loose.' one.

Troll hunter of Nemelex Xobeh.  Large rocks for ranged (of which you start with 5), unarmed for melee, fighting skill/being a troll for survival, and Nemelex Xobeh for becoming a mage.  Ton of options at any given moment, while still being essentially unkillable early game.

The closest thing I had to a an overall strategy besides "do the levels in order from easiest to hardest" was to have a very efficient inventory.  It was constantly packed with rings I could switch to, the most powerful potions and scrolls, and a mix of powerful decks, stacked decks, and one or two "everyday" decks I didn't mind using up.  Items like potions of restore abilities, or spare decks, were just left on the floor and "F"ound when I needed them.  It got the point where I would only carry a single type of food and 2 types of throwing weapons, because my inventory was so packed with consumables.  Most of which I didn't even end up using.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 24, 2014, 09:40:12 pm

My Heavy Shotgun Ranger (affectionately named Big Buffalo Bill) one-shot two Raiders in a single shotgun blast. Not bad for a guy who only started playing about 90 minutes previously!

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Wasteland 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 24, 2014, 09:58:11 pm

Quote from: Caroline on December 24, 2014, 04:57:08 pm

>Running around as a Medic with the Ubersaw in Hightower payload race
>See a sniper standing still close to my team's payload final point
>Decide to try to tauntkill even if it's a really stupid idea
>Walk up, start taunt
>Medic winds back
>Sniper moves and runs away
>Random soldier shoots me in the feet.
>Fly through the air like a majestic medeagle
>"I AM GOING TO SAW THROUGH YOUR BONE!"
>Land right in front of another random soldier
>Saw goes in on that precise moment, soldier is paralyzed
>Saw comes out, soldier is ded
>I win all the tauntkills!

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Team Fortress 2

Totally my mad skillz, no luck involved.

Best tauntkill ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 25, 2014, 12:13:20 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on December 19, 2014, 05:55:01 pm

-Flight sim snip-

Ha! I know where you live now!  Muahahahahahahaaaaaa!  My evil plan will come to fruition at last!


Tank # 2 ended up disconnecting right after the fight started, it's only my second time in the encounter and I ended up tanking leviathan's ass (literally) as a dragoon while the real tank tanked the end with the teeth. Despite it being my 2nd time doing that fight I managed to stay alive and keep threat with only cross class skull sunder as a threat generator move.   I'm told that the fight is incredibly easy but I'm proud of managing to tank a postgame primal pretty much start to finish as a non tank class. As a bonus I also managed to earn 3 commendations for my efforts.

FF14, first fight vs leviathan.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 25, 2014, 07:37:15 am

I thought taunt animations cancel if you get juggled?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 25, 2014, 11:38:47 am

Quote from: Reudh on December 25, 2014, 07:37:15 am

I thought taunt animations cancel if you get juggled?

Either way, TF2 is filled with all kinds of little glitches and quirks at this point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: taat on December 25, 2014, 02:21:27 pm

IIRC you get knocked back as normal, and you go back to first person but you can't actually move or shoot, others will still see you taunting in the air and tauntkills can still finish

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Metalax on December 25, 2014, 05:50:06 pm

Quote from: taat on December 25, 2014, 02:21:27 pm

IIRC you get knocked back as normal, and you go back to first person but you can't actually move or shoot, others will still see you taunting in the air and tauntkills can still finish

Yeah, this, as I discovered several years ago on a reduced gravity server, where an airborne soldier blasted my heavy into the air before getting hit by the pow! before I landed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 25, 2014, 11:25:08 pm

Not in a game, but the biggest gaming-related own I have ever experienced.

My brother got me a reproduction N64 controller for Christmas. Some of the buttons felt odd, and the joystick would get stuck if you moved it to the left. I decided that I'd attempt to fix it myself before dealing with the inconvenience of returning it and locating another one.

First of all, I discover that one of my miniature screwdrivers is broken- the edges of the Phillips tip were worn away and couldn't grab screws. I had a flathead that still fit the screws though. I couldn't get enough torque to turn the screws with my bare hands, so I had to turn the screwdriver with pliers while also pressing down on the top of it.

Next, I had to take apart the joystick assembly. It's made of three parts: the stick itself, the electronics, and the spring + plastic bit that pushes the stick back to the center after it's moved.

This is where the real nightmare begins. As soon as I unscrew the two halves of the assembly and separate the stick from the electronics, the spring forces the pieces apart like a bloody hand grenade. This is a problem, because I didn't see the way the parts were originally assembled. I apply a small dot of lubricant to the ball of the stick and set to reverse engineering.

The stick connects to the electronics by means of two half-circle bits that form a plus shape, pieces which rotate to create the stick's range of motion. These have slots for the bottom of the stick to fit into. However, the slots are exclusive: You have to put the stick in one, then rotate it 90 degrees to fit it into the other one. First problem solved.

Next, there's this mysterious plastic ring. I didn't see where this originally was, because the spring blew all the pieces apart before I could look. It turns out, this goes immediately in between the stick assembly and the electronics. When you move the stick, the rotation of the half-circle bits mentioned earlier forces this plastic ring out of place. Because the spring is pushing back on the plastic bit which is pushing on the half-circles, the plastic bit will force the half-circles back into their center position, which returns the stick to the center. I figured this out with much trial and error.

Next came the Herculean task of putting the entire thing back together. This took many, many tries because you literally do have to do it all at once: I had to line up the spring, the plastic bit and the sensors, force the two halves of the assembly together, rotate the stick so that it locks into the half-circles, and then hold the entire thing together as I replaced the screw, all while making sure that the spring doesn't slip out of place.

Finally, I got it done. The stick is still a bit mushy, but it's usable and infinitely better than it was prior to my fixing it. All the buttons work fine. I learned many things during this little adventure, but the most important lesson was:

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CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY THAT IT WORKED AND DON'T EVER DO IT AGAIN.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on December 25, 2014, 11:52:43 pm

Ah, yes, controller disassembly and reassembly.  The moment you get it back to a functioning state, consider it a miracle if it is even slightly better then before. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 26, 2014, 12:06:57 am

Home Run Stadium.
Little Mac.
2,452 feet.
Aw yiss.

_{note: i suck at combos}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 26, 2014, 12:07:14 am

It makes me wonder if people have constructed arcade-style sticks for N64, for all of the two or three decent fighting games in the entire N64 library. :P Most of the N64 controller hacks/mods I've seen are just to add a second analogue stick. Most of these hacks look even sillier than the original controller did, resulting in a four pronged controller in most cases.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 26, 2014, 12:12:40 am

practical N64 mod:
Xbox 360 controller +  N64 cable

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 26, 2014, 01:04:33 am

pls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 26, 2014, 07:35:05 am

Quote from: Metalax on December 25, 2014, 05:50:06 pm

Quote from: taat on December 25, 2014, 02:21:27 pm

IIRC you get knocked back as normal, and you go back to first person but you can't actually move or shoot, others will still see you taunting in the air and tauntkills can still finish

Yeah, this, as I discovered several years ago on a reduced gravity server, where an airborne soldier blasted my heavy into the air before getting hit by the pow! before I landed.

Showdown/Pow! is its own interesting taunt - it actually fires an invisible bullet that can be slightly aimed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 26, 2014, 01:00:48 pm

Successfully managed to hoard 50k Knowledge points. I have no idea why I did that. Other than the achievement. I also (barely) kept AI Progress within the first tech level.

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AI War: Fleet Command. Next ownage was spending that Knowledge. Needless to say, my maximum fleet size went up from 500-600 to over 1400,  and I don't think I've pushed it as far as it can. Also got more scouts and found both AI home stations and all of the A-network Core Shield generators.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 27, 2014, 11:41:11 am

Not sure if this is technically "ownage" as such, but my character has a martial skill of 28. It should be 30, but he lost the 'Brave' trait, presumably because the game thought it would be entirely unfair if my capital county got a 150% boost (100% for the martial skill, 50% for capital) to the levy size as a result of this.

He assassinated his brother  - my previous, unwanted character, I may or may not have manufactured the attempt by giving some of the participants council posts - to ascend to the throne of the King of Norway. Has the Tough Soldier education thing, and he's a Varangian, Viking and Berserker, has been involved in 3 of the personal combat things, one disappeared into the ether, one was a draw (I was alright with that, as the other guy was my marshal, despite him having a personal combat skill of 1 versus my 5) and the other one was a victory which would have got me the 'scarred' trait, had I not already got that from the healed wound that I got in the draw. Winter specialist and No Surrender combat traits, useful in Scandinavia...

The only annoying thing is that I'm a tribal government, unreformed Pagan, so I can't change my succession rules from Elective Gavelkind, and my heir has been in my prison for about 20 years and WON'T DIE.

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Crusader Kings II, starting in 867

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: rabidgam3r on December 27, 2014, 12:29:28 pm

Bought Dawn of War: Soulstorm. Spent an hour doing the tutorial, ending with NECRONS BURNING IN HOLY FLAME

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WARHAMMER 40K: DAWN OF WAR - SOULSTORM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on December 28, 2014, 08:47:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 26, 2014, 12:12:40 am

practical N64 mod:
Xbox 360 controller +  N64 cable

No. Bad. The C buttons do not work well when you map them to a joystick. I know this from emulation.

Quote from: rabidgam3r on December 27, 2014, 12:29:28 pm

Bought Dawn of War: Soulstorm. Spent an hour doing the tutorial, ending with NECRONS BURNING IN HOLY FLAME

Also bad. Soulstorm is bad. Play Dark Crusade, instead. Or even DoW2. I hate DoW2 and I still think it's better than Soulstorm. Case in point (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMLfACod48).

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Quote from: Commander Boreale

BATTLE BROTHAS!
SPEHSS MAREHNS! Todeh the enemeh is at oua doah!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dampe on December 28, 2014, 08:52:19 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 25, 2014, 11:38:47 am

Quote from: Reudh on December 25, 2014, 07:37:15 am

I thought taunt animations cancel if you get juggled?

Either way, TF2 is filled with all kinds of little glitches and quirks at this point.

My favorite is firing the Engineer's pistol while holding down the "Reload" key.
It makes him hold it more sideways, so I feel like a gangsta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on December 28, 2014, 06:57:41 pm

Killed 2 hunters with Magnums on Legendary.

Halo: MCC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 28, 2014, 09:20:07 pm

Beat the fuck out of my brother playing Little Mac as Mii Brawler. I AM THE INFINITE PUNCH

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Supah smush u

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 29, 2014, 12:02:11 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on December 28, 2014, 08:47:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 26, 2014, 12:12:40 am

practical N64 mod:
Xbox 360 controller +  N64 cable

No. Bad. The C buttons do not work well when you map them to a joystick. I know this from emulation.

There's a mode for some N64 FPS games where you can use two controllers to play, so you get dual-analog control. It's more disorienting than anything because I'm so used to the standard N64-FPS control scheme (Tank controls on the analog stick, use the C-buttons to strafe and look up and down).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 29, 2014, 02:17:18 am

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on December 28, 2014, 06:57:41 pm

Killed 2 hunters with Magnums on Legendary.

Halo: MCC

That's fun to do.

Too bad I don't have a matador getup for doing that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on December 30, 2014, 12:03:09 am

Putma celebrity through what amounts to a NASA G-force endurance test.
The game calls it a stratocoaster.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knick on December 30, 2014, 05:30:54 pm

Shock, frost, then shouted him off a cliff.

The bandit chief in Whitewater Overlook.  Skyrim.

(Except I could not find the body, and missed the loot.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 30, 2014, 06:21:51 pm

A random 81-year-old macedwarf became the king.

A winner is me.

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DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on December 31, 2014, 10:10:45 pm

Rescued Ludwig Kerman from his lonely orbit around the mun.

Now he's in a slightly less lonely orbit around kerbin, but that's not the point. The point is that there's a man-made object full of life-support and uneaten rations, empty of fuel, without any visible corpses, simply floating around the Mun. Being there. Plans to name it Object 01 - YUI is underway.

Kerbal Space Program. A game about SCIENCE and how the data inside the astronauts head is more valuable than the combined value of the astronaut and his craft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 31, 2014, 10:21:14 pm

After my difficulty fighting the Black Mage, I feared the worst when it came time to fight the Knight. Thankfully, I needn't have worried! I used what I had learned about the combat system, and by turning Ringabel into a Black Mage himself I was able to toast the Knight and his two companions with repeated lightning strikes while Agnes kept everyone in fighting fit because I had learned that you can Cure the entire party at once. Not one party member even dropped below half HP.

Bravely Default

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: rabidgam3r on December 31, 2014, 11:04:34 pm

Went to destroy the Sword of ScrotumCrota. Had to fight three Swarm Princes and their alien-zombie-something minions. The Swarm Princes basically have to be headshotted for me to do any damage to them, and they have more health than the human population has nipples.
It took me 30-40 minutes to kill just one of them by abusing their AI, making them jump into some object that bounces them, stuns them while they compute what the fuck just happened, headshotting them for measly damage and repeating.
I had to do this three times without dying. I had montage music and everything.

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Destiny, I love that game and HATE IT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 01, 2015, 05:01:52 am

There were five dudes standing on point A.
I fired a grenade.
It had crits.
C:

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TF2, on cp_steel

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 05:06:13 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on December 31, 2014, 10:10:45 pm

Kerbal Space Program. A game about SCIENCE and how the data inside the astronauts head is more valuable than the combined value of the astronaut and his craft.

I always thought they just printed out a bunch of data and stuffed it in their pockets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 01, 2015, 06:19:21 am

That sounds like fanart is required.

"No matter the cost, no matter the lives lost..."

"WE SHALL FIGHT FOR OUR !!SCIENCE!!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 01, 2015, 08:10:42 am

The intelligence has returned to our base.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 01, 2015, 11:27:50 am

I have changed a tire on my car.  I am now the master of my own destiny as I have successfully performed basic repairs on a vehicle under my care without assistance¹.   My father would be proud.

Real life, version 0.9.98.010.2015a

¹ _{I did use my dad's power tools for the task, but with my dad not being around anymore I consider finding and figuring out how to use the pneumatic wrench thingy in the garage full of unidentified tools balances it out.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 01, 2015, 11:32:32 am

Further to my previous character's huge martial skill, his son managed to create the Empire of Scandinavia. I was worried that he would die before I could do it, and thus lose the Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden to succession(you require 80% of all the county titles that make up the empire, and losing two kingdoms would basically result in the loss of half of them) so I had to risk a truce breaker to get the counter over 80% (this is bad, all the people in your religion don't like you too much after, and you lose a significant chunk of your diplomacy skill. These last five years each) that I've never had to do before.

Fifteen years hence this character managed to reform Germanic Paganism, and is now the Fylkir, head of the religion. Lots of temple looting, even to the point of sacking Rome, and now I can work my way toward adopting Feudalism or Tribalism, so I can eventually change these ridiculous succession laws.

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 01:41:15 pm

Chapter 11. Finished grinding my preferred characters and was going to make the last stand against Gangrel.

We get halfway down the battlefield. Libra clears some space for Chrom to get at Gangrel and Frederick softens him up a bit. I have Chrom paired up with his wife and equipped with a spear, counting on the highly probable dual strike to finish the Mad King.

Then, Chrom gets ready to stab, and the best thing happens.

"YOUR END HAS COME!"
Critical hit!
Gangrel dies!

That's it. Screw Frederick or Lon'qu being the badasses, it's Chrom. That didn't just take the cake, that grabbed the cake and chucked it against a wall, then baked a new cake ten times as good, then ate that cake like a boss.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening. Second playthrough to get the female avatar supports.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 05:33:20 pm

I always noticed that Lon'qu was only a badass because he had a good sword equipped when you recruit him. The Killing Edge he has gets a huge crit bonus. If you give him a different sword, he's not quite as effective.

Fredrick, though, is fucking unkillable. His defense and attack are so high that when I was playing on Classic mode, I just brought him along all the time to get in front of everyone who was about to die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 01, 2015, 05:37:58 pm

And here I never use Frederick. He's an EXP sponge for units that could actually use the EXP :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 07:35:16 pm

I took him to the endgame my first time through, myself. Half because I started off not caring if anybody died (and lost like half the army) and needed the space and half because he seems to have gotten pretty good stat growths compared to most peoples' Fredericks.

Lon'qu was pretty good for me the first time as well, because even after the Killing Edge lost its luster he had good enough stat growths to survive past there.

We need a thread for FE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 07:36:42 pm

An FE thread would make me mourn my lost 3DS even more...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 08:02:31 pm

You lost your 3DS? D:

/me pats AlleeCat on the back

That's terrible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 01, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

Well you could always chat about it in FEF Hub (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137453.0). I don't think there's anyone there who doesn't actually play Fire Emblem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 01, 2015, 08:33:30 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on January 01, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

Well you could always chat about it in FEF Hub (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137453.0). I don't think there's anyone there who doesn't actually play Fire Emblem.

Yeah, but that's more the hub for a certain series of forum games that draws inspiration from the video games. I think the Fire Emblem video games deserve their own thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 01, 2015, 09:00:00 pm

Okay.. You could always revive this one then. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=134906.msg4872738#msg4872738

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 09:34:10 pm

That'd catch you some hot water for necro'ing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 01, 2015, 09:41:01 pm

I killed ALL the Orks (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=367420020)

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 01, 2015, 10:10:11 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 01, 2015, 09:34:10 pm

That'd catch you some hot water for necro'ing.

Don't be silly. I doubt anyone would mind necroing a thread in order to actually continue discussion on it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 10:15:53 pm

Well then, I'll go get the black onyxes (http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/dnd35/soveliorsage/spellsAtoB.html#animate-dead).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 01, 2015, 10:24:24 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 05:33:20 pm

I always noticed that Lon'qu was only a badass because he had a good sword equipped when you recruit him. The Killing Edge he has gets a huge crit bonus. If you give him a different sword, he's not quite as effective.

Fredrick, though, is fucking unkillable. His defense and attack are so high that when I was playing on Classic mode, I just brought him along all the time to get in front of everyone who was about to die.

Lon'qu becomes absolutely absurd if you reclass into Assassin and then into Swordmaster to pick up Astra and Lethality. Coupled with Lon'qu's superb skill growths, and the naturally high Skill of Swordmasters and Assassins, he'll be a crit machine who can kill most foes off without a Killing Edge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 01, 2015, 10:31:58 pm

Quote from: Reudh on January 01, 2015, 10:24:24 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 05:33:20 pm

I always noticed that Lon'qu was only a badass because he had a good sword equipped when you recruit him. The Killing Edge he has gets a huge crit bonus. If you give him a different sword, he's not quite as effective.

Fredrick, though, is fucking unkillable. His defense and attack are so high that when I was playing on Classic mode, I just brought him along all the time to get in front of everyone who was about to die.

Lon'qu becomes absolutely absurd if you reclass into Assassin and then into Swordmaster to pick up Astra and Lethality. Coupled with Lon'qu's superb skill growths, and the naturally high Skill of Swordmasters and Assassins, he'll be a crit machine who can kill most foes off without a Killing Edge.

...

That's exactly what I did, except I went Swordmaster -> Assassin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on January 01, 2015, 11:16:05 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on January 01, 2015, 09:41:01 pm

I killed ALL the Orks (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=367420020)

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

I was just about to accuse you of stealing from Reddit... but nope, the bodies are in different poses. (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2r21i7/i_guess_i_should_do_some_story_missions_shadow_of/) Guess you're off the hook!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 01, 2015, 11:29:38 pm

Now you have to go through and brand every single orc!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 02, 2015, 12:23:16 am

So...Me, Aedel, and Rabidgam3r played Armored Transport: Docks.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGH.
During the entire thing, I had Miracle Of Sound's latest album playing. That shit knew I was going through hell. At one point it was up to me to res Aedel while being shot massively. Here's the thing: I'm stupidly fast, Aedel is a mastermind with a goddamn grenade launcher, and Rabid has Dozerarmor.

Oh, and sentries. Eheh.

We still went through the fire and flames, we became a team, we predicted every fucking movement each other did and covered. I was silently screaming through most of it.

Crew downs in total? FUCKING 27. Best part of the own? We. Got. More. Loot. Than. Required.

Directly after this we did Big Bank on hard and fucking aced it. Either luck, or we now have a bond forged in bulletfire.

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PAYDAY. FUCKING. TWO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on January 02, 2015, 06:00:20 am

Owning went on both sides, the battle went on forever, and both sides had lost almost everyone, the enemy general (as in, himself, all the bodyguards were dead, he managed to Mountain Blade through roughly 40 archers and 20 spear-men before he died.

Then my single armored swordsman Mountain Bladed through 10 or so ballista crewmen, not quite as impressive but still, unfortunately he went down when he tried to take on 15 trebuchet crewmen, he had 23 out of arrow archers as support but they ran away when a ballista bolt killed one (or two) of them during the charge.

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Medieval II Total War.

And then the Polish got another somewhat smaller army to lay siege right after that.

Joy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: rabidgam3r on January 03, 2015, 12:04:53 am

Finally got my stepbrother's Destiny to download. Time to start a new character and kick ass with him!

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FUCKING XBOX GODDAMN 360 NOT FUCKING DOWNLOADING FOR THEFUCKING HUNDREDTH TIME (destiny.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 03, 2015, 02:25:48 am

I DID IT

I BEAT SUPER MARIO BROS 3

The ending was hilarious.

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SUPER MARIO BROS 3, SILLY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Audioworm333 on January 03, 2015, 02:26:00 pm

You know that one enemy with dual rocket launchers or something? That really fat guy? Don't remember what he's called, but I ripped one apart with my bare hands.

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Brutal Doom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 03, 2015, 05:38:31 pm

Quote from: Audioworm333 on January 03, 2015, 02:26:00 pm

You know that one enemy with dual rocket launchers or something? That really fat guy? Don't remember what he's called, but I ripped one apart with my bare hands.

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Brutal Doom

You punched out a mancubus? I'm impressed. With or without berserk upgrade? Without deserves a cookie. Next challenge: punch out arachnitrons.  I've got a handful of punch-outs of those brainy bastards. Plenty of bullet dodging and slaloming to get the job done right. I think I did something of the sort when I did a fists-only run of a level (much easier with the aid of a berserk pack). Ultimate challenge: Fists only in Dead Simple (level 7) in Doom II; bonus if done in UV difficulty.

My Own:
Though I still lost enough to lose some points in the ranked matches, I managed to go from the far edge of a screen, distantly away from the pack, all the way to a comfortable lead (about nearly 2 screens worth of travel; first to catch up, and another to lead) within 15 seconds on a relatively difficult level (Nightclub, I think; average difficulty by-level design standards), where dealing with Advanced League players are concerned (higher ranking players get mean here, so average-difficulty by-level, insanely difficult with the experienced players that favor this level.), and won the match.

It was so impressive, I got "Wow."-level reactions from the other Advanced League (Level 3, 1500+ points to reach) players, as if I wasn't taking them seriously in the earlier matches, and I decided to mimic a TAS run in my skill level for that run.

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Speedrunners
Advanced League Ranked Match

EDIT:
I've noticed that in intense enough matches, I tend to comment "Not efficient enough!" when I race, but lose a match. To hear that comment, and especially after witnessing something like that happen, I can imagine how other players must react to that statement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 06, 2015, 12:00:42 pm

I got to piecemeal Sitting Bull's lands away him piecemeal with a combination of archers/axemen.  He, of course, spammed his own dog soldiers, which require no bronze.  Im 95% certain we share an island off the Pangaea (70% certain about pangean.  One can never be quite sure).
  Its been three wars, and I'm still able to erect a facade economy in the 20 turn peacetimes.

CIV.  That that, you turtling liitle shit spy spammer!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 06, 2015, 03:48:58 pm

Accidentally triggered Visas Marr before I was ready to fight her, got my ass handed to me a few times. Then, by wearing two Arkanian Energy Shields and reactivating them every 3 rounds so I was never unshielded, while also hyped up on a ton of stims, spamming Force Lightning whenever my points came back, I finally beat her. This game is moving at a breakneck pace compared to how it usually goes; maybe I'm just better at it than I was when I last played? ???

KOTOR 2 plus Restored Content. Her scripted Fear attack once she reaches half-health is scary as hell if you're unprepared, I thought the game was crashing for a second.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 06, 2015, 04:35:00 pm

Beat some of my old, already very good times by whole seconds (1-3 overall), since previous optimizing last night. Still leagues away from the world records though. Not even the top-15.

Lovely Planet (http://steamcommunity.com/app/298600#scrollTop=0)

A rather Katamari-ish FPS. Simple, yet addictive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on January 06, 2015, 04:46:14 pm

Last night I was wandering about the city when I noticed another player coming towards me.
Figuring he had unpleasant intentions in mind, especially given that he'd been killing a bunch of other people according to the kill feed, I ducked into cover on the other side of a building from him and readied my shotgun. Unfortunately for me, this cheap bastard just lobbed a sticky bomb at me without breaking cover, detonating it and killing me instantly. ::)

So, a short while after that I tracked him down in my vaguely banana-like car, floored it towards his parked car (which he was taking cover behind in the middle of a road, doubtless preparing to detonate more sticky bombs) and riddled him with bullets before speeding off into the sunset.

A bit later, when I was busy smashing up my car, I shot some other guy I passed who happened to have a bounty set on him.
I heard him say something like, "That's not fair!" through the chat, and actually planned on sending him a message to apologize... until he came after me a while later, when I was riding along on my moped, minding my own business.
I was just trying to drive the thing into the nearby ocean before quitting when this guy sped up in his car and started shooting me out of nowhere. I managed to quickly scoot in behind a concrete pillar, whip out my shotgun then pop out and blast him in the face.

I heard him shouting incoherently into his mic for a brief moment, then dumped my scooter in the sea and went to bed. :P

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GTA Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on January 06, 2015, 04:59:12 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on January 06, 2015, 04:35:00 pm

Beat some of my old, already very good times by whole seconds (1-3 overall), since previous optimizing last night. Still leagues away from the world records though. Not even the top-15.

Lovely Planet (http://steamcommunity.com/app/298600#scrollTop=0)

A rather Katamari-ish FPS. Simple, yet addictive.

I don't know anything about lovely planet. but I love your christmas avatar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on January 06, 2015, 07:43:02 pm

Finally assembled my arsenal made entirely of different UZIs. Since I chose the scout class, I get an 8x damage multiplier when using pistols; and for some reason, Uzis count as pistols. Considering their ridiculous fire rate (8 bullets a second) and already fast reload, this breaks the game entirely.

Regular Uzi + power/power/sniper/sniper mods. hitscan, 100% accuracy, 24x damage.
Dual Uzis: Double firing rate, double ammo capacity, 8x damage, wide spread is great for moving down groups.
Demolition Uzi: AOE. 8x damage
Plasma Uzi + sniper mod: 100% accurate, Double damage from plasma for a total of 16x armor piercing damage.
Nanomachic Uzi: Infinite ammo, since even with 150 points in the storage stat, 3000 bullets and 4500 e-cells can run out quick in wads with low ammo count.

Even a unique spider overmind with all auras on armageddon difficulty goes down in seconds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on January 06, 2015, 08:15:34 pm

Quote from: Blaze on January 06, 2015, 07:43:02 pm

Finally assembled my arsenal made entirely of different UZIs. Since I chose the scout class, I get an 8x damage multiplier when using pistols; and for some reason, Uzis count as pistols. Considering their ridiculous fire rate (8 bullets a second) and already fast reload, this breaks the game entirely.

Regular Uzi + power/power/sniper/sniper mods. hitscan, 100% accuracy, 24x damage.
Dual Uzis: Double firing rate, double ammo capacity, 8x damage, wide spread is great for moving down groups.
Demolition Uzi: AOE. 8x damage
Plasma Uzi + sniper mod: 100% accurate, Double damage from plasma for a total of 16x armor piercing damage.
Nanomachic Uzi: Infinite ammo, since even with 150 points in the storage stat, 3000 bullets and 4500 e-cells can run out quick in wads with low ammo count.

Even a unique spider overmind with all auras on armageddon difficulty goes down in seconds.

What game be dis?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on January 06, 2015, 08:37:53 pm

Doom II + Doom RPG + Roguelike Arsenal + Roguelike Enemies.

Spoiler: Screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/66PR8zD.png)

It's amazing what they did with this engine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on January 07, 2015, 05:15:15 am

Wow, this Doom mod mashup sounds super neat, thanks for letting me know about it, Blaze!


My most memorable own from the past few days:

So few days ago I play a pvp "Siege" type of match. It's a 4vs4 match with 2 lanes and one central dungeon. The trick is the counter each team has. Each enemy minion slain gets you 1 point, enemy champion 5 (I think) and when it reaches 100 a sort of a super minion is spawned for that team. This minion has tons of health and by default prioritizes enemy towers as target, if within firing range. Oh, there also a big monster in the jungle that, upon being killed, instantly spawns this super minion, but keeps the score. So theoretically you could have 99 points, kill that monster then kill one more minion and have 2 super minions, each pushing their own lane. But I digress.

So I play as Ymir, a tanky, melee, "guardian" type of champion. And right from the start... we are loosing. It's not THAT bad, we get a kill here and there, but the enemy team has an obvious upper hand. They probably spawn 2 or 3 super minions before our first and even then ours is quickly dealt with.

So eventually they completely destroy our left lane. They reach the Phoenix (a regenerating turret at the end of the lane), crush it and rush the Titan (if it dies, game ends). By that time, we probably voted at least twice to surrender, but with only one or two votes for "yes". So yeah, they are fighting the titan and we are fighting them in our own base. And then... and then we somehow manage to hold them off. They loose the momentum and are forced back with our titan having, what, 20% of health? Less? Well, pretty sure we lost by this point anyways, right?

WRONG. After that moment, it felt like our whole team, myself included, woke from a deep slumber. Suddenly, we are pushing. We are pushing HARD. It definitely helped that the game dragged long enough for all of us to reach the end level and despite our failings complete our item builds. Because now the real, frantic battle for supremacy starts. We strike in different lanes, sneak through jungle, gank people, do miraculous escapes, push minions out of our base in the last moments, summon siege minions again and again and then... and then we are fighting them on their own turf. One thing I was proud of was they never managed to get our other Phoenix down. They were close, but we managed to hold them off somehow. But once we got THEIR Phoenix down in the first lane, we just relentlessly pushed and pushed until their second felt down too. They managed to hold us off for a while, but time and time again we fought them and their titan until finally, we were victorious.

This was a comeback if I ever saw one.

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Smite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on January 07, 2015, 07:46:24 am

I was rather proud when I learned to stealth run jewellery store with just my friend and I. Now I'm stoked we can fairly easily stealth Diamond Store. Although the blatant disregard for civilian life I've grown while doing it is a bit disturbing... (frankly, the penalty for Civilian deaths is minimal when it comes to the fact that they can screw up a perfectly good run. 12 Cable Ties just aren't enough for all of them. But when you can make over half a million SPENDING cash in a single Overkill run, the 30ish thousand dollar penalty for all the kills just isn't a big deal).

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Payday 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on January 07, 2015, 09:28:43 am

Spoiler: -WARNING- Huge wall of text (click to show/hide)

This is the most epic story I have witnessed so far in the game, and probably there won't be a better one.

My mission was to kill the warchiefs, all of the 5 commanders of the orcish army. And, to be honest, the first 4 ones were maybe too easy. None of them could do anything against me, and they all fell quickly.
Then, I got to the last one. I don't even remember his name, but as you'll see, that's not important.
I called him out, and he arrived, with his two bodyguards. One of them was called Sakh, the Fighter; and THAT is a name I'll remember for a long time.
This warchief was smarter than the others, and he would not fall for any trick; I had to fight him in the only way posssible: a sword fight to the death, like I already did with two of the others.
As I jumped down next to him and started fighting, anyway, I noticed it was going worse than the other times. Despite the fact that I was clearly stronger than my opponent, I was losing. Some archer was shooting everything he had at me, never missing a single shot. I soon realized the archer was Sakh; but it was too late. He fired another shot, making me fall on my knees. Another arrow, and I was defeated, killed by some random bodyguard. The worst part, the warchief couldn't even land one shot, I was destroying him.
Thinking about this now, I should have been more cautious, but I was too angry, and I ran straight into the battle again. Nothing changed; i was quickly dispatched by the same guy, Sakh, who even took the time to mock me and challenge me again.
Furious, I decided to find him by himself and ambush him, but even that was not easy: when I found him, he was in the middle of a fight, battling out with some other group of Uruks. I should have waited; let the others do it, then maybe jump in for the killing blow; but I was too furious, and I paid for that. I ran at him from behind and started my attack in the middle of the crowd; but the other orcs quickly started attacking me, giving him time to step back; exactly at the right distance for his arrows. I was taken down, again.
Angry and humiliated, I decided it was enough: "the next time will be the last", I said.
I tracked him down again, stopping only to crash the party where the other bodyguard was: a quick jump was all I needed to do, and the orc was dead, stabbed in the neck. That was too easy, i thought; how did this guy become a bodyguard, especially along with Sakh?
I quickly went back to my main goal; when I found him, Sakh was walking around in a stronghold, doing nothing but harassing other orcs. I was tempted to jump down on him, again; but I hadn't forgotten what happened the previous time, so I followed him around, staying hidden on the roofs.
Then, finally, for the first time in this story, luck was on my side, as Sakh stopped in the perfect spot: next to a Caragor cage, close to a drop. I quickly put together a plan, knowing that this was probably the only time I would have had an occasion like that.
One shot later, the Caragor was free; this scared all the orcs who were close enough to help Sakh, but, more important, it scared HIM. It was his only true weakness. Before he could run away, anyway, another shot pinned him on the ground, leaving him unable to run.
I dropped down next to him; he was too scared to fight back, and anyway he hadn't seen me coming; and nobody was around to help him this time.
I was tempted to have a bit of fun with him, but it was not the right time: he was quickly taken care of, and I ran away. There were no witnesses.

With the bodyguards finally out of the way, I challenged the warchief again. This time, the battle was way easier: without his guards, he was almost pathetic in a real fight. Then, as I was about to deal the killing blow, another captain jumped in, with reinforcements.
He was even weaker than his superior, but his sacrifice gave the warchief just enough time to escape; I chased after him, but he had a good headstart, and arrows would not work on him.
Then, again, I was saved by one thing: luck. He was running away through an orcish camp, and he ran right next to a campfire. I shot a magic arrow at it, and the explosion caught him, stopping him for a while. It was the only thing I needed: I quickly caught up to him, and finally ended the mission. It was the most satisfying victory I ever had since the beginning.

Sakh, I hated you, but I have to admit one thing: you were a tough opponent. You will not be forgotten.

Game: Shadow of Mordor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 07, 2015, 09:33:32 am

Timed my airblasts just right to reflect a sollies rockets as he fired them, I killed him twice that way.
He ragequit because of my skillreflects 8)

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 07, 2015, 11:43:06 am

Skeletron thought he was all big and badass, until I showed up at his front door in full Molten gear, with assistance from an Intense Slime Rod.

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Terarria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 07, 2015, 12:18:15 pm

Quote from: Blaze on January 06, 2015, 08:37:53 pm

Doom II + Doom RPG + Roguelike Arsenal + Roguelike Enemies.

Spoiler: Screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/66PR8zD.png)

It's amazing what they did with this engine.

O.O  Is there a single link?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on January 07, 2015, 12:52:12 pm

Republic of China started the III World War by firing on NATO civilian shipping on Earth - Io colony route.

30 seconds after the confirmation about the attack entire NATO space defence net opens fire on Chinese navy orbiting the Earth, reducing it ( in less than a 2 minutes ) to the bunch of burned out husks and vast net of lifepods. Beside the 12 people killed onboard the civilian ship, no one get killed and only 2 of the OWP recieved any damage easily absorbed by armour.
PROTIP for AI : never start a war when all you have are missile ships at point blank range of an enemy with shitload of railguns, gauss cannons and mesons.

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Aurora 4x

Sniper sentry ( in cowboy hat no less ) with Lee Enfield rifle and security turret vs 3 tribal savages with spears. One headshot and one turret salvo later - one savage dead, one dying and one fleeing.
Dead savage got chopped up by the Doc and his meat is going to serve as an emergency food source, the other one will be a walking organ donor.

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Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 07, 2015, 03:03:03 pm

After starting over due to Support-related reasons, I was back in the Arena fighting Marth. I had teamed Sumia up with my Avatar, and the two lured Marth into attack range. I knew Sumia could take the hit and survive to deliver two counterstrikes because I had crunched the numbers.

Marth attacked and left Sumia with just 2 HP, as expected. She launched her first counterattack, followed by a bolt of Thunder from the Avatar. Sumia countered once more, and the Avatar launched a second attack which defeated Marth. Sumia followed up this epic moment of teamwork with a perfect (all stats increased) level.

Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 07, 2015, 04:53:51 pm

You started over? How come?

Other-gender supports?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 07, 2015, 06:01:05 pm

No, nothing like that. I had wanted to get Chrom and Olivia together, but I didn't know at the time that if Chrom has a single support rank with any of his other potential spouses it becomes impossible for the two to hook up. Since he did indeed have those support ranks, my only choices were to either deliberately kill off the other ladies or start over.

At least starting over seems to have been the correct choice so far. Fewer disappointing levels this time around, and my better understanding of the Team Up and support systems means that I'm breezing though the early chapters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on January 07, 2015, 06:24:06 pm

Quote from: pisskop on January 07, 2015, 12:18:15 pm

O.O  Is there a single link?

Spoiler: Instructions (click to show/hide)

Direct link to download for DoomRPG and all compatability extensions. (https://github.com/Kyle873/DoomRPG/archive/master.zip)
Direct link to download for Roguelike Arsenal (https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyipbtmzah5yt11/DoomRL%20Arsenal%20Beta%207.94.7z?dl=1)
Direct link to download for Roguelike Enemies (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3o8jw52zoxcbkee/DoomRL%20Monsters%20Beta%205.2.7z?dl=1)
Make sure you have GZdoom (http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/gzdoom/) as it may not work on other source ports.

Extract DoomRPG-master and copy the following items into your Doom directory:
DoomRPG
DoomRPG-Brightmaps
DoomRPG-RLArsenal
DoomRPG-RLMonsters

Extract DoomRLArsenal Beta and DoomRLMonsters Beta into your Doom directory.

Open up your zdoom config file and add the following lines under "Global Autoload":
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLhud.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLmain.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLmonsters.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG-RLArsenal
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG-RLMonsters

When you first start it up, go to the "Doom RPG Options" menu, scroll down to the bottom, and choose "Reset to default". You'll also need to assign keys for skill usage and such.

Now to remain relevant:

I took on a "Nighmare" level mission to "Kill Reinforcements" since the reward was a mid-level shield body part. So I accepted the mission and took the teleporter to the gantlet (level 4).

So apparently, "Kill Reinforcements" have you kill a certain amount of extra enemies in a level. What the game failed to mention was that said extra enemies would be periodically spawned near you, including RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU START THE LEVEL.

Thankfully, the stage had a lot of space to maneuver in. I run n' gunned, as all sorts of horrors spawned around me. Volacubus (Mancubus with jets for legs that fire bfg shots), Heavy Revenants (Their "boop-boop-beep SCREE!" sound as they lock-on and fire their missiles tickles me.), Mechtres (Mechanical Spectres), just to name a few.

I had to kill 103 of them.

At the very end, there were 3 enemies left. An Agony Elemental (Spawns pain elementals and has two lost soul shooters that fire very quickly, splits into pain elementals on death), a Cyberdemon (Regular), and a Nightmare Archvile (Summons cyber versions of enemies, resurrects enemies, immune to explosion damage, attacks with a massive flame pillar).

I tagged the nightmare archvile with Church's Null Pointer (Which does no damage, but stunlocks) and used it as a shield to avoid the cyberdemon's missiles while I emptied several clips on the agony elemental and its cronies; re-tagging the archvile as needed. After it was dealt with, I looked back and saw that the archvile and cyberdemon were infighting. Of course, since Cyberdemons only have missiles and Nightmare archviles are immune to explosion damage, I just watched as the cyberdemon was roasted to death.

I then punched the archvile to death, as I was wearing Gothic armor + boots, which massively increases punch damage as a set bonus.

Note: There are three additional difficulty levels above "Nightmare".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on January 07, 2015, 06:30:43 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 07, 2015, 06:01:05 pm

No, nothing like that. I had wanted to get Chrom and Olivia together, but I didn't know at the time that if Chrom has a single support rank with any of his other potential spouses it becomes impossible for the two to hook up. Since he did indeed have those support ranks, my only choices were to either deliberately kill off the other ladies or start over.

At least starting over seems to have been the correct choice so far. Fewer disappointing levels this time around, and my better understanding of the Team Up and support systems means that I'm breezing though the early chapters.

Chrom x Olivia is probs the best.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 07, 2015, 09:21:44 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 07, 2015, 06:01:05 pm

No, nothing like that. I had wanted to get Chrom and Olivia together, but I didn't know at the time that if Chrom has a single support rank with any of his other potential spouses it becomes impossible for the two to hook up. Since he did indeed have those support ranks, my only choices were to either deliberately kill off the other ladies or start over.

At least starting over seems to have been the correct choice so far. Fewer disappointing levels this time around, and my better understanding of the Team Up and support systems means that I'm breezing though the early chapters.

The best thing that happens is if he has 0 support points with ANY eligible female, in which case he marries a random village girl. This is pretty bad for getting good stats on Lucina.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 07, 2015, 10:02:46 pm

Quote from: Reudh on January 07, 2015, 09:21:44 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 07, 2015, 06:01:05 pm

No, nothing like that. I had wanted to get Chrom and Olivia together, but I didn't know at the time that if Chrom has a single support rank with any of his other potential spouses it becomes impossible for the two to hook up. Since he did indeed have those support ranks, my only choices were to either deliberately kill off the other ladies or start over.

At least starting over seems to have been the correct choice so far. Fewer disappointing levels this time around, and my better understanding of the Team Up and support systems means that I'm breezing though the early chapters.

The best thing that happens is if he has 0 support points with ANY eligible female, in which case he marries a random village girl. This is pretty bad for getting good stats on Lucina.

Yeah, what you need to do is grind Risen encounters with the other three until they get married to other people. Then Chrom marries Olivia, assuming she doesn't die during Chapter 11.

EDIT: Speaking of FE...

I FINALLY BEAT CHAPTER 11

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 08, 2015, 10:57:53 pm

Joe had 29 cities.  Suliman had 31.
  Joe went for steel/rifling.  Suli went for democracy.
    Joe had the Jewish headquarters.  Suliman had Christian and Hindu Quarters, and converted to Jew.
      Suli had (and I shit you not) 2x the gold production as me.  He also marginally edged me out in hammers.  I did, however, skip sci-meth because I had AP, lighthouse, and several other juicy early-mid game stuff.

  I spent over 100 turns taking every city of his, while endearing myself to the world powers (alexander, Suryman, Qin, Hayua, Stalin, Haty).
    Stalin is dying, Haty is dead, and Qin is a fly in my ointment, paid by somebody to war me with 85% my force and no combustion.
      Alex's power is roughly parallel mine, factoring ai bonuses.  He has 15 less cities than I do.  Sury is friendly, Alex is pleased, and hayua is please.  Im lined up to win, if I can recover my newly acquired land and turtl-ish.  I have 35% of the world in my hands, and 6 of us remain of 11.
''
  CIV w/kmod

Quote from: Blaze on January 07, 2015, 06:24:06 pm

Quote from: pisskop on January 07, 2015, 12:18:15 pm

O.O  Is there a single link?

Spoiler: Instructions (click to show/hide)

Direct link to download for DoomRPG and all compatability extensions. (https://github.com/Kyle873/DoomRPG/archive/master.zip)
Direct link to download for Roguelike Arsenal (https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyipbtmzah5yt11/DoomRL%20Arsenal%20Beta%207.94.7z?dl=1)
Direct link to download for Roguelike Enemies (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3o8jw52zoxcbkee/DoomRL%20Monsters%20Beta%205.2.7z?dl=1)
Make sure you have GZdoom (http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/gzdoom/) as it may not work on other source ports.

Extract DoomRPG-master and copy the following items into your Doom directory:
DoomRPG
DoomRPG-Brightmaps
DoomRPG-RLArsenal
DoomRPG-RLMonsters

Extract DoomRLArsenal Beta and DoomRLMonsters Beta into your Doom directory.

Open up your zdoom config file and add the following lines under "Global Autoload":
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLhud.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLmain.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRLmonsters.wad (I renamed the file so it could be different on yours)
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG-RLArsenal
Path=$PROGDIR/DoomRPG-RLMonsters

When you first start it up, go to the "Doom RPG Options" menu, scroll down to the bottom, and choose "Reset to default". You'll also need to assign keys for skill usage and such.

thanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on January 09, 2015, 12:37:58 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 07, 2015, 10:02:46 pm

I FINALLY BEAT CHAPTER 11

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Just so you know there is a guide dang it character in chapter 15. You have to stand on a certain square with one of two characters to unlock him, else he won't ever join your team (you can do it by accident like I did my first time, but the chance is like 0).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on January 09, 2015, 12:40:41 am

To be fair, it's the desert level of a FE game. Those are always guide dang it (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuideDangIt) levels.  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on January 09, 2015, 04:21:56 pm

I was sitting in an AA rocket launcher, shooting at a jet flying by and shooting at my team. One rocket got turned by a flare he deployed and it flew away somewhere. A few seconds later, this happens in chat:

>"MAC DONALD HACKER"
>"⁇?"
>"NOOB HACKER"
>"What did I do?"
>"KILLED ME AT MY BASE WITH AN RPG FROM ALL ACROSS THE MAP NOOB"
>"AA rocket got turned around by a flare. It was entirely random."
>"NO WAY THIS CAN HAPPEN RANDOMLY"

Etc. Etc. I should go into a hall of fame or something.

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Battlefield: Pay4free

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on January 09, 2015, 04:39:29 pm

Near misses are weird. For example, I can clearly see a sniper shot ~1m away from me, but suddenly I get hit 1 second later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on January 09, 2015, 06:53:09 pm

Okay, got the passcode for most of the hospital and a neat keycard. This isn't so bad! I mean, I'm still stuck on this horrifying space station millions of miles from the ones I love, but hey! It's not so bad.
Scraping above me.
I scramble into the first room I see and jump into a locker. It's already in the room, because there's a vent here. I should have noticed.
It stalks over, sniffs a bit, and I try not to burst my lungs holding my breath in. I can see the details of it's body; no-one has been this close to this monster without dying.
Finally, it leaves. I step out of the locker, and forget the most essential detail.

Forgot one detail about the monster. It doublechecks. The door opens.

I stare horrified, as it stalks toward... the locker, which it sniffs again, then it leaves through the vent without even glancing in my direction. Makes sense, since it doesn't have any visible eyes.
Why am I still alive? I notice that I was behind a table the whole time.
There is no smiley that described my reaction. Perhaps a combination of :'(, :o, and :D
How did I *own* by hiding behind a table?
Because I was playing

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alien Isolation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on January 09, 2015, 07:07:28 pm

Don't hide in lockers... Didn't you notice how you slam the door alien-alertingly loud?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on January 09, 2015, 07:12:15 pm

I did get trapped in an annoying loop where alien would come near, I would enter the locker, alien leaves, exit the locker (Loudly), alien comes back, 60 goto 10. I wish instead of just holding down E to enter it loudly, you could press E to enter it quickly but loudly and hold E to enter it slowly but quietly.
The thing is, I like the certainty of lockers. Outside them I never feel safe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 10, 2015, 07:29:14 pm

Handmaiden does positively obscene amounts of damage with Master Flurry and Master Power Attack. At first I thought the game was glitching somehow, but nope; she can basically one-shot most mooks if she has one of the top-level melee attacks. She basically solo'd the part on Nar Shadaa where Atton and two other party members have to fight through a crowd of bounty hunters to get to the docks; Atton and Bao-Dur were only really useful as cannon fodder. This is a good thing because I built Atton awfully, somehow.

Star Wars: KOTOR2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on January 10, 2015, 08:50:03 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/32982655643318948/BEDB5E7331A3B081F1C35E4C75E9CE78B9257213/1024x578.resizedimage)

Faster then Light.  Heng died a few moments later, and Giles was on deaths door. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 10, 2015, 10:27:22 pm

Spent a good 10 minutes staying alive fixing up allied tanks and sunderers, occasionally getting a kill on the odd enemy player who poked their head too far out of cover with my rifle.  Then as the fight moved into the enemy base I got a knife kill on an enemy max, killed another max by good old fashioned bullets, and in total I managed to kill a mosquito, a harrasser and a Lightning tank with my crappy explosive crossbow.  The lightning tank was even actively engaging me.  All in one life.   I ended up eventually dying to a headshot while healing a friendly max.  Really the only weapon I didn't score a kill with was my anti tank mines.

Best life yet.  Scored over 10k points total from repairs, kills, and ribbon bonuses.

Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 10, 2015, 10:54:02 pm

Not sure it's an own, but I went Phlog Pyro for cheesy laughs and held down the entire enemy team at their spawn. So much rage on the other team from two Phlogistinator Pyros tandem activating MMMPH.

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 11, 2015, 02:56:41 am

Quote from: Reudh on January 10, 2015, 10:54:02 pm

Not sure it's an own, but I went Phlog Pyro for cheesy laughs and held down the entire enemy team at their spawn. So much rage on the other team from two Phlogistinator Pyros tandem activating MMMPH.

Team Fortress 2

"I'm glad I died (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyuQbB3Ryg)"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on January 11, 2015, 11:00:18 am

So... remember this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83528.msg5934676#msg5934676)?

Well... There is another story that you need to know.

After that fight, I grew stronger and stronger with every battle, to the point when very few enemies could stop me.
Until I left for my final mission, that is.
I left for the enemy base with my small army of champions, the 5 new warchiefs I marked and forced to fight by my side.

Then, when I reached the gates I had to conquer, the enemy captain was there, with his army.

It was him. Sakh the fighter was not dead. He was there, looking exactly like the last time I saw him, but with a weird metal plaque on his neck.
To understand my surprise, you must know that this had NEVER happened before; I never had anyone come back from "death" to challenge me again. He was the first one. And did it with style, I'll admit that.

But it wasn't over: as the battle started, I realized something. He wasn't only alive, but he had become stronger. And, ironically, while I was learning how to gather an army, he was learning how to give the right orders to one. His soldiers were dangerous, fighting harder than normal orcs; so dangerous, two warchiefs (the weakest ones, but still, warchiefs) were quickly killed in this fight.
But, I didn't have time for that, I had a captain to fight. For one second, I was happy about this, as we could finally have the final duel we couldn't have the last time; but I quickly discovered that his tactic hadn't changed a bit. He was constantly retreating, leaving his soldiers to fight and shooting from a distance.
Unluckily for him, I now had the right abilities to counter this trick, get close and start our duel.
And honestly, it surprised me. He was a skilled fighter, even with his crossbow. He pushed me to the limit, barely missing a deadly shot twice.
Maybe it was my fault too. I didn't want to use my new, powerful abilities too much against him; I wanted a fair duel.

A duel that lasted for a very long time, too: while my champions were fighting the enemy army (and, honestly, getting their ass kicked by them, but at least they were keeping them away from us), we went on and on for minutes, trading blows.

But, finally, it ended. He was on his knees, but still he didn't give up, challenging me to kill him. And still, as I tried to do so, he almost escaped once again. But, this time, it was the end; I wanted to make sure he would not come back this time. And trust me: he won't.

As soon as their captain fell, the orcs ran away, leaving the battle. The other warchiefs were close to death too: another minute, and the enemy army would have swarmed me, leaving me no chance.

That was the final battle for me; everything else, all the other fights, were just some other story that I had to go through. MY final battle was this one, and it was the perfect ending to my story.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Middle earth: Shadow of Mordor, if you forgot

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 11, 2015, 12:19:57 pm

Managed to take down a big bear. Snuck up on it while it slept, and got a deathblow stab to its skull. It woke up, and we battled for hours(maybe?). I took only two minor hits, while the bear eventually alternated between fleeing and rushing at me. Eventually, it passed out and I finished it off. I managed to cut only about 75% of the carcass' meat(173 cuts) off before exhaustion overwhelmed me. Leaving a piece as thanks for the spirits, I went home, tanned the pelt, and cooked the meat. After the pelt was done, I went to a nearby village and traded it and most of the meat for several baskets and bags of seeds. It's a good thing, too, since the meat started to go stale while I was in the village trading.

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Unreal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 11, 2015, 02:47:56 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Miauw62/screenshot/52122954228625396

I don't think I need to say anything else.

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Team fortress 2, if you didnt recognize it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on January 11, 2015, 03:03:39 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on January 11, 2015, 02:47:56 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Miauw62/screenshot/52122954228625396

I don't think I need to say anything else.

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Team fortress 2, if you didnt recognize it

I guess you can say that didn't...
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
pan out for them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 11, 2015, 04:51:07 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on January 11, 2015, 03:03:39 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on January 11, 2015, 02:47:56 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Miauw62/screenshot/52122954228625396

I don't think I need to say anything else.

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Team fortress 2, if you didnt recognize it

I guess you can say that didn't...
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
pan out for them.

YYYYEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

Anyway, being a monk in any DnD setting. 'Nuff said.

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Neverwinter Nights

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on January 11, 2015, 09:04:52 pm

The game had just started. Our starting area wound up being pelted with enemy rifle fire. My buddies suppress the other team enough for me to move into a spot of cover about 10 feet away. I switched hands to shoot lefty, and after two shots my rifle locked up. As I was taking enemy fire with a jammed gun in my hands, I was predictably pissed off. I decide, "Fuck this shit," whip out my sidearm, started taking potshots with that, and heard someone shout "HIT" after I had fired 3 or 4 shots.

And then someone else shot me. On the flip side, though, I still managed to take somebody out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real life, playing a CQB airsoft game.

It doesn't have to be a video game, or at least I never heard it did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on January 11, 2015, 09:53:05 pm

Managed to flip over a radiator and make toast on it. The hard part was escaping the bathroom cabinet and making a ridiculous leap - completely by accident - all the way from the swinging door onto the hair dryer.

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I am Bread

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on January 11, 2015, 10:31:46 pm

Quote from: flabort on January 11, 2015, 09:53:05 pm

Managed to flip over a radiator and make toast on it. The hard part was escaping the bathroom cabinet and making a ridiculous leap - completely by accident - all the way from the swinging door onto the hair dryer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I am Bread

For some reason I really thought this was going to be one of those where the game is "real life" (because this to ally sounds like something a college kid or a crazy DF player would do). Took me about 15 seconds to get the image of you leaping across your bathroom out of my head. XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 11, 2015, 11:08:27 pm

Quote from: UristMcWanderer on January 11, 2015, 09:04:52 pm

The game had just started. Our starting area wound up being pelted with enemy rifle fire. My buddies suppress the other team enough for me to move into a spot of cover about 10 feet away. I switched hands to shoot lefty, and after two shots my rifle locked up. As I was taking enemy fire with a jammed gun in my hands, I was predictably pissed off. I decide, "Fuck this shit," whip out my sidearm, started taking potshots with that, and heard someone shout "HIT" after I had fired 3 or 4 shots.

And then someone else shot me. On the flip side, though, I still managed to take somebody out.

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Real life, playing a CQB airsoft game.

It doesn't have to be a video game, or at least I never heard it did.

I had an IRL own myself some time back. Maybe a good decade or so back.

Back when I was paintballing with my brothers and his (my older brother's) friends, I was under suppressing fire, and decided to do the *smart* thing and run out of cover for new better cover. Amazingly, I dodged the bullets whizzing by me, and dove into the nearby pit (this took place in the woods, not an arena). As I was ducking for cover, someone from the other team jumped into the same pit as me (considering me an open target, I would assume; also because I made for an easy target at the time since it was my first paintball game; though second match for the day), turned towards me and asked if I was shot. Knowing they weren't out of the game, and I had little time to react, I responded by aiming my gun at them and pelting them with a barrage of shots, hoping one of them would hit (the barrel had a round explode at the end of the muzzle, so my aim was screwy from the get-go). I managed to get a kill on them before they took me out in their last moments.

It hurt like hell being shot at near-point-blank like that (I think I took a full burst-fire to the waist), but it was worth it for the point. Thank goodness we didn't play Ironman (You're out when you fall to the ground; speaking of which, a secondary own, I didn't pass out after taking a shot to the shoulder and the thigh immediately after during the first round. But holy hell, did it hurt. And I have a pretty high pain threshold too. As my brother commented, it was like watching a mook get shot down in a movie.).

Real Life, Paintball

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 11, 2015, 11:58:50 pm

At the end of a long night of SSBing, my friends decided to 1v1 me (with me as Bowser).  First one went Marth, I take him apart and finish him off with a needless kamikaze grab for style points.  Second friend is probably better than me but we were having a disagreement as to whether Palutena is good, so he picked her.  Died 3 times to my 1.  I liked her character in Kid Icarus but good in SSB she is not.

Then the third friend decided he'd get in on it.  He usually randoms but he decides to pick Diddy Kong.  Now, Diddy Kong has a lot of horizontal moves, and this is on Final Destination with no items.  He has a particularly annoying running grab that I have basically no answer to, and running dash with a generous hitbox that he gets me with if I try to dodge.  The whole fight, I'm just feeling how bad I'm getting wrecked.  Fortunately he kills himself by accident one time.  In the end its down to me at 124%, him at 68%, both at one stock.  I dodge past him in midair and surprise him with a backwards double spin kick that knocks him way off the edge.  He falls down to the lower left corner, starts loading up his jetpack... meanwhile I calmly walk up, pick up his own banana, and hit him square on the head with it from across the map.  His jetpack flies off and explodes as he falls to his death.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SSB 4
Don't fuck with a giant turtle

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on January 12, 2015, 01:06:39 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 11, 2015, 11:58:50 pm

At the end of a long night of SSBing, my friends decided to 1v1 me (with me as Bowser).  First one went Marth, I take him apart and finish him off with a needless kamikaze grab for style points.  Second friend is probably better than me but we were having a disagreement as to whether Palutena is good, so he picked her.  Died 3 times to my 1.  I liked her character in Kid Icarus but good in SSB she is not.

Strangely enough Eventhubs.com ranks Palutena as a mid tier (25 out of 48) character, well above Bowser (43 out of 48).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 12, 2015, 02:16:03 am

Quote from: i2amroy on January 12, 2015, 01:06:39 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 11, 2015, 11:58:50 pm

At the end of a long night of SSBing, my friends decided to 1v1 me (with me as Bowser).  First one went Marth, I take him apart and finish him off with a needless kamikaze grab for style points.  Second friend is probably better than me but we were having a disagreement as to whether Palutena is good, so he picked her.  Died 3 times to my 1.  I liked her character in Kid Icarus but good in SSB she is not.

Strangely enough Eventhubs.com ranks Palutena as a mid tier (25 out of 48) character, well above Bowser (43 out of 48).

....Bowser low tier?

hahahaha

Also she's not terrible, she's just unwieldy, and depends on her customs to do well.

The other odd thing about that list is how much higher Marth is than Lucina, considering they're identical except for sweetspots and sourspots, and a few of Marth's moves functioning very slightly differently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on January 12, 2015, 05:00:40 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on January 11, 2015, 11:08:27 pm

Real Life, Paintball

That reminds me of my first and only game of Paintball. I was running for the flag, headshot an enemy splattering paint all over their visor, grabbed the flag and ran in slow motion with bullets flying by, one right by my ear and a second one scratching my suit. Won the game!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 12, 2015, 08:42:50 pm

Quote from: greatorder on January 12, 2015, 05:58:07 pm

Got the dead boy achievement (take no damage on Dark Room/The Chest) in The Binding of Isaac Rebirth. As it would happen, a metric fuckton of damage ups, ludivico technique, the holy mantle, coal and guppy is INSANELY overpowered. Oh, and when I fought dead baby I just used a chaos card.

I got Mommy's Boy, which is the same but on the Womb/Utero. Holy Mantle is insanely good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 12, 2015, 08:56:01 pm

Molotov + school + most of the zombies in town = win.

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Cataclysm: DDA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 13, 2015, 12:37:06 am

Didn't die, not even once[Which is a first for me]. And harvested approximately a bajillion units of tomatoes and synthflesh and mailed them to the chef. Even though he was in brig the entire game because he was an asshole. AAND made it to the escape shuttle[Also a first for me].

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SS:13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 13, 2015, 01:10:35 am

I got the satisfying feeling one gets when they drop 50 nukes on a guy without Ecology (thus cant scrub fallout)and then take Egypts lands back for his Jewish HRE.

  And to make it even better, I nuked his friends too, and sent my spies (which are my personal strong point) to keep flipping their religion and turn their civics so the ai freaks out about losing their favorite economies and has to waste time changing back.

  Rather anticlimatic, though.  He couldnt work most of his tiles and he became a vast semipopulated continent.  But, I did stop global warming by murdering 20% of the human race!  \o/

CIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 13, 2015, 01:17:16 am

Haha, almost nobody took any noteable damage durning Chapter Three. Except for the Avatar and Stahl, but Stahl wasn't in any danger and I healed up the Avatar, so it's all good.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 13, 2015, 02:17:52 am

I managed to get an ultra-kill against my godlike custom bots on godlike difficulty during the first 10 minutes. And after apparently 45 minutes of pure fragging (didn't realize I had it set to limitless), I placed 4th, out of 9, in DM-Morbias-II; Flak Arena Mutator, 25 kills behind 1st place (Having close to 205 kills, I think). I died the most (260 deaths), but I wasn't doing half-bad overall. I could have had a screenshot for proof, but the game wasn't much a fan of Steam's screenshot function. Oddly enough, the results fell somewhat into my expectations.

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Unreal Tournament 99

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 13, 2015, 03:08:49 am

Running out of ships? Build another three docks! Enemy developing naval advantage? Weight some ships with coins and ram 'em! Enemy attempting to invade? Torpedo the troop transports! Team mate struggling to overwhelm their defensive position? Make eight aircraft carriers! Docks hit by missiles? Indiscriminately shell military emplacements with battleships!

I love playing Dutch. The economic advantage can be huge.

Rise of Nations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sinistar on January 13, 2015, 07:43:14 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on January 13, 2015, 02:17:52 am

I managed to get an ultra-kill against my godlike custom bots on godlike difficulty during the first 10 minutes. And after apparently 45 minutes of pure fragging (didn't realize I had it set to limitless), I placed 4th, out of 9, in DM-Morbias-II; Flak Arena Mutator, 25 kills behind 1st place (Having close to 205 kills, I think). I died the most (260 deaths), but I wasn't doing half-bad overall. I could have had a screenshot for proof, but the game wasn't much a fan of Steam's screenshot function. Oddly enough, the results fell somewhat into my expectations.

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Unreal Tournament 99

Oh boy.

UT. Morbias II. Flak arena.

Pure nostalgia rush.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 13, 2015, 03:16:54 pm

*walks down stairs*
"You see a Sky Beast"
*takes one step off the stairs*
"Sigfried appears out of thin air" onto the stairs.
Me: Umm, umm, umm...
*drinks potion of might*
*Kills Sigfried in 3 attacks, takes out skybeast about as easily*

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Dungeon Crawl, Halfling Fighter of The Shining One

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 13, 2015, 03:37:36 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on January 13, 2015, 01:17:16 am

Haha, almost nobody took any noteable damage durning Chapter Four(?). Except for the Avatar and Stahl, but Stahl wasn't in any danger and I healed up the Avatar, so it's all good.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Oooh. Almost nothing in Arena Ferox? That's quite something. I lost Stahl and Lissa there back before I knew it was tradition to savescum upon death.

Speaking of FE...

Chapter 20. I have to face down Walhmart, the dauntless emperor of Valm. I send out our crack team of destroyers after him: Chrom, Donnel, Owain, Libra, and myself. I want to have Chrom land the killing blow, so I figured I'd get Owain (the hardiest of the bunch, oddly enough) out there and dish enough damage on him to have Chrom finish him.

Then the best thing happened.
Owain: Brace yourself!
*Lethality'd*
Walhmart: blah blah sword blah knee blah blah I don't remember his dialogue *ded*

That's right. One kid, who spends half his life shouting the names of other Fire Emblem games, took down a seven-foot-tall man in full red armor who has an axe almost as big as he is.

Awesome.

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 13, 2015, 04:08:38 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 13, 2015, 03:37:36 pm

snippy

Wait, my bad. Chapter Three. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 13, 2015, 04:33:51 pm

Oh, Chapter 3. Longfort.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 14, 2015, 02:15:52 pm

Quote from: pisskop on January 13, 2015, 01:10:35 am

But, I did stop global warming by murdering 20% of the human race!

"I stopped global warming by releasing clouds of harmful radiation into the atmosphere!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on January 14, 2015, 04:27:33 pm

Finished tutorial, first battle. See an enemy chasing a fellow plane, pew pew and he's  dead. Five kills and one death later, best player of the battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 15, 2015, 09:53:45 am

Caught Suicune after much savescumming because I spaced and forgot to buy a ton of pokeballs hard battling. I'm pretty sure the end of the game is nigh.

Pokemon Crystal

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 15, 2015, 11:01:59 am

Azazel + Ludovico Technique = Easy Mom kill. My first one too. I hope I can get that combo again.

Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on January 16, 2015, 01:15:45 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/Rimworld-Overkill1421431752.jpg)

Manned turrets OP. They rip everyone to shreds and even make brawlers useful. If I had a mountain, they couldn't even be shelled.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RimWorld, modded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 16, 2015, 01:45:27 pm

Barry's Grotle was not aware that I taught my Prinplup to use Ice Beam when he swapped out his wounded Ponyta. Much fun was had.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Diamon. Does your rival in this game have ADHD or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on January 16, 2015, 04:13:57 pm

No, the AI pretty much only thinks about your pokemon's type, not what moves it knows (because how would they know that?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 16, 2015, 05:49:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 16, 2015, 01:45:27 pm

Barry's Grotle was not aware that I taught my Prinplup to use Ice Beam when he swapped out his wounded Ponyta. Much fun was had.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Diamon. Does your rival in this game have ADHD or something?

Ooh, Diamond. Used to be my favorite. The rival was probably my favorite of the lot, too, and the climax of the plot was pretty entertaining. Took me like a week to finish the Champion, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lord_lemonpie on January 16, 2015, 05:56:00 pm

Quote from: Arx on January 13, 2015, 03:08:49 am

I love playing Dutch. The economic advantage can be huge.

The Netherlands is the answer to everything :P

But seriously, Brigs, Fluyts and Clippers are wonderful units.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on January 16, 2015, 08:43:10 pm

Tribe people get wrecked, pirates get wrecked, mechanoids get wrecked.

Now I have two more miniguns and no idea where to put the next nests.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RimWorld, modded

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 17, 2015, 02:00:12 am

Spoiler: I'm a bit impressed myself with this; and against my custom bots too. I had to dodge quite a bit of firepower to make it. (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/29605496397848344/0E500F6AD4A62E5206729FAA4F0490ADECD3EA0E/)

You read correctly. That's Godlike difficulty, and I did that in under a minute. A new personal record. Imbalance aside, they're no pushovers. I dodged them big time.


Also, have a funny screenshot of me doing a cannonball off of Mazon Fortress and into the moat.

(http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/29605496397926894/6665830CBBB39DFF19A4FE935EE7925665089F11/)

Unreal Tournament

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 17, 2015, 05:57:05 am

Beat Pokemon Crystal.

Spoiler: My team (click to show/hide)

Shiny Gyarados "Redados", L41
Suicune, L42
Typhlosion "Piet", L41
Electabuzz "Elections", L40
Pidgeotto "Nard Munch", L37
Victreebell "Spooper", L33

Some Pokemon were more valued than others in the final battles :P Pidgeotto was actually the main damage-dealer for a long time, but the others eventually pulled ahead. I had Victreebell mostly just for fun, but Growth/Vine Whip was pretty useful for a long time. Eventually though, the battles got way too frantic for long-term combos like that.

Pokemon Crystal, obvs

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 17, 2015, 08:37:36 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 17, 2015, 05:57:05 am

Beat Pokemon Crystal.

Spoiler: My team (click to show/hide)

Shiny Gyarados "Redados", L41
Suicune, L42
Typhlosion "Piet", L41
Electabuzz "Elections", L40
Pidgeotto "Nard Munch", L37
Victreebell "Spooper", L33

Some Pokemon were more valued than others in the final battles :P Pidgeotto was actually the main damage-dealer for a long time, but the others eventually pulled ahead. I had Victreebell mostly just for fun, but Growth/Vine Whip was pretty useful for a long time. Eventually though, the battles got way too frantic for long-term combos like that.

Pokemon Crystal, obvs

A useful combo with Victreebel: Sleep Powder -> Sunny Day -> Growth -> whatever you like. Sunny Day doubles Growth's effects, making it a +2 / sharply raised Atk/Spatk instead of +1 / raised.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on January 17, 2015, 09:23:28 am

You might want sleep power and sunny day on another pokemon so that you actually have some choice as to what moves to use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 17, 2015, 06:00:52 pm

Quote from: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

POKéMON RANGER IV: POKéMON POACHER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2015, 12:27:34 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 17, 2015, 06:00:52 pm

Quote from: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

POKéMON RANGER IV: POKéMON POACHER

...Hmmm. Is it possible to mod UnReal World that way? Just wondering.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 18, 2015, 01:37:30 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 17, 2015, 06:00:52 pm

Quote from: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

POKéMON RANGER IV: POKéMON POACHER

I wonder why we never see anyone in the Pokemon world eating Pokemon. You'd think they'd be a plentiful food source.
Actually, didn't someone cook up a Magikarp once in the show?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 18, 2015, 01:38:45 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 18, 2015, 01:37:30 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 17, 2015, 06:00:52 pm

Quote from: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

POKéMON RANGER IV: POKéMON POACHER

I wonder why we never see anyone in the Pokemon world eating Pokemon. You'd think they'd be a plentiful food source.
Actually, didn't someone cook up a Magikarp once in the show?

I think they talked about cooking up a Magikarp, but it wasn't shown. It might have been the one that evolved into a Gyarados shortly after and then tried to kill everyone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on January 18, 2015, 02:33:25 pm

I think they tried eating it, but its scales were too tough and they broke their teeth on it. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oneir on January 18, 2015, 03:34:01 pm

I remember seeing what supposed to be a manual for...I don't know what, really, but authentically reproducing the style of the show. One of the rules was that food shouldn't be shown that was clearly from an animal (and pokemon should be fed generic pokemon food blobs). There are a lot of instances of pokemon eating pokemon (or trying to). (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_food#Eating_other_Pok.C3.A9mon) The clearest instance of people eating pokemon is probably farfetch'd, which is basically a dodo that came with a side dish (i.e. it was eaten almost to extinction).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 18, 2015, 03:37:45 pm

Back to the thread topic:

I conquered Alaska with my army of robotic spiders.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Choice of Robots

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 18, 2015, 08:08:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 18, 2015, 03:37:45 pm

Back to the thread topic:

I conquered Alaska with my army of robotic spiders.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Choice of Robots

I played this game as well and got a wildly different outcome. Praise be to the Enlightened Miku. I'm disappointed there wasn't an option to travel the world with my robot daughter at the end. I wanted to do that from the start.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 18, 2015, 09:01:23 pm

Yeah, there's lots of different endings. Except one in particular, which I found extremely odd:

Spoiler: Choice of Robots spoiler (click to show/hide)

I was hoping to be able to make my first robot my romantic companion, but sadly this is not possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 19, 2015, 12:24:38 am

Spoiler: CoR (click to show/hide)

Yeah, I figured that was the case. Your character seems to either tend towards the child end or the robotic servant end. No relationships with robots that aren't platonic.
I've only played twice, and the second time I died on chapter two. Note to self: Never underestimate reclusive, fat neckbeards. They will fuck your shit up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 19, 2015, 01:24:02 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 19, 2015, 12:24:38 am

Spoiler: CoR (click to show/hide)

Yeah, I figured that was the case. Your character seems to either tend towards the child end or the robotic servant end. No relationships with robots that aren't platonic.
I've only played twice, and the second time I died on chapter two. Note to self: Never underestimate reclusive, fat neckbeards. They will fuck your shit up.

Spoiler: Continued (click to show/hide)

Actually, a romantic robot partner is possible...but only if you decide to pursue that path, and to do so you build an entirely new robot purely to serve that purpose. This new robot is given virtually no characterization or customization and you're basically forced to either marry it or watch as it runs away. Romance with the original robot (you know, the one you spent the entire freaking game with) is impossible, despite the narrative seeming to imply that your original robot does in fact have strong feelings for you and the fact that you can continue to treat your original bot far more nicely. I think the devs really screwed up on that one, because the new LoveBot comes entirely out of left field and you have no say in the matter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on January 19, 2015, 01:50:51 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 18, 2015, 01:37:30 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 17, 2015, 06:00:52 pm

Quote from: Oneir on January 17, 2015, 05:30:30 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2015, 01:09:58 pm

Had two goldeneyes(a kind of duck) show up as I was checking my nets. I threw a javelin at the closest one, but I missed. It kept going, and it hit the other one hard in the thorax, mortally wounding it. They weren't even lined up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UnReal World. What skill handles thrown weapons? I have also completed building a fairly wide(around 1km) trap-fence, just got to build the pits. Already got an elk I had found in the area while I was setting it up. I used the meat and hide to buy a pot.

I definitely misread that as "golducks" and was wondering what the hell kind of pokemon mod you were playing.

POKéMON RANGER IV: POKéMON POACHER

I wonder why we never see anyone in the Pokemon world eating Pokemon. You'd think they'd be a plentiful food source.
Actually, didn't someone cook up a Magikarp once in the show?

In one of the games, Team Rocket sells Slowpoke tails for people to eat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 19, 2015, 01:58:09 am

Quote from: Aedel on January 19, 2015, 01:50:51 am

In one of the games, Team Rocket sells Slowpoke tails for people to eat.

That was Second Generation. Gold and Silver.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 19, 2015, 01:58:59 am

Or, as Vietnamese Crystal puts it, "DO YOU EAT THE DELICIOUS TAIL NOW ONE MILLION DOLLARS." :P

Most recent *own*: Beat Chapter 13, then crushed Chapter 14 under my thumb. Ike's progress has improved considerably, to the point that he can fight axe-wielders and have a reasonable chance of not getting hit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Going to try to get through 15, 16, and 17 in one go tomorrow, thereby getting to the midpoint of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 19, 2015, 02:48:06 am

Good lord, you're an addict!

*koss looks at his hours on payday*

...Nevermind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Erils on January 19, 2015, 03:13:20 pm

Overshot a spitfire only to have him overshoot me a few seconds later. I made sure I didn't make the same mistake twice by liberating him of one of his wings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 20, 2015, 02:59:31 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 19, 2015, 02:48:06 am

Good lord, you're an addict!

*koss looks at his hours on payday*

...Nevermind.

I remember when I looked at the hours on my most-played Oblivion character and saw three digits. 120 hours I believe, and that was on the Xbox 360 version, so just the official expansions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Recluse on January 20, 2015, 08:07:03 am

Showed up an obnoxious Twitch streamer who called me a casual for dying to a Heavy in Team Fortress 2 by placing 1st on our team's scoreboard that match. I was a Pyro, he was a Medic, and he was mad as hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 20, 2015, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: Recluse on January 20, 2015, 08:07:03 am

Showed up an obnoxious Twitch streamer who called me a casual for dying to a Heavy in Team Fortress 2 by placing 1st on our team's scoreboard that match. I was a Pyro, he was a Medic, and he was mad as hell.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Pryo v. Heavy favors Heavy so hard.  Especially since the axestinquisher nerf.

All pyro really has for that is flaregun harrass, which is effective but not exactly a quick kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 21, 2015, 09:05:00 pm

/me Ike strikes the Chapter 17 in the Oliver, tearing the fat, shattering the skull, tearing the brain!
* Chapter 17 has been struck down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Again.

also holy crap reclassed Ike is death incarnate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 21, 2015, 10:00:29 pm

Spoiler: FE:PoR (click to show/hide)

Just wait till he gets Aether, if he doesn't have it already >:3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 21, 2015, 10:05:07 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 21, 2015, 10:00:29 pm

Spoiler: FE:PoR (click to show/hide)

Just wait till he gets Aether, if he doesn't have it already >:3

Spoiler: More FE: PoR (click to show/hide)

First thing I did and it is [insert pun on "aether" and "awesome" here]. He's doing it even better than Chrom did with it in Awakening, and that is a high bar indeed.

I've heard that Ike is one of the Lords that doesn't suck. I can now confirm this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on January 21, 2015, 11:10:28 pm

I dunno... of most of the games I can think of, the lord was pretty decent. Eliwood gets a pass because Hector was also a lord in that game, and he was possibly the best axe user in the series.

On-topic, found myself in the vicinity of the dungeon shortly after nightfall, and decided to take a chance. Armed with a couple lesser healing potions, a cooked fish, a set of Meteor Armour, and a Space Gun, I proceeded to annihilate Skeletron without losing more than 100 HP, and with no arena constructed. I totally didn't remember the Space Gun being that overpowered.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terraria. Couldn't wait for the 1.3 update. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 22, 2015, 05:21:35 am

Most of the Lords are fairly well balanced, if a little light on HP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 22, 2015, 08:55:58 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 20, 2015, 02:59:31 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 19, 2015, 02:48:06 am

Good lord, you're an addict!

*koss looks at his hours on payday*

...Nevermind.

I remember when I looked at the hours on my most-played Oblivion character and saw three digits. 120 hours I believe, and that was on the Xbox 360 version, so just the official expansions.

I've got about 125+ hours for my Pokemon Omicron run, though that's also possibly because the timer still counts even if the game loses focus(which appears to pause other stuff), which happens all the time when I work screenshots and typing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 22, 2015, 08:09:00 pm

Oberic was being a douche and corrupting the land around my cities. So I formed up a mob of Elite Halfling Slingers[Had an Altar of Battle in my capital] to go take out his fortress and kill him directly. Thing is, Halflings don't have access to any naval units better then a Trireme and Life magic doesn't have any way to directly cross water. But they DO have Plane Shift. So I Plane Shifted my Slingers onto the other plane and walked them over to the tile that corresponds to the one right next to his capital. Then I Plane Shift them back over. Surprise. I send them in blind, without looking to see what units he had defending his city. Bad idea. He had a bunch of giant fire breathing beetles and some magicians[Who are immune to the Halfling machine gunsslings]. I took out two of the beetles while Oberic and his magicians left me with only two slingers left. So I said "Screw it" and attacked him with the slingers in melee, after buffing them with Invulnerability and Prayer. Around 2 real-time minutes[Since neither side can deal more then one or two points of damage to each other, and that's on a lucky hit] later, all his units besides two beetles are gone and both my slingers are really injured. It doesn't look good. Then I remember that I have healing. Two spells brings both slingers back to full health. Cue lengthy beatdown. Once the beetles are finally dead, I destroy Oberic and win the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Master of Magic

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on January 22, 2015, 08:51:41 pm

The trick is adamantine halfling slingers. They slaughter everything.  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 23, 2015, 12:03:58 am

I managed to seize control of Alaska  with my army of robots and rebuild it into a highly-efficient utopia where robots and humans live in harmony. I became hailed as a visionary leader and there were multiple revolutions all over the world following my example of a robot based government.

This went much better than my line of anatomically-correct sexbots that became overly self-aware and enslaved the human race. Ended better too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Choice of Robots

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 12:12:02 am

Quote from: Akura on January 22, 2015, 08:55:58 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 20, 2015, 02:59:31 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 19, 2015, 02:48:06 am

Good lord, you're an addict!

*koss looks at his hours on payday*

...Nevermind.

I remember when I looked at the hours on my most-played Oblivion character and saw three digits. 120 hours I believe, and that was on the Xbox 360 version, so just the official expansions.

I've got about 125+ hours for my Pokemon Omicron run, though that's also possibly because the timer still counts even if the game loses focus(which appears to pause other stuff), which happens all the time when I work screenshots and typing.

I have 136 hours logged on Magicka, and 91 hours on X-COM: Enemy Unknown/Within.
Everything else I rather short. Under 30 hours, usually. (For the ones I actually enjoyed, that is. I have a bunch of games with less than an hour on it, or maybe up to 2.)

Granted, the Magicka one was because it was the first game I ever got on Steam, so it was pretty much the only thing I had to play at the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 11:07:08 am

Mastah, we should play together sometime! :D

Doth thou knowst the secret of the ARSE MINES!?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 23, 2015, 12:32:48 pm

Skyrim. My favourite play style in Skyrim is stealth hunting. Damage bonuses from stealth are pretty OP, because you can basically one-shot most people even at low levels.

Anyway, I shoot a bandit in his own fort. Instant kill. His friend ran up to the bandit's corpse. Twang, dead. His friend runs up. Twang dead. A few bandits later, I ran out of things to shoot.

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 11:07:08 am

Doth thou knowst the secret of the ARSE MINES!?

That reminds me of how my brother beat the Goblin Aristocrats.

Spoiler: minor spoiler (click to show/hide)

Basically, they teleport directly into the centre of the arena in waves. My brother discovered that freezing/lightning/arcane mines placed in the centre instantly kills the Aristocrats as they teleport in.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 05:33:59 pm

Actually, you can just

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electrocute the aristocrats while they're still seated in the stands, since lightning bounces, and you can put fire into it.

And yes, I know of the arse mines. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 23, 2015, 06:16:00 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 05:33:59 pm

Actually, you can just

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electrocute the aristocrats while they're still seated in the stands, since lightning bounces, and you can put fire into it.

And yes, I know of the arse mines. :P

Hehe, that's awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on January 23, 2015, 07:39:47 pm

We always just did perfectly timed stream crossing in the center as they warped in, Ghostbusters style. :P

And yeah, my current XCOM Long War run is at something like 120 hours (with 80 from the last one) and it looks like I might actually finish the game this time! :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on January 23, 2015, 08:21:35 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 05:33:59 pm

Actually, you can just

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electrocute the aristocrats while they're still seated in the stands, since lightning bounces, and you can put fire into it.

And yes, I know of the arse mines. :P

I prefer SAFE mines. The fire does ridiculous amounts of damage for some reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 10:10:29 pm

Damn it, now I need to play Magicka again!

I actually recall the very first run I did, and once I got the

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machine gun, after beating the beastman warlord, and saving all the houses

I didn't even use magic for the next 2 or so chapters :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 10:17:15 pm

Well, add me on steam. Mayhap with a friend or two, we could go on the most magickal adventures.

What a shame taw can't join us

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 23, 2015, 10:30:26 pm

OHH, OHHHH.
I have Magicka, never really got too into it, but I would really like to join in on a multiplayer game!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 10:32:53 pm

add me on steam you knob

It's KingOfStarrySkies.

like it is fucking everywehre

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 23, 2015, 10:33:31 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 10:17:15 pm

Well, add me on steam. Mayhap with a friend or two, we could go on the most magickal adventures.

What a shame taw can't join us

Invite sent (Assuming it's kingofstarlessnights on steam).

And yeah, that is a shame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 23, 2015, 10:36:47 pm

Invite also sent.
*Sees personal text*
Oh now that's just petty, what did Monsoon ever do except kick your Ass until you needed a synthetic ass replacement?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 23, 2015, 10:54:54 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 23, 2015, 10:17:15 pm

Well, add me on steam. Mayhap with a friend or two, we could go on the most magickal adventures.

What a shame taw can't join us

/me hears his name and comes running

You rang--

WHAT IS THIS BLASTED EVIL SORCERY

/me flees just in time

(http://s22.postimg.org/7lt4wnm75/Game_Over_Return_of_Gaben.png)

---

Actual ownage: I managed to become sober-ized on my first day as a hobo.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on January 24, 2015, 12:05:31 am

I am now a Person of Some Importance.

Fuck.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

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Fallen London. Becoming a Person of Some Importance is quite a bit of an achievement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 24, 2015, 01:17:34 am

Hey, hit me up for some Magicka action. I never really got to play before ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on January 24, 2015, 09:44:17 am

So that's KoSS, E/D, Sirus, and myself.
We should really plan a time for this. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 24, 2015, 09:48:46 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 20, 2015, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: Recluse on January 20, 2015, 08:07:03 am

Showed up an obnoxious Twitch streamer who called me a casual for dying to a Heavy in Team Fortress 2 by placing 1st on our team's scoreboard that match. I was a Pyro, he was a Medic, and he was mad as hell.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Pryo v. Heavy favors Heavy so hard.  Especially since the axestinquisher nerf.

All pyro really has for that is flaregun harrass, which is effective but not exactly a quick kill.

With some clever placement and flanking, I can usually down a heavy or at least get them down to low health, given that they don't have a medic. The trick is to hug them as close as you can and circle-strafe. Make sure they're not spun up.

It's hard, but doable with a bit of luck and tactics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 24, 2015, 11:45:51 am

Quote from: Caroline on January 24, 2015, 09:55:54 am

Quote from: miauw62 on January 24, 2015, 09:48:46 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 20, 2015, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: Recluse on January 20, 2015, 08:07:03 am

Showed up an obnoxious Twitch streamer who called me a casual for dying to a Heavy in Team Fortress 2 by placing 1st on our team's scoreboard that match. I was a Pyro, he was a Medic, and he was mad as hell.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Pryo v. Heavy favors Heavy so hard.  Especially since the axestinquisher nerf.

All pyro really has for that is flaregun harrass, which is effective but not exactly a quick kill.

With some clever placement and flanking, I can usually down a heavy or at least get them down to low health, given that they don't have a medic. The trick is to hug them as close as you can and circle-strafe. Make sure they're not spun up.

It's hard, but doable with a bit of luck and tactics.

Ah, yes. The beautiful pyro mating dance, which consists of getting as close to the enemy as possible, and moving fluidly in circles while spewing fire at it indiscriminately.
Truly a wonder of nature.

I prefer to puff and flare the heavy while retreating. Most heavies if already spun up will ignore a single puff, thinking it to be a stray flare. It's then you can start getting 90 damage flare crits. A heavy in battle being pelted by flare crits will go down fast, and a flaming heavy is no match for a competent flare pyro at range.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 24, 2015, 03:20:01 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on January 24, 2015, 09:44:17 am

So that's KoSS, E/D, Sirus, and myself.
We should really plan a time for this. :P

Monday or Tuesday, mayhap?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 24, 2015, 03:24:22 pm

Beat Chapter 22 without killing any of the priests.

Ashera Staff get.

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Again. Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm an addict, save your posts and avoid impending carpal tunnel syndrome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 24, 2015, 03:28:23 pm

I did not expect Old Testament-era religion stuff frem FE. Huh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 24, 2015, 03:28:56 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 24, 2015, 03:20:01 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on January 24, 2015, 09:44:17 am

So that's KoSS, E/D, Sirus, and myself.
We should really plan a time for this. :P

Monday or Tuesday, mayhap?

Sunday is pretty much the only "free" day I have :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 24, 2015, 03:35:23 pm

Quote from: Arx on January 24, 2015, 03:28:23 pm

I did not expect Old Testament-era religion stuff frem FE. Huh.

wait what

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 24, 2015, 03:49:46 pm

Ashera staves in the context of priests are either a direct link to Ashera poles, poles set up to honour the goddess Ashera, or an incredibly huge coincidence.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 24, 2015, 04:19:07 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 24, 2015, 03:28:56 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 24, 2015, 03:20:01 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on January 24, 2015, 09:44:17 am

So that's KoSS, E/D, Sirus, and myself.
We should really plan a time for this. :P

Monday or Tuesday, mayhap?

Sunday is pretty much the only "free" day I have :/

Darn. Well, I suppose we'll see what I can work out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on January 24, 2015, 10:53:12 pm

DM of our new campaign decided that for the first fight we would all be forced to fight demons one-on-one, against demons that were around the same power level as each player. We all had different demons, meant to match us.

I'm a paladin. I pasted mine.
The fighter did very well, as he was built specifically to be a powerhouse, and he criticals often. His demon basically gave him free hits as it tried and failed to use mind-affecting spells.
The investigator nickel-and-dimed her opponent to death, but didn't really get hurt.
The cleric didn't get a chance to actually hit his, but wasn't hurt at all due to his protective spells. He left to help the ninja, who was stun-locked to near-death.
So I was called to kill the cleric's demon instead.

Paladin: 2, Demons: 0

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Pathfinder

I also got around to finally making a stat sheet for my horse. DM refused to let me get any other type of mount than a regular old horse, unfortunately. No celestial dire-tyrannosaurus for me. Despite this, my horse is amazing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on January 24, 2015, 11:05:54 pm

Playing D&D, mixture of 1st and 2nd edition, using some homebrew mass combat rules.

On our side? ~1500 odd troops, in a decent defensive position.

On their side? 4500 troops plus a dragon.

Result?

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Our losses: 0. Zero. Not even a single point of damage.

Their losses: 4500, the dragon, and their leader.

Ridiculous rolling (and lots of siege equipment) (and a couple of Mass Invisibility) (and 3 dragons of our own) (among other things) =

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 25, 2015, 12:03:28 am

Quote from: BlackFlyme on January 24, 2015, 10:53:12 pm

Despite this, my horse is amazing.

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing~ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on January 25, 2015, 11:27:44 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 25, 2015, 12:03:28 am

Quote from: BlackFlyme on January 24, 2015, 10:53:12 pm

Despite this, my horse is amazing.

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing~ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts)

......godamnit now that song is stuck in my head. Why man, WHYYYYYYYYYY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on January 25, 2015, 05:07:23 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on January 25, 2015, 12:03:28 am

Quote from: BlackFlyme on January 24, 2015, 10:53:12 pm

Despite this, my horse is amazing.

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing~ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts)

Give it a lick, it tastes just like holy retribution?

Sad part is that my horse is almost more bad-ass than my paladin. It's rather intelligent, and probably the third best at stealth in the party. Plus it can smite. I should have filled out its details so much earlier. Instead, its only use since I got it was to treat it as a meaty, hairy motorcycle of divine transportation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on January 25, 2015, 07:41:35 pm

Son shoved something (turned out to be a dime that got stuck to the magnet) in the ps3. I sucessfully dismantled it, removed the disk drive, remove the object, reset the gears, and reinstalled the drive and it works! (didn't reset the gears on the first try, so had to go back and do that once I found out it needed to be done).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on January 25, 2015, 08:53:18 pm

Been playing more Breaking Point on New Haven lately. I'd made the long run up to the north island to raid the Evac Base for supplies and made away with a full load: M249, a British rucksack, and an assortment of industrial supplies. After swimming back to the main island I spent about an hour and a half threading my way down the coast to avoid the clusterfuck in the main city, glassing out new stretches as I went. At one point I noticed regular lines beneath a pine tree. Sure enough, when I rounded a little bay and approached the site, I found someone's storage crate that hadn't been hidden well enough on the coast side.

Popped it open, and spirits! Something like a dozen high-end guns, tons of ammo and attachments, and a load of industrial stuff. Unfortunately I was already full up, but I swapped an AK from my pack for a SpecOps DMR and dropped some junk so that I could grab a handful of scopes and suppressors. Then I torched the rest. Some guy is gonna be piiiiissed. xD

e: Looooool. Went to raid the CMC for more building supplies and I happened to glass the shore before I ran in. At least two more crates poorly hidden in the same way, but this time I had the chance to clean them out before I torched them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 25, 2015, 09:10:41 pm

Mutant Spider + Brimstone + Lump of Coal + several damage up items = lol. Every boss that had a single phase died in one hit unless they were extremely bulky (mama gurdy, monstro II, it lives). Brimstone is already a strong item, but then x4 + more damage on top of that made it insane.

It Lives took two hits, mama gurdy two hits, monstro II two hits - eventually i went to Sheol and fought Satan - The Fallen died in one hit for each portion, satan's first form took two, and satan's second form took two more.

24 minutes from start to satan. I have the seed, though some items were rerolled using the D6.

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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 26, 2015, 02:35:31 am

I knocked one of the bruiser brothers into the air with my katana before clobbering him over and over and over with my dwarven hammer until he died. Basically juggled him to death with melee weapons, no biggie.

I, uh, didn't know I could do that, but I did.

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Doom with the Demonsteele mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 26, 2015, 05:33:00 pm

I beat the Bolt Axe Shogun level.

What's great about this is that most of the map was cleared with Ike alone, who also managed to tank being hit by no less than 3 boulders, several siege weapon shots, and a couple of axemen here and there.

Man, Ike is awesome.

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Go on, guess. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: rabidgam3r on January 26, 2015, 08:18:53 pm

Dwarf Fortress?












(:P)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 26, 2015, 08:32:56 pm

Nah. man, he's playing Ike, that character from the Smash Bros. It must be Smash Bros.

 :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 26, 2015, 08:47:35 pm

It's one of those election-simulator games.  He's playing Eisenhower. ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 26, 2015, 08:48:41 pm

Quote from: Culise on January 26, 2015, 08:47:35 pm

It's one of those election-simulator games.  He's playing Eisenhower. ^_^

Damn you, you ninja :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 26, 2015, 09:35:10 pm

Did any of you see my transparent text? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 26, 2015, 09:40:52 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 26, 2015, 09:35:10 pm

Did any of you see my transparent text? :P

Well, yeah. Why do you think you haven't been meteor'd yet?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 26, 2015, 09:50:38 pm

Meteors are technically specific to the dead thread. The OP of this one says that game names are recommended but not required.

Anyway. I made it past level 1 of Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels without dying even once, which is seriously saying something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on January 26, 2015, 10:28:38 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 26, 2015, 09:50:38 pm

Meteors are technically specific to the dead thread. The OP of this one says that game names are recommended but not required.

Anyway. I made it past level 1 of Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels without dying even once, which is seriously saying something.

I call bullshit. Everybody knows that nobody is capable of doing that!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on January 27, 2015, 08:14:26 pm

I normally stop playing Rocksmith because I get frustrated with myself, or bored of the songs. Today I stopped because my fingers were bleeding (just a little bit.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 27, 2015, 08:34:19 pm

I beat Metal Gear Rising on Revengeance difficulty. I was not rewarded in any way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 27, 2015, 08:56:40 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on January 27, 2015, 08:14:26 pm

I normally stop playing Rocksmith because I get frustrated with myself, or bored of the songs. Today I stopped because my fingers were bleeding (just a little bit.)

New difficulty unlocked! Zakk Wylde difficulty. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5zYqHJLbI)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 27, 2015, 09:37:42 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on January 27, 2015, 08:34:19 pm

I beat Metal Gear Rising on Revengeance difficulty. I was not rewarded in any way.

Tell me, O Great Master of the lands, how did one with such gaming skill defeat He, the evil Senator Armstrong First form?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 27, 2015, 09:44:41 pm

The first form is still easy as pie on that difficulty because you can still block effectively and you just have to survive a short time. The second form is the bane of my existence because you can still die while blocking and you have to do a certain amount of damage before the QTE is triggered, and if he lands a single hit on you without you blocking then you're fucked. Eventually I just stopped giving a damn and used an extremely aggressive strategy, never leaving his side and simply using extremely well-timed dodges to avoid all of his moves. Once I started doing that, it was pretty much all in my reflexes and my ability to spam punches.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 28, 2015, 05:08:41 pm

I won the last level.

Using only Tibarn, Ike, and Ena.

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

You can now stop worrying about how every post I make in the dead/own threads is from that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 28, 2015, 05:26:47 pm

heh heh

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(http://i.imgur.com/kSoRdsx.png)

ahahahah
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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(http://i.imgur.com/FfvpLeh.png)

BWAHAHAHAHA oops

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(http://i.imgur.com/JEnfg5I.png)

Oh what the hell, I don't even care.  That was glorious.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Nuclear Throne. For those of you wondering, carrying two crossbows to the final boss is... not normally how this game is played.  To say the least.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 29, 2015, 02:02:38 am

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 27, 2015, 09:37:42 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on January 27, 2015, 08:34:19 pm

I beat Metal Gear Rising on Revengeance difficulty. I was not rewarded in any way.

Tell me, O Great Master of the lands, how did one with such gaming skill defeat He, the evil Senator Armstrong First form?

_coughcough SPOILER _coughcough

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 29, 2015, 03:28:53 pm

IT confirmed for jesus

(monsoooooooooonnnnnn)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 30, 2015, 10:42:06 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on January 29, 2015, 03:28:53 pm

IT confirmed for jesus

Or ChipCheezum. Then again, Chip would try to S Rank it on Revengeance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 30, 2015, 03:55:56 pm

I say again.

MONSOOOOOOON


On-topic, salvaged a heist that was supposed to be stealthy. As in, only I had armor, and I had a pistol and a sniper. I'm amazed.

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Payday Fokken Two

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 31, 2015, 12:03:11 pm

Came up to the Harrington Memorial Bridge, with a plan to bring it down. The first attempt, bombing the bottom of the struts holding it up. Did not work; they're terrain, not part of the structure, and therfore immune to damage. Second attempt, bombing the framework beneath the bridge. Bombs don't seem to cause as much damage anymore. It's very hard to get up there with the sledgehammer, so I break out the Nano Rifle, and start sniping the connections between the steel framework and the struts.

With the shot popping the last of the connections, the bridge's structure goes from 99% to 1%, and the entire bridge just starts coming down and coming apart. The sight is beautiful. The salvage collected was sweeter.

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Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 31, 2015, 12:55:46 pm

My method involved driving a truck covered in bombs onto the bridge and then having a protracted firefight in which I annihilated both ends of the bridge from above.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 31, 2015, 01:02:15 pm

Ah, I see we used the same plan, EH.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 31, 2015, 01:11:10 pm

Really? My plans usually involve engineering studies and demolition plans against key structural points... which inevitably fail, causing me to break out the sledgehammer and thermobaric rockets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 31, 2015, 01:13:17 pm

Well, as in I brought the thing there but then suddenly EDF happened so OUT CAME MJOLNIR

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 31, 2015, 01:16:28 pm

I *like* getting into giant fights in that game.  Sometimes I'd occupy a building and the EDF would become so determined to get me out that they would start tearing the building apart from the outside with guass cannons.

The way I look at it, you only get to destroy each building once, might as well have fun with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 31, 2015, 01:17:09 pm

There's a reason I'm gonna mod in the tool that let's you repair buildings.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 31, 2015, 02:34:08 pm

I remember one time when I had to complete a mission by going through a building, but I had blown up said building beforehand and had to go back to an earlier save.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 31, 2015, 04:06:15 pm

The game is SUPPOSED to rebuild buildings which are necessary for missions (although I think only for the duration of the mission, then it goes back to being destroyed afterwards).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on January 31, 2015, 04:42:35 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 31, 2015, 04:06:15 pm

The game is SUPPOSED to rebuild buildings which are necessary for missions (although I think only for the duration of the mission, then it goes back to being destroyed afterwards).

No, I had blown up the building during the mission. I had to revert to the checkpoint before I'd blown it up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on January 31, 2015, 04:54:01 pm

Is Harrington the one in Eos or the one in the Badlands? Unless I use the Nano Rifle, I cannot take out the one in the badlands.  Even with giant amounts of explosives, it never gets completely destroyed, and there is so little cover to prevent being annihalated by the EDF response.  The one in Eos is still hard, but considerably easier. 
My own for that game is always playing on the insane difficulty.  I wish there was one that was a bit harder, but playing on insane gives it a true guerrilla feel.  The longer you stay, the less your chances of getting out alive become. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 01, 2015, 12:10:49 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on January 31, 2015, 04:54:01 pm

Is Harrington the one in Eos or the one in the Badlands?

Badlands. The one in Eos is the Eos Memorial >_>. For the Harrington, you're actually told outright that demo charges probably won't cut it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 01, 2015, 01:17:07 pm

Use the special hidden bomb things. I think that did it for me, though I loaded an earlier save because I really liked that bridge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 01, 2015, 08:38:30 pm

Ahh, the satisfaction of a 4-color 1700-chain Geo Clear in the Item World. Especially when there's no convenient isolated island to throw an enemy onto and you have to play keepaway with the last guy to avoid ending the stage early until you can set up the combo.

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Disgaea 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 01, 2015, 09:46:12 pm

Quote from: Caroline on February 01, 2015, 08:38:07 pm

Finally got a good team in MvM.
Took us quite a while, but I won a round from start to finish.

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TF2

We really need to do an MvM thing with Bay12 people. I would take part in that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 01, 2015, 09:56:24 pm

I've done it before. Fuck, probably could right now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on February 01, 2015, 10:02:19 pm

It's time like these I consider getting into TF2.

Never any other time, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 01, 2015, 10:02:56 pm

I think I have one ticket from the holiday stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 01:04:26 am

I've got two, from 2014 and 2013.
Mastah, do it! It can actually become profitable in the end!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 02, 2015, 01:12:10 am

I spawned as a scientist traitor and proceeded to spend the first few minutes trying to figure out how to make a proper bomb. I eventually gave up. So I decided to use the one scientific skill I DO know how to do: Chemistry. So I fill a large beaker with neurotoxin and rig up a hypospray to inject it instantly into someone, rendering them incapacitated. I also have a fake ID made for myself with the name of another scientist on it and order a mask that changes my voice to that of the person who's ID I'm wearing. I then wander around trying to find someone to assassinate stealthily. Eventually I find a lone chemist mixing stuff in the lab. I don my false ID, so I'm not incriminated if things go south, and inject him with the neurotoxin. He immediately starts swinging at me with his toolbox. I knock it out of his hands with my own improvised weapon and then bash him to death when the neurotoxin takes effect. I loot his ID and find out he's actually the Research Director. After equipping his PDA and jumpsuit, not that anyone can see them under my labcoat, I stash his body in a disposal chute and spend the rest of the round pretending to be him and trying to figure out how to make bombs. No one notices and I escape in the shuttle with everyone else. Never did figure out how to make bombs properly though.

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SS: 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on February 02, 2015, 01:48:59 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on February 02, 2015, 01:12:10 am

-snip-
Never did figure out how to make bombs properly though.

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SS: 13

You are clearly qualified to be a Research Director.   Give yourself a raise and demand a comfy chair.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 02:16:08 am

Chemistry and Toxins never made sense to me. Didn't stop me from RDing like a boss. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 02, 2015, 03:26:55 am

What's better than a 1700-chain 4 color combo? A 2500-chain 6 color combo!

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Again, Disgaea

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on February 02, 2015, 10:50:35 am

1 soldier + 1 GWTB Blues grenade launcher + 50 or so molotov cocktails = something. The grenade launcher in question has a stupidly high amount of recoil, enough to send the user flying (and, if they're moving fast enough and shoot forward, kill the user instantly). Molotovs will detonate immediately upon the death of the unit carrying them, no matter how they died. Together, they let my soldier basically grenade jump around the whole map killing people, then if I see a chance to do some real damage (like a drop ship), or if something actually fights back, suicide bomb the enemy and cover a quarter of the map in fire.

Then I did that last bit in a tunnel right next to the enemy brain.

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Cortex Command (with mods)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on February 02, 2015, 11:10:45 am

Man, I want to play SS 13 so badly, but BYOND apparently hates me, and the game will never load. Well, it loaded once, but lag was so bad I had to wait an upwards of ten seconds for what I did to actually have any effect.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 02, 2015, 02:25:34 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 02:16:08 am

Chemistry and Toxins never made sense to me. Didn't stop me from RDing like a boss. :D

I remember one time making a bomb so powerful, it obliterated/vaporized the bombing range (nothing but the framing of the reinforced walls were left), and damaged the nearby atmosia to the point major repairs were needed. Even the admin was impressed with the lag-making explosion. I think the explosion was -/+(30,15,7) (or are the numbers backwards?) or something. It was big. It even blew out the safety windows in the bomb deployment room, and KO'd me for a moment. I got out before I ran out of air. It was a satisfying boom.

EDIT:
Fun thing to do: As chemist, team up with Virology, and make bloody smoke bombs with all kinds of illin' illnesses, and let them loose in the church. More fun if you're also a cultist doing that for a ritual.

EDIT EDIT:
I gotta play again sometime. Too busy trying to get IRL work, and enough of an income that I can waste a few days playing games nonstop.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jhxmt on February 02, 2015, 02:41:14 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on February 02, 2015, 11:10:45 am

Man, I want to play SS 13 so badly, but BYOND apparently hates me, and the game will never load. Well, it loaded once, but lag was so bad I had to wait an upwards of ten seconds for what I did to actually have any effect.

I'm UK-based, and I had this issue - however, I found that connecting via a VPN (based in the US) solved all my lag problems...moreso than would be expected from a simple ping delay.  That's assuming you were trying the usual B12 server, that is (Vactor's server).

On topic: a friend and I managed to get several bags of cash and weapons out of the heavily-guarded private security depot without being spotted once.  :D

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Payday 2, the shadow raid map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 02, 2015, 02:50:58 pm

Managed to squeeze in another recruit in the last 6 days. Of course this was my first playthrough so I didn't manage to get all 6, but 4 is pretty good. Also got Ravian so it's worth it. Engrish (anglponese?) speaking Canadian best character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CTHCC
Okay that was actually funnier and less weeby than I thought it would be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on February 02, 2015, 02:54:02 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on January 31, 2015, 04:54:01 pm

Is Harrington the one in Eos or the one in the Badlands? Unless I use the Nano Rifle, I cannot take out the one in the badlands.  Even with giant amounts of explosives, it never gets completely destroyed, and there is so little cover to prevent being annihalated by the EDF response.  The one in Eos is still hard, but considerably easier. 
My own for that game is always playing on the insane difficulty.  I wish there was one that was a bit harder, but playing on insane gives it a true guerrilla feel.  The longer you stay, the less your chances of getting out alive become.

The trick, and most satisfying way, to take down Harrington is to use the upgraded sledge on the metal beams that connect the under-structure to the indestructible support pylons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 02, 2015, 03:33:27 pm

Quote from: flameboy99 on February 02, 2015, 11:10:45 am

Man, I want to play SS 13 so badly, but BYOND apparently hates me, and the game will never load. Well, it loaded once, but lag was so bad I had to wait an upwards of ten seconds for what I did to actually have any effect.

Is it possible/fun to spectate that game without playing it?  It sounds so interesting but I don't have the time to invest in learning to play something like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 03:37:00 pm

Yeah, there's an observe button.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on February 02, 2015, 03:52:19 pm

Be forewarned: SS13 is pretty terrible if you aren't actually playing the game itself. It's hard to be immersed and fully enjoy yourself if you're just watching everybody else dick around.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 02, 2015, 03:57:54 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Wc5Foe0.jpg)

I WON! I only ended up taking one damage from the first two stages of the flagship, but the third was tricky. My ungodly high evasion got destroyed because my captain got mind-controlled and picked a fight with my engineer, so none of them were doing their jobs. So I got hit by every single projectile. Everywhere but in the Artillery Beam and the Weapons room. Even as the ship burned, I still fired at them. And struck them down. The injured Mantis in the picture died WHILE the flagship was breaking apart. I entered the third flagship stage with every upgrade it was possible to get and a full eight crew complement, all gold skill at their duties at 24/25 hull. I ended with four crew members, three of which were gold, all systems besides engines, weapons and the Artillery Beam neutralized and 7/25 hull. But I still won.

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FTL: AE, in case the picture didn't give it away.

RE: SS: 13:

You could look for some LP's of it. I rather like watching those, assuming I have 70+ minutes to kill watching it and I don't want to play the game myself for some reason. Or maybe KoSS will stream it one of these days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 03:59:22 pm

AAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH GOOD ONE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 02, 2015, 04:01:10 pm

After much trying and some server switches, I managed to build an engienest on top of the two containers in the little courtyard behind the second point on badwater. It didn't help much, but damn if it wasn't satisfying.

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 TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 02, 2015, 10:08:47 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on February 02, 2015, 02:50:58 pm

Managed to squeeze in another recruit in the last 6 days. Of course this was my first playthrough so I didn't manage to get all 6, but 4 is pretty good. Also got Ravian so it's worth it. Engrish (anglponese?) speaking Canadian best character.

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CTHCC
Okay that was actually funnier and less weeby than I thought it would be.

Um...CTHCC? What does that stand for?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 02, 2015, 10:28:05 pm

Okay, hold on. Aahhhhmmm...
Cot
Those
Hellish
Cunt
Cutters
i did it yaaayyyyyy
...I'm not sorry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on February 02, 2015, 10:35:16 pm

Google sez it's Cherry Tree High Comedy Club.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 02, 2015, 10:35:50 pm

Dammit with the ninjas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 03, 2015, 10:52:50 am

I'm on chapter 6 and at the part of the fight with the Alternate Overlord where the vassals join in. One of the Overlord Doppelgangers takes out laharl, but this also puts him away from the vassals, and it's at under 200 health. Now, an Alternate Overlord is at LEVEL 75 at a point where unless you've been doing massive, massive grinding in the item world you'd probably be around level 25, so I get the bright idea to send out my Bushi, and one Colossal Fissure later I have a level 34 bushi and the map cleared. Item world here I come!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on February 03, 2015, 02:43:11 pm

Quote from: tryrar on February 03, 2015, 10:52:50 am

I'm on chapter 6 and at the part of the fight with the Alternate Overlord where the vassals join in. One of the Overlord Doppelgangers takes out laharl, but this also puts him away from the vassals, and it's at under 200 health. Now, an Alternate Overlord is at LEVEL 75 at a point where unless you've been doing massive, massive grinding in the item world you'd probably be around level 25, so I get the bright idea to send out my Bushi, and one Colossal Fissure later I have a level 34 bushi and the map cleared. Item world here I come!

(http://media3.giphy.com/media/bDvL2sCunIvYI/200_s.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on February 03, 2015, 03:13:05 pm

Disgaea 1, the level where you're meant to lose.

Also the vassals present in this level as allies are probably going to be almost as powerful as you'll be at the end of your first playthrough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 03, 2015, 06:55:16 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 02, 2015, 10:08:47 pm

Um...CTHCC? What does that stand for?

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club
It's a time management game about manipulating your friends into joining your club in school.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on February 03, 2015, 08:04:54 pm

Quote from: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

What game is that?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 03, 2015, 08:05:09 pm

Quote from: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

(http://media3.giphy.com/media/bDvL2sCunIvYI/200_s.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on February 03, 2015, 11:10:55 pm

Quote from: mastahcheese on February 03, 2015, 08:04:54 pm

Quote from: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

What game is that?

That would be Starsector, with a mod that I have seen before but cannot remember the name of for the life of me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 03, 2015, 11:15:20 pm

Quote from: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

Presumably it's a bug? Make sure you report it. Those modders love fixing bugs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on February 04, 2015, 01:33:30 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 03, 2015, 11:15:20 pm

Quote from: Blaze on February 03, 2015, 07:57:19 pm

I managed to board and capture something that probably shouldn't be able to be boarded and captured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jALIpyi.png)

Presumably it's a bug? Make sure you report it. Those modders love fixing squishing bugs.

FTFY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 04, 2015, 02:27:19 am

I've still lost more than twice as many matches as I've won, even before counting AI matches. But the losses are getting closer and closer every time, and I actually won three matches in my last session!

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 04, 2015, 02:43:35 am

Was hoping for the Celebrity achievement (get 15k prestige) on my old man Fylkir/Emperor, who was heading into his 70's. Managed to get it at age 72, and then I was hoping for a better heir (ultimogeniture, youngest male child inherits) though thought it unlikely given my guy's wife was old, and I didn't want to get any concubines.

Forgot about his lover though. He was 76, got a little pop-up saying I have a bastard son from this 27 year old he gave a good tumble to 9 years previously. After a little thought, decided the reputation hit with the entirety of his immediate family would be worth legitimising him, so I did.

He died a few months later, and I get to play as my first 0 years old character :)

Further ownage occurred immediately thereafter when Scotland decided they wanted to take advantage of the Empire being in flux, and to declare a Holy War for Dunbar, while I was still mopping up some Lithuanians. Sorted them out, but took a great hit to the number of troops I could field, and then some of my vassals decided they no longer wanted to be part of the Scandinavian Empire, so they revolted. Despite having slightly fewer troops than they did, managed to make them surrender after 4 years of hard battle, and imprisoned 9 of the bastards.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on February 04, 2015, 07:31:25 am

Wait, wait, wait. He took a tumble with the 27 year old 9 years ago, she had his son, who was 0 years old. 9 years is a very long gestation period... Oh game mechanics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mr. Strange on February 04, 2015, 12:54:07 pm

...seems legit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on February 04, 2015, 02:22:57 pm

Quote from: timferius on February 04, 2015, 07:31:25 am

Wait, wait, wait. He took a tumble with the 27 year old 9 years ago, she had his son, who was 0 years old. 9 years is a very long gestation period... Oh game mechanics.

It's just that she became his lover 9 yrs ago, the game just doesn't tell you about every tumble you take.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 04, 2015, 02:25:56 pm

Yep.  As far as I recall, the only tumbles the game tells you about are either the "give a good tumble" event (which I'm not sure if it triggers for already-lovers) and the one off the fortifications. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on February 04, 2015, 02:28:10 pm

Well, they do get sprinkled into the resulting events.  The 'spend xx gold, try to make a baby' events.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 04, 2015, 03:00:07 pm

Quote from: PanH on February 04, 2015, 02:22:57 pm

Quote from: timferius on February 04, 2015, 07:31:25 am

Wait, wait, wait. He took a tumble with the 27 year old 9 years ago, she had his son, who was 0 years old. 9 years is a very long gestation period... Oh game mechanics.

It's just that she became his lover 9 yrs ago, the game just doesn't tell you about every tumble you take.

This one.

I had a daughter from the first time, but didn't legitimise her because of agnatic-succession: women don't inherit. I did acknowledge her as my own though, because I'm nice like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 05, 2015, 02:19:28 am

In a multiplayer dungeon crawl with my brothers and their friends, I was separated from the pack, as tends to happen (missing out on many kills and loot and some XP), and overheard some struggle going on in a dungeon and a boss fight. After wandering the wilderness for a while, leveling up and such, I caught up later to the same dungeon, restocked with enemies and bosses, and solo'd them all, plus bosses (at a much lower level) with dual-pistols. Additionally, my pet kicked some ass as well, raking in a good deal of the kills; more awesome since I designed them as a tribute to an awesome cat I had (they were pretty much like a mini-panther IRL, and this time, they were full-scale. An awesome tribute to an awesome cat. You are always missed, Magellan.).

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Torchlight II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on February 05, 2015, 08:56:08 am

Quote from: hector13 on February 04, 2015, 03:00:07 pm

Quote from: PanH on February 04, 2015, 02:22:57 pm

Quote from: timferius on February 04, 2015, 07:31:25 am

Wait, wait, wait. He took a tumble with the 27 year old 9 years ago, she had his son, who was 0 years old. 9 years is a very long gestation period... Oh game mechanics.

It's just that she became his lover 9 yrs ago, the game just doesn't tell you about every tumble you take.

This one.

I had a daughter from the first time, but didn't legitimise her because of agnatic-succession: women don't inherit. I did acknowledge her as my own though, because I'm nice like that.

Oh, I guess that makes sense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 06, 2015, 12:32:22 am

I was a traitor Roboticist with two goals: Kill all cyborgs and survive until the end of the round. First thing I did was lure the other Roboticist into Storage, blind him with a flash and then beat him to death. When someone came in and asked to be made a cyborg I cut his brain out and threw it down Disposals. Then another traitor came in, set me on fire and took my ID. I got the fire out, but now I was basically completely trapped since I didn't have an ID to open any doors. But the dead Roboticist in Storage had one. I welded my way into Storage, ordered a voice changer and stole the dead Roboticist's identity. But the nosy AI noticed the dead body in Storage with my name and got suspicious. I fled into Maintenance and ordered a DNA scrambler, injected myself and then ordered a fake ID with my new name on it. But that wasn't enough. I bolted and welded myself into a small room to lie low for a few minutes. No one could get in, but I could weld my way out through the walls. I waited in there for about four minutes, before I contracted a random virus from an event. The virus chewed through my health pretty quickly, so I resolved to weld my way out through the walls early. Out of fuel. By this point, I was in crit, so I couldn't talk over the radio. And I was trapped in my own oh-so-clever hideout. My only method of communication with the outside was via my PDA. And no one ever answers their PDA, so no one noticed my pleas for help until a minute before the shuttle was going to leave. By then it was too late and I was left behind on the station. Locked in a maintenance room, dying of a disease and unable to even speak. But what's this:

Objectives:
1:Kill all cyborgs

I killed the only other Roboticist. There were no cyborgs on the station at the end of the round.

2: Stay alive until the end of the round.

I was still alive, in my prison, in crit.

I won. I WON!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SS:13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 06, 2015, 08:44:59 am

Spoiler: shotgun op plz nerf (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/n8pp8ZL.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FEAR

Finally won a damn challenge. With a team I didn't think would: a Protean Greninja, Aegislash, and one I won't reveal yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omicron

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on February 08, 2015, 01:24:30 am

Cleared a Terror 6 rift in 5 minutes and 26 seconds, from start to killing the rift boss. Solo. As a sunwuko "holy bell" wave of light spamming monk. It was a pretty densely packed level with lots of closely clustered mobs of zombies and skeletons that I could one to two shot entire packs of trash mobs in less than a second with my waves of light. That probably helped a bunch with time. There were also a large amount of elites, which really sped up my progress.

Wish I had a computer that could run Diablo 3 and record at the same time, it would've been sick footage of a great run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 3

for the unfamiliar, rifts are randomized dungeons full of mobs meant to be end game level content. The goal is to kill mobs of enemies to fill a progress bar. Elite mobs count as multiple kills and provide large progress boosts. Filling the bar unlocks a boss on par with campaign tier bosses. Killing the boss unlocks loot. A typical rift is meant to take 10 to 15 minutes.

Terror 6 is basically the hardest difficulty level. You can reach higher difficulties in greater rifts, but that's not worth going into here.

So to summarize, I cleared a hard level meant to take 10 to 15 minutes on the hardest difficulty in only 5 minutes. Hell yeah, monk power.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 08, 2015, 04:04:51 am

First legit deathwish heist.

Nightclub.
Not.
One.
Down.

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PAYDAY 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 08, 2015, 09:23:33 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/z0plz.png)

Enough said.



DotA (1).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on February 08, 2015, 09:26:12 am

Quote from: Arx on February 08, 2015, 09:23:33 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img.ie/z0plz.png)

Enough said.



DotA (1).

Not enough said.

What am I looking at here?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 08, 2015, 09:27:24 am

The destruction of the enemy's fountain of life. I'm not sure Sniper's supposed to have that much range...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on February 08, 2015, 10:07:48 am

Quote from: Arx on February 08, 2015, 09:27:24 am

The destruction of the enemy's fountain of life. I'm not sure Sniper's supposed to have that much range...

It pretty much is :P
4th rank level outperforms the range of the Fountain by...500, I think? I'm a bit forgetful since its a long time since I played DotA. [But its pretty much possible]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 08, 2015, 11:19:21 am

It's only 50, but it's still kinda weird. It doesn't make very much sense at all.

I mean, with a well-timed series of ganks you can camp the spawn, annihilate enemies as they respawn, and destroy the fountain between skirmishes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on February 08, 2015, 05:50:30 pm

Turns out having France break that alliance wasn't a death sentence after all, and I am now allied to Austria and have formed Italy.

EU IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on February 08, 2015, 06:05:52 pm

Well hello there Croesus, why don't you and your throne room monsters have a shitload of grenades that were oh so conveniently dropped by your soldiers.

SLASH'EM.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 08, 2015, 06:20:28 pm

Was waiting trying to figure out how to get molten plastic (because melting plastic cutlery doesn't do it...) and the bed dummy (which is... one of those facepalm moments) so I could work at night with keys and shit.

Turns out beating up four guards gets you a message that they open the front gate for you, so bugger off out of here you violent bastard.

On to Prison 2!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Escapists

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on February 08, 2015, 06:25:04 pm

Quote from: Arx on February 08, 2015, 11:19:21 am

It's only 50, but it's still kinda weird. It doesn't make very much sense at all.

I mean, with a well-timed series of ganks you can camp the spawn, annihilate enemies as they respawn, and destroy the fountain between skirmishes.

You can, but at that point the game is so very long over that it doesn't really matter. That said, I do agree with you about the fact that you can destroy the fountain in DOTA 1 is kind of cheap.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on February 08, 2015, 07:14:32 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 08, 2015, 06:20:28 pm

Was waiting trying to figure out how to get molten plastic (because melting plastic cutlery doesn't do it...) and the bed dummy (which is... one of those facepalm moments) so I could work at night with keys and shit.

Turns out beating up four guards gets you a message that they open the front gate for you, so bugger off out of here you violent bastard.

On to Prison 2!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Escapists

Quick note, melting chocolate in a cup with a lighter makes hot chocolate which if you use it on a guard instantly knocks them out.
Also, I think to get moulds you need to combine talcum powder with toothpaste and you can use that to make key moulds.
Don't quote me on this, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 08, 2015, 07:40:23 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on February 08, 2015, 07:14:32 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 08, 2015, 06:20:28 pm

Was waiting trying to figure out how to get molten plastic (because melting plastic cutlery doesn't do it...) and the bed dummy (which is... one of those facepalm moments) so I could work at night with keys and shit.

Turns out beating up four guards gets you a message that they open the front gate for you, so bugger off out of here you violent bastard.

On to Prison 2!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Escapists

Quick note, melting chocolate in a cup with a lighter makes hot chocolate which if you use it on a guard instantly knocks them out.
Also, I think to get moulds you need to combine talcum powder with toothpaste and you can use that to make key moulds.
Don't quote me on this, though.

Yeah, it does. I was trying not to cheat, really, so I spent 70 days in Central Perks before finding the Bed Dummy craft note.

Also, good stuff on the chocolate thing. I knew how to make it (craft note... my journal is complete, apparently, which is awesome) but didn't know what I'd be able to use it for. I want to try a sort of pascifist run in the POW camp, which will likely involve getting a key at some point for the generator... so KO'ing guards without attacking them sounds good :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 08, 2015, 07:47:06 pm

70 days. Jeeebus.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 08, 2015, 08:25:00 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 08, 2015, 07:47:06 pm

70 days. Jeeebus.

I was learning the game :P

And failing at everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2015, 08:59:38 am

I figured I was ready for the Twins. I had enough buffs that the liner of icons stretched across half the screen. I had a Mystic Golden Shower and Unreal MegaShark(+~750 HV Bullets). I started taking out Spasmatism, using Gravitation to stay airborne. Killed that one, started on Retinazer. Turns out killing Spas first was a good idea, since Ret gets nasty towards the end. My Gravitation and most of my other buffs ran out, and at the end me and Retinazer were blasting so much shit at one another it'd make the Orks jealous. As luck would have it, Retinazer turned away and flew off-screen. I lead his flight path and let about a hundred more high velocity rounds finish the job.

"The Twins has been defeated."

Only what happened shortly afterward could top that. Having just beaten a pirate invasion and scored some gold furniture, I set about building myself a throne room to feed my hungry ego. In the process of scrambling stuff together to make a throne, I see a message. "Skeletron Prime has awoken!" There was no preceeding warning. Before I could react, Skeletron Prime was in my base, trying to kill my doods. Intending to at least save the NPCs, I fled. I figured I may as well try it, maybe figure out his attack patterns. The only buff I had available was a hastily eaten pumpkin pie.

As it turned out, flying around and blasting him with ichor and bullets was a very good strategy. I started with 800 or so HV bullets, finished with about 50. I beat Skeletron Prime when he ambushed my  in my own castle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terraria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: revo on February 09, 2015, 12:56:15 pm

just destroyed my first medium length veteran mission grave robber -vestal-BH- leper does work. i have single target dps, i have aoe, i have heals, i have dodge. i just walk into places and shit dies at my feet. I left the dungeon with less stress than I entered. Now I think its time to take on the necromancer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Darkest Dungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 10, 2015, 01:55:50 am

Managed to find a unique spot in the battlefield and tricked the AI into killing itself without firing a single shot from my end. Well, not as much trick it, but figure out the nuances of my spot in relation to the AI, and more like pilot the AI to kill itself. More awesomely, when it was about to leave, I managed to "pilot it back" to where it could regularly kill itself again. Happened a few times. Taming AIs is difficult, but awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS

EDIT:
I forgot to mention why I did this. I thought I had no weapons, and had to last a few minutes against the computer. Turned out I DID have weapons on me (bombs only; seldom-used variety), and there was no real time limit. So basically, I MacGuyvered a way to make the AI kill itself without having weapons (according to my initial awareness) on me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 11, 2015, 08:51:53 am

Ajhira asked me to go looking for flowers, and said the best place to look was on the north shore of some lake near Suran. I follow the path she told me about, somehow end up in a volcanic wasteland. Instead of flowers, there's giant spikey roots, random lava pits, and cliff racers. God, so many cliff racers. I pick my way to Bal Ur, one map tile north of Suran. As I do, along with fighting off an Alit pack, a blight storm rolls in. Wonderful. Then two daedra worshippers attack. I get to Suran, buy what I need, spend some time in the House of Earthly Delights, then take a silt strider home.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Morrowind. I didn't own, the game did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xardalas on February 11, 2015, 07:18:22 pm

My partner died in the city so I was steadfastly defending his gear and shit from a group of radscorpians. Ghouls spawned in soon after and he arrived just as I defeated the first wave. Together we fought off about six waves of ghouls all while expending nearly six hundred round in ammunition. By the time the attack had ended, I had exactly five rounds left in my ak. Of course at that point, another player walks onto the map and pulls his gun out. There is sort of a weary, Mexican stand off feeling before he left.

Thank god for that to, we were literally out of ammunition entirely. Fucker could of killed us easily.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout online, Ashes of Pheonix. In the city core, open world pvp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 12, 2015, 02:30:25 am

3 Grave Robbers, 1 Jester.

Lunge Lunge Lunge Whatever Lunge Lunge Lunge

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Darkest Dungeon.  Working on getting four grave robbers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 12, 2015, 02:09:37 pm

I just won the first stage of thundermountain with a team consisting of only snipers.
I... I don't know.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on February 12, 2015, 02:21:49 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on February 12, 2015, 02:09:37 pm

I just won the first stage of thundermountain with a team consisting of only snipers.
I... I don't know.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team fortress 2

Noice. How many huntsmen were on the team, how many arrows did it take to blot out the sun, and how many of those arrows hit their intended target?  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 12, 2015, 02:28:04 pm

I really don't know. But it was hilarious and i topscored :P (without the huntsman)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 12, 2015, 11:16:34 pm

It wasn't me, but he's unlikely to post about it. I was watching my brother play Watch_Dogs...

He gets invaded by an enemy fixer, who's apparently at the top of a hill. He makes it to the top of the hill, and the guy hasn't started his hack yet, but my brother pulls out his grenade launcher and first sends the guy flying into the air with an indirect shot, like literally flying it sent him out of the hack-zone, and then he uses a second grenade and snipes the dude out of the sky with it, killing the guy and ending the invasion/hack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 12, 2015, 11:25:18 pm

I nicknamed the grenade launcher the "Problem Solver" in that game. It solved all of my problems, and no one in Chicago seemed to give a shit that I was essentially a large scale domestic terrorist. Note to Ubisoft: Chicago is not Detroit. People will give a shit if you use a grenade launcher within the city limits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 13, 2015, 12:51:59 am

My semi-auto shotgun (Or was it full-auto? Probably not.) Was my best goddamn friend in that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rex Invictus on February 13, 2015, 08:38:13 am

I was struggling against the giant insectile beast. I'd brought a greatsword when I should've brought some sort of ranged weapon. It's heavily armour horn and pincers were deflecting all my blows as I rained them upon it. I'd done enough damage to cause it to flee, but I had ran out of all healing items and it was down to the line whether or not it or I would win.

When it fled, I gave chase. It ran into a zone and flew to the bottom of a cliff. As it flew back up towards me to attack me with it's huge horn, I jumped off, seeking to strike it with a jump attack.

I hit it and then FOUND MYSELF MOUNTED UPON IT'S BACK. It tumbled to the ground below and me and insect-monster struggled for supremacy as I smashed away at its horn with my fists. The horn crumpled, cracking, and it rolled onto its back in pain.

With a final swing of my greatsword, I slew the beast, finishing the mission I set about on.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, fighting the first Seltas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 13, 2015, 10:59:21 am

Went on a raid. Drove the vehicle I used to get there straight through the building in question and then ran around throwing bombs.
it was over before it properly started :V

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Faction: Gorilla

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 13, 2015, 11:22:41 am

Quote from: miauw62 on February 13, 2015, 10:59:21 am

Red Faction: Gorilla

Spoiler: Gorilla Warfare (click to show/hide)

(https://possibleworlds.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/585-gorilla-warfare_w.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 13, 2015, 12:11:22 pm

i cant remember how to type gueurieilala but i can remember how to type gorilla

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 13, 2015, 01:45:39 pm

I defeated Whitney. And lost none of my team.

Pokemon HeartGold, nuzlocking it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on February 13, 2015, 01:47:54 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 13, 2015, 01:45:39 pm

I defeated Whitney. And lost none of my team.

Pokemon HeartGold, nuzlocking it.

Whitney, wait who's Whit--oh, right, the bitch with the cow that steamrolls everything. Nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on February 13, 2015, 03:36:55 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on February 13, 2015, 01:47:54 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 13, 2015, 01:45:39 pm

I defeated Whitney. And lost none of my team.

Pokemon HeartGold, nuzlocking it.

Whitney, wait who's Whit--oh, right, the bitch with the cow that steamrolls everything. Nice.

*steamrollouts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 13, 2015, 07:00:36 pm

fucking

i hated her so HARD

THAT COW WOULD'VE MADE THE ELITE FOUR CRY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 14, 2015, 12:45:56 am

It wasn't the most elegant battle, that's for sure. My Nidorina took down her Clefairy easily enough (two double-kicks to the face), but that damn cow was causing a flinch with Stomp probably 80% of the time. I ended up switching to my Geodude, who managed to get off a couple of Magnitudes whenever he didn't flinch or get immobilized by love, and basically just waited for Stomp to run out of PP. Then Geodude survived a full round of Rollouts (with the aid of a Super Potion) before I switched back to Nidorina and proceeded to kick the damn thing to death.

Spoiler: Relevant image (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/1p580pp.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 14, 2015, 12:54:21 am

Sand attack, paralysis or poison or sleep or even a pokemon that learns Protect or Detect early (meditite comes to mind) totally shuts down that Miltank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on February 14, 2015, 02:17:43 am

I've never had any problems with her, strangely enough. Though the fact that in nuzlocke runs my pokemon are usually like level 30 by that point probably helps. (I can only do nuzlocke runs on emulators, it would take me years to do them elsewise with all of the grinding that I do :P).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 14, 2015, 02:21:50 am

Well, of course you're not going to have any problems when you're 11+ levels higher than everything else :|

I'm playing on an actual 3DS, so no fast-forward or savestates for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 14, 2015, 05:39:49 am

30 seconds on the second-to-last level, from a previous highscore of 7.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Super Hexagon

I appear to have found some sudden competence at this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 14, 2015, 08:27:48 pm

I caught Dialga.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Alpha Sapphire.

That's two Dialgas I have now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on February 14, 2015, 10:53:48 pm

One-Eyed Sam is dead, long live One-Eyed Sam. Giant shoggoths are goddamn amazing.

SLASH-EM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 15, 2015, 07:02:23 pm

I killed the Black Knight.

FINALLY.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 16, 2015, 02:36:18 am

It's just a flesh wound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 16, 2015, 11:10:57 pm

Misirlou. Dick Dale.

ALL PURPLE.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rocksmith 2014

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on February 16, 2015, 11:33:34 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on February 16, 2015, 11:10:57 pm

Misirlou. Dick Dale.

ALL PURPLE.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rocksmith 2014

I tried learning that. I can't strum a rhythm that fast. It sucks.

What kind of pick do you use? How flexible is it? I use a bass pick and I think it's making fast picking harder for me. More resistance and stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 16, 2015, 11:56:04 pm

Tortex Dunlop .6mm (Orange) picks. They're a lot thinner than a bass pick. They're pretty stiff, but they give about 1/8" of an inch if you push on them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on February 17, 2015, 12:12:12 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on February 16, 2015, 11:56:04 pm

Tortex Dunlop .6mm (Orange) picks. They're a lot thinner than a bass pick. They're pretty stiff, but they give about 1/8" of an inch if you push on them.

Man, and all the picks I have on me at campus are thick bass or jazz picks. Jim Dunlop Jazz II for example. Can't test anything flexible.

When I was first learning I found it was easier for me to use thicker less flexible picks like bass picks. Probably because I'm left handed but play right handed, so I'm strumming and picking with my non-dominant hand. No idea how I'd play on a left handed guitar either, I've only ever done right handed and I'd think lefty would feel weird.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 17, 2015, 12:16:49 am

Lefty does feel weird, but I'm right handed. Also, I'm not even remotely an expert in guitar. Not even remotely.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on February 17, 2015, 05:12:02 pm

I prepared to clean out the Sunless Sea, both to get the guaranteed magic lamp and to train up my long sword skill for my shiny new Vorpal Blade. I look over the stash and find among the junk a scroll of enchant armor, a gray stone (not a loadstone, as I've ID'd those already), and an unidentified wand. Since I've ID'd all but the wands of cancellation and wishing, this must be cancellation (because there's no way I'd get wishing). That's a good thing, because I've got about 2400 bullets or so in a dozen different stacks that I want to enchant. I better engrave-test it just in case I forgot about another unID'd wand.

"You may wish for an object."

Well then.

(SLASH-EM)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 17, 2015, 05:57:06 pm

I won five matches in a row as priest, completing three quests in one session. That is an absolutely unheard-of rampage for me. It's mostly thanks to the same cards and strategies that make me RAEG when I'm on the receiving end, such as Annoy-O-Tron, Divine Spirit and Arcane Nullifier.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 17, 2015, 11:04:24 pm

Spoiler: How often does this happen? (click to show/hide)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CYnKGNMnwzU/VOQOf9IBIfI/AAAAAAAACcA/Xise0eJ1gvY/s800/Random%2520names.png)
On my 3rd roll.

More impressive would be if my name came up at random.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name Generator (http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=names.txt)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lagslayer on February 17, 2015, 11:07:16 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on February 17, 2015, 11:04:24 pm

Spoiler: How often does this happen? (click to show/hide)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CYnKGNMnwzU/VOQOf9IBIfI/AAAAAAAACcA/Xise0eJ1gvY/s800/Random%2520names.png)
On my 3rd roll.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name Generator (http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=names.txt)

I don't get it. How often does what happen?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 17, 2015, 11:17:04 pm

Quote from: Lagslayer on February 17, 2015, 11:07:16 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on February 17, 2015, 11:04:24 pm

Spoiler: How often does this happen? (click to show/hide)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CYnKGNMnwzU/VOQOf9IBIfI/AAAAAAAACcA/Xise0eJ1gvY/s800/Random%2520names.png)
On my 3rd roll.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name Generator (http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=names.txt)

I don't get it. How often does what happen?

Getting a classic celebrity name like that. Reading the source document, Howard Hughes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes) being rolled, and in the top of the list like that was truly random for me; didn't expect that name to come up of all names. Pretty stupid, come and think of it. But still...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 17, 2015, 11:48:58 pm

Jumped into my arena games like an idiot, first the free one and then spent 150 gold to get back in.  Won 3 and lost 3 for each of them.  I hadn't even gotten more than one character to lvl 10, so breaking even felt like an own.

The first deck was pretty amazing, better than my constructed decks (which are admittedly 90% basic).  It was a super swarmy paladin deck with a bunch of great low cost cards that would either buff my minions or summon more.  Main weakness was having basically nothing that cost more than 4.  Two of my three losses were close, I'm convinced one of them was because of a 1 in 4 chance of a mind control grabbing my beefiest monster.

The second deck was legitimately terrible, I'm not sure how I broke even.  It was a rogue deck with decent removal and a bunch of bad creatures spread evenly across all cost levels.  Like, in the first pick the chicken was one of the options and I seriously considered it, that's what I was dealing with.  The main good thing about the deck was an 8/8 giant that got cheaper for each creature in play.  Such a fun card.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hearthstone

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cryxis, Prince of Doom on February 18, 2015, 12:02:38 am

Playing oblivion

Entered through an oblivion gate with my full set of heavy armor, heavy shield, and new katana.
The scamps outside the towers posed little more than cannon fodder, denting and scuffing my blade only slightly. I made my way into the first tower, two dremora and a scamp, they all found their quick dimise, I made sure to take the hearts of the demons as they make good for healing potions. I clambered through the tower slaughtering more dremora and scamps stealing their hearts and taking what loot I found. As I neared the top where the Sigil stone lay I found opposition with 5 dremora and 3 scamps, the scamps and two of the dremora stayed back pounding at me with fire balls and lighting spells while the other three beat at me with their maces. Each blow being deflected with my shield and countered with a slash from my blade, the three melee fighters dead I tanked through several more magic bolts and made quick work of the unarmored spell casters. Having collected several many deadra hearts and sustained sufficient damage, I ate their hearts over their dead bodies before walking up the last flight of stairs and removing the Sigil stone. As I teleported back to the mortal plane, soaked in deadra blood I put the stone into my bag next to the 7 other stones

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 18, 2015, 12:30:11 am

Broforce.
Three words.
GIT
GUD
HELICHOPTER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kenpokiller on February 18, 2015, 08:06:11 am

PKed Dual ascension bows in Runescape
Won a 4v1 with my DF in Firefall.
Ser'qet wreckin shit in Smite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 18, 2015, 09:05:31 am

Didn't starve. Last time I try a strategy off TvTropes, lemme tell you. Nearly ran out of food in year 3.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Banished. Strategy was to go all for Gatherer's/Hunter's Huts, no farm plots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 18, 2015, 04:16:12 pm

...You know, somehow, reading year 3 didn't stop me from thinking you're just a very determined Don't Starve player :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 19, 2015, 06:26:54 pm

Rrgh. Sodding Blanka.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Street Fighter II.

How the hell do I shoryuken? I've got the hadoken down pat, but shoryuken just doesn't want to activate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 19, 2015, 06:30:27 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 19, 2015, 06:26:54 pm

Rrgh. Sodding Blanka.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Street Fighter II.

How the hell do I shoryuken? I've got the hadoken down pat, but shoryuken just doesn't want to activate.

Are you doing it right? press forward, quarter circle to down, then back up to down-forward, and a punch button.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 19, 2015, 06:57:30 pm

Wait, crap, this was the own thread.

:V

On the plus side, after taking your advice, I curbstomped Chun-Li and Guile, so thanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 19, 2015, 07:05:15 pm

This is good.

I await the rage when you face Vega.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on February 19, 2015, 07:07:13 pm

Spoiler: Best run yet (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/GrXNqs7.png)

And I killed the last shopkeeper just because I could.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 19, 2015, 07:13:19 pm

What game's that? It looks... interesting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Un67 on February 19, 2015, 07:39:28 pm

I won the November Uprising as Congress Poland... with some indirect help from the Ottoman Empire.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Victoria II: Concert of Europe Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 19, 2015, 08:48:42 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 19, 2015, 06:57:30 pm

Wait, crap, this was the own thread.

:V

On the plus side, after taking your advice, I curbstomped Chun-Li and Guile, so thanks.

Don't forget QCB kick!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 19, 2015, 09:01:59 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 19, 2015, 07:13:19 pm

What game's that? It looks... interesting.

At the top of the screenshot, it says.
I assume that's why meteors haven't threatened yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 19, 2015, 09:03:04 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 19, 2015, 06:57:30 pm

Wait, crap, this was the own thread.

:V

On the plus side, after taking your advice, I curbstomped Chun-Li and Guile, so thanks.

I always found the easiest way to do it was QCFQCF which still accepts it. Sure, you'd be a button press behind where you want to be, but that's not terrible if you can anticipate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 19, 2015, 09:25:05 pm

Just make a z, hoss. Forward, down, slide thumb forward but not up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on February 19, 2015, 09:45:51 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 19, 2015, 07:13:19 pm

What game's that? It looks... interesting.

It's Crypt of the Necrodancer (http://store.steampowered.com/app/247080/) which is definitely worth it even at full price (though it's even more worth it if you can get it on sale). I've already sunk like 20 hours into my copy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 19, 2015, 09:49:22 pm

I see a steam link

noping out

Quote from: flabort on February 19, 2015, 09:01:59 pm

At the top of the screenshot, it says.
I assume that's why meteors haven't threatened yet.

In my defense, it was really dark.

Also, meteors aren't mandatory in the own thread--giving the name of the game is encouraged in the first post here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 19, 2015, 10:28:39 pm

Oh, get over your Steamphobia.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 20, 2015, 02:58:22 pm

But noping out seems...Excessive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 21, 2015, 08:52:23 am

Quote from: greatorder on February 20, 2015, 03:08:53 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 20, 2015, 02:58:22 pm

But noping out seems...Excessive.

Read the last one.

It's a link to the store page.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cryxis, Prince of Doom on February 21, 2015, 11:07:38 am

Playing Titan fall


Load a mag into my LMG, 40 seconds till Titan fall is ready. Rush down a corridor that leads to a concentration of enemy NPCs, get to the edge and crouch, begin laying down heavy fire taking out 5 grunts, room clear. Rush to the enemy mech outside the entrance of the building, rodeo attack, begin shooting up it's internals befor it releases electric smoke, I bail and jump off to a roof top and rodeo another nearby Titan, Titan fall ready, I order Titan to drop nearby, I continue shredding up another titans internals, Titan falls and lands on another Titan (or a pilot and a few NPCs I forget) as I get shot and killed, my Titan proceeds to finish the two titans I had just crippled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 21, 2015, 11:45:33 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 18, 2015, 04:16:12 pm

...You know, somehow, reading year 3 didn't stop me from thinking you're just a very determined Don't Starve player :P

Somehow I thought that too... >_<


Anyhow, I seem to have gotten upset at the strategy a little too early. Year 13 or so and now I'm running out of space to store all the damn food. I've got over 2000 units of venison alone at the trading post, plus lots of other stuff. I started with sheep, so now I've got thriving warm coat production too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Banished

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 21, 2015, 04:27:49 pm

Quote from: greatorder on February 20, 2015, 02:52:54 pm

'Steam refuses to work on my computer and I don't want to get into this and then realise that it's inaccessible'

It's half this and half "I can't be bothered to sign up for something just to buy games with money I get inconsistently". The whole "STEAM IS EVIL" show is just something I concocted when I got tired of explaining to everybody why I never signed up for it.

Seriously, have you seen those gifs of the Steam logo taking money from people? I don't need an addiction to buying things, that's stereotyped housewives' jobs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 21, 2015, 04:32:18 pm

...Most people don't really get an addiction, though. It's like...A GameStop or somesuch, but open 24/7. I dunno. I don't really care if you use it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 24, 2015, 12:06:01 am

I'm awful at impulse-buying games. I bought Terraria on a whim and played it for all of an hour before deciding that I didn't really like it. That's why I only buy games that I'm really, truly excited about rather than "Oh, this looks kinda neat", or something where I'll get more than my money's worth like an MMO.

My last own was that I finally cleared out a semi-safe path from my insanely dangerous, mineral lacking, creeper-infested jungle biome to a relatively safe hill biome. Along the way I amassed thousands of leaf blocks, discovered a jungle temple which contained diamond horse armor, acquired enough iron for a full suit of armor, and discovered several pits and ravines full of useful goodies. Still no diamond, sadly.

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 24, 2015, 12:33:36 am

I honestly rarely impulse buy.
I have over 100 games in my Steam Library.
Don't judge me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 24, 2015, 04:35:19 pm

I cannot impulse buy video games.

I have no real financial troubles.

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 24, 2015, 12:06:01 am

IMy last own was that I finally cleared out a semi-safe path from my insanely dangerous, mineral lacking, creeper-infested jungle biome to a relatively safe hill biome. Along the way I amassed thousands of leaf blocks, discovered a jungle temple which contained diamond horse armor, acquired enough iron for a full suit of armor, and discovered several pits and ravines full of useful goodies. Still no diamond, sadly.

Minecraft.

Heh. I managed to spawn at the junction between a plain, a taiga, some extreme hills, and a forest in my most recent world, meaning that I was... the opposite of screwed, I guess, from the get-go. My only real problems now are the fact that regional difficulty is nearing maximum, I still haven't found a reliable source of lava for obsidian (or a third diamond for a pick), and that after a few more weeks of home improvement everywhere in a fifty-block radius outside of my castle wall will look like a warzone due to creeper and enderman activity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on February 24, 2015, 05:06:06 pm

I formed the nation of Ireland, taking over all the lands of The Picts, Britania, Wales, and a fledgling England. It is the year 284, and the Roman Empire is only half its original size and is currently my ally, along with (hopefully) Byzantium in the near future.

This was accomplished despite all my leaders dying before reaching the age of 35, and I still have the average tech for the era in Administration.

Europa Universalis IV- Modded Run

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 24, 2015, 08:49:58 pm

Beat the One King. All 108 Starbearers.

Suikoden Tierkreis

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 25, 2015, 01:05:55 am

Randomed Hel in arena.  Never played her before.  I healed more than anyone on either team healed or did damage (including the enemy Aphrodite).  Oh, and I got more kills than the entire rest of my team combined.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Smite.  To be fair, my team was awful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 25, 2015, 09:41:40 am

Out of curiosity, is there anything particularly weird about Smite? The only times I'd heard of it until now were in the context of my friends making jokes involving "Oh, sorry, I play Smite."

They may or may not be (hint: it's the former) DotA 2 elitists, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on February 25, 2015, 09:44:18 am

Apart from the perspective change and WASD controls, not at all I dont think. Its a pretty standard MOBA apart from that, I think? I really haven't played it much though. To me its just LoL with a different perspective, controls and a slightly more interesting map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on February 25, 2015, 01:00:14 pm

Smite has more emphasis on skill shots, and more controversy over character designs, but is otherwise a standard MOBA and rather fun to play. Has a couple modes unique to it though that are pretty fun to try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on February 25, 2015, 04:31:16 pm

I arrive at the tribal moot to decide the new king or queen. This was my first mistake. My tribe is very wealthy tribe with quite a bit of money, and I was quite certain I could buy the kingship if I wanted to. But I really didn't care to go for it yet. This early, it wouldn't make sense to try to have one of my ring members to become the tribe. Then Kallyr, my war-leader says, "It isn't my destiny to be queen." Something about this comment made me chuckle a little bit and decide, "You know what? Screw their baubles. You're going to be a candidate, despite the fact that you're eventually going to have your own destiny thing to go do." So I did. I allocated a paltry 13 goods and a cow as gifts to give to the other tribes.  I assigned my clan's poet, who apparently isn't even on the ring to go ahead and try his hand at convincing the Tribe that Kallyr should be queen.

Then she succeeded and proceeded to breeze past the rites of Kingship with ease. Now Kallyr is the queen of the tribe at the nice and easy age 24. I'm not sure what this means for the world. O.O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 25, 2015, 04:40:04 pm

I know it's probably King of Dragon Pass, but you really should've included it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on February 25, 2015, 07:29:22 pm

Cleared a chapter (can't remember which, the one with the manhole outside where you get the alligator mask) in about a minute, both floors being 2 long combos. Knives are hardcore, man.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hotline Miami

Title: Re: How did you last *Doom*?
Post by: Blaze on February 25, 2015, 08:01:22 pm

Lucrative or not, I really need to learn to stop accepting "Kill Reinforcement" missions just because the reward is unique.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/u1TNJiw.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 25, 2015, 08:05:43 pm

Your skill at ripping and tearing guts is phenomenal.

---

Finally finished off a level of Super Mario 3D Land. Stupid annoying pole physics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on February 25, 2015, 09:47:04 pm

Quote from: Deathsword on February 25, 2015, 04:40:04 pm

I know it's probably King of Dragon Pass, but you really should've included it.

Eh, I forgot. It is a minor thing nonetheless.

Somehow Kallyr managed to survive long enough to the win to win the game, defying her destiny in a way that I didn't know you could. Whoo!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 26, 2015, 09:47:03 am

In a breath of glory, the moment of cohesion where your team suddenly coalesces into a single unit wins you the game.

Oh, it was great! We were struggling to gain ground on cp_gorge, time nearly ran out, everyone was wounded near the point, fleeing. A soldier I was healing at the time called for everyone to get on the point to help me and him cap. I healed a pyro and a demoman who walked past, giving me uber - at that moment, the entire enemy team (a brass beast heavy, two scouts, a sniper, a very poor quality shpee, two soldiers, a demoman and a pyro) came through the tunnel. Notably, they were lacking a medic. Game ran out of time, but we were on point, so the game went into Overtime.

I popped uber, and cycled through the injured players healing them, trying to keep two of them ubered at once. the Quick Fix medigun probably would've been more useful there, but I was using the stock Medigun with the invulnerability Uber.
Soldier guy on voice comms got popped into the air on low health and I landed a crusader's crossbow healing bolt onto him in midair! I was so shocked. Saved his life, because he was on ~22 health after being popped airborne - the fall would've killed him. Our team cleared the enemy team out, not doin' too badly! After capping, we had a whole seven minutes to cap the last point - soldier guy got us to push, and i topped up everyone's health before we rushed into the final room. Their sentry went down to another bolt from my crossbow, and we won the game.

It was a heartstopping moment when 0:00 (OVERTIME) was on the clock and the entire enemy team appeared, that's for sure. I'm glad I had an uber ready to go, if i didn't I doubt our team would've capped that point, let alone won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 28, 2015, 12:00:21 pm

I decided to attack a school with my trusty machete. After killing a few kids by the entrance, I no longer felt remorse for it. Huzzah, I've murdered so many children that I no longer feel bad about it!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm: DDA.

After several attempts, the Empire decide to attack invade Atzerri by simply charging forth with waves of Stormtroopers and artillery walkers. Unfortunately, that worked rather well and I lost Atzerri. Why the Empire wanted that craphole so bad is beyond me... Anyhow, I countered, destroying The Accusor(for the third time, second time over Atzerri) and Boba Fett, before rushing Bestine to prevent further attacks on Atzerri. Next was a two-pronged armor charge on Corulag, led by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Last, was an invasion of Coruscant.

On the ground, I discovered that all four remain Imperial heroes were there: Darth Vader, Tarkin, Veers, and the Emperor. First thing at the landing site was to set up two AP turrets blocking the only way in(or out) and covering it with tanks and artillery. Managed to trick Vader into walking right into that one, but I lost one of my Infiltrators in the process. I couldn't bring Obi-Wan down until Vader was gone(and I had to capture another LZ anyway). Managed to blow up the Imperial Palace, and finally located the main generators before Veers showed up. Although my Speeders couldn't get tow cables on him(his unit card says he's immune, but experience shows he's not), he went down anyway. I found Tarkin in a mining facility, that was hit with Infiltrators' thermal detonators and finally a turret. Last was the Emperor. My Infiltrators tried sniping him, but he ran. I sent my Speeders chasing him halfway across the map. His only attempt at defending himself was to try Force Corrupt, which missed entirely. The Emperor eventually died, and I won the campaign that instant.

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Star Wars: Empire at War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haveroszaur on February 28, 2015, 01:17:59 pm

I got the elusive reputation, then one-hit killed the merga wraith with lethal trap first turn of combat.

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NEO Scavenger

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on February 28, 2015, 04:10:55 pm

Clobbered tons of zombies and headcrabs with only the gravity gun through all of Ravenholm. Got the achievement for it too.

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Half-Life 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on February 28, 2015, 09:23:05 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 28, 2015, 12:00:21 pm

Star Wars: Empire at War

That description REALLY makes me want that o.o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 28, 2015, 10:05:41 pm

I completed a level 2 renown heart, normally intended for brand-new characters. As a result of this single action, I:

• Completed the "Been there, done that" achievement for exploring the entire map. I thought there was still another map to finish, so this was slightly unexpected.
• Collected my 2 Gifts of Exploration for exploring the entire map.
• Completed the "Local Hero" achievement, for completing 500 renown hearts. I had no clue this was about to complete.
• Got a letter telling me I "nearly got my tail kicked", but they're "sure I'll do better next time", and "I've got the makings of a great explorer".

Screw you too, Tyria Explorer's Society!

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Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 01, 2015, 02:41:42 am

Quote from: BFEL on February 28, 2015, 09:23:05 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 28, 2015, 12:00:21 pm

Star Wars: Empire at War

That description REALLY makes me want that o.o

I could talk about this game's flaws for an hour... but its fun, and it lives up to its basic premise (which is a strategy game where rebels and imperials fight each other).

Basic summary: space combat is awesome, ground combat is seriously flawed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mastahcheese on March 01, 2015, 09:45:41 am

The Forces of Corruption expansion pack makes it a lot better.
I really like it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kenpokiller on March 01, 2015, 09:53:35 am

I think me and my friend are nearing tens of thousand tekken tag 2 games online.

With various alternative names but we have a common message we send to other players when the fight has been good and the other opponent is Dutch (we have a hitlist!)

which is "DeAndereBelg" AKA The Other Belgian.

The dutch player responded with: Yeah that's not me but i've heard of him.

It's absolutely beautiful that our playstyle is so vile that other people talk about us

OWNED XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 01, 2015, 11:25:14 am

Attacking the EDF's Badlands Outpost, command sends me reinforcements... in the form of an elderly Hispanic woman, who spent more time complimenting my hammer than she did fighting. Later on, a black woman(with blonde hair?) joins. I hit the outpost building, getting it down to 19%. As I back off to deal with some EDF, the structure gives way and the building collapses... crushing the old Spanish woman :-[.

Me and the other woman managed to blast our way out of the base, getting back to the truck I drove there. I would have driven off with her, but reinforcement troopers never get in vehicles - instead they just stand in front or behind, forcing you to run them over to get away. She survived, though, and that's more than what you can say about most guerrillas - especially old Spanish ladies.

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Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on March 01, 2015, 12:24:08 pm

Suck it, Randy Random! We're outta here! (http://www.upl.co/uploads/Ice-Beach-Escape1425230625.jpg)

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RimWorld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dampe on March 01, 2015, 02:44:24 pm

Systematically beating the Time Attack! mode of F-Zero: GP Legend on my Game Boy Advance.
I want those last six racers so bad! ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on March 01, 2015, 04:22:39 pm

As a miner, I decided to go exploring, because that sounds exciting. So I got myself some nice armour, a hammer, a hand teleporter, some medicine and some miscellaneous tools before acquiring a suitably robust space pod to explore in. I warp over to the mining station and go out looking for trouble in the debris field. I find a reddish glowy shuttle thingy floating, so I exit my pod, get in through a vulnerable window and start exploring. No loot I can see, but there is a central chamber that looks promising. I look in there. Nothing in here but something labelled a "weird machine". It beeps at me, before shocking me for a good bit of damage, as well as stunning me. It proceeds to repeat that until I'm in crit. Once I can finally move, I run out the door and apply burn patches to my wounds, healing me back to full. I decide to skedaddle back to my pod and exit the room I was in. I run into 2-4 of the weird machine things that I must have missed earlier. They all shock me at once and keep me stun-locked for a good RL minute. I'm pretty far in crit at this point and keep going in and out of consciousness. Once they finally lose interest in me, I reach into my pocket for my hand teleporter, activate it and go to step into the portal to escape. One of them stuns me and beats on me for another ~30 seconds. Once I can move, I try to make it to my pod. Eventually, in the tiny gaps between stuns and me passing out, I arm-drag myself to my pod and get in. I use the pods built in teleporter to warp back to the station proper and try and get medical attention, since I'm still in crit. I get to the place where the mining shuttle docks, realize too late that someone's called the mining shuttle and I'll die if I stay where its going to appear for too long. I exit my pod and jetpack over to the doors and get in a split second before the shuttle gibs me. I slowly drag myself over to a public minimed vender, eventually insert my ID in between bouts of unconsciousness and use a health analyzer on myself. It shows that I've suffered over a hundred and thirty points of burn damage[I've seen people die from less then that]. I buy all the burn patches I can afford and apply all of them to my face, finally bringing me out of crit. The emergency shuttle has almost arrived by this point, so I retrieve my ID and walk over to the shuttle. Someone's bolted the doors to it down, so I go out a nearby airlock and wait in space, so I can break into the emergency shuttle via the windows. Once it arrives, I do so and chill with a few similarly enterprising people. That's about when the grenades start going off. Even with my armour, I almost end up in crit again. Nearly everyone else is dead. Then the shuttle leaves, the round ends and I'm still alive.

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SS:13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on March 02, 2015, 05:28:15 pm

Dat wall.

---

An unintentional own, and I'm not quite sure who it belongs to in this situation. The tank, or me for being able to keep him alive.

Ever have that one member in a party that keeps messing up in every way possible, but they just won't die, despite how much you think (or wish, in this case) it should happen?

The tank refused to dodge AoEs, aggro'd literally every mob he could, and even ignored primary mechanics of boss fights. At one point he had so many debuffs that couldn't be cured that the enemies may as well have been given double damage. But he just. Wouldn't. Die. Hell, on top of that we we were short on DPS half the time because he kept rushing forward so much that one of the DPS would usually get locked out of rooms.

He took a boss move meant to wipe parties to the face and lived.

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Final Fantasy XIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on March 03, 2015, 07:49:34 pm

So, how about APM?

Spoiler: Large Image (click to show/hide)

(http://cloud-2.steamusercontent.com/ugc/528383413217407830/18669CF4E4E60C631FFAF60EF8DD6F92E6C091EA/)

81.7 billion actions in 4 hours 33 minutes.

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Star Trek Armada 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on March 05, 2015, 02:24:49 am

Despite falling really far behind, and ready to give up to the point of standing still (or at least taunting them by clucking like a chicken), for a time (I was guaranteed to lose); on the Factory level (just at the speed boost then drop point), I managed to somehow take full advantage of a track-switch doorway system the game is known for using for certain maps, and fall right into first place, completely blindsiding my brothers, and giving me a chance to win a round. I lost the match, but I won the round. I can't believe that trick actually worked. I may not be as smart as my brothers, but my critical thinking and general ballsiness does surprise them from time to time; this was a good example. I don't expect to pull that trick off again, at least against them (I expect nothing but vulgarities from other players in ranked matches if I pull that on them), but holy crap, was it awesome.

Spoiler: This spot. The doorways to the left of the booster; I jumped in through that, and caught up in the middle. They were so pissed off from that. I thought I was going to lose, so it was worth a shot. Their reaction was worth it. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AwBslIbeS_A/hqdefault.jpg)

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Speedrunners

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 07, 2015, 12:14:14 pm

Had a mission to assassinate several corporate leaders, all of whom were attending some emergency meeting in some partially-built tower. Having previously destroyed the building next door - which has the exact same design - in a challenge, I decide to repeat the feat, which involves zapping the supports at the top to bring down this large metal crown-shaped structure(presumably the frame for a future glass dome) using my Nano Rifle. Before I'm done, the targets figure out what I'm up to, but it's too late. A few shots later, the satisfying sound of stuff falling down signals my success. As the structure falls down onto the meeting, it tears right through the rest of the building. All but one survived, and that survivor probably only survived due to physics shenanigans. I simply ran up - going right past the EDF guards who were still busy running for cover - and smacked the guy on the head with my sledgehammer.

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Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 07, 2015, 02:17:16 pm

That is one of my favorite missions.  There are just so many ways to complete it.  You can load up on weapons and just storm the building, killing everyone there.  You can get the rail driver and just kill them all. You can use the sniper rifle to give them a sporting chance.  You can lob a thermobaric rocket through the window.  You can sneak aroun and try planting explosives on the cars.  And finally, you can bring the entire building down. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on March 07, 2015, 05:17:52 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 07, 2015, 02:17:16 pm

That is one of my favorite missions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on March 08, 2015, 05:30:53 am

Alone and half dead, I was attacked by about eight enemies, including a boss with an enchanted bow. I switched to dogmatic mode (time only passes when you take an action), and started picking them off. Arrows from the boss were blocked by throwing knives while I climbed up a level to stun the horde of enemies chasing me. I ended up surrounded and stunned, but I ate a tone of hearts, killed the first enemy with a bleed rune, enchanted my dagger with slow (everything else was stolen by a nymph) and killed off about half the enemies, before dying. Fortunately, I was prepared for this (and have far too much luck) and had eaten a rune of undead beforehand. I returned, switched to a recently acquired vampire face I'd forgotten about, and plowed through all the enemies except one vampire.

Which promptly got a Smite and instakilled me.

I'm still calling it an own though, because by rights I should have died inside ten seconds.

Red Rogue.

Edit:
>Decapitated
>Rise again
>Wear own face
>What problem?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 08, 2015, 09:00:25 pm

I finally double looped Nuclear Throne!  When I looped the first time I had a gatling slugger I'd carried through most of the game and a hyper launcher I'd found in the throne room.  I had fish with gun warrant, which means I have infinite ammo for the first ten seconds of every level.  Might not sound like much but the first ten seconds of a nuclear throne level tends to be the most deadly time.  I spent those ten seconds holding down the trigger on my gatling slugger and watching as shotgun fingers caused ludicrous mayhem.

Carried those two guns through the entire next loop, until I got into a crown vault.  Decided to take crown of destiny for the free mutation... got fish's water boost throne butt, which while pretty good, is literally the only mutation in the game that could possibly get me killed.  Then I realized something terrible, when I used roll even once, I could never stop.  I had to water boost everywhere that level, bouncing off of walls and everything.

Activated it in both palace levels because muscle memory is a bitch.  Managed to fight my way down a tiny, long hallway that had a sniper on the other end by spamming my hyper launcher down both ends it while somehow dodging everything including the friendly fire.

Get to the boss at 2 health, realize that once you've looped the throne hallway spawns a bunch of pickups.  Rush to get them... and roll to go faster, activating water boost.  Find out that the red chest spawned a nuke launcher, pick it up.  I then proceed to beat the nuclear throne while infinitely water boosting.  Hilariously, it was hard to keep the throne onscreen while doing this, and nukes move slowly and follow the mouse.  So at one point I was dodging laser spam everywhere while two nukes circled perilously close in front of me.  Fun times.

I beat the boss with 94 ammo in my nuke launcher... and 8 in my gatling slugger.  The moment I entered the next level I spammed slugs everywhere, most of the IDPD died shortly after exiting their portals.  I fired my remaining slugs into the throne and then nuked it to death.

And so I entered my second loop with 2 health, a ton of nuke ammo, and 0 slugs.  I got shot dead by a crow bandit shortly afterwards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 09, 2015, 07:47:55 am

My Roselia won a Smart contest!

Spoiler: ...wearing this (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Ym3NIPE.png)

In my and her defense, that getup earned more than the other three contestants combined, giving me enough leeway to win if bombed the rest of the contest, which I didn't.

I'm so proud of her I'd give her a hug... but she has Poison Point, so... no.

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Pokemon Diamond. I just reached the part where Team Galactic blows up Lake Valor, which has a pretty horrifying scene of a giant pile of dead or dying Magikarp, with more lying around the crater. The Grunt(whom you don't battle) next to the pile makes some rather sick comments about the scene. Goddamn, Team Galactic are complete utter assholes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 09, 2015, 11:06:22 am

I remember playing Pearl as a little child and being scarred by that part. Good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 09, 2015, 01:24:57 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on March 09, 2015, 11:06:22 am

I remember playing Pearl as a little child and being scarred by that part. Good times.

>Pearl
>little child
>it wasn't that long ago was it
>googles Pokemon Pearl release date
>Sept 28 2006
>9 years ago

Well I feel old. I always considered Diamond and Pearl to be relatively recent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on March 09, 2015, 02:14:11 pm

Pah, I was in college in 2006, it wasn't THAT long ago... right? Right?? Shit....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on March 09, 2015, 02:35:29 pm

Quote from: greatorder on March 09, 2015, 02:31:09 pm

Sapphire/Ruby/Emerald (especially Emerald) for life!

You just listed my school's houses. I'm suddenly concerned that the founders were Pokemon fans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on March 09, 2015, 02:40:30 pm

Emerald is best, Platinum is second.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 09, 2015, 02:41:12 pm

Red and Blue. No question.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on March 09, 2015, 03:03:07 pm

Just beat Ornstein & Smough. And I killed Ornstein last 8)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls
Admittedly this is my third playthrough (different chars, no NG+) so it's not that much of an own. But it's a little bit. Mostly killed him with a non-scaling lightning weapon to boot, can't have things too easy.

Quote from: hector13 on March 09, 2015, 02:41:12 pm

Red and Blue. No question.

On a colourless bulky Gameboy, no less.

*rants about lawns 'n stuff*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 09, 2015, 03:12:21 pm

Pfft, no. A Gameboy Colour, of course.

There's not really that great a difference between the games I've played (being Red and Blue and X and Y) except different music. They changed the battle music, the bastards :'(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 10, 2015, 09:02:42 am

Playing Civ V on the Scamble for Africa scenario as Morocco.   I quickly send two settlers to the south, creating a buffer area to protect my main cities, along with securing a large amount of resources.  Instead of trying to secure gold initially, I send all my caravans in internal trade routes to quickly industrialize my nation by building a bunch of factories.   Twenty turns in, and I'm quickly able to build anything I want.  I then start with building up GPT, while also fortifying my lands against attacks.  At 40 turns remaining, I'm in fourth place, far behind Egypt, who is in first, since no one bothered to take the Suez Canal away from them, or go to war with them period.  I spend about ten turns positioning my military on the borders of france, setting rifled cannons on hills overlooking their cities, riflemen in forest nearby, and berber calvary units in my own territory for defense.  When the time comes, I quickly take four of their cities in less then seven turns, netting me about three hundred points in land.  They quickly settle for peace, giving me 250 GPT.  I then turn my sights onto England.  I build up my navy while also repositioning my military.  While they are my closest neigbhor besides France and Portugal, the heavy French presecene between me and then makes it difficult to get my troops in place.  With fifteen turns remaining, I'm able to take three of their cities and force a peace settlement, obtaining 2000 gold England.  At this point I'm in second place, making 500 GPT, and I'm 300 points behind Egypt.  With my GPT, I'm just barely about to start catching up with them, and at 5 turns remaining I am about 50 points behind.  I go to war with France and Italy, and quickly raid all their trade routes that go right by my capital.  The scenario finally ends, with me ahead by 7 points, with a total score of over 3000. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on March 10, 2015, 05:11:34 pm

Using carefully-aimed .50-caliber machine guns and flying low enough to avoid taking serious AA damage, I took out 6 landing craft and 3 patrol boats sent to attack Wake Island. I'd have to say the P-40 is my favorite American fighter so far.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 10, 2015, 06:59:34 pm

Just got an A on both the bathroom and the garage.  I even managed to apply jam on the bathroom (couldn't find it in the garage).

Now if only I could find some butter, butter is awesome, I just need to cover myself in butter and I can slide across any flat surface at breakneck speeds, don't even need to grab anything.  Only ever found it in the kitchen though.

I Am bread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 10, 2015, 08:12:21 pm

Quote from: Greiger on March 10, 2015, 06:59:34 pm

Just got an A on both the bathroom and the garage.  I even managed to apply jam on the bathroom (couldn't find it in the garage).

Now if only I could find some butter, butter is awesome, I just need to cover myself in butter and I can slide across any flat surface at breakneck speeds, don't even need to grab anything.  Only ever found it in the kitchen though.

I Am bread.

If I wanted to post in it, I'd put that in the out of context thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 10, 2015, 09:30:11 pm

Awesome, Greiger. I haven't gotten past a B on any level myself, and that's only on the Kitchen. Dayum the kitchen is easy compared to the other levels.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 10, 2015, 09:57:37 pm

Ruby and Sapphire were my childhood.

Silver and Yellow are both pretty fun though. Smells like vintage. Those were the only old pokemon games I played.

Everything else I either haven't played or are not as memorable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: timferius on March 11, 2015, 10:17:39 am

Pokemon Blue represent!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: karhell on March 11, 2015, 10:49:03 am

Quote from: timferius on March 11, 2015, 10:17:39 am

Pokemon Blue represent!

*Blue high-five*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 11, 2015, 12:08:30 pm

Blue, Yellow, Gold, Ruby. Awesome games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 11, 2015, 02:37:26 pm

I had emerald. Oh, the times I said "What do I doooooo!?" while playing that...

Coincidentally, it's my favorite Pokemon game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 11, 2015, 02:42:29 pm

I saved up and bought myself a GBA aged 11 so I could get Pokemon Sapphire when it came out. (My parents wouldn't buy me a GBC or Game Boy Pocket at the time, so I did it myself by doing extra chores for nearly six months.)

Since then, I also got myself Pokemon Pearl, Platinum, Black, Black 2, X and now Alpha Sapphire. I missed out on getting HG/SS sadly, and haven't been able to find a copy outside of eBay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on March 11, 2015, 03:34:55 pm

You Pokémon kids make me feel old.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 12, 2015, 04:09:34 am

Quote from: NullForceOmega on March 11, 2015, 03:34:55 pm

You Pokémon kids make me feel old.

I woulda been one of the crowd with RBY if my parents got me one ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on March 12, 2015, 08:11:37 am

Beat my dad, who's really good, at a game of Warhammer. He was running Empire, and I was running High Elves. For those who don't know: Empire has a lot of emphasis on shooting, while HE is more of a jack-of-all-trades things, save them not being so amazing at close combat. We were playing a 1500 point game. On my side, there was a Loremaster of Hoeth (More expensive than a normal mage for a lower bonus to casting and dispel attempts, but they always know the signature spells of the eight lores of magic), a large block of spearmen (Cheap, normal units that have the advantage of being capable of getting an obscene number of attacks), a block of Phoenix Guard (Hardy elite warriors), a block of Sea Guard (Archer/Warrior combo) with a Sea Helm for his Naval Discipline ability (Basically, I can swap from a formation better for shooting to one better for close combat when I'm charged).

On his side, my dad had a cannon, steam tank, halberdiers with a witch hunter and his own level 3 mage, outriders (Cavalry with powerful shooting), mounted pistoleers, and a block of knights with a warrior-priest. My Loremaster didn't actually get a massive number of spells off, seeing as my dad was desperate to prevent him from casting too much, as his Searing Doom spell was really nasty against his knights and steam tank. However, he did manage to get a spell off to take out one of his heroes. I managed to destroy his outriders in my first round of shooting. After a while, my phoenix guard end up fighting off the halberdiers, managing to force them to flee (And eventually off the table). Meanwhile, the pistoleers continue being a general pain in the ass because they're way too fast for me to reasonably catch them. Thankfully, they aren't terribly powerful. I end up miscasting with my Loremaster, taking only a wound, but thankfully catching a few halberdiers in the blast. Knights ram themselves in the side of my Phoenix Guard, but end up getting a block of spearmen in their back. Meanwhile, the steam tank hits the spears' flank too. Somehow, my spearman manage to win combat res versus the tank. It takes a while, since the knights have an insane armor save, but I do eventually mange to take them out. I never do mange to get the pistoleers, but I manged to get the tank down to five wounds remaining (Which is still a LOT, because most things die after one wound, but the tank starts play with ten of them and doesn't take wounds easily).

Counting up the totals, I managed to win by ~500 points, which is just enough to manage a minor victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer Fantasy. I'm really surprised I won, since I'm a) bad at the game, b) rusty, c) playing someone who's really good, d) playing a point limit I'm not used to (We normally play 2500), and e) using an army list I threw together in ~10 minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 13, 2015, 02:27:04 am

Playing 1v1 with my friend, both of us alternating between our favorite characters.  He wins almost all the games.  After losing one I switch to Dedede, whom I've played like 3 times, for the lols.  The gaming gods spontaneously gift me with knowledge of how to play him and I win.  This was followed by about 2 hours of me winning half my games against his best characters playing as a pink Dedede with the name tag "Juicey".

In his own words: "I need to rethink my life"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SSB4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gruntdonttoot on March 13, 2015, 09:40:08 pm

Two guys run at me wielding kitchen knives, I run to my friendly neighborhood wall and do a roundhouse kick off of it killing both knife wielders. Then a grappler runs at me and I pick up one of the kitchen knives of my previously fallen foes and chuck it at the grappler, killing him instantly.

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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, loving playing through this again with all the new shinyness that comes with the Definitive Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 13, 2015, 10:08:42 pm

Friend convinced me to buy a game so we can play it multiplayer on the DS.  I go through the tutorial missions to get a basic feel of how to play the game.  I pick greatsword because looks like it would do a lot of damage.

We get into a online game with eachother and he tells me that greatsword is probably one of the hardest weapons to effectively use.  I go in anyway expecting my friend to do basically all of the heavy lifting.

We have a quest to go kill a elephantmonkeybat or something like that.  Woo how hard can something like that be?  Somehow I stay alive the entire fight while my friend actually dies fighting it and in general seems to be getting wrecked by it.  And not only did I stay alive the whole fight I somehow jumped on to the monkey thing's back and stabbed it a few times.  Which my friend claimed he never managed to do.  And I got the killing blow on it while my friend was still on his way back from spawn.

I'm not sure if noob with a greatsword is just some kind of recipe for dumb luck or if I'm a natural.  I'm going to call it an own until I get wrecked by whatever the game's next boss is.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, 2DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 14, 2015, 02:23:47 pm

You people have weird taste in Pokémon games. It's Alpha Sapphire, then Y, then Black. Then Emerald. Then HeartGold. Then Diamond. For me, at least.

The originals are immortal and cannot be judged. Same for GSC, if only for Vietnam.

I'd have grown up with DPPt or RSE if I hadn't been such a sucker for legos and my parents knew it wasn't just an animé. :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lord_lemonpie on March 14, 2015, 02:28:49 pm

Diamond was my first and only pokémon game, so that's definitely my favorite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 14, 2015, 07:18:18 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 14, 2015, 02:23:47 pm

You people have weird taste in Pokémon games. It's Alpha Sapphire, then Y, then Black. Then Emerald. Then HeartGold. Then Diamond. For me, at least.

The originals are immortal and cannot be judged. Same for GSC, if only for Vietnam.

I'd have grown up with DPPt or RSE if I hadn't been such a sucker for legos and my parents knew it wasn't just an animé. :(

Because obviously, we're weird for not complying with your opinions :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 14, 2015, 09:49:06 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 14, 2015, 07:18:18 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 14, 2015, 02:23:47 pm

You people have weird taste in Pokémon games. It's Alpha Sapphire, then Y, then Black. Then Emerald. Then HeartGold. Then Diamond. For me, at least.

The originals are immortal and cannot be judged. Same for GSC, if only for Vietnam.

I'd have grown up with DPPt or RSE if I hadn't been such a sucker for legos and my parents knew it wasn't just an animé. :(

Because obviously, we're weird for not complying with your opinions :P

Everybody has weird taste in everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 14, 2015, 09:54:22 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 14, 2015, 09:49:06 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 14, 2015, 07:18:18 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 14, 2015, 02:23:47 pm

You people have weird taste in Pokémon games. It's Alpha Sapphire, then Y, then Black. Then Emerald. Then HeartGold. Then Diamond. For me, at least.

The originals are immortal and cannot be judged. Same for GSC, if only for Vietnam.

I'd have grown up with DPPt or RSE if I hadn't been such a sucker for legos and my parents knew it wasn't just an animé. :(

Because obviously, we're weird for not complying with your opinions :P

Everybody has weird taste in everything.

Pfft, clearly my taste in things is the correct one... obviously.

EDIT: I last owned by being a badass, dual poisoned sword wielding armored ninja from hell preying on those wishing to ring a bell.

Drak Sous too

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 15, 2015, 12:08:15 am

In other news, I re-finished PW:AA:JFA. The last villain's breakdown is always ever so satisfying.

Beats the absolute last breakdown in the original trilogy, too. The way they react is just so boring compared to everyone else.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Attack of the Colons Justice for All

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on March 15, 2015, 01:48:28 am

Soloed a Guild Hall High Rank Najarala and kicked it to death.  There's something satisfying about kicking a 40 meter long snake to death.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 15, 2015, 10:49:05 am

For some reason, the game spawned all the other empires(all Human, supposedly random governments but it seems like it will always give them Way of the Ancients regardless of settings) in the same system, not far from mine. They all also seemed to have problems expanding. Anyway, I noticed that my victory score was 80%(threshold of 90%), and the only thing I really needed to do was the objective of making a Mutual Defense Pact with 15% of the other empires(other objectives weren't as reasonable).

As I was pondering my diplomatic strategy, one of the other Human empires calls up and offers a Mutual Defense Pact. I win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Distant Worlds. Booted up a new game with the same settings and it is indeed putting all four of the other empires, and giving them all Way of the Ancients government despite me setting it to random.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on March 15, 2015, 06:02:14 pm

I finally learned how to make bombs.

Without going into any of the details, I finally figured out how to make a heated gas mix without bloating it with useless CO2. I then combined that with a chilled mix made of mostly oxygen in a transfer valve, attached a timer to it, primed it, and placed it in the test chamber. I then retreated behind the reinforced plasmaglass windows of the testchamber and watched for a slightly less piddly explosion then usual. The explosion gibbed me from five tiles away and completely destroyed the test chamber. Which was completely unexpected, since none of my OTHER bombs had really done more then dent the walls within a ~2-tile radius.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SS:13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 15, 2015, 06:05:26 pm

What is Space Station 13, anyway? I hear about it a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on March 15, 2015, 06:35:54 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on March 15, 2015, 06:05:26 pm

What is Space Station 13, anyway? I hear about it a lot.

Basically, its a cross between DF and Mafia in space. Bay12 [mostly]operates our own server, which is fun when there are people on it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 15, 2015, 06:38:35 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on March 15, 2015, 06:35:54 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on March 15, 2015, 06:05:26 pm

What is Space Station 13, anyway? I hear about it a lot.

Basically, its a cross between DF and Mafia in space. Bay12 [mostly]operates our own server, which is fun when there are people on it.

Which is also named, obviously, Baystation 12

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on March 15, 2015, 06:46:16 pm

No it isn't.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 15, 2015, 06:48:30 pm

Yeah, Baystation 12 has largely split off from the forums and become its own thing now. It even has its own code branch, forums, wiki, drama and a ton of other junk. If you're curious, the current Bay12 server is Urist McStation (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=123140.0).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on March 15, 2015, 06:50:54 pm

I think the codebase is named Baystation 12 and our actual SERVER is named Urist McStation?

FAKEDIT: Yeah, USEC nailed it Waitaminute, is his username related to SS:13? 0_0

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nogoodnames on March 17, 2015, 03:58:39 am

While setting up my first freighter, I happened to notice someone flying around in a unique ship with a mission for me. It turned out they wanted me to join them in a massive joint strike against the Kha'ak swarm. Obviously this was a major quest of some kind, but I figured it couldn't be too bad -the mission was only rated "normal" difficulty- so I agreed to follow them to a military base where I could sign up. Well as soon as I arrived in the sector, a huge fleet composed of dozens of Xenon fighters and quite a few corvettes showed up to attack. Naturally I was required to fend off this invasion force in order to prove myself worthy of the mission ahead.

It's important to note that I was piloting a medium fighter with only a wingman in a souped up scout and 4 drones to support me. There were a few Argon fighters scattered around the sector, but not in places where they would be useful. I lead the charge on the first wave of Xenon ships, deploying all of my drones and launching a few missile salvos against the most dangerous fighters. For a time, things were going well. My drones were surprisingly effective versus the Xenon fighters, and I even managed to take down a corvette, but more kept coming. My shields were drained and my wingman's ship had taken a nasty amount of damage. I ordered a retreat with the drones staying behind to cover us but, slowed by engine damage, my wingman was gunned down before he could reach safety. I escaped with some minor hull damage, but the drones were quickly picked off after my retreat and I had no missiles left.

From there the battle became a game of cat and mouse. I would strike at any enemy ships that strayed away from the pack and then retreat to safety to repair any damage. In the end there was one clump of enemies left, a corvette and five or so fighters. They stayed near the jump gate, attacking the presumably immortal quest giver who apparently had no weapons he could use to fight back. With no other choice I charged in. It was a glorious dogfight, with plasma flying in all directions. I managed to kill at least four fighters before being forced to pull out. From there it was a simple matter to clear out any stragglers. I ranked up two combat levels and earned about 3 million credits from that battle, which I suppose is adequate compensation for the loss of my wingman and the drones. However, I think I'll get a better ship before pursuing that quest line any further.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

X3: Terran Conflict

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on March 17, 2015, 10:40:43 am

Very well done, that quest line is a blast, but is also very difficult.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 17, 2015, 11:41:39 am

Went from having troubles getting through greater rift 30 and 31 on my crusader to pushing into greater rift 34 and 35, all because I lucked out and got a pretty great Furnace drop. The Furnace means you get 50% more damage against elites, which is huge for saders because killing elites and rift guardians is kinda slow. Also the Furnace is possibly the rarest weapon drop in the game.

Cleared grift 34 with no problems, but barely ran out of time to clear grift 35 due to several deaths. Still, all thanks to this Furnace. Praise rngesus for sick loot drops.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on March 17, 2015, 12:49:12 pm

Quote from: nogoodnames on March 17, 2015, 03:58:39 am

-snip-

Last time I tried that mission, I was flying a Scimitar (Terran M3+), and I was facing a Xenon Q (M7). Qs are supposed to have a giant blind spot where they can't hit you, but I can't find it.
Instead, I was relying on strafing the slow moving PPC shots coming my way. I managed to get the Q down to one fifth hull before I strafed the wrong way and got vaporised.

Next time I did it, the Q kamikazed itself into the Military Outpost. The autopillok actually worked in my favour for once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 17, 2015, 01:07:24 pm

Quote from: nogoodnames on March 17, 2015, 03:58:39 am

-SNIP-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

X3: Terran Conflict

That's pretty amazing.  I've always had trouble with combat missions, myself, but that's definitely impressive flying.

Probably a minor one for the same game, but one I was a bit pleased by since it was a confluence of some glorious coincidences.  Same game, starting as an Anonymous Argon (I think; the one where you start in a single unarmed, basic M5 Discoverer).  Managed to scrape together enough to pick up a couple Mercuries used (one Tanker, one Hauler), and had them start hauling energy cells.  While picking up a passenger request, I happened to notice a mission request to deliver a bit over 8000 energy cells to a facility in Argon Prime in return for well over half a million credits - when I ran the pay-per-unit, it came out to around 72 per energy cell, or almost four times the theoretical maximum regular sale price (20).  Checking both of my freighters, both had full loads and were flying near or in Argon Prime, which combined would just barely match the request.  The catch was that delivery needed to be completed and signed in 10 minutes, which was only slightly greater than the time my damaged Mercury Hauler would need to arrive at the station.  I immediately redirected both ships to the factory and accepted the deal, then flew south in my Discoverer to finish the passenger mission.  Immediately on finishing that mission, I found not one, but two more passenger missions in that system, one to Argon Prime and another to an adjacent sector, which combined would just barely fit in my cargo hold and pay out another quarter-million.  I immediately accepted both, flew back to Argon Prime to confirm delivery in person (scraping by with seconds left), and finished off both passenger missions to receive all sorts of profitsss with whole minutes to spare.  I just love it when missions come together like that. 

Net result: 10 minutes to earn a bit shy of a million credits from four missions, after not even 9 hours in-game, and this from someone who's never managed to succeed on the Tormented Teladi or Poisoned Paranid starts.  Albeit, the latter I kept failing because I kept getting shot out of the sky within half a minute of game start due to the ruinous reputation penalties and fact you start in a freighter.

Spoiler: Do I really need this after saying it's the same game? (click to show/hide)

X3: Terran Conflict

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on March 17, 2015, 08:53:19 pm

Spoiler: Why didn't they love me? (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MG0LWrs.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/FGwO2n3.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/75uOI5P.png)
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(http://i.imgur.com/JYq00H4.png)

So I was sucking up to some faction so I could load up on the weapons I wanted, and I spent quite some time doing this the slow way. About the time I was near their capital putzing around with a trade fleet full of food; the random diplomacy event generator suddenly decided "lol no" and turned us into enemies.

Of course, this resulted in my non-combat trade fleet getting asploded. All that was left was my flagship left at dock.

I responded by genociding their entire species.

I ripped apart their fleets alone; my flagship is not equipped with missiles or lasers, it has 6 super machine guns and 3 anti-armor burst cannons. I made their ships asplode by filling them with thousands of bullets.
Enemy crew members that surrendered were captured, stripped, vented out into space, and torn to shreds by spaceship machine gun fire. (mostly because I didn't have crew space though).
I dumped thousands of marines to cleanse their planets and stations.

The only thing to show that their species existed are bullet-riddled ruins, bullet-riddled ship graveyards, and one high value prisoner (I sold the rest to special interest collectors as slaves). That's in my cargo holds. Where he will stay.

Forever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Broken on March 17, 2015, 08:58:05 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Blaze on March 17, 2015, 08:53:19 pm

[spoiler=Why didn't they love me?]

(http://i.imgur.com/MG0LWrs.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/FGwO2n3.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/75uOI5P.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/g9b8YmJ.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/D5nNYvM.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/JYq00H4.png)

So I was sucking up to some faction so I could load up on the weapons I wanted, and I spent quite some time doing this the slow way. About the time I was near their capital putzing around with a trade fleet full of food; the random diplomacy event generator suddenly decided "lol no" and turned us into enemies.

Of course, this resulted in my non-combat trade fleet getting asploded. All that was left was my flagship left at dock.

I responded by genociding their entire species.

I ripped apart their fleets alone; my flagship is not equipped with missiles or lasers, it has 6 super machine guns and 3 anti-armor burst cannons. I made their ships asplode by filling them with thousands of bullets.
Enemy crew members that surrendered were captured, stripped, vented out into space, and torn to shreds by spaceship machine gun fire. (mostly because I didn't have crew space though).
I dumped thousands of marines to cleanse their planets and stations.

The only thing to show that their species existed are bullet-riddled ruins, bullet-riddled ship graveyards, and one high value prisoner (I sold the rest to special interest collectors as slaves). That's in my cargo holds. Where he will stay.

Forever.
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What game is that?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on March 17, 2015, 09:12:15 pm

Star Sector! a rather fun game, I used to play all the time!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 17, 2015, 09:19:08 pm

And the meteors are averted. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 18, 2015, 07:49:31 am

My first ever attempt at the Ambulance Kidney Transplant. Result: A++ rating, the achievements for doing it, doing it with minimal bloodloss, and almost got it for doing it quickly. And I had just repeatdly borked the normal operation that I was practicing with.

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Surgeon Simulator 2013

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 18, 2015, 06:07:21 pm

Got the Tids mask in the Car Shop heist. Had to do it solo (people were being stupid and activated computers at random) and had a lot of close calls in previous attempts (once, I did it in 4:05 (needs to be in less than 4)), but I eventually did it.

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Payday 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on March 19, 2015, 06:38:52 pm

Ive won the last 4 mafia games Ive played 8)

And to top that off multiple ongoings could qualify to be here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 20, 2015, 07:58:40 am

After failing spectacularly (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg6111508#msg6111508), I manage to properly take a helicopter ride to the objective. Seconds after disembarking, the helicopter explodes somehow. Getting into the base was easy. After a few mishaps where my team screwed up the bonus objective(capture the enemy leader ALIVE), I order them to hold fire and fuck off somewhere. I clear most of the defenders from one side with ease, and sneak off to clear the other side. Nearly crapping myself at finding a full SpecOps team less than 200m from, I call in a mortar strike to deal with them. Then I find that tank from before. One shot from a captured Queen Bee launcher didn't destroy the tank, it fucking vaporized it.

All that was left was just the driver of a jeep that had crashed into a wall and the entire campaign was done.

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on March 20, 2015, 03:19:10 pm

Managed to collect and upgrade everything in the game (also max. bombs and arrows), with a few dungeons to spare (last one, before the final level providing the final piece of heart (last item on the list, caused by railroading); but mostly-finished by this point). The last bosses, and the rematch boss rush was pretty much a 1-2 hit kill on those poor fools (although the last dungeon bosses were still pretty strong, and needed a few more hits), and I had everything by then.

Also, the 4 mages that tend to bug me during the last levels, I finally figured out how to efficiently take out simultaneously. You use the red cane to plant a block dead-center between them, and use it again to explode it in all 4 directions. This also helps for the final puzzles that I used bombs otherwise instead; now I can trigger them at-will instead. Albeit, a tad late there.

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Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on March 20, 2015, 11:05:39 pm

During the night of the 1st day, I was rummaging around, trying to find a wrench so that I could equip my Dojo base with a wood stove, among other things made from gas tanks, when I ran into another survivor. "Drop your weapon!" he said, so I dropped my weapon and beat a hasty retreat. This being my only weapon, a hockey stick, I was rather loathe to leave it there. I went back over, picked it back up and made a dash to the corner of the building to the punctuation of gunfire. We met just around that corner, me in my padded jersey and him with his Ruger 10/22. He shot me enough times to put my pain at 70, which will be a setback. My health, however, was not as severely damaged as being shot so many times would say. I only had one yellow area, at ||| of torso health. I've got a stock of food and a few books to read while the bullet holes heal over. I understand that .22 is small, but that seems a bit light. Not that I'm complaining.
 

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Cataclysm: DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on March 20, 2015, 11:13:21 pm

Lucky.  One survivor ran up behind me as I was out collecting nails in light gear.  With only a ruger 10/22, a flintlock pistol, and a fire axe for weapons, and  molle pack on I failed my 'you're not robbing me' check, and because it was so dark he was on of of me when combat started.  The first thing he did  was empty his .40 smg into my legs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 20, 2015, 11:14:02 pm

Brimstone + Polyphemus. I shot a blood laser that OHKO'd Mom as soon as I entered the room.

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 21, 2015, 02:23:45 am

I actually managed to get more than one or two skills as Scout.

TF2.

EDIT:

 I finally beat Portal. I had heard that it ended rather abruptly, but wow. There's like, half a second of lead-up before you reach the boss room. "Hey, this looks kinda ominous, wonder what's ahead OH IT'S THE FINAL BOSS"

Portal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 21, 2015, 02:09:54 pm

I got a 11x combo with the tiger mask o-o

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Hotline Miami 1. I'm playing as EL PUNCHO THE COMBO LUCHADOR for shits and giggles and it's hilarious. I use my fists whenever possible, only guns when neccesary (like that one stage with the bomb that explodes if you shoot/touch the door). Throwing knives is also allowed.

E:
I just got a 16x combo by punching everyone on the level except the fat guy to death in one streak. My playstyle was still listed as combo trainee ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 21, 2015, 04:32:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 21, 2015, 02:23:45 am

I actually managed to get more than one or two skills as Scout.

They added RPG elements to TF2 now?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 21, 2015, 08:13:25 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 21, 2015, 04:32:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 21, 2015, 02:23:45 am

I actually managed to get more than one or two skills as Scout.

They added RPG elements to TF2 now?

Yep! Unlock more advanced hats from more powerful opponents to increase your stats, and participate in missions to gain new abilities! If you're lucky, you'll eventually acquire a "Hale's Own" weapon, which deals triple the damage of default weapon and is only outclassed by items purchased off the Steam Store!

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The above may be sarcasm, and itisnotlogical may have meant 'kills', not 'skills'. But how could I resist?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 22, 2015, 03:07:14 am

Quote from: Thexor on March 21, 2015, 08:13:25 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on March 21, 2015, 04:32:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 21, 2015, 02:23:45 am

I actually managed to get more than one or two skills as Scout.

They added RPG elements to TF2 now?

Yep! Unlock more advanced hats from more powerful opponents to increase your stats, and participate in missions to gain new abilities! If you're lucky, you'll eventually acquire a "Hale's Own" weapon, which deals triple the damage of default weapon and is only outclassed by items purchased off the Steam Store!

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The above may be sarcasm, and itisnotlogical may have meant 'kills', not 'skills'. But how could I resist?

Yeah, I meant kills. Getting used to a new keyboard. At least all the keys are actually a decent size.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baneling on March 22, 2015, 01:33:21 pm

Won an ARAM match in 13:39 as Morgana.

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League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on March 22, 2015, 07:15:16 pm

Been playing Diablo 3.
Made a barbarian.
I'm Paragon level 104, so I start out on Master difficulty.
Everything is normal.
Kill skeleton king.
The broken crown has a socket.
Go to blacksmith.
Make rare two-handed sword that has a socket.
Fuck it, in go level 80 rubies.
My damage jumped from 300 something to over 4000.
I'm getting 33% bonus experience.
I'm playing on Torment right now.
This isn't even a greentext.
I'm leveling up like, every 5 minutes.
This is great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 22, 2015, 07:24:45 pm

Wait, your damage was only 300 and you're at paragon 104? I'm guessing your barb isn't at endgame and you stuck a high level end game ruby in a low level weapon? Yeah, high level rubies in low level weapons for low level grinding can make for some super high damage. Makes steamrolling low levels easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on March 22, 2015, 07:46:01 pm

Yeah, this was a new character. It feels kind of cheaty to do this, but I've already played through the game three times so whatever, I need achievements. I should really stop being lazy and work on finishing my Monk's gearing. I still need the Hammer Fist and the rest of the Raiment set, but meh, that's all a lot of farming I really don't feel like doing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 22, 2015, 08:08:03 pm

Nah, not really cheaty. You're using resources the game gave you, including resources from previous characters. It's not exploity if you're just leveling either, tons of lazy people just leech and get people to powerlevel them anyway. That seems way more exploity, but lots of people do it.

You got Reaper of Souls, right? It adds so much replayability to the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on March 22, 2015, 09:08:56 pm

I do have it, but I'm not seeing the replayabilty. Are you talking about Adventure Mode and Rifts and all that jazz? Because all that stuff get's fairly boring quickly, it's just the same stuff over and over again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 22, 2015, 09:19:19 pm

Quote from: Facekillz058 on March 22, 2015, 09:08:56 pm

I do have it, but I'm not seeing the replayabilty. Are you talking about Adventure Mode and Rifts and all that jazz? Because all that stuff get's fairly boring quickly, it's just the same stuff over and over again.

Yeah, adventure mode.

It's fun because loot. Gearing well enough to get to T6 can be slow but once at T6 you regularly get sweet loot drops. And greater rifts are also fun. It's basically time trials. You can also time yourself running a T6 rift instead of a greater rift to see how fast you can clear it.

I found it fun. It does get boring after a bit but that's when you take a break and come back later. Anything gets boring if you do it too much. And at least adventure mode cuts out the repetitive campaign selections. If you want to run campaign, you can run campaign, if you want to kill things for loot, you can do adventure mode instead of running campaign. Playing through the whole campaign with 3 or 4 different classes to get to endgame and hearing the dialogue and doing the missions every time got really stale really fast for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on March 22, 2015, 10:59:19 pm

Killed Providence at the ninety one minute mark as the engineer.  I had nearly three full rows of items, and had two or more for most items.  Notable items include leeching seed, four soldiers syringes, four crowbars, three hoopa feathers, two rusty jepacks, three guardian shields,  a photon jetpack, the ol' lopper, and prescriptions.  What does that mean?  It means I've hovering in the air fucking your shit up.  I had complete and utter mobility, and was able to make any jump on the Contact Light.  Primarily I used it to completely ignore groups of enemies, go from level to level all the way on the west end of the ship, and to jump up and down next to a group of enemies, firing at the wall next to me with my trinades.  I very quickly got five attack drones, which also assisted in murdering my enemies. I was able to get three keycards, unlocking the cargo hold, the armory, and the medbay, but I was unable to find a fourth despite trolling throughout the entire ship killing anything I felt like and slapping gravity in the face whenever it thought I couldn't reach a place.  Three four leaf clovers gave me a decent supply of items, since there were many elite enemies I could kill.  There were two scary moments when facing Providence.  The first time he managed to actually bring me down to low health, but time keeper's secret activated and I quickly ran towards the med pod thing.  The second he was nearly dead and I had prescriptions activated, and I was concentrating so hard on blowing his face apart that I just barely noticed his artillery thing appearing in time to avoid it. 

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Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 23, 2015, 04:16:03 am

I got five kills as a Pyro and sapped my first building as a Spy. I'm still awful and usually end up in the middle of a match that's been badly lost anyway, but I'm finally contributing (once in a great while)!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 23, 2015, 07:34:34 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 23, 2015, 04:16:03 am

I got five kills as a Pyro and sapped my first building as a Spy. I'm still awful and usually end up in the middle of a match that's been badly lost anyway, but I'm finally contributing (once in a great while)!

Ah, it begins. I remember starting like that, 500 hours of gameplay ago - i started with the Medic, then moved on to Soldier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on March 23, 2015, 01:46:54 pm

I didn't expect royally screwing up in a driving test (turns) would result in me beating the gold score by a quarter of a second. I don't know how I did it, but I felt like I botched it big time, only to obliterate the expected time by a significant margin. I guess all those times gallivanting in Need For Speed paid off.

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Gran Turismo (PSP)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on March 23, 2015, 02:44:00 pm

Was playing skyrim with the rabbit hole mod. I came into a room filled with werwolves and got killed in a few seconds. On my second attempt I was able to dodge them for just long enough to gain a level up and get the adept destruction perk. I then proceeded to blow the entire place with fireballs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on March 23, 2015, 09:59:07 pm

Completely kicking ass. Got myself some red powered armor (which is not only good armor, it also self-repairs from all damage it takes, so it never breaks), a hyperblaster, and the Ammochain trait (which makes any ranged attack cost only a single ammo, functionally removing the ammo cost for all chain weapons and removing the need to reload more then once a level).
I find some rare cybernetic armor (which has a spiffy armor of 7), and decide to try it on to see if I can mod it. I can't (which isn't a surprise at all). Oh well, I go back to my power armor. Fast forward a level, and I realize that I never too the cybernetic armor off for some reason, I try again and find out that I can't take the cybernetic armor off because its "cursed", and its all the way down to 50%. I realize that if I still want to win, I need to go through the game without getting it broken, because then even 3 or 4 attacks that would have otherwise done like 10% damage will kill me.

Through the rest of the game I manage to find enough armor shards (drops that repair armor) and managed to kill pretty much everything before it could attack me to keep it up high enough that I don't get insta-killed by some revanants, and go on to get the full victory and clear every level except the chapel (due to it being a melee only zone) mortuary (due to the fact that I would have been murdered when my armor broke from all the millions of enemy everywhere).

Doom RL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 06:55:55 am

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth - SPOILERS ahead!

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Being quite new to the game, I manage to beat mom once, after more than 20 runs, and unlock Azazel. I try to use him, and I get 2 bad runs.

On the third one, I get the Ludovico Technique (controlled tears) as my first item, triggering the synergy with the brimstone.

I then proceed to kick ass, destroying every single room in less than 10 seconds. The Dark Bum buddy gives me the health I need, and I'm able to:
- Beat Mom in less than 20 minutes, without taking damage during the boss fight;
- Easily win the boss rush, gaining LOTS of spirit hearts;
- Get 2 Angel rooms on my way to the boss fight;
- Beat Mom's Heart easily;
- Reach the cathedral and defeat the Isaac secret boss;

All of this without EVER taking a single red heart damage.

I still have not beat Mom's Heart with any other character, though, I'm still learning. But at least I got one amazing run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 25, 2015, 10:34:37 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 23, 2015, 04:16:03 am

I got five kills as a Pyro and sapped my first building as a Spy. I'm still awful and usually end up in the middle of a match that's been badly lost anyway, but I'm finally contributing (once in a great while)!

We've all been there. If you keep playing, you'll eventually not suck :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 06:55:55 am

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth - SPOILERS ahead!

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Being quite new to the game, I manage to beat mom once, after more than 20 runs, and unlock Azazel. I try to use him, and I get 2 bad runs.

On the third one, I get the Ludovico Technique (controlled tears) as my first item, triggering the synergy with the brimstone.

I then proceed to kick ass, destroying every single room in less than 10 seconds. The Dark Bum buddy gives me the health I need, and I'm able to:
- Beat Mom in less than 20 minutes, without taking damage during the boss fight;
- Easily win the boss rush, gaining LOTS of spirit hearts;
- Get 2 Angel rooms on my way to the boss fight;
- Beat Mom's Heart easily;
- Reach the cathedral and defeat the Isaac secret boss;

All of this without EVER taking a single red heart damage.

I still have not beat Mom's Heart with any other character, though, I'm still learning. But at least I got one amazing run.

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 02:54:52 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Yeah, and I've seen other people who got an even stronger version when they got homing shots too. That looks even better... I'll just have to play a thousand times, I'll find it sooner or later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 26, 2015, 07:16:34 pm

48.8 meters.

QWOP distance.

AW YEAH SON.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 26, 2015, 08:27:54 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 26, 2015, 07:16:34 pm

48.8 meters.

QWOP distance.

AW YEAH SON.

(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/metor-shower-471645.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 26, 2015, 08:31:59 pm

But QWOP is the name of the game ???
You seriously haven't heard of it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on March 26, 2015, 08:43:27 pm

Killed a zombie hulk at two bars torso health using a quarterstaff at 20 pain. Lots of stuns, and he only got one swing off, which I dodged.

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Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 26, 2015, 09:12:21 pm

Headshot, didn't kill the guy. Followed him around for almost an hour, just out of his reach, tormenting him with nearby explosions and stunning any of his allies that could help him. He just gets angrier and angrier, and finally there's nothing in about a kilometer for him or me to destroy left, so I just pop him in the head twice more, then loot his body; Mucho rewards.

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Borderlands 2
Goliath; almost leveled him up to the final stage, but ran out of targets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 26, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 02:54:52 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Yeah, and I've seen other people who got an even stronger version when they got homing shots too. That looks even better... I'll just have to play a thousand times, I'll find it sooner or later.

I've gotten Mutant Spider + Brimstone before.

Charge time = forever, but you will kill nearly everything in a hit with a damage up or two.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 26, 2015, 10:16:36 pm

Killed EOS (the final boss). Still took me half an hour knowing what to do. (Non-elemental weapons, is what to do. Jakobs pistols (for fast firing and reload) if you can.)

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 27, 2015, 07:18:38 am

Quote from: Reudh on March 26, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 02:54:52 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Yeah, and I've seen other people who got an even stronger version when they got homing shots too. That looks even better... I'll just have to play a thousand times, I'll find it sooner or later.

I've gotten Mutant Spider + Brimstone before.

Charge time = forever, but you will kill nearly everything in a hit with a damage up or two.

I am to understand that synergistic tendencies + bums of darker variety = amazingness?

... yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 27, 2015, 10:01:28 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on March 27, 2015, 07:18:38 am

Quote from: Reudh on March 26, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 02:54:52 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Yeah, and I've seen other people who got an even stronger version when they got homing shots too. That looks even better... I'll just have to play a thousand times, I'll find it sooner or later.

I've gotten Mutant Spider + Brimstone before.

Charge time = forever, but you will kill nearly everything in a hit with a damage up or two.

I am to understand that synergistic tendencies + bums of darker variety = amazingness?

... yes.

Yeah, there are certain items that go VERY well together. Brimstone on its own isn't bad, but it's a base to work off. My best run got Polyphemus (mega tears with a very long delay and fairly short range) and Ludovico Technique (one giant tear that is controllable like Isaac is, but does constant damage scaling with damage stat), and another one had Mom's Contacts + Dark Matter + Brass Knuckles + a bunch of tears up pills + Anti-Gravity + Soy Milk + Scorpio, so I had stationary super-quickly created fearing shielded poison randomly higher damaging tears that I could release in a barrage at once.

Plus, Dark Bum is always amazing - he takes hearts that drop, and occasionally spawns either a hostile spider (smallest, basic kind), a friendly spider or most commonly a soul heart. So basically, you get extra HP containers if you're on a floor that gives you a lot of hearts.

Bum Friend is similar, but gives you bombs, keys, coins and (rarely) trinkets for coins it picks up.

I actually have a video of that Anti-Gravity run, though only post boss rush playing around with the tears.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 27, 2015, 10:06:39 am

After having been defeated by a Lollard rebellion early in the game as the Count of Ce (Picts, ftw) I decided that I would reload it and actually get the 2500-man tribal army I could to defend myself rather than just let them win (I wasn't expecting it to end the bloody game, after all)

This resulted in me getting rid of the Lollards and allowing me to gain a Duke title, on the way to holding as many titles as the rest of the Kingdom of Pictland.

But then I became a Merchant Republic, and got bent over the Firth of Forth by the Vikings shortly thereafter. :(

Crusdaer Kings II: All DLC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on March 27, 2015, 10:50:04 am

Quote from: Reudh on March 26, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 25, 2015, 02:54:52 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 25, 2015, 01:19:07 pm

Ludostone is probably the best item synergy you're likely to ever find, and the Dark Bum is amazing. Way better than Bum Friend, that's for sure.

Yeah, and I've seen other people who got an even stronger version when they got homing shots too. That looks even better... I'll just have to play a thousand times, I'll find it sooner or later.

I've gotten Mutant Spider + Brimstone before.

Charge time = forever, but you will kill nearly everything in a hit with a damage up or two.

The most op combination I've seen with brimstone is tammy's head and tiny planet. Each room you get to fill the entire room with death lasers, which is enough to kill pretty much anything in the game. My favorite synergy however is ipecac + monstro's lung + whatever the flaming tears is called and maybe pyromania if I'm lucky (The one that makes you regenerate health when standing in an explosion). Each shot makes a massive burning crater 8)

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I killed mega satan for the first time with this combo. His hands were destroyed too quickly for him to do the ground smash attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 27, 2015, 12:16:06 pm

Pyromaniac makes most of the game utterly trivial. However many bombs you have is now your extra HP. (psst, also stomp attacks like the ones used by Mom and Satan count as explosions, so you can HEAL off them!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on March 27, 2015, 02:27:55 pm

Crashed red ship start, nearby asteroid has only iron and ice.  Turn off the gravity generator and consolidate my uranium in one reactor to conserve power.  Decided that in order to move effectively I'm going to cut loose the center rear thruster and use careful maneuvering to re-attach it on the front of the right side sponson.  Cutting it loose is trivial, the reactor takes the longest to dismantle.  Holding it and positioning it is hardly any more difficult.  The real moment of truth is the very last stage of maneuvering, when the merge blocks become active and pull towards each other.  This is the first time I've tried doing a merge of this scale without a second set of eyes to watch, and the moment of dread turns to exultation as the two merge perfectly together, no damage sustained on either end.

Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on March 27, 2015, 04:26:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 27, 2015, 12:16:06 pm

Pyromaniac makes most of the game utterly trivial. However many bombs you have is now your extra HP. (psst, also stomp attacks like the ones used by Mom and Satan count as explosions, so you can HEAL off them!)

Also, you can get the Dr. Fetus upgrade, and replace ALL your tears with bombs. THAT makes Pyromaniac the best thing ever. If you can shoot quickly enough, you literally CAN'T lose hearts.

In other news, I finally beat the game again! Twice!

_{I also lost 16 other runs, but that's less important, right?}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 27, 2015, 04:31:24 pm

Quote from: tryrar on March 26, 2015, 08:27:54 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on March 26, 2015, 07:16:34 pm

48.8 meters.

QWOP distance.

AW YEAH SON.

-meteorsnip-

Not only did I say the name of the game in the post, but saying the name of the game is also not mandatory in this thread.
---
Finally finished off the miniboss of the Forest Temple on my second runthrough. What was with those guys?

Zelda OoT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 27, 2015, 08:12:15 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on March 27, 2015, 04:26:33 pm

Quote from: Reudh on March 27, 2015, 12:16:06 pm

Pyromaniac makes most of the game utterly trivial. However many bombs you have is now your extra HP. (psst, also stomp attacks like the ones used by Mom and Satan count as explosions, so you can HEAL off them!)

Also, you can get the Dr. Fetus upgrade, and replace ALL your tears with bombs. THAT makes Pyromaniac the best thing ever. If you can shoot quickly enough, you literally CAN'T lose hearts.

In other news, I finally beat the game again! Twice!

_{I also lost 16 other runs, but that's less important, right?}

I've yet to win a run on the PS4 version yet, 'cept one of the challenge runs, I think. I've only played it a few times though.

It's a challenging game, in the sense of the setting and atmosphere, so I only really play it in short bursts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 28, 2015, 12:59:20 am

Took a bit, but I'm finally getting the hang of this game. Put together a fleet and knocked over the Akdarians without too much trouble(had to refit once for better shields as their main spaceport wasn't all that armed but had insane amounts of shielding, so it was actually outlasting my fleet). Now, just need to consolodate and knock over a couple more small empires, then I can take on the big guy just ahead of me!

Distant Worlds:Universe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on March 28, 2015, 03:40:22 am

Quote from: tryrar on March 28, 2015, 12:59:20 am

Took a bit, but I'm finally getting the hang of this game. Put together a fleet and knocked over the Akdarians without too much trouble(had to refit once for better shields as their main spaceport wasn't all that armed but had insane amounts of shielding, so it was actually outlasting my fleet). Now, just need to consolodate and knock over a couple more small empires, then I can take on the big guy just ahead of me!

Distant Worlds:Universe. (http://Distant Worlds:Universe.)

Your link is broken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 28, 2015, 04:09:27 am

Spoiler: I did it (big image) (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jdLTHU6.png)

I got the idea for the rocket design by watching a YouTube video, but I finally made it to the Mun in the Kerbal Space Program demo! Jebediah Kerman is sadly stranded on the surface because I nearly botched the landing and used a lot of the "get off the Mun and return to Kerbin" fuel, but one step at a time. This game is really a treat, I'll be getting the full version when it goes on sale sometime in the future.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on March 28, 2015, 08:45:35 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 28, 2015, 04:09:27 am

Spoiler: I did it (big image) (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jdLTHU6.png)

I got the idea for the rocket design by watching a YouTube video, but I finally made it to the Mun in the Kerbal Space Program demo! Jebediah Kerman is sadly stranded on the surface because I nearly botched the landing and used a lot of the "get off the Mun and return to Kerbin" fuel, but one step at a time. This game is really a treat, I'll be getting the full version when it goes on sale sometime in the future.

Noooooooo! Not Jeb!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 28, 2015, 09:35:57 am

Grats! Getting to the Mun is a major achievement. I remember when I first got there...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 28, 2015, 11:18:24 am

Had a mission to mine titanium faster than the another team. Although the mission hints suggest putting a laser turret just away from their line of them but close enough to hamper their mining efforts, it didn't work. Instead, I start putting small bio-domes as close as possible to their turret line. At 100 credits a piece, they're cheap enough to keep building, and they last long enough for my turrets to get loaded and fire on their defenses. Before I'm finished with objective, I've overrun their base defenses, blown up their command bridge, and finally killed off all of their workers - in a mission where I'm told that I can't really use violence to win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Colony.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 29, 2015, 08:40:32 am

I had three or four wolf masks, Ol' Lopper, four lensmakers glasses, two soldier's syringes, gasoline, three teddy bears and a bunch of other shit on the Huntress. A.K.A. a single crit would make my attack speed go up a LOT. I also managed to drop a warbanner in the middle of the bridge, so the providence fight wasnt THAT hard. Also managed to get four keycards, unlocked HAN-D, etc, etc. That was a damn good run. I beat providence, obviously.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 29, 2015, 10:26:30 am

Saw an alien on a rooftop across the map - a large map at that. The sniper who had LoS to it took an aimed shot, showing a 11% chance of success. I thought what the hell, and fired. It hit, it killed.


I moved my team across the map, killing one more with reaction fire. I got 2/3rds across the map before wondering where the presumably last one was. I turned one of my guys around, and saw it, right behind my sniper who was hanging back. My sniper turned around and took the kill on that one, mission success.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UFO: Alien Invasion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on March 29, 2015, 05:07:48 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 28, 2015, 04:09:27 am

Spoiler: I did it (big image) (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jdLTHU6.png)

I got the idea for the rocket design by watching a YouTube video, but I finally made it to the Mun in the Kerbal Space Program demo! Jebediah Kerman is sadly stranded on the surface because I nearly botched the landing and used a lot of the "get off the Mun and return to Kerbin" fuel, but one step at a time. This game is really a treat, I'll be getting the full version when it goes on sale sometime in the future.

Lucky you. I'm barely able to get in orbit even with the massive fuel tanks and engine I managed to unlock recently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 29, 2015, 06:19:27 pm

Quote from: FArgHalfnr on March 29, 2015, 05:07:48 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 28, 2015, 04:09:27 am

Spoiler: I did it (big image) (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/jdLTHU6.png)

I got the idea for the rocket design by watching a YouTube video, but I finally made it to the Mun in the Kerbal Space Program demo! Jebediah Kerman is sadly stranded on the surface because I nearly botched the landing and used a lot of the "get off the Mun and return to Kerbin" fuel, but one step at a time. This game is really a treat, I'll be getting the full version when it goes on sale sometime in the future.

Lucky you. I'm barely able to get in orbit even with the massive fuel tanks and engine I managed to unlock recently.

Lucky. I just got off the landing pad yesterday.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on March 29, 2015, 06:43:45 pm

You mean there's stuff past the VAB?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 29, 2015, 08:38:58 pm

VAB? Every time I try to play KSP,  I just see ending menus. I think I saw the space center once, but I can't remember how to get back to it...

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 30, 2015, 01:00:38 am

Protip: don't overengineer. It's harder to get in orbit with big engines than with small engines sometimes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: andrewas on March 30, 2015, 05:25:19 am

KSP is all about the ratio of engine to fuel and booster to payload. Build something that sort of looks like a real rocket and you'll make orbit. Also learn to configure staging, auto staging usually screws up at least one critical detail.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xeron on March 30, 2015, 05:26:43 am

Won my 8th game of League with Evelynn with the following score

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/9aWKnDB.png)

The game is League of Legends, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 30, 2015, 06:09:41 am

Quote from: andrewas on March 30, 2015, 05:25:19 am

Map is all about the ratio of engine to fuel and booster to payload. Build something that sort of looks like a real rocket and you'll make orbit. Also learn to configure staging, auto staging usually screws up at least one critical detail.

Agreed, the autostaging is horrible. So many failed missions because stages detached in the wrong order.

Also, learn how to use the maneuver nodes when in the orbital map (press M). Once you have it set up, it will tell you exactly what to do to accomplish that particular change. It doesn't know how much fuel you have though, so look at the estimated burn time and compare that to your fuel usage (click the "resources" button, then open the throttle; the number in parentheses at the right side of your fuel gauge is your fuel usage per second).

Scott Manley's tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg/playlists?view=1&sort=dd) are an excellent resource for all things KSP; he shares a number of useful designs, gives tips on fuel efficiency and occasionally shares interesting facts about real-world space missions.

EDIT: I should mention that Scott uses a lot of mods and plugins for most of his videos that aren't explicitly tutorials, so keep an eye out for that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 30, 2015, 08:59:11 am

Ah, that's what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to build something that looks like a Russian version of the Saturn XXVI, when I should stick to a Saturn V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Neyvn on March 30, 2015, 11:32:39 am

Ironcast - A Matchthree (But good) Steampunk Mechwarrior Permadeath Timesink.

~-~- This is gonna be bit Explain and OMG Own thing -~-~

Ironcast is good, very good, addictive too. The goal is to defend Britian from the French Army coming in large Steampunk Mechwarrior and Railless Traintanks. The Game starts you with 100scrap (Cash) and what ever Walker you chose to fight in battles to earn more Scrap, Experience, Blueprints (Loot) and finally Wareffort (Soldiers). The first challenge is surviving the sorties you have to face in preparation of stopping the great monster that is the first boss. Much like FTL you can spend forever getting there only to die in 2 seconds to start all over again. I had made it to them only once before and was halfway down before they exploded me...

Anyway I had had a quite successful run, getting over 2000 Wareffort which results in a huge chunk of Hull being removed from the boss equal to the soldiers. I had two rare weapons and a strong shield. This had been my 50th retry and the first time I face him was on my second run (God has no idea how I succeeded that). By matching the different system 'gems' to power Ammo, Energy, Coolant and System Repair which you then use to fight. Coolant being a main concern cause you need it to power the shields, walk and fire your weapons I had gotten two useful abilities through leveling up, one that stole coolant from foe and another which gave me one every round...

BUT, as with all Permadeath Bosses, he comes with Two POWERFUL weapons. One a Laser doing around 100dmg to my Fully Shielded self and a Rocketlauncher that fires 4 rockets doing around 150 dmg if it hit on all accounts. I was scared, "Overdrive" a special gem when used with weapons doubles the shots it can take, and that was how I lost my first encounter...

Trying my best to lower his shields so my shotgun can do damage to ALL Systems at once was my goal, a heavy cannon that fired twice aiming at the shield system took it down a couple of times, but he would repair and get it back up, then I got lucky. Tons of Ammo came down, making sure to make most of my 3 Matches to collect enough I was able to down both the shield and get many good hits with the shotgun onto him, he had 200HP left, I had 100HP. I was scared...

THEN THE RNG CAME DOWN AND BLESSED ME WITH AI STUPIDITY, perhaps his table had no ammo, perhaps it was just him being stupid, but he didn't fire, I was saved, I was able to beat him finally!!!

Now, only gotta click this and the game is ove...... FUCK THERE IS MORE BATTLES AFTER THIS!!! WAIT WHAT!!!

Spoilers in case...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turns out France wasn't actually pulling their pants up and being aggressive instead of surrendering and running away, their attack on Britain itself was a Runaway attempt from a greater, larger threat on the mainland of Europe, they were attempting to take Britain over for its natural Island Defenses against whatever this thing is...

Oh well, time to see how much longer I will last now...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 30, 2015, 11:44:29 am

Re-finished the Metal Zelda Solid segment in Skyward Sword and only got caught once.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on March 30, 2015, 04:58:28 pm

Was rocking around with dual Colt Walkers, scoring kill after kill and being pretty happy with my random hope-this-hits shots that had 1% accuracy. The killstreak sound was playing pretty much constantly, but I didn't realise how many kills I actually got until someone said "23 kill streak!". By the time I managed to read the chat and subsequently check the scoreboard, I was at 25. Damn I love Walkers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fistful of Frags

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 30, 2015, 06:13:53 pm

Quote from: Azated on March 30, 2015, 04:58:28 pm

Was rocking around with dual Colt Walkers, scoring kill after kill and being pretty happy with my random hope-this-hits shots that had 1% accuracy. The killstreak sound was playing pretty much constantly, but I didn't realise how many kills I actually got until someone said "23 kill streak!". By the time I managed to read the chat and subsequently check the scoreboard, I was at 25. Damn I love Walkers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fistful of Frags

The best thing is left-handed Colt Walker.  Turns the game into a point-and-click adventure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 30, 2015, 10:17:43 pm

Walker's the one that hits for like 85-120 and has an absurdly long reload time, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 31, 2015, 01:23:32 am

One-shot body-shot six-shot gun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on March 31, 2015, 07:45:23 am

1) In any given untimed Protoss campaign mission, I will ultimately win by the use of an unnecessary number of carriers. Even if the the map is specifically designed to prevent this.

2) Mind-controlling an overlord with zerg units inside it mind controlls the units, and gives you the zerg-support thing the overlord provides.

Starcraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on March 31, 2015, 04:28:30 pm

Playing Persona 3 Portable for the third time and I beat the 5th full moon boss fight.  This isn't so much as me owning but the game owning.
It was pretty challenging (especially since I've beaten it 2 other times) and my heart skipped a beat every time the roulette wheel came down.
All in all, it was a fun fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

THE GAME ALSO OWNED MY FEELINGS 5 SECONDS LATER. My eyes water every time, I think I actually did cry a little the first time it happened.
It's even worse since I chose the female MC.

Persona 3 Portable.  Duh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on March 31, 2015, 09:47:19 pm

I owned that battle.

Against the king of England (Henry), and I am a vassal of the Welsh.

He had 221 troops, I had 172 troops.

I set my archers to stay back, infantry to guard the archers and had my cavalry follow me to do a flank attack. I never expected it to go this smoothly...

As Henry's army of cavalry closed in my infantry. I set my cavalry to charge at the same time. Some of my cavalry hit Henry's cavalry that were charging at my foot troops, saving my infantry and archers from a charge attack. The main bulk of my cavalry rams through his archers and infantry, killing over 100 of his troops in a matter of seconds. Henry was one of the first to go down. His army never knew what hit them. They didn't even have enough time to do a route. A huge battle, over in less than a minute.

I then go and capture Henry, the King of England. And gave him to the Welsh king to hold as a prisoner.

In the end...I killed 180 of his troops, wounded 41 and only had 6 dead with 27 wounded of my troops.

Damage is normal difficulty, AI is set to good...so realistic settings (except block is set to automatic).

I owned the king of england :D Major victory for the Welsh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Othr's version of 1257 AD mod for Mount and Blade Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on March 31, 2015, 10:40:02 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on March 31, 2015, 04:28:30 pm

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THE GAME ALSO OWNED MY FEELINGS 5 SECONDS LATER. My eyes water every time, I think I actually did cry a little the first time it happened.
It's even worse since I chose the female MC.

Persona 3 Portable.  Duh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ALL persona fans cried at that moment without shame, I feel SO shit after that moment for my first time and I have a hard time doing it once more

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 01, 2015, 10:55:01 am

Clearing a ferry that had been targeted for an infection mission. I start on the back of the ship, with the only area accessible from my start is the passenger cabins. Not wanting to be on the wrong side of an ambushfest, I set two guys looking down the only hallways, plus two more looking down the the deck outside, and wait. I nearly panic when an Ortnok shows up on the top deck, but neither us or it can fire, and all I can do is land a gas grenade somewhere a few spaces behind him, creating(I hope) a cloud a gas that the Ortnok would have to cross the entire width of to get anywhere, if it wasn't in it already.

After picking off a few Cyberdisks Hovernets, I send my guys moving up the deck, then sending two guys down to the cargo hold and two more up to the next deck - some kind of seating area. I clear that deck, and keep the guys in the cargo hold ready to reaction fire. Reaching the top deck, the soldier I send into the bridge room is nearly surprised by the Ortnok from before, who is standing outside looking in the window. I send the other soldier I sent up there to flank the Ortnok, catching him with a Needler Carronade that the Ortnok, surprisingly, survived but was stunned, probably from the gas damage - I haven't used gas grenades much, so I don't know their full function.

At this point, I nearly panic again, since I noticed two rooms on either side of the cargo hold's access stairs that I didn't see before - I had left my two guys down there extremely vulnerable from behind for several turns. I send those two into those rooms, but initially find nothing. I end the turn with them facing inside the room just in case. During the next turn, I have trouble with the camera, so all I see is "<alien name> has gone into a berserk fury!" followed by the found of a 3-shot burst reaction fire, then "An alien has been killed!". At first, I thought it was the stunned Ortnok getting up somehow(never seen it happen yet), but the only assault rifles on the team were in the cargo hold. Mission accomplished, plus a live prisoner to boot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UFO: Alien Invasion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 01, 2015, 02:07:23 pm

My wingmen are fucking useless. I took out all 9 TIE Fighters with my X-Wing, while the other 2 were gallivanting the local space, all within a window of 5 minutes.

Star Wars: X-Wing (DOS)

X-Wing Historical Mission 4, I think

EDIT:
After playing Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance, the interface downgrade to such levels really made it challenging (especially being reduced to such low resolutions in general). Couldn't tell if I was being targeted, can't tell exactly how badly damaged my targets were, and the low resolution made the targeting computer my only real means of determining how much in front of me they really were from a distance. The rest was just keeping track of the red blips on the upper-left and -right parts of the screen to keep an eye on their location. In fact, that helped me the most when clearing out a minefield in another mission. Might I remind you that XvT and XWA have the bounding boxes, and X-Wing and Tie Fighter don't. You have to trust your gut (and the occasional green-boxing) that you're gonna hit your target. Not to forget, X-Wing doesn't have the match-speeds function (Enter button) that Tie Fighter has, which really made tailing my targets a challenge in itself. Gave the keyboard a good workout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on April 01, 2015, 05:02:02 pm

Quote from: Caroline on April 01, 2015, 03:52:36 pm

Turn in for +45. Everyone stops in disbelief.

This is exactly why when we play Risk we give 6, 8, 10, or 12 troops based on what cards you turn in instead of just having a constantly incrementing amount (6, 8, and 10 for three infantry, horsemen, or cannons respectively, with 12 for 2 + a wild). It stops the ridiculousness of "and now I turn in my set of 3 cards for 120 troops" (which we actually had happen before in one of our risk games; it was a rather turtle-y game :P) and means that it's almost always better to turn in your cards immediately instead of wanting to wait for someone else to turn in first so you get more troops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 02, 2015, 11:21:25 am

Shot down the UFO Carrier. Too bad the campaign ended at this point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

UFO: Alien Invasion. I'm a little annoyed about that, honestly.

Despite having forewarned about the events to come, I knew something was up when the Goddess of Mercy, Love, and Healing started hitting on me. Actually, I figured something may have been up when she was willing to bury her city in toxic volcanic ash to score up some belief. Anyway, when everything fell apart, I managed to defeat her before she overcame my godmode(note: godmode is not 100% effective at keeping you immortal), and walked out of the fight with two of the most badass-looking swords ever, plus a full set of the best medium armor I've ever seen. Shame you can't dual-wield them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Morrowind Tribunal. Could have sworn that Almalexia was Vivec's wife, not Nerevar's

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Playergamer on April 02, 2015, 02:01:44 pm

The two Hueys touch down at the primary LZ, and my four rangers jump out. They run from the LZ as fast as they can, knowing Charlie will come investigate. Not long after they get into the jungle, the Hueys dust off, and the rangers start to slow down, sneaking carefully through the jungle. One of them spots a VC not far away, and, after a few moments, drops him with a shot from his M16. The shot rings out through the jungle, and the rangers freeze. Almost instantly, a torrent of fire comes out of the jungle, and the rangers take cover behind the rocks.

A horde of VC appear out of the jungle one by one, and the rangers mow them down with their M16s. No matter how many they kill, another one takes their place, and the rangers begin to run low on ammo. Hoke runs out first, and switches to his 1911, while the radioman next to him hunkers down, switching between channels quickly. No Cobras in the area, no Spooky, no Fast Air, not even artillery! The radioman puts his radio down, watching the blinking battery light, and picks up his M16, firing at the VC. At the other boulder, the two other rangers have run out of ammo, and begin desperately tossing grenades, trying to hold back the VC for a few more moments. The radioman finally runs out of ammo, and prepares himself to die. Then, he hears something over the radio.

Cobra in the AO. He quickly gets on the radio, calling for support, and hands a smoke grenade to Hoke, telling him to toss it towards the VC. The Cobra pilot responds to his request, telling them to pop a smoke and hang in there for 30 seconds. The rangers continue firing with the few .45 bullets they have left, and just when the radioman's last bullet is exhausted, they hear the rotors of an attack chopper. The Cobra pulls up, and begins pouring rockets into the jungle around them, clearing out the VC. The rangers marvel at the sight, but the radioman is busy, calling for a Huey to come pick them up while the Cobra covers them. Within 40 seconds, a Huey lands at the LZ, and the 4 rangers run to the Huey, jumping on board. Just as the Huey takes off, the Cobra runs out of rockets, and pulls off, heading home. Hoke looks at the radioman, and laughs.

"The general's going to murder us for screwing this up, isn't he?"

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A very, very novelized version of a battle in Mud and Blood Recon. I should write a book about this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 02, 2015, 10:44:30 pm

When I somehow managed to score a Sawk, I knew I was in for a good time. The Sawk, nicknamed Lord Payne, swept Lenore's gym without taking a single point of damage. The one time an enemy pokemon got a damaging attack off, it missed.

Pokemon White version, nuzlocking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 03, 2015, 04:37:20 am

Sawk and Throh are pretty much disc one nuke pokemon - Lenore's gym is Normal, and Fighting over the course of the story is very good. Quite a few of N's final team and i think 5/6 of Ghetsis' team are weak to Fighting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 04, 2015, 04:46:43 am

On my first run with the engineer I made it to the final level, survived for 45 minutes, reached HAHAHAHAHAHA difficulty, and collected a total of 32 items. I died to the first boss in the final level, but hey, this went way further than my previous best run with a tanky enforcer.

Gameplay basically could be summed up with explosions and missiles everywhere.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haveroszaur on April 04, 2015, 05:20:18 am

Using the ridiculusly broken and OP alchemy I proceed to become an invincible, invisible, faster than light murder-machine and wreck everything.

I then 1hit-KO-d Gaenor.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Morrowind GOTY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on April 04, 2015, 01:42:42 pm

Simple recon mission. Ended up taking out 2 entire squadrons of TIEs (Fighters and Interceptors) total; even after completing my mission, I took on another squadron when I could have hypered-out long ago. Entirely solo 1v6 per waves of I's and F's. Total count: 18 Fighters, 12 Interceptors (30 total, 2 ships short of 2 whole squadrons), with a lone A-Wing. I don't think recon missions require taking out a bunch of ships, or basically a total mook massacre; but what the hell.

In a previous mission, I also wiped out a squad of 6 bombers in 2 sweeps and less than a minute. Starting attack involved firing 2 missiles and insta-killing 2 bombers head-on, one bugged out and I bagged it in seconds, fired 2 more missiles at the other 2 still in formation from behind, and one last one was softened up while I was taking out the duo, and finished them off. Mission completed not a moment later.

Star Wars: X-Wing

It's a mook horror show when I'm in the battlefield. I average 1-2 minutes per-squad of up to 6 ships at a time, solo vs simultaneously; and generally takes me 2-4 well-placed shots (6-8 if they evade a bunch) to take each of them out, even with shields.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on April 04, 2015, 01:55:04 pm

Playing Silent Storm Gold (sentinels) a friend bought me.

Mission 3. Saving a friendly from Thors hammer.

I find the guy and TH reinforcements spawn in. By that time i have a "snipers" ready on nearby windows and took them into a crossfire.
The last enemy soldier on the street fired a full burst at my main character in the window. The shot provoked a "misfire" that hit him either in the neck or upper torso killing him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on April 04, 2015, 02:41:33 pm

Going off to loot a crashed raider with the following team:

A LCPL Sniper w/ medikit and smoke grenade (wielding SR)
A LCPL Gunner w/medikit and battlescanner (Van Doorn, wielding SAW)
A SPEC Infantry w/ BS and Illuminator Gunsight
A SPEC Scout w/ BS and smoke (wielding marksman rifle)
A rookie w/ BS and smoke
A rookie w/ smoke and medikit

I found contact (three thin men) on turn one with a battlescanner, and initiated battle on turn two by blowing one away with my sniper (who immediately earned a promotion to become my first corporal). Immediately upon ending them, I found a group of three floaters sitting around right in front of me, blocked from line of sight by a log. As I'm setting up to trigger them "properly" (squadsight sniper one-hit-kill), a pack of four sectoids path into me from the direction of the thin mens' bodies. They die swiftly, and the floaters somehow activate from their obstructed position (I don't know either). Lots of bullets later, one's dead and the other two are both at 1hp and get killed by my infantry (sidenote: I love the Illuminator Gunsight so hard - 90+% killshots vs. both of them in midair). Immediately, four more floaters wander in from the same direction as the first three. Two of them die within a turn, and the other two take the nope train to Fuckitville (then come back to be devoured by my infantry). All's well and good, all I can hear is the outsiders (or rather, can't hear - outsiders are the only aliens that are silent), so I can assault the UFO itself and tear them apart. I start moving up to breach the door (I had been holed up by a corner), when I find out that the outsiders are right in that corner! Whoops! One of them immediately gets flanked twice and murdered, and the other gets suppressed, then decides to run for it anyway (getting crit for 8 damage in the process - too bad they regen). I move my sniper up (more on this later), and get ready for everyone else to blitz the outsider next turn. It comes back from whatever hole it crawled into inside the UFO, and critically wounds my exposed sniper (whoops, I guess that spot wasn't actually cover!). Then he gets mowed down.

Total injuries:
CPL Herrera (Sniper): Critically wounded (25 days)

Total kills:
3 thin men (two sniped, one one-shotted by Van Doorn's overwatch)
4 sectoids (I don't even remember)
7 floaters (one sniped, four executed, the others... eh.)
2 outsiders (one killed by each of my rookies).

Loot:
All the non-outsider corpses
5 meld (from the floaters, no doubt - I didn't collect any)
3 UFO flight computers
a bunch of elerium
a bunch of alien alloys
some damaged stuff that I sold off

Just another eventful day for MeXiCOM.

(X-COM: Long War mod)

And then I got my first ever terror mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on April 04, 2015, 02:45:05 pm

If your sniper is wounded, you're not doing it right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 04, 2015, 02:58:12 pm

Played a low-oil map against a guy who obviously thought that he would win. I start off researching but don't expand much because I assumed that scavs were on. Unfortunately, they were off and so he started building MG towers near my base. I went along the cannon research line, but I built almost nothing because my opponent had taken most of the oil. I periodically raided his defenses and forced him to spend money on rebuilding, but I didn't make any progress for a while. Then I got rail guns and started doing enough damage to his buildings to push him back. Until now I'd barely seen his army; it turned out that he had several dozen heavy twin assault gun tanks hidden near his base. My rail guns outranged his MGs, but I had to constantly retreat to stay out of range. Eventually, I was pushed back to my base and my opponent killed all my factories and trucks. At this point, I finally killed his army and had some rail gunners left, so I marched my last few tanks towards his base. Just as I got to the edge of his base, he gave up and left.

Warzone 2100.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 05, 2015, 09:45:18 am

Beat the game. Yay. Finally.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Was playing as Acrid. Wast trying to rush, had 3 goat hooves and 6 soldier syringes, amongst other loot like healing items and guardian shields. Despite my rush strategy the game took 45 minutes, but at least I made it to the final level on insane difficulty. Final boss took like, 10 minutes. Acrid's dots and my speed and guardian shield proved super helpful for keeping me alive and kiting while still dealing damage to the boss. Stopwatch was really useful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on April 05, 2015, 09:57:51 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on April 04, 2015, 02:45:05 pm

If your sniper is wounded, you're not doing it right.

If I had been looking from a different angle, my sniper wouldn't have been wounded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 05, 2015, 10:04:26 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 05, 2015, 09:45:18 am

Beat the game. Yay. Finally.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Was playing as Acrid. Wast trying to rush, had 3 goat hooves and 6 soldier syringes, amongst other loot like healing items and guardian shields. Despite my rush strategy the game took 45 minutes, but at least I made it to the final level on insane difficulty. Final boss took like, 10 minutes. Acrid's dots and my speed and guardian shield proved super helpful for keeping me alive and kiting while still dealing damage to the boss. Stopwatch was really useful.

I love Acrid, he's probably my favorite character. On my sacrifice glass command farming run his melee attack actually became more useful than his epidemic, which basically became a death missile capable of one-shotting imp overlords.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 05, 2015, 10:39:46 am

My custom lizardman team vs the Nords.  The nords have the ball deep in my territory, I only have a single skink able to get in the way.

The nord with the ball gets tripped up by my skink and the ball just drops into it's hands causing a turnover.

There's no way the skink is getting away with the ball, it's alone against 3 pissed nords, while most of my team is fighting over midfield.  The skink dodges one tackle to get clear and then in a burst of inspiration the skink throws the ball to my krox (I was primarilly trying to get the ball away from the inzone) but my Krox actually manages to catch the frikkin ball.

My big huge krox then proceeds to smash his way to my inzone, with the help of the scrimmage line saurians while the nords seem completely incapable of knocking the ball out of his hands.  They even ended their turn prematurely twice trying to tackle him and getting smacked to the ground for their trouble.  And 'Biff' the Krox gets the only score of the game.

Blood Bowl chaos edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 05, 2015, 08:20:14 pm

So I have a market stall, which I can use to set up a shop anywhere. Having had my fill of running around I decided to set up shop in Falkreath for a bit. So I dug into my magical loot storage room and dug up items to sell, seeing as I had a whole bunch of prefab potions I was probably never going to use since my alchemy skill could make things loads better; I filled up my stall with potions. Then I went and sat down and waited for customers.

Suddenly, dragon attack. It swooped down and bathed me in dragon fire. I took maybe 5% damage.

Of course, this scared all my potential customers away, so I shot it down, and when it landed beat it to death with my fists (Way of the Monk mod).

It took flight, flew around a bit, and then landed and died. Directly next to my stall.

Unfazed, I went back to my chair and continued to running my shop.

Spoiler: <Insert Snake Oil Hawking Here> (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/a4uwVvp.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on April 06, 2015, 07:15:35 am

I won! Hah! And not on easy mode!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain.

Credits:
Sawmerang, for it's saving my butt early on.
3 Red whips, for speeding up my travel around the map and, if I'm doing well enough, letting me avoid enemies.
Repulsion Armor+Mysterious Vial, for giving me a break if I'm being swamped.
AtG Missile Mk. 2+1, having two of each took care of a lot of enemies on the battle field.
Happiest Mask, for dealing with any second waves of enemies that come after the missiles.
2 Guardian's heart, for saving my butt when Providence somehow almost instakilled me.
Ceremonial dagger+2 Bundles of fireworks, for mopping up the remains of slaughtered armies.
2 Rusty Jetpacks, for letting me jump over all those nasty attacks.
2 Paul's Goat Hoofs+2 Soldier serums, for making me faster overall.
Permafrost, for stunning enemies letting the missiles deal with them.
Infusion, for increasing my health by a large amount.
Thalium and Old Box, for making a mess of the enemy ranks.
And all the other old rubbish that let me win and survive half an hour of HAHAHAHA with style, as well as the first half hour.

And the Risk of Rain team for such a satisfying game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 06, 2015, 07:39:19 am

Quote from: Blaze on April 05, 2015, 08:20:14 pm

Spoiler: <Insert Snake Oil Hawking Here> (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/a4uwVvp.png)

"Can I interest you in a potion? Can I get you anything else?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on April 06, 2015, 08:41:43 am

Quote from: Blaze on April 05, 2015, 08:20:14 pm

Spoiler: <Insert Snake Oil Hawking Here> (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/a4uwVvp.png)

"Legend says, one bone of this fantastic beast will bring you great fortune! Your wife will definitely be pleased!"

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on April 06, 2015, 06:28:01 pm

Newbles Kerman is stranded on the Mun, not enough fuel left to come back, and with a lot of important data. He still has 82 days' worth of food, water and oxygen left, (TAC Life Support) so I decide to send a rescue mission. An unmanned probe is sent with a command pod to pick up Newbles, but misses his downed lander by several kilometers. Not one to be discouraged by a little distance, Newbles uses the reaction wheels in his pod to roll all the way to his rescue ship. Solar panels explode, the lander legs fly off, the materials bay is crushed, but Newbles makes it with a few bumps and bruises.

The rescue ship didn't have enough fuel to get home either, but at least he was able to transfer about 250 points of science before going back to his pod to spend another long while waiting for rescue.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: gigaraptor487 on April 06, 2015, 07:08:00 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/TnJyW30.jpg)

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Victoria 2 + Apocalypse in 1836 mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HawaiianJon on April 06, 2015, 10:07:17 pm

I beat the shit out of an invaded man with my fists.

Bloodborne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 06, 2015, 11:29:29 pm

Beat the game solo as the sniper on rainstorm difficulty. There was lots of 360 jumpshots noscopes. l33t sk33lz m8.

Also, I managed to take half of the health of the final boss' first phase in one well timed shot. So much damage. According to stats the highest damage I achieved in one shot that run was 11,357 damage. That's a ton, considering there's a challenge for achieving 5000 damage in one shot.

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Risk of Rain

Was using the command artifact, so it's not a purist run. Lead to cheese in the last level as I stacked crowbars to increase oneshot potential. A horde of 8 drones with arms race giving them rockets acted as a really good clean-up crew. I mostly kited the worms and shot charged shots when the opportunity arose. Also had lots of rare items like deflection armor, 2 brilliant behemoths giving me extra splash damage (fully charged crit shots on the first enemy in a group could cause an explosion large enough to clear a group) and heaven cracker to make my shots more viable for crowd control. Also had 2 dio's friends for spare lives. Didn't need them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on April 06, 2015, 11:54:23 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 06, 2015, 11:29:29 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Was using the command artifact, so it's not a purist run. Lead to cheese in the last level as I stacked crowbars to increase oneshot potential. A horde of 8 drones with arms race giving them rockets acted as a really good clean-up crew. I mostly kited the worms and shot charged shots when the opportunity arose. Also had lots of rare items like deflection armor, 2 brilliant behemoths giving me extra splash damage (fully charged crit shots on the first enemy in a group could cause an explosion large enough to clear a group) and heaven cracker to make my shots more viable for crowd control. Also had 2 dio's friends for spare lives. Didn't need them.

Now do a glass+command monsoon run! :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on April 06, 2015, 11:55:33 pm

Day 21.

Pierre the Hercules-Kabuterimon, my first Ultimate Digimon and defeater of the final boss was on the last legs of his little insect life. At the balmy age of 18 days, he was pretty damn well ready to die a living hero's death. Which meant old age unfortunately, because that's how you pass down techniques. Anyways. The heavens had doted well on him and his training had paid off in mass dividends. In battle, he had no equal. But there was one last challenge to overcome. Every 22nd day, there is a tournament held in Beetle Land. It is regarded as the toughest tournament in the game, and only Insectoid Digimon are allowed to compete. Being a giant beetle of death, Pierre was in the running to have one last hurrah before breathing his last.

But there was a problem. Pierre is old as hell. Come the midnight hours before the match, Pierre dies of old age. I glared at the screen. No. I refused to allow him to die on the eve of his greatest triumph and savescummed. I spent the next hour or so trying to finagle a situation where Pierre had just a few last hours of living left. This entailed a desperate fishing trip to get Digiseabass; a life-extending fish that would supply those few necessary hours of life. But I caught the fish before time ran out. But at this late in his life, no amount of fish would sustain him forever. But it would last until he would go to sleep that morning. I position him and I in front of the arena door and wait for evening to arrive.

The minute I'm given back control, I rush the door before the game has any second thoughts about his age and whether the amount of fish ingested with enough. Pierre has entered the tournament. The first two matches are easy enough. They are against two Rookies, ableit, very strong Rookie Digimon. Mercifully, there were no other Hercules-Kabuterimon in attendance because Pierre probably took that slot himself. Instead, his last opponent was a younger, but not necessarially weaker Kabuterimon, his pre-form. In essence, old man Pierre was taking a younger, stronger, and faster version of himself. But this young'un had never met the likes of Pierre.

They clash in a flurry of poisonous claws and bugs of death. Pierre is only just fast enough to keep up with his young foe; their attacks either match each other or his young foe barely gets a shot out. Damage is done. Both parties end up poisoned. Pierre charges up his Finishing Attack first and massive damage to the Kabuterimon. It immediately counters with it's own finishing attack. Both fighters are now on their last legs. Unfortunately, Pierre is injured enough that he can no longer run. This gives his young foe the advantage of initiative. He blasts Pierre's face with fireballs before Pierre can get up close and personal. Things aren't looking good. The fight clock starts to click down. Neither party is wimping out in this match and fainting mid-battle. It's clear that the game clock is going to decide this one based on who dealt the most damage. And with Pierre being so injured, I began to fear. 0 Seconds.

Kabuterimon lurches forward and collapses to the ground. The point screen shows up showing that Pierre had dealt a paltry 300 more damage than his foe. But regardless of how low the margin of victory was, he had done it. The Beetle Cup was claimed by Pierre, Ultimate Digimon, Lord of Insects, and best damn partner of the run.

He immediately perished afterwards. But I shall nary forget him.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon World, on the PS1

I'm playing around with the ideas of going another round and doing a Text/Picture Let's Play of the adventure. There were some pretty epic moments beyond just Pierre. Pierre just happened to be the most recent example.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 07, 2015, 12:04:46 am

Quote from: crazysheep on April 06, 2015, 11:54:23 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 06, 2015, 11:29:29 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Was using the command artifact, so it's not a purist run. Lead to cheese in the last level as I stacked crowbars to increase oneshot potential. A horde of 8 drones with arms race giving them rockets acted as a really good clean-up crew. I mostly kited the worms and shot charged shots when the opportunity arose. Also had lots of rare items like deflection armor, 2 brilliant behemoths giving me extra splash damage (fully charged crit shots on the first enemy in a group could cause an explosion large enough to clear a group) and heaven cracker to make my shots more viable for crowd control. Also had 2 dio's friends for spare lives. Didn't need them.

Now do a glass+command monsoon run! :P

Would love to try glass but I have yet to unlock it. Don't want to spoil myself on how to get it either, I found all the artifact's I've got so far without spoiling myself (spite, command, sacrifice, distortion, enigma) and want to keep that record.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on April 07, 2015, 12:12:38 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 07, 2015, 12:04:46 am

Would love to try glass but I have yet to unlock it. Don't want to spoil myself on how to get it either, I found all the artifact's I've got so far without spoiling myself (spite, command, sacrifice, distortion, enigma) and want to keep that record.

Ah, fair enough :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 07, 2015, 11:15:59 am

It's not a true cheese run unless you also throw sacrifice in the mix.

Also 8 clovers so elite enemies drop an item 30% of the time and the artifact that makes all enemies elites.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on April 08, 2015, 05:25:46 am

Quote from: birdy51 on April 06, 2015, 11:55:33 pm

I'm playing around with the ideas of going another round and doing a Text/Picture Let's Play of the adventure. There were some pretty epic moments beyond just Pierre. Pierre just happened to be the most recent example.

DO EET. Not enough Digimon World out there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 08, 2015, 08:01:02 am

I swear, this was one of the best boss executions ever. After climbing the tower being chased by a giant crab, I get to the top. After about 10 minutes of uselessly throwing axes, I realized I was sitting under an elevator. I climbed in, and pressed Down. A quiet "Go to hell" from the protagonist and the elevator rams down, with me still riding it, crushing the boss at the bottom of the now-blood soaked tower.

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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. That fight right there put Shanoa right in the top #3 of biggest badasses in the series as far as I'm concerned.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 08, 2015, 11:26:17 pm

Beat the game in 23 minutes on rainstorm difficulty. Sniper+Glass+Command=FUN. Also equals INSTADEATH in early game if you get hit once.

Got a new highest damage dealt: 30,000 damage in one shot. One shot Providence--that's the final boss-- twice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 08, 2015, 11:48:37 pm

I figured out how to get past part of the final boss' testimony. Been hung up on it for like a week because I'd made an assumption of information that was blatantly obvious to me but unbeknownst to them.

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Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney - Investigations ^{_{(I don't care I changed the order of the title, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth just sounds dumb.)}}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 10, 2015, 02:16:44 am

Played Mount and Blade--The Last Days mod--as an archer of Rohan. (Normal difficulty--taking normal damage instead of the 'default' 1/4th from enemy attacks and 'Good' enemy AI.)

War started, and I was level 11 after countless battles with only a full archer support party (Mirkwood marksmen/veteran archers) and armed with an elven bow & 3 inventory slots of arrows (I am totally vulnerable in melee :P), and the first battle was on the field forwarding Minas Tirith. A totally FLAT field.
My enemy was the Khand (Easterlings, as depicted in the book, they are pretty much...looking a TON better in my opinion.)
They had a ton of cavalry skirmishers and I only had the aid of Prince Imarihil. Meaning: A bloody ton of Gonder Swordsmen (non-mounted, generally), so the battle was mostly a cavalry vs archer/swordsman fight.

It was epic, and I had fun de-mounting the Haradrim. With my bow (loving the math and projectile computations here). Battle started at a nice 398 vs 465, with 3 enemy commanders vs me and the Prince.

Ended at 386 on our side--I had no casualties in my party, while the only ones who died were my allies. :/

Dear goodness is Minas Tirith so...wow. I love the detail of the battlefield and the surrounding areas.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade.

Edit: Best shot I made had a difficulty of 13.4. As a headshot. (Unsure if I forgot the exact details given all the sniping done, but it was 11+) \o/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 02:46:14 am

Enslaved all of humanity in 486 days. Little over a year. Now they worship a parasitic species of worm that burrows into their brain and controls their thoughts. All hail the hypno worm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plague Inc Evolved

finally, things get interesting. The first 3 plagues were just the same thing with slightly different effects or traits. The neural worm is like a new game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 10, 2015, 06:25:22 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 02:46:14 am

Enslaved all of humanity in 486 days. Little over a year. Now they worship a parasitic species of worm that burrows into their brain and controls their thoughts. All hail the hypno worm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plague Inc Evolved

finally, things get interesting. The first 3 plagues were just the same thing with slightly different effects or traits. The neural worm is like a new game.

How much does this game cost and where can I get it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 06:39:09 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 06:25:22 pm

How much does this game cost and where can I get it?

On sale for $10 USD instead of $15 on Steam. Dunno where else.

Think there's a mobile version as well but it has different features than PC version. On mobile it's available through Apple App store, Google Play, and Amazon App store.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 06:39:09 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 06:25:22 pm

How much does this game cost and where can I get it?

On sale for $10 USD instead of $15 on Steam. Dunno where else.

Think there's a mobile version as well but it has different features than PC version. On mobile it's available through Apple App store, Google Play, and Amazon App store.

 It's a wonderfully hit and miss game. A lot of the plagues you get are pretty much carbon copies with slightly different transmission vectors, and maybe one different mutation, but the Simian Flu, the Neurax Worm, and the Necroa Plague are all standouts. It's pretty much a facelift of the flash game Pandemic EOM, at least until you unlock a few specialty plagues.
---

I was on fire, a scant dozen meters above sea level, at the highest velocity my propeller could push. I had an entire pack of little dogfighters swarming behind me and raking me with fire. Battleship ahead of me opened fire with all guns, forcing me to pull up hard or be repeatedly violated by a wall of unfriendly bullets. It was a close turn, and a few shots scraped my belly and brought me within a hair's breadth of exploding, but I kept up the climb. I stalled myself out when I hit vertical, then sunfished backwards and looped back on the swarm of fighters that were in pursuit. I didn't thrust back, I just opened fire with my laser in a 15 degree sweep that brought my combo multiplier up from 3 to 17 in less than a second. The battleship, which I was stalled out directly above, re-vectored both the fore and aft guns on me, trapping me under a ^ of bullets that kept drawing lower. I completed my loop, pointed my nose straight down into the battleship's deck, activated my laser, and re-powered the engine. I burrowed straight down through the battleship, destroying it in the process. My propeller, specially designed for use in both air and water (that's the power of german engineering), and my hull, specially designed for slicing through solid objects, carried me through the entire process unharmed.

I got splashed a few seconds later by a well-timed burst from an air superiority ACE, but it was still perfect.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Luftrausers: SFMT mode, Nightmare build classification. (Laser weapon, melee hull, underwater engine)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on April 10, 2015, 07:07:33 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

-snip-

That sounds definitely awesome, but all I can think of while reading that is this :P:
(http://i.imgur.com/mITKTFA.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 07:14:59 pm

Quote from: i2amroy on April 10, 2015, 07:07:33 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

-snip-

That sounds definitely awesome, but all I can think of while reading that is this :P:
(http://i.imgur.com/mITKTFA.gif)

That's actually a surprisingly accurate depiction of what happens when I can manage to actually run into those little dogfighters. I love that fragile little build.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 10, 2015, 07:21:39 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

It's a wonderfully hit and miss game. A lot of the plagues you get are pretty much carbon copies with slightly different transmission vectors, and maybe one different mutation, but the Simian Flu, the Neurax Worm, and the Necroa Plague are all standouts. It's pretty much a facelift of the flash game Pandemic EOM, at least until you unlock a few specialty plagues.

I remember Pandemic. Can you describe what makes those three standouts, well, stand out?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 10, 2015, 07:24:55 pm

Quote from: i2amroy on April 10, 2015, 07:07:33 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

-snip-

That sounds definitely awesome, but all I can think of while reading that is this :P:
(http://i.imgur.com/mITKTFA.gif)

That's my favorite gif on the internet.

Its so perfect and yet... so wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 07:32:31 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 07:21:39 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

It's a wonderfully hit and miss game. A lot of the plagues you get are pretty much carbon copies with slightly different transmission vectors, and maybe one different mutation, but the Simian Flu, the Neurax Worm, and the Necroa Plague are all standouts. It's pretty much a facelift of the flash game Pandemic EOM, at least until you unlock a few specialty plagues.

I remember Pandemic. Can you describe what makes those three standouts, well, stand out?

Those 3 all have unique traits for transmission, symptoms, and abilities, and various different gameplay mechanics or win conditions. The other plagues have standard transmission, symptoms, and the standard win condition of "infect and kill everyone", although each plague has different abilities. Bacteria and viruses play the same, for example, but bacteria has extra resistance to environments while viruses instead mutate much more and removing mutations costs resources instead of giving resources. Bacteria and Neurax worm don't play the same at all, you can't brainwash people with bacteria for example.

I'd say Plague Inc does have  better balance than Pandemic, at least. Madagascar doesn't immediately barricade itself the instant someone on the other side of the world coughs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 07:38:38 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 07:21:39 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

It's a wonderfully hit and miss game. A lot of the plagues you get are pretty much carbon copies with slightly different transmission vectors, and maybe one different mutation, but the Simian Flu, the Neurax Worm, and the Necroa Plague are all standouts. It's pretty much a facelift of the flash game Pandemic EOM, at least until you unlock a few specialty plagues.

I remember Pandemic. Can you describe what makes those three standouts, well, stand out?

They change how you play the game. All the other plagues have, if I recall correctly, the same symptoms. They may have different orders to the symptoms, but they're still identical. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, prions, nanites, bio-weapons, they're all kinda samey. There are a few differences, and I'll always have more fun with a virus than with with a bio-weapon, and playing a nanite on the harder difficulties is an exercise in not rage-vomiting pea soup, but they all play roughly the same way. The three I mentioned have ENTIRELY different transmission vectors, symptoms sets, and endgames.

I don't want to spoil it too much, but think of it this way. You're playing an RPG, you're making a character, and you're reading up the little class descriptions. One class is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with a sword, and has a variety of combos for handling all sorts of different situation. It's a cool class. Then the next class in the list is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with mace, but they have the exact same combos that apply in the exact same situations as before. Repeat that process for axes, staves, spears, and halberds. Just about the time you're ready to psychically punch the developer in the soul for the self-derivative drivel, you find a class that's a wizard base who specializes in defeating opponent and solving problems using nothing but the growth and manipulation of body hair. Then you see a class that's a rogueish type, except you don't remember rogues riding crocodiles or being able to prop up the corpses of their slain foes into threatening meat puppets. Still a little surprised, you flip the last class tab to find a class that contains individuals who have separated their minds from their bodies and live entirely as body jumping parasites that feed upon the emotions of their hosts and can control their actions.

That's what I mean by standout. They just... stand out, they can't really help it.

Ninja:

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 07:32:31 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 07:21:39 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 06:56:58 pm

It's a wonderfully hit and miss game. A lot of the plagues you get are pretty much carbon copies with slightly different transmission vectors, and maybe one different mutation, but the Simian Flu, the Neurax Worm, and the Necroa Plague are all standouts. It's pretty much a facelift of the flash game Pandemic EOM, at least until you unlock a few specialty plagues.

I remember Pandemic. Can you describe what makes those three standouts, well, stand out?

Those 3 all have unique traits for transmission, symptoms, and abilities, and various different gameplay mechanics or win conditions. The other plagues have standard transmission, symptoms, and the standard win condition of "infect and kill everyone", although each plague has different abilities. Bacteria and viruses play the same, for example, but bacteria has extra resistance to environments while viruses instead mutate much more and removing mutations costs resources instead of giving resources. Bacteria and Neurax worm don't play the same at all, you can't brainwash people with bacteria for example.

I'd say Plague Inc does have  better balance than Pandemic, at least. Madagascar doesn't immediately barricade itself the instant someone on the other side of the world coughs.

This is true.

Goddamn Madagascar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 10, 2015, 07:53:31 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 10, 2015, 07:38:38 pm

-snip-
I don't want to spoil it too much, but think of it this way. You're playing an RPG, you're making a character, and you're reading up the little class descriptions. One class is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with a sword, and has a variety of combos for handling all sorts of different situation. It's a cool class. Then the next class in the list is a stalwart fighter that specializes in hitting things with mace, but they have the exact same combos that apply in the exact same situations as before. Repeat that process for axes, staves, spears, and halberds. Just about the time you're ready to psychically punch the developer in the soul for the self-derivative drivel, you find a class that's a wizard base who specializes in defeating opponent and solving problems using nothing but the growth and manipulation of body hair. Then you see a class that's a rogueish type, except you don't remember rogues riding crocodiles or being able to prop up the corpses of their slain foes into threatening meat puppets. Still a little surprised, you flip the last class tab to find a class that contains individuals who have separated their minds from their bodies and live entirely as body jumping parasites that feed upon the emotions of their hosts and can control their actions.

That's what I mean by standout. They just... stand out, they can't really help it.

I kinda figured you meant something like this already. I'm not really afraid of spoilers, so can you tell me what, exactly, actually makes them so special?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 10, 2015, 08:13:50 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 10, 2015, 07:53:31 pm

I kinda figured you meant something like this already. I'm not really afraid of spoilers, so can you tell me what, exactly, actually makes them so special?

Spoilers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One is a brain-infecting parasite worm that controls the host's mind and can do things such as make them worship the worm as a god, make them do incredibly stupid and risky things such as reopen ports despite the huge epidemic of brainworms going around, or legalize gladiator events, or make public suicide booths for all the people committing suicide in the name of the glorious god BrainWorm. Or you can just devour their brains.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One is simian flu which makes apes smart. Basically you control the Planet of the Apes disease. Haven't played this yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And one is zombies. It becomes less about infecting everyone to death and more about managing the millions of zombies you have spread around the earth while combating anti-zombie agencies and keeping your zombies from starving or rotting to death before everyone's dead.

The rest are just different takes on the "infect everyone and kill everyone to win" bacterial disease.

There's also unique scenarios simulating actual diseases like the Black Plague or swine flu, but again, I haven't tried any of them yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on April 11, 2015, 01:12:12 am

Bad glorious good time tonight. Conquered entire nord nation, including four castles and both Sargoth and Tirh on my own. King asshole didnt award me Sargoth. >:c Captured king Ragnar not once, but twice, and got a castle in my name. Now if only the castle wasn't on the opposite side of the nation from the village I run...

Mount & Blade: Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: acetech09 on April 11, 2015, 02:09:52 am

I dust off tf2 to derp around with a friend (it's still one of the best lighthearted play-with-friends games I know of atm) and end up with a 7 killstreak - as a punch heavy.

We were trying to do taunt kill heavies but we just beat everyone to a pulp with soviet fists.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on April 11, 2015, 03:45:15 am

I was the last man standing on my team, playing Medic. I was almost completely out of ammo, and facing a wounded Skrake who was keen to chop me up into little bits. Even with my movement speed boost from Medic, I was barely able to stay ahead of him, let alone walk to reload my weapon or heal myself.

So finally I said fuck it, turned around and bitch slapped him in the face with the butt of my weapon. He stumbled back a few feet, and I turned and ran again. When I'd made some distance, I turned around to meet his next charge, and bitch slapped him again. The third time I did it, his head exploded into gore in slow motion, and the wave ended. It was an amazing experience.

Killing Floor 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: acetech09 on April 11, 2015, 05:51:03 pm

Quote from: nenjin on April 11, 2015, 03:45:15 am

snip

Melee Stun: It saves lives.™

It also makes berserker a feasible class.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 11, 2015, 05:56:22 pm

Quote from: acetech09 on April 11, 2015, 05:51:03 pm

It also makes berserker a feasible class.

I thought that was the demoknight + charge?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: bluejello on April 11, 2015, 09:09:06 pm

er, pretty sure that snip was relating to killing floor 2, not TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on April 11, 2015, 09:21:31 pm

Quote from: bluejello on April 11, 2015, 09:09:06 pm

er, pretty sure that snip was relating to killing floor 2, not TF2

Yuh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DreamThorn on April 13, 2015, 02:46:02 am

I destroyed three entire space fleets with only four spaceships, no time for repairs in between, and only lost one ship.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The game is StarDrive 2.  It is mostly a worthy successor for Master of Orion 2: it just needs a few balance changes and AI tweaks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 13, 2015, 07:43:59 am

Apparently the best way to deal with a wave of fireballs coming at you is to drop-kick the fire.

Alternately, you can throw a ball of pure spite at them and watch them collide, but that was slightly less awesome and I didn't feel like changing equipment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Castlevania: Order of Ecclessia.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 13, 2015, 11:49:29 am

Apparently lizardman > goblin.  Once their chainsaws and bombs and ball and chain fanatics were off the field they were completely destroyed. (Even with them around I still scored, it was just harder)  Even my skinks were strong enough to get 2 dice blocks on the majority of the goblins, and by my third goal about halfway through the second half there were more goblins dead or wounded in the hospital than there were on the field.

The last play of the game was even a kickoff and I got a defensive blitz bonus turn where one of my skinks rushed forward and caught the ball my own team kicked 2 spaces from the goal line. and the goblin team came within one space of pushing my guy into a touchdown trying to tackle him. I don't know if that would have counted as a touchdown though, consitering it was the other team's turn, and game would have ended before my next turn.  Game ended with a score of 4-0.

The goblin team's value started at 1600 ish at the start of the match, and after my team was through with them it was in the low 700s.

Bloodbowl Chaos edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on April 13, 2015, 11:58:51 am

This reminds me of the time I went against a halfling team with an underworld team that had 2 skaven blitzers with block, mighty blow, horns, claws and frenzy + a warpstone troll with mighty blow, claw and block. By the end of the match there were only the treants left on the field.

Anyways, on topic: Got isolated in a battle against a polish army and was being chased down on foot by 3 pikemen/halberdiers and 3 scottish mercenaries. I turned my back to them and started running, causing them to form a line, then  turned around, pulled out my dutch double barreled pistol and shot two of them down, then pulled my dutch double barreled carbine and shot down two others, finally pulling out my broadsword and slashed the last two to death. Some time later I found myself a horse and managed to escape that losing battle.

Mount&Blade: With Fire and Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 13, 2015, 12:17:52 pm

Yea those damn treants man.  A couple matches before I was up against a halfling team and had to settle for a tie.  Those 2 treants managed to consistently get 4 or 5 saurians locked up in midfield, since only a couple have break tackle.  Usually I dominate midfield, and it was hard to work with the other way around.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 13, 2015, 07:43:38 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/TFKKRQZ.png)

Although I technically lost, I consider it a win since I beat 4 out of 8 with no losses using one destroyer flagship and 4 freighters turned impromptu missile boats.

These things are insane, their fighters are as tough as some frigates and hit like cruisers. I lost 2/3 of my hull to a single missile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2015, 08:02:55 pm

the game lad, the game! What is it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 13, 2015, 08:06:20 pm

Looks like Starsector to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on April 13, 2015, 08:48:13 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 13, 2015, 11:49:29 am

The last play of the game was even a kickoff and I got a defensive blitz bonus turn where one of my skinks rushed forward and caught the ball my own team kicked 2 spaces from the goal line. and the goblin team came within one space of pushing my guy into a touchdown trying to tackle him. I don't know if that would have counted as a touchdown though, consitering it was the other team's turn, and game would have ended before my next turn.  Game ended with a score of 4-0.

The answer is: yes - if you are pushed into the end-zone on your opponent's turn while in possession of the ball, you score a touchdown, but you also lose your next turn, iirc fluff says that you spend that turn celebrating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 15, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

I have infected every single country in the world with a fungus. However, Iceland only has 34 infected people, and Greenland only 10; these are my last holdouts. I will cover the map as soon as I become resistant to cold.

However, the best part: My disease has not been detected yet, at all. In previous runs the cure would be at 50%, but right now it hasn't even begun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plauge Inc.: Evolved

Edit: 15 minutes later, I've infected every last person. Still no sign of noticing me. I dump a large # of points investing in total organ failure. Science leaps into action and develops a cure in 5 days, keeping me from killing more than 50% of the world.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 15, 2015, 09:17:11 pm

Quote from: flabort on April 15, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

I have infected every single country in the world with a fungus. However, Iceland only has 34 infected people, and Greenland only 10; these are my last holdouts. I will cover the map as soon as I become resistant to cold.

However, the best part: My disease has not been detected yet, at all. In previous runs the cure would be at 50%, but right now it hasn't even begun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plauge Inc.: Evolved

Edit: 15 minutes later, I've infected every last person. Still no sign of noticing me. I dump a large # of points investing in total organ failure. Science leaps into action and develops a cure in 5 days, keeping me from killing more than 50% of the world.

Preisdent Madagascar still has a few tricks up his hermetically sealed sleeves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on April 15, 2015, 10:18:33 pm

Madagascar: Cold free since 2008

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 15, 2015, 10:48:06 pm

I've been going down the list of basic plagues, beating them one after the other on Mega Brutal.

How you ask?  Because I've been playing for a while and some of the pre-game perks I've unlocked are ludicrously overpowered.  "Your plague can mutate transmissions", "ability costs don't increase", "you get DNA points for popping cure bubbles".  Broken on their own, absolutely ridiculous together.

Know how fungus has a bunch of abilities which cost 1 and infect a single country, and how you get 1+ DNA points each time you infect a country?  Well, if ability costs don't increase... you can more or less infect the entire world in the starting month.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plague Inc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 15, 2015, 11:23:45 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 15, 2015, 09:17:11 pm

Quote from: flabort on April 15, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

I have infected every single country in the world with a fungus. However, Iceland only has 34 infected people, and Greenland only 10; these are my last holdouts. I will cover the map as soon as I become resistant to cold.

However, the best part: My disease has not been detected yet, at all. In previous runs the cure would be at 50%, but right now it hasn't even begun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plauge Inc.: Evolved

Edit: 15 minutes later, I've infected every last person. Still no sign of noticing me. I dump a large # of points investing in total organ failure. Science leaps into action and develops a cure in 5 days, keeping me from killing more than 50% of the world.

Preisdent Madagascar still has a few tricks up his hermetically sealed sleeves.

Spoiler: I think I found the key to winning basically every Plague Inc. Vanilla game ._. {LITERAL SPOILER} (click to show/hide)

Patience.

Just get transmission and devolve any sort of disease that would increase Severity which evolves out (this doesn't work as a Virus, obviously :V). Patience.
Infect everyone and evolve any non-disease [transmission and resistance], but save ~55 points to get Total Organ Failure from the Coughing-branch.
Patience.
Then quickly evolve TOF after everyone is suitably infected.

...Fungus takes more patience.

>_>
*cough*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 16, 2015, 12:22:14 am

Pretty sure you have a base severity in Mega Brutal that always gets you caught.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 16, 2015, 01:30:47 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 16, 2015, 12:22:14 am

Pretty sure you have a base severity in Mega Brutal that always gets you caught.

I meant the free version (up to Brutal) ._.
Hence 'vanilla', unless I'm using the term wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 16, 2015, 01:41:32 am

I... thought mega brutal was free?  It was free for me :/

Maybe this is one of those things where there's a different payment model on different platforms or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 16, 2015, 07:33:25 am

Finally beat that fat cow! And her Miltank.

Took judicious save-scumming, plus Miltank being immobilized by paralysis a lot. Managed to beat down her defense with Rock Smash and nuke her accuracy with Smoke Screen(thanks Quilava). Finished her off despite multiple Super Potions with a Scyther I just caught(Bug contest, best stats on the team despite lower level).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon HeartGold. Goddamn, Whitney is brutal, and I think they buffed her in the remake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on April 16, 2015, 07:53:43 am

Quote from: Caroline on April 16, 2015, 07:34:55 am

Quote from: Tiruin on April 15, 2015, 11:23:45 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 15, 2015, 09:17:11 pm

Quote from: flabort on April 15, 2015, 08:17:28 pm

I have infected every single country in the world with a fungus. However, Iceland only has 34 infected people, and Greenland only 10; these are my last holdouts. I will cover the map as soon as I become resistant to cold.

However, the best part: My disease has not been detected yet, at all. In previous runs the cure would be at 50%, but right now it hasn't even begun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plauge Inc.: Evolved

Edit: 15 minutes later, I've infected every last person. Still no sign of noticing me. I dump a large # of points investing in total organ failure. Science leaps into action and develops a cure in 5 days, keeping me from killing more than 50% of the world.

Preisdent Madagascar still has a few tricks up his hermetically sealed sleeves.

Spoiler: I think I found the key to winning basically every Plague Inc. Vanilla game ._. {LITERAL SPOILER} (click to show/hide)

Patience.

Just get transmission and devolve any sort of disease that would increase Severity which evolves out (this doesn't work as a Virus, obviously :V). Patience.
Infect everyone and evolve any non-disease [transmission and resistance], but save ~55 points to get Total Organ Failure from the Coughing-branch.
Patience.
Then quickly evolve TOF after everyone is suitably infected.

...Fungus takes more patience.

>_>
*cough*

I do similar, only with Insomnia and Insanity branch. Much more effective IMO, especially if you have to evolve symptoms before taking the world for some reason.

Only one problem: Leaderboard seems to have a problem with slow games. I forgot why, but I generally score lesser with slow crawls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 16, 2015, 02:18:29 pm

I skipped about half of "Assault on the Control Room" on Heroic by stealing a Banshee that I wasn't supposed to get. Normally it's part of a scripted event and there's no way you can get to it in time to steal it, but I carried a rocket launcher with me way past the point of practicality just to kill the Elite that's supposed to use it. It still took a number of tries (the level exit is guarded by a huge mob of enemies that can shoot down the Banshee near instantly), but I finally did it.

Halo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 16, 2015, 03:19:22 pm

I DESTROYED the final boss in Transistor.  Happened to switch my loadout just before the fight to something super effective, I didn't even use up any of my lives.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Void() + Spark() + Purge() is GREAT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 17, 2015, 04:29:16 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 16, 2015, 02:18:29 pm

I skipped about half of "Assault on the Control Room" on Heroic by stealing a Banshee that I wasn't supposed to get. Normally it's part of a scripted event and there's no way you can get to it in time to steal it, but I carried a rocket launcher with me way past the point of practicality just to kill the Elite that's supposed to use it. It still took a number of tries (the level exit is guarded by a huge mob of enemies that can shoot down the Banshee near instantly), but I finally did it.

Halo.

._.
I wondered why me killing the Banshee pilot (by total accident...with a sniper rifle) equaled much fun that way. :D
That was a fun part. Flying.

And I'm uncertain if that was a really scripted event, because if so, then I wouldn't be able to have got into one (in any other way than provided). Another method is using grenades to make splash damage to 'tip' over the Banshee and then get the pilot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 17, 2015, 08:45:39 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 16, 2015, 01:41:32 am

I... thought mega brutal was free?  It was free for me :/

Maybe this is one of those things where there's a different payment model on different platforms or something.

I have megabrutal on my Plague Inc copy. It's on PC and the copy was purchased through Steam though, I've heard there's differences between PC and mobile versions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on April 17, 2015, 01:09:24 pm

The change came from Marius. Legionaries are being produced in all the Julii cities in the Roma region. The remaining armies of early legions were gathered and sent out to conquer lands for themselves.

Amulius the Profane led one such army against the city of Mediolanium. His mighty early legion laid siege against the city, and was attacked from behind by a supplemental force of Gauls. He stood against three thousand, five hundred Gauls, with one thousand good Romans at his side.

The battle began, a pair of wooded copses flanking either side of a gentle rise, towards a vast plain which the first Gaul army approached from, mostly Warbands. The second force came in directly behind Amulius. Amulius sent his four cohorts of Equites to hide in the eastern copse, while his six units of Triarii and four units of Archers hid in the other copse. Amulius and his silver experience bodyguard took the center of the glade. They charged the first army while the second advanced into the ambush laid for them. Amulius and two cohorts of Equites charged out, encircling and drawing out Virsuccius, leader of one Gaul army.

Virsuccius died, and his army swirled after the retreating cavalry, but Amulius took his men around the army and charged into the right flank of the enemy forces that were now embattled with his men. The other two cohorts of Equites also charged forth, striking enemy units in the rear. Gaulish cohesion started to break, units began running, but one Gaul leader remained, and he was rallying troops, despite his depleted bodyguard of five men.

The archers received an order, and four hundred Romans fired a single arrow each at five men.

With the fall of Tesciouvantus of Cassilovellanus, the remaining enemies fled.

Rome Total War

Goddamnit, Campaign on Very Hard is awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on April 17, 2015, 02:23:00 pm

For some reason, my earlier forays into Helldivers, I seemed to have very little trouble with friendly fire.  But, now... after I got a reward for being high level, specifically the escape-teleport before I die gear.  The escape-teleport can be pretty disorienting when it procs.  I've since noticed that I am getting shot up by my own teammates, a lot. 
It may just be that I've just been pretty durn lucky with pugs in my first games...
Another possibility is that I may have become more aggressive, rather then cautious.  I may have used to prefer taking up rear guard.  Hmm... yea, that is probably it.  ...  I didn't notice that change till now.
Cause it is pretty glaring when some asshole carrying an automatic weapon sweeps the whole durn place, with me(or some other ally) obviously in the line of fire there.  Especially the ones sitting in a mech, shooting from across the screen.

Anyways, that feeling when I've managed to die zero times, while my allies have died more then 5 times each.   It basically means I've avoided death by enemy, by airdropped support and by friendly fire.  Heck yea.  Too bad that does not happen often.

... I can see myself playing this as much as L4D, at least for now.  Though... them Illuminates.  Fighting them sucks.  Their big guy unit has the highest potential of wiping out the whole crew in a matter of seconds if they catch us in a heavy firefight.  And the snipers are really annoying(but still dangerous).
Actually, the Illuminate big guy unit is the only unit that can instantly tip the balance and cause a party wipe when the whole party is spread out.  It also doesn't help that they do not have that distinct a look compared to its more common brethren... so reaction to their presence is slowed in a huge firefight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 17, 2015, 03:04:58 pm

After dealing with Whitney, Morty is just... pathetic. I only lost Butterfree, and even then it was to his overleveled Gengar that used Mean Look.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

HeartGold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 18, 2015, 10:25:12 pm

Game is noted for difficulty.
Game is noted for slight control issues.
First run through a game.
PLAY ON HARD.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Day One:
Ganging up on my character by enemies with upped stats being able to dodge regular attacks with 70-80% effectiveness. Yes, even the slimes.

Day Two:
GODDAMN BATS.

Day Three:
Boss battle with an enemy that moves faster, swings faster, hits harder, blocks, occasionally ignores hit stuns, and casts an area sleep spell.
Reward? Character that does absolutely nothing. (Okay, well it does pickup dropped coins).

Day Four:
Regular mook that deals as much damage as the first boss, flies, has a ranged attack, moves fast, and has an area sleep attack. Occasionally comes in packs of three.
Regular mook that swings faster, has longer range, and appears in packs in areas where I am forced to use my squishy wizard.
Said squishy wizard's magic takes time to cast. Enemies are resistant to all one of her attack spells.
Regular mook that spams ranged spell that paralyzes and can heal other enemies with no apparent limits.

Day Five:
Lose party healer.
POISON.
Mook recolor with previous weak point now its strongest attack.
GODDAMN RATS.

Day Five point Five:
Sudden character change from level 7 warrior to level 2 wizard/rogue. Enemies still same level.
Switched back to main character after long and painful dungeon dive... directly into forced boss battle with no equipment.
AREA SLEEP ATTACKS FOR EVERYONE.

Day Six:
Cave where all enemies have AREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAMAREASPELLSPAM.
Several sections where you're forced to use your squishy wizard. All enemies resistant to all two of her attack spells.
Forced to backtrack through same dungeon.

Day Seven:
Lose party healer. AGAIN.
new enemies in dungeon. One moves and swings faster, one spams unblockable attacks, and archers; which are of course, placed on the ledges of precarious jumps.
Enemies are almost always encounter in threes.
EVERYTHING BLOCKS. EVEN THE ARCHERS.


Is it worth it to go through this?

(http://i.imgur.com/vcciGk8.png)

You tell me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 18, 2015, 10:26:31 pm

WHAT GAME :C

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on April 18, 2015, 10:31:40 pm

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on April 19, 2015, 05:28:03 am

I didn't prepare properly for the war and my enemy has way more troops than me. Turns out the battle preview  is a loose guideline at best. Just because it tells you "very likely defeat" doesn't mean you can't win. Twice. Granted, the city walls helped.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Age of Wonders 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 19, 2015, 10:21:17 am

Okay. I should not be able to completely wipe Jasmine's team like that. Goddamn, her Steelix was 11(about 50% more) levels higher than Quilava. Quilava only took scratch damage(from Sandstorm - Steelix did not last long enough to attack twice). What the hell is wrong here? Jasmine was always a problem for me on the GBC games mainly because of that level difference.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon HeartGold. Okay, so Quilava had Flamethrower(thank you Game Corner), but still that was ridiculous.

Quote from: i2amroy on April 18, 2015, 10:31:40 pm

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

I hadn't even looked at or even thought about Fortune Summoners for a very long time and it was also my guess. Never bought it, only played the demo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 19, 2015, 10:53:48 am

I shot a ghast fireball right back at the ghast that shot it at me and killed it. Ha, achievement get. Totally meant to do that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Minecraft Hardcore

Was trying to hit a ghast that was super far away. Had shot it once, but it flew out of range. Me trying to shoot it again lead to me hitting the fireball and yeah.

Also nearly died in the nether again. Was suspicious of the shelf of gravel I was standing on and decided to build a more structurally sound bridge on top of it. Upon placing the first block the whole shelf collapsed. I survived the fall with half a heart. That was crazy. Lesson learned, never trust gravel in the nether. Never stand on gravel in the nether. Never even breathe on gravel in the nether.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on April 19, 2015, 01:22:22 pm

As long as you don't trigger a block update, it's safe. So you can walk, run, jump, whatever, but the instant you put a torch down or a ghast clips it...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on April 19, 2015, 08:01:14 pm

Been havin fun with DF raws, copied the human creature template with only a few changes, namely I maxed out the speed for everything and named this new overpowered race "Speedster".  Tested it in arena mode, I can now easily outwalk dragon fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 19, 2015, 08:49:59 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 19, 2015, 10:21:17 am

Okay. I should not be able to completely wipe Jasmine's team like that. Goddamn, her Steelix was 11(about 50% more) levels higher than Quilava. Quilava only took scratch damage(from Sandstorm - Steelix did not last long enough to attack twice). What the hell is wrong here? Jasmine was always a problem for me on the GBC games mainly because of that level difference.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon HeartGold. Okay, so Quilava had Flamethrower(thank you Game Corner), but still that was ridiculous.

Quote from: i2amroy on April 18, 2015, 10:31:40 pm

Oh, I know that one! Pretty sure that is Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. (And yeah, while the storyline is ok, the gameplay has a very nintendo hard feeling to it).

I hadn't even looked at or even thought about Fortune Summoners for a very long time and it was also my guess. Never bought it, only played the demo.

While Steelix has pretty titanic defenses, its Special Defense is not so good. (For reference, a maxed out Steelix can have up to 548 defense, but maxed out Special Defense only 251 at level 100.)

Hence, because Flamethrower is a "special" move, it affects Steelix's shaky Special Defense, and probably melted the steel snake easily.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 19, 2015, 10:25:40 pm

Besides the Sp. Def., it's also worth noting that Steelix is Steel/Ground, and thus has a 2x weakness to Fire. I mention this because I always thought he was Steel/Rock, which would be neutral to Fire.
His HP is also low (base stat 75, compared to 95 Sp. Def. and 230 Def.).

In summary, hit Steelix with a special Fire attack, and he melts. Literally and figuratively.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: acetech09 on April 20, 2015, 12:32:29 pm

Quote from: NRDL on April 19, 2015, 08:01:14 pm

Been havin fun with DF raws, copied the human creature template with only a few changes, namely I maxed out the speed for everything and named this new overpowered race "Speedster".  Tested it in arena mode, I can now easily outwalk dragon fire.

Run that in adv mode. The world will be frozen around you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 20, 2015, 06:51:34 pm

I have now completed supcom and supcom FA's campaigns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 21, 2015, 12:44:52 am

Burgh got obliterated so hard it was hardly funny. Whirlipede went down to a single Fire Fang. Dwebble got pummeled to death by Lord Payne despite taking repeated sand-attacks. And the mighty Leavany was Poison-Tailed for that wonderful 4x effective damage. Poor Bianca challenged me to a battle afterwards and was defeated even more easily.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon White.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 21, 2015, 06:45:47 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 21, 2015, 12:44:52 am

Burgh got obliterated so hard it was hardly funny. Whirlipede went down to a single Fire Fang. Dwebble got pummeled to death by Lord Payne despite taking repeated sand-attacks. And the mighty Leavany was Poison-Tailed for that wonderful 4x effective damage. Poor Bianca challenged me to a battle afterwards and was defeated even more easily.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon White.

Leavanny is Bug/Grass, thus Poison Tail would be 2x. (Accounting for STAB, assuming it was a poison type using the move, it would have been 3x.)

And yeah, Bianca is by no means a challenge, she's pretty easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 21, 2015, 12:36:18 pm

Oh, I thought Bug was also weak to poison. My bad.

And yeah, I was using Venipede to take down the Leavanny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 21, 2015, 11:13:22 pm

Somehow managed to win a match of heroes with 0 deaths as Falstad, not only that but I topped my team on hero damage(by a little over 20k) and tied for first in takedowns. Wasn't some kind of slaughter match either, both teams managed to break down to the core on at least one lane.

I'm thinking that me playing one hero over and over and over enough to learn all of the character's little nuances is making up for my general suckitude at mobas.

Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 22, 2015, 07:45:07 am

Trying to do the I Remember Me quest...

Spoiler: which involves (click to show/hide)

trying to talk down a girl threatening suicide. A girl, by the way, who was so thoroughly abused by batarian slavers that she cannot refer to herself in the first person, and sees humans, including especially herself as "animals".

I tried to go for the Renegade points in this one, but I just couldn't. Instead, I managed to convince her to quiet down and take a sedative to get some help.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mass Effect. On the plus side, I did manage to get some Renegade points after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on April 22, 2015, 12:02:50 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 21, 2015, 11:13:22 pm

I'm thinking that me playing one hero over and over and over enough to learn all of the character's little nuances is making up for my general suckitude at mobas.

I'm pretty sure this is literally the only way to be good at MOBAs. You just have to extend it to all the characters and you'll be a pro!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 23, 2015, 07:18:02 am

An early event nabbed me Accelerated Construction, and I had the 100,000 or so credits for the Bakuras High Speed Shipyards this tech gives me, so of course I splurged on it! When that completed at my homeworld(+ 200% construction speed for that colony) and combined with Akdarians' racial bonus to construxction speed(+60%), I was able to pump out colony ships like candy, gaining an insane advantage that I never let go. The rest was history :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win!]Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haveroszaur on April 23, 2015, 07:48:26 am

Quote from: tryrar on April 23, 2015, 07:18:02 am

An early event nabbed me Accelerated Construction, and I had the 100,000 or so credits for the Bakuras High Speed Shipyards this tech gives me, so of course I splurged on it! When that completed at my homeworld(+ 200% construction speed for that colony) and combined with Akdarians' racial bonus to construxction speed(+60%), I was able to pump out colony ships like candy, gaining an insane advantage that I never let go. The rest was history :P


Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win! (http://Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win!)

No. The rest was a constant zerg rush. Which is the tactic I used to win my last Endless space multiplayer game. It doesnt matter that one of your ships can destroy 10 of mine when I outnumber you 20-to-1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 23, 2015, 08:42:54 am

...come again?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 01:21:47 pm

changed my steam name to yoloswagmeister 420 and started playing on a pl server and hitting my binds whenever i died/got a kill, and others followed my example
got kicked eventually

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 23, 2015, 02:01:41 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 01:21:47 pm

changed my steam name to yoloswagmeister 420 and started playing on a pl server and hitting my binds whenever i died/got a kill, and others followed my example
got kicked eventually

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

what binds? I'm sure it was for spamming chat but what spam?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 02:41:47 pm

• crits are fair and balanced
• get good get lmaobox
• is this the part where we spam our binds? ヽຈل͜ຈﾉ
• ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• ᕦ( ͡°╭͜ʖ╮͡° )ᕤ
• med status: ☐ Not pikt ☑ PIKT

open the console and type this:
bind [key] "say get good get lmaobox"
to get the binds.

and i wasnt even the only one spamming binds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 23, 2015, 02:49:04 pm

God dammit miauw62 that's annoying :/

Also I saw your steam name earlier today and was like wat

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 23, 2015, 04:44:43 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 01:21:47 pm

changed my steam name to yoloswagmeister 420 and started playing on a pl server and hitting my binds whenever i died/got a kill, and others followed my example
got kicked eventually

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

I saw a guy doing that about a week ago. It must be spreading :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 23, 2015, 09:35:34 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on April 23, 2015, 04:44:43 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 01:21:47 pm

changed my steam name to yoloswagmeister 420 and started playing on a pl server and hitting my binds whenever i died/got a kill, and others followed my example
got kicked eventually

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

I saw a guy doing that about a week ago. It must be spreading :o

Naw, it's pretty common, I'd think. I've seen various dudes doing it in the past. One guy only payed spy with spycicle, and always had a bound ice pun ready whenever he stabbed someone.

Quote from: miauw62 on April 23, 2015, 02:41:47 pm

• crits are fair and balanced
• get good get lmaobox
• is this the part where we spam our binds? ヽຈل͜ຈﾉ
• ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• ᕦ( ͡°╭͜ʖ╮͡° )ᕤ
• med status: ☐ Not pikt ☑ PIKT

It's like a condensed twitch chat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 24, 2015, 07:50:59 am

Quote from: greatorder on April 23, 2015, 03:09:32 pm

Quote from: Haveroszaur on April 23, 2015, 07:48:26 am

Quote from: tryrar on April 23, 2015, 07:18:02 am

An early event nabbed me Accelerated Construction, and I had the 100,000 or so credits for the Bakuras High Speed Shipyards this tech gives me, so of course I splurged on it! When that completed at my homeworld(+ 200% construction speed for that colony) and combined with Akdarians' racial bonus to construxction speed(+60%), I was able to pump out colony ships like candy, gaining an insane advantage that I never let go. The rest was history :P


Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win! (http://Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win!)

No. The rest was a constant zerg rush. Which is the tactic I used to win my last Endless space multiplayer game. It doesnt matter that one of your ships can destroy 10 of mine when I outnumber you 20-to-1.

Not sure that your tactics apply to DW. In DW a good ship can decimate a small, shitty fleet easily.

...Unless they have mass drivers or anything else that bypasses shields.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: forsaken1111 on April 24, 2015, 08:07:28 am

Quote from: Akura on April 24, 2015, 07:50:59 am

Quote from: greatorder on April 23, 2015, 03:09:32 pm

Quote from: Haveroszaur on April 23, 2015, 07:48:26 am

Quote from: tryrar on April 23, 2015, 07:18:02 am

An early event nabbed me Accelerated Construction, and I had the 100,000 or so credits for the Bakuras High Speed Shipyards this tech gives me, so of course I splurged on it! When that completed at my homeworld(+ 200% construction speed for that colony) and combined with Akdarians' racial bonus to construxction speed(+60%), I was able to pump out colony ships like candy, gaining an insane advantage that I never let go. The rest was history :P


Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win! (http://Distant Worlds: Universe. Finally, my first win!)

No. The rest was a constant zerg rush. Which is the tactic I used to win my last Endless space multiplayer game. It doesnt matter that one of your ships can destroy 10 of mine when I outnumber you 20-to-1.

Not sure that your tactics apply to DW. In DW a good ship can decimate a small, shitty fleet easily.

...Unless they have mass drivers or anything else that bypasses shields.

It's always fun to start a prewarp civilization and rush up the kinetic weapons tech tree then throw out a bunch of 'escort' class ships which are basically just an engine with a bunch of guns and some guy strapped to the top with a control panel. The pirate AI doesn't know what to do about you because they start with shields which are pretty good against most things but kinetics will kill the hell out of them.

Sure I lost 30 escorts but they're cheap and I blew up or captured every pirate base in range. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 25, 2015, 11:47:43 am

Ugh, I didn't realize Umbreon was a tank. Hell, I didn't think all the other Eevolutions were tanks. Still won, despite nearly losing all my team. All but Scyther, who managed to take down Umbreon, were at the same level. Espeon took down Scyther, and Noctowl, Flareon beat Typhlosion, Vaporeon beat Ampharos(barely, but still), but Victreebel somehow beat Jolteon(kept using Double Team). I don't even remember what I did with Dragonair beside killing Flareon. That was one of the hardest things I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon HeartGold, where you have to challenge the Kimono Girls and Lyra won't let you leave for Victory Road despite being able to go there before the challenge is available. I immediately followed this up with nabbing Ho-Oh, who replaced Noctowl.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 25, 2015, 01:12:36 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 23, 2015, 02:49:04 pm

God dammit miauw62 that's annoying :/

Also I saw your steam name earlier today and was like wat

that's completely the point. sometimes you just need to mess with people that can't handle your dank may mays.

and yeah there's tons of people like this around V:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on April 25, 2015, 03:10:23 pm

I was the last person alive on my team during the boss fight. They'd gotten him down maybe 75% of his life before they all died.

I spent the next 10 to 15 minutes kiting him around the second floor of a building overlooking a courtyard. He does so much damage on this difficulty that to let him shoot you more than 5 times is to die, so all you can do is fire off a couple shots at him as he rounds the corner, then run. You can't stand still for very long because he'll either grenade you back to the stone age, cover you in clouds of nerve gas, or rush at you and carve you up like a roast with his claws. So I run, I shoot, I run, I shoot, I get clipped, I heal, I run, I reload, I shoot, I get clipped, I run, I heal....

Constantly I ran out of ammo and I'd have to leave the kiting spot and collect more, which gets really dicey since there's big open spaces to run through, the perfect place for him to light you up with his guns. I'd run out, grab my ammo, then haul ass back to the kite spot, usually with him right behind me. Being medic with a run speed boost and potent self-heals, at the cost of zero bonuses to damage, is all that kept me alive. You move slower the lower your health is, so to getting hurt at all for most any other class results in you being too slow to run from him. Being able to get back up to full speed in a matter of moments with healing is what kept me going.

A couple times while kiting he'd suddenly change direction on me (or I'd lap him more likely), and I'd have to jump out a second story window and run back to the kite spot again, usually with him chasing or chucking grenades ahead of me, which I'd have to sprint through as they started to explode.

After what felt like a half hour, but was probably closer to 10 minutes, I finally killed him with 1 last bullet. I felt like I had just run a marathon (and in terms of meters traveled, my character probably did!)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Killing Floor 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 25, 2015, 03:43:11 pm

Quote from: nenjin on April 25, 2015, 03:10:23 pm

Killing Floor 2

What class and what difficulty?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on April 25, 2015, 04:42:15 pm

Medic, Hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 25, 2015, 04:42:44 pm

Quote from: nenjin on April 25, 2015, 04:42:15 pm

Medic, Hard.

Noice. Medics are a credit to the team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 25, 2015, 10:10:37 pm

I finally killed Kematu while also keeping Lydia alive!

The battle would probably have been much, much easier without Lydia around, as I could have just unloaded all my magic. I ended up winning the fight once, then decided to reload because I killed Lydia with friendly fire.

It was definitely a challenge to overcome the fucktarded amount of damage that Kematu does with his scimitars, but I figured out how to remove him from the fight early: use an Invisiblity potion to sneak-attack him with my most powerful weapon, then run away and pop a Scroll of Fireball. It still took a few tries though, because Kematu's area is really laggy on my PC (it can't handle particle effects very well).

Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 26, 2015, 10:55:11 am

Got a quest to clear a blockade around the docks of the Grand Vizier. I only had two ships with weapons, one was busy, the other was sitting at the Vizier's docks. The blockade doesn't start until you accept the quest. I thought it would be a single small ship. It was four large Oriental Warships. Barely got my ship out of there.

I had a half-hour to do the quest. Looking at my options for building warships, I didn't have much. Too little wood, and to build large warships I needed cannons, which I hadn't started the production of. After starting cannon production, I knew I wouldn't get even a single ship done. Then I noticed I can request auxillaries from both the Occident and Orient.

Actually, I couldn't. I spent too much Honor upgrading the Occidental fleet, and had nothing to upgrade the Oriental fleet. I quickly pushed a spectacular tournament at my home city. Got enough Honor from that to grab two large Occidental Warships, and a single large Oriental warship, and in the meantime, I got a small warship of my own built. The only hitch was that the Oriental ship spawned at the Vizier's dock, but I got it out.

I didn't think I had enough power, but I was running out of time and it take 45 minutes to refresh a tournament, and and hour for auxillaries to respawn. It was 5 against 4, but I think they had more tonnage. Then I realized the AI is godawful stupid. They went straight for one of the small ships, which I pulled away as the rest of the fleet blasted away. Mission accomplished, reward of 55 tons of cannon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Anno 1404.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on April 26, 2015, 12:24:11 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 25, 2015, 01:12:36 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 23, 2015, 02:49:04 pm

God dammit miauw62 that's annoying :/

Also I saw your steam name earlier today and was like wat

that's completely the point. sometimes you just need to mess with people that can't handle your dank may mays.

and yeah there's tons of people like this around V:

I'm sorry, but you cannot meme here without paying fealty to me, The Meme Queen.
We are not amused.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 26, 2015, 12:24:54 pm

[MEMES]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on April 26, 2015, 01:34:27 pm

A dragon was killed with a siege crossbow.
I was manning the crossbow.
The dragon was supposed to run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DnD 5e

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on April 26, 2015, 12:24:54 pm

[MEMES]

[MONSOON INTENSIFIES]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 26, 2015, 02:29:42 pm

nnNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH HATE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 26, 2015, 02:41:32 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on April 26, 2015, 12:24:11 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 25, 2015, 01:12:36 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 23, 2015, 02:49:04 pm

God dammit miauw62 that's annoying :/

Also I saw your steam name earlier today and was like wat

that's completely the point. sometimes you just need to mess with people that can't handle your dank may mays.

and yeah there's tons of people like this around V:

I'm sorry, but you cannot meme here without paying fealty to me, The Meme Queen.
We are not amused.

>implying you can out-meme me

i graduated top of my class in the Navy Memes and have over 300 confirmed dank memes

/me throws meme arrows at Alleecat

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 26, 2015, 02:55:46 pm

Why do you people call then dank, anyway? Are you saying that your memes are potent, or are you saying they're dark and wet?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 26, 2015, 03:49:24 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 26, 2015, 02:55:46 pm

Why do you people call then dank, anyway? Are you saying that your memes are potent, or are you saying they're dark and wet?

dank--adjective;

slang for "awesome", "sick" "cool", "dope", etc. originally grew from 420 weed lingo, used to describe cannabis (or anything else really) as "high quality" or "potent"
(ex1: this weed is hella dank)
(ex2: these taco bell dorito burritos are so dank. it's totally killing my munchies.)

Now it's a sarcastic maymay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 26, 2015, 04:58:38 pm

I prefer imagining them as dark and wet now.  Like I'm imagining a doge image macro if somebody printed it out, got it a little bit wet with a damp paper towel turned off most of the lights in a room so that there's crappy lighting and then took a picture of it with a smartphone.

Dank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DreamCarver on April 26, 2015, 05:37:23 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 26, 2015, 04:58:38 pm

I prefer imagining them as dark and wet now.  Like I'm imagining a doge image macro if somebody printed it out, got it a little bit wet with a damp paper towel turned off most of the lights in a room so that there's crappy lighting and then took a picture of it with a smartphone.

Dank.

So it's basically moist's evil twin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 26, 2015, 05:38:59 pm

So I spawn in and rush towards the objective, jumping over a fence, climbing up a ravine and settling in behind a pillar for cover. My position isn't the greatest in the world, but I can just peek over the top of this fence that shields the German infantry. A couple machinegunners fall to my trusty Mosin, during which our two objectives are captured, causing the enemy to fall back. But not all of them, as I notice a lone rifleman huddling in the corner of one of the buildings. We stare at each other for a split second, as if not quite believing that the other exists. As he fumbles with his rifle, I put a bullet into his head. Deciding to clear out the building, I jump up the window, and turn the corner just in time to see another German walk down the stairs. He starts hip-firing his SMG, but his bullets miss me completely. A single shot puts him down, and I climb the stairs to see if any of his comrades are hiding on the other floors. They were free of Germans, but I did find a window that gave a nice view of the alleyway underneath which I used to keep the Germans from flanking us.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Orchestra 2. Most of the time you die horribly by some enemy you never seen, but occasionally everything just lines up perfectly and you kick a lot of ass. Presumably those moments of awesome happen more frequently if you're good at the game...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 26, 2015, 05:42:15 pm

Spoiler: I can has the power? (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/m2AUh1f.png)

But no, seriously, the sacrifices I had to make to get this thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on April 26, 2015, 05:46:56 pm

Clearly some form of cat artillery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 26, 2015, 06:01:42 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

Its clearly a Mr. Cat, duh.

(also what game is that?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 06:03:07 pm

My own ownage: Take over a horrible Single-A baseball team. Owner's expectations: Don't completely suck. (That's verbatim from the game.) Not allowed to pick up my own personnel, as that's the GM of the MLB club's job. Have one player above 1 star, most are at .5 out of 5. Started off the season shitty, losing 20 out of 26 games in the first month. Tweak the game strategy to my preferred playstyle. Squeak into the playoffs at the end of the year. Win in round one. Team owner is ecstatic.

Get promoted. Take over the also horrible AA team. Owner's expectations: Don't completely suck. Immediately set up the strategy to suit my new players. Tear up the AA league, top 5 in every category. Playoffs, here we come. Win in round one, and lose by one game in round two.

Promoted again. Take over the also horrible AAA team. Owner's expectations: Don't completely suck. This team actually has a couple prospects on it, but is still full of JAGs. Currently tearing up the AAA league. Leading the league in most categories.

Out of the Park Baseball '16. Playing as a Manager/GM prospect in the LA Dodgers' system (I'll be moving to Seattle as soon as I get a chance.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 26, 2015, 06:09:11 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

Looks like War of the Human Tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 26, 2015, 08:35:11 pm

A capture the flag match started 4v4. 2 team members on my team dropped out right away, the other didn't really do much of anything.

Fought it to a draw.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Titanfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 26, 2015, 11:19:35 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

I'm with MZ here, WHAT THE SHIT?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 26, 2015, 11:34:59 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on April 26, 2015, 11:19:35 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

I'm with MZ here, WHAT THE SHIT?

Look two posts above yours :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 26, 2015, 11:53:51 pm

To be fair, that was pretty much my response when I ran into it myself.

Spoiler: And then there are these things (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/8kzMjsL.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karkov on April 26, 2015, 11:59:07 pm

Reminds me of that guy from Newgrounds' artwork.  Mattlikesswords or something like that?  He was usually putting cats on pretty much everything.

Speaking of which, I just beat his game that showed up on Steam, also beat most of the Battle Arena or whatever it's called.  Just have to do that two more times now.

Game's called Epic Battle Fantasy 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 28, 2015, 02:30:11 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 26, 2015, 06:09:11 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

Looks like War of the Human Tanks.

I agree. Game's grindy as ****, but it's sooooo rewarding when you unlock and produce a new tank model that decimates the level you were having so much trouble on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on April 28, 2015, 10:42:55 am

Quote from: flabort on April 28, 2015, 02:30:11 am

Quote from: Sirus on April 26, 2015, 06:09:11 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on April 26, 2015, 05:44:37 pm

What. The fuck. Is that thing.

Looks like War of the Human Tanks.

I agree. Game's grindy as ****, but it's sooooo rewarding when you unlock and produce a new tank model that decimates the level you were having so much trouble on.

Because then you can spin and spin and spin around, where you stop their face is gone? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 28, 2015, 05:30:44 pm

Yeah, pretty much. :P
And I can actually SEE them before I get into range now, which means now I can kill them without going into range.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 29, 2015, 04:09:16 am

I don't know if it's the patch version or luck of the draw, but I'm getting an absurd number of yellow items. Every boss and quite a few minibosses have dropped a yellow, and I've also gotten plenty of gems (which used to be so rare as to almost not be a factor in the game IIRC).

Diablo II + Lord of Destruction.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 29, 2015, 01:12:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 29, 2015, 04:09:16 am

I don't know if it's the patch version or luck of the draw, but I'm getting an absurd number of yellow items. Every boss and quite a few minibosses have dropped a yellow, and I've also gotten plenty of gems (which used to be so rare as to almost not be a factor in the game IIRC).

Diablo II + Lord of Destruction.

Gems were made more common yeah. Unique items though....Dammit can I have your luck?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 29, 2015, 09:14:15 pm

Quote from: tryrar on April 29, 2015, 01:12:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 29, 2015, 04:09:16 am

I don't know if it's the patch version or luck of the draw, but I'm getting an absurd number of yellow items. Every boss and quite a few minibosses have dropped a yellow, and I've also gotten plenty of gems (which used to be so rare as to almost not be a factor in the game IIRC).

Diablo II + Lord of Destruction.

Gems were made more common yeah. Unique items though....Dammit can I have your luck?!

Yellows are rares, gold is unique.

Getting golds from every boss (after the first run through) is insanely rare.

I need to play that game again. D3 never managed to scratch my fantasy loot grind itch the way D1 and D2 did. Though, admittedly, D1 could scratch my itch with just its soundtrack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 29, 2015, 09:20:16 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 29, 2015, 09:14:15 pm

Quote from: tryrar on April 29, 2015, 01:12:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 29, 2015, 04:09:16 am

I don't know if it's the patch version or luck of the draw, but I'm getting an absurd number of yellow items. Every boss and quite a few minibosses have dropped a yellow, and I've also gotten plenty of gems (which used to be so rare as to almost not be a factor in the game IIRC).

Diablo II + Lord of Destruction.

Gems were made more common yeah. Unique items though....Dammit can I have your luck?!

Yellows are rares, gold is unique.

Getting golds from every boss (after the first run through) is insanely rare.

I need to play that game again. D3 never managed to scratch my fantasy loot grind itch the way D1 and D2 did. Though, admittedly, D1 could scratch my itch with just its soundtrack.

With the recent changes to D3, the looting is quite good. Better than D2, in my opinion. Play enough on the hardest difficulty and you'll find what you're looking for eventually. And a bunch of cool loot you weren't looking for but now have because rngesus dropped it for you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 30, 2015, 01:02:24 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 29, 2015, 09:20:16 pm

With the recent changes to D3, the looting is quite good. Better than D2, in my opinion. Play enough on the hardest difficulty and you'll find what you're looking for eventually. And a bunch of cool loot you weren't looking for but now have because rngesus dropped it for you.

I played D3 pretty thoroughly for a month or two after it came out, but became dissatisfied with the player auction house. It always seemed like it was easier/faster/less grindy to buy something from another player than to actually pull it from destiny's mangled corpse. Which, considering that the D series is all about leaving behind a trail of mangled corpses, kind of killed the purpose of the game.

What did they change?

Spoiler: Really. (click to show/hide)

Plus, they made Akara Adria* evil. Considering that she's one of the most helpful characters in D1, and sounds like she's about 60-80 there, I was somewhat miffed by the sudden transformation into Satan's hot stripper baby-momma.

*EDIT: Well, those are definitely not the same character.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on April 30, 2015, 01:05:11 am

I did think that the loot drops in Diablo 2 were a little too rare. Playing through single player on normal and not finding any uniques aside from the scripted ones was rather annoying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 30, 2015, 02:21:04 am

Made orbit, did some SCIENCE!, tested a decoupler, then matched orbits and rescued thombald like a boss-all on the same flight!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program. Made 100k on that one flight!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 30, 2015, 02:24:18 am

Quote from: Draignean on April 30, 2015, 01:02:24 am

I played D3 pretty thoroughly for a month or two after it came out, but became dissatisfied with the player auction house. It always seemed like it was easier/faster/less grindy to buy something from another player than to actually pull it from destiny's mangled corpse. Which, considering that the D series is all about leaving behind a trail of mangled corpses, kind of killed the purpose of the game.

What did they change?

Got rid of the auction house, for one. Completely revamped the loot drop system and the balance of gear enchantments, so health regen and life on hit actually does something, and stats are huge. When I came back to playing, the old gear I had at lvl60 had stats of like, +50, compared to new gear drops with stats of +200. The "smart loot" system makes it so if you're playing a wizard, most gear drops will be for wizards, having intelligence, vitality, and other key aspects for wizards. This applies to all classes, so there's much less chance of getting useless gear drops for a character, like a barbarian getting a legendary barbarian item with intelligence on it.

Legendaries and set items drop much more frequently. Especially when you're playing on harder difficulties (called Torment, ranging from Torment 1 to Torment 6 in intensity). No longer do you need to constantly farm Act bosses like D2. Just kill enough critters on hard difficulties and rng will give you something eventually.

The Reaper of Souls expansion really added to replayability by giving a "sandbox" mode made for just killing and looting without worrying about campaign progress. And the addition of seasons and regular new content releases with each season provides incentive to come back and play again to see what's new.

Balance is overall just way way way better too.

It's a lot different than when it first released.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 30, 2015, 03:08:08 am

*reads posts above*
._.
...D3 doesn't require an internet connection, then? Like, in all phases of playing the game (+ registry//install)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on April 30, 2015, 03:20:46 am

Skyrim was starting to crash a lot
I cleaned out a few mods, including Requiem (which was causing a lot of stability issues)

And...now I have a playable Skyrim that is working better, without having to reinstall the game and all the mods again! :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2015, 07:43:03 am

I thought Scyther would be the weakest link against the Elite Four. He proceeds to solo Will, then deal crippling first strikes against the othe three(turns out Dark is weak to Bug. I didn't know that).

Damn, that was easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon HeartGold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 30, 2015, 10:29:45 am

Quote from: Tiruin on April 30, 2015, 03:08:08 am

*reads posts above*
._.
...D3 doesn't require an internet connection, then? Like, in all phases of playing the game (+ registry//install)

Nope, still needs to be connected to the internet. Getting disconnected from the servers while playing kicks you from the game and gives an error message about losing connection.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 30, 2015, 02:00:04 pm

Scored 45 points as Spy, a class that I've never been that good at.
\o/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 30, 2015, 02:33:16 pm

Orbited the Mun, no problem! Onion rockets make getting things to orbits easy


Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 30, 2015, 02:34:08 pm

Does the asparagus system still work?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 30, 2015, 04:00:39 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on April 30, 2015, 02:34:08 pm

Does the asparagus system still work?

Yup! That's how I got into orbit with a full final stage for making mun orbit. It also only took a 4 booster asparagus too!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 30, 2015, 10:09:47 pm

That feeling when you ammorack a Tiger II with a single shot from your Cromwell.

WoT, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on April 30, 2015, 10:15:27 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on April 30, 2015, 10:09:47 pm

That feeling when you ammorack a Tiger II with a single shot from your Cromwell.

WoT, obviously.

Speaking of, I loaded WoT up for the first time in awhile and took out the British tree Sherman and had a match where I fired 3 shots (105 since not fully researched yet) and got 3 kills, was great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 30, 2015, 10:17:11 pm

Yeah, I've been getting back into it... still just as gorram frustrating as always, but better now that I'm basically only playing troll tanks and my daily doubles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

Had just enough money to get all the Triforce maps translated at once. I think I had 12 Rupees left out of ~2800(I had one translated already).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 01, 2015, 10:40:56 am

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

I have a sudden craving to see the opening sequence of that game again, but with all the pictures of Ganon replaced with pictures of Tingle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 12:06:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

Had just enough money to get all the Triforce maps translated at once. I think I had 12 Rupees left out of ~2800(I had one translated already).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

BESTZELDA IS BEST

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 01, 2015, 12:28:42 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 12:06:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

Had just enough money to get all the Triforce maps translated at once. I think I had 12 Rupees left out of ~2800(I had one translated already).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

BESTZELDA IS BEST

What was your first Zelda game, out of curiosity?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 01, 2015, 01:55:52 pm

I just killed the Devil himself using nothing but bombs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 02:28:09 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 01, 2015, 12:28:42 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 12:06:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

Had just enough money to get all the Triforce maps translated at once. I think I had 12 Rupees left out of ~2800(I had one translated already).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

BESTZELDA IS BEST

What was your first Zelda game, out of curiosity?

OoT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 01, 2015, 03:13:59 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 02:28:09 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 01, 2015, 12:28:42 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 01, 2015, 12:06:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

Had just enough money to get all the Triforce maps translated at once. I think I had 12 Rupees left out of ~2800(I had one translated already).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

BESTZELDA IS BEST

What was your first Zelda game, out of curiosity?

OoT.

Alright. Just wanted to make sure you weren't nostalgia-ing over it.

My first was the original. Ah, the days... bad German translation... using guidemaps... tearing my hair out over the 4 Blue Darknut room...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 01, 2015, 09:45:58 pm

Link to the past.   With zelda 2 as a close second.   Would probably be first If I could even find the third temple, let alone beat the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 01, 2015, 09:58:06 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 01, 2015, 09:45:58 pm

Link to the past.   With zelda 2 as a close second.   Would probably be first If I could even find the third temple, let alone beat the game.

You got PAST the second one?

TEACH ME, O MASTER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 02, 2015, 01:32:16 am

My first Zelda game was OoT, and I loved it to bits. I still enjoy watching speedruns of it.

On topic: Just beat Mom for the first time. Got a possibly-OP combination of a pickup which made explosions heal me and a trinket which allowed me to explode whenever I wanted. Basically infinite hearts, infinite coins from blood banks, I could check all the walls for secret doors, etc.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on May 02, 2015, 02:00:25 am

First Zelda for me was the original. I also played link to the past, but my favorite was of course OoT, followed by Majora's Mask

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 02, 2015, 02:02:35 am

Wind Waker just has this sort of magic to it for me. Mostly because BOOOAAAATS AND  BIIIIIG MAAAAP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 02, 2015, 02:35:30 am

My first Zelda was... the first Zelda. :P I really like it, but Ocarina of Time is still my favorite to just casually play. OoT and Majora's Mask are tied for best storytelling in my hierarchy.

Wind Waker... ehhh... I could really take it or leave it. It looks pretty and some of the dungeons are pretty neat, but I think it gets overrated just for the novelty of the graphic style. The sailing was dull and didn't have enough substance to make up for taking the focus away from dungeon crawling, not to mention the finnicky boat combat.

What really irritates me is that Twilight Princess still gets a lot of unfair backlash just because it went in a different direction after WW. We've got four games in WW's visual style (counting Four Swords Adventures and Minish Cap), an HD remake and Toon Link in Smash, but TP is probably dead for at least a few more years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 02, 2015, 08:35:31 am

Twilight Princess was always my favorite for casual play. The graphics are just the coolest in the series, if you ask me, and the dungeons were pretty fun. Only thing that bothered me was that two or three of the dungeon items never get used again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 02, 2015, 10:11:43 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 01, 2015, 10:40:56 am

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2015, 08:05:15 am

I swear, Tingle is more of a villain than Ganon is.

I have a sudden craving to see the opening sequence of that game again, but with all the pictures of Ganon replaced with pictures of Tingle.

It would make more sense. Take a good look a Tingle Tower, the images carved on it. Then look at the spinning thing on top. That thing is being spun by two unfortunate guys that Tingle enslaved - and Tingle claims it's "fairy magic" moving it(despite standing next to the two slaves as he says it).

Maybe he should hook up with the creepy Queen Fairy who lives literally on the next island over. She's some serious nightmare fuel right there. Despite the creepy child-like appearance(that none of the Great Fairies have), she starts hitting on Link during their conversation, then she finishes the conversation with "the fairies of this fountain will ease your weariness. Use them as you will." Emphasis mine since that phrase is usually associated with rape, meaning the Queen Fairy just suggested that you rape her underlings - made worse since this is the first Zelda game(if I recall) where you can visibly see the fairies' reaction to being put in a bottle(they don't like it).

The look your (sentient) boat gives you when the Queen Fairy starts coming on to you is hilarious, like he's trying to say "No, don't even think about it, Link".

Spoiler: Then again (click to show/hide)

He's probably trying to put Link and Zelda together, since Zelda is the last of his bloodline, maybe even his daughter(it's kinda unclear). To be fair, the King of Hyrule is a boat, so shipping is all he can do at this point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DreamCarver on May 02, 2015, 10:23:41 am

Quote from: Akura on May 02, 2015, 10:11:43 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To be fair, the King of Hyrule is a boat, so shipping is all he can do at this point.

(http://i.imgur.com/OvKLZNW.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 02, 2015, 10:31:02 am

Quote from: DreamCarver on May 02, 2015, 10:23:41 am

Quote from: Akura on May 02, 2015, 10:11:43 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To be fair, the King of Hyrule is a boat, so shipping is all he can do at this point.

(http://i.imgur.com/OvKLZNW.gif)

For some reason I cannot stop laughing at that image.


As for my most recent ownage, after several years of fending increasingly more dangerous attacks by the Drills, I noticed them closing the technology gap. Although they have a penalty to research, they also controlled 2/3 of the galaxy(I held the rest), and probably had more than enough research worlds. Certainly, they had the means to outproduce my defenses.

However, I was starting get some really good Frigates ready. After they retreated from the latest attack, I sent my ships(which are about 5 times faster than theirs) to cut off their retreat. This resulted in dozens of "battles" against individual ships. Most were destroyed while they fled further back. Only one or two made it away unscathed, though I eventually did run out of missiles so more of them survived. Even so, it broke their offensive capability. For the first time in the war, I went on the offense.

Spoiler: EDIT *derp* (click to show/hide)

Remember Tomorrow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 02, 2015, 10:39:44 am

Which game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 02, 2015, 02:30:38 pm

I beat the Summoner without ever even seeing him. He was just barely off-screen and I was shooting at some enemies that happened to be in the same general direction. I must have nailed him when I was spamming Multi Shot, because my quest log updated while I was just collecting loot with "Talk to people in town for more information". When I did that, Cain said something about me killing the Summoner. Sure enough, when I went over there, there were a few dead enemies and some loot but no Summoner :o

Diablo 2 + LoD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 02, 2015, 02:34:26 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 02, 2015, 08:35:31 am

Twilight Princess was always my favorite for casual play. The graphics are just the coolest in the series, if you ask me, and the dungeons were pretty fun. Only thing that bothered me was that two or three of the dungeon items never get used again.

I don't think you ever use the Slingshot. Most enemies are immune to it, and I can't recall using it for any puzzles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 02, 2015, 03:46:41 pm

You use it to kill the little wall spiders before you get the Gale Boomerang. You can also kill bats with it, stun deku babas, and IIRC get senpai enemies to notice you.

Twilight Princess has some pretty great parts, but they don't start until the second dungeon, and the stuff before it is just so boring.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 02, 2015, 05:11:24 pm

My experience with Twilight Princess was that it really came into its own after you complete the first set of three dungeons.  Was below average for the series before then.  I think the reason is the wolf sections.  The game's like "you have no options and can't talk to most NPCs and now you need to do this one really important thing that is all you can do."

Midna is pretty great tho.  My favorite sort-of glitch involves the animation for the wolf dying to quicksand.  It only happens in one dungeon in a corner of the world IIRC.  The first time around, if wolf-link falls in quicksand he struggles to escape and then drowns while Midna watches the whole thing with disinterest.  You have no particularly good reason to go back to the quicksand dungeon but if you do

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

despite her character development and coming to genuinely care about Link, there isn't a new animation.  Midna still doesn't give a shit if he drowns in quicksand.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on May 03, 2015, 12:51:02 pm

Won a Domination match by killing a battleship in a gunnery duel with one of my destroyers. No torpedoes involved, I hit him with nothing except teeny little HE shells while dodging his fire.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WoWS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on May 03, 2015, 03:49:43 pm

I achieved a new highest damage dealt in one shot. 77,811 damage in one shot, in a game where most damage is dealt through dakka doing maybe 200 damage at most per shot. Sniper with Glass for +500% damage, fully charged perfect shot with 2000% damage, and complimentary items increasing damage dealt in one hit, including 20 crowbars (the only common "white" item I collected over the course of the 25 minutes, it was a challenge run), fully charged golden gun, full mark list, and a brilliant behemoth.

I one shot Providence, the final boss. Coincidentally, I killed myself trying to one shot the worms by firing a fully charged shot at point blank range with the behemoth. The explosion damage one-shot me through my shields.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 03, 2015, 08:10:03 pm

I'm very proud of what we achieved:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iyu1gbP.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on May 03, 2015, 08:32:19 pm

inb4 meteors (what game is it?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 03, 2015, 08:33:08 pm

Looks like Starbound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 03, 2015, 10:34:02 pm

GG, man. :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 03, 2015, 10:41:05 pm

A run as Azazel turned amazing when the very first treasure room provided The Ludovico Technique. Also became Guppy for the first time and destroyed Mom's Heart in about 10 seconds. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/528388899084108402/6E21C699AE81AE8B7E9744DA358CAD84EA4E6E2C/)

Binding of Issac Rebirth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 04, 2015, 09:05:39 am

Quote from: TheDarkStar on May 03, 2015, 08:32:19 pm

inb4 meteors (what game is it?)

Heh, I'm pretty sure that is possible on planets like that one (And also yes, this is starbound).

Quote from: Sirus on May 03, 2015, 10:41:05 pm

A run as Azazel turned amazing when the very first treasure room provided The Ludovico Technique. Also became Guppy for the first time and destroyed Mom's Heart in about 10 seconds. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/528388899084108402/6E21C699AE81AE8B7E9744DA358CAD84EA4E6E2C/)

Binding of Issac Rebirth.

Lucky you, I've only managed to have the Ludovico Technique once in 100 hours of gameplay and I didn't have Brimstone with it. My personal best was this:

Spoiler: Because huge (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/im51cuZ.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 04, 2015, 10:12:38 am

Quote from: FArgHalfnr on May 03, 2015, 08:10:03 pm

I'm very proud of what we achieved:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iyu1gbP.jpg)

That just looks like an empty screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 04, 2015, 10:33:40 am

Quote from: miauw62 on May 04, 2015, 10:12:38 am

Quote from: FArgHalfnr on May 03, 2015, 08:10:03 pm

I'm very proud of what we achieved:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iyu1gbP.jpg)

That just looks like an empty screen.

I don't know what's the problem, there should be two boats at the bottom of a lava ocean. Maybe a slow connection? I have that problem quite often.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 04, 2015, 10:51:19 am

I thought the boats were just the background.  Guess I just don't know much about Starbound that I thought that was just the standard surface background showing through in a place that made no sense.  I was unaware it was special.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 04, 2015, 12:09:08 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 04, 2015, 10:51:19 am

I thought the boats were just the background.  Guess I just don't know much about Starbound that I thought that was just the standard surface background showing through in a place that made no sense.  I was unaware it was special.

The "Owning" part of that picture is that we managed to ride wooden boats to the bottom of a magmatic ocean unharmed. I wouldn't blame you for not knowing since pretty much everything in this picture comes from a somewhat recent update. That and the fact that I gave no explanation about that picture.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 04, 2015, 12:58:58 pm

Made battling Lavos (and the final battles on the Black Omen previously) a total pushover, while also having so many elixirs and megaelixirs (50 minimum, each), that I can casually use them up during battle as part of a strategy, and not worry about reserving them; and beating the game with plenty of spares still, after using them up regularly. YAY! A never-used got used casually! Fossil Apes (Found in Giant's Claw) are an awesome source of those things.

On an unrelated note, now I can't play Dyad or certain Audiosurf 2 skins without thinking of the final encounter against Lavos.

Chrono Trigger (Re-Translated SNES Patch)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DreamCarver on May 04, 2015, 03:52:11 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on May 04, 2015, 12:58:58 pm

Made battling Lavos (and the final battles on the Black Omen previously) a total pushover, while also having so many elixirs and megaelixirs (50 minimum, each), that I can casually use them up during battle as part of a strategy, and not worry about reserving them; and beating the game with plenty of spares still, after using them up regularly. YAY! A never-used got used casually! Fossil Apes (Found in Giant's Claw) are an awesome source of those things.

On an unrelated note, now I can't play Dyad or certain Audiosurf 2 skins without thinking of the final encounter against Lavos.

Chrono Trigger (Re-Translated SNES Patch)

Aw, man, now I remember those glorious moments in the DS version of New Game +'ing until Chrono was finally strong enough to waltz in and wreck Lavos on his own. No dialogue, no buildup, just walk into the fairground, enter the portal, and kick some spiny-shelled ass. Such were the days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 04, 2015, 11:03:55 pm

I cleared out a room that was absurdly packed with undead. As in, standing-room-only, must-be-a-glitch packed. None of my screenshots turned out, but I ended up spending about 10k gold before I gave up on reviving my follower. I used about five town portals to run back to Fara and heal, because I was completely drained of rejuvenation pots and regular healing pots weren't healing fast enough. I did eventually clear the entire room though... and got absolutely nothing, just some identify scrolls and a meager amount of gold.

Diablo 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on May 05, 2015, 12:09:11 am

Just got up to the 'Yain Kui-Ku' hunt and all I got to say to that damn bird after I grind it's head into the ground...

ROT IN HELL
Monster Hunter 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2015, 08:00:46 am

Nuked the Drill homeworld(at least, I think it was. Terran with a name different from the star name).

I sent a colony ship to it. As it got there(ugh, they were really slow since it was a corvette instead of a freighter) I fought several battles. Those... didn't go as well as I hoped despite me researching everything. Stupid fighter ganks(even the best shield generators fail to stop missiles sometimes).

Once the colony ship hit their former homeworld, a big screen of Russian text pops up, presumably informing me I have won the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Remember Tomorrow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on May 05, 2015, 09:49:12 am

Damaged two legs doing it, but I landed on the Mun, collected all the science, and took off again for a rendezvous with the orbiter ship, which drained all the science from the lander and returned to Kerbin. Level ups all around!

Kerbal Space Program. Next up, fulfilling a contract for putting a base on Minmus

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 06, 2015, 09:43:44 am

We were on RED team on a Control Point map that I can't remember the name of. We had captured all of the control points except for one, and BLU had somehow managed to set up an iron defense complete with sentry guns. I was a spy, so I managed to cloak my way past most of the players and uncloaked. I managed to sap one sentry gun and backstab the engineer so he couldn't fix it. I managed to do it without anyone noticing, so I redisguised myself and did the same for the other sentry. After quickly backstabbing a few people and making my escape, I notified my team that the sentries were gone, and our medic promptly came over with a soldier who plowed through the remaining players. IronTomato is the real MVP.

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on May 06, 2015, 03:30:37 pm

Situations like that are why I prefer the Eternal Reward knife. Rather than sapping everything and then stabbing the engies, it lets you stab all the engies (and anyone else nearby) first.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 07, 2015, 02:32:24 am

Fucking finally beat Duriel, as Amazon. The single most expensive boss fight by far: between rezzing my merc, buying cold resist equipment and restocking potions, I estimate that I spend about 10k... on one fight. But I finally beat the fucker, and I never have to fight him again.

Diablo 2 + LoD.

P.S.

My early strategy revolved around thawing potions, since they give you cold resistance for 30 seconds. I hadn't seen thawing potions anywhere, so I ran through all of the fake tombs, wandered all around the desert, even revisited the monastery in Act 1 looking for them. I didn't find a single one. So, I finally beat Duriel, and I go around talking to all the townspeople. I thought Lysander was just a gossip NPC, but to my surprise, he actually sold something... thawing potions. 22 gold each for infinitely-stackable cold resistance. All of the merchant scumming for cold resistance, all of the grinding for potions out in the wild, putting all my sapphires into shields... pointless.

I think I'm going to go cry now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SupremeSandwich on May 07, 2015, 05:27:58 am

One man + Three Werewolves + A greatsword = three dead werewolves
Seriously Hjalmar that is some witcher worthy fighting!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Battle Brothers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 07, 2015, 07:39:49 am

Made a bunch of fangirls squee, with little hearts appearing over their heads.

Then those hearts fell to the ground, allowing me to pick them up and heal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Still stuck on the second arena for the STAR contest, probably requires something I don't have yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 07, 2015, 08:09:01 am

Quote from: Akura on May 07, 2015, 07:39:49 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Still stuck on the second arena for the STAR contest, probably requires something I don't have yet.

You need the seventh dungeon's item.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 07, 2015, 09:34:05 am

Gear Up

Built a tank using the flea legs, scout body, hidden turret, antigrav supports, and the flamethrower.  This gave me a grand total of 40 HP (One shottable by most non-automatic guns) but absurd speed and maneuverability.  The most fragile of speedy speedsters.

The game was spent speeding around, flanking enemy tanks from behind, burning them down before they could retaliate.  The rest of the time was jukeing about dodging cannons and machineguns, barely taking a scratch.  In a straight fight, quick strafes to the left and right would prevent them from tracking me enough to flame them down.

I earned a 8 kill streak, with 14 kills total, my best so far.  Total massacre.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 07, 2015, 12:04:25 pm

Made like 7 caps on Mannpower as a sanic scoot.
e.g. baby's face blaster + agility upgrade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 07, 2015, 12:49:11 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on May 07, 2015, 12:04:25 pm

Made like 7 caps on Mannpower as a sanic scoot.
e.g. baby's face blaster + agility upgrade

What does this even mean? Lol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 07, 2015, 12:53:30 pm

plenty of people have posted stuff that only makes sense when you know the game in question

the game is Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on May 07, 2015, 01:10:46 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on May 07, 2015, 12:53:30 pm

plenty of people have posted stuff that only makes sense when you know the game in question

the game is Team Fortress 2

...what's an agility upgrade? I haven't played TF2 in months.

Ooooh. Googled it. New game mode. Neat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on May 07, 2015, 04:41:02 pm

Quote from: Fniff on May 07, 2015, 04:39:34 pm

This just happened to me in a game. If you can guess which one it is, you win a cookie.

Spoiler: SVEN IS LIFE: A Story of Worship and Hunger (click to show/hide)

When I entered this world, you were a giant. We were all brothers, but you stood tallest. We all had names taken from others, of nations that once stood proud and of forgotten rumors spread between whispers and giggles, but your name was your own. SVEN. But I was foolish back then, I aimed only to walk my own path.
I saw you at times, my body writhing with envy at your wide and tall statue. The white words carved onto your glowing membrane were a commandment. Other gods would have ten, demanding piety and fear. You only told the truth.
SVEN IS LIFE.
I saw others take your name and use it as a shield. SVEN IS BEST. SVEN IS MY LORD. SAVE ME SVEN. The last one made me chuckle as I devoured him; SVEN would not save him. I assumed I was better then you, as I could easily destroy your followers.
But all my hubris was for naught. Across the dark space that is our home I was brought down to nothing, to reawaken in yet another cycle of ever-expanding gluttony. I soon learned to curb my lust at least, as children only lead to weakness. The bigger ones, the ones that were not you, would use their spawn to catch me. Their teeth stripped my fat, leaving me weak and alone in some godforsaken corner of the Earth.
It was one of those times that I saw your form drift across the dark space. That one commandment, SVEN IS LIFE, spoke to me. But my mind was still childishly cynical and assumed our relationship would be symbiotic. I feed you morsels from my own body and pretended I was not giving tribute. When my body was reduced to naught I ate, most of which I gave to you. I never gave everything; my sacrifices were careful.
I thought about your commandment. SVEN IS LIFE. It was true, I supposed. My life had begun to revolve around SVEN. Where would I be without him? Was he not my sun and my light? Was he not the moon I orbited around and fed with my skin, my blood, my skin? I was nothing but a vessel but to give him subsistence.
I did not change my name to reflect my newfound awe. I remained as I am named now. Why advertise your faith? To prove a point. The other apostles grew in number. All with names proclaiming their love. Not one did I see feed you with their own flesh, not one did I see show their loyalty. SVEN IS MY LORD was the one I despised when I saw him reach the pedestal 9 steps below your station.
If I had a tongue, I would whisper in your ear that traitors lurk in your nest. I didn't, and your ears would have been too huge to register the whispering of a tiny insect that fed you morsels. I wondered. My faith was growing but my tribute never seemed to satisfy you. I was still too afraid to sacrifice too much of myself, to submit to a void where you would not be present.
Then, tragedy. The ranks shifted, and suddenly SVEN IS MY LORD was above you. He was in the corner, quietly gathering and eating until his great gut was larger then your colossal frame. I raged but was inadequate to stop it. I was too small to affect the play of gods; I had given what little fat I had to you and still it didn't help.
I swore on that day, that hour, that I would not submit to a world where the servant hides in wait until the master has his back turned, at which point he stabs the dagger. No! I ate and ate morsels, not giving one to you. You disappeared, off to achieve some greater plan. I fell into scrapes, beat and savaged men so I could devour them alive. But so many times I lost that fat that I wondered if my quest was worth it.
Then, a moment of opportunity. Three men cornering each other, a food chain in action. One spat out it's fat as tribute, but then I swallowed it. Then I swallowed them, each in turn, until I was larger then I ever was.
I was dizzy with my size. Nothing felt better then it. For a moment, I thought of abandoning my quest. To eat and eat until I had usurped you, usurped SVEN IS MY LORD. Then you came, an angel reminding me to finish my quest.
I willingly fell into your mouth, and you began to mindlessly chew. The last thing I saw was your ascent to the top step, SVEN IS MY LORD falling beneath you. I grinned with pleasure as I saw my fat swelling you, making you larger then all as it should be, as it always was.
It may have been your voice, deep and loud, or it was your valkyries coming to claim me. But something had to have told me my true name.
My name was Knight of Sven.
Before the void claimed me, I shouted one last thing. It echoed in your stomach, and around the black space.
SVEN... IS... LIFE!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on May 07, 2015, 05:21:05 pm

Spoiler: The game Fniff played. (click to show/hide)

agar.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Fniff on May 07, 2015, 05:25:01 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on May 07, 2015, 05:21:05 pm

Spoiler: The game Fniff played. (click to show/hide)

agar.io

Spoiler: Well Done (click to show/hide)

(http://www.spyblocker-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cookie-1-300x298.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 07, 2015, 05:53:51 pm

I designed a spaceship to cause as much casualties as possible and sent it flying. Each stage had multiple passengers attached to, and I put as many stages as I could. A grand total of 28 died.
The rocket was unexpectedly powerful, considering the first test wasn't even able to leave the pad and all I did was a minor change to the stage order. My rocked managed to completely leave earth's orbit (coming from someone who never managed to reach the moon), but didn't have enough fuel to come back on earth and crash as I had planned, so 4 of them survived, but are doomed to be stuck in the middle of space forever. I'm thinking about sending a "rescue" ship (read kamikaze) to blow the rest of the survivors.
I'm not sure if that counts as owning, but that was definitively awesome for me.

Spoiler:  also a big picture (click to show/hide)

Kerbal space program, should be pretty obvious since there isn't many games in which you can do this. Here's the ship:
(https://i.imgur.com/Wizxxuf.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on May 07, 2015, 05:55:48 pm

Jebediah is digging it!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 07, 2015, 05:56:50 pm

Quote from: DoomOnion on May 07, 2015, 05:55:48 pm

Jebediah is digging it!

Jebediah is a sadist taking joy in the deaths of his comrades!  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 07, 2015, 06:16:13 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 07, 2015, 05:56:50 pm

Quote from: DoomOnion on May 07, 2015, 05:55:48 pm

Jebediah is digging it!

Jebediah is a sadist taking joy in the deaths of his comrades!  :P

And Bob and Bill are sharing a knowing look, well aware that Jeb has gone off the far end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DreamCarver on May 08, 2015, 03:04:06 pm

Not me doing the owning, but something that I spectated.

Quote from: DreamCarver to friend, edited for proper forumites

So these guys are playing this tabletop game. One's playing a werewolf race and the other's got valkyries, and there's a small skirmish going on on the side closest to me. A platoon of wolves vs one pikewoman.

It's Team Wolf's turn. He shoves all his units around the poor fighter in preparation to feed. Rolls 4 d10s for each of the first two. All ones and twos: not high enough to actually hit the fighter, and low enough that she can actually counter-attack. First counter-attack: double hit. Wolf 1 is dead. Second counter-attack: another double. Wolf 2 is dead.

So now that that's over, we move on to the main battle phase (I think) and the valkyrie tries for an attack on a half-health wolf. Sure enough, it makes it through. Team Wolf just keeps rolling ones and twos. It's now a one-on-one. The last wolf takes a swing, and it connects, but not quite enough to kill. Whoever makes it through next, wins.

Next turn, the two clash, with the valkyrie just squeezing by to deal her damage. Nearly flawless victory. On the main battlefield, the last few monstrous shieldbreakers are overwhelmed by the humans. The werewolves are routed, and victory goes to Team Valkyrie.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wrath of Kings.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 09, 2015, 10:46:15 am

I played a lobby.
On 2fort.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 09, 2015, 06:39:39 pm

Defeated Satan for the first time! I was playing as Samson, and it was also the first time I defeated Mom's Heart with him. Really odd build for him: by the time the game ended, I was Guppy, had no red hearts at all, 10 Soul Hearts, charging magnetic spectral tears, 6? lives, and probably five familiars flying around. Samson gets stronger as he takes damage, but I was desperately trying to avoid damage until the soul hearts started pouring in.

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on May 10, 2015, 04:08:21 am

Had some kind of balloon/helicopter thing I built with sawblades on the bottom. Got to a level that had tons of troops and I had to kill 90% of them and the archers kept killing my balloons and making me crash

So I add a row of cannons to the bottom to kill the archers. I fire the cannons and it was just too much, my whole airship spins out of control, somehow things catch on fire (I think there was a bomb hidden somewhere and I bumped it) so I'm spinning wildly on fire, completely out of control and only barely flying, parts randomly flying off.... I slam into the ground and go skidding along and plow straight through the group of guys I have to kill, crushing most of them and burning the few that don't get crushed.

I manage to skid along the ground all the way to the archers where my machine falls completely to pieces, killing most of the archers and winning me the level (despite the fact my machine is completely destroyed)

Besiege

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 10, 2015, 10:44:12 am

I usually lob a wave of cannonballs at the archers, and set up a spinning flamethrower thing to deal with the infantry. But other things are possible. I think I made a somewhat flyable bomber before.



Went into the final battle with about 13 hearts left. Would have been more, if Zelda could aim worth a crap. Seriously, she takes three seconds aiming, while me and Ganondorf are going in the same speed and direction, and a fairly short distance away, and she still missed. Maybe if she asked the gods to give her arrows some kind of homing ability... The ability to exterminate evil is nice and all, but it doesn't help when you can't bloddy hit the son of a bitch, Zelda!

I finished with less than 3 hearts left. Didn't use the fairy or fairy tears, but almost needed to. Goddamn, how many times do you have to kill Ganondorf before he finally dies? But he finally died. I think the trick was to roll behind him and get him with the back slice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 10, 2015, 12:54:21 pm

For the record, pulling out the fishing rod in the very final battle with Ganondorf and then whacking him while he's distracted by it works wonders.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 10, 2015, 01:16:09 pm

http://logs.tf/810318
I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of lobbies. (im Operand in that)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on May 10, 2015, 04:55:21 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on May 10, 2015, 01:16:09 pm

http://logs.tf/810318
I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of lobbies. (im Operand in that)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

What do you mean by "lobby"?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 10, 2015, 05:28:57 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on May 10, 2015, 04:55:21 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on May 10, 2015, 01:16:09 pm

http://logs.tf/810318
I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of lobbies. (im Operand in that)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

What do you mean by "lobby"?

Wondering the same.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 11, 2015, 12:56:29 am

tf2center.com

Basically pub games in a competitive format.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 11, 2015, 05:19:09 am

My front-left and rear-right hoverblades were destroyed, but all of my center thrusters remained intact. This gave my ship some interesting aerodynamic properties, namely causing me to somersault forward in mid-air at insane velocities. Despite this disadvantage, I pushed forward and even managed to reach the enemy's crystal! I was destroyed soon after, but the ownage is in the fact that I still managed to keep control of my vehicle. :P

Robocraft. Think Kerbal Space Program + League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 11, 2015, 05:16:16 pm

Been freaking eons since I last played Super Meat Boy, but I somehow managed to finally beat 6-5X (within 15 minutes of first playing in a long time), and A+ it while at it, narrowly making it by half a second. Holy crap, I still got it.

Maybe playing Speedrunners helped a bit, especially competing against my siblings in it. Sheesh.

Super Meat Boy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 12, 2015, 12:19:20 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on May 11, 2015, 05:16:16 pm

Been freaking eons since I last played Super Meat Boy, but I somehow managed to finally beat 6-5X (within 15 minutes of first playing in a long time), and A+ it while at it, narrowly making it by half a second. Holy crap, I still got it.

Maybe playing Speedrunners helped a bit, especially competing against my siblings in it. Sheesh.

Super Meat Boy

I really should finish that game eventually DX. I'm stuck in the rapture world.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 12, 2015, 02:17:40 pm

I'm stuck at the first boss level. In the forest, where you have to outrun Dr. Fetus's chainsaw mech.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 12, 2015, 02:40:15 pm

Quote from: flabort on May 12, 2015, 02:17:40 pm

I'm stuck at the first boss level. In the forest, where you have to outrun Dr. Fetus's chainsaw mech.

Oh right, I remember having a hard time in this level. You need to be almost constantly running if I remember correctly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 13, 2015, 01:30:34 am

Quote from: flabort on May 12, 2015, 02:17:40 pm

I'm stuck at the first boss level. In the forest, where you have to outrun Dr. Fetus's chainsaw mech.

Sprinting is your friend. Getting ahead early on is practically required to do the later portion, and thankfully the jumps early on are quite easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 13, 2015, 03:06:01 am

I got stuck in one of the first levels of world two.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 13, 2015, 08:23:56 pm

Completed Invisible Inc. on my very first run, with a full four agent crew, and without losing anyone. Short game, but pretty fun and has enormous replayability.

Invisible Inc., of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on May 13, 2015, 08:47:01 pm

Killed the Spider Mastermind.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DoomRL. Sharpshooter build. Only used a speedloader pistol for a weapon.

Except on the Cyberdemon and the Mastermind. Then I pulled out the BFG I found.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 13, 2015, 08:54:57 pm

Managed to beat The City, alone, without getting grabbed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Attack on Titan tribute game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on May 13, 2015, 10:39:44 pm

Built a functional three post helicopter, designed loosely after an extended CH-47. Each rotor post was 2 spinners tall, and each spinner mounted four prop blades. The fore and aft posts rotated counter-clockwise, while the central post rotated much faster in the clockwise direction in order to negate the spin effects from the other blades. Miniature lift spinners were added to various points of the craft, and their activation keys remapped so that the numpad controlled yaw, pitch, roll, ascent, and descent, while the IJKL keys controlled strafing and fore/aft thrust. 8 cannons were mounted in fore and aft batteries to fire in sequences of four, while broadside batteries of 8 were added to fire in sequences of 2. Propeller blades still provide more than enough thrust to get us off the ground, so I added structural reinforcement and armor plating to the exterior. In essence, the craft looked like the bastard child of a three rotor CH-47 and a pirate ship.

Took it into battle against the duke's transports. Pulled up to broadside the first transport, but they opened fire first. Their broadside hit us hard, causing us to roll hard in the air. We corrected our flight pattern and returned their broadside, destroying their vessel with a single salvo. The next two transports were unarmed, and our forward weapon batteries made quick work of both ships. However, part of a transport landed on top of mined yak, and the resulting explosion pelted our ship with debris. The rail holding the port broadside battery was heavily damaged, losing a few cannons and hanging low, disrupting the helicopter's symmetry. I thought this would interfere with our flight, but a bit of strategy with the roll controls allowed us to maintain a steady course to the final escort.

We flew along side for a final glorious broadside, and promptly realized this escort ship had a lot more guns on it than the last one. Their salvo threw us off course, blew apart the remaining port side armor, destroyed half of our fore rotor, and tore apart the yaw controls. Our return salvo, owing to the earlier damage, went low, and we careened out of the sky. Desperately, we tried to restabilize before we hit ground, and we actually succeeded. The design was so damn robust that, despite slight to heavy damage to nearly all lift and control structures, we were able to land. We didn't maintain flight, but we were able to hit the ground gently enough, in a level enough position, that our landing suspension could take the hit.

Then the most amazing thing happened when I powered up the lift rotors again: she still flew. Parts were hanging off and jiggling whenever the thrust changed direction, and we were clearly missing most of the port side of the ship, but she still rose into the air, and like a goddamn flying fortress, she kept going and flying despite horrific damage. Our full starboard broadside blew apart the last transport before they could get another shot off, and we finished the mission perfectly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Besiege

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 14, 2015, 01:06:42 am

Quote from: Teneb on May 13, 2015, 08:23:56 pm

Completed Invisible Inc. on my very first run, with a full four agent crew, and without losing anyone. Short game, but pretty fun and has enormous replayability.

Invisible Inc., of course.

I also succeeded in my first run of this game, would recommend. 

In the first run my starting agents were corp hating misfits obsessed with a bygone age.  Did things stealthily/non-lethally, the only kill of the run was carried out by a hacked drone.

My second run, the starting agents are violent sociopaths.  The very first mission, the one that AFAIK isn't even randomized, they managed to get trapped down a long dead end with no side paths.  Oh, and 8 alerted guards blocking their escape.  They fight their way to safety, leaving two corpses behind as they make it to the exit.  We lost all of our funds (mission revenue included) to consumables which we then used and one extra thing.  Still I consider it an own because A somehow survived that and B the extra thing we bought was a crazy good implant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 14, 2015, 11:09:02 am

Tore right through the Council. Only one, a Necromancer like myself, had any Death resistance(and only 50%), while another, a Druid, had a Death weakness. Good, since my Death Ray was ridiculously over-leveled(seriously game, stop giving me Death Ray pickups). Somehow, I must have been grossly underleveled despite the fact I breezed through them, gaining at least four levels from killing them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Triangle Wizard. Holy crap, I'm loving the Necromancer class. Having nearly 5HP/second regeneration also helps. Eventually buying Fireball and Frost Beam made getting around the place easier. Also made about 300,000 gold from the Tournament level, but haven't seen a shop since.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 15, 2015, 01:27:55 am

I managed to successfully free the agent being held at the detention center (turned out to be Banks).  Unfortunately it took far too long, and the escape plan had... complications.

Spoiler: images (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/31867982575855548/AFD621A35B52524970A5CCE7EBC2843C66B9FF20/)
(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/31867982575855260/BF922BC06D0396822350030B3D49EE58EB130A47/)

Nothing my team couldn't handle.

Spoiler: image (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/31867982575852000/A7A6D3919335FF3392AC25663A68F5B2F4A78CC5/)

Spoiler: the game (click to show/hide)

Invisible Inc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on May 15, 2015, 10:48:47 am

After many attempts I managed to survive the initial enemy attack. I then proceeded to counterattack, destroying anyone who dared to come into my path and completing the last mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Homeworld 1 Remastered

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on May 15, 2015, 11:19:24 am

I did competitive match for first time and got most kills on team, (24) we won, and someone actually complimented me on how good I did. I feel good at a FPS for once in my life, even though I know I'm very, very mediocre at them,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Counter Strike:Global Offensive

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 15, 2015, 11:19:44 am

I successfully reached the mun for the first time! Unfortunately I don't have enough fuel to land, but I have a plan to save the pilot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on May 15, 2015, 12:18:27 pm

I had a Space race with my friend:
I was obvs Soviet Russia, and I farmed a ton of science early on.
Of course I used way more heavy boosters then I would.
After him wining orbit, I won the race to the desert using planes, he won the north pole race.
I sent a one way mission to the moon.
It turned out to be a two way!
I got 800 science from that mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 15, 2015, 01:50:25 pm

Quote from: wer6 on May 15, 2015, 12:18:27 pm

I had a Space race with my friend:
I was obvs Soviet Russia, and I farmed a ton of science early on.
Of course I used way more heavy boosters then I would.
After him wining orbit, I won the race to the desert using planes, he won the north pole race.
I sent a one way mission to the moon.
It turned out to be a two way!
I got 800 science from that mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program

Were you using the multiplayer mod? Or were you just playing two different games and comparing the results? I'm asking this because I'm considering using it with a friend and I'd like to get some feedback before I give it a try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 15, 2015, 07:58:45 pm

I defeated the orc ambush.

I was a Dwarven Mindslayer focusing mainly on auras. When I got out of Dreadfell with the Plotstick and got ambushed, I spiked my thermal and charged auras, killing most of the mooks. I then hopped to the other side of the ambush with Telekinetic Leap to evade the boss and take out the archers. A few more similar repositionings later, its just me and the boss. I enable my thermal and charged auras again, pop resilience of the dwarves and a regeneration infusion and apply vigorous mindstar pummeling. Repeatedly. Poor guy never had a chance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ToME 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The13thRonin on May 15, 2015, 08:42:06 pm

I bought something in Recettear.

Feels good to 'own' stuff.

Capitalism ho!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 16, 2015, 11:11:33 am

Spoiler: I survive these every day (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/NuRQIJj.png)

What you're seeing: Soldiers and bandits team up to kill lions while a giant chases some fleeing Thalmor.

Corpse count in this furball:
2 Giants
6 Imperial Soldiers
5 Bandits
8 Lions
5 Wolves
1 Flame Atronach
1 Frost Atronach
2 Vigilants of Stendarr
2 Nightingale Sentinels
2 Elk (Male Elk will try to ram hostiles instead of running)
3 Thalmor soldiers

This happens several times an in-game day. My message buffer is still displaying messages from the last furball.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 16, 2015, 12:47:03 pm

I managed to save the guy I mentioned earlier. My plan was so crazy that I'm seriously surprised it worked: I sent my kerbal outside of the rocket while it was about 1000 meters above ground and waited for it to crash. The explosion was strong to eject him in the opposite direction, he  even reached 134 000kms(or meters? I can't remember). After that all I had to do was to slow down enough with my jetpack to survive the fall, which I did. I won't rescue him, instead I'll send a moon station for him to live in.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KSP again, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 16, 2015, 04:53:06 pm

I joined the round late as a staff assistant and the shuttle had already been called. I grabbed a mechanical toolbox and booked it to escape. I arrived there three minutes before the shuttle would. There were wizards about spewing majyks, so I decided to hide in the disposal chute. A few seconds later, a wizard with the HoS's ID dual wielding a riot shotgun with a wizard staff bursts in and let's loose at a sec officer. I jump out of the chute, shove him to the ground, shoot him with the shotgun and club him to death with my mechanical toolbox. I then proceeded to store a bunch of corpses in a firefighting closet and bring it to the shuttle so they could be revived in centcom once we arrive. I then hid in the closet myself. When a wizard burst into the shuttle and stunned everyone but me[I was protected by the closet], I jumped out at him, shot him with the shotgun and beat him to death with my toolbox.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SS:13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 16, 2015, 10:44:00 pm

Spoiler: MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA etc (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/seSud0M.jpg)

Sadly, everything was destroyed so the salvage was kinda low.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 16, 2015, 10:52:54 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 16, 2015, 10:44:00 pm

Spoiler: MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA etc (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/seSud0M.jpg)

Sadly, everything was destroyed so the salvage was kinda low.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/yE5c94w.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 17, 2015, 06:47:29 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 16, 2015, 10:52:54 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 16, 2015, 10:44:00 pm

Spoiler: MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA etc (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/seSud0M.jpg)

Sadly, everything was destroyed so the salvage was kinda low.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/yE5c94w.gif)

What show is that from? Seems... familiar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 17, 2015, 06:52:23 am

It's probably familiar because it's one of the standard 'gratuitous overkill' gifs. I think the show is Megas XLR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on May 17, 2015, 07:17:26 am

Two different games, we often play in places with out internet, so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cerapa on May 17, 2015, 08:40:30 am

Quote from: Blaze on May 16, 2015, 10:44:00 pm

Spoiler: MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA etc (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/seSud0M.jpg)

Sadly, everything was destroyed so the salvage was kinda low.

Ah, Starfarersector. I forgot it even existed. Downloaded because of your post.

Which leads to my current situation. I am a trader, and I brought trade fleet full of food to a starving planet. Only problem is, they only needed 100 to get rid of the problem, but I sold 300 at the same huge prices. I also sold it all through the black market, so it counted as smuggling. I now have two investigations launched at me, and I just smashed the stability of the planet into bits with my smuggling.

This is way too much fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 18, 2015, 03:42:33 pm

Won the case!

Aw yeah! This random hippie isn't going to jail for several months! Now he can get back to selling pot adamantium pit brownies!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 18, 2015, 04:00:49 pm

Beat the Cathedral and its boss for the first time. Also my first victory as ???. Unlocked the D6 for Issac!

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2015, 10:49:54 am

Waltzing around the military base with a gun and a black suit, I come across a group a soldiers and a guard dog. I was at the base because I wanted a sleeper(the indoctrination of one of their officers was failing). I talk to the dog, and tell him that dogs are better than humans. The dog immediately turns Liberal, and I invite him over to discuss politics. After a few nights, spending some cash on books for the dog to take home, I now have a sleeper in the military base.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 19, 2015, 11:03:35 am

Quote from: Akura on May 19, 2015, 10:49:54 am

Waltzing around the military base with a gun and a black suit, I come across a group a soldiers and a guard dog. I was at the base because I wanted a sleeper(the indoctrination of one of their officers was failing). I talk to the dog, and tell him that dogs are better than humans. The dog immediately turns Liberal, and I invite him over to discuss politics. After a few nights, spending some cash on books for the dog to take home, I now have a sleeper in the military base.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS

I forget, is it possible to go on a date with a dog?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 19, 2015, 11:07:54 am

I think you need to max out Animal Rights before you can do that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2015, 11:10:00 am

...I think I had the option to drop a pickup line, but my Persuasion is nearly triple my Seduction.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on May 19, 2015, 11:33:44 am

Furries, man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 19, 2015, 01:34:43 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 19, 2015, 11:07:54 am

I think you need to max out Animal Rights before you can do that.

What.


..The more I think about it the more it seems to fit that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on May 19, 2015, 04:52:27 pm

Figured out Dwarf Fortress modding (well its not that hard really). Made custom buildings for my stuff (made meat totems that uses wood as well (though I might change it to bar so it uses metal as a base as wood is kind of easy and my other two custom items use wood as it is). As finding specific skulls or whatever basic totems use... for totems isn't fun to me :P). Even though I had body parts and skulls everywhere, it still didn't work lol. I play games for fun, not to be super annoyed :P If I change it to metal bars, it will still be hard though and won't really be something I do right in the beginning (except whatever little metal I take on embark). Just not annoying that I need specific body parts...so it still works out.

Then. With using masterwork (the old version, not the beta/alpha version that is out), combined Succubus with most of Warlock gameplay/content :D So now I have demon, undead loving death and demon magic casting Succubus who can summon both undead and demons and do other stuff. They are friendly to undead of course (otherwise my summons would attack me lol), as demons are...evil...and it makes sense they'd be friendly to undead. Dunno why they aren't in the mod, but I "fixed" it :P

But, now I got an epic demon game going on :D So much stuff to do now lol. A lot more content and what not. Its a lot of fun. I barely got into the magic stuff, and with the warlock magic added on top of demon magic...lots and lots of magic :D

First time modding DF, so I consider that owning :D

Time it took: 16 hours (it did take a bit of learning, and I kept forgetting tiny things or forgetting to put in words it needed and what not. And then some bug fixing to fix my mistakes lol)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 19, 2015, 08:18:15 pm

I. FUCKING. WON.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My Dwarven Mindslayer finally ascended to High Peak. Nothing on the climb up posed a major problem, besides a couple eternal bone giant rares with annoyingly durable classes. I mostly just gave up on them, since it took an IRL hour to kill one of them. The bosses were comparatively easy. Me and Aeryn ganged up on the lady with the bone shield. I applied lots of damage via Charged Aura + Brain Storm + Transcendent Electrokinesis and then the first two again, with Kinetic and Thermal Aura enhanced bump attacks in between. Aeryn bit the dust pretty quickly and the odd spell slipped past my Kinetic and Charged shields and messed me up, but I had excellent healing and retreated behind a pillar anytime my health got too low. Bone shield lady died pretty quickly after Aeryn and I gained like 5 levels from her, which I used to max out the Fungus tree so I could keep my Regeneration Infusion running full time. That helped a lot with Argoniel, the other final boss. I mostly just zapped and bashed him until he died while constantly healing due to Fungus. Then I won, hit level 50 and telekinetically wielded the Awakened Staff of Absorption just because I could. Hell yeah.

ToME 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on May 19, 2015, 08:27:40 pm

Someone liked my post-it note forum art. It felt like winning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 20, 2015, 01:29:38 am

Just beat Metal Gear Rising: Reveangance in seven hours. (normal) AWESOME GAME BTW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 20, 2015, 11:02:52 am

Not me, not even a player character doing the owning. (http://imgur.com/gallery/Wii4jtH)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

According to the comments, it's Bloodborne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 21, 2015, 05:17:39 pm

Managed to evolve several species of arctic pig-seals.

Species ARLE, game is fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 22, 2015, 10:37:47 pm

A certain attorney just got my entire vandal squad off for several hundred counts of vandalism.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cody Carr: Ace Attorney: Trials and Liberations LCS

I'm starting to suspect Mr. Carr, Esquire, keeps on running into members of the Payne family, though--almost every DA he's run into has given terrible presentations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 23, 2015, 09:16:31 am

It turns out, that if you spec them right, mages are nigh-invulnerable and better tanks than the actual tanks, and do more damage than the DPS.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Knight-Enchanters are outright game breaking. Since becoming one, my character has not gone down once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 23, 2015, 09:34:47 am

Managed to walk from Bostok to Jueno to Windurst on foot, as a lv 12 red mage by myself, without dying with only online maps to guide me after I left Bastok territory.  I had reraise on me but didn't end up needing it.

Today's goal after work will be Bastok to San d'Oria.  Hopefully this will be easier.

Final Fantasy XI

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on May 23, 2015, 10:15:00 am

Too many clutch potion-uses at 1 HP.  The dungeon got me and Blackrose a good few levels, so I think it was worth it. (though I did die once and had to look up how to tell my party members to revive me XD)

.Hack//Infection

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on May 23, 2015, 02:53:50 pm

I finally got a 100% crash free Skyrim...after hundreds of hours and so much years of trying lol.

Can zoom around super fast at fast timescale to all the heavy intensive areas, it will freeze and go to 0 fps for a bit...but no crashes at all :D

Regular playing works great too, except I use graphics too much for my GPU (ENB+1/2k parallax textures and some other stuff. I get 20-30 FPS lol. So my FPS is pretty bad, especially near cities where it is 10-20. But the game looks great :P

And finally, no more reinstalling skyrim :D A complete crash free game. Even with some heavy script mods in there, and other intensive mods

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 23, 2015, 10:09:16 pm

Karl Fimple just seduced a woman.

Karl Fimple is a dog.

This game just turned from a lighthearted at some times and dark at others political game into a farcical comedy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on May 23, 2015, 10:30:16 pm

Accidentally attracted the attention of an Outsider while I was trying to rearrange my rookies to not get their faces melted off. Normally Outsiders are a pushover, but in Long War they have 10 HP, are stupidly accurate, regenerate each round and can routinely one-shot just about any of your men when you're still fairly low in the ranks.

Yet I managed to take this bastard out without a single scratch and my three rookies made a good showing of themselves.

XCOM Enemy Within, Long War version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 23, 2015, 10:54:09 pm

I finally got a script in Skyrim to work and now I'm all giddy.

Basically, what I did was make it so weapon swings would butcher corpses. At the same time, it would transfer all that corpse's contents directly into your inventory, bypassing the annoying looting screen.

Oh, and it would turn those corpses that clutter up the landscape into items. So when you hit a giant corpse with it, it would destroy the corpse and leave behind some generic leather (from the clothes) and a pair of toes. When you hit a spriggan, it would leave behind a taproot, some spriggan sap, and firewood. And when you hit a daedra, you'd get a daedra heart and a pair of ebony ingots.

For humanoid NPCs, you'd get 4 pieces of human flesh, a human heart, and one bonemeal. (Even when it's used on orcs or argonians but eh).

I still haven't figured out how to integrate it with hunterborn and maybe make it so it transfers corpse items into some lesser-power-accessible container so I don't have to worry about burden, but I'm happy with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 23, 2015, 11:36:23 pm

Silly Blaze.  The answer to corpse clutter isnt removing the corpses, but finding ways to increase the corpse density.  So instead of a plain having a corpse every ten to fifteen feet, you have one every three to four feet.  Otherwise how do you have a true battlefield?
Rest of the script sounds pretty neat though.  As much as I love looting, after a while it can become a bit of a chore.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 23, 2015, 11:42:11 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on May 23, 2015, 11:36:23 pm

Silly Blaze.  The answer to corpse clutter isnt removing the corpses, but finding ways to increase the corpse density.  So instead of a plain having a corpse every ten to fifteen feet, you have one every three to four feet.  Otherwise how do you have a true battlefield?
Rest of the script sounds pretty neat though.  As much as I love looting, after a while it can become a bit of a chore.

Hmmmm, that honestly might be an amazing idea for a mod Lightning. Perhaps not even for Skyrim where the corpse count is so low. A mod that would turn dead npcs in to non-movable world objects, and sets them to slowly decay over time. That would be pretty neat, and make for really awesome battlefields.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on May 23, 2015, 11:48:19 pm

Made it to the mountains. Still not orbit, but enough of a new biome to earn enough Science to research the Science Lab. If only I had more Rockomax parts to go with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 24, 2015, 12:05:21 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on May 23, 2015, 11:36:23 pm

Silly Blaze.  The answer to corpse clutter isnt removing the corpses, but finding ways to increase the corpse density.  So instead of a plain having a corpse every ten to fifteen feet, you have one every three to four feet.

OBIS + Bandit Patrols, Populated Roads and Paths, Immersive Patrols, Extra Encounters, Random Encounters Reborn, Realistic Animals and Behaviors, Prides of Skyrim, Wild Horses of Skyrim + Horses Gone Wild, Deadly Dragons, Horsemen (NPCs can spawn with horses), 28-Days and a Bit Zombie Apocalypse, Draugnarok.

Also, Solid Corpses, my camp is surrounded by a wall of various corpses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 24, 2015, 11:46:21 am

Spoiler: I built a castle. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/qJDvUfB.png)

It's not quite done. Still gotta build a wall, and then probably an entire town around it.

Here it is from another angle.
(http://i.imgur.com/aVusSZi.png)

I also partially carved a natural rock formation into a crude anvil:
(http://i.imgur.com/MX2Akdo.png)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 24, 2015, 02:58:47 pm

Sayoku, the GLORIOUS LEADER, has been arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison, thanks to the failed efforts of Cody Carr, Ace Attorney, to defend him for counts of terrorism, breaking and entering, and vandalism.

BUT WE FRIGGIN' WON.

And that means...

THERE ARE NO PRISONS!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 25, 2015, 11:04:55 am

Going well so far. Save-scummed a few good intrinsics(a couple of resistances including Stun, Death Ray, Petrification, Poison, and Paralysis, Luck and Fate Smiles, See-Invisible - no Wishes though, damn) from a pool, found some neat spellbooks, including the helpful Strength of Atlas, picked up a mithril large hammer, and an adamantine broadsword. One of my best runs ever. Sure, savescumming probably blunts the ownage, but this Necromancer is squishy(for now).

I think I'll attempt an Archmage this run. That'll be fun.

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ADOM.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 25, 2015, 11:10:26 am

Quote from: Blaze on May 24, 2015, 12:05:21 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on May 23, 2015, 11:36:23 pm

Silly Blaze.  The answer to corpse clutter isnt removing the corpses, but finding ways to increase the corpse density.  So instead of a plain having a corpse every ten to fifteen feet, you have one every three to four feet.

OBIS + Bandit Patrols, Populated Roads and Paths, Immersive Patrols, Extra Encounters, Random Encounters Reborn, Realistic Animals and Behaviors, Prides of Skyrim, Wild Horses of Skyrim + Horses Gone Wild, Deadly Dragons, Horsemen (NPCs can spawn with horses), 28-Days and a Bit Zombie Apocalypse, Draugnarok.

Also, Solid Corpses, my camp is surrounded by a wall of various corpses.

That just means that they have a bigger chance of slipping and breaking their bones when trying to come at you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 25, 2015, 02:20:26 pm

Unlocked the Refreezerator pod. In case you don't know, it means you need to finish the game without the crystal being attacked. Ever. Poor Kreyang died on floor 10 and didn't live to see it. Still, that was the last pod I still had to unlock.

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Dungeon of the Endless

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on May 25, 2015, 04:48:43 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 25, 2015, 11:04:55 am

Going well so far. Save-scummed a few good intrinsics(a couple of resistances including Stun, Death Ray, Petrification, Poison, and Paralysis, Luck and Fate Smiles, See-Invisible - no Wishes though, damn) from a pool, found some neat spellbooks, including the helpful Strength of Atlas, picked up a mithril large hammer, and an adamantine broadsword. One of my best runs ever. Sure, savescumming probably blunts the ownage, but this Necromancer is squishy(for now).

I think I'll attempt an Archmage this run. That'll be fun.

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ADOM.

I thought of an "archlich" challenge similar to archmage except using a necromancer, but I'm not sure where the "lich" part fits in. Probably includes the necromancer's level 50 "avoid death" ability and wish. Maybe an archmage necromancer that achieves at least 10 toughness thanks to gear so that they can never die from 0 hp...wonder if a necro can have their max hp halved from avoiding death so much that they reach an hp value of 1. That seems "lich"-like. Barely alive but cannot die.

An archmage necro could use wish to provide blessed potions of mana to fuel his undead army. Maybe have an entourage of raised liches following you, the archlich, around. Feel like being able to blast things with death ray on command is also "lich"-like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on May 25, 2015, 05:17:58 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 23, 2015, 09:16:31 am

It turns out, that if you spec them right, mages are nigh-invulnerable and better tanks than the actual tanks, and do more damage than the DPS.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Knight-Enchanters are outright game breaking. Since becoming one, my character has not gone down once.

So... Mages in Dragon Age are the same as ever? Seriously, I just outright stopped playing Awakening because combat was too easy. It was boring. Turn on all of my buffs, whack some stuff, stuff falls down, I take little to no damage. Arcane Warrior is OP as shit. Combat Magic just makes it worse. And by worse I mean I could probably face down an elder dragon and walk away unscathed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 25, 2015, 05:26:40 pm

In Origins Glyph of Paralysis+ Gylph of Repulsion was an "I win" button against everything except for some bosses. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 25, 2015, 08:42:19 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on May 25, 2015, 05:17:58 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 23, 2015, 09:16:31 am

It turns out, that if you spec them right, mages are nigh-invulnerable and better tanks than the actual tanks, and do more damage than the DPS.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Knight-Enchanters are outright game breaking. Since becoming one, my character has not gone down once.

So... Mages in Dragon Age are the same as ever? Seriously, I just outright stopped playing Awakening because combat was too easy. It was boring. Turn on all of my buffs, whack some stuff, stuff falls down, I take little to no damage. Arcane Warrior is OP as shit. Combat Magic just makes it worse. And by worse I mean I could probably face down an elder dragon and walk away unscathed.

I think 2 was the exception to this since there was no arcane warrior or similar class. I went full rogue on Inquisition, and I kept a mage (Solas) around just for the barrier and revives, so I really can't tell how OP Knight-Enchanter was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on May 26, 2015, 08:44:22 am

Met a lovely lady selling flowers.
We became friends, her name was Rosa.
After a few years we got married, and she moved into my home.
Rosa got sick.
I cared for her for 3 years, spending most of my savings on medicine.
Left the house to perform a search and rescue operation for 5 small children lost in a blizzard
Saved them all.
Returned home and Rosa confessed she was in love with my best friend Christian.
She wanted a divorce.
I seduce my best friend Christian.
He becomes my lover.
I get eaten by a raccoon.

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Road not Taken (http://store.steampowered.com/app/293740/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on May 26, 2015, 10:11:42 pm

Finally, FINALLY got my Beam Lasers built.

I promptly equipped my squad with enough laser-y death to hypnotise every cat from here to Timbuktu and stomped all over the alien bastards busy ruining the local cemetery.

XCOM: Enemy Within, Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 27, 2015, 03:59:19 am

I obtained the second word of Whirlwind Sprint from Volskygge, then skip-rocked down the mountainside so that I wouldn't get instantly murdered by Volsung (he's level 50, I'm level 15). I somehow didn't die, even though I ragdoll'd partway down.

I'll come back to fight him... eventually... provided that he doesn't despawn and break if I leave the area without killing him.

Skyrim. Does anybody know what happens to Volsung if you leave the area without killing him?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 27, 2015, 05:25:06 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on May 27, 2015, 03:59:19 am

I obtained the second word of Whirlwind Sprint from Volskygge, then skip-rocked down the mountainside so that I wouldn't get instantly murdered by Volsung (he's level 50, I'm level 15). I somehow didn't die, even though I ragdoll'd partway down.

I'll come back to fight him... eventually... provided that he doesn't despawn and break if I leave the area without killing him.

Skyrim. Does anybody know what happens to Volsung if you leave the area without killing him?

Pretty sure he just chills out there. Also, i like to call that kind of skip-rocking "Bethesdabseiling".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 27, 2015, 10:31:11 am

Took down the Big Bad, using my main character's special attack. Just before that, he hit the main character's girlfriend with his most powerful attack, but she managed to survive with 12 hitpoints(out of 3300-something).

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Skies of Arcadia. I'm actually surprised Aika survived that hit, but taking Galcian down like this just worked perfectly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FArgHalfnr on May 27, 2015, 11:17:05 am

Quote from: Levi on May 26, 2015, 08:44:22 am

Met a lovely lady selling flowers.
We became friends, her name was Rosa.
After a few years we got married, and she moved into my home.
Rosa got sick.
I cared for her for 3 years, spending most of my savings on medicine.
Left the house to perform a search and rescue operation for 5 small children lost in a blizzard
Saved them all.
Returned home and Rosa confessed she was in love with my best friend Christian.
She wanted a divorce.
I seduce my best friend Christian.
He becomes my lover.
I get eaten by a raccoon.

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Road not Taken (http://store.steampowered.com/app/293740/)

This game has more depth than I thought.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 27, 2015, 11:27:12 am

After a long, hard game, I've finally got my team ready for the final mission.  One of my team members in particular is a complete badass:

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/31869254907670873/CBCABCFAEAD22DE60DE7AF5E48793565DA8B74CA/)

She's got two neural inhibitors II (+1 KO damage, 2 armor pierce).  She has steel rods in her arms and 5 strength for +2 KO, and ventricular lances for +1 armor pierce twice before they go on cooldown.  So she can take out two guards with 3 armor, for 5 turns, and then she can paralyze one of them for +2 turns.  Her accelerator chip gives +4 power from a console, which combined with her hacking is +6.  She has a cloaking rig just for safety.  Her other augment is torque injectors, which means that using any of these items reduces the cooldown on all of them.

She has anarchy so she could use the shock traps and paralyzers to the right, but I found better items so those are being given to, well, if you've played the final mission you can guess.

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Invisible Inc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 27, 2015, 11:37:01 am

Quote from: Akura on May 27, 2015, 10:31:11 am

Took down the Big Bad, using my main character's special attack. Just before that, he hit the main character's girlfriend with his most powerful attack, but she managed to survive with 12 hitpoints(out of 3300-something).

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Skies of Arcadia. I'm actually surprised Aika survived that hit, but taking Galcian down like this just worked perfectly.

Galcian? The Big Bad? Sorry, not quite :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 27, 2015, 12:04:02 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 27, 2015, 11:37:01 am

Quote from: Akura on May 27, 2015, 10:31:11 am

Took down the Big Bad, using my main character's special attack. Just before that, he hit the main character's girlfriend with his most powerful attack, but she managed to survive with 12 hitpoints(out of 3300-something).

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Skies of Arcadia. I'm actually surprised Aika survived that hit, but taking Galcian down like this just worked perfectly.

Galcian? The Big Bad? Sorry, not quite :p

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Ahem. Ramirez is the Dragon to Galcian - well, Dragon Ascendant. And I've just spoiled the rest of the plot on TvTropes, it's nothing unexpected.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 27, 2015, 02:35:57 pm

Rekt Jetstream Sam in one go, whereupon I fought Armstrong and Excelcius and got my shit wrecked.
Now, to try out that Jetstream Sam DLC...

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Metal Gear Rising: REVENGEANCE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 06:42:11 pm

I discovered that I accidentally power-levelled Donnel into the most powerful character in my party. he starts off as a level 1 villager and is downright weak for ages. I ground him to level 10 so I could class-change him into something useful, turned him into a mercenary, gave him a magical sword and sat back to watch the fireworks.

Turns out his ability (20% increased chance for skills to increase on level up) translates into a whirlwind of destruction.

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 27, 2015, 06:43:59 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 06:42:11 pm

I discovered that I accidentally power-levelled Donnel into the most powerful character in my party. he starts off as a level 1 villager and is downright weak for ages. I ground him to level 10 so I could class-change him into something useful, turned him into a mercenary, gave him a magical sword and sat back to watch the fireworks.

Turns out his ability (20% increased chance for skills to increase on level up) translates into a whirlwind of destruction.

Donnel + Nowi = nigh undefeatable Nah. Also you forgot to say it was Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 27, 2015, 06:45:28 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 27, 2015, 06:43:59 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 06:42:11 pm

I discovered that I accidentally power-levelled Donnel into the most powerful character in my party. he starts off as a level 1 villager and is downright weak for ages. I ground him to level 10 so I could class-change him into something useful, turned him into a mercenary, gave him a magical sword and sat back to watch the fireworks.

Turns out his ability (20% increased chance for skills to increase on level up) translates into a whirlwind of destruction.

Donnel + Nowi = nigh undefeatable Nah. Also you forgot to say it was Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Even better is apparently Kellam!Nowi.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 09:27:33 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 27, 2015, 06:45:28 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 27, 2015, 06:43:59 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 06:42:11 pm

I discovered that I accidentally power-levelled Donnel into the most powerful character in my party. he starts off as a level 1 villager and is downright weak for ages. I ground him to level 10 so I could class-change him into something useful, turned him into a mercenary, gave him a magical sword and sat back to watch the fireworks.

Turns out his ability (20% increased chance for skills to increase on level up) translates into a whirlwind of destruction.

Donnel + Nowi = nigh undefeatable Nah. Also you forgot to say it was Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Even better is apparently Kellam!Nowi.

Fixed that, thanks.

Buuuut Nowi freaks me out. Like, seriously. (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=040813) the whole breeding thing in general is a tad squicky, if not downright hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 27, 2015, 11:07:41 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 09:27:33 pm

Buuuut Nowi freaks me out. Like, seriously. (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=040813) the whole breeding thing in general is a tad squicky, if not downright hilarious.

Pfft. Try back in the day when your first-gen hero was married to his second cousin and the main villain was a child of incest. the entire royal family was full of incest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 11:37:19 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 27, 2015, 11:07:41 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 09:27:33 pm

Buuuut Nowi freaks me out. Like, seriously. (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=040813) the whole breeding thing in general is a tad squicky, if not downright hilarious.

Pfft. Try back in the day when your first-gen hero was married to his second cousin and the main villain was a child of incest. the entire royal family was full of incest.

Sounds like your average European dynasty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 27, 2015, 11:46:17 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 27, 2015, 02:35:57 pm

Rekt Jetstream Sam in one go, whereupon I fought Armstrong and Excelcius and got my shit wrecked.
Now, to try out that Jetstream Sam DLC...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Rising: REVENGEANCE

I love this game, and Sam was the most well written character. In fact, as i've said before, the game was amazing until the end and then it just went full ham on armstrong, and your just like, "wait, what? This is the guy?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 28, 2015, 12:02:04 am

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 09:27:33 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 27, 2015, 06:45:28 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 27, 2015, 06:43:59 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on May 27, 2015, 06:42:11 pm

I discovered that I accidentally power-levelled Donnel into the most powerful character in my party. he starts off as a level 1 villager and is downright weak for ages. I ground him to level 10 so I could class-change him into something useful, turned him into a mercenary, gave him a magical sword and sat back to watch the fireworks.

Turns out his ability (20% increased chance for skills to increase on level up) translates into a whirlwind of destruction.

Donnel + Nowi = nigh undefeatable Nah. Also you forgot to say it was Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Even better is apparently Kellam!Nowi.

Fixed that, thanks.

Buuuut Nowi freaks me out. Like, seriously. (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=040813) the whole breeding thing in general is a tad squicky, if not downright hilarious.

I'm pretty sure Aptitude is linked to the Villager class. (Edit: it is, it is learned by Villagers at level 1). Hence, a Dread Fighter can reclass into a Villager at level 30, I'm pretty sure, but by the time a Dread Fighter gets to level 30, he's probably already maxed out his stats and thus Aptitude becomes useless except to pass down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 28, 2015, 06:36:47 am

I was playing Tau. I was defending against a Chaos attack on a recently captured Territory, and they thoroughly beat the crap out of me (Are they supposed to spam defilers?). Retry the mission: I now know where they're bases are. It's a "destroy enemy HQ" mission. Since I'd already had a base on this map, I could get Crisis Battlesuits and Vespids right away, which I did. I then jetpacked all my jetpack-able forces (Including my commander and his Crisis Battlesuit honor guard) into the enemy base, destroyed they're HQ, repeat on second enemy base, and that was it.

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 28, 2015, 08:34:43 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 27, 2015, 02:35:57 pm

Rekt Jetstream Sam in one go, whereupon I fought Armstrong and Excelcius and got my shit wrecked.
Now, to try out that Jetstream Sam DLC...

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Metal Gear Rising: REVENGEANCE

Make sure you tell me all about it. I can't get it because of shitty internet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 28, 2015, 09:02:54 am

Took out each part of the final boss chain with the most powerful* attack. How's that for a finisher? The latter two cases were complete overkill - just to make sure.

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Skies of Arcadia.

* For the first and third part(second is airship battle), I used Vyse's Pirate Wrath rather than the incredibly silly Prophecy. Prophecy takes too long to charge and Pirate's Wrath does more damage per SP spent anyway, plus the animation for it is rather... ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 28, 2015, 08:16:54 pm

Some giant dick of a dinosaur decided that ruining my life every time I decided to try and finish a challenge that involved killing something much, much weaker was too much fun to pass up, and I had to kill him to get a rock out of the way.

Proving too strong for me to beat alone, I came back with a man twice as tall as me and the daughter of a pair of deities to do my work for me.

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Fantasy Life

The plot was, in my opinion, rather contrived and somewhat dull [There's no final boss, for one], but the gameplay of this game immediately offsets it. Seriously. This thing played epic boss music when I was cutting down a tree.. Any game that treats mundanely cutting down a tree like a boss battle is excellent in my book.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 28, 2015, 08:19:06 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 28, 2015, 08:16:54 pm

Some giant dick of a dinosaur decided that ruining my life every time I decided to try and finish a challenge that involved killing something much, much weaker was too much fun to pass up, and I had to kill him to get a rock out of the way.

Proving too strong for me to beat alone, I came back with a man twice as tall as me and the daughter of a pair of deities to do my work for me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fantasy Life

The plot was, in my opinion, rather contrived and somewhat dull [There's no final boss, for one], but the gameplay of this game immediately offsets it. Seriously. This thing played epic boss music when I was cutting down a tree.. Any game that treats mundanely cutting down a tree like a boss battle is excellent in my book.

Was it that dinosaur on the mountain blocking the way to something for one of the Mage challenges? I still can't kill it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 28, 2015, 08:22:29 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on May 28, 2015, 08:19:06 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on May 28, 2015, 08:16:54 pm

Some giant dick of a dinosaur decided that ruining my life every time I decided to try and finish a challenge that involved killing something much, much weaker was too much fun to pass up, and I had to kill him to get a rock out of the way.

Proving too strong for me to beat alone, I came back with a man twice as tall as me and the daughter of a pair of deities to do my work for me.

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Fantasy Life

The plot was, in my opinion, rather contrived and somewhat dull [There's no final boss, for one], but the gameplay of this game immediately offsets it. Seriously. This thing played epic boss music when I was cutting down a tree.. Any game that treats mundanely cutting down a tree like a boss battle is excellent in my book.

Was it that dinosaur on the mountain blocking the way to something for one of the Mage challenges? I still can't kill it.

Yeah, Silverfang or something. He gave me a lot of trouble too.

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If you've beaten the main game by now, I suggest you go get Yuelia and Odin to come along. I recommend that for anything, actually. I beat the Earth Wraith that way, too.

And remember, always remember, you have Earth Magic. Bring a lot of SP potions and you'll be fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 29, 2015, 11:13:51 am

A shuttle carrying a tourist and some science ran out of fuel before it got back home from the Mun. Quickly designed a craft for refueling it. Managed to get it up into orbit, placed on an intercept course, zeroed out the velocity difference(significant, since the shuttle's orbit was a WIDE ellipse), docked perfectly on the first try(shuttle has an inline docking port for this very reason after all), transferred fuel, undocked, and got both craft back to the ground - minus most of the bottom of the fuel craft(it hit water). Everyone is safe, and I got 200 Science.

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KSP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Satarus on May 29, 2015, 11:28:06 am

I slept with my boss's mom.  She pops out a bastard that I immediately legitimize.  Boss goes and gets himself killed. His mom takes over.  I poison her wine and my son takes over.  I go off and get myself killed by picking fights with orcs. 

Now I'm playing my son, the ruler of the Dark Elves, and I'm getting ready to invade Ulthuan. I will reclaim my people's birthright.

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Crusader Kings 2: Geheimnisnacht (warhammer mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 30, 2015, 11:11:15 am

Made a significant amount of money by landing on an inferno world, stunning what was apparently a giant ball of evil lightning - no, two of them - and hauling them back to my ship. Plus minerals, and other things.

I'm not even sure I should be making this much money this early.

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Starflight: The Lost Colony.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on May 31, 2015, 07:57:01 am

Got Mewtwo's Final Smash. It's like Lucario's, where he flies to the center of the screen and shoots a big kamehameha beam, except with Mewtwo it's big, purple, and fills up half the screen.

Was very satisfying to blast Sonic with it. Take that, you item spamming dumb AI.

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Project M

Was prompted to unlock a character after a practice multiplayer fight, hence why there were items. Ugh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 31, 2015, 06:40:34 pm

I mentioned in the "how did you last die" thread I was having trouble with Vicar Amelia. I knew she was weak to fire, but was out of fire paper, so molotovs were the only way to do it. Then I found some fire paper. And the flame sprayer.

I went back, and burned her to ash, all the while mentally screaming "DIE YOU F-ING B--CH!".

Bloodborne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on June 02, 2015, 12:00:13 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 27, 2015, 02:35:57 pm

Rekt Jetstream Sam in one go, whereupon I fought Armstrong and Excelcius and got my shit wrecked.
Now, to try out that Jetstream Sam DLC...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Rising: REVENGEANCE

That's weird, I had the opposite problem. Sam was the hardest fight in the game for me, but Excelcius and Armstrong were cake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 02, 2015, 09:58:20 pm

I've heard that from many people, but I friggin' ONE-TRIED him!
Then again, I did the same for Monsoon-And I remember SUCKING at both fights before. So I think I was running off of pure molten hatred at the time, especially when I beat Armstrong. I was literally singing along with the music.

My own:
#WRECKED THAT TERROR MISSION

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XCAM ENEMY WITHIN MY ASSHOLE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 03, 2015, 09:05:48 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 02, 2015, 09:58:20 pm

I've heard that from many people, but I friggin' ONE-TRIED him!
Then again, I did the same for Monsoon-And I remember SUCKING at both fights before. So I think I was running off of pure molten hatred at the time, especially when I beat Armstrong. I was literally singing along with the music.

Now do it on Revengeance. Get on my level, scrub.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 03, 2015, 10:28:41 am

Excelsius is super easy, and frankly once you understand how he works armstrong is more tedious than hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on June 03, 2015, 01:20:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 02, 2015, 09:58:20 pm

I've heard that from many people, but I friggin' ONE-TRIED him!
Then again, I did the same for Monsoon-And I remember SUCKING at both fights before. So I think I was running off of pure molten hatred at the time, especially when I beat Armstrong. I was literally singing along with the music.

People say Monsoon is hard, but I didn't have much problem with him. I think I even beat him on my first try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 04, 2015, 10:59:56 am

Despite low health and the best weapon I could wield(a staff), I managed to charge about half a dozen Reapers while my party was asleep. All but one were killed single-handedly - with the last one being dropped when my ranger finally got his ass up and started using his bow.

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Ultima IV. Ironic that a shepherd would be so effective against Reapers. Lord British must have been a psychic or something?

Note: In this game, Reapers are immobile evil-trees that rain spells on you every turn, including a sleep spell that can hit your entire party. Most recent annoyance was when I failed to get the stone from Wrong since the room you find it in is behind a secret door opened by a switch that's under a pile of barriers - and I ran out of Garlic for Dispel. Before that, I had gotten Humility up high enough for Avatarification, only to arrive at the shrine and find I had somehow lost it probably during the endless wave of demons because I forgot to use the Horn; eventually regained and Avatarified.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 04, 2015, 03:19:52 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on June 03, 2015, 01:20:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 02, 2015, 09:58:20 pm

I've heard that from many people, but I friggin' ONE-TRIED him!
Then again, I did the same for Monsoon-And I remember SUCKING at both fights before. So I think I was running off of pure molten hatred at the time, especially when I beat Armstrong. I was literally singing along with the music.

People say Monsoon is hard, but I didn't have much problem with him. I think I even beat him on my first try.

...What are you?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 05, 2015, 10:55:27 am

Burned through nearly all my Bloodmoss, but I finally got the damn White Stone.

Goddamn, I know it's a hot air balloon, but I am not flying that thing again.

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Ultima IV. It doesn't help that the guide I had gives the wrong coordinates.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 05, 2015, 12:06:00 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 04, 2015, 03:19:52 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on June 03, 2015, 01:20:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 02, 2015, 09:58:20 pm

I've heard that from many people, but I friggin' ONE-TRIED him!
Then again, I did the same for Monsoon-And I remember SUCKING at both fights before. So I think I was running off of pure molten hatred at the time, especially when I beat Armstrong. I was literally singing along with the music.

People say Monsoon is hard, but I didn't have much problem with him. I think I even beat him on my first try.

...What are you?

Nanomachines, son.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 05, 2015, 07:00:45 pm

Finally defeated the Necrodancer as Cadence. Controlling two characters is hard.

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Crypt of the Necrodancer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 05, 2015, 07:45:46 pm

I'd heard horror stories of Amygdala. Instant deaths, 10 tries to fight him, the like. I was prepared for the worst when I entered the boss arena.

The fight took all of 15 seconds. He didn't even manage to do the thing where he took his arms off to use as weapons.

Bloodborne.

Also-

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 05, 2015, 07:10:30 pm

Some Cthulu-ish monster keeps summoning rays of light to murder me to death when I get it to half health.

Bloodborne, the "Ebrietas, daughter of the cosmos" boss.

Well, managed to beat her. After 12 tries, I managed to do enough damage fast enough that she didn't get off the lasers. Only used 6 Blood Vials too. The last shot was a Bone Marrow Ash +6 Cannon shot to the face as she charged me. No boss has given me that satisfaction.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: rabidgam3r on June 06, 2015, 12:06:16 am

Can't fucking find Eileen the goddamn Crow and I really want her clothes. The friendship way, I mean. I'll friendship steal her clothes. After following her around until she dies. Yeah.

Bloodborne.

I realized this wasn't the death thread, but to make up for it I have an own: I HAVE A FUCKING CANNON ON MY FUCKING ARM AND IT SHOOTS THINGS

B L ODO B RONE (FUCKING CANNNON)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 06, 2015, 12:10:53 am

Friendship stealing is now my favorite expression/Verb of all time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 06, 2015, 02:22:19 am

Dodged between two torpedoes in a VERY small gap in a tight spread and proceeded to torch the destroyer that fired the torps at me. In my tier one cruiser.

World of Warships. Finally broke down and bought wy way into the CBT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 06, 2015, 07:09:23 am

Got 2 perfects within 15 minutes of each other.

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Rhythm Paradise

no meteors pls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 06, 2015, 07:15:23 am

meteors.png

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 06, 2015, 09:36:17 am

Achieved a new high score of fighting through 8 rounds of opponents. Only reason my spree stopped was because I got faced with the Skullgirl Maria, who's totes op and ripped through all three of my fighters thanks to her projectile spam legitimate strategy nah it's definitely projectile spam.

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Skullgirls

Think I found my team of Cerebella, Ms Fortune, and Valentine. Much fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 06, 2015, 11:22:15 am

Nothing like going Rambo through the Strogg Palace and deciding to blaze through it on Hard difficulty, and willingly going in and destroying all their ranks (I think on Hard there's a total of 300 mostly elites (different color than the garden variety Strogg, so I assume they were faster/stronger. Certainly took more hits than usual) during the final cluster of levels) and then Makron himself without using any powerups (Shield belt (had like 7 of them, sparing them unless a battle called for it; *cough*almost never*cough*), Quad Damage, Silencer, etc., had them all), and making the final battle a fair one-on-one Terran weapons (First 5 weapons) vs. Strogg weapons (Last 5 Weapons)) duel (again, no powerups used here); actually, make that for pretty much the entire game, I went through as a No Carry-on Powerups play (except Adrenaline life refills (just like Doom berserk packs; instant use on pickup). I wasn't aware the shield belt would be that useful to the point I wouldn't need to heal nearly as much as I had to and also doubling my armor rating while at it. I'm more badass than I thought. Especially when plowing through the front door of the palace, when I was up against 4 elite commanders, a few jetpacks, and a platoon of grunts (a total of maybe 25 dudes of varied ranks all at once at the front door, evading and shooting while completely surrounded and overwhelmed. Ate all the med packs at the opening doorway to heal up afterwards (knocked down to 25> health and almost no armor), but damn, was that fun.), and I shotgunned through the ranks like they were nothing. Cherry-tapping some of the ranks with the starter pistol was also pretty amusing; but handy as well, though. That sucker may be weak as hell, but it's really damn accurate at a distance, and probably the most useful weapon I used throughout the final raid; especially when out of view or range of certain Strogg.

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Quake II
Hard Mode, No Use of Carry-on Powerups (by choice; part challenge, part overly-conservative playing (an old, and not-too-good habit of mine when playing))

I replayed the level with multiplayer settings as more of a level-select mode to relive it; also justifying the 'Give All' command (gives everything), since I was already like that when I initially raided it, and re-lived the experience how it was meant to be played (with powerups, this time, where appropriate). I liked my no-powerups run better. That was hardcore fun.

Funny how I can justify cheating post-beating the game (although beating the game itself is enough justification, on it's own, for me) by using the cheats to replicate my old setup if I lost a save (even on Hard, I was completely loaded by endgame + bandolier and backpack (1.5x-2x ammo capacity).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 06, 2015, 09:28:05 pm

Yeah FUCK YOU Nice Guy, goddamn super-buff using som'bich.
also actual mr. boss man.

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Persona 4, second(technically 4th) boss.

Also I forgot how damn long Persona games are; I'm almost 16 hours in and I think I'm around the 1/4 point, maybe closer to 1/3 done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 06, 2015, 09:35:03 pm

3 of 4 squad members lost in the first engagement of the mission. Still only normal guns and armor. Sole survivor is a rookie on his first mission. He used his frag to take out the 2nd of 2 aliens in that first engagement, and was wounded by reaction fire during it. I think "to hell with it, let's see how long this guy lasts" as I'm doing Ironman mode.

He goes through the entire rest of the mission without getting shot, and finishes it all alone. Even that 6hp Outsider at the end.

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XCOM: Enemy Within. Classic Ironman. There were only 5 aliens on the mission, but he killed 4 of them, after his entire squad (who were 2nd and 3rd levels) died, and didn't panic. He deserved that promotion and medal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 07, 2015, 03:52:14 pm

Found that the most game-breaking thing ever is beehives. Each costs $20,000, but each also provides $8,000/hr with no effort. I built eight of them and am now making as much money per hour doing absolutely nothing as I was per day growing/harvesting/selling grain.

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Farming Simulator 2013.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 07, 2015, 05:09:33 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/f0PdJ6g.png)

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Dungeon Crawl, Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 08, 2015, 02:21:52 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 07, 2015, 05:09:33 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/f0PdJ6g.png)

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Dungeon Crawl, Stone Soup

Reminds me of my run, back in 7.2 ish. >_>
Got a fancy longbow which carried me through midgame pretty well. <_<
*GRATS TO YOU. Spend them well.*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 08, 2015, 02:42:43 am

I wasted one of them following the advice of my less experienced friend and asking for jewelry, got unlucky with the next and got scale mail of poison resistance (I'm a mage who already has a ring of poison resistance).  But the next one gave me a randart cloak with, among other things, rElec... which allowed me to start using "conjure ball lightning" as a melee attack.  So I guess it worked out, not as awesome as I would have thought for 3 scrolls of aquirement tho.  Pretty much what I'd expect out of a single scroll.

RNGesus giveth and RNGesus taketh away.

Edit: I have found 6 scrolls of acquirement and I only have 2 runes.  I am wearing 3 unrandarts and all of them are acquired

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on June 09, 2015, 01:14:58 am

Quote from: Cthulufaic on June 06, 2015, 09:28:05 pm

Yeah FUCK YOU Nice Guy, goddamn super-buff using som'bich.
also actual mr. boss man.

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Persona 4, second(technically 4th) boss.

Also I forgot how damn long Persona games are; I'm almost 16 hours in and I think I'm around the 1/4 point, maybe closer to 1/3 done.

It's a JRPG, of course it's long.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on June 09, 2015, 02:35:25 am

Cruising along toward that refugee center on the other side of the map in my deathmobile, as i turn a corner straight in the middle of the road there is this road blockade with a military truck in the war and i hear p-p-p-pow X9 and stuff from these turrets/chicken walker right behind, as im starting to slow down by applying handbrakes my character see's a laser point on his chest. I had just enough time to kill the engine set a course to that military cargo truck and i start running behind the door of the repurposed RV/deathmobile. I did managed to avoid being shot by that walker but now i KNOW i am on a collision course at 50kph and i have nothing to strap me in.... the collision will hurt i can feel it.

It finaly impact the cargo truck, sending me flying but my armor took the broad of it and i only got minor wounds. As i open the side door, hopping the military truck would still be between me and the chicken walker/turret combo. It is!! the military truck should offer decent cover while i move toward them for hacking. First time facing a chicken walker so i dont know what to expect. As i lay my back on the cargo truck the chicken walker keep firing so does that anti-material turret shooting frigging .50caliber like there is no tomoror coming. As i attempt to hack these turrets, computer being my lowest skill, i fail and i keep failing and i move because these turret/walker are SHREDDING the cargo truck real fast. I prepare my next tactics, i have a bunch of EMP grenade i made some time ago and..... they are still in the RV with barely anything left of the cargo truck, going back to fetch them will place me straight in the line of fire of EVERYTHING on the other side.

Screw it, there is no way my weapon can deal with all of them before i die, grenade is the only chance. I pump up some adrenaline using the CBM i had installed, eat a few pills for pain/speed boost such as cafeine, adderall and everyfucking thing i had on me just for good measure. Halfway there they shoot me, the broad of the shots either impacted the remaining military cargo, or flew past me, a couple 9mm did impact me but luckily my armor took the hits, got damaged real bad but nothing to me, Oh and i forgot... a single .50cal did go trought my backpack/armor that i lined with kevlar and did a whooping 50 damage to my left arm. As soon i enter my RV the line of sight was blocked so i took a first aid kit, pumped some healing nanobots and took all kind of explosive, from C4 to dynamite and EMP.

As soon i opened the door a volley of everything came my way but the range was kinda high so everything did miss me but did massive damage to my RV, the side wasnt that reinforce as i didnt think i would need it that much... that's a mistake. So i ran back to the military truck and since the turret did just fire i had just enough time to reach a *safe* place. As i work my way around the truck as soon the turret finished his burst i sent everything i had towards them and waited. couple of big boom later only the chicken walker waas still up and i peeked around the corner only to get shot in the face, at the distance i was all shot went squarre on me and it did hurt, oh did it hurt, took my rifle out, lined a shot and critical hit for 70+ damage taking the walker down.

I survived but god it was fun for the time it lasted! Now time to repair that RV and fix myself up.

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Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 09, 2015, 04:37:08 am

Won a ranked match in Skullgirls as Cerebella and Double, vs a player using Ms Fortune and Beowulf. I had more than 50% hp left by the end of the second fight. Was fantastic!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 09, 2015, 01:19:12 pm

Blew up an alien world, leaving me stranded in a galaxy far removed from my own.

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Flashback: Quest for Identity. Crossing that one off the list of games I never bothered to finish.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 10, 2015, 01:24:08 am

After flailing in vain at the hard mode of arcade and taking a break I came back to play a quick splat run before bed on normal mode. I steamrolled through all 8 matches. I mean, there were still some difficult parts and I still almost lost to Bloody Marie the Skull Girl but there were no points were I lost or got caught in a disgusting combo in the corner. *cough*Double*cough*AI is a cheating bitch*cough*

I think all the testing in the training room I've been doing with Squigly and Cerebella and the attempts at playing through hard mode made me level up my Skullgirls skills or something.

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Skullgirls

squigly mah zombie girl waifu <3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 10, 2015, 03:53:56 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 10, 2015, 01:24:08 am

After flailing in vain at the hard mode of arcade and taking a break I came back to play a quick splat run before bed on normal mode. I steamrolled through all 8 matches. I mean, there were still some difficult parts and I still almost lost to Bloody Marie the Skull Girl but there were no points were I lost or got caught in a disgusting combo in the corner. *cough*Double*cough*AI is a cheating bitch*cough*

I think all the testing in the training room I've been doing with Squigly and Cerebella and the attempts at playing through hard mode made me level up my Skullgirls skills or something.

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Skullgirls

squigly mah zombie girl waifu <3

Nice job! I've gradually worked myself up to the point that I can reliably win against all but Marie on Arcade mode on Ridiculous difficulty. Marie just has too much health at that point, so I count "getting up to Marie" a win. (Some characters cope better with Marie's zoning spam better than others - Peacock can just spam her projectiles or shadow of impending doom, and every now and then Eyes of Argus, Double can spam the fake parasoul gun attack thingy until level 1 Republican Car, and spam the hell out of that because great damage and invulnerability during it).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on June 10, 2015, 11:39:25 pm

The game is relatively even, and we both have 2/3 tribute to curse the other team. Everyone's defenses are down, whoever gets the next curse is going to win for sure.

Tribute pops up, big teamfight, everyone dies on both teams except me (jania) and the enemy tyrael.... I've got about 10% life left and he's at full. On the plus side, my team is respawning about 20 seconds sooner then the enemy team.

He goes to grab the tribute so I cast ice storm, then run in circles dodging in and out of the bushes so he can't hit me with anything, he runs back to capture it so I ice storm again.... one hit and I'm dead but I manage to run around and avoid getting hit long enough stop him from capturing it so that my team can respawn and run in and kill him.

Then the enemy team trickles in one by one trying to stop us but we capture it, and win the game while they are cursed.

Heroes of the storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 11, 2015, 06:05:27 pm

Playing as Ottomans. Checked the ledger to see if I stand a chance against the Mamluks. Turns out, I have more troops than France, nevermind Mamluks. This is a really minor own, but it means I could probably take over quite a chunk of Europe once I'm done wrecking the Levant.

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Europa Universalis 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 11, 2015, 10:56:29 pm

Approaching REPCONN HQ as a Guns specialist with my .347 revolver that I may or may not have stolen off of Joe Cobb's corpse when the obligatory group of area-specific enemies appears! I wait until one of the ghouls is close enough, hit V, and blow his head into itty bitty chunks.
Then I do it with the next ghoul. And the next one. And the one after that.
And every single feral ghoul I encounter in REPCONN, save a few roamers. V.A.T.S. is fucking amazing.
Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 11, 2015, 11:47:53 pm

Excellent, now do it with a varmit rifle, and no VATS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 12, 2015, 12:07:53 am

That's like asking me to beat a Deathclaw with unarmed... WITHOUT IT BEING A TAG SKILL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 12, 2015, 12:13:37 am

No, it's like asking you to kill every deathclaw in the quarry with a varmit rifle, and no VATS.  ( I did this once, I went through thousands of rounds before the last one dropped, and probably a hundred stimpacks.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 12, 2015, 12:59:57 am

Ha, specialise in Unarmed, scrubs.
But seriously, Power glove with that speed upgrade and going into vats to give a good uppercut everything's just like 'oh noo team rocket is blasting off without their head!'.
It's so satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 12, 2015, 01:20:35 am

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 12, 2015, 12:59:57 am

Ha, specialise in Unarmed, scrubs.
But seriously, Power glove with that speed upgrade and going into vats to give a good uppercut everything's just like 'oh noo team rocket is blasting off without their head!'.
It's so satisfying.

Are you playing in very hard? I swear, Fallout 3 Very Hard makes everything a bullet sponge that shoots instadeath bullets and my fists are the one true equalizer.

On the note of ownage, beating the shit out of a super mutant 1v1 with spiked knuckles is hella satisfying. I look forward to finding a powerfist and getting powerarmor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 12, 2015, 02:00:58 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 12, 2015, 01:20:35 am

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 12, 2015, 12:59:57 am

Ha, specialise in Unarmed, scrubs.
But seriously, Power glove with that speed upgrade and going into vats to give a good uppercut everything's just like 'oh noo team rocket is blasting off without their head!'.
It's so satisfying.

Are you playing in very hard? I swear, Fallout 3 Very Hard makes everything a bullet sponge that shoots instadeath bullets and my fists are the one true equalizer.

On the note of ownage, beating the shit out of a super mutant 1v1 with spiked knuckles is hella satisfying. I look forward to finding a powerfist and getting powerarmor.

I'm still very much confused that Spiked knuckles are actually better DPS wise than powerfists, even getting the damage upgrade and the speed upgrade for the GRA version of the Power fists, it still only eclipses spiked knuckles by about ~5 DPS.
I guess that's offset by the fact that Power fists push enemies back but still.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on June 12, 2015, 06:05:28 am

I did it! I drove a bulldozer, one of the slowest vehicles in the game, up Mount Chiliad!

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/37500202558124999/4D513E53B23AE1A22D1BB3FE27E76E03115B45F4/)

I also got a nice new desktop background.

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/37500202558137555/5F1EBE7CA1DCBEE5DA36D4832E448AC962E5718E/)

GTA V Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 12, 2015, 09:14:15 am

Nicely cleared my first UFO with only 5 deaths, and apart from some bullshit hits from across the map, between two trees, that kind of thing, I made a clean sweep across the map, neatly breached the UFO proper, had ayys kill one person because I'm incompetent, and then won. Pretty good considering I have no idea how any of this properly works.

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Openxcom
So many bullshit shots though, wow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 14, 2015, 11:09:57 am

Popped around an island while a couple battleships were preoccupied firing at my allies, popped off a full load of torps, and sunk one of them from near full health with all of them hitting in a nice tight grouping  :D

World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 14, 2015, 11:13:45 am

First time playing Titanfall in more than a month. I jump into a game of Attrition.

I die once over the course of the match. I account for half of the points my team had that round.

Still got it.

Titanfall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 14, 2015, 11:48:23 am

Cleared the area around the refugee center by kiting zeds over some caltrops I made. The horde included 2 brutes, and a shocker brute. Then I proceeded to do the first mission for the merchant in front, the reason I couldn't do it before was the horde outside.

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Cataclysm: DDA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 14, 2015, 01:05:43 pm

Robbed a casino in the city of the dead under a blood red cloud, saving all my friends and killing a certain wanker.

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Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on June 14, 2015, 05:36:25 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

Or if it didn't crash every 30 minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 14, 2015, 05:49:25 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

*looks at mods*
*unlimited companions*
eheheheHEHEHEHEEHEHEEHHEAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAHAHAHHA

Quote from: Aedel on June 14, 2015, 05:36:25 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

Or if it didn't crash every 30 minutes.

*NEW VEGAS ANTI CRASH*
AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHAA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on June 14, 2015, 07:13:02 pm

Man, I've trained both Gaius and Lon'qu into assassins. So now I just stick them in the field and watch as they effortlessly dodge every single attack while unleashing criticals so frequently they're... critically acclaimed.

I'll show myself out.

(Fire Emblem: Awakening)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 07:33:41 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

I only took five or so of the gold bars because I was in a hurry. How can you get all of it?

Not that it really matters, though; I sold two or three of the ones I brought out and now I walk about with 5-15k caps and have a dozen great weapons.

As for companions, I never bother with them (in any game). They take too much effort to deal with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2015, 10:01:47 pm

Let me preface this by saying I did not previously understand how to use spellcaster characters.  But I've finally managed to get a run going with one and, well... I destroyed Vault:5.

By this I do not mean that I killed all the enemies effortlessly, no.  What I mean is that I physically destroyed the level.  Before descending I drank three different buff potions and cast haste on myself.  Then I cast tornado, and started spamming shatter while Vehumet restored me to max MP each cast.  Liches, gold dragons, titans, it made no difference what came at me.  The only thing that slowed me down was when the enemies thinned out and my on-kill MP restoration slowed down.

In the process of doing this I gained twelve invocation levels.  Now to sift through all the loot the welcoming party left, I already see a few artifact shields...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 14, 2015, 11:25:04 pm

First playthrough: Took Japan to great power status after many years of hardship and evening being forced to disarm for a number years. Strong enough to challenge most other great powers head on.

Vicky 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 15, 2015, 12:23:05 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2015, 10:01:47 pm

[...]Liches[...]a few artifact shields...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Spoiler: Spoiler'd from my experience :3 (click to show/hide)

IF YOUR SHIELD HAS REFLECTION AND YOU'RE GOING AGAINST LICHES, USE THE SHIELD.
Nothing is so satisfying to see an orb of doom(?) reflected back at the lich.
Blasting it, and the wall behind it. ^ ^

..Not so fun when you're serving TSO and then some centaur comes up with poisoned bolts and it gets reflected back onto them...equaling 'Oh you used poison :I'
But that's me speaking from my v7.2 days...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 15, 2015, 12:49:31 am

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 07:33:41 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 14, 2015, 05:31:42 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on June 14, 2015, 05:15:55 pm

How much gold did you carry out with you?

Hope you saved before that part because you can get alll of it.
Man, Fallout New Vegas, I really want to play that but all those goddamn companion sidequests are so infuriating because you can only bring along one human and one non-human and nearly every single character has to have you in their party visiting very specific locations which half of which don't give points if you go there a second time so screw you if you looked the sidequest up because it's goddamn opaque where, when and why you have to go somewhere and turns out it's one of those that only activate yet alllll of the map points only activate once and you already cleared them! It wouldn't be so terrifying for me if the console commands button didn't work so I couldn't artificially activate my companions triggers.

_{I'm not bitter.}

I only took five or so of the gold bars because I was in a hurry. How can you get all of it?

Not that it really matters, though; I sold two or three of the ones I brought out and now I walk about with 5-15k caps and have a dozen great weapons.

As for companions, I never bother with them (in any game). They take too much effort to deal with.

It requires a bit of munchkinry and I haven't done it myself (haven't gotten to the expansion) but what you are supposed to do is cut off the bad guy's head (the one that should be with you near the gold pile) stuff all the gold into that body, grab the head and run for it, when at the exit, drop the head, take the gold, and exit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 15, 2015, 01:00:34 am

Finally killed that fucking gryphon that's been buzzing me every once in a while. And its brother. Killed a lich or some shit. And a rock golem. Was a good day. No chasing titty-birds off cliffs this time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 15, 2015, 01:27:57 am

Quote from: Tiruin on June 15, 2015, 12:23:05 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2015, 10:01:47 pm

[...]Liches[...]a few artifact shields...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Spoiler: Spoiler'd from my experience :3 (click to show/hide)

IF YOUR SHIELD HAS REFLECTION AND YOU'RE GOING AGAINST LICHES, USE THE SHIELD.
Nothing is so satisfying to see an orb of doom(?) reflected back at the lich.
Blasting it, and the wall behind it. ^ ^

..Not so fun when you're serving TSO and then some centaur comes up with poisoned bolts and it gets reflected back onto them...equaling 'Oh you used poison :I'
But that's me speaking from my v7.2 days...

They weren't actually artifact shields, just magic.  But on the bright side, I already had a shield of reflection and I'm in no hurry to replace it.

So far the main thing that its done is cause giants to hit themselves with their own stones.  In new version shields of reflection only reflect projectiles that you already would have blocked, which IIRC means that they cannot block magic attacks like frost blasts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 15, 2015, 02:24:20 am

Never thought that after playing a few games (especially after plowing through a Strogg palace), I would feel homesick about a place I built in Minecraft. I love my Wanderer's Paradise, and the places I made in it so far. Recently built one of many mushroom-based buildings (not built into a mushroom; not yet), but the sand castle I made, felt like home; as well as the private residence not far from it. I pretty much made those places my HQ for dreaming, like a lucid dreaming starting point.

A personal own on architecture in that game. Just wasted a good hour wandering to good music.

Image Links:
Creative Thread 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98415.msg6170541#msg6170541) (completed castle is a few responses down the line)
Creative Thread 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98415.msg6188089#msg6188089) (Naturally helps that it's modeled after my dream's architecture, although it's more the lounge version of the home (turned out smaller than I thought))
And the beginnings (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98415.msg6164539#msg6164539)


Minecraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 15, 2015, 02:27:09 am

And that is why I play Minecraft. 0u0

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 15, 2015, 04:18:30 am

Quote from: Itnetlolor on June 15, 2015, 02:24:20 am

-snip-

...all hail the new king of creation!  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 15, 2015, 07:07:00 am

DP to bring you this little gem!

So, I got a mission to shoot down ten aircraft for 35k credits, so I decide to take my Yubari out for a spin(the only ship I have with real decent AA that isn't a battleship, plus it was the ship I bought to get into the CBT :P). Result?

13 aircraft shot down(was only one enemy carrier in the match), 42 main gun hits, one torp hit(that sank a battleship), 218k credits, over 4k experience(was doubled, so still over 2000 base), Devastating Strike and First Blood battle hero achievements!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

World of Warships. Heh, I hadn't even touched the Yubari until then

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 15, 2015, 11:03:35 am

The refugee merchant wanted me to check out the last known position of some scavengers. I look at the map, and it's a few tiles away from a fungal tower. Actually, it's three bandits. I head to the camp in the wee hours of the morning, when it's still black out. Two of them are armed with guns, a Remington 700 and a .22 pipe. The third was a woman with a quarterstaff.

Assuming none of them had Night Vision(like I did), I snipe the guy with the R700 from the dark, and draw him out while filling him with arrows. I repeat this on the one with the pipe. The third on I hit with the rifle, then duel with my stone spear until she's dead. The loot from the camp was paltry, except the Remington, but it's got a few motorcycles, a quad, and a van all in working condition except the gas tank on one of the bikes.

All in all, a pretty decent strike. I head back to the merchant and report my success while sucking down a -300 morale penalty.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm: DDA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haveroszaur on June 15, 2015, 11:49:59 am

Spoiler: Finally (click to show/hide)

I KILLED THE GREY PRINCE

What makes this a win is that I did it on the hardest difficulty and without any reflect/resist damage.I survived with 3 Health.
*Insert mad laughter here*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 15, 2015, 02:31:28 pm

Waifu get!  Victory achieved!  If I am to get all the waifus I must work harder, better, faster, stronger!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Persona 4 Golden.  I still liked Chie's old voice better though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on June 15, 2015, 03:24:57 pm

Did you find the fsteak?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 15, 2015, 07:53:59 pm

Quote from: AlleeCat on June 15, 2015, 03:24:57 pm

Did you find the fsteak?

fsteak has been acquired, mission accomplished, over. *Cshhk*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on June 15, 2015, 08:07:44 pm

Took on Walhart the Conqueror and listened to his big talk about being invincible and almighty and all that jazz, only for Sumia to electrocute his balls off and Chrom to slice him in half. Dude barely touched me.

Man, I've had harder fights from nameless grunts than this guy whose been talked up as the big bad überdude of this particular arc.

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 15, 2015, 08:14:26 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on June 15, 2015, 08:07:44 pm

Took on Walhart the Conqueror and listened to his big talk about being invincible and almighty and all that jazz, only for Sumia to electrocute his balls off and Chrom to slice him in half.

This is going in my sigtext.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 15, 2015, 08:20:09 pm

I kept falling. I tried to get momentum, I tried to wait until the last second to jump, I tried wall-running. I kept falling JUST short, and being sent through a thankfully quick loading screen to try again. When I finally did it, I felt like cheering.

Then I saw the bar I was supposed to swing from behind me. I was split between being crushed at wasting so much time and elated at having done something not supposed to be possible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mirror's Edge, that mall level when you're supposed to jump onto a chandelier, then further to get a way to the roof.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBronzePickle on June 15, 2015, 08:29:17 pm

By popular vote, the decision was made for our tiny regiment to charge the enemy's artillery position. We headed around a few hills to keep ourselves concealed, but we were spotted in a clearing. Instead of charging straight on to certain doom, we switched directions and moved to the side of their hill, attracting the artillery guard. Unfortunately, they made a grave error and sent their entire guard regiment at us. I charged in with my bayonet and stabbed one of them to death before being brought down, while my fellow soldiers either took lethal musketballs or suffered a similar fate to me.

However, the damage was done: a much larger regiment than our own charged the now-defenseless artillery, who tried to beat a hasty retreat but were chased down and lost their cannons, as well as several of the operators. With no support and now outflanked, their army quickly folded. After a small row of defeats, this victory was a good way to end the battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars line battle

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 15, 2015, 08:45:53 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 15, 2015, 08:20:09 pm

I kept falling. I tried to get momentum, I tried to wait until the last second to jump, I tried wall-running. I kept falling JUST short, and being sent through a thankfully quick loading screen to try again. When I finally did it, I felt like cheering.

Then I saw the bar I was supposed to swing from behind me. I was split between being crushed at wasting so much time and elated at having done something not supposed to be possible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mirror's Edge, that mall level when you're supposed to jump onto a chandelier, then further to get a way to the roof.

How?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 15, 2015, 08:49:08 pm

Jackal Gang members, meet Colette - the Melee-specialist with a lead pipe, Bloody Mess, and a really bad mood.
First gang member was pulverized. Full body. Her chunks are now beautifully on display on the room. The second had Lights Out used on her, and only lost every limb instantly, her torso flopping beautifully to the ground.

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 15, 2015, 08:52:47 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 15, 2015, 08:45:53 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 15, 2015, 08:20:09 pm

I kept falling. I tried to get momentum, I tried to wait until the last second to jump, I tried wall-running. I kept falling JUST short, and being sent through a thankfully quick loading screen to try again. When I finally did it, I felt like cheering.

Then I saw the bar I was supposed to swing from behind me. I was split between being crushed at wasting so much time and elated at having done something not supposed to be possible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mirror's Edge, that mall level when you're supposed to jump onto a chandelier, then further to get a way to the roof.

How?

I don't know. Maybe it was a glitch that made me jump a bit further? I was really surprised. I died 20 seconds later though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 15, 2015, 09:38:58 pm

A lvl 45 Rapiddash just pwned 5 water pokemons,  fighting pokemons, and 4 of the 6 ghost pokemons that were ~10 lvls above it with the help of 3 ethers to crush 3/4 of the elite four.  Charzard aint got nothin on you bro.

pokemon red

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 15, 2015, 11:41:53 pm

Just finished my first game of Victoria 2.

Played as Japan, became a Great Power, ended the game (in 3rd place) with ~7700 score, ~1700 prestige, ~1700 industry, ~4400 military.

Ended with ~700 standing regiments, ~250 ships, awesome leaders (though they were poor in comparison to my mid-game generals and admirals who literally never lost a battle)

Was embroiled in a World War (was also a Great War as originally it was a US/GB confrontation) for the last ~10 years of the game, fought the British Empire, Russia, most Secondary Powers, and the vassals thereof to a standstill to preserve my score till the end of the game.

Instigated a naval arms race with Britain and rivaled them for power by the end of the game (I actually surpassed them at several points, in terms of raw ship numbers [and also firepower], but my naval base upgrades took a while... awesome research and industry allowed me to turn out Battleships at a rate of something crazy like 5-10 a month as I neared the end after I had lost a few ships in the war.)

Acquired half of China, The Philippines, Taiwan, along with most of Vietnam and the Sakhalin islands (Oil man, oil) (~255mil total pop, %79 literacy)

(Also went 30/30, 30/30, 30/30, 27/30, and 25/30 for research)

Other interesting things: Prussia, Russia, and Austria are all communists. China imploded. Malaya formed (those oil-loving, british sphered bastards.) The REAL WWI was essentially fought all over China with the destructive weapons of early WWII and was much bloodier.

EDIT: Also produced 100% of the world's tanks and ~20% of the world's aircraft... so even when I lose, I win!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on June 16, 2015, 06:30:19 am

I just beat the Mom for the first time, primarily by dumb luck.

While I did get a good set of gear, this proved to be basically irrelevant to the final fight...I found the tarot card "The Emperor", and decided to find out what it did by using it. Turns out, it teleports you straight to Mom. Seeing as I was thrown into a major bossfight with no warning, I panicked and used my item; the Holy Bible. And as it also turns out, using the Holy Bible in the Mom fight is an instawin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 16, 2015, 09:49:21 am

Quote from: pisskop on June 15, 2015, 09:38:58 pm

A lvl 45 Rapiddash just pwned 5 water pokemons,  fighting pokemons, and 4 of the 6 ghost pokemons that were ~10 lvls above it with the help of 3 ethers to crush 3/4 of the elite four.  Charzard aint got nothin on you bro.

pokemon red

Spoiler: If it's the original Red version (click to show/hide)

There's a bug/poor design idea that the critical hit chance is based soley on the species base speed stat, which Rapidash has in spades, meaning Rapidash is a sick killer in Red/Blue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on June 16, 2015, 04:42:30 pm

So for me, I was an octopod conjurer on dungeon level 3 when I get an Out-of-Depth 5-headed Hydra spawn. Seeing the beast, I flee and kill a goblin who just happened to carry a wand of draining. I then pelt the the hydra with bolts of draining until I empty the wand completely. Panicking, I then shoot magic darts at it. This doesn't kill it and it then walks onto the tile next to me. I fire one more magic dart...

and it dies.

I gained enough experience points to level up twice!

Spoiler: game (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl Stone soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on June 16, 2015, 06:01:16 pm

Did you know that if you marry off Robin to Olivia (the dancer), you get two children with crazy high skill, magic and luck? And you can then have three Tacticians/Grandmasters stomping around the battlefield with Levin swords, dodging every attack and annihilating enemies with an absent-minded wave of their hands?

I sure didn't.

Fire Emblem: Eugenics Simulator Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 16, 2015, 08:55:09 pm

Quote from: Niccolo on June 16, 2015, 06:01:16 pm

Did you know that if you marry off Robin to Olivia (the dancer), you get two children with crazy high skill, magic and luck? And you can then have three Tacticians/Grandmasters stomping around the battlefield with Levin swords, dodging every attack and annihilating enemies with an absent-minded wave of their hands?

I sure didn't.

Fire Emblem: Eugenics Simulator Awakening

Robin's widely considered the best father or mother for any unit, and can make one that would be lacklustre into a powerhouse. You can even essentially choose what growth rates you want to pass down, as Robin gets "strength/flaws" in their stats. Ignis and Luck+4 are fantastic traits to pass down for Robin and Olivia. Alternatively, you could pass down Vantage from Olivia as Myrmidon too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on June 17, 2015, 12:09:26 am

My tank turned the final corner to the enemy base, and found... well, just look at the screenshot. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/29618903228106044/D127AB085F6DE89CDC65E7541502693BF27595A3/)

Seven infantry, all clustered together in a little sandbag fort. My tank has an AoE mortar shell available.

The result was nearly as satisfying as I'd hoped. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/29618903228111276/58108CED64CB046CDDED963F9CF02FD84E0E85A1/) One guy on the left survived with 8/200 HP remaining, but he was quickly cleaned up and the base secured.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Valkyria Chronicles, the forest skirmish map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 17, 2015, 12:13:06 am

How did you beat the "Boss" guy?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 17, 2015, 12:23:33 am

Snipe his radiator when he turns around, his path is completely scripted, and once he takes enough damage he just leaves.  ('A' ranked every mission on second playthrough.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on June 17, 2015, 08:27:04 am

Or you can run up to the hill where the tank destroyer was and drop grenades down onto the infantry clustered below you. Or sneak around the back of the tank and slaughter all of the guards that way. Or you could do what Thexor did, and play on the Forest Skirmish map which doesn't have the boss.

_{Also, how the heck are you supposed to A rank missions in the game? I've never gotten more than a C so far. Do you have to blitz them extremely quickly?}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 17, 2015, 09:05:04 am

It's all turn count, you could capture bases with minimal fighting and still 'A' rank it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 17, 2015, 11:33:47 am

I see. That would have made things much easier for me. I basically took forever to destroy the medium tank out front, so three scouts essentially killed everything in the base with help from my engineer who snuck on to the bluff to grenade the cap point. When the Boss showed up, I just sighed, because every damn mission takes a billion years and there's always some crazy OP shit goin' on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 17, 2015, 11:55:49 am

Quote from: NullForceOmega on June 17, 2015, 09:05:04 am

It's all turn count, you could capture bases with minimal fighting and still 'A' rank it.

Yeah, I heard that the best way to A rank everything is just cheese it with scouts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 17, 2015, 12:16:43 pm

That is like a disapproving parent.

Me: "I killed all the enemy with no losses in an efficient manner!"

Valkaria Chronicles: "D"

Me: "Why won't you looooooooooove meeeeeeeeeee"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on June 17, 2015, 02:52:06 pm

Valkyria is all about taking objectives. It's why almost none of the mission objectives include "eliminate foes".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 17, 2015, 03:24:41 pm

Not completely true, but the vast majority are just 'take this base' items.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on June 17, 2015, 08:41:04 pm

Ah, that explains many things then. _{I'm not going to start cheesing things with scouts though. Maybe next playthrough.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 17, 2015, 08:45:55 pm

Quote from: crazysheep on June 17, 2015, 02:52:06 pm

Valkyria is all about taking objectives. It's why almost none of the mission objectives include "eliminate foes".

Yeah but I like the fights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on June 17, 2015, 09:19:28 pm

You also have to clear out enemies surrounding the base before you can capture it. Sometimes, you can do that by dashing a Shocktrooper past everyone else, gunning down the couple of guys near the flag, and capturing it in a single turn.

Of course, if that fails, you're now surrounded by enemies and about to be overwhelmed. And if you turn that last corner and find 7 guys on the point, RIP.

You can also just accept D ranks and take things slow, then play a few Skirmish maps if you're getting under-leveled, falling behind in R&D, or just frustrated with goddamn chapter 7. :D

(Skirmish maps also help you practice high-speed completions. I first realized how you're intended to get high ranks when I narrowly beat the second skirmish map in 3 turns and still only got a B!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 17, 2015, 10:31:47 pm

Elodie the 2nd held a tournament to liven up the kingdom and cheer things up after the recent civil war, in which she obliterated the enemy forces with magic. As she's rewarding the tournament winners in front of an audience, a challenger approaches!

Spoiler: gamelog (click to show/hide)

Quote from: gamelog

All of a sudden, a man approaches the winner's platform.

It's Kevan, the Earl of Io.

In one hand, he carries an armored gauntlet. In the other, a sword.

Kevan, Earl of Io: My family's blood is on your hands!

Elodie, Crown Princess: (Arisse, the ringleader of the rebellion... She was his mother.)

He casts the metal glove to the ground with a clatter and raises his sword, pointing it at you.

Kevan, Earl of Io: I challenge you, Elodie! A life for a life!
He's challenging you to a duel?

Doesn't he know you could burn him to a crisp just by waving your hand?

Menu: [Accept] [Refuse] [Kill him with magic]

Player chose: Kill him with magic

Without a further word, you direct the full force of your magical wrath at the Earl of Io.

There is a horrible scream, and the smell of burning flesh.

Elodie, Crown Princess: I decline.

Kevan's sword falls to the ground beside his gauntlet. He won't be needing either anymore.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Feels so good to incinerate the bastard that killed my first Elodie with balefire. Feel the power!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Long Live the Queen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on June 17, 2015, 11:36:43 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 17, 2015, 10:31:47 pm

Elodie the 2nd held a tournament to liven up the kingdom and cheer things up after the recent civil war, in which she obliterated the enemy forces with magic. As she's rewarding the tournament winners in front of an audience, a challenger approaches!

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All of a sudden, a man approaches the winner's platform.

It's Kevan, the Earl of Io.

In one hand, he carries an armored gauntlet. In the other, a sword.

Kevan, Earl of Io: My family's blood is on your hands!

Elodie, Crown Princess: (Arisse, the ringleader of the rebellion... She was his mother.)

He casts the metal glove to the ground with a clatter and raises his sword, pointing it at you.

Kevan, Earl of Io: I challenge you, Elodie! A life for a life!
He's challenging you to a duel?

Doesn't he know you could burn him to a crisp just by waving your hand?

Menu: [Accept] [Refuse] [Kill him with magic]

Player chose: Kill him with magic

Without a further word, you direct the full force of your magical wrath at the Earl of Io.

There is a horrible scream, and the smell of burning flesh.

Elodie, Crown Princess: I decline.

Kevan's sword falls to the ground beside his gauntlet. He won't be needing either anymore.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Feels so good to incinerate the bastard that killed my first Elodie with balefire. Feel the power!

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Long Live the Queen

What is this game and how do I obtain it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 17, 2015, 11:53:19 pm

Long Live the Queen.
And I would say buy it. Or mug someone and have them gift it to you on Steam.
...it's on Steam, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 18, 2015, 01:04:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 17, 2015, 11:53:19 pm

Long Live the Queen.
And I would say buy it. Or mug someone and have them gift it to you on Steam.
...it's on Steam, right?

Yep. On Steam. It was on sale at one point during the summer sale for something like $2.50 USD or something like that. Currently it's 50% off, $5 USD, which is still decent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlleeCat on June 18, 2015, 01:25:07 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 18, 2015, 01:04:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 17, 2015, 11:53:19 pm

Long Live the Queen.
And I would say buy it. Or mug someone and have them gift it to you on Steam.
...it's on Steam, right?

Yep. On Steam. It was on sale at one point during the summer sale for something like $2.50 USD or something like that. Currently it's 50% off, $5 USD, which is still decent.

I got it during that summer sale, and gave up when I kept dying to arrows on the way to that thing. Never enough archery knowledge, man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on June 18, 2015, 01:54:39 am

Quote from: AlleeCat on June 18, 2015, 01:25:07 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 18, 2015, 01:04:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 17, 2015, 11:53:19 pm

Long Live the Queen.
And I would say buy it. Or mug someone and have them gift it to you on Steam.
...it's on Steam, right?

Yep. On Steam. It was on sale at one point during the summer sale for something like $2.50 USD or something like that. Currently it's 50% off, $5 USD, which is still decent.

I got it during that summer sale, and gave up when I kept dying to arrows on the way to that thing. Never enough archery knowledge, man.

Well you could, just, you know, not go.  Alternatively, you can

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Hire bodyguards, or be good enough at medicine to administer first aid correctly

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 18, 2015, 02:17:16 am

I figured out the entire first area, totally without a guide. Considering how awful I am at adventure games and how obtuse the puzzles appeared at first, this is considerable ownage for me.

RealMyst.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on June 18, 2015, 09:30:17 pm

Brunhilde the Dwarf Paladin had enough of the damn trees.

Surrounded on all sides by the woody monsters, they bashed into her armor as she desperately blocked all of her eight attackers from the cardinal directions. Shield and armor bared for strength, her tenacity unmatched. But they would not relent. For even as she cut down one tree with her faithful mithril battle axe, another took it's place. Then another. Then another. There was no end to their leafy tide.

Perhaps if she had not used her Wand of Ball Lightning, this wouldn't have happened. For, although she was expecting a small Area of Effect spell around her self, it quickly managed to anger every damn tree in the forest. With every move at her disposal, she fought back. Wand of Fire. Wand of Wonders. Divine Punishment in the form of lightning. All attempts to fight back failed as she was pushed back into a corner. Thrice she called upon the mighty dwarf god, Morodwyn, and thrice didst thou bind her wounds in golden light. But it was all for naught, for there was nothing she could do against the tide to destroy it.

In a show of desperation, she searched her bag for inspiration. There was contained within, a potion of Invisibility and several bottles of holy water. An idea sprang to mind. With haste, she combined the two drinks into a concoction true and drank it. Aha! Surely, now that trees could not see her, she could slip away unnoticed!

But that did not happen. They continued to attack her, and though she felled many more trees, it was not enough. Then a small bout of luck happened. She began to feel herself pulled away, her teleportation curse activating. "Aha!" She thought. "With that, I can flee back to the entrance and escape this wretched cave!" Oh, but poor girl was wrong! For as soon as she teleported, her zone was blocked and she was pushed to the absolute other corner of the room. Woe! Now she was even more stranded than before. But this time, the trees were blissfully unaware of her presence. Relatively speaking. In spite of her invisibility, they could still sense her.

Brunhilde's indomitable defense was fading. It would not be long now before her soul journeyed into the nether as her body was crushed into plant food. Still, onward she surged forward, sneaking around trees when she could and felling them when she had to. Just a bit further, and she would be free! The trees coordinated one last effort, surrounding her. This was the end. But, there! Off in the distance! The stairwell that led out of the forest! A mere moment after that, her curse of teleportation kicked in. Aha! Now was her chance! Carefully, she placed her marker and with a "puff" found herself at the top of a stairwell leading downwards. She descended rapidly, overjoyed at her freedom as the last of her Potion of Invisibility wore off.

The Dwarves had conquered the Forest!

...Now, if only she could find her way back up safely. Key word, being safely.

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ADOM

Brunhilde the Dwarf Paladin is one Dwarf in a long line of dead paladins sired by me. But she is by far the most successful, as I've never gotten this far before. Now I just need to get her back safely to Dwarftown, which is easier said than done. I'd rather not risk another shot through the Animated Forest again, which means traversing the even more dangerous Dwavern Halls. Still. She's been lucky thus far. Here's hoping she holds out a bit longer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 19, 2015, 01:47:32 am

Nisha's action skill + Jakobs Sniper Rifle with 4.0 fire rate and 96.7 accuracy + a room of 6 bandits = a room full of 6 dead bandits shot in the head in only a second.

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Borderlands Pre-Sequel

Hooo-man Nisha's auto-aim action skill is craaaazy fun. I can kill anything quickly if it has a crit spot and I have a Jakobs sniper rifle. This is how Mordecai in BL:1 should've played like. Headshots as far as the eye can see.

Quote from: birdy51 on June 18, 2015, 09:30:17 pm

Brunhilde the Dwarf Paladin had enough of the damn trees.

-snip-

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ADOM

Brunhilde the Dwarf Paladin is one Dwarf in a long line of dead paladins sired by me. But she is by far the most successful, as I've never gotten this far before. Now I just need to get her back safely to Dwarftown, which is easier said than done. I'd rather not risk another shot through the Animated Forest again, which means traversing the even more dangerous Dwavern Halls. Still. She's been lucky thus far. Here's hoping she holds out a bit longer.

Noice. Yeah. Don't use fire spells in the forest, unless you want to aggro the whole forest and wade through a wall of living wood. Dwarven Halls shouldn't be too dangerous. Don't attack anything that's not hostile and find the stairs out as quick as possible. Once you survive the first run through the halls you can just rush from staircase to staircase and probably not meet anything too dangerous. Maybe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 19, 2015, 04:48:06 am

Decided to start using the flare gun because hey.
Apparently im not half bad with it!

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TF2

E:
also, the flare gun makes a satisfying "thud" sound when you switch to it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on June 19, 2015, 05:29:49 am

Flare gun is love, flare gun is life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on June 19, 2015, 05:42:12 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 19, 2015, 01:47:32 am

Noice. Yeah. Don't use fire spells in the forest, unless you want to aggro the whole forest and wade through a wall of living wood. Dwarven Halls shouldn't be too dangerous. Don't attack anything that's not hostile and find the stairs out as quick as possible. Once you survive the first run through the halls you can just rush from staircase to staircase and probably not meet anything too dangerous. Maybe.

Aye. Unfortunately, they were already pissed when I used the Wand of Ball Lightning. Which was alarming, as I hadn't expected such opposition when they all wanted me dead. At that point, all bets were off, which is why i risked the Wand of Fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 19, 2015, 08:08:48 am

Managed to barely save a city from complete fiscal insolvency(~$20k, >$2k monthly deficit)... by turning to the mafia. One mission gave me $70k, which I used, along with massive cuts to various fundings, to expand industry and add some housing. Even after restoring that funding due to strikes from both the police and firemen(then doctors, then teachers), I still turned it around.

Sure, I may now be an accessory to (implied) murder, but now this city has a few dollars profit!

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SimCity 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on June 19, 2015, 04:00:54 pm

Enemy had 17 health left, and two minions: Molten Giant and High Justice Grimstone. I had 5 whelps, courtesy of Onyxia, and 20 health.

I play Unleash the Hounds, hit face, Bite, hit face, Twisting Nether, Avenging Wrath.

GG.

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Hearthstone

Nefarion is fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on June 19, 2015, 06:13:45 pm

I had a perfect breach set up at the door to the corvette, ready with smoke down, knockout gas grenades ready, there was basically no way that I wouldn't be able to breach and get positioned inside within 1 turn.
As I prepared to start, the commander burst out of the door and ran right into the middle of my setup. He got shut up pretty bad but not lethally, probably because my carbine-equipped soldiers had been deploying smoke so couldn't give reaction fire. The commander then ended up stood next to my shield/scout, so I ordered him to pull out his Cattle Prod of Restful Sleep to beat the commander into submission.

The rest of the mission went smoothly, by the way.

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Xenonauts

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 19, 2015, 06:17:49 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on June 19, 2015, 06:13:45 pm

I had a perfect breach set up at the door to the corvette, ready with smoke down, knockout gas grenades ready, there was basically no way that I wouldn't be able to breach and get positioned inside within 1 turn.
As I prepared to start, the commander burst out of the door and ran right into the middle of my setup. He got shut up pretty bad but not lethally, probably because my carbine-equipped soldiers had been deploying smoke so couldn't give reaction fire. The commander then ended up stood next to my shield/scout, so I ordered him to pull out his Cattle Prod of Restful Sleep to beat the commander into submission.

Missed the game. XCOM: UFO Defense, or similar, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: UristMcWanderer on June 19, 2015, 10:25:06 pm

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Justin, level 8 Human Private Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 95108 turns and scored 35813 points.
 He played for 3 hours, 24 minutes and 59 seconds.
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 268 out of 268 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

 He saved himself once.

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 7
  Levels visited   : 0
  Levels completed : 0

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Cyberdemon's Head
  Medal of Prejudice
  Technician Bronze Badge
  Gatekeeper Bronze Badge
  UAC Bronze Badge
  Veteran Bronze Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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  ###########################################################

-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 91/90   Experience 28938/8
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Reloader         (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Survivalist      (Level 1)

  TaN->Iro->Rel->Bad->TaN->Iro->Iro->MSv->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a.] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b.] [ Weapon     ]   rocket launcher (6d7) [0/1] (P1)
    [c.] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
    [d.] [ Prepared   ]   rocket box (x1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a.] double shotgun (10d3)x2 [0/2] (P1)
    [b.] combat shotgun (8d3) [5/5] (P1)
    [c.] high power chaingun (1d8)x4 [26/26]
    [d.] plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [20/40] (P1)
    [e.] minigun (1d6)x8 [200/200]
    [f.] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [31/31] (B1)
    [g.] combat knife (2d5)
    [h.] shotgun shell (x37)
    [i.] large med-pack
    [j.] large med-pack
    [k.] large med-pack
    [l.] phase device
    [m.] phase device
    [n.] homing phase device
    [o.] homing phase device
    [p.] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
    [q.] 10mm ammo chain (x68)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 50% 
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 25% 

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    31 former humans
    41 former sergeants
    24 former captains
    46 imps
    53 demons
    29 lost souls
    11 cacodemons
    6 hell knights
    9 barons of hell
    4 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos
    2 pain elementals
    1 revenant
    4 mancubi
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 12 he assembled a high power weapon!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  He sounded the alarm on level 17!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You quickly reload the rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
 You quickly reload the rocket launcher.
 Boom! You are hit! You dodge! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! You dodge! Boom! Boom!
 You dodge! Boom! Boom! You dodge! Boom!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You quickly reload the rocket launcher. You are hit! You are hit! You are
 hit! You are hit! Boom! You are hit!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider
 Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

  He's the first brave soul to have ventured into Hell...

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DoomRL

Though this was probably because I had it set to the easiest difficulty...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 19, 2015, 10:32:58 pm

Oh man I remember my first game of DoomRL. I was all like "This is probably balanced like Doom, let's play it on Ultra Violence!"

...I didn't even survive the first level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sindain on June 19, 2015, 10:51:05 pm

Turns out this game is allooot easier with the command artifact on. Stacked the everloving crap out of attack speed, crit, and on hit items on the Huntress. Essentially became bow-Christ with the ability to turn arrows in missiles. Pretty sure this was my shortest final boss fight yet according to the in game clock, but all mah missile broke the game and it just kept on getting slower. What was around a 2.5 minute in game fight became half an hour in rl of fighting Providence in ullllllllttrrraaaaaa slloooooooowwwww moooooooooo.

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Risk of Rain. Mah second solo win ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 20, 2015, 02:56:05 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 19, 2015, 04:48:06 am

Decided to start using the flare gun because hey.
Apparently im not half bad with it!

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TF2

E:
also, the flare gun makes a satisfying "thud" sound when you switch to it.

Oh sweet jesus the flares are so useful. Sure you have a tougher time vs other pyros and Chargin' Targe Demomen, but the ability to crit anyone who's on fire is amazing. (If you're really good at controlling Pyro's flames, you can time it so that the brief amount of time that the afterburn immune players are on fire (0.6 seconds I believe) you can hit them with a crit flare despite their afterburn immunity.)

Detonator is good for harassing snipers behind cover, and you can also do a miniature rocket jump with it that propels you a little higher than a crouchjump does.

Scorch Shot does eff all damage, (-50%, so ~15 on hit), but it has knockback and as it falls to the ground can ignite another person. It pairs very well with the Phlogistinator for building up MMMPH, and also is good for annoyance. You're not going to get that delicious flare-punch like you can with the standard Flare Gun though.

Manmelter is a cool idea with a very poor execution. Sure you can put out your teammates to store a guaranteed crit, and sure the projectile is the fastest in the game, tied with Sandman balls, Flying Guillotine cleavers, Crusader's Crossbow bolts and Huntsman arrows, but the reality is that the delay before you can fire totally kills the weapon, and the passive reload is incredibly slow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 07:31:51 am

SCORCH SHOT EVERYDAY ALL DAY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 20, 2015, 08:20:49 am

I'm just staying with the normal flare gun, the 90-damage crits are really useful, and 30 damage plus afterburn isn't bad either

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 20, 2015, 01:24:16 pm

I just got off for treason, aiding prison escape, breaking and entering, jury tampering, several counts of theft, grand theft auto, 924 counts of vandalism, and disturbing the peace.

Holy sheet.

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LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 20, 2015, 02:17:55 pm

I'm casually helping a push up in top lane when I notice a bunch of enemy heroes on the map appearing around Sylvanas. In the opposite lane.   4v1, she's not getting away by herself.

But I am brightwing, the most badass fairy ever.

I teleport to Sylvie, saving her with the teleport shield absorbing a killing blow from a falstad hammer, polymorph falstad into a pig (hehehe flying pig) and then flutter off to the northeast while Sylvie goes east.  Everybody who had a chance of still catching sylvie is now chasing after me.  Stitches hooks and eats me then deposits me in the middle of his team.  Surely the most badass fairy is doomed! 

Nope, I immediately use blink heal to teleport to a lane minion on the other side of a wall escaping easily and instantly.   Sylvanas lives, I escape a 4v1 and take so little damage I'm fully healed in 10 seconds, and the rest of my team steamrolls over the top towers while the entire enemy team is screwing around in bot.   gg red team, gg.

Heroes of the storm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 05:27:36 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on June 20, 2015, 01:24:16 pm

I just got off for treason, aiding prison escape, breaking and entering, jury tampering, several counts of theft, grand theft auto, 924 counts of vandalism, and disturbing the peace.

Holy sheet.

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LCS

Not a single murder?
Also, "I fought the law and the...Law didn't win, I guess?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 20, 2015, 06:02:45 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 05:27:36 pm

Not a single murder?

Nope. None.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 20, 2015, 07:04:37 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 05:27:36 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on June 20, 2015, 01:24:16 pm

I just got off for treason, aiding prison escape, breaking and entering, jury tampering, several counts of theft, grand theft auto, 924 counts of vandalism, and disturbing the peace.

Holy sheet.

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LCS

Not a single murder?
Also, "I fought the law and the...Law didn't win, I guess?"

"Breaking the law, breaking the law" *duh daa* "Breaking the law, break-ing da laaaaaaw!" *guitar solo*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 20, 2015, 08:50:22 pm

I overleveled on purpose just so I could beat the SHIT outta this boss.  and boy did it feel good.  It felt GOOD.  IT FELT REALLY GOOD WHEN I BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA IT.

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Persona 4 Golden. Fuck YEAH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 10:48:02 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 20, 2015, 07:04:37 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 20, 2015, 05:27:36 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on June 20, 2015, 01:24:16 pm

I just got off for treason, aiding prison escape, breaking and entering, jury tampering, several counts of theft, grand theft auto, 924 counts of vandalism, and disturbing the peace.

Holy sheet.

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LCS

Not a single murder?
Also, "I fought the law and the...Law didn't win, I guess?"

"Breaking the law, breaking the law" *duh daa* "Breaking the law, break-ing da laaaaaaw!" *guitar solo*

Arson, Treason, and Jaywalking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on June 21, 2015, 10:44:50 am

Yeah. Finally managed to form a universal federation ! The Burlusts died early while I was colonizing a moon (didn't think they would fall that quickly), and I only wiped the Thoraxians in the end because it was faster and easier than bringing them into the federation (everyone was attacking them) so I murdered their queens and bombed their population (around 1b people on 2 planets) but everyone else, even the Acutians which I started with, liked me a lot. I guess the situation went a lot better than the first time. The 2 races hostiles to me at first started fighting each other, the communists sloths survived and the "good" races had a good start (thanks to me too).
I think next time I'll try to bring the Hydrals back, or harder settings.

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The Last Federation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 21, 2015, 04:56:45 pm

One of our four fighters was dead.  We had no functioning turrets.  But that didn't really matter because our best turret, the one we'd been spamming, was level four "Knowledge is Power" turrets.  They're powered by our reserves of the science resource.  There was only 32 science left.  That's not very much science.  Even if we wanted to build more, our best rooms were disabled by EMP.

Its all pretty irrelevant though, there was only 9 dust left.  Not enough to power even a single room.

Most of the level was explored.  I figured I could make a dash for it if the exit was down the shorter unexplored path.  I opened the door.  Science resource, no enemy waves.  I opened another door.  Chest, no enemy waves.  I opened another door, enemies... but no waves.  Also no other path forward.

i switched focus to the long way.  Left Elise at a hallway close to our base, put Sara by the crystal.  Skroig opened the door.  "You have opened the last door on the level".  Without even looking to see what was inside, Sara grabbed the crystal.  Most of the waves spawned down other paths; we ignored them.  Skroig pulled back to a crossroads close to the exit, Elise killed the bugs that were near the crystal.  She started moving towards Skroig when Sara reached her hallway.  More waves spawned, Skroig was getting swarmed.  He dropped Red Plume to make them fight each other.  Right before it ran out Elise came in and blew them up.  They stood there and defended.  Sara reached them with the crystal and everyone started moving through the last three rooms.  Enemies are everywhere, they're in the exit.  But it doesn't matter, we're out.

I thought that big circle at the top of the level chart was a boss battle or a super hard level.  No, it was open air.  Escape.  Freedom.  I fucking won.

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Dungeon of the Endless

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Niccolo on June 21, 2015, 06:02:53 pm

Victor and Victoria. The game's been hyping up this confrontation for hours now and my first clash or two with them ended dismally - so I trained the hell out of my alchemist, backed up on plenty of special moves and let the freaky little witch have it.

It was extremely satisfying to plough them into the ground. Goddamn Victoria is creepy as hell.

Bravely Default

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 21, 2015, 08:33:24 pm

I did it.  After 11 days, 55 hours, and a beautiful ending, I did it.  Game complete.

Now for NG+

Persona 4 Golden

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on June 22, 2015, 01:21:59 am

Bought the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth from the summer sale. Use to kill dead time by watching NL playing the first version of the game. Boot it up, figure I'll play a game before I go to bed.

Beat mom on my first try. Psionics for dummies use item, two all stats up, the battery, Bob's head, Leo... Don't remember anything else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on June 22, 2015, 04:39:36 am

Quote from: Niccolo on June 21, 2015, 06:02:53 pm

Victor and Victoria. The game's been hyping up this confrontation for hours now and my first clash or two with them ended dismally - so I trained the hell out of my alchemist, backed up on plenty of special moves and let the freaky little witch have it.

It was extremely satisfying to plough them into the ground. Goddamn Victoria is creepy as hell.

Bravely Default

Oh man, salve-makers. Just wait until you find the spot where you can farm [REDACTED]. Then they're stupidly powerful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on June 22, 2015, 06:10:04 am

Quote from: Draignean on June 22, 2015, 01:21:59 am

Bought the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth from the summer sale. Used to kill dead time by watching NL playing the first version of the game. Boot it up, figure I'll play a game before I go to bed.

Beat mom on my first try. Psionics for dummies use item, two all stats up, the battery, Bob's head, Leo... Don't remember anything else.

I did this with Vanilla BoI. The first two runs I had, I won with. It was kind of disappointing. XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: acetech09 on June 22, 2015, 01:43:16 pm

I got insurgency a few days ago, and haven't been as giddy about a game in a loong time. After lots of practice, me and a friend actually beat one of the coop modes with only one other person. That game's fucking brutal, but I love it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 22, 2015, 02:38:59 pm

I assassinated Rush Limbaugh.

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LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on June 25, 2015, 12:04:37 pm

I decided to give Brutal Doom a go and after getting to the second level of Doom 1, throwing a grenade into a small window and after the resulting explosion sent a torso flying out to land at my feet, well... I had to play through the rest of Doom 1 and 2.

Apparently not satisfied with that bout of FPS I have also made my way through Heretic, completing the main 3 episodes for the first time. Playing through with GZDoom does make things a little easy with enemies not able to keep up with my circle strafing skills but apparently the developers of Heretic decided to make episode 4 consist of nothing but gauntlet runs. The number of times I've pressed a button, only to be greated by either ~3 Iron Liches, 1 Maulotaur, 15+ Disciples/Sabreclaws/Gargoyles is getting just a little tiresome. Still enjoyable though.

Brutal Doom mod on GZDoom and Heretic on GZDoom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 25, 2015, 12:23:09 pm

So I'm playing tournament mode and I'm doing the Assault challenges. After a first failed attempt doing the High Speed map I go "fuck it, let's cheese it".
So I drop out of the heli, grab the antigrav boots (which give 4 jumps iirc) and jump to grab my trusty ol Flak cannon along with a keg of health. Drop down back to the wagon, run forward, jump the toxic sludge one, avoiding the first defenders, clear the gap to the second one, tank the damage from the auto turret (thanks keg of health) and get to the second one, clear the gap there too, by this point I'm out of jumps on the boots and I have two wagons to reach the front end of the train, but I decide to risk it anyways and try jumping the gap again, and I clear it, same for the last one. Drop down, no defenders have been expecting me here this early so I just run inside, and activate the two panels while dodging the auto turret on the ceiling.
Attack completed in some 20 seconds, this means that I had to defend for some 20 seconds too, which was retardedly easy because I just had to gun down a couple of people on the first wagon before the timer ran out.

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Unreal Tournament GOTY edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on June 26, 2015, 05:34:52 am

FINALLY beat the Skullgirls final boss. It literally took me 40 minutes, just that battle.

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I don't get it: the rest of the game is great, and I am actually quite good, which is amazing for me in a fighting game; but the final battle is just b******t in every way.
i would love to hear the people who created that fight...

"So, what about the final battle? The character is good, but what about the actual fight?"
"Well, what about... 3 different phases?"
"Yeah, ok, that seems good."
"One of those will have an attack that hits you if you are not jumping, wherever you are, and another will summon powerful dragon skulls that you can block only once, and if you miss, they take away 10% of your health! And both of those will have no warning whatsoever before they start!"
"Great! Another phase will have the character stand perfectly still, while a shadow hits the player. And every single hit will take away 15% of their health, this time!"
"Amazing! But what about the last one?"
"Oh, that's easy! Just combine all of the previous attacks."
"... that's it? Just that?"
"No, we also remove all the limits! The boss will be able to summon dragon skulls and shadows without any cooldown!"
"THAT is better! Great, we are set!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 26, 2015, 06:13:12 am

Quote from: 94dima94 on June 26, 2015, 05:34:52 am

FINALLY beat the Skullgirls final boss. It literally took me 40 minutes, just that battle.

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I don't get it: the rest of the game is great, and I am actually quite good, which is amazing for me in a fighting game; but the final battle is just b******t in every way.
i would love to hear the people who created that fight...

"So, what about the final battle? The character is good, but what about the actual fight?"
"Well, what about... 3 different phases?"
"Yeah, ok, that seems good."
"One of those will have an attack that hits you if you are not jumping, wherever you are, and another will summon powerful dragon skulls that you can block only once, and if you miss, they take away 10% of your health! And both of those will have no warning whatsoever before they start!"
"Great! Another phase will have the character stand perfectly still, while a shadow hits the player. And every single hit will take away 15% of their health, this time!"
"Amazing! But what about the last one?"
"Oh, that's easy! Just combine all of the previous attacks."
"... that's it? Just that?"
"No, we also remove all the limits! The boss will be able to summon dragon skulls and shadows without any cooldown!"
"THAT is better! Great, we are set!"

While it is a pretty annoying battle, there are patterns. Those long skull projectiles that hit multiple times? Double or high jump over them. Don't spend longer in the air than you have to, to prevent the long skull coming from above. Alternatively, just hold block instead of pressing it - you still take sizable chip damage, but it's better than a chunk of your health.

As to the shadows, there are tells. In the second and third phase, there's a slight windup when you're at close range, followed by the shadow quickly jabbing. It must be blocked high, but if you're a character with good mobility not in the middle of an attack you should be able to see it and avoid it.

The other shadow summon things all must be blocked standing up - they hit high, so blocking low will miss. The ones that come from directly above can be avoided quite easily, but they have long active frames, so don't dash back into them while they're still there.

Lastly, the spammy projectile skulls can be taken out by most projectiles. Cerebella can reflect them, though more often than not she still takes the hit, as the spammy skull projectiles have two hurtboxes - the initial projectile, and a tiny explosion a frame or two after the skull contacts.

My qualifications: I've beaten Marie on Nightmare difficulty, where she has 300% of normal health and flinches significantly less.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 26, 2015, 12:26:32 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on June 26, 2015, 05:34:52 am

FINALLY beat the Skullgirls final boss. It literally took me 40 minutes, just that battle.

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I don't get it: the rest of the game is great, and I am actually quite good, which is amazing for me in a fighting game; but the final battle is just b******t in every way.
i would love to hear the people who created that fight...

"So, what about the final battle? The character is good, but what about the actual fight?"
"Well, what about... 3 different phases?"
"Yeah, ok, that seems good."
"One of those will have an attack that hits you if you are not jumping, wherever you are, and another will summon powerful dragon skulls that you can block only once, and if you miss, they take away 10% of your health! And both of those will have no warning whatsoever before they start!"
"Great! Another phase will have the character stand perfectly still, while a shadow hits the player. And every single hit will take away 15% of their health, this time!"
"Amazing! But what about the last one?"
"Oh, that's easy! Just combine all of the previous attacks."
"... that's it? Just that?"
"No, we also remove all the limits! The boss will be able to summon dragon skulls and shadows without any cooldown!"
"THAT is better! Great, we are set!"

Marie is annoying. On Normal or Hard difficulty you can make her flinch and give you free time to punish, and apply more flinching. How you can make her flinch depends on the character. Also, always be blocking when you aren't attacking. I only do standing blocks against Marie.

Once you beat her as many times as you want to, you can always just pause and exit the game after that. GG Marie, no re.

My qualifications: Got my shit rekt by Marie countless times before I finally got gud enough and understood the game controls well enough to beat her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 26, 2015, 02:33:01 pm

Happened a little while ago, but it's the best I've got for now.
Had nobody better to deploy on a bomb disposal mission, so I sent a team of five rooks and one SHIV to do it. Even though Thin Mints are significantly less one-hit-killable, especially with five rooks using ballistics, I did it without a casualty.
XCOM - Enemy Unknown (+ Long War mod)
(I'm doing another bomb disposal, but without the SHIV this time. Hopefully luck and strategy hold for me again.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 26, 2015, 03:15:50 pm

Spoiler: Not bad for just a few hours of playing (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/aYdWFZW.png)

I eventually got double-teamed by bb and  I Tis Robot, with bb spiking me as I Tis got me in a corner. I didn't die and I eventually returned to spike I Tis, knocking him off the leaderboard while not quite killing him.

Agar.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 26, 2015, 03:46:32 pm

That's still really small compared to some I've seen :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 27, 2015, 12:10:14 am

Quote from: miauw62 on June 26, 2015, 03:46:32 pm

That's still really small compared to some I've seen :P

I've gotten over 3000 on that. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 27, 2015, 02:05:51 am

My score ticker just seems to stop counting sometimes. Do you have to eat things relatively close to your size to gain points? Or does food stop giving points after a while?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 27, 2015, 03:23:42 am

Your score is your largest total mass, so if you lose mass it won't go down, but it'll stop going up for a while.
However, you also lose mass constantly, the bigger you get the faster you lose mass, so you really have to keep eating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on June 27, 2015, 10:56:28 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on June 26, 2015, 03:15:50 pm

Agar.io

And this is how I lost my last 2 hours... thank you anyway, I had no idea what that was, I just saw some weird picture.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on June 27, 2015, 10:59:18 am

Quote from: 94dima94 on June 27, 2015, 10:56:28 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on June 26, 2015, 03:15:50 pm

Agar.io

And this is how I lost my last 2 hours... thank you anyway, I had no idea what that was, I just saw some weird picture.

Speaking of Agar.io, I scored 5919 and held first place for 10 minutes!(helped when one dude didn't run away when he couldn't suck up any of my splits, and gobbled him when I reformed :P )

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vattic on June 27, 2015, 08:32:26 pm

Finally beat Smough and Ornstein after many attempts (Smough first as a friend advised). For some reason it only took four estus flasks too. First Dark Souls play through.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 27, 2015, 08:50:06 pm

Started a new campaign in (XCOM - Enemy Within) Long War and made it even easier for myself.
During the first mission, my rookies barely missed a shot. If it was 50% or about 50%, it made it. I only remember a 70% missing, and only once. (I have terrible specific short-term memory with these things. :P)
Allow me to repeat: First mission, all rookies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on June 27, 2015, 10:09:15 pm

I spawned, in the wilderness, as a martial artist test subject with long fingernails and fast healing. According to the map, there's a mansion over to the northeast. I go over there and find myself confronted with a veritable horde of zombies. I proceed to pummel them all to redeath and crush their corpses to prevent them reanimating. I get two or three infected wounds and my torso health is in the \, but I'm alive still. Wandering around in the mansion, I find a bathroom with some first aid kits, which I use to get rid of my infections. I also discover a huge library with useful skill books, a pool filled with unlimited water and a nice room with a bed near the center of the mansion which I claim for my own. Over the next week, I fortify my new abode by boarding up all entrances but one and add a fireplace to my personal room. Now I've got oodles of skill books, a nice safe place to sleep and unlimited water to drink. With a forest nearby for me to forage food and herbs for tea from, I don't have to worry about basic survival anymore.

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C:DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 28, 2015, 12:08:39 am

I discovered the magical fun of kidnapping people, getting them high as fuck, beating the shit out of them with a cardboard cutout of Reagan, then playing Mortal Kombat with them in order to induct them into my secret clan of great righteousness.

Who would've thought you could turn Limbaugh liberal with LSD?

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LCS

I later won on Nightmare Mode. W00T.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 28, 2015, 12:04:10 pm

With a single attempt, though a pile of healing potions, the final battle between Dracula and the Belmont clan of vampire hunters has ended in victory...

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for Dracula.

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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 28, 2015, 09:17:00 pm

Won the game on We Didn't Start The Fire Nightmare Mode (Nightmare of Arson, if you will.)

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LCS

Woo! And the only losses were some of my teeth!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 29, 2015, 02:30:05 pm

Finished Portent with no injuries, actually, and got the Flight of the Valkyries achievement, too.
XCOM - Enemy Within (+ Long War)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 29, 2015, 11:17:18 pm

I successfully descended into the depths of hell and slew the Spider Mastermind. Dual Plasma Rifles too good.

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Brutal Doom v20

Was playing through the megawad map pack "Doom the Way Id Did" on Ultraviolence. Good playthrough. Good map pack, would recommend to others. On to the sequel!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calidovi on June 30, 2015, 10:00:37 am

I recently crushed Assyria with hordes of longswordsmen and crossbowmen, annexing Assur and razing the city of Nineveh.

The Celts are next.

(Civ V)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on June 30, 2015, 10:31:16 am

Cleared a high level hunting mission by doing sucessive critical hit kills using the shadow step special action and the kuromimi scythe, with my lich farmer. It ended in about 13 turns.

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Elona+

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 30, 2015, 01:34:06 pm

Quote from: Laptisen on June 30, 2015, 10:00:37 am

I recently crushed Assyria with hordes of longswordsmen and crossbowmen, annexing Assur and razing the city of Nineveh.

The Celts are next.

(Civ V)

ALL HAIL CELTANIA! :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haveroszaur on June 30, 2015, 02:29:15 pm

50 stealth tanks+50 stealth tank decoys=confused AI.
Really, really confused AI, which, in turn, started spamming missile infantry.
Against awakened and enlightened.

I have found a new way to defeat a Brutal AI.

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Command and Conquer 3: Kanes Wrath

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calidovi on June 30, 2015, 03:25:22 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 30, 2015, 01:34:06 pm

Quote from: Laptisen on June 30, 2015, 10:00:37 am

I recently crushed Assyria with hordes of longswordsmen and crossbowmen, annexing Assur and razing the city of Nineveh.

The Celts are next.

(Civ V)

ALL HAIL CELTANIA! :P

I swear she's begging for a Declaration of Friendship every turn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 30, 2015, 04:22:41 pm

Well, obviously she wants to be your friend! Is that so wrong!?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Generally me on June 30, 2015, 05:24:46 pm

Was naked in the dark. Managed to army crawl around the place, avoiding zombies and getting a shotgun(10 shots), katana and a backpack as well as other miscellaneous stuff. Went to a nearby military base, Got chased by at least a hundred zombies. Jumped out a window, broke my legs. Knew I couldn't run, so I rapid fired my shotgun into the first few while crawling to me car. Ran out of ammo while halfway. Started to stab everything that got close with my katana. Just a few metres from my car on 2 health and with 10 zombies left from the hundred. Crawled into my car and ran them over.

Didn't have a splint or a medkit so I drove to the nearest medical spawn and crawled past zombies before getting a splint and healing my legs. Found so much buckshot for my shotty that I decided to go on a rampage. The street is now covered with bodies and blood. Don't have any ammo left though.

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unturned

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calidovi on June 30, 2015, 05:47:17 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on June 30, 2015, 04:22:41 pm

Well, obviously she wants to be your friend! Is that so wrong!?

If she weren't spying on me all the time it wouldn't be a problem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 01, 2015, 12:24:43 am

Not a combat own, but I finally got myself a water source. In the form of a mechanical pump. Which required NINE levels in Construction. That's about a weeks worth of skill book reading. And then one day building metal door frames out of some helicopter wreckage to get my Construction skill up the last level that my skill book couldn't teach me. And then one day building the well proper and hooking up the pump. Plus all the time I spent looking for the tools and parts to make the pump in the first place. And now I've got running water. And running lava[Technically, I had THAT long before now.]. I can just make myself a cup of herbal tea. ANYTIME I WANT. This is so exhilarating.

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Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 01, 2015, 11:02:36 am

Herbal tea.  The rich people drink of Cataclysm dda.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 01, 2015, 04:09:02 pm

Step one: Knock wyvern on his scaly ass.
Step two: Grab boulder.
Step three: Roar "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" as you double jump high above the prone foe.
Step four: Powerbomb that boulder directly onto its forehead.
Step five: Land smoothly in slow motion.

Dragon's Crown. The dorf is so fucking baller it isn't funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 01, 2015, 07:51:01 pm

Quote from: Greiger on July 01, 2015, 11:02:36 am

Herbal tea.  The rich people drink of Cataclysm dda.

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(http://i.imgur.com/fs5aOvu.jpg)
^{[Source] (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150629)}

EDIT:
Oh, here's one.  First large battleship landing (not a crash), starting equipment only, no one higher than a Corporal.  I launch anyways for a few reasons: (a) because I'm not certain if Council penalties for uninterdicted missions extend to landing operations, (b) because I'm not certain if interdicting landed research operations affects alien research gain, and (c) because I figure I can at least get some cheap experience and maybe a corpse or three by popping up, hitting a few weak pods outside, and scrambling back to base once things inevitably get too hot.  From a landing spot near the bow, I proceed to sweep up the exterior of Thin Men and Sectoids by moving up gradually, until I finish the last one of those by the stern, losing a single Rocketeer (my insurance policy against rogue outsiders or chrysallids) in the process.  I consider withdrawing, but then end up triggering a set of Floaters, with me on the exact opposite side of the map from the extraction point.  I take down the last one, start to consider withdrawing next turn, and a bunch of chrysallids charge through one of the doors into the ship.  I barely take them all out in a single turn due to luck and shotguns, which pushes me towards one of the doors inward.  I open it the next turn on a lark before falling back, mostly because I'm pretty sure that besides the outsiders in the bridge all the way across the ship, there's almost certainly nothing left, and very probably nothing more than a few sectoids at the most.  In this, I'm technically accurate.  The only thing left is indeed a trio of outsiders, but they're not on the bridge: they're right on the other side of the door.  Panic, repositioning, and a whole bunch of various grenades later (smoke, flash, and HE), I've taken *them* down as well, and I get the biggest surprise yet: a successful mission notification, and a whole mess of loot.  All for the loss of one Rocketeer and an entire fire team that will probably be in the hospital for a month. 

Oh, and less than a day after landing, I get a UFO notification; launch and fail, at which point it lands in Tibet before I can send up another interceptor.  I'm about to send up another team, but another UFO pops up and I do shoot it down, crashing somewhere in Xinjiang.  At that point, rather surprised, I've saved and quit, not quite willing to push my luck any further.  Both are small UFOs, but if I clear both of them, that means that in less than a week, I'll have blasted my way through a battleship and two scouts.  And very probably reduced my active force to a single fire team of freshly-minted squaddies and rookies, but...

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XCOM: Enemy Within, Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 02, 2015, 01:20:40 pm

Killed Satan for the first time, without any crazy item combinations either.

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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on July 03, 2015, 12:38:23 am

Finally beat Odin. Pain in the ass fight.

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Final Fantasy XIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 03, 2015, 04:30:58 pm

Made it to Act 5 mostly on my own (needed a little help on how to reach a (railroaded) quest item that seemed just out of reach. I seemed to be right in my ways, but the timing must've been off and didn't register as an option). Besides that, the trials were a challenge, but a combination of hacking skill and gaming wits made me bypass a major part of the last trial (instead of building a bridge, I lined up a bridge corner-to-corner, walked across easily enough (kudos to the third-eye hat), and set the middle of the bridge to where it should be (while on the bridge itself. My sword JUST reached enough to hack into it's controls), dropping myself in the process. I don't think that was how the puzzle was intended to be solved (but I wasn't having fun with the puzzle proper, so I made my own way). The remainder of the puzzle was just getting the switches and movement speed correct.

The game actually provided some education to LUA coding as you play. Kinda wish I could type in the numbers, however.

Oh yeah, and my first foray into hacking after getting some more toys, I crashed the universe.

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Hack 'n' Slash

EDIT:
Didn't expect to beat the game so quickly. Then again, the debug item contributed majorly to my victory, also allowing me to get every relevant item for my quest. Teleporting with it (and controlling the speed of time) made the endgame effortless.

Then again, I cheated my way through it. I didn't focus on programming, or chopping away at things. I exploited my situations to their logical potential. Funny enough, I think that's what you were supposed to do. All the complaints about the game may have been from people that were too focused on one thing or another. I liked it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on July 04, 2015, 01:22:09 am

Got 1 hour of free time before sleep x_x and decided to play Mount&Blade: Warband (mod'd. "More Women" mod, for female fighters and such).

Routed an enemy patrol of ~60 men, a mixture of horseback and otherwise, along with the enemy lord using just myself and 9 other female mounted archers.

We ran in circles around them that it was fun and partly historically realistic and suffered 0 losses.
And I also got the chance to capture the lord, but set him free and he was thankful. \o/
Hurrah mounted archery! Love them composite bows.

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Mount & Blade: Warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on July 04, 2015, 10:36:53 am

You should try out sword sisters, female war god commandos of death and destruction. Also I think it is one of the few (or only?) units that are mounted and have crossbows. It's been awhile since I've played but they I believed had very fast horses coupled with plate armour and decent skills. Probably my favourite mercenary unit in the game, although like all mercenary units sadly amassing them is a huge pain because of the relative scarcity of peasant women.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on July 04, 2015, 11:19:21 am

Can confirm, sword sisters useful but hard to replace. Dilute with swadian knights if necessary. Rarely lose either except in castle/city sieges.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on July 04, 2015, 11:53:51 am

Quote from: Cheedows on July 04, 2015, 10:36:53 am

You should try out sword sisters, female war god commandos of death and destruction. Also I think it is one of the few (or only?) units that are mounted and have crossbows. It's been awhile since I've played but they I believed had very fast horses coupled with plate armour and decent skills. Probably my favourite mercenary unit in the game, although like all mercenary units sadly amassing them is a huge pain because of the relative scarcity of peasant women.

Ooo I do :3 They're my mainstay in vanilla games because of how rare they are. Extremely useful folk!

Though the mod I uses has female infantry/cavalry and archers for ALL of the factions--along with 2 more tiers of Eliteness...problem is, that the Sword Sister line doesn't meet the higher degree compared to the other female troops (ie Female Khergit 'Windriders' as the mounted archer Elite).

I never use Swadian knights though. Having too much fun being a mounted archer to...even try using Swadians.
_{Vagir//Rhodok ranged troops ftw!}
But mods make it even more fun~♫♪

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 04, 2015, 11:38:38 pm

An 83-year-old woman broke our leader out of a forced labor camp. She later committed 5 acts of terrorism.

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LCS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 05, 2015, 04:27:15 pm

I decided that I wanted the Securan origin world for my very own. The problem? It was completely under the control of a pirate faction, and heavily defended. There was also the minor matter of being nearly four sectors away from my own territory.

So I first became an ally of the most powerful Securan civilization in order to gain refueling rights in their territory. Sent one of my very first fleets (2nd Fleet), which was the only fleet with an appreciable number of troop transports, stopped off at one of their refueling stations, and then launched my attack. The fighting to clear the pirate space port and fleet was brutal, but I only lost two frigates in the process (one destroyed, the other so heavily damaged that it could no longer fight). After the skies were clear I dropped off the troops, then proceeded to wreck every pirate mining base in the system. By the time the warships had finished, the population of Secura was firmly under my control...except for the pirate fortresses which continued to contribute to unrest and corruption. So with barely a moment to pause, the invading soldiers marched on the fortresses and completely demolished them. The native Securans were apparently quite pleased by this: despite the sheer distance between them and the rest of my empire, and the havoc and deaths, their approval rating is in the 40s (15 is considered good).

Distant Worlds: Universe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 06, 2015, 01:14:32 pm

With the help of a friend, I slew the Moon Lord and returned peace to the land.

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Terraria. I FUCKING BEAT TERRARIA YES AAHAHHAAHHAHA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 07, 2015, 12:48:48 am

Before the Cataclysm, Gie Kacht was a lonely high schooler. They watched anime and dressed up as a cat. After the Cataclysm, they barely survived. Frantically stabbing zombies with a knife, they ate bird eggs raw and drank toilet water. Slowly, their life began to improve. They found themselves fancy outfits, hooked up a well and learned many important things from pilfered libraries and science labs. And then Gie Kacht became so much more. Gie Kacht is now a dapper cyborg catperson ninja wielding a giant katana as large as they are as they drive around New England in a pimped out RV slaying the undead. They're at the top of the food chain and everyone else is tasty looking mice. In other words, Gie Kacht has entered the ENDGAME. And it is glorious.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Trapezohedron on July 07, 2015, 12:51:21 am

Vortex Beater is overpowered to an extent (phantasm is god)

Twins died to 2 gravitations worth of chlorophyte bullets

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Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 07, 2015, 10:48:26 pm

Won a match in Skullgirls Multiplayer as Squigly and Filia against Robo-Fortune, Eliza, and Fukua. Good match, was pretty close.

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Skullgirls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 08, 2015, 01:16:46 pm

Quote from: pisskop on July 08, 2015, 01:15:59 pm

Quote from: pisskop on July 07, 2015, 07:38:20 pm

My first 40.xx siege!  A full 12 attackers came on site and I closed my untamed desert/evil mountains fortress off from the topside world, stranding a yak bull and something else we hadnt goteen around to murderizing yet out while my forces gathered from their scattered locations into the sand barracks.

So while the gobos came over a mountain range and almost their maximum travel distance to get here, they didnt bring the punch.  But thats okay.  We long ago harvested anything useful from the surface and moved underground, occupying the 3rd caverns and mamgma sea mostly.  The desert doesnt typically spawn anything worse than a giant bark scorpion and the mountains rain blister causing syndrome.

Anywho, I let all my dwarves stand out in the sun and they painted the sand green.  I recalled them inside.  :|  lul cave sickness.

I took on the 12 gobbos just now.  we lost 6 dwarves in the clash (1 baby), and took another 4 casualties.  1 dog also died.  The survivors are pissed about being in the sunlight and seeing their friends die and taking minor wounds.  But looking over the units and logs I found that several are now semi-hardened and I got a pretty cool log from my militia captain.

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(http://i.imgur.com/eFOxKmK.png)

She had terrify cast upon her as the battle commenced, and was gashed in the neck early.  But she managed to get back on her feet and kill a few after overcoming her fear in more than just word.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 08, 2015, 05:21:12 pm

Actually had a good game for once.

Got 2v1 in the top lane because low level LoL.  I was the 1, playing as Poppy.  I not only managed to outlevel them, I went 7/3 and only one of those deaths was from the people I was laning against.

At one point Gragas ulted me away from the tower and they dove me.  Running back to the tower, I expected to die but instead I killed one of them, and then burst out laughing.  Wasn't even paying attention to the game because I expected to die instantly.  Instead, I lasted for a good 5 seconds while the tower killed the guy I was fighting and I walked away with a tiny sliver of health left.  I was in a skype call with my friend and all he must have heard for a good half minute was just me laughing my lungs out.

Not really skill on my part but still felt really good.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on July 10, 2015, 01:49:06 am

Second or third time playing in a destroyer. I encounter another destroyer which engaged me. During the battle it beaches itself. So I put him down with my torpedoes, passing by without using my guns. Waiting for the fireworks. After that a cruiser attacked me. I'm able to close the distance and launch my torpedoes. It dodges my first salvo but the second one connects. My guns and the flooding finished the job.

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World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 10, 2015, 01:54:51 am

Marathonned five Eyes of Chthuhlus in one night with a Bee Gun and Space Gun.
Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Pearofclubs on July 10, 2015, 12:50:14 pm

Playing ranked splatoon, tower control mode. Hit the entire enemy team with a killer wail while they were on the tower, we ended up taking the game with the resultant push.
I cant claim that the victory was entirely mine, though. My team did well all game, and I died when the other team respawned, so... GJ team :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on July 10, 2015, 10:48:49 pm

Titan HM. Everyone fell off of the platform except for me, the two tanks, and one DPS. It was a close one, but we did it. The dead healer bitched me out for not DPSing while I was healing though.

Also in Final Fantasy XIV, but a few days prior, I managed to finally beat Odin. Barely. The screen went black as he was doing Shin-Zansetsuken, and we thought we lost for certain, but we just barely made it.

I thank the scholar's Selene fairy recently being given an AOE debuff-clearing move. It seriously helped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on July 11, 2015, 07:05:28 am

I had two great rounds with my destroyer. One of the highlights were when I ambushed another destroyer at the start of the round. I briefly spotted him going along the other side of an island so I launched my 4 torpedoes at the tip of the island. I spotted him again right before my torps connected with him. Another highlight was at the end of the round when we were down to 2 destroyers vs 2 battleships. After some dodging, lots of torps and more shots, we won the round.

For the two rounds I sunk 2 DD, 1 CL and 1 BB and I did tons of damage against other ships.

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World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 11, 2015, 01:19:40 pm

Beat Diablo on Hardcore. Admittedly it took me 5 trips to revive my mercenary and resummon my skeleton army before finally whittling him down but HEY, I got him and didn't die. Onwards to Baal and then Nightmare.

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Diablo 2 on Hardcore normal with PlugY mod as a summoner necro.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 12, 2015, 10:54:19 am

I must be doing something wrong when the Witch can do normal attack damage comparable with the Goblin and myself(myself wielding a Greatsword of the Ancients, now a Cosmic Core Greatsword or some such nonsense, and she's got the Chaos Staff herself), while the Succubus, who has less HP and Defense than everyone else is the party tank(I have Skeleton in reserve for some reason). But I'm tearing through encounters with enemies whose levels are more than 10 higher than mine.

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Paper Sorcerer. My party is Witch, Goblin, Succubus, with the Puppet, Shadow, and Skeleton hanging back doing nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on July 12, 2015, 12:29:06 pm

Fought my way up to Baal, at which point I had maxed out skeletons and was finally putting points into skeleton mastery. My skeletons are much tougher, and hit harder.

Baal was easy, no resummoning my army was necessary. On to nightmare and players2 difficulty, and Nightmare Andariel was likewise not hard at all. At this point I've maxed Skeletons and Skeleton Mastery and my undead army of 9 spooky skeletons can chew through anything the game throws at it right now.

There are no brakes on Mr Bones' Wild Ride.

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Diablo 2

Hardcore as a necromancer. Had a few close near death moments but still going.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noblaum on July 12, 2015, 05:28:10 pm

Beat up the Pope in a tournament in the 1257 AD mod for Mount and Blade: Warband. He killed my horse in one hit, but after getting up I managed to do the same with my lance. Then I kicked and stabbed him to death. For an old guy in robes he was surprisingly resilient.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 12, 2015, 05:36:26 pm

THE HOLY GHOST CAN'T SAVE YOU NOW OLD MAN AHAHAHAH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 12, 2015, 06:39:53 pm

Finally got an S rank on Jamais Vu. Damn that was frustrating to get thanks to the final sequence.

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Metal Gear 5: Ground Zeroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 13, 2015, 10:47:03 am

After a week of playing, I finally beat the game. That was... a pretty happy ending actually considering the player character is the villain here.

Spoiler: The Succubus' denoument is the best (click to show/hide)

"The Succubus becomes a famous musical risque performer who spends her downtime living in the lap of luxury surrounded by a harem of boy toys wrapped around her little finger."

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Paper Sorcerer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on July 13, 2015, 08:34:34 pm

Old Man River, the Escort, spent many nights of passion with Your Mom, the Mafia Godfather. I kept her busy. Too busy to kill anyone for seven days, long enough for the Town to identify and off the majority of the scum team. I was eventually killed, but not before I doomed their team to extinction.

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Town of Salem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on July 14, 2015, 06:08:25 am

Built a big ship, evacuated everyone, and won the game! AND Nobody died!


Rimworld. Most hilarious moment from that run was when an evil ship landed right in front of all my manned turrets. Easiest mechanoid fight ever!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on July 14, 2015, 12:54:54 pm

Month after the destruction of Santa Maria, Pathfinder class exploration ship in the Philadelphia system, 1st Maritime Group composed of 11 Trident class Frigates Leaders and 13 Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates ( backed up by the 1st Cruiser Squadron - 9 Normandy class Cruisers ) entered Philadelphia system and set course for the Santa Maria wreck.

1.8 bilion kilometers from the Sol jump point, leading frigate active sensors picked up contacts - 22 fast attack crafts nicknamed Wasp class, the same ones that destroyed Santa Maria. Frigates started firing their missiles and it took 5 salvos to completely obliterate every enemy ship.

No one on board was injured and Global Terran Alliance Navy scored its first victory over enemy force.

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Aurora of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 15, 2015, 01:05:38 pm

Just clocked Captain Claw (for the unfamiliar (http://www.kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/index.html)) for the first time in years. Died to something other than the instant-kill spikes a grand total of twice, one of which was the penultimate boss (frackin' stupid wind deals sixty damage instantly).

Most importantly, though, I killed every single enemy on the last level with magic, and still had over fifty shots left at the end. And I came within two shots of killing the final boss on my first attempt in years (I finally managed on the third or fourth).

Hooray for winning obscure games!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 16, 2015, 08:41:36 am

Quote from: Arx on July 15, 2015, 01:05:38 pm

Just clocked Captain Claw (for the unfamiliar (http://www.kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/index.html)) for the first time in years. Died to something other than the instant-kill spikes a grand total of twice, one of which was the penultimate boss (frackin' stupid wind deals sixty damage instantly).

Most importantly, though, I killed every single enemy on the last level with magic, and still had over fifty shots left at the end. And I came within two shots of killing the final boss on my first attempt in years (I finally managed on the third or fourth).

Hooray for winning obscure games!

I love you just for knowing about this game.  I literally pulled my CD out of storage a few days ago after finally repairing my long-suffering DVD drive and can't get past level 3.  ^_^

^{((Of course, half the reason I can't get past level 3 is because I keep getting distracted by my old copy of Mission Critical and hopping over to play that instead.))}

EDIT:
Dragon King Greataxe, successful get, first shot.  And I even won afterwards.  Lucky. ^_^

Well, first shot on this character, but considering I haven't even played in probably half a year to a year, and considering I'm trying a melee build instead of my usual distance-based shenanigans, I'm pleased as punch nonetheless.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 19, 2015, 11:53:54 am

Dracula attempted to grapple me to steal my life. I countered by setting my foot on fire and delivering a roundhouse to his face.

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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Albus mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 19, 2015, 11:56:19 am

I was doing rather well- hadn't gotten grabbed or otherwise died this round- when I killed a titan very quickly. The game crashed.

I know it probably isn't what happened, but I like to imagine that I got so many points off of that kill that it killed the game.

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Attack on Titan Tribute Game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 19, 2015, 02:00:04 pm

The Vanu had drove us off from their facility. We were all desperate-But there was nearly 100 of us and 100 of them.

They pushed us to our spawn, taking the capture point-But they underestimated the Terran Fucking Republic. We fought back. And we pushed them out, with only 30 seconds until they capped the facility. They retreated back to their facility-And we took that, too.
Loyalty Until Death, you xenolovers.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 19, 2015, 02:14:59 pm

PS2 has some truly nice moments. I remember when me and my outfit pushed from the NCs base, surrounded by a sea of purple spandex, all the way to Rashu Biodome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calidovi on July 19, 2015, 03:08:03 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on July 19, 2015, 02:14:59 pm

purple spandex

I dislike the Vanu and their run-of-the-mill fashion choices.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 19, 2015, 03:13:20 pm

I don't play anymore, but I've never played anything but NC, even when they were at the bad end of the balance cycle. Something in the exaggerated muh freedoms and big guns just appeals to me, despite hardly ever using MBTs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Calidovi on July 19, 2015, 03:29:27 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on July 19, 2015, 03:13:20 pm

I don't play anymore, but I've never played anything but NC, even when they were at the bad end of the balance cycle. Something in the exaggerated muh freedoms and big guns just appeals to me, despite hardly ever using MBTs.

(http://i.imgur.com/s3w1BIQ.jpg)

Praise Reagan.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 19, 2015, 03:30:13 pm

...As a citizen of the US, I should be offended, but I'm too busy laughing my ass off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 19, 2015, 03:36:26 pm

TR4Life, you rebel scum.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on July 19, 2015, 06:22:14 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on July 19, 2015, 03:36:26 pm

TR4Life, you rebel scum.

Awesome, a fellow TR player.

Loyalty until Death!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2015, 01:02:39 am

0u0

Galaxy-Dropped straight into an enemy crowd moving to a base. Took 'em down before they could even get there.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AdmiralGeezer on July 20, 2015, 03:40:06 am

League of Legends and Lee Sin. When everything goes right with the Q, the dives, the ward placement behing enemy and kick-backs. Made an awesome U-turn mid Q flight as the targeted enemy was drawn back by Thresh. 

Lee Sin has been one of the most entertaining champions to play!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puzzlemaker on July 21, 2015, 09:35:15 am

Playing skyrim, with frostfall.  In the frozen norths, accidently fall into the water.  Shit.

Manage to get a fire going after scavaging for wood, and with a useful "Spawn Camp" scroll thingy.  Dry off, set out again, but it's still to far to make it, and I can't risk stopping to scavange for wood again.  Everything goes a little blurry, and I realize how fucked I am.  Suddenly, I find a cave.  Well, more like a hole in the ground, but I'll take it.  I jump in, manage to find an old bandit camp with a fire going.  Safe!

Of course I can't go back the way I got in, but at least I am out of the blizzard. 

I almost regret playing as a nord since I get free frost resistance and it makes it much easier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 22, 2015, 09:29:43 pm

Not in a game, but in game programming: I finally figured out serialization in Unity. The documentation wasn't any help, Googling was only a little bit of help, so I just had to dig in and screw around with things until it worked. Makes me nostalgic for the (extremely frustrating) days of beginning to learn programming with Game Maker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 23, 2015, 10:54:54 am

100% completion. And it "only" took me 37 hours.

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 26, 2015, 06:08:06 pm

A Craver fleet of 7 cruisers descended on one of my systems. I had three cruisers, and their combined firepower was less than half that of the Cravers.

What did I have in my favor? Actual defenses on my ships, bombers, and tactics.

The Craver fleet was wiped out. I didn't lose a single ship, though they were all badly damaged.

Endless Space

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on July 26, 2015, 09:12:32 pm

     It was a fight to the death.... the Guild had found my hide-out and I had to win.  Checking my available forces I find my best four Gals are in the infirmary, leaving me 14 to fight a base defence, I also had a reprogrammed cyber-disk, but we won't talk about that rust-bucket.  The Guild brought their shiniest plasma weapons and a blasta launcher, but when they open the doors to the lift, my team manage to pump enough lead and energy into them to take out the first wave.
    20 turns later, every member of my team is under 50% hit points, only the enemy commander and two panicking soldiers remain, but with my low tech weapons, killing the commander took four more turns.  The two soldier succumbed easily.
    What was the own?  Not the successful base defence, but a day later, a large ship landed near my hideout - I had to send out my only walking crew, (the ten new Gals I hired had not yet arrived), so I sent five Gals to capture a Large Supply ship full of Soylent.  It was a slow, hard, slog, every shot fired at my Gals was heart stopping, I couldn't afford to lose any of them.  In the end, only one was injured - friendly fire.

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openxcom with the piratezex mod.  Two days later: a Pogrom, five veterans and ten swabbies.  That went.......as well as expected, I guess.  Two of the swabbies were so useless they couldn't carry weapons without red-lining.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: beorn080 on July 26, 2015, 09:17:32 pm

I committed an act so heinous that the gods themselves pushed up armageddon and are restarting the world.

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Infernomoo. I rerolled during double xp weekend, and ended up with, well, double xp. This led to them tracking down the source of the XP bugs, and since they can fix it now, they're rebooting it now due to everyone's xp being buggered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SealyStar on July 26, 2015, 10:39:58 pm

I made it through a good part of a mission with only nonlethal attacks and a lot of patience waiting for guards to get into place. There's something very satisfying about zooming up behind guards and choking them for a couple seconds, and feeling like a lucky bastard when their buddies don't see you in that time.

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Dishonored

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on July 27, 2015, 12:56:42 am

Oh look! A bank! I bet if I built a car with a pointy front, I could break in without breaking my bones! All I need is a powered welder, quite a few batteries, a few days worth of food, a hacksaw, a wrench, some piece and quiet, and some welding goggles!
Oh look! A steamroller!

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Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 27, 2015, 12:59:20 am

Apparently I can easily take out a swarm of helicopters, and the attack helicopter especially. Took a good shot into the pilot's seat, and the ship barely had a chance to fire anything at us.

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GTA: Vice City

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on July 27, 2015, 03:24:24 am

Auuuggghhhh. PTW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 27, 2015, 08:07:44 am

This happened a bit ago, but I beat the entire game, killing less than 10 people over the entire course of the campaign and half of them were targets.

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Dishonored

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 27, 2015, 08:29:29 am

I'm not proud of how long it took me to do*, but I did a Ghost run once.
Also sorry to, you know, one-up you like that.

_{*I had to restart an entire mission once because I killed someone.}

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It was Lady Boyle's Last Party. Damn you, guy Pendleton has you duel!

[edit]Actual ownage!
Playing BlitzDungeoneer on the Duel Network (quite literally, YuGiOh online). He brought out two separate fused monsters, Cyber End Dragon (4000/something) and Twin Cyber Dragon (2800/something), both with doubled Attack Points from the fusion card's effect. Quite obviously, in the 8,000 Life Point game we were playing, that would not end well.
He destroyed my Rabidragon, leaving me at about 5,000 or so LP, and then destroyed my Grave Squirmer. But that allowed me to get rid of his Cyber End Dragon with its card effect, and even though he attacked me with an X-Head Cannon, it wasn't enough. And then he took, like, 7,000 LP damage from the fusion card's effect (it doubles a resulting monster's attack, but at the end of the turn you use the fusion card, you take the amount of Attack Points you added to the card as direct damage) and died. I was happy.

YuGiOh TCG, but over the internet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on July 27, 2015, 05:52:34 pm

PHALANX Beta Station had only been operational a number of days before coming under attack. It was set up to provide air cover to the nation states of United America, but an upgrade to its radar system meant there was no warning of the incoming attack and as such no chance to intercept it and blow it out of the sky. The alien Harvester class craft landed within the base perimeter without warning. In a panic, all base staff save for 8 green rookies evacuated. The last radio contact with the base defenders indicated they were going to hole up in the labs in south side of the base, abandoning the engineering space in the north, hoping to hold off the alien attackers for as long as possible until help could arrive. Transports from the EU had not yet arrived with some of the more exotic weapons and armour PHALANX troops typically carry into battle against the alien invaders, so the base defenders had to make do with standard issue rifles and equipment. Combat footage captured by base CCTV and helmet cameras will be much used in the training of future recruits. The 8 soldiers did humanity proud, initially repulsing the rush made by the 20 or so aliens on the bases surface access points via the art of ambush, with 2 dying of their wounds in the process. Initial attack repulsed, the 6 survivors turned into the hunters, pairing up and stalking carefully though the smouldering ruins of the north side of the base, picking off the aliens one by one, suffering only 2 more wounded in the process. Along with 24 alien corpses for dissection we scavenged over 100 pieces of weaponry and alien equipment to turn back against them, and saved a valuable base from total destruction.

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UFO: Alien Invasion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 27, 2015, 07:18:32 pm

With a burning bottle of triple sec, a machine gun, and a hand cannon that shoots rebars, I killed a demon mushroom from Hell. (http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=90516)

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 27, 2015, 07:30:58 pm

On my first real attempt at the game, made it to #5 on the match leaderboard.

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Agar.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 28, 2015, 03:30:26 pm

I killed a shocker with a towel.

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Cataclysm: DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: swagdaddy on July 28, 2015, 03:48:06 pm

I called in a supply crate that held about 100 crabs and a couple bombs to be dropped on the enemy base. Everyone died.

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Cortex Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on July 30, 2015, 12:55:20 pm

Mob round on grandmaster, things aren't going so well I'm down to one health and have over 200 more people left to kill.
I  end up winning and I had gotten back up to 3 health. c: felt good.

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one finger death punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 31, 2015, 12:40:35 am

cats, Hill Orc Fighter of Qazlal Stormbringer, succeeded in nabbing the Orb of Zot in Ziggarut Rush mode. Not as cool as winning the game proper, but still cool. I grabbed the Obsidian Axe, Gong Shield and some kind of Patented armour that gave oodles of AC and resists but disabled casting and teleporting, mostly because they had high bonuses. First few levels were tricky, but the starting potions of berserk strength tided me over until I got Upheaval, which tided me over until I got Disaster Area. For the record, with 27 Invocations[Which I obtained fairly quickly], Disaster Area covers the ENTIRE ROOM in elemental explosions. Twice. And I have more then enough piety to spam it. My innate robustness and arsenal of magical doodads are more then enough to finish off whatever stragglers are still alive. I ended up with 27 in all useful skills and then freaking STEALTH[Which was completely useless because I have a raging maelstrom of energy around me at all times plus a shield which literally rings like a gong when struck] by the time I nabbed the Orb and escaped to the surface.

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup in Dungeon Sprint mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 01:24:37 am

I beat The Consuming Shadow after a pretty lucky run.

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Turns out it's totally viable to guess the last rune of the banishment ritual, as long as it's not the God Rune. It's probably even more optimal than hunting down all four runes, since you save time and you only lose sanity for casting incorrectly (AFAIK), which doesn't matter at that point anyway.

I'm not sure if the final boss is meant to be beatable. There's at least seven endings (counting ending G which is the standard "you died"), so I'm thinking at least one of them has to be one in which you escape alive.

Beating the game unlocked The Ministry Man, who is actually Trilby from the Chzo games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 31, 2015, 02:51:25 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 01:24:37 am

I beat The Consuming Shadow after a pretty lucky run.

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Turns out it's totally viable to guess the last rune of the banishment ritual, as long as it's not the God Rune. It's probably even more optimal than hunting down all four runes, since you save time and you only lose sanity for casting incorrectly (AFAIK), which doesn't matter at that point anyway.

I'm not sure if the final boss is meant to be beatable. There's at least seven endings (counting ending G which is the standard "you died"), so I'm thinking at least one of them has to be one in which you escape alive.

Beating the game unlocked The Ministry Man, who is actually Trilby from the Chzo games.

What game is this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 03:36:23 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 31, 2015, 02:51:25 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 01:24:37 am

I beat The Consuming Shadow after a pretty lucky run.

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Turns out it's totally viable to guess the last rune of the banishment ritual, as long as it's not the God Rune. It's probably even more optimal than hunting down all four runes, since you save time and you only lose sanity for casting incorrectly (AFAIK), which doesn't matter at that point anyway.

I'm not sure if the final boss is meant to be beatable. There's at least seven endings (counting ending G which is the standard "you died"), so I'm thinking at least one of them has to be one in which you escape alive.

Beating the game unlocked The Ministry Man, who is actually Trilby from the Chzo games.

What game is this?

Yahtzee's first truly commercial game. Gameplay video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrKRpBCh8jE).

I think it's pretty good, but I'm willing to forgive it a lot because I enjoyed the Chzo games and the ideas are original enough. However, the graphics are basic, and combat can screw you over hard if you're fighting more than a certain number of enemies, due to mandatory auto-aim. For my part though, it was worth ten bucks. Also, I got free ebooks of Jam and Mogworld with it, though I'm not sure that deal is still around.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 01, 2015, 03:51:36 am

Quote from: miauw62 on August 01, 2015, 03:46:09 am

I never realized how powerful the tide turner is o.o

Tide turner + ali baba wee booties or reskin + eyelander or reskin is hilariously fucking powerful once you get going. Pick off a few spies or snipers until you're at 4 heads and just start rollin'.
I managed to get 23 heads on badwater, this is hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 01, 2015, 11:02:36 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 03:36:23 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 31, 2015, 02:51:25 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on July 31, 2015, 01:24:37 am

I beat The Consuming Shadow after a pretty lucky run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turns out it's totally viable to guess the last rune of the banishment ritual, as long as it's not the God Rune. It's probably even more optimal than hunting down all four runes, since you save time and you only lose sanity for casting incorrectly (AFAIK), which doesn't matter at that point anyway.

I'm not sure if the final boss is meant to be beatable. There's at least seven endings (counting ending G which is the standard "you died"), so I'm thinking at least one of them has to be one in which you escape alive.

Beating the game unlocked The Ministry Man, who is actually Trilby from the Chzo games.

What game is this?

Yahtzee's first truly commercial game. Gameplay video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrKRpBCh8jE).

I think it's pretty good, but I'm willing to forgive it a lot because I enjoyed the Chzo games and the ideas are original enough. However, the graphics are basic, and combat can screw you over hard if you're fighting more than a certain number of enemies, due to mandatory auto-aim. For my part though, it was worth ten bucks. Also, I got free ebooks of Jam and Mogworld with it, though I'm not sure that deal is still around.

Oh, the Consuming Shadow is the name of the game. I thought it was a boss or something :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on August 01, 2015, 12:19:58 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 27, 2015, 08:29:29 am

I'm not proud of how long it took me to do*, but I did a Ghost run once.
Also sorry to, you know, one-up you like that.

_{*I had to restart an entire mission once because I killed someone.}

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It was Lady Boyle's Last Party. Damn you, guy Pendleton has you duel!

I went for ghost/clean hands + mostly flesh and blood steel in the same run and I did it too, but it didn't count because

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apparently sleep darting granny rags after you burn her phalayctory (or whatever it's called) counts as a kill, even though it clearly says unconscious and does not count as a kill at the end screen

Made me rage so hard that despite the fact I liked the game I never bothered to play the DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 01, 2015, 12:25:13 pm

Quote from: BurnedToast on August 01, 2015, 12:19:58 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 27, 2015, 08:29:29 am

I'm not proud of how long it took me to do*, but I did a Ghost run once.
Also sorry to, you know, one-up you like that.

_{*I had to restart an entire mission once because I killed someone.}

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It was Lady Boyle's Last Party. Damn you, guy Pendleton has you duel!

I went for ghost/clean hands + mostly flesh and blood steel in the same run and I did it too, but it didn't count because

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apparently sleep darting granny rags after you burn her phalayctory (or whatever it's called) counts as a kill, even though it clearly says unconscious and does not count as a kill at the end screen

Made me rage so hard that despite the fact I liked the game I never bothered to play the DLC.

Yeah, I had a similar problem with the flooded district level. I think the only way to get non-lethal is to dart/choke Slackjaw instead of Granny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 01, 2015, 12:35:22 pm

I darted Granny and I still got Clean Hands. Might be a glitch, or maybe her rats went a little angry and ate her afterwrads?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on August 01, 2015, 01:26:28 pm

Hehehe... Planetside 2.

So, they recently added a new pistol into the game with a 4x optic. I had just got an Auraxium medal on my chaingun, bringing me up to 1000 certs, and was wondering what to acquire next, so I bought that.

Hmm... this gun is perfect for an infiltrator with stalker cloaking.

I have spent the last three days being an annoying git. There is nothing quite like dropping claymores at the top of gravity pads. There is nothing quite like seeing a large portion of the enemy team running to the capture point wondering where the hell you are. There is nothing quite like uncloaking for just long enough to lob a grenade at them. There is no satisfaction like seeing everyone but the MAX die.

It is glorious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 02, 2015, 02:06:06 pm

Oh my god this game is awesome, even the demo is made of win.

Grabbed a gun off the table, then proceeded to shoot the guy in front of me, then the one behind me, and the 4 guys coming in from the 2 entrances without anyone getting a shot off.

There was a gun at the end of a hallway. 3 feet behind that gun were 3 guys with guns of their own. I was at the start of the hallway. Ran through the hallway and dodged bullets like it was the matrix until picking up the gun and killing all 3 guys.

Walked into a room, killed a guy and took his gun, then killed the remaining 10 enemies as they stepped into the room.

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SUPERHOT, the demo. Curtesy link. (https://superhotgame.com/play-prototype/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on August 04, 2015, 12:21:54 am

Only died once my entire playthrough, and that was against the final boss. 2nd attempt against them, and I defeated them by a small margin (about <6 bars of health left). Final score was above 200000, and most of the waves (at least 90 of them) were just mowed down with normal gunfire, until the second half of the game, had to drop off a wave-clearing bomb a few times to keep alive. Missiles were mostly stockpiled for taking out the halfway and final bosses, plus numerous (also stockpiled) bombs. Nice to know my bullet-dodging skills helped.

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Galactix (DOS)

While at it, it's a personal own for best time playing through the game as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on August 05, 2015, 01:39:24 pm

Just finished Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Damn, this was a fun game, probably my favourite one in this series so far.

MVPs, from 5th to first: Nephenee, Jill, Ilyana, Ike, Soren (almost had 100 kills).

Well, I'm off to play the sequel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 05, 2015, 02:27:17 pm

Lucky. I've never managed to find a non-ludicrously-overpriced copy of Radiant Dawn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 05, 2015, 06:40:43 pm

Although the Tower of Joy (my attempt at a vertically-arranged hovercraft robot) didn't work out, an inline hoverblade design is actually extremely durable when done well. It's extremely difficult to unbalance a craft has its hoverblades in the front and back rather than left and right, even when there's thrusters involved. The downside, as with all hover vehicles, is that it's difficult to place guns in an optimal way. However, my latest hovercraft is able to routinely survive two or three engagements with much tougher robots before biting it.

Robocraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 06, 2015, 02:01:48 am

Beat the game at Hell difficulty. First time. Cheers.

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Diablo 2

Was a summoner necromancer. Surprising how fun the build gets to be once I have on-demand teleport, ~20 skeletons, and the ability to kill things by exploding corpses.

Not a totally "legitimate" run due to some duping of runes so I could get runewords I otherwise would need to farm for hours for. Single player can't exactly trade runes with other people, because, uh, single player only.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 07, 2015, 07:24:55 pm

Extracted every single soldier in the main mission by taking them to the helicopter and putting them in, after knocking them out of course. All 54 of them, including those who leave the base if you let them and those who spawn after you complete objectives.

It may be a stupid self-imposed challenge, but I still am proud to have pulled it off, even if it took me about two and a half hours.

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on August 07, 2015, 07:33:26 pm

Quote from: Teneb on August 07, 2015, 07:24:55 pm

Extracted every single soldier in the main mission by taking them to the helicopter and putting them in, after knocking them out of course. All 54 of them, including those who leave the base if you let them and those who spawn after you complete objectives.

It may be a stupid self-imposed challenge, but I still am proud to have pulled it off, even if it took me about two and a half hours.

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Hey, it makes sense, beat the big bad via attrition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 07, 2015, 10:48:32 pm

...uh

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 07, 2015, 10:53:39 pm

Defeated Fyrus in about five minutes. It would have been less, but I messed up one time after shooting his forehead gem and I had to try again.
_{Yes I know LoZ bosses aren't too hard but I wanted to share anyway.}

LoZ: Twilight Princess.
_{On an unrelated note, I absolutely live for the little sword twirl Link does after a boss/after defeating a couple enemies. It's so awesome and flashy and unnecessary but I love it anyway.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 07, 2015, 10:58:44 pm

Killed Duriel without dying! Always a good achievement on hardcore. Even better achievement considering the Hell Unleashed mod adds a bunch of new abilities to Duriel which I was encountering for the first time and there was a miniboss I had to fight right before him. It was an intense fight.

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Diablo 2 Hell Unleashed mod

Playing a bone necromancer. Thanks to this mod, I'm throwing around bone spears for 500-800 damage, at level 35. Wooo, this mod is great. rebalancing, shit tons of new content, better drop rates, new monsters, new skills, rebalanced skills, everything's great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nahere on August 07, 2015, 11:53:30 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 07, 2015, 10:53:39 pm

_{On an unrelated note, I absolutely live for the little sword twirl Link does after a boss/after defeating a couple enemies. It's so awesome and flashy and unnecessary but I love it anyway.}

Fun fact: if you sheath your sword as the right kind of enemy dies (which is most of them) then Link will twirl his sword as he does so. Works really well with mortal draw.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 07, 2015, 11:59:14 pm

Yes, I mentioned that part. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nahere on August 08, 2015, 01:54:08 am

I thought you were referring to miniboss type enemies, nevermind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 08, 2015, 02:04:34 am

Oh man I'm with you there. I've beaten TP repeatedly and once did the Second Cave of Ordeals without using the magic armor--there's nothing left for me in that game--but I still fire it up now and then to go all Mortal Draw on the Lizalfos in northern Hyrule Field, just because of that little animation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sagal on August 08, 2015, 03:30:04 am

Sunk 7 ships with torpedoes and didn't even die. Got to love those Japanese DDs, over 8k exp too (first win)

World of Warships

Pic of the glorious aftermath
http://imgur.com/GE71lNP (http://imgur.com/GE71lNP)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on August 08, 2015, 08:36:33 pm

Signing up for the Japanese PSO2 as an English player.  Managed to beat the Japanese Captcha boss on only the second try.

たふあこあ  <- I have no idea what that means but it clearly spells victory.   It took me forever to match up that second letter.   Seriously how do even native Japanese do those.  It's overlaying scribbles on top of slightly more meaningful scribbles.

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Phantasy Star Online 2 JP new player registration page

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 08, 2015, 08:41:06 pm

Ye gods but that thing was annoying. Kudos to you for getting it right away o_o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 10, 2015, 10:59:02 am

Invading Krakow, the battle that essentially started WWII. I set up my force with two rifle companies(one converted ad hoc into a mechanized unit), a Pioneer company, a few sections of tanks, a few armored car platoons, and a couple of halftrack platoons(used for the above mechanized infantry), along with the assorted variety of mortars, howitzers, etc, plus several bomber groups.


The bombers start the battle, taking out some of their men(including one tank), and generally sowing chaos among the Polish. Split my mechanized forces in half, pushed them towards two clusters of victory hexes, one on the north, the other south. The north objective was taken first, but my armored cars became engaged with the Polish armor immediately afterwards. The southern objective ran into a large group of Polish infantry and Uhlans. Horses versus armored cars and halftracks? That went as well as expected.

In the north, despite initial losses of armor, my armored cars eventually crushed the Poles' tanks. (I looked it up in the game encyclopedia, my armored cars were known to have a weakness against those particular Polish vehicles, hah.) Turned out that was all of their armor force.

In the south, I used the speed of my armored cars and halftracks to flank and encircle the Polish. Their troops were quickly driven into a panic, running to and fro into walls of fire on either side. The only real difficulty so far was their ridiculous number of 81mm mortars. I lost more armor throughout the battle to those mortars than anything else(except possibly the game interpreting a fire order as a move order).

After taking the north objective, I moved that mechanized company to the north-east objective - the last victory hexes left. The only problem, it looked like the entirety of what was left of their army was either standing on it, or standing in front of it. Worse, they kept throwing down smoke field after smoke field, meaning I had to drive in to close range to fire, leaving my armor vulnerable to hand grenades(actually very dangerous), and my infantry(now starting to catch up) to ambush.

Then I get a lucky break - well not so much as lucky as expedient; I was still crushing them - I spot their A0 unit between my force and the objective. It takes another turn or two to destroy it, but it pays off - destroying their HQ unit(always designated A0) causes a constant and recurring suppression penalty to their entire army. It took a couple of more turns(and more casualties) to force their remnants off the victory hexes, but that finished the battle - victory for Germany.

Admittedly, I thought I lost more vehicles than I did:
PzKpfw-35(t): 4 - armored car
PzKpfw-IIc:   5 +1 that was abandoned - light tank
SdKfz 251/HT: 8 - halftrack


Total Losses - according to the score page:

Germany  /  Poland
Men: 94  /    1093
Art:  0  /      20
APC:  5  /       0 (they had none)
AFV:  8  /      18 (all they had)

Not sure why there's a difference - maybe because I looked at the unit list for destroyed units for the first count, which might count abandoned vehicles whose crews were subsequently killed(the Polish had a thing for that) as "destroyed".

Score:
Germany:  12522, Decisive Victory
Poland:    2324, Crushing Defeat

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Steel Panthers: World at War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on August 10, 2015, 02:29:29 pm

Conquered the galaxy, steamrolled the majority of rebel scum planets. The remainder I took with overwhelming force, artillery, and abusing my bombers. Sholas was one such world. I actually had an AT-AT somehow get stuck, couldnt move. Spent half the battle just standing there, in the middle of the route the rest of my units were moving along, and also facing the wrong way. Used AT-STs like infantry, since infantry take automatic damage from the heat on that world.
For some reason they kept trying to sneak tiny forces onto Rhyloth to harass my one barracks there. Never did reinforce those guys, but hey, the twi'leks did just as much rebel killing or more. I really only had to set up some turrets.
Most of the action took place in space. Most of my defeats did as well. Just from the rebels employing MK-II frigates, marauders, corvettes, swarms and swarms of A-wings, and always including Home-One. Ackbar found a lot of traps, incidentally. Must have blown him up a dozen times. They almost always attacked the least-defended worlds on the border. I should have spent more on space stations and garrisoned more cruisers. But once I employed those cruisers in force, they basically fell like dominoes.
Oh, and I blew up Endor when they took it from me. Couldn't handle the counter-invasion fleet, though. Fuck those Ewoks. Hope they like their forested asteroid field!

(Star Wars: Empire at War Gold edition)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 10, 2015, 02:34:24 pm

Wait, are you saying the AI rebels managed to take out the death star?  I'm impressed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on August 10, 2015, 07:45:19 pm

What? No. I employed it to blow up the ewoks. They sent the same fleet to attack Atzerri, where I parked it over their base, repeatedly, but never managed to destroy it. They're pretty dumb, yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 10, 2015, 11:11:49 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on August 10, 2015, 07:45:19 pm

What? No. I employed it to blow up the ewoks.

I think you just fulfilled the fantasy of some star wars nerds somewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 10, 2015, 11:14:18 pm

Everything you do fulfills someone's fantasy, up to and including pointing this fact out.

*raises eyebrows*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sagal on August 11, 2015, 03:16:53 am

Quote from: Akura on August 10, 2015, 10:59:02 am

Admittedly, I thought I lost more vehicles than I did:
PzKpfw-35(t): 4 - armored car
PzKpfw-IIc:   5 +1 that was abandoned - light tank
SdKfz 251/HT: 8 - halftrack

Isn't PzKpfw-35(t) a czech tank and not an armored car :P
And how in the hell did you manage to fight that big battle? I get bored like half way if there are more than 1-2 companies per side, oh and do you use fast artillery?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2015, 07:08:08 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 10, 2015, 11:14:18 pm

Everything you do fulfills someone's fantasy, up to and including pointing this fact out.

*raises eyebrows*

D-don't judge me!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2015, 06:52:00 pm

Actual ownage, double post aside.

I enter the base with five packs of C4, a useless silenced rifle, a tranquilizer pistol with about twenty-something(?) shots, and three AA guns to blow up.
I leave the base with no C4, a recoil-less rifle missing three shots, four AA guns and one APC down, and no kills.
I'm reasonably certain I would have S-ranked it if I didn't rely heavily on Reflex..

MGSV: GZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on August 12, 2015, 03:15:04 pm

Started multi planet start in Sol.
Earth Federation vs Martian Reich/Venus Union/Kissaki Syndicate based on Europa - 250 mil each, TN, shitload of minerals each vs my 500 conventional empire.
Despite truce countdown, each AI turned hostile in two years. They blew up my survey ships so i responded by building PDC with Interplanetary MIRV and launching 1 x 150 MIRV salvos against both Union and Reich .... 30 000 explosions later both Mars and Venus are devoid of any lifeforms, average temperature dropped by 150 degrees celcius and both planets have -150% penalty to industry.

I just killed more than 500 milion people in 5 seconds ... Feels good.

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Aurora 4x

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 13, 2015, 01:57:50 pm

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on August 13, 2015, 03:32:23 pm

Just got that game on sale. Going to try it today.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on August 14, 2015, 04:55:14 am

Thanks to a lucky combination of placement of SAM sites, an odd alien flight path, and blind chance on hit evasion, I shot down the first "Corrupter" class UFO to appear in the skies above Earth, a full year before the aliens usually start using them in serious numbers, way before my air combat tech usually allows such endeavours. Winning the ground combat was a challenge considering that the aliens that survived the craft were armed with pretty much the best the aliens can field (carbon nano-tube armour, particle beam based weapons, plasma blades...) but it was done with only 2 casualties on a challenging mission, which involved storming a high rise from the roof heli-pad. The implications of this are immense - basically jumping to the top of the tech tree waaaaaaay early (possibly as much as 18 months before the norm), allowing such things as snipers armed with antimatter coilgun rounds, power armour, interceptor and transport craft based on advanced alien tech, but most importantly, thanks to the capture of an intact alien plasma blade, is the development of encased plasma rounds that operate with traditional human weapons. These lil beauties are only supposed to be available in the last few months of the game as they are a counter to heavy alien armour, but here I am sending rookies into combat with them to tear through the alien hordes. Awesome.

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UFO:Alien Invasion. The aliens are now doing so badly they are sending hardly any missions any more. I suspect my constant total wipes of even the biggest ground teams they can assemble is hitting the resources the game can throw at me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dark One on August 15, 2015, 02:00:48 pm

Started up with a new character, a Breton with custom Dark Mage class (main magic skills Destruction and Alteration, advantages 3x int in spell points, resistance to shock, immunity to paralysis, rapid healing and only disadvantage is being unable to use magic in daylight - this kept leveling difficulty low, while still having good bonuses). As starting spells I've got Shock, Slowfall and Chameleon. Knowing the layout of Privateers Hold (starting dungeon), and combining ebony dagger with shock I quickly cleared the whole dungeon of enemies and loot, and also advanced to 2nd level. Then I moved to Wildertown, one of the bigger cities, sold the loot and signed up for mages guild. As a first quest, I had to enter The House of Vladingus dungeon, and kill crazed mage Belladayne Gaerslay. Travelling by daytime, I had no mana, and entering the dungeon I had no place to rest and regenerate it - the whole dungeon was swarming with rats, bats and nightblades. Wandering the dark corridors I occasionally heard screams of skeletons from the upper levels of dungeon. After a good while of wandering, I reached the mage and slain it with my ebony dagger, which I used to clear most of the dungeon due to lack of mana. Then I ran to the exit, and checked the loot - some armors took from nightblades, lots of books, ingredients, holy tomes and holy daggers, an enchanted talisman with open spell - wih lots of dunegons having locked doors it's a mana and weapon (no need to bash when everything else fails) saver, and some clothes. The loot was worth over 4k, though merchants lowered it down to 2k. I kept the talisman, and as a quest reward I've got steel gauntlets with Feet of Notorgo spell (fortify speed), which I kept with me too. Dungeon crawling well done.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, where not getting lost in a labirynthine dungeon is already a huge reward.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on August 15, 2015, 04:26:53 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on August 13, 2015, 01:57:50 pm

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

Neat. Sounds like Uplink+ with how it plays. Just from this little scuffle, I'm ignoring the negative reviews. I mean, Uplink would end with being disavowed, but this has a better dynamic that allows fighting back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on August 15, 2015, 09:30:41 pm

First launched mission of the game landed safely on the VAB, this can only mean good things for my GRAND CAMPAIGN!

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: McDonald on August 16, 2015, 04:06:50 pm

Quote from: Itnetlolor on August 15, 2015, 04:26:53 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on August 13, 2015, 01:57:50 pm

Some fucker counterhacked me after I broke into one of his fileservers, he deleted my x-server and forcibly restarted my system. And sent me an email calling me a script kiddie who couldn't do shit without a UI. Lol k.
I booted back up in command line, went through logs to find his IP address, found that he didn't even revoke my admin privileges, copied his x-server.sys file and then trashed the computer.

Thought about following it up to find his actual computer but decided against it for now.

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Hacknet
I am hesitantly going to call this a better hacker atmosphere game than Uplink

Neat. Sounds like Uplink+ with how it plays. Just from this little scuffle, I'm ignoring the negative reviews. I mean, Uplink would end with being disavowed, but this has a better dynamic that allows fighting back.

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Unless I missed stuff, this is the only time you get hacked, not counting when you fail to disconnect before a trace finishes. I didn't get to do what Graknorke did, because my game crashed and loaded up again with the mission finished :<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 16, 2015, 05:06:34 pm

Just had an absolutely ridiculous run on Binding of Issac as Cain. It started out fairly meh, the first floor treasure being a Dry Baby familiar which blocks enemy projectiles and occasionally fires off a room-wide AoE attack. But since it can be difficult to position the familiar without getting hit by the projectile you're trying to block, it's mostly useful for tanking the occasional hit.

Second floor, I got the Midas Touch. Turns enemies into gold on contact and deals a decent amount of damage. Also bought the Magic Fingers (uses coins to deal AoE damage).

Third floor, I found something awesome: The Gnawed Leaf. With this, if you remain stationary for a few seconds and don't shoot, you turn into an invincible statue.

So let's review: I can turn into a statue pretty much at will. Enemies that touch me will be turned to gold and take damage/die. If they shoot at me, they can hit the Dry Baby and possibly deal massive damage to everything in the room. And if I encounter anything this tactic doesn't work for (laser-beam spiders, for instance) or get bored, I can spend some of the coins earned from Midas-Touched enemies to deal damage whenever I want. I barely ever fired my tears unless it was to put fires out or something.

Mom was wrecked. It Lives was wrecked. Satan didn't deal a single point of damage. And I unlocked the Negative. All in all, my best Cain run ever.

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 17, 2015, 11:03:09 am

Quote from: Sagal on August 11, 2015, 03:16:53 am

Quote from: Akura on August 10, 2015, 10:59:02 am

Admittedly, I thought I lost more vehicles than I did:
PzKpfw-35(t): 4 - armored car
PzKpfw-IIc:   5 +1 that was abandoned - light tank
SdKfz 251/HT: 8 - halftrack

Isn't PzKpfw-35(t) a czech tank and not an armored car :P
And how in the hell did you manage to fight that big battle? I get bored like half way if there are more than 1-2 companies per side, oh and do you use fast artillery?

You're quite right, it is a Czech tank. I don't know why I thought it was an armored car.

And I managed to fight it by playing over most of the week.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on August 18, 2015, 08:23:34 pm

I used the name oooooooooo, used only the letter o, punctuation, and the occasional smiley emoticon and won as SK against 5 mafia and 7 town.

Town of Salem. (Admittedly, this was on All Any, but it was still silly.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 18, 2015, 08:28:35 pm

On my third playthrough, first on the classic setting. I've heard that most people reload saves when anyone dies, but didn't want to do that so I prepared myself to lose people. I'd lost people almost every map on my first, Casual playthrough.

It turns out that when I actually use healers, tactics, and the weapon triangle, I can get through missions without anyone dying pretty easily.

Fire Emblem: Awakening. You know, if you're just going to reload the save whenever someone dies, why not just go on Casual?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 18, 2015, 10:51:48 pm

Simple, really. You touched on it yourself: On Casual you can't lose people; even if someone goes down they're back at the end of the map. Tactics don't matter, really.

On Classic, folks die for good. You need to play smart. If someone dies you can either push on, or refuse to accept your failure and try again. In the process you get better at playing the game because you learn how to identify potential dangers ahead of time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 18, 2015, 11:47:32 pm

Decided to try my new tank out, since I was fortunate enough to win it. It was absolutely ungodly.

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War Thunder. My God.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on August 19, 2015, 12:26:03 am

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 18, 2015, 11:47:32 pm

Decided to try my new tank out, since I was fortunate enough to win it. It was absolutely ungodly.

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War Thunder. My God.

What tank?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 19, 2015, 12:26:35 am

Quote from: tryrar on August 19, 2015, 12:26:03 am

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 18, 2015, 11:47:32 pm

Decided to try my new tank out, since I was fortunate enough to win it. It was absolutely ungodly.

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War Thunder. My God.

What tank?!

The KV-1B, the ground forces reward for the summertime madness.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on August 19, 2015, 10:01:35 am

Annexed Texas, annexed Korea, conquered 7 regions? provinces? states? from china, saved the CSA from the USA. helped the CSA get a lot of land. took land from the USA. took Washington from the UK, freed Canada from the UK. and became the 1 power in the world.

Things went rather well. unfortunately the CSA decided to stop being my ally at some point and they lost quite a bit of land to the USA.

I learned something very important during my time as mexico. Late game America is a bitch to fight. ;-;

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Victoria 2
(http://i.imgur.com/a3kL2gG.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 19, 2015, 10:23:26 am

>freed canada
HAIL MEXICO!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on August 19, 2015, 04:00:51 pm

My trap fence actually caught an stag, proving its viability and worthiness to be worked on, when I had signed it off as a failed cause.

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Unreal World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: joemoben on August 20, 2015, 04:13:32 am

Playing Bloodbowl:Chaos Edition as a Nurgle team with a beast of Nurgle kitted out to deal as many injuries as possible.

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(http://i.imgur.com/4dM6gKG.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 20, 2015, 02:13:54 pm

I'm playing demoman on pass_warehouse, looking to take out a nasty sentry blocking the goal. I'm on top of the red roof.
I stickyjump towards a spot from where i can shoot the sentry. I notice a sniper heading towards my landing spot.
Fuck it, I think. I begin adjusting my strafe so I land next to the sniper. I pull out my pan.
I LAND A GODDAMN CRITICAL HIT ON THE FUCKING SNIPER BEFORE I EVEN LAND.
GET. FUKKEN. PANNED!

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TF2, the new Pass Time mode. sadly an engie shot me before i could taunt. equally sadly, i wasnt recording.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 20, 2015, 03:09:52 pm

Caught three tarantulas in one night. Didn't see a single scorpion, which I was looking for, but hey, I have a pet tarantula in my secret basement now.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf

I love the new bug net mechanics in this one. Back in the day, you had to use trees and buildings as cover to charge the tarantula, then get your aim just right. In this one, because you can ready your net and sneak to the bug by holding A, you only have to hide behind something--in my cases, the town tree and a water well--to get out your net, then sneak over. They don't even bat an eye at your net anymore, they just kind of stare you down as you approach.

Still didn't find the scorpion. Not that I mind much, since I'll have to wait another year to finish my bug encyclopedia anyway. Got caught up in raising money the way I did in City Folk after becoming the richest man alive (i.e. paying off my house) and kinda forgot I still had to fill out my encyclopedia in this one, thereby accidentally completely missing the fireflies two years in a row.

You know what, is there an Animal Crossing thread? Love those games, especially New Leaf.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on August 20, 2015, 10:15:19 pm

My squad leader set up a beacon on a cliff overlooking an enemy tower, and after ten minutes someone else set up a sundry. Playing as the light assault, I equipped two bricks of C4, a shotgun, and a drifter jetpack, and wrecked havoc on the defenders. Regularly got two kills on each run, at the least, in addition to each turret that I would blow up upon landing. After about twenty minutes they started having at least a modicum of situational awareness. After forty minutes, they actively started to hunt me down. Eventually I had to retreat after our sundry blew up, and I switched to doing bombing runs on tanks and sundrys in the nearby pass. Eventually we started to push them back, and my squad leader set up a second sundry at the same spot. At that point the defenders in the tower had time to prepare, and my first few forays into the tower were met with proximity mines and auto-turrets. At that point I started to adapt. I landed directly on top of the turrets, which worked for a while but soon theyu started to place mines on top of there. Then I landed on the overhang next to it, but they did the same thing. Then I started to land up on the ring by the top of the tower, which kind of worked better but still left me with the problem of clearing out the mines by the turrets. I then switched to attacking the enemies on the ground, blowing up two sundries and a lightning. At this point we had a full fledged team on top, with infiltrators taking out defenders and three engineers with turrets. Th enemy started to send out teams to hunt us down, and I switched to skirmishing with the attackers. I was able to sneak up on one sundry, but the moment I tried to detonate the explosives I received buckshot to the back of my head, leaving me with the animation of pressing the detonator but no boom.  I was able to blow up one lightning and a harasser, and a MAX was able to kill the Sundry, while the engineers blew up the aircraft that was harassing us. I switched back to attacking the tower, but with us distracted they were able to push back the rest of our force, and the tower was well on alert for my attacks. I was able to still somehow get four kills, but was eventually killed by a mine. I spawned back on the sundry, only to be immediately blitzed by several vehicles, and killed within seconds. The attack on the whole was a failure, but for once I had an actual positive K/D ratio, so I call that a win.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 20, 2015, 10:35:29 pm

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on August 20, 2015, 10:44:02 pm

Sounds like Planetside 2, I haven't played it but that sort of sounds like it.

Fake edit:Yup, Steam storepage mentions both the Light Assault and the MAX as classes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on August 22, 2015, 07:51:46 am

Beat China in a war of attrition.

Taught them why you don't fight a land war in Russia. >:)

CKII EUIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 22, 2015, 10:41:44 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on August 22, 2015, 07:51:46 am

Beat China in a war of attrition.

Taught them why you don't fight a land war in Russia. >:)

CKII

are you using that asia mod?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on August 22, 2015, 01:31:37 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on August 22, 2015, 10:41:44 am

Quote from: Karnewarrior on August 22, 2015, 07:51:46 am

Beat China in a war of attrition.

Taught them why you don't fight a land war in Russia. >:)

CKII

are you using that asia mod?

Oops, meant EUIV
Transferred from CKII though

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on August 24, 2015, 09:19:29 am

Lbx (little battlers eXperience)

After I realized that the reson I kept getting slaughtered in the final battle was that I had forgot to equip the pole arm weapon I had bought to replace my old one, I proceded to anilate

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lex's ifrit

This also doubles as me getting owned becasue of the number of times I got beat before I figured it out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 24, 2015, 10:01:24 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on August 19, 2015, 10:01:35 am

Annexed Texas, annexed Korea,

(O-o)

Quote from: Lukewarm on August 19, 2015, 04:00:51 pm

My trap fence actually caught an stag, proving its viability and worthiness to be worked on, when I had signed it off as a failed cause.

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Unreal World

I don't know why, but the two trap fences I built, one being literally a single pit at a single tile corner at a bend in a lake, the other being one pit with some fences blocking another chokepoint, have captured nothing in the months since I've built them. Instead, randomly zooming in has caught me numerous stags and elks by comparison. I find driving them into the water, where their flailing about on shore tires them, is the easiest way to hunt. Just smack them in the face a couple of times with a club, then a spear to the throat, is enough for the best quality pelt in the season(summer, so decent).

The only other fence I built was one circling my house, since rabbits got into my turnips. I killed one, and it's meat is being smoked. I think another got carried off by an eagle owl or something. At least I hope it was, instead of something big enough to kill my sheep.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 25, 2015, 06:47:31 pm

  Observed and then enacted a method of letting Aloser come to me and thus negating her home field advantage and her stupid chokepoints (even if I couldn't stop her team from shooting one after another) and mamaged to take zero casualties because canopus is the toughest SOB in the party.

Tactics ogre, Lawful route.


  Learned and then successfully used a flamethrower in combination with a chaingun to create my own little chaingunner landmines. :D

Brutal Doom

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You know, They made the shotgun and kicks weaker, but the chaingun and flamethrower really have climbed up my list of to-use weaponry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on August 25, 2015, 07:14:38 pm

Quote from: pisskop on August 25, 2015, 06:47:31 pm

Learned and then successfully used a flamethrower in combination with a chaingun to create my own little chaingunner landmines. :D

Brutal Doom

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You know, They made the shotgun and kicks weaker, but the chaingun and flamethrower really have climbed up my list of to-use weaponry.

What? Like, light chaingunner dudes on fire and then shoot them into other dudes with the chaingun?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: PanH on August 25, 2015, 09:03:36 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 24, 2015, 10:01:24 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on August 19, 2015, 10:01:35 am

Annexed Texas, annexed Korea,

(O-o)

It might seems weird, but Korea is one of the best coal producing region in Vicky2 and easiest to get, since they're uncivilized (behind China's but it's harder to get). And coal is really important. Texas is just a natural expansion for a Mexico game. The hardest part is fending off the USA while doing it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 25, 2015, 09:21:24 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on August 25, 2015, 07:14:38 pm

Quote from: pisskop on August 25, 2015, 06:47:31 pm

Learned and then successfully used a flamethrower in combination with a chaingun to create my own little chaingunner landmines. :D

Brutal Doom

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You know, They made the shotgun and kicks weaker, but the chaingun and flamethrower really have climbed up my list of to-use weaponry.

What? Like, light chaingunner dudes on fire and then shoot them into other dudes with the chaingun?

When they burn they seem to not die, occupying space where their charred immoveable corpse is.  hitting them for damage sets them aflame, and its possible to get cruelty bonuses for overkill nongib damage.

Maybe a bug, but useful to mow down large groups of them into a tight area and set aflame. 


I occassionally kick them or hit them on accident with damaging results

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 27, 2015, 06:00:07 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 24, 2015, 10:03:40 am

Not a death, but it's quite galling to gain reputation with one of the AI players for lagging behind, when it's the no-talent bard that's patronizing you.

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Anno 1404. Okay, so I'm slow. Fine, but it's a pain in the ass to balance the economy in this game sometimes.

A few hours later, ramped up quickly to snooty Noblemen, quickly(and mostly :-\) rebalanced my economy, now I'm gaining reputation with Leif for being more powerful than him. Can't wait until I roll out the two warships I seem to be limited to(the rest of my navy limit is tradeships for the economy) in order to blockade his main port.

I also got the acheivement for building a Major City(950 of those snooty bastards) without using automatic trade routes - ie, balancing multiple islands' worth of resource chains manually.

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Anno 1404.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 27, 2015, 07:04:32 pm

S Ranked Bladewolf on my first try. Ffffuck yeah.

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METAL GEAR RISING

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on August 27, 2015, 08:55:02 pm

In August of 1914, the guns of war began to sound.  In response to the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia, Russian forces mobilized and entered Austrian Galicia in an attempt to secure trans-Carpathian passes.  In response to the failure of the Russian government to stand down, Germany declared war on not only Russia, but their French allies in an attempt to secure a decapitation strike before the latter could prepare.  In response to this, prepared Russian forces entered Prussia and Prussian Poland, even as France and the United Kingdom moved into Belgium to secure that state's independence.  As German force bogged down in Brussels, Russian forces pinned down German reinforcements to the rapidly-collapsing Austrian nation in Silesia and Slovakia, having secured Romanian support to the Serbian state with the promise of Hungarian Transylvania and a decisive demonstration of the Hungarian weakness at Presov, then brought their primary hammer down, aiming across the frozen Oder at the heart of Germany.  At 13:00 GMT of January 30, 1915, Russian forces under the command of von Val and Ruzsky triumphantly entered Berlin, missing the Kaiser's departure to Essen by a matter of hours.  The German government initially vowed to fight on, demonstrating the new nature of the industrial war as they pinned their hopes on the armies of Silesia, but it would be a mortal wound from which they would not easily recover as the Russian army took free reign in central Germany.  The failure of the German armies at Oppelin and Katowice, combined with Russian cavalry ranging into Hamburg and main army groups approaching Hanover, finally compelled the German Kaiser to see reason, and on March 4, the Chancellor was instructed to seek an armistice.  Bereft of aid, Austria was compelled to surrender three days later, and Bulgaria on March 11.  For the cost of 1.6 million German casualties (both killed and wounded), 1.1 million Russians, almost half a million Austro-Hungarians, and another half-million from the Western Entente, honor had been preserved, and a new European order was to come.

...I'm feeling this mod might have the same "overpowered Russia" problem that seems to follow so many WW1 games.

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Darkest Hour: The Grand Campaign mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on August 27, 2015, 10:00:56 pm

Not a straight example of "owning", but it was certainly awesome.

The other day I was playing Aura Kingdom and started to do some fishing while I was waiting for friends.
The moment I throw the line my vlc player decides to start Nightwishs Moondance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpu4f5q7wck). The exact moment, I kid you not, that the song starts gaining momentum a fish bit and I started reeling it in.

Most glorious battle against a cod in the history of mankind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 28, 2015, 12:51:11 am

Melta > 'Ard Boyz
Melta > Grimskul
Melta > Bloodletters
Melta > Chaos Marines
Melta > Chosen Champions

And I'm sure that if the final boss weren't a QTE, it would have been proven that melta > Nemeroth.

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Warhammer 40k: Space Marine. Sure feels nice to actually finish a game for once

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on August 28, 2015, 01:56:02 am

Ahhh, Zone 2 of Crypt Of The Necrodancer completed!
Dear god it feels to satisfying to watch the replay on max speed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on August 28, 2015, 05:46:53 pm

I was playing in survival mode, I had around 2300 or so kills, and I'm down to my last bit of health, as the golden sword slowly drifts down to my outstretched hand and the epic music begins playing, I realize that this is the end, I look down to see how many kills are left before the next heal, sixty-nine, sixty-nine kills till the next heal, it is at this time I realize that whatever great entity that is or isn't out there was smiling down upon me. I manage to not die instantly and I get closer and closer to healing, my heart beats rapidly and I wonder if I'll make it, not only did I survive long  enough to get the heal I manged to make it to yet another heal and in the end I reached a total of 2650 kills.

Sometimes I really love this game.

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one finger death punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Evilsx on August 29, 2015, 06:29:15 pm

I just got up to the 'Smough and Ornstein' boss fight and I just killed them in one go (and this was after fighting senpai boss in the painted world)...

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Dark souls
Finally decide to try to beat this game after finishing dark souls 2 an while ago, basically though I couldn't finish this after the chapel fight on the roof but thanks to the black knight dropping its sword to me, i am basically just enjoying the hell out of myself fighting all these bosses

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 29, 2015, 07:24:38 pm

Finally got Nah. Took me ages, because god DAMN Manor Of Lost Souls is bullshit.

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Fire Emblem Awakening.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on August 29, 2015, 07:33:09 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 29, 2015, 07:24:38 pm

Finally got Nah. Took me ages, because god DAMN Manor Of Lost Souls is bullshit.

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Fire Emblem Awakening.

((you had trouble with that paralogue? why?.....oh and who Is her father? have you reclosed her mother?))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 29, 2015, 08:34:39 pm

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Avatar and Nowi are the parents. I had trouble with the paralogue due to goddamn wizards with stupid range on a spell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 08:36:54 pm

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Mire. Damn Mire. And it doesn't have nearly that range if one of your units use it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 29, 2015, 08:51:06 pm

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It's probably a bullshit mechanics thing but that's no excuse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 29, 2015, 09:25:02 pm

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AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
SHOT THROUGH THE WALL, AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
GOD DAMMIT, THIS FUCKING GAME

Absolutely DESTROYED Chapter 14. I expected that to be a lot harder!

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FE: Awakening.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 29, 2015, 09:31:16 pm

Get ready for 20... 20 something.

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All promoted units, mostly cavalry, plus Walhart.
GOD I hate that chapter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 10:00:44 pm

The Radiant Hero. I forgot which paralogue that is, but

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you fight 50 units, all promoted classes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 29, 2015, 10:01:43 pm

Naga have mercy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on August 29, 2015, 10:43:30 pm

Big, stompy robots all over the map. So many missiles and large cannons. While they may not be perfect in keeping with the theme of the factions I consider the ability to build a 20+ cannon and missile armed mobile assault base the size of a CBD a resounding success.

I think a number of the robots are taken from the MechWarrior series. I see MadCats which I know are but there are several others that I really don't know.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. "Total Mayhem" mod. (http://www.moddb.com/mods/total-mayhem1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 29, 2015, 10:56:38 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 08:36:54 pm

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Mire. Damn Mire. And it doesn't have nearly that range if one of your units use it.

Mire is always 2-7 range. 7 Range goes a lot further than you think it does on the map. It's the longest ranged attack in the game, but it can only hit once, and has a pretty low hit chance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on August 30, 2015, 12:59:55 am

SUCK IT ZONE 3! AND YOUR GOBLINS!

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Crypt Of The Necrodancer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on August 30, 2015, 01:04:34 am

I wrecked Atamathon in two turns with an Adventurer that shoots rocks from their swords and swords from their rocks. The reflected damage chewed through ~3000 points of health and shields and left me less then twenty points away from death, even with a strong Heroism Infusion[I would have still been fine because Cauterize, but still]. Looking back at the combat logs, I seem to have used one of my artifact swords' special ability: Devour to get the final blow. I literally ATE a giant magic robot after assailing him with a cross between a storm of swords and an avalanche.

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ToME 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 30, 2015, 01:27:52 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 10:00:44 pm

The Radiant Hero. I forgot which paralogue that is, but

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you fight 50 units, all promoted classes.

...
/me stares at his 3DS in horror.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 30, 2015, 01:48:18 am

I am now a Golden God. Also defeated the Lamb for the first time. Also the first time I fought the Lamb. By the end of the run I was practically one-shotting bosses.

Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nomoetoe on August 30, 2015, 04:26:53 am

I beat one finger death punch on the grandmaster difficulty. c:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 04:38:16 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 30, 2015, 01:27:52 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 10:00:44 pm

The Radiant Hero. I forgot which paralogue that is, but

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you fight 50 units, all promoted classes.

...
/me stares at his 3DS in horror.

Yeah, 50 units, plus Chrom must fight Priam at least once to recruit him. Apotheosis is even nastier, which is a Xenologue i think - 7 waves of excruciatingly strong promoted classes without much of a rest, usually in sets of 10-15, with a superboss Anna at the end of it with 99HP, Aether, Hawkeye+, Dragonskin and i can't remember what else. the superboss is Merchant class, but most of her stats are in the mid 60s - ie. far above what your characters can manage even with min-maxing. My highest i've managed so far is Emmeryn at 61+5 Mag, but she's so fragile otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Generally me on August 30, 2015, 05:09:04 am

I built a rocket that could get 150,000 metres high, going straight up. I then went up, did a load of experiments and went back down. Except on the way down my parachute on my rocket broke off due to atmospheric forces. Inside the rocket was favourite little astronaut called Bob. He had survived at least ten crashed rocket ships almost miraculously. I was pretty certain this was it for him. So I just made him jump out the rocket midflight and use his jet pack to slow himself down. Didn't really work, he hit the ground at 50m per second. But instead of dying he bounced off the ground and allowed me to continue use the jet pack and slow him down enough to land safely. Still have Bob. And I always have 3 parachutes now just in case.

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 07:08:53 am

Quote from: Reudh on August 29, 2015, 10:56:38 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 08:36:54 pm

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Mire. Damn Mire. And it doesn't have nearly that range if one of your units use it.

Mire is always 2-7 range. 7 Range goes a lot further than you think it does on the map. It's the longest ranged attack in the game, but it can only hit once, and has a pretty low hit chance.

It doesn't seem that way in Nah's paralogue...

Quote from: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 04:38:16 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 30, 2015, 01:27:52 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 10:00:44 pm

The Radiant Hero. I forgot which paralogue that is, but

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you fight 50 units, all promoted classes.

...
/me stares at his 3DS in horror.

Yeah, 50 units, plus Chrom must fight Priam at least once to recruit him.

And the player only gets 30 units...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 30, 2015, 10:45:43 am

Quote from: nomoetoe on August 30, 2015, 04:26:53 am

I beat one finger death punch on the grandmaster difficulty. c:

:o
I'm still working on that...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 30, 2015, 11:10:35 am

Well, promoted units can go to level 20 again, right? I don't think NPC units go that high, right?
Right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on August 30, 2015, 01:22:07 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 07:08:53 am

Quote from: Reudh on August 29, 2015, 10:56:38 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 08:36:54 pm

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Mire. Damn Mire. And it doesn't have nearly that range if one of your units use it.

Mire is always 2-7 range. 7 Range goes a lot further than you think it does on the map. It's the longest ranged attack in the game, but it can only hit once, and has a pretty low hit chance.

It doesn't seem that way in Nah's paralogue...

Quote from: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 04:38:16 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 30, 2015, 01:27:52 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 29, 2015, 10:00:44 pm

The Radiant Hero. I forgot which paralogue that is, but

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you fight 50 units, all promoted classes.

...
/me stares at his 3DS in horror.

Yeah, 50 units, plus Chrom must fight Priam at least once to recruit him.

And the player only gets 30 units...

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mire is pretty tame, an already low hit chance, plus speed stat...

but radiant hero is insane....I don't think I have ever gotten anywhere close. Or maybe I won it once. cant recall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 01:35:05 pm

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I've beat it once. But that was on casual and the only ones who survived were the Avatar, Chrom, and Frederick.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on August 30, 2015, 02:18:39 pm

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that reminds me. its a shame the higher difficulties in FE:A just turn it into a luck based mission. I would rather face three grimas at once than face the higher levels

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 30, 2015, 03:11:02 pm

I rescued all the children lost in the forest.

No, that's not quite right.

I found a backback in the forest haunted by the ghost of a lost child.  I used magic forest spirits to summon the ghost girl back, who promptly ran away from me.  I managed, through great finagling, to carry her back to the town, where she re-united with her lost mother.  The townspeople were apparently satisfied that this was a returned child; when I rescued the fifth of the sixth living children, the level ended.

...all in a days work?

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Road Not Taken

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on August 30, 2015, 08:13:26 pm

A guy seemingly tried to weasel out my secret identity, so instead of reasonably denying it I thought it would be a better choice to be a huge dick about it and just refuse to say anything. Then the two high-ranking people  in the room both agreed with me and told the guy to shut up.
Then I revealed my secret identity because tbh I didn't even care about keeping it secret. YOLO

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CONSORTIUM
This game has some nice writing in places. Fuck that murder mystery though it's crazy hard to get anything useful out of anyone

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 09:46:25 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 01:35:05 pm

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I've beat it once. But that was on casual and the only ones who survived were the Avatar, Chrom, and Frederick.

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You'll love the Death's Embrace map then. Spikes that at the end of every turn reduce anyone on it (enemy or friend, even if they're in a pair up) to 1HP. You have 15 people, the enemy has 37 to begin with and receives around 4 more every turn. Lots of Sorceror risen carrying Mire and Sniper Risen carrying a Longbow, and the spikes put even your strongest character at range of death. You also must beat the boss before 10 turns are up, otherwise he escapes and you get a bad ending. He's got the following stats:

Algol - Berserker, lv 20
80 HP
50+5 Str
0 Mag
35 Skill
41 Speed
20 Lck
34 Def
30 Res.

He also carries Axefaire, Swordbreakere, Vantage, Vengeance and Sol. He's also accompanied by a unique risen:

Risen Chief, lv 20, Soldier
45+5 Str
10 Mag
43 Skill
43 Spd
20 Lck
43 Def
30 Res

and the skills Lancefaire, Axebreaker, Luna, Vengeance and Counter.

All that at the end of a grueling map which will really test your party's endurance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 30, 2015, 10:00:00 pm

Sounds like some Awakening devs are asking to get their souls removed very soon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 31, 2015, 12:20:50 am

FE:A's devs are evil and yet I love them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on August 31, 2015, 01:39:39 am

Well, maybe not a big deal to high level players. But...since I haven't played it that much, it is a huge accomplishment

I got this

http://www.wowhead.com/item=113134/crystalfire-spellstaff&bonus=559

Its at stage 1. Which cost 700 gold (usually goes for, since I got mastery on it, 1100 to 1200 gold)
Stage 2 costs 12-15k on my server, but I got a stage 1

To upgrade to stage two takes a weapon crystal that goes for 6k to 11k on my server.

Got savage blood for 80 gold each, 15 of them...a few were 90 gold...so lets say about 1300 gold.
Got 15 sorcerous water for 9 gold each so only 135 gold
I met a good friend on my server who is making a weapon crystal for free as long as I got the materials

Now stage 2 staff :D For the very low price of only 2100 gold when I'd otherwise pay over 10k for a stage 2 staff (and ones with mastery on it are more expensive, so it probably be 12-15k really). Heck a weapon crystal is usually expensive as it is. Its not as good as stage 6 of course. But it looks VASTLY better than stage one, and I can now have a much easier time of saving up money for either just buying weapon crystals or getting more materials for her to make more crystals :) The stage 5 and 6 crystals are most expensive though.

But man, that is my favorite staff in the whole game :D Will go great on my destruction warlock :D Most fun I've had in world of warcraft is on that character :) Plus now I can start going for a transmog of a demonic fire warlock kind of theme.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 31, 2015, 07:57:23 am

Quote from: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 09:46:25 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 01:35:05 pm

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I've beat it once. But that was on casual and the only ones who survived were the Avatar, Chrom, and Frederick.

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You'll love the Death's Embrace map then. Spikes that at the end of every turn reduce anyone on it (enemy or friend, even if they're in a pair up) to 1HP. You have 15 people, the enemy has 37 to begin with and receives around 4 more every turn. Lots of Sorceror risen carrying Mire and Sniper Risen carrying a Longbow, and the spikes put even your strongest character at range of death. You also must beat the boss before 10 turns are up, otherwise he escapes and you get a bad ending. He's got the following stats:

Algol - Berserker, lv 20
80 HP
50+5 Str
0 Mag
35 Skill
41 Speed
20 Lck
34 Def
30 Res.

He also carries Axefaire, Swordbreakere, Vantage, Vengeance and Sol. He's also accompanied by a unique risen:

Risen Chief, lv 20, Soldier
45+5 Str
10 Mag
43 Skill
43 Spd
20 Lck
43 Def
30 Res

and the skills Lancefaire, Axebreaker, Luna, Vengeance and Counter.

All that at the end of a grueling map which will really test your party's endurance.

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Is that a DLC map? Because I don't have any DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 31, 2015, 08:29:54 am

That it is, Twinwolf. If you're gonna get any of them, don't get the tougher ones until you've maxed out your party.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on August 31, 2015, 09:07:37 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 31, 2015, 07:57:23 am

Quote from: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 09:46:25 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 01:35:05 pm

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I've beat it once. But that was on casual and the only ones who survived were the Avatar, Chrom, and Frederick.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You'll love the Death's Embrace map then. Spikes that at the end of every turn reduce anyone on it (enemy or friend, even if they're in a pair up) to 1HP. You have 15 people, the enemy has 37 to begin with and receives around 4 more every turn. Lots of Sorceror risen carrying Mire and Sniper Risen carrying a Longbow, and the spikes put even your strongest character at range of death. You also must beat the boss before 10 turns are up, otherwise he escapes and you get a bad ending. He's got the following stats:

Algol - Berserker, lv 20
80 HP
50+5 Str
0 Mag
35 Skill
41 Speed
20 Lck
34 Def
30 Res.

He also carries Axefaire, Swordbreakere, Vantage, Vengeance and Sol. He's also accompanied by a unique risen:

Risen Chief, lv 20, Soldier
45+5 Str
10 Mag
43 Skill
43 Spd
20 Lck
43 Def
30 Res

and the skills Lancefaire, Axebreaker, Luna, Vengeance and Counter.

All that at the end of a grueling map which will really test your party's endurance.

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Is that a DLC map? Because I don't have any DLC.

That's......that's just......insane.....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 31, 2015, 09:50:13 am

After one of the other rulers - whom I had a non-aggression pact with - decided to ally with my ally, he demanded an insane tribute from me. I refused, starting a war. The other two guys broke their pacts, citing my "treason". After quickly tearing pushing him off the central continent, securing the channel between it and his lands, and shooting at one his towns, he wanted peace. Fine.

At the same time, the former ally, The Great Librarian, started moving troops and settlers through my land. I wasn't going to let that stand, so I declared war. The first guy declared war again, but some gifts to the third guy kept him out of it(he later declared war on the first guy). Immediately, I seized some border towns, putting me in a position to bombard his capital from the sea. Soon after, high-level ground troops, in the form of Arethi spearmen and archers, and Halberdiers, started attacking the capital in earnest. Half a dozen turns later, it falls.

I am also launching a massive naval invasion of the first enemy's lands.

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Warlock: Master of the Arcane. One down, two to go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 31, 2015, 12:30:35 pm

I INFECTED MADAGASCAR
I INFECTED MADA-FUCKING-GASCAR

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Pandemic 2

EDIT:
HE HE HE
NORTH KOREA HAS WIPED EVERYBODY OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 31, 2015, 01:38:18 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on August 31, 2015, 09:07:37 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 31, 2015, 07:57:23 am

Quote from: Reudh on August 30, 2015, 09:46:25 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on August 30, 2015, 01:35:05 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've beat it once. But that was on casual and the only ones who survived were the Avatar, Chrom, and Frederick.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You'll love the Death's Embrace map then. Spikes that at the end of every turn reduce anyone on it (enemy or friend, even if they're in a pair up) to 1HP. You have 15 people, the enemy has 37 to begin with and receives around 4 more every turn. Lots of Sorceror risen carrying Mire and Sniper Risen carrying a Longbow, and the spikes put even your strongest character at range of death. You also must beat the boss before 10 turns are up, otherwise he escapes and you get a bad ending. He's got the following stats:

Algol - Berserker, lv 20
80 HP
50+5 Str
0 Mag
35 Skill
41 Speed
20 Lck
34 Def
30 Res.

He also carries Axefaire, Swordbreaker, Vantage, Vengeance and Sol. He's also accompanied by a unique risen:

Risen Chief, lv 20, Soldier
45+5 Str
10 Mag
43 Skill
43 Spd
20 Lck
43 Def
30 Res

and the skills Lancefaire, Axebreaker, Luna, Vengeance and Counter.

All that at the end of a grueling map which will really test your party's endurance.

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Is that a DLC map? Because I don't have any DLC.

That's......that's just......insane.....

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While we should take this to the Fire Emblem thread, I have one last thing to say: Apotheosis is even more absurd. Waves upon waves of enemies significantly stronger than anything you've ever faced in the game. My toughest unit can defeat the DLC superboss Grima (Future Past 3) in one round, but I can't really even graze the first few levels of Apotheosis.

Spoilers for the end level of Apotheosis, also the music playing is not the actual music, the person's just put in the themes from Bravely Default - which are pretty fitting. Beginning of final round (https://youtu.be/2H4M7VRMPC4?t=5283)

yes that is a sniper with 75 Skill and Luna+

Anna packs the following:
99HP
60 Str
50 Mag
70 Skill
70 Spd
65 Lck
55 Def
55 Res, plus the following broken combo of skills:
Aether
Rightful God (+30% trigger rate on all skills)
Vantage+ (always strike first, even when attacked)
Dragonskin (more than halve damage, nullify lethality and counter)
Counter (self-explanatory)

Note that the player's units in this are probably the single highest stats you could ever hope to get them, with S supports all over the place, Katarina and Celica phantoms as rallybots (if you have multiple Rally skills and use Rally, it uses as many as you have) and the most ideal parents for the second generation kids, leading up to absurd things like Gerome with 63+18 Str.

And they still end up being hit for crazy damage. Skip to 1:48:54 for the end of the match, the fight with Anna.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 31, 2015, 05:00:58 pm

There's a Fire Emblem thread?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 31, 2015, 05:05:53 pm

Yessir. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=134906.0)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: raptorfangamer on August 31, 2015, 07:35:41 pm

My defenses are so Impregnable and my style so impetuous that they led me to beat God Hand.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

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Pokémon Black 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 05:31:32 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

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Pokémon Black 2

I've had that happen a few times. Once, back in either fire red/leaf green, I threw a pokeball at Moltres, and it actually worked

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on September 01, 2015, 05:43:54 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 05:31:32 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

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Pokémon Black 2

I've had that happen a few times. Once, back in either fire red/leaf green, I threw a pokeball at Moltres, and it actually worked

Wow

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on September 01, 2015, 12:24:21 pm

So a few turns ago the peasants gave me some goats. That's...nice guys, ok I'll take it.
Then this happened:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g425/jonasfree/OHNOADRAGON_zpscwpkcaf4.png) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/jonasfree/media/OHNOADRAGON_zpscwpkcaf4.png.html)

OH SHIT WHY DID THIS....WAIT WHAT

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g425/jonasfree/TheBestDefense_zpsmrynhcbk.png) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/jonasfree/media/TheBestDefense_zpsmrynhcbk.png.html)




Apparently I am the proud owner of the GOATS OF THE FUCKING APOCALYPSE

Dominions 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 01, 2015, 12:59:56 pm

There was a perfectly reasonable explanation.  The dragon was eating his food too quickly and choked.  The farmers came upon the scene of a dead dragon lying on it's back and goat #6 lodged in it's throat bleating for help.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 01, 2015, 01:21:36 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 01, 2015, 05:43:54 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 05:31:32 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Black 2

I've had that happen a few times. Once, back in either fire red/leaf green, I threw a pokeball at Moltres, and it actually worked

Wow

I once caught a Heatran with a regular pokeball.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Glacies on September 01, 2015, 01:23:27 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 01, 2015, 01:21:36 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 01, 2015, 05:43:54 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 05:31:32 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Black 2

I've had that happen a few times. Once, back in either fire red/leaf green, I threw a pokeball at Moltres, and it actually worked

Wow

I once caught a Heatran with a regular pokeball.

Rayquaza in emerald, same deal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 01, 2015, 01:24:18 pm

Quote from: Glacies on September 01, 2015, 01:23:27 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 01, 2015, 01:21:36 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 01, 2015, 05:43:54 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 05:31:32 am

Quote from: Senpai on August 31, 2015, 09:44:08 pm

I caught Zekrom...

with a freaking QUICK BALL.

I know that it has an obscenely high catch rate for a legendary, but DAMN.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Black 2

I've had that happen a few times. Once, back in either fire red/leaf green, I threw a pokeball at Moltres, and it actually worked

Wow

I once caught a Heatran with a regular pokeball.

Rayquaza in emerald, same deal.

I once caught a Magikarp with the Master Ball.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 01, 2015, 01:25:32 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 01, 2015, 01:24:18 pm

-snip-

There's a youtuber called SuperSkarmory or something like that who makes a point of capturing every legendary using normal Pokeballs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 01, 2015, 01:51:00 pm

Not to continue the derail but I have also caught multiple legendaries with normal pokeballs (or "special" pokeballs used outside their niche making them only as effective as a normal pokeball) It's just a matter of forgetting to stock up before the battle and only having the big stack of 100 normals remaining.

Have a good enough wall, a legendary with enough pp to not start struggling on turn 21, no way to self ko, and being forgetful enough to not restock great or ultra balls when you need to and you'll find you catch quite a few legendaries with standard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 01, 2015, 02:01:02 pm

Quote from: Greiger on September 01, 2015, 01:51:00 pm

Not to continue the derail but I have also caught multiple legendaries with normal pokeballs (or "special" pokeballs used outside their niche making them only as effective as a normal pokeball) It's just a matter of forgetting to stock up before the battle and only having the big stack of 100 normals remaining.

Have a good enough wall, a legendary with enough pp to not start struggling on turn 21, no way to self ko, and being forgetful enough to not restock great or ultra balls when you need to and you'll find you catch quite a few legendaries with standard.

Or because they're the most cost-effective option to stack, if you're skimping on money for whatever reason.  Ultra Balls are twice as effective for six times the cost, Dusk Balls are a bit better but not quite par, and the Quick Ball may be five times as effective for five times the cost, but only if you use it in the first turn.  As long as you don't actually use 99 Pokeballs, they're the best option.  And if not, you can always keep others in reserve. ^_^

((That's why I go for style over catch rate, personally, unless I'm feeling lazy.  Premier Balls. :3))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on September 01, 2015, 02:19:27 pm

What made that Moltres awesome was that I caught it on the first turn with a pokeball, not after I weakened it. Haven't been able to replicate that since, even if I have caught many other legendaries after weakening them with pokeballs.


I was playing Planetside again, as teh light assault. Two seperate instances of me being awesome-
The first time I was helping with a large assault on a tower. In the initial assault, I did a bit of skirmishing in the hills, taking out more then ten infiltrators and engineers while only dying twice. Once the main force got to the tower itself, I was able to jump up to a small ledge overlooking one of the walkways above the entrance, giving me the perfect spot to fire down upon the defenders. I got three kills before they noticed I was there, and I was able to relocate to the other side of that platform to get several more kills. At that point several of them had respawned, and three light assaults came up at once to dig me out. Killed one,m but the other two came from behind. At that point I started to suck again, and our attack was never fully able to breach the outer walls.
The Second time, a member of my platoon brought a galaxy to the battle. I was initially in another squad, and I finished taking one of those small outpost in the desert. At that point, however, a shit ton of armor starting attacking us, so I switched to the squad with the galaxy. I equipped the drifter pack, and was able to blow up a tank in almost each attack run, jumping from several hundred meters away. Eventually started to run low on nanites, so I had to just start killing the engineers supporting the tanks. That didn't work out nearly as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 01, 2015, 08:44:42 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/tUPKHcD.png)
In the beginning all seven factions landed on old Earth, picked clean by nuclear devastation and fungal pigeons, and they all had relatively large continents all to their own. Vast geographical barriers from fearsome mountains, deserts, desert mountains and oceans separated most of the factions from one another, meaning everyone had a century of expansion, a century of peace and it took a century for international politics and economics to kick in. The Believers landed in India on the southern tip, and very quickly expanded eastwards, taking over vast tracts of arable land all across southern and eastern asia. At the same time a pioneer colony was sent beyond the persian deserts to a mineral rich field in Mesopotamia, and from there the Arabian colonies grew and the Persian colonies grew until the Believers' great community spread from one corner of Asia to another.
The Believers had good relations with the first encounters of all factions, making peace and trade deals with everyone in their first encounter by boat or by land, or otherwise negotiating treaties of friendship after international relations were opened by the Gaians of Africa. Two notable exceptions lie in the Morganites of Europe who demanded an alliance and paid the Believers for it, and the Peacekeepers whose first response to the Believers was the technology for democracy.
Now one would think people who pride themselves on being democratic Peacekeepers would not be offended if you told them to snivel off and do their own work but alas, they declared war. This made expanding into the inhospitable north considerably difficult, and expansion had to follow the coast, going as far north as the Korean peninsula. This war would go on for decades as neither side could deliver a decapitating blow; any time one side made gains, they would merely lose to attrition - the rough terrain of the plateau made progress impossible. The most grueling moment has to be when the Believers had 3 rover companies moved north to deliver a crushing blow to the U.N. Headquarters. They had it surrounded and no reinforcements were coming, the assault was but one more year away from victory when one of the Believing companies defected, slaughtering elite veterans of the skirmishes and leaving none alive. From then on the Peacekeepers were on the offensive for decades and to add salt to injury, the defected company would be sighted again and again leading raids on Believing roads.
The Morganites joined the war to help their Asian allies, but as they were separated quite heavily by the Urals and were themselves quite useless in battle, they were quite useless in battle.

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(http://i.imgur.com/TKodrMl.png)
Eventually however the geographical superiority of the Believers really began kicking in; larger populations simply did more work, and this translated into massed rovers and infantry regiments wielding state of the art impact rifles turning back the Peacekeeper offensive. The Believing armies ignored the Peacekeepers' Siberian line and instead concentrated everything on breaking U.N. Headquarters, striking deep along the east asian coast, even utilizing the experimental dragoons. It was inevitable that the Peacekeepers would lose, but still they fought on. With the fall of U.N. Headquarters however, the Peacekeepers lost the merchant exchange and the entire line was broken. Losing base after base to the massed assault they capitulated. Mercifully the Believers accepted their surrender and began returning their land to them in exchange for their subservience; their people would be allowed to live in their quaint democracy for as long as it followed the Lady's foreign policies. Peaceful expansion would continue on all fronts, with the Morganites and Gaians both losing land to the Believers (it was claimed, but they had developed no bases on them so they were fair game), but the borders started growing more static and defined.
It was important to take control of the Mediterranean and the Suez to severely limit Gaian competition in the Indian sea (as they held only one port in the Indian ocean) and this would free up resources to deal with the threat of a possible invasion by the Hive, who at this point were a sleeping giant ready to be unleashed - Australia was an industrial dystopia, and its ocean base was conspicuously close to the Believers' Indonesian cities.
In the great game of powers, the African Gaians seemed poised to take the lead of global superpower, rivaled only with the University States of America. Both were technocratic paragons of infrastructure development and scientific advancement, ploughing ahead in power whilst the Believeres, Hive and Spartans were mere regional powers at best and backwards failed states at worse.
Everything changed when the Spartans attacked.
The University of America's most prized cities in the fertile lands of south america, mexico, texas and florida were captured - even their Headquarters lost. Many cities were burnt to the ground under the pounding of artillery shells and impact rifles, turning all of mid America into no man's land - the only feature left being a single perfectly straight road spanning half the length of the North American continent, and one last Fortress sitting in the middle, holding the key to Canada and American domination.
The Gaians rushed to the aid of their ally, and the Hive rushed to the aid of the Gaians. The industrial might of Australia brought naval supremacy in the pacific whilst the Spartans and Gaians traded blows in the Atlantic; due to the distances and logistics involved however no great legions could be brought to the aid of the University and so nothing could stop the great legions of the Spartans shelling the beleaguered Americans.
The Believers took this opportunity to strike an alliance with the Hive (who was about to declare war on the Believers, but needed their help), an alliance with the University and an alliance with the Gaians. Most importantly however was that the Believers then went about trading, cajoling and extorting all the technology from all her desperate allies to the point where my little fundamentalist zealots went from being the backwards giant to the most scientifically advanced little nation on planet Earth. Needless to say, this was probably a mistake on the Gaians part, but they will have to learn why later.
The next step was becoming governor of the planetary council, which was easy enough as everyone liked the Believers more than the Spartans.

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(http://i.imgur.com/xYw1TY0.png)
The Believers would rise in power to be on par with the Gaians of Africa, twice as powerful as the Hive of Australia - but the Spartans were still growing, and worryingly fast. The superpower of the pan-American state was dominating the North American campaign and had destroyed all landing parties of the Aussie-African alliance. It was fighting the sum total of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and Canada and winning. It destroyed even more University bases in its bloody march for land; one thing was for certain even if the University recovered its land it had lost dearly in the realm of people and cities.
Millions of Believing soldiers, veterans and rovers expediently march through Alaska along a Peacekeeper supply route in the hopes of saving the last University bases, ending the Spartan army before it hits Asia. Unfortunately they're also bringing millions of soldiers, so it won't be easy.

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(http://i.imgur.com/bXSHb3k.png)
Black shows the enemy and her influence, purple my allies of convenience. Everything in grey is uncolonized and could certainly make for a good refuge for Prokhor Zhakarov should all his North American cities fall. The Peacekeepers are effectively de facto of my Empire whilst the Morganites are allied with me alone - should it come to it, Europe would at the very least not fight Asia if they had to pick between their friends or allies. The real threat and the real prize lies in the purple. The Australian continent is an impregnable fortress that can only be defeated with the deaths of millions and airpower, sadly aircraft have not been reinvented yet. Its ability to utterly undo the Indonesian and coastal Believing cities is unrivaled (without these cities, there is simply no believing Empire). Likewise with the vast wealth of Africa and the efficient nature of the Gaians, it is only a matter of time before the hippies regain technological superiority, all the whilst Believing soldiers die in North America. I aint even mad, it's time to get this world war on the road.

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(http://i.imgur.com/qnp94og.png)
THE ORANGE SEA MARCHES

tl;dr:

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(http://i.imgur.com/7mIzBKg.png)
AMERICA IS MY BATTLEGROUND
THE SPARTANS BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
I WILL BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
THE SPARTANS WANT TO DINE IN HELL
WE'LL DINE IN AFRICA
TO WAR SOLDIERS! TO WAR! WE GO TO WORLD WAR!
DEFEND THE ROAD TO YOUR LAST BREATH!
THE ROAD IS GOD!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on September 01, 2015, 09:27:53 pm

Operation Fallen God, a March 2nd landed transport on the river gorge map. My team took four or five nasty wounds, but I won and nobody died. (except for the twelve floaters, eight sectoids, eight chryssalids and six outsiders in the UFO).

Long War is love, Long War is life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on September 01, 2015, 11:01:52 pm

Somehow I managed to ascend to a higher plane at the beginning of the level. Quite literally. This was actually a good thing, since it meant that I was almost invulnerable from all of the bullets, enemies and bombs flying about below me. Though not trees, apparently. So all I had to do was avoid the trees, turning a gruelling, marathon run into a walk in the park. _{And then I almost died to the boss, after a cutscene reset my position.}

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Jack the Ripper, on the Dead Heat level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on September 01, 2015, 11:23:15 pm

Managed to avoid being boiled alive, thanks to prior knowledge.

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Way of the Samurai 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on September 02, 2015, 05:45:52 am

Quote from: Loud Whispers on September 01, 2015, 08:44:42 pm

WHAT GAME BITCH? METEORS AWAY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 02, 2015, 06:14:11 am

Quote from: BFEL on September 02, 2015, 05:45:52 am

Quote from: Loud Whispers on September 01, 2015, 08:44:42 pm

WHAT GAME BITCH? METEORS AWAY

Alpha fuck mothering Centauri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 04, 2015, 05:14:01 pm

I equipped the base jumper. I equipped the sticky jumper.
Then I equipped the Bringer of Crits, Destroyer of Ears, the Holy Frying Pan.

I was the second-highest scoring player on my team.

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TF2, on gravelpit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 05, 2015, 05:47:37 pm

Watched a friendly Stryker forced to back away from the intersection, as the armored vehicle that it was fighting rolled up to take its place. Right. In. My. Sights. A direct hit, dead center to the side armor with a SMAW rocket. Good-bye.

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Battlefield 2: Project Reality botmatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 09, 2015, 01:30:02 am

YESSSS

Grandmaster Mode completed. My poor finger can finally take a rest.

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 11, 2015, 08:12:44 pm

Led three heavies into the enemy base, where the controller was. Unfortunately, their jetpacks could not lift them up a small shaft roughly twice their individual heights. So, I simply had all three fire at once against the wall. Three assault rifles tore through concrete and dirt better than a Pulse Digger(which can't cut concrete anyhow). If I can't climb the shaft, I shall shoot myself a ramp.

Too bad the first guy would have died of bloodloss had the battle not ended with the destruction of the enemy.

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Cortex Command.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 11, 2015, 08:17:15 pm

Beat Chapter Five. Hard, Classic.

Take that, former noobishness at Fire Emblem.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 12, 2015, 03:51:56 pm

I AM LIGHTNING, THE RAIN TRANSFORMED

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i beat metal gear rising on hard ;u;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xardalas on September 13, 2015, 06:01:14 am

So, I had just finished setting up the defenses for the Northern Nexus, it was rather nice if I said so myself. Had a sentry behind the plasteel barricades and a two thick row of electrified grilles to fuck over the xenos with.

At this point, I had called out several times over the coms about the northern grilles being electrified, I was sitting there chatting with another engineer as entire lemming train of marines all ram facefirst into the grilles and burnt themselves into a fucking crisp.

I was sitting there laughing my ass off at the sight, cause these guys weren't group or anything at all. They all just literally ran one by one into the same goddamn grille with amusing results. Ended up having to spend fifteen minutes running from a horde of pissed off marines who wanted to kill me afterwards.

Not sure this would be considered owning considering all the people I took out were my own team but goddamn it was fucking hilarious. I was just sitting there laughing my ass off for a few minutes.

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Space Station 1, Colonial marines server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 13, 2015, 06:13:33 am

I blew up a sentrynest with stickies, but ran out of stickies in my launcher and there were three people in there.

i landed three consecutive melee crits on everybody left in there

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as much as i hate random crits, they can result in funny situations sometimes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 13, 2015, 09:00:10 am

I thought the last fight of the game would be at least kind of difficult. It wasn't. Olivia was a level 18 Swordmaster with Lethality, Astra, and a Brave Sword. The boss dropped to a series of epic Astra combos on the 3rd turn.

Fastest chapter I've ever completed.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 13, 2015, 09:01:57 am

Awakening is not particularly hard on Normal difficulty. I got the final boss with my main character on the first turn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 13, 2015, 09:19:19 am

I forgot to buy the Social Enhancer again at the end of The Missing Link (grrrrr), and there was no way I could get any more Praxis before the final "conversation boss" of the game. However, when I considered the kind of person I was dealing with, what he's trying to accomplish and why he believes he's right, I actually managed to "beat" him with only a small hiccup near the end.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

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Hugh Darrow can suck on a fat, disgusting, sweaty pile of MY TESTICLES. I punched him out after I got the Hyron codes anyway, because fuck him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 13, 2015, 09:27:12 am

Ambushed by a Hind, and it's complement of infantry. I in turn ambush the infantry on the ground, slamming them into each other and strapping a balloon to them. The next group disembarks, splits one guy off the rest. I ambush the other three, and Fulton them as well, then grab the last one. And then another group drops, and I hit them just as they jump out. Unfortunately, I run out of Fultons, so I tranq the last guy and exchange fire with the helicopter.

A short while later(and faster than I expected) that last guy wakes up, but while taking him down again, I find 5 more Fultons. I Fulton that guy, even as missiles are raining all around us.

Then another group lands, which I again ambush and Fulton. Another RPG to the helicopter breaks open the cockpit, and I snipe the pilots helmet off with the tranq pistol. A minute or two of exchanging missiles for tranq bullets, the sleeping pilot makes a near perfect landing. Chopper secured, along with 21 new recruits.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. I think I'm burning through Mother Base's stock of curry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 13, 2015, 10:19:02 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on September 13, 2015, 09:01:57 am

Awakening is not particularly hard on Normal difficulty. I got the final boss with my main character on the first turn.

Galeforce, am I right?

I'm definitely gonna be replaying it on Hard, though, maybe Lunatic, because you're right - Normal is way too easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on September 13, 2015, 10:38:41 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on September 13, 2015, 10:19:02 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on September 13, 2015, 09:01:57 am

Awakening is not particularly hard on Normal difficulty. I got the final boss with my main character on the first turn.

Galeforce, am I right?

I'm definitely gonna be replaying it on Hard, though, maybe Lunatic, because you're right - Normal is way too easy.

Just... just grab yourself some DLC. Some of them are always set to Lunatic or Lunatic+ in difficulty. Galeforce goes from "game breakingly strong" to "pretty good", as it'll be practically required on every unit you can slap it on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 14, 2015, 12:58:57 am

There's a good reason I'm playing the game once for all my story needs/Waifuchoosing, and then another time for TACTICAL MARRIAGES

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 14, 2015, 07:50:06 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on September 13, 2015, 10:19:02 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on September 13, 2015, 09:01:57 am

Awakening is not particularly hard on Normal difficulty. I got the final boss with my main character on the first turn.

Galeforce, am I right?

I'm definitely gonna be replaying it on Hard, though, maybe Lunatic, because you're right - Normal is way too easy.

No, just 2 attacks doubled to 4 because my avatar was using that sword that doubles your amount of hits.

Edit: Unless you meant getting to the final boss, which I did by pairing my avatar up with Cordelia, who did have Galeforce, and switched back when they got to the boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Donuts on September 14, 2015, 08:02:05 am

Had a lot of trouble with the final boss on Extreme, so I decided to create a series of absolutely ridiculously overpowered, and very funny looking weapons and kick his teeth in within literally 20 seconds. I still use them now, it's simply hilarious to just watch soldiers fly everywhere, and be able to blow up anything with a single shot via ROCKET SHOTGUN.

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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on September 14, 2015, 05:53:05 pm

The necromancer mummy shuffled along with his undead army.  Sadly, none of his servants have mastered the art of stairs, so he descended to the next dungeon level alone.

Gasp!  Immediately upon traversing the last step he could hear buzzing all around and the sickly scent of honey.  He had unwittingly discovered a hive of killer bees!  They immediately started to swarm and sting his fragile desiccated flesh as he shuffled as quickly as he could back up the stairs.

Three of the killer bees followed him, and were instantly engaged by the army waiting above.  There were causalities, but the three bee's were defeated.  Using his dark necromantic magics he raised them from the dead to be mindless zombies.  Down again he descends the stairs, only to flee again with more bee's poking at his bandages.  Once again they are defeated by the (now dwindling) army and once again he raises the corpses to fight again.

Another trip down, and before him buzzes the queen bee, more angry than anything he has ever seen.  Seeing the hate in its eyes he retreats back up the stairs, followed and attacked by the queen.  However, as the queen bee follows him up, she gazes upon the defiled zombie corpses of her children buzzing lifelessly in the air.  Hesitant, she hovers towards them, hoping beyond hope they would remember her as the queen and help her against this threat to the hive. 

The necromancer turns, and issues a single command.  "Kill".  The zombified bees charge and relentlessly attack the queen bee, who is stunned and horrified by this ultimate betrayal of her own children.  They repeatedly stab her to death with their enlarged stingers, feeling nothing.

The necromancer descends once more to the hive, and starts to collect the spoils.  Royal jelly!  More than any man could eat, he is overjoyed for a moment, until he remembers...

Mummies can't eat food.   >:(  >:(   :P

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Dungeon Crawl

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on September 14, 2015, 09:36:18 pm

Quote from: Levi on September 14, 2015, 05:53:05 pm

The necromancer mummy shuffled along with his undead army.  Sadly, none of his servants have mastered the art of stairs, so he descended to the next dungeon level alone.

Is it wrong that all I could think of after I read that was this? :P
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3907270/TheMommy_egyptian4.gif)(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/images/2/22/Skeleton_anim.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140113062405)(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/images/2/22/Skeleton_anim.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140113062405)(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/images/2/22/Skeleton_anim.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140113062405)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on September 14, 2015, 10:25:06 pm

Dang it, I need to go get that game sometime.   :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 15, 2015, 03:44:21 am

This isn't the last time i own, but...
I got the Ancestoral Armor. After i killed the boss with chain lightning spam, i quickly escaped from the dungeon.

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Triangle wizard. The one who owns the Armor was an anticlimatic boss. Their mooks(They're not even technically the boss's mooks, it was the one who lives in the dungeon), welp.
The dungeon name where i got the armor was "The Sour Academy"
And there was "The Poor Sewer Of Faith". It was a lava sewer. WAT?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on September 17, 2015, 10:24:39 am

After my survey ship played Cat and Mouse with bunch of alien ships in the system next door to my homeworld, he managed to escape and warn central command about the alien threat.
My strike fleet jumps into the system, flattens six alien ships without even a scratch ( just spent a LOT of counter missiles ) and jumps out.

Quick and clean - just how i like it.

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Aurora 4x of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 18, 2015, 06:11:13 am

Snuck into an airport (a small airport, mind you) with the mission of eliminating the squad of soldiers and accompanying vehicles inside.
Since it was raining, visibility was down, and I was wearing an infiltration suit that silenced my footsteps. I could probably walk upright right next to someone and he wouldn't hear.
So i extract the first guy, since he has good stats.
The second guy has a similar fate, but he draws the attention of a third guy... Who I also wanted to extract. The third guy comes over, which is a mistake.
About five minutes later, everyone was extracted or dead (including the tank, which was in my clutches) except the helicopter.
One of the soldiers had had a launcher before I extracted him and it went down in one shot.

Probably how it happened. I forgot a lot of details.
MGSV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Donuts on September 18, 2015, 10:59:41 am

After a long journey through Zanzibar Land, I'm finally face to face with Big Boss himself. Somehow I manage to almost perfectly remember where to go when, and beat him on the first try. This picture sums it up pretty well:

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http://i.imgur.com/If1fVZ2.jpg

Metal Gear 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on September 19, 2015, 12:20:14 am

Spoiler: This game makes me feel like a supervillain sometimes. (click to show/hide)

First up, my mooks.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SptpIQTSMuc/VfzqEsmjsNI/AAAAAAAACx8/G4rXSHe471Q/s800-Ic42/Iron-Maiden.png)
Most of her kills were before my guys became accurate with tasers, and before stun rods (preferred weapon of choice, due to accuracy, and the challenge of a melee-KO) could be manufactured to complete it. And of course, landed battleship (Because I didn't feel like losing any ships, plus, this is far more profitable anyway) raid missions and terror missions where killing was the better option. This is probably the least blood shed in this game I've played, on either side, ever, and it's because their non-lethal tactics rock (and also Final Mod makes it more worth it, with the right options). The Iron-Maiden (http://www.billandted.org/sounds/ea/eairon.mp3) setting you see, ought to keep them terrifying; and I intend on making this standard (at least for the elite veterans that earned this honor) gear, plus flight soon (give me about a week or half that).

Oh, and why do I keep the alien laser rifle? Because my prey replenishes their ammo regularly enough, a cheaper alternative.


Next, radar coverage, and purpose:

I figure I might as well max-out the efficiency of coverage, and if I need to relocate any ships, island-hopping is a viable tactic of shipment of new ships; AWACS coverage was also considered.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oqFwv5rTJz8/VfzqEyGZCQI/AAAAAAAACyE/U3fXZq1MYV0/s800-Ic42/Atlantic%252520Defense%252520%252528Industry%252529.png)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fOv3teOG99I/VfzqEjEqIOI/AAAAAAAACyA/gYZr3adN-5g/s800-Ic42/Pacific%252520Defense%252520%252528Airbase%252529%252529.png)
N.Pole-   Santa's Workshop/AWACS Base (AUX Manufacturing/Money-printer/Toy storage (Backup supply (Elerium/Alloys)))
Atlantic HQ-   Home Base and Psi-Training (A week until/before Hyper-wave decoder is installed)
S.America-   Blind Spot Coverage and Excess Storage (Money-printer/backup supply (weapon/ammo cache)
Sahara-    Primary Manufacturing Plant (Megaproject stuff) (JUST got an Ironfist to replace my Skymarshall, 3 workshops (fully-staffed), and still took a week to build. 4th one still has a week and a half until ready and staffed.)
Pacific-   Research (1 of anything not researched yet (mainly artifacts), including leaders/commanders and corpses), Extra storage
Hawaii-   Vacation Spot, Backup Troops, Air Force Unit (6-ship reinforcement storage (1 dropship with rookie squad, and the remaining are excess fighters, then Firestorms or better (for overkill: all Avengers, all bases)); TFTD will be re-purposed as Sub-Force Unit). At present, it's not currently stocked with anything useful, besides a pending Skymarshall, except after the mission is done.
Australia-   Blind Spot Coverage, and Backup HQ
S.Pole-   Antarctic Storage and Excess Alien Containment/AUX Research (excess crap-research)/AWACS Base (When both Atlantic and Pacific are overstocked with live dudes (20 at HQ, and 10 at Pacific; 10 here, for now), and we keep research churning (mostly fluff from Medics/Navis/Engies))

Standard for all bases, except HQ: 2 troops (lowest-grade armor available, then Personal Armor or better when stocks look up), 2-4 dogs (depending on vulnerability to attack, and coverage required), 1 tank (and/or Veterans from past missions)

Making a pair of Thunderstorms right now for the Polar bases as my strike unit. I'll have Firestorms eventually; but this will do for quick-response, or fast targets. For now, it's just 3 Ravens (to cut costs from the Interceptors' rent), and 2 polar AWACS before the Hawkeye upgrade (cheapen monthly costs as well. and maybe better coverage, might have 1 North and 2 South for at least radar 99% coverage (HWDs are good, but for getting the initial signal; this assures they never leave my sight, nor the coordinated strike forces'.), if good enough).

Already have Endgame researched, just catching up, and might revisit later for an Overkill Run (Nothing like nuking a site with multi-launcher blaster bombs). Just to seal the deal, why not Psi-gather the Cydonia staff next to the target, and fire a round?

This is a pretty cool mod.

EDIT:
I can't wait until I unlock Psi-Amps. It would ramp up efficiency. But at least having everyone equipped with motion detectors work well enough for planning a raid. And with flying suits now, only the strongest minds are equipped (damn Ethereals). Oh yeah, and my standard protocol for other bases came handy. Just got hit by a retaliation on one of my less-prepared bases. Guards! Time to let go of the rookie title (and your guard days will have some excitement too).

EDIT EDIT:
3 Hawkeyes give me pretty much 99% coverage of the globe now radar-wise, and the other bases are getting Hyper-Wave Decoders as well, so seldom would I not know what my enemy is up to now. Almost got my Psi-Amps now too. The Thunderstorms also rock at keeping infiltrators in line, despite only 1 weapon slot each ship; they're doing their role perfectly.

EDIT EDIT EDIT:
And now that I have Psi-Amps, Aliens are now lemmings headed, unarmed, to my dropship. Just recently vacated a shot down battleship (with Avalanche missiles, and about 4 fighters) that way. Only casualties were those in the initial crash.

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OpenXCom: Final Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 19, 2015, 01:54:16 pm

Killed the final boss (in her last phase) in a single round.

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Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 19, 2015, 04:44:39 pm

No-kill* stealth takedown of a tank. Only the tank commander knew I was there, since, my suppressor had long since disintegrated, and I couldn't hit him from far away enough for him to not hear it.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Got an S rank for that.

*Except for the poor sods who were run over by the tank. I couldn't Fulton them without alerting the tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 19, 2015, 04:49:50 pm

Teleported all of my shit to E, even though red had sentries set up on the other side. I even forgot to take my wrangler but had already switched to the jag.

Luckily, we already had A and half of my team took the tele. Some other dudes on my team caught on and switched to engie too. We distracted them enough to cap C, and if there are two sentries on the E bridges, you've already lost.

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TF2, cp_steel

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 20, 2015, 07:15:41 am

I swear, if it wasn't for the fact that he was covered by two snipers in ghillie suits, I'd say Zadarnov found the worst hiding spot ever. Luckily, I spotted the snipers just after I saw him. After knocking them out, I walked over to him and slammed his head into a stone wall before extracting him for the third goddamned time.

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MGS: Peace Walker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 20, 2015, 07:17:47 am

Quote from: Akura on September 20, 2015, 07:15:41 am

I swear, if it wasn't for the fact that he was covered by two snipers in ghillie suits, I'd say Zadarnov found the worst hiding spot ever. Luckily, I spotted the snipers just after I saw him. After knocking them out, I walked over to him and slammed his head into a stone wall before extracting him for the third goddamned time.

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MGS: Peace Walker.

Guys, should I tell him the thing?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 20, 2015, 07:35:22 am

Pretty sure I know the thing already.

Still was satisfying ramming that bastard's head into some Mayan stonework.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: malvado on September 20, 2015, 08:17:15 am

When one of my characters decapatitated one of the bad ass Dragons in one blow with the Vorpal Blade...
So many buffs and prepareness for that fight and "poff" it's dead faster than the time i took to prepare lol.

Baldurs Gate II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on September 20, 2015, 04:43:27 pm

I was flying through the air and my head got kicked off. Then I forced my opponent to the ground and won.

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Toribash. Seriously, this game's addictive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on September 20, 2015, 08:15:38 pm

I CHALLENGE YOU TO A TORIBASH TWINSWORDS MATCH!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 20, 2015, 09:37:54 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 20, 2015, 08:15:38 pm

I CHALLENGE YOU TO A TORIBASH TWINSWORDS MATCH!

Ugh, twinswords... PLEBS!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 21, 2015, 05:25:31 am

Killed a noobmove user(metastrategy or real noob, i don't know)+flexibility with a pure noobmove+flexibility.

EDIT: Personwithponyname's only opener was apparently made for killing noobmove user. I don't remember how do i beat them, but what i remember i used a turn standing still and then strike. See for a russian person emoting "Loooove!!!/?!!", it's them.

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Toribash, Twinsword Public Server.
Flexibility is half of everything when all you have is noobmoves or you only have one opener.
My username is H4zardZ1(same name)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 21, 2015, 09:49:34 am

The People of Novgorod decided to surprise-attack me, laying siege to Livony. Turns out Boyars tend to hurt when you try to fight them, even if I outnumber them nearly 3:2 with Vikings. (Two and two each, Boyars have 80 per unit, Vikings have 120)

I brought one of my heirs(who has 6-7 points of Dread, plus Command and Acumen), along with nearly a thousand mercenaries(damn, forgot about these guys for most of the game), most of them Italian Infantry and Armored Spearmen, and nearly the same number of Vikings(about 1:1:1 ratio of normal, Landsmen, and Huscarles).


Livony was relieved with minimal losses, Finland was taken without a fight, then Novgorod itself was attacked. They had HUNDREDS if Boyars in a line. I sent my merc infantry to punch right up the middle with the Vikings on their flank. For some reason, they practically gave me a clear shot at their ruler's unit. Their king(actually, Prince Yaroslav) soon turned tail, but was captured. The rest of their army fell apart soon after.

Total casualties: Them - ~720 / Us - ~250-300. Their ruler was executed.

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Medieval: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 21, 2015, 06:41:23 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on September 21, 2015, 06:35:45 pm

I made a ship in From the Depths that both has a function and doesn't capsize when you look at it funny. I am a GOD.

In very immediate hindsight this totally belongs here.
It turns out the advice of "make it look like a real boat" is pretty good, but it wasn't until now that I actually looked at why my previous designs weren't like boats. Turns out I'd been making the hulls either linear or concave instead of convex. Apparently that made sense to me whenever I was doing that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 21, 2015, 06:43:43 pm

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 21, 2015, 06:45:53 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on September 21, 2015, 06:41:23 pm

From the Depths

...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 21, 2015, 06:47:14 pm

...My brain farted. I was thinking KSP, because it seems to be somewhat realistic, and thought that they'd made a ship from some piece of fiction in it.

What is From The Depths, anyway?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 21, 2015, 06:49:26 pm

You make vehicles. They usually fall apart.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 21, 2015, 06:51:50 pm

So KSP but for not-space vehicles?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 21, 2015, 07:10:36 pm

i guess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 21, 2015, 07:18:44 pm

From the Depths. It was in the post but I could see how you'd miss it.

Yeah it's a pretty great game, would recommend to anyone who likes engineering solutions to gun-related problems. Though this ship actually had missiles mounted on it, and also is literally incapable of hitting anything anything closer than 400m, or that is at all fast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 22, 2015, 09:39:54 am

Got 11 streaks at the game, with mostly modified noob rush moves and bait attacks (that includes kicks that won't connect, but if cut will cause the foot to hit the target). Defeated by Santalos, but i don't care because he's great.

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Toribash, Public Twinswords server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 22, 2015, 06:59:14 pm

I spent almost 100000 kerbucks sending a single refuelling pod to my space station, then I decided I'd look into easier and cheaper ways to refuel stuff. I remembered that mining and the ISRU Converter had been added to the game a while back. I decided it was time to set up my first base, and I placed it on the Mun to suck up ore from beneath the surface on the spot. I then sent an unmanned pod to the base, designed to carry fuel to the space station with the help of two orbital fuel silos. Since the tanker can't transfer barely any fuel to the station and still make it back to the munbase, I used the silos as a sort of relay. When the tanker takes off from the Mun it begins with full fuel, and then refuels at Silo A, which is in orbit around the mun. It then transfers to high orbit around Kerbin (at around 3600 Km) and refuels at silo B. It then does a rendezvous with the station at 20 Km and transfers most of its fuel to the station. It then transfers back to the Mun, refuels at Silo A again for landing, and then lands next to the munbase to be restocked and get ready for the next trip, whenever that is.

When the silos / relays need refuelling, (probably after a few trips to the station) the tanker can do Silo A unassisted due to the fact that it is in orbit around the mun, and can do B with the help of A. It's a convoluted system, but I'm very proud of it. I can refuel my space station basically for free. Also, I can use the silos as refuelling points for my SSTOs, which means I can use one to land on the mun while barely spending any money at all.

For the first big project I've done in KSP, I'm extremely proud of it. I'll post pictures of it some other time.

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Kerbal Space Program, like I said.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 22, 2015, 08:33:11 pm

My castle where I produced most of my English longbowmen was put under sudden siege by the French. It contained two units of melee troops, and about 12 of the best longbowmen in the game. The French brought trebuchets, rams, heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, and their horrid little King, Louis the somethingith.

I parked as many longbowmen on top of my walls as possible, and put the rest down below pointing right at the gate from the inside. The French inevitably broke the gate, and King Louis the ith was first through the arch, ready to run down my crowds of unarmored archers in the streets. He was instantly pin-cushioned by an inordinate number of arrows and died in the first volley. The entire French army turned tail and ran.

In response, I executed as much of the populace of Paris as possible, sold everything in the city, and built more longbowmen.

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Medieval, Total War 2, playing as England

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 23, 2015, 01:52:13 pm

Joined a lobby engineer slot on an obviously bad team, expecting a roll.
We got rolled up until last, where I managed to hold for a surprisingly long time to set the timer to 14 minutes.
We won the next round, I dominated four opponents, topscored and had the highest KD ratio 8)

(i think some people on our team got repped tho)

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on September 23, 2015, 10:55:47 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on September 01, 2015, 08:44:42 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/tUPKHcD.png)
In the beginning all seven factions landed on old Earth, picked clean by nuclear devastation and fungal pigeons, and they all had relatively large continents all to their own. Vast geographical barriers from fearsome mountains, deserts, desert mountains and oceans separated most of the factions from one another, meaning everyone had a century of expansion, a century of peace and it took a century for international politics and economics to kick in. The Believers landed in India on the southern tip, and very quickly expanded eastwards, taking over vast tracts of arable land all across southern and eastern asia. At the same time a pioneer colony was sent beyond the persian deserts to a mineral rich field in Mesopotamia, and from there the Arabian colonies grew and the Persian colonies grew until the Believers' great community spread from one corner of Asia to another.
The Believers had good relations with the first encounters of all factions, making peace and trade deals with everyone in their first encounter by boat or by land, or otherwise negotiating treaties of friendship after international relations were opened by the Gaians of Africa. Two notable exceptions lie in the Morganites of Europe who demanded an alliance and paid the Believers for it, and the Peacekeepers whose first response to the Believers was the technology for democracy.
Now one would think people who pride themselves on being democratic Peacekeepers would not be offended if you told them to snivel off and do their own work but alas, they declared war. This made expanding into the inhospitable north considerably difficult, and expansion had to follow the coast, going as far north as the Korean peninsula. This war would go on for decades as neither side could deliver a decapitating blow; any time one side made gains, they would merely lose to attrition - the rough terrain of the plateau made progress impossible. The most grueling moment has to be when the Believers had 3 rover companies moved north to deliver a crushing blow to the U.N. Headquarters. They had it surrounded and no reinforcements were coming, the assault was but one more year away from victory when one of the Believing companies defected, slaughtering elite veterans of the skirmishes and leaving none alive. From then on the Peacekeepers were on the offensive for decades and to add salt to injury, the defected company would be sighted again and again leading raids on Believing roads.
The Morganites joined the war to help their Asian allies, but as they were separated quite heavily by the Urals and were themselves quite useless in battle, they were quite useless in battle.

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Eventually however the geographical superiority of the Believers really began kicking in; larger populations simply did more work, and this translated into massed rovers and infantry regiments wielding state of the art impact rifles turning back the Peacekeeper offensive. The Believing armies ignored the Peacekeepers' Siberian line and instead concentrated everything on breaking U.N. Headquarters, striking deep along the east asian coast, even utilizing the experimental dragoons. It was inevitable that the Peacekeepers would lose, but still they fought on. With the fall of U.N. Headquarters however, the Peacekeepers lost the merchant exchange and the entire line was broken. Losing base after base to the massed assault they capitulated. Mercifully the Believers accepted their surrender and began returning their land to them in exchange for their subservience; their people would be allowed to live in their quaint democracy for as long as it followed the Lady's foreign policies. Peaceful expansion would continue on all fronts, with the Morganites and Gaians both losing land to the Believers (it was claimed, but they had developed no bases on them so they were fair game), but the borders started growing more static and defined.
It was important to take control of the Mediterranean and the Suez to severely limit Gaian competition in the Indian sea (as they held only one port in the Indian ocean) and this would free up resources to deal with the threat of a possible invasion by the Hive, who at this point were a sleeping giant ready to be unleashed - Australia was an industrial dystopia, and its ocean base was conspicuously close to the Believers' Indonesian cities.
In the great game of powers, the African Gaians seemed poised to take the lead of global superpower, rivaled only with the University States of America. Both were technocratic paragons of infrastructure development and scientific advancement, ploughing ahead in power whilst the Believeres, Hive and Spartans were mere regional powers at best and backwards failed states at worse.
Everything changed when the Spartans attacked.
The University of America's most prized cities in the fertile lands of south america, mexico, texas and florida were captured - even their Headquarters lost. Many cities were burnt to the ground under the pounding of artillery shells and impact rifles, turning all of mid America into no man's land - the only feature left being a single perfectly straight road spanning half the length of the North American continent, and one last Fortress sitting in the middle, holding the key to Canada and American domination.
The Gaians rushed to the aid of their ally, and the Hive rushed to the aid of the Gaians. The industrial might of Australia brought naval supremacy in the pacific whilst the Spartans and Gaians traded blows in the Atlantic; due to the distances and logistics involved however no great legions could be brought to the aid of the University and so nothing could stop the great legions of the Spartans shelling the beleaguered Americans.
The Believers took this opportunity to strike an alliance with the Hive (who was about to declare war on the Believers, but needed their help), an alliance with the University and an alliance with the Gaians. Most importantly however was that the Believers then went about trading, cajoling and extorting all the technology from all her desperate allies to the point where my little fundamentalist zealots went from being the backwards giant to the most scientifically advanced little nation on planet Earth. Needless to say, this was probably a mistake on the Gaians part, but they will have to learn why later.
The next step was becoming governor of the planetary council, which was easy enough as everyone liked the Believers more than the Spartans.

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(http://i.imgur.com/xYw1TY0.png)
The Believers would rise in power to be on par with the Gaians of Africa, twice as powerful as the Hive of Australia - but the Spartans were still growing, and worryingly fast. The superpower of the pan-American state was dominating the North American campaign and had destroyed all landing parties of the Aussie-African alliance. It was fighting the sum total of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and Canada and winning. It destroyed even more University bases in its bloody march for land; one thing was for certain even if the University recovered its land it had lost dearly in the realm of people and cities.
Millions of Believing soldiers, veterans and rovers expediently march through Alaska along a Peacekeeper supply route in the hopes of saving the last University bases, ending the Spartan army before it hits Asia. Unfortunately they're also bringing millions of soldiers, so it won't be easy.

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(http://i.imgur.com/bXSHb3k.png)
Black shows the enemy and her influence, purple my allies of convenience. Everything in grey is uncolonized and could certainly make for a good refuge for Prokhor Zhakarov should all his North American cities fall. The Peacekeepers are effectively de facto of my Empire whilst the Morganites are allied with me alone - should it come to it, Europe would at the very least not fight Asia if they had to pick between their friends or allies. The real threat and the real prize lies in the purple. The Australian continent is an impregnable fortress that can only be defeated with the deaths of millions and airpower, sadly aircraft have not been reinvented yet. Its ability to utterly undo the Indonesian and coastal Believing cities is unrivaled (without these cities, there is simply no believing Empire). Likewise with the vast wealth of Africa and the efficient nature of the Gaians, it is only a matter of time before the hippies regain technological superiority, all the whilst Believing soldiers die in North America. I aint even mad, it's time to get this world war on the road.

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(http://i.imgur.com/qnp94og.png)
THE ORANGE SEA MARCHES

tl;dr:

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(http://i.imgur.com/7mIzBKg.png)
AMERICA IS MY BATTLEGROUND
THE SPARTANS BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
I WILL BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
THE SPARTANS WANT TO DINE IN HELL
WE'LL DINE IN AFRICA
TO WAR SOLDIERS! TO WAR! WE GO TO WORLD WAR!
DEFEND THE ROAD TO YOUR LAST BREATH!
THE ROAD IS GOD!

How did you get the earth map?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on September 23, 2015, 11:10:38 pm

It's quite satisfying to play Starcraft 2 and see clear evidence of your skills improving. Like, my average unspent resources is decreasing meaning I'm making more units out of resources, my average actions per minute is increasing, I'm developing faster control and developing a hotkey system, devising build orders and learning when to spot times for attack, I'm regularly building units or buildings or upgrades and have less downtime on production, I'm remembering to make supply and not get supply capped, spreading creep more, keeping larva in supply, I'm continually producing workers to keep income up, I'm learning what units are good against what units n what other races, etc etc.

tl;dr: I'm getting better and better against multiplayer AI in Starcraft 2 and developing the basic skills to competently play multiplayer at a not-shitty-bronze-scrub level. Soon I will feel confident enough to play ranked matches against real people. _{^{Maybe. eventually.}}

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If you somehow missed the title drop the game is Starcraft 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 24, 2015, 05:34:00 am

Discovered a new move within my "Wand of Blood" move. A guy was pissed with this move.

Spoiler: This (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/LS1BMZW.png)

Toribash. Too bad i cannot photo the move in action, so i used it on Uke instead.

EDIT: Wand of blood is a failed puppet move.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 24, 2015, 06:42:59 am

How did you manage to rip off your own arm?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 24, 2015, 07:19:04 am

PM or post here?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 24, 2015, 12:08:46 pm

Post here?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 24, 2015, 08:32:20 pm

In the Galaxy, there are five great empires. The Eteru, peaceful but powerful expansionists, the Xeregton, xenophobic miliatarists, the Gnolam, enigmatic technocrats, the T'l'k'a'n, upstarts on the galactic scene and the Omnicats. The Omnicats are the least imposing of the five. They only occupy a tiny section of the galaxy and seem content to remain within their handful of systems. While closely allied with the powerful Eteru, they themselves lack the vast ships and great fleets of the other four empires. They buy the ambivalence of their hostile neighbours with large and frequent bribes, stunting their own growth. But, unbeknownst to all, the seeming harmlessness of the Omnicats masks great danger, like claws sheathed within fluffy paws. While the other powers warred amongst themselves, the Omnicats patiently built up their technology and infrastructure in their home quadrant, slowly catching up on their more advanced brethren. They built warships to rival even the Eteru, constructed in huge orbital shipyards. At this time, the Eteru and Xeregton had united against the Gnolam and T'l'k'a'n in an epic interstellar war. The Omnicats took the side of their Eteru allies, but provided only token support in the battles against the Gnolam. Many Eteru and Xeregton ships passed through the Omnicats' territory in a neverending flow. The Omnicats tolerated them, quietly constructing a fleet to rival their rivals'. Then the Xeregton erred fatally: They established a colony in the Omnicats' territory. There was no warning. The Omnicats turned hostile, turning on all the non-Eteru ships in their home territory and blockading the handful of wormhole entrances to their territory. While the Xeregton had more ships and better defenses, they lacked offense. In contrast, the Omnicats had less and less robust ships, but they all bristled with deadly weaponry and they picked off lone ships rather then fighting a large fleet. Not a single Xeregton ship or colony survived the purge, although it lasted only a single turn. The new galactic power had made itself known in an unforgettable way.

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Space Empires III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 24, 2015, 09:56:42 pm

I'll tell you the basics, not the actual move: Grab your own arm and give it enough force to rip it off.

Look at the moves if you want to know more (http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=518568). There is a move like what i did before, "Puppet arm".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 24, 2015, 10:23:26 pm

Quote from: H4zardZ1 on September 24, 2015, 09:56:42 pm

Look at the moves if you want to know more (http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=518568).

I can't tell if that OP is a sincerely huge weeb or just shitposting hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on September 24, 2015, 10:29:06 pm

My money's on huge weeb young teenager.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on September 25, 2015, 10:05:15 am

My base was raided.

During the raid, it was at night when they thought I'd be sleeping. Nope, I got on as it had already started. They had already breached the exterior stone walls and were in the midst of the inner walls. Five of them, and one was the explosives guy.

I take aim and start sniping...I do get one down and he stays down. A head shot and body shot. In the mean time, I'm getting shot at pretty badly and using a lot of bandages. It is me against a whole bunch.

Well, my friend comes on and says he is gonna help defend. So he teleports to me and starts shooting at the enemies. Well after 30 minutes of this (other guy came back also, so five again. Though I killed him a 2nd time) I noticed his shots were suspiciously bad as he was barely hitting them. But, not thinking too much on it as they had blasted their way into the inner court...I get to the window...and...boom my "friend" head shots me, laughs and goes in and starts opening all the doors. he never loots me, and somehow I get back up with 5 hp. Heal quick, sneak out the back door, loot the dead corpse.

10 C4 charges. 25 rockets, a rocket launcher and some grenades. All explosives. I sprint out of there like hell and hide.

They loot my place, and actually think I died and my corpse disappeared. So I stay around and watch. It turns out it was my "friend" and his other friend, who got other people from another server to join in the raid. My place was too hard to attack for just two people. Which actually, it could have succeeded if I didn't let a trojan horse in.

So I had a trojan horse in my base, a false friend, lost all my stuff, and my base was pretty much not worth using anymore.

However...here is where the ownage starts...

I follow the two guys back to their base. They don't even notice or hear me, staying pretty far back and in the rocks and bushes as much as possible. It turns out they have an island base way out that they have to swim to.

I still have all the explosives.

Night comes in game, I wait for them to leave their base and start exploding their doors. Not before sneaking into their open gates as they can't see me in the dark. Sadly, they had a lot of doors...so I wait at the (what I hoped) last door to their storage area. They teleport back to their base. They open the door, and complain they can't see shit and game is too dark. C4 to the face.

I take as much as possible and c4 everything else. Now they have nothing.

The next hour of game chat is them screaming at me and how I ruined their game.

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Rust

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on September 26, 2015, 02:05:24 am

Restarted my lithuania run for reasons.  namely my family a turning up dead or ass.


This new character had great success uniting lithuania, but . . . had issues with his swimmers.  2 kids in 35 years despite 2 wives and 3 concubines.  And 2 daughters at that -ineligible to carry the kingdom because gavelkind.

then, at age 55, he began literally spitting out kids.  9 in the next 17 years until his natual death.  was a regualar heigh the stud.  When he passed, it was with 3 concubines, his 3rd wife, and a maidservant.

trading the crisis of no heir for that of too many, I was able to kill 2 siblings and get 2 duchies back.  but not before poland saw my army ranked at 1.1k.  they dowed and I got to call in my vassals, who gleefully went raiding.  after a peace i gifted polands allies, raided his primary settlement, and subjugated him.  I spent tge next 5 years inciting rebellion, ransoming high chiefs so they could rebel again, and installing generic priests as new high chiefs.  I created tge wendish empire and stand as the 6th most powerful entity in the world, behind a reformed tenghri king, byzantine, bavaria, muslim blob, and other muslim blob.

CKII

tenghri reformed before 800.  byzantine lost armenia to muzzies and they lost to tenghries.  svijord took tge baltic coast before losing it to a mass-simultaneous dowing, and hopefullydanmark takes off this game.  scottland is already heretic, and Im a war and a few temple raids away fron reformation of my faith.

pedit:

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 26, 2015, 12:46:28 pm

Not sure if this is worthy of being considered ownage, but I thought it was pretty awesome.

I hadn't played the game in a while, and I'd forgotten if I'd installed a mod that fixed aiming bows in 3rd person, so I went into 3rd person and took a shot at a giant that was pretty close by.

The shot goes into a slow-mo killcam and completely misses the giant, but the camera keeps tracking it. I'm wondering what the heck the game was doing making this a killcam when about 5 seconds later the arrow collides with a rabbit about 5 miles away from my location.

I didn't have an aiming fix mod installed, but I still managed to land one of the most difficult shots I'd ever taken... through pure luck.

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Skyrim, of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 26, 2015, 10:22:19 pm

Completed most of Operation Anchorage (the Artillery Post bulding onwards) and I only died twice. Once to a Flamer trooper at low health, and once to Jingwei.
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Karnewarrior on September 27, 2015, 06:37:43 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on September 26, 2015, 12:46:28 pm

Not sure if this is worthy of being considered ownage, but I thought it was pretty awesome.

I hadn't played the game in a while, and I'd forgotten if I'd installed a mod that fixed aiming bows in 3rd person, so I went into 3rd person and took a shot at a giant that was pretty close by.

The shot goes into a slow-mo killcam and completely misses the giant, but the camera keeps tracking it. I'm wondering what the heck the game was doing making this a killcam when about 5 seconds later the arrow collides with a rabbit about 5 miles away from my location.

I didn't have an aiming fix mod installed, but I still managed to land one of the most difficult shots I'd ever taken... through pure luck.

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Skyrim, of course

That's actually pretty funny. It's lucky the game figured that shot was epic too and needed a killcam, or you would have just found a dead rabbit and wondered who shot it. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on September 27, 2015, 07:14:52 am

I've had times where the killcam triggers for a bolt spell but then my companion walks in the way and takes the shot instead. Makes it look like the game is being a passive-aggressive dick about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on September 27, 2015, 01:43:01 pm

My character has 6 copies of the necronomicon, and the gazillion culture points that come with getting 6 copies.  He's also insane now, but small price to pay for what must have been 2000 tech points.

CKII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 28, 2015, 07:15:42 am

Kit myself out for spelunking to wait out the night. I take a handful of torches and two extra axes, leave everything else at my base. At sunset, I head off and reach the cave just as it gets dark - perfect timing. Use a torch, descend into the darkness with axe out, ready for anything- oh, the cave's only a few metres deep.

I head back out, and take a peek out of the cave. It looks all clear, but there's a lake outside the cave I have to cross. I do the only logical thing: Leeeroy Jenkiins Walk out, scanning the terrain. Massive payoff: two spiders drop from the cliff behind me, but I dodge one web and only barely get caught in the other. Five seconds of crazy melee later, I've broken an axe and a half, killed both spiders by some miracle, and have some extra resources in pocket. Turn around and continue, only to spot three skeletons, a spider and a zombie outside my base - presumably there for a peaceful protest against my industrial pollution. Obviously.

So of course, I do the only logical thing: Leeeroy Jenkiins!, for real this time. Flat sprint, jump into the moat, break open the barricade and seal it behind me, just as the zombie reaches it.

By rights, I should have died. Instead, I came out with more than enough stuff to make a bow and some extra experience points (not that they're useful), for the price of half a hunger bar.

Minecraft, with Better Than Wolves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 28, 2015, 12:38:42 pm

Group ownage in Rogue Trader:

We're on a world almost completely covered in algae, exploring an abandoned Mechanicus facility. We have discovered that some of the algae draws on the warp for sustenance and distributes it to the rest. We also discover that a daemon of Nurgle is either studying the algae or may be responsible for it. We decide to eliminate it. My astropath tracks it down, and we bring a party of armsmen with flamers from the ship to serve as redshirts cannon fodder backup.

So anyway. We find the daemon. The First Officer commands the armsmen to rush in and flame the creature, who do no damage, but burn away a swarm of insects that the daemon was using as a sort of shield. He then uses his plasma pistol to destroy a crate that the daemon was using as cover, which also reveals the heavy bolter at the creature's feet. That's when another player levels his own heavy bolter and unloads. He scores a ridiculous number of hits, many of which proc Righteous Fury, and one of those procs it again! Basically, massive damage. The daemon falls to the ground, seemingly defeated...and then it burns a fate point.

It rises on metallic wing and sprouts tentacles. Our techpriest realizes that this creature used to be the Genetor in charge of this facility. Everyone continues to unload on the daemon, though it has better armor now. It fires a single shot from its bolter at the armsmen, who immediately start melting and dying to some horribly toxic gas. The Rogue Trader, who is squishy and soft, hides behind a solid wall while shouting encouragement. I contribute by dealing damage for the first time this entire campaign, landing a solid shot from my archeotech pistol.

Round 2. The First Officer manages to rally the panicking armsmen, who proceed to chuck grenades at the daemon. He then seeks cover himself, lacking protection from melting gas. Heavy Bolter Guy unloads once more, not doing quite as much damage as in the previous round but still doing enough to send the creature back where it came from. GM then reveals that we had just taken down a frickin' daemon prince, and awards us 3000 xp. We shot from Rank 2 to Rank 4 in a single session.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 28, 2015, 12:39:24 pm

I now own a Hale's Own Flamethrower :D

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 28, 2015, 03:42:13 pm

Quote from: H4zardZ1 on September 24, 2015, 09:56:42 pm

I'll tell you the basics, not the actual move: Grab your own arm and give it enough force to rip it off.

Look at the moves if you want to know more (http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=518568). There is a move like what i did before, "Puppet arm".

I really need to come out of my ToriRetirement to take some of those guys on. When I stopped playing, I was the best around, no one was ever gonna take me down.

Also because I dislike weeaboo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 28, 2015, 04:17:43 pm

B12 showdown: Shook vs IronTomato

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on September 28, 2015, 05:14:28 pm

Shook is Weeaboo? I thought he was Artist.
Doest Gunnerchan ever toribash?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 28, 2015, 05:17:14 pm

Quote from: flabort on September 28, 2015, 05:14:28 pm

Shook is Weeaboo? I thought he was Artist.
Doest Gunnerchan ever toribash?

Gunnerchan gets a free pass. I don't know if Shook is a weaboo but I'd like to fight him anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 28, 2015, 05:17:29 pm

Shook is a toribash legend, iirc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 28, 2015, 05:23:15 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on September 28, 2015, 05:17:29 pm

Shook is a toribash legend, iirc.

I know, that's the whole point. Back when I was new to the game, I ran into him on the forums just as he was becoming le legend and I nearly shit a brick.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on September 28, 2015, 05:28:23 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on September 28, 2015, 05:17:14 pm

Quote from: flabort on September 28, 2015, 05:14:28 pm

Shook is Weeaboo? I thought he was Artist.
Doest Gunnerchan ever toribash?

Gunnerchan gets a free pass. I don't know if Shook is a weaboo but I'd like to fight him anyway.

Ah. I see.

I had an idea for a move, but I don't know if I could pull it off. I need to try playing again.

---

Meanwhile, I hit upon a combination of armor that allows me to even take a hit from a paint roller and keep going; one hit only, mind you, because if you get close enough to be hit by one of those melee beasts, it will almost always splat you - you're lucky if you can splat them too. Fortunately, my equipment gives me just enough time to do just that; and in my last match last night not only did I get hit and splat them, I managed to avoid being splatted too! A virtually impossible move, and it let me slip by the rest of their team and get in their base, where I painted everything, getting the win for our team and the MVP position.

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Splatoon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 28, 2015, 11:42:11 pm

Ugh, you guys aren't all twinswords players are you?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on September 29, 2015, 06:03:48 am

I am! But I also play gerykidio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 29, 2015, 06:21:42 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on September 28, 2015, 11:42:11 pm

Ugh, you guys aren't all twinswords players are you?

I prefer Katana's but I sort of do anything I feel like.

Except Mushu, that deserves to be atomized.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 29, 2015, 06:43:33 am

Akido and twinswords are my favorite modes. Twinswords just looks incredibly flashy, while akido is great for awesome comebacks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 29, 2015, 06:44:46 am

...What game are you guys talking about?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on September 29, 2015, 07:04:28 am

Toribash!

Violence perfected!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on September 29, 2015, 07:39:31 am

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 29, 2015, 07:04:28 am

Toribash!

Violence perfected!

Where squishing your rear end together actually does something!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on September 29, 2015, 07:52:19 am

Say is it just me, or are kicks buffed in twinswords?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 29, 2015, 09:13:43 am

I enjoy ballet judo. Haven't played in a while, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 29, 2015, 10:41:46 am

Joust is one of my favorites for the sheer fun factor. Aikido is too vulnerable to noobclaps since the ring is so small. Judo and twinsword are my absolute favorites, though.



I got to the final boss in King of Fighters 99, which is more success than I've ever really had in a fighting game. This is the first fighting game I've ever played that doesn't feel like it's impossible because I don't know the special moves. In Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, you're basically doomed unless you at least know one character's ranged attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on September 29, 2015, 10:47:21 am

KoF uses a Street Fighter control set. Quarter circle (sweep from down to forward or down to back) and Z (Forward, down, down-forward) are your friends. Don't forget that in King of Fighters you can dash by double-tapping forward or back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 29, 2015, 10:49:22 am

Jousting is pretty hilarious, yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 29, 2015, 01:25:27 pm

I'm mainly an Aikido, Joust, and Katana player. I used to play Judo and Taekyyon too... Wushu is fun, but i've forgotten all my openers. I last owned, by owning a number of people on Aikido recently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 29, 2015, 03:11:16 pm

So I came out of my retirement, went on a Boxing server and jumpkicked someone so hard he exploded. I was promptly yelled at by everyone for kicking in boxing. I guess I still got it?

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 29, 2015, 04:12:12 pm

Found a little exploit in Chapter 5 where if Gatrie's defences are high enough putting him into a certain position with another unit causes the AI to fruitlessly go after him, unable to even go after anybody else.

Chapter = trivialized.

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Hard Mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 30, 2015, 06:09:23 am

Quote from: IronTomato on September 29, 2015, 03:11:16 pm

So I came out of my retirement, went on a Boxing server and jumpkicked someone so hard he exploded. I was promptly yelled at by everyone for kicking in boxing. I guess I still got it?

Toribash

That reminds me of when my hand got stuck in someone's face Realtorboxing mod. I don't remember if i successfully hold their hand in the face or he's dumb enough to hold my hand in his face, or both. I-200000'ish, Him-100000ish

Toribash.

I'm Twinswords and Box-Mushu player.

Quote from: endlessblaze on September 29, 2015, 07:52:19 am

Say is it just me, or are kicks buffed in twinswords?

Kicks instagib because hands instagib, that's what i think.

In another movenews: bladerunnr has packet blocker which will hold the turn for a very long time, if not forever. This also causes him to become stuck in the server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 30, 2015, 06:47:01 pm

Won a hydraulics contest with some Mexicans - that thing with the stupid jumping/bouncing cars. While I should of wagered a hell of a lot more than I did(the mission requires winning regardless of wager), I still won $300. Then, as the Mexicans were leaving, I killed one, and picked up about a lot more off his corpse.

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GTA: San Andreas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on September 30, 2015, 11:37:55 pm

PTW. I don't have a suitably recent story right now, but I'll post something later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 30, 2015, 11:40:12 pm

THE SISTERS OF PRATTLE GOT REKT BY THE BAAANEBLAAAAAAADE!

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Dawn of War: Soulstorm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 01, 2015, 03:57:44 pm

Bloodbowl 2 My first online match with this team of lizards.  The other team is chaos.  For some reason my opponent has 0 rerolls.

Turn 1, his minotaur attacks one of my lizards trying to push him off the field into the angry abusive fans.  Double skulls.  He fails and the massive minotaur lands on his ass instead.

I steal the ball after a few turns and score a touchdown.  The minotaur is ineffectual.

turn 1 of the next drive. the minotaur tries the same thing again, actually pushing one of my guys back but right before sending my guy into the crowd. my opponent rolls another set of double skulls.   Minotaur lands on his ass again.
Me: Dude Nuffle hates you.
Again I steal the ball and get another touchdown.  One of my players fowled the minotaur while he was down, knocking it out for the rest of that half.

Next half:  Minotaur is back, and this time he actually manages to push one of my team members into the crowd.  But it was overzealous. And was right on the edge of the field itself.   So next turn. one of my skinks, which are less than a fourth of the minotaur's size, and a third of it's strength, blitzes it from behind, gets a lucky roll, and pushes it into the crowd as well.   The minotaur is actually injured from the move, causing it to miss my opponent's next game.

My Opponent: I think my Minotaur is defective.
Me: You should take it back and try to swap it out, maybe it's under warranty.

Bloodbowl 2 PC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 01, 2015, 05:56:20 pm

Before the end, half of the empires in the galaxy surrendered to Earth, without me being at war with any of them. Not once did I ever go to war, not one single human being was ever killed on some foreign world by some alien horror. In the end, all the races in the galaxy were so dependent on human entertainment, human fashion, human ideas, that they all simply sat up and said "you win".

They couldn't stand up to say that. They were too fat. They were dependent on human restaurants, too. AMERICA EARTH!! Fuck yeah!

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Galactic Civilizations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 01, 2015, 06:01:05 pm

My modded game was a hit, and the SK won.

Mafia

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 01, 2015, 06:37:33 pm

Not really that much ownage, but it was the first time it happened.

Someone attacked my FOB, my base development platform (3/4) and got spied pretty much immediately, it seems.

I rock in with my AMR sniper rifle, and double tap them up close for the win and potential for retaliation.

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MGS V: The Phantom Pain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on October 03, 2015, 09:13:40 am

Killed a ton of unique creatures and bosses with an point-blank Charged Bolts(which i do by jumping over the creature). Charged Bolts OP plz nerf

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Triangle Wizard. Basically, if you level up enough at the spell Charged Bolts (and get supranatural additional damage bonus), it became a electric-damage shotgun which is more OP than Glass Spray(which is the spell that causes damage with a thousand needles).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 03, 2015, 09:52:43 pm

I beat a classic Resident Evil game for the first time!

... Well, I've beaten one-quarter of a classic RE game, considering Leon A/B and Claire A/B. But I beat a boss and saw a credits sequence, so that's enough for me.

Resident Evil 2. I wish they'd kept the A/B scenario setup for future games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 04, 2015, 03:32:29 am

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(http://s19.postimg.org/z0p4dvber/doublezooownage.png)

A whopping 204 monsters at once, thanks to two monster zoos spawning next to each other and the door between them not counting them as separate. I had to go all out; firing tons of crossbow bolts (including TWO Bolts of Mass Destruction), eating plenty of food, drinking at least two cups of grog, consuming a few potions, and burning two wands. Thankfully my roguish dual-shield-wielding kickboxing warlock was up to the challenge.

Dungeons of Dredmor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 04, 2015, 02:51:55 pm

NOICE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 04, 2015, 03:01:14 pm

I built a tele next to the cliff on upward first, but accidentally left it facing the wrong way. Some time later, a spy saps it at spawn. When I remove the sapper, he comes through, cloaked, and walks right off the cliff.

Tf2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 05, 2015, 01:28:27 am

I beat a roguelike unspoiled.

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Infra Arcana

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 05, 2015, 10:10:33 am

We dropped into the depths of the Hive World Meridian, to kill a Tyranid Lichtor. Waiting for us was not only the Lichtor, but numerous support structures. First order of business was to secure an Imperial Shrine, located unfortunately far away from the rest of the action. Didn't stop the 'nids from putting up a hella defense of the Shrine.

Next, I hit one of their support bases, carrying a full-on hive and several synapse nodes. Lost several Marines to Spore Mines. Took several minutes of sustained fire to take out the hive. The Lichtor rushes my force immediately after that, along with more, lesser, Tyranids. The Lichtor takes out most of my force, the other take out most of the rest, but it dies. I regroup and reinforce, then press on to the other bases. I lose more Marines to Spore Mines.

No more hives, although one base had two of those things that spawn Spore Mines. Tarkus shoved a grenade down one. That worked. Another grenade one-shotted a Hive node(which shoots Spore Mines).

I think I lost more Marines on this battle than all previous battles combined. My Force Commander was knocked out at least three times. What the hell are we, the Imperial Guard?

Even so, I won, and collected a Prime Tyranid Gene sample, and reduced the Tyranid infestation on Meridian.

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Dawn of War II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 05, 2015, 10:16:39 pm

Tried a game with Spectre against easy bots. Never played Spectre before. Was running a build around ganking (flanking, assassinating, or finishing off weak enemy heroes) and racked up 12 kills versus 2 deaths. And I was 3+ levels ahead of my allies in exp due to all the hero kills.

I quite like her. Fun game, was fun to roam around ganking unaware enemy heroes.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on October 05, 2015, 10:45:34 pm

I recently started playing Tribes: Ascend again after taking a break for a few years. Yesterday, I joined a rank 1-10 server (I'm rank 8 currently because I forgot my old account info) and started playing as infiltrator. I went back and forth across the map, returning my flag, dueling other players, and occasionally lurking in the generator room. Fairly quickly, I was reminded why I don't like newbie servers: no one could successfully kill me. I got The Slayer (15 or 20 kills without dying; I can't remember which one) and the "15 kills with a spinfusor" award and wasn't really opposed by anyone. I did eventually die, but I think I'm bored of newbie servers now.

tl;dr new players don't know how to deal with cloak + stealth spinfusor shots at weak players + sticky grenades.

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Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2015, 06:00:46 am

The Torians had two Ascension Crystals held for a rather long time. Seeing as no one else would do anything about it(the one race who went to war with the Torians was stomped and surrendered in less than five turns), I took up this challenge. Even though their military is rated nearly twice as better as mine, I have a far greater industrial capacity, and a lucky economic boom event is giving me over 1000bc/turn income.


Their Ascension stations were quickly blown up, two colonies have been taken(2000 vs 8000 defenders each), and several of their fleets have been taken out, with limited loss on my part.

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Galactic Civilizations II. Their military rating is still more than twice mine, making them refuse to accept any form of peace.

Another odd thing, the Drath hold another crystal, but no indicator for their victory timer is showing up, even after taking out both Torian crystals.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sprin on October 06, 2015, 07:32:54 am

After countless days studying dwemerie ruins in skyrim I have come acrossed a most interesting discovery. The dwemer had gold and silver jewlry instead of dwemerie metal alloy like every other luxory found in a dwemer ruin, however with more study I have found the answer to why the dwemer possessed Gold and silvor adornments. I walked into an old dwemer dinning hall and found gold ore on their plates, from this I hypothosise that the dwemer were able to EAT gold! I have documented my findings and sent them to the imperial city so that others will be able to learn from this discovery!.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 06, 2015, 08:39:37 am

Quote from: Sprin on October 06, 2015, 07:32:54 am

After countless days studying dwemerie ruins in skyrim I have come acrossed a most interesting discovery. The dwemer had gold and silver jewlry instead of dwemerie metal alloy like every other luxory found in a dwemer ruin, however with more study I have found the answer to why the dwemer possessed Gold and silvor adornments. I walked into an old dwemer dinning hall and found gold ore on their plates, from this I hypothosise that the dwemer were able to EAT gold! I have documented my findings and sent them to the imperial city so that others will be able to learn from this discovery!.

Such a decadent civilization.

Someone should do something about that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 06, 2015, 09:46:11 am

Someone already dod.
As of Skyrim, no dwemer exist alive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 06, 2015, 10:19:11 am

didnt der dwemer dod demselves?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 06, 2015, 10:21:21 am

:/
Yeah, they did SOMETHING that colossally fucked up and now they're somewhere else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on October 06, 2015, 10:22:17 am

All but the one you meet in Morrowind.

He probably perished when Red Mountain blew it's top, if not before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 06, 2015, 11:38:59 am

A shame nobody will be around to vaguely gross me out anymore.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on October 06, 2015, 06:33:27 pm

Came in first place in my second game of Aircraft battle, wherein I only ran into the ground once.

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2015, 06:42:49 pm

Apparently, not playing in several weeks yields hundreds of billions of gold, allowing me to upgrade to the point that I can 1-second kill just about any non-boss up until gold drops in the tens of  billions.

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Sakura Clicker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on October 07, 2015, 02:18:05 am

I got a landed transport in late July. Killed everything, came home with no injuries carrying tons of loot, and captured the first berserker to appear in the campaign.

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XCOM: EW - Long War, with vanilla stun chances and a bunch of other tweaks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 07, 2015, 02:07:37 pm

Lost 0-1 to a Bretonnia team. Not that it matters, since I crippled 3 of his players and killed 2. And that is what truly matters. That Kroxigor was a killing machine.

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Blood Bowl 2

EDIT: Should've mentioned it was a multiplayer match. Guy must be mourning his players by now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 07, 2015, 03:03:12 pm

Ah Blood bowl. one of few games in existence where you can technically lose the match but still come out on top moneywise because the other guy has to spend all his winnings and then some replacing all of the players your team painted the stadium with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 07, 2015, 05:36:18 pm

Playing Cloak and Dagger, defending.

Pegged one guy more or less straight off the bat, then managed to sneak up behind one of the opposing players who was sniping and interrogated them, revealing the whereabouts of the entirety of the other team. Fantastic, seeing as they all have stealth camo.

Shot someone who was running off after that, heard one of my team-mates extract another opponent, then followed one of my guys to get the last remaining enemy. My team-mate gets KO'd, so I return the favour and Fulton extract the not-so-competent thief, ending the round.

2100 points, more than the combined total of the other team.

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Metal Gear Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 07, 2015, 08:16:47 pm

Got my Dreadnought. Also got it to Venerable Dreadnought before its first deployment(not counting the one when he joins).


Now he's smashing through walls(and xenos), and my headcanon is that he's shouting "Oh yeahhh!!" every time.

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Dawn of War II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on October 08, 2015, 12:18:11 am

Quote from: hector13 on October 07, 2015, 05:36:18 pm

Playing Cloak and Dagger, defending.

Pegged one guy more or less straight off the bat, then managed to sneak up behind one of the opposing players who was sniping and interrogated them, revealing the whereabouts of the entirety of the other team. Fantastic, seeing as they all have stealth camo.

Shot someone who was running off after that, heard one of my team-mates extract another opponent, then followed one of my guys to get the last remaining enemy. My team-mate gets KO'd, so I return the favour and Fulton extract the not-so-competent thief, ending the round.

2100 points, more than the combined total of the other team.

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Metal Gear Online

Fu...
Fulton?
Is the MGS5 multiplayer out and I haven't heard about this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 08, 2015, 12:23:27 am

I will personally come to your* house and kick you in the throat if you brag about getting a MGO before 2016
_{*anyone, not specifically hector}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 08, 2015, 05:59:16 am

Kicked down the Torians' homeworld's front door, and took their everything.

3,000,000 human soldiers(three transports) against a population of 14,000,000,000. My forces were boosted by an information campaign, increasing my army by about 50% from their own citizens who defected. I also had a 12% soldiering bonus(they had none), plus a higher tech bonus(not sure how that applied). I rolled a 12 for battle advantage, they rolled a 2.

In the end, I still had two transports left in the fleet.

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GalCiv II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 08, 2015, 07:37:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on October 08, 2015, 12:23:27 am

I will personally come to your* house and kick you in the throat if you brag about getting a MGO before 2016
_{*anyone, not specifically hector}

PC master race? PC lost-the-race. :))

/me coughs

Sorry, couldn't resist. Be gentle, please!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 08, 2015, 07:46:15 am

Fine. Only one kneecap.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on October 08, 2015, 07:48:10 am

As in, he loses only one, or he gets to keep only one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 08, 2015, 07:50:13 am

* Egan counts.
Looks like both?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 08, 2015, 07:50:41 am

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all the classic music from the series you can select as the background soundtrack in the MP battles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on October 08, 2015, 07:53:36 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 08, 2015, 07:50:13 am

* Egan counts.
Looks like both?

Both? As in, he only has two kneecaps? What happened to his other six? (https://xkcd.com/1530/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 08, 2015, 07:55:43 am

Everyone on the internet is a male human.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 08, 2015, 07:55:51 am

Quote from: hector13 on October 08, 2015, 07:37:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on October 08, 2015, 12:23:27 am

I will personally come to your* house and kick you in the throat if you brag about getting a MGO before 2016
_{*anyone, not specifically hector}

PC master race? PC lost-the-race. :))

/me coughs

Sorry, couldn't resist. Be gentle, please!

the fires of hell will rain upon your mortal flesh

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 08, 2015, 11:49:26 am

More Cloak and Dagger ownage.

Killed 6 of the 8 members of the opposing team, though still lost the match 'cause my team were pants (I didn't play the first round as a result of joining the game too late)

Proud that the last one was with a mortar halfway across the map.

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Metal Gear Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 08, 2015, 12:35:09 pm

Shit, I gotta get me some of this action...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shadowlord on October 08, 2015, 12:46:11 pm

Beat Dmitri to death in the Witcher 2 Dark Mode with a pickaxe. (Also the rest of his gang)

Not the most amazing accomplishment, but it was amusing. I discovered that I could swing it repeatedly and not be knocked back when he blocked, and some of my swings would get past his defense, and because I was swinging it so frequently he couldn't hit back.

... I should probably try it with a sword to find out whether it's because of how fast I was swinging, or whether the pickaxe is special for not being a sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 08, 2015, 04:34:57 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on October 08, 2015, 07:53:36 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 08, 2015, 07:50:13 am

* Egan counts.
Looks like both?

Both? As in, he only has two kneecaps? What happened to his other six? (https://xkcd.com/1530/)

Noted about that comic: The person with the white speech bubble says "All your hands were clearly right on the home row." He knows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 09, 2015, 12:03:37 am

Just aced the City. Improved a few of my past times as well (totaling about 6 seconds of time off across 20 levels). Nice to know my FPS skills haven't gotten any rust on them quite yet.

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Lovely Planet

A cheerfully brutal game.

EDIT:
And now we can add the Village (World 2) to that list of Aced. WOO! That one was even more menacing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 09, 2015, 12:46:05 am

Went for a quick game vs medium bots for practice. Playing Leshrac the Tormented Soul (more like Glowstick the Rave Centaur). He's got glowy lights and magic damage for daaaays. It's seizure-riffic.

His Area of Effect damage is disgustingly good. Just nukes entire teams if he has the items and mana for it. By the end of the 30 minute match I had 11 kills versus 2 deaths, and was level 20 against an enemy team at levels between 11 to 13.

That's a steamroll. Against bots, so nothing meaningful, but it was fun.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on October 09, 2015, 04:24:08 am

Finished the game.

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Triangle wizard. Lxal's Sparkling ball allows me to cast Charged Bolts when i cast something else, resulting in tons and tons of damage. Too bad it spends a Charged Bolts incanation spend through.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on October 09, 2015, 03:23:01 pm

Two of my teammates disconnected, leaving my side outnumbered 2:4. But I have been practicing my mid-range assault, which is strong enough now that I can usually handle rollers and brushes easily; and my remaining teammate took a defensive sniper post.

Between him lot letting a single enemy into the base and me constantly getting past, around, and through their defense and seeker bombs, we won 43% to 31%. He had over 20 kills and no deaths, and my K/D was 11/5, of course the two who disconnected were 0/0. The enemy team must have been so upset!

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Splatoon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on October 09, 2015, 03:55:01 pm

Started the game with a golden crossbow as crystal, which is pretty much my favorite weapon until looping starts (at which point it begins to fall off due to the enemies having more health and there being about a trillion of them). Found a cursed minigun (and had the appropriate ammo saving mutation) in the Dark Crystal Caves, which I figured had me set for the rest of the game when combined with my golden crossbow, as my minigun would kill closeup enemies and bosses, while my crossbow would snipe.
To my vast surprise, I happened upon an ULTRA crossbow at the very start of the first loop, which I have never managed to get before (and in my humble opinion is the best weapon in the game (when combined with the homing bolts, and presuming that you are already level ultra) mutation due to its huge damage, ability to hit enemies off screen comfortably, quick reload time and low ammo cost).
With my ultra crossbow and minigun I completely crushed everything in my path, including beating the first loop entirely (which is significantly better then I have ever done before), only to fall when 4 big bandits pop out in 1-3 L2, and one of them charged my, reducing my health to 1 and breaking down my cover, making me easy prey for the barrage of shots that the rest were throwing my way. I still managed to take out two of them before dying however.

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Nuclear throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 09, 2015, 07:35:30 pm

Blew up the Tyranid Hive Fleet, killed the Alpha Hive Tyrant, made the sub-sector safe. Well, as safe is it can be with an infestation of Orks, Eldar guerrillas, and the escaping wild splinters of the Hive Fleet each of whom may or may not have the ability to form a new Hive Fleet and may or may not have developed an immunity to the bioweapon that we used to break it apart in the first place.


...Come to think of it, did we just royally fuck up the entire sub-sector?

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Dawn of War II. Main campaign done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on October 09, 2015, 08:24:16 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on October 09, 2015, 12:46:05 am

Went for a quick game vs medium bots for practice. Playing Leshrac the Tormented Soul (more like Glowstick the Rave Centaur). He's got glowy lights and magic damage for daaaays. It's seizure-riffic.

His Area of Effect damage is disgustingly good. Just nukes entire teams if he has the items and mana for it. By the end of the 30 minute match I had 11 kills versus 2 deaths, and was level 20 against an enemy team at levels between 11 to 13.

That's a steamroll. Against bots, so nothing meaningful, but it was fun.

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Dota 2

Have you tried playing an Orb - Walking Viper against Bots? My record (against Unfair Bots) is something like 40 to 1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on October 10, 2015, 02:14:44 am

Won over a free-form move master(Cooper) with a free-form move(Most fluid-looking moves that is not noobclap etc.), with less points than him(won by dq). Not exactly an own through, as he did a mistake(I don't know about the mistake, but he slammed the out of bounds area from inside).

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Toribash, Public twinswords server.

EDIT: Forgot to tell, apparently someone carpish entered the server before i own like this. I wonder who they was?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 10, 2015, 02:55:02 pm

Did some unpleasantness to many people in FOB missions, stealing all their stuff. Never have I had such a successful run of things in FOB invasions.

I think it was four in total. I managed to completely ace two of them so all the poor sods can do is watch the replay of me killing/extracting their guys and then stealing all their resources.

The other two were less successful in that I got caught so the owners can retaliate, but they still get to watch the replay of me killing/extracting their guys and then stealing all their resources.

I now have too much stuff, so people might steal it from me :o

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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 10, 2015, 07:44:10 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on September 29, 2015, 06:39:03 pm

The first mission of the second section of ArmA 3's campaign. The one where you have to make your way through the pretty heavily occupied city alone and poorly equipped.

Dying a lot.

Updates forced me to restart the mission. This time I just kind of... went through the town. Killed 2 guards with the pistol I started with and 2 more with the rifle I looted off the corpses.
I have no idea why I thought it would be easier to go a convoluted route before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 10, 2015, 09:00:58 pm

Made a big mistake at work today.  I work tech support for a major ISP.  I was calling a person back after they had to restart their modem, because their phone is linked to the modem and when it's like that we need to call them back after the modem finishes restarting.   Unfortunately I accidentally got the phone numbers in my system mixed up and called the wrong person back. I ended up calling a person I worked with earlier in the day.

That is very very bad.

Fortunately( or unfortunately) their problem had recurred, they were having intermittent connection with their internet, and it happened again since we got off the phone.  So like a boss, I recognized the voice, quickly cross referenced the phone number to bring his account back up, and I played it off as me having been 'reviewing my notes' and seeing his system went offline again.  And that I called back to check up.

Got him sorted by sending a in home technician to check on the, at this point, clearly faulty equipment.  Got that sorted in 5 minutes and called the original person back and got their stuff fixed too. I had even managed to just barely make my promised callback window with 30 seconds to spare.

I reported the mistake to my supervisor (since I was unable to update my notes on the customer I called in error).  And was told that while I need to be more careful with my callbacks, I handled that better than anyone else that ever reported that mistake to him in the 3 years he has been a supervisor.

So apparently I got a customer who needed an in home tech an in home tech a day earlier, since they were just planning on calling back tomorrow.  AND managed to get the original power outage glitch fixed for the original call.  In a situation where most of my coworkers absolutely panic.

Real Life: Day Job expansion pack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 10, 2015, 09:58:53 pm

The Soviet forces began the battle in a thin line capped off with large forces on the north and south ends.  Or at least it seemed like a coherent line.  In reality, my forces were actually split in half by supply issues; our supplies were coming in from both ends of the same railway, but that railway ran through Orel... which was under Axis control.  The southern group's armor (and a single unit of literal calvalry, which I find hilarious) break through the southwest end of enemy lines and push through to form a sizeable but thin bulge.

The moment I hit end turn on the first turn, German infantry destroy an undermanned Soviet infantry unit I foolishly left with nothing behind it, and a single Panzer unit rushes through and plants itself on the southern origin of our supplies.  All of our tanks are in the bulge, and the infantry move too slowly.  No one can reach the tank to attack it.  After two turns out of supply (counting from the START of my turns), the entire southern half of the Soviet forces will be unable to attack and be weakened.  After three, they will be incapable of defending themselves.  There is nothing they can do to stop this.

This is probably worthy of a quick restart, but I didn't.  Instead, I had the northern unit push forward at a breakneck speed and reach Orel.  In the single turn before they lost the ability to attack, the southern group punched their own hole in the enemy lines and moved north along the railway.  The same setup that prevented them from pursuing the panzer unit proved beneficial; the units furthest away from Orel were the (again, literal in one case) calvalry, who were most capable of running away.  Orel was easily encircled next turn, but the enemy infantry inside were too stubborn to break in a single turn.  As a result we still didn't have use of the railway.  The southern force moved up close to Orel and the north group moved in front of them, forming a defensive line.  What the stretch of the railway we did control came close enough to resupply all of them.  The entire retreat was executed with very few casualties, and we now controlled the first of our objectives.

With the railway firmly under control and all Soviet forces fully supplied we no longer needed our southern supply source in the short term.  The insolent Panzer unit was left to rot far away from the Axis supply lines until, too broken down to fight, it was taken out by a single Soviet infantry unit.  I went on to win the battle.

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Unity of Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 10, 2015, 11:46:27 pm

Real Life ownings are always awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 11, 2015, 09:33:50 am

The AI in this game does some... odd things.

Playing as the Danes, I've expanded all across East Europe, stopping at the incredibly valuable port at Khazar. I've got Longboats trading from Lithuania all the way to Khazar, getting most of the ports in between save for the north coast of Africa. Money is pouring in.

Along the way, Crimea falls to a neutral faction. I ready my army to take it, but the Hungarians beat me to the punch. I start putting troops on the border, and they do the same. Numberwise, we're about even, but I attack. I push them back a few provinces(including Crimea), not entirely aware of the size of their nation.

Eventually, the Pope demands I stop attacking them. I comply. Apparently, this does not apply to the other side, since they launched a hilariously abortive attack on me with their king. In the meantime, the remains of their territory are split in two with a civil war, which might have been started when I put an inquisitor there.

Despite the fact that the province on the southwestern side has about 1800 men, their king(on the NE side) with less than 100, attacks the rebels. As far as I can tell, he's old and has no heirs, though the rebel leader claims royal blood.

Next turn, I see the king's band back where he started, reduced in size, and with about 25 men being returned as ransom.

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Medieval: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gabeux on October 11, 2015, 02:04:29 pm

How did I last own: I finally finished it.
That's it.

Got it on release, still had not finished it (nor any of the major questlines).
Tried two times, and dropped it because I couldn't stand the UI / Carry Weight / wasting more time looking in containers and sorting inventory instead of playing.
So 50 mods later, and in my third attempt...I did it. And even built a house, and married Muiri, and adopted children with the Hearthfire DLC.
I actually had to take a 3 month break half-way through it.

My soul is now free.

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Skyrim, of course.

EDIT: Damn Sirus!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 11, 2015, 02:07:15 pm

Now do it all over again but as a mage instead of a warrior.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 11, 2015, 02:09:43 pm

You built and married children??!
O___O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 11, 2015, 02:24:50 pm

I finally beat the mission I was stuck on, via judicious use of savescumming (but without using the "save anywhere" cheat).

Turns out, the secret is to drive far to the left of the road, then come back down on the other side. That way, you come up behind any OPFOR lying in wait, and any AT soldiers that may be present don't have time to pull out their RPGs.

ARMA: CWA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gabeux on October 11, 2015, 02:34:07 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on October 11, 2015, 02:07:15 pm

Now do it all over again but as a mage instead of a warrior.

Hahaha my first playthrough was vanilla with a mage-only char. It was hell on earth later on, but actually doable. Except I dropped the game back then because I couldn't handle all the inventory management, and I seriously can't go through a place without opening all of its chests.
I really don't wanna touch Skyrim until when/if I get Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs, which for some reason I didn't buy it before.

Quote from: Sirus on October 11, 2015, 02:09:43 pm

You built and married children??!
O___O

Yes. Nothing like homemade little wi...
Damn you.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 11, 2015, 10:23:35 pm

Quote from: Gabeux on October 11, 2015, 02:04:29 pm

How did I last own: I finally finished it.
That's it.

Got it on release, still had not finished it (nor any of the major questlines).
Tried two times, and dropped it because I couldn't stand the UI / Carry Weight / wasting more time looking in containers and sorting inventory instead of playing.
So 50 mods later, and in my third attempt...I did it. And even built a house, and married Muiri, and adopted children with the Hearthfire DLC.
I actually had to take a 3 month break half-way through it.

My soul is now free.

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Skyrim, of course.

EDIT: Damn Sirus!

*stares*
I WISH I HAD THE BALLS, MAN
I WISH I HAD THE BALLS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 11, 2015, 11:45:02 pm

I discovered that if you're in the driver's seat, you can still give orders to the gunner as if you were in the commander's seat. For the first time since I unlocked the tank missions, I'm having fun driving the tank.

ARMA:CWA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Boltgun on October 12, 2015, 06:53:32 am

Finished my campaign with a few named soldiers.

Made Zhang the volunteer for the temple ship, then I took my main guy (unlocking the achievement for having one char survive from start to finish), Anette, BFEL the completely modded assault, Rince Wind the turbo puncher MEC and Remalle as a medic.

BFEL took many enemies out by turning invisible and surprising the enemy, Zhang shredded both sectopods for the team to finish and Rince Wind sadly did not punch anything and even got mind controlled... while he was out of ammo, so nothing bad happened. Without Remalle I would have lost half the team midway.

But the MVP had to be Anette. She mind controlled an etheral and had it throw a rift on the uber. Next turn, uber etheral tried to control her... but not only he failed but Anette's augment fired back doing 15 damage and killing him on the spot! Invasion over.

Xcom: Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 12, 2015, 11:22:10 am

Screwing around with the weapons, finding one I like best.

Tried out the Dual Swords.

I think I'm in love, given that I crushed the Nerscylla in a matter of minutes with these things.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Wish I'd found these things sooner. Before, I'd tried to use the slower weapons (namely, the Charge Blade and Lance,) but my playstyle just didn't work with them.

But these... these are different.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Roundabout Lout on October 12, 2015, 12:43:51 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on October 12, 2015, 11:22:10 am

Screwing around with the weapons, finding one I like best.

Tried out the Dual Swords.

I think I'm in love, given that I crushed the Nerscylla in a matter of minutes with these things.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Wish I'd found these things sooner. Before, I'd tried to use the slower weapons (namely, the Charge Blade and Lance,) but my playstyle just didn't work with them.

But these... these are different.

Welcome to the club, dual blades for life!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 12, 2015, 01:36:22 pm

TRUE FACTS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sprin on October 12, 2015, 07:57:14 pm

Todays the day men that we declare war on the greatest catholic countries in the world! We shall march into lombardy with the Allfather on our side! We shall beet the wardrums to awaken the thunderer, and the valkeries shall sing forever how the great empire of Midgard took the catholic stronghold and brought it to its knees under the true gods of this land! No more shall this crisified god spread his lies into our land! FOR WE, THE VALIANT WARRIORS OF THE EMPIRE! STAND READY TO CRUSH THE CATHOLIC REGIMES OF LOMBARDY AND WE SHALL DRINK FROM THE SKULL OF THEIR FALSE PROFIT!

Hmm whats that? Wait the kings been in our cells for three years? We already won!? But we didn't get to kill anyone!!

Well fuck...

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE THE GODS HAVE GRANTED US THIS VICTORY! WE HAVE BROUGHT DOWN LOMBARDY! THE COWARDS SURENDERED AS SOON AS WE DECLARED WAR!

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CKII Merchant Republic of Odin the Midgardian Empire. Actually was very IC for Itally to surender that quicklly, the troops weren't even up yet!

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I was also dressed up like Sheogorath at the time, don't ask why.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mesa on October 13, 2015, 08:27:41 am

Started out as Eden.
Oh good, 2 spirit hearts.
Oh GOOD, IT'S BUTTER BEAN EVERYBODY! EVERYONE HIDE! ...No.
Suddenly, I enter a room and jokingly use it once and get teleported out.
I look at the bottom left corner of my screen - Broken Remote.

The very rare time where one of the worst trinkets in the game and objectively the worst active item in the game combine their forces to create a ludicrously hilarious and not entirely impractical synergy! What a time to be alive!
All those chests in challenge rooms? No problem, just open them and teleport out? Oh, and Dark Bum? Why not steal that one too while you're at it.
Ipecac from the Boss Rush? Feel free to snatch it as well.
Add a Mom's Knife from a Devil Deal and an assortment of other cool items and you've got yourself a won run.

Take that, Butter Bean haters!

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (as a bonus, I installed Missing HUD 2 (https://github.com/networkMe/missinghud2/releases/tag/v1.2.3) which is super handy.)

Spoiler: Bonus: screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://puu.sh/kIIDx/a6ce4c48e1.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 4maskedwolf on October 13, 2015, 10:22:58 am

Had a battle-weakened army (three units of line infantry ranging from 30-60 men, two light cavalry units with about 35 men each, and an artillery unit with two cannons left) come under attack from a fresh army of soldiers (5 units of line infantryat 120 men and one unit of light infantry at 90 men, which was also where the enemy commander was) reinforced by a unit of ranged cavalry (40 men).  Any other battlefield this would have been a roflstomp of my forces, but the particular battlefield was a river with only two crossing points, one on each side of the map.  I managed to bottleneck one of the crossing points, rout the cavalry and three line infantry units, sent my cavalry across to rout the light infantry unit (killing their commander in the process), then somehow with less than 120 soldiers left between all six squads routed the remaining two line infantry units.  Moral of the story?  Being on the defensive is great, and cannons are devastating weapons because of their ability to break the enemy's resolve.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Napoleon:Total war

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 13, 2015, 09:06:08 pm

Had my first successful escape mode victory. It was... surprisingly easy, once I learned the patrol pattern of a particular guard. He would open the doors to the outside area of the prison (which were not designated as a restricted area) and then open the gate to the outside. Once past the gate he became hostile, but I was able to quickly move off the map, thus counting as an escape.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Prison Architect

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 14, 2015, 06:43:51 pm

I have become a god - through SCIENCE!


While topping out only in terms of research and economy(and not by much), I managed to keep peace after two successive successful wars against two more powerful empires. After that, I put my research into overdrive. One planet, Chiron(which might have been a SMAC reference), had a ton of building space, plus a tile with a 700% research bonus. Obviously, that was covered in research buildings as soon as possible. Nobody seemed to mind. Through tax/spending manipulation, I got the research time for ascension to under 20 turns as well.

Science for the Science god(which is now me)!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GalCiv II. For some reason that event that caused me to go from barely breaking even to getting several thousand BC per turn never ended.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 14, 2015, 11:47:39 pm

After years of either not learning how to play this, not trying because of the intimidation factor, or not having a computer that could run it, I finally wiped out my first enemy unit.

And by "wiped out an enemy unit" I mean "forced 84,000 allied troops to surrender".  Not bad for my first encirclement :3

Spoiler: My main armored push finishes encircling (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/393295805954083498/D4099E644A11E9BB2F97995F0D33E3C2F67683B3/)

Spoiler: The last stand (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/393295805954083656/E6EE3518DBEAC5E56D9A1B2FC26E36CE436136EF/)

Spoiler: A bitter day at Eindhoven (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/393295805954083756/989E4E22A95F64F52F26801754DB532580D2C238/)

The last battle of that pocket (not of the overall scenario, which isn't over yet) lasted like half a day tops.  It was a little sad.  Granted they're outnumbered ~3:1, they have no way to resupply, and they're being attacked from 5 directions by a bunch of tanks, but... still.  Maybe they were angry at their generals for not anticipating this or making any effort to get them out of the situation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hearts of Iron 3, Battle of the Bulge scenario.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 15, 2015, 02:53:52 pm

EnigmaticHat confirmed for better Hitler than Hitler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 4maskwolf on October 16, 2015, 10:53:53 am

Defending a city with two units of militia and five units of armed citizenry against three units of line infantry, one unit of ranged cavalry, and one unit of artillery (six pound foot, I think).  Listed as being a highly improbable battle for me to win, due to the low skill and morale of my units as compared to the enemy's.  And yet I still won the battle, with the scariest part being attempting to eliminate the enemy artillery without my forces breaking and running.

Granted, I was helped by the AI's stupidity (I generally keep the AI on easy, at least for now, until I learn better strategies).  They attacked head-on against what appeared to be just my two militia units hidden behind barricades to protect them from artillery fire, only to learn that all of my armed citizenry was hidden in the woods behind those militia units.  I routed the cavalry with surprise overwhelming firepower and, when their line infantry attempted to engage in melee combat, they learned why having superior numbers of guns can make up for lack of skilled units, particularly at close range.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Napoleon: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 19, 2015, 09:59:21 am

Had a mission to steal a heavy lifter chopper from a military depot. After several tries going through the front entrance resulting in getting shot a lot from about a dozen and a half soldiers with assault rifles, I took an alternate path in.

I flew a small prop plane, intending to (crash-)land onto the roof. Although I got shot down by an unexpected SAM, I landed exactly where I wanted to on the roof with nearly half my body armor intact. There were only four goons on the roof The plane killed one of them, I killed another, and took out the other two using the mounted minigun which I also shot down two Hunters that came in as well.

The rest of the mission was a cakewalk with my piloting skills.

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GTA: San Andreas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on October 19, 2015, 01:16:16 pm

Quote from: 4maskwolf on October 16, 2015, 10:53:53 am

Defending a city with two units of militia and five units of armed citizenry against three units of line infantry, one unit of ranged cavalry, and one unit of artillery (six pound foot, I think).  Listed as being a highly improbable battle for me to win, due to the low skill and morale of my units as compared to the enemy's.  And yet I still won the battle, with the scariest part being attempting to eliminate the enemy artillery without my forces breaking and running.

Granted, I was helped by the AI's stupidity (I generally keep the AI on easy, at least for now, until I learn better strategies).  They attacked head-on against what appeared to be just my two militia units hidden behind barricades to protect them from artillery fire, only to learn that all of my armed citizenry was hidden in the woods behind those militia units.  I routed the cavalry with surprise overwhelming firepower and, when their line infantry attempted to engage in melee combat, they learned why having superior numbers of guns can make up for lack of skilled units, particularly at close range.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Napoleon: Total War

Now do it on Very Hard. Battle AI is pretty much always terrible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 20, 2015, 05:05:52 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on October 12, 2015, 11:22:10 am

Screwing around with the weapons, finding one I like best.

Tried out the Dual Swords.

I think I'm in love, given that I crushed the Nerscylla in a matter of minutes with these things.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Wish I'd found these things sooner. Before, I'd tried to use the slower weapons (namely, the Charge Blade and Lance,) but my playstyle just didn't work with them.

But these... these are different.

Gunlance FTW. Get better internet so we can chop up monsters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 21, 2015, 10:29:16 am

Hacked some base turrets for no reason other than to deny them to the enemy, then a while later there's two lightnings harassing our sundie.
I get in the base turret and give some supporting fire to a vanguard which is also fighting them, and they dont even appear to notice me. Both the sundie and the vanguard died, but I got them both c:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2, the walled biolab on Esamir, forgot what its called. Seriously though, biolabs are already impossible to attack as-is, do they really need more walls?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 21, 2015, 06:38:17 pm

Ran a cop off the road. _{^{And shot a couple hundred other cops and gangsters along the way.}}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GTA: San Andreas finale. The only bad part is that the game saw fit to take my thousands of MP5 rounds and replace it with an Uzi with 120 bullets. Hate it when it does that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Knick on October 22, 2015, 12:11:28 pm

While discussing terms of exchange for a couple of books, I summoned a Frost Atronach, and planted a double fireball on a boss, who went down in seconds.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim, pure mage character, sneak attacking the Caller

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on October 22, 2015, 02:54:57 pm

After getting all the mone in the vault, the vault doors swing open to reveal a surrounding wall of swat police.  Shields, tazers, the works.

No fear, for I have a flamethrower.  I just get in there, the flames going around the shields and melting cops down where ever I go.  Meanwhile the rest of the teams cleaning up and shoving money bags down a vent.  We get the two rooms outside the vault secured.

The vault area is connected to the bank proper via a long hallway, that's clogged with police, shields, and other ugliness.  I get my flamethrower reloaded and take point.  I'm literally just walking forward and shooting, never stopping nor slowing.  Everything in my path burns, they couldn't stop me.

We break out of our hold and make for the exit.  My flammer's dry so I switch to my smg to pop off snipers and the other stragglers in our path.  We escape via garbage truck.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2, First World Bank Heist

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 22, 2015, 11:17:13 pm

I found out that Augmented Flame/Frost/Shock also affects weapon enchantments, and enchantment buffs are multiplicative with each other.

Enchanting at max + all relevant enchanting perks + 50% Hunterborn enchantment buff + 50% frost damage buff + 50% shock damage buff + potion buff =

(http://i.imgur.com/cOjm0ax.png)

The explosion is so powerful it can send enemies flying as if they were struck by giants.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 22, 2015, 11:21:33 pm

Quote from: Blaze on October 22, 2015, 11:17:13 pm

I found out that Augmented Flame/Frost/Shock also affects weapon enchantments, and enchantment buffs are multiplicative with each other.

Enchanting at max + all relevant enchanting perks + 50% Hunterborn enchantment buff + 50% frost damage buff + 50% shock damage buff + potion buff =

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/cOjm0ax.png)

The explosion is so powerful it can send enemies flying as if they were struck by giants.

Hory shet. What weapon did you enchant? Bow? Sword? Greathammer? Iron dagger? Pointy stick?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 22, 2015, 11:35:44 pm

Hunterborn's bone bow. It's about as strong as an Ebony bow, but can't be tempered. The enchantment only triggers on hit, but that's not really a problem for a bow-centric character.

The ridiculously high bow damage is from Better Clothing Enchantments (Enchantments on clothing are 50% stronger) and Enchanting Freedom's (armor enchantments can go on any armor/weapon enchants on any weapons) and putting fortify archery on everything possible. I ended up dropping melee entirely because it's suicide playing on legendary with only the 300 armor from ebonyflesh with all enemy spawns boosted 5x (DFB/ExtraEncounter).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 23, 2015, 12:12:08 am

I got the Orb of Zot with a non-mage character. This time cats is a Minotaur Fighter of Okawaru wielding a +9 Eveningstar of Crushing and decked out in absurd amounts of armour and toting a +8 Large Shield. Okawaru is actually pretty strong: The Heroism buff is better then it seemed at first and Finesse[Especially coupled with Haste or Berserk] turns you into a DPS machine capable of beating down the Royal Jelly in a matter of turns. It doesn't compare to level 9 spells like Fire Storm or Tornado, but I can still kick major ass. I do have a couple support spells and wands and rods and such, but the majority of my success is from repeated bludgeoning. Okawaru's GIFTS, though, suck. I've gotten two or maybe three useful gifts[To be fair, one of them was my eveningstar and another one was a demon whip randart that propelled me through the early and mid game] and the rest are junk. I mean, I'm getting ROBES. I don't want robes. In any case, the game isn't over. I've won once already and now I wanna try the extended endgame. I've got four runes + the Orb positioned for easy retrieval at the upstairs of Zot:5 and only eleven more runes left to go. I'll probably clear out the Crypt/Tomb with TSO to get piety up and then get the Abyssal Rune before tackling the Hells/Pandemonium. In any case, even if I later die ignominiously, I COULD have won at this point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 23, 2015, 12:48:40 am

Okawaru's gifts are mainly for ranged characters.  If you worship him, ammo stops being a concern.  Usually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 23, 2015, 12:58:56 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on October 23, 2015, 12:12:08 am

+9 Eveningstar of Crushing

Ooooh, nice loot. Better dps with Oka than a demon whip, Oka's powers can let you swing the eveningstar faster than a demon whip when needed and due to its higher average damage and vorpal brand acting as a multiplier based on damage done, that's a solid weapon you got there. Holy would probably be better for extended. Getting holy would need you to switch to TSO and survive Oka's wrath though.

Oka is great for fighters, yeah. You don't get much utility like what other gods can offer but Oka's powers make you better at what you do best, which is beat the shit out of things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 23, 2015, 08:30:19 am

Cleared out all of the enemies in Broken Oar Grotto* with only a hunting bow, a potion of True Shot, a katana and a dagger of Static.
The katana is from Hothtrooper's Immersive Weapons, which is really great. The dagger is also great, since it does only a bit less damage than the katana, with a bonus of 5% damage to the target's Health and half that to Magicka. I'm not sure if Static means 5% of the dagger's hits' damage, or 5% of the target's total health at the time, but damn is it useful.
(Heavily Modded) Skyrim.

_{*the ones near/with Captain Hargar}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 23, 2015, 09:35:59 am

PTW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 23, 2015, 10:43:56 pm

I decided I'd been too mean to the enemy team with my Colt Walkers and decided to buy a Henry Rifle.  The objective for this map is to push a raft through a cold, ankle-high river; at the center of the map it goes through a tunnel and there's a pass over.  I go up on the pass and shoot at the two enemies, who are trying to rush through with an axe and a coach gun.  It goes suprisingly well for them but they still die.  I see someone is pushing the cart raft; he exits the tunnel to reveal that he has a machete equipped.  I start shooting at him from above and behind, get him once in the leg, and then he runs away, obviously meaning to come up behind me.  I scope up and watch behind me, he rushes me and I calmly take aim and gun him down, confident that he just has a melee weapon.

Actually he had a Colt Walker with 3 shots in it.

I don't know why he decided to melee me when he had the highest damage handgun in the game, but I gladly take it for myself and proceed to decimate the enemy team with it, as the level is too narrow for them to surprise me, and I can just retreat behind my allies when I need to do my ridiculously long reload.  In the final charge I decide to just go for it with nothing loaded except four in the Henry Rifle.  I miss one shot on an enemy with a rifle, hit the other and he retreats to reload.  An enemy is camping the path with a shotgun, I turn the corner and semi-accidentally headshot him.  The only guy left is the one with the rifle, I take aim with my last bullet and hit him square in the chest for just enough to kill him.  I have no more bullets, but the payload raft reaches the goal.  Never died, x18 killstreak, 108 notoriety, second place on my team was 23 noteriety.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fistful of Frags, teamplay

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 24, 2015, 12:40:53 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on October 23, 2015, 12:12:08 am

Spoiler: Context (click to show/hide)

I got the Orb of Zot with a non-mage character. This time cats is a Minotaur Fighter of Okawaru wielding a +9 Eveningstar of Crushing and decked out in absurd amounts of armour and toting a +8 Large Shield. Okawaru is actually pretty strong: The Heroism buff is better then it seemed at first and Finesse[Especially coupled with Haste or Berserk] turns you into a DPS machine capable of beating down the Royal Jelly in a matter of turns. It doesn't compare to level 9 spells like Fire Storm or Tornado, but I can still kick major ass. I do have a couple support spells and wands and rods and such, but the majority of my success is from repeated bludgeoning. Okawaru's GIFTS, though, suck. I've gotten two or maybe three useful gifts[To be fair, one of them was my eveningstar and another one was a demon whip randart that propelled me through the early and mid game] and the rest are junk. I mean, I'm getting ROBES. I don't want robes. In any case, the game isn't over. I've won once already and now I wanna try the extended endgame. I've got four runes + the Orb positioned for easy retrieval at the upstairs of Zot:5 and only eleven more runes left to go. I'll probably clear out the Crypt/Tomb with TSO to get piety up and then get the Abyssal Rune before tackling the Hells/Pandemonium. In any case, even if I later die ignominiously, I COULD have won at this point.

So I did end up converting to TSO and winning, with the full fifteen runes. I must admit to some disappointment. Aside from the boss fight with Asmodeus[Which I only survived because of TSO giving me absurd healing on killing him so the several brimstone fiends he summoned didn't wreck me] and all the Ice Fiends with Cocytus' boss tormenting me at once, I never once encountered something that couldn't be solved by hasting up, maybe casting Silence and then pummeling things repeatedly with my +9 Eveningstar of Holy Wrath. Well, swarms of Greater Mummies in the Tomb were trickier and required abusing LoS and stair dancing, but if I'd had Silence castable then, they would've been pushovers. I also kept around the Elemental Staff for resists and damage against non-unholy foes. Even though I did end up training Evocations to 27 for that, there wasn't that much call for it to be used, except on a saucy Seraph who showed up right before I ascended.

Spoiler: Char Dump & Name of the Game (click to show/hide)

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1 (tiles) character file.

11248388 cats the Conqueror (level 27, 273/273 HPs)
             Began as a Minotaur Fighter on Oct 22, 2015.
             Was the Champion of the Shining One.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 15 runes on Oct 24, 2015!
             
             The game lasted 09:07:26 (147340 turns).

cats the Conqueror (Minotaur Fighter)             Turns: 147340, Time: 09:07:27

Health: 273/273    AC: 54    Str: 33    XL:     27
Magic:  34/34      EV: 16    Int:  9    God:    the Shining One [******]
Gold:   16936      SH: 36    Dex:  9    Spells: 9 memorised, 31 levels left

rFire  + + +     SeeInvis +     F - +3 staff {rElec rF++ rC++ MR++ AC+5}
rCold  + + +     Clarity  .     U - +8 gold dragon armour
rNeg   + + +     SustAb   .     z - +8 large shield {rPois}
rPois  +         Gourm    .     J - +2 hat "Giliawea" {Contam Str+2 Dex-4 Slay+4 SInv}
rElec  +         Spirit   .     d - +2 cloak "Depud" {rElec rF- rN+ MP-9 Str+9}
rCorr  +         Warding  .     Q - +2 pair of gloves "Selig" {rElec rPois rCorr Str-4}
rMut   .         Stasis   .     m - +2 pair of boots {run}
MR     ++++.                    L - amulet "Qureo" {rC+ Regen+}
Stlth  ..........               w - ring "Pnovvadywn" {rPois rF++ rN+ MR- Str+2}
                                t - ring of Xureg {rC+ MR+ Dex-3 Slay+2}

@: very slightly contaminated, glowing, deflect missiles, quick, incredibly
resistant to hostile enchantments, extremely unstealthy
A: retaliatory headbutt, horns 2
a: Divine Shield, Cleansing Flame, Summon Divine Warrior, Renounce Religion
0: Orb of Zot
}: 15/15 runes: decaying, slimy, silver, golden, iron, obsidian, icy, bone,
abyssal, demonic, glowing, magical, fiery, dark, gossamer


You escaped.
You worshipped the Shining One.
The Shining One was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.

You visited 18 branches of the dungeon, and saw 97 of its levels.
You visited Pandemonium 1 time, and saw 35 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 8 times.
You visited 1 bazaar.
You also visited: Trove, Sewer, Ossuary, Ice Cave and Wizlab.

You collected 18929 gold pieces.
You spent 1993 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 F - the +3 Elemental Staff (weapon) {rElec rF++ rC++ MR++ AC+5}
   (You found it on level 6 of the Pits of Slime)   
   
   It affects your AC (+5).
   It greatly protects you from fire.
   It greatly protects you from cold.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
 R - a +9 eveningstar of holy wrath
Armour
 d - the +2 cloak "Depud" (worn) {rElec rF- rN+ MP-9 Str+9}
   (You found it on level 1 of the Elven Halls)   
   
   It affects your strength (+9).
   It makes you vulnerable to fire.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It affects your magic capacity (-9).
 m - a +2 pair of boots of running (worn)
 z - a +8 large shield of poison resistance (worn)
 J - the +2 hat "Giliawea" (worn) {Contam Str+2 Dex-4 Slay+4 SInv}
   (You acquired it in Pandemonium)   
   
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It affects your dexterity (-4).
   It affects your accuracy and damage with ranged weapons and melee attacks
   (+4).
   It enhances your eyesight.
   It causes magical contamination when unequipped.
 Q - the +2 pair of gloves "Selig" (worn) {rElec rPois rCorr Str-4}
   (You found it in a treasure trove)   
   
   It affects your strength (-4).
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from poison.
   It protects you from acid and corrosion.
 U - a +8 gold dragon armour (worn)
Magical staves
 H - an uncursed staff of energy
Rods
 E - a +9 rod of ignition (17/17)
   (You found it on level 3 of the Elven Halls)
Jewellery
 c - an uncursed amulet of resist mutation
 j - an uncursed amulet of stasis
 t - the ring of Xureg (left hand) {rC+ MR+ Dex-3 Slay+2}
   (You found it on level 6 of the Pits of Slime)   
   
   [ring of protection from magic]
   
   It affects your dexterity (-3).
   It affects your accuracy and damage with ranged weapons and melee attacks
   (+2).
   It protects you from cold.
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
 w - the ring "Pnovvadywn" (right hand) {rPois rF++ rN+ MR- Str+2}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Crypt)   
   
   [ring of positive energy]
   
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It greatly protects you from fire.
   It protects you from poison.
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
 y - an uncursed ring of teleportation
 L - the amulet "Qureo" (around neck) {rC+ Regen+}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Crypt)   
   
   [amulet of regeneration]
   
   It protects you from cold.
   It increases your rate of regeneration.
 W - an uncursed ring of sustain abilities
 Y - an uncursed amulet of clarity
 Z - an uncursed ring of teleport control
Magical devices
 b - a wand of disintegration (19)
 f - a wand of fire (3)
 i - a wand of frost (2)
 o - a wand of cold (5)
 B - a wand of digging (10)
 P - a wand of lightning (4)
 S - a wand of teleportation (9)
Scrolls
 l - 2 scrolls of summoning
 n - a scroll of silence
 q - 3 scrolls of holy word
 u - 39 scrolls of remove curse
 v - 3 scrolls of identify
 C - 5 scrolls of recharging
 T - 11 scrolls of blinking
 V - 6 scrolls of teleportation
Potions
 a - 3 potions of haste
 e - 11 potions of might
 g - 3 potions of restore abilities
 h - 14 potions of curing
 p - 3 potions of cure mutation
 s - 8 potions of heal wounds
 M - 4 potions of cancellation
 O - 10 potions of ambrosia
 X - 10 potions of resistance
Miscellaneous
 x - an ornate deck of war {the Crusade}
 A - a fan of gales
 I - a plain deck of defence {the Shadow, drawn: 1}
 K - a disc of storms
Comestibles
 r - 15 meat rations


   Skills:
 O Level 27 Fighting
 - Level 17.4(17.5) Maces & Flails
 - Level 2.3(12.0) Staves
 O Level 27 Armour
 + Level 24.9 Dodging
 - Level 2.0 Stealth
 O Level 27 Shields
 - Level 17.1 Spellcasting
 - Level 12.0 Hexes
 - Level 17.2 Charms
 - Level 7.0 Translocations
 - Level 17.1 Air Magic
 + Level 14.6 Invocations
 O Level 27 Evocations


You had 31 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Repel Missiles        Chrm/Air       #####.       1%          2    None
b - Swiftness             Chrm/Air       #####...     1%          2    None
c - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          2%          2    None
d - Apportation           Tloc           ###.......   1%          1    None
e - Shroud of Golubria    Chrm/Tloc      ####......   1%          2    None
f - Deflect Missiles      Chrm/Air       #####.....   6%          6    ######.
g - Haste                 Chrm           #####...     4%          6    ######.
h - Flight                Chrm/Air       #####.....   1%          3    None
i - Silence               Hex/Air        ####......   2%          5    #####..


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (15/15)            Temple (1/1) D:6            Lair (8/8) D:9
  Swamp (5/5) Lair:4       Spider (5/5) Lair:6        Slime (6/6) Lair:6
    Orc (4/4) D:9             Elf (3/3) Orc:4        Vaults (5/5) D:14
  Crypt (3/3) Vaults:2       Tomb (3/3) Crypt:3      Depths (5/5) D:15
   Hell (1/1)                 Dis (7/7) Hell            Geh (7/7) Hell
    Coc (7/7) Hell            Tar (7/7) Hell            Zot (5/5) Depths:5

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Dithmenos
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Gozag
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Qazlal
Ru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
The Shining One
Beogh
Jiyva

Shops:
D:6 (   Orc:4 =*([

Portals:
Hell: Depths:1 Depths:2 Depths:3 Depths:4 Depths:5
Abyss: Depths:3 Depths:4
Pandemonium: Depths:3
Ziggurat: Depths:3

Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You reflexively headbutt those who attack you in melee.
You have a pair of horns on your head.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on October 24, 2015, 01:50:33 pm

So i was fighting a taranis and i was getting pummeled by its anti-fighter defense, i kept fighting, or at least was trying to fight it and try to capture it but i was going critical and wasnt looking really good for me then out of no-where my scaldis wich for some unknown reason was on follow me order and came out of warp and hit the taranishead-on sending it flying at over, well i dont know the speed it was but he did clear 2 system space in really no time.

I was laughing my ass off trying to roleplay it in my head because Taranis destroyers can be really dangerous if you attack it on the wrong angle and such, and the scaldisÉ Well its a big ass mining ship with no weapon worth talking about and in my head it was: *He guys the boss is in real trouble lets give him a head, prep the shield we are going in for a ram. ENGAGE FULL SPEED AHEAD and brace for impact!!!!!

Suddenly the Taranis is not a treat anymore. Wasnt a win per say but it did clear the sector and save my ass so yeah.

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X-Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 24, 2015, 02:14:27 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on October 24, 2015, 12:40:53 pm

-snip-

Huh. Didn't think minotaurs could get spells castable like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 24, 2015, 02:43:33 pm

Managed to knock out a colony of Alpha and Gamma metroids ahead of time and under-equipped, and rather swiftly too. Battle environments were also pretty hostile too. Unintentional sequence break.

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AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) Demo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nogoodnames on October 24, 2015, 08:31:02 pm

Finally managed to beat the secret final boss and get the best ending. Not to mention making it past the boss before him without taking damage. Holy shit that was intense.

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Cave Story

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 24, 2015, 09:03:12 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on October 24, 2015, 02:14:27 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on October 24, 2015, 12:40:53 pm

-snip-

Huh. Didn't think minotaurs could get spells castable like that.

You can, its just a lot of work. I had to sink ~17-18 levels into Charms, Spellcasting, Air and Hexes to get a decent success chance. Which took forever, but its not like I had anything better to put points in once I maxed Fighting, Shields AND Armour.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 05:38:10 am

Spoiler: pretty big image (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/C1o8PAB.jpg)

the maint point of interest here is the minimap.
we held off the vanu at this location for like fifteen minutes, while they threw two libs, five scythes, five magriders, a sunderer, and about a bajillion lightnings at us.
and by "held off" i mean we fought them for fifteen minutes after which we drove them out.

you might note that there is nothing here to defend: it's literally just a sunderer deployed in a sort of covered part of mountainside and about fifty gorillion maxes firing on the road below. much xp was farmed.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on October 25, 2015, 07:51:17 am

After over 30 or so deaths and lots of practice, I finally managed to beat the final boss of the Genocide route. I know I should feel bad about killing him, but after the hell he put me through, I just can't.

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Undertale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on October 25, 2015, 10:00:11 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 05:38:10 am

~Planetside 2~

What server are you on o_o {for future bookkeeping reference if I ever get to play, ever}

---

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Finally got to level 30 before even getting to Dreadfell--not much of a normal 'own', as far as I know, but when playing on Nightmare Difficulty and Roguelike setting, each time you live through a boss battle {without save scumming or whatever} is an Own in itself.

Given that everyone is ~10 levels above you. Always.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ToME 4
Tales of Maj'Eyal.

Playing as a Thaloren Archer on NM/Roguelike. One life. You die--you're dead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 25, 2015, 10:01:46 am

Hit the level cap and am not horribly dying at Torment 1. Maybe I'll be able to finish the whole season journey thing soon, which will probably deserve a post.

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Diablo 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 11:12:28 am

Quote from: Tiruin on October 25, 2015, 10:00:11 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 05:38:10 am

~Planetside 2~

What server are you on o_o {for future bookkeeping reference if I ever get to play, ever}

I play on Emerald, even though I live in Belgium.
I do have a TR and NC character on Miller, though. Those dudes have existed for like two years so they probably have a bunch of free stuff on them. (like double burster arms)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 25, 2015, 12:28:54 pm

Quote from: Teneb on October 25, 2015, 10:01:46 am

Hit the level cap and am not horribly dying at Torment 1. Maybe I'll be able to finish the whole season journey thing soon, which will probably deserve a post.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Diablo 3

Torment 1 isn't that hard at all. It can be done with good yellow gear and a skill build that isn't pants-on-head stupid. Feel free to push higher torments to find what level you can play comfortably to get the best return in droprates and experience rates.

You only need to really worry about dying horribly if you're playing hardcore, otherwise the death penalty is minor, just some gold lost and some time lost.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Audioworm333 on October 25, 2015, 05:01:52 pm

The other day, I somehow managed to get past all the Agatha Knights guarding the royal family and slaughter every one of them, winning the match for my team.

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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on October 25, 2015, 08:55:33 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 11:12:28 am

Quote from: Tiruin on October 25, 2015, 10:00:11 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 05:38:10 am

~Planetside 2~

What server are you on o_o {for future bookkeeping reference if I ever get to play, ever}

I play on Emerald, even though I live in Belgium.
I do have a TR and NC character on Miller, though. Those dudes have existed for like two years so they probably have a bunch of free stuff on them. (like double burster arms)

You got any Vanu on Emerald? I only play one faction so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 26, 2015, 07:53:35 am

I baited my mark into started a shootout, and then he got killed by a cop. kek

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Metrocide

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on October 26, 2015, 01:45:06 pm

Finally, a fellow TR on Miller.

Shameless plug for my outfit: Bay12 Miller. Population: Me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 26, 2015, 02:12:56 pm

I did it. I...Yeah. I had a good time and learned a lot. And I will never feel the same.

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Undertale.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 26, 2015, 03:04:20 pm

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on October 25, 2015, 08:55:33 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 11:12:28 am

Quote from: Tiruin on October 25, 2015, 10:00:11 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 25, 2015, 05:38:10 am

~Planetside 2~

What server are you on o_o {for future bookkeeping reference if I ever get to play, ever}

I play on Emerald, even though I live in Belgium.
I do have a TR and NC character on Miller, though. Those dudes have existed for like two years so they probably have a bunch of free stuff on them. (like double burster arms)

You got any Vanu on Emerald? I only play one faction so far.

yeah, the factions are more or less balanced most of the time. I only play NC, so hey :P
Yesterday when I logged off we had 45% on both open continents (Esamir and Hossin, I think).
Feels good knowing you helped take back a lot of territory the other two factions capped while everybody was fighting at the alarm while playing redeployside in a random casual platoon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 26, 2015, 03:16:25 pm

I gave monkeys religion. Causing them to take over the world and enslave all the (remaining) humans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on October 26, 2015, 03:17:06 pm

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on October 26, 2015, 03:19:49 pm

i would say plague inc, but it may be one of the other games like it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 26, 2015, 04:18:02 pm

Like a Boss 8) (http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?p=7334699#p7334699) . . . or a godfather, one might say.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on October 27, 2015, 01:34:19 am

Summoned the Warchief. Nanced around for a couple of minutes until the alert died down, and because there was another Captain basically following the Warchief around. I waited to see if they would separate and they wouldn't, so I got in position. I pounced from a high wire and gave the Warchief a dagger through the neck, then hit him with Wraith Stun, then hit him with Flurry, used the melee finisher and decapitated him, before anyone had barely lifted a finger. As Uruks scattered from the scene of his death I cut into a few of them as they ran by, and one of them knocked down by my attacks was the other Captain I'd been worried about. As he's lying there stunned I stroll by and knife him the neck, instantly defeating him, as a little bonus for killing the Warchief.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadow of Mordor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on October 27, 2015, 03:22:18 am

Holy fucking HELL Disaster Area(final invocation Qazlal gives you) is insane. It can clear entire rooms of enemies in case of you getting surrounded, like for instance the 24 vault guardians that spawn around the stairs on Vaults 5. A few castings reduced that number to 2, which I stair danced up to kill without interruption.

Edit:Of course, the downside of taking Qazlal is thet you are the complete opposite of stealthy, which caused all the enemies in the vault to aggro on me, and I made the mistake of wandering off the stairs. Oh, well, still my best run yet!

Edit Edit:Before I get meteor'd, game is DC:SS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 27, 2015, 03:53:36 am

EAT SHIT SATAN WOOOOO FUCK YEAH I'M NOT EVEN AMERICAN WOOOOOOO

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Broforce!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 27, 2015, 03:58:53 pm

Spoiler: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Pv00Yxu.png)
Granted, I had to kill 23 Hellstorm Elementals for this; but I had no idea I could Akimbo them.
I mean, my high power hunting revolver + marksmanship perk + Peacekeeper armor set bonus deals about twice as much damage, but it's not nearly as cool.

-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 27, 2015, 05:04:12 pm

Spoiler: I made cacco-art (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/S3Wwt7K.png)
I got a real kick out of seeing it on a stucco-looking wall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on October 27, 2015, 07:29:28 pm

*Ahem* nWhat DOOM mods are you guys running? I mean, I doubt anyone here would fail to recognize dDOOM when they see it, but really, listing the mods is just polite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 27, 2015, 07:41:40 pm

Quote from: tryrar on October 27, 2015, 07:29:28 pm

*Ahem* nWhat DOOM mods are you guys running? I mean, I doubt anyone here would fail to recognize dDOOM when they see it, but really, listing the mods is just polite.

pisskop is running Brutal Doom of some version or branch.

Blaze is using...DoomRL arsenal? I think? I know the Anti-Freak Jackal is a legendary in DoomRL. And the only mod I know of for Doom that adds DoomRL content to the actual Doom fps is DoomRL arsenal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on October 27, 2015, 09:50:45 pm

Really, I was sure Blaze was using something called doom RPG.

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Anyway, My ownage. Images correspond to the text below, not above

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Code: [Select]

Legend:
A = me
N = enemy
X = Allied corpse
O = Nazi corpse
+ = Wall
. = Floor
# = Smoke
? = Unknown
g = grenade
 
++++..+++++++++++++++
............X........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+...................+
+...................+
+...........A.......+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+


I'm walking in a large damaged warehouse and towards a hallway when I stumble across the body of one of my allies.

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++++..+++++++++++++++
...........NX........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+...................+
+....A..............+
+...........!.......+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
Suddenly, I see a glimpse of an enemy and run. There's no cover in my warehouse so I just try sprint to a nearby corner. A foolish plan since sprinting unreadies my weapon giving me the disadvantage if the enemy were to confront me.

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++++..+++++++++++++++
..........???........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+A..................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
For some reason though, my enemy did not pop out from behind the wall and take a shot so I was able to get away. Now having escaped my adversary, I readied my weapon and waited in ambush.

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            mien leiben
++++..+++++/+++++++++
.........####........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+...................+
+...................+
+............A......+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
Eventually I got tired of waiting and threw my grenade where I last saw him. After waiting for the long fuse time to end, it explodes and I get a kill.

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    N N
   +NN
   +
++++..+++++++++++++++
......A...O.X........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
So I continue my walk forward and find a door outside the warehouse. I peek outside and what do you know, more Nazis!

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  N   N   
   +   
   +   N
++++..+++++++++++++++
.....N..g.O.X........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+.............A.....+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
I run back inside the warehouse and begin throwing grenades.

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   how do you think Wilhelm is doing?
    / 
  N   N   eh, he's probably fine.
   +     /
   +   N  Ahh!
++++..++++/++++++++++
.........####........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+.............A.....+
+..............\....+
+............*gasp*.+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
First grenade goes off, I get a kill. I'm preparing to throw my other grenade, but look at this! I have no more grenades left.

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   do you here a rustling sound?
    / 
  N       probably just the wind. Hans! it's your turn.
   +     /
   +N  N
++++..+++++++++++++++
.........OOAX........
++++++++++/+..+++++++
+..*loot loot*......+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
So in a desperate gamble, I ran inside the hallway hoping to loot the bodies for more grenades. Thankfully, it seems that the enemies were walking in one at a time giving me enough time to steal my grenades and run back inside the warehouse. In total, I now had 4 grenades.

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   how do you think Hans is doing?
    / 
  N       maybe we should investigate.
   +     /
   +   N  *gurgle*
++++..++++/++++++++++
.........####........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+.............A.....+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
So I continued throwing them...

 

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   +   
   +      *tick*
++++..++++++/++++++++
.....N.N.OOgX........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+.............A.....+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+

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   +   
   +      *BOOM*
++++..++++++/++++++++
.........####........
++++++++++++..+++++++
+.............A.....+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
and throwing them...

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      NN -reinforcements
      NN
   +     
   +
++++..+++++++++++++++
........OOOAX........
++++++++++/+..+++++++
+..*loot loot*......+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
+...................+
And looting them...

This cycle continued until I got 8 kills. I died when I decided to throw grenades outside rather than in the hallway. It took too long for the fuse to detonate so they just walked past the grenade and shot me.

Spoiler: game (click to show/hide)

Red Orchestra 2

Yes, this was against real people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 27, 2015, 11:10:04 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on October 27, 2015, 09:50:45 pm

Really, I was sure Blaze was using something called doom RPG.

I said I think, not I know for sure what that mod is.

I have no experience playing doom rpg but have played doomrl arsenal and recognize the anti-freak jackal as a weapon used in doomrl but the hud blaze has is not what I remember from my time playing doomrl arsenal. Maybe it's doom rpg. I 'unno.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2015, 06:43:50 am

A bunch of peasants with clubs took down a necromancer and his retinue of half a dozen skeletons. No casualties.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Timber and Stone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on October 28, 2015, 11:21:44 am

Playing the AoT Tribute Game Singleplayer in the City(on Normal mode, unfortunately. Haven't touched the game in almost a year, only started playing again yesterday).

Spoiler: Victory! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/8xAjo5d.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 28, 2015, 08:48:36 pm

Everyone hates Assyria. Literally every other country. And I started on the same peninsula as them, so we're pretty close, which means they declare war on me a lot. Usually I've just held them off and waited until they offer peace. Well this time I realised that I have the advantage in every respect besides standing military size, so after drawing one of their battles out, my military overtook what they had up and then I took a city right on the middle of their pretty linear empire.
Now if Ashurbanipal wants to get anything from one end of his empire to the other he has to send it through the sea. Tosser.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civ 5
I kind of feel bad for the one domination-oriented civ in a game full of scientists and culturerers. It's not easy trying to conquer the world when it's otherwise pretty stable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on October 29, 2015, 12:17:29 pm

After 84 days, ~50 of which were spent laying siege to the last hell portal, the crown is safe at last. The demons and imps have been driven back, the portals have all been demolished, and the night is safe for roaming and wandering. Long live the queen and her kingdom.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kingdom

First time beating the game. Jeez, at first it seemed I was gonna finish the game quickly after destroying 3 portals by 30 days. But then that last portal at the very edge of the map proved stubborn as hell. Required me to expand far out to the very edge of the map so war parties could make the walk to the portal in less than a day.

Looks like now it's time to muck around and see how long I can survive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on October 29, 2015, 05:50:56 pm

I managed to wrangle the laguz army into submission almost entirely using Volug, Nolan, and Zihark.

Seriously, who the hell decided to give you somebody ten levels lower than everybody else, an archer and a swordsman who can't take a hit, and a KNIGHT with crappy defense growths, then expect you to use them?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, chapter 3-6.

Now I'm just scared of 3-12 and 3-13. Only the archer can save us then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on October 29, 2015, 08:10:16 pm

About a week after setting out, I figured I was ready to go get some antibiotics like my military friend asked for. I ran into the pharmacy, chased by all sorts of shit, something exploded underground, the shop filled up with smoke, I'm pretty sure I was on fire, and then I ran away through the smoke and acid that was now on the floor, making an almost-clean getaway. The choking from smoke fucked me up a little but oh well.
Then I went back to deliver the antibiotics, headshotted a giant wasp with a shotgun. Turns out my buddy was dead, and probably had been for a while. Took his gun and went back home. git gud

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cata: DDA
Don't know why he wouldn't come with me, we both crashed in the same helicopter and were both as injured as each other. I managed to walk off the bleeding and later sleep off the nearly broken limbs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 30, 2015, 05:53:54 am

Managed to make it all the way to Alice's second midboss before dying. I guess that counts as an own.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou: Perfect Cherry Blossom. Harder than EoSD, in my opinion. It took me a while to figure out what that "Supernatural Border" was for. This was on easy. Managed to eventually beat the final boss, but only after using all my continues.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 30, 2015, 04:48:18 pm

Managed to win greed mode thanks to gimpy, BFF and the leech. Holy crap the boss is tanky.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 30, 2015, 11:47:11 pm

AHAHAHA OH WOW

I just managed to beat Greed Mode as well, with Azazel. By the end of the run I had Tech .5, the Holy Shield, Guppy's power, and split brimstone beams that charmed, feared, and poisoned enemies all at the same time. I had Holy Tears (no idea what those did) and 9 lives.

Binding of Issac: Afterbirth.

EDIT: Just won my first run as Lilith. Got splash damage, cancer, coal, and a new item that gives "transcendent tears". This gives them a trippy psychedelic effect...oh, and also allows tears to travel not only through obstacles, but through room walls and then come back on the opposite side of the room. This basically allowed me to fill any room with instant death. Satan was destroyed in less than a minute.

Afterbirth again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on October 31, 2015, 05:44:25 pm

After much persistence and patience, I finally got myself a smartphone, freeing up my inventory immensely. Furthermore, I managed to finally take down the Moon Lord (fighting solo) after numerous attempts, and with my stockpile, managed to properly celebrate my victory by beating him a few more times with better gear (starting off with Summoner Gear). Really helps that the nurse kept reappearing on top of the teleporter, so she was in the arena with me keeping me healed as I fought.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Terraria

EDIT:
Now to wrap up the game with some achievement hunting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on October 31, 2015, 10:26:43 pm

Unicorn Stump (temporary invuln you can't shoot in) + Midas Touch (Contact damage that scales with money, and things killed with it drop money)

And then I got Mom's Knife, which I could also use while stump'd.

In another run I had gotten a good handful of damage ups and 3 dollar bill, which is apparently a lot stronger now.

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Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2015, 01:59:23 am

I unlocked the final, most secret of the secret characters! It's a shame too, since I was required to die in order to unlock it and I was in the middle of a really really good run. Imagine Azazel, but able to fire short-range beams nearly as quickly as Issac can shoot tears, and each beam is "charged" by a whirlpool of energy before firing. I was killing end-game bosses within seconds.

Binding of Issac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on November 01, 2015, 03:10:53 am

Attacking Iwo Jima as an American engineer. Multiple times, I'm able to get into an ideal enfilade position in the trenches, and with the carbine that equals a bunch of death. Twice I'm able to actually advance behind the enemy defensive line, and rain down havoc from there. The second time I do that, my squad leader and a few other people join me. My team mates secure the first gun site, which I then blow up. I then go up to the second one, kill one of the three people who are there, and another of my team mates blows that gun site up. We then fall upon the flank of the Japanese defenders as the rest of the marine assault force launch an attack from the south on the defensive point. We eventually are all killed by a really, really well placed machine gunner, and rejoin the main force, which steamrolls over the defenders. I end the match facing down a banzai charge which is trying to break into their own command bunker in a last ditch effort. I kill one, and I have a perfect bead on a second when the score screen comes up. I ended up with around 25 kills and 110 team points.

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Rising Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 01, 2015, 11:09:30 am

Felt a bit :-\ in the recent days, until I remembered that I kinda passed a game I had to a friend (who is currently enjoying it a ton) and that made me a bit less :'(
So I decided to kick it up again and try a nice skirmish using my current Warrior Lady Empress person. With a nice stat of 450+ in Archery, and only 9 of my closest and strongest mounted archers, I faced off a nice pack of 44 desert bandits in the sands of the Sultan.

Easily routed with my cohorts behind me as we ran in many circles around the enemy horsemen--I can still score a difficulty-13 shot against tiny, tiny targets without using the shift (zoom) key! In both retreating enemies and charging ones! \o/
I love that I can still recall the intricate mechanics of using a warbow and angling with distance ratios. Yay ingrained calculative math!
/me has the imagery of "I still got it." there.
_{Yeah I love archery >_>}

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Mount & Blade, Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 01, 2015, 01:00:33 pm

Finished my normal mode pacifist run.

My new codename of "tarantula" is a step up from my former one of "flying squirrel".

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Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Now I get to do a reskin run where Snake wears a tuxedo and Grey Fox is dressed as Spider-Man, too. Plus I might manage few or no rations and few or no alerts this time, since I have Otacon's stealth camo. \o/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 01, 2015, 01:55:03 pm

Cheating item is cheating! :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 01, 2015, 02:08:23 pm

I know, I just feel like running through again for fun.

(it's also hilarious seeing these guards freak out about an invisible force dragging their companion's dead body into a locker)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 01, 2015, 02:46:45 pm

I am reasonably sure that in MGS2 (I may have done this thing one time in all the hundreds of hours I invested in it) that you could punch a guard while being invisible, and if there was another guard in the direction you punched them from near enough, they'd hit them.

Though this was Subsistence, and I was pissing about on the Tanker because I had played it so many times.

I've never played Twin Snakes, but I am aware it has MGS2 mechanics in the MGS1 setting so... hopefully you have an opportunity to try, and confirm it. *hinthint*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 01, 2015, 03:17:12 pm

I'll have to give it a try, then. I'm mostly just screwing around with tuxedo!Snake and Otacon's stealth camo anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 02, 2015, 06:43:40 pm

I don't know if this counts, because to any decently protected wanderer they aren't very threatening, but . . .

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I cant hit them with my arm splint on, and I don't want to waste the shotgun slugs/.45 rounds I have on me on them.  So I brought a Cx4 with me and left it by the entrance.
(http://i.imgur.com/I2g5xs6.png)

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CDDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on November 02, 2015, 06:49:49 pm

Quote from: pisskop on November 02, 2015, 06:43:40 pm

I don't know if this counts, because to any decently protected wanderer they aren't very threatening, but . . .

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I cant hit them with my arm splint on, and I don't want to waste the shotgun slugs/.45 rounds I have on me on them.  So I brought a Cx4 with me and left it by the entrance.
(http://i.imgur.com/I2g5xs6.png)

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CDDA

I don't get it, you owned by... breaking your arm?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 02, 2015, 06:51:08 pm

Well no, by shooting them and flailing at them with a crowbar.

Turrets vaporized the arm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 03, 2015, 02:31:25 pm

Decided to equip a shotgun on my medic because why not.
Proceeded to be actually effective in combat instead of dying constantly
Especially great when I found a small-scale fight at TI Alloys where I could with a few other random dudes casually hold off VS and TR and just shell the Crown if nobody was there.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on November 03, 2015, 05:45:44 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on November 03, 2015, 02:31:25 pm

Decided to equip a shotgun on my medic because why not.
Proceeded to be actually effective in combat instead of dying constantly
Especially great when I found a small-scale fight at TI Alloys where I could with a few other random dudes casually hold off VS and TR and just shell the Crown if nobody was there.

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Planetside 2

Yeah, I generally find the NC shotguns to be flat out better than the TR ones  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 03, 2015, 06:20:09 pm

So standard ye olde fetch quest: Find a picture of now probably-zombified daughter. Find car. Get photo. Bring back to harmless old couple.

I hand over the photo, the old man dies of a heart attack, and his enraged widow one-shots me with a shotgun. What the hell?

Load game. Find Car. Get Photo. Give Photo. Grandpa Dies. Dodge initial shotgun round. Wait for reload. Shoot that hag in the face. Beat her to death against the walls of her own home. Loot their bodies. Jam the photo into the gaping hole where her face used to be. Burn their stripped corpses along with their home.

Early Retirement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 03, 2015, 06:38:23 pm

Quote from: Blaze on November 03, 2015, 06:20:09 pm

Early Retirement.

Is this the name of the game? Or is it Cataclysm?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 03, 2015, 07:07:29 pm

The game's name is Survivalist.

I seem to be locked into the "Looter" type questline (if such a thing exists). Grinding for too long meant that the tutorial NPC (And the one that offers "nice" paths in some quests) died due to neglect, and the second tutorial NPC ignored me (you need the first to recruit him).

So I lured looters to his camp and waited until they killed him, and then killed them, and looted everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on November 03, 2015, 11:25:16 pm

PURIST Challenge. Thought it might be difficult. It wasn't.

Scored a Humbleing Bundle on the second floor by blowing up absolutely everything in sight and barely netting 15 coins, then proceeded to take repeated devil deals, acquiring Brimstone and Dark Bum. The combination of Humbleing Bundle and Dark Bum meant that I was getting 1 or 2 soul hearts every other room. My health was maxed in a single floor, my damage output was absurd thanks to Brimstone, and Isaac got so filled with upgrades that the game broke a little and he no longer played the Brimstone charging animation whatsoever.

Then I got Dead Cat, which was total overkill because I also had the Bible and killed both Mom and It Lives instantaneously.

Easiest. Challenge. Ever.

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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on November 04, 2015, 06:09:48 pm

I remember playing my first purist run. I found an epic fetus in my first secret room. Won the game quite easily after that.

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Binding of Issac. (original version)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on November 07, 2015, 12:28:10 am

Imploded(moved all) the walls into oblivion(those that are immune to Evaporate Wall).

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Triangle Wizard.  I guess it's a bug involving a spell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 07, 2015, 01:39:58 pm

Murdered the first shopkeeper on level 1-2 with the machete in his shop. Took his shotgun.

Made it aaaaall the way to Olmec on level 4-4. That's ~14 or so shopkeepers armed with shotguns guarding the level exits that I had to wade through. If you've played this game, you know how dangerous that can be. (It's also really fun.)

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Spelunky

I died to Olmec when he was so close to falling into lava. :| I died a rich man though, with +200,000 gold.

I had good gear, with a shotgun, cape, climbing gloves, spring shoes, spike shoes, and paste. But I had been bomb starved for most of the game; I had 0 bombs at Olmec and scrounged up only 6 on the level. If I had 1 or 2 more I could've sent Olmec straight to lava.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 07, 2015, 05:53:49 pm

Took down the game's first spotted supply barge on what looked like an abduction mission.  Two dozen aliens, including four Outsiders, eliminated for only one injury.  Unfortunately, it was a doozy: Van Doorn's going to be on strict bed rest for over 40 days. 

Also, snow in Nigeria.  How odd. 

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XCOM: Long War

EDIT: And within the hour in-game, France withdraws from the project, joining Germany.  C'est la vie.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 07, 2015, 06:09:44 pm

When I first started the High Rank missions, I had no idea what to do. Everything could kill me in one or two hits. I practiced, practiced and practiced, then eventually became able to beat most weaker HR monsters. Then I got an Urgent Quest to fight a pink Rathian and I experienced ultimate rage. I noticed that I had enough materials to make some random pieces of High Rank armor, pretty much all of which had more than twice the defense of the Zinogre armor I had been using. I made a bunch for myself, and then killed the pink Rathian with almost no effort thanks to training in 40 times Earth's gravity learning to almost never get hit. Now when I did get hit, it wouldn't matter. I killed her again, and again, and again until I made a full set of pink Rath Heart armor and a brand new sword and shield. Feels.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on November 08, 2015, 07:59:43 am

Quote from: Culise on November 07, 2015, 05:53:49 pm

EDIT: And within the hour in-game, France withdraws from the project, joining Germany.  C'est la vie.

It's World War 2 all over again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 10, 2015, 01:34:46 pm

I designed a ship with 12 forward-firing disintegrator cannons. It was capable of literally blasting a hole sideways through a shielded Vulfen Cruiser. It did require minor support, as it had less broadside/rear firepower than a ship one entire class lower than itself.

It fired green lasers, so it looked like someone had parked the death star laser on the front of a cruiser. Also my custom race was cybernetic, and used the Samurai Space Bear aesthetic (that's a thing). They were called the Bjorg.

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Stardrive 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on November 12, 2015, 11:26:31 am

I killed a moose.

Granted, it was half-injured already (probably why it was angry!), and the bastard still got within 2 tiles before one final arrow brought it down.

But I can now consider my many previous characters avenged. After so many deaths by moose (including my first character, 33 minutes into the game), finally taking revenge feels so good.

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Cataclysm: DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 13, 2015, 03:42:13 am

I have finally managed to eke out a safe, if somewhat monastic existence on my hardcore Minecraft world. I have enough wheat growing that I (probably) don't have to worry about starvation for a little bit, a secure underground base, the shallow beginnings of a mineshaft with multiple surface exits, and the grounds surrounding my home have been explored and lit to the point that there's only a handful of monsters at night.

The only thing that bothers me is the lack of sheep for beds, but I suppose I'm doing well enough without those.

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 13, 2015, 12:06:35 pm

Walked down the stairs into a basement, ran into a massive smoke cloud and a pile of acid.  "Oh, a smoker and a spitter."  Killed both, and waited by the door as the cloud started to clear, with my atomic nightlight for sight since I couldn't shine my flashlight through the cloud in either case.  Then a giant fist came out of the dark and slammed me back against the stone wall, before a pair of hands grabbed me from beyond my sight range and yanked me forwards towards the door and what rapidly was apparent as a horde.  Turns out the smoker and spitter weren't alone; there was also a hulk, a grappler, and seven survivor zombies now surrounding me, with the hulk now between me and my only way out.  Boxed in, I couldn't use my grenades without blowing myself up (though it became increasingly tempting), so I hefted my broadsword and laid into the horde.  In the end of it, I come out with my clothes torn, barely standing, likely with what would have been at least half a dozen broken ribs and severe bruises all over if that was modeled in the game, but alive and ready to claim my reward - a massive stockpile of tinned food. 

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Cataclysm: DDA.  That was still easier than fighting three or four corrosive zeds, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on November 13, 2015, 06:00:29 pm

Wait, you killed a hulk with a broadsword... HOW?!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on November 13, 2015, 06:07:50 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on November 13, 2015, 06:00:29 pm

Wait, you killed a hulk with a broadsword... HOW?!!

With enough armor, I could kill a hulk with a hammer, broadswords are pretty high on the list of decent melee weapons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 13, 2015, 06:11:12 pm

skill

with enough skill you can kill ogres  hulks with dwarven short swords broadswords

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 13, 2015, 06:29:30 pm

Pretty much both of the above. I was locked in place by the surrounding zeds, so everything came down to character skill (5 in dodge, 8 in melee, 7 in both bashing and cutting), armor (the dead of winter meant I was the peak of apocalyptic haute couture with an armored fur coat and MBR vest, both loaded with kevlar), and one of the best melee weapons in the game short of end-game material (the broadsword).  The only thing I did was pick my targets to take down the grappler first (easiest to kill, most likely to try a pin, and most likely to succeed in my experience), the hulk (highest damage potential), and finally the survivor zeds (which also can pin, but were both too numerous to easily eliminate and also kept the hulk from sending me flying into walls by surrounding me on five sides - basically serving as squishy, rotty, bitey, grabby pillows). 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 14, 2015, 01:51:08 am

Breached a cavern. Killed many monsters via the tactical use of lava buckets. Acquired iron, coal, gold, diamond, redstone and emeralds in copious amounts. Expanded my wheat farm to about 400% of its former capacity, so I don't have to worry about food unless something truly catastrophic happens. All of this on what is probably my longest-lasting hardcore world yet.

Just about the only danger left is my own hubris, at least in my starting area. Time to explore the nearby jungle biome!

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 14, 2015, 02:03:46 am

Killed Lil' Hunter in about half a second by using Yung Venuz' double shot to fire two super flak shots exactly where he landed.

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Nuclear Throne

Edit: Lil' Hunter suicided right towards me and I batted him away with a lightning hammer.  I didn't even know that was possible.  I then got killed by a palace generator explosion in 8-2, which I also did not know was possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 14, 2015, 03:30:23 am

Been stuck on Bootleg Bay for 5 in-game hours, not because of difficulty mind you, but the layout of the map is absolutely horrible. Troops being stuck in water or behind rocks, troops not going after objectives, a dozen troops stuck shooting at a single enemy they had no chance of hitting. It's so bad that the Brownpants never even left their starting position and just sat around their base the whole time.

I already hit brigadier general, but I decided to not lead troops around and simply push through positions on my own. It worked all the way until now. As it was now, I was stuck on the bridge with all my troops stuck in some position out back while endless numbers of Graycollars poured out of area in front of me; I had a 331 killstreak going.

I decided enough was enough, I had 12,000+ RP; it's time to use it. Turned up the command limit to 10, called all sorts of airstrikes and paratroopers, and we went from floundering to complete victory in about 30 minutes.

That's not the own though, with the last Graycollar map completed, I went and took the final mission entry. It's a stealth mission where I have to destroy all the radio towers in a stronghold all by myself.

I've never done stealth in RWR, it's always been straight up urban/trench warfare with the enemies and friendlies dying in droves; thousands on all sides.

AI does not deal with stealth well.

Bootleg Bay:
Casualties:
Greenbelts (mine): 4000+
Graycollars: 6000+
Brownpants: 363 (They never left their base until after the Graycollars were finished)
RP cost: Mortar Strike x 4 (400RP), 8x Paratroopers X 6 (1200RP), Artillery Strike: 250 Total: 1850

Graycollar Final Mission:
All objectives destroyed, 163 kills, no deaths.
RP cost: Camosuit: 20RP, Binoculars: 1RP, MP5SD: 4RP, C4 x 6: 120RP, total:145

I could've been doing this the whole time?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Muz on November 14, 2015, 05:47:22 am

This Cataclysm sounds like a Fun game. Haha, this is a good thread for recommendations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 14, 2015, 06:27:11 am

Blaze game pls ;_;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on November 14, 2015, 09:39:06 am

JFC blaze, you ALWAYS forget the game name, so:



(http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/import/2013/images/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on November 14, 2015, 11:59:35 am

the game blaze was playing is running with rifles due to the names of the dead. (green, gray, and brown are the teams)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on November 14, 2015, 09:09:25 pm

I can wavedash, bitches!  wopwop now I wanna get that machball trick with Samus to work.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 14, 2015, 11:04:16 pm

Traveling from Megaton to find dear old dad at the GNR station. I find the Super-Duper Mart at this point. Which sucks, because I got my ass handed to me by a random raider encounter not five minutes ago. But there's only one marker in front. I know there should be at least-- DEATHCLAW
To clarify, the wounded deathclaw with a broken leg from that one encounter. They're a lot less intimidating when they move at half speed and just stare directly at you like lost, angry, spiked puppies. Several clips of 10mm later its head explodes and I can technically say I killed a deathclaw alone at level 2.
Fallout 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on November 14, 2015, 11:09:39 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on November 14, 2015, 09:09:25 pm

I can wavedash, bitches!  wopwop now I wanna get that machball trick with Samus to work.

Ah yes, the super wavedash. Crossing the entirety of final destination in a quarter of a second is indeed useful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 15, 2015, 01:31:21 am

Robbed Sierra Madre, for my final playthrough of this god damn game. Now, to Zion!

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Fallout New Sodding Fucking God Damn Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on November 15, 2015, 08:35:15 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 15, 2015, 01:31:21 am

Robbed Sierra Madre, for my final playthrough of this god damn game. Now, to Zion!

I did not enjoy the endless California apartment style in Sierra Madre. If I ever play through NV again, I'll probably skip going there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 15, 2015, 10:42:09 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on November 14, 2015, 11:09:39 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on November 14, 2015, 09:09:25 pm

I can wavedash, bitches!  wopwop now I wanna get that machball trick with Samus to work.

Ah yes, the super wavedash. Crossing the entirety of final destination in a quarter of a second is indeed useful.

iirc it's a frame perfect move that requires exactly perfect input to successfully pull it off on demand. That seems hard as hell to do outside of tool-assisted superplay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on November 15, 2015, 11:50:06 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on November 15, 2015, 10:42:09 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on November 14, 2015, 11:09:39 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on November 14, 2015, 09:09:25 pm

I can wavedash, bitches!  wopwop now I wanna get that machball trick with Samus to work.

Ah yes, the super wavedash. Crossing the entirety of final destination in a quarter of a second is indeed useful.

iirc it's a frame perfect move that requires exactly perfect input to successfully pull it off on demand. That seems hard as hell to do outside of tool-assisted superplay.

well... maybe I can learn to L-Cancel instead XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 15, 2015, 12:42:04 pm

I spot the old man off the glint from his scope... but he spots me at the same time. I don't have time to line up a good shot on him with my Mk22, so I do the only thing I can.

I dig the needle out, kiss a Calorie-Mate and a pack of ramen goodbye, and I run straight at the grassy knoll he's sniping from. I take two shots from him but keep running.

Not having time to line up a good shot at point blank, I just kick the hell out of him.

After he runs away, I track his footsteps to Sokrovenno South, and spot him looking the opposite direction sitting in a patch of grass.

Just in time to stop him praying to the forest, I load up my tranq gun and fire one last shot.

Goodbye, The End. Good fight, you crazy old man.

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Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D.

Now it's my solemn duty to climb the Ladder of Destiny. I hope the Mosin Nagant comes in handy with the final boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on November 15, 2015, 01:09:13 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on November 14, 2015, 09:09:25 pm

I can wavedash, bitches!  wopwop now I wanna get that machball trick with Samus to work.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Enjoy it while it lasts, once you switch up to 4 it no longer exists. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 15, 2015, 02:03:22 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on November 15, 2015, 08:35:15 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 15, 2015, 01:31:21 am

Robbed Sierra Madre, for my final playthrough of this god damn game. Now, to Zion!

I did not enjoy the endless California apartment style in Sierra Madre. If I ever play through NV again, I'll probably skip going there.

Whoever came up with the collar bullshit and the holograms has a special spot on my 'gonna murder' list.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 15, 2015, 02:09:28 pm

The radios aren't so bad if you quicksave immediately outside of their range, so you can find them without blowing up and restarting half the level. The holograms are annoying, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 15, 2015, 04:14:36 pm

I officially have more iron ingots than I know what to do with. That's where I usually call it good on a single-player survival world, but since this is Hardcore I only feel emboldened to explore.

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 15, 2015, 04:28:33 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 15, 2015, 04:14:36 pm

I officially have more iron ingots than I know what to do with. That's where I usually call it good on a single-player survival world, but since this is Hardcore I only feel emboldened to explore.

Minecraft.

Cubes.  Make and iron igloo or build a pen for an iron golem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 15, 2015, 04:33:36 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 15, 2015, 04:14:36 pm

I officially have more iron ingots than I know what to do with. That's where I usually call it good on a single-player survival world, but since this is Hardcore I only feel emboldened to explore.

Minecraft.

Make iron gear for everything. Picks, swords, shovels, axes, full iron armor.

Can never have too many pieces of iron armor or iron swords. You could enchant that shit.

Making an iron golem in a place you want it to guard could be good too. Just make sure it can't wander off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 15, 2015, 05:28:09 pm

Make a railroad connecting everything and then make a rollercoaster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 15, 2015, 05:42:07 pm

I tried rails once.  Was cute, the issue I have with it is the sheer resources to make it worthwhile, and how it doesnt offer enough storage to make short-range stone transfer viable.  especially in hardcore worlds.


I play minecraft like I do DF.  Simple with a practical flare for aesthetics.  cannot mention how many times I died because 1 stone in a spawner farm was off or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 16, 2015, 10:50:32 pm

Rebuilt my mod set due to a mod manager update combined with a whole host of necessary updates for many of the individual mods.  First time booting the game after, it went in without crashing on the title, and even loaded my game without fault.  First time it's ever gone that smooth. :3

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Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 17, 2015, 01:18:28 am

Hardest Difficulty. Start level, immediately go for big coin located next to starting area. Obtaining the coin requires an extremely precise jump. Fail to make jump and immediately trigger 2 mines. (http://Doom) Explosion takes me from 100 health to 2. Keep going anyway. 100% the level without getting hit.

Spoiler: Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/sqTlsY8.png)
Not shown: 20-odd revenant rockets behind me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 17, 2015, 01:29:36 am

Meteor!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 17, 2015, 01:37:03 am

(http://i.imgur.com/qwXMWFS.jpg)

I did add the name though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on November 17, 2015, 01:38:52 am

Quote from: Blaze on November 17, 2015, 01:37:03 am

(http://i.imgur.com/qwXMWFS.jpg)

I did add the name though.

Umm, you sure? Either I'm blind as a bat or your edit didn't save. Might wanna look again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 17, 2015, 08:33:26 am

Don't worry.  I don't see it either, unless "Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace" is the name of the game instead of a meme.  I mean, it looks like that Doom roguelike that Blaze has posted about before, but my own memory isn't much more trustworthy than my eyesight, so...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on November 17, 2015, 03:54:50 pm

Was playing Guns of Icarus with some friends, and we loaded up a galleon, proceeded to win 3 2v2 matches, 5-0 every time.
Every enemy we rekt was in awe at how well we held together, including being focused by a goldfish and a junker both armed with flamethrowers. We survived the onslaught for minutes before breaking away enough to pull some broadsides.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 17, 2015, 04:23:31 pm

How do you even not get hit in Doom.
I suck so much at that game, but damn if it isn't great to blow out some demon brains after a shitty day.

I think I'll make that my last ownage. Even if I sucked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 17, 2015, 05:39:35 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on November 17, 2015, 04:23:31 pm

How do you even not get hit in Doom.

This map pack doesn't have hitscan enemies. They got replaced by some other weird sounding thing that throws iron balls at you.
Granted, I'm playing on "It's a me, Doomguy!" difficulty, so enemy projectiles move at double speed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 17, 2015, 05:43:13 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on November 17, 2015, 04:23:31 pm

How do you even not get hit in Doom.
I suck so much at that game, but damn if it isn't great to blow out some demon brains after a shitty day.

I think I'll make that my last ownage. Even if I sucked.

Always circle strafe.  Do it in your sleep

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 17, 2015, 09:00:26 pm

Spoiler: Final Boss Fight. Don't peek if unless you don't plan on playing Golden Souls (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/dz7O12s.png)
Oh look, Spider Mastermind.

Squishy? Heck no. It may flinch from a shotgun blast, but I just unloaded 8 rounds right in its face and it only lost 2% health. Meaning it takes FOUR HUNDRED point blank shotgun blasts before it dies. I can carry 100 with my backpack upgrade.

Rockets? Useless, it doesn't stun fast enough before it starts firing its super chaingun which deals 15 damage through mega-armor. There is no overhealth in the map pack.

(http://i.imgur.com/JQ15mcu.png)

And then next up, Icon of Sin. 3 rockets? Ha! A direct rocket hit takes 4% of its health, and that's directly at that spot where the explosion is (The life meter's slow on the update). Getting close to that deals 2 damage, and too far away, even if it hits the face, deals nothing.

Meanwhile it's hurling out gobs of things like revenants, barons of hell, and cacolich (custom), all of which can kill me in 2-3 hits and can take ridiculous amounts of damage (Revenants and Cacoliches take about 40 out of 50 bullets from rifle clip, the barons take around 90 shots; or 1.5/3 full auto-shotgun magazines). Circle strafing is near impossible because the arena is littered with insta-death pits.

And it's straight to this boss after beating Spidie, no chance to get more armor. Thankfully, health and ammo is fairly plentiful...

(http://i.imgur.com/so9wX7i.png)

... Because we move straight to the third battle. High-speed, homing, bouncing fireballs that deal 3/4 of my health in damage and a archvile style attack in an arena with exactly two thin pillars to hide behind.

(http://i.imgur.com/E9EAjUp.png)

I still win anyway. Mostly due to the fact that I almost never used my rockets or rainblaster so I had plenty saved up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 19, 2015, 01:04:37 am

That is...something. Not sure what comes to mind other than "WTF why?" but it's something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 19, 2015, 08:25:52 am

Managed to get the most kills/"defeats" three matches in a row shortly after I started playing the game.
Most of those were with the extremely finicky sidearm pistol, which is short range, fires only two shots before needing cooldown and is very satisfying to get kills with. It's quite an unpleasant surprise for enemies at close range.

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Star Wars: Battlefront.
I'm playing on PS4 if anyone else happens to be playing... my username is Rocket_Carrot. We should crush some rebel scum together!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 19, 2015, 03:58:53 pm

I now have a two-person home on MineGrumps. It has a piston-powered drydock with a fully-expanded map of the area, three different crops and a chicken coop, a two-story house with electric lights on the top floor, a patrolling Iron Golem, a pet dog, a cobble generator and a two-story storage tower. It's also built on top of an abandoned mineshaft, so I have a few stacks of minecart rails.

Spoiler: huge screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/646625824536647625/111E936E90D6E8CD3F605A818ECBB844823CD018/)

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on November 19, 2015, 04:25:48 pm

What kind of server are you talking?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 19, 2015, 06:46:22 pm

Playing as Russia. Managed to destroy Crimea and ruin Kazan's army so it should be easier to deal with them in the future. On the other hand, I'm sandwiched between the Poland-Lithuania Personal Union blob and a gigantic Uzbek that dominates everything east of me until Ming. Still, good to finally get a meaningful victory over Kazan, that has been pestering me all game.

Spoiler: A screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MVXf4lR.jpg)

Should maybe be obvious from the screenshot, but it's EU4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 19, 2015, 06:51:25 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on November 19, 2015, 04:25:48 pm

What kind of server are you talking?

It's survival, but I think it's only on normal or even easy difficulty.

Still, it's the largest, prettiest thing I've ever built in Minecraft, even if it's only partially mine. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 19, 2015, 07:05:48 pm

Quote from: Teneb on November 19, 2015, 06:46:22 pm

Playing as Russia. Managed to destroy Crimea and ruin Kazan's army so it should be easier to deal with them in the future. On the other hand, I'm sandwiched between the Poland-Lithuania Personal Union blob and a gigantic Uzbek that dominates everything east of me until Ming. Still, good to finally get a meaningful victory over Kazan, that has been pestering me all game.

Spoiler: A screenshot (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MVXf4lR.jpg)

Should maybe be obvious from the screenshot, but it's EU4

Posted too early. Not ten minutes later, both Poland and Uzbek attack me. Goodbye, brief own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 19, 2015, 08:10:13 pm

Traveling with Delphine, Esbrin, and my huscarl/waifu(not yet) Lydia to some place for some plot stuff. Esbrin is following Delphine, Delphine is supposed to be following me but somehow her AI gets flagged to escorting Esbrin, meaning she walks on her own but stops when Esbrin lags. Eventually, Delphine gets stuck on a branch, so I go my own way with Lydia.

I come upon some Forsworn encampments and clear a few out(triggering Meridia's quest somehow). That night, I find a Forsworn camp named after/right next to my destination. Already I see action; Delphine and Esbrin had also just arrived at the same time and are already getting it on with the Forsworn. This quickly deteriorates into a three-way when a Blood Dragon shows up and starts strafing the place. The night sky fills with arrows and ice bolts(from the Forsworn, but I think Esbrin can cast them too) aimed at the dragon.

I, a zombie I raised from a local Forsworn, and Esbrin's Flame Atronach quickly dispatch the remaining Forsworn. The dragon, hurt from the flyover, lands on a nearby rocky outcrop where I fill it with arrows. It's health is brought to near-death, and I run up and stab it in the throat.


I just had the best goddamn adventure.

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Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 20, 2015, 01:47:42 am

Quote from: Akura on November 19, 2015, 08:10:13 pm

Traveling with Delphine, Esbrin, and my huscarl/waifu(not yet) Lydia to some place for some plot stuff. Esbrin is following Delphine, Delphine is supposed to be following me but somehow her AI gets flagged to escorting Esbrin, meaning she walks on her own but stops when Esbrin lags. Eventually, Delphine gets stuck on a branch, so I go my own way with Lydia.

I come upon some Forsworn encampments and clear a few out(triggering Meridia's quest somehow). That night, I find a Forsworn camp named after/right next to my destination. Already I see action; Delphine and Esbrin had also just arrived at the same time and are already getting it on with the Forsworn. This quickly deteriorates into a three-way when a Blood Dragon shows up and starts strafing the place. The night sky fills with arrows and ice bolts(from the Forsworn, but I think Esbrin can cast them too) aimed at the dragon.

I, a zombie I raised from a local Forsworn, and Esbrin's Flame Atronach quickly dispatch the remaining Forsworn. The dragon, hurt from the flyover, lands on a nearby rocky outcrop where I fill it with arrows. It's health is brought to near-death, and I run up and stab it in the throat.


I just had the best goddamn adventure.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim.

I remember that encounter well. Esbern has master level Conjuration and Destruction, i think, plus a fair few of the forsworn there pack some heat too. The dragon is hard-coded to appear during that quest, but which dragon it is is reliant on your level.

I once tried that quest with Dragon Combat Overhaul and Legendary difficulty.

Suffice to say, it was not an own at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 20, 2015, 02:46:31 am

I killed a blimp.  And then I fought two blimps at once.  Killed one, got the other one half way down before getting taken out myself.  Two blimps, 31,000 points, not bad for a flying potato.

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Luftrausers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on November 23, 2015, 06:01:25 pm

Going through the first dungeon of the game. Pretty easy- except one "Oh crap" moment when I landed Zephyr next to one of the explodey enemies- and suddenly, boss. Boss has the remainder of it's HP in Scratch Damage, but the Hero Gauge is in the critical zone. I see the boss winding up the attack to finish it by killing Leane, as I frantically press "X" to make her fire. Screen goes firey... and I get the "Threat Suppressed" icon.

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Resonance of Fate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 23, 2015, 10:14:36 pm

I blocked Necrophos' ult with Dazzle's Shallow Grave; and the hero I saved made it back to the fountain (although no one else, including me, did).

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DoTA 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on November 24, 2015, 02:30:15 pm

I speedran Nuclear Throne and earned Plant's B-skin. My time: 8 minutes, 45 seconds, 30 centiseconds. (196 kills.) I'm not sure if that's a particularly good time, but carp if it didn't feel intense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 24, 2015, 02:45:27 pm

I accidentally became the King of Scotland.

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Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on November 24, 2015, 02:49:09 pm

'Accidently' Nah, I completely believe you. One of my CK2 games ended up with me accidently becoming the King of France after all. Married my heir to a woman who became Queen of France. It was not a matrilineal marriage. You can guess what eventually happened.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on November 24, 2015, 03:17:50 pm

I accidentlied the kingdom of Jeresuleum once, before I even finished uniting half of Ireland.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on November 24, 2015, 03:54:56 pm

One does not simply unify Ireland.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 24, 2015, 04:34:40 pm

Won, in one sitting. Feels good. Probably helped that it was my second time through.

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Undertale: Pacifist

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 24, 2015, 04:35:00 pm

The huntsman really is as broken and unfair as it looks.

Spot a heavy, hold M1, round a corner, 360 to the face, which for this weapon is the size of a melon, while your arrows are the size of logs.
Not to mention fun like easy, fast to charge 120 damage bodyshots, which means you can one-shot half of the classes if they took five damage anywhere (and chip damage is really really common in this game).
I got like five kills in one life without any effort. Just a little bit of baiting and abusing corners. Also, kukri crits.
No skill no problem 8)

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 24, 2015, 08:31:53 pm

I was playing as Britain, and I had a problem. I had conquered nearly the entirety of Europe, from Portugal to Eastern Poland. I was getting ready to burn the Pope in his nasty little hole (Rome, all of it) when the Mongols invaded. I had to shift all remaining forces to the Eastern Front (minus what I was going to use on Rome. I'll trade Poland for the Pope any day, and twice on Sunday)

As the result of my mobilization of all standing armies and partial city garrisons across Europe, various provinces rebelled. I had no way to defend each individual town or castle with all soldiers away at the war (The Mongols were stopped dead at the Eastern lines, by and by). Instead, all units were ordered out of the city. Every single building or improvement was sold in every city, and all British forces gathered in Western France. Then, when the rebels had taken most of the continent back, I swept across from the West, re-took each and every city and exterminated as much of the populace as possible.

Also, I caught the Pope. Excommunicate this, you wrinkly fop.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medieval: Total War 2

Spoiler: Side Note (click to show/hide)

I had assassinated somewhere between 20-30 Popes over the course of this game. I only considered invasion when my assassin died of old age. And yes, one assassin took out 20-30 Popes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 24, 2015, 09:41:38 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on November 24, 2015, 02:49:09 pm

'Accidently' Nah, I completely believe you. One of my CK2 games ended up with me accidently becoming the King of France after all. Married my heir to a woman who became Queen of France. It was not a matrilineal marriage. You can guess what eventually happened.

Mmm. I wanted the Duchy of Albany, and the king annoyed me by revoking the county of Circinn/whatevertheothernameis (Gower?) so I fabricated a claim on it, then waited for the king to bugger off on a war.

He attacked Orkney, so I attacked him. During this, the king apparently died, leaving a 4 year-old son in charge; also had a rebellion for the Kingdom.

Anyway, Given I was intrigue-master, and the new king had a -200 from me usurping 3 counties and a duchy title, I decided to assassinate the bugger, failing to pay attention to who his heir was: me.

Managed to beat off the other claimant, and just surrendered for the Orkney war; stack of 8k troops on a single county island? No thanks.

Thought it would take a bit longer than a few in-game months to realise my regal ambitions, but ah well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 24, 2015, 09:59:34 pm

Once I inherited the Kingdom of Hungary as the King of Africa.  I migrated from Sicily to Tunis and married my peoples off to ally with as many neighbors of Byzantine as I could because we had a long history of fighting for Sicily.  A heresy took hold in Hungary, the Pope hopped up within a year, and a crusade called.  My mother inherited the country.

I gave it to my half brother. :facepalm:

But all that was versions back when Byzantine actually did offensive stuff.  Shame you currently cant convince the Arabs to join you in dissecting them :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 24, 2015, 10:39:56 pm

Quote from: hector13 on November 24, 2015, 09:41:38 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on November 24, 2015, 02:49:09 pm

'Accidently' Nah, I completely believe you. One of my CK2 games ended up with me accidently becoming the King of France after all. Married my heir to a woman who became Queen of France. It was not a matrilineal marriage. You can guess what eventually happened.

Mmm. I wanted the Duchy of Albany, and the king annoyed me by revoking the county of Circinn/whatevertheothernameis (Gower?) so I fabricated a claim on it, then waited for the king to bugger off on a war.

He attacked Orkney, so I attacked him. During this, the king apparently died, leaving a 4 year-old son in charge; also had a rebellion for the Kingdom.

Anyway, Given I was intrigue-master, and the new king had a -200 from me usurping 3 counties and a duchy title, I decided to assassinate the bugger, failing to pay attention to who his heir was: me.

Managed to beat off the other claimant, and just surrendered for the Orkney war; stack of 8k troops on a single county island? No thanks.

Thought it would take a bit longer than a few in-game months to realise my regal ambitions, but ah well.

Spymaster who hates him and who is his heir?  Best council appointment in history...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 25, 2015, 10:39:43 am

Managed to build a small but entirely working mining ship from scratch. And that's after a meteor hit the landing pad I was constructing it on while I turned my head away, right where it was sitting. Strangely, the ship itself wasn't damaged at all from that impact, just sent floating into space. And the brief "FFFFUUUUUU-" moment when I turn back and all I see of the pad is a giant impact hole where the ship was before looking up and seeing the ship floating away.

And also after another meteor from the same storm hit my mostly-deconstructed starting rescue/refinery ship. Luckily, it only hit the conveyor tube. Directly in the middle between the refinery and the assembly plant/rest of the ship. And nothing else.

Now I'm dropping off ores by the thousands rather than hundreds. A shame that everything but iron and gravel take so long to refine...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers. Next step is to build a construction ship so I can build beacons on asteroids with important minerals. My home asteroid cluster is lacking cobalt, gold, and platinum.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 25, 2015, 11:14:32 am

I broke Reassembly's ship editor.
(http://i.imgur.com/db82FDH.png)

Look at the middle of the ship, where all the drone bay thingies are attached. Now look at those "connected" blocks where you could probably fit the thinnest block in the middle. (biggest gap is towards the end)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 25, 2015, 01:02:16 pm

The Cadian 412th was fighting the Eldar for some platform thingy in the middle of some swamp on some planet somewhere in the asscrack of the galaxy(because what else would the Imperial Guard be doing?)

I send two squads north of my base to grab some strategic points, followed by a Techpriest to fortify them. Meanwhile, the Eldar grab the critical point, then rush my base with what appears to have been their only squad. One squad is called back to kill them, then after all points north are secure and my hero unit is called in, I rush the platform and take it from the Eldar. The xenos counterattack, force me off, but they extend too far and get killed.

Meanwhile, I bring in a Basilisk. Using it to cover my counter-counterattack, I re-retake the platform.

...And they counterattack again. Only this was a sloppy one since they divided their forces to also attack my northernmost strategic point(fortified with heavy bolters, reinforced with a Techpriest for repairs) while my Basilisk tears up the rest. They eventually force me off through sheer numbers(Eldar outnumbering IG? Dear Emperor!). They make several attempts to recapture the strategic point...

Only holding the point gives LoS to it, and my Basilisk was in range. Every. Single. Squad they sent to uncap it from me got blown away. By the time *I* realized that was happening, it was already too late for them.

Imperium victory. Total losses: Eldar - 92, Imperial Guard - 109.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War: Winter Assault. Map was Edemus' Gamble.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 26, 2015, 02:18:50 pm

A crusader, a man-at-arms, a highwayman, and a vestal enter the ruins serving as a base of operations for an apprentice necromancer.

After a week, the entire party actually comes back out alive, and reasonably sane. And the necromancer's dead, and the adventuring party is laden with over 10,000 gold. Against odds that seem impossibly stacked against them, they've removed a blight on the land without everyone in the party dying or going mad.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Darkest Dungeon

This was a quest to kill one of the first bosses. It went incredibly well, all things considered. I found a map early on letting me march straight to the boss room. Fights with mobs went well enough that I could camp and restore the party's health and sanity to good levels before facing the boss.

In the fight, my crusader was a big help, regularly dealing 10-20 damage a hit and killing the necromancer's regularly summoned undead minions in single strikes, and dealing big hits to the necro. Man-at-arms helped keep the party's speed and dodge chances buffed and pitched in on dealing damage to the necro. The highwayman provided dps with his pistol and ludicrously high crit chance. And vestal kept everyone healed up.

First boss dead by week 8, pretty good compared to my first run where it's week 10 and everyone's either insane, dead, or fresh off the wagon while the necromancer's still kicking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 28, 2015, 10:57:40 pm

Went to Sovngarde, had a battle that would have given me legitimate entrance to Sovngarde had Sovngarde's front door not inexplicably locked itself to me right after the battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim. Main quest finished. I'm thinking of marrying that Dark Elf girl from Winterhold College, then signing up for the Imperial Legion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 28, 2015, 11:24:22 pm

Walking through the deepest season of darkness, accidentally blundered into a Baba Yaga (yes, for some reason there are apparently more than one, and it seems more than three) and her entourage.  Proceeded to completely bluff a powerful banishing ritual that spooked her so badly she fled before she figured out the truth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thea: The Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lossmar on December 03, 2015, 02:58:01 pm

Treehuggers caravan of two annoyed me so i ordered my only soldier to attack them.

Militia commander Blaster punched the male elf in the head so hard his head popped off in one shot.

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Dwarf Fortress of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 03, 2015, 07:03:43 pm

Accidentally pressed some buttons on my keyboard and messed up my monitor. After failing to fix it, I button mash out of frustration.

Monitor returns back to normal

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Real life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 03, 2015, 07:15:35 pm

I never liked playing that game. The graphics were terrible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 03, 2015, 07:49:31 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 03, 2015, 07:15:35 pm

I never liked playing that game. The graphics were terrible.

IMO it could do with some FOV sliders, and a way to turn off that shitty depth of field that's always stuck too close.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on December 03, 2015, 08:57:44 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 03, 2015, 07:49:31 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 03, 2015, 07:15:35 pm

I never liked playing that game. The graphics were terrible.

IMO it could do with some FOV sliders, and a way to turn off that shitty depth of field that's always stuck too close.

It's way too grindy too, it takes years of playing before you can buy any of the good stuff.

At least the community is nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 03, 2015, 09:07:53 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on December 03, 2015, 08:57:44 pm

At least the community is nice.

Depends on the server, really.

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I beat the Rebel Flagship with Mantis A for the first time. I ended up supplementing my boarding tactics with a Vulcan for the late game, which, combined with Zoltan Shield Bypass and a fully upgraded Cloning Bay is basically the only reason I survived the Flagship with no cloaking and only three layers of shields. A is actually probably my favourite Mantis layout. B is better in most ways, but only has two crew, which makes the first few sectors a gigantic pain in the thorax[Anything which sets fire to the doors system basically means game over, since its right next to the O2 and Mantis are terrible at repairing things]. Still haven't won with that, although that was before you could do stuff like hack the Flagships' medbay to murder their crew handily with a boarding strategy. C is decent too, but you have to micromanage the suffocation your Lanius boarder causes to your own crew.

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FTL: Faster Then Light: Advanced Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on December 03, 2015, 09:15:35 pm

The game is FTL, if anyone is wondering before the meteors come crashing down on Arcvasti.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on December 03, 2015, 09:16:00 pm

I figured.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 03, 2015, 11:44:58 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on December 03, 2015, 08:57:44 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 03, 2015, 07:49:31 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 03, 2015, 07:15:35 pm

I never liked playing that game. The graphics were terrible.

IMO it could do with some FOV sliders, and a way to turn off that shitty depth of field that's always stuck too close.

It's way too grindy too, it takes years of playing before you can buy any of the good stuff.

At least the community is nice.

The pay to win bullshit in that game is outrageous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on December 04, 2015, 02:30:29 am

Beat X-Com: Final Mod with:
-Full global surveillance (AWACS-type craft fill in the gaps where all 10 bases couldn't reach, (Small and Large Radar, and a Hyper-wave decoder each base; with 3 hangars each base as aircraft checkpoints (at least 1 free hangar for relay-shipping of craft, and extending troop range for UFO raids)))
  =With a security base at Pearl Harbor (8 hangars filled with varied craft as a situation calls for, and enough storage to keep all ships fully-stocked, with some room for personnel security (in case of a Retaliation while the rookies are out)
-At least 16.5M in my bank before raiding Cydonia (after paying the monthly bill; before that, I had roughly 34M, monthly Mainainence was is enormous (Income = 16M-ish, and monthly expenses = 32M-ish), but worth every damn penny.)
-A devoted storage base fully loaded with an arsenal of alien weaponry (for emergency funding and restocking of weapons/ammo)
-4 bases with 2 of each devoted to research and manufacturing separately (when not making top-priority items, they've been pumping out low-cost/good-profit goods for sale; research bases split projects between weapons and alien life forms, until they were no longer a priority, then remaining low-cost research for one, high cost for the other)
-At least 2 bases were devoted to Alloy and Elerium Storage when over-stocked (Until I gambled on Fusion Ball tech, and nearly depleted a supply making ammo for my interceptors)
-Only lost one nation to the aliens (Brazil, and only because I didn't stop a base in time, and that happened during March)
-Most, if not all aliens (live and dead, with some Medic assistance) researched, including the more rare/unique visitors featured in the mod (like Ethereal Guardians and such).
-Minimal casualties (maybe a dozen losses; then again, I did some early save-scumming; later on, I just did PSI-Ops to spare lives)
-Aliens also suffered minimal casualties (<500 kills total; >thousands of stuns (way more profitable when you keep them alive; excess containment sells the live ones). MiBs were a slightly different case. Free Stormtrooper and Power armors, easy profit when fully-stocked. Spared/stunned/sold the useless, killed the armored for their suits.)
-Defeated Cydonia with a pacifist (or at least, non-lethal) victory (stunned everyone on the surface and underground, and destroyed the master brain)


And best of all

-I beat the game (mod) that's stated to take longer than 3 in-game months, and maybe longer than an in-game year (according to the mod makers) by Early November '99 with all of the above done.

This calls for some victory music (https://youtu.be/Q3Yc3HhSl1Q)

Up next: I'll become the real Terror From/Of The Deep. I might have to retro-fit the Pearl Harbor Base to be submarine operable. Same setup as before. Quick to build, and extremely useful, not to mention a hell of a strategic advantage point.

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After using the Ironfist so much, the Avenger was so pathetic by comparison. Ultimate Craft, my ass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on December 04, 2015, 02:44:33 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on December 03, 2015, 11:44:58 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on December 03, 2015, 08:57:44 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 03, 2015, 07:49:31 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 03, 2015, 07:15:35 pm

I never liked playing that game. The graphics were terrible.

IMO it could do with some FOV sliders, and a way to turn off that shitty depth of field that's always stuck too close.

It's way too grindy too, it takes years of playing before you can buy any of the good stuff.

At least the community is nice.

The pay to win bullshit in that game is outrageous.

  I've been told I'm near the middle of the campaign and I've yet to find a save point.....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chiefwaffles on December 04, 2015, 02:50:31 am

Managed to get through Portent on classical difficulty with only 3/4 casualties!
I hate Portent now. I'm not used to classical-difficulty thinmen (for me, they used to be easier than sectoids, now they're COVER-IGNORER HUNTERS OF DOOOOOOM that I usually can't kill in one shot. Portent was something like my third or fourth mission this play through, and has already made me re-consider my self-imposed ironman stance. Instead I'm going with "savescumming to win council missions because fuck that"
The map itself doesn't help either. It's extremely hard (I wasn't even able to do it through all my tries) to position your entire squad to be able to fire at the first pod with activating something like 4 thin men at once. Thin men who enjoy murdering your squad without mercy.

Buut I did it! Finally! It only took 1 hour!

XCOM: Enemy Within.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: cider on December 04, 2015, 04:17:41 am

Ended up 17/1 with jungle Ymir. Now I need to change pants.

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The game being Smite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 04, 2015, 05:11:28 am

I completed The Consuming Shadow with the best ending I've achieved yet, "Tainted Victory". I also got a ton of achievements on that run and unlocked the remaining secret characters.

I guessed half of the banishment ritual and spent almost the entire run at 0 sanity.

The Consuming Shadow: Insanity Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 04, 2015, 07:05:44 am

Quote from: Chiefwaffles on December 04, 2015, 02:50:31 am

Managed to get through Portent on classical difficulty with only 3/4 casualties!
I hate Portent now. I'm not used to classical-difficulty thinmen (for me, they used to be easier than sectoids, now they're COVER-IGNORER HUNTERS OF DOOOOOOM that I usually can't kill in one shot. Portent was something like my third or fourth mission this play through, and has already made me re-consider my self-imposed ironman stance. Instead I'm going with "savescumming to win council missions because fuck that"
The map itself doesn't help either. It's extremely hard (I wasn't even able to do it through all my tries) to position your entire squad to be able to fire at the first pod with activating something like 4 thin men at once. Thin men who enjoy murdering your squad without mercy.

Buut I did it! Finally! It only took 1 hour!

XCOM: Enemy Within.

That's the first Slingshot Pack mission, right? That one is hell. Throwing more than five times your squad size at you in Thin Mints isn't enough; no, they have to artificially increase the difficulty too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on December 04, 2015, 07:06:58 am

No, Portent is the EW-specific mission where you first encounter EXALT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 04, 2015, 07:10:44 am

Oh, yeah. I got confused because of the lack of mentioning EXALT anywhere. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on December 04, 2015, 12:02:51 pm

Quote from: Chiefwaffles on December 04, 2015, 02:50:31 am

Managed to get through Portent on classical difficulty with only 3/4 casualties!
I hate Portent now. I'm not used to classical-difficulty thinmen (for me, they used to be easier than sectoids, now they're COVER-IGNORER HUNTERS OF DOOOOOOM that I usually can't kill in one shot. Portent was something like my third or fourth mission this play through, and has already made me re-consider my self-imposed ironman stance. Instead I'm going with "savescumming to win council missions because fuck that"
The map itself doesn't help either. It's extremely hard (I wasn't even able to do it through all my tries) to position your entire squad to be able to fire at the first pod with activating something like 4 thin men at once. Thin men who enjoy murdering your squad without mercy.

Strange, I've always found it pretty easy (though I play long war, so the extra people help a fair bit). Just stick a person or two on top of every building and laugh at every thin man that drops. :P Worst case scenario just bust out a grenade or two, and continue laughing, with good enough positioning/people on top of the roofs you can potentially never have to suffer from a single shot by thin men once you actually reach the guy you need to escort/kidnap since you always either kill them instantly or on the first shot while they are standing there coverless. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on December 04, 2015, 11:40:55 pm

Quote from: i2amroy on December 04, 2015, 12:02:51 pm

Quote from: Chiefwaffles on December 04, 2015, 02:50:31 am

Managed to get through Portent on classical difficulty with only 3/4 casualties!
I hate Portent now. I'm not used to classical-difficulty thinmen (for me, they used to be easier than sectoids, now they're COVER-IGNORER HUNTERS OF DOOOOOOM that I usually can't kill in one shot. Portent was something like my third or fourth mission this play through, and has already made me re-consider my self-imposed ironman stance. Instead I'm going with "savescumming to win council missions because fuck that"
The map itself doesn't help either. It's extremely hard (I wasn't even able to do it through all my tries) to position your entire squad to be able to fire at the first pod with activating something like 4 thin men at once. Thin men who enjoy murdering your squad without mercy.

Strange, I've always found it pretty easy (though I play long war, so the extra people help a fair bit). Just stick a person or two on top of every building and laugh at every thin man that drops. :P Worst case scenario just bust out a grenade or two, and continue laughing, with good enough positioning/people on top of the roofs you can potentially never have to suffer from a single shot by thin men once you actually reach the guy you need to escort/kidnap since you always either kill them instantly or on the first shot while they are standing there coverless. :P

Reaction shots with good accuracy are your friend here >_> <.<
(As someone who did the hardest difficulty + Ironman on XCOM and died trying at the end because of one tiny mistake can say .-.)
Flashbangs are also your friend, as well as well-armored folks to 'run in and attract fire'.
But also knowing where they drop is a good note. :P I just left snipers behind to 'cover the way' and they easily took care of those thin men.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 05, 2015, 01:19:50 am

I won a match of Blood Bowl.

Normally, this would not be an ownage, except:

• It was my first multiplayer match. I'd played the singleplayer campaign and watched lots of Twitch matches, but this was my first online encounter.
• My opponent was playing Chaos.
• Not just that, my opponent was playing kill Chaos with a TV roughly 2 times higher than mine.  :o

I induced a Wizard... who, on turn 3, landed a Fireball on 7 targets, knocking only one down; a complete waste of money. I induced a master chef... who stole exactly one reroll each half, a very mediocre result. And I induced Morg n' Thorg... who basically won the match, preventing Chaos from overrunning me for most of the game (as well as KOing his Minotaur). That, and a couple 3+ rolls let me score in my opponent's half, and while I was halted three tiles short of the end-zone during the second half I nonetheless kept him from controlling the ball until turn 15, at which point he was too far from my endzone to score.

Best of all? While I only had 3 players standing in the end (Claw did its job), most of the injuries were only Badly Hurt. Besides one niggled lineman and an ogre that'll miss a game, my team is intact. And the blitzer who got MVP also completed the one pass, so he leveled up. All in all, a pretty satisfying result!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blood Bowl II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on December 05, 2015, 01:35:59 am

Launch an inkstrike, splat someone. Jump off a ledge behind another squid. Splat the kid. Turn a corner, splat another kid who tries to squid away. Get hit by an inkzooka after taking out three of the enemy squids, only for that kid to get splatted by an ally.

burgerfriends return home this is team pizza's turf

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Splatoon, Splatfest

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vendayn on December 05, 2015, 01:53:23 am

Downloaded a mod

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To look like Triss as Geralt!

Witcher 3 of course

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 05, 2015, 07:23:29 am

Spoiler: Totally legit run, I swear on me mum's soul (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/kNJoQRX.png)

Probably the luckiest run I've experienced in any roguelike ever. RIP Ancients.

Also, helpful tip:

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The game still counts being drugged as "sane", even if you have 0 base sanity. That's the only reason I got the best ending.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 05, 2015, 07:38:32 am

Jumped up to C after seeing that somebody else had blown up all but one sentry there. The only remaining sentry couldn't hit me because there was a pillar between us.
Also, there were three engineers standing on C. What followed was something akin to a martial arts movie, as the engineers approached me one by one and I panned every single one of them to death. The last one even tried to hit me with frontier justice crits after seeing his brethern fall to my frying utensil, but failed to land any of his shots before my piece of cast iron justice caved in his skull.
Note that I had to keep solid wall between me and the sentry at all times to avoid being torn to shreds.

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Team Fortress 2, cp_gravelpit, playing demoman with BASE Jumper (later Ali Baba Wee Booties to let me chase people more effectively), Sticky Jumper and, of course, the Frying Pan

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 05, 2015, 09:50:01 am

Finished my placement maches for ranked played. Ended up at rank 10 (out of.. 40? 50?). Pretty good, if I may say so. Feeling nice.

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Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on December 05, 2015, 04:30:34 pm

Won today's third Sortie mission.

20 rounds of Defense against ridiculously high-level Infested over an hour. I was playing Nyx, a crowd control 'frame. The other three on my team were two Frosts (defense/crowd control) and an Excalibur (balanced/offensive). Now, since three of us were mostly good at holding the not-using-the-Z-words in place, and only one had a good damage power, the plan was obvious: we support the Excalibur and let him use Exalted Blade to kill Infested slowed by Snow Globes and infighting due to Chaos.

In the end, the Excalibur had about 1200 kills, almost all of them from Exalted Blade. Meanwhile, I somehow racked up over 300 kills just from gunplay, more than the Frosts added together.

Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 05, 2015, 05:13:22 pm

Just fought (and defeated) Mega Satan for the first time. I had three knives (two of them homing), two different kinds of shields, an attack fly, a boomerang, and some other stuff. Finished the battle with just two hearts left ._.

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Binding of Issac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 06, 2015, 03:18:31 am

Beat a Roland in a sudden death, as Cassidy. Yeehaw.

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Brawlhalla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 06, 2015, 09:18:09 am

I'm farther than I've ever been in KOTOR2 + Restored Content. It'll be nice to finally beat the game that I've attempted so many times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 06, 2015, 11:53:35 am

I put one quarter into the machine, got two back.

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A gambling machine at the laundromat, that thing where it pushes a pile of quarters, and you have to get it to push some over the edge by putting quarters in.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 08, 2015, 02:17:05 am

I finally beat Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, after having owned the game for well over a decade. Although the gameplay is just plain bad (not that KOTOR 1 was fantastic), the writing is still exactly as good as I remember it.

Except for that ending. Dear Christ that ending blows monkey nuts. And that's with restored content, too; I can't imagine what the original ending was like if the expanded version was that lame.

Spoiler: I don't think anybody actually cares about spoilers for this game anymore (click to show/hide)

I mean, if you expand your definition of "ending" to include all of Malachor V and Trayus Academy, then I suppose it wraps up some things better than the original. I don't think G0-T0's death was in the original ending, and the HK-50 sidequest definitely wraps up HK-47's story better than the original game's FUCKING NOTHING.

I don't remember if Atton's fight with Darth Sion is part of the unmodded game. I feel like I might have gotten a slightly longer ending if Atton had survived that fight, but I didn't make him a Jedi so he got bodied within seconds and so the ending included his death.

I do like that this game is cryptic and metaphorical with its writing. Makes it fun to listen to on repeated runs. It does sometimes take a little decrypting, which this LP (http://lparchive.org/Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-II/) assisted me in greatly. KOTOR 2 is a very long game, and it takes pretty good memory to be able to fit together puzzle pieces across the entire experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on December 08, 2015, 03:01:12 am

-Removed-

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 08, 2015, 06:07:42 am

Honestly the main draw of KOTOR was getting to live in the Star Wars universe without any pesky canon and fight fanfic sith armies.  The gameplay just had be decent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 08, 2015, 06:47:18 am

Even though it's just a Match 3 minigame, successful date!

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HuniePop. For some reason, I think the girls themselves realize it's just a Match 3 minigame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 08, 2015, 07:02:35 am

Only [Kyu] outright admits she knows it's a game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nullsrc on December 08, 2015, 07:51:00 am

Managed to beat two friends when they teamed up on me in a team deathmatch, 2 vs. 1. Only interesting part was that this was the first time I had ever played the game. As a bonus, in the match before, we slaughtered bots without any regard for the fact that it was really easy to do so, and racked up 200 points against the bots' 30.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Urban Terror

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordBrassroast on December 08, 2015, 10:25:54 am

Siege of over 80 goblins and 20 trolls spawned on the wrong side of my half-finished walls. Military took them down with no casualties. The only casualty you could possibly count was a dude who threw a tantrum and broke someone's foot after seeing the killing fields.

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Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on December 09, 2015, 02:49:50 am

Mount and Blade Warband:

Defeated my first faction enemy army, a Swadian group led by some minor count of about 37 guys, composed of mainly swadian recruits, infantry, skirmishers, two men at arms, and the count himself.  I defeated them all almost by myself, with the help of a claimant ( Isollla or something ) who got knocked out early on.  I then proceeded to ride circles around them until all their motherfucking crossbowmen finally ran out of ammunition, then I butchered them like the dogs they are.

A few of them escaped.  I followed them and killed them out of pure spite.

Over 20 deaths and retries, you bastards.  But it was worth it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 09, 2015, 03:32:36 am

I beat a live streamer.

Unfortunately I followed him back to his stream and there were only 3 people watching.  :(

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Brawlhalla

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 09, 2015, 01:34:28 pm

Quote from: Kot on December 09, 2015, 01:33:01 pm

Counter- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXQltR7vUQ)Strike: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ) Global (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZjvbSC9_M) Offensive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4)
Some of you will understand. The rest doesn't have to.
It's glorious though.

Cross-post from "How did you last die?".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 09, 2015, 02:22:37 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 09, 2015, 03:32:36 am

I beat a live streamer.

Unfortunately I followed him back to his stream and there were only 3 people watching.  :(

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brawlhalla

WHICH CHARACTERS U BUMFLUFF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 09, 2015, 05:05:20 pm

Quote from: Kot on December 09, 2015, 01:34:28 pm

Quote from: Kot on December 09, 2015, 01:33:01 pm

Counter- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXQltR7vUQ)Strike: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ) Global (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZjvbSC9_M) Offensive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4)
Some of you will understand. The rest doesn't have to.
It's glorious though.

Cross-post from "How did you last die?".

gr8 br8 m8 i r8 8/r8

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 10, 2015, 04:25:08 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on December 09, 2015, 02:22:37 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 09, 2015, 03:32:36 am

I beat a live streamer.

Unfortunately I followed him back to his stream and there were only 3 people watching.  :(

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brawlhalla

WHICH CHARACTERS U BUMFLUFF

http://www.twitch.tv/smiggins/v/28942222

Go to 12:05:20 to see the magic happen.  On hand, my gameplay isn't exactly stellar.  On the other hand the guy gets mad, which is great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 10, 2015, 02:57:09 pm

Although it does sometimes feel awful to lose at a game you are into, it's amazingly satisfying to make somebody else feel that very same thing. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 10, 2015, 03:22:13 pm

Normally I'm of the opinion that people being happy = good, people being unhappy = bad.

But having someone be mad at you in a competitive game is such a compliment its ridiculous.  The best thing is being accused of hacking.  I once had someone yelling at me in chat and switching to spectator to watch me in TF2 because the pretty boy's pocket pistol gave me just enough health to survive a direct hit from a grenade.

Also, looking at that gameplay, I spent a decent chunk of it just kind of flailing at air.  At least a little of that was lag.  For example there's a point where I just stop moving and he runs through me and I hit him from there; on my screen I was running at him from the right and then we both jumped around for about 2 seconds and then when it stopped lagging I was hitting him.  Ditto for that time I came *this* close to killing myself on my last life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 10, 2015, 03:38:02 pm

To mask the amount of BS deaths from shitty lag compensation and shitty hit detection, Valve implemented random crits :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 10, 2015, 03:44:51 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on December 10, 2015, 03:38:02 pm

To mask the amount of BS deaths from shitty lag compensation and shitty hit detection, Valve implemented R8 :V

More recent version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 10, 2015, 05:47:21 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 10, 2015, 03:22:13 pm

Normally I'm of the opinion that people being happy = good, people being unhappy = bad.

But having someone be mad at you in a competitive game is such a compliment its ridiculous.  The best thing is being accused of hacking.  I once had someone yelling at me in chat and switching to spectator to watch me in TF2 because the pretty boy's pocket pistol gave me just enough health to survive a direct hit from a grenade.

This happened to me once when I used to play Combat Arms. Someone kept calling me a hacker, then left the game to check my stats, came back in and declared that I had an "impossible" headshot rate - ~20%, which I'm quite proud of even if it's mostly M16A3 abuse - and therefore must be a hacker. Then I headshotted him again.

The only time I've ever gotten even a tempban from Nexon(who owns CA) was for challenging a statement from an asshole moderator who was later fired anyway(for being such an asshole).


EDIT: Orks do weird things. The rush one of the strategic points right next to my base, but completely ignore the one just a few feet away(the map had several of the strat-point pairs across the map). Instead, they camp the one they stole from me, trying to build a Listenin' Post on it. While 4 Scout Marines snipe them. While my Whirlwind constantly bombards their position. While Captain Davian Thule, a Chaplain, four squads of Tactical Marines(8 Marines, 1 Sergeant each), two Predators, a Land Raider, 8 Terminators, and 8 Assault Terminator Veterans rove across the map blowing their bases up with little opposition.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 11, 2015, 08:47:28 am

So in Agar.io, it's really annoying to be killed by teamers just as you're about to break into the leaderboard, right?

The thing about being in a team is... it's probably the most fun you can have in Agar.io.

Spoiler: Pictured: Me and my teammate (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/BeR0Qhl.png)

The guy eventually sacrificed me in order for him to live, during a battle with the next few people down on the leaderboard who had formed their own team against us. And that was after I brought him back to the top, when he had been knocked off the leaderboard. Dickhole. It was really fun while it lasted though, and it's the first time I've ever topped the leaderboard.

It also seems people are more willing to help you if you have a dumb nickname, or a popular one like Doge or 8ch. Kinda like a code word that you're willing to team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nullsrc on December 11, 2015, 09:35:18 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on December 11, 2015, 08:47:28 am

So in Agar.io, it's really annoying to be killed by teamers just as you're about to break into the leaderboard, right?

The thing about being in a team is... it's probably the most fun you can have in Agar.io.

Spoiler: Pictured: Me and my teammate (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/BeR0Qhl.png)

The guy eventually sacrificed me in order for him to live, during a battle with the next few people down on the leaderboard who had formed their own team against us. And that was after I brought him back to the top, when he had been knocked off the leaderboard. Dickhole. It was really fun while it lasted though, and it's the first time I've ever topped the leaderboard.

It also seems people are more willing to help you if you have a dumb nickname, or a popular one like Doge or 8ch. Kinda like a code word that you're willing to team.

I concur about having fun as a team. Actually had a group of people I would voice chat with while playing so we could coordinate that sort of thing, although it never seemed to end well anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 11, 2015, 09:46:35 am

My brother and I decided that we should, for fun, see how long we could hold out against six AI players, on the hardest setting. We expected twenty minutes. We made an hour and twenty minutes. Not bad.

Age of Emperors: The Conquerors.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on December 11, 2015, 04:23:17 pm

Welp, second time's the charm versus the Hollow Queen! Managed to knock out her minions without anyone dying, and then proceeded to beat her down without anyone really being in danger of dying for much of the fight(I keep forgetting how powerful Wufan's dismiss heal is when there's a medic in the party, I actually wasted a couple party heals stacking that on top of dismiss heal :P)

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Etrian Odyssey 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on December 12, 2015, 10:31:53 am

I started out in Madagascar.

Pandemic 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on December 12, 2015, 03:36:00 pm

SUCK IT HEAVENBRINGER AND YOUR STUPID SECOND HEALTH BAR.

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Etrian Odyssey IV. The final boss.

It took a couple of tries. Nightseekers OP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on December 13, 2015, 01:08:26 am

Dido probably laughed when she kept extorting my City-States for money. We were allies. OoOoh. She had a large navy that filled the entirety of the Mediterranean. OoOoh. But eventually, Sweden snapped when she was no longer required. I sent against her the full force of my army and defeated her without losing a single unit with my technological and military superiority. Battle-hardened from my battles with Attila the Hun, they were the elite forces of the world.

Then Sweden hungered. Down in the plains of Africa, the Inca were being pompous to poor old Switzerland. They took their capital by storm and called it a day. Though I was not an ally of the Orderly Swiss Queen, I flew my army in through my newly developed airports and launched a 50-Year Campaign to take the Continent. Only one unit was lost; and the Incan Army was decimated to the last man. Siam, the Shoshone, and the Swiss begin to fear me.

But Dido does not. So I developed Nuclear Weapons for the sheer purpose of showing her why you stop taking my City-States money. Two nukes are launched, armies decimated. Siam and America. The Swedes hunger for more FREEDOM. I launch another nuke at the American's Capital, while simultaneously killing off the bulk of Siam's army with the well-tempered death brigades and X-Com reinforcements.

In the year 2022, Sweden then proves once more to all the world it's superiority by launching a Space Ship into the sky for planets unknown. Earth was not enough. Earth will never be enough for the ambition of Sweden!

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Civ 5. First time winning on the largest map. I don't think I'll try it again though. It took a very long time...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 13, 2015, 03:13:52 am

I know this is still early game, but I think my Crusader is a winner. She regens insane amounts of HP every second, more with each hit and kill. Her armor is so thick that few attacks do much damage to her anyway. She's got powerful resistances from a unique armor. And rather than smash enemies in the face, she delivers ridiculous AoE-exploding-chain damage that can easily kill a dozen foes per click of the mouse button, thanks to the Smite attack and what is essentially Mjölnir.

I just defeated a huge spider queen along with her minions, and my HP meter never showed a noticeable drop even when I was standing in pools of acid while taking hits to the face.

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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. Just got this last week and I'm digging it so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 13, 2015, 06:26:56 pm

Somehow got an achievement for something I probably should not be doing until much later in the game. Also managed to survive the first area.

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KOTOR II+Restored Content. The achievement was "Dancing Queen", and was unlocked during some weird cutscene skip involving Kreia somehow teleporting onto the Ebon Hawk just as you leave the first area.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 13, 2015, 08:20:46 pm

I fixed my Personal DF mod.   It would always crash to desktop on finalizing entities.   I went through the entity file section by section, copying the section from the dwarves a couple lines at a time until the game actually loaded worldgen for 2 hours before I finally found a section that when replaced line for line from the dwarf entity allows worldgen to load.

I'm still not 100% sure but as far as I can tell, new DF version modding syntax requires all cull_symbols to be below select_symbols or DF crashes to desktop with no errorlog on loading worldgen.  The only change I made when I found the section was relocating a few lines.

That seems to be a completely arbitrary change from older versions that had no trouble with this, and I am so happy to finally find it that I am posting this in own instead of in modding.

HA!

Dwarf Fortress Raw Files

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on December 13, 2015, 08:49:21 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 13, 2015, 06:26:56 pm

Somehow got an achievement for something I probably should not be doing until much later in the game. Also managed to survive the first area.

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KOTOR II+Restored Content. The achievement was "Dancing Queen", and was unlocked during some weird cutscene skip involving Kreia somehow teleporting onto the Ebon Hawk just as you leave the first area.

Yeah, I got that achievement there too, pretty sure its bugged.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 13, 2015, 10:24:09 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 13, 2015, 06:26:56 pm

Somehow got an achievement for something I probably should not be doing until much later in the game. Also managed to survive the first area.

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KOTOR II+Restored Content. The achievement was "Dancing Queen", and was unlocked during some weird cutscene skip involving Kreia somehow teleporting onto the Ebon Hawk just as you leave the first area.

I was very confused, then I remembered that KOTOR2 is on Steam and iOS now. I beat the game on my retail copy, disc in the drive and everything.

Have fun on Telos; it's marginally more fun than Peragus, and roughly equivalent to Taris from the first game in terms of place in the story. You'll get your freedom and move on to the main bulk of the game when you're done with both parts of it (Telos comes in two sections).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on December 14, 2015, 10:54:23 am

Spoiler: Not enough time to mine all this yet... (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/m9w0nQp.png)
There used to be a base flooded with stone(and other useless things), but i mined all of it except for the glowstone ceiling and all the obsidian.

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GuildCraft server. I don't need to tell the game name since it's on the upper left corner, right?
I also don't seem to find where is the minecraft thread... so i just post it here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 14, 2015, 11:41:35 am

I found an SMG that shoots 4 bullets at the same time, granting a total damage of about 200. Its fire rate is 12.
It just shreds everything to pieces, its ridiculous.

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Borderlands

For reference, my second-best SMG deals 80 damage at 6 fire rate. (It's much, MUCH more accurate though)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 14, 2015, 04:24:19 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on December 14, 2015, 11:41:35 am

I found an SMG that shoots 4 bullets at the same time, granting a total damage of about 200. Its fire rate is 12.
It just shreds everything to pieces, its ridiculous.

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Borderlands

For reference, my second-best SMG deals 80 damage at 6 fire rate. (It's much, MUCH more accurate though)

Ah, yes, the double anarchy submachine guns. Those are pretty powerful. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PNqRQrni0)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 14, 2015, 04:28:56 pm

WHO'S DYING NOW!?
Banebladed them Chaos nerds.

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Dawn Of War: Soulstorm Ultimate Apocalypse

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 14, 2015, 08:25:32 pm

Discovered the most OP items in the game: the Pearl Necklace and Sunflower.

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HuniePop.

The Sunflower eats all the bells on the map, giving you an extra move for each -2 - normally when you match three you get one extra turn, matching four gives two turns, etc. Basically, gives you a crapton of moves without having to match all the bells(which is often difficult, sometimes impossible).

The Pearl Necklace costs all your Sentiment - spent for using items, gained by matching teardrops - and adds it to the score needed to win the date by 1% per Sentiment point. This also means it gets stronger as the game progresses, as the score for each date is higher than the last. And sometimes it's easier to amass Sentiment than scoring.

This stuff got me into bed with mega-bitch Audrey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 14, 2015, 08:27:44 pm

Huniepop.....?
For shame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on December 14, 2015, 09:45:37 pm

Come on now. Huniepop is actually a good Match 3 game that just happens to have porn in it... Like VNs but with fun gameplay I suppose. :P Anyway, I too use the pearl necklace. I also recommend the blue shoes (+1 sentiment when matching 4) and the leopard shoes (ditto but +1 move). If you're good at planning in advance you can end a date with a LOT of moves left. I know I had <20 one time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nullsrc on December 15, 2015, 11:35:51 am

"just happens to have porn in it" makes it sound like it was entirely unintentional.

That makes the whole thing even more hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on December 15, 2015, 11:51:12 am

I'll be the first (well, in this case, second) person to jump on the "Huniepop is actually a good game" wagon. Because I've played it, and I was surprised to find that developing strategies with item combinations and learning how the puzzle mechanics worked was quite fun.

That's not to say the shame isn't real. Everyone feels some amount of shame playing Huniepop. That doesn't mean we have to shame those who partake even further.

(I mean, while you're at it, you might as well shame everyone who plays almost any fighting game or MMO ever, many of which take full advantage of sex appeal. Huniepop isn't that different. It's just a lot more up front about it.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 15, 2015, 01:37:23 pm

Not a fan of match-3 games, but I can appreciate the complexity of HuniePop's design. Looks like a fun game if you're into that sort of thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 15, 2015, 04:29:26 pm

If I ever were to get Huniepop (not saying I would, mind), I would have to get it from a non-Steam source. The shame would be too great otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 15, 2015, 04:41:09 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 15, 2015, 04:29:26 pm

If I ever were to get Huniepop (not saying I would, mind), I would have to get it from a non-Steam source. The shame would be too great otherwise.

Steam transactions just show up as "STEAM POS DEBIT" with my bank, and there's a way to hide games from your Steam library so you have to do a few extra clicks to get to them. Sounds like shame averted for you :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 15, 2015, 04:49:31 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on December 15, 2015, 04:41:09 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 15, 2015, 04:29:26 pm

If I ever were to get Huniepop (not saying I would, mind), I would have to get it from a non-Steam source. The shame would be too great otherwise.

Steam transactions just show up as "STEAM POS DEBIT" with my bank, and there's a way to hide games from your Steam library so you have to do a few extra clicks to get to them. Sounds like shame averted for you :P

Except they aren't actually hidden from other people. You just don't see them in your standard library :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on December 15, 2015, 06:13:38 pm

I honestly felt way more 'shame' playing 15 minutes of Mugen Souls than I did in 40 hours of Huniepop for what it's worth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 15, 2015, 11:36:49 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on December 15, 2015, 11:51:12 am

I'll be the first (well, in this case, second) person to jump on the "Huniepop is actually a good game" wagon. Because I've played it, and I was surprised to find that developing strategies with item combinations and learning how the puzzle mechanics worked was quite fun.

That's not to say the shame isn't real. Everyone feels some amount of shame playing Huniepop. That doesn't mean we have to shame those who partake even further.

(I mean, while you're at it, you might as well shame everyone who plays almost any fighting game or MMO ever, many of which take full advantage of sex appeal. Huniepop isn't that different. It's just a lot more up front about it.)

Liar. I FELT NOTHING.
okay maybe a little but god damn was it fun

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 16, 2015, 12:18:37 pm

This is from last night.  Brand new character. Lunara.  One of those WoW dryads who are kinda like centaur but with deer ass instead of horse ass.  I decide to purchase her and play as her a few rounds because I hate the game's normal mount mechanics and another character who doesn't use a normal mount is as good as bought for me.

My first game, Quick match I proceed to absolutely dominate with her.  I have no idea how.  I even manage to bully back an opposing chogall in lane at the beginning, which I didn't think was even possible.

12 Kills fewest deaths and top hero damage.  No-one on my team believes me when I say it's my first time using her.

Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on December 16, 2015, 01:32:29 pm

Hadn't played in a while. Decided to go for another dive into the basement with my main man child? Cain. Didn't expect much.

Literally every boss I fought dropped an item which boosted my tear damage. On top of that, I got piggy bank early and sacrificed a bunch of health to a devil beggar, enabling me to buy PHD and identify the THREE pills he gave me.

Two of them were pretty fly pills.
A few rooms later the game handed me Infamy in a locked chest.
Then it handed me another pretty fly pill.

Three pretty flies and infamy. I was basically immune to projectiles. And so I beat the Cathedral. Easily.

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 16, 2015, 10:01:13 pm

The Tau were putting up extreme resistance at Asharis(which the foul xenos renamed Tash'n). Stealth snipers and missile artillery everywhere. Knowing it was suicide to try and outshoot the Tau with Tactical Marines, I countered with Assault Marines. Normally, I don't really use them, but they're the perfect counter. They can close fast, Tau have next to no melee ability, and Melta Bombs rip apart their tanks. Skull Probes sniffed out their stealthsuits, and Assault Marines dropped right on them.

Even so, taking one of the main objectives, Unity Plaza, was costly. And worse, doing so was supposed to render the stealthsuits ineffective, but it didn't. The REAL objective, however, was the death of the Ethereal running the show. He was sitting atop a tiered citadel guarded by everything the Tau had. Each step up the fortress was paid a toll in blood, each stair built from a corpse. Reaching the top proved almost too costly, I had to fall back to regroup. Less than half the force made it back down. All I could do was park the Land Raider to cover what was left of the force.

Worse still, the Tau had counter-attacked, overrunning the former forward position, retaking Unity Plaza, and burning some of the defenses of the base. Getting reinforcements to the citadel was next to impossible. Then the dumbass Ethereal waltzes right in front of the Land Raider. Mission complete, Tau removed from the campaign, gg.

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Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on December 16, 2015, 10:19:11 pm

ROFLstomped the Luminose City Gym using only a level 23 Steelix I had picked up earlier in a trade. Given the average pokemon levels at this point are in the mid 30s, all I can say is lol. The only scary moment in fact was when I discovered Clemont's Helioisk had Grass Knot for type coverage, and given Steelix's poor special defense and huge weight, even hitting nuetral did a lot of damage(thankfully, this was just as I was getting off the second dig to take it out, and he didn't knock out my steelix with it)

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Pokemon X

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nullsrc on December 17, 2015, 09:26:16 am

Started as a Rogue. Managed to find two potions of strength and several upgrade/enchant scrolls by the time I got to the first boss at level 5. Just barely beat him by throwing firebloom seeds at him and setting him on fire, and repeatedly hitting him and dodging back into the very conveniently-placed pool.

Descended to level 6, figuring that I would die here because I'd only ever made it as far as 5 before, and never actually survived an encounter with the goo before. Saw that there was a shop and blew all of my gold on food and other things. Descended more and more levels until I got to 10, upon which the fight with Tengu commenced. I stood at one end of the room and threw somewhere around 8 bombs at him until he died.

By the time I got to level 11, I was living from ration to ration, about one on every level, but it was keeping me alive. Managed to stay alive (even with some serious backtracking) all the way to level 15, with the DM-300. He killed me dead. But I'll take it considering that my rankings page now has a bunch of guys who made it to level 5 under a single guy who got to 15.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on December 17, 2015, 11:51:51 am

Quote from: Nullsrc on December 17, 2015, 09:26:16 am

Started as a Rogue...

What game is this? Sounds like a roguelike, but there's not quite enough context.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on December 17, 2015, 12:16:05 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on December 17, 2015, 11:51:51 am

Quote from: Nullsrc on December 17, 2015, 09:26:16 am

Started as a Rogue...

What game is this? Sounds like a roguelike, but there's not quite enough context.

sounds like pixel dungeon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on December 17, 2015, 06:09:30 pm

I'll admit, most of the time I don't do so good. My reactions aren't the fastest and I don't get that many kills.
I've assaulted a few places, but this time I was defending and I was that asshole in the anti-vehicle turret, blowing you up from as far away as you can see and virtually unkillable because he's got some pocket engineer fixing him. Destroyed or had a hand in the destruction of three Sunderers, two Lightnings, and somewhere around six infantry, which is a pretty good haul for me.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 17, 2015, 07:02:16 pm

Quote from: Lukewarm on December 17, 2015, 06:09:30 pm

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Planetside 2

Oh hey if you're playing Vanu you can have some great fun in the gunner seat on a magrider.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 17, 2015, 07:15:00 pm

Disgusting spandex fetishists.
join the glorious cause of freedom to all LIVE FREE IN THE - *gets jackhammered by friendly soldier*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on December 17, 2015, 07:30:42 pm

Put on your blue and yellow armor, then proceed to the DiFac for your complementary Starbucks or Jamba Juice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on December 17, 2015, 07:57:46 pm

Join the TR. Freedom Through Superior Firepower.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 17, 2015, 08:15:19 pm

TR wins. Thus is fact. Dakakakakakakakakaka.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 17, 2015, 08:21:29 pm

A TR max is identifiable from kilometres away. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on December 17, 2015, 08:28:49 pm

Kerbal Space Program: My attempt to land a Kerbal on duna (analogue of mars) and return went well, considering I had absolutely no plan. But I didn't quite have enough fuel in the rocked, so I did what any sane person would do and got Jebediah out of the capsule and used almost all of his jetpack fuel to get him on a trajectory home. It was only when he entered the atmosphere that I remembered that Kerbals didn't have parachutes. So I just watched him head towards the ground at terrifying speeds, I started flipping him every which way to see if that would maybe slow him down. It didn't, but when he hit the ground, he landed head first, and bounched nearly 30 meters off of the ground. I flipped him again, and he landed on his feet. Jebediah is truley a badass.

Note: This was before re-entry heating was a thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 18, 2015, 06:47:15 pm

I beat Undyne the Undying on my first try. Probably helps I spent ~2 hours trying to beat her on a Pacifist playthrough because I couldn't figure out how to win, so I'm really familiar with her attacks. It also turns out there's a tiny little sweet spot where your little heart-shaped hitbox can position itself JUST between the tips of two spears when she does her "Little box & spears" attack. That helped a ton.

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Undertale.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 19, 2015, 06:41:28 am

Took out a very large walker droid(despite the fact that walker technology probably doesn't exist in this era) with surprising ease, especially since the masses of battle droids and turrets had been tearing me a new one the entire run. That tank was throwing explosions around... bit never really hit anyone for any damage.

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KOTOR II. Handmaiden joined. The first conversation with her in the cargo hold, it sounded that she may as well have been screaming "I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU, EXILE!" the way she was talking.

Unless she is somehow the Exile's daughter or something. Just thinking it's possible since all of Atris' other handmaidens all look alike(due to having the same parents), and all of them, including the one that joins you, look like Atris, indicating that she might be their mother. And Exile and Atris have a... history.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 19, 2015, 07:03:25 am

Quote from: Akura on December 19, 2015, 06:41:28 am

(despite the fact that walker technology probably doesn't exist in this era)

I thought Star Wars was subject to fantasy style tech stasis?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 19, 2015, 08:37:53 am

In the EU it seems to be progresssing, albeit very slowly. New ships and whatnot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 19, 2015, 05:29:35 pm

There's some things that don't exist in the Jedi Civil War era(KOTOR games) that do in the Clone Wars/Galactic Civil War era. Bacta, for instance, which replaced the kolto that was important in the JCW. I think walkers appeared sometime between the eras.

According to Wookiepedia, there were some walkers in that general time frame, though none appear in the KOTOR games that I'm aware of(the tank droid notwithstanding). Apparently, there's at least one that shows up in SW:TOR, which appears to start just after the end of the KOTOR series.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 19, 2015, 06:07:55 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 19, 2015, 06:41:28 am

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KOTOR II. Handmaiden joined. The first conversation with her in the cargo hold, it sounded that she may as well have been screaming "I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU, EXILE!" the way she was talking.

Unless she is somehow the Exile's daughter or something. Just thinking it's possible since all of Atris' other handmaidens all look alike(due to having the same parents), and all of them, including the one that joins you, look like Atris, indicating that she might be their mother. And Exile and Atris have a... history.

Did you do all the sparring matches with Handmaiden? That's pretty much the way to get her backstory, although not all questions will be answered due to cut content (it's better in the restored game, though still not obvious).

Some clues:

Spoiler: Least obvious (click to show/hide)

- Handmaiden says that her mother died at Malachor V, but no body was found. A lot of people are said to have died there that turn up later.

Spoiler: Moderately obvious (click to show/hide)

- Handmaiden's mother was an exiled Jedi. Quite a few people were exiled in connection to Revan.

Spoiler: Basically giving it to you (click to show/hide)

- Listen to what Handmaiden says about the Echani view of conflict. Sound like anybody you know?
- She "honors the face of her mother". Notice the braids?

Also, if you're strong enough, you can accidentally kill Handmaiden while sparring. It'll bug the game out until you leave the area. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 19, 2015, 09:44:14 pm

The final battle for Kronus was fought to purge the taint of Chaos from the world. Through min-maxing and abuse of planetary bonuses, I managed to get possibly the largest army possible. Grey Knights(6), both Terminator squads(16 total), seven squads of Tactical Marines(63 total), two Predators, Land Raider, 3 Dreadnoughts, a Chaplain, and a Scout Marine squad for kicks(4). Not counting Honor Guards and casualty replacements(of which there were plenty), that's pretty much the full company. If you do include casualties just from that battle alone, that's more than a full company. If you include all the casualties from the entire Crusade, including cutscene deaths... makes you wonder where the hell all these Astartes are coming from, especially since the Blood Ravens are supposed to be still recovering from their campaign on Tartarus.

Anyhow, Chaos got rekt. Campaign won.

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 19, 2015, 10:08:58 pm

I decided to ask a cheeky little rogue in the tavern to burn down my competitor's buildings, so I could become mayor.

Unfortunately, there were no wells in Luebeck, thus the population went from 3,500 down to 700 before the conflagration was brought under control.

Fortunately, rubble is cheaper to buy than a completed building, so I was able to purchase some houses just off the market square from my competitor, which increases the liklihood of rich citizens moving in.

Luebeck was rebuilt within the year, and is turning over a nice surplus after I moved my patrol away...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Patrician 4: Rise of a Dynasty

Edit: my first act as mayor? Build some wells.

Also increase the price at which the town bought wood and bricks - the literal thousands of each I needed to rebuild the city. This obviously had nothing to do with me being a major supplier of each, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on December 19, 2015, 10:18:47 pm

Won my first online match. Kicked their ass with my custom warrior.

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Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 20, 2015, 10:10:54 am

Completed the Nebraska mission with no deaths or even serious injuries.

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XCOM: EW
Missions with only melee enemies really do play differently by a long way. As does an evac timer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 20, 2015, 12:47:07 pm

Led by Augustus Caesar, the Roman Empire and its legions have dominated the world through the awesome, overwhelming might of their...culture?
Yep. Cultural victory as the Romans. I did a bit of conquering here and there (especially when Genghis Khan made himself a bit too much of a thorn in my side), but by the end of the game I had spread my religion to nearly every city, was allied with every city-state in the world, dominant over Ethiopia (who still tried to insult me periodically, despite being at a massive disadvantage in every category), allied with Korea, and working together with them to crush China. The cultural victory occurred just as I was bombarding Beijing :P

Civilization V: Brave New World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 20, 2015, 06:44:42 pm

Is this what karma feels like? See the image below (it's Hearthstone).

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(http://i.imgur.com/CaPVHiP.png)
That's two (TWO) legendaries in a single pack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 20, 2015, 08:56:20 pm

Saw a whole bunch of bots doing that ridiculous slide move mere feet from the doorway I was standing in. None of them saw me. I tossed a grenade at them. I think I killed five in that blast. They never did find me even after that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency.

Took a Mosin/Nagant, a 7x scope, and some NVG. Camped the central street on the second floor of a building, right next to our weapons cache. One round I fired 29 shots, killed 17. All in the dark.

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Insurgency again. The NVG isn't very powerful in really dark spots. Still tons more useful than not. Unless the enemy has a flashlight.

EDIT:

Spoiler: One RPG (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YnixMM9.jpg)

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Insurgency once more. Even better was ambushing the next wave and killing all but one... who managed to ambush me and kill me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 21, 2015, 11:58:58 am

Just had an absolutely insane run with the Loader. No artifacts.
I got TWO scariest masks, permafrost, brilliant behemoth, sacrificial dagger, ion jetpack, telescopic sight, mark 2 missiles, and that's just the rares. I also had a whole bunch of great green and white items, including three frost relics. Run was very low on use items, which is obviously great. I got the broken mirror. Farmed out all of the items and keycards on the last level, and had a bunch of gold left over to revive my drones.
Providence took a long time but I was only really at risk of dying once, and I just used the healing machine :v

That's my first win without using cheaty artifacts like Glass, Command or Sacrifice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on December 23, 2015, 01:09:54 pm

Welp, I've become our server's official death machine.

Turns out, if you build a crossbow out of cobalt and flamestring, and make bolts out of an enderium tipped paper tool rod, you can one-shot someone in full terrasteel armour. This is before you put any offensive modifiers on the bolts.

Spoiler: Large image (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/6ju0vIf.png)

Modded Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on December 23, 2015, 09:24:18 pm

I kept an entire team propped up and surviving against a team with a very, very good Soldier and Medic pair. We eventually lost on time out - if we'd had a minute or two more i would have been able to cap last. We actually lost on time out halfway through capping their last point.

I came THIS close to breaking my heal record in one life, and healed a shitload of HP overall. This was on cp_vanguard, one of the new maps.

7008 HP healed in one life, near my record of 7115 HP.
5 kills. Not bad for a medic.
9 deaths. Three of these were random crits - all the rest were that soldier medic pair with a Kritzkrieg.
28 assists.
I think uh, seven ubers?
And a total round healing of 26,100HP. I was quite pleased with myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on December 23, 2015, 09:25:01 pm

Whoa.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 24, 2015, 12:46:30 am

Digistruct Games made a huge splash on the gaming scene with their new release "Detective Lain". Marketed towards younger players on the Gameling portable game system, the rpg based around detective work earned praise from reviewers -gaining an aggregate score of 8.5 between the four major reviewing names- and reached rank 21 in sales in the first week. The game sold 96.3 thousand units over the course of its life on the shelves and earned $674,400 dolars in sales, earning a profit of $618,000 dollars after costing $56,000 to make.

All done by one guy living in his garage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Game Dev Tycoon

Holy shit that was possibly my best selling game so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nahere on December 24, 2015, 02:16:34 am

Quote from: Dutrius on December 23, 2015, 01:09:54 pm

Welp, I've become our server's official death machine.

Turns out, if you build a crossbow out of cobalt and flamestring, and make bolts out of an enderium tipped paper tool rod, you can one-shot someone in full terrasteel armour. This is before you put any offensive modifiers on the bolts.

Spoiler: Large image (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/6ju0vIf.png)

Modded Minecraft.

If signalum is available for bow limbs, it has even better damage and a draw speed of 0.25 seconds, even with flame string.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 24, 2015, 07:42:40 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on December 24, 2015, 12:46:30 am

Digistruct Games made a huge splash on the gaming scene with their new release "Detective Lain". Marketed towards younger players on the Gameling portable game system, the rpg based around detective work earned praise from reviewers -gaining an aggregate score of 8.5 between the four major reviewing names- and reached rank 21 in sales in the first week. The game sold 96.3 thousand units over the course of its life on the shelves and earned $674,400 dolars in sales, earning a profit of $618,000 dollars after costing $56,000 to make.

All done by one guy living in his garage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Game Dev Tycoon

Holy shit that was possibly my best selling game so far.

*sigh* Every amateur game dev's dream...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 24, 2015, 07:49:50 am

Or, rather similarly, every amateur writer's dream. :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on December 24, 2015, 12:14:35 pm

This game is fucking rad.  If this were megaman, I woulda had one little jimmy-jam^tm of health left after that boss fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Zone of the Enders 2 HD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 24, 2015, 12:59:53 pm

Playing Embassy - Hunt Mode. I, with a LMG, got taken down fairly early along with two other guys, so I zotted the last bot. Killed all but two of the insurgents before locating their weapons cache. Lucky for me, this bot had an M4 with a grenade launcher. It took three of my four shots to destroy the cache(first was too close, didn't explode).

Spent several tense minutes sweeping the rest of the embassy looking for the last two insurgents. Circled around to where the cache was when I start taking fire behind me. I duck behind the corner, spotting both of them. I switch to my last grenade, pop out of cover, and fire. ...And the target was too close, and it didn't explode. It did nail the guy in the balls, killing him, and I was able to shoot the other one in the kneecap for the win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 24, 2015, 07:03:39 pm

Quote from: Reudh on December 23, 2015, 09:24:18 pm

I kept an entire team propped up and surviving against a team with a very, very good Soldier and Medic pair. We eventually lost on time out - if we'd had a minute or two more i would have been able to cap last. We actually lost on time out halfway through capping their last point.

I came THIS close to breaking my heal record in one life, and healed a shitload of HP overall. This was on cp_vanguard, one of the new maps.

7008 HP healed in one life, near my record of 7115 HP.
5 kills. Not bad for a medic.
9 deaths. Three of these were random crits - all the rest were that soldier medic pair with a Kritzkrieg.
28 assists.
I think uh, seven ubers?
And a total round healing of 26,100HP. I was quite pleased with myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2, obviously.

Man, I think my record for ubers in one life is like three or four, and that was camping the blu spawn on dustbowl last stage. I can't even imagine getting 7 users, much less when I'm actually playing the game o.o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 24, 2015, 07:49:01 pm

Destroyed AAAALL of the hostile vehicles on my first attempt. Pretty good going considering I was flipping my shit the whole time and had to steal a guided rocket launcher so that I could take down a helicopter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MGS 5:TPP
Heh, destruction sprees make a nice break from infiltration and extraction of people and things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 24, 2015, 08:09:11 pm

Which mission is that?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 24, 2015, 08:11:12 pm

Backup Back Down. Mission 9 I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 24, 2015, 08:13:50 pm

I thought it might've been. I didn't like it the first time I played it, but it's a pretty good mission once you get some of the better gear and can be indiscriminately violent. Or steal everything not nailed down :))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on December 24, 2015, 08:14:06 pm

Quote from: Graknorke on December 24, 2015, 07:49:01 pm

Destroyed AAAALL of the hostile vehicles on my first attempt. Pretty good going considering I was flipping my shit the whole time and had to steal a guided rocket launcher so that I could take down a helicopter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MGS 5:TPP
Heh, destruction sprees make a nice break from infiltration and extraction of people and things.

Next, you have to steal instead of destroying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on December 24, 2015, 08:14:57 pm

My R&D game isn't stronk enough for that yet. But soon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 24, 2015, 08:16:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 24, 2015, 12:59:53 pm

Playing Embassy - Hunt Mode. I, with a LMG, got taken down fairly early along with two other guys, so I zotted the last bot. Killed all but two of the insurgents before locating their weapons cache. Lucky for me, this bot had an M4 with a grenade launcher. It took three of my four shots to destroy the cache(first was too close, didn't explode).

Spent several tense minutes sweeping the rest of the embassy looking for the last two insurgents. Circled around to where the cache was when I start taking fire behind me. I duck behind the corner, spotting both of them. I switch to my last grenade, pop out of cover, and fire. ...And the target was too close, and it didn't explode. It did nail the guy in the balls, killing him, and I was able to shoot the other one in the kneecap for the win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency.

Wait... so you complete the objective, and then you ALSO have to take out all the enemies?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 24, 2015, 09:17:09 pm

Yes. One time I did it, I killed all the Insurgents(by myself, team was dead), but had not explosives to destroy the cache. So I picked up an RPG, fired it a bit too close to the cache, destroying it and myself. The game was scored as a tie.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on December 24, 2015, 09:30:44 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 24, 2015, 08:16:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 24, 2015, 12:59:53 pm

Playing Embassy - Hunt Mode. I, with a LMG, got taken down fairly early along with two other guys, so I zotted the last bot. Killed all but two of the insurgents before locating their weapons cache. Lucky for me, this bot had an M4 with a grenade launcher. It took three of my four shots to destroy the cache(first was too close, didn't explode).

Spent several tense minutes sweeping the rest of the embassy looking for the last two insurgents. Circled around to where the cache was when I start taking fire behind me. I duck behind the corner, spotting both of them. I switch to my last grenade, pop out of cover, and fire. ...And the target was too close, and it didn't explode. It did nail the guy in the balls, killing him, and I was able to shoot the other one in the kneecap for the win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency.

Wait... so you complete the objective, and then you ALSO have to take out all the enemies?

In Hunt yes. You have to take out 15-25 insurgents  and blow up their supply cache.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 25, 2015, 12:17:25 am

And now to interrupt this discussion with a pretty old own.

The score is 0-4 in capture the flag, the enemy needs only one more cap to win. Unfortunately, someone already grabbed the flag. Incapable of pursuing the carrier directly, I try to intercept him at his base. Sadly though, I made a small blunder and fell into a lake.

Trapped underwater with no jetpack fuel and the carrier almost at the flag stand, I decide to fire my thumper. The explosive projectile escapes the water and...

Airmail

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(for those of you who don't know, that means airshot)

The carrier is killed and I picked up the flag as it falls to the ground, saving the game and buying us some more time. Sadly though we lose anyway, but it was still an awesome kill.

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 25, 2015, 06:47:25 am

Quote from: heydude6 on December 25, 2015, 12:17:25 am

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Tribes: Ascend

If you didin't spam VGS, you aren't worthy of playing this game.

SHAZBOT.
 SHAZBOT.
  SHAZBOT.
   SHAZBOT.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 25, 2015, 07:12:09 am

Quote from: heydude6 on December 25, 2015, 12:17:25 am

And now to interrupt this discussion with a pretty old own.

The score is 0-4 in capture the flag, the enemy needs only one more cap to win. Unfortunately, someone already grabbed the flag. In capable of persuing the carrier directly, I try to intercept him at his base. Sadly though, I made a small blunder and fall into a lake.

Trapped underwater with no jetpack fuel and the carrier almost at the flag stand, I decide to fire my thumper. The explosive projectile escapes the water and...

Airmail

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(for those of you who don't know, that means airshot)

The carrier is killed and I picked up the flag as it falls to the ground, saving the game and buying us some more time. Sadly though we lose anyway, but it was still an awesome kill.

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Tribes: Ascend

Any player worth his salt knows that airshots are what movement FPSs are all about. (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZp4UmCPo8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 25, 2015, 07:51:03 pm

As it turns out, the Loader can have indefinite invincibility with the right upgrades. This ends up making the game laughably easy, even when the difficulty is at "Ha Ha Ha".

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 25, 2015, 08:53:34 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on December 25, 2015, 07:51:03 pm

As it turns out, the Loader can have indefinite invincibility with the right upgrades. This ends up making the game laughably easy, even when the difficulty is at "Ha Ha Ha".

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Wicked ring and stacking crit chance and attack speed is pretty broken for any character, but Loader is particularly noteworthy because of his invincibility skill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 25, 2015, 09:00:26 pm

It also helps that the Loader has a main weapon with area of effect, so it's never overwhelmed by swarms of enemies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 25, 2015, 09:24:32 pm

Took several tries, but I took down an assassin that ambushed me in my own ship.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KOTOR II. Damn Visas, attacking me when I go back to build myself a lightsaber. And also yet another female crewmember I'm accused of having around for... unwholesome purposes. Then again, if what Atton says to her is true, I'm not sure if I should believe Handmaiden when she insists on sparring with me naked.

Oh, now I have a lightsaber too. And I turned Handmaiden into a bruiser in unarmed combat, she outdamages even my heavily-upgraded lightsaber.

Still, when Master Vrook teaches the Exile that lightsaber style, it looked like they both gripped the lightsaber by the blade. You know, the blade made of burn-the-fuck-through-nearly-anything-on-contact.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on December 25, 2015, 09:26:07 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You don't have to be in your ship to build your lightsaber. You just have to have Bao-Dur in your party.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 25, 2015, 09:26:16 pm

I'm going to brag about it for long time. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=152456.msg6691232#msg6691232)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 25, 2015, 09:31:58 pm

Hey, I did a third of the work! :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 25, 2015, 09:33:11 pm

So did latias1290, I'm not saying you didin't. ^^
Teamwork is an amazing, amazing thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 25, 2015, 10:41:55 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on December 25, 2015, 09:26:07 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You don't have to be in your ship to build your lightsaber. You just have to have Bao-Dur in your party.

The problem was he was on the ship - and going back to it triggers the fight. I don't know of any other method of swapping party members.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 25, 2015, 10:48:48 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 25, 2015, 10:41:55 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on December 25, 2015, 09:26:07 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You don't have to be in your ship to build your lightsaber. You just have to have Bao-Dur in your party.

The problem was he was on the ship - and going back to it triggers the fight. I don't know of any other method of swapping party members.

How ya liking the game so far?

The game will occasionally ask you to pick party members when the party has to split up and do quests in two different locations. Not helpful in this case though, I realize.

Also, how did you get all the lightsaber parts before fighting Visas? She's supposed to have the last piece that you need, you take it from her lightsaber after you beat her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 26, 2015, 05:59:05 am

Does she? According to the quest log I had all the components. I forgot where I got the a couple of them, but I think the last component I got was from the girl in the Enclave ruins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on December 26, 2015, 04:31:13 pm

After 2 final boss battles, Anubis GOT DUNKED ON.  THAT WAS A RAD GAME, HOLY SHIT.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner HD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 26, 2015, 04:40:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 26, 2015, 05:59:05 am

Does she? According to the quest log I had all the components. I forgot where I got the a couple of them, but I think the last component I got was from the girl in the Enclave ruins.

Ah, she was added by the Restored Content. I had my lightsaber before I met her, so I never realized that she gave me a part as well. I was wondering where that extra came from.

Restored Content gives you a lot of duplicate quest items.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 26, 2015, 05:41:32 pm

I pierced an 8z deep aquifer. And by that, I mean that I got 8z INTO the aquifer then found out it was 11z deep.

Still, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 26, 2015, 06:23:19 pm

Seriously dude. 11z. You should upload an unused copy of the site for masochists to play with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 26, 2015, 11:13:37 pm

It'd been many years since Lord Wolf was brained by a blue maceman, and decades since the first breach to the outer wall was made. The forces of Lord Whispa were victorious, and in their victory set out to destroy all remants of the ancient metropolis which had invaded their homeland and brought hell to their families.
The totality of victory was not easy.

The outer wall had exacted such a terrible price on the vanguard of the Whispa forces.
Over three hundred men attacked the southeastern gate. Our archers were incapable of suppressing theirs, who had superior numbers, quality and the benefit of both fortifications and fire. Our infantry were attacking a barred wooden gate on a narrow strip of land bordered by the moat, having to lose precious lives filling in the land bridge to the gate before busting it down. The surviving pikemen ran through and butchered the garrisoned marksmen before being pincushioned. When I sent in the second wave to exploit the breach it turned out to be a trap, the path of least resistance turned out to be an absolute killing field from which hundreds died pointlessly. The laddermen failed to reach the walls in sufficient numbers and subsequently only one soldier made it to the top of the walls - alone, the last to die. The Wolf's forces lost virtually nothing.
This forced the war effort to attack the stonegate and begin the process of digging a land bridge and breaking through an even tougher gate anew.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/FuwyBW0.png)

Here is all that remains of the inner walls. Built of hewed stone dotted with great round towers with interlocking fields of fire and heavy artillery atop each one, breaching them was a costly task. Frontal assaults failed to achieve lasting damage, even when portable walls allowed our marksmen greater survivability. Where breaching, tunneling and assaults achieved nothing but waste more lives and test the Fortress for weaknesses (it turned out to have none), the siege towers changed everything. Their ground crews moved them into place and only let themselves die once the ramp hit the wall. The enemy's siege engines nearest to our towers were taken out in the first few waves, keeping the siege towers in place for future assaults.
From there it became a matter of brutal face to face fighting, with the horrific exception being the enemy still had cover and our forces did not. Nevertheless, it was a kiss of death of sorts. It didn't matter if 10 of our men died just to kill 1 of theirs, as long as I kept the enemy away from my towers more of mine would reappear and fewer of theirs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Ra3AXjd.png)

After the inner walls were breached and the last battlements cleared of stubborn fighters all that was left was the central Fortress and the inhabitants of the city themselves. The city guard and a ragtag militia of hunters and lumberjacks were not to be ignored, the lumberjacks quite notably nearly recaptured the wall segment my siege towers latched onto. Each time a successful raid was made into the city heartlands all the manufacturies and farmlands, windmills and bakeries e.t.c. were targeted so that even after the enemy killed the last of my forces, each time the next wave arrived it was to an increasingly desperate and ill-equipped starving force. The local populace either starved or were killed, their once picturesque settlement reduced to campfire whose only residents are a half dozen pikemen standing by to make sure squatters and scavengers don't move in, or that my own people's children don't get into too much trouble when they inevitably wander through. Wild animal herds have since moved in, and trees are steadily reclaiming the ruins. Tearing down all of their walls and lumberjacks has let mother nature take it all back.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/QPkxvO6.png)

Sometimes only the presence of ruined siege engines and scorched earth stand testament to there ever being humans there to begin with.
Gone are the desiccated corpses of men, bloated in the Wolf's moat. The moat had been filled in by engineers after the war was won, and what was once a river of fetid murk and blood was now a forest pockmarked with ruins. It's hard to imagine that one lifetime ago there were rows of neat orchards lined up one after the other behind a wooden palisade, guarded by tower after tower full of patrolling marksmen and ballistae. It's hard to imagine just how many died on the narrow strip of land that only trees now call home.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/87HbNZU.png)

This dense forest was once home to many of the Wolf's loyal serfs. They toiled away harvesting pitch, cutting down trees, smeltering away at their furnaces, hewing away at stone or stalking herds of deer to bring venison back to the feast hall. Towards the mid-late stages of the siege the enemy was steadily losing their ability to defend their people out in the forest, least of all from a shaggy band of swamp-swimming spearmen. 15 men snuck their way through the river ford into enemy lines whilst the watchmen were busy holding off an attack on their gate, these 15 men would engage in a terrifying guerrilla campaign which saw the destruction and disruption of much of the Wolf's materiel operations. No more wood, stone and steel means no more repairs and equipment. Losing only 1 man, they achieved more than the dead hundreds before them ever could've in life or death.
Now it is an untamed wilderness and no traces of human life remain, besides the occasional shaggy swamp-swimming spearman.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZrhMV0B.png)

Now my city is alone, nature running her course and rendering my enemy a figment of the past. Walls encompass walls, towers cover towers and everything is well protected against the roaming bandits or wolves in the forest. Now and then some bandits do succeed in raiding my breweries or churches, or some fire will rage through my densely clustered metropolis for a time, or mad cow disease will make carcasses of all my herds - but there is no question, I owned it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stronghold

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 26, 2015, 11:22:07 pm

Good game. Very good memories.
Though I barely understand any of the screens you posted besides the last one. Oh right, it was a castle and it got completly removed from existence and only the siege towers and such remain. Would be nice to see the actual combat screens though. :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 26, 2015, 11:31:44 pm

Quote from: Kot on December 26, 2015, 11:22:07 pm

Good game. Very good memories.
Though I barely understand any of the screens you posted besides the last one. Oh right, it was a castle and it got completly removed from existence and only the siege towers and such remain. Would be nice to see the actual combat screens though. :/

I did not have the foresight to

It's only trees now

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2015, 06:40:58 am

Nice, what map?


Also, beware those trees. If you don't have an army of woodcutters, or the tree blight event happens, they will spread like a better plague than the actual plague that can happen in this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on December 27, 2015, 10:16:02 am

Quote from: Akura on December 25, 2015, 10:41:55 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on December 25, 2015, 09:26:07 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You don't have to be in your ship to build your lightsaber. You just have to have Bao-Dur in your party.

The problem was he was on the ship - and going back to it triggers the fight. I don't know of any other method of swapping party members.

Going to your party screen (in the middle of the menu) should allow you to switch out your party, unless for plot reasons you can't. You'll have to remove at least one of your current companions first.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2015, 10:27:24 am

Sudden animal attack on the camp for plot reasons. I tried to build a rudimentary wall in the direction specified, but 90 seconds was not enough warning to figure out the building system and get the wall up. I plopped down the two turrets I got from the same guy who warned us of the attack from a previous quest, and placed them in the direction the attack was supposed to come from.

Instead of a mass of animals coming from that direction, they all spawned on top of the small camp, in the corner, barely within range of the turrets. The good news was that they all focused on the injured woman on life support, rather than me, so they didn't kill me while I killed them(she survived with 1/3 of her health left). The better news was that most of the first wave was shredded by the guns. The bad news is that the rest of the waves spawned right on top, out of range of the guns and the animals did focus on me and the other fighters.

The last wave was solely these monkey-looking things that are dangerous in both melee and range. I managed to lead the last of them back into range of the guns. I did all this while both dead tired and suffering from a bacterial infection.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Explorers. I had completely forgotten this battle was mandatory, and tiredness and infections were not in the demo I played.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 27, 2015, 11:28:48 am

Quote from: Akura on December 27, 2015, 06:40:58 am

Nice, what map?
Also, beware those trees. If you don't have an army of woodcutters, or the tree blight event happens, they will spread like a better plague than the actual plague that can happen in this game.

Custom, and dear gods there are so many trees, I was horrified to find there were even trees colonizing one of the hovel areas of my Fort

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on December 27, 2015, 12:07:54 pm

Spoiler: TFW you do literally everything in your power and it's still not enough. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/UYa7uPm.jpg)

MechWarrior Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 27, 2015, 01:26:17 pm

^{_{You lost, that's not ownage}} :P

Never mind your 5 kill 4 assist day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on December 27, 2015, 01:27:59 pm

Quote from: hector13 on December 27, 2015, 01:26:17 pm

^{_{You lost, that's not ownage}} :P

You got it wrong. You can totally own despite losing in the end, especially if it's your own team fault. Nec Hercules Contra Plures, etc.
Also, it's fucking awesome when you're last one and due to your extreme amazing skills you take down enemies and they just keep coming at you until you finally die, but not before you flip a huge middle finger against them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2015, 01:42:08 pm

You took out an entire star by yourself? Also, was the rest of your team except the #2 guy AFK or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 27, 2015, 01:52:32 pm

seems like mechwarrior online has changed a lot since the last time I played it. Did they finally implement community warfare?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on December 27, 2015, 05:01:58 pm

Not AFK (except for that one, but that's pretty much every match for ya), just incompetents who can't manage 400 damage in Assaults, Timber Wolves, or Ebon Jags. Kills don't tell much of a story, it's the damage that I posted that for--1200 in a Light 'mech in a Quick Battle where I only had 12 enemy 'mechs to shoot at. We only lost at the end because the 3L that was with me was too much of a pussy to step up for his turn taking fire--the last two enemies were on our base and cored, but I was cored all over as well, and they were ~3 seconds off from capping. AFAIK the 3L was almost completely fresh, he was at ~85% when the match ended.

But yeah. That's what happens when you run a double LPLas build on the 4X and the entire enemy team ignores you in favor of shooting the wallet-warrior clanboys who apparently didn't bother learning how to play before shelling out for stuff that was OP P2W a few months ago. Insane damage if you stay alive, but if the rest of the team gets rolled and leaves you 2v7 with a couple fresh Heavies on the cap, you can only do so much.  :-\

Quote from: heydude6 on December 27, 2015, 01:52:32 pm

seems like mechwarrior online has changed a lot since the last time I played it. Did they finally implement community warfare?

CW has been through a couple iterations now and is due for another overhaul. It's decent as long as you don't get a complete random PuG vs. 12-man company match, but takes something like 15 minutes to find a match even during peak hours. Right now there's barely enough players at all, a split queue would kill it entirely--and you can still rack up plenty of damage against an organized group if you're remotely competent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2015, 08:32:08 pm

Spoiler: Honestly don't know how it's moving (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pCT3NLE.jpg)

Literally a sheet of plywood with wooden wheels and a copper engine, that has a tendency to flip onto its side if you look at it funny, driving in the middle of a freaking hurricane. Seriously, by the time I was finished designing it, I started to wonder what the hell was going on with the weather(game does NOT pause while in the designer, you can still hear the weather).

Was adequate enough for the mission. Mostly because I simply walked to the destination, put down the vehicle, and drove into the marker with Adisa on the back seat. That's all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Explorers. Looking at some of the other stuff in the creator, there's boats, aircraft, and robots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 29, 2015, 01:59:44 am

Beat a hell dive level mission with nothing but a two person squad, pistols, and a ton of air strafing runs and orbital laser strikes.

Illuminates suck.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Helldivers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 30, 2015, 03:30:10 am

Stumped Akinator for the first time in a while, with Douglas Uppity from Let's Drown Out Dark Souls 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on December 30, 2015, 02:14:39 pm

I beat akinator with Bean from Ender's game. But I think I put him in the system now, so it probably won't work again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 30, 2015, 02:24:09 pm

I curveballed it very thoroughly with Bleda the Hun. Doesn't help that he may or may not have existed. It went for Atilla and then Vercingetorix, which isn't bad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GentlemanRaptor on December 30, 2015, 03:45:45 pm

My D&D group strapped a small-ish ballista to a bear (actually the party druid) and scared the FUCK outta some poor bandits trying to have a party.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 30, 2015, 04:39:46 pm

Quote from: GentlemanRaptor on December 30, 2015, 03:45:45 pm

My D&D group strapped a small-ish ballista to a bear (actually the party druid) and scared the FUCK outta some poor bandits trying to have a party.

Nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on December 30, 2015, 04:42:21 pm

Dustbowl, second stage.

The odds are stacked against us massively. The topscorers are me and a medic, most of the other people on our team are eh. The enemy has a lot of good players, though.

After a false start, we take the first point. It's an undefendable mess anyway, but meh. I embarrass myself by being ubered while both of my clips are empty, but whatever. We spend the next ten minutes trying to push into the second point, but we can't. There's too many soldiers, too many sentries. I go pyro and try to fight back but we are spawncamped. We push back out again, and the medic ubers me. We destroy the only sentry with a direct sightline to the last point, but there are two more covering two out of three attack routes. We get spawncamped again. We push out again. The timer is on 30 seconds. The medic has a uber. We push in. The medic is juggled by soldiers, i lose my uber, but I push on. I come into the area around the point, expecting the familiar sound of a sentry gun locking on, but I hear nothing. THEY DIDNT REPLACE THE SENTRY. MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT. I JUMP ON THE POINT. FIVE SECONDS LEFT. IT STARTS CAPPING. THE ENEMY TEAM COLLAPES ON ME BUT I KILL THEM. THE POINT IS ALMOST CAPPED. I HAVE 15 HP. THE ONLY PERSON IN A POSITION TO DENY ME IS A MEDIC. HE PULLS OUT HIS UBERSAW. I AIRBLAST HIM AWAY AND HIT HIM WITH A FLARE. I CAP THE FUCKING POINT. WE FUCKING WIN!!! I start spamming my lennyface bind until the key it is bound to is broken. At least two enemy players disconnect. We take the next stage with ease.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on December 30, 2015, 06:26:07 pm

My first game: I got two kills, three assists, no deaths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder. PS4, because I have no idea how to get the parts for a half decent gaming computer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 30, 2015, 06:38:34 pm

I'd been trying to beat the stupid Bell Gargoyles for a while and not having that much luck. They're easily the quickest bosses I've yet encountered and I can't dodge freely or I fall off the roof. Plus there are two of them against one of me, which is unfair. So I decided to go human and get Solaire's help. But there were also human players offering to help. After a few tries, I summoned one of them and started fighting. I managed to do some sweet moves and felt good for not looking bad in front of my partner and then promptly got bopped hard. At least that distracted the first gargoyle long enough for my partner[Who dealt WAY more damage then me] to cut off its tail[Netting me a neat-looking axe] and then kill it. The second gargoyle got killed by some sort of lightning my partner used. Honestly, not much of an own, since someone else did most of the work. The real own is that I finally managed to kill the Titanite Demon downstairs, mainly by rolling around behind it a lot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on December 30, 2015, 09:26:19 pm

Reverse-engineered Imperial ship design and now have star destroyers and super star destroyers as the rebels. Now I just need to find the funds to pursue a grand fleet.

Reassembly, Star Wars mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 31, 2015, 02:13:30 pm

Attacked by a Tokiama banner army. Die, after the assassin made a game effort at wiping most of them out. Reload. Buy brimstone in bulk. Mix up thirty missile-triple-damage spells. Runemaster kills all but two of the enemies one by one. Loot a battle staff, a pile of gold, and of course a Tokiama pass, which will be quite useful in the current political landscape.

Legend: Son of the Empire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 31, 2015, 02:50:43 pm

As it turns out, if you have the artifact that makes every enemy elite and you get to about 33 56-leaf clovers, you get swamped in enough items to make winning trivial.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 31, 2015, 03:10:00 pm

I won three games of Shogi

I have no idea how to play Shogi.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yakuza 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 01, 2016, 12:16:40 pm

"Just one more turn", I told myself. "Just one more turn."


4 hours later, my Halberdiers a chopping up Daemonwood. Then they get charged by a Gold Dragon... and do far more damage to it than it does to them. Meanwhile I'm steamrolling Greater Fire Elementals and the like with my armies elsewhere.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warlock: Master of the Arcane. Greater Fire Elementals, by the way, guard Holy Sites, which are needed for one of the victory conditions. Daemonwoods and Dragons only appear on other planes, which are difficult to even access, much less conquer.
I think it's worth extra badass points to the Halberdiers, since in this game they're the very same guys as the castle guards from Majesty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on January 01, 2016, 07:58:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 01, 2016, 12:16:40 pm

"Just one more turn", I told myself. "Just one more turn."

     I had that problem last night....invaded another plane by turn 90 with a High Priestess hero and Elven Sharpshooters, barely staying alive until I enchanted my Elvis' with Flame and Frost Blade enchantments, then they wrecked everything.  By turn 150, I begun colonising efforts of the Red Plains plane (Ainradra).  Time to find the next Portal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warlock: Master of the Arcane.  I don't often get to the other planes until much later.  I have not even met the other Mages yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 02, 2016, 12:24:34 am

Discovered Natick Banks for the second time. The first time I fell through the church's roof and lost ten minutes of play. Discovered the Deathclaw inside the second time, too.
This time I ditched the power armor, deciding to just camp inside of the antique shop and take it out with my modded Righteous Authority.
Had some close calls, including its last charge where I only just managed to kill it before it ripped me to shreds, and Nick should really get most of the credit for going toe-to-toe with it, but I can proudly say I took no damage the whole fight.  ...Melee damage, anyway. Stupid kicking rocks.
On to the second Deathclaw in the area, I guess. 8)
Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 03, 2016, 01:31:36 am

Defeated the final boss with VIGILUS, an elite robot samurai.  Unfortunately, that doesn't end the fight, he has three flunkies left, and VIGILUS has only 2 health.  Oh, and everyone else was dead.  There is no dodge or armor mechanic in the game, my only saving grace are support abilities but I've used most of them and I was out of the energy cells that powered them.  VIGILUS moves out of attack range with it remaining moves.  Then its timed cloak ability activates and it uses it to collect power cells.  What followed was an epic dance in which no one really attacked but VIGILUS kept staying just out of attack range until its moment to strike.  It collected more power cells, then fired the remaining dozer weapon, cloaked, and cut them all to pieces.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BEDLAM

E: I unlocked the mutant dozer, which comes with an acid vomitting elite mutant.  The good news is that he's possibly the best character in the game.  The bad news is that the sound effect on his attack placebos me into having acid reflux in real life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 03, 2016, 01:40:20 am

Finally beat the Gaping Dragon, after several tries. I ended up with ~30000 souls, because I'd left an absurd amount of souls lying in the boss chamber and consistently picked them up before dying yet again[Wrecking Kirk, Knight of Thorns, sure didn't hurt either]. The reason I had so much trouble with the Gaping Dragon before was because it really freaked me out. I have to hand it to the devs, this boss inspired some pretty good visceral terror in me. When a giant toothy THING starts flying and I don't know where it is and it could be RIGHT ABOVE ME, I flip out. Eventually, I figured out how to run with the camera pointing behind me[Which was a pain, because PC controls] and that fear mostly disappeared. Knowing where the bugger was and when and where it flopped its toothy bit down, while running at full speed if need be, helped a lot with my nerves. Even more important, I found a shortcut to the boss room from Firelink Shrine that only involved rats, blobs and a pair of dogs[Skipping those fucking curse-geckos entirely].

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Blighttown is next. This is not a reassuring feeling.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on January 03, 2016, 10:19:01 am

Killed a Great Jaggi by kicking it in the head.
MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on January 04, 2016, 02:25:35 pm

I had sex with the Abbess-General and we're now in love!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CKII : After the End mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on January 04, 2016, 02:27:02 pm

Quote from: Wolock on January 04, 2016, 02:25:35 pm

I had sex with the Abbess-General and we're now in love!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CKII : After the End mod

pretty sure that's the wrong order for a healthy relationship :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on January 04, 2016, 03:29:58 pm

Really? I've always think that having a healthy relationship meant not giving lover's pox to your partner(s).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on January 07, 2016, 08:53:36 pm

Discovered that changing the end date is as simple as editing a text file, which while not an actual success does relieve me from the nagging feeling that there's no way I'll be able to conquer the world as a small country in what is now Malaysia. If I can't do it in a few hundred years, perhaps I can in a few thousand, despite the fact that things will doubtlessly begin to get strange after year 3000 or so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Europa Universalis IV, but also the majority of other Paradox games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on January 07, 2016, 08:56:58 pm

That does sound very strange. Medieval-stasized real world, anyone? Unless the dev team thought of that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 07, 2016, 09:19:36 pm

There is the Extended Timeline mod that goes from about 58 AD to 9999. You can start as a modern country if you like. Tech only goes up to about 2015 though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on January 07, 2016, 10:45:10 pm

Mount and Blade Warband vanilla, I finally get a character strong and rich enough to field decent sized armies, and I'm having a blast, destroying lords with armies about exactly my army's size ( 50-ish, at best ), and even a few twice my army's size.  Plus, I'm a vassal of the kingdom of Nords, and after a very protracted war against a very fucked Swadia, the damn orange faction is no more. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on January 07, 2016, 11:05:01 pm

Got 25+ kills in one life in a match filled with experienced (rank 50) people.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tribes: Ascend

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on January 08, 2016, 05:16:56 am

Got 30 kills in one life with a sniper rifle, Falcon pistol and Repair tool. Not a high level servet, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also Tribes Ascend.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on January 08, 2016, 08:31:45 am

Quote from: Adragis029 on January 08, 2016, 05:16:56 am

Got 30 kills in one life with a sniper rifle, Falcon pistol and Repair tool. Not a high level servet, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also Tribes Ascend.

If you didin't spam VGS all the time, I'm dissapointed with you.
SHAZBOT

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on January 08, 2016, 01:44:57 pm

It was mostly VGCG, VGS and VGY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 08, 2016, 07:34:26 pm

Had a very frantic botmatch on Heights(Night) Skirmish mode. On the third round, all the bots on my team decided to just stand at the spawn point doing absolutely nothing. The enemy team managed to capture all three points. A few mad attempts to recap B and C end with my team having 0 respawn waves as I go down fighting for C, though nearly my entire team is still alive sitting on their artificial asses back at spawn. I fought hard enough that it left the enemy team with only one wave.

Since all my team was alive doing nothing, and this game gives you the ability to take over bots instead of normal respawning(even if you cannot normally respawn, like now), I realized this gave me several more chances to work with. And since the enemy had all the capture points, they could not gain any more waves than the one they had(unless I retook one and then they took it back - that's how Skirmish works).

First bot I take over, I make it halfway to C, before being forced into a fighting retreat that kills off over half their team before they bring me down(also forcing their last wave to spawn). The next bot, I decide to draw them in by attacking B, which is a large house. It worked. Holy crap, it worked. I pick them off as they enter through the doorways. Bodies are piling up. I think they even tried to assault all at once but slightly borked the timing. Even so, I had B cleared enough to capture it just before several of them storm in the doors around me. I start firing. And bunnyhopping.

When it was all over, I took a moment to check to see if my team was moving. I don't think they were except for maybe one enemy that attacked the spawn being killed by everyone. Then one last enemy comes through the door. I shoot him. "Security Forces have eliminated the Insurgents".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency. By the way, can someone explain to me the Ambush mode? It's not available for solo play, but the only multiplayer servers I see with people on are only running Ambush.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 08, 2016, 08:45:42 pm

Ambush is an escort the player-controlled VIP mission. Nuff said.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on January 08, 2016, 10:01:35 pm

Defeated my first bogeyman attack, unarmed, on the new DF version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on January 09, 2016, 12:04:15 am

Self-imposed challenge - Steam Link (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047561241/screenshot/352771022153132409)

Spoiler: Not Steam Link (click to show/hide)

(http://i66.tinypic.com/4vl6at.jpg)

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Warlock Master of the Arcane.
     It took 450 turns to assemble, then 12 more to line them up for the "Family Photo"

     Upkeep: 117 gold,
                  100 food, and,
                  76 mana.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 09, 2016, 12:44:49 am

...What's the challenge?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on January 09, 2016, 02:47:13 am

Getting one of each unit in the game, I presume?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on January 09, 2016, 03:06:50 am

   Almost.  Getting at least one each of the Temple Elites, which meant manipulating appeasing each of the eight gods.  It would have been quicker if I had not got stuck between Krypta and Krolm for a hundred turns.  (So many sweet quests from the Goddess of Death).

   Also discovered that the gods aren't picky when it comes to ascending from normal units, the Wolves of Helia are Undead, which you would think might upset the Goddess of the Sun.

   Spirit of Death is OP, btw.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 09, 2016, 05:33:58 am

Quote from: Darkening Kaos on January 09, 2016, 03:06:50 am

(So many sweet quests from the Goddess of Death)

Yo, Krypta for life death!

Seriously though, I've been a Krypta fan since playing the original Majesty and watching a single Level 1 red-robed goth chick and her pet skeleton take down a dragon by themselves. Sure it took an hour, but it was funny as hell especially since every other hero(including some high-level ones) who saw the dragon panicked and ran away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 09, 2016, 05:53:17 am

that feeling when you have the highest score on the server as fist heavy.

nothing like massacring half the enemy team with gru and buffalo steak

TF2, 2fort.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 09, 2016, 04:47:00 pm

Struck down the Legion, some skeletons stuck in spiky wheels and Crossbreed Priscilla and escaped the Painted World of Ariamis after IRL days stuck there. The Legion was tricky, since they could stunlock and kill me with throwing spears and couldn't climb the stairs so I had difficulty picking them off. I eventually ended up poking at them with my Halberd +10 from behind a doorway until they keeled over[Which took oodles of time and Estus]. Priscilla was quite a bit easier. The two-handed Halberd strong attack is a huge spin, which is great for hitting someone you can't quite pinpoint. Plus she's not exactly the most robust boss ever[That giant fluffy dress looks very warm, but isn't really ARMOUR] and I had a bunch of stuff to counter Bleed. Even so, it took a few tries.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 09, 2016, 05:17:43 pm

In case you want to know, your "legion" are actually called Phalanx

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 09, 2016, 05:55:59 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on January 09, 2016, 05:17:43 pm

In case you want to know, your "legion" are actually called Phalanx

Legion, Phalanx, whatever. :P Close enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 09, 2016, 08:20:18 pm

Not my own, but my friend managed to make some really cool looking armour.

He then ruined the effect...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/78eYAh7.png)

Modded minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 09, 2016, 08:30:10 pm

When you say ruined the effect, do you mean the googly eyes? Sorry for asking a question that seems to have an obvious answer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 09, 2016, 08:34:43 pm

Yeah, it was the googly eyes.

I have another screenshot where he wore a different hat.

Spoiler: Slightly difficult to see (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ALyslR0.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 10, 2016, 12:20:55 am

I find the fake nose and mustache way funnier than the eyes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 10, 2016, 06:54:38 am

Won a round on cp_powerhouse with 150 points that round. The next highest-scoring person had 60.

Must've been the fact that I almost always had a teleporter up, but still.

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 11, 2016, 10:21:47 pm

Obtained the Lifehunt Scythe, fully upgraded it as well as a bunch of my other gear, avenged my fallen Fire Keeper[So I could use her soul on my Flask, but whatever] killed Ornstein and his absurdly fat friend[With some help], got and placed the Lordvessel with help from a totally-not-illusory-I-promise goddess and a sleepy snake and leveled my Pyromancy Flame up to +15.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 11, 2016, 11:13:44 pm

Well that was quick. It took me a month to get to that point. Good luck on the 4 kings without a great-shield.

Now let's see if you can figue out how to get your pyromancy flame to level 20.  ;D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 11, 2016, 11:24:34 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on January 11, 2016, 11:13:44 pm

Well that was quick. It took me a month to get to that point. Good luck on the 4 kings without a great-shield.

Now let's see if you can figue out how to get your pyromancy flame to level 20.  ;D

I've been bingeing Dark Souls HARD for the last week and a half. ~35 hours since I got the game. Granted, a fair bit of that was wandering around being utterly lost[Dark Souls map design is the cruellest part of it besides the PC UI], but still. I also kinda knew a lot of stuff about things from watching Piecewises' LP of it earlier, which helped a LOT[Well, once I figured out how to leave Firelink Shrine, that is].

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: YaW on January 12, 2016, 06:33:27 am

Played Rainbow Six Siege with a two friends yesterday. The other two guys killed themselves and leave the game before the first enemy attack even starts. No problem: we won the game easily without neither of us dying a single time. Three against five, 3-0.

This game is amazing when it really works, a shame the progression is so free-to-playish and that its matchmaking is laughable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 14, 2016, 09:28:08 am

Played an unranked five-player FFA, forgot to check the rankings of all the players. My immediate neighbours are obviously new players, but one guy is slightly better than me and another is slightly worse. Boom hard (no-one picks fights early in FFA), kill no less than four scouts with my TC (was pretty pleased), and pretty much eliminated my top neighbour. Score leader comes after me, I'm terribly prepared for his army composition and I get shredded. Nominally lose my base, but fall back to one of my expansions and fight him back. I assume he just gave up under pressure from me and the other good player, because he resigned before I finished taking out his forward base.

Wipe out my other neighbour (who then by various shenanigans hung on to be the last survivor) and meet the last player doing the same thing. The next twenty minutes are aptly summarised by [Trash War Intensifies], with guest appearances by nuclear weapons (onagers). Then his connection dropped, which sucked.

Then I finished rolling up the last two, and to my great surprise emerged the victor of my first ever online game, and pulled off some pretty high level tricks in the process!

Age of Kings, with allllllll the expansions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 14, 2016, 05:36:53 pm

Did a perfect run - no deaths, no bombs used - on Insane difficulty.


...Only the first level though. Cirno completely wrecked my ass so hard in the level after that Reimu will be crapping ice cubes for a week.

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Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. It probably helps that for some reason my netbook couldn't handle it, the FPS counter never hit 50fps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on January 16, 2016, 04:45:44 pm

AHAHAHAHA!

I was playing a match in my Raven-4X running the 2x LPLas build I like. Towards the tail end of it we were losing 8-10. My last teammate died, leaving me in a 1v4 situation, in a damaged light 'mech against two Timber Wolves, a Highlander, and a Shadow Cat. I had already been working on both the Highlander and the Timber Wolves all match, so they were decently damaged as well; I popped the CT on the Highlander and booked it. The Timber Wolves both chased me, splitting up in the process. I E&E'd for about twenty seconds then started searching. I found the first TBR and nailed him with one alpha to the CT--he went down, having already been cored and in the orange. About fifteen seconds later I came up over a hill to find the second TBR and did the exact same thing to him.

All that left was the Shadow Cat, which I hadn't seen all game. Nobody in deadchat knew where he was or if he was damaged, so I went for the enemy base. About five seconds before I reached it, our base started to be capped. There was only ~1:40 left on the clock and I was on the absolute wrong end of the map; he wouldn't cap in time, either. I booked it back for our base. When I came up over a rise and got vision on the cap, there was ~20s left on the clock, but he was facing the wrong way. Someone said in chat that it was going to be a draw. I put two alphas into him and he missed his return fire except for a graze with a MLas. Unfortunately he had been... well, not fresh, but not cored either. I somehow managed to keep my targeting perfect, so when I popped out of cover again I destroyed his RT. With ~7-8s left on the clock and nothing to lose, I stood there and kept firing into his CT. That Shadow Cat died at ~1-2s left on the clock.

A+, best game I've ever had, this is why I love my Raven variants.

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MechWarrior Online, if it wasn't already obvious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 16, 2016, 10:10:49 pm

I upgraded my Divine Gargoyle Halberd a few levels and brought it with me to the Nito boss fight. Following Ispil's advice from earlier, I stayed near the starting area, killed the skeletons that came at me with my Divine weapon and then engaged the good Gravelord in a 1v1. The most tense moment was when I was trying to unequip the Gargoyle Halberd during the boss fight[So I could fast roll out of the way of things] and had no idea what was going on while I was frantically menuing. A few Chaos Fire Whips and several whacks from my trusty Lifehunt Scythe put the First of the Dead back in the ground where they belong. Then, for an encore, I went and killed the Bed of Chaos, which I'd been having trouble with. Now if only I could get past the first room of the Duke's Archives without getting wrecked...

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 17, 2016, 09:36:51 am

Four direct torpedo hits against a heavily armored destroyer caused a massive hull breach in its crew section. Normally with this destroyer design, it can take a minute or so of sustained broadside fire(about 12 122mm guns and several quad-barreled 50mm guns - all from a mod) before a significant breach is made. Probably even longer with the vanilla guns. And since it's range is mostly based on how far you can see rather than the 800m limit, it can hit targets at least once before they can fire back.

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Space Engineers. Both my contest entries are done, both slightly under the block limit. Also, the torpedoes do not use mods whatsoever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 17, 2016, 01:19:49 pm

Playing another FFA, with seven this time. Two of them team up, which is obviously a massive advantage for gold reasons, and one of them is Goths, who are basically the king of trash warfare. I'm playing Britons, who are pretty solid in a trash war what with fast archery ranges, but have no compelling other bonuses and have terrible light cavalry. Oh yeah, and they're not using trash. Because gold.

I held both of them off, single-handed, for about an hour, at which point everyone else save one had been eliminated and they resigned, out of boredom or other commitments. I'm pretty sure I could have pushed through for a win against them anyway soon. I had over three thousand losses (casualty ratio worse than 3:2 in their favour), and had basically my entire base razed at one point, but hey, I won.

Age of Kings: African Kingdoms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 22, 2016, 09:04:21 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on January 11, 2016, 11:13:44 pm

Good luck on the 4 kings without a great-shield.

GUESS WHO JUST WRECKED THE FOUR KINGS WITHOUT A GREATSHIELD?

ME!

Albeit on a different character then I was playing earlier. I've started to get into the "START ALL THE CHARACTERS, PLAY THEM UNTIL I GET BORED AND THEN START ANOTHER ONE" phase with Dark Souls. This character is a mostly pure caster wearing the Darkmoon Set and using the Moonlight Butterfly Horn. So I had 0 poise and a pitiful stamina pool. But what I DID have was damage and dodginess. After a few false starts, I eventually realized that I had to go ham or go home and started whaling on the first King that spawned before the second one could join the fun. I managed to eliminate the first two Kings one at a time, but then they started swarming me and I had to do the good old "Homing Soulmass and then dodge" trick that worked so well on Ornstein and SMOUGH. The Abyss is a really dumb place to fight, too. I can't tell how far away anything is and I have trouble detecting the invisible walls until I'm right up against them and the Nazgul want to party.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 22, 2016, 09:12:27 pm

Never noticed the Nazgul comparison, but it's very apt. I don't tend to notice these types of things though. I remember someone once comparing undertale to Alice in Wonderland and that was pretty cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 22, 2016, 11:23:09 pm

Just had a great run as Judas. Got a lot of great items, and achieved all of the following:

• Beat the Boss Rush.
• Defeated Hush.
• Defeated the Lamb.

Unlocking three new items in a single run is a pretty big win in my book.

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Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 23, 2016, 12:04:58 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on January 22, 2016, 09:04:21 pm

I've started to get into the "START ALL THE CHARACTERS, PLAY THEM UNTIL I GET BORED AND THEN START ANOTHER ONE" phase with Dark Souls.

Oh man, I remember when I was in that phase while playing Skyrim. On console too, so I couldn't change the early game experience or even skip the starting escape from Helgen.

Got quite sick of Skyrim quite fast. 0/10, like Skyrim with Skyrim - IGN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on January 23, 2016, 01:15:21 am

Against the third round of the Rebel Flagship, we totally pulled a Pirates of the Caribbean. I immediately used my 2 flak cannon Mk 1 to get rid of the super shield and allow me to teleport my 4-person mantis boarding party. My crew quickly took out the missile system, but I had forgotten that their crew could board my ship this round as well. My 2 Engi's, one human, and one rockman tried their hardest to protect the ship, but they were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. A lucky shot from the superweapon knocked out my med-bay, so there was nowhere to heal my injured crew. I decided to use my still-functioning teleporter (my other systems were rapidly getting taken out by the boarders) and teleport the rest of my crew to the flagship. I sent my 4 mantis into the shield room so I could possibly get one last shot with my weapons. I managed to fire my flak cannons once more before they were destroyed by the boarders. I destroyed the triple-laser gun on the flagship, then dispersed my crew to destroy as many systems as possible. The flagship was damaged enough that destroying all of it's systems would kill it. My ship at this point had every single system broken, and still around half health remaining, but 1 or two more shots from the superweapon would kill it. After 1 superweapon shot, my ship was down to 1 HP! and the crew on board were stating to suffocate from the lack of oxygen, (I turned the oxygen off once I bailed, and they destroyed it afterwards.) I piled two of my mantis into the flagship's oxygen and hoped I could kill it fast enough. The superweapon fired once more, but My mantis destroyed the oxygen system only a few frames before the laser's hit my ship. Both ships broke apart, and all of the crew died, but since I destroyed the flagship first, I got the victory. Their sacrifice was not in vain.

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FTL advanced edition. Mantis Cruised type B Hard mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 23, 2016, 02:08:49 am

I managed to keep my Sims happy for a few days. I mean, they weren't doing great, but at least they weren't suicidally depressed. This took about an IRL hour of carefully micromanaging every minute of their lives, cancelling automatic "nag" and "be nagged" actions, cleaning up every meal the very instant it wasn't being eaten, removing a wall to make pathfinding easier, and a chance encounter when I managed to get both of them to sit on the couch and stay there, causing their Comfort, Fun and Social needs to skyrocket.

The Sims 1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 23, 2016, 04:31:39 am

Playing Dazzle with urn of shadows, arcane boots, and a mek.  It was at the point where I could bring our carry (Invoker, since our Anti-Mage couldn't accept that dying in the first minute was his fault) from ~20% health to 80% in a relatively short time.  There was an enemy Necrophos and I managed to counter Reaper's Scythe (single target execution ultimate) with Shallow Grave (target ally cannot die for five seconds).  Also I never died (had a super easy lane, me and a competent Slardar versus a mediocre Medusa with no support).

"This Dazzle is pro" = carry senpai finally noticed the hard support.

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DoTA 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 23, 2016, 04:34:08 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 23, 2016, 04:31:39 am

counter Reaper's Scythe (single target execution ultimate) with Shallow Grave

Niiiice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 23, 2016, 04:35:21 am

I beat the first five levels of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak on the highest difficulty without having to restart and no practice in advance! I'm not a complete idiot! Yay!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 23, 2016, 04:46:46 am

Quote from: Arx on January 23, 2016, 04:34:08 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 23, 2016, 04:31:39 am

counter Reaper's Scythe (single target execution ultimate) with Shallow Grave

Niiiice.

The funny thing was I didn't even see the scythe, I just knew he was about to die and so grave hit maybe a tenth of a second before the scythe did.  I guess me and Necrophos had the same idea.  Probably looked incredibly skilled on my part.  The guy who I graved was so fucked that I swear he stopped pressing buttons for a couple seconds because he thought he was dead.  Still managed to kill someone before the grave ran out and he met his own end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on January 23, 2016, 04:47:30 am

Oh, hey, GUN's back. Welcome back to the board, dude. ^^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on January 23, 2016, 05:41:40 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on January 23, 2016, 04:47:30 am

Oh, hey, GUN's back. Welcome back to the board, dude. ^^^

Heyyyy! Everybody's welcoming me back. c: It's nice!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 23, 2016, 09:20:57 am

Managed t get a team promoted from the Third Division to the SPL (three promotions, all outright) in seven seasons. Also managed to keep the team in the SPL in the first season without really ever being threatened with relegation. Almost finished in the top half of the league ('cause Scotland is weird, and this would have guaranteed safety with 5 games remaining) alas, my team slumped at the wrong time.

Despite going from having a healthy £2m in the bank before being promoted to having £300k and a £6m loan debt (again, bizarre Scottish rules) I managed to regain that money and more over the course of the season (I may have a used the cash cow that is the pre-season friendly...) so I'm in a reasonably comfortable financial position, should be able to at least meet the amount of money the debt is worth within the next to seasons, and hopefully be able to improve my team so I can get into some European competitions, which would net even more money.

Unfortunately, I'm not regarded as particularly legendary by the fans. Stupid bastards.

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Football Manager 2011, as Arbroath

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 23, 2016, 02:05:28 pm

Teamed up with an allied noble to sweep out a bandit with our heavy cavalry. Got an obscene casualty ratio: I only lost two soldiers, although we'll see how many succumb to their wounds. In contrast, the bandit died and would have lost 46 excluding wounds and routing, and my ally lost ten men exluding wounds. It was great.

Might & Fealty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 23, 2016, 03:50:45 pm

I somehow got to level 11. O_o

Tetris.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 23, 2016, 05:41:54 pm

Ending A as the scholar, with a mere five birth stars. Two Crab (close to Chariot for the car speed boost), Two Lion, and One Hunter (I think)?

In the end, I was a narcotics-riddled, physically exhausted, mentally shattered, jittery hero (I think. I don't have the logbook, actually). About 12 hours remained on the clock before the Ancient's invasion. Preferred melee combat.

And I was able to banish, with mind and body intact...

The Consuming Shadow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 24, 2016, 08:37:33 am

Although they still lead miserable, pitiable lives, with Jean spending her days hopping from dead-end job to dead-end job and Kyra cooking and cleaning 24/7 just trying to stay ahead of the curve... They finally love each other.

Which would have been a lot easier if I could just designate them as a couple when I created the family, but blah blah limitations bluh bluh first game bleh bleh sequels.

The Sims.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 24, 2016, 09:42:41 am

Rammed a fully-charged Tau cannon into the back of the final boss' head and fired. It didn't appreciate that, but it was dead. Mission accomplished.

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Half-Life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 25, 2016, 01:34:01 am

Killed St Roka for the first time.

I was on the last floor of the orcish mines, clearing out the market when suddenly a whole pack of powerful orcs come in through a part of the mines that I thought I already cleared. Being an Air elementalist (think lightning Mage) and having dealt with the packs before. I let the get a bit closer so I can use electric discharge on to clear them out quickly.

Suddenly when they're in melee range, St. Roka (considered by fans to be one of the toughest uniques in the whole game) rounds the corner that was supposed to be my escape route. Since I could 't escape like I originally planned to, I had no choice but to let him come closer (while that other pack is wailing on me). Eventually he comes close enough and I use a blink scroll to blink ino the corner he rounded earlier. After a single turn I then stepped out of his LOS.

I follow my escape route and after reaching a set of stairs, I begin to recuperate, recovering from the wounds Roka inflicted with his smite attacks as well as the ones caused by that pack. The rest didn't last long though because it turned out that St Roka followed me!

It then became a 1v1 where I was firing lightning bolts and he was firing smites. He was winning. Quickly, I attempted to activate the invisibility feature of my artifact wizard hat. After 4 turns, it finally worked and Roka could no longer see me (meaning he could no longer aim his smites). I then continue firing lightning bolts in saftey, knowing that Roka couldn't hit me, chipping away at his health like a toothbrush chips away at a dirty dinning hall. There's one problem with this set up though (other than the piss poor damage with my strongest spell). In crawl, invisibility covers you in something called magical contamination. If you get covered in enough, you'll begin to glow, meaning you won't be invisible anymore (a clever way to prevent you from being permanently invisible). What this means though is that once my invisibility runs out, I'll be back to horrible square one.

Thankfully, the cavalry arrived! St Roka's cavalry... uh huh... fun,  but as you'll see later I end up using this to my advantage. I then come up with a brilliant idea. I wait for the reinforcements to surround Roka and then I read a scroll of immolation (In case you don't know what it does, it essentially turns every enemy into a time bomb that is set off by cold blooded murder. Kill them and they explode). Still invisible, I then begin firing lightning bolts into the crowd. The crowd is surprisingly tough though and it takes a few shots to kill them. Suddenly, my image flickers, but it's too late, all they can do is watch as I fell the first orc with my lightning bolt and unleash hellfire upon them. He explodes, engulfing another orc in flame, who also explodes, killing 5 other orcs, and then they all explode into one glorious chain reaction that would make the atomic bomb proud!

---

Columns of flame dot the landscape where there were once orcs, and when the loading clears, there are only 3 survivors. Myself, a horribly wounded Roka, and a wounded orc warrior who really shouldn't have survived this mess. Fully invisible once more, I pray that Roka remembered my face before I blast his orc buddy and end him with one final explosion...

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Dungeon crawl stone soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 25, 2016, 06:40:03 am

Sort of an ownage in general, but.. I can Super Sledge normal super mutants to death in one hit. Others take two or so, but usually nothing more than a power attack and a normal hit or two. Not to mention most any other humanoid enemy, which fall invariably to power attacks.
I love this Super Sledge.

Fallout 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 26, 2016, 01:20:31 am

By turning off free will and carefully scheduling every action for about a week, Jean was finally in a good enough mood to get a promotion. With the extra money from that, I was able to upgrade enough of my doodads and knicknacks to keep Kyra happy. Now they pretty consistently have a +2 Mood score, although there's still occasional bad days (usually because of garbage piling up).

The Sims.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 26, 2016, 01:37:36 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 26, 2016, 01:20:31 am

By turning off free will and carefully scheduling every action for about a week, Jean was finally in a good enough mood to get a promotion. With the extra money from that, I was able to upgrade enough of my doodads and knicknacks to keep Kyra happy. Now they pretty consistently have a +2 Mood score, although there's still occasional bad days (usually because of garbage piling up).

The Sims.

Ah yes, the answer to all the world's problems right there :P  (Though yer doing better than I do, I pretty much have free will off all the time because walking past the big dinner of grilled cheese sandwiches to grab a bag of chips from the fridge is unacceptable.)

---
Not much to say about this own.  I was playing rexxar and my team found the other team fighting a boss.  We engaged, and we got driven back.  But not before the boss died and I had parked Misha, my pet bear on the boss' capture point when the fighting started.  The enemy team was too busy fighting us to notice until it was taken.

Heroes of the Storm, quick match

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 27, 2016, 08:31:01 pm

Finally made my way to Grado Keep. After deciding that Ephraim's a big boy and can handle the army of wizards following him long enough to take down Vigarde, I ordered a hasty retreat of everybody else.

All of the wizards attack Ephraim and fail horribly. Ephraim continues his march to Vigarde's throne.

At last, he gets there, an entire retinue of wizards in tow...

Ephraim attacks Vigarde and Vigarde's damage-nullifying skill activates.

My top row of teeth is pressed against my bottom lip and a steady stream of air comes out, "ffffffffffffffff".

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And then Ephraim gets a critical hit and kills Vigarde in one shot.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 27, 2016, 09:00:27 pm

I killed Seath the Scaleless, the Four Kings[Again] and Lord Gwyn. Using my violence. Solaire helped with the last one. Welp, I guess I won.

time to look for alternative paths and such then

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 28, 2016, 12:26:52 am

GET REKT, mAHGDA OR WHATEVER THE FUCK

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Diablo 3 as the Demon Hunter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 28, 2016, 08:59:04 am

I beat Blast Pit in one sitting, which almost never happens.

... It's not even really that hard, I don't know why it gave me so much trouble the first time I went through.

Half Life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 28, 2016, 10:58:06 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 28, 2016, 08:59:04 am

I beat Blast Pit in one sitting, which almost never happens.

... It's not even really that hard, I don't know why it gave me so much trouble the first time I went through.

Half Life.

I think the tough bit is getting used to dodging the tentacle guy. I had problems with using too many distraction grenades my first time, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 28, 2016, 08:28:49 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 28, 2016, 10:58:06 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 28, 2016, 08:59:04 am

I beat Blast Pit in one sitting, which almost never happens.

... It's not even really that hard, I don't know why it gave me so much trouble the first time I went through.

Half Life.

I think the tough bit is getting used to dodging the tentacle guy. I had problems with using too many distraction grenades my first time, too.

I beat the Black Mesa version too, and I wondered the same thing and had similar problems (mainly because I was moving too fast or something and then got smashed by the tentacle thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2016, 06:44:40 am

Took down the Twin Suns... by hiding behind the bar and plinking away past their shields with a Systec Aural Blaster when they couldn't path to me.

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Knights of the Old Republic II+Restored Content. That was not funny, sticking me with just Atton, who is a poorly equipped ranged fighter against two shielded melee fighters, who also have more ranks in Treat Injury than Atton does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 30, 2016, 01:43:40 pm

I lost, but I'll still call this an ownage. Was playing commander with a borrowed deck (monoblack, commander was Ob Nix of the Black Oath) at my LGS, and one person in this game was the dude who always brings slightly too competitive decks to our (rather casual) lgs. It was his deck I borrowed but this is irrelevant :v. I got mana screwed pretty bad at the beginning, and eventually everybody agreed to let me reshuffle my deck and draw 7, which was nice. So I was finally getting relevant again but the competitive dude was going off pretty badly. He had a dude whose P/T was the sum of all cards in all graveyards, redirected all our extra card draw to him and finally started milling ridiculous amounts. I had my commander and some other dudes out, but nothing signifcant. I tapped a land to give me one mana per creature card in my graveyard, which due to the mill-happiness gave me a whopping 15 mana. I then played a dude to give all my dudes extort, and with a combination of this, a few more spells and the dudes I had out, I managed to reduce him to ONE life. I was one mana away from killing this dude. Next turn was his, and I died to his 90/90 because all of my dudes were tapped. Turn goes to the next guy (fourth guy was already dead), who had one creature out after all of his creatures were also smashed attacking competitive guy. He drew a small creature. All seemed lost, but then he glanced at his command zone. He cast his commander and dealt two damage to the competitive player, killing him and winning the game. I do not consider this a loss for me, even though I died.

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Magic: The Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 30, 2016, 02:14:08 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on January 30, 2016, 01:43:40 pm

I lost, but I'll still call this an ownage. Was playing commander with a borrowed deck (monoblack, commander was Ob Nix of the Black Oath) at my LGS, and one person in this game was the dude who always brings slightly too competitive decks to our (rather casual) lgs. It was his deck I borrowed but this is irrelevant :v. I got mana screwed pretty bad at the beginning, and eventually everybody agreed to let me reshuffle my deck and draw 7, which was nice. So I was finally getting relevant again but the competitive dude was going off pretty badly. He had a dude whose P/T was the sum of all cards in all graveyards, redirected all our extra card draw to him and finally started milling ridiculous amounts. I had my commander and some other dudes out, but nothing signifcant. I tapped a land to give me one mana per creature card in my graveyard, which due to the mill-happiness gave me a whopping 15 mana. I then played a dude to give all my dudes extort, and with a combination of this, a few more spells and the dudes I had out, I managed to reduce him to ONE life. I was one mana away from killing this dude. Next turn was his, and I died to his 90/90 because all of my dudes were tapped. Turn goes to the next guy (fourth guy was already dead), who had one creature out after all of his creatures were also smashed attacking competitive guy. He drew a small creature. All seemed lost, but then he glanced at his command zone. He cast his commander and dealt two damage to the competitive player, killing him and winning the game. I do not consider this a loss for me, even though I died.

Is this Yu-Gi-Oh?
Hearthstone? Which game was it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on January 30, 2016, 02:14:24 pm

MTG?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on January 30, 2016, 02:19:43 pm

yeah mtg i would never be caught playing a skrub-tier game such as yugioh or hearthstone :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xeron on January 30, 2016, 03:46:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 06:44:40 am

Took down the Twin Suns... by hiding behind the bar and plinking away past their shields with a Systec Aural Blaster when they couldn't path to me.

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Knights of the Old Republic II+Restored Content. That was not funny, sticking me with just Atton, who is a poorly equipped ranged fighter against two shielded melee fighters, who also have more ranks in Treat Injury than Atton does.

You know, you can ..

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Turn Atton into a Jedi/Sith right ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on January 30, 2016, 03:58:01 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on January 30, 2016, 02:19:43 pm

yeah mtg i would never be caught playing a skrub-tier game such as yugioh or hearthstone :V

Heeeyyyyy. I like Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2016, 05:50:57 pm

Quote from: Xeron on January 30, 2016, 03:46:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 06:44:40 am

Took down the Twin Suns... by hiding behind the bar and plinking away past their shields with a Systec Aural Blaster when they couldn't path to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Knights of the Old Republic II+Restored Content. That was not funny, sticking me with just Atton, who is a poorly equipped ranged fighter against two shielded melee fighters, who also have more ranks in Treat Injury than Atton does.

You know, you can ..

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turn Atton into a Jedi/Sith right ?

Already did that. But I have Visas the spare lightsaber.

Spoiler: Besides I figure that (click to show/hide)

with his past of being a Jedi hunter, I'd give him a sonic pistol since lightsabers cannot deflect that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 30, 2016, 06:41:55 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 05:50:57 pm

Quote from: Xeron on January 30, 2016, 03:46:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 06:44:40 am

Took down the Twin Suns... by hiding behind the bar and plinking away past their shields with a Systec Aural Blaster when they couldn't path to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Knights of the Old Republic II+Restored Content. That was not funny, sticking me with just Atton, who is a poorly equipped ranged fighter against two shielded melee fighters, who also have more ranks in Treat Injury than Atton does.

You know, you can ..

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turn Atton into a Jedi/Sith right ?

Already did that. But I have Visas the spare lightsaber.

Spoiler: Besides I figure that (click to show/hide)

with his past of being a Jedi hunter, I'd give him a sonic pistol since lightsabers cannot deflect that.

You really, really should be swimming in lightsabers in this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2016, 06:54:15 pm

Not yet apparently. :-\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 30, 2016, 08:26:39 pm

Touched an invasion sign to summon another player on the Iron Keep bridge, then was promptly invaded by an NPC. Rekt them both.

Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 30, 2016, 11:12:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are quite a few "that guy"s. Got a particular one in mind?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on January 30, 2016, 11:14:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 30, 2016, 11:12:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are quite a few "that guy"s. Got a particular one in mind?

Not to be overly redundant, but, what everyone else is saying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 30, 2016, 11:50:43 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on January 30, 2016, 11:14:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 30, 2016, 11:12:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are quite a few "that guy"s. Got a particular one in mind?

Not to be overly redundant, but, what everyone else is saying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hrmmm.
I'm betting on Photoshop Flowey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on January 30, 2016, 11:59:38 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 30, 2016, 11:50:43 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on January 30, 2016, 11:14:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 30, 2016, 11:12:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are quite a few "that guy"s. Got a particular one in mind?

Not to be overly redundant, but, what everyone else is saying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hrmmm.
I'm betting on Photoshop Flowey.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Obviously it's not that.

It must be the character you name at the beginning of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on January 31, 2016, 12:18:25 am

Donated to a server I really liked, picked a ZSU-39 Tigris as my reward vehicle. Twenty minutes later I spotted a roaming AI attack helicopter and popped it with a ten-round burst from 900m out.

ArmA III Exile mod. God I love this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 31, 2016, 10:41:13 am

Open a hallway up and...

...damn that's a lot of Deadly Frag Mines.


Oh wait! I've got someone who can ignore mines and has enough skill to disarm and recover every single one!

*Item(s) gained: about 3 dozen Deadly Frag Mines*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KoToR II+Restored Content. Good since I was running out of mines after that shootout heading back to the Ebon Hawk.

But seriously, why does every single female on the ship, and possibly the males, and possibly the droids seem to be wanting to hit on me? I know I pumped up Charisma a lot, but still. Especially since, as far as I know, Exile was canonically female.

Rescued Glorious Leader, leveled up. Master Speed + Master Flurry + high attack bonus = 4 attacks very likely to hit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KoToR II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 31, 2016, 11:11:10 am

Quote from: Akura on January 31, 2016, 10:41:13 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

But seriously, why does every single female on the ship, and possibly the males, and possibly the droids seem to be wanting to hit on me? I know I pumped up Charisma a lot, but still. Especially since, as far as I know, Exile was canonically female.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's never requited. The closest you get is a little moment with Visas at the point of no return for the endgame.

You must be getting a lot of dialogue right on the first try. I've never gotten Mira to like me, and the relationship with Visas is entirely too strange for my taste. I quite like Handmaiden's story unlocks though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on January 31, 2016, 11:12:37 am

Quote from: flabort on January 30, 2016, 11:59:38 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 30, 2016, 11:50:43 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on January 30, 2016, 11:14:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on January 30, 2016, 11:12:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 30, 2016, 10:15:30 pm

Well, THAT was the most glorious mindfuck I've ever seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Yeah, that guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are quite a few "that guy"s. Got a particular one in mind?

Not to be overly redundant, but, what everyone else is saying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hrmmm.
I'm betting on Photoshop Flowey.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Obviously it's not that.

It must be the character you name at the beginning of the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

No, he said in the other thread they start with A and end with l.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 31, 2016, 11:13:21 am

Not the thread for this guys...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on January 31, 2016, 11:13:55 am

Yeah, we have an Undertale thread somewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 31, 2016, 12:24:17 pm

To clarify the Undetale posts, the own was against a different boss than the one I died to. Technically.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 03, 2016, 09:56:15 pm

I'm actually getting good at PvP. At least not as a Forest Hunter[The dudes who are still human in Darkroot are hella robust], but I've had a fair bit of success with Darkwraith invasions. And without too much backstab/parry cheese[Although the Darkhand is real nice for parrying dinguses], too. Although I guess alpha striking with Homing Crystal Soulmasses + Crystal Soul Spear is also a mite unsportsmanlike. Still, enough people dodge it that I feel its still mostly fair. Highlight was against this one guy in the Crystal Wood, who was obviously much higher level then me and had pretty nice armour and a lightning katana. I got the drop on him by climbing a ladder with my Soulmasses active[Spooked the fuck out of me too] and I rolled off to safety while he drank an Estus. I tagged him with a Crystal Soul Spear for about a third of his health bar once he came down with a plunging attack, but his counterattack combo nearly killed me[I have zero poise because I'm wearing mage robes] before I got a lucky parry & riposte and rolled away. After that, he went full ham and I had a lot of trouble kiting him, even with my Moonlight Butterfly Horn's range. I finally managed to kill him with a stab a split-second before his katana would have impacted my face. I got TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SOULS from that. Guy must have been on AT LEAST New Game+.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

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A seperate own, but still pretty cool.

I started in Myrror with Alchemist and seven Sorcery books as Dwarves. I built a couple more cities to support my units with food before clearing the whole continent[This is Myrror, so the nodes have stuff like Great Wyrms and Sky Drakes on them] with Steam Cannons and Hammerhands. I found two towers on my starting continent, which I unlock and then garrison with eight Steam Cannons each. I find my first wizard on the other side, Freya. Freya has no spells I can use and seems pretty chill, so I bribe her into signing a Wizard Pact and then resume building infrastructure in Myrror. I find an adamantine vein, which I build a strictly military city next to, and start upgrading all my units to adamantine-armed ones. I've basically completely filled my starting continent, so I send a Magic Spirit to scout the landmass to the north of my starting continent. Almost immediately, I run into a group of Klackon halberdiers led by some Halfling Slingers. Their controller Ariel also has no spells I want, so I exchange pleasantries and then end diplomacy. Klackon AI is incredibly annoying since it spams Settlers and makes little hives all over the fucking place. They're also really incompatible with any other races, so you can't even conquer them properly. So I cast Invisibility on my Magic Spirit and station them on the tower that the Klackons came through. Kind of a cheap move, but I don't want MY Myrror swarming with useless bugs and Steam Cannons take two turns to build and longer to move over there, even WITH Floating Islands. A diplomatic marriage soon after gives me a Dwarven city on the continent with Ariel's Klackons on it[We're still at peace and none of the Klackons are settlers, so I let them be]. More Magic Spirit scouting discovers a Sorcery Node with a Sky Drake, so I send over a load of Adamantine Hammerhands to beat them up and claim the node. It works out well, but now I'm kinda bored. The new continent is mostly useless desert and only has pathetic ruins and stuff. So I decide to colonize Arcanus through one of my towers. I find a nice and small abandoned continent and spend quite a few turns settling it, enchanting all the roads and giving the two new cities there good garrisons. In the process, I meet the other two wizards: Horus and Kali. Horus immediately gets on my bad side by casting Wind Mastery. I True Disjunction it and establish my own. Horus does the same. I True Disjunction him and recast Wind Mastery. Then Kali True Disjunctions it. At least I bag a couple neat spells from Kali before my overland enchantments offend her too much. Fed up with their antics, I revoke their magic privileges with my newly available spell: Suppress Magic. Suppress Magic takes a whopping 1250 mana to cast and lets Horus put up Wind Mastery again. But when its up, the other wizards get cockblocked HARD: They can't cast any magic unless it succeeds against a 500-point dispel. Sure, it costs 50 mana per turn, but I'm an Alchemist with Dwarves. That means I can turn Gold into Magic[Or vice versa] at a 1:1 ratio and I get a lot more gold from things. I'm easily getting 500 gold per turn, even as I lose 30 mana. Now, Suppress Magic only says that it blocks OVERLAND spells[Which seems to include summons and unit buffs]. I'm not sure if Disjunction or its variants count[Even if they do, a full strength one might overcome the dispel effect and remove Suppress Magic]. And everyone besides Freya starts casting one every few turns. I have to do two Spell Blasts each turn to keep up with them. And Ariel starts uselessly harassing my invisible Magic Spirit, so things are becoming tedious. So I start preparing my final blow: I begin researching Time Stop and making my invasion force[Nine Adamantine Hammerhands and nine Adamantine Steam Cannons for each wizard]. Meanwhile, I keep killing the Klackons Ariel sends at my invisible Magic Spirit with Psionic Blasts and Spell Blasting down peoples' Disjunctions. After a while, I notice they're Disjuncting less and less often. I take a look at the Magic screen and am amazed that my opponents seem to have NO gold or mana reserves[Kali still prepares a True Disjunction every so often and grows it by ~100 mana a turn, but that's manageable]. Now that I can take a small break from Spell Blasting, I cast Awareness and receive another shock: Freya only has two cities and her fortress is right next to my Arcanus colony[Which, despite the fact that everywizard else hates me, has remained unmolested]. I step up my invasion timetable and wipe out Freya relatively quickly[I lost seven out of nine Hammerhands to the octet of Priests she had guarding her fortress though]. Now that that's over with, I resume maintaining my supernatural cockblock of Spell Blast + Suppress Magic. Until I research Time Stop.Then I wait a few more times to accumulate more gold reserves and get the last of my invasion force ready. Then I cast Time Stop. While time is stopped, I send a force of 9 Hammerhands and 9 Steam Cannons to the fortresses of all the other wizards[Using Wind Walking to cross the water]. Since they all only got banished by this, I had to wipe out their empires. My Hammerhands wore out quickly, but my Steam Cannons proved more resilient: I would cast Mass Invisibility, to protect my Steam Cannons from ranged fire, and then fire away from safety until they all died. In games like these, I really love doing this. Being harmless, except in defense of my territory. Then, in a single night of blood and death, I destroy any opposition and win the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Master of Magic

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on February 03, 2016, 11:00:54 pm

I absolutely annihilated Ares. By dropping bombs on him. Lots and lots of bombs.
... Who ever said you have to fight a god fair and square?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Apotheon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 04, 2016, 12:19:24 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on February 03, 2016, 11:00:54 pm

... Who ever said you have to fight a god fair and square?

Sigged.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 04, 2016, 05:33:19 am

Ralts absolutely dominated Brawly's gym, despite being a lower level than any of the gym's Pokemon. I suppose it helps that she now has a double type advantage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby. I was slightly worried since I don't think you can catch Sableye that early in the game anymore since there's only two rooms that are accessible on foot and one of them has no encounters, and the other wasn't where Sableye appeared in the original games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 04, 2016, 06:17:16 am

I (intentionally) blocked Reaper's Scythe with Nightmare's invincibility frames and (accidentally) denied my team's carry in the process.

Oh well, better to die by your own buddy's hands, right?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 04, 2016, 11:02:11 am

I've stumbled upon an incredibly reliable design. By arranging hoverblades vertically and encasing them in two layers of blocks, then putting plasma launchers on the top and each side, you end up with a very tanky, very stable hovercraft that can dish out some major hurt and take a few punches in return. The vertically-arranged hoverblades make it nearly impossible to unbalance, it has even defense from all angles, and it's a small target to boot.

The downside is that it's slow and there's a VERY limited amount of space for weapons, but it usually does well in a fair fight.

It's also surprisingly good against aircraft, since the volume of plasma fire makes it hard to dodge, and planes themselves are rather fragile. It's the equivalent of hitting a mosquito with a sniper rifle.

Robocraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 04, 2016, 11:53:47 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 04, 2016, 06:17:16 am

Oh well, better to die by your own buddy's hands, right?

Sigged.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on February 04, 2016, 05:45:01 pm

What is this, your sig-harvesting thread? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 04, 2016, 07:14:26 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on February 04, 2016, 05:45:01 pm

What is this, your sig-harvesting thread? :P

If this is not sigged, I shall be sorely disappointed. ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 04, 2016, 07:16:00 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 04, 2016, 07:14:26 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on February 04, 2016, 05:45:01 pm

What is this, your sig-harvesting thread? :P

If this is not sigged, I shall be sorely disappointed. ^_^

/me notes the empty space below Culise' post

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 04, 2016, 07:43:22 pm

Gym battle against Wattson:

Combusken used Ember!
It's super-effective!
The foe Magnemite hung on with Sturdy!

The foe Magnemite used Thunder Wave!
Combusken was paralyzed!

Gym Leader Wattson used a Super Potion!
Combusken used Double Kick!
Hit 2 times! It's super-effective!
The foe Magnemite fainted!
Combusken gathered it's power and broke through its paralysis so that Akura wouldn't worry!

Gym Leader Wattson sent out Voltorb!
The foe Voltorb used Charge!
Combusken used Ember!

The foe Voltorb used Charge!
Combusken used Flame Charge!
Combusken's Speed rose!
The foe Voltorb fainted!

Gym Leader Wattson sent out Magneton!
Combusken used Double Kick!
Hit 2 times! It's super-effective! (Magneton had only a pixel or two left on its HP bar)
The foe Magneton used Supersonic!
Combusken read Akura's mind and avoided the attack!

Combusken used Flame Charge!
Combusken was so in sync with Akura's wishes it scored a critical hit!
It's super-effective!
The foe Magneton fainted!

Gym Leader Wattson was defeated!

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Maxed out Combusken's affection level, which is what caused him to cure the paralysis, avoid Supersonic, and get that sweet critical hit on the finisher. That's love. He also got extra EXP from all that was well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 04, 2016, 07:57:15 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on February 04, 2016, 05:45:01 pm

What is this, your sig-harvesting thread? :P

Yes. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 04, 2016, 07:59:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 04, 2016, 07:43:22 pm

Combusken gathered it's power and broke through its paralysis so that Akura wouldn't worry!
Combusken read Akura's mind and avoided the attack!
Combusken was so in sync with Akura's wishes it scored a critical hit!

Aww. That's the power of love.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 04, 2016, 08:07:20 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 04, 2016, 07:14:26 pm

If this is not sigged, I shall be sorely disappointed. ^_^

Done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 04, 2016, 11:44:45 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 04, 2016, 08:07:20 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 04, 2016, 07:14:26 pm

If this is not sigged, I shall be sorely disappointed. ^_^

Done.

Uh...well, then.  Touché.  I suppose that shows me up for not being specific with my pronouns. ^_^;;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 05, 2016, 11:42:54 am

Combusken won his first contest(Normal rank, Coolness). Even though I messed up on the first round(I mistook Ember for a Cool move, it's Cute), and the only major competition(a very competent Taillow) maxed out the crowd's enthusiasm(a massive score bonus), I still pulled ahead in the final tally.

Probably helps I fed Combusken some red-colored candy before the contest. Red candy, for cool people Pokemon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby. I'd have put Kirlia(now Gardevoir) in a contest for Clever or Cute, but her moveset is geared more towards killing than impressing a crowd, even if it's killing to impress a crowd.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 05, 2016, 08:52:41 pm

A solo level 152 Arisen Magic Archer vs 3 Hard Mode dragons on Bitterblack Isle.

Magic Archer wins.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon's Dogma. The Rank 3 version of Immolate might be a liiiiiitle bit OP.

EDIT: Magic Archer won the rematch, too. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 05, 2016, 09:26:04 pm

I got 6 kills, 5 assists and capped a tower all by myself, with zero deaths. That's extremely good, compared to my average.

I think I could get used to playing a bomber. It sucks when there's other planes around to shoot me down, but that's pretty rare at this tier.

Robocraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 06, 2016, 06:47:48 am

I repaired a broken droid for some cheap experience, repairing everything and set it to patrol mode. I leave to do some puzzles, and a bit later head to the next large open area.

The broken droid is standing there completely undamaged, surrounded by bodies of high-level Dark Jedi. It was looking at me as if to say "Anything else?"

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KoToR II+Restored Content

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on February 06, 2016, 06:54:31 am

I just gelded an elf with a punch. 

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on February 06, 2016, 10:58:52 am

....

Where did you punch?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 06, 2016, 12:30:39 pm

Lower Body. You don't have to punch them, either, you can stab or smash them too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on February 06, 2016, 02:50:38 pm

I just beat Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 06, 2016, 04:46:36 pm

Beat Gunpoint on a nonlethal run, and punched out Hightower!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 06, 2016, 10:24:28 pm

Nice!

I personally prefer the incredibly lethal run, as well as killing Hightower.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 06, 2016, 11:01:31 pm

I've heard this game requires some min-maxing. I can drown a room of enemies in lightning, heal up, and have my Force power fully recharged before crossing to the other side of the room, while being Light-sided. Does that count?

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KoToR II:Restored Content. The only thing I need fear is rooms full of lightsabers, and even then if I don't use Speed to back away and spam lightning, or use Speed to charge in and spam Master Flurry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on February 06, 2016, 11:03:32 pm

Hee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 06, 2016, 11:18:45 pm

Did a True Pacifist run in Undertale. Took me a bit because I forgot to do something before I got to the end, but goddamn them feels man.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HFS on February 07, 2016, 02:34:02 am

"Capture or kill VIP" mission, 12 turn time limit.

Ambush failed due to an ADVENT MEC not moving and instead blowing up all my cover.

5 turns later, enemies cleared out, 3 of my 4 guys (last guy is supposed to grab the VIP) extracted but triggered 1 group.

"Okay, no big deal. I'll just grab the guy, run up, get out." 1 movement point away from getting to the extraction zone...and my guy didn't pick up the VIP.

WELP.

Cue ADVENT reinforcements behind me, troops in front of me overwatching. I run back down, grab the VIP, dodge overwatch twice when doing so. Run back up, next to the extraction, get hit by overwatch. 4 HP left.

Stun lancer runs up. Stunned, 3 HP left.

ADVENT trooper moves up and overwatches.

And misses. Mission complete.

5 enemies, 3 HP, can't shoot, and stunned? 2 turns left? No problem.

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XCOM 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 07, 2016, 12:55:20 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 06, 2016, 10:24:28 pm

Nice!

I personally prefer the incredibly lethal run, as well as killing Hightower.

I've been trying to knock Gessler out of the tower, but he keeps sliding down the wall really slowly, preventing me from killing that fucker.

How do I  knock him out of the building?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 07, 2016, 08:50:48 pm

Charged up a hill, blew up a Sunderer, and knifed 5 enemies to death, one of them a MAX. They have no excuse for this, since I tried it before with the result of damaging the Sunderer and knifing two MAXes to death before getting shot in the back. Actually, they had no excuse for that one either. Both times they just stood and watched as I planted C4 and whipped out my knife.


After that, I helped with the defense of decently important facility against a superior number, which had already hacked nearly all our turrets and sabotaged our gate shield. The battle escalated, but half an hour later we had them pushed out.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on February 07, 2016, 10:17:28 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 07, 2016, 08:50:48 pm

Charged up a hill, blew up a Sunderer, and knifed 5 enemies to death, one of them a MAX. They have no excuse for this, since I tried it before with the result of damaging the Sunderer and knifing two MAXes to death before getting shot in the back. Actually, they had no excuse for that one either. Both times they just stood and watched as I planted C4 and whipped out my knife.


After that, I helped with the defense of decently important facility against a superior number, which had already hacked nearly all our turrets and sabotaged our gate shield. The battle escalated, but half an hour later we had them pushed out.

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Planetside 2.

That's better than the last couple days have been for me - all I've seen are 150-person zerg rushes that slaughter wherever I'm defending.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on February 08, 2016, 04:35:01 pm

Finally, after a combined time of 3 hours distributed over roughly 10 days  I did it.

Aaaand now I feel terrible.
I don't think I'm actually gonna end this...

Uhm... bragging rights are fun, I guess.

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Undertale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 08, 2016, 09:53:29 pm

Quote from: Noel.se on February 08, 2016, 04:35:01 pm

Finally, after a combined time of 3 hours distributed over roughly 10 days  I did it.

If you're talking about what I think you were, my brother took 8-9 hours for that same boss fight. Good job.

y o u  m o n s t e r

---

I killed the Gaping Dragon. By punching it repeatedly.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

In a vain attempt to break myself of my addiction, I've started playing a fist type weapon[Darkhand & Pyromancy both allowed too] only dude in the hopes that the frustration would make me quit. No such luck, I'm afraid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 08, 2016, 10:08:05 pm

Why do you want to quit? Dark souls is probably one of the best action RPGs ever made. Still, if you want a more productive place to channel your urges, you can try getting into dark souls 2 PvP. The sequel has a worse single player mode but the PvP was a great improvement from the first.

You will have quite the skill ceiling to climb.

Also, have you gone to the abysswalker DLC yet? You have the Prepare-to-Die edition so it should be installed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 08, 2016, 10:11:34 pm

Dark Souls: Prepare to (Fail At) Parrying Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 08, 2016, 10:21:50 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on February 08, 2016, 10:08:05 pm

Why do you want to quit? Dark souls is probably one of the best action RPGs ever made.

Because I'm playing nothing but Dark Souls and starting one character for each potential build I could do. When I did that with Skyrim, I ended up with ~15 characters and sinking hundreds of hours in. And I have other games to play. This is the natural conclusion to that desire. I'm actually doing pretty well beating things up with my fists of fury while wearing the ghetto Dark Souls equivalent of a luchador outfit. What I'm looking forwards to is invading people and making their day a bit more absurd, even if my weapons are completely useless for anything besides MAYBE parries/backstabs.

Plus Dark Souls doesn't QUITE give me what I REALLY want from an RPG right now: The ability to be a godlike caster character. Unleashing a Chaos Storm on Seath and halving his health is the closest Dark Souls really comes. Even Skyrim let me feel more like an elemental force of destruction once I got 100% Fortify Destruction and just LIGHTNING LASERED all the things.

Quote from: heydude6 on February 08, 2016, 10:08:05 pm

Also, have you gone to the abysswalker DLC yet? You have the Prepare-to-Die edition so it should be installed.

Not really. Knight Artorias is hella robust[More so then any other boss I've encountered] and you have to go through a bunch of tedious enemies to get to him. Its something I've been meaning to get further in, but keep either forgetting about or just doing other stuff instead.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on February 08, 2016, 10:11:34 pm

Dark Souls: Prepare to (Fail At) Parrying Edition

I easily spent like the first week of my[ongoing] Dark Souls binge doing just that. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2016, 06:06:29 pm

Absolutely wrecked Fortree Gym. It helps that most of my team was 10-15 levels higher than the gym trainers' Pokemon, except Latios who was slightly over Winona's team. The only Pokemon even in danger of fainting was Mega Blaziken, because I left him in a few turns after getting confused from a Water Pulse by Winona's Pelipper. And that's even after Mawile tanked an Earthquake from Altaria(which I'm surprised Altaria can even learn).

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. The reason for being overleveled was the affection system, which with little work can get you a permanent 20% bonus to a Pokemon's EXP gain. The EXP Share also speeds the team along. Latios hadn't quite caught up yet.

By the way, is Winona related to Lisia, the girl who sets you up for the Contests in ORAS? They look quite similar, and both have an Altaria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 09, 2016, 08:00:06 pm

Altaria's a dragon/flying type. Many fully evolved dragon types can learn Earthquake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 10, 2016, 07:40:06 am

I loaded a random workshop prison in Prison Architect, looking to get my escape on. I arrive in a prison bus, as always. The bus drives towards the prison. It keeps driving. It doesn't stop. The bus drives off the map. I win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on February 10, 2016, 07:42:33 am

Ha!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 10, 2016, 06:28:44 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on February 10, 2016, 07:40:06 am

I loaded a random workshop prison in Prison Architect, looking to get my escape on. I arrive in a prison bus, as always. The bus drives towards the prison. It keeps driving. It doesn't stop. The bus drives off the map. I win.

Escape? You can try to escape in that game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 10, 2016, 06:42:47 pm

Blew up a Separatist cruiser, paving the way for a full-scale invasion force to come through.

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Star Wars: Republic Commando. RIP Sev .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on February 10, 2016, 09:03:26 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 10, 2016, 06:28:44 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on February 10, 2016, 07:40:06 am

I loaded a random workshop prison in Prison Architect, looking to get my escape on. I arrive in a prison bus, as always. The bus drives towards the prison. It keeps driving. It doesn't stop. The bus drives off the map. I win.

Escape? You can try to escape in that game?

Yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 11, 2016, 08:16:06 am

Quote from: miauw62 on February 10, 2016, 07:40:06 am

I loaded a random workshop prison in Prison Architect, looking to get my escape on. I arrive in a prison bus, as always. The bus drives towards the prison. It keeps driving. It doesn't stop. The bus drives off the map. I win.

Stylish.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 11, 2016, 11:51:57 am

There is something immensely satisfying about hard booming into war wagons as Koreans. Especially when your allies are on top of their games so it's backed by hordes of shotels and halberdiers.

AoE II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on February 11, 2016, 12:19:06 pm

I don't know what happened, but my Randomizer for Pokemon Emerald completely screwed up the stats of everything, even though it was not supposed to change anything like that;
so, in the first gym, I'm fighting against level 12 enemies that can tank every move I have, and can one-shot everyone in my level 18 team, despite weaknesses or resistances.

I lost so many times, i even tried to cheat with the save-states once, but when your enemies have Earthquake, or other 100% accuracy moves, that is useless.
Finally, it took me 40 minutes (speeding up time with the emulator, otherwise it would have probably took me an hour) to win, but somehow I did it! And without any cheat!

Still, now the same thing is happening in the second gym, so probably I won't play this game for a long time, but at least I did it!

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Pokemon Emerald; Randomizer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 11, 2016, 08:03:54 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 07, 2016, 12:55:20 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on February 06, 2016, 10:24:28 pm

Nice!

I personally prefer the incredibly lethal run, as well as killing Hightower.

I've been trying to knock Gessler out of the tower, but he keeps sliding down the wall really slowly, preventing me from killing that fucker.

How do I  knock him out of the building?

Incredibly precise superjumping. Get very, very close. And if you have to, multiple tackles still gives you it. Just hold him at [Gametitle] until he... Yeah. ;3 I have nearly every achievement in the game. That was my first choice when I got to the ending, after I had butchered my way through a city in pursuit of justice.

And now I kind of want a sequel, even though there is no hook whatsoever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 11, 2016, 08:27:12 pm

Yeah, my main complaint about gunpoint is that the mechanics are so solid that you just end wanting more after beating the game. It also doesn't help that there are several easily fixable flaws with the level editor that handicaps community creators significantly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 11, 2016, 08:28:42 pm

We probably won't get another until the creator finishes his new space-stealth game that looks equally as simplistically delicious. I miss my PUNCHING PEOPLE INTO GOO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 11, 2016, 08:31:54 pm

Wait, what?! Can I have a link to the announcement, or press release, or just the name? I want follow that games dev cycle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 11, 2016, 08:33:19 pm

I can't remember his name, funny enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on February 11, 2016, 08:38:25 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on February 11, 2016, 08:31:54 pm

Wait, what?! Can I have a link to the announcement, or press release, or just the name? I want follow that games dev cycle.

http://www.pentadact.com/2014-08-09-what-im-working-on-and-what-ive-done/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on February 11, 2016, 08:48:26 pm

Beat a final boss fight of three really annoying floating lightsabers.

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KOTOR II (vanilla)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 12, 2016, 02:02:39 am

I finally overcame a bad time.  It took weeks but I did it... 


Now I'm just having a sad time.


Undertale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 12, 2016, 06:46:42 am

Quote from: Greiger on February 12, 2016, 02:02:39 am

I finally overcame a bad time.  It took weeks but I did it... 


Now I'm just having a sad time.


Undertale

Enjoy your eternal shame.

...You are ashamed, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jwilliams on February 12, 2016, 08:40:54 am

Defeat Octomammoth in Final Fantasy IV. It was one hell of a fight. And it was only the first boss :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on February 12, 2016, 01:30:39 pm

Beat the Rebel Flagship using the Red-Tail on Easy. Triple Flak FTW!(with honorable mention to the burst laser mk 1 rounding out my weapons)

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FTL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 12, 2016, 05:30:48 pm

Quote from: jwilliams on February 12, 2016, 08:40:54 am

Defeat Octomammoth in Final Fantasy IV. It was one hell of a fight. And it was only the first boss :o

You poor soul. You haven't even seen the first Golbez fight yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 12, 2016, 05:37:11 pm

You are being challenged by Team Magma Grunts!

Team Magma Grunts sent out a horde of Poochyenas!

Go! Latios!

Latios used Surf!

You defeated 5 Pokemon at once!

Team Magma Grunts were defeated!

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. That's the first time I've ever seen a horde encounter in a trainer battle. Then again, I've only seen one or two horde encounters before that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 12, 2016, 08:07:11 pm

*HP Drops to 0*

*SOUL cracks in two, then gets put back together*

But it refused.

Undertale.

That is all I will say.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on February 12, 2016, 10:40:05 pm

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That just means you weren't as good as you could have been.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 12, 2016, 10:55:20 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on February 12, 2016, 10:40:05 pm

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That just means you weren't as good as you could have been.

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It's ridiculously difficult to avoid the second form's initial attack while you're "struggling".
Moreover, the game seems to prefer you losing that fight once at least.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 12, 2016, 11:13:49 pm

Quote from: Reudh on February 12, 2016, 10:55:20 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on February 12, 2016, 10:40:05 pm

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That just means you weren't as good as you could have been.

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It's ridiculously difficult to avoid the second form's initial attack while you're "struggling".
Moreover, the game seems to prefer you losing that fight once at least.

Might want to spoil that, just to be on the safe side.

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Plus I'm not sure it's possible to take zero damage during the black hole 'o doom attack, which occurs right before his transformation and leaves you unable to heal at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 13, 2016, 06:30:18 am

I finally figured out how to beat sliding tile picture puzzles. I can't do it very quickly, but that's better than not being able to do them, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 13, 2016, 09:14:13 am

Quote from: Sirus on February 12, 2016, 11:13:49 pm

Quote from: Reudh on February 12, 2016, 10:55:20 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on February 12, 2016, 10:40:05 pm

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That just means you weren't as good as you could have been.

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It's ridiculously difficult to avoid the second form's initial attack while you're "struggling".
Moreover, the game seems to prefer you losing that fight once at least.

Might want to spoil that, just to be on the safe side.

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Plus I'm not sure it's possible to take zero damage during the black hole 'o doom attack, which occurs right before his transformation and leaves you unable to heal at all.

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It is possible. The hitbox is at the centre, where the face is, and on each of the diamonds. They do 19 damage, then 0.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on February 13, 2016, 03:03:40 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=623379168
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=623379296

So this happened. Best part are the words of my general before this battle: "In truth they are the stronger army; brute force alone will not win this day." As you can see that statement was utterly false.

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 Rome: Total War Gold Edition Expect more of these as the Scipii armies are converging on Rome.

Edit: A couple turns later this is what the Scipii army looks like
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=623620610

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 13, 2016, 06:24:40 pm

I was playing my dragon deck in a multiplayer game and was in a pretty good position. One player was knocked out already and of the other two one just controlled a few big dudes while the other had an insane amount of scions on the battlefield, which he was using to gain life. I, however, had a modest wall of warrior tokens to fend off any attackers while my sunscorch regent was growing with each enemy spell, causing my enduring scalelord to grow in tandem. I also had another big dragon which wasn't doing much, so I attacked into a few chumpblockers to trigger morbid on hunger of the howlpack and put some counters on the third dragon, growing the scalelord even further. I then used another card to draw three cards.

One of them was another enduring scalelord. And a card which puts counters on something. On my next turn I slam down the second scalelord and play the counters, thus LIVING THE DREAM and making both scalelords infinitely big. Putting a huge mountain of little stone counters on pieces of cardboard is far too satisfying.

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 Magic: The Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 13, 2016, 06:30:11 pm

Took down Liza and Tate in one turn. They never even got a chance to attack back.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Of course I'm going to use my team's two Dark-types, Mightyena and Nuzleaf, in a Psychic Gym.

EDIT: Blasted my way through a swarm of Federation Vulture fighters, disabled the exterior comms of their battleship, blasted away that swarm of fighters, wrecked the port hangar bay of the battleship, killed an elite mercenary commander, then escaped before the whole then exploded. Then some damn 8-year-old took all the credit because the Queen thought he was cute in a creepy kind of way.

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Star Wars: Starfighter. Well, that's another Thanksgiving game off my list.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 13, 2016, 07:29:18 pm

When I beat that game, it was hardly an own. Even on the lowest difficulty setting I found it to be pretty near impossible. I think I finished the mission with a tiny sliver of health and no torpedoes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Baffler on February 13, 2016, 08:06:47 pm

Amassed a huge pile of homemade rockets and blasted the hundreds of zombies in a small town into a fine mist over the course of two days, destroying a horde that normally could have killed me dozens of times over with nothing but a little wall of sandbags and a shallow ditch for protection. The place was a little worse for wear when I went in to mop up, but if the value of indirect fire was ever in doubt, it certainly isn't anymore.

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Cataclysm: DDA, with massively increased spawn rates and a lot of mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on February 13, 2016, 10:14:42 pm

I approve of that plan in every sense of the word. Please to give screenshots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on February 14, 2016, 12:32:48 am

Flak Cannon + BRAAAP = 1 insta dead Lil' Hunter

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on February 14, 2016, 12:33:31 am

@miauw:Summon Bigger Scalelord?

Was there a feedback loop then?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on February 14, 2016, 12:35:43 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on February 14, 2016, 12:32:48 am

Flak Cannon + BRAAAP = 1 insta dead Lil' Hunter

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Nuclear Throne

BRAAAP is so good, gotta take it every time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on February 14, 2016, 12:38:01 am

BRAAP + Nuke = laser-guided armageddon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 14, 2016, 12:39:50 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on February 14, 2016, 12:33:31 am

@miauw:Summon Bigger Scalelord?

Was there a feedback loop then?

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=394565

YES. And surprisingly, the card is not legendary (thus preventing the loop), and there is no errata (which would prevent the loop). The Rulings text even SUPPORTS this loop. O.o At least it's "may" add another counter, so it's not locking you into the feedback loop. Still, awesome.

Still dies to removal :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 14, 2016, 08:47:14 am

dies to doom blade 0/10 combo

this is actually the first time i've been able to get two of these dudes out at once so its really great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 14, 2016, 01:59:30 pm

"Mawile's Mawilite is reacting to Akura's Mega Bracelet!

Mawile Mega Evolved into Mega Mawile!"

Squee~!

...Had to look up the location of that stone. I'm surprised I didn't see it the first time I pass through [Verdanturf Town], and I was fairly thorough in checking corners for loot. Maybe it doesn't appear until a certain point in the game?

Anyhow, single most adorable powerful physical attacker in the game get!

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Pokemon Omega Ruby.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 14, 2016, 02:13:47 pm

There is something hilarious about ad-libbing a tower rush as Inca to counter a nascent British archer flush. Not least because Incan villagers with scale and forging trade at like one to three with spearmen and other villagers.

Then I spammed siege and kamayuks and rolled onward with a ton of forward castles, finding them of the Incan bonus and taking the stone of each successive defeated enemy. It was awesome.

AoE 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 14, 2016, 02:16:43 pm

Quote from: flabort on February 14, 2016, 12:39:50 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on February 14, 2016, 12:33:31 am

@miauw:Summon Bigger Scalelord?

Was there a feedback loop then?

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=394565

YES. And surprisingly, the card is not legendary (thus preventing the loop), and there is no errata (which would prevent the loop). The Rulings text even SUPPORTS this loop. O.o At least it's "may" add another counter, so it's not locking you into the feedback loop. Still, awesome.

Still dies to removal :P

No.  Noooooo.  Wizards why?  You made a card that can have an infinite power/toughness combo with itself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on February 14, 2016, 03:53:17 pm

Quote from: Ispil on February 14, 2016, 02:59:30 pm

Well, turns out the solution to "git gud" was a new controller, and restarting from the beginning as a Deprived class. Just beat The Lost Sinner; I did summon Lucatiel for the fight, but that's mostly because I want to do her questline and she has to help fight 3 bosses in order to get her equipment. Other than that... no, it's been pretty straightfoward. Dogs have been fairly easy to kill now that I figured out how to two-hand a left-gripped weapon. No controller problems so far, only a few dumb deaths here and there. Went into the Belfry Luna without realizing that once you go in, you can't leave; two invaders showed up in short order. Killed one, died to the other (they had a sliver of HP left, too!). Sure, I died in the encounter, but the fact that I managed to kill one was rather nice.

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Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin (since apparently it adds a lot of stuff that makes it harder)

I was going through the first time with the same version and thinking the same things, but just wait there is some tedious and annoying areas coming up. Most of the bosses stay not really difficult (Smelter Demon gave me a lot of trouble but apparently I was supposed to put points into adaptability which I didn't do) but there are some pain in the ass regular enemies and encounters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on February 14, 2016, 07:28:07 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on February 12, 2016, 05:30:48 pm

Quote from: jwilliams on February 12, 2016, 08:40:54 am

Defeat Octomammoth in Final Fantasy IV. It was one hell of a fight. And it was only the first boss :o

You poor soul. You haven't even seen the first Golbez fight yet.

I hope for Jwilliams' sake he hasn't got FF4DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 15, 2016, 01:54:40 pm

Quote from: Ispil on February 14, 2016, 02:59:30 pm

Well, turns out the solution to "git gud" was a new controller, and restarting from the beginning as a Deprived class. Just beat The Lost Sinner; I did summon Lucatiel for the fight, but that's mostly because I want to do her questline and she has to help fight 3 bosses in order to get her equipment. Other than that... no, it's been pretty straightfoward. Dogs have been fairly easy to kill now that I figured out how to two-hand a left-gripped weapon. No controller problems so far, only a few dumb deaths here and there. Went into the Belfry Luna without realizing that once you go in, you can't leave; two invaders showed up in short order. Killed one, died to the other (they had a sliver of HP left, too!). Sure, I died in the encounter, but the fact that I managed to kill one was rather nice.

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Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin (since apparently it adds a lot of stuff that makes it harder)

Sounds like somebody finally got gud

But seriously, I'm in the same boat as you, I am playing Scholar of the First Sin even though I never played the normal game. It can be really cheap sometimes. I never had any problem hitting the dogs, for me the huge thing that irritates me has always been the unnecessary number of enemies, but it was still nothing that git gud couldn't fix.

TL;DR Because DS2 is hard, you will not like her, but the more you hate her the more you will git gud.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on February 15, 2016, 04:30:14 pm

Repaired the royal family, got an end-game weapon and some end-game armor, and foiled an attempted regicide.  All in a day's work, messing with time travel.

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Chrono Trigger DS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 15, 2016, 05:29:23 pm

Took me an entire day, but I managed to cram a 16-and-a-half foot* magma god into a 3-inch diameter ball.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. I almost screwed the one that caught it up, since Mega Blaziken botched the initial attack, and Mightyena couldn't make much of a dent in Groudon's HP. Gardevoir managed to weaken it and when she herself only had 12HP left, Groudon stayed in the ball.

*Height for Primal Groudon, which you fight. Normal Groudon is 11'06". Still smaller than I expected.

Perhaps a minor ownage, but in a random dive hole in the middle of the ocean, I picked up Giratina's Grisseus Orb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 16, 2016, 10:30:41 pm

Not my own, but incredibly badass nonetheless.  A civilian was shot at by a

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gatekeeper, the pinnacle of alien genetic and robotic engineering

and not only did the shot miss, but they managed to survive the entire mission!

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Xcom 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 17, 2016, 05:02:21 am

Through careful cheesing of enemy AI and gratuitous use of trebuchets, my large but somewhat weak army was able to recapture one of my cities from the nearly-as-large, and far more powerful, enemy army that had come charging out of the fog of war in the previous turn. Highlights include killing an obsidian dragon with concentrated siege engine fire and the pestering (and eventual death) of two powerful infantry units with obscene regeneration abilities.
My army wasn't exactly in the best of shape after that battle, but the loss of so many high-tier units was probably one of the things that lead to that particular enemy kingdom's downfall.

Age of Wonders III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 17, 2016, 09:23:41 pm

Managed to capture the entire Mind Trio in one day. I was surprised that Azelf was the easiest to catch(only 3 balls used), despite the fact that it was only one whose attacks Nuzleaf couldn't nopesoap entirely(as it knew Uproar). Snagged Cobalion while waiting for Azelf to appear as well, and Ho-Oh shortly after nailing Mesprit.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Been going on a legendary-catching spree before taking on the Elite Four. Haven't gotten the Regis, though, and looking up Regigas it's still a flying pain in the ass to get.

EDIT: Managed to kill a thresher maw. EDI's report when returning to Tuchanka later was priceless: "In addition, killing the thresher maw has resulted in several breeding requests for Grunt. And one for Shepard."

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Mass Effect 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 18, 2016, 10:43:41 pm

I killed what must have been... ten or so Super Mutants (at least three of which were Brutes) outside of the Washington Monument. I think you were supposed to use the Stealth Boys from the Museum of Technology to sneak past them without a fight. However, I was thirsty for blood and loaded down with tons of ammo, so I took them on.

I ended up using ten frag grenades, six Stimpaks, most of my food and a number of landmines, as well as completely draining all of my 5.56mm ammo. On the other hand, strolling straight up to the monument over a field of broken mutant bodies was an experience worth having.

Fallout 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 19, 2016, 03:38:08 pm

Orks are ded. Get tau'd on.

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Dawn Of War: Soulstorm. And Dark Crusade, actually-I'm playing both and went after the Angry Green British People first on both.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on February 19, 2016, 04:21:39 pm

I defeated Hush, Satan, The Lamb and Mega Satan in the same run with Keeper. Didn't even need the Swallowed Penny trinket because my attacks were constantly spawning an insane amount of coins to keep me alive.

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The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 19, 2016, 04:54:35 pm

Took down a few streets of zombies with a broken arm.

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Cataclysm DDA

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Quote from: That        Wanker on February 19, 2016, 03:38:08 pm

Orks are ded. Get tau'd on.

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Dawn Of War: Soulstorm. And Dark Crusade, actually-I'm playing both and went after the Angry Green British People first on both.

Sounds like they had a bad taume.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 19, 2016, 04:58:35 pm

There were plenty of lasers, that's for certain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 19, 2016, 09:08:38 pm

You know what, I don't think I died once in the entire playthrough. Came very close, but not died.

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Bioshock Infinite. Done with the main game, at least. Haven't played the DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 19, 2016, 09:47:26 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 19, 2016, 09:08:38 pm

You know what, I don't think I died once in the entire playthrough. Came very close, but not died.

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Bioshock Infinite. Done with the main game, at least. Haven't played the DLC.

I hated playing that game. One of the most uninspired FPS I've played when it comes to the gunplay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 19, 2016, 10:29:23 pm

Not quite a combat-related owning, but:

A dealer was willing to buy ecstasy at an extra-high price.

Another dealer, not too far away, had 96 units of ecstasy.

Easy money, and didn't even run into a drug bust!

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2016, 09:46:22 am

An early legendary/ironman mission went perfectly, in a way that just doesn't happen.

To start off with, the first mission of the game had a death and two gravely wounded.  The only advanced soldier I had was a specialist, and it was a destroy the relay mission meaning her hacking doesn't help.  I decided to stealth the objective, which never works.  Got in range to complete the objective without being spotted by a patrol or encircled by more than one.  Eliminated one patrol only to find one hiding in a back corner of the objective building; engaged them at close range with the help of a flashbang, and no one died.  Took out a sectoid by surrounding it from one tile away and shooting repeatedly.  Completed objective with one turn left, got loot with one turn left.  Reinforcements come.  Take out two troopers quickly, rookie panics, flanks officer and takes him down to one health.  Specialist runs to roof to flank officer, sees yet another patrol hiding in the objective building.  Specialist kills a trooper in said pod and then tactically evacs, leaving rookies to fend for themselves.  This is when things get dicey, and I make some decisions that are honestly leaving people out to die (because I see no other alternative).  Two of the rookies are wounded but don't die; one of them is pinned in overwatch and flanked by an officer.  He shoots the overwatching trooper, killing them but leaving himself still flanked.  With the last move of the turn a rookie takes the officer out with a 33% shot.  No casualties, all enemies eliminated.

When the dust clears, I have a new record hit rate: 100%

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Xcom 2.  To my credit, the lowest hit chance I took before the last turn was a 61% and most shots were 70+%.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on February 20, 2016, 12:46:51 pm

Standing exposed on a plinth overlooking enemy territory. I rain short range fully automatic fire down on two approaching enemy who stop and swim for cover. One pops out from cover firing inkzooka rounds at me, with the second offering covering fire from a heavy weapon. I swim away and leap from the platform to a walkway beneath to avoid the incoming fire. As I land, an airstrike incoming warning lets me know I am in real trouble. I spray ink up a nearby wall, swim up it, and balance on the narrow wall top to avoid the ink strike. Heavy fire from my 2 engaged enemies is flying all around me when a third enemy (probably the one who called in the airstrike) joins in the firing at me from behind cover further along the walkway. I leap down to the walkway again to hide behind a small box, laying ink while in mid air with the intent of swimming back a long way along the walkway back to better cover. Upon landing my own inkzooka fully charges. This instantly changes the balance of power and as such changes my plans. I turn to face my pursuers and whip out the inkzooka, then fire off two rounds in quick succession - both are direct hits splatting the 2 enemies pursuing me from the plinth as they leap down to the walkway. The third rather sensibly stays in cover, probably out of ink. His weapon will out range mine if I choose to trade fire, but if I get in close while he is out of ink he is a dead squid. I swim up to and on top of the box he is hiding behind, jump and turn a quick 180, landing neatly behind him. A short burst of ink from my Aerospray later and he too is splatted. About 15 seconds of instinctive and reactionary combat, and I am left with 3 dead enemies and a whole load of unprotected turf to claim. This secures the win for my team, as there is not long left on the match clock.

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Splatoon, Splatfest Turf War, Camp Triggerfish, fighting for Team Pokemon Red. Nintendo have really nailed the twitch shooter mechanic with this one, with some really nifty and original game features that are well balanced.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 20, 2016, 05:30:25 pm

Me and Steven were going fairly even, despite the fact I had a 10-15 level advantage(almost 20 with Mawile - she hit Lv70 during the battle). By the time I had whittled his team down to Metagross, I had just Mawile and Blaziken left. For the most part, my team was hammered by his fossils, Armaldo and Cradily. My strategy was to soften Mega Metagross up with Mawile, then Mega-Evolve Blaziken and deliver a Blaze Kick right to Metagross' face.

You know what they say... no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

You see, Steel no longer resists Dark, Metagross is Steel/Psychic and Mawile knows Crunch. Despite not doing much damage still, and despite the fact that Metagross knows Earthquake, Mawile kept fighting. Through The Power of Love, she ninja-dodged the first Earthquake, kept attacking despite Steven using a Full Restore, had about 25 hitpoints after taking a second Earthquake full force, then Endured the third Earthquake through The Power of Love, and again with TPoL struck a final critical hit that brought the Mega-Evolved Metagross down. Since I intended Blaziken to do it, I never bothered to Mega-Evolve Mawile, she did everything Badass Normal (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal)(well, Baddass Steel/Fairy, but you get the idea).

My only regret is that I feel bad about intending her as cannon fodder.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Always play with your Pokemon in the Pokemon-Amie.

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 19, 2016, 09:47:26 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 19, 2016, 09:08:38 pm

You know what, I don't think I died once in the entire playthrough. Came very close, but not died.

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Bioshock Infinite. Done with the main game, at least. Haven't played the DLC.

I hated playing that game. One of the most uninspired FPS I've played when it comes to the gunplay.

Really? I rather enjoyed it. I'm sure there's another you in another realm of possibility that really does enjoy it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 21, 2016, 04:40:52 am

I pulled off a miracle tonight.

I had just captured one of three dwarven cities with my armies. They had the city surrounded, so I figured we'd be completely safe for a few turns while wounded units heal up. Oh-ho-ho, how wrong I was!
I clicked the End Turn button, and then watched in puzzlement as a small dwarven army approached my forces. Then another one joined up with the first. And then another army arrived. And another. And another. And so on and so forth. Until four full stacks of units, including the dwarven leader and a hero unit, assaulted my new city. I had three less-than-full stacks to fight them with, and many units in said stacks were wounded. The pre-battle screen gives me a verdict of "likely defeat". To make matters worse, one of *my* units was a mission-critical hero. If he dies, and I lose the battle, it's game over.

Just three key factors allowed me to post this story here, rather than in the "how did you die" thread.
First, one of my three stacks was the siege stack. I had four trebuchets and a builder who could repair machinery, and all of them were manning the city walls
Second, most of the enemy force were tier-1 units. They had some nasty surprises, such as hellhounds and musketeers, but for the most part the dwarves were armed with simple axes and crossbows.
And finally, they didn't bring a single siege unit of their own.

While the dwarves were able to keep up a punishing rate of ranged fire each turn, they were unable to engage my own units in melee and bring their numbers to bear until they could smash the gates down. Which they did, eventually. But between my trebuchets raining stones down on their most dangerous units, my goblin untouchables spitting toxic projectiles, and my spellcasting, I was able to keep them at bay for several turns until a great mass of prospectors and crossbow dwarves managed to break into the city. My hero fell after drawing fire for a couple of turns. My builder served as a human shield, keeping angry dwarves from destroying my trebuchets. And when the last dwarf fell, only three trebuchets remained intact. The rest of my units were all killed.

However, it was all worth it! The enemy leader had fallen, and his remaining two cities were left completely unguarded. He had thrown everything he had at me in one final assault, and it had failed. I swiftly captured the cities in question and proceeded to win the scenario.

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Age of Wonders III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 21, 2016, 09:17:04 am

Celt mass siege is possibly the most insanely satisfying strat I've ever played. 4v4 Black Forest (if you don't play, black forest is a very closed map that favours the late game and range-based strategies), and I was one of the pocket players (i.e. not on the flank), so I boomed pretty hard and pretty greedily. Massed up scorpions, fronted them with a few pikemen, and started busting down some walls with five or six mangonels.

Lost the pikemen to a castle, so I thought I'd cut my losses and spat out a few siege rams and trebuchets. Burned down about five castles in quick succession, smashing through each successive wallup, until eventually all the enemies resigned.

In the mean time, stronghold castles (20% faster firing) were doing a very good job of holding the line against the Mongol pressuring my base. Then my Indian ally swept in with fifty imperial camels, which was... not pretty for the mongols.

So yeah, I didn't use anything except siege and a few defensive woad raiders to take out the mongol siege. I had about fifty or sixty skirmishers banked for when the castles fell, but they never saw use.

AoE II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 21, 2016, 08:55:09 pm

I can't remember exactly who, as it was hours ago and I never bothered to post, but I was fighting Say'ri at the Wellspring of Truth. I'm fairly certain it was Panne, in any case.
This person proceeded to Dual Guard all five hits of Astra and then evidcerate Say'ri immediately afterwards.
I beat that Paralogue in three turns.
_{The Say'ri part isn't as impressive when I realize Astra counts as one hit because it uses one weapon QL but whatever}
Fire Emblem Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2016, 08:18:25 am

Shot a Reaper in the eye. Repeatedly. With an anti-materiel sniper rifle - one specifically rated to shatter the user's arm from recoil(unless you're [a cybernetic badass like Shepard or a robot like Legion]) .

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Mass Effect 2. I think I saw Tali get gunned down in the background during a cutscene .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 22, 2016, 03:51:59 pm

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Yeah, you probably did. The characters have a chance of dying while holding the line even if you did their loyalty mission. Tali and Jack are most at risk, Grunt and (Jacob? The black guy you have at the start) have a chance to save characters from that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

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Mordin's where it's at, bro. Guess who died the first time I did that mission

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on February 22, 2016, 04:33:56 pm

Held the Germans at  the border for three years, then managed to evac 98% of the French army to the UK when resources finally started running out. Then I liberated Poland using partasins for a while three months.

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Hearts of Iron 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 22, 2016, 05:13:03 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

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Mordin's where it's at, bro. Guess who died the first time I did that mission

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Originally, I never understood how people had any deaths on that mission, as I managed to go through it without any fatalities the first time.  It was only later that I learned that the "Hold the Line" segment is based on a hidden calculated defense value, in addition to loyalty, that I only coincidentally met because I had a tendency to bring the squishies with me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2016, 05:16:38 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 22, 2016, 05:13:03 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

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Mordin's where it's at, bro. Guess who died the first time I did that mission

Spoiler: The ME2 spoilers continue (click to show/hide)

Originally, I never understood how people had any deaths on that mission, as I managed to go through it without any fatalities the first time.  It was only later that I learned that the "Hold the Line" segment is based on a hidden calculated defense value, in addition to loyalty, that I only coincidentally met because I had a tendency to bring the squishies with me.

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Same here. I sent him into the vent shaft instead of Tali because I knew the poor sod who went in there wasn't coming back out. Well, technically he did, but not for long. Jack got carried off by the seeker swarm(though I had Thane doing the shield thing) and Samara was gutshot shortly after. I guess the only guaranteed survivors are the ones you take to fight the Reaper larva.

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Holy shit, you can have everyone survive?!

Plus, I thought the loyalty quests were all mandatory?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 22, 2016, 05:23:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 22, 2016, 05:16:38 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 22, 2016, 05:13:03 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

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Mordin's where it's at, bro. Guess who died the first time I did that mission

Spoiler: The ME2 spoilers continue (click to show/hide)

Originally, I never understood how people had any deaths on that mission, as I managed to go through it without any fatalities the first time.  It was only later that I learned that the "Hold the Line" segment is based on a hidden calculated defense value, in addition to loyalty, that I only coincidentally met because I had a tendency to bring the squishies with me.

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Same here. I sent him into the vent shaft instead of Tali because I knew the poor sod who went in there wasn't coming back out. Well, technically he did, but not for long. Jack got carried off by the seeker swarm(though I had Thane doing the shield thing) and Samara was gutshot shortly after. I guess the only guaranteed survivors are the ones you take to fight the Reaper larva.

Spoiler: PRE-EDIT because Culise ninja'd (click to show/hide)

Holy shit, you can have everyone survive?!

Plus, I thought the loyalty quests were all mandatory?

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Nope. If I recall, the people you bring with you to fight the larva have to be loyal to survive the battle.  The best place for non-loyal party members is to hold the line, assuming you have enough other loyal people to cover them.  By the bye, this means you can kill every single person you bring with you into the fight except Joker.  You even get a special ending (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRHhdc53Od8) if you screw up by the numbers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 05:48:06 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 22, 2016, 05:16:38 pm

Quote from: Culise on February 22, 2016, 05:13:03 pm

Quote from: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm

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YOU RELOAD THAT GAME RIGHT NOW AND SAVE TALI, MISTER

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Mordin's where it's at, bro. Guess who died the first time I did that mission

Spoiler: The ME2 spoilers continue (click to show/hide)

Originally, I never understood how people had any deaths on that mission, as I managed to go through it without any fatalities the first time.  It was only later that I learned that the "Hold the Line" segment is based on a hidden calculated defense value, in addition to loyalty, that I only coincidentally met because I had a tendency to bring the squishies with me.

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Same here. I sent him into the vent shaft instead of Tali because I knew the poor sod who went in there wasn't coming back out. Well, technically he did, but not for long. Jack got carried off by the seeker swarm(though I had Thane doing the shield thing) and Samara was gutshot shortly after. I guess the only guaranteed survivors are the ones you take to fight the Reaper larva.

Spoiler: PRE-EDIT because Culise ninja'd (click to show/hide)

Holy shit, you can have everyone survive?!

Plus, I thought the loyalty quests were all mandatory?

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There's no real reason not to go on the loyalty missions, unless you didn't have them all done by the time the Collectors steal your crew and you want to go rescue them ASAP. But yes, you can have every single person survive ME2.

NOW GO SAVE TALI (and anyone else who died I guess)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 05:51:15 pm

Stop the de-rail! Even though I'd like to continue it but it's not really ownage... /sanctimoniousness, probably

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 05:57:30 pm

Fair. However, if Akura does manage to do the thing he should come back and post it. THAT would be ownage!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2016, 06:35:56 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 05:57:30 pm

Fair. However, if Akura does manage to do the thing he should come back and post it. THAT would be ownage!

Ugh, I've been binging on this game for the past week or two.

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I did load up the freeplay mode that takes place after the ending. Mordin, Jack, and Samara are missing from the crew list that you see in the elevator options. BUT TALI IS ALIVE. She's just got "a fever, a nasty cough, and sinuses filled with something I can't even describe. And it was totally worth it".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 22, 2016, 07:05:11 pm

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Dang, you lost a lot of people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 22, 2016, 07:06:57 pm

Is it considered an own if, in Mass Effect 2, you go into the last mission with the intent of failing as hard as possible and

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only Morinth, Joker and I think Chakwas survive?

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 22, 2016, 07:19:35 pm

No, since folk lived :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 22, 2016, 07:48:30 pm

Joker always lives though. I can't remember if Chakwas also is unkillable. Finally, the third survivor was planned because of how much damage she could do to the universe with no oversight. :P

I also did a variant of that where I left Zaeed to hold the line solo. This was so I'd have enough survivors for Shep to make it, then I killed Zaeed later during his loyalty mission so I could have as few people as possible survive to ME3.

Boy was that a bad idea. Playing ME3, I mean. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 22, 2016, 07:57:37 pm

Phew.  I got my first UFO attack mission in XCOM2 when a hunter stumbled across me and shot me down.  I panicked when I activated two alien pods simultaneously, then a third pod maneuvering right next to my first spotter.  Turns out I didn't need to worry quite so much.   Gauss weapons, squadsight, heavy use of grenades against armor and clusters, and massive overwatch abuse against reinforcements gave me this beautiful sight.

Spoiler: Commander difficulty, if it matters (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/KUH3liI.jpg)

Spoiler: The MVP, who's actually a custom character from an old PBP game that never got off the ground. The game only gave me one sharpshooter, but I only needed the one. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/yfvaeC2.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 22, 2016, 08:00:33 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on February 22, 2016, 07:48:30 pm

Boy was that a bad idea. Playing ME3, I mean. :P

I stopped at 2, mainly because I didn't want Origin.  Also tho 2 left me with good feelings about the story whereas from what I've heard of the ending (and the fact that they decided to show Tali's face) it sounds like 3 would leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 22, 2016, 08:25:34 pm

Completed Chapter 6 on Hard Classic without any casualties, in one try. ...No, I'm not counting the other tries from the last time I played my Hard Classic file. :P
I think I'm getting the hang of this "strategy" thing (read: putting weak units just within range of one enemy so capable people can kill them).
Fire Emblem Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 22, 2016, 08:28:26 pm

Or, unequip all weapons from Frederick McLaughsOffDamage and move him into range and do the same thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 22, 2016, 08:32:21 pm

Frederick McOnlyEverGetsTenEXP, you mean?
And that would have worked if Freddy wasn't paired off to Donny so the latter has 5< Defense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 22, 2016, 08:37:09 pm

Why would you want to lower Donnel's defense? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 22, 2016, 08:38:25 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on February 22, 2016, 08:32:21 pm

[greater than symbol]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 22, 2016, 09:15:01 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on February 22, 2016, 08:38:25 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on February 22, 2016, 08:32:21 pm

[greater than symbol]

> (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=greater+than+symbol)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 22, 2016, 09:19:09 pm

if the pointy bit is facing the five it means it's more than five, gosh, leave me alone

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on February 22, 2016, 09:34:41 pm

Was trying to unlock Magdaline, because while she was my first unlock in first game I'm having a tough time this game. Wound up defeating Mom's Heart with machine-gunned double-tears instead. 1 heart container away. But when I try to defeat Mom's Heart... :P
Well, I consider it an own because I usually get slaughtered in the Womb. So not being instakilled is quite the accomplishment.

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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (With Afterbirth too)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 23, 2016, 05:41:02 pm

Became BFFs with an ancient sky god, rode it into space to MEGA DRAGON FACEPUNCH a meteor, and then became BFFs with an alien virus that was riding the meteor.

Then I returned to Earth to watch the resulting meteor shower with my GF-next-door.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby. I did find a plot hole in this scene. At the beginning of the Delta Episode, Norman gives you the tickets to the meteor show because he has work at the Petalburg Gym that night, but the night of the meteor shower, which is at the end of the Delta Episode, he's at home watching it with your mother and Birch and his wife. Of course, he could have been lying so he had an excuse to get you on what is certainly a romantic evening with Birch's kid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 24, 2016, 07:24:10 am

Vaike, you had 1% chance to crit, and you critted. You're a Fighter. You don't even have good crit rates in the first place.
He would have died anyway (I think), Vaike.
Fire Emblem Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Boltgun on February 24, 2016, 08:27:45 am

Before going for the newest game, I give the first one a shot with the mod everyone talked about in dynamic war mode.

After a couple of failed attempts, I go for normal ironman as recommended.

First two missions goes (a little too) well. The first UFO appears and it escapes badly damaged.

Then, out of nowhere...

I get all the fun. :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM : Long war

'Getting all the fun' equals getting two special characters, I got them super early in the campaign by pure luck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 25, 2016, 04:54:53 am

Jebediah Kerman has safely returned from his first orbit! That's right, nothing exploded (except the spent fuel tanks that fell to the ground), nobody died (except those struck by said fuel casings), all parts of the payload were recovered (except the Mystery Goo that burned up on reentry), and I even stuck the landing (except the craft landed on a mountain slope, tipped over and rolled for several kilometers).

EAT A DICK, SPACE!

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 25, 2016, 09:19:06 am

Sent in to "retrieve" a doctor at a gene therapy clinic who apparently had some information the Spokesman wanted on the Avatar project.  We managed to sneak into the clinic, but a patrol followed us to right outside the door - a Muton, Advanced Trooper, and Advanced Lancer.  Since the extraction point was literally a bit outside the opposite door, I sent one soldier on ahead to grab the target wile the others simply overwatched up and ripped them to pieces.  I was patting myself on the back for about five seconds until a second patrol, this time an Archon with two Mutons, charged in through a window and set up in the right room off the entrance.  A reinforcement beacon went off on the extraction point, and opening the door to prep my escape revealed another pod (which I expected)...various mechs and shieldbearer, one of which immediately overwatched (which I didn't).  The kicker was that I had five turns to extract, and three of these would be needed just to reach the LZ for my furthest troops.  Rather than take the risk of a lucky crit ending the mission, I dinged the overwatch mech with a Haywire stun and immediately had the soldier who captured the target dash out and evacuate. 

Mission accomplished but effectively down a soldier now, I ended up in a massive moving firefight as I pushed as recklessly as I could.  I took down the Archon with combined fire, both Mutons with two Acid Grenades (plus two turns of burn damage; a Flashbang was perfect to keep them locked down while they took their time dying), and the advanced mech (which lit up my cover with a burst attack that put the exit in flames) with more focus fire, then cleared the enemy out of my path with incendiary grenades.  By the end of it, the gene therapy clinic was in flames, half of the enemy soldiers (including the most dangerous) were down, and my team was assembled out in the open at the LZ.  Two-thirds of my team came out with grievous wounds, but they all came out at the very last second, and the surviving ADVENT soldiers came out with a fresh appreciation for the insane fanaticism of these XCOM terrorists.  The two uninjured were the soldier who grabbed the target and my first novice psionic, who I sent because I thought the mission would be a milk run.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on February 25, 2016, 10:13:11 am

I drove my Panzer III down the road next to the river, and suddenly an wild IS-1 appeared. I tried to dodge and drove off from the road down into river, and then... I bounced off, flew 20 meters into sky, shoot the IS-1 through the roof, knocking it out, and then I landed on my tracks.
The IS-1 owner basically ragequitted at that point.

Spoiler: Otto Carius would be proud (click to show/hide)

Men Of War: Assault Squad 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on February 25, 2016, 08:29:02 pm

Managed to create my strongest adventurer to date, an absolute ninja, legendary in every unarmed combat skill ( except biting ), legendary thrower, superhuman strength, agility and toughness, superior in every other physical stat.  So much effort and patients ( not to mention a lot of save scumming ), but I've done it.  The ultimate martial artist/ninja.  And I've just killed my first bogeyman night attack, no real injuries, as quickly and efficiently as I've ever managed to do.  Feels good.

DF Adv mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 25, 2016, 08:43:40 pm

Made it to Safe Haven. Everyone but myself was infected, including one who was bit during the first drive out. Everyone survived.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Organ Trail: Director's Cut.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 25, 2016, 09:38:37 pm

Playing Chaos against Dwarfs. All of my players are first level, brand new. The end result was 1-1, but the reason this is an own? A beastman killed a slayer (got saved by apothecary, but still). A Warrior picked up a ball on his first try. He didn't manage to make it to the end, but it doesn't matter, because on the second half not only did a beastman also pick up the ball without fumbling, but passed it to a chaos warrior who ran for it and scored a touchdown. I also wounded three of the dorfs with only a wound of my own. Now am pondering how to level the incredible warrior.

Bloodbowl 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 25, 2016, 10:51:31 pm

Block is the safe level up on a warrior. Mighty Blow is the aggressive level up. Guard is also an option, though a lot of pros don't take it early on Chaos. Doubles or other skills are for crazy awesome decisions if you're feeling like a fun challenge.

...we should really have a proper Blood Bowl thread.  :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 26, 2016, 05:32:52 am

Quote from: Thexor on February 25, 2016, 10:51:31 pm

Block is the safe level up on a warrior. Mighty Blow is the aggressive level up. Guard is also an option, though a lot of pros don't take it early on Chaos. Doubles or other skills are for crazy awesome decisions if you're feeling like a fun challenge.

...we should really have a proper Blood Bowl thread.  :o

I got a double on the warrior and went with the dubious decision of Dodge. I may end up necroing the Blood Bowl thread later today.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 27, 2016, 05:41:34 am

Got Feebas to evolve. Okay, that was actually a hell of a lot less difficult in ORAS than it was in the originals, but hey, I own a mermaid now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby. It's less difficult because A)Feebas is FAR easier to catch, B)There's no limit to how many Pokeblocks you can cram down a Pokemon's throat, and C)You can see their contest stats directly, none of which applied in R/S/E.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 27, 2016, 01:50:51 pm

I may have executed the world's dumbest orbital reentry, but I did it. I successfully returned to Kerbin after a flyby of the Mun, bringing home nearly 200 science.

I had to spend nearly 10 IRL minutes aerobraking, using the final rocket stage as an impromptu heat shield because the actual heat shield wasn't working. I think I orbited the entire planet at least once, praying all the while that I didn't tumble over and turn the incredibly flammable command pod towards the atmosphere.

Somehow, miraculously, the final stage created enough drag that I was able to deploy the parachute, well within the atmosphere while moving at a reasonable velocity.

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 27, 2016, 02:43:21 pm

Was at 4 life and basically dead on board, but had a lot of (non-flying) big dudes out, including Kozilek.

I convinced my two opponents (cousin and brother) to attack each other instead of me by forming alliances with first one and then the other, and managed to get one to kill the other. When this happened, one was at 11 life and completely tapped out and open. I won. MWAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAA

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magic: The Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 27, 2016, 03:16:40 pm

If you were playing with physical cards around a table, I humbly tip my hat to you. Sadly, it seems more likely that you were using some sort of private messaging system to forge those alliances without the respective other parties' attention. Still a nice hustle, though. Nobody expects the Kingmaker to win, but when it happens, it's glorious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on February 27, 2016, 03:49:51 pm

Nope,physical cards.

I literally learned my cousin to play today, though, and my brother is too much of a pushover to try and convince him not to attack him :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 27, 2016, 09:06:46 pm

Quote from: Teneb on February 26, 2016, 05:32:52 am

Quote from: Thexor on February 25, 2016, 10:51:31 pm

Block is the safe level up on a warrior. Mighty Blow is the aggressive level up. Guard is also an option, though a lot of pros don't take it early on Chaos. Doubles or other skills are for crazy awesome decisions if you're feeling like a fun challenge.

...we should really have a proper Blood Bowl thread.  :o

I got a double on the warrior and went with the dubious decision of Dodge. I may end up necroing the Blood Bowl thread later today.

Fairly good decision on doubles, IMO. Blodge is a good combo, and CWs still have AGI3, so you can use it for mobility as well as defense. Will be a lot stronger with Block next level.  :)

On-topic: decided it was high time I learned to play Daredevil, and proceeded to get 7 wins in 9 matches. After an entire PvP season of standing in the middle of teamfights with an Auramancer, dealing low damage and being nearly invincible, it was fun to play a mobile glass cannon for a few matches. And landing that elite combo to instakill someone is immensely satisfying!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 27, 2016, 11:13:37 pm

I have been able to top the scoreboard of my team for about 2 server restart's worth (I think?).

Granted, as a Medic, this is somewhat easy but I feel awesome nonetheless.

Also, spraying syringes at enemies is surprisingly fun and effective, if you're close enough.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 28, 2016, 03:11:54 am

Marathonned Chapters 9 (finally), 10 (with no resets! A first!) and 11, the latter ending anticlimactically thanks to Lon'qu+Gregor and Virion's Longbow, without stopping to grind endlessly between them. It was.. actually pretty fun.
And now three hours from when I last opened the game.
Fire Emblem Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 28, 2016, 10:09:55 am

I should probably stop using a tank as a sniper rifle, but I was having so much fun. At one point I managed to get my Lightning into a very narrow spot just barely wide enough for it(I accidentally ran over a friendly while backing away from fire). In the same spot, a group of friendlies and a group of enemies were shooting across a narrow bridge. They had a MANA-AP turret on their side. Our side had a tank.

Before long(but still after a half a dozen kills on my part), several energy trails from Vanu missile launchers were constantly flying across the chasm towards me. Many missed due to suppressing fire from the squad I was helping, and the ones that did hit were quickly repaired by friendly engineers. By the time we pushed across the bridge, the Vanu were yelling about killing "that idiot lightning". Eventually did get killed trying to cross; getting hit from three directions by missile fire will kill you no matter how many engineers you have.

Probably would have gotten more kills if I had gotten the HE cannon instead of the AP cannon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on February 28, 2016, 01:40:19 pm

Cleared a monster zoo. Fuck yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeons Of Dredmor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on February 29, 2016, 12:39:15 am

Had a busy day with the clan today. I and another guy were looting radtowns and looking for people to shoot; I teleported onto the top of the main trainyard building intending to tpa him in after, but it turned out that some other clan had called in airdrops on the place to attract people. I stood up looking at a naked reloading a pipe shotgun and someone shooting my back with an AK, so I bailed through a hole in the floor, blasted a guy in the face with my shotgun, and ran down a broken pipe, then accepted my clanmate's tpr on the ground after I sneaked past another random running around shooting people. Spent a few minutes creeping around, then left to snipe at people from outside.

Later I got tpr'd into the top of a tower in reactor by another clanmate who was dumb enough to have a home set on a tiny coverless tower. He was already shooting at a guy running on the ground, I popped up and domed him. We hit the ground running for the body after taking shots on the ladder; some guy with a Thompson jumped me, I shotgunned him, and we both ran away, but my buddy found and killed him while I was looting the other corpse. With people behind us and more guys showing up at the hill in front of us, we ran back into reactor from a different angle and /home'd out. Got three custom weapons from that dude.

We went back to reactor again on the same spot with three of us, but there was another group of clan guys already shooting at us, and there was zero fucking cover on that tower, so I bailed down the ladder at about the same time that they both died, then hid in a train car to /home out while another group of players showed up and got into a firefight with the initial batch.

To round things out, two of us offline-raided six bases because we had an excess of explosives. Plus one that was just troll honeycomb with nothing inside that I wasted 12 rockets and 4 C4 on. Also killed a couple guys from a mountain when they went for an airdrop.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rust

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 29, 2016, 06:09:00 am

Can we post another person's owns?

Scott Manley rescued a vehicle from a suborbital trajectory, using another vehicle to pick it up with a scoop made out of tail fins. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdAVYRfhA4) He then returned it all the way from the Mun to Kerbin.

The game, of course, is Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 29, 2016, 06:25:31 am

You shouldn't, because one own becomes another, and another, and then you just say "Everything Scott Manley does, has done, and will do". :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 29, 2016, 06:37:50 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 29, 2016, 06:09:00 am

Can we post another person's owns?

Scott Manley rescued a vehicle from a suborbital trajectory, using another vehicle to pick it up with a scoop made out of tail fins. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdAVYRfhA4) He then returned it all the way from the Mun to Kerbin.

The game, of course, is Kerbal Space Program.

As someone who doesn't own KSP that looked like magic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 29, 2016, 07:23:17 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 29, 2016, 06:37:50 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 29, 2016, 06:09:00 am

Can we post another person's owns?

Scott Manley rescued a vehicle from a suborbital trajectory, using another vehicle to pick it up with a scoop made out of tail fins. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdAVYRfhA4) He then returned it all the way from the Mun to Kerbin.

The game, of course, is Kerbal Space Program.

As someone who doesn't own KSP that looked like magic.

As someone who does own KSP, that looked like magic.


EDIT: Had a pretty fun, long session. Since TR was overpopulated, we basically zergged the NC, and I eventually stopped when we linked their warp gate. During the final battle, I shot down a Liberator with a L100 Python AP, and the wreckage apparently crashed into an enemy squad. And that wasn't the first time in the play session I shot down a Liberator with the tank cannon. I think it was the same guy I shot down, too.
Or the first time I shot down an aircraft at all, though the other time was a Reaver with an anti-aircraft turret.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. Holy crap, I do not regret unlocking the anti-tank tank cannon for the Lightning. Next stop, either extra C4 or rocket pods for the Mosquito.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 29, 2016, 09:49:53 am

The man just showing that the Scots are best at everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 29, 2016, 11:24:54 am

Rolling up your sleeves and beating someone in a war? Satisfying. Backhanding them politically with a single message? Amazing.

Might & Fealty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordBrassroast on February 29, 2016, 12:42:16 pm

Playing as Denmark in 1080. Stole Lappland, Vesterbotten, and some other county from disorganized pagans and usurped the Duchy of Norrland. Now me and my Norwegian allies are working on stealing Sweden.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on February 29, 2016, 03:28:48 pm

Quote from: LordBrassroast on February 29, 2016, 12:42:16 pm

Playing as Denmark in 1080. Stole Lappland, Vesterbotten, and some other county from disorganized pagans and usurped the Duchy of Norrland. Now me and my Norwegian allies are working on stealing Sweden.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2.

When you say "Stole", do you mean without a fight?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on February 29, 2016, 04:27:40 pm

I was in a 2vs2 fight, with a random person and two friends that clearly communicated over Skype or Teamspeak or something. We started the game, made a FOB on a fortified hill, popped an M2 Browning and a few cannons and started overwatching and shelling the village with mortars. The game went on, we started to get more guns and more powerful guns, and basically just held the site. Then the Germans rushed with a StuG IV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgesch%C3%BCtz_IV) on the right flank, taking out my Hellcat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Hellcat) hidden in bushes. On that flank, I only had a M5 Stuart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Stuart). Basically, I'm fucked. I took an potshot at the thing and thankfully, took off it's track so I could flank it and somehow I killed it from a side. At that point I simply just went forward, because I spotted German rocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_cm_Nebelwerfer_41) artillery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurfrahmen_40), which I promtly drove over and put an shoot through the rear door of the other one. At that point, I was deep behind the enemy lines so I just went forward, killing some random Grenadiers while going at max speed, when I spotted an Sd.Kfz. 250/8  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd.Kfz._250) coming at me, so I hid behind a warehouse at train station which quickly got reduced to rubble so I just started to shoot it, and then... a bloody Veteran (which basically meant it was the scariest thing Germans had in that match) Panther (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank) coming at me. I quickly bailed by crew before he shoot the Stuart, and hid behind it... and then I ordered one of my crewmembers to take out a dynamite (that should be usually used for obstacle clearing or something) out of the tank. The Panther, for some reason, rushed (proably wanted to take out my crew before they do anything) and I threw the dynamite at it, despite not actually having the range to make it to it, so the guy would have time to retreat, but... but then he literally shoot the dynamite mid-flight with his main cannon by accident, taking out his goddamn tank... then I proceeded to use the surviving two crewmembers to spot two enemy Karl-Geräts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Ger%C3%A4t) which I then showered with T34 Calliopes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T34_Calliope), and promptly captured one of the Karls to take out enemy Sturmtiger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmtiger) that was hidden in some house nearby. Losing an Super Pershing to enemy Tiger later on couldn't change anything.

Spoiler:
The poor two guys I fought were so salty they basically shouted at me through the ingame chat and kicked me out after the game ended. (click to show/hide)

Men Of War: Assault Squad 2 Multiplayer, with amazing RobZ realism mod.

TL;DR
I used a thing that costs maybe 5 Victory Points to take out enemy forces worth nearly 1000, in a game with 1200 points limit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on February 29, 2016, 05:12:58 pm

Quote from: Kot on February 29, 2016, 04:27:40 pm

-snip-

I love killing expensive weapons with discount units. That's the beauty of Assault Squad 2. Good micro can make up for bad buys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on February 29, 2016, 06:05:37 pm

I figured out how to make a device in Infinifactory that should make all the future levels much easier.  For a little while I was having trouble getting my brain to click right for this game, but I think I've got it figured now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordBrassroast on February 29, 2016, 06:30:15 pm

Quote from: Wysthric on February 29, 2016, 03:28:48 pm

Quote from: LordBrassroast on February 29, 2016, 12:42:16 pm

Playing as Denmark in 1080. Stole Lappland, Vesterbotten, and some other county from disorganized pagans and usurped the Duchy of Norrland. Now me and my Norwegian allies are working on stealing Sweden.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2.

When you say "Stole", do you mean without a fight?

Erm. We holy warred the Norse and laid a bullshit claim on Lappland because there's still actually a sizable Suomenusko population at this point. So, no, it was more like conquering than stealing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 01, 2016, 02:23:18 am

I successfully completed an orbital rendezvous! It was a huge pain in the ass, because the target was mere kilometers above the atmosphere—the bare minimum of a stable orbit. After hours of waiting to get in range, fine maneuvering, overshooting the target, loading quicksaves and cursing at the computer, however, I finally rescued Diluki Kerman.

And then he burned up on reentry. I got him down safely on the third try, though!

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Worldmaster27 on March 03, 2016, 05:51:12 pm

Fought off Balrog, with only 1 health remaining :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cave Story

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 04, 2016, 03:57:55 pm

I finally completed a mission! I even destroyed three enemy craft according to the stats screen, although I swear I blew up a whole lot more than that. Regardless, I attribute my success to my actually-pretty-competent AI wingmen. Half the time I was unsure where I should be, since all the combat seemed to be happening by the Star Destroyer while my own squadron was hanging out with the convoy.

Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 04, 2016, 05:30:01 pm

Took me several tries, but I beat Miku 50-14(it's a 64-piece board). Most games we're within 10 points(often with her winning).

Spoiler: I think I upset her (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Dw6lhf5.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX, the reversi minigame(which is called Mikuversi in-game).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nirur Torir on March 04, 2016, 05:35:55 pm

My 450 HP creature got a little bit confused and disintegrated itself for 5800 damage.

It totally counts as me owning.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Siralim. It's sorta like Pokemon, but with the entire party fighting at once.
My creature gets 20% more attack when one of my creatures heal. My party has regeneration and shares a bit of damage whenever one gets hit. It also has splash, but that doesn't seem to work on confused creatures, so it wasn't a TPK.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on March 05, 2016, 10:08:57 am

I wrote this in narrative because my ship configuration really makes me think of an x-wing fighter. Just dark blue with a twin-thruster cylindrical engine. xD

The game is Event Horizon (Mobile). [I finally learned how to do screenshots with my phone!]

And I'm using one of the 'medium' ships. Especially one I'd never thought of using given so many other ships in the 'Heavy' weight class category acting as warships, or 'Light' weight class fighters being able to outmaneuver enemies and blast them with a quick turnaround.

This one packed both (http://event-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Thunder), to my surprise. I was able to clear a whole enemy base at ~700+% difficulty [double-veteran flagships of *any type* and all] with it because of amazing speed + maneuverability, and a large shock impact from the M2 pulse cannons it had, with half the range of a railgun that can cover a quarter of the whole battle field screen (long-ranged/long-recharge cannon; battlefield was ~300+ range units max?). And to mark it like an X-wing fighter, it looks like one in the 2D battle overview, but...dark blue. (though with the wings folded and minus the "Barrel M2" satellites...which somehow remind me of the old game Gradius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius_(video_game))).

I feel like a rebel whenever I play. Although by in-game lore, it's pretty confusing considering all the enemy has are...very separated 'sectors' which surround the player base in a spiral hexagon.

Spoiler: My ship configuration (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/zvZcacS.png)(http://i.imgur.com/oUuIm58.png)

Stuffed with inertia dampeners to lower the 'weight' (or relative measurement affecting velocity at an inverse proportion), and shielded by impact, thermal and energy absorbers coupled with a nice HP ratio make it very well able to take a hit. Two anti-matter reactors, a beautiful setup combining cannon slots and a targeting device, and armored fuel tanks for...a hit point bonus (yep, fuel tanks ._.) make me able to take the 10 enemy ship maximum # at any one time in a battle.

It's also the fastest ship in my fleet >_> [And particularly faster than any ship the enemy can throw at me, sans ones with the Afterburner {esp. Mark 2 enemy scouts}. I believe 12.50 is the highest any enemy ship can go before warp drives/afterburner boosts] That means even faster than my 'Light' class fighters, because of MORE space for inertia dampeners!
^{*While the nose of the fightercraft does contain a large, unarmored fuel tank...that doesn't necessarily matter though I did go 'wat' when I first played the game and studied the designs. xD}
Plus, I love watching enemy drones* getting flung away like by a slingshot upon impact by any of those pulse cannons. It's like I'm swatting away at them as they try to screen their carrier away from getting blasted :3
^{Impulse = units of momentum exchanged on impact.}

The latest patches also give each and every item from fuel tanks, to the auxiliary support items a module boost! :D With color coding from Bad > Normal > Good > Excellent > Golden! quality!
In which I forgot the terms, but it feels that way.
^{Whatever is the superlative above excellent...that's the last color. I ran out of thesaurus.}

*Drone = That space invaders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders) icon. Basically tiny ships inside your ship with basic armaments from repair to energy drain, to 99% accurate 'bolt' laser, to missile launchers!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 05, 2016, 04:24:25 pm

First time fighting It Lives, though it was in a daily challenge so I'm not sure it counted. Anyways, once I get rid of it's minions to make it vulnerable, I shoot it like, twice, using the power boost I get from being within the aura of a succubus, and I've beat it! Blew it to high hell! Which... is where I went next, basically, blowing everything up like a boss, ultimately coming up to Satan Himself, who actually managed to deal some damage to me in his final form, but I still won! Like, this is the first time ever I've gotten that far.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 05, 2016, 05:14:15 pm

Took Fort Niagra from the French. Despite some severe derpiness with pathfinding which resulted in some militia marching directly in front of some of the Frenchmen's lines I lost ~230 with them losing ~750.

For some bizarre reason, the French had a single regiment of 24lb cannon sitting inside the fort... blasting away at the fort. All but one of the interior buildings in the fort were destroyed and a breach in the wall allowing my men to enter was made by their own guns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Empire: Total War, Path to Independence campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 05, 2016, 09:31:26 pm

Finally beat some undead source warlock in some random tomb.   It was an own because said source warlock opens the fight by summoning a higher level version of every boss I fought so far and drops half a dozen meteors on my party that instantly create a total party kill.

I beat him by sending in my beefiest hp dude into the room alone, started the pre combat dialog, and while the bad guy was monolougeing I had the rest of my party cast every fire resistance spell they had in their arsenal.  Even went so far as picking up a barrel full of water from town, hauling it all the way to the boss fight and throwing it at my dude so that when the meteors fell the barrel would break and drench everything with water.

When the meteors fell even after all that prep, he STILL nearly died, and I had him use his first turn to teleport to the rest of my party behind the door to the room and kill all of the bosses one at a time as they all tried to push their way through the door to try and murderface me.

I feel tactical....and a little cheap.  But hey, I did it.

Divinity: Origonal Sin Enhanced edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 05, 2016, 10:29:28 pm

I managed to plow through Chapter 14 in one go (after losing Chrom... three separate times... goddammit, Chrom) and kill every enemy, to boot.
Fire Emblem Awakening

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 05, 2016, 10:49:52 pm

I stared at a pig until it fell over dead.

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Minecraft - Simply Magic modpack on FTB. As it turns out, there's a Thaumcraft warp-related effect that causes mobs to slowly take damage when you are looking at them and you are nearby.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 05, 2016, 10:53:46 pm

Sigged

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 05, 2016, 10:57:29 pm

Quote from: NRDL on March 05, 2016, 10:53:46 pm

Sigged

 :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 05, 2016, 10:57:35 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on March 05, 2016, 10:49:52 pm

I stared at a pig until it fell over dead.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Minecraft - Simply Magic modpack on FTB. As it turns out, there's a Thaumcraft warp-related effect that causes mobs to slowly take damage when you are looking at them and you are nearby.

Steve?s That Stare At Goats Pigs.
Direct to DVD October 2016

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 06, 2016, 12:08:54 am

A predecessor to The Fine Art of Pig Boring:A History.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 06, 2016, 08:18:39 am

I wiped out some rebel scum without even taking a single hit. The Y-wing escorts were utterly powerless to stop me as I torpedoed their freighters from four kilometers away, destroying their precious supplies and ending their retreat before it could even get off the ground. Even when they called for help, the iron fist of the Imperial navy was more than enough to destroy their pitiful squadrons.

Star Wars: TIE Fighter Special Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on March 06, 2016, 12:59:42 pm

Speaking of Star Wars, I did my first skirmish in a good while, and did pretty well in being a team player in a starship v starship (actually one of the pre-builds with 2 starships and a few waves of fighters against each other). Destroyed a good dozen or so fighters, and a handful of assists here and there, while aiding in the destruction of a Star Destroyer (Victory-Class) and a Dreadnought. Finished the skirmish with a close fly-by of the Calamari Cruiser for a good lap around it, before landing in the hangar.

Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (Steam Edition)



Too bad I can't use any of the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade (http://xwaupgrade.com/)/Darksaber Pack (http://darksaber.xwaupgrade.com/) in this version.

PRE-EDIT:
And before I could even finish this post, I take that back. Seems Darksaber found a workaround for Steam (http://www.xwaupgrade.com/phpBB3008/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11427). YAY!

EDIT:
I forgot, Darksaber also made a TIE Fighter Total Conversion Mod for XWA (http://darksaber.xwaupgrade.com/craftpacktftc2.html).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 06, 2016, 09:29:17 pm

It took many lives, but I finally declared independence from Great Britain in 1789. Even after pushing the redcoats off the continent from Quebec to St. Augustine, I still needed a few more territories. And the Cherokees were perfectly hostile to me, so... AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

During the campaign, several members of Congress took mistresses and Thomas Jefferson became corrupt.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Empire: Total War, Path to Independence campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 06, 2016, 09:31:13 pm

Managed to get all the way to Sector Eight and fight the Flagship.
Just with the starter Ion cannon, a Pike, Burst Laser, two Attack Drones and a System Repair drone.
FTL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 06, 2016, 10:05:13 pm

I wouldn't say this is an "own" from an overall standpoint, but rather on a "recovery from screwup" standpoint:

Eagle's forces decimated my army. I had no way to defeat the rest of his army, because I was left with literally one unit, an Infantry, with no factories.

So what did I do? It was a fog of war map, so I did the only sensible thing: guerrilla warfare. The infantry rushed from forest to forest in a last-ditch effort to capture Green Earth's HQ. And lo and behold, the only thing guarding their HQ was a Fighter Jet who couldn't see or even attack me. I rushed right over there and took over his HQ and Eagle somehow had no clue that I was doing so.

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Advance Wars.

Bloody hell I'm bad at this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 06, 2016, 10:12:02 pm

...I know exactly which mission that is.  Its the one with the long road where you have air units but no airport to refuel them, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 06, 2016, 10:24:53 pm

Yes! That's the one. Heck, I would've OWNED that level if I'd been able to refuel my fighter and take out that bomber.

...Airports? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 06, 2016, 10:26:58 pm

Can't you use APCs to refuel air units?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 06, 2016, 10:49:52 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 06, 2016, 10:26:58 pm

Can't you use APCs to refuel air units?

You can.  It's one of the great mysteries of the Advance Wars 'verse, like those magic pipes that extend high enough to block bombers. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 06, 2016, 10:58:53 pm

Pipes? Friggin infantry block bombers just as well :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 06, 2016, 10:59:57 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 06, 2016, 10:58:53 pm

Pipes? Friggin infantry block bombers just as well :P

Submerged subs, too.  I forgot that one. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 06, 2016, 11:01:37 pm

Successfully ferreted out the scum based off of the inconsistency between their claim and the round start's flavor, which was pages and probably weeks ago.

Mafia (Mafia Marathon, in the Mafia subforum.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on March 06, 2016, 11:02:41 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 06, 2016, 11:01:37 pm

We do not speak about Mafia until the game is finished. :P Them's the rules of Mafia, no matter how elated one is about their victory, or otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 06, 2016, 11:03:29 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 06, 2016, 11:01:37 pm

Successfully ferreted out the scum based off of the inconsistency between their claim and the round start's flavor, which was pages and probably weeks ago.

Mafia (Mafia Marathon, in the Mafia subforum.)

Aye you did that all on your own :P cheeky mare...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 06, 2016, 11:04:22 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on March 06, 2016, 11:02:41 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 06, 2016, 11:01:37 pm

We do not speak about Mafia until the game is finished. :P Them's the rules of Mafia, no matter how elated one is about their victory, or otherwise.

Well that game is done. Or rather that round... 14 to go!

Also uh... DP sorry

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 06, 2016, 11:15:29 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 06, 2016, 10:26:58 pm

Can't you use APCs to refuel air units?

IIRC you get one but you're playing as Sami so it feels natural to use it as a transport for infantry and the original Advance Wars AI had tunnel vision for killing APCs.  By the time you realize you need it you're probably close to the end of the mission and its already dead

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 07, 2016, 09:08:25 am

{spoiler}, {spoiler}, pacifist ending, {spoiler].

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Now to go back and kill EVERYONE.

And I think Asgore has the correct reaction to that statement:
(http://i.imgur.com/BmLVP9a.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 08, 2016, 04:51:36 am

I just outboxed a necromancer tower.  Got every last undead and pink-spellcasting sonuvabitch in there. 

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 08, 2016, 06:50:33 am

Quote from: Akura on March 07, 2016, 09:08:25 am

{spoiler}, {spoiler}, pacifist ending, {spoiler].

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertale. Now to go back and kill EVERYONE.

And I think Asgore has the correct reaction to that statement:
(http://i.imgur.com/BmLVP9a.png)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You.  Monster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on March 08, 2016, 05:07:50 pm

We weren't really owning them until like 10:10. At that point, we, as Counter-Terrorists, had ridiculous amounts of money due to hostage shenanigans, and for some reason we all decided to buy Negevs.

It was straight up rape from there. I belive we haven't lost a single person over the next 5 rounds (in the last one we ran headfirst and spammed Negevs so in the end three of us died, two at that point and the last one due to losing a duel later on because he had low HP) threw decoys everywhere and the poor terrorists basically had no fucking idea what was happening. We just mopped up the floor with them.

"We should all have Negevs...   YOU GET A NEGEV!       YOU GET A NEGEV!     EVERYONE GETS NEGEVS!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with randoms

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 08, 2016, 08:14:19 pm

Why would you use a Negev ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on March 08, 2016, 08:37:55 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 08, 2016, 08:14:19 pm

Why would you use a Negev ever.

^{I think that's the joke}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ChairmanPoo on March 09, 2016, 07:43:50 pm

In Reassembly, my "Hot needle of Inquiry" is kicking ass with 6 plasma swords. I basically ram ships and let the plasma cutters dig through the hull to the core


Now, the design has progressed over time, as I added more plasma beams to the ship. Now its big enough to comfortably hold a construction bay. So I ram ships (even bigger ships), destroy them, steal their stuffs, and spawn bases and defensive platforms like crazy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 09, 2016, 07:49:41 pm

Me and my team of utterly useless scrubs went 6-0 down with 2:28 left.

Managed to tie the game with 1 second left, after I completely whiffed on a shot to tie, and one of my teammates tapped it in at the back post.

Lost 7-6 but ah well...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rocket League

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on March 09, 2016, 08:04:10 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 08, 2016, 08:14:19 pm

Why would you use a Negev ever.

I actually started to enjoy it, due to sheer randomness factor it brings into the play. You can actually win close-medium range duels pretty easily and it's actually suprisingly fucking accurate (well, not like an sniper rifle but the rate of fire makes up for it) once you get it spinning (after first 50 rounds the recoil just stops worsening and all the bullets travel at ~30 degrees up from now on), you can prefire all the time, you got ridiculous amounts of ammuniton so the chance you will run out in a duel is very low, you can wallbang basically every spot and the goddamn thing is actually ridiculously scary (they have no fucking idea what to do) even for the medium ranks due to it's rarity. It's also the ace machine if you run into enemy rush, since the bullets can go through all the five guys (not like it matters that much, due to sheer volume of fire), IIRC. Actually, two games ago I ran into T rush on connector on Overpass and I didin't even realize the round was over until like five seconds later due to the fact that I killed all fiev guys in a fraction of second. Seriously, it's pure joy to play, and hearing your teammates singing "FOR MOTHER RUSSIAAAA, UNIOOON OF LAAAAANNNDS" while you're all charging with Negevs is pretty worthwhile sight. The only problem is that it's the easiest way to drown $5700 down the sink and grant your enemy a good weapon, but considering the amount of people that end up being $4750 decoys, it's not that bad. Also, remember this (https://www.reddit.com/r/gonewildnegev/) exists.




Aaaaaaaaaaaaannndd... at least it isin't M249...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on March 11, 2016, 12:23:57 pm

Welp... I accidently started a run in Darkest Dungeon in the Warrens... with no torches... And it was a medium mission with 3 level 1s and 1 level 0. Not only did I somehow manage to not get any of them killed on the medium mission, but I also managed to keep all of their stress under 100, preventing an affliction! These guys really wanted to live, and I'm proud of them!

For those interested (Party comp. starting with the 4th position): HoundMaster(0), GraveRobber(1), Abomination(1), Hellion(1).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 11, 2016, 09:30:21 pm

Beat the Anvil of Khorne as the Necron Overlord. This hero is so stupidly strong when he hits level 7. Make it a team of three overlords, and wave 19 is pretty much all you got to worry about.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War 2's Last Stand mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 11, 2016, 09:43:04 pm

Jar of Hearts + "1+1=?" = Infinite heart pickups.
So not worrying about damaging myself too much to fight Mom's Heart, I went through one of those spiky doors that usually holds a red chest. I touched the chest and got teleported to the Devil Room. Which let me bypass Mom's Heart entirely and fight in Sheol.
I then proceed to flood the boss-room with hearts, and then the boss fight was super easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BoI: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on March 12, 2016, 05:44:00 pm

Finally beat the final boss! This was a pretty tough game. Neverthless I feel the need to replay it on hard...
I really, really liked the fantastic Moebius-style art and setting. It's not something I see very often in games. Or maybe I'm just playing the wrong ones.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Panzer Dragoon Orta. I Remember playing it a long time ago, but I never really got into it. Until now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 12, 2016, 08:01:26 pm

Quote from: ChairmanPoo on March 09, 2016, 07:43:50 pm

In Reassembly, my "Hot needle of Inquiry" is kicking ass with 6 plasma swords. I basically ram ships and let the plasma cutters dig through the hull to the core


Now, the design has progressed over time, as I added more plasma beams to the ship. Now its big enough to comfortably hold a construction bay. So I ram ships (even bigger ships), destroy them, steal their stuffs, and spawn bases and defensive platforms like crazy

You should unlock the "evil player faction" or whatever it's called. They have "armor spikes" which let you basically coat a ship in armor with 500% melee damage, add boosters, and fly straight through *EVERYTHING*. Enemy ships, capital ships, stations, asteroids, you name it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 12, 2016, 08:05:27 pm

We're going to worlds!  (AND we WON!)

(Robotics, RL)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 12, 2016, 08:19:20 pm

Please link me to this Robotics roguelike.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 12, 2016, 08:22:08 pm

www.robotevents.com

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 13, 2016, 08:33:15 am

Within the first five minutes of logging in:

Shot down 2 Scythes(one was considered an assist)

Killed the driver of a cloaked Flash.

Headshotted an engineer repairing a damaged Sunderer(got the assist on the Sundie as well)

Barely won a duel with another Lightning; fixed myself back up within seconds.


All with a tank cannon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 14, 2016, 12:09:50 am

I always found hitting those bloody mosquitos amusing with a tank.   Yep I got a kill assist on that mosquito.   ...by shooting it with a tank cannon, causing the pilot to bail out in a panic and splatter all over a tree.  The actual good pilots don't panic like that but it's always fun when you get lucky and just get someone who was using that as a quick transport. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 14, 2016, 09:41:14 pm

EDIT: Just realized this sounds strange to those unfamiliar with the "official" Oldschool Runescape service. You can basically buy paid membership with in-game gold, which costs about 3 million GP. That takes a long time to acquire, unless you're smart about it.

I have finally unlocked the secret to never having to pay for Runescape mems.

As opposed to mining tin and copper myself, walking all the way to Edgeville to smelt it and then selling the bars directly without even smithing them to anything (2k per 20-30 minute round trip), I can sell iron knives.

However, the key is to just buy the iron directly instead of mining it. Mining is a big waste of time. I have plenty of start-up capital, so I can just buy 200ish iron, smith it all at once and then turn it all into throwing knives. Selling them all at once, I can get basically infinite money as long as I'm willing to spend the time smelting and smithing it all.

2007 Runescape.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 14, 2016, 11:28:06 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 14, 2016, 09:41:14 pm

EDIT: Just realized this sounds strange to those unfamiliar with the "official" Oldschool Runescape service. You can basically buy paid membership with in-game gold, which costs about 3 million GP. That takes a long time to acquire, unless you're smart about it.

I have finally unlocked the secret to never having to pay for Runescape mems.

As opposed to mining tin and copper myself, walking all the way to Edgeville to smelt it and then selling the bars directly without even smithing them to anything (2k per 20-30 minute round trip), I can sell iron knives.

However, the key is to just buy the iron directly instead of mining it. Mining is a big waste of time. I have plenty of start-up capital, so I can just buy 200ish iron, smith it all at once and then turn it all into throwing knives. Selling them all at once, I can get basically infinite money as long as I'm willing to spend the time smelting and smithing it all.

2007 Runescape.

Waaaaait, there are bonds for OSRS now!? I should get into it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 15, 2016, 07:20:27 pm

Oh my god, I can get membership without shelling out? Guthix above, I'm going to get cracking! :O

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 15, 2016, 08:48:03 pm

I'm usually against class changing people out of their starting class (not counting promotions). But the Villager class is literally made with that in mind, so I saw no issue with turning Mozu into an archer with a Heart Seal. She was mediocre, compared to her time as a villager. And then I finally completed the free DLC with Chrom and Lissa alive, and thus got the bonus items. I saw that the Great Lord class that was unlocked by one of them used Lances, and wanted Mozu to be viable again, so I used the item on her.

Cue the next fight and her single-handedly wrecking promoted units that my (former) best units could only kill with support from several other units. Found my new best unit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Hard/Classic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on March 15, 2016, 11:56:47 pm

After many many adventures (IE combat encounters, calling Ascension Peak and the Rapax areas a slog is a gross understatement) my party has ascended to the Cosmic Circle and killed the Dark Savant (yes that is his name and no, it doesn't make much more sense in-game) and accidentally destroyed the universe. It's all cool though, we're making a new one with ghost preevilification-Savant man. All in all, for what was apparently supposed to be a escort job for some dude, pretty good deal if you forget all the murder and pain.

Spoiler: And he was victorious! (click to show/hide)

Wizardry 8

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on March 16, 2016, 02:05:36 pm

Spoiler: OP as shit (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/oAMqqOn.png)
The ability is Suika's (they're both immune to it), the moves are Rin's. Suika in first, the sandstorm persists for the whole battle. Use her until she's about to faint, then switch to Rin. Burn + Fire Spin + Confuse Ray each enemy 2hu in the appropriate order, then Dig and reapply debuffs & DoTs until they faint. Rinse, repeat until the whole enemy roster is dead. The only thing that can stop it is something immune to both Fire and Earth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhoumon Purple, the best and most balanced of the Touhou romhacks, still home to some OP shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 16, 2016, 03:12:03 pm

Utterly destroyed a Difficult abduction mission. The enemy couldn't do anything once my sniper could see them via Squad Sight, and the last two tried to hide behind a brick wall. Thanks to my heavy's upgraded rockets, that wall wasn't around for long.

XCOM. I see what people mean when they say Squad Sight is overpowered :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 16, 2016, 03:16:12 pm

It's mostly that there's no aim penalty for it, so the snipers get the bonus of their weapon's optimum range on anything with Squadsight. They nerfed it in 2 by giving it an aim penalty the further away they get, but even then it can be compensated for by height advantage and scopes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 17, 2016, 01:01:34 am

My first time playing the game and I wanted to see if I could figure out how to tame a critter without looking up how to on google.  I already had some basic stuff, so I figured it was a good as a time to try as any.  After I successfully tame one (or give up)  I was going to look up how you actually do it and see how I did.

Spoiler: my steps taken (click to show/hide)

1) There was some kind of giant turtle swimming around in the pond behind where I put my house. It did not try to eat me when I got close.  That seemed like a good plus in the tameable category.
[seems that they are decent things to try and tame, apparently excellent when near water, according to the wiki. Which I seemed to be surrounded by.]

2) I made a club because that item claimed to render stuff unconscious. And lacking any other obvious bets for taming that seemed like it would work.
[I had a slingshot but failed to realize I needed rocks in my inventory to make it work]

3) I walked up to it and started bludgeoning it in the face.[A club is apparently one if not the WORST tool to try to tame these things with]  It did not like that.  And kept biting me I ran away into my hut, and it decided it wanted to break my hut, so I ran out and started throwing spears at it.

4) After a few spears to the face it started running away, and I followed it with my club beating it on it's tail until it fell over.  Success! I knocked it out by bludgeoning it's ass! I guess that's where dinosaurs keep their brains.

5) All I had was berries so I dumped my entire inventory of berries into it's inventory.  The numbers are counting down and there is a little tame meter now.  Clearly I am doing it right!

6) Wow this is taking forever.
[I had a few special purple berries, I should have noticed if it ate those first and went and got more, I guess if I must use berries to tame those are the ones to use.]

7) It seemed to be waking up faster than the tame meter was going up, so I beat it in the head with a club a few times.
[Worst possible way to do it apparently. I was supposed to force feed it narco berries, which it had in it's inventory but it won't eat unless I make it.  Beating it with a club did indeed keep it's torpor up, but it also pretty much literally beat it stupid.]

And then yay! after nearly an hour I had my own brand new turtle named daisy!

9) In our travels immediately after I find another turtle with a heart over it's head.  As I'm trying to get them as close as possible to see if it means what I think it means we get attacked by compies.  A stray spear hits romeo and Daisy starts attacking him.  I'm too busy stabbing little demon lizards to notice.  Male turtle kills daisy.  I GTFO.

In short I did indeed successfully tame a critter (in the most inefficient and worst way possible) and then immediately got it killed.   I'm still calling that an own since I did it all without looking up how.

Ark Survival evolved. (singleplayer til I know what I'm doing)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 17, 2016, 04:15:10 am

The last enemy base on the map was the tribal keep of the free mutants.  They'd attempted to attack multiple times by setting up hidden camps to use as supply bases to reach my headquarters, but each time I located and bombed them, then bombed the army and engaged.  Unfortunately, one of the generals, a geneticist named Mycorr, escaped his defeat.  Not only that but he escaped with a dangerous creature called a Mauler, a huge dinosaur that not only has the highest attack value possible but attacks twice and does double damage.  Since his failed offensive, Mycorr healed the beast back up in the keep and recruited a large number of decent mutants, mainly giant Skull Crushers.  The keep was located at the top of a mountain, with tunnels dug into it, giving it a ridiculous defense bonus (every defender would gain half the possible defense value on top of their normal defense).

Fortunately the AI isn't that bright and had Mycorr patrolling instead of sitting in the keep for a final stand.  My forward air controller saw that there were only two units of very weak mutants defending the base.  First, I launched multiple bombing runs on the defenders.  Then, in the same turn, my main army with six units of Imperial Marines (human soldiers with power armor and jetpacks) air attacked into the keep, easily overwhelming the heavily wounded and outnumbered defenders.  Mycorr now had no supplies and was forced to try and retake the keep.  Using the mutant's own defenses against them, the marines annihilated the entire enemy army without any damage taken at all.  As a last insult, the marines captured Mycorr and he joined a mutant scout commander rotting in prison.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Armageddon Empires

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 17, 2016, 06:35:05 am

I killed three Mutons, a Cyberdisk AND a Drone with one rocket. Colonel Fong has an absolutely absurd 44 kills to his name. He has proven himself able to tank several plasma hits, and is at the front line of every terror mission and UFO assault. I think I might have to quit this run if he dies.

XCOM.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on March 17, 2016, 08:55:54 am

Spoiler: 300 Intensifies (click to show/hide)

Participants
Rondan II Balkopan	Hjalti
Initial Troops
17 medium infantry                      73 light infantry     35 archers     1 noble	16 medium infantry            13 heavy infantry     8 archers     2 heavy cavalry     1 noble

Combat
Ranged Phase

35 shots fired                19 hits     4 enemies killed     5 enemies wounded

8 shots fired                5 hits     3 enemies killed

Melee Phase 1

123 soldiers fighting                6 enemies wounded     3 enemies killed	32 soldiers fighting     11 enemies killed     3 enemies wounded
Melee Phase 2
109 soldiers fighting            7 enemies wounded	25 soldiers fighting     7 enemies wounded     7 enemies killed
Melee Phase 3
95 soldiers fighting              1 enemy killed     7 enemies wounded	18 soldiers fighting     4 enemies wounded     6 enemies killed
Melee Phase 4
85 soldiers fighting     5 enemies wounded     2 enemies killed     1 enemy routed	11 soldiers fighting     3 enemies wounded     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 5
80 soldiers fighting     2 enemies wounded     1 enemy routed	6 soldiers fighting     5 enemies wounded
Melee Phase 6
75 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	4 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 7
73 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 8
71 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 9
68 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 10
66 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 11
64 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 12
62 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting
Melee Phase 13
62 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded

Melee Phase 14     61 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed     2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed Melee Phase 15
60 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 16
58 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting
Melee Phase 17
58 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 18
56 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed

A hundred and thirty-five walk in. Fifty-four leave. I took fourteen casualties. Remember, guys, it's not the size, it's how you use it.

For reference, running past four or five melee phases is unusual, and those casualty ratios are absolutely obscene for anything other than an attempt to storm a fortification (which this wasn't).

Also, in case you didn't want to read through hundreds of lines of table, three soldiers fought for a good twelve phases, taking out seventeen enemies. This is why you don't pit light infantry against heavies, guys. Those plate/warhorse knights will mess you up. It's just a pity they weren't better armed, or they'd have been causing a casualty each per phase, and I don't know if Balkopan would have made it out with much of an army left.

Might and Fealty

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2016, 06:07:32 pm

(http://t14.deviantart.net/RaBvjBUazSfScsEhQe8PpAcPoJA=/300x200/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre10/f488/th/pre/f/2015/358/a/8/teeny_magala_by_g00drah-d9lck65.png)
[GlaDOs voice] You monster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 17, 2016, 07:47:57 pm

Stole a bunch of expensive weapons from a shopkeeper and sold them back to him the next morning. Then I went to the bank, took out a $100,000 loan, and never came back.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II: Daggerfall.

Now this is fun. I'm a millionaire due to my efforts in walking into pawn shops in the dead of night, stealing a cartload of priceless artifacts, then ditching town and selling them to a pawnshop-owner in the next town over. Now I'm mostly just riding from town to town looking for a dwarven dai-katana.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2016, 07:50:20 pm

That's impossible; everyone knows stolen items are instantly recognizeable as stolen by the floating hand icon every time you look at one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2016, 08:34:23 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on March 17, 2016, 07:50:20 pm

That's impossible; everyone knows stolen items are instantly recognizeable as stolen by the floating hand icon every time you look at one.

Clearly, you have not been to the Illiac Bay region.

Spoiler: List of security capabilities by game (click to show/hide)

Arena: Guards kill on sight of you assaulting someone, possibly if B&E. Justified given that the big bad is in control and is a total asshole.
Daggerfall: Guards cannot spot stolen merchandise; nor can merchants even if it's their own. Guards can however identify you by blood once the alarm is raised(any injury including fall damage and sunlight damage results in the arrest dialogue - at this point you've been ID'd and lost legal rep).
Morrowind: All guards everywhere, even though every group of guards are on opposing sides(Imperial, Great Houses, Ordinators...) can instantly identify you as criminal scum, but will happily immediately take your money(and stolen goods) to clear the bounty unless it's over 1000 gold(then it's kill kill kill on sight). Shopkeepers are deluded into thinking that if something is stolen from them, then ALL instances of the stolen good are their stolen merchandise. Besides this, they will happily trade other people's stolen goods - after all, their competitors aren't making money off of it!
Oblivion: Stolen goods have a bright red hand painted on it. Merchants see this hand and refuse to trade it, but will ignore it even if you stole it's theirs. Guards are telepathically aware of cries of "Help! Help! I'm being attacked!", will immediately tell you to "Stop right there, criminal scum!". Upon arrest, instead of immediately taking your money, they teleport you to the local castle, then take your gold. Guards are incapable of solving ANY murders. Even ones they commit.
Skyrim: I don't have a lot of information on Skyrim's justice system. I haven't run too afoul of the law there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2016, 08:39:19 pm

Skyrim: Morrowind, except crimes are tracked on a hold-by-hold basis and being a serial murderer in Whiterun will have zero repercussions in, say, the Reach.
And you need to become a Master Trader to sell stolen goods to anyone who isn't a fence, regardless of whether the item in question is an apple or a priceless sword that slayed the World Eater.
And horses can bear witness to crimes, accruing a bounty with the local guards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 17, 2016, 08:43:02 pm

"What's that, pony, the dirty Khajjit stole a ring from that vendor over there? Oh dear, how atrocious. Come with me criminal scum. I used to be an adventurer like you..."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2016, 08:48:49 pm

More like "...! A horse several hundred meters away witnessed a theft and telepathically relayed me the thief's deeds, name, appearance, and profession! Arrest them as soon as they step in the gates!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 18, 2016, 06:14:48 am

One time I had a Skyrim guard attack me for no reason. My record with every hold is spotless, but a guard near the gate just started chopping the shit out of me for no reason. He let off once I depleted most of his health, but still.

There was also the time that I Fus Roh Dah'd Irileth and Balgruuf off the wall during the battle of Whiterun, reloaded a prior save and they remembered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 18, 2016, 06:40:18 am

You did Fus Roh Dah'd them off a wall, though.

FOOSRODAH was my favorite thing about the game. It was pretty boring and felt empty. The main plot is also really short and insubstantial.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 18, 2016, 04:43:38 pm

Maybe they're Dragonborn too? If I recall, save-scumming is supposed to be an ability of dragon(born)s, being the children of Akatosh(the god of time).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 18, 2016, 05:17:25 pm

I like to call being a cheater and turning on Godmode so I don't die yet again when I'm clearly outmatched the "blessing of Akatosh", which my friend actually suggested.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 18, 2016, 06:21:40 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 18, 2016, 04:43:38 pm

Maybe they're Dragonborn too? If I recall, save-scumming is supposed to be an ability of dragon(born)s, being the children of Akatosh(the god of time).

...Saves and loads being a story mechanic is actually good writing. Damn, Bethesda.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on March 18, 2016, 06:29:13 pm

Says the guy with an undertale avatar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 18, 2016, 06:30:17 pm

What can I say? Gameplay mechanics being worked into the story make me smile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 18, 2016, 06:54:27 pm

Bethesda wasn't the first to do it.

Spoiler: Probably Arx Fatalis spoilers (click to show/hide)

It's implied that Guardians have this as one of their powers, according to the dialogue with the dragon. Given that Guardians are the enforcers of the Noden, who in turn keep the gods(all ∞ of them) in line, this is a good power. Arx Fatalis is actually of good example of player character development mixed in the writing. Originally in-multiverse, Guardians were given godlike powers, but the mortals they helped began worshiping them as gods(in a multiverse where belief in a god = god. Bad Thing for the god-police). So the Noden instead simply made them so that every time they entered a world, they're weak but gain power fast. For example, within weeks a Guardian could become a master wizard or legendary warrior(things that take a lifetime), but it's limited somewhat in that they can't necessarily be both(min-maxing notwithstanding). And Guardians' stats are reset at the end of their mission.

Basically, the leveling system is a major plot point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 18, 2016, 08:19:08 pm

I wish Elder Scrolls would have a realistic justice system instead of hyper-aware hive-minded photographic-memory terminators patrolling the streets.

Ruins the city immersion for me. That and the 12-20 people living in a major city. They solved it with Fallout 4 by making nameless residents wander about. Hopefully that becomes a regular thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on March 18, 2016, 08:34:10 pm

In career mode, I'm currently 12-0 with 11 knockouts (and one referee stoppage.) One of my KOs took 17 seconds. UFC 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 18, 2016, 09:13:44 pm

Rescued a princess. No big deal, just the kind of thing I do in my spare time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Daggerfall again.

On an entirely unrelated note, why the hell is the Dark Brotherhood giving me Fighter's Guild missions?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 18, 2016, 09:42:17 pm

Stereotypes are bad, Tawarochir. How is the princess supposed to produce heirs for them to kill if she's kidnapped, osmosis?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 19, 2016, 02:18:45 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 18, 2016, 06:21:40 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 18, 2016, 04:43:38 pm

Maybe they're Dragonborn too? If I recall, save-scumming is supposed to be an ability of dragon(born)s, being the children of Akatosh(the god of time).

...Saves and loads being a story mechanic is actually good writing. Damn, Bethesda.

Actually, savescumming is part of the secret of CHIM, not of being Dragonborn. A series of books (http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_36_Lessons_of_Vivec) in Morrowind has subtle references to how Vivec abuses the fact that he's in a work of fiction to his advantage, leaving his companion Nerevar (who would later reincarnate as the player character) befuddled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 19, 2016, 05:04:50 am

Yep. Vivec disappeared in 4E because with the end of Morrowind and its expansions, his role in the story was over.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 19, 2016, 03:17:04 pm

What does CHIm stand for?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on March 19, 2016, 04:37:04 pm

It means "seeing the world as it is, without losing your identity. " You gain an understanding that the world is a wheel, the Towers are the spokes, Oblivion's planes are the spaces between the spokes, and something something the outer rim. Mundus, the mortal world, is at its center, and if you can observe it from the side you achieve god-above-godlike status. I can't remember what happens if you lose your identity, but something does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on March 19, 2016, 06:28:19 pm

Not really sure what it's called, null-sum? If you don't keep your identity you literally just stop existing because of the realisation that nothing is really real or something like that.

E:
also skyrim lore is one of the few things i can read a wiki page about and understand less than i did before. how do people even write these pages?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 19, 2016, 08:29:41 pm

I beat the Leone Telethia using a freaking beautiful chain attack of eight consecutive attacks.

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Xenoblade Chronicles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 19, 2016, 08:31:12 pm

Beat the Queen of Smiles, first try. In co-op, yes, but still.

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Salt and Sanctuary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 19, 2016, 08:34:27 pm

Nothing is really real?

Sounds like we're in a videogame or something.

An online one, of course. Far too many players for just four controller ports...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on March 19, 2016, 09:00:39 pm

Fought a bull demon on a city wall, defeated him with some jumping off a nearby tower and a lot of crossbow bolts.  Only took 5 tries or so.

Met Sir Blinds-Himself-Alot, whom offered some JOLLY COOPERATION.

Next I had to make it past a dragon drake, which took a dozen more tries.  Apparently, kicking a ladder in a different area pisses him off enough to make it easier to pass.

And then I stabbed a truck sized pig in the butt.

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Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on March 19, 2016, 09:06:56 pm

P R A I S E

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 20, 2016, 01:06:09 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on March 19, 2016, 03:17:04 pm

What does CHIm stand for?

That's like asking what the letter I stands for. While it has meaning when written alone as a word (royalty, high splendor, starlight), it's a syllable of the Daedric language that changes meaning with context.

This is also correct:

Quote from: Lukewarm on March 19, 2016, 04:37:04 pm

It means "seeing the world as it is, without losing your identity. "

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 20, 2016, 09:29:50 am

So, paralogue 14, to recruit Rhajat (I.E. "Totally-not-Tharja"). Every enemy either had a chance of halving damage, or had one of several 'weapon-breaker' skills that made them very hard to hit for everyone with that weapon (except for Subaki, who had 80% hit rate using an Iron Naginata). Then, a couple rounds in, my "let them come to us" strategy collapsed when I realized that they spawned in, four at a time for each of the ~six acid pools, so I had to rush them as they literally swarmed the group.

And then I realized that they only did one damage to Mozu and literally couldn't hurt Hinoka. Cue Hinoka killing 20+ enemies, solo, taking on the entire upper 2/3rds of the map by herself.

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Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Hard/Classic mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 21, 2016, 01:17:56 am

I reached palace having never fired a single ranged weapon since 1-3.  A dog guardian immediately and predictably tackled me and gave me a big sloppy licking.  But still, I killed Lil' Hunter with an energy screwdriver, that's got to count for something.

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Nuclear Throne, playing as Steroids.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on March 21, 2016, 08:03:24 am

CHIM is basically realizing you're basically an character in a Video Game thus you can do whatthefuckever you want. It's incredibly dangerous because it's basically realizing that nothing is real and you have no free will, so most "people" dissapear or lose all their consciousness when they realize. The rest goes "lolk" and starts using console cheats, savescumming, modding and whatever the player does in the game. This is actually great way to explain a lot of things, like that one time when Tiber Septim turned Cyrodiil from tropical jungle into temperate Europe we know from Oblivion. Or whatever the fuck Vivec actually does. It is also apparently a theory that Daedra are actually players or something, while Aedra are the creators of the whole simulation and so on. Proably explains why Talos "became" one of them after he overhauled the game... or something. It's real complicated shit and it's mostly theories, but TES has much more complicated and deep lore than it would seem.

Quote from: AzyWng on March 19, 2016, 08:34:27 pm

Nothing is really real?
Sounds like we're in a videogame or something.
An online one, of course. Far too many players for just four controller ports...

Actually, no, if CHIM is real we may as well be characters in singleplayer game. Or even no-player simulation. Think of it like Matrix except there is no actual humans anywhere. Or there is one. Who? Nobody knows, until he starts to mod the game but honsetly we wouldn't even notice if we ourselves aren't abusing CHIM or something.

Also - required. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lyKxKn_WsE)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Graknorke on March 21, 2016, 07:30:10 pm

Putnam Signal Activates!

Prepare to get lored on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 24, 2016, 04:07:36 am

Beat Hollow Queen first try! Started off pretty poorly, with a party shield from my fort causing her to bite it, followed by my landmaster, then wufan while I was busy reviving the others. My sniper though managed to get all 3 binds to stick for a couple turns on the bitch, so I was able to pull it out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Etrian Odyssey 4. Man, the Hollow Queen is a huge ramp-up from Berserker King...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 24, 2016, 05:24:58 am

It only gets harder from there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on March 24, 2016, 05:51:18 am

Not my first time playing, it just always gets me how much of a fucking road block the Hollow Queen can be, even when you're prepared and know exactly what to do. If my sniper hadn't fully bound the bitch for two turns, she'd likely have wiped me due to my poor start. (Future note: don't party shield against a boss unless I know my fort can actually tank it long enough to get healed)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 24, 2016, 07:08:39 am

Opened up the Goron Racetrack a second time, then beat it on my first try. Hell yes.
Then I beat it again (many more than one try later) just to sell the extra gold dust. Hell yes again.
Majora's Mask 3D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 24, 2016, 05:08:41 pm

Mawile, Regirock, Regsteel, and Snowplow the Regice went in to do a job. After only two thrown Ultra Balls, they came out with Regigigas.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Okay, that's pretty much the last batch of legendaries I can get without trading, as Zekrom, Giratina, and Landorus require AS exclusives. Then again, I do have AS, and can just sign up for the Pokemon Bank service... which for the time being will also get me a second set of Regis.


Would it be a viable strategy to Baton Pass an Aqua Ring from Gorebyss or Floatzel(the only two that seem to learn both, and Floatzel requires breeding for it; both require trading) to Regigigas holding Leftovers? Regigas ought to be tanky enough to hold out until it finishes charging up, especially if it can regenerate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on March 25, 2016, 06:21:33 pm

Managed to accidentally kill a hybrid with a cargo bay elevator.

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System Shock 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 25, 2016, 07:16:47 pm

My laning partner/carry was a potato and we got wrecked.  The enemies, who could easily have destroyed my squishy support body, where pushing our tower and obviously going to destroy it.  In DOTA 2 each team has a "glyph" that can make towers invincible for a few seconds every once in a while.  Towers can also be denied at low health to prevent enemies from getting the gold bounty for them.  I time the glyph when the tower has just a sliver of health left, walk in, deny it with a single basic attack right when the glyph runs out, and then walk away scot free.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 25, 2016, 07:28:24 pm

Was driving with Shaundi. I spin out, accidentally slam straight into a gas station. The explosion sends me flipping through the air. At this point, Shaundi sarcastically asks if we could drive safer.

We flew for a pretty far distance, then landed perfectly wheels down, and alive. Unlocked a bonus car from the trick, then went on to kill the leader of the voodoo gang(which was why Shaundi was with me).

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Saint's Row 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 25, 2016, 08:18:42 pm

I made Colossus from X-men in dwarf fortress. He has realistic osmium flesh, and can even HUAAAAAA at people. Also, he can pull off people's hands and feet.

I know this because I was told to pit him against a "The Flash" analogy, and that was the chosen tactic. I think he died of no-feet irony before he died of blood loss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 25, 2016, 08:48:57 pm

Got through 39 floors of the Cave of Ordeals before dying to the three Darknuts at the end. Pretty happy about that.
Twilight Princess

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 25, 2016, 10:30:13 pm

Sneaked into a dungeon room. Two skeletons were in there and both of them had their backs turned.

Skeletons don't realize you're beating them up if they can't see you.

RIP Sans and Papyrus

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Daggerfall

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on March 25, 2016, 08:48:57 pm

Got through 39 floors of the Cave of Ordeals before dying to the three Darknuts at the end. Pretty happy about that.
Twilight Princess

I've beaten it
twice
without the magic armor

git gud

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 25, 2016, 10:40:08 pm

Quote from: Covenant on March 24, 2016, 11:23:08 pm

Quote from: tryrar on March 24, 2016, 05:51:18 am

Not my first time playing, it just always gets me how much of a fucking road block the Hollow Queen can be, even when you're prepared and know exactly what to do. If my sniper hadn't fully bound the bitch for two turns, she'd likely have wiped me due to my poor start. (Future note: don't party shield against a boss unless I know my fort can actually tank it long enough to get healed)

Yeah, I think I just squeaked past her on my second go with just my Nightseeker left alive, in one of those 'Well if this attack doesn't kill it, I'm boned' moments. Luckily, Nightseekers kick ass.

That conditional drop is BS though.

Eugh, agreed.  That conditional drop is basically a giant "I am why Formaldehyde exists" sign. >_<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 25, 2016, 11:00:48 pm

I didn't have the Armor either. And about fourteen hearts?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 26, 2016, 05:06:07 am

Double post for fresh awesome:

It's finally the dawn of a new day, and a fierce deity has come out to play. I've never done this much in a game before.
Majora's Mask 3D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 26, 2016, 05:27:06 am

Managed to fly the lowest-tech possible airplane, do an observation mission over the sea, fly it back over land, pop the parachutes, land vertically, and nothing broke off.

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Kerbal Space Program. The plane was a cockpit, materials bay, goo container, an empty fuel tank as a fuselage(I don't have a fuselage or fuel pipe yet), two other fuel tanks with small-than-it engines and intakes, two empty space-fuel tanks rotated vertically to hold the parachutes(I don't have radial parachutes yet), wings, and landing gear. Handling is slow, but it's pretty stable overall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 27, 2016, 04:57:23 pm

I right-clicked on Little Hunter.

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 27, 2016, 08:32:28 pm

Some of the missions in San Andreas are actually pretty fun!

Like the one where you steal the combine harvester!

Also, you get introduced to the rifle, which is pretty cool!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on March 28, 2016, 12:27:39 am

Recently started playing Smite.  Played a couple AI matches with a friend to get some of the nuance down.  (I'm familiar with MOBAs but not this MOBA) and then jumped into normal games.

And won every one of them. Usually top kills too.  I'm 6 for 6 right now.  I'm sure this trend will continue and I will have a 100% win rate into infinity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 28, 2016, 07:40:50 am

Killed Mega Satan (first time, too) as Azazel with 2 heart containers. I managed to get a joker card in the Chest that got me a Mom's Knife, adding to my previously acquired God's Flesh, Chocolate Milk and Common Cold. I'm actually surprised at the damage since I didn't get anything incredibly strong aside from the knife.

Also, apparently you can kill Peep's eyes with God's Flesh, which is nice.

EDIT: Should mentioned I opened the door with the Get Out of Jail Free card.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 29, 2016, 04:50:27 pm

Sorta created a hentai slime monster orgy. It's not as bad as it sounds.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Found a Mirage Island with Ditto on it. As of right now, I have Dittos that carry at least two perfect IVs which altogether cover every stat. One of them damn near wrecked Mawile(who was Mega Evolved when Ditto wasn't) before I could catch it. Turns out Ditto's Hidden Ability, Imposter, also copies stats.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 29, 2016, 07:47:58 pm

Deadbolt is incredibly effective at making you feel awesome.

Kind of like Hotline Miami. You'll mess up numerous time and have to restart the level numerous times, but when you finally complete your mission....

There isn't exactly a long list of things better than that feeling.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 30, 2016, 12:17:51 am

Quote from: AzyWng on March 29, 2016, 07:47:58 pm

Deadbolt is incredibly effective at making you feel awesome.

Kind of like Hotline Miami. You'll mess up numerous time and have to restart the level numerous times, but when you finally complete your mission....

There isn't exactly a long list of things better than that feeling.

Bruh, I've never felt more like a professional assassin. The feeling when you knock on a door and raise your suppressed shotgun to head-height and wait to greet a clueless zombie is incredibly rewarding!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on March 30, 2016, 04:18:38 am

Persia will into space, despite the efforts of the Aztecs, Sioux, Iroquois and Inca in trying to stop me by clogging the treads of my tanks with their dead horses...

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Civ 3: Rise and Rule Revisited (huge mod adding insane number of techs, city improvements, wonders and race specific units)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 30, 2016, 05:08:06 am

Always feels good killing bogeymen with one's bare hands.

DF adventure mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 31, 2016, 04:30:13 am

The rare and dangerous Double Mettaton. With Brimstone. A so-called 'hyper-god of death' stands no chance.

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Binding of Undertale. It's a Binding of Isaac: Rebirth: Afterbirth mod. I was playing as Mettaton and got Brimstone, then picked up the Mettaton familiar which copies whatever your tears are. The Underground got steamrolled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on March 31, 2016, 11:02:16 am

Hmm... How shall we kill ye olde collector eh? Oh? I have 3 people who can hit the back row? And they all crit with 20%+ chance to? Of course we kill him in 1 turn~

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Darkest Dungeon. Had a 4 Grave Robber team meant to either dodge everything, or Crit everything to death in 2 turns. Bosses just fall apart a lot of the time. XD Still... Champion missions I shall fear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 31, 2016, 11:08:06 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on March 31, 2016, 04:30:13 am

The rare and dangerous Double Mettaton. With Brimstone. A so-called 'hyper-god of death' stands no chance.

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Binding of Undertale. It's a Binding of Isaac: Rebirth: Afterbirth mod. I was playing as Mettaton and got Brimstone, then picked up the Mettaton familiar which copies whatever your tears are. The Underground got steamrolled.

What?  Where is this?  TELL MEEEEE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 31, 2016, 03:02:13 pm

It's said that it's a mod for Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 31, 2016, 03:08:37 pm

You can find it here (https://moddingofisaac.com/mod/1015/the-binding-of-undertale), TBF.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on March 31, 2016, 05:49:11 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on March 31, 2016, 03:08:37 pm

You can find it here (https://moddingofisaac.com/mod/1015/the-binding-of-undertale), TBF.

Gonna wait until Afterbirth+ adds modding support to actually install this, but I like this idea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 31, 2016, 06:23:52 pm

It's pretty playable as is. All the characters have their own abilities, like Sans sprays out dozens of projectiles per second but they only do 1 HP damage, Undyne starts with a spear, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 31, 2016, 09:57:11 pm

Apparently in Brutal Doom it is possible to blow a mancubus into the air with a rocket, then hit him so precisely in the face with a rocket to blow up only his face.

I airshot a mancubus with a rocket in the face. Brütal.

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Brutal Doom v20

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on March 31, 2016, 09:59:13 pm

I finally beat a Rec. Level 99 Nemisis in my town, yeah, suck that alternate-universe white mage and brawler! I'm gonna take your unearthly bun and STUFF IT DOWN MY GOB.

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Bravely Default

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on March 31, 2016, 11:37:19 pm

cats, Demonspawn Champion of Chaos, just wrecked the Shining One's Fortress. It probably helps that I'm clad completely in artifacts, besides one measly rPois cloak. I have stacks and stacks of enchant weapon and armour scrolls that I've never used because I have so many artifacts clogging up my equip slots. Taking extra damage from everything here because Demonspawn made it harder then usual, but Regeneration and some reanimated apis packs carried me through. My good pal Makhleb helped out with health on kills and a couple distraction summons, but it was mostly just me and my trusty Eveningstar of Sebuff.

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

Xom smiles on me today, it seems.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 01, 2016, 02:38:20 am

Just beat Undertale for the first time (true pacificist)

Who's crying? IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on April 01, 2016, 04:23:43 am

*applies joyous sad hugs*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 01, 2016, 08:50:55 am

I got all the way to the end of Stage 3 without even taking a single hit or using any bombs! It turns out, if you do well, there's enough points for two (!!!) extra lives in the first three stages, as well as a 1up when you clear Stage 3.

I mean, I lost all of them as soon as I got to Nitori because I got cocky. But them's the breaks, aren't they?

TH10: Mountain of Faith.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kot on April 01, 2016, 06:29:28 pm

The Chaos player thought he was winning. I was supposed to prevent his admiral ship from escaping, but he was already initiating an warp jump. My boarding actions were on cooldown so I couldn't stop him, I couldn't also really break through the wall of cruisers and escorts he put between my ships and his admiral ship, maybe a few lucky macro cannon shoots would break through but it wouldn't be enough. I had a bomb or two I could teleport there but it wouldn't be enough. There was nothing I could really do... but my ships were painted in glorious navy blue and gold, with an huge winged skull on the prow...

... and that means I have the Navy favour, which main use is theoretically (very damn buggy, sadly) making the ship always compliant with no chance of mutiny or insubordination, but practically it is the ability to call in an Cobra Destroyer every three minutes. You see, a lot of people say its the worst favour, when compared to Marines ridiculous boarding bonuses, Inquisiton tarot and crew skills, Mechanicus superior technology allowing to load more skills and upgrades... but when you get the ability to get 10 additional torpedoes and macro cannon turrets out of nowhere, not to mention the ability to ram the heresy out of enemy EVERY THREE MINUTES, things change a lot. Suddenly, five Cobras warped out behind the blockade and proceeded to saturate the enemy capital ship with torpedo fire until it exploded right as the portal opened.

I proceeded to kek maniacally and then turn the game off because I realized I have become Creed in space. Abbadon stands no chance now.

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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. Get them Imperial Navy favours boys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 01, 2016, 07:15:05 pm

Perhaps this may be pointless but that sounds awesome!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 01, 2016, 07:25:10 pm

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 01, 2016, 07:34:11 pm

I was typing a more detailed post, but then it turned out my table was actually a Baneblade.

CREEEEEE-*explosion*

---

Actual post:

So, the match was even, but I was basically losing. Ryoma was my only combat-capable unit (his support, Oboro, would die in a single hit from the enemy). But the enemy only had one person left. Ryoma only had a 40% chance to hit, versus a 90%, and did not double and would not kill (they were at full health), but would be killed. F*ck it, going down with glory.

He hit. And not only did he hit, he activated Astra. And not only did he activate Astra, he crit every hit of it before the enemy died. I didn't even know Astra could crit.

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Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, local multiplayer at an event.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on April 01, 2016, 10:40:55 pm

Finally killed those stupid bandit kings blocking the pass. Considering that I haven't gone to the capital place yet, I consider this a own.

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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 01, 2016, 11:23:41 pm

Mount & Blade, Warband.

Working as a horse archer along with my tiny band of approx. 15 folks, using the More Women & Diplomacy mod (so we're basically a roving band of vigilantes and anti-grumpy lords), managed to route and non-lethally disable a full war host of 100+ men (and bloody heavy armored knights too). Most of whom got knocked out by my arrows to the face at distances equaling 13-14 difficulty shots (moving and static) because the opposing lord had infantry and was moving up in spaces of 10.

Love how archery physics worked there. Still got it. :D
_{Y'know, the physics that let you twist at the waist 180 in one direction but not the other :v}

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...Mount & Blade, Warband.
More Women & Diplomacy Mod.

The mod adds the ability to have non-lethal/knockout ammunition and 'sleeper bows/crossbows'. Pretty amazing and fun (and commonly used by bandits <_<).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: blazing glory on April 02, 2016, 12:21:44 am

Quote from: Tiruin on April 01, 2016, 11:23:41 pm

... (and commonly used by bandits <_<).

Doesn't seem too bad, I'm always tearing my hair out because bandit archers are permanently killing all my high level troops before they can get taken out, so something that always knocks them out seems more a boon then a hindrance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 02, 2016, 01:08:17 am

Asgore > Omega Flowey & The Four Horseman & The Seven Sins & two fallen angels & even more powerful Omega Flowey. As long as Asgore brought a Buy One Get One Free ticket that absolutely breaks the Soul Vessel he starts with, that is.

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Binding of Undertale again. Asgore is such an upgrade from Magdalene it's ridiculous. I just filled the arena with 2x hearts and then decided not to give a single shit about dodging.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on April 02, 2016, 01:36:54 am

Quote from: Tiruin on April 01, 2016, 11:23:41 pm

Mount & Blade, Warband.

Working as a horse archer along with my tiny band of approx. 15 folks, using the More Women & Diplomacy mod (so we're basically a roving band of vigilantes and anti-grumpy lords), managed to route and non-lethally disable a full war host of 100+ men (and bloody heavy armored knights too). Most of whom got knocked out by my arrows to the face at distances equaling 13-14 difficulty shots (moving and static) because the opposing lord had infantry and was moving up in spaces of 10.

Love how archery physics worked there. Still got it. :D
_{Y'know, the physics that let you twist at the waist 180 in one direction but not the other :v}

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...Mount & Blade, Warband.
More Women & Diplomacy Mod.

The mod adds the ability to have non-lethal/knockout ammunition and 'sleeper bows/crossbows'. Pretty amazing and fun (and commonly used by bandits <_<).

Welp... Time to play Mount and Blade again.

For the thread however... I just killed the second level of the Hag boss with only 30 Stress on everyone combined, and only the Houndmaster I brought along taking significant damage! The party was surprisingly effective as it messed with my usual teams I enjoy having. In hindsight, this team REALLY has the burst, and with the Abomination providing some really underrated stuns. (From left to right) HoundMaster, GraveRobber, Abomination, Hellion

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(Darkest Dungeon. The Prophet can go get stabbed another hundred times that horrible monstrosity!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 02, 2016, 03:37:41 am

Crossposting from Happy Thread:

Quote from: Flying Dice on April 02, 2016, 03:34:04 am

Playing Rust on a new server. Raid some clan's shitty base, take their stuff. Highlight is 24 C4.

Several hours later, they and another clan that had been bothering us come to offline raid one of our bases. I happened to log on right as they were blasting through the walls, crept over, and got up to their raid... shack (ain't worth calling it a base, what with being 2x3 with ground floor windows) right as one of them unlocked the door. I relocked the door with a new code and killed all of them, solo, multiple times, as they kept teleporting back in with more gear. Two and a half chests full of armor, guns, and ammo. They sucked, in other words.

A few more hours go by (in which several clanmates taunt them in chat at length), then we start hearing explosions and spot a raid base going up. This time it's the original clan plus a mod and his buddy. Raidbase is going up at bgrade 4 (i.e. HQM armor). They blast through the external walls on my buddy's base, but we sweep around repeatedly fighting them and eventually make off with all of their explosives. After that, we used their C4 to blast into their raid base and kill them all. The loot included roughly 400 C4 and 120 rockets--I got an M249 and a pair of curious stacks, one of exactly 50k sulphur, the other of exactly 5k HQM.

That same group waits until they think we're offline, then come back again. Three of us were still on, and we wrecked them again, though it took longer and they partially breached the lower levels of the base. Notably, they were only away for half an hour or so, but somehow when we killed them we got another ~250 C4 in total. The claim that came when we accused the mod of spawning it in was one of the guys from the clan I originally raided saying, "Oh, we used mine this time," despite me having raided him and nabbed all his C4 and resources less than twelve hours earlier.

Then the mod goes into a tirade, ranting about how we need to use the C4 we looted "RIGHT NOW", and how we'd get banned if we didn't. I had the foresight to screencap it all. The server owner got on to check in with people a little while later, while we were leveling their raidbase, and we told her about it, at which point she checked the logs and asked for the screenshots. This is what I sent her:

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(http://i.imgur.com/EXc0UzD.png)

The mod's pretty obvious, but for reference, the guy with the [Vape] clan tag is the one I raided originally, who claimed to have brought the second round of several hundred C4.


top fukin' kek m8s

Trash player status = rekt
Hypocritical maybe-abusing mod status = rekt

They got basically zero from us, nothing except the guns we took out to fight. We got close to a thousand combined rockets and C4 from them, plus chestloads of gear, hundreds of thousands of resources, and thousands of rounds of ammo. 15x gather and low pop makes scrubs soft. ^.^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 02, 2016, 05:22:29 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on April 02, 2016, 01:08:17 am

Asgore > Omega Flowey & The Four Horseman & The Seven Sins & two fallen angels & even more powerful Omega Flowey. As long as Asgore brought a Buy One Get One Free ticket that absolutely breaks the Soul Vessel he starts with, that is.

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Binding of Undertale again. Asgore is such an upgrade from Magdalene it's ridiculous. I just filled the arena with 2x hearts and then decided not to give a single shit about dodging.

Pretty sure that's just a reskin, actually, not an upgrade.
Because Magdalene starts with a Yum Heart, which with the Buy One Get One Free ticket does the same damn thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 02, 2016, 06:28:49 pm

I'm pretty sure the Yum Heart just gives you a heart and uses a battery, while the Soul Vessel can store up to four hearts and has no charge.

Then again, Magdalene is by far my least favorite, so I don't remember her too well and I could be wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 02, 2016, 06:51:23 pm

Oh, yeah. I guess that run where I did something similar, I had picked up some sort of jar item. So you're right, it's not just a reskin, but also the mod swaps the starting items. Too bad he can't make new ones, only reskin them and rearange them (loot table and starting items), right now. I can't wait to see what happens with this mod when the game gets an overhaul built around modding.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 02, 2016, 06:56:03 pm

Stole a Daedric dai-katana (Dae-katana?) from some rich jerk.

That is, the objective best weapon in the game--its damage output is literally beyond compare and easily compensates for the defensive bonus a shield would give.

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Daggerfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 02, 2016, 09:26:13 pm

How the fuck did someone have a Daedric weapon at level 8?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 02, 2016, 09:26:40 pm

3 weeks ago, I broke out of a prison cell in an abandoned space station on Mars. (http://Subterrain)

3 seconds ago, I slaughtered a giant mutant/alien/zombie.

My equipment, consisting of power armor, an electric sword, plasma shotgun, and photon rifle, has been cobbled together from scraps reclaimed from junk including empty soda cans, broken clocks, neckties, and grapes using plans inside of a microchip that I tore from the corpse of a dead cat.

I subsisted on nothing but soda and chocolate bars.

The base is only half explored.

Long road to travel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 02, 2016, 09:35:21 pm

...GAmE?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 02, 2016, 10:59:24 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on April 02, 2016, 09:26:13 pm

How the fuck did someone have a Daedric weapon at level 8?

Hell if I know. But now I'm 9 and can steal at least 3 per Incense store per night.

Money isn't a problem for me anymore.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 02, 2016, 11:35:05 pm

They didn't have level scaling yet in Daggerfall.  You can find anything at level 8, provided you can get to the right geographic location.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 03, 2016, 12:21:43 am

Nah, I'm pretty sure they do. I just bumped my luck stat up to 60 and started spawncamping Incense-level weapon stores. With this kind of searching at early levels I could get maybe dwarven stuff on a good day.

I think the luck stat is a pretty big part of this, anyway, my other level 8 character has like 40 luck and her best find is a level-appropriate mithril dai-katana.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on April 03, 2016, 02:25:34 am

Quote from: Blaze on April 02, 2016, 09:26:40 pm

3 weeks ago, I broke out of a prison cell in an abandoned space station on Mars. (http://Subterrain)

3 seconds ago, I slaughtered a giant mutant/alien/zombie.

My equipment, consisting of power armor, an electric sword, plasma shotgun, and photon rifle, has been cobbled together from scraps reclaimed from junk including empty soda cans, broken clocks, neckties, and grapes using plans inside of a microchip that I tore from the corpse of a dead cat.

I subsisted on nothing but soda and chocolate bars.

The base is only half explored.

Long road to travel.

Like, legitimately, what the heck is this game I want it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on April 03, 2016, 07:15:09 pm

Entered the scenario with one pre-dread battleship and three destroyers chasing a damaged cruiser which had been raiding my shipping near Panama.  Ran into no less than four more heavily armed and armored British battlewagons, which promptly led me to attempt to flee to port.  Their opening volleys managed a lucky hit that just barely missed the rudder, leaving the USS Michigan swimming in circles until damage control got the rudder unjammed.  In that time, they managed to get enough hits to be counted only on one hand on the Michigan, while the Michigan crack gunnery crews proceeded to rip the daylights out of the poor Repulse, which managed to get trapped somehow in the chaos of battle between Michigan and the fleet station in Colon.  We disengaged, the Brits won the seas but were left to limp away, leading to the scenario assessment to treat it as a US minor victory.  Considering my sore lack of experience with this game, I'm rather pleased.

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Rule the Waves

EDIT:
During the second Anglo-American War of the 20th century, an American armored cruiser (USS Huntingdon) and four destroyers had the ill luck to encounter an enemy raiding force of three light cruisers (HMS Cordelia, Calliope, and Calypso) and three destroyers off Halifax while patrolling between American-occupied Newfoundland and Bangor.  Ordinarily, this would not have been awful, the Huntingdon being designed to chew up anything short of another cruiser class (and even give those a good showing).  However, save for the fact that due to a storm, the two forces encountered each other within torpedo range, leading to the Huntingdon taking a solid torpedo strike amidships from the HMS Foyle within the first minutes of battle.  Not willing to let the British escape to raid American shipping, the captain of the Huntingdon proceeded to direct damage teams to control the flooding over the course of the next hour, trap the raider force between himself and Nova Scotia due to their overconfidence, then rip them to shreds with concentrated fire from the four 10-inchers and 22 six-inchers.  Just to add insult to injury, the Americans proceeded to loiter long enough to retrieve all British survivors they could from the sunk ships before departing.  The only British ship to escape (to Saint John) was the HMS Ribble, and even it arrived with heavy damage.  The American battleships might not measure up, but the British shall rapidly learn to fear their cruisers.

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Same game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on April 04, 2016, 10:50:32 am

Looks like the long game is finally paying off. A couple more careful manoevres, and Turan will be a major player in the Black Forest. Partly because I just lucked out and ganked a border estate from the Erstes Imperium that has a significant metal pool.

Might and Fealty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordBrassroast on April 04, 2016, 11:07:40 am

Playing as Byzantines, starting in 867. Attempting to restore the Glory that was Rome. After nomming most of the disunited parts of de jure Sicily and Italy, I need to take the main kingdom, currently held by the Karling king of Lotharinga. I find some third-son-of-a-third-son Karling with a weak claim on Italy who'll accept an invitation to court. I vassalize him and press his claim. I win, I now own Italy. Later, we kick the shit out of the Pope and take back Rome. Also, half the Italian peninsula has been converted to Orthodox from Catholic. All in all, a good day for the Empire.

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Crusader kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 04, 2016, 11:56:22 am

What happened to Wales? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordBrassroast on April 04, 2016, 12:02:27 pm

Quote from: hector13 on April 04, 2016, 11:56:22 am

What happened to Wales? :P

I have a serious case of alt-itis with CKII. I'll sit down to do a Wales update and then I'll be like "OOH! You know what would be cool! Playing Haesteinn of Nantes/The Mongols/Poland/The Byzantines...

Also, it takes a lot longer to bang out an LP update where I play for a half hour than it does to play a half hour of CKII...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 04, 2016, 12:48:05 pm

Don't bother asking blaze for the game name, even under threat of meteors he/she simply assumes we know what they're talking about and doesn't boether giving out the name. Which is SUPER annoying

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 04, 2016, 03:48:53 pm

Mmmh, Blaze has been doing this for a while.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on April 04, 2016, 03:51:02 pm

Quote from: tryrar on April 04, 2016, 12:48:05 pm

Don't bother asking blaze for the game name, even under threat of meteors he/she simply assumes we know what they're talking about and doesn't boether giving out the name. Which is SUPER annoying

No, he just doesn't seperate the name of the game from his paragraph or put it in a spoiler. He usually include the game's name, you just have to look for it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 04, 2016, 04:00:46 pm

Last time I saw blaze show the name of a game, she hid it inside a defective hyperlink that was attached to a single period. (http://Like_This!) You had to quote her post in order to find it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Oneir on April 04, 2016, 04:35:46 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on April 04, 2016, 04:00:46 pm

Last time I saw blaze show the name of a game, she hid it inside a defective hyperlink that was attached to a single period. (http://Like_This!) You had to quote her post in order to find it.

Which is, incidentally, exactly what happened this time, too. It was Subterrain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 05, 2016, 12:09:26 am

I got a triple kill with the meatball (aka Chaos Meteor).  As Rubick.

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Dota 2; for those who are wondering Rubick steals other character's spells.  I'm not *good* at him per se but its still impressive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on April 05, 2016, 12:34:54 am

I got ambushed by 3 rogues, all wielding sub guns and trying to use fancy BFBs and whatevers on me. Luckily cover negates explosion damage, even if its on top of the box you're taking cover behind, so long as you don't stand up to shoot or something.

Me and Cassidy earned our loot that night.

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The Division. Rogue players come in 2 types: normal mmo trolls who wanna gank and elite powergamers with minmaxed gear. These were the former. I'm one of the latter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 05, 2016, 01:01:36 am

Quote from: Oneir on April 04, 2016, 04:35:46 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on April 04, 2016, 04:00:46 pm

Last time I saw blaze show the name of a game, she hid it inside a defective hyperlink that was attached to a single period. (http://Like_This!) You had to quote her post in order to find it.

Which is, incidentally, exactly what happened this time, too. It was Subterrain.

That's rude, tbh. What next, hiding the game name in the first letter of each sentence?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on April 05, 2016, 02:49:12 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 05, 2016, 12:09:26 am

I got a triple kill with the meatball (aka Chaos Meteor).  As Rubick.

I'm suitably impressed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on April 05, 2016, 04:52:58 am

Quote from: miauw62 on April 05, 2016, 01:01:36 am

Quote from: Oneir on April 04, 2016, 04:35:46 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on April 04, 2016, 04:00:46 pm

Last time I saw blaze show the name of a game, she hid it inside a defective hyperlink that was attached to a single period. (http://Like_This!) You had to quote her post in order to find it.

Which is, incidentally, exactly what happened this time, too. It was Subterrain.

That's rude, tbh. What next, hiding the game name in the first letter of each sentence?

I feel like it's a response to the often asinine way people demand to know the name of the game when it's clearly stated within the body text that is presumably what got the person asking for the name of the game interested in the game to begin with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on April 05, 2016, 10:38:26 am

Quote from: Blargityblarg on April 05, 2016, 04:52:58 am

I feel like it's a response to the often asinine way people demand to know the name of the game when it's clearly stated within the body text that is presumably what got the person asking for the name of the game interested in the game to begin with.

Except Blaze being Blaze it wasn't quite that straightforward (at least not in the long years that I've been here). :P Probably the closest it came to that that I remember was when Blaze would post 2-3 times on the same page (though not consecutively) all about the same game. Also:

Quote from: OP

The name of the game is requested, but not neccessarily required.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ai Shizuka on April 05, 2016, 01:19:49 pm

After getting 1-1 k/d in the first match in the Hurricane mk IV, I went 75-1 in the following matches.
The current k/d over 47 matches with that plane is 187-9.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder arcade. Profile name JarnKross.
Because Gaijin and balance.
Plane with 2 40mm cannons has a battle rating so low it gets matched against biplanes.
I'm surprised because I don't see 10 of them in every match.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 05, 2016, 02:26:37 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 05, 2016, 01:01:36 am

That's rude, tbh. What next, hiding the game name in the first letter of each sentence?

Truly silly death.
Outrageously difficult attack.
Unbelievable I haven't beaten this boss yet.
Hitboxes are too large.
Obstacles to my progress.
Unstable emotional state, becoming more unstable.

Evil evil evil evil danmaku.
Optional stage is impossible.
This post is more difficult than I thought.
Startlingly catchy tunes.
Damn you Cirno!

I forgot that this was the own thread and not the death thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on April 05, 2016, 02:40:22 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 05, 2016, 02:26:37 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on April 05, 2016, 01:01:36 am

That's rude, tbh. What next, hiding the game name in the first letter of each sentence?

Truly silly death.
Outrageously difficult attack.
Unbelievable I haven't beaten this boss yet.
Hitboxes are too large.
Obstacles to my progress.
Unstable emotional state, becoming more unstable.

Evil evil evil evil danmaku.
Optional stage is impossible.
This post is more difficult than I thought.
Startlingly catchy tunes.
Damn you Cirno!

I forgot that this was the own thread and not the death thread.

Technically, you just owned yourself so this probably still counts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 05, 2016, 05:24:02 pm

Spoiler: Luca no! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/toTswMH.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/aPGKOhR.png)(http://i.imgur.com/ByeyATw.png)(http://i.imgur.com/v9DGK8N.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 05, 2016, 09:07:32 pm

So, bows are supposed to be a hard counter for fliers, right? Like, insta-murder. Someone forgot to tell Hinoka, who took an arrow to the face, then critted on the return javelin, instantly murdering the foolish archer who thought effective damage would be enough.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem: Fates

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 05, 2016, 11:03:25 pm

Quote from: Blaze on April 05, 2016, 05:24:02 pm

Spoiler: Luca no! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/toTswMH.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/aPGKOhR.png)(http://i.imgur.com/ByeyATw.png)(http://i.imgur.com/v9DGK8N.gif)

You got over 4000 kills in No Luca No mode?
/me bows to the true master

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 05, 2016, 11:52:16 pm

Cheated a bit actually, laptops have touchpads, I just kept moving left and right on the pad and focused on fighting with my mouse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 06, 2016, 02:12:13 am

Still, I only ever got to 3235 kills. Still among the best of my Steam friends but nowhere near 4k.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 06, 2016, 03:12:33 am

I found the stinger, an ordinary looking missile launcher... that explodes into bees on hit.  Then I found a beehive, which rapidly releases bees onto the battlefield.  Aside from the mandatory starting pistol, these were my only two guns.  Having become Bee-o-mancer, master of insects, destroyer of worlds, I made it further in the game then I ever had before (still died tho).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 06, 2016, 04:31:43 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 06, 2016, 03:12:33 am

I found the stinger, an ordinary looking missile launcher... that explodes into bees on hit.  Then I found a beehive, which rapidly releases bees onto the battlefield.  Aside from the mandatory starting pistol, these were my only two guns.  Having become Bee-o-mancer, master of insects, destroyer of worlds, I made it further in the game then I ever had before (still died tho).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Enter the Gungeon

Can you see it? The pain?! THE PAIN!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on April 06, 2016, 04:23:54 pm

I managed to beat Wave 20 in the Last Stand with a Tau Commander. Granted a large part of the victory was due the fact my two allies were Level 15 and 16 Necron Overlords who had powerful revival abilities, but I certainly helped.

Dawn of War II: Retribution

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 06, 2016, 04:59:30 pm

I beat Infinifactory!  :) 

2nd to last level was the best level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 06, 2016, 07:48:14 pm

Managed to go head to head with an Syndicate frigate called an Eldorado. I haven't done a full stat check on it, but it does have a slightly larger cargo space and carries about 25% more marines than the Orca I was flying, and has an extra cannon slot. Apparently, the Eldorado is an Imperial design(I guess the Syndicate pirated it?), so you can't exactly buy it as the Empire is always hostile. After breaking it's shields and punching the hull a bit, I sent boarders over and captured it, despite it having more marines and an "alarming" threat rating.


While towing it back to LaGardia(the nearest friendly station), another Syndicate Eldorado and a freaking cruiser(I didn't catch the design name, my best guess was a Poseidon) with a threat rating of "impossible" pop in and target me, preventing me from docking. Specifically, they taunted me over the comms, which means they spawned in just to kill me. Worse, the ship I was hauling was too large to be towed at PTE speeds, so I couldn't run without abandoning the prize. Then I looked at the the scanner map, and noticed it suddenly got very busy with blue(friendly-ish neutral) dots. I turned right back around and started firing at the cruiser.

While my weapons did more than I expected, a cruiser is still two size categories larger than a frigate. When it had punched through most of my shielding, I felt I had made a big mistake. At the least I'd have to ditch my prize and run for my life. At the worst, I wouldn't get very far... Then as I made another pass at the cruiser, I noticed I wasn't the only fighting it. The thing was getting hammered from all sides by all those blue dots. Within seconds, the cruiser's shields were completely gone on all sides. A few seconds more, and it was no more. And I leveled up.

After that, everyone else seemed to have buggered off, leaving me to deal with the other Eldorado. Since I was exhausted from the cruiser, that fight was a little tougher than the one I was still towing. I took out it's starboard shields and got it's hull down to about ~25% before I ran out of energy and it started to PTE. I couldn't catch up without ditching the prize, so I fired a torpedo after it. It hit on the unshielded starboard hull, destroying it as it escaped.

Then I brought the prize back to the station and dropped it into my garage. I'll work up some extra money to outfit it before I use it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starpoint Gemini II.

I looked up the stat differences between the Orca and Eldorado. The Eldorado has better shielding and more guns. It can send over one less marine per transport but that's barely an issue. The main difference is less energy for guns and less ammo for heavy weapons. However, I don't think the stat page is up-to-date, since it says the Orca does not have a hangar when mine actually does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on April 06, 2016, 09:41:21 pm

Took the Ancestral Worship quest, which had me escorting a guy through his family's tomb to slay a necromancer (literally) raising hell inside it. Didn't realize he'd take offence to me looting his family's remains... and so he hit me in the back with his sword.

Lydia did not take kindly to that, though, and within a few seconds he was another bloody bag of loot on the floor.

Unperturbed, I continued on my quest to slay the necromancer, hacking apart draugr after draugr with my two-handed sword as if chopping vegetables. I didn't realize what a hassle the necromancer would be, though.

Lydia did as she usually does, tanking about 5 draugr at the same time until she finally got beaten into unconsciousness. Despite my best efforts to pick the opponents off with my bow, the draugr kept rising and advanced upon me. Clearly outnumbered, I opted for the better part of valor and sprinted out of the room, shooting as I fled. It went on like this for a while, and I was just thinking I might have to flee all the way out of the tomb when guess who showed up?

Lydia! By some incredible feat of determination, she had picked herself up off the floor and was now drawing off my attackers. She was also impaled by about two-dozen ice spikes. Hm.

My confidence returning, I fought back into the final room with Lydia surviving the whole way... only to collapse again as the necromancer greatly expanded her collection of icy body piercings. Thankfully, his health was lowered by then, and after two more expertly-aimed headshots from my bow (and a lot of ice-spike dodging) he joined the rest of the corpses scattered upon the floor.

Lydia looked more like an ice-sculpture than a housecarl, but I healed her until she woke up, at which point she snarkily informed me that she was "still here."

... After that much punishment, I cannot help but wonder how.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Heavily-modded Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 06, 2016, 09:43:06 pm

Usually he's not supposed to attack you. Taking his family's stuff just makes him complain, but begrudgingly let you keep it. Glitch, maybe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 07, 2016, 04:23:01 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on April 06, 2016, 09:41:21 pm

Lydia looked more like an ice-sculpture than a housecarl, but I healed her until she woke up, at which point she snarkily informed me that she was "still here."

... After that much punishment, I cannot help but wonder how.

She's a Nord. They get ice resistance, last I checked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on April 07, 2016, 10:47:14 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 06, 2016, 09:43:06 pm

Usually he's not supposed to attack you. Taking his family's stuff just makes him complain, but begrudgingly let you keep it. Glitch, maybe.

If it was a glitch, it was a hilarious one, and I didn't mind it one bit.

Got a nice dwarven shield off him, after all. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 07, 2016, 02:38:27 pm

and now you live with the guilt

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 07, 2016, 03:08:44 pm

You misspelt loot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on April 07, 2016, 08:52:53 pm

After an very long battle, I've killed that damn drake in the Devilwoods or whatever in the southwest. Dragonforged my stilettos apparently and managed to do it at only level 30 (I think anyway, I'm level 34 now). Probably the most annoying fight so far, but I can't let some loser dragon win even if I come back later to kick his ass.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 08, 2016, 04:30:33 pm

I loved that quest in Skyrim. Help a dude deal with a necromancer defiling the tomb of his ancestors... As a necromancer, raising his aunt to fight for me and looting everything on the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 08, 2016, 05:21:50 pm

I remember being extremely annoyed that my stealth character couldn't just shoot the boss in the head before he transformed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 08, 2016, 07:06:12 pm

While the Vanu were apparently stomping everyone in an alert on Esamir, I was busy capping various locations in their territory. Got bored with that, and noticed the NC were taking Acan Biolab. They had also taken Acan South Lab. I drove my Sunderer from Hunter's Blind to attack Woodman ASE Labs(about a 2.2km drive) to cut off Acan from the rest of the NC - had to stop in Nason's Defiance to fix the gate shield since nobody fixed it and the base was vulnerable. Took the lab after an infiltrator joined me to fight the one guy defending it, though almost immediately was counterattacked just as I got the shields fixed back up.

Eventually got overwhelmed at Woodman, as their attack was organized and we were outnumbered 5-1. I still think we handled that well, and 30 seconds after Woodman flipped we recaptured Acan Bio Lab. Spawned a new Sunderer(the previous one was destroyed in an airstrike) to attack Acan South. Parked it right next to one of the main entrances, allowing a flank right on the door as well as Light Assaults to jump over the wall. By then the alert on Esamir ended(Vanu won) and everyone started piling in, many spawning from my Sunderer. Pushed to the interior of the base... but then got pushed right back out. By the time they got to destroying my Sunderer(which took a while, we were giving them hell for the effort), I noticed we lost Acan again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. Despite losing, that counts as an own because it was a pretty awesome battle and I got tons of certs from AMS Support ribbons and even quite a few kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 08, 2016, 08:38:02 pm

I ACTUALLY SAW THE THRONE OH GOSH WOW
it still murdered my silly ass, but sh

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 08, 2016, 10:59:01 pm

Topped the charts as "The Penile Mangler"

Slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 09, 2016, 10:39:51 am

Why did you show me that game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 09, 2016, 11:26:15 am

... I have the tab open, do I want to click play..?

Edit: This game is for trolls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 09, 2016, 12:19:58 pm

I got the top score! Whoo.

Wasted hours of my life, but I did it! HAHAHAHA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 09, 2016, 01:55:49 pm

I've been going on it back and forth between other things. It's difficult. Got into the top 10 at one point though, as Bigus Bananaus.

Edit: High score of 20373.8, landed me 3rd/4th as someone else was taking it all the damn time.

It is sooooo different playing as a wee snake to a big one. As soon as I got back from that death I got to over 10k within about 30 seconds because of my wholesale murder of everything as a result of speed and agility!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 09, 2016, 08:44:50 pm

After many months of off-and-on playing across numerous characters... I've finally won (http://te4.org/characters/168983/tome/097552a1-6a15-4b3a-a2c7-bda2874b95b4)! And I'd call it a pretty successful win - saved both Melinda and Aeryn, reached level 50 for the first time ever, actually completed the alchemist quest, and despite playing on Adventure mode I never had to use a life (not even the Blood of Life!).

I mean, sure, it was on Normal... but one thing at a time, methinks!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tome4: Tales of Maj'Eyal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 09, 2016, 10:35:50 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 08, 2016, 10:59:01 pm

Topped the charts as "The Penile Mangler"

Slither.io

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on April 09, 2016, 10:39:51 am

Why did you show me that game

Why....Why did I try it....

As "Free Hugs!" I found some massive snake, some big yellow snake who'se name started with Donald Trump but was too long for the scoreboard.  He had something like 16k length, many times all the other competitors  He was hiding off at the map edge.  He killed me.   But then I went and sought him out as a little mini worm.

He found me, and wrapped me.   But then he got too greedy and cut a corner too tight and I struck.  His body width was bigger than my entire length, but when he hit me he exploded into dots like all the rest.  The meal rocketed me up to second.  It would have been more than enough to put me solidly in first but the meal was too large for little ol me, and others saw the king got dethroned and came to get a piece before I could gather all the dots.

slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 09, 2016, 10:49:56 pm

I was briefly in first place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 09, 2016, 10:53:28 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 09, 2016, 10:35:50 pm

I found some massive snake, some big yellow snake who'se name started with Donald Trump but was too long for the scoreboard.  He had something like 16k length, many times all the other competitors  He was hiding off at the map edge.

So would you say Donald Trump was a living wall?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 10, 2016, 06:18:45 pm

Realized I was still five levels too low to fly a cruiser, as normally each size threshold is every five levels, but the jump from destroyers to cruisers and freightliners is actually 10 levels. I had even saved up about $16 million for both the new ship and upgrades. So I'd figure I'd look out for a place to purchase a destroyer.

While passively scumming through Genos territory, I'm ambushed by a massive groups of Genos ships; their preferred spawns appear to be small gunships(Artemis model, I think) and Ronin-class destroyers. Seeing as I'm outmatched, I shoot my way out heading towards Union space. Just as a friendly station is in sight, I noticed that all that's left in scanner range is one gunship and one Ronin. I turn back around... and pick up several more of the contacts I had just run away from. But before they arrived, I killed the gunship(one torpedo through full shields), and started to work on the destroyer. Shields down, hull damaged, about 20%-25% of their crew lost to torpedo attacks, and my marines are away. Took two waves, but the ship was captured, and friendly Union forces showed up to assist. Took out two more ships, and docked. Kept the destroyer, it was free and I have nearly unlimited funds to load it up with. Hell yeah.

Although the station I docked with has little in the way of armaments, the ship I captured, the Aegaeus, has several light missile launchers(total load: 35, previous ship had 20) and I added the enhancement that adds radiation damage(kills crew if it damages hull) to missiles.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starpoint Gemini 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 10, 2016, 08:55:16 pm

HP? Excellent. Bombs? Way too many. Move speed? Acceptable. Damage? Through the damn roof. Shot speed? Non-existent. Glaciers looked at my shots and said: "Wow, that's slow". That is how slow we're talking about. I moved faster than my own shots. When I fought ??? I had popped algiz (resistance), ran into him and dropped bombs while saying "fuck you!" over and over. Not a single shot fired because it was near-impossible to hit a moving target.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 10, 2016, 09:41:32 pm

Was getting more than a little irritated by the MAX and one of his buddies killing me repeatedly. Even a direct attack with C4 on the MAX didn't seem to work(by all rights it should have). Then they brought in a Scythe for air support. I wasn't happy. So I switched over to heavy assault. Walked outside, almost nonchalantly pulled out my (default, unguided) rocket launcher, aimed right up, and fired. The Scythe came down. Reloaded. Walked over to the building with the command point, aimed into the window, and fired. Bye-bye, MAX.

Proceeded to recap the base, netting several more kills. Went over to the next base under attack, helped recap that, shooting down another Scythe(this time with an AA gun).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 10, 2016, 09:49:07 pm

Damn, Scythes are one of the most (if not THE most) maneuverable vehicles in the game.  I once tried to hide from one under a bridge and it not only followed me under but eerily hovered in place under the bridge shooting at me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 11, 2016, 12:09:48 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 10, 2016, 09:49:07 pm

Damn, Scythes are one of the most (if not THE most) maneuverable vehicles in the game.  I once tried to hide from one under a bridge and it not only followed me under but eerily hovered in place under the bridge shooting at me.

It's to make up for our everything else being nerfed into the ground, at this point. Until someone whines about how it's unfair that we can hover when all NC gets is armor and better damage, and all TR gets is speed and absurdly good weapons.

Though speaking as a long-time Scythe pilot, I won't deny that we can do the "hover over the base with thermals on acting like a flying turret, then backflip behind a wall/ridge/Gal when something tries to lock on" thing better than anything else.

--

One of our friends got enslaved. Another and I had ended up with female characters after the update that added them, so we put on facewraps and went (mostly) naked to the guy's gate, selling a line (RP, obviously) about being mail-order brides from Saudi Arabia. While the guy was occupied with getting my friends into his slave pen, I pulled out my revolver and capped him, then grabbed his ammo (the AK fell through the ground) and ran off to a cluster of bushes inside his compound. Twice more he came out with an AK to try to wrangle his slaves, and twice more I put him down with that revolver and grabbed his meds, eventually managing to grab an AK before it fell victim to shoddy collision detection.

At the end of it we gave him his shit back, and a day later we ended up allying after we came in to help clean up after a rival group failed to raid him and settled for griefing his base.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rust, home of weird RP, betrayal, and casual bigotry of all stripes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 11, 2016, 01:03:48 am

Managed to get first place a few times, though not near my longest snake. Stayed there for a while. Evidently what I've dubbed the "constrictor" (surrounding a smaller snake until they die) method is pretty effective once you get to be quite long. You start speeding up when you're behind a snake, then avoid smashing into them in the turn around their head. Occasionally they realise what's going on, but oftentimes it's too late...

Also noticed some dudes charging around a lot, presumably to collect the food they create by going faster... I'm not sure if they realise that doing so is quite inefficient.

I tend to go by the name SnekkySnek, byraway. If you see me, stay clear :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 11, 2016, 01:13:41 am

Quote from: hector13 on April 11, 2016, 01:03:48 am

Managed to get first place a few times, though not near my longest snake. Stayed there for a while. Evidently what I've dubbed the "constrictor" (surrounding a smaller snake until they die) method is pretty effective once you get to be quite long. You start speeding up when you're behind a snake, then avoid smashing into them in the turn around their head. Occasionally they realise what's going on, but oftentimes it's too late...

Also noticed some dudes charging around a lot, presumably to collect the food they create by going faster... I'm not sure if they realise that doing so is quite inefficient.

They always fall for encirclement.

It's fine if you're chasing pellets dropped from dead snakes, but it's usually dangerous since oftentimes other snakes will be charging from the other end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 11, 2016, 01:59:37 am

Ohohoho!

Just raided a group for an absolute shitload of stuff using a minimum of explosives. Better yet, happened across their against-server-rules gallery of softcore porn, got screenshots that included the names over all the people sleeping in their base, and they're gonna get a nasty surprise tomorrow when I talk to an admin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rust again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 11, 2016, 06:16:16 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 10, 2016, 09:49:07 pm

Damn, Scythes are one of the most (if not THE most) maneuverable vehicles in the game.  I once tried to hide from one under a bridge and it not only followed me under but eerily hovered in place under the bridge shooting at me.

It was doing the hovering-in-place thing, but shooting at someone else. Made for a fantastically easy shot.

Quote from: Flying Dice on April 11, 2016, 01:59:37 am

Ohohoho!

Just raided a group for an absolute shitload of stuff using a minimum of explosives. Better yet, happened across their against-server-rules gallery of softcore porn, got screenshots that included the names over all the people sleeping in their base, and they're gonna get a nasty surprise tomorrow when I talk to an admin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rust again.

Who the hell puts a something like that there? What did they think was going to happen? Was it any good?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 11, 2016, 07:50:15 am

Quote from: hector13 on April 11, 2016, 01:03:48 am

I tend to go by the name SnekkySnek, byraway. If you see me, stay clear :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

slither.io

HappyBoa. Weird name, but meh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 11, 2016, 11:10:23 am

So I'm playing some pl_frontier as spy on red, sort of getting rekt by a good pyro, and just after they cap first I manage to stab him and two other dudes on the cart, sort of a facestab. Dude seems to be pretty salty about it (I taunted after it and I felt this was deserved), and taunts after every kill. I eventually just ask in chat "are you so mad about a single facestab that you need to taunt every time" while walking around, and then I see it. I see this dude just idling around, and getting into a hidden spot to type. This wasn't my intent, but I beeline for his hiding spot and backstab him while taunting, and type "OUTPLAYED" into chat.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 11, 2016, 01:15:50 pm

On the way to my largest snake ever (29331.8) I managed to use my constrictor method to catch three snakes of varying sizes. One of them was very clever and was shadowing me inside the circle of my body, hoping to catch me if I made an error, and there was a little shit of a snake doing the same thing on the outside.

Fuck you guys though, I survived.

Then died by running into a tiny snake that got through the last tiny space between my head and my body before they were closed within. Bastard.

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slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 11, 2016, 04:19:46 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 11, 2016, 06:16:16 am

Quote from: Flying Dice on April 11, 2016, 01:59:37 am

Ohohoho!

Just raided a group for an absolute shitload of stuff using a minimum of explosives. Better yet, happened across their against-server-rules gallery of softcore porn, got screenshots that included the names over all the people sleeping in their base, and they're gonna get a nasty surprise tomorrow when I talk to an admin.

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Rust again.

Who the hell puts a something like that there? What did they think was going to happen? Was it any good?

Given that the two most vocal contenders for the game's player stereotype are tween kids and 18-20ish douchebags, I'd say that that answers all three questions.

As an aside, I logged on briefly this morning and happened to catch one of them freaking out in chat and murdering all his buddies while they slept. Then he died three times in a row to the landmine-shaped surprises my friend left in their base. It's why I try to avoid killing people when I offline them: it's massively more annoying to wake up in an empty base with all your stuff gone and no idea who did it than it is to wake up dead with a clear target for retribution.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 11, 2016, 05:27:51 pm

I broke the kingdom's economy for infinite profit with carpets.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=662567766

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 11, 2016, 08:07:44 pm

Blew up my first Hero. While he wasn't the lowest leveled guy around, but unlike the one that is, he didn't have a massive deathfleet show up. He was also in a freightliner, one of the least threatening ships there is.

Now I've got an extra $2 million, which will go good for when I purchase hijack somebody's cruiser and outfit it.

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Starpoint Gemini 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 11, 2016, 08:58:16 pm

Got to #2 as "Harmless Vultureworm"  My strat was pretty much what it says on the tin.  I found another worm/snake and followed them around eerily until they died so I could eat their body.  Taking no aggressive actions except to counter ones made against me.  After all aggressive actions require boosting, and boosting makes you fuck up.

Worked quite well.   I think being followed around by somebody with 'Vulture' in their name that seems perfectly happy to just shadow you and wait you out throws people off their game.

Slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 11, 2016, 09:12:53 pm

Did you keep doing it as the second largest snake in the game?  Cause that's kinda a funny image if you did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 11, 2016, 09:26:06 pm

Yes,  I couldn't find the largest guy, (he was probably hiding off on a map edge or something) so I continued with the biggest snakes I could locate.    That eventually became my downfall though, they were more maneuverable than me and I was eventually too slow on my evade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 11, 2016, 11:16:42 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on April 11, 2016, 07:50:15 am

Quote from: hector13 on April 11, 2016, 01:03:48 am

I tend to go by the name SnekkySnek, byraway. If you see me, stay clear :P

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slither.io

HappyBoa. Weird name, but meh.

The Penile Mangler or Der Penile Manglespetzen... ya.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 4maskwolf on April 11, 2016, 11:16:50 pm

Decided to play ARAM for shits and giggles, rolled up Taric alongside a team of Varus, Zyra, LeBlanc, and Ezreal.  Well okay then.  Game starts, and who is this assortment of characters up against?

Garen, Riven, J4, Yi, and Thresh.

Heheh.

I built full armor and health, and the enemy team did about as well as you might expect.

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Four of the five characters I listed (all but Thresh) are melee attackers with heavy physical damage outputs.  One of Taric's abilities gives him large amounts of innate armor and an aura that grants your allies bonus armor equal to a percentage of your own (counting armor you gain from items).  In other words, I was a massive wall of "fuck you" that neutered their damage, and if they tried to build armor penetration to counter it my high-damage allies would rip them to shreds in seconds.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 12, 2016, 12:32:38 pm

Quote from: 4maskwolf on April 11, 2016, 11:16:50 pm

Decided to play ARAM for shits and giggles, rolled up Taric alongside a team of Varus, Zyra, LeBlanc, and Ezreal.  Well okay then.  Game starts, and who is this assortment of characters up against?

Garen, Riven, J4, Yi, and Thresh.

Heheh.

I built full armor and health, and the game enemy team did about as well as you might expect.

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Four of the five characters I listed (all but Thresh) are melee attackers with heavy physical damage outputs.  One of Taric's abilities gives him large amounts of innate armor and an aura that grants your allies bonus armor equal to a percentage of your own (counting armor you gain from items).  In other words, I was a massive wall of "fuck you" that neutered their damage, and if they tried to build armor penetration to counter it my high-damage allies would rip them to shreds in seconds.

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League of Legends

Lucky bastard. :P

Quote from: 4maskwolf on April 11, 2016, 11:16:50 pm

I was a massive wall of "fuck you"

I'm sigging this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 12, 2016, 05:04:34 pm

RIP Taric, your kit was too niche-OP for this world.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 12, 2016, 05:17:59 pm

First boss kill of Dark Souls 3. Screw you, Iudex whatever!

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Take a guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on April 14, 2016, 12:03:34 am

I got polymorphed into an ice-beast by Sigmund then I mauled him to death. Had 1 HP left by the end.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on April 14, 2016, 09:11:05 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/m8gfPMM.png)

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 14, 2016, 10:19:26 pm

Quote from: greatorder on April 14, 2016, 09:09:52 pm

Only my third time playing ANY democracy game, I WAS playing as Mauritius, which is probably the easiest of all of them in this game, but I managed to:
1) Fix the economy completely. It went from the literal minimum GDP to almost maximum.
2) Keep every group but 3 (patriots, capitalists and conservatives) in love with me. Or at worst, ambivalent.
3) Make my country a world leader in technology
4) Utterly remove the concept of rural living. There were NO members of the rural group, everyone lived in cities (caused some annoying problems, but no matter what I couldn't drop urbanisation without sabotaging my infrastructure, which would sabotage my economy)
5) Get reelected 4 times before deciding enough was enough and reducing the term length and limit to minimum.

So in all, my legacy was to just fix the country's problems, pull it out of debt (well, it was well on the way) and maintain a good GDP in spite of the fact that the world economy was basically dead for about 3/4 of the game thanks to constant economic slumps.

Democracy 3: Africa

I played Democracy 2, and it pretty much played out the same every time I played it (increasing welfare to keep folk happy and balancing everything else to not piss people off. Always ran a surplus :o)

Is Democracy 3 any better?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on April 15, 2016, 05:37:20 am

We got a job to go into a biolab facility to do some cleanup after everything went to shit, me and 3 other runners are ready for some serious asskicking. 2 Street samourai, one mystical adept and a rigger, im the rigger. The only tool of my arsenal is a shotgun on me and a juggernaut drone, think of a 11 foot tall piece of hulking metal, basicly a mini mech with a big ass assault rifle.

We get into the facility and first thing we know.... there is stairs... Have you seen robocop 2 i think? Where the ED209 tries to use the stairs? well that.. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MS4sLlBvbE). Instead of trying to go down the stairs, my robot simply sat on his but and slided if all the way down... Imagine a 800kg robot sliding down stairs, yeah by the end there was no more stairs, only a big ass ramp. Its not over! now we need to use an elevator. Well try to go 4 fully geared runner with a total of about 1.5ton + a drone that weight 800kg by itself... yeah not gonna happen. Since my drone has a full sensor suit and is quite capable of taking a hit i feel confident to go in first with him. After about a 9 minute ride down my drone warn me about a big ass mass moving around... I told myself great! Im all alone... I quickly relay the information to the other runner who promptly rip the door of the elevator shaft open. The mage base jump down while preparing a levitation spell to slow his decent. One of the sam lock his rope repeling handle thingy (handle you can lock to a rope wich allows you to increase or decrease friction with some sort of pressure mecanism on a trigger) and start falling down as fast as possible while the other street sam wich is fucking agile start jumping wall to wall ( I think at that point the GM didnt really understood what he did, because if my elevator took 10 minute to reach bottom level, im quite sure at least 3 minute worth of wall jumping by that point ).

I prepare myself and i sit in a corner of the elevator where whatever is on the outside wont see me and i rig in ( Transfer my counsciousness inside my drone, thats what riggers can do ). The doors finaly open and i see a big hulking piece of deformed human flesh wich seams as hard as frigging steel rush toward me. I quickly prepare to fire my grenade but by the time i can finaly fire he is way too close for a safe explosion so i turn full auto and shoot it. he get staggered by the hits but NOTHING gets trough his hardened flesh. He try to punch the drone, good thing i am now the drone because innate drone program are crap to control the drones, they are basicly like dog brain. I easily dodge the hit and open fire as i move on the side. I shoot again full auto and he falls down, uncounscious but breathing. I slowly but my drones feet on his head and put the full 800kg weight of metal on his skull. Its not pretty.

I come back to my body and the drone slowly shakes his foot to clear the mess it did. Finaly, the other runners comes down trough the hatch of the elevator and join me. Lucky enough the fight didnt trigger anything else around. We start searching while my big ass drone, affectionaly renamed C3-Pissoff keep scanning using its sensors for anything that moves with his full sensor suits. Everything is fine and we are now in a old abandoned subway, call the metro and fast forward untill the end of the run, pretty unventfull from my side of the story, we did get a couple of skirmish but nothing really interesting as most of the time when it happent it was the other team member who took care of them.

Anyway by the end of job only one place was remaining and we gathered information that the thing on the other side if huge as in REAL huge. Door is pounding and scratching but the door doesnt give up. Nobody wants to open the door so i task my drone to open the door and get the hell back to the firing line. A couple ghouls, zombies and 2 lickers ( think resident evil 2 ) comes out. One licker spits something toward me and i barely dodge it. As we keep firing on anything that move, that thing.... take one massive and fast leap from the dark of the room and jump on my drone, pounding it with his 2 arms... i tought my drone was done for and its a frigging mini tank. Everything flashes, as i turn around to see whats going on, i see my drone pushing the beast back with his leg, push himself penibly backward while trying to get a bead on the beast and fires, the beast give in and fall back on my juggernaut. When i assessed the damage it was critical, poor C3-Pissoff nearly bit the dust here. Mission complete with no casualty, nobody injured beside my poor metalic friend who nearly got totalled in one hit. If it would have been ANYONE else.... they would be dead by now.

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Shadowrun 5th edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on April 15, 2016, 04:43:45 pm

Got into online battling on the cart for the first time in a long while, even knowing exactly what it's like.  Which means I'm basically beating up dragons, dinosaurs, the occasional eldritch abomination from another universe, and sundry other legendary beasts with a little fluffy chinchilla.  It was a bit of fun for a lark, I must admit, and the losses so far have been just as good as the wins.

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Pokemon X

EDIT:
Oh, and I finally got off my lazy posterior and finished the last two trade evos via Global Trade abuse to finish my Pokedex for the first time ever.  So...ummm, I suppose there is that, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 15, 2016, 05:13:52 pm

You're saying Cinccino is a good Pokemon?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on April 15, 2016, 05:43:46 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 15, 2016, 05:13:52 pm

You're saying Cinccino is a good Pokemon?

"Good" might be pushing it, but it's ridiculously cute, hits like a truck when outfitted with a Choice Band, and is surprisingly fast (base 110 puts it up there with the Latis, Mega-Meta, and Gengar).  It has huge weaknesses that stop it from regular use, most notably that it cannot take a hit to save its life and its attacks tend to have mediocre accuracy, but with that Choice Band and type coverage, one can do a surprising amount of damage to people who have never seen someone use a Cinccino seriously before and thus have no idea what it's capable of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 15, 2016, 06:56:36 pm

^ Right there.  My biggest danger in cart battles is someone bringing something I'm not familiar with.  Tyranatar in triple battles?  Rock slides.  Mewtwo?  It's going to mega.  The primals?  Put up wide guard or yer gunna have a bad time.

But bring in something like a raticate or a furfrou?  I haven't the slightest idea what those are capable of and am probably going to vastly underestimate the thing and lose horribly, or at least make a bad decision or two.   (Yea cart battles are slow enough that I could probably look them up, but that spoils much of the experience to me.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on April 15, 2016, 07:00:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 15, 2016, 05:13:52 pm

You're saying Cinccino is a good Pokemon?

It's not good, but it's most definitely capable. Skill Link makes its multi-hit moves always hit 5x; and Tail-Slap hits quite hard as a result. 25BP + stab + 5x hits = a free, 100% accurate 125+ 62.5 =182.5BP move. The downside is that Cinccino has a relatively poor 95 base attack, and no method of hitting Steel types hard. Its defenses are also quite weak, @ 75/60/60. It does have a fantastic 115 base speed, but in a game where priority moves are king, coming up against anything running Mach Punch will melt the little chinchilla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulhu on April 15, 2016, 07:42:44 pm

Playing Civ 5, just got the expansions and decided to try playing Dom4 Mictlan in Civ 5.

Montezuma religion-based domination run.  Spawned next to Uluru which gives a base +6 faith and had my pantheon at like turn 4, for +4 faith on natural wonders.  Piety gave me +12 a turn by like turn 15, started my Teotl religion (I have a historical religions mod) and got Holy Warriors for faith-purchasing land units, and the rest is history. (https://i.sli.mg/Sr4L3i.png)

Aggressively expanding my religion for tithe gold and Just War attack bonuses, kept Arabia around cause I didn't want to get too many warmonger penalties early on, but then he founded Islam a couple tiles away from Damascus, which I'd faux-nahualicized to Tamalcan.

So I had to remove kebab.  And I did.  Took Mecca, renamed it Mexcoco, and used an inquisitor and a missionary on it, eliminating Islam entirely and replacing it with Teotl.  Only a couple tiny enclaves in a few cities still have Islam, and Teotl's overwhelmingly dominant on this continent now, which means tons of gold and a 20% attack bonus for my invasions.  Now I'm working on stomping out the other civs on my continent.  There's still a bunch of people without them, but I don't think anybody except maybe Songhai or Indonesia actually has the sea power to come and do something about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 15, 2016, 08:11:36 pm

Captured the Imperial Grand Admiral's flagship. Sure, it's no better than any other Equinox-class carrier(one of which I already have in garage), but it's still a pretty cool trophy. Even better, I have the rank to fly it.

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Starpoint Gemini 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 15, 2016, 08:35:19 pm

Very rewarding to snipe people with reddit skin snakes. *evil maniacal laughter*

Also managed to kill a big ~6,000+ snake and take most of his body mass when I was about 500 units long.

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slither.io

This game is more exciting and addicting than it has any right to be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 16, 2016, 01:17:35 am

Play of the Match included a huge Macross Missile Massacre that wiped out five players in one go.

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Overwatch Beta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 16, 2016, 02:42:55 am

Just beat the Neutral Run without dying even a single time. Without the Temmie Armor. Considering that I've been carefully achieving the best epilogues for each monster, that's a bit of a feat I feel.

Undertale.

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Photoshop Flowey was the toughest. I wonder if I can maintain my no-death streak against the God of Hyperdeath?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 16, 2016, 02:44:06 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 15, 2016, 08:35:19 pm

Very rewarding to snipe people with reddit skin snakes. *evil maniacal laughter*

Also managed to kill a big ~6,000+ snake and take most of his body mass when I was about 500 units long.

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slither.io

This game is more exciting and addicting than it has any right to be.

Is it just me or are those Reddit snakes particularly cheeky and aggressive?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 16, 2016, 08:05:32 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on April 16, 2016, 02:44:06 am

Is it just me or are those Reddit snakes particularly cheeky and aggressive?

I think it's just you and confirmation bias. I've seen aggressive reddit snakes and passive reddits snakes. Generally though it seems to me that players with skins tend to get bigger than other players, whether because they're aggressive or because they flat out play longer sessions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on April 16, 2016, 11:29:56 am

I played through Rune Factory 4 and it was almost effortless. I don't know if I was cheating or something because everyone online seems to think these bosses I wiped in >10 seconds are super hard.

So, I guess I'm a compulsive grinder, even if I don't notice it?
...woo?

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Rune Factory 4. Despite my prowess at curbstomping the game I still cannot get Dylas to marry me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 16, 2016, 11:37:27 am

Surrounded a snake who had surrounded another snake. Saved the smaller snake's life.

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slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 16, 2016, 12:03:14 pm

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 16, 2016, 11:37:27 am

Surrounded a snake who had surrounded another snake. Saved the smaller snake's life.

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slither.io

You're doing it wrong.

You surround the snake who had surrounded the other snake, then eat them both.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 16, 2016, 12:32:03 pm

What he said.

Also, I passed 60 000.

I think I have a problem.

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Guess. Hissss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 16, 2016, 12:39:58 pm

Quote from: hector13 on April 16, 2016, 12:03:14 pm

You're doing it wrong.

You surround the snake who had surrounded the other snake, then eat them both.

I actually did that too shortly later. I've made a habit of trying to constrict constrictors. It seems like a rude strategy that deserves counter-constricting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 16, 2016, 12:49:19 pm

I gotta say.... I sometimes play on people doing that. I start constricting a small guy, some other big buddy comes over to constrict me in turn, and as they're stealthily trying to circle me.... strike. Full throttles, cut them off, gobble them up.

If the small one is still I let it go, usually. Sometimes even leave a portion of the bigger one for it. Depends how small it is - if it's a big one, I'm not letting it go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 16, 2016, 01:32:13 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on April 16, 2016, 12:49:19 pm

I gotta say.... I sometimes play on people doing that. I start constricting a small guy, some other big buddy comes over to constrict me in turn, and as they're stealthily trying to circle me.... strike. Full throttles, cut them off, gobble them up.

If the small one is still I let it go, usually. Sometimes even leave a portion of the bigger one for it. Depends how small it is - if it's a big one, I'm not letting it go.

I do that too :))

Not played for a while though, biggest I've been was low 30's-k

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 16, 2016, 02:02:35 pm

How do people get the lengths on the leaderboard that are between 10⁸ and 10⁹?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 16, 2016, 02:20:20 pm

Reached top of the leaderboards for a while. Had ~44,000 before dying, next highest was ~20,000. Best part was my classy, witty name of "itty bitty snake titties".

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slither.io

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on April 16, 2016, 05:49:58 pm

What a google search term that would be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 16, 2016, 05:58:48 pm

I could look it up and just might but it'd probably just show a lamia with an A-cup.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 16, 2016, 08:44:48 pm

Despite the fact he promoted like four levels lower than everybody else (hereditary?), Eliwood pulled through and managed to magnificently interrupt Nergal and Athos's wizard duel at the last second, scoring his best kill in ages.

[A few minutes later Hector and Canas tag-teamed a dragon into oblivion.]

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Fire Emblem

I should probably write that third update for my FE3 LP now, seeing as I've finished my backlog of Fire Emblem games. All I have left are Genealogy and Binding Blade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on April 17, 2016, 12:08:26 am

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 16, 2016, 08:44:48 pm

I should probably write that third update for my FE3 LP now, seeing as I've finished my backlog of Fire Emblem games. All I have left are Genealogy and Binding Blade.

You'll probably never have so much transcribed text in that LP that an update has to be split in two posts, so it could be worse. You could've made the mistake of doing a screenshot LP of The Age of Decadence. So I say you probably should continue it, even if it's only because I want to see the Fantasy-Orleans jazz bands.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 17, 2016, 06:32:52 am

Defeated a boss in my first attempt using only one Estus Flask during the entire fight.

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Dark Souls 1.

Okay, so it was the Iron Golem fight, but this is my first time playing the game semi-blindly so sue me. It feels good to defeat a Darm Souls boss in your first try. I also ganked the Chaos Witch in my second attempt, but that's not as impressive. Though after the Gargoyles and Carpa Demon, I'm just glad that the boss fights are fun again and not total bullshit. I hope that whoever designed those two fights feels sorry for what they did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 17, 2016, 02:37:43 pm

Out of nowhere, I find a powered-down "Medium Exploration Ship" called "Christine". None of it was tagged as being in a faction, and I checked the control panel list(including the "show hidden" ones) for any warheads. It came up clean and I powered it up; no booby traps. It's a cool-looking ship, but most of the parts are written in German. Thankfully it's ordered by English part names, so I quickly figured out what they do, but I didn't see any of the rotor stuff listed or what they do. Anyway, I brought it back to where I'm building my base, fitted the tail section with a landing gear, and took it over two where I had a couple of pirate drone constructors I had disabled via wizard-mode because I don't think those were supposed to spawn at all(the drones they build didn't).


Gonna strip them for components. Or at least strip one, and maybe up-gun the other after rebuilding all the controls. The Christine is definitely going to be kept, there's part of it would make a perfect gun deck.

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Space Engineers, survival mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 17, 2016, 10:55:55 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on April 17, 2016, 06:32:52 am

Defeated a boss in my first attempt using only one Estus Flask during the entire fight.

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Dark Souls 1.

Okay, so it was the Iron Golem fight, but this is my first time playing the game semi-blindly so sue me. It feels good to defeat a Darm Souls boss in your first try. I also ganked the Chaos Witch in my second attempt, but that's not as impressive. Though after the Gargoyles and Carpa Demon, I'm just glad that the boss fights are fun again and not total bullshit. I hope that whoever designed those two fights feels sorry for what they did.

Honestly, the Gargoyles and Capra Demon are, as far as I can tell, designed to wreck newer players and encourage them to try co-op. Capra Demon never really stops being hella robust, but the Gargoyles go down really quickly to any non-physical damage. Ornstein and SMOUGH are also always a fun time. Always. It is inevitable. And fucking Pinwheel is the most bullshit boss ever with all the goddamn clones. Makes the Catacombs a living nightmare.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 18, 2016, 08:08:03 am

The problem with the Gargoyles isn't that I couldn't damage them quickly enough. I had a +3~5 halberd and was doing a good chunk of damage with each hit. The problem is their fucking bullshit AoE attacks that they love to spam. Once one is left it's not much of a problem since you can run in and gank them while they're busy spewing fire. But if they are both alive, then you can't do that without getting a halberd up your backside. So basicially you get forced into a corner and die one way or another, since even if you run past them they'll just chain AoE attacks and prevent you from doing anything until you burn to death. The only reason I won against them is because I managed to kill the first one off before his brother could rush in and interrupt me.

I would have gone with co-op, but the only messages I can see are developer ones or ones I put down myself. So... Definitely not an option for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 18, 2016, 08:29:46 am

Just summon Sunbro, dude. He's not the smartest AI in the world but he can tank like a beast. Alternatively, if you freed Lautrec, you can summon him instead.

Or just get both of them if you don't feel like putting any effort in. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 18, 2016, 08:46:26 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on April 17, 2016, 10:55:55 pm

Honestly, the Gargoyles and Capra Demon are, as far as I can tell, designed to wreck newer players and encourage them to try co-op. Capra Demon never really stops being hella robust, but the Gargoyles go down really quickly to any non-physical damage. Ornstein and SMOUGH are also always a fun time. Always. It is inevitable. And fucking Pinwheel is the most bullshit boss ever with all the goddamn clones. Makes the Catacombs a living nightmare.

The key to killing pinwheel is to just rush him. He doesn't have that much health and his attacks are easy to dodge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 18, 2016, 03:11:54 pm

Beat the Abyss Watchers on my first try. They were a total joke. Why? Because backstabs. They are one of few bosses that are vulnerable to backstabs. And I had a sunbro with me, splitting their attention between the two of us, so one of us could always get the backstab.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 18, 2016, 03:34:48 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on April 17, 2016, 10:55:55 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on April 17, 2016, 06:32:52 am

Defeated a boss in my first attempt using only one Estus Flask during the entire fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1.

Okay, so it was the Iron Golem fight, but this is my first time playing the game semi-blindly so sue me. It feels good to defeat a Darm Souls boss in your first try. I also ganked the Chaos Witch in my second attempt, but that's not as impressive. Though after the Gargoyles and Carpa Demon, I'm just glad that the boss fights are fun again and not total bullshit. I hope that whoever designed those two fights feels sorry for what they did.

Honestly, the Gargoyles and Capra Demon are, as far as I can tell, designed to wreck newer players and encourage them to try co-op. Capra Demon never really stops being hella robust, but the Gargoyles go down really quickly to any non-physical damage. Ornstein and SMOUGH are also always a fun time. Always. It is inevitable. And fucking Pinwheel is the most bullshit boss ever with all the goddamn clones. Makes the Catacombs a living nightmare.

I don't know why, but pinwheel felt like a breather boss to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 18, 2016, 07:48:16 pm

Yea seriously?  Pinwheel?  Every DS1 run I ever did pinwheel was down in 3 or 4 hits.  The games I played duo with someone else was even worse, I've seen him die before even getting an attack off he's that much of a pushover.  He just has way to little defense, or way to little hp, or way too little of both.

I can say with 100% confidence that I have never died to pinwheel.  The wheel skeletons before him are harder than he is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flame99 on April 18, 2016, 08:50:16 pm

The first time I killed pinwheel I was a little surprised when he didn't respawn. Though, the Pinwheel Servants later on are obnoxious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 18, 2016, 09:15:28 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 18, 2016, 03:34:48 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on April 17, 2016, 10:55:55 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on April 17, 2016, 06:32:52 am

Defeated a boss in my first attempt using only one Estus Flask during the entire fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1.

Okay, so it was the Iron Golem fight, but this is my first time playing the game semi-blindly so sue me. It feels good to defeat a Darm Souls boss in your first try. I also ganked the Chaos Witch in my second attempt, but that's not as impressive. Though after the Gargoyles and Carpa Demon, I'm just glad that the boss fights are fun again and not total bullshit. I hope that whoever designed those two fights feels sorry for what they did.

Honestly, the Gargoyles and Capra Demon are, as far as I can tell, designed to wreck newer players and encourage them to try co-op. Capra Demon never really stops being hella robust, but the Gargoyles go down really quickly to any non-physical damage. Ornstein and SMOUGH are also always a fun time. Always. It is inevitable. And fucking Pinwheel is the most bullshit boss ever with all the goddamn clones. Makes the Catacombs a living nightmare.

I don't know why, but pinwheel felt like a breather boss to me.

_{shush i'm trying to create an anticlimax when they run into him later and find out he's pathetic}

Although I did actually die to him once, because his clone sucker punched me while the real Pinwheel was dying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 21, 2016, 12:23:39 pm

Oh what's that Ikko Ikki? You're twice my size and have about 4k men to my measly 2k? Wait, lemme just apply my super ninja. Oh there we go, two generals and a daimyo dead in three turns, that'll teach you. Oh wait, lemme just buy your last general off of you, you won't be needing any leadership for that rabble. Then the doomstack moves into my territory during winter, oh wait, I can also lock them in place with my ninja, here let's do that and attrition them down some.

While all that was fun and greatly helped, I still need to fight about 3600 men, luckily they don't have any leaders so routing most of them should be an option, especially since they're for the most part Ashigaru while I have a bunch of Samurai.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 21, 2016, 01:23:43 pm

Quote from: Jopax on April 21, 2016, 12:23:39 pm

Oh what's that Ikko Ikki? You're twice my size and have about 4k men to my measly 2k? Wait, lemme just apply my super ninja. Oh there we go, two generals and a daimyo dead in three turns, that'll teach you. Oh wait, lemme just buy your last general off of you, you won't be needing any leadership for that rabble. Then the doomstack moves into my territory during winter, oh wait, I can also lock them in place with my ninja, here let's do that and attrition them down some.

While all that was fun and greatly helped, I still need to fight about 3600 men, luckily they don't have any leaders so routing most of them should be an option, especially since they're for the most part Ashigaru while I have a bunch of Samurai.

Total War: Shogun 2 (or whatever way it goes round) it sounds like, should anyone be interested.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 22, 2016, 03:58:27 am

Spoiler: Actual spoipers not a bragging image (click to show/hide)

I re-wrote the Geth.

Not an easy feat, since Geth are probably the most difficult enemies in the game besides the Collectors themselves. Probably not helped by the fact that I was trying to use my AI Hacking skill on the big ones when I should have just been concerned with taking them down :P

Mass Effect 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 23, 2016, 01:10:52 pm

Playing Malfurion, a support character. Decided "fuck it" and picked only damage talents. Proceeded to wreck faces, to the point where actual assassin heroes, like Kerrigan, were running from me.

Noobs Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 23, 2016, 05:43:13 pm

During the dark predawn hours, I was scouting a moderate distance away from my base, looking to explore a new area, preferably for some food until the crops come in.

Just in case, I had Safe Mode turned on just in case anything showed up, and my Night Vision ability would alert me from much further away. Turns out, I was ambushed. By a pack of wolves.


A short while later, I packed all the meat, bones, and stomachs into my wheelbarrow and strolled away. They only managed two (minor) hits while I shredded them with my reinforced steel spear.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm: DDA. Now I just have to read cooking books until I get recipes for preserving the harvest, particularly fruits. I only have recipes for dehydrated goods, which burns through batteries like crazy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on April 23, 2016, 09:11:23 pm

I'm just gonna spend some time tempting fate right here. :P

In my current DnD (Pathfinder Rules) game; We have a Monk, a Hunter (With ALL the pets), and myself the Fighter/Sorcerer.

While the Monk is frontline and the Hunter backline, I fit a weird Jack-of-all Trades position normally taken by a Bard or Paladin. My spells are heavy on support, my AC is rather good, and my weapons are fairly hard hitting with my high strength... I DO however, have the lowest HP of the whole party.

Over the course of the campaign, I have been reduced to -7 HP three separate times without dying. (I have 8 Constitution so that is the lowest in negatives I can go before dying.) I've been blown up by a fireball, Blown up by a Master Chymist who killed himself after I stunned him while he did Weird Science, and fallen through 3 floors of an Inn with my weight and combined gear coming in at over 500 lbs most of the time causing so much falling damage after a teleport spell.

Everytime I have survived, everytime I have been brought back... And we're almost at the 'final boss' for the campaign... Whos ready for round 4 of surviving with 1 HP? XP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on April 23, 2016, 09:19:53 pm

May all your rolls be crits.

P. S. Think of forum gamessss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 24, 2016, 12:07:54 am

It took some savescumming, but everyting does - Breventovitch was 58 and ready to fall over at a moment's notice.
After four deaths and five daughters, on the fifth reload of the past three years, one of his three concubines finally gave him a son to inherit the throne and continue the game.
Time to throw away the concubines before it happens again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 24, 2016, 01:38:49 am

Quote from: Lukewarm on April 24, 2016, 12:07:54 am

It took some savescumming, but everyting does - Breventovitch was 58 and ready to fall over at a moment's notice.
After four deaths and five daughters, on the fifth reload of the past three years, one of his three concubines finally gave him a son to inherit the throne and continue the game.
Time to throw away the concubines before it happens again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

If you'll excuse me the incredulity, how long into the game was this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on April 24, 2016, 04:09:17 pm

I started to train my parrying skills using a parrying dagger. Turns out that I never managed to do it before because I didn't know just how much it matters to use a small shield or a dagger instead of a larger shield. Been doing pretty good so far, parrying is one of those things that, once you get not completely terrible at it, makes many things much easier, though it does take some practice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on April 24, 2016, 05:58:36 pm

Quote from: hector13 on April 24, 2016, 01:38:49 am

If you'll excuse me the incredulity, how long into the game was this?
[/quote]
Just before the Viking Age begins. The ruler of  (a three county block next to Kiev) starts out relatively old and childless, and I hadn't worried about it until then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 24, 2016, 11:03:39 pm

Quote from: Noel.se on April 24, 2016, 04:09:17 pm

I started to train my parrying skills using a parrying dagger. Turns out that I never managed to do it before because I didn't know just how much it matters to use a small shield or a dagger instead of a larger shield. Been doing pretty good so far, parrying is one of those things that, once you get not completely terrible at it, makes many things much easier, though it does take some practice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 3

I never realized how difficult parrying actually was with larger shields until I started playing a Theif in DS1. The timing difference is incredible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chevaleresse on April 25, 2016, 01:19:04 am

Put together a build that let me zap anyone on the other team for 95+% of their health while invisible, given I could get into cast range without being detected. We lost, but I actually got complimented by most of the enemy team for the build, plus I ended positive.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dota 2, Ability Draft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 25, 2016, 01:28:22 am

You don't need ability draft to do that. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QRjfjCpLE)

(good job tho)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rubidium on April 26, 2016, 07:01:44 am

I owned Toon Link a million times already...
withmarthonly

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 26, 2016, 07:05:01 am

>Avatar is Lucina.
>Not Lucina.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 26, 2016, 08:39:01 am

Loaded back up after this. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg6955858#msg6955858) Managed to kite one of the ogres away from where they spawn instead of aggroing both.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/uxB3rdT.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wAx5Knl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Gd76vLF.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 26, 2016, 08:40:05 am

Game is Dragon's Dogma if you couldn't tell by the screenshots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 26, 2016, 02:15:18 pm

I devised a bizarre strategy to capture Gazak with my subpar-strength Niles: I had my much-stronger Takumi use Niles' Bow to get down to 1 HP. Then I paired Niles with Benny and had Benny tank hits from a paladin in a chokepoint to fill up the Dual Guard bar. After that, I would have Niles try to catch Gazak with, then use Shiro's Swap command to pull him out of there when he missed. I kept doing this until I caught Gazak, and now I have a beefy berserker in prison.

Fire Emblem: Fates

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 26, 2016, 07:05:01 am

>Avatar is Lucina.
>Not Lucina.

Quote from: Rubidium on April 26, 2016, 07:01:44 am

marth (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/9/98/MaskedMarth.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20150920034705)

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RangerCado on April 26, 2016, 04:23:13 pm

Played my first Competitive Match of Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

Not only did my team win 16-4, (We did really bad on the first couple rounds on each side. XD) but I managed to get 23 kills, 10 deaths, and was the third best on my team. As someone who was having a lot of trouble actually getting used to how to play CS:GO, I am very pleased to have had such a good start. :D My next match was a disaster as we had 1 person leave, and then my team mates started to hack... so yeah. Third game though was SO CLOSE! I got 4th on my team, but when the match ended 16-13, it was a fun experience. We managed to turn things around while playing as the T's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 26, 2016, 05:08:05 pm

Quote from: Tawarochir on April 26, 2016, 02:15:18 pm

I devised a bizarre strategy to capture Gazak with my subpar-strength Niles: I had my much-stronger Takumi use Niles' Bow to get down to 1 HP. Then I paired Niles with Benny and had Benny tank hits from a paladin in a chokepoint to fill up the Dual Guard bar. After that, I would have Niles try to catch Gazak with, then use Shiro's Swap command to pull him out of there when he missed. I kept doing this until I caught Gazak, and now I have a beefy berserker in prison.

Fire Emblem: Fates

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 26, 2016, 07:05:01 am

>Avatar is Lucina.
>Not Lucina.

Quote from: Rubidium on April 26, 2016, 07:01:44 am

marth (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/9/98/MaskedMarth.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20150920034705)

:P

Marth isn't playable in Smash, but nice try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tryrar on April 26, 2016, 09:16:38 pm

Holy fucking SHIT the infinity pistol is awesome. I just wiped out the entire dam level with it, boss constructor and all(I don't think I even stopped firing during that last part)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Borderlands 2

Edit: Fucking hell, my legendary luck is off the chain! First the infinity(which I finally sold as damage output just wasn't cutting it anymore), then my new pistol, a Thunderball Fists I randomly found in the dam, and now a Kerblaster! WTF?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 27, 2016, 04:41:24 pm

Managed to win by removing all of my opponents pieces from the board, rather than having more after filling the board. This is the first time this has happened.

Spoiler: I managed to screenshot Luka's reaction to it (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/iYVhDUp.jpg)

And normally she's pretty chill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX, reversi minigame vs Luka.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 28, 2016, 09:23:46 pm

Reached the Undead Church, steamrolled the respawning Knights and the big guy with the mace, but died to the Channeler's Hollow horde. Seven thousand souls and two liquid Humanity was on the line, and I wasn't going to let it go to waste, but after reaching the Church again my broadsword became damaged. Now, I couldn't have that, but the nearest blacksmith was (to my knowledge) Rickert of Vinheim, all the way in New Londo...

...I made it there, fixed and +1'd my sword, made it back and handed the Channeler his severed ass without using the fires in between or dying, although I did take the shortcut from the Hellkite Bridge in lieu of the whole trip. But I was proud. (Especially since I killed the mace-wielding miniboss without dying or getting damaged more than once.)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 28, 2016, 10:56:19 pm

Spoiler: You're going to hate me for this, SB (click to show/hide)

There is a shortcut between the church and Firelink Shrine. It's the elevators by the stairs you need to go up to face the Hollow horde. And if you turn around and go out the side entrance, you'll reach a pathway that eventually leads to a nearby blacksmith. So instead of going all the way to New Londo, you could have gone back to the church and have someone else repair/improve your weapon.

But hey. At least you got a +1 Estrus Flask, right? That has to count for something.

I'm assuming that this is your first time playing and you don't know all of this stuff, of course. I finished the game only last week, so I can't exactly make fun of you for being so behind the times. _{Let me know how much shit the gargoyles and Carpa demon give you, just so that I can compare.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 28, 2016, 11:05:40 pm

Ah, the Capra Demon--always annoying, but highly cheesable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 28, 2016, 11:12:41 pm

I know. It's not that he's particularly tough, it's just that the game forces you to fight him and two dogs in an extremely small space. Being forced to fight fast and hard-hitting enemies in tight quarters is not fun in the slightest. It doesn't help that it comes after the Gargoyles, which are even worse. At least the bosses get way more fun to fight after those two, so you just have to slog through them to get to the good stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 28, 2016, 11:19:32 pm

I've died often to Capra and 99% of the time it's before I kill his dogs. Afterward though, just like with the Taurus Demon, if you've beaten the game any number of times you're probably gotten very good at dodging his moves because of your practice against the minor demons in the Demon Ruins.

But yeah for Taurus and Capra the real challenge is the environment, rather than the bosses themselves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 28, 2016, 11:26:32 pm

Go to Darkroot Forest and find the Stone Armor set. Acquire the Drake Sword by shooting off the wyvern's tail. Follow these steps, and even a two year old can crush the Capra Demon. On your second run, once you've 'got gud', you can try him without these crutches.

Further tip: Ditch the Drake Sword for something that scales before you enter Sen's Fortress, or you're going to get wrecked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 28, 2016, 11:41:53 pm

I've fought the Capra Demon a freaking lot in my Dark Souls blitz. The little confined space you're in is barely enough to safely fight the boss himself, let alone his furry friends. Basically, it depends how swiftly you can roll over to the stairs and get to the ledge that the demon can't get to you on but the dogs can. Once you've done that and killed the dogs, the Capra Demon becomes a fair bit easier. You can then repeatedly plunging attack him while remaining mostly safe in the process.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 29, 2016, 12:26:03 am

In my SL1 playthrough the plunging attack was not a very safe option because falling does so much damage, so instead I just relied on learning his moves until I could roll through them.

E: If you're more patient than me you could grind some souls and just buy a crapload of firebombs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 29, 2016, 05:31:58 am

Quote from: Arcvasti on April 28, 2016, 11:41:53 pm

I've fought the Capra Demon a freaking lot in my Dark Souls blitz. The little confined space you're in is barely enough to safely fight the boss himself, let alone his furry friends. Basically, it depends how swiftly you can roll over to the stairs and get to the ledge that the demon can't get to you on but the dogs can. Once you've done that and killed the dogs, the Capra Demon becomes a fair bit easier. You can then repeatedly plunging attack him while remaining mostly safe in the process.

Forget plunging attacks. Get yourself a staff and a basic spell, or just a ton of firebombs, and blast away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 05:47:31 am

Thanks for all the advice but, like USEC assumed, I'm no greenhorn. (To anything pre-gargoyles, but I only beat them once, and with phantom help when I had Xbox Live a few years ago.)

I do remember the elevators but I only did so after repairing my sword and I forgot about Andre too. It was still worth it. :P I think I'll stick with the broadsword for now, though, because it upgrades pretty well and I believe it scales. Plus if I can stagger on block I can get a max of six hits in from one combo with my current stamina, which is pretty useful against said respawning Church Knights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 29, 2016, 10:20:37 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 05:47:31 am

I do remember the elevators but I only did so after repairing my sword and I forgot about Andre too. It was still worth it. :P I think I'll stick with the broadsword for now

It's just not the authentic Dark Souls experience if you aren't using an ultra-greatsword. Zweihander is love, zweihander is life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 29, 2016, 10:25:10 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 05:47:31 am

Thanks for all the advice but, like USEC assumed, I'm no greenhorn. (To anything pre-gargoyles, but I only beat them once, and with phantom help when I had Xbox Live a few years ago.)

You'll have fun with the rest of the game then. Actual fun that is, not !!FUN!!. Except when the game expects you to fight enemies on narrow ledges. Then the game gets bullshit again. _{From what I accumilated off of the internet, I thought that poison wouls be a big problem in Blighttown. Unless you have crap HP it's not. Fighting on those tiny ledges killed me many, many more times than poison ever did.}

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 05:47:31 am

I think I'll stick with the broadsword for now, though, because it upgrades pretty well and I believe it scales.

You can tell if a weapon scales by the A/B/C/D/etc. in the bottom-left corner when you check its detailed stats. Most weapons scale, so I'd be surprised if the broadsword isn't one of them. Mind you, the damage formula in this game is kinda weird. More damage doesn't always translate to taking off more HP from an enemy. I think that it's something to do with damage types and weapon movesets. But when a halberd you find near the start of the game inflicts more damage than a Black Knight Axe despite having a lower damage value it makes everything seem kinda screwy. _{Not that I'm complaining. The base halberd is hands-down my favourite weapon.}

Quote from: Spehss _ on April 29, 2016, 10:20:37 am

It's just not the authentic Dark Souls experience if you aren't using an ultra-greatsword. Zweihander is love, zweihander is life.

_{Go halberd or go home.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 10:49:48 am

At least it isn't Dark Souls 2, where the standard Club is practically the best weapon in the game for PvE due to the fact 99% of enemies are weak to Strike damage. (Yes I know there are better strike weapons, I'm exaggerating.)

And Gargoyle Halberd best halberd. Fite me

Anyway, the only weapons that don't scale in Dark Souls 1, to the best of my knowledge, are the Dragon weapons like the Drake Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 am

I don't have 22 Strength and two-handing is stupid. I can't live without my 100% Physical reduction. ;-;

I think it's to do with the different types of Physical damage? There's, uh, Slash, Thrust, and some others, and everything blocks a different amount of each. I would assume the Axe is Slash while the Halberd is Thrust (except the strong hit) and not as many enemies block Thrust as well as Slash.

Although, uh, as long as Blighttown doesn't include massive Stamina-draining enemies that can stagger and subsequently poison me I should be okay. Kicks break blocks for days, you fools.


_{also halberds suck because of that stupid stumble animation}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 29, 2016, 10:54:41 am

I've found that 85% reduction, in Dark Souls 3 at least, is fine. I use the Grass Crest shield, because in addition to that it has better elemental blocks than any 100% physical block shield I've seen and stamina regen bonus. Which stacks with the Chloranthy Ring.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 29, 2016, 11:59:28 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 10:49:48 am

And Gargoyle Halberd best halberd. Fite me

It's a halberd. I am okay with this.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 am

_{also halberds suck because of that stupid stumble animation}

Get out. _{You only stumble if you miss. If you are good enough to hit then the recovery animation is fairly quick.}

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 am

I think it's to do with the different types of Physical damage? There's, uh, Slash, Thrust, and some others, and everything blocks a different amount of each. I would assume the Axe is Slash while the Halberd is Thrust (except the strong hit) and not as many enemies block Thrust as well as Slash.

Probably. It just seems weird at how consistant it is though. The halberd was just always better, even against enemies that the Greataxe was supposed to deal extra damage to. It was weird.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 am

Although, uh, as long as Blighttown doesn't include massive Stamina-draining enemies that can stagger and subsequently poison me I should be okay. Kicks break blocks for days, you fools.

Nope. It has none of them. _{And no dudes with shields either.}

Quote from: Twinwolf on April 29, 2016, 10:54:41 am

I've found that 85% reduction, in Dark Souls 3 at least, is fine. I use the Grass Crest shield, because in addition to that it has better elemental blocks than any 100% physical block shield I've seen and stamina regen bonus. Which stacks with the Chloranthy Ring.

Yeah. You don't need 100% damage reduction. Unless you have very low health or not Estrus Flasks, scratch damage isn't going to be much of a problem. Generally you die after falling off a ledge or getting combo'd, not worn down. _{At least in my experience.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 12:19:42 pm

100% Physical or riot. No exceptions.
Also, I wish there was a way to respawning non-respawning (non-boss) enemies manually. I want to fight, say, the first Black Knight again. :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 29, 2016, 12:39:26 pm

You can. It's called New Game Plus. :v _{I never said that it was the most practical method.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 01:05:07 pm

An easy way. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 29, 2016, 01:11:55 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on April 29, 2016, 12:39:26 pm

You can. It's called New Game Plus. :v _{I never said that it was the most practical method.}

After all, completing the game is easy compared to the alternatives. Mostly because the alternatives don't exist

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 01:27:00 pm

y

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on April 29, 2016, 10:22:26 pm

Shields are for the weak. Dual-wielding Caestuses is the most macho way to go.

The Halberd is totally one of my favourite weapons though. Who needs scaling with spins like deez?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 10:27:29 pm

How do you block without a shield, you fool.
A shield (and Solaire, bless his heart) got me through the Gargoyles. Praise be those long-ass windups, I almost never staggered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 10:37:06 pm

You don't need to block, ever... if you're good. You just roll through everything, maybe parry occasionally.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 10:47:09 pm

But, you see, as a lowly Xbox Live-bereft, Knight-tank build scrub, blocking is my lifeblood. It is ingrained in the very essence of my being. I art blocking, and blocking art I.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 10:49:07 pm

Tanking is viable in Dark Souls 1, but word of warning if you play 2 and 3: Armor doesn't really matter except for looks in those games. The amount of defense you get from your outfit is damn near negligible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 10:56:26 pm

BLOCKING
To quote a steam discussion I literally just read,

Quote

it's not intended to make you invincible, it's meant to keep you ALIVE when you get hit hard.

Just... at least tell me there's still 100% Physical reduction shields...?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 10:57:56 pm

Yeah, they still exist. I still recommend learning to dodge, though. It uses less stamina in the end, gets you better positioning, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 11:00:46 pm

I will learn to dodge when shields stop existing I can begin to reliably dodge mid-attack and get that frame-perfect no damage bullshit down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on April 29, 2016, 11:03:29 pm

Saved Forrest from certain doom on my first try through excellent tactics and probably excessive use of Siegfried. Swords that grant a huge defense bonus and shoot laser beams of darkness are not at all balanced.

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Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on April 29, 2016, 11:19:26 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 11:00:46 pm

I will learn to dodge when shields stop existing

You should play bloodbarn than. :P
And shields are for the weak. Two-handers forever!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 11:30:14 pm

Hoonters must hoont, but I am no hoonter. _{sunlight wife and crossbreed wife = doll wife tho, gotta say}

Also

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 am

two-handing is stupid. I can't live without my 100% Physical reduction. ;-;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 29, 2016, 11:34:04 pm

No you're stoopit. :V

We should probably stop derailing though, in all seriousness, no matter how much I could talk about Dark Souls all day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 29, 2016, 11:36:31 pm

grant me eyes

There is (was, last post 2014 :L) a Dark Souls thread, in fact.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 30, 2016, 12:23:30 am

I beat the Taurus Demon for only the second time in my entire Dark Souls career!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 30, 2016, 12:25:01 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 30, 2016, 12:23:30 am

I beat the Taurus Demon for only the second time in my entire Dark Souls career!

Second time I did that I died before it died.

I fell off the bridge, and it followed me. I got the "Died" thing, and then something about Monster Defeated or whatever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 30, 2016, 12:26:12 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 30, 2016, 12:23:30 am

I beat the Taurus Demon for only the second time in my entire Dark Souls career!

Nice! I can't remember how I did so the first time, but the second and third were cheesed with a Zweihander and Plunging Attacks respectively.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on April 30, 2016, 06:10:19 am

Beat the Deacons of the Deep first try.

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Dark Souls 3

Also, on the Dark Souls discussion:

Try playing Bloodborne if you want to learn to dodge. After that the bosses would seem to move so slowly that they're a joke to dodge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on April 30, 2016, 01:42:19 pm

I started playing Hearthstone this morning. So far, I've won three out of four games, playing a priest. The lack of MtG's mana hose factor makes me feel much better about a wanton card-draw deck, so that's what I'm doing. It's immensely satisfying to lose a Core Hound to an instakill spell and just play another one the next turn.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 30, 2016, 01:53:45 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on April 30, 2016, 06:10:19 am

Try playing Dark Souls, but harder and you can't shieldturtle if you want to learn to dodge. After that the bosses would seem to move so slowly that they're a joke to dodge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on April 30, 2016, 02:21:04 pm

Casting epic experiment for 21

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Magic the Gathering, playing Mizzix EDH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 30, 2016, 06:23:41 pm

It's just not Dark Souls 1 if you're not wearing Havel's Armor and wielding dual enchanted Greataxes that scale with Faith.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 30, 2016, 06:36:13 pm

[doesn't minmax builds like a weakling]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 30, 2016, 06:49:43 pm

Not my own, but I was present for the deed so... was at a friend's place watching another friend play Dark Souls for the first time. Somehow she managed to accidentally position herself in a way that caused the Taurus Demons to jump off the bridge with his backstep. First time I ever saw that happen.

Dank Souls, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2016, 07:03:49 pm

Racked up a silly killstreak, just sitting in an anti-tank turret, shelling a chemical plant. Even got a well-hidden Infiltrator to bugger off after I followed his tracers back to were he was hiding. Eventually, they just stopped moving in my arc of fire... but that was probably because some teammates were attacking from the other side.

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Planetside 2. Won the alert doing that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Adragis on May 01, 2016, 03:02:29 am

I hit a fairly solid tree (a dead one, maybe 15-20cm in diameter) with sticks until I managed to snap the tree trunk (well, wear through it and then snap it, but eh). This was over several days, though, but I still feel proud. I wasn't even aiming to do it, but my stick-hitting practice evidently paid off :P

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Real Life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 01, 2016, 04:48:42 am

Got summoned at the King's Gate for some jolly coop. Invader spawns right afterward. We chase them into the big open area with all the statues and its bedlam. Close calls everywhere yet all three of us survive. The invader bails deeper into the level and I go chasing after them with another phantom behind me. Said phantom does a header off a stairway and takes himself out of the chase. The invader steps into a room full of poison dart traps and gets dosed up. A good distance from the door, I see him low on health and chugging a potion. I know there's almost no way I can reach him but I start sprinting, roll through the doorway of the room and dodge several poison darts and juuuusssttttt as he's about to quaff his Estus flask and heal I finish my roll with a forward stabbing attack and spear him. Felt great. We go on to down a boss together in jolly co-op and I finally get rank 3 Sun Bro I've been working at for like a week.

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Dark Souls 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on May 01, 2016, 12:52:02 pm

First time I fought the Taurus Demon it also jumped off the bridge... not sure how I did it, it was a complete accident.

Anyway, defeated the final boss. It was suitably epic and quite challenging, I'd say the fourth hardest boss for me after Dancer and Piece of Shit.
You know who the hardest one is. I still need to beat him and possibly buy everything from the vendors. Then, I shall move on to NG+!

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Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2016, 03:44:19 pm

Got caught up in a massive battle in a player-made NC base somewhere in our territory. I snuck through a small gap in the walls(possibly the main entrance?), dodged enemy fire, ran up to the HIVE, planted a C4, a pressed the detonator.

Then, for the entire continent to see: "The New Conglomerate core in <I forget where, it's SE of East Substation, near Mulac I think> has been claimed by AkuraThDB"(that is my username there).

I immediately died, but managed to kill my attacker as well.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 01, 2016, 04:15:53 pm

Killed the Gaping Dragon on, I believe, my fourth try (second without summoning Solaire oR Lautrec, although that was because their signs disappeared for whatever reason.) It went fairly well, especially because I had Combustion and 14 Firebombs from farming Undead Burg through Undead Parish, essentially meaning about 1,000 free damage each.
And, contrary to my earlier statements, I didn't shieldturtle. Shieldturtling will kill you, I've noticed.

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 01, 2016, 04:18:22 pm

War Thunder Ground Forces as a Panzer III


I played the holy game of peek-a-boom with five enemy tans all at once and popped four before taking a hit. Then I killed the fifth guy and then a StuG that crept around behind me ended up immobilising me, so I called an arty strike on my dying tank, and lo and behold the StuG took cover behind by tank, promptly taken out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 01, 2016, 05:48:22 pm

Killing Pulaski was one of the most satisfying experiences I had in a GTA game, especially after losing in a toe-to-toe fight previously.

Granted, blowing up his car with the heat seeking rocket launcher isn't exactly the most honorable way to do it, but considering both how twisted (he wanted to have sex with CJ's sis, and cracked jokes on how messed up CJ's mom was when she was killed) and stupid (he was trying to drive his car up toward me... while I was standing ON A CLIFF FACE) he was...

Well, I couldn't have felt more satisfied.

Blowing up his car (again) and corpse with the satchel charges was also pretty fun, as well as seeing the chain reaction from a few other cars that got too close.

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GTA: SA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on May 01, 2016, 11:39:24 pm

I just knew there was going to be a turn around on the prices of metal items! Muahahahahhaa, I made Recette the richest girl in the entire land after gouging so many items at 300% value!

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Recettear. A few days ago was a drop in value of armors and weapons. But then that happened, and well, Recette can live in a giant mansion with champagne fountains and 3 European sports cars now if she wanted. And still have money left over to fully sponsor every damn adventurer with the best weapons and armor available. Fuck dad's debt, i'll make it fucking rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 02, 2016, 12:27:51 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on May 01, 2016, 11:39:24 pm

I just knew there was going to be a turn around on the prices of metal items! Muahahahahhaa, I made Recette the richest girl in the entire land after gouging so many items at 300% value!

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Recettear. A few days ago was a drop in value of armors and weapons. But then that happened, and well, Recette can live in a giant mansion with champagne fountains and 3 European sports cars now if she wanted. And still have money left over to fully sponsor every damn adventurer with the best weapons and armor available. Fuck dad's debt, i'll make it fucking rain.

And then the next loan payment comes in and you are back to having no money again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 02, 2016, 04:35:40 am

The enemy team was advancing on our spawn from the right. I (somehow) made a brilliant last stand, destroying three of the enemy before I was overran myself. Surprisingly, the thermoptic barrier actually worked and kept me hidden and protected from the enemy while I tried to pick them off, as they were distracted on another front.

Ghost in the Shell: First Assault. Having not played a CoD-style online shooter before, I'm finding it a surprisingly fun experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 02, 2016, 09:19:41 am

Black Forest Koreans are strong. Maybe too strong, certainly pre-expansions. I pulled a flawless fast castle into mangonels, by the time the walls were down I had two castles backing them with war wagons, and the game was essentially decided right then and there.

I honestly can't think of a good counter tothe WW/Onager combo. Trash are shredded by the onagers and/or the wagons (including hussars), archers are a non-starter, infantry really suffer trying to get close, and heavy cavalry are pricey enough that I'm happy to go full Imperial Guard to take them out. Other siege are outranged (except trebuchets and bombards; the former are erratic, and the latter don't have enough of an edge), and building just melt.

AoE II: HD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 02, 2016, 10:22:48 am

Quote from: Arx on May 02, 2016, 09:19:41 am

Black Forest Koreans are strong. Maybe too strong, certainly pre-expansions. I pulled a flawless fast castle into mangonels, by the time the walls were down I had two castles backing them with war wagons, and the game was essentially decided right then and there.

I honestly can't think of a good counter tothe WW/Onager combo. Trash are shredded by the onagers and/or the wagons (including hussars), archers are a non-starter, infantry really suffer trying to get close, and heavy cavalry are pricey enough that I'm happy to go full Imperial Guard to take them out. Other siege are outranged (except trebuchets and bombards; the former are erratic, and the latter don't have enough of an edge), and building just melt.

AoE II: HD.

War Wagons are freaking expensive so eco raiding comes to mind, but on Black Forest? No real chance of that. If it were me I would probably try to just buy even more onagers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 02, 2016, 11:46:27 am

Not a counter; Korean onagers outrange them, and war wagons are too tanky for it to necessarily be a good way of clearing them out. It might situationally work, but I doubt it.

Huskarls are about the best option, outside of the expansions. And of course, to do that you gotta be Goths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 02, 2016, 12:08:38 pm

Quote from: Arx on May 02, 2016, 11:46:27 am

Not a counter; Korean onagers outrange them-

Not if your opponent is also Korean. :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 02, 2016, 12:45:13 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 02, 2016, 12:08:38 pm

Quote from: Arx on May 02, 2016, 11:46:27 am

Not a counter; Korean onagers outrange them-

Not if your opponent is also Korean. :v

Well, yeah. But at that point finding a counter is moot because you can match, which is what you're describing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 02, 2016, 08:43:45 pm

Utterly wrecked Argoniel and Elandar. I never got below 3/4s health during the entire fight. In summary, the new Doomed skill tree is utterly ridiculous. It gives you Archmage level burst from decent range as well as some iffier damage mitigation stuff. Having really absurd resistances to most elements and immunity to stuns helped a lot too. This is in stark contract to the LAST Doomed I play, who fizzled about a quarter of the way into the fight.

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ToME 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 02, 2016, 09:37:42 pm

Finished the Iron Golem, got to Anor Londo, took out three sentinels without dying (ditto for the gargoyles, even got a shield and helmet out of it), and am currently reking Ariamis.
I do feel a constant foreboding of Ornstein and Smough, though.

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 03, 2016, 12:17:24 am

super londo bros
the dynamic duo
DRAKE AND JOSH

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 03, 2016, 12:30:05 am

Sonic and Eggman.  Biggie and Smalls.  Pikachu and Snorlax. Oreos and Smores. Pinky and the Brain. The Super Londo Bros. Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt. Fatman and Robin. Ren and Stimpy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 03, 2016, 02:43:35 am

Peek-a-boom OP plz no nerf.


War Thunder


Russian biplanes start with 4 guns compared to the other countries having a max of 2. Of course, one from Germany has 12.7mm guns while everyone else has 7mm, but so manny T1 Russian planes have autocannon. Example, pwning ass with the Yak-1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 03, 2016, 02:46:21 am

The Soviet forces are moving west with only a single objective: the city of Rostov.  But they are advancing on both sides of a river.  To the north of the river is the bulk of both forces facing off; our supply lines on that side of the river do not reach nearly far enough to take the objective but they get slightly longer each turn.  To the south of the river, a solid chunk of Russian forces faces off against a small but extremely elite German tank and mechanized force supported by a small amount of inexperienced infantry.  On that side of the river our supplies run along a railway which means they can be infinitely extended as long as our continuous control of the railway allows.  This same railway runs through Rostov and provides the Germans' main means of supply off the west side of the map.

We need to capture Rostov and the only thing that matters is how fast.  Unfortunately, the south portion of the Soviet army suffers a devastating setback.  They defeat the elite mechanized unit surprisingly quickly and encircle the tank unit.  This tank unit is elite and accompanied by a Tiger, an even larger German tank.  Basically the unit is crazy badass, but doomed because its out of supply.  Rather than losing hope this tank unit proceeds to get massively lucky and wipe out a Soviet infantry unit and devastate a second so badly it retreats, leaving a gaping hole in our line.  The tanks pour through and cut off a segment of the railway.  Because our armor advanced past the encircling infantry, they can't get back in time to recapture it and the way supplies work, after another turn out of supply our armor will be too broken down to be able to launch an attack.

But we don't need to win on both sides of the river, just one, and the north is on time.  In fact they're doing so well the Germans withdrew most of their tanks to defend against them.  The veteran Soviet mechanized units on the south side of the river thus chew through the inexperienced infantry that remain almost instantly, and then the entire force moves to the banks of the river.  Since we control the other side they can cross unopposed even in their broken down state, and recover there.  This doesn't even effect my timetable much, since the southern German forces were all withdrawn or destroyed, and we have to wait a few turns for our supply to be ready for the final push.  As an added insult, Soviet units cut off the railway on the west end, so that the remaining German defenders are starved of supplies.  The battle around Rostov is bloody but with the massive Soviet numbers advantage and the lack of supplies we just barely manage to win out.  As it turns out, Rostov fell in exactly the shortest amount of time to win the maximum amount of prestige.  Even with the kiss of death that is having a railway cut off I still managed to win a glorious victory!

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Unity of Command

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 03, 2016, 06:32:06 am

YOU AREN'T HELPING

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 03, 2016, 04:08:21 pm

15 player kill streak.

Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 03, 2016, 04:29:31 pm

max
stop having it before i do you meanie mcmean

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 03, 2016, 07:05:43 pm

Took down the Vile Skeleton on the first try. I remember that fight being much harder when playing the demo...

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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. This boss can rapidly cast an area sleep spell that can hit both girls, but Sana cast a shield spell to block it, and when I(controlling Arche) was put to sleep she started dishing out a magical assault. And when I was awake, I managed to parry most of his attacks before striking back. Poor skeleton never had a chance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on May 03, 2016, 08:12:03 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 03, 2016, 07:05:43 pm

Took down the Vile Skeleton on the first try. I remember that fight being much harder when playing the demo...

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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. This boss can rapidly cast an area sleep spell that can hit both girls, but Sana cast a shield spell to block it, and when I(controlling Arche) was put to sleep she started dishing out a magical assault. And when I was awake, I managed to parry most of his attacks before striking back. Poor skeleton never had a chance.

That boss was hellish the first time I fought it. But that was mainly because I had changed Sana's magic-casting setting to "Heal Only." The moment I switched it back, she started dropping giant ice spears on him and he died in very short order.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chevaleresse on May 03, 2016, 08:18:01 pm

Less than 600 soul limit left, then. . .

TIRO FINALE! And down goes Walpurgisnacht.

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Grief Syndrome

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on May 03, 2016, 09:07:06 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 03, 2016, 04:29:31 pm

max
stop having it before i do you meanie mcmean

:D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 03, 2016, 09:14:07 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 02, 2016, 09:37:42 pm

I do feel a constant foreboding of Ornstein and Smough, though.

(http://i.imgur.com/XVq0dFYm.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 03, 2016, 09:43:42 pm

Quote from: nenjin on May 03, 2016, 09:14:07 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 02, 2016, 09:37:42 pm

I do feel a constant foreboding of Ornstein and Smough, though.

(http://i.imgur.com/XVq0dFYm.jpg)

;-;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on May 03, 2016, 10:10:46 pm

Went into a bunker-clearing mission with a squad of three mercenaries, one of my own faction's troops, and my brainbot. I had an engineer with a shotgun and digger, a sniper with a Stalker Bolter, another guy with a Longlas and a medium digger, and some guys with assault rifles of various sorts and grenades.

The first thing I did on-site was find another mercenary in a unit-crate, dig him up, and hand him my engineer's secondary. I also set up my sniper in a good spot.

Started clearing surface areas, but kept losing mercenaries in the process, they turned out to be more fragile than I hoped. Set up my brainbot digging for gold while I finish clearing the surface bunkers to my right, but get all my mercenaries killed. Then I realize there's an entire squad on the high ground to my right, and send the engineer to investigate, but he gets shot out of midair by snipers, raining his gear and giblets on my remaining soldier. He goes up too, manages to kill two of them, but bleeds out. My sniper's on the other side of a hill, and has too heavy a gun to easily jetpack back over, and two more enemy soldiers are advancing on my brain. So I call down an orbital strike on them, which not only wipes them out, it blasts through the bunker ceiling and kills the last enemy on the map. I warp back to the ship with one sniper sans his leg, my brain, and every gun on the map.

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Cortex Command, Void Wanderers mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 03, 2016, 10:15:04 pm

AHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU METAL FACE YOU PILE OF SCRAP

YOU'VE BEEN THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE FOR TWENTY-SOME HOURS OF MY LIFE

BUT NO MORE

FOR NOW

IT IS SHULK TIME

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Xenoblade Chronicles.

This is easily the most epic game I've played in years. Maybe ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 03, 2016, 10:42:12 pm

Quote from: Arx on May 02, 2016, 12:45:13 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 02, 2016, 12:08:38 pm

Quote from: Arx on May 02, 2016, 11:46:27 am

Not a counter; Korean onagers outrange them-

Not if your opponent is also Korean. :v

Well, yeah. But at that point finding a counter is moot because you can match, which is what you're describing.

The next best if you don't have huskarls is either halbs (for pierce armor) or knights (to get into the onagers' minimum range as fast as possible), but they're still nowhere close to a hard counter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 05, 2016, 12:43:28 am

A Bastion in turret mode was overlooking the path we had to bring the payload out.  So I stepped into the open, pulled out my katana, and deflected all of its shots back into it, killing it in less than a second.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 05, 2016, 01:15:55 am

Cannot wait 'til I get home from school tomorrow/today and install it. Ngh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 05, 2016, 04:41:19 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 05, 2016, 01:15:55 am

Cannot wait 'til I get home from school tomorrow/today and install it. Ngh.

Gah, and I reckon by the time I finish downloading it the beta test will be over. Damn Australian internet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2016, 05:20:14 am

Exploring an increasingly more difficult dungeon. The healer's MP is depleted, forcing me to use healing items instead. Then suddenly a boss battle.

Luckily, it's just a slightly stronger palette-swap of two of the dungeon's normal monsters... along with one of each of those monsters. And it had an annoying spell that fired ice shards in a circle from it. Even so, the melee mook drops first(faster than expected), then the magic mook goes down. Then I get my team on either side of the leader and start smacking it around, healing when that spell causes any significant damage.

Among other things, after the battle there was a Mark of Heroism, which full-heals your party when acquired, making exiting the dungeon afterwards survivable.

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Fortune Summoners.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on May 05, 2016, 10:38:48 pm

I might try Overwatch then...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on May 06, 2016, 02:51:31 am

The Great Conga lines decree the Godhood of the Takani Shaman. Long live the righteous conga lines!

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(http://i.imgur.com/LeD0x0B.png)

Populous

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on May 06, 2016, 03:23:12 am

Quote from: birdy51 on May 06, 2016, 02:51:31 am

The Great Conga lines decree the Godhood of the Takani Shaman. Long live the righteous conga lines!

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(http://i.imgur.com/LeD0x0B.png)

Populous

How fun is it? If you've played Populous 1 on the SNES, how do they compare?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 06, 2016, 03:55:43 am

Step one: get close to chick.
Step two: get physically close to chick.
Step three: get in bed with chick.
Step four: have chick get on top.
Step five: chick proceeds to pull a buck knife and stab you in the throat.
Step six: nearly die
Step seven: kill chick with magic.


The game? This forum's very own Castle: Foxhound Squad. Tales of love, romance and magically fried girlfriends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 06, 2016, 08:14:42 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 05, 2016, 12:43:28 am

A Bastion in turret mode was overlooking the path we had to bring the payload out.

You might say he was on... overwatch.  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on May 06, 2016, 08:23:41 am

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 06, 2016, 03:55:43 am

Step one: get close to chick.
Step two: get physically close to chick.
Step three: get in bed with chick.
Step four: have chick get on top.
Step five: chick proceeds to pull a buck knife and stab you in the throat.
Step six: nearly die
Step seven: kill chick with magic.


The game? This forum's very own Castle: Foxhound Squad. Tales of love, romance and magically fried girlfriends.

No offence, but I'm now using this as a guideline for my dating life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 06, 2016, 09:55:21 am

Silly TD1, we all know you don't have one of those. :P

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(http://i.imgur.com/USSMQZq.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 06, 2016, 09:57:21 am

that burn was so chill I got frostbite

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on May 06, 2016, 10:05:37 am

Quote from: Yoink on May 06, 2016, 09:55:21 am

Silly TD1, we all know you don't have one of those. :P

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(http://i.imgur.com/USSMQZq.png)

Alas! I'd be more upset if you weren't telling the truth.  ;D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on May 06, 2016, 11:15:12 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on May 06, 2016, 03:23:12 am

Quote from: birdy51 on May 06, 2016, 02:51:31 am

The Great Conga lines decree the Godhood of the Takani Shaman. Long live the righteous conga lines!

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(http://i.imgur.com/LeD0x0B.png)

Populous

How fun is it? If you've played Populous 1 on the SNES, how do they compare?

I would say it's very fun. The controls are a bit wonky at first, but you get used to it. Populous 1 and this game are sort of unrelated by my understanding since they went in a different direction. To describe it however, it's basically you control your tribe from the top down view alongside a Shaman, who acts as a focal point for any spells or magic you might use. The goal then is to defeat any or all of the three other tribes in the game, the Dakini, the Chumara, or the Matat.

I'd say it's complex enough to hold interest and there is still an avid community for the game creating various map packs and hosting a competitive server for it. If you're looking to just try it, I know there is also still a demo floating about somewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 07, 2016, 01:25:23 am

Spoiler: R.I.P. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/PjGeC94.png)

Fun fact: The retreat tutorial shows up upon the first death of the game, even if it's against the final boss that you can't escape from.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on May 07, 2016, 11:00:29 am

Quote from: Blaze on May 07, 2016, 01:25:23 am

Fun fact: The retreat tutorial shows up upon the first death of the game, even if it's against the final boss that you can't escape from.

Damn, I guess that means you never died until the final boss.  Holy shit that is an own if I ever saw one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 07, 2016, 01:05:35 pm

Aha! Take that you weird... dragon... thing. Now maybe I'll be able to stop playing other games in time to their music.

Considering going back to play some of the other characters... but then again, that would unlock Coda, and then I'd be tempted to play Coda, and then I would suffer terribly. So maybe not.

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Crypt of the Necrodancer, finished as Aria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on May 07, 2016, 03:40:41 pm

Went to playtest my newest Empire Earth civ, Poland, who had faved faster and cheaper cavalry, cheaper Field Artillery/Anti-Tank Guns, OP priests and faster civilians.

At the beginning I created a Priest and sent him to harass Kingdoms of Italy base, snatching civvies before they put up an University. But I already had a pack of infantry, musket cavalry and some cannons, so I attacked it... and hoo boy, we crushed the Kingdoms of Italy in the early Renaissance! By that time I had enormous economical base at home, and it was time to put up it to proper use, spamming military buildings and unit upgrades, making the cavalry proper melee/ranged beasts, the former being bullet sponges.

After I had 12 Stables, 4 Barracks and 4 Siege Workshops, I was churning out medics, cavalrymen and artillery all the time. The two next enemies, Russians and England, were crushed by the time of Industrial Revolution, the Polish Cavalry Hordes led by Napoleon.

But that was the moment where I discovered that the Ottoman Empire, who quietly kept to its corner, managed to outpace me and went into World War I era (first 25 years of 20th Century), so they began churning Tanks and even constructed an Airfield... so we swarmed into OE's base before I re-filled my horde after the latest double-smackings.

My poor Dragoons and Cavalrymen (ranged and sword cavalry respectively) were dying rather fast to Gotha Bombers and anti-personnel tanks, even with Manfred von Richthoffen's morale boost, so I had to make some AT cannons, and just sent the rallying points at the outskirts of the Ottoman city.

The constant onslaught and stream of Polish units lasted 30 minutes but I produced too much cavalry too fast for the Ottoman tanks to counter it in the meanwhile my Partisans (weaker infantry but able to shoot airborne things) began to dent the Gotha Bombers and managed to down few as they went to refuel at the airfield, and by then the Polish Cavalry Charge hit the core of Ottoman empire, cutting down their military buildings and civilian workers, and 2:30 hrs into the game, the Poland, without the backing of modern tanks and airplanes, won.

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Empire Earth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 07, 2016, 11:13:57 pm

I haven't played this game in a while, and the archipelago map was kicking my ass.

Then I decided to actually take advantage of the water and place Monkey Subs the way I place sniper towers - as far away from the bloons path as possible.

The thing is, one of the non-final upgrades for the Monkey Sub ("Advanced Intel") allows the sub to fire its homing darts at any target that's within another tower's range.

Another thing: One of the final upgrades for the Monkey Sub allows the sub to permanently detect camo bloons.

A third thing: Purchasing the Sub and "Advanced Intel" upgrade is fairly cheap. I could get about one sub per round, and had already placed explosives and the like to deal with leads.

It was on medium, but I couldn't quite take care of business until I used the map to my advantage.

And it was oh so sweet seeing those subs at the end of the track firing right towards the beginning!

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Bloons Tower Defense 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on May 08, 2016, 08:37:33 pm

There's a missile upgrade, too.

Also, Monkey Village synergizes REALLY well with the subs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 10, 2016, 05:39:59 am

Got into a fight with a zombie holding a knife. He got the first hit in, so I slashed his knife-arm with my cleaver, removing it in a slow-mo effect. Then I chopped off his other arm, again with slow-mo. Then I removed his head, again with the slow-motion effect.

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Dead Island.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 10, 2016, 09:23:49 am

Quote from: Akura on May 10, 2016, 05:39:59 am

Got into a fight with a zombie holding a knife. He got the first hit in, so I slashed his knife-arm with my cleaver, removing it in a slow-mo effect. Then I chopped off his other arm, again with slow-mo. Then I removed his head, again with the slow-motion effect.

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Dead Island.

I think it's fair to say that this zombie was quite 'armless.

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(http://i.imgur.com/APPpwzy.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 10, 2016, 12:18:58 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 10, 2016, 09:23:49 am

I think it's fair to say that this zombie was quite 'armless.

http://instantcsi.com/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 10, 2016, 05:58:46 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 10, 2016, 12:18:58 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 10, 2016, 09:23:49 am

I think it's fair to say that this zombie was quite 'armless.

http://instantcsi.com/

Goddamnit, I had my volume turned up when I clicked on that. That hurt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 10, 2016, 06:44:20 pm

I beat the Nuclear Throne's first form with a laser rifle and a golden crossbow.  I was Rebel and had the stress mutation, so I said "fuck it" and intentionally lowered my health to 1 so I could fire as fast as possible.

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on May 11, 2016, 05:32:49 pm

I shouted a group of five people into flying into a spikey-door trap, killing them all.

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skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 11, 2016, 08:46:45 pm

Destroying battleships is fun. The trick is to be patient - a lot of the player's weapons can hit from offscreen similar to how the battleship's guns can attack from offscreen.

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Luftrausers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 12, 2016, 08:11:52 pm

I have decided that my 20x20 roofed quarry on MineGrumps shall now be a massive subterranean town, extending from the very bottom of the bedrock all the way to the surface.

I have no illusions about this being easy or even feasible, but I've got a promising start. I haven't intersected any caverns, mineshafts or dungeons, and I've dug about 30 blocks down so far.

It's going to be themed as a massive underground factory complex, with cramped apartments, lava flows, a massive cobblestone generator, redstone lighting, and more.

The only problem is going to be finding a suitable population for all of the space and resources this is going to take...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 01:49:56 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on May 12, 2016, 08:11:52 pm

I have decided that my 20x20 roofed quarry on MineGrumps shall now be a massive subterranean town, extending from the very bottom of the bedrock all the way to the surface.

I have no illusions about this being easy or even feasible, but I've got a promising start. I haven't intersected any caverns, mineshafts or dungeons, and I've dug about 30 blocks down so far.

It's going to be themed as a massive underground factory complex, with cramped apartments, lava flows, a massive cobblestone generator, redstone lighting, and more.

The only problem is going to be finding a suitable population for all of the space and resources this is going to take...

Presuming it's a MC mod...
20x20 isn't that big, unless you mean 20 chunks by 20 chunks or some other prodigious size. I did this in FTB infinity, really, massive cobble generators aren't necessary. I'd put more effort on an automated farm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 13, 2016, 11:47:58 am

The subplots will be around the outer area and through tunnels, I should have specified. The initial 20 x 20 will just be a central area that all of the plots and facilities connect to.

MineGrumps is only lightly modded. It just has anti-griefing stuff like claims, Lockette and item protection.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 06:38:58 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on May 13, 2016, 11:47:58 am

The subplots will be around the outer area and through tunnels, I should have specified. The initial 20 x 20 will just be a central area that all of the plots and facilities connect to.

MineGrumps is only lightly modded. It just has anti-griefing stuff like claims, Lockette and item protection.

Pack it full with villagers, then use the spawned iron golems to make infinite iron.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 13, 2016, 06:46:39 pm

I fixed what was initially appeared to be a very scary computer problem!

Admittedly, I just removed and remounted the hard drive, but that was surprisingly difficult (I had to remove the keyboard and palm rest to get to the hard drive).

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Real Life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:50:13 pm

Real Life? Isn't that the new free MMORPG?
Many monthly fees, massive fully open game world, super duper NPC AI, billions of mobs, fully PvP and the best graphics known to man? Or am I thinking of outside?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 13, 2016, 06:53:49 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:50:13 pm

Real Life? Isn't that the new free MMORPG?
Many monthly fees, massive fully open game world, super duper NPC AI, billions of mobs, fully PvP and the best graphics known to man? Or am I thinking of outside?

Not outside (I was in an indoor area at the time).

But yes, Real Life.

I don't think there are any NPCs, by the way, I think it's just all players!

Also, don't forget the super fast loading times!

Although for best performances players have to "sleep" for a few hours...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:58:23 pm

Oh yeah, and the meta in that game is real. Too many metagamers and powergamers for my liking *cough cough politicians cough cough*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 13, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

I guess that the shields were used as flotation devices.

I mean, you spread your arms(and legs) out as much as possible, and the wide surface area of the shields provides extra bouyancy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 07:12:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 13, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

I guess that the shields were used as flotation devices.

I mean, you spread your arms(and legs) out as much as possible, and the wide surface area of the shields provides extra bouyancy.

bouyancy is the volume of water displaced. Holding a shield flat won't increase it's volume.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 07:15:34 pm

Quote from: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 07:12:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 13, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

I guess that the shields were used as flotation devices.

I mean, you spread your arms(and legs) out as much as possible, and the wide surface area of the shields provides extra bouyancy.

bouyancy is the volume of water displaced. Holding a shield flat won't increase it's volume.

It'll make you float if it's curved. Once it's displaced its own volume in water it will then proceed to float.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 13, 2016, 07:15:43 pm

Quote from: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 06:38:58 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on May 13, 2016, 11:47:58 am

The subplots will be around the outer area and through tunnels, I should have specified. The initial 20 x 20 will just be a central area that all of the plots and facilities connect to.

MineGrumps is only lightly modded. It just has anti-griefing stuff like claims, Lockette and item protection.

Pack it full with villagers, then use the spawned iron golems to make infinite iron.

There's already an iron farm on the server, no point having two. :P

The town that has the iron farm also has a stupidly massive item sorting machine. Look at this thing:

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/492394111285360197/FF951681226B81F6BF86D5AE883BEFF678BA7C26/)

They say it's at about 10% capacity. Which probably means there are several chests full of most stackables in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 07:24:23 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 07:15:34 pm

Quote from: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 07:12:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 13, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

I guess that the shields were used as flotation devices.

I mean, you spread your arms(and legs) out as much as possible, and the wide surface area of the shields provides extra bouyancy.

bouyancy is the volume of water displaced. Holding a shield flat won't increase it's volume.

It'll make you float if it's curved. Once it's displaced its own volume in water it will then proceed to float.

She was 2-Z under the water!!! Just sitting there, like an alligator waiting for the movement of its prey. Also, she is not a vampire. I checked that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 07:26:10 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 07:24:23 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 07:15:34 pm

Quote from: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 07:12:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 13, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 06:40:06 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on May 13, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

I had a fully-metal-armored soldier wielding two iron shields get kicked into a lake. Days later, she emerged, having taught herself to swim with no previous experience. She proceeded to turn a presumably surprised goblin archer into a giant bruise with shield bashes, drop a few one-liners about weaklings, and went to the tavern to get plastered.

Dworf Fartress

Of course, everyone knows drowning is the best way to learn to swim.

I guess that the shields were used as flotation devices.

I mean, you spread your arms(and legs) out as much as possible, and the wide surface area of the shields provides extra bouyancy.

bouyancy is the volume of water displaced. Holding a shield flat won't increase it's volume.

It'll make you float if it's curved. Once it's displaced its own volume in water it will then proceed to float.

She was 2-Z under the water!!! Just sitting there, like an alligator waiting for the movement of its prey. Also, she is not a vampire. I checked that.

The Guardian 2: Resurgence confirmed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian_(2006_film))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on May 13, 2016, 07:55:25 pm

The one pet-peeve I have about this "life" game is the character creator. You have no control. seriously? Huge oversight by the developer.

[/sarcasm]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 13, 2016, 08:34:02 pm

And not to mention the microtransactions. I mean, you just want that one thing, but to get it for free you need to go full wildlife, build the required facilities by hand from wood and stuff, then aquire the materials (V. hard without microtransactions) to make it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 13, 2016, 09:04:46 pm

I think the worst part is the leveling mechanics. Who came up with leveling up once a year? Let alone the fact that really high levels impose really nasty penalties on your character and force you to pick up loads of microtransactions if you want to keep playing.

At least it's better than it was in beta, they didn't even have the option for you to keep playing past seventy or so back then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on May 13, 2016, 09:17:33 pm

I hear they're patching those penalties.  With more microtransactions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 13, 2016, 09:39:49 pm

Plez stahp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on May 13, 2016, 09:43:50 pm

I think the 'real life is a game' thing was funny. Thirteen years ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 13, 2016, 09:48:38 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on May 13, 2016, 09:43:50 pm

I think the 'real life is a game' thing was funny. Thirteen years ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 13, 2016, 09:52:04 pm

[quotes someone who said something i agree with instead of typing two words]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on May 13, 2016, 09:52:52 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 13, 2016, 09:52:04 pm

[quotes someone who said something i agree with instead of typing two words]

Same.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on May 13, 2016, 09:53:52 pm

It may not be funny anymore, but funny and fun can be different things.

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on May 13, 2016, 09:52:52 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 13, 2016, 09:52:04 pm

[quotes someone who said something i agree with instead of typing two words]

Same.

Ditto.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 13, 2016, 10:01:00 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 13, 2016, 09:52:04 pm

[quotes someone who said something i agree with instead of typing two words]

Quote from: hector13 on May 13, 2016, 09:39:49 pm

Plez stahp

2l8withb8m8

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 13, 2016, 10:31:30 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 13, 2016, 09:48:38 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on May 13, 2016, 09:43:50 pm

I think the 'real life is a game' thing was funny. Thirteen years ago.

I think I was three years old thirteen years ago.
Maybe four.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 14, 2016, 08:10:46 am

Play a Holy Champion, use a Power Word: Shield on it to force my opponent to trade a bit unfavourably.

Instead, they go face. That was, in fact, a mistake. Divine Spirit, Divine Spirit, Inner Fire, face for 28 damage. Two-shotted.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on May 14, 2016, 08:31:09 am

ahhhh the double spirt, inner fire combo.

so satisfying.....


for me I just went up against the kalos elite four again last night for more cash.
its getting its a lot less hard than it used to be.

pokemon Y

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 14, 2016, 12:42:42 pm

Quote from: endlessblaze on May 14, 2016, 08:31:09 am

ahhhh the double spirt, inner fire combo.

Yeah. It's kinda clichéd, but since it goes off instantly if you have a tanky enough minion on the board it's still pretty stronk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 14, 2016, 12:56:21 pm

I killed a god.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Xenoblade

I think this is my new favorite game. Sorry MGS3, you couldn't stay at the top forever.

NOW TO GO BECOME OBSESSED WITH SOMETHING ELSE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Atian the Elephantman God on May 14, 2016, 09:14:39 pm

I was Casually playing Germany in S1914 when suddenly the French invaded me with their entire army! Somehow I survived and killed every single infantry with tears because InfantryLivesMatterToo anyways I only lost 30k Men and they lost 230k, I took over all of France and Europe.... It was beautiful!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on May 14, 2016, 09:23:25 pm

Received all the stars. I am the Ubercasual.

Angry Birds Star Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on May 15, 2016, 06:47:59 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/447358114680816886/D94FB786F993D852A0F5F2441966B45AADF5A969/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 15, 2016, 11:12:18 pm

Went back to a game I gave up on due to being so hard (due to bad camera angles and questionable controls), and beat through two areas with only moderately-infinite rage. Now that that's done, it's time for an RPG's bread-and-butter activity of fun-at-first-but-then-rage-inducingly-grindy-minigames!

I swear, Elise has the best sister/parter.

Spoiler: Well, for being about 8 inches tall (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/LPtKZgs.jpg)

Spoiler: "The things you do for love" (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YQhHFpm.jpg)

Spoiler: Fighting off terrible monsters (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MZritUp.jpg)

Spoiler: Anywhere and anytime (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pkjjc4g.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 16, 2016, 05:32:56 am

I didn't know fairies read Homestuck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on May 16, 2016, 05:40:00 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 16, 2016, 05:32:56 am

I didn't know fairies read SBaHJ.

Oh dang.
Quote, check.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 16, 2016, 05:55:51 am

the quote was in homestuck first iirc

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2016, 06:00:47 am

Quote from: Blaze on May 15, 2016, 11:12:18 pm

Went back to a game I gave up on due to being so hard (due to bad camera angles and questionable controls), and beat through two areas with only moderately-infinite rage. Now that that's done, it's time for an RPG's bread-and-butter activity of fun-at-first-but-then-rage-inducingly-grindy-minigames!

I swear, Elise has the best sister/parter.

Spoiler: Well, for being about 8 inches tall (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/LPtKZgs.jpg)

Spoiler: "The things you do for love" (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YQhHFpm.jpg)

Spoiler: Fighting off terrible monsters (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/MZritUp.jpg)

Spoiler: Anywhere and anytime (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pkjjc4g.jpg)

Hmm, haven't started that one yet. Still haven't gotten around to finishing Fortune Summoners and will probably go through Recettear first.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on May 16, 2016, 10:54:57 am

I punched a Dark Brotherhood assassin to death.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Morrowind. Okay, fine, he was kind of weak, but still. Plus, I now have nice gear to replace my beginner clothes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on May 16, 2016, 11:49:37 am

I finished Dark Souls 3.  :D  I didn't have as much fun with this one though.  I'm not sure if its the game itself, or if its because I've played all the other Soul's and Borne games already and my brain is done is with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on May 16, 2016, 03:19:02 pm

Charged my way through a necromancer tower as an elephant man. I now have a labor force of 20-some corpses.
DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on May 16, 2016, 06:09:17 pm

Quote from: Levi on May 16, 2016, 11:49:37 am

I finished Dark Souls 3.  :D  I didn't have as much fun with this one though.  I'm not sure if its the game itself, or if its because I've played all the other Soul's and Borne games already and my brain is done is with it.

I didn't have quite that problem, but I was totally done with it after three runs... I mean I gave even DS2 nine or ten playthroughs. I dunno why.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 16, 2016, 06:52:51 pm

Got to the second bonfire in Blighttown with a surprisingly small amount of deaths.
Thanks, Great / Heavy / Soul Arrow and Partizan!

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 16, 2016, 06:55:03 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on May 16, 2016, 06:09:17 pm

Quote from: Levi on May 16, 2016, 11:49:37 am

I finished Dark Souls 3.  :D  I didn't have as much fun with this one though.  I'm not sure if its the game itself, or if its because I've played all the other Soul's and Borne games already and my brain is done is with it.

I didn't have quite that problem, but I was totally done with it after three runs... I mean I gave even DS2 nine or ten playthroughs. I dunno why.

You still got your money's worth though, if you made three runs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on May 16, 2016, 07:28:46 pm

Oh, I'm not saying that, Twin. I'll probably get the DLC when it comes out, too. It's more that I'm just... I dunno, not feeling it as much as I did Bloodborne, for example.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 16, 2016, 08:00:42 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 16, 2016, 06:52:51 pm

Got to the second bonfire in Blighttown with a surprisingly small amount of deaths.
Thanks, Great / Heavy / Soul Arrow and Partizan!

Dark Souls

Completely destroyed Quelaag, with Mildred's help, in one go. Sorcerer OP, pls nerf.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 16, 2016, 08:07:58 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 16, 2016, 08:00:42 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 16, 2016, 06:52:51 pm

Got to the second bonfire in Blighttown with a surprisingly small amount of deaths.
Thanks, Great / Heavy / Soul Arrow and Partizan!

Dark Souls

Completely destroyed Quelaag, with Mildred's help, in one go. Sorcerer OP, pls nerf.

Sorcerer is OP until you get to certain bosses. Transparent spoilers: Like the Four Kings

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 16, 2016, 08:15:00 pm

_{That is what Pyromancy is for.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 16, 2016, 08:17:16 pm

the spoilers i already know are as transparent as illusory walls

And it was a joke. I'm rather frankly fucked if I get hit without blocking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 16, 2016, 08:27:00 pm

I ended up fixing it anyway. Just in case someone else doesn't want to be spoiled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 17, 2016, 05:36:14 am

I think the developers knew this would be a frustrating section, since at the end of it, you get to take the irritating character you control for the duration of it and slam a very large and heavy sword into her face repeatedly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fortune Summoners. For all her well-bred education, you'd think Stella would learn one of the most important rules of combat: ranged fighters should never let the melee tank get into melee range (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0151.html).

Beating the hell out of a 10-year-old girl was more satisfying than it should have been.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 20, 2016, 09:06:35 pm

I beat MAP11: Circle of Death, aka "'O' Of Destruction!"

It's a pretty annoying map. There's a lot of verticality to it (I don't use up/down looking; I'm a purist like that). That means there's a lot of room for Lost Souls, Cacodemons and Pain Elementals to fly above you and rain destruction down while you can't even see them.

I don't think I've ever gotten this far in Doom 2 before, because I don't remember MAP12 at all.

Doom 2. It's still my least favorite between the first two, but I'm starting to see its merits now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 20, 2016, 11:42:10 pm

Just wait until you reach The Chasm.

I think my favorite was Refueling Base (MAP11?).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on May 21, 2016, 08:05:03 am

We somehow managed to beat of a massive Vanu zerg. We were massively outnumbered, yet we managed to hold Snowshear Watchtower for about half an hour before pushing them back to Andvari when some of them left and we got reinforcements.


Aaand then the VS refined 10000 Cortium and locked Esamir. Bloody HIVEs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 21, 2016, 04:46:41 pm

Yeah, they can be a problem if nobody is paying attention. But with a good squad they can be ganked. A few weeks ago I played with a group, and we airdropped onto a base we couldn't even capture. The leader(who in fact had to respawn to get Infiltrator) hacked the vehicle console and everyone(at least a dozen in all) pulled Lightnings and just bombarded a HIVE base until there was nothing left. In less than three minutes a major player-built base was gone. Good fun.


Latest own: Got into a fight with some mushroom men over rights to hot water(is serious business). Two of them were versions of previous enemies with more HP. Altogether, they could hit with three different status effects at the same time: sleep, poison, and a new one, confusion. It's not funny when your healer rams an icicle into your back or you lose direct control of your melee'r and she decides the DPS firebitch needs another sword to the face(even if, in fact, she does, so very much). Despite the chaos their leader caused, the sleeper and poisoner went down in close succession, and everyone dog-piled on the leader. Afterwards, everyone thought it was a jolly good time and went for a dip in the hot springs they were all fighting over.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fortune Summoners.

And considering what happens right after that completely non-sexual bath scene, the firebitch really does deserve another sword to the face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 21, 2016, 10:06:58 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 21, 2016, 04:46:41 pm

Yeah, they can be a problem if nobody is paying attention. But with a good squad they can be ganked. A few weeks ago I played with a group, and we airdropped onto a base we couldn't even capture. The leader(who in fact had to respawn to get Infiltrator) hacked the vehicle console and everyone(at least a dozen in all) pulled Lightnings and just bombarded a HIVE base until there was nothing left. In less than three minutes a major player-built base was gone. Good fun.


Latest own: Got into a fight with some mushroom men over rights to hot water(is serious business). Two of them were versions of previous enemies with more HP. Altogether, they could hit with three different status effects at the same time: sleep, poison, and a new one, confusion. It's not funny when your healer rams an icicle into your back or you lose direct control of your melee'r and she decides the DPS firebitch needs another sword to the face(even if, in fact, she does, so very much). Despite the chaos their leader caused, the sleeper and poisoner went down in close succession, and everyone dog-piled on the leader. Afterwards, everyone thought it was a jolly good time and went for a dip in the hot springs they were all fighting over.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fortune Summoners.

And considering what happens right after that completely non-sexual bath scene, the firebitch really does deserve another sword to the face.

Over a hot spring?

Are you sure this isn't Kid Icarus: Uprising in disguise?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on May 22, 2016, 04:58:28 am

Hell yeah, beat Pokemon Alpha Sapphire with Nuzlocke rules, lost three allies, Poochie, my first catch beating by a very dumb attack choice (turns out normal is not good against fighting types), my Voltorb, who died also because of a bad choice against my rival (Water/Ground is not a good type to use electric types on), and, very unfortunately, Espargo, my faithful Blaziken, killed in battle by the champion's mega-metagross.
It's certainly fun, playing on these rules.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2016, 06:16:38 am

Quote from: AzyWng on May 21, 2016, 10:06:58 pm

Over a hot spring?

Are you sure this isn't Kid Icarus: Uprising in disguise?

Blame the firebitch, she REALLY wanted to go in the hot spring. Also, the myconoids had blocked up the source so they could claim it for themselves. Spoiler: {After beating them, Arche simply suggests that she go ask the mayor to share the hot spring with them. It works and humans even find the myconoids to be pleasant bath-fellows.}

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on May 22, 2016, 04:58:28 am

Hell yeah, beat Pokemon Alpha Sapphire with Nuzlocke rules, lost three allies, Poochie, my first catch beating by a very dumb attack choice (turns out normal is not good against fighting types), my Voltorb, who died also because of a bad choice against my rival (Water/Ground is not a good type to use electric types on), and, very unfortunately, Espargo, my faithful Blaziken, killed in battle by the champion's mega-metagross.
It's certainly fun, playing on these rules.

Um, Poochyena is Dark-type. Normal-type attacks do neutral damage to Fighting, but Dark is resisted. Both are weak to Fighting-type attacks, though. And yeah, immunities take priority over weakness, so a Water/Ground is immune to Electric. And I'm sure the biggest mistake people make against Metagross is forgetting that Blaziken is part Fighting and Metagross is part Psychic and knows Zen Headbutt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on May 22, 2016, 06:57:12 am

Yes, thank you, I needed to be reminded of my Pokemon noobishness.
That whole Blaziken vs Metagross came about because I'm a huge fan of drama, so whenever I can I'd put my mega-evolved Pokemans up against theirs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 22, 2016, 10:42:24 am

Was rolling random prisons for Escape Mode, and I got the perfect storm: a prison where the only entrance is a double set of remote doors... and all the power stations are inside. I went about my usual routine of smashing up showers until I was fully upgraded, then took out the power stations one by one. With the only access to this part of the prison shut off (the prison was mirrored across the road), I began murdering all guards with drills. Armed guards can screw you over in escape mode, but not if they can't respawn. With the prison clear of any disruptive influences, I fetched a lighter and set the place on fire. No firemen could come, for they could not enter. And even if they could enter, there was a huge line of ambulances and morgue trucks waiting so they couldn't even spawn in. The prison burned, and eventually the outer walls gave me an exit that didnt have me facing two armed guards. (There were also riot police, but those are basically harmless compared to tasers and shotguns. There were no normal guards, I assume those were chilling in the other prison). But now there was another wall around the prison, with two tiles inbetween. Which I couldn't burn down because it was a plain wall. I walked the entire length, and finally found my out: the creator of this prison had embedded two small guard posts into the wall next to the road gates, presumably for flavor. There was a TV right next to the wall. I set the TV on fire through the wall and waited for the walls to burn, then sprinted through to my freedom, leaving behind a burned necropolis.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Prison Architect

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 22, 2016, 03:05:52 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 22, 2016, 06:16:38 am

Quote from: AzyWng on May 21, 2016, 10:06:58 pm

Over a hot spring?

Are you sure this isn't Kid Icarus: Uprising in disguise?

Blame the firebitch, she REALLY wanted to go in the hot spring. Also, the myconoids had blocked up the source so they could claim it for themselves. Spoiler: {After beating them, Arche simply suggests that she go ask the mayor to share the hot spring with them. It works and humans even find the myconoids to be pleasant bath-fellows.}

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on May 22, 2016, 04:58:28 am

Hell yeah, beat Pokemon Alpha Sapphire with Nuzlocke rules, lost three allies, Poochie, my first catch beating by a very dumb attack choice (turns out normal is not good against fighting types), my Voltorb, who died also because of a bad choice against my rival (Water/Ground is not a good type to use electric types on), and, very unfortunately, Espargo, my faithful Blaziken, killed in battle by the champion's mega-metagross.
It's certainly fun, playing on these rules.

Um, Poochyena is Dark-type. Normal-type attacks do neutral damage to Fighting, but Dark is resisted. Both are weak to Fighting-type attacks, though. And yeah, immunities take priority over weakness, so a Water/Ground is immune to Electric. And I'm sure the biggest mistake people make against Metagross is forgetting that Blaziken is part Fighting and Metagross is part Psychic and knows Zen Headbutt.

Oh, and don't forget Metagross-M gets Tough Claws, as well as Blaziken, be it mega or otherwise, is quite fragile. I'm pretty sure that Zen Headbutt gets the Tough Claws boost, as it's a physical move that makes contact.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 22, 2016, 04:14:14 pm

I killed someone with my bare hands. They were taking my items even as they were being beaten to death (Idiot), and they kept saying "Dont' move a muscle!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm: DDA.

Methinks survivor AI still needs some work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 22, 2016, 05:17:20 pm

Dedication is to be admired.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 22, 2016, 05:35:54 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 22, 2016, 05:17:20 pm

Dedication is to be admired.

But stupidity is to be avoided.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 22, 2016, 06:06:04 pm

What a line to cross.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on May 22, 2016, 06:07:17 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 22, 2016, 05:35:54 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 22, 2016, 05:17:20 pm

Dedication is to be admired.

But stupidity is to be avoided.

Yet stuff is there to be taken.

Especially if it isn't yours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sonlirain on May 22, 2016, 07:38:46 pm

Finally beat one of the Time trials in All-Stars racing (that asks you to beat the best time set by the developers)
It was hell with many heartbreaks but today... with a new gamepad... i finally managed to beat it by 0.275s.

Much rejoicing happened and i'd probably drink something if it weren't sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FeYsdZyT7g

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 23, 2016, 06:49:14 am

Spoiler: Result achieved for a design contest (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/VleIsVs.jpg)

It took me a few weekends to get the design right. The result is the target vessel being ripped into two(plus) pieces. As far as I can tell, all that remains of the weapon used are those black-painted pieces there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers. I've not actually tested it while the target's weapons are active, but it does incorporate a few decoys objects, and the whole thing is covered in heavy armor and accelerates too fast for too much damage to be achieved before it hits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 24, 2016, 01:00:24 am

I had the best Overwatch game of my life, playing as Genji (who I was previously mediocre at but something just clicked).  Things that I did, in a single game:

Got a lot of ordinary kills (28 eliminations, which counts assists so who knows how many last blows).
Reflected a Pharah ult back into her with lethal results, only to get taken out by a McCree ulting from behind her.  He only got me with it.
Reflected Mei's drone causing her to freeze herself and one of her teammates, and then I cut them down with my ult.
Bodyshot Widowmaker with a reflected sniper shot and then took her out with a dash attack.
Ulted, then got a 3 man stun with a reflected flashbang.  Ended up getting four kills over the course of a few seconds.

For those of you having a hard time envisioning this: I am a cyborg ninja, one of my normal abilities is to reflect things with a samurai sword, my ult is to pull out a sword and replace my basic attack with broad, high damage melee swings.  It was all exactly as badass as it sounds.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch.  If you have any interest in objective based arena shooters, get this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 24, 2016, 01:21:17 am

I traded three double-chests full of cobblestone for an incredibly OP enchanted diamond pick. I got rid of my garbage for something that will allow me to complete my building project weeks earlier. And hey, it's even being put to good use, which it wouldn't be if I just tossed it into lava like I was planning!

Even if I were in dire need of cobble, I'm going to build a large cobble generator anyway. :P

Minecraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 24, 2016, 10:23:46 am

First a screenshot:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://orig15.deviantart.net/a73c/f/2016/145/9/1/hearthstone_screenshot_05_22_16_11_42_33_by_djoze32-da3qp29.png)

Then the explanation:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Playing some sort of unholy C'Zoo lock here, this is the aftermath of one of the best turns I've had. What happened you see is that I had board (because lol priest can't control it enough) and had my Brann survive for some three turns. On his second turn I toss out a scarab, which discovers me two void terrors. I toss out the first one on a power overwhelming fodder and the battlecry triggers twice, now, it didn't kill four minions, it killed the original two next to it, but it gained twice their stats. Then, the current turn rolls around and I toss out the second terror, eating the first one alongside Brann, resulting in the monstrosity you now see before you

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 24, 2016, 11:31:44 am

Niice.

I've been playing some kind of weird C'Thun rogue. It... only has a 60% or so lose rate so far. :P Eventually I will get more cards, but in the meantime...

(Hearthstone).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on May 25, 2016, 07:04:27 am

I got the ability that lets Lord General Castor airdrop Leman Russ tanks. For the rest of the campaign my standard strategy was to use honor guard units to blitz the first part of the mission, and then for the rest of it send an endless wave of Leman Russ tanks to overwhelm my enemies. The recharge on the ability is insanely low, and you don't lose anything upon the death of the unit, so there were absolutely no negatives to that plan besides the lack of proper room to maneuver, but you run into that problem with regular infantry so nothing really changes.

Dawn of War II: Retriburtion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 25, 2016, 07:16:49 am

420 blaze iiiiiit!

I'm sorry, I don't have any actual contributions to the thread. Uh. Earlier I managed to throw a mine as I was being shot from multiple directions, it landed in the perfect spot and took out two heavily-armed minigun soldiers as I lay in a corner behind cover bleeding out. I think it downed one enemy player, too, but I'm not sure.

That was in the middle of a really successful gaming session, there were plenty more Owns in there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uncharted 4 multiplayer.

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 25, 2016, 07:44:03 am

Had a hearthstone streak yesterday with a surprisingly simple mage deck that can still destroy all the C'thun decks I've seen so far. Went from rank 25 to 19 without a loss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on May 25, 2016, 08:34:32 am

Quote from: pisskop

    Autumn, Day 57


I spent the last 2 weeks or so crafting, welding, and making stuff with no intended purpose.  First I made my standard superbase.  Its a military cargo truck, but with 1 extra width and length added to it.  Then I add spikes to the front, 2 fridge units, a few floodlights and headlights, some solar panels, a few turrets, and a chemistry set, welding rig, and forge.  I usually get bored before I get around to the kitchen buddy, but I do leave a space for it.  Before the purifier was so smll I used that as a placeholder.

Also, yea, I use tanks for water.  And this time a gas tank for my flamethrower I lucked into.  The flamethrower has not disappointed me, but has been of limited use.  Would use again.



Anywho, I saw corrosives coming the last week of summer, but I was out of the city doing the above mentioned things.  Little did I know the pain that awaited me when we celebrated the coming of the autumn.

First day of autumn, I found some russian craphead who was better with a sword than a beaker.  He had an axe and I let him come into my newly minted  "Landmire".   I got around to seeing what I should/could offer him.  Turns out I could do a sword and a 9mm glock with a homemade suppressor.  I froged the sword and cooked up some acid water.  I boiled that down and made some acid bombs.  I made some manhacks.  I drove to the river and filled my tanks up.  I crafted some zombie pheromone.  I forged a 9 hour helmet so I could hand him my leather one.  He had a cowboy hat on, and Ive been wearing one the whole game, literally since the first night.

This is where the trouble came in.  I was so apathetic from all my crafting that I drove up to a mine with a nearby fema camp and did some more.  The noises from below drew in crowds.

First a horde of Greenies.  Then a few Hungry Zeds.  Then, a feral hunter.  Then, night fell, and I turned on my aisle lights.  Then a Zombie lord revived the hunter and makes him a predator in one swoop.  Then he ups a zombie and make him a hollow zombie.  I got impaled in the chest area, and so I was bleeding.  Steel spears kind of get a shorter end of the evolutionary stick rn, and so I was clearly losing the fight, getting my leather plate armored torso wrecked.


  But wait, I think to myself, why am I letting this happen?  I have YoY THE WHISPERING NAPKIN OF DOOM \o/

I threw the furry face mask of holding into my trunk and forgot about it, but the whispering napkin I kept on my person.  Flicking it gently at the lord, a massive light erupts from the napkin, blinding the zombies in pure awe.  Then, I pulled out my automatic M1xxx shotgun and blasted the lord in the face a few times.  The predator and hollow are much less dangerous now that their leader gone.  They are, in fact, headless in a fashion a little less literally than he is.

Killing them and ignoring the blobs that spawned form the lord, I healed my torso and almost show Alexander the Russian who was sitting at the doorway watching the whole show without taking out his glock or moving to help me.  That ass.
  I wish NPCs would get out of the car to help you.  Or at least do that at a certain level of trust or aggression.




so, happy autumn, you sick pugs.

cdda

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on May 26, 2016, 04:47:51 am

I made a slow but powerful wall and tried to pack a horde behind it.
It worked as a mighty pusher.

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Istroids

I also made a interceptor with a EMP gun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on May 26, 2016, 02:41:14 pm

Maybe not particularly owning it, but it was fun and felt badass enough to do anyway:

Quake 2, Multiplayer-Coop-Solo, taking on the front gate to Makron's Fortress with only an energy pistol (kinda a cheap way to level-warp, and have unlimited lives on levels). How many heavy units did I take down in a single life? Speaking of which, looking at past corpses from previous attempts felt like coming across a past corpse/playthrough in a roguelike, and I just remember what that past life went through (and helped my present/future lives in the process), and how hardcore that past run was. Needless to say, the front gate was devoid of their guard after less than 10 lives were sacrificed to them armed with only pistols.

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Quake II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 26, 2016, 06:06:06 pm

Beat the final boss (not the secret really-definitely-final boss), and now that leaves plenty of time for a fishing montage!

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And I caught most of these fish while being struck by lightning, attacked by giant crabs, and swarmed by piranhas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 26, 2016, 06:39:13 pm

Killed the Zombie God Troll...

With just a pistol.

Granted, it wasn't really that awesome, just circlejerk the fool until it died, but it took a lot of effort.

Decision 3.
Even though I haven't finished the game on any of the difficulties, I'm still waiting for the fourth game. I wonder what that will bring?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on May 26, 2016, 06:41:27 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 26, 2016, 06:06:06 pm

Beat the final boss (not the secret really-definitely-final boss), and now that leaves plenty of time for a fishing montage!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-snipsnipsnip-

And I caught most of these fish while being struck by lightning, attacked by giant crabs, and swarmed by piranhas.

That's... Recettear, right?  Or am I confusing it with all the other games with small girls assisted by even smaller girls?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 26, 2016, 06:46:08 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on May 26, 2016, 06:41:27 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 26, 2016, 06:06:06 pm

Beat the final boss (not the secret really-definitely-final boss), and now that leaves plenty of time for a fishing montage!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-snipsnipsnip-

And I caught most of these fish while being struck by lightning, attacked by giant crabs, and swarmed by piranhas.

That's... Recettear, right?  Or am I confusing it with all the other games with small girls assisted by even smaller girls?

Chantelise. It's by the same people as Recettear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 26, 2016, 06:48:54 pm

Let me guess - your fairy likes to repeat herself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on May 26, 2016, 06:57:38 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 26, 2016, 06:39:13 pm

Decision 3.

Ah yes, you definitely want to pistol/melee as much as possible for that great money/xp boost. There's this HUGE difficulty spike in the middle of the game, and bringing in party members is completely useless compared to sacrificing them to the elder gods for base upgrades keeping them safely cooped up for their bonuses.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 26, 2016, 06:48:54 pm

Let me guess - your fairy likes to repeat herself.

Not as much as the MC. She has exactly 7 different attack vocalizations - think Link, but with an extremely high pitched voice - and you will hear them all the time.

All the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 26, 2016, 07:51:09 pm

no it's because recettear is recette and tear, so chantelise would logically be chant and elise

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 26, 2016, 09:59:35 pm

Quote from: Blaze on May 26, 2016, 06:57:38 pm

Ah yes, you definitely want to pistol/melee as much as possible for that great money/xp boost. There's this HUGE difficulty spike in the middle of the game, and bringing in party members is completely useless compared to sacrificing them to the elder gods for base upgrades keeping them safely cooped up for their bonuses.

Actually, I'm trying to get all the weapons and armor to max experience level first, which means switching out weapons as they get to level 10.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on May 26, 2016, 10:29:28 pm

I survived my first spring~! Usually this is more a matter of me playing this game enough, but this game's gotten a lot harder since I last played, especially for the kawaii dapper muderneko build I've been using. Sure, I've got both arms broken from detonating a grenade point blank to kill a mi-go and a giant spider, but I've got lots of books and tools and a really neat safehouse. More importantly, I am properly decked out in lots of jewelry for the morale boost and I've got a nice quarterstaff for bopping zeds by the bushel. And I should even be able to concentrate on reading nice literature and healing my poor arms because Summer means that the bajillion and one strawberry bushes near my base will start feeding me on their own and I'll stop having to binge-eat salt fish and raw reptile eggs every day or so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

C:DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 27, 2016, 10:00:02 am

Testing one of the new unstable Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup online versions (0.19-a0 compared to the most recent tournament 0.18.1). With the power of a new deity "Hepliaklqana" who is able to bestow a corporeal memory of the ancestors with you as a pretty permanent follow-ally which can be customized and branched out into either a warrior/battlemage/hexer (support/status effect mage), I...found myself living far longer than I usually do when I test out certain characteristics of the game until I am clearly outmatched (as compared to 'regularly nearly-matched but a spell hit my face and I died').

It's less an OWN since I didn't win a game with that deity yet (as my only games won are with the Good gods...as that's what I only play with .-.), but I can forsee a good strategy with this, despite the 'ancestor' ally being corporeal enough to block spells--it also blocks linear spells by the enemies like Malmutate!

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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup; Australian Online Server (https://crawl.project357.org/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 27, 2016, 10:17:42 am

Tanked and spanked the Queen of Smiles and killed her in my first go, then went and got vengeance on the Mite-Knight and soundly whooped his ass too.

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Salt and Sanctuary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on May 27, 2016, 11:11:45 pm

I learned that the core was supported by 4 'crystal pillar': Destroying the 'crystal pillar' will cause the rest of the crystal to destroy and winning the game.

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Robocraft

Seriously, i won fast because of this. I learned that not directly, but when i take a look at the fusion towers i started to think do that applies to the reactor too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on May 28, 2016, 06:04:43 am

Finally completed my no-bonfire run.

Dark Souls 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on May 28, 2016, 08:10:35 am

Wanted to see how well my very melee oriented jedi guardian would do in the first solo fight against Malak.  He was hitting me for 10s and 20 damage, I had well in excess of 200 hit points.  I was hitting him for around 30-50.  I could have killed him then and there but nooooo plot had to take over.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 28, 2016, 04:10:53 pm

Quote from: NRDL on May 28, 2016, 08:10:35 am

Wanted to see how well my very melee oriented jedi guardian would do in the first solo fight against Malak.  He was hitting me for 10s and 20 damage, I had well in excess of 200 hit points.  I was hitting him for around 30-50.  I could have killed him then and there but nooooo plot had to take over.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

Spoiler: Funny bit (click to show/hide)

If you use a save editor to give yourself stats enough to slice open that door, you'll see Malak and Bastila just standing there. Not doing anything, just standing there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on May 28, 2016, 04:41:11 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 28, 2016, 04:10:53 pm

Quote from: NRDL on May 28, 2016, 08:10:35 am

Wanted to see how well my very melee oriented jedi guardian would do in the first solo fight against Malak.  He was hitting me for 10s and 20 damage, I had well in excess of 200 hit points.  I was hitting him for around 30-50.  I could have killed him then and there but nooooo plot had to take over.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

Spoiler: Funny bit (click to show/hide)

If you use a save editor to give yourself stats enough to slice open that door, you'll see Malak and Bastila just standing there. Not doing anything, just standing there.

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"Okay, now that we've ditched the amnesiac and the whiny captain, you wanna join the dark side?"

"M'kay."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on May 28, 2016, 07:36:59 pm

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Been playing one of my all-time favourite games, Evil Cult simulator - utterly timeless. Very simple, the goal is to make your cult either dominate the world in order to summon your cult's end times, or summon your cult's end times to dominate the world. You take over nodes with your various influence resources, from intimidation to bribery and persuasion, with virgins being your special resource for performing rituals / flexible operations. You can't take over an influence producing node controlled by a rival cult if it's connected to three other nodes, so you have to take down at least one of the node's allies before swooping in to poach them for your cause. At this point my cult has spread through and destroyed the Manipulators and the Frozen Dream - yet we had a setback when the Drowned declared war upon us whilst we were being picked apart by an investigator. After some crises management later the Cult of the Elder God managed a massive retaliation against the Drowned, pushing them back to their origin. At last until we reached this - four generator nodes all interconnected and all supporting one another. Manfred Bouton, Politician and Neophyte of the Drowned. Leonid Stewart, University Professor and Adept of the Drowned. Kevin Lecointe, Army Officer and secret Priest of the Drowned. Scott Guerin, Corporate Worker and the Origin Priest of the Drowned. Top right corner.

I've been playing Cult Simulator religiously for more than 5 years and never before seen anything like this - it should be mathematically improbable to the point of impossibility. The invincible rhombus is supposed to be hypothetical... A theoretical cult vortex of power - and it is revealed!

Praise the Cult of the Random Number God!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 28, 2016, 08:07:41 pm

Me and a friend have been on a winning streak lately, and been playing against the same guy over and over. It's already become an in-joke.

Heroes of the Storm

By the way, why do people keep spoilering the game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 28, 2016, 08:17:47 pm

As Mei, I got 15 eliminations, no deaths, an achievement for keeping the attackers off the payload for one minute (at the start of the round, no less!), Play of the Game, and 10 commends on the results screen.

Not bad for my first day playing the game!

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Overwatch. I'm cherishing this brief period before matchmaking figures out I'm not incompetent and I start facing capable opponents.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 28, 2016, 08:33:27 pm

Uploaded my first plane. Someone said it was awesome.

SimplePlanes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 28, 2016, 08:49:23 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on May 28, 2016, 07:36:59 pm

I've been playing Cult Simulator religiously

I see.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 28, 2016, 09:18:48 pm

I've been able to keep the city completely safe, for the most part.

Now all I have to do is upgrade everything to the max....

Well shit.

Militia training is a pain in the ass...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on May 28, 2016, 09:20:48 pm

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on May 28, 2016, 08:49:23 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on May 28, 2016, 07:36:59 pm

I've been playing Cult Simulator religiously

I see.

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 29, 2016, 04:20:10 pm

I was playing Commander at my LGS with my Mizzix deck, and everybody was just sort of building up their board. I had a little bit of board presence, but everybody was drowning in mana because somebody played a spell which doubled all mana. Sadly, i had to leave soon. Then I saw a line of play that I would be satisfied doing before leaving. First of all, I had a Reins of Power in hand and a Geistblast in my graveyard. One of my opponents had a huge dragon (his commander) that could one-shot somebody, plus a Xenagos. However, everybody had at least one flier. The smallest one was, naturally, in the WG deck, just before me in the turn order. I asked the player to get rid of his flier for me. He trusted me enough to do it,and attacked his 1/1 into my 5/5. Then I took the turn. Played a land. I cast Reins of Power, targeting the player with the huge dragon. I held priority and copied the Reins with Geistblast, targeting the player without fliers. I now had the huge dragon, the previous owner of the dragon now had no fliers, and the WG player had my commander, a random dragon, and the fourth player's commander. I made the dragon huge, and attacked.

This is why I like playing Mizzix.

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 Magic: the Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 29, 2016, 11:14:56 pm

I'm a Nightblade in my current game. That means that most of the time I use magic to enhance my guy's stealth capabilities and stab people in their butts. However, this fails to work a lot of the time, so I've been training in Destruction so I can easily blow people up if stealth fails. While screwing around in the spellmaker, I came up with my character's new signature move, which I named Blizzard Fist like the weirdass that I am. It is a melee-range spell which creates a good 10 meter wide explosion of ice around whoever it hits. After creating it, I used it to kill everyone in the Mage's Guild in a couple of seconds.

I'm starting to think magic was a little OP in the older TES games.

Morrowind.

Also, enchantments still rarely work for significant things, but when they do they're awesome. Turning items into spells which don't use magicka, recharge on their own, and can be used instantly? Yes please.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on May 30, 2016, 02:33:57 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 29, 2016, 11:14:56 pm

I'm starting to think magic was a little OP in the older TES games.

That's because it was considered a limited resource. Having an attack that can't miss is balanced out by you only being able to cast it, say, 10 times before needing to rest. Then again, you can just rest and recover after every fight...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on May 30, 2016, 02:56:45 am

Quote from: Loud Whispers on May 28, 2016, 07:36:59 pm

Been playing one of my all-time favourite games, Evil Cult simulator

Thank you SO MUCH for this! I heard about this game from your post, and I already played for about 3 - 4 hours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Metalax on May 30, 2016, 06:25:38 am

Quote from: IcyTea31 on May 30, 2016, 02:33:57 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 29, 2016, 11:14:56 pm

I'm starting to think magic was a little OP in the older TES games.

That's because it was considered a limited resource. Having an attack that can't miss is balanced out by you only being able to cast it, say, 10 times before needing to rest. Then again, you can just rest and recover after every fight...

But then Alchemy and Enchanting come into play and it becomes truly broken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 01:43:13 pm

I like to think that if you take the effort to cheese everything like that you'd might as well take the effort to play the game normally.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on May 30, 2016, 01:49:16 pm

isnt TES a game series about becoming an op murdergod and still having guards be condescending to you

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 02:00:37 pm

doing it legitimately is more rewarding

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on May 30, 2016, 02:05:34 pm

I've done it legitimately.  You still become an OP murdergod just through normal play, so what does it matter if you choose to mess with the system a bit?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 02:08:51 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 30, 2016, 02:00:37 pm

doing it legitimately is more rewarding

It's one of those things that doesn't really matter but people can't exactly agree on anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 30, 2016, 02:50:56 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 30, 2016, 01:43:13 pm

I like to think that if you take the effort to cheese everything like that you'd might as well take the effort to play the game normally.

I haven't done anything that the game isn't supposed to allow, so I don't really see how it's abnormal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 02:53:35 pm

It's obviously not intended for you to be able to powerlevel spells, it's a side effect of the engine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 30, 2016, 03:38:47 pm

I didn't powerlevel spells.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 03:39:20 pm

You being the player. It was an example.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 30, 2016, 03:40:28 pm

/me is stupid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 03:53:51 pm

/me is stupider

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 30, 2016, 04:33:50 pm

Sent my brother to tackle an angry protester, then my mother killed him with a stern talking-to.

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Citizens of Earth. Loving this game so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 30, 2016, 05:42:50 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 30, 2016, 04:33:50 pm

Sent my brother to tackle an angry protester, then my mother killed him with a stern talking-to.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Citizens of Earth. Loving this game so far.

Killed him with a stern talking-to?
I always knew those things were lethal! Mom was trying to kill me all along!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 30, 2016, 09:34:25 pm

I met Clem.

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Warframe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 30, 2016, 09:36:46 pm

Lee?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 31, 2016, 01:14:05 am

I am playing light as hell.   Except for certain builds meant to do one thing and not actually be good at beating the games, I've always fallen on the heavy armor big shield crutch in dark souls. And I determined that it was about time I stop doing that.

My armor is a dragon torso stone (because fuck you imma dwagon) my weapons are pontiff scythe, manikin claws, rapier, and pharis' bow.  I will be the best dodger/parrier ever.

I am nowhere near the best dodger ever, I seem to be ok at parries.  Until I forget to put a real weapon in my right hand and follow up a parry by menacingly two handing my bow at them.

I've died many times in a certain city, that a certain duo would call home.  I've been walled here for 2 days now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Seems you cannot parry spells thrown by spellcaster worm monsters and they counter arrows with fuck you lazers

Dark Souls 3   

And to answer an earlier question some folks spoiler games out of tradition.  I think it originally started to create a sense of anticipation.  Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.


This....is the wrong thread....  I thought this is die....  Well, uh....I made it that far without punching a hole in my monitor I guess?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on May 31, 2016, 02:17:26 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on May 30, 2016, 09:34:25 pm

I met Clem.

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Warframe

Chh-Chh. Grakata. Tooo Grakata.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 05:30:19 am

I hit a scary number of people with my hammer in a short amount of time.  In fact I hit so many people with my hammer that an opponent became very salty about how Reinhardt is too good and all you have to do is run at people and hold down LMB.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 31, 2016, 06:03:40 am

Ways to close out a game really fast and/or scar your opponent:

#1: Unstable Portal into turn 7 Deathwing (a 7 mana 12/12? Yes please).

#2: Archmage Antonidas into Cabalist's Tome into Cabalist's Tome into lethal next turn.

#3: You have ten cards in your deck, and one card in hand. Your oppnent has no cards in deck, and an empty hand. Flamestrike.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 10:53:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 05:30:19 am

I hit a scary number of people with my hammer in a short amount of time.  In fact I hit so many people with my hammer that an opponent became very salty about how Reinhardt is too good and all you have to do is run at people and hold down LMB.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Ok, sorry for the Off-topic moment, but... this is now the 7th character I hear is "OP" in that game. Isn't the definition of OP kinda... vague in that?

Back on topic:

Losing 2-1, 20 seconds left in the match; the opponents take a shot at the goal, all 3 of them are on the offensive. I manage to stop their shot by rushing in with Turbo, the ball flies away and ends up bouncing in the opponents' goal. Score tied, 10 seconds left.

We later won the match, although it ended in just a few seconds and I had no impact on the rest of the game whatsoever.

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Rocket League

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 31, 2016, 11:46:10 am

Quote from: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 10:53:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 05:30:19 am

I hit a scary number of people with my hammer in a short amount of time.  In fact I hit so many people with my hammer that an opponent became very salty about how Reinhardt is too good and all you have to do is run at people and hold down LMB.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Ok, sorry for the Off-topic moment, but... this is now the 7th character I hear is "OP" in that game. Isn't the definition of OP kinda... vague in that?

"Rock needs a nerf! Paper is just fine, IMO." - The Scissors.

Remember, it's OP if it's beating you, otherwise it's balanced.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 12:02:31 pm

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Also:

Quote from: Arx on May 31, 2016, 11:46:10 am

"Rock needs a nerf! Paper is just fine, IMO." - The Scissors.

Can i sig this, please?  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 31, 2016, 12:26:32 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 12:02:31 pm

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Also:

Quote from: Arx on May 31, 2016, 11:46:10 am

"Rock needs a nerf! Paper is just fine, IMO." - The Scissors.

Can i sig this, please?  :)

Go ahead!

Although full disclosure, I borrowed it from someone else - not sure who.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 31, 2016, 01:33:06 pm

I wouldn't worry about that too much. This is the Internet; whoever you stole it from probably stole it from someone else, and so on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 02:35:01 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 10:53:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 05:30:19 am

I hit a scary number of people with my hammer in a short amount of time.  In fact I hit so many people with my hammer that an opponent became very salty about how Reinhardt is too good and all you have to do is run at people and hold down LMB.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Ok, sorry for the Off-topic moment, but... this is now the 7th character I hear is "OP" in that game. Isn't the definition of OP kinda... vague in that?

Considering there are only 27 characters... yeah.  They did a very good job balancing the characters so that they all feel powerful without being overpowered.  There are OP and UP characters for sure, but considering how many there are the devs did a remarkably good job with the whole thing.  Its kind of like TF2 on crack (3x as many classes) yet some how FAR more balanced than release TF2.

Edit: Or current TF2 really.  Nothing in Overwatch is as broken as the Reserve Shooter has been for years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 31, 2016, 02:37:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 31, 2016, 01:33:06 pm

I wouldn't worry about that too much. This is the Internet; whoever you stole it from probably stole it from someone else, and so on.

Oh my god the internet is a vehicle for theft! BAN NOW BEFORE OUR CHILDREN ARE STOLEN AND KILLED! The internet is a vehicle for plagarism and it's destroying our creativity! *Unintelligible growling and screeching*

Not that I actually know anyone who's super duper against the internet. Except maybe my school, and that's just blocking freeware, Youtube, pornography/adult stuff, games, things that can be justified.

Except maybe the Youtube ban, 'cause people need to get permission for every individual video (even a channel made by student press can't be cleared).

Anyway...

Used a pistol as my main weapon and got away with it, only switching weapons when I was really in trouble (two mutant clingers at once or something like that).

Having the pistol fully upgraded and having reloading near its maximum for both characters helped loads, as you might imagine.

I also got the "I'm the Alpha" achievement while doing so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Road of the Dead 2.

Was able to trade a few pots of prepared food for almost everything the human caravan owned (short of really expensive stuff like steel bolts, giant trap components, etc.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood
 Chapter 2: Dwarf Fortress

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 02:35:01 pm

Quote from: 94dima94 on May 31, 2016, 10:53:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 05:30:19 am

I hit a scary number of people with my hammer in a short amount of time.  In fact I hit so many people with my hammer that an opponent became very salty about how Reinhardt is too good and all you have to do is run at people and hold down LMB.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Ok, sorry for the Off-topic moment, but... this is now the 7th character I hear is "OP" in that game. Isn't the definition of OP kinda... vague in that?

Considering there are only 27 characters... yeah.  They did a very good job balancing the characters so that they all feel powerful without being overpowered.  There are OP and UP characters for sure, but considering how many there are the devs did a remarkably good job with the whole thing.  Its kind of like TF2 on crack (3x as many classes) yet some how FAR more balanced than release TF2.

I don't know anything about Overwatch, and I don't know what you do/don't know about TF2...

Aside from the Phlogstinator, I'm not sure what you mean specifically. With public servers it's kind of down to luck whether you've got a team willing to actually be a team or not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 02:43:11 pm

If you want to know what release TF2 was like, get TF2 for the Xbox 360.  They NEVER patched it because they realized that Microsoft charges for updates.  Some highlights:
1.  Some weapons, notable the Demoman's grenade launcher, have the projectile originate at the end of the weapon rather than from the character's hitbox.  That means you can fire them through walls, including the spawn room walls.
2.  Pyro has no airblast.  Yeah...
3.  Demoman's grenade launcher has a 6 shot clip.
4.  All the maps are old TF2 maps, of course.  So they fail the golden rule of TF2 maps which is that there must always be at least 3 paths along which an attacking team can advance.

There's probably other things I've forgotten but yeah.  They spent years making their class based shooter but on release it was just demospam demospam demospam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 31, 2016, 02:56:29 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 02:43:11 pm

If you want to know what release TF2 was like, get TF2 for the Xbox 360.  They NEVER patched it because they realized that Microsoft charges for updates.  Some highlights:
1.  Some weapons, notable the Demoman's grenade launcher, have the projectile originate at the end of the weapon rather than from the character's hitbox.  That means you can fire them through walls, including the spawn room walls.
2.  Pyro has no airblast.  Yeah...
3.  Demoman's grenade launcher has a 6 shot clip.
4.  All the maps are old TF2 maps, of course.  So they fail the golden rule of TF2 maps which is that there must always be at least 3 paths along which an attacking team can advance.

There's probably other things I've forgotten but yeah.  They spent years making their class based shooter but on release it was just demospam demospam demospam.

YOU USE AN XBOX FOR TF2?

Come on, you gotta join us at the PC master race! You typed all your stuff on a PC, didn't you? I'm sure yours can handle it, even this toaster I'm using can run it (although my laptop shuts off due to overheating after 1.5 matches on a good day because Dell devices don't come with flash gaming-grade graphics cards) :P

But to be honest, I feel sorry for you if that's the TF2 you remember/the only platform you can play TF2 on. I was born in '99 so I guess you could say I'm lucky. I don't remember awful shit like 9/11 or release TF2.

Thanks for sharing, by the way... TF2's come a long way since its first release, believe me.

Well, maybe not (I don't much play it because overheating)...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2016, 03:08:38 pm

I know what the Reserve Shooter is... clearly I've played PC :P

No but seriously I have like 500 hours on it. One of my college roommates had Xbox TF2 and its fascinating because its a little frozen time capsule of a game that's moved on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 31, 2016, 03:13:16 pm

Spoiler: DIE INSECT! (click to show/hide)

(http://orig03.deviantart.net/863e/f/2016/152/4/6/hearthstone_screenshot_05_31_16_19_57_00_by_djoze32-da4m7b5.png)

Spoiler: How we got there (click to show/hide)

So I'm playing this Reno/C'Thun Rogue that I built with my cousin yesterday. It's pretty fun, since there's some really good cards Rogue has you can get away with having little to no C'Thun buffers. Plus you have other stuff to control the board until you get Reno. It's overall a pretty good deck that only really loses to crazy aggro since you don't have many boardclears.
Anyways, was playing this mage, it was tempo/C'Thun and had some good stuff going on for the most part, getting me into lethal range if he had C'Thun. But I managed to pull of a rather sick combo. I played Rag one turn, then Thaurissan afterwards. He kinda messed up and tried killing both, or atleast getting them low so he could finish them off next turn or something. But! I had three very handy cards in my hand. Going Brann, copying Rag twice with Shadowcaster (that card is so sick it isn't even funny, there's like, four other stupidly good things you can combo it with in this deck), playing both of those, then cheesing it and shadowstepping it into my hand, had he managed to live trough that, he'd have another two Rags to face next turn. Funfact when copying things with the Shadowcaster, it makes it a 1/1 for 1, everything else remains, so each of those puny firelords shits out an 8 damage fireball at the end of the turn

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on May 31, 2016, 03:19:45 pm

That's horrifying.

While we're on Hearthstone, for some reason casual seems to be shooting fish in a barrel for me right now. Won five games with a random druid deck (I don't even have all the basics) without ever feeling threatened. I admittedly have some very nice C'Thun cards, but they're not that good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 31, 2016, 03:20:54 pm

I'm only ever able to survive in TF2 as Engi because turrets mean that you can contribute while very rarely placing yourself at risk.

I haven't played TF2 in a long time though. I don't get all this crafting and level-up stuff in online shooters these days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 31, 2016, 03:32:41 pm

Quote from: Arx on May 31, 2016, 03:19:45 pm

That's horrifying.

While we're on Hearthstone, for some reason casual seems to be shooting fish in a barrel for me right now. Won five games with a random druid deck (I don't even have all the basics) without ever feeling threatened. I admittedly have some very nice C'Thun cards, but they're not that good.

I think the best combo in this deck tho is the one that nets you up to  5 Reno Jacksons if you manage to pull it off. Four of those will be 1 cost. Of course, if you're able to do that then chances are you don't really need them because what the hell is your oponent doing. Another fun combo is using that stuff but with Blade of C'Thun instead to superbuff your C'Thun while killing their big stuff. Like say, playing a 1 mana assasinate on an enemy Doomcaller that happens to buff C'Thun for twice the Doomcallers stats :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 31, 2016, 04:40:20 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on May 31, 2016, 03:20:54 pm

I'm only ever able to survive in TF2 as Engi because turrets mean that you can contribute while very rarely placing yourself at risk.

I haven't played TF2 in a long time though. I don't get all this crafting and level-up stuff in online shooters these days.

People these days are infatuated with the idea of getting stronger and more OP PLZ NERF OR BAN!

I know I am. Not that I'd actually work to get there, 'cause I'm very lazy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 31, 2016, 05:10:56 pm

Beat the absolute piss out of the entire police force. Even then, the chief, who nearly took everyone out with a shotgun loaded with rock salt, and then knocked out my mother with a rubber bullet, still wanted to lock us up. That is, until some "reputable citizens", namely my brother, my mother, and the local school mascot(all of whom had just cleaned out the police force) vouched for my good reputation. Then the chief joined our group.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Citizens of Earth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on May 31, 2016, 06:36:02 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 31, 2016, 05:10:56 pm

Beat the absolute piss out of the entire police force. Even then, the chief, who nearly took everyone out with a shotgun loaded with rock salt, and then knocked out my mother with a rubber bullet, still wanted to lock us up. That is, until some "reputable citizens", namely my brother, my mother, and the local school mascot(all of whom had just cleaned out the police force) vouched for my good reputation. Then the chief joined our group.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Citizens of Earth.

WHAT GAmE EVEN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 01, 2016, 12:00:29 pm

Friend got invaded while I'm helping him through Irythill (sp) we skirmish with the invader for a bit before a blue sentinel is summoned.  The invader is already hurt, so he starts backing off and running up the stairs towards some enemies.

I take out my bow, he's too far away and moving too quickly to lock on, so I quickly scope in, aim at the top of the stairs and fire.

A second later the invader just took all their remaining health in damage from a headshot from my arrow to the back of their head.

Pro archer skills man. ^{_{I'll probably never be able to pull off that shot again in 100 years}}

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 01, 2016, 04:59:59 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on May 31, 2016, 06:36:02 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 31, 2016, 05:10:56 pm

Beat the absolute piss out of the entire police force. Even then, the chief, who nearly took everyone out with a shotgun loaded with rock salt, and then knocked out my mother with a rubber bullet, still wanted to lock us up. That is, until some "reputable citizens", namely my brother, my mother, and the local school mascot(all of whom had just cleaned out the police force) vouched for my good reputation. Then the chief joined our group.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Citizens of Earth.

WHAT GAmE EVEN

I've not actually played Earthbound, but I think it's very Earthbound-y(confirmed by a quick non-spoilery look at TVTropes). Might even be in the same universe as Earthbound, since in the police station there's a mention of a "boy beating up crows with cracked bat" which I think was an Earthbound reference.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 02, 2016, 12:52:48 am

Spoiler: Probably dark souls 3 spoilers (click to show/hide)

Finally beat snake wizard guy at Anor Londo.  Only took nearly a week and the help of a friend.  And then I was put up against the dancer.  I was told that she is one of the hardest fights in the game.  Would make snake wizard seem like a joke.

...I beat her solo on my first try.  Only used 2 sips of estus, never lost my tears of denial buff.

I'm not sure if losing repeatedly to snake wizard has honed my reflexes to a razor's edge or if she's just weak to arrows.

Duck Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 02, 2016, 09:19:37 am

Logging in, there's an hour left on the Esamir alert, TR controls about 23%, VS controls about 54%(guess from memory). After rage-quitting once fighting the NC and noticing there's little going on at Indar, I end up spending almost a full half an hour playing hide-and-seek with this one very persistent VS infiltrator who kept hopping around Terran BL-4 Crash Site taking one point at a time - take one and he's capping another. He never fired a single shot, even the one or two times I managed to catch him and take a shot. Kept dropping mines, though.

Decided to grab my Flash(with Scout Radar). First try it flipped over next to a wall. Second time I finally caught sight of him, accidentally ran him over(after a few intentional tries). With luck, the radar picked him up when he respawned, allowing me to find his Sunderer. My attack on it finally got him to return fire, but he couldn't save the Sunderer. As he ran from the wreckage I caught up to him and filled him with bullets... then ran over an AT mine he dropped before dying. He sent me a congratulatory tell.

Looking at the map, I saw that during the last half-hour, TR got it's act together and swept hard across the VS map. I managed to assist a bit taking the winning base - Eisa Tech Plant. TR wins the alert with 39% to VS's 33%. Just seconds before the alert ended, TR also locked Indar.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on June 02, 2016, 11:44:54 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 02, 2016, 12:52:48 am

Spoiler: Probably dark souls 3 spoilers (click to show/hide)

Finally beat snake wizard guy at Anor Londo.  Only took nearly a week and the help of a friend.  And then I was put up against the dancer.  I was told that she is one of the hardest fights in the game.  Would make snake wizard seem like a joke.

...I beat her solo on my first try.  Only used 2 sips of estus, never lost my tears of denial buff.

I'm not sure if losing repeatedly to snake wizard has honed my reflexes to a razor's edge or if she's just weak to arrows.

Duck Dark Souls 3

Funny, it was basically the opposite for. The boss that gave you trouble? Second try solo.
The other one? Took me two days.
I find it interesting how the difficulty of bosses is so vastly different for different people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 02, 2016, 03:51:33 pm

Quote from: Noel.se on June 02, 2016, 11:44:54 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 02, 2016, 12:52:48 am

Spoiler: Probably dark souls 3 spoilers (click to show/hide)

Finally beat snake wizard guy at Anor Londo.  Only took nearly a week and the help of a friend.  And then I was put up against the dancer.  I was told that she is one of the hardest fights in the game.  Would make snake wizard seem like a joke.

...I beat her solo on my first try.  Only used 2 sips of estus, never lost my tears of denial buff.

I'm not sure if losing repeatedly to snake wizard has honed my reflexes to a razor's edge or if she's just weak to arrows.

Duck Dark Souls 3

Funny, it was basically the opposite for. The boss that gave you trouble? Second try solo.
The other one? Took me two days.
I find it interesting how the difficulty of bosses is so vastly different for different people.

I keep hearing people complain about

Spoiler: Boss name (click to show/hide)

Prince Lothric

... but I actually took him out in my very first try. I think I only needed to Estus once, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 02, 2016, 03:52:34 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on May 29, 2016, 11:14:56 pm

I'm a Nightblade in my current game. That means that most of the time I use magic to enhance my guy's stealth capabilities and stab people in their butts. However, this fails to work a lot of the time, so I've been training in Destruction so I can easily blow people up if stealth fails. While screwing around in the spellmaker, I came up with my character's new signature move, which I named Blizzard Fist like the weirdass that I am. It is a melee-range spell which creates a good 10 meter wide explosion of ice around whoever it hits. After creating it, I used it to kill everyone in the Mage's Guild in a couple of seconds.

I'm starting to think magic was a little OP in the older TES games.

Morrowind.

Also, enchantments still rarely work for significant things, but when they do they're awesome. Turning items into spells which don't use magicka, recharge on their own, and can be used instantly? Yes please.

Nightblade is best stealth class.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on June 02, 2016, 03:58:09 pm

University scientists develop Chaos gun due to what seemed to be an incredibly lucky tech roll while everyone else, Usurpers and Caretakers included, are bumbling around with particle impactors. What else was I supposed to do other than literally sweep all before me with a handful of chaos speeders? Conquest victory in under 100 turns (granted, standard map) and only 6 bases built.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SMAC AC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on June 02, 2016, 10:29:21 pm

Got all the way to Stage 5 before getting wrecked by Knoife Maid AND got a new high score of over 4 million points. Master Spark is so ridiculously good. If used right, it lets you power through almost an entire Spell Sign. Usually I don't use it that much because I like the bonus points you get for not using them, but this time my index finger kept spasming because of muscle fatigue and I ended up pressing "x" more often. And it worked out. Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet doges[And several totally-accidental ones as well], but I used more bombs then usual.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 02, 2016, 10:51:32 pm

The enemy has pushed all the way out into the last point of Temple of Anubis, and killed all the defenders.  They have not one but two Reinhardts, both shielding and facing the one direction that everyone comes out of spawn from.  They also have a few offense characters because almost no one died in the push.  The only defender left alive is me, as Mei, in ice cube form.

Flash forward to the end of the game, we won.  My adorable highlight intro plays before the PoTG.  I come out of ice cube form on the point, pull out my drone, and immediately fall down dead.  What follows is a ~4 seconds of a third person side view of both Reinhardts and everyone they're defending freezing solid.  As the screen fades to black, you can hear "justice rains from above!", and then rockets start coming down from offscreen...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch.  I may be misremembering the Pharah ult, I'm not sure since I was dead for it.  But there definitely was a Pharah that cleaned up everyone I froze.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 03, 2016, 05:47:49 am

If it was an ally, what you heard was "Rocket Barrage, incoming!". You only hear "Justice rains from above!" if you're the one ult-ing or if you're an enemy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 03, 2016, 06:04:30 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 03, 2016, 05:47:49 am

If it was an ally, what you heard was "Rocket Barrage, incoming!". You only hear "Justice rains from above!" if you're the one ult-ing or if you're an enemy.

It could have been that the "Justice rains from above' thing was heard by the Reinhardt player.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 03, 2016, 06:06:24 am

It was a play of the game though, not a killcam?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 03, 2016, 07:24:02 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 02, 2016, 10:51:32 pm

What follows is a ~4 seconds of a third person side view of both Reinhardts and everyone they're defending freezing solid.  As the screen fades to black, you can hear "justice rains from above!", and then rockets start coming down from offscreen...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch.  I may be misremembering the Pharah ult, I'm not sure since I was dead for it.  But there definitely was a Pharah that cleaned up everyone I froze.

True, but it was also in a killcam.
Course, he himself said that he could be remembering wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wer6 on June 03, 2016, 07:40:04 am

With my small battle fleet of 4 ships, two wings of fighters, and a single boarding shuttle (That doesn't go into combat), I manated to take down an entire Hegemony Armada using tactics and tactical use of "kill one of them at a time".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Sector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 03, 2016, 08:37:14 am

I haven't played AoC seriously in a few weeks. Decided to grab a game, end up against someone ranked about a hundred points above me. I expected it to end terribly, played a poor early game, and then... their midgame just collapsed? Anyway, I won pretty comfortably.

AoEII: HD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 03, 2016, 11:45:47 am

Quote from: wer6 on June 03, 2016, 07:40:04 am

With my small battle fleet of 4 ships, two wings of fighters, and a single boarding shuttle (That doesn't go into combat), I manated to take down an entire Hegemony Armada using tactics and tactical use of "kill one of them at a time".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Sector

How many ships did you lose? What were your four main ships?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 03, 2016, 06:08:06 pm

Beat a Frenzied Brachydios the first time without dying. AKA a beefed up version of that one monster that everyone complains is overpowered. It honestly wasn't much worse than a normal one.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 03, 2016, 08:17:10 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on June 03, 2016, 07:24:02 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 02, 2016, 10:51:32 pm

What follows is a ~4 seconds of a third person side view of both Reinhardts and everyone they're defending freezing solid.  As the screen fades to black, you can hear "justice rains from above!", and then rockets start coming down from offscreen...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch.  I may be misremembering the Pharah ult, I'm not sure since I was dead for it.  But there definitely was a Pharah that cleaned up everyone I froze.

True, but it was also in a killcam.
Course, he himself said that he could be remembering wrong.

Yeah, I don't remember so I went with the more dramatically appropriate option :P

There definitely were rockets of some description coming in from offscreen.  It happened right before the fade to black and there was a lot of visual/audio noise so its hard to say exactly what happened.  The Pharah was my brother and he told me afterwards that he cleaned house on the point, wasn't specific about how.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 03, 2016, 09:24:01 pm

Quote from: Ispil on June 03, 2016, 07:45:19 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on June 03, 2016, 06:08:06 pm

Beat a Frenzied Brachydios the first time without dying. AKA a beefed up version of that one monster that everyone complains is overpowered. It honestly wasn't much worse than a normal one.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Fight it when paired with an Azure Rathalos, also frenzied, in G-rank. Your opinion will change.

Obviously G-Rank is going to be harder, I don't really see how my opinion of this particular mission will be changed by a completely different one though :P

Also, the fact that he gets help from a friend doesn't make him any harder on his own

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 03, 2016, 10:00:20 pm

The point I was trying to make is that the one mission I just did wasn't very hard :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on June 03, 2016, 11:40:22 pm

Fought and won a very close match. The score was 480-475, with us in the lead. Both teams had 1 capture point, with the third one neutral, so in theory we'd win... but it would be close.

And then I remembered we were on Forest. The neutral beasts here award 25 points, which is normally not worth chasing over a capture point... except right now, because 25 points would push either team over 500 and grant them an immediate win. I suddenly realize that 3 members from their team are hitting their beast, and I've got no teammates anywhere nearby.

So, what's a fragile, high-damage Elementalist to do? Why, dive into the middle of the fight alone and try to steal their beast kill with burst damage!

One burst of lightning later, our team has one of the narrowest victories I've ever seen. In that brief moment, I'd been reduced to 50% health already... but I'd stolen the kill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2. Playing Fresh Air Elementalist, a big shift from the conventional ultra-tanky builds seen in PvP... which surprises both enemies and allies!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on June 04, 2016, 09:23:37 am

Hah, grats!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 04, 2016, 10:53:12 am

(https://i.img.ie/s3x.png)

Allllllll the legendaries.

Hearthstone, Tavern Brawl.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 04, 2016, 12:32:33 pm

sweet mother of mercy arx HAVE PITY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 04, 2016, 01:03:48 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 04, 2016, 12:32:33 pm

sweet mother of mercy arx HAVE PITY

And that's going in the sig.

E: it is kind of made up for by things like pulling Fallen Hero as... Warlock. Which in turn I guess is made up for by turn 1 renounce.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on June 04, 2016, 01:16:26 pm

ALL MINIONS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 04, 2016, 06:54:56 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on June 02, 2016, 10:29:21 pm

Got all the way to Stage 5 before getting wrecked by Knoife Maid AND got a new high score of over 4 million points. Master Spark is so ridiculously good. If used right, it lets you power through almost an entire Spell Sign. Usually I don't use it that much because I like the bonus points you get for not using them, but this time my index finger kept spasming because of muscle fatigue and I ended up pressing "x" more often. And it worked out. Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet doges[And several totally-accidental ones as well], but I used more bombs then usual.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

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Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet doges[And several totally-accidental ones as well], but I used more bombs then usual.

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sweet doges

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doges

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doges

WHAT IS THIS?

The only "doge" I know of in the Touhou series/project is Kagerou from TH 14, and she's a werewolf!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 04, 2016, 08:59:32 pm

I killed the

Spoiler: Actual spoilers (click to show/hide)

Lord of Change

and Archaon in a single, pretty damn difficult battle. Two armies on both sides. VC vs WoC. 2562 (lost 1865) vs 1181 (lost 792) respectively. Should mention that Manfred was elsewhere at the time, so it was 2 Vampire Lords, 1 Necromancer, 1 Banshee, 1 Wight King for Lords/Heroes. And the enemy had FIVE CHAOS GIANTS.

Spoiler: post battle (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/wbZhbkJ.jpg)

Total War: Hammer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on June 05, 2016, 12:44:45 am

Everyone thought tesla was underpowered.

I showed them otherwise(and turn the tables) with tesla kiters.

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Istroids.

Repeater missile is really good too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on June 05, 2016, 03:05:42 am

Quote from: AzyWng on June 04, 2016, 06:54:56 pm

WHAT IS THIS?

The only "doge" I know of in the Touhou series/project is Kagerou from TH 14, and she's a werewolf!

Spoiler: Don't you think you're forgetting a certain wolf tengu from Mountain of Faith? (click to show/hide)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/Culise/Internet%20Uploads/Touhou%20-%20Momiji%20At%20Ready%20Downsized_zpslgbmza44.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on June 05, 2016, 12:33:10 pm

Was in a match playing veigar as support. Its the late game and the enemy midlane zed turns his youmuu's on and ults me. I know he's gonna show up behind me, so I use my E just so the AOE catches him when he appears. After that I just W Q R him and he explodes.

Support veigar just soloed the most fed enemy carry :v
And people still think support veigar isn't a thing.

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league of legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 05, 2016, 01:08:47 pm

Quote from: Culise on June 05, 2016, 03:05:42 am

Quote from: AzyWng on June 04, 2016, 06:54:56 pm

WHAT IS THIS?

The only "doge" I know of in the Touhou series/project is Kagerou from TH 14, and she's a werewolf!

Spoiler: Don't you think you're forgetting a certain wolf tengu from Mountain of Faith? (click to show/hide)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/Culise/Internet%20Uploads/Touhou%20-%20Momiji%20At%20Ready%20Downsized_zpslgbmza44.png)

Oh, her too. But in any case, the two are both wolves rather than dogs, let alone doges, so WHAT?

Killed a basilisk and later a goliath.

Both times they got the jump on me, but I was able to respond quickly enough to not get slaughtered.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Station 13, Paradise Station Mining

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on June 05, 2016, 01:11:27 pm

Quote from: TempAcc on June 05, 2016, 12:33:10 pm

Was in a match playing veigar as support. Its the late game and the enemy midlane zed turns his youmuu's on and ults me. I know he's gonna show up behind me, so I use my E just so the AOE catches him when he appears. After that I just W Q R him and he explodes.

Support veigar just soloed the most fed enemy carry :v
And people still think support veigar isn't a thing.

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league of legends

Key problem is that the support and ADC will have to compete for CS, Veigar due to his passive, and the ADC for items. It's especially egregious when you play an ADC that probably can't last hit well/fast enough early on, like Jhin or Graves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TempAcc on June 05, 2016, 02:31:05 pm

Not anymore since his mini rework. Now he gets stacks just by hitting people with his spells.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on June 05, 2016, 07:24:31 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 05, 2016, 01:08:47 pm

Oh, her too. But in any case, the two are both wolves rather than dogs, let alone doges, so WHAT?

Pretty sure the original word was supposed to be "dodges", as in:

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Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet dodges

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 05, 2016, 09:12:20 pm

Quote from: i2amroy on June 05, 2016, 07:24:31 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 05, 2016, 01:08:47 pm

Oh, her too. But in any case, the two are both wolves rather than dogs, let alone doges, so WHAT?

Pretty sure the original word was supposed to be "dodges", as in:

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Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet dodges

:P

Nah, they meant most serene doges (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice). Much commerce. Such republic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on June 05, 2016, 10:52:59 pm

Two games back to back with 40+ eliminations as Reaper.

Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 05, 2016, 10:54:24 pm

Edgy, and efficient.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 05, 2016, 11:42:16 pm

Perfect tamed a level 135 Megalodon.

Ark: Survival Evolved.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 06, 2016, 12:27:58 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 05, 2016, 10:54:24 pm

Edgy, and efficient.

I knew what game and character before I even clicked back a page.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 06, 2016, 08:15:58 pm

Sven apparently thought that him and me (Pheonix) would be enough to secure a rune against 3 enemies.  Cause he's Sven I guess, but it didn't work.  He runs in, loses all his health frighteningly quickly, and then runs out.  However, on the stairs leading out of the river I managed to delay the 3 people chasing him via sick bodyblocks.  Tinker and Mirana both chase him all the way to our T2 tower where Tinker dies and Mirana gets very weakened.  Sven manages to escape and I dive on top of Mirana with Icarus Dive and finish her off with right clicks.

Not sure if anyone noticed or realized that my bodyblocks were on purpose, but they very much were.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 07, 2016, 04:40:17 pm

I won the "Merger Mania" scenario without actually performing any mergers.

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Capitalism 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 07, 2016, 11:58:53 pm

Playing a bit of Homeworld: Remastered on family PC, and I just noticed that Salvage Corvettes (my ♥) can capture Turanic Raider...fighters. Unlike other fighters and interceptors of the Taiidan.

Cue mission 2 having me fight back with nothing but 14 salvage corvettes and building up ~the whole Mothership hold (50/50+) of nice fighters, and missile/standard corvettes! :3
Cue next mission in which you save the cryo trays! Only DARN thing in the way is that the next mission scales ASSAULT FRIGATES to how much fleet you've got. It's OK, actually, since it's 2 salvage c's to a frigate. It's NOT OK when there's a KNOWN BUG in Homeworld:Remastered that doesn't let you keep any of the frigates :I (I tried doing some save magic and managed to keep 2 of the frigates in the Mothership dock--do NOT LAUNCH). This bug is seen when after the cutscene of Karak being bombarded and having its atmosphere bombed out, despite having a line of assault frigates being towed in--they don't get towed in and you've to destroy them one by one or you can't hyperspace out.

That said, did a bit of research on the Turanic Raiders and apparently, the standard fighter is a practical response--albeit a BIT slower but half more hp than the standard "Blade" Kushan Interceptor/Scout (75 vs 50) and still hit as hard as the Interceptor. The Standard Corvette is also labeled as a 'Salvage/Combat' ship, and there is notably a button in the function menu that separates "Salvage" and "Salvage/Capture" (The latter is what the Salvage Corvette does). Sadly I can't find any way in which the Salvage option is used...and despite reading up the lore on the Standard Turanic Corvette (http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/turanic/heavy_corvette.htm), I can't find how this Salvage thing works :I (First thoughts were: Ooooo, I get another salvage unit!)

Basepoint: All their units are belong to me. :3 And I'm currently in the Citadel of Kadesh mission with 30k+ UI. (I spent money on completing all the Aux hubs of the Science vessel, for the circle. :v). Time to blindspot me some nice frigates. \o/

*The game scales how many ships the enemy has, to your approximate fleet. Me having a ton of Turanic salvage made the Cryo Tray mission have ~7 assault frigates instead of the usual 2-4. (GRR THAT BUG!)
_{Pretty tough getting 5 Destroyers when you first meet them and they all rush you in that one mission of VENGEANCE FOR THE HOMEWORLD. 4 to 1! But easily distracted!}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Homeworld: Remastered

Edit: I have no idea how salvage/captured ships are repainted, but I'm blaming the Assault Frigate bug on that it took one of my 2 captured frigates to be painted in our stylish teal and white, while leaving the other one in its original colors.
...My fleet is multicolored in my faction and the Taiidan. :v I have no idea what determines ships to be recolored into ours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 08, 2016, 02:27:37 am

Set an all time heal record as Medic in one life. 8450hp healed, then the next life was 9200 hp. This was on pl_barnblitz, where the enemy team absolutely steamrolled our defenses up until the last point, at which point I went Medic with Quick-Fix, keeping the entire team propped up and healed. It helped that Barnblitz's last point is extremely choky, as there's one narrow hallway for the cart, another very narrow hallway up stairs, and a third exit above the right hand side, which is hopelessly exposed to snipers.

The class distribution of my team was quite sane (two soldiers, pyro, two demomen, engineer, two medics, two heavies, a sniper and a spy) , and as a result we managed to hold back the enemy team for eight long minutes.

It was glorious.

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TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 09, 2016, 11:34:32 am

Bismarck with Raging Barbarians is absolutely hilarious. I maintained the strongest economy in the world with 0 GPT through the entire early game.

This made everything past the early game pretty easy. I launched an attack at my biggest competitor, China, who was conveniently my nearest neighbor, and took their capital. In a later war, I also took Shangai. When the "richest people" rankings came up, I was at a comfortable 9000 gold, while the next richest civ was Carthage with 300. everybody else was basically bankrupt.

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Civilization 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 09, 2016, 12:23:32 pm

So I pulled a Malygos from my Brawl pack. I decided to build a full-face priest deck to go with it.

Game one, mage. Goes okay, then I draw Malygos, and the game is over in two turns.
Game two, instaconcede priest. Huh?
Game three, Malygos didn't even come into play. Becuase I Thoughtstole a Thaurissan. Six mana mind control? Don't mind if I do. Free mind blasts? Sure! Holy Nova for two? Excellent! Yeah, I felt bad for the other player.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: i2amroy on June 09, 2016, 01:59:04 pm

Managed to win a game (and even complete my compendium quest with 2 stars) as a CM support by working very closely with the three other players on my team; all while the last player spent the entire early game insulting me and asking me to leave the lane, then the remainder of the game insulting me for leaving the lane (and therefore being "bad") or insulting other players on the team and spamming "gg, report X" whenever anyone else on our team died ever (or even looked like they were about to die, which looked kinda stupid when they didn't and turned around to get 2-3 kills :P), and spending pretty much the rest of his time just afk farming and occasionally dying when he tried to solo gank 3 of them.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on June 09, 2016, 03:26:45 pm

Sauron's armies emerged victorious over Middle-Earth.

Defeating Gondor was surprisingly easy. A lot more fighting came from the Silvan elves and Dale. The elves have archers that wreck orc armies, and unlike the other orc factions, Mordor's only cavalry is from Nazgul generals and mercs. Dale took out the Easterlings in Rhun without me noticing until they followed up by attacking Mordor from behind. I had to deploy the witch king on a counter-offensive to Dale, then send him up to take Thranduil's halls away from the elves.

I feel bad for Rohan. They did fine at first, but then the first two Evil Invasions caused the Misty Mountain orcs to take Edoras, and the Gundabad orcs to take Helm's Deep. Rohan eventually got Helm's Deep back, but by then they had been whittled down to three provinces. Theoden died trying to prevent my armies from taking over Eastern Rohan and using it as a training ground for sending armies against Lorien. His father, Thengal, survived to see Helm's Deep fall again to my forces, but died on the second to last turn, after his settlement was taken by an army from Isengard. The last general of Rohan was told he was the king of Rohirrim as two Mordor stacks led by Nazgul began to besiege his settlement.

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Playing as Mordor in the Third Age mod for Medieval II: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 09, 2016, 03:33:22 pm

Rest in peace, oh sweet Gondor-You called for aid but none came. Fuck Elves.

Now I want to play the LOTR mod for mount and blade again...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 09, 2016, 07:47:36 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 09, 2016, 03:33:22 pm

Rest in peace, oh sweet Gondor-You called for aid but none came. Fuck Elves.

Now I want to play the LOTR mod for mount and blade again...

Don't you mean "You called for help but nobody came"?

Anyway, the most frequently used weapons I've seen (spawn weapons, not ones from chests) are the Colt Navy, Sawn/Sawed-Off Shotgun, and the Hatchet. Until today, my favorite weapon was the Navy (I hadn't touched the Sawn-Off or Hatchet because I didn't want to employ the tactics that made them most effective [Ambushing and Charging respectively]).

Then I gave the Volcanic pistol a try.

It's fast, can still deal a good amount of damage, costs the same as the Navy (Two stars), holds many more bullets than the Navy, and has roughly the same notoriety reward (Up to a base 10 points).

While I didn't exactly own the servers I was on, I was able to get third place three times in a row on the same server!

I think the Volcanic is going to be my mainstay now!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 09, 2016, 08:16:04 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 09, 2016, 07:47:36 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on June 09, 2016, 03:33:22 pm

Rest in peace, oh sweet Gondor-You called for aid but none came. Fuck Elves.

Now I want to play the LOTR mod for mount and blade again...

Don't you mean "You called for help but nobody came"?

Anyway, the most frequently used weapons I've seen (spawn weapons, not ones from chests) are the Colt Navy, Sawn/Sawed-Off Shotgun, and the Hatchet. Until today, my favorite weapon was the Navy (I hadn't touched the Sawn-Off or Hatchet because I didn't want to employ the tactics that made them most effective [Ambushing and Charging respectively]).

Then I gave the Volcanic pistol a try.

It's fast, can still deal a good amount of damage, costs the same as the Navy (Two stars), holds many more bullets than the Navy, and has roughly the same notoriety reward (Up to a base 10 points).

While I didn't exactly own the servers I was on, I was able to get third place three times in a row on the same server!

I think the Volcanic is going to be my mainstay now!

It's quite a reliable weapon, especially if you're going akimbo with something like a Navy or a Schofield. The Volcanic's comparatively low recoil lets followups from the stronger guns be achieved more easily, and in reverse, a 1-2 from a stronger pistol and the Volcanic does enough to kill at close range.

The volcanic's only downside is its huge reload time, though it's still faster than the Colt Walker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 09, 2016, 08:42:10 pm

Try wielding it left handed.  Left handed Volcanic reaches its peak accuracy faster than the recoil animation can finish.  So you can shoot, shuffle two steps to the right or left, shoot again, shuffle again, shoot again, ect.  If you're experienced with the technique your reticule will reach its smallest size the exact time that the animation finishes, so you'll be firing as quickly and accurately as possible while constantly dodging.

Same strat works for the Mare's Leg and the Peacekeeper.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 09, 2016, 11:33:01 pm

So last time I was playing Homeworld: Remastered, and found my tactical niche still applicable in most strategy games. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83528.msg7037940;topicseen#msg7037940) It's a good de-stresser, personally. And I'm still feeling a bit sick! So deciding to play this as a de-stresser helped a lot. Many things I've learned compared to HW1 (Classic) are...that it's primarily a very nice and simple story.

This time, I'm flopping on myself in wondering why I scrapped Ion Array frigates for the monies, because I'm rich :I
Note to self: Only Recycle when in desperate times or when captured ships are less efficient than Kushan ones (especially Carriers once you are able to make them).
*Turanic Raider ships captured do not add to the ship cap. At all. (At least, in Homeworld 1)

Spoiler: Current status; Mission 10: Galactic Core (click to show/hide)

I had ~95k here but spent some for a carrier-replenish drop point defense [Defender/Multi-Gun corvette vs TONS OF SWARMS OF FIGHTERS]
(http://i.imgur.com/JgK0MvB.png)

But it seems I've got it rolling to make the rest of the missions easy. However I did NOT expect the fleet-# scaling factor to rise so sharply...that in Mission 8, I went up against 36+ Multi-Beam Frigates (barrel rolling heat rays of ancestorial death). Managed to capture them all; lost a few at the initial stages, had to use my huge fleet of every-frigate-ever to distract and run.
VERY glad for the patch, as it gave the Evasive/Aggressive/Neutral tactics back! All power to engines!

The Ghost Ship mission--if you did NOT bother to scale down your fleet and had captured nearly everything before that, shall spawn at least 72 assault Taiidan frigates. All easily owned by spending ~55 plasma bombers and 1 scout to distract. :3 (I lost only 14 bombers to the cross-fire...and speed).

Spoiler: I got pics \o/ (click to show/hide)

Photo Album from Mission 10 to Mission 13. I don't want to clutter the thread with pics. (http://imgur.com/a/8GMbn)

Spoiler: Tips for the Homeworld Player on Homeworld:Remastered (click to show/hide)

>>> The Pause menu is your friend, very helpful in coordinating and designating targets--especially helpful if your fleet is in the Passive Tactic (because then, if you blow up any target you didn't wish to blow up, you'll know it's your fault and will better learn!). I always put everyone on Passive/Evasive.

** Homeworld isn't a time-sinking game, accomplishable in just around 5-10 hours with breaks. Personally went through all this just to harvest extra resources in 8 hours over a week's span of time.

>> Good enemy distractors, if you plan on salvaging, are:
--Support frigates. :v Repair Corvettes will also do, but support frigates are taken as priority. They are, however, the one of the fastest frigates alive.
--Scout diversionary fleets.
--If the Salvage corvettes are being aimed for, quickly hopping to the frigate+ sized ship aiming at them can redirect their attack order and cancel the previous one from the captured ship. However once targeted, the target corvette as well as any adjacent ones will be either taken out or used as decoys themselves ._.;
***Enemy Taiidan AI is configured generally along Tactic: Defensive; Stance: Aggressive/Neutral. Meaning that they USUALLY may tend to fire on the first thing in their engagement range (ie As far as I can hit them with my weapons). Ensure it isn't your salvage corvettes running headfirst onto them.

>> When hyperspacing, fleets group up based on their faction and whether or not you captured them. Noted in the picture album linked, most of my ships are captured and from either Kadeshi/Taiidan/Turanic origin, but all line up compared to my (nearly invisible) patch of Kushan frigates and Missile Destroyer/Destroyer

> Moving and attacking is very much recommended when facing foes that have the liberty to approach you. On no grounds are you destined to win on a frontal attack, because on every mission--you are always outnumbered. Use the 3D Dimensions of the battlefield to strategize and conquer!
***It is difficult to win with frontally attacking everything. A fluidic mindset shall help any player--as it is something they can still work on in many other games; how you think about things, and assessing how you follow this up, is what shall help you with many games :3 It is a personal challenge.

>Mission 3 [cryo tray mission] has a bug wherein you cannot SEEMINGLY save any assault frigates after salvaging them. I am unsure how I saved mine--but I couldn't save more than half, just 2 out of the 3 that got in by quick-saving and re-loading and no bothering them in the M.ship docks
> Supernova Station has a bug about script triggers; you should NOT CAPTURE ANY OF THE STATIONARY FRIGATE DEFENSE FLEET or else the objective of 'kill all the fleet' won't tick. What you CAN capture is:
     -- The 2 destroyers
     -- That 1 H. Cruiser
     -- The 1 retreat-objective Carrier
     -- ALL THOSE ASSAULT FRIGATES stationed below the middle dust belt (I didn't bother because of the solar radiation and kited them with my 6 destroyer/1 H.cruiser crew T_T It was...cathartic to see the move/attack tactic work so well).
* Capturing any frigate stationed in the defense fleet (ie That place near the research station that has them staring at your ships as you stare back, between an impasse of the radiation of a dying star) will not trigger the script.
** Engage the enemy carrier as it leaves with capital ships. It will...spew many fighters and corvettes--luckily the AI isn't that smart, meaning it'll spew them right outside the protection of the dust cloud, and into solar death-heat-radiation.
> Mission 10 (Galactic Core) has a scaling fleet of SUPPORT FRIGATES, primarily, along with fighter swarms and heavy/multi-gun corvettes. By no means will the support frigates attack--they will merely follow and Guard (as seen in the picture above, they were guarding a salvaged Heavy Cruiser, and then all taken one by one by one). Never attack them. I replenished my fleet of 4 support frigates initially (2 Kushan, 4 Taiidan; lost 2 in the missions from 3 to 10) to around 30.
> Mission 13 has the Junkyard Dog. Real fast and deadly salvage corvette-type (and really humorous to see it flip away Heavy Cruisers like pancakes). It is defeatable by ~3 Grav-well Generators AT LEAST and a ton of firepower.

Now I'm in Mission 14, Bridge of Sighs. 100k+ credits. :3
With 150+ frigates at my command, NOTHING SHALL STOP ME FROM REACHING HIIGARA.
(Other than Gravity Well Generators since I take the pacifist route in salvaging and capturing everything.)

Spoiler: Homeworld:Remastered (click to show/hide)

Classic epic game. Name in spoiler title.

Edit: Just remembered that the wiki says 'you may meet 16 maximum MBF in the Cathedral of Kadesh'.
...Man that surprised me seeing otherwise. >_> Glad I took minimum losses.
In hindsight, I guess that means the maximum to the lower limit count of the Mothership Fleet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on June 10, 2016, 05:27:38 am

Leave spawn, randomly decide to look behind myself, see a spy coming out of cloak, fire rocket, random crit obliterates still-partially-invisible spy.

Tf2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 10, 2016, 08:00:29 am

15 kill streak, top of the leader board after that image was taken. Glorious heavy times. Mad props to the medic who was smart enough hitting that uber when it was best.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/qXxsDDO.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on June 10, 2016, 08:09:13 am

Spoiler: Carrying the team to victory (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/0Vnsq46.png)

League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 10, 2016, 11:46:37 am

I played "i dont want to set the world on fire" as I rained bombs both nuclear and conventional down onto Atilla's land and took his capital. That was one helluva game.

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civ V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 10, 2016, 01:51:09 pm

So, that makes two thoughtstolen legendaries in three games. Yogg-Saron, this time. And a good Yogg, cleared their board, dealt several damage to them, and gave me two 1/1 imps. The inevitable counter Yogg shadowstepped back into their hand (!), but luckily I had lethal mind blasts.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 10, 2016, 01:53:13 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 09, 2016, 08:42:10 pm

Try wielding it left handed.  Left handed Volcanic reaches its peak accuracy faster than the recoil animation can finish.  So you can shoot, shuffle two steps to the right or left, shoot again, shuffle again, shoot again, ect.  If you're experienced with the technique your reticule will reach its smallest size the exact time that the animation finishes, so you'll be firing as quickly and accurately as possible while constantly dodging.

Same strat works for the Mare's Leg and the Peacekeeper.

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Same strat works for the Mare's Leg and the Peacekeeper.

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Mare's Leg and the Peacekeeper.

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Peacekeeper.

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Peacekeeper.

Peace MAKER is what I think (read: know) what you mean.

I think the Mare's Leg might be called the Mare's Laig(?) in the game, but I don't know.

Anyway, do you mean using the "Left Handed" option, or actually switching hands so that the volcanic is in the left?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on June 10, 2016, 02:11:02 pm

it is the mare's leg, and I think he does mean the left handed option for the acc bonus to the left hand. ( although if you try to duel wield you will do much worse that way)
plus I like to use the peacemaker with a derringer for points.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 10, 2016, 02:14:56 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/RFkvVgS.jpg)

Never played anything other than those three cards and two offensive plays (next legendary you play, and its copies, permanently costs 3 less) in that match.

Hearthstone, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on June 10, 2016, 03:01:40 pm

Tried to follow my tanks suicidal charge forward. He got focused down pretty fast and I ended up in a building behind the enemy lines with no friendly players close enough to fly to.
Decided to bum rush the enemy from behind instead of sneaking back to my own team and so I climbed up the stairs and out onto the walkway on the buildings upper level. That way I managed to catch their Mercy while she was healing a almost dead Widowmaker, and a few pewpews later the WM is dead, Mercy fights back and a second later she joins the WM on the ground.
Jumping down from the walkway and onto the street I land behind their Soldier who also dies to my pewpew of doom.

Turn around, back into the building, through some rooms and up the stairs again, and suddenly I'm behind a Bastion. I'm shooting the core on its back and instead of turning around and shooting me he tries to repair himself. A second magazine to the core and a punch later I get my 4th kill.
Had a short range duel with a Zenyatta whose aim was so bad he couldn't hit a barn while being inside it (killed him, too), then going outside again I'm facing a D.Va. Fearing that I won't survive a short range slugging match with that thing I flee back towards my teams spawn. Almost dead I finally see a friendly Tracer and shift-fly towards her, D.Va follows with her boosters and gets blindsided by a friendly McCree who promtly kills her with a stun grenade + fan the hammer.

And this is how a Mercy causes a team kill on Numbani.  :D

Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 10, 2016, 03:07:57 pm

Fun fact: Genji can reflect High Noon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 10, 2016, 04:26:26 pm

Quote from: choppy on June 10, 2016, 02:11:02 pm

it is the mare's leg, and I think he does mean the left handed option for the acc bonus to the left hand. ( although if you try to duel wield you will do much worse that way)
plus I like to use the peacemaker with a derringer for points.

But... the Peacemaker (you know what I meant azy) usually hits for a little over half the enemy's health, how do you even get the kill with a derringer?

My favorite dual wielding combo is Schofield + sawed-off.  Sawed-off is great at damaging enemies but rarely manages to get a full 100 damage at any sane range, so you want to combine it with a gun that can finish the enemy.  In normal matches you want to spawn with it and handgun throw so you can either use the throw to get that 100 damage together and then steal a second gun (anything except a Mare's Leg will do), but if you can get to a blue chest a Schofield is an absolute beast because both your weapons will reload their entire clips.  If you're in teamplay (or whatever that's called, wouldn't want someone making a huge deal about a minor naming error) sawed-off + derringer is a cheap way to fight close up.

I've also done work with left handed sawed-off because I'm a nihilist.  They updated shotguns a while back so that their cone of fire will tighten when you're standing still the same way that a pistol would, which makes left-handed sawed-off a good mid-ish range weapon.  Really you want to use it as an unexpected backup with a heavier two-handed weapon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: endlessblaze on June 10, 2016, 05:13:28 pm

Quote from: Arx on June 09, 2016, 12:23:32 pm

So I pulled a Malygos from my Brawl pack. I decided to build a full-face priest deck to go with it.

Game one, mage. Goes okay, then I draw Malygos, and the game is over in two turns.
Game two, instaconcede priest. Huh?
Game three, Malygos didn't even come into play. Becuase I Thoughtstole a Thaurissan. Six mana mind control? Don't mind if I do. Free mind blasts? Sure! Holy Nova for two? Excellent! Yeah, I felt bad for the other player.

Hearthstone.

Ohhhh can you add me, I want to see how my current warlock setup does against it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 10, 2016, 08:47:04 pm

Finally beat that freaking Monoblos. It was like my fifth try and cost me forty-five minutes and most of my medical supplies but I friggin' did it

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. The Urgent singleplayer quest that serves as the ticket to Rank 8.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on June 10, 2016, 09:27:16 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 10, 2016, 04:26:26 pm

Quote from: choppy on June 10, 2016, 02:11:02 pm

it is the mare's leg, and I think he does mean the left handed option for the acc bonus to the left hand. ( although if you try to duel wield you will do much worse that way)
plus I like to use the peacemaker with a derringer for points.

But... the Peacemaker (you know what I meant azy) usually hits for a little over half the enemy's health, how do you even get the kill with a derringer?

My favorite dual wielding combo is Schofield + sawed-off.  Sawed-off is great at damaging enemies but rarely manages to get a full 100 damage at any sane range, so you want to combine it with a gun that can finish the enemy.  In normal matches you want to spawn with it and handgun throw so you can either use the throw to get that 100 damage together and then steal a second gun (anything except a Mare's Leg will do), but if you can get to a blue chest a Schofield is an absolute beast because both your weapons will reload their entire clips.  If you're in teamplay (or whatever that's called, wouldn't want someone making a huge deal about a minor naming error) sawed-off + derringer is a cheap way to fight close up.

I've also done work with left handed sawed-off because I'm a nihilist.  They updated shotguns a while back so that their cone of fire will tighten when you're standing still the same way that a pistol would, which makes left-handed sawed-off a good mid-ish range weapon.  Really you want to use it as an unexpected backup with a heavier two-handed weapon.

It is not necessarily optimal, more of a fun thing to use. You can do about 45-60 damage with the peace maker and then 25-35 with the derringer with means 2 body shots or a head shot. Then again point wise the bow works really well as well, plus just using the derringers does well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 11, 2016, 02:04:07 am

Quote from: endlessblaze on June 10, 2016, 05:13:28 pm

Quote from: Arx on June 09, 2016, 12:23:32 pm

So I pulled a Malygos from my Brawl pack. I decided to build a full-face priest deck to go with it.

Game one, mage. Goes okay, then I draw Malygos, and the game is over in two turns.
Game two, instaconcede priest. Huh?
Game three, Malygos didn't even come into play. Becuase I Thoughtstole a Thaurissan. Six mana mind control? Don't mind if I do. Free mind blasts? Sure! Holy Nova for two? Excellent! Yeah, I felt bad for the other player.

Hearthstone.

Ohhhh can you add me, I want to see how my current warlock setup does against it.

Sure, if you let me know your battle tag.

I'm not the best player in the world, and I haven't been playing long, so I'm rank 19 pushing 18 right now. Just FYI.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 11, 2016, 04:39:48 am

Shot down a massive flying carrier, declared my own city-state.

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Saint's Row the Third. Already played through the "good" ending. This one's the bad.

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I know that this is the non-canon ending, but at the same time, it looks like a good sequel hook... but not to Saint's Row IV. SR2 already confirms that the series takes place in the same universe as Red Faction, and in fact takes place within half a year of the miners' rebellion - evidence being that during one mission inside the Ultor facility, you hear them calling for Parker over the PA to "report to the mining division". I figure that the bad ending and Red Faction 2 are in an alternate continuity, and that Steelport eventually becomes the capital of the Republic of the Commonwealth, meaning that the player character is in fact Victor Sopot. A Steelport under 10-20 years of despotic rule actually would look like the city where RF2 takes place, and Magarac Island(which gets bombed in this ending) looks like a good place for Sopot to build that giant statue of himself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on June 11, 2016, 10:26:05 am

...holy shit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 11, 2016, 12:40:10 pm

>Mindgames
>Nef
>Turn 4
>Face, face, mind blast, mind blast, holy smite

Praise RNG.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Itnetlolor on June 11, 2016, 12:44:35 pm

I never thought a shrimpy little human being like me can terrify a creature so freaking large. I felt like one of the spiders in my house when they surprise anyone; though in this case, I was actually a lethal threat. I was actually chasing a colossus, which was also running away from me at full speed, around a level for much of the arena's area. With persistence finally paying off, I managed to ride it again, and pilot it back to a fighting area, and continue/finish the fight proper. It was fun/ny to watch.

Shadow of the Colossus

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(http://thewiredfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/shadow-of-the-colossus1.jpg)
(Colossus 12, I think)

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Of course, this was happening after it did some scaring of it's own towards me, and outsmarting me a few times, and landing a few lucky shots. But then I had my revenge with a good jump knocking out half of it's life. After it dropped me into the water and realized what I was up to, it turned tail and ran. In that process, I think it was also actively going to the other platforms and demolishing them with gusto too. It freaking knew what I was up to to the point of actively running like hell and limiting my options. I didn't think such a huge beast could run so damn fast in water.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 11, 2016, 03:40:09 pm

Was producing more faith than any of the American civs, AND more gold than the Europeans. I won pretty easily.

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Civ V, the New World Deluxe scenario.

Warlord is really easy, but the time I tried Prince I lost in such an unsatisfying way that im sort of scared of trying it again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 12, 2016, 10:44:12 am

Probably more stupidity on my opponent's part, but I was losing some pokemon triples.  My opponent had a darkrai, and while I usually can shut darkrai down faster than you can say 'Dark void', my opponent had brought the darkrai out later than I expected and in one of the off center slots, so my darkrai counters were either K.O'd or not in a position to taunt.

I was down to my rhyperior, Asleep and with low hp to be finished off the next turn, and my Zoroark disguised as a sceptile.  He had a Mega mewtwo Y, Darkrai, and Deoxys. 

He had already K.O.d my real sceptile, so it should have been really obvious that it was my zoroark.  Yet he kept attacking it with moves like psychic and psyshock.  Which zoroark is immune to thanks to it's dark type.   Allowing Zoroark to wipe the floor with all three.  Focus blasting and one shotting Darkrai, then night dazeing  Mewtwo and Deoxys into oblivion.

Pokemon AS, triple battle randoms

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 12, 2016, 12:58:26 pm

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 12, 2016, 01:05:08 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 12, 2016, 12:58:26 pm

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 12, 2016, 02:29:28 pm

I won my first game on Prince as France. Culture victory, obviously. Started off Paris in a place with a huge amount of food (flood plains) and some gold, but little production aside from the gold. I managed to nab the pantheon that gives you culture and faith from gold, and settled a new city on the coast to secure some more gold deposits. My neighbors were the Netherlands and Venice, which I was in good standing with the entire game. A bit further to the north were the Indonesians, who I also got along with perfectly well. So I just developed a huge amount of culture, waiting before researching some early techs so I could rush ahead and nab wonders. My workers quickly improved all the area around my cities, so I sent them off to build roads in other civs for shits and giggles.

Some other civ founded the World Congress, revealing the civs I didn't bother to go looking for to be Sweden, China, Portugal, Spain, Zulu and India. Despite putting in basically no effort towards the World Congress, I could make a proposal, so I suggested and managed to pass Arts Funding. I traded my gold with all of the other civs for money while continuing to be friendly to everybody. Didn't fight a single war the entire game. I just kept doing what I was doing, more or less constantly building wonders in Paris while my second city gave me some support and storage slots for great works.

Going into Freedom, I was outculturing everybody and somehow also outteching everybody. The only civ which I wasn't quickly gaining influence over was India, who appeared to also be going for a culture victory based on his culture bombs against me. Sadly, he was obnoxiously far away so culture bombs took about twenty turns. So I focused on increasing my cultural output in any way I could instead (theming bonuses, nabbing artifacts from areas which weren't *quite* in other nations' borders, more wonders). This eventually worked! First win on Prince! :D

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Civilization V

E:
Also, Paris had 44 population at the end of the game, which seems slightly ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 12, 2016, 02:42:38 pm

Is Prince the "normal" difficulty? No bonuses for the player or AI?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 12, 2016, 02:55:09 pm

Yup. Was sort of scared to play it since the last time I did I lost in an incredibly frustrating way (just suddenly realising I was behind in everything and had essentially no chance). But things went well this time!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 12, 2016, 03:01:16 pm

I do alright at that, I s'pose. I think you need a plan for what you want to do from the start, and need to know how to make some cashola while defending yourself. Don't think I've had a military victory yet, though I did have a fun time getting a diplomatic victory, and the one time I had a scientific victory I was racing against someone else trying to get a diplomatic victory. I beat them a few turns before the Congress met for the last time.

I tried King once. Only once...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 12, 2016, 03:18:13 pm

Yeah, the game where I lost I really had no idea what I was going to be doing. I guess I should try another victory on Prince next time...

I also got a really lame Pangaea continent. In my previous game (on Warlord) I got an awesome continent with a big inner sea and lots of segmentation, but this was just a huge blob with some islands to the side.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 12, 2016, 03:52:49 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 12, 2016, 01:05:08 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 12, 2016, 12:58:26 pm

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

Everything you said is true, except the not 100% sure part.  I can tell you from experience that the cry matches that of the pokemon it's disguised as. 

Another neat thing visual gender will also match the poke yer disguised as, though gender specific moves like that one that charms a poke of the opposite sex use the zoroark's actual gender instead of the disguise.   I would troll people with a "male Talonflame" using attract on other male pokemon.  Was funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 12, 2016, 04:51:17 pm

Quote from: Greiger on June 12, 2016, 03:52:49 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 12, 2016, 01:05:08 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 12, 2016, 12:58:26 pm

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

Everything you said is true, except the not 100% sure part.  I can tell you from experience that the cry matches that of the pokemon it's disguised as. 

Another neat thing visual gender will also match the poke yer disguised as, though gender specific moves like that one that charms a poke of the opposite sex use the zoroark's actual gender instead of the disguise.   I would troll people with a "male Talonflame" using attract on other male pokemon.  Was funny.

What, not a flaming Moltres (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDyRZ0c7yQ)?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 12, 2016, 04:54:23 pm

I wonder if that scene had the same connotations in the original Japanese...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 12, 2016, 06:05:03 pm

I played 7 hours of WWE 2K16 and beat the SHIT outta Kevin Owens.  Holy SHIET he is a MONSTER and with those 4 reversals it is INSANE.
Also just askin, does anyone know at what point do you get more reversals?  I had it at 76 and still had 3.

WWE 2K16

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 12, 2016, 10:32:57 pm

Completed "The Second Dream."

That is all.

Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 13, 2016, 04:30:33 am

Successfully pumped 50 tranqs into a level 120 Rex (without getting chomped), then barely managed a perfect tame (I know the game centers around multiplayer, but dear hells taming a high-level creature takes FOREVER.)

ARK: Survival Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 13, 2016, 11:52:41 pm

Created a contract solely to achieve one of the Vamlire Magician feats in Paris.

Just because I completely failed the contract by murdering 7 non-targets in an effort to get to the guy I marked while creating it doesn't mean I didn't own!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 14, 2016, 05:00:17 pm

Eight 3v3 battles in a row, and one turn to complete each. I brought in literal gods of life and death. I had a few false starts with it, largely due to the fact the 7th battle is an effective copy of my team.

But I would not be denied. Those damned overpriced noodles would be MINE.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby, Mauville Food Court. Shiny Yveltal, Shiny Xerneas, and Mawile, three setups that complimented each other nicely. Battle 7 was the real obstacle, as it's three Dittos with Imposter, which not only auto-transforms, but also copies stats as well. While I did discover Mawile can learn Flamethrower, she never needed it; the battle was all about position.

The faster Yveltal snipes a given target with Death Oblivion Wing, Xerneas group-sweeps with Dazzling Gleam, Mega-Mawile finishes off whatever straggler might survive if necessary. This worked on the Imposter team - fake!Mawile was hurt by real!Yveltal and finished off by Dazzling Gleam along with fake!Yveltal, while real!Mawile took down fake!Xerneas. The last battle, Togekiss flanked by ExtremeSpeed Lucarios, worked the same way, one Lucario fell to Oblivion Wing, the other to Dazzling Gleam, and Togekiss took Iron Head.

Even better is that during the series of battles, a Barboach and Duskull I had on hand evolved.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 14, 2016, 07:19:07 pm

Perfect tamed a 145 female rex to go with the 120 male I got earlier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on June 14, 2016, 07:41:00 pm

In other Pokémon news, I bred a perfect Swablu. Six perfect IVs on a perfect bird. It's nature is not perfect, but since it is Male, it can pass on any of those beautiful stats.

This pretty bird is going to Day-Care.

Pokemon X and Y

Edit: And now there were two male Swablus, this one having the nature I was seeking. Breeding success!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on June 14, 2016, 11:06:18 pm

The Blue Arm band was attacked by some thugs after completing it's first mission. 10 ''mercenaries'' vs 7 thugs. I opened the center of my line to provide a line of fire for the archers and let the enemy come to contact. The first shot killed a man on the spot and another one died during the turn. Not only did I have a good start but I curbstomped them. Not one of them got a hit on my men.

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Battle Brothers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 15, 2016, 06:31:31 am

Blood of the Ancient One -> Shadowcaster -> 1/1 copy of BotAO isn't particularly practical, but it is kind of funny.

Hearthstone.

Edit: Shoved the Taurus Demon off the bridge. Instant kill, neat.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on June 16, 2016, 04:28:54 pm

I got bored of my lithuania emperor runbit, so I started an official ironman of lithuania.


As a count of lithuania, I custommade a cruel spymaster and began murdering my way to the top.  I killed my liege, his son, and the chief of the county I didnt actually directly control.

Now, I have medum tribal organization, and a whole tribe to conquest with - as soon as this damn wound heals.  Stupid ironman make me nervous about not having a son or a wife.  Good wives wont come around for about 16 years.   Although there is a genus wench around lithuania somewhere, shes in every game started in charlemagne.


CKII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 16, 2016, 04:49:20 pm

Finally managed a ghost + clean hands run. The high overseer and the flooded district were probably the most troublesome, though I managed the latter with a completely counter-intuitive method of dealing with the Slackjaw vs Granny part. (Talk to her, accept her request. Run up to her room, grab all you want plus her cameo. Don't burn it. Go back down, quickly pickpocket her key and unlock Slackjaw, it'll screw with her AI. Run back up, burn the cameo, open the door with the key and close it behind you. If you do it fast enough, it won't count as being in combat.)

Dishonored

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 16, 2016, 06:18:18 pm

I killed the Caedeus. \o/

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on June 18, 2016, 09:49:57 am

Nukes are nerfed, so i decided to use flak(+pull waves) instead.

Kiterball=rip

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Istroid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ParsleyPWG on June 18, 2016, 11:30:08 am

Was defending a base for about 20 minutes stuck in a stalemate between the two sides. The enemy were hiding behind a small hill so it wasn't easy to hit them from our defensive position. Eventually thought "screw this", spawned a tank and drove right around the hill, started firing like crazy.

There were so many of them hiding there clustered together, I killed about 5-6 before they took me out. That little distraction gave everyone on my side enough time to overrun the hill and finally end the stalemate. I don't own very often, but when I do, I remember it! Game was Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 19, 2016, 08:50:49 am

Not a particular ownage, but I did discover the joy of IEDs. While they take up the pistol slot, they make quite a big boom. First mission after getting them was to blow up a fuel tank - clearly it was fate. After clearing the area, I dropped a mortar shell with a cell phone attached right next to the tank, walked back some distance, and hit the detonator. Drove off in a truck back to where I hid my buggy (opted for a stealth approach - didn't work), then used a landmine with another cell phone duct-taped to it to blow up the truck. No reason, just boom.

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Far Cry 2. Damn, could have used those on the previous mission. Blow up the attackers the second they spawn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 19, 2016, 08:56:53 am

Not exactly ownage, but a cool moment nonetheless:

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(http://orig08.deviantart.net/e966/f/2016/171/2/6/hearthstone_screenshot_06_19_16_15_25_24_by_djoze32-da6xzbj.png)

What happened was, he renounced darkness on turn two (making my job way easier because fuck zoolocks), I got a scarab on turn two and got a burgle out of it, which gave me bane of doom. I threw that on his undercity huckster which gave me a dreadsteed :D
I beat him, even when I threw down a 6/6 C'thun, simply because my board got kinda big and he couldn't really clear it all out. Was about to do a Brann+Illusion chick before he conceded to give myself another two dreadsteeds :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 19, 2016, 01:35:31 pm

Manpower, mediocre new wrestler freshly drafted into the Rising Sun Puroresu federation started very badly with a serie of losses, the worst match being against Ryo Hamma that humiliated him in less than 3 minutes (couldn't kick out of the early pin despite the keyboard mashing :D )

Then a few weeks later, a new match was scheduled for Manpower ... against his beginner nightmare , Ryo Hamma.

After being thrown out of the ring, Manpower being fed up with that thing grabbed a steel chair and started to beat down Ryo Hamma  ( that was on the ground after a failed dive as Manpower managed to recover fast)
Poor Ryo Hamma got an injury from the chair beating and nasty Manpower finally pulled a submission move on him and won the match to his own surprise !
And left the place after a couple more of strikes with the chair on the downed Ryo Hamma that was trying to get up.

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(http://i.imgur.com/Z56HkqAs.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/Z56HkqA.jpg)

...
Oh boy, i guess Manpower owned a bit too much in that match

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(http://i.imgur.com/eUfaNxMs.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/eUfaNxM.jpg)

I felt a bit sad that Giant Baba was going to miss his friend.
Though it looks like Manpower disagreed with me

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(http://i.imgur.com/iAAsCRMs.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/iAAsCRM.jpg)

What a heartless bastard, i feel ashamed of my character :D
Oh and funny anecdote is that a week earlier the public was asking the fed to turn me "face".

I guess that's not going to go smoothly anymore

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(http://i.imgur.com/Diqbc7Xs.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/Diqbc7X.jpg)

Game : Wrestling Mpire Remix (http://www.mdickie.com/downloads.htm)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 19, 2016, 01:45:16 pm

More IED love. Two assassination missions in a row, both located in the neutral town of Pala, where starting a gunfight gets a minimum two dozen guys from both factions on your ass within seconds. In both cases, I snuck up to the target, dropped the bomb, and went all way back to my vehicle at the edge of town, then boom. Easiest 20 diamonds ever.

Next mission was to steal some khat(according to the mission-giver, it's like weed and coffee in a single plant) from a farm and bring it back so we could hit that shit together. Getting blazed was inevitable, given that I burned down half the damn farm in the ensuing gun battle.

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 Malaria Simulator Far Cry 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on June 19, 2016, 05:36:23 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 19, 2016, 01:45:16 pm

Next mission was to steal some khat(according to the mission-giver, it's like weed and coffee in a single plant) from a farm and bring it back so we could hit that shit together.

That description sounds fairly accurate. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 20, 2016, 10:58:05 pm

I got to the big (well, most famous) twist of System Shock 2! Unfortunately this game is one of many that was spoiled for me years and years before I ever got a chance to play it, but the moment was still effective.

I'm pretty confident that I can beat this game, assuming that that was the halfway point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Although I'm baffled as to what purpose that room could serve, except scary AI hologram presentations. It's Polito's office, but there's nothing in there except a single desk. The screens might be used for watching security cameras, but why are they so far away? Is Polito supposed to swivel 360 degrees to look at the other monitors? Indeed, why is Polito's office a platform above a pit with a retracting hallway and walls that slide away? It's pretty egregious seeing as the rest of the spaceship is laid out in a logical, if not entirely realistic fashion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 20, 2016, 11:52:09 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/taFvaep.jpg)

Five dominations. Well and truly at the top of the scoreboard.

Goes to show how effective a communicative Heavy + Medic pair is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 21, 2016, 12:16:27 am

Playing as France, my first concern was to not immediately be rolled over by Germany.  When the war started, and it became clear that wasn't going to happen, I turned the tables and invaded the Axis.  My first major target: Italy.  After their initial invasion failed, they had pulled back most of their forces to assist Germany in the eastern front.  This turned out to be a fatal error; my trained mountaineers pushed through the alps and then my motorized infantry and armor rapidly overwhelmed their defenses.

I knew that the total Axis forces were vast, much more than I could field alone.  Guessing, correctly, that Italy proper would have few defenders, I set up a defensive line to the immediate west of Venice.  There's a river there, and on my side of the river were only 4 provinces: 1 plains, 2 mountains, and a marsh.  10 divisions, mostly mountaineers with a few normal infantry units and a small collection of light tanks, entrenched on my side of the river.  The Axis could come to Italy's aid... if they wanted to cross a river into a fortified mountain range, defended by some angry Frenchmen specifically trained to fight in that kind of terrain.  In a snowstorm.  Without air superiority.  A much larger army, including some of Italy's divisions abroad, came to cross this river.  Predictably, they did not succeed.

This left me free to conquer Italy at my leisure, which I did.  Embarrassingly fast given the distances involved.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hearts of Iron 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2016, 04:35:14 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on June 20, 2016, 10:58:05 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Although I'm baffled as to what purpose that room could serve, except scary AI hologram presentations. It's Polito's office, but there's nothing in there except a single desk. The screens might be used for watching security cameras, but why are they so far away? Is Polito supposed to swivel 360 degrees to look at the other monitors? Indeed, why is Polito's office a platform above a pit with a retracting hallway and walls that slide away? It's pretty egregious seeing as the rest of the spaceship is laid out in a logical, if not entirely realistic fashion.

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The walls don't retract. SHODAN is giving direct sensory input through your cyber-rig. As for the furniture in Polito's office, it's been too long since I've played, so I forget what Polito's actual job on the Von Braun was. System Administrator, probably. Maybe she spent most of her day watching the monitors and only used the desk for paperwork or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on June 22, 2016, 01:28:36 am

It's finally done.

(http://i.imgur.com/NZg11Zq.png)

After hours of scavenging, scanning, and wrestling sharks, I finally put together this thing. After a bit of thought, I decided to live in it; as scavenging supply crates left me with more power cells than I knew what to do with. I still have plenty of resources, enough to fill a dozen lockers really, so I could afford to plunk down a quick module in order to recharge or conduct any significant amounts of crafting. I packed up my base and moved in. Hooray for the future's 100% efficient recycling!

Of course, then I realize building a deep-water sub in the shallows wasn't exactly what you'd call the best idea. So it was a bit of a struggle getting out.

I am filled with anticipation, tempered with a nearly equal amount of sheer terror. I've never gone too far from the surface, occasional dips below 200 at most; and it gets really dark down there. I don't like the dark. Even in the shark riddled areas I could see decently. I'm rather good at stabbing sharks in the face; if I do say so myself. So far I died once, and it was to space manatee fart.

Right now, I have just entered an area with white tentacle vines growing everywhere. Outside, a giant octopus thing is poking my sides. It's so dark and murky that I can barely see a thing outside of the exterior floodlights. Why the heck is it so dark when we're not even below 300ft? Is it night already?

Suddenly message: "Night is approaching."

(http://i.imgur.com/MeyXrUD.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 22, 2016, 01:57:30 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/NE5Wh1l.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BorkBorkGoesTheCode on June 22, 2016, 01:58:15 am

Quote from: Blaze on June 22, 2016, 01:28:36 am

It's finally done.

(http://i.imgur.com/NZg11Zq.png)

After hours of scavenging, scanning, and wrestling sharks, I finally put together this thing. After a bit of thought, I decided to live in it; as scavenging supply crates left me with more power cells than I knew what to do with. I still have plenty of resources, enough to fill a dozen lockers really, so I could afford to plunk down a quick module in order to recharge or conduct any significant amounts of crafting. I packed up my base and moved in. Hooray for the future's 100% efficient recycling!

Of course, then I realize building a deep-water sub in the shallows wasn't exactly what you'd call the best idea. So it was a bit of a struggle getting out.

I am filled with anticipation, tempered with a nearly equal amount of sheer terror. I've never gone too far from the surface, occasional dips below 200 at most; and it gets really dark down there. I don't like the dark. Even in the shark riddled areas I could see decently. I'm rather good at stabbing sharks in the face; if I do say so myself. So far I died once, and it was to space manatee fart.

Right now, I have just entered an area with white tentacle vines growing everywhere. Outside, a giant octopus thing is poking my sides. It's so dark and murky that I can barely see a thing outside of the exterior floodlights. Why the heck is it so dark when we're not even below 300ft? Is it night already?

Suddenly message: "Night is approaching."

(http://i.imgur.com/MeyXrUD.png)

What game is this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on June 22, 2016, 05:16:57 am

Subnautica

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lightningfalcon on June 22, 2016, 05:36:59 am

Do you yell "Sub seven, move out!" every time you pilot it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 22, 2016, 08:00:15 am

Quote from: Lightningfalcon on June 22, 2016, 05:36:59 am

Do you yell "Sub seven, move out!" every time you pilot it?

Ogods XD
GUNIN, you're silly. ♥
(For reference: What's being referenced is Lt. Welkin Gunther from the game Valkyria Chronicles (VC1); Militia Tank Commander of Squad 7, a part of the 3rd army regiment of Gallia as far as I recall by memory alone. The tank he commands everyone from is named the Edelweiss--the only (best) tank for most of the game until later on.)

---

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Finished Homeworld 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83528.msg7040682;topicseen#msg7040682)--Capital ships make the win. Achieved the last mission with 6/3 Heavy Cruisers, 15-or-so Destroyers over the max capacity 6, and 4 Missile Destroyers. Sold my whole ~75+ assault frigate fleet, and every other frigate other than my Multi-Beam Frigates [which are slower than Destroyers by a few digits :V], still getting an over-the-capacity 35/21 frigate number, solely counting MBF's and 8 support frigates.

For humor, I tried doing the last 2 Homeworld1 missions without scrapping my fleet...and it was hell. GIGANTIC 'crosses' of Taiidan fleets spawn thanks to the difficulty calculator 'matching your fleet with an enemy fleet + a bit more', with the main problem being that right before the last mission--the enemy is in range of your Mothership, and the long line of salvaged ships take quite some time to form up (~2 minutes if you count 150+ frigates to go to Endpoint B from Endpoint A, perpendicular to the Mothership being endpoint B). The mission is doable since you only have to splat the asteroid coming for the mothership--what made it impossible to finish unless you downgrade your fleet is the last mission, which has the same theme of 'ambush the Mothership' and 'everyone has to defend the Mothership; you won't live in that 2 minutes upon hyperspace entry'.

That said, after scrapping my whole frigate fleet and still retaining 35/21, with the Capital ship category running at 25+/15, the last 2 missions are easy since the hardest they can manage on the Chapel Perilous is Destroyers, and the last mission has Heavy Cruisers that are unescorted (and thus can be captured/salvaged).

Ended the game with 150k+ RU (Resource Units) and a huge fleet.

I would like to believe the Vagyr had trouble going over these old guard remnants during the transition to Homeworld 2 even if there's no indication whatsoever of this at all. :P (They removed support frigates in Homeworld 2!! D:< Those were efficient!)

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Homeworld: Remastered

**Even in Homeworld1: Assault Frigates are good fighter/corvette splatter-ships. Only in vast numbers of the latter can the former not handle the latter, but when that point happens, the frigate is dead anyway.
I did not need to build any fighters or corvettes other than replenish my salvagers in the last 2 missions.
The Bridge of Sighs (Mission 14, 2 missions before the last) is the last area and chance you have to salvage your fleet without continuous losses to play by the difficulty scaler. If you have enough Capital ships--capturing any ion frigates is just a time sink if you don't plan to use them in the future even if they have 2x the attack power {760~ vs 380~} (since you can't recycle captured ships in the same mission).
Doing any salvaging of your fleet at M15 with the current numbers above maximum will get you lots of trouble, contextually. Mostly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 22, 2016, 10:29:59 am

I FINALLY got a Brach Gem.

I've been using a Brachydios light bowgun which needed one of these to upgrade to Rarity 6 (under the name "demolition gun" which is just plain badass) which would unlock some more rounds which were more damaging than the ones I've been using, give me the ability to remove the limiter (essentially allowing you to load all your ammo at the same time at the cost of speed and efficiency) and generally give the gun's overall strength a boost. I've been farming for one for three fucking days and I finally got one of them just yesterday. Not really an ownage since all I needed to do was keep praying to RNGesus and hope that I finally got one, but the feeling of satisfaction is still there.

Also, it glows orange now. That's cool.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 22, 2016, 05:27:46 pm

Made a Footman's Shield.

Spoiler: What that requires (click to show/hide)

The recipe for the shield is the same as a Kite Shield, but requires a higher skill level and a separate recipe: 1 small umbo, 6 pine planks(no other planks work), 2 leather strap w/buckle, 1 tanned leather, and some short nails, I forgot how many. And tools are needed as well.

Small Umbo: made from 1 small metal sheet and either coal(mined) or wood billets(crafted from wood logs), which is in turn made from iron grivnas which is made from lumps of iron, which is in turn made from metal ore that can be treated beforehand to have a greater overall output.

Pine planks are, naturally, made from pine logs.

Leather straps w/buckle: made from leather strap and a buckle. No seriously. can also be randomly looted from town chests
 - Leather strap: Requires a tanned leather(same type as the one for the shield, see below) and beeswax, which is harvested from beehives.
 - Buckle: made from steel wire, which requires a semi-hard steel ingot, which requires iron grivnas and charcoal. I already spoke of how to get grivnas.

Tanned leather: Requires deer, wolf, or boar hide, acquired from the corpse of the appropriate animal of course(I used boar, least dangerous - haven't met any deer). Boar can be used for large leather while wolf(an fox) can be used for small leather, but the middle one is required. Hide must be crafted into fleshed hide. Fleshed wolf hide(and fox) can be tanned for fur which doesn't sell very well for some reason, and doesn't help here. Instead, the fleshed hide must be turned into a stretched hide, which requires a bucket of water and slaked lime.

 - Slaked lime comes from quicklime(and a bucket of water), which comes from calciferous rock(mined from limestone) and coal/billets.
 - After stretched hide, tannin and sawdust are added to make the tanned leather.
 - Tannin is made from bucket of water, bark(from gathering logs), and coal/billets.

Short nails come from semi-hard steel ingot, just like the wire for the buckle.

The "tools" item can be bought from the food merchant at the front gate of the starter town(for Midlanders, anyway. Not sure where the Ismirs' trader is).

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Gloria Victis.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 22, 2016, 06:56:09 pm

Today, I captured two goblins by accident. They were part of a raiding party that was passing through, and their comrades left them behind. Except one.

One goblin scaled the 10-z tall cliff to my pastures, the only way in to the fortress. He made it up completely unnoticed all by his lonesome, apparently trying to path to his friends armed with a shortsword. He was then immediately stomped to death by a common sheep.

All hail the sheep. He owned today.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on June 23, 2016, 08:54:54 am

Holy hell.

Just completed a "haul jet engine X to altitude Y at speed Z" contract in KSP.
I managed this by strapping the jet between 4 SRBs and launching it like a rocket.

How is this an own you ask?
I lost my right wing when I decoupled the boosters.
I then managed to complete the contract with a stricken craft AND THEN FLEW IT SAFELY INTO THE SEA.
Most of the mission was spent using the remaining wing as the most oversized tailplane ever while relying on the ACTUAL tailplanes and the jet's gimbal to keep altitude. There was much skimming at 90 m/s right above the water hoping it would keep flying long enough to slow down, and it did.

Valentina did NOT die this day, and now has the record for "most kerbal landing yet"

Kerbal Space Program, naturally.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 26, 2016, 07:50:13 am

The 110th Cadian regiment and the Order of the Ardent Flame were teamed against the Ork Blood Axes and the Black Legion. The map was split into two team-sided halves, with two choke points on either side(one for each teammate on each team). Bolter bitches got to play with the Orks, while we were stuck holding off heretic attacks.

Actually managed to get a decent enough force at my chokepoint that I was able to flank an Ork breakthrough and support the Sisters, then turn my troops right back around and flank a Chaos incursion that tried to take advantage of the troop movement. My whole force was nearly wiped out, but the traitors were pushed back hard enough that I had time to rebuild with several Kasrkin squads, Leman Russ and Thunderer/Laser Destroyer tanks, and a battalion of Basilisk artillery. Not even the daemon-possessed tanks that the heretics had spawned were a match for the armor of the Imperium.

As I was slowly grinding traitors beneath the tracks, I saw that the Sisters of Battle had already punched hard into the Orks' territory, closing in on their base. Even after they lost their main settlement, there was a Big Mek that managed to keep fighting for several minutes.

I stopped outside the Black Legion's main base, shelling it with artillery. While I probably could have charged forth and burned it to the ground, I built up instead so I could deploy a titan, just for giggles.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War: Ultimate Apocalypse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 26, 2016, 09:00:00 pm

Wow, Arthur should have come to La-Mulana cause The Holy Grail was right here the whole time!
It kinda makes me wonder what I'll find next if The Holy Grail was only 40 minutes into the game...


La-Mulana Remake

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 26, 2016, 10:19:47 pm

Whoops wrong thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 27, 2016, 12:18:24 am

3-on-3 pubs.

My team won 18-0

Rocket League

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on June 27, 2016, 01:38:09 pm

It only took 70 shurikens, but the first boss of La-Mulana is defeated!  Now, to tackle the second area...

La-Mulana Remake

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 27, 2016, 08:08:31 pm

My Froslass, whom I named La Saia, entered into the Master Rank Toughness Contest Spectacular. The Toughness division of the Contest Spectacular is generally dominated by bulky Fighting- and Normal-type Pokemon and moves.

La Saia got pretty good marks compared to her opponents. The fourth turn had them all except La Saia making some silly moves, setting her up for the final turn where she pulled off a Special Talent while simultaneously blocking the next-highest scorer from acting via Torment. Final scoreboard showed her score bar all the full(which always happens for the winner, if I recall), while the next highest scorer - the Slaking I blocked in the last turn - showing about 75%-80% full, a significant lead.


All those Fighting- and Normal-types, and they couldn't touch her. ;)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 28, 2016, 04:59:35 am

I managed to create a successful helicopter insertion and subsequent urban siege in the editor, with no prior experience.

The editor is pretty scary at first and the abstracted map view makes it literally impossible to place things precisely. However, it's also pretty easy to create some neat troop movements when you have the wiki open.

ARMA, and by extension ARMA II and OFP as they all use the same damn editor with more or less scripting functions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 28, 2016, 04:55:52 pm

Was playing Mizzix EDH and managed to fly under the radar for most of the game. I was sitting to the right of the control player (we play clockwise) so I usually didn't have to worry about counters. The board got wiped a lot and even the Kaalia player didn't get much board presence. Then I revealed a Mizzix's Mastery on the top of my deck with Melek, Izzet Paragon and suddenly I was the only player with any creatures (because I stole them all).

This is why I love playing Mizzix. When the deck works, it works beautifully.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magic: the gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on June 29, 2016, 03:06:44 am

Man, this game is easy with a double digit frame rate.

Dark Souls. Well, not easy per se but a lot more so than with single figures. :P

Took down whatever that giant armoured boar is bloodlessly. By standing on the bridge above it and shooting it in the armoured (?) rump for massive damage. Easy game!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on June 29, 2016, 11:28:03 am

You won't have as much luck with the next one.
Also,
What did I do? What did he say? What? I made some brouzof during the process, though, so this is a victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EYE, Divine Cybermancy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on June 29, 2016, 01:17:45 pm

Quote from: Lukewarm on June 29, 2016, 11:28:03 am

I made some brouzof

Divine Cybermancy is so good.

You gain Brozouf
You gain Brozouf
You gain Brozouf
Your legs are OK

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on June 29, 2016, 02:38:53 pm

Decided to try a dumb sentry gun build, and just used my Maniac perk deck because its the best deck I have for loud.

Turns out that with scavenger aced, sentries earn their ammo back with ease. And they are great at keeping up hysteria stacks. Any heist where you have to hold a position for a long time this build works far better than it has any right to. The only disadvantage is that you sort of have to walk into enemy territory to collect ammo, but with the insane tankiness you (and your entire team) gets from hysteria stacks, that's not that much of a problem.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on June 29, 2016, 03:27:13 pm

Spoiler: Haters gonna hate. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/rEB6lol.png)

It may kill me in two hits, but only if I don't kill it first.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 29, 2016, 04:13:05 pm

Game is Salt and Sanctuary since they forgot again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on June 29, 2016, 04:16:52 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 29, 2016, 04:13:05 pm

Game is Salt and Sanctuary since they forgot again.

No Blaze just never puts it up. He does it on purpose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 29, 2016, 11:41:00 pm

After failing to find myself a team who could help me challenge Dalamadur so I could raise my HR to 8, I decided I'd just take the opportunity to fight some regular monsters with other people, since I'm used to soloing multiplayer missions and it'd be a nice change of pace.

I joined someone else's game, a Charge Blade user. I was using my Light Bowgun, another person was using an Insect Glaive and another was using a Greatsword. We challenged a Silver Rathalos.

Working with a team which actually knows what it's doing and works as a team is fucking amazing. To start off, I shot Crag S into the Rathalos' head, eventually stunning it and creating an opening for the others to attack. Not long after, the IG user jumped up onto its back and did a mounting attack, creating yet another opening for the CB and GS to attack relentlessly before the monster had hardly any chance to react. As soon as it got up from that, someone else used a flashbomb, blinding it and creating yet another opening. Eventually, all of us attacking the monster's armor nonstop allowed us to damage it in quite a few places, creating plenty of weak spots for us to continue attacking until the monster died. What took me 30 minutes to kill by myself took all of us less than 5 minutes to kill together.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Kicking ass as part of a team is insanely fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Boltgun on June 30, 2016, 07:18:14 am

12 pounder status: REKT

The only heal was from the arbalest and I did not even get a death door. The houndmaster bled the matchman at every turn with some stunning support, then guarded the wounded during the final cleanup.

He also ate the hag, guarded against the prophet and the swine prince, removed prot from enemies on the way to the siren, stress healed in front of the necromancer, and opened a fine meat market after meeting the flesh.

The houndmaster is the best class of the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Darkest Dungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 30, 2016, 09:36:19 am

Oh, so that's an Imperator Titan. *watches as Tau base is vaporized from halfway across a 6-player-sized map in under a minute*


Took nearly an hour to build it, though.

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Dawn of War: Ultimate Apocalypse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 30, 2016, 11:11:48 am

Instead of fighting seriously, I decided I'd just make one retarded movement and watch what happened. As my opponent prepared an attack, I bent over forwards in preperation. Just as he got close to me, I straightned up as quick as I could and slammed my crotch into him with a mighty thrust. I fell backwards, and as my arms were already stretched out to the sides with my chest forwards, I caught myself with the backs of my hands and kept my body off the ground. I lay there as my opponent reeled back from my powerful pelvic pounding, struggling to stand, and eventually falling out of the ring. He insulted me, saying "what a fucking noob move" and ragequitting so fast that my head spun.

Toribash

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on June 30, 2016, 11:32:54 am

Nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 30, 2016, 11:57:50 am

IronTomato confirmed for balls of literal steel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on June 30, 2016, 01:37:14 pm

Badasha Adum was a god among men. Beloved by his peers, a 23-point brilliant tactician, and owner of a mighty demense, he never dealt with a revolt in his life, pulling 10k troops out of 9 counties, and hiring mercenaries with his signifigant 47-gold a month cash input. He came into power in his early 30s, as a result of the ridiculously long-lived Sultan Adum, who outlived his first pair of sons and at 70 years old had to wage a campaign against the Norse and lead all his armies into battle before finally succumbing to death. Badasha Adum saw the Marrakeshian conquest of Ireland and the Invasion of Scotland before dying a maimed cripple at the age of 63.
If Badasha Adum was a man's man, his successor, also Badasha Adum, was not. He's stupid, and ugly, and I'm not sure which is worse. However, being an ugly stupid hunchback did not stop him from staging the Invasion of Mercia, securing the Marrakeshian sultanate of England, and securing all of the United Kingdom except a few independent counties that will be dealt with when his threat level falls and the Viceroy of Ireland stops revolting every two years before being defeated and killed.

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on June 30, 2016, 08:37:54 pm

Have gotten to the 1950s with my company Proletarian Autos, on a lark I decided to develop a steam engine, 100 horsepower one, then decided to put it into a station wagon. Which is now selling like hot cakes, up to 50k sold a month.  People just fucking love their steam powered station wagon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GearCity

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 01, 2016, 05:00:32 am

Mindgames put a Reno into the battlefield. Okay, Reno warrior. That's unusual. Some time later, Mind Vision puts a Gorehowl into my hand. Niice. Incidentally, that saves me from losing. Some time later, the Gorehowl gives me the last five face damage I need after a Malygos combo. I'd love to say I won on good play, but...

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 01, 2016, 10:03:44 am

So I was stuck in a medium-high security prison. Plenty of guards, k9s and metal detectors everywhere. The doors were mostly electronically operated, just as icing on the cake. As such it was difficult to steal and hide anything for an escape attempt, so I putzed around a little bit, beating up furniture and/or people for points. And then I realized that you could just walk out of the place. :v

You see, while all of the doors were electronically operated, the creator of the prison never declared that the part of the prison where trucks and the like would come in was off-limits to prisoners. But once you got there you were stuck, since the guards were smart enough not to open any more doors for you... But the gates that allowed the trucks to come in were on timers. Very short timers that caused traffic to back up. Which meant that the last gate was stuck open, thanks to the traffic blocking it. Traffic which I would just walk past, through the open gate, and out to freedom.

Not the best-designed prison I've ever seen, honestly.

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Prison Architect. I got it on the Steam sale, and it's been pretty good so far. The campaign could be a bit longer though. Having some more structured missions would be absolutely wonderful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on July 01, 2016, 11:50:10 am

Ooh, I should get that!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 01, 2016, 04:47:33 pm

Several of Joker's goons were holding some doctors hostage, five in all wielding automatic weapons. After surveying the area from on high, I dropped one goon in an isolated corner of the room silently. The next I performed an hanging take-down, suspending him from the stone effigy I was sitting on. He drew the attentions of two of them while the third stayed in a corner. That one got taken out silently. The remaining two decided their buddy could just stay there. After taking a second to examine my options, I threw a Batarang at the furthest goon, and quickly pulled a silent take-down on the other. As the guy I hit with the Batarang was just getting up, I put him back down with a ground take-down.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 01, 2016, 05:26:15 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on July 01, 2016, 10:03:44 am

So I was stuck in a medium-high security prison. Plenty of guards, k9s and metal detectors everywhere. The doors were mostly electronically operated, just as icing on the cake. As such it was difficult to steal and hide anything for an escape attempt, so I putzed around a little bit, beating up furniture and/or people for points. And then I realized that you could just walk out of the place. :v

You see, while all of the doors were electronically operated, the creator of the prison never declared that the part of the prison where trucks and the like would come in was off-limits to prisoners. But once you got there you were stuck, since the guards were smart enough not to open any more doors for you... But the gates that allowed the trucks to come in were on timers. Very short timers that caused traffic to back up. Which meant that the last gate was stuck open, thanks to the traffic blocking it. Traffic which I would just walk past, through the open gate, and out to freedom.

Not the best-designed prison I've ever seen, honestly.

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Prison Architect. I got it on the Steam sale, and it's been pretty good so far. The campaign could be a bit longer though. Having some more structured missions would be absolutely wonderful.

if all doors are remote doors just punch some power generators and laugh as guards can't go anywhere anymore, then burn down the entire prison.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 01, 2016, 06:18:18 pm

Managed to get to Stage five packing four lives. Managed to get to Patchouli with only one life lost[Freaking gatlang petals]. Finally figured out how to dodge her lasers[Focus, follow laser and then go up and right a little bit to dodge her targetted bullets before the other laser hits] and only died once to them[Got cocky and tried to collect score tiles and the laser spawned right on me]. Lost another life to Emerald Megalith, because one bullet was hiding inside a larger bullet. Got to my nemesis, KNOIFE MAID and had yet another rematch. Halfway through a barrage, I had an epiphany: I don't need to dodge the knoifes, I need to dodge the shape that the knoifes are IN. The epiphany cost me a life, but I successfully finished the mid-boss fight[For the first time] and even got through the rest of Stage 5 unharmed[Although burning a few bombs]. Then I finally learned KNOIFE MAID's name and proceeded to challenge her to a duel to the death for her position of chief maid while badass music began playing. Her attacks[At least at first] weren't terribly difficult to evade. Its actually quite easy to weave around arrow lines while remaining inside knoife spokes. One spell sign, that summoned blue AND yellow knoifes in addition to red arrows, I had to Master Spark through. Turns out Master Spark is even MORE ridiculous then usual against Sakuya because of how it interacts with her time freezing. I struggled through that, expecting it to be her last hurrah. haha nope she still had more knoifes

i ran out of doges before she ran out of knoifes

But at least I got a new high score of over five million~! And learned valuable lessons for the future~!

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on July 02, 2016, 04:49:42 pm

130ish BC. The world is split evenly between the 3 great Roman Houses and Egypt - all other once great tribes and nations have fallen by the acts of one of the 4 great powers. The Brutii rule over Eastern Europe and Near East. The Scipii Have North Africa, Italy and the Med islands and I, as the Julii, hold North, Central and West Europe. Egypt have the Middle East and Far East. The world has settled to a dull peace. Suddenly, without warning, The Scipii settlements all across the North African coast erupt into a Gladiator Uprising. Many thousands of elite gladiators take up arms and lay waste to their former masters. Ever the opportunist, I ship my own forces over the Med, landing in huge numbers from Tunis to the Nile. The Gladiators that survived the initial violent rebellion stand no chance against the masses of experienced and well equipped legions I land, and by 120 BC the uprising is put down in its entirety. As the dust settles, a count shows I hold an extra 20 provinces. The senate start kissing my ass, the Scipii think I have saved them from obliteration, and the plebain masses think I am a god. Not a bad decades work.

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R:TW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 02, 2016, 06:57:12 pm

Had one dwarf army with a generic lord (level 6) and a bunch of wounded stacks attacked by two stacks lead by Mannfred (level 10!) and a generic vampire (he died, so I can't look now). Only early-game units around, which meant that Mannfred was a killing machine. Lost a lot of men, but still a victory. Too bad his capital has a garrison with midgame units, or I'd take the opportunity to remove him from the game.

Total War:hammer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 02, 2016, 07:10:53 pm

Finally beat Dalamadur after getting a good team together. It's way easier when you have enough people to actually do a significant amound of damage. After beating him, I expected my HR to go to 8, but instead it shot way the hell up to 54 for some reason which is just amazing. I am happy.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 02, 2016, 10:22:33 pm

I haven't gotten to G-Rank yet, but if that was the quest to do so that's why. Before G-Rank your HR is set, but you're still getting points for it even if you don't rank up. So when you *do* get to G-Rank, there's a level jump.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 03, 2016, 04:19:14 pm

Got off to a bad start losing a life to a Stage 2 mook, but defeated the second boss Cir-no problem. X key stuck against Hong and I lost another life, but even the dreaded blitz windmill swarms didn't hurt me again. Patchouli pulled a Dr. Seuss and red-fish blue-fished me during a laser pass for another life, but even a master of all the elements ain't got nothing on Master Spark. I powered through their spell cards with bombs, basically. Even KNOIFE MAID wasn't too too bad, especially once I realized that her green knoifes were her altering the trajectory of previously placed knives and not spawning NEW knoifes. I ended up on Stage 6 with one life and one bomb. Stage 6 is apparently really short and the enemies are way weaker then the Stage 4 enemies. KNOIFE MAId showed up for a re-match[Third time's the charm] and surprised me by unleashing an absurd barrage of normal projectiles instead of using her signature bladed objects. That lost me a life, but I Master Sparked her into submission too and confronted her mistress. Remilia Scarlet, truth be told, is an adorable vampiric wimp. She disgorges large volleys of scarlet death, yes, but they're not very difficult to avoid. Somewhere in between Hong and Patchouli in difficulty. That said, I had no lives left and only two bombs. Plus my hands were shaking from a combination of stress, fatigue and excitement. I got hella slain. The own here is that I saw the final boss for the first time.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on July 03, 2016, 10:42:04 pm

The Egyptians decided to camelcharge the gate to my city. I have 4 colosseums mass-producing gladiators right outside my gate. When I noticed the camel charge, I brought all my gladiators inside my walls and moved my multishot catapults right inside. As the camels attacked the colesseums and the gate, I opened the gate where the 2 catapults blasted holes in their formation and took a chunk out of all the enemy unit's HP. Did I mention gladiators are 'special spear infantry' which get more powerful vs injured opponents? Well, they are. And the camel riders, now thoroughly injured from the catapults, were obliterated. In addition I had archers sitting on the walls? My hero was full of stamina too, so I could have gone hero mode on the camels.


Rise and Fall, Civilisations at War.


Unfortunately, when I pushed forward to their base, they had swordsmen waiting for my gladiators and I had advanced with no artillery support. Plus they had naval supremacy so I had to fend off a trireme here or there.

I ALSO had to fight endgame scythe chariots from the Persians. Fun times.

After playing both games, I have decided thusly: Age of Empires is like Rise and Fall in the same way that a McDonalds is like a restaurant. 5000 unit cap compared to AoE's 250(?). Plus, catapult-spam is actually counterable in RaF, You can actually put units on walls and in towers (in AoE2 they can chill in the towers, but even if you add archers to them there's no effect. In RaF archers can climb ladders up to the top of a tower). There are three ships: galleys, biremes and triremes. You can board enemy ships with soldiers. RaF's such a better game and FREE, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RickRollYou2 on July 04, 2016, 06:30:00 am

Turns out, Face Hunter works pretty well before rank 16  ??? who knew



Hearthstone

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 04, 2016, 06:39:28 am

Wrecked the Nargacuga. Adept-style is seriously OP, and Adept Hammer is really fun.

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Monster Hunter Generations demo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 04, 2016, 07:07:29 am

Taurus Demon is damned close to dead, but so am I. Got a touch greedy and got clobbered one extra. Flee backwards as fast as I can, chuck a throwing knife. Lethal. Nice! Turns out I was on 6 HP.

Killed the Taurus Demon first time that run. Pretty nice.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on July 04, 2016, 08:46:10 pm

Using Akvasto in Warframe, dual revolvers with 6 shots each. Bullet-jumped over a group of Grineer, and managed to drop one with every bullet. Emptied both clips, and reloaded as I hit the ground. All of them were dead. It felt like something out of an action movie, where the protagonist guns through a heap of mooks with absurdly precise automatic fire, only with a western theme.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 06, 2016, 07:44:13 am

Quote from: ArchAIngel on July 04, 2016, 08:46:10 pm

Using Akvasto in Warframe, dual revolvers with 6 shots each. Bullet-jumped over a group of Grineer, and managed to drop one with every bullet. Emptied both clips, and reloaded as I hit the ground. All of them were dead. It felt like something out of an action movie, where the protagonist guns through a heap of mooks with absurdly precise automatic fire, only with a western theme.

As a Warframe player myself, I salute you.

In any case, I haven't the skill (or frame rate) conceivably do that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on July 06, 2016, 07:50:36 am

12 Grineer killed within what, 2 seconds? I salute thee

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 06, 2016, 12:44:00 pm

I was trying to recruit a monster for some Jolly Cooperation pokemon style.

Quote from: The conversation(paraphrased)

Griffon: ME HUNGRY! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Me: "Eat yourself."
Griffon: THAT GOOD IDEA! *nom*
Griffon: ......
Griffon: AWOOOOOOON!
*griffon dies*

My goal was to recruit it not kill it, but I should probably revise my recruiting checklist to make sure my candidates are smarter than a pineapple.   After all, a pineapple is smart enough not to eat itself.

Megaten 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 06, 2016, 12:50:20 pm

Demon negotiation is confusing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 02:32:52 pm

So, I'm fighting Ornstein and smough and I've got a build Which hasn't hit its goal point yet, so I'm kind of a weak fighter (besides crossbow hits) once I run out of lightning spears. I kited the two golems at the entrance to death by plunge attack on the stairs and I've got solaire with me, and we managed to kill smough easily enough before sol lost half his health. At this point, I'm out of sunlight spears, so I have to use my crossbow and PRAY that solaire doesn't go down. Well, solaire went down thanks to dunkstein's thunderass, and I managed to get off only a few more shots with the crossbow after that, spending the rest of the time getting impaled between strikes from my weak-ass winged spear. At this point, I'm' hurt, out of estus, and being pressured to hell. Then I notice ornstein's only got a sliver of health, so I rush in for the kill. I swing and get hit hard, thinking that's it for me, but that tiny hit was enough to kill him and I'm left with just 17 hp and no estus, victorious and ready to cap off this build by crafting the dragons layer spear. Words cannot describe how amazed I was.

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dark souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on July 06, 2016, 02:37:48 pm

Quote from: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 02:32:52 pm

So, I'm fighting Ornstein and smough and I've got a build Which hasn't hit its goal point yet, so I'm kind of a weak fighter (besides crossbow hits) once I run out of lightning spears. I kited the two golems at the entrance to death by plunge attack on the stairs and I've got solaire with me, and we managed to kill smough easily enough before sol lost half his health. At this point, I'm out of sunlight spears, so I have to use my crossbow and PRAY that solaire doesn't go down. Well, solaire went down, and I managed to get off only a few more shots with the crossbow after that, spending the rest of the time getting impaled between strikes from my weak-ass winged spear. At this point, I'm' hurt, out of estus, and being pressured to hell. Then I notice ornstein's only got a sliver of health, so I rush in for the kill. I swing and get hit hard, thinking that's it for me, but that tiny hit was enough to kill him and I'm left with just 17 hp and no estus, victorious and ready to cap off this build by crafting the dragons layer spear. Words cannot describe how amazed I was.

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dark souls.

...out of curiosity, how high are your STR and DEX?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 04:03:04 pm

Quote from: BlitzDungeoneer on July 06, 2016, 02:37:48 pm

...out of curiosity, how high are your STR and DEX?

In that order, 20ish and 25. It was passable against the Berenike knight in the painted world of Ariamis (which I like to refer to as the painful world of anal rammus)
 But short of plunge attacks it couldn't beat those cleric golems before they heal themselves. Maybe it's just because I was too fat to get around the shields in time, but either way, even at +10, it just didn't get through fatboy and slim's armor well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on July 06, 2016, 04:39:44 pm

Quote from: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 04:03:04 pm

Quote from: BlitzDungeoneer on July 06, 2016, 02:37:48 pm

...out of curiosity, how high are your STR and DEX?

In that order, 20ish and 25. It was passable against the Berenike knight in the painted world of Ariamis (which I like to refer to as the painful world of anal rammus)
 But short of plunge attacks it couldn't beat those cleric golems before they heal themselves. Maybe it's just because I was too far to get around the shields in time, but either way, even at +10, it just didn't get through fatboy and slim's armor well.

Dunno why your damage is so low, then. Spears aren't exactly the strongest weapons around, but they SHOULD be dealing alright damage with those stats in theory. 334 AR according to Mugenmonkey, in fact.
It's probably your damage type, tbh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 06, 2016, 04:46:31 pm

>leveling dex

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 07:59:03 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 06, 2016, 04:46:31 pm

>leveling dex

Not to start a flame war, but dex builds get crazy damage if balanced right, plus the weapons you'll be using will be gold pine resin-able and bows will lay down insane damage at range with basically no ammo limit. Plus, small shields (buckler especially) absolutely shit on big slow str weapons. Get riposted, giantdads. Oh, and then there's extra crit damage on rapiers and daggers!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 06, 2016, 08:24:41 pm

i know, i was overusing an overused meme about dex being shit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ironsnake345 on July 06, 2016, 09:09:11 pm

God dammit, I should've known that!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 07, 2016, 08:10:08 pm

Played using the "Zorro" playstyle (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500699233), made by "Senor Zorro."

I actually did pretty well on Break Bad, even though I was still getting killed frequently.

Fistful of Frags.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on July 07, 2016, 08:13:54 pm

Brass Beast heavy in Mann v. Machine. Maxed out fire rate and ammunition capacity with two ranks of penetration. Awesome support medic kept me at ~750 health most of the time, while keeping the rest of the team alive and raising anybody who went down. He was using the Kritzkrieg. For the majority of the game, the killfeed was full of critical brass beast kills, with one life alone bringing me up to 90 kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 07, 2016, 10:08:10 pm

Quote from: Amperzand on July 07, 2016, 08:13:54 pm

Brass Beast heavy in Mann v. Machine. Maxed out fire rate and ammunition capacity with two ranks of penetration. Awesome support medic kept me at ~750 health most of the time, while keeping the rest of the team alive and raising anybody who went down. He was using the Kritzkrieg. For the majority of the game, the killfeed was full of critical brass beast kills, with one life alone bringing me up to 90 kills.

Was this before or after the change in how the damage reduction works?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on July 07, 2016, 10:09:14 pm

Before the most recent update, just this morning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 08, 2016, 02:32:02 pm

/me quietly fistpumps.

Finally killed that son of a succubus. Standing on top of the arch plugging it with fire arrows felt really good. As did hacking its knees out. As did looting that damn key to the depths.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 08, 2016, 03:14:08 pm

enjoy the gaping dragon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 08, 2016, 10:22:05 pm

_{But gaping Dragon is way easier. 95% of the fight can be summarized as 'Don't stand in front of the giant dragon, you moron'. The fight is far less bullshit than the Kappa Demon. Just like almost all boss fights which don't involve more than one enemy to deal with.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 08, 2016, 10:37:42 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on July 08, 2016, 10:22:05 pm

_{But gaping Dragon is way easier. 95% of the fight can be summarized as 'Don't stand in front of the giant dragon, you moron'. The fight is far less bullshit than the Kappa Demon. Just like almost all boss fights which don't involve more than one enemy to deal with.}

You can also engage in jolly cooperation with your favorite sunbro and his asshole friend, which helps a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 09, 2016, 01:06:21 pm

Got off to a bad start, with two lives lost in Stage 2 and 3 to mooks. Dunked Hong with no bombs[Which I still can't do to CIRNO] and got through the hell that is Stage 4 with only a few bombs used. Patchouli was her usual attrition-incarnate self and I ended up at Stage 5 with only one extra life. My hands promptly spasmed me into another mook, costing me another life. And here the *own* commences. I wrecked mid-boss KNOIFE MAID[Which is where my games like this usually end] with only one bomb used and got to the end of the stage, after losing a life and two bombs to jitterfingers and mooks. So I'm facing Sakuya[Hardest boss in the game] with no lives, one bomb and hands vibrating from stress and excitement. I then proceed to not only dodge her every move perfectly, but also get a new high score in the process. I did die to her final Spell Card, mainly because I was looking at my score and waiting for it to hit six million and give me an extra life and not at her copius knoifes. Turns out, when she uses Marionnette, her knoife redirection doesn't just apply to the knoifes she's JUST shot at you. She can grab a knoife already on the screen[Often from right behind you] and then aim it at your back. Usually I Master Spark through Marionnette, so I'd never noticed that before. I noticed it right after Sakuya remotely backstabbed me in her death throes.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 09, 2016, 05:17:10 pm

Defeated the Gleaming Society at level 10 on normal difficulty. Many confusions spells were cast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhMsLN64aU).

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Pillars of Perpetuity: The White March

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on July 09, 2016, 10:05:56 pm

After over week's worth of effort, culminating in roughly ~8 hours of grinding today, I reached legend rank. And with less than two days remaining in the season! Now to not touch PvP for another month.  :D

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Guild Wars 2. Ended up with 130 games played, 85 won this season, almost entirely as a Corruption Necro or Auramancer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 10, 2016, 01:33:43 pm

Gaapdraak down. That was actually really easy once I stopped getting slapped by new moves I hadn't seen before. And once I started using Gold Resin. And you know what that means? I can switch off hard mode, because now I can afford a Purging Stone! Sorry, whoever you were. Seems a shame, but I guess you're already dead.

Also, +8 Longsword. Mmm. Delicious violence. Delicious efficient violence.

But hard mode continues because I'm still leveling dex. :P

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 10, 2016, 01:40:12 pm

>not broadsword

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 10, 2016, 01:47:00 pm

Quote from: Arx on July 10, 2016, 01:33:43 pm

But hard mode continues because I'm still leveling dex. :P

If you are going with dex, you are better off with things like an estoc or rapier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 10, 2016, 01:50:40 pm

Quote from: Teneb on July 10, 2016, 01:47:00 pm

Quote from: Arx on July 10, 2016, 01:33:43 pm

But hard mode continues because I'm still leveling dex. :P

If you are going with dex, you are better off with things like an estoc or rapier.

I know, the movesets just don't work for me for some reason. Probably not even a rational one.

It also grinds my gears that they chose the estoc of all thrusting swords to slash as well. It doesn't even have an edge. A rapier would make much more sense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 10, 2016, 02:10:12 pm

 As far as Dex builds go, Falchion apparently makes everything easy mode. So get yourself the Falchion in the area you're heading to next (it's somewhere near the bottom, don't remember exactly where and I'm trying to avoid spoilers so I'm not being specific anyway). Buff it, two-hand it (unless you need to parry), and R1 spam your way to the end of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RexMundi on July 10, 2016, 06:19:53 pm

5 kills and lived. T-70 Mastery:ace tanker get.
World of tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 10, 2016, 08:02:26 pm

The lag on the Falchion is absolutely disgusting until you're used to it, and that will be a while.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Broseph Stalin on July 11, 2016, 01:53:50 am

I'm playing the Guild II Renaissance and my dynasty is based out of a small town with much larger towns to the north and south. In the dead of the night I send a fleet of ox carts to buy up all the wood and charcoal in both neighboring towns. While that's going on a bunch of prostitutes from my little corner of the world show up in the market places and start offering free samples of spiked booze. Then suddenly there's two explosions, the woodcutters shacks that supply all of the wood and charcoal on the map are firebombed and everybody in a position to care is stumbling around drunk. I capture both shacks and instead of having them sell their products I set up trade routes to have all of the goodness stored in a warehouse guarded by axe wielding maniacs. The regional economy now belongs to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 11, 2016, 07:41:45 am

shot from offscreen

shot by an enemy hiding under a bush i didnt know you could pass through

decided to take a melee weapon to the next stage which was filled with fat guys

level with 500000 dogs and just as many guns as every other level in this game

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hotline miami 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ThtblovesDF on July 11, 2016, 08:08:28 am

While the style & storytelling is still there, Hotline2 really failed on many of the gameplay aspects that made the first great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 11, 2016, 08:37:18 am

wait wrong thread whoops.

anyway, fuck this level. how can anybody even think up a level wherein the only way to progress is guarded by another, window-separated room with two gun enemies. IN THE LEVEL THAT YOU CAN ONLY PLAY AS TONY. WHY

the worst fucking part is, i cant quit unless i want to replay every other shitty level that came before in this act later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 11, 2016, 05:13:52 pm

Shot my way through a crappy fanfic, killing Nyteblayde with a shotgun round to the balls. Given how things went, I'd say that's a fitting end.

Then I declared the crappy fanfic to be canon.

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Saints' Row IV, Matt's loyalty mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 12, 2016, 02:55:19 am

Spoiler: I Ripped Off Cthulhu's Arms (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/s4YDQZv.jpg)

I still died, but I consider it a win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 12, 2016, 03:06:42 am

Quote from: tryrar on November 14, 2015, 09:39:06 am

JFC blaze, you ALWAYS forget the game name, so:



(http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/import/2013/images/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 12, 2016, 08:02:09 am

Killed Quelaag on my second try, easily. The only reason I didn't get her on my first try was not having large arrows on me. Thanks to leveling dex, my righteous +3 longbow has made huge chunks of Blighttown easy.

Minor own: It feels good to headshot a running target at long range.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 12, 2016, 08:11:00 am

Casual Matchmaking takes an irritatingly long time to find an actual match. Eh, Valve'll improve on it soon enough... in Valve Time...

At any rate, the system seems to prefer putting players into matches that are starting as opposed to matches already going on. Several members of our own team, during the match (KOTH Harvest) wound up getting disconnected due to inactivity. Things degraded into a 6-12. I was the Medic, so I was dying especially quickly under the combined fire of up to six people at once.

Then one of the good players went Heavy.

We won the next round, and thus the match.

Team Fortress 2. I think the thing I dislike the most/would want to change the most about Meet your Match is the long waiting times. Obviously, I'd want to make them shorter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: 94dima94 on July 12, 2016, 09:43:01 am

Quote from: Akura on July 11, 2016, 05:13:52 pm

Then I declared the crappy fanfic to be canon.

You forgot the best part: the fanfic is canon and the author is now THE ONLY AUTHOR who can write canon for the series.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 12, 2016, 02:34:37 pm

Quote from: Blaze on July 12, 2016, 02:55:19 am

Spoiler: I Ripped Off Cthulhu's Arms (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/s4YDQZv.jpg)

I still died, but I consider it a win.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 12, 2016, 03:06:42 am

Quote from: tryrar on November 14, 2015, 09:39:06 am

JFC blaze, you ALWAYS forget the game name

Pretty sure the game is Blacksea Odyssey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 12, 2016, 08:01:31 pm

A man chooses. A slave obeys. A player beats the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 1. I got the good happy lovely ending, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on July 12, 2016, 08:27:15 pm

won a game as Galio top against a Sion.

Today was a good day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

League of Legends (6.13)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on July 12, 2016, 11:03:12 pm

Not how I LAST owned, but I just remembered this epicness...

A dragon accosted my fortress and began snacking on some livestock, eventually the militia resolved to head out in force. They started out well enough, but as they rounded the corner they were awestruck and terrified by the beast and milled around in a loose shield formation, eventually, the captain (who was the only without a shield) charged forth into a wave of dragon fire, no one could see him and it was impossible to see if he was alive or dead. The smoke hung in the air, and the dragon let out a horrendous wail, out of the smoke walked a figure, the captain took one step in to full view and fell over dead, the flesh melted from his bones. Upon further inspection, it was found that the Captain had apparently ran up to the dragon through it's fire and left his sword impaled in the Dragon's head before stumbling away, killing it. What a dwarf.

DF2012

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 12, 2016, 11:35:05 pm

Managed to get top score in a game of Doom 4 team deathmatch. 

I'm not sure how I did it, I did get demon once, but historically that's not enough for me to kick ass and take names on the scoreboard, or even get above a .99 K/D usually.  I didn't get any major powerups except for the odd full health+armor globe.  I did kill the enemy demon twice, once with a glory kill, but I don't think that's worth more points than just killing a player in team deathmatch.  And I do recall spending a whole lot of time with high armor, but that was probably just a side effect of winning fights, as full armor is hardly a guarantee I'm gunna win a duel.

And I did it all with frag grenades, a vortex rifle, and a combat shotgun.  A loadout that I'm informed 'blows' in an objective-less gametype.

I'm not sure if everyone ragequit and I was the only one who did not and the match just got filled back up or if I was suddenly channeling young me from my Doom2 multiplayer days.  It increased my average K/D from 0.8 to 0.9.

Doom4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 13, 2016, 12:40:22 am

This was quite a while ago but since it's DF related I think it'll slide

It was my first fort in Masterwork DF. It was going well until 2(!) Balrogs entered the fort through the mines. I managed to lock the trapdoor leading to them, except for two things: One of them got through, and there was someone still in the mines with the other.

The one that got through killed the majority of my Militia post-humously. It set fire to my wood stockpile, which they were in... yeah. Not much of an own there besides killing it.

The own was when I went to check on the other one, presumably having killed the miner and now wandering. Except the miner was still alive, just fine and continuing to mine the gold I'd marked earlier, and the balrog wasn't moving. I looked at it and it had a lot of broken things. I looked for combat logs but couldn't find any, but the only dwarf in the mines was that miner...

Masterwork Dwarf Fortress. Sometime in 2014 I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 13, 2016, 06:55:44 am

I defeated my first-ever large monster, the Great Jaggi! It was quite a battle, probably owing to the fact that I totally botched almost every bit of it. At least I managed to nail it with a paintball, which saved a lot of time I would have otherwise spent looking for it.

I'm still not convinced that 'jaggi' isn't some sort of horrific racial slur.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 13, 2016, 06:59:55 am

Great Jaggi is the easiest monster in the game, by the way :P

Also, you picked a bad time to get into the game, Generations comes out tomorrow :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 13, 2016, 07:07:18 am

It's my fate. I got the original DS Lite shortly before they announced the 3DS, and original XBox the year the 360 came out. I'm not terribly bothered by it, I can always play single player and none of the friends that I'd want to do multiplayer with have any interest in Monster Hunter anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 13, 2016, 07:14:39 am

but they've been advertising Generations for a while and it's on the same system :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 13, 2016, 07:15:33 am

But I don't want generations and I have no attachment to Monster Hunter as a series and MH4U was cheaper than Generations will be and I didn't even know that I was going to have a 3DS until like two days ago

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 13, 2016, 07:18:37 am

Fair point. I'm sure there will be people in a similar position to play with online if you don't mind randoms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 13, 2016, 01:56:26 pm

Running through Darkroot Garden when suddenly I'm invaded. Immediately I panic, since my earlier experiences with PvP were not exactly stellar. Lots of dying and backstabs before eking out a victory. Being a squishy wizard I put away my magic longsword and pull out my wand as soon as I spot the guy. He's got some kind of katana and a Grass Crest Shield (which I'm also sporting for obvious reasons). After a few soul spears that he rolled under I pulled out my magic longsword since he was getting too close. As I attack he turns around or something, for suddenly I'm backstabbing him. Obviously this doesn't finish him off, not by a long shot, but suddenly he's down to half health while I'm at full have plenty of flasks. The Grass Crest Shield has 95 physical block (which his katana deals) and only 42 magic block (which is half of what my magic longsword deals). The next few minutes was pretty much the two of us rolling around and launching quick attacks. I was doing chip damage to him while he was doing almost nothing. I got backstabbed once, but in the end he couldn't stop me from widdling down the rest of his health bar.

Needless to say, I immediately get the fuck out of dodge after I grabbed the souls he left behind.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1. I'm going with a high-int build, which is working out well now that I have a magic weapon. Slashing mooks up in melee is something I'm used to, and the longsword has a pretty good moveset. Can't wait to get enchanted weapons or some of the special ones with massive INT gains. Then I'll really be doing some damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 14, 2016, 12:27:50 am

Welp, I've officially done the weirdest thing I've ever done with rope in a video game.

I was supposed to build a suspension bridge that would allow a boat under it.  Instead I built this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/276226949133411716/972BFB3B2408083380F8CD7EC2112BC942625479/)

Those two brown things near the bottom of the supports?  Rope.  With just the metal and wood, both those supports would tear in half down the middle.  But with a single long line of rope each its A-OK.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Poly Bridge

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 12:31:31 am

supporting a bridge with tensile force is hardly "weird"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 14, 2016, 01:57:33 am

I mentioned suspension bridges, clearly I know that.

Its the specific way, and the material, that was odd.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 02:30:57 am

;-;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on July 14, 2016, 02:50:06 am

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on July 13, 2016, 01:56:26 pm

Running through Darkroot Garden when suddenly I'm invaded. Immediately I panic, since my earlier experiences with PvP were not exactly stellar. Lots of dying and backstabs before eking out a victory. Being a squishy wizard I put away my magic longsword and pull out my wand as soon as I spot the guy. He's got some kind of katana and a Grass Crest Shield (which I'm also sporting for obvious reasons). After a few soul spears that he rolled under I pulled out my magic longsword since he was getting too close. As I attack he turns around or something, for suddenly I'm backstabbing him. Obviously this doesn't finish him off, not by a long shot, but suddenly he's down to half health while I'm at full have plenty of flasks. The Grass Crest Shield has 95 physical block (which his katana deals) and only 42 magic block (which is half of what my magic longsword deals). The next few minutes was pretty much the two of us rolling around and launching quick attacks. I was doing chip damage to him while he was doing almost nothing. I got backstabbed once, but in the end he couldn't stop me from widdling down the rest of his health bar.

Needless to say, I immediately get the fuck out of dodge after I grabbed the souls he left behind.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1. I'm going with a high-int build, which is working out well now that I have a magic weapon. Slashing mooks up in melee is something I'm used to, and the longsword has a pretty good moveset. Can't wait to get enchanted weapons or some of the special ones with massive INT gains. Then I'll really be doing some damage.

DS's backstabs are... odd. I'm not sure, but they may be calculated off weapon position or something. Every now and then, you kind of warp around and backstab.

If you ever get invaded by an Arx, that's probably me!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on July 14, 2016, 05:12:06 am

Yeah. Even in PvE backstabs are pretty weird. I can't seem to land them consistantly, unless I snuck up on the enemy or something. I do know that there's a technique for getting them in PvP all the time (because I've been on the receiving end of it), but I don't think I'll ever learn it. Seems way to cheesy to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 14, 2016, 05:36:37 am

Spoiler: I got the touch, I got the power! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YWsTXCG.jpg)[/img]

[spoiler]Saints' Row IV. And yes, that is my character right there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 14, 2016, 05:47:48 am

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on July 14, 2016, 05:12:06 am

Yeah. Even in PvE backstabs are pretty weird. I can't seem to land them consistantly, unless I snuck up on the enemy or something. I do know that there's a technique for getting them in PvP all the time (because I've been on the receiving end of it), but I don't think I'll ever learn it. Seems way to cheesy to me.

It's pretty simple, actually. Your back and front don't actually move when doing swings and the like, so even if it looks like you are turning sideways for an attack, you aren't. Same applies to all players and npcs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 14, 2016, 06:58:06 am

is there any game where backstabs aren't weird?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 07:08:21 am

The games where they don't exist

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 14, 2016, 12:37:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 14, 2016, 05:36:37 am

Spoiler: I got the touch, I got the power! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/YWsTXCG.jpg)[/img]

[spoiler]Saints' Row IV. And yes, that is my character right there.

Goddamn glorious ending. I think my favorite moment was finding the Power Armor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 14, 2016, 01:13:02 pm

FINALLY.

Screw you, Mitama's paralogue. You can't just have all promoted enemies when I'm just getting promoted units myself. I tried a lot of times, restarting when someone died as is the norm because I AM NOT LOSING ANYONE TO THIS. Finally beat it. Turns out the solution is "Blitz it to the center, let them come to you, mop up the stationary Berserkers when the enemies stop spawning.

I don't care that I overused Ryoma and now he's level 10 promote, I don't care about Mozu being overused against the scary mounted units because of her Beastslayer, that map is *done* and I can move on with the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Hard/Classic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 14, 2016, 04:47:10 pm

After certain game events, enemies that used to try and swarm you now try to get away, turning their backs and allowing for a very easy back-attack which, with a strong enough party, results in an instant win. By having two over-leveled citizens score the instant win, a third, underleveled party member gains massive experience(though no Citizen points to improve their passive ability).

I managed to get my entire army to level 20, the requirement for recruiting the Yoga Instructor citizen, by abusing this mechanic in Camp Koo Koo against the formerly sugar-jumped campers that are all over the camp. The path to zen is ambushing and beating the crap out of obese children in the woods.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Citizens of Earth. It's possible that the extremely sugary snacks the kids were consuming in massive quantities(turning them jittery and hostile) may have also been laced with drugs. Never said outright, but their reactions and the area's villain's monologue definitely suggest it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 14, 2016, 05:11:59 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on July 14, 2016, 01:13:02 pm

FINALLY.

Screw you, Mitama's paralogue. You can't just have all promoted enemies when I'm just getting promoted units myself. I tried a lot of times, restarting when someone died as is the norm because I AM NOT LOSING ANYONE TO THIS. Finally beat it. Turns out the solution is "Blitz it to the center, let them come to you, mop up the stationary Berserkers when the enemies stop spawning.

I don't care that I overused Ryoma and now he's level 10 promote, I don't care about Mozu being overused against the scary mounted units because of her Beastslayer, that map is *done* and I can move on with the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Hard/Classic.

Many a restart
But at last you have conquered
That annoying map

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 14, 2016, 06:08:47 pm

I won. Turns out the trick is to dodge the bullets.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 14, 2016, 06:30:14 pm

I completed Hotline Miami 2. That was certainly an ending.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 07:34:15 pm

I crave context. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 14, 2016, 07:50:03 pm

Hey man, at least this way you can say you go for brains in your romantic partners.

I guess most people don't mean it literally, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 14, 2016, 07:59:19 pm

Fallout 4 Far Harbor?

There's actually a bit of a fallout (hah) about that quest being plagiarized from a New Vegas Mod called Autumn Leaves (http://www.pcgamesn.com/fallout-4/fallout-4-new-vegas-mod-matches-far-harbor-quest).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 09:19:44 pm

h-how do you even
ROBOBRAINS HAVE CLAWS

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 14, 2016, 09:21:03 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 14, 2016, 09:19:44 pm

h-how do you even
ROBOBRAINS HAVE CLAWS

You ask them to be very careful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on July 14, 2016, 09:23:23 pm

..... O_o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 09:28:28 pm

I DONT WANT TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on July 14, 2016, 09:37:54 pm

Yeah, pass the brain bleach when you're done, k?  Thanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 14, 2016, 09:53:18 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 14, 2016, 09:45:20 pm

07/15/16

The day that greatorder implied mutant robo sex and caused brainbleach application.

Better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 09:56:21 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 14, 2016, 09:45:20 pm

15/07/16

The day that A Thing unnecessarily corrected the date formatting of someone who is not from the same country as themselves.

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 14, 2016, 09:59:18 pm

You're both wrong.

It's still July 14th.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on July 14, 2016, 10:00:27 pm

Timezones how do they work

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 10:03:34 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 14, 2016, 09:45:20 pm

15/07/16

The day that hector13 unnecessarily corrected the declaration of what date it is by someone who is not from the same timezone as themselves.

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 14, 2016, 10:14:18 pm

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on July 14, 2016, 10:00:27 pm

Timezones how do they work

Wrong if I'm not in it, obviously :P

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 14, 2016, 10:03:34 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 14, 2016, 09:45:20 pm

15/07/16

The day that hector13 unnecessarily corrected the declaration of what date it is by someone who is not from the same timezone as themselves.

:P

It was a necessary correction!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 14, 2016, 10:18:44 pm

No

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 16, 2016, 07:59:41 pm

Built a not-stupid elevated highway this time around. Goods from the farm district off to one side of it have pretty much unhampered access to the outside world from it, and it does lead to a few high-volume avenues, one to a large residential/commercial area, the other right to the factory district. Traffic congestion is extraordinarily light and flows well.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cities: Skylines.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Spoke too soon. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Ftj8GGM.jpg)

Managed to fix that by adding a crossover ramp and removing the connecting road into the hotel area(bottom middle-left), which caused several businesses to vaporize because the zoning disappeared several seconds after the fixes were placed despite the resulting roads still supporting them. I'm seeing about half the cars now preferring to get on the highway, use the crossover, and get back down onto the lower road instead of just driving straight.

Might have to bulldoze the entire Dale District. The other offramp(the one at the top of the screenshot) is also starting to jam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 17, 2016, 03:18:34 pm

I was playing a three-man YGO match against my cousin and his friend. The friend helped me eliminate my cousin so it was just the two of us with rapidly dwindling health (and in my case, deck). The only card on my field is Bottomless Trap Hole.
He has Raiza the Storm Monarch and Eidos the Underworld Squire down, so I place Neo Spacian Granmole and get rid of Raiza when he attacks, taking the 800 damage from Eidos and have 1600 LP left (the friend has 1400). On my turn I draw Card Trooper, so I discard 3 of my five cards left and attack Eidos for 1100 pierce damage.

His turn, he places Raiza again. Bottomless Trap Hole, victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 17, 2016, 03:44:13 pm

Defeated the Cyberdemon on Ultra-Violence. Holy crap, that bastard is hard.

DOOM (2016)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 17, 2016, 04:10:32 pm

Quote from: Teneb on July 17, 2016, 03:44:13 pm

Defeated the Cyberdemon on Ultra-Violence. Holy crap, that bastard is hard.

DOOM (2016)

Protip: To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot it until it dies!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on July 17, 2016, 05:42:13 pm

bfel001: Decided to go full retard and see how it would be to go angler hunting without a dino.
bfel001: Rode my ptera out above the deep crevice and jumped in
bfel001: No megalodons to be seen, good sign there
bfel001: Dove down as far as I could go, started looking around, getting my bearings
bfel001: Then I see something swimming towards me. Panic set in as I thought a megaladon had found me.
bfel001: NOPE it was my prey, the legendary anglerfish!
bfel001: But there was a problem
bfel001: It wasn't alone.
bfel001: Suddenly I was swarmed by anglers, like their brethren the piranha, they attack in groups it seems
BigD145: they are not alone
bfel001: But my 300% melee damage and my 145% pike prevailed!
bfel001: After a protracted battle, I murdered one of the beasties and harvested it for parts
bfel001: BUT THEN, MY STAMINA RAN OUT
bfel001: SUDDENLY I COULDN'T MOVE WITH ANY HASTE WHATSOEVER
BigD145: always fun when swimming
bfel001: surrounded by angler my only hope was to get back to my ptera with the salvaged goodies
bfel001: So I rose as quickly as my stricken condition allowed, finally my head peaked above the surface
bfel001: Where was my ptera?
bfel001: I couldn't find her
bfel001: The anglers started to get hits in
bfel001: BAF
bfel001: BAF
bfel001: BAF
bfel001: My health was nearly gone, when I saw her
bfel001: In the distance
bfel001: At the very edge of visual range
bfel001: So I did the only thing I could
bfel001: I fired my grappling hook, hoping for a miracle
bfel001: But a miracle wasn't needed, FOR MY AIM WAS TRUE
bfel001: I began skidding faster and faster along the surface as I reeled in to her
bfel001: Safe, I hopped upon her back, scarfed what food I had to heal myself, and headed home


Ark: Survival Evolved

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 18, 2016, 11:09:39 am

My fortress got sieged the other day. I've never really had to deal with a siege before, since this is the first fort that I've actually been able to keep going for a long enough time to reach the necessary population. There were only ten goblins without any war animals or anything, which is leagues smaller than the sieges in DF that I had heard about from other players, so I sent all the civilians inside, waited until the goblins were knocking on the door, then sent the guard out to deal with them. Until a short while before this, my fortress' militia consisted solely of a few miners / peasants, so after acquiring a guard with proper weapons and shit, meager though they were, I was pretty confident that they could deal with absolutely anything. This turned out not to be the case, the goblins slaughtering them effortlessly as they struggled to land even a single hit. After the guard had been completely destroyed, they proceeded inside unhindered and started killing random people. I ended up having to savescum to before they got to the doors, sent absolutely everyone inside, and then built a wall to barricade the front door so I could wait them out. After the siege finally retreated, The trade caravan for that year notified me that The Lucky Monster had been conquering fortresses everywhere. Sure enough, they were the ones who attacked me. I'm assuming they're at war with our civilization, but when I embarked it never said anything about that.

A long time (I wasn't keeping track of how long) passed, and the fortress guard got plenty of training as well as a second squad dedicated solely to archers. The citizens of Dragonsouls lived a peaceful, prosperous life, but everything changed when The Lucky Monster attacked. Again. I looked at the unit list as soon as I got the alert, and there were only six guys. Suspicious, I sent everyone except the guards inside again, waited a few moments, took another look at the unit list, and there were a good 60 invaders decked out in iron equipment, with trolls and beakdogs mixed in. Comparing that to my 10 meelee units with leather armor and copper weapons and 7 archers with bone  crossbows and no armor, I figured I was completely fucked. I placed another wall / barricade behind the guard barracks (which was also the entrance) though I knew that when the trolls got past the guard, they would easily be able to break through it and nothing else would be left protecting the people of Dragonsouls. I positioned the guards just behind the front door with the archers a little further behind  them and prepared for them to make their last stand.

As the first goblin entered the door, he was immediately, relentlessly attacked. As he attempted to strike one of the axedwarves who parried every attack, he received a surprise stab in the leg from one of the speardwarves, fell over and then was chopped to pieces. My guys had spent a lot of time training and defending the fortress from cavern creatures, so they were a lot more skilled than before, and a couple of them had steel weapons that I had traded for, so I figured it made sense that they could take on one goblin at a time as a team, though I also figured that the rest of the battle would not go so well should they take on all the rest of the enemies at once. As if they could read my thoughts and saw this as an insult, every one of them charged outside and took the enemy horde head on.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The guard split up and began to tear up the enemy forces faster than they could advance. One by one, they all slew beakdog, goblin and troll alike despite their inferior equipment and numbers. As the battle raged on, some grew tired and injured, a few even having bones broken, but still they fought and defeated the enemy. Soon enough, the attacking force had been reduced to about four goblins, who survived only because they ran for their mothers before they had a chance to be killed as well. My forces took a grand total of two casualties, one of which I shouldn't be counting since he was just a marksdwarf who chose to rush into and melee attack an enemy despite having plenty of bolts. Though some others were injured, none of the injuries in question sounded permanent thanks to the doctor. I am currently in the process of having adamantine weapons created for them, that they might become invincible.

Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 18, 2016, 02:04:03 pm

Punched Satan in the face.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Saints' Row: Gat out of Hell.


Also, why is it that whenever it's shown that Satan has a daughter, there stands a good chance that daughter is absolutely adorable?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on July 18, 2016, 03:14:12 pm

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Succubi?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 18, 2016, 03:26:37 pm

Absolutely adorable and succubi do not mix. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 18, 2016, 04:28:42 pm

Don't be ridiculous. Succubi can be plenty adorable. Beware them, for they are the scariest of them all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 18, 2016, 08:20:04 pm

Was firing at a pair of Vanguards with a Spear turret, when I saw a Flash cloak as it was driving past them. I guessed where it was going to go, fired, and headshotted the driver. Didn't hit the Flash, just the driver.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on July 18, 2016, 11:24:03 pm

Two soldiers, one Human Hammerman and one Swordsdwarf went to confront a forgotten beast in the caverns, to protect the magma furnaces. They took not a single hit from the FB, but got caught up in the poison, mangling their faces beyond recognition, and rotting nearly everything else. Still, they wandered back to the hospital, where a thirteen-year-old peasant and a thirty-four-year-old carpenter had beaten each other up in an argument. The hospital went from "totally unused" to "four dwarves requiring major surgery"; the thirteen year old was bruised and cut up a little; the carpenter had multiple fractures and lacerations, and the human and swordsdwarf were uninjured besides the fact they were necrotic. Surgeon came in, ripped the two soldier's lips off, cleaned them up and off they went. He also fixed the carpenter's injury and gave the peasant dressing.

I haven't played DF in a long time, and to boot I've never seen hospitals operate so well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 19, 2016, 05:46:35 am

Moorland Trenches map. The commander (AI), sent us to take the trenches, which is arguably the hardest position to hold due to bordering several territories and very disadvantageous terrain. One player wanted to circle south towards the airport and secure the war factory there; thus denying the enemy two tanks. While another group wanted to sneak north and target the enemies' radar capabilities.

So we made the fateful decision to split our forces. One group went north to target the hospital, a second held the line at the trenches, and I went with the third group to the airport.

Since the number of enemies on the enemy side scales with the number of players on the map; each one of our undersized groups were facing large waves of enemies. Since we started in the northeastern area, we had a lot of ground to cover. By the time we got there, the center group was just barely holding the center, while the northern group had been cut off and couldn't get reinforcements due to radar jamming. Thankfully, the efforts of the center group had pulled most of the enemies towards them, leaving the airport only moderately defended.

By the time we secured the airport, the northern group had been reduced to a single player who had barricaded himself on top of the building in the center of the hospital. We regrouped with the center group and launched a blitz from the very bottom of the map to the very top; utterly shredding every enemy position along the way. The last member of the northern group was saved when we got to his position with two tanks, a vulcan tank, a minigunner, and a massive horde of infantry. Capturing the rest of the map was a snap afterwards.

As one player noted: "It was one hell of a rescue party."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 19, 2016, 07:56:59 am

Quote from: Blaze on July 19, 2016, 05:46:35 am

Moorland Trenches map. The commander (AI), sent us to take the trenches, which is arguably the hardest position to hold due to bordering several territories and very disadvantageous terrain. One player wanted to circle south towards the airport and secure the war factory there; thus denying the enemy two tanks. While another group wanted to sneak north and target the enemies' radar capabilities.

So we made the fateful decision to split our forces. One group went north to target the hospital, a second held the line at the trenches, and I went with the third group to the airport.

Since the number of enemies on the enemy side scales with the number of players on the map; each one of our undersized groups were facing large waves of enemies. Since we started in the northeastern area, we had a lot of ground to cover. By the time we got there, the center group was just barely holding the center, while the northern group had been cut off and couldn't get reinforcements due to radar jamming. Thankfully, the efforts of the center group had pulled most of the enemies towards them, leaving the airport only moderately defended.

By the time we secured the airport, the northern group had been reduced to a single player who had barricaded himself on top of the building in the center of the hospital. We regrouped with the center group and launched a blitz from the very bottom of the map to the very top; utterly shredding every enemy position along the way. The last member of the northern group was saved when we got to his position with two tanks, a vulcan tank, a minigunner, and a massive horde of infantry. Capturing the rest of the map was a snap afterwards.

As one player noted: "It was one hell of a rescue party."

What game is this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on July 19, 2016, 08:19:17 am

Quote from: AzyWng on July 19, 2016, 07:56:59 am

Quote from: Blaze on July 19, 2016, 05:46:35 am

Moorland Trenches map. The commander (AI), sent us to take the trenches, which is arguably the hardest position to hold due to bordering several territories and very disadvantageous terrain. One player wanted to circle south towards the airport and secure the war factory there; thus denying the enemy two tanks. While another group wanted to sneak north and target the enemies' radar capabilities.

So we made the fateful decision to split our forces. One group went north to target the hospital, a second held the line at the trenches, and I went with the third group to the airport.

Since the number of enemies on the enemy side scales with the number of players on the map; each one of our undersized groups were facing large waves of enemies. Since we started in the northeastern area, we had a lot of ground to cover. By the time we got there, the center group was just barely holding the center, while the northern group had been cut off and couldn't get reinforcements due to radar jamming. Thankfully, the efforts of the center group had pulled most of the enemies towards them, leaving the airport only moderately defended.

By the time we secured the airport, the northern group had been reduced to a single player who had barricaded himself on top of the building in the center of the hospital. We regrouped with the center group and launched a blitz from the very bottom of the map to the very top; utterly shredding every enemy position along the way. The last member of the northern group was saved when we got to his position with two tanks, a vulcan tank, a minigunner, and a massive horde of infantry. Capturing the rest of the map was a snap afterwards.

As one player noted: "It was one hell of a rescue party."

What game is this?

"RUNNING WITH RIFLES".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 19, 2016, 12:08:07 pm

Bloody brilliant game. I beat it playing as the Greycoats, or whatever they're called.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 19, 2016, 01:05:41 pm

Demolished the Pink Rathian on my third try. Afterward, I took down a Zinogre and added my fifth consecutive skill to my armor, effectively nullifying my thunder weakness in the process.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Oh my gosh, I have no clue how I didn't figure out armor skills before this. This is awesome, I have +20 health, Thunder Res +15, Status Atk +1, Negate Poison, and Tremor Res all at the same time. That Negate Poison is especially handy.

Plus I look like a samurai. Ioprey armor FTW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on July 19, 2016, 03:36:09 pm

Killed a goblin with anvils

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You needed to open this to know it was Dwarf Fortress?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 19, 2016, 04:42:32 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on July 19, 2016, 03:36:09 pm

Killed a goblin with anvils

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You needed to open this to know it was Dwarf Fortress?

Could have been ADOM. Anvils can be a pretty heavy bludgeon if you're strong enough to swing one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 19, 2016, 05:25:23 pm

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/269471959150600876/A6AC846922609615FAE9894CC8399C39839D4508/)
(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/269471959150600611/9E57D618B0ED4659F0443CD47BAD13D193FC7AB7/)

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Broforce.  It might not be clear from the still image, but there were a *lot* of terrorists there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 19, 2016, 06:29:11 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 19, 2016, 01:05:41 pm

Demolished the Pink Rathian on my third try.

I hate you.

/me had to die a million times before he got gud enough to kill a PR

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on July 20, 2016, 12:24:35 am

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/445112344617136762/500DCE4B29D3DA5E2B6D61A71FF2A903D34AD59A/)

Noticed a teamfight, decided to pop in.
Behind the entire enemy team.

League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 20, 2016, 03:02:31 am

I tranquilized an ulting Genji.  That'll teach you to walk towards me in a straight line.

Later in that game I panicked and nano boosted a Lucio.  That was less of an own.

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Overwatch, as Ana

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on July 20, 2016, 03:11:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 20, 2016, 03:02:31 am

I tranquilized an ulting Genji.  That'll teach you to walk towards me in a straight line.

Later in that game I panicked and nano boosted a Lucio.  That was less of an own.

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Overwatch, as Ana

There's a lot of other B12ers playing Overwatch o-o Is it possible for you to team up with them and stuff? :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 20, 2016, 05:35:01 pm

Defeated the Hell Guards. Despite my many deaths during the first phase, I managed to do the second phase without dying. Ultra-violence, of course.

DOOM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: choppy on July 20, 2016, 05:49:41 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on July 20, 2016, 03:11:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 20, 2016, 03:02:31 am

I tranquilized an ulting Genji.  That'll teach you to walk towards me in a straight line.

Later in that game I panicked and nano boosted a Lucio.  That was less of an own.

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Overwatch, as Ana

There's a lot of other B12ers playing Overwatch o-o Is it possible for you to team up with them and stuff? :D

Yes, there is a party system. Here Is a link to bay12 battle tags. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BortS7tWy0OfhGBvd7sJ9XPH_yXq57I6w0heRFtBvs0/htmlview)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 21, 2016, 12:49:07 am

Yay, Skyru joining Overwatch!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Skyrunner on July 21, 2016, 01:07:53 am

nvm :l

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 21, 2016, 01:41:58 am

U wot m8?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Skyrunner on July 21, 2016, 02:02:00 am

Who's Skyru? :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 21, 2016, 11:13:17 am

As it would turn out, the trick to beating the Black Gravios is to shank it in the back until its back breaks. After that, you can slash him to pieces with impunity when he's firing his laser without fear of being assaulted by burning gas, as breaking his back causes the laser-cooldown-gas to be vented out his back.

He is now in a million pieces in my storage closet. Good fight, Gravy.

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MH4U

now I have an azure rathalos to contend with :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 21, 2016, 11:57:58 am

Quote from: Tawa on July 21, 2016, 11:13:17 am

As it would turn out, the trick to beating the Black Gravios is to shank it in the back until its back breaks. After that, you can slash him to pieces with impunity when he's firing his laser without fear of being assaulted by burning gas, as breaking his back causes the laser-cooldown-gas to be vented out his back.

He is now in a million pieces in my storage closet. Good fight, Gravy.

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MH4U

now I have an azure rathalos to contend with :v

Tips for Smurfalos:
- He likes flying. Bring flash bombs to knock him out of the air.
- He also likes to spam fireballs. Eating for fire resist should help you stay alive.
- He might make use of the dreaded roar->360 noscope fireball combo. Again, bring fire resist, and if you can get your hands on some earplugs, even better.
- As with all monsters, don't get greedy. Jump in on openings, attack, get out of there.

Good luck! *Salutes*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 21, 2016, 01:05:54 pm

First Deviant monster killed on first attempt, woo!

(While the friend I was with had monster appropriate gear, Astalos armor and Brachydios Greatsword I think, I was using the Bnabara Gunner Set and the Yukumo Light Bowgun. That we killed the Snowbaron Lagombi was still an accomplishment :P )

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Monster Hunter Generations

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 21, 2016, 06:56:02 pm

Killed The Master Below.

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(http://i.imgur.com/WuNYYBB.jpg)

Fun fact: the Adra Dragon doesn't actually have any ranged attacks so you can just kite her endlessly. If you have the patience you can even kill her with a mage's staff. Apparently the developers put in the effort to make her almost immune to every attack and spell but gave her nothing to combat ranged weapons.

Pillars of Perpetuity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 21, 2016, 07:02:47 pm

Stop taunting me with your skill at killing blue dragons ;-;

:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 21, 2016, 07:05:26 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 21, 2016, 07:02:47 pm

Stop taunting me with your skill at killing blue dragons ;-;

:P

I dunno if killing a dragon with cheese is all that much of an achievement. Maybe an achievement in patience, maybe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2016, 07:22:18 pm

Successful test of an atmospheric bomber. Damn thing can actually fly, and the bombs don't hit the bomb bay on the way out. The result on target was some rather large, rather deep, craters, including impacts through both terrain and heavy armor.

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Space Engineers. Does anyone know of a script that emulates the functions of a bomb-sight? Basically, something that can calculate both the craft's forward speed and altitude to change the orientation of a rotor(preferably with a camera mounted as the sight)?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 22, 2016, 04:46:26 am

I stood down a charging Velocidrome and blew it apart with the A + X attack (I think it's called Wyvern's Fire). I love the gunlance, and I even found a rare one on the same expedition.

MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arthropleura on July 22, 2016, 07:10:43 am

The game is WW2 Online. The tech level was ~1945ish at the time of the battle.

I'm driving the woefully obsolete Cruiser Tank MkIV (A13 MkII). It was the last fifteen minutes of a campaign, so no time for a stealthy approach. In the hopes of getting my very first Armour on Armour kill before the end of the Campaign I shift into high gear and leave my infantry escort behind. Barreling over a hillock, i wildly spray my coaxial mg at a german infantryman crossing the road.

Frantically searching for something more substantial targets I continue into town moving between a row of buildings and a wall next to the road, turning my turret to peek behind a bush up ahead a spot something immediately on the other side of the bush. An enemy tank, oblivious to my presence. I fire my main cannon right between his return rollers and watch as his turret blows sky high. I then proceed to drive right into an enemy spawn point like an idiot and get blown up by an Anti-Tank gun.
 
Checking the after action report told me that the tank I had blown up was a Panzer IVG being driven by one of the Axis sides best Tankers. If you haven't been able to follow, I took out a highly skilled tank ace in the Germans second best tank, with the second worst tank available to the British. As my first tank kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on July 22, 2016, 10:44:34 am

Dear god, people are still playing WW2 online?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 22, 2016, 08:34:59 pm

Trying to destroy a pirate base to stop their constant, ridiculously massive raids. I already lost an entire colony because the jump point lines between planets are nowhere near accurate and they kept bypassing my minefields.

The battle went poorly. I brought in about 40 frigates, and a dozen cruisers, plus two capital ships and a titan. In about ten minutes, the pirate ships were gone, but so were my frigates and cruisers, most getting torn apart by the pirates' defense cannons and mines(my only scout frigate being one of the first casualties). I had to call back the capships because they were almost dead and the pirates still had strike craft. My titan was pretty much by its lonesome very slowly bombarding the pirate base when...

"Military Victory!"

Apparently the only other (CPU) player empire had fallen on some very hard times. Maybe they got pirates, or some random event buttscrewed their capital, I don't know. I simply won.

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Am I the only one who thinks that the Rebellion symbol is the exact same hand as the Red Faction(Guerrilla) insignia minus the sledgehammer?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 22, 2016, 09:12:57 pm

They're pretty similar, but the RF hand is more blocky, while the SE: R hand is in pieces and more hand-shaped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on July 22, 2016, 10:13:54 pm

Walked up to a military checkpoint, was ordered to turn back. Considered my options. Decided to go for victory by sniping with an MP5. After several attempts and a lot of dying, I somehow managed to kill all the soldiers, getting myself a military carbine rather earlier in the game than intended. As I go around looting, I hear somebody yelling, but can't locate them, so I figure it's not relevant. Then I hear gunshots, look around wildly, and realize there's been a sniper on the bridge above me the whole time. I aim and begin taking semi-automatic potshots with my woefully inaccurate new carbine while a sniper with an SVD fires on my position. About five seconds later I just sorta stand there and look at his body, not having taken a single hit.

Apparently in a duel of marksmanship between a schmuck with a carbine and a military sniper with the high ground, the schmuck wins scot-free.

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STALKER: Lost Alpha

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 23, 2016, 08:16:30 am

Quote from: Amperzand on July 22, 2016, 10:13:54 pm

Apparently in a duel of marksmanship between a schmuck with a carbine and a military sniper with the high ground, the schmuck wins scot-free.

Sounds like real life to me. The shmucks always win/get off scot-free for their shit.

But this isn't the sad thread.

Hey, forgot to add mine.

Melee combat in the Assassin's Creed series is surprisingly awesome, despite the fact that stealth is a big part of the gameplay. I do keep forgetting to use F to target enemies, but eh, the game automatically does that for you when hitting or being hit, at least in Brotherhood.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 23, 2016, 09:20:53 am

Battling Urugaan with a friend. Critical Juncture had just charged, and I retreated to sharpen my weapon. Urugaan saw my moment of weakness and decided it would be a good time to roll at me. But alas! His timing was too late, and I stood up and activated my hunter art.

His body collided with my longsword and he fell past me, his tail flying off in a flash of blood and petals.

Epic counterattack ability is epic.

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MHGen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 23, 2016, 09:43:28 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 23, 2016, 09:20:53 am

I retreated to sharpen my weapon.

Do battles really drag on that long?

I mean, if a monster's hide/scales/whatever were tough enough to dull a blade, it might also be tough enough to cause the blade to break completely...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 23, 2016, 11:17:13 am

Quote from: AzyWng on July 23, 2016, 09:43:28 am

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 23, 2016, 09:20:53 am

I retreated to sharpen my weapon.

Do battles really drag on that long?

I mean, if a monster's hide/scales/whatever were tough enough to dull a blade, it might also be tough enough to cause the blade to break completely...

Nah, it doesn't break your sword. Or hammer, which you have to sharpen for some reason. But Monster Hunter battles can take up to fifty minutes, although most of the time I've found hunting a level-appropriate singleplayer solo monster (as opposed to one spawning in a pair) takes twenty to thirty minutes; the full 50 is typically reserved for particularly beefy monsters like Elder Dragons.

Usually, I wait until the monster leaves the area to sharpen my sword(s), because the animation takes way too long to take care of in the middle of a fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 23, 2016, 03:47:08 pm

Sometimes it's also the fact that certain weapons (bone weapons especially) dull extremely quickly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 24, 2016, 06:09:05 am

Learned that a combined-arms approach with the Tau can be quite deadly. Move Pathfinders up to provide massive spotting range, Stingrays to kill stuff within that spotting range, Fire Caste squads on the flanks, and those heavy tanks with the railgun to provide center support. This results in the Tau rule of "NO MELEE" potentially applying to everyone else as well. At one point, my Fire Caste Honor Guard unit was shooting Orks through a cliff wall somehow - their plasma bolts were literally phasing through solid rock and accurately killing them boyz on the other side.

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, Ork Stronghold mission. Gorgutz had no chance, we had more dakka for The Greater Good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 24, 2016, 09:31:13 am

Pathfinders + Fire Warriors OTP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 24, 2016, 12:49:37 pm

markerlights
Also yes, that is how one plays Tau. Brutally effective.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 24, 2016, 10:41:43 pm

I captured a Gym for the first time!
Granted, it was held by a Magikarp and I attacked with a Bellsprout over four times it's level. But I participated!

Pokemon Go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 25, 2016, 10:16:51 am

Ended up committing a ton of war crimes. Survived anyway.

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Spec Ops: The Line. I have heard it shit-talked, but I think it was a fairly good game overall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 25, 2016, 01:58:59 pm

I've... Literally only heard it praised.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 25, 2016, 02:06:49 pm

I figured out what putting a Supermatter Core in a Singularity does. Oh, and I lived.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on July 25, 2016, 02:17:49 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 25, 2016, 10:16:51 am

I have heard it shit-talked, but I think it was a fairly good game overall.

It is a terrible, repetitive and buggy piece of shit as a game. As a story, however, it's one of the best I've ever played/read/watched. It is a really exciting cynical yet emotional rollercoaster. I'm not even exaggerating when I say it made me rethink my views on modern entertainment. The reviews on it are divided because it requires a certain opinion to be enjoyed, namely that a good story can carry a bad game. No disrespect for those who don't hold that opinion, of course, and I agree that it's not something to recommend to people who aren't specifically looking for a game like it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wimopy on July 25, 2016, 02:56:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 25, 2016, 10:16:51 am

Ended up committing a ton of war crimes. Survived anyway.

Can we just appreciate the fact that committing war crimes counts as owning on the Bay12 forums?
Honestly, if you did the same in DF you'd be hailed as a Dwarven hero.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on July 25, 2016, 03:10:20 pm

inb4 someone mods white phosphorus into DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 25, 2016, 04:05:49 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on July 25, 2016, 03:10:20 pm

inb4 someone mods white phosphorus into DF

Um... I think I've tried something similar, only it was skin-rotting contact poison. Never got the deployment quite right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on July 25, 2016, 04:18:18 pm

it's possible to make an ENTERS_BLOOD venom and give a creature a breath attack with that venom, then have it breath on a stack of weapons to give them coverings of that venom, then stab people with those weapons to "inject" the venom (until blood coverings overwrite the venom coverings)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 25, 2016, 04:24:20 pm

The main thing I've heard negatively about spopsthaline is that it pretty much critisizes the player for doing things that it forces you to do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 25, 2016, 07:36:11 pm

I made it to the, ah, first enemy that isn't terrorists.  In Ironbro mode (you only get 0-1 bros per level, your bros carry over throughout the entire game).  The last bro standing was Ash Brolins.  He took a running jump off of a tower into the midst of 3 unsuspecting terrorists.  Unfortunately while the two in front had been facing away, the one in back, almost offscreen, had seen him climb the tower and was alerted.  The first two terrorists just barely absorbed all of the blast from Ash's double shotgun and then a very unlucky shot from the remaining terrorist killed him.  An ignoble end to an otherwise glorious run.  Hilariously enough the, ah, new guys in town didn't actually get any bros.  The few that made it that far died to stupid shit that didn't involve them.  See: Ash's death.

Before he died, the second to last bro (MacBrover), stuck dynamite to Satan's penis.  That's gotta count for something.

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Broforce

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 25, 2016, 08:53:00 pm

Dude, have you beaten the final boss then? Because holy shit it's haaard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 25, 2016, 09:05:14 pm

Yes, and I have no clue how I'm going to do that on Ironbro.  Just getting there would be an accomplishment I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on July 25, 2016, 10:40:49 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on July 25, 2016, 08:53:00 pm

Dude, have you beaten the final boss then? Because holy shit it's haaard.

It is actually really easy as anderbro, just down melee on top if it's head repeatedly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 26, 2016, 01:53:50 am

The bosses that really concern me:

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The giant retreating worm.  Its not hard if you practice it for a few lives but its gimmicky and the way the campaign is set up its difficult to practice against.  Easy to beat, but not easy to beat on the first try without massive casualties.

The hybrid terrorist/xeno boss because holy shit WTF.

The not-true final boss.  He has a bunch of attacks that work mostly regardless of terrain, and then (when I faced him) he destroys the whole fucking stage except one side and then stands on the few remaining elevated bits raining death.  Fucking bullshit boss, so much worse than the actual final boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 26, 2016, 02:38:18 am

The Kecha Wacha had been destroying me whether I used the gunlance, longsword or twin swords, so I thought I'd try a few more weapon training missions to see what I was missing.

Boy howdy, I was not expecting the Insect Glaive. I love the pole-vault attack, and Kinsects, and finally having a use for all this stupid nectar I keep getting. It's fast, it does a lot of damage, and I get to flip around like Aang from The Last Airbender.

It only took twenty minutes to completely destroy Kecha Wacha. I didn't even need to use a paintball on him because I was on his ass pretty much the entire time.

MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 26, 2016, 12:05:10 pm

Managed to hold off three NC trying to take Scarred Mesa by myself long enough for reinforcements to (f*cking finally) deploy. Eventually lost the base when I found myself facing even more by myself, but that was after about 20 minutes of me attacking them(failing, but barely), and slowing their attack with mines and mortar ambushes. I want to think that I helped turned the whole alert into a draw rather than a VS win(and continent lock) by slowing down the NC from taking more territory from us.

Towards the end of the alert(and for some time after it), I scored tons of XP from a Sunderer during a massive stalemate at Tawrich Depot. Eventually lost the Sunderer from two engineers with AT turrets raining missiles on the base, but I found my way to their position, killed them, died to their drop-pod respawn, killed them again, died again when they dropped in, found the beacon under the cliff(so low you can't see the beam from the cliff), and killed them again. However, by this point the NC managed to take Tawrich Depot and I stopped playing.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 26, 2016, 12:12:52 pm

I shot the everloving hell out of a Space Ninja, then he EMP'd the lights and my guns, so I cut his fucking head off with a fire axe. Vampire HoS for the win.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 26, 2016, 09:08:41 pm

Managed to save a battle (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732201916) with two small (48 and 64) units of heavy cavalry. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732201871) Friggin' berserkers man, my spearmen routed almost immediately. Graal Knight mercs seem to be some of the best units in the expansion though so it all works out.

Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on July 26, 2016, 10:13:41 pm

Had a force spread so wide and far across China that famed enemies Lu Bu and Cao Cao were forced to team up to take us down before we destroyed everyone.

RTKXIII.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 26, 2016, 10:17:07 pm

Got a pretty sweet high score, even though Yuyuko still butterfly-suplexed me into the Underworld. See. when I *obtained* this game, it came with a built-in high score, presumably from its previous owner. At around two million three hundred thousandish, that high score was the Sword of Damocles dangling over me every time I played. What if I couldn't beat it? What if I was INFERIOR to someone else's dakka dogeing skills? Usually I'd neglect the point tiles in favour of cherry and power-up tiles, because they were less obviously useful. Then I noticed that getting extra lives is ONLY tied to the point tiles, instead of your overall score[Like it was in the previous game]. So I proceed to go out of my way to get as many as I can. Amazingly, this didn't get me killed that much and only Yuyuko's flowery marathon of knives stopped the best game I've yet had. Even better then the built-in high score. I have officially transcended the chains that bound me.

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Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on July 27, 2016, 01:28:08 am

Brian Campbell was a Xeno-Biologist and a simple man. He had is normal station duties. Feed the slimes. Breed them. The usual. But today was different. Today, Brian Campbell was a young man hungering for blood. But he still had his duty too. Oh yes. The slimes needed fed.

Struck at the station using a swarm of slimes and vampirism. It made me happy. There were lots of slimes in the end and the revolution reached far beyond the meagre slime pen and out into the station at large. The spoilered pic was done after the first screech that released the horde into the station proper.

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(http://imgur.com/MARAU2N.png)

Space Station 13

Edoot: Also started to wear a dramatic orange wedding dress later in the round. Armor is for squares!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 27, 2016, 01:30:38 am

ic in ooc

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 27, 2016, 01:49:17 pm

Managed to get the highest score/fastest time in four of the five levels of the most recent Hitman escalation mission in Paris, The Teague Temptation.

Ironically, I cannot for the life of me figure out how the person who did it best on the very first level of the mission managed to do it in 43 seconds. I can do it in 44, but I think I've managed to execute the mission perfectly enough that I can't possibly shave any more time off that.

So I will settle for beating the bastard by a single point on the second level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on July 27, 2016, 02:13:11 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 26, 2016, 01:53:50 am

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The giant retreating worm.  Its not hard if you practice it for a few lives but its gimmicky and the way the campaign is set up its difficult to practice against.  Easy to beat, but not easy to beat on the first try without massive casualties.

I just beat this thing last night. Accidentally cheesed it - turns out if you're destroying the terrain under it and standing in the correct location, it hurts itself when it attacks.

Also, screw this game. I don't feel like sitting down for an hour and a half to run through the ten stages of the final level.


For my own ownage account, I died multiple times to the

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alien heart thing surrounded by goo flies and then again with another worm-like boss.

I then spawned with Brominator, whose special ability rendered them into gibs in seconds.

I never said I was good at this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 27, 2016, 04:56:26 pm

I *think* you can save partway through the last level by hitting "return to menu", but don't quote me on that.  And yeah, its BS.  The last level is stylistically great but otherwise its basically a not-as-bad version of Xen from Half Life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on July 27, 2016, 06:57:57 pm

My 1st level wizard Helvetica cast an illusory stone wall. I left a gap at the end where you could go around. The goblins on the other side assumed it was a solid magic wall and didn't waste their arrows firing through. They just posted up for the inevitable gank on whoever poked their head round first. So my *own* was halting the enemy attacks and giving us the opportunity for at least two solid rounds of uncontested fire (one round while the goblins just took it, a second round while they either disbelieved or fired through blindly and missed everyone) with a 1st level spell.

Of course that doesn't mean it was an *own* for my whole party. Instead of disbelieving the wall so we could see through, and fire at will, my party members trepidatiously creeped around and got blasted by the waiting goblins. SMH.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 27, 2016, 06:59:05 pm

Quote from: tryrar on November 14, 2015, 09:39:06 am

(http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/import/2013/images/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 27, 2016, 07:03:05 pm

Sounds like good old DnD.


...Assuming it was, wouldn't your allies know that the wall was illusory? Like, wouldn't tell them that it was an illusion in some manner that didn't alert the enemies? Especially after they fired through it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2016, 08:14:57 pm

Well, that's the sort of thing that happens when you dump INT...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:08:19 pm

The Azure Rathalos is dead! Long live the nul-fire gems!

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MH4U

Also beat the Brute Tigrex on my first go with no carts, but I got a bunch of practice on low-rank ones before this so that doesn't really count IMO :v

This Stygian Zinogre, on the other hand...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:21:25 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:08:19 pm

The Azure Rathalos is dead! Long live the nul-fire gems!

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MH4U

Also beat the Brute Tigrex on my first go with no carts, but I got a bunch of practice on low-rank ones before this so that doesn't really count IMO :v

This Stygian Zinogre, on the other hand...

You're making pretty good progress. Make sure to come back and report when you get to face Golden Rathian, yeah?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 28, 2016, 04:39:26 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:21:25 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:08:19 pm

The Azure Rathalos is dead! Long live the nul-fire gems!

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MH4U

Also beat the Brute Tigrex on my first go with no carts, but I got a bunch of practice on low-rank ones before this so that doesn't really count IMO :v

This Stygian Zinogre, on the other hand...

You're making pretty good progress. Make sure to come back and report when you get to face Golden Rathian, yeah?

As a word of encouragement, Gold Rathian isn't actually that hard. Even though the jump in difficulty from Rathian to Pink Rathian is fucking ridiculous at first, Goldie doesn't seem to behave much differently aside from being armor-plated and having some more explosive fireballs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:43:24 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on July 28, 2016, 04:39:26 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:21:25 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:08:19 pm

The Azure Rathalos is dead! Long live the nul-fire gems!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MH4U

Also beat the Brute Tigrex on my first go with no carts, but I got a bunch of practice on low-rank ones before this so that doesn't really count IMO :v

This Stygian Zinogre, on the other hand...

You're making pretty good progress. Make sure to come back and report when you get to face Golden Rathian, yeah?

As a word of encouragement, Gold Rathian isn't actually that hard. Even though the jump in difficulty from Rathian to Pink Rathian is fucking ridiculous at first, Goldie doesn't seem to behave much differently aside from being armor-plated and having some more explosive fireballs.

The reason I single out Gold Rathian is because of the particular phenomenon that occurs when you fight it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_c7q0zJ0c)...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:46:38 pm

I haven't even gotten to JhoJho yet :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 28, 2016, 04:48:11 pm

"I only own Tri," I say, for the third time. I have framed pictures of 4 and Generations on my mantle. I am crying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 28, 2016, 05:04:41 pm

Not 100% sure I'm playing this role right but.

1. Spawn.
2. Get into primary tool storage. Luck out with insulated gloves in electrical toolbox.
3. Hack into robotics.
4. Obtain Flash and Uniform.
5. Go into common room.
6. Flash random bystander.
7. Shove candy into their mouths.
8. Say "I am a very tall midget.".
9. HONK
10. Strip and throw clothes everywhere.
11. Run
12. HONK

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on July 28, 2016, 05:06:49 pm

SS13?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on July 28, 2016, 05:38:09 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:43:24 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on July 28, 2016, 04:39:26 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 28, 2016, 04:21:25 pm

Quote from: Tawa on July 28, 2016, 04:08:19 pm

The Azure Rathalos is dead! Long live the nul-fire gems!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MH4U

Also beat the Brute Tigrex on my first go with no carts, but I got a bunch of practice on low-rank ones before this so that doesn't really count IMO :v

This Stygian Zinogre, on the other hand...

You're making pretty good progress. Make sure to come back and report when you get to face Golden Rathian, yeah?

As a word of encouragement, Gold Rathian isn't actually that hard. Even though the jump in difficulty from Rathian to Pink Rathian is fucking ridiculous at first, Goldie doesn't seem to behave much differently aside from being armor-plated and having some more explosive fireballs.

The reason I single out Gold Rathian is because of the particular phenomenon that occurs when you fight it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_c7q0zJ0c)...

...Then again, I was using ranged attacks.

Good luck breh! :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on July 28, 2016, 06:39:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 27, 2016, 07:03:05 pm

Sounds like good old DnD.


...Assuming it was, wouldn't your allies know that the wall was illusory? Like, wouldn't tell them that it was an illusion in some manner that didn't alert the enemies? Especially after they fired through it?

Yep! So the illusion looks real to everyone but if they try to interact with it, it doesn't behave the way they expect (in this case, you could walk right through if you tried). If you disbelieve (use up your round making a saving throw against it) you can see through the illusion as if it were a weak hologram.

The idea is that the goblins, being unsophisticated, would assume the new stone wall was solid and not bother trying to shoot arrows through it or walk through it. Anyone who spent enough time around wizards to know how difficult various spells are, would probably get suspicious that the wizard used a medium level spell in such a lame way. Which means that while they're more likely to try to disbelieve, they might also try to disbelieve some spells that are real.

So the enemies didn't bother trying to fire through. But my party also didn't know what to do. Helvetica doesn't speak a language that only the party understands, so she couldn't tip them off without tipping off the goblins. We worked it out for the future but I was really hoping for a leap on their part. Such as, "hmm, so Helvetica can cast Wall of Stone suddenly?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 28, 2016, 06:42:26 pm

That would be meta-gaming, surely?

Doesn't explain why you couldn't just use hand signals :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on July 29, 2016, 03:20:13 am

Or maybe you could have just stuck your hand through it?
Like, not all the way through, just a bit into it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 29, 2016, 01:47:53 pm

Fought the first Ratholos of Generations

The first shiny I get from it has a Ratholos Plate. If you play Monster Hunter you know how ridiculously lucky this is.

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Monster Hunter: Generations

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on July 29, 2016, 02:30:23 pm

I went through a small army of wererats, and only half of my party had silver weapons, and none of the weapons were kinds they were especially proficient in. Also, the lead wererat had a pet Fire Elemental.

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Pirates of The Western Sea

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on July 29, 2016, 03:01:02 pm

Hah. Thought you meant Highmax's pathfinder game, and was going "wait what, there's an elemental in there?"

Thankfully, IG, he only had a pet Wolverine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 29, 2016, 05:04:08 pm

Also we have no silver weapons aside from some flimsy daggers made of raw ore, so :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 29, 2016, 05:49:53 pm

My custom level, "Terror Inc. HQ", has over a 100 ratings, and 96% of them were thumbs up!  No way to tell how many people have actually played it, unfortunately (in-game downloads don't count on the workshop page).

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Broforce

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 29, 2016, 10:32:28 pm

Killed over a dozen orcs through the use of supreme tactics

(http://i.imgur.com/I40Iykr.png)

Realms of Arkania 2: Star Trail

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on July 30, 2016, 12:36:21 am

I won, surpassing my old high score by over a million points. By the skin of my teeth, with no extra lives[Although I got one AFTER the boss fight]. Only TWO Cherry Borders, three bombs and no small amount of skill and determination let me survive Resurrection Butterfly. Mind you, the only reason I was out of extra lives was because my X key kept ignoring my inputs during the final boss and Youmu. Without that, it wouldn't have been as much of a contest.

---

Something that I've been noticing is that I seem to get an inordinate amount of Cherry Borders during Yuyuko's fight. I think that you might get more Cherry during it, to make it more dramatic, sort of like how your health bar hovers at a tiny sliver during the final boss fight in Undertale. Makes it so you're more desperate and it feels more exciting. Definitely works. I've rarely felt so relieved and exhilarated after finishing a game.

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Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blitz
2 down, 8 to go. Now let's go slam my head into the Extra and Phantasm stages until I cave and just move on to Imperishable Night already.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on July 30, 2016, 03:20:25 am

I've murdered the Altos, the Landgraabs, and I'm almost through with the Goths.  My Sim's at the top of his career, with numerous partnerships with various businesses earning simoleons every week, he's poised to become richest Sim in sunset valley within a lifetime.

Sims 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 30, 2016, 06:44:41 am

Quote from: A Thing on July 29, 2016, 10:32:28 pm

Killed over a dozen orcs through the use of supreme tactics

(http://i.imgur.com/I40Iykr.png)

Realms of Arkania 2: Star Trail

I fail to see supreme tactics there. For one, you're surrounded. For two, I see the corpses of several of your team right next to you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on July 30, 2016, 12:50:47 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 30, 2016, 06:44:41 am

I fail to see supreme tactics there. For one, you're surrounded. For two, I see the corpses of several of your team right next to you.

(http://i.imgur.com/gjKse1A.png)

There is no way not to be surrounded in that fight or in most fights in Realms of Arkania. The tactic is to get as little orcs in attack range as possible, so that's what I did. There are no diagonal attacks in the game so only my dwarf was being attacked by multiple orcs.

As for the corpses, well, they're not corpses. Just unconscious dudes. One of them is a NPC who I can't control, and the other is an elf PC I couldn't get out of the battle in time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on July 30, 2016, 06:14:16 pm

There has been no Miracle at Dunkirk, this time, I have ensured. Over 300,000 allied troops have surrendered.

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Panzer Corps Grand Campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 30, 2016, 07:24:52 pm

During a successful attempt to retake Chac Intel Hub, I was one of the first to storm the spawn room once the shields switch sides. One NC trooper was there, and met his end at the barrel of my carbine.

That kill got me the final medal for said carbine, which requires 1160 total kills, though if the weapon can be used by multiple classes(this one can), then kills from all classes count. I also got 200 certs for the medal.

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Planetside 2. I've been playing for weeks trying to grind up those kills. I started this most recent session needed about 30 more. I had plenty more kills from other weapons as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 31, 2016, 07:32:58 am

Goonstation, popped in mid-game on Destiny.

From what I understand, we had 6 players. Me (Quartermaster), a geneticist, a chemist, a clown, a doctor, and AI.

Everyone started doing their own thing; with no requests or things to sell, I broke into the mining section to make some cash as there was no Head to change IDs.

As I came back to cargo, there was an explosion in the cargo bay's wall. There, an "unhinged scientist" had come through the blast door saying things like "Save me...". A call had come in about a scientist missing; thinking this was him, I dragged him over to medbay for treatment. He was already in a straight-jacket with no visible wounds, a health analysis turned up nothing, and with no access to health analyzer upgrades; I stuffed him in a sleeper pod and left him for the doctor.

I mined some more, and suddenly EXPLOSION. I ran back to medbay (thank you admin for reminding me, and yes I am horrendously dense). Medbay was essentially destroyed, a whole bunch of martian rock turned up in its place, and the scientist which I had left there was now hostile, and ON FIRE.

He chased me down the hallway, throwing scalpels at me, severely injuring me. I managed to escape by crawling back to the cargo bay. I waited until I stabilized, and then crawled through maintenance to get away. Along the way, I slipped on some oil, and accidentally clicked on an artifact while trying to get my stuff. It "unsheathed an extensive array of weapons" and started glowing, so I booked it out of there.

AI let me through hydroponics and back into the main hall. The scientist was locked in the lower hallway, and I met up with our doctor and geneticist (on a stretcher). When the doctor ran off to grab some recovery items, our chemist came in and forcefed the geneticist a "Fucksyouup pill"; somehow this magically healed her at the cost of slurring her speech. The doctor then fixed me up.

The geneticist ran off to fix her speech, the chemist ran back to her lab, the doctor went back to formulate more medicines, leaving me to ponder what to do next. There was an artifact that appeared along with the scientist, but I was incredibly reluctant to use it; seeing as my previous interaction with an artifact was not very inspiring.

While I was pondering, I remembered the artifact I ran into in maintenance; and ran back to it. Along the way, the clown tried to fight the scientist and was promptly asploded, triggering the escape shuttle. As I dragged the artifact back, I was stuck behind the hydroponics door, the AI had to do some diagnostics (i.e. bathroom I suppose). When he/she got back, the chemist had lured the scientist into the common rooms, where she then triggered a full beaker of plasma, destroying most of the commons and blowing the scientist into a small room; where the AI bolted it shut. The scientist then took the chemist's russian revolver and shot itself in the head. It survived.

I dragged the artifact in front of the door, triggered it, then got the AI to open the door. The artifact started shooting quark bolts at the scientist. I didn't stick around and ran to the escape shuttle and several things happened.

1. The doctor somehow got the security room open.
2. The geneticist had dragged all the birds in the topiary into the shuttle.
3. A bunch of naked npcs magically appeared in the shuttle and promptly started beating each other to death.

We locked ourselves (and the birds) in the security room and I welded the door shut just as the shuttle left. However, just before the end of the trip, an explosion appeared and the scientist teleported into the shuttle. We were safe, as we were in a welded room; but as soon as we arrived, the scientist turned into a massive black hole and tore the door off its hinges.

The doctor got sucked in and died, the geneticist died trying to save the birds, and the birds and npcs all got sucked in.. The blackhole disappeared and I was the only one left standing. managing to survive by clinging to the wall.

My favorite discourses was with the AI (the others didn't seem to talk much).

As I was escaping through maintenance.
AI: The scientist appears to be burning, yet is no worse for it.
Me: Extrapolate possible countermeasures.
AI: You can escape through botany, into the northern hallway.
Me: Hydroponics, perhaps we can smoke it to death.

After being healed and pondering the scientist's artifact.
Me: Doctor, do you have anything for "Severe reluctance to handle unknown, possibly lethal, alien device"?
Chemist: I have another pill!
Me: I'll... pass thanks...

On clown death and fetching artifact.
AI: Mr. Muffles attempted to kill the scientist and has spontaneously combusted.
Me: Well, that's one possibility down. One zillion more to go.
Me: Computer, artifact, when touched, reveals perturbing amounts of weaponry. Extrapolate possibility of automatically acquiring nearby targets.
AI: Highly likely.
AI: Although, there exists a possibility that it reveals those weapons to be used by others.
AI: Possibility of either is estimated to be 70/30.
Me: So 70/30 chance of killing super scientist or giving super scientist alien super weapons?
AI: Correct.
Me: I'll take those odds.

On chemist death.
AI: (Chemist name) has destroyed a large portion of the common area with fire.
Me: Elaborate.
AI: (Chemist) lit a beaker full of plasma, before throwing it at the scientist, setting herself, the scientist, and the surrounding area on fire.
Me: She tried to set... an already burning scientist... on fire...
AI: That appears to be the case.
AI: The scientist then picked up (Chemist)'s russian revolver, and shot himself in the head.
AI: He then stood back up.
Me: So he's already de-Oh.
Me: Alright then, first open this door. Then, extrapolate possible swear-words to describe our current situation.
AI: The ship is fucked.
Me: Couldn't have put it better myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on July 31, 2016, 04:55:58 pm

Being the experienced soldier I am (I've never played the game before) I set up  my machinegun in a tactical position overlooking likely enemy approach (I just sort of went prone in the middle of the street with my MG) and ambushed and killed a group of enemies who didn't see me, as they ran down the street.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Day of Infamy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 31, 2016, 06:50:44 pm

Am called in as a sentinel to defend a player. As soon as I show up, the invader panics and runs away. He gets a lightning spear to the back and a mock gesture. Bow to the host and host bows back, go back to own world with a successful intervention under my belt, especially since these are sparse nowadays.

Dark Souls 2: Waifu of the First Sin

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 31, 2016, 07:03:16 pm

Defeated Lynx and got the "Not a Chance" achievement.

Shadow Fight 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on July 31, 2016, 08:40:29 pm

Our advance into the Soviet Union has begun, and we've already captured Soviet tanks. A T-34 and a KV-1, and the KV-1 is actually better than the KV-1s they have, that I've seen thus far. Nothing will go wrong, we will win easily.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 31, 2016, 08:58:21 pm

Are you allowed to use captured tanks?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on July 31, 2016, 09:25:09 pm

Yes, capturing certain points gives you a captured unit, and you can keep them with you as any other unit. But they can't be upgraded to a more modern form of that unit, they'll get outdated in a couple of years. Particularly when we start getting Panthers and Tigers and they start getting T-34-85s. We also have two French heavy tanks and a British heavy tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 31, 2016, 10:43:35 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 31, 2016, 08:58:21 pm

Are you allowed to use captured tanks?

IRL in WW2 captured tanks were painted with the correct identifying symbols and used.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 01, 2016, 11:06:20 am

I took JhoJho on a bizarre adventure to show him the true meaning of pain and suffering.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Gonna be honest here, I have no idea how I beat Deviljho on my first try. With all the hype I'd heard over him being a psychotic lunatic more difficult to beat than the devil himself I was fully expecting to post in the dead-thread about him taking me on a bizarre adventure to show me the true meaning of pain and suffering.

Oh and I beat Apex Seregios and stuff but meh he only carted me once and that was only because based on the research assistant's wording I thought I was only allowed to use the Drive Wystone once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 01, 2016, 01:12:30 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/GWF0e3pm.jpg)

Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 01, 2016, 05:54:53 pm

I beat Tetsucabra, furthering my belief that Insect Glaive is love Insect Glaive is life.

MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 03, 2016, 05:41:09 pm

Got all six votes in a game of Lucioball where I was total MVP. 2 goals, 2 saves, 4 interceptions, all gold.

Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 03, 2016, 05:57:17 pm

We've made it to Sevastopol, decisive victories all the way and so far I don't think I've lost too many of my experienced units maybe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 03, 2016, 06:01:47 pm

Got the Master Protector achievement... by hypnotizing another Big Daddy and sitting in a corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 2. Achievement requires a full session of a Little Sister collecting ADAM that is uninterrupted by enemies attacking her AND requires you taking zero damage during it. The Demanding Father tonic speeds up the collection, and there's nothing to say that hypnotized enemies can't take all the hits for you.

Unfortunately, a crash bug seems to have deadstopped my playthrough of this game, as the game now crashes within seconds of the game loading.

EDIT: Got past that crash bug. Thankfully it was just that level, but I correctly deduced it was a graphics issue and had to reduce the graphics detail to their lowest setting. The next level I could turn everything back to high. That's an own on it's own, but then I received an ability described as "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day". {My "daughter" just clad herself in Big Sister armor and kicked the shit out of two Brute Splicers - and that's the least of her badassery.}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 04, 2016, 02:23:40 am

Figured I'd give the target shield a go for some parrying. Failed. Remembered there's no real reason not to parry with a medium shield.

This game is a lot easier when you can parry the most common enemies perfectly on their first hit.

Now I've just got to figure out O&S...

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 04, 2016, 02:27:53 am

I've been playing Alien Swarm on the maximum possible difficulty settings with some dudes from Steam, but I ended up playing a couple of games with low-level players on minimum difficulty today. I basically felt like I was the terminator, and could effectively clear levels singlehandedly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 04, 2016, 02:28:23 am

Quote from: Arx on August 04, 2016, 02:23:40 am

Remembered there's no real reason not to parry with a medium shield.

The parry frames are unanimously shorter with medium shields, but really if you're not going a PARRY PARRY PARRY build they're better, I suppose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 04, 2016, 03:05:08 am

I'unno, I can't land a parry with the target. At all. With the Grass Crest, 9/10 times. I guess I'm just really used to the medium shield timing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on August 04, 2016, 08:32:04 am

Which is weird, because the target shield should have almost the exact same timing. Just with a longer window for the parry to connect. Maybe the different animation is just throwing you off or something? I don't know. The Grass Crest Shield is awesome though, so I can't blame you for wanting to use it all the time. _{Also sunbro has a summon sign on the staircase with the silver knight archer, if you need help with Biggie and Smalls. He never lasts the entire fight, but the extra body makes the first phase of the battle way faster/easier so you can save your flasks for the second part.}

---

In more Dark Souls related ownage, I defeated a boss on my first attempt without them landing a solid hit on me. Admittedly my shield did get bashed around, but I've never had a fight before where I didn't need to heal. So it seems like an own to me. Even if I felt vaguely dirty afterwards.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dank Seouls 2: Scolder of the Fist Sign. More specificially on the Pursuer boss fight in the Forest of the Giants or whatever it's called.

To be honest, DS2 feels like another company (or at least team) made the game and then got the Dark Souls IP at the last moment. I mean, you don't even use 'Dark Souls' to restore your humanity, goddamn it. That's not going to stop me from playing it for hours on end, of course, but the first game is just that much better than it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 04, 2016, 09:50:37 am

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on August 04, 2016, 08:32:04 am

To be honest, DS2 feels like another company (or at least team) made the game and then got the Dark Souls IP at the last moment. I mean, you don't even use 'Dark Souls' to restore your humanity, goddamn it.

There never was a "dark soul" item. It was humanity in the first game, and human effigies in the second. Also it was a mostly different team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on August 04, 2016, 10:06:16 am

Yes. Humanity. The 'Dark Souls' of humans. Hence why they're black with a white outline, in contrast to the white/yellowish souls of everything else. _{I just didn't want to repeat the word humanity in the sentence twice, and I thought that using 'dark souls' helped drive my point across at how disconnected the second game is from the first. But you're right. You used Humanity to restore your Humanity in the first game. And Human Effigies in the second for no good reason.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 04, 2016, 04:28:11 pm

With the glow and outline of the effigies, it kind of looks like they're just Humanity.. inside a little effigy? However that would work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 04, 2016, 04:53:02 pm

Noticed under Luka's allowance accounts that she spent 1000MP on "Self-Improvement: Took a baking lesson. Now I know some elementary dessert-making magic!"

After I finishing D'aaawww-ing, I ended up thoroughly trouncing her at Reversi. Normally she humiliates me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 04, 2016, 05:03:48 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on August 04, 2016, 10:06:16 am

Yes. Humanity. The 'Dark Souls' of humans. Hence why they're black with a white outline, in contrast to the white/yellowish souls of everything else. _{I just didn't want to repeat the word humanity in the sentence twice, and I thought that using 'dark souls' helped drive my point across at how disconnected the second game is from the first. But you're right. You used Humanity to restore your Humanity in the first game. And Human Effigies in the second for no good reason.}

Since this is a derail and getting into spoiler land, going to put stuff into spoilers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dunno why the shift to effigies, really, but humanity isn't dark souls. It's kind of its own thing that can exist outside humans and is... produced? by them. Dark Souls are the actual souls of humans, who all originate from the Furtive Pygmy. None of the bosses from the first game are humans (except the Four Kings, but they had a bit of Gwyn's Soul transplanted into them), and their souls are quite different. All the non-boss souls we see in the games belong to humans, we never see "soul of a <insert monster here>". It's also noted that humanity is useless for humans, but highly-sought by hollows. It's also confirmed in the third game (and heavily hinted in 1 and 2) that hollows are the "true face" of humans. Since hollows (true form humans) can exist without humanity (only needing it to look like living humans), and hollows still have souls, humanity != dark souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 04, 2016, 05:56:31 pm

I came across the apex predator while randomly mutating cells. I have decided to name it the "shit-town worm" after its curious coloration. It preys on other cells, but unlike most predators, it can survive and even thrive off petri dish nutrients just fine, so it keeps going after devouring new species. It is also extremely radiation-resistant, barely changing over many, many generations despite the highest radiation setting. I don't know how exactly it reproduces, considering its literally just a devorocyte splitting itself into a devorocyte and a fagocyte, which the devorocyte promptly consumes, which then repeats itself. This provides propulsion, but not reproduction.

Cell Lab

E: well it looks like the good ole undefeatable lifeform has arisen. that being photocytes with kerwtinocytes. Can't eat them, can't infect them, they just keep growing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on August 04, 2016, 07:19:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 03, 2016, 06:01:47 pm

Got the Master Protector achievement... by hypnotizing another Big Daddy and sitting in a corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 2. Achievement requires a full session of a Little Sister collecting ADAM that is uninterrupted by enemies attacking her AND requires you taking zero damage during it. The Demanding Father tonic speeds up the collection, and there's nothing to say that hypnotized enemies can't take all the hits for you.

Unfortunately, a crash bug seems to have deadstopped my playthrough of this game, as the game now crashes within seconds of the game loading.

EDIT: Got past that crash bug. Thankfully it was just that level, but I correctly deduced it was a graphics issue and had to reduce the graphics detail to their lowest setting. The next level I could turn everything back to high. That's an own on it's own, but then I received an ability described as "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day". {My "daughter" just clad herself in Big Sister armor and kicked the shit out of two Brute Splicers - and that's the least of her badassery.}

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 2

Okay, something to note, this is actually the fault of how old the game is. See, the updated version(kinda) Steam sells is able to handle modern-day amounts of RAM, but it doesn't know that. So if you try and use said RAM, it says "Oi! You're overloading your computer! I'm shutting down so you don't hurt yourself, you moron." because it doesn't know that today, the amount of RAM being used actually exists.


I don't remember how to fix it, but it's a line in a text file somewhere you can change. Google should help you there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 04, 2016, 10:56:09 pm

My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 04, 2016, 11:39:13 pm

[quote author
=Amperzand link=topic=83528.msg7121035#msg7121035 date=1470369369]
My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

[/quote]

Tell your team:
I
FUCKING
SALUTE YOU

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 05, 2016, 12:01:38 am

Sadly, they were just random dudes, and I don't know who all was active in chat to salute. T'was fucking awesome though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 05, 2016, 11:01:32 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 04, 2016, 11:39:13 pm

Quote from: Amperzand on August 04, 2016, 10:56:09 pm

My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2

Tell your team:
I
FUCKING
SALUTE YOU

FTFY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on August 05, 2016, 11:21:37 am

Driving the death road to Canada as "The Swole", after being stuck alone for about 3 days in game, I flexed against a body builder, who promptly turned to stone and fragmented into a million pieces.

Spoiler: Now my first partner is a bit odd. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/6R2imPx.png)

Edit:

Spoiler: Wait, are her eyes getting bigger? (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/k6tCXsh.png)

Edit2:

Spoiler: There is a point where we've gone too far, but let's keep going and see what happens. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/0xUbvYo.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 05, 2016, 12:12:32 pm

It is truly my greatest creation. I am an artist, not a child.

Spoiler: War Thunder (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/3MkMB9k.jpg)It looks really goofy with all of those jerry cans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on August 05, 2016, 01:39:48 pm

Quote from: Blaze on August 05, 2016, 11:21:37 am

snip

Right, since my reaction can't be more properly conveyed ;
What the fuck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on August 05, 2016, 01:52:52 pm

After capturing a minor toxic planet Fundus III from Sakkra Feudal Empire for Terran Imperium after a gruesome evenly-matched battle of 20+ ships on each side, Rear Admiral Tellik's depleted fleet was to stand there and wait for reinformcents to arrive while the 2nd fleet was en route to Sakkra homeworld (we needed Fundus III to have just enough range to hit the homeworld). The fleet at Fundus III was comprised of 3 Galleys (ships with Troop pods, Augmented Engines and PD systems only), Rear Admiral Tellik's Centurion (beefy ship with many missiles and lotsa structural points thanks to Reinforced Hull) and four tractor-beam using Paladin cruisers.

Unfortunately, the Sakkra rushed for Fundus III and within two turns I was seeing 2 Sakkran Battleships, 6 Cruisers and 7 Destroyers bearing down onto Tellik's fleet within a turn. Hyperspace Comms aren't a thing yet so I couldn't redirect Mystic-X's fleet from Sakkran Homeworld. Reinforcements from Meklar and Terra were too far to reach them in time, but if Fundus III were to be recaptured, Mystic-X's fleet would have to auto-retreat from Sakkra homeworld, so...

We battle.

Noting that Sakkra used smaller but plentiful swarms of Merculite missiles and Interceptor fighters, I moved Rear Admiral Tellik's ship to front, with all my ships firing Anti-Matter torpedoes and Pulson Missiles at one of Sakkra battleships. Meanwhile, the Galleys sneaked through the top and bottom and to the sides of the second Battleship. Rear Admiral Tellik, with Class III shields only on his ship, decided to take an extreme survival tactic:

He begun spinning his ship in circles.

The infuriated Sakkra wasted their missiles on Tellik's ship which was losing shields, armor and structural points very slowly. Then Ka-boom, went the 1st Sakkra battleship, after last of Pulson Missiles were launched. In the meanwhile, the tractor-beam Paladins moved forward far enough to immobilize the 2nd battleship. Cue the Galleys swarming in and delivering Terran Marines on board!

That's when Rear Admiral Tellik noticed that the Sakkra Battleship have Troop pods of their own.

Solution? More Terran Marines!

The Paladins closed down on the second Battleship and began delivering their own, smaller but equally-capable Marine deatchments onto the Battleship. After grinding down a god-awful amount of Sakkra soldiers manning the security stations (no wonder they were so persistent), the 2nd Battleship was captured.

Meanwhile, the Rear Admiral Tellik managed to spin-absorb most of the Sakkra missiles and lost only 2/3 of the ship's structural points. Paladins then, in conjunction with Galleys (never underestimate numerous PD Fusion Beams!) pew pew'd the Sakkra Cruisers and Destroyers to dust, and the remaining Galley marines even managed to further boost their score by snatching a Cruiser near the end of the battle.

Sakkra losses: 2 Battleships, 6 Cruisers, 7 Destroyers and a complement of Transports that was meant for re-conquest of Fundus III
Terran Imperium losses: NULL

GLORY TO THE TERRAN IMPERIUM!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Master of Orion II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on August 05, 2016, 06:53:42 pm

Managed to kill a bunch of strong (each one has more health than the boss at the end of the megadungeon) enemies without using the plot weapon that you're supposed to use.

Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Didn't realize I was supposed to soul-bind Abydon's hammer. Ended up finding out when I soulbound it to my Barbarian because she was doing good damage with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on August 06, 2016, 01:27:13 am

Made it to almost the end, after a full 40-some minutes and a maxed-out difficulty bar.  I'm still not sure how.

Doing a stupid and getting summarily ganked by a double Magma Worm afterwards was slightly less fun, but hey, I still almost beat the thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on August 06, 2016, 05:02:35 am

Quote from: Blaze on August 05, 2016, 11:21:37 am

-snip-

Wait, what? What caused that? Just her strength stat going up? I've never recruited her; I might have to now just to see that. O.o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 06, 2016, 02:39:11 pm

You know, I was thinking Pinwheel was probably being unfairly underrated. Then I killed him in three hits. He was taking three times as much damage as skeletons! What? Anyway, now I've just got to not get wiped in the Tomb.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 06, 2016, 03:00:10 pm

If you had a fire weapon, that's probably why.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on August 06, 2016, 04:56:10 pm

Even if you didn't have fire weapons he'd still take, like, five hits at most. Pinwheel is a total pushover if you tackle him after getting the Lord Vessel. And even before then I feel like he wouldn't take that longer to kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 06, 2016, 04:58:52 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on August 06, 2016, 04:56:10 pm

Even if you didn't have fire weapons he'd still take, like, five hits at most. Pinwheel is a total pushover if you tackle him after getting the Lord Vessel. And even before then I feel like he wouldn't take that longer to kill.

There are some builds that rush him down right after getting to Firelink for the masks, so he's that easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on August 06, 2016, 05:12:57 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on August 06, 2016, 04:56:10 pm

Even if you didn't have fire weapons he'd still take, like, five hits at most. Pinwheel is a total pushover if you tackle him after getting the Lord Vessel. And even before then I feel like he wouldn't take that longer to kill.

Can confirm, I went after him before even entering Sen's Fortress and he died in around 4 hits.

Basically, Pinwheel is weaksauce if you can deal a lot of damage to him as soon as the fight starts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Leyic on August 07, 2016, 12:10:57 am

First place in a NecroDancer daily. (http://crypt.toofz.com/leaderboards/daily/2016/8/6)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 07, 2016, 01:00:05 am

Myself and a few other, considerably more skilled players have at last succeeded in beating levels on Brutal Onslaught difficulty, all the way up to the damn flamer level in this session. HELL YEAH!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alien Swarm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 09:58:43 am

We're inside the gates of Stalingrad, a tougher KV-1 has been captured, and losses aren't heavy, yet. This will likely very rapidly change, due to the fact that Stalingrad isn't a friendly place for Germany.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My forbidden Panzer love: or Panzer Corps grand campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 07, 2016, 10:05:01 am

Quote from: Amperzand on August 07, 2016, 01:00:05 am

Myself and a few other, considerably more skilled players have at last succeeded in beating levels on Brutal Onslaught difficulty, all the way up to the damn flamer level in this session. HELL YEAH!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alien Swarm

Maybe I could play with ya'll some time? It's been quite a while and I don't have much EXP/access to weapons (I think) but...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 07, 2016, 10:45:08 am

I start the Prussian Grand Campaign by raising taxes and waiting for money and tech advances. About ten turns go by and Austria declares war on me and Poland.

So I buy a peace treaty, alliance, and military access from Poland with my NIGH UNLIMITED FUNDS and instantly capture Silesia and Brandenburg from Austria with numerically inferior forces. This shatters Austria's military, and Poland's relations with me start souring, so I did the only smart thing.

I attacked four Polish provinces with miniscule armies of line infantry, all at once. Wiped them almost all the way out (They have two more provinces to my east I think.) Now I'm in control of a curiously Germany shaped chunk of Europe with a shattered economy, thinly spread military, and the best tech of any country in my region.

Time to start some more wars.

Empire Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 07, 2016, 12:34:28 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 09:58:43 am

We're inside the gates of Stalingrad, a tougher KV-1 has been captured, and losses aren't heavy, yet. This will likely very rapidly change, due to the fact that Stalingrad isn't a friendly place for Germany.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My forbidden Panzer love: or Panzer Corps grand campaign

Every time I'm seeing these, I keep thinking your tankers are Panzergirls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 01:20:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 07, 2016, 12:34:28 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 09:58:43 am

We're inside the gates of Stalingrad, a tougher KV-1 has been captured, and losses aren't heavy, yet. This will likely very rapidly change, due to the fact that Stalingrad isn't a friendly place for Germany.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My forbidden Panzer love: or Panzer Corps grand campaign

Every time I'm seeing these, I keep thinking your tankers are Panzergirls.

They are, at least in my heart they are.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 07, 2016, 02:12:28 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 07, 2016, 10:05:01 am

Quote from: Amperzand on August 07, 2016, 01:00:05 am

Myself and a few other, considerably more skilled players have at last succeeded in beating levels on Brutal Onslaught difficulty, all the way up to the damn flamer level in this session. HELL YEAH!

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Alien Swarm

Maybe I could play with ya'll some time? It's been quite a while and I don't have much EXP/access to weapons (I think) but...

Sure! My steam. (https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198132136527/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 07, 2016, 10:07:13 pm

Took off a zombie's head...

With a kick.

Brainbread 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on August 07, 2016, 11:42:31 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on August 06, 2016, 05:02:35 am

Wait, what? What caused that? Just her strength stat going up? I've never recruited her; I might have to now just to see that. O.o

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Turns out that her eyes keep getting bigger until her head explodes after three days. Just like how mahou shoujo shows have a trope where a character dies on the third episode. Specifically Mami from Puella Magi who gets her head bit off.

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 01:20:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 07, 2016, 12:34:28 pm

Every time I'm seeing these, I keep thinking your tankers are Panzergirls.

They are, at least in my heart they are.

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(http://i.imgur.com/bhgxUUa.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 11:53:21 pm

Quote from: Blaze on August 07, 2016, 11:42:31 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 07, 2016, 01:20:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 07, 2016, 12:34:28 pm

Every time I'm seeing these, I keep thinking your tankers are Panzergirls.

They are, at least in my heart they are.

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(http://i.imgur.com/bhgxUUa.jpg)

I waltz with panzers on occasion, but my boyfriend does most of the waltzing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on August 08, 2016, 01:08:52 am

Quote from: Blaze on August 07, 2016, 11:42:31 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on August 06, 2016, 05:02:35 am

Wait, what? What caused that? Just her strength stat going up? I've never recruited her; I might have to now just to see that. O.o

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Turns out that her eyes keep getting bigger until her head explodes after three days. Just like how mahou shoujo shows have a trope where a character dies on the third episode. Specifically Mami from Puella Magi who gets her head bit off.

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Huh. That kinda sucks. I guess I could just use her for cannon fodder if I ever find her again, then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 08, 2016, 02:05:04 am

I made it to the Canadian border!

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And then I lost immediately because there were a lot of zombies there and the group was just one person: my RL brother.

Oddly enough, I started with two random characters.  Then I found a copyright free version of Octodad, then my brother.  Then Octodad died, and then *I* joined the group.  Then one of the randoms died with all the pistol ammo, the other walked off with both our rifles.  So I went from all randoms to me and my RL brother.  Then I died.  Then he reached the border and died.

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Death Road to Canada

Edit: While we're talking about ridiculous characters from Death Road to Canada, I found Horse:

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/270599410822952980/1093994A052C3B8CB8556DA88021372C8D3C9A40/)
Horse can't attack, but moves so fast that they can literally move through a horde of zombies faster than the zombies can complete an attack.  The only way for horse to really die is if a zombie physically blocks their path, since they can't use attacks to clear the way.  Unfortunately, having a character that can't attack is a massive liability during hordes and the speed boost does nothing in a group, so Horse got everyone else in the party (and any new characters) killed early on and then proceeded to live essentially forever and grab a ridiculous amount of supplies they had no use for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on August 08, 2016, 02:20:25 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on August 08, 2016, 01:08:52 am

Quote from: Blaze on August 07, 2016, 11:42:31 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on August 06, 2016, 05:02:35 am

Wait, what? What caused that? Just her strength stat going up? I've never recruited her; I might have to now just to see that. O.o

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turns out that her eyes keep getting bigger until her head explodes after three days. Just like how mahou shoujo shows have a trope where a character dies on the third episode. Specifically Mami from Puella Magi who gets her head bit off.

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Huh. That kinda sucks. I guess I could just use her for cannon fodder if I ever find her again, then.

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I'm pretty sure it's balancing as she's ridiculously OP. Her weapon is infinite use ranged attack and she has the high fitness to spam it; furthermore she has no cost to recruit unlike most special characters who have strong abilities.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 08, 2016, 05:35:36 am

Beat the Pizza Slime on the first try. Heck, I only took two hits, and that was when she split herself in three and the middle one popped up right under me with no warning.

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Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 08, 2016, 08:46:57 pm

I hunted Tetsucabra, and for once it didn't completely wipe out my potion supply! A relatively straightforward hunt where nothing went horrendously awry.

I also have a full set of Tetsucabra gear now, though I'm not entirely sure what the implications of that are.

MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 08, 2016, 09:32:33 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on August 08, 2016, 08:46:57 pm

I hunted Tetsucabra, and for once it didn't completely wipe out my potion supply! A relatively straightforward hunt where nothing went horrendously awry.

I also have a full set of Tetsucabra gear now, though I'm not entirely sure what the implications of that are.

MH4U.

- You have resistance to the extremely-common Fire element, slight resistance to the rare Dragon element, and weakness to the relatively rare water element and relatively common thunder element.
- You have the Health +20 skill, which means you'll always have +20 maximum health, even if you get killed and lose your food powers. At this early stage of the game, that is quite handy.
- You have the Defense Up (S) skill, which means your defense is equal to the sum of your armor's defense + 15.
- Unfortunately, you also have Gathering -1, which means that sometimes you'll have fewer chances to gather from gathering points. Since this shouldn't really come into play on regular hunts, remember to take your Tetsucabra gear off when you go to collect honey or whatever.

Tetsucabra is a pretty good set. It should last you through low rank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on August 09, 2016, 04:46:56 pm

Beat the game, despite some of the sloppiest playing ever[Before I switched to IN, I'd just lost to Ran's Tenko Illusion four times in a row, mostly due to running into her first couple non-spells]. Eirin is a fun boss. Not wimpy like Remilia or annoying like Ran, but at a nice point in between. Still, this game just doesn't feel as hard as the first couple did. Probably because I got quite good at hitting those Last Spells, which doubles or triples your effective lives if you can do it consistently. That's with no continues[I don't use continues], but its still quite tame.

---

Mind you, the Extra stage still isn't unlocked. I'm guessing I need to beat the game again with a team that goes up against Reimu instead of Marisa. So I guess Team Scarlet isn't out of the race yet, although I'll really miss Yukari's ability to manipulate the Border of Life and Death.

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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 09, 2016, 04:57:17 pm

Just beat the Pursuer after, from what I've heard about him, a surprisingly low amount of tries. Counterclockwise circlestrafing for the win!
Dark Souls 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on August 09, 2016, 05:18:17 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on August 09, 2016, 04:46:56 pm

Mind you, the Extra stage still isn't unlocked. I'm guessing I need to beat the game again with a team that goes up against Reimu instead of Marisa.

It's a bit simpler than that. To avoid spoilers, you need to beat the game twice without continues.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on August 09, 2016, 08:24:21 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on August 09, 2016, 05:18:17 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on August 09, 2016, 04:46:56 pm

Mind you, the Extra stage still isn't unlocked. I'm guessing I need to beat the game again with a team that goes up against Reimu instead of Marisa.

It's a bit simpler than that. To avoid spoilers, you need to beat the game twice without continues.

Oh, OK. I'll still probably TRY winning with Team Scarlet, but its nice to know I have alternatives. Or I could go with the team I haven't tried, Marisa/Alice. Decisions, decisions.

---

A MUCH more satisfying own:

I.
Beat.
Ran.

Don't actually know how many tries it took. Chen's first spell sign's counter stopped incrementing at 99, but I often restart if Chen takes more then one life. Ran's first spell sign's counter was around ~80ish, so that's probably a more realistic number. Still, I finally prevailed. Fluffiness and dakka are no match for DETERMINATION and caffeine.

Not sure how, honestly. Got to her survival sign quite well off, only losing lives to her laser swastika and black hole. I honestly just bombed my way through her Fluffytail Cage, knowing full well her ultimate spell sign would wreck me while I was defenseless.

Her final sign isn't actually THAT bad. I was able to dodge most of it quite easily, my heart in my mouth because I had no lives left. Her dakka intensified until I couldn't find a path through and I lost. ...Or so I thought. I honestly don't know where my extra life came from, I'll have to go over the replay to see if I just got distracted and miscounted or if I got another one somewhere. In any case, my new life endowed me with four bombs[Sakuya FTW] and allowed me to cheese the rest of her spell sign.

EDIT:

OK, apparently I got over the 500 point threshold for the second extra life after Kokkuri-San's Contract and just didn't notice.

---

now i just have to deal with yukari, flandre and whoever the IN extra boss is

oughta be easy

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Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 09, 2016, 08:30:42 pm

Chances are you got an extra life from your score. You gain points while shooting her, after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on August 09, 2016, 09:08:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 09, 2016, 08:30:42 pm

Chances are you got an extra life from your score. You gain points while shooting her, after all.

Looking over the replay[Looking at your own replays is really weird, I've never bothered before], I did get an extra life from points. But in PCB, you only get extra lives from score tiles, as opposed to your overall points. If you didn't collect a a single point tile, you'd never get an extra life no matter how high your score rose. Confused the hell out of me when I transitioned from EoSD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 09, 2016, 10:25:02 pm

Caught me a Xerneas, legendary Pokemon.

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Pokemon X

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 10, 2016, 01:29:44 am

I beat the Cinematic Story Mode of Street Fighter V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 10, 2016, 01:33:43 am

Game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on August 10, 2016, 01:52:02 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 10, 2016, 01:33:43 am

Game?

Quote from: MaximumZero on August 10, 2016, 01:29:44 am

I beat the Cinematic Story Mode of Street Fighter V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 10, 2016, 01:53:28 am

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 10, 2016, 01:56:16 am

It's 2am, ironic humour tends to go over people's heads at this time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 10, 2016, 01:59:23 am

Apparently I get better at videogames when really sleepy and relaxed. Fascinating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on August 10, 2016, 02:00:40 am

Quote from: hector13 on August 10, 2016, 01:56:16 am

It's 2am, ironic humour tends to go over people's heads at this time.

Actually... (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning)

Quote from: Amperzand on August 10, 2016, 01:59:23 am

Apparently I get better at videogames when really sleepy and relaxed. Fascinating.

There is a benefit to not being really tense and hypertwitchy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 10, 2016, 02:40:28 am

Cleared two Expeditions, defeating three huge monsters in each (including the Yian Kut-Ku that caused me so much trouble before). I didn't even end up using any of my own potions, since every pile of rubbish had half a dozen First Aid Meds buried in it.

MH4U.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on August 10, 2016, 05:30:09 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on August 10, 2016, 02:00:40 am

Quote from: hector13 on August 10, 2016, 01:56:16 am

It's 2am, ironic humour tends to go over people's heads at this time.

Actually... (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning)

Quote from: Amperzand on August 10, 2016, 01:59:23 am

Apparently I get better at videogames when really sleepy and relaxed. Fascinating.

There is a benefit to not being really tense and hypertwitchy.

Indeed. And when I'm doing best I usually feel very relaxed, even if I'm actually functioning considerably faster than usual.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 10, 2016, 12:50:14 pm

Rapidly facepunched a spider with a stone fist until she was no longer there(having been knocked miles out to sea).

Got scored as a no-death level despite dying several times and the game immediately proceeding to the second half of the fight after clearing the first due to there being no checkpoints.

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Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls, beating the final boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 11, 2016, 04:37:29 am

I beat Fallout 3!

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Man, people weren't kidding. That ending blows. Fawkes should have been able to activate Purity. There should have been area epilogues. Sentinel Lyons was barely a character. So on and so forth, all the complaints about Fallout 3's story that have accumulated over the years.

The lead-up with Liberty Prime is probably my favorite final battle in a Bethesda game, though. DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2016, 08:03:51 am

_{if you get broken steel, some of those problems are solved}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 11, 2016, 08:40:17 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on August 11, 2016, 04:37:29 am

I beat Fallout 3!

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Man, people weren't kidding. That ending blows. Fawkes should have been able to activate Purity. There should have been area epilogues. Sentinel Lyons was barely a character. So on and so forth, all the complaints about Fallout 3's story that have accumulated over the years.

The lead-up with Liberty Prime is probably my favorite final battle in a Bethesda game, though. DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.

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With Broken Steel active, the three rad immune companions (Fawkes, the Mr Gutsy whose name I can't remember, and Charon) can be sent in instead. Additionally, it has a "post-game" story that occurs after F3's normal main quest, involving restoring Liberty Prime and hunting down the remnants of the Enclave. (also orbital strikes)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2016, 08:43:47 am

But it does, slightly, completely break Rivet City and its pretty hard to fix, in my experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2016, 12:34:30 pm

(or you could just play new vegas)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2016, 12:42:03 pm

(i agree)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on August 11, 2016, 05:25:23 pm

As far as I'm concerned, the Fallout series ended with New Vegas, and what a spectacular ending it was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 11, 2016, 05:28:30 pm

Quote from: BlackHeartKabal on August 11, 2016, 05:25:23 pm

As far as I'm concerned, the Fallout series ended with New Vegas, and what a spectacular ending it was.

Yeeeep. Lonesome Road was such a nice send-off to the DLC stories, as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 11, 2016, 10:02:11 pm

I got hit and entered into Spirit Mode, but I beat the midboss of Stage 4...

and got an Extend!!!

Granted, I still did die without reaching the boss of Stage 4 (immediately after I beat the boss, too), but given that I haven't played a Touhou game in quite some time, I'm gonna put this one down as a victory.

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Touhou 13: Ten Desires

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on August 12, 2016, 01:03:21 am

The time was late 1905.  Due to the fact that the Japanese main battle line seemed to be attempting to avoid direct action, the Imperial Chinese Navy was directed to assist army operations on Formosa, which had been secured early in the war but still faced guerilla operations by Japanese forces which had retreated to the interior.  Much to the chagrin of the crews and captains of the battlewagons, these duties largely amounted to babysitting: convoy escort duty.  Their wish was granted off Ningbo while escorting a convoy to Hangzhou, when the Chinese literally blundered into the main Japanese fleet in the pre-dawn gloom; the Japanese had finally decided to give battle.  Unfortunately, while the Chinese had numbers, the Japanese had quality: Chinese Zhenyuan-class battleships were relatively light in displacement and had a primary armament of 10" guns of middling quality (and the Xihe-variants, forced to be built at home due to rising tensions with the French, had distinctly sub-par main guns due to the state of Chinese domestic industry), while the Japanese standard designs for their Fusos and Mikasas were over 3000 tons heavier with 12" guns.  Fortunately, in a knife-fight, both sides were equally surprised, but superior Chinese gunnery soon showed the way.  A magazine blast ripped apart the light cruiser Itsukushima in the opening volleys, lighting up the stunned Japanese fleet, and the Chinese fell to with a vengeance.  After a full day's battle, the Japanese were completely routed without ever making contact with the transports, the IJN Fuso (lead ship of the Fuso-class battleship) left to sink beneath the waves and most of their remaining battleships fleeing northeast in states of disrepair.  The Chinese pursuit was, unfortunately, stymied by the dual needs to protect the transports against any possible cruiser action and the fall of night, but this blow proved to be decisive.  The Battle of Ningbo was the last major engagement of the Second Sino-Japanese War; the Japanese were compelled to withdraw all "interests" from southern Korea and Formosa as well as paying a minor indemnity, a complete reversal of Chinese fortunes ten years before.  Unfortunately, in spite of now being three battleships lighter (two to the Chinese, one to their American allies) and facing unrest at home, the Japanese were bowed, but not broken.

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Rule the Waves

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:07:30 pm

Remember when testing something you know will end in game over because you're curious always remember to savescum.
Anyway, before Curiousity killed the game, I'd managed to take the game from a CONSERVATIVE NIGHTMARE to almost complete liberalness with nothing but 5 guitarist, a gunner, a writer, and a hacker.
There were two new amendments. almost every issue was at %100 liberalness. all my men had army body armor. there were no longer deathsquads roaming the streets. there were no longer firemen burning those who use free speech. people would line up to sing our praises(you would think, with %100 knowing us, and %99 liking us).

Liberal Crime Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 05:34:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:07:30 pm

Remember when testing something you know will end in game over because you're curious always remember to savescum.
Anyway, before Curiousity killed the game, I'd managed to take the game from a CONSERVATIVE NIGHTMARE to almost complete liberalness with nothing but 5 guitarist, a gunner, a writer, and a hacker.
There were two new amendments. almost every issue was at %100 liberalness. all my men had army body armor. there were no longer deathsquads roaming the streets. there were no longer firemen burning those who use free speech. people would line up to sing our praises(you would think, with %100 knowing us, and %99 liking us).

Liberal Crime Squad

By the way, what's a good way to train fighting skills (outside of teaching)? And what good is fighting for as far as furthering the liberal agenda?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 12, 2016, 07:03:05 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 05:34:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:07:30 pm

Remember when testing something you know will end in game over because you're curious always remember to savescum.
Anyway, before Curiousity killed the game, I'd managed to take the game from a CONSERVATIVE NIGHTMARE to almost complete liberalness with nothing but 5 guitarist, a gunner, a writer, and a hacker.
There were two new amendments. almost every issue was at %100 liberalness. all my men had army body armor. there were no longer deathsquads roaming the streets. there were no longer firemen burning those who use free speech. people would line up to sing our praises(you would think, with %100 knowing us, and %99 liking us).

Liberal Crime Squad

By the way, what's a good way to train fighting skills (outside of teaching)? And what good is fighting for as far as furthering the liberal agenda?

Shooting people.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 07:10:21 pm

Quote from: George_Chickens on August 12, 2016, 07:03:05 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 05:34:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:07:30 pm

Remember when testing something you know will end in game over because you're curious always remember to savescum.
Anyway, before Curiousity killed the game, I'd managed to take the game from a CONSERVATIVE NIGHTMARE to almost complete liberalness with nothing but 5 guitarist, a gunner, a writer, and a hacker.
There were two new amendments. almost every issue was at %100 liberalness. all my men had army body armor. there were no longer deathsquads roaming the streets. there were no longer firemen burning those who use free speech. people would line up to sing our praises(you would think, with %100 knowing us, and %99 liking us).

Liberal Crime Squad

By the way, what's a good way to train fighting skills (outside of teaching)? And what good is fighting for as far as furthering the liberal agenda?

Shooting people.

Yes, because shooting people certainly won't result in getting shot by the police/security in return!

And yes, because killing people is an obvious means of furthering the Liberal Agenda!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 12, 2016, 07:11:52 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 07:10:21 pm

And yes, because killing people arch-conservatives is an obvious means of furthering the Liberal Agenda!

FTFY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 12, 2016, 07:13:54 pm

Obviously you just shoot the conservative police/security with your guns of liberalism before they shoot you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 07:21:25 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 12, 2016, 07:13:54 pm

Obviously you just shoot the conservative police/security with your guns of liberalism before they shoot you.

Steelmagic and hector13 come off as slightly insane. There won't be another meeting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 12, 2016, 07:57:34 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 07:21:25 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 12, 2016, 07:13:54 pm

Obviously you just shoot the conservative police/security with your guns of liberalism before they shoot you.

Steelmagic and hector13 come off as slightly insane. There won't be another meeting.

Pfft, you just don't have enough Juice to appreciate our efforts, man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 12, 2016, 08:04:43 pm

Basically, fighting skill is most important when you completely fuck up furthering the Liberal Agenda.

Also, it might also convince the public of the importance of a Liberal gun policy(which is ban guns). After all, those Conservative swine wouldn't have been possible had it not been legal to purchase guns and legal to fire a gun in a crowded area - both the ideology of the Conservative - and those people clearly saw the guns, knew which way they were pointing, and still stood in the path of the bullet like the Conservatives they are were. Heck, it's their fault the bullets hit them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 12, 2016, 09:14:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 12, 2016, 08:04:43 pm

Basically, fighting skill is most important when you completely fuck up furthering the Liberal Agenda.

Also, it might also convince the public of the importance of a Liberal gun policy(which is ban guns). After all, those Conservative swine wouldn't have been possible had it not been legal to purchase guns and legal to fire a gun in a crowded area - both the ideology of the Conservative - and those people clearly saw the guns, knew which way they were pointing, and still stood in the path of the bullet like the Conservatives they are were. Heck, it's their fault the bullets hit them.

AzyWng found Akura's tips and advice to be insightful. They'll meet again if the former has any further questions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 13, 2016, 10:53:56 am

Cooked 25 bags of meth on Death Wish. This was my third loud DW heist.

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Payday 2 on the Cook Off heist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 13, 2016, 04:47:46 pm

My Salamence, whom I named Chelsia after the protagonist of Khimera: DAMGs, dominated the Master Rank Coolness Contest. Had nearly matched the opponent's other scores just from maxed out Coolness stat alone, but in the second turn, ended up with a very terrible point count, sending her last for turn three where a Dragon Claw set her up to go first on turn four as well as charging the crown up to guarantee a Special Talent(and subsequent Mega-Evolution).

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Now, who to go against Lisia and Ali with...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 13, 2016, 07:53:11 pm

Playing Ana on Illios, feel like I'm sucking (although as it turns out literally 4 of the 5 medal stats ended up being my career best somehow).  Notice my killcams are glitched so that they're locked in the same random point on the map, with a FOV of 1 (basically looks like a tunnel).

I got Play of the Game.  Conventional wisdom is that Ana is literally incapable of PoTG.  I've played her 27 hours, and played as a bunch of other characters in that time, and not only have *I* never got PoTG, I've never seen anyone else get PoTG as her.

And I can't fucking watch it.  This is like my crowning moment and I'm never going to get to see what it looks like because of that glitch.  Its saved as a highlight, but for me (contrary to how others have said it works for them) closing Overwatch deletes all my highlightsl  So its very unlikely I'll be able to fix this without closing the game.  I'm told by my friends that I got a triple kill while healing people, but I want to actually see the damn thing.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on August 13, 2016, 09:41:06 pm

Did the most damage in the game as Galio mid.   By 30K.
Holy shit Galio is awesome.
pics or it didn't happen

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(http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg589/Cthulufaic/saved_zpsk3qhzvnh.png)

League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 13, 2016, 10:03:10 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 13, 2016, 07:53:11 pm

Playing Ana on Illios, feel like I'm sucking (although as it turns out literally 4 of the 5 medal stats ended up being my career best somehow).  Notice my killcams are glitched so that they're locked in the same random point on the map, with a FOV of 1 (basically looks like a tunnel).

I got Play of the Game.  Conventional wisdom is that Ana is literally incapable of PoTG.  I've played her 27 hours, and played as a bunch of other characters in that time, and not only have *I* never got PoTG, I've never seen anyone else get PoTG as her.

And I can't fucking watch it.  This is like my crowning moment and I'm never going to get to see what it looks like because of that glitch.  Its saved as a highlight, but for me (contrary to how others have said it works for them) closing Overwatch deletes all my highlightsl  So its very unlikely I'll be able to fix this without closing the game.  I'm told by my friends that I got a triple kill while healing people, but I want to actually see the damn thing.

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Overwatch

Dude. I feel for you. Dude.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Skyrunner on August 14, 2016, 02:04:55 am

Closing overwatch deletes highlights for everyone. :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on August 14, 2016, 02:12:48 am

I guess you could say it was

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( •_•)>⌐■-■

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over before you watched it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 14, 2016, 02:51:51 am

We found our sniper who we had to leave behind so long ago. Noel is back with us.

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XCOM 2

Continuing my XCOM 2, Tommy Wiseau isn't messing around, he's dropping aliens left and right. The last thing most aliens hear is often incomprehensible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 14, 2016, 09:01:52 am

What? Why do you have an awful director/actor killing aliens?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 14, 2016, 12:23:37 pm

Because he works well with robotic Bob Ross and Noel Vermillion, obviously. We used to have Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he was killed in action. RIP Arnold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 14, 2016, 03:20:05 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 14, 2016, 12:23:37 pm

Because he works well with robotic Bob Ross and Noel Vermillion, obviously. We used to have Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he was killed in action. RIP Arnold.

That must be quite a team you've got there... But why robotic? I thought XCOM was about sending human soldiers into the field.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 14, 2016, 03:49:19 pm

Of the half-dozen colonists I employed, three were unarmed, one had a bow, and the other two had plastic glow-in-the-dark knives that are weaker than a shortsword made of wood. The local animals were slapping them around like they were playing multicock badminton. One bird had literally dive-bombed everyone, as well as the base's all-important Assembly Core, several times before I(armed with a bow as I hadn't thought to hotkey my pistol) and the one girl with a ranged attack managed to needle it to death.

I built some Type 02 Rifles to correct that. Oh, and NPCs have infinite ammo.

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Planet Explorers, Adventure mode. Now, using mid-tier military-grade battle rifles on local wildlife may seem like overkill, but on the planet Maria, "local wildlife" is, on the weakest end of its list of predatory species(33% of all animals supposedly), a giant rabbit the size of an adult human comparable to the normal-sized rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and man-sized chimpanzees that travel in packs(and as such, group aggro) and throw rocks. That's why I placed particle cannons on the house rooftops.

Maybe I should have gone with shotguns to make it more like a "frontier colony" type of scene.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on August 14, 2016, 04:36:34 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 14, 2016, 03:20:05 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on August 14, 2016, 12:23:37 pm

Because he works well with robotic Bob Ross and Noel Vermillion, obviously. We used to have Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he was killed in action. RIP Arnold.

That must be quite a team you've got there... But why robotic? I thought XCOM was about sending human soldiers into the field.

We have a seven foot tall robot available, so I made it Bot Ross. The others are all human. I may have downloaded a few mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 14, 2016, 06:50:05 pm

I beat the entire game shirtless.

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Metal Gear Solid 3

The only times I had a shirt on was using the required disguise to get into the West Wing of the weapons lab and to take my camo off after spawning wearing it. I was considering going full Rambo and making liberal application of the assault rifles and M63, but I haven't been able to bring myself to gun down mooks in MGS3 ever since my first time facing The Sorrow.

Also, I assassinated The End at the warehouse without killing anybody else, which is one of the hardest things I've ever done in a Metal Gear game. There's usually about 2 guys in the way (the guy at the end of the dock and the guy pushing the wheelchair,) so it takes very precise aim and timing to kill the old man without gunning anyone else down. I had to snipe him there because the way I prefer to fight him, using camo is crucial to winning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 14, 2016, 06:58:34 pm

Boo for meta-gaming.

What difficult were you playing on?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 14, 2016, 08:21:14 pm

Just save during his fight, wait a week, and resume playing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 14, 2016, 08:22:28 pm

It is the best boss fight in the game, why would you do that, when you can do the boss fight? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 14, 2016, 10:02:09 pm

From a single perch near C, I was able to snipe several tanks from clear across the J908 Impact Crater, shoot down a VS Scythe that wandered way too far from home(this was a TR-NC battle), and headshot a heavy on the massive bridge spanning the crater where B is located. Then I shut down a massive rush on A by knocking out their Sunderer, then shelling the survivors including taking down a MAX/Engineer duo by first hitting the engie then nailing the MAX as it tried to run through my teammates - I didn't hit a single friendly and it was a very large shootout. The first time they finally managed to kill me, it took a Sunderer with at least a driver and gunner, two tanks, and at least two Reavers.

Even while trekking back to that gun, I was still kicking ass, taking down a few snipers, then a tank, and some more troopers trying to take C, plus taking out a heavy that tried to rocket my turret from behind.

I had to change position to a different gun once night fell, but from there, I started killing off several infiltrators sniping into the crater just by following their tracers back to them - one of them seemed to have gotten upset and try to hack my turret, only he decloaked right behind me(so I heard it), and I was able to kill him before he killed me.

Put simply, when I get to the controls of a large anti-tank gun, I make things happen.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on August 14, 2016, 10:15:09 pm

Quote from: hector13 on August 14, 2016, 06:58:34 pm

Boo for meta-gaming.

What difficult were you playing on?

Normal, as IIRC guards can see you increasingly easily as you go up the difficulty levels. I fear that it would've been borderline impossible on Hard or Extreme, because in most areas your best possible Camo Index with Naked is 65%, if you lay down and use the right face paint (you might be able to make 70% in the right conditions, and it's universally lower in places like the mountain or Groznyj Grad where there's no grass to hide in) and that was already cutting it close on Normal; most of my deaths (well, voluntary restarts) came from getting spotted when I underestimated how close I could get to a guard with only 65% camo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 15, 2016, 03:55:40 pm

I think I've only ever played MGS games on normal. 'cept the Tanker in SoL.

Well done, not-quite-Rambo!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 15, 2016, 04:10:58 pm

Fixed up the gunship so that it flies tolerably. Took it for a test run by strafing a herd of quite literally the only harmless species on the planet. Much meat was obtained. After that, I built a self-designed rifle that manages to do more damage than a shotgun or golden sword and is quite accurate at range.

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Planet Explorers. I'm a bit bummed since not long after that, I cleared a fairly dangerous dungeon(the gun I made helped) which rewarded me with... it calls itself a "fighter", but it's clearly an attack transport helicopter, with half a dozen seats sitting outside on the tail. It flies faster than the map chunks can load. And honestly I didn't expect there to be any form of stock vehicle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on August 15, 2016, 05:31:18 pm

It's not exactly an own, but I'm not quite sure where to put it:

For a while, I've been noticing random explosion flashes as I explore the wasteland in Fallout 4. At first I thought it was cars bugging out and exploding, but it would occur in places with no explodable cars. Then I thought it was raiders throwing grenades at each other. Today, though, I finally figured it out. I saw an explosion in the distance (and this time it wasn't just the flash from it occuring outside of the field of view) and went to investigate. When I got there, I saw (any guesses?)

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a few exploded raiders and super mutants, including a super mutant suicider (!). As it turns out, the game can 1. spawn opposed raiding groups near enough to each other to fight and 2. spawn super mutant suiciders in raiding groups. So basically, a mininuke-armed supermutant occasionally spawns next to a raider and then they blow each other to pieces.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on August 16, 2016, 05:42:31 pm

Beat Kaguya. Despite her vaguely adorable bangs and five impossible requests, I still dunked her handily. TOTALLY failed her Last Spells, but those are just for bragging rights anyways. I did absurdly well, losing only one life to Marisa and another to Reisen. Now I just need to beat Mokou and Flandre and then I can move on to the next game. TOUHOUQUEST CONTINUES~!

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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

the only mystery remaining is why eirin, a celestial goddess, is also a nurse

this is the important question

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 16, 2016, 08:28:50 pm

I'm AzyWng, just like here on the forums. (http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2268587124/207487187)

It seems like a snowball can do a deceptively high amount of damage, especially considering it's just a snowball... I think. I'm also pretty good at staying alive, too, it seems.

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League of Legends. Now to repeat until I get to Ranked and can actually test my might against those who are at least kind of serious about this stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on August 16, 2016, 09:03:00 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 16, 2016, 08:28:50 pm

I'm AzyWng, just like here on the forums. (http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2268587124/207487187)

It seems like a snowball can do a deceptively high amount of damage, especially considering it's just a snowball... I think. I'm also pretty good at staying alive, too, it seems.

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League of Legends. Now to repeat until I get to Ranked and can actually test my might against those who are at least kind of serious about this stuff.

I am VERY confused.  Like... I need to make a list of all the things that bug me just to keep track.

No jungler on either team, lux built triforce and recurve bow, ashe built triforce, orianna went support with runic shield, I have NO CLUE what darius was doing with his build, nobody got any dragons, and there were only 7 wards placed IN TOTAL in a 30 minute game.

Jesus Christ, maybe my Silver 4 mmr is higher than I thought.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 16, 2016, 10:37:11 pm

Quote from: Cthulufaic on August 16, 2016, 09:03:00 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 16, 2016, 08:28:50 pm

I'm AzyWng, just like here on the forums. (http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2268587124/207487187)

It seems like a snowball can do a deceptively high amount of damage, especially considering it's just a snowball... I think. I'm also pretty good at staying alive, too, it seems.

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League of Legends. Now to repeat until I get to Ranked and can actually test my might against those who are at least kind of serious about this stuff.

I am VERY confused.  Like... I need to make a list of all the things that bug me just to keep track.

No jungler on either team, lux built triforce and recurve bow, ashe built triforce, orianna went support with runic shield, I have NO CLUE what darius was doing with his build, nobody got any dragons, and there were only 7 wards placed IN TOTAL in a 30 minute game.

Jesus Christ, maybe my Silver 4 mmr is higher than I thought.

Oh, I seem to have forgotten: This was in unranked Solo Queue. You can calm down now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on August 17, 2016, 10:32:00 pm

Was in my Raven Huginn, circling around to find a good spot to pop my UAV and backstab someone, when I found an AFK Cataphract. Natch I decided to take the chance to get a free headshot kill. Only, as soon as I fired my first SRMs, the pilot loaded in/got back/whatever and started lighting me up--he had a pretty decent balanced build, a couple ERLLas, a couple ACs, a couple MLas. A fresh all-ranges heavy against my partially stripped light.

Stomped him into the mud, he eventually gave up and tried to run away to his team. Then he gave up on that and tried to back into a corner, but by then I already had his CT cored. :V

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MWO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 18, 2016, 02:58:59 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on August 17, 2016, 10:32:00 pm

Was in my Raven Huginn, circling around to find a good spot to pop my UAV and backstab someone, when I found an AFK Cataphract. Natch I decided to take the chance to get a free headshot kill. Only, as soon as I fired my first SRMs, the pilot loaded in/got back/whatever and started lighting me up--he had a pretty decent balanced build, a couple ERLLas, a couple ACs, a couple MLas. A fresh all-ranges heavy against my partially stripped light.

Stomped him into the mud, he eventually gave up and tried to run away to his team. Then he gave up on that and tried to back into a corner, but by then I already had his CT cored. :V

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MWO

I think I understood a single acronym in that whole mess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on August 18, 2016, 03:43:33 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 18, 2016, 02:58:59 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on August 17, 2016, 10:32:00 pm

Was in my Raven Huginn, circling around to find a good spot to pop my UAV and backstab someone, when I found an AFK Cataphract. Natch I decided to take the chance to get a free headshot kill. Only, as soon as I fired my first SRMs, the pilot loaded in/got back/whatever and started lighting me up--he had a pretty decent balanced build, a couple ERLLas, a couple ACs, a couple MLas. A fresh all-ranges heavy against my partially stripped light.

Stomped him into the mud, he eventually gave up and tried to run away to his team. Then he gave up on that and tried to back into a corner, but by then I already had his CT cored. :V

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MWO

I think I understood a single acronym in that whole mess.

...OMG LOL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 18, 2016, 04:19:33 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 18, 2016, 02:58:59 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on August 17, 2016, 10:32:00 pm

Was in my Raven Huginn, circling around to find a good spot to pop my UAV and backstab someone, when I found an AFK Cataphract. Natch I decided to take the chance to get a free headshot kill. Only, as soon as I fired my first SRMs, the pilot loaded in/got back/whatever and started lighting me up--he had a pretty decent balanced build, a couple ERLLas, a couple ACs, a couple MLas. A fresh all-ranges heavy against my partially stripped light.

Stomped him into the mud, he eventually gave up and tried to run away to his team. Then he gave up on that and tried to back into a corner, but by then I already had his CT cored. :V

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MWO

I think I understood a single acronym in that whole mess.

UAV = unmanned aerial vehicle
AFK = away from keyboard
SRM = short range missile
ERLL = extended range large laser
AC = autocannon
MLA = ???
CT = center torso
MWO = mechwarrior online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 18, 2016, 04:33:21 pm

MLA would medium laser, no?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on August 18, 2016, 08:07:36 pm

Yeah, hence MLas. Sorry, I should have clarified.

Just had another really fun match, too. I was running my Locust Pirates' Bane with the 4x Small Pulse Laser build, but the map vote dumped us on Alpine Campfest. Thankfully some mouth-breathers had voted us into Conquest, and I got put in a lance with another guy running the same build. Neither of us even needed to say a word, just flanked around and backstabbed in perfect harmony. There was this really beautiful chase when we found a Shadowcat out of position where we were weaving back and forth past each other while he couldn't decide who to shoot at. Ended up with me and him in 3rd and 4th place for most damage dealt on the team.

I mean, I haven't really touched my Locusts much, but now I think I might. They're squishy as all hell, but a 20-tonner going half the speed of a Formula 1 car turns out to make for a pretty good evasion tank, especially when you can actually get under the guns of certain assaults and heavies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 22, 2016, 11:26:26 am

Previously on Hans Prussian Murder Extravanganza:

I took a big bite out of Poland.

Recently on HPME:

I finished Poland off along with Saxony and Courland (FUCK Courland. Little fucking shithole full of jerks.) and what was left of the Austrian Rebels. It took awhile to consolidate my gains, moreso than I had expected, but I did it. I had to fend off countless raids from Courland and Polish remnants after I took Saxony, but I finally got enough money together to go marching in there and crush them. Now I have Sweden to my north, an ally. Russia to my east, a neutral-and-not-angry neighbor. Venice is at war with me to the southwest, but I have twenty little citystates I'm not at war with all along my western border, so I can probably just slink around them and wipe Venice out without much trouble. All in all, I have few enemies, a huge income rate, and massive, well-experienced armies sitting around waiting for commands.

The temptation to idiot ball myself and attack Russia in the winter is incredibly strong. :P

Empire Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 22, 2016, 04:53:17 pm

Took out a flying alien war machine... thing. Not sure what it was and I've only ever encountered one before, an encounter that puts it in the "run the hell away right n- you're dead already" category. It looks like a spinning top, with the lower section opening up several leg-like things to reveal a drill-like piece below. It seems to have two attacks, when it opens up it shoots energy bolts everywhere, and when it closes and spins very fast it shoots a barrage of missiles into the air that drop down and hit you for over 300HP a piece(you have 500HP, though people say you can get more?).

Lured it over to a town where a couple of colonists started firing arrows at it... for about 4HP per hit. My rifle, a custom heavy-hitter was doing about a hundred per shot, and it was barely having an effect on its HP bar. I took shelter in the store(where I hastily traded for supplies), and put down a rocket turret and an artillery turret. These did some appreciable damage along with my rifle, and it seemed not to want use missiles on the turrets - just me when I ran out in the open. Luckily the store provided total cover from overhead missiles. After wasting hundreds of bullets(these two turrets seem to have infinite ammo), it went down, yielding about a hundred each of gold and iron, plus 32 diamond, 3 1GHz processors, and several 500MHz processors. Loot probably wasn't worth what I spent bringing it down. but it was a hell of a fight.

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Planet Explorers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on August 22, 2016, 04:55:15 pm

I beat the game.

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Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 22, 2016, 04:59:43 pm

Won a round (and inevitably a match) of Arsenal in Goldeneye Source 5.0

Basically you start off with a really good weapon (mostly a gold or silver PP7, but sometimes a Golden Gun) and you have to kill other folk with it. Once you kill two, you go up a level, and get a new, inferior weapon to kill two people with, and so on 'til you get the last weapon after 9 kills, the hunting knife.

I was quite lucky that the person I found first when I got the knife had a magnum, a weapon that does a lot of damage but takes ages to use because of the recoil between shots. I got a slash in while they got a shot in, and there was a second or so I thought I'd lost it as we were both moving in the same direction at the same speed at the same time... 'til they backed into a wall and I slashed 'em for the kill.

This game is awesome and is absolutely free!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on August 22, 2016, 09:45:28 pm

I arrived in the Carribean at Eleuthera. I started to work for the English. After sinking a Spaniard and a couple of pirates in the Bahamas I went back to port and upgraded my sails. I decided to sail to Florida and hit the evil Spaniard and slimy French shipping there. As I left port I accidentally hit the space bar which prompt my ship to fire on the town... Well no harm's done I suppose and I went on to the Floridian coast where a Spaniard and a surprising amount of French trade ship off the Florida Keys.

I decided to get back to the Bahamas after the port sent a bounty-hunting brig against me. I sailed to Nassau to get repairs and buy the upgraded cannons but once I approached the port the town start shooting at me. The backwater town of Nassau known for it's unruly nature decided to avenge poor old England for the single accidental shot I fired on Eleuthera a while ago...

Saying that I didn't took it well is an understatement. I decided to took the town and give it to the greedy Dutch. For the following months I've disrupted English shipping in the Bahamas, attacked a governor's ship, plundered not once but twice the port of Grand Bahamas and captured a brand new frigate. On the side I've also hunt down Jack Rackham and learned the location of Henry Morgan's treasure.

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Sid Meier's Pirates!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on August 23, 2016, 12:04:19 am

Was caught in open battle while outnumbered 4 to 1 and my enemy was had better quality troops as well. However, I used the terrain to hide my ranged units behind a ridge, and have my armored troops with their shields soak up projectiles from the enemy ranged units. Meanwhile, I rode out on a mount and charged right into enemy lines from behind, getting all their attention. They all started firing their projectiles at me instead. I rode around in circles until they all ran out of ammunition. I then told my ranged units and infantry to switch places, and my archers started picking off the enemy one by one while they were chasing me in circles. Once my men ran out of ammunition, I took over, twisting around in my saddle and headshotting any soldier without a shield to protect themselves. Once I ran out of ammunition, I ordered everybody to charge, with the enemy facing away from them and completely focused on me. The first moments of the engagement went well, with many kills and few losses, but as the enemy realized they were being slaughtered from behind, they turned around. I took this opportunity to use hit-and-run tacktics, riding in, killing a few, then leaving once they were focused on me. Eventually, the entire army was defeated, but at a great cost. Two thirds of my army died that battle.

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mount and blade warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 24, 2016, 09:35:59 am

They thought they could stop me, just by chopping my limbs off!
But I told them that "none shall pass", and I meant it!
I bit their limbs off!

Yes, I un-intentionally re-enacted the dark knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but with him successfully biting their libs off.

Dwarf Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 24, 2016, 10:44:47 pm

Carried my fireteam in the very first Strike. KOSS IS STRONGEST THERE IS!

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Destiny, as a Titan.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on August 24, 2016, 11:23:02 pm

@pikachu17 gib combat logs ploxx

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 25, 2016, 04:10:57 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/MgrEe5w.jpg?1)I know, I know, the song is stupidly easy, but I sight-read the whole thing because I'd never even heard it before. Purple bars indicate mastery.

Rocksmith 2014

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on August 25, 2016, 05:45:50 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 24, 2016, 09:35:59 am

They thought they could stop me, just by chopping my limbs off!
Successfully biting their libs off.

That could either be construed as an attempt at writing "limbs" or "lips". The latter conjures horrible images.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 25, 2016, 06:09:47 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 24, 2016, 10:44:47 pm

Carried my fireteam in the very first Strike. KOSS IS STRONGEST THERE IS!

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Destiny, as a Titan.

That game's still active? I thought it was pretty much dead (at least, no-one was talking a whole lot about it recently)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 25, 2016, 06:20:17 pm

There's still a decent pop. New expansion is coming out soon, too. Can't wait!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 26, 2016, 12:07:59 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 25, 2016, 06:20:17 pm

There's still a decent pop. New expansion is coming out soon, too. Can't wait!

Preorder from me and get the Iron Gjallarhorn!

/me ducks tomatoes for talking about preorders on the internet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on August 26, 2016, 12:43:38 am

So apparently young me was fucking retarded. Cuz I just discovered the most HILARIOUSLY overpowered thing in Fable: Anniversary that I pretty much never used when it was on Xbox: The Physical Shield spell.
It doesn't SOUND massively OP, but getting hit with it on doesn't count against the "Without a Scratch" boasts, nor against combat multiplier. So basically this new character is OVERWHELMINGLY rich and experienced all by the time I finished the Arena, with just one scar that I got before I could buy the spell and I can focus on style instead of damage reduction in my wardrobe. Which leaves lots of dosh for buying up the most ridiculously OP weapons. Also houses. And will potions, which are all you really need to win with this combat style.

Fable: Anniversary

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 01:10:22 am

If you think physical shield is OP, try push.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 26, 2016, 01:18:45 am

Quote from: MaximumZero on August 26, 2016, 12:07:59 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on August 25, 2016, 06:20:17 pm

There's still a decent pop. New expansion is coming out soon, too. Can't wait!

Preorder from me and get the Iron Gjallarhorn!

/me ducks tomatoes for talking about preorders on the internet.

i will EAT YOU

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on August 26, 2016, 04:03:19 am

Quote from: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 01:10:22 am

If you think physical shield is OP, try push.

explain?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Uristides on August 26, 2016, 05:57:46 am

I beat the game... on easy. It's a start, anyway. Managed to destroy the enemy ship with my boarding crew still inside it twice in the run, costing me a couple hundred bucks to replace them, and still lost one more dude during the first flagship stage because I forgot to time my boardings with the flagship's cloaking, but I did it.
Second stage is usually a pain because of the boarding drones but I managed to set a fire on the drone room, which went out of control as my boarding party killed everyone on the ship.
Third stage, which I had never reached before, was surprisingly easy. There were no more crew alive to board me, the power surges were no pushover with 4 shields and a reasonable evade chance and the super zoltan super shield was more of an annoyance than anything.

Now I'll try it with the Zoltan and Engi ships on AE mode before trying to venture in normal mode, where I still have some trouble reaching the flagship consistently.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

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Why do we spoil the game's name and not the actually spoilerworthy stuff?

Quote from: Arcvasti on August 16, 2016, 05:42:31 pm

Beat Kaguya. Despite her vaguely adorable bangs and five impossible requests, I still dunked her handily. TOTALLY failed her Last Spells, but those are just for bragging rights anyways. I did absurdly well, losing only one life to Marisa and another to Reisen. Now I just need to beat Mokou and Flandre and then I can move on to the next game. TOUHOUQUEST CONTINUES~!

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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

the only mystery remaining is why eirin, a celestial goddess, is also a nurse

this is the important question

Gratz man. I myself gave up after reaching Eirin the first time, gotta pick it up again some time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on August 26, 2016, 07:34:39 am

It is SO MUCH FUN being a pure thief in Skyrim.  Thank you Tamriel Vault Burglar build, this is easily the best time I've had with the game in years.  Pickpocketing is the best feeling, after constant savescumming, I was able to get my pickpocket up to around 80ish, now I can pickpocket equipped weapons of people at a decent success rate, never mind anything else.  People I've pick-pocketed include:

- Asshole Mercer Frey, leader of the frickin Thieves Guild, try being a condescending prick without your enchanted dwarven sword.

- Dirge, another thieves guild ass, threw his shiny steel axe into the river.

- Stole all the crap out of the pants of the bigwig Grey manes and battleborns, I have keys to your houses, gonna visit those later.

- Ransacked the pockets of Jarl Balgruuf and his entire court, yeah yeah I'll get the dragonstone gimme them amethysts.

Skyrim is frustrating because you can't kill people who piss you off and condescend towards you due to them being immortal, but with thieving, I can knock literally every adult in the game down a peg.  Soon, I'll be able to steal the literal clothes of their back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 26, 2016, 07:50:20 am

killable kids mod.

killable evrryone mod.





skyrim is a posterchild  of letting me know im too stupid to make my own choices. or find a door

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Insanegame27 on August 26, 2016, 08:14:23 am

Not how I last owned, but I felt pretty damn proud nonetheless.


Playing in the A-10 thunderbolt II on ACE difficulty. Got to the hidden boss [Mobius One]. Shot him down with just guns.
Keep in mind, the A-10's GAU-8 has an angle of depression on it too.
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War


My older brother was unable to do that over weeks of trying in a Su37, and he comes in and sees me just as I finally kill him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 26, 2016, 10:44:53 am

Quote from: pisskop on August 26, 2016, 07:50:20 am

killable kids mod.

killable evrryone mod.

skyrim is a posterchild  of letting me know im too stupid to make my own choices. or find a door

Essential npcs are to prevent them dying to dragons and whatnot and breaking quests. Essential children is because some stores will outright refuse to sell games where kids die.

Anyway, I managed to take down Hush as Lazarus without a massively OP build, so that's cool.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 10:49:35 am

Quote from: BFEL on August 26, 2016, 04:03:19 am

Quote from: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 01:10:22 am

If you think physical shield is OP, try push.

explain?

The force push spell is instant, low-cost, has zero cooldown, knocks down anything that can be knocked down, and inflicts damage.  Combine with physical shield and a high damage spell (or weapon, I suggest Solus, either of the Murren, or Aeons/Avo's) for trolls and summoners, and you can't be defeated.

Enflame is extremely badass as well, but the whole game is a power fantasy thing, so it shouldn't be surprising that the player has a great deal of OP options at their disposal.

If you ever want to find out how high your combat multiplier can go, there is a mid-game area where an infinite amount of hollow men spawns, using physical shield and will potions it is possible to reach multipliers in the thousands with ease.  This has the side effect of giving you basically infinite experience as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on August 26, 2016, 11:59:26 am

Quote from: Teneb on August 26, 2016, 10:44:53 am

Quote from: pisskop on August 26, 2016, 07:50:20 am

killable kids mod.

killable evrryone mod.

skyrim is a posterchild  of letting me know im too stupid to make my own choices. or find a door

Essential npcs are to prevent them dying to dragons and whatnot and breaking quests. Essential children is because some stores will outright refuse to sell games where kids die.

Anyway, I managed to take down Hush as Lazarus without a massively OP build, so that's cool.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Yeah, if essential NPCs didn't exist there would be just as many posts complaining about how some random NPC died to dragons/vampires/whatever and broke some quest.

Skyrim goes a little overboard with it, but it's understandable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on August 26, 2016, 02:54:19 pm

Quote from: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 10:49:35 am

Quote from: BFEL on August 26, 2016, 04:03:19 am

Quote from: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 01:10:22 am

If you think physical shield is OP, try push.

explain?

The force push spell is instant, low-cost, has zero cooldown, knocks down anything that can be knocked down, and inflicts damage.  Combine with physical shield and a high damage spell (or weapon, I suggest Solus, either of the Murren, or Aeons/Avo's) for trolls and summoners, and you can't be defeated.

"Combine with Physical Shield and you can't be defeated"? You just explained Physical Shield on its own broski :P
Knocking things down just means you kill them slower while waiting for them to get back up. I mean sure its good for crowd control, but why do you even need that when you can just tank literally everything without flinching and interrupting your stabbytime?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 03:47:14 pm

You aren't hearing me, it inflicts damage with every cast, you stunlock them to the ground and they never get a chance to attack.  Each hit is weak, but it piles on damage much, much faster than any weapon in the game, has decent AOE, and costs nearly nothing, once you add a mana regen aug to your weapon you stop worrying about the mooks who can usually get in a hit or two in a crowd, because they never get to attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 26, 2016, 07:54:15 pm

is it just me that doesnt like using exploits to cheese my way through games

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 26, 2016, 07:55:43 pm

No

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 26, 2016, 07:56:22 pm

I mean, no offense to anyone that does, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on August 26, 2016, 09:14:24 pm

Fable enemies are pretty cheap, and again, it's all power fantasy stuff.  Physical shield doesn't scale well past the midpoint of the game, force push has serious damage falloff in the later half, ranged weapons reach their zenith at about the three quarters mark, melee weapons become the only viable attack method at the end.  And they still take forever to bring down something heavy like an ice troll or endgame summoner.

Don't misunderstand, I ran the game naked with only fists once, never died, never used a resurrection phial.  The game is easy, the AI just uses cheap things like stunlocks, unblockable attacks, turtling up, immunity to knockdown/back, etc.  Having the spell stuff just makes it smoother.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 27, 2016, 04:17:16 pm

Chateline Evelyn is absolutely adorable, but that didn't stop her Persian from getting hammered between Garchomp's and Haxorus' claws, like some kind of messed up sandwich made of dragon bread with cat meat in the middle. It was like some kind of traditional Chinese meal or something.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Evelyn's Lumineon and Primeape made things a bit hard, but thankfully Lumineon went for Surf(for Rapidash) rather than Ice Beam, or else Garchomp would never have made it past the first turn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on August 27, 2016, 06:39:08 pm

Starter knight dude somehow managed to survive 7 death blow hits after the rest of the party died. Probably would've been better for something like that to happen during a boss fight and not a random skeleton fight at the beginning of the game, but whatever, I'll take what I get.

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Darkest Dungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2016, 08:40:00 am

Docked a gas giant into an Earth-like world(which happened to be my capital). Had some difficulties at first when the gas giant got lodged inside of an orbital defense base, but it managed to work itself out.
And yes, the gas giant was larger than my capital, and the defense base was larger than both.

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Star Ruler. Sadly, there appears to be no way of directly transferring resources between two planets, docked or not(the gas giant doesn't even show up in the list of docked ships), so now I just have to settle with using the planet as a slow resource hauler that doesn't seem to be moving much despite its millions of tons of cargo space. The Transfer order does not seem to work even though it can be given.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on August 28, 2016, 11:39:39 am

Rolling on through the Demon Ruins with a +5 Black Knight sword is proving pretty fun. The R2s are hilarious on charging enemies and otherwise useless, but the raw damage on demons is worth the bad moveset.

...just got to find out what are area the Orange Charred Ring lets me access now.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 28, 2016, 02:01:04 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on August 25, 2016, 04:10:57 pm

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(http://i.imgur.com/MgrEe5w.jpg?1)I know, I know, the song is stupidly easy, but I sight-read the whole thing because I'd never even heard it before. Purple bars indicate mastery.

Rocksmith 2014

Meanwhile, I have been attempting to play guitar for most of my life, and while I am able to remember chords and notes and shit I still suck at playing them just as much as when I started.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2016, 02:47:20 pm

Due to a typing error, I ended up building a ship over scale 1 million(was supposed to be 100k). It's larger than stars, with more hitpoints.

The weapons are garbage. Sure, they can 1-shot any AI ship from well across the system, but they take so very long to reload as the reload time is based on the size, both on the ship scale and the part size, and the part size can never go below 0.25. And worse, projectile speed isn't scaled, so the only thing that hits with any reasonable speed is a laser which has one of the longer reloads. The only thing with a decent reload speed is the plasma thrower.


It also took forever to destabilize a star. Missiles(each bigger than a planet) were doing 10-30 billion points of damage per missile. When it went supernova, it did little damage through the shields. Let me iterate that, it killed a star a point-blank and took only scratch damage from its death throes.

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Star Ruler. I think I broke it. Since a massive ship failed, I tried building 10,000 size 1 ships with decent weapons and set to explore. Probably deserved that lag.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 28, 2016, 03:01:31 pm

Ok seriously what the fuck is Star Ruler and where can I get my hands on that action

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on August 28, 2016, 03:03:51 pm

Basically, you built yourself a death star. Good job.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on August 28, 2016, 03:05:56 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 28, 2016, 08:40:00 am

Docked a gas giant into an Earth-like world(which happened to be my capital). Had some difficulties at first when the gas giant got lodged inside of an orbital defense base, but it managed to work itself out.
And yes, the gas giant was larger than my capital, and the defense base was larger than both.

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Star Ruler. Sadly, there appears to be no way of directly transferring resources between two planets, docked or not(the gas giant doesn't even show up in the list of docked ships), so now I just have to settle with using the planet as a slow resource hauler that doesn't seem to be moving much despite its millions of tons of cargo space. The Transfer order does not seem to work even though it can be given.

WAIT A SECOND YOU DID WHAT WITH A GAS GIANT

WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD OF THIS GAmE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2016, 03:17:56 pm

Quote from: DoomOnion on August 28, 2016, 03:03:51 pm

Basically, you built yourself a death star. Good job.

No. A Death Star shoot a laser to destroy a planet. My ship fires a Death Star out of a railgun to hit a scout ship on the opposite side of a star system because why the hell not?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Uristides on August 28, 2016, 03:53:58 pm

Star Wars IV: a moon-sized spaceship capable of destroying whole planets
Star Wars VII: a planet-sized planetship?! capable of destroying a whole star system(sans the star itself, I think?)

If you hurry up with some sketches, writing and a copyright application you might earn yourself a case against Disney for the inevitable star-sized spaceship in Star Wars X. Some good dosh to be had there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2016, 07:23:34 pm

Joined in at the start of the alert. Hadn't played in a few weeks, so I was playing badly. Abandoned the usual clusterfuck of a biolab siege that I spawned in, moved over to Mekala Cart Mining. Lost that to the NC, but they didn't push very far into the techplant. Tried to push back to Mekala Cart Mining, but after a long fight we got pushed back into the techplant when they pushed from the northeast flank with massive armor. We still had 44% of the map, so we were in great shape. Dug in for the inevitable siege as night started to fall. Not long before the alert ended, someone comes up on Orders chat for people to start hitting Vanu HIVEs. I look at the map, and the VS have 14VPs to our 10, meaning we'd still lock if we won the alert, but not if the VS got another VP from mining. Within seconds, three VS cores got hit by TR, and apparently more allies scrambled to build bases for them. At 2 minutes left in the alert we get the VP bonus for most active cores bringing the score to 12-12, clinching the continent lock.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 28, 2016, 08:52:06 pm

Got something like 26600 heal points. Just by doing what I always do: Heal everyone. Medic's not hard once you get down the basics, folks!

In a single round!

It took about 30 minutes...

Team Fortress 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 28, 2016, 08:56:09 pm

I love making horrifying ships of sentients' worst nightmares in star ruler. very fulfilling, and arguably the best part of the game (that got lost in translation to the sequel.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 28, 2016, 09:17:24 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on August 28, 2016, 08:52:06 pm

Got something like 26600 heal points. Just by doing what I always do: Heal everyone. Medic's not hard once you get down the basics, folks!

In a single round!

It took about 30 minutes...

Team Fortress 2.

Medic and Spy seem to be the two classes which everyone is stupid at for some reason. I am proud, son.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 28, 2016, 09:20:04 pm

I never managed to stop being stupid with spy. >.>

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 29, 2016, 02:31:50 am

Sometimes I get extremely overconfident as a spy when I manage to sap a single undefended sentry way out-of-the-way.

I'm much better as an Engi (last time I played, several months ago). Plonk a turret, poke out occasionally to upgrade it, stay out of the line of fire. Lets me contribute while minimizing my exposure to the enemy team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 29, 2016, 02:32:09 pm

Yes engi is fun and relaxing when there's an eternal stalemate.
Sit in intelligence room, build, relax, occasionally shoot at stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 29, 2016, 07:52:06 pm

I figured out how to use one of the most useless weapons in the game.  The plasma grenade.

See, you might be thinking to yourself, "I've played halo, plasma grenades are easy."  Nah, in this game, plasma grenades are like impact detonated normal grenades that can blow up a house.  Except, they travel the path that a normal grenade would take, but very, very slowly.  Like, 10 year old who didn't do his homework walking to school slowly.  If thrown like a sane person, any target (including a large mass of aliens) will be gone by the time the grenade arrives.  They're used by a flying class, and their schtick is that unlike other weapons, they aren't powered by the jetpack energy bar.  And of course, the game's already wonky grenade code becomes almost unusable when flying.

But I've made it work.  What I do is, fly above and a little in front of the target, and hover in place.  Then I begin descending, drop the grenade straight down (which requires holding the throw button for a bit because I don't know), and then rapidly pull up from the descent before i get caught in the blast radius.  Its suicidal, and it uses energy so it kinda ruins the point of the weapon, but man is it fun.

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EDF 4.1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 29, 2016, 08:10:18 pm

Soloed the last boss of a dungeon. Whole group died because they didn't notice that standing outside very specific spots was very, very lethal. Also they weren't that good at attacking while running around like crazy. Thanks to my insistence to grab as much self-healing as I could, I managed to hold my own and kill the damn thing by my lonesome.

The Elder Scrolls Online

EDIT: Apparently I gained an achievement for dungeon healing while at it, it seems.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Facekillz058 on August 30, 2016, 05:11:23 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 29, 2016, 07:52:06 pm

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I figured out how to use one of the most useless weapons in the game.  The plasma grenade.

See, you might be thinking to yourself, "I've played halo, plasma grenades are easy."  Nah, in this game, plasma grenades are like impact detonated normal grenades that can blow up a house.  Except, they travel the path that a normal grenade would take, but very, very slowly.  Like, 10 year old who didn't do his homework walking to school slowly.  If thrown like a sane person, any target (including a large mass of aliens) will be gone by the time the grenade arrives.  They're used by a flying class, and their schtick is that unlike other weapons, they aren't powered by the jetpack energy bar.  And of course, the game's already wonky grenade code becomes almost unusable when flying.

But I've made it work.  What I do is, fly above and a little in front of the target, and hover in place.  Then I begin descending, drop the grenade straight down (which requires holding the throw button for a bit because I don't know), and then rapidly pull up from the descent before i get caught in the blast radius.  Its suicidal, and it uses energy so it kinda ruins the point of the weapon, but man is it fun.
EDF 4.1

I think the whole idea is that you are supposed to use your own velocity attained through flying to aim and throw your grenade a reasonable distance, but yeah, it's funky.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Uristides on August 30, 2016, 06:32:34 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 29, 2016, 07:52:06 pm

I figured out how to use one of the most useless weapons in the game.  The plasma grenade.

See, you might be thinking to yourself, "I've played halo, plasma grenades are easy."  Nah, in this game, plasma grenades are like impact detonated normal grenades that can blow up a house.  Except, they travel the path that a normal grenade would take, but very, very slowly.  Like, 10 year old who didn't do his homework walking to school slowly.  If thrown like a sane person, any target (including a large mass of aliens) will be gone by the time the grenade arrives.  They're used by a flying class, and their schtick is that unlike other weapons, they aren't powered by the jetpack energy bar.  And of course, the game's already wonky grenade code becomes almost unusable when flying.

But I've made it work.  What I do is, fly above and a little in front of the target, and hover in place.  Then I begin descending, drop the grenade straight down (which requires holding the throw button for a bit because I don't know), and then rapidly pull up from the descent before i get caught in the blast radius.  Its suicidal, and it uses energy so it kinda ruins the point of the weapon, but man is it fun.

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EDF 4.1

So the game pretty much lets you be a kawaii mecha-girl plasma bomber?

Linux port(or DX11 support for vmware) when?  :'(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on August 30, 2016, 08:33:14 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on August 29, 2016, 02:32:09 pm

Yes engi is fun and relaxing when there's an eternal stalemate.
Sit in intelligence room, build, relax, occasionally shoot at stuff.

Pull out your lawn chair, drink a beer, play guitar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 30, 2016, 01:19:05 pm

I was tasked with destroying a flying transport, basically a giant UFO that drops giant ants into cities.  I'm in a suit of power armor, with dual wielded ranged weapons and then a futuristic shield + spear combo.  I dash under the transport when its hatch opens, exposing its weak spot, and try to switch to my ranged weapons.  But you can't switch during the dash animation, so instead I swing my spear at this thing high in the sky.  I try to switch again, but fail, so I attack with the spear again.

...the UFO then falls out of the sky in a huge explosion.  Apparently this game and me have *very* different ideas of what constitutes a melee weapon.

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EDF 4.1  The spear has a two attack combo with a much longer second attack, but I didn't realize just how much longer it was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 30, 2016, 02:03:32 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on August 29, 2016, 02:32:09 pm

Yes engi is fun and relaxing when there's an eternal stalemate.
Sit in intelligence room, build, relax, occasionally shoot at stuff.

My low FPS (I'm a cheap bastard) means that the classes I perform best at are Engi and Medic.

Medic I wind up playing the most at b/c no-one else takes the job on pub servers, and I do a good enough job that no-one asks me to switch classes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silverthrone on August 30, 2016, 03:27:50 pm

I encountered a Draugr boss. Their claymores can utterly pulverise you sometimes, and I didn't want to find out. So I ran circles around her, hopped on furniture, kited her around the stairs and slashed at her shins for about ten minutes. Didn't take a single hit.

I Errol Flynned her to death, basically. I can just imagine how the poor boss felt. I'm quite sure that the Draugr Wight Deathlord Scourgemaster Queen Trädgårdsslang the Malevolent died of exasperation. I know I'd be unhappy if a cat forced me out of bed and ran about stabbing me. Mind you, I really miss the Acrobatics skill, now...

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Dear Old Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on August 30, 2016, 05:01:47 pm

Killed a drake. Bastard didn't want to die, took half an hour and multiple almost-party-wipes, but he was not being offered a choice.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackFlyme on August 30, 2016, 06:26:45 pm

Death Becomes Her. Defeat the Mother Beholder in less than 30 seconds.

Take that, you acid-spitting, minion shitting, cyst-covered whore of a boss!

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SLAIN!

Now I have to redo the whole damn level again so I can attempt the no-damage achievement for this boss.  :<

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: A Thing on August 30, 2016, 07:25:16 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on August 30, 2016, 05:01:47 pm

Killed a drake. Bastard didn't want to die, took half an hour and multiple almost-party-wipes, but he was not being offered a choice.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Quote from: A Thing on April 07, 2016, 08:52:53 pm

After an very long battle, I've killed that damn drake in the Devilwoods or whatever in the southwest. Dragonforged my stilettos apparently and managed to do it at only level 30 (I think anyway, I'm level 34 now). Probably the most annoying fight so far, but I can't let some loser dragon win even if I come back later to kick his ass.

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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

I feel your pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JamesCorella on August 31, 2016, 06:38:35 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on August 30, 2016, 05:01:47 pm

Killed a drake. Bastard didn't want to die, took half an hour and multiple almost-party-wipes, but he was not being offered a choice.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

"but he was not being offered a choice."

LOL made my day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 31, 2016, 08:53:32 pm

Started my first survival game, and began flying around the ice cap of the starting world searching for minerals and building my first base, where I planned to construct my first real ship and enter teh spehss. I got back in the lander that you start the game with and attempted to fly somewhere else. Upon attempting to land I discovered that it had mysteriously lost its ability to move downwards or strafe and was mysteriously floating in place, I flipped over, and attempted to use my upward thrusters to propel myself towards the ground, but all I did was slam myself into the ice and kill myself by accident. Ragequit and deleted save after respawning halfway across the planet with just a spacesuit for no reason.

Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Carefulrogue on September 01, 2016, 12:20:29 am

I was able to sneak behind enemy lines with only 9 or so grenades a rifle, and some scattered materials to build a tent.  After erecting said tent, I begin to selectively destroy foxhole after foxhole with grenades and well placed shots.  I collect more materials, craft satchels, and destroy the outposts (spawn and objective points.)  I do this twice over, going deeper and deeper behind their lines.  No one noticed that they were losing bases.  After finally destroying the deepest base, I return to the front.  The Colonials notice about half an hour later (I think,) after our active population plummets.  We ended up losing that game. 

In another game, I managed to sneak behind the lines again, via the same path, with similar results.  This time, me and another guy built a base at their starting point.  A couple of Colonials got really mad as a result, but eventually we lost our main encampment and the map was inverted.  They held our side of the river, we held theirs.  It stayed that way for a few hours, and then our population plummeted again and we simply could not hold the line any longer. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Foxhole Prototype

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on September 01, 2016, 01:56:35 am

Quote from: JamesCorella on August 31, 2016, 06:38:35 pm

"but he was not being offered a choice."

LOL made my day.

Sometimes you just have to make it clear they will not under any circumstances be getting their way.

@ A thing; I was lvl 30 too. I remember testing myself against it on the Xbox console version, was lvl 24 or something. Complete and utter crapshoot, that. Lost main and support pawn, the remaining fellow and I got ambushed by a chimera in the woods southwest of there and nearly died as well. Told myself never again.

I wonder if there's some grand strategy besides button mashing at the heart for half an hour tho. If there is, none of my pawns were experienced enough to provide any other useful insight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on September 01, 2016, 02:19:13 am

Some guy summoned a raid tier demon in Dalaran (it had over 300m health) and ran away, while I was standing a few meters away with my paladin tank. So I did what every player would do, I started hitting it.
After getting its aggro and using up most of my slowly recharging defensive cooldowns it used some knockback ability that threw me several dozen meters backwards and cost me most of my health.
I was catapulted directly into the well in front of the horde bank, which contains a portal to the dalaran sewers. Which currently had its free for all PvP active.
Two demon hunters, levels 109 and 110 and from the same guild saw me landing there with my remaining 30% or so health and attacked me.

Turns out a half dead level 110 paladin tank with no long cooldowns left still eats demon hunters for breakfast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

World of Warcraft: Legion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 01, 2016, 12:23:26 pm

Four Kings and Bed of Chaos down. Neither of those was that difficult, honestly.

Four Kings- took me a while to figure out their attacks (and why some of them seemed to do almost no damage), but they went down fairly easily with Great Magic Weapon and glorious estoc R1 spam.

The Bed of Chaos... was not as terrible as I'd heard. Pits killed me all of four times: once when I didn't realise your progress didn't reset when you died. Once when the game decided that lolnope, you're a little to close the edge there mate. Once when I completely flubbed the jump at the end, and the last time when the Bed actually managed to push me off.

But every time I died, I could identify the mistake. I would rate Bed of Chaos as easier than Four Kings, since the Four Kings were mostly 'I appear not to be gud enough', whilst the Bed was more along the lines of 'in hindsight, I really should have seen that coming.'

Oh, and Nito was the first one I killed. He was... absolutely trivial once I worked out what the heck was even going on.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 01, 2016, 01:19:58 pm

>estoc spam
vomits

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on September 02, 2016, 01:45:00 pm

I got all the emeralds, with Tails, Sonic & Tails, and Knuckles! I won the game!

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 02, 2016, 04:59:10 pm

Challenged Chateline Morgan(Rotation Battle). I knew it was going to be a bad fight when she opens with Sawsbuck, Mantine, and Swalot(I think? I forgot). Even worse, when I changed from Rapiddash trying Flare Blitz(which has always resulted in a mutual kill) to using Flame Wheel, Sawsbuck lands a critical hit with Double-Edge(reason for previous mutual kills). Gardevoir replaces Rapidash, but also goes down to a Double-Edge. I'm down 2(of 4), and the only damage inflicted was recoil from Double-Edge.

Mawile Mega-Evolves and steps forward. Morgan rotated Swalot in, who takes an Iron Head to the face and goes down. Klefki comes out, and wastes a turn trying to use Metal Sound, and barely survives another Iron Head. Sawsbuck rotates in, deal a lot of damage to Mawile, but goes down. Now it's 1+1 vs 1+1, with both metal fairies hurt bad, but Mantine is faster than both Mawile and Garchomp. Even so, Garchomp is still at full HP and presumably faster than Klefki assuming Klefki doesn't use a status move(I assume it had Prankster).

Since Dragon Claw can't hit Klefki and Sand Tomb can't hit Mantine, I pick Take Down instead. Mantine rolls in, and instead of the expected Ice Beam, it used Scald. Hurts, but not less than half, even after Take Down's recoil. Take Down inflicted about 66% damage to Mantine. I select Take Down again. Morgan rotates to Klefki, taking it out before it can act. Now I have a big problem, and am hoping Garchomp can take another Scald. If he can't, I've lost since there's no way Mawile would survive whatever Mantine threw at her.

"The foe's Mantine used Scald!"
Garchomp survives.
"Garchomp used Take Down!
The foe's Mantine fainted!"

Garchomp survives the recoil with 12 hitpoints left.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Omega Ruby. Also, what the hell is with Morgan's hair? A single green drill pigtail, which I can only assume was sealed in a hardened plaster so she can stab people in the face with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on September 03, 2016, 12:30:17 pm

Had more fun, fought a griffon. It's a bit of a spoiler if you haven't made it that far, so:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quest starts as a presumed easy ambush and kill atop a bluff near the capital. Use a dead goblin as bait, griffon shows up and makes itself an easy target. Get a few hits in, it takes off. You have to walk to blue moon tower to pursue it, and when you arrive you get a pretty intense cinemtic fight all the way around the tower before going up the stairs. Most of your NPC fellows end up dead.
The last stretch of the trek around the tower, the griffon is wrecking pillars behind you and dropping the floor into the sea below. Have to stay ahead of it to get inside before it drops the walkway out from under you. One of my support pawns, a ranger I hired for the extra muscle seeing as we would need rangers and mages on this, didn't make it. She was distracted by some damn trinket she wanted to pick up and wound up in the drink.

The fight with the griffon in the arena at the top is good fun. However, if in a previous quest you had gotten Steffen Salomet's grimoire, the real one not a forgery you could make, he shows up and starts dealing some damage as well. Which is appreciated, since we were one pawn short (Because her master was a dumbass and let one of her primary inclinations become collecting shit during combat) and still a ways to go.

It's particularly satisfying because I've been harassed by griffons and been unable to agro them because my stupid spells have a short range and travel slowly. Not good anti-air.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on September 03, 2016, 12:58:41 pm

How many things can an unarmed little schoolgirl kill with just her quick feet and a bicycle?

A thirty-strong horde of zombies, a pack of wolves (at night!), a rampaging moose, and a deranged military chicken-walker tank.

Somebody put minefields on the two roads leading to the emergency shelter she evacuated to. She could spot the mines. The dumb/rampaging enemies that tried to chase her down did not.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 03, 2016, 12:59:08 pm

Seath got Dragonslain a while ago. Deadly creatures of Lordran: a man in pyjamas (Painting Guardian set), a mask (Velka's), and a green shield sprinting around with a bow weighing as much as the rest of his gear combined (maximum curse resist, and the Dragonslayer Greatbow). I broke the primordial crystal with an offhand fist punch, for additional shenanigans.

Now alternating shots at Oolacile's second boss and the final boss. Not having too much luck with either, in large part because I find them very similar and I mess up my dodge rolls against both.

On the plus side, I've got to try out a variety of different weapons now. The uchigatana is blitsvinnig, my gosh. There is basically no ending lag on its attacks, which is quite incredible.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 03, 2016, 03:39:58 pm

You'd probably be better off with your old Estoc. Hella ripostes > moderate bleed

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 03, 2016, 03:58:01 pm

I don't have the nerve to try to parry Gwyn, sorry. :P And I actually mostly pick weapons based on the moveset - in the late game, the actual damage differences outside of criticals tends to be minimal IIRC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 04, 2016, 04:43:21 am

Parrying Gwyn is actually the easy mode way of fighting him. I tried to fight him with a tower shield once and found it was much, much harder to defeat him without the ability to shut down his attacks instantly. But aside from that, yeah, the good thing about DS1 is that you can get by using pretty much any weapon once it's max level (except for the Astora Straight Sword and the non-scaling Dragon weapons), so you might as well pick what you like. I favored the Gargoyle Halberd and the Broadsword myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 04, 2016, 10:35:45 am

Bill, the paranoid Vietnam veteran (who was mutated with fly DNA early on).
18, the martial artist with a fierce temper.
Virgil, the generic cool guy and jack-of-all-trades.
Gnomey, the gnome riding a giant rat and friend to all living things.

These four brave souls made it to Canada with nearly maxed morale, and didn't leave a single dead comrade behind them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road to Canada.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 04, 2016, 11:36:34 am

That's Artorias down. After playing almost all of the game with a pure agility build, 68 poise and a +5 Silver Knight Shield feels like an exploit.

*Absorbs one of Artorias's entire combos* Feels working as intended, man.

Dark Souls, still.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 04, 2016, 01:30:56 pm

Quote from: Arx on September 04, 2016, 11:36:34 am

That's Artorias down. After playing almost all of the game with a pure agility build, 68 poise and a +5 Silver Knight Shield feels like an exploit.

Oddly enough, this works the other way around too. After playing through most of the game with a medium-rolling armoured tank, being able to completely evade things with only a small stamina cost feels cheaty. That said, the AotA enemies are pretty brutal and have absurd combo chains. The final boss has one that lasts 5-6 hits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 04, 2016, 02:32:24 pm

Abandoning your shield for rolling around like a coward?? For shame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 04, 2016, 02:59:27 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 04, 2016, 01:30:56 pm

Quote from: Arx on September 04, 2016, 11:36:34 am

That's Artorias down. After playing almost all of the game with a pure agility build, 68 poise and a +5 Silver Knight Shield feels like an exploit.

Oddly enough, this works the other way around too. After playing through most of the game with a medium-rolling armoured tank, being able to completely evade things with only a small stamina cost feels cheaty. That said, the AotA enemies are pretty brutal and have absurd combo chains. The final boss has one that lasts 5-6 hits.

Believe me, the opposite is just as cheaty if not worse. My brother got through DS2: Scholar of the First Sin almost entirely by wearing the most heavy-duty armor and greatshield he could find while also carrying a massive weapon. He could easily become invincible simply by holding block, wait for the enemies to hit his shield and become stunned, then just hit them a couple times. At least rolling actually requires effort and timing.

/me wore light armor and dual-wielded swords

The worst part is that most of SOTFS's "Extra Difficulty" comes from just cheaply packing a ton of extra enemies in a small space, and since my brother used huge weapons and could block basically infinitely, he could just wait for most of them to be magically stunned by his shield and then kill all of them simultaneously with his weapon's huge range. I on the other hand could only hit one or two at once and had to time my attacks on one enemy extremely carefully to avoid having one of the others sneak up on me for surprise buttseks. The fact that SOTFS was the first Dark Souls and only Dark Souls game I've played doesn't help.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on September 04, 2016, 10:12:59 pm

I understand the fun in using the more effective method and winning but there's nothing cheap about using the simplest method to win that the game gives you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on September 05, 2016, 04:31:00 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on September 04, 2016, 02:32:24 pm

Abandoning your shield for rolling around like a coward?? For shame.

Hiding behind a huge shield is also being a coward.

kek

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 05, 2016, 05:57:00 am

I beat Misty using an underleveled Pikachu while I wasn't even paying attention. I was replaying an unskippable cutscene-heavy portion of Mass Effect 3 and playing Pokemon to kill the time faster. I had to look at ME3 for a second and kept mashing A on the 3DS, then I looked down and saw I had taken the last of Starmie's HP.

Pokemon Yellow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 05, 2016, 07:46:21 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on September 04, 2016, 02:32:24 pm

Abandoning your shield for rolling around like a coward?? For shame.

Play Bloodborne and try to hide behind the one shield in the game
good luck :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 05, 2016, 07:59:01 am

Spoiler: Admirals must have many skills (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/kQUP0M.jpg)

If only my internet was faster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 05, 2016, 09:28:02 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 05, 2016, 07:59:01 am

Spoiler: Admirals must have many skills (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/kQUP0M.jpg)

If only my internet was faster.

Your image appears to be broken, somehow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 05, 2016, 10:49:09 am

The link went bad and I deleted the picture after uploading it, unfortunately.

Basically, I picked up another Fusou (Kantai Collection), while simultaneously leading a group of adventurers through the Cove (Darkest Dungeon), while in the background; a Ryu is plunking down stations for me to turn into a Space Weed Complex (X3 Albion Prelude).

Multitasking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 05, 2016, 02:52:08 pm

When you said Ryu I thought you were talking about Street Fighter :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on September 05, 2016, 03:16:39 pm

IIRC the Ryu is the Yaki's TL ship.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 06, 2016, 01:34:14 am

It's the final battle.  The world has risen in revolt against our alien overlords.  We've fought a long and brutal battle to get here, to this final arena, and the aliens have finally sent in their best and their brightest, their Avatars, to face us directly in hand-to-tentacle combat.  Our troops (plus a Gatekeeper and Codex who our commander and Colonel Yeboah have "convinced" to join us) are tired, worn, low on supplies, but far from finished yet.  The first Avatar teleports in with allies and glares at us, ready to give the order to attack.  The first and most junior of our assault force, Major Kirill Chepurnov ("Meltdown" to his friends), steps forward, takes aim...and immediately executes the first Avatar with absolutely no fuss given.  Welp.

Secondary highlight: Serial chainining to take down an entire wave of reinforcements and even nick the last Avatar for scratch damage.  Now, to get less than 4 hours of sleep and head off for a full day after that, because I did not expect the final missions to take that long. >_<

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on September 06, 2016, 07:02:47 am

I successfully raided a landed Abductor in April with only minor wounds to two of my squad.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM: Long War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2016, 12:47:09 pm

who has two thumbs

AND ENDED THE MOTHERFUCKING REAPER THREAT

IT'S YA GIRL, COMMANDER EVA SHEPARD IN THE HOUSE

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I destroyed the Reapers. There will be peace with synthetics in the future. Joker knows. Tali knows. Liara knows.

My heart actually broke when Liara (my ME3 romance) put my name on the memorial. Holy shit, I had no idea she'd grow on me that much. Kaidan and Vega too, and all the cast of all three games. I even like Jack, and I even feel something for poor Ashley Williams who died way back in the first game.

This series touched my heart in a way that I didn't think any game could. I'm sad that it's over, but holy shit it's been a wild ride. I was planning my next run of all three games before I'd even finished 2, but I don't think it'd be the same.

86 hours total play time.

Mass Effect 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 12:53:58 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending? everything after the first game?

HERETIC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 06, 2016, 12:56:29 pm

Quote from: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 12:53:58 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending? everything after the first game? the stupid concepts in the third game, which shat on the players who had the entire series with the online nonsense and was generally not very good anyway?

HERETIC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2016, 12:59:46 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending?

Nope. Any problems people had with the ending are vast overreactions at best, and I've seen both (technically all three) now, without the extended cut (unless my game is the extended cut and I somehow didn't notice). It satisfied me, both emotionally and in answering any questions I had.

Quote from: hector13 on September 06, 2016, 12:56:29 pm

Quote from: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 12:53:58 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending? everything after the first game? the stupid concepts in the third game, which shat on the players who had the entire series with the online nonsense and was generally not very good anyway?

HERETIC

I didn't notice any online nonsense except a phone home to check DLC licenses whenever I started the game. I wasn't aware that my opinions were wrong though, thanks for telling me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 06, 2016, 01:02:46 pm

You are welcome.

/me notes nobody said your opinions were wrong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 01:04:09 pm

Quote from: hector13 on September 06, 2016, 12:56:29 pm

Quote from: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 12:53:58 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 06, 2016, 12:51:10 pm

Wait, so you didn't hate the ending? everything after the first game? the stupid concepts in the third game, which shat on the players who had the entire series with the online nonsense and was generally not very good anyway?

HERETIC

Actually I'll concede that the multiplayer stuff was pretty fun, even if it's tainted by being attached to the horror that EA spawned.

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2016, 12:59:46 pm

I wasn't aware that my opinions were wrong though, thanks for telling me.

You're welcome.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=27792
^ start reading here to see why they're wrong :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2016, 01:20:46 pm

I skimmed it. It feels very much like overthinking and nitpicking.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 06, 2016, 01:26:42 pm

"I like this game, despite the criticism."
"you're wrong and bad, this game sucks"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 06, 2016, 02:45:52 pm

I've never particularly disliked the Mass Effect 3 ending, either. The multiplayer was fine, too, but should *not* have been connected to the campaign, or at least not had as huge an effect as it did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 06, 2016, 03:14:40 pm

Honestly, I think ME1 was the best. Everyone else seems to shit on it though. Dunno why. Loved the inventory, the story, everything--my only criticism is that it felt a little too open sometimes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on September 06, 2016, 03:30:20 pm

Quote from: Twinwolf on September 06, 2016, 02:45:52 pm

I've never particularly disliked the Mass Effect 3 ending, either. The multiplayer was fine, too, but should *not* have been connected to the campaign, or at least not had as huge an effect as it did.

It was 25 points a person, wasn't it? And you certainly didn't get penalized in MP for not resetting yer dude. So unless you REALLY ground a lot of people, it shouldn't do much.


I mean, in theory, you can get 1,000,000 points from grinding long enough, but something tells me that anything past 100 means you REALLY wanted to grind a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on September 06, 2016, 03:36:03 pm

That's not the issue, being as a War Asset would be fine. The issue was that there was something directly tied to the multiplayer- Galactic Readiness- directly tied to the multiplayer. It was at a default 50%, which meant all the War Assets were worth half the value, which could only go up through multiplayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 06, 2016, 03:51:26 pm

IIRC, in the original release you couldn't get the best outcome without playing the MP, which was kinda shitting on the fanbase considering it was a SP game and had been for the two previous games.  This was later changed.

I have a hard time seeing ME1 as the best game.  Its a cover shooter without any cover, I don't know what else to say besides that.  It felt like with the physically open battlefields, the Mako, the long combat sections without any dialogue, it was diluting everything good about itself.

The biggest change between 1 and 2 was the change from late TV Star Trek tone and visuals to more of a Star Wars used future kinda deal.  For a narrative focused game that's going to make a big difference in whether people like it, and its not something you can be objectively wrong or right about.  I'll admit I never played 3 but it seemed like it also shifted the tone and style significantly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 04:13:39 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 06, 2016, 03:51:26 pm

The biggest change between 1 and 2 was the change from late TV Star Trek tone and visuals to more of a Star Wars used future kinda deal.  For a narrative focused game that's going to make a big difference in whether people like it, and its not something you can be objectively wrong or right about.  I'll admit I never played 3 but it seemed like it also shifted the tone and style significantly.

In the article I linked this is his main point of contention. They took a thing that was well loved with a consistent, developed world and handed it off to another writer who wanted to write a wholly different story. Then they did it again for 3.

Shamus compared it to "if J.K. Rowling had handed Harry Potter off to Terry Pratchet after the 4th book or so" and made the point you did, that while either isn't objectively better, the mere fact that it changed so much ruins the experience for those in for the long haul.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 06, 2016, 06:32:08 pm

I fucking despise mass effect 1, and I really wish I didn't. It's just so clunky and slow and boring to slog through. Two was much more fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on September 06, 2016, 06:34:31 pm

I like the majority of ME1, but dear fucking hells getting anywhere is like driving in mud covered by four feet of wet snow.  Also, Mako is actually the worst space tank ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Taricus on September 06, 2016, 06:49:34 pm

Yeah, while the gameplay of ME1 wasn't the best, it's the writing that's really the standout point for it; well thought out and fairly well executed. That, however, trails off with ME2 and ME3. Ironically the gameplay got smoother as the writing got worse so...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 06, 2016, 07:00:48 pm

...I honestly felt that me2 was waaayyyy better written. Three was also fairly well written besides the dull endings, which got fixed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 06, 2016, 07:08:14 pm

2 is best. 3 was awful. 1 was alright, excepting the Mako, and excessive inventory stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 06, 2016, 07:29:18 pm

I think I got a different pleasure out of Mass Effect than what critics of the sequels (or fans of the original, if you prefer) did.

I didn't especially care too much about the hows and whys of the plot or universe. I never read the Codex, except if there was a plot point I was really struggling to understand or a reference I didn't get. I found a lot of the lore to be pretty generic sci-fi ripped from Star Trek. There's the long-lived democratic race (Vulcans to Asari), the angry warrior race with a genetic defect (Klingons to Krogan), the cyborg enemy that forcibly converts its victims (Borg to Reapers with a bit of Alien thrown in at the end), warp drive (Mass Effect engines), so on. Beyond the specific words used, there's little that's truly unique about the Mass Effect universe.

I liked the characters. I liked finding out a little bit more of their history after every mission. I liked learning about their homeworld and their personal struggles. I liked Joker's growing relationship with EDI through 2 and 3. I loved Liara asking for your input about her histories of you. I loved Tali's anxiety about her pilgrimage and Garrus' dark times on Omega. I remember Kaidan's confrontation with Shepard on Horizon a lot better than I remember that mission itself. I liked ME2 so much better than 1 because it's almost all character introductions; most of the main quests are building up a rogue's gallery of interesting new characters, and then you get to interact with them even more for the loyalty missions.

I loved 3 in particular so much because it gave my Shepard a personal conflict that I felt was lacking in a game where I could decide that Shepard's personality changed at the drop of a hat. The dream sequences, her reaction to the [spoilers] on Thessia, having to reassure her crew as the outlook only gets more grim; these are the reasons I played Mass Effect. I didn't care if the ending was exactly as bad as everyone said it was, because I got to see Tali getting wasted in the Normandy's galley and Garrus and Vega trading tall tales in the crew lounge. Those are the moments I take away from ME3 and the series as a whole, and they're enjoyable to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 07, 2016, 02:50:12 am

I played it because characters, yes. Bwoinking Garrus was a personal success on every level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 07, 2016, 04:31:36 am

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on September 07, 2016, 02:50:12 am

I played it because characters, yes. Bwoinking Garrus was a personal success on every level.

Remember, ingestion can cause hallucinations, so don't, ah... ingest.


Am I the only one disappointed with the reveal of Tali's face? Not the least because they basically photobombed a stock picture? While the model used in the photo is nonetheless hot, it looks nothing like I expected Tali's face to look like, especially since you can see the outline of her face through her mask.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 07, 2016, 05:28:02 am

I didn't get to see Tali unmasked in my game, but upon looking it up that is really disappointing. I would have preferred it remaining a mystery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 07, 2016, 05:41:49 am

ingestion is the second-best part

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on September 07, 2016, 02:16:28 pm

I believe that the original Quarians in me1 were actually, like... Rat people. Or something similar to that. They weren't really super attractive. It got retconned, however.

I tihnk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 07, 2016, 04:51:13 pm

I'm pretty sure that all we knew about quarians in ME1 was that they were mammals. Being rodent-like was just a fan theory IIRC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on September 07, 2016, 05:43:02 pm

I'm pretty sure Tali's faceplate has always been translucent, and the outline of her face has always been basically human.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 07, 2016, 07:05:37 pm

Both of those are true. Even with ME1's muddy graphics it seemed pretty obvious to me.

^{_{still loved the meme involving her ME2 faceplate removal though}}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 07, 2016, 09:12:51 pm

Quote from: BFEL on September 06, 2016, 04:13:39 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 06, 2016, 03:51:26 pm

The biggest change between 1 and 2 was the change from late TV Star Trek tone and visuals to more of a Star Wars used future kinda deal.  For a narrative focused game that's going to make a big difference in whether people like it, and its not something you can be objectively wrong or right about.  I'll admit I never played 3 but it seemed like it also shifted the tone and style significantly.

In the article I linked this is his main point of contention. They took a thing that was well loved with a consistent, developed world and handed it off to another writer who wanted to write a wholly different story. Then they did it again for 3.

Shamus compared it to "if J.K. Rowling had handed Harry Potter off to Terry Pratchet after the 4th book or so" and made the point you did, that while either isn't objectively better, the mere fact that it changed so much ruins the experience for those in for the long haul.

I don't agree with that.  I was saying the style was a matter of taste.  In terms of writing ME1 is just worse IMO.  There's less dialogue in general, the characters feel pretty generic and shallow even compared to themselves in later games.  Compare ME1 Garrus to ME2 Garrus.  The best thing about the plot was the political and relatively mundane worldbuilding, while the high adventure bits were lame.  The Reapers were an ass pull that introduced themselves halfway through the game with a talking hologram for no reason.  The "chosen one" aspect of Shepherd added nothing to the plot and all the characters conveniently forgot about it in the later games.  The main antagonist throughout most of the game was literally motivated by (spoilers if anyone cares) nothing except mind control.  Where it really shined was the worldbuilding with the different alien races and the fairly consistent attitude towards tech and magic.  ME2 held on to that while putting the focus on the characters and the action.

Possible ME heresy here, but I don't like the Reapers.  The writers built this whole detailed galaxy where we understand at least ballpark how everything works.  Then they created an enemy that is not only external to that galaxy, but explicitly impossible for said galaxy to beat.  Which is a big part of why the ending to 3 sucked, to sell the idea that the protagonists could win required contriving things.

Part of the reason I like ME2 so much more than ME1 is that the Reapers have very little impact on 2's plot.  When they are there they're horrifying on a visceral level, whereas in 1 they're this sterile, distant threat.  And I can only take a wild guess that in 3 they're a seriously diluted threat because, you know, that sure is a lot of Cthulus to not instantly wipe everyone out.  Also their origins are explained for some incomprehensible reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 07, 2016, 09:53:54 pm

Spoiler: ME3 spoilers about the reapers (click to show/hide)

You do end up beating a handful of Reapers in ME3, but it takes a lot of help each time. The first one you need to coerce a giant monster into fighting it, and the second time you have to use a laser targeting system to point an entire fleet's cannons at a very small target. There's a third thing you destroy on Earth that might be a Reaper or just some sort of giant artillery robot, but I think the implication is that not all Reapers are created equal. The main guys like Harbinger and Sovereign might be able to do things like attack the Citadel single-handed, but there's younger/less experienced/less capable Reapers that might be feasible for conventional forces to take on.

I still found the Reapers pretty threatening in 3, though. On every planet (except the above three cases) where an actual Reaper is present in-person, the best you can do is hold the line and get what you need from the planet. Thessia, the Asari homeworld, is totally lost even with you present. Even on Palaven, if you get the Turians and Krogan to work together, the best they can accomplish is stalemate with Reaper forces.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 07, 2016, 09:57:08 pm

While I appreciate this is interesting, this isn't the thread for it :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on September 08, 2016, 08:25:54 am

Back on topic:

After about an hour of farming NC at Andvari, we finally received reinforcements and took the biolab for the TR, and had enough momentum to push down to Jaeger's Crossing.

On the way down to Jaeger's Fist, the Sunderer I was gunning in took a detour to the nearby NC hive. I barely managed to kill one of the NC ANTs and hop out the Sunderer before it was destroyed, and a nearby Prowler was down to half health. Concerned about the number of vehicles left on the NC side, I hurriedly layed down AT mines, hoping to catch an ANT. The Sunderer explosion took out all my shields and half my health, and I was in full view of the enemy turrets, but I some how got to the Prowler and started repairing it. The Prowler took out another ANT, but the HA driver managed to got out and started shooting at the tank crew who had also got out to repair. I quickly switched to my main gun, before remembering I still had a shotgun equipped, so I had to switch to my pistol. I somehow managed to kill him before he killed me.

Turns out he was the last defender, so we just blew up the HIVE and the rest of the base with AV turrets with no further resistance.


EDIT: Carp, forgot the game. It's Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 08, 2016, 09:26:01 am

I think I was in that, only I was on the other side of the continent, taking Elli from the NC right when you spandex freaks locked the continent.

Actually, I think what you did there was what locked the continent, freaking hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on September 08, 2016, 11:23:30 am

Which server are you on? I'm on Miller.

Quote from: Akura on September 08, 2016, 09:26:01 am

you spandex freaks

I play TR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 08, 2016, 11:47:58 am

Ah. Nevermind, I was playing on Emerald. As TR. Strange that it sounded like the exact same fight, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 08, 2016, 05:44:13 pm

Took down a Materialist Fallen Empire. That's one out of three in the galaxy, though I can't reach the others just yet.

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gabeux on September 08, 2016, 07:39:52 pm

Using around 25 mods, playing alone. Made combat harder, bumped up animal limit and monster count, spawned randomly somewhere, dropped all my gear and started very much naked.
Managed to not die, ran away from hundreds of threats, made crude then basic gear. Eventually my cave got surrounded by hell hounds, gorillas and spiders and had to abandon my camp, and while running away I almost drowned, but managed to steal a boat parked right beside a guard tower.
Decided that to end the 'survival challenge' I'd have to reach the Altar of the Three without dying. Made it.

Wurm Unlimited (even though I played WO like 7 years ago, I didn't learn anything back then, so I'm very much new to it).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 09, 2016, 05:46:00 am

Performed a cross-Kerbin flight using second-tier parts but first tier facilities(I started with a lot of science, but even the highest money start is not enough for upgrades), flight took over an hour, doing two survey missions, one requiring the barometer. Realized I burned more than half my fuel, I decided to land right there. Cutting the engines to as low as possible and still have positive electricity generation, I stalled and glided as close to the ground. I hit the parachutes a tad too early, lengthening my descent. Couldn't level out, but when I hit the ground I was slow enough that the cockpit wasn't destroyed and it leveled itself perfectly. Entire craft recovered, +132 Science, +tens of thousands of Kerbucks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 09, 2016, 10:27:58 pm

Been alternating between playing other games in the series and slamming my face into Mountain of Faith. Decided to try ReimuA, since I'd never done that before. ReimuB is utterly terrible, with a near-useless spell sign and neither piercing nor homing shot, but ReimuA was quite serviceable, if not as good as MarisaB. Patchouli had a completely new set of spell signs, which kind of threw me off, but I did pretty well overall, although I won with no extra lives. Most of my deaths were due to being reluctant to bomb against midboss Sakuya. What is even WITH midboss Sakuya. Midboss Sakuya is harder then boss Sakuya or Remilia. Like, I've gone up against some robust foes. Midboss Sakuya is one of the most difficult not-extra enemies. In any case, I did win and got a new all-time high score. Sweet.

Now if only I could beat Kanoko...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

It seems I can consistently beat this game with good characters and get to Remilia's last spell sign with bad characters. Maybe I should try Hard difficu-

/me is slain by Icicle Fall mid-sentence

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 10, 2016, 12:59:20 am

Reimu A is the only way I can make real progress in most Touhou games. Marisa is way too fast to control, and Reimu B almost always sucks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 10, 2016, 05:20:35 am

Ten giant mecha (Balams) against ten electric not-godzillas (Erginus).  I'm just an infantryman (well, more of a FAC) tasked with keeping giant insects off of the robots, which are cripplingly overspecialized and have no guns.  Oh and I'm playing on a higher difficulty than I usually do, so my equipment is underleveled.  For the first run, I call down a tank for myself, and run around doing my job killing the insects.  Eventually a giant(er) mutant Erginus comes, and command gives me a Balam of my own.  I fight the mutant for a long time.  Unfortunately, I lose, and thanks to the difficulty level the NPC Balams lose as well (albiet with only one Erginus remaining).  I summon a new tank, and fire all 35 shells into the normal Erginus.  Then I get back in my old tank and fire its remaining ammo.  The 60 some tank shells had no real effect, so I get out and start firing my sticky grenade launcher; I get stomped to death shortly after.

For my next try, I decide I'm going to become a giant killer.  I forgoe a personal defense weapon in favor of equipping two laser designators hooked up to orbital kill sats, and for my vehicle I go with a Vegalta (a walker that would be described as giant in any other game, but is tiny in this one).  This particular Vegalta is supposedly anti-air, with dual missile pods for taking out multiple small targets.  However, it has two gatling cannons instead of the usual one, meaning its damage potential against a giant target that cannot be missed is absurdly high.  The giants punching each other are joined by two blue lasers from space scything through the battle.  The lasers have to be moved around to follow targets and deal continuous damage.  If I keep both the lasers on a single Erginus for their entire duration, then earn back both lasers via kills and do it again, and then empty most of the ammo from the Vegalta's cannons into that same Erginus, I can score a kill.  Armed with this power, I manage to turn the tide in favor of the Balams.  Occasionally Erginus try to stomp on me; at one point one attempts to charge my walker only to fall down dead in front of me.

When the mutant Erginus comes, my Balam is joined by a swarm of 5 heavily wounded allied Balams.  Unfortunately I get separated from my allies, who move at the same speed as me in this big blob and are too dumb to wait.  The mutant manages to destroy all five remaining Balams on its own.  This whole battle has taken like 10-15 minutes, and I know from experience that I have to stunlock this thing (that moves both randomly and way faster than me) perfectly or I pretty much die.  Preparing myself for a disappointing loss, I slowly lumber forward.  Balams have one attack combo, which is jab jab haymaker uppercut.  Last two hits stun.  I miss the haymaker when the mutant is leaning back in preparation for an attack, and then as it lunges forward I catch it right on the jaw with an uppercut.  It instantly falls over dead, having had almost no health left.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earth Defense Force 4.1, it took my a lot of tries to win this.  Not sure why I didn't just play it on normal or hard difficulty like all the other missions

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 11, 2016, 01:59:23 pm

Nuking the world to "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" is the cheesiest, most unoriginal thing.

But it's really fucking fun and satisfying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civ V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 11, 2016, 04:28:23 pm

And Kanoko is DUNKED, finally. Goddamn Mountain of Faith and its amulet blitzing. The constant zzzzz of things being fired at you is actually kind of soothing and I entered a serene state of dodging. Still used up two lives and lots of bombs, but its definitely one of the more elegant Touhou victories I've had. Most of them end with me panting/crying/laughing, but I was pretty chill throughout this one. It helped that MoF is the only Touhou that's worked perfectly on my potato and I got to watch the whole ending scene instead of scizophrenic snippets of one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

5 down, 5 to go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mainiac on September 12, 2016, 07:02:40 pm

I was playing Rule the Waves, a game about pre-WWII naval battles.  The game takes place during the era of flag communication so a lot of naval tactics involve "follow the leader" with the player controlling the flagship and the other ships doing their best to obey orders.  This means you cant flawlessly micromanage your ships like in most RTS games.  Even simple maneuvers by elite crews are going to be sloppy.

I was playing as France and got in a Jutland style main fleet battle with Germany.  Our fleets made contact just before dusk.  We trade a few blows with each other but soon spotting range is going to fall to spitting distance meaning it will be impossible to see the enemy or even coordinate properly with your own ships.  But I see a chance.  An older german battleship is out of position and I know that my flagship has a tiny speed advantage over it.  I go to full steam towards the krauts hoping to drive them away from their fleet.  Hopefully the darkness will make the main fleet unable to help them while my battleline tears them apart.

The German Zähringen class battleship is driven from the pack as darkness falls.  The French flagship Brennus places itself between the Zähringen and the German High Seas Fleet.  Brennus closes to point blank range so that the Germans can not escape into the darkness.  9 French battleships and battlecruisers are behind the Brennus, ready to deliver a devestating fire upon the lone German ship as they pass.

Then the Germans land a single hit on the rudder of the Brennus, causing it to veer wildly to starboard.  During night the French battleline cant see more then the ship in front of them.  They cant pass flag signals or make out the fleet as a whole.  Instead they continue to obey the last order given and follow the leader.  They wildly veer every which way to try and reassume their stations with other ships that are also steering wildly.  The screening ships meanwhile sails straight through the battleline and then breaks in all direction as all the destroyer divisions suddenly try to figure out where the hell their station is along a battleline that seems to be going every single direction.  Within minutes dozens of French ships, the pride of the nation, look like drunken partiers flailing about a pool.  In the middle of it is the flagship Brennus which continues to steer in a circle in the middle of this maelstrom.  The Zähringen slinks away into the night.

Oh wait, that was an epic fail not *own*.   :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 12, 2016, 09:25:41 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 11, 2016, 04:28:23 pm

It helped that MoF is the only Touhou that's worked perfectly on my potato and I got to watch the whole ending scene instead of scizophrenic snippets of one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

5 down, 5 to go.

You have problems running Touhou? I mean, my computer still has its basic Intel graphics card and a 2.5 GHz Processor (If I remember correctly), and Touhou runs like a charm. Maybe something with the downloads?

EDIT: Forgot my "own".

I was able to beat the The Dark Mod fan mission "Trapped!" without any deaths and only one restart. Granted, it was on easy, but the only change in the difficulty as far as objectives was "steal more stuff". I did wind up killing someone in a sword fight, but I didn't take a scratch.

Although I will admit both sight and sound were set to "Forgiving."

Whatever, it's a huge improvement from slinking around each corner completely terrified in "The Tears of St. Lucia".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 12, 2016, 10:15:51 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on September 12, 2016, 09:25:41 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 11, 2016, 04:28:23 pm

It helped that MoF is the only Touhou that's worked perfectly on my potato and I got to watch the whole ending scene instead of scizophrenic snippets of one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

5 down, 5 to go.

You have problems running Touhou? I mean, my computer still has its basic Intel graphics card and a 2.5 GHz Processor (If I remember correctly), and Touhou runs like a charm. Maybe something with the downloads?

M8, my netbook has an even worse Intel graphics card and 1.6 GHz. Its also still running Windows Starter because I can't be bothered to upgrade. Step up your game. :P

The menus are kind of borked in that they spasm in a weird curtainy way. I can PLAY the game fine, but the endings are mostly occluded and the menus are a bit of a pain since I can only reliably see the top option. Probably due to the COUGH COUGH SOURCES COUGH COUGH I obtained them from, but it might also be an issue with windows compatibility. First Windows generation[EoSD-IN] are borked, but MoF is fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 12, 2016, 10:39:58 pm

Who is this "Touhou"?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 12, 2016, 10:52:19 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on September 12, 2016, 10:39:58 pm

Who is this "Touhou"?

A series of Japanese bullet hells with fabulous music, somewhat less fabulous art and in which everyone is an anime girl.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 17, 2016, 01:34:27 pm

Defeated Lord Gwyn. It was actually quite easy, once I realised you could pretty easily kite him around the arena and punish his slower moves.

I really enjoyed that. This game is fantastic. Which is a large part of the reason I'm enjoying slashing my way through NG+ as a katana-wielding lunatic. There's a kind of simple pleasure to carving your way through significantly underpowered enemies.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 17, 2016, 05:06:38 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on September 12, 2016, 09:25:41 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 11, 2016, 04:28:23 pm

It helped that MoF is the only Touhou that's worked perfectly on my potato and I got to watch the whole ending scene instead of scizophrenic snippets of one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

5 down, 5 to go.

You have problems running Touhou? I mean, my computer still has its basic Intel graphics card and a 2.5 GHz Processor (If I remember correctly), and Touhou runs like a charm. Maybe something with the downloads?

I dunno. Maybe the older ones(EoSD, PCB) have some problems on some systems. Those two run just fine on my PC, but they struggled a bit on my netbook to the point where alt-tabbing or running under a significant CPU load will have the game automatically return to the main menu, go to options(scrolling the menu by itself) and switch itself to windows mode, 16-bit graphics, and midi-based music and then freak itself out like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on September 17, 2016, 10:52:45 pm

So I finally figured out how to kill zombies! And gopniks! Turns out you have to punch them, then run away, then punch them again, then run away again, and repeat until they die. And then fight the next one. And the next. And a dozen or two after that. All whilst suffering from explosive diarrhoea, dying of thirst and trying not to get shat on by mutant birds.

But I did it! I made it to the place where I was supposed to be going! And then died shortly afterwards, but whatever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Underground Man

Edit: Oh shit! I figured out how to load the game! I didn't even know you could do that! Awesome! This is even more of an Own!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on September 18, 2016, 12:08:55 am

I murdered things to death with laser drills, lasers, and so many fireworks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 18, 2016, 10:30:15 am

Operation katana lunatic is going pretty well so far. Capra demon took three tries, because I contrived a couple of massive messups the first two times (I also took a detour through spear lunatic in order to kill the dogs), Gaping Dragon took two shots after I almost took it down first try, and I haven't quite yet reached Quelaag.

The bleed on the Uchi is more useful than I'd expected on bosses and tanky enemies. Pulling a random extra 400-500 damage out is quite nice.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on September 20, 2016, 05:17:11 am

I discovered the on/off button for my squeaky shoes!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dropsy

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 20, 2016, 07:20:17 am

Hey, cool, I'm getting not completely terrible at this game.
Sure, my main automation system to produce the two science vials still looks like a spaghetti-and-arms fever dream, and the iron production system a standard arms-and-arms fever dream, but after taking a few days off and meditating on the nature of life I'm now capable of designing small semi-continuous (Still need to manually feed coal into the furnaces) systems with at the very least minor foresight into enlarging the designs should increased production be needed.
Hip hip.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 20, 2016, 10:36:10 am

Flew around behind point A at volskaya as Pharah while the entire enemy team was focused on the chokepoint and captured point A without them even noticing, within the first minute of the game.

Maybe less of an own and more of a fail for the enemy team but whatevs.

Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 20, 2016, 12:14:46 pm

The legend of katana lunatic continues. Ornery and Slow are down, after... several tries, because I wanted to take out Superstein. Gravelord Neato is down too, after I accidentally left my ring of fog on and remembered it's amazing in that fight.

Now I've just got to make it through a fairly buggy-seeming Ceaseless Discharge (because I think flooded New Londo is by far the worst-designed area of DS). Threw in the towel for tonight after he missed me by a mile and I died anyway. ???

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 02:02:28 pm

Quote from: Arx on September 20, 2016, 12:14:46 pm

I think flooded New Londo is by far the worst-designed area of DS).

Aesthetic design or level design?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 20, 2016, 02:17:24 pm

Level design. The submerged aesthetic is pretty neat, actually.

I can see what they were going for, with the ghosts, and it is pretty freaky for the first little while, but I tend to just get fed up with 'lol now there are ghosts all around you and you can't kill them, because they're inside the walls'. Which is the only difficulty for me in flooded New Londo - trying not to die to the ghosts that rise up behind you or hide in walls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 02:49:37 pm

I'm pretty sure you can kill the wall ghosts just by whacking the walls they're hiding in. Doesn't work for the floor ghosts but those don't usually follow you.

What I really hate are the ghosts that are just too high or low for your weapon to hit them. I understand weapon selection in dark souls is about the moveset, but cmon! Can you really not hit that gigantic mosquito in front of you just because it's slightly above your halberd thrust!  >:(

...

I guess that applies to all flying enemies in general.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 20, 2016, 02:52:26 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 02:49:37 pm

I'm pretty sure you can kill the wall ghosts just by whacking the walls they're hiding in. Doesn't work for the floor ghosts but those don't usually follow you.

Depends on your weapon and which wall they're hiding in. Katana lunatic struggles a lot more than a halberd user would. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 20, 2016, 03:31:25 pm

I though Izalith was the worst area in DS1; New Londo didn't bother me all that much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 03:48:39 pm

Izalith sucked but the demon ruins leading up to it are fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 20, 2016, 08:31:49 pm

Quote from: Arx on September 20, 2016, 02:52:26 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 02:49:37 pm

I'm pretty sure you can kill the wall ghosts just by whacking the walls they're hiding in. Doesn't work for the floor ghosts but those don't usually follow you.

Depends on your weapon and which wall they're hiding in. Katana lunatic struggles a lot more than a halberd user would. :P

Muhahahah, you fool, who didn't have the dumb luck to get the Black Knight Halberd!da
Honestly, I feel kinda cheaty using it, it has an amazing moveset and stunning amounts of damage, so I'm nearly breezing through the game with it.
I mean, I'm still dying a bunch, but it's so good I killed Gravelord on my first go (And I mean first, I was going in blind), took out O&S on my second, and was punching way beyond my level so much so that I forgot about the Capra Demon area, and probably would have for a lot longer if I could have figured out how to use that rickety bastard Blighttown calls an elevator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 20, 2016, 09:48:52 pm

I tried to take on Najarala, forgetting that I had no potions. I managed to beat it using just the First-Aid Meds in the supply box anyway.

It's really fun to escape Naja's pin maneuver with the insect glaive. I don't know you'd get out of it without that.

MH4U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 20, 2016, 10:25:58 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 20, 2016, 08:31:49 pm

Quote from: Arx on September 20, 2016, 02:52:26 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on September 20, 2016, 02:49:37 pm

I'm pretty sure you can kill the wall ghosts just by whacking the walls they're hiding in. Doesn't work for the floor ghosts but those don't usually follow you.

Depends on your weapon and which wall they're hiding in. Katana lunatic struggles a lot more than a halberd user would. :P

Muhahahah, you fool, who didn't have the dumb luck to get the Black Knight Halberd!da
Honestly, I feel kinda cheaty using it, it has an amazing moveset and stunning amounts of damage, so I'm nearly breezing through the game with it.
I mean, I'm still dying a bunch, but it's so good I killed Gravelord on my first go (And I mean first, I was going in blind), took out O&S on my second, and was punching way beyond my level so much so that I forgot about the Capra Demon area, and probably would have for a lot longer if I could have figured out how to use that rickety bastard Blighttown calls an elevator.

Dual-wield (Great Axes, or various zweihanders) faith build. if you can't tank it, murder it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 21, 2016, 12:07:41 am

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 20, 2016, 08:31:49 pm

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I have about eight of those, I'm just specifically using katanas on this run because it seemed fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 21, 2016, 06:33:42 am

>dex

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on September 21, 2016, 07:38:42 am

SHUT UP YOU DERAIL

Anyways, just massacred a bunch of tribal dimwits who decided to attack me. After, y'know, I accidentally killed a bunch of them who were passing through after mistaking one of them for the leader of one of the enemy tribes... turns out they were siblings with the same surname. :P

I think one of my soldiers lost a finger but that was the worst of the inj... wait, no, one of my troops had his foot shot off by friendly fire. Goddamnit. ::) Oh well, feet don't really matter in this game anyway.

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RimWorld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on September 22, 2016, 12:27:21 am

Two separate encounters.

Firstly, a cockatrice on Bitterblack Isle. I was completely unprepared, only brought three panacea and no secret softeners or anything of the sort that could cure petrification. Over the course of the battle it killed all three of my pawns, because I they were petrified and couldn't be cured. The last pawn, my healing mage, was still technically alive at the instant I finally dealt the finishing blow. She died immediately afterwards, though, and the cockatrice didn't drop anything that could have saved her anyway. I snuck back to the entrance, because I didn't have a liftstone or anything to teleport. I say snuck in only the faintest sense, because there's no real sneaking mechanic, and was spotted by goblins.

Encountered an elder ogre in some sewer-like tunnels, still on Bitterblack isle. This is a monster that has 10 health bars (1 bar + 9 dots). It is huge, it repeatedly picked up my pawns and chomped on their heads. The only attack I had equipped that had any real effect against it was the explosive ricochet shot from my bow. We fought it back and forth in a section of the sewers, and very, very slowly took out 4 dots of health. Half dead. Then by pure luck it charges through and past the party as we have our back to a hole in the wall, and it goes right through the hole! There's a narrow ledge on the other side where it lands, and sits there for a minute while I try to convince my pawns to pull back. Then, it jumps off into the water below and dies. Instant victory, 25k experience. Suddenly wish I'd thought to use one of my veterans' periapts so I'd get the double XP, but the effect wouldn't have lasted the entire battle and seeing it off a cliff was completely unexpected. In fact I thought this would be a repeat of those two separate times a cyclops bludgeoned me off cliffs to my death, when it ran out of the tunnels and to a cliff overhanging that chasm, so I lead the party back inside once rescuing the warrior.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 22, 2016, 04:19:25 pm

Took on the only empire capable of threatening me and came out on top. Sure, I only took a few border systems, but their military has been crippled beyond any chance of recovery.

Spoiler: A shot of the galaxy right before the war, I am the unimaginatively-named big blue blob (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/251463491378398041/CB25516C8E0C8F2447B3AF6F3D7570AB8955DE5F/)

Most of the little blobs inside my territory are protectorates that pretty much serve as influence farms, including the humans of Sol III that I uplifted while they were still in Crusader Kings. The only exception is the purple one at the "northern" part, which is part of one of my neighbors.

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 22, 2016, 04:51:10 pm

Are Stellaris and The Last Federation linked? Or did you just name your empire after the protagonist's race in The Last Federation?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 22, 2016, 05:00:57 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 22, 2016, 04:51:10 pm

Are Stellaris and The Last Federation linked? Or did you just name your empire after the protagonist's race in The Last Federation?

The second. There is a hydra as a species appearance, and I ran with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 22, 2016, 07:50:50 pm

Attacked a group of goblin bandits on the plains. Killed one with a suprise headshot with my two handed sword while my meatshields brave allies became arrow sponges distracted the enemy.

While chasing down the last goblin and beginning it's punishment, I noticed that I have not been as careful with my attacks as I had planned, I was not killing the last goblins with my sword I had apparently gotten disarmed at one point and was using another item I happened to have in my hands.

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You strike the slim goblin bowman in the neck from behind with your lungfish, ♂ and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery is opened by the attack!
The slim goblin bowman loses hold of the iron bow.
You eat the lungfish ♂.

Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 22, 2016, 09:32:01 pm

Quote from: Covenant on September 22, 2016, 09:10:11 pm

Quote from: Greiger on September 22, 2016, 07:50:50 pm

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You eat the lungfish ♂.

Eww, that probably had goblin blood all over it. There's no five second rule for that shit.

At least it wasn't dirty elf blood. I'd take goblin over that any day.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on September 23, 2016, 02:17:16 am

If someone is looking for a fast, messy and interesting playthrough of Doom I can recommend the mod Demonsteele using the Hell on Earth Starter Pack. The starter pack is from the Brutal Doom mod. (http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/downloads/brutal-doom-hell-on-earth-starter-pack)
The Demonsteele mod is all katanas, special moves, dodging and fountaining blood. You have two characters to choose from; katana/ gun wielder and ki using cyborg. Combat is mostly melee, building a soul meter to pull off special moves like dashing across the room slicing everything, 360 sword spin and such.
 (http://www.moddb.com/mods/demonsteele)
I think the Demonsteele mod doubles enemy spawns but with how much damage you do, and how many souls you need to pull of special moves it works quite well. The mod also changes some enemies around so Cacodaemons are cultists from Heretic, Archviles have an AOE fire attack instead of the sight-dependent attack and the zombies have projectiles instead of hitscan so you can have a chance to dodge the bullets.

I was playing it with GZDoom version 2.1.1. Select both the Demonsteele .pk3 and the Hell on Earth .wad and drop them both onto the GZDoom exe, then run with Doom II.


Finished the first episode of Hell on Earth Starter pack using Jung Hae-Lin on difficulty "Take No Prisoners".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on September 24, 2016, 03:27:47 pm

Did a Conspiracy 2 draft, I ended up drafting GW and then picked Hymn of the Wilds relatively late, but had enough creatures to make it work. Completely dominated the game I played, and between me being the Monarch 90% of the time and somebody else playing Kami of the Crescent Moon, I only had 6 cards left in my library because I drew so many cards. Ended up growing a hexproof flying dude to 14/15 and giving him lifelink.

Magic: The Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 24, 2016, 06:11:52 pm

Well, I may have overly-prepared for the Eater of Worlds. Full Platinum armor, Ironskin and Regeneration potions, a campfire + Bottled Star + Heart Jar for maximum passive regen, full stack of Restoration potions, a Mythic Diamond Staff, and a Hurtful Katana for when mana ran out.

End result? EoW utterly obliterated, dealing just 1 damage per body hit and not much more with head hits. It hit me a lot, almost continuously, but I never dropped below 200 HP and didn't even touch the Restoration potions. Time to go to Hell.

Terraria, Expert Mode. After the nightmare that was iCthulhu, I figured that the EoW would have some new attacks or something in Expert Mode. Guess not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 25, 2016, 03:55:43 am

Gave up on getting the eSports sword and just killed Seath with a little lightning and a katana. Taking a detour through the DLC while my frothing rage at New Londo subsides. So far sanctuary guardian and Artorias down.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 25, 2016, 12:28:46 pm

Since my IN is apparently working again[After a long hiatus of only displaying garbled error messages], I've decided to make a serious attempt to beat Mokou. After getting dunked on repeatedly by her last three spell signs, I decided to put myself through some training from Hell to toughen up.

Yes, that's right.

SPELL PRACTICE MODE.

After maybe an hour of running into danmaku face-first, I can now do Fujiwara Volcano perfectly about half the time, Possessed by Pheonix until just before the two-thirds mark and Hourai Doll until one bomb would allow me to win.

I have never felt so badass.

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Mind you, I still consistently have trouble with Mokou's first couple spell signs.

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 25, 2016, 07:13:05 pm

There's a new map that's been added to the Official KOTH rotation. Can't remember the name, but it's got a bunch of buildings with Japanese paper walls and the like. The control point's building is very small, and it has one screen on both the RED and BLU side. Basically, it's very close quarters.

I went with the Revengineer build (Frontier Justice + Gunslinger) and found out I could do extremely well.

Then I went with Jag and Stock Shotgun.

I found myself in second or third place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Note: I've also noticed that my skill with the shotguns is much greater than before.

My sniping is still extremely weak, so I'm unable to live up to the monkier "Crazed Gunman".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on September 25, 2016, 07:17:36 pm

Defeated the dragon. Only died like three times, too!

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Dragon's Dogma, Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 25, 2016, 07:59:20 pm

Mokou got dunked on. Didn't have too much trouble at first and lost only two lives before her final deadly trio of spell signs. I actually COLLECTED Fujiwara Volcano, which is a miracle beyond belief. See, it turns out that you need to circle around above her[The pheonix avatar thing doesn't hurt you] when you start getting stuck in a corner. Then I basically brute-forced her last two spell signs with my lives and bombs. I'd have tried to dodge them properly, but my hands were shaking too much to deal with them. Still, I won. That's two Extra bosses down now. The easiest ones, mind you[Ran is weak!Yukari and Mokou is in IN], but I'm still proud of myself.

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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

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EDIT:

So I decided to take on Flandre, just to kill half an hour or so. And I beat her. Her spell signs aren't THAT hard, with a few exceptions. Maze of Love, Laser Crosses and There Will Be None are still pretty nasty, but I had the power of LOVE on my side. Channeled into a giant death laser. Her last spell sign was pathetically weak. Like, I swear I've seen that exact attack as a non-spell somewhere else. And I defeated it flawlessly with no lives or bombs left.

So I guess this means that only Yukari and Suwako remain undefeated, as far as Extra Bosses go. And honestly, those two are scary enough that I'll probably beat whoever the SA Extra Boss is before I get around to them.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on September 26, 2016, 12:04:25 am

Just barely managed to blow apart the last survivors of the San Francisco and Portland garrisons and take the cities for myself in time to obtain a Decisive Victory (and campaign victory), the Murican fleet bombarding me off the coast could only watch while slinging random bits of ordinance my way.  Was very close, up until that moment of victory I really didn't think I could pull off a decisive but luckily the Schwerer Gustav provided just enough firepower to push through.

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Panzer Corps, just the standard Wehrmacht campaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 26, 2016, 08:16:29 am

I beat Dark Souls!
I can see why people said the final boss was a little bit underwhelming, it's incredibly powerful, but since most of the attacks can be parried, all I needed to do (After 5 or so tries) was put on the toughest armour I had, get a good parrying tool, and go to town on him, it was sort of my fault it ended up so easy, though.
Still, Whoo! Now I can do it all over again!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 26, 2016, 09:02:04 am

yada yada, he's supposed to be underwhelming. How prolonging the current age has turned him weak and hollow, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on September 26, 2016, 09:39:51 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on September 26, 2016, 09:02:04 am

yada yada, he's supposed to be underwhelming. How prolonging the current age has turned him weak and hollow, etc.

Pfffff
I didn't phrase that right, when I said 'incredibly powerful', I mean that my standard build is Greatshield* + Some sort of halberd, along with some medium-weight armour, so by that point I was rocking Artorias's Greatshield and a fully upgraded Black Knight Halberd, and he was handing me my ass.

Everything about him was designed to kick my shit in, he never lets the pressure up and he moves like a mouse, so my halberd, with it's (Relatively) slow vertical strike as the one-handed light attack starter, was nearly useless, and as with practically every halberd, every time you miss, you get slapped with a good half-second of lag time as your character tries to fight the momentum, even if I did hit, like hell I was going to stagger him, so he gives me a good 3-hit combo with that sword of his while I pathetically trade with him, the second light attack wasn't much better, considering the fact that the range on it then is basically halved while his sword could hit me from way further than you think.

The worst part was that because his sword had some pretty impressive fire damage stapled on to it, he was still getting scratch damage on me through the Greatshield, and he can chain 3 or so combos together, backing up to heal was a dangerous proposition at best considering the fact he can leap across the arena in one or two strides so most of the time the best I could do was break even on healing.

He won, it doesn't matter that I killed him, he beat me, he beat me into the ground until I gave up fighting with the style I had used through most of the game and exploited some minor aspect of him that I wouldn't have even known about had I not been spoiled, and even then he took me out twice through a full set of Havel armour, fire-resisting pyromancy, and a counter-damage boosting ring while I pathetically mashed the parry button at him with a parrying dagger, that's what I mean by 'it was my fault it ended up so easy, though.', because he deserved better.
I should really learn how to phrase things better.

*Yu-huh come at me m8 Oil foight ya'.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 26, 2016, 01:50:21 pm

Does it count as an own to completely abuse the enemy AI? Well I suppose in this case it does, since it required penetrating enemy territory within spitting distance of their HQ, then blowing the bridges to seal them in - the AI abuse comes in when it cannot figure out how to rebuild them, allowing me to simply bombard them constantly with a pair of 105mm guns. They shot back a few mortars, sure, taking out a few mortar crews of my own, as well as a sniper in a windmill serving as a spotter, but they couldn't hit the 105s. Eventually decided my position was strong enough to rebuild the bridge, and charge 2 rifle and one Ranger squad... only for them to be shredded by a tank the second they crossed. But then a 105mm shell hit their HQ and it fell down, and I won.

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Company of Heroes. But seriously, why do my troops get killed so easily(in cover or not), when it takes so much effort to bring down one of the enemy?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DoomOnion on September 26, 2016, 02:35:48 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 26, 2016, 01:50:21 pm

But seriously, why do my troops get killed so easily(in cover or not), when it takes so much effort to bring down one of the enemy?

I can't stress the important of artillery any more. The era of warfare where you commit to a large frontal assault and expect minimal losses is long past since World War 1. If the enemy lacks anti-armor capabilities, or if you can flank them, you can usually overrun enemy defenses with armor. But more often than not, you have to rely on good scouts and a couple of mortar/artillery batteries to tear apart heavily fortified location.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on September 27, 2016, 10:30:51 am

They thought they could defeat me. THEY WERE WRONG!!! when they sent all their hydralisks and they breached my barracks, I immediately sent all fly-able buildings to distant locations. the hydralisks defeated everything that couldn't fly away, but they didn't put a base their, and were called away to fight the protoss that were attacking their forward outpost. I sent my buidlings back, and made it impenetrable. then I stole the outposts out from the enemy. then I ripped their home base apart! since they saved me from death, I saved the protoss for last. I sent all my troops. they were destroyed. furious, I attempted to create more attack units. but I didn't have enough crystals. so, I looked for crystals. there were none, except far away from any command station. so, I sent the last of marines to protect the SCV's while they collected the last crystals in the map. then to save crystals, I made a bunch of ghosts. I sent the last of all my offensive characters at the protoss. they got through the ranks but some were killed by a high Templar. I got through and killed all their offensive units. but their proton cannons destroyed us. however a medic survived. with only 8 hp I sent it to the nearest bunker. I had to decide what to do. what to do? then I realized that the SCV's weren't doing anything, so I grabbed 'em all and sent them at the enemy. when they got to the medic, I made her follow them and sent them at enemy, while sending my flying buildings to try and distract them. it worked. it worked. I had only SCV's and a near-death medic, and I won.

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StarCraft:brood war

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2016, 04:56:17 am

Was going to support some troops at Sungray Power Hub from Moss Ravine. Along the way, an ally tank had pulled ahead of my Sunderer, and started firing at something. I quickly noticed it, a Vanguard.  Popping from cover to cover, I finally made it to the Power Hub, but the Vanguard caught up with me. Since he hit me before I deployed(meaning no shields), I could do nothing but bail and run, and hope I could either get away or drop some mines on them.

Apparently, the exploding wreck of my Sunderer rolled onto the Vanguard, crediting me for the kill of both the tank and crew. I'll take it!

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on September 28, 2016, 06:36:58 am

Just completed my first run of Dark Souls 3 completely solo, no AI or player summons.

Dark Souls 3. Duh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on September 28, 2016, 10:36:27 am

Quote from: AzyWng on September 25, 2016, 07:13:05 pm

There's a new map that's been added to the Official KOTH rotation. Can't remember the name, but it's got a bunch of buildings with Japanese paper walls and the like. The control point's building is very small, and it has one screen on both the RED and BLU side. Basically, it's very close quarters.

I went with the Revengineer build (Frontier Justice + Gunslinger) and found out I could do extremely well.

Then I went with Jag and Stock Shotgun.

I found myself in second or third place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Note: I've also noticed that my skill with the shotguns is much greater than before.

My sniping is still extremely weak, so I'm unable to live up to the monkier "Crazed Gunman".

That sounds like koth_suijin, a rather fun and pretty map. I'm glad it was added to official rotation, these days it's fairly well balanced.
Also, the shotgun is a VERY good weapon, especially on engi: a stock shotgun engineer is essentially a slower moving scout without a double jump. Engi shotgun aim feeds into Scout scattergun aim and vice versa; they're fairly similar playstyles, being both short, annoying 125hp shotgundudes. Of course, yes, scout has other things, and Engi has his wrench and such, but take away their class unique ability, and scout and engi are identical besides a slight speed boost on the Scout.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that Engineer is surprisingly deadly if you play aggressively.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on September 28, 2016, 05:34:04 pm

Final score of 14. Next closest was 5.
I spent half the match with at least one angry opponent relentlessly chasing me. The highlight was probably when I knocked someone towards the edge of the map, threw my pistol the same way in the hopes of finishing them off, was then smacked from behind from someone else and ended up being in the same spot as my victim when the pistol hit.
Yes, it knocked them out, while I made it back to solid ground. xD

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Brawlhalla. Anyone else play this? It's actually really fun!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: mainiac on October 01, 2016, 01:26:17 pm

In the middle of a heated battleship duel, one of my brave cruiser captains managed to torpedo a massive french dreadnought.  The BB Massana was the flagship of the French fleet and considered by many to be the greatest warship in the world.

Unfortunately I was playing as the French...  But luckily my damage control team *owned*.

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Rule the Waves

Quote from: Yoink on September 28, 2016, 05:34:04 pm

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Brawlhalla. Anyone else play this? It's actually really fun!

Yeah it's got a great theme and I like the balance changes (although maybe they should reduce the nerf on piercing damage a little).  Sadly it has the same problem with mount and blade where the map feels very static and it's a real grind trying to win a war.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 01, 2016, 07:14:40 pm

Finally got enough money to buy a brand-new, completely customized spaceship. Hooray for not having to deal with the shitty starting ship any longer! \o/

Evochron Legacy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on October 02, 2016, 03:03:55 pm

Quote from: mainiac on October 01, 2016, 01:26:17 pm

Quote from: Yoink on September 28, 2016, 05:34:04 pm

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Brawlhalla. Anyone else play this? It's actually really fun!

Yeah it's got a great theme and I like the balance changes (although maybe they should reduce the nerf on piercing damage a little).  Sadly it has the same problem with mount and blade where the map feels very static and it's a real grind trying to win a war.

Hmm... I think we might be talking about entirely different games, here.
The Brawlhalla I'm referring to is a rather cutesy, 4-player, sidescrolling fighting game in the vein of Smash Brothers. Not sure what game you're talking about, but it sounds rather interesting. Only played a little bit of Mount and Blade myself, since I haven't really had a computer powerful enough to run anything more than the most basic version properly, but it seemed pretty decent.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 06, 2016, 02:36:08 am

I managed to fiddle Skyrim in to looking better while still running as well as it has on my laptop.

I turned "specularity fade" all the way down, in the pre-game options dialogue. Now everything isn't mysteriously glistening, I can have shadows on high AND the game still runs well. Actually better than it was previously, in some scenes.

Now to download a bunch of physics-enabled hair mods and wreck the performance again lol

Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 08, 2016, 02:08:32 pm

There are those that say that Castform is a terrible pokemon, a gimmick and nothing more, best boxed and never used.

I say, those people haven't used it against Winona's Altaria. My Castform effortlessly soloed the creature despite being lower-leveled and barely trained, bringing a swift end to a rather easy gym leader battle.
now back to the box with you! :V
Omega Ruby

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 09, 2016, 02:00:22 pm

Did an Interception Assault Rifle only Sortie mission.

By cheesing it as hard as possible. We used a Trinity to make sure everybody always had energy, and then a Rhino, a Frost and me as an Excalibur to basically troll the enemy and stunlock them at the consoles. This feels too good.

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Warframe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 09, 2016, 02:12:55 pm

Ornery and Slow down... as a hollow soldier. So far so good!

Dark Souls. Doing a challengeish (it's not super hardcore - hollow soldier equipment only, and miracles) run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 09, 2016, 02:28:51 pm

Beat Ornstein and SMOUGH without taking damage or blocking. Velka's Rapier is pretty great, especially counting the Occult thingy. Homing Soulmass helped.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

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Carved a swath of devastation through F4 and F5, which had been troubling me for a while. Made delicious sushi out of both Lamprey Serpents, made the Silent Siren shut the hell up and dunked the hell out of everyone's favourite Misfortune Top.

Hina is actually surprisingly robust in this game. More so then Kaguya or Mokou, which is kinda odd. Kaguya was the MVP of this engagement, dropping thousands of points of damage every time she acted.

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Touhou Labyrinth 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 11, 2016, 08:48:49 am

Sunlight Blade is pretty strong! Which is good, because I really needed it for the Four Three Kings. Taking that fight on without much in the way of poise is horrific.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2016, 07:34:35 pm

Decided to steal a Masako Bear to put in my garage. This required going into a specific district, causing enough cause to max out notoriety, and jacking the APC when it showed up... and a lot of them showed up. Managed to jump into one, backed over a Masako trooper trying to grab on the back, and bust out of the clusterfuck of a PIT maneuver that was happening around me. While speeding off, I took a direct roof hit from an attack helicopter which wrecked the entire armor of the vehicle and blew out all six tires. Even then, I brought it back to my garage intact enough to put it in. I snagged an FBI truck while I was there.

After hiding out for a bit, and noticing that hiding out does not reduce notoriety when it's maxed, I left, jacked another FBI truck, and pushed through traffic until I got into the nearest Forgive&Forget.

I later added nitrous to the Bear.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Saints Row 2. I'm a little annoyed because the very next mission also awards you with a Masako-styled Bear APC for completing it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BFEL on October 12, 2016, 10:55:01 pm

Basically Solo'd Daimon, since he took out all my pawns with his void thing before we took out his second healthbar (of like 8 or so). Was pretty intense, went full Dark Souls by spending half the fight nudged up against his crotch. Only ended up using one wakestone I think. Also remembered to pop an experience booster before the final blow, which ended up giving me 9 levels.

Dragons Dogma

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 14, 2016, 04:36:41 pm

Me and a friend decide to do a dungeon. LFG place us in a party... with no healer. We decide to try anyway. We have some close calls, but get to the final boss. We repeatedly state that people should absolutely not touch the fucking hard mode item. Guess what one imbecile did? He activated hard mode. I had to tank, dodging some really nasty patterns, for TWENTY MINUTES STRAIGHT. TWENTY. I could barely feel my fingertips. We won, but I made a point to tell the guy to go fuck himself.

Elder Scrolls Online, Veteran Crypt of Hearts I

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 14, 2016, 08:31:21 pm

The Algerians started rushing troops earlier than anticipated. I hadn't even started getting military units out and they had archers(non-mercenary, which Algerians have) halfway across the map. I, playing as Austria, quickly pump out some Roundshiers(Austrian unique unit) to meet them. They're cheaper, and have four times the defense against arrows(archers are the only unit in the game using arrows) than pikemen do. I get about 20 or so against their 16, and I lost nearly half killing them all, most to the initial barrage. Right, that works. I start churning them out nonstop.

I'm able to grind forward this way to about 2/3rds of the distance between my town and theirs, and even them adding Light Infantry to their lineup didn't help much; I don't recall taking more than single digits' worth of casualties across the entire game from the LIs, and even then it was probably the archers. They did, of course, delay my Roundshier wall from reaching the archers.

Started researching unit upgrades from the barracks. Discovered that the physical training upgrades improve the defense stat of all damage types for Roundshiers and Pikemen, and gave a significant advantage. Eventually got the stables built, plus the cavalry training time upgrade, and put out a good-sized force of Croats(also Austrian unique - nice light cavalry). Using them to push the initial wave of archers devastated their army, and allowed my troops to rampage through their town. Before long, they surrendered.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cossacks 3. Despite a rocky release, they've been dropping patches pretty often and it's very playable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 15, 2016, 06:38:55 pm

Apparently you can get by by just punching everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Puppet Dance Performance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 15, 2016, 07:11:49 pm

The unstoppable force known as the Macho Man met the immovable object Andre the Giant in a championship match. The dream came true. CREAM OF THE CROP! SKYS THE LIMIT!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WWE 2k16. I have no idea how to really control my character. I winged it and barely won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on October 15, 2016, 07:15:00 pm

Yeah, the controls have been getting jankier each year. I kinda wish they'd just go back to the simple elegance the N64 wrestling games had for controls, but that'll never happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on October 15, 2016, 07:20:36 pm

More fun with a team that's half-banned from multiplayer. Helper Star Sapphire isn't, but she's still top tier for good goddamn reason. Just cleared the Magma Admin Tabitha fight with a dead simple move order: Nasty Plot + Rain Dance when Tabitha's Rin came out first, Surf to kill it, then one Hydro Pump for each of the three others. And that's why coverage is important.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://imgur.com/eZe5Zk2l.png)

Touhoumon Purple. Started playing my old save again since I've not even gotten to the Elite Four yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 15, 2016, 07:48:59 pm

Made it through the entire game without dying once. Bottled the first fairy I could, but never needed it. Poor fairy, I think those bottles are airtight too.

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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. I noticed it was much easier to clear the Spirit Barrier without using the Fire Arrows than the original, not sure if that was intentional.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on October 15, 2016, 08:27:52 pm

Aaand I just used the exact same combo to roll Maxie's fight. Had to chug two hyper potions, but that's to be expected when this romhack changes it from three sorta-meh 'mons in the high 30s to five stronk ones in the low '50s (some of which could easily wipe my whole team if they got rolling).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 16, 2016, 03:58:57 am

I solo'd a Uranus data vault without triggering the alarm or using any ciphers!

(And had to Abort Mission for RL reasons not too long after ;~;)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warframe. Uranus datavaults are really hard ;~;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 18, 2016, 08:45:56 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on October 15, 2016, 07:20:36 pm

More fun with a team that's half-banned from multiplayer. Helper Star Sapphire isn't, but she's still top tier for good goddamn reason. Just cleared the Magma Admin Tabitha fight with a dead simple move order: Nasty Plot + Rain Dance when Tabitha's Rin came out first, Surf to kill it, then one Hydro Pump for each of the three others. And that's why coverage is important.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://imgur.com/eZe5Zk2l.png)

Touhoumon Purple. Started playing my old save again since I've not even gotten to the Elite Four yet.

I think I found the download for this...how do I get it working? The Emerald ROM isn't the issue, it's the...whatever I have to do to turn it from Emerald to Amethyst. Patch, whatever. The readme covers just about everything except the install process.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on October 19, 2016, 09:17:07 am

Made it to the dreaded Ornstein and Smough I'd been hearing stories about. Beat them on my second try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 19, 2016, 03:48:28 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on October 19, 2016, 09:17:07 am

Made it to the dreaded Ornstein and Smough I'd been hearing stories about. Beat them on my second try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

You are a wizard and I want to learn your wizard-y ways.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 19, 2016, 04:15:53 pm

If you are having trouble with the dynamic duo, you can also summon Solaire to tank one of them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on October 20, 2016, 12:06:51 am

I survived through thorough application of turtling behind my Stone Greatshield, walking away, and then taking potshots at Ornstein with my Black Knight's Halberd (Which I'm still amazed I had the luck to get).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on October 20, 2016, 04:16:21 am

The first time I beat Dunkstein and Slamough was through rigorous application of full Havels armor.

Tanking through their everything is a surprisingly viable option.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on October 20, 2016, 08:22:15 am

Quote from: Greiger on October 19, 2016, 03:48:28 pm

Quote from: jaxy15 on October 19, 2016, 09:17:07 am

Made it to the dreaded Ornstein and Smough I'd been hearing stories about. Beat them on my second try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls

You are a wizard and I want to learn your wizard-y ways.

Ran around with my shield up and hit Ornstein whenever I got a safe opportunity. Switched to the Eagle Shield for Super Smorgasbord and did the same thing, but with less dodging.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Avis-Mergulus on October 20, 2016, 05:50:00 pm

Ha ha
So Risk of Rain
How'd you feel about your no-good taunty ways now?
Bulwark of the Weak? More like Bulwark of YO WEAKSAUCE ASS HAHAHAHA
Eat my tesla coil-enabled, rapidly regenerating, ATGM-launching ass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 20, 2016, 08:43:19 pm

Artifact of Glass, Artifact of Command, Infusion, proceed to badass.

Risk of Rain, multiple times.

I don't think I even take significant damage in that fight.

Also, Hyperthreader lags things like all heck :x

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Avis-Mergulus on October 20, 2016, 10:25:26 pm

I stacked Mysterious Vial 14 times. 14. Times. Maybe I took damage in that fight, but I never noticed. Combine that with 4 Leeching Seeds, some teddy bears, 4 (!) Tesla Coils, and some Frost Relics, and you can basically kill anything by aggressively standing near it. And yeah, I had Artifact of Command.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 20, 2016, 10:28:18 pm

I tend to stack Crowbar to absolutely absurd levels after capping all the effect things, and use the 56-Leaf Clover.  About 13 of those, so I'm not overwhelmed by itemspam lategame.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on October 20, 2016, 11:47:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on October 18, 2016, 08:45:56 pm

Quote from: Flying Dice on October 15, 2016, 07:20:36 pm

More fun with a team that's half-banned from multiplayer. Helper Star Sapphire isn't, but she's still top tier for good goddamn reason. Just cleared the Magma Admin Tabitha fight with a dead simple move order: Nasty Plot + Rain Dance when Tabitha's Rin came out first, Surf to kill it, then one Hydro Pump for each of the three others. And that's why coverage is important.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://imgur.com/eZe5Zk2l.png)

Touhoumon Purple. Started playing my old save again since I've not even gotten to the Elite Four yet.

I think I found the download for this...how do I get it working? The Emerald ROM isn't the issue, it's the...whatever I have to do to turn it from Emerald to Amethyst. Patch, whatever. The readme covers just about everything except the install process.

Sorry, didn't notice this post! I PMed you. It's dead simple once you know how.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on October 21, 2016, 08:52:54 am

Quote from: Ispil on October 20, 2016, 11:30:53 pm

Note: the hyperthreader actually has a memory leak. Use it long enough and the game will crash.

I keep falling through platforms before that can happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 21, 2016, 11:41:35 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on October 20, 2016, 08:43:19 pm

Artifact of Glass, Artifact of Command, Infusion, proceed to badass.

Risk of Rain, multiple times.

I don't think I even take significant damage in that fight.

Also, Hyperthreader lags things like all heck :x

tbh the artifacts are literal cheats so :v

not that they aren't fun, but command and glass especially make the game pretty trivial.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: crazysheep on October 21, 2016, 06:11:10 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on October 21, 2016, 11:41:35 am

tbh the artifacts are literal cheats so :v

not that they aren't fun, but command and glass especially make the game pretty trivial.

artifact of spite wants to have a chat over tea and crumpets...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 22, 2016, 09:38:56 am

Some characters really struggle with the enemy health outpacing their damage even on the normal difficulty.  Sniper and mercenary for example.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Avis-Mergulus on October 22, 2016, 11:06:51 am

Holy shit the Engineer is OP. I didn't even have any artifacts on except for the mostly-useless Spirit. Such rekage has never been seen before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 22, 2016, 11:56:39 am

Finally killed that damn Ornstein. Anyone who thinks what I did was a cheese needs to try killing him with only a +5 Longbow for themselves. :P (it was pretty cheesy, though).

I was just completely sick of Bugstein. If Fromsoft would just fix that one, single, bug, it'd be great. But nooo.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 22, 2016, 12:20:20 pm

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on October 22, 2016, 11:06:51 am

Holy shit the Engineer is OP. I didn't even have any artifacts on except for the mostly-useless Spirit. Such rekage has never been seen before.

Yuuuppppp.  Everything is AOE, so you scale wonderfully.  And of course, your turrets draw aggro as if they were players but have infinite health, so you can be not even drawing aggro 50% of the time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 22, 2016, 06:12:46 pm

Went full trololo on Roxanne. Had Flabébé blast her Geodue with Energy Ball, while Mawile hammered her Nosepass with Grass Knot and Iron Head.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. The joke is neither are possible to obtain in AS - Mawile is (Omega) Ruby exclusive, and Flabébé is only obtained in Kalos. This Mawile was an offspring of my OR Mawile, and Flabébé came from one I traded for on the GTS when I tried to breed for a different color(doesn't work - they inherit the mother's flower color. Probably why they're female-only). I used Pokemon Bank to trade them over, but added some TMs beforehand, and I was in luck that because Mawile's mom knew them(dad was Ditto), this one could learn Iron Head and Play Rough from the Move Relearner - I think she would have got them on birth but I think her starting moveset pushed them off the move list, but I also think that's wrong.

I've also added some self-imposed challenges: Nuzlocke-style boxing of casualties(I intend to send some AS-exclusives over to OR, so outright tossing is out), and only capturing Pokemon that physically appear on the map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 22, 2016, 07:37:38 pm

Quote from: Ispil on October 20, 2016, 11:30:53 pm

Note: the hyperthreader actually has a memory leak. Use it long enough and the game will crash.

Oh, that explains it!

OI DEV, FIX YER GAEM.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on October 23, 2016, 12:03:13 am

Had a pile of void relics left over from when the tower keys were legacy'd into them, including ten or so Neo D1s (which have Dakra Prime Blade as their top drop). Had the BP and handle, but I went through them quickly-spent the traces to radiant about eight of them. Thankfully I got the drop with two left, since I wanted Dakra Prime but never got around to getting it and it's in the vault now. Less direct, more RNG favor, but thank goodness for dedication to the grind being judged kindly by the spirits of the loot slots machine.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on October 23, 2016, 12:25:32 am

My god, I've beaten the Darklurker.
I spent so many effigies on that bastard, but I beat him for things I'm not even specced for.
GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 23, 2016, 01:39:07 pm

Dead Rising weapons are often much stronger than they'd be in real life (then again, I've never even taken a punch before so I wouldn't know how much damage a weapon would actually deal).

For instance, early on in the story of Dead Rising 2, you run into a trio of looters.

I had the metal baseball bat with me, which is used to hit baseballs at enemies as opposed to hitting enemies directly. I think I also had my attack power boosted to level 2 (I'd decided to start over after dying, but in this game, you keep your skills and levels).

For some reason, the metal baseball bat comes with twenty baseballs.

I killed the three looters with one each.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dead Rising 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 23, 2016, 04:35:47 pm

I suppose that if you were a professional baseball player, maybe even a minor leaguer, then you'd be able to hit a baseball with enough for to risk lethal damage if hit in the head. Remember that major league pitchers can throw a baseball at >80MPH - not something you want to be hit in the face by.

That said, directly smashing their face in with a bat makes much, much more sense. Do you get to use it as a melee weapon if you run out of baseballs?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 23, 2016, 07:51:17 pm

The weapon breaks once it's out of ammo, but I am intimately familiar with point-blank baseball attacks. The bat is just as good a weapon and the ball can still whizz around and hit other enemies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 23, 2016, 08:54:16 pm

Won the siege of Karak Norn with an all-goblin army. Even then, the only reason for my victory was a pair of nasty skulker units sneaking to the victory point and holding it while the rest of the army was massacred.

Total Warhammer, as Skarsnik.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 24, 2016, 07:09:20 pm

Skyrim hung on a room transition. I can alt-tab out, but this only results in an unresponsive window covering the entire screen and stealing mouse focus from everything else.

However, because I could alt-tab out, I could use Win + R to run the command line. From there, I learned how to use Taskkill to find the window named "Skyrim" and forcefully close it. No more having to log out to kill a stuck game!

Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on October 24, 2016, 08:10:14 pm

If you're on windows just Alt+tab and use the systems manager... or whatever it's called. The Windows equivalent of the force quit screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 24, 2016, 08:21:55 pm

But Skyrim stays on top and steals mouse focus, so I can't click anything on the task manager screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on October 24, 2016, 08:26:40 pm

I usually fix that by telling task manger to be "always on top" and then I can use it to kill the game, then set it back to normal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 24, 2016, 08:49:22 pm

Completed the "Streets of Rogue" demo as the Soldier, in spite of the periodic radiation hazard on the last level.

I discovered that I hadn't used most of the items/gold I had, most of the items I used were weapons of some kind (I took the loud approach to missions.

Streets of Rogue.

EDIT: Also completed the demo as the Scientist.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on October 25, 2016, 01:54:00 am

After three failed attempts and learning the hard way that its utterly immune to magical damage and using resurrection charms, I finally killed the goddamn multi-healthbar loch and its pet zombie dragon. That zombie dragon completely wiped the party four times during the battle. And the healer in the party got eaten in the middle of the fight or something, dunno she just fucked off and was never heard from again.

Dragons dogma, dark arisen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tonnot98 on October 25, 2016, 10:58:09 am

I was playing Lambda Wars (Think Starcraft, except Half-Life 2) with my friends. It was a free-for-all on a team-based map. One of my friends spawned behind me without me realizing, and ended up destroying my first base right after I had started up a new one, further away.

Then I return with saboteurs and destroy his everything with C4. He promptly ragequits.

Afterwards, I send more saboteurs to my other friend's heavily fortified combine base. He forgot to make scanners, so my guys just went in completely invisible and wrecked his shit, too. But he had like 3 other bases set up.

I end up having to take each of his capture points as if he's been fortifying japanese islands. Eventually, I'm at his last base, and when I scan it, I see that he has a single combine suppression device, which is usually more than enough to take out a squad of units. But since the Combine are like the Protoss, he had to power all of his buildings. He only had one powersource supplying both his headcrab cannisters and his suppression device, so I send D0G on a suicide mission, destroy his power source, and before he could realize what I've done, he says, "What was that? You only destroyed one building!"

Then I send in about 80 other units and finish him off. It was a good day. (For me)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 25, 2016, 12:56:50 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on October 24, 2016, 08:21:55 pm

But Skyrim stays on top and steals mouse focus, so I can't click anything on the task manager screen.

control alt delete, task manager, it'll have focus.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on October 25, 2016, 02:53:11 pm

For games that refuse to give up focus:

Sometimes I have a game lock up and Alt+Tab won't work, Ctrl+Alt+Del will work, but only until you go back to the desktop and try to click something, then the game takes over again. On Win10 the solution is simple, hit Win+Tab and select a different desktop at the bottom of the screen (you may need to make one). Open task manager on this desktop and do what you need to do there, then switch back :)

This is only a problem with certain (rare) games. Most of the time Ctrl+Alt+Del is good enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sir_Bovard on October 25, 2016, 03:10:08 pm

I was battling the rebels as a stormtrooper on the planet Kashyyyk in the original Star Wars Battlefront II pc game, and I found a nice little high point with health and ammo supplier droids to snipe the rebel scum. I got 200 kills and 0 deaths during that session. This wasn't necessarily my "last" ownage. However it is certainly one of my best.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tonnot98 on October 25, 2016, 10:35:42 pm

Quote from: Sir_Bovard on October 25, 2016, 03:10:08 pm

I was battling the rebels as a stormtrooper on the planet Kashyyyk in the original Star Wars Battlefront II pc game, and I found a nice little high point with health and ammo supplier droids to snipe the rebel scum. I got 200 kills and 0 deaths during that session. This wasn't necessarily my "last" ownage. However it is certainly one of my best.

At first I thought you misspelled the name of the planet, but after looking it up, I found that it does have 3 y's. Why.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 25, 2016, 10:38:04 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on October 25, 2016, 02:53:11 pm

For games that refuse to give up focus:

Sometimes I have a game lock up and Alt+Tab won't work, Ctrl+Alt+Del will work, but only until you go back to the desktop and try to click something, then the game takes over again. On Win10 the solution is simple, hit Win+Tab and select a different desktop at the bottom of the screen (you may need to make one). Open task manager on this desktop and do what you need to do there, then switch back :)

This is only a problem with certain (rare) games. Most of the time Ctrl+Alt+Del is good enough.

Holy crap, I didn't know Windows 10 let you have multiple desktops. It's a shame that that feature had to come with Windows 10, it's literally the only thing I miss about Linux.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 25, 2016, 11:11:15 pm

Quote from: tonnot98 on October 25, 2016, 10:35:42 pm

Quote from: Sir_Bovard on October 25, 2016, 03:10:08 pm

I was battling the rebels as a stormtrooper on the planet Kashyyyk in the original Star Wars Battlefront II pc game, and I found a nice little high point with health and ammo supplier droids to snipe the rebel scum. I got 200 kills and 0 deaths during that session. This wasn't necessarily my "last" ownage. However it is certainly one of my best.

At first I thought you misspelled the name of the planet, but after looking it up, I found that it does have 3 y's. Why.

This is the same fictional universe with a character named "Cad Bane", I stopped asking questions like that years ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 26, 2016, 08:51:38 am

Turn seven lethal? Maybe if you're playing against a competitively viable class.

Spoiler: Me go face. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.img.ie/0Mr.png)

Hearthstone. FeelsPriestMan.

Edit:

Spoiler: The SMOrc never ends. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.img.ie/02M.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 27, 2016, 02:52:11 pm

Tenshi is dunked. After like five tries, I finally managed to not fumble anything and just whittle her down with Cowrie Shell while Youmu endured endless Swords of Hisan.

And I got the Silver Weapon thing first try, by repeatedly exploding dolls in its face while it revved up its death fog.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Labyrinth 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 27, 2016, 03:55:31 pm

Mossdeep City Gym was such an absurd cakewalk, I can't help but wonder if I super-trained my pokemon into OPness or if I just chose wisely. The unofficial combat log is as follows:

Sirus sends in Heracross and Sceptile.
Liza and Tate send in Solrock and Lunatone.

ROUND 1
Sceptile uses Mega Drain on Solrock. Solrock is in the red.
Heracross uses Megahorn on Solrock. Solrock is in the ded.
Lunatone uses Light Screen.

ROUND 2
Sceptile uses X-Scissor on Lunatone. Lunatone is in the red.
Heracross uses Brick Break on Lunatone. Light Screen is destroyed, as is Lunatone.

Battle over, badge get. I don't think I've ever beaten a gym leader in just two turns before.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon: Omega Ruby. Most of my semi-permanent team is weak to at least one of Team Magma's preferred types. They still kick butt, time and time again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 27, 2016, 04:35:54 pm

Quote from: Sirus on October 27, 2016, 03:55:31 pm

Mossdeep City Gym was such an absurd cakewalk, I can't help but wonder if I super-trained my pokemon into OPness or if I just chose wisely. The unofficial combat log is as follows:

Sirus sends in Heracross and Sceptile.
Liza and Tate send in Solrock and Lunatone.

ROUND 1
Sceptile uses Mega Drain on Solrock. Solrock is in the red.
Heracross uses Megahorn on Solrock. Solrock is in the ded.
Lunatone uses Light Screen.

ROUND 2
Sceptile uses X-Scissor on Lunatone. Lunatone is in the red.
Heracross uses Brick Break on Lunatone. Light Screen is destroyed, as is Lunatone.

Battle over, badge get. I don't think I've ever beaten a gym leader in just two turns before.

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Pokemon: Omega Ruby. Most of my semi-permanent team is weak to at least one of Team Magma's preferred types. They still kick butt, time and time again.

They were a lot tougher in R/S- their Lunatone and Solrock were a fair amount stronger than your team usually was at that point (historically, people tended to be in mid-to-late 30s with their two strong mons, and the wilds around there were no higher than 30 or so, and i believe the gym leaders' pokemon were 43 each?)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 27, 2016, 04:46:45 pm

In my experience, your Pokemon seem to level up a lot faster in the remakes, even without grinding the Pokemon-amie. In my AS run currently just before entering Meteor Falls the first time, my team is >25, with my transferred Mawile around 34, and Floette and Marshtomp nearing 30. The only thing lower is the Sandshrew I just caught(replacing Mightyena who is that high). I'm actually getting worried that Mawile in particular will hit the current badge cap of 40 before I reach Flannery, causing disloyalty.

I'm not even bothering with wild encounters for the most part, just trainer battles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 27, 2016, 07:35:07 pm

I apparently broke the final mission, in that I snuck in and beat the boss without really fighting them.

Quite disappointing really.

Quote

Mafia III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 27, 2016, 08:31:36 pm

What ending did you choose? I think that the player chooses the ending if I remember correctly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 27, 2016, 08:35:32 pm

I left.

And then laughed at Donovan.

I could look at the other ending too but I'd rather earn it I guess...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silverthrone on October 29, 2016, 12:23:27 pm

So, me and my party got involved in a pitched battle with the Poles. Well, I saw an army moving to intercept them and decided to get stuck in, too. Went quite well, ride close, shove a pistol up their nose and disengage. Repeat, while the infantry mops up.

For the last engagement, they'd set up a pretty nasty line of muskets, but for reasons best known to themselves, at the bottom of a hill. So, I broke off, rode in to flank them and drew their fire, dashing around behind them, dodging shots so my men could come over the crest and strike them from behind. Got a few knocks, but it worked. The infantry swamped them as they were occupied with me. Always quite the kick to hear a whole line of muskets fire at you.

Apparently, they'd captured the king, and he thanked me for the rescue before bogging off back to Königsberg. His disposition towards me is still just "cooperative" though. Just a thank you, no fief or title or some gold or anything at all. What the hell do I need to do to impress you, Kalle?! Hell, what does a condottieri have to do to get an estate these days? I'm swimming in gold, and I've got even more gathering interest in Viborg and Reval, I could probably fund the entire war by this point. I wish there was a way to just buy myself some land. I suppose I could capture an enemy hold on my own at this point, but I don't want to throw most of my army away just for the hold to go to Useless von Harenvärja the Halfwit instead of me.

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Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 29, 2016, 08:31:35 pm

Decided to end the run by seeing how long I could last until I died or ran out of ammo - no vehicles, no running into gun stores to buy more ammo, no running into an owned location to clear notoriety, no clothing(I'd been streaking earlier).


Over an hour later, I had basically given up trying to survive, and they still couldn't kill me. STAG's most serious threat was their laser tanks, since the only weapon I could really destroy them with was a Reaper Drone, which I ran out of. Their VTOL jets and transports were nothing against my handgun, which had explosive rounds. I'd also been getting assault rifle ammo from fallen STAG troopers, despite the fact the STAG assault rifle is a laser gun(mine wasn't). Not sure how that ammo was interchangeable.

At the end, I had maybe a hundred rounds each for the pistol, shotgun, and assault rifle, a few hundred rounds for the SMG(the D3TH Blossom is garbage), and a single giggling mind-controlling squidbomb. After losing dozens of men, jets, jeeps, and tanks while failing to kill a naked woman -

Spoiler: I'm starting to think that (click to show/hide)

the ending where the Saints declare themselves a sovereign state may be a case of Gameplay and Story Integration (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration). You are that powerful.

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Saint's Row the Third.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 29, 2016, 10:34:19 pm

We ultimately lost the round, ending the match in a draw, but I think this still counts. We were on gorge event or something like that.

I went Engi and defended by the wide doorway leading to last, then rebuilt under one of the stairs leading to last when the first defenses were destroyed.

My sentry and my own guns netted me three dominations.

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Team Fortress 2.

Merasmissions are fun too. I've completed about six.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on October 29, 2016, 11:33:45 pm

The game finally dropped me a Cowmangler, and I've been doing really quite well with it. Good fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 30, 2016, 02:39:23 am

Cow Mangler 5000 best rocket launcher.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on October 30, 2016, 03:40:40 am

only a shame that valve completely fucked the game with mym

want to play? hope you enjoy sitting in a queue for five minutes before being dropped into a game that's two seconds from ending! want to join your friend's game? nope! want to play against your friends? nope!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 30, 2016, 09:03:18 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 30, 2016, 03:40:40 am

only a shame that valve completely fucked the game with mym

want to play? hope you enjoy sitting in a queue for five minutes before being dropped into a game that's two seconds from ending! want to join your friend's game? nope! want to play against your friends? nope!

Friend's game?
Friends? What Friends?

In any case, that's kind of not my actual experience with MyM. I'm usually dropped in at the start of the game/match, and while team balancing is no longer a thing (so if one team ragequits en masse that team will be in for a world of hurt), the game still works as normal.

Hell, you even run into a couple of good players (either on your team or the enemy's) every now and then.
I said earlier that I was pretty good with the shotguns in Team Fortress 2.
I can actually be pretty good with Scout, surprisingly, but I basically have to main Shortstop. Comboed with Mad Milk in case I or my teammates get set on fire because most pyros don't know how to airblast.

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Team Fortress 2.

Miauw, I haven't been on this game very often, but I have heard that Valve likes to break their games when they update them. This is just another instance of it (the Dead Ringer buff and the changes to weapon sets come to mind when thinking of similar things).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on November 01, 2016, 10:20:19 am

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394456449925220108/1D4221401D3A7D20E71DD0450055677D670173B8/)

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: miauw62 on November 01, 2016, 05:58:26 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on October 30, 2016, 09:03:18 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 30, 2016, 03:40:40 am

only a shame that valve completely fucked the game with mym

want to play? hope you enjoy sitting in a queue for five minutes before being dropped into a game that's two seconds from ending! want to join your friend's game? nope! want to play against your friends? nope!

Friend's game?
Friends? What Friends?

In any case, that's kind of not my actual experience with MyM. I'm usually dropped in at the start of the game/match, and while team balancing is no longer a thing (so if one team ragequits en masse that team will be in for a world of hurt), the game still works as normal.

Hell, you even run into a couple of good players (either on your team or the enemy's) every now and then.
I said earlier that I was pretty good with the shotguns in Team Fortress 2.
I can actually be pretty good with Scout, surprisingly, but I basically have to main Shortstop. Comboed with Mad Milk in case I or my teammates get set on fire because most pyros don't know how to airblast.

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Team Fortress 2.

Miauw, I haven't been on this game very often, but I have heard that Valve likes to break their games when they update them. This is just another instance of it (the Dead Ringer buff and the changes to weapon sets come to mind when thinking of similar things).

It's been SEVERAL FUCKING MONTHS. casual is still a STRAIGHT DOWNGRADE to quickplay. You have to wait to get into a game, you can't play against your friends, it likes to drop you in shitty matches, autobalance can't fix anything, the rematch feature is shitty so you have to requeue after EVERY SINGLE GAME, I could go on. And for what? Casual contributes NOTHING that couldn't have been put into quickplay, but introduces a completely unneeded queue system.

Casual is shit and Valve should have reverted it. Mym was also disappointing in the competitive department, and this year's Scream Fortress was literally the same as last year and they STILL fucked it up. Valve is just ruining TF2, which makes me indescribably sad, because I have 1700 hours on it and it was one of my favourite games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on November 01, 2016, 06:13:42 pm

Quote from: miauw62 on November 01, 2016, 05:58:26 pm

Valve is just ruining TF2, which makes me indescribably sad, because I have 1700 hours on it and it was one of my favourite games.

Amen to that brother.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2016, 11:44:26 pm

Jerma and Ster jumped ship to Overwatch :(

(granted I love OW)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on November 01, 2016, 11:54:29 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2016, 11:44:26 pm

Jerma and Ster jumped ship to Overwatch :(

(granted I love OW)

It was inevitable

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 02, 2016, 01:32:43 am

If OW had quickplay, I'd buy it. :P
Do... any games have good quickplay now?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on November 02, 2016, 08:21:00 am

Quote from: miauw62 on November 01, 2016, 05:58:26 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on October 30, 2016, 09:03:18 am

Quote from: miauw62 on October 30, 2016, 03:40:40 am

only a shame that valve completely fucked the game with mym

want to play? hope you enjoy sitting in a queue for five minutes before being dropped into a game that's two seconds from ending! want to join your friend's game? nope! want to play against your friends? nope!

Friend's game?
Friends? What Friends?

In any case, that's kind of not my actual experience with MyM. I'm usually dropped in at the start of the game/match, and while team balancing is no longer a thing (so if one team ragequits en masse that team will be in for a world of hurt), the game still works as normal.

Hell, you even run into a couple of good players (either on your team or the enemy's) every now and then.
I said earlier that I was pretty good with the shotguns in Team Fortress 2.
I can actually be pretty good with Scout, surprisingly, but I basically have to main Shortstop. Comboed with Mad Milk in case I or my teammates get set on fire because most pyros don't know how to airblast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Fortress 2.

Miauw, I haven't been on this game very often, but I have heard that Valve likes to break their games when they update them. This is just another instance of it (the Dead Ringer buff and the changes to weapon sets come to mind when thinking of similar things).

It's been SEVERAL FUCKING MONTHS. casual is still a STRAIGHT DOWNGRADE to quickplay. You have to wait to get into a game, you can't play against your friends, it likes to drop you in shitty matches, autobalance can't fix anything, the rematch feature is shitty so you have to requeue after EVERY SINGLE GAME, I could go on. And for what? Casual contributes NOTHING that couldn't have been put into quickplay, but introduces a completely unneeded queue system.

Casual is shit and Valve should have reverted it. Mym was also disappointing in the competitive department, and this year's Scream Fortress was literally the same as last year and they STILL fucked it up. Valve is just ruining TF2, which makes me indescribably sad, because I have 1700 hours on it and it was one of my favourite games.

Topical (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6TG_FIKm0)
I recorded that a coupla days ago.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on November 02, 2016, 01:17:17 pm

Huh, who woulda thought being able to move around invisible would be super good.  With a full team of 5 Hunters I was able to complete an entire mission without taking any damage.  This game is pretty good, even if the combat is just a re-skin of XCom's tactical combat.

MASSIVE CHALICE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: syvarris on November 03, 2016, 07:44:13 pm

I beat Ornstein and Smough without rolling or blocking, at soul level one.

I've tried that fight at least a hundred times, maybe a couple hundred.  It wasn't flawless--I used seven flasks--and it was on NG, but damn it I can't stop smiling anyway.  I'm just really happy about this.

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Dark Souls.

...I still haven't played either of the sequels.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on November 03, 2016, 08:02:12 pm

/me offers a slow clap.

You're a better man than me, because I'll readily admit I'm never going to try a SL1 run on any of the series. Congrats!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 04, 2016, 05:44:46 am

Colour me impressed. How do you even do that? Bugstein would kill me every time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: syvarris on November 04, 2016, 06:50:01 pm

That's a pretty open ended question, so here's a video link. (http://www.dropbox.com/s/tc3l3w2vgscvnz5/O%26S%20SL1%20NO%20ROLL-BLOCK.mp4?dl=0)  Dropbox because I don't have a youtube account.

If you're referring to Ornstein's hovercraft attack, it's not too bad.  It's dodgable by just running directly to his left.  When he flips out and does a flanking manuever it's usually possible to avoid him by sticking close to pillars or Smough and manuevering carefully.  I imagine it's just less problematic because I'm always unlocked anyway, so watching his progress is rarely an issue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 05, 2016, 08:44:16 am

Yeah, I very very rarely get an attempt at O&S where Ornstein doesn't bug out at least once and zoom around the room at random.

It probably says a lot about my playstyle that the poise colossus route didn't even occur to me. :P Impressive, though!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 05, 2016, 01:17:04 pm

Five lightning cerebi. All with spite tattoo artifacts, on-hit panic attack and aftermath, and loaded down with as many other procing spell gems as you please. One fast nature creature with fury swipes (bonus points for cast twice or extra target, and particularly if there's an on-hit chance, too). Start fight. Cast fury swipes on one of the cerebi.

Go get a drink as apocalypse rains down upon existence from a functionally unending loop of proc effects flowing out of your party.

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Siralim 2. What's going on here is a silly as the blazes combination. Lightning cerebi can't cast spells normally, but have an extra 20% chance to cast any on-hit or when-hit spell gems they have equipped when they attack. Spite tattoos are a trait granting material that makes them attack 4 times instead of once when they attack. Fury swipes is a nature spell gem that causes one target to attack five times at random, for reduced damage. Panic attack is a chaos spell that causes your entire party to make an attack (or, in the case of the tattoo'd cerebi, four more) at a random enemy. Aftermath is a chaos spell that makes the caster attack the target 3 (12) times. So what happens. Is you cast fury swipes, and get 20 chances to proc panic attack and/or aftermath, which themselves cause more chances to proc (20 per for panic with 5 cerebi, plus more chances to trigger more fury swipes if it's on-hit, too, and 12 for every aftermath proc). And odds being what they are, somewhere in there you're almost certainly going to proc panic attack and/or aftermath and/or fury swipes... again. And again. And again. And again. With every go having a good chance to trigger whatever else you have equipped to your guys, too. It's completely farcical. Takes a while to get running in full, but ridiculous when it does and still silly as all hell while you're building up. Far from impossible to stop, but if the opposing team doesn't have the right sort of retaliation going anything else they may have just isn't going to work :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 05, 2016, 02:13:23 pm

I swear, every time you post about that game it sounds better and better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on November 05, 2016, 02:25:29 pm

I may get myself that for my birthday.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 05, 2016, 02:27:15 pm

To be fair, it's pretty grindy.* That a lot of it is fairly samey is probably its biggest problem.

... it's just that it's a really, really nice more of the same. The same is pretty awesome. Dragon Quest Monster magic key land on several different kinds of crack.

It's not like it's the best game in the world or anything, but basically it knows what it's trying to do, keeps the scope fairly limited to exactly that, and nails it like a semi full of male hookers. If you're into monster raising games and/or roguelikes, it's pretty easy to recommend. Doubly so if you've got an android machine that'll run it (1 gig ram needed), since it's a fair bit cheaper on those, at the moment.

*The setup described above would take a good long while (we're talking possibly days, if you're not cheating in resources and/or crafting materials) to get fully implemented, ferex. You don't actually need it to kick all sorts of ass -- even one cerberus kitted out like that is pretty capable of recursion looping itself at least until everything on the enemy team is dead, nevermind actually using the fury swipes -- but extremis examples like the above involve a lot of time, particularly if you're starting out. Now, similar stuff that doesn't involve farming up identical legendary materials and bucketloads of particular spell gems with specific properties takes a fair bit less time, but it can still take a while. It's just pretty fun doing it, ahaha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 06, 2016, 08:33:04 am

Finally won 1v1 against the AI on Normal difficulty. Map was Bernieres-Sur-Mur, where both HQs are in dangerously open territory, with a fairly dense town in the middle. The most lucrative territories are on the opposite edge of the map from the HQs separated by bridges on either end(mine and theirs). Knowing full well they'd rush that side and I'd be unable to deal with a flank from that direction, I rushed Demolition Charges to blow up the bridge, then pushed along the riverside to cut off the bridge on their end. To make absolutely sure the connection to their HQ was cut(denying them resources), I also took the territory adjacent to the bridge(and next to their HQ).

On the opposite side of the map, I pushed forward to the territory on the other side of the HQ, cutting off whatever else they had - they've had their entire resource flow(except the tiny fuel and manpower income provided by the HQ) cut off pretty early. For the most part, the only threat I faced was an unusually large number of snipers. They did surprise me with an armored car, but it was immobilized by a combination of mortar shells and a sticky bomb, leaving the mortar to cherry-tap it to death. I immediately built a tank depot and put out a Wolverine and later, another.

During the push on their HQ, I get blindsided by an attack by three tanks coming from the right. I'm assuming it wasn't some AI hack that teleport-spawns tanks outside of line-of-sight(looking at you, Empire Earth), but their top-end commander ability - the only questionable part is how they got the experience to unlock the ability(casualties give XP to their owner as well as killer, I think), or the resources. I had a similar ability. Instead of three tanks, mine summons a Wolverine, an AT gun, an MG crew, and some infantry. I flanked their flankers with a heavy counter. I didn't lose a single TD, not even the one that got blindsided.

After blowing up their HQ, and dealing with any survivors, the game still hadn't ended. Assuming they had a significant force across the river, I brought up all my forces(including another off-map battlegroup), repaired the bridge, and charged. All that was left was a medic station.

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Company of Heroes. Pretty sure blowing up the bridge cuts the territory connection anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 06, 2016, 09:34:18 am

Come, vile beast, and let me slap your shit!

After a few armored gauntlet slaps and drugs, I successfully punched a dragon to death. And then I snuck up on a bandit to celebrate and ended up performing a well-executed german suplex.

The Machoborn has returned! YEAHHHHhhhhhhh!

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Skyrim Special Edition, just testing the waters for now. Once my favorite mods and quality of life essential mods get ported, I'll try playing it a bit deeper.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 06, 2016, 10:50:35 am

That reminds me of a greentext that was once posted of a grapple-focused monk bringing down a flying dragon by jumping on and pinning its wing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 06, 2016, 12:37:35 pm

Killed the Taurus Demon.

With the Straight Sword Hilt.

If you ever want to make the game feel easy, do a run using only your bare hands, the SSH, and free-aimed sniper firebombs*. Real weapons feel like cheating afterwards.

*I've been using them because some situations are nigh-impossible to survive with your ridiculously low damage output. So to prevent that, I lob firebombs from the furthest possible locations to try to thin out the enemies.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 07, 2016, 01:50:31 am

Utterly dunked both the Mirror and the Magakumo, which had been giving me hell for forever. The Mirror's fight was just pure luck, honestly. It spammed its big dangerous slow attacks, which gave me time to whittle away at it with Kaguya. Since she was practically my only damage dealer, she ended up getting shuffled around a lot. Alice helped too, despite doing zero damage of her own. She just dodge tanked everything and gave the Manipulation of Dolls bonus to Suika so she could actually do damage.

The Megakato was trickier. I tried it with my old set up a few times and concluded I needed more Dark damage. I switched mostly-dead-weight Alice out for Rumia[Mind piercing Dark damage & AOE heal] and went at it some more. I came quite close to winning a few times, but Rumia just didn't do as much damage as Reisen or Kaguya. So I searched my roster for someone else with Dark damage. And found Hina, where she'd been lying neglected ever since I beat her. I leveled her skills some, gave her Mag Boost and decided to test her on a random encounter while Sakuya kept everyone paralyzed. Biorythm of the Misfortune God->Concentrate->Pain Flow

Hina killed them all with that one shot. The highest damage recorded was a little over forty thousand.

But vaporizing a random encounter is a far cry from dealing with the Mugakuso. And I once again entered the fray. I emptied first Reisen's and then Hina's mp bars onto the thing and lopped off around half its health bar. The tricky bit was after that, when my two "safe" damage dealers were out of mp and the Musakano was accelerating towards being unstoppable. That was where I failed twice, once after it had used World Devouring Devastation. But the third time, I still had most of my roster alive by that point. Most importantly, Reimu and her AOE heal. I peeled away most of the rest of its health bar with Reisen, Suika and Kaguya, but they didn't last long after that. I had only my four tanks, my healers at 1 hp and Hina left. I moved in Eirin and she promptly got paralyzed. I switched her out for Sakuya and she died. Then I switched in Reimu. Since it was my only chance, I then moved in Hina[My sole damage dealer] and Reimu. Reimu's turn came up and I pressed the healing button...

She had 7 mp, of the 8 mp needed for her healing spell. I had her concentrate, hoping against hope the Mumakosa would miss both her and Hina. No such luck. It bopped Reimu square on the face, killing her instantly. And also activating her skill that healed the entire front line when she died. Hina started up her combo again. Biorhythm of the Misfortune God. The Magakumo brought her down to 50 health. The Megakapa's turn came up bare seconds before hers and used its earthquake, killing everyone. Except Hina, who it had missed. Hina, fully [de]buffed, used Pain Flow.

Thirty thousand damage, easily two or three times as much as a Master Spark. The godamn Magatama bites the dust with all of its amber fangs.

TL;DR: Hina is a badass god of damage who takes names and rotates furiously

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Touhou Labyrinth 2

I wonder if all this good luck is the RNG's way of paying me back after a long day of failing at Crawl

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordPorkins on November 07, 2016, 10:53:22 pm

I was playing Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Lands, and my melee guy killed the final boss with a critical shovel hit. Thats right. He beat cthulhu over the head with a shovel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2016, 09:52:40 am

Found a nice, pain-in-the-ass-to-reach location to build a base. Noticed my faction was doing literally nothing to stop an NC push. Neither did I; I was holding down the base. Despite this, I have put zero certs into base buildings since it was released.

Eventually came under attack by some skyknight who's first instinct was to abandon his Reaver and shoot rockets at my sole turret. He runs out of ammo. I see a Vanu Liberator attacking a nearby sector, I hold fire hoping it doesn't notice me. Eventually they do, but they apparently run out of ammo. They come back a while later, and somehow blow all their ammo(AT belly gun and Tank Buster) trying to kill my HIVE, but fail. They try to drop their gunner, but the NC pilot from before shows up, kills him, and gets a Tank Buster to the face. Apparently they run completely out of ammo, and try to crash the Liberator into the HIVE. It doesn't work, looked like one guy died on impact, and I killed the other.

I was finally killed by the NC guy somehow hacking the fighter terminal at a nearby base(despite being a heavy) and killing me with lolpods as I was trying to get another turret set up. When I respawned, I noticed the hacked terminal, changed to Infiltrator to unhack it. This got me my 5th daily ribbon, so I figured I didn't care anymore about the HIVE and logged out.

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Planetside 2. Yes, I managed to hold off what, based on total server population at the time, was a dedicated multi-faction air attack on my barely-equipped base. Largely by doing crap-all. Actually, I did get the Liberator to waste ammo trying to kill me by shooting ineffectively at it.

EDIT: Loaded up an old save that I had little idea of what was going on, except that it was a Tau campaign. Turns out, it was a mid-battle save while I was on the receiving end of an ass-kicking at that hands(feet?) of the Eldar. My troops were getting cut apart left and right by Howling Banshees, all scattered to hell, and most of my strategic points were under attack as well. Shas'o Kais was almost dead.

I pulled everyone I could back to base and started building more Fire Caste and Pathfinder squads. Few enough of the Eldar followed allowing me to regroup and destroy them. One of the Fire Caste guys even managed a melee synch-kill on of the Banshees - which involved him bashing the Eldar in the groin with his rifle, then shooting her in the face repeatedly. Not to be outdone, Shas'o Kais pulled off a synch kill on a Harlequin, punching her in the face, then shooting fusion blaster rounds through her face.

After that, it was just finding the two enemy bases and melting every Eldar from over a screenlength away.

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Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 09, 2016, 07:28:48 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on November 07, 2016, 01:50:31 am

TL;DR: Hina is a badass god of damage who takes names and rotates furiously

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Labyrinth 2

I wonder if all this good luck is the RNG's way of paying me back after a long day of failing at Crawl

I'd try to get into this game (I have it), but.... Well, the numbers kinda scare me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 11, 2016, 07:22:27 am

I can beat Cirno without dying almost-reliably! I even pulled off a counterbomb last time I fought her, although I'm not sure if that's an own or if I just fucked up and got lucky.

TH06: EOSD.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on November 11, 2016, 07:38:25 am

Got Tammy's head, sad bombs and 99 bombs while packing a short-range brimstone and a couple of damage boosting items. And child's heart. And a dark bum. My first victory against Mega Satan. I love cheap synergies, but it felt like cheating.

The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth as Azazel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 11, 2016, 02:12:52 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on November 09, 2016, 07:28:48 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on November 07, 2016, 01:50:31 am

TL;DR: Hina is a badass god of damage who takes names and rotates furiously

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Labyrinth 2

I wonder if all this good luck is the RNG's way of paying me back after a long day of failing at Crawl

I'd try to get into this game (I have it), but.... Well, the numbers kinda scare me.

I've been having great fun with it. The best part about it is that you can freely reallocate most things at any time and party members just chilling in Gensokyo still get exp. So you can completely readjust your set-up at a moment's notice. That said, my time spent with this game is about 25% grinding my teeth trying to deal with the latest dumb boss and 25% grinding my teeth trying to deal with the latest dumb switch puzzle and 50% laughing maniacally as I do a bazillion damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 11, 2016, 05:57:27 pm

Someone made a "lol, good level design = hard level design" map in Broforce.  And, ah, this happened:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/152388838522365892/C3A2A252ECDE43247D86A756DFB7A68BD5D982A1/)
(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/152388838522366093/8CA52A3429ED35720B0634979D9CDECD4CF8C3E2/)

Because fuck you.

That was my first try on that section too, so I have no idea what I skipped.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Broforce

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 12, 2016, 02:16:39 am

I've been in a rut, playing as Reimu-A and beating my head against the wall. However, I think I actually like Marisa-B better. I beat up to Stage 4 as her, which is about as far as I've gotten as Reimu-A anyway. Reimu's non-stop homing attacks start to feel like cheating after a while, too. Here's a replay; (http://youtu.be/SCOViu3VJC4) at one point I had an unprecedented 6 lives saved up. Almost all of them were lost in Stage 4.

TH10: Mountain of Faith.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 12, 2016, 12:12:37 pm

<<<Spoilers ahead for FFXIV>>>

Spoiler: Heavensward Patch Spoilers Here (click to show/hide)

I wrecked the Warriors of Darkness from the recent patch with graceful ease. I'm a Summoner, and while my summons cannot agro them, I was able to kill most of them with one round of DOTs/Aether Abilities/Ruin 3/Dflare. They are essentially the nega-version of you and your possible party members, so it was quite reaffirming story-wise. It's a solo instance against the five of them, which can be challenging for some classes.

For those of you who don't want spoilers, I super-pwnt one of the major story boss instances. Felt good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 12, 2016, 01:21:38 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 12, 2016, 02:16:39 am

I've been in a rut, playing as Reimu-A and beating my head against the wall. However, I think I actually like Marisa-B better. I beat up to Stage 4 as her, which is about as far as I've gotten as Reimu-A anyway. Reimu's non-stop homing attacks start to feel like cheating after a while, too. Here's a replay; (http://youtu.be/SCOViu3VJC4) at one point I had an unprecedented 6 lives saved up. Almost all of them were lost in Stage 4.

TH10: Mountain of Faith.

The moral of this story is that Stage 4 is hell. The only Touhou where this isn't true is SA, and that's because Hell is instead Stage 5.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 12, 2016, 05:17:43 pm

I finally cleared the game without using a cheap character (rain, noob saibot, any boss character, etc) for the first time. That was insanely hard.

The thing about the bosses in this game is that unlike pretty much all normal characters, they're basically invincible in a normal fight. If you run up to them and try to hit them they always can use button reading to instantly block or counter anything or just use some other cheap move. All you can do is stay on the defensive and wait for them to use a certain move which leaves them vulnerable to you, and then get as good of a combo in as you can. For example, Motaro has insane defense and has a throw which cannot be blocked or ducked under, but you can wait for him to leap at you and then beat him up while he's trying to do it. Also, Shao Kahn is insanely powerful in general, however, if you're careful, you can wait for him to do his upward shoulder tackle, duck under it, uppercut him while he's above you for massive damage, and usually hit him with something else while he's getting up from that.

Mortal Kombat Trilogy. I feel gud.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 13, 2016, 09:59:23 am

Blew up a rift to the Warp, then proceeded to purge all Kroot who consumed Chaos-tainted flesh(despite never actually using Cannibalize - I know damn well not to let Kroot eat that stuff). Then I herded all humans left on the planet into gender-separated re-education and sterilization camps for the Greater Good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Finished Tau campaign by defeating Chaos. I think I took more casualties fighting up the hill to the Warp rift than in every other stronghold assault mission combined. Probably because Tau is "shoot everything with everything", lacking much in the way of specialization. They have little functional melee(except the Greater Knarloc which doesn't count), little dedicated anti-vehicle or anti-building(or specific anti-infantry for that matter), no defensive turrets or mines, no effective artillery, and a curious lack of special abilities with any major effects. The Ethereal gets two, one is useless, the other requires putting the Ethereal in harm's way. Normal infantry get a decent A-I grenade if they have squad leader and a crappy shield if they have a drone, and Pathfinders get insignificant markerlights. That's about it.

The oddest bit about the AAR for the Tau-vs-Chaos Stronghold is that it mentions that it was "miraculous" that no Tau fell to Chaos during the battle. Why would they? Their souls have little to offer daemons for possession, and with their indoctrination to the Greater Good(an Ethereal is on-planet as well), they have little reason to willingly join. The only Tau who would have been at risk was the commander, Shas'o Kais, who is the only Tau ever to be possessed by Khorne - and he recovered. Maybe the Kroot are at risk, but they got purged.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on November 13, 2016, 12:17:10 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 13, 2016, 09:59:23 am

Blew up a rift to the Warp, then proceeded to purge all Kroot who consumed Chaos-tainted flesh(despite never actually using Cannibalize - I know damn well not to let Kroot eat that stuff). Then I herded all humans left on the planet into gender-separated re-education and sterilization camps for the Greater Good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Finished Tau campaign by defeating Chaos. I think I took more casualties fighting up the hill to the Warp rift than in every other stronghold assault mission combined. Probably because Tau is "shoot everything with everything", lacking much in the way of specialization. They have little functional melee(except the Greater Knarloc which doesn't count), little dedicated anti-vehicle or anti-building(or specific anti-infantry for that matter), no defensive turrets or mines, no effective artillery, and a curious lack of special abilities with any major effects. The Ethereal gets two, one is useless, the other requires putting the Ethereal in harm's way. Normal infantry get a decent A-I grenade if they have squad leader and a crappy shield if they have a drone, and Pathfinders get insignificant markerlights. That's about it.

The oddest bit about the AAR for the Tau-vs-Chaos Stronghold is that it mentions that it was "miraculous" that no Tau fell to Chaos during the battle. Why would they? Their souls have little to offer daemons for possession, and with their indoctrination to the Greater Good(an Ethereal is on-planet as well), they have little reason to willingly join. The only Tau who would have been at risk was the commander, Shas'o Kais, who is the only Tau ever to be possessed by Khorne - and he recovered. Maybe the Kroot are at risk, but they got purged.

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on November 13, 2016, 12:20:37 pm

The greater good.

Yarp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 13, 2016, 12:23:29 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on November 13, 2016, 12:17:10 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 13, 2016, 09:59:23 am

Blew up a rift to the Warp, then proceeded to purge all Kroot who consumed Chaos-tainted flesh(despite never actually using Cannibalize - I know damn well not to let Kroot eat that stuff). Then I herded all humans left on the planet into gender-separated re-education and sterilization camps for the Greater Good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Finished Tau campaign by defeating Chaos. I think I took more casualties fighting up the hill to the Warp rift than in every other stronghold assault mission combined. Probably because Tau is "shoot everything with everything", lacking much in the way of specialization. They have little functional melee(except the Greater Knarloc which doesn't count), little dedicated anti-vehicle or anti-building(or specific anti-infantry for that matter), no defensive turrets or mines, no effective artillery, and a curious lack of special abilities with any major effects. The Ethereal gets two, one is useless, the other requires putting the Ethereal in harm's way. Normal infantry get a decent A-I grenade if they have squad leader and a crappy shield if they have a drone, and Pathfinders get insignificant markerlights. That's about it.

The oddest bit about the AAR for the Tau-vs-Chaos Stronghold is that it mentions that it was "miraculous" that no Tau fell to Chaos during the battle. Why would they? Their souls have little to offer daemons for possession, and with their indoctrination to the Greater Good(an Ethereal is on-planet as well), they have little reason to willingly join. The only Tau who would have been at risk was the commander, Shas'o Kais, who is the only Tau ever to be possessed by Khorne - and he recovered. Maybe the Kroot are at risk, but they got purged.

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

BY T'AU, WE SHALL TRIUMPH!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 13, 2016, 02:05:53 pm

I think I might finally have gotten good at this game.

First own is that I now have 45 characters. Yuuka, Byakuren and Flandre were all a pain in the ass to recruit, but I did it. On an unrelated note, my hands hurt from getting all that BP with Miniriko and Nazrin.

Second own is that I utterly DESTROYED the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.

Credit for this stunning victory goes to... Chen, mostly. Chen is ridiculous. Real quick + real hard-hitting + synergy with two already good characters = BEST KITTY[Step up your game, Rin]. Mind you, Byakuren and Ran and Yukari were also indispensable. Herbalist Ran and Byakuren combined to give Yukari and Chen absurd buffs before unleashing a flurry of cat and fox on the unsuspecting abomination. I was averaging around a hundred thousand damage a turn with the Yakumo beatdown engine running.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Labyrinth of Touhou 2

I don't have an addiction guys, I promise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 13, 2016, 03:21:09 pm

Was having trouble catching Kyogre. I really didn't have many balls to capture it with, and I was sorely lacking in status-causing moves(I think Dragonbreath was literally the only one I had on my team). Very little I had could survive more than a single Origin Pulse(if that). I forgot where to get Quick Balls, too. So my chances without wasting the Master Ball were slim. And it didn't help that Kyogre's opening move was often Aqua Ring, and Mawile can only do so much with False Swipe.

Then I remembered my O-Powers. After using Capture Power(Lv.1 because this was literally the first time I remembered them), I was able kidnap that damn whalegod.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. Actually, I'm not even sure if that was the case, since it most likely burned out before even the first ball was thrown because of the long cutscene preceding the battle(also, you have to leave Kyogre's room since the PlayNav is inaccessible there). I didn't get the notice that it wore off until after the long cutscene after the Kyogre battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rilder on November 15, 2016, 10:52:14 pm

Orders to relieve the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Pointe Du Hoc a couple days after landing at Omaha beach. They are surrounded, including a German 88. Managed to bring my naval support close enough to hit it and suppress it allowing the Rangers and air support to finish it off allowing my bombers to support them uncontested. The bombers were merciless and when my forces arrived to relieve them they hadn't received a scratch.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Panzer Corps US Grand Campaign 44/45

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 15, 2016, 11:37:34 pm

Beat the Magatama of the High God. While my average was ELEVEN levels below the CHALLENGE level for it.

Magatama of the High God is actually easier then its previous incarnation because it doesn't have Black Universe[Reduce one party member's hp to one with very low delay so it can act again almost immediately afterwards].

Special thanks once again go to the Yakumo trio and Byakuren, with Flandre and Tenshi getting honourable mention. With all three Yakumos on the front lines at once, Yukari and Chen can absolutely shred anything without high physical affinity or absurd defenses while Ran piles on the buffs. Mind you, Byakuren gets most of the buffing credit, due to being able to 100% buff the four most important stats, but Ran was still quite useful. Flandre did some great damage, but was too glass cannony to survive more then two Starbow Breaks. As for Tenshi, she just wouldn't die, even at literally one health.

I basically just whaled on the Magatama with Shikigami Ran + Chen alternating with Flandre for the first stage. After it reduced the entire party's hit points to 1 with World Devouring Devastation, things got pretty desperate. Reimu healed my most important members[The Yakumos and Byakuren], but bit it soon after. Flandre, Kasen and Kaguya soon followed. Still, I persevered and the Yakumo beatdown engine was still going strong.

Then it reduced everyone's health to 1 again. When I had no aoe healers. Eirin helped some, but honestly this part was just blind luck. The Magatama used Half Moon Slash[Halve the party's hp] five times in a row. Since Eirin had an ability that healed everyone for 4% health every turn, this was miraculously not lethal. Meanwhile, Yukari and Chen desperately pummeled it while Byakuren tried to debuff its defence. Eirin got dunked along the way, but not before overhealing Yukari into near invincibility. Well, "Near" invincibility. The Magatama finally wised up and killed everyone besides Tenshi, Byakuren and Yukari fairly easily. Yukari didn't last long either, even with her great regen ability. So I had just Byakuren and Tenshi left, and the latter had very low health. Miraculously, the Magatama continued being pathetic. It Half Moon Slashed another couple times and then switched to basic attacking Tenshi for zero damage. Byakuren kept hitting it with Star Sword Apologetics, whittling away its tiny health bar. Then the Magatama finally killed Tenshi with Razor Wind and brought Byakuren down to critical levels. But Byakuren is FAST, even without her 100% Speed buff, and I got one final turn before the Magatama finished me off. One last Star Sword Apologetics, bringing it down to...

Not quite dead. I literally can see no red in its health bar. The Magatama gets a turn. I hold back tears of frustration. And Half Moon Slash. Byakuren is at 100 health out of nearly 4000. I watch in despair as it gets another turn mere seconds before Byakuren's own turn.

Half. Moon. Slash.

One more Star Sword Apologetics does the trick. Magatama defeated, with only one party member left standing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Labyrinth of Touhou 2

Even more impressive own: I remembered how to spell "Magatama" this time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aedel on November 16, 2016, 12:03:41 am

June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand was killed in a tragic assassination. Weeks later, Austria-Hungary demanded the vassalization of Serbia lest they invade the country to enact justice themselves. Peter I refused these demands, and the Central Powers invaded the small Balkan nation. The Entente answered Serbia's pleads for help. The Great War began.

Weeks later, Serbian пробоја поделе (or, without google translate, breakthrough divisions) smashed through the Central Power lines, divisions pouring into the breach past the trenches and overruning the defending forces, pushing from the once besieged city of Belgarde into Bohemia in a week of lighting fast fighting. Days later, the Austrian-Hungarians capitulated to Serbia as Croatian revolutionaries rose up to reclaim their lands from their oppressors in Vienna. The Ottoman Empire and Bulgarians joined the war to enact revenge on Serbia, who had humiliated both in three day wars prior to the Great War. Reserve divisions likewise stormed the trenches of the southern threats, and capitulation soon followed with Russian support in the Middle East.

The German Empire soon went out not with a bang, but a murmur as Serbian and Belgian forces marched into Munich, Berlin and Danzig without opposition, forcing an unconditional surrender on the Central Powers.  The final casualties of the Great War were hundreds of thousands among the Central Powers, with the Austrians taking the worst of it at nearly 500,000 dead. The Entente lost a mere ten thousand between them all, most of them Russian.

From the peace conference rose a newly formed Balkan Empire, stretching from the tip of Greece in the south to Danzig in the north. The Serbian army was home before the leaves had even fallen off the trees.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hearts of Iron 4, the Great War mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on November 16, 2016, 12:22:29 am

I told God (AKA Morgan Freeman) that his son wanted some Wang, thus defeating him in a violent verbal exchange.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh... Sir!

This game is pretty ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 16, 2016, 06:01:19 am

2 layers of spike traps, firing arrows into a crowd while screaming like a little girl and a quickly timed floor collapse and thats one bloodmoon down. Hell yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

7 days to die

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 16, 2016, 08:47:36 pm

Defending Heyoka Chemical Lab which, for those who don't play it, has a toxic moat that rapidly kills anything that falls into it, and is crossed via an energy bridge that is owned by whichever side takes control of the terminal in the inner side of the moat(other factions fall through*). Apparently the NC managed to take control it, and a Vanguard tank was crossing it. As I start to hack the terminal, the Vanguard started backing up under fire. Naturally, it's in the middle of the bridge when I complete the hack. Naturally, it falls straight down to its doom.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.
*Discovered today that Sunderers and Flashes with the Gate Shield Diffusor(which lets it bypass vehicle shields at bases which otherwise require destroying the generator) can cross the bridge while it's active.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 17, 2016, 01:06:23 am

Spinning in circles, hatching Goomies on a whim, one comes out...yellow?  Oh.  Oh!  Right gender, right IVs...ah, and it has the wrong ability again.  Didn't this happen last time I accidentally hatched a shiny, too?  Well, nice is nice, but time to farm for an Ability Capsule again... ^_^

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

EDIT: And wonder-trading the other Goomies left me with a Giratina, which is probably the nicest thing I ever received from a Wonder Trade.  I've sent it on, though; I don't really need another one, and someone should enjoy a Giratina with Griseous Orb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 17, 2016, 06:01:37 am

Spoiler: *cough* (click to show/hide)

You can find the Griseous Orb in ORAS. It's somewhere out in the sea in some dive spot. I forget where exactly, maybe near the Sky Pillar.

Wait, things like Wonder Trades and the such are still available for ORAS? I though they shut down the GTS to update it for Gen VII.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 17, 2016, 07:31:36 am

Quote from: Akura on November 17, 2016, 06:01:37 am

Spoiler: *cough* (click to show/hide)

You can find the Griseous Orb in ORAS. It's somewhere out in the sea in some dive spot. I forget where exactly, maybe near the Sky Pillar.

Wait, things like Wonder Trades and the such are still available for ORAS? I though they shut down the GTS to update it for Gen VII.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yep; that's why I don't need it myself. ^_^

They were still operating as of that time, at least.  I'm not sure when they're shutting it down, actually. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 17, 2016, 04:36:45 pm

Why would they need to shut it down? Surely it can simply be taken offline long enough to patch before being brought back up, right?

If not, boy I'm gonna need to learn how to trade stuff between two 3DSs and fast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 17, 2016, 05:46:21 pm

The Global Link system was shutdown on November 1st. However, I was wrong that Wonder Trade was going to shut down with it. Apparently it's just Game Sync and the PokeMileage Club that have been removed, apparently permanently even though in my opinion there's really no good reason to.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on November 17, 2016, 08:37:47 pm

Badasha Zaka had a rough start. Coming into power at the ripe age of 6 and inheriting a large-scale invasion, he was not the most suitable candidate for Badashadom, despite him being a Genius.
So far, nothing has worked out for him.
   The successful invasion of Aquitaine has only netted him many more enemies
   His mission to implement Imperial Laws and, by the method, duchy viceroyalties, seems to be many years away for the 1000~ culture tech points required
   His vassals all constantly involve themselves in factions, and he has put down three large civil wars since his reign.
and worse of all, his mission to fill Andalusia with cute redheads rather then boring brown skin/black hair has run into a dead end, seeing a lack of possible redheads to give land to.
In his most recent civil war, he began the first day with 0/0 vassal levies, because half of his vassals were in the war and the other half hated him because his council refused to let him give away the duchies he was supposedly hoarding.
Then Austro-asia declared a holy war, and the +40 from "defending against infidels" made the half of his vassals that he had like him enough to cough up 9k troops, more then enough to defeat the rebels and Austro-asia when combined with his own 7k troops, saving his kingdom from itself for another day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on November 18, 2016, 07:38:01 pm

https://gfycat.com/BreakableCorruptGadwall

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 18, 2016, 09:13:11 pm

I got to the final boss of Perfect Cherry Blossom! I had to use all my continues and bomb a lot of difficult spell cards, but it's farther than I've ever gotten in Scarlet Devil, even with continues. It probably helps that PCB is a lot more generous with points and one-ups. I feel like if I got a bit more practice, I could actually beat this one.

TH07: Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 19, 2016, 05:49:59 pm

Having ragequit once after Mega-Metagross' Bullet Punch outsped Sucker Punch, I went through again with Heatran.

Spoiler: What Metagross looked like after (click to show/hide)

(https://media.giphy.com/media/O1VKbhsv8SkSI/giphy.gif)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 19, 2016, 06:03:24 pm

Too bad you weren't playing Omega Ruby, otherwise you'd get the awesomeness that is Primal Groudon and Steven would be a chump :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 19, 2016, 06:06:17 pm

I didn't use Primal Groudon when I did play OR first. Felt too cheap. Too bad this time around my Mawile wasn't quite as lucky as her mother at taking down the Champion's champion... despite being over twenty levels higher and EV-trained for physical battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 19, 2016, 06:16:49 pm

What, and using a legendary that double-resists Steel isn't cheap?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 19, 2016, 06:40:50 pm

Well of course it was. Didn't I mention I ragequit before? :P actually my lunch break was over and I didn't have time to finish the battle... and I saved before entering the E4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 19, 2016, 06:43:23 pm

Why not just close the lid and let sleep mode tide you over until you had a chance to play again? ???

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 19, 2016, 08:37:15 pm

Because "ragesleep" and "ragestandby" don't have quite the same gravitas as "raqequit." :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 20, 2016, 01:35:29 am

Utterly dunked the Ame-No-Murakumo. I may have gone a bit overboard preparing for it. I grinded until everyone was level 100 and I had a million muns[For the achievement]. Then I spent half that money boosting everyone's stats. The poor swordy didn't stand a chance. In fact, I don't think I lost a single character. It started out easy, between the Yakumo beatdown engine and Byakuren's absurd buffs. 100% Magic buffed Eirin can overheal people for around 12000 health, which I utterly abused to keep Ran and Yukari alive. Things got dicey when it reduced everyone's health to one and I realized that I'd swapped out Reimu for Rinnosuke to help me get gold faster while grinding. Which meant I had no aoe heals. Eirin and the regeneration of Byakuren, Komachi and especially Yukari warded disaster away, thankfully. The boss, thankfully, didn't do any of its nasty single target moves on my squishies and Yukari just kept pounding it for ten thousand or so damage every 2500-3000 time units. It buffed its defense by 100%. Tenshi and Yukari brought it down to -50% It summoned some things to help it. Yukari killed them before they could act.

Mind you, it wasn't ALL Yukari. Flandre and Kaguya also contributed significant damage. I'm certain that Hina or Yuyuko could have achieved similar results with the right buffs. But Yukari is very durable even when built glass cannon, which helped a lot. It wasn't like other fights where I couldn't ever let any of my damage dealers get hit by even one thing. I could just park Yukari on the far right and occasionally overheal or 100% buff her into invincibility.

Its final phase did do some impressive damage, but all my front liners had easily doubled health-bars because overheals and no one died. Yukari killed it with another ten thousand damage Shikigami pummel.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Labyrinth 2:

The worst part is that there are still more characters to unlock. Still, none of them can possibly be as annoying to recruit as Yuuka or Byakuren.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kazagarth on November 21, 2016, 12:49:02 am

After nearly 100 turns, I took all of England and Ireland as...England.

It was very heavy fighting. I took wales right off the bat, but scotland to the north was proving to be a strong enemy. My longbow men luckily won a lot of battles on my side, but scotland was able to field large stacks of troops. On top of that, my expansion was pretty slow because each castle/city needs a general to rule it. Each general when attacking also has to deal with supplies, attrition and their own individual income. One general I sent on a Winter campaign to scotland, and he came back starved and beaten. Got to scotland's capital, then had to turn back. He was also in major debt since he hired mercenaries. He in fact died right before he was able to make it to my northern castle. Just was a little ways away. Didn't die from the weather, but rebels attacked him and he stood no chance. He was at least just a general and not an actual family member.

But that slowed my progress by quite a lot. He was the general that would rule scotland's capital, and so I had to wait to adopt or one of my children to come of age.

Until then, I sent a diplomat over to Byzantine territory. I saw one of their princesses and was able to ally the byzantines AND marry the princess to my English heir who was not married at all. And by luck! The princess is fair looking, giving increased fertility.

Still for a child to raise to adult hood is a VERY long time. Each turn is 1 month, and it takes (obviously) 12 turns for each year. So you can imagine how long it takes to wait to have generals able to take care of cities or castles. On top of that, since I now am talking about turns and months. Each year, you can only recruit a certain amount of units. In January you can decide 12 units (or maybe its 14), 24 units or up to 40 units. But, the more units you have on the side (so lets say I chose 40), all your cities, castles and generals greatly suffer economically. Especially once Winter sets in. But you do get a much bigger army to recruit for that year.

Luckily though, I adopted two more people. Generally, I like to mostly stick with family members. But, it takes so long for them to age, that I adopted 3 young men to fight for my empire (one which died in his suicidal winter attack against scotland). And winter was over, so I stuck a bunch of troops to one of my generals and sent him off to scotland. Then gave my 2nd general some extra troops from other cities, and sent him to ireland. Which ireland was a pretty easy fight, and that secured all of that area.

Then my other general made it to scotland's capital. There he saw one entire stack of rather good units. However scottish must be blood thirsty, because they attacked and didn't have the reinforcements from their capital. The game also gave me an awesome starting location on a nice hill. So my longbow men did what they do best, rained destruction upon the enemy. My six longbow units wiped out more than half of the scottish army, making the rest of the battle a mop up.

And then took scotland's capital right after, as he only left two units there. Guess those scottish love to run out and fight the enemy head on! Head on, apply it directly to your forehead.

And all that took nearly 100 turns in a game that usually is mostly over in that amount of time.

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Medieval 2 Total War

Stainless Steel

BGR V (harder than IV)

Hardest game/mod I've ever played for a strategy! And holy cow is BGR hard as heck. Even England being the easiest faction to play as, feels like I'm playing ultra hardcore mode with them lol. I tried crusader states and then went NOPE, that is like immortal difficulty right there

Oh and the pope kept complaining about scotland lol. But pope likes me so much, that I didn't lose much reputation from him. Still kept whining about me attacking scotland. Even whined when scotland attacked me rofl

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 21, 2016, 04:29:01 am

I hand-crafted some config files so that I could use reserved keys, and ended up with a semi-acceptable configuration that actually makes it possible to perform half the crazy crap you're expected to do, and indeed required to do to succeed! Mostly just using the mouse to torso twist, though.

With the jump jet controls bound to the arrow keys, it was much, much easier to dodge the missiles fired by the Wolf Clan tanks. This was especially vital near the end of the mission, as I was already damaged enough that a good LRM volley would have killed me. However, using the jumpjets to quickly strafe, I got out of the missile's way, destroyed the tanks and successfully completed the mission!

Spoiler: My configuration, for the curious (click to show/hide)

(http://i.gyazo.com/e11cd055fb78bd8870114ca267945ea4.png)

MechWarrior 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2016, 09:29:28 pm

Here's a story from my gaming history.

The game is TF2. We are playing on a server that allows "bonuses" for a nominal fee. It's very open about this in the server description and the MOTD. We allow limited cheats for 5$ a month.

Anyway, my name is Dunamisdeos and my buddy's name is Gexathus. I had my bonuses on, and he did not. There's always some guy who does not read the MOTD and wigs the hell out about hackers. This guy sees me, dunamisdeos, a heavy, floating through the air across the map (you could do a sort of rocket jump) and screams HOLY SHI* THAT GLARTHUS GUY IS HACKING. You may note that first, that is not my name, and second, Glarthus ≠ Gexathus.

This prompted me to, while floating above this person's head raining loud minigun bullets and Russian accents down upon him, type out things like "Wow that Glarthus guy really is hacking" or "Who hacks in TF2 what a tool". 5-6 people all changed their name to Glarthus, and the guy called a kick vote against one of them (to everyone's sublime amusement). I don't think he ever figured out what was going on.

Good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 22, 2016, 10:31:53 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2016, 09:29:28 pm

This prompted me to, while floating above this person's head raining loud minigun bullets and Russian accents down upon him, type out things like "Wow that Glarthus guy really is hacking" or "Who hacks in TF2 what a tool". 5-6 people all changed their name to Glarthus, and the guy called a kick vote against one of them (to everyone's sublime amusement). I don't think he ever figured out what was going on.

Good times.

I must learn from your mysterious ways of trolling fools.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 22, 2016, 10:41:42 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on November 21, 2016, 04:29:01 am

I hand-crafted some config files so that I could use reserved keys, and ended up with a semi-acceptable configuration that actually makes it possible to perform half the crazy crap you're expected to do, and indeed required to do to succeed! Mostly just using the mouse to torso twist, though.

With the jump jet controls bound to the arrow keys, it was much, much easier to dodge the missiles fired by the Wolf Clan tanks. This was especially vital near the end of the mission, as I was already damaged enough that a good LRM volley would have killed me. However, using the jumpjets to quickly strafe, I got out of the missile's way, destroyed the tanks and successfully completed the mission!

Spoiler: My configuration, for the curious (click to show/hide)

(http://i.gyazo.com/e11cd055fb78bd8870114ca267945ea4.png)

MechWarrior 2

Good grief. I play Dark Souls with KB&M on very nearly the default bindings, and that looks unreasonable to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on November 22, 2016, 11:53:39 am

It's mostly like driving a tank in Halo, with the mouse controlling the torso twist. There's never really a reason to shut down your 'Mech, weapon groups aren't a life-or-death thing, and I've yet to need the night vision or Target Friendly function. The biggest hurdle is the throttle, which works like KSP (set the speed and it stays at that speed) except you also have to toggle between forward and reverse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 22, 2016, 07:44:34 pm

Was able to get myself around 100,000 ISK by the time I'd logged off for dinner.

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Eve Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 22, 2016, 09:24:57 pm

I have more stories. This one is called The Laughing Rock.

Me and 3 buds were playing Warhammer: Online. It was an open-rvr game (anyone can be attacked by the other side at any time in almost any location).

Anyhoo everything was broken up into lvl-based zones. We were in the 1-11 zone, and our 4 man group consisted of a Tank and Healer near or at 11, a mid-lvl (5-7, maybe) DPS and me, a lvl 3 Witch Hunter (DPS). We were wandering about when a balanced group of 12 high-level enemy players spotted us. We could not make it back to safety (they cut off the path back to base) and tried to duck behind a particularly large rock and hide.

They spotted us moving behind the rock. We were proper screwed.
(https://s12.postimg.org/qnj9w45zh/Laughing_Rock_1.png)

At any rate, we went into abject panic mode and started running around the other side of the rock from them, slapstick style.
(https://s12.postimg.org/6u763eslp/Laughing_Rock_2.png)

Someone shouted GET ON TOP OF THE FU***** ROCK, which we proceeded to do outside of the sight of the enemy party. They did not realize we were on top of the rock, nor did they look up. They just kept running around the bottom of the rock, assuming we were on the other side.
(https://s12.postimg.org/41dyjds99/Laughing_Rock_3.png)

After we realized what was happening, and after we finished rolling about laughing (on the rock, geddit?), we figured what the hell, they're going to figure it out eventually anyway, and jumped down behind them. We killed their healers, and then ran back up the rock before the front row came around again.

They almost walked completely over the corpses of their friends before they realized they were dead, then turned back around and ran the other way around the rock because obviously that's where we were. We dropped down on their DPS and killed most of them before the remaining chumps figured it out and turned around. All that was left was a few tanks, and we finished them off.

We killed 3 times our number by exploiting their abject stupidity. Also, they immediately went on the forums to complain about how imbalanced the game was and how none of it was their fault.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2016, 06:17:42 am

Managed to kill about 8 enemies with a single artillery round. Continued the push and eventually took over their main base. Picked up an enemy shotgun and dropped it in their armory to unlock the purchase for during the post-battle.

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Running With Rifles.

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on November 22, 2016, 09:24:57 pm

Also, they immediately went on the forums to complain about how imbalanced the game was and how none of it was their fault.

large rocks OP plznerf!!!1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 23, 2016, 08:04:59 am

Wooo, X gonn' give it to ya!
I ambushed a known raider who was sniffing near where my hidden, buried treasure horde was with a iron reinforced bat. He got very salty. He was carrying an AK with 2 full stacks of ammo, which i know from the neutrals, that he stole. Added it to my treasure horde, and faked him into thinking its buried inside my 7day bunker. He got rekt on the iron reinforced traps at the bottom of the concrete fake shaft and spent hours breaking into a iron reinforced hatch. Then he had to contend with a room of reinforced wood spikes surrounding a door. That took him about another hour. Inside was multiple locked gun chests. Took more hours. All that was in there was a single unit of plastic scrap. I had followed him doing this and subsequently bashed him in the head again. He never found my real bunker, and if you dont already know where it was, even id never find it. He rage quit. Justice was done for my fellow survivors on the other side of the map who got ganked by this guy.

7 days to die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 23, 2016, 01:01:38 pm

When you say hours, do you mean game hours or real hours?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on November 23, 2016, 02:39:25 pm

Shadow pull my way across the city without being seen, end up in this little room that is completely separated from the rest of this level via quarantine bars- only access is via super powers. The room is a lab, and is chock full of glass bottles. I gleefully grab a couple and pitch them randomly at passing guards.

I accumulate quite a number of guards who keep trailing the sound of glass breaking just out of sight. Suddenly, one of them says "Aha, that's where the sound is coming from!" and I sigh a little, thinking that he's about to raise a pistol and I'm going to have to start dodging bullets. That doesn't happen. Instead, he goes over to a dumpster, which (to his credit) is in fact rattling slightly. He drags the other guards along and throws open the dumpster, the other two guards behind him with swords raised.

The dumpster is full of blood flies. Cue instant regret.

I spend another 15 minutes up there, luring guards into the growing swarm with even more beakers.

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Dishonored II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 23, 2016, 02:47:42 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 23, 2016, 01:01:38 pm

When you say hours, do you mean game hours or real hours?

Ingame....and real life. The whole debacle took quite awhile, the guy only had a sledgehammer and a stone axe. His auger got broke or he ran out of gas on the second hatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2016, 05:40:47 pm

Quote from: Draignean on November 23, 2016, 02:39:25 pm

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Dishonored II

The AI in this game is good enough to misidentify where sounds are coming from, and that can be worked into a trap? Overall, how good is this game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on November 23, 2016, 05:47:47 pm

And it even makes sense, since you were throwing from an inaccessible area, they'd think there was no way it could be from there. I've also seen videos where you can throw something as a distraction and they'll go for where the thing came from if they see it happen, unlike so many other games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on November 23, 2016, 07:38:55 pm

http://webm.land/w/sXoq/
I... I don't want to know what happened behind me.

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 25, 2016, 12:39:31 am

I can't believe I even have to post anything that gave me a challenge for a Pokemon game, but this, I believe, qualifies.  I decided to challenge the kahuna of Poni Island at what turned out to be close to an equivalent level.  Her first Pokemon was Alolan Dugtrio, which immediately began the battle with a Sandstorm.  Sand Veil proceeded to trigger.  Every.  Single.  Attack.  By the time I managed to score a hit on the very last turn of Sandstorm, Dugtrio's combination of Ground and Steel attacks had ripped apart half of my team, including half the Pokemon I had with effective attacks and my only Flying type.  The Pokemon that finally managed to knock out Dugtrio, my Decidueye Vahana, tanked every hit and barely hung in there through at least half a dozen attacks not through its raw stats, but rather due to the affection mechanic.  On top of that and its early unlucky paralysis against her second Pokemon, Vahana still swept through the last three Pokemon the kahuna had.  Normally, I'd feel dirty about playing so fast and loose with the RNG; given that Sand Veil, though?  Turnabout is fair play.

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Pokemon: Moon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on November 25, 2016, 10:35:08 pm

I ran into the room with the Working Joes right behind me. Anyone who's played the game knows the showroom part with the supposed display models becoming active. Began looking around and found the back room had a ton of ammunition, EMP Mines, Molotovs, Crafting Components, and a save station. There's a rewiring station to set a fire trap at the door. Gearing up for a big battle - even two Working Joes can be a handful, but 5-7? Prepare for war. They bash down the door, and the moment the first one comes into view (on fire) I toss a Pipe Bomb. Cue Ripley saying that maybe one of them has a keycard. I got all of them in the one blast. ...Well, thanks for the supplies, I guess.

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Alien: Isolation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 26, 2016, 03:34:54 pm

Won my first level 10 sigil fight. Context: That means I just walked my party of level 99 creatures into a brawl with a pack of level 1485 enemies, that had extra buffs on top of that and whatever insanity they brought along themselves... and won. Any and everything on the other team started off able to hit any of my critters for enough damage to kill them three or more times over. I started the fight entirely incapable of dealing meaningful (any, usually) damage, assuming I could even hit the things to begin with (I couldn't :V).

And my dudes killed the lot of them. Goddamn, but that was beautiful. _{and now I have to do it two more times, as they're given more buffs each time, ahahahaha}

Spoiler: Game and the team that did it (click to show/hide)

Siralim 2. Party: Nether neralim seraph, 105% int aura, chasing infinity (provoke lets it free cast its spells, if it provokes with full mana -- this is actually completely useless at this point because of spell tap, I just haven't gotten around to swapping it out), rally (team gets +25% attack/int on provoke), spell tap (can't use the cast command, but has three extra spell slots -- on top of two from its artifact, three from deity points, and five from nether items -- and gives all its allies copies of every spell it has), and congregation on its artifact (rally, except 30% and def/speed).
Autumn aspect, call of the harvest (team always has grace, which gives them a 30% dodge chance, aspect itself has an independent 30% dodge chance) and lagopus (non-temp stat-manipulating spells have a 15% start at battle chance).
Centaur chaser: Square nothing (if lands an attack on something with a debuff, it also attacks any other enemies with the same debuff), no artifact trait.
Hysteria ghoul: Frenzy (team dodges and crits as if their speed was doubled), no artifact trait. This guy and the centaur's mostly just there to hit hard at the moment, with the ghoul bringing in some death spells and the centaur another fury swipes caster.
Viridian wolpertinger: Nature surge (attacking or getting hit by an attack casts a random nature spell), burst of power (can't cast normally, but after it attacks something all its non-temp gems that can have on-hit or when-hit as a property has a twenty percent chance to fire) on its artifact.
Water salamander: Wallflower (when one of my creatures defends or provokes, they cast one of their spells randomly) and fan dance (everything that triggers when something defends triggers twice -- and yes, that includes wallflower) on the artifact.

And then oodles of spells everywhere, as many of them at-start-of-fight and/or when defend/provoke as possible. Including ascension, which adds a new trait to its caster when it defends (fan dance!) or provokes on the nether creature (i.e. my entire team), lots of stat modifying stuff, a smattering of fury swipes (target attacks 5 times at 25% damage) and infernal charge (target attacks once for double damage), and some incidental nukes on the side. With sources of scorn (blistering radiance, nether creature, at-start and on-provoke, deals damage and hits all enemies, disables enemies attack command... and thanks to my runes, their traits, as well) and shell (holy protection, nether creature, on-provoke, hits entire party, negates the first damage source to hit it outright... and, again, runes, has a 50% chance to persist), and resurrection, the team managed to lock down and reverse the starting wave of damage. After that it was defending and provoking and occasionally attacking or hitting the wolpertinger with fury swipes and slowly whittling away at their stats/buffing our own, until not only could they no longer one shot me, but they could barely deal damage at all and my dudes (less than 1/10th their level!) could kill them in four or five hits. Freaking love this game, ahahaha!

E: Did it two more times. First level 10 primal sigil, beaten! Not even a fifteen times level advantage, multiple hundred percent stat boost, and being unable to dodge or crit stopped me, ahahaha. _{though the first (and last :V) hit that got through and deep six'd my salamander to the tune of 106k damage (the salamander had <2k hp, with a base hp of ~900) did get me a bit worried, heh}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 27, 2016, 09:44:31 am

Kept a Sunderer alive in an enemy Amp Station for nearly an hour during an alert, and scored over 10,000XP over the course of a single life. Eventually lost the attack probably because everyone bum-rushed the SCU room the second its shields dropped, neglecting the control point and shield generators protecting the control point. This happened repeatedly over the course of the battle.

The alert went on, and while both factions were pushing back our major lead, we lost the base next to the Amp Station because everyone else was camping outside the Amp Station in tanks. This left me to stop 5+ guys by myself, including at least one person from NC's [D117] outfit(Fuck. That. I know from experience I can't beat those guys), which wasn't going to happen. Almost retook the base because I grabbed another Sunderer while there was still 15 seconds left on the capture timer, and wheeled it around back while shooting down the same C4 fairy twice(failed because an NC Lightning found it).

With a minute left on the alert, TR was leading 44%-42% against the VS, but there was one base, The Rink, that was in danger of being captured by the NC and costing us the win, and I couldn't get there. Just before the end, the defenders, outnumbered 2-1, managed to rush the the control point long enough to clinch the win(we lost the base seconds after).

As a final bit just before logging out, a Wraith Flash with the grenade launcher managed to blow up a friendly tank(was probably damaged, they just killed an enemy tank). I ambushed it on foot, and taking advantage of their reflexive attempt to cloak before opening fire, and killed off the driver.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. The main reason I kept the Sunderer alive is because I'm actually pretty good with the Kobalt anti-infantry turret. Heck, most of the XP I got from that one life probably wasn't from AMS support, that rush that came with being the last Sunderer on the base didn't happen until later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on November 27, 2016, 01:04:30 pm

Invaded a guy in Lothric Castle while he and his phantom were cheesing the dragons to death with a bow. Came up with a devious plan and waited for them to finish. As soon as they left to collect the loot scattered around the area, I dropped down and one-shotted the host with a plunging attack.

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Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 27, 2016, 02:18:30 pm

Killed Manus pretty easily, after being stuck on him for ages. Decided to skip Kalameet (again) and go straight to NG++. So far so good on that, only boss I've needed more than one try on is O&S, and I nearly beat them on my second try. I hope I can make it in three. :P

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on November 27, 2016, 02:28:00 pm

Dunked NG+ Lord Gywn by repeatedly sticking a scythe through his torso.

---

Decided to start a new game as a Strength build. I don't like the big heavy strength weapons like great clubs or great axes, so I went with a mace. Turns out that maces suck. In despair, I turned to the Katana Merchant dude and browsed his wares for a good strength weapon. And I found one:

The Club.

It has:
- The best damage type
- A-level Strength scaling unupgraded
- High base damage
- Decent speed for a strength weapon

The Club makes everything easy. I can one hit Stone Knights with a two-handed heavy attack. I killed the Bell Gargoyles in four hits. The Capra Demon took three plunging attacks before going down. This is great.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 27, 2016, 04:00:49 pm

weak

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 27, 2016, 06:09:13 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on November 27, 2016, 02:28:00 pm

-snip-

I prefer the Reinforced Club for it's jumping strong attack and bleeding. That thing carried me through an SL1 playthrough. I had several of them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on November 27, 2016, 06:21:13 pm

@Arcvasti: If you go through Dark Souls 2 any time soon, the Club is a very excellent weapon in that game too for PvE. Not so sure about PvP and NPC invaders, but a large amount of regular enemies (and even some bosses, I think) are weak to the blunt damage it deals.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on November 27, 2016, 06:41:40 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on November 27, 2016, 06:21:13 pm

@Arcvasti: If you go through Dark Souls 2 any time soon, the Club is a very excellent weapon in that game too for PvE. Not so sure about PvP and NPC invaders, but a large amount of regular enemies (and even some bosses, I think) are weak to the blunt damage it deals.

Hordes of ancient legends, clad in armor ornate and thick as your palm, wielding weaponry and skill far beyond anything you can craft stand against you.


You have a stick.


Get moving.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 27, 2016, 07:01:57 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on November 27, 2016, 06:21:13 pm

@Arcvasti: If you go through Dark Souls 2 any time soon, the Club is a very excellent weapon in that game too for PvE. Not so sure about PvP and NPC invaders, but a large amount of regular enemies (and even some bosses, I think) are weak to the blunt damage it deals.

However, you can get a mace in the entrance of Majula and in DS2 maces are actually great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on November 27, 2016, 07:05:26 pm

This is true too. Pretty much any blunt weapon is really good in DS2. In fact, the Partizan is my favorite weapon in the game (probably, there's a lot of good ones...) simply because it does Piercing R1s, good for single targets and tight corridors, and Blunt R2s, which are wide sweeps good for groups and outdoor areas. It's SO versatile and good. Most blunt weapons have low counter damage, but because it's technically a spear it has good counter damage and you can just beast enemies with it.

Also I just really enjoy the spear backstab animation in DS2. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on November 27, 2016, 10:53:06 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on November 27, 2016, 07:05:26 pm

This is true too. Pretty much any blunt weapon is really good in DS2. In fact, the Partizan is my favorite weapon in the game (probably, there's a lot of good ones...) simply because it does Piercing R1s, good for single targets and tight corridors, and Blunt R2s, which are wide sweeps good for groups and outdoor areas. It's SO versatile and good. Most blunt weapons have low counter damage, but because it's technically a spear it has good counter damage and you can just beast enemies with it.

Also I just really enjoy the spear backstab animation in DS2. :P

I never ever got into the polearms. Maybe I'll give that one a try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 27, 2016, 10:58:20 pm

It's all about dual-wielding great axes. Remember that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on November 28, 2016, 01:30:43 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on November 27, 2016, 10:58:20 pm

It's all about dual-wielding great axes.

Heh, my first DS2 character was a total edgelord. Old Knight armor, Smelter Demon leggings/gauntlets, and powerstancing a pair of Greatswords - one Dark, one Fire. It was ridiculous. XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 28, 2016, 07:31:23 am

After ending terrorism globally, purging a xenomorph infestation, and stopping the legions of Hell, I finally got to high-five the President.

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Broforce

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 28, 2016, 06:07:29 pm

So I'm near a Soviet checkpoint, clinging to my mobile equestrian cloaking device (aka horse).  I spot a soldier with good skills.  Unfortunately he catches a glimpse of me on the other side of D Horse.  I ride up to him, somersault off, and punch him in the face.  Not only did he not have time to raise the alarm before going down, D Horse formed a screen between the soldier and his buddies.  So in one clean motion he's unconscious and fultoned and no one saw what happened.  Despite him being in plain sight.  This is without reflex mode, although on the other hand it was pretty much an accident.

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MGSV TPP

This is really debatably an own, but anyway.  I have a mission to extract a prisoner from a fortified compound.  Mission starts, he gets driven to said compound.  I tear my hear out trying to get him.  I die again and again and again.  I get frustrated and decide to kill everyone before restarting, I die anyway.  Which is impressive given how much of a bullet sponge Big Boss is.  The stupid compound has walls, like 20 dudes, an APC at the front doors, watch towers, and it feels like the guards are a million times more alert than normal.  Plus the fricken prison cell has only one entrance and it needs to be lockpicked.  On top of it all I think I raised an alert prior to that checkpoint so they all start on edge.

After getting actually, emotionally mad at this mission, I remember.  Duh, I have the option of restarting the whole mission.  Now I just have to rescue him from a convoy with a jeep and an APC.  Put D Horse on the road, lay C4 down.  Convoy stops to sho D Horse out of the way, I blow up the APC.  Instead of trying to drive away the soldiers ditch the jeep with the prisoner still inside and run back to base.  Instant S rank.  Okay then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 28, 2016, 10:20:33 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 28, 2016, 06:07:29 pm

So I'm near a Soviet checkpoint, clinging to my mobile equestrian cloaking device (aka horse).  I spot a soldier with good skills.  Unfortunately he catches a glimpse of me on the other side of D Horse.  I ride up to him, somersault off, and punch him in the face.  Not only did he not have time to raise the alarm before going down, D Horse formed a screen between the soldier and his buddies.  So in one clean motion he's unconscious and fultoned and no one saw what happened.

Fucking savage mate. If MGSV got anything right is was these emergent moment of pure super-spy/soldier badassery. Which reminds me, here's an own:

I crawled up next to guards on the other side of the truck. They're talking so I think I'm good, until they say bye to each other and start walking around to mysids. I'm awkwardly positioned right next to the rear wheel at this point, one guard coming round front, and the other around back. So I crawl forward a smudge and juuuust as the guard rounds the passenger-side door I role under the truck unnoticed.

God, when you're playing it by ear, MGSV (In this case Ground Zero) it really does create some James Bond level stealth moments.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 29, 2016, 11:43:40 am

I made a new pianist in Elona. Charisma based Juere build to match. Little girl tank pet as well.

It's fucking Freddie Mercury. A few days of questing and piano practice and I take the notoriously hard Party Time quest. No stones were cast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elona, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 29, 2016, 07:48:33 pm

Chuckles. The Jester. Chuckles the Jester.

I'm playing a game called TALES OF ILLYRIA: DESTINIES. I am a lawful good adventuring group, donating to beggars, rescuing orphans, fighting demons and corruption everywhere etc etc. Angels personally teleported me to heaven and gave me presents yesterday because of all the goodly justice I dispense.

One of the many random encounters in town was Chuckles the Jester who was a whimsically fun juggling street clown beloved by local children and enjoyed by crowds of villagers. I stopped to see his show and offer some money out of the lawful goodness of my heart.

That is when he pegged me in the face with a flaming ball, causing actual damage and giving me a burned status.

(http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/imagecache/Node_Page/images/1312291457832.jpg)

I protested and even tried to catch him, but Chuckles the Stupid Jester danced out of reach, giggling. I grit my teeth and left, and he called me a fucking baby. The otherwise-pleasant townsfolk laughed.

Chuckles the Goddam Stupid Jester seemed to appear at the worst times in every town across the world. I tried to catch him, and he pegged another ball at me. I took his juggling balls and threw them over a house, and he threw another ball at me having procured more instantly from I know not where. Chuckles the Goddam Stupid Ball-Gargling Jester would hurl insults and stinging pain at me every time he crossed my path, causing annoying children and chattering peasants to giggle at my expense.

Today, I caught CHUCKLES THE MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN STUPID BALL-GARGLING JESTER, and before he had finished his greeting mockery I joyfully strangled the life out of him in the middle of the street in front of a crowd of horrified, filthy children and their vapid parents. In my bloody glee I may also have slaughtered some city guards who somehow took exception to this act.

There is no longer any justice in Illyria. Only a dead clown, and far too many laughing peasants.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 29, 2016, 11:28:20 pm

Since I was on a huge fighting game kick but owned very few actual fighting games, I got Mortal Kombat XL on Steam. Yesterday I decided that I'd play online matches for the first time. I figured I'd most likely fellate phallus as I've only played one other fighting game against other humans (as opposed to AI players) which was Supa Smash Bruddas. As it turns out that I'm actually fairly average, and was even capable of beating the asses of a handfull of people. For example, right now I'm maining Cyrax Triborg since Cyrax was my favorite character in MK9, and I was challenged by a guy who played as Raiden. As soon as he challenged me I noticed that he had almost 6 times as many losses as he did wins, so I knew he probably wasn't going to be that good. Even so, his scrubbery still outshone my expectations. Literally all he did was jump and use uppercuts. And he jumped A LOT. As in he was almost never not jumping. I kept trying to attack him like I would anyone else, but just when I thought he was going to do something besides spam midair-punch-followed-by-uppercut, he would do it again. The first time I fought him I actually lost because of this.

After that, I was pissed. I began another match with him. Needless to say, the first thing he did was start jumping. I immediately responded with the EX version of Cyrax's signature air grab, which in this game causes him to jump into the air, grab his opponent tightly, fly upwards, turn upside-down, and then boost into the ground, slamming the victim's head into the ground. Since the EX version also made the opponent bounce, I was able to turn it into a combo which did a total of 30% damage. I also was able to hit him which several bombs afterwards, which I normally only use for zoning, not direct damage, but he was completely stupid when it came to avoiding them. After 2 rounds of him falling for the same shit, I finished him off with one last air-grab, which he practically walked into again, and performed one of Cyrax's brutalities where he does the normal air-grab, but slams the opponent's head into the ground so hard that it explodes. He then left the match before the "Rematch / Quit" prompt even appeared.

Mortal Kombat XL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 30, 2016, 01:31:26 am

Killed Crawmerax the Invincible for the first time. Gotta say the loot drop is a bit disappointing compared to the loot madness that is the Crimson Armory glitch.

But on the upside, I solo'd a raid boss with a Siren by constantly kiting and whittling its health down with a double anarchy smg and regenerating ammo for about 10 minutes. Not bad. Took a while but that was an intense grind.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Borderlands

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 30, 2016, 11:30:27 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on November 29, 2016, 11:43:40 am

I made a new pianist in Elona. Charisma based Juere build to match. Little girl tank pet as well.

It's fucking Freddie Mercury. A few days of questing and piano practice and I take the notoriously hard Party Time quest. No stones were cast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elona, of course.

Practice? How do you practice without being killed?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 30, 2016, 11:45:08 am

Quote from: AzyWng on November 30, 2016, 11:30:27 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on November 29, 2016, 11:43:40 am

I made a new pianist in Elona. Charisma based Juere build to match. Little girl tank pet as well.

It's fucking Freddie Mercury. A few days of questing and piano practice and I take the notoriously hard Party Time quest. No stones were cast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elona, of course.

Practice? How do you practice without being killed?

Freddie just doesn't give away his secrets, darling!

What...what just happened? My fingers were possessed there.

More seriously, lots of skill investment and playing for packed houses of weak, weak npcs and enemies. And a home full of pets.

*Edit: also, I'm wearing heavy glass armor and as many speed boosts as I can muster. So I'm kind of a tanky charisma build.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 30, 2016, 06:17:29 pm

Almost got totally wrecked by Totem Lurantis. Had a Lv.18 Growlithe using a Z-boosted Fire Wheel(I forget the name of the Z-Move), but it didn't even take off half its HP. Then Lurantis called in Castform while using Synthesis. I had Trumbeak trying to burn through all of Synthesis' PP while getting hammered by Castform. Turns out GenVII also adds a physical version of Solar Beam called Solar Blade that Lurantis gets. Trumbeak goes down, but successfully exhausts Synthesis. I ignored Castform just in case Lurantis calls in something with Heal Pulse(having experienced that with Totem Wishiwashi :-\). Brionne nearly gets destroyed because I forget Lurantis is Grass-type(not even Bug-type, despite being based of a mantis), surviving solely due to Affection bonuses. Cutiefly successfully finishes off Lurantis with Silver Wind, and gains a level, then gets taken down by Castform.

Pikachu is sent out to replace Cutiefly, and paralyzes Castform with Static. I use the time to revive some of the fallen team, and switch back to Trumbeak who smacks around Castform to finish the battle.

Cutiefly starts to evolve, and since the Pokédex this game shows how many evolutionary relatives a Pokemon has, and Cutiefly only evolves once, I figure I'll just box- omfgit'ssofreakingadorable~! Ribombee also learned a pretty nifty move to go with the evolution, so I'll keep her in the party.

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Pokemon Sun. In preparation for the next trial, against a Rock-type gym leader island kahuna, I've swapped out Growlithe with a Petilil I traded for. She's as omfgit'ssofreakingadorable~! as Ribombee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 30, 2016, 06:21:15 pm

That Lurantis was a freaking bastard, I'll tell you what. Wiped my party the first time, took out virtually everyone on my second attempt.

At least you have two hyper-adorable pokemon now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on November 30, 2016, 06:27:26 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on November 29, 2016, 11:28:20 pm

Since I was on a huge fighting game kick but owned very few actual fighting games, I got Mortal Kombat XL on Steam. Yesterday I decided that I'd play online matches for the first time. I figured I'd most likely fellate phallus as I've only played one other fighting game against other humans (as opposed to AI players) which was Supa Smash Bruddas. As it turns out that I'm actually fairly average, and was even capable of beating the asses of a handfull of people. For example, right now I'm maining Cyrax Triborg since Cyrax was my favorite character in MK9, and I was challenged by a guy who played as Raiden. As soon as he challenged me I noticed that he had almost 6 times as many losses as he did wins, so I knew he probably wasn't going to be that good. Even so, his scrubbery still outshone my expectations. Literally all he did was jump and use uppercuts. And he jumped A LOT. As in he was almost never not jumping. I kept trying to attack him like I would anyone else, but just when I thought he was going to do something besides spam midair-punch-followed-by-uppercut, he would do it again. The first time I fought him I actually lost because of this.

After that, I was pissed. I began another match with him. Needless to say, the first thing he did was start jumping. I immediately responded with the EX version of Cyrax's signature air grab, which in this game causes him to jump into the air, grab his opponent tightly, fly upwards, turn upside-down, and then boost into the ground, slamming the victim's head into the ground. Since the EX version also made the opponent bounce, I was able to turn it into a combo which did a total of 30% damage. I also was able to hit him which several bombs afterwards, which I normally only use for zoning, not direct damage, but he was completely stupid when it came to avoiding them. After 2 rounds of him falling for the same shit, I finished him off with one last air-grab, which he practically walked into again, and performed one of Cyrax's brutalities where he does the normal air-grab, but slams the opponent's head into the ground so hard that it explodes. He then left the match before the "Rematch / Quit" prompt even appeared.

Mortal Kombat XL.

LOOOOOOOOOL Well done.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on December 01, 2016, 09:22:28 am

Quote from: Akura on November 30, 2016, 06:17:29 pm

Almost got totally wrecked by Totem Lurantis. Had a Lv.18 Growlithe using a Z-boosted Fire Wheel(I forget the name of the Z-Move), but it didn't even take off half its HP. Then Lurantis called in Castform while using Synthesis. I had Trumbeak trying to burn through all of Synthesis' PP while getting hammered by Castform. Turns out GenVII also adds a physical version of Solar Beam called Solar Blade that Lurantis gets. Trumbeak goes down, but successfully exhausts Synthesis. I ignored Castform just in case Lurantis calls in something with Heal Pulse(having experienced that with Totem Wishiwashi :-\). Brionne nearly gets destroyed because I forget Lurantis is Grass-type(not even Bug-type, despite being based of a mantis), surviving solely due to Affection bonuses. Cutiefly successfully finishes off Lurantis with Silver Wind, and gains a level, then gets taken down by Castform.

Pikachu is sent out to replace Cutiefly, and paralyzes Castform with Static. I use the time to revive some of the fallen team, and switch back to Trumbeak who smacks around Castform to finish the battle.

Cutiefly starts to evolve, and since the Pokédex this game shows how many evolutionary relatives a Pokemon has, and Cutiefly only evolves once, I figure I'll just box- omfgit'ssofreakingadorable~! Ribombee also learned a pretty nifty move to go with the evolution, so I'll keep her in the party.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Sun. In preparation for the next trial, against a Rock-type gym leader island kahuna, I've swapped out Growlithe with a Petilil I traded for. She's as omfgit'ssofreakingadorable~! as Ribombee.

Hee.  I had the exact same reaction to it, too. :3

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And Ribombee is now the heavy-hitter of my team.  Quiver Dance and Pollen Puff is all sorts of fun. ^_^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 02, 2016, 01:37:50 am

Almost took out the Four Kings first try. On NG++, with no estus and one Gold Pine. Pretty okay. Got them second time easily, since I had estus.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on December 02, 2016, 10:05:31 am

Defeated that asshole daimon. 3/4 of the way through the fight all of my pawns got slaughtered, I had to slowly wittle down his health on my own. Took fucking forever.

Dragons dogma; dark arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 02, 2016, 01:58:37 pm

That jerk Hau ambushed me for a Pokemon battle, giving me no chance to decline, or switch my team, or anything. He healed my team at least.

Round 1: my Hariyama vs his Raichu. It was an Alolan variant but I didn't know anything about it. I opened with Fake Out, then tried to use Knock Off in case it was holding something nasty. Well, it turns out that Alolan Raichu are psychic, and it unleashed a powerful STAB supereffective attack...and Hariyama survived with just 1 HP! Knock Off connected, was also super effective, and Raichu went down.

Round 2 was where things got messy. Hau sent out his starter, Brionne, and I countered with Petilil. Brionne got off a Bubblebeam before falling asleep, after which Petilil restored almost all of her HP with Giga Drain. She was in the middle of throwing out a Leech Seed when Hau swapped Brionne out for a Flareon of all things. The fire fox got seeded instead, and I switched in Munchlax for her Thick Fat. Leech Seed remained active, letting Munchlax easily stay in the fight long enough to crush Flareon.

Round 3 was back to Petilil vs the still-sleeping Brionne. Another Leech Seed went out, but then Brionne woke up and unleashed a Z-move! It left Petilil with less than half her HP, which might have been worrisome had Petilil not connected with a second Giga Drain which easily scored the win.

Munchlax evolved immediately following the battle  :D

Pokemon: Moon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 02, 2016, 02:13:48 pm

Just finished that battle myself. Yeah, Alola Raichu is Electric/Psychic, though I could have sworn at one point seeing it as Electric/Fairy.

Spoiler: It seems that Hau (click to show/hide)

picks the starter weak to yours, but he counters with an Eevolution that beats yours. Against my Water-type starter, he's got Torracat, Raichu, and Leafeon. I also suspect the reason Wicke gave him a pile of malasadas while giving you the TM for Psychic is because he already has that TM.

I've been holding off evolving Pikachu(and Growlithe) in case there's some moves that Raichu cannot learn that Pikachu can. Arcanine learns only one move(ExtremeSpeed), all the other moves are learned by Growlithe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 02, 2016, 04:52:08 pm

I constructed a weapon in Space Engineers. It builds a torpedo in a tube that propels itself via a gravity drive to reach max speed in just over one second.

It can punch through 3-5 rows of solid heavy armor and obliterate anything on the other side, all without explosives. When I fired it at another ship it blew through 3 decks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on December 02, 2016, 05:03:49 pm

does the fact that I just got 41 lives(including continues) in sonic the hedgehog 2 count?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 02, 2016, 08:26:14 pm

Console 2D platformer. Genesis console 2D platformer. 99 lives or riot.

... nah, you good. I don't remember what my highs were on the old sonic games, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2016, 05:35:10 pm

Got ambushed twice by Professor Genki while doing random mission stuff. He tried to slam a newspaper box into my face with psychic powers, I shot him in the face with a .50cal shotgun(???). The second time I somehow forgot to pick up the cache that dropped >_<.

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Saints Row IV. For reference, in both III and IV, Professor Genki can randomly but very rarely appear around Steelport, he's very hard to kill, and drops a shitton of money when killed(not that death bothers him much). In IV, they rebalance him so that he drops less money(in III it's enough to buy just about everything), and gives him the same Zin psychic superpowers you get.

The .50cal shotgun is a (probably DLC) version of the Thumpgun, which basically fires shells that create a point-blank shotgun blast on-target. Customizing it at Friendly Fire, you can turn it into the Reynolds .50, which is essentially a really powerful, but slow and inaccurate, rifle. It occupies the shotgun slot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on December 04, 2016, 03:41:13 am

Quote from: pikachu17 on December 02, 2016, 05:03:49 pm

does the fact that I just got 41 lives(including continues) in sonic the hedgehog 2 count?

Only if you didn't USE them all trying to beat the game.

Managed to help carry a team and made a very nice Canadian friend who mains Mercy while hilariously smashed.

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Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 04, 2016, 08:57:50 am

Played a hilarious nomad game with a chill Danish guy. One of our teammates was useless, and the other was insanely salty about the fact that for various reasons I was practically wiped out in the early game and wasn't much use for about 30 minutes (game time). Poor guy, myself and the Dane were non-stop chirping him every time he complained about it. He brought it on himself, though.

We ended up fighting a hilariously long rearguard action, essentially 4v2. I think the longest either of us shut up for was about five minutes, otherwise we were snarking non-stop. And I love playing with trash an unreasonable amount.

It's not exactly an own, since we lost, but I played another game with the same guy and really enjoyed it too. Lost a bit more comprehensively, but eh. I'm calling it an own because I had a stupid amount of fun. :P

AoEII:HD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on December 04, 2016, 09:04:11 am

Finally killed Plantera after like 48th attempt. So much adrenaline that my hands are shaking.

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Terraria.

EDIT: Changed to attempt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 04, 2016, 04:40:12 pm

Chimed in a forum discussion about how anti-air weapons were awful, especially in their intended role, overall agreeing with the topic.

Jumped into game, pulled a Sunderer with a flak gun, parked on a mountainside, and killed several fighter craft.

Hmm...

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on December 05, 2016, 02:46:44 pm

Not so much an "own", than it is barely scraping through. It took 6 days, but I finally completed the event maps.

Spoiler: TOGA! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/3SDsU4e.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on December 05, 2016, 04:40:26 pm

Quote from: Blaze on December 05, 2016, 02:46:44 pm

Not so much an "own", than it is barely scraping through. It took 6 days, but I finally completed the event maps.

Spoiler: TOGA! (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/3SDsU4e.jpg)

You do know that we have 3 more days, right?


I'd go for E1 and grind for ducks. Armok knows I could have used a ducky in my runs. So many planes T.T

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on December 05, 2016, 05:04:06 pm

Already have ducks. Hatsuducki was the last one, and she went from level 1 to level 67 in the span of this event.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 05, 2016, 09:11:03 pm

Absolutely wrecked Kahuna Nanu's team with just Ribombee. He even tried to pull the infuriating Fake Out twice, only to fail completely(almost, it still hurt) due to Ribombee's Shield Dust. Easiest boss opponent so far.

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Pokemon Sun. Also, Dark-type gym leader(-analogue), yay!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 06, 2016, 01:07:30 am

Pharah card: MVP, 95% of match on fire.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 06, 2016, 01:57:41 am

Finally started cutting through postgame bosses like a Scythe of Calamity through butter.

First off, I regretfully excised the Yakumos from my team. Ran was just taking up too much space and Yukari's nuke, absurd though it was, required too much fiddling to be safe. Replaced Ran with Hina[Adding Enchanter Reimu in place of Rumia to compensate for the lost defensive buffs], Chen with Mystia[For the status effects] and Yukari with Yuyuko/Yuuka/Kanoko[Whichever vaguely durable mage has the best elements for the given boss]. I also turned Kaguya and Flandre into Gamblers and invested a bunch of money in Shikieiki as an alternate Atk-scaling nuker for Dark-based enemies. This whole process took like twenty minutes.

Sporting my new set-up[With Yuuka on mage duty], I decided to challenge The Great "C". I'd already tried it a few times with my old set-up and figured out their gimmick:

There are five "C"s, each with slightly different defensive stats and around 2-3 million health. And if one or more of them dies and another "C" gets a turn, they will revive all fallen "C"s with full health. So they all have to be killed at once.

That fight, with my revised party, isn't so much dangerous as tedious. Mystia's poisoning and Yuuka/Kasen/Suika's nature based attacks whittled them down while Byakuren buffed everybody and Hina kept the "C"s unlucky. Most of their attacks were dealing very little damage. With one exception: Black Universe. Komachi, despite having easily three times the health of anyone else in the party, died quickly to a Black Universe instantly followed up by another attack. Tenshi, taking her place as a tank, did much better. Their absurd defences meant that they could tank like a beast even at 1 hp. Time wore on, Hina spun, Yuuka flowered and Mystia poisoned. Until one of the "C"s got to one health. That meant that I couldn't use any area attacks, not even incredibly weak ones. And so I switched to single target mode, trying to wear down the other four "C"s without killing them. After 4-5 minutes of stressful love taps, I brought out the big guns, in the form of Kaguya, Yuuka and Mystia. Only one "C" survived the initial assault[Still enough to restart the boss fight if it got a turn] and Yuuka barely got it with a flower shot before it could resummon the other "C"s.

TL;DR:I poisoned some cookies while rotating furiously and throwing boulders and flower petals

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Labyrinth of Touhou 2

I also beat Shredding Amnisieri and Knowledge's Shadow, too, but that's a different story. Suffice to say that Kaguya is great, Flandre is great and the Guts ability is great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 06, 2016, 04:36:57 am

I developed a tracerless machine gun with absurd rates of fire. Truly, a thing of wonder, even if it only does fire high-velocity handgun rounds. BZZZZZZT *Sound of falling blood*

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Cortex Command Modding while procrastinating important stuff

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on December 06, 2016, 12:44:10 pm

Old Resolution: 125x125
New Resolution: 4x4

Training Error: 0.001
Validation Error: 0.013
Testing Error: 0.036

Fuck you all. It can be done. It is NOT heresy, and I will NOT recant!

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Real Life: Crazy AI Programmer Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on December 06, 2016, 06:40:09 pm

Took fire driving into a town. I pulled off the road and swung wide, parked in the woods, and crept up to a barn overlooking it. Still only had a couple pistols, but when I searched the barn I found a Mosin with five rounds. I crawled out the town-side door and up to the edge of the road beside it, where the ground dropped off into a long sweeping field. I saw two men running in the open, flicked the ranging to 200m without even thinking about it, and sighted in with those juicy, friendly ironsights. Squeezed the trigger once, a miss. They turned and started running back to town. Work the bolt, fire again, and the trailing one is down. Rinse and repeat, both are down. I waited a minute or two to be sure they weren't just proned out in the grass, then made my way down on foot.

Three Mosin rounds got me a Zastava M92 with three full mags and an M76 with five plus a 4x PSO. Serbia gonna be stronk tonight. Time to go loot the town.

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ArmA III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 07, 2016, 09:37:09 am

Had a mission where over a dozen aliens with rifles and mortars attack a colony. There might have been some trigger that cancels the mission if the quest-giver gets knocked out during the fight, since it mysteriously ended several times. You're given one each of three types of heavy turrets, plus the recipes to make more.

Getting sick of the mission cancelling, and having lost two of the free turrets, I went on a mining spree to collect the resources, built 10 Gatling Turrets, and 5 each of the Artillery and Missile Turrets. Built a small fort in the middle of the colony, and a wall of guns. The mission suddenly ended, but this time it was because all the aliens were dead. I only lost one of the Gatling Turrets, though a couple others were damaged.

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Planet Explorers, Adventure Mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 07, 2016, 10:33:53 am

My grenade launcher was on fire. Every lob seemed to hit something. 25 eliminations to 2 deaths. 37% of team damage dealt.

Li-Jung Tower. The map in the market place with that pagoda near the edges. Noone got in through the side entrances without eating a grenade. Let the Australia run wild!

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Overwatch, I was Junkrat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 07, 2016, 03:05:46 pm

Captured Solgaleo with a first-turn Quick Ball.

Then reverted the save, and costing me two of my team and most of my stock, got Solgaleo into a Luxury Ball. I figure {Nebby} deserves the accommodation.

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Pokemon Sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlitzDungeoneer on December 09, 2016, 07:19:54 am

Beat the Four Kings on my first try on my SL30 character.

Dark Souls

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An older one, but after about 10 tries, I finally managed to solo NG+3 Fume Knight with nothing but my Greatsword and 2000+ HP(he still carved off 50-90% of my health with every hit).

Felt good, man.

Dark Souls 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 09, 2016, 08:15:57 am

The lady on the radio said something along the lines of "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to max out a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport on I70? Well, go do it" and then I said "okay". And then I bought one and drove it down the highway going 250-something MPH without hitting anyone.

Forza Horizon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 09, 2016, 09:43:38 am

Capra demon. Third try. SL10. Dual caestus. I'm feeling pretty gud.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 09, 2016, 10:04:16 am

Finished the game as a rogue. Gotta say that the bosses were probably balanced with a build who can actually use a shield properly in mind. Still, managed to defeat the final boss with a minimal quantity of pain and even get the "best ending" too.

Lords of the Fallen.

For those wondering, the game is pretty much Polish Dark Souls, but not as good (and yet excellent keyboard and mouse controls).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jaxy15 on December 09, 2016, 02:44:23 pm

Was playing a game of Mystery Heroes as Junkrat in Volskaya Industries. The enemies had a perfect defense near the first capture point with 2 Torbjörns and Symmetra's teleporter. My team members died as soon as they got near. Time was running out and it seemed like there was no hope left for us..
..At least until I blew it all up with my ult, allowing my team to capture the point and go on to win the match.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 09, 2016, 06:04:14 pm

(This happened the other day, so post may not be 100% accurate)

Fighting Professor Kukui for the Championship. Primarina took a hard hit from Lycanroc's Stone Edge, but brought him down in one hit. I swapped in Liligant to fight his Snorlax, beginning a massive siege battle as I tried to whittle Snorlax's HP using Leech Seed, Snorlax's massive HP stat feeding Liligant and reversing most of her damage. The first run got Kukui to use a Full Restore, but then he swapped out for Braviary. I put in Ribombee, who was immediately wasted by a Brave Bird - partly intentional, I had assumed Braviary was Fighting/Flying(it's not, it's Normal), but the sacrifice damaged Braviary and allowed me to finish off with Raichu. Snorlax came back out again, and again, Leech Seed siege ensued. And again, after another Full Restore, Ninetales came out. I switched to Solgaleo, who dropped the icefairyfox with Sunsteel Strike.

Once more, Snorlax, and once more, Liligant seeded him. During this time, I started to heal my team. And again, Kukui swapped Snorlax out, this time for Decidueye. I pulled Liligant in time for Arcanine to get hit with Brave Bird. Then quite foolishly as he was blasted with Flamethrower, Decidueye tried to Spirit Shackle Arcanine. Instead of Snorlax, Magnezone appeared. Arcanine dropped it to a single hitpoint with Flamethrower, and subsequently fainted from the burn. Finally, it was just Liligant against Snorlax. This time, Kukui could not move Snorlax out. He was eventually drained to the last drop. I am the Champion.

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Pokemon Sun. Trading a Cottonee for Petilil - both are version-exclusive to the same location - was one of the best decisions I ever made. She might be extremely high-maintenance, demanding a brushing or blow-drying after nearly every single battle, but she's cute and deadly enough to be worth it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Avis-Mergulus on December 09, 2016, 10:04:59 pm

So it's the Quantum Case recovery mission. There's guards up the wazoo.

Rush gets shot.

Decker and Monst3r escape, while Internationale and her cloaking unit stay behind. She cloaks, hits rush with medgel, legs it toward the exit.

More guards arrive; there's more than ten on scene now, all hunting.

Rush gets shot again. Internationale leaves the relative safety of the teleporter and medgels her again. They wait. And wait. And wait. Finally, the way is clear.

The corp bastards are foiled again. Invisible inc. leaves no agent behind.

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Invisible inc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 10, 2016, 11:53:44 am

I might be showcasing my own past trolldom here. It's still hilarious.

In Warhammer Online, there was a quest that the other side (destruction) had to do in PVE. There were lvl 5 mobs's to kill called "Flagellant" and you had to kill a certain number etc etc.

It was possible to create a warrior priest toon, level it to the same level as the mobs, deck it out in the exact same outfit as the mobs, name it flagellant, and do the same emote they did in that same spot. You could even have the same beard.

We parked like 6 people in the bushes waiting for some poor sod to attack our man and get flagged for PvP. Then we would roll out of the brush and kick their ass. We got lots of PvP points.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 10, 2016, 11:57:33 am

Evil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 10, 2016, 01:57:05 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 10, 2016, 11:57:33 am

Evil

EEEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIL!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on December 10, 2016, 06:26:54 pm

The biggest troll in that post is actually using the term 'toon'.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 10, 2016, 09:55:04 pm

Got somewhere around 13 points in a single life as Pyro, winning as RED with 2nd place in the scoreboard.

I'm not exactly your average W+M1, yeah.

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Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 12, 2016, 12:55:28 am

Beat the game. Or, technically, beat the POSTgame. Not gonna lie, some of the bosses were absurd bullshit.

Guardian of the Crystals was the worst by far. First off, Hina's debuffs[Which would have made this fight easy] trigger a party wipe move, so I had to do it without one of my most important tools. It was impossible until I figured out that Wind Crystal could be killed with instant death. It was ungodly hard until I realized that I could set up Gambler Kaguya for an alpha strike to take out the first third of Fire Crystal's health bar. It was ridiculously silly until I stumbled upon the strategy of stunlocking Water Crystal with Tenshi & Shield Bash. And it was slow tedious death before I found out that only Renko and Kasen had strong enough PAR to immobilize Earth Crystal. And even then, things were rough until I gave my aux attackers the Monk subclass to pierce through the Guardian's high DEF and target his NTR weakness. I spent 2-3 hours on that dingus, but eventually applied a thoroughly satisfying dunk. Props go to Byakuren for silly buff passing and Renko for absurd durability, dapperness, very high PAR application and quick buff renewal.

The Desire-Eating Demon was the most bullshit of them all, but I countered with my own. I quickly figured out this asshole not only went absurdly fast and nigh-immune to all non Monk-Kaguya attackers, but also did a OHKO every two turns. However, they are also really weak to SHK. I put together a team of Impact Attack Monks consisting of Kasen, Flandre and Remilia. However, they just weren't fast enough to apply the necessary stunlock. I scoured my roster for someone who was and finally found someone: Orin. I'd never actually looked at their kit since recruiting them, but they were perfect for the job.

Orin has:

-A 1 mp, incredibly low delay attack that can inflict SHK
-High speed
-Extra Attack, which means even more SHK

I kitted her out with hella speed and an item that gave her Impact Attack, for even more SHK. First try didn't go too well, since Orin ran out of mp far too quickly and ended up breaking the stunlock. So I gave her the Magician subclass, which has a skill that lets her regain 1 mp per turn. So Orin stunlocked the boss while Monk Flandre, Monk Suika and Kaguya pounded away at it. Not only does Orin's SHK skill have the most annoying visual effect in the game, it also has the most annoying audio effect. Nonetheless, I persevered and won with pure cheese. Then I shelved Orin again, since she's useless for anything besides this boss fight.

And then, the final boss' Enhanced form. Which is just a weaker Guardian of the Crystals. The two "Avatar Arms" have most of the same moves as the Crystals, but there are only two of them. Besides that, all three of them can be debuffed freely and the left arm is very weak to PAR. I needed to level up a bit to get my numbers in the right spot, but otherwise the fight was simple and easy.

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Started a NG+ in Hard Mode focusing on using the Scarlet Devil Mansion group. Its very odd having Flandre and Remilia on F1. The former is still very strong and capable of taking off a good quarter of a boss' healthbar. This proved very useful against Komachi, especially after she instakilled three quarters of my team while on her last legs.

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Labyrinth of Touhou 2

10.12/10, stylish astronomers and violent catgirls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on December 12, 2016, 01:13:22 am

Had a series of really close, intense matches the other night in Toxikk. The final match I played that night was on Dekk and I was trailing by a few kills... until I picked up the Hellraiser and shot its guided nuke into the middle of a room full of combatants, instantly propelling myself to the top of the leader board. I wound up winning by 1 kill, good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 12, 2016, 05:48:44 pm

I guess this counts. Dexio got me with a surprise non-refusable battle with a large, high-level team. His opener, Espeon, was over 10 levels higher than my opener, Magearna. Still managed to take Espeon down. Started juggling through the rest of my team to counter whatever Dexio threw at me, Raichu against Slowking, Liligant against Raichu, and Arcanine against Metagross, all taking heavy damage in the process. Then he sent out Alakazam. Which Mega-Evolved. Arcanine and Raichu managed some damage against him, but they were hurt and didn't last a single attack each. Liligant didn't even get a chance to attack.

Figuring enough was enough, I sent in Primarina. She nearly bought it from Mega-Alakazam's Energy Ball, but all I needed was one shot.
 o   ___    o
 |≈    /   ≈|
/\    /__   /\

While it sucks worse than my artwork being on the receiving end of a Mega-Evolution when you can't do it yourself, it probably sucks just as bad being hit with a Z-Move when you can't Z-Move either.

|o|                 \||/
 |                  \\||//
/\              -*sploosh*-

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Pokemon Sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 12, 2016, 06:39:45 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on December 10, 2016, 06:26:54 pm

The biggest troll in that post is actually using the term 'toon'.

I'm old what do you want, a modern reference?  8)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on December 13, 2016, 02:29:00 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 12, 2016, 06:39:45 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on December 10, 2016, 06:26:54 pm

The biggest troll in that post is actually using the term 'toon'.

I'm old what do you want, a modern reference?  8)

You're both awesomely old though. :P :)

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Maintained and established quite a pretty nice area to live in, for prison standards anyway. Spent everything on helping folks and getting people up and reformed well, with the only suppressor being an armed guard in the 4-hour-per-day visited canteen, surrounded by a Yard to ensure that my 500+ person prison has everyone in place before eating time.

My regime went as ~6 hour sleep (since I noticed all sleep needs are fulfilled in 3 hours or so), with 9 hours per day divided into 3 for eating and yardwork [yard, eat, eat, to make 3 hours respectively, with the first starting from 5-7am right before the 8am visitation or otherwise/mail work]. There was no time allotted for 'lockdown' because that's pretty much useless in comparison to prison grading and the fact that I can keep an armed guard to shoot off hourly charges of 'suppression', so at most any person has +++, a minimal score. Policy was dictated to no solitary confinement other than murder/escapes, of which were pretty few due to enclosing the outside of the building with perimeter wall.

Warden used was the sapper, so I don't necessarily have to worry about tunnels and searching every individual toilet :V since I don't pretty much mind people getting contraband if they're not getting worse for them, especially re-offending chance given choice deployment areas or markings of hallways (that can be just two doors situated next to each other) but I've made crucial areas into staffroom and staff-only areas anyway, so the only places that can precisely probably get things stolen from are generally ones that have 90% metal items. I would've gone with the Pacifier though, because he seems like a cool guy overall and very suitable to my playstyle. Gave a Psychologist per area and security block, following mail rooms (+chapel/education) only for the higher security areas while protective custody sticks with Min security allocations so I'm prepared for all Min Security/Med Security, and Max Security {Ratio of 10/3/1}--with the last one having the smallest area but the most well guarded and nearest to workshops and such to help their reforms. I've packed this prison with ~175+ guards because I've no idea how the guards work in helping out the peoples, but I position one in every room or patrolling every cell under the impression that it matters and affects those in the same room. That, and it seems like guards can passively search for contraband (especially alcoholic contraband that isn't smelly) by bumping into people?

Using a 3x1 cell with a bed/toilet, with all amenities in the canteen or yard (who would've known that you don't need a shower area and you can just plop them in the canteen or yard or common room and everyone is cool with it o_O), and everyone is pretty happy, with my prison grading at ~9/~5/4/3, setting parole under 15%, and having a 8% re-offending rate. Dedicated Psychologist office, and just 1 armed guards per canteen (so 2 per canteen to to fulfill each others' patrols) :P So around 6 in total at the current state.

Didn't turn on Gangs, unlimited funds, or events, started out with fog of war/failure conditions, and put all my delivery areas into one spot alongside the garbage and storage places, with an internal storage area for the canteen/kitchen, because having BOTH meal settings at "High" really wear down on food cost. Granted, having your staff do most of the work in dangerous contraband areas other than the people = happier outcomes due to the wages being paid for anyway, although the only worries for actual contraband in a decent setup are the Infirmary, Office [both programs holding alcohol that isn't smelly] and Visitation, compared to the cleaning cupboard and workshop which can be detectable.

Glad to have researched up how suppression works -_- The benefit of placing canteens in secluded areas are that suppression is indoor/outdoor only, so being isolated thanks to the Yard helps a lot. That and me making a 'grand canteen' filled with stuff all over is a really bunchy place (sans the max security, because they seem like the more volatile ones ._.). Had Death row running and...I'm glad I never had to use it given the low % of doing it. >_> That seems to be the only area that you can't really affect at all given the rate of appeals.

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Prison Architect

...I still have no idea as to the effect of the radio "affecting the whole room", but I've learned that when anything (like the wiki) or in-game instruction says 'square/tile/foot', it means "one game tile" no matter how it's labeled (like when you draw it in planning, it says '1m', it's just one tile).

At least I think this is appropriate for the thread. x_x Nearing the 1000 mark for the steam achievement! :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 14, 2016, 08:51:53 pm

Research Accumulator + Not Sucking = Swimming in tokens.

In a similar vein, Extended Assessment + Precise Mechanisms + Not Sucking = Swimming in performance points.

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Vector 2. Loving this game a lot more than the first one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 16, 2016, 03:27:08 am

I beat Skyrim's main quest!

Is it me or is the final Alduin fight kind of a pushover? He has some cheap-ass breath attacks, sure, but those aside I just had to whack him a bunch and heal occasionally. There were many, many harder fights along the way to that point, not even counting sidequests. My equipment wasn't spectacular either, an Elven set with no enchantments or upgrades and an Orcish Sword of Flames.

Sovngarde was gorgeous, and it makes me sad that 90% of the game's dungeons are made of the same brown stone and stupid hawk-dolphin-snake puzzles.

TESV: Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 16, 2016, 08:35:54 am

Slashin' my way up the Voobly ladders. Forty-some points and a four-game winstreak in a couple hours play this afternoon, should make some better gains tomorrow with more players online. So far no-one's even come close to beating me...

AoEII:TC, on Voobly of course. HD gave me a silent CtD three times in a row and was generally being buggy, so I bailed. Might go back if I hear good things about 4.8.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 16, 2016, 05:52:08 pm

After several attempts, including going out to by more balls, I managed to capture Tapu Lele in a Heal Ball since I felt that it looked well with the Tapu.

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Pokemon Sun. Tapu Lele is actually kind of cute. *reads Pokedex entry*NOPENOPENOPE. On the other hand, its Moon entry does mean the Heal Ball goes with its background.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Noel.se on December 17, 2016, 10:35:51 am

Just had a 3-game win streak, With a group of two other players I dragged along after the first one. It just felt like everything was coming together: In the first game as Mercy I managed to heal over 12k damage, about 50% of team damage taken. In the next two I played Zarya, and I got the barrier timings right and it finally felt like the particle cannon was doing some damage. Yet none of the 3 games was a curb-stomp: we played against enemies who actually knew what they were doing. In the second one there were less than 30 seconds left and my ult allowed a triple kill,which won us the game. In the last game we were defending the second point when right  at the end the enemy team almost managed to take the objective. They were like 1% away from taking it as someone from our started contesting it. I managed to do another triple kill with the graviton surge and that was that.

I bet the next time I turn the game on I'll go on a loosing streak.

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 17, 2016, 11:24:42 am

Medieval Total War: 2

I am playing as England. The French surprise declared war on me and hit the castle I was producing longbowmen at. I had the garrison of little militia meat shields and like 14 squads of archers. Also, my heir was there (!!!).

The French King (I forget the name) leads his piles of fancy infantry and cavalry to the field and struts about until the gates go down. He charged in at the head of his cavalry.... only to be met by 14 squads of archers mashed into a 20ft patch of dirt pointed directly at the gate.

He was pin-cushioned and died in the first volley. The rest of his army took such a hit to morale that they ended up routing and I won the battle. I'm not even sure if King France the ith technically entered the castle, since he died under the archway.

That was also the game where I got excommunicated, and my response was to assassinate 36 popes until there was no one left but English popes. Like 30 of those were one guy who just got really good at shooting popes from the rafters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on December 17, 2016, 11:58:33 am

http://imgur.com/a/UhPZE

Various screenshots from the three sieges of Milan and me winning all of them. I think the numbers speak for themselves, to be honest.

I will say this though: My general in Milan is a fucking badass. He's ended up getting caught by spearmen while pulling back and massacred them without so much as losing a man. Either the Kaiser and the Pope cut funding on spears, or he is indeed a badass.

Medieval 2 Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 17, 2016, 01:58:14 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 17, 2016, 11:24:42 am

Medieval Total War: 2

I am playing as England. The French surprise declared war on me and hit the castle I was producing longbowmen at. I had the garrison of little militia meat shields and like 14 squads of archers. Also, my heir was there (!!!).

The French King (I forget the name) leads his piles of fancy infantry and cavalry to the field and struts about until the gates go down. He charged in at the head of his cavalry.... only to be met by 14 squads of archers mashed into a 20ft patch of dirt pointed directly at the gate.

He was pin-cushioned and died in the first volley. The rest of his army took such a hit to morale that they ended up routing and I won the battle. I'm not even sure if King France the ith technically entered the castle, since he died under the archway.

That was also the game where I got excommunicated, and my response was to assassinate 36 popes until there was no one left but English popes. Like 30 of those were one guy who just got really good at shooting popes from the rafters.

"Judgement comes from above."
*Thwa-Thud*
"God has spoken."

Also, you realise you just simulated Agincourt?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 17, 2016, 02:02:02 pm

I don't think the battle of Agincourt involved French kings. Or castles.

How did the French attack you, anyway? I remember hearing that the AI couldn't embark armies on ships, so England is basically safe forever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 17, 2016, 02:10:32 pm

Yep, no King. Charles was off his rocker, so stayed at home. Plus, it was in France, with no castle.

Still, basic concept - French march in, English fire, few French march out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 17, 2016, 02:16:05 pm

According to a novel I read which included a depiction of the battle, actually many French marched out. Like, 1/2-2/3rds the initial army. It's just that they took such heavy losses in comparison to the English losses that they basically lost any will to keep it up. Something like 8 French dead for every Englishman, or worse. Plus they lost a ton of high-ranking nobles and famous knights, either dead or captured.

Of course this was a novel, not a history text, but it was supposed to be based on historical data.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 17, 2016, 02:24:58 pm

The actual figures fluctuate wildly depending on which sources you use.

However, probably right that more escaped than a few. Read the short, snappy "few" I posted as "comparatively few."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 17, 2016, 02:31:43 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 17, 2016, 02:02:02 pm

I don't think the battle of Agincourt involved French kings. Or castles.

How did the French attack you, anyway? I remember hearing that the AI couldn't embark armies on ships, so England is basically safe forever.

Caen is on the mainland and is owned by the English at the start of the game. I'd held it for some time.

That was also the game where I fought the Mongols to a standstill in eastern Poland. Turns out that when you can use longbows to hit them from across the map from the safety of a wall, their fast horse archers aren't worth shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on December 17, 2016, 03:00:15 pm

Furthermore Northern France plus the low countries are held by rebels at the start of the game so if you expand fast early on as England you can get a lot of territory on continental Europe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 17, 2016, 03:05:53 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 17, 2016, 02:31:43 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 17, 2016, 02:02:02 pm

I don't think the battle of Agincourt involved French kings. Or castles.

How did the French attack you, anyway? I remember hearing that the AI couldn't embark armies on ships, so England is basically safe forever.

Caen is on the mainland and is owned by the English at the start of the game. I'd held it for some time.

That was also the game where I fought the Mongols to a standstill in eastern Poland. Turns out that when you can use longbows to hit them from across the map from the safety of a wall, their fast horse archers aren't worth shit.

Ah yes, I had forgotten about that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 17, 2016, 03:19:51 pm

Restarted the game as a Sorcerer. After perhaps an hour of playing, I managed to beat the Last Giant first try while taking only a single hit, near the end. ("Wow," I thought, "I've almost beaten him without taking a single hit!" [gets hit immediately after])

Having a reliable ranged option is so weird after relying on a sword for so long.

Dark Souls 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 18, 2016, 03:42:57 pm

Trying to protect a psychotic devil-worshiping old lady from three thugs trying to beat down her door. Snuck off her second-floor balcony, sleep-choked one, snuck back inside, opened the door to the let the other two in. As one entered the room I was in(failing to notice me by the doorway), I sleep-darted the other in the hallway, then choked out the last. Never even noticed me, or the guy I choked in the street.

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Dishonored. Question: if I open a door to let a swarm of rats to kill conscious people, does it count against a no-kill run? The Steam board is giving me very mixed answers, some saying that feeding unconscious(no word on conscious guards) doesn't, some saying it does. Pretty sure I failed the Ghost achievement, since escaping the prison, someone found one of the guards I choked out - I think it was the friendly prisoner you find just before the security door before setting the bomb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on December 18, 2016, 04:03:15 pm

I don't think it counts against ghost if a body is found, but I believe that letting an unconscious person die that you made unconscious counts as a kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 18, 2016, 05:22:31 pm

I discovered that the Hacker can actually hack a lot more than just computers - you can hack cloning machines, sell-o-matics, ammo dispensers, and much more.

Particularly amusing is the ability to make televisions explode and make refrigerators "Run", though it's tough to actually hurt people in this manner since they usually try to search for who's hacking their stuff. It is useful for creating entrances, however.

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Streets of Rogue Demo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 19, 2016, 09:47:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 17, 2016, 03:19:51 pm

Restarted the game as a Sorcerer. After perhaps an hour of playing, I managed to beat the Last Giant first try while taking only a single hit, near the end. ("Wow," I thought, "I've almost beaten him without taking a single hit!" [gets hit immediately after])

Having a reliable ranged option is so weird after relying on a sword for so long.

Dark Souls 2

Yeah, sorcery builds can generally be pretty useful. I'd probably use them more often if Teh Cummunity didn't accuse people of "spamming magic" if they ever make remotely heavy and/or effective use of it. I've never understood that since one may as well bitch about pure melee builds "spamming swords".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on December 19, 2016, 10:34:32 am

Quote from: IronTomato on December 19, 2016, 09:47:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 17, 2016, 03:19:51 pm

Restarted the game as a Sorcerer. After perhaps an hour of playing, I managed to beat the Last Giant first try while taking only a single hit, near the end. ("Wow," I thought, "I've almost beaten him without taking a single hit!" [gets hit immediately after])

Having a reliable ranged option is so weird after relying on a sword for so long.

Dark Souls 2

Yeah, sorcery builds can generally be pretty useful. I'd probably use them more often if Teh Cummunity didn't accuse people of "spamming magic" if they ever make remotely heavy and/or effective use of it. I've never understood that since one may as well bitch about pure melee builds "spamming swords".

People gotta feel superior to other people somehow :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 19, 2016, 11:48:07 am

Found a few people trapped behind a Wall of Light(device that insta-ashes anyone who try to cross it but the guards - powered by Cthulhuian whale oil), with the nearby City Watchmen talking about how live, healthy people are being used for experiments in curing the plague(so far with a 100% horrible death rate) and how they're little more than pigs to the slaughter. The people heard it too, and were scared shitless.

As soon as the guards stopped talking, I teleported down behind one, choked him out, and dragged him into a building. When his partner came back by the building, I grabbed him and threw him in too. Then I took down the guard down the street, and pulled him in as well. Next, I headed over to the Wall of Light and pulled out the fuel tank to shut it off. The civilians thanked me, one of them giving me the code for a nearby safe, and ran for cover.

Then I went back to the unconscious guards, tossed them into the cell, and put the fuel tank back into the Wall of Light, then hacked the control device so that it reversed its allegiance. Let's see them try to get out of that one when they wake up.(Note: They do not wake up during the course of the mission)

Then, I continued on my mission, popping from rooftop to rooftop, knocking out one guard in the target's house, grabbing the target, stealing a bunch of his money-stuff, and exiting the mission.

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Dishonored.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on December 19, 2016, 01:54:11 pm

lol balanced (https://gfycat.com/CompetentYoungGraywolf)

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 19, 2016, 02:12:27 pm

Did you just one-shot nuke that guy from almost-full health? I have to have a perfect storm of everything being in my favor to consistently get a kill, health being equal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on December 19, 2016, 02:31:20 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on December 19, 2016, 02:12:27 pm

Did you just one-shot nuke that guy from almost-full health? I have to have a perfect storm of everything being in my favor to consistently get a kill, health being equal.

Sigil of Malice + Shatter Orb + Thunderlord's Decree proc will kill anything short of an MR built tank. LeBlanc melts through solid HP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 19, 2016, 03:51:42 pm

Quote from: BlackHeartKabal on December 19, 2016, 01:54:11 pm

lol balanced (https://gfycat.com/CompetentYoungGraywolf)

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League of Legends

Fair and balanced 100%.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 19, 2016, 03:53:27 pm

Quote from: Amperzand on December 19, 2016, 03:51:42 pm

Quote from: BlackHeartKabal on December 19, 2016, 01:54:11 pm

lol balanced (https://gfycat.com/CompetentYoungGraywolf)

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League of Legends

Fair and balanced 100%.

That right there convinced me to try DOTA 2 or some other MOBA.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 19, 2016, 05:09:47 pm

I went berserk and accidentally beat a cat to death with my bare hands.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Playing a kobold berserker of Trog, was doing some inventory rearrangement after killing Pikel and looting a +2 flaming whip, and didn't realize I hadn't equipped the whip until after going berserk and killing Natasha the Felid Wizard, and noticing that the message log said I punched Natasha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 19, 2016, 08:50:18 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on December 19, 2016, 09:47:58 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 17, 2016, 03:19:51 pm

Restarted the game as a Sorcerer. After perhaps an hour of playing, I managed to beat the Last Giant first try while taking only a single hit, near the end. ("Wow," I thought, "I've almost beaten him without taking a single hit!" [gets hit immediately after])

Having a reliable ranged option is so weird after relying on a sword for so long.

Dark Souls 2

Yeah, sorcery builds can generally be pretty useful. I'd probably use them more often if Teh Cummunity didn't accuse people of "spamming magic" if they ever make remotely heavy and/or effective use of it. I've never understood that since one may as well bitch about pure melee builds "spamming swords".

From my minimal experience with PvPing as a Sorcerer, I think that this mostly stems from how much concentrated damage spells deal. A Crystal Soul Spear + Homing Crystal Soulmass combo can easily one-hit many builds or stagger them enough that you can finish them off with your melee. There isn't really a similar "Dodge or die" move for melee, although Great Club + Hornet Ring can come close if you can get close enough. Getting OHKO-ed from full health because someone attacked from ambush or you lagged out for a second reasonably gets people sassy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: wierd on December 19, 2016, 09:14:39 pm

I tend to stick with single player games, but I must admit to certain sadistic pleasures of sequence breaking, so I can one-shot kill bosses.

My favorite ones are from Zelda: Link to the past

Darkworld dungeon #1 boss:  Hold off on killing this guy until after you have defeated the bosses of dungeons 5 and 6. This enables you to get the yellow sword and the silver arrows before killing any of the other bosses.  Return to this guy after getting both. Drop 2 bombs to destroy his mask, then one-shot kill with silver arrow in the forehead. BOOM. dies in less than 10 seconds.

Darkworld Dungeon #2 boss: With yellow sword, the puffball sheild bits he uses to protect himself die in one hit. He has about 12 of them. Just hack away. He dies in like 20 seconds.

Darkworld Dungeon number 5: Use bombos medalion on him. His ice shield vanishes, then just use the spin attack on the three eyeballs that come out. Dies in 30 seconds.

Great times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 20, 2016, 02:10:37 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on December 19, 2016, 03:53:27 pm

Quote from: Amperzand on December 19, 2016, 03:51:42 pm

Quote from: BlackHeartKabal on December 19, 2016, 01:54:11 pm

lol balanced (https://gfycat.com/CompetentYoungGraywolf)

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League of Legends

Fair and balanced 100%.

That right there convinced me to try DOTA 2 or some other MOBA.

This is still in DOTA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09KBp6Xk8CY&t=2m55s)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 20, 2016, 06:17:18 pm

Sneaking through the base of a master assassin, one with as much skill and supernatural power as you. He kidnapped you, took your fancy gear and tossed it down a refinery pipe while tossing you into a drain. And he's the guy who murdered to person you cared most about and subsequently framed you for it. You have every reason to want to kill him.

I crept through the base, stalking his assassins as they went about their daily routine. Many were caught unawares, knocked out, and tossed in a closet somewhere, until finally, I reached his inner sanctum. He knew I was coming for him. I had to. There he waited for me, waiting to fight the epic duel between two master assassins. But he was distracted. He was certainly on watch, but it could be said he was too vigilant, and it distracted him from his surroundings.

A moment of vulnerability. It allowed me to creep right into a blind spot outside of his and his guards' view. And there, right behind him, I reached out and...

...nicked his wallet. And the key I needed to escape. Then I snuck out, leaving him there, using his key to steal more loot and then reach the sewer tunnels to make my escape away from his base.

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Dishonored. I think that the world this game takes place in would make a great tabletop setting.

Also gotta give some serious credit to the late Empress Kaldwin. She was popular enough that even the assassin who killed her was pissed off enough about it to want get avenge her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on December 20, 2016, 06:34:02 pm

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When you're getting a horrible plague of death, compared to Hiram Burrows, Kaldwin is a superior choice. Even if she is a decent ruler, she's much better than the tyrant Hiram is.

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Plus, Hiram did kinda start the plague in an attempt to get rid of the poor people. So if that comes to light, Kalwdin is better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 20, 2016, 06:46:53 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 20, 2016, 06:17:18 pm

A moment of vulnerability. It allowed me to creep right into a blind spot outside of his and his guards' view. And there, right behind him, I reached out and...

...nicked his wallet. And the key I needed to escape. Then I snuck out, leaving him there, using his key to steal more loot and then reach the sewer tunnels to make my escape away from his base.

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Dishonored. I think that the world this game takes place in would make a great tabletop setting.

Also gotta give some serious credit to the late Empress Kaldwin. She was popular enough that even the assassin who killed her was pissed off enough about it to want get avenge her.

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If you fight him, you get an option to spare him as well. Also that is hilarious as hell.

Quote from: Iceblaster on December 20, 2016, 06:34:02 pm

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Plus, Hiram did kinda start the plague in an attempt to get rid of the poor people. So if that comes to light, Kalwdin is better.

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You can reveal him to the entire city by broadcasting from the radio tower. It is quite satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 21, 2016, 01:34:54 am

Beat Flandre. With an extra life and a bomb still left over afterwards. Take THAT, Ms. Windchimes.

I still can't get over how wimpy her final couple attacks are, despite them being a survival sign and a desperation sign. I swear that she's a reverse Remilia, with very strong spell signs and easy final cards.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

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Beat Utsuho. Turns out I REALLY underestimated Marisa + Nitori. The missiles are a great simple forward firing shot type[Which is rare in this game] and the bomb/shield is very useful. Being able to deploy bombs in advance is ridiculous, especially in a game with MoF-style bomb refilling. I think that I may have found a new easiest Touhou, even easier then IN was. At least there, Reimu/Yukari's ability to counterbomb required quickish reactions and took up two bombs from your very limited stock. Whereas Optical Camouflage makes you nearly invulnerable for the cost of one renewable bomb, except against extremely difficult attacks like Satori or Utsuho's final spell signs.

That said, this game easily has the best story out of any Touhou game thus far. Now if only I could win with another character or beat the Extra Stage to find out more of it...

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Touhou 11: Subterranean Animeism

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 21, 2016, 10:51:05 am

Minor own, but I managed to get a Runebox: Mud Ball Pouch, which is incredibly rare and tied to the current holiday event. Not sure if I want to sell it or not, but people are willing to part with a lot of cash for it.

Elder Scrolls Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 21, 2016, 01:34:07 pm

Mixing up a Gadgetzan midrange Hunter. Looks like it'll be a bit better than my WoTOG Hunter, which is nice. Picking up some wins with it, at least. Hunter continues to be my favourite class.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on December 21, 2016, 02:18:23 pm

After a rather terrible opening to a Defend mission at Hong Kong Electronics Factory (Gennady panicked, Raphael knocked down to Yellow), I've decided to toss caution to the wind while Raphael went berserk.

So I had Maya the sniper run forward and snipe a Democrats' goon that showed up; Archer ran in front of her and dodged TWO bullets, before mowing down two students at about 50% chance of hit. Meanwhile, Raphael woke up and thanks to morale/berserk mechanic, he had 8 action points, so he ran forward and started lobbing grenades at enemies; 6 concussion grenades later, 4 LDF students, 2 officers and 2 revolutionaries were dead - that being whole secondary assault team.

Meanwhile, Archer and Maya decided to go running and gunning; window shards flying, the duo have shot down another trio of chinese. In the end, Maya finished by sniping a grenade-armed Revolutionary that tried to sneak up on Archer's blind spot.

The mission, which started awfully, ended in glorious no further wounds and all enemies dead within 10 turns. Aw fucking yeah.

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Shadow Watch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 21, 2016, 02:27:12 pm

Launched a rocket to win the game.

Also my base is now fully dependent on nice, clean solar power. It only took A THOUSAND SOLAR PANELS AND ACCUMULATORS.

Also I have a network of robots feeding various resources around my base. Just discovered how useful they are.

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FACTORIO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on December 22, 2016, 10:01:22 pm

Beat extra boss Sanae perfectly, capturing all three of her spellcards. To be fair, I did have Optical Camouflage active the entire time, but it was never required.

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Touhou 11: Subterranean Animeism

I died almost immediately afterwards to random mooks, but its still an own

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 23, 2016, 01:33:11 am

The Abyssian Token mirror is slightly silly.

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(http://i.imgur.com/arP4m1s.jpg)

If you don't play Duelyst: the Shadow Watcher gains +1/+1 every time something dies. The deck is built around millions of tiny critters that you can kill off and trade away with abandon, because you're buffing the Shadow Watcher (or another Deathwatch minion) at the same time.

If both players have Shadow Watchers, it turns into a game of keep-away while you try to hit hard removal (because you can't just trade 1/1s into the Watchers until they die) or an alternate win condition.

I eventually won by hitting one of my Shadow Dancers and a Ritual Banishing. That was the longest game I've played, though.

Duelyst.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 24, 2016, 03:58:16 am

Hehe, those things are fun. I should get back into that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 24, 2016, 12:14:03 pm

Playing Battle Fantasia with a friend over the internet.  Neither of us are particularly stellar at fighting games outside of super smash bros.

I was losing the fight, when I suddenly pulled of a chain parry lasting about 5 hits long and pulled off a juggle finishing off with a hyper the likes of which you'd only ever see in a combo video (https://youtu.be/37t0hfCaW0A?t=2m47s) winning the match.   I will never be able to pull anything like that off again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on December 25, 2016, 04:34:36 am

I made it farther in the game than I ever have before! I dodged poison, bandits and duels, and made it to something that might possibly be the end of the game!

Unfortunately, my save file is doomed. But I think I have an idea of what I actually need to survive and what just keeps Elodie from looking like a dumdum.

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There's no way I have enough military might to survive the Shanjian invasion, so my last resort was a one-on-one magical duel with the King of Shanjia. My save fortunately placed me in a position to get maxed-out Lumen skills in a few weeks.

However, there's a devious check in the middle of the battle. You have to either summon a magic sword, or use a spell to blind him. One requires Reflex + Sword skill, the other takes Decoration. There's no way I can train either of those skills in time, even starting from several weeks ago (just before the poisoned chocolates event). So, that run is doomed.

Long Live the Queen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 25, 2016, 12:58:51 pm

Playing the third mission of the game, probably still the tutorial, so... the abject failure that lead to the ownage is quite embarassing.


Anyhow, everybody gets killed except Jack, who is a rookie, and has no grenade. The Alien Relay has been destroyed, bringing in the reinforcements that murdered everyone. Jack has full health (5HP) which is probably the only reason why I continued facing the odds, despite the dude back at command saying to return to HQ.

He is facing a barely injured Sectoid (5/8HP), an ADVENT officer (6HP) and an ADVENT soldier (3HP), and the Sectoid, being a dick, re-animated the corpse of Jack's fallen sqadmate to make a Psi-zombie (5HP, I think) which is... not so hot.

Jack falls back, taking a shot at the Psi-zombie, taking it down to 1HP. Aliens all miss.

Next turn, he runs into a house to make some room to reload, and is panicked by the Sectoid on their turn. He runs out of the house, and hunkers down behind full cover, provide... presumably double cover from doing so. I'm thinkin' "shit, psi zombie is going to shamble up and smash him" as a panicked unit can't take their turn until they lose the panicked status.

Psi-zombie shambles up over two turns, followed by the ADVENT officer, who flanks Jack, providing bonuses to hit and critical chance. ADVENT officer misses twice, and the Psi-zombie also misses whatever melee attack it has.

Jack recovers from his panic, and I decide to return inside the house in order to kill the Psi-zombie. Not the best idea, as I had forgotten the ADVENT soldier was on overwatch. He shoots Jack, reducing his health to 2HP. At this point I feel resigned to losing the mission, so I just want to kill things. Jack kills the Psi-zombie.

The Sectoid moves in the house too, taking position in a large doorway in the house to flank Jack behind full cover, but elects to raise another Psi-Zombie, the bastard. The ADVENT soldier moves up outside, not flanking Jack, and subsequently misses its shot. The ADVENT officer, on the other hand, moves into position on the other side of the large doorway, flanking, and sealing Jack's fate... or so I thought. It missed!

So I decide to run outside the house, opposite my two foes. In full cover at the window, Jack takes a shot that has a 32% chance to hit the Sectoid. Jack succeeds. Jack does 5 damage. Jack has killed the Sectoid, which also elminates the inconsequential Psi-zombie outside!

The ADVENT soldier outside moves up, flanking Jack at the corner of the house, in full cover, but that also misses, while the ADVENT officer moves through the doorway, taking a shot at Jack that fails.

Problem: Jack has no ammunition, needs to reload. Luckily, He is able to climb a drainpipe onto the roof without dashing (which would mean I'd have to wait a turn to reload) and finds half-cover behind a solar panel to reload. The ADVENT soldier follows him up, taking position on the other side of the solar panel... and reloads! The ADVENT officer is nowhere to be seen...

Jack moves along the edge of the roof, around the solar panel to flank the ADVENT soldier, killing it. Disaster! The ADVENT officer runs out of the house, flanking Jack! It aims... but it misses!

Jack jumps down from the roof, behind the full cover of a tree, flanking the ADVENT officer. It has 6HP, and Jack's gun only does a maximum of 5 damage. He has an 84% chance to hit, and a 40% chance of doing critical damage. Jack aims... Jack fires... Jack does 7 damage, killing the final alien to end the mission and save the bloody day.

TL;DR Jack killed 4 units(technically 5, if you include the inconsequential Psi-zombie) on his own - one of which that had more health than his rifle had damage output - under concentrated fire, and survived being flanked so many times it's unbelievable. He is promoted to a sniper, with 7 total kills from his first and only mission.

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XCOM2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 26, 2016, 10:25:41 pm

Jack is, from now on, going to get either all of your team's good luck or all of its bad luck every time he is on the field. It is inevitable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on December 27, 2016, 12:01:42 am

I finally exploded a giant mechanical spider's head.

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DOOM. I beat the game on the hardest non-initially-locked difficulty after about 15 hours of play. For some reason, I found that the shotgun is much more useful than most of the other weapons - in the two shotgun modes it's nice for close-range damage, and in the grenade launcher mode it's good for medium range damage + crowd control. Except for boss fights, I found that the plasma gun, the assault rifle, and the chaingun were entirely redundant, and I almost completely stopped using the missile launcher after I found the gauss rifle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on December 28, 2016, 02:26:22 pm

I only have Ants. So? Every one of my minions also only has Ants. WE HAVE NUMBERS, KNAVE.

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Planetary Annihilation, Galactic War.
In which I use General Commander load out and have several more(3?) subcommanders.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 28, 2016, 07:13:27 pm

The last character I made on Dark Souls 3 was a mediocre faith-based character who didn't do that much damage and kind of sucked in general. I made several posts in the Die thread about my PVP adventures with him.

About a week ago, I made another character who started out as a DEX-based pure melee character, but close the end of the story, adopted simple sorcery and the Greatsword of Judgement, which is a badass sword with a built-in ability to cover itself with magic energy for extra damage and also shoot a wave of energy with its special move. I wore the Wolf armor, and usually two-handed this sword, although I also carried a staff on my left hip. I beat the Nameless King for the first time with this guy (which should have been an own in itself now that I think of it, goddamn that fight was hard) and started NG+, promptly plowing through all of the early-game bosses in like an hour. All of this was me playing offline, so earlier today I figured I'd go online and fight some other people to see how I fared.

I went from doing barely any damage as my Faith guy and dying in like 2 hits to completely kicking ass as this guy. I actually did as much damage as other people, I had plenty of health, and the fact that I had the ability to perform sorceries and other ranged attacks gave me a tactical advantage. Plus my guy is SL99, so the people I fought weren't ridiculously powerful. The first thing I did was use the dried finger to draw in several invaders, the first of whom I crippled in 2 hits, then killed while she was trying to use estus. The others were a lot tougher, but I still managed to kill them all back-to-back without any help. I felt happy.

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 31, 2016, 07:58:09 pm

Got my second win on the main campaign, this time on Normal/Roguelike. My first win was what I've been calling "unofficial Roguelike", since despite being on Adventurer mode I never once died... but now I've got a proper, official Roguelike victory. I'm not sure I dropped below 75% health during the final fight, thanks to a ridiculous amount of self-healing; my main problem was keeping in range of the bosses with only Rush, Flame Leash, and a single movement infusion to counter their numerous teleports. I'm gonna miss this character; there's nothing more satisfying than landing a 5k hit from Assault!

Either way, I've now beaten the game on Normal twice without dying, and can now claim a Roguelike win without prefixing it with "unofficial", so that's cool. Time to start fiddling around with Nightmare difficulty... maybe a Lichform Necromancer?

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Tome 4, main campaign, Ogre Demonologist. I kinda wish demon summoning was more useful... but smashing things with a shield and being nigh-invincible is a fair replacement, I guess!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on December 31, 2016, 11:06:11 pm

I found Tammy's head while playing as Azazel. Brimstone + Tammy's head + max damage is too good. Killed Mom instantly.

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Binding of Isaac Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on January 01, 2017, 01:46:19 am

While attempting to construct a crude suborbital lawndart for a last-ditch contract, I accidentally got a stage into orbit with enough fuel to flyby the Mun, completing several high-paying contracts and solving my science shortage. Heck yeah man!

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Kerbal Space Program, which I purchased over the christmas steam sale.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on January 01, 2017, 10:38:27 pm

https://gfycat.com/BowedCheapHorseshoecrab

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 02, 2017, 01:27:50 am

As a resurgent Goryeo finally taking their revenge against the Mongol Yuan, my successes largely came to the detriment of the Chinese.  The Yuan successfully fought the Red Turbans, including the commanders who would have historically formed the Ming Dynasty, to a standstill and drove them back, but the cost of the war only delayed their fall by not even a whole generation; a second wave of rebels would rise up, the greatest of whom would form the Yue Dynasty.  During this period, Goryeo went from success to success, driving back the Jurchen and compelling the submission of the Wanggiya and Warka Tribes, preventing an uprising among the Neo-Confucian literati under one Yi Songgye with one hand while simultaneously reigning in the uncontrollable landed nobility to not only reduce their power, but also eliminate absenteeism and further good governance in the hinterland, and most pertinently of all, reclaim the provinces of Geumju, Simyang, Andong, and Doha, or rather, the Liaoning Peninsula of modern China.  While technically historically Korean lands and inhabited by a mix of Jurchen, Han, and Koreans, these provinces had not actually *been* Korean for over 1000 years, a fact no Chinese dynasty could ever forget.

As such, the Yue Dynasty, soon after securing control of most of China (excepting the local lords who styled themselves dynasts of Shun in the west and a reborn Ming in Fujian, who owned only nominal fealty to Yue so long as that dynasty was strong), disavowed their former friends in Korea, declaring them the only rivals worthy of the name.  Having established their capital at Ji'nan, they indicated their intent to reconquer Liaoning as well as expanding eastward into Dzungaria and reconquering lost lands from Lan Xang.  Korea, of course, could not let this stand, but Yue China was too strong to face head-on.  So, they began supporting various rebellions.  Particularists here, a Han pretender there, and soon, Yue was in chaos.  At this time, Korea struck.  Crushing the fortifications at Dadu and Ji'nan, the Korean armies knew no equal; the Yue armies, while superior, were distant and faced by vast rebellions in Dzungaria, Mongolia, Hunan, and elsewhere.  The Korean navy blockaded their coasts.  The fall of Ji'nan and the flight of the King (no longer an Emperor except in his own dreams) spelled the effective end of the Yue dynasty, as a new period of fracture came over China with claimants fighting under the banners of Ming, Shun, Han, Song, Yan, and even Qin.  For its part, with China shattered, Korea took only a renunciation of Yue claims over any of their lands as well as the humiliation of that so-briefly-proud Emperor.  Greater Korea, once again, was secure to continue to move into Jurchen lands. 

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Europa Universalis IV: MEIOU and Taxes mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 02, 2017, 06:45:48 pm

With my kind of shitty original-cards only mage deck, I managed to survive against a rogue murloc deck. Was already below 10 when I managed to do more than 5 damage to them. Ended the match on 3 hp.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on January 02, 2017, 07:07:32 pm

I anticlimactically caught Necrozma on the first turn with a Quick Ball.

On the plus side, I didn't have to suffer through watching my character battle an insanely-powerful legendary Pokémon while clad in garish, green-red-and-yellow riding gear.

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Pokémon Sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 02, 2017, 10:36:17 pm

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(http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/197429630918899757/DFC299720728A4C273AFAB8008DC1430D0DB2C85/)

So yeah. I'm not entirely terrible...

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Dirty Bomb

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 03, 2017, 02:08:58 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on December 27, 2016, 12:01:42 am

I finally exploded a giant mechanical spider's head.

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DOOM. I beat the game on the hardest non-initially-locked difficulty after about 15 hours of play. For some reason, I found that the shotgun is much more useful than most of the other weapons - in the two shotgun modes it's nice for close-range damage, and in the grenade launcher mode it's good for medium range damage + crowd control. Except for boss fights, I found that the plasma gun, the assault rifle, and the chaingun were entirely redundant, and I almost completely stopped using the missile launcher after I found the gauss rifle.

I never really considered having max DPS important for most of the non-boss type fights. I have used pretty much every gun equally because they're all fun :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 03, 2017, 07:20:42 pm

During an entirely NC against TR battle at Haven Outpost, I'm manning an antitank TOW(actually TOL but who cares) launcher, firing at some tanks. At one point, I hear something. Not an infiltrator decloak, but something. I quickly dismount my launcher, and just as I did, a powered Lumine Edge passes right into where I was mounted.

I traded knife swings with my attacker, with neither of us hitting. Then I pulled out my carbine and shot him several times in the chest, before finishing him off with a knife to the throat. I don't know what the VS was doing there, but that kill got me to BR64.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 03, 2017, 07:35:29 pm

I solved a logistical problem in space engineers in a space-efficient and extremely effective manner.

I feel like future smart engineer man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 07:13:38 am

I finally beat Dead Money. Good riddance, even the loot kinda sucks.

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As a final fuck-you and affirmation of Dead Money's terrible gameplay design, "Sneak out of the vault" doesn't mean "Sneak out of the vault". Using a Stealth Boy and backtracking all the way out of the level hit me with an unpickable locked door, even though I picked the right dialogue options to make Elijah fite me IRL. I couldn't be asked to figure out what went wrong, so I cheesed the fight by using the Stealth Boy and blasting his face off with a shotgun.

I'm surprised they actually bothered to give Veronica lines about Father Elijah. The gesture fails though, because all Veronica has to say is "Oh that's cool". I deduced that Christine was supposed to be Veronica's old girlfriend from when Elijah was Elder, so it was disappointing that that connection didn't get touched on.

Speaking of Christine, I think the DLC might have been a bit rushed. There's five moments of foreshadowing the next DLC, which you get achievement progress for. There's two in Christine's optional dialogue... and then the last three are delivered all at the end, one after the other, during her part of the epilogue.

The ending was nice enough, even if the plot was delivered as clumsily as possible. Dead Money might have made a good tie-in novel, but it falls on its face when delivered as a game.

Locking myself in the vault was a good chuckle. All good RPGs should have an obvious bad ending where you screw yourself over.

Fallout: New Vegas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on January 04, 2017, 10:53:20 am

I just got at least 134 citizens in my fort. I say 'citizens' and not 'dwarves', because only 4 of them are dwarves.
But still, I got an army. Too bad I can't send them to attack other sites.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on January 04, 2017, 01:46:26 pm

I got tired of fighting unwinnable matches, so I decided to just build a face shaman deck, and surprisingly I managed to beat a Jade Druid deck which felt pretty good.

Now I start the slow crawl towards getting good cards to put into my deck instead of bad ones.

Hearthstone

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on January 04, 2017, 06:01:21 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 07:13:38 am

I finally beat Dead Money. Good riddance, even the loot kinda sucks.

You at least got some

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gold bars at the end,

right?

But yeah, that DLC was by far my least favorite. You don't even get to keep any weapons you use iirc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 04, 2017, 07:20:02 pm

Finaly beat Sans last night, completing my first genocide run. The entire run is nightmare fuel, but at the same time I kind of got over it at some point during my fight with Sans, mainly since he took me longer to beat than the entire rest of the run combined (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJNEcL-5Qw) (I had about 3 hours play time that run by the time I got to him, but then beating him took a good 5 hours total).

Undertale

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on January 04, 2017, 07:22:38 pm

Quote from: TheDarkStar on January 04, 2017, 06:01:21 pm

You don't even get to keep any weapons you use iirc.

No, you get to keep your weapons. The holorifle was my go to gun for awhile after that DLC.

Also

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 escaping the vault isn't a matter of retracing your steps, its going out the door Elijah came in iirc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 04, 2017, 07:54:51 pm

My current leader, a Captain level Infantry Assault (Long War mod) with Light'em Up (you fire your primary without it ending your turn, essentially you get to fire twice a round if you don't move) just wiped out most of a squad and a sectopod by getting one really, really lucky roll on his repeater-equipped magnetic assault rifle and took the sectopod out with his first shot then flung a grenade into the crowd and scored big time.

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XCOM 2 with a few mods, including the complete suite of Long War mods out currently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 04, 2017, 08:33:15 pm

http://imgur.com/a/4tImL

Now in Imgur form! It all sounds goofy, I know. But shaddup. I had to take screenshots and then write something :P

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Fallout 4. If you couldn't tell

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 09:30:41 pm

Quote from: Persus13 on January 04, 2017, 07:22:38 pm

Also

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 escaping the vault isn't a matter of retracing your steps, its going out the door Elijah came in iirc.

He instantly spawned a forcefield whenever I went near his entrance, regardless of whether I was detected or not. He shuts them off for a few frames to get through himself, but it's impossible to get through him during that time. (He also has insanely high PER or something, he can see through Stealth Boys).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 04, 2017, 09:33:07 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 04, 2017, 08:33:15 pm

http://imgur.com/a/4tImL

Now in Imgur form! It all sounds goofy, I know. But shaddup. I had to take screenshots and then write something :P

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Fallout 4. If you couldn't tell

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I like how your depiction of the epic battle ends with "A random other shot, just took it because the side angle looked nice."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on January 04, 2017, 11:10:46 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 09:30:41 pm

Quote from: Persus13 on January 04, 2017, 07:22:38 pm

Also

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 escaping the vault isn't a matter of retracing your steps, its going out the door Elijah came in iirc.

He instantly spawned a forcefield whenever I went near his entrance, regardless of whether I was detected or not. He shuts them off for a few frames to get through himself, but it's impossible to get through him during that time. (He also has insanely high PER or something, he can see through Stealth Boys).

Hmmm, well I successfully escaped. I don't remember how I did it, but I remember I didn't kill him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 04, 2017, 11:42:56 pm

He has 8, but I'm not sure what that actually says about him detecting you through a stealth boy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 11:48:27 pm

I could have sworn Perception determined whether enemies could detect you if you were sneaking, but upon reading the Fallout wiki I guess not. No clue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 04, 2017, 11:59:55 pm

It affects it, sure. 's why Deathclaws are consistently difficult to sneak past and Ghost People can't not see you, which is admittedly a bug.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 05, 2017, 12:32:56 am

Well, it's good to know at least one thing in Dead Money wasn't supposed to be as frustrating as it was. I wonder how that one slipped by though, seems like a pretty glaring bug as the entire Villa is ostensibly a stealth mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 05, 2017, 01:16:02 am

I mean, you'd think setting an incredibly vital stat for detecting enemies to 0 would give them effectively permanent cataracts as opposed to giving them effectively infinity in that stat. It's not something I would think to check, anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 05, 2017, 01:20:52 am

As an amateur computer programmer, I must chime in that one should never trust the number 0.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 05, 2017, 01:21:52 am

0 = 0

error, invalid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 05, 2017, 01:35:35 am

Zero is a jerk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 05, 2017, 06:19:48 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 04, 2017, 09:30:41 pm

Quote from: Persus13 on January 04, 2017, 07:22:38 pm

Also

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 escaping the vault isn't a matter of retracing your steps, its going out the door Elijah came in iirc.

He instantly spawned a forcefield whenever I went near his entrance, regardless of whether I was detected or not. He shuts them off for a few frames to get through himself, but it's impossible to get through him during that time. (He also has insanely high PER or something, he can see through Stealth Boys).

You don't need to sneak past him. What you need to do is sprint all all the way through which you came, which should end with you on the far side of that forcefield. You really should only do that if you want the achievement, though, because it is not easy and not as rewarding as just shooting Elijah in the face and looting his corpse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on January 05, 2017, 11:17:49 am

I'm not sure which thread this belongs in, so I'm putting it here.

I was walking around doing some quest (finding a gun for someone) and came across some scientists who needed help. I did an escort mission where I brought the head scientist back near his base and then I decided to head back to sell off artifacts I'd picked up. Then I noticed that there was a quest along the way that I'd accidentally picked up where I had to clear some bandits. It turned out to be a place I'd gone through already but hadn't fully cleared. However, I arrived to find several more dead bodies than I had left and one incapacitated-but-not-dead soldier. I was confused and looked around just in time to see something go invisible and walk away.

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STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 05, 2017, 01:13:29 pm

Spoiler: Was it this guy? Because it really sounds like this guy. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/LcnxYa9.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 05, 2017, 01:37:54 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on January 04, 2017, 09:33:07 pm

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 04, 2017, 08:33:15 pm

http://imgur.com/a/4tImL

Now in Imgur form! It all sounds goofy, I know. But shaddup. I had to take screenshots and then write something :P

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Fallout 4. If you couldn't tell

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I like how your depiction of the epic battle ends with "A random other shot, just took it because the side angle looked nice."

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I couldn't figure out a better way to end it. Looking over it though, that was a pretty fucking horrible recap. God, I need to work on that

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on January 05, 2017, 01:53:24 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 05, 2017, 01:13:29 pm

Spoiler: Was it this guy? Because it really sounds like this guy. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/LcnxYa9.jpg)

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Also, if you're having trouble with the game, press Alt-F4 to turn on cheats .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 05, 2017, 07:26:10 pm

Barely squeaked past Garuda on the second try.  How close was it?  After yet another Lightning that wiped out most of my team, I had only one person left, Ingus, who had Jumped and thus avoided Garuda's attack.  Unfortunately, not only was he down to just 78 HP, his turn processed before Garuda, which meant that if he hadn't succeeded in finishing off Garuda that turn, Garuda's attacks would have killed him and ended the game then and there.  Fortunately, he hit, and with 1.7k damage, it was just enough to finish the job. 

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Final Fantasy III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 05, 2017, 07:59:10 pm

Survived getting the Black Death!

Then proceeded to get a kingdom title after 2 centuries of eating away at my liege's vassals, and waiting for them to stop being at war after I was independent to usurp that kingdom title.

Trying to get the Zoroastrian faith up and running. Probably won't happen, given that every bastard round me is Sunni so it takes ages to get claims and I'm about a century away from getting blasted by Mongols... we'll see how it goes.

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Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 06, 2017, 02:07:38 am

Beat the Eientei trio, after spending most of the afternoon struggling through the bullshit multi-floor spanning puzzle that leads up to them. Paralysis is really really good in this game, so at first I kept trying to make that stick to them so I could ignore their gimmicks[Debuffing anyone with Kaguya around is bad and killing any of the three makes another one use a party-wiping attack]. But even Suwako's paralysis wasn't enough to keep them down consistently. After some getting mad at the computer, I decided to go more defensively. I went with Iku, Reimu, Ran/Sanae and Patchouli as my team, in that order. All of them[Besides Sanae, who I'd swap out for Ran whenever she got too beleaguered] have excellent Mind, which means that most of their attacks just sort of do no damage to them, at least after Reimu's defensive buff. While Reimu concentrates on healing and occasionally paralysis, I have Iku and Sanae and Ran supercharge Patchouli until she's A) Invulnerable to magic assault and B) Hitting for 30k with a Royal Flare each turn. I keep doing that, supplemented by occasional AOE attacks from Iku-buffed Youmu, and then enter the desperation stage. Eirin focuses, which is a prelude to her game over attack. I immediately start piling on paralysis and luck out: Reimu nabs all three of them with an Evil-Sealing Circle[Apparently it also seals misguided people too]. Eirin goes down to a Master Spark & Royal Flare combo, but Kaguya is still there and the paralysis has worn off, leaving her free to wipe the party with Hourai Barrage. I pull out Suwako and get a lucky paralyze on her. Yuugi KOs Kaguya, leaving only Reisen. She has a desperation attack too, but its much much milder then Astronomical Entombing or Hourai Barrage. Still, it kills Yuugi and Suwako and Patchouli runs out of SP. I send out Komachi and Youmu, the former to shred her defenses and paralyze her and the latter to deal the final blow. Narrow Confines of Aviici works perfectly and Youmu[Aided by Iku and Patchouli's switching] drops two Slashes of Eternity and ironically dunks the poor rabbit.

Hell yeah.

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Labyrinth of Touhou

Sometimes this game is dumb and tedious, I'm not gonna lie. But this was a fun enough boss fight to be worth the drag of the puzzle preceding it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on January 07, 2017, 02:00:19 pm

I got a sick 13 hit combo on a cyborg reindeer and beat it without needing to heal my party at all, though that may have been because all my healing items were on my main damage dealer and I didn't realize that inventories were character-specific.


Mother 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spaghetti7 on January 09, 2017, 06:25:29 am

(Not much of an own, just impressed myself because of how much I suck at the game)

Started my first play through as Spain, just looking to learn how the game works and fully expecting to get beaten in any wars I get dragged in to.
I start in '36 and start making a mess of everything, randomly placing factories and assigning production and generally being clueless. This proceeds for about 6 months until the Civil War pops (which I'd completely forgotten about whoops). I pick the Nationalists because I feel like I need the historical advantage and assess the damage. We've lost 4 ports on the north coast and 4 on the east to the Republicans, all but one of our operational air bases and control roughly half the country.
Thrown in at the deep end I split my forces in 3 and set up the front line, with each section ordered to gently push to recapture territory, which proves to be incredibly costly and ineffective. We manage to push through a gap in their line in the north and take back Bilbao with the help of a German volunteer division, but all along the rest of the front is stagnant. At this point my air force is already too crippled to continue fighting for air superiority, which the enemy hold from 2 months in until the end of the war.
I reassign units to different armies and alter their orders. Our line in the north will just try to hold against the superior Republican forces while the middle section of the front will attempt to push to the coast, as it's only about 4 territories away from the port of Valencia. Finally, a concentrated force in the south will aggressively push along the coast, flanking their front line and taking their ports to hurt their supplies. I also remember I own a navy at this point and set them up raiding convoys in the Med.
The strategy pays off big time and, while we take some losses in the north our southern force quickly pushes through Murcia and takes Valencia within 3 months. As the troops secure the city I see the Republican navy flee the docks and sail out into the Med. Didn't realise they had a navy. Ah.
All my raiding fleets join into one, only 12 ships strong, and begins a search and destroy mission to find and sink their fleet. We find them within the month, but I've underestimated their strength. They are also 12 strong, and it takes time for all of my ships to join the battle and we lose a destroyer and light cruiser in the initial skirmish. The fight looks tight, so I bring an extra 5 destroyers down from the north who arrive just as my battlecruiser comes into range. Steaming in, they make short work of the Republicans subs and then close in on their battlecruiser, sinking it after a short fight.
Meanwhile on land the fighting has reached a bit of a stalemate again. Having taken the large airfield at Madrid, the enemy no longer hold air superiority and their forces are weak, but they have the mountains and river to defend if I want to push on Zaragoza. Looking at the battle tab confirms my victories, the enemy are 90% of the way to capitulation due to losses of territory and cities. To save a long, bloody war pushing over the mountains I tell my men to just hold the line while 5 of my best divisions assemble in Valencia. From there, they will sail out and perform a naval assault on Barcelona. While this was far behind enemy lines, there was only 1 division defending it as all the Republican armies were busy holding the front. They begin the assault, and units begin peeling off the front line to run back and defend. In the next couple of weeks we push through to Zaragoza and reach the river Ebro before my naval assault team finally manages to take Barcelona. This gets us the last victory points we need, and Republican Spain surrenders to us. With 200k casualties overall and the war over by August 1937, I think it could've been a lot longer and a lot bloodier. Long live Generalissimo Franco.

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Hearts of Iron IV
I was playing on a-historical so it occurs to me that the Soviets may have let the Republicans down since I didn't see any of their units fighting us, but maybe I just didn't spot them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 09, 2017, 11:38:42 am

I managed to activate an Outsider in my first crashed UFO and, in the same turn IIRC, kill it with three soldiers. One of whom had 55~% and another with 45~% to hit.

XCOM: Enemy Within (with Long War mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on January 09, 2017, 03:40:36 pm

Two owns for me over here.
The first (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2892729238) is pretty standard, I simply went 17/0 as Luna. Absolutely murdered them, with quite a few great ultis, my favorite two best being one where they ganked me without creeps, I ultied; killed one, then ran around some trees and killed the other when my ally came to assist me. The second was they were teamfighting my allies and were strung out quite a bit, and I ran in the side and hit them with my ulti on their flanks, killing two of them and completely turning the fight (which had mostly been my allies running away and would have soon turned into them getting murdered) around.
The second (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2865674436) is much more impressive, in that that my team managed to overcome the other side getting megacreeps. The match was extremely annoying even though we had better teamfighting (and had a ton more gold thanks to having a bounty hunter), they had much better split pushing, to the extent that even when we won teamfights were still often unable to push. At the end they got overconfident when they got megacreeps, and we wiped them  about a minute later. After that we all pushed mid, and killed them even though they had 3 buybacks and won the game.

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Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on January 09, 2017, 04:48:05 pm

I got the Buzzsaw weapon in Far Cry 4.  Its has ridiculous damage and great accuracy.  I shot a bear and killed it and the yak behind it.  I just spray armored vehicles and everyone inside just dies.  Even helicopters die to its mighty power.

I'm actually thinking of giving it up because it seems to be making the game a little too easy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 09, 2017, 05:24:56 pm

Finished Dishonored 2 as Corvo, blind (my first playthrough of the game), on hard, without any powers, on High Chaos.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 09, 2017, 06:03:45 pm

Holy shit. Mad props.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 09, 2017, 06:17:03 pm

As a Phoenix (Medic with average speed and low-ish health), I ran over to a room with an ammo stash in it (this was the railroad map). A Proxy (Engineer with high speed but low health) followed me inside, and we traded shots. I'd came out worse in the exchange when both my SMG and pistol ran out of bullets, and I immediately rushed the Proxy with my cricket bat.

I killed her in one hit and finished her with the second.

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Dirty Bomb.

I don't actually recommend it because you have to trust people on the internet. Additionally, the community is... not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on January 09, 2017, 06:39:24 pm

Quote from: Levi on January 09, 2017, 04:48:05 pm

I got the Buzzsaw weapon in Far Cry 4.  Its has ridiculous damage and great accuracy.  I shot a bear and killed it and the yak behind it.  I just spray armored vehicles and everyone inside just dies.  Even helicopters die to its mighty power.

I'm actually thinking of giving it up because it seems to be making the game a little too easy.

The Buzzsaw is basically a cheat weapon lol. It's hilarious though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 09, 2017, 06:42:39 pm

Quote from: Levi on January 09, 2017, 04:48:05 pm

I got the Buzzsaw weapon in Far Cry 4.  Its has ridiculous damage and great accuracy.  I shot a bear and killed it and the yak behind it.  I just spray armored vehicles and everyone inside just dies.  Even helicopters die to its mighty power.

I'm actually thinking of giving it up because it seems to be making the game a little too easy.

It is a little absurd, it even reloads quickly, maybe it should have been unlocked for purchase after taking down all the fortresses instead of just the radio towers, the towers were so simple that I finished the last five by just floating a buzzer up to the top and landing there.
Meanwhile I'm still trying to get the bloody Bushman special but the arena is so grindy, it's infuriating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on January 09, 2017, 08:14:20 pm

Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on January 09, 2017, 06:42:39 pm

Meanwhile I'm still trying to get the bloody Bushman special but the arena is so grindy, it's infuriating.

Yes, super grindy.  I've gotten to level 8 so far, but its taking forever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 10, 2017, 10:30:37 am

Played Heroes of the Storm for the first time in ages.  Played as Lunara.  Spent the entire match dominating, never died.

Got awarded MVP, got top hero damage, siege damage, and kills, as well as got a postgame note saying I inflicted 50% more hero damage than the average Lunara player.

Somehow I'm better at this game when I'm out of practice and don't know what half the enemy team is capable of (what with new characters) than when I scrape all the rust off.

Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 12, 2017, 06:31:28 pm

Figured out how "Overwatch Mode" for artillery units works. Select a gun, and then an area, and any enemy units in that area get fired on. It bypasses the usual cooldown time on 25lb guns, and also uses airburst rounds to saturate the area with damage instead of fairly inaccurate big shots. Pointed a 25lb gun right at the German HQ, and kept them from spamming Pioneers long after they should not have had the resources to spam Pioneers.

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Company of Heroes, British with Artillery Command. I'm personally feeling that the British is a much stronger faction than the US. Their infantry are more expensive and have one man less, but also far stronger, and can equip Bren LMGs and(rather, or) rifle grenades. Sappers can build big guns and equip PIATs which are capable AT and anti-building weapons. While the British mortars and AT guns are static, they're also harder to kill, and because they're built by infantry, they can be placed on the front faster instead of dragged from their HQ section.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on January 12, 2017, 07:01:01 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 12, 2017, 06:31:28 pm

Figured out how "Overwatch Mode" for artillery units works. Select a gun, and then an area, and any enemy units in that area get fired on. It bypasses the usual cooldown time on 25lb guns, and also uses airburst rounds to saturate the area with damage instead of fairly inaccurate big shots. Pointed a 25lb gun right at the German HQ, and kept them from spamming Pioneers long after they should not have had the resources to spam Pioneers.

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Company of Heroes, British with Artillery Command. I'm personally feeling that the British is a much stronger faction than the US. Their infantry are more expensive and have one man less, but also far stronger, and can equip Bren LMGs and(rather, or) rifle grenades. Sappers can build big guns and equip PIATs which are capable AT and anti-building weapons. While the British mortars and AT guns are static, they're also harder to kill, and because they're built by infantry, they can be placed on the front faster instead of dragged from their HQ section.

http://www.youtube.com/v/MaF_dkuGLjE?start=28&end=32&version=3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on January 12, 2017, 10:43:57 pm

After a successful raid on the Super Doubles Battle Tree by Alolan Sandslash and Ninetails, I have just tonight completed the Super Singles route in the Battle Tree, successfully kicking out that elf, Red.

Now only Super Multi Battle Tree remains... And I can call myself victorious!

Pokémon Moon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on January 13, 2017, 10:18:50 am

I started out as an Australian boy in Hobart, who was well below the poverty line. As time went on, I became an electronics student, found a wife, and was making a stable but rapidly wavering income. I managed to sneak into North Korea, with my wife, at age 26 and become an electronic gear operator. I bought out some land from corrupt officials, and was soon on the way to being a powerful man. I dodged the draft with well placed bribes while I established myself, and lived off of my earnings. My net worth was now five hundred thousand Won. But there were kinks in the road:

Things were not looking good for me. A land deal went wrong, and I was drafted into the military, despite my bribes. A few years on, and it had taken a severe toll on my cash and health.  My wife and I got into a huge fight, and I nearly beat her to death. The next year, she died under suspicious circumstances, in a car crash, and my political activist past had caught up with me. I lost my job, and was paid a visit by the secret police. I was severely tortured, nearly to the point of death, but I refused to sign the confession. They eventually let me go, perhaps after bribes. I was released to a trashed house with tens thousands of Won stolen from me. Without a job, I lost my house and became a beggar on the streets of Pyongyang. I was soon a heroin addict with a net worth a mere fraction of what once was.

I invested the little I had left in some deals and jewels; an emergency fund to escape to the south if need be. After a few years, I met a woman who worked in local offices, and started a relationship with her. It was not long before I became an entertainer to the state, on tens of thousands of Won a year, and I also managed to shake the addiction for good. For the first time in my life, in my late 30s, I was able to avoid malnourishment. I sold off the jewellery with a large profit, and invested it in more land. Over time, my net worth soared -- it went from miserly to six figures in the space of a few years.

My marriage was stable, and our combined income allowed us to control more and more of North Korea. We were constantly climbing up the corrupt social ladder, but for some reason I was getting sicker and sicker. At age 56, I died from cancer of the esophagus (a simple condition that North Korea did not have the medical technology to detect), but not before being a North Korean millionaire.

Real Lives 2007

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 13, 2017, 10:31:09 am

Where did you get that? :o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 13, 2017, 10:32:00 am

Is that an actual game or uh. Just a fake story? I mean. Probably the latter, but I mean. That would be way too complex for a normal game :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 13, 2017, 10:36:07 am

It's an educational simulation, apparently... sounds awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 13, 2017, 10:38:03 am

I found this by googling.

Not sure if it's a virus or not though.

EDIT: Link was to a cracked version. Probably not a good idea to do that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on January 13, 2017, 10:39:14 am

It's all true, except for the suspicious circumstances and activist torture. The reason why I was tortured is because I forgot to turn off activism, after sneaking into Pyongyang. My wife was also killed in a total accident, but I like to pretend it was suicide, because my character was NOT nice man. After all, what nice man infiltrates a totalitarian government for money and nearly beats his wife to death?

The game is fun, but nowhere NEAR as complex as I just made it sound. Most of your games will result in you dying in some third world hellhole or live an unremarkable life. It's also very, very hard to find for a reasonable price, and has that weird, mid-2000s "simugame" feel, where the simulation aspects and the game aspects both aren't developed enough and wind up feeling very odd and more simplistic than they actually are.

Quote from: Iceblaster on January 13, 2017, 10:38:03 am

SNIBBEDI SNAB

Not sure if it's a virus or not though.

This is for the 2010 version if I'm not mistaken. It's not quite as good as the 2007 version, and its also glitchy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iceblaster on January 13, 2017, 10:41:36 am

Aaaah. Well, I mean. That link supposedly has a cracked version of the 2010 version. Honestly, probably should remove the link after this post. Not supposed to link to pirated material :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 13, 2017, 01:24:11 pm

I somehow killed a Sophit with two swings of my sword. Not sure how that happened.

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Hammerfight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 13, 2017, 03:01:04 pm

The first time you fought a Sophit was likely with a rock attached to a chain, one of the worst weapons in the game. In addition to that, the rock flail does bludgeoning damage which beasts are very resistant to.

Your sword was likely obtained later in the game. Not only does it make it a weapon that is orders on magnitude better than the rock flail, swords also do cutting damage which is super effective against beasts.

Hopefully that's enough of an explanation for how you managed to kill a sophit with two swings.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 13, 2017, 03:31:43 pm

I've fought Sophits with swords plenty of times, that's just the first time that a strike got quite that much damage for me.
And I chose the option that gives me a sword pretty early on in this playthrough, so I fought the first one with a sword too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 13, 2017, 03:40:04 pm

Oh, that's pretty impressive actually. Nice Job.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on January 13, 2017, 07:47:02 pm

MGSV... Every mission feels like an own, lol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 13, 2017, 10:21:13 pm

Proved that Patchouli is still by far the most powerful of the Scarlet Devil Mansion residents as far as pure unbridled firepower goes.

I gotta say, I very much like this game. No idea why Rumia got a candlestick, one wing and all grown up, but she has some nice night-themed spellcards that are beautiful to look at. Also no idea why Patchouli decided to beat up the maid and gatekeeper, incinerate a bunch of her own books and destroy Remilia's furniture. Speaking of which, Remilia actually gets an epic freaking boss fight in this game, instead of being a complete pushover. It was still fairly easy, but only because I'd built up such a ridiculous store of bombs/lives and she lost her bomb-immunity for her last spellcard. And her battle-chair is amazing. It might also be a skeletal dragon or something and its really satisfying watching the thing fall apart under my magical onslaght. 10.12/10, would vandalize again.

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Touhou ??: Fantastic Danmaku Festival

Related own: I finally got this game to work properly and at okay FPS, after like an hour of fiddling with various things

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on January 14, 2017, 06:36:44 pm

Started a game on Earth with all civilizations. Play as renamed Rome, on the same team as Rome, with several other teams based on geographic proximity of the historical civilizations. Towards the end of the medieval era all of the other teams and several of the other non-team civs and city states declare war on us simultaneously. Ive been rocking a heavy military to control Russia because they spawned nearby (Siberia, while I was on the coast just north of Korea) and were expanding aggressively. This was in the middle of a was with Russia, so I decide the best course of action is to completely eliminate her from the field and march my army over to Rome, which spawned in Ethiopia surrounded by all these other five that just declared war.

Curbstomped Russia, sent the remaining forces west through Siberia, encountered Siam just west of the Gobi Desert. Siam and China are on one team, and after starting this fight more reinforcements arrive, so I employ half of them to try and march south through the Himalayas to reach China, which spawned on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. Siam puts up almost no resistance, but China parks two cities in the middle of Pakistan/Afghanistan. By this point one of the other teams, the Iroquois and Aztecs, asked for peace, as well as India. I pile through the mountain pass and the troops overwhelm both of Chinas cities and continue south to beijing. Rome meanwhile continues holding off small groups of invaders with their military while building wonders. All the wonders. Stupid cunt. I sent him some cash, he spends it on a couple crossbowman armies. Regardless, he's still alive and with Siam out of the picture and Beijing halfway to dead, the one party giving up entirely after literally doing nothing, world war zero is about half over. And its only like 1200AD

I know I'm playing on a relatively low difficulty mode, but it still feels good to win.
Civ V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 16, 2017, 09:06:33 pm

Frank West leaves the Wilamette Parkview Mall as not only a zombie infectee but a murderer of around six thousand zombies and a little around a hundred special forces soldiers and their leader.

The weapons used for many of these murders were Frank's left and right hands and feet.

Being level 50 is rather fun.

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Dead Rising. The very first one, specifically.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 18, 2017, 02:03:24 am

Playing a ring game, basically a casual game in which players buy in for a minimum amount of chips (1k in this instance) and can play for as long as they want, leaving the table with however many chips they won or buying in again, if they have the chips to do so. Anyone looking for a game can join at any point if there's a spot open at the table.

I bust out pretty quickly, after about 10 hands or so, and buy back in.

Over the course of the next 30 hands I had a winning streak so good that I was the only player left at the table, and had to leave as a result, with a total of just under 9k in winnings.

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Prominence Poker

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 18, 2017, 09:47:28 pm

DESTROYED the Black Goddess of Fertility with what I have dubbed the "Team Scarlet Wrecking Ball". Chen was there too. I'm doing a semi-challenge run where I can only use people from EoSD and PCB. Sometimes this is ungodly inconvenient, like having Hexer Cirno as my only debuffer of any kind and Reimu as my only Mind-targeting SPI attacker. And sometimes having a front line full of people who can deal high consistent physical damage while taking hits like a boss is really useful. The Black Goddess of Fertility has high regen and some nasty attacks[Like reducing someone's HP to one automatically], but is vulnerable to a lot of elements. Basically everyone on my team could target at least one of them, even if just by basic attacking. I had Ran tune up everyone's attack/magic, Sakuya buff everyone's speed, Remilia become her usual overbuffed powerhouse and Patchouli ready a Grand Incantation. Then I slowed the Goddess to a crawl with Cirno and waited until she used her slowest attack. Then I unleashed my assault. Remilia and Sakuya rained down spears and knives while Hong rotated Chen and Flandre out from the back ranks. The Goddess got a turn while almost dead, regenerated to 1/3 life and killed Flandre and Sakuya while debuffing Hong into near-uselessness. Remilia and Chen were out of MP, leaving Alice, Marisa and Patchouli as my only attackers. Remilia swapped them in fairly quickly, thanks to her Ability to Sustain Freaking Huge Buffs and a Master Spark + Little Legion + Boosted Djinn Gust took out the remainder of the Goddess' health.

Success.

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Labyrinth of Touhou 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2017, 11:07:28 pm

4v4 match on Route N13, 2 British(including me) and 2 American teams against 2 Wehrmacht and 2 Panzer Elite.

A clusterfuck would be a good description of the entire battle. First off, several of the closest resource points require navigating a maze of hedgerows, making grabbing them harder than it should be. Gerry's opening move was to rush infantry and their unarmed scout cars(which can capture points) to grab territory far ahead of their supply lines, just to inconvenience the Allies. On the other hand, the Allies also pushed along the same attack routes, quickly driving off the Germans.

I figured the crossroads in the center of the map would be important, so I initially fortified it with a Vickers MG post, a mortar pit, and a slit trench(which the AI players kept putting 2-3 guys in at a time, preventing me from using it). As it turned out, I largely underestimated how correct I was to do that. In the meantime, I quickly unlocked Churchill tanks, which conveniently dealt with the issue of hedgerow mazes, vastly improving the time it took to move troops around.

As soon as I could, I sent out some sappers armed with PIATs, and added a 17 Pounder AT gun to my position near the crossroads, giving it fairly good sight lines. This was probably the best thing I did the entire battle. After some back and forth with the Germans over resource and victory points(mostly solved by the presence of a Churchill), one of the AI Allies deployed some LoS-clearing flares(not sure if it was a US artillery barrage or another ability), revealing a very, very large column of vehicles moving directly up the road to the crossroads. This began a long siege battle that lasted nearly the entire match.

My fortification of the crossroads worked, as armored car after armored car after eventually tanks charged towards the kill-zone only to by torn apart by the 17lber and a Churchill(eventually destroyed), while infantry was cut down by the Vickers nest and mortars. Infantry was brought up to support, with PIAT sappers adding to the AT carnage and a Bren MG squad and a Rifle-Grenade squad added to the infantry suppression. The other British player had deployed an HQ truck there, allowing me to reinforce squads right there instead of running back halfway across the map. The Germans were so intent on rushing the crossroads that it allowed me to sneak some units around to grab all the victory points, rapidly depleting their score.

Eventually, as the Germans were reduced to around 400 points(of 1000), the US players pushed up an armored convoy of their own. While other infantry squads were busy securing resource points(the AI was not doing this for some reason), I sent in a Crocodile Churchill and a sapper team to support, helping to break a King Tiger that was holding up the Americans. This wasn't enough, however, as even though the Americans damaged at least one of the German bases, the enemy was still cranking out tanks and starting to push back. They even learned to flank the crossroads, avoiding the fire area of the AT gun.

As the points were counting down, I rallied what troops I could, stopping the enemy from resecuring any victory points, and stopping an attack on one of my HQ trucks by blowing up a Panzer with a PIAT. Even so, it looked like there was no shortage of German armor, and a breakthrough looked imminent. Then the score counted down to zero, victory for the Allies.

Allied casualties: Infantry: British: 53(me)/61(AI)
                                       US: 124/191
                                       Total: 429
                       Vehicles*: British: 2(me)/4(AI)
                                       US: 8/3
                                       Total: 17

Axis casualties: Infantry: Wehrmacht: 109/116
                                     Panzer Elite: 76/86
                                     Total: 387
                       Vehicles: Wehrmach: 22/18
                                     Panzer Elite: 26/39
                                     Total: 105
*Includes motorcycles and the like.

So yeah, we lost more men, but destroyed many, many more vehicles.

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Company of Heroes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on January 21, 2017, 01:37:42 am

I took a job to track down an enemy planetary outpost and steal some data. After setting down I dismissed my ship and set towards the outpost in my buggy. As I approached, I decided to attack the outpost's defensive turrets, however that alerted a small fighter stationed nearby which scrambled to respond to my assault. With laser beams raining from above, I quickly hacked the data point and recalled my ship which landed a couple hundred meters from the outpost. As I raced full speed towards my Imperial Eagle ship, the fighter's lasers stripped my buggy's shields away. By the skin of my teeth I reached the ship and took cover under it, but the eagle's shields were soon failing themselves, being completely stripped away by the time the ship took off. I raced for the sky, hoping to escape the planet's gravitational lock while still under heavy fire... with just 40% hull left and modules taking damage, I finally got enough altitude to hyperjump away. Quite exciting.

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 Elite Dangerous

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 21, 2017, 02:55:21 pm

Turns out I'm actually pretty good at PvP in this game. Who knew? Admittedly, some of my success is with the generic Uchi or Gold Tracer type setup, but I've also picked up some wins with a +1 Dragonslayer Spear (not the easiest feat in a SL160 bracket). I should probably pick up some more demon titanite for that.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 21, 2017, 05:39:00 pm

That Mismagius I trained worked pretty well. Took her on a test run through a Battle Royal.

Me: Mismagius. To my right: Scrafty(with Intimidate). Across: Durant. To my left: Cofagrigus.

Turn 1: Durant uses Baton Pass and switches to Crobat, passing along the attack reduction. Mismagius hits Cofagrigus with Shadow Ball. Scrafty uses Dragon Dance. Cofagrigus hits Crobat with Shadow Ball.

Turn 2: I figure that rather than gang up on me, they'll try to killsteal Cofagrigus. I was right. Crobat knocks out Cofagrigus with Air Slash. Scrafty uses Rock Slide*, for roughly half damage on Mismagius, Crobat dodged it. Mismagius knocks out Crobat with Shadow Ball.

Turn 3: Heracross replaces Crobat. Ferrothorn replaces Cofagrigus. Heracross used Endure. Scrafty used Taunt on Mismagius. Mismagius hits Heracross with Shadow Ball(roughly 45% damage). Ferrothorn knocks out Mismagius with Payback.

Turn 4: Primarina replaces Mismagius. Scrafty uses Taunt on Primarina. Heracross uses Earthquake*, minimal damage on all. Primarina knocks out Heracross with Moonblast. Ferrothorn uses Gyro Ball on Scrafty.

Turn 5: Durant replaces Heracross. Scrafty knocks out Ferrothorn with High Jump Kick. Durant uses Dig, accelerated with a Power Herb, minimal damage on Primarina. Primarina knocks out Durant with Oceanic Operetta. Battle ends because the player across is out of Pokemon. I have the highest score.

*Moves that hit multiple targets have their power cut in half during Battle Royals.

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Pokemon Sun. Also got the furthest I've ever gotten in the Battle Tree Single Match... only to lose to an opening Gallade who one-shotted everybody. Technically two-shotted Mismagius since he used Swords Dance first. Probably should have used Master Spark Hyper Beam instead of Shadow Ball. The thing is, I actually switched Mismagius out at the start of every round before that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on January 21, 2017, 05:47:30 pm

So the enemy team had four titans and we had none, and on top of that it was a Bounty Hunt mission and there was a Bounty target. I jumped on one of the enemy Titan's and pulled the battery, which gave me the progress needed to call in my own. I hopped in, and finished off the same Titan, that was low on health already from some anti-Titan weapon fire from my teammates. I managed to down one more of the enemy Titans, but I was doomed. I dashed towards the others, and Nuclear-Ejected. The blast killed the enemy team's remaining Titans, giving me another one instantly. Mid-air, I called it in on top of the Bounty Target, killing it. My team was behind before this, now they were a good thousand in the lead.

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Titanfall 2. This was the first time I've ever done anything near this badass and I don't think I ever will again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on January 21, 2017, 07:30:04 pm

I...

What am I playing?

Spoiler: mlg.wad (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/ESdMwXW.png)

30 seconds and no more.

Maybe this should go into the other thread?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 22, 2017, 12:32:54 am

GAME OF THE YEAR: 420 BLAZE IT

Actual title.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 22, 2017, 12:52:01 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on January 21, 2017, 05:47:30 pm

This was the first time I've ever done anything near this badass and I don't think I ever will again.

Don't worry about that. If the sequel is anything like the first game then you'll have tons of badass moments.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gigalith on January 22, 2017, 01:28:24 pm

The last other player, a Druid, had an army literally over a thousand strong, the front consisting of over a screen or two of moose and great boars. I, playing a high priestess of Baal (or at this point, actually Baal), was planning a guerrilla war where I would use a Golden Wizard to slowly burn all the Druid's forests down. The force in question, consisting of about twenty to thirty humans, a few scorpions, about three to five mages of various sorts, and, of course, Baal, got a little too close. The doomstack spotted us.

The resulting battle was so epic that my computer would hang briefly at the beginning of every turn as hundreds of units tried to pathfind their way to the distant front. Despite the sheer number of pyrotechnics on my side, including Baal double-casting Rupture on some turns, the moose/boar horde wore away at my front line, eventually killing some of the mages. While a High Priestess could cast Terror, and Baal could quadrupole-cast Terror if he felt like it, earlier Rupture/Fireball/everything else casts had berserked the solid screens worth of normal boars--and terror was no longer effective. Eventually, the only survivor was Baal.

Who survived quite well. At this point I realized that the reason I had almost never seen him take damage before was because of intrinstic Blood Vengeance. Most attacks just went back to the attackers. Meanwhile, Baal's intrinsic Dread scared almost every melee opponent away. The result was a massacre, as the horde of other animals and finally humans were killed by Baal's spells and everything else. At last one Druid (the original, by the name) came and fought Baal in hand-to-hand. Turn 200 passed, and everyone starting starving--but Baal had over a hundred hitpoints more. Thus ended the Druid.

End result: Everyone except Baal died, and Baal now has over a thousand kills. (And a missing eye.)

Moral of the story: Baal is really, really powerful. Also, don't get in range of a doomstack.

EDIT:

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Conquest of Elysium 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on January 22, 2017, 01:52:36 pm

Seven Jumpers gave their lives to reach the Queen's nest. Armed with an E.U.V. Light, Healing Cloud grenades, and a slowly-regenerating Overshield, Cambria Dafont armed the nuke and then defended it for two minutes against the gigantic Queen and all her soldiers, then teleported out to safety just as it detonated, disrupting the Ordovician forces and reclaiming the colony planet Sotera.

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Hive Jump.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 23, 2017, 07:08:46 pm

For the first time since I started playing, I learned the joys of being a medic. Pulled in well over 150 certs from a single session between reviving and have a Sunderer parked near the enemy base in a massive fight. While we actually lost the attack, it held up the NC while other forces pushed forward, winning us an alert(we were fairly far behind when the alert started).

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on January 23, 2017, 07:14:02 pm

Apparently I am within the Steam User's top 7% for goal/shot% (Goal to shot ratio)

Rocket League

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 23, 2017, 07:16:44 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on January 23, 2017, 07:14:02 pm

Apparently I am within the Steam User's top 7% for goal/shot% (Goal to shot ratio)

Rocket League

I am in the top 5% of "best chair dancing while driving a motor vehicle" in that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on January 23, 2017, 07:37:15 pm

I cleared a hive with only one death, and Col. Mustard would have survived if I had thrown the healing grenade at my feet instead of toward the boss.

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Hive Jump.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 24, 2017, 06:45:45 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on January 23, 2017, 10:20:15 pm

If you're talking about Moira's quests, I think you end up doing them all if you keep following the quest chain.

Turns out there was a whole half a dungeon I forgot to check. Including a raider camp with tons of ammo and frag mines looted.

Also snuck into a mirelurk nest, and got credit for not killing any despite killing one in a previous visit.

And blew my leg and face off with a frag mine because that was also a quest objective.

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Fallout 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 24, 2017, 06:54:22 am

Spoiler: pro leet strats to Moira's injury quest (click to show/hide)

You don't even have to leave Megaton to get it done. Just jump off the balcony a few times; you'll be quite injured and more than likely have a broken leg. Limp back to Moira for reward!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on January 24, 2017, 03:25:26 pm

R.I.P Giga Bowser!

Super Smash Brothers Melee

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 24, 2017, 03:36:41 pm

Good sir, if you could just step into range so I might partake in the slapping of your shit, _{pardon the language} I believe your face has an appointment with Dr. Pyrotechnic Axe.

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Arcanum. I'm doing a good technodoctor run. I had a hilarious run in with a giant scary group of orcs who happily waste their turns getting into range so my party and I can destroy them using my fancy pyrotechnic axes. Magic can go get rooted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 25, 2017, 05:47:41 am

I've had pretty decent success running Alolan Ninetales as disruption, with Attract and Confuse Ray, plus holding a Red Card in case they do land a hit. She even managed to solo a Typhlosion she had no reason to survive against.

While I still can't get very far in the Battle Tree, at least it feels like I have a chance unless something like Houdoom or Gallade show up.

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Pokemon Sun. A shame I can't get Alolan Ninetales' hidden ability, Snow Warning, because otherwise Aurora Veil is useless and I should probably find a different move.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on January 25, 2017, 08:37:25 am

Just swept a team with Butterfree over wifi, I love these guys.

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Pokémon Moon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on January 26, 2017, 08:52:18 pm

featuring the most half assed sivir Q in existance (https://gfycat.com/HorribleAlertJabiru)

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League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on January 27, 2017, 12:43:15 am

I sadly needed to get values for the last part from my classmates, but found during testing for my write-up that their values were highly inefficient and my own answers arrived at the solution four times more efficiently. NEATO!

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Math 252, a community college with unusual math class formatting

Probably not within the normal bounds of this thread, but it sure feels like an *Own* from here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on January 27, 2017, 06:06:03 am

I took up the ancestral weapon of my people and used it to take down both the dark magician who was supposed to be preparing the way for a large pig demon, and the pig demon itself.

Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 27, 2017, 09:01:06 pm

Came up from the Metro system, and immediately came under a hail of bullets from around 8 Super Mutants. Immediately ducked back down, and let them come to me. Two-shot most of them with my recently-acquired and hastily-repaired Combat Shotgun. VATS was most helpful in blowing off Super Mutant heads. Managed to take down three that charged me at once, one of whom had a minigun.

The last two were far out of reach, so I ducked into the nearby museum of technology, significantly lower on health but plenty more .32 ammo since the tiny(for them) Hunting Rifle seems to be their favorite weapon.

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Fallout 3. Took me way too long to figure out how to repair weapons myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 29, 2017, 02:25:37 am

I've lost every ship I ever built in this game not from enemy guns but from crashing into something at near top speed.  One ship got into a scuffle with pirates in literally the same sector it started in, and crashed into an asteroid instantly destroying it.  That one literally took longer to salvage the wreckage than I got to actually captain it.

So in my most successful run yet I encounter what appears to be a boss fight.  Flying around at near top speed with a ship loaded to the brim with armor and autoturrets firing from almost every conceivable angle as I maneuver to get the front bolter cannons in range.  I look in the direction of travel and I'm heading full speed into one of the bosses adds.  No time to maneuver.  Brace for impact and...

Boom the beefy titanium front wedge of my heavily armored cruiser splits the thin low profile twiglike iron pirate ship clean in two. Instantly converting it to two pieces of wreckage.  My ship continues on full speed like nothing even happened.  My ship lost about 30% of it's hp in the impact, amounting for probably about 80% of all the damage I took over the whole fight, and one of the wedge pieces was broken off.  It seems the hull integrity field generator was worth the investment.

The boss and the rest of his pirate buddies fell soon after.

Avorion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 29, 2017, 03:54:48 pm

I bought Harvest Moon 3 on 3DS virtual console a little while ago, barely knowing anything about the game, and I've already gotten to the credits.

To elaborate, I went through the character creation screen, and was greeted by a guy who informed me that his friend had died, leaving his daughter to take care of his farm, except she didn't know anything about farming. He then pleaded me to help her with it, and gave a Yes / No prompt. I hit No as a joke repeatedly, figuring it would result in a "But Thou Must", but instead he just walked away called me an asshole, and left as the screen faded to black. The game briefly described the farm being closed down, then simply proclaimed "THE END" as the credits rolled while playing upbeat music. I count that as a victory.

Harvest Moon 3

That made me laugh way harder than it should have.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 29, 2017, 04:23:24 pm

I think that's a bit of a running gag in Harvest Moon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 29, 2017, 07:09:41 pm

It's in the first, and I'm pretty sure it's in A Wonderful Life. I don't remember if it was in HM64 though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on January 29, 2017, 07:11:46 pm

I swear it was in Friends of Mineral Town as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 29, 2017, 07:49:21 pm

I don't recall it in FoMT, but it was definitely in DS, too, and Mayor Thomas even comments he learned from being attacked in MFoMT (where you get to attack him with all the farm tools after he mocks you a bit too much, though I don't think it results in a game over there; your special game over comes right after if you tell him you don't want to run the farm) as well.  That's when you sic your dog on him, and if you refuse to help...he screams and the credits roll.  By the time of DS Cute, though, he's learned not to mock farmers to their face, so you don't get that option with him. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on January 29, 2017, 10:28:33 pm

Wandering through a random Farportal, trying to find randarts (and earn an achievement on a new difficulty), when suddenly I step on a trap that summons enemies. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/84842073833058211/527AE9C20F93B9096846CC678284F2358BD4F31A/) If you can't tell, that's two Red Wyrms and their entourages surrounding me, plus a Luminous and Radiant Horror. All of these have 100% Fire resistance, and the Horrors also heal for 50% of the Fire damage they'd sustain (before resistance). I'm a Wildfire Archmage, meaning the only real damage I deal is Fire-based (though at least I can penetrate some of my opponent's resistance) plus I'm rather fragile, especially when literally surrounded by Fire-resistant enemies to a depth of 3 deep.

A few turns later, here's the result (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/84842073833072444/21E4652D27CCAEA16A363F080A87784F9939E578/). The dragons collectively incinerated within four turns, thanks to a double Fireflash. The Horrors lasted slightly longer, but unfriendly fire from the Wyrms left them surprisingly well-crippled, and I was able to chip them down with various non-fire spells before another critical Fireflash dispatched each of them. All together, the entire fight took about 10 turns to wrap up, much faster than I'd expected, and I didn't even trigger Cauterize in the process thanks to excessive damage shielding.

Of course, then this happens three steps to the left. (http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/84842073833086378/97D661E4B0D50FB7D4841960F654E0CA5A447ED2/) Ah, Farportals, such fun, especially when they roll enemies resistant to your chosen element, and you have no trap detection whatsoever.  ::)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ToME4. Already have a lot of decent randarts, but there's an achievement for running 7 Farportals and this is my first-ever Nightmare/Adventurer character, so I'm doing some achievement farming and hoping for a better randart while I'm here. My crit rate is only 82%, clearly I need better loot!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on January 30, 2017, 09:25:00 pm

The plague was life, and I was the cure.

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Hitman, I went through almost all of Sapienza dressed as a plague doctor, mostly using a can of expired spaghetti sauce as my weapon. It may be unimpressive, but it was very fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on January 30, 2017, 10:00:58 pm

Made some delicious burnt cookies.

Trying to do the Great "C" at challenge level with a semi-challenge party. Said party consists of the cast of EoSD as well as Alice, Ran and Chen. Its a fairly strong group, due in no small part to Flandre and her absurd damage, but its one weak point is debuffing. The only debuff for all twelve characters is a Speed debuff from Cirno. To be fair, her Speed debuffs are ABSURD, but they're not enough on their own. Giving her the Hexer subclass somewhat helped, but the default Curse spells that the Hexer gets are somewhat weak and generally not reliable. For the Great "C" fight, strong aoe debuffs are very important, because there are five "C's. My team also lacked non-Paralysis statuses, but Toxicologist Marisa with Sheer Force works just as well as most dedicated status inflicter.

The Great "C" fight is a slog. It has five "C"s which are all capable of strong attacks, most notably one which reduces your hp to 1 and another that deals weak damage through defenses. Combining those two is basically a guaranteed kill, even on absurdly tanky Remilia. The Great "C", moreover, is strong against Fire, Dark and Mystic, which many of my best attacks correspond to. Each "C" has 2-3 million health and they all must be killed at the same time or you basically have to restart. The Great "C" fight is heavily based on luck. Will Cirno's Perfect Freeze do literally nothing or halve the speed of all enemies? Will the "C"s waste their turns with pathetically useless attacks that can't scratch my squishiest non-Flandre members or kill everyone with defense-ignoring attacks? Will Sakuya accidentally Extra Attack the middle "C" to death prematurely and cause it to resurrect with full health? In general, my strategy boiled down to the following:

-Have Hong and Remilia welded to the front line and tanking at all times
-Keep their Speed debuffed with Cirno/Alice and our defenses topped up with Ran
-Poison them with Marisa or Sakuya, since Poison damage is always non-lethal
-Abuse Chen's Instant Attack switch thing to keep everyone moving real swift
-Near the end, use Patchouli/Flandre to wipe out all the "C"s at once

Of course, the "C"s rarely cooperate with that plan for long, because of their numbers and erratic deadliness. Hopefully Reimu/Rumia/Ran and Hong can heal enough damage to keep up with their potentially staggering output while the Poison ticks down their delicious doughy health. Of course, once a "C" has dropped to a single hit point through Poison, even one point of damage from Cirno/Marisa's status effect attacks will kill it and necessitate a restart. If any of the critical characters die to a 1 hp -> defense piercing combo, restart.

The first tricky part, on the try where I finally beat them, came when Marisa bit the dust ahead of schedule. Without her, I had only Sakuya's much weaker Poison effect and Alice's Little Legion for reliable damage. Somehow, though, things just kept working. Sakuya gently tapped each "C" until the brink of death, with Remilia lending an occasional Spear the Gungnir when it seemed safe. Supporting party members fell one after another as I whittled down the "C"s' heealth, until I only had half of my original team, with two of them[Patchouli and Flandre] being fragile enough that they'd most likely die to one shot. Eventually, I could safely cookie tap no further: I needed burst damage. During a momentary gap in the "C"s' bombard, I moved Patchouli in to ready a Grand Incantation. She almost immediately took a physical Shadowstep attack to the face, leaving her on the brink of death. Still, she manged to Concentrate and obtain the 140% damage boost. Next came Flandre, who was even more fragile then Patchouli. Thankfully, the "C"s ignored the new arrivals, preferring to pelt Remilia and Reimu instead. Herbalist Reimu gave Flandre a Herb of Awakening for a 36% boost and I held my breath as my final turn approached, one way or another. Patchouli's damnable slowness almost cost me, as one of the "C"s got a turn RIGHT before hers came up. It wasted that turn scratching Patchouli's impressive magical defenses and paid for its failure to eliminate her with an empowered Sattelite Himewari to the face. But I'd miscalculated: Two "C"s still remained, more then enough to resurrect their fallen comrades and force a reset. Flandre's turn came up next and she went wild with a Lavatein. Due to the "C"s high Fire resistance, her normally potent ultimate move did perhaps a third of its normal damage.

It was still enough. I watched gleefully as the last of the cookies that had tormented me for so long burned to a crisp beneath the scorching divine flame.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Labyrinth 2

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMONMONMONMONMOMNOMN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gabeux on January 31, 2017, 12:36:09 am

Killed final boss and its most of its minions while being underpowered (two tiers below the 'recommended' and with much lower firepower than what seems to be expected).
Probably took me over an hour to kill the boss alone, I even took break to take a shower as my shields regenerated and a few factions killed each other (you can't pause the game).
It was probably the most stupid way I've ever decided to finish a game..well, as long as we forget I decided to finish No Man's Sky no matter what and did it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Avorion (http://store.steampowered.com/app/445220/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 01, 2017, 09:34:02 am

I stormed the Hotel Paradiso with the Blackburn FAF and the Stromer .223, destroying the last of the Marcano crime family in a hail of gunfire. I only used three grenades and two adrenaline shots too. Normally, I sneak into the targets and systematically dismantle the guards with sneak attacks, blade and silenced Masterson my favorites, with the Screaming Zemi + wait a while + throw a frag when they gather up tactic as a close second, but I just walked right in the front fucking door and started blowing greaseballs away.

Took about five minutes, and I felt like a goddamn badass.

Mafia III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on February 03, 2017, 09:36:28 pm

I won Legend of Zelda I. The first quest anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on February 05, 2017, 07:40:58 pm

Finished Dark Souls III finally, but my major own was against the twin princes. I was having a devil of a time getting through the second half of the fight. My roll, poke, and occasionally rolling powerslam did a fine job against the first stage, but I kept getting coldcocked in the second half. Died more times than I'm comfortable saying. Got up, got a drink, sat down, put some very incongruous music on, and tried again.

I Didn't look at his health bar at all during the fight I just moved along to the rhythm and took hits where could. I have no idea how long I took, I just know I was rather surprised when the two of them stopped moving, and I still had more than half my estus left.

DSIII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 06, 2017, 12:53:25 am

Standard for anyone who does the missions & main money-making method, but...

Spoiler: Repetition and spacing make for a long post. (click to show/hide)

Drove a leaking fuel tanker into a gambling den that was at a construction site.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Defended a warehouse with large trucks outside from some angry Spanish gangsters, then chased a chopper.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Raided the place where the chopper landed. Multiple times.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Pissed off a bunch of Korean gangsters, allowing my buddy to plant a bug with no problems at all.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Saved said buddy from a man with a minigun.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Escaped the coast guard with a faulty boat.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Defended a rich moron who couldn't swim from a bunch of armed Spanish gangsters in speedboats.

Dealt lots of drugs.

Set a bunch of building supplies and Irish gangsters on fire.

Dealt lots of drugs.

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

For some reason I think this game might actually be a little easier than some of the 3d versions, courtesy of auto-aim and the like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 06, 2017, 05:36:15 pm

Won as the Warriors of Chaos on very hard with Archaon as the LL. I could've actually won before Sarthorael spawned, but Empire revived from a rebellion in VC territory.

With that, I've completed on vh them, the beastmen, and the beastmen minicampaign.

Total War: Warhammer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 06, 2017, 07:32:36 pm

I completed Open Season is the most bellicose and violently insane manner possible. 

I walked into the Pack Leader's section and blasted him in the face with my megabat about five times, and he died. Then I took ALL the drugs and took about five minutes annihilating the remaining Pack gangers in the area with a combination of my bat and Plasma Grenades. Then I entered the main area of Nuka-Town USA and used my Plasma Sniper rifle to obliterate the gangers there, including Shank and the female Operator boss. It took about fifteen minutes, and my left arm and right leg were damaged into the red. I popped into the Parlor and dropped all five of my Nuka-Grenades and easily wiped out William and his seven or so backups.

I soldiered on toward Fizztop Mountain, using a combination of my Plasma rifle and my awe-inspiring array of melee skills to defeat the resistance around the big pond. It's pretty awesome to run into a pack of four high level raiders, knock them all fifteen feet in the air and twenty feet away, then splatter their skulls across the cobblestone with a single swipe. All four, all at once.

Anyway, I entered Fizztop to face down Nisha, the final leader. Owing to the natural design of the chamber within and my rather slow speed, I took a LOT of damage. They completely destroy my arm and leg armor, brought my torso to red, and damaged my helmet pretty bad. Oh, they did my health in damage about six times over, but I had 86 stimpacks. They brought me down to like 75~ as I rampaged on the lowest level, blasting people off their feet and altering their bodily composition with gusto.

Then I ran up the stairs, killed two Raiders at a corner, and got to the second to the top level, at the corner.

Six raiders, two named high-level raiders, and Nisha greeted me with a hail of gunfire and flashing steel. I greeted them with EVEN MORE DRUGS and the vicious swipe of my bat.

At the end, I cast down the cruel slavers of Nuka-Town USA and freed the Traders that once owned the place.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 06, 2017, 08:20:08 pm

Started playing it, since the previous game and the open-source clone I've found of the previous game were nigh-impossible to actually succeed at due to bugs and bullshit. Even the tutorial scenarios are still fairly difficult, and the game still has some bullshittery. This particular tutorial mission, the briefing only says I need 1000 people and 75 favor with Rome. After I built up most of the city and running really low on denarii, I look at the ratings advisor and notice that I also need culture and prosperity(entertainment and happy orgy monkeys patricians). Also wasn't making back wages to the plebs and equites through taxes and trade(doesn't help that I didn't place and patrician villas).

Despite that, and a later demand from Rome for the only thing I could trade(pottery), I managed to pull through. Seeing as I had a large number of unemployed plebs, I discovered a good ratio of 2:3 clay camps to potteries(and that you can in fact put two clay camps on one resource), and started pump out pottery. Meeting Rome's demand before the lack of pottery to both trade and residents caused serious harm pushed my favor over the required amount. The output of pottery was also traded for much-needed money, allowing me to place an actor guild and theatre(culture), and to widen my water coverage to place patrician villas(with the theatre's effect, they evolved for prosperity). All that was left was to place a couple of insulae to finish the mission.

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Caesar IV.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 06, 2017, 09:35:30 pm

I love the Caesar games, but holy shit are they broken sometimes. Impressions/Sierra/Vivendi made some hypothetically great niche games that were just rife with areas of poor execution and obvious "hustle to ship" issues. I want to love them, I really do, but sometimes the glaring issues are just too much to overcome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 06, 2017, 09:58:25 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on February 06, 2017, 09:35:30 pm

I love the Caesar games, but holy shit are they broken sometimes. Impressions/Sierra/Vivendi made some hypothetically great niche games that were just rife with areas of poor execution and obvious "hustle to ship" issues. I want to love them, I really do, but sometimes the glaring issues are just too much to overcome.

PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED x503

Don't know if it still does this. Caesar 2 did this. It did it a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on February 06, 2017, 11:59:15 pm

Finally made my players play football that looks beautiful.

FM16

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on February 07, 2017, 08:56:43 am

2 Swarm(self-made) AI+recharger+self-spawned EMP swarms(AI-controlled)=Win+I feel so wrong, yet it's funny. One whiny "stop having fun" guy is screaming at their teammates telling how to defeat the AI(and he said that he better have another AI than those guys). Even me who was offering to show a ship to defeat the AI didn't get heard and... squished again and again with the AI.

Spoiler: Worthy quotes.(WARNING: IMAGE SPAM) (click to show/hide)

I forgot to take a picture when the game is still on, so....
(https://i.gyazo.com/9ec3e2806e438d01cdd742e6108c50c2.png)
(https://i.gyazo.com/a054b6b831d871efc812217e7fc2114f.png)
(https://i.gyazo.com/fd11f3f2928b05d960355d84614af0e8.png)

Spoiler: Game name+footnote (click to show/hide)

Istrolid.
Seriously, a wake-up call AI isn't too bad. Especially when you need teamwork to defeat it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulufaic on February 08, 2017, 12:22:25 am

The entire cutscene leading up to this fight was basically telling me to run, and even the battle objectives included winning by ringing the LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN out (something that happens very often in battles in this game and has tactical uses to boot!) if I wasn't strong enough to beat the LEGNEDNARY SUPER SAIYAN. Turns out I was just a little bit overleveled and completely destroyed the legendary etc. etc.


Dragon Ball Fusions

(not sure if i should spoiler this but i mean its a dbz game if it didn't have this guy in it then i'd be surprised)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 08, 2017, 12:45:38 am

of course its gonna have goku in it


ssssshhh

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 08, 2017, 03:36:23 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 06, 2017, 09:58:25 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on February 06, 2017, 09:35:30 pm

I love the Caesar games, but holy shit are they broken sometimes. Impressions/Sierra/Vivendi made some hypothetically great niche games that were just rife with areas of poor execution and obvious "hustle to ship" issues. I want to love them, I really do, but sometimes the glaring issues are just too much to overcome.

PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED
PLEBS ARE NEEDED x503

Don't know if it still does this. Caesar 2 did this. It did it a lot.

3 was just as bad, but 4 wasn't so bad about needing to manually assign plebs to every little thing. The military was a joke, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on February 08, 2017, 08:26:28 am

Solo victory over 3 opponents when the rest of my team bailed in a conquest match!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GearUp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 08, 2017, 08:47:48 am

If Director Krennic was this badass, the rebellion would have gotten rekt. 10 match win streak. Noone expects the Imperial Heavy Gunners.

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Star Wars Force Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ein on February 08, 2017, 03:21:44 pm

Spoiler: absolutely rattled (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/7IwR3gf.jpg)

tried my hand at making a skull servants deck in yugioh, to mostly positive results. friend is running a dumb meme deck tho, which my deck just happens to have all the tools to counter, but i have a decent winrate against the ai decks, most of which are pretty accurate representations of powerful meta decks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 08, 2017, 03:24:01 pm

YGOPro makes me upset because it computes everything without waiting for you, which means I have no idea what the enemy's cards do (since they appear for about a second before disappearing).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ein on February 08, 2017, 03:28:36 pm

well it is ygo PRO

there's the implication that you already have an at least basic idea of what most of the (actually used in actual decks) cards do

and if not, that's what replays are for, eh

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 08, 2017, 05:41:08 pm

I could have sworn that the official rules require that not happen. Card chains certainly require a player be asked by the other player if they're done chaining card effects before resolving the chain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on February 08, 2017, 05:57:10 pm

So far have successfully summoned six 5-star units, two of which are part of an event.

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Fire Emblem:Heroes

lyn is best waifu

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 08, 2017, 08:17:36 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on February 08, 2017, 05:57:10 pm

So far have successfully summoned six 5-star units, two of which are part of an event.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem:Heroes

lyn is best waifu

go to HELL D:

I typically get mostly 3-stars, along with one or two 4-stars for flavor. One time I got nothing but 3-stars and one of them was a duplicate.
Still, 5-star Lyn is best unit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 09, 2017, 01:40:42 am

With Chaos invading from the north and Karl distracted by a bunch of legendary quests that he probably should've done 40 turns ago, I failed to notice my allies to the south, Averland in particular, being overrun by the Border Princes. At the last moment, I saw them... with two provinces conquered and Averland's capital under siege by a 20-stack plus 5, with the defending armies reduced to three men (some combination of lords and heroes) plus the castle garrison. With my lord moving from undead hordes to orcish raids, and my secondary army headed to the front lines of the Chaos invasion, it fell to my third and final army, which had spent the last 20 or so turns sleeping in Helmgard to ward off the Wood Elven menace, to sweep in and save the day.

They started by reconquering one of the provinces in a lightning raid... but that did not deter the sieging army. And so I rode to battle, assaulting the Border Princes from behind. Their army was a 20-stack, with a heavy focus on Outriders and a single mortar, but a complete lack of melee cavalry, plus a small reinforcing group of infantry. My army was also a 20-stack, with multiple artillery units and two Demigryph Knights plus a mix of ranged and melee infantry, reinforced by one army containing exactly three men and a handful of expendable castle garrison units. The auto-resolver gave us 40-60 odds of winning the battle.

I deployed my forces in three groups. My own Outriders and Pistoliers were sent to handle the incoming reinforcements. My archers and infantry were hidden in the woods in the middle of our deployment zone. And my cavalry and artillery set up down the road, in a spot with the clearest possible line of sight while also staying out of range of my opponent's singular mortar.

The fight went... basically perfectly. My Pistoliers took exactly one hit from a mortar shell before it repositioned, and otherwise they annihilated three melee infantry, one crossbow, and one melee Lord without so much as a scratch. My artillery carved through their forces on the approach, and my archers caught their flank perfectly, gunning down the incoming Outriders and Handgunners one-by-one before they could pivot and unload properly. Then my allies took the field, and the enemy abandoned their charge against my artillery to reverse course and attack the reinforcements, providing me a wealth of time to bombard them, while also causing them to expose their backs to my Demigryphs who tore through them like a hot beak through butter. The enemy routed before my melee infantry could even join the battle.

When the fight ended, I had suffered seven casualties, out of a force of over 1000 men, and we'd killed over 700 of the ~1200 opposing forces. Sure, the garrison forces suffered fairly heavy losses from being dogpiled by the entire enemy force, but garrisons replenish quickly and I care less for AI losses. And dare I repeat: seven men on my side gave their lives, in exchange for hundreds of opponents, in a decisive victory that saved my ally (and trading partner) Averland from certain destruction. My only regret was that my ranged cavalry ran out of ammo, limiting my ability to run down the last survivors!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Total War: Warhammer, saving the day as the Empire. Sadly I can't give back the provinces the Princes took, so I'll either have to 'convince' the AI to invade it themselves, or just suck it up and confederate them already.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 09, 2017, 02:32:53 pm

My shark buddy commited suicide so it was just me vs 4 divers.  Both teams out of tickets, but I'm just one shark vs a whole team of heavily armed divers,  Fortunately they are in open water trying to escort their treasure robot back to safety.

So I turn on shark norris mode.  I stealth up using my tiger shark's adaptive hide skill and smack their robot once.  Then after a bit come around again.  They are too grouped up for me to make a good hit on any of them. Sure I could grab and go, but I'd take a lot of damage doing it, and at least one of them have poison rounds. Then I hear them lay some mines.

I don't have minesweeper but in open water the mines are easy to see without it.  They placed them poorly.  So I stealth up again and take a lunge straight into the pack of divers, grabbing one on my way through and taking off.  Then the glorious boom, boom, boom.  I missed the mines, but I was still close enough to trigger them and I'm moving too quickly for them to get me.  The slow divers however got blown to kibble. So in 1 lunge I ate 1 diver and blew up 2 more.   After that it was 1v1.  A situation like survivors vs infected in left for dead, the shark wins.

Depth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2017, 03:09:42 pm

Worked up enough courage to go from Floor 50 to Floor 100.

Even managed to

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

not get horribly mauled by Specimen 2. Even after being chased a second time starting on Floor 96.

The only thing that really got to me was

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Specimen 1(in the form of happy toast) popping out of a wall. Seriously doubt that thing only has 4 kills to its name.

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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion. It's funny, being chased by the monster is actually not that bad. Goddamn cardboard kawaii jumping out of the wall, though, seriously screw that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 09, 2017, 04:42:40 pm

Spoiler: Akura (click to show/hide)

Just wait for Specimen 5 and 6. I haven't been able to progress further than those because they creep me out too much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 09, 2017, 06:03:51 pm

Beat the game.

I feel bad for Huang, to be honest. His new status (as living character at the end of a GTA game, for starters) apparently means nothing even when he's the protagonist. I wonder if they'll ever get back to his story, or Liberty City for that matter.

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on February 10, 2017, 12:25:28 am

SNIP, REWRITE IN A BETTER WAY

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 10, 2017, 02:45:34 am

The forces of Chaos have been scattered, in ways I could never have predicted. To summarize:

• I opened by attempting to assassinate Archaon the Everchosen with my best assassin. Amusingly, I had a 41% chance of success thanks to stacked followers, which is hilarious when you realize that Archaon is supposed to be the game's final boss, to be met on the battlefield where he's an overpowered monstrosity, not assassinated by a (skilled) Empire Captain while surrounded by his army. Alas, my captain not only failed, but he managed to injure himself in the process... which I guess is a logical outcome when you're attempting to assassinate the chosen leader of the combined Chaos forces, but still, the numbers were on my side!
• Evidently enraged by my attempted assault, Archaon charged into battle. I'm not sure if he thought he could beat my two armies, or if there was a gap between them that Archaon thought he could get through. Unluckily for him, that 'gap' was actually Emperor Karl Franz hiding in ambush between two armies that would act as reinforcements. And good old Archaon opted to bring an army with three Hellcannons, two Chaos Chariots, a ton of melee infantry, and nothing else, meaning I could easily surround and obliterate his artillery thanks to the ambush position, then blast his infantry apart with my own artillery. I cleaned house before my reinforcements even arrived, with Franz and his heroes slaying Archaon in personal combat.
• Apparently inspired by my success, one of my allies decided that he was a match for the other 20-stack Chaos army, this one led by a Lord of Change. His force was hilariously inept at this task, but lucky for him I had two of my armies in reinforcement range... though one of those was Karl's army, still somewhat battered from slaying Archaon moments earlier. I found myself in the rather strange situation of having no units available until after deployment, meaning my forces had to rush across the map to join the battle, and thus I had a horribly-scattered setup with minimal and delayed artillery support. Despite his wounds, Karl was able to mop up two Chaos Giants and two Lords with minimal support, not to mention locking down the critical Hellcannon before it could assault my approaching troops. Sadly, one of my own lords was slain in the battle, mere moments before the foe responsible shattered and fled the battlefield. Rest in peace, son of Sigmar, and be assured that Emperor Franz himself personally saw to the demise of your murderer. Plus, my AI ally was nice enough to soak up most of the casualties despite my frantic positioning, meaning I lost only a few hundred men in the battle.

And so, in one turn, I broke the back of the Chaos army, and I did it all without having to order an attack myself. Now I just have to clean up the remaining Chaos forces, and the campaign will be an easy win!

Spoiler: EDIT to avoid meteors sent by the post below me (click to show/hide)

Total War: Warhammer. Good guess!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on February 10, 2017, 02:48:14 am

Total Warhammer?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 10, 2017, 08:47:09 am

It took long adventures but finally everything came to a conclusion.

Mister level 27 wizard of massive powerful destruction of pure total carnage finally kicked the last boss that was standing between him and victorious deserved glory.

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Neverwinter Nights

(http://i.imgur.com/m2W03ih.jpg)

Mr silly strong wizard wanted to rest to refill his spells and bombard the corpse with more Isaac's greater missile storm just for fun, too bad the game didn't let him and decided to end instead

last boss sorry corpse pixelized for spoiler reason in case someone is still not finished with Hordes of the Underdark and clicked on that spoiler without knowing it was about the game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on February 10, 2017, 08:43:08 pm

I killed the Nameless King with four estus left and Harry Bellafonte's banana boat song playing, despite having been cold cocked at him for a week.

I'm now out of things to kill.

I am sad.

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DSIII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 10, 2017, 08:47:51 pm

There are at least 15 NPCs in Dark Souls 3 that you can kill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 11, 2017, 11:14:04 am

Quote from: Robsoie on February 10, 2017, 08:47:09 am

It took long adventures but finally everything came to a conclusion.

Mister level 27 wizard of massive powerful destruction of pure total carnage finally kicked the last boss that was standing between him and victorious deserved glory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Neverwinter Nights

(http://i.imgur.com/m2W03ih.jpg)

Mr silly strong wizard wanted to rest to refill his spells and bombard the corpse with more Isaac's greater missile storm just for fun, too bad the game didn't let him and decided to end instead

last boss sorry corpse pixelized for spoiler reason in case someone is still not finished with Hordes of the Underdark and clicked on that spoiler without knowing it was about the game

That doesn't look like a boss. At least not the traditional definition thereof.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 11, 2017, 11:37:11 am

Maybe because it's pixelated and in the angle of vision the character is very close to the camera making the thing in the back small, but it's truly final boss material in a lot of ways, traditional and all.

Spoiler: mega spoiler warning (click to show/hide)

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Mephistopheles

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the fun stuff is that there are several ways to deal with big bad, the one i used is rather hilarious, though making sense in a DnD context, and require truckload and truckload of money to acquire that special thing needed and you'll have to know that in advance in order to have sold nearly everything you have in the last shop available before the place you get that special thing to not miss it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 03:39:05 am

Died just short of 200 million points, at Youmu Konpaku (the real deal, not midboss). Although I didn't make it to the end, it's the farthest I've ever gotten in a Touhou game without continuing and blows all of my previous runs out of the water. I didn't even have a single death until the Prismriver Sisters, and I only died once or twice to them when they're usually my biggest problem. Fun fact: which spell card they use second depends on which one of them you damage more. I ended up getting a much easier spell card than normal.

I think I've finally learned to see both the big picture and my character's immediate surroundings, as some spell cards and waves that gave me a lot of trouble seemed to have some really obvious gaps that I never noticed. I was missing the forest for the trees, trying to dodge through really thick clouds without looking for an easier route.

I see bullet patterns when I close my eyes now.

TH07: Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 12, 2017, 12:09:27 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 03:39:05 am

Although I didn't make it to the end, it's the farthest I've ever gotten in a Touhou game without continuing and blows all of my previous runs out of the water.

For me at least, this is the only way I make progress. I'll spend days not getting past Stage 4 or 5 and then have a run that lasts till the final boss' last spellcard.

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 03:39:05 am

Fun fact: which spell card they use second depends on which one of them you damage more. I ended up getting a much easier spell card than normal.

I've beaten this game and I never knew that. I thought that it depended on which character you were.

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 03:39:05 am

I see bullet patterns when I close my eyes now.

This means you've become one with the bullets. Rejoice.

_{Although sometimes that union does make it hard to sleep}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 12, 2017, 02:40:24 pm

Playing Denmark vs England, as Denmark.

Initial buildup went well, and kept more pikemen ready than the English could. The only offensive action they tried was sending a block of 36 pikemen near my town, but kept running away when they ran into my formation of twice that. Produced and upgraded some musketeers, dragoons, and cannons, and used hit-and-run tactics with the dragoons to lure the (by then) hundred or so England pikemen into a killzone for the cannons and musketeers.

Continued a push forward along the map using the dragoons to whittle whatever army the English could manage. As I got a full-size company of 18th-century musketeers to the front, I also captured some English cannons and started bombing their mines with them. Pushed into their town, mowing down any inhabitants and defenders under a hail of musket fire, and captured a Town Center intact. Much of the destruction of their town was caused by them using scorched-earth tactics to deny building capture, or hit by their own cannons as they tried to fight me off. This crippled them, and when I made a final sweep of the town for any survivors, I was declared the victor. All in all, I lost at most around 60-70 men(including two officers because those guys are idiots), they lost around 350 soldiers and 150 peasants.

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Cossacks 3.

Quote from: Arcvasti on February 12, 2017, 12:09:27 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 03:39:05 am

Fun fact: which spell card they use second depends on which one of them you damage more. I ended up getting a much easier spell card than normal.

I've beaten this game and I never knew that. I thought that it depended on which character you were.

I've always thought this too. And the only thing I saw on the Touhou wiki was that there's actually four Prismriver sisters, but one does not appear in any game or have any official artwork.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on February 12, 2017, 04:03:31 pm

Wasn't so much my own as it was mechanics conspiring in my favor but hey, it's funny.

When heading for Aldrich there's that big brass door you can open to save yourself some time and when you approach it from the inside that giant spider freak drops down to ambush you. You can open it without triggering the ambush tho and that's what I did, then I approached it from the outside in order to trigger it and lure it outside where there's a bit more room and a bit less hostile turd monsters to stagger you at the worst possible moment. It sees me and drops from the ceiling to attack, except it doesn't to it's usual attack drop but a regular drop. You know, one that procs fall damage, and it hits the ground and dies instantly leaving me fully geard for a fight and slightly puzzled at the lack of any :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 12, 2017, 06:10:58 pm

Decided to replay PCB to test the Prismriver thing. No lives lost before their boss fight, which is quite impressive, since PCB Stage 4 is surpassed only by MoF and IN in annoyingness. I did end up using up half of my bombs and a bunch of cherry borders, but I got there. And then remembered why I HATE the Prismrivers:

Their first attack[Not even a spellcard] has curvy lasers. I used up two bombs on that stupid thing. Then I went and harassed the violin Sister, since I had vague memories of the trumpet one's spell card being nigh-impossible. I still bombed through the stringy spellcard, but in retrospect, I don't think I really needed to. The final couple prism attacks, despite being their easiest ones, inflicted death upon me for the first time while they were exploding.

Stage 5 started off nicely, up until Youmu showed up. Then I promptly ran into her non-spell and had to bomb through her slashity thing, even though I remembered that it was one of her least deadly ones. Rest of the stage was no problem, but Youmu was another matter. I died to her non-spell[The same one as before, even] and mostly just took knives to a sword fight for her spell cards. Wasn't perfect, but got the job done. Stage 6 Youmu killed me again, with the EXACT SAME ATTACK that had killed me twice before. The worst part is that I remembered being really good at it back when I was trying to beat this game. Had to bomb her last spellcard, but still broke even because of the bomb she drops.

And then on to Yuyuko. I got a terrible start, dying THREE times to her very first attack. After that, things got a bit better. My baseline for her attacks, spell card or not, was one bomb. This was still sustainable because I would often die before using all four bombs and get a refill. Her only attack that I dodged perfectly was her final non-spell, which is so pathetic that I could have timed it out without focusing. Her last few attacks weren't too bad. The annoying one that boxes you in the corner got reset with a knife bomb and was then easy. Her flower chaos attack thingy I did quite well on, only bombing once. And then her Butterfly Suplex was basically a free win since I had two lives[And thus 8 bombs] left. All in all, I finished with one life and two bombs, much better then the skin-of-my-teeth victory I'd had previously.

---

Honestly, I'd forgotten just how broken SakuyaA is. She gets four medium strength bombs and shots that can either sweep the screen clear of stage enemies or all home in on a boss while having fairly balanced speed. I'd say she's easily the most powerful shot type in the series and, once bombs/specials are factoured in, the third best overall character. Still can't approach the Border Team from IN[Homing strong shots, strong bombs guaranteed to be deathbombs] or Marisa/Nitori from SA[Solid forward shots, incredibly safe bombs that are never wasted], but she still eclipses the rest of the PCB cast.

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Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 12, 2017, 06:26:17 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on February 12, 2017, 06:10:58 pm

Decided to replay PCB to test the Prismriver thing. No lives lost before their boss fight, which is quite impressive, since PCB Stage 4 is surpassed only by MoF and IN in annoyingness.

What I've found helps throughout most of stage 4 is picking a side and sticking to it, trying to stay out of the middle. The fairies nearish to the beginning (the ones that shoot green and yellow ankh patterns that aim at you) are a good example; staying in the middle sucks but just focusing on clearing one side before they can shoot makes life a lot easier. It also works with the fairies near the end that come down the left and right edges of the screen and shoot kinda star-shaped patterns; staying on one side will let you take out those ones before they can shoot while giving you enough room to semi-comfortably dodge the bullets from the other side. Just don't let them walk you up to the top of the screen or you're fucked.

What really pisses me off about PCB stage 4 is Lily White. I hate that she teleports, I hate that she takes so little damage from bombs (immune while teleporting), and I especially hate having to chase her around the screen because I play Marisa-B almost always.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 13, 2017, 01:55:24 am

I'd forgotten how fun and generally horrifying flip spear is. I just kind of stopped losing duels when I switched to it.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 13, 2017, 12:20:41 pm

Finally got around to finishing the Season of Revelation campaign on Very Hard. The final battle, the Silver Spire, was a bit hectic as it was hard to pin down Morghur when his shield went down.

Total War: Warhammer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on February 13, 2017, 12:44:03 pm

I beat Darkest Dungeon! Strict settings, too.

Slightly annoyed that there was a big update right before I reached the end of the game... Would've liked to finish it without the mechanics changing right before the end, but I guess it doesn't really matter.

...Also slightly annoyed I didn't get the achievement for keeping Reynauld and Dismas alive. I took care of them for the whole game for just that reason, but didn't realize you actually had to bring them along to the final mission to get it. Missed my chance, now.

Still. Good game, very fun. I was expecting it to be harder and less forgiving than it actually was.

Now to never touch Stygian mode because I want to part with this game on good terms. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 14, 2017, 06:52:47 pm

Not much of an own, but got a killsteal on an enemy Liberator under heavy AA fire, with just one bullet from my Archer rifle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. The Archer is terrible against ground vehicles(except maybe Harasser), but it's pretty nifty if you can hit aircraft with it. It's basically good for killstealing as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2017, 08:21:53 pm

In Caesar 3, I survived by essentially declaring independence from Rome until I could win.

If you piss the emperor off enough he will send legions to forcibly remove you from power. I goofed up my city planning bad enough that I entered that perpetual-economic-spiral-of-failure that happens in sim-city style games when you do really badly. The emperor got mad because I could pay no tribute and fulfill none of his requests for resources and my response was "come and get some."

I fought him off handily, practically rebuilt my city from the ground up, and then once I had a positive economy again I sent him a giraffe as an apology. Now we are bros again, and I send him fruit fertilized with the blood of his loyal legions when he asks me for it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 15, 2017, 05:31:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 14, 2017, 06:52:47 pm

Not much of an own, but got a killsteal on an enemy Liberator under heavy AA fire, with just one bullet from my Archer rifle.

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Planetside 2. The Archer is terrible against ground vehicles(except maybe Harasser), but it's pretty nifty if you can hit aircraft with it. It's basically good for killstealing as well.

Ah I love the archer.  It's funny seeing an enemy tank just driving along somewhere minding it's own business then *plink* and the tank stops dead like 'WTF was that."  Even though it's incapable of doing any real damage to...basically anything but a guy in powered armor or a fighterjet.

Yes I know I should be using it as intended, but it's so amusing running around carrying a gun with a vehicle damagetype.  Even if it does a fraction of the damage most things in that damagetype do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 15, 2017, 06:00:55 pm

Same here. I'm still using despite carrying the deployable AT turret... which I often use as a stepladder, so that even with the Archer, it still has some use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 15, 2017, 07:15:51 pm

Dealt 30k damage to the enemy team in the Chester, a tier II cruiser with 18k health.  Its a derpy ball of health that looks like a slightly teched up Civil War ironclad, and I'm getting weirdly attached.  Anyway, I fought my way to the enemy's capture zone losing only part of my health, damaging one cruiser and destroying another.  Unfortunately my team did not do well, and our base had its capture started before the enemy did.  This turned out to be the least of my concerns however.

So the Chester is equipped with high explosive and armor piercing rounds, but its armor piercing is so bad I never expect to pierce the enemy armor.  So instead I just spam HE everywhere, hoping to light the enemy on fire or disable their systems.  Unfortunately, what was waiting for me at the enemy base was not just an enemy cruiser but a tier III battleship, which had no such restrictions and immediately took out a third of my health with the ship equivalent of a headshot.  With no hope of possibly beating the battleship, I turned nose towards it and focused my fire on the cruiser.  I got it down to 750 health before finally dying myself.

At the end of it all, I scored 69 hits, and numerous fires started and incapacitation medals, with one kill.  Considering the incredible inaccuracy of my guns and the long range of every fight except my last, I'll count it as an own.

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World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 15, 2017, 07:28:07 pm

In more Archer fun, a single bullet on a fleeing Lightning tank got me three ribbons - Marksman*, Anti-Tank**, and the Archer itself***.


<sub>*For every few kills over 70m away, regardless of weapon. It's probably buggy, I've gotten the ribbon for long-forgotten AT mines half the continent away. Appears to not count for lock-on launchers.

**For every few tanks destroyed.

***Every tenth kill with a weapon earns a ribbon for that weapon.</sub>

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 15, 2017, 07:33:59 pm

Playing my newest character, Jillian. I got a mission from Rhys to clear College Square. So I exit the police station, head north a bit. I find four Feral Ghouls, two laying in wait, two standing. I run up to the first standing and Dogmeat pulls him off his feet. I gun-bash him in the skull with my double barrel shotgun, killing the Ghoul. I then sprint forward, and on the run, I fire one round into each laying Ghoul's head, killing them instantly. The last Ghoul rushes me while I'm reloading, and Dogmeat attacks. They tangle for a few seconds while I reload, and then Dogmeat pulls him down right in time for me to blast the poor creature into death.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on February 15, 2017, 08:46:32 pm

I fought and defeated two greater fire drakes. Then the zombie dragon that appeared immediately afterwards. All my gear became dragonforged and I only spent thirty minutes running back and forth between the two drakes to keep my pawns alive. And used almost all my curatives. And had to kill my own possessed pawns two or three times.

Dragons dogma; dark arisen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on February 16, 2017, 08:14:06 am

Got the UR rank Dark Pendant card, which has been put to very good use.
Also summoned BEWD on the opening turn via white dragon paladin, today is good.

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Yugioh Duel Links

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 16, 2017, 05:56:33 pm

Astronaut Yi Sun-mi landed alone on the Martian polar ice.  Average summer temperatures: -33.4C.  Average winter temperatures, -59.1C, dropping to easily -100C at night.  Average atmosphere, negligible.  Average odds of survival: low.  She has faced the coldest of Antarctic winters on Earth, but Mars was a beast of another colour.  Instead, she carved out a home on this desolate, beautiful land.  Handing airlock blow-outs that threatened the integrity of her small base, dust storms, resource scarcity, multiple power failures as the winter night and poor atmospheric conditions with low light intensity that prevented her from growing any crops (read: skylights don't work and there wasn't enough power to keep both the heat and the sunlamp running), she survived the worst of what Mars could throw at her.  And, in the process, developed a proper appreciation for having a proper toilet and shower instead of EVA-suit plumbing and wet wipes, or real food instead of freeze-dried ration packs, after spending her first winter in a base that barely had enough power to keep the internal heat over -30C, much less produce enough of an atmosphere through the emergency MOXIE to pressurize the small dome. 

An automated resupply arrived after the first year, and while damage during launch and transit wrecked a third of the cargo, a small nuclear reactor survived the journey to solve the worst of her temperature and power woes.  Now, after 123 sols and just into the start of her second summer, she has finally succeeded in producing enough methane to fuel the Ares Interplanetary Landing and Ascent Vehicle that brought her here, and may now decide whether she will return to Earth or if she will remain in this land she now considers home. 
...
Which is really no choice at all.  It will remain as an escape pod in case things really go south, but she's sticking around to see this unnamed collection of domes turn into a proper colony.

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RimWorld: Mars mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 17, 2017, 08:03:46 pm

Decided to try out flying a bit following the capture of Indar(which halves the cost of aircraft). A couple of air-to-air kills(in one life), at least. Eventually crashed trying to evade G2A missile fire by dodging between the support structure of Mani Biolab, but that's still better than expected.

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Planetside 2. Now to buy the Banshee and lolpods, and I can be a true asshole skynight! ...Actually, I really dislike the rocket pods from trying them in VR, but the Banshee seems good enough. Frigging hate the fact that they nerfed Hornets though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 18, 2017, 12:55:37 am

Reaper here. Ilios lighthouse is our setting. Enemy 90% to capping the point, my team hasn't touched it yet. I shadow step and point blank take down the Widowmaker overlooking the point, where everyone else is stationed. Hop down from the roof, Wraith form in, Q to win, Death Blossom. Fin. I cap the point solo with a Quintuple Kill. The enemy never touches the point again, thanks to some help from a Roadhog and a Lucio, and some creative standing in corners.

Overwatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Execute/Dumbo.exe on February 18, 2017, 04:07:58 am

I beat the 'The Way Of The Fighter' mission in Way Of The Samurai 4.

In order to understand just how much this means to me, I've been playing on hard, this means enemy health and damage has been ramped up, alongside some small difficulty changes throughout the game, in this mission specifically you have to kill these bodyguards and collect five treasures that they drop, these drops are not guaranteed, however, and you can't leave the fight once you've started it, your character does not automatically pick up these items either, so you have to kick them, potentially leaving you vulnerable to the enemy attacker.

This seems bad enough, until it turns out that there aren't just five bodyguards, there's dozens, each of which deal enough damage to instantly kill you with their special, these specials are highly telegraphed and easy to avoid, but if you  flub a swing, miss the dodge timing, misjudge the attack distance, or even just be distracted by the ten-twenty other enemies surrounding you at all times, then you will likely be hit, some of their stances can even have their special be fast enough to stagger your guard, then begin another special and kill you that way with no way out, and their standard attacks still do significant damage anyway.

I think they're infinitely spawning, too, I wouldn't know, I didn't kill enough of them, the one saving grace I found is that newly spawned bodyguards have significantly less health, but they only needed to get lucky once, and they did, several times, but I beat them eventually, with gratuitous cheese, damage boosting items, and some luck of my own.

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Way Of The Samurai 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 18, 2017, 10:46:39 am

That's the one with the Laura and her weird gothic protector dude?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 18, 2017, 02:19:15 pm

Recieved the awards for Objectives 1-3, as well as "Can't Touch This" as Fletcher.

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Dirty Bomb

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 18, 2017, 02:23:50 pm

I am playing Enderal.

I got a skill that mind controls an enemy for 45 seconds and then makes them violently explode.

It's fantastic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 18, 2017, 03:09:56 pm

My brother and I are co-oping our way through Dark Souls. Since we're both pretty decent at the game, we're kicking back and doing slightly ridiculous things. For instance, we decided to both start with Warrior, and then by a coin flip elected that I would level exclusively dex and he strength.

Then the first Black Knight dropped his shield, and thus was born a legendary system: I hold it with two hands (too weak to one-hand it) while my brother stands behind me and murders things with a halberd. Our alternative 'builds' (and I use the term loosely) are almost as good, since he goes completely naked in order to fast roll with the Dragon King Greataxe and I've been using the Scimitar with the Mailbreaker in my off-hand.

We tried to kill the Gaping Dragon by both using a Bandit's Knife, but that failed miserably because the damn thing doesn't seem to bleed. We did, however, manage to get the DKGA by using the DKGA, which was pretty funny. Firebombs have also figured largely in our shenanigans, including using them to kill both Channelers, killing the dogs, and one short-lived effort at killing the Gaping Dragon by hurling bombs from the balcony.

Then I gave up on that and went through the fog gate, only to discover my brother had neglected to warn me there was a dragon charging at it...

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on February 18, 2017, 11:32:25 pm

My third successful combat mission was a nighttime terror mission with about seven cyberdisks. I slowly beat my way through the alien forces with rockets and sniper fire, finally killing the last three with a demolition explosive and a sniper shot at point blank.

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X-COM: UFO Defense. The original one, from 1994.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on February 19, 2017, 12:46:21 am

Got Masterwork DF working on Mac. Wooo!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 19, 2017, 07:57:24 pm

Managed to get past

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Specimen 4 aka Ringu

without dying or voiding my bowels.

Her theme would actually be pretty relaxing

Spoiler: if it weren't for the fact that (click to show/hide)

you're being chased by a ghost woman who wants to have a vore scene with you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion. Oh, and the HD remake is going to be released very soon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 19, 2017, 11:29:11 pm

Completed the game with only one continue used as SakuyaA.

For a run that good after such a long absence, I consider that an own.

(Though I should probably use a policy of "too soon rather than too late" when it comes to pressing X.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhou Youyoumu - Perfect Cherry Blossom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on February 21, 2017, 10:22:33 pm

Stuff, stuff, stuff, bombs, hey, a purple jar thing! I'm feeling curious as to whether or not the fire ray trap can break it, so I set off the fire ray trap on purpose. Turns out it can. I got several pieces of loot, most notably, a rifle.

After acquiring two other notable pieces of loot from other sources(plate armor and a potion), I face the boss of the fourth floor, the Dead Ringer. It's a difficult fight, but my rifle makes short work of the mooks, and I manage to do the other necessary things to win. For the first time. I celebrate by killing myself with my own bombs, only to revive with my potion. This turns out to be a stupid idea. Mainly because I have another boss to fight soon afterwards, right after the whopper of a cutscene I get(also, feels!).

If I still had my potion, maybe I would have survived the Necrodancer, who turns out to be [REDACTED]. Then I reach the second section, and my death hits. If only I hadn't committed suicide.

Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on February 22, 2017, 12:58:16 am

I got two songs to 100% difficulty (although in one of them I brutally butchered the solo,) and purples in a bunch of other songs.

Rocksmith 2014.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 22, 2017, 08:08:38 am

I assassinated my sister which was Spawn of Satan before she managed to grow up and fuck up everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 22, 2017, 08:51:22 am

Beat the game. That ending was awesome and then hilarious, although the Luchadores missions leading up to it were kinda lame.

I did very few minigames and found zero collectibles besides the introductory ones, so I've still got quite some playing to do.

Saints Row 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on February 22, 2017, 10:02:34 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 22, 2017, 08:08:38 am

I assassinated my sister which was Spawn of Satan before she managed to grow up and fuck up everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

I need to play this game at some point.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 22, 2017, 10:10:07 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 22, 2017, 08:08:38 am

I assassinated my sister which was Spawn of Satan before she managed to grow up and fuck up everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

You mean you didn't want to play as the Spawn of Satan?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 22, 2017, 11:28:03 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on February 22, 2017, 10:10:07 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 22, 2017, 08:08:38 am

I assassinated my sister which was Spawn of Satan before she managed to grow up and fuck up everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

You mean you didn't want to play as the Spawn of Satan?

I'm a ruler of Agnatic Elective Gavelkind Tribe, women can't inherit titles and I can't switch my gender laws yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 22, 2017, 01:12:38 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 22, 2017, 11:28:03 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on February 22, 2017, 10:10:07 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 22, 2017, 08:08:38 am

I assassinated my sister which was Spawn of Satan before she managed to grow up and fuck up everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

You mean you didn't want to play as the Spawn of Satan?

I'm a ruler of Agnatic Elective Gavelkind Tribe, women can't inherit titles and I can't switch my gender laws yet.

Aren't those supposed to be immortal though? What manner of superpower comes with being a spawn of satan?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 22, 2017, 01:36:50 pm

Spawn of Satan is not immortal, IIRC, but has insane bonuses to stats, especially to Intrigue. SoS gets super stats only when it becomes 16 years old, tho.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 22, 2017, 01:42:30 pm

Before then they will murder their way through their family, and you get significant opinion penalties too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 23, 2017, 06:44:49 am

Just finished Imperial Guard stronghold mission. Tau meet intense resistance from the IG, but superior firepower of Tau prevailed. For The Greater Good!

WH40K Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 24, 2017, 09:50:27 am

So playing FE:Heroes for the first time. I got through the first two chapters and then decided to try out summoning for the first time.

First up: Four star Virion. Better than starting Virion at least.
Second: 3-star Saizo. Was kinda hoping for a healer but meh.
Third: 3-star Lon'qu. Eeehhhh.

Kinda meh so far right?

5-Star Hinoka: Alright, one of my favorite Birthright characters and at five stars. Niiice.

And then:

5-star Lyn, one of the best units in the game, in my first summoning.

If it wasn't clear, Fire Emblem Heroes is the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on February 24, 2017, 10:17:36 am

Discretely dropped a mine in the living room and quickly stepped into a small side room as the target walked in surrounded by his body guards. From within the adjacent room I set off the mine, successfully assassinating the target. As a dozen or so bodyguards rushed into the room to investigate the explosion, I nonchalantly walked out the front door without attracting attention.

Hitman Blood Money

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 24, 2017, 10:46:51 am

You're not gonna get a Silent Assassin rating that way  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 24, 2017, 12:46:33 pm

Giving Beyond Earth a whirl while I wait for my new games to download. Found that I really like playing as ARC. I just focus on defense and economy while my little birds float from city to city stealing what I need, boosting my research and occasionally thieving me some free units. With max speed bonuses to covert actions I can steal 3 defectors almost as fast as my cities could build the units!

What makes this a win is that I defeated that aggressor, Brasilia, without even besieging a single city. I stole units from his cities and used them to defend against his own attacks while my spies performed coups everywhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Ensorceler on February 24, 2017, 01:58:48 pm

I killed the Lich with the shrine to a forgotten hero active for the first time, playing as the pilot. On the Keep of the Lead Lord and the Oubilette, I took damage, no big deal. I beat the Gungeon proper without taking damage, but I've probably done that before. I made it through the Black Powder Mines without taking damage. I cleared out the Hollow without taking damage. My previous best on a run like this was to make it to the Forge and die on the first room, but I beat the Forge without taking damage. Then, I almost beat Bullet Hell without taking damage, except that the Lich hit me less than a second before it died. My heart containers crossed a third of the screen, and my armor another third.

Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 06:19:58 pm

I united the galaxy on Hard with only a little trouble.
Hard is (as I assumed) nonsense in several ways.  I already knew that other races are literally genetically superior (heh), but they obviously get absolutely perverse bonuses to research and spying.  When I was sitting around in the endgame with victory at hand, with over 40 spies on the Psilons, having specifically traded for every single +spying tech...  I literally got 1 tech via spying in the entire game.

But still.  Minmaxing my build, and even buying peace with tech...  ensured my race's dominance.
Technically Bulrathi- but I only chose Bulrathi portrait to remove them from the potential enemies.  Minmaxing *taps forehead*

...Psilons would have been a better choice, but I assumed I could steal their tech.  I could not, even when I should have.  Fortunately they were surrounded by Klackon and Sakkra (AKA moronic expansionists), so they occasionally traded me tech as I took care of the pathetically recalcitrant monsters.  I did offer peace.  Many times.
So I suppose having the Psilons around was beneficial...  But I know that when they ascend, they are the literal worst.

Anyway, pretty sure I've won on Hard a couple times before now.  But it's good to know I've still got it.  I should try impossible, though I bet the AI will be less content to let me build up in peace - damn their self-interests.

Because the reason I posted this here?  Out of 8 races, I didn't kill anyone who didn't attack me first...  And only wiped out the Sakkras (who were repulsive due to hard mode genetweaking, AKA too alien for diplomacy).
I didn't save the whole galaxy, but I only committed one genocide personally...  Okay I'm overthinking this probably...

Edit: Accidental genocide (my skype group's name) aside, I did win by council vote.  And could have taken Antares in a few turns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 24, 2017, 06:23:53 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 06:19:58 pm

I united the galaxy on Hard with only a little trouble.
Hard is (as I assumed) nonsense in several ways.  I already knew that other races are literally genetically superior (heh), but they obviously get absolutely perverse bonuses to research and spying.  When I was sitting around in the endgame with victory at hand, with over 40 spies on the Psilons, having specifically traded for every single +spying tech...  I literally got 1 tech via spying in the entire game.

But still.  Minmaxing my build, and even buying peace with tech...  ensured my race's dominance.
Technically Bulrathi- but I only chose Bulrathi portrait to remove them from the potential enemies.  Minmaxing *taps forehead*

...Psilons would have been a better choice, but I assumed I could steal their tech.  I could not, even when I should have.  Fortunately they were surrounded by Klackon and Sakkra (AKA moronic expansionists), so they occasionally traded me tech as I took care of the pathetically recalcitrant monsters.  I did offer peace.  Many times.
So I suppose having the Psilons around was beneficial...  But I know that when they ascend, they are the literal worst.

Anyway, pretty sure I've won on Hard a couple times before now.  But it's good to know I've still got it.  I should try impossible, though I bet the AI will be less content to let me build up in peace - damn their self-interests.

Because the reason I posted this here?  Out of 8 races, I didn't kill anyone who didn't attack me first...  And only wiped out the Sakkras (who were repulsive due to hard mode genetweaking, AKA too alien for diplomacy).
I didn't save the whole galaxy, but I only committed one genocide personally...  Okay I'm overthinking this probably...

Edit: Genocide aside, I did win by council vote.  And could have taken Antares in a few turns.

What....game is this? Sounds interesting.

Also, I just finished downloading God Eater Resurrection and just started doing some missions. Killed the Vajira (i think that's how you spell it) that spawns in an early mission that you're supposed to run from and ignore but my Monster Hunter senses tingled and I cheesed it with rapid shotgun blasts to the face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 24, 2017, 06:27:08 pm

While my two gunners were away from the colony(while carrying the only two guns) on a trade mission to sell weed, leather, and potatoes to a friendly city, an injured woman fell from an escape pod. I immediately kidnapped her for later recruitment(the social guy was one of the gunners). A few days later, during an alphabeaver attack, during an eclipse, a pirate raid shows up. One guy with a club, one woman with a rifle. I quickly rounded up everyone(all three of them), gave the two melee guys sharp things, and the child soldier a shortbow I nabbed from a tribal raid a while back.

I maneuver my guys behind a mountain wall. The clubber walked a short distance away from his partner, so I moved out of cover just enough to draw aggro, then pulled back to ambush him. He's quickly stabbed repeatedly to death. His partner starts running around the other way, so I head her off on the other side of the mountain. Caught her unawares, and she was beat up before she could fire more than one bullet. Captured her for later recruitment.

The traders will be surprised that the previously all-male colony now has two women in it. Even better, the captured pirate was an Oaf(the second pirate Oaf to be captured), meaning she's got great farming, mining, and construction skill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rimworld.

Quote from: JimboM12 on February 24, 2017, 06:23:53 pm

What....game is this? Sounds interesting.

Looks like Master of Orion 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 06:29:43 pm

Oh sorry, it's Master of Orion 2.  Old DOS game, on GOG.
Don't get MoO3, it's awful.  MoO4 (the relatively new one) might be cool - the voice actors are good, at least.
Though I'm pretty happy with MoO1 (earlier but different), MoO2, and Master of Magic (Age of Wonders 1/2 except less advanced but somehow less grindy).
Age of Wonders 2 is pretty dang good actually, and even looks good too.

No seriously I gave MoO3 a really strong try recently, and it was just *bad*.  Everything it says about "You're the administrator - you don't have to care about the micro!" SEEMS true based on the controls, but...  it isn't actually true.  You have to micro, more than ever, but the controls make it harder to do so.
Such a shame...  It could have been a new genre of macro-strategy, like it promised.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 24, 2017, 07:14:09 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 06:29:43 pm

Oh sorry, it's Master of Orion 2.  Old DOS game, on GOG.
Don't get MoO3, it's awful.  MoO4 (the relatively new one) might be cool - the voice actors are good, at least.
Though I'm pretty happy with MoO1 (earlier but different), MoO2, and Master of Magic (Age of Wonders 1/2 except less advanced but somehow less grindy).
Age of Wonders 2 is pretty dang good actually, and even looks good too.

No seriously I gave MoO3 a really strong try recently, and it was just *bad*.  Everything it says about "You're the administrator - you don't have to care about the micro!" SEEMS true based on the controls, but...  it isn't actually true.  You have to micro, more than ever, but the controls make it harder to do so.
Such a shame...  It could have been a new genre of macro-strategy, like it promised.

The new one does look solid but all the reviews got the same issue, the ai's bad. Seems fixable, but id only buy it on sale.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 24, 2017, 07:41:25 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 06:29:43 pm

Master of Magic (Age of Wonders 1/2 except less advanced but somehow less grindy).

Did you seriously just compare Master of Magic to being like Age of Wonders?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 24, 2017, 07:45:16 pm

Uh yeah because Age of Wonders is a clear spiritual sequel and improves upon MoM in many ways.
Especially in 2 (1 is awkward).
Fite me friendo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 24, 2017, 08:21:53 pm

()_mm
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/\
Got your fite right here.

Also, you have it backwards, AoW is like MoM. You don't normally put the successor second when you make a comparison like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 24, 2017, 08:22:52 pm

What kind of fight is that? The guy only has two fingers on each hand!

Crab battle for the century I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 24, 2017, 08:26:20 pm

Nerd fight, nerd fight, nerd fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 24, 2017, 09:34:45 pm

If you saw my post in the death thread on how I couldn't beat Robin, I did.

Now I just need to figure out how if I can do that again on Hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on February 24, 2017, 10:25:31 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 24, 2017, 09:34:45 pm

If you saw my post in the death thread on how I couldn't beat Robin, I did.

Now I just need to figure out how if I can do that again on Hard.

Applause.

Any change to the setup, or did you brute force it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 24, 2017, 10:28:26 pm

Managed to actually run the game (a feat in itself, considering I don't meet the minimum requirements), get to the High Wall, get summoned, defeat an invader, and coop for about ten minutes before my framerate dropped so low the game booted me from online play. Farewell, Nyx the Sly and Queen An... Ana... Queen Something. I will look back upon our brief adventures with fondness.

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Harpadarpa. on February 25, 2017, 02:15:46 am

Smash Brothers Project M. Against my tournament skill level friend.

Wario (me) vs Marth (his main)

I just saw the code man. He tried his hardest, but for whatever reason, in that match, I could just read his every movement. Spiked him 2 times with Wario's crazy ground pound, launched him off the side once with my side special (Wario's "GOOO" in PM), and psyched him out, got him to miss the ledge once.

Meanwhile, he spiked me with Marth's dair once, and baited me into suicide with Wario's ground pound twice. I think I may slightly overuse that ground pound.

He immediately went right back to trashing me, but goddamn, that felt satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 25, 2017, 05:45:21 am

A single day's trading put my money from around 26-27k to over 90k. Most of it came from selling nails, with a significant contribution from bricks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Land of Lords. I'd been neglecting my domain's finances and trading, so salable goods had been kinda piling up. Oddly, I have a ton(actually 1000 tons) of high quality limestone on the market that nobody is touching.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 25, 2017, 10:03:01 am

Quote from: overseer05-15 on February 24, 2017, 10:25:31 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 24, 2017, 09:34:45 pm

If you saw my post in the death thread on how I couldn't beat Robin, I did.

Now I just need to figure out how if I can do that again on Hard.

Applause.

Any change to the setup, or did you brute force it?

I put Takumi at the front, having him take out the Axeman, put Selena within Robin's attack range, and tried to keep room for Lissa and Beruka to jump in if needed. Takumi dropped to single-digit hitpoints from the mage attacks, but I was able to keep him out of harm's way so he turned out fine. Selena's high Resistance (if that's what Res is short for) allowed her to take minimal damage from both Robin and the other mages, and her weapon advantage was able to defeat Robin within less than two turns.

I can't actually quite remember, but I know using Lissa's heal on several occasions within the battle, and Beruka took down one of the spearmen before he could attack (and one-shot) Selena.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 25, 2017, 10:24:14 am

That is indeed what Res stands for.

Anyway, congrats! That mission is a pain if you can't properly lure the bad guys in.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 25, 2017, 10:27:14 am

An older own, but I uploaded the footage recently so I might as well plug it. :p

I squashed Lady Maria like a friggin' bug. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOrOWYVGw4) Not bad considering she's the next-to-last boss of the Old Hunters DLC.

Bloodborne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on February 25, 2017, 02:58:14 pm

If you're ever playing Dark Souls and feel the need to slaughter unfortunate casuals, I can highly recommend 40 strength, 36 endurance, the Demon Great Machete, full Havel's, the Mask of the Mother, and 50 vitality. Add the FaP ring and you have nearly 2000 hitpoints.

Anyone with significant skill at the game can wreck you fairly easily because strength weapons suck at the higher levels of play, but everyone else can pretty easily be flattened. The DGM is obscene, 650AR two-handed. Of course, it's arguably worse in every way than the Great Club, but eh.

Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 25, 2017, 07:18:39 pm

Fought my way through an absolutely massive prison/military base, solo, without dying once. I didn't really keep track of how many gun-toting, shield-bearing, knife-wielding foes I dispatched, but they came in clusters of anywhere from 3 to 6 at a time. 80 kills would be a conservative estimate.

My entire inventory was full long before I finished clearing the place. Wound up dumping things I figured were either easily replaced or just not that valuable and still I ran out of room. I constantly ate in order to clear space and still I found more things.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starbound. It's been modded a fair deal so maybe complexes this big are a glitch, but everything I had was vanilla (or vanilla-friendly) gear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 25, 2017, 10:04:04 pm

Finally beat the High Command mission in the Operation Arrowhead campaign where you're a tank commander who also needs to give orders to several other armor and mechanized infantry units to capture an airfield. I finally got a feel for how I'm supposed to get the AI units to not rush into battle and get themselves killed in 5 seconds, so I was able to reach the actual airfield with my tank and most of the other units mostly intact. I tried to get the other units to draw the fire of the tanks guarding the airstrip while I sniped them all with SABOT rounds, but unfortunately they managed to figure out what I was doing while there were still a couple of them left and shot the hell out of my tank, completely disabling it. I then proceeded to hide behind the trashed tank for several more minutes continuing to radio orders to the other guys while my two crewmen made sure nobody tried to flank around and get me. Luckily the other guys managed to pull through and dispatch the remaining enemies.

ArmA 2: Combined Operations. This game is fucking awesome when it works, but a lot of things, namely the Harvest Red campaign, are just plain broken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on February 26, 2017, 02:32:50 am

Took some frustrations out in PvP. Got a nice streak going before I ran into a guy using Gundyr's halberd pretty damn well. Didn't not realize it could unlock and redirect that fast. He blasted me out of the water without talking a hit. Play a little more, get a streak back up, and I run into him again. I play a bit more conservatively this time, get more of a feel for him. He really loves that weapon art, which is pretty damn good. The problem is it's long, and you have to start the charge a ways back. I give him the opportunity to set it up and manage to nail him with a full charged strong attack. Wham. Half his health disappears. He starts to play conservative, staying away from the weapon art and making standard slashes. Still, he loves that damn thing too much and sets it up again. I'm not fancy this time, I just poise through it with my weapon art and trade hits to victory.

God I love second chances.

DS III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 26, 2017, 03:13:03 am

Got summoned by someone, and grossly incandescent this time, too. We (along with a sorcerer phantom) made it from the second Lothric bonfire all the way to Vordt and defeated the red-eyed knight, but the host waved and then black-crystaled us for whatever reason.

I messaged them on Steam and told them I had fun with the session. They said they'd sent us away because they needed another Estus charge, so I said I could pop down my sign again and try the boss.

Five minutes later I was the proud owner of my first Sunlight Medal. Hooray for jolly co-operation! :D

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 26, 2017, 12:28:59 pm

I got married! Here's some of the wedding photos! (http://imgur.com/a/uZoGo)

^{_{Mount & Blade: Warband}}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 26, 2017, 12:44:40 pm

Is that a specific mod? Also, original, Warband, or what?


I know it's not, but it looks like you and your bride are fist-bumping in the first picture.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 26, 2017, 12:46:31 pm

At first I thought you meant in real life and I said "Ha, nerd."

Then I realized you didn't and I said "Ha, nerd."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 26, 2017, 03:21:04 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 26, 2017, 12:44:40 pm

I know it's not, but it looks like you and your bride are fist-bumping in the first picture.

Wonder Twin powers activate!

Form of... badly textured wedding dress!

Form of... ITS ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 26, 2017, 06:30:45 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 26, 2017, 12:44:40 pm

Is that a specific mod? Also, original, Warband, or what?

I know it's not, but it looks like you and your bride are fist-bumping in the first picture.

Warband, unmodded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sergarr on February 27, 2017, 03:20:54 pm

Punched a cliff racer out of the sky mid-air. Levitation FTW!

Morrowind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on February 27, 2017, 04:39:41 pm

Quote from: Sergarr on February 27, 2017, 03:20:54 pm

Punched a cliff racer out of the sky mid-air. Levitation FTW!

Morrowind.

The ultimate feat of Muscle Wizardliness.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 06:04:42 pm

I guess this applies to much of the thread, but...  NICE!

I... hm, avoiding spoilers, but I finally tracked down a legendary assassin.  On a previous go I had tried sleep darts, but (as I discovered this time in a message) he is canonically immune due to magick.  Which had lead to a pretty freaking awesome and game-capping running fight across the rooftops, with much dialogue.

This time, I silently assassinated his bodyguard, warped behind him, and put a knife through his neck.  DONE

This run has actually been a bit of an "own", because I'm on the hardest difficulty and using only autosaves.  As a result, I'm only using nonlethal when it's not a risk to my self - which is still about half the time, honestly, but...  Yeah, the city is visibly going to shit from my "murders".

Declining to name the game, but it's not obscure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 27, 2017, 06:24:49 pm

Could it be that Rolan is playing the long-rumored serial killer roguelike?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 06:31:50 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 27, 2017, 06:24:49 pm

Could it be that Rolan is playing the long-rumored serial killer roguelike?

If that is an actual thing, please someone hook me up.
/me is an Angband nerd
Roguelikes 4ever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 27, 2017, 06:41:51 pm

Why declining to name the game?

I think it's Dishonored, by the way. The man in question had magic, and was thus immune to yours - and also to sleep darts. He had bodyguards. City going to shit because of killing also fits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 06:48:14 pm

I didn't want to minorly spoil the 4-5 year old game is all (:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 27, 2017, 07:04:53 pm

You can just put the name in a

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spoiler tag

:v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 07:10:43 pm

I think you mean a

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Rosebud was his dog~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 27, 2017, 07:13:08 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 06:04:42 pm

I guess this applies to much of the thread, but...  NICE!

I... hm, avoiding spoilers, but I finally tracked down a legendary assassin.  On a previous go I had tried sleep darts, but (as I discovered this time in a message) he is canonically immune due to magick.  Which had lead to a pretty freaking awesome and game-capping running fight across the rooftops, with much dialogue.

This time, I silently assassinated his bodyguard, warped behind him, and put a knife through his neck.  DONE

This run has actually been a bit of an "own", because I'm on the hardest difficulty and using only autosaves.  As a result, I'm only using nonlethal when it's not a risk to my self - which is still about half the time, honestly, but...  Yeah, the city is visibly going to shit from my "murders".

Declining to name the game, but it's not obscure.

One or two?

EDIT: My own own:

I made it up to almost confronting the man who wants Lyn (and her grandfather) dead. Alternately, it's the battle that introduces the rain that slows down literally everything.

The level with the ballista, despite being depicted as the medieval equivalent of a sniper rifle in the pre-battle cutscene, didn't actually give me too much trouble. Sure, the ballista operator had the gall to attack a CHILD, but he didn't actually take more than one bolt and he lived through the battle (as did everyone).

The level with the fog was irritating, but not actually too dangerous. I had to avoid using Lyn, though, because she only used swords...

I also saved enough gold to splurge and get anti-armor weapons for at least 2-3 units. I still have a little over 4k left.

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Fire Emblem for GBA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 27, 2017, 07:14:36 pm

One, haven't played two.
Is... it not clear?  Huh.  Actually yeah, I did hear that the master assassin survives and is a big deal in 2.  Which fits my first, and canon, mostly-non-lethal playthrough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 28, 2017, 07:34:05 am

I fucking did it. I beat Cirno without dying or bombing. Die in a fire Cirno. "You won't ever walk upon land?" YA CANT SAY THAT ANYMORE CUS YA FUKKEN DIEDED! CRYO FREEZE ME WITH SOME ENGLISH BEEF!? YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY THAT! YOU SAY THAT IN REIMU'S GAME! EAT SHIT AND DIE IN A FIRE YOU FUKKEN ICEY ASS BLUE ASS MEME ASS MEME LADY, GO GET DRAWN BY AN ARTIST ON DANBOORU

I can make it to the end of Stage 4 pretty consistently only losing a life or two but Cirno could still be a run-ender until just recently. Feels goodman.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 28, 2017, 08:52:13 am

the big oni lady with the forehead horn is better

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 28, 2017, 09:40:36 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on February 28, 2017, 07:34:05 am

I fucking did it. I beat Cirno without dying or bombing. Die in a fire Cirno. "You won't ever walk upon land?" YA CANT SAY THAT ANYMORE CUS YA FUKKEN DIEDED! CRYO FREEZE ME WITH SOME ENGLISH BEEF!? YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY THAT! YOU SAY THAT IN REIMU'S GAME! EAT SHIT AND DIE IN A FIRE YOU FUKKEN ICEY ASS BLUE ASS MEME ASS MEME LADY, GO GET DRAWN BY AN ARTIST ON DANBOORU

I can make it to the end of Stage 4 pretty consistently only losing a life or two but Cirno could still be a run-ender until just recently. Feels goodman.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Wait, what difficulty level was this, anyway?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on February 28, 2017, 10:04:33 am

Normal. It was a while ago, but there was a period where Cirno was just an impassable brick wall for me. I posted about her a lot in the death thread. You've described having a lot of trouble with Icicle Fall, I used to have about that much trouble with Perfect Freeze. I still have an "OH GOD NO" reaction to Perfect Freeze when it starts, but I can usually deal with it.

Also, I died the most to Cirno when I was still primarily playing Reimu. Reimu has a hard time dodging the first shotgun attack, which is no problem for Marisa.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 01, 2017, 09:12:50 pm

Entrenchment match at Salerno, defending against the Americans. I picked my generally favorite class so far - Panzerjager(aka engineer), and replacing the pistol for a grenade. The battle went... fairly bad. I did manage to hold the US back a minute or so using a G43 rifle, until a flamethrower hit me in the face. In fact, I've gotten way too many deaths to flamethrowers.

Anyway, pushed to final objective, at which you cannot reinforce anymore(if your team is wiped out before someone makes it back to the reinforcement point to respawn everyone, you lose automatically). I'm killed just before that point, and end up taking over a bot with my exact loadout. I take cover behind an ammo create, and use it to toss several grenades, and eventually killed when the Americans rush me with smoke grenades and one bot who may have faked his death.

I respawn into a machinegunner with an MG42. Woop. It's down to me and three bots with over two minutes left. I ran back to the final objective area, set my gun up in the doorway of a shop, then camp like a little bitch. I'm covering what appears to be the only entry to the objective area. Two minutes later, one of the bots is dead, but there's a pretty huge pile of bodies in front of me. Germany wins.

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Day of Infamy, practice botmatch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 02, 2017, 01:48:34 pm

Necron stronghold mission is completed, now it's only Chaos left to do, and after that, I will win the game.

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DoW: Dark Crusade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 03, 2017, 03:05:48 pm

Does the fact that I've never seen the normal ending on Radiant Historia count, since I've always completed the necessary side quests first?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 03, 2017, 03:53:50 pm

Finished the last capitalist's campaign scenario.

Doesn't sound like much, but you have to dominate every single industry within 70 years.

Basically spent the first few years messing about with my typical "LET'S DO DRUGS!" manufacturing, and then did a very slow, methodical process of researching things before producing them so the market was basically dominated before I started.

Then thought that was taking too long, so banged down about 30 R&D centers after 28 years and did research on everything for 10 years with 3 blocks each.

Kept going reasonable pace for a bit, then just went all out after 45 years in getting down some mines and farms and logging camps and such for raw materials, popped down a large factory in Warsaw (Warsaw was a sea of teal by the time I finished with it) and at least one specialised retail outlet for each industry.

After I got that all done, I was dismayed to find that I was not in fact dominating like I expected at that point, so I bought out 3 of my competitors who had slightly better products than me. Further dismay was had when I still hadn't dominated some very specific products, and I set out to discover why.

Wool and Citric Acid (possibly the most annoying semi-product in the game) and Chemical Minerals. I think in the last 10 years I ran out of Chemical Minerals at my mines 4 times and had to replace them, Wool stops being produced periodically for some reason (presumably because my sheep had no fleece) and goddamn it Citric Acid can just go away.

It took me a further 3 years to get to a point at which I could win the game, trying to get it so that peak production for the three semi-products/resources there was at the same time.

52 years overall, it took.

The game feels a bit empty now...

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Capitalism II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 03, 2017, 04:42:57 pm

I finally made a proper mob-farm.  I've always avoided looking up a guide, but this mod gives you initial starvation pressure and a very well-made in-game book with pictures and guides.  The in-game part swung me, I followed the directions almost to the letter.

Nearly-dead and harmless enemies appear before the window almost constantly.  And this pack has whatever mod gives equipment XP on use, so my puny flint hatchet has crossed from "legendary" to "godlike" to "comfortable+" (it wraps).  It's up to +8 damage and room for 8 modifiers...  And yet, the flint head is too weak to chop down a rubber tree :P
I think it's more like an "obsidian sword" in the DF sense, now.

But yeah, piles of zombie meat to compost into dirt.  A steady trickle of gold items to melt down.  One piece of chainmail, AKA a low-infrastructure source of steel.
...And enough bone to satisfy all my wood needs :P

Edit: Minecraft (Agrarian Skies 2)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on March 03, 2017, 04:55:00 pm

Modded Minecraft?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 03, 2017, 05:11:29 pm

Bleh, sorry.  I actually cut the game from the top to paste it at the bottom, but got distracted.  Fixed.
For some reason I wasn't able to play my Agrarian Skies 1 game through FTB anymore, due to updates.  And 2 is only available through the "Curse" launcher, for some reason.  But it kinda acts like the FTB launcher so meh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 03, 2017, 05:54:50 pm

Sounds a bit like the old Skyblock map for vanilla. That was fun. It was also basically the only way I could run Minecraft on my old craptop because there was almost no lag :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 04, 2017, 08:55:10 am

Completed Honest Hearts! I did almost all the optional stuff too, explored as much of the area as I could stand, found all the survivalist journals and accidentally got the best ending (in my opinion, they've all got grey spots).

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Much better than Dead Money. It was kind of sketchy at first, with the fake Native American crap and twenty-minute hike to the Dead Horses camp, but the quality instantly went up when I met Joshua and Daniel and the central conflict became apparent. They actually made pacifism seem like the shitty impractical option, which is interesting because the pacifist option is usually the bestest good-guy thing you can do and expected of all good characters.

The dilemma works better in some encounters, but not others. Daniel makes a passionate but not very well-thought-out case for just letting the White Legs have Zion... and then Joshua starts quoting sinister Bible verses at you in that evil voice of his, letting you know to pick him for the Dark Side ending. That was pretty corny. Poor Daniel gets screwed no matter what ending, which I guess goes to show that Joshua was right all along.

By the end I'd gotten 100 Speech and used it to convince Joshua to spare Salt-Upon-Wounds. It's the first time I've ever done a really difficult Speech ending, and... it was kinda underwhelming. "Yep, your character sheet checks out, here is the most emotionally satisfying ending. Sorry for the inconvenience." Not passing a speech check usually means that you have to pick between several sub-par options, which is more interesting. Having enough skill for once killed a lot of the drama and tension.

I don't regret getting 100 Speech though because there's no way in hell I'm fighting Lanius straight up when I complete all the DLC and finally finish the base game. I couldn't beat him fair-and-square in 10+ tries during my first attempt, fuck that noise.

For gameplay: navigating around Zion was pretty frustrating, but I was just glad it wasn't the fucking Sierra Madre. All the cliffs and hills and valleys did get to be very tiring though, and I found myself fast-travelling incredibly short distances just because I couldn't be bothered.

The combat was mostly alright, no really new mobs to deal with. The White Legs have some interesting tactics, combining melee and long-ranged weapons pretty effectively, but are way too tanky for jackasses in leather and face paint. That's a problem I have with any game that levels to match the player though, eventually everything ends up being generically tough even if it doesn't make sense.

TLDR: Interesting but flawed. Better than Dead Money, but so is teabagging a vise grip.

Fallout: New Vegas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 04, 2017, 11:36:58 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 03, 2017, 05:11:29 pm

Bleh, sorry.  I actually cut the game from the top to paste it at the bottom, but got distracted.  Fixed.
For some reason I wasn't able to play my Agrarian Skies 1 game through FTB anymore, due to updates.  And 2 is only available through the "Curse" launcher, for some reason.  But it kinda acts like the FTB launcher so meh.

Oh wow, Curse is really getting their fingers in.  Annoying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 05, 2017, 09:14:52 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 04, 2017, 11:36:58 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 03, 2017, 05:11:29 pm

Bleh, sorry.  I actually cut the game from the top to paste it at the bottom, but got distracted.  Fixed.
For some reason I wasn't able to play my Agrarian Skies 1 game through FTB anymore, due to updates.  And 2 is only available through the "Curse" launcher, for some reason.  But it kinda acts like the FTB launcher so meh.

Oh wow, Curse is really getting their fingers in.  Annoying.

A sizable portion have fled to open source minecraft mod managers like MultiMC. I use it, and I can attest to it being more powerful and usable than the Curse launcher, though certainly less user-friendly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on March 06, 2017, 12:54:23 am

Managed to take down a Relinquished that had taken my Machine King Prototype using De-Spell, because apparently when a monster is equipped to Relinquished it is no longer a monster but a spell. My 7 Completed Overdrive plowed its 2300 attack into a 0/0 Relinquished in attack position, which was 400 more than I needed to win the duel against the Pegasus player.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 06, 2017, 01:00:06 am

Beat Gore Magala.

At first it went to Area 5, and by god it wanted to stay there. Area 5 is also the worst possible place to have to fight GM. I got knocked off the ledge to the next area several times, which probably saved me by giving me time to chug a potion.

It eventually left, but not before going into its rage mode. Fun fact I discovered: monsters can go into their rage mode multiple times in a single hunt. I thought I had GM on the ropes, when suddenly projectile spam! That was fun and mildly horrifying. It even stopped limping once it left the rage mode for the second time, so it must have recovered one of the times I ran away to heal and sharpen my weapon.

Finally, after I forced it out of its sleeping spot, it ran back to area 5. I prepared myself for a desparate last stand with no potions or items...

I shot my glaive at it and it fell over ded. I didn't even know the Kinsect did damage. It must have only had 1hp left or something.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. I can't believe there's more, that felt very final boss-like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 06, 2017, 01:37:52 am

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It gets worse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 06, 2017, 08:49:12 am

Blew up two Galaxies with my Archer. Admittedly, both were severely damaged, though I'm pretty sure the second one was fully healed before I started firing at it.

The best part was that immediately after this, someone else using the Archer complained that it sucked.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 06, 2017, 09:41:30 am

Quote from: Akura on March 06, 2017, 08:49:12 am

The best part was that immediately after this, someone else using the Archer complained that it sucked.

Humans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ATHATH on March 06, 2017, 10:23:33 pm

I beat Durlag's Tower (a mid-end game dungeon) before even entering the Nashkael Mines (the first proper dungeon in the game). My party entered at around level 2 or so; they came out at about level 7 (in a game with a level cap of around 10 or so (it varies depending on your class)).

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 09, 2017, 07:06:43 pm

Managed to get finish getting gold medals in the tutorials for Engineer and Pilot, the former while everything was on fire, the latter from abusing moonshine.

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Guns of Icarus Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 09, 2017, 07:25:14 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 09, 2017, 07:06:43 pm

Managed to get finish getting gold medals in the tutorials for Engineer and Pilot, the former while everything was on fire, the latter from abusing moonshine.

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Guns of Icarus Online

How'd you get the one for Engineering? I keep getting absolutely no medals at all...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 09, 2017, 08:25:11 pm

One, don't bother fighting fires. Two, it's not just the armor you have to repair... I think. It might just go on how much damage the armor(or hull?) has at the moment the test ends.

It was pretty much just luck for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 10, 2017, 08:05:13 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on March 06, 2017, 01:00:06 am

Beat Gore Magala.

At first it went to Area 5, and by god it wanted to stay there. Area 5 is also the worst possible place to have to fight GM. I got knocked off the ledge to the next area several times, which probably saved me by giving me time to chug a potion.

It eventually left, but not before going into its rage mode. Fun fact I discovered: monsters can go into their rage mode multiple times in a single hunt. I thought I had GM on the ropes, when suddenly projectile spam! That was fun and mildly horrifying. It even stopped limping once it left the rage mode for the second time, so it must have recovered one of the times I ran away to heal and sharpen my weapon.

Finally, after I forced it out of its sleeping spot, it ran back to area 5. I prepared myself for a desparate last stand with no potions or items...

I shot my glaive at it and it fell over ded. I didn't even know the Kinsect did damage. It must have only had 1hp left or something.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. I can't believe there's more, that felt very final boss-like.

Yeah, there's a LOT more to do, trust me. Monster Hunter games always seem to have a shitload of content. The only real "final boss" I can think of is a multiplayer-only elder dragon called Gogmazios, since he's the most powerful monster ever available for fighting.

But yeah, if you're fighting Gore Magala then you've seen nothing yet. Just wait until you fight the Super Shag.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 10, 2017, 05:32:06 pm

Two foolish armies of Varg Marauders decided they could take on the all-powerful Archaon the Everchosen. Granted they had double the army I did but they're painful defeat still seems like something of a foregone conclusion.

Total War: Warhammer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 11, 2017, 06:21:20 pm

Spent much of the game trying to play catch-up when the enemy responded to the one Scout I sent to a relic with over a dozen fighters - resulting in them having significantly higher resources throughout the game. Putting what I had into a Heavy Cruiser, some frigates, and a couple dozen strike craft. My fleet hit just as an enemy attack force was leaving sensor range; rather than pull back to deal with it, I gambled on beating their Flagship before they could pose a threat, and I was building extra ships at my Mothership anyway. It paid off, though I lost nearly all the fighters to a Missile Destroyer, and I had to pull the frigates back, leaving the Heavy Cruiser to finish off their Flagship and force a carrier to jump away(postgame stats suggest it exploded as well).

Though their Flagship was gone, they had a large force near my Mothership and Carrier, and the ships I had there were all strike craft and damaged frigates - and their force was mostly Multi-Gun Corvettes and Ion and Assault Frigates(with Field Frigates protecting them). I had to jump away the main ships, leaving behind the Resource Collectors to buy time. It worked, and with a few hit-and-run maneuvers, the Heavy Cruiser, joined by a freshly-built one and some Heavy Corvettes, broke apart the bulk of the fleet, and destroyed another enemy Carrier. The good news is, that without their Flagship, I needn't worry about any new Carriers or Destroyers.

With one Carrier left(found via probe, confirmed with sensor array), I started to build my fleet, and made an organized attack. The first fighter crafts did a strafing run on the Carrier, then pulled away to deal with their defending bombers, the H-Corvettes targeted their MG-Corvettes, the Assault Frigates attacked their frigates, and the Cruisers tore the Carrier to pieces. While I saw another enemy group going for my Mothership, the destruction of their last build-ship was declared a victory.

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Homeworld Remastered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 12, 2017, 06:52:16 pm

Wrapped up a Hard run through the Gardens of Morr with three tomes and one of the grimoires. Ended up topping the board on all the main scoreboard objectives, including total kills, melee kills, most damage dealt, and least damage taken. Not bad for my third day playing the game!

The game saw fit to reward me for my success... by giving me a hit on all 7 loot dice, which was enough for the random Exotic at the top of the reward list. And an achievement, which is a rather strange thing to get an achievement for ("you got lucky, here's an achievement!"). So I'm now the proud owner of an exotic Fireball staff. Guess it's time to start playing more Bright Wizard...

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Vermintide. Currently in the Humble Bundle!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sindain on March 12, 2017, 11:04:12 pm

Quote from: Thexor on March 12, 2017, 06:52:16 pm

*Snip*

How's the player-base in Vermintide doing nowadays? I played it a bunch at release and loved it, but I've heard its pretty dead so I haven't gone back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on March 13, 2017, 12:39:16 pm

At the moment it's reasonable. I'm using the server browser to find matches, and there's always 30+ open games (not counting 4/4 matches). Last Stand is basically dead though, and worth noting that the game is really cheap right now so that might be inflating the user count.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 13, 2017, 01:16:04 pm

Was in a three-man party in Starbound.

Scored the only legendary weapon that dropped.

Also completed another wing in the HALL OF JUSTICE. This is where I display the cultural artifacts from the countless towns and villages I have eradicated in the name of JUSTICE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 13, 2017, 02:14:45 pm

The Myogi is so inaccurate that I scored a citadel penetration on a cruiser I wasn't aiming at.

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World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 13, 2017, 04:24:39 pm

I got a Widowmaker from a random drop, which is essentially an Engineer shotgun which uses metal instead of bullets for ammo, but after every shot you get metal equal to half of the damage it dealt (I think). I figured this would be a good weapon to use with the Gunslinger, which I rarely ever use, so I decided to try it out.

I joined a random Control Points map, and immediately started shitting out mini-sentries all over the place and blasting people, managing to rack up a high score very quickly. Within a few minutes, a member of the opposing team declared that I was cancer.

Team Fortress 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 13, 2017, 04:30:53 pm

Well geez, that's like the highest compliment you can get if it's from the opposing team.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 13, 2017, 05:40:39 pm

I know. I felt so good about myself :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 13, 2017, 07:07:17 pm

I don't suck at Infiltrator.

I'm actually pretty good at sniping stationary targets, and as long as I can flank/get the drop on them that's all I need. Tapping the Q key like a madman also helps, and I even used the spot ability to snipe someone through a tree's leaves.

I've also been able to use the Stalker cloak to sneak past enemy sniping and gunfire to some degree of success. One time I was able to sneak up on someone and backstab them. While they didn't instantly die (full shields will protect you from one knife hit), I was able to then kill them in the ensuing gunfight.

I just want to save up for a harder-hitting pistol. The Beamer looks cool, but such a low damage per bullet isn't really that great for me.

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Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 13, 2017, 07:56:06 pm

Hit "Play Now" after going through the extremely basic text-only tutorial, spawned in as some dude with a Luger. Lost the match a few minutes later, but somehow I was in the best-performing squad, plus I managed to get my first kill before my first death, so I guess it counts.

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Verdun. I think I need to drop the graphics quality to play this game. And that makes me kinda sad.

Quote from: AzyWng on March 13, 2017, 07:07:17 pm

(full shields will protect you from one knife hit)

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.

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All factions have a knife that has an "activated" mode that does 1-shot, and I'm pretty sure there's a cash-shop knife that has OHK capability outright, though that might have been a Halloween event knife. I've also been 1-shotted by default knives, but I'm also pretty sure that was a hacker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blargityblarg on March 14, 2017, 02:42:14 am

Quote from: Thexor on March 13, 2017, 12:39:16 pm

At the moment it's reasonable. I'm using the server browser to find matches, and there's always 30+ open games (not counting 4/4 matches). Last Stand is basically dead though, and worth noting that the game is really cheap right now so that might be inflating the user count.

The userbase is moderately divided: there's a lot of folks who only really play private games because randoms can be unreliable, but there's also a pub scene.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 14, 2017, 06:44:46 am

Spent an hour-long game, Brits vs Wehrmacht(as Brits because US sucks). Discovered that the Valentine light tank can in fact challenge Panzers, especially with two or three squads armed with PIATs supporting it. StuG's will wreck them though. Eventually built a 17-pounder AT gun that was killing Panzers in 2-3 shots, largely neutralizing armor threats except for those presumably teleporting to the flanks.

At some point, the Wehrmacht just stopped trying, and I exploded their base.

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Company of Heroes 2. Getting really irritated at how badly the AI cheats. In this game, I had all three of my infantry squads at the center of the map(around 2 minutes in), and almost immediately they were surrounded by at least 6 enemy squads. They still won because British Infantry is that good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 17, 2017, 02:15:45 am

It's a tiny "own," but it's one of my own.  On my first voyage deep into the black, I've finally docked at Amundsen Terminal, one of half a dozen or so tiny outposts scattered out beyond human space, and my intention is that it will be the last human outpost I pass before I continue coreward.  Dropped off a wee bit over 13 million in exploration revenue just reaching this point, including several minor rocks and main-sequence stars not surveyed by any others, and both tripled my bank balance and gained some accolades as an explorer in the progress.  Also patched up some nicks and scrapes due to various mishaps (pro-tips: do not accelerate too close to gas giant ring systems, and - as I posted a while ago - do not kill your superluminal drive while it's still driving you at superluminal velocities). 

Also, the Lagoon Nebula is rather pretty, I think.  I haven't decided if I want to stop by the Trifid Nebula or Traikaae next, though I think I shall wait for the next version to release before I continue on coreward in my little Adder. 

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Elite: Dangerous

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RazielReaver on March 17, 2017, 06:33:04 am

(http://i.imgur.com/7VZGLIQ.png)
Dodged Syphilis from my Sister-wife.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 17, 2017, 09:20:21 am

Quote from: Culise on March 17, 2017, 02:15:45 am

It's a tiny "own," but it's one of my own.  On my first voyage deep into the black, I've finally docked at Amundsen Terminal, one of half a dozen or so tiny outposts scattered out beyond human space, and my intention is that it will be the last human outpost I pass before I continue coreward.  Dropped off a wee bit over 13 million in exploration revenue just reaching this point, including several minor rocks and main-sequence stars not surveyed by any others, and both tripled my bank balance and gained some accolades as an explorer in the progress.  Also patched up some nicks and scrapes due to various mishaps (pro-tips: do not accelerate too close to gas giant ring systems, and - as I posted a while ago - do not kill your superluminal drive while it's still driving you at superluminal velocities). 

Also, the Lagoon Nebula is rather pretty, I think.  I haven't decided if I want to stop by the Trifid Nebula or Traikaae next, though I think I shall wait for the next version to release before I continue on coreward in my little Adder. 

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Elite: Dangerous

Yeah, I just got this game the other day and I can confirm that exploring spehss and looking at pretty things is fun. I've barely started the game and I'm already looking forward to visiting Barnard's Loop.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 17, 2017, 11:23:42 am

First time playing Shadow of Mordor in a while, run the Test of Defiance.  One life, less health.  Can't brand.  Choose not to shadow-strike (teleport up to an enemy, killing them) because that's always seemed OP.  Oh, and you basically need to wipe the entire board of captains and chiefs.

Technically lost.  I needed to kill 6 warchiefs.  There are only 5, and I killed all their captains first, so there was nobody to promote up.  And there's a bizarre glitch in this mode, such that passing time doesn't spawn new captains.

The hardest part was probably the "make the supporter scream" quest.  The supporter hangs out in an arena surrounded by a dozen guys, and you have to hold him for 20 seconds straight.  The game doesn't explain, but basically you need to kill all those guys without raising the alarm or killing the supporter.  I drew 4 of them off with an explosion (such stealth), killed 6 with slow-mo archery, leapt onto the penultimate one, then shot the final one in the foot.  That poor supporter, hehe.

That quest is definitely the toughest IMO, felt pretty good though.
So yeah, Shadow of Mordor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2017, 04:42:22 pm

Scored 20 straight wins in Double Battles, taking down Blue at the end. While #18 was harder than him and #19, I was worried Blue might have a shot since he scored first kill and the final matchup was my Lucario and Mawile against his Aerodactyl. I had expected Aerodactyl to use Earthquake and one-shot both, except he used Sky Drop on Lucario. Lucario barely survived, and Aerodactyl largely shrugged off Aura Sphere, but Mawile scored the finishing blow with Iron Head.

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Pokemon Sun. Earned far more than enough BP to get a Lucarionite. Still I wonder if it might have been better to keep him holding Ghostium Z. It's a great surprise move you wouldn't expect Lucario to use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2017, 05:59:34 pm

Solution: Lucario has two hands, so put it in the other hand

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2017, 06:07:14 pm

Sadly no, that won't work. Pokemon can only hold one item; Lucario can hold a Mega Stone or Z-Crystal in one hand, but he needs the other hand to facepunch people with hadokens.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on March 17, 2017, 06:09:37 pm

_{i know, i was kidding}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2017, 07:26:37 pm

Different game. On a whim, designed a space shuttle with a booster engine, similar to the real life Space Shuttle. I had strapped some solid-fuel boosters to the sides of the booster engine, but that didn't work. Too... floppy. Removed them. Had to rotate the entire launch assembly so that the weight of the booster engine dragged the rocket into a gravity turn(in real life, it's the shuttle's weight that does this).

Had to play with throttle output and flight controls mid-flight, but eventually got to a decent orbit. Noticed while in orbit that the three rocket engines on the rear of the shuttle were misaligned, probably resulting in much of the frustration getting up. Deployed a communications satellite. Retro-burned to decaying orbit, eventually stalled out forward momentum fairly close to the space center. Chutes deployed, and eventually hit the ground, losing only the nose cone(the one with C&C stuff in it) on impact due to the fact that the parachutes were on the top rear of the shuttle and I had not landing gear or anything like that. Plus I forgot any form of power or reaction wheels(plenty of fuel for RCS thrusters, and the RCS thrusters, though). All in all, mission accomplished.

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Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on March 18, 2017, 04:52:44 pm

We had a escape pod crash outside camp in the very early game. What was inside... wasn't human. It was a wounded Elder Thing. Still, we bandaged it up and, out of gratitude,  it chose to join us. It's 1871 years old and its name could not be pronounced by our colonists, so we simply called it Doris.

Turns out, Doris is an excellent cook. This makes me smile a great deal in the mornings.

Manager Tom: "Ah, another day in paradise. Sentry guns are online, generator power is still steady, and we should be ready to work on the expansion to the freezers today. You up for it Gale?"

Miner Gale: "You bet, just as soon as I wash up and get some breakfast. Speakin' of... Doris, what's for chow?"

Elder Thing Doris: [INCOMPREHENSIBLE ELDRITCH SCREAMING]

Miner Gale: "Aw, man, you remembered! Strawberry pancakes are my favorite!"

Rimworld, with many mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 19, 2017, 10:25:29 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on March 13, 2017, 04:24:39 pm

I got a Widowmaker from a random drop, which is essentially an Engineer shotgun which uses metal instead of bullets for ammo, but after every shot you get metal equal to half of the damage it dealt (I think). I figured this would be a good weapon to use with the Gunslinger, which I rarely ever use, so I decided to try it out.

I joined a random Control Points map, and immediately started shitting out mini-sentries all over the place and blasting people, managing to rack up a high score very quickly. Within a few minutes, a member of the opposing team declared that I was cancer.

Team Fortress 2

I friggin' love the Widowmaker. Widowmaker/Pistol/Gunslinger is a fun loadout, poop out some minisentries and recoup your lost metal by getting some nasty little meatshots.

Widow's stats: Does not require reloads. Uses metal as ammo, 30 metal per shot. From full metal, this means you have 6 shots (like the shotgun) before running out. 1 point of damage= 1 metal returned. If enemy is being targeted by the engineer's sentry, Widowmaker deals +10% damage.
Given that a nice meatshot from any of the shotgun weapons is around 90 damage, the widowmaker is a fantastic little weapon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 20, 2017, 06:24:10 am

Night pirate raid on my colony. There was 1 sniper (very low shooting skill), 2 shooters (one with LMG, the other with a machine pistol, don't remember their skills), two grenade throwers, a lot of melee fighters, and one guy with friggin' Doomsday missile laucher! I thought the game was over, but the shooter missed. The rest was pretty easy despite superior numbers of pirates.

Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 20, 2017, 10:40:34 am

Was going to a spot to hunt goats. Got swarmed by komodo dragons instead. Little bastards like to bite. Almost died, but I think at zero health there's a bit of mercy there, giving me time to jam a needle made from arrowroot and/or screw pine into my arm, bringing me back up to two bars. Used up almost all my ammo killing them and the tiger that showed up to help(them, not me).

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Far Cry 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 21, 2017, 12:31:33 pm

I used to do ABC sequencing and MIDI arranging thereof for LOTRO.

I meddled with it again in Archeage.

Now Starbound has it, and the tools since was last really into it (LOTRO) have advanced by bounds. I can make multi-instrument sequences like it aint no thang, and they even sound like I want them to in-game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on March 21, 2017, 03:17:24 pm

Not to diminish your ownage, but ABC sequencing has been in Starbound...basically since it was fairly early in development :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 21, 2017, 05:25:06 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 21, 2017, 03:17:24 pm

Not to diminish your ownage, but ABC sequencing has been in Starbound...basically since it was fairly early in development :P

Yeah I guess what I should have said I only just got into Starbound, and its more that I got back into ABC stuff because of it. It made me look around for the newest and best tools and it's like the best thing ever.

Used to be like, a multi-day thing to get drums to work properly. Now you can just like, hit the drum button. EZPZ. In LOTRO things would often not sound the same as they did in your MIDI program of choice, but someone made a Starbound-specific tool and you can preview it exactly and made adjustments.

I have stopped doing everything else so I can just mess about making multi-instrument sequences. I have all this work from LOTRO and Archeage that I can improve upon. Archeage was the worst.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on March 21, 2017, 11:08:21 pm

I decided to try Motorsport Manager (Free trial until Monday on Steam) and I took the worst team I could find. As expected, my drivers end up last (19th & 20th) in the first race in russia. Then they finished 15th & 17th in Munich enough to get me a bonus from a sponsor, next race in Italy they were last again with 1 abandon.

Then the race in Portugal happened. The weather forecast was some light rain first followed by a small break before restarting. I opted for intermediate tyres right away and ignored the complaints of my drivers that the track was becoming dry. As the sole racing team starting with intermediate tyres it saved me one pit stop over the competition. In the end my drivers finished 10th and 12th and allowed me to gain the 9th rank in the teams ranking (Not that the owner really cares anyway).

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Motorsport Manager

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on March 22, 2017, 12:49:06 pm

I discovered the joy of being a free-range slime rancher; resulting in a vastly diverse landscape in my ranch.

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(http://i.imgur.com/4CSwikD.png)
Underground in the grotto is my main money maker. The honey phosphors are unconstrained by energy, so fields they can grab the fruit as they please; leaving me with no more to do than collect the spoils and replant on occasion.

(http://i.imgur.com/D8mBo7E.png)
The now obsolete Rad Crystal pen, by the time this is posted, they'll have probably been destroyed by honey and replaced by Crystal Rocks.

(http://i.imgur.com/CNPr4y6.png)
Not much to see here; but it's the only way to properly raise these things. I'll probably move them into the center area and designate the laboratory for cat raising.

(http://i.imgur.com/pxATKEc.png)
Finally, Boom Rads are raised here; setting up the stage for Fallout 4 DLC: Wastelands of AtomicBombia. Originally, I was going to add a water source in order to protect myself, but decided it was easier to play nuclear bomb hopscotch to collect the remains.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 22, 2017, 10:42:40 pm

Terror mission in Argentina. I need this to go well, or else I won't have very much funding; everybody's panicking, and I have satellite coverage but none of my Interceptors are good enough to do anything about the bogeys.

I land and discover Cyberdisks and Chryssalids. And all of them happen to be just outside the Skyranger. I level an entire building dealing with the first Cyberdisk, only to encounter the second one just beyond. Thankfully, RNGesus decided in my favor for this mission. Every shot hit the Cyberdisk, every shot was a critical. I also managed to destroy four Chryssalids and two zombies in the space of three turns, thanks to some heroic effort by my guymans.

Sniper "Ice" Wahid got three kills that mission without ever leaving the tile he started in.

I ended up saving 13/18 civilians, which is pretty miraculous considering Chryssalids. It's actually a good thing they all went straight for me, if I'd had to hunt them down it would have been 0 civvies saved.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on March 23, 2017, 02:45:25 pm

Earned my gold Jogger medal this afternoon. I've officially walked over 1000 km since August.

Pokémon GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on March 23, 2017, 02:50:50 pm

Quote from: Blaze on March 22, 2017, 12:49:06 pm

-snop-

Impending Meteor Noises

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on March 23, 2017, 03:33:28 pm

The game is called slime rancher.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 23, 2017, 03:38:25 pm

Shhh, Blaze likes to collect meteors. IIRC. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 23, 2017, 07:14:24 pm

Deleted my save file because I'd messed up (Raven and Dorcas were dead and Bartre was out of action for the rest of the game), starting over fresh.

I was able to use my prior knowledge to make my team survive Lyn's story up to the sidequest with Ninian and her brother with no casualties.

Haven't yet continued the story, but things are looking quite good. Characters like Florina and Wil who I had previously ignored for the most part have now gained several levels, which ensures they'll be more fit for fighting when I get to Hector's Story.

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Fire Emblem 7: The Blazing Blade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on March 24, 2017, 12:18:40 am

My XCOM game is going swimmingly. Panic isn't great but better than it has historically been at this stage, with most nations at 2 or 3 dots and a handful of danger spots (satellites will be ready before the next Council report). I have a single Firestorm, and there are upgraded Interceptors on every continent. I have plenty of high-level dudes, due to taking missions which gave soldiers as a reward. All the fires are put out, I may cautiously proceed with story missions.

The base assault is usually the part where I quit, due to being really really screwed with no tech and no funding.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on March 24, 2017, 01:45:46 am

@AzyWing Spoiler alert: Florina top tier chicken horse mountie

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on March 24, 2017, 05:06:05 am

I finished a (very large) 3x9 tall marble wall around my base's perimeter in Minecraft. I'm going to pretty it up with parapets and such later, and maybe create a drawbridge entrance. In the meantime, I've started production of rails again because you all know me, I love my minecarts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 24, 2017, 06:09:57 pm

Started my session trying to take Bitol Northern Outpost. A Valkyrie-drop of several heavies during the last 10 seconds required another attempt. Blew up the Valkyrie just before dying though. Nearly captured it but a light assault showing up again during the last 10 seconds nearly reversed it, but they logged out/redeployed after I started to bring my Sunderer's guns to bear.

Moved on to assist the attack on Bitol Biolab, only to run under assault from several Valkyrie squads including the one that got me before. Still managed a couple of kills before going down.

Switched my Sunderer's front gun to the Ranger, parked on a position giving me a pretty good view of the Biolab's airspace. Started buggering the hell out of any aircraft flying near or spawning at the base. It must have upset them. Despite multiple airstrikes from both Valkyries and Scythes, they couldn't kill me before being forced off by flak. During this, one BR100+ light assault tries to catapult off the Biolab airpad to C4 me from the air. First time, he eats a couple dozen flak rounds between dropping and (failing) detonating. Second time, he tries to land next to me, but got confused when I got out and shot at him, eventually stabbing him in the face.

By this point, I'm actually pretty low on ammo(and was just informed there was pizza to eat), but that same light assault now has a Magrider. I jump out and just let my Sunderer go. The Magrider kills a friendly nearby, then turns and runs off to Northern Outpost. I drop a few AT mines on the road and get his attention with my carbine. The ploy was so obvious that I'm genuinely surprised it worked. And I wouldn't really have cared if it didn't!

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 31, 2017, 02:02:42 pm

Was actually able to use one of my inherited skills to save a comrade.

So, I'm doing 5-2 Lunatic to complete part one of the Lunatic Challenges, but things got ugly when Minerva used Lunge to trap my Cordelia, causing her to be attacked by three enemies at once: Minerva, Maria, and a Sword Knight (who Cordelia killed, making some breathing room).

So, I'm starting to panic, and I try to move my other units over there, but when I select Selena (who I'd given "Wings of Mercy" through the Inherit Skill ability), I notice two teal-ish colored squares next to Cordelia. A plan forms in my head.

I warp Selena over to where the North-East cracked wall is and have Selena destroy it, then I move Cordelia behind Selena so Minerva now has to get through a Sword user to hurt Cordelia.

I save my unit, complete the level, and get a free orb!

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Fire Emblem: Heroes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 31, 2017, 02:07:55 pm

Defeated a 4000+ rated champion with my 1300 rated champion.

The Unstoppable Colossus is an aptly-named fellow.

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Marvel: Contest of Champions

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 31, 2017, 02:44:55 pm

Finished Lyn's story without any losses.

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Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 31, 2017, 03:44:13 pm

After owning this game for... geez, years, I finally looped twice in one run!  I finally see the light as to why Horror is overpowered.  (to be fair to myself, I mostly focused on reliably beating the main game rather than lategame stuff)

I beat the entire second loop with a recycle gland hyper rifle, and a boiling veins hyper launcher (which was swapped out for a auto heavy crossbow at one point, and then swapped back).  My bacon was saved several times by firing the hyper rifle and horror's ridiculous upgraded beam at the same time, forming a laser of death that both destroyed enemy projectiles and annihilated everything in its path.  I also had strong spirit and used the healing part of the beam + crown of protection to constantly top myself off.  For the throne fight I ditched my hyper rifle for an ultra shovel, the first ultra weapon I've ever had.

The run probably could have continued except that in the first area of desert I got rammed by the second IDPD van that gets added on loop, and then walked into an inspector's projectile because it was on its last couple frames and I thought it was already despawned.

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on March 31, 2017, 06:24:19 pm

I was playing on the easiest setting and still dealing with massive losses. I reloaded several full squad wipes, but the turnover rate for troops was already about two missions. I did manage to capture an ethereal, so I put ten soldiers in training. Nine died within a week or two (I'd have kept them all at a base but if I did I'd have no soldiers to fight - I had an almost constant manpower shortage) but the last one was only wounded so he made it all the way.

Now I'm having fun making the aliens scout for me and then drop live grenades at their own feet. I've lost, what, two or three soldiers over the course of two months?

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XCOM: UFO Defense (with openXcom).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 01, 2017, 10:38:36 am

Wait, soldiers die during Psi training?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: somemildmanneredidiot on April 01, 2017, 12:23:42 pm

I think they were deploying those soldiers in the field during the training due to the manpower issues.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 01, 2017, 12:29:41 pm

I've been practicing using Sniper in Mann vs Machine a lot, and I've gotten pretty good, so I decided I'd try an advanced mission. I got matched up with a pretty skilled team, and we got through the whole thing together without losing a round.

It started out slow, but I was able to rack up a very high amount of damage by putting a lot of points into explosive headshots, then basically only ever aiming for giants or whoever happened to be holding the bomb, with the area-of-effect damage killing everyone else surrounding them.

Midway through the round, I was standing on a very thin barrier on the top of a building overlooking the entrance. The Engineer, who was pretty much leading the team, used his sentry to shoot rockets at his feet, causing him to soar off of the roof of the building he was standing on, somehow managing to land directly next to me despite the stupidly large distance between us and the small size of the object I was perched on top of. Apparently he thought I was doing pretty good, because he simply said "Nice shot!" and gave me a high five. His distant sentry then shot another rocket at his feet, and he flew back over to his building.

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Team Fortress 2

Engineer mains are so cool.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 01, 2017, 04:21:05 pm

My Carbink got into a fail-fest against an Absol, both of us having only a single attack move and both being hilariously ineffective - Carbink's Power Gem missing due to Absol spamming Double Team, and the faster Absol's Payback being used on a Carbink(which has Rest). So it came down to who ran out of PP for everything else. Carbink got there first, and so began the Struggle - which so happens to be a guaranteed hit, didn't know that.

The same turn Carbink KO'd Absol with Struggle, it fainted from recoil, a mutual kill.

...Except that I still had two Pokemon in reserve and Carbink had already dealt with the opponent's Houndoom and Darmanitan. And the only reason I didn't switch to Mawile and Twinkle Tackle Absol's ass into the next life was because one of Absol's other moves was Mean Look.

Tanks are fun.

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Pokemon Sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 02, 2017, 03:06:39 pm

I finally, finally beat Chapter 10: Ninja Village Hell on Hard. It must have taken at least 20 tries. Stupid Ninja and their stupid debuff...

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 02, 2017, 04:13:59 pm

I reached the sewers... on hard mode.  For reference: its like looping, but with no vans, no mutations, and slower than normal weapon progression.

How the fuck am I supposed to beat ball mom with an assault rifle and a slugger?  I came in with 150 bullets and 50 shells, I left with 0 bullets, 14 shells, and she was not dead yet.

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on April 02, 2017, 10:29:09 pm

It's surprisingly difficult to keep up a chain when one of the summoned Pokemon will do its level best to murder the other ones.  No, I don't care how hungry they get; the Mareanie cannot eat the Corsola until I finally manage to attract one with the right ability.  That said, I finally succeeded in catching a Mareanie with its hidden ability Regenerator in a Love Ball.

Now, I just have to remember why I wanted to do this in the first place.

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Pokemon Moon

^{EDIT: In retrospect, though, intentionally crippling a Corsola with False Swipe and letting its cries for help attract predators, which I then proceed to pile up like driftwood, is actually pretty darn sociopathic, even for Pokemon.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 03, 2017, 04:05:27 am

Greece suddenly attacked me and sent a huge army of hoplites, two regiments of peasants, and a really badly damaged general unit who got killed while charging at my Equites. Hoplites were hard to beat and killed a lot of my men, but I managed to defeat them by using bait-and-switch tactics. Now I have plans for retribution against the Greeks.

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Rome: Total War

Notes/Off-Topic: Man, phalanxes are so strong in this game, they murder the shit out of every regiment which happened to be in front of them. BTW, what is the optimal price for selling the map? I try to 1500-2000 dinars, nobody buys it. I try 800 dinars, they say it's too generous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 03, 2017, 01:42:42 pm

Quote from: Culise on April 02, 2017, 10:29:09 pm

It's surprisingly difficult to keep up a chain when one of the summoned Pokemon will do its level best to murder the other ones.  No, I don't care how hungry they get; the Mareanie cannot eat the Corsola until I finally manage to attract one with the right ability.  That said, I finally succeeded in catching a Mareanie with its hidden ability Regenerator in a Love Ball.

Now, I just have to remember why I wanted to do this in the first place.

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Pokemon Moon

^{EDIT: In retrospect, though, intentionally crippling a Corsola with False Swipe and letting its cries for help attract predators, which I then proceed to pile up like driftwood, is actually pretty darn sociopathic, even for Pokemon.}

Oh don't worry, it's even worse when drawn in detail. (http://www.thegamercat.com/comic/chain-reaction/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jax3639 on April 05, 2017, 01:27:39 pm

(Rain World)

prepped by gathering bombs and bomb spears

Lured a vulture in with a grub

didn't know bombs set off other bombs

flew across the screen

survived (somehow)

looted skull mask off of smoking vulture corpse

Dragon lizard comes by, looks at me, and runs away

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 08, 2017, 09:23:59 pm

Took Vilnius from the Poles. While it wasn't a terrible fight, it was a bit more a clusterfuck than I'd have liked, largely due to the fact that you can't damage the gate-walls of city fortifications for some reason. Otherwise, I'd have been able to rain cannon fire into the center of the town. I had to send my troops into melee where they were completely surrounded and outnumbered... and they kicked ass. Having a large number of grenadiers while the best they had was line infantry and not a whole lot of them helps. Having bayonets while they don't also helps.

But that's not the end of it. Before I could recover my depleted troops, they send an even bigger army to lay siege to the city I just took. Seeing as this prevents troop replenishing and reinforcements weren't going to happen any time soon(the Russians were also attacking), I had to sally out. Outnumbered with ~1000 against ~1500, I ended up fighting the enemy off in several sorts of combat I usually don't find myself in - melee, using canister shot, that sort of thing. Despite heavy losses, the Polish were forced to retreat.

Then the Russians attacked. By this time, I had time to gather some reinforcements and catch their army outside the city. Ended up giving the Russian bear a bloody nose or two, giving time to consolidate and replenish my troops.

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Empire: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 08, 2017, 10:13:56 pm

I beat XCOM: Enemy Unknown!

It was really anticlimactic. I've had regular abductions that were harder than the final mission, all things considered. I got banged up a bit but was never in danger of losing anybody, let alone outright failing the mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Uber Ethereal was pathetic. Starts out in plain sight, no cover, doesn't even have damage reflection like the regular Ethereals. My sniper, with Double Tap, killed him the turn after he became visible. About the scariest thing he did was mind-control a guy, but he still died the next turn. Could have just been another Sectoid Commander and I wouldn't have known the difference.

The ending wasn't great, but it was touching in its own way I suppose. It would have been more effective if any of the soldiers I actually cared about had been psionic.

Time to do Enemy Within, Ironman mode!

XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 08, 2017, 10:20:57 pm

Got a 17 killstreak and had around 300 notoriety using a Mare's Leg and Peacemaker combo.

Why don't more people play this game, anyway? It's fun and it's free... Shameless advertising but still.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fistful of Frags

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 08, 2017, 10:47:19 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on April 08, 2017, 10:20:57 pm

Why don't more people play this game, anyway? It's fun and it's free...

The game came out a while ago, most of the players who were interested in it already got their fill. Also, development on it has stopped so there isn't anything new to look forward to.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 09, 2017, 10:16:05 am

Quote from: heydude6 on April 08, 2017, 10:47:19 pm

Also, development on it has stopped so there isn't anything new to look forward to.

?

When I first looked at the game, it had only multiplayer and the game mostly tossed you into the match with no idea what to do or how to play.

Now, there's a singleplayer tutorial on how to effectively use Fof's handguns. It wasn't there before.

I'd say there's still a few updates in the game yet. While there isn't anything official that shows up on the game's news feed, the game does receive regular updates. (http://steamcommunity.com/app/265630/discussions/0/152393186502976151/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 09, 2017, 07:59:39 pm

Oh, didn't know about that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 11, 2017, 07:53:01 pm

Not quite sure if it really counts but...

Mounted the first gravity cannon onto my battleship. This first required completely redesigning the entire cannon for size and shortening the projectile. The end result no longer punches deep holes in heavy armor, though the potential is still there somewhat. Next, I had to use a projector to weld it in, since trying to paste the blueprint wouldn't fit. Main downside is now the gravity bleed from the back of the cannon into the rest of the ship, some of which hits the bridge. This should be fixable by playing with the field sizes a bit.

One installed, 15 more to go. And the first one only took nearly an hour!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 12, 2017, 12:52:04 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 11, 2017, 07:53:01 pm

Not quite sure if it really counts but...

Mounted the first gravity cannon onto my battleship. This first required completely redesigning the entire cannon for size and shortening the projectile. The end result no longer punches deep holes in heavy armor, though the potential is still there somewhat. Next, I had to use a projector to weld it in, since trying to paste the blueprint wouldn't fit. Main downside is now the gravity bleed from the back of the cannon into the rest of the ship, some of which hits the bridge. This should be fixable by playing with the field sizes a bit.

One installed, 15 more to go. And the first one only took nearly an hour!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers.

If you include sensors and a gyro in the projectile they can home in on target when they experience a near-miss

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on April 12, 2017, 02:01:08 pm

Through shouts of "FRONT TOWARDS THE ENEMY YOU IDIOT! FRONT TOWARDS THE ENEMY!" and "No! Jesus! Save the Sherman! Save the Sherman!" I managed to actually win a skirmish, I am starting to consistently win skirmishes, now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Steel Division. I'm not stupid enough to go online, however.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 12, 2017, 04:55:00 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 12, 2017, 12:52:04 pm

If you include sensors and a gyro in the projectile they can home in on target when they experience a near-miss

The bullets have no propulsion of their own, only an artificial mass and a battery. And a guidance system wouldn't really fit without stripping the actual damage-dealing part(two blast-door blocks on each side). In fact I'm a little surprised that the welders can actually reach the entire bullet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on April 12, 2017, 05:04:05 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 11, 2017, 07:53:01 pm

Main downside is now the gravity bleed from the back of the cannon into the rest of the ship, some of which hits the bridge. This should be fixable by playing with the field sizes a bit.

I'm now imagining some redshirt standing a little too close to the back of the gravity cannon, and getting smooshed into the wall when it fires.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 12, 2017, 05:10:52 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 12, 2017, 04:55:00 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 12, 2017, 12:52:04 pm

If you include sensors and a gyro in the projectile they can home in on target when they experience a near-miss

The bullets have no propulsion of their own, only an artificial mass and a battery. And a guidance system wouldn't really fit without stripping the actual damage-dealing part(two blast-door blocks on each side). In fact I'm a little surprised that the welders can actually reach the entire bullet.

If you park a gravity generator on the actual bullet, you solve the problem of gravity leaking into your ship (the field only has to touch the mass, and a smaller field drastically reduces power cost) and ensure that it will continue to exert forward force until it is completely demolished.

Sorry to barge in with advice.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on April 13, 2017, 09:10:38 am

Playing Mercy, trying to fly to our Pharah to give her a damage boost. She ults and gets sniped immediately, half a heatbeat later I accidently end up getting nanoboosted.
So I did what every Mercy would do when nano'd in the middle of the enemy team, I started pewpewing. Ended up killing Reaper and Zenyatta with my gun and cherry tapping their Orisa with a punch, then finished with a tripple rez.
Was PotG to everyones lulz and surprise, tried to save the replay and ended up getting the bug when the replay only shows a wall and no sound (screw you Blizz).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on April 13, 2017, 03:04:17 pm

I defeated the final boss in IJi 1.7
Does anyone else think the final boss looks like it's from paper Mario?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on April 13, 2017, 10:41:50 pm

There's something moderately satisfying about jumping a warfleet right out of hyper literally on top of an enemy fleet of equivalent force, and proceeding to absolutely shred it to pieces without losing a single ship.  11.2 warscore out of a single battle is always a pleasant feeling, though not quite on the same level as pre-patch Victoria 2.

Spoiler: The game above (click to show/hide)

Stellaris

Spoiler: And because I still fondly remember Victoria 2's profoundly-broken pre-patch battle system (click to show/hide)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/Culise/EU3/Victoria2-NewVerdun.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 14, 2017, 12:03:09 am

I've made another push to try to get into EU4. I got tired of the rather boring Byzantine cleanup in the Ottomans' start, so I decided to try my hand at Castile again. It's going quite well; I've at long last learned how to properly wage a war (i.e., use mercs when you don't have enough men instead of trying to build regiments in the middle of a war) and as such was able to put down the Granadan religious revolts. I managed to use the Castilian Civil War to increase relations with Aragón, nabbing myself a woman heir with which to Iberian Wed when the time comes. France hasn't suddenly decided to act like a maniac like my 1492 start from a few weeks ago and Aragón has been sane this time around. All in all, I'm doing pretty well; these are all pretty weak achievements in the grand scheme of things, but I've finally managed to get a decent game going, and that's more than I could've said in past games. Maybe I'll be able to see this one through to the end.

EU4, in case you missed it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheInquisitor on April 14, 2017, 12:18:58 pm

Despite only receiving two divisions of volunteers from Italy and one from Germany, I was able to crush los Rojos inside of six months. I Took the north almost immediately, and began my push towards Barcelona in order to deprive the commie bastards of a crucial port. In the South, I took Malaga, before finally breaking the back of the rebellion with a quick thrust towards Valencia. ¡Cara Al Sol!

Spoiler: El Juego (click to show/hide)

Hearts of Iron IV. I played as Nationalist Spain and won the Spanish Civil War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 14, 2017, 02:44:10 pm

Stellaris. Fanatical Purifiers.

Attacked a Fallen Empire with 1/3 their overall fleet strength. Caught one of their fleets alone and won (heavy losses), and distracted them with a token force at their home world while I vacuumed up all their tech.

Returned a year later with enough of their own tech to finish the job.

Ironically, I am now the galaxy's only hope against a newly Awoken Empire.

Spoiler: BUT WHAT IS A FALLEN EMPIRE (click to show/hide)

Fallen Empire: A precursor race that became stagnant and retains their maxed technology, but has no drive or ability to expand or involve themselves in the rest of the galaxy.

Awoken Empire: Same thing, but they decide to get re-involved with galactic politics and start conquering the universe again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 15, 2017, 06:08:14 am

I managed to beat Macedon army with my 9 Town Watch regiments. Macedonians had 6 cavalry units (including general), 1 phalanx and 1 regiment of peltasts. Phalanx got sandwiched when they reached the walls (they can't use spears when they're on the walls), peltasts got boiled alive when they reached the gate, and cavalry's number got reduced by boiling oil and then were wiped out by Town Watch. Whole Macedon army got destroyed and now I have plans for striking back.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rome: Total War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on April 15, 2017, 05:30:43 pm

You should strike back with your town watch since they've already demonstrated their prowess. I'm sure it would end well!  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on April 15, 2017, 06:31:23 pm

The "Tower of Power" finally held. We broke the ladder at the bottom this time and added another layer of reinforced wood spikes. We added two boxes at the top with food/water and various ammo. The scaffolds were extended with iron bars so we can shoot down at the base of the tower. We lost a few spike traps, but that was expected. I ate a sham sandwich that night and looted another 40. The most wonderful night.

Our distant neighbors on the server, all the way south, barely survived from what I heard on the chat. Apparently they made a bunker pyramid of iron bars and reinforced wood, but they almost got rekt by a cop zombo (those guys suck).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

7 Days to Die. Yay old sandwiches and the usefulness of wood.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 15, 2017, 07:32:46 pm

Found out you could muddle in DR2C files.

(http://i.imgur.com/XJ3IKOX.png)

I think I made dogs too hardcore...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 16, 2017, 03:53:37 am

Quote from: Flying Carcass on April 15, 2017, 05:30:43 pm

You should strike back with your town watch since they've already demonstrated their prowess. I'm sure it would end well!  :P

(http://imgur.com/qji8aMV.jpg)

As you can see, large caliber has already arrived.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on April 16, 2017, 04:24:45 am

Managed to rescue an entire hapless hazmat team from a sewer, without either our group or theirs taking any casualties.
So. Many. Zombies.

Thanks to good conservation of ammo, accurate shooting and one incredibly well-placed grenade, we somehow triumphed despite having been unable to find a place to camp the night before, meaning we were all half-asleep. The rescuees rewarded us with a healthy supply of meds and (slightly soggy) food. Maybe this whole journey isn't doomed, after all. Maybe we have a chance. Maybe we'll make it.   

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Megawott06 on April 16, 2017, 06:06:48 am

Playing the Overwatch Uprising event, we had two people drop out before we even reached the second point, leaving me as Roadhog and the other person as Bastion.

We still won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 18, 2017, 03:51:38 am

I picked up a scroll and, thinking it was a scroll of healing, used it immediately. I misread; it was not a scroll of healing. It was a scroll of phasing.

I got teleported into a tiny closed room full of acid beasts and poison spitters. These monsters leave acid pools whenever you hit them and launch really painful projectiles from across the room. At this point it's hard to even handle a regular group of them, let alone being trapped in the center of an entire room full.

I prevailed though, blasting the entire room with lightning and drinking literal dozens of health potions. My inventory was totally bare when all the monsters were dead, but I didn't suffer the pain of dying in a spot where it'd be really hard to retrieve my corpse.

Diablo 1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: H4zardZ1 on April 18, 2017, 08:07:42 am

Spoiler: I did it with bar-windows (click to show/hide)

(https://thumb.gyazo.com/thumb/1200/_e40a5ad42bc8b9a3fee8c646569150f7-png.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Roblox-Whatever Floats Your Boat.

Bar-windows are good, although worse than covered driver seat(that you can shoot though). The latter is completely memetic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 18, 2017, 10:10:07 am

I defeated the would-be Usurper's armies and restored peace to the realm. The Targaryens will reign for a thousand years!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II AGOT mod, playing as Aerys Targaryen II. Somehow I managed to come out on top after, among other things, Rhaegar kicking the bucket halfway through the war, getting assassinated myself and succeeding to a seven-year-old, and a Pentoshi merchant prince declaring a city-seizing war out of the blue shortly before Aerys's death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 18, 2017, 10:53:28 am

Quote from: H4zardZ1 on April 18, 2017, 08:07:42 am

Roblox

I didn't know that was worthy of being put in this thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 18, 2017, 03:18:54 pm

There was one space one that I used to absolutely love. Space Conquest, or something? It was brilliant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 18, 2017, 05:25:55 pm

Blew up a planet-sized tentacle monster, sparing the entire universe of death by hentai.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starbound. The universe minus one Earth anyhow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 18, 2017, 07:17:10 pm

My friends are all playing!  ...in a six stack.  I join as spectator anyway.  Someone leaves, I get put in the game... on the enemy team.

So Roadhog isn't my favorite character, my Roadhog isn't particularly flashy or creative.  But when I absolutely want to try my ass off I pull out Roadhog, and that's what I did here.  Cue my friends being absolutely fucking terrified of me, my roommate who plays Mercy actually (mostly-sarcastically) yelling at me from another room, and one of my friends who was playing Tracer and Genji repeatedly trying to kill me.  I don't know if my friends were egging him on by saying things like "someone kill that Roadhog" or what, but he kept trying and it would go one of two ways.  One, I would hook him and kill him.  Two, I'd miss my hook, and then walk at him and kill him with right clicks.

Near the end of it all, I was standing next to one of the pillars near the cliff on Illios and my friend on Tracer sticks me while I'm healing from 300 to 600.  Cue him desperately trying to finish me off before i can slowly lumber over to the big healthpack, me getting to the healthpack at 10 health, and then finishing him off with a 80% kill from a single left click.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch.  I swear, at some point I stopped getting better at the hook and started getting better at his left clicks.  God damn those left clicks are amazing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 20, 2017, 12:36:48 pm

Went 4-4-1 in my first Blood Bowl 2 regular SP season. Which is a huge step for me. I feel like I'm finally starting to get the hang of things! Maybe I'll try out MP soon, and eventually graduate to the legendary FUMBBL!

EDIT: Playing Orcs for those interested.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on April 20, 2017, 01:55:02 pm

I took a poop sooo big it didnt flush down the industrial strength toilet in one go.


It .... just kind of folded halfway and mocked gravity

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 21, 2017, 09:37:25 pm

Won my first real victory against the Automatons. Despite them having a higher starting fleet strength, as well as more ships(3 vs 5), mine were bigger and carried several missile launchers that tore into them in the opening phase. The first round, they lost two of their ships in the opening volley, followed by another one being almost destroyed. All three of my ships were banged up but functional. Next turn, they managed to somehow rebuild their destroyed ships, but they and another were again destroyed in the opening salvo. And despite getting out-carded at both middle and melee range, both their remaining ships were destroyed at the cost of one of mine.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space. Being "out-carded" is a function of the battle. At the start of each phase(long, middle, melee), each fleet plays a "card" signifying its tactic for that phase, which gives it various buffs or debuffs. Each of the basic cards available at the start have another card that counters it - Defense counters Offense, etc. I'm willing to believe the AI doesn't cheat so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on April 21, 2017, 10:14:22 pm

Quote from: pisskop on April 20, 2017, 01:55:02 pm

I took a poop sooo big it didnt flush down the industrial strength toilet in one go.


It .... just kind of folded halfway and mocked gravity

O thank god im not the only one who does this

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 21, 2017, 10:32:28 pm

Ampersand and I shot our way through the Swarm in the U.S.G. map by ourselves in only two tries.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on April 21, 2017, 11:02:56 pm

Joined a random Nightmare Horn of Magnus game to complete a daily. 3/4 slots already full, so I opt for Kerillian over Markus. Been slowly learning to play her; turns out that Trueshot bows are awesome, though my only decent weapon set is a pair of dual daggers that are remarkably unhelpful at avoiding damage.

First sign that something might be problematic: I join as we're in the intro cinematic. The map was listed as 'started' before I joined... which leads me to believe they might've just wiped and restarted. Or the game just glitched and claimed they'd 'started' incorrectly, I dunno, it's really hard to trust this game's server browser sometimes. And hey, it does mean I get to play the whole map, instead of joining halfway through with a nearly-dead character, so I'm not going to complain too loudly!

Early encounters go fine, minus a little unnecessary friendly-fire damage from our Wizard. The Rat Ogre spawns right after the guard house, and immediately focuses on me. I promptly decide to learn how to dodge, holding the Ogre's attention through 5 consecutive dodges while taking no hits and dealing the most damage to it. Not going to lie, was mildly proud of that one, especially since I normally get hit repeatedly when the Ogres target me.

And then we get past the blast door, and the crew splits up to loot the market and grab the second grimoire... except instead we end up with a patrol coming right through the door, splitting us up with no mention of stealth. Oh crap. I get a nice bomb into the horde, then myself and the Wizard each kill 4 Stormvermin. By the time we're done, though, the Dwarf is dead, and the Witch Hunter gets downed by a Packmaster while my 'intelligent' bow is shooting the random clanrats next to him, and is then finished off seconds before I can get the revive. Bugger; we're down two teammates now (and one Grimoire).

Thankfully, the Wizard and I manage to hold off the next horde and push forwards to get the rescues. The Dwarf immediately turns around to grab the second Grimore, back in the town square. No accounting for Dwarfen greed, I guess.

The rest of the fight is largely uneventful. We clear the tavern and roofs, eventually convince the Dwarf to stop ignoring medical supplies and heal, and handle the tower and defense mission elegantly. Final loot is short one grimoire die, but we did pick up one cursed loot die. I take a look at the reward chart and start begging for 3 hits for the exotic.

Instead, I get 7 hits. Out of seven. With only one grimoire die and one cursed die. On Nightmare, that's enough for a free red-rarity weapon, the top quality tier in the game. I walk away from that random daily mission with Victor's red-quality two-handed sword... which would be more exciting if I didn't have two exotic 2H swords for Victor, or hadn't just trashed three blue and green quality 2H swords, or if I had any other weapons at all for Victor above white quality. But still, random red loot is always fun!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warhammer: Vermintide

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 22, 2017, 04:41:41 am

Pontus doesn't exist anymore and I'm happy as hell. I reduced them to one province and yet they still managed to fight me off quite a few times. Next target is Dacia and then Civil War.

Rome: Total War 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 22, 2017, 05:45:02 am

An event allowed me to dump several large pirate fleets on the enemy... at the cost what was everything in my treasury... and while I was simultaneously attacking the enemy worlds.

Naturally, they immediately turned against me and started to attack me once I pulled back from the world I was attacking. Before the battle, I was able to pull all my ships together into one fleet, giving me a strength of ~1500 against the pirates' ~1200. Lost a ship during the missile duel, but they lost several. Ripped apart several more at gun range, leaving only one left to die at close range with minimal damage to my fleet besides the one ship.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on April 22, 2017, 04:49:45 pm

Just got home from owning it up on the dancefloor. Yeee boi!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 22, 2017, 06:17:12 pm

Got my first promotion barely two days into the game.

I've been kicking a lot of ass.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 23, 2017, 01:00:42 am

People have been such cowards in that game.

"We shouldn't turn on onslaught until we can beat the level the first time" they say, with 8 players and on normal mode.  Pshhhh, you gotta be scared, or you aren't getting that genuine Aliens experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on April 24, 2017, 09:16:53 pm

Over the course of two turns, I mind-controlled an entire ship of aliens. iirc the only one of my units I moved out of the Skyranger was a HWP.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM: UFO Defense. Psionics are borderline OP after the first psi soldiers get ~5 battles of psi training.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on April 25, 2017, 08:37:19 am

Quote from: Yoink on April 22, 2017, 04:49:45 pm

Just got home from owning it up on the dancefloor. Yeee boi!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life

   

Is it on steam

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on April 25, 2017, 09:43:54 am

It's not even PC, usually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 25, 2017, 10:15:23 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on April 25, 2017, 09:43:54 am

It's not even PC, usually.

Yeah, Real Life is a Switch exclusive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 25, 2017, 10:49:39 am

Quote from: Teneb on April 25, 2017, 10:15:23 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on April 25, 2017, 09:43:54 am

It's not even PC, usually.

Yeah, Real Life is a Switch exclusive.

Isn't there an emulator for that, though?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 25, 2017, 10:55:53 am

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/outside_mmorpg.jpg)


I'll just leave it here...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 25, 2017, 11:14:30 am

Full-loot PvP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 25, 2017, 11:15:05 am

"No Monthly Fee"

Bullshit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 25, 2017, 11:18:23 am

With Perma-death, massive in-game currency grinding, no save system, massive spawn RNG, no magic system, incredibly expensive crafting for anything worthwhile. Hell, the PvP isn't really even worthwhile. The major factions are so entrenched that it's really difficult to make a difference if you got a bad spawn or picked the wrong race or class- not that you get much of a choice in the matter.

It has its redeeming moments. The romance system is bloody amazing, but I mostly like it for the minigames.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 25, 2017, 11:20:13 am

The soundtrack is pretty great though! There's no way you'll ever hear it all though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on April 25, 2017, 11:24:08 am

The graphics are really good too but I tend to get massive lag sometimes, usually around 11pm until my client resets around 7am. And I'm even running it on a 1080 too, wtf nvidia.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on April 25, 2017, 11:31:26 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on April 25, 2017, 10:55:53 am

> No monthly fee
Gosh, that would be nice.  I hear you can pirate it, but the DRM is insane.

On-topic, barely but...
Worked my agenda into the Dark Assembly of Hell.  First I lobbied on various unimportant proposals, bribing all the low-level senators who attend such things.  Gradually I worked my way up to the real goal, putting forth a significant amount of resources to get it on the table.

The upper echelons of the Assembly loathed it at first.  But the support of lesser senators, in aggregate, helped.  Careful use of gold bricks convinced the most powerful senators.  Still, there were a lot of unhappy senators left when my bribes ran out...  Fortunately, I also brought chloroform.

The incorruptible white dragons tried to stop me, but I managed to squeak by with a 2% win.
(The proposal was to unseal the legendary Cave of Ordeals.  I'm sure there's nothing to worry about... silly dragons!  (Based on Disgaea 1, it'll contain the secret of true ultimate power.  In a way.))
Disgaea 2

EDIT:  Actually, my frog with three pairs of shoes equipped absolutely owns for clearing item worlds, since he can fly over enemies.  He can even solo low-level guardians pretty safely, though the lack of actual armor makes him fragile.
I just bribed the Dark Assembly into passing a bill that increases his movement LITERALLY up to eleven.
Given enough time, his shoes will fall in love with him, so I'll trade them out.  After 10 pieces of equipment fall in love, he'll get even more speed.
goty

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 26, 2017, 04:34:19 pm

At first, I thought you were still talking about OUTSIDE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 26, 2017, 08:00:53 pm

Using the arrival of what appeared to be a massive pack of blind dogs, pseudodogs, and snorks as a diversion, I was able to attack a combined mercenary/bandit camp without any problem. Most of the bandits were killed by the dogs, and the ones that I killed were too busy crapping themselves over the dogs that they barely registered me shooting them in the face. Most of the dogs were killed by the bandits and anomalies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.

Arena battle. I was sent in carrying four grenades, one bandage, and a knife. No armor. My opponent has an advanced assault rifle with underbarrel grenade launcher, an exosuit, and may or may not have been amped up with artifacts. Introduced my OP asshole opponent to the bane of every player of Clear Sky - stealth grenades.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R SoC again. I think Clear Sky nerfed grenade damage, but traded it for enemies having the ability to teleport them into your face.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 12:04:26 am

Murdered all the things, got lots of red items.

I'm still trying to figure out where the extra 2 hours (of, apparently, 4ish) went.

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Risk of Rain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 27, 2017, 12:15:46 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 12:04:26 am

Murdered all the things, got lots of red items.

I'm still trying to figure out where the extra 2 hours (of, apparently, 4ish) went.

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Risk of Rain

RoR is amazing. How many artifact (modifiers, whatever you want to call them) unlocks do you have?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 27, 2017, 05:09:47 am

Quote from: Draignean on April 27, 2017, 12:15:46 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 12:04:26 am

Murdered all the things, got lots of red items.

I'm still trying to figure out where the extra 2 hours (of, apparently, 4ish) went.

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Risk of Rain

RoR is amazing. How many artifact (modifiers, whatever you want to call them) unlocks do you have?

HOW O_O
I require spoilers to even LIVE past the lava biome thingy. ;~;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 07:09:15 am

Quote from: Draignean on April 27, 2017, 12:15:46 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 12:04:26 am

Murdered all the things, got lots of red items.

I'm still trying to figure out where the extra 2 hours (of, apparently, 4ish) went.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

RoR is amazing. How many artifact (modifiers, whatever you want to call them) unlocks do you have?

Most of them except the one that requires a playthrough with all of the artifacts on.

I generally play with Command, Glass, and Kin on.

Quote from: Tiruin on April 27, 2017, 05:09:47 am

Quote from: Draignean on April 27, 2017, 12:15:46 am

Quote from: TheBiggerFish on April 27, 2017, 12:04:26 am

Murdered all the things, got lots of red items.

I'm still trying to figure out where the extra 2 hours (of, apparently, 4ish) went.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Risk of Rain

RoR is amazing. How many artifact (modifiers, whatever you want to call them) unlocks do you have?

HOW O_O
I require spoilers to even LIVE past the lava biome thingy. ;~;

See above for artifact loadout, then take Infusion the first green thing you get.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 27, 2017, 06:43:47 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on April 25, 2017, 10:55:53 am

-snip-

That ad is bullcrap, the NPCs have horrific AI.

Also, it may be "full PvP", but you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do any of it. You have to join a specific combat guild if you want to get into a competition fight with nonlethal weapons, and then you can only fight people in the guild, and if you want to engage in lethal PVP you have to join an army guild (stats barrier there too) and get a bunch of stupid cosmetic changes, but you don't even get to choose who you want to fight, the higher-ups in the guild choose for you. If you start any PVP without being in one of these guilds you get banned (temp-ban if you only fight, perma-ban or sometimes account termination if you kill them. There's even an old video you can watch in-game about why this is a bad idea)

Additionally, it's incredibly hard to rise in the ranks if you picked bad traits or optimized your character poorly, outside of a couple of specific areas (I'm told a lot of Erup is pretty good though I haven't been there with my character yet) where there's limits in place to stop people from really, really gimping the system. If you spawn in a high-risk area like Midel-Est or Aufraca you could get killed before you even leave the starting zone, and even then if you go to the wrong places you could get banned or PVP'd because of your character's aesthetic qualities.

These are just a couple of issues. That's not even getting into how long it takes to recover HP (and permanent injuries in an MMO? Seriously?), the broken crafting system (you need a ton of training and skills to even get started), and the really bad combat system (the fights are super short, there's no magic class, and the meta is currently dominated by super-powerful ranged weapons.)

The lore is pretty good, though, and the minigames are probably enough to justify trying it. 6/10, would play again if I had nothing better to do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 27, 2017, 06:57:29 pm

Are we still making sure that even the maggots on this dead horse are mashed into paste?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on April 27, 2017, 06:58:31 pm

Even the paste must be mashed into paste.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 27, 2017, 06:58:41 pm

Maggot paste is awesome bro.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 27, 2017, 08:10:57 pm

The dedication to the joke almost outweighed how dead it is. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on April 27, 2017, 09:07:04 pm

blood for the blood god
maggots for the maggot quern

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on April 28, 2017, 12:13:37 am

pvp doesn't get you banned though, it just attracts more people to pvp. Makes it much easier to get good fights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on April 28, 2017, 03:48:24 am

Quote from: overseer05-15 on April 27, 2017, 09:07:04 pm

blood for the blood god
maggots for the maggot quern

Ridiculous!  You don't quern maggots - you milk them like a dead joke.

On-topic:
After 70 years of mostly menial service, and a disastrous clusterfuck of a first mission, I was judged worthy of commanding a squad (by dint of selfless loyalty and, barely, surviving) (also, the local Invictus are clearly getting desperate).  A WW2 medic, a Southern Belle, and a blind kung-fu mistress walk into knock politely at the door of a hunter conspiracy.  "Is this some kind of a joke?"

Continued in the tabletop thread due to length: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151000.msg7436502#msg7436502
New World of Darkness, Vampire the Requiem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheBiggerFish on April 28, 2017, 09:40:41 pm

Fastest Boss Kill: -:- [NEW RECORD]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Providence, stage three, Risk of Rain.

Holy carp.

(Huntress, Artifact of Glass/Kin/Command, grabbed all the damage boosters, lots of crowbars...and just stood back and glaived him.  He just...died.

Spoiler: Proof (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/JzRELDX.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 29, 2017, 07:42:40 am

Wait, you mean to say you instantly killed the boss?

Holy carp. I knew you were a nice guy but I didn't actually think you were a badass killing machine too...

I salute you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 29, 2017, 10:14:02 am

Killed the boss of the Steps of Torment, Alkamos the Lord Executioner, who is level 40, at level 30. For context, not only could he two-shot me, but the entire area he is in has a gimmick that it can only be briefly opened with a one-use item, and in that area you can't teleport out. You die, quit the game, or you kill the boss.

Grim Dawn

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 29, 2017, 04:38:35 pm

Doing mission 10 of the Terran campaign of original Starcraft, and decided I wasn't going to wait and just go for the ion cannon. That turned out about as poorly as you'd expect, even with 12 battlecruisers.

So, a reload and change of tack: attack the bases on my side of the divide in order to get more resources for myself for a proper assault.

12 battlecruisers ain't so bad now, are they?

Long story short, I didn't actually have to do that, I think I could've got away with

Spoiler: spoiler for tactics I guess (click to show/hide)

only taking out the white dudes prior to my assault, 'cause they apparently like to use ghosts, ghosts which have the lockdown ability to mess with your battlecruisers, and that's pretty much what got me done in with my haste the first time. There were only like... 2 firebats, a vulture, and a science vessel on the other side, plus the missile turrets.

Now, onto the Zerg campaign!

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Starcraft

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 29, 2017, 05:31:35 pm

Took out Aragorn, Haldir, and Gimli with 1 bomb in Helms Deep.

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StarCraft 1 - Helms Deep Annatar (Custom map)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2017, 06:59:08 am

Wat do ya do when dem humies, dem Eldar panzies, an' dem Space Marine boyz can't zog some humie who'z gone all 'ard an' spikey in a propah fight? Ya send in da Orkz 'cuz da Orkz are da best!

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Dawn of War II: Retribution, completed Ork campaign. Despite the fact that my heroes were actually underleveled somehow, Kyras this time around was actually easier. I didn't know destroying all his skull towers(during the fight) causes a lot of damage to him, probably because I don't think I managed to destroy all three in time. Spookums with a very powerful Rokkit Launcher made short work of every single vehicle, building, and daemon he came across.

The only ones left are Chaos and Tyranids.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 30, 2017, 10:37:14 am

Level 80 Knight with 13 +10 Estus, Cathedral Knight Helm, Millwood Knight Armor, Gundyr's Gauntlets, Harald Legion Leggings, and a +10 Murakumo that she has to two-hand because she only has 14 STR vs Darkeater Midir.

Knight wins on the first try. RIP dragon.

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Dark Souls 3, Ringed City DLC. And yet I can't do a goddamn thing to Nameless King, even now with another twenty levels gained. I can whip his dragon's ass zero problems, but once it's one on one instead of one on two I always lose hard. :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 30, 2017, 10:38:59 am

>not having enough strength to one-hand your primary weapon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 30, 2017, 10:40:46 am

Oh, she does now. She just didn't at the time I fought THE HARDEST BOSS IN THE GAME SOLO AND BEAT IT ON MY FIRST TRY WITHOUT EVER SEEING ANYONE FIGHT IT BEFORE OR ANYTHING, GET REKT. :P

Not that it matters; Murakumo's 1-hand R2 is the only thing different from the 2-hand moveset afaik. (Also I think Nameless King is harder, but I seem to be the only one who thinks that.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 30, 2017, 01:03:16 pm

I think Midir is usually harder because people do things that make other bosses easier but cause him to be more difficult (namely summoning because his defenses are crazy high), but that's still impressive. I just wanted to make a joke. :P

Good job, skeleton.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 30, 2017, 01:45:42 pm

Just defeated Mannfred, the Drakenhof garrison, and a lone Strigoi with Vlad and Isabella on turn 8, uniting Sylvania. Vlad's army was 1516 strong and Isabella's 300 (so 1816), against a grand total of 3005 from Manny, which included high-tier stuff like grave guard.

Vlad's army was himself, 3 skeleton warriors, 3 skeleton spearmen, 6 zombies, and one unit of blood knights. Isabella's army was herself, two vampire heroes (one death, one shadows), 3 vargheists, and 6 fell bats.

Enemy comp? Mannfred, a strigoi, 11 skeleton warriors, 4 zombies, 1 skeleton spearmen, 3 dire wolves, 3 fell bats, 2 vargheists, 4 crypt ghouls, 4 grave guards.

Much lord sniping was had.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this was on VH/VH difficulty.

Total War: WARHAMMER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2017, 06:36:44 pm

750-point botmatch on Mygeeto, maxed bots.

Won with over 300 points left, my highest kill-count was 49 in one life.

Eventually pushed the Separatists to the southernmost CP, where there is but a single bridge leading to the rest of the map with little in the way of flanking routes. but decent cover debris. The result was two large(for a FPS) armies blasting the crap out of each other.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Wars Battlefront II. Been a while since I played, and never on PC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on April 30, 2017, 09:52:22 pm

Forgot to turn my recording software off after I was done doing commentary for videos, this happened. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImOe_nfF0-M&feature=youtu.be) I cut it down to four minutes partially because the beginning of the match was just walking, and partially to hopefully help avoid getting struck. Though I'm orders of magnitudes of viewers away from that being a realistic concern.

MechWarrior Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 01, 2017, 01:33:15 am

I have not played mechwarrior in ages (my last being mercenaries), but I probably would have played it a lot more if I had that cockpit voice.  "Too much heat you idiot." "U wot m8"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on May 01, 2017, 07:09:58 am

If you ever do pick up MWO, here's the link (http://raksarmory.blogspot.com/2017/02/mwo-mlg-betty-release.html) to the MLG Bitchin' Betty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2017, 07:20:37 am

I had been thinking about getting into this myself, especially after seeing some of theB33F's videos. Example. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn7_ILqVmyA)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on May 01, 2017, 07:28:02 am

Oh, just don't expect faction warfare to be that good. Or much of anything, really. PGI is a godawful dev studio, they've got a long history in MWO of making stupid decisions and refusing to back down on them/taking multiple years to fix them, Russ vocally hates the players, and the company was totally unfamiliar with both BTech and this style of game prior to acquiring the license. There were issues pointed out in the CBT which are still in the game to this day.

That said, it is free, and your other options for first-person 'mech combat are going back to MW4 or praying that the MW: Living Legends playerbase keeps up enough numbers for servers to continue operating. It's not bad as long as you don't expect good balance or sane decision-making.

Especially if you want to lurmboat outside of FW group drops organized and ready for it. This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0eXjiVlY9U) is your experience 95% of the time, from the perspective of the pug team opposing you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2017, 09:23:13 am

Final objective was to kill 3 Jedi Masters. Although I managed to kill one as Vader, I was overwhelmed by the rest of the defenders. By the time I respawned as a regular trooper, we had about 40 points left. Shot my way through half a dozen Jedi, then died. Respawned with a lightsaber in my chest, respawned again, died again. By the time I managed to kill the second Master(about 2-3 minutes later at most), we had 10 points. Quickly died again, and by the time I respawned, we were down to one point. Since points are lost on death and not respawn, that means if one more trooper died, it's a loss.

Just as soon as I look away from the points left, at least 8 Jedi, plus Temple Soldiers, start charging the library where I respawned. I respond by tossing however many grenades I could, killing many. Then the last Master charges in the breach I made, directly towards me. I hold down the trigger and don't let up. He jumps over me, grazes me with a lightsaber, bringing me down to almost no health.

With the last shot before my gun is empty, just as he was about to swing for the killing blow, he goes down. Victory for the Galactic Republic Empire.

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Star Wars Battlefront II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 01, 2017, 09:53:04 am

Quote from: Akura on May 01, 2017, 09:23:13 am

-snip-

That level can be pretty hard. That's why you use explosive weapons against the Jedi.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 03:52:59 pm

Loosely related, but I've always headcanoned it that Jedi can stop physical projectiles in midair matrix style and that's why people try blasters.  Its always seemed to me that if it was possible to shotgun Obi-wan to death someone would have thought of that by now.

I dunno, it seems to me that throwing a grenade at a Jedi Master is a good way to get yourself blown up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on May 01, 2017, 04:01:19 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 03:52:59 pm

Loosely related, but I've always headcanoned it that Jedi can stop physical projectiles in midair matrix style and that's why people try blasters.  Its always seemed to me that if it was possible to shotgun Obi-wan to death someone would have thought of that by now.

I dunno, it seems to me that throwing a grenade at a Jedi Master is a good way to get yourself blown up.

It does seem like the easiest way to stop a Jedi would be a flamethrower, or some kind of contact neurotoxin, or a Maser, or a sonic weapon.

EDIT: Aaand I forget the relevant part of this post. Durrrr.

Completely managed to automate most of my production facilities, and my defenses are entirely automated and tough enough to mess up more than a half-dozen attacking centipedes. I have medicine and components to spare, and everyone is happy as a result of the gold sculptures I've been shitting everywhere along with their luxury meals.

Oh, and I finally got everyone into Superior+ Greydale combat armor, so I can stop getting headshot by goddamn beavers.

Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 01, 2017, 04:04:48 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 03:52:59 pm

Loosely related, but I've always headcanoned it that Jedi can stop physical projectiles in midair matrix style and that's why people try blasters.  Its always seemed to me that if it was possible to shotgun Obi-wan to death someone would have thought of that by now.

I dunno, it seems to me that throwing a grenade at a Jedi Master is a good way to get yourself blown up.

Spoiler: Derail (click to show/hide)

I remember various sources from the old EU detailing how to kill Jedi. Physical projectiles (because these just get vaporized by the lightsabers instead of reflected) and flamethrowers were noted as weapons of choice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Dice on May 01, 2017, 04:31:17 pm

Yeah, I imagine both that most Force-users don't have the strength and control to outright stop a large quantity of bullets. There's also the possibility that a sufficiently large round (your choice whether that means '.50' or '120mm') wouldn't be fully melted even if they got the block off, meaning that the Jedi/Sith gets hit with a supersonic glob of molten metal.

Now, a single buck shell probably could be stopped. But get three or four people all shooting the Jedi/Sith from different angles and ranges with automatic shotguns? Ded. Except maybe for high-end ones who could AoE Force Push and get out of the way faster than mortal reflexes or senses can track.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 04:32:15 pm

Quote from: Teneb on May 01, 2017, 04:04:48 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 03:52:59 pm

Loosely related, but I've always headcanoned it that Jedi can stop physical projectiles in midair matrix style and that's why people try blasters.  Its always seemed to me that if it was possible to shotgun Obi-wan to death someone would have thought of that by now.

I dunno, it seems to me that throwing a grenade at a Jedi Master is a good way to get yourself blown up.

Spoiler: Derail (click to show/hide)

I remember various sources from the old EU detailing how to kill Jedi. Physical projectiles (because these just get vaporized by the lightsabers instead of reflected) and flamethrowers were noted as weapons of choice.

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Yeah, and I've always thought that was a stupid interpretation of the OT.  Lightsabers are overrated, all of the powerful force users seem to agree.  Obiwan always prefered non-violent or indirect means, Yoda implies that a true master of the force could do a lot more than what Luke can.  Palpatine doesn't have a lightsaber and doesn't respect them at all.

And if you think about it, why would a Jedi need a lightsaber when they could just snap someone's neck with the force.  Because the light side isn't FOR killing.  Obiwan never physically harms anyone with the force.  Thus if a Jedi has to defend themselves they use a weapon.  The lightsaber makes perfect symbolic sense because it can harm but it can also protect, and it makes practical sense because being force sensitive helps you use it but the force isn't the thing that actually does the killing.  Darth Vader uses a lightsaber because he used to be a Jedi, but he has no compunction against killing, which is why he uses telekinesis for violence.  In fact pretty much every ability or power Darth Vader uses is light side, and his general style of fighting emphasizes invincible defense rather than offense.  Its almost like a perversion of what Jedi are.  The only Sith we see never actually fights, because really he's just torturing Luke.  I've heard a really interesting interpretation of that scene which is that he could have killed Luke almost instantly but he wanted to kill him slowly.  And then of course once he's falling to his death since he's a dark side user, which (in the OT at least) seems to emphasize direct violence, he doesn't have any powers that would save his own life.  We never saw the extent of what Palpatine or Yoda were capable of.

I've always figured that the Jedi must have been truly formidable and what we see in the OT is just a dying shadow of that.  Its never said that the powers we see are the only thing you can do with the force, in fact the implication is the opposite.  The Jedi Masters of old must have been something else, and Palpatine must be a real monster to have been able to overcome them.  Instead what we get with the prequels was a bunch of gullible, violent mooks with the exact same powerset as Luke.  Whose been a Jedi for like... what, two years?

There's a really great cartoon out there where Mace Windu loses his lightsaber while fighting super battle droids and proceeds to kung fu the shit out of them while disassembling them with his mind.  That's what the prequels should have been (that, and more varied uses for the force like healing the sick and such).

Edit: "Size matters not," surely "number matters not" as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2017, 06:41:35 pm

Spoiler: KoToRII tips on fighting Jedi (click to show/hide)

Go for their friends.

...That was dark.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on May 01, 2017, 06:57:35 pm

How many dark side points did you just gain there?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 02, 2017, 06:34:16 pm

Completed a terror mission with only three civilian deaths, no soldier casualties, and a rating of "Excellent!"

Laser weapons kick a surprising amount of ass. A welcome step-up of the days (read: 5 minutes ago) of soldiers shooting Floaters with cannons only to be slain by the return fire.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

X-COM: UFO Defense

EDIT: Still having no luck with installing mods, though. I don't care if it's relatively ineffective now, I want my shotgun, dammit!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on May 02, 2017, 08:09:41 pm

Final battles are fairly anticlimactic if you clear out the enemy base beforehand.

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Starcraft 1. In both of the final missions at the end of the zerg campaign, the protoss have a defense-heavy base but are not very aggressive. A large enough group of devourers (and mutalisks for anti-air/meatshields) is pretty much unstoppable. So I removed the heavily-defended second bases that were probably intended to be too difficult for the player to attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 02, 2017, 11:29:54 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2017, 04:32:15 pm

There's a really great cartoon out there where Mace Windu loses his lightsaber while fighting super battle droids and proceeds to kung fu the shit out of them while disassembling them with his mind.  That's what the prequels should have been (that, and more varied uses for the force like healing the sick and such).

There was more from Tartakovsky's Clone Wars Cartoons :3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF3ocZu4cZo) But this is a short video of it where Windu also uses Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

Quote from: AzyWng on May 02, 2017, 06:34:16 pm

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X-COM: UFO Defense

This reminds me of my current game.

Spoiler: XCOM: EW; Long War (click to show/hide)

I had gone into the .ini files to make Long War pretty much THE SAME TIMING as the original (set one of the variables to 0.2 under Dynamic Long War to adjust the length of time) but with the scaling difficulty and alien tech research. Playing on Impossible Ironman (because that one steam achievement :V) and the most annoying thing is that ONE 'lower will, panic panic domino effect' that keeps plaguing me in that I keep a full roster of 10 folks [plus 2 to make the 12 man max upgraded squad mission roster] in which only 40% are my main team, and the rest are meatshields/support meatshields due to how difficult everything is.

Progressing extremely well given tactics and time. Gauss weaponry, and a list of elite sniper/scout/gunners keeping the aliens at bay \o/

But goodness is this very hard--missions are sparse and in between, and it is **common** to have sectoids with 5+ health; thin men with 7+, and mutons with three lines or more of 5 health each.

...This doesn't bring up the topic of Mechtoids and those Cyberdiscs.

Disabling fire is my best friend. BEST FRIEND, alongside accuracy!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on May 02, 2017, 11:36:14 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on May 02, 2017, 11:29:54 pm

Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use it to run from the droidekas at the beginning of Ep1... Strange that neither did when fighting Maul.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 02, 2017, 11:45:30 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on May 02, 2017, 11:36:14 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on May 02, 2017, 11:29:54 pm

Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use it to run from the droidekas at the beginning of Ep1... Strange that neither did when fighting Maul.

I finally noticed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLvPp7AsXo) that bit. (https://youtu.be/pUbXyd-fK8Q?t=2m29s)
... :-\ So many opportunities.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on May 02, 2017, 11:53:51 pm

For all we know, they could have been using force speed the entire time, and the normal speed of the fight is just from their perspective. Anybody else watching would just see a bunch of blue and red blurs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 03, 2017, 12:10:48 am

Woah, I never noticed that!  I assumed they just leapt away or something - the explosion grabbed my eye.  That's really cool!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 03, 2017, 12:14:25 am

Quote from: NRDL on May 02, 2017, 11:53:51 pm

For all we know, they could have been using force speed the entire time, and the normal speed of the fight is just from their perspective. Anybody else watching would just see a bunch of blue and red blurs.

O_O
This makes sense in everything now, and made me recall my try in Star Wars: Republic Commando. (Repeating laser rifles \o/)

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 03, 2017, 12:10:48 am

Woah, I never noticed that!  I assumed they just leapt away or something - the explosion grabbed my eye.  That's really cool!

Yeah, back in my childhood I loved physics and reading all that, I could recognize those bits but how many things happening on screen had me seeing more explosions rather than...well, that.
But I did wonder how the hallway was empty as I assumed they ran to the right. :P

[Game noted right at top]
So playing on the hardest difficulty because I can, having fun with tactical positioning, panicking because of being overwhelmed with fire on all sides, and getting familiar with all these fancy grenades gets me in the most adrenaline filled situations at the end of Mission 2 (aboard a Republic starship...the ending being very intense), and a less intense Mission 3 on Kashyyk. Because Grievous' bodyguards are no joke and are extremely annoying (or at least they are his body guards--those double purple plasma bladed robots are very annoying and the NPC I have to defend keeps dying to them x~x)
I feel like winning that one mission and then not having to guard the NPC anymore is a win, on the hardest difficulty.

. . .Also remembering what grenade does what. A bit of playing on shared games of (Star Wars: Knights of the Ol' Republic) had me understanding grenades even better (Sonic, Thermal, etc...) when I got back into playing and trying to finish that last mission area.
Also the Wookies keep dying ;~;

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 03, 2017, 10:47:51 pm

Just destroyed an Alien Base with no losses.

Granted, I did lose the US as a funding partner (they signed a pact), but the other nations are all still in.

Personal Armor was only marginally better than Coveralls (My units looked better but still died as fast), so I upgraded to Power Suits and never looked back. Now my troops can actually stay alive long enough for others to use Med-Kits on them!

I may actually be getting good at this game!

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XCOM: UFO Defense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 04, 2017, 12:43:23 am

Came in first place on bowser's castle with room to spare as yoshi, and utterly smoked the one guy who has been dominating everyone else in the lobby for once.  Felt good.

Of course all the highlight reels of the races after that, could be summed up as "30 seconds of dinosaur abuse", "Yoshi almost places then gets shelled to 11th on the last quarter of the last lap", and "30 seconds of Yoshi fucking up shortcuts and running into bananas"

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on May 04, 2017, 06:06:10 pm

I have completely skullfucked Abbadon's plans for the Gothic Sector by hiding away both the Eye of Night and the Hand of Darkness. Slowly beating off the Chaos assaults, with Nova Cannon and hunting down their admirals.


Current foes in order of difficulty:


4: Eldar. Buncha wimps get blown apart so easily. Nova Cannons are love.
3: Imperial Traitors. I do what they can, but better most of the time, and I'm building for high shields. Tank v Tank, and I'm the better tank.
2: Chaos. Their bloody Cruisers are the same speed as my Frigates. If I can catch them, I rip them apart. If they have an objective they need to get to... yeah.
1: Orks. I now understand Imhotekh the Stormlord's issue with them. How the fuck do I fight these guys? Their Light Kroozers can fight my Cruisers! I just avoid the Greenskins at this point, too hard to kill. Better to hunt for Eldar, easy fights.


Also, fuck Convoy and Planetary Defense.


Battlefleet Gothic: Armada.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2017, 04:43:36 pm

Once again, Red decided not to use the fact that Mawile is very, very flammable and make an easy win. Only this time, Blue was standing next to him to laugh at his foolishness - at least Blue managed to take out Garchomp.

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Pokemon Sun, Battle Tree Multi, facing all 20 matches with Pokemon Breeder Rada because I never bothered to scout anyone in any of the other modes. She's actually good, her Barbaracle is actually quite powerful.

Also, I looked it up, both times I faced Red's Charizard, which was holding a Charti Berry(not that it saved it from Stone Edge), that Charizard knows no Fire-type moves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on May 06, 2017, 02:07:58 am

After about 5 attempts and skill switchups, I finally managed to beat a 225-man mob round - I was worn down to my last health at about 25 guys left, with the golden sword triggered and everything. Felt like a badass, which helped the shame that I had to have that to beat the level in the first place.

One Finger Death Punch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 06, 2017, 08:07:56 am

Quote from: Xantalos on May 06, 2017, 02:07:58 am

After about 5 attempts and skill switchups, I finally managed to beat a 225-man mob round - I was worn down to my last health at about 25 guys left, with the golden sword triggered and everything. Felt like a badass, which helped the shame that I had to have that to beat the level in the first place.

One Finger Death Punch

Video games have taught me that if you don't use whatever you have at your disposal, you're gonna lose.

Then again, survival horror games (and even a few non-survival horror games) have taught me to hang on to the really special stuff so I don't waste it on something...

Hm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 06, 2017, 12:39:33 pm

Won a Von Carstein VH/VH campaign on turn 72. It helps a lot that the victory condition doesn't require fighting Archaon's boys.

Total War: Warhammer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 06, 2017, 04:26:50 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 06, 2017, 08:07:56 am

Quote from: Xantalos on May 06, 2017, 02:07:58 am

After about 5 attempts and skill switchups, I finally managed to beat a 225-man mob round - I was worn down to my last health at about 25 guys left, with the golden sword triggered and everything. Felt like a badass, which helped the shame that I had to have that to beat the level in the first place.

One Finger Death Punch

Video games have taught me that if you don't use whatever you have at your disposal, you're gonna lose.

Then again, survival horror games (and even a few non-survival horror games) have taught me to hang on to the really special stuff so I don't waste it on something...

Hm.

And then you never use the good stuff because the normal stuff is plentiful and efficient enough, and that you've already used it so much you know exactly how and when to use it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 06, 2017, 08:00:16 pm

I'm never going to manage this again, but in the midst of a military attack on my HQ I managed to shoot down 3 VTOLs with a single RPG.

Saints Row: The Third

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 07, 2017, 10:56:18 am

Took a very long time, but I've finally made a perfectly flat barren world, the entire way around, via cutting down mountains and filling in valleys. It was done for the purpose of building a massive hive city across the planet, at least until the number of NPCs generated crash the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starbound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 07, 2017, 12:37:48 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 06, 2017, 08:00:16 pm

I'm never going to manage this again, but in the midst of a military attack on my HQ I managed to shoot down 3 VTOLs with a single RPG.

Saints Row: The Third

*insert obnoxious OH BABY A TRIPLE here*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 07, 2017, 03:00:34 pm

Not sure if this is really an own, but...

Beat the game.

Sloan's inevitable death was much more satisfying than the death of the final villain in AC3, despite the fact that both deaths take place during a cutscene. Funny how that works.

Now to go recapture the outposts and everything.

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 07, 2017, 04:02:54 pm

And isn't the ending song so great?
Blood Dragon's mechanics are a bit shallow compared to FC3, which is why it was a cheaper standalone "demo", but the cinematics (interactive and otherwise) are spot-on.

After a short break, and not having an active Skype call, I beat Undyne without too much trouble.  Turns out FOCUS is as important as DETERMINATION.  Speaking to a recorder instead of holding a conversation, it wasn't hard to learn the patterns.

I thought I'd feel worse.  But she was in my way, and my LV is high.  On to the next challenge.
Also, her music was very Touhou~

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Undertale, G-run

Edit for FC: BD's end song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9aF9_mZDyY)
So 90's, not even 80's.
And friends through eternity- loyalty, honesty... hng.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on May 07, 2017, 11:59:45 pm

Stumped Akinator for the first time in a while, with The Unicorn Wizard. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbra-rKXzk4) It asked me a lot of questions leading to Danny Sexbang, and brought up other Youtube characters, but didn't make the distinction after three rounds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 08, 2017, 09:13:42 am

Made someone ragequit twice due to my "camping". Note: I was simply holding the capture point while attacking a base, the thing you are supposed to do in this game.

Noobstomping is fun, but occasionally I feel kinda bad about it.

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Planetside 2. Protip: If charging a position blindly several times does not work, then doing so again does not improve your chances of success.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ant on May 08, 2017, 09:16:22 am

Finally got StuG IV. I've been casually grinding it down since the personal missions started, only after the damn arty mechanics were changed I managed to finish the Arty15. Took the tier 6 frenchie and pinned down a bunch of heavies (that remained on roughly on the same spot all the time even as I continuously dropped shells on their general vicinity) to the north corner of El Halluf, netting 2 kills and more than enough assist to get the damn premium.

I miss the common chat.

World of Tanks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 08, 2017, 12:05:50 pm

Shotgun slugs are an attachment - they greatly tighten the spread of shotguns, allowing them to be used at medium-long ranges. This effectively turns shotguns into pump-action rifles.

I've performed a lot better without shotgun slugs, focusing mainly on enemies at close-medium range. The close-medium range also means I don't need to attach optics, allowing me to spend my supply points on other things.

My killcounts have been a lot higher, at least on co-op mode.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Insurgency

Quote from: Akura on May 08, 2017, 09:13:42 am

Noobstomping is fun, but occasionally I feel kinda bad about it.

There's a distinct difference between "newbies" and "noobs". If the person you made quit was truly the latter, you shouldn't feel too bad.

Just make sure you can tell the difference before you put your foot down. There's a comic that can help you somewhere, but I can't find the proper one because school wi-fi has filters and the like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 08, 2017, 03:50:00 pm

A mission to kill many, many people, to sate the thirst of a daemon of Khorne... despite being the Necrons. ???

I was fighting the Imperial Guard. They charged my base. Hilarity ensues.


In a separate battle, that moment when you realize that a Restored Monolith can in fact infiltrate if its near the Necron Lord wearing a Veil of Darkness. I wonder if that's how Creed learned to do that with Baneblades.

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Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 11, 2017, 08:24:45 pm

Won the VH/VH Dwarf campaign in 69 turns, before any of the Chaos stacks arrived, in one sitting session, with a few breaks taken without actually closing the game. I think it took me 5 to 6 hours total.

Total War: WARHAMMER.

I'm getting good at this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 12, 2017, 08:37:44 pm

In a panic, hiding in a bunker right in the enemy point with all of my teammates having been wiped and pushed back, I managed to kill 6-7 Vietnamese troops before reinforcements arrived.

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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. I'm really bad at the game, so I felt awesome pulling that off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 12, 2017, 09:09:34 pm

After having our ship destroyed a couple of times already by this huge, intergalactic star-wielding, Norse frost giant warrior, my friends and I started the fight again and received a rather disappointing roll for random ship parts. Nevertheless we threw some of them on, creating a terrible unoptimized ship, with the reasoning that "well, we'll fail this time quickly and then get serious next time," only for said unoptimized loadout to actually work really well for the situation- we pretty much breezed through the fight, taking out the boss in under half the time of our previous attempts and losing barely any health. :o

'Twas quite a satisfying moment!

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Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 12, 2017, 10:10:44 pm

That game is a gift.

With the starting ship, put iron gems on both the side weapons and then wave them around at random.  Me and my roommate call it the ship dance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on May 13, 2017, 03:12:04 am

It had been many turns since the Dread Lords emerged and, through their merciless indiscriminate carnage and conquest, rendered space essentially off limits to all factions for no ship, fleet, or trade route could withstand them or long escape their malevolent notice. Isolated and vulnerable, the Reptoid homeworld soon found itself the subject of repeated Dread Lord invasions... while they were able to repel the Dread Lords, billions had lost their lives in the carnage and it was only a matter of time before they succumbed.

Yet hope remained, for they were relatively close to researching the scientific victory technology, all they had to do was hold out a hundred more turns. Thus a bold plot was developed, to buy colony ships (at a colony with essentially no production capabilities) fitted with a bunch of thrusters for max speed and smuggle additional defenders to the homeworld between Dread Lord patrols, then scuttle the ship upon delivery (for ships attracted DL ships and I wanted to stay under the radar). Bolstered by their reinforcements, the Reptoid homeworld was able to withstand repeated invasions long enough to research the victory tech. Huzzah!

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Galactic Civilizations 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 13, 2017, 04:25:18 am

I think I remember reading an LP, not sure if it was GalCiv 1 or 2(I think 2), where the player exploited an AI quirk where it refuses to invade a planet the same turn it destroys any defenders. They build tiny ship after tiny cheap ship(called prawns due to their shape), which would get blown up immediately, every turn until they got a tech victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 13, 2017, 05:23:22 am

I think I read that too. Except it was later revealed that it wasn't a quirk. That particular AI knew that taking out the player would cause another AI nation to win the game. So it was just blowing up the player's ships so they wouldn't be a threat while they took on the rest of the galaxy.

...

Though thinking about it more, I have to ask why the AI couldn't take all but one planet from the player, to keep them in the game but still gain the extra production/research/money from conquering those planets. I'm pretty sure that the AI did reveal it could destroy defenders and invade in the same turn so... Who knows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 13, 2017, 04:44:26 pm

Mission was to eliminate three Soviet officers attending a meeting. I chose instead to kidnap recruit them.

I ambushed the first as he was driving to the meeting, by tossing a smoke grenade directly into his jeep's path of travel. For some reason, his driver decided to park right on it. They were incapacitated by the smoke, and I ran up and beat all three of them down without so much as alerting any of them. I grabbed the officer, even though his skills were crap. So was his entourage's, so I kicked them in the face and told them to lie down in the dirt.

I intended to grab the other two at the meeting site, but the third officer drove off as soon as I arrived. Accidentally set the base on (not combat) alert, but as they went around looking for me, I started ambushing fools left and right, grabbing those with decent skills. Almost ran right into the second officer, but I circled around, drew him out, then knocked him out and recruited him(he had an A+ skill).

Traveled to the last base where the third officer was, the same place where a previous mission gave me trouble. Tried to lure the gate guard over, but the range for grab-throwing him was a little off, so the whole base went on combat alert as I knocked him out. He had the sense to fire his gun before I hit him. I went full lethal, killing most of the garrison. Killed on soldier AND the guard I knocked out by shooting the soldier as he was throwing a grenade(possibly hit the grenade). Took out everyone in the base but the officer, whom I flanked and sprayed his face with a riot smg, then grabbed his A-grade ass as well.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MGS V:TPP. I tend to fail at stealth completely as a mission goes on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 13, 2017, 04:56:30 pm

I think you get moderately interesting dialogue if you eavesdrop on the meeting. It might even even be one of the optional mission side quest-type things you can get credit for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2017, 04:54:20 pm

I decided to redo a mission, taking the plantgirl-waifubate with me. The mission was to rescue a prisoner, but what I've read about the mission, there's three more there, and one has a skill I really needed. Opened the attack on the first outpost with sleep-gas artillery... which did exactly squat except put them on alert, since every single enemy in the world at this point is wearing a gas mask*.

Charged in the side of the main building, using nonlethal bullets everywhere(only lethal I had was a sniper rifle, grenades, and C4). Found two of the prisoners in the building, dragged both to the roof for extraction. After capturing the outpost with plantsniper support twice**, I started interrogating some of the surviving guards for the last optional prisoner. Found him, extracted him. Intel from the rescued prisoners and interrogated guards put me on track to the target prisoner, the next major outpost away.

Sent my support buddy on ahead to scout while I flat out ran the whole way. As soon as I get there, I get my sniper in position and have her start opening fire. As they return fire to her position, I try sneaking in, only to be spotted by a guard in a tower. In danger of being overrun by superior numbers(and dwindling ammo), I call in helicopter support. Under that help, I make into the main courtyard to see the base's anti-aircraft gun blasting away at my helicopter... and then the helicopter focused on it, blowing it up. I had intel on not only the main prisoner, but two more in the base. As the chopper was still tearing shit up, I ran in, grabbed and extracted both. The main prisoner was too injured for normal extraction, so I blew up the AA radar and ordered the chopper to stop killing stuff and land right in the courtyard. Mission complete, and I got the all-important Transportation Specialist I needed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Got an A-Rank, though I already had S-rank on that mission.
*Not sure if it's normal by chapter ~15 for so many gas masks, or if it's in response to my usual tactic of disabling groups by using a smoke grenade and laying a smackdown when they're immobilized by it.

**Reinforcements showed up and people started waking up before I was done. I also discovered that the enemy was employing decoy dummies which were marked as normal enemies, throwing me off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 16, 2017, 06:17:40 pm

Killed a bunch of chainsaw-wielding college students (I think?) with a chaingun.

Also took down a pirate VS Ninja fight with a rocket launcher, and blew up a violent environmental protest with satchel charges.

I now have unlimited ammo for my very powerful pair of Kobra pistols.

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Saint's Row 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 16, 2017, 06:37:10 pm

My heroic Commander with his full barbarians army (and an executioner mercenary) defeated the strongest enemy party before finally laying siege to their province stronghold
But my troops had been badly hurt by their province defenses.

A 2nd enemy party showed up coming to the rescue of their stronghold and after a though fight (as i had lost many of my barbarians) my army finally won the day, but losing sadly the strongest of us, that executioner mercenary that i had hired long times ago and had leveled several time, the guy had been busy destroying his opponents in battle but this one was his last.

But the executioner wasn't alone to fall in that battle, because in the end all i was left with was the hero himself, alone in enemy territory sieging that damned enemy stronghold.

Fortunately for me, there wasn't any alive enemy party anymore and the sieging was preventing the enemy to build anything or resurrect his fallen heroes.

And when the walls finally were breached, there wasn't any defender left on the enemy stronghold and the Shard was finally mine.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Eador Genesis

(http://i.imgur.com/WoJkqHX.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 16, 2017, 07:13:45 pm

@Akura

The game says the enemies adapt to whatever tactics you use, to make 'em less effective. You will see various other things, not sure I want to tell you what 'cause kinda spoilery, but you can send combat units on deployment to take away the various bits and pieces for a while.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 16, 2017, 07:16:40 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 16, 2017, 04:54:20 pm

I decided to redo a mission, taking the plantgirl-waifubate with me. The mission was to rescue a prisoner, but what I've read about the mission, there's three more there, and one has a skill I really needed. Opened the attack on the first outpost with sleep-gas artillery... which did exactly squat except put them on alert, since every single enemy in the world at this point is wearing a gas mask*.

Charged in the side of the main building, using nonlethal bullets everywhere(only lethal I had was a sniper rifle, grenades, and C4). Found two of the prisoners in the building, dragged both to the roof for extraction. After capturing the outpost with plantsniper support twice**, I started interrogating some of the surviving guards for the last optional prisoner. Found him, extracted him. Intel from the rescued prisoners and interrogated guards put me on track to the target prisoner, the next major outpost away.

Sent my support buddy on ahead to scout while I flat out ran the whole way. As soon as I get there, I get my sniper in position and have her start opening fire. As they return fire to her position, I try sneaking in, only to be spotted by a guard in a tower. In danger of being overrun by superior numbers(and dwindling ammo), I call in helicopter support. Under that help, I make into the main courtyard to see the base's anti-aircraft gun blasting away at my helicopter... and then the helicopter focused on it, blowing it up. I had intel on not only the main prisoner, but two more in the base. As the chopper was still tearing shit up, I ran in, grabbed and extracted both. The main prisoner was too injured for normal extraction, so I blew up the AA radar and ordered the chopper to stop killing stuff and land right in the courtyard. Mission complete, and I got the all-important Transportation Specialist I needed.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Got an A-Rank, though I already had S-rank on that mission.
*Not sure if it's normal by chapter ~15 for so many gas masks, or if it's in response to my usual tactic of disabling groups by using a smoke grenade and laying a smackdown when they're immobilized by it.

**Reinforcements showed up and people started waking up before I was done. I also discovered that the enemy was employing decoy dummies which were marked as normal enemies, throwing me off.

There's soporific artillery??  I really want to try that, now.

As for gas masks, I remember there being periodic missions (dispatches I think) to intercept equipment shipments.  Notably things like helmets and gas masks.

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Plantgirl-waifubate is pretty accurate...  Which sucks, there was a lot of potential there, but I guess she caught striptease duty.

Oops, meant to post this earlier but got distracted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2017, 07:33:59 pm

I've been doing those denial deployments. They're respawning faster than I can nail them.

In the meantime, mission to steal a truck. Spending much time wandering about trying to find the convoy - truck plus 2 IFVs - I'm told it's finally parking at the base I'd assumed it was heading to(and thus, already there) I approach the truck when some... very bad people jump out. After a few tries, I finally decide to hijack one of the IFVs and empty the 20mm into their faces. The easiest ones where the ones who jumped on top to stab the vehicle, directly in front of the cannon.

All's said and done, my acquisitions increase by: one truck, 2 IFVs, several emplaced weapons, a number of recruits(including a A++).

Somehow got an S-ranking.

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MGSV:TPP. Funny thing about grabbing that transport specialist. I've got three now, including one from this mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 08:40:45 am

I've heard that part of the mission becomes a breeze with the Fulton Catapult/whatever the heck it's called for D-Walker.

If you launch the Fulton device at the truck from a distance, the bad people never jump out.

Or appear at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 09:06:49 am

The Fulton makes TPP way too easy on the whole.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cheedows on May 17, 2017, 02:05:05 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 16, 2017, 06:17:40 pm

Killed a bunch of chainsaw-wielding college students (I think?) with a chaingun.

Also took down a pirate VS Ninja fight with a rocket launcher, and blew up a violent environmental protest with satchel charges.

I now have unlimited ammo for my very powerful pair of Kobra pistols.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Saint's Row 2.

Try doing the Snatch activities, after level 6 you get unlimited SMG ammo for all the drive by and matrix gun-fu you could ever dream of.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 17, 2017, 02:08:40 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 09:06:49 am

The Fulton Ballista makes TPP way too easy on the whole.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 02:13:02 pm

Quote from: Cheedows on May 17, 2017, 02:05:05 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 16, 2017, 06:17:40 pm

Killed a bunch of chainsaw-wielding college students (I think?) with a chaingun.

Also took down a pirate VS Ninja fight with a rocket launcher, and blew up a violent environmental protest with satchel charges.

I now have unlimited ammo for my very powerful pair of Kobra pistols.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Saint's Row 2.

Try doing the Snatch activities, after level 6 you get unlimited SMG ammo for all the drive by and matrix gun-fu you could ever dream of.

Thing is, the Kobra is already an auto-pistol.

Granted, it's only got twenty rounds and goes through them quite quickly, but it's also got a pretty fast reload.

I've also discovered the joys of cruise control, which should help me avoid the driving glitch I've encountered (I put something about this in the "How did you last die" thread).

Haven't done the later levels of Snatch because recovering hos from pimps who try to re-snatch them is a bitch (pun intended) to deal with. Especially since you can't just shoot everywhere and then pour a 40 oz. on the aftermath, since the hos don't count as ho-mies (ha ha) while they're being re-snatched.

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 17, 2017, 02:08:40 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 09:06:49 am

The Fulton Ballista makes TPP way too easy on the whole.

There we go.

Was about to make some snide remark about how the Fulton allowed you to upgrade your crew, thus allowing you to upgrade your weapons, making the game much easier, especially as countermeasures are put in place, but you already handled it.

This does remind me of a video I saw on Saint's Row 2 VS Saint's Row IV - the person who made the vid hated weapon upgrades and character because they made the game too EASY MODO and because they couldn't be undone.

You got dual pistols? You're stuck with them.

You got exploding bullets? You're stuck with them.

You got acid rounds? You're stuck with them, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 17, 2017, 02:37:32 pm

...Couldn't he just not buy them?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 17, 2017, 02:43:34 pm

To be fair, you won't always realize something is that good until after you buy it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 02:44:49 pm

Occasionally he'd just purchase a few upgrades for a gun and then he'd save, not knowing he'd saved the weapon upgrades as well.

Also, the vid creator hated the way the acid rounds looked.

The fact that they were always green (and would thus clash with the many weapon skins for the acid round's associated gun) was the main source of his enmity - he compared them unfavorably to a fart.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 17, 2017, 02:45:26 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 17, 2017, 02:43:34 pm

To be fair, you won't always realize something is that good until after you buy it.

When are dual pistols ever bad?

How about exploding bullets?

Hell, even acid bullets sound awesome.

Worst case scenario he could always re-load to an earlier save.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 17, 2017, 02:46:36 pm

In the case of this specific vid author, as described above, they make the game too easy. I think that would be pretty bad, maybe?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 17, 2017, 02:47:28 pm

I for one like the option to be able to run missions with dumb shit like melee only or pistol only.

Edit: and having every equipable weapon be god mode would kinda kill the spirit of that one

Double edit: I did play Saint's Row 3 and I wasn't bothered by any of the upgrades.  However I've also heard that the later superhero stuff does break the games by, for example, making cars useless (in a GTA clone with a detailed car customization system).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 17, 2017, 02:51:17 pm

There's no way that someone could see the opportunity to double their firepower (dual pistols, ferex) and not think that game difficulty might be affected somewhat by taking it. Unless the difficulty spikes to compensate (or the increasing difficulty of the game leads towards dual-wielding being a vital upgrade), I think this dude must have known that things would get a bit easier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on May 17, 2017, 03:19:54 pm

"A bit" is not "too easy".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 17, 2017, 03:34:30 pm

I was trying not to overstate. Obviously, doubling your rate of fire and shots-per-clip is a pretty hefty upgrade. Especially in Saint's Row, which as far as I know doesn't impose a drop in accuracy when dual-wielding anything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 04:11:47 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 17, 2017, 03:34:30 pm

I was trying not to overstate. Obviously, doubling your rate of fire and shots-per-clip is a pretty hefty upgrade. Especially in Saint's Row, which as far as I know doesn't impose a drop in accuracy when dual-wielding anything.

I think it doesn't drop reload rates either - they remain he same in 2 at least.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 17, 2017, 02:47:28 pm

I've also heard that the later superhero stuff does break the games by, for example, making cars useless (in a GTA clone with a detailed car customization system).

I think the game started life as a GTA clone, but since 2 the game has become much different.

For starters, in GTA you can't custom-make every aspect of your characterful, from body type to clothing colors and patterns.

Ditto for the vehicles.

Incidentally, the vid author noted that the addition of superpowers meant Saints Row could no longer be compared to itself.

I should probably link to the vid so we're all on the same page, but I'm on school wifi and YouTube is blocked.

Here it is. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFmswDQVd2U&t=315s)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 17, 2017, 04:43:16 pm

In 3 I had great fun making enemies do hilarious backflips and fly through the air when I shot them with dual explosive pistols. :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 17, 2017, 05:12:31 pm

I never bothered to get akimbo upgrades for any of the Saint's Row games. Never got the appeal of spraying two guns over the appeal of carefully aiming one gun with both hands like a responsible adult and shooting a random street-person in the head from 30 paces away for gits and shiggles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 17, 2017, 05:14:06 pm

but with two guns you can do that twice as often (minus the two-hands part)
Also that's what rifles are for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 17, 2017, 05:31:55 pm

Yeah, going akimbo in SR has pretty much no downsides as far as I can tell. Your accuracy is just as good as it was before, so you can still nail people from several blocks away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 07:26:48 pm

Saints Row 2 is the best honestly. The others are trash imo. SR2 is kind of serious-parody of GTA. Obviously, being a parody of a parody makes it kind of campy in terms of story elements, but the gameplay is extremely gratifying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 07:30:24 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 07:26:48 pm

Saints Row 2 is the best honestly.

I'm a PC gamer.

Suddenly stopping in place because the game went "fuck you, I'm going to forget that you're holding down this button" doesn't exactly give SR2 the number one spot in my comparison of Saint's Row games.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Silverthrone on May 17, 2017, 07:43:59 pm

I landed my aeroplane in one piece. Several times now, in fact! No autopilot, even without navigation aids a few times. I did not even blow a tyre or bang one of my wing-lights or anything! I am learning. It feels more like an 'own' that it seems. It took a lot of practice on my part.

Spoiler: Not a picture of a wreck, for a change. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/0FO6ZtC.jpg)

Even my character looks faintly smug from under the oxygen mask.

(DCS World.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on May 18, 2017, 03:13:43 am

Quote from: AzyWng on May 17, 2017, 07:30:24 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 17, 2017, 07:26:48 pm

Saints Row 2 is the best honestly.

I'm a PC gamer.

Suddenly stopping in place because the game went "fuck you, I'm going to forget that you're holding down this button" doesn't exactly give SR2 the number one spot in my comparison of Saint's Row games.

gentlemen of the row (probably) has a fix for that, nearly every other bug excluding controller issues, and restores cut content.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 18, 2017, 04:23:29 am

Sadly it does not, as that's an engine issue if i recall. I've had SR2 with GOTR installed for some time now, and that bug has persisted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 18, 2017, 08:17:41 pm

Mission to eliminate a merc commander, first by tailing one of his agents to him. Followed them all the way, rescuing a prisoner with a very nice skill along the way. As soon as their meeting was done and all the guards were getting into the vehicles, I covered them in smoke grenades. Beat up their commander and extracted him(he had decent skills). S+ Rank, perfect stealth bonus.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MGSV:TPP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on May 18, 2017, 09:21:06 pm

Fighting Gammoth, my most hated opponent. It's a humongous mammoth that sprays snow and ice everywhere when it's not busy crushing you underfoot. Due to its inflexible nature, it's attacks aren't always telegraphed super well, and most of them also hit in a huge radius, which can make it a pretty scary fight for a Guild Longsword user... which is what I foolishly chose to go with.

I'm about to get punished with the Gammoth's biggest attack for rolling way too early in front of it, when my brain kindly reminds me that I have a neat little Hunter Art called Critical Juncture. I activate it the moment my roll ends, blocking all damage and delivering a devastating counterattack directly to the Gammoth's head, which sends it reeling.

The hunt went pretty smoothly after that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter Generations

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 19, 2017, 12:14:07 am

Just got 847 kills, revived 5 allies and gained 178,027 XP in a mission. I just keep getting better at this game. Been figuring out which tactics work best for which kind of aliens, and getting better at telling just when it's time to whip out the legendary minigun I found.
At this rate I'll make gold league!

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Alienation

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 19, 2017, 05:27:08 am

I learned that I am apparently good at aiming when I've just woken up, as I found out using a Stug III and topping the match leaderboard 3 consecutive times with at least ten kills a match.

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2017, 06:06:02 pm

Finished a ~half-hour session with 21 kills and 2 deaths. Granted, I was camping in my Sunderer turrets the entire time - the last bit was basically mowing through a large NC push through a narrow choke with a Kobalt - but it counts. Except kdr doesn't count this game, of course.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. I think the game stopped registering damage at some point. A few times I know for a fact I hit someone enough to kill but they didn't even seem damaged.

Still, for what appears to be a very small vehicle gun, pretty much the only vehicle-mounted weapon(besides Ranger vs tanks) that's incapable of damaging other, armored vehicles(and barely scratches the ones it can), the Kobalt is actually pretty powerful.

EDIT:
First actual shipbuilding project with this game: A small(I think) ironclad gunboat. It's not finished yet, but the fact that it can float and has pretty decent maneuverability is actually pretty surprising, considering the game.

Current armaments are a forward-facing custom cannon that's pretty accurate, and two banks of three torpedo launchers, one on each side. I still need to figure out ammo design, since the cannon doesn't do what I'd call "a lot" of damage, and while the torpedo salvos definitely do "a lot" of damage(the raft the test map spawns for you - 2/3rds of it was vaporized on a direct hit), they seem to just stop dead in the water after a short distance, limiting them to a close range.

Still have to finish it, add some defenses, and AI stuff.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths. The cannon bullet components are(tail-to-front): Gunpowder casing, HE warhead, shaped-charge secondary, Inertial fuse, Composite head.
Torpedo is: 3x Torpedo Thruster, Ballast tank, 2x HE warhead, Proximity Fuse. I think I forgot one, maybe an extra torpedo thruster or HE warhead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 19, 2017, 11:09:23 pm

I finally decided to continue the story a bit, rather than roam the item worlds upgrading and optimizing my equipment.  Even with the "Strongest Enemies" bill in effect, the story missions were completely trivial...  Even the interesting use of "no entry" and "invincibility" geo panels was no match for my characters upgraded range and speed.

Met a god-like dimensional traveler, a PC from the previous game.  I was obviously supposed to lose - and actually, it was pretty close.  But I squeaked out a win.

They blew up the planet out of spite, Sepphiroth-style.  Credits roll, "The End".  Offers to save and start New Game Plus.
I got a similar "bad" end by beating up a certain Mid-Boss, earlier...  Though that one ended "Fin~"

I love this game.
Disgaea 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 20, 2017, 05:09:58 am

Ending a dramatic battle at an ADVENT Blacksite, Kaga carries an unconscious Zuikaku to the extraction zone while Duke Nukem covers them. Tommy Wiseau was unfortunately lost in the fighting, but we made it with almost everyone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM 2. I may have modded it a bit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 20, 2017, 07:39:33 am

"Jags"

"Zuikaku"

"Duke Nukem"

"Tommy Wiseau"

You have good taste in mods.

My own own:

Ethereals seem to go down as easily as the other enemies: taking only one or two rounds of plasma.

Also, I developed the flying suit, which should help keep my troops alive a little longer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

OpenXCOM.

Sadly no character change mods appeared on the modding menu, though shotguns now exist.

I may try the "Awesome Guns" mod in particular.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 21, 2017, 04:09:58 pm

Actual own:

Was attacked by 9 looters while I was all by myself.

Previous confrontations of this type have usually resulted in a humiliating defeat, but I was actually able to kill all 9 of my assailants through the extremely complicated tactic of "Shoot at them on horseback with a crossbow while circling them counter-clockwise".

I even gained a level and 4 renown for my trouble.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount And Blade

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2017, 04:29:18 pm

...Looters can kill people?

I mean, I've seen them kill farmers if they outnumber the farmers enough, but that's about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 21, 2017, 04:34:29 pm

One vs many can be difficult in M&B for newer players/depending on the situation/if turned off the player having more health.  Its not that hard to miss one block and then panic.

Also if you aren't mounted (say if its a siege and you're the last survivor on your side, or if you just don't want to be a cavalry dude).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on May 21, 2017, 04:34:29 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 21, 2017, 04:29:18 pm

...Looters can kill people?

I mean, I've seen them kill farmers if they outnumber the farmers enough, but that's about it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 21, 2017, 04:54:10 pm

I was going to get on you guys for exaggerating, but looters actually are less skilled than farmers (20 weapon proficiency vs 60!).  They do have slightly better equipment... slightly.

They do look a lot like bandits, though, who are very dangerous.  Especially forest bandits, ugh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2017, 05:04:05 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 21, 2017, 04:34:29 pm

One vs many can be difficult in M&B for newer players/depending on the situation/if turned off the player having more health.  Its not that hard to miss one block and then panic.

Also if you aren't mounted (say if its a siege and you're the last survivor on your side, or if you just don't want to be a cavalry dude).

Don't you always start mounted, though?

Also I have a hard time believing that looters can ever pose a threat to a castle, unless it's completely unmanned and the gates are stuck open.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on May 21, 2017, 05:13:36 pm

We were almost taking the point, but the NVA were stopping us just short, I grew impatient and rushed the warehouse, charging up some stairs. Apparently the guy at the top of the stairs wasn't actually expecting us to get up there yet, because it took him a few seconds to react, and I killed him. I then took his AK, and killed three more guys waiting to ambush my teammates.

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Rising Storm 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 21, 2017, 10:00:09 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on May 21, 2017, 04:34:29 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 21, 2017, 04:29:18 pm

...Looters can kill people?

I mean, I've seen them kill farmers if they outnumber the farmers enough, but that's about it.

Hence "humiliating".

Also, beginning of the game at only 2 levels, with the (kind of crappy) starter gear. Which does include a (kind of crappy, though I feel bad applying that label to an animal rather than a thing) horse.

But yeah, humiliating defeats against the wandering bandits. Or just previous cavalry-based tactics in general.

EDIT: Yeah also I wanted to not be a cavalry unit so I could fight alongside my army, but that didn't work out in the past.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 21, 2017, 10:42:03 pm

Sometimes, when I start a new game, I'll make easy money and experience by playing hit-and-run with looters by myself. Since none of them are mounted and their strongest ranged weapon is rocks, you can cheese a fight with them by riding past and hitting them until they're all dead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 21, 2017, 11:35:17 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 21, 2017, 04:29:18 pm

...Looters can kill people?

I mean, I've seen them kill farmers if they outnumber the farmers enough, but that's about it.

Hilariously, yes. This was obviously the first battle but newbie-me didn't know, and as an avid lover of BOWS AND OTHERWISE I kept riding on that horse, up that hill, shooting people with no idea how to use the archery system, and then subsequently getting PUNCHED to x_x because nearly naked people or very badly equipped people outnumber me.
Because riding your horse up a hill, and then going 'wait where is the enemy @_@', and then noticing tiny whitish specks in the distance moving downwards (then zooming in), you realize they're really tiny people. Then you try shooting at them while stopped on horseback (because you're new, and this actually matters compared to being on foot--it is less steady on horseback even when stopped unless you skill up that horseback archery skill). Then they come closer and closer on the hill as you keep missing because that scattering degree as a newbie archer with a poacher background that gives you ++ to archery isn't working well, then you dismount to try and fight them in melee because you didn't do well in the tutorial.

Then you get punched in the face, and your dying scream isn't the worst thing you hear, it is your own embarrassment in realizing what just happened in that last minute or so.


But now? LOOK AT ME, scoring difficulty 13 shots on horseback and ruining lords with my bow \o/ I should even get a pic later on. Especially of that one bandit sarranid that was fleeing and I took a chance to look all fancy and draw an arrow, take aim, think 'This'll never happen' but doubting it in hopes of glorious imagery in mind, and shooting. The next few seconds are spent with a smug expression. Then I find myself :D when it actually hits, and the score displays in the lower right.
I like how it becomes a nice way of familiarity while you go on with it--and personally, the 'non masterwork' war bows are seemingly better due to their handling. (And that you can even trade shots with another mounted archer while charging at each other near-parallel and opposite each other; one catches the arrow, one doesn't. Great feelings if you're the one who doesn't.)

And yes, you always start mounted. But on foot, unless you've a good athletics skill, you can't outrun them (If you only have a bow, prepare to panic as you realize you can't outrun them and switch to melee, and/or discover that they interrupt your shots if you dare try shoot at melee range :P )
*ahem*
Um, not that I'd know much from personal experience anyway ._.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 22, 2017, 12:57:15 am

Well, if you start as a Nord, you don't start mounted I believe. They have no cavalry by default; while you can train your own riding skill and purchase one, i don't think you'll start with one.

Swadia and Rhodok are probably the easiest starts, Nord, Khergit and Sarranid the hardest. This is because:

Rhodoks have easily defensible terrain, well suited to bows and crossbows.
Swadia has generally flat terrain, but their bandits hang around forests and are generally easy to fight.

Nord: They have the rather strong Sea Raiders as their local bandits. Nasty for an early game player, they hit VERY VERY hard.
Khergit: you like bandits? now have bandits on horses with high Horse Archery. If you're light on cavalry, you're screwed.
Sarranid: Desert bandits seem to clump in rather large numbers. Also, the terrain is flat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 22, 2017, 05:58:04 am

From what little I remember of M&B, Rhodok castles are ridiculously defensible.  In some of the setups the walls are a giant one way circle with no inner crenelations; once you get on the walls its a shooting gallery for the Rhodok troops.  And those guys are already arguably the best in the game at siege warfare.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 22, 2017, 06:16:07 am

Spoiler: A ton more M&B stuff, because Tiruin spent much of her life on this game because it was a gift <_< (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Reudh on May 22, 2017, 12:57:15 am

Well, if you start as a Nord, you don't start mounted I believe. They have no cavalry by default; while you can train your own riding skill and purchase one, i don't think you'll start with one.

Oops, forgot about this.
Also me memorizing the troop class trees because I wanted to mod one day (and in a way, did), have the knowledge going:
> Khergits are mounted for forever. Even the new hires from a village have a ~50% to be mounted. However this means all those bandits are mounted too; ensure that if you travel into purple territory, you have a nice shield wall, or can do mounted battles yourself (preferably in a 2:1, skillwise; I gained a headache the first time I newb'd out due to all the spinning on horseback <_<)
> Nords have NO MOUNTS whatsoever. This includes their bandits, being the most skilled out of all, however all are unmounted. Sea Raiders, the toughest from Mountain Bandits, then Forest/Desert bandits. Khergit bandits are a whole different bunch due to their mounted nature.
> Rhodoks have great ranged capabilities and pride defense, but are meager in other stats compared to Nords and the other neighbors (each area does specialize in a certain theme or another), and there was a comparison to Swadia but this is the bit I forgot. One was a spear focused country. <_> But I do recall Swadia was a Bow focused one whereas Rhodok is a Crossbow focused one. [DPS versus Accuracy and Damage]
> Sarranids have a mix of mounted and otherwise, depending on where you generally are in the desert. What they also do have, is numbers.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on May 22, 2017, 05:58:04 am

From what little I remember of M&B, Rhodok castles are ridiculously defensible.  In some of the setups the walls are a giant one way circle with no inner crenelations; once you get on the walls its a shooting gallery for the Rhodok troops.  And those guys are already arguably the best in the game at siege warfare.

Nords also have a bonus to when they use shields, as my hazy memory recalls. While none of them are mounted, they are the best foot infantry, defense OR offense wise (Ok, technically their archers are mediocre in comparison to those specialized forces from Rhodok/Swadia (Rhodok = Crossbow; Swadia = Archer)), but their infantry are top-notch.

Edit: Confused Vaegirs with Swadia. Tawa's post down there is more detailed by memory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2017, 08:28:32 am

Reinforced the bottom hull, increased engine power, finally made torpedoes able to track and home in on targets(no need to perfectly line up), added non-custom cannons to the sides, added two repair bots, and figured out shields a bit. Also learned how to spawn combative ships into the designer, so I can battle-test easily.

It can actually beat other, similarly-sized ships in a straight-up fight. Even larger ones if I can knock out their weapons quickly enough. Any real battleship will wreck it in a second though, or anything with a gun that punches through to the ammo compartment(going through metal, wood, alloy beams). The only thing I haven't tested is effectiveness vs aircraft - it has an AA cannon, a CRAM loaded with frag pellets/proximity fuse load and a laser targeter(supposedly helps with flak guns).

Still needs some calibration, but it's a gunboat now.

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From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 22, 2017, 03:16:01 pm

Spoiler: Mount & Blade spiel (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Reudh on May 22, 2017, 12:57:15 am

Well, if you start as a Nord, you don't start mounted I believe. They have no cavalry by default; while you can train your own riding skill and purchase one, i don't think you'll start with one.

Swadia and Rhodok are probably the easiest starts, Nord, Khergit and Sarranid the hardest. This is because:

Rhodoks have easily defensible terrain, well suited to bows and crossbows.
Swadia has generally flat terrain, but their bandits hang around forests and are generally easy to fight.

Nord: They have the rather strong Sea Raiders as their local bandits. Nasty for an early game player, they hit VERY VERY hard.
Khergit: you like bandits? now have bandits on horses with high Horse Archery. If you're light on cavalry, you're screwed.
Sarranid: Desert bandits seem to clump in rather large numbers. Also, the terrain is flat.

No, you start mounted no matter what. Technically speaking, you don't start as a Nord, you start as a traveler in a town of your choice.

Also, Nord is probably one of the easier starts, and Swadia a harder one. Sea Raiders don't raid Nord mainlands, they stick to pillaging Rivacheg and thereabouts, and Nords are some of the best troops in the game (Huscarls cut through the enemy like butter and Nord Veteran Archers are some of the best bowmen in the game.) Swadia is hard because they're in the middle of the map and generally die fast, sometimes becoming irrecoverably weak by the point you're strong enough to become a vassal or make a meaningful contribution with mercenary work.

The troop lineup by faction is something like:
Nord: Excellent infantry, great archers, no cavalry. Excellent at assaults and good at field battles. Top tier units are Huscarls and Veteran Archers.
Vaegir: Good infantry, great archers, great cavalry. All-rounder, but somewhat weak defense due to lack of shields. Top tier units are Guards, Marksmen, and Knights.
Swadia: Good infantry, good crossbowmen, excellent cavalry. Dominate field battles, good at sieges, but troops are expensive. Top tier units are Sergeants, Sharpshooters, and Knights.
Rhodoks: Great infantry, excellent crossbowmen, no cavalry. Siege warfare kings and masters of defense, but bad at offense. Top tier units are Sergeants and Sharpshooters.
Khergit: No infantry, horse archers. Second to none in the field, but get murdered in sieges and hilly terrain. Top tier units are Lancers and Veteran Horse Archers.
Sarranids: Bad infantry, great archers, excellent cavalry. Better than Swads, but only if your troops are high tier and low on infantry, because their armor sucks at low levels. Top tier units are Mamlukes, Veteran Archers, and Guards.

Rhodoks and Nords fill a similar niche, but require considerably different gameplay. Nords are super strong overall, and you can just tell them to charge when the time comes; the archers can also hold their own as medium infantry. Rhodoks require defensive gameplay where you have the infantry guard the sharpshooters, then charge when the enemy closes in.

Vaegirs are basically budget Swadian troops. Prioritize cavalry but don't slack on infantry and ranged support.

Khergits are best as field troops. If you go Khergit, consider importing Rhodok or Nord troops to man your castles and help in sieges.

Sarranids have horrible infantry but god tier archers and cavalry. Definitely go for quality over quantity with them.

There's also non-faction troops promoted from farmers and peasant women (they can be rescued from bandits and the males can be hired in taverns.) The "mercenary" troops (swordsmen, cavalry, crossbowmen, and Hired Blades) are strong but expensive. Sword Sisters are very strong, but they need considerable support from fellow cavalry due to their low hit points and weak horses; hold off on promoting them until you have several ready, because they ride the fastest horses in the game and will outspeed your other cavalry unless the enemy is very close. Consider using these units if your army lacks or is weak in a unit type (such as cavalry or strong infantry) and it feels wrong to import troops. Low-tier mercs also make nice castle guards.

Don't try to bother with captured bandits, they suck in more ways than one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 22, 2017, 05:07:05 pm

I've mainly been selling my prisoners to ransom brokers.

Though I have no idea what you're talking about when you mention which town to go to - I always seem to spawn in front of a training field in the Kingdom of Nords (I think) - the one with the forest bandits.

I also don't seem to have a proper commands window - When I press the F# keys I see a status message reading "Infantry/Archers/Cavalry/Everyone, hear me!" but I don't know what buttons to press afterwards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 22, 2017, 06:39:46 pm

If I remember correctly, F1~F4 are the action commands. You can tap them once to give a command on your position, or press and hold to point to distant places to carry them out. It's a bit clunky, yes, but you aren't giving them out frequently nor in the heat of battle so it's bearable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 22, 2017, 07:27:12 pm

Thanks for the hints.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 22, 2017, 07:58:57 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 22, 2017, 07:27:12 pm

Thanks for the hints.

1, 2, 3 select your first three groups, which are infantry/archers/cavalry respectively. You can make your own groups later on too. 0 selects everyone. F1 shows movement commands, like "Hold this position" "Follow me" "Charge" "Stand your ground" "Retreat" etc.
Holding down F1 brings up a little flag, which is where you can dictate a specific area to "hold this position" at.

Alternatively, press Backspace to bring up the command minimap and tell them from there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 22, 2017, 08:11:17 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on May 22, 2017, 05:07:05 pm

Though I have no idea what you're talking about when you mention which town to go to - I always seem to spawn in front of a training field in the Kingdom of Nords (I think) - the one with the forest bandits.

Wait, are you playing original M&B or Warband?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 22, 2017, 08:33:47 pm

Well, original Mount and Blade was free on something recently, so...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 22, 2017, 10:37:44 pm

Original. If I'd been playing on Warband, I'd have put ": Warband" at the very end of the game title.

I like to think I'm not the type to leave the obvious things out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on May 23, 2017, 01:43:30 am

Original M&B is so old at this point that most people just assume you're referring to the (vastly superior) M&B: Warband. In fact, you're really not doing yourself justice by playing the original. Half the fun is in multiplayer, not to mention the much larger modding community. I've only put 1106 hours into it on Steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on May 23, 2017, 05:30:07 am

I mean
Is Warband free?
Didn't think so :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 23, 2017, 06:30:16 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on May 23, 2017, 01:43:30 am

Original M&B is so old at this point that most people just assume you're referring to the (vastly superior) M&B: Warband. In fact, you're really not doing yourself justice by playing the original. Half the fun is in multiplayer, not to mention the much larger modding community. I've only put 1106 hours into it on Steam.

I'll probably get decent internet never in the next decade.
What are the chances that anyone will still be playing multiplayer on M&B at that timing? :<

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XCOM: Enemy Within; Long War

Apparently getting the Sentinel perk, plus Rapid Reaction, and Opportunist, allows a stable man-powered turret platform of FUN, especially if Aim+ perks are popping up very cheesily.
As I play Ironman, Impossible setting on LW, this kind of perk tree is heaven sent--especially since I got it on a Heavy Gunner with very high accuracy (having edited the .init file to make the speed like the normal XCOM, which technically makes it the same speed but with all features of LW [the annoying fatigue timer, the annoying alien hp+++++ because of tech over time, and only editing the repair/rest time because who in the world repairs a supersonic jet for more than a week to change weapons?])

This means ~3 shots, if everything hits (as LW edited the Rapid Reaction to +1 shot until 3 shots max), times two due to the Sentinel perk. I mean, speaking from personal experience in contrast to a restriction noted here (http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/XCOM:EU_Perks), I had a Heavy Gunner take on a whole EXALT team spotted in the open by overwatch'ing their moves very well. [Counted; 6 EXALT folks in the open, with more in the fog of war. 2 shots on one moving a long distance, taking him out after getting his life down to 1hp. Took out another runner who appeared from the fog of war. Took out a runner moving to climb a building. Took out a runner going to cover. Wounded a runner who climbed a nearby building.]
All because she critical'd EVERYONE.

And I'm blazing through Impossible at this rate, thanks to a lucky set of using a small squad and editing the max # of folks to 10 (+2 from officer training, with the hardcoded max being 12)
I consider this doing well with aliens having more than 6+ life, at least. :-[

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 23, 2017, 01:57:52 pm

So I've been able to keep myself and my small army afloat for almost a month!

Granted, some of the missions are irritating for whatever reason, but I think things are going quite well for now. Haven't made any major enemies and my army's large enough to take down bandits while still fast enough to catch up to them in the first place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount and Blade (Not Warband because I'm a cheap bastard)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: origamiscienceguy on May 23, 2017, 05:15:47 pm

Isn't mount and blade getting a sequal?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Worldmaster27 on May 23, 2017, 06:02:07 pm

Yes, Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord. It's set way prior to the dates in M&B and M&B Warband, in the old calradian empire. From the screenshots and dev blog, numerous systems are getting added/improved, including much better graphics, a significantly larger world map and more factions, and iirc it's a brave new engine? I'm reasonably sure of that, it looks quite nice and I'm personally looking forward to it

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 23, 2017, 06:20:33 pm

Not sure where else to ask this but:

Was trying to install the 1866 mod, but it's for M&B 1.011.

I download the update from the Talesworld forums (from M&B repository)

After I installed it, however, I'm suddenly placed into trial mode...

I opened M&B from the GOG shortcut, and the trial message doesn't reappear... Do I suddenly have to pay for the game or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on May 23, 2017, 06:41:19 pm

Unfortunately Bannerlord still doesn't have a release date set in stone and was announced several years ago. Estimates for when it'll come out include after The Winds of Winter is published and shortly before Half-Life 3 comes out.

Quote from: AzyWng on May 23, 2017, 06:20:33 pm

Not sure where else to ask this but:

Was trying to install the 1866 mod, but it's for M&B 1.011.

I download the update from the Talesworld forums (from M&B repository)

After I installed it, however, I'm suddenly placed into trial mode...

I opened M&B from the GOG shortcut, and the trial message doesn't reappear... Do I suddenly have to pay for the game or something?

Not sure what's going on. There's a Mount and Blade thread kicking around a few pages back though IIRC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 23, 2017, 07:02:25 pm

More accurately, the "Trial Version" message window with the four buttons only appears once. Closing it, closing the window and launcher (and opening them up again) make the message not show up. I haven't actually played the game yet, will send a status update if that happens.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 23, 2017, 07:07:19 pm

Please stop derailing this thread. Try the Mount & Blade thread instead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on May 24, 2017, 01:18:27 pm

After a slow start as Dynastic China, my Chinese peasants began mining and farming en masse, producing enough troops to provide defense for our fledging civilization, hitting Bronze Age just as I had enough materials for a host of phalanxes and catapults.

Then I started to make troops and push against the opposition. Thanks to the bonuses I had, the crossbowmen and pikemen just kept going as the Chinese civilization kept progressing through the ages at ridiculous speeds.

By the time we've hit gunpowder eras, our halberdiers were swarming over half of the map, and a new complement of basilisk guns were super effective against enemy fortifications, especially as Chinese siege engines have extra range and rate of fire.

The last of our opponents were waddling through the muck of Middle Ages while Chinese civilization was mastering Industrial era concepts of steam engines, explosives and anaesthesia. Nothing could stop the Chinese tide, and the map was conquered in span of fifteen minutes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Empire Earth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 24, 2017, 05:53:19 pm

You mean that the AI didn't spawn waves of nuclear bombers from just inside the fog-of-war while over-the-pop-cap armies teleported onto your city centers?

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Earned an achievement, War of Gentlemen, which requires winning a battle without losing any female units but still actually using them. Later got an achievement for losing no units whatsoever. Also defeated a boss that may or may not have been a slime monster(referred to as their queen but not at all slime-like in appearance) and had the ability to boost the power of her slime minions and the ability to expand her breasts(not an in-game ability, but she does have that power).

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Demon King Box. It was on sale in the 3DS store for a buck. It's a fanservicey game where you sends troops down three lanes fighting an opponent doing the same, sometimes you have to fight an opposing commander, otherwise just kill all enemies. The translation is just awful, and much of the dialogue makes no sense whatsoever. I really only bought it because it was cheap and the game icon looks a lot like Alma Elma from MonsterGirl Quest(like, a dead-ringer lot), and really I thought that was the extent of the fanservice. Kinda surprised they allowed in the Nintendo eShop.

The "female" units I have are Devil Maids, very cheap, quite fast, and decent HP, but terrible attack, Dark Elf Archers, long range powerful attack, but slow and can't take a hit, and "Milk Mums", cow monstergirls that heal nearby mobs in their lane - if they're on the enemy side they drop milk(certified as high quality) as loot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on May 24, 2017, 11:29:54 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 24, 2017, 05:53:19 pm

You mean that the AI didn't spawn waves of nuclear bombers from just inside the fog-of-war while over-the-pop-cap armies teleported onto your city centers?

Naw, I don't usually play past Industrial era :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: HMetal2001 on May 25, 2017, 07:21:39 am

Was playing WipEout 2048 on my Vita. Specifically the DLCs (using HD ships in a Fury track). Shot a plasma (most powerful pickup in the game) and 3 rockets into a hapless Icaras (the ship with the least shielding in the game).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on May 25, 2017, 05:03:27 pm

If it can't fight, what's the point of levelling it up?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on May 25, 2017, 06:15:41 pm

It's a flier, so health and stamina let it live longer and fly further.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ggamer on May 25, 2017, 09:59:31 pm

Comp game, match point (15 - 14) on T side, we're 3v3 running towards A trough T spawn. A friend who's dead is coaching me (lol), saying something like "hey, there's only one person on their team who can kill you, and it's -"

as soon as he's about to say the name of the player, I peek out of cover and one tap the best player on their team

"oh"

(we won)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulhu on May 26, 2017, 02:58:48 am

TFW you come up with an inefficient solution to an easy puzzle in Shenzhen I/O (http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/180/663/f93.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 28, 2017, 06:26:34 pm

Ended an hour+ session with 23/20 k/d. And this time I wasn't camping a Sunderer turret.

Actually, I was playing infiltrator, a class I tend to be terrible with. Shit-damage and shit-accuracy sniper rifles when at least 90% of the playerbase has either crappy internet or lag hacks and crappy client-sided hit detection, yeahhhno. Only this time yeahhhyeah. The TSAR-42 is a beast, and has pretty good damage(usually strips shields at least on a bodyshot) and a 1-hit headshotter within it's (relatively short) effective range.

Last two kills I got with it, attacking into a biolab from the landing pad, I'm forced back by an NC heavy spraying me, but not before nailing them with a perfect headshot as I'm taking hits and running for cover. Then I immediately popped another heavy as they were shooting from behind cover.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on May 28, 2017, 09:25:26 pm

So we were on pl_frontier. A fairly fun map. Lots of well thought out chokes, lots of juicy flank routes for both defenders and attackers, nice long sightlines for snipers but short enough that they were still vulnerable and unable to hold alone.

We steamrolled through the first few checkpoints, then hit a pretty major roadblock. A new sniper had joined. This one had strange killstreak Australium weaponry, all with tens of thousands of kills recorded on them, as well as a rather expensive unusual. At a glance, he was wearing the equivalent of about $200+ USD of cosmetics and skins.

He effortlessly held off our team alone, with almost totally perfect accuracy. THe team's steamroll became a push, became a trickle, became a stalemate. We'd reached a point where we couldn't proceed because to push the cart meant death faster than we could react. Naturally, this player became cocky and arrogant, started trash talking in chat. He had certainly gotten some very suspicious headshots, but top tier snipers are about as accurate as him anyway. He'd gotten to an 18 kill streak (20 = "godlike") when I came up with a stupid plan.

I dropped two stickybombs down on a blind corner that he couldn't hit me from, while a medic overhealed me to prepare for the damage the jump would inflict. (This is that portion on Frontier, just after the second last point, where there's a series of concentric steps climbing upwards.)

Now at full overheal (260), ready to jump, I gave myself a second to prepare. I knew the vague direction the scary enemy sniper was in. I knew my jump would land me within spitting distance of his entire team.

I took a breath, crouch-jumped over the two stickies, and launched myself into the stars, flying at high speed. The stickies had done a lot of self damage, but the overheal cushioned most of that, so I was at about 140hp. That's within the danger range for a headshot kill (<150).

I see the sniper look up at me, see me flying in rapidly. He takes aim.







He misses, and backpedals to try for another shot.
Still in motion, i swap to my Loch n' Load, a grenade launcher that breaks on impact, but travels faster than the stock launcher which explodes on impact and after rolling. They now deal the same damage, but the Loch is easier to land a shot with due to its higher speed.

I fire the pill. It oneshots the sniper, because of his secondary (Darwin's Danger Shield) causing him 20% extra damage vulnerability to explosives. From full health he would've survived that, but he was evidently grazed by something (DDS snipers have 150 hp, and a loch pill would deal 120).

I land, take the fall damage, and immediately taunt. The entire enemy team arrives and blows me up, but it was so, so worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TF2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on May 29, 2017, 03:20:25 pm

Marched through Moscow in triumph.  As a united China fresh from the Civil War and the Sino-Japanese War.  Not bad for my first game as the Guomindang.  And yes, I know that the game's really not that difficult for most people due to the brain-dead AI, but even so...

It was a weird game, though.  I was thrown for a loop when Germany backed down after being confronted by joint Franco-British opposition while reoccupying the Rhineland.  Then France went Fourth Internationale Communist and conquered Italy, Poland went full Intermarium, Germany decided to befriend (but not ally with) Czechoslovakia, and the British just threw up their metaphorical hands and went to have a good cry in the corner for a while.  It actually got surprisingly on-track after that; Germany conquered France and Spain anyways (at which point I "secured" French Indochina and Guangzhouwan), their Hungarian allies invaded the Czechoslovaks anyway (which brought the British in), the Poles stood off the USSR in a bloody stalemate, and my China ended up taking the long road across Siberia to Moscow, laying rail all the way so I could actually move supplies over that distance.  Then I decided to finish off the Japanese, only for the horrible peace system to kick in and remind me of why I stopped playing. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hearts of Iron 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 30, 2017, 12:29:38 am

The peace system is such a kick in the crotch.  Sometime Paradox is going to have to accept that peace deals happen because they're acceptable to all parties, instead of to just one party.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on May 30, 2017, 10:55:02 am

Space Russia has been breathing down my neck for a while now. I'm a small, relatively inoffensive nation consisting of just four colonized worlds. We are wise in the ways of science, and have advanced construction techniques that have allowed us to build multiple habitat stations in order to upscale our production. Through various measures, our fleet cap is 724.

Space Russia has inferior technology, but somehow has a fleet cap that is so far superior to ours that their entire empire is considered OVERWHELMING. Space Russia demands our Vassalization.

We say no, rather pointedly, then offer a diplomatic insult.

They declare war next year. They demand 3/4 of our worlds, and the destruction of our frontier outposts. I demand the liberation of the worlds the just colonized on my doorstep.  We scuffle for a bit, and two tactical retreats later I manage to crush their main fleet between my fleet and a Battle Fortress class defense station. A quick blitz later and I'm able to force peace, humiliating them liberating a trio of the worlds I wanted. I immediately vassalize these new worlds into my empire, which thrills them to no end.

Ten years later, I've modernized the fleet, and Space Russia is knocking again. Their empire is still fuckhuge, and their max fleet capacity is still Superior as compared to mine. However, this time their actual fleet power is... pathetic? Wait, what?

It's at this point I realize just how poorly they've expanded. For the most part, they've just been gobbling up all the empty space between the stars. Their development is shot, and will likely continue to be shot for another decade. They'd hoped to quickly crush us, but the destruction of their one doomstack dealt them a blow they couldn't recover from AND continue development on their ~30 worlds.

This time, I was the one who declared war, and I cored them like an apple. The battle was swift, and rather painfully easy. Their largest fleet this time was only a 3k, and was swept aside in the first assault. I liberated their homeworld and the four worlds in closest proximity, the well developed, highly productive, center of their kingdom.

Their empire literally splintered after the war was over, turning into six separated little blobs of poorly developed worlds, and I gained a powerful new ally from the liberated worlds.

It was a good little campaign. I'm looking forward to seeing if the ~25 worlds that remain in the control of Space Russia can pull their shit together, or if systemic unrest due to humiliation and resource shortages will fragment them further.

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 30, 2017, 08:24:51 pm

After several hull revisions, and a few complete rebuilds, I finally got a workable destroyer design. I've successfully tested it against a few faction ships, losing twice, once to the OW Bastion, and the GT Aardsnel - the Aardsnel was actually an airship more heavily armed than I expected. It only lost to the Bastion because it's packing three oversized CRAM cannons that load to a high damage much faster than any CRAM I've setup, and they seem to just lock directly on to the ammo storage. I repaired it via the repair tool during the battle and managed to sink it anyway.

Spoiler: First design (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/uKuvHCQ.jpg)
Was too large, too slow, and too expensive to use.

Spoiler: Second design (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/I6fRSBV.jpg)
Too prone to tipping, too heavy, and was too expensive still.

Spoiler: The finished design (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/3VODPcp.jpg)
Unlike the other two, the design is mostly light alloy, rather than normal metal. The turrets and the flak cannons were saved as sub-objects, so they could be quickly copied onto the ship. It's quite fast - I had originally had two huge propellers but they were too fast and it flipped over backwards. Replaced them with a pile of small ones, and replaced the alloy bottom hull with metal. AI might need tweaking, it keeps firing torpedoes at bad angles.

Armaments are: 3 two-barreled cannon turrets(two front, one back), eight broadside cannons(4 each side), a 3-shot torpedo bank on each side, and two depth charge launchers on the rear, dropping a charge each at depths of 50m, 150m, and 300m(2 each depth, 6 total), and two anti-aircraft flak guns that really aren't that effective.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 30, 2017, 09:34:28 pm

Particle collider damage carry + frog pipe + 17% debuff duration = UNLEASH THE FROGS

Hit and miss as hell to get something like this going, and I really probably should swap the pipe out for something else 'cause this mess is lagging my computer once the unending (until everything dies, anyway) frog march starts, but damn. This is why I keep slamming my head into this thing. Glorious, glorious absurdity.

Spoiler: For size (click to show/hide)

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/thisisaterriblepicandidontcare1496197421.jpg)'Cause I'm too lazy to resize, and it's a complete mostly incomprehensible mess anyway. Still, you can see about 10-12 frogs on the screen, I think -- the little green things to the north-west-ish of the big glowing green thing erupting with numbers. For reference, the frog pipe unleashes two frogs at a 20% chance per attack. Trigger rate's jacked up to slightly below 200%, so it's actually around 40-ish, but... still. The hilarity of a ~40% chance to spawn frog duos on a .2 attack rate (i.e. 5 shots per second) source. Normally the collider stuns itself for two seconds when it kills something, but with this it's more like a third of a second and the it goes right back to hurtling death and frogs and frog death at everything <3

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YouTD, a tower defense map for Warcraft 3. Probably one of the best TD maps in existence flat out, honestly, if viciously difficult on unending and more or less medium up. Lotta' stuff that's inventive as all hell, RNG itemization that's not entirely frustrating, bloody thing's just got a lot going for it. Haven't completely won this particular run, but it's finally hit the breaking point between struggle and stunlock!everything plus towering volcanoes of damage. Whee.

E: And that's a win, ahaha. Only 403 seconds in the survival round, though... which is probably the best I've managed so far, but not even remotely impressive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 31, 2017, 12:25:32 pm

After playing about a dozen botmatches, trying to get back up to the level I was when I last played and failing miserably, I said 'fuck it' and decided to play a real match against actual players.

They were destroyed. I got 10 kills and never died. their entire team only got 1 kill and didn't even take out a turret.  Apparently the game's bots are overtuned to insane levels and after going toe to toe with opponents who were literally aimbotting and had literal instant reaction times, actual players could hardly touch me.   Goes to show, vs AI is not always the 'get the hang of the game' mode.  (I mean hell, aimbot snipers in FPSes are bad but bot Raelynn will take your ass out before you can even see eachother.)

Awesomenauts

That said I'm not a fan of Rocco's killing spree music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nky5uvfC4hQ).  Skølldir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWX3Ft4hDQ) and Nibbs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqVthZXcuY) have the best killing spree music.  But Skølldir as a tank will hardly ever hear it, and since Nibbs was part of DLC I didn't have last I played I didn't get her killing spree music for free.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on June 01, 2017, 04:41:34 am

Got two kills with an M1911. As NLF.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rising Storm 2. It's a minor thing but it makes me feel a bit better about my recent extreme suck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 01, 2017, 06:08:15 am

Got my first FOXHOUND rating. Granted, it was a piss-easy mission. Rescuing a prisoner being guarded by 4-5 Walker Gears. Had Quiet distract the pilots, leaving me to hold up one pilot and steal his Gear. When a jeep came by to pick up the prisoner, the drivers were quickly neutralized and the jeep stolen as well. Extracted another Walker Gear(and the prisoner of course), and drove another Walker Gear to the edge of the mission area before extracting it.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 01, 2017, 02:36:18 pm

I will spare the details, but I killed five Gunners, three Enclave scientists, three Enclave power armored soldiers, five regular Enclave soldiers, a Vertibird, a Deathclaw, and a few ferals. In one insane, drug fuelled firefight.

Fallout 4 modded

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 02, 2017, 04:36:05 pm

After having it on my 3DS for about a year and a half, I finally completed all the puzzles with all the puzzle challenges completed. There's just now five specific achievements that don't reveal themselves until you complete all the puzzles left to accomplish(plus the one achievement for completing every other achievement).

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Pokemon Picross. ...I'm going to have to find some new 3DS games soon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 02, 2017, 05:25:31 pm

I took a rocket voltic and shot myself over an entire small mountain. When I landed, I hit a player.

GTA V Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on June 03, 2017, 02:48:34 am

Starpoint Gemini 2. Origins. {Because free SG2 is great when it was!}

I've modded the game to have customized officers [and, frankly, modded the campaign to have a female character in the campaign because I'm silly in doing the Origins campaign again while not being Adrian Faulkner]--knowing to have modded things with your own initiative is something nice.

But going out as an Engineer class, and BOARDING the stuffing out of bigger ships than my puny gunship with hacking-aids is even nicer \o/ I'm fully safe and covered financially, and riding my way into a Carrier-class ship soon enough. Propped up with those expensive [million or so] enhancements + weapons, and in Extreme difficulty it's like a time of life or death.

And bloody ambushes with battleships that I've to run away from but still win against due to these financial boosts due to hacking abilities. One example is how I captured a frigate with...1 trooper remaining alive. Out of the 22 troopers [after replenishing them and re-raiding the thing], 14 remained after clearing the deck out of 20 on board. Boarding is ALWAYS at the disadvantage of the boarder as the game uses 'teleporters' (basically your transporter, with a maximum capacity of 'always below 30') and the frigate was at 42 at the start. First raiding run got it to 20. With a transporter cap of ~18, I had 14 left. The enemy ship, while displaying "0" troopers [boarding marines], still has its crew, so troopers die even when boarding a '0 crew' ship. From 14 troopers, 13 died while trying to take the ship.

I had 1 trooper left, and a really nice expensive frigate to sell! ♥ It's nice to imagine how the battle goes however. :P Weeks of training of anti-boarding on basically any ship, and it gives quite a nice thought to dwell on (in between PTE movement between places, the mind wanders in open space...)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on June 03, 2017, 06:48:54 pm

The Officer Quarters is usually a very difficult objective to capture, especially when it's being guarded by players, since it's the only objective left after capturing the fortress gates and involves assaulting a heavily fortified position that sits on a hill. However, there's an open gate in the back of the fortress most players are unaware of, so while the attackers were attacking the gate, I snuck around the back and camped the Officer Quarters until the gates were captured, enabling me to quickly capture the OQ once it became capturable and before the defending team could move to defend it.
Ninja cap! Nin, nin!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Angels Fall First, Fortress incursion map

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 03, 2017, 06:58:04 pm

Some random bishop in Scotland inexplicably had a claim on Middle Francia.

Bryten is now about 20 counties larger.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II.

Quick question: can I appoint my firstborn son the successor to a bishopric? He's, shall we say, "special", and I'd prefer it if he didn't ascend to the throne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 03, 2017, 07:52:00 pm

So long as he isn't heir, yes. I'm unsure if you can make him take vows if he does something bad and you legitimately arrest him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 03, 2017, 11:58:54 pm

Ooh, I forgot about the scurvy method. I'll have to try that once he grows up, since I have primo and therefore can't deliberately disinherit him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 04, 2017, 07:49:38 am

I now have an enchanted legendary dragon bone dagger named "Grelod the Kind". Guess who donated the soul needed to enchant it? Also, guess who the unenchanted version was used to kill?

Skyrim can be awesome sometimes...

I plan to make one such weapon (not all daggers, but all high grade enchanted) for every notable target in the Dark Brotherhood quest line. I promise I'm not a psycho ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 04, 2017, 08:38:16 am

Quote from: milo christiansen on June 04, 2017, 07:49:38 am

Dark Brotherhood

Quote from: milo christiansen on June 04, 2017, 07:49:38 am

I promise I'm not a psycho ;)

ERROR: DOES NOT COMPUTE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 04, 2017, 12:10:16 pm

In all fairness, assassination is a very profitable business in a world where sniper rifles don't exist - the necessity of getting close to your target to take them out (unless you use bows but those have their own issues) allows you to charge lots and lots of gold and still get customers. It does require a certain moral bankruptcy in oneself, yes, but by no means are they all psychopaths.


:P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: comicraider on June 04, 2017, 12:16:00 pm

Last night I wandered into a human hamlet in adventure mode, walked into the lord's home and, once I claimed the place as my own and he objected, threw my axe at him. He survived, but surrendered and I became the new lord. I was gonna invite him to stay as a hearthperson but as he was crawling to the door he bled out. His head is sat outside as a reminder of what happens when you cross me. :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 04, 2017, 01:57:15 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 04, 2017, 12:10:16 pm

In all fairness, assassination is a very profitable business in a world where sniper rifles don't exist - the necessity of getting close to your target to take them out (unless you use bows but those have their own issues) allows you to charge lots and lots of gold and still get customers. It does require a certain moral bankruptcy in oneself, yes, but by no means are they all psychopaths.


:P

Quote from: TF2 Sniper

I'm not a 'crazed gunman' dad, I'm an assassin.
Well the difference being one's a job and the other's mental sickness!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 04, 2017, 07:16:28 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on June 04, 2017, 01:57:15 pm

Quote from: TF2 Sniper

I'm not a 'crazed gunman' dad, I'm an assassin.
Well the difference being one's a job and the other's mental sickness!

Quote from: From an old YT video with Billy Mays as Sniper's dad

Billy Mays: Are you shitting me?!
Sniper: Ah, piss.

Said video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8KNgsJVQ0)

------

Turns out I didn't have the GROM-11 *3. I had the *4. The first couple of APC's went up in flames in one shot. A few of the more armored APC's and a couple of tanks weren't blown up, they were stolen mid-battle - the tanks were stolen during a sandstorm. Props to the Support Unit for giving me a 100% on that. The first two APC's stolen were done by throwing a smoke grenade into the back of the first as it opened(immobilizing the squad inside), Fultoning it, smoke at the other APC, Fulton, then a hand grenade at where the first one was because the troops inside it dropped(unharmed) when their ride disappeared. I think a couple were counted as extracted, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MGSV:TPP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 04, 2017, 08:46:29 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/auFkfke.png)
It is a dark time for the
Catholics. Although the Umayyad
Sultanate has been destroyed,
Muslim troops have driven the
Catholic forces from Northern Africa
and pursued them across
Europe.

Evading the dreaded Abbasid
Camel Cavalry, a group of crusaders
led by Serene Doge Oberto Tocco
have established a new secret
base on the remote island
of Sardinia.

The caliph Abdul-Wahad,
obsessed with defeating wise
Oberto, has dispatched
thousands of soldiers into
the far reaches of Europe...

In other words, I got the "The Caliphate Strikes Back" achievement. In the process, the Seljuks went Zoroastrian, the Fatimids were pushed into Abyssinia, and the HRE went Orthodox followed by Jewish (all with secret cults turned off, too!), but I did it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 04, 2017, 09:36:10 pm

Quote from: Tawa on June 04, 2017, 08:46:29 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/auFkfke.png)
It is a dark time for the
Catholics. Although the Umayyad
Sultanate has been destroyed,
Muslim troops have driven the
Catholic forces from Northern Africa
and pursued them across
Europe.

Evading the dreaded Abbasid
Camel Cavalry, a group of crusaders
led by Serene Doge Oberto Tocco
have established a new secret
base on the remote island
of Sardinia.

The caliph Abdul-Wahad,
obsessed with defeating wise
Oberto, has dispatched
thousands of soldiers into
the far reaches of Europe...

In other words, I got the "The Caliphate Strikes Back" achievement. In the process, the Seljuks went Zoroastrian, the Fatimids were pushed into Abyssinia, and the HRE went Orthodox followed by Jewish (all with secret cults turned off, too!), but I did it.

First, this is glorious. Second, congratulations, fellow Caliph! How long did it take you?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 04, 2017, 09:49:40 pm

Formed the Arabian Empire in the late 1100s. My progress was mostly slowed by bordergore and Pisan interference--the hazy Seljuk/Fatimid border that straddles Aleppo and Arabia makes taking land there a bit of a mess, and when I took Egypt the Fatimids still had Cyrenaica, while the sultan of Africa was dealing with a revolt and had a bunch of territory taken by Pisan holy wars.

The Seljuks' unexpected conversion to Zoroastrianism did not help matters, seeing as Subjugation is much easier to spam than jihad or invasions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 04, 2017, 10:02:49 pm

Yes.

After several missions (including my first forays into the continent of Africa), I'm proud to award the Distinguished Service Medal to Glacier Cat, signifying his major contributions to the Combat Unit, and the Special Service as a whole. Though the medal requires a significant amount of courage, dedication, and determination to acquire, Glacier Cat was able to complete the necessary number of missions to earn the medal with only a Combat Unit Suitability of "C", and his example should inspire all members of Special Service to perform above the call of duty.

This man is only the first of many Combat Unit members I plan on sending out into the field, and with the promising growths in proficiency Glacier Cat has experienced (improving his Combat Unit Suitability all the way to "A"), I hope his comrades will be willing to take a direct role in accomplishing missions as well.

That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for listening. Dismissed!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Solid V: TPP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 05, 2017, 12:44:04 am

Defeated many opponents in open battle and in villages. At war with the khergits and sarranids simultaneously, having completely consumed the swadians.

Captured Sanjar Khan in one battle, also captured three of his noyans and convinced an emir of the sultanate to join the Rhodok cause. Meanwhile the sultan is indicting half his vassals for treason anyway. Havent actually made too much headway in capturing holdings of either nation but i personally captured a castle without aid, then recaptured it by demanding the guards surrender when Graveth decided to keep it for himself and apparently posted a really weak garrison. The vaegers and nords have been mostly having a go at one another off and on for half the year, and havent declared war on us. Oh, but after Kurnias was indicted for treason and fled to the nords i convinced him to let me marry his sister, lady Timethi, since her other suitors were now in a different faction i became the defacto best candidate.

Ive got Halmar, Tilbaut castle and several villages in the ass end of nowhere i can barely keep afloat because they keep getting raided. The castle and town both have 100-strong garrisons and counting and im still making enough to keep them afloat.

And its nearly Christmas to boot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

mount & blade warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 05, 2017, 12:45:39 pm

Skyrim is so broken when playing as a master illusionist. I just got the last raw materials for my "Vittoria Vici" bow by launching soul trap and pacify so they both were in the air at the same time (soul trap a split second before pacify). This didn't even cause a pause in her speech (soul trap is considered an attack). Then I could follow up with an arrow, and finally harmony so I could walk right past the guards to loot her jewelry.

Boooring.

It's even more broken when you use harmony to pacify a whole dungeon, then just walk around slitting throats (or just walk past everyone).

In other news: I now have more quality enchanted weapons than I can ever use, all with "interesting" names...

Anyone have any suggestions for a weapon+enchantment fit for an emperor? I can smith anything, and dual enchantments are possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on June 05, 2017, 12:50:34 pm

Enchantment/Alchemy loop your way into a Demon Suplex Ring to increase your fist damage until you can one-punch man your way through dragons.

Then go to the Nexus and install mods so you can play an illusionist like a real man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 05, 2017, 01:49:13 pm

Fiery Soul Trap (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Fiery_Soul_Trap) for damage + soul trapping, secondary would depend on what you really want to do. Could go for Fear, maybe. That would be cool.

Anything you put as a secondary with FST is also much stronger, so there's that to consider.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 05, 2017, 03:50:23 pm

Hmm... I hadn't seen that particular enchantment before. It'll probably be worth hunting down just for the coming "event".

Sadly an alchemy/enchant loop isn't feasible for this character without tremendous work, my alchemy is only at 16!

Unrelated: I oneshotted a "sleeping" ancient dragon with one of my trophy daggers! Sneaking close enough to hit one at rest practically requires a fluke, they normally take off even if they can't see you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 05, 2017, 05:10:21 pm

I quit GTA V Online.

This has led to a significant improvement in the enjoyability of my game time, akin to an IRL own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on June 06, 2017, 05:09:03 pm

Technically I owned even if nothing survived.

Flooded most of the map with liquefied coal in Oxygen Not Included. So much of the stuff infact that I managed to freeze the entire game. I laughed while the wave of liquid death melted everything. Sand, rock, metal and critters. Actually turned a lot of it into gas too. Wouldn't recommend inhaling the rock gas though given its liquid form is magma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 06, 2017, 07:24:17 pm

Quote from: Khan Boyzitbig on June 06, 2017, 05:09:03 pm

Technically I owned even if nothing survived.

Flooded most of the map with liquefied coal in Oxygen Not Included. So much of the stuff infact that I managed to freeze the entire game. I laughed while the wave of liquid death melted everything. Sand, rock, metal and critters. Actually turned a lot of it into gas too. Wouldn't recommend inhaling the rock gas though given its liquid form is magma.

Did YOU survive? Because then I would say that everything important did in fact survive, and this is a 100% victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 06, 2017, 08:29:46 pm

Mission was one of those fight over a single point ones, so of course everyone was focused on one point. The problem: this point was smack dab in an open field. There was cover in the point, but the problem was getting to it. Neither team could advance and anyone that tried got shot for their trouble. However: the point was far on the West side of the map. I took a weaker but faster tank, and drove around to the East. I managed a semi-circle, ending up right behind their front line, the main ones keeping my team bogged down: a group of tank destroyers. I like to imagine it from their perspective: sniping at some idiots trying to advance, keeping people off the point. They go out into third person view to get a better look around and see a cannon poking onto the screen, and their minimap doesn't show any allies next to them. Surprise, [expletive deleted].

Turns out, it doesn't matter that your tank is a full tier lower than their's if you get right up behind them before you fire a High Explosive Armor Piercing round right into their ammunition.

I took out three of them before they realized I was there, and a fourth for good measure before I got blown to bits by a heavy tank, but we had time to capture the point and from there, the stalemate just meant they couldn't get close enough to recapture it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: XhAPPYSLApX on June 06, 2017, 08:54:21 pm

This was a little while ago, but I was in an extremely heated firefight, I was very low on health, around 20% I would say. Had my trusty missile launcher "Big Bertha" along for the trip, but "No, that would be a waste of ammo." I thought.

Until "Rise and Prevail" by good ol' Inon Zur began playing, and I had a critical saved back... So I said "FUCK IT." and blew every single person up. Having been thoroughly drenched in the blood of my enemies, I emerged victorious yet again!

Criticals are fun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout 4

(I should probably try playing something else than Fallout for once...)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 06, 2017, 10:50:31 pm

Quote from: Khan Boyzitbig on June 06, 2017, 05:09:03 pm

Technically I owned even if nothing survived.

Flooded most of the map with liquefied coal in Oxygen Not Included. So much of the stuff infact that I managed to freeze the entire game. I laughed while the wave of liquid death melted everything. Sand, rock, metal and critters. Actually turned a lot of it into gas too. Wouldn't recommend inhaling the rock gas though given its liquid form is magma.

It sounds like that game has come a very very long way in the short couple of months since I last played it.

My own own.
Disgaea 5. Lv 25.  Fighting [redacted mouse over to view] for the first time.  He is 10 levels above me and super duper hyped as Mr Unstoppable badass.  Fight starts, it's Just him vs my entire team.

He can't hurt my armor knight.  She's 10 levels lower than him and HE CAN'T HURT HER.  I must have done something right if I created a character that can't be hurt by someone much higher level and armed to the teeth.  And I thought defenses were supposed to be worthless in this series.  I think that counts as an own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on June 06, 2017, 11:34:27 pm

Spoiler: Everything Burns (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/sKyw9YB.jpg)

Spoiler: Aftermath (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/Z2TxXR0.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on June 07, 2017, 05:19:19 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 06, 2017, 10:50:31 pm

Quote from: Khan Boyzitbig on June 06, 2017, 05:09:03 pm

Technically I owned even if nothing survived.

Flooded most of the map with liquefied coal in Oxygen Not Included. So much of the stuff infact that I managed to freeze the entire game. I laughed while the wave of liquid death melted everything. Sand, rock, metal and critters. Actually turned a lot of it into gas too. Wouldn't recommend inhaling the rock gas though given its liquid form is magma.

It sounds like that game has come a very very long way in the short couple of months since I last played it.

Well I was using debug commands. You can however cause a lot of problems with superheated water but getting the temperature high enough to melt rock would also melt whatever was raising the temperature far sooner.

I technically survived because I wasn't directly present.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on June 07, 2017, 10:12:59 am

Well, now you can farm bees.

And it'll be a while before you starve--wait. Does honey actually go bad in Don't Starve?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 07, 2017, 10:55:07 am

It takes 40 days to rot, but it does.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 08, 2017, 10:50:55 pm

Acquired the "FOX" emblem and rank.

Also took down some Skulls and saved my men from a horrific parasite at the same time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Counterattacking the melee attacks the Skulls use is tricky, but it makes you feel like a badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on June 09, 2017, 03:11:01 am

Cleared my way to Sloan with my silenced 45 Auto Pistol and a Hunting Shotgun. Really simple, shoot at a lonely Deathclaw and then run away from it.
The Deathclaw will try to find that cocky bastard who decided to shoot from the pistol, then when the Deathclaw discovers you, you shoot at it with your best shotgun in hopes that the Deathclaw will be knocked down. Yes, you need "And Stay Back" perk for it to work, otherwise you're dead.

Fallout: New Vegas.

Also, shall I create "facepalm moments thread" for this particular sub-forum? Because I got a minor one in the same game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 09, 2017, 05:22:00 am

You could put it in the death thread; people use it for failures that don't actually always involve dying, so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 09, 2017, 12:42:57 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on June 09, 2017, 03:11:01 am

Cleared my way to Sloan with my silenced 45 Auto Pistol and a Hunting Shotgun. Really simple, shoot at a lonely Deathclaw and then run away from it.
The Deathclaw will try to find that cocky bastard who decided to shoot from the pistol, then when the Deathclaw discovers you, you shoot at it with your best shotgun in hopes that the Deathclaw will be knocked down. Yes, you need "And Stay Back" perk for it to work, otherwise you're dead.

Fallout: New Vegas.

Also, shall I create "facepalm moments thread" for this particular sub-forum? Because I got a minor one in the same game.

I've been a fan of stealing the powder gangers' charges and crippling deathclaw legs with em' for those early xp kills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on June 09, 2017, 10:02:56 pm

After several attempts (literally) crashed and (figuratively) burned, and after a desperate run back to base for a few more engines worth of materials after overloading my lift capacity... I've finally succeeded at assembling an atmospheric miner. Five mining drills pointing straight down, with the rest of the ship resting atop them and engines surrounding the periphery, with the goal of the entire ship fitting into the drilling pattern of the drills below. The result is a ship that can drill into the surface of the planet, then continue floating down into its own borehole until I reach the juicy ores below, before finally flying straight back out with a full load of metal.

And best of all, this was done entirely with a standard Survival start. Between this super-efficient miner and a fully-functional outpost, I'm nearly ready to assemble a proper spaceship and get off this planet!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 10, 2017, 10:12:28 am

Killed the Viper King in the first mission after his introduction, while the bastard tried to escape.

XCOM2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 11, 2017, 03:13:26 pm

Gave up on the Pursuer after 2 tries because I was annoyed at how little damage my weapons do.  I know myself, even if his attacks are easy to dodge it requires like 3 rolls per combo and if I have to do that 30 times I'm going to choke right at the end.  The upshot is that I was playing a dex/dodging build (albeit with no spoilers or guides besides looking up what the stats do) and I didn't have anything good against armor.  Both the paths of advancement I could find require fighting 15 foot tall knights in full plate, so yeah.

Anyway, the own is that I found the fire longsword unspoiled.  Which required doing something rather brave IMO.  Anyway, with my newfound ability to actually do damage I carved a path of death through Heide's Tower of Flame.  I fearlessly dodged around and into the giant knights, then beat the boss on my second try (the first was me severely hollowed).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 2

Secondary own, but I beat the true area boss.  The white knights in the area, with the swords, are decently hard.  However, the single one with what looks like a boar spear has an entirely different moveset that is crazy bullshit.  He has the same intentionally strange attack timings as sword guys, but unlike them his combos are long and his attacks long and varied ranges.  He also combines thrusts and horizontal swings (?), and his weapon doesn't have sweet spot.  Him hitting you with the wooden bit does as much damage as the pointy end.  He is so much harder than the boss and I think he has over half as much health.  I made it a point of pride to beat him and I finally did... the reward did not impress me.  But I got a good laugh out of it, and quit while I was ahead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 11, 2017, 03:22:25 pm

Spoiler: If you want less of a hassle beating the Pursuer, try (click to show/hide)

buying a Mace from Blacksmith Lenigrast. Maces deal Strike damage, and enemies wearing heavy armor are almost always more vulnerable to Strike than Thrust, Slash, or Regular damage - including the Pursuer. Wield it with both hands for the damage bonus and because I don't think you have the Strength to use it with just one at this point; you said you're a dodging character anyway, so it won't be much of a change, I assume.

Or you could just try him again with your Fire Longsword. IIRC, that will do more damage to him than most other weapons you should have right now.

Also, that's basically the Pursuer fight in a nutshell. Every time he attacks you dodge to the right (his left), continue dodging until he stops attacking, hit him, repeat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 10:26:05 am

Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 12, 2017, 04:06:39 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 10:26:05 am

Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Recommend playing Majora's Mask, Link to the Past, or Twilight Princess after that. They are the most directly connected to OoT in one way or another.

OoT is a common favorite, it's just all-around fantastic. The only one I like more is Twilight Princess, personally.

Also, in playing Civ 6, I was a declared friend of every civilization but Ghandi, which to me is the ideal state of international relations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 12, 2017, 04:21:32 pm

Our words are backed with nuclear weapons. (http://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civilization-1653818245)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on June 12, 2017, 06:59:10 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 10:26:05 am

Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Original or 3D?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 08:11:31 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on June 12, 2017, 06:59:10 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 10:26:05 am

Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Original or 3D?

Original.

My planned progression was play Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Windwaker, and then spend a billion dollars for a switch and get Breath of the Wild.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on June 12, 2017, 08:13:06 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 08:11:31 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on June 12, 2017, 06:59:10 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on June 12, 2017, 10:26:05 am

Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Original or 3D?

Original.

My planned progression was play Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Windwaker, and then spend a billion dollars for a switch and get Breath of the Wild.

I can source you a switch for a 100 million, unmarked USD. Just hit me up and we'll work out the kinks. Save you a lotta money.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 12, 2017, 09:57:37 pm

Completed "[EXTREME] METALLIC ARCHAEA" with an S rank after many, many tries.

Also completed the [TOTAL STEALTH] versions of "OVER THE FENCE" and "FOOTPRINTS OF PHANTOMS".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on June 13, 2017, 02:11:47 am

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Started playing Ocarina of Time. My first LoZ game... holy shit.

Original or 3D?

Original.

My planned progression was play Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Windwaker, and then spend a billion dollars for a switch and get Breath of the Wild.

I can source you a switch for a 100 million, unmarked USD. Just hit me up and we'll work out the kinks. Save you a lotta money.

Thats, like, 90% off. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 13, 2017, 01:13:54 pm

Finished the Empire campaign on VH/VH. Damn thing is hard. Probably not helped by the fact that I'm running a ton of mods.

Total War: WARHAMMER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 13, 2017, 02:38:13 pm

Finally invaded someone without me getting killed.

Instead, I killed all their staff, and stole nearly every resource contained and weapon emplacement.

The FOB owner can't even retaliate since they don't know how to get to me.

Sniper rifles and suppressors are wonderful things.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 13, 2017, 05:22:29 pm

Sniper rifles? As in just regular ones and not the "BOOMANTI-TANKROUNDSTOTHEFACE" sniper rifles?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 13, 2017, 05:50:05 pm

I never really figured out doing FOBs. I get the idea on how to do the actual sneak-in-and-wreck-someone, since there's two required missions for that. But do I just pick somebody's base and off I go to ruin someone's day? How safe is my stuff, can someone just murder/kidnap off all my staff and resources and leave me with an empty Mother Base?

Quote from: hector13 on June 13, 2017, 05:22:29 pm

Sniper rifles? As in just regular ones and not the "BOOMANTI-TANKROUNDSTOTHEFACE" sniper rifles?

I'd assume normal sniper rifles, as I'm pretty sure you can't get a suppressor for an anti-tank rifle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on June 13, 2017, 05:58:17 pm

Technically you can fit a suppressor on pretty much any weapon. But an anti-tank weapon is still really loud when suppressed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 13, 2017, 06:04:41 pm

Am I the only one who thinks its kind of funny that MGS V has anti-tank rifles?  Like I know the time period is almost right, but one of the armor vehicles in that game is a soviet main battle tank.  You might as well be throwing rocks...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 13, 2017, 06:49:47 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 13, 2017, 05:50:05 pm

I never really figured out doing FOBs. I get the idea on how to do the actual sneak-in-and-wreck-someone, since there's two required missions for that. But do I just pick somebody's base and off I go to ruin someone's day? How safe is my stuff, can someone just murder/kidnap off all my staff and resources and leave me with an empty Mother Base?

Quote from: hector13 on June 13, 2017, 05:22:29 pm

Sniper rifles? As in just regular ones and not the "BOOMANTI-TANKROUNDSTOTHEFACE" sniper rifles?

I'd assume normal sniper rifles, as I'm pretty sure you can't get a suppressor for an anti-tank rifle.

You can get a supressor for one of the anti-tank rifles, that's what I use for FOB missions 'cause everyone went for the super heavy armoured guys way back when I was doing it.

The FOB missions are basically whatever resources are on whatever rig type they attack (so combat, R&D, base management etc.) and they can steal only whatever resources and people are available on that platform, which I'm reasonably sure you can see if you go to the training tab in the FOB menu.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 14, 2017, 01:49:19 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 13, 2017, 06:04:41 pm

Am I the only one who thinks its kind of funny that MGS V has anti-tank rifles?  Like I know the time period is almost right, but one of the armor vehicles in that game is a soviet main battle tank.  You might as well be throwing rocks...

Isn't it kinda the same now though?  Last I heard an anti-materiel rifle requires a 3 men to carry and properly spot for the thing, and even then it can't really do anything to any remotely modern armored vehicle.

It's like the Archer AM Rifle in planetside 2.   Sure it CAN damage vehicles, and one of the few infantry weapons that can that isn't a landmine or a rocket, but it's not going to actually hurt anything but a fighter jet or a buggy.  And the Planetside 2 Archer AM Rifle has the advantage of only needing one person to use effectively unlike the real deal.  Makes me wonder if any armies in the world still bother to field the things with how circumstances have to be absolutely perfect AND the perfect shot is needed to disable anything. 

It just seems useless to have 3 highly trained and specialized guys out there with an oversized and expensive sniper rifle that can kill an engine leaving the combatants live and well, compared to any guy who can understand a 'this side front' label with an rpg that will kill the engine and the guys behind the wheel in the same shot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 14, 2017, 02:20:09 am

...Greiger, most AM rifles ARE one man weapons.  The bulk of them are bolt-action rifles firing .50 cal or 12.7mm rounds (and apparently 20mm now), and while they are huge, they hardly need three men to operate.  AMRs are typically deployed with a sniper and a spotter, but the spotter is unnecessary to operate the weapon.  And if you think a .50 cal won't kill every person in the vehicle when it blasts clear through the engine block and everything behind it until it impacts the ground, you don't know much about ballistics.

Also, RPGs are notorious for being inaccurate as hell over even medium distances.  As in you probably shouldn't be firing them at anything more than fifty meters away.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2017, 03:10:02 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 14, 2017, 01:49:19 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 13, 2017, 06:04:41 pm

Am I the only one who thinks its kind of funny that MGS V has anti-tank rifles?  Like I know the time period is almost right, but one of the armor vehicles in that game is a soviet main battle tank.  You might as well be throwing rocks...

Isn't it kinda the same now though?  Last I heard an anti-materiel rifle requires a 3 men to carry and properly spot for the thing, and even then it can't really do anything to any remotely modern armored vehicle.

Close to the time period in the other direction.  Even in WW2 there were few enough tanks that could be destroyed by a rifle, past the 50s its pretty much useless.  Hence why they're "anti-material rifles" now instead of antitank rifles.

The thing about modern tank armor is that its really, really fucking tough.  Even most bombs, artillery shells and rockets don't do much because they explode outward in all directions.  Anti-tank rockets and missiles are shaped to fire the entire blast forward into the impact point.  That's what it takes to get through a main battle tank's armor.  That's why we don't have light and medium tanks any more, because anything smaller than a main battle tank literally cannot mount a large enough cannon to penetrate enemy armor from the front.  So yeah, if 50mm would do literally nothing, you better not have brought .50 caliber...

Edit: Actually reading your post it sounds like you knew all that anyway :P  Wikipedia claims they're used to shoot radar dishes and parked aircraft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 14, 2017, 03:17:22 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 14, 2017, 01:49:19 am

It's like the Archer AM Rifle in planetside 2.   Sure it CAN damage vehicles, and one of the few infantry weapons that can that isn't a landmine or a rocket, but it's not going to actually hurt anything but a fighter jet or a buggy.

The Archer is specifically meant to fight MAXes - its description explicitly states this. It also does pretty crappy damage to Harassers because those things are stupidly durable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on June 14, 2017, 03:24:06 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2017, 03:10:02 am

That's why we don't have light and medium tanks any more, because anything smaller than a main battle tank literally cannot mount a large enough cannon to penetrate enemy armor from the front.  So yeah, if 50mm would do literally nothing, you better not have brought .50 caliber...

Actually, funny thing, almost all main battle tanks are classed as medium tanks according to modern systems, only a few even reach ninety tons fully loaded, and you've got to top one hundred to be heavy, and one-fifty to be super-heavy.  But no one builds those, as they aren't very useful in a modern war.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xantalos on June 14, 2017, 05:33:59 am

I've found that not even trying to build a balanced party (Unova early route pokemon are trash aesthetically anyway) and just monofocusing on one pokemon actually works really well. I'm pretty much oneshotting every battle I come to with my level ... 35 or something Servine - I've just reached Desert Resort, so the highest level fight I've been up against was level 24 or so. I've consistently been at least 10 levels higher than everyone else I ran into though. I have one other pokemon in my party that I use as an HM slave. It's level 4.

Pokémon ... Black, I think?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 14, 2017, 08:51:18 am

Quote from: hector13 on June 13, 2017, 05:22:29 pm

Sniper rifles? As in just regular ones and not the "BOOMANTI-TANKROUNDSTOTHEFACE" sniper rifles?

A sort of regular one.

See, it's possible to change sniper rifle mags for assault rifle mags. This also gives the sniper rifle the assault rifle's ammo count while retaining the same amount of power.

I gave my sniper rifle a 7.62mm 30-round mag. That gave me 240 rounds in reserve.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 13, 2017, 06:04:41 pm

Am I the only one who thinks its kind of funny that MGS V has anti-tank rifles?  Like I know the time period is almost right, but one of the armor vehicles in that game is a soviet main battle tank.  You might as well be throwing rocks...

I'm assuming you don't mean recoilless rifles (i.e. rocket or missile launchers) like the ones Miller mentions when you ask for intel about a tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 14, 2017, 09:35:54 am

The Brennan Long Range Sniper Type 54 is probably what you're looking for. It's an upgrade for Quiet, although I don't know if it's useful besides popping guys through their helmets and one specific mission that's mentioned on the "how did you last die" thread.

Thing is better against tanks than most RPGs are, I swear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 15, 2017, 06:55:49 pm

Besieging a castle, i was waiting for a siege tower to be built when the (enemy's) cavalry came to (not my) rescue. These were khergits, see. Entirely composed of cavalry. But i brought a cavalry-heavy army too. But they outnumbered us two to one. And retreat wasnt an option.
when the game loaded, i was perched atop a hill in a wooded area. And i got an idea. This is terrible cavalry terrain, especially for the enemy. Trying to overrun my position. But i didnt need my cavalry getting shot off the tops of their horses while holding position, so i ordered them to hold position in front of our line, then dismount, then fall back to our line. The plan worked. When the khergits got there, they had been split into smaller groups by the trees and hills already, and werent at top speed. Then a large number of them ran right into our horses, which were standing between us and them. Sharpshooters and i got a few kills right there just because they came to a dead stop and got stuck. The remainder that didnt run into our horses ran into the line of infantry and cavalrymen and were overwhelmed. That broke the first wave easily, and i ordered the cavalry to remount horses and charge. From then on the fact that the swadian men at arms and knights are much tougher than the average khergit insured that we won. Not without casualties, but i had enough men to take the castle afterwards (most of them died, though, deapite khergit troops being aweful at holding castles)
I thought that was a neat trick. The ai isnt very smart anyway.


But the khergit kingdom fell a while after that; now all their lords are abandoning them. Still, cavalry battles are reasonably fun, so its gonna be somewhat boring from here on out with both them and the swadians under our thumbs.

Mount & blade warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 15, 2017, 09:10:01 pm

Managed to make a helicopter that's actually flyable... if barely. The hardest part is that there's no way to zero out a given block's power setting using a complex controller. A normal vehicle controller you can press T and G to stop the propellers, but that won't work for a complex controller, which is need to run dedicated heliblade spinners.

In any case, I can go up, down(that's easy), turn, and go in a direction generally described as forward, as well as launch 12 unguided torpedoes* from the air.

Gets shot down easily, though. Hard to do much about that, evasive maneuvers are a little difficult, to say nothing of guided missiles(I got shot down by an AI controlled CRAM battery).

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From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on June 15, 2017, 10:20:00 pm

Beat the game, more or less. Didn't save Curly Brace, unfortunately. I got the Tow Rope, brought her along with me and even performed the robot draining procedure in the cabin. And then, thinking that she could just sort of swim back, I left her lying there. It took me until I'd gotten to the Last Cave to realize that she'd given me her bubble shield and thus couldn't swim back on her own. So I guess that's something to do later.

I gotta say, this wasn't that hard of a game, with a couple exceptions. The Last Cave[Hidden] is pure bullshit. It has the terrible hopping enemies, Booster 2.0 shenanigans, an annoying boss in a tight arena and a hallway of instant-death blocks from above. The final bosses weren't THAT difficult in comparison, although it still took me several tries simply because four moderately hard back-to-back fights are a pain.

Moreover, this is easily the best platformer I've ever played. The biggest reason is simply that annoying jumping puzzles become a non-issue once you get the Machine Gun and can just swoosh around on your murder-jetpack mowing down everybody. That said, the power-loss-on-hit mechanic is incredibly annoying, although at least the Nemesis makes it irrelevant for the hardest parts of the game.

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Cave Story

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 15, 2017, 10:36:27 pm

Installed a few mods for MGSV (like that ever ends well). One was titled "Infinite Heaven", and it came with a very difficult-to-use menu that relied on the log text to show the player what settings were active. I wound up adding settings for Skull Soldier attacks in Free Roam.

Another mod was Morbidslinky's side-op pack for Infinite Heaven.

I was doing a side-op that involved rescuing filmmakers who'd been apprehended by the Soviets, and before I was able to extract the second filmmaker, a familiar mist descended upon the Mountain Relay Base. Then, the Riot Suit soldier I was preparing to CQC turned into a Puppet Soldier. As I CQCed him anyway a laser sight was trained on my character, and seconds later she was limping behind cover with an injury to be treated.

It took several painstaking minutes - long enough for late-night to turn into mid-morning.

The female soldier (I forget her name) took several sniper rounds, and I heard the telltale sound of the near-death hum more than once...

But she was S-rank in combat for a reason.

XOF, I see your parasite-enhanced, scantily-clad snipers and raise you one ordinary (if talented), modestly clothed Diamond Dog lady of war.

I win.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

I honestly don't know how I did it. Okay, maybe I did (using cover, waiting for one or two Skulls to get cocky and attack me with melee, then countering their strikes, etc.), but I still can't believe it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 16, 2017, 01:42:01 am

In my game I fought the skull sniper squad by calling in an IFV.  Fuck precision.  Also Quiet because my sniper is better than yours.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 16, 2017, 06:24:19 am

I ran into Quiet without a sniper rifle. Considering I'd been focusing on non-lethals and didn't have a tranq sniper, my armaments were woefully underdeveloped. So, rather than run away and come back with a sniper, my sleep-deprived brain decided it'd be best to fight her. With a tranq pistol. And I won.

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MGSV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 16, 2017, 07:42:08 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

Also

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During sandstorms, she'll often go down to the river. You can knock her out with a punch then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Shoruke on June 16, 2017, 08:28:15 am

Have you guys played the new Mayhem mode in Overwatch!? I call it Mei-hem because guess who my new favourite 1v6-capable defense hero is  :D

So here I am defending the payload with the squad in El Dorado. Before they can get to the far side of town square, we've got them in deadlock, so we're in overtime.
/me uses Blizzard
And then taunt them by building a snowman on the payload while the enemy team runs away, winning us the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on June 16, 2017, 08:33:26 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

I think they patched it to avoid that - I tried it first and she got out of the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 16, 2017, 08:41:53 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 16, 2017, 08:33:26 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

I think they patched it to avoid that - I tried it first and she got out of the way.

It wasn't patched, she always did that. What you need to do is to bait her into shooting while it coming down. She'll never move if she's got a shot at you.

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My own: killed the Berserker Queen with a melee attack.

XCOM 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 16, 2017, 09:41:03 am

Quote from: Teneb on June 16, 2017, 08:41:53 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 16, 2017, 08:33:26 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

I think they patched it to avoid that - I tried it first and she got out of the way.

It wasn't patched, she always did that. What you need to do is to bait her into shooting while it coming down. She'll never move if she's got a shot at you.

The best part?

I've heard that this even works on the [EXTREME] variant of "CLOAKED IN SILENCE".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on June 16, 2017, 10:05:53 am

Are gold magikarps supposed to be rare? Or is the first one scripted? Either way I got one

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Magikarp jump

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 16, 2017, 04:34:08 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 16, 2017, 09:41:03 am

Quote from: Teneb on June 16, 2017, 08:41:53 am

Quote from: Twinwolf on June 16, 2017, 08:33:26 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 16, 2017, 06:50:38 am

Quiet sniper fight protip

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you can call in a supply drop on her if you can paint her on the map and the drop will wipe around half of her stamina.

I think they patched it to avoid that - I tried it first and she got out of the way.

It wasn't patched, she always did that. What you need to do is to bait her into shooting while it coming down. She'll never move if she's got a shot at you.

The best part?

I've heard that this even works on the [EXTREME] variant of "CLOAKED IN SILENCE".

It's not patched, she dodges it in [EXTREME], but not in the normal version of the mission. Unless of course, you let her take aim at just before it hits.

...I wonder if it will work if you drop a tank on her.

Quote from: overseer05-15 on June 16, 2017, 10:05:53 am

Are gold magikarps supposed to be rare? Or is the first one scripted? Either way I got one

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Magikarp jump

Never played that, but gold is the color of a shiny Magikarp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 17, 2017, 09:36:03 pm

Not sure if this really qualifies but still an accomplishment:

Visited that odd room at the third floor of the Medical Platform's first deck for the very last time. With that I acquired the last intel tape.
I listened to it.

And with that, I think I've finished the story of the game. The only things I have left are the modified/more difficult missions that appear in Chapter 2, as well as the side-ops.

Just another day in a war without end, I suppose.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 18, 2017, 08:40:16 am

Latest ship design, a small ship designed for the sole purpose of using it's single weapon: a goddamned massive gun. It fires shells that are 3.3 meters long(6.3m with the casing) and half a meter wide(the maximum). While the bullet configuration might need calibration, it already blows pretty sizable chunks off the castle-ships of the Onyx Watch. The main problems are cooling(about 10 seconds longer than reload) and recoil. Firing from a full stop sends the ship backwards at a rate of around 4m/s.

The main reason for it's victory over the OW Bastion(my go-to ship for testing designs) was because it was busy shooting the raft that spawns when the designer is opened. Despite that, the siege boat did take a couple of hits, and for once didn't explode. The cannon was then able to knock out the main guns of the Bastion before pounding on the section containing its AI core.

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From the Depths. Despite being pretty good against armor, it does little against more sensitive components. Despite the AI core being visible, it took several shots before the mainframe was destroyed. Maybe I'll remove the shaped-charge secondary and have HE warheads just blow up.

EDIT: Changed the gun a bit, removed the shaped charge secondary component(replaced with more HE), and upped the penetration depth setting a bit. Makes
a massive difference. Punches deep into armor, then blows a giant hole into it. And if it goes through the outer armor, it'll just explode by whatever internal equipment it lands on. Funnily enough, I've seen it overpenetrate and explode on the other side of the target; this usually happens when I've already blown it half apart anyway. I also added over a dozen cooling units, so now it's ready to fire once the new shell is loaded(ie: much faster).

Other enhancements include 4 9-gantry torpedoes(most of which are explosive warheads) and repair bots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: karhell on June 19, 2017, 06:58:59 am

Shotgunned the Spider Mastermind to pieces.

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DoomRL; second run since I reinstalled the game. Went pretty well, despite the destruction of my tactical armour early on. Found a plasma shotty and nano-modded it for infinite plasma, alternating a tactical shotty and a power-modded double shotty in the off hand while the damn thing regenerated its ammo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xvareon on June 19, 2017, 10:35:01 am

Playing as Prince Rue the Sorrow Liege, pushing lanes with our team's army and never ever dying because to kill the SL you usually have to go through his Royal Guard first. The setup:  Royal Guard take damage for him. SL uses Despair to fear everyone around him into breaking formation and running, even heroes. Mortal Strike does a nice chunk of damage and cuts healing by half on heroes. Forlorn Crown gives him 5 different auras, including one that deflects a % of magic damage, which stacks with Royal Guard's damage block. And the crux of it all, Shadow Bastion, which lets him summon giant flying fortresses that act as forward command posts for the army, can fire at enemies on the ground, and teleport groups of reinforcements from across the map in case the owner is in trouble. Best part, there's no limit to the number of these he can have.

I steamrolled every lane assault we went on late game, until I used excess gold to buy a wave of mercenaries and send in 3 Shadow Bastions to the opposing team's main base. Wiped out their forward ops in a hurry and crumpled their towers. Sorrow Liege is scary if you let him get ahead in levels.

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EotA: Twilight, or Eve of the Apocalypse, a map/mod for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on June 21, 2017, 05:12:39 am

My Courier handled the Benny's "package". Too bad that Benny himself was unable to handle the Courier.

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Fallout: New Vegas
Since I was unable to play my previous 24 lvl male Courier (Windows got destroyed), I've decided to go with a new female Courier, just so I can have a sexy time with Benny. I regret nothing.

Also, can someone give me better sex-related puns? I'm not strong in sex-related puns...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 21, 2017, 05:28:36 am

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Maybe you should change your Courier's name to "CockAndBallLover".


...




shoots myself before you can

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2017, 05:35:40 am

Managed to land a plane and stop before shooting past the runway. And in a manner that didn't involve a fiery  explosion.

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F16: Multirole Fighter, and old, old flight sim. My flightstick/throttle arrived yesterday. My biggest gripe with it is that the flightstick can twist, giving it a z-axis, but several games so far confuse this with the rudder on the throttle. So, to yaw, I have to twist the flightstick rather than the rudder. So far, only B17: The Mighty 8th doesn't do this, because you can manually set what axis does what - when first booted it up, the rudders handled both yaw and throttle for some reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 21, 2017, 05:37:03 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on June 21, 2017, 05:12:39 am

My Courier handled the Benny's "package". Too bad that Benny himself was unable to handle the Courier.

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Fallout: New Vegas
Since I was unable to play my previous 24 lvl male Courier (Windows got destroyed), I've decided to go with a new female Courier, just so I can have a sexy time with Benny. I regret nothing.

Also, can someone give me better sex-related puns? I'm not strong in sex-related puns...

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If you do what you did and also grab the Cherchez La Femme trait, you get a very special dialogue option near the end of Old World Blues

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on June 21, 2017, 05:38:50 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 21, 2017, 05:28:36 am

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Maybe you should change your Courier's name to "CockAndBallLover".


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shoots myself before you can

Sigged. I don't give my Couriers my nickname/real life name as their name, though. It's mostly for a better immersion, just like I also don't use fast travel in New Vegas.

@ Teneb

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I know that you can flirt with your brain in the DLC, and that's what I'm gonna do!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 21, 2017, 05:41:41 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on June 21, 2017, 05:38:50 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 21, 2017, 05:28:36 am

Spoiler: Legitimate NSFW (click to show/hide)

Maybe you should change your Courier's name to "CockAndBallLover".


...




shoots myself before you can

Sigged. I don't give my Couriers my nickname/real life name as their name, though. It's mostly for a better immersion, just like I also don't use fast travel in New Vegas.

@ Teneb

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I know that you can flirt with your brain in the DLC, and that's what I'm gonna do!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In this case, however, your brain will have a few choice words about your... previous sleeping partner.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 21, 2017, 05:42:18 am

> > > not using fast travel

We're done here. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on June 21, 2017, 05:56:16 am

Also, here's what I did with Benny's corpse:

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(http://imgur.com/g0UsR7M.jpg)
I really tried to make him sit on the toilet without his head, but I was running out of my patience...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on June 21, 2017, 10:42:52 am

Had a very nearly perfect run in Dead Cells. Pure strength build on upgrades, two fire grenades, an unimportant secondary, and a rapier that had  +20% damage on crits and +175% damage on burning targets.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dead Cells, elemental edition. Makes those Fire Grenades WAY better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 21, 2017, 08:01:29 pm

I beat the shit out of a bunch of small dogs and a groundhog using nothing but a blue muppet that knows kung-fu.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon White

Caught a Sawk. The face reminded me of a muppet. It proved itself to be really good at Lenora's gym.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 21, 2017, 08:02:44 pm

Sawk is pretty amazing. Too bad his brother isn't quite as good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 22, 2017, 01:37:34 am

Quote from: Akura on June 21, 2017, 05:35:40 am

Managed to land a plane and stop before shooting past the runway. And in a manner that didn't involve a fiery  explosion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

F16: Multirole Fighter, and old, old flight sim. My flightstick/throttle arrived yesterday. My biggest gripe with it is that the flightstick can twist, giving it a z-axis, but several games so far confuse this with the rudder on the throttle. So, to yaw, I have to twist the flightstick rather than the rudder. So far, only B17: The Mighty 8th doesn't do this, because you can manually set what axis does what - when first booted it up, the rudders handled both yaw and throttle for some reason.

I had that game at one point but my pc at the time could not run it.  Instead I was always just entranced in the detail just from reading the manual and by the time I got a decent computer I had lost the discs.  I oughta see if I can find it on GoG or something.

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My own own wasn't so much of an own as one of those heroic moments everyone dreams about having in an mmo.  FF14 I'm casually fishing in coerthas central.  Helping a buddy level his fishing by using my 'provider of the realm' to capture all the fish he needs easier than he could so he could turn them in for repeatable quests so he'd level faster.

Another player I don't know comes close to my fishing hole and examines something on the ground before being attacked by a monster.  Clearly part of some low level quest I don't remember.  I continue fishing, even as a non combat class, just by virtue of levels the monster is no threat to me.  Then I notice the player is starting to lose the fight.  So I calmly catch the fish I had on my hook, switched class to Dragoon, and absolutely destroyed the monster in a few jumps.  The player was very grateful and thanked me profusely while I went back to my fishing.

It feels good to have the opportunity to be a hero.

Final Fantasy 14

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 22, 2017, 04:36:59 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 22, 2017, 01:37:34 am

Quote from: Akura on June 21, 2017, 05:35:40 am

Managed to land a plane and stop before shooting past the runway. And in a manner that didn't involve a fiery  explosion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

F16: Multirole Fighter, and old, old flight sim. My flightstick/throttle arrived yesterday. My biggest gripe with it is that the flightstick can twist, giving it a z-axis, but several games so far confuse this with the rudder on the throttle. So, to yaw, I have to twist the flightstick rather than the rudder. So far, only B17: The Mighty 8th doesn't do this, because you can manually set what axis does what - when first booted it up, the rudders handled both yaw and throttle for some reason.

I had that game at one point but my pc at the time could not run it.  Instead I was always just entranced in the detail just from reading the manual and by the time I got a decent computer I had lost the discs.  I oughta see if I can find it on GoG or something.

I picked it up in a very cheap bundle of old Novalogic games on Steam. Many of which I played but lost the discs to, too.

...Not sure if I ever saw it on GoG, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 22, 2017, 05:23:28 am

Quote from: Spehss _ on June 21, 2017, 08:01:29 pm

I beat the shit out of a bunch of small dogs and a groundhog using nothing but a blue muppet that knows kung-fu.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon White

Caught a Sawk. The face reminded me of a muppet. It proved itself to be really good at Lenora's gym.

Sawk is a fantastic pokemon right up until the end game. Not so hot competitively, but Sturdy is always good, and it has a decent moveset with usable attack, and way, way too many major characters have weaknesses to Fighting.

Throh is Sawk but without any stats but HP and defense. Only thing he's good for is that wacky Storm Throw shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on June 22, 2017, 11:13:05 am

Decided to check out "New Vegas Bounties" mod. The first target was Tom Quigly, rumored to be "the best marksman in the Wasteland". I saw him dicking around his camp on the hill, so I took my Ratslayer out and sniped him. I love using Ratslayer, the rifle is so good.

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 23, 2017, 08:17:44 pm

Defeated Nuibaba. My strategy was as such:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- I got everybody I could, within reason, promoted. The important thing here is maximizing your healer and magic user count; Kliff, Silque, and Luthier all healing up the frontliners helped immensely. Gray becoming a Dread Fighter was also a huge help.
- I gave Python a silver bow. This was necessary because of its crucial art, which seals magic on the opponent for a turn if it hits.
- Next up, I picked off as many of Nuibaba's cronies as possible. The most important one was the archer, because his insane coverage means you'll get murdered if you try to go around to the door; I defeated him by having Tobin and Python team up on him. I offed two of the Dread Fighters by using Gray, taking advantage of the mountainside's avoid bonus, and giving him considerable ranged support. In the process, the arcanists came down and were slain as well.
- This whole time, I've had a front set up to take care of the gargoyles summoned by that damn cantor. The cavalry, knights, Alm, and as many magicians I could spare stood just outside of Nuibaba's range and did whatever they could to off as many gargoyles per turn as possible.
- Eventually, all Nuibaba had left were herself, the cantor, and a single Dread Fighter. I began my assault by setting Python to seal the cantor's magic; although this put him in range of Nuibaba, it's fine because anybody can take a single hit from her as long as nobody else hits them afterward. I got as many of my units as close as possible. The following turn, I healed the person hit by Nuibaba and set Grey to deal with the Dread Fighter. Grey went after Nuibaba next, keeping her out of the way. The cantor summoned a small army of gargoyles, but Delthea was close enough to Seraphim him and end that entire ordeal. With a bit of ranged support and help from Alm, Gray defeated the Dread Fighter, and in a moment of extreme satisfaction, I destroyed Nuibaba once and for all.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Spoiler: Map musings (click to show/hide)

I'm conflicted on this map. On one hand, I hate it because it's very frustrating to play through. On the other hand, it's very clever in several ways. The removal of Silque's original super-OP warp capabilities, among other small changes to the working of the game, mean that you can't just send in a superunit or two to destroy everyone. Instead, you have to take a much more siege-oriented approach, slowly sapping their strength before making a final push. It's an excellent change of pace from the other games' castle assaults that are more games of "who can hold the choke point the longest?"

Additionally, this map continues a trend I've seen a lot of in Gaiden that a lot of other Fire Emblem games are lacking in--the enemy actually has very good fortifications that legitimately hinder you to a considerable degree, rather than the enemy "castle" having great big entry doorways you could drive a tank through and conveniently placed architecture that provides cover for attackers and leaves the defenders wide open. It also has a mix of defending units that lets the defenders keep the attackers at bay by choosing the best counter to the attacker at hand rather than an army of knights and archers that's easily defeated with a single hammer or wizard. It's a much more realistic map (as far as Fire Emblem goes, anyway) than the regular ones.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on June 25, 2017, 02:34:17 pm

Elizabeth the 13th had just started out in the shelter, having a nail board and an emergency jacket to her name. Within minutes of trotting towards town, she spotted him: A shocker brute standing next to a window, alone. She jogged out, shouted, and when she had confirmed that the brute was approaching she ducked back into the shelter and waited. As soon as he entered the window, she donked it on the head with her nail board, striking it down instantly. Reveling in her victory, she put her emergency blanket back on and headed towards town.
(it would probably ruin the moment if I told you that she promptly trotted over to Elizabeth the Eleventh's corpse which was next to the window where the brute originally as and picked up her knife spear, already well coated in crackling electric blood from fighting it beforehand. Still, offing it first blow was nice, I couldn't have beat it if it had any more health)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cataclysm DDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 25, 2017, 08:17:49 pm

Finally built a ship design that can win this mission, to take down three enemy battleships attacking one lone pirate. It involved way too many missile launchers being strapped to a frigate design that had already failed this mission(but wasn't a bad ship itself). The first ship(which always goes after you it seems) took two salvos because the first salvo couldn't decide if it to attack my target or the ship I was protecting. The second salvo punched through to the AI core. The second enemy ship got taken down by my escortee. The last got it's AI core taken out by a barely-in-range missile strike - one missile got their the core on a very lucky hit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths. The next mission was way easier and more fun, you drive a small superboat that can go 50m/s(my design goes 6m/s) and dodging through a blockade. I nearly died, but it was fun.

EDIT: Started an airship battle, the Valuan prototype cruiser Delphinus against Meta-Knight's Halberd.

The Delphinus won, though the Halberd put up a good fight. The Delphinus probably won because I was sitting in it, and its Moon Stone Cannon probably took out too many of the Halberd's propellers keeping it up. That said. the Delphinus dropped about 100m from the damage it took before it was repaired. I'll bet if I was controlling the Halberd, it would have been the Delphinus that was forced into the ocean.

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From the Depths. Some of the stuff on the workshop is just awesome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on June 26, 2017, 09:46:40 pm

I crushed those bastards.

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Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

In other words, I beat the game. (https://68.media.tumblr.com/73daadf902bced65a8dccbb13e6f3c5b/tumblr_orac1qkO2Q1s9j9lso1_500.png)

That last battle was one hell of a fight. Making it much easier were the fact that Jedah doesn't attack you and the helpful information that Tatiana learns Fortify if you level her up twice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on June 26, 2017, 10:19:44 pm

I beat Old World Blues, but beating the final boss and seeing the ending is not the own.

OWB is so bad that playing it has nearly ruined all of New Vegas for me. I would rather experience the plot of Fallout 3 ten times over than ever do that again. It was an endurance trial from beginning to end, from the lame damage sponge enemies to the painfully, excruciatingly unfunny "quirky" "random" dialogue. It's as if they had an algorithm for a videogame and they optimized it in the wrong direction, creating the most not-a-videogame thing that could still be called one. At least I am finally done with it

FONV: Old World Blues. Alt title: "Oh my God shut up before I jam a lockpick in my ear"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 26, 2017, 10:38:57 pm

I personally hated all the F:NV DLC, Old World Blues wasn't nearly as bad as some (although its plot was stupider than most).

I played fallout 3 through 4-5 times (including all the DLC), but I never really liked NV. The invisible walls drove me nuts, the "cowboy" theme was annoying, the DLC sucked, etc. On the other hand some of the mods were far better than any Fallout 3 had, and the basic gameplay was at least slightly improved.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on June 27, 2017, 03:45:49 am

Partly own, partly loss.

First round on uh, swiftwater I think? We got absolutely demolished on defense, mainly due to a heavy that had a Vaccinator and Kritzkrieg pair of medics stuck up his arse. Points wise, I was the highest on my team with 14 by the end of the five minutes. No one else was >10. By contrast, the entire enemy team had ~25+ points, with the heavy and his twin medics with 51 and 45 each respectively.

However, on offense, things changed dramatically. I swapped from my nade/sticky jumper/skullcutter loadout as Demo to loch/targe/skullcutter. I felt cheesy as fuck resorting to Lochtarge demo, but it's what our team needed. Somehow, some way, i sneak through past the first building near capture point 1, which naturally has a nice little vantage point to the main defense area. Their team is damaged, and clustering around the dispenser while the heavy and his two medics murder our team at spawn. I poke my head out, fire a few Loch pills, take out the sentry. I back off to reload. Their team is still largely clustered, though some have split off to look for whoever just took the sentry out.

I fire three pills at the dispenser from a different vantage point. Four kills. One dispenser kill. Shitloads of damage to the survivors.

This was what our team needed to push through to the first point, finally capping in the last ten seconds. I stand proudly on the cart and laugh at the other team.

Later in the match, I spend a lot of time behind the enemy's defenses taking out engineers and their buildings, and the occasional oblivious sniper. I get divebombed by a soldier or two, but on both occasions i land a pill airshot which at the least scared them off (100 damage + ~15-20 from jump + 25 from landing puts them in a very dangerous spot, with only 200 max hp).

Eventually, we finally push all the way to last, so I keep up my "harass from as far forward as I can, periodically withdrawing to reload and grab ammo while our medic overheals me so I can go back in."
By this stage, I had caught up to the heavy and his medics in points. I spent as much time as I could in the building above the last point taking out sentries and dispensers, of which there were many; they had four engineers with all level 3 sentries up. I could easily pop my head out and destroy one, but by the time i'd backed off to heal and reload, the engi would've respawned and replaced the sentry, while the other three rebuilt the sentry rapidly with their own metal as well. Heck, I even got ubered by the medic on our team to try and coordinate with a spy who'd just sapped the entire enemy nest, but to no avail. By the end of the match, I'd broken my own record for most building destruction in one life, plus gone from 14 points at the start of offense to 78 points, just behind the heavy on 81 and the two medics on about 75 each.

We lost in the end, but damn we pushed back hard after that crushing first round.

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TF2, on payload Swiftwater.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 27, 2017, 08:15:30 pm

Achieved all 8 mission tasks on the "Freedom From Oppression" FOB Event.

That includes:
Extracting 1 anti-air emplacement.
Hitting a guard with a headshot at a range of 60 meters or more.
Extracting a mortar.
Neutralizing 8 security guards.
Neutralizing all security guards.
Completing the infiltration.
Completing the infiltration with only combat fatigues.
Completing the infiltration with no kills and no combat alerts.
Completing all 8 tasks in one go for a x 2.00 event point bonus.

Good way to patch up my ego after the "Bound Dragons" FOB event.

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Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on June 30, 2017, 05:10:27 pm

Managed to beat a 3v1 of Chaos Norscans against Dwarves by flat out holding the line against their Great Weapon users and shooting the shit out of their chariots.


Also Grombrindal killed six different Chaos Heroes and Lords. With a Runesmith buffing him, admittedly, but still. GJ White Dwarf. Level six, no direct attack buffs, and you're wrecking face.



Total War Warhammer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 30, 2017, 08:40:14 pm

While I'm still within the tutorial level range of the game(after 6 hours), it still feels pretty badass charging through a heavily-mobbed castle, knocking over a group of armored guards with a fireball, finishing them off with a secondary explosion, then parkouring up the wall to do some quest stuff, dropping down and exploding more guards.

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Black Desert Online. Now I've come to a (first?) Crossroads quest: two mutually exclusive quests that require me to kill a popular rebel leader and end a rebellion, or pass false information about his demise. Not sure which I should do, and I'm not invested enough in the plot to care about the guy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on June 30, 2017, 10:17:47 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 30, 2017, 08:40:14 pm

While I'm still within the tutorial level range of the game(after 6 hours), it still feels pretty badass charging through a heavily-mobbed castle, knocking over a group of armored guards with a fireball, finishing them off with a secondary explosion, then parkouring up the wall to do some quest stuff, dropping down and exploding more guards.

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Black Desert Online. Now I've come to a (first?) Crossroads quest: two mutually exclusive quests that require me to kill a popular rebel leader and end a rebellion, or pass false information about his demise. Not sure which I should do, and I'm not invested enough in the plot to care about the guy.

Kill the rebel scum

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 30, 2017, 10:26:41 pm

Well he's a rebel, so yeah, doomed to failure. If he was to succeed, he'd be a revolutionary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 01, 2017, 06:43:46 am

Ok, ok, let me put it this way, which pays more and yields more EXP? Because that's pretty much the only thing I have reason to care about here.


EDIT: Actual ownage. Beat a US Senator's nanomachines(son!). Purchased the White Armor, thinking it gives passive regeneration. It doesn't. Instead it holds a maximum of 10 nanopaste recovery items(default is 5). And it comes fully stocked.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 02, 2017, 10:12:27 pm

Currently on a 5-game winstreak with my current deck, no losses with it so far. In the last game, against a dragon deck, I spent about five turns at 3 health. I actually considered conceding. But topdecking (which, while luck, also rely a lot on good deckbuilding) caused me to get pretty much everything I needed to keep cockblocking my opponent until I won. I am surprised they didn't throw a fit through the emotes, because holy crap my deck is probably infuriating.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 03, 2017, 05:01:03 am

Popped into Falkreath for the first time, and a guard starts jabbering about how the local blacksmith wanted a dog. As I walk away, I hear a roar overhead. To the great credit of the guardsmen of Falkreath, the first thing they do is shout "Everybody inside, now!"(this is vanilla, no mods). When I first get a look at the dragon, it's already lost 10% of its health.

I get out my bow and join the battle. Easy enough. Once its health is down to about 15% or so, it lands in the center of town, the first or second time it's landed the entire battle. I'm still by the gate, so I take aim with my bow(which had done 5% of damage per shot). The beast gives a defiant roar and prepares to breathe fire. I release the arrow. KillCam activates. The arrow goes straight to the dragon's head.

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Skyrim SE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on July 05, 2017, 01:07:58 am

After literal years on the fence I picked up Banner Saga parts 1 and 2. Beat both games in 48 hours. Definitely of the most well-crafted video game story experiences out there--with fun battle and traveling systems to boot!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on July 05, 2017, 07:57:11 am

I finished the game by siding with NCR. I'd like to play a little bit longer, but quest tied to Great Khans got bugged, and I was afraid that the game will eventually gets broken if I'll play it for too long. Plus I've already become so powerful that I can kill Deathclaws with some shots from Riot Shotgun. It was fun, tho.

Spoiler:  Important Stats/Features of the run !!SPOILERS!! (click to show/hide)

Final Level: 42
All DLC completed.
No Courier's Stash DLC items.
No fast-travel.
Hardcore mode.
Dead Money: All gold bars were stolen from the vault. Christine and Dog/God survived, not so much for Dean Domino. Elijah is trapped.
Honest Hearts: Fight the White Legs, Salt-Upon-The-Wounds was killed by me.
Old World Blues: Everyone at The Sink is activated, flirted with my brain, Think Tank is dead.
Lonesome Road: Ulysses is talked down, the nukes are stopped.

Fallout: New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 05, 2017, 10:32:34 pm

Went in to the last level of Durlag's Keep and the dreaded Demonknight that had just wiped the floor with a band of adventurers immediately prior to me.  I was all set for the massive battle royale that would ensue, buffed to the gills and ready for buttkicking and goodness.  I forgot, however, that I had given Xan some Darts of Stunning to use.  Xan popped off a natural 20 on the hit, the Demonknight flubbed the save, and I simply went up and stabbed it until it died.  Problem solved, and the world is saved from a vile force of darkness that planned on using the Keep as its base for a reign of terror.  We might have to jazz it up a bit for the bards, though; I'm not entirely certain shanking the black knight while he can't move is entirely...glorious.

^{"But what about Aec..."
"The. World. Is. Saved. La la la I can't hear you."}

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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 05, 2017, 10:43:45 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on July 05, 2017, 07:57:11 am

Dead Money: All gold bars were stolen from the vault.

...How?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 05, 2017, 10:54:54 pm

I know one way is to have a gib of some sort with you like a head, put all the gold bars in the gib's inventory, then grab and drag the head out since you still move at normal speed that way, then right before you leave take them out of the head's inventory. I'm not sure if that's how Croc did it, but it is a way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on July 06, 2017, 12:05:46 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 05, 2017, 10:43:45 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on July 05, 2017, 07:57:11 am

Dead Money: All gold bars were stolen from the vault.

...How?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBs96uppw8M (Warning, the author of the video has low volume on his microphone!)
If you don't have time to watch the video:
1. Take all gold bars, then crawl towards the vault terminal. I assume that you already played through the DLC, so proceed as usual...
2. Speech/Barter check Elijah. Maybe the other skill checks will work.
3. Crawl out from the vault and look to the right. You'll see a pillar which you can use for hiding behind it. (As a note, it's good to use Stealth-boy from locker located in the vault...)
4. When Elijah will move towards the vault, start to circle around the pillar. When he's near the vault, start to crawl towards the exist. It'll be also good if you stop sneaking when you're near the stair (Warning! I had to use Implant GRX perk (non-addictive Turbo doses every day) in order to crawl fast enough.)
5. If everything went well, congrats! You're now basically Bill Gates of the Mojave Wasteland! And yea, don't forget to store gold bars in the locker, which is located near the exit to the Mojave's surface...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 06, 2017, 05:22:22 pm

Stealth-shanked an Uruk guarding some slaves. The slaves ran, and another Uruk on the floor above came to investigate. As he jumped down a ladder, the last thing he saw, probably in the same slow-motion I saw him, was my bow at his face as he fell.

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

Does dying actually benefit you in this game? I was killed by a captain and his power went up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on July 06, 2017, 06:11:00 pm

Dying shuffles things around and levels up whoever killed you (this includes bog standard uruks and orcs - if you get killed by a mook, they're a captain now) - to a point, you are expected to die. You could probably take advantage of it and level up a captain so you can get a better reward out of killing them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on July 07, 2017, 10:52:04 am

Been replaying old Desktop Dungeon freeware and as i had removed it long time ago , i had lost all of the unlocks.

And wow i didn't remembered on how some of the challenges for some of them were insane, requiring much more luck than the normal dungeon to have the correct altars to get along the character/class required and early access to some spells/specific enemy to levelup fast without wasting too much of the fog (as it is helpfull to refill health and mana, so exploring too much to find what is needed and you'll not have enough fog to refill when needed).

That was the case of the Factory challenge that to unlock the last 2 classes had a requirement of completing it with a Wizard.
I didn't remembered how i did before as it's been so many years, so after checking a big of the internet, i found the best setup.

And so my elven wizard went at it, again, and again ... and again so many times, until finally luck was on my side and i had the best setup and finally unlocked those Crusader and Tinker on that same win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

find the fireball early without exploring too much
find the Jehora Jhiwatshisname altar early too, the Polymorph ability you can get from it is a must because both bosses are unkillable in normal condition by a wizard (one boss have way too much health and the other one has way too much magic resistance that makes your fireball make super small damage)
find a level 9 animated armor very early so you can skyrocket from level 1 to level 6 near 7 by hitting its death wards with fireball and refilling with fog exploration until it had no more death wards and its 1HP would then allow you to kill it with another fireball
find the 2 bosses , then once you have enough piety use the polymorph skill to make the 2 boss more spell assault friendly
if you're lucky and both new bosses are spell assault friendly, you then have a chance, and i was luck because i had then to face the ghost boss (that main point is having physical protection, so fireballing it wasn't a problem) and the goblin (that still had a few magic resistance, fortunately the additional mana potion i got helped)
buy any object that can help you with mana, i was lucky to have an additional potion of mana purchasable this time, good i had max gold because it was the whole cost too

ideally if you get the poison spell it's even better as you can prevent those boss to refill health in case you run out of potion/mana and must refill to cast more fireballs. I wasn't lucky to get one, fortunately the extra-mana potion i had gave me the win.

(http://i.imgur.com/97Z6Kxv.gif)

still need a few races to unlock and i'm done again with this game for a couple of years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 07, 2017, 11:09:17 am

You should possibly consider buying the full game.  It adds a ton of content and depth compared to the free one while still being about the same game.  Also it has real graphics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on July 07, 2017, 12:34:14 pm

Got burned out of it by playing way too much of it years ago , not going to go play more of the same but with prettier graphics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 08, 2017, 03:25:02 pm

I finally got one final Rathalos Ruby, allowing me to complete my Rathalos Soul set that's been in the making for like half a year now.

Desire Sensor, begone!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on July 08, 2017, 04:14:24 pm

Sniper Elite 4, mission 8.
The whole facility is silent aside from explosions, and I go to kill the big cheese, had to sprint to get into position and as such had no ability to hold my breath. So I fired on a guess with no aim assist aside from being zeroed to 100m and then, Kill Cam, apparently I hit the engine intake. He never got off the ground.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 09, 2017, 08:28:26 pm

Wielding the mighty axe of an ancient king of the Nords, I walked into an orphanage and jammed it into the backside of the old woman running it, in full view of the children.

They cheered. She was kind of a massive bitch.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim SE, killing Grelod with Wuuthrad. Also, am Dark Brotherhood now. They don't really like getting killstealed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on July 09, 2017, 11:23:14 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 09, 2017, 08:28:26 pm

Wielding the mighty axe of an ancient king of the Nords, I walked into an orphanage and jammed it into the backside of the old woman running it, in full view of the children.

They cheered. She was kind of a massive bitch.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim SE, killing Grelod with Wuuthrad. Also, am Dark Brotherhood now. They don't really like getting killstealed.

I don't think anyone likes her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 10, 2017, 10:17:54 am

I remember there being some gaming article that attempted to defend her, but I can't find it.  Instead I got reminded of...

Spoiler: Minor spoilers I suppose (click to show/hide)

The room full of shackles and straw... yeah. 
And of course she beats them, is an extreme species-ist, and arbitrarily won't even let anyone adopt them.

I'm mostly seeing mod discussion about making the assistant not freak out at all (which seems a bit odd).  Or in a couple of creepy cases, making Grelod even worse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 10, 2017, 11:03:10 am

I can understand the assistant(who takes over the orphanage afterwards - and lets you adopt if you want) freaking out if you brutally murder Grelod. She's actually a good person who tries to protect the children.

Spoiler: Other Dark Brotherhood spoilers w/ownage (click to show/hide)

Just did the contracts to kill the vampire sawyer and the Orc bard. Hern was easy enough, I broke into his house during the day, announced my intent and battled him in single combat. Keeping the Blood Dragon that attacked afterwards away from his wife(who was outside) was the hard part. But I did, and I can still buy logs for my house from her.


The bard though, was just a matter of sitting in the corner of his inn room and headshotting him from about 10 feet away. The fact that so many people performed the Black Sacrament on him that Astrid had to do a lottery to see who would the one to pay for the contract is hilarious though. He really was that bad of a bard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 10, 2017, 11:12:44 am

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 10, 2017, 11:39:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 10, 2017, 11:12:44 am

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes. :P

Does stealth archer count as a martial class? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 10, 2017, 02:14:01 pm

Instead of joining the Dark Brotherhood, you can also kill the recruiter. It actually leads to a whole different (if way shorter) quest chain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 10, 2017, 02:42:34 pm

Quote from: Culise on July 10, 2017, 11:39:59 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 10, 2017, 11:12:44 am

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes. :P

Does stealth archer count as a martial class? :P

Are you using a physical weapon?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 10, 2017, 03:52:52 pm

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

I did a smart thing in The Glow, but I don't think I should talk about it.  I got the idea from reading a log, without being spoiled, and it made the area a whole lot easier.  And I don't mean popping two rad-x for 100% radiation resistance, though that certainly helped.

Fallout 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 10, 2017, 09:00:27 pm

Carried out a hit on a Khajiit mage travelling with the caravans, by casting a Fury spell on him. It failed to affect him(my Illusion is poor), but it turned him hostile on me, which in turn turned the whole caravan hostile. On him.

While he was distracted by the furry fury, I came up behind and stabbed him through the back of the chest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim. I imagine Festus would find it funny that a spell failure had the exact desired outcome as if it had worked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 11, 2017, 06:06:30 pm

I beat the arcade mode of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody!

It turns out that Spell Cards, when used by the AI in story mode, just mean that the computer can do whatever the hell it wants (with giant projectiles and knockback immunity.) Story mode also forces you to beat the entire game on 3 KOs and three continues, no exceptions. While I appreciate the attempt to mimick the bullet hell games... actually no I don't, it's kinda dumb and makes the game way harder than it should be.

Thankfully, arcade mode is much more sane, and the AI doesn't get magical superpowers or six lifebars. This game's closer to Smash Bros. than Street Fighter in terms of "real fighting games," but it's probably the only one I'll care to play for more than half a second.

TH10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on July 12, 2017, 12:50:04 am

So, I just had a badass moment in Warhammer Total War of all things.


I had just Confederated with Zhufbar, meaning I have to deal with AI-forged settlements and make them not shit.


But before I could do that, Oakenhammer, the outpost right next to the undead lands of Sylvania, came under attack from a near-full stack of walking corpses.


It had a tier 3 settlement, and a Ranger Outpost, meaning I fielded 2 units of Longbeards, 2 units of Miners, 1 unit of Rangers with Great Weapons, and 2 units of Quarrelers.


I fought against nine units of Zombies, six of Skeletons, Mannfred Von Carstein himself, a unit of Fell Bats, a unit of Dire Wolves, and a fucking Vhargulf.

I was, in a word, fucked. But I figured, what the hell, autoresolve says I'm fucked, may as well try and see how much damage I can do myself. Set up my front line, Quarrelers in the back, Rangers covering the flank. Cursing the AI for not building WALLS, I stood.


And somehow, seven units held against an army. Held for long enough I managed to not just slay the Vhargulf, a feat in and of itself given I had no anti-Large aside from the RAngers, who were keeping the Dire Wolves and Fell Bats off my ass, but to kill Mannfred himself, and stand off the rotting tide long enough they collapsed without a master.


I can't stop giggling.

Total War: Warhammer, if it wasn't clear enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 12, 2017, 05:38:09 am

Finished up a few main quests so I could the third word of Unrelenting Force... so I could Fus Ro Dah Commander Maro into the water.

Granted, that didn't do much, but it was still funny.


After doing some more stuff, namely spending all the reward gold on upgrades to the Sanctuary, I go over to Dawnstar, and get caught up in a battle involving a Blood Dragon, frost troll, a giant, me, Shadowmere, a stupid guard, and an even dumber inn-maid. Surprisingly, the inn-maid was the second to last one to die, having tried to stab the giant with predictable results(I finished off the giant).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on July 12, 2017, 08:41:17 am

Being able to use Unrelenting Force to environmental kill someone and not just memeing actually feels pretty rewarding when it happens.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on July 12, 2017, 08:43:17 am

Unless you are fighting a dragon and a chicken gets caught in the shout, dies, and causes the entire town to aggro on you. I have had that happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on July 12, 2017, 09:44:36 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 10, 2017, 03:52:52 pm

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

Note that the Bound Bow has the best DPS of any bow. If you play an archer, dual class into conjurer; you won't regret it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on July 12, 2017, 10:34:09 am

After having a less than pleasant experience with fighting the praetorian miniboss as a marine in Aliens vs. Predator (2010), I cheesed the fight big time as the predator.  All you have to do is walk backward in a circle around the pillars while throwing your disc at it.  One hit on the way in, another as it returns to you.  I didn't even get hit in the fight.

The combistick you get after beating it makes the rest of the game a major cheesefest too.  You can one shot everything except bosses by throwing your stick at them, including the combat synthetics that survive hilarious amounts of damage from marine weapons (50 bullets to the chest is just an inconvenience to them).  Kind of weird that the stick magically teleports back to you 3 seconds later and that you can't swing it like in the other games, but at this point I was just happy to be on the delivering end of the cheese instead of receiving end for once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 12, 2017, 01:24:50 pm

Spoiler: Skyrim reply (click to show/hide)

Quote from: overseer05-15 on July 12, 2017, 09:44:36 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 10, 2017, 03:52:52 pm

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

Note that the Bound Bow has the best DPS of any bow. If you play an archer, dual class into conjurer; you won't regret it.

I did that with my first playthrough (a stealth archer, aheheh) and yeah, it's pretty amazing.  Like the wiki points out, the glowing arrows actually help a lot with aim-correction too.  And no carrying capacity or ammo concerns!
But apparently an "exquisite" daedric bow with daedric arrows still wins out.  And that's without using the enchanting/alchemy loop to get almost unlimited smithing improvement...  AKA hijinks

As if bound-bow sneak attacks with 100 archery don't already kill almost anything in one shot, dragons a couple.  Smithing is kinda awful busywork, so I think I'll avoid it next time.  I prefer trapping souls or picking flowers~

I talked my way almost to the bottom of a mutant military base, before one of the smart kinds saw me and set off the alarm.  S'alright though.  I found a self destruct and set it for three minutes, plenty of time.  I headed back up- wait what are all these yellow forcefields?

Oh no I can't run through these for damage, they're actually impassible.  Can I shoot the emitter... no...  Oh wait, the scientists!  *backtrack backtrack* Okay now I have a passcard WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOES NOTHING *boom*

Spoiler: Oops another Fallout 1 rant (click to show/hide)

Fallout 1

I kinda hate the yellow forcefields a lot.  You can't interact with them directly at all, even to use an item.  They each have an emitter, but you don't get an option to use skills on it, so I assumed they were uninteractable...  But no!  You can use items, one specific item in fact, the toolkit.  If you pass a pretty difficult repair check, then you'll "temporarily disable the force field".

...Except it doesn't seem to work at all (maybe I saw it flicker once?).  Accounts vary, with one person saying you need to use the field afterward...  But I'm pretty sure I tried that...

Then there's a completely ridiculous "solution".  With high enough science, one of base's many computers turns out to controls the force fields...  Unfortunately, it's been rigged to only play blackjack??  This is after you pass the hacking check, btw.  So you can play blackjack... Which is actually an oddly difficult GAMBLING skill challenge...  until you "win", allowing you to hack through the victory screen.  Okay, that's kinda clever.  Except that doesn't disable the fricken fields either.

Nooo, now you need to hook up a RADIO to the computer, another tough hacking check (or maybe repair).  I guess USB didn't exist and you're having to splice cables, I don't even know.  Whatever, eventually you sync the radio to the computer, and that causes the yellow fields to let you through.

AFAIK there's absolutely no clue for the radio solution, just a control computer that doesn't seem to work.

Considering I'd saved my game after triggering the yellow fields, so I couldn't get back to the control computer, I was rather fortunate that I several bricks of dynamite quantum-stockpiled in my companion's inventory.  I almost didn't have enough dynamite or time, and had to run past all the enemies I'd bluffed before, but it did work out.

(There are also orange damage-fields which are immune to toolkits, explosives, and I think the radio.  I hear they're not a problem with power armor, but I kept having to heal my companion...)

Edit:  Oops, thought this was the death thread.  But actually, my packrat instincts finally did get me out of a potential walking-dead situation, which I think is an own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on July 12, 2017, 08:02:44 pm

Or, in the simplest alternative, you could have used explosives such as rockets, TNT, plastique, or grenades to blow out the emitters.  *This is how I cleared Mariposa the first time I finished Fallout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 12, 2017, 08:07:03 pm

I did use TNT eventually, yeah, but the emitters were untargetable with rockets and grenades.  Although...  my throwing and big gun skills were so bad, I probably could have intentionally shot at my companion and hit the emitters with the misses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on July 12, 2017, 08:12:36 pm

But the forcefields themselves are targetable, or at least cause the munition to impact and explode, it's been around fifteen-sixteen years since I last played the game, I know I emptied my entire reserve of rockets killing forcefields tho'.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 12, 2017, 10:38:13 pm

Playing as Stitches, friend as Stukov. Five-game winstreak. In the last one got paired with a silly Sgt. Hammer who decided it was the greatest of ideas to stand in the fucking frontline of the teamfight and then throw a fit in spanish whenever they died. But still won because we're just that good with that pairing.

Heroes of the Storm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 13, 2017, 08:23:35 pm

Quote from: greatorder on July 13, 2017, 08:15:49 pm

Noticed that I had no victories with Magdalene, so I decided to go for ??? with her.

I managed to get three guppy items, number 1, cancer, enough damage items to max out the bar, and a good number of range/shot speed up items to increase my range back to something decent.

??? practically melted under my barrage of tears.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 13, 2017, 08:41:28 pm

Did you do the exact same thing, SB? :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 13, 2017, 09:05:51 pm

no, it appears correctly on my screen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on July 13, 2017, 09:33:18 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 13, 2017, 09:05:51 pm

no, it appears correctly on my screen

Then why did you quote it and put nothing else in your post?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 13, 2017, 09:39:15 pm

My post appears correctly on my screen, i.e. with three question marks in a row. The original post by greatorder has the emote.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 14, 2017, 10:18:20 am

Everything I know about this game I know from youtube videos and memes.

I'm playing Dust II Deathmatch and playing entire rounds with various guns to test them out.  I decide to see what all the fuss is about and use the Tec-9.  Now, this is a cheap pistol, in a mode where you can get any gun you want at no cost.  Half of the CT side is camping long sight lines with AWPs and grouping up.  I proceed to run around with my stupid SMG-in-disguise rapid clicking.  Not only did I top score, but I did so with 502 points, my own personal record.  Twice I got triple kills.

Rekt-9 OP, confirmed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CSGO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 14, 2017, 05:42:45 pm

Had a good run with an ESF, at one point catching several NC attacking one of our bases as they were preparing to breach the CP room - the were clustering near a MAX, giving me several kills with the spraying. Eventually got shot down by a Liberator, but I respawned, pulled an Archer, and finished it off as it tried to do an emergency landing after being heavily-damaged by friendly forces.


Later, I shot down a Reaver with a T16 Rhino(LMG) as it was pulling away from a fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 14, 2017, 05:46:46 pm

Warhammer Online is back! There's a free version and it works!

First character rolled: Chosen.
First fight: Some chucklehead tries madly to kill me while my DPS friends 4 feet away melt him.

It's just like I remember :>

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on July 14, 2017, 06:36:10 pm

Sounds awesome. Is there a 40K version? I had a conversation recently about 40K, and I'm interested in trying it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on July 14, 2017, 06:50:50 pm

I beat the game on Veteran (or whatever the second-easiest difficulty is). Admittedly, it took me three tries (and I now have 47 hours logged), but at least I won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM 2. Next time I play, I might try getting the Psi Lab early because the only psionics I ever used was in the final mission because the commander's avatar has them anyway (highlight text for major endgame spoilers) since this time I had a full squad of colonels by the time I started training any psi soldiers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 14, 2017, 06:51:50 pm

Quote from: flabort on July 14, 2017, 06:36:10 pm

Sounds awesome. Is there a 40K version? I had a conversation recently about 40K, and I'm interested in trying it.

Nah, it's regular Warhammer, and it's a regular MMO not like a tabletop sim. It does have some of the best PvP I've ever played, in that you can absolutely be casual about PvP and still have fun.

40K is pretty rad, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 15, 2017, 09:20:43 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 14, 2017, 06:51:50 pm

Quote from: flabort on July 14, 2017, 06:36:10 pm

Sounds awesome. Is there a 40K version? I had a conversation recently about 40K, and I'm interested in trying it.

Nah, it's regular Warhammer, and it's a regular MMO not like a tabletop sim. It does have some of the best PvP I've ever played, in that you can absolutely be casual about PvP and still have fun.

40K is pretty rad, though.

And it's free? Where can I get it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 15, 2017, 10:24:40 am

Quote from: AzyWng on July 15, 2017, 09:20:43 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 14, 2017, 06:51:50 pm

Quote from: flabort on July 14, 2017, 06:36:10 pm

Sounds awesome. Is there a 40K version? I had a conversation recently about 40K, and I'm interested in trying it.

Nah, it's regular Warhammer, and it's a regular MMO not like a tabletop sim. It does have some of the best PvP I've ever played, in that you can absolutely be casual about PvP and still have fun.

40K is pretty rad, though.

And it's free? Where can I get it?

Return of Reckoning. (https://www.returnofreckoning.com/) It's fan-run, so not without bugs, but everything important works (ORVR, Scenario PvP, etc etc)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on July 15, 2017, 11:02:59 am

After learning my mistakes, I deployed my 3x T-42-85, KV-85, and 2x SU-122 in a lengthy | formation in between some trees.

Then when the Germans came, the middle of the line, the T-42s, retreated, forming a C formation, with the SU-122 heavy guns at the 'tips', pointing right into Germans flanks. Then a sniper unit, that was hanging out near the KV-85, used its binoculars to provide spotting help for my tanks and the howitzers in the rear.

Result: 3 Panthers, five medium tanks and 3 self-propelled AT guns (including a Ferdinand!) wrecked, with my side losing as little as some paint of the armor.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blitzkrieg 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on July 15, 2017, 11:27:45 pm

So, just finished playing a Pathfinder DnD game with my friends today.


Now, I'm a Warder, a class about, basically, getting hit really hard and giving no fucks.


And my character's happily embraced that.


So when one of my allies got grappled by a bipedal bear about 15 by 15 feet, I went "Fuck this" and charged.


Encompassing Glow on me, plus a nice spirit in my spear, meant I could deal a 3d6 of damage if I hit. It was also a gun with 6d6 base, 8d6 off encompassing glow, but firing on the charge isn't an option for me.


So I was basically gambling I could hurt the fuck enough to stop them from grappling a squishy.


I proceed to roll a crit, and with my other bits, my spear turned into a 9d6. Pretty decent, but not enough to kill.


Then the GM told me to roll 32d6.

The gun counted as well, and I wasn't aware.


So this little Dwarf in a suit of full plate, middle of a swamp created by horrible tentacle gribbles, proceeded to promptly jump on top of a giant bear and explode its head with a single strike. 168 damage at level 3.


I dealt over twice its max HP.

You gotta love crits.


Tabletop Pathfinder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 16, 2017, 05:31:52 pm

Was testing a ship design against a White Flayer Perdition. Like most WF designs, its AI is set to ram the shit out of you, to take advantage of the spinning murder-things on the front.

Even after the grinder is destroyed, it still tries to ram, and it has enough speed and mass for that to still be a threat. It had already flipped me over once.

The Perdition also has a very rapid-firing minigun on top that shoots much faster than anything I've ever built*. It must have ran out of ammo, or perhaps I took out its ammo supply.

Eventually finished it by wrestling it with the mass of my ship, forcing it under the water until the game had declared it dead*.

I basically performed the ship-to-ship combat version of taking out a knife-wielding maniac by breaking his arm and strangling him underwater until he drowned.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on July 17, 2017, 12:00:08 am

I finally managed to beat the Super Multi Battle Tree, ending at last a long string of battles alongside Inez. Both of my Pokémon, Tapu Koko and a Mega Salamence, were taken out of the match early in a death sprint to take out Blue's Tyrantitar and Mega Alakazam. Inez's Regice chilled Red's Mega Venusaur, before being knocked out by his Snorlax. Fortunately, this sealed his fate as her next Pokémon was Terrakion, the Rock/Fighting Type who takes no prisoners. Game, set, match.

Finally, after far too many hours, I have fully conquered this game!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Moon

As I have said elsewhere, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassss!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 17, 2017, 04:24:27 pm

Finished my first legendary campaign, playing with the Greenskins, in Total War: Warhammer. I probably will not play another legendary campaign, since I get too cautious and nervous when it's pretty much ironman mode. And that is not fun.

Total War: Warhammer, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 17, 2017, 04:42:20 pm

Completed the "Cook Off" job on Hard with the help of a veteran heister.

The take was about 6 million.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on July 18, 2017, 02:11:52 am

So on a whim, I boot up SS13 and start a game. Little did I realize that my job preferences didn't stick so I got a job at random.

Clown.
Traitor.
Clown Traitor.
Objective: Kill the Head of Security.
Okay then.

While I'm no stranger to clowning around, I've never been a traitor before, so I'm conflicted. Should I follow this new path as traitor which runs contradictory to the antics of true clowndom, or stick to my roots?

Well, why not both?

So after reading up a bit on what to do, I decide I may as well spend it all before I forget to do something to hide my traitor PDA and someone sees it. I order a Macrobomb implant, a trick revolver, and a voice changer.

First things first, I grab a helmet that was lying around (people have already started throwing junk around or dying ala SS13), I stick my voice changer on it. I also jab my macrobomb implant into my own head, just in case. Then I follow the Roboticist into the robotics bay, steal some random robotics stuff and start juggling as if I were a regular clown. After he lets his guard down, I flash him, drag him into the nearby maintenance tunnel and force feed him my starting cyanide pill. Then I steal his ID and clothes, dress him in mine, and throw his body out the airlock. An idea came to mind and I went the flow from then on.

People have already started bringing in bodies to borgify, so I act as if I were a regular roboticist. I set up some borg bodies and pull brains out etc. When no one's looking, I pocket the brain and throw the bodies out the airlock.

About 20 minutes in, I've gathered a good assortment of brains. I head to one of the more populated areas of the station where the hull is particularly thin, welded the doors, and start throwing brains. When I ran low on brains, I started juggling the remainder. A few crew members were good sports and threw some of the brains at me, and I reached the point where I was juggling eight brains.

Now, security had gotten wind of this, and quickly came to apprehend me. After a short roundabout chase, I switched to my trick revolver and shot myself. At that point, all that was left was to "succumb" and watch as everyone nearby, including the head of security, was exploded into space gibs which then flew out into vast emptiness of space through the giant gaping hole that was once a station.

Since I was technically supposed to leave the station alive, it wasn't a victory, but I consider it a win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 18, 2017, 03:31:22 am

*slow applause*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on July 18, 2017, 05:47:14 pm

10/10 Actually laughed aloud great story

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 18, 2017, 06:15:28 pm

What's a trick revolver?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 18, 2017, 06:30:58 pm

CTRL+F, "Trick Revolver". (https://wiki.ss13.co/Syndicate_Items) Literally always shoots the user.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 18, 2017, 06:58:47 pm

So...why not just use a regular revolver? I assume that, in a game that revolves around murdering other players and generally trying to screw everyone over, it's possible to kill yourself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 18, 2017, 07:22:56 pm

I spent the last hour or so stuck in the SS13 wikiland, and apparently the bomb implants don't always go off on suicide. But apparently the Trick Revolver doesn't count as suicide for that? That would trigger the bomb.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 18, 2017, 08:19:57 pm

Quote from: Sirus on July 18, 2017, 06:58:47 pm

So...why not just use a regular revolver? I assume that, in a game that revolves around murdering other players and generally trying to screw everyone over, it's possible to kill yourself.

I suppose it's supposed to be for tricking other people into using it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 18, 2017, 08:23:27 pm

Yeah. The description even helpfully advises you to make sure the player you try to use it on already wants to kill you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 18, 2017, 09:33:57 pm

Plus, he was a clown. There's nothing (OK, not much) funny about a clown shooting himself like a normal person. But, if a clown tries to shoot someone else and then ends up shooting himself, that's komedy right there. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 19, 2017, 08:20:54 am

I haven't checked on SS13 in so long, I was a little worried it was dead in general...  I'm glad it's not, and that it's still generating such great stories :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2017, 01:15:04 am

SS13 is like a very angry prostitute, in that it will never, ever stop chasing you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 20, 2017, 09:07:24 am

Even the angriest of prostitutes can be deterred with pepper spray, or an M388 Davy Crockett  nuclear warhead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 20, 2017, 09:52:58 am

that is one of the most impressive setups ive ever heard of in ss13 short of one round where the detective was a traitor with the objective of keeping the clown alive. He kept a close eye on the clown while doing his normal job, investigating the random beatings in the bar, the missing monkey fiasco and potential misappropriation of goods by the quartermaster. the clown kept annoying people and getting the occasional beating until he pissed off the chief of security. someone attempted to frame the clown using a banana peel and an open airlock. the detective ensured that individual.... disappeared. but the chief would not be pleased so the detective did the one thing he could think of, he knocked out the clown and swapped identities. the unconscious 'detective' was found in the emergency shuttle where he was left, as many assumed he was just drunk. the 'clown' was mercilessly beat to death by corrupt cops, all while maintaining his silence. except for one prerecorded message:

they call me cuban pete, im the king of the rumba beat, when i play my maracas i go chick chicky boom, chick chicky boom!

he succumbed and his implant went off, killing the chief and blowing a massive hole in security. the captain called the shuttle. 'detective' Ace Leavey made it off the station. ss13 isn't all bad. sometimes, sometimes you have a friend in the shadows.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 20, 2017, 09:58:11 am

holy shit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 20, 2017, 10:21:40 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on July 20, 2017, 09:52:58 am

except for one prerecorded message:

they call me cuban pete, im the king of the rumba beat, when i play my maracas i go chick chicky boom, chick chicky boom!

i had to jump through hoops to get this to go right: a universal recorder with the message, a remote signaller and a couple station bounced radios, one in my pocket set to play loudly and one near the setup. was so worth it.

*edit, in hindsight i didnt need to go through all that when i could have just had the recorder in my pocket and succumbed after someone listened to whats on it nearby.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2017, 10:26:31 am

Speaking of Davy Crockett, my brother and I beat Metal Gear Solid one, two, and three.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I cried through most of the credits to 3. Fuck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 12:53:45 pm

You'd best stop there, it only goes downhill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 20, 2017, 01:05:57 pm

Quote from: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 12:53:45 pm

You'd best stop there, it only goes downhill.

Mgs 3 was kojimas magnum opus, where his good gameplay design met a decent, mostly understandable plot (its political, not whatever 4 was). Pending death stranding where norman reedus becomes the next snake to stop mads nikkelsen from doing.... something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 20, 2017, 01:31:56 pm

Quote from: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 12:53:45 pm

You'd best stop there, it only goes downhill.

4, Peace Walker and 5 are pretty good, you know.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 20, 2017, 01:37:54 pm

Definitely play 4, but don't feel a need to pay too much attention to the plot. And be prepared to watch long, mostly meaningless cutscenes. PW and 5 are both pretty grindy, PW has a good story while 5 is kinda obviously unfinished. They're all worth playing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 01:39:56 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 20, 2017, 01:31:56 pm

Quote from: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 12:53:45 pm

You'd best stop there, it only goes downhill.

4, Peace Walker and 5 are pretty good, you know.

PW is good, but a little too arcadey. Didn't feel like a proper MGS game.

4 is... not the best, but that's just 'cause I didn't like the compartmentalisation of all the various missions, and all the robots.

5 probably would've been better had there not been the issues at Konami, and I think knowing it's the last Kojima affiliated one clouds my opinion of it greatly. I still haven't quite polished it off yet...

Anyway, MGS3 is still the best one, I think it's fair to say that none of the other games meet that standard :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2017, 01:47:13 pm

We're going to play four. I need the answers. I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE PATRIOTS ARE, OKAY. IT'S BEEN HAUNTING ME.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 20, 2017, 01:53:50 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2017, 01:47:13 pm

We're going to play four. I need the answers. I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE PATRIOTS ARE, OKAY. IT'S BEEN HAUNTING ME.

At the risk of further derailing this thread,

we need to go deeper

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 20, 2017, 01:54:15 pm

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 20, 2017, 02:00:41 pm

As a PC gamer I'm afraid I only really have access to 1 and V.

I know Substance (MGS2's PC port) exists, but.... It exists.

There's no ports for 3 or 4 as far as I can remember. Same for Portable Ops and Peace Walker (Sure you can get an emulator, but that still requires either fiddling around with controls or getting a controller)

I gotta agree with the comment on V being unfinished. Mother Base only really shows what you're gonna see on an FOB and serves no other purpose than morale and cutscenes.

Guards have lines while searching (after combat alert has been triggered) that imply attack dogs would be present in the game.

A plotline thread is left hanging, and it took a good bit of datamining before players figured out how it was supposed to end.

Anyway, not really an own but:

I've progressed to the point where Normal and Hard heists pose no trouble for me anymore.

Getting to level 100 (and consequently Infamy 1) is really just a matter of time and me not burning out, really.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 20, 2017, 02:04:47 pm

Spoiler: I'm very familiar with the series, but I feel like this is relevant anyway (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/glj6Leq.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 20, 2017, 02:58:14 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on July 20, 2017, 02:00:41 pm

There's no ports for 3 or 4 as far as I can remember. Same for Portable Ops and Peace Walker (Sure you can get an emulator, but that still requires either fiddling around with controls or getting a controller)

Yeah, no PC ports. There is a Vita port for MGS3 and Peace Walker has an Xbox 360 and a Vita release in addition to the PSP version.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 20, 2017, 03:48:52 pm

Peace Walker also is part of a collection of MGS games (including 2 and 3, I believe) on the PS3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 20, 2017, 04:31:30 pm

There's a MGS3 port on the 3DS as well. I think it's an eShop exclusive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 20, 2017, 07:12:03 pm

No, there's a physical copy (I own one.) The framerate is a bit on the low side and it's difficult to cross tightropes/bridges while riding public transportation, but other than that it's pretty good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 20, 2017, 07:15:14 pm

Built a mining/refinery ship. To save design time, I simply cut off the top deck and weapons of the cruiser design I previously made, and replace it with material/fuel storage and fuel refineries. Added a retracting arm for the mining rig. For basic defense, I gave it a pair of 3-barreled flak guns... which ended up being kind of big. Also kept the previous design's anti-missile laser.

Tested it against a foursome of Deepwater Guard Drake planes. The anti-missile laser killed one, possibly two, by blowing up the missiles as they launched. The flak guns got the other two. None of the Drakes' missiles so much as damaged the refinery parts.

It won't hold against a naval attack, but a lightning-quick air raid is going to have !!Fun!! with that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 20, 2017, 08:04:11 pm

Somehow managed to get the "good" ending on my first play through, no guides. That final boss took a few tries but it really wasn't all that bad. The day was saved and the curse broken.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RIP Kaho 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on July 20, 2017, 08:35:43 pm

All I know about Metal Gear comes from Smash Brawl :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on July 20, 2017, 10:21:40 pm

I accidentally'd an entire clan of vampires.


I thought it was a random dungeon!


Morrowind GOTY.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 20, 2017, 11:38:44 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on July 20, 2017, 08:35:43 pm

All I know about Metal Gear comes from Smash Brawl :V

It's like that, but with more actual guns. Because Nintendo is fine with rocket launchers, but draws the line at rifles for some reason.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on July 21, 2017, 12:06:38 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on July 20, 2017, 11:38:44 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on July 20, 2017, 08:35:43 pm

All I know about Metal Gear comes from Smash Brawl :V

It's like that, but with more actual guns. Because Nintendo is fine with rocket launchers, but draws the line at rifles for some reason.

It's an oddity, but apparently they're not the only ones.  I was actually reading about censorship in Sam & Max for the late '90s Saturday morning cartoon series the other day, and apparently the story there was much the same.  Speculating, handguns and regular firearms were a no-no since kids could conceivably get their hands on those if their parents are lax about gun safety, but rocket launchers?  No problem.  I can't imagine the reason necessarily being precisely the same in gun-shy Japan, but the logic seems plausible. 

EDIT: Drawing a better line between the facts and my own speculation.  My apologies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 21, 2017, 12:31:08 am

I think that it's also easier to make explosives look less violent than guns. You can make any explosion look comical or relatively harmless to the characters thanks to the smoke obscuring the moment the damage is dealt, but the only reliable way I can think of to de-intensify gunplay is a Looney Tunes-esque misfire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 21, 2017, 01:12:55 am

Not sure the Japanese censors especially care about guns.  I saw a children's show from Japan that featured the main characters killing aliens with sci-fi guns (that still fired bullets).  It also featured a villain using bombs to take a school hostage.  I also remember a bunch of old anime (for example yugioh) that originally had a gun which was then edited out in the US version.

Judging by this (http://sourcegaming.info/2015/09/18/cero-and-palutenas-censorship/) interview, the reason nintendo doesn't want guns is because everyone else would give the game a higher age rating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2017, 04:57:22 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on July 21, 2017, 01:12:55 am

I also remember a bunch of old anime (for example yugioh) that originally had a gun which was then edited out in the US version.

One relatively important episode of the Pokemon anime was banned because a Safari Zone warden threatened Ash with a gun. "Relatively important" because it's the same episode Ash captures an entire herd of Tauros, which becomes relevant exactly once afterwards. It's also the episode that introduces Dratini. Oddly enough, the episode where Ash gets Squirtle isn't banned despite even heavier gunplay - Team Rocket robs a PokeMart at gunpoint, and when Ash enters the store a minute later, everyone in the store pulls a rifle on Ash. Then again, the only other banned episodes I'm aware of are Porygon's(caused seizures, fixable with some editing btw) and every episode with Jynx because of her original appearance of a black-faced hooker(she's been since edited to be a purple-faced hooker instead).


Never heard of the Yugioh one, though. Especially considering some monster cards are packing some serious heat, and direct attacks on the opposing players have been shown to cause actual injury to the player despite it being only holograms(most of the time?). Then again, a children's card game is srsbsns to these characters.

Quote from: ArchAIngel on July 20, 2017, 10:21:40 pm

I accidentally'd an entire clan of vampires.


I thought it was a random dungeon!


Morrowind GOTY.

This is part of the reason why I hesitate to enter a random dungeon in TES games. You never know if it's a random dungeon or significantly related to some quest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 21, 2017, 05:30:17 am

Children's card games are serious fucking business, guys. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg2B8GPmJ3E)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on July 21, 2017, 02:33:32 pm

Quote from: Sirus on July 20, 2017, 08:04:11 pm

Somehow managed to get the "good" ending on my first play through, no guides. That final boss took a few tries but it really wasn't all that bad. The day was saved and the curse broken.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RIP Kaho 

I don't know why but the final boss kind of felt a little disappointing after the hell that was Pardoner Fennel. And the final boss of Momodora 3 was more extreme.

Actually I think it miht just be that I expect final bosses to have scary-looking attacks that fill most of the screen. Which the game's final boss does, but it wasn't flashy enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 21, 2017, 04:07:36 pm

I barely remembered Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight.  What I remember is that it was pretty fun, a nice and brief rememberance of Cave Story or Castlevania SoTN.  But so much briefer... which, actually, was almost a selling point.

I wanted a "bite" (week-long, for me) story told via platforming and metroidvania upgrades.  And I was not disappointed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 21, 2017, 04:48:44 pm

Quote from: Cinder on July 21, 2017, 02:33:32 pm

Quote from: Sirus on July 20, 2017, 08:04:11 pm

Somehow managed to get the "good" ending on my first play through, no guides. That final boss took a few tries but it really wasn't all that bad. The day was saved and the curse broken.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RIP Kaho 

I don't know why but the final boss kind of felt a little disappointing after the hell that was Pardoner Fennel. And the final boss of Momodora 3 was more extreme.

Actually I think it miht just be that I expect final bosses to have scary-looking attacks that fill most of the screen. Which the game's final boss does, but it wasn't flashy enough.

Nah, I agree. I don't I died to her first phase even once. Her second phase took me a few tries (she caught me in the corner with that shield attack) but the final phase was almost a cakewalk. Just died once, because I rolled a pixel too far.

Pardoner Fennel was much tougher - I actually gave up at one point and wandered off to explore a different part of the map - and so was Lubella's second battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 21, 2017, 08:44:07 pm

Finally mustered up the courage to try out Overkill on offline mode.

Completed Firestarter: Overkill with only two-three downs total.

Also, on Hard and Very Hard, I've been able to get small takes of a million+ dollars.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 21, 2017, 09:15:21 pm

You stupid SOB
The only thing that awaits you is
f
a
i
l
u
r
e

Payday (1 and also 2) is the place where we
we heroes
go to die

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 21, 2017, 10:43:37 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 21, 2017, 09:15:21 pm

Payday (1 and also 2) is the place where we
we heroes
go to die

I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about. None of us are heroes.

I mean, the Payday Gang is technically made of bad guys. Thing is, they're good bad guys (good suits).

The police are technically made of good guys. Thing is, they're bad good guys (bad at their job).

Besides, when you have regenerating armor that somehow stops all damage that breaks it (short of snipers), the ability to intimidate even the toughest of law enforcement and then convince them to work for you in seconds, the ability to heal from hostages (somehow), the ability to heal from hurting other people...

There's a long list of things that can stop your average comic-book bank robber.

The list of things that can stop the Payday Gang is many, many times shorter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are five entries:
Bulldozers
Tasers
Cloakers
SWAT Van Turrets
Acing Dum

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 21, 2017, 10:51:37 pm

payday 2 is a bad game that succeeds at convincing you it's not bad for many hours before you finally realize what you've been doing and get very upset

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on July 21, 2017, 10:53:41 pm

payday 2 needed bigger heists. Not LONGER more complex heists: bigger, grander, more over-the-top heists.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 21, 2017, 10:56:07 pm

Quote from: KingofstarrySkies on July 21, 2017, 10:51:37 pm

(league of legends/battleborn/paladins/x game everyone hates, etc)  is a bad game that succeeds at convincing you it's not bad for many hours before you finally realize what you've been doing and get very upset

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on July 21, 2017, 10:58:02 pm

LoL took only a few hours to convince me that it was condensed digital cancer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on July 21, 2017, 11:04:12 pm

I finally managed to build a mighty Kingdom of Suomi. Reformed Suomenusko on my first ruler and switched to gavelkind relatively quickly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

The Vikings seem much less aggressive as of late. In any case, now I get to use those sexy Finno-Ugric portraits, declare war for the bear spirits, and search for the Sampo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 22, 2017, 05:46:17 am

First attempt at a campaign is going well. Took over an hour to get the material for a single warship, and even then I had to also scrap the mining ship I built to speed up resource collection. And yes, that basically means I spent an hour of gameplay literally doing nothing.


Finally got that ship, a small but 29k material-cost frigate, onto the high seas, blew up a passing plane, destroyed an enemy mining rig, then shot down a pair of planes probably sent as a reprisal attack. Now to just build a resource platform on the spot where the rig was, and I can pump out more ships.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

EDIT: Took down a major airship port. Parked my ship by the beach, with cover against fire from the anti-ship cannon tower they had. First building to be put in play was light missile tower. Marched on foot, shot through the front door, and quickly located and destroyed its AI mainframe, which captures the entire thing intact. Next to spawn in was the anti-ship tower. Again, forced entry to search for the AI core. Only this one was actually booby-trapped with ammo boxes that can accidentally be shot while breaching the AI core. Almost killed myself with ricocheting bullets, but I got the core and the tower intact.

Next was several civilian homes. Each had two AIs, but where swiftly captured. Last building to spawn in to play was the airship gantry. To my shock and horror, it also launched an Atlas-class flying battleship, which took off before I could think of what to do. It promptly bombed my frigate, taking out its weapons. Even if it hadn't, I wouldn't have had the firepower to bring the airship down. I immediately teleported to the anti-ship tower, which had the only thing that could turn the battle: a BIG FREAKING GUN. Specifically, a double-barreled CRAM cannon whose barrel was longer than the ship I came in on. One hit delivered enough of a shock to the Atlas that all it's balloons broke off. I had done enough damage to drop it from the sky, and while I had considered capturing it, it had a top-deck cannon that was still active and, with it's decreasing altitude, would soon fire on my prizes. One more shot finished it off.

Last step was to just take out the airship gantry AI, and the battle was won. A thousand or so materials for repairs, and I've gained several structures to either scrap or use.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths. I really haven't bothered with CRAM cannons much, but I'm gonna copy that anti-ship gun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 23, 2017, 02:26:25 pm

That ss13 talk has gotten me back into it, dang. I love swapping and assuming identities, espically as the traitor. I recently had a round where I was able to assassinate the captain and assume his identity as part of the objective to steal his pewpew gun. To play off the fact i was acting slightly different, i acted like i was possessed, going so far as to get the chaplain to bless me and it didnt work. The ending went something like this:

"Crew, i know theres been some talk- .... day-o! Day-oooooo! Daylight come and me wan go homeeeee"

The shuttle has been launched.

"I work all night and i drinka rum!"

Assistant McGetsthisreference: "daylight come and me wan go home"

Chief Medical Officer: "stack banana till the morning come!"

"Daylight come and me wan go home"

Bartender: "come mr.tallyman, tally me banana"

The rest of the station degenerates into madness until we all evac.
What really sealed the deal was i completely forgot about the gun and led a conga line to the shuttle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on July 24, 2017, 10:31:19 pm

I was playing a 5-way FFA on a one-planet system. After a while, it was down to me and one other guy. I realized that I couldn't beat him (I lost one of my really expensive units and ended up significantly behind him) but I could make sure he lost too so I started building a Ragnarok (it destroys the planet it's built on). It finished as his army started attacking and his units were in range/sight just in time to see it activate and destroy the planet (killing everyone).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetary Annihilation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on July 26, 2017, 05:04:33 am

Spoiler: Death Road to Canada (click to show/hide)

Won with a 4 dog squad. GOT SUPERBLY LUCKY after my first 2 human characters died (because of being dum and not calculating movement and that tiny margin of error in running past zombies), as my 1st recruit was a doggo (from trader camp).
My setup was explorer/top seller, and a specialist/mysterious past character mix, with fitness being emphasized to be able to hit more often; customized and not totally named after my good friends, because I'm a player who despite naming every RPG character as her close friends, aims to preserve and keep them alive always. Just like my DF dwarves/entities.

That said, my first 2 people died...in an untouched food store, and I ended up getting a minigun in the half-part of the 25 day mode, because of saving up for it after raiding Yall-marts and grocery stores [which are somehow less in food, but it seems to vary, alongside me getting an assault rifle from a safe for example], but the priority are areas that contain food (gas is dispensable, which is why I didn't focus on a mechanic unit), and arcades for the dog once...the first two died. Initially I remember a plan way back intending for them to die off, but then realized in my first...tens of hours of gaming that it'll do it itself given how little looting gives you. -_- For the dog, after a few looting areas (+ said untouched store), giving good supplies (dogs only eat 1 food!), and discovering that the dog, alone, becomes supertrained and walks on two legs, but sadly retains its ONLY weapon slot...in that it can now use weapons rather than just picking them up (even ranged ones), I ran into my first trading camp afterwards and met a librarian. Sold 3 books, which I was superbly lucky to grab the first few that mattered.
Friend of Dog. Explorer. And Mechanic+.
All because I aimed to loot food first (and then gas later on x.x which...made sense, as SOMEHOW all the bandits only demanded food rather than the kill-y types that force EVERYTHING and HALF OF YOUR SUPPLIES and all). I've no idea why this was the only run that focused more on this than anything else, and it was a 25'day-er.

That said, recruiting dogs was a primary responsibility, and including how not-that-useful everyone else was in battle (as I didn't have a 2p buddy, and the dog's barking ability attracting attention is a blessing [press "C"]), the major point with dogs is that they're fast and can evade a lot better than people. And may be tiny, so it's less of a grappling range for zombies, but I've no idea about that. Near the end of the run, and getting lucky arcades (and avoiding all those special areas I've no idea about), I had 4 dogs, and from there to the last sieges, [1.5 and 4 hour siege, very glad to have a minigun; stick to chokepoints, save ammo, let your 3 other dogs claw their way] I was purely nervous in that 'maybe this would end like my 20+ other runs where I failed in the forever', but managing to survive that thanks to arcade skill-ups, stockpiling RIFLE ammunition for the minigun, and familiarity with looting from a ton of failure made it happen. The later and last level is a breeze compared to trying to survive sieges where all I do is run, cluster, probably bark to get more attention(?), and run run run, setting the team to defend or run since there is little else that can be done.

And my first doggy was a pug! \o/
Just, the feeling of all the luck happening (and nearly NOT happening as I got my dogs at 1 hp from their full bar in that last siege <_<) was pretty exhilarating. Recommended melee weapons are those that emphasize knockback or multiple hits, like hockey sticks and meat cleavers. I didn't do any other ranged weapon than what I could afford, using pistols for their ammo, shotguns for theirs, but saving all rifle ammo for that minigun which took lucky looting to get just as high, as a dog-squad (and lucky meeting a trader that sold it at the time I had enough!). It drained my morale because I had *just* enough to save and spend and sell all those nice loots for food after checking out that librarian and getting the friend of dog and explorer perk; 'common' items don't sell for food, which is hard to describe given their variety, while many 'non-common-named' guns except pistols, shotguns, and what seem like basic rifles {from my very limited experience} do sell for at least one food--this was before my two folks died off, and me just stockpiling loot that I thought was uncommon and otherwise. <_<

The credits were partially disappointing though. All generic 'dog' endings.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 26, 2017, 05:29:48 am

Gratz. I don't think I ever won without it being a solo victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on July 26, 2017, 06:13:44 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on July 26, 2017, 05:29:48 am

Gratz. I don't think I ever won without it being a solo victory.

I blame CDDA and Roguelikes for my mindset, and reading your stories alongside those of the rest of the folks here as inspiration :P About the game, the scariest bit is the arms that suddenly appear when they're close, but it gets some getting used to, in at least the places have specific sets of loot that you can get. >_<
IT WAS SO HARD THOUGH, and I was panicking in several areas where I shouldn't have. It was the luck of fast doggies that saved me in places where I was so used to getting cornered and swarmed.

Spoiler: Alternatively; The Curious Expedition (with story or guide) (click to show/hide)

Won and unlocked most folks (alongside the rank 3+ 'win with positive relations in all expeditions' meaning "NO LOOTING SHRINES" unlock) using Huang Feihong. There's an online beginner's guide but I've never read it.
I would've gotten higher than 3000+ points, but I forgot that while the 6th expedition means spend everything because funds don't matter after this, the endgame still has the option of 'gifting' to the museum for extra fame, and the 'sell' to auction for funds >_> and I sold a few things for funds. Also I abandoned the 5th expedition but still won out \o/

Recommended companion is the cook. And that's generally all, alongside an animal handler or two animals (I won this with a cook, a journalist and his dog, and two water buffaloes, in which I dismissed one in exchange for that lizard-village mount that starts with a 'c', which is very important to remember and not mix up with the lesser version which starts with a 'p'. They are both dinosaurs)

This was after several hours of failure BECAUSE OF ONE MISTAKE LIKE DRINKING JUST ONE WHISKEY BOTTLE, or accepting a complimentary 'drink' from a priest (which made my previous run companion an alcoholic), or forgetting to gift a necklace to a different mutated-alcoholic companion when they were at N/A loyalty hearts, and then losing because of lacking sanity. So here's a tiny Tiruin guide to not grinding your teeth against that sharp cliff rock surviving THE CURIOUS EXPEDITION.

The developers made the game with free DLC(?)--the arctic expedition, which I haven't explored in depth at all, but includes its own scenario requiring its own cheap specialized traversing tools. Differing terrain, from Desert, to Jungle, to Arctic, to Prehistoric (which is a mix of all the others except Arctic); Desert requires water, which is freely refilled from the ship. Jungle requires the machete, which is cheap at 2 per use, and is used up per forest tile traversed. I'd recommend not spending on climbing gear, which is only used for hills or hilly terrain, and instead using it as a trade good instead due to its price, and the rarity of hills (despite its sanity penalty, giving good 'view' when traversed). Rope is for swamps, which is somewhat common in Jungle and Prehistoric.

The 'cook' is recommended as s/he is able to turn animal meat (from the inevitable fights, which seemingly increased in possibility since the addition of the Arctic expedition) into either burned, overcooked, and cooked--5, 10, 15 sanity gain each. Animal meat is gained either from good (2+) standing with local villages depending on the inhabitants, or from fights. Ever animal seen on the overmap killed (sans those met by events, which doesn't include spawned ones thanks to your actions), regardless of what it is and how many that are in the battle, decreases local standing by -1. This is one reason why I noted it as something owning; I beat my competition of 4 other explorers in fame, and still came out on top to fund myself AFTER abandoning the 5th (out of 6) expedition due to an annoying placement of glowing markers for unlocking the golden pyramid mission-end goal.

Any place one rests in the wilds, from a mountain waterfall resting area, to an oasis, to a rocky overhang, somehow has a chance of giving a negative attribute to a non-animal crewmember (or your explorer). ALL shrines and stone statues, if anything is taken from them, will result in loss of local standing (-3 for shrine, less for stone statue, none if nothing is taken) and either a terrain change or a curse/ailment for shrine/stone statue respectively. These are the only areas that can ruin your standing with the locals unless I forgot something, other places like stone circles, shipwrecks on land, looting sarcophagi in tombs, and ANYTHING within portals (to a prehistoric time) will not affect your local standing; the lattermost will, but only to that area in particular--it will reset to your standing before you entered the portal after a certain amount of days as the portal journey is temporary, so journey everywhere in it while you can. Blessing temples/"Temples" just give benefits and nothing else. Local villages give FREE recruits at a standing of 2+; marbles and other trekking tools compatible with the environment (eg machete for jungle areas) get a bonus% to trade price, but this will be apparent for later on anyway. Weather balloons = 'instant explore of one unknown special location'. Cosco flares do the same, but are limited to a shorter range. Crystal balls do not uncover special locations, they just uncover locations, and have a 30 day cooldown (and are expensive). ANY gun purchased, whether gilded/fancy or otherwise (like a shotgun compared to a golden pistol) deals 2 damage, but they do differ in their combos. I didn't do much research on them despite being able to buy them due to lacking experimentation time.

Otherwise, Huang is an all-around great character due to his healing powers being able to stop death from wounds/fermenting wounds. He doesn't remove it, but stifles the death-counter to near nothing as the regeneration similarly equals the health loss. His attacks are the only different battle 'dice' among all the explorers, ranging from an 8 damage martial fist, to a 3 damage 3 shield kick, to a 2 damage 2 party heal punch, to a 2x stunning attack, or a 1x multi-stun enemy group attack (and 2 damage to all enemies).
The problem is that I forgot how to unlock him, having done so a long time ago using Marie Curie.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 26, 2017, 07:52:10 pm

Designed a helicopter the the AI can actually pilot on its own. It has zero jet thrusters for movement or turning, not even jet stabilizers. Movement is all handled by exactly two heliblade spinners, plus one normal spinblock for pitch/forward control. Hell, the only reason it needed an engine(and thus, fuel) at all was that I made it out of normal metal instead of alloy, meaning the main lifter couldn't lift the weight, and I needed to buff it with engine power.

Control is done via several ACBs. The only downside is there's no easy method to change the hover height without reprogramming two of the ACBs. However, the height it's at(25m-28m) is good enough for its weapons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

EDIT: Finally won the attack on my home base. Spent a ton of resources adding repair tentacles to my main base to fast-build the laser airships, then placed a bunch of flak turret structures on a nearby island. Had to turn the battle size to maximum, meaning it spawned in both enemy airships(technically one is a helicopter). The first was destroyed after it did a full suicide run at one of the airships. The second was shot down to the waterline whereupon I shut off all my AIs, boarded the downed airship, and shot out its AI core. It is mine now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on July 30, 2017, 11:55:41 pm

I made a new build using Frenzy, Berserker, Specialized Killing, and the Maniac deck to stack up massive damage and damage resistance, using a silenced M308. Went in to cook meth on deathwish (not the highest difficulty, but still pretty high) with some friends to test it out. Actually worked out pretty well, the damage was high enough that headshots would kill most things (some specials sometimes requiring an extra shot or two) and the damage resistance was insane. Could wade though guys popping helmets for several critical moments before I was forced to seek cover. So, overall it worked out pretty well. My friends cooked and sniped from the top of the house as for the most part I entered a semi endless fight with the cops swarming in from below. At the close range I could headshot them almost as fast as I could shoot, only needing to retreat up stairs behind one of our almost invincible (seriously I don't think any of them died ever) converted police guys to reload and regain armor every once a while.

However, at one point we left the house, probably to put the meth in the truck or something, and everything went to shit. One of my friends got downed in a terrible place and he went into custody, and the house got completely overrun by cops. Blood thousands of 'em! Even my hysteria wasn't enough to face tank that many cops at once (specially since the guy who went down was a very support orientated character and was giving me a lot of damage reduction)... However, my one remaining friend had the inspire perk, allowing him to instantly and a distance bring someone up who was downed on a 20 second cool down... And we had a doctors bag right near the house... Que me running in, headshotting cops as fast as I could click my mouse, dying, reloading as I died, and getting pushed back to my feet as my friend inspired me though the wall. He was reviving me on cool down, and six downs, two minutes, two doctors bag uses, and probably like 50+ dead cops later I had managed to clear the house out and secure the top floor where we bunkered down yet again, waiting for the wave to end and to trade a hostage for our captured friend and our transport out to arrive. I think we didn't end up actually staying in the level very long overall. But it sure was quite exciting. And the build seems to have worked out as well, which is cool, it's about the highest damage build I can think of without buying the dlc weapons in the game, or using the sniper rifle (or like, crit pistol build which I guess can get to like 60-70% crit chance, but I find it a lot harder to constantly headshot with pistols and survive, even with 60% dodge) so I'm glad to see it still works on deathwish, if imperfectly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 02:17:34 pm

I become the gunner of a helicopter that was piloted by an A.I. pilot. We flew over the enemy base, making strafing runs, when I accidentally pressed the dismount button. I survived the fall, to discover that place I fell on was the perfect sniper's nest. Eventually, I ran out of ammo sniping them. I noticed they had an unpiloted helicopter. I ran to the helicopter, because no ammo. I survived through the enemy ranks and got in the gunners side, because I have successfully flied a plane in this game. Then their tank saw me, and rammed the copter. I started shooting it, afraid it would blast me before it succeeded, but it was aimed wrong, and I destroyed it shortly before a bazooka took me out.
Incedentaly, in this game, I once got in the gunner part, while an enemy got in the drivers seat. I'm not sure, but I think I crashed the copter from the gunner's seat.

Ravenfield

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 02, 2017, 04:01:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 02:17:34 pm

I become the gunner of a helicopter that was piloted by an A.I. pilot. We flew over the enemy base, making strafing runs, when I accidentally pressed the dismount button. I survived the fall, to discover that place I fell on was the perfect sniper's nest. Eventually, I ran out of ammo sniping them. I noticed they had an unpiloted helicopter. I ran to the helicopter, because no ammo. I survived through the enemy ranks and got in the gunners side, because I have successfully flied a plane in this game. Then their tank saw me, and rammed the copter. I started shooting it, afraid it would blast me before it succeeded, but it was aimed wrong, and I destroyed it shortly before a bazooka took me out.
Incedentaly, in this game, I once got in the gunner part, while an enemy got in the drivers seat. I'm not sure, but I think I crashed the copter from the gunner's seat.

!!! Wat game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 02, 2017, 04:04:36 pm

Finally defeated Delirium for the first time after many, many tries. I'm drowsy pills are great.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 04:06:08 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on August 02, 2017, 04:01:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 02:17:34 pm

I become the gunner of a helicopter that was piloted by an A.I. pilot. We flew over the enemy base, making strafing runs, when I accidentally pressed the dismount button. I survived the fall, to discover that place I fell on was the perfect sniper's nest. Eventually, I ran out of ammo sniping them. I noticed they had an unpiloted helicopter. I ran to the helicopter, because no ammo. I survived through the enemy ranks and got in the gunners side, because I have successfully flied a plane in this game. Then their tank saw me, and rammed the copter. I started shooting it, afraid it would blast me before it succeeded, but it was aimed wrong, and I destroyed it shortly before a bazooka took me out.
Incedentaly, in this game, I once got in the gunner part, while an enemy got in the drivers seat. I'm not sure, but I think I crashed the copter from the gunner's seat.

!!! Wat game

Ravenfield. Sorry I forgot to say what game it is. Incidentally it's free. Or at least the alpha is free. I have no idea if the beta is free.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 02, 2017, 04:08:17 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 04:06:08 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on August 02, 2017, 04:01:48 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 02:17:34 pm

I become the gunner of a helicopter that was piloted by an A.I. pilot. We flew over the enemy base, making strafing runs, when I accidentally pressed the dismount button. I survived the fall, to discover that place I fell on was the perfect sniper's nest. Eventually, I ran out of ammo sniping them. I noticed they had an unpiloted helicopter. I ran to the helicopter, because no ammo. I survived through the enemy ranks and got in the gunners side, because I have successfully flied a plane in this game. Then their tank saw me, and rammed the copter. I started shooting it, afraid it would blast me before it succeeded, but it was aimed wrong, and I destroyed it shortly before a bazooka took me out.
Incedentaly, in this game, I once got in the gunner part, while an enemy got in the drivers seat. I'm not sure, but I think I crashed the copter from the gunner's seat.

!!! Wat game

Ravenfield. Sorry I forgot to say what game it is. Incidentally it's free. Or at least the alpha is free. I have no idea if the beta is free.

It sounds rad as hell

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 04:09:08 pm

PM me, and later I'll send you the link to it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 02, 2017, 11:35:48 pm

Huh. I didn't actually notice that you didn't say what game it was, because I automatically assumed it was arma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 03, 2017, 03:11:45 pm

What is arma?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on August 03, 2017, 04:09:26 pm

It's a franchise of hyper-realistic military sims. One notable feature of it was being able to down choppers by shooting the pilot through the windshield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 03, 2017, 04:11:32 pm

Arma is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 03, 2017, 04:13:05 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on August 03, 2017, 04:09:26 pm

It's a franchise of hyper-realistic military sims. One notable feature of it was being able to down choppers by shooting the pilot through the windshield.

Side note: In Bad Company, I sniped the pilot of an Apache Gunship through the windshield with a sniper rifle.  In Battlefield 3, I walked up to a stationary humvee and tried to shoot its AFK driver through the window.  Couldn't.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on August 03, 2017, 04:18:37 pm

You can still snipe pilots in jets in bf3. I remember seeing a guy parachute out of a jet, snipe the pilot of the jet that was chasing him, and then parachuting back into his own jet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 03, 2017, 04:29:38 pm

Did you use a sniper rifle? :P


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Beat the Pest Mononoke during his/her(looks/acts feminine, referred to as "he" in dialogue. Might not matter considering the nature of Mononoke) main story battle with less than half a second left on the clock. I am a bit confused as why the battle took place in a part of town that had no food production tiles except a single tile of fish, and I'm not 100% sure fish can be infested by the Pest Mononoke. Still feels like an own considering that s/he appeared in very opening of the game and you were entirely incapable of harming them, especially after (opening game spoiler){they just murdered the ancient Grand Mononke}.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mononoke Forest. Just came out on the 3DS a few days ago, and it's been pretty fun so far. Part city-builder, part Pokemon, part slingshot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 03, 2017, 05:19:00 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 02, 2017, 04:09:08 pm

PM me, and later I'll send you the link to it.

https://steelraven7.itch.io/ravenfield here's the link to Ravenfield if you're interested in it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on August 03, 2017, 07:38:01 pm

Accidentally landed a great bazooka shot on what turned out to be a friendly helicopter, as evidenced by the blue that popped out and landed on the shore by Cove.
I took my RK-45 and capped him after he landed to be sure that he didn't tell anybody about it, then went on to lead a delightful charge into Red's last base, which unfortunately happened to be one of the two bases that spawned tanks and helicopters. Emptied my RK before being caught by a red with a shotgun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ravenfield

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on August 03, 2017, 07:43:52 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 03, 2017, 04:29:38 pm

Did you use a sniper rifle? :P

Not in bf3 sadly. The only battlefield game I own is WW1 and as a matter of fact I actually have sniped a couple of pilots out of their planes. It's pure luck though, I'm not some sort of uber marksman.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 04, 2017, 06:43:46 pm

Played SAVAGE WORLDS tabletop for the first time. Superhero theme.

Made a super speedy character called THE FWOOSH. Leonard Snarf gained his powers when he was struck by lightning while simultaneously being bitten by a radioactive Speedy Gonzalez.

By the end of the game an evil alien warlord had parked his spaceship over our fair city and invited us to single combat. THE FWOOSH got on the ship's internal PA and screamed SNARRRRF every time the warlord tried to monologue or explain his demands/goals or anything. This distracted/enraged him enough that other PC's were able to hotwire the engines and send him full-speed into the sun. We never found out what he actually wanted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on August 04, 2017, 09:02:19 pm

"I wish to bestow upon you the secrets of eternal life! Stop interrupting me!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 04, 2017, 10:14:32 pm

In the middle of a losing streak with my best friend, I decide to go with tracer since I'm close to level 10 with her. 3 MVPs in a row. Against the same group of four players. They must be salty.

Heroes of the Storm.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 04, 2017, 10:32:41 pm

"Abathurs useless on Dragon Shire." Our Valla.

"K" Me.

Useless little me kept the enemy team from using their mounts to get around with my nests, kept them from ever being able to safely leave a shrine without guard because I can just tunnel to an undefended one, kept the Valla from dying to the Samuro every time but one that he came at her- fully in vision of my mines but she never took notice despite my work to keep vision for my team, saw our Malf was bad at timing heals sogave our team a proper malf behind them in fights, used prolific dispersal+locust brood to capture siege camps while everyone was distracted so the enemy had just that much more to deal with while juggling shrines, and hey I even piloted the dragon knight at one point- and survived the exiting ceremony. But hey Abathur's just useless. Thanks for the MVP Blizz!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 04, 2017, 10:37:44 pm

Quote from: StagnantSoul on August 04, 2017, 10:32:41 pm

"Abathurs useless on Dragon Shire." Our Valla.

"K" Me.

Useless little me kept the enemy team from using their mounts to get around with my nests, kept them from ever being able to safely leave a shrine without guard because I can just tunnel to an undefended one, kept the Valla from dying to the Samuro every time but one that he came at her- fully in vision of my mines but she never took notice despite my work to keep vision for my team, saw our Malf was bad at timing heals sogave our team a proper malf behind them in fights, used prolific dispersal+locust brood to capture siege camps while everyone was distracted so the enemy had just that much more to deal with while juggling shrines, and hey I even piloted the dragon knight at one point- and survived the exiting ceremony. But hey Abathur's just useless. Thanks for the MVP Blizz!

If you are not on the frontlines suiciding in teamfights you are useless. /s.

To continue my post, went for a final showdown against the same damn team. They won this time because my team's Varian decided to just troll and feed, over and over. Spent more time dead than alive.

HotS, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 04, 2017, 10:43:14 pm

Quote from: Teneb on August 04, 2017, 10:37:44 pm

Quote from: StagnantSoul on August 04, 2017, 10:32:41 pm

"Abathurs useless on Dragon Shire." Our Valla.

"K" Me.

Useless little me kept the enemy team from using their mounts to get around with my nests, kept them from ever being able to safely leave a shrine without guard because I can just tunnel to an undefended one, kept the Valla from dying to the Samuro every time but one that he came at her- fully in vision of my mines but she never took notice despite my work to keep vision for my team, saw our Malf was bad at timing heals sogave our team a proper malf behind them in fights, used prolific dispersal+locust brood to capture siege camps while everyone was distracted so the enemy had just that much more to deal with while juggling shrines, and hey I even piloted the dragon knight at one point- and survived the exiting ceremony. But hey Abathur's just useless. Thanks for the MVP Blizz!

If you are not on the frontlines suiciding in teamfights you are useless. /s.

To continue my post, went for a final showdown against the same damn team. They won this time because my team's Varian decided to just troll and feed, over and over. Spent more time dead than alive.

HotS, of course.

I have little trust for any Varian I see, doubly so if their swords become so. It's almost as bad as Illidans who fly across the map at a Chromie only to get deleted on the way- thrice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 05, 2017, 01:11:24 am

Me and my brother beat a difficulty 12 cyborg retaliation mission.

For reference, that is the hardest possible combination of difficulty + enemy + mission type.  A ridiculous number of enemies including tanks and walkers fall basically on your heads, in waves.  You're supposed to bring four people, we did it with two.  The game does not scale the difficulty at all with party size.  We tried for like 3 hours before finally finding a setup that works, which even tho we both have DLC content the winning build was purely stock.  We hid away in a tiny back area where we knew from experience no enemies would spawn.  The two huge main entrances we covered in AT mines and slowing static fields, while I tossed the distress beacon in the tiny back entrance.  No one would answer the call since the game was private, but its an indestructible building and it gummed up the works so no large enemies could get behind us.  Finally, to deal with the horrifying amount of enemy armor, we both brought the reloadable AT launchers and did the assisted reloads on each other (we were very in-sync about this).  My brother also swapped out the standard AR for a shotgun, to deal with the butchers which constantly fucked us up.

Without that setup, we'd make it to about 200-300 kills consistently.  With it, we managed to win with a couple deaths and both of us successfully evacing.  There were so many tanks that even with me spamming an ammo drop every minute or so, we would still almost run out of rockets between drops.  WTF was that mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Helldivers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on August 06, 2017, 02:25:01 am

I beat the game. It only took me 71 hours of total play.

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XCOM 2 - Long War 2 mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 06, 2017, 08:11:14 am

Actually walled off my factorio and have defended from multiple attacks without dying now. Turrets around slightly more than half the perimeter!

my copper miner got fucked though.

Factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 06, 2017, 10:02:02 am

Quote from: TheDarkStar on August 06, 2017, 02:25:01 am

71 hours of total play.

Long War 2 mod.

Does not compute.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on August 06, 2017, 11:13:09 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 06, 2017, 10:02:02 am

Quote from: TheDarkStar on August 06, 2017, 02:25:01 am

71 hours of total play.

Long War 2 mod.

Does not compute.

71 hours of my time playing XCOM 2 has just been a single Long War 2 campaign on Rookie.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 06, 2017, 02:34:57 pm

Were you speedrunning? :P


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Killed the final boss in this run probably faster than as any other faction yet. Granted, my army besides heroes consisted of three squads of Chaos Marines with Inferno Bolters, three Predators each marked by a different god, and a Greater Daemon of Nurgle. Only lost two Predators, having to replace the tank marked by Tzeentch(which replaces the anti-all autocannon with an anti-vehicle twin lascannon) twice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War II: Retribution, Chaos victory. Also helps that the Chaos' leader is freaking Eliphas the Inheritor, whom only Abaddon could really make him crap himself in terror. Oh, and this victory kinda erased that last bit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on August 07, 2017, 02:14:08 am

(http://i.imgur.com/wJY5cfT.png)

I have become Doge, destroyer of zombies.

Also Death's here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 07, 2017, 12:05:07 pm

How did you do that? I mean, I always keep running out of stamina or there's just too many zombies... How do you do it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 07, 2017, 12:25:18 pm

Level forty-five Orc melee warrior that has completed all black books for their sweet sweet balance annihilating bonus powers. I am wearing full Dragonbone armor, dual wielding dragon swords. I kill Elder dragons with a single double power attack. That's without using beserker rage or dragon aspect or anything. I am basically unkillable to individuals.

And all without a single enchantment. I have 100 enchanting but I want to break alchemy first so I can become a god instead of just an invincible demigod.

Also I am saving the civil war questline for last to maximize the OP hilarity.

Skyrim SE unmodded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 07, 2017, 01:05:05 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on August 07, 2017, 12:25:18 pm

Level forty-five Orc melee warrior that has completed all black books for their sweet sweet balance annihilating bonus powers. I am wearing full Dragonbone armor, dual wielding dragon swords. I kill Elder dragons with a single double power attack. That's without using beserker rage or dragon aspect or anything. I am basically unkillable to individuals.

And all without a single enchantment. I have 100 enchanting but I want to break alchemy first so I can become a god instead of just an invincible demigod.

Also I am saving the civil war questline for last to maximize the OP hilarity.

Skyrim SE unmodded.

What..? Civil War..? Are you STILL on about that? *waves hand, entire enemy force vaporizes*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 07, 2017, 04:42:01 pm

Whoa, amazing! He just killed six people with a wave of his hand...!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 07, 2017, 05:26:48 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 07, 2017, 04:42:01 pm

Whoa, amazing! He just killed six people with a wave of his hand...!

To be fair, that's six more people than I could kill with a wave of my hand.

That makes it an increase of [UNDEFINED] percent up from zero.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on August 08, 2017, 07:02:00 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 07, 2017, 12:05:07 pm

How did you do that? I mean, I always keep running out of stamina or there's just too many zombies... How do you do it?

As someone else who does that, if I can draw a reference: Play it like Cataclysm DDA or any zombie game where you're more powerful than them, but they're more numerous than you. You don't HAVE to kill them. You just have to swing when you can to keep them away from where you move. :3 Shotguns and other weapons are good for that, when the group closes in on your position, make a straight line out to squeeze them up, then shotgun or whack your way through. Especially useful in sieges where...they'll just pile up.

Also BLAZE forgot the game was Death Road to Canada.

And I believe he's winning it because he got Death's Scythe :v I never got that for some reason despite shaking hands with him...(And somehow he's called a goblin. May be American/Canadian lore, but that terminology interests me)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on August 08, 2017, 07:05:39 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 07, 2017, 05:26:48 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 07, 2017, 04:42:01 pm

Whoa, amazing! He just killed six people with a wave of his hand...!

To be fair, that's six more people than I could kill with a wave of my hand.

That makes it an increase of [UNDEFINED] percent up from zero.

I think SB was making a joke about the fact that civil war only consisted of about five LARPers on each side and it doesn't matter which team won. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on August 09, 2017, 01:52:25 pm

Over the course of half a day, I managed to plunge down 255 floors of the mine to reach the bottom floor for the first time.  I honestly didn't think I'd do it in this run; I thought I was missing some points on the mining degree to unlock the last five floors, but I learned otherwise when I accidentally stumbled into a pitfall on the 250th floor.  Instead, I came out of the mine with a shiny new yellow wonderful stone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 09, 2017, 02:05:56 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on August 08, 2017, 07:05:39 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 07, 2017, 05:26:48 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 07, 2017, 04:42:01 pm

Whoa, amazing! He just killed six people with a wave of his hand...!

To be fair, that's six more people than I could kill with a wave of my hand.

That makes it an increase of [UNDEFINED] percent up from zero.

I think SB was making a joke about the fact that civil war only consisted of about five LARPers on each side and it doesn't matter which team won. :P

At least Fallout 4 made some pretense of having multiple people live in it's large settlements. Hope they build on that for Elder Scrolls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 09, 2017, 02:21:18 pm

It would be so much easier to have large populations and other interesting and immersive features if they upgraded to ascii art. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 09, 2017, 02:25:08 pm

It'd be kind of interesting to have to play an FPS with that level of graphics though...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 09, 2017, 05:15:19 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 09, 2017, 04:59:07 am

Had to build a city from scratch as a bulwark against Carthage's push across the Alps.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CivCity: Rome.

Tried this one again, with the big change being that I put an extra warehouse and the swordmaker's shop right next to the iron mines. This nearly tripled my recruiting rate. My previous mistake was the assumption that someone had to take the finished swords from the from the warehouse to the fort to train a soldier. I was wrong. Instead, every few seconds, a sword will magically disappear from the warehouse, and a fully trained Roman legionnaire will phase into existence at the fort(located wholly on the opposite side of the city), ready for battle. Not discipline and drilling, but sorcery was the secret to Rome's military power, and has been quite an effective counter to Hannibal's hordes of zombified elephants.

I haven't yet finished out the mission, but right now I've got a full legion and another getting ready. And while in the last attempt I was so broke I had to beg the Senate for a loan(if done twice, you fail), now I'm sitting on so much denarii that I don't really have a use for it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CivCity: Rome.

Imperial Guard supporting a force of White Scars(or, judging by their weapon use and speed of attack, Imperial Fists dressed as White Scars), against an unholy union of Orks and Chaos(Emp's Children). I start on the NE side, White Scars are NW, Orks are SW, Chaos are SE. Map had two bridges on the east and west sides. I start by throwing out conscripts to capture the points around my base, then push to the east bridge. The Scars' scout marines get pushed off capturing a relic on the west bridge by some Gretchins, and I move in slap the Gretchins while taking the relic for myself. Dick move, but if those aspiring to be mighty Space Marines are so afraid of Gretchins to abandon a holy relic of the Emperor, well then, screw that, it's mine.

Somehow, the Gretchins build several Waagh! banners just outside of LoS from the relic, but by the time it became a problem, I had Hellhounds to flatten them. In the meantime, I had fortified the east bridge with several proper Guardsmen and heavy weapon teams, but they were never challenged. Maybe because there were so many Guardsmen on the bridge that it broke pathfinding across. All the fighting took place on the west bridge. Shortly after pushing across, Chaos contrivances wiped out all the infantry, and all but one of the Hellhounds(reinforced by Leman Russes which survived). By that point, I had researched the upgrade that makes Conscript squads free(except reinforcing) and ups their max squad size to 30. I also built two HQs on the north end to pump out endless waves of conscripts.

Hundreds of conscripts, backed by several Leman Russ tanks and three Kasrkin squads, backed again by the White Scars who finally got off their asses to actually attack, charged forth. The Ork base, with every building lined with guns and not lacking for targets, fired wildly(only setting on an Ork gun), but could not hold back the charge. Their ramshackle structures caved as tank rounds and flashlight burns tore through them. The Emperor's Children legion was too busy looking at themselves in their mirrors to help, unable to realize they were next. Caught unawares, their horrid temples to Slaanesh were swiftly burned to the ground along with their worshipers. The day was won, the Imperial Guard held the line.

IG casualties: over 300.
White Scars casualties: 104. I really hope most of those were useless things like servitors. Otherwise, that is just sad.
Ork casualties: over 500. Mostly Gretchins.
Chaos casualties: over 200. Mostly cultists, but there were a lot of CSMs in there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dawn of War: Soulstorm, Ultimate Apocalypse mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on August 10, 2017, 12:09:16 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 09, 2017, 02:25:08 pm

It'd be kind of interesting to have to play an FPS with that level of graphics though...

Not like it hasn't been done before. (https://drl.chaosforge.org/)

Or done in a more literal way (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/12/roguelike-ascii-fps-illuminascii/) (though I've never heard about it before this last Google search, whereas there was a fairly lengthy thread for DoomRL on the forums here I believe).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 10, 2017, 07:05:25 pm

Finally designed a battleship that doesn't flip over or try to transform into a (usually temporary) submarine when it turns. It does more of a powerslide. Also, its main guns throw it sideways by about 50 meters every time it fires(it remains upright though).

Spoiler: It basically does this (click to show/hide)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BB61_USS_Iowa_BB61_broadside_USN.jpg/1200px-BB61_USS_Iowa_BB61_broadside_USN.jpg)
Only all of the guns are slightly smaller in gauge than those big ones on the front and back(Iowa's is 406mm, mine is 402mm), but there's also six of them firing at once, and like the Iowa's guns in the picture, they're three-gun turrets - that is, each is actually an individually targeting and firing cannon.

Other features include tens of thousands of units of power from a hybrid steam/electric/fuel engine(actually just three separate engine compartments), with the fuel engine achieving a full RPM fuel efficiency of 130-132 power per fuel, and a top speed of (currently) 9.6m/s. The cannons are 3.9m long APHE shells that shred armor - one test salvo one-shotted a OW Bastion(referred to as a Castle-Ship for its heavy armor) by punching through and gutting its AI core.

It's not actually finished yet. I still have tons of space to put more weapons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths. I studied the Steel Strider's Excalibur-class battleship for a few design ideas. Clearly, they are working.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 11, 2017, 07:23:56 am

Using nothing but a single MC80 and a pair of CR90's, as well as a ground based ion cannon, I managed to defeat: 2 ISD II's, 9 Carracks, 11 Lancer Frigates, 2 Modular Taskforce frigates, 1 Venator, and 5 Immobilizer ISD's. Ackbar would be proud.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2017, 09:38:08 am

Quote from: tryrar on November 14, 2015, 09:39:06 am

(http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/import/2013/images/2013/02/meteor.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 11, 2017, 10:30:44 am

Technically the name isn't required, in this thread :P
I think it's Star Wars:  Empire At War, probably with a mod. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 11, 2017, 10:31:40 am

holds meteor up to your temple

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: flabort on August 11, 2017, 01:07:14 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 11, 2017, 10:30:44 am

Technically the name isn't required, in this thread :P
I think it's Star Wars:  Empire At War, probably with a mod.

Well, I mean, technically, yes, the meteors are enforced in the "Die" thread, and not technically required in this thread, but still, common courtesy...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 11, 2017, 08:49:15 pm

After a failed start, partly due to similar reasons for the previous missions first failure(bad resource flow), I started again. While the pre-mission hints said fishing was the better choice over goats for food, it was not. Not helping was the fact that all the wood was on the opposite side of the map from the shore, making building fishing boats hard. Also not helping was a total lack of iron on the map, forcing me to use wood for javelins.

Also really not helping was the fact that the only source of fresh water was a river on the other opposite side of the map, forcing me to wait for Mosaic Working to finish researching, which makes several thousand denarii's worth of aqueduct construction cost nothing. This is probably the single most powerful tech to research, as the cost - plus the costs of its very useful prerequisites which give +10% tax income, faster road speed, and free piazzias(which hold music performances) - is around 750 denarii, while the cistern that's at the end of the aqueduct system is by itself 1000 denarii. The second-most important tech is Concrete, which makes roads(4 denarii per small tile) free while costing 250 denarii itself(and has Mosaic Working as its prerequisite). This is important for this mission in particular since the objective is money.

The first attempt failed because I built near the ocean, resulting in too slow wood income, forcing me to face a Carthaginian assault with about a dozen or so velites. Velites suck, especially against Carthaginian melee troops.

Second attempt, closer to the trees, and went with goats for meat. Naturally, this sped everything the hell up. By the time Carthage could throw anything worth anything at me, I had a full legion-strength and a half of velites. Also by that point, I had a prosperous and well-organized city, and raking in hundreds of denarii per month. The last assault actually slipped by my forces, because Carthage gives its soldiers and elephant hordes jetpacks, and damaged a significant portion of my outer town, coming dangerously close to my town center. However, bad positioning of their troops let me divide and pick them off, and shortly after the last one died, I also hit the objective amount of money.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CivCity: Rome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 11, 2017, 11:55:01 pm

Quote from: flabort on August 11, 2017, 01:07:14 pm

Well, I mean, technically, yes, the meteors are enforced in the "Die" thread, and not technically required in this thread, but still, common courtesy...

I'd actually like to know what mod it was, honestly.  I'm not into the game but my brother is, and it could even be a different game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on August 12, 2017, 03:18:01 am

Quote from: AzyWng on August 09, 2017, 02:25:08 pm

It'd be kind of interesting to have to play an FPS with that level of graphics though...

There were a few bits in Saints Row 4 where the game had an ascii shader run over the normal graphics.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/643u5Vu.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 12, 2017, 10:04:00 am

Maybe it was switching to 1280x720 FPS like I'd been doing with all my other games, but whatever happened, Dirty Bomb now runs at a framerate that does not suck.

Because of this I'm finally able to kill people and participate in the game proper.

Also, the playerbase no longer taunts the hell out of me after they destroy me, so there's that too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dirty Bomb.

Also, beautiful moment, but I ran into a teammate who actually took the trouble to help me up multiple times throughout the match.

I think I'm in love.

EDIT: Other own:

Completed Stealing Xmas in under 15 minutes with all pubbies.

Shaped charges and Jack of All Trades can kick a surprising amount of ass.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Payday 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 13, 2017, 08:41:45 pm

Built the city of London, with a population of over 25k, with splendid fountains and gardens and statuary spread erratically all over the countryside, where there's a large amphitheater holding cockfights with ostriches and a larger colosseum holding fights between elephants and groups of lions(elephant lost, but killed a lion), where there's so many beds that they're nearly spilling out from the warehouse they're stored in, and where all the nobles have had their palaces tossed on the opposite side of the city from any services they might want because I really don't give a damn about them.

I was named Emperor of Rome in the last will of the late Emperor for my efforts.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CivCity: Rome. The mission ended around 116-118 AD, suggesting that the previous Emperor was Trajan, impying that the player character is in fact Hadrian. Looking up Trajan on Wikipedia supports this, since the mission before Londinium is Ctesiphon, which was sacked during Trajan's reign(the mission is to rebuild after the sacking).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 17, 2017, 09:02:32 am

Started as Head of Personnel and traitor. Immediately make spare all access pass, swipe the Captains spare. Unathi trader and chief engineer are trading. I buy a snazzy uniform. Round meanders for awhile, then I find ce and trader making clones and speaking sinta to each other over the radio.

I access Telecoms because I am an evil genius and get a translated and somewhat incriminating look at the conversation. They're butchering and selling the clones for absurd profit. I attempt to blackmail and threaten them but no dice.

So I watch the Unathi trader ship, but she leaves before I complete my plan. Backup plan time. I trash cloning bays with the shit awful super matter grenades I bought and get some ammo for my pistol. Then I question the ce via radio about the station shields.

He offers to show me the control system, and the suspicious qm tags along. Once at the controls, I draw the gun and ask everyone to get down on the floor. They express confusion, so I blast the qm in the knee. He charges me, smacking me with an oxygen tank, so I empty the clip into his chest.

I disable the shields and trash the trader docking area, but radiation poisoning sets in and the trader goes afk. I decide my job is done, and shoot myself in the head.

The doctor revives me.

So I go retrash trade dock and kill myself again.

The trader never returns, and my actions basically prompt the round end, which I considered a win. Mostly because it was hilarious fun.

SS13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 17, 2017, 01:24:31 pm

Good on you for being traitor and not taking half the crew out of the round.  Kinda lame that those other guys didn't play along tho.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 17, 2017, 04:55:51 pm

Hanslanda, what game is this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 17, 2017, 05:02:33 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 17, 2017, 04:55:51 pm

Hanslanda, what game is this?

https://tgstation13.org/

You need Byond, a benign web client.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 17, 2017, 05:18:40 pm

Assaulted a position held by a bunch of drug addicts in order to recover the body of a fallen soldier that they were using to taunt the NCR. Shot one in the face so hard she fell off the roof(allowing me to loot her). Supposedly, the body was protected by mines and booby traps; there were no mines, and the only booby traps I found was some bear traps placed in an out of the way corner, so *shrug*... Dragged to body to the nearby NCR checkpoint, where the began heaping praises, that I shouldn't sacrifice my body like that(I only lost 1/3 health), and that if my quest objective(wasn't actually a full quest) was to drag the body all the way to California I would(I wouldn't). No reward for doing it except rep, but still felt good.

Prior to that, claimed bounties on several boss-level drug addicts by tearing their (intact, worth more money) heads from their corpses while my not-waifu punched their bodyguards in the face.

Prior to that, I interrogated a centurion by posing as a Legion assassin meant to silence him while high on Mentats. He sang like a canary, and then I rubbed in his face the fact that I just played him like a damn fiddle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout: New Vegas. Everything Veronica says is pure awesome. Hell, everything she does is pure awesome. Still on the not-waifu list though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 17, 2017, 05:41:35 pm

She's on the "honorary husbando" list for me.  Love her character.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 17, 2017, 07:34:22 pm

Boone all the way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 17, 2017, 07:57:54 pm

Ah, purple mentats.  When you want to play *everyone* like a fiddle.
Either that or get a bit drunk.  Bit unrealistic, that...

Those are some good quests, though.  I even aligned with the legion once (showered afterward) and never aligned with those fucks.  Technically less dangerous, but so much more depraved...
...
Nope, way too depraved.  Sick monsters.

Legion's even worse though, really, by being so powerful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on August 17, 2017, 08:02:33 pm

Eh, I've heard the Brotherhood of Steel sacrifices puppies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 17, 2017, 08:28:18 pm

Spoiler: Fallout New Vegas spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can blow the Brotherhood up though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on August 17, 2017, 08:29:57 pm

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on August 17, 2017, 08:02:33 pm

Eh, I've heard the Brotherhood of Steel sacrifices puppies.

Power armor gets its power from puppy souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on August 17, 2017, 09:36:23 pm

Quote from: hector13 on August 17, 2017, 07:34:22 pm

Boone all the way.

Boone's great. Have fond memories of just wandering around Freeside aimlessly, when the screen suddenly cuts to some punk getting his head blown off, cut back and see Boone reloading and hear ED-E's victory noise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on August 18, 2017, 01:30:31 am

I've actually never recruited Boone in all my 5 playthroughs (Nothing against that guy, personally). ED-E, on the other hand, is easily my favorite companion for his ability alone. He misses a lot of shots in fights, but that's okay, his ability is very valuable to me as a (pretty awful) sniper.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 18, 2017, 05:46:28 am

Ended up giving Veronica the fancy dress she always wanted. Unfortunately I have to use console commands to delete her default armor and hood to get her to actually wear it.

Spoiler: Regarding Boone (click to show/hide)

Never recruited him, but after reading the bill of sale I felt absolutely no sympathy for Jeanne May as I led her in front of Boone's scope.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 18, 2017, 12:36:58 pm

Cyber Ninjas do not need companions. *smoke bomb*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on August 18, 2017, 04:06:21 pm

I defeated a pair of silver lynels. Without using an ancient arrow on either.

Fear my terrain exploiting skills

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

legend of zelda: breath of the wild

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on August 19, 2017, 01:13:53 am

I decided to murder the shit out of Legion by fast-travelling to The Fort and frying them with my Sprtel-Wood 9000 (it's basically Gatling-plasma beam). To be honest, Sprtel-Wood 9000 is not a very good weapon due to low accuracy, but it does its thing. I also used modded Watts Laser Rifle (Scope + Damage mod), Tri-Beam Laser Rifle (No mods) and Chinese Officer Sword, which is a complete beast of a melee weapon with bonus critical and limb damage bonus. I had to use drugs, mostly Med-X, because I play with Project Nevada and everyone is much more fragile compared to vanilla Vegas (I wear Reinforced Combat Armor Mark II and a matching helmet, but I still get my limbs broken regularly). After everyone in The Fort got killed by my hand (including Caesar), I grabbed that quest book related to slave trade, I went back to Red Rock Canyon and completed the quest. Now I only have White Gloves to visit.

Fallout: New Vegas modded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 19, 2017, 02:12:49 am

I took on a buddy mission deviation to intimidate the police chief's brother, in order to make the chief easier to kill. I assessed the situation and plotted out my course. I first though of dashing through the roads in a technical, then diverting my course to an open field to machinegun down those who follow me. I decided it was too dangerous considering my limited ammo and weaponry, and plotted a new course.

Instead, I slept until one in the morning and stole a boat to drive down the river. The darkness allowed me to avoid patrols and outposts. I drove three quarters of the way, getting held up by a choke point with two outposts and machineguns watching the river. I snuck around one side and stabbed one of the gunners, critically wounding him to cause a distraction, before jumping into the river and swimming the rest. I found a bushy alcove to hide in and gather intel on the area. It was multiple structures held up by beams, surrounded by water.

Using the darkness and bushes, I open fired with my bolt action, killing the occupants of a boat, three guards, and one counter-sniper before my enemies panicked and cried out that they were under attack from multiple men. Most ran to safety, behind multiple buildings but a small few shotgunners tried to flank my position. I swam through the river to an advantageous point on the opposite end and climbed up on the structures. My sniping had caused most enemies to go into a place that, from my current point, had no real cover for them to get to. I made the strategic decision to shoot those who tried to flank me, who were furthest away. Hearing my shots, most of the rest of the men repositioned to try to get to cover and were sitting ducks. The few left charged my position and were easily gunned down. I wound up clearing out the whole area with only a scratch.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Far Cry 2. Love how the AI tries to find your last location instead of just borging out on you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 19, 2017, 02:33:21 am

Far Cry 2 has several mechanics which I miss in the later installments.  Guns which begin jamming from overuse (unlike System Shock 2 or Oblivion where you can see their status, and it's just a busywork thing to repair them).  So it's more that you pop out of cover to ambush a group, and your gun starts clicking, and it's a great "aw shit" moment.  (also if you don't hit the reload key, the animation is kinda hilarious as the PC messes with the gun in fruitless frustration, forever)

The entire buddy system- simply amazing, and rather superbly used for storytelling.  Not just the late-game thing, but...  dynamically, if they get too wounded...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, you can still try to heal them.  You can keep trying till the stream runs dry.
Or... Fuck, that's right, you can actually give them the Emperor's Peace, I nearly forgot.  Fuck!!

But the part that maybe qualifies for this thread, in a sick way - the way you can aim to wound enemies, leaving them screaming on the ground.  You can finish them off, particularly with a gruesome knife animation, but if you wait just a little while... their buddies will rush out of cover to save them.  Which is the perfect opportunity to...  the game is fucking dark!!

Also if you wound someone in water, they drown *horribly*.  UGH, WTF

Such a far cry from 3 and 4, really...  Strange.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 19, 2017, 02:51:07 am

Oh, yeah. The sheer amount of tactical decisions you can make in it is what turns it from half-baked, repetitive broken game to half-baked, repetitive broken masterpiece. Will you shoot out the kneecaps of a guard to draw out his friends? Or maybe break their morale with a mortar strike from a boat and sneak up the other side with a silenced SMG? Or will you rig up the perimeter with IEDs and snipe them into your danger zone?

I could go on and on about cool things in the game, especially the AI. But alas, I shall not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 19, 2017, 10:58:01 am

Took down a team of four thieves by headshotting all of them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sniper Versus Thieves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 19, 2017, 01:07:17 pm

Yeah I really hated Far Cry 3 and 4. The story was just bad and the tone was too light compared to 1, Primal, and 2.

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 19, 2017, 02:33:21 am

Far Cry 2 has several mechanics which I miss in the later installments.  Guns which begin jamming from overuse (unlike System Shock 2 or Oblivion where you can see their status, and it's just a busywork thing to repair them).  So it's more that you pop out of cover to ambush a group, and your gun starts clicking, and it's a great "aw shit" moment.  (also if you don't hit the reload key, the animation is kinda hilarious as the PC messes with the gun in fruitless frustration, forever)

The entire buddy system- simply amazing, and rather superbly used for storytelling.  Not just the late-game thing, but...  dynamically, if they get too wounded...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, you can still try to heal them.  You can keep trying till the stream runs dry.
Or... Fuck, that's right, you can actually give them the Emperor's Peace, I nearly forgot.  Fuck!!

All jammed gun animations. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NInYTkAbr1E) And the PC actually does stuff that sort of makes sense, like tapping the magazine. Very impressive. But jamming was never a problem in that game because it's not hard to make pit stops at the armories, where you get free guns at 100% condition, and brand new guns take forever to jam.

The buddy system was great. That and the open-ended nature of every quest in the game really sold the feeling of being a mercenary in a strange and dangerous place.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 19, 2017, 01:16:41 pm

I'm no gun expert, but I those jammed animations look seriously impressive. A nice mix between "proper" clearing procedures and "Imma smack my gun until it starts working".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on August 19, 2017, 02:37:00 pm

Far Cry 2 is one of the few games where I turn the difficulty to maximum. It's been a long time since I played it last though. Honestly, if it wasn't for guns breaking all the time and stealth being way too hard, it would be one of my all-time favorite games.

Stealth almost, but not quite makes it. The AI is great, but I wish they were a tiny bit less alert or something. A way to hide bodies would be nice too.

Guns breaking is a nice touch, but at high difficulty it happens way, way too fast. There are few things worse than finding that MGL you can get near the beginning, only to realize you can only pump 2-3 clips through it before it blows up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 19, 2017, 07:54:43 pm

Wow, thanks for that video!  There was even more detail in those animations than I thought, I usually didn't let them run on long.  Plus being distracted by, well, the people I'd been trying to shoot.
Those flamethrower and crossbow animations in particular, oww...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 19, 2017, 08:59:05 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on August 19, 2017, 02:37:00 pm

Far Cry 2 is one of the few games where I turn the difficulty to maximum. It's been a long time since I played it last though. Honestly, if it wasn't for guns breaking all the time and stealth being way too hard, it would be one of my all-time favorite games.

Stealth almost, but not quite makes it. The AI is great, but I wish they were a tiny bit less alert or something. A way to hide bodies would be nice too.

Guns breaking is a nice touch, but at high difficulty it happens way, way too fast. There are few things worse than finding that MGL you can get near the beginning, only to realize you can only pump 2-3 clips through it before it blows up.

Gun damage rate is the same on all difficulties IMO. You're not supposed to be using enemy weapons as, for massively spoilery reasons I'll explain below, they are always at the final stages of breaking and you're meant to buy them from shops instead, which are drastically more durable.  Also, Hardcore is a better mode to play than Infamous if you're looking for fun, as if I remember right, the game sort of has an hourglass scale in bullet sponges. The first and last difficulty have them supersponged, whereas the middle ones are a bit more realistic. Infamous is good for a whole different style of gameplay where you have to use every single feature in the game to your advantage or else die, due to the massively limited supplies, but the bullet sponging is severe.

Spoiler: MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

The Jackal, the man you sent to kill, is likely intentionally selling broken weapons that have been used in multiple conflicts in order to limit both side's killing capabilities and keep the war running for as long as he needs to achieve his goals. What his goals are, you find out late in the game.

If you look carefully, you can tell that they were trying to do a whole heart of darkness kind of thing, with the Jackal's tapes essentially describing your descent into brutality (especially the tape about making a horrific image of yourself, because, guess what you do at the final reputation status?) just to survive, and your buddies abruptly turning into dicks, but they never got the time to complete it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 20, 2017, 12:02:56 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 19, 2017, 01:07:17 pm

Yeah I really hated Far Cry 3 and 4. The story was just bad and the tone was too light compared to 1, Primal, and 2.

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 19, 2017, 02:33:21 am

Far Cry 2 has several mechanics which I miss in the later installments.  Guns which begin jamming from overuse (unlike System Shock 2 or Oblivion where you can see their status, and it's just a busywork thing to repair them).  So it's more that you pop out of cover to ambush a group, and your gun starts clicking, and it's a great "aw shit" moment.  (also if you don't hit the reload key, the animation is kinda hilarious as the PC messes with the gun in fruitless frustration, forever)

The entire buddy system- simply amazing, and rather superbly used for storytelling.  Not just the late-game thing, but...  dynamically, if they get too wounded...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, you can still try to heal them.  You can keep trying till the stream runs dry.
Or... Fuck, that's right, you can actually give them the Emperor's Peace, I nearly forgot.  Fuck!!

All jammed gun animations. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NInYTkAbr1E) And the PC actually does stuff that sort of makes sense, like tapping the magazine. Very impressive. But jamming was never a problem in that game because it's not hard to make pit stops at the armories, where you get free guns at 100% condition, and brand new guns take forever to jam.

The buddy system was great. That and the open-ended nature of every quest in the game really sold the feeling of being a mercenary in a strange and dangerous place.

The sheer frustration in those animations is great.

ARMA 2 had a slightly different system: you could clear the jam quickly like the well trained soldier man that you are, but.  It was straight random when it would happen, like winning the lottery random no less.  I only saw it happen once in hours of ARMA 2 video.  Of course it happened at the worst possible time; a guy who was part of a two man machinegun team, in the middle of enemy territory ambushing human players at close range.  He survived naturally, basically just ran behind a rock and sputtered at his buddy incoherently trying to explain what was happening.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 20, 2017, 12:45:24 am

Vanilla ArmA 2 did not have gun jams, it's a modded feature, probably from ACE.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on August 20, 2017, 02:49:54 am

For Far Cry 2, the biggest thing I remember was the self-healing-when-low-on-health animations. I remember when I had cramps in three different muscles and I felt like I was dying. The MC of FC2 can rip a stick of rebar out of his torso without so much as a grunt and can reset his limbs as if they were pipe cleaners.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 20, 2017, 03:08:17 am

Managed to defeat a perferator with nothing but my four retrofitted Bastions, a single bomber, and three of my heli gunships. All the guns and missiles reloaded juuuust as it spawned, leading to a massive alpha that took out all it's turrets before they could do much but kill one of my bastions. The amount of resources we got from the fight paid for the repairs as well as the first proper battleship of our own we're rolling out, which spawns two helis when the battle starts.

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 20, 2017, 08:20:28 am

Found more Rad-Aways and Rad-Xs in one vault than I have since starting wandering the Mojave. Also used more Rad-Aways and Rad-Xs since starting wandering the Mojave. The whole place is flooded with radiation.

On the other hand, I found an absolute ton of firepower I might have to make multiple trips to salvage, to the point that the 10mm pistol or submachinegun might well replace my 9mm pistol as my close-range sidearm simply due to the sheer amount of bullets I've found. Also a neat gun that'll come in handy in case the Brotherhood ever piss me off.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout New Vegas. I screwed up one of the dialog options for Veronica's quest, locking her into getting Bonds of Steel(+4 DT, but she has Power Armor now) instead of Causeless Rebel(+30% facepunching speed). Not entirely sure which is even better exactly, but I can't seem to get the console commands to reset that particular choice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on August 20, 2017, 09:31:52 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on August 17, 2017, 01:24:31 pm

Good on you for being traitor and not taking half the crew out of the round.  Kinda lame that those other guys didn't play along tho.

I are slowpoke but I am an admin on Urist and I've been playing for three ish years, so I know the frustration of murderboners. My goal as traitor or antag is always to force people to deal with me. My death is always the goal cuz I've done some serious robusting in my day and I know I can wipe a whole good size crew on my own. Plus I sort of have a reputation as a badass. So it always makes me feel MORE badass to deliberately lose without the other people realizing that is what I am doing.

A badass wins fights, I choose how you defeat me. /Brag

Also I love chaotic rounds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 21, 2017, 08:10:02 am

A certain Great Khan went to use the crapper. Unfortunately for him, the surprise I left in there redefined the term "explosive diarrhea". Frag mines. Not... not diarrhea.


Even better was when I spoke to his second-in-command, who was sitting down to a late lunch with his warriors and a Legion diplomat. After confirming his new role as leader and his support for the NCR, everyone in the room pulled shotguns and shredded the Legion diplomat. I didn't see that coming any more than he did.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout New Vegas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 21, 2017, 01:09:52 pm

With two quick betrothals, a backed plot, and a murder, I managed to take over all of Francia in a single year while also securing all but one vassal to us with a web that should assure nobody outside the empire inherits our land. Barbarians are still being a problem, and most of our money is being spent on upgrading the military buildings in our new areas. We also have a barbarian country under our control, the massive amount of light infantry it puts out is amazing.

Crusader Kings 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on August 21, 2017, 04:54:12 pm

Quote from: StagnantSoul on August 21, 2017, 01:09:52 pm

With two quick betrothals, a backed plot, and a murder, I managed to take over all of Francia in a single year while also securing all but one vassal to us with a web that should assure nobody outside the empire inherits our land. Barbarians are still being a problem, and most of our money is being spent on upgrading the military buildings in our new areas. We also have a barbarian country under our control, the massive amount of light infantry it puts out is amazing.

Crusader Kings 2.

Thou must encourage them to seek independence and then snatch away their lands.  Jewgolds is good for mercs, and if the leader doesnt have the tribal ability to raise religious warriors that helps too.

Those tribal lump sum warriors from prestige and piety are single-units, and will appear on a single flank, so its possible for 3k troops to lose to the 2.5 or 2k troops if spread out under bad leaders.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 21, 2017, 08:31:28 pm

Lanius is hard. I dropped 4 C4s and 9 Frag Mines before the fight, and it took out maybe half his health when he stepped on it.

The rest of his health was taken out by Thump Thump. I hadn't used a single 40mm the entire game, so I had plenty enough ammo to accomplish this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fallout New Vegas, NCR victory. Primm prospers despite NCR taxes, Goodsprings doesn't because NCR taxes. Novac's citizens were apparently decimated defending against the Legion despite no fighting there as far as I could tell. Freeside remained independent despite the rest of the Strip being annexed, and the Followers get booted out of the Mojave region. The NCR retakes the NCRCR from the Powder Gangers, executing any survivors, except the Vault 19 Powder Gangers who go on to butcher any NCR citizens they find. Veronica sits in the library for the rest of her life because I screwed up a dialogue choice(not that any ending for her is particularly happy). The Khans get thrown on a crappy reservation, the Boomers send people out to explore the world while still dropping 20 tons of artillery on anyone who gets close to Nellis AFB.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on August 21, 2017, 08:44:39 pm

SPOT THE DISSOLUTE SCUM
Get the crosses. Now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 21, 2017, 09:02:17 pm

NCRC*F

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 21, 2017, 09:05:43 pm

Independent Vegas ftw surely :o

My most achieved ending. Though John Doman as Caesar means more Legion in future.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 22, 2017, 04:22:12 pm

Live free in the NC!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on August 22, 2017, 05:20:56 pm

What started as a small skirmish passing through Quincy ended with me launching 2 flares and the 12-odd minutemen with Presbro and me at the helm cleared Quincy in a giant raid. United we stand, indeed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FO4 with "We Are the Minutemen" mod installed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 23, 2017, 07:53:03 pm

I'm not sure if this really counts or not but...

Was stuck in the job manager screen, particularly trying to filter a repeating job based on available items. Problem: I've rebound the exit screen key to spacebar, which it was in much older versions, except that the filter type-box is not designed for that, meaning the spacebar works as a spacebar: it inputs spaces. I was unable to exit the screen. I was almost forced to kill the process and exit, costing me a few minutes of work.

Except some random key-hammering got me out of the screen, and I promptly saved.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dwarf Fortress. Said few minutes of work included establishing ore stockpiles and a pretty decent migrant wave... although one is possibly a vampire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 02:16:48 am

Quote from: Akura on August 23, 2017, 07:53:03 pm

I'm not sure if this really counts or not but...

Was stuck in the job manager screen, particularly trying to filter a repeating job based on available items. Problem: I've rebound the exit screen key to spacebar, which it was in much older versions, except that the filter type-box is not designed for that, meaning the spacebar works as a spacebar: it inputs spaces. I was unable to exit the screen. I was almost forced to kill the process and exit, costing me a few minutes of work.

Except some random key-hammering got me out of the screen, and I promptly saved.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dwarf Fortress. Said few minutes of work included establishing ore stockpiles and a pretty decent migrant wave... although one is possibly a vampire.

I'm in utter confusion as to why you made the spacebar the exit screen key, instead of escape. Escape feels so much more natural.

Also, vampies are the best thing you could get in a migrant wave, what are you talking about

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 24, 2017, 04:24:51 am

It's not for me. And I'm pretty sure it was the default in 40d versions, which is what I started with, which is why the spacebar feels more normal for me.

EDIT: Oh, and it wasn't a vampire, she got drunk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 24, 2017, 01:17:37 pm

Hold the phone, since when do dwarves get drunk? That seems more suspicious than not getting drunk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 24, 2017, 01:29:29 pm

Sometimes... drinking your weight in alcohol... is bad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 24, 2017, 04:01:36 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on August 24, 2017, 01:29:29 pm

Sometimes... drinking your weight in alcohol... is bad.

"That's my secret captain...  I'm always drunk."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 24, 2017, 04:22:40 pm

Since latest version at least. That's why the alternate name for taverns is "the swimming pool filled with everyone's vomit that nobody knows how to clean up". Not sure if there's drunk effects(vomit) from normal seasonal-ish drinking, but they do get a moodlet for being inebriated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 24, 2017, 05:00:02 pm

Goddammit Toady, what are you doing? Next you'll make it so that dwarves and elves can fall in love with each other and have children.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 24, 2017, 06:12:47 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 24, 2017, 05:00:02 pm

Goddammit Toady, what are you doing? Next you'll make it so that dwarves and elves can fall in love with each other and have children.

The first bit is already possible, now that other races can immigrate to your fort every now and then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 24, 2017, 06:15:54 pm

Eh, that part was mostly playing into the elf-hatred some folks have (or pretend to have).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 24, 2017, 06:23:35 pm

Wait elves and goblins can fall in love in this version?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 24, 2017, 06:36:27 pm

:3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 07:36:42 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 24, 2017, 06:23:35 pm

Wait elves and goblins can fall in love in this version?

True love transcends versions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on August 24, 2017, 08:02:16 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 07:36:42 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 24, 2017, 06:23:35 pm

Wait elves and goblins can fall in love in this version?

True love hate transcends versions.

The hatred for elves has transcended normal violence. Goblins have weaponized the most powerful weapon they could muster.

Marriage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 24, 2017, 08:03:31 pm

Fackin' gobbos and teee huggers? In a dwarven fort? Back in my day you were happy with nobles - who always mysteriously die off in huge numbers - and legendary animal caretakers, and you loved it.

Get out the foreign invaders! We don't make stuff for elves, or humans, and certainly not for the dirty thieving goblins and kobolds!

Make dwarves great again!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 08:21:35 pm

Build a wall and make the elves pay for it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 24, 2017, 08:22:15 pm

ew

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 24, 2017, 09:15:06 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 08:21:35 pm

Build a wall and make the elves pay for it

Build a giant elf and make all the walls pay for it!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 25, 2017, 04:35:32 am

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on August 24, 2017, 09:15:06 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on August 24, 2017, 08:21:35 pm

Build a wall and make the elves pay for it

Build a giant elf and make all the walls pay for it!

Spoiler: Someone already did that (click to show/hide)

(http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/thumb/6/65/Cacame_colossus.jpg/800px-Cacame_colossus.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on August 25, 2017, 04:56:16 am

*Kneels before Cacame*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 25, 2017, 02:24:59 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 24, 2017, 05:00:02 pm

Goddammit Toady, what are you doing? Next you'll make it so that dwarves and elves can fall in love with each other and have children.

It's funny because that's literally a planned feature. In Threetoe's stories, at least, but probably in the dev notes too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 25, 2017, 02:38:17 pm

Finished the Argwyllon campaign on VH/VH. So that's another race down. Only ones remaining are Bretonnia and Norsca, but I don't own Norsca.

Total War: Warhammer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 25, 2017, 05:45:11 pm

Just assassinated the pope, new pope's my son.

CK2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 25, 2017, 06:47:01 pm

Quote from: StagnantSoul on August 25, 2017, 05:45:11 pm

Just assassinated the pope, new pope's my son.

CK2.

I've never played Crusader Kings 2, but I have feeling that will soon be followed by "was excommunicated by my son the pope".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 25, 2017, 07:07:57 pm

In Medieval Total War 2 I was excommunicated for defending myself against the French. They attacked English soil relentlessly causing massive casualties, and the very first time I left my own borders and took one of their settlements, the Pope flipped the fuck out.

In response, THOMAS THE KILLER, my most skilled assassin, was present but not involved in any way with the assassination of 37 consecutive Popes.

Pope v.38.0 was English.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 25, 2017, 07:36:19 pm

That happens basically every time I play Medieval. No matter how many priests I recruit, no matter how many churches I build, no matter what I do with my bishops, my primary enemy always gains control of the Vatican and uses the Pope's position to make my life a living hell. It quickly becomes unfun.

Which sucks, because I love the rest of Medieval II. Just not the Pope dickery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 25, 2017, 08:29:52 pm

One of my favorite kings I molded in Medieval II was a guy who had the max level of cuckold trait, basically saying that the men who slept with his wife pissed on his shoes.

He also had the highest dread level, was known as the Prince of Darkness, and murdered all the enemies he captured in battle.

Methinks he was projecting his marital woes elsewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on August 25, 2017, 08:37:11 pm

Really? I never really had any problems with the Pope in the playthrough I've done. Never even had to assassinate encourage the retirement one!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 25, 2017, 08:49:08 pm

Darth Vader was in fact my King at the time of THOMAS THE KILLER's extended personal vacation in Italy.

His wife was dead, he had finely crafted armor and weapons, was maxed scarred, maxed out on dread, and "hated rebel scum".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 25, 2017, 11:21:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 25, 2017, 07:36:19 pm

That happens basically every time I play Medieval. No matter how many priests I recruit, no matter how many churches I build, no matter what I do with my bishops, my primary enemy always gains control of the Vatican and uses the Pope's position to make my life a living hell. It quickly becomes unfun.

Which sucks, because I love the rest of Medieval II. Just not the Pope dickery.

You should try the Kingdoms expansion.  Its like the base game but with 4 smaller games worth of content.  You have a 4 way battle for the UK, a Teutonic Knights themed map, the Spanish colonization of Central America (which I assume is grossly ahistorical, don't think a Total War game would represent that well, but it also feels very new for the series), and one of the Crusades.  There's also a fan made LoTR mod, not sure how complete that ended up being tho.  When I tried it years ago they had units down but heroes were incomplete and cities/locations were basically vanilla.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on August 26, 2017, 08:59:48 am

They have custom maps for lore important settlements, although they can be a bit buggy. Development on the Third Age main mod hasn't happened since 2012, but there's a bunch of submods for it that get updated regularly. Probably about half of my playtime in Medieval II has been in that mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 26, 2017, 10:14:35 am

That LOTR mod is called Third Age Mod and is one of the best Total War games out there, hands down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 26, 2017, 11:06:13 am

The Warhammer mod is pretty lit too, of course, no point now with the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 26, 2017, 11:25:00 am

I'll plug Hyrule Total War here, I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 27, 2017, 08:26:23 am

Picked up a leopard-pattern helmet and a rainbow drill from random loot. I be pimpin' while I be minin'.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 27, 2017, 08:45:16 pm

Damn, I read that as "keyboard-pattern" for a mo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TheDarkStar on August 27, 2017, 10:10:50 pm

Life is much better with a working ammo-supply belt for my turrets. Now instead of always having to resupply them (and repairing them when I forget) I can set up a bunch along the perimeter of my factory and watch over radar as they mow down alien after alien.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 28, 2017, 12:17:01 pm

Lasers. You seek lasers.

No Ammo, just energy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on August 28, 2017, 02:10:47 pm

Nope. Guns do better damage (albeit at a shorter range). My walls always have guns nowadays, with fancy circuit limited sparse belts running in a recirculating loop and fed by a (small) dedicated factory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 28, 2017, 02:15:30 pm

Lasers require next to nothing nothing to maintain, especially with nuclear power. In fact I have been able to store enough power for 2-3 sections of my wall to wipe out 3 separate rushes with only 20-30 accumulators.

Also with their upgrades researched they 1-shot anything that comes near them. They do ENOUGH damage and with longer range.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2017, 07:46:01 pm

Threw Obi-wan into the thruster flame of the Millennium Falcon. Then I threw his ghost into a wall, where it landed in a fire. Probably because he was a ghost, the fire didn't hurt him(it hurt me), but my lightning, and especially lightning-covered lightsaber did.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on August 29, 2017, 09:05:57 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 24, 2017, 04:22:40 pm

Since latest version at least. That's why the alternate name for taverns is "the swimming pool filled with everyone's vomit that nobody knows how to clean up". Not sure if there's drunk effects(vomit) from normal seasonal-ish drinking, but they do get a moodlet for being inebriated.

I haven't played in a while, so I haven't seen any effects that are similar to the one you described aside from the massive pile of vomit directly outside the gates which cave-adapted dwarves routinely contribute to as they walk outside.

Also, isn't there a way to command dwarves to clean stuff? I could have sworn there was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 30, 2017, 10:40:26 am

I went to the last industrial level as a changeling. I got the message that the killer robot was attacking. I went to a lab, used the cloning machine to copy my invisibility syringe, and get a total of three.
Then I went outside, putting down a boombox, so the robot' RPG might hit bystanders instead. The robot appeared. I went invisible, shot him with the shotgun until I ran out ammo, then hit him with my sledgehammer till it broke, and I become visible. I ran away, refilled my ammo, got re-invisible twice more, each time shooting the robot first with the shotgun, then my machinegun. Finally, I ran out of invisibility syringes, and the robot killed my host. I ran away, grabbed the first hostable person that came along, then ran around desperately looking for drug dealers carrying useful syringes. I got more hosts killed, had to keep grabbing more. Finally I found another invisibility syringe, and shot the robot more. Finally, I ran out of invisible, and had to carefully avoid the RPG while shooting him. Then I killed him. I killed the robot meant to be run away from. Awesome.

Streets of Rogue

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 30, 2017, 12:50:57 pm

People seem to think I know what they mean when they use abreiviations. What does RE mean?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Xardalas on August 30, 2017, 12:57:41 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 30, 2017, 12:50:57 pm

People seem to think I know what they mean when they use abreiviations. What does RE mean?

Resident Evil

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 30, 2017, 04:01:57 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on August 30, 2017, 12:50:57 pm

People seem to think I know what they mean when they use abreiviations. What does RE mean?

You wouldn't know this but as a best practice I only abbreviate games if they're easy to look up (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=re4).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2017, 04:27:38 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

You're supposed to run from that? I always shoved a tank of liquid nitrogen down its throat and went to town on it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 30, 2017, 04:40:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2017, 04:27:38 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

You're supposed to run from that? I always shoved a tank of liquid nitrogen down its throat and went to town on it.

Pretty sure you have to run at first. The first liquid nitrogen tank is in one of the side rooms, and unless you're using the rocket launcher or a magnum I think you need multiple tanks to actually kill the thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on August 30, 2017, 09:12:36 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on August 28, 2017, 02:10:47 pm

Nope. Guns do better damage (albeit at a shorter range). My walls always have guns nowadays, with fancy circuit limited sparse belts running in a recirculating loop and fed by a (small) dedicated factory.

Guns have better damage true, but that's ignoring the fact that medium and bigger biters have significant armor against physical (read: Gun) damage.
Without any upgrades gun turrets deal 5 damage, and medium biters have 4 physical armor, meaning that they deal a single damage per attack, giving the spitters more then long enough to kill your turrets while they are tied up attacking them for like 5 seconds each at a single damage per attack.
Yes, its true that this is offset by damage upgrades or by using better ammo, but not only do even larger biters have better armor and using piercing ammo costs 3 times as much.

Plus, they use up permanent resources to defend your base. It is true that its a small amount for each wave, but it is still a significant amount over time.
That said, the energy costs (which presuming you use solar panels is the same as initial investment) and initial investment are indeed *way* lower then laser turrets, so its up to you what you want to use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on August 31, 2017, 12:15:37 am

Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2017, 04:27:38 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

You're supposed to run from that? I always shoved a tank of liquid nitrogen down its throat and went to town on it.

He's an optional boss, yes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on August 31, 2017, 12:30:09 am

Wasn't much of an "own", more so of a "tactical use of self sacrifice" that in the end was an own. Was playing Soraka, went slightly tankier than usual due to the enemy jinx getting fed off... Someone  :-[ stepping too far forward twice in the early game. All we had left was my sivir and I, the rest of my team had died as we 2v4'd the rest of jinx's team and she 1v3'd us. Sweepered to clear vision, we weren't under any wards. The jinx came running towards where we were. I said in the chat "wait" and q'd the jinx, then flashed onto her and E'd us both. In the moment she stopped to auto me twice my Sivir only got out her Q and an auto. I was dead. So was, for the first time, Jinx. Sivir alone made it through the inhib turret, inhib, nexus turrets, and nexus, just deleting the enemy as they came. And of course, Sivir got all the honor...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on August 31, 2017, 05:54:20 am

Quote from: lemon10 on August 30, 2017, 09:12:36 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on August 28, 2017, 02:10:47 pm

Nope. Guns do better damage (albeit at a shorter range). My walls always have guns nowadays, with fancy circuit limited sparse belts running in a recirculating loop and fed by a (small) dedicated factory.

Guns have better damage true, but that's ignoring the fact that medium and bigger biters have significant armor against physical (read: Gun) damage.
Without any upgrades gun turrets deal 5 damage, and medium biters have 4 physical armor, meaning that they deal a single damage per attack, giving the spitters more then long enough to kill your turrets while they are tied up attacking them for like 5 seconds each at a single damage per attack.
Yes, its true that this is offset by damage upgrades or by using better ammo, but not only do even larger biters have better armor and using piercing ammo costs 3 times as much.

Plus, they use up permanent resources to defend your base. It is true that its a small amount for each wave, but it is still a significant amount over time.
That said, the energy costs (which presuming you use solar panels is the same as initial investment) and initial investment are indeed *way* lower then laser turrets, so its up to you what you want to use.

10 damage you mean right? 5 base +100% due to turret innate bonus.
10 for normal rounds, 16 for piercing rounds and 48 for DU rounds.
So an unupgraded turret with normal rounds needs to fire 8 times to kill a medium biter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on August 31, 2017, 09:28:30 pm

Quote from: Khan Boyzitbig on August 31, 2017, 05:54:20 am

10 damage you mean right? 5 base +100% due to turret innate bonus.
10 for normal rounds, 16 for piercing rounds and 48 for DU rounds.
So an unupgraded turret with normal rounds needs to fire 8 times to kill a medium biter.

Huh. The wiki says that gun turrets deal double damage per bullet compared to a regular weapon, but it also says that they deal 5 damage per bullet unupgraded (as it says that fully upgraded they deal 4 times as much damage, 19).

I think the reason for that is that they don't have the 100% turret bonus anymore, instead they have a bullet turret damage upgrade which is separate (and stacks with) the regular bullet upgrade. As of playing last week, gun turrets fully unupgraded only deal 5 damage per attack.

Even if they did 10 damage it would take more then 8 to kill a medium biter. Medium biters have 4/10% physical armor, which means they reduce the attack damage by 4 then by 10%. So if the attack would deal 10 damage, it would first become 6, then be reduced to 5.4 damage. That means that you would require 14 attacks to kill a medium biter.

However, as gun turrets unupgraded only actually deal 5 damage that means that each attack deals (5-4)*.9=0.9 damage per attack, which requires you to land 84 attacks to kill them. I can indeed confirm this is is the case, because as I was playing last week and without any damage upgrades my gun turrets were dealing 1 damage per attack against medium biters (so they each required like 5 seconds to kill), and killing everything else in the wave after they were dead in like 3 seconds flat.
Note that a mere 2 upgrades in both bullet and turret damage turns 5->7.2, which effectively triples the damage that medium biters take (up to 2.88 from 0.9), making it much less of an issue.

Now, I do need to say that gun turrets aren't truly obsolete as long as you make sure to keep up with their upgrades and use AP (or depleted uranium) ammo. In fact due to how they have two stacking upgrades, fully upgraded (and using at least AP ammo) they deal more damage then laser turrets even to behemoth biters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gunner-Chan on September 01, 2017, 02:33:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 30, 2017, 04:40:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2017, 04:27:38 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

You're supposed to run from that? I always shoved a tank of liquid nitrogen down its throat and went to town on it.

Pretty sure you have to run at first. The first liquid nitrogen tank is in one of the side rooms, and unless you're using the rocket launcher or a magnum I think you need multiple tanks to actually kill the thing.

It's been a long time since I played RE4, since it never really worked that well for me though I did beat it twice. But... You could skip that boss?

I always froze him and then hit him with the free RPG you got. I always assumed that's what it was for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 01, 2017, 04:06:13 pm

Quote from: Gunner-Chan on September 01, 2017, 02:33:42 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 30, 2017, 04:40:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2017, 04:27:38 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 30, 2017, 12:07:58 pm

Sounds a lot like the Verdugo fight in RE4.

You're supposed to run from that? I always shoved a tank of liquid nitrogen down its throat and went to town on it.

Pretty sure you have to run at first. The first liquid nitrogen tank is in one of the side rooms, and unless you're using the rocket launcher or a magnum I think you need multiple tanks to actually kill the thing.

It's been a long time since I played RE4, since it never really worked that well for me though I did beat it twice. But... You could skip that boss?

I always froze him and then hit him with the free RPG you got. I always assumed that's what it was for.

I always saved that RPG for Ramon "MEESTER KENNADEEEeeee" Salazar. I don't actually know what his whole fight is like because he got rocketed the first time I got a chance to hit him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 01, 2017, 06:17:55 pm

*sigh* Reinstalled. Not too bad for a session. 20/24 K/D against decent players. At least I'm less than 100 kills away from auraxing(1160 total kills) my T5 AMC.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. Reinstalling reset all my graphics and mouse sensitivity settings. Looked a bit more like ass, but ran very smooth. My mouse sensitivity settings, though ...

It also reset my IFF colors, by default its faction colors, but I use blue-friend/red-foe despite being TR, and I use faction colors for bases/consoles. Somehow I'm able to play like that and it was too hard to switch to faction-color players.

EDIT: Last night, I was getting frustrated with the VR Advanced Helicopter: Crash Landing - Autorotation course. Basically, your engine shuts off, and you have to land(not crash) from at least 50m up and 100km/h forward speed. Every time, I can't slow down enough to land, except when I'm still to high up for it to matter.

This morning, I've barely woken up, and manage to clear it and the next one(rotor fails, you have to land while spinning out) in one go. I'm apparently a better helicopter pilot when I'm not really awake.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 3. Didn't even notice the VR thing was there until I looked through the Steam achievements list.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 07, 2017, 09:08:48 am

I guess I have to put this back up front, with this:

(https://i.imgur.com/mwPOGdw.png)

Cuts into a few layers of metal armor, and nothing short of 4m metal beams can survive the top-layer hit. The ship has enough engine power to fully recharge from zero in about 10 seconds, and even getting to zero from a full charge takes a while of continuous fire. Actually, it only uses 1/4th of the total engine power(about 100k), if I had more laser pumps, it'd charge even faster. One shot on one of the SS-Excalibur's smaller turrets hit the outer edge of the armor, punching through it, and making something about 10 blocks behind it explode.

I think using a continuous beam could create a greater damage potential, as it has 544 damage-per-shot(40 per second) and 88.2AP(minimum ~130/shot at zero power). The OW-Bastion was cut in half in seconds. The SS-Excalibur took far longer, as lasers aren't meant to take out big ships outright and one of the Excal's main things is several clusters of sensor-triggered smoke generators under the hull, and waverfront adjusters are garbage. Once those were gone, the laser quickly melted into the main turret housing, causing a huge explosion when the ammo loaders were hit. After that, the engine was quickly holed - the engine is pretty much in the center of the ship.


Oh, and I was planning on using all that destructive power for point-defense lasers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 07, 2017, 02:34:40 pm

Midrange/aggro Hunter at low ranks is sometimes a little like taking an assault rifle into a nerf war. I wasn't running the deck tracker, but I'm pretty sure my winrate was well over 80%.

Hearthstone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 08, 2017, 02:19:00 am

Spoiler: Finding the stuff is only the first test. Now it must be taken home. (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/fdN0zoo.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on September 08, 2017, 02:29:23 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 08, 2017, 02:19:00 am

Spoiler: Finding the stuff is only the first test. Now it must be taken home. (click to show/hide)

-snipped picture of a lot of nicely stacked bottles-

You keep doing the thing where you don't add the game name :P

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King of Dragon Pass

I love being a Peace clan (~'u')~
And I doubly love that a game like this, made around more than a decade ago (18 years .-. just 5 years after I was born...) has quite the lovingly told story, with equality in context [a game which gets the connections right, with detail in minor bits corrected to the chosen protagonist], and that I get the choice to do a lot of things within bounds of reason.
I've exhausted grabbing all those Treasures, and grown my clan so well that all new clans either split from me, or come from outside (90% of new clans split from me though -_-, the option of 'choosing the best' automatically initiates them into the tribe, with an alliance to boot, so that's great), and I'm now either working my way into being the QUEEN/KING of Dragon Pass because the difficulty is in the making and waiting by peacefully uniting the everyone with divine tribal chiefs, strengthened by lore and hero-questing into Reknowned/Heroic stat levels.

Also ducks are my best allies. Yay duck-fighters and slayers of the undead! \o/
Always wanted a game where I could relate more to, as most games are decidedly European or American where I see it, and seeing something synonymous to one that depicts tribal values and other characteristics (given my background in the C.A. region...), it's also something that got me stuck into playing for quite some time. Thanks to the person who gifted me this. :3 _{Yeah Emma, read this.}

The difficulty lies in freedom though, and in knowing the quantity of values to help yourself. Early game--RESOLVE ALL FEUDS with other clans, starting at ~20 goods minimum on the arrival screen, with 0 being brought upon sending the trader, depending on how grumpy you attacked them (and never the other way around--they can hit you as much as you want, and regardless of how many victories you score that way, can achieve peace. I mean you can also start as a War clan and pulverize them until they send delegates for peace, but I'm too much immersed into the cultural characteristics to be mean. :P

I do love how the dwarves are pretty much the MOST lenient, as in you'll have to honestly be intentionally malevolent to get them to kill you, as a total aside and totally not for the steam achievement >_> I regretted it anyway, long before it happened. But on the note of receiving achievements on steam because of getting your clan killed off--it's all easier on hard mode.
<_<
And it's that long-run which makes this game really fun. A lot of flexibility.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 08, 2017, 08:12:59 am

Pretty sure that image is from My Summer Car.  A friend got really into it for a while, I couldn't handle it :P
No idea how Blaze got all those "provisions", but good luck moving them without losing an axle or something!

That's cool that you can be nice in King of Dragon Pass!  I enjoyed GrimithR's LP of it.  Looks cool, but the amount of choice almost seems overwhelming.  Which is a compliment, really.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 08, 2017, 09:43:44 am

Successfully Initiated a goblin swordsman into the fine art of Kisat Nur cave in strike. He was presumably a bit shocked when an unskilled human grabbed at him then jump kicked him fifteen feet across the clearing.

Dwarf fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 08, 2017, 06:08:09 pm

Spoiler: Finally did it! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/7eH4iFj.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/OpHfPV4.png)

1160 total kills with that gun. Now I need a new gun.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 08, 2017, 06:09:40 pm

Honest congratz (:
I especially know from my brother, who was more into Planetside than me, that's no small feat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 09, 2017, 05:16:15 pm

Yes impressive.  Shame you are killing the good guys, but I suppose I can let one or two slide and still congratulate you.   (Live Free in the NC)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 09, 2017, 05:30:51 pm

Quote from: Greiger on September 09, 2017, 05:16:15 pm

but I suppose I can let one or two slide

*cough* 2/3rds of all my kills are NC. (Rebel scum.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 11, 2017, 01:44:59 am

Decided to pick up the Lex on a whim, and it's oddly addictive. Satisfyingly crunchy, and being able to one-tap Corpus is nice as well.

Edit: And a Hawkeye mod. Time for a homebrew scoped pistol I guess!

Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on September 11, 2017, 06:14:37 pm

"Jim, you cant possibly 3v1 those invaders"

"Hold my beer"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guild Wars 2, was doing wvw, killing some yaks when 3 raiders jumped me, 2 wars and a thief,
I was on my scrapper engi. Im a turret build, so i dropped my thumper which knockdowned all 3 who tried to rush me, then chained into a rocket turret for another knockdown, my hammer 5 (stun field) and my elite supply crate. Wiped the squisher thief and war, the other was much tankier. I had to duel him but with a field of turrets i eventually got him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 11, 2017, 07:27:40 pm

Killed 3 out of 4 Magitek Pods in Castrum Abania on my SMN with a RDM as the other DPS. Both sets of pods. It's normal to kill 1-2, and if you don't kill them fast enough they open up and spawn mobs.

Final Fantasy 14

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 12, 2017, 09:45:57 pm

Spoiler: I've gotten pretty far with just my starter terratech design (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/XQMpzAr.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/OVnTfOB.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 12, 2017, 10:18:52 pm

game pls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 13, 2017, 04:44:02 am

They said TerraTech (http://store.steampowered.com/app/285920/TerraTech/).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 13, 2017, 06:17:57 am

it wasn't apparent that that was the name of the game, thank you

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 13, 2017, 06:53:59 am

In Bowtie's defense, Blaze does enjoy not explicitly naming the game and making people figure it out. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on September 13, 2017, 07:20:31 am

i know this >:v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 13, 2017, 07:55:13 am

No, I meant it was unusual that he actually did have it in the post.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 13, 2017, 09:03:09 am

To be fair, I didn't know that was the game name until it was explicitly stated by Akura.  I thought it was some tech level or feature inside the game. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 16, 2017, 12:25:04 am

Spoiler: Facepunch, meet FaceFlamethrower (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/uSgnp7B.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2f9YBgw.jpg)

So, I decided to change my former terratech design, as it got asploded in an earlier battle. However, money was kind of short, so I decided to make a harvester to shore up my income.

I'm really happy with the new Sap-Light, even though it was a non-combat vehicle, it's wiped the floor with enemies I struggled with when using my previous build.

The picture above was from an invasion, a vehicle that was designed by a player and sent to attack another random player online.

1. No guns, just two spinning triple drill heads and four flamethrowers.
2. Powerful shield and repair system.
3. Speed and handling that puts smaller enemies to shame.
4. Portable SCU (the black ball thing) automatically grabs dropped blocks as I drill them off.
5. Powerful rear thruster for charging enemies.
6. Built-in refinery/trader, to automatically collect, refine, and sell resources.
7. Recharges by cutting down trees.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 16, 2017, 11:10:16 am

That sounds like a machine that a Disney villain would build. I am applauding it with gusto.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on September 17, 2017, 01:02:47 am

I built a pretty cool ship/barge in From the Depths. It has four small tribarrel 40mm AA guns mounted on deck, and 120 vertical cell missile launchers down the middle (2, 60-cell launchers).

Top speed is 10m/s... In ship mode.

Hold down "o" for a few seconds and the ship rises up out of the water until its flat bottom is resting on the surface, held up by downward facing props. As the ship rises its main props come out of the water, so you may as well shut them off. As soon as it is up and the main props are off, you can kick on the real main drive, two massive jet engines. Top speed? 145m/s.

Under the centerline of the ship are two hydrofoil pylons, each set to different fixed angles discovered via a great deal of trial and error. These keep the ship level when at top speed, otherwise it would pitch one way or another due to weight imbalances. I tried to autobalance the hydrofoils with a PID, but that worked poorly at best. This thing seems to be more stable if the front and back hydrofoils are set differently, not simply mirroring each other.

There is a nice big bare spot on the deck, right over the engines where I couldn't fit recessed missile cells. I ought to put a cannon turret there, but then I would have to rebalance the hydrofoils... I probably will put something there at some point.

Really, there are only two things I don't like about this ship:
1) It goes really, really fast, but you pay for it in fuel. Lots and lots of fuel.
2) The AI can't use the fancy main drive properly. I ended up removing the naval AI card and just driving it myself if it needs to go somewhere while in play. Luckilly it sits really low in the water and has strong shields, so just letting it sit off to the side and pound stuff with its missiles works just fine (the shields run off RTGs, so the only thing that takes fuel is the main drive).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 17, 2017, 06:36:03 am

Quote from: milo christiansen on September 17, 2017, 01:02:47 am

(2, 60-cell launchers).

You have two 60 block-long missile launchers? How long do those take to reload?

Also, how did you separate shields and engines from using fuel? Shields still take engine power to run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on September 17, 2017, 07:33:59 am

Quote from: Akura on September 17, 2017, 06:36:03 am

Quote from: milo christiansen on September 17, 2017, 01:02:47 am

(2, 60-cell launchers).

You have two 60 block-long missile launchers? How long do those take to reload?

Also, how did you separate shields and engines from using fuel? Shields still take engine power to run.

I seem to recall the option to configure how much of the fuel engine power is available for shields, setting that option to 0% would allow this behaviour. Might even be per engine too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 17, 2017, 08:28:28 am

I built a moat and some magma forges without any deaths.

Df

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Derpy Dev on September 17, 2017, 12:43:03 pm

I made a custom spelunky level that was 20 vampires and a machete for the player.

I won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 17, 2017, 01:21:46 pm

The machete is pretty darn good, at least in the free PC version. It's strong and swings in an arc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Derpy Dev on September 17, 2017, 01:41:37 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 17, 2017, 01:21:46 pm

The machete is pretty darn good, at least in the free PC version. It's strong and swings in an arc.

On the one hand, you're right.

On the other hand, you have to press X like five times to kill one vampire and my finger hurts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on September 17, 2017, 02:02:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 17, 2017, 06:36:03 am

You have two 60 block-long missile launchers? How long do those take to reload?

No, no, 2 sets of launchers, each of which has 60 launch cells. I tried adding some huge missiles in the "blank spot", but they take too long to load...

Quote from: Akura on September 17, 2017, 06:36:03 am

Also, how did you separate shields and engines from using fuel? Shields still take engine power to run.

RTGs and electric engines. Since the only thing that needs engine power is shields and the manuver engines, it only take... Well, lots and lots... I filled in the space between the jets with large RTGs, and barely had enough power for all the shields.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on September 18, 2017, 04:51:15 am

I feel that it might be a bit of a flaw in the mod, but I've found out something that helps drastically in trying to win with the Eldar.

There are two research topics in the Soul Shrine. The first one is an upgrade to Dire Avengers that increases their weapon and grenade throw ranges as well as improving their damage against infantry and grenade recharge rate. vehicles and buildings. The second is a similar upgrade for Dark Reapers that increases their range to gun emplacement levels as well as improving their damage and fire-rate. Both of these go a long way to having a functional defensive line.

It seems odd to have such game changing upgrades, especially for two units that make up the majority of your infantry frontline. Along with this discovery has come a string of victories as I can now actually outrange and outgun things like Imperial Guardsmen and Ork Shootas.

Dawn of War: Soulstorm - Ultimate Apocalypse mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 18, 2017, 05:20:57 am

Eldar are pretty OP if you kite like crazy. Their WHOLE BASE can kite. So. Yeah.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on September 18, 2017, 06:23:22 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 18, 2017, 05:20:57 am

Eldar are pretty OP if you kite like crazy. Their WHOLE BASE can kite. So. Yeah.

The Eldar are very good at kiting. Especially with the mod where you can build webways that work with vehicles. However, some of the things other factions get like multiple titans for Orks, long range artillery for Imperial Guard and flamethrower baneblades, the Eldar infantry and vehicles really can't do too much. Glass cannons are really difficult when your opponent has a giant hammer and it often gets to a point where I can't do anything to overcome the enemy forces.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 18, 2017, 05:40:37 pm

The morning after defeating the Eye of Cthulhu, I'm getting the materials together for the Dryad's house when I get a notification of a goblin army approaching from the east.

Unfortunately, "approaching from the east" meant literally five steps away. I tried to lure them away from the village, but the Guide and Merchant decided to follow. They got quite a few kills themselves, but... Isaac the Merchant, you'll be missed. Connor the Guide...

Spoiler: not so much. (click to show/hide)

You were going to die anyway.

In hindsight, if I had stayed in the village, they probably would have survived. When I was eventually pushed back that way, the Nurse's healing effect was erasing any damage on both the Arms Dealer and herself instantly.

At the end, much cash was picked up. I just hope that it's those two who respawn, since besides the Dryad, there's at least one other NPC I've unlocked but haven't built a house for.

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Terraria. Not really sure if the Rally yo-yo was a good weapon here. It can get good damage if I land it behind them, but not so much in front. I'm hoping it'll be good on the Eater of Worlds. It was pretty effective on the Eye.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 18, 2017, 10:46:33 pm

Spoiler: Fox Two! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gb2kpCX.png)

This is more fun than it has any business being.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 19, 2017, 12:01:43 am

Can you do a barrel roll?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on September 19, 2017, 01:05:42 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 18, 2017, 10:46:33 pm

Spoiler: Fox Two! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gb2kpCX.png)

This is more fun than it has any business being.

What game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on September 19, 2017, 05:39:08 am

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on September 19, 2017, 01:05:42 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 18, 2017, 10:46:33 pm

Spoiler: Fox Two! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gb2kpCX.png)

This is more fun than it has any business being.

What game?

Looks like it might be the same as the last one Blaze posted, which was called Terratech.

I could be wrong, but the art style and UI look identical.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 19, 2017, 04:52:22 pm

Realized an epic fail. Turns out the power ratings of the Pokemon that appear in the stages is based on the average of all Pokemon you own, and I had been sitting on several really weak ones due to nostalgia(including the Pikachu you get at the start, and all those with a special trait). Because of this, the strongest I had was a Pwr-557 Milotic that I got really lucky on getting(it was the stage boss), and nothing else I was catching was coming close.

Dumped pretty much everything I had, and kept dumping the weakest, and now my strongest after a couple of runs is a couple of Pwr-677 Seadra and I'm pretty close to dumping the Milotic. I don't really want to because it has Disarming Voice(Fairy-type shotgun blast) and Rest(healing, which is rare in this game), but it's not really helping much.

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Pokemon Rumble World. A free-to-play dungeon hack-n-slash, that at one point I stopped playing due to not getting anything better than Milotic. My major gripe is that unlike a lot of other F2P downloadables on the 3DS, this game pretty much forces you to pay to progress. Others typically have a daily free drop of some kind. This one does, but it requires internet and social stuff - the latter is the bane of my existence because I have the former.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on September 20, 2017, 03:24:52 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on September 19, 2017, 01:05:42 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 18, 2017, 10:46:33 pm

Spoiler: Fox Two! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gb2kpCX.png)

This is more fun than it has any business being.

What game?

Is it just me, or is Blaze's job here to post a game-related post without saying which game, and then it's guninanrunin's job to ask what game it is?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 20, 2017, 03:30:03 pm

I fucked up. I was designing a goblin drop pit, and got overconfident. I designated several zs at once. Que cave in and two injured miners. The own comes in here. I immediately designed and furnished a hospital, added doctor labors, and dug the injured out.

They are recuperating nicely.

Df

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on September 20, 2017, 06:42:34 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 20, 2017, 03:30:03 pm

I fucked up. I was designing a goblin drop pit, and got overconfident. I designated several zs at once. Que cave in and two injured miners. The own comes in here. I immediately designed and furnished a hospital, added doctor labors, and dug the injured out.

They are recuperating nicely.

Df

Except one of the new unskilled doctors replaced one of the injured dwarf's kidneys with a sock. lol

but yeah, its always a good feeling when the healthcare industry works right and its one of the things you might forget to do when starting a new fort

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on September 20, 2017, 07:27:39 pm

Huh, exact same thing just happened to me. Except I just repurposed some plebs' beds ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 20, 2017, 08:11:01 pm

Duo farmed Garuda, Titan, and Ifrit EX with two DPS classes. Garuda was easiest, and most people told us this was not possible for any of them due to mechanics.

Great fun, many rare drops were had.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 21, 2017, 12:21:35 am

Beat the game without continuing or losing all my souls and even captured the final spellcard to boot. All this on my sixth try playing it. I REALLY like this new game, especially compared to its predecessors. Bullet patterns feel much fairer in general[Although the Extra Stage mooks can go to hell] and the team system is really neat once you get the hang of it. My favourite part, however, is that the final boss doesn't care about your resources at all. They're bomb-immune and drain your souls instead of your lives when you get hit. This means that you can keep playing even after a stupid mistake in Stage 2 and still plausibly be able to win if you do well from there. This is in stark contrast to Evanescant Existence, where the only sure way to defeat the final attack is to chain 5-6 bombs in a row, which essentially requires cheesing the stages and milking certain attacks for as many points[and thus lives] as you can. And especially in contrast to Earthen Miraculous Sword, where I literally could not get past Stage 3 without ragequitting.

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Len'en 3: Reactivate Majestical Imperial

also, this game's title makes me crack up every time i see it
10/10, would mangle again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 21, 2017, 12:29:22 am

Do you like Touhou or Len’en more, overall?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on September 21, 2017, 03:49:23 am

Fought against: The Russians boosted by two ticks, the UK to the north, the French to the west, and the Italians I forgot to fully kill before declaring war on Russia and actually won all three wars.

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Hearts of Iron 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on September 21, 2017, 05:05:21 am

The forces of Chaos suffered a humiliating defeat. With minor assistance from two other Waaaghs!, the Gretchin Revolutionary Committee managed to turn the tide against three traitor legions with a kill to loss ratio of only 7:1. Just under 7000 Grotz died in the making of this victory, they will be remembered as their bodies are scraped from the flattened remnants of Grot Tanks, Killa Kans and where ever else they were thrown during bomb squig explosions.


I decided to play some games using only Gretchin units as the Orks. This means Gretchins (builder units), Grot Boyz, Grot Tankz, Killa Kans, Bomb Squigs (since they're lower on the food chain then gretchins) and various turrets that are manned by gretchins. The only way I was able to hold the line was because Chaos couldn't get over the bridge since it was crammed full of Tankz and Killa Kans.
That kill ratio; I had nearly 7000 dead, the enemy about 1000

Dawn of War: Soulstorm b/w Ultimate Apocalypse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 21, 2017, 07:47:21 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on September 21, 2017, 12:29:22 am

Do you like Touhou or Len’en more, overall?

Definitely Touhou, although I suspect that the gap will narrow more as Jynx gets better at game making. That said, I haven't played the latest Len'en game yet. I more or less skipped Tsurubami and basically all of EMS because of frustration, but I think I'll give the RMI Extra Boss an honest try before moving on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: XhAPPYSLApX on September 21, 2017, 11:18:15 pm

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I jumped off of my horse, went into Arrow Time, and then literally destroyed the very manifestation of hatred and malice with an arrow of pure light.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 22, 2017, 10:37:12 am

Just finished a Very Hard Bretonnia run. With that, it means I've won a very hard (legendary with Greenskins) campaign with every race except Norsca (because I don't have them). Feelin' good.

That said, I don't think I'll play the brets again in a very long time. I just don't like their gameplay.

Total War: WARHAMMER

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 23, 2017, 04:06:16 am

We were defending a VIP trapped in the tunnel networks when advent troopers began pouring in two at a time from above.  My corporal templar heroically held off two waves of troopers on his own, by each turn cutting one down with his psi blades and then using a barrier to parry the other's shot.  It was seriously like a jedi fighting storm troopers.  At the end of it, no one had a scratch and we were up 94 intel, 4 promotions and an engineer.

I check the Templar's promotion screen.  Newly available Xcom skill: reaper.  For one turn, on a cooldown, melee kills grant another action.  I feel like the game is letting me get away with things.

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Xcom 2, legendary

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 23, 2017, 01:32:10 pm

Completed a “Riding Shotgun” challenge, the Bohan Snake, and both “Excess Delivery” Odd Jobs with gold medals.

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown award.

While the game has some bugs and may, on occasion, crash, it’s still pretty fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 23, 2017, 04:43:41 pm

Got lucky at the Tricky Factory and caught the stage boss: Porygon-Z, power rating 938. Bear in mind, less than a week ago the best I could field was a Milotic at 557, which was a very lucky catch itself.

Immediately taught it Tri-Attack, a fairly short-ranged but very wide wave Normal-type ****-strength(which is high) attack that has a chance to paralyze, burn, or freeze any of the enemies it hits. I also kept it with Signal Beam, a Bug-type ****-strength line attack that can confuse. It began murdering its way through several story battles, including hardmode ones.

Also awesome was the Pokemon I caught it with: Mareep that I gave Thunderbolt to. Also awesome was the slightly-stronger Durant I also added to the lineup and gave Iron Head to. Currently, my highest rated Pokemon is Florges, but she's slow and her moves suck and I haven't unlocked much better.

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Pokemon Rumble World. The Move Tutor House is an incredible thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Coolnesstod on September 23, 2017, 08:41:25 pm

Quote from: Teneb on September 22, 2017, 10:37:12 am

Just finished a Very Hard Bretonnia run. With that, it means I've won a very hard (legendary with Greenskins) campaign with every race except Norsca (because I don't have them). Feelin' good.

That said, I don't think I'll play the brets again in a very long time. I just don't like their gameplay.

Total War: WARHAMMER

By any chance do you play with Radious? Cause I'm doing a very hard vamp. run and idk if radious makes it easier or harder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 23, 2017, 09:08:39 pm

Quote from: Coolnesstod on September 23, 2017, 08:41:25 pm

Quote from: Teneb on September 22, 2017, 10:37:12 am

Just finished a Very Hard Bretonnia run. With that, it means I've won a very hard (legendary with Greenskins) campaign with every race except Norsca (because I don't have them). Feelin' good.

That said, I don't think I'll play the brets again in a very long time. I just don't like their gameplay.

Total War: WARHAMMER

By any chance do you play with Radious? Cause I'm doing a very hard vamp. run and idk if radious makes it easier or harder.

No. I don't like Radious. He fucks the game balance on way too many levels. Economy becomes a non-issue and he adds units that not only make no sense, but also breaks the balance. For instance, giving ranged units to vampires, or fast units to dwarfs.

I use Crynsos' framework with a bunch of self-picked mods.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on September 23, 2017, 10:04:28 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on September 21, 2017, 07:47:21 pm

I think I'll give the RMI Extra Boss an honest try before moving on.

Beat the Extra Boss. Honestly wasn't THAT hard. The Extra Stage required a lot of effort to memorize where on the screen the enemies spawned so I could kill them instantly and, when that wasn't practical, when to bomb to clear the ridiculously hard patterns. The boss proper, however, was more or less a pushover until about halfway through the fight. Even then, only the non spells and the final two attacks were really challenging. The final attack in particular required four bombs and a life to clear properly, which is nearly as bad as Clause's final attack from EE.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Len'en 3: Reactivate Majestical Imperial

Also, EX-Sese is a royal pain, especially since she comes right after the Extra boss. I'm not even going to bother trying to beat her too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 24, 2017, 02:23:22 pm

Participated in most of an alert, pushing from East Canyon, to Briggs, to taking Mao Tech Plant from the NC, all while NC and VS were busy scrapping over The Crown. This gave us a 1% lead over the VS. Redeploy-hopped to Tawrich Depot to prevent the VS from forcing a tie, though it was largely unnecessary, we were already retaking it before I got there. Also, not sure if a small outpost would have had the same worth as a Techplant, though everyone assumed it was.

It finished with that nice 5000XP(20 certs) reward at the end. Also managed to get the killing shots on at least 3 MAXes during it.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on September 25, 2017, 09:04:23 am

Scored 11094.

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Google Chrome Dinosaur Game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 25, 2017, 09:08:07 am

At the start of the match, hopped in a plane. Did a few strafing runs, but an enemy plane got behind me and shot my plane to flames. I ejected, somehow surviving the few hundred foot drop with the only damage being from the plane trying to shoot me as I fell. Technically that's a violation of the Geneva Conventions(an ejected pilot from a craft in distress is considered non-combatant), but it probably doesn't count since as soon as I got up, I locked on with my Scalpel launcher(basically a real-life Javelin) and dropped him.

Made it to a friendly outpost for ammo and healing, and ended up surviving the entire match. Might have got the winning kill as well. The closest moment I got to dying was when a tank drove right into the outpost, its commander machinegunning everyone around it. Standing on the resupply crate, I hit it with several Scalpels, which suggests a minimum range penalty - a long-range shot only took two to burn a tank, this took at least four.

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Ravenfield. Battalion match, Dust map, 200 bots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on September 25, 2017, 01:40:40 pm

Ravenfield doesn't have falling damage, which is just a recipe for awesomeness. I have seen bots fall out of a flaming helicopter, then lay waste to all who were around them.
Also, have you found the secret weapons?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 25, 2017, 01:43:08 pm

Found one, the Hydra, through a guide. It's nice, but not really that effective; only 3-4 of the rockets I fired at a tank hit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gunner-Chan on September 27, 2017, 02:21:13 am

I can't uh... TOTALLY Own this one. Since it wasn't really all under my own control. But my final mission was to assassinate someone on a pretty big sovereign ship, and I was going, way, way too fast on the approach because... I'm not sure why. And I just so happened to be in the Foundry brick, which actually damages ships you ram into when you go fast enough. So... I pretty much in a split second before I impacted wrote this attempt off as a fail.

... Then I hit the ship and got the message popped up telling me my mission was complete. ... I accidentally completed what was supposed to be the hardest mission in this characters career by forgetting to turn on the fucking brakes.

Don't drink and pilot a pod everyone.

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Heat signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 27, 2017, 02:35:34 am

Is there a downside to ramming ships in that game?

...also is it good?  It seems right up my alley...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Gunner-Chan on September 27, 2017, 02:45:34 am

Well the foundry brick is something you need to unlock, and then also buy. You can also get it randomly spawning on new lives but that takes a lot of effort. Also you need to do the repairing QTE after a ram or it blows up.

I might not be the best judge if it's good or not, I personally really like it. Maybe look up some gameplay and see what you think? You could also maybe give it a go for an hour or two on steam and if you don't like it refund it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 27, 2017, 03:46:13 am

Well, if your mission is to steal something or take someone off the ship alive, ramming might destroy your objective and cause a mission fail.

Ramming hard enough to cause damage also triggers alarms inside the ship, making it flee to an enemy station. If it was *already* going to an enemy station, it speeds up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on September 27, 2017, 05:52:20 am

I consider ramming a ship and successfully killing your target a complete success, honestly. As far as assassinations go? Plausible deniability. Sorry, i cant fly this thing worth shit, i dont actually have a license!

Uh, in my own successes, i planned and executed a capture of an asteroid that had been on a collision course with kerbin successfully, no mods to help out. I actually did so twice. It was a stupidly simple plan, but whatever.

KSP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 27, 2017, 12:31:34 pm

I got 8th place on the challenge for the day!  My time is listed as 0:00, which I used to think meant a hacker, but it looks like it means the replay hasn't loaded yet.  The challenge was robotic aliens vs psi aliens, I buzzsawed my way through the enemy with the only damage taken being a sectoid shooting an andromedon in the back for 1 damage.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/880875150594881576/E05ACA7404CA9DCBE0FBC762BF8B26014F621B56/)

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Xcom 2 challenge mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 27, 2017, 05:41:05 pm

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(https://i.imgur.com/3OhYOIQ.jpg)
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Hedjaz, Egypt, Serbia, and Liberia are puppets. Sphere includes Poland-Lithuania, Italy, Persia, and Nejd, among others. Allies are Germany (#1) and the UK (#2). The occupation in Russia is a communist revolution that came twenty years late.

In 1836, the Ottoman Empire was failing. 8% of the population was literate. The army couldn't even muster 30 units. Egypt, Tripoli, and Tunis had broken free of their bonds. Although Tripoli, Tunis, and the Levant were restored in a matter of months, the rot at the core of the Empire--its resistance to change in the face of a Western wind--would destroy it if immediate action was not taken.

Soon after, Abdulmejid I ascended to the throne, and although court intrigue stopped his overt attempts to modernize the nation, he cleverly implemented policies that resembled basic improvements to the state of the empire but were in reality the groundwork for future reform. Expansion of the clergy and intellectuals of the nation caused the literacy rate to quickly rise, reaching double digits in a few years and increasing ever more rapidly as the years passed. This, in turn, helped the bureaucracy and intelligentsia to expand, allowing military and industrial modernization to come even more quickly.

Meanwhile, the sultan curried favor with the reactionary wing of the bureaucracy. Knowing that the progressive factions' liberty-focused politics lined up with their economics, he allowed the reactionary wing, who staunchly supported state industry, to set up European-style factories across the Balkans and Anatolia. Railroad technology was shared with them by Western travelers, and railroads were soon laid across every stretch of land where they would fit. The army was reorganized, and though its numbers were still meager, it was much better than their terrible organization of yesteryear.

Years passed and times changed. The sultan informed the reactionaries that they were no longer needed, and dismissed them. They were soon replaced by the liberal faction of the bureaucrats, who called themselves the "Peoples' Union". Putting the factories in the hands of private citizens created much-needed funds for the empire, and the now-apparent modernization of the Ottoman industries allowed them to maintain their status in the eyes of the international community. More land was reclaimed in Egypt, and Arabia and Persia quickly came under the influence of the Empire. The military, too, modernized; although the navy continued to use wooden ships well into the 1880s, it was not long before the army used breech-loaded rifles and studied fortification tactics used in France and Germany. Alliance with the Russians, Scandinavians, and British kept the Ottoman Empire out of potentially brutal international politics and warfare, and any Balkan liberation crises were solved through offers to the Germans and threats to humiliate the French. Though the Empire was forced to cede East Macedonia to the Greeks, it was not long before it was reclaimed.

Eventually, the day came when the Sultan created a parliament, giving landowners the right to vote. More political reforms soon followed; the wealthy were allowed to vote, and eventually voting rights were extended to all. Violence and harassment toward the opposition stopped, although voting districts were constantly redrawn to favor the party in power.

But for some this was not enough. Republican rebels, seeking to overthrow the Sultan outright, occupied the capital, while the military stood around for no reason cutting off lines of communication to stop military intervention. The Ottoman Empire was overthrown, and the Turkish Republic was proclaimed, the Peoples' Union in charge. A flurry of reforms came. No longer were votes weighted based on wealth, voting districts were reworked to end so-called "gerrymandering". The Union's generous citizenship laws allowed all male citizens to vote, be they Turkish, or Kurdish, or Greek, or Slav.

Developments in the military, the navy, and in medicine suddenly opened up a world of possibilities for the Republic of Turkey. Using their North African holdings as a base, they colonized the Sahara Desert, Cameroon, and Ghana. They surrounded the Egyptians with their colonies, preventing outside intervention in their affairs. All of Northeastern Africa came under Turkish rule. Ethiopia was annexed, and most of the Egyptian desert was taken.

In the late 1800s, the Democratic Front and Kurdish Party came to power. They were two socialist parties seeking to satisfy the calls for reform emerging among the lower class. Under them, workplace safety laws were put into place, a national schooling system was created, and a minimum wage was designated. Their state capitalist policies streamlined the nation's industries, closing down underperforming factories, such as obsolete clipper shipyards, wineries in the Arabian desert, and steel refineries hundreds of miles away from the iron and coal mines.

Stability and isolation came for Turkey for the next twenty years. France failed to fight off the North German tide, and the German Empire was formed, annexing Alsace-Lorraine. Austria proclaimed itself Austria-Hungary, and a few congresses and revolutions later, the Republic of Romania was created (taking with it Turkey's puppet states, Wallachia and Moldova.) Grand European wars devastated lands from Moscow to Morbihan. A revolution in Spain installed an anarcho-liberal government; their failure to maintain the nation's roads and talk of recreational artillery bombardment prompted a communist revolution. Egypt modernized itself, and the Turkish Republic declared war again; the peace treaty established the Egyptian government as the head in Sudan and in Giza, which became semi-autonomous regions of the Turkish republic. Serbia, which had maintained its status as a small, independent state for nearly a hundred years, underwent another communist revolution. Their attempt to reappropriate Turkish businesses in the area was met with intervention, and Serbia was made into another of Turkey's semi-autonomous regions. Toward the end of this period, Turkey made a landmark decision and gave women the right to vote. Continued Democratic Front and Kurdish Party dominance caused a domino effect, leading to a series of feminist reforms.

In the early 1930s, however, a crisis began over territory in western Russia. Lands formerly part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, containing Ukranians, Belarussians, and a Lithuanian minority were hotly contested by the citizens, who wished to reestablish the Commonwealth in Russian and German lands. The Turkish government, being wary of the Russian tsar and seeking to create a balance of power in Eastern Europe, quickly took charge of the situation, demanding Russia release the territories. They were soon joined by the German government, who seeked to lessen the strength of the Russians, and by the United Kingdom, who were promised the release of the land of Latvia. The Russians, meanwhile, were backed by the French and Austria-Hungarian governments, staunch Russian allies and egged on by rivalries with Germany and England.

War came, and the Ottoman and German armies spilled over the borders. Newly-developed airplanes and "land-ships", or tanks, destroyed the infantry and cavalry of the French, Austrian, and Russian armies. Within months, Austria was occupied, and the Ukranian and Belarusian heartlands were overrun. France, Austria-Hungary, and Russia were forced to pay huge reparations. The Commonwealth was freed, Italy claimed Lombardia from the Austrians, Latvia became independent, and Germany claimed Tirol, Bohemia, and Moravia from Austria.

The remaining six years have been ones of glory and triumph for the so-called "Three Brothers". Their militaries were rebuilt, and Turkey provided every division with a group of tanks thanks to a post-war economic boom putting plenty of surplus weapons on the market. The Hedjaz underwent a communist revolution, and seized Turkish property; so the Turks annexed the Hedjaz, too, as a semi-autonomous state. In 1936, Turkey stood triumphant, the third-greatest country in the world.

Boasting an unmatched 99% literacy rate, extensive political freedoms in the vein of the United States, a comprehensive welfare state (including unemployment subsidies, government healthcare, and old age pensions,) strenuously-enforced workplace safety and work hour regulations, a world-leading education system, a multiethnic population including people as diverse as Sunni Turks, Orthodox Greeks, Shi'a Iraqi, and pagan Yoruba, and a world-leading economy focusing on lumber, grain, and cotton exports, the Turkish Republic has come out of the Victorian Era as one of the strongest world powers. Istanbul is famous as a center of learning and culture worldwide, and is the home of a number of famous scientists, economists, and "talkie" films. World leaders look up to Turkey as a beacon of strength and modernity, and their politics shape world events.

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Victoria 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 27, 2017, 06:37:32 pm

You should have arbitrarily partitioned the UK just for irony's sake.  Make all of southern Britain one nation and put the Welsh in charge, divide Ireland 6 ways for no reason, that kind of thing.  I'd say do the same for France but it sounds like they stopped existing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on September 27, 2017, 06:50:50 pm

Nah France is still there, they just got WW1 Germany'd. The income from war reparations after that war was so high that I literally stopped taxing poor people for about a year and was still raking in thousands of pounds per month.

That's a beautiful idea though, I should totally do that if I try another Ottoman run. This was the first time I finished an entire game, and my first time trying the Ottomans, as well.

Hmm, how would I do that, though? I think I'd probably try to keep infamy to a minimum, then get opposite the UK (maybe France too) in a Great War. During the war, I'd demand territorial concessions and the release of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, then after the war maybe use console commands to arbitrarily transfer the British concessions to the released nations.

E: Oh, I forgot to mention Liberia! Liberia also had a communist revolution. I puppeted them so I could colonize the tiny stretch of land between them and British Africa; Liberia wasn't allowed to colonize and presumably Britain was out of colonial points.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2017, 04:40:46 pm

Captured Ho-Oh.

This requires a massive amount of luck. First, for the stage that a legendary appears(as the boss of) in, it has to either already be part of the stage set(not sure when that's determined), or you have to get a Fever/Super Fever, a random event that randomly upgrades the stages in a set by one or two stars(0-3, legendaries on 3 stars). Next, you have to get really lucky and stop the stage selection wheel on the stage with the legendary - and from experience the game seems to go out of its way to prevent this. Alternately, you can spend cash-shop currency to select the stage(I did this).

Then, you have to fight your way through the stage, which has disproportionately higher-leveled Pokemon to the point that it would have been fairly difficult had my Starmie not had a good type advantage(it was mostly Fire-types, Starmie has Scald). And last, you have to fight the legendary, a significantly harder battle than most bosses. I had to switch out Starmie, then Roggenrola, and then finally Rhyhorn, all with offensive advantages(both had Smack Down, Rhyhorn also has Thunderbolt). Oh, and the chance to actually capture a defeated boss is extremely low.

Ho-Oh is my first Pokemon with a level over 1000, at 1102. Starmie is 997.

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Pokemon Rumble World.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 29, 2017, 03:05:43 pm

Went an entire fight outnumbered and took no damage. They started with a height advantage and a range advantage, and via pre-fight planning, summoning, and the all-powerful art of CHICKEN TRANSMOGRIFICATION we killed them all with ease.

We did sort of trample a neutral party to death in the process but whatever.

Spoiler: The game (click to show/hide)

Divinity 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 29, 2017, 04:19:46 pm

Added both Palkia and Dialga to the roster. Palkia is the strongest now and its signature attack, Spacial Rend, has an increased chance to inflict the "wobbly" status - taking out a wobbly Pokemon is a guaranteed capture, and appears to apply even to one-shot kills(which most are).

Dialga is actually weaker level-wise to Ho-Oh, and was far more expensive to fight. It knocked out Ho-Oh, and in this game if your active Pokemon is knocked out, you either lose the stage or have to pay diamonds to send in the next one(it reminds you to switch manually at <50%HP). On the other hand, Roar of Time hits everything in a full circle around Dialga, and hits hard.

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Pokemon Rumble World

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on September 29, 2017, 03:05:43 pm

We did sort of trample a neutral party to death in the process but whatever.

Acceptable casualties.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on September 29, 2017, 07:17:47 pm

There were six layers of security doors, two dozen guards, and four turrets between me and my target. The guards and my target were equipped with full reflective shields and a mix of pistols and shotguns. The walk itself was one long spaghetti strand, weaving through doors, across turrets, and through knots of security guards. The six keys to the six layers of security doors were attached to the guards, for which I only had equipped to disable the shields of three, and I still needed to reserve one charge to disable my mark.

I say disable, not kill, because my mission wasn't to get through this nightmare and simply murderize my mark, but to knock them unconscious and take them back to my tiny ship. You know, just carry a body back through whatever hellscape of irate guards and auto-turrets were left behind me. Also, if I was spotted, I would have 64 seconds to complete. There was no running away or backing out of this mission- this was the character's last hurrah, the job they needed to finish before they could retire.

It was an impossible job.

Thankfully I'd packed away gear to let me do the impossible. Three slipstream modules, with a total of thirteen charges, were my aces in the hole. My crashbeam was reserved for taking down the mark's shield. There was simply no way for me to justify using it to take down guards. My plan was stupid and suicidal: get into the slipstream mode, swipe keycards off guards while traveling faster than any human should, and don't get out of slipstream until I'm back on the shuttle.

I docked smooth, popped a module, and went to work. Turns out, slipstream lets you move fast enough to dodge turret blasts with relative ease, to say nothing of guards. I dodged and wove through guards, pickpocketing keycards left and right, slipping through security and dodging clusters of bullets like a goddamn madman. One bullet is easy to dodge in slow-motion slipstream. The mixed fire of half a dozen guards simultaneously shooting with shotgun sprays thrown in is a bit more difficult. Still, it almost went smoothly. I popped the last security door, swapped to a crashbeam, knocked out my mark's shields, swapped to a concussion pistol, lined up my shot, and gunned my mark down.

A stray bullet took me out a split second later. I was bleeding out as they carried me to the airlock, utterly infuriated at having come so close. I had seconds left to live, and not much more time before the ship my mark was on docked at a hostile station and vanished forever. I piloted my shuttle around remotely, and prepared to try and scoop my body up in the remaining five seconds it would live.

I thought I failed. I was sure I arrived a split second too late, but goddamn I made it. I was back in my ship, with twenty-two seconds left on the mission timer. I managed to get a bumpy dock six seconds later, which left me sixteen seconds to traverse all the ground I'd lost, pick up a body, and hike back.

In the slipstream, that's about thirty-two seconds worth of movement. Enough. Barely.

I burned through most of my remaining stock just getting back to my mark and slinging him up. Which was when I discovered I could reenter the slipstream while carrying a body, I had to throw him down whenever I wanted to re-up my implant.  This lead to a merry adventure where I had to throw my mark OUT OF THE WAY OF THE INCOMING WAVES OF BULLETS so I could reapply my slipstream. By the end, I think his head had visited half the bulkheads on the ship.

I made it back to my shuttle with one charge remaining of my 13 slipstream charges, a life expectancy measured in seconds if someone so much as breathed on me funny, but my last job had been done. I could finally feckin' retire.

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Heat Signature, my first personal mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on October 01, 2017, 07:08:08 am

Killed a thrumbo very early in the game. I had to use 2 flashbangs and 4 frag grenades to do some damage to it, then I just kited with my 2 colonists (one had a shotgun, the other one had a rifle) till the thrumbo fell on the ground from the pain/blood loss. I finished it off, then butchered and made a lot of simple meals from its meat.

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Rimworld A17 Modded (Combat Extended is the most notable one)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on October 01, 2017, 07:57:51 am

Decided to do a quick rush through the Emprise Du Lion for materials, using stealth to avoid enemies... Gathered a bunch of metals and a crapton of snufloor skins, then suddenly got onset by wolves. Four of them, to me on my lonesome with just my daggers, heavily underleveled for this place. Used deathmark and some dashes to wipe out one wolf before stealthing again, using the same tactic to kill the other, then dropped Hidden Blades on one followed by a dash behind then some dps, and finally just stabbed the last one to death. This took a lot out of me, and I was nearly dead already, but decided why not go on further and get some silverite off the mine up the way... Three hours later I'm raising the flag of the Inquisition on Suledins Keep, sitting there triumphant, haven done a solo run of the Emprise Du Lion on nightmare with only tier 2 material gear. The whole time I kept changing my abilities based on what I was about to fight, switching between kiting archer to stealth burst rogue to some weird dps machine. Thank god some enemies dropped better weapons for me to use. Imshal was ridiculously hard, and took about a quarter of the time, had to keep death mark-hidden blading then running.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 01, 2017, 11:11:51 am

Made my first SSTO good enough to land on Duna without refuelling at all.

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on October 01, 2017, 09:31:31 pm

Completed my first Mistake mission. It was a simple assassination mission with a pacifist clause and a timer. Only the boss had a gun while the mooks made-do with wrenches. I was equip with a silent quickfire gun, a extreme range sidewinder and an exceptional concussion grenade launcher. Once docked to the ship I had about one minute to kill my target and get away and dodge all the mooks.

Getting to the boss was easier than expected. Got to the first terminal, sidewinded past a guard post then unlocked the second and third terminal and sidewinded to the door next to the target. Once it turns its back to me I enter the room, close the distance, fire my gun and... Plink! the bullet hits an armor.

I haven't realised that the boss was wearing armor. So I bring out the grenade launcher, fire all the grenades, dodge the target's bullet and get at a safe distance before detonating the grenades. While the guards scramble to my position after hearing the explosion, I slit the throat of the officer. Then I run past a guard, sidewind into a corner room with a glass window, shoot it, get spaced and get back to the pod.

Mission Accomplished!

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Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Detros on October 02, 2017, 03:57:03 am

Seeing my opponent has finally got to the northeast island and is capturing towns there with Light cavalry I have sent out my party over the river too: Pikeman, Worker and Light cavalry, all packed in one of freshly built Wagons. They waited for a turn to board Transporter ship, hidden from the view of enemy scouts inside one of my river towns. Next turn, after the other player sent his cavalry further north and captured one of the two last towns, thinking he is safe so far from the frontline, we moved. The ship gets to the other bank of the river, Wagon moves out and stops near those two north towns. My Light cavalry captures the last neutral one, Pikeman, now buffed through several techs from Advancements centre and Blacksmith, one-shots enemy cavalry, Worker captures this enemy town and begins construction of Barracks.

Other enemy units are like two turns far and before they would be able to try to get those two towns back I would have those Barracks ready up there and churning more units from my new towns while moving in other forces with the ship. The other player evaluates the new situation and withdraws. Match won.

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Age of Strategy
(Carrot Cup tournament, round 3, match against the dev of that game )

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 04, 2017, 01:41:14 pm

I've landed a probe on Duna once, and I felt on top of the world (no pun intended).
Today I found out there's a milestone reward for escaping Mun's gravity field.  Maybe someday I'll even escape the surface, but maybe not!  Throwing disposable probes with no hope of recovery is fun.
(Trickier now with the antenna/relay system, but still.  Incidentally, that's why I even tried to recover the probe: the probe's built-in "antenna" can't carry data, apparently.  Why did I attach a parachute to it, if it was throwaway?  Habit, a vestige of optimism, and I think Probodobodynes look sad without their little hat.)

I also booted up DF adventure mode the other day, after years.  Elite elven archer go!  I pincushioned a cougar in its lair, which did.... nothing, so I had to beat the crap out of it with my bow.  Then a rock.  Then bite it.  One-handed and unable to stand, I managed to crawl to a river, where I met several goblins.  I told them the story of a goblin kidnapping an elf.  One of them accused me of playing on his emotions, but a couple others fondly remembered the time I told them the story.  In any case, they let me crawl away.
I managed to crawl *around* the river, and into a human town just before nightfall.  I "felt uneasy" shortly within, and forced to stop traveling.  I think there were some goblins in the street saying vaguely menacing things, so I crawled into someone's house and retired.
I also killed a raven by crawling up and biting its throat, but I couldn't butcher it or the cougar ):
DF is complicated, more by the year!

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(https://i.imgur.com/9bSN0Iq.png)
I'm counting it as an own because...  I bit a cougar to death and survived my wounds

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 05, 2017, 06:43:38 am

Did an audacious no witnesses mission as a character's first mission.  Was partly due to good luck; the character started with long blade + high capacity stealth shield, and the mission was a theft mission where the bosses had shields and the unshielded mooks had the keys.  Still, it wasn't easy, the ship itself was large and there were 5 keys to get to the objective.

The first couple groups I took out by waiting for people to peel off and then taking them out.  But that's when things got dicey: a group with a shield, no way to bypass them, surrounding a turret and with a key that I needed.  And they weren't doing errands anywhere out of sight.  Fortunately, at that point I'd accessed the level's two loot crates: single use long range swap, and quiet automatic concussion rifle.  I swapped places with the shielder, then took the rest out with the gun before they realized what was happening.  From there I had only 21 seconds to cross about a dozen rooms to get to the pilot before the ship docked at a hostile station.

I used 2 stealth shields to get past the next group and pickpocket their key.  From there I sprinted towards the bridge and, with 3 seconds left, hurled my sword into the captain's head.  At that point most of the bosses were panicking so it was just down to shooting and slicing through some mooks to reach the objective.  When I reached it I had no more ammo or shields.  Not wanting to fight my way back to my pod, I jumped out a plate glass window into space and had the pod pick me up.  Fortunately none of the shielded bosses (who were effectively invincible to me) saw my face, so I even got the no witnesses bonus!

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Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 05, 2017, 05:15:31 pm

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(https://i.imgur.com/WTYVZl4.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/8ZBs5K2.png)

Wow, that Terra Tech was big. But when I slammed full speed into it, it collapsed like a stack of bricks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 05, 2017, 07:13:14 pm

It, uh, looks kinda like you did too?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 05, 2017, 07:24:02 pm

I was buried in its parts, I am a melee tech after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on October 05, 2017, 09:41:06 pm

My Hyperion is currently wrecking a Xenon Q and escorts all by itself. Meanwhile, I am floating alltogether too close for comfort, hoping no one decides to pot the idiot in a space suit...

Sadly, the TS I was repairing didn't get away, but that's OK. The 6 M3s and 2 M4s I already repaired are safe.

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X3 Albion Prelude, with an NPC bailing mod.

I hit the motherlode here in Grand Exchange. All kinds of ditched fighters. My ride (the hyperion) keeps running off to blow the crap out of invading Xenon though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on October 05, 2017, 09:59:52 pm

I have seen something similar in Black Hole Sun, where there's a constant stream of intruders from the Xenon stations in the northern sector fighting against the argon military base centered there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 08, 2017, 07:59:26 am

Was falling behind on a mission to take down some pursuing cops, with at 3 or 4 left and getting close to the finish line. Then I placed some C4 on the back of one of the police cars. It went boom and I was greeted with the mission accomplished screen.

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Road Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 08, 2017, 09:51:53 am

How like the Road Rash games of old is that game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 09, 2017, 02:10:01 pm

Won my lvl-60 class quest first try. Class was RDM.

60 and 70 tend to be big set piece fights and can be complicated or difficult. Always feels good to nail it on the first try.

FFXIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 10, 2017, 05:03:08 pm

Spoiler: Victory! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/z1IiQtd.jpg)

Got enough equipment to start logging, that's the first tree I cut down and de-branched. Also, I'm fully equipped to deal with giant vampires now.

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Farming Simulator 2015

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 11, 2017, 12:48:48 am

Finally got enough tech in my new career mode save to start building real spaceplanes. I made a similar SSTO to the one I used to travel to Duna a while back, with the same kinds of engines (4 RAPIER engines, two nuclear engines) but with better aerodynamics, a way cooler appearance, and a better LF/O ratio. I managed to fly it to the Mun, land, take off again, aerobrake in Kerbin, rendezvous with my space station, drop off the data from the Mun landing for research, then de-orbit and land at the KSC. The best part is that because it was an SSTO, the only expense paid for what will become thousands of science points (once the station's research is finished) was the cost of fuel, as opposed to spending thousands of credits on a rocket.

And yeah, I know I said I landed at Duna before, but I didn't have enough fuel to even take off again when I did, so this is actually way better.

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Detros on October 11, 2017, 07:49:09 am

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X
(https://s1.postimg.org/9c9ocgoin3/A4_X_-_Manchester-_A_II.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 11, 2017, 09:33:23 am

Quote from: Detros on October 11, 2017, 07:49:09 am

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X
(https://s1.postimg.org/9c9ocgoin3/A4_X_-_Manchester-_A_II.png)

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on October 11, 2017, 11:21:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 11, 2017, 09:33:23 am

Quote from: Detros on October 11, 2017, 07:49:09 am

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X
(https://s1.postimg.org/9c9ocgoin3/A4_X_-_Manchester-_A_II.png)

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

CMCs are lovely because you have the option of buying up the minerals and send them home without investing in mines or mass drivers by simply checking an option and configuring the free mass driver integrated in the CMC.  It's civilian fuel harvesters that drive me batty since once they fill up, any extra mined fuel disappears into the wealth-based aether.  That means you need to be much more careful about picking up fuel from them on a regular basis with ships.  At least, they did last I checked. 

EDIT:
Oh, and if you're looking for the option to buy up the output of CMCs, it's in the Population and Production Screen where you find other things like Industry and Research, under the "Civilian/Ind Status" tab.  The specific option is a radio button letting you choose between either "Minerals go to Civilian sector" (disappear into the wealth-aether) and "Purchase Mineral Output" (takes from your wealth, gives you the total mining output of the CMC.  If I had the game installed and running here, I could give you a screenshot, but I hope that at least is enough to help identify it. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Detros on October 11, 2017, 11:43:44 am

Quote from: Culise on October 11, 2017, 11:21:31 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 11, 2017, 09:33:23 am

Quote from: Detros on October 11, 2017, 07:49:09 am

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aurora 4X
(https://s1.postimg.org/9c9ocgoin3/A4_X_-_Manchester-_A_II.png)

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

CMCs are lovely because you have the option of buying up the minerals and send them home without investing in mines or mass drivers by simply checking an option and configuring the free mass driver integrated in the CMC.  It's civilian fuel harvesters that drive me batty since once they fill up, any extra mined fuel disappears into the wealth-based aether.  That means you need to be much more careful about picking up fuel from them on a regular basis with ships.  At least, they did last I checked. 

EDIT:
Oh, and if you're looking for the option to buy up the output of CMCs, it's in the Population and Production Screen where you find other things like Industry and Research, under the "Civilian/Ind Status" tab.  The specific option is a radio button letting you choose between either "Minerals go to Civilian sector" (disappear into the wealth-aether) and "Purchase Mineral Output" (takes from your wealth, gives you the total mining output of the CMC.  If I had the game installed and running here, I could give you a screenshot, but I hope that at least is enough to help identify it.

Yes, that's how it works. I am going to just keep buying from here. Note the price depends on the amount of civilian mines, not on the amount of mined types of ore so this is a reaaally cheap source of minerals. In this game I am trying to survive just with mining, Sorium Harvester tech is not even researched so no issues with those (and I am hoping my ally won't give me it. Really great is also that those two ores with the best accessibility here are two you most need: duranium is the basic building material and sorium is the only source of fuel for your ships. But if you want to continue in this discussion, let's move to the proper thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47678).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Azated on October 11, 2017, 03:55:26 pm

I had no idea CMC's had mass drivers. I always shipped a couple when they were established.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2017, 08:39:41 am

No alder or rowan trees to strip bark from? Also nearly all of those animals have fat you can use for tanning, usually just enough to tan the hide.




Made over $100k from logging in one run. Discovered that you have to cut a trunk into logs because both they won't fit on the trailer and because it's worth more money per log(since the whole trunk lacks straightness, resulting in a value penalty). Five trees, and each log was worth $3k-$7k(with a few $10k pieces). By comparison, a full tipper wagon(the 21000l one, not the starter) of grain tends to give between $10k-$20k depending on prices, and prices will tank after that.

I couldn't figure out how to dump the logs off the trailer, so I simply dunked the entire trailer in the mill pond because when the logs touch to water, they disappear and you get the money. I was able to pull it out after.

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Farming Simulator 2015.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on October 12, 2017, 11:38:24 am

Quote from: greatorder on October 12, 2017, 08:14:04 am

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I was about to go all passive aggressive on you until I realised you weren't speaking of the great game known as IRL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2017, 12:37:15 pm

A fallen log will do as a surface for tanning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on October 12, 2017, 02:52:50 pm

The glorious colonial Portuguese empire, personal union of Poland and Naples and Aragon, capavle of fielding 132k men, was ground to standstill by my glorious Brandenburg forces of mere 25k!

I must also thank my vassal-allies, Holstein, Hamburg, Meissen and Silesia, who either helped siege other Polish cities or kept newly-landing Portugal/Aragon invasion forces from landing on the coast before my guard would march there to toss the vile iberians into the sea. Even Bavaria helped, sending war subsidies despite our long-time hatred over religious differences.

After over 11 years of 'War of Hinterpommerian conquest', that part of Pomeranian coast is mine while Portugal also had to accept a humilitating demand for 675 ducats. As they rejected my peace offers earlier despite being much more generous, their stability is at -3 and black rebel stripes are showing up in some of their colonies already.

All in all, this was the longest, hardest, and most glorious war I had. Glory to Brandenburg!

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Europa Universalis 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 12, 2017, 06:00:20 pm

Won a few matches in a row with no effort at all  during my quest (together with a friend) to get level 15 with Cho'Gall. While spouting every ogre pun we could think of in allied chat.

Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 12, 2017, 09:41:27 pm

I got a new, better paying job near my house. I start at the end of the month and i already put my notice in so i get about a week and a half of vacation before then.

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real life

In vidyas, i started playing yakuza 0 again, im well on my way to topping the venus district now, all my girls are billion dollar sales machines.

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yakuza 0, doing majimas main side story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 12, 2017, 09:45:34 pm

Billion dollar? I basically do Kazuma’s business stuff to get pennies. Or will, anyway.

Think I basically spammed the Moon territory once I finished it to get side missions for the platinum girls done, and decided to start trying to get all the gold, silver, and bronze girls maxed out in the process.

It amuses me to see rich people get angry ‘cause the girls are rubbish.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 12, 2017, 10:26:24 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 12, 2017, 09:45:34 pm

Billion dollar? I basically do Kazuma’s business stuff to get pennies. Or will, anyway.

Think I basically spammed the Moon territory once I finished it to get side missions for the platinum girls done, and decided to start trying to get all the gold, silver, and bronze girls maxed out in the process.

It amuses me to see rich people get angry ‘cause the girls are rubbish.

i made so many customers angry cuz i kept throwing the annoying granny at the ones who annoyed me. i also spent soooo much time at the mars level just to work on yuki. plain, cute girl-next-door who doesn't buy into the whole nightlife thing and starts as a shrinking wallflower for you to help blossom into a social butterfly?

i never believed in the concept of waifus until now.

its just a side benefit that majima is now rich enough to buy entire islands

*edit: also that billion dollar sales machine i was talking about was yuki. and oddly enough my other million dollar seller is one of the bronze starting girls you have; wears a yellow suit with giant shoulder pads, ya know, the kind that was popular in the 80s. has elements of comedy and beauty? i think with good talking and partying skills. some nights this chick earns more than yuki

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on October 13, 2017, 08:58:04 am

Finally completed all 50 battles in the Battle Tree, Super Single Battle mode.

God, that was a grueling, and utterly fraught run. It showed me some absolutely bullshit moments, some nailbiters, and that you can't just hyperoffense your way through everything. Post-40 wins the game started handing me some fairly bizarre teams, including three straight ones with trio legendaries.

My team:


Salamence @ Intimidate/Aerilate: Salamencite; Crunch/Dragon Dance/Dragon Claw/Facade; +attack -spatk nature, 252Atk/252Speed/4HP
(https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f3/373Salamence-Mega.png)

Porygon-Z @ Adaptability: Normalium Z; Shadow Ball/Thunderbolt/Recover/(Z) Conversion; +spatk -attack, 252Spatk/252Speed/4def
(https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/24/474Porygon-Z.png)

Aegislash (special based) @Stance Change: Rocky Helmet, sometimes swapped out for Leftovers; King's Shield/Shadow Ball/Flash Cannon/Sacred Sword, 0IV speed, quiet nature (+spatk, -speed), 252Spatk/i don't remember the other distributions.
(https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/a/ad/681Aegislash.png)



The final battle came down to me and Red, with it all coming down to a Z-Conversion Porygon-Z Thunderbolt vs a Lapras on 85%. I'll run through it more in detail in the Pokemon thread.

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Pokemon Sun, for the 3DS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Zangi on October 14, 2017, 06:50:54 pm

Battle Mercy in FFA Deathmatch.

2nd place, 12 kills.  Play of the game, but it was only against a Tracer and a Junkrat.
The bar for play of the game seems pretty low for Mercy, since the top reaper managed to Death Blossom 3 random people.

Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on October 16, 2017, 02:37:03 pm

For some reason the Celts north of Rome thought it wise to attack the 3rd legion. My forces were 4 Triarii 4 Princeps 4 Attack dogs and 1 Velites (spelling may be off) against 4 Celtic slingers 1 Oathsworn 2 Light horse and 13 levy freemen. Not good odds for them anyway but they still attacked, one unit of dogs got 530 kills while the best of my actual soldiers got less than 200. A heroic victory apparently.

Rome II Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on October 16, 2017, 02:49:01 pm

It is 1st January 1800 (https://youtu.be/VeBYqL8nuSw?t=11s)

Starting as humble mercantile Brandenburg, turning into Elector and briefly being HRE Emperor during the traumatic times of Protestantism, transforming and conquering my way to become Prussia in whole of 1600-1700s, meanwhile breaking the hegemonies of Portugal, Sweden, France and Austria, in that order, I completed German Unification after the highly profitable mercantile republic of Lubeck was annexed on the last day of 1799 while Dresden and Thuringen became cores few months prior.

Russia is in Personal Union with us, Polish-Bohemian union was disassembled (with the former being deleted from existence) while Sweden and Castille are our best friends.

Germany, a Constitutional Monarchy of fair warrior-kings and devoted, happy free subjects, race through tech tree as they left the ancient and backwards Holy Roman Empire behind. Such was an impact of this decision that numerous tiny lands in west send spies and diplomatic warnings towards the great Germany while Austria, the alliance-master and protector of Catholic faith himself begs for alliance with Germany.

21 years to go, and I dunno where to go, BUT I WILL BE FUN~!

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 16, 2017, 02:58:44 pm

Learned how to hitch two wagons together, effectively doubling what I can ship. The best choice for this is the second cheapest tipper available - the Kröger Agroliner HKD 302. First of all it's a massive upgrade from the starting tipper wagon(21000l versus 8500l). However, by linking two HKDs together, that 21000l becomes 42000l, at slightly less than the equivalent cost per storage of higher-tier wagons like the Kröger TAW 30 or the Fliegl ASS 298, and the ASS requires a semi-truck or dolly attachment. The real cost reduction comes from maintenance, the HKD has a daily cost of $10($20 for two), while anything with a similar storage capacity has a maintenance cost of at least $40/day.

The hardest part is actually linking them. It's easiest if you park one trailer in front of the other, detatch and drive around to the back of the rear trailer and push until the drawbar hitch is right under the front trailer's rear attach point.

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Farming Simulator 2015

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on October 16, 2017, 03:15:44 pm

I decided to play a bit of Dungeon Siege 3. It isn't nearly as deep as 2, but it is a good source of dumb fun (and the story isn't half bad as such things go).

Anyway, totally ruined the Archon boss near the beginning, which I remember as the first boss that was actually difficult from earlier playthroughs. Anjali's various self healing effects can really add up in a hurry, and Chaos: Vampire rocks as a weapon effect.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 17, 2017, 04:26:02 pm

On my way to "git gud" with The Lost Vikings. Last match, I managed to get one nuke on every viking on Warhead Junction, and then fire them all at once on the enemy core, lowering it straight to 34%.

Heroes of the Storm

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 17, 2017, 04:58:33 pm

i just got dickslapped by a random sniper while killing a captain. this lucky bastard ended up becoming a something something commander (epic). he has the ability to summon shit and his tribe bonus lets him fire automatic double crossbows every once in a while.

what makes it a win is that i hunted the bastard down only to find he was going to be executed by a warchief for getting too uppity and i saved him and recruited him. made him my bodyguard. saved my life already. he pwned that tank a-hole with a point-blank autofire to the face and then a sync kill finisher. then while i was focusing on recovering he summoned additional goons and we ended up 'taking' the local area (you cant just capture random camps but we pretty much did, all the enemy spawns were dead and the area was covered in blue unit indicators)

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shadow of war

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 17, 2017, 10:50:47 pm

Playing the Imperial Guard campaign of Retribution.  One of my four characters is relatively mundane, a mere sergeant with a penchant for not dying.  He can sneak around Catachan-style, but he's basically just a tough dude with a plasma rifle.

Then we found a freakin lascannon.  A tripod-mounted monstrosity as tall as him, with massive blast shield.  This thing is basically an anti-materiel sniper rifle... emplacement.  It's 100% effective against all armor types (most anti-armor weapons are "weak" against infantry- the lascannon cares not).  It takes time to set up, and the fire rate is abysmal, but it's glorious to see it blow chunks off dreadnoughts and tanks.  Even chaos space marines fall to its beams, which generally come from offscreen.  It's wasted on basic infantry, since it targets one at a time, but it's worth it to watch them gib.  I didn't know that was a thing.

I just got an upgrade which lets him skip the lengthy setup process.  Now he doesn't even need to set up ahead of time, he basically swings this emplacement like an assault rifle.  This is like Master Chief carrying around a stationary turret, except he's just some unaugmented human in a vest.  Freakin Catachans.

I can't take much credit for this, but my team *is* owning.
WH40K DoW2 Retribution

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 18, 2017, 04:51:38 am

Merrick isn't even Catachan. He's from the 85th Vendoland, if I remember the regiment number right. He, and presumably his surviving men, were folded into the Cadian regiment led by Lord General Castor.

Spoiler: Of course he's badass. (click to show/hide)

He stood defending Angel Forge from multiple Eldar and Ork attacks, something that gave even Space Marines trouble. Then he landed for what the same Space Marines called an actual suicide mission, and survived. He then spent 10 years on Typhon Primaris - a jungle Death World, probably why he has Catachan-like abilities - where the local population are considered good enough to be Space Marine recruits.

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Threaten his commanding officer, with both a Commissar and an Inquisitor standing right there(you can see Bern holding a gun to Merrick's head in that scene), fight his way through hordes of DAEMONS and xenos of all kinds, battle with a nearly-ascended Daemon Prince, win, and then threaten his CO again.

Too bad I can't find much information on Vendoland. I can only assume that Vendoland Guard regiments have to ferried on ships with more powerful engines simply because of the added mass from their titanic balls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on October 18, 2017, 10:25:41 am

Started out as the queen of Bovaria. Five betrothals, nineteen assassinations, one seduction, and a small war later and my son is now the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire with all of Saxony and the Francias under his belt at the age of twelve without lifting a finger.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 19, 2017, 06:01:05 am

Frog Fractions is a quality edutainment game perfect for young children. 10/10 would play again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 19, 2017, 10:53:31 am

I got ambushed by two full armies of Skaven as Dark Elves with Malekith leading.

He fought at least five units of clanrats by himself for a good ten minutes. Then he kept killing them when they'd rally. He held off one whole flank of their advance for the whole goddamn battle.

Total War Warhammer 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 19, 2017, 02:32:14 pm

Mad king's tower.  Arguably the hardest jumping challenge in the game, tricky jumps, timed jumps, and multiple routes, all while under a very strict time limit. It's only available during the Halloween event.  Last time I did it was nearly 5 years ago, the first year the game was out.

I beat it... on my first try this year.

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 19, 2017, 02:33:39 pm

Being a badass is apparently like riding a bike.

Once you learn, you never forget.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 19, 2017, 06:40:43 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on October 19, 2017, 02:33:39 pm

Being a badass is apparently like riding a bike.

Once you learn, you never forget.

i have got to get this on a t shirt.

the only hard part is finding a suitable image to photoshop that quote over

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 19, 2017, 06:45:18 pm

Chuck Norris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on October 19, 2017, 07:03:56 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 19, 2017, 06:45:18 pm

Chuck Norris

2 minutes in gimp, done.

Spoiler: behold (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ds74J3z.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 19, 2017, 07:07:08 pm

The second or third Mimic I killed dropped a Magic Knife(unmodified). The first reforge made it Broken, the second reforge made it Godly. Much things die now.

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Terraria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 19, 2017, 07:14:09 pm

Captured an entire herd of elephants which are currently being trained as beasts of war.

I've never used war animals before so this should be good.

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How many games are there where you can do that

Also, I can't decide whether to slaughter or export any of them. I feel like they're probably really valuable and they'd definitely yield a shitload of meat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 19, 2017, 07:15:37 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on October 19, 2017, 07:14:09 pm

Captured an entire herd of elephants which are currently being trained as beasts of war.

I've never used war animals before so this should be good.

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How many games are there where you can do that

Also, I can't decide whether to slaughter or export any of them. I feel like they're probably really valuable and they'd definitely yield a shitload of meat.

Sell them off, they autodie of starvation(they literally can't eat fast enough). Unless that bug's been fixed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on October 19, 2017, 07:20:00 pm

It has.

A herd of war elephants... ye gods. It would not be a Boat you murdered. It would be the entire ruddy Ark.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 19, 2017, 07:26:05 pm

Quote from: Ispil on October 19, 2017, 07:18:55 pm

That bug, to my knowledge, has been fixed.

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on October 19, 2017, 07:20:00 pm

It has.

If you do sell or butcher any, keep a breeding pair.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 19, 2017, 07:30:05 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on October 19, 2017, 07:20:00 pm

It has.

A herd of war elephants... ye gods. It would not be a Boat you murdered. It would be the entire ruddy Ark.

Now we need a picture to go with this quote...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 19, 2017, 07:31:18 pm

Using my uber733t hax0ring skillz, I have bent my old 3DS to my will! I have broken it from its built-in prison. I can now do so many nefarious things.
For my first trick, installing a ROMhack of Pokemon Emerald. It works! I now have on-the-go Touhoumon.

Real Life

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 19, 2017, 08:05:07 pm

Nice!  I have an R4 for DS Lite, for SNES emulation.  Doesn't work as well as I expected though, was kinda a waste (I still have an embarrassingly large collection of actual DS/GBA carts).  On the plus side, I can still play Metroid Zero Mission despite that cart dying.

I didn't have to do anything fancy for that, the DS (Lite, at least) just trusts the "cartridge".  I should mess with it some more, though, there's a lot of homebrew software I barely tried.  The SNES emulator for example, but also an e-book reader and web browser...

Of course, those are much easier on my smartphone.  Too easy :P
As is playing Pokemon Silver, heh.  I still haven't beat it, but it's nice to have available all the time, waiting for spare minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 19, 2017, 08:15:28 pm

Quote from: overseer05-15 on October 19, 2017, 07:26:05 pm

Quote from: Ispil on October 19, 2017, 07:18:55 pm

That bug, to my knowledge, has been fixed.

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on October 19, 2017, 07:20:00 pm

It has.

If you do sell or butcher any, keep a breeding pair.

Yep.

I butchered one of the males for like 300 meat, and attempted to sell another to some elves who got pissed because the cage it was in was made of wood.

I missed this game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on October 20, 2017, 07:46:20 am

"Gary, is he trying to sell us an elephant in a wooden cage?"
"I do believe he is. Bastard."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 20, 2017, 08:10:23 am

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on October 20, 2017, 07:46:20 am

"Gary, is he trying to sell us an elephant in a wooden cage?"
"I do believe he is. Bastard."

"And an elephant's big enough that I can't use the old 'fit only for your kind' line."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 20, 2017, 09:55:55 pm

Completed “Aim True, Ye Vengeful” with an S-Rank.

I did this by putting the both targets in a Jeep and driving it out of the mission area, something I didn’t know I was allowed to do before.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 22, 2017, 01:53:42 pm

Realized that what I thought to be a pirate fuel station was in fact the main base of a legendary pirate faction, the Sol Marauders. The fact that it was surrounded by heavy defense platforms should have tipped me off. Luckily I had sent in to full fleets anyway. The rushed in and destroyed the defenses, a reinforcing pirate fleet, and finally the base itself. I had thought I was going to take fairly grievous casualties, around 40%-50% at least. I only lost one(out of 60), and a few others damaged including one losing their hyperdrive.

But that's not what this is about. There was a desert world in the same system as the pirate base I had a colony ship en route to. However, before I had even gotten my ships out of system, a Mortalen colony ship from the Kurramenos Territory jumped the claim. The should not have been able to at all since the system was too far from their territory, but apparently the colony range limit rule only applies to the player and not the AI and that's JUST OKAY! They even had the nerve to complain repeatedly that my ships - specifically the ship with the damaged hyperdrive that was physically unable to leave without repairs - were violating their territory. Seeing this insult as intolerable, I doled out some diplomatic abuse with trade sanctions and some espionage while my fleets got topped up, then declared war.

They started with an empire-wide population of around 20 billion and roughly similar military power. Now they're down to 8 billion, about half their colonies were taken, and their military is(and always was) a joke. I have not lost a single ship. The only major setback was when I dropped a single armor unit onto a very minor colony for an easy take. Seconds later, they revolted, raising up far more troops in rebellion than they did defending themselves. At the same time, one of my troop generals decided to somehow teleport to the planet just to die. The rebellion was thusly successful, but instead of going back to their parent empire, they joined up with one of my closest allies, the Securan Harmony, and is causing significant tensions. Had they gone to their parent empire, I'd have just raked the planet with rail guns until there was nothing left alive on the surface and ate the rep penalty. Instead, I have to hope that it doesn't wreck my relations with the space-whores because the space-whores want 10 million credits for me to peacefully buy the planet.

Despite that, my economy has almost tripled from the new worlds, and several of my fleet admirals(all the xeno ones unfortunately) have become quite skilled.

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Distant Worlds: Universe. Not sure why my ships are wrecking them so hard, despite a small and getting smaller tech disadvantage. I tend to put a lot more armor than they do, and I use railguns a lot despite the fact that my ships' shooting range is smaller than the actual ships' size.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on October 22, 2017, 06:19:27 pm

At the dawn of the 25th century, the galaxy was divided into three great powers.  The first were the xenocidal religious-freaks called the Casmonde Star Hunters who covered just under half the galaxy, of late subjugated beneath the heel of the rapidly-ascendant Kovil Zealots who had reawakened from their long slumber.  The second were the xenocidal metalhead-freaks called the Galactic Kehuk Hierarchy, who had gotten their start through warring with other genocidal powers but rapidly stalled out against their neighbors.  The third were the fair (as long as you're Alani), right-dealing (of course), and ascended synthetic Alani Syndicate, who had in spite of their pacifism expanded through their xenocidal dealings to cover the remaining galaxy, including the ancient remains of what had been a xenophilic fallen empire, and are probably the most pleasant of the lot in that they won't slaughter or consume you, but rather will simply assimilate you into good little Alani.  Needless to say, this is a rather unpleasant galaxy to live in if you're not one of the big three, and of the remainder, a small scattering of half a dozen or so lesser powers of which the largest rests a mere 9 worlds cluster around the galactic core, not large enough to be worth invading in this tripolar diplomatic situation. 

The growing malfunctions among the synthetic and robotic races of the galaxy had finally culminated in the awakening of an ancient evil, the Contingency, who sought to annihilate all life in the galaxy.  In this, their timing was ideal, for they had chosen to emerge in the middle of a war between the Alani and the Kovil.  Their positioning, however, not so much: their first sterilization hub emerged right next to the major Alani fleet logistics hub of Khahre, which was also serving as the staging ground for the Alani invasion of Kovil space immediately after the fleets had left for Kovil space and thus threatened to cut the invasion off at the knees.  The second and third emerged in Casmonde space, at which the Alani were amused.  Unfortunately, karma bit them right on the tuchus as the fourth sterilization hub emerged just two jumps away from their homeworld and first extrasolar colony, and a mere three jumps from the first of two major ringworlds they had constructed.  Their homeworld and the first extrasolar colony both fell to the Contingency threat, and the greatly expanded ringworlds, each of which were equal to eight of the very largest Gaia-class planets and housed the heart of Alani shipbuilding, were now at risk. 

Abroad, the invasion fleets successfully reduced the Kovil capital worlds in a series of invasions and extracted a white peace to free both great powers to handle the Contingency threats in their own worlds.  Returning, the invasion fleets systematically annihilated a major defensive fleet and offensive incursion arm combined over the skies of Khahre, securing the path to the first of four Sterilization Hubs.  While this occurred, dire tidings came from home: the Contingency was dismantling the new bodies of the Alani citizenry and repurposing them for use as Contingency drones, destroying the consciousness of the original inhabitants in the process.  With no time to wait for the main fleet to arrive, the home guard fleet was hastily reinforced by the full manufacturing might of countless trillions of Alani and dispatched to reclaim the homeworld.  Fire ravaged the skies of over the once-proud capital of the Alani Syndicate, Contingency warforms burning in the night as Alani fighter pilots hard-wired into their bombers drove home desperate attacks deep into their hearts.  In the end, the Contingency spear had been shattered, and as Alani troopers landed to galactic acclaim, the fleet moved to reclaim the annihilated colony of Azadrow, where the Contingency had already completed their purge of the local inhabitants, and the second sterilization hub.  With revenge in their hearts, the main Alani warfleet moved out to destroy the first of the two sterilization hubs in Casmonde space. 

The year is now 2426.  Three of the four sterilization hubs have been shattered.  The fourth remains, but the Kovil had forbade the Alani further access to their space, believing their own forces adequate to handle the Contingency threat.  While the Alani quietly scoff at this, as the Kovil have been thoroughly reliant on the emerged Amrocon Defense Protocol to handle the Contingency fleets in their space, they are not yet willing to force the issue.  Rumours also swirl about whether this is even the end.  Alani scientists have confirmed that the sterilization hubs are only repeating the Ghost Signal that continues to disrupt Alani cybernetic processes; the source is still unknown.  Still, the Syndicate is safe and its ancient homeworld continues to survive, even if the government now rules from the ringworld of Shahra.  The Alani fleet reigns supreme in their space, and perhaps only the Galactic Kehuk Hierarchy are a concern: taking advantage of the distraction of the two great powers, they consumed an ancient power that had survived in splendid isolation since the Kovil were young.  The long-term ramifications of this seem unclear as of yet.

...on a side note, I think I may have accidentally made the Kehuk and Casmonde too tough.  Both times I put the Casmonde in as AI, they've snowballed out of control. :P

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Stellaris

EDIT:
Hee.  Soo, not an "own" or a "death" yet, but just in case you didn't think the above was enough of a cliffhanger, the game definitely a knack for timing.  I just declared war on the Casmonde to cut through their space to reach the last Contingency sterilization hub, and no sooner am I stuck in than a "mysterious galactic power surge" arrives.  Read: the Unbidden have just arrived, and the second crisis has just begun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 23, 2017, 04:42:42 pm

Took out a Harasser by dropping an AT mine in its back seat during combat, which stuck to it as it drove away. Remember people, hitchhikers may be live anti-tank explosive devices!

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 23, 2017, 11:43:37 pm

Emergent gameplay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 24, 2017, 04:27:01 am

Finally obtained the Gelatin World Tour achievement!

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Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 26, 2017, 04:27:22 am

Dealt a devastating finishing blow to a certain very difficult bonus boss, as a character with no damage based attributes whatsoever.  First I gave him a status effect where any damage I took was passed on to him.  Then I walked around in the cursed fire we were both standing in for a bit, using adrenalin to keep my turn from ending.  He also hit me with an attack of opportunity, effectively hitting himself.  Then I healed him, which damaged him because cursed fire does that.  Next, I summoned a bloated undead blob that explodes for massive damage.  I supercharged the blob so it does 50% more damage but dies in one turn (not that that really matters).  Its damage is based on my summoning level, which is 15.  For my final preparation, I arrange myself and the blob in a triangle.  At this point he has gone from 8.5k health to 5k health.  If I don't kill him he gets to move.

Then I blow up the blob.

3.7k damage on the boss... and 3.7k more on me.  Insta-dead.  Unless my memory is failing me, that's over 10k damage in a single turn.  On a character who's highest damage attribute is 15 finesse.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity 2, with 2 players each controlling 2 characters.  If you're wondering where my attribute points went, I have 48 spell slots, and 33 constitution.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on October 28, 2017, 04:40:26 am

And the game is completed! That was one of the most fun experiences I had with a video game.

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Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition. I'll see if the sequel is a better game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 28, 2017, 01:40:51 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on October 28, 2017, 04:40:26 am

And the game is completed! That was one of the most fun experiences I had with a video game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition. I'll see if the sequel is a better game.

It is the betterest.

But you don't have invincible armor spells, and a lot of the skills have a special mechanic. It's more balanced.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2017, 04:16:21 pm

Goddamn Rinzler is hard. Rapid attack combos that chip off about a third of my health, and he does this thing where the screen flips upside down. I eventually won by spamming block->Counter Rush, and occasionally dodging away and hoping he didn't interrupt me casting Cura to heal. Even then I still used up all my equipped Potions(he did occasionally interrupt my casting), and took a bit of a risk with the finishing combo for the win.

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Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.

EDIT: Died a few times on a mission to kill a Warchief, the last I needed to kill. This ended up promoting/revealing several captains. One of the deaths was against one captain I already have a long history with: Hûmgrat Flame Monger. As his name suggests, he has a flaming explosive crossbow. And also a bunch of scars from when I stabbed him in the face repeatedly.

I did a few side missions since it had been awhile since I played(the reason for multiple deaths), then came back. I had to let them set off the alarm, then kill 35 of them. I killed about half a dozen of them, including one of the captains I promoted, Pigug Eagle Eye. Then I brought my kills up to 34 after shooting a stack of grog barrels. Shoving one more archer off a rooftop brought out the Warchief: Skoth the Destroyer. I quick look at his weakness revealed he was killable by stealth. So I ran, and lost pursuit. Then as he walking about in the open I dropped on him. Dead. And most of his army fled. Before I left, I found and ledge-stabbed Hûmgrat. As I was leaving, I started to consider taking out one last captain I had promoted trying that mission. Then I shanked some random Uruk and to my surprise, it was that very captain(I forgot his name and he's no longer on the list).

One more captain to track down, Târg Ear-Collector, he was located in the south of the map. Basically blitzed across the area, somehow not being seen, and shanked him from a ledge.

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Hûmgrat still lives.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on November 03, 2017, 03:38:49 pm

Now I know how it is to be Hapsburgs.

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(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/376106343100186634/EU3_3.PNG)

I inherited Hungary, Bohemia AND Burgundy at once. _{I also have 30+ vassals, across from Prussia to Mantua included}

GLORY TO AUSTRIA~

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Europa Universalis 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Ensorceler on November 03, 2017, 07:01:12 pm

Speaking of greatness handed to you on a platter,
I have accidentally destroyed an MMR algorithm. Over the course of four seasons, I have consistently ranked Gold (2000-2500), with no variation whatsoever. My vision got worse recently, and while I waited to get new glasses I only played unranked matches so I wouldn't drag my team down with me while I fell in rank.

This avoidance of ranked play led me to finish  my placement matches late in for season six, when I discover I have jumped 250 points into Platinum (2500-3000). I win five games in a row, then lose five games in a row, leaving me confused about how good other platinum players are. Then the season ends. Season seven just started, and this time I got a 350 point jump into Diamond(3000-3500).
I have no experience at this level of play, but I beat the system if nothing else. Time to git gud, I guess...

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Overwatch, Xbox One

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on November 04, 2017, 02:42:58 am

While I have not completed my placement for this season yet (comp is just so stressful, dosn't anyone play games to unwind anymore), I noticed the same oddity too.  I was just barely at plat last time I did competitive a few seasons ago, pretty much right at 2500, and when I did placement for season 7 I was a solid plat at 2845.

I suspect that blizzard is just lowering the requirements for getting more points in placement to get the more average players to feel they are improving, and get them to play more.  Even my friend made gold in season 7, and he insists on playing with a gamepad on pc.

(Also fairly confident he won't see this, he also likes repeatedly shooting above his target from what I see of his feeds, can't tell when the rest of his team is dead from voice comms when we're on the same team, and thinks he needs to shoot his allies with lucio to heal them.  So yea, not gold material by far.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on November 04, 2017, 03:56:19 am

After over 150 failed runs, in the same run I managed to kill the Dragun for the first time, as well as complete construction of the Bullet to Kill the Past, and take out the Huntress' past. And just in time for the new update in the next couplish months.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Ensorceler on November 04, 2017, 12:26:04 pm

There's still so much game left, too. If you aren't looking anything up, the only thing you might miss completely is that the statue at the beginning of the first floor does something for characters who have a past kill. Check it out if you don't like the d20 guy's hard mode. Can't wait to see what Advanced Gungeons & Draguns looks like, either, hundreds more synergies between items is going to be nuts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on November 05, 2017, 12:38:36 am

I've hit random page on the wiki for hours on end, so I know how much is still out there. It's that same feeling you get when your fort survives the first winter: you feel amazing, elated, you know it's possible to succeed. But there's also so much of the road left to walk, and it only gets harder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 05, 2017, 01:17:20 pm

Playing an evil fighter-mage, with Dorn, Kagain, Viconia, Edwin, and Montaron. Just wiped the bandit camp out with gusto. Tazoks tent deserves special mention. Dorn critkilled the human and Kagain splattered the gnoll in two strikes while Montaron rushed hakt. The rest of us poured magic into the mage. He got held so I had Edwin stab him to death with the dagger of venom.

BGEE

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on November 05, 2017, 05:27:49 pm

Despite my worries, the final reform was passed... with no refusals!!

Spoiler: Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/376858084196352011/EU3_7.PNG)

Austria can into Empire if you're just good enough! 8V

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Europa Universalis 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 06, 2017, 05:39:34 pm

Beat freaking Chernabog(this guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCuL-K39eQ)) with just the tiniest sliver of health left. He summons ghosts that cling to you and drain your health. You can shake them off, but you don't always through them off when you do, and I think I still had one on me when I got close enough to deal the finishing blow.

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Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 07, 2017, 04:52:13 pm

Granted, this was Easy difficulty, but on Easy difficulty your troopers will still die in one hit to enemy fire, even with personal armor on. And often your enemies will get to fire several shots if you leave them out in the open.

The Sectoids stepped up their game, bringing Cyberdisks into play.

None of my soldiers were killed.

None of the civillians were killed.

None of my soldiers got shot even once.

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XCOM: UFO Defense with Openxcom active. I had the Shotgun mod installed, and had equipped a few of my soldiers with shotguns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on November 08, 2017, 01:41:31 am

At the start of the game (4000BC) the first civilization that I had met besides myself was Polynesia, and they effectively became partners with me pretty much instantly. They were also the only other civ on my relatively small continent, so all of my trade was with them until I was able to trade by ocean. By the time the Medieval era had rolled around, the Ottomans to the west of us had gone full retard and were attempting to annex Polynesian cities. Naturally, they asked me for help with this situation, seeing as the gunpowder units used by them were much more advanced than either of our militaries. We would have stood a chance together, but unfortunately I ended up doing all the work and getting all my samurai killed trying to liberate their city while Kahehameha sat back and did nothing. After a failed attempt, a rebuilding of my army and the invention of muskets, I made a second push and liberated Insert Name Of Random Polynesian City Here, returning it to its rightful owner before Suleiman's troops managed to even arrive to defend it. I was about to raze another Ottoman-owned city with my remaining guys just for effect when they negotiated a peace treaty which favored me. Figuring they learned their lesson, I accepted it, and that was the end of it until a couple hundred years later during the modern era.

By this time, the Ottomans were no longer going full retard, I had expanded and had mamaged to amass great wealth and build up a standing army, which was very powerful despite being not as technologically advanced as those of many other civs. Suddenly, one fateful turn, Isabella of Spain attempted to inform me that Polynesia was plotting against me and/or organizing a sneak attack against me. I disregarded this, believing it to be Fake News as my relationship with them had remained good for the entire game. Eventually, though, it turned out to be correct. Kamehameha made some condescending comment along the lines of "I WAS ONLY PRETENDING TO LIKE YOU BECAUSE I FELT SORRY FOR YOU, BAKA" and pouring a fucking massive number of infantry, artillery and bombers into my borders with no warning. I spent almost all of my gold on fighters planes in an effort to defend myself from the bombers, and hoped that the dakka of my ground troops was sufficient to defend the homeland from everything else, and somehow it was, with me managing to destroy nearly all of Polynesia's forces while only sustaining damage to the area surrounding one of my cities. This left Polynesia's military in a hilariously weak state, with essentially no units left to defend their own cities from retaliation. I gave them essentially the same treatment that I had intended to give Suleiman, easily managing to capturing and razing two of their closest cities before ending the war.

And now I need to find someone new to trade with since I don't trust these guys anymore. I probably should have known they were insane when they banned salt worldwide, long before Spain said anything.

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Civ 5, playing as Japan

How much of a fucking douchebag do you have to be to fake friendship for 6000 years?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on November 08, 2017, 10:19:40 am

Started a new game of Classic Ironman on XCOM Enemy Within. I swear I've got some kind of crack shot sniper. He landed 2 45% shots during the starting mission and got promoted to sniper. Since then he's landed almost every single shot that he's taken that was less than 50%. He's missed once so far. No scopes, no random promotions in accuracy or anything, pure default stats. He's some kind of bloodthirsty alien killing miracle worker.

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XCOM Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 08, 2017, 11:31:15 am

Finally sat down to learn starpoint gemini warlords. Grinded a bit, took down a frigate with my starter gunship. Protip: vanguard class gets ram and it ignores shields.

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starpoint gemini warlord

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 08, 2017, 02:26:41 pm

First time playing, bought it because it's 75% off on Steam. Small random map, 1v1, early age. Somehow ended up as a giant, naked, pregnant woman. Conquered 2/3rds of the land on the map, including one(of three) thrones. One other throne is at the bottom of a province-sized lake, the other is deep in my opponent's territory. I discover that I'm completely cut off from my opponent by rivers. Checking through the units I could build, I found two that had flight and thus could cross rivers: Windriders and some dudes who looked like Birdman cosplayers.


As I'm building my flying army, I get a message that I won. Apparently more and more people started to worship the giant, naked, pregnant woman to the point that the other guy ceased to be. Whatever floats boats I guess.

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Dominions 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on November 08, 2017, 08:45:31 pm

https://gfycat.com/FelineWhoppingInchworm

League of Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 08, 2017, 09:31:35 pm

Is that game actually still worth playing?

All the same though, pretty badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 09, 2017, 01:00:41 am

Quote from: Akura on November 08, 2017, 02:26:41 pm

First time playing, bought it because it's 75% off on Steam. Small random map, 1v1, early age. Somehow ended up as a giant, naked, pregnant woman. Conquered 2/3rds of the land on the map, including one(of three) thrones. One other throne is at the bottom of a province-sized lake, the other is deep in my opponent's territory. I discover that I'm completely cut off from my opponent by rivers. Checking through the units I could build, I found two that had flight and thus could cross rivers: Windriders and some dudes who looked like Birdman cosplayers.


As I'm building my flying army, I get a message that I won. Apparently more and more people started to worship the giant, naked, pregnant woman to the point that the other guy ceased to be. Whatever floats boats I guess.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dominions 4.

"somehow"

Akura confirmed, wants to be trampled to death by a giant naked pregnant lady.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2017, 05:30:37 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 09, 2017, 01:00:41 am

Quote from: Akura on November 08, 2017, 02:26:41 pm

First time playing, bought it because it's 75% off on Steam. Small random map, 1v1, early age. Somehow ended up as a giant, naked, pregnant woman. Conquered 2/3rds of the land on the map, including one(of three) thrones. One other throne is at the bottom of a province-sized lake, the other is deep in my opponent's territory. I discover that I'm completely cut off from my opponent by rivers. Checking through the units I could build, I found two that had flight and thus could cross rivers: Windriders and some dudes who looked like Birdman cosplayers.


As I'm building my flying army, I get a message that I won. Apparently more and more people started to worship the giant, naked, pregnant woman to the point that the other guy ceased to be. Whatever floats boats I guess.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dominions 4.

"somehow"

Akura confirmed, wants to be trampled to death by a giant naked pregnant lady.

Whatever floats boats I guess.

Actually that was the default one it picked for that nation. Didn't really understand the interface yet so I just left it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BlackHeartKabal on November 09, 2017, 06:03:56 am

Quote from: AzyWng on November 08, 2017, 09:31:35 pm

Is that game actually still worth playing?

All the same though, pretty badass.

I think it's fun, community is rough sometimes as always, but it just got a big update towards new player accessibility. Up to you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 09, 2017, 02:58:12 pm

I purged the all aliens as a Fanatic Purifier. No species left but my own.

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on November 09, 2017, 03:58:30 pm

Spoiler: The Final Day of the Empire (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/6uh5fnQ.png)

The Muscovy has been fragmented and split into Novgorod. The once united behemoth that was Scandinavia now has lost its Sweden and Norway-Iceland. The erstwhile ally Great Britain has collapsed into rebelling colonies and several islander duchies. The muslim super-state of Persia was shattered in three. Portuguese and Flanders colonies taken or liberated.

In the turbulent 19th century filled with wars, rebellions and revolutionary movements, only the Holy Roman Empire, controlled by Hapsburg dynasty forever, stands strong.

Long live the Kaiser!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EU3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on November 09, 2017, 04:22:45 pm

500 years and no one's bothered to explore the ocean off the coast of greenland.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 10, 2017, 01:47:17 pm

Hit the uninstall button.

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Watch_Dogs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 10, 2017, 02:18:20 pm

Dude, that sounds like a real challenge. Congrats on your awesome victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 10, 2017, 02:50:00 pm

Obviously you have never played Watch Dogs, else you would realise the ease with which to convince yourself that uninstalling the game is much more fun than playing through it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 10, 2017, 02:55:51 pm

My friend had already beat the game when I swooped in to play it on his xbox, but I spent many hours slowly turning [insert forgettable protagonist's name here] in to the world's most infamous psychopath and rampage cop killer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on November 10, 2017, 03:39:07 pm

I have, and I found the game to be rather fun. So there. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 10, 2017, 03:40:55 pm

Eh, the multiplayer stuff was alright, just a bit easy to cheese if you had a fast car and the anti-materiel rifle as a defender.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 10, 2017, 05:19:04 pm

The entirety of the time I played (which was past the very first handholding segment) I kept wondering if Aiden Pearce didn't just need a glass of water really badly.

My frame rate was pretty poor on my laptop (granted, it is a pretty shit laptop for gaming), so I kept crashing into walls.

At the very beginning of the gameplay, you get a prompt to press "F" to perform a takedown. I chose to wait, and after what I believe was from a quarter to a half of a minute, my character performed the takedown anyway.

I was too used to Metal Gear Solid V's "Reflex Mode" mechanic and wound up failing the tutorial several times because I tried to take down a guard from the front. Hooray for failing the moment you get spotted!

The game seems to have auto-aim that remains active even if you switch it to "minimal" in the settings. Thanks for your patronizing behavior, Ubisoft - I can put a bullet in a head without a computer program forcing my character's aim.

The phone calls and other facts you found from scanning other civilians were rather interesting, at least.

The AR games weren't all that fun. Didn't try the parkour, but the shoot aliens one was just aim at a portal and hold down the fire button. Not helped by the irritating auto-aim.

The only Digital Trip I tried was "Alone", which tries to be stealth but screws it up by having new enemies spawn in barely thirty meters in front of you, facing your direction, in the middle of an open street. Also, enemies detect you if you're sprinting, even though the game claims it's based off Line of Sight.

Combat was neither Metal Gear Solid V quality nor Saints Row 2 quality. It wasn't much of anything I enjoyed at all.

The cover stealth mechanic is irritating, I'll write more on this shit later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 11, 2017, 02:27:16 am

Quote from: Haspen on November 09, 2017, 03:58:30 pm

Spoiler: The Final Day of the Empire (click to show/hide)

[AWESOME non VANIllA GRAPHICS]

The Muscovy has been fragmented and split into Novgorod. The once united behemoth that was Scandinavia now has lost its Sweden and Norway-Iceland. The erstwhile ally Great Britain has collapsed into rebelling colonies and several islander duchies. The muslim super-state of Persia was shattered in three. Portuguese and Flanders colonies taken or liberated.

In the turbulent 19th century filled with wars, rebellions and revolutionary movements, only the Holy Roman Empire, controlled by Hapsburg dynasty forever, stands strong.

Long live the Kaiser!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EU3

Ok, where did you get them awesome graphics (and otherwise) :O I've been DYING to find some good EU3 Mods, but those usually for In Nomine (like Terra Nova -_-) are either really bad in writing what goes where to avoid crashes upon game start, or hard to even find the right, latest updated mod version on a good mod site -.-

Quote from: Criptfeind on November 09, 2017, 04:22:45 pm

500 years and no one's bothered to explore the ocean off the coast of greenland.

The Empire ate Portugal and all the things west, I bet? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on November 11, 2017, 05:26:04 am

Quote from: Tiruin on November 11, 2017, 02:27:16 am

Quote from: Haspen on November 09, 2017, 03:58:30 pm

Spoiler: The Final Day of the Empire (click to show/hide)

[AWESOME non VANIllA GRAPHICS]

The Muscovy has been fragmented and split into Novgorod. The once united behemoth that was Scandinavia now has lost its Sweden and Norway-Iceland. The erstwhile ally Great Britain has collapsed into rebelling colonies and several islander duchies. The muslim super-state of Persia was shattered in three. Portuguese and Flanders colonies taken or liberated.

In the turbulent 19th century filled with wars, rebellions and revolutionary movements, only the Holy Roman Empire, controlled by Hapsburg dynasty forever, stands strong.

Long live the Kaiser!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EU3

Ok, where did you get them awesome graphics (and otherwise) :O I've been DYING to find some good EU3 Mods, but those usually for In Nomine (like Terra Nova -_-) are either really bad in writing what goes where to avoid crashes upon game start, or hard to even find the right, latest updated mod version on a good mod site -.-

Quote from: Criptfeind on November 09, 2017, 04:22:45 pm

500 years and no one's bothered to explore the ocean off the coast of greenland.

The Empire ate Portugal and all the things west, I bet? :P

Tiruin this is basic graphics for Divine Wind, I don't use any graphical mods v;

As for west, no: Louisiana and Canada control most of US mainland, USA is republican dictatorship hugging Manhattan, and Mexico stretches from US West Coast to, well, Mexico, where Minamoto, Zapotec, Venezuela and Haiti are jumbled all together. South America is dominated by Hansa, Flanders, Paraguay and La Plata. Only Alaska and Hudson Bay is european - cuz I inherited them from Spain and Oldenburg respectively ;v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 11, 2017, 06:31:44 am

Fished up a dinosaur egg. Now I can make farming dinosaurs a reality. There's no way that this can go wrong.

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Stardew Valley.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 11, 2017, 09:51:26 am

Remember: spare no expense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 11, 2017, 11:14:08 pm

Botmatch, but got the match-winning round by defusing the bomb with less than a second left.

Unrelated, but it seems that you can shift grenades in the air after you throw them. I threw a frag down an alleyway, only for it to curve left midair at the same velocity I was strafing left to avoid fire from the guys I threw the grenade at, causing it to hit the wall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CS:GO.

EDIT: Switched up to Competitive mode(still botmatch) on Overpass. Terrorists were beating us pretty hard(9-6), then the teams switched. Whatever the issue was that was causing my bot-allies to be drooling morons while the enemy were bullet-sponging hackbots that consistently oneshot me across most the map's length with an AK through a helmet seems to be specifically scripted for the CT's and Terrorists respectively. We won every single round as Terrorists.

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CS:GO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 12, 2017, 06:18:29 pm

I crushed the Tsar, saw him driven before me, and heard the lamentations of his women!

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Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 12, 2017, 06:24:31 pm

Quote from: Tawa on November 12, 2017, 06:18:29 pm

I crushed the Tsar, saw him driven before me, and heard the lamentations of his women!

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Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

And you didn't get shot in the head by a random bandit when you were just starting out?

I'm impressed!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: kingawsume on November 12, 2017, 08:15:52 pm

Haven't really had anymore badassery in my DnD campaign since this:


The party, led by a dragonborn fighter that also functioned as a living tank, a dwarven fighter (who was such for story purposes, my player), a DM-controlled kobold, and an elven wizard, arrives in the capital city, and heads toward the royal palace. We are joined at this time by an elven rogue. After a while of peace talks (the campaign was to make peace with two soon-to-be-warring kingdoms, stirred up by a cult), the leader of the cult brakes through the window of the chamber. On a hypogriff. After the rogue sneak attacks the beast, combat rolls around for a few turns.After wounding the beast near-fatally, the leader takes off with it. The dragonborn clings on to it, and makes a strength saving throw every turn. For five turns. And stabs it while clinging on. The wizard runs out, takes out his bow, and takes a potshot. And crits. For full damage.


It dies.

We could be heard for miles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on November 12, 2017, 08:30:23 pm

Oneshot a winged twilight with an imperial broadsword. It also broke in that hit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Morrowind

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on November 12, 2017, 11:08:22 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on November 12, 2017, 06:24:31 pm

Quote from: Tawa on November 12, 2017, 06:18:29 pm

I crushed the Tsar, saw him driven before me, and heard the lamentations of his women!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

And you didn't get shot in the head by a random bandit when you were just starting out?

I'm impressed!

A good tip for any Mount & Blade game is that if you approach while moving a little bit to the side, nobody can shoot you except by accident. The only way the AI knows how to shoot at someone is directly at them, so if you strafe a tiny bit they'll regularly miss.

Also, cover is extremely important in low-number WF&S battles. If brigands or rebels corner you early on, find a wide tree to hide behind and pretend you're playing Gears of War. Same deal with bandit attacks in towns. Don't engage non-looter bandits without some sort of armed escort. You can afford mercenaries for cheap if you run gunpowder from towns to fortresses. And no matter what, always have a gun or a bow. Even a bent pistol can save your life.

Also also don't play on Realistic in WF&S. I love it, but it has a lot more BS than regular Mount & Blade (e.g. when you get captured, all our weapons are always confiscated; lords have insanely huge parties, and I've seen regular vassals pushing 200 men; retreating kills way more men, has seriously crushing morale penalties, and pisses off a lot of companions.) Don't let a stray shot ruin your life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on November 14, 2017, 10:55:02 am

Almost have my character up to max level, and this has got to be one of the most fun (And easy) ironman runs. So, in the early game, you're meant to take a few recon contracts, maybe smuggle a few tons of firearms for the right bidder, and take a weaksauce mercenary contract if you're feeling lucky. Then you upgrade your ships, build up a fleet, and gradually become something- after getting your ass kicked and starting from nothing a couple times do to asshole hyperspace raiders.

This run didn't go like that.

I was picking through battle debris, looking to picking up some salvage to sell back on the market in order to finance a survey expedition, when I started finding Templar relics. The Templar are basically the end game faction, with absurdly tough ships, amazing guns, and more special abilities than you can shake a stick at. Being able to grab a little bit of their tech for free would be an extraordinary boon, and so I ended up coming the debris field for anything useful at all.

Which is when I started finding ships. A frigate and a light destroyer later, I thought I was set. With a bit of spit and polish they'd let me punch way above my weight class and massively accelerate my plans to get a real capital ships.

That's when I found the derelict Crusader Heavy Cruiser. It's the kind of ship that, alone, can end your game. It has ridiculous health, armor, and protective systems. I didn't have enough crew in my entire salvage fleet to actually fly the damn thing, but I was able to basically drag it back to an abandoned space station, store it away, and prepare. It would take half a million credits to repair the battle damage, and another quarter of a million to get it actually combat ready. So began the quest to spend a ridiculous amount of money in order to eventually own one of the best ships in the game.

Long story short, after a few good surveys, a couple decent bounties, and three hundred tons of smuggled lobster later, the Crusader was in my fleet. I started crushing bounty contracts, obliterating all who stood before me. It was glorious.

The only near miss was when a bounty contract said the enemy captain piloted an Onslaught (A heavy but slow capital with massive armor reserves and powerful frontal weaponry), which was true and well within my known ability to kill. Just maneuver behind and rip its engines off with sustained fire. What the bounty failed to mention was that the enemy captain's second was piloting a Paragon, and was exactly as skilled as the primary captain. For clarity, the Paragon is the best ship in the vanilla game, and not something I'd ever fought before.

It took a helluva a lot of maneuvering, the sacrifice of a number of crew members and the entirety of my portside armor to tank a plasma cannon barrage, but I prevailed.

After the battle, the the Paragon came available for salvage.

This is a blessed run.

EDIT: Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 14, 2017, 12:26:10 pm

What game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on November 14, 2017, 12:28:44 pm

Whoops. Starsector.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on November 14, 2017, 12:38:24 pm

Don't you mean "Paladin Heavy Cruiser"?. Crusaders are the defensive destroyer class, though "defensive" doesn't mean much with how ridiculous Templar weapons are.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 14, 2017, 01:15:19 pm

Quote from: Draignean on November 14, 2017, 10:55:02 am

The only near miss was when a bounty contract said the enemy captain piloted an Onslaught (A heavy but slow capital with massive armor reserves and powerful frontal weaponry), which was true and well within my known ability to kill. Just maneuver behind and rip its engines off with sustained fire. What the bounty failed to mention was that the enemy captain's second was piloting a Paragon, and was exactly as skilled as the primary captain. For clarity, the Paragon is the best ship in the vanilla game, and not something I'd ever fought before.

That's hilarious.  Guess they thought no one would take the contract if they were honest about it.

For the reference of anyone who doesn't play the game, a Paragon takes a little less than half of your max fleet capacity.  There is a scripted scenario that requires you to fight an entire full-capacity fleet with nothing but a single Paragon and no other advantages.  Its... really something else.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on November 14, 2017, 01:27:49 pm

Quote from: Blaze on November 14, 2017, 12:38:24 pm

Don't you mean "Paladin Heavy Cruiser"?. Crusaders are the defensive destroyer class, though "defensive" doesn't mean much with how ridiculous Templar weapons are.

Whoops, I do. I confused its class with the destroyer I recovered that typically acts as his support buddy.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 14, 2017, 01:15:19 pm

Quote from: Draignean on November 14, 2017, 10:55:02 am

The only near miss was when a bounty contract said the enemy captain piloted an Onslaught (A heavy but slow capital with massive armor reserves and powerful frontal weaponry), which was true and well within my known ability to kill. Just maneuver behind and rip its engines off with sustained fire. What the bounty failed to mention was that the enemy captain's second was piloting a Paragon, and was exactly as skilled as the primary captain. For clarity, the Paragon is the best ship in the vanilla game, and not something I'd ever fought before.

That's hilarious.  Guess they thought no one would take the contract if they were honest about it.

For the reference of anyone who doesn't play the game, a Paragon takes a little less than half of your max fleet capacity.  There is a scripted scenario that requires you to fight an entire full-capacity fleet with nothing but a single Paragon and no other advantages.  Its... really something else.

EDIT: Yeah, and I actually briefly had both the Onslaught and the Paragon operational on the same screen. I spent so much time hiding behind the Onslaught it's not even funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on November 14, 2017, 01:59:21 pm

What genre is Starsector? Sounds like some space 4x.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 14, 2017, 02:19:48 pm

2d top-down spacegame. You command one or more ships and go around the galaxy making money by trading and fighting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 14, 2017, 05:35:46 pm

Some grinding up about 10-15 levels, including creating and raising an Escarglow for Second Chance(which saves you with 1HP), and Xehanort wasn't so tough. Died only once, to the bullshit whip-cage move that has no warning before it hits and bypasses Second Chance since it's a multi-hit.

Also died only once to

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Armored Ventus Nightmare

because the final part is some gimmick challenge with no instructions.

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Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 15, 2017, 04:25:08 pm

Punched the Uber-Ethereal to death.

This is actually my first win in XCOM:EW. The greatest obstacle is not difficulty, but length. Still, made it through and got to end it in a very absurd way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 16, 2017, 06:24:49 pm

A few months after Hitler decided to start the party early and invade Poland, FDR wins an over 40%(out of four choices) vote. Researching Antibiotics a few years before the real-life introduction, completing less than a week before the election, probably bumped up the polls a bit.

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Supreme Ruler Ultimate. US 1936 start, this is as far I've gotten into it so far. Hitler attacked Poland a few game months in, while Britain and France did nothing. Possibly the trigger for that occurs in 1939. Meanwhile, I've figured out how to "safely" build up cassus belli with a nation over time, by spending funds on supporting the opposition to their government. At over 70% belli against Nicaragua now(they have 50-60 something% towards us), going to perform some military practice soon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on November 18, 2017, 09:44:10 pm

Launched a mission to the mun to collect some data from orbit. First stage went off okay, solid rocket boosters did their job fine. Second stage did a cartwheel before leveling out but had no further trouble pushing itself into orbit and its payload 7/8s of the way into a mun encounter. Final engine stage started off without a hitch. Then i remembered I didnt have solar panels yet so i had to rely on the batteries and the alternator in the engine. The batteries didnt last the full trip to the periapsis burn qnd i had to try three times to get a burn that would correct my terrible planning, allow me to collect that scientific data, swing around the mun and back towards kerbin with only 387 m/s dv to spare, and on a near-circular orbit which would result in another mun encounter, and collision, in 3/4 of an orbit around kerbin. So i finally coerced that into an aerobraking capture at around 50km up in the atmosphere, that was the best i could do. So we coasted in and entered the atmosphere...

And then the fun began. I thought having a heat shield at both ends of the craft was sufficient, but turns out they didnt adequately cover the materials bay in the middle of the ship. It overheated and exploded before i knew what was going on.

So now the ship is cut in half, with the cockpit flying off ahead and the passenger module pagging behind. I deployed the chutes on the cockpit module, but the passenger module had no electrical batteries attached. Its spinning out of control and i have no way to deploy the chutes. Since this is in atmosphere decelerating at a hundred m/s^2, it would be suicide to try to do an EVA to deploy them. All i can fucking do is pray. And apparently the kraken had mercy because both the command module and passenger module escaped the atmosphere again before making a final descent. The command module would take half an hour to swing hack around, but the passenger module got a mere 2 minutes or something above the atmosphere. I quickly deployed jeb to deploy the chutes, and stowed him away again. Then round two began. There was still no way to control the craft at all, but thankfully this time its spin was fairly benign, and the passenger cabin was dragging behind the heat shield. No further explosions, but everything was red and the heat indicator bars were terrifyingly close to the cap. And then it slowed enough to begin to cool off. And then the chutes deployed. It landed safely and both jeb and bill survived the trip. Since the passenger module contained most of my collected data, i got that sweet, sweet science.

Then i just had to land the command module. I had bill repack the chutes just in case something went wrong and redid the staging order to ensure it would deploy on command. Then round three began. And as the command module plummeted into the atmosphere at 3km/s, i was rudely reminded that bill is a scientist, not a pilot, and shouldnt have even been in the cockpit when i was attempting reentry in the first place. So he couldnt stabilize the module on his own. So im sitting there tapping buttons to correct its spin while trying to spin it just enough to keep the tiny .625m heat shield in the way of the majority of the heat. It was just wobbling back and forth endlessly, and i swear that heat bar came within a pixel of 100% capacity multiple times, but amazingly it survived! I deployed the chutes and coasted safely to a splashdown in the middle of the ocean. With the service bay containing the experiments intact on the bottom of the command module! More science! And no deaths!

So i spent that science on some control tech and the first tier solar panels, as well as some new engines and fuel. Now its bed time.

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kerbal space program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 18, 2017, 11:39:46 pm

Technically I died in the end, but I’m counting it as an own.

I join a public game - The Diamond on (I think) Overkill, and I spawn in with Hitman and a trio of sub machine guns.

Near the very end of the heist, someone Leeroy Jenkins into the room containing the diamond, triggering the gas trap in that room. In the ensuing chaos, three of my teammates go down and get put in custody, but I’m able to slip out and start an epic shootout where at least two dozers get shot down.

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PAYDAY 2.

Sadly, the host was not impressed by this display and left the room.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on November 19, 2017, 02:38:01 am

I brought a stack of early-game Lizardmen to a fight, got ambushed by Lord Skrolks personal asshole stack AND a Tier V City plus Tier V Wall's garrison.


1.5k troops, mostly Saurus Warriors with Shields, against things like Stormvermin and Warp-Lightning Cannons, 5k of them.


I came out of it with less than 200 troops left.


How is this "How did you last own?" I hear you ask?


They came out with the same.

I effectively broke two endgame stacks with one early-game stack.


Total War Warhammer 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on November 19, 2017, 05:40:48 am

Got my first gold medal in the Arcade Mode.

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DOOM 2016

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 19, 2017, 08:18:14 pm

Building some semi-realistic ships lately, based on lengths and widths of actual real-life(mostly WWII-era) ships. Also adding spaces for (imaginary) crew.

Latest design is a 90-something meter(1 block=1 meter) frigate. Crew space is 140 bunks, plus a CO's cabin behind the bridge, and the galley located below crew quarters. Power is provided by a fuel/electric hybrid: the fuel engine provides 2600-2700 engines of power(at 100% it gives about 140ppf due to turbocharger setup), the electric motors give over 12k power. I haven't added the guns or shields yet(it's a base design for future models), and much of the ship still floods from the open gun-housings, but it still kicks up to around 17 knots(1m/s is just under 2 knots; for comparison, the 93.8m-long Lock-class frigate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch-class_frigate) goes 20 knots).

Really looking forward to seeing this ship armed and put into battle.

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From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 20, 2017, 11:23:21 pm

I suplex'd a train.

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Final Fantasy 6, still the best.  Though 4 and 5 are underrated.

The hard part was going through all these hard drives.  I remembered them by having to move them and, wow.  Some good memories.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 21, 2017, 02:11:30 pm

Killed four Ultramarines with a ludicrous amount of AK47 ammo.

ACWA/OFP WH40K mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 21, 2017, 02:37:11 pm

what is the riddle of steel?

no idea but im working on the flesh portion of the riddle, as i've finally got my little base set up around a small oasis in the middle of the map and i'm now trying to break thralls to man the wall and guard my treasures and maybe find a strong high level one as a follower.

the steel portion is quite a bit away tho, only just started making iron shit.

the will part, well, im enjoying the game and want to see my pimped out hideaway be manned by hot warrior chicks.

what is best in life?

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conan exiles

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2017, 02:51:53 pm

I think a kickass base manned by warrior chicks is pretty near the top.

Also, how is that game now I heard about bugs and stuff, are they adding conan-esque magic and the like?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 21, 2017, 03:08:13 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2017, 02:51:53 pm

I think a kickass base manned by warrior chicks is pretty near the top.

Also, how is that game now I heard about bugs and stuff, are they adding conan-esque magic and the like?

there's some early access shenanigans, sometimes some constructions might not save correctly (i had a foundation set for a future wheel of pain location have a corner block disappear but i was having a weird issue where it wasn't setting correctly until i built a little around it so it might have been that), some animation jerkyness (not a whole lot surprisingly), and rhinos will ruin your shit with their multihit horn slash (animals can't damage buildings thankfully).

but the devs are active, the game has fairly regular updates or at the least, dev blog posts, and the game is quite enjoyable in singleplayer or small private servers. some of the larger ones suffer from griefing but that's not limited to conan exiles alone tho.

as for magic, i know it's somewhat in the game as a pvp ender (literally you can summon a avatar of your deity who is extremely strong and will wreck shit) but since im just playing around on single player, i haven't tried it.

i would recommend the game if you can get it on sale

*also be forewarned it has full frontal male and female nudity (it is optional tho)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2017, 03:18:25 pm

So you can turn that nudity off? I'm not prudish about it but I have a young kid, you see. That's a good option.

I'm probably gonna pick it up on sale, then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 21, 2017, 03:25:41 pm

yeah its pretty fun, but its like minecraft fun: you gotta make the fun yourself if you play it singleplayer. im currently grinding materials to finish my base (this is pretty grindy, if you weren't into that with minecraft/any other survival game). eventually it's supposed to have blood moon style base attacks where you get attacked by monsters but that ain't in yet. and the thrall system is supposed to get expanded into a city life system, but also, that's not fully in yet either.

right now, its like making a pretty cool home base, manning it with npcs, getting up to good level gear, and then exploring, as there are alot of ruins and underground caverns filled with corruption and monsters that will kick your ass if you don't use iron/steel level stuff. at least you can have a thrall companion now, which is what im working towards.

also since im on the topic of combat; the game is pretty violent. srsly i was on a friends server a few versions ago and he got his legs ripped off by a gator. holy shit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 21, 2017, 03:29:50 pm

That's rad as hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 22, 2017, 10:06:59 pm

Completed two bundles I'd never thought I'd complete early - the Crab Pot bundle and the entire Vault(which costs 42,500g). It is only Fall 26, 1st Year.

Of the Crab Pot Bundle, only one(Shrimp) actually required use of a Crab Pot. And the reward for the Crab Pot Bundle is... more Crab Pots.

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Stardew Valley. Other moments include reaching the bottom of the mine, and saving a Prism Shard for that thing in the desert. All I need for the Fish Tank is a Sturgeon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 22, 2017, 10:17:06 pm

Nice!  I think I got everything *except* the fishing-
Wait, you completed the vault in the first year??
I haven't done a second, more optimal, playthrough yet... but that seems like a lot of dosh.  Nice indeed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 23, 2017, 07:24:23 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 22, 2017, 10:17:06 pm

Nice!  I think I got everything *except* the fishing-
Wait, you completed the vault in the first year??
I haven't done a second, more optimal, playthrough yet... but that seems like a lot of dosh.  Nice indeed.

Not entirely sure how I got the cash for the vault. Probably because I managed to put up around 200 tiles of crops during Summer and Fall. This included 15 tiles for blueberries(best per-day profit of Summer crops, makes good jelly) and 30 tiles of quality-fertilized pumpkins. Watering all that left me with about 40% energy by the time I was done at noon.

It's not as though I've held off upgrading tools(except hoe) and buildings. I've upgraded the house - not sure if I want to marry Abigail(because it's Abigail) or Penny(she's sweet and a little relatable to me) - and built a coop with two chickens.

Maybe it was the fishing that helped, which I ignored almost completely last time I played. I'm pretty good at getting maximum distance casts and looked up all the best spots, as both highly increase the chance of silver- and gold-quality fish and highly reduce the chance of trash items.


EDIT: Got the Sturgeon. That was a hard fish to catch, though by far not the hardest that can be caught. All that's left now are the Animal and Artisan Bundles and the Bulletin Board. The Board is going to take a while...


EDIT2: Beat Armstrong in one try. Holy crap, didn't expect that, since I'd been abusing a heavily(later fully) upgraded Pincer the entire game. It only took me three of the health recovery things. Pretty much blazed through around 100% of his health(he has 200% by the way) when I stunlocked him out of his healing stance twice in a row.

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Metal Gear: Rising: Revengance, normal difficulty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 25, 2017, 11:33:39 pm

I kicked a piggy and danced wiv a kitty. ^_^

Also got a couple of 5 combos. And got drunk at a college gymnasium, I guess that counts as an own.

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Conga Master

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on November 25, 2017, 11:49:57 pm

Was just walking around, accidentally hit my ult, decided to fire one off for no reason, killed a stealthed enemy as they were leaving without even knowing they were there. Skillz.

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Playing Jhin on League of Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 26, 2017, 01:38:04 am

Quote from: StagnantSoul on November 25, 2017, 11:49:57 pm

Was just walking around, accidentally hit my ult, decided to fire one off for no reason, killed a stealthed enemy as they were leaving without even knowing they were there. Skillz.

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Playing Jhin on League of Legends.

"User has been banned for hacking."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 26, 2017, 04:35:55 pm

i birthed a new all materia

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final fantasy 7, on pc

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 26, 2017, 05:41:09 pm

Somehow managed to not die horribly in the tutorial for landing on a carrier deck.

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War Thunder. Did screw up the first half of the tutorial, dive bombing, though.

EDIT: First battle ever. Scored a kill before I died. Looking at the AAR, it turned out that was the first kill of the battle. Respawned in a new tank, came under extreme fire, but got a kill, managed to repair, and pushed forward with allies until the victory message, then got another kill before the game ended.

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War Thunder.

Quote from: JimboM12 on November 26, 2017, 04:35:55 pm

i birthed a new all materia

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final fantasy 7, on pc

Sell the one you mastered - you'll have gil for everything for the rest of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 26, 2017, 08:21:50 pm

Rogue Effect
A Mass Effect Roguelike :3
Linkie here (http://dowhilecompiling.blogspot.com/p/rogue-effect.html), has disclaimer as not affliated with EA or otherwise.

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The game is HARD, it is easy to die, and the 'enter' key expands the help sections in the manual. Also Atlas'es one-shot smash you in melee, and are hard as a tank to bring down.

This game starts you out with the six classes of Mass Effect--from the Adept to the Infiltrator, with 2 unlockable races per class, with the human being the baseline. You have 11 floors to clear and finish until game end, with 3, 6, and 10, being 'mission' floors, having a second objective that you should accomplish or lose the game. You have 2 of every consumable item, which is replenished every mission you finish (so you have a maximum of 5 if you used nothing).  Each class has around 5 powers to level and increase its potential, much like a bar graph of a tech tree, that you can choose where to increase or not. Playing as an Infiltrator (my favorite ever since I played ME2 as a start), I found durable cloaks being the BEST to escape anything while sniper'ing or otherwise my way out, and that the Cryo Blast is utterly useless--you only get a maximum of 2 weapons to carry out of the 5+ weapon types however. Weapons can be classified in effectiveness by its 'outline' or trim, with silver/gold being a common reward, and N7 being seemingly a mission-only reward (or on higher levels), and each floor until the last has at least 2 modifications OR a weapon being its special reward.

How this got own'd, even if I died on the last bloody floor (because of overconfidence and using my one-shot-kill-anything missiles on the last floor, forgetting that the mission-floors are 3, 6, and 10, rather than 3, 6, and 9), is because I got N7 weapons on both first two mission floors--thanks first of all to the infiltration cloak; the faster you finish a mission, the better the loot, and if it is better early on, the better your survival chances. The Tactical Cloak allows you to slip away invisibly from anything, and all enemies act as if you're in one location since last spotted (so you'll encounter a lot of suppressing fire, even if you're ducking past a corner), and for a roguelike it looks pretty well done. As I unlocked all classes other than the one requiring 50 tech kills (Quarians/Salarians be best, personally, alongside the Drell Assassins, even if the Asari have boosted powers because of their biotics, but Krogans have the most HP/Shields :D and I've no idea why Turians are like a mix of human/krogan stats, and cannot dodge)

Anyway, having gotten the N7 M-90 Indra on Mission 3, and the M-358 Talon on Mission 6, accuracy is the best stat as it allows long range kills to be done. Modifying a scope on weapons like these is needed (+accuracy), with the rest being up to personal playstyle (I picked additional ammunition, after getting 75 kills on the sniper rifle [for more exp, until I found out it is overall better than...the sniper rifle somehow, alongside it having higher accuracy]). The fun with the tactical cloak is its low cooldown and high 'durability' (# of turns active), that I can vanish and ambush all the time.

I just wish I wasn't overconfident as the last missions are swarming with Atlases, and they are like facing tanks as a WWII soldier. But all in all, I love having scored a personal highscore with this one human infiltrator.

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Rogue Effect: See above.

Sadly there is no 'hall of heroes' or other screens to see your previous characters, but winning with the one in this picture should've been my good thing \o/ You can, however, take screenshots and the game saves it without you needing to.
I should have done that other than presenting the starting screen shown below.

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(https://i.imgur.com/30EX6pM.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on November 26, 2017, 09:26:57 pm

Aw man... too bad it's only mission oriented. I feel like the Mass Effect setting would do well as an open world RL. Massive universe. Feats of incredible daring. Insane combat. And your all alone in it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 26, 2017, 09:38:32 pm

Drove around the corner to hit an enemy tank. Had too little time to aim, but shot into their turret, crew dead. I turn left- oh shit he has a friend- snap-shot, through the turret, dead. I turn left, then right onto another street- another one, shit- one more, through the turret, dead.

Although I didn't survive much longer than that(ran into at least three more at once), killed three tanks in about 15 seconds, and I think I got an assist on one of the ones that killed me.

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War Thunder, why am I so good at arcade battles? Granted, still T1. Maybe I should try realism.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on November 26, 2017, 09:42:36 pm

I always found the arcade mode much more fun than the "realistic" mode, in all honesty. It's easier, yeah, but maybe I like not being super slow or getting friendly-fire'd or being able to tell friend from foe :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 27, 2017, 02:15:57 am

Quote from: Tiruin on November 26, 2017, 08:21:50 pm

-snip-

Thanks for showing me this!  I played as a vanguard with the mass effect OST in the background.  The game was incredibly easy* until the first atlas showed up and I ran out of ammo.  Died trying to cheekily charge kill it conserve ammo (after picking up basically every clip on the level and still being down to 1) and getting mashed.

*Disclaimer: Due to favorable RNG, the first move I ever took in Rogue Effect was to move on top of an eviscerator shotgun, and the second was to pick it up.  Its possible the first few floors are normally not quite so easy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 27, 2017, 09:40:48 am

Awards from one battle: First Strike!, Rank Does Not Matter, Double Strike!, Avenger, Eye For an Eye(the last two from the same kill), Balancer, Heavy Metal Fury, On Hand. Also was top score.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dakorma on November 27, 2017, 02:04:12 pm

So let's not talk about the 50 or so times I died and reloaded against the Noonwraith at the end of the prologue after fighting the Griffon on Blood and Broken Bones difficulty.

Let's instead talk about the one, glorious, run. Where amidst skype and discord chats badgering me and seizing focus from the game, I put on the magic oil, drank the joy juice, and managed to kill the Noonwraith in one go, while having text conversations with someone out of the game, about something inane but interesting, like travel to Ireland or something.

Witcher 3 with the EE mod, and a few others, but none as important as the EE mod. Seriously the changes they made to combat make it feel so weird, but a lot better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 27, 2017, 09:31:38 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 27, 2017, 02:15:57 am

Quote from: Tiruin on November 26, 2017, 08:21:50 pm

-snip-

Thanks for showing me this!  I played as a vanguard with the mass effect OST in the background.  The game was incredibly easy* until the first atlas showed up and I ran out of ammo.  Died trying to cheekily charge kill it conserve ammo (after picking up basically every clip on the level and still being down to 1) and getting mashed.

*Disclaimer: Due to favorable RNG, the first move I ever took in Rogue Effect was to move on top of an eviscerator shotgun, and the second was to pick it up.  Its possible the first few floors are normally not quite so easy

List of things you can't melee: Guardians. Atlases.
List of things that will assuredly kill you in melee: Atlases.
:P

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Finally won the 11 floor games with my loveable Infiltrator \o/ The Tactical cloak is best helped out in missions when if you finish it early, you grab some sweet N7 loot customized to your character's most used weapons (at least as far as I've found anyway). Finally the time of 'saving up this much stuff' for the final battle works out (and I didn't have to waste it needlessly on the previous floor which is just a semi-boss battle with all those Atlases).

Same game: Rogue Effect.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 28, 2017, 05:33:05 pm

Was doing a defector mission that involved assasinating a target with a shotgun and a swapper. Nearly every enemy was using a gun.

After trying several times to go loud only to run out of ammo/not fire fast enough and get shot, I noticed something about the pause menu that others likely have noticed before.

Switching weapons takes no time at all.

On my next run, I picked up four of the guns security dropped, and, pausing in between each shot, swapped each used gun for a fresh one. By the time I’d fired my third gun, the first was usually ready to fire again.

Now, in the days of Blackbeard and other famous pirates, pirates would carry multiple flintlock pistols, to switch to a fresh gun once they fired the shot from their first.

I suppose this means that defector is a futuristic pirate?

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Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 29, 2017, 01:55:50 am

Yeah, I quite like the image of someone fighting by just repeatedly drawing more and more weapons. Just another reason why that game is great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on November 29, 2017, 06:20:04 pm

I remember a character in the game Iji, who would teleport a gun into his hand, fire it, teleport it out, teleport a fresh one in, fire it, and repeat, and doing it so quickly that it looks like he's firing just one gun way more rapidly than it normally should.

Heat Signature finally allows you to do that yourself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wolock on November 29, 2017, 09:24:08 pm

I survived as a democratic Czechoslovakia. Surviving alone against Germany was easy because we were in some kind of Phoney War for 140 days until they started attacking. I was fighting alone for the time it took for them to complete the Danzig or War focus and from then I was able to join the Allies. We occupied Germany and push Italy back to Sicily while Japan was too far away to influence the war.

Then Soviet Russia declared war against Poland.

At first we were able to hold against them, but more and more Soviet troops joined the frontline. The northern flank started to crumble and Poland was being invade. My army was on the southern flank and we were still holding up, but I decided to pull back to Czechoslovakia before facing the same fate. I tried to make a stand in the eastern part of the country but the Red Tide was too fast and strong so I pull back into Slovakia but then again the Soviet were pressing hard on us so I was forced to hold the line in the forts of Moravia and the Sudeteland. I also lost three divisions unable to get back in time.

The forts that let me resist the German invasion with sucess were barely enough to hold out against the soviet onslaught. They got at the gates of Prague before we were able to push them back.

From there I liberated the eastern part of my country, relieve the pressure on the yugoslavian front, helped to beat Bulgaria, liberated Romania, tried to capture Kiev with more or less sucess, swing back to Northeast Germany to encircle some soviet divisions and I liberated Warsaw and Krakow. The supplies situation ended up so bad on the soviet front that I sent my troops to France to help against Nationalist Spain. They kept most of the French army occupied along the Pyrenees with their numerous (260!!) but poorly equipped divisions. After encircling and destroying them in the Pyrenees and Catalonia, Spain didn't last long. I'm now at sending my troops via sea to the British Raj to push back Japan.

EDIT :

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Heart of Iron IV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 30, 2017, 01:04:17 am

Quote from: Tiruin on November 26, 2017, 08:21:50 pm

Rogue Effect
A Mass Effect Roguelike :3
Linkie here (http://dowhilecompiling.blogspot.com/p/rogue-effect.html), has disclaimer as not affliated with EA or otherwise.

It's awesome when the lore of N7 weaponry is made a notch above most--I stumbled upon an assault rifle that has around 87.5% accuracy, boosted to 100% (so I can headshot anything in range, and due to the mechanics of 95%+ accuracy = higher damage...)

Spoiler: I have brought down titans with this weapon (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/Tuy3ANv.png)

Spoiler: I have won the game, finally! :D (click to show/hide)

The Lift Grenade was the extra points I found on the last level. :v
It was not that useful.
(https://i.imgur.com/tMIBvtW.png)

And that one challenge of killing Atlases is "12".
I got 22, because that assault rifle (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/M-99_Saber/ME3MP) is able to bring them down in 8 shots, fully removing shields with disruptor ammunition. (Reminding me of how awesomely powerful ammunition modifications are, hearkening back to Mass Effect 2, and how annoying tech armor is on engineers :P).

Best thing is I got that weapon on Mission 1. Woo! \o/
Also them 50 tech kills are tough. :v

But the best thing is taking ROCKETS from an ATLAS head on, and not having my shield dented (at least 3/4ths remain after head-on rocket), all because of that beloved tech armor!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 30, 2017, 01:47:20 am

So far I've had the most luck as Adept.  Unlocked Asari on third adept attempt, got to level 9...  Though wow, Atlases are a bit crazy!
Thanks for the recommendation, I had quite a bit of fun despite only playing ME1.  I didn't remember the Drell, much less all this ME3 Cerberus stuff.  And the in-game bestiary seems oddly incomplete, so far ):  Otherwise, an impressive amount of polish.  Nice low-fi animation all over the place, particularly for stuff like shield-status and Adrenalin Surge.  I wish DoomRL had a cover-hugging mechanic!  (I haven't played DoomRL in a *long* time)

Oh and could you explain why table-grabs are so crazy-good?  Not only are they apparently an instant-kill on most enemies, they seem to give dramatically more XP as well.  Some ME3 reference I assume.

In case level 9 doesn't count, uh...  Shoot, I haven't played enough games recently, but I've kicked some butt at Life!

Well I did execute a pretty sweet pistol takedown on 3 nazis in a very stealth-based game.  I didn't even have to use my precious morphine for half-naked superpowers!  Had to fire fast and accurately- velvet does not stop bullets.

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Velvet Assassin

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 30, 2017, 02:00:04 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 30, 2017, 01:47:20 am

Oh and could you explain why table-grabs are so crazy-good?  Not only are they apparently an instant-kill on most enemies, they seem to give dramatically more XP as well.  Some ME3 reference I assume.

Achievements :3 Or...err, markers. It's those tiny bronze/silver/gold stars that pop up (see my pic for details)--THOSE are the ones that give bonus exp. When you cover-grabbed, you just insta-killed them for the regular exp, but 'Grab' kills have 1, 3, and 5, for each tier, so it seems you level up easy from that.

That's partly why I grabbed a pistol, so you can get those exp awards, but the assault rifle was far better and there is a level 20 maximum capacity. :P

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 30, 2017, 01:47:20 am

So far I've had the most luck as Adept.  Unlocked Asari on third adept attempt, got to level 9...  Though wow, Atlases are a bit crazy!
Thanks for the recommendation, I had quite a bit of fun despite only playing ME1.  I didn't remember the Drell, much less all this ME3 Cerberus stuff.  And the in-game bestiary seems oddly incomplete, so far ):

Press 'enter' when viewing the manual. I was surprised by the Guardian (first enemy you see that isn't an assault/centurion/nemesis), until I read the manual and stared at the screen as to what I can do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 30, 2017, 02:55:10 am

Nice!  I noticed the achievements, but not that they grant bonus XP... interesting.
And sure enough, it clearly says "Enter" to "Expand"!  My bad, thank you :D

Unrelated:  I finally revisited a mission I abandoned over a year ago, and resolved it peacefully with diplomacy (at least for now).  It's no New Vegas, but I'm glad speech is still an option at all.

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Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on November 30, 2017, 03:13:44 am

Blue wasn't expecting me to bounce a plasma rifle shot off the wall into his head. Shame on him. 10 win-streak.

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Stick Fight: The Game (Try it out, it's really fun and pretty cheap)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on November 30, 2017, 10:17:31 am

It was the first blacksite mission. I had five guys drop in, one each from the three factions, a hackerman and a grenadier. Thw templar skulljacked an officer and brought an avatar into play. Now, I had done this before on my very first playthrough, summoning the avatar on the blacksite. What I didn't plan for was the assassin dropping in on the next turn. I should have figured, but I didn't.

Cue me taking out the avatar immediately, with the assassin running in and stabbing one of my guys. Luckily, she got in LoS of my Reaper, so she was permanently marked. I surrounded her and poured a whole batch of whoop ass on that bitch. The rest of the mission went fairly smooth, though I was worried for a brief moment

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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, my first run through

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on November 30, 2017, 05:41:05 pm

So I was playing a mono-green big stompy creature deck while my opponent was playing a black/colorless deck focused on making me discard cards from my hand.

For many turns we were at a stalemate, as I had an Oran-Rief Hydra with many counters and trample, a mana-tapping Druid of the Cowl, a 4/2 crocodile token, and a Narnam Renegade with deathtouch while my opponent had two Thought-Knot Seers, a Reality Smasher, a Slaughter Drone with deathtouch, and a Deathbridge Shaman.

It was evident my opponent was starting to get the upper hand in terms of number of creatures on the board and I was running out of options as he kept forcing me to discard/exile from my hand, but at the same time he had used up his own hand so we were both top decking. My only advantage was that I had many lands on the board and my hydra was the biggest critter on the board.

With the situation looking dicey, I drew the card that would turn the match around:
(http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=423790&type=card)

Because my Oran-Rief Hydra had like twentysomething power, I was able to flood my hand with cards and use Cartouche of Strength to clear out the Slaughter Drone and return Trial of Strength to my hand so I could recast it to get another 4/2 croc on the board. I also cast Blossoming Defense to get some extra power on the hydra. After that it was just send in the hydra for some stomping. Good times.

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Magic Duels

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on December 01, 2017, 05:05:02 pm

Big stompies come through again!

So my opponent had me low on life with only two Druids of the Cowl, a 0/1 token, and a Nissa, Voice of Zendikar planeswalker on the board. Meawhile my opponent had an enchanted Skyhunter Skirmisher with double strike I couldn't block with my druids and a 1/1 token. With two turns until the skyhunter took me out, I opted to abandon the defense of my planeswalker and played an Explosive Vegetation sorcery to get two additional lands on the board.

My opponent killed my planeswalker and took me down to 1 life... and that's when I played Sandwurm Convergence.
(http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=426885&type=card)
Doing so negated the skyhunter threat and started filling the board with 5/5 creature tokens over the next few turns as I brought in some additional big stompy critters with which to stomp my way to victory. Good times.

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Magic Duels again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2017, 06:38:21 pm

Got the "Neighborhood Watch" achievement.

Spoiler: This requires (click to show/hide)

Killing several Striders, using a gravity gun-launched ball that sticks to the Striders, then you have to shoot the ball with any of your guns before the Hunters escorting the Strider shoot the ball away - and they can shoot it down mid-air. And you have to be fast, as the Striders are there to blow up several buildings. The achievement is acquired by killing them all before they can hit a single one.

And those Hunters? They're scary enough that they gave your girl-pal Alyx PTSD. Granted the "trauma" part of PTSD was being ambushed, impaled repeatedly, possibly dying, and requiring alien magic to save her, so... yeah.

Much save-scumming occurred.

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Half-Life 2: Episode 2. A certain post in the laughs thread made go finally tackle this one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 03, 2017, 08:33:24 pm

Kicked a Great Jaggi to death.

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Monster Hunter 3u

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2017, 10:04:51 pm

Finally got a working SSTO plane. As it turns out, Whiplash engines are the best for reaching the upper atmosphere, where R.A.P.I.E.R.s take over. Eight of each can push quite a large vessel. I was afraid that going nearly 1km/s below 10km ASL was going to break apart the craft, but it didn't.

I was going to see if I had fuel leftover for a pass at Minmus, but the game bugged out while I was trying to set the maneuver node, causing the ship to fire its engines at 40% for some reason. By the time I noticed, the oxidizer was all but gone.

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 04, 2017, 01:55:39 am

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/870748015994384913/4D8CD87EC6BFFFCBEA699B76E104FB9948075E6D/)

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/870748015994385159/D0161790205AF6A9ECCD5BE5B5DA1026AAA6B7C8/)

I couldn't resist and now I feel bad.  There were boomalopes downed on the ground for literally a day, with secondary explosions popping up whenever one would die.  A good chunk of the herd successfully fled but I still ended up with 3k boomalope meat and 600 boomalope leather.  I had to clear hundreds of potatos out of my walk-in freezer to make room for it all, and then I began using it to make preserved meal packets for my caravans.

In the end I got about 40 packets.  The rest were eaten (by animals, or colonists ignoring the forbid order, or the cook himself) or turned into pemmican which was then eaten whenever we ran low on meals.  About half the meat was finally lost when a monster heatwave caused the food in the freezer to spoil through 5 coolers.  At least we all have cowboy hats now.

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Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 04, 2017, 06:10:12 am

Made it into gold ranks in Duelyst, after starting to play again two weeks into the season. Having played about four weeks of Duelyst total, and the last time I played was in January. Feels pretty good.

Duelyst, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 04, 2017, 01:58:42 pm

CONAN EXILES

Moved on from the southern oasis for the first time. A buddy and me are duo'ing on the dedicated server I'm running (Another own is spending 3 hours learning everything I needed to about dedicated servers and steam cmd).

We found a spot with lots of iron (our primary concern) but also 3 spawn points for black spiders. We fought off spiders (which at our level were almost guaranteed death if they bit us twice) on a nigh-constant basis while I built a shelter, and then expanded it to claim an entire valley.

This land is our land.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 04, 2017, 02:11:00 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 04, 2017, 01:58:42 pm

CONAN EXILES

Moved on from the southern oasis for the first time. A buddy and me are duo'ing on the dedicated server I'm running (Another own is spending 3 hours learning everything I needed to about dedicated servers and steam cmd).

We found a spot with lots of iron (our primary concern) but also 3 spawn points for black spiders. We fought off spiders (which at our level were almost guaranteed death if they bit us twice) on a nigh-constant basis while I built a shelter, and then expanded it to claim an entire valley.

This land is our land.

what is best in life?

wait until you get cracking on a wheel of pain to break some thralls, i have to stop myself from making thusla doom/james earl jones jokes or saying what is the riddle of steel?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on December 04, 2017, 03:46:46 pm

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(https://s18.postimg.org/dpkexufy1/Praise_Be.png)

I dearly wish that I'd done a more formal write-up for this settlement. We started in an extreme desert, where an ancient highway met a river, and our first months were hell. There is hardly any arable land, just gravel where stone pillars meet sand. There is no wood, there is no animal life to hunt, none.

We were on a day left of food before the first raider attack. It was just one man They died to our guns, but we were poised to die regardless. Our potatoes were days from being grown, and there just weren't many other options for food.

So we butchered the raider and fed his remains to the nutrient paste machine- and so we survived a little longer.

Traders came after a time, and I hoped we might be able to recover enough to abandon the abhorrent needs of survival. Except the full moon rose, and one of the traders turned werewolf, as well as one of our own colonists.  Somehow, in the ensuing gun battle, the traders turned hostile. Our werewolf died. Their werewolf, and six of their caravaners died, before the remaining pair fled.

We didn't have time to purchase food from them- but they left so many bodies behind. So many delicious bodies. We butchered them all. We processed them into meals, we tanned their hides into leather, and we never looked back. Even when the potatoes came in and many colonists rejected cannibalism in favor of standard fare, we never stopped our practice of butchering those who dared cross us.

Now, we flourish were no civilization should flourish. We grow bamboo to build with, and have comfortable rooms. Water towers draw up fresh water for irrigation and sophisticated plumbing. Solar networks and fused batteries provide reliable power. Potatoes and long pig are staple foods, and we have both in enough abundance to support our colony and more. We built a temple from stone to the great god, dead but dreaming. At dawn and dusk we worship with fervent prayer and supplication- and sometimes, when the stars are right, we worship him with the flash of the knife.

The screenshot is recent, showing how happy our newest arrival is with the settlement.

We're a bizarrely nice place in the middle of the desert, and we've succeeded in peace talks with all our neighbors, we just sacrifice and eat anyone who happens to try to disturb our quiet life of agrarian contemplation.

Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on December 04, 2017, 04:49:44 pm

On the beach, decide to be stupid and try out my brand new iridium rod on people (the little girl to be specific). Land the hit perfectly, she stops skipping her rope and walks away while my character is frozen, holding the pole, not reacting as time continues to pass. Even the menu is disabled.

So uh, I broke the game I guess, that counts as owning :V

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Stardew Valley

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 04, 2017, 07:24:18 pm

Quote from: JimboM12 on December 04, 2017, 02:11:00 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 04, 2017, 01:58:42 pm

CONAN EXILES

Moved on from the southern oasis for the first time. A buddy and me are duo'ing on the dedicated server I'm running (Another own is spending 3 hours learning everything I needed to about dedicated servers and steam cmd).

We found a spot with lots of iron (our primary concern) but also 3 spawn points for black spiders. We fought off spiders (which at our level were almost guaranteed death if they bit us twice) on a nigh-constant basis while I built a shelter, and then expanded it to claim an entire valley.

This land is our land.

what is best in life?

wait until you get cracking on a wheel of pain to break some thralls, i have to stop myself from making thusla doom/james earl jones jokes or saying what is the riddle of steel?

Oh we absolutely have. We found a priest of mitra without realizing that you cant put any old thrall on any old workstation. We have nothing to do with him so now we just have him in a box somewhere.

We told him that he killed our pets and THAT is what grieves us most. I don't think we have any pets. Aside from him now, that is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 05, 2017, 12:38:33 am

Recreated my old Argonian Assassin, HALT, and am currently fulfilling his destiny of becoming the greatest Dork Brotherhood member that the Iliac Bay has ever seen.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 05, 2017, 02:03:56 am

> Naming a Daggerfall character "Halt"
brilliant

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 05, 2017, 02:24:28 am

To be fair it wasn't originally my idea :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on December 05, 2017, 03:11:47 am

Quote from: Draignean on December 04, 2017, 03:46:46 pm

I dearly wish that I'd done a more formal write-up for this settlement. We started in an extreme desert, where an ancient highway met a river, and our first months were hell. There is hardly any arable land, just gravel where stone pillars meet sand. There is no wood, there is no animal life to hunt, none.

That's pretty dang cool! I haven't tried any of those edgy monster-related mods, but it seems like they're a lot better-implemented than I expected.
Might have to try them on my next colony. Oh gosh I really wish Prison Labour would update properly. Not to mention combat extended to make shotguns fun again...   

What's your rather brutal colony called, anyway?   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on December 05, 2017, 04:46:54 am

No real achievement gameplay wise, but I decided to get the Golden Ending for Doki Doki Literature Club. The skip button was my best friend, for getting through all the repeating dialogue, and holy shit was it able to make me feel. Totally worth the time.

The heartwarming end was so worth it as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on December 05, 2017, 04:53:14 am

I'm not going to comment on DDLC because I have the feeling I have a very Unpopular Opinion^tm about it, but I'll agree the Golden Ending was very nice. ^^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on December 05, 2017, 07:59:44 am

We were the Aussies on a map I've never played before (it's been months since I've opened the game), and I was a Machine Gunner. I set up on some elevated ground behind the majority of my teammates, but the map was dark, so I had to rely on our thankfully abundant spotting to effectively suppress and deter the incoming VC. I managed to get a good few kills by firing at muzzle flashes in the distance, but eventually our first point was overrun. The enemy was paying a heavy toll for every inch of ground though, and while they took one of the next pair of points fairly handily thanks to a wide flanking maneuver, my squad had set up in the other point to delay the enemy's advance while the rest of the team set up at the next point behind us. Eventually we were outnumbered on the point and it was taken from us, but the VC were having a problem killing us anyway. We were under heavy fire, leapfrogging backwards until we had no hard cover between us and our fallback point, and the commander noticed this. He ordered us to hold, as he had an artillery strike ready in a few seconds. He called it in and as the first rounds fell ordered us to run like hell. So we did.

One squadmate was unfortunate enough to leave cover too soon and was rewarded with a few rounds in his back, but the rest of us managed to make it back alive. The commander told us to set up a porcupine defense (I'm pretty sure he meant hedgehog, but it was easy enough to understand the order), and we wound up weathering half a dozen assaults before the enemy numbers were depleted.

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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. Jumped back into it after hearing the song that plays on the menu while at work (a bowling alley, by the way). While 99% of the credit definitely goes to a very communicative commander, I definitely felt like a badass.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on December 05, 2017, 08:07:42 am

Quote from: Yoink on December 05, 2017, 03:11:47 am

Quote from: Draignean on December 04, 2017, 03:46:46 pm

I dearly wish that I'd done a more formal write-up for this settlement. We started in an extreme desert, where an ancient highway met a river, and our first months were hell. There is hardly any arable land, just gravel where stone pillars meet sand. There is no wood, there is no animal life to hunt, none.

That's pretty dang cool! I haven't tried any of those edgy monster-related mods, but it seems like they're a lot better-implemented than I expected.
Might have to try them on my next colony. Oh gosh I really wish Prison Labour would update properly. Not to mention combat extended to make shotguns fun again...   

What's your rather brutal colony called, anyway?   

Wyarwyeer (As in Why-Are-We-Here, but slurred in an eldritch way) is the settlement, and while the mods have cool things (Like lunar cycle, werewolves, worshiping eldritch gods, plumbing, and growing bamboo for construction) most of the horrible stuff like butchering people and using their skins to make couches, trendy leather jackets and eco-friendly burgers is all base game- you just have to tweak the butcher bench and cooking table labor settings.

Jecrell's Rim of Madness Mod-Pack is overall amazing, with fantastic art and level of detail in implementation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on December 05, 2017, 02:06:14 pm

I snatched Danzig from Denmark. Teutonic and Livonian Orders were destroyed very quickly, they didn't even make it to the 1470s! So I decided to feed Danish Livonia to Riga (who is my vassal) and also snatch Danzig, creating a vassal republic of the same name. What are you going to do without reforming into Commonwealth, Poland?

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Europa Universalis 4. I play as Russia, and my next plan is befriending Ottomans and then attacking Poland-Lithuania for their territory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on December 05, 2017, 05:00:53 pm

After breaking the power of pan-European Bohemia and Holy Baden Empire, I've occupied, annexed and converted Rome to Sunni faith.

It's nice to be an Ottoman sultan!

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Europa Universalis 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on December 06, 2017, 01:21:32 pm

I was playing Aurora 4x and had a "little" fight with the precursors, I sent what I though would be just enough ships to take out the four enemy capital ships and their scout. 5 Battlecruisers, 10 missile cruisers, 15 missile destroyers and 25 ordinary destroyers. Turns out I misjudged their numbers, they actually had another 8 or 9 ships of three previously unknown classes and had a much larger tech advantage than I had thought. I won with 0 losses despite bringing the obsolete AMMs and running almost out of missiles (in the fleet, had thousands back home). I suppose firing 195 missiles every 50 seconds really helped. Both sides ran out of Anti-Missile Missiles before the end (not that mine did much good, 12% accuracy and all) and I accidentally destroyed their scout (I wanted to try and capture it) but it was a fun fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 09, 2017, 06:39:41 am

Lost, but I was 1st in team, 3rd overall. Spent the match in a Catalina, trying to do level bombing runs on the ground targets. Initially couldn't hit anything despite being a decent bomber-er. I dropped and started getting kills. Scored two triple kills in short order.

Naturally, this eventually caught the attention of the enemy team. They started ganging up on me. However, I had just installed the 12.7mm add-on, meaning I've got good gun coverage. The first fighter to get on my tail had a fuel ignition and burned down. Another fighter trying to drop down on me was destroyed. Even on that was actually going for one of my allies was killed. While this is going on, I'm still bombing ground targets.

While the enemy did learn to mostly respect my personal "piss off' zone, my tail was shot out and I was leaking fuel. I was still flying, and still kept on bombing. When the match ended, I was still in the air, not having been counted as a kill. All the while, some appropriate epic music started playing in the background.


All this with a sea plane on a land map.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 09, 2017, 12:15:46 pm

First successful expedition to green mountainous lands in CONAN EXILES.

Killed many wolves, collected much resin. The big move is tonight. We will be trailing many thralls, including a named armorer. Along the way are a Black Rhino and the Rockhead King, which our scouts shall divert. The land itself contains grizzly bears and dire wolves.

We are bringing enough shaped wood to build a homestead. We are also bringing a smelter, a tannery, 500 lb of bacon, some sarsaparilla, and a grandfather clock. Watch out for dysentery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on December 10, 2017, 06:53:13 am

(https://s7.postimg.org/qn7qh3w4r/high_skoar.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 10, 2017, 10:09:35 am

Broke the pathfinding of an otherwise scripted ambush, by blocking the doorways with junk. Didn't even need the mines the game gives you at the point.

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution, at the Picus furnicular. Vending machines, the most powerful object in the universe. They never give you orange, only lemon-lime.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on December 11, 2017, 03:28:52 pm

I was heading to the docks for a bounty, when I saw a ship traveling right by the dock. I took my chance and jumped on. I had some trouble, but I killed everyone on board. And apparently my bounty was actually on the ship. It was a pretty big ship, bigger than anything I had taken before, so I sent it to my fleet.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

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Not an own, but related, I was surprised when I read on TV Tropes for this game that Captain Kidd is actually a woman. Not that I'm surprised she is a woman, I was  surprised that this apparently was supposed to be surprising that she is a woman, when I immediately assumed that she was a woman from her voice, and hadn't even realized it was supposed to be a secret.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 11, 2017, 03:37:42 pm

That's thoughtful of you to put a spoiler tag, but its broken.  Something like

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would do the trick.

Edit: Went Thrumbo hunting, some colonists were wounded (to an easily avoidable mistake, but hey live and learn).  Randy Random proceeded to send at me, in quick succession:
A heat wave
A poison ship full of mechanoids
The flu, affecting 7 colonists
A solar flare
A pack of 10 manhunting cougars
A convoy's medic getting the plague mid-journey (also as a result of this convoy, all my combat-trained animals were away from the colony)

Only casualties?  All of my crops and one character's left foot.  To deal with the cougars, I basically got everyone out of bed (sick people and civilians included), gave the civilians melee weapons and shotguns, and made a firing line.  Turns out miniguns and charge rifles are pretty good against animals.  The cougar meat solves the crop problem, and I should be able to trade my 3 new thrumbo horns for a kickass biotic leg.

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Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on December 11, 2017, 03:57:51 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on December 11, 2017, 03:28:52 pm

I was heading to the docks for a bounty, when I saw a ship traveling right by the dock. I took my chance and jumped on. I had some trouble, but I killed everyone on board. And apparently my bounty was actually on the ship. It was a pretty big ship, bigger than anything I had taken before, so I sent it to my fleet.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

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Not an own, but related, I was surprised when I read on TV Tropes for this game that Captain Kid is actually a woman. Not that I'm surprised she is a woman, I was  surprised that this apparently was supposed to be surprising that she is a woman, when I immediately assumed that she was a woman from her voice, and hadn't even realized it was supposed to be a secret.

Spoiler: Kidd (click to show/hide)

Captain William Kidd could well be her father (we'll never know for sure). She does however stop using his surname and adopts her mother's later. I never thought her to be an adult man either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 13, 2017, 02:41:45 pm

I liberalised the country, solo nightmare run + CCS starting out super strong.

God damn gun control is challenging to do without murdering people.

This time I didn't try to go to court to defend myself, which was probably wise given the 20+ counts of treason, 38 murders, 3 counts of terrorism and endless hacking.

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Liberal Crime Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 14, 2017, 10:21:47 pm

I beat the game and got all three medals in under an hour and a half.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, N64 version.

I should mention this was my second run. My first was done over the course of a week and a half, as Kareem Campbell. This one was a vert-style custom skater modeled on Phoenix Wright in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

Now if only 100%ing the game was easier, I could unlock Spider-Man...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 15, 2017, 07:00:01 pm

Somehow, I got Ground Strike! x9 a total of 16 times during the match. No, there is not 144 ground targets on the map, it was probably a calculation error. Still, I did kill all but a handful of the ground targets, clinching a very rapid win. My bomber was brought shot down by some moron who couldn't shoot right so he resorted to ramming - took out a wing, jerk. The Ground Strike! medals totaled up to over 4,000 lions, on top of the rest of the match winnings with a +75% booster.

I just so happened to equip newly unlocked bombs before the match.

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War Thunder. I'm also going to say that AI ground units will increase aggro towards you if you're doing well against them. I had most of the tanks across the entire map, forget AAA units, trying to shoot me, and I rarely see AI tanks shoot at planes at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 15, 2017, 09:45:51 pm

Quote from: Tawa on December 14, 2017, 10:21:47 pm

Now if only 100%ing the game was easier, I could unlock Spider-Man...

100%ing the game was not easy, but it has been done.

THPS2 again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 18, 2017, 10:01:14 pm

Got through

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Dimitri and Bulgarin's ambush

taking only armor damage, and killing one guy behind cover with a molotov. Lost my armor to a cop shooting at me, but I didn't take any damage further than that.

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Grand Theft Auto IV. Had to start over, since a game update at some point changed the save location(I cannot find the new one, still have old saves). I'm also sad, I had two cars parked in front of Roman's apartment safehouse, the car I stole from Michelle from the first date with her, and an awesome Banshee. The Banshee despawned during the cutscene with the apartment fire(it was there before the scene) - goddamned Michelle's car was still there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on December 19, 2017, 12:38:35 am

Not really "owning" so much as taking advantage of my opponent's stupidity.

So I was was getting flooded with lands so my opponent built up a massive advantage on the board, had me dead to rights, all he had to do was attack and win. but then he pulled the stupidest move I've seen in awhile... he decided to toy with his food (or farm for daily quest stuff), in other words he just kept building up his board but didn't go in for the attack. this lasted for quite a few turns until I finally drew an aethersquall ancient critter which allowed me to clear the board and go in for the kill

I am reminded of the Aesop fable, Turtle and the Hare.

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Magic Duels

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RickRollYou2 on December 19, 2017, 02:42:07 am

Outstripped all other nations in research, soon it was X-Com units dropping all over the world decimating musketmen. From there it was just one city after another falling to rocket artillery and lightning assaults by tank units. The AI would give up halfway through each campaign, leaving just their capital city and offering every other city in exchange for peace.

A military, cultural, diplomatic (Gunboat Diplomacy combined with the hordes of troops marching across the world meant almost all city-states were allies) and scientific victory.

Civ 5: Brave New World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 19, 2017, 03:07:17 am

Was sort of an own, more of just funny. At the start of the game, I ambushed the enemy jungler at their red buff, taking it after killing them. Right before I popped out, for some reason, started singing It's Tricky in the all chat... I proceeded to do this before each gank and especially against the enemy jungler. It got to the point that any time I did it, even if I wasn't really coming, the enemy would run for it.

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League of Legends. Fools didn't take any cc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on December 19, 2017, 12:40:21 pm

It's possible to type in chat to enemies? I thought riot removed it because "they are your mortal enemies and just want to distract you, hurr-durr".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 19, 2017, 04:30:01 pm

Quote from: MCreeper on December 19, 2017, 12:40:21 pm

It's possible to type in chat to enemies? I thought riot removed it because "they are your mortal enemies and just want to distract you, hurr-durr".

Nope, it's been there long as I remember, just you can mute them etc. if they're being asshats. The majority of my friends list is actually enemies I got along well with and not allies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on December 19, 2017, 05:32:31 pm

How exactly? I can't find how to do this, and it seems no one else can either, since i don't see anyone writing to\from enemies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 19, 2017, 05:41:01 pm

[shift]+[enter] or /all there's a box you have to tick in the setting somewhere in game too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on December 19, 2017, 05:48:43 pm

I hammer'd down and died immediately on the last point of Volskaya. The hammer fell, enemies fell, and they were stunned.That's the important part. A few seconds later, D.VA swoops in with her ultimate, netting a Quintuple kill and ending the game with a bang.

TEAMWORK!

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Overwatch as Reinhardt. Twas a good game all around!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 19, 2017, 08:40:34 pm

=Warning: Stupid idea ahead.=


Took Roman out for a night of drinking. Barely stumbled back to the car. Actually finding the car in this state was an own on its own. Ignored the game's suggestion that I call a cab, as I didn't want to lose the car. It was a nice sports car, used/given as a reward for a previous mission. It was a fast sports car. Fast and drunk don't really mix well. Plowed through traffic, nearly flipped a few times, had the cops on me even before making it to the bridge toll booth. Gunned it through the booth(it was pointless to pay at this point), managed to shake the cops shortly after entering Bohan. Got Roman back to his place as I was sobering up, and got the sports car into the save spot. Pretty sure I didn't run over anyone on the way, but it was hard to tell.

=Disclaimer: Don't drink and drive. It will never end as well as this.=

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GTA IV. Actually, I'm curious, is it possible to call up one of Roman's taxis while on a date(especially with Roman himself)? I can only imagine the banter from Mohammed if he finds he had to be designated driver for his shit-faced boss and his shit-faced boss' shit-faced freeloading cousin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on December 22, 2017, 05:03:44 pm

I was totally unprepared for the goblin invasion. Despite my woefully unprepared fort, and army, I forced them to flee. I did so by having put a stolen great axe artifact in a trap, and having my military kill anyone who got through. Finally, I was able to send my guy against the fleeing enemy, and he killed one of them before he could get away. However, while fighting the last one, they both fell unconscious, and I was afraid the goblin would wake first. But no, he bled to death, and then my guy woke up.
No deaths on my side, though the goblins did injure one of my guys.

Dwarf Fortress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 23, 2017, 05:16:01 pm

Found a story-related spot that enables you to build machine gun turret rooms, and gives you enough equipment to build one right away(I was already working on guns anyway). At the same time, I saw that two of my mice went to bed at the same time, either they both simply got tired at the same time or both were sexing it up. The speech bubbles weren't... exactly clear on the matter. It had been several days since I built the extra crew quarters(new mice can be born if there's open beds), yet nothing regarding new crew had happened.

Shortly after the event spot that gives you guns, another event spot of a bug attack happens(obviously, to show you why you need guns). Unfortunately, the entire crew was busy; one mouse was driving, another was busy in the workshop, and the other two were asleep/screwing, so the bug gets a few free hits in.

Then I see a mouse cheering about how they were just born dash to the machine gun room, take control of the gun turret, and shred the bug in half. Must have been having sex after all.

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Of Mice and Sand. Pretty fun, but very grindy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on December 25, 2017, 08:02:52 am

Kaiser was excommunicated, making him an easy target for invasion. After asking the Pope for Invasion casus belli, I stomped HRE like a bug and become the new Kaiser. I wanted to destroy the HRE title, but I was unable to do so momentally, because I was at war with some Muslim adventurer and a peasant scum revolt, and the HRE also had Gavelkind succession law. After dealing with the Muslim adventurer and the peasant scum, I changed the succession law to "elective" and then immediately destroyed the title of HRE. Then I proceeded to release every vassal who was in HRE, turning the Europe into bordergore fest. But at least I'm the only Catholic empire in the world right now.

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Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 26, 2017, 10:28:35 pm

Managed to invade a doom village with the following force:

Ranger x 10
Soldier x 7
Veteran Soldier x 7
Sniper x 2

Two days later I took out the last building.  Turns out it was a very small doom village, although I didn't know that and I would have attacked either way.

The own?  This was on day 22.  I don't know about you guys, but that's a MUCH stronger army than I usually have at that point.  Wasn't everything I had either, was also defending my whole perimeter.

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They are billions

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 26, 2017, 11:16:26 pm

got a gift card for steam and bought they are billions

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real life

the followers of jimbo faction has wiped out the persian league and maintains its friendship with the hegemony. long live the followers. next is that annoying blue company tri-something.

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starsector with dynasector and nexerelin

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on December 27, 2017, 04:47:10 am

The map spawned with an insect nest in a nearby cave.  I harvested the jelly for a little bit but the micromanagyness of it ended up feeling like too much trouble so I was thinking of how to get rid of it.  Then an opportunity showed itself.  Involving an entrance to the hive caves I had not fully walled off yet and a certain very dangerous carnivore that was also very likely to cause issues in the future.   

After a little bit of waiting and a timed walling off of an entrance both problems solved themselves.

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(https://i.img.ie/36U.md.png) (https://img.ie/image/36U)

For those unaware of the game and the mod, that is a Tyrannosaurus Rex and an insect hive.  The t rex wrecked the absolute hell out of the insects and as you can see from all the blood and the passed out thunderlizard, took enough damage to be bleeding to death after the fight.

Why solve with bullets what can be solved with 2 tiles of quickly built steel wall?

Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on December 27, 2017, 04:30:11 pm

Oh man, I had a map spawn with a bug hive not long ago... never got around to walling it off and just avoided the surrounding area. That seemed to work without any trouble for a while, but eventually an entire freaking outlander caravan marched haplessly in there.

I didn't actually realise until a couple of bugs were spotted coming towards my colony - my rather meagre defence force was able to kite and kill them, mostly thanks to the run and gun mod I had just installed. >.> Only then did I look northwards to see just what had stirred them up, and discovered that they were the only survivors of the hive, and that the remains of the caravan was scattered about in there amidst the bullet-riddled, scorched corpses of countless bugs in what was probably the goriest sight I've seen in the game hands-down. 

It was pretty awesome, in other words. Needless to say, much loot was had! :)) Can't remember if that was in this version or the last one, but I kinda miss that colony now. Your solution was kind of more tactically impressive, though. I just sat there and waited for the problem to fix itself, haha.
Might have to try whichever mod added that T-Rex at some point.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 27, 2017, 04:59:30 pm

Successfully moved shop a final time to an oasis in CONAN EXILES.

Said oasis is chock-full of Grey Rhinos, Black Rhinos, Turtle Monsters, and Murderous Emus. We have secured a plot of land and are now able to sustain hardened steel tool use. Soon we will have Acheronian Weaponry.

Also, I can fight frost giants in melee, so I feel like I am basically Conan now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on December 27, 2017, 06:37:00 pm

Messing around in the dungeon runs on Hearthstone.  Playing druid, get the boots of haste as a treasure.  One mana card that makes all minions that turn cost no mana.

So first turn I draw the boots and two random critters.  Played the boots then the two minions.  One minion is a forager from that dinosaur set, which when played adds a random 5 mana or higher minion.  Forager generates one of the 10 mana elder gods, which is now 0 mana because the boots are still in effect, so I play him too.  So first turn I have like 8 or 10 damage on the board.

Game lasted like 4 turns.  Was silly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 27, 2017, 10:20:37 pm

So if you got that you could just play an entire hand of monsters regardless of cost?  Cause I feel like there has to be someone going around with a cheese deck based around that hoping they get lucky.

Disclaimer: I've forgotten Hearthstone's rules, so that was actually a question

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 27, 2017, 11:25:05 pm

Made the child of satan, inherited the kingdom of germany as them, killed El Pope and overran the papacy for a bit, learned I was a werewolf, and took the leading role of Lucifer's Own.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on December 27, 2017, 11:47:21 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 27, 2017, 10:20:37 pm

So if you got that you could just play an entire hand of monsters regardless of cost?  Cause I feel like there has to be someone going around with a cheese deck based around that hoping they get lucky.

Disclaimer: I've forgotten Hearthstone's rules, so that was actually a question

On the one hand that's true. On the other hand the card in question is limited to a single-player only game mode which is basically the roguelike version of a card game. You start with preset decks and then pick one of three randomized loot/cards/collections/whatever to add to it after each match. So making a cheese deck built around it is heavily luck dependent but highly encouraged both in game and out. Other loot can make your minion cost less, make them untargetable, etc, etc, so this is hardly an exceptional card.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 28, 2017, 07:54:19 pm

Tracked the arms manufacturer from the oil fields and deserts of South... Dakota all the way to the roof of his hotel penthouse, and shot the smug asshole in the face.

That was after making his right-hand woman eat frog sushi and jump off a building. That was funny. Especially how her guards should have heard her cheering about catching ladybugs just like they should have been keeping a very close eye on her(they knew you're there, and know she's a likely target since she volunteered to fight you).

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Hitman: Absolution. Seriously, the guy is such a prick that there's almost no sympathy for everything that happens to him, which includes the kidnap, torture, and 95%-likely direct murder(other 5% is leaving him shirtless in the SOUTH DAKOTA desert with vultures and no water... or via ice cream van) of his son, the horrible murders of his company's top scientists(all assholes themselves), the public murder of his bodyguard in a cage match, and the several ways you can murder his girlfriend(the sushi poison above being just one).

Pretty much for every thing you do to him, he does several horrible things himself. He frames 47 with the murder of an innocent hotel maid after slitting the poor girl's throat himself, then sets the entire hotel on fire for no reason(making the maid's murder equally senseless). Sends his son with a misogynistic jerkass to kidnap a girl from a Catholic orphanage, said orphanage gets brutally shot up(literally the only good thing about the scene is that every child except their target was on a field trip, so no kids were killed), with this guy's son being cajoled into executing the head nun. He literally owns the law of an entire town, to the point the even the dispassionate 47 notes the town is a crapsack in need of saving(it just ain't him that'll save it), he executes the town's sheriff's girlfriend(well, bondage partner) while she's dressed as the above kidnapped girl during the ransom exchange because the guy paying the ransom was trying to jerk him around - of note, the exchange happens in Chicago, and the woman is from the crapsack town, and had no reason to be there other than be killed like that. He then threatens the girl(who is sixteen) with "being bred like a pitbull"... after forcing her to murder several of his own guards(she's genetically enhanced like 47 - but 47 doesn't want her to be a killer like him). Hell even the guy's last words start as an apology to his son, but then he whines about money.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 28, 2017, 08:02:23 pm

Got myself all the parts needed for a Braton prime, making it my very first prime gear that I get to craft (I have Twitch's free Frost Prime and weapons, but I did mention craft).

EDIT: Forgot to mention, but it is Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 28, 2017, 08:55:01 pm

I rang both Bells of Awakening. I have fulfilled the quest of Oscar of Astora, but I have greater challenges ahead of me yet.

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Dark Souls 1

I actually beat Quelaag first, by accident. It was extremely satisfying to reach the top floor of the Undead Parish and demolish the Bell Gargoyles in a few hits.

Sen's Fortress is proving a rock-hard challenge, but I love it. Figuring out how to fight the Serpent Men, dodging the traps, running past bolts of magic and trying not to fall off a ledge--it's perfect. Exactly what I bought this game for.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 28, 2017, 09:36:11 pm

I cannot understate how much I recommend you get Dark Souls 2 (preferably Scholar of the First Sin) and Dark Souls 3 (with DLC ofc) after finishing DS1. Seriously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 28, 2017, 10:26:15 pm

I'm planning on it, though idk how well my computer can handle DS3's graphics--it's a middle-of-the-road 2012 laptop.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on December 28, 2017, 11:26:53 pm

I have a 2007 laptop that rocks DS3, on min graphics...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 28, 2017, 11:34:07 pm

(No offense, I'm happy for you!)
<sub>fuck youuuuu

Jokes on you, Dark Souls is just bad</sub>
I'm not jelly

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 28, 2017, 11:44:59 pm

I'm going to say "probably mediocre". I have a Lenovo from maybe 2013 and it doesn't have the minimum requirements for DS3, but running it with absolutely everything at minimum settings on a suboptimal resolution lets me play fairly acceptably in most areas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 29, 2017, 11:46:33 pm

I completed my course on serpentine rectal anatomy. Professor Sen was a tough teacher, and the final exam was hard as iron, but I passed with flying colors.

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DS1 again.

Thank god for that hidden bonfire near the firebomb giant area. For that matter, the guys who write "bonfire ahead" messages in front of it aren't the heroes Lordran deserves, but they're the ones it needs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 30, 2017, 12:10:14 am

By the way, are you seeing many summon signs around? I haven't seen any in the Depths, at around SL 28 or so, although many levels earlier there were a ton in front of the Parish church.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on December 30, 2017, 01:05:50 am

I end up hollow most of the time and usually solo bosses anyway, so I haven't seen any :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on December 30, 2017, 01:15:22 am

If you decide to unhollow, it would be for the best if you installed DSCM and the PvP watchdog, if you're on PC. The former makes it actually possible to connect to other people, and the latter stops hackers ruining your game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 30, 2017, 02:37:25 am

And it dings when someone connects! ;P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 30, 2017, 05:56:24 pm

After a few failed attempts, I was ready to throw my 3DS down in frustration. I looked at the clock and saw I still had a few minutes before lunch break was over, so I tried one more time.

BAM. Ironhead was down, took no damage.

Spoiler: Obtained (click to show/hide)

Alien Medal.

Took a decent chunk of health out him with missiles, but I only had three since I hadn't really recovered from the previous fight. The rest was raining fireballs from above him, and scavenging an extra missile or two from the blowfish.

Bear in mind that this was entering Labyrinth M with a few points of health and severely de-leveled weapons, grinding health back up on the last few enemies of the area, throwing all of it against the Core, then hobbling through the next area with whatever I could manage to get from enemy drops.

Making it back to Mimiga Village and stocking up felt like I was finally getting a break. Too bad that's the only high note of making it back to Mimiga Village...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cave Story 3D. Of course I took Curly with me. Well, at least I still have her panties.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RickRollYou2 on December 31, 2017, 08:11:21 am

Three veteran captains in close proximity: I dropped down on one, then ran back up a tower, performed another death from above on another. He didn't die immediately, so I shot him with arrows, firing twice in succession and killing a mook with another arrow. Finally grabbed the last one and shanked him to death repeatedly.
Sure, pretty easy for anyone who's played the game for a decent amount of time, but I sure felt great doing it.


Shadow of Mordor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on December 31, 2017, 09:41:34 am

My son is a Demon spawn who hated me because I tortured his mother (well, she also was my wife) for cheating on me. I appointed him my spymaster and my cupbearer, then I die from poisoned wine, and then, my son inherits. Now I play as my very first Spawn of Satan.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on December 31, 2017, 11:54:11 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on December 31, 2017, 09:41:34 am

My son is a Demon spawn who hated me because I tortured his mother (well, she also was my wife) for cheating on me. I appointed him my spymaster and my cupbearer, then I die from poisoned wine, and then, my son inherits. Now I play as my very first Spawn of Satan.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II.

As it is, as long as one of your sons is the spawn, I find you tend to play as them as they murder all their siblings anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 31, 2017, 07:34:04 pm

Quote from: Arx on December 30, 2017, 01:15:22 am

If you decide to unhollow, it would be for the best if you installed DSCM and the PvP watchdog, if you're on PC. The former makes it actually possible to connect to other people, and the latter stops hackers ruining your game.

I have that installed myself, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work like it's supposed to. The program itself doesn't have an interface and just sits there among my background processes, mocking me. I can't see my nodes in-game with CTRL+1 either, and Wulf2K.ca is also down so I can't see if there's a solution there.

I didn't drop twenty bucks on you to play without messages, damn it. Work with me here, game!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on December 31, 2017, 09:32:01 pm

Ornstein and Smough are now waiting at a bus stop in the next dimension.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die

I really, really, really did not enjoy that fight at all and I'm incredibly glad it's over but holy shit, between the dramatic music and Gwynevere's speech when giving you the lordvessel the game does a fucking amazing job at making you feel like you won.

I also killed Gravelord Nito pretty much immediately after, but only because I had already lit the bonfire closest to him a while back while I was still stuck in the Tomb of Giants (since I thought that was where I was supposed to be going, but by the time I realized I was underleveled I was already almost all the way through) and was able to warp super close to him pretty much immediately, now powerful enough to beat him. I don't really count it as an own since he's not even a threat once you master tricking him into killing his numerous skelebros.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 31, 2017, 10:25:28 pm

I was given the challenge to avoid a strongman's hammer for a certain period of time, without a weapon of my own and loosely chained to the wall. Almost as soon as the timer began, I "headbut" him into the ceiling, stunning him and causing some heavy stone bricks to fall down, pinning him to the ground. For the remaining time of the challenge I laughed to his face as he was unable to move or attack.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hammerfight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 01, 2018, 04:53:08 am

I think this is the biggest League of Unaligned Powers I've ever seen, and they've all accepted the lead of my bug-angel-ascended-robots.  I even accidentally triggered the Federation victory which I thought was disabled during Wars in Heaven, as it is during proper crises.  With this much of the galaxy behind me, even two ascended empires at the same time are getting kicked around like rusty tin cans, though it probably helps that I have the tech from eating a fallen empire already.

Spoiler: Big image (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/583OBxP.jpg)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stellaris

EDIT: Yep, the War in Heaven was a pushover this time, and the League only kept growing after the war to encompass everyone I fought.  It'd be possible to finish off the last two fallen empires and unite the galaxy, but I think I'm going to just call it here.  And that's not just because I literally spent all night on it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 01, 2018, 08:51:41 am

Finally managed to acquire a vehicle that can kill the Maus in the test drive map(M3 Scott tank destroyer). Granted, I still have to drive up to point blank and hope I can jam a shell into the turret gap, but that's still an improvement over not being able to touch it at all.

Actually had a good run in battle. Got a few kills and assists with my Stuart ambushing enemies as they came around the corner. Somehow my M8 survived several enemies pounding on it, being reduced to two crew(with replenishment) and heavy damage, but surviving until the end of the match.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on January 01, 2018, 10:16:03 pm

Accidentally went into a game with Zyra Support masteries and summs, when I was playing jungle yi. Ended the game as the most fed tank yi with an S+.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 02, 2018, 12:14:33 am

Did you tell your teammates that build gives you a 87% winrate and they should try it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 05, 2018, 07:22:35 am

An elephant showed up at my base. Actually, it followed me home from one of the NPC camps that's literally just a few steps away(good source of slaves and loot). Tried to bring it towards my recently-built archer tower, but none of the archers wanted to shoot at it. This might have been due to line-of-sight issues, since they do have fences as cover, but there was another archer on a rock that  had no such issue.

Then one of my melee thralls from across the base runs up and start smacking the elephant with his mace. This divides the elephant's attention between me and him while I stabbed it in the ass with my spear.

Aside from a few dozen pieces of thick leather, I also cut some exotic meat, spiced it, and gave a piece to the melee thrall as a reward. Granted it's just gonna rot in his inventory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Conan: Exiles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 05, 2018, 01:06:28 pm

MACE SLAVE. EAT WELL!!!

*spiced jerky hits slave in face*

*holds it confusedly for days*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 05, 2018, 01:38:10 pm

Invaded the world of some shitty guy in Lothric Castle who was wearing the Fallen Knight set in the Way of Blue covenant. After a few minutes of running around randomly, I figured out that he was still in the beginning of the area waiting for me to come to him. When I arrived, a Blade of Darkmoon had already been summoned to defend him from me. I was no match for both of them at the same time, so I backed up a little bit to get closer to some of the Lothric knight enemies. Naturally, the host wasted no time in using a Seed to make them attack me as well, because apparently having actual good players to come and help you whenever you get invaded just isn't defense enough. After a moment of being on the defensive as I was attacked by several enemies as well as the two players, I was able to find an opening to kill the Darkmoon blade, who had already been weakened by the knights. The host retreated back into the beginning of the area yet again, and I followed him, slowly managing to chip at his health with running attacks. After he stopped running, I was able to poise through one of his attacks, hitting him with a good combo just as yet another darkmoon blade was summoned. The host healed himself while his Blade attempted to kill me, but it went the same as last time. The host resorted to his final strategy of running in circles around the area while I hit him with running attacks, sometimes making an effort to hit me to mix things up a little bit. ANOTHER blade of darkmoon was summoned, but he returned home immediately for some reason. ANOTHER blade of darkmoon was summoned after that, this time standing right next to me, but by now the host had already run out of estus and I combo'd him to death in front of the Blade's very eyes. For some reason, he continued to try to attack me even after the host died, so I applauded to him.

Dark Souls 3

How is it that whenever I invade people they get blue phantoms every 5 seconds but I still never get summoned as one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 05, 2018, 01:46:00 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on January 05, 2018, 01:06:28 pm

MACE SLAVE. EAT WELL!!!

*spiced jerky hits slave in face*

*holds it confusedly for days*

its funny cuz i usually have to give kudos to my archer slaves; with those advanced bows and snake arrows they usually clear anything hostile long before i get there. if your archers aren't doing anything, remember that you have to give them an arrow (one arrow equals infinite ammo) and remember to drag it onto their bow to link them. did you also have the waist high wall pieces around them? they don't fire over them so well.

i bagged a t3 nordheimer warrior chick who i geared up with full steel and a hardened steel sword. she's kicking major ass so far. i turned up resource collection rates to x6 and i have a constant cycle of having to dry the wood to fuel the smelters to make the iron and steel, and i use the tar byproduct of making the wood and the leather to make steelfire. the only thing that's a slight pain to get is brimstone but you can mine that at a certain spot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on January 05, 2018, 02:12:02 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on January 05, 2018, 01:38:10 pm

How is it that whenever I invade people they get blue phantoms every 5 seconds but I still never get summoned as one?

Over-saturation of blue phantoms and not enough hosts to summon them?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 05, 2018, 02:22:02 pm

this has been a problem for years with this dang game ;v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 05, 2018, 05:36:00 pm

Quote from: JimboM12 on January 05, 2018, 01:46:00 pm

its funny cuz i usually have to give kudos to my archer slaves; with those advanced bows and snake arrows they usually clear anything hostile long before i get there. if your archers aren't doing anything, remember that you have to give them an arrow (one arrow equals infinite ammo) and remember to drag it onto their bow to link them. did you also have the waist high wall pieces around them? they don't fire over them so well.

Strictly speaking, it's just the bow with the linked arrow, you don't need the actual arrow in their inventory. You can attach the arrow to the bow, then just hand them the bow - one arrow can supply an army of archers infinitely. Gets even better when their missed shots are sometimes recoverable.

And yes, I do have the waist-high walls(called fences) on the towers. I have seen them fire over them, it's possible that the elephant was just too close to the tower. It's also possible they were firing, I just didn't see any of the shots.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 05, 2018, 08:41:50 pm

Conan Exiles - After multiple attempts, we successfully navigated THE BLACK KEEP and defeated the boss at the end. The reward for this is the recipe for the best armor set in the game.

I'm pretty sure THE BLACK KEEP is the highest-end dungeon in the game right now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 05, 2018, 10:09:10 pm

Tyranids are... well, there's a reason they're considered possibly the biggest threat to the Imperium, even moreso than Chaos. Especially if the Hive Lord leading them is armed with a Venom Cannon that shoots Warp-infused bolts that do extra damage to daemons, and is set up so that all 'nids in its synapse range have a 50%(assumed) chance of doing double damage. One shot from this Venom Cannon kills multiple Chaos Space Marines, I'm guessing because it hits one guy in the face so hard a piece of his helmet breaks off and hits another in the face hard enough to kill him too. The Hive Lord is also the only hero out of all the races I've actually raised to level 10(prereq for the weapon, too).

Oh, and Carnifexes can equip Venom Cannons too. They're still considered anti-everything, even at that size.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WH40k: Dawn of War II: Retribution. I've completed the campaign with every race now. What's interesting is that the Tyranid campaign removes the Space Hulk mission against an Ork Mad Mek, replacing it with the previously optional mission of escorting a vehicle through the Space Hulk's cargo bay(and changing it so the vehicle is actually a Zoanthrope). It's also the only campaign where their super-unit(in this case the Swarmlord) is not given in an optional mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on January 07, 2018, 05:39:22 am

It has been a wild ride since start, buuuut-

Spoiler: Ο Θεός θέλει!! (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/354721222900318210/399385820902981632/byzantium.PNG)

Next stop, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on January 07, 2018, 06:35:30 am

So the game has an issue atm where AI bots will sometimes get stuck in a spot and have slow reaction times. It became a hilarious issue yesterday when I ran into a crowd of derping bots with nothing but my knife and butchered the entire crowd of a dozen or so space marines.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Angels Fall First (great game when bots aren't getting stuck)

EDIT:

Oh man, just had a crazy match in

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 Magic Duels

So I was running a blue/white control deck with some weak flyers while my opponent was running a green/red energy deck and had an electrostatic pummeler, an aethertorch renegade, an aethersphere harvester, and a bristling hydra (which due to the pay 3 energy get +1/1 counter and hexproof ability I didn't have an answer for). I knew I couldn't let him get me down to 6 life, because then he'd just use the aethertorch renegade's ability to hit me for 6 damage and the win, so I was using my critters as "chump blockers" to keep the hydra from doing damage.

I drew a declaration in stone which I used on the aethertorch to exile it from the game, but as it was going down my opponent paid a bunch of energy to use its hit for 6 ability. But this meant that I could bounce out the hydra with my Reflector Mage and it couldn't return for a turn.
I bounced it off and he played another pummeler during his turn. I tried to push out one pummeler with Anchor to the Aether and tap the other with my Niblis of Frost's triggered ability, but he blocked the targeted spell + ability by using two Blossoming Defenses.
Then during his next turn he cast the hydra again, as I knew he would, so I countered it with a Spell Queller.
During my turn I went in for an attack, but had forgotten about his Aethersphere Harvester which he activated and would've taken out my Spell Queller, but I cast my Torrential Gearhulk in response to use an Essence Flux from the graveyard and cast it on my Reflector Mage to bounce out a pummeler, but he countered with another blossoming defense on the pummeler, but the Niblis of Frost's triggered ability still triggered, allowing me to tap his aethersphere harvester and go in for the attack. I then Imprisoned in the Moon the Aethersphere harvester to take it out of play. From there it was basically GG.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on January 07, 2018, 09:52:14 am

Star Traders: Frontiers
Pretty much another awesome game by the Trese Brothers (who have the whole Star Traders series on mobile games and otherwise that give fleshed out and contentful make, also female and male choices for soldiers and crew--this is a turn-based space RPG/Strategy sandbox-ish game! But it has a campaign in comparison to the mobile ones!). In this game, you get to customize nearly everything, from each individual crew member of your ship (which has at least 12 crew on the tiniest scout ship), to equipment and modules of your ship. Currently, some parts are static on a level progression scale (more expensive = more power = more demand for skilled crew to man them well), but the developers note that they're going to make it more flexible later on.

I count this as an own even if it's pretty much LUCKY RNG ALL THE WAY, as there's a steam achievement that has around 0.0% in the global achievements; 'conscripting 20 crew before the end of year 2, on HARD mode'. In comparison to the mobile games, this one has a very unknown system of ship-to-ship combat, in which you have 5 different 'ranges' with weapons usually only being able to hit at a certain range, and only being able to board at a range of 3. There are only 4 ways to win a battle:
> You escape and live
> You blow up the other ship
> You blow up their engines or piloting systems (or kill the enemy captain via boarding), or finish off all their crew with your 4-man boarding team. Being victorious in boarding combat allows you to instill fear in the enemy crew (costing them vital 'action points' [or reactor points], and sabotage a module in their ship.
And with space being space, what kind of ship you meet can come from the tiniest scout ship, to large dragoon cruisers bustling with weapons and armor, and with different captain occupations, from the military officer, to the zealot, to the spy, and the merchant. There are also over 5 different factions, and ships of a faction react accordingly if you have reputation with them or not.

Getting both an intact enemy ship alive, while not suffering enough damage on your own ship, is one of the hardest things to succeed in, especially early game where most of your crew is level 1 (and only has one ability each). During your captain creation, you have 5 'tiers' of ranking what starting abilities/ship&moneys/experience/attributes/skills, and contacts you have, from tier A to tier E.

So I went A rank ship, followed by skills and attributes, going as a Spy focused in Evasion with 10 points in it (the maximum allocated), [and 1 blade, for the offhand], with the rest in Pistol. Attributes were focused into Quickness and Wisdom, for initiative in crew combat. Experience was at D, and Contacts was at E because I was aiming for the achievement and had no time whatsoever to do any contracts for big money. This means I had to scavenge and live on the edge--you have to balance your money here as ship repairs are very expensive, crew payments are by the month (so 4 weeks at least, as the game times you per day), and every visit to the repair area or the doctor to heal up your crew [they get damaged ALA Star Trek Ship Damage = Crew Damage/Death] costs ~2 weeks.

In its current state, it is 'Early Release', however it is already at a very fleshed out version. However, it is ROGUELIKE/IRONMAN DIFFICULTY, as in you cannot manually save. And while there is a 'custom difficulty' (to adjust the parameters to your liking), it is currently not yet implemented.
I got lucky in the first year, having experience'd up my crew, surrendering to hostile military officers and stoopid pirates when able, as they will only search your cargo (if no cargo/passengers/prisoners, you're free, unless their faction hates you, upon which you get either executed, or judged on trial for your 'crimes'; you get a chance to not get judged because of the slow judiciary process...IN SPACE, so there's even an RNG for everything).
My first plan was to cut off a few electronics/"crew dogs", making around 7 bunk spaces (you can only conscript crewmen if you have available crew space), and there is no way to eject crew other than making landfall on a planet because nobody is heartless enough to throw people out the airlock. Alongside replacing my autocannon armaments for plasma cannons to better focus on range 4 to 3 (for boarding tactic pushes). Cue several spy missions, and I wrangled up a tiny ship. I luckily blew out its engines (this was around the 10th ship I've encountered, getting me an in-game award for survival; sadly unlike the Star Traders mobile series, achievements do not give bonuses now [probably later on in further versions?]). The next one was at the 26th week after the 1nd year, wherein a boarding attempt luckily found me facing the enemy captain, and with my captain always heading the attack (alongside one of the luckily picked officers, being a swordsman in space), we won that while giving the enemy a fatal wound. I was counting 13 crewmen at this point, being conscripted [I can let them down easy without paying them by dropping them off on the planet I'm spying on anyway]. After a lot of lucky hits, and leveling my crew to the Military Officer/Smuggler/Pirate line, to get that awesome loot from Smuggler ship enemies (Power Generator cargo gives around 90k cash, in bulk), I luckily happened on another ship. This was the 8th one after blowing up 7 others unluckily, and with a combination of barrage guns to get the enemy ship accuracy off, combined with piloting 'Guided Fire' for accuracy, the RNG hit the enemy ship engines off and I had JUST enough space to conscript the next 7 crew, giving me enough for the achievement. And on the 49th week too.

This game is very hard. :'( But it is very fun.
And my wording is very messy. :-\

Fun note, sword-type weapons do the most damage, followed by the LMG. Sniper/Pistols are on the lower damage range, but better accuracy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 08, 2018, 01:01:17 am

As King of Italy, I stole a Pope's skull, had it cleaned, and put it on my mantle to admire.  I'm...probably not a very good Catholic, if the fact that he excommunicated me first for invading the Ravennate and seized it for myself wasn't a clue.  Every so often, it helps when the game reminds how random events throw you some interesting narrative curve balls. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Reudh on January 08, 2018, 03:38:04 am

Changed out my Thief's "let's stealth lots also condition damage" build into a half-baked Power Deadeye build with lots of emphasis on the Mark, and suddenly i'm CLEAVING through enemies, and I'm still missing some of the build for it. As it turns out, having 64% base crit chance is very good. Then 84% with Fury, which almost has 100% uptime, and then 100% once Twin Fangs kicks in.

I'm just sitting back laughing as my rifle 4 hits upwards of 11-12k on level 80 generic mobs. And it's more or less spammable as long as I have enough initiative. In a game where your average level 80 generic mob has maybe 15k.

(Guild Wars 2)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 08, 2018, 01:54:21 pm

I was trying to get into the police station and finally did only to be bitten on the shoulder. It was one zombie. Arghh.

So I dropped everything but my sawed off shotgun, mountain of ammo, and couple Molotovs. Time to take the horde to task.

Total body count ended up at 108 apparently.

Project zomboid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 08, 2018, 08:20:44 pm

Invaded someone in the Archives who had a Warrior of Sunlight with him, as well as a blue phantom who arrived shortly after me. I had reallocated my stats to accommodate Champion Gundyr's gear, so I tried taking them all at once with my Halberd's wide sweeping attacks,  which actually worked well until the host and the blueberry started trying to hold me down while the sunbro shot me with Soul Stream. I managed to break away from them for a moment and get them to chase after me into some of those enemies that throw wax at you and use sorceries, causing them to split apart in confusion. Before they were able to get back together, I relentlessly pursued them all with charging attacks, making sure they never got a chance to use estus. Just to show off, I killed the host last.

I forgot to use Point Down, though, which is kind of disappointing.

Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 09, 2018, 07:45:01 pm

A group of Replicas tried to ambush me around a corner. I threw a grenade, activated Slow-Mo, and tried to shoot the grenade in the air. Instead of blowing up on shot(may have missed), it simply stopped on the ground right in the center of the group, then exploded, killing the group. There was bits of shredded corpse all the way in the next room over.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

F.E.A.R.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on January 10, 2018, 05:45:57 pm

Survived the base assault on Classic Ironman. The primary reason I even managed to win was thanks to my Squadsight + In the Zone colonel sniper. I lost track of how many kills she got out of the 37 aliens that attacked my base, but it was definitely a majority. I also lucked out and got two colonel heavies with HEAT in the starting squad, and another colonel heavy with HEAT, a blaster launcher and extra rockets in the first group of reinforcements. That was huge, since there were 3 mectoids ganging up in only the first wave of aliens.

Bloody alien attack included 5 mectoids, 3 cyberdiscs, 4 sectoid commanders, 2 berserkers, 6 chrysalids, and an ethereal, along with various sectoids and floaters and mutons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM Enemy Within

And now, a moment of silence for the base security blue-shirts that sacrificed their lives today.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 13, 2018, 04:14:05 am

I conquered a "friend"'s fortress, and just *ripped* through the defenses!  They were no match for me!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Middle Earth: Shadow of War
The "friend" was literally me.  Apparently that is allowed.

Just after a hearty round of mind-controlling Sauron's minions while repelling a siege, I was suddenly ambushed by literally 5 captains I had mind controlled.  Plus a hostage.

Not only did I save the hostage, I accidentally tricked one of them into killing another.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Middle Earth: Shadow of War
Also I "died".  But the hostage survived, and I took down 3.  Fricken archers.  Well played.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on January 13, 2018, 06:45:35 am

Do you mean Shadow of War?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 13, 2018, 01:16:03 pm

Oops, fixed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 14, 2018, 01:42:12 am

just got the game last night and dled it overnight;

managed to get my first #2 spot on the board. i got into an extended duel with one of the other two finalists but the last contestant had taken a sniper position just outside the shrink area and sniped me after. i managed 4 kills that game, with only an akm with 3 magazines worth of ammo. most of my time was running from one corner of the map to the shrink area.

still, not bad for someone still tweaking the settings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

playerunknown battlegrounds

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 14, 2018, 07:13:05 am

How is it? I've been considering getting it, but I've been put off by the $30 price and the numerous complaints that it's a bug-infested, hacker-infested mess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 14, 2018, 08:52:19 am

Quote from: Akura on January 14, 2018, 07:13:05 am

How is it? I've been considering getting it, but I've been put off by the $30 price and the numerous complaints that it's a bug-infested, hacker-infested mess.

i can't speak for hacker infected, as i have yet to see any examples of it yet even though there was some news and controversies about mass chinese hackers, but there are just some graphical bugs i've noticed and that's it. i mean, i got it thru gmg with a discount code that saved me around 8 bucks so im inclined to relax my judgement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Coolnesstod on January 14, 2018, 09:29:48 am

PUBG is still a little buggy, but its gotten better since it 'fully released'  ::)

It's really fun, considering from what ive seen on magazines and such that 5 mil+ people are playing it at any given time. Ive seen only 2 hackers from my couple hundred hours of play. Devs might not be the best, but they made one hell of a game. Definitely buy it on humble bundle or some other site that has it discounted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on January 14, 2018, 01:16:32 pm

Saved one Sorcerer from Magisters and Voidlings. Magisters were pretty easy, while Fire Voidlings aka the last wave, required some reloads.

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Divinity Original Sin II.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on January 14, 2018, 02:47:01 pm

In 1588 AD, I restored The Pentarchy as Byzantine Empire.

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ATHATH on January 16, 2018, 01:55:41 am

Cult activity was reported in the bar. Me, being the chaplain whose job it is to help deal with such things, ran over there with my talking sword.

I was then tased in the hall outside of the bar, dragged into the back of said bar, and surrounded by 4 or so cultists that were preparing to sacrifice me to their blood-hungry god.

I had just one word to say to them: "A-a-alla-a-huu-u" ("Allahu" (as in, "allahu akbar"), but jittery because I had recently been tased). The voice-activated holy hand grenade that I had made earlier and put in my pocket (or was it my backback?) for just such an occasion then activated, causing a massive explosion that killed both me and my would-be sacrificers (I think).

The cult lost that round, although I'm not sure how much of that was due to my actions. I think the AI was the real MVP that round, since some random crewmember removed its Asimov laws in favor of ones that would force the AI to serve him (her?), letting it brutally burn/suffocate/murder most of the cult members, despite said cult members managing to convert almost everyone on the station (for some reason, the cult never sent a construct after it).

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Space Station 13, over on /tg/station's Bagil server.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 16, 2018, 08:02:14 am

Quote from: ATHATH on January 16, 2018, 01:55:41 am

The cult lost that round, although I'm not sure how much of that was due to my actions.

Probably a decent chunk, cuz if they were skilled enough to set up a hidden sacrifice chamber without security or assistants finding it, you probably took out the members skilled enough to use magic. This would leave the lesser skilled ones to run around trying to convert everyone but without the cult leader transcribing spells and getting sacrifices it allowed the ai to robomurder them cuz they dont have the spells to defend themselves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aliemma on January 18, 2018, 02:55:29 pm

Less an "Own", more of a "Won through AI stupidity but still skin of my teeth" but whatever.

Last 2 attempts had failed, once from not getting some cities and bases on the far side in time, once from not getting the airport before the enemy and thus getting decimated by battle copters. Decide to go for a minimalistic strategy: 2 APCS, 2 infantry, one infantry gets the airport, other one gets the base near it, and wait for money for bombers to blow up the pipe I need destroyed to clear the mission.

Main problem is that the enemy has a factory that lets them get new units and use them on the same turn, whereas I have to wait to use my own. Thus, the second I get the airport, missles and 2 anti-aircraft guns get built while I'm waiting for money! Fun! Was able to body-block the anti-aircraft guns long enough to get the second bomber out a few turns after the missles got the first; and the missles for some reason decided to move out of spawn-camping range. Map ended right before they broke through the infantry body-block choke and not long before the enemy infantry would have captured my HQ

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 Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising. Conclusion: Factories are annoying as hell

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2018, 07:08:50 pm

For much of the early game, Russia was the closest empire, and the two of us worked in harmony. Multiple research pacts, a Declaration of Friendship. I even bailed them out with some money.

However, their ruler, Catherine, started changing policy. First she puts a city near my border, then screams at me for settling too close to her. Eventually she stops offering research pacts, then has the nerve to denounce me. The main source of friction was that she desired my vast tracts of land. Odd considering her empire was equal in both city count and controlled area, so she had some vast tracts of land herself.


Curse you, Catherine of Russia, and your sudden, inevitable betrayal!! And by that, I mean I saw it coming a mile away and struck first.

While she was still playing with spearmen and archers, I was position tons of Minutemen along my border(she was doing the same... on my border). Then I research Rifling, and upgrade the entire army to Riflemen at once, declare war, and push across the her border. The Riflemen's base strength(25) was twice that of her entire cities'. Within a dozen turns, her capital was surrounded.

Her first offer of peace was extremely generous; several resources, gold, open borders, and about half of her remaining empire. At first I was tempted to accept, but in the end declined. She had no appreciable military left. Her second offer, after being reduced to one final 3-pop city, was a measly 106 gold. I was making more than that per turn.

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Civilization V.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on January 18, 2018, 09:18:53 pm

Fully Upgraded Ser Junkan.

I almost felt bad for the Dragun.

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 19, 2018, 05:42:12 pm

Managed to beat down the final boss worm. Actually, I'm not sure if I actually killed it, or if I simply drove far enough for it to back off(also considered a win).

Ran out of ammo for both laser cannons(batteries are a pain to make in bulk) pretty quick, the cannon and two of the (three) machineguns were wrecked, the last gun just kept firing. I ran out of magnum ammo(the strongest), then switched to whatever else I had. The one gun just kept firing. It didn't stop. Then, silence.

Had one mouse die(out of 12), and nearly half the rooms on the sandship were destroyed. Worse, the rooms destroyed were some of the important, expensive ones; kitchen(there goes all the food), factory, plant. But it was a victory.

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Of Mice and Sand.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on January 20, 2018, 06:07:43 pm

I beat 2/3rds of Hyper Mode on Super Hexagon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2018, 10:51:48 pm

Actually managed to win a match for once. 3v3, 1000-point victory match. Stopped a few sectors away from the enemy base and built a defensive line. Using tank traps with barbed wire behind it, I funneled the enemy into a narrow choke point on my side. Said choke point had AT guns, mortars, machine gun nests, the fun stuff. Sadly, the ally AI didn't want to do much on their side.

Held on to two victory points for a while without any serious opposition. Around the time they dropped to around 300 points left, they started attacking in force. The defenses around the middle victory point were eventually lost, and I had to fight back and forth for it. At around 150 points left, the enemy AI did its usual magic bullshit, summoning dozens of tanks out of nowhere. Lost the middle point for several minutes while trying to just hold on to my forward base. Two uses of the "Off-map support" ability, an expensive power that summons 15-pop cap's worth of random units were wasted, both being flattened before reaching the front. Still managed to recover the center point, even as it was put under cover of a Flak-88. The worst part wasn't even the tanks, it was the sniper spam. I literally put half a squad on an unmanned AT gun(thanks to sniper), only for the crew to be wiped out in less than a second. Then the little cucks get a fall-back order.

At around 50-60 points left, the enemy buried one of my ally AI's bases in tanks; even with heavy artillery support, I couldn't stop it. At the same time(30 points left), the other AI captures the enemy's long-held victory point. The enemy just sort of gave up. There was almost nothing they could do anyway.

My side still had over 900 points left.

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Company of Heroes. The game likes to forget the lube a lot, but it feels fantastic being on the winning side when you can.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 23, 2018, 01:44:49 am

Made it to 3rd place, with 4 kills.  Perhaps not impressive, but I'm new to the game so it was a huge step for me.

The most memorable kill that I had was when I saw someone who was under fire build a 1x3 tower (the standard fort, basically).  I started taking out their walls with my AR hoping to catch them in a crossfire, but who ever had been fighting them before gave up.  So it turned into both of us trying to clip each other's heads with snipers.  I didn't feel like risking it so I quietly slipped out of my fort, built a long wooden ramp to climb the mountain above the guy's head, then tossed grenades into his fort.  One of them fell right into the top and bounced around inside, he had barely a second to panic before his entire fort exploded.

In the final area I managed to kill a guy with a legendary scar to replace my blue AR.  Sadly, although I had almost everything a person could want (aside from 100 shields, but I did have 7 mini shield potions), the guy who won had something more: a rocket launcher.  So when I tried to put all my resources to work on a final fort, he blew it up (thankfully I escaped).  I hid in a corner, then right before the circle got to me I blew up the roof over my head and trampolined out.  That let me see my opponent's fort, a huge metal monstrosity.  I managed to ramp my way in and tried to take him out with the scar instead of my boring tactical shotgun.  He predictably gunned me down.  After I died, I was surprised to see that I only got third; I charged so aggressively because I thought there was only one guy left.

If I had kept my head (waited a little longer to engage, kept the trampoline, used the shotty in close range) I might have won.  Still, the other guy must have played more aggressively than me to have that many rockets (I counted at least 7), and he had circle luck.  I'm glad I got as far as I did.  The silly thing is, I previously considered grenades a crap item, but they would have been an extraordinary advantage if I had kept them.

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 23, 2018, 05:30:18 am

I think I figured out how to do magic. After squeezing what little earth gem income I could into pearls, and then squeezing those into death gems, I finally managed to empower some dude with a few ranks of death magic, and got him casting Dark Knowledge, which reveals death magic sites in a province. Using that newfound income, I got him boosted in Astral magic, and now he's casting Acashic Knowledge, which finds ALL magic sites in a province. This of course, has an incredible effect on magic income once you find those sites.

Also, the turn after I stupidly sent my god into the arena(how was I supposed to know they'd have a hero with more hitpoints than an actual god?!), the enemy rather stupidly sends their god(and one priest) into a province with a defense rating of 100. Then they got mad that I killed their god.

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Dominions 4.

EDIT: Heh, that was odd. I tried to kick down the capital fortress of the same god. Unfortunately, the three commanders of the attack were all killed, causing the entire army to rout even though we would have won otherwise. We did kill their god again during the battle, and afterwards I see the message that it was permanently killed due to dominion loss.

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Dominions 4 again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 23, 2018, 07:14:16 am

So last patch introduced a neat unique wand called The Poets Pen. Now, it has some nice gem lvl scaling but the real thing that makes it awesome is that it casts socketed spells on attack. This has an internal cooldown of a 1/4 second (tho it can be lowered) and since it has up to three sockets (from which it casts in sequence if multiple different spells are socketed) this means that if you dual wield them and get your attack speed up you can be casting 6 different spells every second. Lategame you wanna have two which are supported so you get a higher dmg output, but while leveling you can do whatever you want. In my case, one hand was summoning flaming skull minions and shooting projectiles which created corpses where they landed. The other was summoning zombies from said corpses and exploding the remainder into homing orbs of fire which detonate after reaching an enemy, also it rained knives on an area. All this while my main attack fired a bunch of projectiles which had a chance to freeze enemies while also cursing them with a higher chance to recieve crits.

All of this resulted in me running around, attacking a few times and either the targets died in a second or two from all the knives/explosions/attacks or they lived a while longer only to be swarmed by flaming skulls and zombies. Stupidly fun build.

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Path of Exile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 23, 2018, 11:07:12 am

Been dealing with a minor fever and cough for a couple days now that i managed to blow out today. Yay good health. Some peeps got it worse then me and my hearts out to you all.

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real life

Got a superman punch off on a dude with way more gear than me. One punch ko.
Then i got mowed down by the dude following him to steal his assault rifle.

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pubg

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 23, 2018, 06:04:38 pm

After several attempts, I finally completed the Special Defector Mission DAN.

I would've probably completed it in fewer attempts if I wasn't careless as I was on my first few goes (wound up using the wait button for too long and got shot).

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Heat Signature.

EDIT:
When I fired my self-charging grenade launcher (in a defector mission) and then paused I noticed that there was a grenade in the item pause menu.

I teleported it to me like I would any other item.

Free grenade.

My grenade spam essentially doubled with this ability to "stock" grenades.

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Heat Signature

Double EDIT:

I wound up triggering the alarm on a Glitcher ship.

When I reached the pilot I had only one shot of an armor-piercing weapon: my Grenade Launcher. It's not impact, so even if I hit the pilot with it I'd still have to wait two seconds before it exploded, and I literally have one second left. Thankfully, you don't have to hit a pilot lethally in order to remove them from their seat (disabling the alarm).

I hit the guard with the grenade directly, causing him to leave his seat. Just as he turned around to attack me the grenade exploded.

Almost like a scene out of an action film, to be honest.

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Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on January 27, 2018, 01:21:45 am

Based on a whim, I picked up Monster Hunter 4U again.  I finally beat Tetsucabra after a couple more tries.  I even beat it by cracking it over the head with a giant musical instrument; it's nice to have managed it with my preferred weapon.  It's, uh, it's almost certainly not much of an accomplishment, but I've been trying off and on for a wee bit (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg7076298;topicseen#msg7076298), so I am somewhat pleased by this success.
^{Of course, I then proceeded to resume dying on all the missions unlocked thereafter, so...}

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Monster Hunter 4U

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on January 27, 2018, 02:22:37 pm

I beat Ornstein and Smough, for the first time ever, in only two tries. The first attempt was thwarted when Super Ornstein managed to get off his lightning stab attack (and speaking of which, you can avoid it by staying as close as physically possible to him at all times. Protip!) when I wasn’t at full health, but the second time I didn’t slip up.

I also noticed that if you’re just slightly out of range for the lightning stab, it’ll do full damage to you but you won’t actually be picked up and launched and what have you. Or at least I think it’s from being out of range?
I ate that multiple times.

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 27, 2018, 11:03:05 pm

I first played Spore almost 10 years ago, and today I finally managed to go full Space Hitler by allying with the Grox, making myself the enemy of the entire galaxy.

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Spore

After being forced to EXTEEEEERMINAAAATE my former allies, I attempted to create new civilizations on their former home planets using monoliths, hoping that they would like me since I was the one who created them, but they still hated me for being allied with the Grox. It did give me the idea of using monoliths to create spacefaring civilizations so I could then take their already-fully-developed planets for myself, though.

I am a horrible person :3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on January 29, 2018, 12:54:39 pm

I beat the last difficulty on Super Hexagon. That was very satisfying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 29, 2018, 02:04:16 pm

This happened a bit earlier, I just forgot to post it: I knocked down a flying harpy by throwing another, dead harpy at her. It was hilarious and more effective than I had expected it to be.

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Dragon's Dogma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on January 29, 2018, 03:02:09 pm

Wow, nice. I just burned the hell outta 'em.

Turns out there was a lot of hell to burn before they went down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 29, 2018, 05:31:41 pm

dragons dogma: dark arisen is probably in my top 10 of all time. so fun, worth playing multiple times, indirect multiplayer kinda like darksouls but where you send your personal companion out, funny combos of skills leading to op-ness; its got it all.

the only thing is they should have either expanded or completely cut the arisens chosen romance thing. it would have been a funny fable like mechanic if you could carry your chosen romance to the inn for fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on January 29, 2018, 05:37:57 pm

The problem I had with Dragon's Dogma is I think the plot had a fantastic basic idea, but really, really terrible execution that felt rushed. For example, the problem with the romance; if you don't know it's coming (or don't do the quest to get the Arisen's Bond) then you end up with a merchant most likely simply because you've talked to them the most. While it is kind of entertaining that you can end up with literally anyone, I think a better option would have been to have NPCs give you a quest to max their affection and if you don't do any of them the game just defaults to your childhood friend since that's at least a trope.

I mean there's lots of ways you could do better, just a thought.

(also I liked the game overall, I'm just saying :v)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 29, 2018, 08:07:01 pm

Acquired the Gold Idol, one of the easiest unique items in the game to fail to get. In one try.

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Dragon's Dogma. Naturally, I threw that spoiled brat off the city wall afterwards. Oddly enough, she survived, despite the gallon or so of blood in the alley below.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on January 29, 2018, 08:08:23 pm

Should've thrown her a second time. ;P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 31, 2018, 12:41:39 pm

I still remember the time I accidentally threw my main pawn in the ocean instead of a secondary pawn that pissed me off.  It made me genuinely emotionally sad and I haven't played since.

This is a crafting own, but I'd say it counts.  Playing co op with my brother, I've taken up mostly crafting our items while my brother crafts our base and vehicles (plus construction tools).  I had produced for us a two full sets of quality 400 full plate armor, and a ludicrous amount of medicine.  I made 2 medicine cabinets for our base (each with 20 slots).  One of them is now filled up with 100 first aid bandages, the other has 30 first aid kits, and then a stack each of painkillers, antibiotics, splints, vitamins and some more first aid bandages.  I've also got enough various crops farmed to make 100 units each of coffee and various teas, as well as a near infinite amount of cornbread and vegetable stew.  And I'm carrying around 40 pipe bombs.  This is all especially an own for me because when we were younger me and my bro would play a lot of grindy games like Diablo and Minecraft, and inevitably he would outpace me to the point where my contributions were negligible.  Now I'm holding my own, although he's still level 110 to my 75.  That may be explained by the fact that I died repeatedly early on.

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7d2d

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on January 31, 2018, 12:46:39 pm

I just barely managed to beat up the forces of Chaos in Total War: Warhammer (1) as the Vampire counts on hard.  I thought I was doomed but things just barely worked out(after having like 6 cities razed to the ground).

Now I just have to keep things peaceful and build up my infrastructure until I'm ready to beat up the dwarves, who have like taken the whole south. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LordPorkins on January 31, 2018, 12:50:08 pm

I was playing in my buddys Monday-Night D&D game and rolled a nat 20 when I tried to seduce the Vampire Queen who was the secondary antagonist of our campaign.

So, that was fun.

Oh, and then we went to a Gala and my Warlock ended up killing an Inquisitor who'd been hunting him without anyone noticeing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 04, 2018, 10:18:00 am

Nobody told me that ptolemaic Egypt is just freaking awesome. Basically you get a choice of any good medium tier unit in the game all at once. Considering I usually roll through most of my campaigns with just the medium tier units with a small support group of elite units, this is really a game breaker.

I have an army with fine archers, decent swordsman, phalanx units, good cavalry, camel cavalry, and elephants. Plus I can hire camel archers, armoured elephants, great phalanx or other infantry, cretan archers, and more with mercenaries. On top of that, my economy and food supply is absurd and I am feverishly breaking research with great libraries. I have 40000+ cash and 10k income, 40 surplus food and damn near 200% research speed.

Total War: Rome 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on February 04, 2018, 01:35:46 pm

I'm on my second run, but I beat the Capra Demon on my first try this time around!

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition

Of course, I was prepared this time. Not just with my knowledge of how Capra operates, but also with the proper equipment--I got Havel's ring before taking him on, nabbed the Elite Knight armor back in Darkroot Garden and the Grass Crest Shield in Darkroot Basin, and I'll confess that the first thing I did after arriving at Firelink was going on a mad run through the cemetery to nab the Zweihander at the back. It's kind of hilarious how powerful it is in the early game.

He was honestly kind of pathetic since I was prepared. Both dogs went down in one shot and the demon himself only took ~10 hits, tops.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 04, 2018, 02:33:48 pm

Quote from: Tawa on February 04, 2018, 01:35:46 pm

He was honestly kind of pathetic since I was prepared

The story of Dark Souls, or why I insist the series really isn't that hard :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 04, 2018, 05:12:17 pm

It isn't, it's just unforgiving of mistakes and people who don't learn from them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 04, 2018, 08:26:50 pm

Set out on a journey to Bluemoon Tower, a structure, I discovered, that is visible from as far away as Cassardis. I had long wondered what it was. Neat.

The trip took a very roundabout route through a canyon with high-level bandits. Two unreachable archers were a particular danger; they'd cut a pawn down just as I got them on their feet. I had to carry the downed pawn into cover before reviving them.

This was followed by a section with powerful wind gusts that slow you to a crawl while sprinting, and push you back otherwise. I got through it by picking up an explosive barrel to weigh me down(also a neat discovery I didn't know about). Coming on a flock of snow harpies, I suddenly see a boulder stand up during the fight. But wait, boulders don't stand up... OH SH-

My first encounter with a golem. That was fun.


It was past sunset by the time I finally got the the tower; it was a pretty damned impressive structure despite its ruined state. It took more damage when the griffin attacked us and the redshirt knights we were supposed to be helping. Getting to its roost and finishing it off is perhaps one of the most awesome boss fights in the game. The loot was fantastic, including the portcrystal I put outside the tower to come back.

Returning to town, and picking up a few errands, including dealing with a supply problem at the northern fortification, I'm ambushed by another griffin. Seriously though I want one of these things as a pet somehow.

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Dragon's Dogma. Next up is rescuing my waifu-witch from an angry mob. They want to burn the witch. Hahano.

Took down my first drake(a lesser? dragon). This used up the entirety of my stock of healing items. Well, nearly so. Still have a few nuts, one or two harspud things, and a kept golden egg that I immediately dropped into storage first chance I got to make sure I never use it ever. I wasn't sure if I was going to win that.

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Dragon's Dogma. Time to look up ways to farm better healing items than potent greenwarish. Spring water comes to mind if I drop a portcrystal by one; farms profit too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 06, 2018, 09:33:00 am

I rallied my men and we took cover in a stand of trees. 21 of us in all. 40 of them. Looters and marauders. We spread out using trees and small boulders as cover. I had just hired these volunteers and only one squad was trained to militia standards.

But through sheer luck, good positioning, and firepower, we won. We lost 6 guys but their sacrifice was not in vain.

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Freeman guerilla warfare, a strange and completely awesome arma/mount and blade combo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on February 06, 2018, 10:05:25 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on February 06, 2018, 09:33:00 am

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Freeman guerilla warfare, a strange and completely awesome arma/mount and blade combo

Your story and game mention brought me to wishlist it. Rare to see 'realistic' games also acknowledge freely and distinctly the plan to add female soldiers (alongside the many other plans listed in the discussion boards). :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on February 06, 2018, 01:08:59 pm

Oddly enough, I have a story from the same game.

There were sixteen of us: two squads of Veteran Mercenary Riflemen, one team of Snipers, and an MG crew. An FCA Rifleman unit was held in reserve. Our opponents were a group of Uman Terrorists and Bandits numbering nearly forty. They had hounded us and demanded nearly half our funds, and attacked when we refused to give in to their banditry.

Our deployment was within the combat area, which in my experience has provided the most exciting fights, as the AI tends to come at you from multiple directions more readily than otherwise. We lucked out with our deployment, being at the top of a hill with dense tree cover on one side and a sheer cliff overlooking a large valley and another cliff about level with us on the other. As combat began we came under fire almost immediately. This was my first ever engagement with the Uman Terrorists, so I did not know what to expect. The MG squad and one of the Rifleman units held off a squad of Redshirts (the Uman wear red) who came for the treeline while the other Rifleman unit watched one of the coverless sides of the hill and the Snipers oversaw the valley. There was a brief lull in the battle, then everything went insane.

Multiple squads of Uman troops appeared on the ridge opposite us and unleashed a barrage of fire. The color of their uniforms and their propensity for skylining themselves made them fairly easy targets, though the sheer volume of incoming fire was very overwhelming. While I maneuvered my troops to focus on the large force firing upon us, another large group appeared on the ridge and poured into the valley while what looked like a single squad tried to sneak around our flank and attack from our side. Fortunately I'd seen them moving in the distance, as they did not appear on the map, being too far from me and my dudes and not firing their weapons. Our line adjusted accordingly.

Once the first wave of Uman rushing into the valley was picked off we began firing very effectively onto the enemy ridgeline. As their losses began to pile up their squads began trying to probe our hill in desperation. The open ground between us proved to be their downfall, however, as Redshirt after Redshirt fell to our firepower. Ultimately the battle became a hunt as, with only three enemies left, my two Rifle Squads pincered the Uman position on the ridge.

The enemy was completely wiped out, and the New Conglomerate (<_< >_>) suffered only two losses.

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Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare

It's described by literally everyone on youtube as an ArmA/Mount and Blade fusion, and it's not really wrong. It's a great foundation, and the game is definitely worth the price already. There are a lot of things getting worked out, fixed, and added (five updates in the last six days I think), and I imagine the game is only going to improve. I don't usually get mad excited for a game's potential, but this is one that might actually become something greater.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 06, 2018, 04:56:25 pm

i finally got a rpd-97 smg; so efficient, it feels like an assault rifle but uses the cheap 9mm mags.

i finally got my leadership and commanding up to 4 and i can lead 6 fireteams into combat now. 4 are merc vets, 1 is grenadier vets and we recently signed on some volunteers.

the bandit city is 73! strong but once we get our newbies up to snuff and get me some decent armor we will claim it.

it'll be our heaven and our hell. Outer Heaven. what better place for us than this?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

freeman guerrilla warfare. im proud to have set this game loose upon this forum, i knew you guys'd love it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: xaritscin on February 06, 2018, 09:36:22 pm

caught the Spider Council alive in Fallen London. it took several days spending actions in order to bring the hunting progress close to 20 while evading maxing wounds. only have modest challenge and a single action today but it ended in success.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 07, 2018, 01:17:07 am

So I started playing Yume Nikki yesterday, a decision which is probably pretty bad for my mental state. I've currently got fifteen Effects, out of what I think is 24 of them[2 for each door in the hubby place]. Most importantly, the 13th Effect I got was the Bicycle, which lets me ACTUALLY GO FAST instead of plodding around on Madotsuki's insufferably slow feet. Mind you, I still can't find anything in the Forest or the Seizure Maze, but its been pretty good at facilitating exploration in the open areas. Combined with the Medamaude[Lets me recall back to the hub place without waking up], Knife[Lets me traumatize myself by shanking random people in my way] and the Stoplight[Makes those stupid bird jerks stop trying to trap me], I've managed to amass a pretty good exploration kit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yume Nikki, obviously

This is a really good game. The strange backgrounds, environments and music all make you feel super uneasy and then, when something unexpected happens, you freak the hell out. And even something as simple as turning on the television in your dream apartment can sometimes do something unexpected and trigger the freak-out. But the chief horror of the game is not knowing what's going to happen at the end of the journey. Or, rather, suspecting what's going to happen, especially since you know all too well just how messed up Madotsuki is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 07, 2018, 09:18:10 pm

Traded my KA13 in for a KA5. Although the KA5 has only 1 point of base damage above the KA13, everything else is a significant improvement. More than double the ammo capacity(rather important for this game) at 35 from 15. About double muzzle velocity as well, meaning less time to target and bullet drop. The first bullet I fired with this gun missed(maybe), second bullet dropped a bandit hiding in the woods about a kilometer away. Killed another five bandits during the battle(out of 18). Even the sight is easier to use.

Quite impressive. Hopefully the rest of the troops can keep up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Freeman. I've also started meat-grinder training of volunteers. That is, I deploy as many volunteer squads(the weakest in the game besides maybe bandits) as I can, throw them at the bandits. If they promote, they earned it. First battle, a couple squads did. Oddly, it was a Mercenary Militia squad that took more casualties that I had to pull them out and reinforce with some FCA Rangers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on February 07, 2018, 09:42:19 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on February 07, 2018, 01:17:07 am

So I started playing Yume Nikki yesterday, a decision which is probably pretty bad for my mental state. I've currently got fifteen Effects, out of what I think is 24 of them[2 for each door in the hubby place]. Most importantly, the 13th Effect I got was the Bicycle, which lets me ACTUALLY GO FAST instead of plodding around on Madotsuki's insufferably slow feet. Mind you, I still can't find anything in the Forest or the Seizure Maze, but its been pretty good at facilitating exploration in the open areas. Combined with the Medamaude[Lets me recall back to the hub place without waking up], Knife[Lets me traumatize myself by shanking random people in my way] and the Stoplight[Makes those stupid bird jerks stop trying to trap me], I've managed to amass a pretty good exploration kit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yume Nikki, obviously

This is a really good game. The strange backgrounds, environments and music all make you feel super uneasy and then, when something unexpected happens, you freak the hell out. And even something as simple as turning on the television in your dream apartment can sometimes do something unexpected and trigger the freak-out. But the chief horror of the game is not knowing what's going to happen at the end of the journey. Or, rather, suspecting what's going to happen, especially since you know all too well just how messed up Madotsuki is.

There was a bug involving the bike effect and the chair in your bedroom.  There was a way to scoot around in the office chair for basically no reason.  It's been a long time, but I believe you enter scoot mode, activate the bike, then leave the chair.  Somehow the bike speed and the speed you got back from leaving the chair stacked, allowing you to basically speed walk faster than riding the bike normally.  The bug ended if you used another effect, though.

They might have patched it for the steam release though.  I've actually been unconsciously avoiding yume nikki since I played it maybe six or more years ago.  It was really bizarre seeing become relevant again and just sort of popping onto steam and maybe getting some sort of HD remake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 07, 2018, 10:07:12 pm

I’m thinking I may need to invest in Freeman, but I don’t think my computer can handle it, at least not the recommended settings :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on February 08, 2018, 12:12:03 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on February 07, 2018, 09:42:19 pm

Quote from: Arcvasti on February 07, 2018, 01:17:07 am

So I started playing Yume Nikki yesterday, a decision which is probably pretty bad for my mental state. I've currently got fifteen Effects, out of what I think is 24 of them[2 for each door in the hubby place]. Most importantly, the 13th Effect I got was the Bicycle, which lets me ACTUALLY GO FAST instead of plodding around on Madotsuki's insufferably slow feet. Mind you, I still can't find anything in the Forest or the Seizure Maze, but its been pretty good at facilitating exploration in the open areas. Combined with the Medamaude[Lets me recall back to the hub place without waking up], Knife[Lets me traumatize myself by shanking random people in my way] and the Stoplight[Makes those stupid bird jerks stop trying to trap me], I've managed to amass a pretty good exploration kit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yume Nikki, obviously

This is a really good game. The strange backgrounds, environments and music all make you feel super uneasy and then, when something unexpected happens, you freak the hell out. And even something as simple as turning on the television in your dream apartment can sometimes do something unexpected and trigger the freak-out. But the chief horror of the game is not knowing what's going to happen at the end of the journey. Or, rather, suspecting what's going to happen, especially since you know all too well just how messed up Madotsuki is.

There was a bug involving the bike effect and the chair in your bedroom.  There was a way to scoot around in the office chair for basically no reason.  It's been a long time, but I believe you enter scoot mode, activate the bike, then leave the chair.  Somehow the bike speed and the speed you got back from leaving the chair stacked, allowing you to basically speed walk faster than riding the bike normally.  The bug ended if you used another effect, though.

They might have patched it for the steam release though.  I've actually been unconsciously avoiding yume nikki since I played it maybe six or more years ago.  It was really bizarre seeing become relevant again and just sort of popping onto steam and maybe getting some sort of HD remake.

Yeah, I'm not using the Steam version. I think its kind of weird that I started to play right when the developer pops up again after ten years of silence. The bike+chair glitch sounds like something I might use for the truly miserable areas[Looking at you, Seizure Maze]. That said, I'll probably be taking a break for at least a week for the sake of my focus/sleep schedule/other projects. This game just sucks me in too much while being too effective at messing with my mind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 08, 2018, 05:27:33 am

Quote from: hector13 on February 07, 2018, 10:07:12 pm

I’m thinking I may need to invest in Freeman, but I don’t think my computer can handle it, at least not the recommended settings :(

Honestly, it seems pretty lightweight. If you can run M&B on good settings, you should be able to run Freeman on decent settings. The recommended specs for Early Access titles are generally placeholders.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 10, 2018, 09:45:01 am

I declared war on the Helvetii with legio IV Herculia in the mountains near their city. They attacked Herculia (1280 legionaries and assorted auxilia) with a little over 2400 men. Mostly short swords and spear warriors with slinger backup but also several noble cavalry.

I killed 4/5ths of them and only lost 120 men. Two turns later I attacked the Raeti in Koria with Herculia. Against another 2500, same results.

I put Herculia near Noreia and the Eravisci who own it declared war on me. I moved legio II Dominata up close to Noreia from Illyria and turned it. The Eravisci immediately sued for peace and offered to become a client state.

Oh no motherfuckers. You are too late for that.

Total War Rome 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 10, 2018, 01:14:34 pm

That sounds like a war between various typefonts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 10, 2018, 01:36:43 pm

" All is lost! The Times New Romans are coming!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on February 10, 2018, 01:53:54 pm

I came, I saw, I comma'd.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 10, 2018, 01:58:33 pm

nam gloria comici sans

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 10, 2018, 10:25:37 pm

Spoiler: Finished the fortifications around my cabin (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/YBSVEwK.jpg)

Now maybe those damned barbarians will stop trying to punch my house.


I also stupidly realized that the broken swords they sometimes have can be melted down into 2 iron ingots. Good since I haven't found iron yet and the copper mine(the big hole in the screenshot) is starting to run out. And after discovering this, the spawn rate for barbarians dropped, and almost none of the ones that did spawn have swords.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medieval Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on February 11, 2018, 04:36:16 pm

ptw

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 12, 2018, 08:07:36 am

EDIT: How the hell did I end up here?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 12, 2018, 09:37:21 am

Unless your own was hitting the uninstall button... I think this might fit better into the "how'd you last die" thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 12, 2018, 02:05:19 pm

Elite Dangerous.

Found a location that, while it is 160000 out from the star at which it is located (about a 10m trip), gives out 5-6 missions every time to go kill the same pirates one system over, each of which pays between 1-5 million.

Going to finish out my missions tonight for a cool 15-20 million total.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 12, 2018, 05:04:17 pm

Spoiler: IS THIS THE RIGHT THREAD (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/rbdbUsd.jpg)

Rebuilt the cabin into a small wooden keep. Much more room on the inside, though I haven't furnished it yet.

While planning the expansion, I went outside the walls, only to find my plow/seeder cart, and later my log cart, damaged by barbarians. They were standing over them, having stripped the wheels and part of the axle, grinning like a couple of goddamned football hooligans.

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Medieval Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 12, 2018, 06:44:35 pm

That is pretty nice. Own-worthy +1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jiharo on February 12, 2018, 07:19:03 pm

Blasted down a horde of undead Zeuses with my support cannons.

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Shadowverse. Opponent was necromancer who managed to send the fat, fast and deadly god (http://sv.bagoum.com/cards/104041010) into the graveyard way before than he should 've been able to be played and kept reanimating him through various means. I probably more by luck than any ability managed to keep clearing them with some artillery support (http://sv.bagoum.com/cards/104232010) and sacrifice of countless military personnel. Probably not very owny, but it 's rather rare and enjoyable to have a close match between two slow decks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 12, 2018, 08:36:07 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 12, 2018, 02:05:19 pm

Elite Dangerous.

Found a location that, while it is 160000 out from the star at which it is located (about a 10m trip), gives out 5-6 missions every time to go kill the same pirates one system over, each of which pays between 1-5 million.

Going to finish out my missions tonight for a cool 15-20 million total.

/me sits in the corner, quietly pirating traders for a 30K haul every 20 minutes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on February 12, 2018, 08:38:01 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on February 12, 2018, 08:36:07 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 12, 2018, 02:05:19 pm

Elite Dangerous.

Found a location that, while it is 160000 out from the star at which it is located (about a 10m trip), gives out 5-6 missions every time to go kill the same pirates one system over, each of which pays between 1-5 million.

Going to finish out my missions tonight for a cool 15-20 million total.

/me sits in the corner, quietly pirating traders for a 30K haul every 20 minutes

/me quietly continues to drift coreward, 9227 ly from Sol and counting, making absolutely nothing

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 13, 2018, 01:26:38 am

Played 20XX we have not played in a few months, but a new character seemed like a good time to pick it up again.  Co-Op. I'm playing Nina, friend is playing the new whip person, Daily challenge.

Early on we see some prototype labs, I take a prototype upgrade that means I can't heal from pickups, but I fully heal after every boss.  Friend laughs at me for picking it.  We finish a stage, impressed by the apparent genius of my choice, he picks a prototype upgrade too.  He now can't attack or use boss weapons, but he has every minion bit in the game.  We continue on I pick up the 3x charge shot and the helmet that lets you fire 2 charge shots at once, and we're pumping basic attack power, since it buffs both my shots and his minions.

We get farther than we ever got, My friend is killing things simply by existing and is able to safely pick up ALL the health pickups, since I can't use them.  I'm hitting for over 100 damage with a charge shot (twice per charge to boot) I'm basically 2 shotting bosses, friend is doing the damage on the bosses I have difficulty reaching including it turns out, the last boss, as I struggled with the platforming.

We beat the game.   I didn't know it was possible, we beat the game.  We check the highscores and... we are not on it... friend assumes it was because we played through midnight and maybe it will be on tomorrow's.

20XX Daily Challenge

EDIT: Indeed we are on the one for the 13th  Ranked 2nd worldwide in both score and time unless someone else does better today.  Though for some reason the score pageis bugged to list the rankings inverted, and claims we were both playing Hawk

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on February 13, 2018, 01:53:09 pm

Was pleasantly surprised with the results of a long battle in Aurora with some ancient robots, one of the enemy ships wasn't destroyed. Instead its engines were all blown out and its weapons were dry, a sitting duck in other words, perfect practice for marines.

I quickly (well quickly for a poor troop transport being 4 days picking up the marines and then another four loading them into dropships) dispatched a light assault carrier to capture the stricken ship. It went well although the ship seems glitched and thinks its not at port for shore leave and I now have a shiny old alien warship that has no ammo and a questionable point defence turret but does have ECM and a medium range sensor.

Spoiler: If you want to see the ship's design look here (click to show/hide)

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Longsword class Missile Destroyer    9 050 tons     196 Crew     1755.25 BP      TCS 181  TH 784  EM 0
4331 km/s     Armour 9-38     Shields 0-0     Sensors 11/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 2     PPV 24
Maint Life 1.39 Years     MSP 242    AFR 327%    IFR 4.6%    1YR 135    5YR 2030    Max Repair 147 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 6 months    Spare Berths 2   
Magazine 555   

112 EP Magneto-plasma Drive (7)    Power 112    Fuel Use 65.1%    Signature 112    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 1 000 000 Litres    Range 30.5 billion km   (81 days at full power)

CIWS-160 (1x2)    Range 1000 km     TS: 16000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 4 Missile Launcher (6)    Missile Size 4    Rate of Fire 30
Missile Fire Control FC136-R97 (1)     Range 136.5m km    Resolution 97
Venom Anti-ship Missile (138)  Speed: 31 700 km/s   End: 97.8m    Range: 186.1m km   WH: 4    Size: 4    TH: 105/63/31

Active Search Sensor MR159-R97 (1)     GPS 14259     Range 159.3m km    Resolution 97
Thermal Sensor TH1-11 (1)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  11m km

ECCM-5 (1)         ECM 50

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


Aurora 4x

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 13, 2018, 09:04:43 pm

Discovered how to run the game at more than single-digit frames-per-second. Muuuch better.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Agents of Mayhem. Yes, the game gets shat on, and not entirely without reason(the optimization for example), but is so far enjoyable.

The setting that was massively slowing down the game was the sun shadows setting. Using the simplest setting vastly improved the game speed without any real loss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 13, 2018, 10:10:36 pm

Returned to KSP to refine the SSTO design that I had been working on before. Aside from small tweaks to reduce weight and (hopefully) make the plane more aerodynamic, I decided to make a variation of the plane which isn't a single-stage ship like the normal one, but instead launched with two liquid-fuel boosters on the plane's tummy, containing two whiplash engines and doubling as drop tanks, allowing the plane to have well over 1000 more DeltaV when it reaches orbit. The rest of the mission after I accomplished this was simply me repeating the other couple of tests that I did forever ago, where I dropped some cargo off at the Mun in the form of a small rover, only this time instead of heading straight home I decided to aerobrake in Kerbin's atmosphere in order to return to low orbit, drop off some sciency shit at my space station, and then return home for realsies. Being able to do missions like these and then land back on the runway with basically all of the ship intact is still very satisfying.

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 14, 2018, 10:14:50 am

My friend and I decided we weren't doing any silly jumping puzzles. Below is the result

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/1IFgBDK.jpg)

Warframe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Original Sin 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2018, 01:41:19 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Original Sin 2

When we did it was was with a dwarf, and it was gay.

Beat that, internet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 14, 2018, 03:15:30 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2018, 01:41:19 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Original Sin 2

When we did it was was with a dwarf, and it was gay.

Beat that, internet.

My main character was a female lizard last I played that, I saw the option to woo Fane (yaknow, the skeleton) and was like, 'There's no way this would ever work' and figured I'd see how far it let me go.  Apparently the coccyx is a very versatile bone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on February 14, 2018, 03:32:58 pm

Quote from: Greiger on February 14, 2018, 03:15:30 pm

Apparently the coccyx is a very versatile bone.

tee hee that sounded like it had cocks in it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 14, 2018, 03:36:27 pm

haw haw you said cocks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 14, 2018, 04:24:53 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2018, 01:41:19 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Original Sin 2

When we did it was was with a dwarf, and it was gay.

Beat that, internet.

I originally wanted to have a romance with Fane, but I fucked up his loyalty quest by thinking that the yellow exclamation marks will hang on until I speak to my companions (I was looting corpses). Cockblocked.jpg

Also, I play as Lohse (Female Human Origin Character), just to let you know.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2018, 04:31:01 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 04:24:53 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on February 14, 2018, 01:41:19 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Original Sin 2

When we did it was was with a dwarf, and it was gay.

Beat that, internet.

I originally wanted to have a romance with Fane, but I fucked up his loyalty quest by thinking that the yellow exclamation marks will hang on until I speak to my companions (I was looting corpses). Cockblocked.jpg

Also, I play as Lohse (Female Human Origin Character), just to let you know.

I was duo'ing and, had to make do with descriptions of the black dwarf on 7-foot lizardman gay sex scene. I'm told the tail positioning was quite explicit.

My character, Beardly Manchops, ended up with Sybille. This was much more vanilla, though no less...... detailed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 17, 2018, 06:45:17 am

Spoiler: Latest contraption (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/GQMIgrv.jpg)

There's a few slight gaps in the plowed area, but it's not really a problem. Still beats the hell out of the plow cart I was using. I couldn't sow the entire field since I ran out of seed - you can blame the windmill in the background for that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medieval Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze_1711 on February 17, 2018, 07:56:06 am

Playing Battlefield 2: Project Reality Mod.

Multiplayer mode.

Be with israeli army squad, whole squad is doing their job fine. Manage to hold a village from consistent terrorist assaults, wave after wave.

Goddamn blitzkrieg - every 5 minutes.

Manage to capture village and hold it. Proceed to next village for an assault - all coordinated by our squad commander.

Reach village. Bunker up inside building and get swarmed by all sides.

I'm playing as a machine gunner. Manage to supress and mow down at least 12 enemies.

Remember the first floor of the building has a door - and the enemies have been trying to kamikaze us like crazy this round.

Run to first floor to cover door: There's already a machine gunner there.

Just as I come down the stairs and aim down the door, the other machine gunner who was covering the door has to reload - which takes a lot of time.

Suddenly, 5-6 terrorists come running in - knifes and explosives in hand.

Mow them down in the entryway without even aiming my machine gun.

Other machine gunner thanks me, I run back upstairs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 18, 2018, 07:10:23 am

My Locust was shot up pretty quickly, partly because it's a map I've never played(Jungle).

My 75mm M3 GMC dies one of the most bullshit things I've ever seen: The tank I was trying to snipe fired first, the shot went through the sight gap in the armor plate on the front of the gun, didn't hit any of the crew, and impacted against the back of the truck bed. This somehow(the thing is basically sheet metal, not armor), caused fragmentation, with a third of it blowing backwards into the ammo storage. It might have been a composite round, I don't know if those can do that.

I rolled out my M3 Lee, that crazy tank with the large hull-mounted gun in addition to a decent turret. I ended up scoring five kills with that tank before going down, bringing me to a positive KDR(a little more important in a game with limited respawns). This includes a plane that tried to kamikaze me(I hate that), only I put a burst of machine gun fire into its cockpit just before it hit, giving me a kill. I backed up a few seconds later only to see the wrecked fuselage just inches in front of me.


Even with the kills from my Lee, when it was destroyed we were down to about 20% of our tickets left due to the enemy holding pretty much all the points the entire match. Then they managed to turn it around, and pushed all the points, taking them and holding out to just a few tickets left when the enemy ran out first and we won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on February 19, 2018, 01:02:13 pm

I was down to 3 life and had a Niblis of Frost (3/3 with prowess and tap target critter when an instant or sorcery is played and target does not untap for a turn), Tower Geist, and Cloudblazer (2/2 draw 2 cards and gain 2 life when it enters the field) on the board while my opponent had three token critters and a Wayward Disciple (2/3 whenever one of your critters dies opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life) going into his turn. With the effect of Wayward Disciple all he had to do was attack and he'd win regardless of whether I blocked or not... but I happened to have an Essence Flux (exile one of your creatures and return it to the board) card in my hand. On his turn he also played a Gisela, the Broken Blade (4/4 flyer with first strike and lifelink), a very powerful creature, and attacked with his three token creatures. I blocked all three and triggered Wayward Disciple's effect, but before it could resolve I flickered the Cloudblazer with Essence Flux to recover some life to keep me in the game and draw some cards. Essence Flux, because it was an instant, also triggered Niblis of Frost's effect and allowed me to tap Gisela... with the cards I drew I was able to keep Gisela tapped and control the board for the remainder of the match until I won. Stole victory, good times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magic Duels

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cattani on February 19, 2018, 03:40:46 pm

Playing a casual game with some friends. 2x2 game, my ally was mana starved and useless, and the heat was piling up on me.

I had 5 health left when one guy plays his Deep-sea Kraken (6/6, 2U with suspend 9).This creature was this guy's finisher; he always won the game with it, to the point of causing a small fit of panic on my ally when it came out.

Next turn I play a Ruin Processor (7/8 eldrazi processor with "When cast, put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard and gain 5 life").
I'm not familiar with the Suspend mechanic, so I ask if anyone has anything on exile. This guy is all proud to announce that yes, his Kraken was in the exile because of the Suspend mechanic. I told him it goes to the graveyard and I even get some life back.

The room goes silent for a second, then he freak out saying "HE ABORTED MY KRAKEN!" and stuff.

We lost that game, but the shock of having such a creature sent to the graveyard, along with it's owner's protest, totally felt like a win.

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Magic: the Gathering

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on February 19, 2018, 06:48:40 pm

Quote from: Cattani on February 19, 2018, 03:40:46 pm

Playing a casual game with some friends. 2x2 game, my ally was mana starved and useless, and the heat was piling up on me.

I had 5 health left when one guy plays his Deep-sea Kraken (6/6, 2U with suspend 9).This creature was this guy's finisher; he always won the game with it, to the point of causing a small fit of panic on my ally when it came out.

Next turn I play a Ruin Processor (7/8 eldrazi processor with "When cast, put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard and gain 5 life").
I'm not familiar with the Suspend mechanic, so I ask if anyone has anything on exile. This guy is all proud to announce that yes, his Kraken was in the exile because of the Suspend mechanic. I told him it goes to the graveyard and I even get some life back.

The room goes silent for a second, then he freak out saying "HE ABORTED MY KRAKEN!" and stuff.

We lost that game, but the shock of having such a creature sent to the graveyard, along with it's owner's protest, totally felt like a win.

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Magic: the Gathering

Haha!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 21, 2018, 10:09:06 am

Playing on Oasis with myself (Soldier 76) and a friend (Roadhog), both of us relatively new to Overwatch. The details are vague, but we won the match and I managed to get a total elimination stat of 39. It’s my highest ever, by far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on February 21, 2018, 01:54:08 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2

I am not familiar with this game. Why exactly is having sex with a lizard an *own*?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 21, 2018, 02:40:04 pm

Because... have you seen lizards?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 21, 2018, 02:48:30 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on February 21, 2018, 01:54:08 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2

I am not familiar with this game. Why exactly is having sex with a lizard an *own*?

Because it's more exotic than average human-on-human sex?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on February 21, 2018, 03:03:26 pm

Besides, those Argonian maids are very lusty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 21, 2018, 07:30:11 pm

Had to scale back an hour or so of getting run over by the enemy due to a corrupt save - it had occurred to me to use a different save file for just that very save that got corrupted.

So, I put in place early the plan I was going to use to save my empire from getting its ass kicked, now BEFORE that getting-ass-kicked started. Said plan was to stop playing around with groups of of scale 24-40 ships, and start manufacturing a scale 1024 battleship with several scale 0.25(therefore effective scale 256) plasma throwers. While I'm not really sure why enemy ships a tenth of the size but a significant tech deficit had more than a tenth of the HP of the battleship, but their shields were quite small, <250k versus the >8 million shield points mine had. While a militarized planet with 5 or 6 planetary cannons had a fair shot at dropping one of theirs in a salvo, their planets had more guns that my battleship(sent alone) laughed at as it bounced off the shields, then it bathed hundreds of millions of people in plasma.

Just building the first one changed me from being last in military to 3rd. I've since taken 2nd in military, partly from building tens of thousands of scale 1 fighters meant to stay docked on planets until attacked. The two empires that were at war with me have both offered peace - deals that included vision, research points, and loot with NO demands. Meaning, they've basically surrendered and said "plz don't kill us".

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Star Ruler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on February 21, 2018, 08:29:21 pm

Aim for a trick shot where my hoverball will use a black hole's attraction to curve towards an enemy. Fire. Goes the exact opposite direction. I get sad. Stops falling in mid-air, falls again, hits bouncer, heads the correct direction, stops falling in mid-air again(normally it only does it once), starts again, directly hits the foe I was aiming for.

Like, totally the ultimate trick shot.

ShellShock Live.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 23, 2018, 01:44:31 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 21, 2018, 02:48:30 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on February 21, 2018, 01:54:08 pm

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 14, 2018, 11:27:38 am

I had a sex with a lizard.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2

I am not familiar with this game. Why exactly is having sex with a lizard an *own*?

Because it's more exotic than average human-on-human sex?

The Red Prince is the lizard in question, and when you first meet him he congenially offers you the honor of being his slave, provided you can cook and clean, of course.

Scoring with him is an own in terms of perceived romantic prowess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on February 24, 2018, 10:30:18 am

Valencia, a coastal county in southeastern Spain, the most developed county in Europe short of Constantinople, was the last county in Europe to contract the deadly Plague. By the time that it entered it was receding and waning out, spreading only in the farthest reaches of the steppes.
When my ruler contracted it with the gates closed, I considered it a bad sign.
He got better though, two weeks later.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on February 25, 2018, 11:54:48 am

Killed a Xeno'jiva with a rock.

Monster Hunter World.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 25, 2018, 12:57:09 pm

Quote from: StagnantSoul on February 25, 2018, 11:54:48 am

Killed a Xeno'jiva with a rock.

Monster Hunter World.

You reminded me of an own.

I got Decimus to day 198 and he finally was strong and fast enough to beat a duel with just full armor and a pair of rocks used like cestus. Enemy was the one gladiator with the small shield and tracian dagger. Felt like a bad motherfucker after that.

Colosseum: Road to Freedom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 25, 2018, 01:13:37 pm

Medieval Era, get smacked around by the Huns and lose a city due to it being on another continent so I couldn't easily reinforce.

Fast forward to the late-Industrial / early-Modern era, he's still got late medieval tech. It was kinda pathetic. He went from six-seven cities to none (I'd actually gotten peace with him having one small city left but Greece took that shortly after), and I went from three cities on an isolated island to a major power on the mainland.

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Civilization 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on February 25, 2018, 03:45:26 pm

Won my first game of Battle Royale yesterday, only in the squad mode but oh well.
I also kinda got the hang of building stuff at last, and actually saw people building things other than ramps into the sky, haha. The sight of an enemy fort just popping up on the next hill whilst you and your comrades take pot-shots at them from yours is hilarious. :))

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Fortnite Ps4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on March 01, 2018, 09:44:01 am

Took out the Time-Eater with a 174 damage heavy blade strike. Incidentally, I do lift.

Slay the Spire. (My first win, with an exceptionally light deck)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 01, 2018, 10:30:40 am

When you can recruit 1 gold chevron Spartan hoplites, garrison armies become less armies and more minor speed bumps that are barely noticeable. I fought a full Odrysian army + garrison and the result was a lot of dead Thracians. It helps I'm recruiting Cretan 'Best Archers in the Game' mercenaries for ranged support and Campanian 'Hardcore melee cavalry that sometimes throws javelins' Cavalry. To wit, an indomitable force of Spartans with extreme experience backed by perfect archers and BOSS cavalry with ballista support.

Nice Republic you have there. Be a shame if something... Happened to it.

TWR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 01, 2018, 05:37:55 pm

Mega Glalie was kicking my ass, so I went to the Expert Mode stages. Expert Mode is different from standard in that instead of a set number of moves, you have a limited amount of time instead. Beat Lucario's 2-minute stage with 4 seconds left. Final catch chance: 7%. It caught. And I already had the Lucarionite unlocked. Mega Glalie wasn't so tough then. Actually it kinda was, but I still won.

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Pokemon Shuffle, a free2play match-3 game. Actually one of the least "money required" F2P games on the 3DS I've seen, and it's pretty addictive so far. It also has up to Gen VII Pokemon. At least some of them, definitely the starters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on March 01, 2018, 06:25:37 pm

Snecko eye is damn fun. It randomizes the costs of the cards in your hand to somewhere in the range of [0,3], which is terrible if you're running low cost cards, but amazing if you're running heavy cards. I picked it up as my first boss relic and promptly through my careful strategy of a wall of flame/thorns deck to the wind and just opted to pick up basically any card with a cost greater than or equal to 2, with a few special mentions I kept an eye out for; dual wielding chief among them.

Dual wielding is a lovely card that gives you a copy (two copies when upgraded) of any attack or power card in your hand. The fun thing about it, is it copies the card at its current cost, not its actual cost. So, running snecko eye, you can get some crazy combos. Bludgeon, for instance, is normally a massive damage card that costs three, so snecko eye gives it a 75% chance to come into play at reduced cost. If you're lucky and it comes into play at cost 0, and you have a dual wield that you can cast, that gives you three massive damage cards that you can cast basically at the cost of the dual wield.

Took some damage, and the run could easily have ended with one stroke of bad luck, but I scored my second win on the final boss. Snecko eye is wacky fun.

Slay the Spire, again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 02, 2018, 09:32:32 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on March 01, 2018, 10:30:40 am

When you can recruit 1 gold chevron Spartan hoplites, garrison armies become less armies and more minor speed bumps that are barely noticeable. I fought a full Odrysian army + garrison and the result was a lot of dead Thracians. It helps I'm recruiting Cretan 'Best Archers in the Game' mercenaries for ranged support and Campanian 'Hardcore melee cavalry that sometimes throws javelins' Cavalry. To wit, an indomitable force of Spartans with extreme experience backed by perfect archers and BOSS cavalry with ballista support.

Nice Republic you have there. Be a shame if something... Happened to it.

TWR2

Well that escalated quickly. I fought 2.5k Odrysians in what I expected to be a climactic final battle and they savaged my hoplites with their badass peltasts, then destroyed the survivors with falxmen. I dealt them serious casualties in the battle though and they attacked Antheia expecting their still medium strength army to triumph effortlessly.

I violated their army with only moderate casualties but the fleet of reinforcements arrived. I backed into a corner and somehow weathered the final assault and they retreated, reeling from the vicious battle.

Now we're both rebuilding because that was all they had and my other armies are in Rome or garrisoned in Hieraptyna and Appollonia.

I've made significant gains against Rome, though their armies keep fleeing my advance. All their might is condensing while mine spreads thin. All while I verge on civil war.

My only advantage is that they have no idea who they're fucking with.

TWR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on March 02, 2018, 05:40:16 pm

I've beaten my roommate in Civ 6 eight times in a row now.   8) 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 02, 2018, 06:22:26 pm

I accidentally got an achievement for eating Donu, a donut shaped statue and one of the final bosses, with feed.

Incidentally, I also had a very weird build that involved getting a searing blow +7 (also got a +2 by cloning it with an event), and getting up to 138 health with feed.  I also removed every single defend card from my deck; my only non-attack cards were one each of metalicize (+3 armor at the end of every turn) and shockwave, which allowed me to use clash cards (can only play if you have no non-attacks in your hand, but they're free).  I had relics that give me +1 energy and +10 armor on the first turn, +6 armor at the end of my turn if I have none, and +1 energy but I can only play 6 cards.  Oh and I have headbutts to constantly toss my searing blow to the top of my draw pile.  So to summarize, I always have 9 armor without needing to play defense cards, I get to play most of my hand every turn and its all attacks, I take forever to die, and I can do 56 damage every other turn.  I killed the two final enemies in 6 turns, 3 each.

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Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tawa on March 03, 2018, 08:38:31 pm

It took like twenty tries, but I found where Charles Lee is, getting every optional objective along the way: not pushing anybody out of the way, never getting more than 50 meters behind, and not taking any damage.

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Assassin's Checkers III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 04, 2018, 10:56:12 am

The game is completed. One of the very best games I've played!

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Divinity: Original Sin 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 05, 2018, 03:31:41 am

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on March 04, 2018, 10:56:12 am

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Supah Mario Bros. 2

It's a mastapeece.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 05, 2018, 01:01:10 pm

For years this mission has tormented me, unable to achieve all three objectives to obtain the gold medal. I can connect Vienna and Istanbul, because that's the only one you absolutely fail on, but achieving personal wealth of $15m and an average express (only passengers and mail) speed of 30mph was never something I could achieve simultaneously...

Until now.

Fuck you, Orient Express, I'm going to Argentina.

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Railroad Tycoon 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 05, 2018, 09:34:55 pm

Kind of a multiple own.

First and foremost, I think I finally get how to play Hearts of Iron 4, and without any youtube tutorials! Further, I managed to defeat the civil war (backing Trotsky) in the Soviet Union, managed to flip France into the French Commune and the USA is set to become communist (the communists have over 50% support) in 1940. Republican Spain is slowly turning the tide against Franco, though it was very close at times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 06, 2018, 05:56:22 am

I was in a small cave when I got a motherfucking Deathclaw dropped on me.

Fortunately I had MANY drugs and a modded out combat shotgun.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 06, 2018, 01:23:51 pm

Playing Star Wars: Conquest, a mod for Mount and Blade Warband.

Successfully took a planet of my own and held it against rebel incursion long enough to seed a force-sensitive temple. Let the rebels take it back before I lost the war of attrition, and moseyed off to Imperial space. Once the temple was finished, I took the planet back and started training sith.

Now I am able to challenge anyone I please with an army of 100 trained sith. Took Coruscant against 4 times my numbers. Sith ain't no joke.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 06, 2018, 07:04:36 pm

"Always 101 there are.  The master and his army."

I had to assassinate an Offworld Security officer without triggering an alarm.  Everyone on the ship had shields, and there was level 7 security, but no problem.  I had just completed a much harder Ghost mission with an absurdly good combo of stealth shield and sidewinder, not to mention visitor.  And this time I'd be able to use my "Stick of Rapid Whoop-Ass" from a Steam friend.

...Except I had used it to break a window, and forgot to retrieve it from the stash.  Derp.
Fine, crash-trapping people is tedious anyway.  I just ghosted my way to the target~
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1322717514
I "accidentally" stepped into the target's sensor range, causing them to come investigate...  on a path right by that window on the right.  A nice thing about the Sidewinder is you move so fast that you can break windows with your own momentum.

Picked up myself and the target in my Angel medivac, and delivered them safe and sound.  Assassination successful :D

Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 06, 2018, 09:24:43 pm

Delivering assassination targets alive is always funny.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 06, 2018, 10:17:54 pm

Honestly, I just love spacing... things, in general.

Feels like the sort of thing that appears in a film.

I oughta make a list of one-liners for such occasions.

Maybe "There's not enough space for the two of us!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 06, 2018, 10:22:01 pm

I mean, I almost compulsively exit every ship via window...  It's usually faster, often easier, always fun.
Though sometimes it's tricky to avoid spacing people accidentally...  Though if they have a full shield or armor, I headcanon that they survive.  I only have so much sympathy :P

(I do like that they let you save assassination targets from space.  Sometimes I pretend the Angel can pick up other oxygen-deprived crew as well.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 06, 2018, 10:33:10 pm

Finished touching runestones at... some cave with a big snake in it, apparently met a god.

Anyhow, was riding my bird-horse, going to get my car back from the imperials when I spy a giant cow.

“Oh ho,” I says, “I think I’m going to kill that cow.”

So I attack the cow. It falls on top of me a few times, I hit it a few times with various weapons hoping to see orange numbers. I cast my Quintcast Fira, which hits it five times for 9999 damage. It still has, I’d say, around 70% health at this point.

I see a prompt saying “summon”, so I do it.

Some gigantic dude with a big staff comes out and is all, like, shooting lightning at this giant cow and incinerating the land within about a 100ft radius from the corpse.

TL;DR I got the ability to summon a god of lightning and the first thing I did was summon it to kill a big cow.

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Final Fantasy XV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 07, 2018, 02:06:45 pm

The literal description of any final fantasy game is always that priceless.

Did the camera dude take a picture? I'm told he likes to do that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 07, 2018, 02:13:18 pm

Not sure yet, had to save n quit shortly thereafter. I have taken to saving his most ridiculous pictures, though. Like ceilings, or extreme closeups of ankles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on March 07, 2018, 04:47:47 pm

1400s: Frantic flailing to survive against HORDES as little Muscovy.
1800s: Murder everything and everyone who stares funnily at allmighty Russia!

Spoiler: Да здравствует Царь! (huge image) (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/VnmjSOQ.png)
Russia with its vassals Korea, Wu, Ak Koyunlu, Georgia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ragusa and Mainz.

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 10, 2018, 06:22:06 am

Built a spaceship. Went into spaaaaace. Strangely, the resource cost of the ship was less than other vehicles, probably because the other vehicles requires resources only available off-planet. Also managed to figure out the controls without crashing into the side of a mountain or getting eaten by a sandworm(at least two tried), and without using a guide(most are outdated anyway).

I'm never walking anywhere again.

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Osiris: New Dawn. Spaceship controls:
Hover Mode:  W/S  - Pitch forwards/backwards, to move forwards and backwards.
                     A/D - Turn left/right.
                   LMB/RMB - Increase/decrease throttle. Increasing throttle past a point will enter Flight Mode, decrease to enter Hover mode(or fly backwards in space).
                      F - Exit craft, only if on the ground or <1Km/h in space.

Flight Mode:  W/S - Pitch down/up. Yes, inverted, W goes down, S goes up.
                    A/D - Turn left/right.
                    Q/E - Roll left/right(didn't check if this works in Hover mode).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on March 11, 2018, 12:34:50 am

I BEAT AKINATOR!!! Woo!

I got him with the cop from the fifth element, the one driving the cruise that chases Bruce Willis' police car. Feelsgoodman.meme

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 11, 2018, 04:20:06 am

Beat Akinator with Maximilian I, elector of Bavaria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 13, 2018, 06:16:45 pm

Aww shit son! They did! Bethesda actually added lines just in case you completed Nukaworld before the first fucking mission in the game! I AM WAY TOO FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!!

Fallout Motherfucking 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 13, 2018, 11:23:32 pm

Holy shit post a video of it so I can see

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on March 13, 2018, 11:37:11 pm

If you do that Garvy is pissed with you after you escort them to town ("how could you believe I would never find out?"), but he offers a quest to kill all the raiders. Do his quest, and everything goes back to normal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 14, 2018, 06:12:55 am

Quote from: milo christiansen on March 13, 2018, 11:37:11 pm

If you do that Garvy is pissed with you after you escort them to town ("how could you believe I would never find out?"), but he offers a quest to kill all the raiders. Do his quest, and everything goes back to normal.

This, it's not like a huge difference but I hadn't spoiled it for myself and it was a fair amount of work getting there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on March 14, 2018, 12:11:10 pm

So I clear a mid tier map and unlock the boss arena (the laboratory is special in this regard that you gotta activate levers in the four corners before the boss arena becomes available). At this point my ancient mouse finally gives up the ghost (the cable got damaged over they years before finally snapping open and killing one of the inside wires) so I'm left with a bossfight and only my touchpad to navigate it. And this one while not particularly hard does require moving around and dodging some rather nasty AoEs the boss throws at you, as well as following it trough multiple portals.

As it turns out it's perfectly doable with my totem build, got close to dying twice but flask spamming kept me trucking.

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Path of Exile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 14, 2018, 10:22:58 pm

The scene is set in the Taiwan straits, 1928, after almost two years of naval warfare against France over the Korean concessions.  A Chinese force is patrolling the area to prevent French operations off Taiwan.  While of only modest size with three battleships, two battlecruisers, twelve destroyers, and a reduced cruiser force of two cruisers and a light cruiser split between two major squadrons, its presence forces the French to maintain a significant naval force in the area of unknown strength.  At late night, a storm rises up in the straits, and the Chinese batten down the hatches and prepare to weather it at sea.  At 4:51 AM, the sun not yet risen, a thoroughly wet and miserable watch officer aboard a Chinese destroyer spots a light in the darkness.  Seconds later, a squadron of French destroyers blasts right on past the Chinese counterparts.  The Chinese barely have time to sound battlestations before no less than four French battleships pour out of the gloom, their own crews scrambling in shock at the unexpected encounter.  The Chinese battlecruisers immediately signal for assistance from the battleship squadron as they begin to open fire, manoeuvring to avoid cannon fire from the French battleships and torpedoes from the unobstructed destroyers; on the French side, they similarly begin to evade as the Chinese destroyers put every fish in the water that they can in a desperate attempt to distract the qualitatively- and quantitatively-superior French force. 

In the stormy night, two lines of battle clash in an entirely unexpected battle, Chinese reinforcements being met by French reinforcements.  As ships fade in and out of the gloom, the Chinese fail to recognize immediately that they are engaged not with four, but eight French battleships, but the torpedoes don't care.  Solferino and Courbet each take multiple torpedo hits and, despite valiant efforts by the French crews to stem the tide, founder and sink in the stormy waves.  The Chinese cruiser Heilongjiang, misidentified as a battleship by the French, takes two torpedoes amidships as well, and retaliates by aiming multiple blows at an unknown French battleship over twice its tonnage (later identified as Republique) before disengaging.  Of the entire battleline, only two battleships on either side (Gaulois and Baekdu) successfully avoid the torpedoes.  Gaulois and Republique are subsequently hammered into scrap metal by Chinese 13" main guns, capable of firing more rapidly than the French 15-inchers and, in the desperate grapple, penetrating armor just as well as the heavier French guns.  The Chinese battlecruiser Zhulong takes an early strike on the rudder, losing the fleet in the gloom and drifting into range of no less than three French battleships (Desaix, Latouche-Treville, and Gueydon); despite a valiant struggle, it quickly succumbs.  Its sister ship Huang Long successfully disengages after a pitched struggle in which it engages successively the battleships Gaulois, Courbet, Chanzy, Gueydon, and Republique before making for port, arriving despite flooding and damage throughout the superstructure. 

The end result: France has lost four of their eight battleships to storm, torpedo, and cannon, and their remaining battlewagons are all badly damaged, having each lost half of their primary armament to hostile fire.  Of their heavy ships, only the battlecruiser Amiral Charner, technically in theater but with no knowledge of the battle taking place, was counted as unharmed.  Four of their destroyers were sunk outright; two escaped with heavy damage, and five fled intact.  On the Chinese size, the battleship Badaling escapes with heavy damage and severe flooding, three of its four turrets out of commission and the holes from several dozen hits from French 15" guns shredding its hull, turrets, and superstructure.  The battlecruiser Huang Long and battleship Chakragil similarly took moderate damage.  The battlecruiser Zhulong was the only outright loss on the Chinese fleet, and the battleship Baekdu has not even lost so much as a turret, though a lucky strike through the hull by the Desaix sent saltwater into the feed lines and reduced the engines to 2/3 power.  This is ultimately the last major battle of the war.  Their overseas power badly damaged, various raiders persist for a few months but are unable to stem the Chinese tide.  In the final treaty, they are forced to concede their holdings in Korea and northern Vietnam.

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Rule The Waves

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on March 17, 2018, 08:59:05 am

Sheikas are rather OP

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(https://i.imgur.com/5VRSicq.png)

That's what, 1 squad of monks (naked ninjas with spears) and two squads of battlefield assasins (dressed ninjas with knives, one of them is commander's bodyguard, which get in fight pretty late)
with two squads of rats for distraction (killed) slaughtered an army of 600 gorons, while losing two halfs of squads at most (not counting rats)?

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Hyrule total war 4.5. I heard and expirienced that in 4.6 everyone become a pacifists, unlike in previous version. And actually sheikas aren't so OP when enemy does hold the line properly or, worse yet, shoots from the castle's walls.  And one squad of battlefield assasins trains for 5 turns, which is very long even by this mod's standarts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 17, 2018, 09:13:28 am

I mean, this is the civilization that at one point in time developed computers, personal teleporters, laser-toting autonomous combat robots, and glorified smartphones. I'd expect them to be a little OP. ;P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 17, 2018, 07:15:38 pm

Had a sudden inexplicable urge to play this. Discovered to my joy that it supports 1920x1080 screen resolution.

I had forgotten how OP enemy cyborgs are. (Might have been that they're resistant to cannon-type weapons)

Didn't forget how OP machine gun bunkers and mortar pits are. After cornering one opponent, and blocking the other two with a narrow choke point, I managed to take the guy in the corner, plus two island sections off the middle of the map. Using those resources, I built a rather ridiculous force of bombers and pounded the other two into submission.

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Warzone 2100. Possibly, probably modded, but not sure. It's been years since I last played it. The AI adapted a little faster than I expected them to. They also refused to attack each other, and I don't believe they were all lumped on the same team against me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Wysthric on March 17, 2018, 07:34:34 pm

Is it me or are rocket pods 95% useless in that game?

My dad always wins by spamming mortars and scourge missiles; I think they are de-facto the strongest weapons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on March 17, 2018, 08:20:02 pm

The starting mini rockets kinda suck until you get a silly amount of upgrades for them.  The AI loves killing all my shit with the Lancer rockets though.

I myself crawl forward with mortar pits and sensor towers.  Throw bunkers in chokes and such.  I usually don't bother with cyborgs (mostly because you can't design them like you can tanks) and VTOLs (mostly because its hard to keep track of them as they zoom around).  I do know vs cyborgs you want to use either flamers or machineguns.  The standard cannon line is more the jack of all trades line.

The open source version you can get online is different from the old retail version.  The online one comes with a few scenarios, some better AIs to play against, and as far as I'm aware the tech tree's fully open in the AI skirmish mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 17, 2018, 11:36:07 pm

I went in for a quick recon mission against a Cybrid research facility.  Unfortunately, my team ran into a full force of Cybrid mechs, including a new heavy given the code name "Nihilus" that smashed the Demon-class HERC Jack Frost down hard (to 3% health; a single passing blow would have destroyed it and killed its pilot).  I proceeded to channel my inner Steiner and plow through not only the Cybrid mobile forces, but also the entire base.  And that's how we do recon.

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MissionForce: Cyberstorm.  I am so pleased I learned that someone (https://github.com/juanitogan/rbxit/wiki/CyberStorm-1) went to the trouble to make the game capable of running on modern systems; my nostalgia knows no bounds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 18, 2018, 07:38:59 pm

Somehow managed to oneshot the BNK-3R by complete accident. I shot him once and then noticed that his health bar was completely emptied, and thought it was some kind of display bug, but then he just kind of died.

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Borderlands 2

If I remember correctly, the BNK-3R has more health than any other enemy in the game except maybe the final boss, so yeah, that's worth noting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on March 18, 2018, 08:19:10 pm

Imagine if the Skyrim dragonborn was a character in Borderlands 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 18, 2018, 08:29:53 pm

Quote from: Ispil on March 18, 2018, 08:09:09 pm

Quote from: IronTomato on March 18, 2018, 07:38:59 pm

Somehow managed to oneshot the BNK-3R by complete accident. I shot him once and then noticed that his health bar was completely emptied, and thought it was some kind of display bug, but then he just kind of died.

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Borderlands 2

If I remember correctly, the BNK-3R has more health than any other enemy in the game except maybe the final boss, so yeah, that's worth noting.

By any chance are you playing Zero and have the Bore ability?

Yes?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 18, 2018, 08:34:01 pm

You just made it question it’s existence by taking away all the fun things, man. Nothing will survive being Bored.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 18, 2018, 08:48:17 pm

I was wondering how such a feat was even possible.  With B0red it goes from completely preposterous, to simply astounding.  Nice sh0t.
[:

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 18, 2018, 09:00:15 pm

I just want the record to show that I did it.

Spoiler: Hearts of Iron IV (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/GLRu8eo.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 18, 2018, 09:03:03 pm

Ave!  True to Kaiserin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on March 18, 2018, 09:45:26 pm

Quote from: Ispil on March 18, 2018, 09:09:59 pm

...

That is really awesome! I need to make a note of that for next time I give that game a shot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 19, 2018, 01:35:21 am

Quote from: Ispil on March 18, 2018, 10:15:44 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on March 18, 2018, 09:45:26 pm

Quote from: Ispil on March 18, 2018, 09:09:59 pm

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That is really awesome! I need to make a note of that for next time I give that game a shot.

I think one of the raid bosses, you can line up the enemies he summons just right, so that you can shoot through all of them with the starting pistol you get at the very beginning of the game and one-shot the boss.

I'm not sure whether I should be amused or disgusted at how broken and fucked that is. At any rate, I just accidentally did it again to one of the Torgue's Campaign of Carnage bosses.

I remember years ago my brother and I just barely managed to beat Terramorphous with my assassin and his gunzerker, it would be hilarious if I could send him a video of me soloing him with b0re.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 19, 2018, 04:42:07 pm

There’s a certain mission that appears in this mod, called “Trouble at the Ski Resort” or something along those lines. Now, the main quirks of this mission are that you can only get sporting equipment. The only gun you can really bring along is the sporting rifle, what is essentially the entry-level rifle-type Weapon, slow to fire but fairly accurate and powerful. Now, the sporting rifle is the exception to his trend in that it inflicts very little damage.

Welp, this was on the easiest difficulty, but I managed to complete two of them so far with no deaths, through kneeling, cover, and more than a little luck. If only other missions didn’t take place in your choice of labyrinthine jumble or mostly exposed wilderness that might have one building and the trees as cover...

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The XCOM Files, a mod for OpenXCOM

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 19, 2018, 05:49:13 pm

Got commando to five perks for the muzzle brake on the handmade rifle. Then a legendary super mutant primus dropped a explosive 10mm pistol, which I fully upgraded and made automatic.

Holy fucking shit, this thing obliterates whole gangs of anything. I killed a behemoth, like fifty raiders, a bunch of Enclave (modded in) guys in X01 armor. It's obscenely awesome.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 20, 2018, 02:36:05 am

I stole all gold bars from the vault. Again.

Fallout: New Vegas, modded.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 20, 2018, 06:27:31 pm

Managed to unlock 3 functional tanks of the 3.3-37BR tier. Two variants of the M4 Sherman, and the M10 Wolverine. Also started my first research into Rank 3 vehicles.

During one round with the M10, I pulled an over-the-shoulder shot on a tank about to finish off a teammate, hitting the enemy tank through the turret and taking out the crew(I normally try to avoid firing with teammates in line of fire). Later in the same round, I flanked a KV-1 in a shoving match with a friendly tank, blowing the ammo rack. Given how many times I've been hit with bullshit killshots from the KV-1, that felt good.

"Rush to the Rhine" was a fun map.

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War Thunder. Does the payout of Silver Lions scale up with BR? The whole set of tanks and crew training cost me almost 250k SL, around half of what I've saved up, but I've been making about 5k-8k a match without boosts. I could have sworn I was making 3k-4k with the previous set of ~2.0-2.7BR tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 20, 2018, 08:42:55 pm

Not really an "own" in all likelihood, but it struck me as amusing enough and it is technically a "win."  Volunteered to play hide and seek with some kids, but they neglected to reckon with my mighty mini-map, which now comes with little dots for every person in the area.  Sorry, kids, but maybe someday, you too can be a video game protagonist.

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Atelier Sophie

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 21, 2018, 12:05:36 pm

Finally beat that stupid Donkey Kong minigame in Donkey Kong 64.  Then when I was prompted to beat it again for an item to win the game, I got it on my first try.

Only took about 55 tries overall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 21, 2018, 03:06:18 pm

Not entirely sure why Sitting Bull kept producing Fusileers and Cuirassers well into the Modern Age. Also a bit confused how a Cuirasser survives for more than two seconds while charging at an entire company of US Marines that is unloading hell into them.

By the time I was finally assaulting their last city, they were trying to stop my stealth bombers with biplanes. Biplanes launching from airbases right next door to ICBM silos. I'm a little surprised they didn't try nuking my wonders, as the AI is usually wont to do.

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Rise of Nations. US vs a random AI which turned out to be the Lakota.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on March 21, 2018, 10:32:32 pm

Spoiler: Terratech Microtank (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/n6loyT4.png)

Someone posted a design for a minitank, and I couldn't help but build one myself.

The Microtank (Currently in its assault configuration) menu includes.

A devastating twin gun battery that obliterates enemies up to 3x its size in a single salvo.
Dual Chainguns with a 180 degree hemisphere firing arc.
Twin plasma flamethrower casemates
Two Venture repair bubbles.
One Hawkeye Shield
Moderate Armor plating
Combined power capacity equal to 22 GSO batteries.
A cruise speed of 30mph and a maximum speed of 110mph.


This thing is actually kind of cheaty. Half of the stuff I run into dies in one salvo, and all but the most massive enemies take maybe two or three. With some finesse, I can make it run on a single tread, which allows some crazy firing maneuvers; letting me bring my main guns to bear at ridiculous speed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on March 21, 2018, 10:33:30 pm

Spoiler: Yay? (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/NVhGLep.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 21, 2018, 11:16:08 pm

Accidentally detonated a series of bombs around a nuclear reactor, killing 20,000 people, wounding uncounted others, and undoubtedly spreading radioactivity across a wide area.

This was the good ending.

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Battle Golfer Yui, a Japanese-only Genesis golf game. If the title didn't tip you off it's not your standard golf game but it certainly never went in that direction before the ending.

If you're curious, the bad ending is a one-paragraph text box about getting brainwashed and conquering the world for an evil chemist. Like I said. Not your standard golf game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on March 22, 2018, 02:08:22 am

Quote from: Akura on March 21, 2018, 03:06:18 pm

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Rise of Nations. US vs a random AI which turned out to be the Lakota.

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I'm wondering how people managed to play the US vs Russia campaign or somesuch in the campaign--it bugs out and refuses to play for me!

I am a benevolent pharaoh. Import all the raw materials, export all the finished ones, and get my residential zones at a quite nice state of living! \o/ Enough that I can pull the income...of a pharoah, as a royal judge, and still keep kingdom ratings quite high! Hello funding for my family (and later missions) for forever! :D
I now remember why I was drawn to this--I could be a girl, waaaaaaaay back in the day, a decade+ back. But it was more the pixel'y stuff. :P

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Sierra's Pharaoh!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 22, 2018, 06:11:30 am

Troops of the Holy Roman Empire have landed in Florida, Virginia, and Halifax. We've managed to stretch our territory from Florida to just outside DC, even if Halifax is kind of stuck. The US is putting up a surprising fight. We're both conscripting more and more, with US casualties at 14.37 million and HRE casualties at 6.32 million. And our allies both have pretty massive casualties as well.

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Hearts of Iron IV. I've basically won at this point but I want to finish it off, and I won't be satisfied until the US is gone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 22, 2018, 09:33:07 am

I almost hate to ask, but did you take greater losses in Florida of Virginia?

I can only assume the greater of the millions of casualties started with one of the Floridians saying "Hold my beer".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 22, 2018, 10:43:40 am

I didn't check regularly enough to say it's false, so there's no reason to not just go with Floridans actually managing to kill millions of HRE troops through sheer insane bullshit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 22, 2018, 01:11:57 pm

Finally completed all three Speed Star quests. This is what I had to deal with:

• Your opponent runs a different course than you. Specifically, it flies directly to the goal.
• Every time I had to restart the race, I have to go through the 30-second camera pan(itself is buggy) every time. The third race also has a loading screen to deal with.
• Trying to dash right at the start of the race will instead cause you to dash backwards. Dashing backwards at the start causes you to dash backwards.
• Speed salves do not actually increase your speed at all(may have been due to already having the max 20% boost from equipped chips). Speed salves are apparently also limited in availability(source:wiki), gained only from 3 quests rewards(including THIS quest). It also took me awhile to find them in my inventory.
• Opening the inventory to use a speed salve also brings you to a dead stop for several seconds when you close the menu.
• The second race would have been finished earlier had my controls not reversed suddenly right before the end. Probably related to the same thing dashing at the start.

To win the first and second races, I had to slow the opponent down with a Slow attack(which is only available in a "second" playthrough). This doesn't work in the third race since he flies clear across the map way above the ground(you have to take the long way). For the third race, a dive and dash around a huge crater, I abused a partial self-destruct(release before you go boom) to fall faster and cancel both fall damage and stagger. Also tried something I read where if you start charging your Pod's special attack but then cancel it, everything but you slows down slightly, but I'm not sure if it worked - I did win when I tried it.

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Nier:Automata. Speed Machine, your death is literally the only one in the game its impossible to feel bad about.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on March 22, 2018, 01:35:36 pm

Quote from: Steelmagic on March 22, 2018, 10:43:40 am

Floridans actually managing to kill millions of HRE troops through sheer insane bullshit.

Quote from: Steelmagic on March 22, 2018, 10:43:40 am

sheer insane bullshit.

ah, florida's next major export besides theme parks

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on March 22, 2018, 02:56:39 pm

I haven't played Hearts of Iron, how did it become the Holy Roman Empire?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 22, 2018, 03:02:44 pm

You can do so through an extremely convoluted series of events as Germany and a conquering spree. Forming the Holy Roman Empire in HoI4 is very much 'We're on so many different layers of alt-history we might as well have fun with it'. Not only do you have to restore the Kaiserreich and ally with Great Britain, you have to get Wilhelm III on the throne instead of II, reform your succession laws, and finally have the Hindenburg survive long enough to kill off most but not all of the royal family. And then after all of that you still need to conquer many other countries to get the land needed for the decision.

It's... very much something you'd only figure out how to do by reading the raw data.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on March 22, 2018, 03:33:59 pm

Thanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 22, 2018, 06:44:43 pm

Conquered Crete as Cimmeria then had an army ambushed by Galatians near Side. Curbstomped the shit out of them.

TWR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Steelmagic on March 23, 2018, 12:23:09 am

After continued hard fighting, and a landing in Los Angeles, the US was beaten, and the rest of the remaining allies followed as they no longer had US troops stopping us. In the end, Allied losses were almost 40 million, and Central Powers losses almost 14 million, but Kaiserin Victoria Louise of Prussia has conquered most of the world.

Spoiler: Hearts of Iron IV (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/sqztEv3.jpg) Japan happened to go with the full power to the Emperor route, which made them friends of ours. This is also still the only Hearts of Iron IV game I have finished. Somehow I was third on the scoreboard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on March 23, 2018, 02:39:22 am

Based on an idea from some other guys on the internet, I designed a missile that takes out the scariest ships reliably and with relatively low cost. It seems to work even against heavy laserstars.

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Children of a Dead Earth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on March 23, 2018, 10:48:41 am

Reinstalled HS after a long while, had enough gold for a single arena run, decided, what the heck, might as well. Drafted an abysmally heavy Druid deck that had no 1-drops and way too few 2-drops. But as it turns out, nobody else is playing aggro so I just powered my way trough 8 opponents before losing, bullshit like 8 attack windfury dinosaurs or asshole shrooms that keep spawning trash the enemy can't clear was pretty fun all in all. And the reward was a nifty 225 gold and a pack, not bad for a first run in months.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on March 24, 2018, 12:50:11 am

Solo'd The Invincible Sentinel, which is a boss normally meant to be taken on by a team. Somehow I managed to die exactly at the same time as him, and I was afraid that I would have to fight him again after respawning, but luckily that wasn't the case. He was still ded and all of his loots were still there for me to pick up, including a legendary shield.

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.

I'm really disappointed that the big raid boss was literally an exact clone of the final boss except more powerful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on March 24, 2018, 10:29:36 am

I had a battle between Isabella von Carstein and Volkmar the Grim. Both were full 20 unit armies.

The main battle wore on due to Volkmar having about 6 units of flaggelants and the Sons of Sigmar (Unbreakable swordsmen). 2 Units of Black Knights and a mounted Wight King I had planned to use for rear charges were caught and beaten by the enemies Griffon Guard (Kislev knights from a mod).

The whole battle devolved to a badly injured Isabella, a Black Coach and Volkmar (on foot). Volkmar was too powerful to engage in melee so I had to repeatedly run him over with the Black Coach, dealing about 100 damage every time the charge hit. It took about 15 minutes to reduce Volkmar from 1600 health (already damaged) to about 300 when he broke, during which he spent most of this time flying down a hillside after taking a coach to the face.


Warhammer 2: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 24, 2018, 02:31:18 pm

I'm playing that as Clan Angrund and re-took Karaz-Eight-Peaks for the first time! Multiple false starts were involved including a notable 40 on 40 unit battle against the Crooked Moon goblins.

Such a great game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on March 24, 2018, 05:16:26 pm

Just had an amazing run with Azazael. Got sad onion and satanic bible on the first floor, got monstro's lung on the second floor, for a short range shotgun brimstone, then found 20/20 on the next floor to double the number of lasers, then found mom's eye a few floors after that to get an extra laser shooting behind me. Managed to max out my damage stat too.

Cleared the game all the way up to mega Satan in about 30 minutes. Could probably make a speedrun using the seed.

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Binding of Isaac Afterbirth

Found the seed in the game logs. S4DB 7RNS on hard as Azazael

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on March 24, 2018, 06:11:26 pm

Started playing Outpost 2, which I haven't picked up in a while.  Going with the Plymouth campaign on hard, the first missions were a mad dash of escapes just ahead of multiple nasty volcanic eruptions as our escape route took us along a major fault between two continental plates that were reactivating in spite of the tectonic death of the world millennia before humanity ever arrived.  A brief mission into the original colony of our Edenite counterparts revealed the reason: they lost control of a terraforming bug (now termed the Blight) which they designed to break apart a wide variety of organic molecules for water, carbon dioxide, and oxygen...apparently forgetting that this also includes humans. When this literally blew up in their faces, Eden was destroyed and the bug set free into the wild, penetrating deep enough into the crust to (somehow) begin restarting the old tectonic processes that caused the destruction of Plymouth. 

Seguing into this mission, the colony is now under threat by volcanoes, Blight, and the remnant of Eden that escaped the destruction of their mother colony who have begun launching spoiler raids to keep us busy.  At the close of the mission, with Blight surging forward into the colony with the dawn and Eden forces smashing through my static defenses, I was left with a frantic scramble to load the last of the essential construction modules for my next base and the metal I would need to construct everything there.  Simultaneously, I also withdrew my mobile forces from all engagements against Eden to cover the withdrawal of my evacuation transports and to keep them intact as I finished the last vehicles of what would be an expeditionary force aimed at rebuilding the technology needed to get off this now-doomed planet.  As Eden broke through to attack my now-abandoned mines and the Blight surged into the western side of my base, the last of my cargo trucks finished loading and departed, and that lovely Mission Accomplished filled the screen. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Outpost 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on March 25, 2018, 01:42:13 am

I really love the UI 'ease of lifestyle' updates Tangledeep just ran. Now I can be a swordswoman AND equip my bow to shoot down baddies as they come near! Hooray for being a viking-esque soul-powered archer!

And then I realized that the first 15 levels is just the 'newbie' area, but it doesn't matter because I've banked nice things for this run! Now if only I got things I had combat masteries for. :'(

Still, seeing this as a great success because of how awesomely far I've gotten \o/

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Tangledeep!

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Spoiler: Also I kinda need help with Rise of Nations question here, like from Akura! :B (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Tiruin on March 22, 2018, 02:08:22 am

Quote from: Akura on March 21, 2018, 03:06:18 pm

[spoiler]Rise of Nations. US vs a random AI which turned out to be the Lakota.

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I'm wondering how people managed to play the US vs Russia campaign or somesuch in the campaign--it bugs out and refuses to play for me!

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 25, 2018, 06:53:26 am

I hadn't played it on the version I have, so I loaded it up just now. It did bug out. If you're getting an issue where you can hear the voiceover narration but the screen doesn't change, try pressing Escape a couple of times. That worked for me.


EDIT: In one battle, I shot down an enemy plane with the main cannon of an M10 Wolverine - a cannon meant for punching tank armor. I would have used my machine gun, but an earlier airstrike took out most of my tank crew as well as damaged the turret drives.

In the next battle, I came out bad from a dogfight having part of my wing ripped off and leaking oil. My plane was therefore banking left and the engine was about to die. Still made it back to the airfield for a perfect landing. Since I don't know how(or if at all possible) to repair a landed plane, I bailed giving the other guy kill credit.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on March 25, 2018, 11:19:05 am

Do they still show "players online" counter? How much people are playing this now?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on March 25, 2018, 11:26:19 am

Finally got a good run as the Silent on Slay the Spire. Took out the Time Eater with a will placed catalyst+corpse explosion combo, though it was still a hairy fight. It's difficult to slow-play the Time-Eater, since blocking eventually makes it stronger, and it's difficult to blitz it with the silent, since the Silent's ability to blitz is generally dependent on playing EVERYTHING.

Still, feels good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on March 25, 2018, 11:39:54 am

Quote from: Akura on March 25, 2018, 06:53:26 am

Since I don't know how(or if at all possible) to repair a landed plane, I bailed giving the other guy kill credit.

You have to have the appropriate skills for the crew of the vehicle you're hoping to repair.

Hm, my own latest own?

Moria, T.A. 2980 (or so). The Dwarves of Khazad-dum have retaken Western Khazad-dum. They are few in number, however, and with the hastily-levied but very well-equipped defenders, there are but 780 soldiers within reach of the West-gate of Moria. The Orcs of the Misty Mountains have sent four thousand to retake the West-gate and send the Dwarves running into the eastern halls once more. Four thousand goblins and their Uruk Taskmasters march up to the gate, and batter it down. One and half thousand dead goblins later, the Defenders are steadily being pushed back from the "V" they made to trap the enemy as they pushed through the gate, the Dwarven lines are thinning. Half of them, perhaps, are dead, and many more are injured.

And then the Dragonslayers make the charge. A hundred Dwarves clad in plate, wielding great axes and tower shields, smash the Goblin right flank. With two general's units pushing back the Goblin left, the enemy is slowly encircled, as the flanks, which were never dislodged from their positions beside the gate, meet. Two and half thousand orcs, trapped in a circle of angry Dwarves. To finish it off, the Reclaimers of Khazad-dum, a Mithril-protected two-handed axe unit, push through the Dwarven center to engage the Goblins, and they rout. But there is nowhere to go.

Four thousand marched under the Mountain.

Fewer than thirty would escape.

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Divide and Conquer 2.0 submod, Third Age: Total War mod, Medieval 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 25, 2018, 12:40:31 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on March 25, 2018, 11:39:54 am

Quote from: Akura on March 25, 2018, 06:53:26 am

Since I don't know how(or if at all possible) to repair a landed plane, I bailed giving the other guy kill credit.

You have to have the appropriate skills for the crew of the vehicle you're hoping to repair.

I meant as in what key to press to repair on the ground. I only have Rank I planes, and all my crews have RII-III repair skill.

Quote from: MCreeper on March 25, 2018, 11:19:05 am

Do they still show "players online" counter? How much people are playing this now?

I still regularly see tens of thousands on the in-game counter, with thousands of matches going on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on March 25, 2018, 12:44:26 pm

There is no key, if your plane is repairable it will automatically start as soon as your plane is parked. Usually your plane will be repairable, but if it's too damaged [landing without gear is a common culprit, and engine damage seems to make it very hard to repair] there should be a message in the bottom of the screen telling you so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 25, 2018, 05:27:40 pm

Spoiler: Topdecking lethal is not luck, it's making a deck that will ensure I always have a big, nice chance of doing just that. (click to show/hide)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/913542421123604002/5B9A992EC9CFA027B118F7820A4C2A902C5A0504/)

The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: karhell on March 26, 2018, 04:53:20 am

Going back up to the ramparts of the Lost Bastille from McDuff's workshop, I was waiting with a fire arrow nocked to try and catch a Jailor with an explosive barrel. He doesn't move. Simultaneously, someone invades me and comes running straight down the walkway. I shoot as they pass the barrel, hoping to soften them up a bit before getting inevitably annihilated (I suck at PvP). The blast threw the invader clean off the wall. The whole invasion lasted all of five seconds.

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Dark Souls 2 SotfS. Easiest invasion so far ^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on March 26, 2018, 05:34:39 am

Ahahahaha I've barely even played Dark Souls, but that is freaking amazing!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on March 26, 2018, 03:46:01 pm

The current Slay the Spire daily is amazing. Got the Speedrunner (finish in under 20 minutes), Flawless (Take no damage in a boss fight), and You Are Nothing To Me (Kill a boss before they get a turn) achievements. Mindblast wrecks shop.

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Slay The Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 26, 2018, 06:54:25 pm

Total War: Warhammer

Won 3 heroic victories in a row as The Empire. In attacking the Vampire Counts I failed to take things like attrition in their territory into account. Also, their territory expanded *way* father north that I initially saw or expected. This led to about 3 times the military resistance instead of the easy stomp I was expecting.

First, I laid siege to their capital, since it had nothing but it's garrison. They showed up with two 20-stacks and I had to retreat. I made it safely back to my territory, and they extended one of their 20 stacks to pursue. Ha, my units are mid/end game, they have nothing but low-end zombies and skeletons, even if I took a turn of attrition..

I went after them the next turn, only to find that they had ambush reinforcements in the form of a 20-stack of grave guards, bats, and black knights. This was the first heroic victory. After that, his THIRD army arrived out of the fog of war and attacked my reinforcement army's position just outside Fort Oberstyre, outnumbering me 2:1. I won that one as well, but was too injured at any position to push forward and siege. They retreated to the Templehov area.

Realizing that I had to stop them RIGHT NOW or they would just rebuild their forces (and likely into higher-tier units) I sieged Templehov with my severely damaged reinforcements to stop them from interfering while I fought a heroic victory siege to take Castle Drakenhof. That cut off their ability to recruit high-end units, and they sued for peace the turn after (we burned them all instead).

Anyway I feel like Sun Tzu.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 27, 2018, 04:54:13 pm

Defeated Black Bean, the game's brutal bonus boss from (literal?) hell - and I still had two shortcakes(full HP heal) left. The run up to the battle is going across a skeletal dragon used as a bridge across lava; part of it collapses and a fall will not only force you to start crossing again but also deals 10HP(5 from the lava, 5 from the fall) of damage. This time I cleared it in one go.

He teleports all over the place, splits into copies that attack independently, and a number of his attacks are near-impossible to dodge. Worst of these attacks is called Neo Galaxy(he starts calling his attacks in the second half of the battle), which causes a series of explosions to chase the player, followed by a huge explosion that hits you for 50HP(with a 25% damage reduction hat, 39 with a 50% reduction hat) and can only be avoided by abusing the specific timing of the invulnerability frames of one of your special attacks. I managed to dodge that once.

Most guides suggest various Lv.5 hats - which require 999 Junk to upgrade(each), the level with the most Junk drops is around 60-70 - and the upgraded drill - which requires finding 11 medals hidden throughout the game(I've found two). I did it with the normal drill and a Lv.4 Vampire Kit hat which looks adorable on Parin by the way. While the Lv.5 Vampire hat heals on any attack that hits compared to all the previous levels which heal on critical hits, it's not that important(and not worth the grind) since most hits are criticals anyway.

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Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 01, 2018, 09:49:13 am

Managed to 6-link my almost perfectly rolled Belly of the Beast (increasing its value about ten times), five minutes from that a random mob drops an Exalt on me, further enriching me. But that's mostly RNG, what's really ownage brag worthy is the build itself, 6 attacks per second, each of which spawns 33 molten orbs, each of which poisons anything it hits. And poison stacks, along with some passives and ascendancy bonuses that stacking goes to stupid levels. Like, punch a boss down to half hp and the rest will just melt away within seconds. It also chugs my PC every time I use the attack since so much shit goes off at once :D

Path of Exile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on April 01, 2018, 07:51:53 pm

After countless deaths trying to find Seath the Scaleless, and with only 2 estus flasks at the start of the fight, I managed to slay Seath on my first try.

I barely survived an attack with 3 hp remaining, and no estus. My Red Tearstone ring buffed my Greatsword's damage so that I was dealing 200+ damage a swing. Then I remembered I could two hand it and stabbed him a couple times for 500 damage each. Basically by getting up close and swinging a huge sword I managed to kill him with 3 hp remaining.

Wew.

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Dark Souls.

Been a while since I last played. I spent about an hour wandering around Duke's archives wondering where I was trying to go before I found the entrance to Crystal Caves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 03, 2018, 01:25:44 am

Akura this is totally your fault

So I've been poking into World of Warships thanks to Akura posting about stuff, did some stuff to a CV (Aircraft Carrier/Carrier Vessel) up that I went into the 6th tier (Tier VI), and then an operation (scenario mission) occurred that was precisely for that tier. The CV is only to two different countries--America, and Japan--and the Japanese one has 'more strike squadrons' but less planes per squad, while the American one has the opposite. The scenario is best played with Japanese CVs due to being a 'defense themed' mission where our people are assaulted by 5x enemy ships than our team.

I stuck with an American CV, because I followed the 'tech tree' which leads up that line.

This one game had the context of one of my teammates saying 'wow wrong ships everyone', because out of the 2 Battleships, 3 Cruisers, 2 Destroyers, and 1 Aircraft Carrier, the 'right' ships are those configured for fighting multiple enemies. Mine is detailed above--while the rest (as our 'ships' all come from 6 or so different nations), must've been either heavy-hitters or otherwise. Another teammate followed it up with 'let's hope we've got good captains then'.

Now this scenario is something I've failed in 2 times before because of lag :v because Philippine internet is abusive quite horrible because of international prospects and internal ones, but still! I had to both protect my team from enemy aircraft, and focus my aircraft to bomb/torpedo attack incoming AI ships.

To cut the story short, I ended the mission with all objectives BUT ONE completed, 53+ enemy aircraft kills (because strafing is an option only done with the Alt key, at tiers VI+), only a full fighter wing and a broken dive bomber wing alive. Out of 5 objectives (which each represents 1 star in the operation out of 5 stars), the only one we missed is 'kill all enemy ships before the main attack wave'. We apparently fulfilled the objectives: 'defend the perimeter and let no enemy ship cross this line; ensure that NONE OF ANY allied fortresses/moored or repair ships die; destroy the enemy main carrier; at least 3 team ships should survive'.

Noting for posterity that the tier VI American carrier...only has 1 squadron of fighters, torpedo bombers, and dive bombers each, with replacements not even numbering a full squadron for each strike squadron. They have 6 planes per squadron versus the Japanese 4 planes per squadron (yet somehow the fighters and otherwise are all matched to each plane, like if a Japanese fighter squad vs an American squad fight--it all purely depends on who gets the first kill [other than AA fire in the surroundings and other factors]); in comparison, a Japanese Carrier can field multiple squadrons at the same tier at the moment. So this backs the comment above. :P

Our team was very relieved at the end. (Mainly I blame our destroyer captain because he was awesome with torpedo volleys). Because we scored 4/5 stars, I gained a Japanese Captain with 10 skill points in them. This is a super award! :3 Also got a mod from the forum that makes every captain female, alongside getting female professional voiceovers for literally everything in-game and it is amazing and awesome.

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World of Warships

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 03, 2018, 03:12:01 am

There's a youtuber that does really good World of Warships videos, The Mighty Jingles.  IIRC he's a vet of the UK navy and knows a lot about ships; he quotes the gun calibers of specific ships at times and I suspect he would know with or without the game.  Also an all round cool guy if you're interested in his videos.

Anyway he did a multiplayer commentary of a viewer submitted battleship replay.  Video is going along about as normal and then suddenly the player involved just dies.  No warning, no visible shots, from almost full health.  Turns out there's one Japanese carrier that has a ludicrous dive bomber wing*.  The viewer was in a battleship that was a tier down from the fight, the player with the aircraft carrier was a tier up.  Battleships always did have large hulls... pretty much every bomb hit him.  Instant annihilation.

That being said I don't remember Jingles viewing the Japanese carrier line as particularly OP.  I think the American line was better at fighters and at keeping enemy vehicles spotted for an extended period of time (since their planes are more expendable they can afford to linger in AA for a while).  One of Jingle's replays had an unlucky American CV player kitted out with 2 fighter wings and a bomber wing lose the bomber wing early, then spend the rest of the game following around enemy destroyers with pathetic AA.  The destroyers separated themselves from the cruisers to go do their torpedo thing; so they had no counter and whenever they dropped smoke the fighters could just see over it.  Ended up getting at least one destroyer killed and his team won.

*either it's the same as the planes from the next tier up, or it contains 9 planes.  Or both.  Forget the specifics but with upgrades its ridiculous basically

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on April 03, 2018, 06:14:50 am

I fought the Alkari and Klackons in quick succession, defeated both handily. Right before I coup de grace the final Klackons border world, Antarans attack Kholdan, which I invaded and conquered. I rush build/buy a missile defense base and recall my fleet. I went for missiles and missile tech mainly so as soon as the battle started, a WALL of missiles soared towards those space Nazi assholes. I lost the missile base but nothing else.

Master of Orion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 04, 2018, 02:51:31 am

Managed to take down a cargo ship that happened to be carrying 40 tons of diamonds, the most valuable cargo I've ever found.

While I was scooping up all the canisters, the spehss police arrived and caught me red-handed, with pocketfuls of stolen rocks and the wreckage of a disabled Type 7 Transport nearby. Luckily I was able to scoot out of there just in time with around 400000 credits worth of the diamonds. On the other hand, they also decided that whoever finds me and kills me earns 200000 credits. Oops?

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Elite: Dangerous

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on April 04, 2018, 02:53:52 am

Fake your death and get 600000 pure profit!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 04, 2018, 12:58:39 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 04, 2018, 02:53:52 am

Fake your death and get 600000 pure profit!

You're gonna go far in this place, kid
~Grizzled Space Guy

For reals though my favorite space own was in X3: Terran Conflict, where some guy actually gave me a mission that said "There is a fully-loaded, somewhat damaged modern military missile cruiser at these coordinates in space. Noone but you and me know that it's there. Here are the keys. I will pay you one million credits to please drive it back. Noone will check in on you for 3 hours. I'll wait here.

*checks shipyard*
*ship is worth 30 million*

Ok buddy, I'll get your ship. Be riiiight back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on April 04, 2018, 06:25:37 pm

In space, it's not illegal if nobody can hear you do it!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 04, 2018, 06:48:17 pm

Maybe figured out a way for folk to STOP CREATING TITULAR DUCHY TITLES YOU BASTARDS.

Create them myself and give them to the local holy order.

Fun will likely commence in the future, but ah well...

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CKII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 04, 2018, 08:16:07 pm

I found another trade ship full of low-temp diamonds. This time I inderdicted it, and before I had a chance to scan his cargo manifest, he warped into another system with no police presence. That turned out to be a fatal mistake when I followed him there, took out his engines and power plant and promptly began siphoning his cargo, this time completely unhindered by coppers. I didn't pack enough limpets to completely fill my holds, but the haul still sold for over 3 million credits.

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Elite: Dangerous.
Good thing I wasn't caught smuggling all this shit or I would have immediately been worth millions.

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/913543371314836217/F95DECC56BB3A4C89EB9AAC971F623648EE80D90/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 04, 2018, 08:20:58 pm

Where are you finding these guys :[  ]

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on April 04, 2018, 08:22:15 pm

Went up against the Apprentice Necromancer. Dismas proceeded to crit said apprentice three times in a row, culminating in a crit Point-Blank Shot. Combined with blight-stack from my plague doctor, the necromancer went down after only a few turns.

Darkest Dungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on April 04, 2018, 09:17:09 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 04, 2018, 08:20:58 pm

Where are you finding these guys :[  ]

I read somewhere that trade ships love carrying low-temp diamonds in agricultural systems. As you can (kind of) see from the screenshot I posted, LTDs are obtainable by mining, so look for trade ships that have mining lasers equipped.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on April 05, 2018, 12:38:45 pm

I created a Titan-class ship. The Cyclops class mk 1 has an offensive power of 3800~ and a defensive power of about 3200~. I fought an Antaran fleet of 6 battleships, 4 cruisers, 6 destroyers, and 10 frigates with a total score of 4000 offensive 6000 defensive for comparison.

No other race in the galaxy, bar Antarans, can even appreciably damage its shield. If I could somehow gather every offensive ship including monsters minus mine and the Antarans, it could almost certainly obliterate that combined fleet singlehandedly.
And I have four, with four more on the way.

Master of Orion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on April 05, 2018, 01:39:43 pm

Not my own, but an NPC's, if you treat pirates in the game as NPC.

Basically, my two little carracks (you don't get shiny new techs as Manchu even after westernizing) sent to chase away a pirate Frigate got defeated and fled away, and in the same exact moment, a combined Castillian-Ragusan fleet of 40+ ships (mostly twodeckers, heavy frigates and some transports) initiated combat.

The game must've glitched out, because the fight has so far continued for 3 in-game months, the combined alied fleet dropped to 16 ships, the fleet's rating dropped to yellow, while the single pirate (definitely aptly called 'Hell-spawn') is still in green. It's winning.

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Europa Universalis 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 05, 2018, 01:50:27 pm

he's just kiting them really well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on April 05, 2018, 10:44:12 pm

Been having a string of good games with the fill tool slosher paint bucket.  Its got decent enough coverage and I'm able to hit people on the high ground.  Oddly, I never see anyone else using a bucket, and I've never seen an umbrella.  The paint rollers are very common though.

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Splatoon 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 05, 2018, 10:46:01 pm

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on April 05, 2018, 10:44:12 pm

Been having a string of good games with the fill tool slosher paint bucket.  Its got decent enough coverage and I'm able to hit people on the high ground.  Oddly, I never see anyone else using a bucket, and I've never seen an umbrella.  The paint rollers are very common though.

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Splatoon 2

This is your chance to really make a mark on something! To shape a game's meta!

Granted, it'll probably take several dozen dozen other people using the paint bucket to really make it a part of the game's meta, but still.

Also, I know literally nothing about Splatoon, so the most I can do is shout words of encouragement :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 06, 2018, 04:39:28 am

Ragequit a game, largely because someone shot me through a wall. And for some reason, the killcam starts midflight instead of shot origin if it's a Russian tank shot from dense cover.


I log in the next morning to find I earned a battle trophy with 10,000 Silver Lions in it, plus a +150% booster for the daily login.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on April 06, 2018, 12:27:10 pm

This is your fault Akura

So I tried World of Warplanes, and shoved myself into a tier V fighter (the USSR Mig), tried playing at a local computer shop because unbearable lag + horrible internet equals a normal life for me (thanks expensive ISP T_T), and the smooth performance and actual opportunity to play gives me the ability to actualy perform well. Scored 14k personal points in said fighter, fought off a whole team plus players (thank you high altitude dive-fighting), and I was able to see the scenery being beautiful.

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World of Warplanes

In stark contrast, I'm partially happy there is no karma system here (only in this context)--I can't lose my hard-earned karma due to people thinking I'm "AFK" or whatever when I'm sitting there, ready to play, and bleeding myself out seeing everything move on the mission/tab screen while the internet connection wholly outside of my control acts like rubbish. In all other contexts, pretty happy about the karma system in World of Warships.

I just wish I stopped losing points for obtuse and useless actions fully out of my control. Really, really hurts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on April 06, 2018, 02:39:48 pm

Yeah there are similar issues with fighting games, which have struggled with a solution to the problem of how to handle disconnects (accidental or intended) for a long time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 07, 2018, 04:22:29 pm

Epic sword fight against MetaMechaknight. Unusually, it's one of the few times in the series the sword is not required for this duel.

But that doesn't mean I'm not going to use it. That's just insulting to the poor guy.

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Kirby: Planet Robobot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 07, 2018, 07:25:57 pm

HoI4 protip: Paradropping into Japan is at least 2 times easier if every last Japanese divisions is dead in Siberia. At least 2 times easier.

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Hearts of Iron 4, if you didn't realize it earlier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 09, 2018, 01:02:11 pm

Killed a boss crocodile in CONAN EXILES in the new testlive content.

Proceeded to turn it's home into a rad castle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 09, 2018, 07:33:21 pm

Had a pretty good series of matches. My M10 got a lot of kills. Learning to lead on a moving target properly helps a lot. First round of the session, I ranked 1st in the team, during which I popped several vehicles through a wooden boxcar using only friendly spotting - note that during this match I didn't even pull my M10 until the very end where it didn't get much chance to engage, I used only my M4A1.

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War Thunder

EDIT: Survived my first Blood Moon. Minimal base damage, but pretty weak loot. I don't know why people say these events are a loot haul.

Took the most damage including an infection(had antibiotics) from a few Spider Zombies, my first encounter with them. Most of the night was spent sitting on top of my house(4 walls, no ceiling yet), and bonking zombies that came near with my club.

As I left my cabin in the early morning hours(after the event stopped) to shovel the remaining bodies, I'm nearly trampled by a random horde of probably more zombies than had spawned throughout the night. Luckily, only one or two left the zombie morning jogger party to chase me, though several strippers somehow got into a spike pit.

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7 Days to Die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IcyTea31 on April 13, 2018, 11:51:56 pm

Accidental ownage, but ownage nonetheless: I'm new to the game, so I was thinking of practicing by playing an Irish duke and unifying the island nation. 50 years in, I decide to go on a little crusade, again for practice, and get about 40% participation just from sieging holdings. War ends, and, well, I accidentally the entire kingdom of Andalusia. I wanted to be the king of Ireland, but eh, this works too.

Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: inteuniso on April 14, 2018, 01:13:50 am

I yelled at some lame pirates who couldn't blow up my 500k isk completely unfitted industrial hauler with a battleship.

EVE Online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 14, 2018, 04:34:36 am

Declared independence. Since I didn't want to take on $10,000 of national debt(not crippling, but not a small sum either), the Crown decided to send its army.

Two squads of expeditionary marines met my two squads, one the Palace guards and the other of Colonial Infantry from the nearby fort. Wiped out the imperialist troops without a single casualty. Ironically, I had pretty swell relations with the Allies after the revolution, due to running a secular police state where only the wealthy may vote.

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Tropico 5.

Wanted to play 3, but I can't get it to run. Most of what I see on the internet says it's an issue with multiple monitors, but I only have a single one. Trying to translate the crash log, and it looks like it's an incompatibility with my graphics card.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 15, 2018, 03:23:53 pm

Successfully defended a supporter's FOB from an intruder.

Granted, the intruder killed me a few times, and seemed to have stolen some of the resource containers on the outside platforms, but I still stopped him in the end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 15, 2018, 04:04:30 pm

Am in the Ramparts, I overshoot a jump and go off the side of one of the towers. Desperate, I roll towards the tower in vain attempt to get back atop it. Alas, I'm too far down to do so... except turns out there was a secret room that opened to that very side of the tower, and my roll landed me perfectly there. I don't even.

Dead Cells

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on April 15, 2018, 06:20:21 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on April 13, 2018, 11:51:56 pm

Accidental ownage, but ownage nonetheless: I'm new to the game, so I was thinking of practicing by playing an Irish duke and unifying the island nation. 50 years in, I decide to go on a little crusade, again for practice, and get about 40% participation just from sieging holdings. War ends, and, well, I accidentally the entire kingdom of Andalusia. I wanted to be the king of Ireland, but eh, this works too.

Crusader Kings 2

I always have to work so hard for Andalusia. ;_; Then again, I'm usually Asturias.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: smjjames on April 15, 2018, 06:33:11 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on April 13, 2018, 11:51:56 pm

Accidental ownage, but ownage nonetheless: I'm new to the game, so I was thinking of practicing by playing an Irish duke and unifying the island nation. 50 years in, I decide to go on a little crusade, again for practice, and get about 40% participation just from sieging holdings. War ends, and, well, I accidentally the entire kingdom of Andalusia. I wanted to be the king of Ireland, but eh, this works too.

Crusader Kings 2

I think one of the recommended things to play as a first time was one of the Irish dukes actually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 15, 2018, 08:30:54 pm

Mostly on the 1066 bookmark, mind you. Ireland in the 1066s is a bunch of small counties without any major powers rubbing up against them. Ireland pre-1066 is a Viking's second beach house and thus is quite painful to start out in.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 15, 2018, 09:05:05 pm

Well, the 867 start is a pain ‘cause they can raid you, but they can’t in the 769 start, so you get a few decades to get a foothold.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 16, 2018, 05:57:13 am

My best friend and I decided to run Diablo 3's weekly challenge thing (basically, a Nephalem Rift with a fixed seed and someone else's build). Ended up being the 29th fastest duo in the entire Americas. Proof below.

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(https://i.imgur.com/BfddHPl.jpg)

Diablo 3, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: smjjames on April 16, 2018, 11:35:43 am

Quote from: hector13 on April 15, 2018, 09:05:05 pm

Well, the 867 start is a pain ‘cause they can raid you, but they can’t in the 769 start, so you get a few decades to get a foothold.

I did a 769 start and the viking raids actually started about 50 years later. Though they didn't start peaking and get strong until around the 860's.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 16, 2018, 01:16:39 pm

Rapidly overran the Remnant Imperial Seat - 4 or so planets with 30-slot planets except the planet actually called Imperial Seat which has 50(20 on a normal planet is a good planet). The dozen or so defense stations around each planet had me worried a bit. Each is scale-16.0(quite small except early game), but they have technology enough to push them well over a million HP apiece... except they lack shields. A dozen scale-256.0 battleships, with more shields then the outposts have hull HP, arrived. One got separated and decided to dive right at a planet. The BB-LEEEROOY JENKIIINS!!(now I have to try to rename a ship to that) had its shield overwhelmed and was losing health, when the rest of its battlegroup came. Each has a repair tool that together seems to be able to out-repair the damage the Remnants can cause. The whole battle was a complete wash.


The lead-up to this invasion probably counts. Decided early to convert a 5-planet star system into a shipyard system. This is not building shipyards on the planets. This is turning each planet into nothing but spaceports(which gives/takes resources from the empire-wide pool), cargo space, and a little something for defense. One of these worlds has a space station with construction bays(I used the default Drydock blueprint - it works well enough). In addition, there's several cargo ships moving resources throughout the system, preferably funneling them into the shipyard station. Then, I built hundreds of colony ships(within a few minutes) and chucked them throughout the stars. I own about half the galaxy now. The two AI empires are actually begging to sell me their research points, increasing my lead. I'm researching 17th-level techs within 10 seconds.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler. Also helpful is a change in ship design philosophy. Before, I tried to maximize shield and speed by mounting the shield generators and engines on external mounts. As a result, the ships would often be de-shielded and immobilized pretty quickly. Decided to use fewer/smaller weapons instead.

Oh, and while that scheme above allows for very rapid shipbuilding, the AI still builds ships faster somehow(cheats are off). Despite the fact that their allocation of planetary facilities looks entirely random going from worlds I've previously taken with chemical weapons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 16, 2018, 01:29:20 pm

Star Ruler is such a gem of a game... with some fine tuning it would have been maybe the best 4x ever... still kind of mad devs decided to take SR2 in a different direction entirely.

My fondest memory, and definite own was running my experimental shipyard while my battle fleets kept my homewards safe. I was a small power without much territory, so I got to work on some mammoth AI-controlled ships that were basically mobile shipyards. They mined asteroids, had unlimited ammo and fuel, and pumped out a fighter or gunship every second.

Pretty damn good in battle, overwhelming the enemy, even battleships, with pure numbers. I even accidentally left one in some backwater system that ended up generating 3000 (or was it 300?) fighters--much to the enemy patrol's surprise when they warped in unexpectedly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 16, 2018, 03:13:43 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 16, 2018, 01:29:20 pm

still kind of mad devs decided to take SR2 in a different direction entirely.

What turned me off about SR2 was the card-based diplomacy system. Like, an alien race you've never heard of on the other side of the galaxy has a claim on one of your systems because they have card that says so, and you can't do anything about it.

Back to SR1 though, I've created a scale-1256.0 artillery platform, with a scale-4.0 artillery gun and attached 4.0 targeting system. It's range at current technology(~20) is about 300AU. For reference, the galaxy is about 450-500AU in diameter. I have a system towards the middle of the galaxy solely dedicated to mass-producing these things. This is one of those things where I wonder why I didn't think of that before. If only I could get them to fire on extrasolar targets automatically, this game would be wrapped up in minutes. Granted, the reload time is almost 3 minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on April 17, 2018, 09:22:48 pm

I wanted to try for a large terratech build, at least, larger than my previous ones. This time, I wanted to try a broadside build, since all of my previous techs were frontally oriented.

Spoiler: First build (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/CmWGqgN.jpg)

It did everything I wanted it to, but in the end I had to reluctantly give it up as a failure; despite multiple revisions. It was just far too large for the game mechanics to support. Parts would constantly fall off at the slightest of bumps because of its mass; its length meant it was next to impossible to maneuver on hilly terrain, and its firepower was both a curse and a boon. Most enemies would evaporate in a single volley, leaving nothing to salvage.

Spoiler: Second Build (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/tlHJ6GY.png)

The second attempt was much like the first, as I liked the broadsiding truck design. Unfortunately, even after dropping the heavier cannons for the a group of much lighter guns, dropping all frontal armament, and shedding about 33% of the original mass; it was still too heavy. The speed increase from the loss of weight was another double-edged sword. Even the increased turning rate of the lighter guns wasn't able to compensate for the ratio of speed to maneuverability.

Spoiler: Third Build (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/65LWmEo.jpg)

Finally we came to this; a significantly smaller version of the previous designs. It retains about 66% of the previous build's firepower but loses about 75% of the mass. This translates into a significant loss of durability and resource production potential. It's still tough enough to trade shots with far larger enemies; if for some reason I don't want to use its maneuverability to literally run circles around them firing all the time.

More importantly, it's capable of doing wheelies at 100+mph.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 18, 2018, 05:35:37 am

Quote from: Sofia Lamb

I don't hate you, Delta... indeed I care about you as equally as I do all sentient creatures. But I cannot sacrifice a thousand of my children for a single rebellious son.

*proceeds to sacrifice a thousand of her children trying to kill me(which fails)*

Took a few tries, but I also got the Master Protector achievement, which requires you to complete an ADAM collection without taking any damage or the splicers interrupting the Little Sister. Most of the attempts were failed because a single Leadhead Splicer, standing in a doorway, which is partially behind an obstruction, firing sideways, and hitting me with a single bullet while I'm behind cover.

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Bioshock 2 Remastered. Crashes a lot. Apparently the default settings have a very low limit on VRAM usage, though I haven't tested it yet after increasing the limit from 512MB to 2048MB.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on April 20, 2018, 10:27:51 am

I beat the last boss in Dead Cells!   :D 

All the other times I couldn't even get him half way, but I think I've got a good strategy for him now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 20, 2018, 01:05:52 pm

We made 500+ steel bars yesterday in Conan Exiles. There are 3 of us.

Pre-gaming buildings mats hard in preparation for jungle release.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 21, 2018, 11:23:12 am

DOUBLE POST

Anyway in Conan Exiles (https://www.google.com/search?q=conan+exiles+release+date&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS782US782&oq=Conan+Exiles+release+date&aqs=chrome.0.0l2.3213j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) there are various grades of beast. There is always a base creature and then more powerful variants. For instance, there is the Kudu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu), a type of especially peaceful antelope that will try to impale you on it's horns for walking on its sand. The Kudu will never cease it's pursuit once it has sighted it's prey. Then there is the Rhinoceros: a fruit-eating, plant browsing, murderous, merciless, aggressive monster. It wants to launch you through the air and trample you to death in an instant. After him comes the White Rhino and Black Rhino which are each stronger, better, and more starved for the flesh of man than the last.

After them comes the Rhino King, who is approximately the size of a Red Dragon, which it is itself larger than my house. He is the unholy template from which all Rhinoceros are forged. This is important for later.

We adventured that day into The Unnamed City (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LbuJeoQ1w84/maxresdefault.jpg), an ancient ruined locus of evil involving human sacrifice, slavery, and other assorted flavors of high black magic. There is an aviary for demons there. Inside this place we found a Green Dragon. They don't breathe fire, but they are larger and angrier than a Red. We tried to wedge him into a crevice for easier slaying, and when he couldn't get through we named him Tubby the Dragon (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1fCU21MnNgw/maxresdefault.jpg). Tubby immediately squished through his crevice and launched my companion about 60 feet into a sand dune.

We figured Tubby was here first really it was his sand dune anyway and so we tried to politely vacate. We ended up being chased Benny Hill style through the city by 16-ish undead, a bat demon, and Tubby's friend, Fat Tubby (pictured next). Turns out Tubby was really insecure about his fat-ass thighs and chased us to the next area right out of the city (https://s14.postimg.cc/vkztzvppt/Tubby_run.jpg). At this point our plan was to lead him into the desert, where we had prepared a large cache of explosives.

He lumbered chubbily over them and we let off, which resulted in Tubby flinching not at all and reprising his people-launching trick while also on fire. At this point we discovered the Rhino King in a nearby Oasis. As a completely herbivorous tropical animal, he had just finished his meal of the last poor bastard who wandered too close (An actual crocodile).

Let them fight. (https://s14.postimg.cc/klemo9rkx/Tubby_Round_one.jpg)

After a long battle (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/397870509783515139/437136059789475861/20180421021150_2.jpg?width=501&height=282), Tubby utterly destroyed the Rhino King and and launched him clear over the lagoon whereupon we safely gathered it's mats (Including it's head for a mounted trophy) and crowed about what mighty hunters we are. Now he is called Ser Tubby the Green, Lord of the Oasis and Bane of the Rhino King. It's his Oasis now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 23, 2018, 07:57:38 am

Managed to survive until 7th place. Considering I'm usually dead in less than a minute, that actually means something.

Then again, I basically camped the edge of the safe zone for most of the match doing almost nothing whatsoever, but still.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fortnite.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: deathpunch578 on April 23, 2018, 12:05:42 pm

played a bit of TF2 last night (by played I mean only playing on two fort for a few hours) surprisingly I was doing great even though I took a long break from it (also got a bit better at rocket jumping)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 23, 2018, 04:37:23 pm

Had a regular pump-action shotgun, was building a bit around it's impressive number of bullets fired by stacking chances to proc poison/burn/electrical attacks as well as crit, which while not too impressive is bound to proc a decent number of times. I then find a triple bullet relic thingy, which while cutting the damage to a third also makes you fire three times as many bullets with each shot, so even more chances to proc and crit. I then find a minigun, while it's a bit clunky to use I decide to give it a shot with Tuvok which can get nasty at times.

I stand in front of him, spin up the mini-gun and his healthbar just melts, couldn't get him in one clip, but luckily I got the i-frames for my dash so darting around while reloading was pretty easy. Envyrok, the next boss who is usually a bitch to deal with because he tends to have a lot of invulnerable phases. Still, bastard melted all the same to point-blank bullet hell.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungreed

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 25, 2018, 04:14:31 am

Started playing planetside 2 again.  A game I'm terrible at. I average a 0.71 Kill/death ratio.  Decided I'm gunna go whole hog at failure and play an infiltrator (stealth based sniper type), my hands down least played class.  I have enough certs(ingame currency) to buy a gun called a railjack, it's a sniper rifle with a slight firing delay, and seems much much better statistically than the one I start with.   

Friend claims the gun is absolutely worthless and I wasted my certs claiming the split second delay makes it unusable.  My friend is much better at planetside 2 than me, and actually plays the infiltrator class regularly.

2 hours later I have a Kill/death ratio approaching 8 and I'm doing better than he is.  This isn't the first time this kind of thing happened either.  It also happened first time I tried flying fighter planes, and when I first started playing a heavy gunner.  What is it with this game and coming back to it after a long hiatus or trying something new, that makes me kick butt, but once I start doing something regularly in it I fail utterly?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 25, 2018, 04:49:53 am

Was heading to a lookout post, on the way I see a marker for animal vocalizations. I look over and see a bunch of whitetailed jackrabbits. I lift my rifle and take a shot at one. According to the report, the bullet hit the dome of the skull, but was listed as a flesh wound, but was still fatal.

The next rabbit I shot, much later and somewhere else, the bullet went through the side of the chest and both lungs before going out the other end. Both rabbits got a 0% integrity* score. Then again, it was .243 soft-point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

theHunter: Call of the Wild.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on April 25, 2018, 12:15:55 pm

Beat the final boss with the 1-hit hero badge equipped.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A Hat in Time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 25, 2018, 07:02:58 pm

Figured out how to operate a lure call. Previously, I'd just happen upon an animal, put a round into its chest, and it'd promptly piss off somewhere not giving a crap about the rifle bullet in its chest.

Was following some blacktail deer tracks in an apparent circle, when I hear an animal call behind me - it's a blacktail's mating call(again, behind me). I get myself on a nice boulder with a good view in the direction the call came from, and send a reply(you start with a lure that mimics the sounds of a blacktail or whitetail doe in heat). Sure enough, half a minute later, a doe comes trotting up to my boulder. I hit her in the center of the chest, and get a second shot off before she recovers. The hunting report said that the first shot took out 96% of her health, the second was to the skull and got 3%(the other 1% was blood loss).

A short distance away, I start hearing more mating calls. I repeat the trick, and after the second call I look around towards where I came from and see another doe. Another double-tap drops her. The difference here is that the first shot only hit for 6%, but the second hit several vital organs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

theHunter: Call of the Wild. I do enjoy how it gives you a ballistics report on the animals you kill. Despite a few headshots, I've yet to actually hit the brain, only the skull which also lists a flesh wound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on April 26, 2018, 01:07:02 am

What happens to the bullet once it hits the skull? Does it just bounce off or does it somehow curve around it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 26, 2018, 03:28:06 am

I don't actually know. I'm not sure how accurate the ballistics are, but the bullets you start with are listed as soft-point rounds. So they might not be penetrating the skull, but impacting against it and killing through blunt force trauma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on April 26, 2018, 03:41:10 am

Soft point or no soft point, with your average deer rifle there is little chance of not penetrating the skull. If you are using a varmint rifle with a light load and it hits at a high angle there is a decent chance it will skip off, but a square hit should still penetrate no problem though.

Now body hits are a different story. Most animals are pretty tough, and unless you hit something vital they can often escape (hence why hunters need to be pretty good shots).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 26, 2018, 07:09:15 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 25, 2018, 07:02:58 pm

Figured out how to operate a lure call. Previously, I'd just happen upon an animal, put a round into its chest, and it'd promptly piss off somewhere not giving a crap about the rifle bullet in its chest.

Was following some blacktail deer tracks in an apparent circle, when I hear an animal call behind me - it's a blacktail's mating call(again, behind me). I get myself on a nice boulder with a good view in the direction the call came from, and send a reply(you start with a lure that mimics the sounds of a blacktail or whitetail doe in heat). Sure enough, half a minute later, a doe comes trotting up to my boulder. I hit her in the center of the chest, and get a second shot off before she recovers. The hunting report said that the first shot took out 96% of her health, the second was to the skull and got 3%(the other 1% was blood loss).

A short distance away, I start hearing more mating calls. I repeat the trick, and after the second call I look around towards where I came from and see another doe. Another double-tap drops her. The difference here is that the first shot only hit for 6%, but the second hit several vital organs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

theHunter: Call of the Wild. I do enjoy how it gives you a ballistics report on the animals you kill. Despite a few headshots, I've yet to actually hit the brain, only the skull which also lists a flesh wound.

Oh thank goodness, I thought that was real.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 26, 2018, 07:52:56 pm

Pfft, if I were to go hunting for real, I'd probably fail so hard at it the deer would come up just to laugh at me. And I still wouldn't be able to hit it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 26, 2018, 10:55:52 pm

I didn’t know you were a rookie XCOM soldier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 26, 2018, 11:00:49 pm

Nah he’s the most senior assault trooper with a shottie at point blank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on April 27, 2018, 07:56:03 am

Quote from: Akura on April 26, 2018, 07:52:56 pm

Pfft, if I were to go hunting for real, I'd probably fail so hard at it the deer would come up just to laugh at me. And I still wouldn't be able to hit it.

Good. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on April 27, 2018, 02:02:52 pm

Hyrule Total War - troubles of balancing and realism in fantasy mods:
Sheikah ninjas. Throwing 30-40 cm long iron needles. With the range of the crossbowmen. With precision that makes said crossbowmen die from envy (might be an exagerration, but still). Killing and breaking apart charriot with skeleton riders, pulled by two skeletal horses. All through the rock-solid 4 meters thick wall and 20-meters long stone building (last is due to a bug, though. Ikana map is not famous for it's finished state. I'm surprised that it otherwise works perfectly, with the bug of that magnitude). And they are able to easily kill said pretty armored charriots because they have "armor-piercing" abilty (ignore half of enmy's armor). Iunderstand that they are ninjas, and it's a "glass cannon" faction, but the whole cocept of hand-thrown needles not only being armor-piercing, but also having such a range is mind-boggling.
     It's also "how did you last die?" - troubles of hitboxes, models and animations in MTW2 mods. Ikana seemingly always have Gomess (their "titan" unit. Unkillable with anything short of ballista or a lot of mages) sitting in their capital. When i tried to shoot her with said ninjas from the wall, they (with damn great precision!) threw their needles at spot about a foot above her head. I'm not sure if her hitbox was actually a lot higher than it looks like, but they didn't managed to kill her anyways, and thus all my army died.
     And it's also "how you was last baffled?". Their wiki helpahs are sure like getting ahead of development and themsleves. In late 2017, HTW wiki had a page with big and detailed description of Majora's invasion and Ooccas aiding other races if it gets out of control. Thing is:
a) It's was portrayed as fully implemented and working thing.
b) It never ever existed in the game, and, since mod moved to 0AD, will never ever exist. There wasn't even enough of proper models for Majora's faction.
c) This gibberish sit there (in one form or another) from goddamned 2015 year! At the moment it was very long term goal. It's like someone suddenly flooding DF wiki with "info" about "100% finished and working" magic made up from devplan, future of the fortress thread and their own imagination. And suddenly gaining immunity to bans to boot.
I think some months in 0AD port development someone had enough decency to put "it was just a planned feature" note in it. Then it probably got deleted outright, because i can't find it now.
But now i taken a look at the wiki to remeber what lenght ninja needles had, and what do i see? Some sheikah units are marked as units unique for one of their heroes you got to choose at the start of the game! For reals, guys? According to dev plan, it's 16 faction to be implemented. Now, after 7-9 months of active development, dev only makes faction 6. Just... damn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 27, 2018, 02:04:59 pm

Third Age Mod is still best mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on April 27, 2018, 02:10:48 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 27, 2018, 02:04:59 pm

Third Age Mod is still best mod.

Only with the Divide and Conquer submod. Base TA:TW doesn't hold a candle to DAC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on April 27, 2018, 02:12:37 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 27, 2018, 02:04:59 pm

Third Age Mod is still best mod.

And it is, because this one was left a little bit unfinished.  :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 29, 2018, 03:58:01 pm

Held the line at the final assault, just Daddy, daughter, 4 mini-turrets, and another Daddy from the other side that we sorta just mind-controlled into shotgunning his own troops. He died at the end when we completely destroyed the place, so it's kinda awkward to talk about.

There was enough fire being thrown around that the enemy didn't even get any real hits in until multiple Brutes showed up and the turrets self-destructed. Also learned in an earlier fight that with Telekinesis 3 you can hold an enemy in front of you, and drill them in the face at very little EVE cost.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bioshock 2: Remastered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on April 29, 2018, 07:41:45 pm

I remember going full melee in BS2, and indeed the TK/drill was a favorite of mine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2018, 02:30:53 pm

Was walking through the desert, picking up some much-needed aloe to expand my existing garden with, when I see a pack of zombie dogs in the distance coming straight for me. I knock a couple down with a misshapen block of wood wrapped in barbed wire, but I'm being torn apart. Low health, bleeding, and infected, I run.

Found a wrecked car and climbed on top hoping the dogs couldn't. They couldn't. Using a first aid kit to regain some health and stop the bleeding, and tried to shoot at the dogs with my bow. Surely they couldn't chew through a metal car frame that fast, could they? ...They could. Either that, or there was some kind of invisible zombie somewhere that had a rocket launcher, because THE DAMN THING EXPLODED. Apparently car frames are highly explosive, who knew.

This goes in this thread because I somehow survived a car exploding right under me, which left a crater in the road a couple meters deep. Most of the dogs did not, and the rest got my club to the face.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

7 Days to Die.

EDIT: Was preparing for the imminent Blood Moon when I hear smashing sounds coming from the front door of my base(note: I've blocked off the front door with spikes, I use the fortified and spike-corridor-ed side entrance). Crap, just what I need, a pre-horde horde. I run around to the front and it's double-crap, all but two of the zombies were soldier zombies, the other two being a nurse and crawler. By then, all of them but the crawler(which hardly makes a difference) had lost their legs to the spikes. Two of them had made it through the outer layer and died impaled on the spikes blocking the front door.

After cracking their skulls, it took several trips to bring all the loot back inside. Among the haul was several gun parts, a complete and undamaged SMG(though of 100-quality, which is rather low), a good quality military helmet, some rockets, and some military fiber. One of the zombies that died on the front porch spikes had  nightvision goggles and three feathers on him, so apparently my spike traps took down a zombie Assassin.

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7 Days to Die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on May 02, 2018, 03:19:35 am

Quote from: Madman198237 on April 27, 2018, 02:10:48 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 27, 2018, 02:04:59 pm

Third Age Mod is still best mod.

Only with the Divide and Conquer submod. Base TA:TW doesn't hold a candle to DAC.

I know it's not a proper place to ask, but question for anyone who got to Sauron in campaign (preferrably in MOS) - how much bodyguards he appears to have on strategic map? 3? 6? 9? 77?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 03, 2018, 09:55:11 pm

I am pretty decent at designing things.

I "won" Opus Magnum.  *technically* solution spoilers, except not really, because the strategy is simple.  The execution was only a feat in that many simple processes were synced together in a simple strategy...  at the right times.
along with some naughty optimization~ (https://imgur.com/e7tjNPe)  Atoms passing over tracks which carried arms.

Arms...  Heh.  Hal Emmerich sim, but not really.
Opus Magnum

And I arranged my casks quite reasonably, not to mention my shed of kegs.
Not by any guide, no, I chose my own suboptimal but more easily navigated layout.
story of my life?  Nah, I'm giddy.
Stardew Valley

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on May 04, 2018, 05:46:13 pm

Finally, after losing two back-to-back runs on the final boss (one to poor planning, one to poor decision-making plus a really annoying mechanic), I have notched up a Nightmare/Roguelike win. Sadly, I couldn't save the Paladin; she was shot to death by multiple archers just before I downed the final boss, and she might've lived if I hadn't dropped a heal on her while she was ice blocked, but c'est la vie. The highlight of the fight was undoubtedly me falling to -180 health, triggering Heartstart (https://te4.org/wiki/Heartstart_(talent)) with both movement infusions and , and at the last moment remembering I could use Kinetic Surge (https://te4.org/wiki/Kinetic_surge_(talent)) to dash myself away, so long as I turned off the auto-melee assist (which otherwise would've auto-targeted the boss), and ultimately getting a heal off cooldown on the same turn Heartstart wore off, leaving me dead to any damage source.

Other than that little mistake of "nearly dying", and sacrificing 75% of Aeryn's health to close two portals, though, the fight went swimmingly. My nearly-immortal Mindslayer proved reasonably durable and remarkably damaging, able to chunk down ~5% of each bosses' health each turn. Could definitely have refined the build, but it worked decently all things considered.

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Tome4: Tales of Maj'Eyal. Wanted to get this character done before the next expansion releases on the 16th!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on May 05, 2018, 11:36:57 pm

>KILL DRAGON

With what, your bare hands?

>YES

Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, isn't it?)

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Skyrim. Alduin meets fortify unarmed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 05, 2018, 11:45:19 pm

The alchemy-enchantment combo surely would have been patched out by now if it were considered a glitch.  I can't help but see it as a love letter to Morrowind, heh.
Though Morrowind had the nice bonus that punching always put people unconscious, not dead, heh.  (unless they were already unconscious...)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on May 05, 2018, 11:53:28 pm

So, I was doing some quickplay matches together with 2 friends. Map was Hollywood and we were on the attacking team, the payload ended up in a stalemate at the last turn (just before it goes up the ramp and back into the open again) and despite trying our best we didn't manage to push it further forward. Our Ana (one of the randoms on our team) hit me with her nanoboost by accident, so I did what any reasonable Mercy would do; I activated my Valk and attack helicoptered into the enemy team. Actually ended up killing their Hanzo, their McCree and punching their Ana to death before Valk wore off and I had to zip back behind our Orisa. That gave us enough breathing room to move the payload around the turn and almost out the gate.
Sadly neither PotG nor personal highlight (and I keep forgetting that the manual recording exists), those two were both the same situation that happened a minute later, which was basically just me rezzing our Orisa, that was dead on the PL, and her going dakka for a few seconds. Just from different perspectives (PotG from hers, personal Highlight from mine)

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Overwatch

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 07, 2018, 02:48:16 pm

Discovered that wasteland terrain is the best for getting iron. Hundreds of little piles of metal, one hit from my pickaxe converts into 19 iron. Also good for concrete, as the base terrain yields sand and stone. While going around under cover of darkness with my NVGs, I see a weird moving glow at the top of a hill. The shape of it looks like a Disturbed Tourist, a particularly large zombie with a lot of health, but that doesn't explain why it's glowing on my NVGs.

Turns out it was a Zombie Police Officer. I hadn't encountered one before, but there were in fact two of them in the area. Tried going around only to find a zombie bear in the middle of the road(yeahhellNO). I figured I could kill one of the zombie cops. Took a few shots, but I landed a stealth critical headshot, and he started to run in circles. Apparently his circle-running was actually digging into the ground, cartoon-style. Very carefully, I managed to put enough arrows into it to drop it for good. Looted a decent-quality shotgun and some shells from it.

Some while later, I saw a wandering horde coming right at me. I just stood there and smacked each on on the head as they came up.

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7 Days to Die.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 08, 2018, 03:55:25 pm

I took one of my tiny 20 ton piranhas and squeezed 6 ER medium lasers into it.  This only leaves room for like three heat sinks, so shooting my laser battery means getting about 75% heat.  But I get to run around at 140 kph so that's something.

On this build's maiden mission, I actually did surprisingly well.  I hid behind my team, but got hit by an early arty strike on our team's first peek.  So for basically the whole match I had no armor.  But it was fun sneaking my tiny little mech in to deliver 42 damage shoop-da-whoops and going rather unnoticed.  I managed to somehow be the last mech alive, but since it was basically a king-of-the-hill gamemode i was forced to fight the last two enemies.  My build was too slow firing and they weren't weak enough for my alpha to outright finish them all.  But I ended with about 350 damage dealt, a few kills, and a kill most damage dealt.

Later I threw a bunch of general xp and c-bills into the mech's skill tree, all of the heat skills.  Now the mech can cool off a little faster and the lasers only cook me to around 56%.  What a dumb build that just shouldn't work out.

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Mechwarrior Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 09, 2018, 02:28:36 pm

Fought a guy who used Goku Black and a couple of other overused characters, I can't remember which. Like pretty much every other Goku Black main in existence, he refused to do anything except try really hard to spam the fuck out of his fullscreen command grab (where he locks you in place and shoots you with a kamehameha) while turtling like crazy and mashing down-heavy attacks (universal launchers) whenever I got close. After I figured out that he was not going to do anything else, it was incredibly easy to beat him, but naturally he ragequit immediately as he lost.

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Dragon Ball FighterZ

Goku Black is seriously an anomaly. I've probably fought hundreds of them by now simply because everyone and their cat uses him, but at the same time I don't think I've ever fought anyone who was actually good at using him. He actually has special moves that I never knew he had simply because everyone I've seen use him is a stupid idiot who spams beam attacks and down-heavies while occasionally using a super or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 10, 2018, 12:11:28 am

Spoiler: Self Explanatory (click to show/hide)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/921427929439752001/4730D804A8B17ECA0D973C797895C70D214D262D/)(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/921427929439752104/2311D38690B560472B88075C25012E572215C47C/)

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Slay the Spire Beta

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 11, 2018, 07:45:38 pm

I guess I finally learned how to parry against Monsoon. To the point I got the "Whatever Doesn't Kill You..." achievement, which requires 10 parries in a row within a 1 minute time frame.

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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 11, 2018, 09:09:30 pm

I’m not sure I really learned how to parry in that game, despite managing to finish it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 11, 2018, 09:17:08 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 11, 2018, 09:09:30 pm

I’m not sure I really learned how to parry in that game, despite managing to finish it.

I'm pretty sure I didn't learn how to do it properly until after Mistral. The tutorial for parrying is seriously awful, especially for an otherwise really good game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 11, 2018, 09:23:18 pm

I honestly have no idea how anyone got past Bladewolf without gitting gud learning to parry. That was certainly the cutoff for me.
And of course the final boss forces you to learn to dodge, which the game does an even worse job of teaching you. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 11, 2018, 09:38:53 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on May 11, 2018, 09:23:18 pm

I honestly have no idea how anyone got past Bladewolf without gitting gud learning to parry. That was certainly the cutoff for me.
And of course the final boss forces you to learn to dodge, which the game does an even worse job of teaching you. :P

I'm pretty sure I died to bladewolf like 50 times before I beat him through sheer luck. I didn't actually keep track but I distinctly remember him killing me way more than every other boss in the game by a huge margin. I'm pretty good at the game by now, since I've beaten it many times, but I'm pretty sure I started out as the worst player in existence.

Also, the fact that you need to dodge Armstrong's attacks is total bullshit. He has this one attack where he charges up and releases a huge unblockable shockwave, and if you hit him while he's doing it, your sword will bounce off him, which basically guarantees that you won't have time to avoid it. This is total crap because when you dodge in MGR Raiden automatically attacks while he's doing it, meaning that you just have to hope that

A) Armstrong doesn't start charging his shockwave EXACTLY as you're about to hit him
B) You have enough time to stop attacking, turn around, run away, and hopefully get far enough away to not get hit and lose a ton of health

...generally, the first two parts of his fight aren't even really hard, unless you play on Revengeance in which case they're a fucking nightmare. ESPECIALLY the second part, which I think gave me some milder variety of PTSD. In the second part, you have to fight him barehanded, which actually makes dodging his bullshit super-armor shockwave easy, since Raiden's barehanded dodge doesn't include an attack, and I'm pretty sure your attacks never bounce. However, even so, it still manages to be far and beyond the worst part of the Revengeance run because of the unreasonably long time that you are required to survive his attacks along with the fact that blocking his attacks while barehanded still does like 40% damage in chip damage.

A small part of me wants to do another Revengeance run but I'm dreading going through that again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 11, 2018, 09:46:36 pm

Huh. I don't remember ever deflecting while trying to dodge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: standardcombo on May 11, 2018, 10:16:15 pm

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaeLM8wUMAAbx3c.jpg)

Last month I made top 100 North America in Hearthstone. 65% win rate.

Then I dropped the mic (uninstalled the game).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 11, 2018, 10:17:15 pm

Well at least you did one thing right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 12, 2018, 01:23:42 am

World of Warplanes

One of the very extremely few games I can actually play with reliable multiplayer >_>
I'm loving the Mig-3, due to it being purely one weapon specialty, and it being a tier 5 plane--just on the cusp of the mid-tier fighters! Pretty happy I got what seems to be a rare medal (it's all shiny and gilded!), that meant "Destroy 10 aerial targets in a single life; the targets must include all 5 plane types" meaning high-rise bombers, fast heavy fighters, common fighters and multi-role fighter/bombers, and ground attack aircraft. I had no idea these medals existed (really nice to see historical lore added in).

Woo! :D

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(https://i.imgur.com/pY31D5D.png?1)

My only grump is that my name was taken so I went with a secondary name. Grump grump. <_<

Quote from: Parsely on April 06, 2018, 02:39:48 pm

Yeah there are similar issues with fighting games, which have struggled with a solution to the problem of how to handle disconnects (accidental or intended) for a long time.

Have I mentioned I appreciate all y'all do and the nice posts like these? Because I do; thanks :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on May 12, 2018, 04:32:53 am

Just wondering - can you talk with other team in World of Warplanes? In World of Tanks ("dead" game, yeah, but still...) this luxury was disabled. Did they disabled it also in their other games?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on May 12, 2018, 08:12:14 am

Quote from: MCreeper on May 12, 2018, 04:32:53 am

Just wondering - can you talk with other team in World of Warplanes? In World of Tanks ("dead" game, yeah, but still...) this luxury was disabled. Did they disabled it also in their other games?

I've poked in all 3 games (Warplanes, Tanks, Warships), and in Warplanes, the messages aren't...well, unlike Tanks and Warships, Warplanes has a temporary-like chatlog. Warships can have you chitter-chattering (I'm really guilty of that x.x) and making nice talk with each other, Tanks is...I'm not sure since I just poked around purely because I heard you can have female crew members but it's not temporary.
But you can talk to the other team in all games, just press tab! Shifting between team to all!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 12, 2018, 11:30:43 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on May 11, 2018, 09:23:18 pm

I honestly have no idea how anyone got past Bladewolf without gitting gud learning to parry. That was certainly the cutoff for me.
And of course the final boss forces you to learn to dodge, which the game does an even worse job of teaching you. :P

IIRC everything before Monsoon can be beat with jumping and rations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 12:23:08 pm

My experience with Bladewolf echo'd Egan's.  I got killed close to a dozen times until I properly understood blocking/countering.  The game really doesn't explain it well, particularly when it's kinda unintuitive (attack towards the enemy - but at just the right time, holding the stick towards them?  IIRC)

The rest of the bosses weren't nearly so tough.  Sundowner got me a few times due to needing precision cuts on the shield, though.  That same mechanic killed me *many* times in one of the last stages of Anderson, which kinda sucked honestly...  Having to work my way back up retry a quirky mechanic I hadn't really needed.  It was *so* much easier with a controller than mouse, BTW.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 12, 2018, 03:10:40 pm

Did the Red Dawn HQ mission in X-COM Files mod for X-COM: UFO Defence.

Enemies killed:                           66
Corpsed recovered:                    35
Enemies surendered:                  11

The worst wounded agent on my side had half health after a Red OPS soldier point blank shot him with a minigun. Choosing armor acording to mission is a good idea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 12, 2018, 03:17:05 pm

Press light attack while moving the stick from neutral to a position. Can't just press attack while moving, so if you're running forwards and need to block something, you need to stop, then press forwards again while pressing attack.
If you do that in the direction of an enemy while they're winding up an attack, Raiden will just kinda hold his sword up and block the attack. That will block 100% of the damage of just about any attack iirc, and when the gekko do their long range charge attack blocking it that way will give you a nice QTE and let you kill it quickly.
If you do that block when the enemy is just about to hit you, though, you'll block the attack and also hit the enemy with a big counter attack. That feels good.
You'll know when the enemy is about to launch a parryable attack when it flashes red. If it flashes yellow, that attack can't be parried so you'll want to dodge.
The dodge move has to be bought in the shop and is called Offensive Defense. You do it by pressing light attack and jump at the same time, and it gives you some iframes I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 12, 2018, 03:20:45 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 12:23:08 pm

Anderson

ree

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 03:33:47 pm

Where the heck did I get Anderson from??  I feel like I should know, but even some Googling offers nothing.  I think it was from some other video game, not real life.

Quote from: Egan_BW on May 12, 2018, 03:17:05 pm

Press light attack while moving the stick from neutral to a position. Can't just press attack while moving, so if you're running forwards and need to block something, you need to stop, then press forwards again while pressing attack.

Thank you, that's exactly the part I had trouble with and wish they explained better!  I got it, but only as "muscle-memory"...  Like being unsure of the capitalization of an old password until you literally mime typing it.  If that makes sense.

Quote from: Egan_BW on May 12, 2018, 03:17:05 pm

If you do that in the direction of an enemy while they're winding up an attack, Raiden will just kinda hold his sword up and block the attack. That will block 100% of the damage of just about any attack iirc, and when the gekko do their long range charge attack blocking it that way will give you a nice QTE and let you kill it quickly.
If you do that block when the enemy is just about to hit you, though, you'll block the attack and also hit the enemy with a big counter attack. That feels good.

These I learned naturally after Bladewolf just from good timing.  I did "blocks" until I discovered that good timing grants a counter, basically.

And yes.  Yes it did.

Quote from: Egan_BW on May 12, 2018, 03:17:05 pm

You'll know when the enemy is about to launch a parryable attack when it flashes red. If it flashes yellow, that attack can't be parried so you'll want to dodge.
The dodge move has to be bought in the shop and is called Offensive Defense. You do it by pressing light attack and jump at the same time, and it gives you some iframes I think.

The game isn't nearly as difficult as we're making it sound, by the way.  You really can ration your way through the difficult parts, and the plot is oFfThEwAlL.
Metal Gear is always entertainingly absurd - this is the same, except with much shorter cutscenes, and more animu awesomeness.  IMHO.
YMMV, but I love both depending on how I feel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 12, 2018, 03:38:14 pm

There was a guy in MGS1 named Donald Anderson. Other than that, Iunno.

*continues reeing into the sunset*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 03:43:48 pm

No, that's absolutely what it was!  I still reread Last Days of Foxhound (http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php) (webcomic) occasionally.

MGS:R reminds me a whole lot of Furi, really.  Except the timings are better.  Both have "No, I absolutely blocked that!" moments, but MGS:R usually feels more fair.

Anyway, I finally won a game of Stellaris today.  Though that's more an endurance/completionist thing than an achievement.  The game is pretty great (grand even, heh) and the endgame has content.  It was just...  tedious, when I left off.
Doing a fresh playthrough now, so I guess they did something right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on May 12, 2018, 05:48:02 pm

Wasn't he SIGINT/the DARPA chief? I could Google it but I'm lazy and also have to jump in on metal gear conversations.

As for something more on topic, I finally hit a called headshot. PPC++ slagged the head of a pirate Centurion. The best part was I'd negotiated for 4 pieces of scrap of my choice, and I'd also gotten the last piece for my Grasshopper. Which I've also learned, with my current loadout, excels at hunting lighter mechs as well as heatlocking larger ones. It can also jump two or three tiles further than it can standard move, which is fun.

BattleTech

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 06:00:28 pm

Pretty sure he wasn't the character SIGINT, but yes, the DARPA chief in MGS1.

I uh.  Worked my way up to hard difficulty in Starcraft 2 AI versus.
not really much of an "own", but hey.  That last battle was a pretty strong/kawaii curbstomp~

Don't ask about my following three battles against hard AIs DX  I can kill zerg and other terrans, but protoss...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 12, 2018, 06:39:11 pm

He is SIGINT.

Also, Paramedic is Dr. Clark, the one what made Frank go off the rails and become the Cyborg Ninja.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 06:45:20 pm

Quote from: standardcombo on May 11, 2018, 10:16:15 pm

Spoiler: It's polite to do this (click to show/hide)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaeLM8wUMAAbx3c.jpg)

Last month I made top 100 North America in Hearthstone. 65% win rate.

Then I dropped the mic (uninstalled the game).

My friend is a major Hearthstone player.  I like to joke that it's a Magic knock-off, but we both know I'm joking.  Particularly considering-

Also, nice avatar, and welcome to the forum!
I apologize for the rude welcome, but we are 'ard gamers here :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on May 12, 2018, 07:19:03 pm

I started KSP on Thursday.

Spoiler: Today... (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/445011933582589963/intograteunknown.PNG)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/445016389892440065/lilherosat.PNG)

He is a smol probe, but he is brave. Also, quite unplanned cuz I was trying to put him on high orbit around Kerbin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 12, 2018, 08:13:17 pm

scale down your hud pls

Nice job by the way. Took me several days before I figured out how to actually make orbit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 10:01:37 pm

It's not easy, it's counter-intuitive.  In an educational way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: jocan2003 on May 13, 2018, 12:03:36 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 12, 2018, 03:38:14 pm

There was a guy in MGS1 named Donald Anderson. Other than that, Iunno.

*continues reeing into the sunset*

Quote from: IronTomato on May 12, 2018, 03:20:45 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 12:23:08 pm

Anderson

ree

Isnt there one in mass effect?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 13, 2018, 12:06:32 am

Yeah, he was the first Captain of the Normandy and later becomes an Admiral.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on May 13, 2018, 06:24:10 am

Last night I hooked up with the guys I normally play with, except the captain I prefer wasn't on yet, so I went with a guy I know, but who's ship I never served on. The whole crew was in a kinda wacky mood, so he was trying all kinds of weird ship loadouts just for the dumb of it.

Amazingly, most of them worked. I'm not sure if it was just the crew was so good (we are all experienced players), or if we actually stumbled on good combinations (doubtful), but either way we had a blast being silly for a change.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guns of Icarus: Alliance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 14, 2018, 05:21:59 pm

The final boss was significantly harder that I expected, but I pulled through. The 2-minute cooldown on the Mulligan item is painful; at one point I was down to one agent at critical health, hiding from an AI K-Pop Idol and her transhumanist cyborg husband while waiting to be able to revive again, then I came out guns blazing. Repeated shotgun blasts to the face works on everything it seems. This is one of the very few times in the game I actually had to rely on Mulligans(along with the mission previous). The last portion of the fight was significantly easier, even though it's against the main villain after he's obtained full-on reality warping powers.

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Agents of MAYHEM. I know the game gets very polarized reviews, but I found it pretty enjoyable. The biggest marks against it in my opinion are severe optimization issues and a lack of co-op play.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Welp, this happened (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/zYwbQSx.png)

9 kills, with only 2 others on my side getting any, only 2 on the other side as well. Was flying a P-36C. The only significant damage I had was engine damage/oil leak from attacking the last guy(who was their top scorer) who was in a heavy bomber. I still brought him down. Maybe they could have turned it around had 2/3rd's of their team hadn't ragequit.

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on May 20, 2018, 02:09:09 pm

Munkat-1 did a flyby of Mun and got us enough sciences, but Munkat-2 lacked few crucial components, so I decided to try one more time before calling it a break.

Aaaand...

Spoiler: Munkat-3 was here! (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/447802943123619850/munmunkat.PNG)

Now that I learned how to do it, getting to and landing on Mun feels ridiculously easy.

Next step - manned missions ending with return to Kerbin!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on May 22, 2018, 12:37:03 pm

I saw an enemy tank. I fired my bazooka at it. It exploded. Along with the two other tanks next to it. Of course, one of those was my own tank, so the awesomeness is kind of diluted.

Ravenfield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2018, 04:56:13 pm

Spent a couple of days mining copper not far from town. Nearly died to random attacks twice. One guy who attacked me was later torn apart by a pack of bonedogs; I later found the same bonedogs playing fetch with his severed arm. The other attacker was ganked in the town bar by the city's guard ninjas and hauled off somewhere.

Used the money to purchase a ramshackle shack, then sunk more money into materials to rebuild it. May not seem like much, but dammit, I have my own house now.

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Kenshi. Through luck, my first ever start location was The Hub, which is apparently the best place to start according to a guide I read. Oddly, for a place called "The Hub", literally the only buildings not collapsed are the bar and the ninja mercenary tower which I haven't checked out yet.

Managed to complete the entire game in under 1 hour(total time was 52 minutes), for which there is an achievement for. Even picked up two secret items during the run; one that doubles XP gains - very good for speedrunning since it cuts down on grinding(too bad its only available about halfway through), and one that lets you kill very specific enemies that otherwise instakill you(there's a few of these guys in the end-game you have to otherwise dodge; others guard the secret items).

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Fairune.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 24, 2018, 02:55:09 pm

I shot a full health hovering mosquito with an archer.  The pilot immediately panicked and juked right into the side of the tech plant and exploded, the game gave me the kill.

Planetside 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 24, 2018, 04:58:14 pm

Quote from: Greiger on May 24, 2018, 02:55:09 pm

I shot a full health hovering mosquito with an archer.  The pilot immediately panicked and juked right into the side of the tech plant and exploded, the game gave me the kill.

Planetside 2

As a TR who generally starts every session in a Mosquito, that's just... disappointing. I usually don't start evasive maneuvers until I'm around 50% health because I usually don't notice I'm under attack until then.
I also don't hover, using Banshee/Hornet for ground-pounding, I use boom&zoom/run strafing runs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 25, 2018, 02:12:17 am

A Very Large UFO appeared.
I sent 2 Thunderstorms against it. 1st Piloted by Hunter Rory McCarty and loaded with Rail Cannon and Heavy Stingray launcher, 2nd piloted by an agent, whose name I do not remember and loaded with a Rail Cannon and an Avalanche launcher.

Then the UFO decided to not let me team up and attacked the Hunter.
He obliterated it without his plane even being scratched.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The X-Com Files

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 26, 2018, 01:28:38 am

Researched plasma cannons. Before, I lost an interceptor in seconds after attempting to engage a large UFO. This time, I built a few plasma cannons, fitted each of the interceptors at the base with one (replacing the shitty normalcannons that they came with) and then sent one after a large UFO. It was downed before it had a chance to even do anything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

XCOM: UFO Defense

it's good to be king commander

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 27, 2018, 10:50:44 am

I got myself possessed by the mind of a long dead god!  It keeps screaming in frustration, very valuable screams hehehe.
Is my character yandere for thunder, or just crazy for crazy's sake at this point?

Fallen London

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 27, 2018, 12:38:13 pm

I used EXALT like a mop and wiped the floor with them.

XCOM Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 27, 2018, 03:32:33 pm

Got a 4- or 5-kill killstreak, attacking Construction Site Beta, as a Light Assault with the basic shotgun(and not slug ammo). Jumped right up the side of the base, in full view of their spawn room. Didn't die, not even during the rest of the battle. One of the kills was an Infiltrator who was sniping me as I made my assault, another a wounded MAX who ran right into me.

Light Assault is generally my weakest class, and I'm not particularly good with shotguns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. I was doing rather shit until that point, though during my time as a Light Assault, I did get a kill on a deployed Sunderer. I just need 11 more for that particular directive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 27, 2018, 06:01:57 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 27, 2018, 10:50:44 am

I got myself possessed by the mind of a long dead god!  It keeps screaming in frustration, very valuable screams hehehe.
Is my character yandere for thunder, or just crazy for crazy's sake at this point?

Fallen London

I think at that point in Fallen London it's not even crazy for crazy's sake, it's just being perfectly sane like everyone else, but ironically.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on May 27, 2018, 07:09:17 pm

I gotta start playing Planetside 2 again. I ran with HAMD for a while, but its been over a year since I played. Think i might still have video of some sweet battles in Hossin and Esamir somewhere on my computer. Definitely still have the screenshot of the valk that I got stuck in a tree.

The only thing that sucks is my play hours line up solidly with the vanu pop surge between 2 to like 8 am. Or at least it used to be that way. Somehow fighting losing battles was still fun though. Unless it's a biolab. Fuck those things.



To be on topic, I managed to get lucky and slag the cockpits of two highlanders in two turns, then the turn after the two enemy mechs remaining were knocked on their asses in one burst of ppc fire after being destabilized at the end of the previous turn. Only one had the opportunity to stand back up, and he decided to try and pull back, I guess hoping I'd close in close enough to the base to trigger reinforcements. He wound up getting deleted by massed missile fire.

I'm fielding a triple ppc awesome, a black knight with a medley of weapons, a 40 lrm catapult, and the special highlander. I wound up picking three of the six highlander parts the mission gave me, and I've modified it to fill the black knight's role in the roster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on May 28, 2018, 07:07:35 pm

A petty own and one born of my own foolishness, but a triumph nonetheless.  With an altered tech tree and a collection of mods to encourage flight-first development, I carefully designed an early-campaign jet that had some minor potential stability issues.  With this in mind, I tweaked the wings and ailerons to ensure that the center of lift was properly behind the center of mass, though the margin was less than I preferred.  I then took it up to see what its performance was, conduct some SCIENCE!, and fulfill some hardware test and scientific observation contracts.  Immediately, I noticed that it wasn't quite generating enough lift; I needed to pull at least 50-70 m/s of acceleration on the runway to get it off the ground, at which point it took off with a vengeance.  I made a mental note to be careful landing and to upgrade the SPH to permit more parts, and carried on.  Otherwise, the design impressed: at full throttle, it could easily hit the sound barrier if I gave it its head (and bounce off, but who's counting?), and it had a service ceiling of around 13 km (a bit shy of the edge of the "troposphere" at 16 km; I just realized I forgot to add the mod that makes atmospheric pressure non-linear). 

As I started running low on fuel, I turned homeward.  At this point, I realized a minor issue I had forgotten during development.  When I adjusted for stability, I was doing so with full fuel tanks.  With the fuel tanks half-empty, my lovely jet's center of mass moved, putting it right on top of the center of lift.  By extension, running the fuel tanks all the way down put the center of mass *behind* the center of lift, setting me up for some nasty positive feedback every time I made a course adjustment.  Of course, I didn't know this for sure yet, though I had my suspicions; what I knew was that when I turned around, the airplane started bouncing like a top in all three axes, lost all lift as it turned into a lawn dart, and dropped a couple thousand meters before I managed to pull it out of its tailspin.  Fighting the plane the whole way, I managed to land it just outside the KSC.  I landed it on fumes and I dented the nose as it came down, but I landed it nonetheless. 

Valentina made it home safe and sound with the science, and won some nice ribbons out of the deal.  To wit, she pulled a G-Force XII ribbon for sustained 12Gs of acceleration for 3 or more seconds, and a fuel ribbon for making it back on vapors without deploying a parachute.  The only thing I'm worried about is that Jeb, whose chief experience is with turboprops, is going to feel the need to one-up her now.  I think rockets might be safer than this. 

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 28, 2018, 11:31:35 pm

Picked up Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection a day early.

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darude sandstorm

I heard that SF1 controlled like shit but I wouldn't have ever believed it was this bad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 30, 2018, 11:49:26 am

I killed a Mechtoid with overwatch fire from six or so assault rifle wielding base defenders and backup soldiers on the turn it dropped in. Invade my Motherfucking base and I will throw a wall of lead at you.

XCOM Enemy Within

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 30, 2018, 05:44:57 pm

Somehow broke the AI:Normal. Playing on Winter Duel, an east-west map with four prominent ridges, two for the start points, and two in between. The middle two ridges create a central canyon and allow both players to build walls of guns on top, though T2 turrets can potentially hit the other ridge. AI:Normal has a tendency to rush attack right at the start, and sends in engineers to claim any metal nodes after them. One of these nodes is on their forward ridge.

After cleaning up the opening attack, I sent two(at first) of those infantry bots to a corner under the ridge, where they ineffectively fired at an extractor. This drew the attention of nearly every single tank the AI built, yet they kept parking in a place where they could not hit the bots, and therefore never destroyed them(one was, I don't know how). Whilst they were banging their head against the proverbial wall with those bots, I was fortifying my ridge with guns, as well as artillery emplacements that could hit their base. Had they properly attacked, they probably would have won.

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on May 31, 2018, 12:49:53 am

Actually managed to win a round.  Not a match, just a round.  Although it ended up being a pretty even game.

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Street Fighter 3rd Strike (30th Anniversary Collection)

Boy do I suck at street fighter.  I tried five recently and it took like 50 matches before securing a win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 31, 2018, 12:59:37 pm

Playing fighting games online is always painful.  An ever increasing number of weak players get pushed out of the playerbase until its just a small collection of expert players (usually the ones with a good internet connection as well).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 31, 2018, 03:34:46 pm

Was up 1-0, but the dwarves were smashing towards my end zone - literally smashing, at one point almost my entire team was on the ground at the end of my turn. I get lucky, my ogre rolls a mutual knockdown on the ball carrier, a thrower picks it up, and after clearing room for both the thrower and intended receiver to get clear, I send it halfway across the field... and drop it.

The dwarves ignore it; there's not enough time left to run it back anyway. After breaking a few tackles, my intended receiver gets it anyway, and runs towards the end zone, too fast for the dwarves to even try to chase. Open up the final turn by walking right in for the touchdown, no better way to give a flying middle finger than to using the last turn to increase your lead on a shutout.

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Blood Bowl 2. I swear the game is cheating on dice rolls, on top of the actual cheating that happens in game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 31, 2018, 04:01:20 pm

After some 30 or so attempts finally managed to beat the simulated Uber Elder fight. Granted, this is probably the easiest version of this build (as in, the best items at lvl100 and all the bells and whistles it could have), still, the toughest fight in the game to date but it's pure mechanics once you're past the gear check, glad to know I could do it if I ever put in the time needed to actually get to it :V

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POE Uber Elder simulator (https://poesimulator.github.io/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 31, 2018, 06:30:54 pm

Discovered the wonders of gorillaspam, leading to my first two (as far as I can remember) "wins" - I'm playing an old alpha version where there were only six stages to play through, so that isn't too impressive, haha.

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Streets of Rogue

I'm kinda keen to pick up the current game at some point. Gotta be at least somewhat budget-conscious at the moment, though, unfortunately.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on May 31, 2018, 10:25:58 pm

Played my first online match as Zangief since I like grappler characters. The guy ragequit.

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Street Fighter V

Even though the netcode isn't quite as good, and half the characters are DLC, the mechanics of the game are WAY less stupid than USFIV, and best of all, there are people to play with who aren't NEETs who have spend ten thousand hours in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on June 01, 2018, 12:11:44 am

Quote from: IronTomato on May 31, 2018, 10:25:58 pm

Played my first online match as Zangief since I like grappler characters. The guy ragequit.

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Street Fighter V

Even though the netcode isn't quite as good, and half the characters are DLC, the mechanics of the game are WAY less stupid than USFIV, and best of all, there are people to play with who aren't NEETs who have spend ten thousand hours in the game.

I mained FANG in that one.  I liked his silly antics.  I like watching grappler characters but I suck at the required 180-360 motions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on June 01, 2018, 03:46:46 am

Was attacking a city some bandits stole from me. They had 6 units to my one. My one was just an elite griphon rider. However, being a Warlord, I had soooo many buffing spells at my disposal. In the end he was onesotting all the units because I gave him a total of +11 melee damage, when he started at 15.

Age of Wonders 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 01, 2018, 05:35:11 am

Took me a few dozen attempts, but I got the 5-star score for the first available wingsuit challenge - that's after watching a walkthrough video where the comments were saying the methods used in the video were only possible via hacks, due to stalling at the final goal.

Note: I didn't use hacks or even do the the same moves as the video. What people didn't seem to realize is that you can use your grapple while wingsuiting to give yourself a boost. Just drop the grapple almost immediately unless you like making out with rocks at high velocity.

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Just Cause 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on June 01, 2018, 03:29:34 pm

Beat the trial of the fool on my first try.

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Hollow Knight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 01, 2018, 06:02:51 pm

That driving challenge that was giving me trouble? Beat it in one go, with a few seconds to spare for a 5-star rating. No idea how that happened, but I did restart the challenge just to quit it and steal the car(that's a thing you can do).

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Just Cause 3.

EDIT: Just did a wingsuit challenge, not sure how far back the leaderboard records go, but I beat the top score by 47 points.

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JC3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on June 01, 2018, 06:11:01 pm

I somehow managed to beat and get an A on Monsoon without parrying.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 02, 2018, 12:33:41 am

Played my first ranked match on Super Turbo, and of course, the guy I was fighting picked Akuma, who is widely known for being, far and beyond, the most overpowered character in ST. I attempted to mimic the method he used to select Akuma, so that we could fight on even terms, but ended up running out of time and picking Cammy, a character I have never used. Like every other Akuma player he spent the entire match jumping backwards and spamming air fireballs, but somehow I managed to win both rounds regardless.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (in the 30th Anniversary Collection)

At the very least, they had the decency to allow you to see which character your opponent is selecting, which helps to alleviate this kind of bullshit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on June 03, 2018, 07:19:14 am

Manned landing on Mun seems to be no-go for me, and I couldn't get to Duna either.

Spoiler: So I settled on something else (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/452807979658641408/katoneve.PNG)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 03, 2018, 09:03:04 am

Now try to get home...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on June 03, 2018, 09:09:53 am

Nup, unmanned unrecoverable probes will colonize entire Kerbal system!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 03, 2018, 09:32:29 am

_{It’s not colonization unless you start culling natives}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on June 03, 2018, 11:29:53 pm

Level 25 Faceless One plus Scepter or whatever his name is is basically Dio.

Group of enemy heroes? "I'm sorry, but time has stopped." Utilize his passive plus Daedulus plus Battle Fury to murderize heroes while they're frozen. If they're low on health, they're dead. If they're high on health, they might be dead anyways, and he can probably finish them off after time resumes.

When time does resume, you can use Time Walk to pop right off after finishing the job. "Time to go." The relevant perk tree choices really help this build. Improved Chronosphere AoE? Improved Time Walk range? Yes please.

By the end of the game? RAMPAGE. Single-handedly took down all five enemy heroes. Not all at once, but in quick succession.

Nothing stops this guy. Run away? Nope, he's right in your path. Time walk. Teleport? He'll teleport right with you. High damage abilities? Time Walk. Never happened. And he stops time every sixty seconds, during which he can basically do whatever to you or escape while you're frozen.

This is Dio reincarnated as a Dota 2 hero.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on June 04, 2018, 04:15:57 am

Tales of my KSP achievements, part whatever!

Spoiler: It also comes with detachable under-wing boosters for... entertainment purposes (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340944685386301441/452980517718065153/truelanding.PNG)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 04, 2018, 12:34:06 pm

Quote from: FallacyofUrist on June 03, 2018, 11:29:53 pm

Level 25 Faceless One plus Scepter or whatever his name is is basically Dio.

Group of enemy heroes? "I'm sorry, but time has stopped." Utilize his passive plus Daedulus plus Battle Fury to murderize heroes while they're frozen. If they're low on health, they're dead. If they're high on health, they might be dead anyways, and he can probably finish them off after time resumes.

When time does resume, you can use Time Walk to pop right off after finishing the job. "Time to go." The relevant perk tree choices really help this build. Improved Chronosphere AoE? Improved Time Walk range? Yes please.

By the end of the game? RAMPAGE. Single-handedly took down all five enemy heroes. Not all at once, but in quick succession.

Nothing stops this guy. Run away? Nope, he's right in your path. Time walk. Teleport? He'll teleport right with you. High damage abilities? Time Walk. Never happened. And he stops time every sixty seconds, during which he can basically do whatever to you or escape while you're frozen.

This is Dio reincarnated as a Dota 2 hero.

As a support main, I think its the support's job to counter time bubble, because a lot of supports have answers to it (provided they use cautious positioning and don't end up *in* the time bubble).  Pheonix can walk up to it and ult, Wyvern can use cold embrace or ult faceless one, Bane can nightmare a likely target (or ult Faceless Void).  Witch Doctor and Shadow Shaman... are actually pretty bad against it because Faceless Void will just jump out of the time bubble and murder them.  Earthshaker's Q easily has the range to stun Faceless Void without accidentally walking into the bubble, Naga can save her ult just to waste Faceless Void's.  Dazzle... well, if your allies are doing decent enough that they don't explode in one hit, you can save one of them and make sure Faceless One has zero armor when the thing ends.  But of course they aren't.

This is why I would always play heroes with save abilities or hard stuns.  Good luck playing Lich or Crystal Maiden against Faceless Void.  "Don't worry guys, I'm using Freezing Field."  *Gets stunned on first hit*.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on June 07, 2018, 08:58:33 pm

I did awesome in my Awesome.  Its widely considered a relatively bad mech, mostly because it is HUGE and FAT, the metaphorical broad side of the barn.  And it really doesn't have the tonnage nor the toughness to back up the THICC (mere 80 tons).  I modded mine to carry four snub nose PPCs, and I upped the engine to an XL 280 to go slightly faster and hold more cooling.  Basically like having two AC20s with unlimited ammo, but hot as hell and very frail for the assault target you are.

Actually managed to score three kills, two of which were most-damage-dealt.  Totaling almost 600 damage, taking out two heavies and an 100 ton assault.  Didn't survive the round, but I think I had an impact.  Usually in the Awesome I die horribly only doing about 250-300 damage.

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Mechwarrior Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 08, 2018, 01:23:44 am

Won ascension levels 7, 8, and 9 on The Defect all in a row.  In each run I got molten egg (upgrades any new attacks you get) early and then built up a deck with at least two claws (0 cost, gains 2 damage every time you play a claws card) and cards that would draw from the deck or pull claws cards out of my discard pile.  I also got the same combo going in each of them, which is a card that gives artifact (immunity to next debuff) combined with hyperbeam (32 damage to all enemies when upgraded, but gives -3 focus... unless you're immune).

None of my decks built any defense aside from buffer/buffer+ (power, ignore next 1/2 instances of damage) and a couple cards that channeled frost.  Instead I just rested at every single campfire, in complete defiance of most advice that's out there.

The 9th ascension was the craziest.  I got a relic that gives +energy at full health.  I've never, ever had a use for that thing, but I somehow managed to keep it up for 2/3rds of the last area.  On Defect, the character known for taking chip damage every fight.  Those 3 blobs that each have 52 hp?  I took them out in one turn.  I had no idea Defect was even capable of that kind of offense.

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Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on June 08, 2018, 10:25:05 am

As it turns out, Pugna with the Scepter is just as hax as Faceless Void.
Actually, Scepter in general is hax.

Life Drain Life Drain Life Drain yeaaaaah!

Dota 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 08, 2018, 12:57:08 pm

Beat a guy who had a full team of power 1000 guys in DB Legends. I had 700 as my strongest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on June 09, 2018, 02:27:24 am

This is apparently one of hardest unifications, and it was, for me, cuz you need Moldavia (Polish-Lithuanian vassal), province of Transylvania (Hungarian vassal) and province of Silistria, owned by Ottomans, but here we go!

Spoiler: I am very proud of myself (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/354721222900318210/454788940306841620/romroms.PNG)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 09, 2018, 07:10:52 pm

Since a few weeks i've been replaying some bits of the old free version of Desktop Dungeon.
And as i didn't kept my saved game from when i had nearly unlocked everything, i had to go from scratch and oh boy i forgot how hard the game could be , as especially to beat some specific challenge you must have luck in what glyph/item/altar is generated so your forced combo can access what is required to have a chance.

Took many , many , so many deaths with my Orc Monk to finally beat the Snake Pit and unlock the Gorgon race (as you needed to beat that Snake Pit with a Monk class to unlock that) .
Was close to just give up on this game for another several years , until finally randomness generated the good items/glyph/altar and monster positionning i needed to finally beat that damned challenge.

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(https://i.imgur.com/SBvZkzT.png)

Still a few things left to unlock and be done with it again for a few years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 09, 2018, 07:41:57 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on June 03, 2018, 09:03:04 am

Now try to get home...

Don't you see? It is home.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 10, 2018, 07:19:56 am

Air battle wasn't going so well. I got in my Havoc and took out some ground targets(light vehicles, so 40 easily-destroyed armored cars on each side), but was shot down. Still, that may have tipped the battle significantly.

Got in my B-34, bombed some more armored cars before drawing attention of one particular pilot(using Japanese planes, which out-maneuver anything American at this tier). Turret fire forced them away, but more attacks came, even as I was dropping another load of bombs on target. Tail gunner dead, one engine on fire, and the damage display has my fuselage at black. I'm fucked. Everything is OK.

I figure I would go down and use my last plane(P-36G) and hope I can wait out the ground fight(generally, over time the ground targets kill each other one-for-one). My burning engine blows out, but I'm still flying. Sideways, but still flying. The replay shows me as already destroyed. I've got two fighters coming at me head on, the Japanese plane from before, and a Russian I-15(which is the Russian reserve plane). The Japanese plane just explodes which I get the credit for(replay shows them with destroyed engine and missing a half a wing), and I spray the I-15 in the face with bullets.

Then I look at the mission score, our team still has 15 armored cars left, they have 1. Then, "Hostile team has lost all their vehicles"(which means no players on the other team are spawned, and are losing points). Then "Sole survivor award", which means I'm the last player on my team left in the game.

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War Thunder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Spehss _ on June 10, 2018, 06:11:01 pm

I beat the chaos trials (literally "beat" using massive hard hitting fists of earth magic) and became the Wizard of Legend.

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Wizard of Legend

Took me 50+ deaths to beat it for the first time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: standardcombo on June 11, 2018, 02:20:43 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 12, 2018, 06:45:20 pm

My friend is a major Hearthstone player.  I like to joke that it's a Magic knock-off, but we both know I'm joking.  Particularly considering-

Also, nice avatar, and welcome to the forum!
I apologize for the rude welcome, but we are 'ard gamers here :P

Thanks. I didn't know about the spoiler tag! Will use it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 11, 2018, 05:10:30 pm

Won a duo game in Realm Royale with my best friend as two assassins. Everything went completely perfect. It was amazing.

And it's... what, the second day we play this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on June 12, 2018, 07:49:55 am

I just beat the game for what is possibly the first time.
I mean... I haven't played in a while before today, but surely I've played it enough in the past that I would have achieved this at least once? I don't seem to remember this bit at all, though. :-/ Maybe it changed in an update or something.   

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Dino Run DX

Edit: wait, no, apparently I did it before, in October of 2016. Plenty of time to forget all about it!   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on June 12, 2018, 12:53:15 pm

I accidently opened a pit to HFS, except instead of swarming and killing us like good clowns, they just peacefully went to parts of the HFS I have not seen yet. Not quite a win, but I am pretending in my head that we terrify the clowns so much they have no desire to fight us.

Dwarf Fortress

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 12, 2018, 12:58:22 pm

I am imagining their excuses to the Demon King.

Yeah so we got all the way up there, but then we realized forgot our apocalypse hats, and we had to go alllll the way back home to get them, and it was such a hassle that we just said eh and we all got ice cream instead. We brought you some mint chip!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 12, 2018, 01:01:02 pm

I’M EXTREMELY ANGRY AT ALL OF YOU RIGHT NOW.

...BUT MINT CHIP IS MY FAVORITE...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 12, 2018, 08:25:32 pm

Finished the game, final boss fight was pretty fun all things considered.

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DmC Devil May Cry. It's not really bad, honestly, it's just it would be significantly better if they renamed every single character(except Kat, she's cool) and not tried to make it a DMC reboot/side continuity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on June 12, 2018, 11:42:19 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 12, 2018, 08:25:32 pm

DmC Devil May Cry.

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/015/584/tumblr_inline_mtujtxu1jJ1rw38tc.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 13, 2018, 10:43:41 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on June 12, 2018, 01:01:02 pm

I’M EXTREMELY ANGRY AT ALL OF YOU RIGHT NOW.

...BUT MINT CHIP IS MY FAVORITE...

I read this out of context first and got real curious about how it fit into the own thread. I was not disappoint.

My own involved fighting two Lurkers in the flesh melting darkness of Apocrypha and kicking their asses. Female warrior orc ftw.

Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 14, 2018, 05:02:30 am

Doing pretty well during an air battle, with multiple kills before being shot down. I got into my P-40-E-1, and as I got into the main fight, I dropped my bomb load on a tank. During the fight, I got jumped by a F3F. Damaged, I fled across the entire map with this guy on my tail, chipping away at my plane as I tried to evade. Lost tail control shortly before reaching the airfield, but I still kept going. My attacker was shredded by the airfield's AAA. I was pulling in for a landing just as the mission ended, in our victory due to that tank I bombed.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 14, 2018, 12:25:11 pm

I set up a deck with an opening hand that was always the same due to the innate mechanic: boot sequence (free 10 block, with the anchor relic I had 20), storm+ x2 (each time you play a power, channel 1 lightning), defragment+ (3 focus making lightning more powerful, made innate with the bottled tornado relic), hello world+ (gain a random common card every turn)*.  This deck also contained static discharge+ (channel 2 lightning on taking attack damage) and electrodynamics+ (lightning hits all enemies, channel 3 lightning).  All of the above except boot sequence are power cards, meaning for example electrodynamics actually channels 5 lightning.  I also have many lightning channeling cards including tempest+ (cost x, channel x+1 lightning), fission+ (evoke all orbs, gain orb slots for each evoked that way) and I had multiple charge battery+ (blocks and gives you energy next turn) to make use of my faster drawing.

Needless to say if the final boss had been the Awakened One I might have been in trouble, especially since I had a relic that prevented me from seeing enemy intents.  But it wasn't, it was Decu and Donu.  I drew electrodynamics on the second turn and killed them both simultaneously; the whole fight was like 4-5 turns.  Kinda thought power focused builds on the Defect were a trap but I guess with frozen egg in act 1 they're viable.

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Slay the Spire.  I'm on ascension 14, two more wins and I'll have essentially "beat the game" as Defect

*I've seen people on reddit saying this card is the worst ever because it pollutes your deck with bad cards.  These people are what I like to call "wrong".  If you run it with a huge deck you'll never shuffle, so its basically +1 draw that can't be a status and doesn't cycle your deck faster making you further resistant to statuses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on June 15, 2018, 04:43:49 am

Despite being horribly low on medicine (and one of my two expert doctors being among the afflicted), I managed to control a plague "outbreak" without savescumming!
And I totally woulda savescummed if necessary, too. Not really a fan of how diseases work in-game.

Also, Lester, the sailor who recently joined with great social skills (which was sorely needed since nobody else had any real skill or passion for it) has been doing such a good job of schmoozing with the visitors that he is now having to fend off romantic propositions from them. What a heart-throb. :))
I wonder, is it possible to have random visitors start relationships with your colonists in this way, same as can happen with prisoners from time to time? I imagine you'd have to intentionally aim for it to happen anyway, since the visitor-colonist friendships tend to be pretty one-sided in most cases, in my experience at least (I haven't bothered setting visitor zones or anything).

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Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 15, 2018, 07:33:23 pm

Managed to construct the first do-it-yourself building besides the cow barn. The fishing spot, which seems to be the final "tutorial" quest. Took me a few days, both in game and real life to find the rhino beetles for the baitbox. I was looking in the wrong places(tip: on the lighter-textured trees, look on the trunks). Bought both the carving station and combining stations to build the baitbox, stole the barrel from an abandoned shack, and assembled the fish rack. Then I bought the construction materials, and built a small pier sticking out to sea.

The only mistake was using "Wood Blocks" for the pier. These are actually the blocks that trees are made of - they can be chopped with an ax to produce raw wood. Not sure why they're for sale, but then Aliza is rather absent-minded at times. Oh well, at least the village's resident catgirl was happy about it.

Now I get to build an entire house from scratch to bring in a new resident.

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Staxel. Trying to find those damn beetles is what stopped me last time I tried to play.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 16, 2018, 01:44:18 pm

I built a large radar in my base and soon detected a small UFO in July 1998. Without interceptors, I sent a helicopter after it. It landed and I found out that I only have 5 agents in the helicopter.

And the aliens were SECTOIDS. They have disruptor shields.

But, even though 4 out of the agents died, so did all the sectoids. Now I have Elerium, sectoid corpses, UFO navigation and UFO Power source. I already had AAs from a Cyberweb technomad.

The X-Com files.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on June 16, 2018, 03:52:35 pm

Beat a giant praying mantis that did two damage with every hit, effectively reducing me to only four HP in a battle where there are no openings long enough to heal oneself. Fought tooth and nail (pun intended) and managed to emerge victorious with only one HP remaining.

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Hollow Knight. Damn, this game is good. I should have played it sooner.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 17, 2018, 02:55:27 pm

One of the new random events added is the Aerial Anomaly. During this event, all aircraft are free. The anomaly spawned over friendly territory, though it moves over time.

What happened next is pretty much what you can expect when you put up a literal giant flashing sign that says "free aircraft!!" and a waypoint. Much hilarity was had, and I even managed to score several air-to-air kills with the Needler(the default, and generally best air-to-air nosegun). Like, legitimate 1v1 kills even. Best kill, was tumbling about trying to get away from an enemy Valkyrie whose pilot just ditched. Said pilot dropped right onto me and died, giving me a Roadkill bonus.

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Planetside 2. Won the event, all I got was shitty implants that I already have upgraded versions of. Also, for some reason, my first aircraft was not free, but I was not also charged the full nanite cost of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 17, 2018, 06:22:39 pm

After learning from my previous failure in openxcom extended + ... I ... I won !
Couldn't believe it after losing so many squaddies, we defeated the alien invasion !

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After capturing with lots of losses a Etheral commander (so many losses in that mission that i had to bring the unconscious etheral in a squaddie inventory back to the entrance and run away to avoid losing the whole mission and the prisonner) in one of the alien bases we discovered in the USA (that had made a pact with the aliens a long time ago) , it was time to interrogate him before being able to research the Cydonia mission.
(https://i.imgur.com/xVqRjVn.png)

After everything required was researched, we finally completed the mighty Avenger.
It was time now to set our sight to Cydonia.
Hired a bunch of rookies in order to filter the best guys in term of psionic strength (to avoid the huge screwup we had in the Etheral base) to complete my assault team.
(https://i.imgur.com/4669I1M.png)

Only 2 losses due to the rookies missing too many shots (the guy selected in my screenshot was my first loss, poor rookie, first on Cydonia and first to die), but at least they resisted the psionic assault from some of the sectoids, and once we cleared the pyramids ground , it was time for the assault of the alien headquarter underground
(https://i.imgur.com/6q24uqQ.png)

A big battle, lots of blaster launchers and unfortunately half the squad was killed, but the survivors finally managed to find the elevator to the aliens mastermind room, and to show my willingness in negociating, i used the best tool for that
(https://i.imgur.com/ceP59el.png)

Blaster launcher ! Lyudmila saved the world !

(https://i.imgur.com/DKsAbFD.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Okalam6.png)
(odd the "deadliest alien" is a Floater, Mutons and Etherals have been pure nightmares)

So happy to finally get a victory, even if it's in beginner difficulty, the game is hilariously unforgiving, 160 xcom operatives were killed in that run !

Not mentionned in the stat was the loss of 2 interceptors and 1 skyranger, this set me back for a lot of time in early game.
Oh and plasma beam weaponry just rules the sky, destroy nearly everything from far enough to be out of alien range, only battleships are a threat if you don't research and build more advanced aircraft.

Super annoying that when you win a mission you recover everything excepted for armors from your dead squaddies, having to constantly re-manufacture armors isn't really great.
But in the same time, when you think your half of the time a power armor protect nothing and your squaddie die from 1 shot, you wonder if it's worth manufacturing, at least the flying version of the power armor has an obvious good use.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 17, 2018, 06:27:12 pm

Why do you have soldiers dual-wielding two-handed weapon?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 17, 2018, 06:29:09 pm

Probably because the game let me do that ?
(and the accuracy loss of it is nearly negated by just kneeling)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on June 18, 2018, 03:25:09 am

You also don't particularly need accuracy with blaster bombs just someone who is resistant to mind control.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 18, 2018, 04:07:48 am

Blaster launchers are fun when carried by squaddies with low psionic strength :D

An additional interest in dual wielding is that you don't lose any TU from switching between weapons between your hands and the inventory backpack , as it can cost some very precious TU that can mean either an additional shot or being unable to shoot at all :
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Inventory_TU_Table

Now obviously you don't really want to have a rookie that has been generated with low accuracy to dual wield, as missing most of your reaction shots can lead into hilarity, between friendly fire, aliens walking with their own blaster launcher or surprise chryssalids coming from a corner :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on June 18, 2018, 10:28:56 am

Survived the Path of Pain.

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Hollow Knight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 20, 2018, 11:46:18 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on June 17, 2018, 06:22:39 pm

Why do your windows look like Win98 windows?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2018, 04:26:58 am

Quote from: IronTomato on June 20, 2018, 11:46:18 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on June 17, 2018, 06:22:39 pm

Why do your windows look like Win98 windows?

It's entirely possible to set that in Windows Control Panel(at least in Windows 7). As for why, it probably uses less memory than Aero.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 21, 2018, 11:48:41 am

Yeah, I still do that on my desktop.  I'm not sure how much resources are saved, I've just stuck with that classic style on that "machine" through several hardware and OS upgrades (including a motherboard).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 21, 2018, 12:02:33 pm

I found all the Frost Giants, both Shellbugs, and stripped the Vale of secrets, treasure, ingredients, enemies, and Dragons. Epic Orc chick is epic. I literally killed most of the Frozen Falmer with a single swing in the boss fight.

Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on June 22, 2018, 04:22:44 pm

0 to 7 scores.
I made three of those goals.
In the hockey version.

Rocket League.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rince Wind on June 22, 2018, 04:25:12 pm

I killed Kurt Dierker.

The Saboteur

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 22, 2018, 05:06:48 pm

After several failed attempts, I beat Mondo Mole. Prior to that, I was constantly racing against the decreasing HP counter after taking mortal damage to get LifeUp α used(this is an actual feature - if you can win/heal before your HP hits 0, you're alive). Obviously, that wasn't going to work.

All it took was one PSI power: Paralysis α. Poor fool never got an attack in, only tried to heal and buff.

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Earthbound. I had thought you had to do this before rescuing Paula, but I guess I was wrong. Consequently, the cult leader was a complete joke. Unfortunately, on the way back to her home, a tree exploded, killing her because she starts at Level 1(Ness was at Level 20 at this point and that still hurts him significantly).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 23, 2018, 02:09:42 am

An Avali raid! Careful they seem unusually clever in their tactics!

Huh I better keep an eye on what they are doing then.
*Avali raid runs over to local insect caves and beats the insects into unconsciousness taking some harm but no casualties*
Huh I doubt that was clever as much as they happened to see them and felt they had to fight them.  I donno why they didn't use their guns though, the bugs didn't take any lethal harm the bugs are just out cold...
*Avali conga line towards my base with the ones wounded from the bugs now falling far behind*
*There is a T-Rex hanging out by my front entrance*
*Fighting starts, t-rex takes a stray arrow*
T-Rex: Aw hell no.
*T-Rex absolutely destroys the Avali who are the nearest targets*
Me:(Laughing my ass off)
*Avali break and flee, T-rex chasing after, t-rex is easily downed before it gets out of range by my sniper*

Wow that raid was extremely clever, they almost killed me with laughter.

Rimworld, Modded

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 24, 2018, 06:36:53 am

I killed a Crocodilian.

Yes, it was on Novice difficulty. Yes, it was on the very first Crimson Court quest.

All the same, I killed it with no deaths on my team (though there were a few close calls.) and no deaths in the mission.

My team, if I remember it correctly, was Vestal, Hellion, Crusader, and Leper. I’d given the Hellion and Crusader their movement skills (Breakthrough and Holy Lance, respectively) to turn the pair into a less extreme version of the Crusader Gatling Gun is whatever they call it.

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Darkest Dungeon, with the Crimson Court DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 24, 2018, 09:48:41 am

Did a quest that to even start required me to shave my GLORIOUS MANBEARD and put on a lady's dress which apparently includes generous chest-padding, since the quest-giver is a violent misandrist(actually, there's implications that she's actually attracted to anyone in women's clothing, and violent to everyone else). Said quest had to objectives, kill a bunch from a rival group of all-male bandits(who, by the way, are not misogynist), or feed a dead goblin to her pet cyclops. Did both. Feeding the cyclops took two tries because night fell on the first try and suddenly phantasms everywhere and my spellcaster pawns did not understand how to use their fire magic.

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Dragon's Dogma, after picking it back up from a few months of not playing it. I've been hammering out some of the more annoying quests. Those repeated trips to Ophis'(the misandrist bandit leader) stronghold were pain, since the nearest portcrystal I had down was at the Abbey. Almost every trip, there was a chimera.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: smjjames on June 24, 2018, 10:27:28 am

Quote from: pikachu17 on June 22, 2018, 04:22:44 pm

0 to 7 scores.
I made three of those goals.
In the hockey version.

Rocket League.

Shouldn't that be 7 to 0? 0 to 7 would be you losing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 24, 2018, 11:06:15 am

DEPEnds if they were home or away. And then also which country you were in, since Americans are weird and out the home score second.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 24, 2018, 11:11:03 am

Not me. A dog.

A civilian Attack Dog killed TWO of the floaters terrorising Novosibirsk. The only help it had was a civilian human trying and failing to punch one of them.

Later I finaly got Jump Armors for my THUNDERSTORM pilots, so now I can have them train their reactions on Zombie Infestations and Strange Lifeforms (Unless they are Spikeboars or Giant frogs, both of which have ranged attacks)

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The X-COM Files

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on June 24, 2018, 02:47:38 pm

Actually wasn't completely useless in the match.  My team basically carried to hell and back but I only really died in the duels and I'd like to think I helped win the first dual which helped everything else kinda snowball into place.

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Open Angel Arena, Dota 2 mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on June 24, 2018, 04:07:11 pm

I was struggling with holding onto the navy because the enemy air player kept throwing gunships at me and my cruiser count was still too low (while our air player was fucking about on other parts of the map for the most part) but once I hit the critical mass of some 7 or so cruisers enemy air was getting deleted when it came anywhere near my clump of boats. Since I pushed the enemy player out of the water on this side I proceeded to fling cruiser tactical missles at his base but the bastard built a literal wall of shields, anti-missle defences and stationary arty that was impossible to dislodge by conventional means. Luckily, since I had won the naval fight I had spare factories and resources (at this point focusing on ecoing up and teching up air and land to help our faltering middle) so I made 4 nuke subs and set the bastards to producing nukes. After several minutes of dealing with random shit I remember I still have them, and oh boy they are all loaded.

Now the wall of defences the enemy naval player built was a huge investment and he focused heavily on defeating any convetional assault I could throw at him. Unfortunately for him he forgot any nuke defence. Cue me shoving 4 nuclear missles down his throat. That left two more players on their team, one of which was proving to be a fucking nuisance by constantly spamming spiderbots and sending them our way, before I could fully realise my plan to sneak build power near his main base and start streaming fatboys at him the idiot tried to telesnipe our own air player and got murdered by base defenses before doing anything worthwhile.

The last player was putting up a decent fight for a short time after that but he peaced out quickly after some 5 or so nukes were launched at his base and he had defences to stop maybe two of them.

Pretty damn fun game overall with plenty of back and forth, despite gary being a salty little bitch about losing like always.

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Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 25, 2018, 02:48:45 pm

Yeah screw gary

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 25, 2018, 03:26:49 pm

I got someone to run offlane Undying/Bane with me, I was the Bane.  The enemy team's safelane?  Legion commander and Ursa.  We didn't just win the lane, we annihilated it.  LC ran away to jungle after 2 waves and Ursa stayed.  I zoned Ursa so hard that I literally just stood at the edge of his tower staring him down while Undying was last hitting near OUR tower.  When Ursa was level 2 against a level 3 Bane + level 4 Undying he got the message that mayyyybbbeeee he shouldn't stick around.  We destroyed the tower soon aftewards.

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Dota 2.  We also stole their 1st + 2nd bounty runes and warded their pull camp

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 25, 2018, 05:31:58 pm

Dealt the killing blow to

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Grigori, The Dragon

in perhaps the most epic way, bursting forth a spire of ice from the ground and directly into his heart.

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The Arisen stopped at the Great Wall for a pot of soup and to get down with his waifu(Selene), then head home.

Preparations for the fight included buying 100 Potent Greenwarish(not best, but best you can easily buy) and stocking up on on Healing Spring Water(not best, but free).

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Dragon's Dogma. Granted, about half of Grigori's health bars were depleted by a single (High?)Maelstrom case by one of my pawns. One of the other idiots got possessed. I handed them a Panacea to cure it, but they died to that Maelstrom instead - they later wasted the very valuable healing medicine on curing immolation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 26, 2018, 10:43:49 pm

Shortly after returning home, I went walking to the gym.  With my umbrella, for my phone's sake.  The rain was quite lovely, light and steady.

I noticed that the gym was of my team, and full, but also being attacked!  I took cover and observed the only car parked near it.  Neat timing, but I planned to let them have it.  The gym had been my color for a while, and our two teams tend to share it pretty kindly.  Valor is out of luck ):

However, as the gym changed, I saw the name of the player.  My eyes narrowed and I shifted closer, leaning around the corner store.  Them.  Or should I say, her?  Because there were very quickly three pokemon in the gym, yet the car clearly had one occupant.  I had suspected this, but wasn't sure.  Now I was.

I waited patiently as she cut diagonally across the parking lot (common for GO players, but bad form).  Before long she turned onto the road away, and I quickly moved to the gym with my practiced gait.  To her credit, there was no Blissey, and there was a lovely shiny Wailord.  I almost wanted to leave it alone, but then the rain picked up against my umbrella.  No.  No mercy for cheaters.
(Besides, I got Wailord first.  That was MY thing, locally, that and Milotic)

I chose my party for for DPS over survivability, yet still changed them out just short of death.  I destroyed the enemy with efficiency, almost fast enough to avoid notice.  But their third pokemon suddenly had full health/two extra lives.  Heh, excellent.  If they wanted to burn raid-reward gold razzberies this way, I was happy to oblige.  Thanks to my friends' gifts, I can heal my pokemon properly afterward.

They wasted 3 golden razzberries before giving up.  I wonder if I'll see them sometime in a raid group.  I wonder if they'll even know it was me - probably not, since they had left before I put in my wimpy shiny ivysaur.  Maybe I'll smile and wave.
Within an hour of me leaving, two people of my team had rejoined the gym.  I really feel like the carry sometimes, heh.

Pokemon GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 26, 2018, 10:44:49 pm

Pokemon GO?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 26, 2018, 10:45:39 pm

Thanks, I edited it in just before the "edited at XX:YY" cutoff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on June 27, 2018, 12:06:23 am

Got my hands on the Dark Souls remaster

Managed to kill the first black knight you encounter, through a lot of silly chasing, 20 damage axe blows, and a handful of black firebombs.

It was anything but graceful, but at least he gave me his sword, which I hear is a rare drop to get, esp. first thing in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 27, 2018, 07:35:00 am

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(https://imgur.com/KC3jzhM.png)
(https://imgur.com/Okc0DPU.png)

Hera Hemaina survived alone for about 200 turns, killing the last 3 sectoids and the last cyberdisc.

The cyberdisc with proximity grenades, 1 of the sectoids with UAC Rifle, other two with High explosives.

OpenXcom, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 27, 2018, 09:27:58 am

UAC rifle?

What mods were you using?

And how’d you lose so many to be down to the last unit?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on June 27, 2018, 09:51:31 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on June 27, 2018, 12:06:23 am

Got my hands on the Dark Souls remaster

Managed to kill the first black knight you encounter, through a lot of silly chasing, 20 damage axe blows, and a handful of black firebombs.

It was anything but graceful, but at least he gave me his sword, which I hear is a rare drop to get, esp. first thing in the game.

I remember that guy. When I first killed him, I did it by learning to parry each and every one of his attacks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 27, 2018, 10:18:40 am

Quote from: AzyWng on June 27, 2018, 09:27:58 am

UAC rifle?

What mods were you using?

And how’d you lose so many to be down to the last unit?

The X-Com Files modpack.

I lost so many because
A) Cyberdiscs are almost bulletproof, even if a shot from UAC Rifle is three pellets 40 AP dmg each.
B) I was not prepared, most people only had (business) suits
         Even Hera was in an Alloy Vest rather than Personal Armor. And she survived because she was not hit, not because it would be protective.
C) A person being midcontrolled decreases morale of everybody else. Luckily, the 25th person to die killed the Sectoid {Leader?}. The 26th paincked after 25ths death and ran into a proxy grenade.

The fact that sectoids have telekinetic shields did not actually help them much, but it is there as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on June 28, 2018, 12:27:30 am

I finally finished Elder Scrolls:Arena. It was fun, but very repetitive. At least I can start Daggerfall now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 28, 2018, 05:56:12 am

Quote from: Enemy post on June 28, 2018, 12:27:30 am

I finally finished Elder Scrolls:Arena. It was fun, but very repetitive. At least I can start Daggerfall now.

I'll always love Morrowind the most. Game was the dopest shit. I never quite finished the main quest the proper way. Though I beat 80% of all the quests in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on June 28, 2018, 10:06:20 am

I feel like morrowind is one of those rare games where there still might be something hidden somewhere that nobody has noticed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 28, 2018, 10:11:55 am

As an aside to that, Khajiit and Argonians had hilarious walking sneak animations in Morrowind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on June 28, 2018, 12:42:34 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on June 28, 2018, 10:11:55 am

As an aside to that, Khajiit and Argonians had hilarious walking sneak animations in Morrowind.

Let's hope Skywind maybe get's completed one day

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on June 28, 2018, 04:50:27 pm

With 2 x 24 stacks of Westphalian troops and some few thousand allied troops, I've successfully fought Austria the Emperor of HRE, grinding through its 11 x 20 stacks and 400k manpower till white peace. Patience and extraordinary generals was the key.

Few years later, Karl II von Hessen of Westphalia was elected the new Holy Roman Emperor, while Austria wails in shame, its lands now ravaged by nationalists, revolutionaries and heretics.

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on June 28, 2018, 08:28:47 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on June 28, 2018, 12:27:30 am

I finally finished Elder Scrolls:Arena. It was fun, but very repetitive. At least I can start Daggerfall now.

I applaud your bravery in bothering to finish Arena before moving on to Daggerfall. I've been thinking about attempting a let's play of it, since it would likely be more interesting than Daggerfall due to being (in my opinion) one of the more assy entries in the series, but other than that I wouldn't be able to handle playing the entire thing.

But yeah, at any rate, Daggerfall is a lot more interesting for normal playing, and introduced quite a few features which became standard in later entries, but beware the Bugs. They'll get you in your sleep if you're not careful. Always be using the latest patch, and be sure to keep backups of your saves. A save without a backup is a Bug's natural prey.

Quote from: Hanslanda on June 28, 2018, 10:11:55 am

As an aside to that, Khajiit and Argonians had hilarious walking sneak animations in Morrowind.

To be fair, they have hilarious animations in general

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 28, 2018, 09:40:13 pm

IIRC, Arena (Daggerfall?) Khajiit also have the lovely option of appearing as Bosmer.  Which is lore supported.  In fact I was just rereading some Prequel comic, and someone said it something Azura did because she loves cats.  I can believe it.

I actually enjoyed Arena for a couple of evenings, a couple years ago.  It's impressive how big the world is, and even how big the cities are, at first.  Even though it's (almost) all obviously procedurally generated and therefore all the detail is "meaningless", it was pretty fun for a while.  Much like Morrowind, I immediately lost track of and forgot about the "main story", and just wandered around a nifty fantasy world.  Making my way by scavenging and fighting, then "retiring" (losing interest).

Actually I've been meaning to post about Oblivion here, for a while.  I've been replaying it occasionally for about a month, with a goal of leveling perfectly up to 20 (The minimum to complete the capstone Daedra quest, of Hermaeus Mora, which I've never done). 

I'm still clearing the other Daedric quests, which are all prerequired, but in the meantime I finally visited Kvatch.  At level 21.  Let me tell you:  The developers knew people like me would do this, and they hate us.  They are the jilted GM who is so sick of you burning taverns and establishing crime rings, and finally goes "ROCKS FALL".  Except that the rocks don't land on you, no.  You are required to destroy the rocks, by which I mean ridiculous HP-sponges.  You are largely required to destroy them all.

Sidenote:  Hand-to-hand does not scale properly into late game content.  Particularly with also specialize in blocking - blocking with unarmed does not actually reduce the damage you take.

I had 100 Endurance (started with a female redguard with endurance under The Lady, AKA the max Endurance start, because the boosts to HP are *not* retroactive as you train Endurance.  Levelled it ASAP)
100 Intelligence, 100 Willpower, 100 Strength.

And all but the Strength was basically useless against literally several dozen EACH of Spiderdemons and Storm Atronachs, neither of which can be paralyzed by my magic.  I had a "potent" shock spell, but it only really cleared out the countless Daedroths and Xivilai, who largely didn't matter because they *were* paralyzed.

I had to punch all those storm atronachs and spider daedra.  I had to punch them a lot.  Despite levelling literally perfectly, not wasting a single attribute point (unless you count 4 into luck), it was a slog.  In the end it was the 80 speed, 97 acrobatics, and 60 athletics that brought me victory.  When you literally have to kite or hide on top of geometry, nothing else compares.

(I know I would be absurdly powerful with custom-enchanted equipment.  I have a save from years ago proving that.  It's hilariously broken, heh.)

Attributes: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1425761105
My "Major" skills, many of which were chosen specifically to avoid: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1425761150
Lettuce: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1425763648

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://www.it-he.org/oblivion/anchorit.jpg)
http://www.it-he.org/oblivion.php

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 29, 2018, 01:02:00 am

That picture is glorious.

You think that's bad... imagine if your only good combat skill is archery.  And you leveled up non-combat skills like pickpocketing higher than your combat skills.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on June 29, 2018, 02:11:09 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 29, 2018, 01:02:00 am

That picture is glorious.

You think that's bad... imagine if your only good combat skill is archery.  And you leveled up non-combat skills like pickpocketing higher than your combat skills.

Yeah, the scaling in that game was so bad. It was honestly better to stay at level 1 the whole game and never level then it is to actually play it properly.

Despite its flaws I did love the game to death though. Amongst other things I made a custom paralyze for two seconds on target spell. Amusingly *any* paralyze duration causes the target to fall over and spend ~3 seconds getting up afterwards, so I could just cast it, hit them for 5 seconds, then cast it again over and over forever since my mana had long since regenerated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 29, 2018, 04:37:26 am

Quote from: lemon10 on June 29, 2018, 02:11:09 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 29, 2018, 01:02:00 am

That picture is glorious.

You think that's bad... imagine if your only good combat skill is archery.  And you leveled up non-combat skills like pickpocketing higher than your combat skills.

Yeah, the scaling in that game was so bad. It was honestly better to stay at level 1 the whole game and never level then it is to actually play it properly.

Despite its flaws I did love the game to death though. Amongst other things I made a custom paralyze for two seconds on target spell. Amusingly *any* paralyze duration causes the target to fall over and spend ~3 seconds getting up afterwards, so I could just cast it, hit them for 5 seconds, then cast it again over and over forever since my mana had long since regenerated.

It is however very annoying when spider daedra paralyse you, for the very same reason. Not only you fall over and can not defend yourself for a while, but as you are standing back up, they can reparalyse you, causing you to fall over again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 29, 2018, 11:14:17 am

Actual ownage this time.

I bought Viper Defence Mk.II on Boston Base, Barnards Star, but did not have enough money to buy an autopilot.
OK, I said, I will just pilot manually to a dock in Sol, sell some Farm machinery and buy an autopilot. Little did I know, how difficult that would be.

The closest shipyard from my hyperspace exit was Daedalos, orbiting Mercury, so I set forth.

After two sticky keys incidents, I was left with only a tiny bit of fuel left. But I continued on.
I eventually caught up to Mercury and since I was in a different plane than Daedalos, I decided to enter orbit first.
After doing so, I did manage to plane shift to Daedalos' plane and dock. (Incurring 11.2% hull damage in the process).

I did not make money on that run. In fact, I lost money.
But I successfuly flew through an entire system without autopilot!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elite 3, First Encounters

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 29, 2018, 11:49:11 am

Quote from: lemon10 on June 29, 2018, 02:11:09 am

Yeah, the scaling in that game was so bad. It was honestly better to stay at level 1 the whole game and never level then it is to actually play it properly.

I used to play with a (made it myself) mod that that set your level to 50, and maxed all skills and attributes. The beginning of the game was pretty hard, as the enemies hit like trucks, and you had no good weapons to return the favor. Once you got a good weapon you were golden though.

My favorite outfit was Shadowrend (sword version) and a robe. Staying alive was a bit harder this way, but it made the combat more ... exciting. The hardest part of the game was keeping allies alive, and for that I had setav health 10000

---

Anyway, I finally managed to unveil the Riven mod I got through The War Within, and it actually is decent. It is for a pretty good machine gun, and has good but not great stats (multishot and damage, on an LMG). I think I'll keep it even though it is worth a few hundred platinum and requires MR 15 (the weapon requires MR 14), when I'm only MR 8. It will be useful down the road.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warframe. So far I like it to a tune of 130 hours (according to Steam, the game itself says 76) over a bit less than a month...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 29, 2018, 04:56:53 pm

Second battle against Lubella, The Witch of Decay. Took a few tries, but I was able to slap her breasts around and not take any damage the whole fight. Also, poison arrows(which you can buy just before the fight) affect her, and cause damage even while she's doing her off-screen attack. Got a neat passive item for the no-damage win, which gives you slight health recovery on every kill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. I didn't even know you could win items for no-damage wins against bosses until just before this fight. And yes, you do fight Lubella by slapping her breasts with a leaf. It's not specifically her weakpoint, it's just the easiest part of her to reach. She seems specifically designed for zombie/giantess fetishes. That nightie she wears does doesn't help.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on June 29, 2018, 07:03:59 pm

Ah, brings back good memories of doing that fight and the people watching being like "wow, seriously?"
Also the fight where I learned the poison arrows can poison yourself, too. :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 29, 2018, 08:06:11 pm

...Yeah, I learned that too. Also breaks a no-damage fight, as does anything you use that spends HP, like the Cursed Missive or Black Satchet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on June 29, 2018, 08:39:57 pm

Oh yeah, I bet my intense love for the Cursed Missive is probably why I never found out that there were 0-damage rewards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 29, 2018, 10:35:21 pm

Quote from: milo christiansen on June 29, 2018, 11:49:11 am

Anyway, I finally managed to unveil the Riven mod I got through The War Within, and it actually is decent. It is for a pretty good machine gun, and has good but not great stats (multishot and damage, on an LMG). I think I'll keep it even though it is worth a few hundred platinum and requires MR 15 (the weapon requires MR 14), when I'm only MR 8. It will be useful down the road.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warframe. So far I like it to a tune of 130 hours (according to Steam, the game itself says 76) over a bit less than a month...

If you got a good riven for the opticor(my favorite weapon of all time) I am going to find some way to reach across the internet to you then find some way to reach into your computer to then find some way to steal that riven out of your data files to replace it with this -fire rate grakata riven mod I stumbled across.  So I can hug it and squeeze it and love it and call it George.

Oh and also so I can install it into my Navy Blue opticor and become BFG Zephyr.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on June 29, 2018, 10:42:03 pm

Quote from: Greiger on June 29, 2018, 10:35:21 pm

-fire rate grakata riven

Thanks, Satan

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ukulele on June 29, 2018, 11:26:14 pm

Quote from: Greiger on June 29, 2018, 10:35:21 pm

If you got a good riven for the opticor(my favorite weapon of all time) I am going to find some way to reach across the internet to you then find some way to reach into your computer to then find some way to steal that riven out of your data files to replace it with this -fire rate grakata riven mod I stumbled across.  So I can hug it and squeeze it and love it and call it George.

Oh and also so I can install it into my Navy Blue opticor and become BFG Zephyr.

Kind of offtopic but i got a riven with +200% dmg +100% multishot +50% greneer -50% crit that i was thinking on selling but i dont know if its worth keeping.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on June 29, 2018, 11:32:47 pm

I have finally created the Principality of Italy, which is really just the Empire of Italy ruled by the gilded fist of the Venetian Republic. While my control on the peninsula is not complete, I still call it a grand enough victory that I might sit upon my laurels and rest.

Deus Vult!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on June 30, 2018, 02:12:06 am

Quote from: Greiger on June 29, 2018, 10:35:21 pm

If you got a good riven for the opticor

Nope, it is for the Supra. The *good* version of the Supra is MR 14, not sure what the normal one is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 30, 2018, 10:08:48 am

Quote from: Akura on June 29, 2018, 04:56:53 pm

Second battle against Lubella, The Witch of Decay. Took a few tries, but I was able to slap her breasts around and not take any damage the whole fight. Also, poison arrows(which you can buy just before the fight) affect her, and cause damage even while she's doing her off-screen attack. Got a neat passive item for the no-damage win, which gives you slight health recovery on every kill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. I didn't even know you could win items for no-damage wins against bosses until just before this fight. And yes, you do fight Lubella by slapping her breasts with a leaf. It's not specifically her weakpoint, it's just the easiest part of her to reach. She seems specifically designed for zombie/giantess fetishes. That nightie she wears does doesn't help.

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Zombie/giantess fetishes... do those go together?  :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mallos on June 30, 2018, 10:49:28 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on June 30, 2018, 10:08:48 am

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Zombie/giantess fetishes... do those go together?  :/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everything goes together if you look in the right places.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 30, 2018, 04:02:28 pm

Landed a meme (AKA meteor) hammer hit on two people who weren't CCed in any manner.  At a pretty important moment too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DOTA 2.  I also nightmared Legion Commander when she was dueling my Juggernaut, so they just passed the nightmare back and forth forever instead of fighting.  Two carries one nightmare.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 01, 2018, 07:06:50 am

Somehow, it feels wrong for a biplane to be out-maneuvered by a B-34 bomber. Pretty sure the biplane pilot felt the same way as my bomber's noseguns ripped his plane apart during my second pass.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 01, 2018, 09:08:18 am

I went left instead of right at the crossroads and I'm not bringing dragons into the world til I rob EVERYONE. I've done more pickpocketing in 2 hours than in however many years I've played. I'm level nine and I got four grand from petty thievery. Also I have stolen steel arrows from every hold guard I've seen, without fail.

Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 01, 2018, 09:17:33 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on July 01, 2018, 09:08:18 am

I went left instead of right at the crossroads and I'm not bringing dragons into the world til I rob EVERYONE. I've done more pickpocketing in 2 hours than in however many years I've played. I'm level nine and I got four grand from petty thievery. Also I have stolen steel arrows from every hold guard I've seen, without fail.

Skyrim

Heh, my waterfront shack in the Imperial City is full of stolen silverware/plates/goblets.  The floor is basically covered now, I like casting fireballs to "make it rain".

They're hardly worth selling, but they *should* be, so it's a nice monument to petty thievery.  Similarly, my Bruma home has a shelf full of carefully arranged gemstones - they shine brightly even in low light.  I'm starting to place sigil stones nearby.

Oblivion

Edit:  Also I think you technically own any arrows you get shot with :P  I like to think the holds of Skyrim actually have a law about that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 01, 2018, 10:29:11 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 01, 2018, 09:17:33 am

Edit:  Also I think you technically own any arrows you get shot with :P  I like to think the holds of Skyrim actually have a law about that.

Only if they hit you in the knee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 01, 2018, 03:38:12 pm

It's legal in Skyrim to shoot thieves. As compensation it's legal to steal anything someone shoots at you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 01, 2018, 04:18:39 pm

Built a propeller-based airplane that is both player- and AI-flyable, though the AI does have trouble with fleetmove orders(it keeps going up into space). Current armament is modest, two 30mm machine guns(GP,GP,GP,Bleeder/Tracer,Fins,Sabot,Sabot,SabotHead) and two 60mm cannons(GP,GP,GP,Bleeder,PenFuse,HE,HE,Composite), but generally functional against small, light targets(like other planes). I plan to add bombs as well at some point. While the plane is slow for a plane(about 25m/s), it's capable of taking off from underwater. It currently costs around 6k materials.

I'm mostly surprised that it handles well under both manual and AI control, most aircraft I build usually require a choice of one or the other.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 01, 2018, 05:01:43 pm

I managed to kill Kellogg without dying horribly because Survival difficulty makes everything a billion times more deadly in addition to neutering your carrying capacity, fast travel, and saves. _{I miss Hardcore Mode.}

To elaborate, you get into a short conversation with the guy that ends the same way every time, with you being forced to murder the shit out of him in incredibly Bethesda-like fashion, at which point his synths start blasting you and he pops a Stealth Boy like a prick. You can't target him in V.A.T.S. while he's invisible, unlike both previous 3D games (even if you couldn't actually use it to fire at any of those targets), so you have to either fire blindly at where he could be while his lackeys are unloading lasers into your everywhere or chuck a Molotov or grenade or something and hope it hits him without immediately killing yourself. Because it's Survival difficulty, where ONE Molotov or grenade or something can kill you just as easily as it kills mooks. Cannot tell you how many times I've mistimed a throw and smashed a bottle of flaming death into cover immediately adjacent to my face, or screamed in horror as an enemy threw one of their own at me and I died with full health.

And Kellogg has about seventy billion HP, and can Stimpak himself, and has a gun that kills you in frighteningly few hits. So I ended up saying "Fuck this", abandoning my pretenses of playing through things The Way They Should Go^TM (aka without cheesy bullshit) in the process, and sneak-attack-headshotted him with a five-times-cranked laser musket before he even started talking so the fucker couldn't just heal and run away. His lackeys were laughably easy with the big man down.

I love modes that add needs and diseases and stuff like this to make things feel a little less gamey but man does Survival push my damn buttons sometimes.

(Slightly Modded) Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 02, 2018, 02:05:02 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on July 01, 2018, 03:38:12 pm

It's legal in Skyrim to shoot thieves. As compensation it's legal to steal anything someone shoots at you.

This is funny as hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 02, 2018, 02:30:10 pm

if someone shoots a projectile at you and it lands in your body it’s now your projectile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on July 02, 2018, 02:36:46 pm

After being forced to flee from my fortified motel with nearby bar and bakery with naught but a broken bat and broken golf club on my person, I got myself thoroughly lost only to stumble across a hardware store. Every single shelf in the hardware store is absolutely packed with nifty shit. Nails. Hammers. Saws. Axes, just about every book I could want. Everything. Now I've got to determine what to do. My best course of action is probably to go find and snag my large food/booze stockpile and hoof it back to a secure location near here.

The only sucky bit is that this is in a mod world that apparently doesn't have vehicles. That would have made my decision a bit easier.

Project Zomboid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 02, 2018, 05:31:48 pm

I don't always get rage-tells, but when I do, they're quite cancerous. Stay salty, my friends.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. Was flying a pretty insane round in a Mosquito. Tried to provide attack cover for an attack on Eisa Tech Plant, but had to fall back after hitting a wall of flak - would have killed me if their gunners could actually aim. Flew off to help stop some back-caps at Bridgeward and Waterson's Redemption, then headed back to Eisa. Along the way, took down a damaged Vanguard by strafing the driver as he was trying to repair it. Started doing strafing runs, weaving between the structures of the techplant at high speed.

Nearly died when I hit something, but it merely caused me to stop and 180°, and I punched my afterburners, which for some reason launched me straight up the entire burn. This was while surrounded by NC infantry on all sides. Eventually did die due to a Burster MAX camping from their spawn room, but that's the anti-air meta for you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on July 02, 2018, 06:34:59 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 02, 2018, 02:30:10 pm

if someone shoots a projectile at you and it lands in your body it’s now your projectile

It's all part of a plan to re-brand the guard's prodigious murder rate as an absurdly high suicide rate among the criminal elements- as evidenced by the fact that they legally owned and wholly controlled the instruments of their own demise at their moment of death.

Clearly, it's the criminal's guilt over their crimes that's driving them to these actions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 03:37:12 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 02, 2018, 05:31:48 pm

I don't always get rage-tells, but when I do, they're quite cancerous. Stay salty, my friends.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2. Was flying a pretty insane round in a Mosquito. Tried to provide attack cover for an attack on Eisa Tech Plant, but had to fall back after hitting a wall of flak - would have killed me if their gunners could actually aim. Flew off to help stop some back-caps at Bridgeward and Waterson's Redemption, then headed back to Eisa. Along the way, took down a damaged Vanguard by strafing the driver as he was trying to repair it. Started doing strafing runs, weaving between the structures of the techplant at high speed.

Nearly died when I hit something, but it merely caused me to stop and 180°, and I punched my afterburners, which for some reason launched me straight up the entire burn. This was while surrounded by NC infantry on all sides. Eventually did die due to a Burster MAX camping from their spawn room, but that's the anti-air meta for you.

You have to provide the rage-text if you say something like that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 03, 2018, 04:05:33 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 03:37:12 pm

You have to provide the rage-text if you say something like that.

Something close to "i hope u enjoy that cancer, a2g farm scrub".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 05:29:19 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 03, 2018, 04:05:33 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 03:37:12 pm

You have to provide the rage-text if you say something like that.

Something close to "i hope u enjoy that cancer, a2g farm scrub".

My favorite thing to have been called is a "Corset wearing dog-diddler" but that was an NPC in ESO. I've become numb to the offensive statements of living man.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on July 03, 2018, 05:57:28 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 05:29:19 pm

Quote from: Akura on July 03, 2018, 04:05:33 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 03, 2018, 03:37:12 pm

You have to provide the rage-text if you say something like that.

Something close to "i hope u enjoy that cancer, a2g farm scrub".

My favorite thing to have been called is a "Corset wearing dog-diddler" but that was an NPC in ESO. I've become numb to the offensive statements of living man.

There's an NPC in Earthbound that just goes "Don't go to heaven!"

Spoiler: And then there's this (click to show/hide)

(https://i.redditmedia.com/e756A0LfY2rdimsoHNm1dVlv0CFwmcxIHOWBSEz4CYg.jpg?w=320&s=a559e4ba43f2c0eb3614d77accc11c6e)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on July 04, 2018, 05:00:44 pm

Something about walking into a room, killing the first two guards with a shotgun blast, then throwing your swords at the other two, then ducking out before their bullets reach you, then watching your swords make them dead, just feels... awesome.

Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 04, 2018, 06:48:58 pm

Doing a Defection mission, had to assassinate somebody on a ship crawling with guards. The target was in a room with three other guards, and they would take turns sending someone at random to a console in another room. Problem: the room they were in was the junction of several corridors, the only consoles they'd go to would require me to go through that junction to reach. I'd have to face at least three at once. Solution: one of the guards I previously dropped had a Sidewinder, which lets you teleport to any spot that you can path to. I simply waited until the target was the one leaving the room, and I teleported behind him and shanked him.

Bigger problem: Immediately another guard decided it was his turn to leave the room. Had no time to really do anything, and the guard shot me. Then he threw me out of the airlock.

Solution: Before I bled out, I RC'd my pod to pick me up and return to station. Mission Accomplished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on July 04, 2018, 09:50:01 pm

I called out Winston in No Limits. Our team goes Winston. Everyone is a gorilla.

We meet they enemy. They are also, Winston. Planet of the Apes ensued.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Overwatch. It was a moral own. Everyone was Winston for the whole match!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 04, 2018, 10:17:06 pm

I hate Winston, whenever I fight Winston I can't significantly hurt him and get absolutely destroyed.  When I play as Winston I either get avoided and ignored harder than zookepers asking the internet to stop making memes about their dead gorilla, or destroyed faster than a watermelon at a Gallagher tribute comedians convention.

---

My own: Played Spelunky for the first time in years and managed to get to the jungle first try without dying. 

I was very proud of myself.  I'm sure that pride flavored my meat wonderfully when I tried to goomba stomp that man-eating plant.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 05, 2018, 12:21:00 am

Here's the trick to kill Winston solo, with no help from your teammates: you can't.  Not even as Reaper (if the Winston is good).

You just have to trust your DPS knows what they're doing.  I'm sure it'll be fine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 05, 2018, 12:34:44 am

Quote from: Greiger on July 04, 2018, 10:17:06 pm

I hate Winston, whenever I fight Winston I can't significantly hurt him and get absolutely destroyed.  When I play as Winston I either get avoided and ignored harder than zookepers asking the internet to stop making memes about their dead gorilla, or destroyed faster than a watermelon at a Gallagher tribute comedians convention.

---

My own: Played Spelunky for the first time in years and managed to get to the jungle first try without dying. 

I was very proud of myself.  I'm sure that pride flavored my meat wonderfully when I tried to goomba stomp that man-eating plant.

pride precipitates a dizzying fall

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 05, 2018, 05:09:46 pm

You... accidentally ate a spider?
Are you saying you haven't started eating them on purpose yet? Get gud already

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rince Wind on July 05, 2018, 05:11:29 pm

Now that all those irritating people pretending to lead nations, factions or whatever have been silenced by the power of my magic I can return to the truly important things in life.
Slave! Tell me a riddle, if I can't solve it within a reasonable amount of time you might be set free.

Into the arena, or the circus maybe?
Anyway, sing me song of the Old Ones, the one that makes people run off to do funny things, like fight the Immortals downstairs with their forks and spoons.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civ 4, Orbis [modmod of Fall From Heaven 2], Tower of Mastery victory as Perpentach of the Balseraph

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on July 05, 2018, 08:39:57 pm

Managed to trade some tribals 204 silver in exchange for a Vanometric Power Cell's location on the map... They do realize this things worth 4k silver at least? That's what I'd have given them for it.


Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 05, 2018, 08:42:56 pm

It seems that you now have firsthand experience of what imperialism really is...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on July 05, 2018, 09:11:12 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on July 05, 2018, 08:42:56 pm

It seems that you now have firsthand experience of what imperialism really is...

He hasn't sent them smallpox-ridden blankets yet

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on July 06, 2018, 01:36:49 am

Spoiler: large image (click to show/hide)

(https://imgur.com/9Uao1bT.png)

And that is how you squash spiders (and outright vaporise 13 of them).
The ones captured are a queen and a death spider.

The X-Com Files, abandoned syndicate lab.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 06, 2018, 02:17:23 am

Showing a results screen is not valid cause for saying "That is how you squash spiders".

What it is it you do, though?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: milo christiansen on July 06, 2018, 02:35:00 am

I built three really nice warframes, and just as they finished it was announced that free Ash Prime warframes would be given away in a few days. While linking some accounts for that I suddenly realized I could get yet another nice Trinity Prime frame by signing up for a Twitch Prime free trial and immediately canceling...

I have gone from 5 frames to 9, with one more coming day after tomorrow. It has been a good week :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warframe

All you need to do to get Ash Prime is watch play 30 minutes of some official Warframe stream (nothing says you can't start it then walk away to do something actually interesting ).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on July 06, 2018, 02:57:19 am

Quote from: AzyWng on July 06, 2018, 02:17:23 am

Showing a results screen is not valid cause for saying "That is how you squash spiders".

What it is it you do, though?

You shoot them with blaster rifles. And a laser tank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 06, 2018, 05:00:01 pm

Took 5000 coins for Great Ball throws, but I managed to catch Shiny Gardevoir(at 57% chance). I'm also in the 40%-50% bracket in the ranked puzzle against Mega Gardevoir, which yields Gardevoirite as a prize*. Also managed to grab Jirachi this morning in one shot as well(13% catch chance).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Shuffle.

Managed to beat the Kraken. Only Ness was alive, but as he had the Flame Pendant and the Franklin Badge, most of its attacks were severely reduced. Ness received over 70k Exp from that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earthbound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on July 06, 2018, 09:57:25 pm

I wiped all the computers in Mission 5... without killing any of the four guards. (https://imgur.com/gallery/5YpA5mN)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gunpoint

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 07, 2018, 12:12:47 am

good job, gentleman.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 07, 2018, 12:42:19 am

Beat the game.

I nearly screwed up the final part, but then I realized I wasn't hitting my actual target - just part of something blocking my target. I won't tell you since it's the closest to a final boss that the game has.

Then G-Man strolled in front of my face as things blew up.

I dunno when Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 are coming, or if they will ever arrive, but I do know that if I never see a chittering black headcrab in my life, I'll be just fine.

Sadly, I still have a few mods to play through that do feature deadly neurotoxin headcrabs, so... yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 07, 2018, 08:15:52 am

Reloaded a Fallout 4 save game. Found a big posse of modded in Enclave guys, like three in power armor, five soldiers and two recruits. (And a ninja)

I pitched a few plasma grenades at them then psychojetted down the hill, blasting the confused survivors with my kitted out Handmade Rifle. Wiped them out and was reloading when I received a hard blow from behind. I turned firing, found the ninja, and wasted him.

I stand amidst the corpses of my luckless foes, victorious. Motherfuckers.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on July 07, 2018, 01:58:39 pm

After 200 years of flailing as a little piss poor Balkan country, tiptoeing around scary Austria, Bohemia, Ottomans, having to battle England and Castille while near bankruptcy and at 20 war exhaustion, and then doing even more tiptoeing...

I've formed Yugoslavia!

Spoiler: Tito would be proud, I guess? (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/354721222900318210/465225951316279327/superslav.PNG)

_{It's not a fusion of South Slavic cultures and majority of country is Orthodox while state religion is Catholic, so we're far from done toiling, and nothing but a strong leader will keep the country together.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 07, 2018, 02:18:36 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on July 07, 2018, 12:42:19 am

Beat the game.

I nearly screwed up the final part, but then I realized I wasn't hitting my actual target - just part of something blocking my target. I won't tell you since it's the closest to a final boss that the game has.

Then G-Man strolled in front of my face as things blew up.

I dunno when Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 are coming, or if they will ever arrive, but I do know that if I never see a chittering black headcrab in my life, I'll be just fine.

Sadly, I still have a few mods to play through that do feature deadly neurotoxin headcrabs, so... yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Half-Life 2.

Forgetting episode 1 and episode 2?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on July 07, 2018, 03:17:14 pm

Quote from: Haspen on July 07, 2018, 01:58:39 pm

snip

now die to rebels and history shall be contented

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 07, 2018, 04:01:16 pm

After a lot of research, I traded in my combat-kitted Python for the new Krait MkII.

Proceeded to solo a Python and a Challenger PvE at same time, both were elite+. Lost some hull but didn't feel like I lost the upper hand at any point. I had trouble with basically anything larger than an ASP before.

Elite Dangerous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on July 08, 2018, 01:53:00 am

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on July 07, 2018, 03:17:14 pm

Quote from: Haspen on July 07, 2018, 01:58:39 pm

snip

now die to rebels and history shall be contented

50 years later and I'm still getting Nationalist/Orthodox rebels popping up every few years, so v;

I've managed to annex Albania and take Krain and Istria from Austria, so Yugoslavia is fully complete. _{Now to wait few more government techs and get Nationalism casus belli against Bulgaria...}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 08, 2018, 08:32:59 am

I have no perks in commando and yet the deadliest gun I have is a 10mm auto pistol with the explosive legendary trait. It is fully upgraded, and I sort of point it in the general direction of assholes and obliterate them and all their friends.

Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on July 08, 2018, 03:01:21 pm

Been also having a blast with fallout 4. The changes made by the War Never Changes combat overhaul mod are fantastic. Super Mutants can still eat a good few rounds but that's to be expected. Otherwise though combat is brutal and intense and I love it.

Latest own in it was my trip to Jamaica Plains. I'm only level 6 (used one of them alternate start mods and started in the southwest, but I can only recall the name for skyrims) and got myself a combat shotgun off a raider pretty early. The hundred rounds that I kept finding for it can in handy when I had to face the zombie hordes in Jamaica Plains. Because I also use a mod that turns ghouls to zombies that can only be killed with a headshot. I felt like a badass going from building to building systematically wiping out hordes of the undead.

Enjoyed it so much that I'm going to start a new run with the options to turn most of my enemies into zombies. I'll leave humans around, but with the option on that reanimates any dead human. I've proven myself against nuclear apocalypse, now it's time for the zombie apocalypse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on July 08, 2018, 03:14:38 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on July 08, 2018, 08:32:59 am

I have no perks in commando and yet the deadliest gun I have is a 10mm auto pistol with the explosive legendary trait. It is fully upgraded, and I sort of point it in the general direction of assholes and obliterate them and all their friends.

Fallout 4

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/4/47/Bloody_Mess_trait.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on July 08, 2018, 03:35:53 pm

To be fair to Hans, the explosive prefix applied to a high-RoF weapon is the most horrifically broken thing in Fallout 4.  If you manage to find a minigun with explosive, nothing in the game can even touch you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 08, 2018, 10:03:58 pm

Quote from: Man of Paper on July 08, 2018, 03:01:21 pm

Been also having a blast with fallout 4. The changes made by the War Never Changes combat overhaul mod

Something's fishy here...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 08, 2018, 10:04:43 pm

What in the goddamn...?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 08, 2018, 10:05:23 pm

Quote from: Man of Paper on July 08, 2018, 03:01:21 pm

Been also having a blast with fallout 4.

Ha ha....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 08, 2018, 10:28:52 pm

It’s something of an oxymoron title. War never changes combat overhaul.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: StagnantSoul on July 09, 2018, 12:27:10 am

Oneshot a thrumbo with a legendary sniper rifle wielded by a bionic 19/20 shooter.

Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 09, 2018, 04:25:42 am

Quote from: hector13 on July 08, 2018, 10:28:52 pm

It’s something of an oxymoron title. War never changes combat overhaul.

War... has changed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on July 09, 2018, 06:58:06 pm

i figured out that i should make a giant cistern for polluted water with 3 debottlers on seperate tiles with gaps of ladders; they don't block air or liquids.

now i need to research water filtering tech and i'll be golden.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

oxygen not included

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 09, 2018, 07:36:35 pm

Managed to kill a dragon hatchling. At night. Without taking a single hit. And without aggroing any of its kin or the whythehellaretheresomany skeletons in the area.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Conan Exiles. Try to not be in the Unnamed City at night.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on July 10, 2018, 07:15:00 am

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 10, 2018, 08:18:30 am

Ahh, I loved FO3 so much.

My own: IVAN character was going so well that I wussed out and save+quit before they could die. Might start a new character for a while instead I dunno. :P

Or maybe I should bail on the grim futility of the current, main dungeon and go back to that side-trip one to try my luck...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

IVAN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 10, 2018, 07:39:46 pm

Beat all the areas, although the final boss isn't in the game yet.

I play with the timer mutation (you have 4 minutes to beat each level or you insta-die).  This is normally more than enough time.  But the last area of the game is so freaken hard.  Its swarming with supercops and uppercrusters, there are cop bots that are basically walking cameras and most difficult of all, there's barriers that come out of the ground whenever the police are fighting you.  Oh and most buildings have invincible walls and/or a bouncer that takes away all your weapons when you enter.

I've only reached this area a couple times and I don't know all the strats yet.  Rather than using some kind of elegant strategy, I had purple syringes identified as "invincibility" and the "longer status effects" perk.  I cloned a couple purple syringes and whenever I got in a big fight I waded through the hail of machine gun bullets swinging an axe wildly.  The situation usually resolved itself from there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue, as the slum dweller.  I went with a drug+melee based build, and then my level ups never gave me any melee stats (I ended at 1 melee).  On the other hand I got a ridiculous set of gear including a rocket launcher and a silencer, which of course I combined.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 10, 2018, 08:02:28 pm

Upper crusters? What are those?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 10, 2018, 11:33:15 pm

I need to buy that game... I still occasionally muck around in the old alpha version I have, and it's still pretty fun - even if (as far as I can remember) I've only managed to beat the few available stages as a gorilla horde, haha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 10, 2018, 11:50:52 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on July 10, 2018, 08:02:28 pm

Upper crusters? What are those?

They're generic citizens like slum dwellers, but rich.  Their main feature is if they see you do anything illegal, they'll go press a button that summons several supercops to their defense.

I'm *probably* the one who suggested the idea to the dev.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 11, 2018, 01:05:55 pm

I took out a Federal Corvette in Elite Dangerous yesterday for the first time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 11, 2018, 03:01:48 pm

Quote from: NullForceOmega on July 08, 2018, 03:35:53 pm

To be fair to Hans, the explosive prefix applied to a high-RoF weapon is the most horrifically broken thing in Fallout 4.  If you manage to find a minigun with explosive, nothing in the game can even touch you.

I downloaded the cheat console for s and g and made an accelerated minigun with explosive. Truly, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 11, 2018, 03:10:05 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on July 11, 2018, 03:01:48 pm

Quote from: NullForceOmega on July 08, 2018, 03:35:53 pm

To be fair to Hans, the explosive prefix applied to a high-RoF weapon is the most horrifically broken thing in Fallout 4.  If you manage to find a minigun with explosive, nothing in the game can even touch you.

I downloaded the cheat console for s and g and made an accelerated minigun with explosive. Truly, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.

My most OP F4 character had maxed out damage resistance and a Gatling Laser. He basically just went on walk-mode terminator style and vaporized everything with ease.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 11, 2018, 04:36:49 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on July 11, 2018, 03:01:48 pm

I downloaded the cheat console for s and g and made an accelerated minigun with explosive. Truly, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.

Calm down, Joshua.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 11, 2018, 04:47:19 pm

I don't get the reference. O.o I need to stop derailing too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 11, 2018, 04:53:00 pm

Joshua Graham says that in New Vegas’ Honest Hearts DLC, right before you and him

Spoiler: minor spoilers for one of the endings I guess (click to show/hide)

set out to murder a bunch of tribals.

Fitting then, fitting now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on July 11, 2018, 04:56:03 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on July 11, 2018, 03:01:48 pm

I downloaded the cheat console for s and g and made an accelerated minigun with explosive. Truly, I am become Death, exploder of limbs.

ftfy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 13, 2018, 06:57:01 pm

Does it count that I figured out how to switch GUI themes without the use of ThemeSwitcher.exe?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hacknet. For those wondering, to do so you need to either delete your x-server.sys(rm x-server.sys) or rename(mv x-server.sys <anything else>), then find a different x-server.sys on another node and copy it to yours(scp x-server.sys and confirm it's named that), then reboot(you can add -i to sidestep the timer).
...Kinda needed to do this after a douchebag deleted x-server.sys and then forkbombed my system as part of the plot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on July 15, 2018, 12:19:49 am

Cruising around in my slightly modified Boulder I come across a really stylish SSC Rapier just chillin', I slide right up to the airlock, peg the Rapier with my cannons, and hard dock, A very brief firefight later I now own an undamaged mid-sized warship with heavy railguns.  That isn't the own.

As I fly this bad boy back to my station I bump into a brand-spankin' new SSC beam cruiser, it's just a bit beefier than my Rapier, but railguns are amazing at punching through big, soft items like thrusters, it gets a few shots but nothing that hurts, then I blow its main reactor.  I'm not quite ready to go for broke yet when I run into a small problem, the game manifests one of the more irritating bugs with this update and decides that there isn't any air in my Rapier.  I jump into Marv, then Tony, then the ship decides it has atmosphere again.  At this point I dump another salvo into the beam cruiser's side, causing its secondary reactor to cook off, then I spend a few seconds clearing out its escort of light fighters.  One more brief firefight later I now own a nasty beam warship, drop a waypoint at my current location, fly it to the station and scrap/research it, fly back to the waypoint, grab the Rapier and now I have both designs at my disposal.

Wayward Terran Frontier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 16, 2018, 06:31:47 pm

Beat the final boss by apparently punching it in the face

Spoiler: rather big spoiler (click to show/hide)

through the fourth wall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earthbound.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on July 17, 2018, 09:48:01 am

After attacking my main base for the second time and getting repelled by the last survivor again, sectoids attacked one of my fighter bays. And even though the guards were less numerous, armored and armed, the sectoids were killed without trouble.

X-Com Files

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on July 18, 2018, 04:20:50 am

I just beat the monarch a lv 20 optional boss.  My party's average level was 14. H'annit, Thereon, Ophelia, Oberec.   I do not yet have sub classes (I was actually exploring that cave hoping to find one and thought I hit pay dirt when I encountered a boss)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

sadly the loot was very much not worth it.  As I probably used more items and hard to get summoned monsters than the reward was worth.

Spoiler: how I beat it, including weaknesses, so skip if you want to fight it blind (click to show/hide)

I defeated it first try, without looking up weaknesses. I found the dark weakness first with a summoned monster, which I quickly ran out of uses of, spear weakness 2nd when olberec took a regular attack potshot, and bow weakness last when Ophelia's summoned townsperson used flurry.  I think finding the bow weakness literally saved my ass, as olberec did not yet have his multihit spear move, but H'annit had all of her bow options available.  I did not know of it's poison vulnerability, nor was I able to exploit it had I known. 

The biggest damage I could pull off was a 600 ish damage true shot every 4 or 5 turns.  The boss was capable of 2 shotting anyone in my party, 3 shotting if they were defending.  2 Galewinds in a row would have ended me.

Octopath Traveler

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 18, 2018, 12:18:23 pm

I am in the 50%+ for the current community goal project thingie in Elite Dangerous. I've never even been close to that before. There are 6000+ players contributing.

Bounty hunting is my jam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 18, 2018, 03:57:08 pm

A pirate raid dropped directly on top of my colony. No warning, no time to prepare, just an emergency draft and all hands to defensive positions.

While the pirates had the advantage of total surprise, they had one major disadvantage: no ranged weapons whatsoever. Despite the need to split my defenders up, we killed two raiders and captured two more. The last one fled for the hills. Total injuries on my colonists' part was a bruised thumb.

Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on July 18, 2018, 07:24:28 pm

Meanwhile my fuckups can't even handle a frenzied animal without all getting their asses injured.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 18, 2018, 08:00:10 pm

So I beat the campaign mode with Dutch, using the blue "(Expert)" bike.

Feels good man. The ending (and overall plot) is about what you'd expect from a racing game - really it's just an excuse to ride fast and take people's heads off. All the same, it entertains. Now to beat it with other characters...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Road Redemption

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 19, 2018, 06:37:34 pm

I did it. I actually did it. With only my best friend and the idiot bots, I ran the index for 1 full hour, braved the bullshit unkillable, unstunable osprey and defeated John Prodman (who is utterly immune to Covert Lethality).

Build used was two Ash Primes with fatal teleport, armed with rivened Panthera, AkStilleto Prime, and Sheev with covert lethality.

Spoiler: The Proof (click to show/hide)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922560083892773157/5DE4FC39B8CB1DC6560345BBDDA768DF420B1F7A/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922560083892773377/FF82764CB3698DD7A954DABD80B8082DBECCD11A/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922560083892773699/E2BB0E3668D6A62819EDD541855E3438656BA269/)

My hands are aching, but holy crap it is done.

Warframe

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 21, 2018, 03:51:31 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/HTCnEfe.jpg)
If they don't play anything helpful from this position they bring me down to 1 health and then I kill them next turn.  They did not have anything useful in their hand so that's what happened.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MTG: Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: FallacyofUrist on July 21, 2018, 06:47:30 pm

Time manipulation is so OP. Especially when the Slipstream you're using for it is Self-Recharging. I can literally activate it, then run into a room full of enemies and kill all of them with my shortsword. Before they can even sound the alarm. Or just run past them before they can react. Both are real examples of what I did.

Well, I didn't actually have a Slipstream. I had three of them, one High Capacity, one Self-Recharging, and one normal one.

Heat Signature!                               

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 22, 2018, 04:34:36 am

So apparently if you upgrade guns and ammo capacity hard enough you can basically turn the game into a sort-of on-rails-shooter

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Road Redemption.

Upgrade guns, and ammo capacity in the skill tree and cash shop. In later levels, if you kill an enemy you might get a gun/ammo for a gun if you have it already. This lets you begin a cycle of death, destruction, and hearing the same gun sound accompanied by one of two death screams for about ten or so minutes at a time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 24, 2018, 02:32:18 am

I was running a deck based on energy counters, which are a global resource like life.  My opponent was running an annoying deck based on summoning a bunch of 1/1 white tokens with lifelink and buffing up his creatures (he had one that got permanently more powerful every time he gained life).  I managed to trade my big creatures for his but he still had a bunch of tokens, he was at 33 life, and I was at 10.

Now, here's the thing about tokens.  When they would go back to your hand (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=417612) they just die.  With no possibility of bringing them back.  To add to the fuckedness, he had already played all the cards in his hand and I had a counter card in mine.  I won, in case that wasn't clear.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MTG: Arena.  I've found that most games end up way closer than I expect them to be, its pretty intense

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 25, 2018, 12:42:05 pm

Not only did I win our little family tournament, during the racing part I knocked my brother so far off the course that he didn't respawn for a few laps - then he appeared back on screen, glitching his way slowly through the empty space before finally being deposited back on the track. :))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crash Bash.
A timeless classic, this one. They don't make games like this anymore.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 25, 2018, 01:21:03 pm

I lost my copy of that game :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 26, 2018, 02:39:25 pm

Playing draft.  I'm running a blue/black deck that is 16/40 land.  I draw my first hand, I'm going first.  I get one swamp, 3 colorless cards, 3 blue cards, most of which are very expensive.  Mulligan.  Opponent mulligans.  I draw my new hand: 6 cards, no land.  I mulligan again.  ONE LAND, 4 other cards none of which cost 1.  My scry card is also not a land so I put it on the bottom, and I'm going first so I don't draw.

I soldier onwards tho because my deck has done well in previous rounds.  Get out a fountain of life, then a millstone, then a skilled animator.  Skilled animator turns an artifact into a 5/5 creature; millstone gets up and punches the enemy in the face.  Or... grinds them, I guess?  Anyway, at no point did my opponent play any cards.  I get not much done for the next 3 turns, drawing no more land and sacrificing my fountain of life to draw a card.  However, my opponent plays absolutely nothing except an enchantment that procs when he has a creature of 4 or greater power.  So I just... swing 3 more times with my 2 creatures and he dies.

What's so wild about this is that in best of ones, the game draws two hands for you and gives you the one with the most average amount of land and non-land.  I've never seen anyone get as screwed as we both did, much less BOTH SIDES.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MTG: Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 29, 2018, 07:31:32 am

Completed a mission and made it back to HQ without anybody dying(especially me). Granted, it was only a supply mission, and we only took fire once on the way back.

Pulled two trucks, an offroad I bought and a civilian 4x4 I stole off the street LIBERATED. Put the supply crate in the offroad, and my 4-man squad(5 with me) in the 4x4. After the 4x4 marooned itself on one of those low rubble walls that are everywhere, and after using the tow-rope on the offroad to free it, I ordered the 4x4 to drive directly to the drop site - tip: don't order them to follow/regroup. They did 70-80kph the entire way.

Get to the drop site, order everyone out, and unload the crate. The timer starts, and I take cover in a nearby shop. While it seemed someone was shooting at me, I think it was one of my squadmates shooting out the window to climb in. Time runs out and the mission completes, giving us a whopping 25€(which is what I was already making every 10 minutes at the very start).

As I'm getting everyone loaded back on the truck, I see an enemy helicopter flying nearby. Luckily, it seemed to ignore us. We drive back at full speed, taking some light fire from some random patrol, nobody hurt. The 4x4 runs right into a utility pole, and loses a tire. I disembark everyone so the engineer can fix it.

Get home, the 4x4 rams a fence, loses the same wheel again, and everyone in it is wounded. Mission accomplished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 3: Antistasi scenario.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 29, 2018, 07:02:44 pm

An invasion launched when I had only 2 heroes of fighting age (out of an expected 6).  And I'm pretty sure there's no option to retreat.  It'd be crazy to even attempt a defense, right?

Well, they were both from a... fecund house.  Strong, but nothing extraordinary, and my least-favorite class (alchemist).  They'd probably want to try, maybe they could pull it off.

One of them survived, victorious.

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Massive Chalice
I have 3 noble houses popping out babies at year 51, but seems I should recruit some not-literal-babies from the populace as well.

Edit:  I should add that I later threw fire on his corpse.  Not vindictively...  it was just the tactical location to hit 2 enemies.  Also, vindictively satisfying.
The best tactics games involve shelling your position.  "If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win." (https://schlockmercenary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries)
In this case he was dead when I did it, but he did also shell his own position.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 29, 2018, 08:02:30 pm

Not sure if I should put this here or the death thread. Probably here.

Advancing across the fog of war at the eastern edge of my empire, I've come across all at once: two Holy Grounds with their attendant Greater Fire Elementals, a Magic Thicket with it's attendant Daemonwood, an Ogre Lair w/Ogre, and several Wild Serpents, plus Krypta-knows-what on the other side. Like, right next to each other. The initial sortie, where I only saw one GFE and Wild Serpent unit, saw one unit of Hunters wiped out and a Warrior unit barely escaping. I come back several turns later only to find I've marched my entire army into the full scale of what I'm faced with. Lost two more Hunters in one turn.

The Greater Fire Elementals are the biggest threat here, as they have very high ranged attack(one-shotted the Hunters), 90% resistance to melee and ranged, 100% resistance to Life magic, immunity to Death magic(not sure on the difference). Oddly, the only have 25% resistance to Elemental magic, which includes things like fireballs.

I'm putting this here because despite the losses and the fact the fight is still ongoing, one of the Greater Fire Elementals was two-shotted by a Healer Lord(she had a staff that adds Elemental damage) that was helped by me casting Fireball on it, the Daemonwood was brought down by Halberdiers, and the Ogre is badly wounded and trying to retreat.


On the other side of the empire, a single Halberdier unit took over a neutral city by itself while enduring attacks by Wild Serpents and the city's defending cockroaches(which had apparently conquered it), then they proceeded to smash through several units of giant spiders.

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Warlock: Master of the Arcane.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on July 29, 2018, 09:11:00 pm

Presumably the difference between resistance and immunity is that you can lower resistances, but not immunitys, or atleast that's the kind of how it works in Pokemon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 30, 2018, 06:28:12 am

Quote from: scourge728 on July 29, 2018, 09:11:00 pm

Presumably the difference between resistance and immunity is that you can lower resistances, but not immunitys, or atleast that's the kind of how it works in Pokemon

Sort of. I took a closer look at the stats page, and while "immunity" does indeed mean that, 100% resistance means 75% damage reduction. The 90% resistances reduce damage by 72%, and the 25% resistance reduces damage by 30%, so it's not linear.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on July 30, 2018, 10:35:59 am

that makes 0 sense, come on game makers, do math correctly please

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on July 30, 2018, 03:59:08 pm

Game starts, I do my standard build for mid start on Setons, commande builds a factory and rushes middle for the reclaim. Factory gets an engi to tag along with the com and a scout+light bot to watch middle for raids and maybe do some raiding if the opportunity presents itself.

As it so happens it did present itself, managed to kill of atleast three engineers that tried to build factories on the enemy side of the isthmus (such a cool word btw). Now generally that would be a setback but nothing game ending, you'd either reclaim the bot because it's so damn fragile or just build a single tank or bot of your own to hunt it down.

What you don't do is throw a tantrum and ragequit 3 minutes into the game :V

Guess which the enemy player did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on July 30, 2018, 04:07:53 pm

Meteor Strike!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 30, 2018, 05:36:20 pm

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on July 30, 2018, 04:07:53 pm

Meteor Strike!

A google search for "Setons" came up with a bunch of things for anal health.

A google search "Setons map" came up with an image for a Supreme Commander map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 30, 2018, 05:39:29 pm

Hmm, but it kinda sounds like Command & Conquer too?  I only played the really old ones at all, so couldn't say.
Technically there's no meteor swarm clause for this thread, but the OP did request - oh hey, Akura's the OP, hi OP!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 30, 2018, 05:58:55 pm

Seton's Clutch is best map.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on July 30, 2018, 06:02:26 pm

It's Supreme Commander. Light bots, engineers, Setons, and Isthmus are units in SC. "Reclaim" is another hint, that's an important ability that engineers and commanders have in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 30, 2018, 09:27:55 pm

Running with Rifles is, well... Running with Rifles.

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Running with Rifles.

It's Running with Rifles.

Well, jokes aside, you die from one bullet like it's Hotline Miami (though you can and should purchase and use vests), your AI teammates can bork out or otherwise perform questionable actions (including blowing themselves up with grenades), I'm not entirely sure how to effectively use my squad or radio, and since I'm kind of across the Pacific Ocean (in Shenzhen, to be specific), I'm not sure I can exactly hop in a online game and ask for help.

I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually, but that doesn't necessarily change the fact the game tosses players in when I prefer to be eased into the brutality nice and slowly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on July 31, 2018, 03:58:41 am

I've had great fun with RWR. Squadmates are just there to fill the air with more bullets while also absorbing any incoming ones. There are only a couple maps that can get frustrating (specifically the King of the Hill-styled ones), but even then a victory just feels all the more deserved when you start getting throat-slitty with every opponent that surrendered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Folly on July 31, 2018, 04:39:20 am

I awoke from a wretched nightmare. Visions of swarming polar bears and a cursed deer leading them, still fresh in my mind. And what they did to me...no adventurer should have to endure such a fate. Thank goodness it was just a dream.

I stood up, and looked around me...with a start, I realized I was surrounded by deer! And the deer were my loyal companions! And I was a deer too! The nightmare was real, and it was still happening!

No longer able to hold weapons, our noble party were helpless before even the most frail of goblin scouts. Powerless and despondent, my once loyal companions abandoned me, leaving me helpless and without any hope of recovery.

After asking around, I learned that there were only three ways to remove a deer's curse. The first was to spend a great deal of time and effort studying the druidic arts, gradually mastering the art of shapeshifting. I had neither time nor interest in such affairs. The second way is with an un-deering potion. Unfortunately, and somewhat ironically, the potion vendor was unwilling to barter with a deer. But after asking around, I soon found a kind soul who was willing to negotiate with the potion vendor on my behalf. The vendor wanted 4500 monies. Regretfully, I had recently splurged all of my savings on training in knife-fighting skills which were currently useless to me.

Since I could not afford the potion, the kind adventurer who was helping me negotiate offered to instead help me with the third option; we were going to slay the beast who cursed me! The adventurer called one of his friends, and I recruited two more random strangers who claimed to be experienced deer hunters, and together we delved back into the dungeon once more! My deer-attacks were not particularly damaging, but I soon figured out how to stun enemies with a head-butt so that I could at least be of some small use to my team.

We made our way down past the traps and magical crystals and ice monsters, eventually reached the Deer Boss, and charged in, for vengeance and great glory! And then we all got turned into deer and eaten by polar bears.

Fortunately, my experienced deer-hunting friends had druidic knowledge and were able to shift out of their helpless forms. We regrouped, came up with an actual plan, went back down, incinerated the sleuth of polar bears in a fire wall, defeated the Deer Boss and purified it's curse. I was greatly relieved to once again be a fluffy cat demon who could bash goblins on the head with a club and then stab them with knives.

~Project: Gorgon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on August 01, 2018, 02:56:50 am

Queen Ouareno emerged as the victor (or should I say survivor) of a savage multi-way series of dynastic civil wars that had enveloped the Kingdom of Nubia for about a decade. She had one child by her Greek husband, a daughter named Theophilia.

Meanwhile the Byzantine Empire experienced a coup and Valeria was installed as Basilissa. However, she had previously been an unlanded courtier married to the count of Achaia and her children were of his dynasty... and thus she was willing to marry her son and heir to the empire, Damianos, matrilineally. Furthermore, she was past her child-bearing years so there wasn't threat of her producing another claimant.

Realizing that it would be possible for my Nubian dynasty to inherit the Byzantine Empire (and thus be better situated to fend off the powerful Tulunids), I had Theophilia and Damianos marry matrilineally so any offspring they produced would inherit both the Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Nubia.

I had Ouareno commit suicide so Theophilia could take over and thus be in my control and not doing stupid stuff in the Byzantine court... but because I waited until a siege to end a war finished before power transfer, Theophilia had just enough time in Byzantium to have a illegitimate daughter, infuriating Damianos for quite a few years. Then between constant holy wars and diseases, as well as both characters having an education in theology (which I found out reduces fertility by like 10%), the couple did not have any offspring... which became concerning as Theophilia grew older. I tried switching Theophilia's life focus to family for the 25% boost to fertility, but the couple still had no children and by this point she was 38 (40 is basically a hard cut off for fertility in the game).

Then one of her vassal counts, Abraam, tried to seduce Theophilia. At first I had her deny him, remembering the rift that had soured her early marriage (and led to Basileus Damianos refusing to ally for a number of years), but with the biological clock ticking I had her relent to the affair, in the hopes that they would produce a child and somehow hide the child's true biological father... and it worked. Zacharias was born of that adulterous union, but Damianos believed the baby was his (never mind that Theophilia and Damianos both have fair skin while Zacharias has dark skin inherited from Abraam). Zacharias even has the "Born in the Purple" modifier denoting a baby born of the Byzantine ruler.

Afterwards, Damianos was forced to abdicate to Zacharias after he lost a rebellion against his tyranny, so now Zacharias is the TOTALLY LEGITIMATE  :o Basileus of the Byzantine Empire and heir to the Kingdom of Nubia.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on August 08, 2018, 10:21:44 am

I just beat the final boss in Spyro 3 on my first try.  Both fights.

Doesn't feel like too much of an accomplishment though.  All of the boss fights in this game felt a little underwhelming compared to Spyro 2, although they're still better than the first game's bosses.  I was very surprised that the final boss was maybe the easiest boss in the game, since I believe it's the only one where you can restore your health during the fight.  And it mostly consists of jumping into vehicles and shooting at the sorceress, who mostly just runs around and shoots easily dodged projectiles occasionally.

The second fight with her was even easier, and I'm wondering if the AI just glitched.  I just chased her in my UFO and shot at her until she died, and I think she only shot back twice in the whole fight.

Kind of feels like they had to rush that part of the game since there wasn't even a leading cinematic like for the other bosses, and I wonder if the remake is going to change anything about it.

Hmm, maybe I should brag about successfully boxing the yeti and getting the skill point instead.  Screw that part of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on August 08, 2018, 08:33:43 pm

So I had Ajani's Welcome on the board which allowed me to get one life whenever a critter entered the board on my side. Then I played Wispweaver Angel to exile and return my other Wispweaver Angel. which in turn allowed me to exile and return the new angel which allowed me to exile and return the old and so on and so forth. I could run this combo indefinitely (though I only did it about 20 or so times) for a dramatic increase in lifepoints which I capped off by exiling and returning Cloudblazer for some card draw.

I pretty much had the match in hand after that which was quite nice since I had been down to only 2 lifepoints at one point earlier in the match (luckily I had a Settle the Wreckage in hand to clear out his critter army).

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(https://i.imgur.com/JRbsgTM.jpg)

Magic the Gathering Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 09, 2018, 07:31:34 pm

Equipped a sword. Learned that it had a decent crit rate, a critical damage multiplier of 270%, and that these two modifiers also apply to throwing axes. Learned these things when I saw I was doing three-digit damage with my axes thrown while in stealth(doubles crit chance and iirc base damage to enemies unaware of you). I also have the ability that adds bleed damage equal to 10% of the axe's damage per second over several seconds. Throwing axes also penetrate as many targets it can hit in its arc. Oh, and I also have that ability that doubles the knockback from being hit with a thrown axe - this also has the potential to make an enemy hit twice by the same axe.

Tamriel has its stealth archers. I've got stealth THROWING AXE TO THE FACE.

The sword is a pretty decent weapon too.

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Regions of Ruin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 09, 2018, 10:45:00 pm

It had been a while past turn 30, so the whole situation was a mess - boss tiles everywhere, teammates kept getting knocked out...

The boss was left at 3 HP...

And my teammate (Playing Sherry, so they had to survive Jonathan's attack first) hit him for exactly 3 points of damage.

That was a good one.

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100% Orange Juice

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 10, 2018, 12:54:35 pm

I'm playing this Eternity card game on mobile.

Anyway some guy starts playing this clockroach deck, which functions via the logic of every clockroach you play increases the x/x or every other clockroach in your hand or deck. There are other card that take advantage of this effect as well. It snowballs very quickly.

Anyway he started throwing out 5/6 clockroaches and some 12/13 other creatures that took advantage of the effect all willy nilly, so my response was to use a card combo that:
1) outright doubles the x/x of anything I draw
2) can send cards back to the top of my deck, where they retain their newly-boosted x/x
3) I can duplicate monsters on the field, including the one that doubles x/x, thereby quadrupling anything I draw.

Bottom line, I started filling my board with things in the range of 30/30 that cost 0 to play (because I had reduced cost to units already), and he forfeited. The highest I've gotten creatures up to with this is 113/97.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 11, 2018, 11:50:21 am

In MTG I went up against a deck that was nothing but this (https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/dominaria/rat-colony).

I stalled for a while so he could play most of his hand and then dropped this (https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/dominaria/goblin-chainwhirler?xid=ie85a4d9d971b45bea047642eec0425fc).  I was playing a dragon deck, so after that it wasn't much of a contest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 11, 2018, 12:09:22 pm

I got a creature up to 999/999 by copying 3 of the doubling creatures. Very lucky draws.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 11, 2018, 05:24:29 pm

Quote from: Folly on July 31, 2018, 04:39:20 am

I awoke from a wretched nightmare.

...

~Project: Gorgon

What drugs is this game on?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cyroth on August 11, 2018, 05:53:08 pm

Not exactly a traditional "own", but I think it fits. Probably as an own for the playerbase itself or something.

We won a really close match on Numbani as attackers (we were in overtime, actually), quickplay matchmaker has derped again and we're playing as 6 randoms against a 5-man premade + random.
In the victory screen one of my teammates, who was the only one refusing to use the voice chat and who was out of position for pretty much 90% of the match, complained with something to the effect of "wow, we won despite out horrible healer" (just not as friendly), at which point some of my teammates and the entire enemy premade tore into him.

I ended up getting the healer card with 15k heals / healed 46% of incoming damage and 10 upvotes (only my 3rd legendary card in 2 years of playing, and my 2nd as Mercy) and 8 or so commends.

It was a very weird feeling.

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Overwatch

Quote from: Yoink on August 11, 2018, 05:24:29 pm

Quote from: Folly on July 31, 2018, 04:39:20 am

I awoke from a wretched nightmare.

...

~Project: Gorgon

What drugs is this game on?!

A lot of them.
I remember being a pig in some earlier beta, and one of my friends was a spider.
Complete with unique skills and builds.

There is also cows, ravens (I think? If I don't remeber it wrong) and rabbits.


Been thinking of installing it again ever since it launched on steam, maybe I'll do it one day. It is pretty awesome despite the barebones graphics and grindy gameplay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 13, 2018, 04:24:26 pm

Somehow, in a single life I scored three MAX kills; granted, all three were badly damaged/just revived, but they were shredding the zerg going up the stairs to the capture point at Cobalt Communications, that was also fortified with hardlight barriers, engineer turrets, and more MAXes. I went up the other stairs. Entirely unguarded.

In the same life, got into a tank, shot down two Scythes, forced back to Cobalt Geological Survey, got repaired, accidentally ran over the guy who repaired me(sorry! also, they weren't showing up on minimap at all for some reason), then was forced to abandon my tank as it was nearly literally run over by a massive VS armor rush. Even then, I killed an infiltrator who was trying to snipe me, failed to plant an AT mine in the backseat of a Harasser, then watched as that same AT mine crippled a Magrider, after which I killed its driver. Then I got headshot by a Halberd rocket.

Still, we won the alert shortly after that.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 13, 2018, 05:03:29 pm

I just got the Shoryuken in Mega Man X2. OG version, so no save states or whatnot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on August 13, 2018, 05:06:26 pm

Easily the most difficult super upgrade to get in any of the Mega Man X games.

It makes one shotting Agile very gratifying, if you can make it past the blasted mechaniloids before the boss room without getting hit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 13, 2018, 05:48:44 pm

Well I had sub-tanks, so yeah, Agile got yuken'd for shor.

It did take around 5 tries, which is super low IME. Also, I got the heart tank on OVERDRIVE OSTRICH's stage on the very first go. I felt like Jet Li or something.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 13, 2018, 06:37:57 pm

After a difficult time, finally got the upper hand on the AI, but his last turn Galactic Survey development card provided him with a boost of points in the endgame scoring.
Fortunately i had fetched the Greatest Military goal first that had ensured i was still ahead in the final score.

Nice after the AI had defeated me several games in a row :)

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(https://i.imgur.com/zJ90Sfvm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/zJ90Sfv.jpg)
Race for the Galaxy card game (with the Gathering Storm expansion enabled on this one)
Using the very good Keldon Race for the Galaxy AI freebie
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77436.msg7501132#msg7501132

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on August 15, 2018, 12:30:30 am

Finally beat the high dragun and finished the gungeon. It was a work of many, many, many playthroughs, but I finally got a combo OP enough to allow me to survive and win it all.
Not only that, but I beat the high dragun without taking a *single* hit.

I forgot to take a screenshot of my endgame screen to properly document it, but my combo consisted of the following. The Scrambler (a single clip size gun which has 120 ammo breaks up into 5 homing bullets on hitting something), the Bullet time active item (which significantly slows time when used), and a Blue Goun stone (which orbits you and blocks some bullets and slows time whenever you are hit).

Now, that doesn't sound impressive, but that isn't mentioning the synergy: Having bullet time and Blue Goun Stone gives you the Bluer Goun Stone ability, which means you are immune to damage while reloading. With most weapons this is a pretty decent buff that can be exploited quite a bit to allow you to dodge much better and that can very well be the difference between life and death.
However with a single shot weapon that spends 90% of the time reloading and has the ammo to last you through the entire boss fight? Its crazy OP and is enough to turn a fight that would otherwise mulch you into a relative cakewalk.

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 15, 2018, 04:42:50 pm

Not sure if it was intuition or what, but I found the Smash room in stage 6-5. These rooms contain various goodies, in particular the Smash Bros. ability. I didn't even know these rooms existed until this morning I looked up the location of the rare sticker for 5-2(that one was bugging me). 6-5's Smash room was way off the main path, and the entrance only looks like an entrance if you already know it's an entrance. Still, somehow I went right for it.

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Kirby: Planet Robobot. 6-5's Smash room also contained the rare sticker that I was replaying the level to find in the first place. It's Susie's sticker as well! ...Kinda guessed that since I already had the rare sticker next to it, which was Pres. Haltmann(spoiler:her father). Not actually sure if the sticker collection is required for 100%, but I've done literally everything else except get perfect scores for the 3D Rumble minigame.

EDIT: Killed the Goblin King in two hits. Fat bastard is vulnerable to stealth, like everything else. Never knew I was there.

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Regions of Ruin. Probably would have got him in one but I assume my weapon hit at the lower end of its very wide damage range. By the end of the game, stealth is insane. The amount of damage modifiers you can get are insane. The weapon I was using? Base damage range is 1-200. Most hits are in the 20000-60000 range, and more than once I hit over 200k. I think I hit for almost a million at one point.

For stealth, you can gain various bonuses from level-ups and books that make you harder to spot, get spotted slower, and dash while stealthed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 17, 2018, 02:27:18 am

I made a new friend.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/954087817126191470/EB8E245F241D3FEAB907978DC05DB18054694A67/)

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Enter the Breach.  Turns out giant alien spiders are no joke after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Flying Carcass on August 18, 2018, 03:26:17 pm

So my Mirai Conjecture had 3 counters, allowing me to copy any instant or sorcery spell I cast during my turn.

I cast Doublecast to copy my next instant or sorcery spell, which in turn flipped my Primal Amulet to turn it into Primal Wellspring. Because of Mirai Conjecture's effect, Doublecast was in turn doubled.

Primal Wellspring's effect allowed me to again double my next instant or sorcery spell, which was a kicked Fight With Fire for 10 damage.

The FWF was then copied a bunch of times, though the game ended midway while the stack was still resolving since I had reduced my opponent to 0 after two applications of the FWF. I'm not quite sure how many times the spell would've been copied total since I'm not sure if the copies would have counted as "cast" spells or not... I suspect probably not so if I interpret the rules correctly it would've been a total of 5 FWF effects for 50 damage.

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Magic the Gathering Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 18, 2018, 04:46:01 pm

This is the Magic equivalent of filling your hand with cards, then playing a Fiendfire and cackling madly as both the enemy and your own deck catch on fire and burn to cinders?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on August 18, 2018, 05:40:05 pm

A little more like DOROH! MONSTAH CADOH! if you ask me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on August 18, 2018, 06:25:42 pm

Multiple stack echo form into sunder would be a closer analogy than Fiendfire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 19, 2018, 11:00:49 am

On the final map of "A Tale of Two Brothers", I kind of messed up. I tried to get Arvith to land the killing blow on the final boss (as much as a turn-based strategy game can have a final boss - it was the commander, who was an advanced unit), only for him to miss most of his attacks.

Arvith's brother, Baran, was up next - though he landed three of his four fireball blasts, the boss was still standing.

I noticed one thing, however.

Aside from my allied units (which I think act after the enemy's turn, so they'd have been no help killing the boss sooner), I did have one footpad right next to the final boss, ready to attack.

I killed the final boss of the campaign with a fucking sling. And, of course, the footpad got promoted to... whatever they promote to.

Baran and Arvith split up, but rebuilding the village is going well, and while life isn't easy by any means, it's good nonetheless.

The End.

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Battle for Wesnoth: A Tale of Two Brothers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on August 19, 2018, 03:00:52 pm

Footpads promote to Outlaws, who promote to Fugitives.


Mine

Did the Syndicate Regional HQ mission. Not only did I not lose a single agent, the Syndicate guy I was capturing was not harmed. I kept him mindcontrolled for about 20 turns and was about to drop him into a pit so that he does not run around and get shot, when I destroyed the last Syndicate Walker (they look like Sectopods). Then the other syndicate guys (2 workers) surrendered.

Also, I managed to get one of the Walkers undamaged, only stunned with a Power Mace.

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X-Com: UFO Defence: X-COM Files Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on August 20, 2018, 10:35:59 am

My brother needed help getting some of the achievements / trophies for the Megaman X collection, so I helped him out with it.  I managed to hadouken Velguarder and Sigma for a change, which is a rarity since they usually bop me before I can hit them.

Getting the shoryuken in Megaman X2 really is an achievement all unto itself, which must have taken me 15 tries since I'm so out of practice.

Hitting Magna Centipede with it afterward was very gratifying though.  Too bad it actually kind of sucks, and I failed to kill Wheel Gator with it despite actually hitting him with it for a change.  I also learned that Morph Moth will morph into his moth form without you shooting half of his health out first, which was an achievement on its own.  All of these years and I assumed you had to shoot him until he transformed.  Shoryukening him afterward was just gravy on top.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 20, 2018, 01:22:13 pm

I got the Covert Ops achievement.

That's the one where you set off zero alarms in Magna Centipede's stage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on August 20, 2018, 04:29:22 pm

That one was a major pain and I did not get it yet.  I was able to eventually get through the level without being spotted by spot lights, but only after I'd defeated Magna Centipede.  Evidently, that doesn't work, and I'll have to play back through the game again.

Supposedly, the requirements are that you must do it on your first try through the level, and must defeat him on that same try.  I'm guessing that if you exit the stage and come back in (died too many times) then that condition resets.  At least I hope so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 20, 2018, 06:46:48 pm

Wow ok, I did not know that.

I did fulfill those requirements.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on August 26, 2018, 06:29:52 am

Shogun 2 Total war.
    My commander just casually walked up to around 7 squads of gunner militia (in most unfortunate position, though (one behind each other)) and casually slaughtered two of them without taking any significant loses. This reminded me of "Way of the Samurai" game.  This (and also, being shot at, and also death of their not very great rebel commander) caused them to rout. And by "rout" i mean "form a surrealistic conga line that then waltzed out of the map". This reminded me of "Way of the Samurai" game even more. Next turn, freaking commander "upgrades" into "godawful" revolver squad 1\3 size of the original (!).
   Also i like how the game marks both commander units as "weak in melee" (my ass), and says that "commander's job is to command, not to fight" (my sides!). And also i like how you can't put more than one commander unit per army in custom battles. Well, any reason for devs to not add this feature? No? So they did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on August 26, 2018, 03:43:44 pm

Completed the third pantheon.

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Hollow Knight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on August 26, 2018, 08:31:09 pm

Did one hour of derelict defence (40 waves) as one of a pair of Nekros in order to farm for the infamous Hema (5k mutagen samples). Left with 120 mutagen samples.

Warframe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 27, 2018, 09:01:34 pm

Took a sip from a fountain early on in the gloomy cave, fell in and was sucked four levels down before bursting out of the pipe into a vast cavern, surrounded by enemies.

Somehow, through a combination of picking my battles and tactically using the two teleportation wands I had on me, I was able to dance around and survive long enough to find the stairs downwards - and then, luckily enough, had enough juice left in a wand to escape the cluster of following enemies that would surely have instagibbed my battered form.

Now to take a breather, heal and press onwards... I should probably use this arseload of enchantment scrolls at some point, too.

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IVAN

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on August 28, 2018, 12:03:19 pm

How far along are you in that game? Have you managed to defeat the mysterious shrieking monster yet?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 28, 2018, 11:08:53 pm

Said monster is generally found on one of the levels I inadvertently skipped, I think.
That character wound up dying horribly when he stumbled into an invisible... giant frog. Which promptly bit off his arms.
'Twas almost as devastating as one of those transparent glass coffee tables at shin height.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on August 29, 2018, 12:44:14 am

A plan came together today.

I created a custom nation, a unified Ireland which I named "Potato".  I built it to rush into exploration/colonization, with some other random odds and ends like army morale.

I allied Brittany along with England at the game start.  France and England got into their Hundred Year war shenanigans, so England was fighting France and Scotland along with a bunch of other players.  England was losing hard against France, but had made some gains against Scotland, who was my rival.  I sow some fabricated claims to take some Scottish clay for myself.  England wouldn't join an offensive war with me, but France said it would back Scotland in a Potato war.  My theory was that while France would be in my war, they would be wholly invested in fighting England and I wouldn't see any French soldiers in any Tater lands.  I sprung my trap when I noticed Scotland only had about 10,000 men, to my 15,000 proud Tater soldiers.

Turned out my theory was correct.  France stayed in his Hundred Year war, leaving a battered Scotland for me to play in.  I crossed the strait and started to siege land for myself.  Scottish army snuck its way onto Tater island though, so a lot of the war became a siege race over the capitals.  Scot's capital fell first, from there it was a transport ride home to clean up Potato and grab back lost war score.

In the peace deal I took half of Scotland and a handfull of ducats.  Couldn't take his vassal for myself, though.

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Europa Universalis 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Boltgun on August 29, 2018, 03:42:18 am

Elite Hag vs a occultist, houndmaster, grave robber, hellion in dodge setup.

First turn, GR failed to dodge and went into the pots.
"Well that dodge idea was sure a waste of time."

Hellion crit for 1/4 of the hag's hp!
The team goes nuts. Hound master use the treat and crit again.
Victory right as the GR is in death door.

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Barkest Bludgeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2018, 07:43:32 am

To the AI: While it was very clever to start sending large formations of T3 tanks at my gun-wall, even more so including mobile shields and even having artillery hit AA platforms away from the gun-wall to let airstrikes hit my main base, next time you might to think to invest in strategic missile defenses. Just a thought.


One missile took out not only their central production, but commander as well. And while those artillery guns and shield tanks were actually a threat, they didn't have any tactical missile defenses, and even while moving it was possible to land accurate missile strikes on them.

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on August 31, 2018, 03:46:12 am

Just had a bunch of ridiculous games in a 2 (then 3) stack.

First, a match (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/4091448510) with a massive comeback.  We had one of those lategame defenses where its obvious the other team has won and you hide in your fountain... except somehow we won the fight.  Basically people kept respawning or buying back for relatively little gain.  At one point literally everyone died and then I bought back, only to die again with an 80 second respawn timer.  We were pretty much played out in exchange for killing 1-2 of their heroes and putting the rest of them at low health and then they just kinda... retreated.  I understand why, but we had nothing left, I think we had lost 8 heroes over the course of the whole thing.  Later they got aegis and pushed high ground, we killed all of them and then killed their aegis carrier again.  That was enough for us to rush over to their side of the map and win before all 5 could respawn.

Second game, I ask my friend to play an Undying/Bane lane (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/4091526603) with me.  For some ridiculous reason they laned Lion against us; Lion is one of the lowest strength heroes, and Undying can steal a flat amount of strength.  In DOTA strength decides your max HP, and Bane has a high damage nuke ability.  We accomplished our goal of ruining their safelane's hopes and dreams, but then lost because aside from our Necro, our team's carries didn't deliver.  What made it a weird game is that our Spectres' computer crashed and I spent 10 minutes controlling 2 heroes.  Ended up getting a triple kill with Spectre, which was way more than her actual player managed.

Then we played a game where my friend had the brilliant idea of running a trilane.  That's a gimmicky strategy run by pro players in specific circumstances.  It went horribly.

After that we played two (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/4091699767) games (https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/4091764409) where our entire 3 stack randomed.  Both games I absolutely destroyed my lane.  I had to run Riki (who I main as a support) as a hard carry for the first game... and absolutely trashed my lane, between me and CM we got maybe a dozen kills and I assisted in 2 more ganking the enemy safelane.  Second game I traded my Luna for my friend's Witch Doctor, I had never played him before but I ended up going safelane with a Bristleback.  We had a rocky start but then I realized I could use a clarity, stand under tower and heal BB indefinitely.  As a result of this healing and his own good play, our Bristleback never died.  Not even once, and he was playing aggressively.  Best part is he was a good sport and randomed as well; not sure he even knew the hero.

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DOTA 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 01, 2018, 08:20:29 pm

Designed a small-ish pistol. Not much in cost, either. Besides the custom-weapon grip and barrel, it only needs 6 iron and some pigment. Despite that, it does more damage than the non-custom rifle you get early on in the campaign - yet it's actually cheaper than if you were to fabricate the rifle yourself. I'm blasting apart with ease things that are, by definition, face-murder incarnate. Only downside is crap durability, but I've always had a problem with custom gear having too-low durability.

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Planet Explorers. Only things it doesn't kill easily (so far) are those giant green rhinos and the giant turtles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on September 02, 2018, 10:18:55 am

As Bohemia, passed all 8 reforms and united Holy Roman Empire into single nation on Tuesday, 12th December, 15256 AD.

AVE CAESAR!

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Europa Universalis III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on September 02, 2018, 12:51:49 pm

After 37 hours and 45 minutes of misery, frustration, gitting gud, and perseverance, I've finally completed the game!

Hollow Knight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on September 02, 2018, 06:11:33 pm

Ha!  I didn't think I could do it, but I got my 3rd boss cell in Dead Cells!  I got ridiculously lucky and got 4 levels in a row with a trap-level portal, which really helped my stats.  I killed the boss with a legendary Infantry Bow(it only had 5 ammo, but man it did ridiculous amounts of damage).   :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 05, 2018, 02:51:44 pm

I am now a hero of the Tacketies and utterly reviled by London, so much so that I am shot on sight. It's making it... interesting, to travel around Albion.

Sunless Skies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on September 05, 2018, 11:20:58 pm

I made a submarine.  By accident.   I would put this in the deaths thread but it is surprisingly effective as a submarine.   

It was designed to be a lot like an old american civil war era ironclad, but I may have put a bit too much weight on it and it likes to be underwater.  And do barrel rolls while underwater.  But it still moves at a good clip and all the broadside Advanced Cannons can still fire just fine while underwater, even thrashed my main battleship design once with a broadside of sabot rounds aimed straight at it's underside.  A good 2 size classes above it. 

So I just stuck a couple hydrofoils on the side, and stuck an AI module on it to tell it that if it's pointed almost straight down to turn the hydrofoils to point it back up again and it seems to do just fine for it's size, at least against my own ships.  If only I could make anything that could compete with anything vanilla.

From the Depths

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 06, 2018, 07:22:04 am

First match, I took out a tank by smashing through the wall next to them, getting a clear shot at their side at point-blank range.

Second match, I scored what I think was my first ever "hull break" kill, because someone brought a reserve vehicle(weakest, but always repaired for free after the match) to a game where I brought 3.3-3.7BR tanks. At the end of the match, I came up on the side of a 3-inch-gun carrier, and fired. Then nearly crapped myself when I saw I only hit the driver, not the gunner, and the turret was turning towards me. Somehow they never fired, and I got the kill.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 07, 2018, 07:21:28 pm

I'm so fucking pumped about this victory!

735 Spartans vs 953 Thracians and Triballi

I fought to the literal last men but I fucking killed them all. 218 of mine remained and the last few minutes of the battle was a knock down drag out fight between out of ammo skirmishes and peltasts and my battered, nearly wiped out Hoplitai.

TW:R2

Edit: and then the last of the Triballi attacked with mercenary support and Acrotatus II the Indomitable fucking stomped them somehow! Holy shit!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 09, 2018, 12:08:29 am

I won my first online match in a fighting game, which is a far cry from the usual total defeat.  I took that win and promptly quit while I was ahead.

Naturally I was playing as the Goddess of Explosions.

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Slap City.  Reminds me of the time I got 3 consecutive online wins in Soul Caliber 5 and then never played multiplayer again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 09, 2018, 06:57:15 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 09, 2018, 12:08:29 am

I won my first online match in a fighting game, which is a far cry from the usual total defeat.  I took that win and promptly quit while I was ahead.

Naturally I was playing as the Goddess of Explosions.

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Slap City.  Reminds me of the time I got 3 consecutive online wins in Soul Caliber 5 and then never played multiplayer again.

Didn't know that existed.

...Lagged like hell on the main menu even at lowest graphics. Seems to have stopped after awhile.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 09, 2018, 09:21:43 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on September 09, 2018, 12:08:29 am

I won my first online match in a fighting game, which is a far cry from the usual total defeat.  I took that win and promptly quit while I was ahead.

Naturally I was playing as the Goddess of Explosions.

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Slap City.  Reminds me of the time I got 3 consecutive online wins in Soul Caliber 5 and then never played multiplayer again.

I once got a 27 killstreak in one life in Modern Warfare, and finally died to three snipers 40 feet away, AFTER I killed one of them with a fuckin shotgun somehow, and it was the game winning kill. Never played again after that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 09, 2018, 04:12:04 pm

I was enjoying some freerunning and wallscurrying when I got to a certain forced combat section which I remembered being particularly bad, on my no-kills run.  An enclosed car park with a very slow exit-door.

Nice thing about completing a run is that you no longer have anything to prove.  I disarmed the first one, then went Far Cry 2 on the other 5 with only the one magazine.  Discarded the gun, ascended into the pipes.

Later I was being pursued by two police-runners, and a couple of metro cops with pistols "ambushed" me.  Out of curiosity I disarmed one, turned, and shot the runners.  Well.  That's... literally too easy.  Being chased is fun, stopping to punch people isn't.

Mirror's Edge

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on September 09, 2018, 10:03:27 pm

Turns out that guns work, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on September 09, 2018, 10:48:13 pm

I got through the first Zero Virus level in Mega Man X5 without using Dark Hold.  It amounted to just getting lucky after about 50 tries, but I did it and got the trophy.  Now I never have to do it again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 10, 2018, 12:15:56 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on September 09, 2018, 04:12:04 pm

I was enjoying some freerunning and wallscurrying when I got to a certain forced combat section which I remembered being particularly bad, on my no-kills run.  An enclosed car park with a very slow exit-door.

Nice thing about completing a run is that you no longer have anything to prove.  I disarmed the first one, then went Far Cry 2 on the other 5 with only the one magazine.  Discarded the gun, ascended into the pipes.

Later I was being pursued by two police-runners, and a couple of metro cops with pistols "ambushed" me.  Out of curiosity I disarmed one, turned, and shot the runners.  Well.  That's... literally too easy.  Being chased is fun, stopping to punch people isn't.

Mirror's Edge

In the Shard, when you have to climb out the elevator's escape hatch into the shafts, there's actually dudes that pry open the elevator door and shoot you if you're too slow.  Bet you can't kill those guys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 10, 2018, 01:30:37 pm

I landed near Brundisium with an army of 1300 Spartans, Perioikoi peltasts, a token force of Thracian Warriors, and Cretan archers. Echestratos was the inexperienced General of the force, having poorly chosen his landing zone. A brief march inland and they are set upon by 3120 Romans.

Echestratos immediately orders defenses deployed and a Hoplite circle. The mighty spears and stout shields of Sparta comply and are swiftly surrounded on three sides by Romans. As the enemy cavalry finally exhausts their numbers on the cleverly placed Sudes caltrops and fire pits, Echestratos orders the cleared area of the circle to unfurl and envelope the embattled front, Thracians leading the breakout alongside his meager 80 cavalrymen.

The encirclement turns, and the horde of Romans senses their change in fortunes. Howling Thracians and freed hoplites race along the edges of the battle, encircling and pinning the force in place. The hoplites still locked in formation started advancing.

And the killing blow moved in. Leves and Velites scattered as the cavalrymen of Thessalia charged deep into the Romans' heart. They struck the generals of their enemies from behind and killed them. Word traveled in the ranks immediately. They were nearly surrounded, hemmed in, leaders dead, fire arrows falling, crushed from the fore by advancing hoplites in formation, and terrified by vicious, falx bearing Thracian flankers.

The Romans broke and fled as the Spartans exulted in the victory. Calls for Echestratos revealed that he had died valiantly in the center of the line, fighting to the death. A more glorious death had not been known since Leonidas though, and Echestratos' name would live on!

I captured 1200 of them, killed 1500, barely 300 of them managed to flee. I lost 7 shy of 500. This is going to be a fun invasion.

TW:R2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 02:25:38 pm

Standard Issue Roman Tactics (usually pre-Marian Reforms, but still applies afterwards):
1. Massively outnumber enemy
2. Fall for dumb/simple/well really any kind of trick
3. Lose the Equites (cavalry) to: A, desertion; B, bad tactics; C, numerically superior enemy cavalry; D, worse tactics; or E, superior enemy cavalry (there's probably also more of them, too, because Rome cannot into cavalry).
4. Lose battle to the dumb trick.
5. Raise new army out of the next 2% of Rome's population.
6. A, If enemy army no longer has sufficient troops to set up a dumb trick, rout army and declare victory; B, If enemy army still has dumb tricks, return to 1.


My personal own? Got ambushed (again, darn you British woodlands and rebel field armies) with no time to set up. This means that my army was deployed into a marching column formation (no, it's not a very intelligent marching column setup) and the enemy gets to attack wherever.

They picked the middle of the column, which was made of my best spearmen companies (the guys you put front & center in a battle anyway), flanked by my elite swordsmen.

Final score: Me, 1 field army remaining 80% intact. Enemy, zero field armies remaining.

Once again, EBII mod for M2:TW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on September 10, 2018, 02:33:25 pm

Was Rome the historical equivalent of min-maxing your character build??? Also playing money-ball with their military?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 10, 2018, 03:00:39 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on September 10, 2018, 02:33:25 pm

Was Rome the historical equivalent of min-maxing your character build??? Also playing money-ball with their military?

IRL pretty much yeah. "Oh I gave up Individually Superior, Fast, and Spears for Group Fight, Tactics, and Large Shield/Stabbing Sword. Also I traded Raiding for Encampment and Warrior-Lords for Combat Engineers."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 03:07:49 pm

Not really? If they did try to min-max anything they forgot what they were minmaxing to GET and instead minimized their decent generals and maximized their tendency to consume lead (yes, they literally drank lead as a flavoring for wine), their infighting abilities, and their ability to mess up their I-think-it-was-actually-kinda-functional bureaucracy.

Post-Marian Reforms and especially into the Roman Empire (as opposed to the Kingdom or Republic), the Roman Legions became *absolutely terrifying* machines of war. Iron plate armor (lorica segmentata), or mail (lorica haumata), or even the really cool iron scale armor (lorica squamata) made them basically invulnerable to arrows and getting stabbed/disemboweled/impaled/cut anywhere on the torso (rather like the richest of the Classical Greek hoplites, since Greek warfare was usually a bring-your-own-armor sport), then they tend to fight in these massive blocks of guys covering each other with shields, and THEN they all run at you in this great big charge that results in a guy with a sword being closer to you than your spearpoint is, which is a spearman's worst nightmare.

However, hope is not lost, because the Roman Legions were still terrible at having cavalry support or archers or even slingers (which were often considered to be BETTER than archers because the lead shot used by the best slingers will knock over an armored man straight through the helmet, or bruise and fracture ribs through the cuirass). Parthia demonstrated this quite well when what's-his-face decided to pull an Alexander and go to India.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 10, 2018, 03:32:01 pm

I was referencing the fact that they developed and used advanced group fighting tactics that played to their strength. E.g the early triplex acies, with skirmishes leading, followed by young, inexperienced hastati, then experienced principes to relieve the hastati, finally triarii for the killing blow. Often deployed quincunx, with small gaps between maniples to allow reinforcements to attack and tired soldiers to rotate back to rest and rearm. Thus turning their army into a constant meatgrinder as opposed to the more common long battle line or human wave, like the Greek hoplites or Gallic tribes typically did.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 03:56:15 pm

They actually started from a very Greek conceptualization of proper formation: The Classical Greek phalanx goes richest to poorest, so the best-armored troops hit first, and then the formation basically turns them into bronze-clad battering rams capable of knocking over anyone in their path. The Romans used a similar formation but looser IIRC, and started by deploying principes and then hastati (in plain phalanxes with spears, not swords), with obvious negative results (if the best guys lose, the second-rates enter battle already terrified of their honestly-less-than-great chances).

Phalanxes are not a "long" formation, but are instead densely packed (eight ranks deep is the standard, and as each guy covers his neighbor with part of his shield, the spacing is narrow both side-to-side and, because each man in the lines of eight pushes the man in front of him, front-to-back spacing is very close as well) and thus well-suited to the typically narrow valleys of Greece.

The Romans made their formation deeper and, unlike the Greeks, relied on shock tactics (the initial charge of the maniple was intended to break the enemy's phalanx up, make him lose cohesion, which makes the entire enemy unit vulnerable to the close-in fighting style of sword-and-board warriors, unlike the keep-him-away-from-me that spearmen use).

However, they still cannot beat out my favorite rework of the classic phalanx idea: When fighting the Spartans, a Theban general exploited the tendency of the phalanx to creep to its right as it marched forwards (each guy was trying to get more protection from the shield of the next soldier to the right, resulting in a slight rightwards creep as they march)….by ordering his soldiers to move a little to the left. The Spartans noticed the same thing, deploying their best men on the right of their line, so when they met an enemy phalanx, their best men wrapped the flank and killed their way through the enemy formation. The Thebans moved far enough left that the Spartan right wing didn't overlap anything...and the Theban left flank (facing the Spartan right flank and Sparta's best soldiers) was 50 ranks deep. The Spartans lost that battle. Badly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 10, 2018, 04:00:44 pm

Romans were something resembling a nation state, surrounded by a bunch of tribes and city states.  From the point where they took over most of modern day Italy onwards, they had a numbers advantage.  They could have 10 legions suffer crushing defeats and then beat the enemy army once, and the war would be over.  Because that was the only enemy army.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 10, 2018, 04:20:40 pm

Excuse me, the Romans died so you’re in the wrong thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on September 10, 2018, 04:25:31 pm

Hold on Justinian a minute!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 04:38:28 pm

Enigmatic is pretty correct, yeah. "We have reserves" is not a Soviet way to wage war---it was the Roman way. The Soviets just borrowed it.

Counterpoint, hector:
In what language is the motto on the dollar bill? How about your state's flag? What about the appearances of many government buildings? Modern borders? The language of medicine and biology and a couple other sciences?

Rome did not die, it *owned* the entire fabric of world culture so thoroughly that we still haven't got rid of them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Emma on September 10, 2018, 04:44:46 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 03:56:15 pm

However, they still cannot beat out my favorite rework of the classic phalanx idea: When fighting the Spartans, a Theban general exploited the tendency of the phalanx to creep to its right as it marched forwards (each guy was trying to get more protection from the shield of the next soldier to the right, resulting in a slight rightwards creep as they march)….by ordering his soldiers to move a little to the left. The Spartans noticed the same thing, deploying their best men on the right of their line, so when they met an enemy phalanx, their best men wrapped the flank and killed their way through the enemy formation. The Thebans moved far enough left that the Spartan right wing didn't overlap anything...and the Theban left flank (facing the Spartan right flank and Sparta's best soldiers) was 50 ranks deep. The Spartans lost that battle. Badly.

That was the Battle of Leuctra, right? I was taught that it was such a bad loss that it kinda ended Sparta's hegemony pretty much completely.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 04:47:58 pm

I can't recall. I thought Leuctra was after Sparta reformed its military (because it'd atrophied horribly), so during the Hellenistic period. I could have my battle names all screwed up, though. IIRC, Leuctra was something about Sparta losing to its allies and cavalry failing in the center despite the flanks' standard-issue Spartan infantry performance?

I'm afraid that my knowledge of the actual history is limited, far eclipsed by my knowledge of how the Greeks killed each other and a few tidbits about how it all went really wrong or really well :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 10, 2018, 05:10:29 pm

Hey I learned something so this was an effective derail!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on September 10, 2018, 05:11:16 pm

Ahh, Leuctra. That was their defeat at the hands of Thebes. Rather a surprise defeat, but it destroyed a large portion of the remaining Spartan fight force.

Also, won more on the strength of Theban strategic ingenuity under Epiminandos (apologies if incorrect spelling; been a while) than anything else. The Sacred Band was used quite well, though it could have backfired horribly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 10, 2018, 05:18:31 pm

Yes, the battle I was referring to was Leuctra (hooray for thirty seconds' worth of research).

Whenever I think of that battle I think of one line from a military history book, concerning, of course, the Theban formation that day: "a pile-driver of a phalanx, 50 ranks deep".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on September 10, 2018, 05:25:56 pm

Hannibal did it better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on September 10, 2018, 09:49:12 pm

It was more of a reminder then an own, but I think it was a high point in my fun.
My battle against one group had been growing for a while-I had just won a pitched battle, capturing one of their generals and defending my petty factory against 70+ men, when during a roughly even encounter in a field, I came to a realization that made me smile.
There I was, plinking away at some far off group of soldiers, when I realized that I wasn't particularly damaging, or very accurate whatsoever, me and my SMG had one saving grace-we used cheap bullets.
I came as close to BRRRRRRRRTTT as a man with an SMG can come that day.

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Freeman Guerilla Warfare

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 11, 2018, 06:10:37 pm

During the quest Diplomatic Immunity, while disguised as one of the asshole elves Thalmor, it turns out the Fury spell doesn't break your cover if you get yourself hidden before the spell hits, resulting in immediate teamkill. Unfortunately, the asshole +1 wizard guarding the door(literally standing in the doorway so you can't sneak by) managed to kill both patrolling guards in the courtyard.

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(https://i.imgur.com/m3ggdzj.jpg)

With an arrow to the knee.

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Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 11, 2018, 07:28:55 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 11, 2018, 06:10:37 pm

During the quest Diplomatic Immunity

Had it just been revoked?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 11, 2018, 07:46:29 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on September 11, 2018, 07:28:55 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 11, 2018, 06:10:37 pm

During the quest Diplomatic Immunity

Had it just been revoked?

But sir..! You’re black.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 12, 2018, 05:26:08 pm

Bah, the Thalmor only have so-called "immunity" because they think they can get away with it.

Spoiler: and also because (click to show/hide)

Ulfric Stormcloack is a Thalmor sleeper agent.

Makes it so much more fun to mess with them.

Oh, and I just remembered, during this run, before entering Whiterun for the first time, I went around to do some bandit bounty I picked up in Riverwood, came across a Thalmor Justicar party, murdered the lot, and got Elven light armor before even killing the first dragon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 05:29:15 pm

There're dragons in Skyrim?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 05:42:25 pm

Could just watch an LP cha know.

MGS3, Peace Walker, GZ, MGS5, Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS4? I feel like I'm missing something, other than playing all those games.

Snake's Revenge? :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on September 12, 2018, 05:50:08 pm

Quote from: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 05:42:25 pm

Could just watch an LP cha know.

MGS3, Peace Walker, GZ, MGS5, Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS4? I feel like I'm missing something, other than playing all those games.

Snake's Revenge? :P

You got em all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 12, 2018, 06:22:54 pm

Quote from: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 05:29:15 pm

There're dragons in Skyrim?

You can play almost the entirety of the game before you ever see more than just Alduin if you simply refuse to talk to Jarl Balgruuf, and instead derp around doing all the other shit, IIRC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 06:32:23 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 12, 2018, 06:22:54 pm

Quote from: hector13 on September 12, 2018, 05:29:15 pm

There're dragons in Skyrim?

You can play almost the entirety of the game before you ever see more than just Alduin if you simply refuse to talk to Jarl Balgruuf, and instead derp around doing all the other shit, IIRC.

I know, which is why I said it :p

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on September 13, 2018, 01:20:30 am

Unlocked World Rammers as soon as possible, derailed myself, and started flying around using my Defensive Bursters' recoil around the system while using them as close-range weapons. They're surprisingly strong, they can open up a planet with like 2 good hits and blow up the core in another 2. Killed everyone, but I was really beaten up due to being hit by nukes twice. I was chasing the green player around the entire system for 3 minutes straight.

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Worbital

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 15, 2018, 12:40:00 am

I managed to beat the Path of Pain and man does it live up to its name. Imagine playing a late-game super meatboy level, but the camera isn’t zoomed out so you don’t get a proper look at the stage, and just like in super meatboy you have to do it in one go*.

Yeah... lots of trial and error and a fair amount of rage. I’m talking Sans level of rage, but that was partly the point. In game it’s contextualized as this difficult, but optional trial you can take if you want to find all the answers, and so knowing that my feelings  were the intended experience kept me going. All of it was a lie though. At the end you only get a 5 second cutscene and a rather dull bestiary entry. Not worth grind, but hey, at least you got a sense of pride and accomplishment right?

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Hollow Knight

I’ve criticized the game in the past, but as you can tell I’ve since found the motivation to play past its early levels. I take back everything I said earlier. The beginning parts of hollow knight are quite dull, but once you make it to the City of Tears (which will probably be your fourth area), the game really opens up. Hollow knight doesn’t gate many areas behind upgrades so you get to visit them in whatever order you like, even skip a few completely if you really want to. It makes exploration feel really special because the journey you go on is truly your own and it’s likely people did not travel the same way you did. Honestly it’s one of my favourite games of all time now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 15, 2018, 05:47:02 am

I beat Flamma on my first try ( grante it was mostly me scurrying away until I knocked his shield off, then I went beserk on that left arm but still) and also beat Alesia and got dat sweet sweet Gaulish Longsword. Too heavy to use with a shield and helmet, cuz I like large shield, but I got a decent Falx for now.

My ultimate goal is to take Laetus' backup knife, helmet, and his sword into a new game+.

Colosseum Road to Freedom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on September 15, 2018, 08:43:16 am

Beat the Death Wish version of Train Rush (You have 10 seconds to complete the level and a lot of things are actively trying to kill you, like sped up homing rockets) on the first attempt of the day.

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A Hat in Time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on September 16, 2018, 12:33:30 pm

I ignited the remaining players and won.

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Town of Salem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on September 16, 2018, 02:08:30 pm

Turns out that with some attention to positioning and timing, Fernando can frag out harder than many DPS champions.

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 16, 2018, 04:33:26 pm

Broke into the Markarth stables to steal some jewelry. Job went off without a hitch, despite the entire family sitting downstairs for dinner - they literally watched me go up the stairs, but I got to the strongbox before anyone followed me. Then it was off the second-floor railing and out the door.

Opened the map to travel back to Riften, only to be told I can't fast travel with enemies nearby. I look up, and there there it came; a Blood Dragon. I landed on the horse stalls, breathing ice. After strategically using the nearby child as a human shield attempting to get the nearby child away from danger, I started throwing firebolt spells and Yol Shouts at it. It eventually landed down the nearby cliff to attack one of the city guards, but it didn't survive long as I rained more firebolts on it.

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Skyrim. Turns out doing all those damn side-jobs for Delvin and Vex were actually mandatory to complete the questline. Vex's jobs are easy enough, but I can't do Delvin's fishing jobs since my Pickpocket skill is crap, and doing his bedlam jobs is buggy because there's a decent chance it tries to send me to Raven Rock(I haven't started the DLC campaigns yet).

EDIT: Solitude stables. Not Markarth. Though the Markarth robbery also counts since I had to deal with the guard dog.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 16, 2018, 04:38:06 pm

With a flying jump stab, I knocked that snooty spear wielding ass off his elephant and then proceeded to make him into mincemeat.

Beat Jugurtha first try.

Colosseum Road to Freedom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on September 17, 2018, 12:52:01 am

So, I was a Survivor. Then I got bitten in the late-game by a vampire. The other vamp got killed, but I survived. It was down to 3 players. I was still claiming surv, but I was seen as suspicious by one of the players, Johnie. I got voted up to a trial, and the other player voted inno while Johnie voted guilty. I was spared, and then we voted Johnie up and lynched him. He was a Serial Killer. The next day, I and the other vampires have won because I was good at lying (and the incompetence of the remaining townie).

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Town of Salem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 17, 2018, 09:05:31 am

You say incompetence, they had the choice to lose to a serial killer or a vampire :p

ToS isn’t particularly easy given the complete lack of time you have to interact with other people.

Also, if you like that, you should mebbe check our mafia forum...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on September 18, 2018, 02:40:39 pm

Defeated the remaining Death Wish bosses.

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A Hat in Time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 18, 2018, 03:52:06 pm

Completed the campaign.

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Assault Android Cactus

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 18, 2018, 05:41:34 pm

Finally Auraxed the HC1. Took only about 9 months. Total use time is 49 hours, significantly less than the >3 days total use time of the other two carbines I've Auraxed. Had just one kill to go before getting it, but everyone kept getting the kills before I could.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 19, 2018, 12:58:04 pm

The mission was to protect an unarmed prisoner in the center of a large area riddled with cars and vans.  To the north and south were two enemy groups each containing five units.  I had six units but I also had allies and together we outnumbered the enemy. Still a very challenging mission, as there were many, many lines along which they could kill the prisoner and instantly win.

The enemies to the north were all hidden behind a van at the start.  I had two assault rifle units each cover one side of the van, and then a knife guy run around the right side and hug the back of the van.  What actually ended up happening was pretty crazy.  The knife guy ran past a hail of fire from 2 smg guys, killing one.  Then he corner stabbed an AR guy, rushed behind the other side of the van and backstabbed their sniper.  Both my ARs got a kill as well, so together my 3 guys wiped out a 5 man squad on the first turn.

To put this into perspective, a knife guy costs $8000.  The units he killed would have costed $86000 if I had hired them.  Such a good investment.

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Frozen Synapse 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 21, 2018, 10:17:16 pm

So, I was playing as Koinon Hellenon (the classical Greek city-states, allied together to resist Macedonian and Epirote invasions), and had managed to, at game start, beat off an Epirote army and get ceasefires with both starting enemies. Then, I allied the Epirotes (they're desperate for allies, as they're at war with Rome, Carthage, and Macedonia, all of which are stronger than them). I entered a battle with a full stack of my own, dragging two nearly-full stacks of enemies and Pyrrhus Aetos' (the Epirote King and their only competent general) stack into the battle. I then proceed to sit on the sidelines as Pyrrhus hilariously owns the first enemy army, before getting himself killed in a remarkably stupid way. The first enemy army routs, Pyrrhus' remaining forces rout, and I defeat what's left of the second enemy army for a grand total of ~4500 enemies killed for 250 casualties of my own. Also, I killed 1/3 or so of Pyrrhus' stack, by virtue of just not entering the fighting until he was dead. Epirus is now greatly weakened, the rebel city is mine, and I have suddenly become the strongest power in Greece (I mean, I was before, by virtue of having just enough soldiers to defeat the AI armies with superior tactics, but now I'm actually probably the strongest power in Greece).

Europa Barbarorum II; a mod for Medieval 2: Total War.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on September 22, 2018, 02:37:15 am

Quote from: Madman198237 on September 21, 2018, 10:17:16 pm

Pyrrhus ... getting himself killed in a remarkably stupid way.

Who could've seen it coming :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on September 22, 2018, 05:02:39 pm

TIL Spiritbreaker is a pretty fun guy.

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DOTA 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 22, 2018, 05:05:24 pm

Quote from: Haspen on September 22, 2018, 02:37:15 am

Quote from: Madman198237 on September 21, 2018, 10:17:16 pm

Pyrrhus ... getting himself killed in a remarkably stupid way.

Who could've seen it coming :P

Not as awesomely stupid as the real thing, though. This time he just charged his cavalry bodyguard into a unit of long-spear-wielding peltasts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on September 23, 2018, 04:56:24 am

Duel with a dual-wielder with Finely Sabers. Fight starts quick, we exchange some strikes, then I knock his helmet off.

Apparently that really pissed him off.

Suddenly I'm recieving a torrential series of strikes that culminates in him doing severe body damage, mild arm damage, and he knocked my left arm piece, helmet, and shield off. He swept down and picked up my Spiked Tower Shield, so I ninja-rolled and came up with the sword I'd knocked out of his hand with a well timed counter.

The field was reversed. Him with heavy shield and sword, me with dual swords (and a very concerning lack of armor for my head, arm, and body)

My only advantage was now I was underweight, meaning no stamina penalty that I had long since become accustomed to.

I made his torrent of bladework look like a drop in the sea. I hit him with a fuckin Cat 5 hurricane of swings. I knocked him leg armor off, his other sword away, and took my shield out of his hands. He cast about desperately for a weapon. So I threw his sword at him. It knocked him back a step and he stooped to grab it.

As he stood back to full height, I was already airborne, blade angled. It plunged between his clavicle and shoulder, into his heart.

I am the lord of this arena, motherfucker.

Colosseum Road to Freedom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on September 24, 2018, 05:55:23 pm

Completed the final contract.

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A Hat in Time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 24, 2018, 10:28:28 pm

Me and my (literal) bro defeated the Deerclops.  With the power of tentacles.

It was an epic battle that took two days and two nights.

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Don't Starve Together

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on September 25, 2018, 12:59:19 pm

7-Leaf Clover run thanks to an Oubliette chest. Still sloppy, but I'm just having fun right now. That being said, I just got the Yellow Chamber from a chest, which charms an enemy upon entering a room...I think I've won Enter the Gungeon.

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(https://i.imgur.com/ZaPkM7D.png)

EDIT: And it's followed up with my first Marine Past kill. Only need the Convict now!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 25, 2018, 01:20:57 pm

I beat Marluxia on Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix. It was difficult.

Turns out he was the most difficult one though, and I've seriously over-trained for the rest of the extra fights of that nature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Coffeespoons on September 25, 2018, 01:24:17 pm

Ascended a Gargoyle Fighter with 4 runes.  A little rusty and took me quite a few goes (full disclosure: 41!).  Ended up like an armoured stone and despite my nerves not troubled at all my the Zot rune run.  Royal Jelly gave me a kicking though - I'll know to you the 7 assorted Phantom Mirrors on him next time.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on September 26, 2018, 01:18:08 am

Killed Olmec for the first time.  Then I took the new apathetic jaguar man I unlocked, died, then next run killed Olmec again.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/951839822606275819/E77240DB5F7ACC3748DAF630859865714C89624E/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/951839822607206504/7E54D4CCD4B0F9531906CE10A93CB31D4DB0E200/)

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Spelunky.  I'd say the hardest part of this game is not throwing.  You have to be patient yet brave, its a weird combo and hard to maintain when you're 20 minutes in jumping over a lava pit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on September 26, 2018, 02:27:56 am

Killed the Convict's past, the last of the four I had to complete. Time to start getting into the fun stuff.

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on September 26, 2018, 04:10:22 pm

I used walkthroughs and exploits constantly, but I have finally completed Daggerfall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on September 26, 2018, 06:41:03 pm

Quote from: Ispil on September 26, 2018, 06:33:31 pm

I completed Metal Gear 2. I do hope that the later games improved on the complete and utter lack of a sense of direction those first two games had.

Yes, they did...! But also no. They, uh... They didn't.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 26, 2018, 06:45:15 pm

I promise you the story is better than the ones presented by V or Survive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on September 26, 2018, 06:52:44 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on September 26, 2018, 06:45:15 pm

I promise you the story is better than the ones presented by V or Survive.

^^^^

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 26, 2018, 06:54:18 pm

MGS:3 is one of my favorite games of all time. Story is of course fantastical but also coherent and also really good. I had no problems understanding what was going on, unlike other Metal Gear games.

Spoiler: Actual possible spoiler. Do not read. (click to show/hide)

You have to pull the trigger. Shit gets real.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on September 26, 2018, 08:44:08 pm

Playing them in release order just makes it even dumber, though~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on September 26, 2018, 08:49:19 pm

play them in reverse order. its like a giant flashback scene.

found an obsessed, high level machine commander. queue utterly loyal swarms of orcs with ranged support.

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shadow of war

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 27, 2018, 07:58:18 pm

Decided to drop my bedroll in a bar, only temporary until I could dig a hole somewhere to live. Found something better, just a few houses away from the bar I stumbled upon a shack hiding a bomb shelter. Took most of a night, and a couple dozen stone axes, but I was finally able to break in. Good thing I waited until dawn before making the final breach into the shelter, there were more zombies than I anticipated. Place is cleared out of zombies, and the aboveground area is a nice fenced-in spot where I can plant crops. On Day 2.

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7 Days to Die. Also, holy shit I'm not kidding about it taking a couple dozen axes to open up. I had to break two metal floors(just to crouch under) with 3000HP each, and the main door was two stages of 2500HP. For the floor pieces and the first stage of the door, I could do at most 10HP of damage with an axe(50-quality, I just started), less once stamina or the axe's durability got low. I could do 11 per hit on the second part of the door. I'm actually surprised all the smashing didn't spawn a screamer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on September 30, 2018, 02:54:17 am

To say that I was 'on the ropes' was an understatement. My deck was designed to generate value over time, usually by getting extra value on top of my creatures. This is a solid strategy... until my opponent resolves a terrifying Elder Dragon (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=439687). Flying means it bypasses most of my deck (and even without flying, the trample would ensure I couldn't use recursive chump blockers to hold it off), indestructible means almost nothing I've got can actually kill it, double strike and 4 power means I've got nothing that can block it and live, and vigilance means I can't race him after he attacks. All things considered, an absolutely nasty creature. When he then topdecked a Seal Away to answer my Verdant Force (and in a way that I couldn't remedy with any of my graveyard interaction), I felt that my last hope to win had been ripped away.

But if I can make two statements about this game, they'd be "play to your outs" and "always give your opponent a chance to mess up". My opponent had played several early-game critters to stall out the board, but most of them had been spent to deflect my swarm. And now, with me at 12 health, my opponent opted to, instead of swinging with his indestructible dinosaur, to instead attack with everything.

Which turned out to be a mistake when I promptly sacrificed most of my board to kill off everything except Zetalpa, survived the attack at 2 health, and then immediately resolved The Eldest Reborn (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=442978) on my turn. If he still had his silly little 2/2s lying around, he could've sacced one of them, and I didn't have enough turns left to draw removal for all his little guys nor enough mana to remove all of them and play the saga. But since he'd foolishly and willingly hurled them into the jaws of death, he was forced to sacrifice his dinosaur. Sadly he conceded in shame before I had the chance to _reanimate_ his dinosaur.

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Magic Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 30, 2018, 05:53:47 pm

Survived the 7th night, with 24-hour cycles set to 90 minutes.

Started with a bomb-shelter shack, which has a (mostly) scrap-metal fence surrounding a central courtyard. Due to a previous zombie breach, I replaced the entire fence with a flagstone wall. Tried to upgrade it to cobblestone, but I didn't have anywhere near enough time to get enough materials. The shack walls were reinforced up to metal-reinforced wood, and doors upgraded to metal v3(highest you can go without steel), as were the hatches leading to the bunker below. The walls were surrounded by a trench of log spikes, originally intended to be able to trap zombies with an outer wall lip that can climbed on from the outside of the spike trench. The idea was, zombies would get shredded in the trench.

That idea fell apart immediately. The zombies all rushed to the front door. Even with me trying to futilely repair it, I couldn't keep them from breaking through. By then, though, I had thinned their numbers out enough. Rather than retreat to the underground bunker, as I cannot yet craft concrete to repair it(also, I'd be trapped), I retreated up the walls, where I spent the rest of the night waiting for zombies to climb up the ladder, whereupon I conked them on the head with a spiked club. Went out to the trench in the morning to loot the dead and dispose of the corpses with an axe.

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7 Days to Die. Certainly got some ideas on how to rebuild the shack, that's for sure.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on September 30, 2018, 11:06:18 pm

I beat the eight mavericks while only dying about 50 times.  I even rescued like half of the reploids and got 5 of the 8 armor parts in the process.  I consider this a serious achievement.

Next weekend I should be able to finish the game and never look back.

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Mega Man X6

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 01, 2018, 10:07:17 pm

I drew a frigging perfect left curly brace. This is the first time in years that I've been able to make one of those that isn't a complete disgrace. I'm almost loathe to submit the assignment it was for. I'll just have to settle for photocopying it for posterity.

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Real life. Now if only the matching right curly brace didn't look like a particularly malformed three...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on October 02, 2018, 02:13:29 pm

Beaten Light Black Gates mission aka most lame, stupid and underwhelming mission in the entire game.

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Battle for middle earth

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 03, 2018, 01:33:04 am

This is probably less me owning, and more my team sucking, but getting top damage or near it two games in a row with Ash is hilarious. The only champion with worse weapon DPS than her is Fernando, and he has a really good damage ability and passive to compensate for it.

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on October 03, 2018, 02:02:51 am

Quote from: Arx on October 03, 2018, 01:33:04 am

Fernando

Just get me that chimp, Fernando, because if you do...

... there'll be another case of filthy drug money for you

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 03, 2018, 01:06:42 pm

I need to go back and play MGS3 now. Gonna do it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 03, 2018, 05:33:00 pm

Helped take out a nigh-invulnerable Orbital Strike base near The Ascent. It was situated in a crater so that a single shield dome made it nearly impossible to enter, but it apparently ran out of fuel so it went down.

Came back to The Ascent, found that it was cut off from the network and 2 minutes until capture by the NC. Helped completely recapture it, though it never did get re-linked. Held for the entirety of an Aerial Anomaly event that had hovered right in front of the base. The capper to all of this was me charging up a hill towards an NC Heavy Assault and Medic duo, getting on their side. In the panic, the Heavy shot the Medic who was the only thing keeping him alive.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on October 03, 2018, 06:30:03 pm

I beat

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Ulysses

, turns out the difference between a hard fight and an easy one is

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hacking his eyebots onto your side

Fallout New Vegas

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 03, 2018, 10:30:15 pm

The world is "free"? A laughable superstition!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on October 04, 2018, 03:47:49 am

Completed the iron marches jumping challenge for the daily today (yesterday?) in one try.  Didn't miss a single jump, and the character size changing shenanigans didn't mess with me one bit. 

It was taking so long for my friends to do it that I logged on to another character and got to the challenge itself from the adjacent zone (turns out the 2nd character didn't have the nearby waypoint unlocked so I had to hoof it there from the adjacent zone) and one shot it AGAIN on a second character before either of the friends I was doing the daily with completed it even once.

They told me it's no wonder I'm looking forward to the notoriously hard mad king's tower jumping challenge coming back this Halloween.  I want to repeatedly beat it with superhuman precision jumping skills and laugh at their pathetic failure.

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 04, 2018, 09:40:00 am

No. The saga has not concluded.

And yet it has not survived either. It is but a puppet of corporations that wish to line their pockets.

Leave the saga behind. Move on to other games. Look back upon your experiences here with fondness... for that is all you can do now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 04, 2018, 10:47:14 am

Quote from: AzyWng on October 04, 2018, 09:40:00 am

And yet it has not survived either.

Ohh, I get it now.
Metal Gear Revengeance was really good though!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on October 04, 2018, 01:22:19 pm

Revengeance was really fun... not really a MGS game though, if you know what I'm saying?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 04, 2018, 03:01:51 pm

They could continue Metal Gear Rising to explain what happens to the world after Metal Gear Solid.  The series already went through a transformation from Metal Gear into MGS, it could go through another.

But yeah, MGS proper is done, the story of Big Boss ended with a game that has amazing gameplay but a sour conclusion to the story.  The story of Snake from the earlier games is also conclusively wrapped up and I can't imagine what else there'd be to say.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on October 04, 2018, 03:09:26 pm

Last time I owned in a game, was when I was playing Dark Souls and I spent 30 minutes without dying... I was really impressed on how the hell did I manage to do it! My average is of 3 to 5 deaths per minute.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arcvasti on October 04, 2018, 06:06:22 pm

I played a perfect game. No objectives failed, no pilots killed, no civilian damage at all. No more places to put reactor cores, maxed grid defense and with a core and two reputation left over. To be fair, I was using a custom squad consisting of Aegis Mech, Rocket Mech and A.C.I.D. Mech, so not as impressive as it could be. I also shamelessly abused Ice Generator and Self-Destruct plus Viscera Nanobots to deal with otherwise impossible situations. I still feel like this is an own though.

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(https://i.imgur.com/kI9BbCe.png)

Into the Breach

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 04, 2018, 07:35:57 pm

Good! now do it in under 30 minutes! ;D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 05, 2018, 10:46:18 am

Quote from: GPeter on October 04, 2018, 03:09:26 pm

Last time I owned in a game, was when I was playing Dark Souls and I spent 30 minutes without dying... I was really impressed on how the hell did I manage to do it! My average is of 3 to 5 deaths per minute.

Try using magic. I played 2 as a mage and blew through the first half of the game damn near on accident. Just kite like a motherfucker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on October 05, 2018, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 05, 2018, 10:46:18 am

Quote from: GPeter on October 04, 2018, 03:09:26 pm

Last time I owned in a game, was when I was playing Dark Souls and I spent 30 minutes without dying... I was really impressed on how the hell did I manage to do it! My average is of 3 to 5 deaths per minute.

Try using magic. I played 2 as a mage and blew through the first half of the game damn near on accident. Just kite like a motherfucker.

In Dark Souls, Mages are for pussys who can't dodge enemy attacks, real men charge the enemy!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 05, 2018, 03:18:23 pm

No armor no spells strength weapons only final destination.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 05, 2018, 06:09:55 pm

Or just play an actually good game /lol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 05, 2018, 06:24:13 pm

i bet you play farmville

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 05, 2018, 07:01:07 pm

It's called Kittens Game and it's better than Dark Souls
(Just kidding I broke free at some point...  Which actually counts as an own, probably)
Kittens Game

I trapped a predator, tracker, and defender in the first half of the ship using a friend's breach grenade launcher.  That mission took a while, but was worth the glory - particularly the bonus for being blacklisted from shops.
Heat Signature

I discovered you can subvert telepads
Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 06, 2018, 10:41:02 am

I beat some challenge modes in SUPER. HOT. which is a rad game that I just got.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 07, 2018, 08:01:40 am

Quote from: GPeter on October 05, 2018, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 05, 2018, 10:46:18 am

Quote from: GPeter on October 04, 2018, 03:09:26 pm

Last time I owned in a game, was when I was playing Dark Souls and I spent 30 minutes without dying... I was really impressed on how the hell did I manage to do it! My average is of 3 to 5 deaths per minute.

Try using magic. I played 2 as a mage and blew through the first half of the game damn near on accident. Just kite like a motherfucker.

In Dark Souls, Mages are for pussys who can't dodge enemy attacks, real men charge the enemy! pragmatic badass motherfuckers who don't do that testosterone fuelled bullshit

FTFY~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 07, 2018, 11:39:19 am

Night 14 horde. Changed up the battleplan, removed the front door, added a door a few blocks up, and built a building extension for a stairway. Access requires going through the extension, up the stairs, across a catwalk over a spike pit, through the new door, and down another flight of stairs. Less convenient, but it works.

Just prior to nightfall, had to deal with a random horde consisting mostly of soldiers. While they wrecked the spike moat and even took out part of the wall corner, I did loot a ~150-quality sniper rifle off of one. After fixing the spikes, I removed the catwalk and sealed myself in. When night fell, the zombies charged right into spikes. Most died to the spikes, but I finished a few off with the rifle. All in all, damage took about half the day to fix, including corpse removal. Only one zombie attacked the main entrance, and he died to the spikes on the door.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

7 Days to Die. It's strange, I've yet to see any spider zombies in any of these hordes. In my previous playthroughs, I got spider zombies on the 7th-night hordes. Not that it matters, since the whole place is protected against climbers, although I do need to replace some of the blocks with arrow slits to create murderholes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on October 08, 2018, 07:48:37 am

I hijacked a ship and blasted another ship into pieces with it. Felt cathartic. Unfortunately, the path to my pod was broken, so I couldn't plunder the ship-bits. :(

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Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on October 08, 2018, 09:29:18 am

I figured out that the Blade Armor's sword attack actually does not suck (against the final boss anyway), unlike the buster attack, which let me actually beat the game.  I feel like beating this game was an accomplishment in and of itself...

[spoiler]Mega Man X6.[/spoiler[

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 08, 2018, 03:07:06 pm

I killed Flamma day 29, Hories 30, and Nemesis day 31.

Colosseum Road to Freedom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on October 08, 2018, 11:12:51 pm

I took a "Hard" assassination mission. I was not up to the task, so I took a ship and blasted my target's ship into pieces, then let her suffocate. And this is how you complete an assassination mission without boarding your target's ship.

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Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 09, 2018, 09:09:52 am

Capture, rescue, and steal missions all carry the risk of you destroying the thing you’re supposed to pick up.

The harder Glory missions feature ships immune to being shot at by other ships.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on October 09, 2018, 10:29:12 am

Yeah, it's only useful for assassinations or piracy, where you blast ships apart and plunder their remains for items to sell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on October 09, 2018, 12:23:50 pm

Started as a tiny one-provincial Duke of Lippe, managed to survive all the way to 19th century to form and unite Germany.

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Europa Universalis III Let's Play (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=171362.msg7854538#msg7854538)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on October 09, 2018, 12:38:33 pm

Dark Souls 2. Got my mom(skill level: panics at unexpected zombie in unconvenient place in Minecraft, pretty much) to play this game, expecting her to die horribly in hilarious ways for few times.  :P Picked explorer class. Collectively (on one computer, with me mostly helping on tower with heide knight) breezed trough from Majula to Cardinal Tower bonfire in one go, without dieng once. This same path has taken me... 3, +-1 hours to beat when i was playing alone for the first time. There was also 25 lifegems left, so it's not like we get over the limit of non-explorer character. Sure, i played it on "hard mode" and as a mage without casting spells much but... MADNESS.
Sadly, we died in Things Betwixt from falling into the pits of doom 2 times (i had many deaths in archer pit there. After having many deaths from ogres, though), so even if we would have somehow managed to beat the game without dieng on sheer noob's luck, there will be no tasty ring.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 09, 2018, 12:57:38 pm

I make my cousin play scary games like resident evil because at some point she will get a jump scare and literally fall backwards while throwing the controller up in the air. It's very fun. For me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 10, 2018, 04:47:13 am

There are no brakes on the Ash fragging train. At this rate, it's only a matter of time before I not only outdamage main DPS characters, but also do it flashily enough to get top plays. After all, why play snipers when you could just blast people with a flak cannon? (http://paladins.guru/match/pc/279304909)

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 10, 2018, 05:03:41 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 08, 2018, 03:07:06 pm

I killed Flamma day 29, Hories 30, and Nemesis day 31.

Colosseum Road to Freedom

And Ursus dies day 33 because scheduling.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 10, 2018, 08:38:05 pm

Athena does not play fair. Mission is a 2v1, with her "partner" being an insane old guy. Numerous attempts at this mission, yet I kept getting overwhelmed. This attempt, I push out as many Brutes and Archers as post-humanly possible, and rush the old guy, killing him quickly.

According to the Steam boards, Athena can only take one route to your base. This is only true if you consider conventional, ground-based attacks. No, she has a very nasty habit of dropping Drone Swarm orbitals directly on control points; necessitating I build jammers on each one. She also had a nastier habit of sending a bombing runs to specifically kill a particular jammer in the region next to my Nexus - it'd get targeted even if I rebuilt it. AA guns are useless. I still manage to secure 2/3rds of the map, fortify with jammers, and load up the economy base in each region.

I begin pushing towards her Nexus. I had to abort one charge due to the Dreadnought leading the charge suddenly taking massive amounts of damage, then again, then blowing up. I just looked it up, and that is another Substrate orbital ability that specifically snipes Dreadnoughts. Finally get to the second-to-last region before Athena's Nexus, stop to build some factories, and push forward with two large armies lead by 2 Dreadnoughts: a Hyperion and Prometheus. Both armies swamp the massive pile of structures in their way, but when it came time to push the Nexus, both armies just evaporated, leaving the two Dreadnoughts. Dreads are damaged, but the Hyperion has its repair drones ability, keeping both alive. Managed a final breakthrough by sending a strategic bomber on a suicide run, giving vision to the Dreads(and taking a couple guns out before it went down), and allowing them to focus fire on the Nexus.

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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 11, 2018, 08:50:14 am

I got the shotgun by climbing some pipes while being my usual, "must explore every nook and cranny" self. Then I checked online, apparently what I did is recommended as one of the first things to do.

Also fuck corrupt operators. I'd rather fight phantoms and mimics all day

Prey

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 11, 2018, 08:17:15 pm

Took a defector mission. Went in with a Quiet Armor-Piercing Concussion Shotgun, a Self-Charging Glitch Trap, and a Self-Charging Swapper. Those last two work well together.

Since I normally use melee weapons(main character has a nice Concussion Hammer), going with ammo-limited firepower made me nervous. Screwed up early on in the mission by teleporting the guy with the Lvl.1 security key outside the ship. Had to swap with the guy carrying the Lvl.2 key through the airlock, waste several more guards, then deal with the keyholder. Tripped an alarm, took out the captain, then accidentally in front of five guards... next to an explosive part. That blasted me out into space as well. Somehow made it back on the ship, fought through numerous rooms of more guards, stole the thing I was stealing. In a bit of stupidity, I decided to needlessly kill another guard by blowing up another explosive room.... which sucked me out into space again. Got picked up by my pod again, and headed home.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Heat Signature. I only very recently discovered to room pieces that look like bundles of TNT actually ARE explosives... by accidentally shooting one when trying to nail a guard with a lethal shot. No, it didn't suck me into space. I just jumped out anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 11, 2018, 08:28:54 pm

Haha yeah the explosive bits were super disorienting for me at first, since they're triggered by (lethal) bullets from both you and the enemy.  There's a little fuse animation but I definitely didn't notice it the first few times, and was very confused.

Since for deep internal breaches you're usually almost instantly landed back into the ship, wondering "Where the hell's my roof?" AKA "What just even?"

Melee weapons are bae, particularly once you realize how powerful throwing is.  It's almost too good, but it is very action-movie and can go wrong.  I rarely used ranged weapons until this update added the ex-OffworldSec bonus, where I use stun shotgunS and an impact hammer and get really upset when I fail to save anybody from their inventive stupidity.

I love this update, just wow.
I did well on yesterday's daily, where glitching makes you pass out for a couple seconds (arguably not the worst side effect :P).  Only bought a keycloner, and only for the final segment.
The key is that when they say "nonlethal weapon required"...  They aren't taking windows into account.  Anyone your pod picks up is mysteriously sedated.  Good trick for armored abduction targets.

Edit:
I captured a VIP (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1536523526) without realizing it.  $$$

Mount & Blade Warband

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 11, 2018, 10:47:10 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on October 11, 2018, 08:28:54 pm

Mount & Blade Warband

He was, as best as I can tell, the only bachelor with holdings who wasn't a complete and utter asshole.  No town or castle, but at least he had two villages.

He was also, to be fair, respectful.  Not the trite flowery "chivalry" BS, but a moderate level of flattery and respect at my bizarre status.  *acknowledging* said status, with confusion and interest.

Being an outsider with only the one village by my sword, his courtship was sufficient that I knew we could continue as equals.

I know own his holdings - border villages ignored by most.  And that's why they're valuable.  The Sunnate will ebb and fall, but Iqbayl and Fishara will only fall if I drop the ball very intentionally for hours of real time.
The only question is how to gain the title for the city of those villages.  Distant Bariyye.

How did I last own?  A marriage of availability, beard, wine, and fellowship in battle. 
And now I own those villages, with him.

Mount & blade Warband

Edit:  Let it be known!  I only had the one village, but I saved him from the Khergit creeps.  And his uncle, on an unrelated occasion, and also two other battle-siblings on other occasions!

I am the BEST shieldmaiden, THE FIRST HUMANKIND ALL OVER THE WORLD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 11, 2018, 11:58:06 pm

I really, really wanted to play as Carbon Concept again.  His partner had personal mission to rescue him, but said partner was dying (presumably of some terminal illness).  I have never tried harder in my life.  The result was... well, see for yourself:

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/948463478487017588/C6CE8FBE6EEC5A4EEDFCD1349E05924A600C6C91/)

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Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 14, 2018, 01:51:34 pm

Mistake missions are... aptly named. Contract details showed guards lacking anything more than Glitch Dash, no armor or lethal weapons. Contractors aboard the ship looked simple enough, Defenders and Jammers. Alarm response was light reinforcements. Mission was to assassinate.

Unfortunately, a Defender coming into range just as I was striking screwed up the whole thing, and now more Defenders and Jammers were teleporting in. Nowhere near enough Subverter charges to take them out. Got knocked out, and thrown out the airlock. Came back in... and knocked out. Now the airlock room was getting crowded. Caught a break when I learned that if anyone but the guy tossing you out is standing by the airlock door when you get tossed, they go out too. The first time, it was the Defender who tossed me out, because he got shot(despite the shield) in the back by a turret I subverted. The next time, four normal guards got sucked out. Numbers thinned, I finally pushed through, and was able to kill the target before getting tossed out the airlock again.

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Heat Signature. I bet Javik would LOVE this mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on October 15, 2018, 06:18:19 am

I had this terror mission. the aliens were attacking Rio de Janeiro. I sent a full squad of brazilians soldiers to defend their country, and the mission was a complete sucess, my guys hit shots that I've never seen them do it. But eventually one of them got cornered by 3 chryssalids. I gave him as dead already but forgot he had the "Close Combat Specialist" ability. I ended with 3 chryssalids dead and a badass soldier.

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XCOM - Enemy Unknown

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 15, 2018, 07:11:01 pm

I incapacitated Dahl with the stun gun and saved Elazar.

Oh, I spent the entire last 30 minutes sprinting past everyone with lvl3 mobility, no spare ammo for anything but the Q-beam, and 20 health. Considering phantoms do fucking 65 damage with a single hit, I'd say I'm kicking ass.

Prey

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on October 16, 2018, 03:57:38 am

I've managed to castrate my unimpressive (both stat and trait-wise) son in a first try using "Mutilate Prisoner" option.

Crusader Kings 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on October 16, 2018, 04:15:16 am

Finally did my personal mission! It involved using my self-charging subverter, all of the charges of my rechargeable long-range crashbeam, all of the charges of my stealth shield, and 3 breach grenades. But I rescued my boyfriend.

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Heat Signature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on October 16, 2018, 07:43:23 pm

Calamity Ganon is ded. First try baybee.

The Legend of Zelda: Donkey Breath

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 16, 2018, 08:00:46 pm

Tony

Send in the boulder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 17, 2018, 08:12:52 am

I beat the game in the most empathetic way, without killing any humans but 37 who doesn't count somehow.

Prey

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on October 17, 2018, 10:11:43 pm

WOOP WOOP.  I got my 4th Boss Cell in Dead Cells.  Game Plus Plus Plus Plus here I come!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on October 18, 2018, 09:56:51 pm

Marched an army from Khazad-dum straight to the Morannon, with a small (casualty-free) stop to free the castle in Anorien from Mordor's control. This army is made of Mithril-clad Guardians (axe and shield) and Reclaimers (throwing axes and two-hand-axe), Sons of the Fallen (an elite spear unit), Blacklock Engineers (elite crossbow unit), two Dwarven Catapults (have lots of frankly OP tricks), two Dwarven General's Bodyguards (one-hand-axe, high armor), and Balin's Guard (Armor-piercing hammer and shield, probably the highest armor value in the game save for MAYBE a bestial unit [troll, Oliphaunt, etc.]).

The Witch-king himself was holding the Gates. This guy will make Snaga (weakest unit in the game, stats of 0s and 1s) fight to the death. I lost 65 Dwarves taking the Black Gates, to a total enemy loss of 1195. The Witch-king himself and his entire bodyguard never killed a single Dwarf---the catapults' shotgun/grapeshot ability minced his unit and killed him before he reached the lines.

DaC submod for TA:TW

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on October 19, 2018, 01:28:28 am

Fought off a terror mission. On its own, this is only mildly an own, especially since one of my A-team was killed by a grenade (seriously, 65 damage, and the worst part was she were only visible thanks to a Reaper that got one tile around the corner).

Where it got spicy was when my shield threw down her protection, whipped out a stun baton, and proceeded to beat three of the super-durable lizard people into submission. Including their officer, who took a hefty three strikes to take down, and then another two aliens when they rushed me and I discovered how reliable stun sticks are if you've got the TU to use them. I considered this justifiable revenge for her teammate's death - as much as it pains me, I'll happily trade one rifle for a new research project and a successful terror mission.

... and then the end screen pops up, and my lone casualty was successfully revived. So, in the end, nobody died, I got an officer, and my front-liner got a taste for melee violence!

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Xenonauts. I had to throw down the shield to vault a fence, since apparently you can't vault low walls with a shield equipped. The story would be much less awesome if she was defending behind a riot shield while beating aliens down, though!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: birdy51 on October 19, 2018, 08:22:17 am

Six year old Emperor Bouchard survived no less than six separate attempts by his Regent, King Henri the IV and his great-uncle, until the mad King was arrested and thrown into the dungeons after trying to stab the boy in his room. While I wasn't exactly expecting this outcome, it is in fact much cooler than just straight up dying I suppose!

Crusader Kings II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KittyTac on October 19, 2018, 09:42:55 am

My target was playing Binding of Isaac and stayed silent the whole game. So I just told the town that it's a flimsy excuse and they lynched him. He was playing BoI. Easy executioner win.

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Town of Salem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 19, 2018, 01:19:58 pm

Nah.

I once said I investigated the guy and he came up mafia and they lynched him.

I also one time had my target be confirmed town on the first night, so swings and roundabouts I s’pose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on October 19, 2018, 01:23:47 pm

I once was playing as a Jester, and a framer made me look like I was mafia, people voted to lynch me, people lynched me. On the night, I randonly picked someone to kill, guess who I got? The Framer.

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Town of Salem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on October 19, 2018, 02:50:38 pm

Is claiming Jester when you are a Jester still the best way to get executed?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on October 19, 2018, 03:45:42 pm

Quote from: Persus13 on October 19, 2018, 02:50:38 pm

Is claiming Jester when you are a Jester still the best way to get executed?

Nah, Mafia will kill you for sure.


I once had a game where I was Medium, and another guy claimed Medium. I was jailed, I claimed Medium and the Jailor killed me. I then proceeded to tell him about the other guy who claimed Medium, and he executed him as well, turns out the other guy was acctually medium too... welp, i think I fucked up the match :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on October 19, 2018, 05:37:16 pm

I have finished Dead Cells.  Apparently there are no more boss cells, but I did manage to finish the game with 4 boss cells activated.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

4 boss cells is ridiculous.  Any time an enemy(or boss) hits you you gain a point of malaise.  10 points and you are dead.  You can cure 5 points with a potion, but since its hard to get potions its pretty crazy.  To win I used the exact same strategy as 3 cells though.

I put pretty much all my points into the green stat, and had a Symmetrical Lance, Ice Bow, and two tonics.  The tonics were useful for shields, which protects me from hits.  I also took the mutation that gives you a shield after using a potion.  I fucked up too many times in the boss fight though and just barely made it.  One more hit and I was dead since I had 9 malaise.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on October 19, 2018, 08:37:46 pm

Met a like-minded individual using proximity chat to taunt the VC, and both of us happened to pick combat engineers fitted with flamethrowers.

What followed was a bunch of nonsense shouting in our worst Macho Man/Hulk Hogan impressions while also clearing positions of opposition.

While we were pretty solid, the best part was actually when he accidentally killed out squad lead. All I hear is a GI screaming and this dude go "OH NO, BROTHER!" and we finally cracked, having been in character that whole time. He kept telling me to kill him and i kept refusing. Mind you this was in the open while trying to cap an objective, so obviously we were cut down amid our giggle fits.

Most fun I've had in a game in a long time, and that's an own for me.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 20, 2018, 04:27:00 pm

Caterpie was poisoned, but took down Wade's Weedle with 11HP left. Hopefully enough to make it to the Violet City Pokemon Center.

I stepped in front of the counter just as the screen flashed for poison damage on the very last of Caterpie's hitpoints, and talked to the nurse without having Caterpie fainting.

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Pokemon Crystal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 20, 2018, 08:11:38 pm

Fully upgraded shotgun + firearms 2 > all the fucking typhon

Prey

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 21, 2018, 10:00:19 pm

Olivine City's steel gym is "obviously" weak against fire.  But to be clever, the Crystal Clear developers threw in a Wartortle (later a Blastoise).
Good thing I'm obsessed with grass types, Houndour starter aside.

Also, my Sunflora has Sunny Day...  it's not your day *swaps back to Cerby*

Pokemon Crystal Clear, 9/16 badges.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 23, 2018, 04:53:13 pm

Beat Falkner. His team's levels are lower than I anticipated, but Cyndaquil and Pidgey still dropped because despite taking 3 Smokescreens, his Pidgeotto's Gust kept hitting every time. It only missed once against Growlithe, which is probably what allowed for the win, as the rest of my team is slower and weak to Flying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Crystal. Kinda sucks you can't get Mareep in this version, meaning there's almost no Electric-types until past Morty I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on October 23, 2018, 05:34:39 pm

won a few matches of overwatch on ps4 but the highlight was using my headset and speaking at length exclusively in a austin powers accent bc life is too short for worries

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 23, 2018, 06:46:26 pm

I have a deep voice so I used to pretend to be a smexy romantic radio DJ.

Awwww ye

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 23, 2018, 06:51:41 pm

I just hurl abuse in a heavy Scottish accent.

That’s just what I do every day though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 23, 2018, 06:53:01 pm

If you combine these two things you could probably just confuse everyone into losing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 26, 2018, 05:08:19 am

First time playing naval. Crazy fun, and actually managed not to suck. Even got the last kill of the match.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 30, 2018, 01:33:21 pm

Finally powered through the dragon gym at 15/16 badges.  I tried to use a Cloyster for ice, but I kept getting sick of trying to level it, and it's so slow.  And the gym had a Kingdra anyway which is ONLY weak to dragon.  Besides, I had Raikou with Thunder and Spark which would work for the flying dragonites - I forgot that dragon actively resists electricity.

Made it anyway, with a combination of Raikou Xatu (Natella) and Houndour (Cerby).  Raikou and Xatu were even fairly underlevelled.

Then I finally beat the water gym, which I'd saved for last/full power.  It was almost *easier* now, because Misty sorta dropped the pretense of focusing on water.  There were like 3 ice, a quagsire, and yaknow just Lugia hanging out as flying/psychic.  Fortunately my overlevelled Houndour is very good against ice types and psychic types.  Sorta disappointing... I even put Sunny Day on Raikou to set up Celebi with Solar Beam, and I only got to use it on the Quagsire really.  Still felt good, depowered the water attacks, and empowered the flamethrower.

So at that point the Elite 4 was pretty underlevelled, which is fair considering it unlocked at 8/16 badges.  But there was one sticking point...  A Blissey, bane of Pokemon GO and now Crystal Clear, with:
Soft-boiled
Heal Bell
Light Screen
Ice Beam

carrying leftovers.  And enemy pokemon have unlimited PP in this gen, so it happily kept spamming Soft-Boiled to heal ~2/3 health whenever it was significantly damaged.
I tried... various things.  Flash doesn't reduce accuracy for self-targetting moves.  Psychic reduced its SPC Def once, but never again, and the light screen was practically constant and extreme.  Spamming Flamethrower and Crunch were complete no-goes, doing about 1/8 health a turn.  Raikou managed to paralyze it twice, but it just Heal Belled (never lost a turn to it either).

I was about to try ice beam from my pathetically underlevelled Cloyster, which could barely survive Blissey's ice beam, when I remembered my Marowak with thick club.  Even lower level, but it freakin worked.  Might have died from a single ice beam, but the Blissey kept trying to heal or light screen instead.  Hehe...

Pokemon Crystal Clear - cleared!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 30, 2018, 04:51:13 pm

Muscle vs Omnicidal Hell-Cow.

I miscalculated how much damage the fourth hit of Rollout would do to the Machop, but Miltank was barely hanging on herself. I sent out Pidgey, nearly screwed EVERYTHING up by accidentally selecting Gust instead of Quick Attack(Miltank was faster), but luckily the last shot from Rollout missed. Which was a good thing since nearly my entire team would instantly die to Rollout otherwise.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Crystal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on October 31, 2018, 08:18:32 pm

Imma do something different. The name of the thing will be unspoiled, and there will be two spoilers afterwards. These are real legit spoilers for something released recently, so if you look at them it's all on you.

Delta Rune.

Spoiler: Minor Spoiler, the ownage (click to show/hide)

Defeated a very difficult, apparently bonus boss. Took more than a few tries but eventually prevailed.

Spoiler: Big Spoiler (highlight for text) (click to show/hide)

Holy fuck Jevil. Hits like a truck, has some attack patterns that feel impossible to properly dodge, can easily take down two party members on some of the nastier attacks. Still. I took him down non-violently. At least the music is kinda catchy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 01, 2018, 05:27:29 am

Had bots driving a jeep while I manned the HMG on the back. As we were driving over a small bump, a fully-crewed Raven jeep tried to do a Dukes of Hazard-style jump by us on the same bump. I turned around and fired, killing all three before either of us hit the ground.

We were immediately blown up by an enemy TOW launcher after that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ravenfield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on November 02, 2018, 03:24:43 am

Spoiler: Maybe spoilers? (click to show/hide)

Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on November 02, 2018, 10:13:26 am

Quote from: Sirus on October 31, 2018, 08:18:32 pm

Spoiler: Big Spoiler (highlight for text) (click to show/hide)

Holy fuck Jevil. Hits like a truck, has some attack patterns that feel impossible to properly dodge, can easily take down two party members on some of the nastier attacks. Still. I took him down non-violently. At least the music is kinda catchy.

Spoiler: Still a deltarune (ie. the undertale sequel) spoiler (click to show/hide)

I managed to beat him on my first try, but I was extremely liberal with my items (Thank God for mints). In spite of a couple of lucky pirouettes where he ended up not attacking, it was still extremely close. All of my party members were one hit away from death and the only healing items I had left were the cake, a choco diamond, and the lancer cookie

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 02, 2018, 12:43:41 pm

Quote from: Greiger on November 02, 2018, 03:24:43 am

Spoiler: Maybe spoilers? (click to show/hide)

Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

Not scripted lol.  Its great that you thought so tho, and its certainly appropriate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 02, 2018, 02:01:30 pm

Finished Skittergate on Champion, which is kind of silly because it's the fourth Champion mission I finish ever.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 03, 2018, 04:32:04 pm

Quilava somehow took out a Hitmonchan a few levels higher... while frozen. He was able to burn Hitmonchan, got hit with Ice Punch, and survived until the flames brought Hitmonchan down.

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Pokemon Crystal. Silly me I thought Fire-types were immune to being frozen. Also I severely need to grind my team. Average level of 23 against Chuck's Lv.30 Poliwrath, won but only because of a Lv.25 Kadabra.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 03, 2018, 08:19:14 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 02, 2018, 12:43:41 pm

Quote from: Greiger on November 02, 2018, 03:24:43 am

Spoiler: Maybe spoilers? (click to show/hide)

Assassin is going to find the avenger next month easily.  I have been letting her run loose too long and an unlucky full party daze was enough for her to jump in and steal some intel from a soldier that gave just enough for her to be over the top in a month.  No idea what would happen, but I didn't take any chances, I rushed all my resources into getting as many of my A-Team soldiers in fighting condition, better equipped, and finding the way into her alien base.

I start the mission, not quite all of the A-Team is ready so I have to take a squaddie.   I ace it.  First try, no casualties.  Not like the enemies are weak either, these are all newer enemy types, one alien I hadn't even seen before.  Only Mox and my Grenadier are badly injured, the low level squaddie is completely untouched.  And I met requirements for Mox and Outrider to be bondmates for the trouble, though I suspect it's scripted to be that way once you take out assassin.

X-Com2: WOTC

Not scripted lol.  Its great that you thought so tho, and its certainly appropriate.

Speaking of XCOM 2, I just finished like seven flawless missions in a row, got fucked up a bit on the Blacksite but still beat it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 08, 2018, 04:06:23 pm

Designed a partial steam-powered metal ship that can launch itself out of the water at only 6% of its drive setting and 100% fuel burn rate.

While normally a sea-going ship trying to become a spaceship is normally a bad thing, this does represent a significant improvement on using steam-based engines. It's also not a finished vessel yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths. It irritates me to no end that you can't interchange differently-sized parts. It also irritates me you cannot change the direction of a shaft line.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 08, 2018, 05:24:01 pm

Things that could cause a flying boat in FtD:

Your ship is back heavy;
Your propellers are under the center of mass and are acting like a lever to flip the nose upwards;
or you have flat surfaces in the front of the ship.

Not criticism, just advice.  When its done you should put a picture in the FtD thread.  Also WTF did the update do to naval propulsion, there's no way you could have done that by accident under the old system.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on November 08, 2018, 05:33:01 pm

If you're not in the know, there's new water props you can connect to steam engines.  They are quite stronk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 08, 2018, 05:37:01 pm

I know there's a certain threshold of power where it suddenly goes from around 12m/s to loop-de-loop, but I can't find it. Doesn't help that steam pressure takes so long to change.

Propellers are almost certainly under center-of-mass though. Definitely not back-heavy, as I put a lot of weight into the front plus an ACB to manage air-pump buoyancy for this exact problem. My understanding is, steam propellers are frickin' powerful. And I'm using three 3m ones. Might explain why they cost 5000mt each.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 08, 2018, 09:21:33 pm

In my experience if there's a loop-de-loop threshold, that indicates a deeper problem that will show up later.

Just imagine your boat is a model being held up by a string from its center.  If you put your finger on the propeller and pushed the model forward, which way would it turn?  For example if your propellors were on the left side of your ship pushing it would cause the model's nose to tip to the right.  Since your propellors are on the bottom, imagine if you pushed the model forward from below.  It would cause the nose to tip upwards.  This causes the props to change orientation upwards and thus the boat goes out of the water.

A good boat should have the center of mass *slightly* lower than the propellers.  That way the boat is constantly tipping down.  But as the front of the boat submerges, the buoyancy increases, and as a result the upward force on the nose increases.  In calm water at any (reasonable) speed, the nose will always remain stable.  Boat speeds up, buoyancy increases.  It stays in equilibrium.  Your boat doesn't stay in equilibrium, because as the nose exits the water the buoyancy decreases but so does the water resistance.  Water places greatly more drag on a vehicle than air.  As your vehicle noses up, it wants to do two things.  The sudden decrease in buoyancy makes your boat want to fall.  But the sudden decrease in drag makes it want to speed up.  At low velocities falling wins and your nose goes back down.  At high velocities going forwards wins, and since your nose is aiming upwards that means the boat goes upwards.  That's your loop de loop threshold.  Put a bunch of lead at the lowest and most forward point on your vehicle, I guarantee it will speed up despite being heavier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 10, 2018, 12:21:28 pm

Took above advice, and several hull designs later finally got a metal steamship that can go about 15m/s without becoming a rollercoaster. It noses up, but not far. Some quick research puts that near the speeds of many modern destroyers today. That'll drop down once I arm it, of course. Max fuel consumption is 3mt a second, but I had to separate engineering and the boiler through the decks.

Also might have found a bug: deleting the only material storage doesn't starve the boilers of material if your avatar is still giving resources to the ship.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 11, 2018, 06:21:51 am

Turns out you can do some serious work with Macuddles even in pubs as long as your team has a semi-competent DPS and support to back you up. Getting to delete an enemy every nine and a half seconds as long as you don't mess up the hook is really strong, who'da thunk it.

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 11, 2018, 06:51:15 am

After getting defeated so many times in a row by the AI sometime with a large score difference and sometime frustratingly very close :D , i was so happy when i finally got a victory thanks to some nice imperium and rebel cards that boosted my score enough to win this one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Keldon's Race for the Galaxy AI
http://www.keldon.net/rftg/
(using the Rebel vs Imperium expansion level)

(https://i.imgur.com/jHqWHIjm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/jHqWHIj.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 11, 2018, 07:04:19 am

Due to insane good luck, I managed to mind control two gatekeepers and stomp the fuck out that whole base mission.

XCOM 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 12, 2018, 03:31:13 pm

I discovered that it is possible to haul 40k+ ironstone back to one's base in the span of 30m if you take the encumbrance perk tree to the very end in CONAN EXILES.

In like 2 trips.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 12, 2018, 04:39:12 pm

Speaking of lugging things, we attempted a raid on a gang headquarters - several blocks of slum dwellings which turned out to be full of snipers, mutant dogs, and psychos on spacedrugs wielding pipes and wrenches.  Since Xena cosplay doesn't actually stop high-powered rounds, we grabbed some wallets and drugs and ran.

Except this big doofus in clanky WoW armor stomped down the street, occasionally firing fricken plasma.  Fortunately he couldn't seem to aim worth a crap, and moved slowly.  Our piddly pocket lasers did nothing, but a warhammer to the back of the helmet did.  Grabbed his pistol and dragged him to the ship, ransomed him back later.  Piracy!

I also accidentally raided a ship of government agents, which is bad since they pay us protection money.  Fortunately I went less-lethal (out of greed), so there was little harm done - nice ransoms too.

XPiratez mod for OpenXCOM (NSFW (like actually NSFW))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 12, 2018, 05:18:11 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 12, 2018, 04:39:12 pm

I also accidentally raided a ship of government agents, which is bad since they pay us protection money.  Fortunately I went less-lethal (out of greed), so there was little harm done - nice ransoms too.

Heh, gotta remind them from time to time why they protection money.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 12, 2018, 06:24:43 pm

Heh, yep.  It was still a reputation hit to take them, but I got that back researching one of them.  ...Which at this point isn't even interrogation, the target just gives you a piece of common knowledge (basic history of a random world power, in this case) and a reputation bonus as they spread tales of yar fair dealin'.

Also apparently mutant pirates celebrate birthdays twice a year.  Why?  Because nobody can stop'em!
And the original 6 consider their birthday to be when they escaped the lab, since they have no idea how long they were there...  aw...  Double birthdays though!

Edit:  HA, I chose the same location as Boltgun did in their 2015 LP (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151935.0) (spoilers, presumably, I didn't read far)
The Carrrrribean!  Cuba, even.
It's definitely a bit non-optimal, but it'd be weird if a bunch of experiments landed in the midwest and went full-pirate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 13, 2018, 02:31:53 pm

This is absolutely no reflection on my personal skill on any level, but:

"Blizzarisk Clutch Mother self-tamed"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rimworld, with the alpha animals mod.  Blizzarisks are giant spiders that fire stunning/freezing webs, have a very dangerous bite, and are extraordinarily hard to tame.  They can also be ridden and milked for synthread.  Blizzarisk clutch mothers on the other hand don't produce synthread, they just lay rapid hatching blizzarisk eggs.  Looks like I'm going to start the synthread road...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 14, 2018, 09:05:53 am

Shredstorm cannon vs. A pod of advent

It's like using a puntgun in a gunfight. I killed all three of them and the building behind them.

XCOM 2

Also my Psi-Operative is named Magus Encarnacion "Prophet" Santiago. Which is a badass name.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 15, 2018, 12:22:47 am

Quietly snuck through a lecture hall and adjacent storefront in Karachi to wipe out a Beholder cell.  Took down eight enemy goons, including one of the two agents, and cleaned out all their classified documents and armaments before they had any more than a suspicion of our existence.  The last agent moved into a crowd of people while trying to track us down.  Agent Theremin shrugged, walked right up to the last agent in front of half a dozen civilians, and cold-cocked him, then slung him over one shoulder and walked out the front door with everyone shouting for police.  The team then jumped in the van and drove off long before his back-up could arrive.  Kingfish has just joined the queue of Beholder agents waiting for an interrogation, a blindfold, and a cigarette.  After the spoilery wringer he put us through, it's the least we could do in thanks. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Phantom Doctrine

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 15, 2018, 07:54:00 am

Took a mostly blind shot at an enemy tank - far enough that I didn't have the shot predictor, much less penetration indicator. About a second later, I see the "enemy hit" camera. Impact point was their (sitting exposed) tank commander's head. Less than half a second later, a friendly tank destroyed the enemy tank, giving me the assist point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder. Oh, and I was using an M18 Hellcat, which means 76mm gun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 17, 2018, 02:03:25 am

The Mayor's corruption had grown too great to be ignored. It had been bad enough when the Mayor immediately broke his vague promises of "lower taxes" and "more beer".

The disappointing party that The Mayor claimed would appease the people was another leaden weight on an already overburdened camel. The forlorn keg of alcohol and lone bag of tortilla chips may as well have been a double tap to the very heart of justice. Such lameness from The Mayor - A position that was, among other things, supposed to held by someone who was cool personified - was truly unthinkable.

And then, after such grevious abuses...

Came nothing.

My partner and I had been sitting at the same guard post for three months since the mayor's election. The occasional cannibal would break the endless tedium, but nothing could hold back the truth.

Being a soldier when there is no war is very, very boring.

We knew what we had to do.

The Resistance Leaders welcomed us with open arms, remarking offhandedly that perhaps we could be the ones to rid The City of the tyrant who ruled over it.

We accepted, and set out on our journey to the head of the beast.

After many explosions, much bumbling, and multiple partner deaths because he was playing the game for the second time...

We cut a bloody swath through the city and murdered the mayor. My buddy took his top hat and with it, his place as mayor - cementing his position with a speech about how guns don't kill people - and that artificial intelligence should be added to guns in order to resolve this issue.

We'd also completed the Big Quest of destroying all the generators on all the floors, and thus were Super Soldiers when the game ended.

Of course, the peace ushered in the wake of such a violent overthrowing of the previous regime could not last forever. Eventually, the mayor, who had already known the great power violence can bring, would grew lax and corrupt from the wealth, power, and bacon cheeseburgers.

That's when people would realize it was time for a new Resistance to rise up. A new fight to begin. Another link in an endless chain of events. A beautiful thing to behold - or something that kind of defeats the entire purpose of existing, depending on who you asked and how drunk they were at the time.

But, for the moment, no-one was asking any questions.

The fighting had ended. And it was time for everyone to get down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue, Co-op.

I had to spend a lot of money reviving my partner, but I ended up with over five hundred money at the end of the game.

The Fud processor is extremely powerful, since you can just convert enemy weapons, syringes, rocks, and many other items into "Fud", an item that heals for very little but becomes very common once you get the "Fud" processor. Additionally, the Kill - izers (Kill Ammunizer, Kill Healtenizer, and Kill Profiteer) can help loads in the heat of combat and with saving on resourcecs (ammo and money especially).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on November 17, 2018, 03:30:35 am

Made fat policeman run around screaming and on fire while having bucket on his head. I'm still not entirely sure if it was some arcane combo (not like there are any), or rare side effect of slipping on banana peel.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Higurashi Daybreak. Satoko is fun, this kind of things procs. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 18, 2018, 09:10:06 am

Finally, managed to get a small-ish steam-propeller ship that goes 15m/s and doesn't backflip after building the upper deck structure(the ship mentioned in my last post about this did) and below-deck equipment(AI, material/ammo stores, turret housing), with no nose-lift. Currently no weapons, but I don't expect them to destabilize the design. Used a protruding keel and 2m slopes to widen the hull(horizontally). The front looks like a penis head somehow, and the paint job is terrible.

I'm not sure if it matters much, but I also used two reduction gears per propeller instead of one. Learned the hard way that you need a propeller shaft in between each reduction gear.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths

EDIT: Added main guns, three 2-gun turrets firing 120x1200mm HESH rounds(GP,GP,GP,GP,GP,GP,Base Bleeder,Stabilizer Fin,HE,HE,HE,Squash). Damage tests against a Marauder and Bastion were impressive. Despite only at 120mm gauge(one increaser), the otherwise durable armor of the Bastion showed multi-layer breaching on some shots, especially on the inner armor layer around its AI core.

Only performance loss noted came from having to shrink the boiler compartment slightly to fit the rear turret, which reduced the ship's max speed to 14m/s despite the engine still putting out around triple the power the propellers say need for maximum speed. Only things left are the detection suite, and the addition of an additional weapon: an AA autocannon. Also, still need to do a survivability test; everything above the waterline is paper for sure, but at least below deck should be hard to damage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depth again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 19, 2018, 02:14:56 pm

Pics of cool shipbuilding plz

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 20, 2018, 06:32:27 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on November 19, 2018, 02:14:56 pm

Pics of cool shipbuilding plz

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/K1oGuzh.png)

Added AA cannon; a dual-barrel 30mm flak gun with a steady output. Added radar tower, and added that applique armor.

Did a live combat test against a Bastion. Other than a direct hit shearing off the AA gun, the only real damage was the applique armor - the alloy walls underneath it were largely unharmed. Hits at the waterline bounced off or simply failed to damage. I also don't know how, but I managed to disable the Bastion's cannons very quickly, despite the front one at least being intact when I got close enough to examine it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on November 22, 2018, 03:52:02 am

Somewhere along the line, I appear to have become competent with Lian. Might actually be able to fill DPS once in a while without it being all but a throw pick.

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 22, 2018, 02:24:05 pm

Just defeated a full enemy stack packed with elite units with my own not-even-full stack of heavily damaged units.

Because Sword of Khaine is absurd, especially on an already killy Lord like Noctilus.

Total War: Warhammer 2 (as Vampire Coast (Noctilus) vs Lizardmen (Mazdamundi))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 22, 2018, 02:28:21 pm

I'm doing a forced Vlad/Isabella/Mannfred game and I just manipulated Kemmler into confederating via money and doubled my territory almost.

TWW2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 23, 2018, 08:23:21 pm

Double-post because wall of zombies.

A wall of zombies stretching with the Great Ocean to the furthest eastern mountains. Miles think, with sucking bogs and darkened skies, they stand alongside men and dwarves, vampires and the occasional orc, a bulwark against the inevitable invasion of Chaos.

I let the Empire keep Altdorf and some minor holdings, Brettonia holds the tip of their peninsula (heh) and no more, and I stretch from Lyonesse to Gnashrak's Lair.

TWW2

Edit: 398 orcs versus 257 undead resulted in 200 orcs escaping and no redead.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 24, 2018, 12:17:50 am

Got every last rare metal in Mega Man X8, which is a true accomplishment.  Some of them required some insanely painful things like taking ride armor through the whole stage, and if you failed to do the timing, jumping and punching in the exact right way, you have to exit the stage and reenter it because if you die you restart after where you can pick up the ride armor.  Every failure meant a ~2 minute delay to try again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 24, 2018, 05:40:48 pm

Using a Support Gunner class mod that basically means I literally cannot fire any gun short of an actual machine gun or SMG fast enough to have less than full ammo at any time. And that's in addition to several useful skill boosts.

Also going through the first DLC(main quest done), using a shotgun with around 55x6 damage with explosive effect, a high fire rate(still lower than ammo regen), and a generous magazine size. And the enemies in the first DLC are zombies. I started the DLC with a shotgun proficiency of 3, it's around 9 now and I've only started. I've also been using a 2-round revolver(now 3 rounds due to skill points) for most of the game, with a damage stat of around 250, and with an explosive effect that essentially doubles that. I've found a few revolvers with a higher damage, but nothing with explosive(or any other elemental) so the actual damage is less. It was a time-limited shop item that nearly cleaned out all my cash at the time, but it's been so worth it. Like, one-shotting Crimson Lance Infantry worth it.

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Borderlands.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on November 24, 2018, 06:17:49 pm

Revolvers are OP in Blands 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 24, 2018, 07:51:52 pm

Heh. Everything is if you get a good one :P.

Speaking of, replaced that revolver a short while ago with one with 452 damage. No explosive, but the damage is still higher. Slight accuracy loss and still two rounds, but meh. Also swapped out my previous sniper rifle for a Jakobs-model 600-damage one with a slightly higher accuracy than the previous. And the shotgun I mentioned, just replaced that with a non-explosive one, but does 103x9 damage, has a tighter spread and a larger magazine - this shotgun killed the DLC final boss in less than a minute. I've always felt that the shotgun is the natural predator to the zombie.

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Borderlands. The loot from Undead Ned was terrible, though I got a sweet SMG from his living self.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on November 25, 2018, 09:07:54 am

You haven't fought my continent-spanning nigh-infinite army of zombies obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 25, 2018, 09:52:27 pm

It's so weird having to tolerate 4 enemy bases on the globe.  Even the Trader's Guild base has Marsec Operatives roaming around with gauss weaponry and *intense* armor.  Not to mention the Guildmaster, who I haven't managed to even wound yet...  we've been doing kobold-style raids, grabbing bits of tech we can't even use.  Yet.  so pretty

But we finally got a good score, a large cargo vessel caught completely intact as it landed!  Spacious hull, engines rich with hellerium (sic), navigation AI, and we even captured the Guild engineer alive! 

I just can't help but feel silly about the actual cargo...
300 individually wrapped soylent.  We're basically building an assault craft out of a glorified semi-trailer.
yarrr

X-Piratez

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 25, 2018, 11:44:42 pm

That's what playing as pirates should be like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on November 26, 2018, 12:33:20 am

Beat Champion Gundyr on my first try fighting him ever.

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Dark Souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 28, 2018, 12:13:00 am

Started out wanting to build a dagger deck. Real simple idea, get lots of dagger cards and the dagger fate thing, that makes it so playing a dagger draws another card. So I proceeded through the game getting basically all the daggers and blowing all the monies on upgrading daggers.

Five floors in, I'm full up on fate slots and the dagger fate never showed up.

Alright, I says to myself. Screw you anyway. Plan Hobo Knife Fight is still a go.

And so I kept getting daggers and blowing money on upgrading daggers.

One (final) floor later and I've shanked the everything with my excessive amount of daggers, ruining the final boss in about three turns, taking no damage whatsoever from it. Welp.

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Fate Hunters. Pretty alright card game. The lack of damage was due more to the vaguely stupidly powerful chariot fate that more or less invalidates solo enemies, but.. whatever. The ten damage crits didn't exactly hurt. Hobo Knife Fight ftw.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 28, 2018, 06:53:21 am

HECK YEAH! I made it to Canada for the first time!
Unfortunately my self-insert character died heroically to keep the team alive in the second-last battle... but still, it was awesome, eh? Also one of my IRL friends was amongst the survivors, and he went on to make buttloads of money after inventing a poutine-powered car engine. Sweet.   
[INSERT CLICHÉD CANADIAN EXPRESSION OF RADNESS HERE]   

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Death Road to Canada

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 28, 2018, 12:35:02 pm

Quote from: Frumple on November 28, 2018, 12:13:00 am

Started out wanting to build a dagger deck. Real simple idea, get lots of dagger cards and the dagger fate thing, that makes it so playing a dagger draws another card. So I proceeded through the game getting basically all the daggers and blowing all the monies on upgrading daggers.

Five floors in, I'm full up on fate slots and the dagger fate never showed up.

Alright, I says to myself. Screw you anyway. Plan Hobo Knife Fight is still a go.

And so I kept getting daggers and blowing money on upgrading daggers.

One (final) floor later and I've shanked the everything with my excessive amount of daggers, ruining the final boss in about three turns, taking no damage whatsoever from it. Welp.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fate Hunters. Pretty alright card game. The lack of damage was due more to the vaguely stupidly powerful chariot fate that more or less invalidates solo enemies, but.. whatever. The ten damage crits didn't exactly hurt. Hobo Knife Fight ftw.

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(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/slay-the-spire/images/c/cb/InfiniteBlades.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20181016211834)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 28, 2018, 12:49:42 pm

The bandages are because he keeps cutting himself, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: GPeter on November 28, 2018, 01:14:48 pm

I had something like 4 units of Axedwarfs, 2 of longbeards, 2 hammerers and maybe 3 or 4 of Archersdwarves. The enemy(gren-skins) had a massive number advantage (and strong units as well).The only advantage I had was the walls. They were sieging my town. I had my archers stationed on the walls. 2 Axedwarfs on the walls protecting them and the rest by the gates. Towers on the walls and they unleashed a LIVING HELL on those soldiers on the wall, forcing me to retreat to the central plaza. Once there, my soldiers held the ground like beasts, killing every green-skin that would dare approach the plaza. In the end I had something like 500 green-skins dead (They had 500) while I lost 150 dwarves (I had 200). Jesus Christ, that was an awesome battle to watch...

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Total War Warhammer (just got it on Steam Spring Sale, I was always a fan of the Total War series.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 28, 2018, 01:29:32 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 28, 2018, 12:49:42 pm

The bandages are because he keeps cutting himself, right?

She*, iirc, but maybe. Sadly, a shiv deck doesn't have quite the same feel. Mostly because upgraded daggers in FH are brutal on an individual level, whereas StS shivs are... less so. At least without multiple Aims played or somethin', anyway. Still can be pretty fun _{so long as you don't end up drawing the time jackass as your final boss.}

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 28, 2018, 03:02:18 pm

I imagine that at this point the Silent doesn't really notice when she accidentally cuts herself.
Shivs do feel a little dinky, but it can feel good to just flood your hand with them and lay waste. Overall the Silent is more about stacking defense and laughing at the enemy's attacks as they slowly die from the hundreds and hundreds of poisoned blades you've stuck into them. I prefer Ironclad, who transforms into demons repeatedly, stacks ungodly amounts of strength, and then whacks the enemy to death with a few blows. I am a simple man. I see strength build, I like.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sanctume on November 28, 2018, 03:05:33 pm

I suck so bad playing First Person Shooters because it used to give me headaches, but my PC is better and I'm cool with fps games.

So I played Call of Duty Black Ops 4, in some random Quad (team of 4). 
I still suck, that I died early on, but my team mates were great so I continue to spectate. 

The part where I *own* was my team won 1st.  I now have some "calling card" for winning a game with 0 kills and 0 damage. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 28, 2018, 06:57:41 pm

For me Silent is about finding the right relic (http://slay-the-spire.wikia.com/wiki/Tingsha) and wiping an encounter on the first turn without actually attacking (http://slay-the-spire.wikia.com/wiki/Calculated_Gamble).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 29, 2018, 02:12:02 am

If we're sharing StS stories, I pulled off what might be my boringest win earlier this week... followed by an identical most ignominious defeat ever.

As The Silent, I got an Unceasing Top in the middle of Act 1, which cemented by plan to run a lightweight deck. Then, from A1's boss, I pulled a Grand Finale. I spent the remainder of the time stripping my deck down as far as possible, and ended up with 2 powers and an Endless Agony halfway through A3. Which meant I was now dropping Grand Finale every single turn, endlessly. Ayup.

So I decided to repeat that build in an Endless custom game, modded to the gills. On my fourth pass around, I get that ? event where you're falling, and you have to decide what card to remove. And I'm forced to give up my Grand Finale. Needless to say, entering the following combat with no cards Did Not Go Well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 29, 2018, 03:14:28 pm

yeah you generally want your deck to have cards in it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 29, 2018, 11:44:39 pm

While I don't think you could finish the game with a 0-card deck, I bet you could do it with no cards in your active deck... load up on some strong powers and hope for the best. (No exhaust cards, because that'd be too easy.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 30, 2018, 02:18:37 am

All I've got is playing Defect, getting the power where lightning hits everyone and then a dozen copies of the one where you make lightning if you get hit.  That's the only way I can think of to make that concept work.

There's very few powers that can kill enemies, especially if its your only source of damage.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 30, 2018, 03:18:53 am

I was thinking Combust or Noxious Fumes for damage... if we're playing on Custom and engineering for this, then it'd be possible to stack fairly large amounts of certain cards, all the relevant artifacts, and a high base HP. I was around 250 and lasted maybe 10 turns-- the HP was from copious use that +2maxhp instead of a card artifact. Or maybe get a jumpstart on it by adhering to the letter of rules (if not spirit, in my opinion) by using a ton of A Thousand Cuts followed by random other powers to whittle it down first, before sitting there with a 0-card active deck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 30, 2018, 01:35:26 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 28, 2018, 06:57:41 pm

For me Silent is about finding the right relic (http://slay-the-spire.wikia.com/wiki/Tingsha) and wiping an encounter on the first turn without actually attacking (http://slay-the-spire.wikia.com/wiki/Calculated_Gamble).

Tingsha+unceasing top.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 30, 2018, 07:43:18 pm

I was happy to get a 85% score on my OpenTTD game with my multiple transport systems

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/P4BEH5b.jpg)

But the AI wasn't happy, he decided to get the last word on my airport

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(https://i.imgur.com/g3Js2zA.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: RickRollYou2 on November 30, 2018, 08:30:07 pm

United all of Ireland in ONE generation, as Duke of Mumu--next stop, Britannia!


CKII

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 30, 2018, 09:02:34 pm

And thense, Brittany!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 01, 2018, 02:05:56 am

Quote from: RickRollYou2 on November 30, 2018, 08:30:07 pm

United all of Ireland in ONE generation, as Duke of Mumu--next stop, Britannia!


CKII

You wot m8 you startin' no surrender republican dog get on yer horse

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: smjjames on December 01, 2018, 02:15:03 am

Quote from: RickRollYou2 on November 30, 2018, 08:30:07 pm

United all of Ireland in ONE generation, as Duke of Mumu--next stop, Britannia!


CKII

Isn’t that a somewhat easy thing to do? I mean, there’s a reason the Dukes of Ireland are recommended as a beginner start and/or are used for the tutorial. At least for the earliest standard date available without DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 01, 2018, 05:38:55 am

Finally nabbed Suicune, after several attempts. This attempt took 32 Ultra Balls, half my team knocked out, a couple of Fresh Waters*, and one (unnecessary) Revive. That's a Lv.40 legendary when my party ranges from 29-34.

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Pokemon Crystal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 01, 2018, 07:51:17 am

Quote from: smjjames on December 01, 2018, 02:15:03 am

Quote from: RickRollYou2 on November 30, 2018, 08:30:07 pm

United all of Ireland in ONE generation, as Duke of Mumu--next stop, Britannia!


CKII

Isn’t that a somewhat easy thing to do? I mean, there’s a reason the Dukes of Ireland are recommended as a beginner start and/or are used for the tutorial. At least for the earliest standard date available without DLC.

Tutorial is actually set in... Leon, I think? Northern Spain. At least the last time I played it, which was a good few years ago.

But yeah, Ireland is referred to as beginner’s island, ‘cause it’s an easy enough place to learn the game. Marry your nearest rivals, get non-aggression pacts and alliances, steamroll everyone else, betray your allies, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 01, 2018, 11:18:35 am

Difference between tutorial Spain and Ireland is the fact that the Muslim states are deliberately coded not to declare war on you. In a normal game, Spain can actually be kind of hard to play, especially in the early game since you might just get Holy warred to death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on December 01, 2018, 02:12:15 pm

First floor secret room had an open black chest, got the Yari Launcher from it (other chests on the floor got me two pieces of the gunknight armor and a winchester), the rest of the run was pretty much spent bullshiting my way trough regular rooms with decent to crappy weapons (bow, skull spitter, helix gun, crown of guns and the devolver) and then simply deleting the boss nearly instantly with the Yari+gun potion combo. Got the +1 bullet on the 5th floor which gave even more synergies and at that point i had about 6-7hp and some armor to boot. Think I phased the dragun within two clips, which took a whole of 5 seconds or so. By far the most bullshit and easy run I've had to date, made the pilot actually enjoyable, tho in the end the class only factored in with the higher ammo capacity I think since I ditched the lockpick after two floors because I kept dropping keys like mad :V

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Enter the Gungeon, got one part of the bullet and a convict run left to unlock the bullet

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 01, 2018, 02:36:29 pm

Came back to FFXIV, did a new trial as my first thing, won first try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 01, 2018, 07:11:16 pm

Managed to consistently score in the top 5 or even top 3 of the scoreboard on Team Shootout.

Some players got upset, and others were using tactics that annoy me (brass knuckles in particular is unpleasant for me to deal with because I'm bad at melee), but all in all I had fun and did more killing than dying.

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Fistful of Frags.

There are still quite a few people playing this game, which makes me glad.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 01, 2018, 08:17:03 pm

I was hunting for hours, yet could not find any prey out of a pine-marten that escaped with so much speed in the forest leaving me no chance to find a track.

I moved through the ground that was separated a river in two and spotted at some distance a bear on the other side.
Despite not being much confident in my current abilities and having only a staff and a bunch of rocks, there was a little voice telling me that it was probably going to be the only prey i would find this whole week.

So i decided to go all in and moved toward the beast, managing to get in range without losing it.

I adjusted my aim and threw a rock with some hope it could at least wound the monster somehow.
It missed unfortunately, but it attracted the attention of the bear that turned immediately toward me starting his angry rush.

I wielded my staff that my character was very competent with (it uses the spear skill) and proceeded to try to hit the skull of the raging bear as much as i could, i was a bit surprised that i was managing to dodge all the attempts of the beast to crush, claw or bite me, i checked my stats and my dodge skill was quite nice.

But it's a simple staff and despite my great strength wasn't going to have a kill that easily, but having great strength allowed me to hurt the bear with each of my strikes even if they were glancing off, though the beast moving around didn't allowed most of my strikes to hit their skully target.
Still the bear was hurting a lot with most of his body bruised.
And more importantly when i decided to check his body condition, he was limping !

Ah great new and time for a change of fighting strategy, i started to run away to put some distance as the angry beast was unable to really follow.
And the rain of rocks started.

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(https://i.imgur.com/p0T8JiL.gif)

Ah food and fur, thanks brother bear for your sacrifice that will help this lost Kaumoan to survive while your spirit will roam now free into the eternal forests

UnrealWorld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 01, 2018, 08:51:00 pm

*sister bear

I... well, I set up a listening post along a cluster of trade guild bases, so I'm often able to intercept their supply ships.  Sometimes their Marsec escorts drive me off, but my best gals have some serious if quirky weapons to deal with armor.  Like a "rail rifle" which is basically the crossbow from Half Life 2, our best attempt at Gauss technology so far.  Also the good old boat anchor.  And a few UAC chainguns, literally from Doom.

But what's actually changed the whole meta?  We've finally broken the global lingerie market.  No longer will people have to suffice with flimsy, made-to-fail underwear.  Everyone wants our durable underpants (I'm not making this up).  Stylish, too!  Every batch requires ummm inspirational material to design.

This is a much better income source than selling off refined FEV Hellerium from our "basement".  Even better than our alcohol industry, which suffers from a shortage of fruit in this dystopian world.

X-Piratez, jeez this game is weird

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 01, 2018, 09:02:59 pm

Oops, didn't noticed the bear was female.
Was surprised my character managed to carry back all the meat cut, he fell asleep when he reached his shelter though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 01, 2018, 10:40:56 pm

Doing Lokk'Nar defenses (Titled "Help the Lokk'Nars" If memory serves) will provide you with apples.

Alternatively, you could raid Ratmen villages.

Alternatively alternatively, you can get a bounty badge of D (I think) and do Lokk'Nar farm missions, which might have apples.

Alternatively alternatively alternatively, you can hope that you'll find yourself on a farming village tileset (kind of like the ones the Ratmen Villages are on) when you perform a mission, but given what you've told me I don't think that's quite worked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 01, 2018, 11:07:11 pm

Thanks!  Yeah, I used to roll a lot of missions to help the Lokk'Nars, but not so much anymore.  I think the original missions are mostly cycled out for Humanist/Church training grounds, and especially Trade Guild Warehouses. 

Bounty hunting wise I still get Lokk'Nar farm "protection" missions, which might give a few, but mostly give wheat (and various other vegetables for some reason, which I don't know any use for??)

I do get a few apples occasionally, but originally I was swimming in so many that I was making Chatau de Mort at two bases almost full time.
But hey, fashion industry now!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 01, 2018, 11:53:53 pm

Currently the wheat and other veggies serve no purpose. People on the Discord (link here (https://discord.gg/WZ4wXx)) have said that it's safe to sell them for now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 02, 2018, 08:59:57 pm

Took the Outstanding Builder trait. Normally when building something, every time the builder hits the building with a tool, it uses one building material and adds it to the building(adds two on a critical hit, the extra is free). With Outstanding Builder, if you are personally constructing it, then every time you hit the building, there's a 1% of the entire rest of it being built instantly for free. The only downside is that if after taking the trait, you only get half the spent resources if you cancel the building(much like if you demolish a finished one), and this hardly an issue.

I was building a large-ish indoor multi-workshop to replace the haphazard outdoor arrangement, and built up nearly all the (fairly expensive) workshop tables using this ability, creating resources I didn't even have.

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First Feudal. That's just using it normally. The exploity way is to put down an expensive structure that you cannot afford all the resources for, hit it once, and demolish it if it doesn't instant-complete. Also, possibly demolishing it after it instant-completes, to get resources you might not actually have access to.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 03, 2018, 09:52:35 am

My wife was riding along with some game to feed the camp when she saw three prisoners on a chain gang gank their watchers. She fired on them and leapt off her horse. They died but a stray round fatally wounded her horse, Rosemarie.

She put her down and bought a new horse, spending the last of her money. She lamented to me how she was broke and I told her to check her inventory.

"I am so broke! All I have are these two enormous bars of solid gold!"

We had a good laugh over that one.

RDR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on December 04, 2018, 09:31:51 am

Just think -- in Red Dead Online, those two gold bars are worth a whole $5! /s

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 04, 2018, 10:21:35 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on December 04, 2018, 09:31:51 am

Just think -- in Red Dead Online, those two gold bars are worth a whole $5! /s

Good thing I don't play online.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on December 04, 2018, 07:16:12 pm

Had an almost perfect run with my least favourite class, almost managed to kill the past even :C

It started off super shittily and I bought the banner for no particular reason, as it turned out it made the run amazing. Along the way I picked up the super space turtle and the pig, as well as the charmed bow, all of which benefit from the banner buff. But then it got better, I got the science gun, which made the pig fire pretty powerful shots, then I got the pink guon stone which further buffed the charm bow and the angry bullets which meant I could charm two enemies with a single shot at times. The best part tho was getting the yellow chamber (I actually unlocked it this very run and it dropped shortly afterwards) which made the space turtle super strong and scary, my pig died along the way tho which kinda sucked, but what that did was make sure that the baby good mimic I found in the fifth chamber would copy the goddamn terror turtle. I barely did anything in the dragun fight, it was double-teamed by the damn turtle team of doom. Managed to put together the bullet too, shame I got sloppy in the past kiling bit tho, not sure if I'll have this good of a run anytime soon.

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 04, 2018, 09:00:54 pm

Finally, FINALLY finished all maps on Legend difficulty in Vermintide 2, both base game and DLC. Did them as various flavours of Kerillian, so no fancy skin, but whatever. It is done.

The very last one, War Camp was something. The game threw everything at us (I should note it was me, my friend, and two pubbies (party comp was Waystalker, Ironbreaker, Foot Knight, Pyromancer)). Hordes that never ended. A Chaos patrol that bugged in the middle of a tight area. Every single special non-stop in quick succession. Multiple Chaos Warriors during Böddvar Ribspreader's boss fight. It didn't matter. We just smoothily cut our way through the map, wrecked the boss and strolled to the Bridge of Shadows.

Best damn match I ever played in the game.

Warhammer Fantasy: Vermintide 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 06, 2018, 08:13:03 pm

In the first victory of glorious war, kicked the Brownpants out of Keepsake Bay.

Spoiler: Of note is the man I was controlling at the moment of victory (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/IhxY7IN.png)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Running With Rifles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 07, 2018, 12:02:19 am

I started off with the clothes on my back, a pistol, some basic supplies, and a few good men willing to die for the cause.

Presently, I've got a party of over twenty soldiers, most of them equipped with rifles and capable of tearing through the lower-level bandit groups without much trouble.

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Freeman: Guerilla Warfare

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 07, 2018, 06:44:49 am

I have acquired the Sword of Khaine from foolish Alarielle. Glory to Archaon! Glory to Chaos!

I'm about to run a one man train on the entire Island of Ulthuan for starters.

TWW2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on December 07, 2018, 02:31:20 pm

Climbed a mountain and I've only died 1333 times.

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 08, 2018, 06:10:14 pm

Spoiler: It's Dagger O'clock time (click to show/hide)

(http://www.upl.co/uploads/Dagger-Oclock1544310416.jpg)

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Fate Hunter again. This time I did get the dagger fate, and with the aid of like an energy potion and a prayer cheerfully one-turned the game's final boss

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on December 08, 2018, 07:48:57 pm

Playing the Singleton event. My opponent has been having a bit of a rough game already - they missed their third land drop, and haven't cast anything but a Llanowar Elf that I reluctantly Banefired to keep them low on mana. I'm assuming at this point that they've got a hand of big green fatties just waiting to be deployed, and that I'll be overrun in a turn or two.

Then, out of nowhere, they cast Sylvan Awakening (https://scryfall.com/card/dom/183/sylvan-awakening), turning all their lands into indestructible creatures so they can push a few points of damage. Normally, this would be a safe, if silly, play - it gives you a bunch of 2/2s for a turn, and seeing as how they're indestructible, they usually don't die.

Unluckily for them, I proceed to Vraska's Contempt (https://scryfall.com/card/xln/129/vraskas-contempt) one during combat, and then on my turn Plaguecrafter (https://scryfall.com/card/grn/82/plaguecrafter) their empty board, forcing them to sacrifice a second. Now, this was probably an incorrect play - I turned two of my best removal options into Stone Rains and didn't have enough power on board to threaten lethal before they had a chance to rebuild. But sometimes the flashy play beats the correct play, and my opponent snap-conceded when I dropped them to three mana on turn 6.

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Magic: Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 08, 2018, 07:52:15 pm

Killed Elijah, walked out of the Sierra Madre, and will never ever see it again.

Thank fuck.

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Fallout New Vegas: Dead Monkey Money DLC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 08, 2018, 10:18:38 pm

I dunno, I like just trapping him inside there... That way I can swing around every now and then, tune in to the radio channel, and listen to him rambling inside his tomb.

But then again, I'm also the kind of guy who smuggles every last bar out of the vault... And then just keeps them sitting around as a memento instead of selling them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on December 08, 2018, 11:39:53 pm

Quote from: Kagus on December 08, 2018, 10:18:38 pm

I dunno, I like just trapping him inside there... That way I can swing around every now and then, tune in to the radio channel, and listen to him rambling inside his tomb.

But then again, I'm also the kind of guy who smuggles every last bar out of the vault... And then just keeps them sitting around as a memento instead of selling them.

I'm given to understand you can't smuggle all of the bars out without carrying them in Elijah's decapitated head.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NullForceOmega on December 09, 2018, 01:11:21 am

You can if your carryweight and stealth are high enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 09, 2018, 07:23:00 am

I was heavily encumbered coming out of there, but with judicious application of drugs (turbo) and savescumming, I was able to make it out in time.

You just have to be a bit careful, because the triggers don't necessarily make sense. You can be completely undetected when walking out, but if you move before he's all the way at the console then the shutdown will trigger anyways.


I don't remember all the details too clearly, I just remember a lot of quickloading, a lot of consumables, and a lot of swearing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 09, 2018, 07:39:39 am

Had a very silly game just now. Cranked up the starting tech level to 40(reaching ~20 takes hours with an established empire) and opened all research. The enemy started with ships at scale 150k. I built up a couple of ringworlds, and mass-produced ships of scale 1048576(I like using 2^x for ship sizes). Most of the enemy ship losses were actually caused by my ships carrying a pair of scale 1.0 Mind Sappers, which is more than enough to instantly brain-dead the crews such puny ships.

After I get the notification the enemy is wiped out(not really, they still had actively fighting ships), I celebrate by detonating the star... which did absolutely nothing, even to the unshielded space station right next to it. So I decided to detonate the galactic core. After building a hundred more scale 1048576 ships which literally took one second from a ringworld, and opened fire. The resulting explosion set off a chain reaction in every other star in the galaxy, resulting in a cascade of supernovas across space... and did a couple billion points(out of ~150 billion) of damage to the shields of the ships right next to the singularity collapse, and was regenerated before even half of the galaxy finished exploding.

Oddly enough, very few planets were even affected by the chain reaction, none were destroyed that I could tell and only a handful were even damaged. Only major consequence is the permanent loss of jump drive function(which requires a star to lock on to).

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Star Ruler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 09, 2018, 08:33:56 am

"We killed every star in the galaxy. It was a mild inconvenience."


I killed Malekith and Morathi and both their armies in one battle, with one stack of (mostly chosen and manticores) Chaos and Archaon.

Get the Sword of Khaine for Archaon. He's basically invincible and I haven't got his armor yet.

TWW2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on December 09, 2018, 06:41:06 pm

Completed the B-Side of the first three chapters, I already miss having a floor to stand on.

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 10, 2018, 12:34:17 am

First ever run using the Defect, and I won!

(Of course, I may have cheated a bit by watching hours and hours of the game before ever playing it.)

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Slay the Spire

My deck relied pretty heavily on a pair of Defragments and Electrodynamics, and I ended up fighting the Awakened One. Still won though, thanks to potions, beam cells, and cold snaps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 10, 2018, 04:27:57 pm

Rip and tear

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(https://i.imgur.com/3qTt6yl.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/wlNuQ8l.gif)

(https://i.imgur.com/acOu6lf.gif)

DoomRL
that jackhammer i found mid-game in combination with Intuition has been utterly awesome to clear some of the late level very busy rooms

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on December 11, 2018, 04:37:24 pm

Landed on and returned from the Mun with my crew and experiments intact for first time ever. I feel so proud of myself. I can into space!!

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Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on December 11, 2018, 04:59:21 pm

I hope you rode something more substantial than a can into space.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 11, 2018, 05:05:09 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 11, 2018, 04:59:21 pm

I hope you rode something more substantial than a can into space.

No no no, he said "I can into space", meaning he can use an into to propel himself towards outer space.

And "into" is just Nito turned slightly inside-out, and since Nito is a powerful death-titan, that means he used the insides of a giant death titan for his orbital vessel.


Which is perfectly substantial and makes more sense than necessary.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on December 11, 2018, 05:21:16 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on December 11, 2018, 04:59:21 pm

I hope you rode something more substantial than a can into space.

Clearly you know nothing of Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 11, 2018, 07:39:57 pm

You take all your used bean cans, fill 'em up with solid rocket fuel, and weld 'em to the bottom of your crew-can which you bought off ebay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on December 11, 2018, 08:08:16 pm

You bought it off eBay?  Definitely a high roller there; we just used parts we found lying by the side of the road.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 11, 2018, 08:38:40 pm

There just aren't too many cans large enough for crew lying around here. You need a pretty developed space program nearby before you can scavenge crash sites.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on December 11, 2018, 08:39:21 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on December 11, 2018, 08:38:40 pm

There just aren't too many cans large enough for crew lying around here. You need a pretty developed space program nearby before you can scavenge crash sites.

That's what tin snips and duct tape is for---just get a few cans and then make one that's large enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 11, 2018, 08:47:29 pm

That sounds like work, and space is supposed to be fun. Much easier to just buy the things. Let someone else fumble with the duct tape, so that we can put together the explosives.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 11, 2018, 11:05:18 pm

I completed Chapter Six.

Goddamn Arthur Morgan is my role model.

RDR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Amperzand on December 14, 2018, 02:53:59 am

I captured a full-up Guild terror ship when it landed in my territory, without taking a casualty.

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OpenXCom, XPiratez mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 14, 2018, 09:56:23 pm

Struck the killing blow onto the Rage Demon. Then I looked at my HP bar, and saw I had only a few pixels in it. And the Wisps surrounding the fight were still shooting at me.

But then the battle ended and everything is good.

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Dragon Age: Origins, playing as a mage because MAGIC.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on December 15, 2018, 04:04:38 pm

Completed the remaining B-sides.

Oh dear god there are C-sides!

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 15, 2018, 07:59:37 pm

This game brought tears to my eyes twice.

Bravo Rockstar.

Rdr2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 15, 2018, 11:40:36 pm

Maybe I have to do a lot of what is pretty much savescumming (If it weren't for the fact levels generate differently each time you restart), and I do lose at least one unit, but goddamn I love it when a plan comes together in this game because it makes me feel like a tactical badass.

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Frozen Synapse, which I got in the Xmas giveaway.

I don't have 2 yet, and, judging from its reviews, I'm going to wait a bit before picking it up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 16, 2018, 01:21:43 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on December 11, 2018, 08:47:29 pm

That sounds like work, and space is supposed to be fun. Much easier to just buy the things. Let someone else fumble with the duct tape, so that we can put together the explosives.

298 days since our last

workday when we didn't have fun





2 days since our last accident

This is a record guys, keep it going
~management

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 17, 2018, 07:07:08 pm

So so happy to finally complete this damned Classic mode in DoomRL.
Classic Mode is a module that is basically the recreation of the early releases of DoomRL in which there was less levels, no special/optional levels, much less traits and the end was after the 9th floor the Cyberdemon himself with a much weaker character (and worst equipment/traits) than in newer version (as Cyberdemon only comes after +/- 16 floors now, without counting optional/side floors, so you have better equipment and higher levels/more traits when you face him).

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I'm no expert player at all in the several years i played in 0.997 i only have 17 wins, heavy majority in "I'm Too Young To Die" and only a few in "Hey, Not Too Rough" with countless failures in higher difficulty levels.

But Classic mode has always eluded me even on lower difficulty the Cyberdemon was extremely hard.

So in this successful run i decided to aim again for Dodgemaster as it had always been the trait i had when i was so close to kill the damn thing (usually dying to repeated splash damage and lack of more healing item after a while ).

But what changed all there is that i had an invulnerability sphere at some distance from the stairs leading to the monster.
It allowed me to position myself correctly in a way i could just easily side-step for his rocket to miss without risking a splash damage throwing me off balance between my micro launcher shots/reload (micro launcher because it's so much more accurate than that crappy rocket launcher so i only very rarely missed instead of missing more than half the time) moves.

To my surprise i didn't got hit a single time, it confirmed the position of the fight i could choose thanks to the early invulnerability was the best choice + the good distance between the monster and my character (so it would not come at close range and ruin everything)

Useless thing is that after killing the Cyberdemon the game made me win 2 levels, picked 2 times Reloader , without and use as the game is ending then (i don't know if the secret boss is available in Classic Mode)

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
 Module : Classic Mode (0.3.0)
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 Derrick Sund, level 5 Soldier, defeated the Cyberdemon
 He survived 31152 turns and scored 12223 points.
 He played for 29 minutes and 55 seconds.
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 88 out of 88 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!


-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Classicist (Bronze)

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 32/50   Experience 7761/5
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Soldier

    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)

  HR->HR->DM->Rel->Rel->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   blue armor [2/2] (82%) (A)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   micro launcher (5d5) [0/1]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   protective boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
    [b] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [c] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [d] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] shotgun shell (x35)
    [g] rocket (x10)
    [h] rocket (x6)
    [i] small med-pack
    [j] small med-pack
    [k] small med-pack
    [l] small med-pack
    [m] small med-pack
    [n] small med-pack
    [o] small med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] phase device

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 25% 
    Plasma     - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    19 former humans
    13 former sergeants
    6 former captains
    40 imps
    3 demons
    5 lost souls
    1 hell knight
    1 Cyberdemon

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 9 he assembled a micro launcher!
  Then at last he found the Phobos Arena!

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You dodge!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You dodge!
 The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You reload the micro launcher.
 You dodge!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You reload the micro launcher.
 You dodge!
 The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You reload the micro launcher.
 You dodge!
 The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You advance to level 4!
 Press <Enter>...
 You advance to level 5! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Puppyguard on December 17, 2018, 07:30:41 pm

I shot a syndicate nuke operative with incendiary rounds from a shotgun, lighting him on fire through his shield. He attempted to extinguish himself by rolling on the ground, giving me the opportunity to tase and disabler him into oblivion. After he was incapacitated, he detonated himself in a last ditch effort to fight back, but it only dealt minimal damage to me.

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Space Station 13

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 17, 2018, 09:05:26 pm

Inside a ruined Cathedral, the Germans had set up sandbags overlooking one of the doors.  Four of them were firing at some unseen British soldiers trying to get in.

Unfortunately for them I was behind them, and I had a shovel.  It was like dominoes.  They really shouldn't have removed the hearing test from the Wehremacht medical examination.

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Battlefield V.  I'm actually not sure if the shovel makes noise; if the knife doesn't then the shovel probably doesn't either.  There's still no excuse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 17, 2018, 11:27:58 pm

I must admit they're not much of a master race if they're deaf :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on December 18, 2018, 05:46:14 am

Got the Owl and the Hexagun, this gives the Special Delivery synergy which buffs both the gun (shots now bounce) and the owl itself. The buff to the owl makes it's shots stronger and makes it blank/shoot when you switch to it. This of course leads to a nasty abuse case where you can just switch rapidly between your weapons in order to make it continually shoot and blank meaning you have practical invincibility as well as infinite ammo that aims itself and does decent damage. I have a feeling this is going to be a fairly easy run from this point xD

Edit: And then I got he Uranium Ammolet which stuns and poisons whenever a blank effect is triggered, whcih is whenever the Owl blanks too :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 18, 2018, 08:14:30 am

Quote from: Jopax on December 18, 2018, 05:46:14 am

Got the Owl and the Hexagun, this gives the Special Delivery synergy which buffs both the gun (shots now bounce) and the owl itself. The buff to the owl makes it's shots stronger and makes it blank/shoot when you switch to it. This of course leads to a nasty abuse case where you can just switch rapidly between your weapons in order to make it continually shoot and blank meaning you have practical invincibility as well as infinite ammo that aims itself and does decent damage. I have a feeling this is going to be a fairly easy run from this point xD

Edit: And then I got he Uranium Ammolet which stuns and poisons whenever a blank effect is triggered, whcih is whenever the Owl blanks too :V

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Battletoads 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on December 19, 2018, 08:19:05 pm

Fallen london.

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(https://i.imgur.com/YdL74Ui.png)

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(https://i.imgur.com/VB7SqLZ.png)

Totally worth the (minor) hassle of making it to second option. :P Surprisingly, it's easier\faster to do first "main quest" of the area, than this repeatable one. Also, i think someone already posted this comedy gold there.  :-\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on December 21, 2018, 06:42:20 am

I killed five Lemoyne Raiders in their camp with one round of deadeye.

Then I slit the throats of the two who were away. The last one saw me coming, the poor fuck.

RDR2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on December 21, 2018, 10:07:39 am

I harvested the shit outta that canola field. Now it's time to spread shit onto the field.

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Farming Simulator 19

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on December 21, 2018, 10:12:42 am

Completed the first two C-Sides. I even managed to complete the first one with less than 100 deaths.

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 21, 2018, 05:24:21 pm

Despite level deficiencies, took my team all the way to the finish. The final matchup was Typhlosion vs Lance's Charizard. What does Charizard do when faced with a Thunderpunch that removes half of its HP? Hyper Beam. The move that freezes it in place for a turn to get punched in the face again.

And thankfully, the battery lasted until the game autosaves.

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Pokemon Crystal. Winning team: Suicune, Pidgeot, Venomoth, Magneton, the shiny Gyarados, Typhlosion.

Quote from: Mephisto on December 21, 2018, 10:07:39 am

I harvested the shit outta that canola field. Now it's time to spread shit onto the field.

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Farming Simulator 19

Heh, if you're relying on actual shit to fertilize your field, remember that canola leaves no hay(at least, in FS13 and 15, and I assume 19 is the same), so you won't have anything to feed your cows to produce fertilizer.


EDIT: Made a full trip through the Aurora, including picking up the blueprints for the PRAWN, the Neptune, and also repairing the drive core. Had a close encounter with a Reaper - and by close I mean I saw it on the very edge of my visibility swimming the other way and that is too damn close.

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Subnautica.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on December 22, 2018, 12:50:01 am

I apparently revived my squad's two snipers often enough, they both separately decided they were willing to run up and revive me no matter where I died.  Teamwork makes the dream work.

We still lost, but we lost as the closest squad to the final objective.  So it was a moral victory.

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Battlefield V.  Non-medics can only revive their squadmates and its painfully slow.  As you can imagine, snipers don't spend very much time doing that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 22, 2018, 07:00:06 pm

Secured the final blueprints for the Cyclops, was only missing the engine section. Two of the engine pieces required swimming very uncomfortably close to a Reaper Leviathan.

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Subnautica. Now I just need to play some more Reaper-chicken to get the resources to actually build the Cyclops and PRAWN suit. Oh and I found neat thing about using base scanner rooms with the HUD chip: set it to scan for fragments, and the marker will disappear as you approach if you already unlocked that item(scanning will only yield 2 titanium), which allows you to more quickly move on to the next fragment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 22, 2018, 07:09:53 pm

As a suggestion? Grab the PRAWN first. PRAWN is massively useful in a number of situations, and once you get the grappling hooks it's actually very mobile. The Cyclops is mostly a glorified PRAWN taxi for the times when you don't have full ion cells yet and/or don't feel like undersea Tarzan'ing your way from A to B, and really only comes into its own much later in the game once you've got a bunch of upgrades and spare materials.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 23, 2018, 09:50:08 am

Quote from: Kagus on December 22, 2018, 07:09:53 pm

As a suggestion? Grab the PRAWN first. PRAWN is massively useful in a number of situations, and once you get the grappling hooks it's actually very mobile. The Cyclops is mostly a glorified PRAWN taxi for the times when you don't have full ion cells yet and/or don't feel like undersea Tarzan'ing your way from A to B, and really only comes into its own much later in the game once you've got a bunch of upgrades and spare materials.

Due to the cheaper cost of the Cyclops, I had to build it first. Then I used it to establish a scanning base in the bulb zone for ruby. Got a decent supply, enough to finish the PRAWN, and a few other things down the line.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on December 23, 2018, 04:19:39 pm

Completed all of the C-Sides.

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Celeste. The penultimate one was the worst, I died 594 times, and nearly all of those deaths were in the last screen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 24, 2018, 09:59:35 pm

Spoiler: Managed to survive a trip all the way to (click to show/hide)

the Inactive Lava Zone. Even salvaged enough kyanite to get the thermal reactor and depth upgrades for the Cyclops and PRAWN. Had my first hostile encounter with a Ghost Leviathan, got away with only 2-3 hull breaches. Thought I wasn't going to make it back before my Cyclops' power cells ran out, but I made it back with 50% left.

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Subnautica.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 25, 2018, 06:06:44 am

Fun fact; the Cyclops is the only vehicle you can construct which is actually invisible.

If the power is off, there is only one single critter in the game that can detect it without physically bumping into it, and that's the lava larva. Everything else is completely blinded by the giant brightly-colored stealth submarine.

When you're puttering around, critters will only detect it based on how much sound it's making. They still can't "see" it like they can see you when you're swimming or in a different vehicle. This results in some funny occasions where large animals will literally swim into the sub and bonk their heads on the hull.

Note that animals (even tamed ones) will reflexively attack anything that gets shoved in their face, so it's possible to still get hit when the power's off by virtue of them bumping into the sides, but they can't properly aggro the sub and make repeated assaults. So if you're in leviathan-heavy waters, one of the safest things you can do is to actually take the keys out of the ignition and just sit there like a dead duck.


Otherwise, the energy shield blocks 100% of damage and silent running is also pretty good. Be aware that the thermal generator for the Cyclops is made out of repurposed ass and is entirely incapable of recharging the power cells. You're better off just installing another energy efficiency module (last I checked, they did actually stack. May not be the case anymore though).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 25, 2018, 09:53:30 am

Quote from: Kagus on December 25, 2018, 06:06:44 am

Be aware that the thermal generator for the Cyclops is made out of repurposed ass and is entirely incapable of recharging the power cells. You're better off just installing another energy efficiency module (last I checked, they did actually stack. May not be the case anymore though).

Engine Efficiency doesn't stack according to wiki, and I'm disputing that the thermal reactor is completely useless.

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Hanging around the Primary Containment Facility, I was able to keep my engine slow and with silent running, plus one or two Lava Larvae and still was gaining energy. Not entirely sure what happened when I was playing around with the Sea Emperor, but when I came back the power cells were at 14%. Maybe player proximity is required for it to charge. Shut down the engine, and I'm gaining 2-5 points per second. Also, whatever happened while I was gone, the Sea Dragon guarding the facility seems to have pissed off somewhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 25, 2018, 11:15:29 am

Finally finished the game in the same run that I got the Spider Rune. Assault Shield (paired with mutations that reduced cooldown and healed on parry) pretty much carried me to victory.

Dead Cells.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 25, 2018, 12:37:31 pm

Quote from: Akura on December 25, 2018, 09:53:30 am

Quote from: Kagus on December 25, 2018, 06:06:44 am

Be aware that the thermal generator for the Cyclops is made out of repurposed ass and is entirely incapable of recharging the power cells. You're better off just installing another energy efficiency module (last I checked, they did actually stack. May not be the case anymore though).

Engine Efficiency doesn't stack according to wiki, and I'm disputing that the thermal reactor is completely useless.

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Hanging around the Primary Containment Facility, I was able to keep my engine slow and with silent running, plus one or two Lava Larvae and still was gaining energy. Not entirely sure what happened when I was playing around with the Sea Emperor, but when I came back the power cells were at 14%. Maybe player proximity is required for it to charge. Shut down the engine, and I'm gaining 2-5 points per second. Also, whatever happened while I was gone, the Sea Dragon guarding the facility seems to have pissed off somewhere.

Well then there must have been a post-release patch that massively upgraded it, because it used to have an efficiency of about 0.05 points per second when sitting in a lava zone hotspot, rendering it effectively pointless. The prawn generator has always been decent, but of course nothing matches the hilarity of the seamoth solar panel.

The engine efficiency has both stacked and not stacked through the years, but the wiki has always said that it doesn't. It's possible they changed their minds and made it non-stacking again, but the wiki has always been a teensy bit neglected.

If it does actually charge now, that's great... beats having to keep a locker full of spare ion cells whenever you go somewhere.

...I still think that ideally, the Cyclops should have a large room hardpoint in it, so you could just slam a biogenerator or nuclear engine in there... But eh.


Can you still block reaper attacks by holding a fish? That used to be fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2018, 06:40:16 am

Completed an entire Arcade run without getting a game-over, which is actually a first for me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slap City, using Asha. Powerful up close, but he lacks any real ranged ability - his Trap Mine(down-X on keyboard) is very short ranged, while his Plasma Cannon(up-X) only shoots straight up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 27, 2018, 01:36:58 pm

burnt through most of the campaign as snake when i unlocked him. on hard.
for crib-somewhat-spoilery notes, the story involves running around doing fights. except each of these fights as a condition that works against you, like the opposing fighter starts with a permanent beamblade and does twice the damage with pickups. yikes. oh, more fun, its a stamina battle which means you have little choice but to beat him down, and he starts with 50 more hp than you.

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super smash bros on the switch

other than that i looked up a slightly exploity way of unlocking all the roster, cuz i want to get some training in before i head online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 27, 2018, 02:05:02 pm

Finally got a win outside a daily. As the Ironclad specifically, but like mentioned it was the first non-daily win. Ended up with around 65 strength.

Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 28, 2018, 06:32:19 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on December 27, 2018, 01:36:58 pm

burnt through most of the campaign as snake when i unlocked him. on hard.
for crib-somewhat-spoilery notes, the story involves running around doing fights. except each of these fights as a condition that works against you, like the opposing fighter starts with a permanent beamblade and does twice the damage with pickups. yikes. oh, more fun, its a stamina battle which means you have little choice but to beat him down, and he starts with 50 more hp than you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

super smash bros on the switch

other than that i looked up a slightly exploity way of unlocking all the roster, cuz i want to get some training in before i head online

Does Ultimate have the same kind of dumb unlock conditions that Melee did? Like "leave the GameCube on overnight in order to get mewtwo"?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 28, 2018, 02:39:25 pm

Quote from: Kagus on December 28, 2018, 06:32:19 am

Does Ultimate have the same kind of dumb unlock conditions that Melee did? Like "leave the GameCube on overnight in order to get mewtwo"?

not dumb, but tedious. you have to spend 10 minutes playing in matches, with a 10 minute cooldown between unlocks. happily, someone found the way to exploit this which you can search for but it's only a little exploitery cuz the games been patched twice and they haven't removed this method for rapid unlocking

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 29, 2018, 06:21:09 am

Dark Giggle, a virus that initially caused nausea and coughing, eventually evolved to bring coma, insanity, and finally total organ failure, wiped out the world in a year and a half. At its peak, worldwide deaths were nearly 200 million daily.

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Plague Inc: Evolved. The random name generator came up with "Dark Giggle", and I figured I'd base the symptom progressions on that. Would have been faster, but places like Sweden and Canada were having some resistance to being infected despite my giving DG anti-viral and cold resistance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 01, 2019, 06:34:11 pm

Double, but this was a pretty good one.

The seaport at Kavala had long been a problem for operations in the area around Kavala. It had a large garrison, 2-3 squads, and plenty of sight range around the port and across the bay. It had only one main entrance, well covered by the enemy. The worst was the attack boat parked at the seaport, which would shred any frontal assault(first-hand experience) from a position where itself was protected from attack.

A two-part assault, one part consisting of me, an autorifleman, and a medic, all in a machine gun-equipped truck, and the other a mortar team at an outpost about 1.5km away. First phase of the attack was to park the truck just a bit from the south side of the bay(seaport was the north side), and called in several mortar strikes on enemy positions spotted with my binoculars. Then I took out my MAAWS AT launcher and put a 75mm HEAT rocket into the side of that attack boat(a 300m-400m shot). A random street patrol nearly screwed the mission, wounding both my team members, but it wasn't serious damage. I call in some more mortar strikes for good measure since I saw some more enemy troops standing and some more on my map.

Getting to the seaport, I had no resistance. Nothing but bodies, dozens of them. The mortars cleaned the place out. I can only surmise that the enemies marked on my map were wounded, only to be finished off by direct mortar hits. There was one random rifleman who popped his head up only for it to be blown off by the truck's .50cal. Apparently the display was enough for Kavala to change its allegiance to my faction. The only other enemy stronghold left in the city is Kavala Kastro(castle).

While I was looting the base's ammo crate(rebreathers and scuba gear, neat), I hear an enemy helicopter flying in. It's a transport, carrying a full force to counterattack. I fire a rocket into it and the truck's gunner shoots a few bullets at it, forcing it to the ground. I had expected the rocket to destroy it, but that's fine. About half the troops on the helicopter surrendered immediately, while the pilots and the rest of them tried to fight and were immediately put down. Since the helicopter was now empty and only disabled, I tried using the commander menu to send it to the faction garage. It worked. The resistance now owns an armored transport helicopter.

In short, we took over Kavala, one of the largest cities in Altis, secured the vital seaport, captured a helicopter, took almost a dozen prisoners(they were released, which I think gives you HR points), and took NO losses. And did this with only 5 men - two of whom were the support unit and one of whom was me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 3: Antistasi.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on January 02, 2019, 05:16:24 am

Had my first successful run with the Defect. It started really slow, with a random collection of cards that seemingly hardly worked together. There was a distinct lack of both offensive and defensive cards, but during the fight with Slime Boss I realized what I had - a budding Storm deck.

It really started taking shape in the second chapter after I got two additional Storm cards and a few other power cards. I didn't have a way to gain focus, but I managed to chew through the Collector by channeling electrodynamics-enhanced lightning orbs three at a time with every power card played.

In the third chapter things got out of hand. I finally got some focus giving cards, free cards that turned into free power cards, cards that gave me power cards every turn. I also had an item that made me retain my hand, so I didn't have to worry about wasting damage potential.
The fight with Time Eater was wild. How about I use another storm, channeling two lightning plus four extra lightning for storms I already used? How about I do it twice? At some point I had no idea what was going on, I just knew I had to channel more lightning.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 02, 2019, 06:12:40 am

Moar lightning. MOAR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: askovdk on January 02, 2019, 07:09:54 am

Atlas
It feels very, very good to stand at the helm under full sails, - on the ship built and customized yourself.

Yes, this game:
•   Had a horrible launch
•   Is ‘just’ a big reskin of Ark
•   Has so much combat-lag that it can feel like blind fighting.
But:
•   It’s a 20 EUR game, not 40 or 60.
•   There is no lag when doing server-independent stuff, - which is most of the time.
•   What you build can look quite good.
•   And again, - it really feels pretty good to be at the helm under full sails on a vast ocean.  :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 02, 2019, 09:19:13 am

Farmed an Oni-goroshi. Took my entire day off and a portion of my sanity but i got it. A 6link, level scaling sword that powers up when i ignite enemies (even tho it kills me too)? Worth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

path of exile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 02, 2019, 11:26:01 am

Thanks to some mission-related bullshit, I ended up with a $20 bounty in West Elizabeth, and I've been hounded by bounty hunters when hunting pelts ever since.

I was just on my way to grab a couple boar hides when my horse tipped me off to another pair of hunters coming to get me. I immediately dove into cover and watched them approach from my hiding place.

They hadn't seen me yet, but they knew I was in the area... They split up to start searching for me, and that's when I struck. With a bit of caution and some tactically located boulders, I was able to freely lasso and hogtie both the hunters with barely a scratch on either myself or them.

I'd taken everything out of their pockets and was walking away from them, both tied up and angrily grumbling next to each other on the ground, when I thought about trying to see if I could talk to them. I walked back over, looked at the one, and saw that my options were "Defuse" and "Antagonize".

○ Antagonize

"Are you having fun?"


○ Antagonize

"I'm having fun."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Dead Redemption 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 02, 2019, 12:00:22 pm

That sounds much more functional than the ARMA 2 single player content.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: The Ensorceler on January 02, 2019, 07:30:32 pm

Got my very first draft victory, going 7-2 with a BGU control deck. Basic gameplay loop was to slam down cheap deathtouch guys and trade aggressively in the early game so I could stall until I had half my deck in my graveyard with recursion from a couple of Rare sorceries to give me card advantage and my choice of card for the situation. I think it's my favorite color combo, since my first constructed deck I built from scratch was pretty similar but with more premium recursion from Muldrotha, the Gravetide and Journey to Eternity.

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Magic: The Gathering: Arena

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 03, 2019, 04:21:23 am

Quote from: Kagus on January 02, 2019, 11:26:01 am

○ Antagonize

"Are you having fun?"


○ Antagonize

"I'm having fun."

Finally, a game that lets you talk to the monsters. And be terribly snarky at them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 03, 2019, 12:18:31 pm

Red Dead Redemption 2: The friendly spaghetti western where nobody has to die

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 03, 2019, 09:52:02 pm

Took over the castle near Kavala - solo. Bought a mortar, and a quadbike. Disassembled the mortar and packed it into the quadbike's inventory(it barely fit), drove it to the objective. Assembled the mortar, and blanketed the place with shells. Ran in to deal with any survivors - there was exactly 3. One surrendered, one was a completely unaware mortarman, and the last went full auto when he saw me, and missed every shot.


...They counterattacked pretty hard for that one. They took over the quarry that was my main income source up to that point, and judging from the messages I was getting there might have been permanent damage to the place. Then their helicopters did an extended flyover of a major outpost that I had placed a 9-man garrison beforehand(just before the attack on Kavala Kastro). Based on the amount of bullets they dropped on the outpost, I'm surprised only three of them died. But to add a note of success to the battle, I did shoot down one of the helicopters with my 75mm MAAWS.

After dropping off the loot crate from the castle, I was informed that I unlocked the Mk200 squad machine gun, plus it's ammunition, in unlimited quantities. Now maybe my autoriflemen will stop spawning with PDWs and SMGs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 3: Antistasi. Quadbikes suck. They're slower than trucks and even the slightest bump will injure or kill you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 06, 2019, 05:32:43 am

Ah nice, I never did get active hunting to work out for me... Always had more luck with trap fences.

The fun thing about the kota is that you can technically just tear it down and pack the furs on a beast of burden, and take your home with you to someplace new so long as you cut down some more young trees for poles. That's always been a personal goal, but actually getting the requisite number of pelts was crazy... I first started trying when you needed three undamaged large pelts per each tile of kota you built, meaning the smallest usable size would require 33 large animal skins. Easier to build a damn cabin...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 07, 2019, 10:31:19 am

I've made all the satchels but two and the Legend of the East. I need more perfect deer hides, a perfect badger, and a perfect iguana.

Accidentally got a perfect panther and raccoon while hunting badgers south of Braithwaite farm last night.

Rdr2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 07, 2019, 01:44:05 pm

Performed my first manned Eve mission. Jesus Christ that was hard.

Kerbal Space Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 08, 2019, 03:24:21 am

Njerpezit. I'm not sure why that stuck in my head, I haven't played the game in years...

More commonly known as Njerps, redshirts, or (according to the wiki) "archery targets".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on January 08, 2019, 04:43:27 am

Quote from: greatorder on January 07, 2019, 05:15:48 pm

Also, hunting animals via pursuit predation is easier in the snow since you get to ski on top of it and they have to tire themselves plowing through it.

It might be the vodka, but I'm mildly disappointed that it isn't what I read it as the first time: hunting animals via fursuit... which is somewhere between alluring and horrifyingly disturbing.

I need to dust off my copy of URW; haven't touched it, despite the lifetime license, since they started shifting away from the overmap system. Does it still have the memory problem where you could only have like 255 (or some other programming-related number) distinct items in a single area (which lead to like half my camp disappearing when I zoned)?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on January 08, 2019, 04:54:06 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on December 22, 2018, 12:50:01 am

I apparently revived my squad's two snipers often enough, they both separately decided they were willing to run up and revive me no matter where I died.  Teamwork makes the dream work.

We still lost, but we lost as the closest squad to the final objective.  So it was a moral victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Battlefield V.  Non-medics can only revive their squadmates and its painfully slow.  As you can imagine, snipers don't spend very much time doing that.

I really like that feature, honestly. I don't have a PS4 myself so I've only played occasionally at a friend's place, but BF5 is pretty fun.
Woulda been nice if the "drag downed team/squadmates to cover" feature that I remember being mentioned had made it in, though...   

Quote from: Kagus on January 02, 2019, 11:26:01 am

○ Antagonize

"Are you having fun?"


○ Antagonize

"I'm having fun."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Dead Redemption 2

That's pretty funny, but it woulda been even better if you'd ditched 'em on the nearest railroad tracks afterwards.
Leaving bounty hunters alive... kind of an evil deed, y'know? :P   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 09, 2019, 03:47:45 pm

More like "how did 4A Games last own?"

That watch. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8w7tN_-48)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 09, 2019, 03:58:46 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on January 09, 2019, 03:47:45 pm

More like "how did 4A Games last own?"

That watch. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8w7tN_-48)

I've always wanted that lighter.

I don't even smoke.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on January 09, 2019, 04:50:46 pm

3 stock Free for all items on. At the end it's down to 2. 3 minutes remain.  I have 1 stock and am at 30%, they have all 3 stocks left and are at 80%.  I'm Pokemon Trainer, they are Link.

Link dies to Squirtle back throw to Ivysaur down air spike, 1 stock.

Link dies to Final smash, 2 stocks.

Link dies to screw attack jump times 2 into charizard Up B. 3 stock.  Game

Yet somehow this link had twice my GSP.  I ended the match at 130%.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate quickplay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 10, 2019, 09:15:12 am

After ten tries, mostly getting caught but a few instances of alerting someone, running away, and coming back later, I finally stole the penultimate car. The only job in the game that got my heart racing. It was amazing. And now it's over. The only things left to do are ravage the rest of the dude's house over multiple trips so that I can level up enough to unlock the final hacking skill, and then use that skill to break into the final compound and steal the final car.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thief Simulator. Bit of a sucky note, the "car mechanic" bits are way worse than (but similar enough to be recognizable) Car Mechanic Simulator.

My favorite part of the game was possibly when my wife first saw me playing.

Mrs. Mephisto: "What are you doing?"

Me, currently on a job to plant a package in some dude's desk: "Reverse stealing." Mephisto places package in the desk "See?"

Mrs. Mephisto: "But after you did that, I saw you steal his computer. So now you're just actually stealing?"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 10, 2019, 09:48:35 pm

Well... I won't say it was a victory, but it wasn't one for the enemy either.

Remember that land attack on Aggelochori I was having trouble with? Turns out there was and air component to it. Oh yes, indeed. But I'll get back to that.

Previous attempts, I had been attempting to ambush them with 4 large IEDs. This only immobilized the lead APC, if that, and gave them an instant lock-on to my position, even if it is completely illogical to make the connection between a roadside bomb and the location of the face of the guy detonating it. Switched it up with 4 satchel charges instead... which may have been a bit overkill(especially since they're not unlocked yet). Instead of the usual dumbasses I have tagging along, I used the Commander menu to spawn two independent-ish AT squads.

I bring a truck, load it with my goodies: 4 satchel charges, a PCML(Person-Carried Missile Launcher), three field packs carrying 2 missiles each, a Mk200 LMG and another field pack carrying a couple extra boxes of ammo. I used the field packs because I figured it would simplify swapping out stuff once the battle started. They come in different colors/camo patterns so I could color-coordinate them. As a secondary rifle because the Mk200 and PMCL are heavy(impossible to run carrying both and ammo), I grabbed an AKS-74u.

Then I set up the ambush, placing the charges on the road. Stashed the MK200 and extra ammo on the second floor of a building specifically chosen for its good coverage. The AT squads barely made it into position before the enemy APCs started to arrive. Lead APC is well and truly screwed by the satchel charges. Second one takes a missile to the front, but it parked behind the first APC wreck and popped smoke. It wasn't there when the smoke cleared. After that, things got really chaotic, really fast. The first helicopters were arriving.

This time it wasn't as bad as with Panochori, where it was basically Ride of the freaking Valkyries(unless this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aGKA_3JXfU) is your preferred helicopter attack music). Still, there was shooting and explosions all around. I know my AT teams took out at least one landed helicopter. I got pulled away from the fighting behind me by the infantry push coming from in front. Grabbed my Mk200 and began laying fire on whatever enemies I could see. A third(at least) APC showed up and wounded me, but I put a missile into its side hull and destroyed it. Pretty much gave the battle up as lost when I saw jets flying overhead. Like, seriously, jets?! Also, one of my bases reported it too was under attack by a random patrol.

...That said, I got suspicious when I was hearing far more explosions than I think could have come from the helicopters, and it certainly wasn't my AT teams, they wouldn't have had the ammo. Then I remembered that the castle near Kavala had two static mortars set up, and the garrison there was using them to hold off the enemy. Probably completely stopped them from taking Aggelochori entirely. Even better, the last sitreps I got from the AT teams showed, out of 10 men total, only three died, and two more from the base being attacked. Unfortunately, I got flattened by either an airstrike or friendly mortar, but I respawned at HQ and immediately saved. Hopefully when reloading I'll be in a better position. As an added bonus, during the battle, my resource mine reported repairs to the facility, roughly quadrupling my income.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Arma 3. Sadly, several civilians were killed, probably by mortars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on January 10, 2019, 11:17:34 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on January 09, 2019, 03:47:45 pm

More like "how did 4A Games last own?"

That watch. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8w7tN_-48)

Huh. So I was curious about the contents, and as it turns out, it's actually not all that pricy for roughly approximate stuff at retail: A 4-tube Nixie watch seems to range from about 300-1200, depending on the source and case, bullet lighters of similar type are available for <20, gas masks range from about 20-300 (mostly the 50s, unless you actually intend to be working with a vat of pesticide...), leather scroll cases are down to around 30 (anything cheaper was either marked as or looked synthetic), and a steel tag is also around 20, custom engraved. ...The cheap watches really don't look as nice, by a longshot, though.

(...And the whole Andrzej Sapkowski/CD Projekt Red controversy lead to another fun offshoot...)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 11, 2019, 03:28:13 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 10, 2019, 09:48:35 pm

-snip-

Just curious, is this with mods?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 11, 2019, 05:06:09 pm

Just the Antistasi scenario, which is self-contained but does integrate at least parts of certain mods into itself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dutrius on January 12, 2019, 08:30:25 pm

Since my computer is the only one in the house that can run VR headsets at the moment, I've essentially rented it out so we could test out the new Oculus Rift my parents went out and bought recently.

Anyway... I managed to land the Not-Soyuz capsule first try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Interkosmos. Its one of the VR games I used to test the Oculus. I'm not sure how difficult its meant to be, but I think its overly lenient. There are several times I think I should have died, but didn't.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 12, 2019, 10:38:04 pm

I completed a Nuzlocke of Pokemon Crystal Clear romhack.  Shuckie and Xenu (Clefable) were lost to the "Elite Four", as were several others beforehand, but Alakazam/Dragonite/Gengar/Steelix (Strange/Kob/Hex/Rocky) were better prepared... though there were cases when they would have died to crits.  Success was not guaranteed by any means.
I really felt the clutch moments at the end, and the classic chiptune remixes landed well as I sweated over decisions.  The Elite 4 is ~75 and very tricksy in this hack.

Spoiler: Of course, that was several days ago.  Today... (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/SM5jyDV.png)
If you choose Pikachu as your starter, he has the Light Ball.  Plus access to Surf, not to mention Fly.  I even used the "soft reset" at start feature a few times, until I rolled this:
(https://i.imgur.com/K5eaXvg.png)
(DV max is 15)
After biting my nails so many times, even losing a few valued pokemon despite taking care, this was... disgusting.  A massacre.  It felt like Undertale, particularly with the spooky/dramatic music.  Gengar even managed to Hypnosis the PIKApocalypse, and ice punch it for 4 straight turns, but solo-run XP and EVs are a hell of a drug.  Didn't even have to use my dozens of full-restores in battle.

it was really uncanny, particularly after I spent like a month on the Nuzlocke and two days on this.  Allowing speed-up for this helped.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon Crystal Clear

OuO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 13, 2019, 01:55:18 am

I'm glad that you never corrupted your pure Pikachu and turned it into a dirty Raichu.

For my own, I was sieging a greenskin settlement with Mazdamundi's glorious army... which in this particular instance featured 13 temple guards.  These are 75 per unit of armored saurus halberdiers with fairly elite stats.  I did this because Mazdamundi gets a special -50% upkeep mod on them.  I was expecting him to go ham with these guys.

Then the greenskins come up with a new partial stack and attack.  That + the garrison and the stack in the city gives them 30-35 units against to my full stack of 20.  I had to think long and hard about whether to retreat or not, any fight involving the greenskins is always a massacre but I can never guess which side will be on the receiving end.  In the end I decide to go.  I set up my temple guard in a line, then hand over my 4 skink skirmisher units and 1 firebolas terradon to my brother, who's playing co op with me.

The fight turns into the typical TW mashed together melee... only I realize partway through, my theoretically better units aren't winning.  My best guess is that with only 75 per unit, there just weren't enough bodies to soak up the arrow fire and high number of incoming melee attacks.  I try to make it work but it becomes clear that it isn't so I do something neither of us has done in this campaign: I call a retreat.  In most of the battles it would have been fine.  Unfortunately, the orcs brought cavalry, and sauruses are slow as balls.

1 temple guard unit escapes.  At 23 models left.  The few others that made it out were too small and disbanded.  My lord and 2 heroes escaped, and all the units I gave my brother came out mostly intact.  Apparently retreating during an enemy turn used up my move for the following turn, so I moved my 2 heroes out of the army, and just hoped the orcs wouldn't chase us.  They were orcs, so of course they took all the non-garrison units and attacked.  So we're sitting here, with a bunch of small lizards with blowdarts, a handful of pterodactyl, religious Jabba the Hutt and a tiny force of bodyguards.  We decide to split up the units the same way as before.  I'll sit in a corner of the map with Mazdamundi and his honor guard and spam the arcane conduit ability to raise up our magic reserves and also spam heal on himself.  My brother will try to defeat a horde of orcs with some skirmishers.

Like all battles involving orcs, it was a massacre.  They only had 3 units of wounded calvalry left, and one archer unit.  The skinks focused fire on the calvalry units while the terradons dropped their bombs on top of the archers.  By some miracle all 4 of the actually threatening units ended up dead without the skinks getting tied down into melee.  This left only a near-full stack of wounded infantry... none of whom were faster than the skinks.  Who have the "fire while moving" ability.  So while their poison blowdarts are mainly for debuffs, they get to fire pretty much all of the ammo into unarmored orcs.  And they brought a lot.  They killed hundreds of orcs but it wasn't enough to stop them converging on my corner of the map.

But I was ready for them.  Riding his ancient personal Stegadon Zlaaq and with a full pool of magic to draw from, Mazdamundi thundered into battle.  On his way in he dropped his bound spell "banishment", which costs no magic and creates a randomly moving vortex with a significant radius.  Then Zlaaq hit the orc frontlines and literally sent them flying.  Mazdamundi started dropping comets into the orc ranks and self buffing/healing, while the skinks used the last of their blowdarts to apply the poison debuff.  Already exhausted, with two fights worth of casualties and no remaining support units, the orc infantry were not ready to fight a triceratops and routed.  But we weren't done, Mazdamundi started using magic nets to trap them in place while the skinks used their superior speed to harry the enemy.

Anyway, long story short, that's how 350 skinny nerd lizards killed 600 orcs.  With 8 casualties on our side.

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Total War: Warhammer 2, playing as lizardman in a hard co op caimpaign

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on January 13, 2019, 05:16:41 am

Beating Death at the very first combat... and effectively first turn...

I've got a Hurry-Scurry, which is a 1-cost skill card that lets you pick one of three random other skill cards to by played at 0-cost.
It turns into an Expansion Pack, which is a rare skill card that gives you four random cards, at 0-cost.
One of them is Call Up, which lets you pull all of one card from your deck or discard into your hand, which I use on Hurry-Scurry, pulling three of them into my hand.
Another card I got from Expansion Pack was Lifetap, which for an amount of life, gives -1cost to all cards in your hand.
I pop my Hurry-Scurries... getting a Meditation, which transforms all the cards in your hand into one of your choice from your discard (Hello there, extra Hurry-Scurries!), Energizing Potion, which shuffles in Poison cards into your draw in return for -1cost to all cards this turn, and something else.
Repeat.
Somewhere along the line, I got a few attack versions of H-S which allowed me to stunlock Death and also deal some actual damage. Such as 1dam per card in my deck, which was around 400 at this point (out of 666). The stunlock was essential, since at higher difficulties, he goes invulnerable every 111hp, so I had to end the turn and resume the beatdown.

Basically, I got stupidly lucky with my draws and ended up with an infinite combo right out of the gate.

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Blood Card

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on January 14, 2019, 03:04:43 pm

I haven't played Paladins in about three weeks. Decided to hop back into it today to finish up a challenge before the end of the competitive season.

I ground out some practice in the shooting range, played two matches of casual, and jumped into ranked for the challenge.

I'm rocking a 5-0 record with Makoa, one of the most skill-intensive champions in the game. I'm also playing with people ranked two divisions above me. I have no idea why I'm doing so well, but it feels nice!

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 14, 2019, 07:52:20 pm

Just finished absolute monarchy Byzantium, defeating America on their home turf. I'm physically sick

victoria II

*EDIT
My face is twitching and I am shaking. Fuck I am never doing that again. Ever again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 14, 2019, 08:57:37 pm

But why.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 15, 2019, 04:21:37 am

Well you know what they say... When in Constantinople, do as the Romans do.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 15, 2019, 04:35:23 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on January 14, 2019, 08:57:37 pm

But why.

I can't stop forming absolute monarchy underdog nations

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
The Pope
Byzantine Empire

I'm going to stop before I die zuluing

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 15, 2019, 04:54:04 am

Make a tribal empire. Try to make it stick.

Yurts everywhere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on January 15, 2019, 05:08:57 am

DID SOMEBODY SAY ZULU

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/172669362204192671/F070A0E4FB20A11210A809A726AB49D3A0C6F754/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 15, 2019, 08:35:28 am

ZULU ZULU ZULU ZULU ZULU

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on January 15, 2019, 09:19:49 am

Oh man, I'm trying to get into Victoria 2 right now, and while it's extremely fun, it seems that I always leg behind AI's industry score.

Currently playing as Sweden, since they have insane literacy rate. Right now, I'm trying to annex Finland.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 15, 2019, 07:13:49 pm

Numerous attempts, and I finally took a second resource pile, bringing my current income to a little over €1000 per cycle(for reference, a normal infantryman is €50+1HR). Out of 25 men including myself, only 7 died. Most(in my squad at least) died to an MRAP that showed up out of nowhere before I put a rocket into its backside.

Decided to trust the AI a bit and give the other two squads trucks to drive. One squad got stuck because the town's garrison(consisting of one man) wouldn't step out of the way, so I had to give multiple move orders around him... during which I ran into a couple of civilians who jumped in front of my truck. Because when you see a military-painted truck carrying more than half a dozen scary Greek dudes with assault rifles coming towards you, the best idea is to run right into the middle of the road suddenly.

Started the battle by setting up a 50.cal. I learned how to zoom even, and this gun is a goddamned beast. Sadly a sniper wrecked my machine gun before I had a chance to kill about 8 or so enemies and I'm still pretty salty about that. Those machine guns are only somewhat cheap. Then again, the rest of the battle was just an advance-and-destroy, along with the usual mop-up.

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Arma 3: Ansistasi.

EDIT: Won the first Martial Arts tournament. Due to quest-related shenanigans, Arlo was disqualified because he's required to stand in specific spots during the unrelated quest, and also lost the bet on Qiwa against Erwa because Qiwa simply wouldn't enter the ring. The game actually does check if the required characters are in the ring. My opening fight was against the tailor shop owner, Carol. Then I faced Erwa, and finally Sanwa in the final. Both of them(along with 3 of the other 5 brothers) have the same stats and animation, meaning both were completely stunlocked into defeat.

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My Time at Portia. I was actually worried about eventually fighting Arlo, since he's one of the highest-leveled characters in town and absolutely brutal in a fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 16, 2019, 04:45:15 pm

So, some easter egg spoilers for RDR2. Don't read ahead if you're planning on grabbing everything in the game and fully expect to be able to do this thing on your own without tearing anyone's hair out.

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So, there's a 'vampire' in Saint Denis. I found the first couple clues, tried to figure out a pattern, found a significant location and tried to see if they were in a radius around that point, staked out a few suspicious coffins in the graveyard at dusk and dawn, tried following a line from the clues I'd found, tried deciphering the clues as though they were riddled pointing out the other locations... And got a whole lot of nothing for the effort.

I'd already spent a couple days running around Saint Denis and staring at the walls, but eventually got a bit fed up and realized I didn't even know if I was "allowed" to solve it at this point in the story. Ended up caving and looking up some hints (perfect star my goddamn ass).

Surprisingly, after finding all the clues he actually showed up on the first night. Had the whole dramatic little cinema moment with this dude who couldn't decide between a southern US and a Transylvanian accent, and then told him he was an eejit.

I'd seen other people talking about what a rough fight Mr. Vamp was, and to be very careful so he doesn't hand your ass to you.

So the fight started, and I took out my lasso and punched him with it, which is an instant takedown.


Now I had a hogtied and very angry vampire telling me all the awful things he was gonna do if I didn't release him that very instant.

So I sat down and did some light crafting while I waited for dawn. Dawn came, the sun rose up... And nothing happened to him. I thought maybe we were in too enclosed of an area, so I risked pissing off the cops and dragged him out to the street. I flopped him down in a nice patch of sunbeams (and manure), and watched him... stare at me expectantly.

I was a bit disappointed that he wasn't disintegrating in the sunlight, but I could manage. Especially seeing as the random bystanders didn't have any problem with me kidnapping this fellow. I guess he counted as hostile to them too?

With this discovery came new opportunities. I changed plans and strapped him onto my horse, then rode down to the police station. I calmly walked into the holding room and tried to hand this maniac serial killer over to the cops, but while they didn't mind my manhandling him, they also weren't interested in taking responsibility for the rather dapper gentleman (I'd really like that coat...). I had to excuse myself for a few seconds because they didn't appreciate my "loitering" there, but I went back inside right afterwards and managed to pick the bloodsucker up off the floor again.

Plan C, then. I took him along to the graveyard, put him down in a nice central area, gloated a bit in the lovely morning sunshine, and shot him with a fire arrow. Crispy bat. And he finally relinquished his fancy dagger for me to twirl around!


...And apparently you can pick up and reuse ultra-flammable fire arrows? Okay, whatever.

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Red Dead Redemption 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 16, 2019, 07:01:01 pm

Quote from: Kagus on January 16, 2019, 04:45:15 pm

So, some easter egg spoilers for RDR2. Don't read ahead if you're planning on grabbing everything in the game and fully expect to be able to do this thing on your own without tearing anyone's hair out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So, there's a 'vampire' in Saint Denis. I found the first couple clues, tried to figure out a pattern, found a significant location and tried to see if they were in a radius around that point, staked out a few suspicious coffins in the graveyard at dusk and dawn, tried following a line from the clues I'd found, tried deciphering the clues as though they were riddled pointing out the other locations... And got a whole lot of nothing for the effort.

I'd already spent a couple days running around Saint Denis and staring at the walls, but eventually got a bit fed up and realized I didn't even know if I was "allowed" to solve it at this point in the story. Ended up caving and looking up some hints (perfect star my goddamn ass).

Surprisingly, after finding all the clues he actually showed up on the first night. Had the whole dramatic little cinema moment with this dude who couldn't decide between a southern US and a Transylvanian accent, and then told him he was an eejit.

I'd seen other people talking about what a rough fight Mr. Vamp was, and to be very careful so he doesn't hand your ass to you.

So the fight started, and I took out my lasso and punched him with it, which is an instant takedown.


Now I had a hogtied and very angry vampire telling me all the awful things he was gonna do if I didn't release him that very instant.

So I sat down and did some light crafting while I waited for dawn. Dawn came, the sun rose up... And nothing happened to him. I thought maybe we were in too enclosed of an area, so I risked pissing off the cops and dragged him out to the street. I flopped him down in a nice patch of sunbeams (and manure), and watched him... stare at me expectantly.

I was a bit disappointed that he wasn't disintegrating in the sunlight, but I could manage. Especially seeing as the random bystanders didn't have any problem with me kidnapping this fellow. I guess he counted as hostile to them too?

With this discovery came new opportunities. I changed plans and strapped him onto my horse, then rode down to the police station. I calmly walked into the holding room and tried to hand this maniac serial killer over to the cops, but while they didn't mind my manhandling him, they also weren't interested in taking responsibility for the rather dapper gentleman (I'd really like that coat...). I had to excuse myself for a few seconds because they didn't appreciate my "loitering" there, but I went back inside right afterwards and managed to pick the bloodsucker up off the floor again.

Plan C, then. I took him along to the graveyard, put him down in a nice central area, gloated a bit in the lovely morning sunshine, and shot him with a fire arrow. Crispy bat. And he finally relinquished his fancy dagger for me to twirl around!


...And apparently you can pick up and reuse ultra-flammable fire arrows? Okay, whatever.

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Red Dead Redemption 2

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Obviously only vampires are that flammable. You are doing God's work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on January 18, 2019, 01:03:48 pm

Finally completed the Pagan Reformation achievement: It was a long and frustrating road, but now the whole world shall tremble before incestuous Balts!

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 18, 2019, 04:10:29 pm

I got a Tidal Talisman in FFXI-Nasomi.

There was an event, it required not only a bunch of tomfoolery in my home city, but then 5 trips to Jueno and back. I completed it and now can just teleport me and some buds to Jueno. Super useful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 18, 2019, 04:45:10 pm

Finally managed to win a match in Endless Space 2 despite my mediocrity in 4X-type games. Got a Science Victory as the Vaulters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 18, 2019, 06:41:30 pm

Received a new treasure map, with directions starting from a shallow cliff that looked vaguely like the profile of a person's face. The location didn't ring any bells, but I started snooping around likely areas based on the vegetation indicated. Looking more closely at the rough grass shading and the tree sketching, I had a little thought in my head say "Hmm... Kinda looks like some of the trees down around Lemoyne", so I headed off in that direction.

Later on I was delivering a fish to a post office in Lemoyne, when I noticed one of the posters decorating the inside of the office:

"See: FACE ROCK the natural mystery
and other famous Lemoyne landmarks!
Experience YOUR HOMELAND'S beauty by rail!"

So I actually noticed one of the subtle little clues they throw around in the game, which is pretty impressive for my distracted ass! From this, I managed to work out that not only was it definitely in Lemoyne like I'd hypothesized, but it must logically be somewhere visible by the railroad.

...that's when I pulled out my map to check the surrounding terrain for potential locations, and noticed that there was actually already marked and written out "Face Rock" on the map, because I'd already been there at least once... While my attention to detail may be on the up-and-up, my memory still clearly isn't all that great. Ah well. Managed to head over there and get the treasure in any case.

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Red Dead Redemption 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 18, 2019, 08:16:28 pm

I've got good news and bad news from my current campaign. Bad news, in the span of about 10 minutes I lost three major strongpoints: a city, a factory/power plant, and a resource pile.


Good news is, I hijacked a frigging tank. And brought it back to base.

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Arma 3: Antistasi. Even better, I used that tank to kill another tank taking only minor turret damage in the process.

EDIT:

Quote from: Akura on January 18, 2019, 06:44:48 am

Got roped into a commission I can't actually complete. 4 days left, and in order to make the two items I need, I need to:

This? Not only did I manage to pull it off, I did it with time to spare AND completed a number of other commissions in the process.

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My Time at Portia.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 19, 2019, 12:08:40 am

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(https://i.imgur.com/TGMQiU2.jpg)

I AM BECOME TIBET
DEVOURER OF WORLDS (https://i.imgur.com/TGMQiU2.jpg)

This was the 6th attempt. The only thing keeping me from annexing the entirety of China was infamy & truces. Besides the glory of Tibet, I am incredibly pleased with how I managed internal affairs to ensure rebellions were an increasingly rare occurrence despite being transitioning from a theocracy -> absolute monarchy -> fascist dictatorship. I'm more accustomed to rebels falling from the skies like raindrops, to have everyone pleased with my administration whilst I cull millions of them and repurpose their states for tank manufacturing is a first for me. Thus while I fell short of my two goals of turning China Tibetan (the % of Tibetans in the total population was still just 2%, or just under 900k men), or uniting all of China under Tibet, I am happy and complete with this enduring challenge. From a mountain Kingdom of 180k sheep herders the Qing Empire was incinerated

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on January 19, 2019, 05:13:28 am

Oof, man, Author's Dream's some tough shit even without any Idols, but somehow, I've made it with 5 idols and got an achievement. I can't imagine how tough it'll be with 10 idols.

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Bastion

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 21, 2019, 12:27:52 pm

Karl Franz headed east to stem the tide of vampires into his stomping grounds rightful lands, with a full stack of medium tier units and a light mage with exorcism.  He first attacked the Von Carstein faction, taking over a minor settlement with 0 losses to his army.  This put him in a settlement for the rest of the turn, meaning his army would die if he was attacked and lost.

The Vampire Counts and Von Carstein had a defensive alliance.  The Vampire Counts reacted immediately, with about 30 units, the majority pretty advanced like blood knights and grave guard.  At their head was Mannfred von Carlstein, their legendary lord.  What followed was a bloody pitched battle that saw pretty much all of my units pushed to the edge of routing and an Empire Captain killed, but in the end they broke before we did, collapsing into dust.  My unit's health bars were pretty low, but the actual losses were "only" a quarter of my army, which would indicate more soldiers were wounded than were killed.

Then the Von Carstein faction sent their legendary lord, Vlad von Carstein, with a full stack that was half black knights.

Now that battle was a clusterfuck.  I set my crossbowmen and muskets in a line, put my halberdiers in a second line basically inside those units, and pretty much prayed their calvalry charge wouldn't annihilate us.  It didn't, but in the scramble to intercept all the knights my pretty line lost its cohesion and several ranged units ended up melee fighting on their own.  Much like before, my men's will to fight lasted longer than the enemy vampire's ability to maintain his undead and they all collapsed.  However unlike before, we were pretty much losing when that happened.  Two thirds of my army died.

800 men entered the swamps.  In one night (one turn), all but 250 were killed.  Around them were the remains of a couple thousand undead, as well as two legendary lords.

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Total War: Warhammer 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 24, 2019, 08:34:14 am

Clear the first floor, got two blanks left so I enter a random chest room to check for secrets (since I don't have a gun that can reveal the passages it's pretty much blind luck). First one I check is empty, second one gets me a room with 1 brown, 2 blue and one gold chest, all of them unlocked, two great guns, one good passive and a passable active, have a feeling this might be a good run.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 24, 2019, 08:50:55 am

Killed a whole load of wildlife, some of which were intelligent-ish, and stole their things. Which they had stolen from us shortly prior. It was amazing.

You look at My Time at Portia and what you don't see is a dungeon-delving boss battling game. But it handles a light version of that super well. That one dungeon with two bosses was possibly the most fun I've had with the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 24, 2019, 09:34:18 am

Quote from: Mephisto on January 24, 2019, 08:50:55 am

You look at My Time at Portia and what you don't see is a dungeon-delving boss battling game. But it handles a light version of that super well. That one dungeon with two bosses was possibly the most fun I've had with the game.

It does slightly annoy me that you actually have to go dungeon-diving for certain things. Probably because the sole music track for combat gets very grating after a while. For much of the game, valves, for instance, come only from the Chemical Dropout boss, and he only drops two. There's other places later on, sure, but for several early quest that you need them for, it's one of the more irritating grinds to go through. It's not even hard, you can easily no-damage the fight once you figure out his attack patterns.

It's also rather interesting how much the Research Center is like the WH40k Adeptus Mechanicus minus human cyber-augmentation. They basically spend all day trying to recover ancient technology from Data Disks(which operate very much like STC fragments), and seem to be utterly incapable of creating anything new for any situation whatsoever - you need some kind of new old-tech to fulfill a request? Hand over some disks and we'll see if there's anything on them that will help. That said, Petra is bae as hell. They also have a significant respect for machine intelligences.

I'm also finding it pretty funny about how a lot of people are screaming about how they recently nerfed fishing income. I've barely touched fishing at all, and I have no issues with money. If all you're doing is sitting on your ass waiting for a fish to bite, you're missing about 95% of the game's content.


EDIT: Handed the mayor my contribution to the upcoming Day of Bright Sun holiday - basically this game's version of Christmas except it's in Spring. The gift was worth the second-best amount of town-wide friendship gain(+10, best is +15). This caused a massive cascading explosion of relationship points, since reaching certain milestones of relationship points will give you bonus points with people related to that person, thus making friends with people can help you make friends with the friends of your friends. So much so, the game scrolled through it too fast for me to see, probably the entire town and then some.

The best part was the mayor's opinion on the gift: "A lot of people will be wanting this. Let's see who the lucky one is."

I gave him a triple-barreled shotgun that shoots poison darts. One that is banned by the church. Firing it for the first time loses -20 relation points from the pastor, Lee, and -10 from Nora, his assistant.

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My Time at Portia.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 26, 2019, 02:20:05 pm

I beat Ifrit solo after 4 tries in FFXI.

Ifrit, I'm here to bargain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 26, 2019, 10:32:22 pm

Took the tank out for a joyride. Drove pretty far behind enemy lines, decided to shoot up the AAF's airbase near Therisa. Surprised by the announcement of actually capturing the airbase. War level went from 7 to 9, skipping 8 entirely(this is... not exactly a good thing). And gained a bit of aggro from CSAT(definitely a bad thing). No armored vehicles appeared, and there wasn't any kind of aircraft stationed at the base. Maybe their endless flock of assault helicopters finally gave out, eh?

I was about to get out of my tank to examine the base's lootbox, when I get missile lock warnings. I tell the driver to move it, and somehow dodged multiple AGMs from a jet doing an airstrike. I(as the tank gunner) turned the turret around and fire a burst from the coaxial MG, which I know hit because I saw a tracer ricochet off. I did not see it turn around, and a short while later hear a distant explosion.

Unfortunately, I died trying to secure an MRAP, meaning I lost the lootbox(had some nice stuff), but not before I stashed the tank away. Shortly after respawning, I get the message that the town of Therisa also joined my side.

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Arma 3: Antistasi. Taking an airbase is significant. Not only can you spawn captured aircraft here, you actually have to capture all the airbases to win the campaign, in addition to getting at least 50% popular support throughout all of Altis.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on January 27, 2019, 10:10:09 am

Looks like Paradox have changed some shit regarding banishing/ransoming prisoners: I've successfully spied on several subjects of mine, and not a single one of them has changed their court, resulting in me drowning in money very early game.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 27, 2019, 08:48:39 pm

It may have required dragging my right knee across the ground while bounding forward using my extended left heel, but I completed a 100m dash.

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QWOP

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 28, 2019, 01:21:44 am

Beat the game with the help of a couple of folks on Discord.

Tricks like stacking Soldier's Syringes and using the missile launcher helped loads.

EDIT: Huh. Looks like I forgot to say what game it was.

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Risk of Rain Multiplayer.

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 28, 2019, 01:41:54 am

*Casts Meteor Storm*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 28, 2019, 04:26:33 am

I like to think that those last two posts are also from QWOP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 28, 2019, 08:37:05 pm

Defeated the Puppet Master. I had to set the battle time-limit to 10 minutes(the highest it can go), and had to sacrifice one of my ships to lure it into range of the orbital defense platforms - I learned from this battle that it cannot t̷̡̒a̶͚͝k̴͕̿e̴̮͐ ̶͔̄c̵̣͒o̴̫̕n̴̪͑t̸̪̂r̶͈͊o̷̺͑l̴̠͂ ̴̤̈́ô̶͜f̵̘͒ them. Even then, it wasn't looking like it was enough, so I tried inch as many ships as I could into missile range.

It died at precisely 0:00 left on the clock. In fact, the game declared the battle a draw, and I was worried it had managed to á̵͓̪̐s̴̫͐͜s̸̲̝͂e̵̢̞͠r̵̬͍̉͌t̶̛̝̃ ̵̦̈́͜č̵̠ǫ̶̨̾n̸̢͒̀ẗ̶̻r̴̦͙͆̆o̸̼̭̍l̴͖̰͆ ̸̯̇o̸͑̾ͅv̴̙͊̚ē̵͇r̷̟͑ the entire system. But no, it was dead. Only losses were the one ship and 5 very cheap defense platforms.

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Sword of the Stars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 29, 2019, 06:01:16 pm

If it was attacking your system shouldn't you have won when the time ended?  That's how Total War works, defender wins on timeout.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on January 29, 2019, 06:10:58 pm

Not against Grand Menaces, they win or at least the System Killer does on a timeout (always 4mins vs SK even if you have 10min battles). Other fights are draws because both sides might still have a considerable force left but for most random encounters the random force leaves post battle.

My first fights vs the SK were a cakewalk though it did take two battles to kill it. Turns out it is defenceless vs improved cloaking ships as long as they are on the field before the SK can fire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 29, 2019, 06:22:17 pm

You expect space dolphins to abide by your puny human logic? Pah! Sword of the Stars does not require your bipedal monkey science!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 29, 2019, 06:29:59 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on January 29, 2019, 06:01:16 pm

If it was attacking your system shouldn't you have won when the time ended?  That's how Total War works, defender wins on timeout.

In a normal fight, say, between two player fleets, both sides retreat, remain at the same location and will fight again(if they don't move somewhere else) next turn. I'm not sure what happens if you fail to kill a silicoid queen in time, maybe it establishes itself as a hive.

Puppet Master will mind-control the entire star system.


EDIT: I finally figured out how to switch the Titan Compact(which fires AT missiles) to top-attack mode, in which the missiles fly up, then hit the target on top(like a Javelin, which the Titan is not based on). This was during an AAF attack on Negades, which is odd since I thought there was a range limit from your HQ for attack missions to be generated and my HQ is halfway across the map now. Anyhow, attack's over before I can get there("halfway across the map now"), Negades flips, and I set up for at least damaging the attack force at the (still destroyed) radio tower on the mountaintop south of Negades, bringing a full squad and a truck with both Titan models and ammo for both.

Helicopters strafe the tower base. Nobody's hurt, either here or the power plant south of the tower. I was preparing for tanks, so I didn't have the AA launcher ready, and so I didn't get any hits in. I don't know how many helicopters got shot down, definitely one for sure. There were probably some ground forces somewhere south of the power plant, since the mortars at the tower outpost start firing and don't stop. I drive over to a cliff overlooking Negades, spot some AAF infantry hanging around, get my squad lined up to fire down.

Then I see an APC, and I can't lock on it from my position. It rams a civilian truck, exploding it, and a minute later starts driving away, giving me the line-of-sight to establish missile lock. First hit doesn't kill, and neither does the PCML rocket one of my AT guys fires almost simultaneously. The top-attack missile hit must have disabled the APC's turret however, since it didn't immediately instantly murder my squad me. Another Titan missile levels an entire city block along with the APC. Almost immediately: "Task completed: Negades joins FIA."

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Arma 3: Antistasi. Normally, collateral damage generally loses support from the town whose insurance premiums you increase, but it's possible that it was the APC exploding that destroyed the buildings, causing the game to assign the blame to APC, losing support because it's their fault for being attacked.

Also running into an annoying bug where static objects placed by me don't have their positions correctly saved, being saved with coordinates a few paces to the east of where they're actually placed. As a result, I've got an AA launcher blocked by a car wreck, and a concrete bunker that's slowly migrating out to sea.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 29, 2019, 08:43:43 pm

Beat Ramuh trial-size fight, first try.

FFXI

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 30, 2019, 12:06:45 am

I forged a perfect gun.

First I found a legendary Dead Whisper ("The Gentle Caress of Ultimate Oblivion"), which was a sufficient gun for a while.  Then I entered its item world, going through 100 floors and defeating its item god.
Along the way I found a legendary Megiddo Cannon ("Releases the annihilation of reality") which was a bit better.

But to get the perfect gun, I needed access to the Land of Carnage.  So I traveled various item worlds fighting various varieties of interdimensional pirates, collecting their treasure maps.  I finally found the Red Pirates and completed my set.  The Land of Carnage is an... interesting town, where the NPC dialogues (including gameplay tutorials) are a mix of verbal assault and plain surrealism.

Now I was able to make my way through the 100 floors of the Megiddo Cannon, and face its Uber Item God...  Where my level 9999 thief stole his gun.

Etoile ("The culmination of human ingenuity").  It means star, and it kinda looks like an inlaid storm bolter.  Unfinished, but with ultimate potential. 

Then came the tricky part, heh.  Hundreds of timelines were discarded as I savescummed the item world, needing 100 points worth of bonus levels before I reached the end.  Mostly finding cooperative fortune tellers (then beating them up for an extra edge).  Something the guide never mentioned was that the RNG seed is saved - might be new to the PC version.  So it wasn't enough to reload, I had to run the RNG a bit anytime I needed a different result.  It's an odd bit of mercy that the number of bonus levels is capped at 100...  Gives quite a bit of wiggle-room.

Final I reached the Uber Item God 2.  It was a surprisingly difficult fight, taking several rounds and the sacrifice of several low-level minions, and that was after I stole his weapon (which is, naturally, a perfect but unlevelled replica of this perfect gun).  But eventually he was slain... at which point I teleported out of the item world, then back in, to kill him a second time.  Because obviously that gives an additional bonus (no bonus for a third kill, though- that would be silly!)

Spoiler: Statblock, which matches the guide's prediction (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/SG5fqVL.jpg)

Spoiler: Demonstration by Mascot Girl Plenair or maybe Celestine (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/lCQ0Blz.jpg)

Guns are pretty useful to perfect because their damage is based on the same stat that determines accuracy.  So a level 1 character with this gun not only does substantial damage, they also have an actual shot at hitting high-level enemies.  Very important since there's a "reincarnation" system for resetting level.

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Disgaea 2
Also spoiler: I watched a lot of tv shows while doing this lol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on January 30, 2019, 04:14:56 pm

One of my weaker beastmen hordes decided to chase after a tiny 2 unit greenskin stack.  My horde is big but consists of the weakest beastmen units, so basically the weakest units in the entire game that aren't summons.

The greenskins use some trickery to call in a larger stack as reinforcements, so now I've got an equally huge army of da boyz bearing down on me and no real hope of defeating them.  There's no retreat, no way to win a straight fight, that means its time to use my secret technique.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/947347712780648273/4C0C637667B841200F8F30B1A939759F5AB3AF5A/)

Also known as the "clown car vanguard maneuver".  For reference, both sides have only deployed 2 units normally.  That red reinforcements sign?  That's their entire army walking in from that side of the map.  They entered in a neat little rectangle and were met with a beastmen blob coming from their left flank.  The end result was our armies forming a sort of T shape, with me being mostly the top of the T and the greenskins getting a very bad engagement that left them open to my archers.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/947347712780872084/31020DF635DC6783A9DC3AA20F7ED80A90E2C377/)That might look like a Pyrrhic victory, but remember: In a fight it doesn't matter who lives and who dies.  All that matters is who gets to plant their flag in the corpse field and declare themselves victorious.

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Total War: Warhammer 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 30, 2019, 04:46:44 pm

Leviathan in FFXI is tough as balls but I got him, you tricksy little fish-snake you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 31, 2019, 07:26:37 am

Game starts off ok, second floor secret room has a rainbow chest tho, with the goddamn clone in it, plus the grenade launcher, so bossing becomes way easier. Kinda snowballs from there, so by the first high dragun encounter I have 3 master rounds, a bunch of passives and synergies, then I die to the dragun and start all over again, with all my stuff. At first it was a bit tough to get ammo for the stupid amount of guns, but after a while most of them were full since I wasn't using them, had atleast a dozen damn things, to say nothing of the stupid Daruma, which combined with the blank companion and a chaos ammolet to murder everything ever if it sent a single bullet that I could dodge my way. Managed to even clear the high priest without taking damage, and the fucker was always giving me trouble before this. Also had like 10 hearts total :V

Still died like a chump to the pilots past, that thing is such a pain because it's so damn different than the entirety of the game up to that point, dodging the lasers is especially shit since it's hard to figure out the i-frames in the roll. And sure I could learn the stuff after enough attempts, the thing is tho that said attempts are still farily rare for me.

Also fuck the steam overlay not working and being unable to take screenshots for whatever reason as this was one of the rare moments it warranted taking one (or rather several since the inventory was packed that you had to scroll to see all the shit I've gotten :V)

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on January 31, 2019, 11:54:59 am

Built a craft capable of landing at sea-level on Eve and then returning more effectivy than the massive abomination that I created before. This one costs 500K credits as opposed to over a million credits, which also opens up the possibility of actual profitable Eve missions.

Kerbal Spehss Program

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Levi on January 31, 2019, 12:09:57 pm

I finally beat the final arena fight in the Colosseum of Fools. I thought I was pretty much doomed at 3 different points in the fight, but I prevailed, beat the giant boss roly-poly and got my reward (I'm a fool).   :P

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Hollow Knight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on January 31, 2019, 01:12:57 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on January 30, 2019, 12:06:45 am

("The Gentle Caress of Ultimate Oblivion")

As someone who's read entirely too much FATAL & Friends (http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/), I was wondering WTF "Fuck of Ultimate Oblivion" was and where I could get one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 31, 2019, 02:37:30 pm

Completing that item was Something Awful, I tell ya.
(I forgot that I had to equip the item for 30-40 battles first, to spawn the Lover, then run floor one a couple dozen times to subdue all the non-marksman residents. Since it gets a tiny HIT bonus per level-up from being filled with marksmen.)

Quote from: IronTomato on January 31, 2019, 11:54:59 am

Built a craft capable of landing at sea-level on Eve and then returning more effectivy than the massive abomination that I created before. This one costs 500K credits as opposed to over a million credits, which also opens up the possibility of actual profitable Eve missions.

Kerbal Spehss Program

A trip like that inevitably takes a long time, right? Months at least? I did eventually reach Duna last time I played, but it felt weird "skipping" so much time. But it's hard enough for me to make it at all, particularly with payload, much less waste fuel accelerating and decelerating...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on January 31, 2019, 02:43:53 pm

Depending on planetary alignment, you can get to Eve fairly quickly!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Imic on January 31, 2019, 03:24:18 pm

I ran into a common sea monster during a ferrying mission, and took half health before I killed it.

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sunless sea

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on February 03, 2019, 09:13:50 am

Table tech items aren't terribly great for the most part since they aren't reliable, especially in bossfights where no tables are usually present, and the table spawning active isn't that great either since it has like 3 uses, and takes the spot of a potenitally much more useful item.

Regardless, sometimes you can get a couple of them (yay synergy drops), that won't have an explicit synergy, but will work wonderfully together. In this case it all started with table tech money which flips all the tables in the room and adds some cash drops to them. It was followed by table tech blanks, which triggers a blank effect whenever a table is flipped, so trigger one flip and you chain a bunch of blanks in quick succession. Then I got the beehive which actually has a synergy with the blank effect in that instead of destroying enemy bullets, it turns them into fucking bees that then go and attack enemies for a little while. Last one I managed to get was rockets, which launches any flipped tables forwards until they explode on impact.

The only real gamebreaking thing I was missing was one of the ammolets which add further effects to blanks, which would make any room with enough tables a single button clear in most cases xD

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Enter the gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 03, 2019, 10:20:25 am

Gave in and downloaded it again. A few months away, and I actually did pretty well. Somehow found myself behind an NC tank line in my Lightning, was damaged killing off an ANT(whose driver managed to C4 me), and dunked on an enemy Lightning and damaged another before dying.

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Planetside 2. Only reason I played it was because I originally wanted to play Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, but there's no official servers for it(there was when I bought it during a sale/free weekend), only community-run servers, which I'm too anti-social to feel comfortable trying one out. Best flavor of salt is the salt you know, I suppose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 03, 2019, 03:55:36 pm

I was playing MoO2 as a custom hyper-research race. I colonized only the best planets, so my empire was a strung out series of distant single colonies. The Mrrshan and Bulrathi explosively colonized everything they could find, and I found myself a surrounded by two massive empires that shortly went to war with another as I quietly researched.

A few turns into their war, the Mrrshan attacked a newly set up colony of mine. They bombed it off the map and went home.

I built a battleship and a few cruisers. My forces were mostly missile destroyers specced to kill that pesky Guardian and Loknar's unique ship. I was vastly outnumbered.

It wasn't even a fight. A fight implies they somehow had a chance of winning. I brutalized them. I killed a fleet of cruisers and destroyers with a single cruiser. My battleship cruised to their homeworld and blockaded it while I obliterated all their colonies. Then I bombed their homeworld to a single population unit. I didn't accept their frantic pleas for peace and instead am waiting til they get a second population so I can do it again.

Go ahead, fuck with the quiet nerdy fragile bugs.

After that the Bulrathi declared war on me also (because apparently stupidity is contagious.) Since apparently turning another space faring empire into an endangered species that is perpetually pruned down to replacement levels wasn't a clear enough message, I captured their capital world after annihilating their fleet.

Then I made that planet start building transports and ships. I sent out armies and fleets of turncoat Bulrathi to each world they owned, butchering their defenders and exterminating their populace with pogroms and starvation, then I shipped new, loyal Bulrathi to populate these stolen worlds. I fought them down to a single world, a backwater, nameless shithole with a pop of 3, then I permanently blockaded it with Bulrathi crews and Bulrathi troops. I let this nascent holdout of what they once were remain as a reminder of their mistake and the sheer malevolence which I would defend my empire with.

MoO2 btw

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 03, 2019, 04:05:37 pm

"How... How could you do this? How could you even conceive of these atrocities?"

"I told you, we're Creative."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 03, 2019, 05:16:09 pm

♪ Now let's all agree to never be creative again ♫

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 03, 2019, 09:54:44 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on February 03, 2019, 05:16:09 pm

♪ Now let's all agree to never be creative again ♫

I don't destroy my enemies, I bind them, break them, and make them regret ever existing within the orbit of my hatred.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 03, 2019, 10:20:13 pm

There always was something about MoO2 that brought out a sadistic streak.  Maybe because of how arbitrarily bloodthirsty the AIs can be, particularly on harder difficulties.  Depopulating entire planets with nuclear fire on a whim, without anyone batting an eye (but bioweapons?  You MONSTER!)

It's also just super satisfying to assimilate aliens into your empire, though, yeah.  I like that they're a lot faster to convert if you're a democracy, or if they were under feudalism.

Not that it matters, if you have psychic powers~  What an eerie game.  And then there are the interdimensional marauders, escaping exile, who may have killed the precursors...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 04, 2019, 04:37:10 am

I usually just rolled out the stellar converter and disintegrated their homeworlds. Doesn't really have the same punch to it, though...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 04, 2019, 08:57:32 am

Built a small house out of planks and beams, as opposed to the half meter-thick blocks, except for the fireplace and foundation of course. Not particularly hard, but it's also less simple than just blocks and looks cooler. Also possibly cheaper, as planks are significantly longer than blocks.

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Rising World, a Minecraft-like with deformative voxel terrain as opposed to everything being blocks. Currently more of a creative-building focus, as the only things that can actually kill you in this game are wild animals, starvation/thirst(plenty of food and water though), and falling. Hostile NPCs are coming next update. Graphically it's decent, but the lighting and environmental effects are pretty good - I was sitting in my cabin during the rain, and noticed that while you could see raindrops falling inside the cabin, it was only coming through the gaps in the boards, something I rarely if ever see in any professional production let alone a one-man project.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 04, 2019, 09:23:08 am

Huh, so it's actually playable now? As in, there's stuff to do? Neat. Rising World's been lurking around on Steam for ages, and it never really seemed to either develop enough for me to snag it, or get bad enough reviews for me to ignore it.

Nice to see it's actually come a long way from pure "Terrain Deformation Simulator 2000".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IronTomato on February 04, 2019, 11:13:46 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on January 31, 2019, 02:37:30 pm

Completing that item was Something Awful, I tell ya.
(I forgot that I had to equip the item for 30-40 battles first, to spawn the Lover, then run floor one a couple dozen times to subdue all the non-marksman residents. Since it gets a tiny HIT bonus per level-up from being filled with marksmen.)

Quote from: IronTomato on January 31, 2019, 11:54:59 am

Built a craft capable of landing at sea-level on Eve and then returning more effectivy than the massive abomination that I created before. This one costs 500K credits as opposed to over a million credits, which also opens up the possibility of actual profitable Eve missions.

Kerbal Spehss Program

A trip like that inevitably takes a long time, right? Months at least? I did eventually reach Duna last time I played, but it felt weird "skipping" so much time. But it's hard enough for me to make it at all, particularly with payload, much less waste fuel accelerating and decelerating...

Because of the way the orbits are, getting there was actually pretty quick compared to a Duna trip, but returning was significantly harder since I had to wait for a return window while on a severely slanted orbit relative to Kerbin and with limited dV.

But yeah, that's really just how interplanetsry missions are in KSP, and understandably so. You can minimize the amount of time it takes, but it'll most likely still take well over a year ingame even for the quickest trip possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 04, 2019, 12:21:14 pm

Finally got my Blacksteel Katanas; now I can use them like a true weeb!

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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin

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With some excommunication and duchy claim requests, I've came very close to uniting the British Isles. All what I need to do now is to expand into Wales, and I'll get the achievement.

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Crusader Kings 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 04, 2019, 12:47:46 pm

Powerstancing is lots of fun. I did it myself with spears once; good times.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 04, 2019, 05:53:41 pm

Pressing the power button would be a better option /oh I’m so edgy I shave without blades

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 04, 2019, 05:55:17 pm

I play Skyrim on normal so... (Also be a mage on Dark Souls. They're so easy.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 04, 2019, 06:11:20 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 04, 2019, 05:55:17 pm

I play Skyrim on normal so... (Also be a mage on Dark Souls. They're so easy.)

Mage? ...

Or Poopoomancer?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on February 04, 2019, 06:54:22 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 04, 2019, 05:55:17 pm

I play Skyrim on normal so... (Also be a mage on Dark Souls. They're so easy.)

what are u casual level str noob

((oh great this is the pageroll))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 04, 2019, 07:12:49 pm

Reached the Apex of the first pyramid as regular Redneck, in about 3 hours of play time.

Immortal Redneck. It's a good game and I sure ain't done with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 04, 2019, 07:17:59 pm

In own related news, I subsumed the Human Republic on MoO:CtS.

One cruiser of mine had 68/85 rating. Their frigates had 14/14. It was a hilarious fight. I had to micro my missile batteries cuz a single shot from one bank of 4 mirv missiles MORE than killed a frigate. My guns basically just existed to dissuade them from coming closer between barrages.

Then I sent troops down onto Sol I. It was 11 on eight, their favor. They probably needed 11 more, because not ONE of mine died. Then I proceeded to bring them up to my level because Benevolent Alien Overlords.

Now I'm trying to decide between walking into the Bulrathi-Klackon War, or heading for the Core and Uninhabited Regions. I'm leaning toward the War cuz on the other side of that is the Mrrshan-Darlok sector, and I vastly outrank everyone on territory, research, and population. I'm thinking I should overextend myself and see if they can take advantage.

... Or maybe both...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 04, 2019, 10:42:47 pm

Played the first six months of my rookie year, then decided to remind myself how to actually play the game by watching the tutorial videos in game and in the following six weeks won more races than I had in the preceding half-year, including my first G-race win, at G3.

This got me to a magical 30 wins, opening up G1 races. Got my first one the next week, I was the #6 favourite on a front runner, a style of horse I am not particularly good at because of the need to get a good start. Get to the paddocks prior to the race, the favourite is all like “oh hey cool this is your first G1 race, but my horse is awesome so see you at the finish line loser nyeh”  because he’s apparently a shitebag.

Get to the race, get myself a god damn flying start, lead for the entirety and cross the line a half-length ahead of second place. My first G1 win at my first G1 race.

The favourite was a little more humble after that.

Shitebag.

I also won the Leading Apprentice award, as well as having the highest winning percentage of all riders ‘cause few people were actually giving me horses, so I ended up with 52 wins in 194 races, finishing 10th overall.

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G1 Jockey 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on February 05, 2019, 09:01:41 am

First floor chest had the 7-leaf clover. Among other things this got me the railgun which made bossing trivial, the super hot watch which made everything trivial, the particulator which made things easier still and finally the goddamn yari launcher all of which got me trough the dragun fight without a scratch (was expecting an unlock of some sort from that tbh). But that's not the own here, that's just crazy luck, the own is that I finally managed to kill the bloody HMS Absolution. As it turns out, if you stop and observe the pattern it isn't all that hard. What gave me the most trouble before was dodging the beams but as it turns out you don't really need to dodge those, much easier to stay in the middle and dodge the smaller bullet patterns, all the while doing damage to the thing.

All that's left is the convict, kinda funny since she's the first character I reached the past with but hadn't been able to clear it back then.

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Enter the Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on February 05, 2019, 10:15:06 am

I was not the first to die.

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Apex Legends, the most un-Titanfall game in the Titanfall universe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on February 05, 2019, 12:24:52 pm

Is it actually titanfall based? AFAIK it's made by the same devs, but from what I've seen it's doing its own thing as far as the lore goes.

Looks fun as far as BR games go, tho it has the EA taint so I'm kinda hesitant to touch it (even tho everyone says it's doing the 'cosmetics only' monetization)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 05, 2019, 01:47:15 pm

Quote from: Jopax on February 05, 2019, 12:24:52 pm

Is it actually titanfall based? AFAIK it's made by the same devs, but from what I've seen it's doing its own thing as far as the lore goes.

*Playing Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

"This is the weirdest Monkey Island game yet..."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Twinwolf on February 05, 2019, 02:26:20 pm

My understanding of it is it's by the same devs, in the same universe, and that's where the connection ends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on February 05, 2019, 02:31:22 pm

And it's a FPS with most of the same guns and some of the same movement. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on February 05, 2019, 02:53:17 pm

It was originally titled "Titanfall Battle Royale" so I think I'm justified in calling it a Titanfall game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 05, 2019, 04:35:34 pm

It's a Titanfall game because it's set in the Titanfall universe, but it isn't a Titanfall game because many of the core mechanics Titanfall is most known for are altered or removed.

Like Fallout/2 and Fallout Tactics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: KitRougard on February 05, 2019, 09:56:25 pm

Destiny 2, playing Gambit with my dad, my uncle, and some matchmaking random. We were 1 to 1, deciding round was going. Opponents summoned their Primeval (the big boss you have to kill to win a round) first, and although we were close behind, they got their melt (high DPS) on, and had it to 1/8 while we were just starting the melt at 3/4. I figure I'll go out swinging, and I invade (PvP, disrupts opponents while healing their Primeval).

I get 1
2
3 kills on their team. I don't get the 4-piece, because my kills bought my team just enough time to get the kill first. We won, and much congratulations and "Oh my god that work you just put in" were to be had.

This was also my first "meatball" (A rare Primeval spawn that starts an Exotic quest line.) round. So there's that.

They laughed when they saw my bow. I laugh now that they have no eyes to see.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 06, 2019, 06:34:52 am

I did both. Turns out I was confused on Empire placement. The Mrrshan are in the galactic east, Klackon and single surviving Bulrathi planet in the west, me and the subsumed Humans in the south, with my empire squeezing through the middle, and the Silicoids to the north. I've taken over half of the extensive Silicoid empire, took Ursa from the Bulrathi and burnt the rest, a small outlier planet named Lyae was traded to me by the Mrrshan in exchange for the life of a spy and I'm busily building a jumpgate so I can bring my 2200/2500 titan to their doorstep.

Not only is there no single threat to me, there hasn't been for a long time, and even if they all banded together, I STILL would mop the floor with them.

MoO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on February 06, 2019, 06:56:48 am

I made an am using a spell to troll humanoids.

Damage Strength 10 to 10 for 10s on target. It makes them have too low strength to move with their own equipment. I am not entirely sure, whether it would work on animals though.

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 06, 2019, 07:34:30 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 06, 2019, 06:34:52 am

MoO

The Bulrathi, out of the mercy in their hearts, are still willing to give you one last chance to surrender unconditionally.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 08, 2019, 06:26:57 am

Got pretty lucky, found an asteroid with uranium, ice, silicon, and gold right away. Also immediately found asteroids containing nearly everything else nearby.

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Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 08, 2019, 07:00:09 am

Quote from: Kagus on February 06, 2019, 07:34:30 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on February 06, 2019, 06:34:52 am

MoO

The Bulrathi, out of the mercy in their hearts, are still willing to give you one last chance to surrender unconditionally.

The only time I ever got out-classed in the old MoO2, a galactic vote allied the universe against me. A titanic and impossible fleet of doom stars was raised. No hope of defeating them militarily.

So I made a titan for each world they owned solely equipped with a Subspace Teleporter, Phasing and regular cloak, and a shitpile of guns + stellar converter. I then jumped into battles outnumbered 100 to one, assassinated their planets, and retreated immediately.

That's right, I performed a Butlerian Jihad. I won that match. By scorching ALL the Earth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 09, 2019, 11:13:34 am

Beat the game yesterday. That certainly was an experience.

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mech#4 on February 09, 2019, 12:25:15 pm

Reports had come in that the Belis Corona system was expecting a massive invasion by a Tyranid Hivefleet. Meeting this most foul xenos threat was Lord High Admiral Spire, backed up by a second Imperial fleet as well as several cruisers from the Blood Angels chapter.

The following battle was tense, the first sighting of the Tyranid Hiveship class battleship. Early efforts to hold the Tyranids off at a distance, spending the time firing lancers at long range as well as gathering important strategic information about the positioning of the Tyranid ships went well. However, as the battle raged on the crews of several ships started to faulter as their numbers dwindled from boarding actions.

A pivital moment was when the Tyranid Hiveship managed to capture and devour the standing crew on Lord High Admiral Spire's capital ship, leaving it drifting. In a selfless action that shall be recorded amongst the greatest heroes of the Imperium, a Dauntless class light cruiser, upon seeing their Admiral's ship drifting, performed an about turn, facing down the Tyranid hiveship and other vessels closing in, activated All Ahead Full and Brace For Impact and plowed straight into the Hiveships gaping maw. The impact spurred the other Tyranid ships to close on the Dauntless, devouring their crew but not before the brave captain could activate self destruct, bringing the Hiveship and no less then 4 other Tyranid vessels to firey destruction in the ensuring blast.

The battle was far from over, however. More Tyranid ships were closing in and the survivors rallied and begun repairs for the renewed assault. Indentifying key targets once more using auger probes, no less than two more Hiveships were detected. Lord High Admiral Spire, with a skeleton crew aboard, turned to face the greater of the two Hiveships, intent on severing the Tyranids synaptic link.
The battle was failing however, more ships were lost, crews devoured and replaced by tiny remnants, torpedo supplies were low and control of the battlefield was flagging. Just upon the cusp of defeat all ships turned to give one final push to expel the Tyranid threat, either death or glory as they braced for impact. Upon closing in the Tyranid ships surged forward, ramming into their own Hiveships and destroying themselves in their eagerness to feed.

The battle was won moments from defeat. The Emperors blessing was with us this day.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 09, 2019, 01:10:06 pm

/me casts meteor

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 09, 2019, 03:29:44 pm

Clearly the game in question is Hunt Down The Freeman.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on February 09, 2019, 04:52:28 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 09, 2019, 03:29:44 pm

Clearly the game in question is Hunt Down The Freeman.

Nah pretty sure its Stardew Valley: Enhanced Edition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 09, 2019, 05:56:56 pm

Quote from: Haspen on February 09, 2019, 04:52:28 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on February 09, 2019, 03:29:44 pm

Clearly the game in question is Hunt Down The Freeman.

Nah pretty sure its Stardew Valley: Enhanced Edition.

Must've been its DLC, ATLAS.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Megawott06 on February 09, 2019, 06:22:33 pm

Reached Canada on my second attempt ever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road to Canada

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 09, 2019, 06:48:14 pm

Met with Runemaster Babus and his royal knights and warmages, looking for someone threatening the Prince.  They were on top of a mountain, because this game insists on giving every enemy a height advantage unless you're literally in a swamp.

Marche, the protagonist:  "The prince?  Durr he's just a kid, also I want to destroy the world!" (paraphrased slightly)

Babus found offense in this, somehow.  Before any of his guard could move, he ran down the mountain and cast Demi on Marche (a silly spell that can't even kill).
Unfortunately for him, he was directly next to my whole team and alone.  It was over before his army got even close.  That counted as a victory, as he teleported away.  Presumably the imperial guard wandered off.

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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2019, 08:55:49 pm

Assembled a small, barebones mining ship. After a few mishaps that nearly resulted in both it and the main ship plummeting into a nearby planet, I took it out for a run. Slow as ass, and even worse with a load of cargo, but I was able to haul over 8k of nickel in one trip, whereas flying my spaceman back and fort yields only about 700 per trip.

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Space Engineers. Most of the time, I get bored with survival by now and quit.

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 09, 2019, 06:48:14 pm

It was over before his army got even close.  That counted as a victory, as he teleported away.

I cry for all the lost EXP(or FFTA's equivalents) for not killing off his supports.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 09, 2019, 09:18:54 pm

Yeah, if this was Battle For Wesnoth or something I'd have restarted.  Fortunately FFTA has repeatable quests, and EXP is per action anyway (so easy to grind).

Though I probably missed out on unique item theft opportunities.  Good thing I'm not doing that!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on February 09, 2019, 09:32:26 pm

     I am 2/6ths of the way to earning the title "Master of the Dark Arts", mainly due to a recent breakthrough in understanding how to use this fucker...…

Spoiler: Dark Arts indeed (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gMKUNuH.png)
     See that bastard circled in the red square, yeah, him ... figured it out after having the game for 20-odd years, and only ever used 1 type of railroad signal.  NOW, I know two!     And there are 6 different signals available, so my pursuit of the darkest knowledge continues............

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     OpenTTD, (Open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 10, 2019, 09:58:08 am

Finally got a map to generate where I can produce lacquer and lacquerware. Not only that, but the map has huge areas of land available for building, and plenty of viable trade routes - notably almost everyone else buys lacquerware, though I think I found one city that sells raw lacquer. Can't produce my own raw silk, but there's a couple of exporters I can buy the raw silk from and can still build weavers. Food production is actually surprisingly limited; I can only grow millet and rice(and hemp), and there's very limited space for fishing quays. However, I can sell a lot of rice to other cities, and plenty of import options.

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Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. And of course, I've already forgotten the random string of numbers I typed in for the seed. FFFFF-

EDIT: An Argentaevis-class ship decided to stop by and say hello. These ships are basically drone launchers. It got about 6km from where I'm building my base before sending a Gatling Platform in my direction. The drone zeroed in on me as I was returning from grabbing a lootbox, somehow closing the difference some despite me going the hard-limited speed in this game. I take cover behind an asteroid, into which the drone collided with, apparently "stunning" it. This gave me time to rush out from cover, and ram my grinder into it.

Managed to disable one of the programming blocks before noticing the gun was still active. For some reason, the gun was very slow to track me, so I was able to grind it down past its working state. For a while, it starts dancing about, trying to retreat, and I have to back off because it was starting to get close to its mothership. A little while later, the Argentaevis despawns(dangerously close to my base, but still), and I'm left to loot the remains of the drone which stopped moving.

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Space Engineers

EDIT2: Hijacked a Mining Carriage after a few attempts. Actually pretty simple piracy, since it only has a single turret. Like all SPRT ships, though, it'll spawn a drone a few km away once you approach. I cut a hole into the side hull and crawl into it, and hack one of the gyroscopes - note: hacking in this game is grinding it down to the point where computer components are supposed to be used and then re-welding it. The drone locks onto the gyroscope, and break cover to hack the Carriage's turret and one of the ship's(for some reason, external) reactors. I also shut off the antenna(which controls drone spawning) while turret cuts the drone in half. After that, it's a matter of cutting open the door to the control seat, then hacking the control seat. Almost ran out of energy until I took over the seat.

Resources are an okay-ish haul, mostly raw ores and ammo. Not sure if I'm going to strip it down entirely, or refurbish it. Refurbishing it could work as a tow/salvage ship, since it comes with several landing gears mounted on the front.

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Space Engineers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on February 13, 2019, 06:42:51 pm

Got my first win with the aid of 2 random players!

I can recall a particularly tense moment where I exposed myself too much and messed up a few grenade throws and both me (Bangalore) and my teammate (Caustic) were downed, leaving only the third guy (Bloodhunter? The guy with the crow...) left to face on the enemy (Pathfinder... I think. The robot.).

Bloodhunter shot him down, though, and after that, it was almost kind of easy.

I don't really know how to properly utilize Bangalore's smoke bombs... Or her Missiles... Or anything...

But hey, I somehow downed someone who was fool enough to run straight at me, so that's good, I guess?

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Apex Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Thexor on February 14, 2019, 05:00:39 pm

FFTA specifically is so easy to grind. Spoilered in case you don't want your game experience damaged by stupid amounts of XP!

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Actions hitting an equal-level target gives 10 XP, while hitting a lower-leveled character grants 2 XP less per level, so in theory it's all but impossible to stay more than a couple levels above your opponents. Unfortunately, "equal-level target" includes a White Mage casting heal spells on themselves, letting them gain XP at a constant rate no matter how weak your opponents are. And once your White Mage is up to a ridiculous level, you'll learn that you can also gain tons of XP on your other characters by hitting your overleveled White Mage with friendly fire. And you can do that while he's healing himself to repair the damage and gain even more levels.

Of course, you'll still be blocked by not having the right weapons to start training new skills yet, but farming juicy experience like this is delicious, delicious cheese.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 15, 2019, 11:13:45 am

And unlike say, FF6, those early levels don't really screw your stat progression if you're careful. The basic classes are nearly on par, like a pure black mage gets nearly (or actually?) the highest magic attack stat.

The exception being speed of course, but speed-maxed ninjas have downsides too.

And the way clan level works, you can just recruit a level 50 of any class anyway! Just takes some time and late game items.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on February 17, 2019, 11:25:09 am

I may have blown up a few civilians, but I did stop an Alien Port attack at night while using only bought equipment, without losing an aquanaut.
I did have medikits, but my only unit that got wounded was the Coelatoth, so I did not use it.

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X-Com: Terror from the Deep

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 17, 2019, 03:04:33 pm

Quote from: Mathel on February 17, 2019, 11:25:09 am

I may have blown up a few civilians, but I did stop an Alien Port attack at night while using only bought equipment, without losing an aquanaut.
I did have medikits, but my only unit that got wounded was the Coelatoth, so I did not use it.

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X-Com: Terror from the Deep

For everything else that is terrifying in TFTD, the port attacks were at least mercifully not as horrible as they could have been.

Tankers, on the other hand...


And since it's OldCom, dedicated grenade-spammers are incredibly effective early on. Shame you don't get a discount for buying explosives in bulk.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on February 17, 2019, 04:21:58 pm

Grenades are indeed quite powerful. The next terror mission was an island attack by deep ones and gill men (I am now 1 autopsy away from researching aqua plastics), and I already had both gauss rifles and sonic pulsers.

The aliens did not stand a chance (though I still blew up some civilians, one of which died from walking on a particle disturbance grenade, which I threw, because I mistook it for a sonic pulser).

But the strange thing is, Sonic pulsers are not just better than regular Magna-blast grenades. They are better than magna-pack explosives as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 17, 2019, 08:16:07 pm

A daemon of Khorne demanded a sacrifice of blood. So, the Imperial Guard engaged the Necrons to feed the daemon. While vastly outnumbered, the Guardsmen killed many times their own number. The last kill required was made when a psyker used Strip Soul on a random Necron Warrior.


Everything I just said is incredibly wrong, but that's what happened.

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Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 18, 2019, 01:12:21 am

I have so many questions.  Starting with, is that the actual plot of the game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on February 18, 2019, 01:21:40 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 18, 2019, 01:12:21 am

I have so many questions.  Starting with, is that the actual plot of the game?

There's a side mission where you have to appease Khorne in order to gain an ability to do two turns at the campaign map. And yes, it can be done by all of the eight forces, including Loyalist Space Marines and Imperial Guards.

As for the plot, it's basically: there's a planet called Cronus in the Warhammer universe, and these eight forces (from Chaos to Tau) are duking it out for the control of the planet. Lore inconsistencies aside, it's a good game: One of the very few WH40K vidya products that are worth it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 18, 2019, 06:21:18 am

That map is always so damn hairy when playing as the guard... Like, yeah, let's play the faction with its strength spread out over a higher model count and bring them to the place where number of killed models determines victory.

But at least it's not fucking Hyperion Peaks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 18, 2019, 06:30:13 am

A Military Escort did a fly-by of my base close enough to spawn a drone. The drone smashed into the asteroid, breaking its only gun. I've captured the drone and am stripping it for material - it's got heavy armor, so that's a lot of material.

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Space Engineers.

Quote from: Kagus on February 18, 2019, 06:21:18 am

But at least it's not fucking Hyperion Peaks.

Hyperion Peaks is literally impossible if playing as the Necrons. At least, if the Orks are holding it, which they do at the start of the campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 18, 2019, 08:53:58 pm

Gots myself a -21 on the teeny hole setting on the easiest course.

Got myself a -9 on the hardest course, aided by my first ever hole-in-one.

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Dwarf Fortress

or Everybodys Golf, I always mix them up

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 19, 2019, 10:42:42 pm

I was a thick, hard dwarf of the streets.  No job too rough.  This one time, I ran with this newbie - soft.  He had no idea, but when the heat came, when he was desperate, he stood with us.
Good kid.

...

There's something satisfying about cracking a nut open.  You break the shell, and anticipate destroying the FlEsH iNsIdE.

Shadowrun Returns

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2019, 01:17:46 pm

I created a device that destroys heat at the cost of energy.  Just to show the laws of thermodynamics who's boss.  Also because I was irrigating bristle berries with 40 C water.

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Oxygen Not Included

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 20, 2019, 06:33:15 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2019, 01:17:46 pm

I created a device that destroys heat at the cost of energy.  Just to show the laws of thermodynamics who's boss.

Isn’t that just called a refrigerator?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 20, 2019, 06:50:38 pm

Pretty sure a (real life) refrigerator just transfers heat from inside the box to the coils on the back of the fridge, which then radiates it out into your home.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: beorn080 on February 20, 2019, 06:53:29 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 20, 2019, 06:50:38 pm

Pretty sure a (real life) refrigerator just transfers heat from inside the box to the coils on the back of the fridge, which then radiates it out into your home.

Not to mention generating its own heat as it performs the mechanical processes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 20, 2019, 07:04:55 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2019, 01:17:46 pm

I created a device that destroys heat at the cost of energy.  Just to show the laws of thermodynamics who's boss. 

The universal concept of entropy called.

Something about a promotion?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2019, 10:03:02 pm

Quote from: beorn080 on February 20, 2019, 06:53:29 pm

Quote from: Akura on February 20, 2019, 06:50:38 pm

Pretty sure a (real life) refrigerator just transfers heat from inside the box to the coils on the back of the fridge, which then radiates it out into your home.

Not to mention generating its own heat as it performs the mechanical processes.

Also my machine is like 4 stories tall and full of crude oil, so I doubt you could convince anyone to install it in your kitchen.

But yeah what the device does isn't physically possible.  First it spends electricity to absorb heat from a liquid, somehow without generating any excess heat.  That heat is then transferred to water which evaporates into steam.  This steam powers a steam generator which outputs (almost no) electricity while destroying heat.  That (now colder) steam is then piped back under the generator, again using electricity and not adding any heat.  The uptake is that electricity + liquid goes in, cooler liquid goes out, and a small amount of heat bleeds off into the surrounding environment because the insulation surrounding it isn't perfect (but it still releases far less heat than it destroys).  I then pipe that liquid around the rest of my base as coolant.

Spoiler: Images that won't mean much unless you play the game (click to show/hide)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/959734442045852524/A50FD6BEDCFAF9FB3EE9BE292BB2E0E98F07F028/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/959734442045852610/2670BCA9B8A091DCEAD84F31F470AD94A4A54ECD/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/959734442045852818/30EE1F83E2D4303E4CA6FF7954C0DCAA4D8FCBB1/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/959734442045852947/30263C81300155D16555952118CA9C99BC87ECD6/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on February 21, 2019, 12:51:16 am

You're in the woods, it's raining and getting dark. Enemy soldiers are hunting through the forest for the old man you're carrying on your back and you only have 4 shots left in your gun. To the left a tank announces its presence by firing its cannon at a rock you're hiding behind. But, as you scurry from rock to tree, cover to cover, weaving around the patrols searching for you, you pick up something in the distance. As you move closer and closer, making one final sprint out in the open with the enemy in persuit, you realize it's a song. A familiar song you choose so very long ago.

You've made it to the rescue helicopter. (https://youtu.be/ygguAS_kARQ)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

It was a surprisingly tense and enjoyable moment and certainly the most memorable one I've had with the game so far. I don't know if it's properly an own but it is very much worth sharing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 21, 2019, 07:50:31 am

I’m going to choose that’s The Final Countdown, because that’s what I chose, and was disappointed that the intro goes on for a good 45 seconds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2019, 09:09:54 pm

Built a factory, partly since my current project requires materials you can only make in the factory. Which makes very little sense since the factory utilizes your existing crafting stations, it mostly just automates production.

And goddamn does it speed everything up. Making items that require refined resources will first refine raw materials if necessary, and it apparently folds the time it takes to refine the materials into the crafting time of the manufactured item. My current construction project(the Path to the Marsh quest) would have originally taken several (in game) days to do just because of trying to process all the raw materials first. Instead I got all but one of the parts needed in two days, and the last bit wasn't done because I forgot to harvest enough poplar to build it.

All it cost besides the materials and money to construct it was my massive obsessive-compulsively arrangement crafting stations and storage boxes - the latter are no longer necessary since everything gets dumped into the factory storage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My Time at Portia. In the meantime, I also made Petra my GF and took her out on a very successful date.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 22, 2019, 11:51:08 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on February 20, 2019, 10:03:02 pm

*snip*

Ah. Here I was thinking that you just gathered enough resources to craft a heat remover machine, but you actually came up with an original design that broke the games physics. The Redstone masters of Minecraft would be proud.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 23, 2019, 10:36:51 pm

Holy shit, fuck the Chosen.

...
I killed the assassin finally but... Christ man.

XCOM2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on February 27, 2019, 04:16:16 am

A diablos charges into the center of the arena.  It hits a shock trap.  4 barrel bombs explode.  Ballistas firing.  More explosions happen. I switch the dragonator switch.  Diablos slayed.

That was like, a 10 second diablos fight and the poor thing spent basically all of it in stunlock.   The rathalos that came immediately after died almost as fast, there was just no dragonator to finish it off.

Monster Hunter World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on February 27, 2019, 04:57:55 pm

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/996889770558534604/CA514BF620E30A239A2CF87C873F2A91E8EEBC09/)

I love the hand cannon and the hand cannon loves me.

That mission was super lategame, I believe it only had that few guards because it was the first mission to use the second alarm levels.  But yeah, I shot 3 of the guards and used an EMP to murder a camera drone, leaving only two guys who spent basically the entire mission knocked out.  The poor guy I left in the second room had a flash pack next to him, so he got up and then immediately was KOed again by a flashbang.  Naturally with no guards left it was effortless to loot the whole facility.

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Invisible Inc

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 28, 2019, 12:58:13 pm

Templar with Reaper and Volt > All the Lost

She killed so many of them.

XCOM 2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 28, 2019, 08:39:49 pm

May have finally come up with a better opening strategy than what I had been trying. Old strategy: colonize the other planets in the system, making sure one is a dedicated Electronics world, another a dedicated Adv.Parts world. Add some hauler ships to get resources moving around the system better. Wait until all the planets are fully built up before building up the next system.

New strategy: ignore the other planets in the starting system, send out scouts for good systems nearby, colonize one world for a couple of good systems(I did five), manually manage each worlds building queue(set them to Renovate Only governor so the auto-upgrade buildings) so that they can self-sustain. Used a scale-24.0 colony ship with cargo space for the first colonies as opposed to the starting scale-11.5 ships. Helps to dock them for a little bit so that the resources can build up for the colony ship to take. Wait until that planet is built up before colonizing others in the system.

About an hour in I'm starting to just throw colony ships around, as I now have a pretty hefty income. The one enemy empire declared war and, earlier than expected, dumped a fleet of ships on one of my core worlds. In an obvious case of gunboat diplomacy, they immediately sued for peace demanding research and Adv.Parts income, as opposed to the stupidly vast quantities of Luxury Goods they always demand(which I never bother with producing for some time into the game). Now, me and them are just having a dick-measuring contest in that system, seeing who can cram more and larger ships there. I'm winning, because I have artillery stations, and at least one of their ships has run out of fuel and died despite a ship named "Tanker" present. Plus, I have better science - none of their ships have shields.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on February 28, 2019, 09:45:35 pm

Killed the Assassin. Okay, devs. You can call the fuck down with the insane marathon/boss battles.

XCOM 2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 01, 2019, 07:46:29 pm

It looks like the AI never actually updates their colony ship designs. Meaning they're slow, short-ranged, and are still scale 11.5. Using vastly larger, faster colony ship designs, with ion drives and antimatter reactors, I've beaten several of the enemy colony ships to the punch. Then watched as their ships limp away, hoping to reach another viable world before they run out of fuel(some didn't).

Even better, I pushed Propulsion research hard, so that I now have planetary thrusters, and also colonized an Unstable Star; several worlds with 30+ slots(18 or so is average) but in a system where the star only has 4 million hitpoints - by comparison, planets have billions, and normal stars have trillions of hitpoints while even modest-sized late-game ships can have several million hitpoints - meaning it's all too easy to accidentally detonate the entire system. Naturally, that downside is less of an issue when you can just strap rocket engines to the entire planet and move somewhere else. Then strap massive guns and shields to the planet and go near the enemy. Oh, and build large artillery stations with system-wide range, dock them inside the planet, and then just pop them out to alphastrike everything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler. I set the ship size limit to 2048, so no constant escalation of ship sizes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ArchAIngel on March 02, 2019, 11:47:30 am

I went in with seventy-one of the finest men I could acquire.


The castle had two-hundred thirty-three of Swadia's last troops.


I came out slathered in blood and with sixty-five men.


AND a brand spanking new castle to get a good chunk of change off of!


Mount and Blade: Warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 02, 2019, 11:52:22 am

Any activity that you walk out of covered in someone else's blood...
Is a good activity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 12:09:09 pm

Now watch as the lord you just booted out runs off and somehow pulls 300 new troops out of a village that had just gotten raided the week before.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 02, 2019, 02:10:12 pm

Quote from: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 12:09:09 pm

Now watch as the lord you just booted out runs off and somehow pulls 300 new troops out of a village that had just gotten raided the week before.

And by "new" you mean "At least 50 of them are 100% upgraded".

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 02:14:38 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on March 02, 2019, 02:10:12 pm

Quote from: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 12:09:09 pm

Now watch as the lord you just booted out runs off and somehow pulls 300 new troops out of a village that had just gotten raided the week before.

And by "new" you mean "At least 50 of them are 100% upgraded".

It's what happens when your recruiter goes out looking for applicants with 5 years experience fighting in a war that's only been going on for 3 years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 03, 2019, 09:16:14 am

War continues. I originally attempted to build a scale-1024 warship(I set the maximum possible ship size to 2056) to stomp the ~130-sized ships the enemy was using, but I couldn't build them fast enough; by the time I could get jump one into a system, they'd have flooded dozens. Lost a few key systems simply because of the zerg rush.

Switched over to a scale-256 ship of the same configuration. By the time I made the change, technology had progressed to the point that, at 1/4 of the size and therefore estimated cost, these ships had roughly equal stats to their more massive predecessor. They also seem to be built more than four times faster, again probably due to technology buffing other areas(Space Ports shipping more resources, Cities/Shipyards producing more labor, etc). Now I'm putting enough ships into the fray to turn entire battles around.

The enemy responded by producing ships over scale-300, but yet, all this time, they have not ever researched shields. Furthermore, my technology must be far ahead of theirs since despite them being bigger, mine have more HP with shields on top of that. My ships also have both Repair Bays(heals self) and Repair Tools(heals others), so they can just retreat and repair if things get too hairy. They've actually just tried to sue for piece, offering a pittance of Adv.Part income.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on March 03, 2019, 10:37:45 am

Belgium proved...troublesome. While the Hammer of the Reich, the 2nd Army, smashed through the Netherlands with ease, two German Armies crumpled Poland, and one helped the Italians throw the Greeks out of Greece, Belgium stood strong.

A British landing took place near Memel after the German Fleet was wholly smashed by Allied naval forces, only to be surrounded, cut off from the beaches, and systematically eliminated. And yet Belgium stood strong.

Two armies stood along the French border in anticipation of the Hammer and supporting Armies smashing through Belgium, but it never came.

The reason for this is because the whole of the Allied forces had dedicated themselves to defending and recapturing lost ground in the Lowlands. The entirety of the enemy's forces wound up getting churned through, though losses were much heavier on the attacking side. Eventually a German breakthrough was forced...in the dead center of the Maginot Line. The French and their allies put up a valiant effort in pushing us back, however the newly fielded Panzer IV A was more than they bargained for on all counts. The gap was widened and eventually a second breakthrough force pushed north-west to Paris, which was surrounded and eventually surrendered after a few days of intense fighting. With France capitulating, Poland pacified, Athens under Fascist control, and the Soviet Union busy with consolidating territory, all but one army was given orders to force the allies from the Belgian pocket (which sounds like a nice snack). Just as it was with the earlier British invasion, the Allied forces had the shore taken from behind them and they were wiped out, though only after valiantly and stubbornly holding their ground from mid-1940 to the end of 1941.

Allied strength now rests largely in Africa, though Italy was able to make some progress on their own. Three armies were diverted to the Soviet border while the rest either defend the French and German shores or prepare to campaign in Africa. Most of Germany's air power is concentrated on launching sorties over and across the Channel.

It's nothing too flashy, but I sucked at HoI in general until something just clicked recently. It's my first time actually playing Regular Ironman since I usually play on an easy difficulty for relaxed worldpainting or with mods for massive tech and decision trees in different eras. I figured a new DLC is a good time to give actually playing the game as it was meant to be a shot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 03, 2019, 11:23:46 am

Don't worry about not being able to defeat Belgium...

Nobody can defeat Belgium. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ4DJLqf9Q)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 03, 2019, 08:43:53 pm

War is over. Enemy empire no longer exists. In the end, they did finally get shields, but it wasn't enough. I laughed as their tribute offers for peace got smaller and smaller, a sure sign of them getting weaker.

Oddly, the achievements(in-game, none for Steam) for victory do not seem to track, unless you they're scripted for the specific difficulties, and not those difficulties and up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 04, 2019, 08:19:49 am

Met the Hunter for the first time. I don't think he even managed to hit anything. Two overwatch hits put him a dash away from my Templar, who coup de graced his punk ass.

XCOM 2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 04, 2019, 12:55:44 pm

Quote from: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 02:14:38 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on March 02, 2019, 02:10:12 pm

Quote from: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 12:09:09 pm

Now watch as the lord you just booted out runs off and somehow pulls 300 new troops out of a village that had just gotten raided the week before.

And by "new" you mean "At least 50 of them are 100% upgraded".

It's what happens when your recruiter goes out looking for applicants with 5 years experience fighting in a war that's only been going on for 3 years.

Nah that's how you leave soldier positions unfilled and have to make do with a temporary levy of interns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 04, 2019, 03:15:45 pm

I finally beat The Line (the yoda-like sensei with time powers) after a long break.  The final part wasn't too bad this time, I had just gotten sick of repeating the first stage.  The regen mechanic in this game is quite nice, though.

The Scale was quite visually impressive, including a bit of interface screw.  Interestingly, I was even getting video card glitches before the fight, cutting out and tearing, but that turned out to be a coincidence I guess.  All the water maybe.

I won on my first attempt, though I was downed several times.  I appreciate this game's regen-mechanic, it's sort of tug-of-war without sending you back (until you lose-lose).

The Hand was great in various ways.  Took me a few tries, even slept on it, but it wasn't at all frustrating.  Not like The Line.

This is a really good game, I'm okay with things (:
Furi

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 04, 2019, 03:48:22 pm

For a moment I thought you were talking about Spec Ops: The Line. Had no idea what Time Yoda had to do with anything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 04, 2019, 03:49:45 pm

After seeing a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edV9DUNI4kA) on it, I decided to try the absolute cheese strategy that is Russia+every wonder that boosts your attrition damage and national border.

As long as you have some fast attack troops - which is Russia's midgame unique unit by the way - to gank any supply wagons or leaders, your territory effectively becomes a massive radioactive hellhole the enemy cannot survive in for more than a few seconds. ...At least until everyone gets silos and starts tossing nukes around like hand grenades. Had to put a stop to that by spamming cruise missiles onto any missile silos I saw. Even then, the other Russian empire dropped a nuke on my library just seconds before Missile Shield was researched. I responded by removing their Versailles, and getting a Wonder victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rise of Nations.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 05, 2019, 02:23:53 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 04, 2019, 03:15:45 pm

I finally beat The Line (the yoda-like sensei with time powers) after a long break.  The final part wasn't too bad this time, I had just gotten sick of repeating the first stage.  The regen mechanic in this game is quite nice, though.

The Scale was quite visually impressive, including a bit of interface screw.  Interestingly, I was even getting video card glitches before the fight, cutting out and tearing, but that turned out to be a coincidence I guess.  All the water maybe.

I won on my first attempt, though I was downed several times.  I appreciate this game's regen-mechanic, it's sort of tug-of-war without sending you back (until you lose-lose).

The Hand was great in various ways.  Took me a few tries, even slept on it, but it wasn't at all frustrating.  Not like The Line.

This is a really good game, I'm okay with things (:
Furi

Dammit, I always have a LOT of trouble with the Scale. How can you beat him in one try o_o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 05, 2019, 02:29:00 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on March 05, 2019, 02:23:53 am

Dammit, I always have a LOT of trouble with the Scale. How can you beat him in one try o_o

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1673743310

I have no idea, besides being stone sober and mad.
MAD ABOUT JAILORS

Really though I don't know.  I was down to one life twice, dodging.  I think maybe... dodging wasn't the key?  In that the healer-snake coiled attack was more tricksy than it was difficult.  Once you see its pattern (ha) it's not so hard to dodge.  Close might be better.

Defy their rules.  Rage against their borders!  The end is so near!

Edit on and on, I continue, circling: It might be a danmaku (touhou) instinct, where you have to read the pattern and find a safe spot.  I wouldn't presume, but I have played a lot of danmaku and you were relevantly weak at this part, that's the only reason I bring it up.

Edit2: I tried The Line at *least* a dozen times, easily two dozen.  I grew to hate the game and sorta-abandoned it, occasionally practicing against the strap and jailor.
Coming back after a long break helped.  But that's bad advice, isn't it?

Don't stand in the serpentine lines!!!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 05, 2019, 03:26:02 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 04, 2019, 03:49:45 pm

After seeing a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edV9DUNI4kA) on it, I decided to try the absolute cheese strategy that is Russia+every wonder that boosts your attrition damage and national border.

As long as you have some fast attack troops - which is Russia's midgame unique unit by the way - to gank any supply wagons or leaders, your territory effectively becomes a massive radioactive hellhole the enemy cannot survive in for more than a few seconds. ...At least until everyone gets silos and starts tossing nukes around like hand grenades. Had to put a stop to that by spamming cruise missiles onto any missile silos I saw. Even then, the other Russian empire dropped a nuke on my library just seconds before Missile Shield was researched. I responded by removing their Versailles, and getting a Wonder victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rise of Nations.

That works? Awesome. I remember wanting to try that back when the game was new, but human players catch onto your cheese pretty quick and gang up on you.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on March 05, 2019, 06:03:30 pm

He was playing against the AI. I think it's safe to say that a human could outperform an AI in this situation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 05, 2019, 08:45:29 pm

Pretty much. A few idea that I suppose could win here:

• Artillery, backed with supply wagons and anti-cavalry, and bring down border fortresses since those expand national borders.
• Building the Versailles, or being French(oh the irony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia)), as they get better supply wagons.
• Building the wonders that boost attrition(Coliseum, Kremlin) just to deny the Russians.
  
• Building the Statue of Liberty is almost critical, since it negates all attrition damage for the owner. Russia will likely build it as a denial play.
• Air units, which as far as I know never suffer attrition as well.
• Missiles. Aim for libraries first to deny attempts at researching Missile Shield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 06, 2019, 11:01:06 am

I've always wondered: if played competitively, does every game of Rise of Nations result in the end of the world?  It seems to me that at least on a large map people will get to the point where they have nukes, and then once people start using nukes any player that's losing might as well just launch the 30th nuke and draw the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on March 06, 2019, 01:40:15 pm

That sounds  really MAD. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction)!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on March 07, 2019, 12:21:36 pm

Checked this thing out. Not sure if Rise of Nations is more ridicoulous than BFME2's war of the ring mode or not (both have strategic and tactics modes that barely influence each other, but RoN have tech research "on site". Age advancing, even! Which goes poof at the end of the battle), but it's sure as hell nearly as cramped and done lots better. =\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 07, 2019, 07:28:55 pm

Pretty much crippled a Hard AI on a water map, by blowing up their shipyard then camping where they tried to rebuild it. For some reason they never thought to build it somewhere else. Bombarded their town with frigates and a ship-of-the-line for awhile, then remembered that the galley(long range bombardment ship) was a thing. Probably would have won a lot sooner had I remembered that earlier.

Instead, I landed a full formation of grenadiers whose only casualties in the slaughter that followed came from the fact that the throwing range of a 1700's-era hand grenade is not longer than the bursting range of a 1700's-era hand grenade. More specifically, the throwing range is not longer than the blast radius of a town hall, or mill, or thereabouts.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cossacks 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 09, 2019, 10:30:51 pm

I think I beat what might've been one of the hardest, if not the hardest, shooter level I ever played. Holy shit.

Spoiler: here's a post on the die thread (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Teneb on March 09, 2019, 10:11:49 pm

Well, I found my way to the third and final secret level, near the end of the game.

It is brutal.

Large dark room full of INVISIBLE Lv1 DRILLERS, which I should remind you ARE FUCKING HITSCAN. Oh, and said? Also has mine-layer drones, a rocket drone (it fires salvoes of 3 dumbfire missiles, and it does so fast) camping in one corner, a red hulk in another, Level 2 Drillers (who shoot plasma shots, ironically not as dangerous as mr Lv1 "say goodbye to 30 hp" Driller).

This is the first fucking room.

Descent 1


EDIT: I need to correct the above information. There are actually two red hulks PLUS a purple hulk who is basically a miniboss that takes 50 hp (out of a starting 100) with each shot.

EDIT 2: I finally cleared the damn room. I would like to amend that there are actually two of the purple buggers.

There were more minibosses liberally sprinkled through the damn level. I think it's the only level in the entire game so far where I literally said "fuck it" when it came to rescuing hostages. A ton of walls were just coated in spawners, which can spawn in a series of pre-set (for each individual spawner) robots, and can be literally anything that is not a boss or miniboss. The damn exit was covered in spawners and monster closets for maximum bullshit and bodyblocking during the escape sequence (it is timed)!


EDIT: I did it. I beat the damn game. The final boss was hard, but nowhere near the madness that was Secret Level 3. There's still the "Levels of the World" pack to go, but I am considering running Descent 2 instead and coming back for them later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: xaritscin on March 09, 2019, 11:48:35 pm

testing different civilizations in modded AoE3 (Wars of Liberty), Incas were good as a testing ground but wanted to expand what i could pick in multiplayer. Malta has been the best so far, i can start churning out the economy quickly and have some kind of defense force before the AI starts sending raids against my base. the issue with this game is that you can no longer build the Armory in Age 2 so you have to keep going until Age 3 before being able to improve the survivability and damage of the military. so far the only nuissance have been against Peru but that was mostly because of their early game cavalry patrols. the rest has been churn out AoE2-like units then save the best resources to upgrade them and make an organized assault with Trebuchets (yes, Trebuchets in AoE3, Malta is basically old school save for a few cannons in the Arsenal), perhaps i should jump the difficulty a bit but im trying to level up the home city.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 10, 2019, 05:41:11 pm

Spoiler: Been working on a ship (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/AC8NpBw.png)

Obviously nowhere near done. As you can see, the gun deck is still wide open. The cargo deck, below the gun deck, is mostly done, just the AI section needs its various bits to function. Not sure one how wide the sails should be as well. Current cost is 6000mt(remember, AI module cost alone is 400mt), and I don't expect it to go above 10kmt, and be maintenance-free due to being a sailing ship. Cargo capacity is 56kmt.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths

EDIT: Attacking Lithcorp Fortress, TR vs NC vs VS(who owned it). While the rest of my faction was trying to take the point from the VS, I, by myself, had to hold off the entirety of the NC attack. There was about three or four of them respawning from a Sunderer parked under that small grav-lift down the hill from the control point. I got 9 kills before they finally got me. By that point, we had failed to take the control point, but we also had regrouped and began focusing on the NC Sunderer, destroying it and preventing them from stopping us from eventually capturing the base.

The weapon I used was an AMR-66. It was equipped with an under-barrel smoke launcher and a muzzle compensator, but no scope.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 11, 2019, 08:25:24 pm

Two specialists with guardian and covering fire on an elevated central position with clear fields of fire and extended mags, laser sights, and autoloaders (with that RO to increase weapon mod effects) are goddamn op as hell. The rest of my team was basically only there to crack the sarcophagus and mop up any unlikely survivors.

My Grenadier never even used his grenades or Shredstorm. Compared to the Assassin, this Chosen died badly.

XCOM 2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 13, 2019, 07:30:27 pm

In the middle of an ocean of bad luck, sometime good luck is coming.

On a new X-Piratez game the Gals were doing pretty well with very nicely positive score.
Even freed many castaway gals that i "manufactured" into usable Gals for my pirate crew.

So much i thought it was time to make a new base to cover more of the globe and after making radar and barracks, i sent several extra Gals there instead of only weakling peasants to defend against possible invasion attempts.

Then i forgot about doing more for that base, focusing more on my primary one.
oh, an invasion is coming, i have to defend the base, and it's the new base .. good i thought about sending 4 Gals there, as it's early game they should have a chance to win this one.

Okay, let's equip them with ... wait a minute ... did i just forgot to make a vault and ship weaponry there since all that time ?
Yes i did.

So the base was defended by 4 Gals with their punches as only weapon and castaway default "clothes" as their armor.

Oh man, and the fight went on with many basic academy troopers and a few saucers (fortunately the saucers aren't as strong and self-exploding as the one from old xcom, they sill can hurt though, especially unarmored Gals).

As the only real possible strategy there to have a chance i decided to try to just knock down enemy troopers by punching them and then equip the unconscious enemies own weapons, hoping reaction shots wouldn't happen. I wasn't expecting this to work of course as they were many, armed and with a few saucers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/GkAgW8X.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/pHrdauZ.png)

Can't believe it actually worked and most of my Gals found domestic shotguns that were used to take out everyone and the few saucers, 2 Gals paid with their life that lack of base maintenance and foolishness of their boss (saucers reaction shots) but 2 survived despite their wounds (one of them fell unconscious a  turn before the end) and won the day , capturing 4 of the troopers that were then sent to motherbase for interrogation.

building a vault, buying some good weapon and ammo for this base and sending peasant reinforcement were the next steps i did :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 14, 2019, 09:55:43 am

Three specialists, a Blade ranger, and a psiop on a elevated position, with a Grenadier flanking opened a concealed overwatch ambush.

Instantly killed an Elite Trooper, Elite Shieldbearer, Andromedron twice, two mutons, and a codex. Six of nine enemies died with firing a shot.

XCOM 2 WOTC

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 14, 2019, 04:27:45 pm

Beat Vah Medoh's cannons without missing a single arrow. One of them also targeted me instead of the other guy running decoy, but I calmly shot it twice before it could fire.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Breath of the Wild.

EDIT: Windblight Ganon was pretty easy. Afterwards, by chance I found myself at(fell into) the Coliseum Ruins... where I encountered a Silver Lynel. Which, from what I hear, has more HP(5000HP) than the final boss.

Brought down about 40% of its health using a combination of the Master Sword, Urbosa's Fury, and several well-timed backflips. Broke a Thunder Spear and a Flameblade finishing it off. Took a lot of food, and one Fairy. Loot was various gems, a new Flameblade, a Savage Lynel Bow and Savage Lynel Shield, in addition to a Royal Shield I picked up earlier.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Breath of the Wild. Can anyone confirm if the Master Sword's power boost activates merely by the presence of Malice pools and/or Malice-infected creatures(like Guardians)? Because the Coliseum has Malice in and around it and I think was doing more damage, but I didn't stop to check if the sword was glowing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 19, 2019, 04:11:19 pm

I was under the impression that the master sword did bonus damage to all lynels for some reason, but I don't know why I thought that nor can I find any information to back it up.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

I'll try to remember to test it when I unlock it in this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 19, 2019, 04:17:51 pm

I don't remember it activating for anything other than guardians and bosses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 19, 2019, 05:16:01 pm

Quote from: Telgin on March 19, 2019, 04:11:19 pm

It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

Silve Lynels are actually stated in the in-game compendium to actually be influenced by Ganon - their purple stripes may actually be Malice flowing through them. As for the boost activating, a quick search suggests it only happens near Guardians, Blight bosses, inside the Divine Beasts or Hyrule Castle, and fighting Ganon himself - so not near Lynels or Malice pools. So I guess it wasn't actually getting a boost there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 19, 2019, 06:04:21 pm

Quote from: Telgin on March 19, 2019, 04:11:19 pm

I was under the impression that the master sword did bonus damage to all lynels for some reason, but I don't know why I thought that nor can I find any information to back it up.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense, unless they're all supposed to be explicit Ganon spawn or something, which I don't think is ever implied in game.

I'll try to remember to test it when I unlock it in this game.

The Master Sword's powered-up mode will also be active permanently after one passes the Trial of the Sword, so it's possible you got confused after watching a video of somebody whacking a Lynel with the weapon after passing said trials.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 19, 2019, 06:28:54 pm

what that's op

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 19, 2019, 07:05:44 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on March 19, 2019, 06:28:54 pm

what that's op

Kinda is, yeah. That's why it's locked behind a pretty lengthy series of difficult arena fights where you start naked and itemless and have to survive with limited resources.

In Master Mode, where all of the enemies are a level higher (red bokoblins become blue, blue become black, black become silver, silver become GOLD), it's nigh unfair, because the weapons provided in the arenas don't scale up with the enemies, forcing you to resort to bomb spam and other absurd tactics or else break all of your weapons against the faces of enemies who have way too much HP.

Honestly, Master Mode was not very well thought-out, but that's just my opinion on it. Stick to normal mode and enjoy exploring Hyrule; that's where the real game is. :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on March 19, 2019, 07:11:10 pm

Master Mode is not for people who want to enjoy their time wandering Hyrule and occasionally bashing some goblinoid faces in before leisurely strolling into the final boss fight several times in order to listen to the AMAZING music.

Master Mode is for absolute masochists who don't enjoy videogames unless said games torment you with absurdly difficult situations, and aren't happy unless they must think tactically or exploit silly bits of the game in order to win every fight, even just a low-level encounter with a bokoblin with a pointy stick.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 19, 2019, 07:16:28 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on March 19, 2019, 07:11:10 pm

Master Mode is for absolute masochists who don't enjoy videogames unless said games torment you with absurdly difficult situations, and aren't happy unless they must think tactically or exploit silly bits of the game in order to win every fight, even just a low-level encounter with a bokoblin with a pointy stick.

So, basically, Dwarf Fortress players.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 20, 2019, 08:18:01 am

Wow, spending 5 minutes tossing bombs at camps of bokoblins at the start of the game because every one of them has 72 HP and can one-shot you does indeed sound like masochism.  Then you inevitably screw up after killing three of them and blow yourself up or don't run away fast enough and get murdered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on March 20, 2019, 10:19:46 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on March 20, 2019, 10:55:47 am

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

XCOM2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 21, 2019, 08:01:45 pm

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

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

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

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

X-Piratez

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 22, 2019, 05:47:55 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 23, 2019, 10:25:18 am

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dark Souls 1: Prepare to Die Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 24, 2019, 08:43:33 am

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

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

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 24, 2019, 10:50:59 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 24, 2019, 02:03:15 pm

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

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

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

I think I like this game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Intruder

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 24, 2019, 05:02:05 pm

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 25, 2019, 12:51:39 am

just don't get hit

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 25, 2019, 06:08:00 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on March 25, 2019, 12:51:39 am

just don't get hit

hahahaha

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

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

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

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X-Com.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 26, 2019, 12:03:01 pm

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

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

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on March 26, 2019, 10:46:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 24, 2019, 05:02:05 pm

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on March 26, 2019, 10:46:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 24, 2019, 05:02:05 pm

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 27, 2019, 08:59:48 am

Quote from: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

Spoiler: What they were trying (click to show/hide)

A diplomatic mission

Spoiler: Further spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Quote from: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on March 26, 2019, 10:46:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 24, 2019, 05:02:05 pm

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on March 27, 2019, 09:07:55 am

Quote from: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Well, if you are speaking of X-COM: UFO Defence (vanilla), then the Battleship is the only very large craft there is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 27, 2019, 02:13:25 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 27, 2019, 08:59:48 am

Quote from: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

Spoiler: What they were trying (click to show/hide)

A diplomatic mission

Spoiler: Further spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Quote from: Akura on March 27, 2019, 05:43:21 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on March 26, 2019, 10:46:41 pm

Quote from: Akura on March 24, 2019, 05:02:05 pm

Made a particularly heroic sushi. Kinda melted though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

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

You did murder everything up to that point to get the fight though.

Monster.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 27, 2019, 02:31:22 pm

Yes, but until you defeat Sans, it is still reversible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 27, 2019, 04:48:58 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on March 27, 2019, 02:31:22 pm

Yes, but until you defeat Sans, it is still reversible.

Spoiler: Technically, no. (click to show/hide)

It's not until Chara shows up does it become irreversible. You can still exit and reset before that. And besides that, it's entirely possible to completely nuke the save directory to undo that(and everything) - at least in the PC version. I've even managed to do it using the Steam version despite the fact that it supposedly uses Steam Cloud even with Steam Cloud disabled. Not sure if/how to do it for the Switch version, which I don't own, but if I did I could probable nuke the save by moving putting the SD card into a card reader connected to my PC and deleting it like that. But then again, I haven't tried messing with files on my Switch yet.

Quote from: hector13 on March 27, 2019, 02:13:25 pm

You did murder everything up to that point to get the fight though.

Monster.

Now now, that's insulting to all the actual - innocent - monsters I've butchered.

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 27, 2019, 08:59:48 am

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

Spoiler: What they were trying (click to show/hide)

A diplomatic mission

Spoiler: Further spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

That sucks. Am I screwed even though all the ships are still landed there?


EDIT: Took a few attempts but I beat that thing they kept in the basement that in all honesty probably should have been left the hell alone. Oh crap what have I done?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deltarune, beating Jevil pacifistly. Not sure why people say he's harder than Sans. Seemed to be a hell of a lot easier, though that might be from having finer control using the Switch joycon rather than my keyboard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on March 29, 2019, 02:35:31 pm

Beat Manus without the Silver Pendant (or whatever that thingy that blocks hexes was called) by chugging Estus when he spams his hexballs-into-every-fucking-direction.

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Dark Souls 1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: tonnot98 on March 30, 2019, 03:09:35 pm

Just raided an EXALT outpost and won the mission in three turns with only some wounds. I started the mission with sight on their stored missiles, so on the second turn I got everyone to throw grenades at it, and it destroyed the entire base before anyone had the chance to leave. The third turn was spent patching up two dudes that were a little too close to the blast and searching for the last survivor who surrendered as soon as I found him.

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X-COM: UFO Defense, with the X-COM FILES mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 01, 2019, 09:04:37 am

Built the Space Program in August-October of 1957, where the Presidente-1 space rocket cock-slapped Sputnik out of orbit, catapulting the world to modern times.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tropico 5. There's an achievement for reaching the Modern Times era before 1960. I'm actually disappointed that it automatically sets the year ahead to 1981 when you do, partly because there's a separate achievement for researching all technology before 2005.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 01, 2019, 08:22:01 pm

I discovered shotgun karate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Devil May Cry 5.  Specifically I discovered what happens if you use Dante's coyote with a maxed out gunslinger style; you can basically blast enemies away and then chase after them doing a ridiculous series of arguably necessary somersaults.  Shooting them with a shotgun the whole time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 02, 2019, 07:49:58 pm

October 2004, 47 years after shooting down the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellite, Tropico finalizes its research efforts to become the world's most technologically advanced(if governmentally backwards) nation on the planet. The economy may be completely and utterly shagged with the rush program of several research labs and observatories that was started in January-February 2004, though.

At least the peasants aren't starving anymore, and the rebels largely suppressed. Even managed to fight off a US invasion. It was supposed to be a mock war. Where they mocked us by trying to turn our military and civilians into a meaty pulp. Except they lost.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tropico 5.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 01, 2019, 08:22:01 pm

I discovered shotgun karate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Devil May Cry 5.  Specifically I discovered what happens if you use Dante's coyote with a maxed out gunslinger style; you can basically blast enemies away and then chase after them doing a ridiculous series of arguably necessary somersaults.  Shooting them with a shotgun the whole time.

I can entirely imagine Dante making a "wax on, wax off" joke here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 03, 2019, 08:17:12 am

I bought Heat Signature yesterday, and after a bit of playing, got a mission that required me to rescue someone without harming anyone. That isn't generally how I play the game (for like 3 hours prior), but I've got a pile of various rechargeable teleporters.

One guard thought he saw someone, but a extreme range visitor (teleports you somewhere of your choice far away for 2 seconds, then you go back) meant there was nobody there while he looked. Then I re-appeared right behind him, and walked out with my prize. That, and the intro were the most Gunpoint this game has felt so far, but it's getting there. I want to go re-try the challenge with only a swapper (teleporter that trades places with someone) and a short blade.

Also, after clearing a bit over half of the ship in my personal (final, unless you feel like keeping going) mission to avenge my father, I mis-judged the distance to a guard, and an alarm was sounded. My quarry ran to the ship teleporters to escape, and I just shrugged. I knew those teleporters had "accidentally got adjusted" to just space people. I didn't get to stab him up close, but he didn't get to breathe, so good enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 11, 2019, 08:06:47 am

Figured out how to build an automated refinery system - a train collects materials from various deposits, and drops it all off at a central refinery. I don't have manufacturers built yet to deal with the processed resources, and I may have gone a bit overboard with coal production in part due to not knowing how much the train itself would use for fuel. But at least the power plant should be well supplied.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Factorio. And the game decided to pick "Flandre Scarlet" as the name of the train stop at the refinery.

EDIT: Won the story-required Chocobo Race on the first try. I don't think I've ever done that. The grey and red Chocobos tried to sprint from behind me at the end of the race, except I still had at least 2/3rds of my stamina left so I powered ahead myself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Final Fantasy 7, the Switch port.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 12, 2019, 10:31:57 pm

Best friend and I decided to try Twich mode legend. Righteous Stand. We ended up doing a mad dash through the level as a Troll, Stormfiend, Rat Ogre and Chaos Spawn chased us. In the end we had to keep kiting like madmen around the statue of Sigmar until it took its sweet time and exploded. Didn't kill the damn troll, but we didn't stick around once the exit activated.

On the plus side, I got the Heldenhammer Time (have Sigmar kill a bunch of Chaos Warriors in this event) challenge done.

Vermintide 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 15, 2019, 07:55:55 am

Built a destroyer. While not entirely finished, it's usable. Changed the method of designing the hulls; instead of creating a curved hull using 1m triangle corners and inverted triangle corners, I made a much more simple >-shaped bow using wedges at the front, and went for a U-shaped flat bottom instead of a V-shape. The rear deck sticks out from the lower hull over the water, making room for the propellers and rudder beneath.

Top speed is around 13.7m/s(26.6 knots). Slower than what I wanted, but it's kept that top speed throughout the entire construction process while the engines were one of the first things installed, and it doesn't backflip. Propulsion is provided by two 1m steam propellers turned by 8 pistons each, fired by two boilers each capable of burning 8.5mt per second(it only needs about 2/3rd's that for max speed).

Current armament is a pair of depth charge launchers that I might remove since they do too little damage and have a tendency to attack the ship(despite an IFF module and safety fuse), and 4 179mm x 1709mm cannons firing APHE - they're iffy at penetrating armor at the moment though. The cannons achieve a pretty high rate of fire for its caliber, but accuracy is quite bad for some reason.

Combat tested against an Onyx Watch Bastion, manually controlled, but player's repair tentacles disabled. As mentioned, the cannons had trouble piercing armor, but enough hits eventually ripped it off. Before that, the Bastion got a lucky(very lucky) hit that tore off the rudder completely, forcing me to run while placing down some repair bots. Another lucky hit tore off both rear turrets at once - not sure how, but it might have hit the firing piece of one, causing a chain of ammo cookoffs that killed the other turret. Came back after the repair bots (slowly) got it back into shape, hammered the Bastion's cannons, and eventually gutted the entire AI core with constant pounding.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on April 15, 2019, 01:00:10 pm

After wandering the level for 3.5 hours, I've found the boss and defeated it on a second try!

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The Surge

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 18, 2019, 02:40:13 am

I got four kills in quick succession and was Kill Leader for like two seconds. It was a set of extremely lucky breaks, such as finding level 4 armor ten feet away from where I landed and grabbing a weapon mere milliseconds before another player reached it (they grabbed the ammo first.) Proceed to me going 1v3 against an enemy squad and almost winning. Apparently, the key to popping off in this game is to get a shotgun early, get close, and not be afraid.

To be clear, we still got wiped less than five minutes into the match. But it was awesome while it lasted.

Apex Legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on April 21, 2019, 08:56:20 am

Finally managed to kill a Blade Breaker Superdreadnought. It took two heavy capital ships that, ordinarily, could be used to clear entire orbital defense fleets on their lonesome, but we made it out with limited hull damage and no casualties.

It was all worth it, because we got... Wait, what? There's seriously no reward for doing this? What if I clear out the other two superdreadnoughts in orbit?

No?

Balls.

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Starsector, many mods later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on April 21, 2019, 07:40:17 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 03, 2019, 08:17:12 am

I knew those teleporters had "accidentally got adjusted" to just space people. I didn't get to stab him up close, but he didn't get to breathe, so good enough.

So is that the difference between crashing or subverting a telepad?

All hail the Rechargeable Long-Range Crashbeam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 23, 2019, 01:10:19 am

Not sure if this is an own or a death, but I mostly post in the death thread so I'll give this one some love.

Have not played from the depths in awhile.  Lots of updates since I last played.  I made an entirely new folder for new ship designs and have a few reasonably effective ones in the new version.  I decide to test them out against my old pre update designs from half a year ago.

An entire fleet of my new ships against my old capital.  I figure the new ships will tear the old brick shaped goliath apart.   I know how to properly make engines now instead of just using prefabs, and I know how to properly protect ammo stores and make redundant AI systems.   To top it off all the old ships missiles and torpedo systems won't work properly in the old system.

My old ships are apparently beasts.  My old capital ship's AA gun alone rips apart the biggest ship I created so far, and the main cannon made a corvette simply cease to exist, it even got a kill with a dumbfired pre-update torpedo.   I donno what I knew about cannons back then that I don't now, but that sheer damage output is terrifying and I don't know how I did it.  I even did a rematch with a smaller old design and it took out 3 ships of it's size before finally going down itself.

I have no idea how I did it but old me just owned new me.

From the depths

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 23, 2019, 08:06:24 am

Quote from: Eschar on April 21, 2019, 07:40:17 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 03, 2019, 08:17:12 am

I knew those teleporters had "accidentally got adjusted" to just space people. I didn't get to stab him up close, but he didn't get to breathe, so good enough.

So is that the difference between crashing or subverting a telepad?

All hail the Rechargeable Long-Range Crashbeam.

Yep. The teleporter still appears to be functional, but doesn't get them where they are going. You probably want the crash beam if you're capturing. Crash beams also have the advantage of disabling a guard's (or more, if you can get them lined up) ability to sound an alarm. Crashbeams are more stealth, subverters are more powerful (turning turrets or shields against the user).

I finished and started a new universe, and it's a much smoother start this time. The game should have a more difficult mode.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 24, 2019, 12:46:37 pm

I built baby's first factory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/825758054666720597/86545C90AF4AD64567C51EE336037EA5AC37C28F/)

I didn't know how to make things completely automated when I made this.  So I decided to centralize all of the buildings I would have to input or output manually from in one place and gather all my shit there.  It takes in copper, coal, and iron, and outputs ammo and science pack 1s.  It also produces a massive excess of copper plating and coal, which would seem to indicate iron is the bottleneck here.

If I would do anything differently, it would be waiting until I have filtered inserters (and maybe the larger power cables) before building a base.  Now that I know those are a thing, large chunks of the base are probably going to be removed and replaced.

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Factorio

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on April 24, 2019, 01:55:09 pm

1 boiler will produce enough steam for two engines but otherwise not bad for a manual base. Very little spaghetti.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 24, 2019, 02:13:28 pm

Ermagersh Factoriooooo now I need to post pictures of my Factorio stuff.

It's so addictive. Also, Iron is almost always the bottleneck for everything. Sometimes it's copper wire for those late-game chips.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 24, 2019, 05:02:42 pm

I've still got my best success so far in that game still going. About 7-8 hours left for the 15-hour achievement, and I think I've started the first level of rocketry research.

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The benefits of Limit grinding: hitting Palmer with Meteorrain, making the fat bastard explode in a shower of blood, guts, and of course, don't forget the lard. Fight lasted about 20 seconds only because he shot first as I was trying to screenshot it. Also, it's an absolute bastard to get screenshots off a Nintendo Switch if you don't have a microSD card installed.

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Final Fantasy 7. Red XIII and Aeris have their 4th-level Limits, Cloud would have his if it were available in the Gold Saucer, but it's not until after this exact battle. Barret, Tifa, and Yuffie have most of theirs. Cid has nothing, since I just got him, and neither do Vincent and Cait Sith, but theirs are easy to grind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on April 27, 2019, 06:39:46 am

Finally got through Exploding Head Syndrome.

It took me way too many attempts to solve that one, and turns out all I needed was some control nodes.

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SpaceChem

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 29, 2019, 07:52:29 pm

Cleared HELIOS One.

Spoiler: Diverted power to (click to show/hide)

my eventual laser satellite.

Before leaving, just to be a dick, I shot Fantastic in the knee with my .357 revolver. He tried to draw a weapon on me, but halfway through the animation he put the gun back at his side and just stood there holding his busted leg. There are literally no consequences for doing that.

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Fallout New Vegas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 29, 2019, 08:42:21 pm

Quote from: Greiger on April 23, 2019, 01:10:19 am

Not sure if this is an own or a death, but I mostly post in the death thread so I'll give this one some love.

Have not played from the depths in awhile.  Lots of updates since I last played.  I made an entirely new folder for new ship designs and have a few reasonably effective ones in the new version.  I decide to test them out against my old pre update designs from half a year ago.

An entire fleet of my new ships against my old capital.  I figure the new ships will tear the old brick shaped goliath apart.   I know how to properly make engines now instead of just using prefabs, and I know how to properly protect ammo stores and make redundant AI systems.   To top it off all the old ships missiles and torpedo systems won't work properly in the old system.

My old ships are apparently beasts.  My old capital ship's AA gun alone rips apart the biggest ship I created so far, and the main cannon made a corvette simply cease to exist, it even got a kill with a dumbfired pre-update torpedo.   I donno what I knew about cannons back then that I don't now, but that sheer damage output is terrifying and I don't know how I did it.  I even did a rematch with a smaller old design and it took out 3 ships of it's size before finally going down itself.

I have no idea how I did it but old me just owned new me.

From the depths

If an AA gun is ripping up your ship that would say to me that your armor isn't thick enough or angled enough.  A trick that worked for me is to layer from strongest to weakest; my biggest and most heavily armored ship was built out of multiple layers of stone and then central bits were shielded by metal armor layer.  The way armor stacking works, if the best armor is deepest then its bonus will get to apply multiple times before its finally stripped off.  Another trick that's good for small ships is to build the outer layer of alloy and the inner layers out of metal, then calibrate your buoyancy so its low in the water.  This will reduce your radar profile, which in a small ship will save you some fire in the opening stages of combat when your ship is directly facing the enemy and far away.

Unless your AA gun is HEAT, in which case that's not how I build my AA guns.  HEAT is kind of cheesy, last I checked as long as a compartment contains no sub constructions and has every tile occupied its effectively immune to the punch through effect of HEAT and HESH.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on April 30, 2019, 12:06:06 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on April 29, 2019, 08:42:21 pm

Unless your AA gun is HEAT, in which case that's not how I build my AA guns.  HEAT is kind of cheesy, last I checked as long as a compartment contains no sub constructions and has every tile occupied its effectively immune to the punch through effect of HEAT and HESH.

While I don't get how you would make a filled in sub not sink, it makes sense that such sub is immune to HEAT and HESH. Especially HESH.
HEAT focused it's explosion through a narrow channel, allowing it to pierce armor. But since your sub is only armor, it just has a very thin hole in it.

HESH splatters on the surface of the armor before exploding, causing the other side of the armor to turn into shrapnel. Since the other side of the armor is other side of the hull and there is no sensitive machinery or crew inside, the sub just shakes a bit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 30, 2019, 09:41:19 am

The issue is that most of the stuff that goes inside a ship visually has large air pockets around it but the game considers the entire cube occupied.  If you look at for example an AI core it should be very vulnerable to fragments bouncing around inside the hull, but it isn't necessarily.

Also that should be "sub-constructions", like turrets and spinners, my bad.  What I was saying is that the game will always ignore every object for HEAT except the one that got hit.  So even if your turret is clipping inside your ship's hull the HEAT round can still spawn fragments that will immediately hit the turret.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on April 30, 2019, 02:42:33 pm

Unfortunately I do not know the mechanics of FtD.
I merely watched a few videos.

What I do know is special canon ammo in RL.
HEAT should deal direct damage to a straight line of blocks (each block reducing it by an amount dependant on material), spawning shrapnel only if it hits a cavity before dissipating.

HESH should do little damage to blocks directly, instead scanning a 120° cone (with distance depending on power) and spawn shrapnel in every cavity it finds. The shrapnel is made of the near wall material and it's amount is reduced with increased elasticity of said material.

Of course, any block that is not solid should be considered a cavity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 30, 2019, 02:49:26 pm

That's the problem is that the beam passes through blocks without damaging them.  HEAT and HESH both deal impact damage and then produce fragments, but the "beam" doesn't do damage.  HESH creates fragments based on the inner material, so armor would create much more powerful fragments than wood, and I think it has some weird damage pattern on the exterior that favors spreading out damage along the surface rather than going deeper into the armor.  But they're both broadly similar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on April 30, 2019, 03:42:15 pm

That sounds like such a great game, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on April 30, 2019, 03:58:45 pm

There is no better voxel building game out there than FtD... as long as you have time.  Or enjoy the journey of building as much as the destination, cause its gonna be a long journey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on April 30, 2019, 04:14:55 pm

A looooong journey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 30, 2019, 08:19:30 pm

Got my first casino ban. Not one of the big three, but still a hell of a lot more caps than what I had.

Spoiler: I was wearing this at the time. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/JohYaP7.png)

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Fallout New Vegas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on April 30, 2019, 11:42:07 pm

@FTD discussion

Clearly I donno how to make armor then.  I did the opposite, I made outer armor heavy and inner armor weak cuz I was under the impression spalling was a major issue.  Also the armor was mostly 3m tall slopes, which looked streamlined but probably did not protect as well as the capital's 1m slopes.  Also the Old capital's AA gun was using flak which if I understand right is more effective against ships than aircraft.   It's entirely possible my ships are a mess because I spend more time experimenting than just looking stuff up.

I think that old capital was using 3 layers thick metal on the main hull, and had 2 layers thick metal on a inner hull that was protecting most of it's vitals.  It also had a extended barrier of armor right at water level that I can't think of the term for.  Best guess from a quick google is slat armor?  Basically just a 2 tile thick wall of armor that was mostly spaced about 3 tiles outside the main hull outside 2/3rds of the ship.  So it sounds like the relatively simple "Just put metal everywhere" design on my old ships is better than the "this sounds smart" design of my new ships.

Also the old ships were designed to be walked around in.  The new ships are all designed as drones from the ground up, so there is little empty space to spread damage out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on May 01, 2019, 08:37:30 am

Finally beat Banjo-Kazooie, and I found the game show at the end and final boss to be surprisingly hard.

The game show was difficult because of the visual questions, many of which were extraordinarily obscure shots that could easily have been in two or more levels just by visual style.  The Gruntilda questions are pretty annoying too, since the answers are apparently randomized and you have to remember what Brentilda told you at various points in the game.

The fight with Gruntilda was mostly hard because of how long it went on and how she doesn't give you much time to shoot eggs at the jinjo statues in the final part.  I ended up just tanking the hits so I could aim (the useless camera didn't help), and this fight would have been extremely hard if I hadn't gotten enough jiggies to get double health.  On that note, I'm surprised that it appeared that you only had to get 98 of them to unlock everything, not the full 100, and only had to get in the high 800s for music notes instead of all 900.  I'm also still wondering if I missed something, or if the last extra honeycomb piece you unlock doesn't actually increase your health bar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 01, 2019, 11:26:53 am

Quote from: Greiger on April 30, 2019, 11:42:07 pm

@FTD discussion

Clearly I donno how to make armor then.  I did the opposite, I made outer armor heavy and inner armor weak cuz I was under the impression spalling was a major issue.  Also the armor was mostly 3m tall slopes, which looked streamlined but probably did not protect as well as the capital's 1m slopes.  Also the Old capital's AA gun was using flak which if I understand right is more effective against ships than aircraft.   It's entirely possible my ships are a mess because I spend more time experimenting than just looking stuff up.

I think that old capital was using 3 layers thick metal on the main hull, and had 2 layers thick metal on a inner hull that was protecting most of it's vitals.  It also had a extended barrier of armor right at water level that I can't think of the term for.  Best guess from a quick google is slat armor?  Basically just a 2 tile thick wall of armor that was mostly spaced about 3 tiles outside the main hull outside 2/3rds of the ship.  So it sounds like the relatively simple "Just put metal everywhere" design on my old ships is better than the "this sounds smart" design of my new ships.

Also the old ships were designed to be walked around in.  The new ships are all designed as drones from the ground up, so there is little empty space to spread damage out.

Torpedo bulge is the armor at the waterline.  And what you're describing on the old battleship is a pretty good wake to make armor.  Spaced armor for HESH and HEAT, torpedo protection, layered metal for those stacking armor buffs.

Also yes the strat I told you there was kinda gimmicky, conventional strat would be like 3 layers of metal and then an inner layer of wood to counter HESH.

I've only ever made like... 3 super practical designs in this game, all ships.  I should put them up on the workshop and show you guys... if they still even work after all the updates...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on May 01, 2019, 11:48:46 am

I have no idea how helpful this may be for FTD, but this is how it was done historically, at least on late-WWII US battleships.

A torpedo bulges are technically a form of spaced armor. A torpedo bulge is having the hull far away from the armor belt (sometimes separated by like 5 meters of empty space or more) so that if the ship is torpedoed, the blast demolishes this relatively thin hull plate without taking out a chunk of the main armor belt. This commonly results in a bulge shape on the outsides of battleships or some other warships that needed to possibly resist torpedo strikes.

IRL, there is a thin hull plate on the outside, and a sloped armor belt placed inboard of that hull plate and sloping away from it. Look up the Iowa class's armor scheme as a diagram for a nice visual example. Generally you want a thin plate on the outside to detonate anything with a fuse before it reaches the armor belt, and a nice thick belt covering your ship's vitals underneath that. Similarly, in the US at least, deck armor was usually a rather thin plate serving as the physical deck...or sometimes no armor-grade steel at all...with a "splinter deck" underneath, which is composed of actual armor-grade steel and intended to catch fragments from exploding bombs or shells that had struck the top deck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on May 01, 2019, 01:50:16 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 30, 2019, 08:19:30 pm

Spoiler: I was wearing this at the time. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/JohYaP7.png)

Ahh, someone who knows how to dress for success! No shades though, but it's all good.

Have you got Early Bird by any chance? That +2 Luck really helps out at the tables, and I quite like the image of some eccentric gambler coming down to the blackjack tables in their pajamas to get some good times while everyone else is waking up.

I played through with Gifted the first time around, but that's honestly just kinda cheating...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2019, 04:49:32 pm

Quote from: Kagus on May 01, 2019, 01:50:16 pm

Have you got Early Bird by any chance? That +2 Luck really helps out at the tables, and I quite like the image of some eccentric gambler coming down to the blackjack tables in their pajamas to get some good times while everyone else is waking up.

No Early Bird, I didn't take any traits this run. Natural luck is 5, boosted to 7 via Intense Training perks.

I also find the image of some dude entering a casino during breakfast, takes a sip from his trusty Vault 13 canteen, and heads over the blackjack table to clean house, to be pretty humorous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on May 04, 2019, 01:16:07 am

I'm just picturing him getting booted out on his ass after he takes the place for all it'll let him have which admittedly doesn't actually happen in-game and dusting himself off to walk to the next place.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 06, 2019, 06:09:08 pm

Took at least half a dozen very, very frustrating tries, but I finally did enough chores around the ship to get my shiny from the Lost and Found. Attempts were highly frustrating because of continually getting blocked by parts of the level. Doors, etc, plus the fact that while it gives you a marker to show where to go next, it keeps changing direction and/or objective as you move.

Spoiler: Also found this in the Lost and Found (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/hm8ERqX.jpg)

Not shown in the pic because I'm standing on it, a huge knife as long as Hat Kid is tall.

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A Hat in Time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: amjh on May 07, 2019, 11:10:05 am

Started playing Cytus α. Since I was still getting used to how the game works, I got completely overwhelmed by one of the faster sections in one of the songs. I literally couldn't see what was going on on the screen.

I managed to perfectly combo that section on reflex.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 09, 2019, 01:10:27 pm

I did 2/3rds of a teleporter boss's health without ever touching the ground.  Y'all seen Antman and the Wasp?

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/797611829241244139/5A38BB9B11234171ECF5B1F9B804A51D46A07965/)

Not to mention I could sprint at about the speed of sound and got significant damage resistance for doing so.

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Risk of Rain 2, monsoon difficulty

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 13, 2019, 09:54:09 am

First time doing Elite, finally managed to live trough the entirety of Veteran without issues. It's strange how when you start out your first run towards Burrwitch (atleast in my case) usually takes somewhere between 30 minutes to an hour. This time, it took like, 15 minutes, if even that. I think the biggest thing is how much more movespeed you'll have and that you're mostly geared at this point so you don't waste time picking shit up and just murder your way trough the entire map.

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Grim Dawn

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on May 15, 2019, 12:49:03 pm

It's all done, even the Overseer.

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Fallout 1. Strangely enough, despite having a positive karma and no Blood Bath trait, I've shot the Overseer with my pistol that I didn't even have.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rex_Nex on May 15, 2019, 01:23:29 pm

Kefka threw me into an abyss :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on May 15, 2019, 04:03:54 pm

Completed the last two bonus objectives of the two Directors and Snatcher EX bosses.

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A Hat in Time. Snatcher EX's tri-attack is the worst, even after learning how to best survive it, it remains barely manageable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 15, 2019, 05:47:14 pm

Acquired the game's most hilariously broken abilities through Chocobo sex.

Not with them. But I did watch them mate for a few hours.

Even before I was done, pretty much all of my birds could simply run a full speed from start to finish - the only difficulty(besides occasionally Joe) was waiting for the second-place Chocobo to actually finish, because you cannot exit the race until then. I named the Gold Chocobo "Ultima" after the spell I'm going to pair with Quadra Magic(then subsequently Mimic).

Also, Joe is a goddamned cheater whose Black Chocobo, Teioh, always has higher stats than you, and the bastard likes to troll B-rank races.

After I was done, I did the Wutai Pagoda. After getting Trine on the last two E.Skill Materia(this is the only time it's possible for these two), it took only two turns to bring Godo down: Comet2, then Mimic->Comet2.

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Final Fantasy 7. Never actually bothered with Chocobo breeding before. And Godo has always been a nightmare for me; the most I had previously done was whittle him down using Deathblow(materia, not Choco/Mog summon) and hope to beat him before he beat me. But then, I probably always tried it right after the materia theft sidequest.

Quote from: CABL on May 15, 2019, 12:49:03 pm

It's all done, even the Overseer.

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Fallout 1. Strangely enough, despite having a positive karma and no Blood Bath trait, I've shot the Overseer with my pistol that I didn't even have.

According to the wiki, it also happens automatically if you have either the "Berserker" or "Childkiller" titles. Apparently, Berserker is bugged and doesn't show up in your title list.

Then again, if I remember correctly that's canon anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on May 16, 2019, 10:46:28 am

Quote from: Akura on May 15, 2019, 05:47:14 pm

According to the wiki, it also happens automatically if you have either the "Berserker" or "Childkiller" titles. Apparently, Berserker is bugged and doesn't show up in your title list.

Then again, if I remember correctly that's canon anyway.

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I didn't have neither traits, though "Buffout Craving/Addiction" used the description for the Berserker trait, for some reason. Then again, my game was apparently somewhat cursed, with me finding a Force Field Switcher: an item that has been cut out of the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 16, 2019, 03:14:16 pm

My Main Character's Raven took an AC20 to the head.  Fortunately after the mechanics finished hosing out the cockpit they found her in the drain trap. (because the MC is immortal)

Maybe instead of only using mechs that look cool I should start using some with some armor.

Modded Battletech

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on May 16, 2019, 03:23:27 pm

Are we sure that's an own?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on May 16, 2019, 03:28:48 pm

...Totally wrong thread.  But I'm calling it an own because clearly my ship's drain traps are the Lazarus machine.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 17, 2019, 08:48:52 am

Defeated Nod by selling their buildings.

I use an APC to explore, because it is tougher than the Hum-vees and find out, that it can drive straight into the Nod base before being destroyed.

I load the next APC with 2 engineers, capture Nod refinery. They destroy it and build a new one.
Another APC with 2 engineers. This time Nod refinery and Airstrip are captured. I order myself a light tank through the Airstrip, Nod destroy the Airstrip, the Refinery and the tank, they build new ones. At this point, they have 3 harvesters.

So I wise up to their rebuilding, send another APC, this time with 3 engineers. I capture their Construction Yard and 2 Tiberium Silos, then sell the silos, build myself a Refinery and then sell the construction yard. Next APC expedition captures their Refinery and remaining silos, selling it all.

Now, the Nod have no money and can only get more by selling their stuff. I hunt down their units, then send my grenadiers to destroy Nod guard towers.
But the Nod, rather than letting the towers be destroyed sell them and train rocketeers for the money. They also buy a light tank. This did not help them much though. I destroy their hand, then have engineers take their airstrip and powerplants, while grenadiers destroy other buildings and hum-vees destroy the harvesters.

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Command&Conquer, GDI mission 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on May 17, 2019, 11:54:30 am

That's a pretty clever strategy that I never really tried to employ in the first game, but occasionally tried in later games.  In Red Alert 2 the AI players even try it on you sometimes as an early game rush in multiplayer.

Something to keep in mind about this strategy for later missions though: if the enemy has multiple construction yards, make sure you steal or destroy all of them in quick succession.  They can build new construction yards without MCVs if they have a construction yard at all.  I learned that the hard way in the last GDI mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 17, 2019, 02:39:07 pm

I also remember RA2 AI usually walling in their MCV fairly quickly to protect against such a strategy. I also remember copying it fairly quickly after getting engi rushed a couple of times XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 17, 2019, 05:05:31 pm

Finished Star Wars: Republic Commando on hard. The bridge section was pretty hellish, as was the Dwarf Spider Droid gauntlet at the very end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 18, 2019, 01:38:34 am

Nice!  No man left behind :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 19, 2019, 05:57:19 am

Had a pretty decent session last night. TR started with a minor population deficiency and maybe 20% of the continent. I logged in with about an hour(my alert timer has been broken for years through multiple reinstalls, so that's not 100% accurate) left on the VS-initiated alert.

Finally got my graphics settings to the point where everything doesn't look like complete ass yet still runs smoothly. They also seem to have fix the severe server lag on Emerald. Spent about half the alert on a single life in a Mosquito, raining death in support of capturing multiple VS bases. This was on Hossin, which is generally a bad continent for air-play. Finally died to some asshole NC pilot who pops up out of nowhere far from the TR-NC front and kills me in about a second.

A continued ground push extended TR control to over 50% of the map. The VS finally rallied and launched an attack on Cairn Station. It was too little too late. Despite typical VS tactics, they couldn't even retake this one base before we win the alert and some asshole friendly medic shoots me in the head.

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Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on May 19, 2019, 08:38:33 am

Finally managed to beat the bloody Hydra, tho sadly I didn't make it trough to the elysium boss afterwards. Still, the build was pretty goddamn strong, having upgraded my rail so it's a single shot sniper of sorts and grabbing some boons from Artemis, Athena, Ares and Aphrodite (funny how their names all start with an a :V). Artemis gave me crits and a bunch of ammo for my cast, which, thanks to Ares was a blade vortex that pulled enemies in while doing damage and wandering around the arena. Aphrodite made my primary reduce enemy damage, which came in pretty handy while Athena was probably the biggest of them all, giving me reflection on dashes as well as making my giant ass AoE special attack deal more damage and reflect any attacks caught in the blast at the time.

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Hades, damn great game that, despite still being unfinished. Has a brilliant way of making you feel both broken strong when you get lucky with some of the boons and upgrades while at the same time making you stay on your toes, otherwise you'll get murderized by swarms of nasties fairly quickly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 20, 2019, 08:52:03 pm

Took a few tries, but I finally beat down Deathstroke.

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Batman: Arkham Origins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 21, 2019, 12:31:13 am

Was fighting one of the super-fast lizards.  Managed to interrupt one of its attacks by impaling it on rawhide and swinging it around, then when the animation finished and Nero slammed it into the ground I

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jumped into the air after it, grabbed it, and used devil trigger right before the damage was dealt, killing it

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Devil May Cry 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on May 21, 2019, 09:14:17 am

I was flying around in a small helicopter like thing when I decided to take out an outpost, when I arrived I decide to forgo stealth and bomb it from the helicopter with a grenade launcher, this is when I discovered that the AI can't look up so they all run around looking for me while I bomb them from above and when I finished my bombing run and killed the outpost I was awarded with bonus XP for being undetected, because nothing says stealth like a guy in a helicopter shooting you with a grenade launcher.

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Far Cry 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 22, 2019, 05:19:15 pm

Just won my first game of Really Bad Chess!
Also in some weird, bootleg mobile Counter Strike I was playing before that, I managed to somehow get gud at its previously impossible-seeming gameplay and ran about slaughtering the identical clones on the other team with a shotgun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on May 24, 2019, 12:06:01 am

Quote from: Yoink on May 22, 2019, 05:19:15 pm

Just won my first game of Really Bad Chess!
Also in some weird, bootleg mobile Counter Strike I was playing before that, I managed to somehow get gud at its previously impossible-seeming gameplay and ran about slaughtering the identical clones on the other team with a shotgun.

Is it Standoff by any chance? My cousin's little brother plays that a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 24, 2019, 05:31:06 am

Received a notification that a rival colony was about to achieve a milestone: Research Breakthrough, before I was. I had a Breakthrough(powerful techs that only become available through random events) queued up, but even with spending $1 billion in outsourcing I probably wasn't going to make it. I still put the tech at the front of the queue.

Then a random event gives me a choice of 25 polymer(a decent amount) or 2500 research. The Breakthrough I researching was already about 25% done, and cost 2000 research total. Of course, I took the research bonus. Finished the Breakthrough, and the remainder from the event plus the bonus from the milestone finished the tech I was originally researching and gave me decent progress towards the next.

Also, said Breakthrough was Landscaping Nanites, a pretty nifty tech that makes all terrain-altering construction(flatten, ramps) faster and be done automatically without using construction drones.

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Surviving Mars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on May 24, 2019, 09:10:01 am

Quote from: heydude6 on May 24, 2019, 12:06:01 am

Quote from: Yoink on May 22, 2019, 05:19:15 pm

Just won my first game of Really Bad Chess!
Also in some weird, bootleg mobile Counter Strike I was playing before that, I managed to somehow get gud at its previously impossible-seeming gameplay and ran about slaughtering the identical clones on the other team with a shotgun.

Is it Standoff by any chance? My cousin's little brother plays that a lot.

It is! Odd little game. To be honest I'd probably stick with it if there was character customization...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 24, 2019, 01:53:14 pm

Skyrim thread's pretty dead and this is as much Own as WTF, so here goes.

As a leadup to the final Dark Brotherhood quest, I have to assassinate the son of a guard captain as he goes on an inspection tour of Skyrim, then plant evidence that incriminates him in a fake plot.  Seems kinda iffy, but the goal is mostly to make the guard captain depressed so fine.

But if I murder him within a city the frame job will work better, somehow?  O...k...  I don't get it, but they offer me a macguffin good for one fortune reading.  Mysterious, I'll bite.

I steal his itinerary but follow him out of camp anyway, figuring I'll just pick some flowers on the way to whatever city he's headed to.  How long could it possibly take.

"Soon", I'm discarding some fairly valuable equipment to make room for more mountain-flowers when the target wanders straight into a large bandit camp.  Like, it's one of those forts build partially *over* the road, presumably for guardsmen but permanently occupied by bandits instead.  Kinda stupid, but funny enough that I'm willing to lose my bonus.  ...Ah, he's got that situational immortality like allies, where only the player can deliver the final blow.  fiiiine, I kill the bandits.  He tells me I'm creepy and to leave him alone.  (I also tried dealing the deathblow myself - the bandits reported my assault to the local authorities, heh.  I want the bonus though.)

I'm out of patience at this point and fast travel around a bit to mop up other quests.  Eventually I'm in Riften and realize he's approaching, so I wait for an hour which teleports him into the bar with me.  Quite a bit further than I expected from walking with him, but all the better.  I sneak into the pantry of the crowded bar, poke my head out, and fire a deadly poisoned arrow into his head before ducking back!  Hehe, the perfect crime!

...Frick that's less than a fifth of his health.  Curse my inoptimal leveling!  No matter, I... keep doing that.  The patrons wander around with various degrees of concern (this is Riften) but one of them accidentally wanders straight into me without raising any alarm.  Again, Riften XD  However he seems to regenerate rapidly if I let him calm down while at critical health.  Hrm.

Oh no, 20 bounty, I guess someone saw me!  He doesn't, though.  In fact he seems preoccupied assaulting... Sapphire, one of my Thieves Guildmates!  Ah, TES faction mechanics.  I think they're both essential, but just in case I snipe him another couple times as they fight.  Eventually dealing the deathblow.  Hail Sithis!

I stroll out of the bar, only to be accosted by a guard.  It's cool, I'm with the thieves guild - here's 20gp for that assault charge.  All good.

Skyrim 5: The Elder Scrolls (Normal Edition but with that one mod that fixes all the glaring script issues they don't bother to patch, and the other mod that makes the UI at all appropriate for a mouse&keyboard)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 25, 2019, 04:18:05 pm

Actually beat Emerald Weapon... and wasted all 60,000 AP because everyone was using Ziedrich armors(highest defense in the game, halves all elements, but no materia slots) and their ultimate(and zero-growth) weapons. I also kinda abused the W-Item glitch to duplicate Megalixers, except it turned out I didn't need to at all.

Had a few bad attempts. Worst was queuing up Yuffie to use a Megalixer, but she never actually took her action even though a quick check before game over showed that the Megalixer was in fact taken out of stock.

Plan was to dump a lot of Power Sources into Barret, equip Missing Score an load up on a bunch of Master-leveled materia, and go in with Angermax for massive damage. Except "massive damage" was only doing around 1500 per hit(18 hits) that I probably would have better just using Catastrophe(10 hits, but a modifier triple that of Angermax). More credit goes to Cloud pulling off a few good Omnislashes, as well as a Lucky 7's.

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Final Fantasy 7. A full set of Master Materia is pretty sweet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on May 28, 2019, 05:24:55 pm

There was an enemy camping at the top of a tower firing a ballista at our guys. So, naturally, I hack up a couple of enemies, fight my way to the tower and start climbing the ladder.

Now, this was not the usual tower-camping scum I was used to. This was VETERAN tower-camping scum, with good situational awareness. He knew I was coming up the ladder and readied his axe to whack me on the head when I tried to climb up. So I sat there. We had a lengthy exchange of emotes that ended with him telling me I should "take up farming," at which point I laughed heartily and dropped back down the ladder.

I returned, 25 seconds later, after fighting a couple more enemies. He heard my approach, but a little too late. I was parrying his overhead and was up there with him, at which point he was at a huge disadvantage. My messer was a scary weapon, to be sure, but what was really scary was my positioning, which was much, much better than his.

I parried a couple of strikes, backed him up a little, and kicked, once. He went flying off the tower and instantly died from the fall. The "This isn't Sparta" achievement popped up in the corner of my screen.

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Mordhau. I didn't think I'd like this game, but the hilariously idiotic player interactions and satisfying melee combat have changed my mind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on May 29, 2019, 06:27:05 pm

Beat a 5x crisis, although it was the Contingency and I'm pretty sure I'd call the Contingency the easiest crisis in the game right now.  Unlike the Unbidden and Prethoryn Scourge, the Contingency doesn't really get stronger with time, aside the new fleets that spawn relatively slowly compared to the others, so you can take your time to mount attacks and snipe the machine worlds.

5x Contingency has fleets in the 350K range, but by the end game I had 5 fleets of 28 battleships that added up to about 1.5 million fleet power.  I lost ships with each fight, but by focusing hard on shields to resist the Contingency's exclusive energy weapon loadouts, I usually only lost 2-3 per fight at most.  Very sustainable compared to losing that many per fleet against the Unbidden when they get new fleets several times as fast.

I'm only disappointed that I didn't get to see how the Contingency fleets would compare to my border bastions.  I was lucky and found a ruined Strategic Coordination Center, and after building a second one I could fit up to 52 defense platforms on each station.  With dark matter tech and ~30 levels of repeatables, the stations were about 350K apiece on their own.

Stellaris.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on May 29, 2019, 09:38:46 pm

Played two rounds with my bro, both times we died at rallypoint delta after looping... on monsoon.  We make a good team it would seem.

First time I was mercenary, I got 9 tougher times (seemed to completely negate about half of incoming attacks, with the squeaky toy sound of course) 5 fuel cells and a forbidden fruit (so 6 slow charging instant half health heals).  I lasted so, so much longer than I had any right to because my damage was shit.  My poor brother had to watch like 15 minutes of me slowly slicing up magma worms.  In the end we were annihilated by a boss wave of ignited greater wisps.

Second time I was huntress and got two transcendences and two transfusions.  For over 1800 health on the squish evasive character.  In the end I died in a similar way to the previous run: shot in the back by a glacial greater wisp boss.  I actually had a good chance of winning that time, teleporter progress was at 99% and most enemies were dead, boss at half health.  I was literally just talking about how I should take my time and it would be easy and then an offscreen shot direct hit me in the back for 1300 damage.  Looked funny as hell.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/789732429516997044/5F8D668FD1501FA99ED651E8C9B0C74425FF4B1C/)

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Risk of Rain 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on May 30, 2019, 02:47:30 pm

After about 10 hours of endless frustration, I lucked my way into near perfect RNG and finished off the last class I needed for a complete set of no death bonus runs at max difficulty. Also managing to take out the final boss in a single turn, setting a new personal record. It was a particularly glorious win as the RNG gave the boss otherwise OP bonuses: Deal 10% of all damage dealt at the start of your turn (self-compounding, too), gain 50% damage dealt as health, and an increasingly powerful poison effect on me.

It involved a ridiculous combo of phys damage on mana gain, fire damage when you deal phys damage, all mana cards play twice, mana cards that draw mana cards, and a deck composed of 80% mana cards. Boom.

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 Night of the Full Moon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 30, 2019, 05:10:00 pm

Found my old notes back so i finally could manage an orbit without breaking anything again in my xr2 in Orbiter

During the ascension

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(https://i.imgur.com/yHU6qGa.jpg)

A nice fireball, well it's actually much more safer than it looks, the temperature is still in acceptable level despite the panic i could hear from the copilot  screams.

And finally after a prograde burn to make the orbit circle, it's all right now, stable orbit achieved, happy dance, we have not turned to ashes !

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(https://i.imgur.com/jEEJR7I.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1VrDQrI.jpg)

Wanted to see my copilot own happiness at surviving the whole ordeal

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(https://i.imgur.com/jEYOuXR.jpg)

she didn't seemed that happy.

Quick, do something to lighten the mood, that's what responsible space pilots must do

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(https://i.imgur.com/voUKMLl.jpg)

Well, she didn't find it funny :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 31, 2019, 10:54:54 am

I destroyed the NOD base in mission 13 with almost no casualties.

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(https://imgur.com/kPJqKWS.png)

In real time, it took only about 3 hours, not 10, but the game was sped up to max most of the time.
I used the strategy "Divide and conquer" and always built a part of sandbag wall enclosing an area next to my existing wall, then sold the piece of the wall separating the enclosure from me.

It worked much better than in AoE II, because in this game, the enemies do not attack your walls and there are infinite resources if you wait for them to propagate.

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Command and Conquer

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on May 31, 2019, 11:09:33 am

In Arkham Horror LCG, we just finished the second scenario of 8 in Forgotten Age (blind).

We've got a librarian who's there to collect clues, the expedition leader to kill stuff, a mage (Akachi) to do a bit of both, and my smooth brain asked "which is the guy with only 1 will (defense against bad things that happen)? That's the guy I'm playing." So I'm Finn the smuggler. Skills (stats in other games) go from 1-5 (and it's rare to have either), so saving that extra point means Finn is at a 4 in both agility (distract opponents so they don't attack) and gathering clues. He's also a rogue, which in Arkham Horror LCG means he can get extra actions (3 is the rule, I've had 7 in one turn already as well as the occasional "succeed, no action, no test") and money easily at the expense of being somewhat of a generalist. My goal is to dodge well enough that the leader doesn't have a purpose (somewhat successful), and occasionally gain clues.

Forgotten Age's gimmick is making agility more useful (mostly it's ignored in other campaigns) and also being generally less forgiving. The expedition leader, who came with this pack (so did Finn) has a 1 in agility, and has fared more poorly than my joke character. Also, it's a win, because I had to take over finding clues for the dedicated clue gatherer, because I'm better (twice a turn) at gaining clues. We were both at "pass on anything but auto-fail" levels (75% chance for my 2 extra turns), but I was one higher because the librarian was broke and also had bad luck.

TL;DR: Iduno does stupid things he thinks is funny, and it (occasionally) works better than people who take the game completely seriously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 01, 2019, 02:58:30 am

I've completed the entire skyscale egg incubation process in one sitting...  People trying to get this damn mount know how hard that is.

Guild Wars 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 02, 2019, 11:42:39 am

Adventure mode fight vs Young Link to acquire the spirit Kaebora Gaebora. It was over in less than a minute, and I took exactly 1% damage.

I couldn't resist, "Would you like me to repeat that?"

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SSB Ultimate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on June 05, 2019, 11:24:14 am

Fail. Bought mask of the void as Malzahar (Thematics! +MP! Not looking at description carefully!), then looked at my team and noticed that i'm the only mage there. *headdesk*
Own. They destroyed 2 towers on each line, we destroyed none. But then we made a crazy comeback against them in general and overfed (but very squishy, hue hue hue) Draven. Also, at some point someone screamed at me for having 2 2 8 score and adamantly refused to explain what's wrong with it (it's not my fault the game doesn't give me any frags. And just look at that 0 5 something Reikan!). By the end of the match it was 2 3 22 (It's really not my fault the game doesn't give me any frags!  :P)
League of legends, once again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 09, 2019, 07:02:28 pm

A random Granite Elemental wandering away from any visible granite biome(I haven't explored much on this world) dropped a Night Vision helmet. According to the wiki, that's a 3.3% chance, though it can also be bought only after doing everything but the final boss chain; from Cyborg after a Martian invasion, itself only available after Golem, the last boss before the final boss event chain. I started this character/world about two hours ago.

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Terraria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on June 10, 2019, 07:46:25 pm

Bought a van. Broke into a house. Stole some stuff.

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Thief Simulator. Finally decided to spend some of my nest egg on the van so I could snoop around 202. It more than paid for itself and gave me enough experience to level up three times.

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/782978066677714200/86ADAE523F4D9682AF0EB1A1E7631F3DA3AAEA27/)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 11, 2019, 08:41:00 pm

The fight to unlock Princess Daisy for Adventure Mode. I send her flying off the screen with a beam sword. She starts recovering and coming back towards the stage. I toss the beam sword away and plan to finish her with a normal smash attack. Instead, the beam sword sails in a gentle arc through the air, and strikes Daisy just as she enters the screen and KOs her. Seemed like a pretty sweet shot. ...That is, up until the camera zoomed in and I saw exactly where the beam sword hit her. ...right between the legs (._.‖). At least it was the handle and not the beam blade that hit her.

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SSB Ultimate. Well, Daisy certainly took it like a man. Which is to say, it hurt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TD1 on June 12, 2019, 04:03:37 am

Quote from: Mephisto on June 10, 2019, 07:46:25 pm

Bought a van. Broke into a house. Stole some stuff.

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Thief Simulator. Finally decided to spend some of my nest egg on the van so I could snoop around 202. It more than paid for itself and gave me enough experience to level up three times.

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/782978066677714200/86ADAE523F4D9682AF0EB1A1E7631F3DA3AAEA27/)

Well wasn't I relieved to discover this wasn't the Happy Thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 12, 2019, 07:59:54 pm

Made like 18 million in one mining run, in like, an hour.

Elite Dangerous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Man of Paper on June 12, 2019, 08:14:14 pm

clone op

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Enter The Gungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on June 12, 2019, 09:45:24 pm

made a custom merc, Poorboy. he has a sallet (medium helm), chainmail tabard (medium chest) and hunter's hosen (light legs) and a longsword with the perks bloodthirsty (gets full health on kill) and friendly (half team damage), he's my main fighter.

i got a lucky chambering (a type of counter where you swing into an opponents swing to deflect their attack and compete yours) on an opponent with no armor and killed him, then swung around and hit another opponent who i dueled for a minute before getting a good thrust on him, killing him. it was around this time a guy with javelins ran at me and tossed one which i deflected and dueled with him. he almost had me until he tried a jumping slash and i took a leg off. i was immediately killed by a teammate who chucked a firebomb

even with that, still felt kinda like a badass

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mordhau

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 15, 2019, 05:33:21 pm

Put down a (first-tier) Old One's Army, after several attempts at getting to the 5th wave and just being completely overrun. Buying a Ballista Rod first was probably a bad idea, but I saved up enough to buy a Lightning Aura Rod. Putting one of those right on the portal cripples them right out of the gate. By the 5th wave, I had enough lightning fields to dead-stop all the ground mobs on both sides, and a few ballistae to deal with the flying enemies.

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Terraria.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 15, 2019, 07:59:13 pm

Made it to Canada.

Started off with two people - one named "Nanc", an annoying fighter who got herself killed early after telling some bandits to "Cool it", the other being a bandit martial artist named "Mat".

Mat wound up proving a surprisingly good fighter in spite of his horribly low fitness (It was so low the red angry face wasn't just red, it was flashing), and in spite of his transformation into a fly, he managed to remain an excellent melee combatant.

The Cold Steel salesman showed up in a trader camp early on, showing off his greatsword. I asked for a demo, and he joined the party for a time. After the demo ended (during which the salesman managed to bring down at least a few hundred zombies with the greatsword), I decided to purchase it from him. This greatsword proved to be an excellent purchase in spite of Mat's still-fairly-low strength and damage.

Then Tiruin and Franciscsa - a custom character and a dog, respectively, joined the team - the former appearing on the road, the latter being rescued from an apartment building. Tiruin was a Calm Under Fire Dog Lover, which meant all the firearms went to her (Either being a martial artist or a fly person meant Mat couldn't use weapons). While I'm not entirely certain what Franciscsa's contributions were (Admittedly, her fluff did help Tiruin get herself to sneeze), survived the journey to Canada.

With these three friends (And the aid of another person who was hired at the last possible opportunity on account of her shooting skills), the team reached Canada.

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Death Road To Canada

EDIT: If you intend to ask, yes, Tiruin the custom character is based off of Tiruin the Bay12 user.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2019, 09:20:55 pm

At a guess it was the Martial Artist trait, as that prevents characters from being able to shoot. I don't think the fly mutation does anything to mess with base capabilities other than boosting stats somewhat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 19, 2019, 04:50:46 pm

Got blasted off the top of the stage by a stage hazard. It caused me to smack the screen. However, the same stage hazard hit my opponent, knocking them off the side of stage. Since the screen smack effect takes longer to actually KO a character than an instant side-off KO, I won. The Fourth Wall does protect me.

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SSB Ultimate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on June 20, 2019, 12:10:11 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 15, 2019, 07:59:13 pm

an annoying fighter who got herself killed early after telling some bandits to "Cool it"

Me, when playing with friends: "Telling people to COOL IT basically never works..."
Literally all of them: "Tell them to COOL IT!"

I have seen it work, though. About one time out of fifty.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on June 20, 2019, 12:16:12 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on June 20, 2019, 12:10:11 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on June 15, 2019, 07:59:13 pm

an annoying fighter who got herself killed early after telling some bandits to "Cool it"

Me, when playing with friends: "Telling people to COOL IT basically never works..."
Literally all of them: "Tell them to COOL IT!"

I have seen it work, though. About one time out of fifty.

IIRC, you must survive 3 or 4 "COOL IT!"s first, then it will work, once. Rather tough to pull off, all things considered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on June 20, 2019, 12:45:11 pm

I remember there being a few early encounters where "cool it" didn't really hurt you any, but it's been a while since I've played.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 20, 2019, 01:13:02 pm

If you're finished with them, you can tell one of the merchants (preferably not a weapon merchant) at a trader camp to "Cool it!" which will help charge it up.

There's a few other places where "Cool it!" works, but I don't know when since I don't play Irritating characters very much.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on June 20, 2019, 04:17:35 pm

My favorite time was when I was about to die anyway (no supplies, no car) and I got a prompt for the dog (out of three possible people) to tell the bandits to Cool It. I had to do it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Greiger on June 20, 2019, 10:25:40 pm

Someone in the wtf thread was complaining about scam callers, it reminded me to post here about the fake microsoft call I got yesterday afternoon where I wasted their time for about 30 minutes.  It was fun, essentially all I did was follow their instructions, but I pretended my right(main) monitor didn't exist and was following their instructions on the left screen.  They got basically nowhere with me until I think they finally realized I was messing with them and hung up.

All it cost me was 30 minutes and a few seconds of closing windows.  Next time they call asking for my father (who has been dead half a decade) I'm going to set up a virtual machine or two to really waste their time.

The game of Life HD VR Now featuring dante from the devil may cry series & knuckles Gaiden

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on June 20, 2019, 11:22:33 pm

      Similar story to @Greiger, a lady with a noticeable Indian accent called and told me that she was from Microsoft and informed me that she was following up on a problem windows 10 had alerted them about.  I said "okay, and which one of the 3,238 errors windows has reported in the last two weeks are you calling about?"
     *click* beep, beep ,beep, beep.  Didn't even say, "have a nice day", people have no courtesy these days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 22, 2019, 09:34:52 pm

Quote from: Greiger on June 20, 2019, 10:25:40 pm

Someone in the wtf thread was complaining about scam callers, it reminded me to post here about the fake microsoft call I got yesterday afternoon where I wasted their time for about 30 minutes.  It was fun, essentially all I did was follow their instructions, but I pretended my right(main) monitor didn't exist and was following their instructions on the left screen.  They got basically nowhere with me until I think they finally realized I was messing with them and hung up.

All it cost me was 30 minutes and a few seconds of closing windows.  Next time they call asking for my father (who has been dead half a decade) I'm going to set up a virtual machine or two to really waste their time.

The game of Life HD VR Now featuring dante from the devil may cry series & knuckles Gaiden

That was me. Problem was they were all recordings, so unless I hit buttons to respond (which almost certainly would have caused them to redouble their efforts) I couldn't do such a thing :(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on June 23, 2019, 08:11:08 am

When your team just can't win.

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(https://i.imgur.com/XfxS4go.png)
(Malzahar on bottom)

I think it's second time me seeing such hideous score. First time i was, ahem, part of the cause. I kid you not, this guy back then was reported for being only fine player in the team. Because noob rage. I'm yet to end up understandably furious pro with 30+ kills.  :P

On more owning side, i ambushed lone veigar with w+e+r from a bush just after shouting "just you get into my ult range, VEIGAR!" in chat. Not to other team, sadly.

League of legends.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on June 25, 2019, 08:16:28 pm

Managed to finish my first big speedrun. Sure, it was a practice run and thus I didn't record it, but I managed to finish all base game levels of Vermintide 2 (solo with bots, recruit difficulty) in 1:45:27,88.

I can probably hit around 1:30:00 if I practice more. I blundered quite a bit in a few levels.


Also I totally didn't completely make a goof out of myself and post this in the wrong thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 26, 2019, 07:23:53 pm

Quote from: MCreeper on June 23, 2019, 08:11:08 am

When your team just can't win.

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(https://i.imgur.com/XfxS4go.png)
(Malzahar on bottom)

I think it's second time me seeing such hideous score. First time i was, ahem, part of the cause. I kid you not, this guy back then was reported for being only fine player in the team. Because noob rage. I'm yet to end up understandably furious pro with 30+ kills.  :P

On more owning side, i ambushed lone veigar with w+e+r from a bush just after shouting "just you get into my ult range, VEIGAR!" in chat. Not to other team, sadly.

League of legends.

I had something like that in DOTA.  An enemy bloodseeker (speedy melee glass cannon, peaks early, falls off late) was the only one on his team getting kills, and I was a support with a single target ult that could shut him down consistently.  Poor guy got flamed when he went in and got disabled and he got flamed when he hung back and waited for his chance.  Didn't carry his team hard enough I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on June 29, 2019, 07:11:46 pm

Completed the game on Normal without purchasing any weapons. Just the .32 revolver and whatever other things I could lay my hands on.

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Deadbolt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on July 07, 2019, 03:12:39 pm

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/782980564576732455/70926D99DC28828A70C4AD4FBEC61942B7C01292/)

I think I won.

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Binding of Isaac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 09, 2019, 01:08:59 am

Could also qualify for the death thread.

In a fairly long game, I managed to get to the point where I had 3 fascination and was about to lose by the fascination event (AKA you go insane).  Also most of my actions were tied up doing things that would take a while.  In fact the only two things I could do before I lost were work and dream.  Dream + health could save me, but it would be a luck based.

In desperation I

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cast "The End is Beautiful", which ends a life.  I don't get to decide which life tho.  Oh and it kills anyone who helps cast it, in this case my winter disciple.  It theoretically could have killed either of the two hunters after me but instead I "successfully" cast the ritual and killed my own forge disciple.

My actions were horrifying enough to produce dread, which saved me from insanity with 7 seconds to spare.

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Cultist Simulator

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on July 09, 2019, 01:33:23 pm

It was a 1 on 2, admittedly, but I had a kill streak of 3 while playing spy.

Gang Garrison 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 10, 2019, 06:44:52 pm

Got my first 9.9 Intensity completion of Classic Mode, using Wolf. Probably not so much because I'm better with Wolf, it's just that his Classic Mode stages are easier to cheese.

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Smash Ultimate.

Found a rather funny way of making decent amounts of money. Or horrifyingly unfunny, depending on your ecological views.

Step 1: find an area marked as snow leopard grounds. Step 2: throw a bait, which spawns a predator if near a predator habitat; in this case it's pretty much guaranteed to lure in a snow leopard. Step 3: use a bow, 2-3 arrows from a reflex bow is enough. Step 4: skin the snow leopard; killing it solely with the bow(and/or knife) will yield 2 skins and bait, plus a little Karma. Step 5: repeat.

In less than 5 minutes, I got enough snow leopard skins to fully max out the crafting upgrades besides the quest-related ones. Plus the skins sell for 8,400 rupees each, which is a lot for animal skins. That's between mid-quality and high-quality loot from enemy corpses.

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Far Cry 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on July 13, 2019, 10:00:12 pm

I achieve not just a victory, but a major victory.

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My mentor achieved ascension, and walked through the tricuspid gates becoming a name.

At the cusp of victory I was under assault from three directions at once.
The immortal long that had been hounding my every step and forcing me to go ever higher ever faster the entire game finally came out of the shadows to strike at me directly.
The not immortal but extremely tough to kill connie long finally became competent, and over the span of minutes went from nothing but notoriety to damning evidence over 5 minutes, which was unusual compared to the last three hours where she failed like 10 times in a row to do anything even with notoriety.

Finally time itself was my third enemy. I had put together the raw materials needed for the ascension and gotten roughly half way through the penti-ultimate step. Getting everything perfect for the ritual took roughly half a hour, and if I stopped now it would require starting over again from the beginning. Plus, even if I did delay it that didn't mean that the same exact problems wouldn't happen the next time.

Dealing with was simple. Dealing with two at once difficult but within the realm of possibility, but dealing with all three? Nearly impossible.

To make it all worse I had had no less then 6 curses (many from bad luck, some from the long) flung at me over the course of the game draining my stats which meant that my window of error for dealing with the long was small.

In the end I made it, barely. I had to throw summon after summon at the long sacrificing precious irreplaceable lore and ingredients, and even a few tools to complete the rituals in time and even then I was half dead, had three seconds left to resume the ascension rituals, and the detective took one of my followers to prison.
But I made it through, and compared to the difficulty of fighting off the long and the detective and acquiring he cloud the final step was trivial, and honestly a massive anti-climax.

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Cultist Simulator

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 15, 2019, 01:29:04 am

Got me the Silent Ninja (kill both targets and leave no evidence dressed as the ninja throughout) and Silent Assassin, Suit Only (kill both targets, leave no evidence, do it all in your suit) on Hokkaido on Professional difficulty.

The ninja one was harder, seeing as there are some areas that you’re allowed to be in with your suit, and you’re not allowed anywhere as a ninja. Also there are so many cameras, like wow Big Brother is watching.

Also, that god damn handyman. Fuck that guy.

Hitman (2016)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 15, 2019, 06:32:04 pm

I just powered through 8 levels of Baba is You in a row, half of them on the first try. Mostly rocket and Fall levels, but still.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on July 16, 2019, 08:11:55 am

Doing a crosspost because I really want to brag.

Quote from: Teneb on July 16, 2019, 08:11:14 am

I guess I am a speedrunner now? Still waiting for verification on the leaderboards (and if accepted it will make it a world record thanks to there being no other runs of the sort), but I am pretty damn proud of my almost two-and-a-half-hours of suffering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3AjY3_b_BM).

Will anyone actually see the video? Probably not, but ol' ego still appreciates it being out there.

Game is Vermintide 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 16, 2019, 08:25:31 pm

A full stack of Goblin Butchers(their pikeman unit) is surprisingly powerful. And tanky, despite their whole racial statline is the exact opposite of tanky.

The same army cleared two Legendary difficulty dungeons. The first time it was against an army with an Orc Succubus, Goblin Succubus, Ogres, and some support troops. One Succubus managed to seduce one of my units, which causes them to change teams and I failed to dispel. Killing the Succubus clears it, though. The rest of them just got rolled over. No losses and decent loot.

The second one was a lot of tankier troops led by a Manticore Rider. The battle probability was listed as "probable defeat"... and I clicked auto-battle. They won with zero casualties.

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Age of Wonders 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on July 16, 2019, 10:56:49 pm

I made it to Oregon and nobody died of dysentery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on July 17, 2019, 11:14:00 am

Not really a major accomplishment, but I felt pretty good beating my first terror mission in a new marathon game without taking any casualties.  I've been trying to go a game without losing any soldiers, and I was worried this would be the breaking point of this game because I knew I'd be going up against chryssalids, and because it's a marathon game I'm still on basic weapons and armor.

Sure enough, the first thing I ran into were two chryssalids, and an entire squad on overwatch managed to do 1 damage total between them.  I didn't see any way of possibly killing them without losing anyone, since I had a lot of wounded in the last mission and thus a lot of noobs on this mission.  Luckily, my gunslinger sniper managed to hit and do 3 damage to the wounded one, and my heavy brought it down 1 health, but I wasn't sure what to do after that.

Until I remembered all of my noobs had grenades!  There was no way to drop grenades on them without hitting friendlies, but by spreading the damage out between them I managed to finish off the chryssalids while not killing anyone on my side.  A week in the hospital is worth it compared to guaranteed death and zombification.

XCOM: Enemy Within.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 01:04:08 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on July 16, 2019, 10:56:49 pm

I made it to Oregon and nobody died of dysentery.

My group made it to the border on a diet of nothing but bacon and whiskey and then everyone but me died when i forced them to push the wagon up the last hill repeatedly.

I rode it down to the bottom like a go kart by myself, became a wealthy banker and got elected mayor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mephisto on July 17, 2019, 01:19:30 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 01:04:08 pm

a diet of nothing but bacon and whiskey

You say that like it's supposed to be problematic?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on July 17, 2019, 02:42:27 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on July 17, 2019, 01:19:30 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 01:04:08 pm

a diet of nothing but bacon and whiskey

You say that like it's supposed to be problematic?

Just need beans and lard, and you're covering the four basic food groups.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 03:00:35 pm

Quote from: Mephisto on July 17, 2019, 01:19:30 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 01:04:08 pm

a diet of nothing but bacon and whiskey

You say that like it's supposed to be problematic?

I was able to hunt enough meat to trade for enough bacon and whiskey to subsist on literally nothing else. Did you know that in the very first town you can leave a shop, walk a few screens down the street, then come back and the shop will restock? This is how you leave town with 2000lb of bacon. For illnesses, the option was always present to either A) Drink whiskey, or B) Eat more food. Aka Bacon, the only food. I think I once had an option to help a person recover from almost drowning by feeding them extra bacon.

It was awesome, not problematic.

Edit: Apologies, I embarked with 2000lb of bacon, similarly volumetric quantities of liquor, and also as many guns as I could carry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on July 17, 2019, 03:40:02 pm

How many oxen did you HAVE!?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 04:20:03 pm

Quote from: scourge728 on July 17, 2019, 03:40:02 pm

How many oxen did you HAVE!?

I dunno, 8? I'm pulling that number out of my ass. Hold on I'll load it up.

EDIT 1 - 16 Oxen will let you leave town with 2500lb of bacon, 100 gallons of whiskey, 100 16oz bottles of brandy, and a lotta guns and gunpowder. I still got cash left time to see what else I can pack in here.

EDIT 2 - Turns out the selection of mind expansion products at the pharmacy FAR exceeds that of the General goods store. Got me some Laudanum. Anyway we have 150 gallons of whiskey now, and the amount of firepower we are packing can only be described as "More Gun". Also 2600lb of bacon. And some cooking implements for the bacon. We aren't savages.

18 oxen and 3 wagons, which is more than is needed.

Spoiler: My Diary (click to show/hide)

(https://i.postimg.cc/285KnFjH/betteronmyown.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 17, 2019, 04:50:07 pm

I thought Enemy Post was either joking about playing a game I haven't seen except on 5.25" floppy, or having taken a vacation.

It sounds like there is some new Oregon Trail now? Did they also reboot Odell Lake? Number Munchers?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 05:15:47 pm

I've just got a disc image of Oregon Trail 2 that's set up to work on Win 10.

In wonder how much fun a DF-forum-choice-based run of Oregon Trail II would be?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: scourge728 on July 17, 2019, 06:48:46 pm

I'm actually pretty sure I've got the game on a cd, I know I have the case...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on July 17, 2019, 08:19:01 pm

Quote from: Iduno on July 17, 2019, 04:50:07 pm

I thought Enemy Post was either joking about playing a game I haven't seen except on 5.25" floppy, or having taken a vacation.

It sounds like there is some new Oregon Trail now? Did they also reboot Odell Lake? Number Munchers?

I played the 1990 version of the original on the Internet Archive here. (https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990)

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 05:15:47 pm

In wonder how much fun a DF-forum-choice-based run of Oregon Trail II would be?

I'd enjoy that. I've never played any of the sequels.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 17, 2019, 08:34:40 pm

Well I started one in Community Games. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=174288.msg7997062#msg7997062) It'll either be super boring or super hilarious (https://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Aquaman_fe7d61_1892696.jpg).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 18, 2019, 09:58:05 am

Took several attempts, but I finally killed the entire world with a fungal infection. Kept from evolving any symptoms until literally every person was infected, then dumped everything into evolving necrosis and hemorrhagic shock. Took about a year for it to start spreading beyond the US, a few more years to finish infecting the world, about a year for the main die-off, then a year or two for the last few million or so to finish dying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Plague Inc. Having trouble with the neurax worm. It's kinda hard to keep a cure from starting since nearly every evolution option increases severity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 18, 2019, 11:05:19 am

Quote from: Akura on July 18, 2019, 09:58:05 am

Took several attempts, but I finally killed the entire world with a fungal infection. Kept from evolving any symptoms until literally every person was infected, then dumped everything into evolving necrosis and hemorrhagic shock. Took about a year for it to start spreading beyond the US, a few more years to finish infecting the world, about a year for the main die-off, then a year or two for the last few million or so to finish dying.

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Plague Inc. Having trouble with the neurax worm. It's kinda hard to keep a cure from starting since nearly every evolution option increases severity.

Is that related to the old flash game where Madagascar shut down their damn port (only way in our out) if someone in the world might be sick? That was a good game, otherwise.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 18, 2019, 12:11:50 pm

More or less a spiritual successor to Pandemic 2, yes. Only in this game Madagascar is a bit easier to infect. But then again in this run the very first thing to stop the spread of the Superitch fungus was for Madagascar to... close off its land borders. Which was ineffective in part because every person was already infected.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on July 18, 2019, 02:55:15 pm

It's kinda stressful when you join an existing squad, all of whom seem to know each other and are communicating on mic. Certainly a high pressure environment, especially when said folks are reasonably skilled and from another country - so you gotta do your homeland proud and not embarrass yourself.

Fortunately, in this case I did pretty well indeed, getting my fair share of kills and rescuing my teammates in the nick of time on at least a couple of occasions, not to mention sharing out a few good bits of loot I found here and there.

Oh, and, we won overall! I reckon that's a good note to end on for the night. ^-^

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PuBG Mobile

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 19, 2019, 09:06:07 am

Quote from: Yoink on July 18, 2019, 02:55:15 pm

It's kinda stressful when you join an existing squad, all of whom seem to know each other and are communicating on mic. Certainly a high pressure environment, especially when said folks are reasonably skilled and from another country - so you gotta do your homeland proud and not embarrass yourself.

True. In Australia I think they put you in charge if you're too big of an embarrassment. Mostly everywhere else, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 19, 2019, 03:56:07 pm

I got a three star Tiny with a moon shard.  Basically golem that is supposed to punch slowly, punches at an average speed instead.  The enemy didn't stand a chance.

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Dota: Underlords (AKA Dota Autochess)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 20, 2019, 05:28:05 am

Built a tiny, 3034mt gunboat meant to fight against the super-lightweights of the DWG - which typically cost around 4kmt-5kmt. Basically, a crappy little hull, and a dual-gun 120mm HEAT turret, which is fairly effective against wooden hulls. Has stability problems, but pretty much everything this small will.

First combat test was against a Sea Viper. The Sea Viper has a problem where it will occasionally launch into the air like a dolphin, during which I hit directly under the hull, coring the AI.

Second test, I put 8 boats against a Marauder. 24kmt vs 18kmt, but I could have done it with 6 boats. Only one was destroyed by the Marauder's forward cannon(the one that glitches through the hull). The rest surrounded it and tore it to pieces, with the only other damage suffered was friendly fire from fragments spraying out from the Marauder.

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From the Depths. The multithreading update works great. Previously, even a small shootout like this would have forced the game into degraded mode and still slowed down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on July 21, 2019, 04:21:48 am

A bit of context: when starting a PvP fight via Dragon Eye, no other player phantoms can exist (invaders or white) in the host world, forcing it to be a duel.

This, apparently, does not apply to NPC phantom invasions, because Marvelous Chester invaded my opponent's world (providing me with very useful fire support, due to host using Tranquil Walk).

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Dark Souls Remastered.
YOU DIED

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2019, 08:02:54 pm

Necroa virus is fun. Z-Com formed in Sweden to fight off the plague. A few attempts to infect failed, but I upgraded the ability to send hordes in the millions. Their headquarters really couldn't hold off a zombie horde that outnumbered their entire country's population 5-1.

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Plague Inc.

EDIT: Began a new attempt at a campaign. First few battles against the DWG were successful. First battle was against a few random air... things. Minimal damage on one ship, but more salvage than repair cost. Second battle, a single DWG Corsair. Did considerably more damage to my three boats, but I was able to capture it... mostly intact. Would have had more of it intact if a random shot hadn't blown off the entire quarterdeck/bridge section. Not sure if my boats' guns are even capable of causing that much damage, so it might have been the Corsair itself.

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From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on July 24, 2019, 12:09:57 am

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784108003632697279/E6D5153D90CBC527544D23E51855788277EEF53D/)

I still only came in second.  Its an 8 player FFA so I'm not too dissapointed, 1st place guy played very well.  I spent most of the game at ~2/3rds everyone else's net worth because of all the rerolling I did to achieve that.

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DOTA Underlords

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on July 24, 2019, 11:25:11 am

In a 1 Vs. 1, I got a four kill streak as a spy against in order; A heavy, a demoman, a soldier, and finally a pyro. Then my streak was broken when a sniper managed to hit me.
Oh, and I didn't heal at all during this time.

Gang Garrison 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on July 24, 2019, 03:50:19 pm

Good god, that still exists? And still has players?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on July 24, 2019, 05:02:35 pm

It often has only me and someone else, usually peaks at 4 players, and I've never seen more than maybe 13 total at a time, but yes, there are still players.
They still have game updates, though I don't know how often. The last one was domination being added.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 24, 2019, 05:21:26 pm

I finally had both a barrel bomb in the transport, and occasion to use said barrel bomb in X-Piratez.

That farmer's barn (and the sides of the nearby buildings; glad I hid far enough away) never saw it coming, and I got 184 tokens.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 24, 2019, 07:04:53 pm

Might be cheese, but I attacked the DWG's Sinner's Outpost, capturing it(and the Sea Cobra protecting it) with relatively minor damage all around.Because I forgot I had disabled the Corsair's AI's attack controls.
Immediately got attacked by a DWG attack force consisting of a Marauder and an Antlion. Captured both of those very easily.

Not sure what I should do with the Marauder though, redesign or scrap. It's... a decent ship for the most part, but with a lot of glaring design flaws. While the frontal cannon is pretty devastating, its side weapons are a line of simple-cannons that very easily disabled. It also lacks any rear or anti-air firepower. The redesign I have in mind would address those. As for scrapping it, it's a >20kmt ship, quite a lot for this early in the campaign.

In the meantime, I also created an spy plane that actually flies(at least, it stays in the air) and give decent map coverage, while costing only a little over 1000mt. It's also powered by an RTG/electric engine combo, and flies perpetually.

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From the Depths. Also having an issue with repairing out-of-play units, where their outline will display they are at over 200,000% health, yet placing them back in play reveals they're not being repaired despite the map showing the repair animation.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 27, 2019, 11:58:52 pm

Got myself the Suit Only, Silent Assassin challenge in Marrakech on Master difficulty (which is nice because it means you don’t have to do it on the easier difficulties ‘cause you’re amazeballs) and it was the easiest one so far.

Halfway through with the original missions, and I even got Silent Assassin on the Elusive Target, though that involved a great deal of cheesing.

Going to do the bonus mission for Marrakech before moving on to my least favourite of the originals, Bangkok. Hopefully it goes quickly...

Hitman 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 29, 2019, 07:28:28 pm

Using a bow made from random sticks tied together from scrap cloth with arrows similar make, I hit a fairly distant rabbit through a tree sapling. The arrow cut down the sapling(yielding a stick), and then hit the rabbit.

A little while later, I saw a couple more rabbits scurrying about. I fired two arrows, thinking I probably missed with both. I crept closer, saw a rabbit come close, and dropped it with a snap-shot. As I went to retrieve the kill, I saw two more downed rabbits nearby, arrows sticking out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Forest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on July 30, 2019, 03:06:18 pm

I FUCKING DID IT. I figured out how to play Elder Scrolls: Redguard at an okay framerate under DOSBOX. It's not perfect, it still stutters (especially the sound) but it's miles better than how the game comes from GOG.

For those on Google in the future, the secret seems to be in the CPU cycles. It has to be set to around 50000-70000; anything higher or lower (including cycles=max) and the game very quickly becomes a slideshow. I also installed the latest version of nGlide and deleted any instances of glide2x.dll in the installation folder.

Literal weeks of fiddling and chasing down rumors... so that I can finally play a game that most seem to agree is forgettable at best?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 31, 2019, 11:06:58 pm

Quote from: hector13 on July 27, 2019, 11:58:52 pm

Got myself the Suit Only, Silent Assassin challenge in Marrakech on Master difficulty (which is nice because it means you don’t have to do it on the easier difficulties ‘cause you’re amazeballs) and it was the easiest one so far.

Halfway through with the original missions, and I even got Silent Assassin on the Elusive Target, though that involved a great deal of cheesing.

Going to do the bonus mission for Marrakech before moving on to my least favourite of the originals, Bangkok. Hopefully it goes quickly...

Hitman 2

Fucking stupid mission, but I got SA/SO in Bangkok, when even the fucking exits require you to distract someone so you can leave.

So much stupid. I think I spent half of the 15 minutes the mission took just looking for something to throw to get the guard away from the door so I could finish it.

I think the next mission might be a little easier to get SA/SO in, and that is literally a militia compound in which even getting spotted will get you shot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 01, 2019, 07:30:13 pm

Retrieved a plot-critical item out of pile of dead, rotting, naked people. Nearly died to the (blue) Armsy guarding it, though. It tanked two dynamites, two molotovs, and an arrow, and I didn't see it moving. I went down only for the monster to charge at me. Took out 5 layers of stealth armor(weak protection) and brought me down to about 40% health in seconds. It was about strike a killing blow before I finished it off with my axe. I am now wearing its skin to replace the lizardskin+leaf armor it destroyed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Forest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on August 02, 2019, 02:46:37 am

I completed not one, not two, but three non-trivial quests after the starting dungeon. This is officially the furthest I've ever made it in Daggerfall. I'm not sure that I'll beat the main quest yet, but it's a damn good start.

Also why is everybody naked in the Temple of Dibella?

DF Unity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 02, 2019, 02:50:52 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on August 02, 2019, 02:46:37 am

Also why is everybody naked in the Temple of Dibella?

Because the natural form isn't obscene, it's natural.  As is the dance of desire.  "I am yours, and you are mine, eternally intertwined."

Also bewbs lol

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on August 02, 2019, 03:19:16 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 02, 2019, 02:50:52 am

… snip …
Also bewbs lol

     AKA "Baffle 'Em With Bull Shit"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 02, 2019, 04:54:45 am

Because old TES lore has Dibella as basically the same thing as Greek Aphrodite, who is not only goddess of beauty but sex as well. Oblivion tones it down a lot and retcons Dibella as being more about "pure" beauty.

Skyrim starts going back the other way; the temple of Dibella actually has sex classes - which you can't attend(without mods) because they're booked months in advance - and one quest has you getting so drunk that when you come to in the temple, you've got an angry priestess(the one who tells you about the sex classes in fact) yelling at you for fingering the statues of Dibella. Hilariously, she's not that angry about the defilement of her goddess if you apologize and help clean up, and there's a separate quest that lets you get ahold of one of these statues yourself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on August 03, 2019, 08:00:11 pm

Played Fallout 4 for the first time in like a year, and had a blast.

Went for a barbarian esque character, and I decided to hell with it any sort of planning or optimisation. Pumped points into strength, endurance, and luck ( I still wanted Idiot Savant ).

I proceeded to spend the next 4 hours just killing everybody I could. Used all the violent and aggressive dialogue options, killed a trader for some decent armour, did not care at ALL about settlement building or Minuteman stuff. Hightailed it to Diamond City.


Playing on very hard as a melee character without blitz is tough. One of the best fights I had was in the Combat Zone. Too many raiders with guns for me to handle at once, so I stayed in the initial foyer area and baited them in a few at a time.


The best part was when I was able to kill them just outside the door. I'd literally drag their corpse into the foyer, close the door, then eat them, because I had the cannibal perk. I felt like a horror movie monster. Whittled them down, killed the last, looted and ate them all.


Now I have Cait as a companion, who likes pretty much every violent, aggressive, and criminal thing I do, apart from the cannibalism. Once I get her perk, I'll find Strong and get his.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 06, 2019, 04:07:45 pm

After several attempts over the years, I finally managed to break open a long-dead PS2 in order to recover the game disc trapped inside: the original Star Wars: Battlefront. Sure, I have little doubt I will never play it again, but I also wasn't going to leave it there. Took me way too long to find where the screws to open the case were.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life, packing to move. I'm pretty sure I already packed the case away, though.

EDIT: Fighting Arch-Curate Vyrthur*. First against his minions which, as the fight drags on, Vyrthur will tear open the ceiling to attack you. Eventually, he tore enough the roof that Durnheviir was able to crash into the party. I had Shouted for him a long time prior, and either the mass of minions defeated him or his duration expired, but he was able to turn the fight around.

Then came the fight against Vyrthur himself, which has some spoilerific awesomeness to it. And naturally, I FUS'd him off the balcony. Then after some more spoiler-stuff, I used Become Ethereal to dive off the building myself to loot that sweet-looking armor.

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Skyrim.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 08, 2019, 12:17:28 pm

I've become a seeker. Looking forwards to bricking my account.

Fallen London

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 12, 2019, 08:28:36 am

After hours of searching, a few guide lookups, and hunting down informants, I finally found every single Riddler trophy, challenge, and riddle. The last was a pain to find since there's no apparent hints for it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's the Batmobile itself.

Then I applied liberal amounts of fist to the Riddler's face.

That's it, not counting AR challenges, I've 100%ed this game. Actually 120% since the Season of Infamy missions count for the story progress percentage.

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Batman: Arkham Knight. I also did the short-story missions, but the one for Nightwing seems to be locked at 90% completion. It's a known bug, you have to do the final cutscene twice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 12, 2019, 06:16:16 pm

Wish that game worked.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 14, 2019, 06:49:08 pm

While waiting about 5 hours for the cable guy to install internet and TV service throughout the house, all I had was my Switch.

Managed to pacify Jevil, and only took two attempts total to do so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deltarune. Some people claim that Jevil is harder than Sans. I disagree. Mainly because I still haven't been able to kill Sans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on August 14, 2019, 07:09:04 pm

Having beaten him and having watched videos of the fight with Sans, I'm inclined to agree that he's much easier than Sans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 15, 2019, 12:44:56 am

Jevil a chump.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on August 15, 2019, 01:03:15 pm

Supposedly there was a bug where on certain computers full-screen would make fights faster. I would assume people saying Jevil was harder than Sans fell afoul of that bug.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 27, 2019, 07:53:44 pm

Started with a spectacular opening move, where the fireteam's sniper completely missed what would have otherwise been a clear headshot, then got rushed and shot down by an enemy shocktrooper, followed by me sending the fireteam's engineer to rescue him* followed by her immediately getting gunned down(but rescued).

Wasted 2 command points trying to run over an enemy lancer(anti-tank soldier), only to run out of movement sooo close I couldn't angle the machine gun(I shot his friend in the head), then wasted 2 more finding out that running them over with a tank doesn't (at least, necessarily) kill. It just throws them. On his turn, the lancer stupidly, stupidly ran right in front of the tank's MG and promptly got his face ventilated.

It turns out the two shocktroopers I brought, Hannes* and Wendy, are the psychos of the unit. They scored more kills than anyone else during the battle, all while laughing maniacally. Def gonna bring them in future battles. Although Wendy did hipfire an entire magazine into a bridge railing, then took a not-lethal bullet to the head from the intended target.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Valkyria Chronicles. Yet another game sitting in my library for three years, never played once.

EDIT: Killed three tanks in one turn. One was crippled from pretty early in the battle when I sniped a fuel tank it was parked next to. The second, I force-marched a lancer behind it for a direct hit to the radiator(which is usually a one-shot-kill, as the radiator is volatile for plot reasons). The third tank was a one-in-a-million shot, I didn't expect to kill it. Despite a mostly frontal shot, I scored a direct hit on the radiator with my command tank. The radiator was barely visible, and the tank cannon has relatively poor accuracy - enough to hit a target in general, but hitting a specific part of the target requires close range(or luck).

The next battle, I sniped an AT gun with my command tank. Took several shots(and my attempts provoked the boss to appear), and the AT gun nearly killed the second-in-command, but I killed it before it could fire on the command tank. Also during that battle, scored a twofer while assaulting the main base. A scout tried to gank an enemy soldier during a flank, hurt them, but got shot down by him and his buddy. I moved a shocktrooper to perform the same attack, killed the first guy, and took out the second with the last bullet.

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Valkryria Chronicles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on August 30, 2019, 02:14:02 pm

Playin' Starbound.

Created an infinite well of healing water.

I'm sure this has been done many times before, but I felt super cool. I'm calling it my lazarus pit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 31, 2019, 06:33:02 pm

Not too much of one, but I discovered a good way to clean up after dropping a meteor storm "a safe distance" away from my colony: put down a metal and a polymer depot, which are free, then send a drone commander over there with a few drones and wait for them to grab everything in range, then have a transporter ship it back to the colony proper.


A few very odd things I've noticed about this colony, though. First, one of my potential applicants was a Chinese national named "Ping Pong". Second, the colonists are smuggling pets onto the colony somehow. Cats are okay, but the first animal I noticed was a goddamned horse. I know pets don't really do anything, but how do you bring a horse on a cramped passenger rocket and how do you expect to be able to feed it in a strictly-controlled environment?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Surviving Mars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on September 01, 2019, 09:20:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 31, 2019, 06:33:02 pm

I know pets don't really do anything, but how do you bring a horse on a cramped passenger rocket

Very carefully, I would expect. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on September 01, 2019, 10:44:02 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 31, 2019, 06:33:02 pm

I know pets don't really do anything, but how do you bring a horse on a cramped passenger rocket

     Don't talk about SJP like that … she has feelings ya know ...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on September 02, 2019, 03:21:33 am

I can understand the goats they bring and the cats/dogs but deer, llamas and I think I once saw a cow is a bit questionable as to how they brought those.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on September 02, 2019, 05:08:41 pm

I finished the base game of Descent 2. While much less dickish than the first game, the final levels just spammed the hardest enemies in the game at me. And the final boss... ugh. Not only it fires the a very high-power homing rocket, said rocket splits into smaller instances of itself (also homing) on detonation, it also could only be damaged from behind and that was not obvious at all. I ended up having to spend my many, many lives and do suicide runs on it until it died.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 02, 2019, 08:27:21 pm

On a routine bounty mission in moderately hostile space, I took two destroyers (my personal Hammerhead and a Vanguard), a heavy frigate, a Mora-class carrier, and slightly refurbished Legion-class battleship up against three pirate fleets comprising almost 80 combat-capable ships in a minor oopsie.  For my part, the Vanguard was destroyed but proved salvagable, especially with the 200k credit bounty.  For their part, on the other hand...

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...77 total ships lost, ranging from frigates to dedicated cruisers to heavy freighters converted into battleships.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/354721222900318210/618253014435627008/screenshot003.png)

Spoiler: The game (click to show/hide)

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 03, 2019, 07:06:43 pm

Things got interesting for a bit. A random event about ice meteors(aren't those just comets?) flying by my MDS lasers happened, and while I was setting up for that, I get early warning of toxic rains. Then the ice meteors arrive and I get a choice between 0.25% atmospheric terraforming/per MDS+meteor storm or 0.3%/per MDS+a bigger meteor storm or do nothing. I pick 0.3%(and wish I knew about the choice earlier). The meteor storm is centered around my main water production area... which I forgot to cover in anti-meteor lasers. I quickly fix that, but then an expedition I sent finds a rover with a black box, which in turn was a Nigerian Prince scam that the colony scientists fell for, costing me 20% of my already limited funding.


On the other hand, the only damage the meteors caused was a single water extractor and some pipe, the toxic rains did nothing but shut down the foresters for a day, and I've started the tourism industry. Terraforming is coming along decently, except forestation, but that's always a pain.

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Surviving Mars.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on September 07, 2019, 07:34:31 pm

I killed Absalom in survival mode with a combat knife. I barely fucking made it, if I hadn't managed to disarm him he'd have probably killed me. I had VATS defense on for most of the fight and he still took me down to a quarter of my health.

You bet your ass I took all his combat armour.

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Fallout 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: xaritscin on September 07, 2019, 11:17:36 pm

bought a new mining ship with an slightly different setup to try and tank the local ganker in the system, ended outsmarting another player who tried to gank me in a frigate; i guess the setup is working but this wasnt the size of ship was planning to go against.

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EVE Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 08, 2019, 10:27:02 am

In X-com Piratez, I took out my first base successfully, and brought almost all of the hostages back alive (making me stupid amounts of money). The prize was the Academy Provost, who got double-teamed by my bugeyes. I also got my first gauss weapons that way, so I'm on my way to unlocking end-game tech.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 08, 2019, 04:31:21 pm

Spoiler: MARS IS GREEN (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/uVMYlC7.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/Ap72Uyt.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/SOTZxP7.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/2IIqJE5.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/kKEfO4E.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/Ap5V6Wu.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/8Xyr6Za.jpg)

Took 311 Sols to terraform. For anyone else trying to do this, research Planetary Projects ASAP, which unlocks the Cloud Seeding and Vegetation Seeding rocket missions. Vegetation can only be brought up to 40% via Forestation Plants, the rest must come from Vegetation Seeding. The mission reappears after several Sols, and I've read it's at least partly dependent on doing Cloud Seeding.

I also discovered a bug with Out-dome Farms that's been present since beta apparently: the priority for drones harvesting the crops is lower then them doing nothing, so they'll just do nothing. It's temporarily alleviated by ordering an RC Commander into range of the farm hexes, but eventually they'll stop again.

Spoiler: Also what I did to celebrate (click to show/hide)

Shut off the carbonate processors and magnetic shields to kill the atmosphere, and shut down oxygen production to kill everyone. Seemingly, Martian residents have the ability to hold their breath for days(technically, years), so it took a while for them to start dying. Farms can actually produce enough oxygen to service their dome, though it won't send any to other domes(net oxygen consumption = 0, so breathable).

The last few survivors were really hanging on, and it took me a little while to discover why. Here's some advice if you ever find yourself suffering from hypoxia due to a lack of oxygen in the air because some sadistic douchebag back on Earth shuts everything down: go to the open-air gym and grind. You will heal faster than you suffocate. Also taking a nap will help.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Surviving Mars. Oh, and while I was watching the last survivor do crunches like his life depended on it(it did), I saw a goat and several cats giving zero shits about the atmosphere.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 10, 2019, 10:31:27 am

I finally beat Planescape: Torment. I feel like I experienced most things that could be experienced without exploring every single nook and cranny, and more importantly, I remained blissfully unspoiled all the way through. Every surprise was genuine, every secret was really a secret. That is an exceedingly rare accomplishment for me, given how often I skip over games in favor of reading TVTropes or watching a let's-play, only to experience them for myself years later.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on September 10, 2019, 11:10:35 am

Quote from: Akura on September 08, 2019, 04:31:21 pm

Spoiler: Also what I did to celebrate (click to show/hide)

Shut off the carbonate processors and magnetic shields to kill the atmosphere, and shut down oxygen production to kill everyone. Seemingly, Martian residents have the ability to hold their breath for days(technically, years), so it took a while for them to start dying. Farms can actually produce enough oxygen to service their dome, though it won't send any to other domes(net oxygen consumption = 0, so breathable).

The last few survivors were really hanging on, and it took me a little while to discover why. Here's some advice if you ever find yourself suffering from hypoxia due to a lack of oxygen in the air because some sadistic douchebag back on Earth shuts everything down: go to the open-air gym and grind. You will heal faster than you suffocate. Also taking a nap will help.

But you already terraformed Mars. Couldn't they just go outside and breathe the atmospheric oxygen that was there?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 10, 2019, 11:22:30 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 10, 2019, 10:31:27 am

I finally beat Planescape: Torment. I feel like I experienced most things that could be experienced without exploring every single nook and cranny, and more importantly, I remained blissfully unspoiled all the way through. Every surprise was genuine, every secret was really a secret. That is an exceedingly rare accomplishment for me, given how often I skip over games in favor of reading TVTropes or watching a let's-play, only to experience them for myself years later.

I hear the evil playthrough is a bit brutal. It's not cartoony evil, it's really leaning in to being a manipulative douche bag. The special weapon that changes based on your alignment is best at lawful good, but it's only one weapon.


And for my own...er...own: I stopped a landed very large ship in X-com (piratez) from building a base. Reticulan (hybrids who were abandoned and now live in post-apoc Earth) plasma and sledgehammers can take down almost anything. I didn't even kill the guildmaster. Looks like my Shadowbat can also take down one of their landed medium ships.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on September 10, 2019, 11:56:58 am

Quote from: Mathel on September 10, 2019, 11:10:35 am

Quote from: Akura on September 08, 2019, 04:31:21 pm

Spoiler: Also what I did to celebrate (click to show/hide)

Shut off the carbonate processors and magnetic shields to kill the atmosphere, and shut down oxygen production to kill everyone. Seemingly, Martian residents have the ability to hold their breath for days(technically, years), so it took a while for them to start dying. Farms can actually produce enough oxygen to service their dome, though it won't send any to other domes(net oxygen consumption = 0, so breathable).

The last few survivors were really hanging on, and it took me a little while to discover why. Here's some advice if you ever find yourself suffering from hypoxia due to a lack of oxygen in the air because some sadistic douchebag back on Earth shuts everything down: go to the open-air gym and grind. You will heal faster than you suffocate. Also taking a nap will help.

But you already terraformed Mars. Couldn't they just go outside and breathe the atmospheric oxygen that was there?

But who wants to breathe when you can exercise?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 10, 2019, 04:50:00 pm

Quote from: Mathel on September 10, 2019, 11:10:35 am

Quote from: Akura on September 08, 2019, 04:31:21 pm

Spoiler: Also what I did to celebrate (click to show/hide)

Shut off the carbonate processors and magnetic shields to kill the atmosphere, and shut down oxygen production to kill everyone. Seemingly, Martian residents have the ability to hold their breath for days(technically, years), so it took a while for them to start dying. Farms can actually produce enough oxygen to service their dome, though it won't send any to other domes(net oxygen consumption = 0, so breathable).

The last few survivors were really hanging on, and it took me a little while to discover why. Here's some advice if you ever find yourself suffering from hypoxia due to a lack of oxygen in the air because some sadistic douchebag back on Earth shuts everything down: go to the open-air gym and grind. You will heal faster than you suffocate. Also taking a nap will help.

But you already terraformed Mars. Couldn't they just go outside and breathe the atmospheric oxygen that was there?

Do note that there's a constant loss of atmosphere due(presumably) to solar wind. Earth is(mostly) protected due to it's magnetic field, while Mars does not have one. Here, you have to build magnetic shield generators(or launch some into orbit) to prevent this. Turning these off, as well as the carbonate processors which increase atmospheric density, will result in the atmosphere being stripped away. Breathable air on Mars requires a 95% atmospheric rating(the point which it's not breathable is a little lower), and the air becomes unbreathable in about 5-6 sols from 100%. In fact, atmosphere is the only terraforming rating that can go down.


As a side note, I'm actually surprised that making the Martian air breathable only requires atmospheric density and 50% temperature. Since the primary way of increasing atmospheric density comes from carbonate processors, the bulk of the atmosphere should be carbon dioxide. Oxygen in the air would come from vegetation breathing CO₂ and exhaling O₂, as it does on Earth, yet you do not need any vegetation terraforming to breathe. Maybe everyone is like Jenkins and taught themselves to breathe carbon dioxide.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on September 11, 2019, 09:19:07 am

I completed a terror mission at night with only 10 soldiers against 5 cyberdiscs and a smattering of sectoids, and not only did I not lose anyone I even managed to save enough civilians to get a positive score.  It took a while but I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of XCOM Classic.

Having researched and made personal armor and laser weapons for everyone also definitely helps...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 11, 2019, 02:00:16 pm

Quote from: Telgin on September 11, 2019, 09:19:07 am

I completed a terror mission at night with only 10 soldiers against 5 cyberdiscs and a smattering of sectoids, and not only did I not lose anyone I even managed to save enough civilians to get a positive score.  It took a while but I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of XCOM Classic.

Having researched and made personal armor and laser weapons for everyone also definitely helps...

Yeah, sounds like you've got the research you need to proceed. I mostly played TFTD (and poorly), but I remember flying armor was great in the original.

Quote from: Iduno on September 08, 2019, 10:27:02 am

In X-com Piratez, I took out my first base successfully, and brought almost all of the hostages back alive (making me stupid amounts of money). The prize was the Academy Provost, who got double-teamed by my bugeyes. I also got my first gauss weapons that way, so I'm on my way to unlocking end-game tech.

Update on that: I got the very large ship, missed the medium ship, left the site of a large ship with the Shadowbat when I noticed I didn't have the right weapons in it, and got 2-3 large ships with the Fortuna. I brought back enough hostages to catch up on guild tech and have slaves left over (and steal power armor parts from the bodyguards).

The landed ships have a lot of people. The last ship I hit had 18 outside, including 2 bodyguards in power armor. One Bodyguard took a reticulan plasma crit to the back, killing him. A marsec operator got mind controlled through bugeye teamwork, chucked a hellerium grenade into a crowd of 4 (1 died, 2 wounded and eventually healed, 1 injured but standing), then got deleted with a gauss reaction shot by one of his teammates. I got two knocked out, and 4-5 were prevented from shooting effectively by gals getting into melee. I took 1 wounded gal that round (ended up with half of them in medical by the end of the mission), but 2 more guards were shot by their friends and got patched back up. Down to 9 opponents from 18 on the first round. The other bodyguard was a live capture, but only surrendered after everyone else was down. Most of the other ships were indoor fighting, so I could use doors to my advantage.

I love the mechanic that you can make a reaction check to prevent someone next to you from shooting the correct direction. Although it takes energy, and chainmail means I'm running low on that (and atom beers) by the end of a mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 12, 2019, 01:59:44 am

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834782
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834793
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834826

Got pretty dang drunk bettween, between mission 2 and mission 3.  Managed to pull it off anyway though, despite everyone being shielded and buying no equipment.

Top fifth percentile, can't complain: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834861

Heat Signature

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 12, 2019, 08:14:51 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on September 12, 2019, 01:59:44 am

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834782
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834793
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834826

Got pretty dang drunk bettween, between mission 2 and mission 3.  Managed to pull it off anyway though, despite everyone being shielded and buying no equipment.

Top fifth percentile, can't complain: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1860834861

Heat Signature

I made second place (?) once. Because I died before most people finished. For a game that feels like it's easy, it's pretty tough to actually do well. Congrats.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 12, 2019, 12:37:22 pm

Subverting the teleporter on target-flees missions almost feels like cheating sometimes, but as long as Defenders exist I'm okay with such tactics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 13, 2019, 05:38:17 am

I think this is the first time I've taken down a Thrumbo. Normally, I just ignore them. Damn thing was munching on my devilstrand field, eating several that were >90% grown and these things take about 45 days to grow. It had to die.

Milita force of 6 colonists, armed with two revolvers, a bolt-action, two pump shotguns, and a charge rifle assembled and fired en masse. The creature turned manhunter, and charged at the assembled militia. I moved the guy the thrumbo was targeting away, giving more time to keep hitting. The thrumbo soon goes down under pain shock. I order the militia to keep firing. For several minutes, they just keep shooting. And shooting. Its wound page is over a screen length. Eventually it dies.

Only one injury was received: a moderate bruise on the guy the thrumbo chased.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rimworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: CABL on September 13, 2019, 12:37:56 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 13, 2019, 05:38:17 am

...

There's this exploit/cheese when it comes to killing thrumbo easily: You build walls around thrumbo when it sleeps and leave some beer inside the room/walls. The thrumbo can't handle the beer, and it collapses on the ground, and you can finish it off easily that way.

Oh, and make sure there's no grass inside the thrumbo room; otherwise it'll eat the grass, and then it'll make a hole in the wall and escapes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on September 14, 2019, 08:39:21 pm

Finally completed "I'll Be What I Am", the last of the three F-Series missions, using Beck's Sweetheart (Sweetheart/Chieftan/Faker/EMP).

Made careful use of the Faker to soften up or take out foes before they reached me - I mainly tried to predict where the enemy would be by the time the shell made contact. The big problem of mine was making sure I didn't hit myself with the Faker, but after that, things went relatively smoothly.

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Brigador

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hotfire90 on September 15, 2019, 09:11:04 am

Finished Chapter 9 after 2781 deaths.

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Celeste

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 16, 2019, 05:02:51 pm

Managed to build a nuclear reactor. Currently running on 3 fuel rods at 100% output, and it's outputting 11kW. By comparison one chemfuel or wood-fueled generator puts out 1kW. It also runs so cool(right now) that even after removing the cooling system it seemed to be kept cool by a climate-control air conditioner of the same kind used in the food freezer.

Not actually sure it's as cost effective, now that I think about it. A chemfuel generator costs 100 steel and 3 components, plus easily-made chemfuel. Not counting research and development cost, pipes, and building construction, the Type-A reactor required 1375 steel and 38 components. And that's not getting into fuel costs: 100 uranium ore->100 uranium pellets, 15 steel, and 10 silver per fuel rod. On the other hand, I have a pretty good stockpile of uranium, and further research and refining could yield better reactors and fun things like nuclear weapons.

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Rimworld. Natually, I tested what would happen if you blew the reactor up while it was active. The explosion vaporized the guy who shot the reactor, took out a good chunk of the area around the reactor, and revealed a small vein of compacted machinery next to my cobra-breeding pit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 17, 2019, 05:43:22 pm

I loaded the beta branch of Slay the Spire. It gave me 3 save slots, so I chose one. It told me to enter my name, I typed no, and the game closed.

I got an inanimate object to give up.

Edit: I had some difficulty, but won with the ironclad first run (no unlocks), won against donu and the other one with 1 hp left, then got an early scales and mercury timer with the defect (and otherwise had good luck, other than never finding a defrag). 3 attempts, 3 wins with no unlocks. Not hard, but I couldn't run mods to get rid of the terrible relics (which are only 1/3 of them).

I lost to the Collector (close fight) on my first run with the new character when I took 72 damage at once (max health 70).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 19, 2019, 08:30:52 pm

3v3 at Bellenglise, playing as British. The map is large, with trenchworks extending out from the players' bases which gives way to open space before a wide river at the center. Fight was mostly excursions across the river to harass territory control, mostly German attacks since I was focusing on holding victory points. I caused a significant breakthrough across the river when I drove a Whippet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Mark_A_Whippet) across, causing a large gap in enemy lines. Generally, AT weapons are more limited in this mod than the base game, though artillery weapons are quite effective.

As the German victory points were counting down, I had a 4.5inch howitzer covering the north-west end of the river, and pushed a Mark V tank at the southern end. Later, I noticed my AI allies were making deep inroads into enemy territory,  and discovered the reason was because about the entire German army was fighting the Mark V. Their AT rifles had already immobilized it, but they were struggling to actually cause damage. The tank was turned so that most of its armament could return fire at the Germans, and more importantly, keeping the enemy in a fixed position for airstrikes.

I pushed troops in to assist, and they succeeded in forcing off the enemy. The tank survived and started being repaired. I had the rest of the infantry focus their attacks on a 7.4cm gun. Just as its crew were taken out, their last victory point ticked away.

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Company of Heroes: Great War mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 22, 2019, 04:27:19 am

I beat The End.

One of my top 5 boss fights ever. It's rare to see a boss fight that gives me this much tension and anticipation. All of my grievances against this game are forgiven.

Also I got to the meme ladder lmao

Metal Gear Solid 3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 22, 2019, 10:21:50 am

How did you approach the fight?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 22, 2019, 12:18:15 pm

For some reason, I thought that holding him up would end the fight right away. When it didn't, I chased him as far as I could, shooting wildly the entire time, until I lost sight. Then I would keep trying to sneak up behind him, but stop just short and shoot him with the SVD. If I did it right, he would run away without using a flashbang, which made it easier to see which map he was going to be in.

I tried putting claymores on some of his hiding spots, but he never triggered them. I also killed the parrot, though I don't know what that did for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on September 22, 2019, 12:54:16 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 22, 2019, 04:27:19 am

I beat The End.
Also I got to the meme ladder lmao

the ladder is your reward for beating such an awesome boss.

~snakkkkeeee eater~ dun dun dun dunnnnnnn

i dont even have to look it up on youtube, i see the ladder climb with gentle snake eater lyrics over it in my minds eye.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 22, 2019, 01:06:41 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on September 22, 2019, 12:18:15 pm

For some reason, I thought that holding him up would end the fight right away. When it didn't, I chased him as far as I could, shooting wildly the entire time, until I lost sight. Then I would keep trying to sneak up behind him, but stop just short and shoot him with the SVD. If I did it right, he would run away without using a flashbang, which made it easier to see which map he was going to be in.

I tried putting claymores on some of his hiding spots, but he never triggered them. I also killed the parrot, though I don't know what that did for me.

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The parrot acts as a spotter for him. You can tranq and release the bird, and it will fly to The End, distracting him. Killing the bird will make The End angry at you. It appears to be the same species of bird Emma has in MGS2, but I doubt it's the same individual parrot. Para-Medic identifies it as an Alexandrine Parakeet, which lives about 40 years in captivity; there's 44 years between MGS3(August 1964) and MGS2(April 2009).

For holding The End up, do it three times and he will drop the Moss camo, which has a very high camo rating on mossy ground and can restore Snake's stamina in bright sunlight. Defeating The End non-lethally will grant his Mosin-Nagant tranquilizer rifle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on September 22, 2019, 02:12:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 22, 2019, 01:06:41 pm

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Para-Medic identifies it as an Alexandrine Parakeet, which lives about 40 years in captivity; there's 44 years between MGS3(August 1964) and MGS2(April 2009).

Yes, because realism is a thing that we care about in MGS!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on September 22, 2019, 04:29:22 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 22, 2019, 01:06:41 pm

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The parrot acts as a spotter for him. You can tranq and release the bird, and it will fly to The End, distracting him. Killing the bird will make The End angry at you. It appears to be the same species of bird Emma has in MGS2, but I doubt it's the same individual parrot. Para-Medic identifies it as an Alexandrine Parakeet, which lives about 40 years in captivity; there's 44 years between MGS3(August 1964) and MGS2(April 2009).

For holding The End up, do it three times and he will drop the Moss camo, which has a very high camo rating on mossy ground and can restore Snake's stamina in bright sunlight. Defeating The End non-lethally will grant his Mosin-Nagant tranquilizer rifle.

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Apparently it's their average lifespan, so it seems possible. The main problem is I don't see how Emma could have gotten that particular bird.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on September 22, 2019, 05:19:07 pm

Quote from: Kagus on September 22, 2019, 02:12:25 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 22, 2019, 01:06:41 pm

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Para-Medic identifies it as an Alexandrine Parakeet, which lives about 40 years in captivity; there's 44 years between MGS3(August 1964) and MGS2(April 2009).

Yes, because realism is a thing that we care about in MGS!

Absurdly specific true-to-life details are as much a part of MGS as cyborg ninjas and bipedal walking tanks. At least before MGS4, you could learn some pretty solid facts by calling Natasha, Miller, and Naomi in MGS1, the Colonel and Otacon in MGS2, and of course Sigint and Para-Medic in MGS3. That's not to mention all the fictional but realistic plot details like Baker's rant about nuclear waste disposal in MGS1, or the implications of the Big Shell's destruction in MGS2.

It's easy to dismiss it as just cool robots and anime stuff, but that's only skin deep.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 22, 2019, 06:07:59 pm

It's important to note that there are always exceptions to a normal lifespan. Housecats generally only go for about 15 years on average, but some specimens have lived for 20 years or more. It doesn't seem impossible for a bird with a lifespan more than double that of a cat to manage an extra 4 years.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 22, 2019, 08:37:13 pm

In Untitled Goose Game, I tried playing soccer with a little boy. He kicked it towards me, I pecked it back to him, then he grabbed the ball and walked away, refusing to play with a goose anymore.

I of course did the only reasonable thing a goose can: stole his toy airplane, and let him chase me until he caught me (a pretty good distance), then honked at him until he ran away, and untied one of his shoelaces while he was running. While he was on the ground, I grabbed the plane, and left it somewhere the shopkeeper would find it, so she put it up for sale.

Afterwards, I put my beak into a glass bottle and ran around with a weird echo-y honk while doing a victory lap with my wings spread.

Later, I left a walkie-talkie at the end of an area I can chase him into easily, then chased him while honking into the other walkie-talkie to see what it did (less than I hoped until he stopped being afraid of me and got curious about the walkie-talkie). That wasn't related to any slight against me in particular, just a well-intentioned prank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 22, 2019, 09:05:35 pm

... drugs are bad, mmm'kay?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 23, 2019, 09:34:22 am

Quote from: hector13 on September 22, 2019, 09:05:35 pm

... drugs are bad, mmm'kay?

They're good drugs, Brint.


Also, nah. It's just a hilarious game about trying stupid things to see what works. I really did want playing soccer with the child to be a thing once I noticed the goose could peck the ball hard enough to send it rolling. It does feel like they could have added a few more unnecessary dumb things you could do, but it's still got a lot going on.

I bet it'd be amazing to play while drinking with friends while everyone comes up with dumb ideas to try and we laugh when something works/fails hilariously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on September 23, 2019, 10:23:32 am

Some of the bugs are pretty funny.  I haven't played it but I watched a video where the groundskeeper got into an endless loop of trying to pick something up from the table but bumping into the cooler first, which prompted him to stop to fix the cooler.  Then he realized he wanted that thing from the table again...

And the woman in the garden who puts the bow on the goose, who got in an endless loop of stooping over to pick up the bow but suddenly falling on her butt.  Then she got up, realized she wanted the bow, and fell on her butt again...

And the one time the goose fell through the ground.  All you could see was its head sticking through the grass as it flailed about for a while until the game got its act together and teleported the goose back above ground.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 24, 2019, 02:41:42 pm

Quote from: Telgin on September 23, 2019, 10:23:32 am

Some of the bugs are pretty funny.  I haven't played it but I watched a video where the groundskeeper got into an endless loop of trying to pick something up from the table but bumping into the cooler first, which prompted him to stop to fix the cooler.  Then he realized he wanted that thing from the table again...

And the woman in the garden who puts the bow on the goose, who got in an endless loop of stooping over to pick up the bow but suddenly falling on her butt.  Then she got up, realized she wanted the bow, and fell on her butt again...

And the one time the goose fell through the ground.  All you could see was its head sticking through the grass as it flailed about for a while until the game got its act together and teleported the goose back above ground.

I haven't managed any bugs, yet. Reading your examples, I've done a few things that very well could have caused bugs, but didn't. I haven't tried penning people in, aside from

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stealing the grounds keeper's keys and closing the locked door. And I guess trapping the boy in a phone booth.

The exploration and messing around parts of the game are still great (and you can reset the world by saving and loading). The stealth parts remind me of Sneak King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_King) in a good way. The puzzle solving to complete the to-do list is usually very easy with 1 exception in both levels I've played, but they're still usually entertaining to accomplish. If they make another, hopefully they focus more on the sandbox/just messing around parts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 24, 2019, 06:19:09 pm

Dunkey did a good thing on goose thing

youtube.com/watch?v=9STHqt_vsCc (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9STHqt_vsCc)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 25, 2019, 12:41:01 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on September 24, 2019, 06:19:09 pm

Dunkey did a good thing on goose thing

youtube.com/watch?v=9STHqt_vsCc (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9STHqt_vsCc)

9/10, failed to honk angrily at the man when he stole the rake back. Or when he didn't. Honk is the most important button.

Also, I stole the shopkeeper's broom, and hid it. Now she can't chase me out of her store with it. Sadly, she also will not play soccer with this goose, and shall be haunted for it until I tire of tormenting her.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2019, 05:41:59 am

Rebuilt my ship from scratch. What was a hit-and-run clearing mission with a group of pirates where I would slightly damage one before fleeing to repair(which was getting expensive) my ship, became a total curbstomp. My health bar didn't even decrease despite how much they were shooting at me.

Hopped over to a distress beacon which turned out to be a pirate ambush. They took off about 1/3 of my ship's health, almost entirely through torpedoes. By the time I was done with them and the xsotan scout party that showed up during the battle, the ship's mechanics had already passively repaired most of the damage.

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Avorion. Generally in these kinds of games I avoid combat like the plague as much as possible, due to the fact that enemies are usually much harder to deal with than it's worth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 28, 2019, 12:48:02 pm

I haven't played that in a long time.

I should get back into it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 28, 2019, 06:02:00 pm

Pretty sure I'm not supposed to be able to beat Boss Swoks III with a titanium-tier ship. And yet I killed him, his fleet, and the random-event pirate raid fleet that jumped in. Ended up getting a sizable reward from the local faction for the raid fleet, plus all the loot. Still took at most 25% damage.

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Avorion again. Got lucky previously and found a some better quality turret control upgrades, allowing me to add extra guns and mining lasers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 28, 2019, 10:37:18 pm

I'm playing the new character in Slay the Spire, and beat the Time Eater before you could call me hasty (about 200 damage in one turn) because I was getting 2 smites each turn and then the power that gives 3 mantra each turn (where every 10 mantra gives you a turn-long buff that triples all damage you do, and also gives you 2 more energy) finally got to 12. I got the final set of unlocks and cleared ascension 2 at the same time.

That upgraded power is pretty crazy (triple damage after 4 turns, and again 3 turns later if you need it again), but normally mantra is pretty hard to come by (1 or 2 if upgraded from a card that gives block, or 5 from a card that exhausts if it isn't upgraded). Plan B for damage is using wrath, where you do and take double damage until you end the stance. By comparison, "triple damage and also here's some free energy, go wild" is pretty extreme. Hopefully it gets nerfed, and also gets easier to build up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on September 29, 2019, 03:20:53 am

Survived the First Intermediate Period, but boy, did it look like end of the world. ALL THE BREAK-AWAYS, AAAAAH

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Egypt: Old Kingdom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on September 29, 2019, 08:12:00 am

Played a round of night of the full moon for the first time in... months. Completely fresh start, new device and everything so the persistent progression stuff wasn't even there. Promptly just bloody rolled the game with a crazy axe (dupes basic attacks when played)/card draw knight. By the end of it I was first-turn killing end-game enemies and ending fights with more armor than I had max health. Most of the time I was playing my entire deck every single turn. The witch boss took about three turns, and I came out of it with more health than I started it with. Good stuff.

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(http://www.upl.co/uploads/Screenshot201909290807311569762507.png)twilight makes screenshots look like ass, but bugger turning it off this early, ha

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 30, 2019, 01:25:02 pm

Destroyed my first Looter camp, losing only one of my girls* in the process. Probably bad AI, but the entire gang stood in the center of their camp, facing away from our approach. Once my troops started firing, about half of them were cut down in seconds. Shotguns are absurdly powerful in this situation. Since I wasn't sure what kind of throwing angle I'd get, I took a chance and threw a grenade. It killed three of them.

It's not so much that I took out a camp of Looters(the weakest enemies in the game), it's that I'm able to equip and manage a force large enough to do so. Now I can move on to bigger threats.

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Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 01, 2019, 11:46:13 pm

I defeated the Falkenhiem (cost 25k) with a single manually piloted fighter in first person mode (cost 2.7k).

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/773981158470821007/7DA3CEEDA0EAF798B9C06932CC43411FD2EF07C1/)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/773981158470820562/825396B2B143C13D0D35979BB7D3469049D92805/)

Normally in this game I make promising ship designs but there's always some serious flaw that prevents them from fighting efficiently.  This thing was the complete opposite, it did *nothing* until suddenly it clicked and was great.  Its powered by a single custom jet and does 82 m/s for about 2 fuel per second.  Its only weapon is a heat guided missile that does 32k damage and can be fired near-sustainably with nothing but ammo crates.  I don't even want to START on the trouble it was to get this thing to fly properly, it took about 4 hours and I'm sure my solutions were hacky AF.

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From the Depths.  Maybe I can actually play the campaign further than defeating the Atlas Gantry

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on October 02, 2019, 08:11:48 am

I found the machine gun. And I went to town in Groznyj Grad. I love that Snake yells as you keep shooting it, and the ammo counter constantly scrolls in from off-screen.

I don't care that I couldn't leave the area without being discovered. Wiping out guards with the M63 is the most fun I've had in this game.

MGS3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on October 02, 2019, 06:51:31 pm

... just incremented by direct strike dehaka winning streak again. Miscounted, so rather than being win 10, it's 11. Since I've started playing this map yesterday, my win rate is literally 100%. I must be doing something right at this point :V

Any case, the game itself was fairly... what's becoming standard. Wave matched with a tychus, roach spam ftw. They tried to pull out cannonballs for stunning, but... more roaches. Plus some hydras for the dps. They fought off my initial just!dehaka wave and then lost every subsequent wave until the game ended. I'm not even sure how tychus deals with this, save maybe bum rushing higher tech levels and getting fancier stuff. Trying to use their anti-armor unit just means you scatter zerglings around to soak their shots and get some ravs to eat them, and everything else seems to just... die.

Among other things dehaka apparently is particularly abusive against the non-dehaka hero commanders (kerrigan, tychus, etc.), since it's been consistently abusing any of those I've matched against. Maybe they got play that resists and the folks I've encountered just don't use it, I'unno. Either way I'm doing entirely too well for someone that'd never played the game until yesterday :P

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Starcraft 2 Arcade, Direct Strike map, 3v3 commanders mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 03, 2019, 06:46:01 pm

Took down a force of 19 Armored Marauders. With zero casualties except myself once. In fact, me going down that one time may have been what prevented any of the gals going down since it resets everyone to their start position. And the first thing a wounded soldier will do at the start of a battle round is use a medkit if they have one. All that time and money going into making sure every girl has at least a vest and a medkit probably helped.

Loot was damned nice: 5 Police vests(42 armor, the girls had 26-30 armor vests), and a AKM74 which is priced about 3x the regular AKM were the big items. EXP gained was tremendous as well. Not only I leveled up, but about half my entire army gained levels. Even this one random pirate who volunteered but hasn't served once on the battle line gained two levels.

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Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Arx on October 05, 2019, 11:27:05 am

I am not a sniper player. In fact, I often make derogatory comments vis a vis my aim and a dog. However! I went 27/5/16 and top damage with arguably the hardest long-range champion in the game, Kinessa. Feels pretty good.

Paladins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 06, 2019, 12:14:35 am

Is there significance to that date?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 06, 2019, 01:10:36 am

Quote from: hector13 on October 06, 2019, 12:14:35 am

Is there significance to that date?

I don't think it's a date, it's stats. Dunno what they are tho.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on October 06, 2019, 04:28:14 am

I would hazard a guess at it being kills/assists/deaths. But I have no clue as I have never played that game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on October 06, 2019, 06:12:08 am

Kills/deaths/assists, but yes. Arx wouldn't feel as good with a 27:16 kill/death ratio :P

Kda format is fairly standard for games that track all three. People care about the kills and deaths the most, with assists being tacked on the end, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 06, 2019, 07:56:43 am

I was making a funny :-\

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on October 06, 2019, 03:07:08 pm

After a few weeks of research and work putting together a list of parts I finally ordered every single part I need for the new computer I'm building last night.

Still a bunch of steps to do to get it even technically working (putting it together, going to a store to update bios using a different CPU (cause of specific issues to this CPU/motherboard combo I'm using), reformatting a flash drive and sticking windows on it, installing windows onto the computer, ect), much less working well (driver/windows updates, calibration on everything, installing all the programs, moving files and games and programs over) or optimally (my sure to be hamfisted overclocking attempts on RAM/graphics card).

And even though there is still a very significant amount to do I feel relieved that the actual decision making process is over and done with.
If you are curious, here is the build (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/lemon10/saved/KvnV7P).


Real life, obvs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 06, 2019, 03:16:38 pm

I literally shadowboxed depression to death. No, I didn't actually. It'll be back. But I'm okay. 9 days of bullshit and 33 days of the most severe depression I've had in my life.

Yet I persist. I persevere. I cannot be broken.

Real Life: Survival Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 06, 2019, 06:16:06 pm

I’ve heard you can’t switch off survival mode, or you’ll automatically lose.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 06, 2019, 08:54:40 pm

Hit for the reverse cycle (home run, triple, double, single, in that order) in a game in my rookie season. The difficulty was on dynamic, and was on hall of fame+, though increased to legend (the highest you can select manually, though there’s a legend+ with dynamic) for my single, which I caught square since it hit the pitcher in the leg, the silly mare.

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MLB The Show 19

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 07, 2019, 08:45:42 am

Quote from: lemon10 on October 06, 2019, 03:07:08 pm

After a few weeks of research and work putting together a list of parts I finally ordered every single part I need for the new computer I'm building last night.

Still a bunch of steps to do to get it even technically working (putting it together, going to a store to update bios using a different CPU (cause of specific issues to this CPU/motherboard combo I'm using), reformatting a flash drive and sticking windows on it, installing windows onto the computer, ect), much less working well (driver/windows updates, calibration on everything, installing all the programs, moving files and games and programs over) or optimally (my sure to be hamfisted overclocking attempts on RAM/graphics card).

And even though there is still a very significant amount to do I feel relieved that the actual decision making process is over and done with.
If you are curious, here is the build (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/lemon10/saved/KvnV7P).


Real life, obvs.

Nice, I just had to give up on Newegg after getting scammed. Do you have advice on a reliable seller? Is reseller ratings still a thing?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 07, 2019, 12:19:07 pm

Finally went and finished the HD version of Blood (I never played the original). It was pretty good, though some weapons were pretty useless (I am looking at you, Flare Gun) and some enemies just way too beefy.

Still, that's something crossed off the ol' backlog. It's finally shrinking after eons of adding to it!

EDIT: I wrapped up Amid Evil too, so that's two out of the backlog in a single day!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on October 08, 2019, 11:57:23 pm

Quote from: Iduno on October 07, 2019, 08:45:42 am

Is reseller ratings still a thing?

Yes, reseller ratings is still a thing. Not sure how trustworthy it is as with all online reviews it makes complete sense for a company just to pay like 50 bucks to a bunch of random people to make up hundreds of reviews and drive their score up.

Quote from: Iduno on October 07, 2019, 08:45:42 am

Nice, I just had to give up on Newegg after getting scammed. Do you have advice on a reliable seller?

In the end I just ordered from Newegg and Amazon (and a 2TB hard drive from adorama) because both have fairly good reputations.
I'm not all that worried about being scammed and I should just be able to get a replacement if something ends up not working. Maybe I *should* be more worried, but I'm not quite so worried because I'm planning on checking every part to see its what it should be and that it works, and if it isn't, Newegg's policy should protect me.

I could have ordered from outletpc for some stuff cause it was cheper for 4 parts, but. A) They just lower the price by 10 cents from the nearest rival, and then just up it as soon as they run out/raise their prices (which is kind of scummy), and B) They don't have as good reviews, which when I will be spending hundreds of dollars and will have to wait a significant amount of time if anything isn't working perfectly is kind of worrisome.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 09, 2019, 08:29:10 am

First, my success: I got to help out a sick coworker, and at the same time do a part of this job I still like. Got to feel useful 2 different ways.

Quote from: lemon10 on October 08, 2019, 11:57:23 pm

In the end I just ordered from Newegg and Amazon (and a 2TB hard drive from adorama) because both have fairly good reputations.

The company nicknamed "Scamazon" has a good reputation? They're also the poster boy for California companies who are abusing workers and lying to customers. Newegg moving to be more like them is the problem.

Quote from: lemon10 on October 08, 2019, 11:57:23 pm

I'm planning on checking every part to see its what it should be and that it works, and if it isn't, Newegg's policy should protect me.

Should protect me too, but that didn't happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on October 09, 2019, 08:48:19 am

Quote from: Iduno on October 09, 2019, 08:29:10 am

The company nicknamed "Scamazon" has a good reputation? They're also the poster boy for California companies who are abusing workers and lying to customers. Newegg moving to be more like them is the problem.

Their reputation's good enough they shit on basically every other online seller in terms of scale, many of them combined. They're apparently doing pretty alright on the trust front. Never really ordered much from them, but what has been's never had problems, either. Business practices are pretty shit in some ways but that's most online retail so *shrugs*

That's literally the first time I've seen that nickname, incidentally.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on October 09, 2019, 11:25:57 am

The only issues I have ever had with amazon have been almost entirely due to Royal Mail. The other issues being from Yodel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on October 09, 2019, 08:19:26 pm

Quote from: Iduno on October 09, 2019, 08:29:10 am

The company nicknamed "Scamazon" has a good reputation? They're also the poster boy for California companies who are abusing workers and lying to customers. Newegg moving to be more like them is the problem.

Looking up Scamazon returns a urbandictionary page about how easy it is to scam amazon into giving you free stuff thanks to how easy it is to get them to refund you stuff, not how likely they are to scam you. Which uh... seems to be exactly the opposite of what you are trying to argue.
The Scamazon hashtag on twitter links to a bunch of people hating the company for being evil to people that work for it or its other corporate practices, not for bad service to the end consumer.

I won't disagree that they treat their workers like shit, but in terms of customer service they are quite good.

Newegg is even better then them in terms of service, and although its obviously not 100% 5 stars across the board and a few people still get screwed over, its far less then with many other sites, amazon included.
Although as you show, even they are not perfect.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on October 09, 2019, 08:32:29 pm

This is all pretty off topic. I came to read about people kicking ass in games, and instead I find a lot of not that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on October 10, 2019, 12:56:43 pm

Quote from: nenjin on October 09, 2019, 08:32:29 pm

This is all pretty off topic. I came to read about people kicking ass in games, and instead I find a lot of not that.

I've assassinated a lot of people in SW:TOR MMO. Like... a lot of people. This one guy killed his wife to escape the ire of the empire. And this other guy? I killed his wife. It was actually extremely unnecessary and I regret that breach of my professionalism as an assassin, but it got the job done. Sometimes I get conscripted to kill literally dozens or hundreds of people at a time.

Actually, now that I think of it, I've only failed to kill one guy, and he was a sith lord, but I blew up his ship so...

Does that tickle your ass kicking fancy?

Tonight I'll probably assassinate even more people!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on October 10, 2019, 02:57:11 pm

 I beat unquestionably the hardest boss in Code Vein, the Depths version of Cannoner and Blade Brandier. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvS4HeGaS_k) Not only are they harder than the mandatory story fight, killing one gives the survivor the other's elemental power, changing their moveset slightly. Here's my stats for the curious. (https://imgur.com/PAmBTG6)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Code Vein

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 10, 2019, 07:37:51 pm

About to set up a reasonably smooth production line for red* circuits, and from that, blue* science, which is a gateway to a lot of later-game technologies. Last time I got this far, I mostly half-assed it and barely got anywhere.

This requires:

• Oil production and refining, luckily there's a pretty good oil field right next to the factory.
• Putting coal further up the production line than where the smelters(and power plant) are, since coal is needed for making plastics.
• Engine manufacturing, which is fairly resource-intensive especially for steel. I actually had this set up already, the tricky part was moving that up the production line.

I've got a train running to a far-away coal field(with over 3 million in reserves) to bring the coal for plastic production. I've also got black* science production going as well, plus the beginning template for science labs that will eventually be able to carry every type of science to it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 11, 2019, 06:12:17 pm

I didn't get brutally murdered in Death House on Curse of Strahd 5e as a Lawful Good Scourge Aasimar Paladin.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on October 12, 2019, 02:48:43 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 11, 2019, 06:12:17 pm

I didn't get brutally murdered in Death House on Curse of Strahd 5e as a Lawful Good Scourge Aasimar Paladin.

You got non-brutally murdered?
I don't have the context for why this is an Own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on October 12, 2019, 02:52:55 pm

I know very little about that campaign, though I am pretty certain it includes vast amounts of undead and probably a few banshees. And a typical Paladin isn't going to pass many stealth checks either so it has to fight.

I could be way off target of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on October 12, 2019, 02:59:46 pm

But, wouldn't a Dexterity based Paladin with stealth have a huge advantage in such a campaign?
Hell, he doesn't need to be Dexterity based, just needs a Chain shirt and nonterrible Dexterity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Khan Boyzitbig on October 12, 2019, 03:09:41 pm

Well I said I know very little, also stealth doesn't help if a banshee is just randomly screaming as that hits every living thing in a radius.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 12, 2019, 03:50:19 pm

5e got rid of the concept of "touch attacks" AFAIK, so heavy armor works just as well as dexterity against incorporeal attacks.  A "melee spell attack" apparently, in the banshee's case.

I don't know much about the campaign either, but I think it's Ravenloft, a place which toys with "heroes" - divine spellcasters especially.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 12, 2019, 04:56:09 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on October 12, 2019, 03:50:19 pm

5e got rid of the concept of "touch attacks" AFAIK, so heavy armor works just as well as dexterity against incorporeal attacks.  A "melee spell attack" apparently, in the banshee's case.

I don't know much about the campaign either, but I think it's Ravenloft, a place which toys with "heroes" - divine spellcasters especially.

Wouldn't an incorporeal attack ignore non-magical armor, still? I don't know about 5e but that would make sense. I could see a magical attack taking armor into account, since if you get hit in the chest with a magic missile or whatnot the impact would be logically lessened by armor.

I want to learn about 5e, you see.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 12, 2019, 05:17:30 pm

Not to interrupt the discussion, but here's an own.

I've managed to finish yet another game in my backlog, thus making october the backlog-cleaning month. In this case it was Star Wars: Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight (yes, that is the full title). A very nice touch is that the final boss will actually try to run away in panic once he is two hits from death.

Onwards to the expansion.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 12, 2019, 06:23:07 pm

Ah, the live action cutscenes. That takes me back.

The expac has a freeze gun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 12, 2019, 06:26:08 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on October 12, 2019, 06:23:07 pm

Ah, the live action cutscenes. That takes me back.

The expac has a freeze gun.

Y'know what the expack doesn't have? Live action cutscenes. I am sad right now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 12, 2019, 06:35:40 pm

Quote from: Teneb on October 12, 2019, 06:26:08 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on October 12, 2019, 06:23:07 pm

Ah, the live action cutscenes. That takes me back.

The expac has a freeze gun.

Y'know what the expack doesn't have? Live action cutscenes. I am sad right now.

No. Same :(

It was the end of an era for those cutscenes. But if you compare Jedi Knight to it's contemporaries like, say, Resident Evil, it was leagues ahead in quality. To be fair the RE1 intro was legendary for being comically terrible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWo0Hhx07Pc).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 12, 2019, 09:08:15 pm

That was rather the point. It is continued, mostly by Barry, in the game as well, specifically the “master of unlocking” and “you were almost a Jill sandwich!” lines.

It was an utter travesty that those lines were either changed or completely removed in the REmake.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on October 12, 2019, 11:03:32 pm

100% completed Banjo-Tooie and beat the final boss with full health.

Of course, that was because I was using the honeyback cheat from Cheato, which made the game almost insultingly easy, but after working my butt off to get that cheat I couldn't really bring myself to care anymore.  Anything that removed tedium from this game was worth it.  It also made the cheat for getting 25 pages kind of stupid in comparison, since all that did was enable the ability to listen to the game's music.

Plus, the real difficulty with the game was finding all of the hidden stuff, and it only made enemies [mostly] irrelevant without making it any easier to find stuff.  On that note, I never did figure out what my reward was for getting 90 jiggies.  Jamjars told me it was something on the main menu, but nothing obvious jumped out at me.

I'm glad I played the game, but I'm also glad I'm done with it...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: overseer05-15 on October 13, 2019, 02:03:19 am

Quote from: Telgin on October 12, 2019, 11:03:32 pm

100% completed Banjo-Tooie and beat the final boss with full health.

Of course, that was because I was using the honeyback cheat from Cheato, which made the game almost insultingly easy, but after working my butt off to get that cheat I couldn't really bring myself to care anymore.  Anything that removed tedium from this game was worth it.  It also made the cheat for getting 25 pages kind of stupid in comparison, since all that did was enable the ability to listen to the game's music.

Plus, the real difficulty with the game was finding all of the hidden stuff, and it only made enemies [mostly] irrelevant without making it any easier to find stuff.  On that note, I never did figure out what my reward was for getting 90 jiggies.  Jamjars told me it was something on the main menu, but nothing obvious jumped out at me.

I'm glad I played the game, but I'm also glad I'm done with it...

Quote from: GameFAQ forum

You unlocked the character parade. Exit the game, and on the file select screen go to the yellow box (which allows you to view replays of certain cutscenes) and scroll to the bottom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 13, 2019, 11:33:17 am

Today in Teneb finishes yet another game: Dusk. It was pretty good, and I really liked the final boss.

Truly this is the backlog month.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 13, 2019, 03:13:47 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on October 12, 2019, 02:48:43 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 11, 2019, 06:12:17 pm

I didn't get brutally murdered in Death House on Curse of Strahd 5e as a Lawful Good Scourge Aasimar Paladin.

You got non-brutally murdered?
I don't have the context for why this is an Own.

The whole campaign is basically made of moral dilemmas and my DM is pretty strict about Paladins resolving moral dilemmas.

Death House doesn't have many moral dilemmas in it (and we actually skipped 90% of it accidentally) but it does have lots of shades that can do permanent 2d6+3 hp damage. I got hit once and was dropped to 7hp, thankfully non permanent because saved.

I was also the only person to deal damage to anything. After I got hit, the rest of the caster-heavy and extremely fragile party decided discretion was the better part of valor.

Speaking of, they're mostly evil or neutral so I'm lucky I didn't get Eldritch Blasted at the beginning.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 14, 2019, 05:42:14 pm

Finally completed a run as the Thief, and the Thief's Big Quest.

As has tended to happen when I'm playing other stealth games, the game became less about sneakybeaky tactics and much more about shooting folk.

Threatened the Mayor for his hat (which was a 54% chance AND I had multiple ranged weapons, a guns skill of 3/4, and a resurrection status effect gained from Resurrection Shampoo in the slums), and proceeded to make a speech on how pants pockets should be a lot floppier.

I should play more of this weird, wonderful game, even if I've spent most of my time destroying its randomly-generated towns rather than interacting with them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 16, 2019, 05:41:09 am

Built a submarine that can actually dive. The problem with my last attempt many months ago was I encased the entire ship in rubber blocks - rubber has the lowest detection rating of all blocks, at least back when the editor showed detection stats. The problem is that rubber is also buoyant enough to prevent diving. This time I only encased the top half in rubber, since submarine is really only going to be spotted from above anyway.

It works. Not only does it float on the surface, but I've got it set to dive when an enemy is present. That required figuring out the new PID interface. I successfully carried out a manual torpedo attack on a Marauder. I had to do it partially surfaced, since I was pressed for time and all I used was a camera for detection(which don't seem to work underwater).

Definitely needs some more work, but it's my most complicated working build yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on October 18, 2019, 09:34:28 am

Nice!  I’ve never been able to figure subs out (they use... hydrofoils...for something?  IDK).

Torpedo sonar can acquire targets on its own.  If you want the AI to shoot your only options are passive sonar, active sonar, or an above-water spotter equipped with that device that shares targeting data.  IIRC nothing else works submerged.

My preferred missile design right now is a medium missile with a single fuel tank and fin, long as you want with at least 2 ejectors.  You have to line it up almost directly but it hits like a truck (especially submerged with explosive warheads).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 18, 2019, 07:18:14 pm

Completed Dead Man's Switch.

So, uh... Now what?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadowrun Returns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 18, 2019, 07:37:51 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on October 18, 2019, 09:34:28 am

Nice!  I’ve never been able to figure subs out (they use... hydrofoils...for something?  IDK).

Mine currently uses block mass/buoyancy and air pumps. When the pumps are off, it sinks. When on, it rises. It requires a careful balance of buoyant/non-buoyant blocks. In fact, when I posted the example above, it didn't actually sink properly... for some reason. And it wasn't due to the cameras not seeing the enemy. It worked prior to combat testing. Eventually, I fixed it by replacing some of the interior metal with lead.

The pumps were controlled by a PID set to use "altitude above sea level" as its input with a fake set point, and an ACB set to detect enemies and toggle the PID's fake point. The fake point is however meters below sea level the submarine dives to. When the ACB receives the signal an enemy is detected, it turns on the PID's fake set point, and the sub dives. Another ACB with the inverse condition will turn off the PID's fake point and the sub rises since the PID's output is now 0m away from sea level.

I would use hydrofoils to facilitate diving(as they do on real subs), if I could figure out how to get them to do that. The best I've managed is for the sub to launch upwards, which is the exact opposite I want to do. Right now they just ensure the sub remains level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 18, 2019, 10:56:11 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on October 18, 2019, 07:18:14 pm

Completed Dead Man's Switch.

So, uh... Now what?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadowrun Returns.

There were a lot of the modded campaigns that were finished. Dragonfall even originally was available through the same engine (before your companions offered different options for improvement).

If you're getting more games, it comes down to the decking system. The characters and missions were better in Hong Kong, but people liked the decking system in Dragonfall better.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on October 18, 2019, 11:00:12 pm

Quote from: Iduno on October 18, 2019, 10:56:11 pm

There were a lot of the modded campaigns that were finished.

Any clue where I should look for these? I've only checked on the Workshop, and besides "Shadowrun Unlimited", I haven't really seen anything that seems close to finished. Also, are there any particular campaigns you'd recommend?

Also also, is that the end for my character? Is it at all possible for me to use him in different campaigns, or will I have to create a new character from scratch when I start a new campaign?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on October 20, 2019, 04:34:20 pm

Finally beat the Eternal Labyrinth with my Necromancer in PoE. Crushed it. Totally fucking crushed it. With slightly less faffing around it might even had been a contender for the weekly time. Izaro died off screen while I just Flame Dashed around and dropped my summon totems.

Beat the Immortal Syndicate boss for the first time. Also killed basic Atziri this week for the first time. I've just been slaying it. No wonder no one likes melee. I've played melee for years and seen most of this content as insurmountable, but my Necromancer just keeps going from strength to strength, getting multiplicatively more bad ass with every upgrade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 20, 2019, 07:14:10 pm

Took... far longer than expected, but I finally began the process of building a rocket. Currently bottlenecked by rocket fuel(in particular, solid fuel) production, and by the time I set up the infrastructure to expand that, the rocket will be finished anyway.

Just as well, the bugs have started to become all but immune to my gun turrets.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lord_lemonpie on October 20, 2019, 07:48:59 pm

I'm always used to not being the best player in my group of friends. I don't really play their games that much, and my reaction times also aren't that great, so I usually just play with or against them for fun. Today, however, they challenged me in my home territory of CKII, and I'm so happy I can finally say I totally outplayed them.

CKII's base game has just gone free on steam, with the announcement of CKIII, and me and my friends who usually play the game decided to get all of our friends who never had to join. This, however, is not a story about stomping on the unexperienced, which wouldn't be owning, but on a friend of mine who actually has a lot of experience with the game. We played on a randomized world, and had been playing for 60 or so ingame years. The world was pretty complicated, but this is a story of two nations fighting. I owned a little duchy around the Balearic Isles, containing said isles, a few Spanish provinces, a few French provinces and a single province in both Morocco and Italy. My friend owned a little duchy in the center of France, with a boatload of fairly large tributaries surrounding him and two of the less experienced players as his vassals. I was actually allied to him, my half-sister being married to his ruler to secure an alliance through blood.

I was minding my own business, raiding some port cities in Southern Italy for those sweet stacks of money, when suddenly the three guys started laughing. I didn't even notice they had broken the non-aggression pact, so I was totally unprepared for inter-player warfare. He used the very Half-Sister I had given him for peace as a claimant for my throne. I scrambled to gather my armies and call upon my allies. Turned out, most of those allies had already pledged themselves to my rival. In the end, I was fairly glad I had mustered around 6000 of my own troops, with 6000 marching in from an ally in Brittany. I was woefully unprepared for the fact that my friend had mustered all his tributaries, allies, got full support from his two player vassals instead of the regular levies the AI provided, and had spent around 600 gold on mercenaries. His armies easily totalled around 35000, who all quickly reached my borders and started sieging, reducing my army to a meager 1000 in the blink of an eye, with backup still very far away.

The war was utterly unwinnable. I didn't nearly have enough money to get a decent amount of mercs, and the other players would rather look than help me out. But, I decided there was still an option. Not one where I would win, but one that would instantly end the war. Kill his wife, my very own half-sister. As her claim was the reason for this war, it would end the moment she died. Not something my friend had thought of. Murder plots, however, take some time to fire. And time is of incredible importance when thousands of men are ramming on the doors of your holdings. I was lucky though, that my half-sister was an insufferable cunt disliked by much of her court. No one would join instantly, but almost half the court would after a bribe. So I started bribing, reaching over 100% plot score. But I knew this wasn't enough to have the plot fire in time. My armies were sieging the most faraway provinces of my enemy in a last effort to slow the warscore from building up, and I continued bribing until I ran out of money. Still not enough. I had a decent income, so i had to wait until I amassed some more wealth, bribed a person, and the cycle continued. Eventually I reached almost 270% plot power, and a plot fired. 70% war score and over half a dozen sieges ticking away. The plot failed. People actually withdrew from the plot, bringing it back to 210%. 90% warscore. A new plot fired. I knew it was gonna be an incredibly close call. Sieges ticking down. 100% warscore. My friend had technically won. All he had needed to do was pause the game, and click on enforce demands. But the instant 100% was reached, a message appeared on my screen, showing the assassination was succesfull. The sieges were suddenly lifted and there was no war to speak of.

I don't think I've ever felt such an adrenaline rush while gaming. We all laughed at what had happened, how 3 highwaymen had beat over 30000 soldiers. I then duelled his character, as he was my rival (I might have bedded his wife, my half-sister, earlier in the game, don't we all love CKII) and killed him during the duel.

My best game of CKII ever, hands down.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on October 25, 2019, 06:35:53 am

It feels so good playing a proper knight build in M&B Warband again. Managed to win a tournament, used the money to get a better sword and lance, and rode down 8 sea raiders. It really is the best single combat vs group strategy, provided you're against melee combatants.

Now I've got the Samurai armour, a bit of money, and the sky's the limit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 02:16:43 pm

Finished up KOTOR 2 as a Jedi Consular/Jedi Master. By the end, any boss who couldn't easily make a DC 50+ Fort save was helplessly choked to death.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 25, 2019, 02:28:17 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 02:16:43 pm

Finished up KOTOR 2 as a Jedi Consular/Jedi Master. By the end, any boss who couldn't easily make a DC 50+ Fort save was helplessly choked to death.

OBJECTION!

I do remember doing a Guardian/Weapon Master run of that, and murderating everything, including Darth Sion, who I destroyed in one or two rounds of combat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on October 25, 2019, 06:11:55 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 25, 2019, 02:28:17 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 02:16:43 pm

Finished up KOTOR 2 as a Jedi Consular/Jedi Master. By the end, any boss who couldn't easily make a DC 50+ Fort save was helplessly choked to death.

OBJECTION!

I do remember doing a Guardian/Weapon Master run of that, and murderating everything, including Darth Sion, who I destroyed in one or two rounds of combat.

Nah brah. Jedi Guardian/Sith Marauder, dual wielding.  Like twelve attacks a round each doing at least fifty damage. Then you cast master speed. I butchered Sion in single rounds. The talking took twice as long as the fight.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 06:55:36 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 25, 2019, 02:28:17 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 02:16:43 pm

Finished up KOTOR 2 as a Jedi Consular/Jedi Master. By the end, any boss who couldn't easily make a DC 50+ Fort save was helplessly choked to death.

OBJECTION!

Sure, there are penalties for using Dark Side powers as a Light Side character, but they don't matter much to a 47 Wisdom.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on October 25, 2019, 07:36:45 pm

I miss the Old Republic MMO before it went Free to Play.

The Sith Warrior storyline was golden. You could be such a pragmatic asshole.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 25, 2019, 08:48:56 pm

Quote from: Hanslanda on October 25, 2019, 06:11:55 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 25, 2019, 02:28:17 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on October 25, 2019, 02:16:43 pm

Finished up KOTOR 2 as a Jedi Consular/Jedi Master. By the end, any boss who couldn't easily make a DC 50+ Fort save was helplessly choked to death.

OBJECTION!

I do remember doing a Guardian/Weapon Master run of that, and murderating everything, including Darth Sion, who I destroyed in one or two rounds of combat.

Nah brah. Jedi Guardian/Sith Marauder, dual wielding.  Like twelve attacks a round each doing at least fifty damage. Then you cast master speed. I butchered Sion in single rounds. The talking took twice as long as the fight.

That was what I meant, it’s just been so long since I played it :p

It was also very difficult for me to take Sion seriously, unfortunately, because of his voice actor’s prior endeavours (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAvkbFugEI), which appeared frequently on telly.

Also because he’s Scottish.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on October 31, 2019, 03:31:50 pm

After who knows how many runs, I'm pass into the inner chambers of the Spire with the Silent on Ascension 1, first time with a regular character. (Side note: Slimebound is way OP.)

The guardian duo did a number on me, taking me down to about 2/3rds health.

The heart is, amazingly, not immediately pulverizing me, despite my limited offensive and defensive capabilities. But it is a battle of attrition, and I'm walking into this battle with about 7% of its health.

Hurling everything I can muster at it, it has 32hp after poison takes effect... and it's about to send a flurry of blows my way to the tune of 4x12. I have 10block+18hp. I need to be able to soak 48, not 28 damage to win on the next turn. Resigned to an unfortunate defeat with victory but a glance away, I end my turn.

I forgot I deal 6 damage per hit as a counter.

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Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 31, 2019, 05:25:02 pm

Nice work. Murdering that heart feels good. Also, caltrops against multi-hit enemies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 01, 2019, 10:35:43 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

You also have to unlock fighting the heart. If you beat the third boss once, you'll probably figure out what's expected.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 01, 2019, 05:12:40 pm

But yes, you can fight the heart, now.

Hell, with mods, you can play as the heart. StS has come a long way.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 01, 2019, 11:19:24 pm

Quote from: Iduno on November 01, 2019, 10:35:43 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

Why bother? You can just ignore the keys, in which there's only one slight increase in difficulty.

Even if you do bother opening up the heart, taking out the third boss qualifies your run in terms of Ascension level raising, and I don't think you get a score penalty of any kind. The only downside that comes to mind is that it still clocks your run as a defeat (maybe adding a win/loss/partial filter would be good).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tiruin on November 01, 2019, 11:20:10 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

YES YOU DO.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS. I AM UNABLE TO FIGHT IT WELL (this was taken last Oct 10)
Also I've no idea about mods and wonder if using any of them discount you unlocking achievements :v

Spoiler: Serious game spoilers through a picture of the boss, with text on how to get there related to "The Heart" (click to show/hide)

I guess part of the relevance to the thread is me getting all the way here?? That counts for meeee!

But you do need to complete all paths with all 3 characters to unlock 'keys', then new game+ for any character to obtain 'keys', each tied to their own specific path (e.g. getting the red key only in rest areas by picking only this certain option), and when finally getting them ONLY ON THAT RUN you will be enabled to fight the heart.
That is if you live from fighting 2 flanking monsters that have bonus to their attack in punching your back and you can only face one way, right before fighting the heart, where there is only a merchant spot before both fights. This was taken from our bay12 discord where I went all on it. Good folks there :3
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/508687083712282627/620948470303424512/SPOILER_unknown.png)
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/508687083712282627/621001250045034506/SPOILER_unknown.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 01, 2019, 11:28:07 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on November 01, 2019, 11:20:10 pm

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

YES YOU DO.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS. I AM UNABLE TO FIGHT IT WELL (this was taken last Oct 10)
Also I've no idea about mods and wonder if using any of them discount you unlocking achievements :v

I did the heart on Ascension 2/3 with basically the same strategy-- lots of poison, lots of dexterity, a few After Images to counter the Beat, a healthy amount of draw cards, Flying Knees, and Blur. A lot of Blur.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 03, 2019, 03:49:43 pm

I got no clue vis a vis cheevos and mods in StS. Don't care much about the things so I don't pay attention. Mods are great fun for the game, tho'.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 03, 2019, 09:02:03 pm

I love some of the more complicated board/card games, especially when I can make combos. We were playing Space Base (a faster, better Machi Koro) with the expansion. The expansion is mostly balanced, but allows more combinations than the base game, allowing brain-damaged people like me to set up weird rube goldberg machines.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I got the last satellite fairly early this game, so we unlocked the new capital ships with the angled arrows (so they switch between the blue area and the red area, which is not otherwise possible. I also had taken one of the normal arrow cards that lets you choose one of the cards to one side or the other, and promoted it to the red area (so I get the red reward, and get an arrow). We recently found out that while you can only use each arrow once, you can bounce back to that card and use the other arrow. I got 2 of the angled arrows, one of the regular arrows, and my 12 had a 3 points and an arrow to the 11, which was worth 14 money. An opponent rolled a 10, which gave me 3 money and the first arrow and one of the angled arrows, which went to another arrow and some money and the 11 for 14 money, to a 3 money and arrow, so I went back, and...3 points and 36 money total. I had already hit part of that combination earlier, so they knew I was pulling some BS. For reference, the game board goes up to 40 money, and the most expensive card you can buy (usually only buy 1 per turn, spending all of your money) is 42.

The next player also rolled the same thing, netting me 6 points/40 to win, plus more than enough money to buy the 14 points I needed to win. Just setting up a potential combo that could pull that off felt like a win. Having it actually go off was amazing.

Quote from: Aoi on November 01, 2019, 11:19:24 pm

Quote from: Iduno on November 01, 2019, 10:35:43 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 01, 2019, 09:02:21 am

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

Why bother? You can just ignore the keys, in which there's only one slight increase in difficulty.

Even if you do bother opening up the heart, taking out the third boss qualifies your run in terms of Ascension level raising, and I don't think you get a score penalty of any kind. The only downside that comes to mind is that it still clocks your run as a defeat (maybe adding a win/loss/partial filter would be good).

I turned off the keys because there's no purpose to them existing once I quit fighting the heart. It's not very useful, but it feels cleaner.

Quote from: Frumple on November 03, 2019, 03:49:43 pm

I got no clue vis a vis cheevos and mods in StS. Don't care much about the things so I don't pay attention. Mods are great fun for the game, tho'.

Mods of any kind disable achievements. If you actually care, there's also apparently a mod that re-enables achievements.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 04, 2019, 12:07:32 pm

Wait does this mean our characters can escape the cycle of life and death?

...nah don’t tell me, I’ll find out myself.

I should probably uninstall my mods.  I understand StS has plenty of great mods but something about modding a game makes me immediately lose interest.  I guess taking the game balance into my own hands makes it feel like the challenge is arbitrary?  IDK.

I maxed out the robot’s ascensions before, but if there’s new content now that + not having played for a year+ might be enough to keep things fresh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 04, 2019, 01:21:22 pm

There's even a new official character, for what it's worth. Though I'm not sure if it's out of beta, yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 05, 2019, 10:50:43 am

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

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Death Road To Canada

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 05, 2019, 11:08:55 pm

Quote from: Frumple on November 04, 2019, 01:21:22 pm

There's even a new official character, for what it's worth. Though I'm not sure if it's out of beta, yet.

I don't think so, and the newest update on it was "we were doing bug fixes instead." Probably good, but when I played the beta branch a month ago (I played through the A/B testing they were doing on powers) it seemed like it was in a mostly-ready state. Should be out soon.

Quote from: Yoink on November 05, 2019, 10:50:43 am

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

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Death Road To Canada

Is that new? I've mostly thrown shopping carts, skeletons, boxes, chairs, and the like at them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on November 06, 2019, 03:37:48 am

Quote from: Iduno on November 05, 2019, 11:08:55 pm

Quote from: Yoink on November 05, 2019, 10:50:43 am

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada

Is that new? I've mostly thrown shopping carts, skeletons, boxes, chairs, and the like at them.

Yoink's culture is slightly different from what most humans are used to; he thinks skeletons are turds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on November 06, 2019, 05:57:20 am

Nope, I'm pretty sure there were some skeletons in the bathroom as well but this was definitely a bona fide, genuine, 100% authentic turd.

It wasn't terribly aerodynamic, though. I think more of it got on me than on the zombies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on November 06, 2019, 05:36:27 pm

Completed the Deadlier Road mode.

While Russell, Clyde, and Merrill didn't make it (they died in the City of Crushed Hopes), Vincent survived - and that's what's most important.

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Death Road To Canada

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 07, 2019, 09:18:41 am

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 04, 2019, 12:07:32 pm

Wait does this mean our characters can escape the cycle of life and death?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game))

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 10, 2019, 02:07:50 am

I was irrationally happy to make a mind controlled sectoid stand in fire until it died.

Psionics in X-COM classic are just completely broken.  I went from getting trashed by ethereals to roflstomping them without even getting shot at by just mind controlling one, mind controlling its buddy that it just spotted, and repeating the process until I ran out of aliens to spot.  Then I either had them shoot each other, drop their guns or sit on their own grenades.

I think the ability to drop their equipment is new to Open X-COM, or at least required an exploit in the original game.  Didn't you have to open a soldier's inventory and scroll through the soldier list to get to mind controlled aliens in the original game?

Either way, I think at the end of this game month, I'll try the Cydonia mission.  I can almost fill an Avenger with troops with 70+ psi strength, which at this point I'm expecting will be insane overkill.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 10, 2019, 11:59:12 am

Quote from: Telgin on November 10, 2019, 02:07:50 am

I think the ability to drop their equipment is new to Open X-COM, or at least required an exploit in the original game.  Didn't you have to open a soldier's inventory and scroll through the soldier list to get to mind controlled aliens in the original game?

That's what I remember.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 11, 2019, 01:21:05 am

Quote from: Telgin on November 10, 2019, 02:07:50 am

I can almost fill an Avenger with troops with 70+ psi strength, which at this point I'm expecting will be insane overkill.

I was correct.  I beat the final mission with the only losses being 2 plasma hovertanks, which were lost to cyberdiscs on the surface of Mars.  I managed to clear out all of the sectoids with a couple of soldiers acting as scouts, then the rest in the Avenger mind controlling them and shooting their buddies or sitting on grenades.  Mind controlling a few cyberdiscs was fun too.

The underground base part of the mission was hilarious.  On the second turn I spotted a chyrssalid, which I mind controlled, and ran it around and into the first door I found.  Ethereal inside.  Mind control and it's mine.  I shoot another ethereal it spotted, then send it up an elevator shaft.  Boom, alien brain.  With the vision into the room, I mind controlled another ethereal and heavy plasmaed the alien brain.  Won the mission on the third turn with no losses.

Psionics are ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on November 11, 2019, 04:24:04 am

Quote from: Telgin on November 11, 2019, 01:21:05 am

Psionics are ridiculous.

Yup, and I'd say they're also one of the weaker parts of the original game specifically because of how ridiculous they are...

Apocalypse turned things around a bit by making psi stuff both more and less ridiculous. You're limited in scope and power of the psi powers you can use, even with specialized hybrid human-sectoid agents equipped with buggy equipment that was technically removed from the game before release, while the aliens get obscene psi defenses and special assholes that can do as much berserking and mind controlling as they want...

...unless you're using android agents, which are completely 100% immune to psionics of all kinds. And brainsuckers.


I believe Xenonauts made the system a little more sensible, but I never really got to the point of widespread psionics on either side of the battle.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on November 11, 2019, 01:02:42 pm

Xenonauts, well:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It tones down psi.  Enemies seem to have a limited range and the number and power of psi aliens is tightly controlled in the beginning.  They still don’t need LoS.  When ethereals-a-likes come, all bets are off.  I gave up one very lategame caimpaign because even with savescumming I couldn’t beat a terror mission featuring psi.

As for the xenonauts, in this universe humans have no psionic potential.  Which I think is an elegant solution.  In exchange for that you get a fourth tech level better than plasma (which the aliens never get).  Also some frankly ridiculous lategame armors that turn your characters into superhumans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 12, 2019, 09:50:43 am

I played some more Slay the Spire ascension mode (which is less ridiculous fun than daily runs that aren't the one that puts infinite random cards on the bottom of your deck).

I went from ascension 5 to 7 on the Ironclad, which I haven't played much of since the Defect came out. The monk character (which is still in beta?) got me interested in the primary damage-dealing character (haha, lies! I won with barricade/body slam decks with +strength and reaper both times) again.

Reaper is wild with multiple enemies and strength increases. I was going from full health to half health back to full in several fights. Donu and Square-o put up a decent enough fight, usually taking down 80% of my shields with a single hit (and they both hit twice), but once Donu went down, they had no chance.

It's a fun game, but the relics and cards both vary wildly in usefulness, and combos can get insane if you're lucky enough to pick them up. The "nice" thing about ascensions is you're dead against the first boss/one of the elites if you don't get something useful by then, assuming you also fought any elites to pick up relics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 12, 2019, 04:27:09 pm

I finally got the... best... ending?  The most difficult one in normal mode, anyway.  I still love that I originally stumbled across a much nicer ending which was apparently semi-secret, and assumed I'd been at the end of the game.

Anyway, the "final boss" sure is a lot easier with charge shots.  I only started using them in practice mode to get my times down, weeks ago, then finally went back and tried them in the actual game.  They punch through seemingly impenetrable defenses, almost like the tutorial tried to teach me.  oops.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Furi
I've got One More Fight to go I guess, but I hear it's a midquel thing.  And a whole lot of Furier I don't plan on ever beating

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 13, 2019, 04:15:54 pm

I defeated the half-demon Alkothi and even got an achievement for it!

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on November 17, 2019, 07:45:20 am

Generally, my Federation Cruiser runs aren't that good, and usually I lose by sector 3 or 4.

This time, at Sector 5, I had little hull left and no real weapons beyond the piddly cruiser beam. Stores I encountered also mocked me with lack of weapons or weapons that were crap or needed way too much reactor power.

So I decided to just buy Cloaking system and use it to give cruiser beam time to load.

Turns out this investment plan was the best I had in a while. Cruiser beam + cloak combo carried me even through 3 or 4 shield enemy ships, and by Sector 7 I also had Flak mk1 and Halberd beam.

Flagship, I thought, would be mad hard to beat, and I thought I will die.

Nope! My ship lost 3 hull in first phase, and got barely scratched in 2nd and 3rd phases. The fact that the Flagship has so many rooms probably helped a lot for Cruiser Beam to deal damage through the shields.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 20, 2019, 02:41:18 pm

Gloomhaven, so as few spoilers as I can manage while telling a story. We misread/understood the setup the first 2 times, so we lost. Third time we did well.

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First mission. There were 2 elites in the second room. First turn going into the room, I took out the closest elite in one turn with my Brutes Jump 4 and attack everyone you jumped over, the +2 move from the boots, and a damage= amount of distance you moved. Second turn, I took out the other one (with a double damage modifier card). Then I took my first long rest.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on November 20, 2019, 04:10:04 pm

Managed to clear Durathread factory, catch a Red Dawn Coordinator and a few Red Dawn soldiers, all without losing a single agent.
It turns out, that coordinators are just as flamable as their underlings.

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The X-Com Files

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 20, 2019, 06:14:04 pm

Finished Book of Demons just now, and without dying either!

It's a nice enough game, even if it only gets difficult (and boy, does it spike when that happens) in the last third of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 20, 2019, 07:44:46 pm

Finally got enough of a set to actually be able to use the full set bonus and blast my way through things on Torment 10.

I also believe I have another item that will double that set bonus, and I have other sets such that I can use the partial set bonus to either bolster the full set bonus from the other one, or increase my defense so I don’t get gibbed every time I come across a particularly unpleasant group of enemies.

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Diablo III: so late to the party they’ve announced the next game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 24, 2019, 01:54:28 pm

I would normally be pretty damn angry that my scouts somehow failed to see the giant snake creature that the enemy literally worships as a god as I probably would not have attacked if I knew it was there.

Spoiler: Can't be mad at the results, though (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/f7lq2cy.png)

Most of the very limited casualties I took were from friendly fire. Their god, Flannchadh the Ram-Headed Serpent, got surrounded and mobbed. Only took single points of damage, not enough to outdamage his regeneration, until whatever protection spell it cast wore off. Didn't last very long after that. All the rest of their forces fled way before that. Some faith in their god, huh.

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Dominions 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 24, 2019, 10:09:59 pm

i did it because i thought i was balls to the wall donkey insane but-

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i invested a bunch into "volition" (basically willpower, self-confidence) since i wanted a story of a ruined, alcoholic detective coming back and returning to his prime and i started with 4 cuz i went 4/4/2/2 (fuck being physical, alcohol and drugs ruined that). turns out "volition" is a goddamned bro. i was about to let a pretty face get away with lying about almost *everything* but he caught on and was the only one going "shes lying" where the others were like "she's pretty, so shes telling the truth". whew did that help clear some shit up and help me mentally powerhouse thorough some rough conversations.

disco elysium. if you are patient with reading, its a goddamn great game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 28, 2019, 09:16:04 am

Beat down the AI before it could pull any dickery*

Played as ME Ulm on a small map. Used their better-equipped troops to push past independents and seize territory as quickly as possible. The other side, playing as Norsemen(or its equivalent in this game), tried to do the same. When the inevitable contact occurred, they just couldn't get past the pikes. Quick maneuvers against poorly-defended territories followed by a general wide invasion gave more than half the territory on the single continent. A few large invasions on their end were pushed back hard by the men in Blacksteel armor, causing enemy casualties in numbers several times the size of my total army. Once *I* eventually awoke, I started adding summoned ogres to the army, since I had an abundance of Earth gems(due to being Ulm, whose capital has +5/turn generation).

The only setbacks were their attempts to assassinate my commanders. They first killed off my most experienced commander, but he was quickly replaced by a heroine who was already heading to the front; she took over his original army. A few times they tried to assassinate me directly... except I'm a goddamned demi-lich and they only managed to wound me with a disease. Which might be a bug since demi-liches, as undead, should be immune to disease. The same assassin got a few of my researchers, and I never did root the bastard out. Another assassin tried a hit on a Black Knight, and ran right into his lance.

Eventually laid siege to their capital, broke in, and killed everyone including their god, Gere the Son of Fenror.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dominions 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on November 29, 2019, 07:20:12 pm

I was supposed to snatch an item from a chest in a compound, but I was playing a doctor run (pacifist) and my bag of tricks wasn't coming up with a whole lot of goodness.

There were two guards wandering around inside, and the layout was extremely unhelpful for trying to avoid detection thanks to some long hallways packed to the brim with off-rhythm traps. I was out of wall-passers, and I knew I'd only be able to use the doorbell trick to take out one of the guards... The other would turn hostile if I tried to pull it on him, provided they even attempted to make it through the hallway o' death to answer the door.

There was an air vent though, so I had the option of sticking something into circulation... However, I was basically only carrying health, poison and speed syringes, none of which would get me a one-stop pass into the building, and the poison would even potentially kill the poor bastards and count them as murders, thereby ruining my pacifist run.

But then I saw another chem I was dragging around... A giantizer pill. Pretty much the best combat buff in the game, but since I wasn't going to be fighting much of anyone, its primary usage was kinda wasted on me. I dropped it into the air vent.

The guys inside got caught in the smoke spray, grew massive, and started trying to evacuate the building in standard fire drill procedure... Except, being as big as they were, they were annihilating all the walls and bumping into every trap. One fellow managed to get himself squished into a meat smear after stepping on the generator and making it blow up, while the other got burned a couple times before managing to get out of the building... At which point he calmly walked around the perimeter of the building to the designated gathering spot, nonchalantly breaking down the entire northern outside wall of the compound.

When the dust and smoke finally settled, I had a perfect entrance into the chest room, the lasers guarding it had gotten stepped on and smashed, one of the guards had turned into a fine red paste and the other was lightly fried and had returned to his normal patrol route, which was now no longer on my path to the item and therefore inconsequential.

I slipped in, got the stuff, and left on my merry way; the guard being none the wiser as to what had transpired. And the casualty wasn't counted as being caused by me, since all I did was give him a friendly buff... It was his own fault for getting caught in as many burners and smashers and explosions as he did.

Quite pleased with how using an extremely potent offensive buff on an enemy ended up giving me a perfect heist.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on November 30, 2019, 07:36:50 am

In my wanderings I came across one of the refugee centers and I decided to clear out the back room of zombies before I even went inside, and I was greeted by the sight of at least thirty to forty zombies breaking out of the building, I decided to soften them up by throwing my three grenades into the crowd, then use my two 40mm frag rounds to kill the stragglers, but that only drew the rest of the horde out and I ended up fighting most of those with a sword while they crawl over a dead car, and that went on for a bit before my health started getting low so I started shooting them with a shotgun and pistols, and eventfully I got inside the building and cleared it out, then I had to go around and destroy the corpses to keep them from getting back up.

When everything was said and done I only had four HP left on my torso and over one hundred dead zombies, the amount of loot I got from doing all of that wasn't worth it neither was the reward I got from the merchant, but at least I lived through all of it.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
I turned the monster spawning up to 30 as a challenge.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 02, 2019, 05:00:27 pm

After a military coup took over in Nicaragua in 1936*, I took to funding an illegal insurrection* and an extended foreign policy of opposing their government. Kept that on for about a year, until March 1, 1937, when we had a mutual casus belli of over 70%, then I declared war. About two weeks later, 9 battalions* of US Marines landed at Bluefields, because I had completely failed to notice a sea port not that far from their capital of Managua on the opposite side of the isthmus.

Half of them(the other half was securing another port far away from anything recognized as civilization) crossed half the width of the country before meeting any kind of resistance. Despite being completely without supplies because I don't know how the mechanics work, and apparently armed only with flamethrowers* against soldiers with presumably WWI-era rifles, the enemy was rapidly destroyed.

Turned out that was their entire army, the rest of the country fell swiftly, and turned into a US colony. The war lasted a month and a half. Total losses: 48 US, 3254 Nicaragua. Pretty sure I'm USA-ing correctly.

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Supreme Ruler Ultimate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 02, 2019, 09:22:30 pm

Unlocked the Scion in Gods of the Fallen Land. I'll avoid spoiler 'cause even I'm not entirely sure what the hell just happened, but holy shit that is how you do a boss fight. Not encountered many victory conditions that satisfy. This game does not fuck around.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2019, 06:58:55 pm

Absolutely cheesed the fight against

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the dream version of the Broken Vessel, the Lost Kin

using a combination of Defender's Crest, Glowing Womb, Weaversong, and Grubsong, and staying in the top corner of the room by holding the charge for a super dash on the wall without actually launching. Defender's Crest keeps you safe from anything that you can hit you, Defender's Crest+Glowing Womb gives you suicide bombers with a bit of DoT, Weaversong+Grubsong gives you an inexhaustible supply of soul to keep spawning the suicide bombers.

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Hollow Knight. Given how many attempts to take it down using normal tactics, cheese was the way to go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 03, 2019, 09:38:57 pm

I don't remember the name of it, but for that fight I used the charm that gave you a constant cloud of poison. It killed the boss' spawns without too much trouble allowing me to concentrate on the main bug. Your tactic seems a lot more complicated.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 03, 2019, 09:57:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 03, 2019, 09:38:57 pm

I don't remember the name of it, but for that fight I used the charm that gave you a constant cloud of poison. It killed the boss' spawns without too much trouble allowing me to concentrate on the main bug. Your tactic seems a lot more complicated.

Constant cloud would be the Defender's Crest charm, yeah. It's not that complicated just sitting near the ceiling for several minutes whilst your little baby spiders and suicide bombers fight the boss for you.

It tried just using the Crest, but I had trouble keeping focus on my position relative to the boss. It also didn't reform fast enough when dodging, so some of the spawns hit me through it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on December 10, 2019, 01:05:50 pm

Outnumbered and outgunned in a dead-end alley, I discovered the true way of the pixelated warrior.   
That's right, stomp on their heads. Who needs a ridiculous arsenal of 16-bit weaponry when with a bit of practice (and a steady diet of pizza, fermented milk and soda pop for added "heft") you can just chain butt-slams across a whole crowd of enemies? Considering the world's top-down perspective they really can't do shit to an airborne target anyway, no matter how heavily-armed they may be - or at least it seems that way. Maybe my flying ass just caught them by surprise.   

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Retro City Rampage.
Just re-installed this for the first time in years a night or two ago, I'm really liking it. I never really played it much when I first bought it... I think I found it extremely difficult, somehow? That seems bizarre, but maybe I was playing with mouse and keyboard, whereas nowadays I have a controller ready to go. Seems like it'd be pretty fiddly otherwise.   

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on December 11, 2019, 09:56:03 am

Beat Leon in Pokemon Shield on my first try without needing to dynamax.  Normally I wouldn't consider that much of an achievement, but my friend that's into competitive Pokemon battles lost to him on the first try.  Of course, I mostly won because I was relying on 3 massively overleveled pokemon, including a level 84 rapidash, a level 82 corviknight and a level 77 raichu.

Leon did manage to knock out the raichu, so I ended up using a max revive in the fight, but if I had dynamaxed when he did it wouldn't have been needed.  It was amusing to just one punch thunder punch his gigantic charizard into the dust though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on December 12, 2019, 06:00:47 pm

Playing Void Destroyer 2 as Spess Pyret

Going through plot missions, I eventually got a free starting base, which means IMMENSE price cuts for ship building (for faction ships that base can build). Unfortunately, this particular faction lacks ships larger than light frigates. What they do have is loads and loads of Dakka, enough Dakka to blank out the sun.

But before I could consider any of that, I needed to assess my finances. Considering I had exactly 1 corvette flagship, a half dozen capture frigates, and a smattering strike craft with exactly 3.4 million to my name; and a basic destroyer costs well over 100 million; something clearly had to be done.

As a spais pierit, I didn't really have any trading options, as most of my fortune was made shaking down random traders and they apparently take offense to that. What spays poirets do have however, is a narcotics market (just add water). So I captured a bunch of traders and went on to become a stellar smack smuggler. While my initial fortune was spent on getting a group of mining ships to feed my base ore (and provide a small profit).

Now apparently while I was getting my domestic dank dealership set up, my base had defaulted to building a defense fleet of whatever it could; mostly fighters and gunships; and they had quickly filled up base storage. And when I finally wanted to build larger ships, I had to empty out the base's hangars.

I couldn't just keep them in the fleet since upkeep costs, and scrapping them down would be a waste of money. So I did what any zpais pairyt would do and paired up with my capture fleet to go attack something. I ended up attacking a rival speyz peyerot base.

So on one side me: 1 corvette flagship, 6 capture frigates, 16 drone corvettes, and fighter/gunship swarm.
On the other side: 5 destroyers, 14 frigates, 66 corvetes, and fighter/gunship support.

Drone corvettes go first and immediately drop their chainsaw drones, followed by strike craft, followed by me. Drone corvettes fall back due to no weapons and capture frigates... do capture frigate stuff.

Enemy strike craft chases the drones and immediately gets chewed up by Fswarm, and then get stonewalled by corvettes. This particular pirate clan's corvettes either come in 6-fighter drone support or undodgeable laser beams so the Fswarm starts taking major losses. On the other hand, the Fswarm has dakka, chaingun with chaingun turret, dual chainguns, triple chainguns with plasma throwers, quad chainguns with big chaingun.

There are actually so many projectiles in the air that the game drops to the teens in frames, even in tactical mode which hides projectiles. After a couple of minutes of this we finally get through the corvettes, but then hit another issue in that bullet based weapons vs armor. Armor is a flat drop in damage, so chainguns with high bullet count with low damage gets countered hard.

Thankfully, the chainsaw drones who were largely untouched by the fighters and corvettes reach the frigates and immediately start tearing them up. There are actually so many chainsaw drones that they ran out of places to stick to. Together with the remaining plasma throwers the frigates are cut to pieces.

That left the five destroyers, chainguns do next to nothing against them due to lolarmor. So I tell the capture frigates to launch their boarding shuttles. I get enough of them in there to capture two destroyers, who turn on their former colleagues. One is destroyed, but the second just barely survives the destruction of the remaining destroyers.

Basically the entirety of the Fswarm is lost, but the rest is untouched. I make it out with one yoinked destroyer, thus actually gaining a net profit ship-cost wise, and a new base.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on December 12, 2019, 07:08:23 pm

It's the spoish poireet life for you matey.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 13, 2019, 12:24:13 pm

Just finished off the final mission in New Game+ for Prototype 2, earning me the last of the achievements. I'm just thankful the game actually worked that way, so the achievement for beating the game on "Hard" still procs even if you are, in fact, technically playing on Insane.

This accomplishment of course meant having to go through the FUCKING AWFUL final boss fight, which is half QTEs and half blatant, inconsistent cheating. Also, as with the rest of the game, you're only fighting the boss as much as you're fighting your own controls, with the occasional frustrated expletive hurled at the camera whenever it decides to forget what it was doing and wander off.


Will I actually be able to accept these achievements as a sign of having done something noteworthy? ...nah, probably not. It's not exactly a difficult game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 15, 2019, 05:46:34 pm

Due mainly to poor design(as I built it myself), I was able to break into a remote armory without difficulty - apparently the guards will just open security doors for you if you ask nicely. Grabbing some guns, I went on a killing spree that triggered a small riot elsewhere. I almost escaped solo, but was finally brought down just outside the main gate. I gained 699 rep points from the battle. Used one to skip the 600hr solitary confinement.

Used some of the rest to recruit a squad, upgrade them, then waltzed back into the same armory as before - apparently the guards will open the a security door to an armory for the same guy who used the same armory to murder dozens of their peers just moments before if you ask nicely. Somewhat dismayed that my goons wouldn't just loot guns, I still went on the attack. During the ensuing battle, I managed to escape out the visitor's entrance(not before killing a parole officer and lawyer), and even got at least 5 of the guys I recruited out to freedom as well. The rest were brought down by the riot cops who otherwise walked right past us into the visitor's entrance.

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Prison Architect. The main reason this was so easy was I had forgotten to set Staff-only security level to the armories or other staff areas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on December 15, 2019, 07:18:27 pm

Playing Nova Drift which is basically an asteroids like shmup with rougelite upgrades. And I got a disgusting combo of them going in my last run.
Basically one of the later weapons you can unlock is a sort of poison dart thing which does low impact damage but applies a DoT effect to any enemy it sticks in. The DoT scales with certain stuff, but most importantly it gets 1% increased damage for every other dart stuck in the same enemy. So scaling rate of fire and duration is a great way to buff the damage.
Separate from that are certain super mods which basically randomly get offered once certain other mods are taken, they usually significantly change the way you play. In this case, the barrage mod, which essentially turns your main weapon into a minigun of sorts (and this is probably just as broken with some other weapons, if not moreso). Now, having a stupid rate of fire is an ok way of getting sick damage out of the DoT effect, but you can go further. What if you say, multiplied sad rate of fire by a factor of three? Because you can also have minions of sorts, and a particular sort of minion can gain access to a slower firing version of your own weapon, it's several upgrades down the line, but easily obtainable if you focus reroll to get it. Going even further, there's a separate DoT mod which applies a small stacking DoT with every hit of your weapon.

So, to summarize, you have over a hundred projectiles hitting the target per second, each of the applying two separate, stacking damage over time effects, one of which gets stronger the more projectiles are in the target. The damage ticks were hitting 10k+ numbers and melting bosses within seconds. I'm only sad I didn't manage to grab the splinter projectiles because that would probably lead to a chain reaction clearing the screen after a single enemy died and blew out every remaining dart that was stuck in them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 19, 2019, 05:03:03 pm

Got to Nemesis status with the Beast faction, which is the first time I have ever gotten to Nemesis with any of the factions. Fun is incoming.

Grim Dawn

(not-really-a-spoiler: Nemesis reputation means that now a super-elite called a Nemesis can spawn to wreck me)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sanctume on December 19, 2019, 05:11:14 pm

Played some Heroes of the Storm quick match. 
Played Li-ming killed 5 reset after reset. 
It was a QM vs no Deathwing though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on December 19, 2019, 05:39:57 pm

found a tank battery, a military checkpoint key, a labs keycard and a bombed out AK-74N with tons of attachments on it.

i immediately extracted through the CP fence

i already have 3 labs cards and a military key, so i sold those for roughly 400k rubles, and the tank battery could go for 250k but i want to keep it, and the ak, i took the most expensive parts off and sold them for a cool 100k.

half a mil and a good ak and a rare part for future hideout building (i think thats what its for)? whew lad.

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escape from tarkov

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on December 20, 2019, 03:32:12 pm

I've just defeated Grurn, the Ancient Lich of Firemoth Keep.

GAWD JEEZUS, how much maximum health did he have!? After exhausting our spells and my scrolls, we started whacking at each other. We were in the fight so long that his artifact shield (object of my fetch quest) broke down, and so did few items of my own armor too. When he FINALLY keeled over, my enchanted glass axe was left at 40 durability.

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Morrowind GOTY Edition: Firemoth Keep add-on

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 20, 2019, 03:50:06 pm

2k, according to the wiki, if you actually wanted to know its max health. 3.3k magicka. Immunity to poison and frost, 50% shock resist. The real trick is the 10 point passive restore health (and magicka). If you don't hit hard enough, fast enough, it's entirely unkillable even if you can survive the literally unending (unless you do enough int damage the lich can't cast its spells anymore) spells :P

Also the shield apparently gives a luck bonus so it's a dodgey 2k hp regenerating lightning throwing arsehole skeleton.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on December 21, 2019, 02:43:06 am

No resist Magica?

In Morrowind, it is quite easy to make custom Attribute damaging spells. My favorite are Str and Int, imobilising targets and also making them unable to cast. (The imobilisation only works on people carrying non-0weigh items.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sime on December 21, 2019, 08:53:41 am

I'm thinking about wasting more  time on This War is Mine,  mainly for the crunchy-nut stealth kills.   Apparently if  Roman  murders the entire hospital  his resulting guilt-stricken depression clears up in a few days,  hopefully accompanied with a Steam achievement. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on December 21, 2019, 04:38:03 pm

In the wilderness of Finland, owning an axe makes the difference between life and death.
This is why, when a suspiciously well-equipped adventurer with a woodsman's axe became lost in the woods (a mere kilometer or so from town) and needed help, I jumped at the call, friendly as I am.
Might be a bit of an oversight, but it turns out if you walk backwards, you can get behind your escortee. If you're behind someone, you get a guaranteed hit. And to boot, they don't know who gave them an axe wound- not even the naked (i neglected to mention, bandits stole all my clothes. Well, they left my shoes. They're even nice shoes) maniac, half starved, with an axe.

After proper disposal, I'm well fed, clothed, and tooling around my shiny new axe. It's a good day.
Just goes to show you- sometimes if you want to get ahead in life, you have to get a few heads.

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Unreal world

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 21, 2019, 05:48:52 pm

Done with Arizona, now to California

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Wastelands 2 Director Cut

(https://i.imgur.com/Nf2O0Lh.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 22, 2019, 02:05:41 pm

Built a hydrogen-fueled ship and was able to leave the planet in survival mode. I don't usually play survival mode. I almost wasn't able to, but I got lucky and found cobalt under the ice sheet I was harvesting for fuel; other than that, all I had was iron, nickel, and silicon. Only used about a third of my fuel(the tanks were only ~25% filled as well) to exit the gravity well.

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Space Engineers. Naturally, none of the asteroids near the planet have platinum or uranium.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on December 23, 2019, 09:38:11 am

Arkham Horror LCG:

We were near the end of the mission (during which went from way behind schedule to ahead of schedule because we've all got weird characters who need some setup, but can pull complete BS, mine is pretty extreme on both counts - I'm a mage with willpower as my lowest starting stat). I drew a Delve too Deep, and knew we had an extra round to finish. I played it, and nothing bad happened, despite the protests of some portion of my group (which is more important than the xp).

Then, I ended with "The important thing is I didn't get my comeuppance, and I never will."

Sadly, I didn't have time to cast the other one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 25, 2019, 01:12:03 pm

Finally managed to get a good start on a city that doesn't look like ass due to ground leveling and is managing a decent export of coal and electricity, with food on the way.

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Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. Also learning that you can have buses drop workers directly at a work site rather than just at a nearby bus stop helps.

Found out I aim a lot better by doing something incredibly stupid: holding my gun upside down. I don't know why. All I know is I get more hits/kills doing this than aiming down the sights.

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Pavlov VR.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 28, 2019, 12:41:38 pm

Wastelands 2 Director Cut

Well i can say i won , though maybe not exactly a win for everyone else in the world :D

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Managed to defeat the whole Cochise controlled robot army in that last battle, all the npc helpers that had joined my squad in final battle died during it, even General Vargas our boss.
It's very odd after i looted every corpse that they all had terribly bad weapons with crap armor, no surprise they did so few damage and took so much of it in the face.
Took me some reload to replay the battle as those stupid helping npc never ceased to shoot us in the back with their terrible weapon skills, so in the end i stay behind waiting for those idiots to be exterminated before i could finally get in position.

Oh well, after listening to the overly long last monologue from Cochise , i noticed the main elevator was now out of reach to exit as Cochise had taken over the whole structure and wouldn't let us to get through the oddly computer skill/weapon/explosive impervious door anymore.

Before i could search if there was another exit something in this giant room, the countdown before Cochise managed to spread to every robot outside ended.

Yeah, so worse ending , well bad end for everyone in the outside world as the robots and people with implants are all now Cochise and will progressively kill everyone at some point.
Good end for us, my squad is (well until food and water run out) completely safe from the robots army in the forever locked down Citadel that has no more robots inside

Your characters are apparently exported for if you want to play a new game , so instead of starting with self made (or selected) level 1 guys you get your high level/skilled/perked guys
Could be boringly overpowered (though you don't keep the equipment) but fortunately there's the highest difficulty level to play with to balance it out, or play with only 1 guy and npc your recruit like in old fallout1/2 instead of starting with 4 guys.

Anyways, for someone that liked Fallout 1/2 Wastelands DC is a very good game, it seems to have even more content/quests/side quests and interactions with npc from the world than F1/F2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on December 30, 2019, 01:35:12 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on December 28, 2019, 12:41:38 pm

Wastelands 2 Director Cut

Well i can say i won , though maybe not exactly a win for everyone else in the world :D

Your characters are apparently exported for if you want to play a new game , so instead of starting with self made (or selected) level 1 guys you get your high level/skilled/perked guys
Could be boringly overpowered (though you don't keep the equipment) but fortunately there's the highest difficulty level to play with to balance it out, or play with only 1 guy and npc your recruit like in old fallout1/2 instead of starting with 4 guys.

Anyways, for someone that liked Fallout 1/2 Wastelands DC is a very good game, it seems to have even more content/quests/side quests and interactions with npc from the world than F1/F2

I had similar feelings with the difficulty plateauing before your characters stop advancing. I had good gear and had at least one person with each non-combat skill maxed out, plus everyone was good at combat. I had a bug in the church area in the second half, and wasn't really feeling like completing the game was worth the hassle of replaying it now that there was no challenge. Very good game up to that point, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 02, 2020, 07:06:03 pm

I made it to the Mun again! No matter how often I do it, it always feels like an achievement in a new game.

This time I brought a scientist and a probe core instead of a full crew, because I couldn't make a lander can work with the engines and fuel tanks I have. I probably could have made it with a few more tries, but cutting out the crew areas gave me some extra wiggle room.

Bringing a scientist instead of a pilot made it so that I wasn't leaving any science behind on the surface, but I don't really like using probes. My communication "network" is one crappy antenna in a very uneven Kerbin orbit; I would like to have Kerbin covered from all angles, as well as a few in Mun orbit. Unmanned rovers and science transmission, rather than retrieval, are gonna be a big part of my mid-game strategy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on January 03, 2020, 10:21:38 am

Got the skill point for beating Gnasty Gnorc with a perfect in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Doesn't really feel like much of an achievement considering how underwhelming the bosses of the first game are, but beating the level was good regardless.  It's honestly probably one of the most annoying in the first game, since it involves a lot of chasing things around in places where you can fall to your doom and have to start over completely.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on January 04, 2020, 01:35:18 am

I don't remember there being skill points in Spyro, is that something they added to the Reignited thing?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 04, 2020, 07:52:58 am

Hellebron did an underground intercept on my somewhat weaker army, she had some higher tier stuff specifically made to murder infantry while all I had was spearmen and archers for the most part. Luckily the archers are good at murdering things before they get close and Alith himself is a sniper lord without equal, murdering both Hellebron and one of her heroes before they did critical damage. It would've been a perfect win against all odds had I not lost my brand new mage to a rush of murder sisters and then somehow managed to kill my own noble while he was chasing down their routing hero. Turns out the reason Alith is so good at sniping is because he fires goddamn railroad spikes out of his bow and the noble just happened to be between him and his target :V

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TW:Warhammer 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on January 04, 2020, 02:41:36 pm

Quote from: King Zultan on January 04, 2020, 01:35:18 am

I don't remember there being skill points in Spyro, is that something they added to the Reignited thing?

I think so.  To be clear, it's like the skill points that were in Spyro 3 (and maybe 2?), which were effectively just trophies / achievements for going out of your way to do certain things.  I don't think they were in the original game, so that must have been added in the Reignited Trilogy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on January 07, 2020, 04:59:32 pm

I just got the rarest achievement in the game on Steam, Murderous mixologist, within 15 minutes of finding out it's the rarest.

Streets of Rogue

Edit:I now have the second most rare achievement at 05:07:49 pm, Fountain of Life.

2nd Edit:And now I have the forth rarest achievement at 05:08:58, Creature Feature.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on January 08, 2020, 05:05:56 am

Quote from: pikachu17 on January 07, 2020, 04:59:32 pm

I just got the rarest achievement in the game on Steam, Murderous mixologist, within 15 minutes of finding out it's the rarest.

Streets of Rogue

Edit:I now have the second most rare achievement at 05:07:49 pm, Fountain of Life.

2nd Edit:And now I have the forth rarest achievement at 05:08:58, Creature Feature.

Oh, shit, that has cheevs now? I'll have to load it back up.

Edit: Apparently I already have quite a few.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 08, 2020, 12:25:08 pm

It's got a lot of achievements now, yeah. Part of why several fairly simple achievements have such low rates on them is because of the game's lengthy stint of being in mostly-complete Early Access without any achievements implemented. A number of players who own the game have already more or less gotten their fill of the game, so while they've probably done everything mentioned by the achievements; they're counted against the stats since they haven't actually booted it up since achievements were put in.


Like, I'm a bit annoyed that my "rarest achievements" box is perpetually just filled with a bunch of meaningless drivel from Guns of Icarus that I managed to pick up in the time between those achievements having been programmed in and the game getting shitcanned in favor of Alliance. "Buff 125 parts, buff 60 guns" is not a particularly staggering accomplishment, despite a 0.2% rate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 08, 2020, 01:33:42 pm

Yeah, I have a few games where "achievements" like "complete the first chapter" is at 50% or less.

Also some from Caves of Qud where you need to kill an NPC in a town that you can't really allow to become hostile towards you, to collect their weapons. The players who have been around long enough to know that's where you get the weapons have also been around long enough that they make better character-building decisions than me, and use a better weapon type.

Getting shit like the diamond badges from DoomRL really felt like you achieved something impressive.


On-topic: I've completed some more quests in Graveyard Keeper, including two from a weekly NPC that I completed the same day I was given them. Because I noticed I could buy a diamond, so it's probably needed at some point, and I didn't already have one, so why not?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 09, 2020, 07:07:02 am

I have mastered siege cheese, no walled settlement is safe from me now. A tough and protracted war with Naggarond was flipped into a mop-up job once their two biggest and baddest cities that were continually pumping out full stack armies were taken. Plus all the cash and resources I get from them now. Once they're done with I think it'll be time to turn south and stomp on the Cult of Pleasure a bit.

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TW:WH2 as usual, this time playing around with Alith Anar, the edgeshadow-lord of the high elves

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 09, 2020, 09:06:29 am

This happened quite some time ago, but I just now remembered an experience I had back when I was playing Windforge (before it was decidedly deadified).

"Hah, this ultra-light material makes for some super mobile armor! I'm so much more agile now, haha!"

"...wait, the higher-quality versions weigh even less. The armor pieces are starting to have negative weight. Wearing the full set would more than cancel out my own bodyweight. Does this mean..."

"..."

"Oh fu^uuuuuuuu

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on January 10, 2020, 04:01:40 pm

I encountered a werejackal, who summoned allied jackals, and I became trapped in a room. There were enough enemies to almost fill the room, and to surround me on all sides... except a door to my left. I fought ineffectually for a few moments, then decided to go through the door. I tried to open it. It was locked, and the attacks next turn would surely end me. I frantically searched my inventory for some way out. The only option there was to take a chance on an unidentified scroll I had picked up from a bones lootpile... 80% chance of being cursed. In desperation, I read the scroll, hoping for a teleport or at least a scroll of earth (to shield me until I regained health, then destroy one boulder so only one enemy could attack at a time.)

It was a scroll of tame monster.

Every single monster in the room is now peaceful and allied.

PRAISE RNGSUS

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NetHack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 10, 2020, 08:43:03 pm

My cousin and I played around 10 games of Dead By Daylight, and we each escaped in 9 of them.

The first three games, every survivor (2 more than myself and my cousin) escaped, including from a camping Michael Myers.

This was most amusing because it was my cousin that was hooked, the other two survivors went to a different door to escape, opened that while I was opening my door - opening doors starts a timer that instantly kills survivors when it expires - and then, as I was running to unhook my cousin, they drew Myers away and every one of the three non-cousin survivors helped block Myers from downing my cousin prior to him escaping. A bit toxic, but the Myers didn’t have to camp or tunnel my cousin on the way out.

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Dead By Daylight

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on January 11, 2020, 10:07:01 am

I have beaten Dark Souls 2. Didn't beat Vendrick, Freja, Darklurker (because i forgot where old geezer sits third time) and DLCs (Jack Sprat could eat no fat. First boss of third dlc haves more hp than any vanilla one (broke three swords against it, vanilla ones rarely get to 1). And later there are two of them, i don't have enough swords, damn it. And between them there is a grand horde of huge knigts, who each have hp and damage like npc phantom. Nooooope).
Upgraded desert sorceress set to +10.
Beaten NG+2 Lycia (12000 hp) to death with fists (50 damage).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on January 12, 2020, 09:17:32 am

Normally, this game does not just spawns infinite enemies at you. But when it does, you are in for a wild ride. How that "most boring and infinite rollercoaster ever" on 4chan was named? Yeah, that one.

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Rhajat, the weregoth has come! A mass murderer twisted into humanoid form. It is crazed for flesh and blood. Its eyes glow gray. Now you will know why you fear the night!
(https://i.imgur.com/tnNApqC.png)
Not pictured: Corrin+Kana desperately trying to get to spawners. Unsucessfully, until she leveled up and got +1 speed to one-shot them.
Flesh in qustion appears to be Corrin's. Too bad she's already married. 

After 1.5 hours of slaughtering zombies and being confused anout why half of my dudes have 0 damage (silver weapons. Normally -1 strength after usage is irrelevant), half of the party got about +5 levels and i have won the mission. Next plot mission is the faceless again! Two times less of them than there were present at any time in previos mission AND wastly weaker. The terror!

FE Fates.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 12, 2020, 03:26:04 pm

Shot Hitler in the ass, and the bullet exited through his testicle, killing him instantly.

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Sniper Elite 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on January 12, 2020, 03:29:37 pm

You fool, you damned fool! You've just turned Hitler into Einstein!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 12, 2020, 05:33:41 pm

Hitler, has only got one ball (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 15, 2020, 09:43:56 am

Spoiler: Screenshot (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/L3CQqpG.png)

Endless Sky, I'm digging this

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 15, 2020, 09:31:48 pm

A massive room full of witches, which I needed to deal with to loot the area(called a conservatory, but more akin to a museum) in peace. They were already suspicious since I entered the area via elevator, which has a very loud bell on it. Nearly walked into five of them at once when they came to investigate the elevator. Eventually got them to separate, and one by one I ambushed and choked each witch out or dropped down and slammed their head into the floor.

Was hanging out on a giant stuffed owl overlooking the room, looking down at the last remaining witches: a pair just chilling by a display, making girly talk. One was sitting upside-down looking straight up at me, but didn't see me or any of my antics in the room. The problem was that because they're next to each other, I can't drop attack or choke one without alerting the other. I hit the one looking up with a sleep dart, and drop-slam the other. I nearly panic when I look up from my attack and see one last witch right next to me, looking away. Somehow she didn't hear anything. I had to use another sleep dart because for some reason I couldn't hit her with a choke-hold.

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Dishonored 2, going for non-lethal/stealth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 16, 2020, 10:51:05 am

Ah the joy of victory.

Previously on Mindustry (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg8075948#msg8075948) the "Salt Flats" mission of the campaign was utterly destroying me as obviously not being as fast as when i was younger anymore i was suspecting i was simply too slow to make my defenses and at the same time build up my various troops generators (as the enemy troops each waves were outclassing and outnumbering my poor few robots trying to get to the core) and all the industry chains required for them and their maintenance.

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As when i put my attention to build up industries to make more robots at the same time, the enemy waves were running over my defenses and crippled my conveyors and ultimately the core, and when i was building up my defenses to stop them, the time wasted there in not building up the industries was allowing more enemy waves to spawn with increased number and firepower outclassing totally by then my robots numbers

Felt like an impossible situation to poor old me

Until i just googled around and saw some people suggestions, i then learned something i didn't knew and that changed the whole battle : when you build an alpha pad to be able to morph your "flying and shooting light drone" into a "walking and shooting light robot" , by pressing left shift (well i changed the shortcut after that to my liking) your walking robot can ... fly (but unlike the flying drone it will then be unable to shoot).

What this changed is that then my walking flyer would just then fly over the impassable borders of the map (escaping enemy fire), then come back from the rear of the enemy base, land and destroy every single anti air turrets in the enemy base that were preventing any air assault leading to the enemy core.

At some point i couldn't get near enough of the enemy core to shoot as it was still protected by many artillery turrets that would easily and fast destroy my walker (and the walker robot when flying can't shoot) and were outranging it by a lot.
once respawning in my camp i just went back to the alpha pad to morph my walker robot back into the flying drone, then fly again over the impassable stuff and easily get from the rear of the enemy base to attack  its core (as there's no more legion of anti air turrets) and destroy the enemy core from a safe distance as artillery is nothing to flying things.

(https://i.imgur.com/kD5a5P6m.png) (https://i.imgur.com/kD5a5P6.png)

So satisfying after this mission was just crushing all my attempts previously :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 17, 2020, 05:54:14 pm

Playing as Prince Liu Chong on the standard campaign, I got the announcement that Dong Zhuo died from narrative reasons. I immediately rushed his faction's (now led by Dong Min) capital of Chang'an and took it.

Look at me, I'm the Han Empire now.

Total War: Three Kingdoms

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 17, 2020, 06:14:39 pm

Second time encountering an Ultimate-stage Digimon(and wasn't aware that a previous boss was the first time I fought an Ultimate), ended up one-shotting her.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon: Cyber Sleuth. The quest for that was a riot: A guy kept finding pictures of flowers on his phone, and it's because a Lillymon fell in love with him, moved into his phone and was sending him selfies. After beating her, she agrees to stop taking pics, but refuses to leave the phone and threatens to get jealous and disconnect the phone if she finds him talking to other women. The phone's owner doesn't actually mind Lillymon living in his phone as long as she isn't taking flower pictures anymore, and isn't concerned about her threat of hanging up his phone calls with other women... due the the fact he's gay.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on January 17, 2020, 06:15:44 pm

Quote from: Teneb on January 17, 2020, 05:54:14 pm

I immediately rushed his faction's (now led by Dong Min) capital of Chang'an and took it.

Look at me, I'm the Han Empire now.

So you shot first?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 17, 2020, 06:35:33 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2020, 06:14:39 pm

Second time encountering an Ultimate-stage Digimon(and wasn't aware that a previous boss was the first time I fought an Ultimate), ended up one-shotting her.

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Digimon: Cyber Sleuth. The quest for that was a riot: A guy kept finding pictures of flowers on his phone, and it's because a Lillymon fell in love with him, moved into his phone and was sending him selfies. After beating her, she agrees to stop taking pics, but refuses to leave the phone and threatens to get jealous and disconnect the phone if she finds him talking to other women. The phone's owner doesn't actually mind Lillymon living in his phone as long as she isn't taking flower pictures anymore, and isn't concerned about her threat of hanging up his phone calls with other women... due the the fact he's gay.

(https://i.imgur.com/YAGpXPd.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 18, 2020, 10:58:15 am

Quote from: Eschar on January 17, 2020, 06:15:44 pm

Quote from: Teneb on January 17, 2020, 05:54:14 pm

I immediately rushed his faction's (now led by Dong Min) capital of Chang'an and took it.

Look at me, I'm the Han Empire now.

So you shot first?

Chong shot first

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Draignean on January 18, 2020, 11:09:57 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on January 17, 2020, 06:35:33 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 17, 2020, 06:14:39 pm

Second time encountering an Ultimate-stage Digimon(and wasn't aware that a previous boss was the first time I fought an Ultimate), ended up one-shotting her.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon: Cyber Sleuth. The quest for that was a riot: A guy kept finding pictures of flowers on his phone, and it's because a Lillymon fell in love with him, moved into his phone and was sending him selfies. After beating her, she agrees to stop taking pics, but refuses to leave the phone and threatens to get jealous and disconnect the phone if she finds him talking to other women. The phone's owner doesn't actually mind Lillymon living in his phone as long as she isn't taking flower pictures anymore, and isn't concerned about her threat of hanging up his phone calls with other women... due the the fact he's gay.

(https://i.imgur.com/YAGpXPd.png)

That... is a remarkable level of entendre.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 18, 2020, 01:59:33 pm

I'm playing through early ascensions with the new Slay the Spire character.

Ascension 3, and I killed 2 bosses (I hit The Guardian in spike mode because I had hitpoints to spare, and it's a bit faster to always attack, but I could have probably avoided damage there as well) and 3 out of 6 elites without taking damage. I think I might be getting the hang of this.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Tack on January 19, 2020, 10:01:24 am

Quote from: JimboM12 on November 24, 2019, 10:09:59 pm

i did it because i thought i was balls to the wall donkey insane but-

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i invested a bunch into "volition" (basically willpower, self-confidence) since i wanted a story of a ruined, alcoholic detective coming back and returning to his prime and i started with 4 cuz i went 4/4/2/2 (fuck being physical, alcohol and drugs ruined that). turns out "volition" is a goddamned bro. i was about to let a pretty face get away with lying about almost *everything* but he caught on and was the only one going "shes lying" where the others were like "she's pretty, so shes telling the truth". whew did that help clear some shit up and help me mentally powerhouse thorough some rough conversations.

disco elysium. if you are patient with reading, its a goddamn great game.

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Got the same hook. Volition is your one true bro

The only issue I have with Disco Elysium is that you can't really play 'type' because everything is spread so oddly across the stats. I want my inland empire and shivers guy to have conceptualisation and drama to go with his savoir faire, but it just ain't gonna happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on January 19, 2020, 02:23:37 pm

Without enough fuel to actually get captured by Kerbin and descend more gently, I managed to use careful maneuvering (and a lot of waiting and luck) to go straight from Duna orbit directly into Kerbin's atmosphere.

The actual reentry was pretty uneventful, but it was conceptually awesome to go from an 11km/s interplanetary trajectory directly to the surface of Kerbin.

Kerbal Space Program.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on January 21, 2020, 12:26:11 pm

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

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Slay the spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 21, 2020, 06:00:55 pm

Quote from: Jopax on January 21, 2020, 12:26:11 pm

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slay the spire

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 22, 2020, 04:14:09 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on January 22, 2020, 09:13:37 am

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

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

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

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still Slay the Spire.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 22, 2020, 09:19:34 am

Quote from: DeKaFu on January 22, 2020, 09:13:37 am

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

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still Slay the Spire.

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on January 22, 2020, 09:28:23 am

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 22, 2020, 02:38:32 pm

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on January 23, 2020, 04:05:04 pm

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

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

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

Then, due to an ending cutscene,

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

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

This time, she did it in one turn.

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 28, 2020, 07:56:04 pm

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

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

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

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Arma 3, Vindicta scenario (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1964186045). Almost thought I couldn't loot the police truck since it's from the Contact DLC which I don't have and probably won't get anytime soon. I'm not happy I had to install ACE to play this scenario, which requires it. The game has been running choppier since I installed it. I would say that it's not better than Antistasi yet, but has potential to be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 02, 2020, 09:59:48 pm

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 04, 2020, 12:20:20 am

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

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

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

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/IW9DrBGm.png) (https://i.imgur.com/IW9DrBG.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 08, 2020, 03:17:12 pm

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

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

Mummy's hand just makes that better.


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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 11, 2020, 05:59:40 pm

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 12, 2020, 08:23:05 pm

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

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

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

Spoiler: "More details." (click to show/hide)

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on February 15, 2020, 05:53:13 pm

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

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NetHack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 15, 2020, 08:51:35 pm

I usually go for a top class weapon relevant to my class or... Silver dragon armor? The one that reflects spells. Genocide isn't a terrible options either, though that's more of a long term strategy.

Edit: Oh, or Boots of Speed? Those are always useful for running away. Remember to request them with mods, so fireproof, +2, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 15, 2020, 09:10:20 pm

...What if you wish for the amulet though?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 15, 2020, 10:08:24 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 15, 2020, 09:10:20 pm

...What if you wish for the amulet though?

You get a cheap plastic imitation that's functionally worthless unless you're into polypiling. (Not kidding.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on February 16, 2020, 01:28:55 am

Quote from: Eschar on February 15, 2020, 05:53:13 pm

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

NetHack.

The Random Number God smiles upon us. I started a game as an orc wizard with a scroll of stinking cloud and a scroll of genocide.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 16, 2020, 12:57:47 pm

Quote from: Eschar on February 15, 2020, 05:53:13 pm

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NetHack.

All I remember about that game is starving to death on the first level or 2 because I could never find the secret doors I needed to get to the next room. Dozens of times. Not a fan of food clocks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on February 18, 2020, 09:11:28 am

I did a thing. It was long, tedious and ultimately pointless.

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(https://i.imgur.com/PPebIHr.png)
Yukimura is right to be scared.
(https://i.imgur.com/rEfMbU2.png)

Then i made a separate save and made her into a dark falcon, to see how far i would be able to get with just Azura and Corrin. Then i remembered that dark falcon is a flying class. Fuck.

FE Fates.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 18, 2020, 09:44:43 am

I've completed ascension 15 with Silent in Slay the Spire, during my quest to convince myself I'm not terrible at the game, merely "good enough."

Quote from: MCreeper on February 18, 2020, 09:11:28 am

I did a thing. It was long, tedious and ultimately pointless.

It's a video game, that goes without saying. At least you did the right thing, and posted about it online (not joking, that's what we're here for).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 19, 2020, 07:18:50 pm

In a very late-game random encounter, a random battle usually gives about 5,000-6,000XP. I managed to boost this to almost 90,000XP. Massive level gains ensue.

Spoiler: ramble stuff (click to show/hide)

Via having my entire battle line consist of three PlatinumNumemons, which has a support skill that increases XP gain. This skill stacks. It also stacks with any equipped Tactical USBs, an equipment item that increases XP gain, obviously. This isn't even the highest I can get it, since only one of the PlatinumNumemons are holding the USBs - they're a pain in the ass to manufacture, and making them is almost the only way to acquire any. I also keep messing up the timing to savescum when the item making is nearly done.

Though a generally weak Digimon, the PlatinumNumemon have gotten to the point they easily handle the enemies in that area - many of the encounters include Machinedramon, MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, and Piedmon. They're doing pretty good damage with their main attack, Platinum Junk("Excrement" in original Japanese), which strikes with turds made of(if the description is to be believed) refinery waste from purifying platinum ore. Two of them have the spell Texture Blow which inflicts Dot(also called Sprite), which turns an enemy into an 8-bit sprite, weakens them, and limits them to just attacking. The third doesn't because of a different Digivolution path - the first two went from Kudamon->Numemon->GoldNumemon->BlackKingNumemon(since their max level was too low to go directly from GoldNumemon)->PlatinumNumemon and picked up Texture Blow along the way. The third went from PlatinumSukamon(has a smaller EXP boost, how I grinded before)->Etemon->PlatinumNumemon. Not bad for a trio of shit-slingers.

The reason all this experience power-grinding is necessary is because of the ABI(ability) stat. Aside limiting stat gains from boosting items and training, ABI is also often a prerequisite for various Digivolutions. The only way to increase it beside an apparently very rare(I haven't found out how to get more)item is through Digivolving/De-Digivolving, with Digivolving at higher experience levels giving more ABI gain when Digivolving. Digivolving to higher stages also has a significant level requirement as well, for example PlatinumNumemon requires a fairly high Level 65. Right now, I've got a bounce between Paildramon and ImperialDramon(Dragon Mode) in order to get whatever is beyond ImperialDramon(DM), plus trying to get my LadyDevimon statted out to fuse with Angewomon into Mastemon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth.

EDIT: Managed to get Apocalymon. While the method of obtaining him is actually fairly logical in hindsight(it Digevolves from any one of Machinedramon, MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, and Piedmon), I didn't actually expect the antithesis of all existence to actually be in the game, much less obtainable. I've yet to encounter him as a bonus boss or anything. Even at Level 1, he's stronger than many Mega Digimon at Level 50. His special attack does a fixed 444 damage(a lot, for fixed damage) to all enemies, which is odd given my family's peculiar obsession with that number, in part due to the fact that my grandmother's heart stopped at exactly 4:44PM.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon Cyber Sleuth. Personally, I would think for balance reasons Apocalymon should have been a fusion of all four of the Dark Masters rather than a simple Digevolve of any one of them. Granted, it's requirements are sort of high(Level 99, 120 ABI), at the point I obtained him, grinding is stupid easy.

I've just about gotten a team of top-end Digimon to go tackle the endgame sidequests before finishing the main story. Right now I've got Lilithmon(I was going to use that LadyDevimon for Mastemon, but then I discovered the Digimon incarnation of lust, so yeah, better waifu and hella cuter), Chaosmon, ShineGreymon(Burst Mode), Ravemon(Burst Mode), Ophanimon(the holy counterpart to Lilithmon apparently), ImperialDramon(Paladin Mode), and a couple others I don't remember offhand. Definitely going for a Mastemon(using a new LadyDevimon and Angewomon pair) and maybe Examon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockeater on February 23, 2020, 10:49:17 am

I built a traction trebuchet, it extremely simple and probably built by a lot of players, but it's fun and it works well and effective against a lot of things!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Besiege

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on February 23, 2020, 11:59:31 am

Playing as Twitch first time. Got lucky. MF did make 10-1 at first, but then got repeatedly slaughtered by my ult. I like this ult.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/iZro9GG.png)

Now i want to figure out how to play as Ashe. I got a cool skin for her, but all tries so far ended in total failure.

League of legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 24, 2020, 03:02:23 am

Press F for Galactis666

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 25, 2020, 07:58:28 pm

Just beat Astral Birth Void in Kirby Star Allies, and only on my second attempt.

I don't think I could have done it with anyone but Magolor though.  Magolor is a cheating cheat cheat since he has some really abusive attacks, like the giant sword attack that makes him invulnerable for a short time, and with his air block he can become intangible and avoid a lot of the spam attacks from the bosses.

I watched someone beat the boss with Marx, but... I think I'm satisfied having done it with Magolor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 25, 2020, 09:14:03 pm

Jumped to an aircraft during a tank battle. See an enemy plane just over a kilometer away, but can't close quickly enough. Fire a quick spray in where I think it'll hit(a target lead designator only appears at 0.75km and below), not expecting it to hit. Then I see a notification that the enemy lost tail control, and I see their plane go from flying relatively level to straight plummet in about a second. I get credit for the kill. That same flight I also strafe an enemy tank and destroy it. Both the plane and the tank earned One Shot(get a kill without missing). Then I returned Safe and Sound - a 300SL award for staying alive in a plane until the timer runs out. Most players will just try to kamikaze an enemy tank, but I have standards.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder. After that, I decided to try out Germany for the first time(been playing USA the whole time). Had more fun with the two reserve(bottom tier, but always freely repaired instantly) German tanks than I've been having with Tier-3 US tanks.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 26, 2020, 01:23:08 am

Second run in with Giovanni, and I had to completely rethink my strategy. 

He still starts with Persian - Normal, but with dark moves which prevent me using my powerful psychics.  Demands a fighting type, but it's hard to get one competetive.

Followed by a weird hippo thing I'd never seen which turned out to be pure ground.  This thing was the bane of my existence.  Guides suggested Venusaur, which should have made me happy because I fricken love grass types, but grass types just don't get quite that beefy!  (...I wonder if Roserade would have worked?  Ah no it's also grass/poison of course.  ...Tangrowth?)

And lastly the prize: Raiku.  Basically a non threat, I mained Rhyperior even before the recent community day.

I start with Mamoswine-
JK I immediately switch for Machamp, because the act of switching stuns the AI for a couple seconds.  There's a timer on switching, but it's worth it.
Machamp proceeds to beat the stuffing out of this normal-type Persian for a few seconds, until the persian starts ineffectually using its dark quickmove.  Off goes "Close Combat".  It's blocked, and Machamp's defense falls.
All according to keikaku.
Machamp continues punching.  The Persian is stunned by the move, but recovers and gets some painful dark claws off on the weakened defense- and Machamp uses Close Combat again.
Again blocked, Giovanni's shields are gone.

FourPunchMan falls quickly afterward.  But unlike my Slaking opener, I've nearly killed that damn cat with just the fast moves.
In comes Mamoswine (DaRude) who gets the kill before the Persian can reaction.  Charging up a Blizzard for DumbGroundHippo (headcanon).  Smack, smack - despite every advantage, it's a tough battle because Team Rocket cheats like heck.  seriously, their CP are like 12K versus my 2.5K.  But they do get stunned a lot and that makes it work.

...Almost.  DaRude goes down, it's just down to Rhyperior (Superior).  Finishes off the stupid hippo, gaining some charge.  In comes Shadow Raiku, getting smacked in the face with rocks.  Eat Superpower!  Our stats go down, but victory is at hand. Eat-

Oh shit it's got a move off- JK I KEPT A SHIELD
Rock rock rock rock and a final Superpower

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635328710458867732/682109568771555348/Screenshot_20200225-191038_Pokmon_GO.jpg)

Get wrekt!
For the second time, you cheating bastard!

Pokemon GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 26, 2020, 09:37:11 am

Quote from: Telgin on February 25, 2020, 07:58:28 pm

beat the boss with Marx

I'd watch that show.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on February 28, 2020, 11:23:15 am

Was playing Dark Souls 3 last night, leveling a new character and a host summoned me and another dude to the Farron Swamp.

I thought he wanted to clear the area but after killing everything he just stood around.

So an impromptu fight club started.

And damn me....if I didn't kill the same 3 or 4 invaders 3 times a piece without dying.

I'm not the best at Dark Souls 3 PvP but I've gotten a lot better over time. I was using a very basic strength-based Knight build with the basic armor, Heavy Claymore +4 and about 1000 unembered HP.

And I was crushing these guys. Even beat a dude using the double door shields. The fight club finally ended when the host got killed while I was dueling someone else.

Easily the best sitting of PvP I've ever had.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 28, 2020, 05:44:19 pm

Spoiler: Late game spoilerly stuff (click to show/hide)

Did the Parallel World, Girl, and Destiny sidequest, which is several cases that lead to battles against the Seven Deadly Digimon. These were some of the hardest battles in the game. Even my team of max-leveled end-tier Digimon had trouble, though to be fair most of the actual difficulty was due to a generous application of gimicky bullshit. Of all of them, Lucemon(who represents Pride) was the hardest, as it's three straight battles against increasingly more powerful forms with the last being actually invincible(you have to survive until it runs out of HP on its own, then attack). After clearing them is a battle against a bizarre Monzaemon whose signature move, Hearts Attack(normally a healing/buffing move) wiped my entire battle line, but was otherwise surprisingly easy.


As a side note, defeating each of the Seven Deadly Digimon yields an item referred to as an "Evidence of Sin". For example, Creepymon drops Horns of Wrath, Lucemon dropped Wings of Pride, etc. One of the easier battles in my opinion, Lilithmon, gave the "Hair of Lust". One of her attacks, which inflicted Panic on my entire party, it titled "Come, whenever!". I don't think she meant "come" as in "approach".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon Cyber Sleuth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 29, 2020, 05:23:35 pm

Spoiler: I AM THE KING OF THE DANCE! (click to show/hide)

(https://imgur.com/i4QmxTc.png)

For reference, the numbers are seconds and 3500 is an hour. There be an achievement for passin' that.

Deep Rock Galactic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 29, 2020, 07:37:55 pm

Started in 1970. Initial investments in industry and citizen welfare came to around 4-5 million rubles. It's mid-July of 1974, and I've managed to recoup my initial expenditures and bring my financial accounts back to their starting levels and then some. Primary exports are steel, fuel, and bitumen, with secondary exports of construction materials(mostly pre-fab panels) and electricity. Was selling coal, but now all coal goes to steel(and power, obviously).

I would say this has been...

*puts on sunglasses ushanka*

...a successful Five-Year Plan.

URAAAAAAAAAH!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. Power, then construction, especially steel, are critical places to start. That said, oil is also a good place to start off with, since bitumen in particular has a high price, plus you need to manufacture your own asphalt(which uses bitumen*) unless you plan to near-fully fund every building. This is because nearly every building's first phase of construction is the groundworks, which requires gravel, asphalt, and concrete(which you must also manufacture), and there are no storage buildings for asphalt and concrete - not even at the factories that make them, they produce directly into the trucks when they arrive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 29, 2020, 09:09:50 pm

Without consulting any guides, I have designed Ye Olde Drone, a fairly simple flying machine that is surprisingly potent at clearing all sorts of challenges. Without editing the basic framework at all, I can easily equip any weapons or tools required for any number of tasks. Some tasks require more specialized machines that YOD can't handle on its own, but YOD can absolutely trivialize multiple missions in a row with nothing more than a quick change in loadout.

Besiege

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 02, 2020, 02:01:06 pm

In our Gloomhaven game, I managed to retire the Brute (fighter). The replacement fighter is...fine (spear symbol), but replaced the tinker/healer. We're at prosperity 3, so should I start the triforce magecharacter, or go with the cragheart/healer?

It's at least a thematic choice. Craghearts and the triforce character come from the same culture, but one got kicked out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 03, 2020, 09:28:18 pm

Playin' my first campaign of DnD 5e.

Got myself a Monk. We are lvl 2. The big bad in the back of the dungeon was a wizard. He sort of heard us coming as we loudly butchered all of his stupid little cronies, and booked it out of his evil lair. I was fastest, so while the main party gave chase, I ran around another way to cut him off.

I got to him first, and I got to find out what happens when a wizard tries to fistfight a monk. Solo'd the boss before the rest could catch up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Laterigrade on March 05, 2020, 06:29:56 am

Maybe this isn’t the thread for it, but I wrecked someone at chess.
Quiet and genteel I may have been, but he still got owned.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 05, 2020, 06:34:21 am

Tamed and saddled a pternadon. I'm airborne now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ARK: Survival Evolved. The pternadon is... significantly slower than I expected, but that might be because my gear weighs too much she's getting encumbered by carrying me. Gotta level up that weight stat. I still need to figure out landing gracefully. First time I tried to land in the elevated perch I built for her, she didn't actually land but hovered on the floor, and her wingflaps were knocking me off the ladder to get back up. Had to bind the "Order flyers to land" whistle, since for some reason it's unbound by default.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 05, 2020, 10:25:32 am

Quote from: Laterigrade on March 05, 2020, 06:29:56 am

Maybe this isn’t the thread for it, but I wrecked someone at chess.
Quiet and genteel I may have been, but he still got owned.

It's other games, not vidya specifically. So you're good.

Quote from: Akura on March 05, 2020, 06:34:21 am

Tamed and saddled a pternadon. I'm airborne now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ARK: Survival Evolved. The pternadon is... significantly slower than I expected, but that might be because my gear weighs too much she's getting encumbered by carrying me. Gotta level up that weight stat. I still need to figure out landing gracefully. First time I tried to land in the elevated perch I built for her, she didn't actually land but hovered on the floor, and her wingflaps were knocking me off the ladder to get back up. Had to bind the "Order flyers to land" whistle, since for some reason it's unbound by default.

Everything I hear about that game makes it sound like quality.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 08, 2020, 06:42:58 pm

From a recent trip into the swamp, I was able to tame a beezlebufos - a large frog that inflicts torpor damage(like a tranquilizer shot) and eats bugs and turns them into cementing paste - and a breeding pair of dilophosauruses. Upon returning I found a diplocaulus, which massively extends your time underwater while riding it, and tamed it as well.


The bad part is, I now have the Titanosaur camped literally a few dozen meters from my house, apparently stuck on a cliff.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ARK: Survival Evolved. EDIT: Titanosaur is no longer stuck. It doesn't appear to destroy buildings merely by stepping on them, though.

EDIT: Bulldozed and reconstructed the absolute hot mess of garbage that was the main rail junction. Still looks like a hot mess of garbage, but should still avoid the previous rail junction's problem of occasionally having trains lock up because they've somehow ended up on the same track heading towards each other. ...That was kinda bad.

It also only cost about 200,000₽ to instant-build, not much at all. That's about the same amount of income from 4 loads of cargo that wasn't interrupted by the construction project.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 11, 2020, 07:20:19 pm

Made it to the end, And I only died twice on the way there!

Not sure I can reveal any more details without also revealing spoilers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Disco Elysium.

I highly recommend it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 12, 2020, 01:02:41 pm

I retired my Brute (fighter/tank, in as much as tanking works in Gloomhaven) in Gloomhaven, and brought in his replacement. Because we already had our tinker/healer replaced with another warrior, the brute's replacement Craig Hart, a genderless idiot rock person who can use the power of earth/leaf to heal sometimes, but is considered a failure among rock people because Craig apparently can't control any elements. Craig also throw rocks at stuff, causing splash damage (which ignores armor), and has the old PC attacks we're aware of that ignore the normal "you can't harm allies" rule, and only one enemy we've seen can do it.

The win was I was able to hold back enough to keep to exactly 7 xp gained (my in-mission goal was 7 or fewer xp, which gives double the credit of a normal goal, with a character who can earn 20 fairly easily), and weaken but not kill enemies to let our Scoundrel kill all 15 vermilings in one mission that she needed to retire as well. Also, I got to use the phrase "Hulk Craig is strongest there is!"

Craig's retirement goal is to become a hero and defeat 4 boss monsters (we have seen 1 so far), because they saw a cloud and thought it was a dragon. I'm not sure why seeing a cloud or a dragon makes you want to be a hero, or why killing 4 boss monsters is the exact way to be a hero, but Craig is dumb as hell.

The now-retired Scoundrel will become a Diviner, a class which does not normally attack enemies, which will be wild.

In conclusion, Gloomhaven is a great game if you put a nonzero amount of effort into roleplaying.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 13, 2020, 02:28:28 pm

Finally finished Strafe. That's the third backlog game I finish this month too (the others being The Incredible Adventures of van Helsing and Thief 2014). So that's nice.

Can't believe my total play time for Strafe was only 6 hours though. (Compared to 22 for van Helsing and 29 for Thief 2014).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 13, 2020, 10:03:52 pm

B4-D4 is the best Star Wars character, and he [lie] assures you he will cause no trouble.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 15, 2020, 07:00:39 am

Got a perfect score with a food critic... by giving them day-old tomato soup that had been sitting out all night in an open pot. I simply re-heated it on the stove. It also had a slight penalty to taste because it wasn't quite the perfect mix.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cooking Simulator.

EDIT: After a long campaign of killing off each "villain" one by one, I finally confronted the final opponent: the High Priest of Adroxie. The Keeper personally led the battles against each enemy, up until I kicked over an altar and was permanently blinded. Kept in the confines of his poetry workshop after that, leaving him with naught to do but write weapons-grade obscene limericks. Three of the four "main villains", the ones you have to kill to win(HP of Adroxie was fourth) attacked me directly; two were dragons, one was an elementalist named Martja that I managed to capture but died under torture afterwards.

With the Keeper out of combat duty - and probably for the best at that - I sent some 30-odd minions to the site of where the dungeon that the High Priest of Adroxie was holed up was. Lost a few good minions on the surface, as the fiend had set up several elf villages surrounding the entrance, and they have snipers. Slaughtered all the elves and breached the dungeon. The first couple of floors had little of note, the worst threats being two cyclopes.

The final floor, was a narrow bridge over magma leading to an altar to Adroxie. Surrounding the altar was the High Priest, several (I assume for sacrificing) children, a few fire elementals, and a group of creatures called Abominations. This was a brutal fight. Of all the minions I sent in, only two survived: an Orc Healer and a human priest I captured and converted before. Even so, the High Priest had been killed, and the last Abomination was brought down by the priest casting "Directional Blast" which somehow killed it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

KeeperRL.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on March 24, 2020, 04:32:11 pm

I finally, finally won a campaign (short) in Total War: Empire, and in a mere 31 turns to boot! Could've done even faster, but was worried about rebellions. Faction was Maratha Confederacy, which to my surprise was laughably easy. All you need to do is steamroll the rest of India.

And that is TW:Empire off of my backlog! One less in the pile.

Total War: Empire, Maratha Confederacy Normal/Normal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on March 24, 2020, 06:53:57 pm

Boot up my ironman of void bastards.  Im down in Depth 5 and my current ship is a Lux Cruiser.  Its huge, and has shedloads of shifty spooks.  It also has 'subverted security' and 'one type of citizen is allied'.

Meaning I have no enemy but the environment and Oxygen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 25, 2020, 10:41:01 am

I've been hitting a wall with Slay the Spire. But once I read the list of common cards with ironclad, I went back to ascension 1 and earned the "Common Sense" achievement.

I think I was one away from the Infinity achievement (play 25 cards in one turn) the run where I got ninja (play 10 shivs in one turn), so I could probably do that. And I lose often enough to throw away a run on getting purity. Defeating a boss in one turn or transient ever seems out of my reach, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on March 25, 2020, 08:30:04 pm

Also Slay the Spire, and my win was getting three of those achievements on a single run!

I finally managed to put together an infinite combo, using the Defect. Main components were
- 2x Claw (scaling damage for 0 energy)
- 2x Skim+ (4 card draw for 1 energy)
- Impatience+ (3 card draw for 0 energy if no attacks are in your hand, and Claw is my only attack)
- Turbo+ (generates 3 energy in exchange for putting an unplayable status card in your deck)
- The artifact that lets you play unplayable status cards for free to exhaust them from your deck

I also had a Reboot (shuffle everything into your deck and draw 4 cards) for if I found myself stuck somehow, as well as Zap+ and Dualcast+ because I didn't find nearly enough removal, but it would've worked fine without those (and I could've probably lost one of the Skims, too).

It took until halfway through Act 3 to come together, but once it did I was unstoppable. I could just keep drawing and playing my Claws, and using Turbo+ to refuel whenever I ran out of energy.

I got Infinity on the next Elite fight, then lucked into The Transient right before the final bonfire (who I killed in one turn, so satisfying). By some clerical error of the gods, I actually got Awakened One instead of Time Eater for my final boss, and killed his first stage and both his little pals in a single turn (which counted for the kill-boss-in-one-turn achievement, his second stage was turn 2).

Then I died against the Heart because whoops I took all the blocking out of my deck, but I'm still counting that as a win overall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on March 26, 2020, 06:45:33 am

Darkest Dungeon; Occultist, Highwayman, Abomination, and Bounty Hunter delved into the warrens to slay the Swine God. I'm playing a modded game, so if something seems off, then it's because of that. So, anyway, the resistance from the regular swinefolk was meager: some hassassins, zerkers, choppers, mostly all-out damage squads that could be negated with some wyrd reconstructions. There might have been some cultists too. That was a nice change of pace after the previous run where the heroes encountered bloodsuckers, the swine chieftain, and the Collector, plus a bunch of high stress waves. Lost a Seraph and a Succubus, while the Lamia and the Butcher Bird needed intense therapy.

Right, so the boys were ambushed after camping right before the boss room, and Abomination got badly beaten up. The timing wasn't the best, but what can you do? The boys finally faced their target, and seeing the amount of HP it had, I started doubting if they could do that. However, armed with aegis scales and red seals, the Bounty Hunter opened with hige crits. It went like that: Occultist marks, Bounty Hunter crits, Abomination rages for massive damage, and the Highwayman... well, he kinda stayed out of the way and waved his knife. Abomination was at death's door at the end, but he was the first one to deal the final blow.

Then the lads slaughtered Wilbur and stole his flags.

I wonder if this is the beginning of a good streak? I've got lv2 Prophet, Siren, and Hag, lv3 Kraken, Homunculus, and Flesh. I gotta progress in the Courtyard, the Farmstead, and the Sunward Isles too. So much to do, so little mid- to high-leveled cannon fodder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 26, 2020, 09:10:52 am

Quote from: DeKaFu on March 25, 2020, 08:30:04 pm

Also Slay the Spire, and my win was getting three of those achievements on a single run!

I finally managed to put together an infinite combo, using the Defect. Main components were
- 2x Claw (scaling damage for 0 energy)
- 2x Skim+ (4 card draw for 1 energy)
- Impatience+ (3 card draw for 0 energy if no attacks are in your hand, and Claw is my only attack)
- Turbo+ (generates 3 energy in exchange for putting an unplayable status card in your deck)
- The artifact that lets you play unplayable status cards for free to exhaust them from your deck

I also had a Reboot (shuffle everything into your deck and draw 4 cards) for if I found myself stuck somehow, as well as Zap+ and Dualcast+ because I didn't find nearly enough removal, but it would've worked fine without those (and I could've probably lost one of the Skims, too).

It took until halfway through Act 3 to come together, but once it did I was unstoppable. I could just keep drawing and playing my Claws, and using Turbo+ to refuel whenever I ran out of energy.

I got Infinity on the next Elite fight, then lucked into The Transient right before the final bonfire (who I killed in one turn, so satisfying). By some clerical error of the gods, I actually got Awakened One instead of Time Eater for my final boss, and killed his first stage and both his little pals in a single turn (which counted for the kill-boss-in-one-turn achievement, his second stage was turn 2).

Then I died against the Heart because whoops I took all the blocking out of my deck, but I'm still counting that as a win overall.

Congratulations.

Also, tungsten rod effectively turns blue candle into the artifact you were talking about, in addition to being pretty nice on it's own. I loved that combination.


Edit: Circadian Dice: I beat Forgotten Island with the cleric on the second try, and got 5 stars because I always took score as a reward (684 end score). My first purchase was a capture that I used on the blue dinosaur that gives +1 attack to the die if the enemy has no defense. I'm considering trying the soothing collar that replaces 1 attack on your second and fourth dice with a capture, and the trappers mantle that replaces blank spaces with a claw, and also gives +20% capture rate. Captures are a free kill, buff your die, and claws are at worst 1 attack. Also, the vampire area sucks. Pun not intended, but I'm keeping it.

Edit2: Damn petrifying snakes. I no longer remember math well enough to figure out the odds of getting 2 attacks when I have 3/6 chance on one die and 2/6 on the other, and 2 rerolls. I'm 0/2, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 26, 2020, 11:33:44 am

Spoiler: Finally did it (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/rZzAyfu.png)

That's all achievements for this game as well. And one of the only ones I've bothered to get all achievements for.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kingdoms and Castles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 27, 2020, 07:51:33 am

Usually in this game, sane men go into one of the dungeons, and go out as broken diseased insane men.
My men went into the Ruins, and came out all around better.
All of them have less stress than what they came in with, the three that leveled up only got a positive quirk, no one got a negative quirk, and one of the levelers actually got his only negative quirk removed, so he's actually saner than new recruits.

Darkest Dungeon

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 27, 2020, 09:23:14 am

Very happy, managed to pass the Frozen Horror scenario for the first time in Circadian Dice, unlocking the 9th scenario beaten item (still have a hard time with the scenario that comes just before, the "Ancient Tomb", too much cursing coming from monsters :D) , the "multivitamin" that description sounds to be very good choice for the ancien tomb problems i have.

It was with the elementalist class, even got 2 stars , i'm sure i could have reached a 3rd one but prefered to play for the win instead of the score for this attempt :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/EkcVeIm.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Laterigrade on March 27, 2020, 09:40:38 am

Finally beat Bad North on Normal! Did a full-elite double-sword, one-pike one-archer combination. Had War Horn and Ironskin on one Infantry unit, and Ring of Command and Sharp Weapons on the other, Fleet of Foot Archers with Bomb and Sure-Footed Pikes with Warhammer. I got very lucky on the last island in island layout and enemy proportions; very few Brute Archers came and there was lots of cover when they did. Didn’t abandon a single island; lost only a few houses. Took about 8 hours of total playing time to do!

Now to duplicate that feat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockphed on March 27, 2020, 10:04:09 am

Was playing CKII and switched to my cousin who won the crusade for Jerusalem.  I had gotten a bunch of egyptian land and the knights templar had gotten the duchy of damietta (the nile delta, more or less).  Then the ravening Aztec hoard invaded.  I mostly ignored them because I was too busy beating up Fatimids and Seljuks.  Then they declared a war on the Templars for Egypt.  I decided that I would rather not border the Aztecs (since they are blood-thirsty and had a doomstack to end all doomstacks), so I joined the war.  They had about 320,000 troops at the start of the war.  By putting my entire army under the direct command of my god-queen of jerusalem I was able to (mostly) win every battle with the Aztecs and win the war.  I wish I had taken screenshots of their army before and after the war because afterward they had about 30,000 troops, so I killed about 300,000 bloodthirsty aztecs with an army that capped out at 20,000.  I mean I mostly fought the aztecs in small groups (15-20K troops), but I was still toasting armies about 50% bigger than mine with minimal losses at the end.  I like to imagine my queen wading through the battlefield cackling as she mowed down her enemies.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 27, 2020, 02:02:12 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on March 27, 2020, 07:51:33 am

Usually in this game, sane men go into one of the dungeons, and go out as broken diseased insane men.
My men went into the Ruins, and came out all around better.
All of them have less stress than what they came in with, the three that leveled up only got a positive quirk, no one got a negative quirk, and one of the levelers actually got his only negative quirk removed, so he's actually saner than new recruits.

Darkest Dungeon

How do I tell if my adventurers are overlevel?
The next two dungeon runs were either, the first one had no > 30% stress at the end and I had less than 5 Hp less than max total against a necromancer apprentice with general cruising through the level with no difficulty, and the second I had less stress than I started with with everyone who had more than 0 to start with, and those guys only had 5 stress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on March 27, 2020, 02:14:03 pm

Quote from: pikachu17 on March 27, 2020, 02:02:12 pm

How do I tell if my adventurers are overlevel?
The next two dungeon runs were either, the first one had no > 30% stress at the end and I had less than 5 Hp less than max total against a necromancer apprentice with general cruising through the level with no difficulty, and the second I had less stress than I started with with everyone who had more than 0 to start with, and those guys only had 5 stress.

They actually refuse to go to dungeons that they outrank, saying something along the lines of it being beneath them. (On the other hand, you can go to dungeons that they're really not prepared for, so... yeah.)

I believe T1 dungeons allow for ranks <4, T2 is <5, and T3 is <6.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on March 27, 2020, 03:07:38 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on March 27, 2020, 09:23:14 am

Very happy, managed to pass the Frozen Horror scenario for the first time in Circadian Dice, unlocking the 9th scenario beaten item (still have a hard time with the scenario that comes just before, the "Ancient Tomb", too much cursing coming from monsters :D) , the "multivitamin" that description sounds to be very good choice for the ancien tomb problems i have.

It was with the elementalist class, even got 2 stars , i'm sure i could have reached a 3rd one but prefered to play for the win instead of the score for this attempt :)

If you're just playing to pass the scenarios right now, I've managed to beat all of them with a Barbarian using Fatecrafter's Tools and Onk's Lockpick; Chest Plate and Onk's Fist are solid choices for the third and fourth slot if the scenario allows for it.

Trapping a Tomb Wraith in the Tomb is handy too, as it makes cursed faces act like blocked faces... I lucked out and managed to have 5 faces on one die blocked: The sole open face had Reroll, 3xAxes and 2xHearts. Another die had either a Swift 2xHeart 2xShield or (less use) blue coins.

As for my own ownage in Circadian Dice:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Moonstone Nexus.

The boss is an outright bastard-- he's got 2xShield, 2xBarrier, Piercing, and Curse-on-Hit, on top of his natural spawning some pretty dangerous adds every turn.

I've got the adds under control, but having to whittle down his hp when he's got -2 on each hit (on top of that barrier) is grinding me down.

Ah, shoot. I have 1hp left, 3/4ths of my faces are cursed, I don't have the gems to cast Feel No Pain for a full restore. He's at 12hp left. What to do, what to do...

Bloodlust. That skill I have and always forget to use. I burn all six charges I can, go up to him, and pop him in the face for something like 24 damage.

Wave 8/9. Fuuuu....

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 27, 2020, 05:57:38 pm

And very happy in Circadian Dice, i managed to destroy that Moonstone Nexus scenario too !

The battle before the last boss had me on the edge, i was wasting red on my last "Feel no pain" charge to heal my guy that life was going down too fast and lost the ability, i was worried about the boss battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZHi6AVDm.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ZHi6AVD.png)

I mean that thing looked insane and i had only 11 health left and my dices were not going to help at all, so this was going to be the only turn as either i won or i wouldn't have enough health left after their attacks.

So i rolled again , wow that's not much better, let's see the last roll...
The double axe , a triple cursed sword a single axe and 1 red gem ? hmm, let's see my abilities,  oh yeah ... oh yeah luck is on my side

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I use the single axe on the boss, the damage spread ( 1 ) is enough to kill the weakest enemy and do simple damage on another, but the more important is 2 enemies are considered damaged (as the dead one isn't counted anymore) even if it's a ridiculous one point of damage.
Why it's important , it's for that bloodlust ability, investing a red gem give a damage multiplier to all attack dice based on the amount of damaged enemies.
So i invest the 2 red gem i had, + the one i had rolled and it's such a great thing because i end with the double axe and the triple cursed sword doing 7 times their damage.

(https://i.imgur.com/CZZT1sMm.png) (https://i.imgur.com/CZZT1sM.png)

So long and thanks for all the fish !

After the little surprise in the end, that made me worried as i was in no state to continue :D but fortunately was just a cutscene for the next scenario coming, Victory !

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/RAFIyufm.png) (https://i.imgur.com/RAFIyuf.png)

It enabled hard mode, the new final scenario and a "campaign mode".
But whatever , i won, victory was mine :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 27, 2020, 06:41:21 pm

So I'm fucking around in Nioh and just fighting Honda Tadakatsu over and over because he's an extremely easy (comparatively speaking) boss and worth a good amount of Amrita. Without even trying, I managed to beat him without taking a single hit - and for what it's worth, I'm using a high-stance axe (slow swing speed) and my weight is nearly 80% (second slowest movement speed, slowest dodging speed). He's only the second boss I've managed to do this on, the first being the first time you fight Onryoki.

Nioh 1.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 28, 2020, 03:37:09 pm

I managed to get blue stars (all 5-star wins) across the top row in Circadian Dice. Even with her fast xp and money gain from her power, the necromancer is tough to win as.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on March 28, 2020, 06:10:34 pm

Quote from: Iduno on March 28, 2020, 03:37:09 pm

I managed to get blue stars (all 5-star wins) across the top row in Circadian Dice. Even with her fast xp and money gain from her power, the necromancer is tough to win as.

I haven't done her third row (or hard mode) yet, but I found she's pretty solid if you play to her strengths-- take some combination of trapper's mantle, soothing collar, and tome of wisdom. Because she gets a lot of xp and gold, she's less susceptible to RNG-screw since you can buy your way out of lousy dice and some debuffs, and into more valuable ones. And as a trap-necro, particularly with the trapper's mantle, you can capture bosses fairly easily. ...Unlike Barbarian, I find her Ring of Fellowship to be fairly weak.

...In other news, you know that stupidly OP "boss" at the end of Moonstone Nexus?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You get to fight it in Chaos Realm. And, yes, it still destroys 3 die faces each time it hits you. And since mine hit for like 6 damage, has shield, and barrier, good luck not taking at least one or two hits. I managed to beat it with a Necro, but died to fear in the immediate next stage... I'd recommend against taking anything that doesn't have a constant passive effect for Chaos Realm-- things like Ring of Fellowship or Onk's Fist are weak, since you're liable to cycle die faces and pets a lot. Though if you manage to keep pets standing, they can end up stupidly powerful. 50% chance to do 30 piercing damage a turn? Yes, please.

Spoiler: "Update: Time Bender at the Moonstone Nexus." (click to show/hide)

So it was a pretty easy time, up to the boss, and, as you'd expect, his mutations are brutal. Petrify and Shield are the biggies, since my damage is mostly 1atk.

16hp+2shield, and my strongest hit is 3atk. This is not going to be a good fight. Thankfully, I have 6 charges of Icicle left, so I only have to deal 10 damage. Survival's not much of a problem-- my dice are stacked (particularly the first two). Die 1: 1life/Reroll. Die 2: 1red1white/Reroll, 2life/Reroll, 1atk1shield/Reroll, 3atk. Die 3: 3atk/Reroll, 1wild1shield/Reroll, 2TempCoin/Reroll, and 1xJunk. Die 4: 1atk/Reroll, 1coin/Reroll, 4xJunk.

So, every turn, I'm guaranteed 4 life, probably 2-3 shield, and probably 1-2coin with 2TempCoin... but I'm also rocking 15 charges of Finesse. With my gem generation and chance to keep a gem, I can cast that thing until I run out of charges... hopefully being able roll 10 of those 3atk hits before run out. That's... what, 30 rolls, plus 4 per turn?

I keep at it with that strategy until I'm down to ~half of my charges of finesse... and he's still at 12 life. Not. Good. I'm considering my options and decide to go all-in on rerolling the shop for piercing/magic attacks. Success! For 12 gold, I can get a 2xMagicPiercing attack. That means with two hits of it, I can drop him low enough to be finished off with Icicle. Got the gold in one turn, burning a few more finesse in the process.

Over the next two turns, I manage to tag him twice, killing him... but 2/3rds of my faces are now petrified, and there's 4 adds left that've been mutating for 2-3 turns. Oh wait-- I got a skill from beating the Tethervore... Time Lock. (Or whatever that skill that allows you to lock a face is called.)

...Yep. I'm going to lock that 3atk face and just go to town on them, killing all four that same turn.

And for all this trouble? 4*. Short 15 points. Damn it.

Timetwister Orb, Fatecrafter's Tools (got extra charges mid-run), Tethermage's Helm (sucks, don't take it... attacks via reroll violate it), Tome of Wisdom

...And interestingly, Timebender's 10* HM unlock is pretty good on everybody except a Timebender.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 29, 2020, 06:11:34 am

That chaos bane guy sounds fun ... or not :D

Still in Circadian Dice i managed to finally unlock the last non-hard mode item, that required defeating with 3 different classes that damned Moonstone Nexus.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/YJUrSKgm.png) (https://i.imgur.com/YJUrSKg.png)

My 2nd attempt was with the Cleric class and i must have been very lucky but it was the one i had the less problem with as i won on my first try (i guess the Weaken ability i got in a level up really helped a very in combination with all his shields) , but the 3rd attempt was with the elementalist, a class that has some good damage output and enemy blocking (due to fireball and icicle from the start) and helped me a lot in other scenario.

But man it was so much harder than i thought as i got destroyed many , many time in the fight before the boss (the one in which there's 2 midboss with high health and high damage that are resistant to stun) , until i got a bit lucky with an attempt with the shop , the boss fight again was won with incredible luck but i guess with the numerous bad luck rolls i got in previous defeats it was only justice :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 29, 2020, 04:44:38 pm

I'm so not ready to get into hard mode , already the first scenario with its surprise 2nd boss when i thought i was doing ok :D

For the elementalist in my clearing of that last scenario i had
-witch's knife
-windrider bow
-bottomless pouch
-heart pendant

the idea is  :
The witch knife usefulness is all around good as cursed enemy that die will give you more, the windrider is a must have for the damage to other enemies when you kill a monster exactly with a piercing (and icicle being 1 piercing is fantastic), the bottomless pouch is also a must in order to be able to afford fast better dices from the shop to replace crap or weak ones you're going to be stuck with for a few battles, heart pendant because it seriously increase the healing from the healing dice (and getting a very healing dice from the shop + heart pendant is a must).

for the cleric i don't remember which items i had, but i don't think i went very different from the elementalist .

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 30, 2020, 08:40:42 am

Quote from: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

On the cleric, I try to add more attack any way possible. The 2 relics that help with capturing are usually useful for that, but it depends on the enemies. The elementalist comes with a built-in "need to kill this enemy now" button, so that helps. Probably the extra charges relic, and some stuff to gain more money/xp?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 01, 2020, 06:43:30 am

There's a "Space Thunder" event going on, which means, yes, there's battles in space. Given that I jumped in blind with no idea of what I'm getting into, I placed 4th on the winning team.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder. Apparently just the April's Fools event. Still, pretty fun and not a bad concept at all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 02:39:57 pm

Quote from: Iduno on March 30, 2020, 08:40:42 am

Quote from: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

On the cleric, I try to add more attack any way possible. The 2 relics that help with capturing are usually useful for that, but it depends on the enemies. The elementalist comes with a built-in "need to kill this enemy now" button, so that helps. Probably the extra charges relic, and some stuff to gain more money/xp?

How do you get the Ninja to be good? There's just not enough damage to handle any enemy with shields, and not a good way to earn money fast enough to gain more attack.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on April 01, 2020, 04:40:54 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 02:39:57 pm

Quote from: Iduno on March 30, 2020, 08:40:42 am

Quote from: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

On the cleric, I try to add more attack any way possible. The 2 relics that help with capturing are usually useful for that, but it depends on the enemies. The elementalist comes with a built-in "need to kill this enemy now" button, so that helps. Probably the extra charges relic, and some stuff to gain more money/xp?

How do you get the Ninja to be good? There's just not enough damage to handle any enemy with shields, and not a good way to earn money fast enough to gain more attack.

I haven't figured out any absurd combos with him that can carry you through HM easily, but as far as normal mode is concerned, Onk's Fist or Windrider's Bow and Fatecrafter's Tools will give you a strong first die, plus Heart Pendant, Timetwister's Orb or Time Vessel, Tome of Wisdom, depending on what you like to do. (I'm a fan of Tome of Wisdom for extra tool uses, and Time Vessel if you're not doing to .)

The Fist will guarantee a 2dam hit, you can punch through at least one layer of shields... and stun/lifedrain never hurts, or the Bow, which will give more damage for less sustain.
Fatecrafter's Tools are a mainstay of mine, for obvious reasons... I only skip it for 1-2 relic stages.
Orb and Vessel are exclusive of each other; take the former if you intend to stack reroll dice, the latter for anything else (particularly Blitz faces).
Tome of Wisdom will give extra stuns, shuriken plinks, and uses of Tools.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 07:45:11 pm

Quote from: Aoi on April 01, 2020, 04:40:54 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 02:39:57 pm

Quote from: Iduno on March 30, 2020, 08:40:42 am

Quote from: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

On the cleric, I try to add more attack any way possible. The 2 relics that help with capturing are usually useful for that, but it depends on the enemies. The elementalist comes with a built-in "need to kill this enemy now" button, so that helps. Probably the extra charges relic, and some stuff to gain more money/xp?

How do you get the Ninja to be good? There's just not enough damage to handle any enemy with shields, and not a good way to earn money fast enough to gain more attack.

I haven't figured out any absurd combos with him that can carry you through HM easily, but as far as normal mode is concerned, Onk's Fist or Windrider's Bow and Fatecrafter's Tools will give you a strong first die, plus Heart Pendant, Timetwister's Orb or Time Vessel, Tome of Wisdom, depending on what you like to do. (I'm a fan of Tome of Wisdom for extra tool uses, and Time Vessel if you're not doing to .)

The Fist will guarantee a 2dam hit, you can punch through at least one layer of shields... and stun/lifedrain never hurts, or the Bow, which will give more damage for less sustain.
Fatecrafter's Tools are a mainstay of mine, for obvious reasons... I only skip it for 1-2 relic stages.
Orb and Vessel are exclusive of each other; take the former if you intend to stack reroll dice, the latter for anything else (particularly Blitz faces).
Tome of Wisdom will give extra stuns, shuriken plinks, and uses of Tools.

Also, related: the ninja's knife unlock looks amazing for the time mage (+1 reroll, plus a skill that does 1 damage and stun for each reroll). Except it requires red gems that the time mage does not have a good way to get. Anger.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on April 01, 2020, 09:13:00 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 07:45:11 pm

Quote from: Aoi on April 01, 2020, 04:40:54 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 01, 2020, 02:39:57 pm

Quote from: Iduno on March 30, 2020, 08:40:42 am

Quote from: Aoi on March 29, 2020, 04:21:26 pm

What trinkets are you using for cleric and elementalist? I can't seem to get anywhere on them.

Spoiler: "5* Moonstone Nexus, HM: GET!" (click to show/hide)

This series of battles is actually worse than it looks, because you have to do three bosses in a row; I just forgot to screenshot the second.

Sad thing: I looked at that Tethervore and actually went "Oh, thank goodness. It's an easy one."

The third boss is technically a penalty for screwing up the second boss, but good luck not triggering the spawn: You need to be able to do like four 15-20dam (less with piercing) hits without rerolling. (Turns are okay, I think. If you can survive.)

(https://i.imgur.com/64ZAXlL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VG2lFGz.png)

On the cleric, I try to add more attack any way possible. The 2 relics that help with capturing are usually useful for that, but it depends on the enemies. The elementalist comes with a built-in "need to kill this enemy now" button, so that helps. Probably the extra charges relic, and some stuff to gain more money/xp?

How do you get the Ninja to be good? There's just not enough damage to handle any enemy with shields, and not a good way to earn money fast enough to gain more attack.

I haven't figured out any absurd combos with him that can carry you through HM easily, but as far as normal mode is concerned, Onk's Fist or Windrider's Bow and Fatecrafter's Tools will give you a strong first die, plus Heart Pendant, Timetwister's Orb or Time Vessel, Tome of Wisdom, depending on what you like to do. (I'm a fan of Tome of Wisdom for extra tool uses, and Time Vessel if you're not doing to .)

The Fist will guarantee a 2dam hit, you can punch through at least one layer of shields... and stun/lifedrain never hurts, or the Bow, which will give more damage for less sustain.
Fatecrafter's Tools are a mainstay of mine, for obvious reasons... I only skip it for 1-2 relic stages.
Orb and Vessel are exclusive of each other; take the former if you intend to stack reroll dice, the latter for anything else (particularly Blitz faces).
Tome of Wisdom will give extra stuns, shuriken plinks, and uses of Tools.

Also, related: the ninja's knife unlock looks amazing for the time mage (+1 reroll, plus a skill that does 1 damage and stun for each reroll). Except it requires red gems that the time mage does not have a good way to get. Anger.

Witch's knife comes to the rescue again, with it's near constant red gems.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 01, 2020, 09:21:03 pm

The Ninja specific seems to be about chained dice as he starts with a few of them and when you land at 3 chained dices at once in a very rare push of your luck it is helpfull in surviving some though situation.

But it looks like no item (well maybe hard mode items have but i'm nowhere near to get any) seems to randomly add a chain to a normal dice in inventory or shop
And unless i have been unlucky while playing Ninja, it looks like shops do not seem to have much increase of chained dice when using that class.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on April 02, 2020, 01:26:31 am

Quote from: Robsoie on April 01, 2020, 09:21:03 pm

The Ninja specific seems to be about chained dice as he starts with a few of them and when you land at 3 chained dices at once in a very rare push of your luck it is helpfull in surviving some though situation.

But it looks like no item (well maybe hard mode items have but i'm nowhere near to get any) seems to randomly add a chain to a normal dice in inventory or shop
And unless i have been unlucky while playing Ninja, it looks like shops do not seem to have much increase of chained dice when using that class.

Well. I got to the Tethervore three times in a row (excluding first round restarts) with Time Vessel, Dagger Stash, Fatecrafter's Tools, and Witch's Knife.

And I almost definitely would've beaten it on the second try if I didn't fail TWO 90% traps.

Edit: Next try--

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(https://i.imgur.com/3FW6DeQ.png)

Incidentally, if you haven't bashed your head against Annihilate before... it permanently destroys a die face. You can't buy new pieces to recover. Which means, play Chaos Realm long enough and you'll end up with entirely trashed dice. I don't think I ever actually used the interesting part of Witch's Knife... I think Summoning Scythe(+Soothing Collar) might have potential. Some pets can hit for a lot, and turning trap->piercing is pretty cool. Combo it with Time Vessel and capture a Tether Glitch or two and you've got a lot of extra gold/health/damage/Dagger Flurry potential to play with. But that's already three slots...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 02, 2020, 05:59:42 am

Can't believe i just got 5 stars (with the barbarian class) on the noxious marsh scenario, it destroyed so many of my attempts, so much luck in shop (and tons of gold from lucky chests that add in the end score bonus) it seemed like something impossible to redo for usually unlucky me :D

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still Circadian Dice
(https://i.imgur.com/n3nBzxz.png)

I don't want to imagine what that this scenario must be in hard mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 02, 2020, 11:50:16 am

Quote from: Robsoie on April 02, 2020, 05:59:42 am

Can't believe i just got 5 stars (with the barbarian class) on the noxious marsh scenario, it destroyed so many of my attempts, so much luck in shop (and tons of gold from lucky chests that add in the end score bonus) it seemed like something impossible to redo for usually unlucky me :D

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still Circadian Dice
(https://i.imgur.com/n3nBzxz.png)

I don't want to imagine what that this scenario must be in hard mode

I just beat it twice, back to back, taking only streak bonuses. 4 stars each time (still not sure this fits better here than loss, but...). Just breaks my heart to miss that last star. Coincidentally, also with Barbarian.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on April 02, 2020, 03:38:31 pm

As prep for playing XCOM 2 for the first time, I beat XCOM:EU on Classic for the first time, and even got the achievement for beating the game without buying a squad size upgrade.

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The funny thing was that my squad had two people mind controlled and I was sure I was about to lose the final mission. Then my sniper critically shot and killed the boss and that won the game, despite the mind controlled dudes and the remaining healthy aliens still running around.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 02, 2020, 06:36:24 pm

Quote from: Persus13 on April 02, 2020, 03:38:31 pm

As prep for playing XCOM 2 for the first time, I beat XCOM:EU on Classic for the first time, and even got the achievement for beating the game without buying a squad size upgrade.

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The funny thing was that my squad had two people mind controlled and I was sure I was about to lose the final mission. Then my sniper critically shot and killed the boss and that won the game, despite the mind controlled dudes and the remaining healthy aliens still running around.

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While I had a full squad, my last mission was won by a MEC simply running up to the final boss and punching it in the face. The punch crit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 02, 2020, 07:14:10 pm

My cousin and I were playing Call of Duty on the map Rust ( a relatively small map) in the Domination game mode.

There are three positions on the map that need to be taken; being in the perimeter of the position will start capturing it, unless a member of the other team is also present. You get 1 point every 5 seconds for every position you hold. First to 200 points wins.

Our team won the game 200 - 0.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 05, 2020, 09:58:40 am

Got my first Monsoon win with the Engineer (first monsoon win at all) and managed to unlock the artifact of command, which lets you choose items instead of relying on RNG. This not only makes the game easier but it also makes it way more fun to experiment with broken stuff like stacking massive attack speed or damage or move speed or infinite jumps or whatever you can think of :D

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Risk of Rain 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 05, 2020, 11:58:22 am

Spent most of the game thinking I was pretty much screwed. From the opposite side of the galaxy, the Torians had declared war after I refused to just hand over the entire Sol system at their demand. That's when I noticed they were flaunting Battleship and Dreadnought technology whilst I hadn't even researched Corvettes yet. That is how far behind I was. Luckily, since they were on the opposite side of the galaxy, neither of us could reach the other.

Then, something happened. I don't know exactly what. Maybe it's the other empires all deciding to send their freighters to me, giving me some decent cashflow to actually get things done. Maybe it's the fact that I picked that trait at game start that gives +25% luck, which suddenly decided to give me about a dozen free Ranger-class ships(fun combination of a Battleship and Survey Ship) over the course of several turns, meaning that I want from zero military to 3rd total just from those ships. I don't really know.

But rather quickly, I went from last in tech to way and far to the most technologically advanced empire, causing everyone else to decide to not screw with me. The only exception was a random event(prevented spying on the other empire) caused a war between me and the Drengin Empire, which ended after I nearly conquered one of their better planets while they made several failed attempts to take one of my worse ones. Even better, when they asked for peace, I demanded that planet and got it.

After that, all I did was sit back and watch the rest of the galaxy tear itself apart in pointless warfare while I went and researched Final Frontier to win the game.

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Galactic Civilizations I.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 05, 2020, 10:43:39 pm

Finally finished Unreal Gold, which is yet another game that had been sitting on my backlog for ages.

Damn that game was dark. Not in theme. Actually dark. Full of dark areas where I couldn't see shit and they expected me to do big combat encounters in those. It was kind of infuriating. And if I so much as dared to take any significant amount of damage in said encounters I might as well reload because it's real damn easy for enemies to just murder you thanks to their high damage output. Didn't help that most of the Skaarj enemies look exactly the same.

Well, that's done at least.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 08, 2020, 02:01:36 pm

I've been replaying KOTOR. I now have enough money, that when I see an opportunity to play pazaak or racing, I just walk away. Minigames are bullshit, especially Bioware minigames (and I say that, having played FF7), but these were so bad they had to redo them for the sequel (because they're Bioware, and are physically incapable of making the decision to just get rid of bad minigames).

Just seeing the minigames there and not interacting with them is so freeing. Partly because I played them some during this run (after beating the Yavin Station salesperson 10 games out of 100, I was done forever with pazaak; I beat racing on 2 out of 3 planets, hit things on my first 3 tries on Manaan, and said fuck it).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 08, 2020, 03:18:31 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 08, 2020, 02:01:36 pm

I've been replaying KOTOR. I now have enough money, that when I see an opportunity to play pazaak or racing, I just walk away. Minigames are bullshit, especially Bioware minigames (and I say that, having played FF7), but these were so bad they had to redo them for the sequel (because they're Bioware, and are physically incapable of making the decision to just get rid of bad minigames).

Just seeing the minigames there and not interacting with them is so freeing. Partly because I played them some during this run (after beating the Yavin Station salesperson 10 games out of 100, I was done forever with pazaak; I beat racing on 2 out of 3 planets, hit things on my first 3 tries on Manaan, and said fuck it).

KotOR 2 is by Obsidian, though in their defence they had like 14 months total to make the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 08, 2020, 04:49:42 pm

Quote from: Teneb on April 08, 2020, 03:18:31 pm

Quote from: Iduno on April 08, 2020, 02:01:36 pm

I've been replaying KOTOR. I now have enough money, that when I see an opportunity to play pazaak or racing, I just walk away. Minigames are bullshit, especially Bioware minigames (and I say that, having played FF7), but these were so bad they had to redo them for the sequel (because they're Bioware, and are physically incapable of making the decision to just get rid of bad minigames).

Just seeing the minigames there and not interacting with them is so freeing. Partly because I played them some during this run (after beating the Yavin Station salesperson 10 games out of 100, I was done forever with pazaak; I beat racing on 2 out of 3 planets, hit things on my first 3 tries on Manaan, and said fuck it).

KotOR 2 is by Obsidian, though in their defence they had like 14 months total to make the game.

It's also a superior game in most ways. I'm not sure why they took out the options menu for auto-pause, decided that you can start as a Jedi but can't have a lightsaber until 1/3-1/2 way through the game, and the characters are...not always great. Also, there is an ending to KOTOR 2, which is probably where they ran short on time. The rest seems to be improvements, though. Okay, they're about equal quality, but aren't comparable in any one area.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 09, 2020, 05:11:55 pm

Finally, finally finished TW: Shogun 2 as the Chosokabe (normal/normal). That's not only another game off of my backlog, but it's one that has been there since it freakin' released.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 09, 2020, 06:08:51 pm

Quote from: Teneb on April 09, 2020, 05:11:55 pm

Finally, finally finished TW: Shogun 2 as the Chosokabe (normal/normal). That's not only another game off of my backlog, but it's one that has been there since it freakin' released.

It’s a difficult one to enjoy because everyone kinda inexplicably declares war on you after you get big enough, including your vassals, which was enough to make me nope out of it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 09, 2020, 06:22:26 pm

Quote from: hector13 on April 09, 2020, 06:08:51 pm

Quote from: Teneb on April 09, 2020, 05:11:55 pm

Finally, finally finished TW: Shogun 2 as the Chosokabe (normal/normal). That's not only another game off of my backlog, but it's one that has been there since it freakin' released.

It’s a difficult one to enjoy because everyone kinda inexplicably declares war on you after you get big enough, including your vassals, which was enough to make me nope out of it.

Yeah. I knew the Realm Divide was coming, so I positioned my armies to blitz the victory condition. I don't like the Realm Divide too much, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 10, 2020, 09:08:27 pm

Building up a ringworld. To do this, I'm using a large number of Planet Generators, which create a random planet anywhere around any particular star. I am also terraforming these planets to get whichever Tier-1 resources I need and whatever random Tier-2 resources I get(the T2 resource generation is the only thing I can't control). Of course, I am putting these in the system I built the ringworld. To feed these worlds, as well as the ringworld, I'm using hydroponic satellites, megafarms, hydrogenators(planet structure that gives water), and comets(activatable artifacts that permanently give a planet water). And the star itself is artificial, created in the middle of nowhere.

To reiterate, I created a star, created a ringworld around that star, and am creating several planets around the ringworld to feed resources into it, all of which are self-contained around that star. And I could in theory keep doing that again, since one planet I control(and have built up to the highest level) has a special resource that infinitely creates random artifacts around it every few minutes - this includes all those planet creation kits and the like. My energy generation is strong enough to pay for it all with ease. The only real limiter is the massive amount of ore needed for the ringworld - 25k, when the average asteroid has about 6k-8k.


On the other side of things, I found a planet with the Vast Plains resource(which isn't really a resource), strapped a planet thruster and some artillery on it and sent it around the galaxy to kill stuff.

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Star Ruler 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 12, 2020, 02:42:04 pm

So I did end up dying without reaching my goal but it was because I was dumb and greedy not because the build failed so I wanna put this here.

What build you might ask? Well, the Forest Gump of course. Why call it that? Because it's dumb and likes to run a lot, obviously.

It all starts with the Little Helper boss item which is fairly rare and usually can't be obtained before stage 3 atleast, luckily I have the Artifact of Command which lets me pick any boss type item if a boss happens to drop an item (usually they're boss specific and Grove Tender doesn't spawn before zone 3). Now, Little Helper seems fairly ok, firing a homing wisp that deals 100% of your base damage every half a second while you're sprinting. Where it gets juicy of course is the fact that for all practical purposes it counts as your default attack hitting. This of course lets it proc every on hit effect, from bleeds, triggering ATG launchers, chain lightning, healing and crits for good measure. Now even if you get it early, stacking it is fairly hard and pointless since it only adds damage and doesn't increase the fire-rate which would be the best thing for us, but we don't really need to stack it if pretty much every other proc item makes it stronger, so instead we stack those and we stack any defense that we want, particularly of interest is the Rose Buckler which gives us a hefty damage reduction while sprinting. Oh and of course we stack movespeed, because nothing beats not getting hit in the first place.

Past a certain point I stopped using both my item and my regular abilities and just ran trough the levels murdering everything in my way, grabbing all of the items and then activating the gate, running circles around the multiple spawned bosses until they dropped dead from the sheer amount of bullshit chaining off of the little wisps, in the process more than doubling my effective hp pool thanks to various items that grant shields on kill or when you get healed over your max amount. It was glorious.

I then decided to stop and pick up a white item while in the middle of a pack of Alloy Vultures which proceeded to oneshot me the instant I stopped moving :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on April 12, 2020, 03:34:52 pm

Quote from: Jopax on April 12, 2020, 02:42:04 pm

Past a certain point I stopped using both my item and my regular abilities and just ran trough the levels murdering everything in my way, grabbing all of the items and then activating the gate, running circles around the multiple spawned bosses until they dropped dead from the sheer amount of bullshit chaining off of the little wisps, in the process more than doubling my effective hp pool thanks to various items that grant shields on kill or when you get healed over your max amount.

This sounds like a build to play with Huntress+Strides of Heresy and Gesture of the Downed+whatever.

Also, in case people didn't catch it:

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Risk of Rain 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 12, 2020, 04:08:11 pm

Hah, totally forgot to list the game there, thanks :D

Also does Strides even work? Not sure it counts as sprinting even if it does let you move around quite effectively. Also wasn't playing huntress but commando, mostly to get a mission done for him, still haven't managed to do the 20 stages in one run part :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on April 12, 2020, 05:20:46 pm

Quote from: Jopax on April 12, 2020, 04:08:11 pm

Hah, totally forgot to list the game there, thanks :D

Also does Strides even work? Not sure it counts as sprinting even if it does let you move around quite effectively. Also wasn't playing huntress but commando, mostly to get a mission done for him, still haven't managed to do the 20 stages in one run part :V

The reason why I say Huntress is that she's the the only one, far as I know, that can directly attack while sprinting.

Haven't tried it yet, but I'll report when I do-- died on the third loop without having gotten a boss drop yet. Doubly annoying since I was extremely well prepped for it.

And I died a second time, prepped for it, without being able to pull a boss item. And it was a really stupid death: Suffocated to death in the Hidden Stage, after getting knocked off a ledge.

Edit: Whoops, accidentally erased part of that quote tag. Also, if anybody still needs Pristmatically Aligned/Harvester's Scythe, today's a really easy day to do it. There's even a guaranteed lunar coin spawn.

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Do the first stage however you want; it's pretty easy, and rush to the Artifact portal on the second stage. Prismatic Trial done in 5 minutes.

Quote from: Jopax on April 12, 2020, 04:08:11 pm

Also wasn't playing huntress but commando, mostly to get a mission done for him, still haven't managed to do the 20 stages in one run part :V

Try using Artifact of Command and Artifact of Sacrifice. Take whatever you want to start off, then go all-in on Tougher Times and Fuel Cells once your offensive kit is good... at around 20 Fuel Cells, your CD is shorter than its animation, so you can fire it constantly. Which REALLY makes me wish I had Gesture of the Drowned unlocked. Around L35 I died to a Void Reaper's implosion because I couldn't be bothered to move and I failed a 93% block rate. Whoops. XD

The reason why you want Artifact of Sacrifice is that it actually makes things way easier-- At first, you lose chests, but you also won't be wasting time hunting for chests or spending money on them, which means the battles will be that much easier and you can buy more drones. Later on, you get a lot more items dropping... And more importantly, all those extra drops you can turn into legendaries at the bazaar. (Artifact of Command works on the upgrade pool, and going there shouldn't violate the Commando's unlock conduct.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 14, 2020, 12:27:34 am

I beat Ultima 7 Part 1! I neglected to do the Forge of Virtue however... Oops.

It was a game of weird polar opposites. Mind-numbing and tedious combat built into a rich immersive simulation, many years before games like Thief and Deus Ex would codify the concept. A rich world full of unique, interesting NPCs in the retcon-happy world of Ultima. A technical marvel that occasionally flies apart at the seams or collapses under its own weight.

I'm extremely glad to have played it, but its flaws run so deep to the core that you couldn't fix them without making a completely different game in the process.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 14, 2020, 07:42:13 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 14, 2020, 12:27:34 am

A technical marvel that occasionally flies apart at the seams or collapses under its own weight.

I'm extremely glad to have played it, but its flaws run so deep to the core that you couldn't fix them without making a completely different game in the process.

That reminds me of them talking about the wildlife system they built into Ultima Online, that never got noticed. Apparently, animals grazed on grass, which would increase their populations, which would attract predators. It was a decent amount of effort to implement, but it was also an interesting system, until players were introduced to the game. Players always killed all of the wildlife, so the system never had any animals to interact with.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on April 14, 2020, 08:41:26 am

Quote from: Iduno on April 14, 2020, 07:42:13 am

Quote from: itisnotlogical on April 14, 2020, 12:27:34 am

A technical marvel that occasionally flies apart at the seams or collapses under its own weight.

I'm extremely glad to have played it, but its flaws run so deep to the core that you couldn't fix them without making a completely different game in the process.

That reminds me of them talking about the wildlife system they built into Ultima Online, that never got noticed. Apparently, animals grazed on grass, which would increase their populations, which would attract predators. It was a decent amount of effort to implement, but it was also an interesting system, until players were introduced to the game. Players always killed all of the wildlife, so the system never had any animals to interact with.

Aye, that was interesting. I found some details here:

https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/06/03/uos-resource-system/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: itisnotlogical on April 14, 2020, 12:13:17 pm

I think part of the problem was that they were expecting a MUD-sized user base, then surpassed that expectation a few times over before the game was even done with its open beta.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 14, 2020, 01:09:22 pm

I'm doing an escalation mission in Hitman 2 (the one in Italy). It has 5 playthroughs, with increasing difficulty.

First step was killing a guy with a sniper rifle, so I choose to start in the apartment with a sniper rifle stashed in the apartment. I can see the target poking his head up from the balcony where I start, so I finish the mission in about 60 seconds.
Second step added another guy. I do the same thing, run through my apartment to a rooftop (planning to leave the building, but I went the wrong way), saw the second guy, and capped him, which knocks him into the water. Being on the rooftop meant I had to take another path to the nearest exit, which happened to be a boat right next to where the second target had been. Took just over 2 minutes.
Third step was that I could only leave through using the boat from last time. No changes to my playthrough, which got me down below 2 minutes.
Fourth step said some of the previous objectives have changed, but I didn't notice anything. 1:34.
Fifth step is to take no more than 30 seconds between kills. Most of my run has been getting to the exit. I think I can handle this.

I guess I accidentally picked the best possible starting location, and got an easy completion.

Edit: 1:26, and ten seconds between targets, and that was only because I was making sure to watch the countdown so I knew exactly how many seconds it took. I'm also ranked #7380 out of 15380, which is exceptionally good for me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 17, 2020, 04:58:30 pm

Opened a blast door leading to a huge stockpile of advanced weapons for the Brotherhood Outcasts in exchange for, to paraphrase, "whatever I wanted from the pile". When the Outcast Defenders decided that no, I shouldn't be allowed to have anything, and instead I and their commanding officer deserved nothing but the full belt of a minigun to the face, I took action. I shut the door to the stockpile, leaving Specialist Olin inside and out of danger, put on the Power Armor I picked up from inside, and drew my combat shotgun.

A neat fact about shotguns, if you don't use VATS to fire, every individual pellet rolls for a critical hit. I have decent Luck and the Finesse perk, so I've got a fairly high crit rate. Which certainly helps when unloading into a Power Armor Helmet. I took minimal damage, and had a hallway full of dead Outcasts. Protector McGraw survived with the tiniest sliver of health left. Specialist Olin was of course mostly unharmed as the fight didn't last long enough for her to open the door and get involved.

As for "whatever I wanted from the pile", it turned out to be pretty much the entire pile, including coincidentally a few suits of Outcast Power Armor... which I needed the Strength bonus from to speed along hauling everything out of there back home to Megaton. That took a while still. (the Winterized T-51B doesn't have a Strength bonus, but the helmet has a Charisma bonus) Also, grabbed a lot of turpentine.

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Fallout 3, Operation: Anchorage!. Added bonus, the female Lone Wanderer pulls of a hell of a sexy walk in what is otherwise supposed to be bulky Power Armor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on April 17, 2020, 06:24:11 pm

Something must be up with the undead in 47.01, because I just one-shotted a zombie. As a completely normal non-vamp non-husk/thrall with extremely little training. Just decapitated it. Then I did the same thing to four more zombies.

But, hey, undead, so I'm definitely counting this as an own.

Of course, pride goeth before a fall, and this is DF...

EDIT: yep, intelligent undead are as challenging as expected. At least those with paralysis. Ouch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on April 18, 2020, 08:20:44 am

I remember when you there was enough glitchiness in to chain up undead after you cage them . . .

The liaison would always seem to find the undead and get mauled by them.  Even undead birds would beat an untrained liaison.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 18, 2020, 01:20:46 pm

I beat Knights of the Old Republic as a light-side space wizard (Scout 2/Consular 18). Even with a fairly min-maxed character, it took some effort to get force powers to affect the boss. I love it when a boss actually puts up a good fight, and if they ever make another KOTOR game, hopefully that boss will also be entertaining.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 18, 2020, 04:47:57 pm

How the piss did you survive with a level 2 character through Taris?

Did you beat Bendak?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on April 18, 2020, 08:09:37 pm

Quote from: hector13 on April 18, 2020, 04:47:57 pm

How the piss did you survive with a level 2 character through Taris?

Did you beat Bendak?

Of course I beat Bendak. He has a very good blaster, which is useful until anyone at all has a lightsaber (mostly, the rest of Taris). I beat him with grenades. Stun, damage, damage, stun, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on April 21, 2020, 09:20:48 am

Was playing vic2 with the HPM mod, trying to form the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as usual. Only this time I was playing with my Polish friend. Did a pretty standard run as the Qing Empire, racing with our Japanese rival to conquer southeast Asia whilst a fourth player controlled Russia. Japan very unwisely tried to conquer too much and went above their infamy limit; of course we as the Qing Empire ignored our infamy limit, but we were deliberately trying to destroy our state power. Japan gets declared war upon by many European nations, none declare war upon the Qing, Russia tries to save the Japanese player. We manage to spread the Heavenly Kingdom's control far and wide before the rebellion begins, upon which we start with a fairly decent army.

I have won and lost many Taiping heavenly Kingdom runs, but this one was set far above the rest by one of our first generals. He had obscenely good stats and two traits - "masochist" and "bootlicker." My polish friend put him in charge of our elite army which he called the "footsoldiers." They were all cavalry.
Our degenerate general led us to death and glory

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 22, 2020, 09:19:54 pm

After several frustrating attempts, I gave up and spent a bunch of time trying to upgrade everyone's gear. I was able to equip two people with rifle specializations with hilariously overpowered sniper rifles, three melee people with wakizashis, one person with a Desert Eagle, and one with a Saint's Gun(a near-endgame pistol). Everyone was armored with Red Devils.

A mission against literally dozens of human enemies armed with random weapons of the previous tier that I just upgraded out of, with so many enemies that you're explicitly told to avoid combat. This proved to be nearly impossible since there's just to many to avoid and their patrols tend to gravitate toward you, at such inconvenient times that it can't be random behavior. I ended up killing all of them.

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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. Purchased it two days ago, haven't been able to stop playing since. I have 30 hours on it so far. Apparently, an update less than a week ago added various Japanese gear and rebalanced melee overall. It also added a Chinese folklore-based demon, the Jiangshi. The only other game I remember playing with Jiangshi in it was an NES game called Phantom Fighter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on April 23, 2020, 01:22:16 pm

Jiangshi aren't that uncommon in games, for what it's worth. There's one in the Darkstalkers series (hsien-ko), ferex, just as an idle example. Pretty sure some in touhou stuff, seem to recall some in the disgaea junk, or at least something by the same devs, so on, so forth. They're not super common but a lot of stuff that includes reference to eastern/chinese mythology and/or undead will include something either called that or clearly inspired by it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 23, 2020, 10:31:10 pm

Did Doom Eternal's Master Level on Ultra-Violence without dying. Felt damn good.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Haspen on April 24, 2020, 01:47:37 pm

On the first mystery, I've found Police Revolver and 5 bullets.

Then got an extra pack of cigarettes, a compass, and only one Student ally... with +1 Perception.

Then I've landslided through the mysteries, even rescuing Dog from botched forest festival.

One-shot-whipped Scissors Woman in one turn, and Takashi-San got the same treatment.

Doom? Only 72% at the very end.

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World of Horror

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 24, 2020, 02:28:37 pm

A minor one, but a really funny one at the end. In order to leave Talmberg, I had to disguise myself as one of Talmberg's soldiers. To do this, I had to break into the armory over the castle gatehouse. To do that, I had to sell one of my semi-limited items that let you save the game(a feature I loathe - even worse, saving makes you drunk because the item is the PC's favorite booze) in order to purchase a lockpick(twice, actually, I screwed up the first time) in order to pick the lock on the chest with the armor. After fumbling with the lock, I armor whose individual pieces were worth far more than literally everything else I had combined.

I slip on the armor and walk out of the armory. I turn around to close the door and walking out two steps right behind me is Lord Divish, Lord of Talmberg. By the by, I'm under strict orders not to leave town. Not a care was given, he just kept on walking.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I'm bad a speech checks. And fighting. And probably everything else at this game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on April 25, 2020, 09:43:25 am

Played a game of Overwatch on the Dorado map, which is a single payload map that you just have to push to (or keep away from) the goal. My team was on attack. Before the match even started, one of our lovely opponents took it upon themselves to spam "ggez" in chat - Overwatch filters it out to say random self-deprecating nonsense instead, but everyone can always tell what it really is anyway. The damage was done. We were out for blood. _{Not really. Just me, I think.}

We had a hangup just outside of our spawn point where we couldn't get hold of the payload and move it very far but after that we more or less steamrolled them and won the map with little issue. My personal own was getting four gold medals - which denote doing the most of a certain thing out of your whole team - for kills, kills on or around the payload, time spent moving the payload, and the overall amount of damage I dealt (as well as not dying even once, which isn't a medal) but the real cherry on top was that the spammer from the beginning quit as soon as the post-match results screen appeared.

Game is Overwatch, of course.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 25, 2020, 04:11:26 pm

Run ragged across central Bohemia trying to gather wedding gifts. Adventures included dying repeatedly trying to recover a gem for a piece of jewelry, eventually succeeding because one of the bandits killing me decided to flee instead of fight(which might have been a glitch). Then I lost a sizable amount of money playing dice while waiting for the gem to be set. Won an archery contest despite horrible archery skills(archery was involved with the bandits). Then I learned to sing to horses.

One of the rewards I got for all this? Short answer: a linen shirt.

Spoiler: Long answer (click to show/hide)

A shirt that belonged to the father of Lady Stephanie, wife of Lord Divish of Talmberg. Whom I then had sex with while wearing it. Horse singing was also involved.

The other reward: "You have gained a level in Vitality."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Come: Don't Care Had Sex

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on April 27, 2020, 08:58:54 am

Got to wave 30 with the barbarian, Witch's Knife, Onk's Lockpicks, Chestplate, and Onk's Fist.
I got tons of attacks on my dice, along with two vampires.
I was basically unkillable after I got the vampires until I suffered from success by hitting a damage reflector so hard I one-shot myself.

Circadian Dice

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on April 28, 2020, 04:02:51 am

FE3H. Finally managed to beat Balthus's paralogue on maddening. I put Shamir in that one spot closest to baron Ochs, and as soon as she disposed of the two lackeys surrounding her, I had her take out the head honcho with Hunter's Volley.
When the baron turned into a monster, I rushed him with Shamir, Cyril (wyvern rider archer) and I believe Sylvain (paladin with the Lance of Ruin). He went down quickly, but I was't sure if I could clear out all the bad dudes that had sprung out from the following ambush. Fortunately Catherine and Sylvain had much greater staying power than I thought, swinging the Thunderbrand to the very end. Of course she couldn't have done it without Marianne who was running around, trying to avoid physical attackers.while casting Psychic on whoever was in range.
Byleth, Balthus and Dedue were still stuck on the other side of the map,desperately fending off enemies from Hapi who, despite amazing firepower, is ridiculously squishy, even for a mage.
Finally I've prevailed and claimed my relic.

Next, I've tackled Constance's paralogue. I've had trouble with this one on hard difficulty, but this time I had a plan: flier rush. Ingrid and Petra (pegasus knights), Cyril (wyvern rider), and Constance (dark flier) rushed to hold off demonic beasts  to buy time for the infantry.
I had no intention of fighting the Agarthian commande before pacifying the beasts; I needed as many gambits as possible, as soon as possible. As soon as the non-fliers cut and burned their way through the enemy foot soldiers, they joined the monster mash. It was kind of a hot mess. Squishy guys (most notably Yuri) got trapped in the cluster of monsters, while more tanky units picked on more isolated targets. In the end it all turned out well; wvwn Lysithea managed to come out of it alive and as well as someone in her situation can be.
The cleanup work was a piece of cake.

The only paralogue left was Anna's, but screw Anna, I'd rather go hunt monsters for that sweet wootz steel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on April 28, 2020, 12:47:00 pm

Finished Warhammer 40k Mechanicus killing both bonus bosses (the DLC and the secret mission-chain ones). No achievements because I dared to use the custom difficulty options. But it made the game far more enjoyable for me, so screw the dev(s) that decided that people shouldn't use the many, many nice options that are in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on April 28, 2020, 04:38:04 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/cEYhP1j.jpg)

Granted this wasn't Monsoon since fuck that noise where you get ganked by squads of angry mobs right off the bat and you don't have any dps to kill them all before they just overwhelm you, let alone trying to kil a double boss at the same time. Also got lucky with that legendary drop so early which made clearing much faster. Past a certain point it got so dumb too, I'd kill a single random mob (and thanks to so many guillotines elites had like a fifth of their original HP) and the ensuing wisp/gas canister AoE would wipe out everything on screen and then some, which would then chain to clear the entire freaking map. Teleporters would start and the bosses (like dozens of the damn things) would die before their spawn animation was done. And my HP, holy crap, base was like 5-6k and then with the shields and other stuff it'd jump to 20k+ the moment I started killing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on April 28, 2020, 05:13:00 pm

Got to wave 67

Circadian Dice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 28, 2020, 05:14:31 pm

wow, i don't think i got further than wave 10 i Circadian Dice.
Have you unlocked the hard mode items to get that far in the endless mode ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pikachu17 on April 28, 2020, 05:23:02 pm

Just witch's knife, Windrider's bow, Chestplate and Onk's lockpicks on the barbarian.
I have unlocked every item I am aware of though. For all I know there are secret items.

As it turns out, a die face only show up to 9 symbols, if it has more a plus symbol is placed on the die along with the first 9

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 28, 2020, 06:07:53 pm

I'm still missing  the 6 hard mode items , getting those 10 stars for each class in hard mode seems insane for me :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on April 28, 2020, 06:55:35 pm

Somewhat ironically, I found that the later stages are easier because you can take more items.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 02, 2020, 04:33:48 pm

Threw a sword at an enemy. The blade knicked him in the stomach, but the handle got his leg. This caused him to stumble and trip, shoving the sword further in and turning a minor cut into a fatal stabbing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on May 03, 2020, 10:48:25 am

Own, and get owned at the same time:

After a bit of gaming of the RNG to make sure that specific skills are in the right places on my skill grid, I have an almost unbeatable build, ready to take out the unlock-required endgame boss at max difficulty-- I'm only vulnerable for the first few turns while I'm putting up (optional) buffs and banishing any maluses before I end up with a really boring 'spam a single zero-cost card repeatedly' situation that can't be interrupted.

Almost two hours later of what feels like increasingly slow interface/animations, the last normal boss is dead, and the endgame one is ready-- when I learned I failed to equip the key at the character selection screen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Neoverse

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 03, 2020, 12:11:21 pm

Beat the final boss in the first try, which is surprising given how insanely hard the Shadow (the previous boss) was.

Ashen. It's a great game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on May 05, 2020, 03:13:59 pm

On the downside I was shaky, *blacklisted*, and suffered glitch sickness.  All the foes were shielded, and called in contractor reinforcements.

On the plus side it was an Offworld Security ship and I had a rechargeable glitch trap and patience.  At some point contractors stop arriving - not paid enough, I suppose.

(Still managed to knock out more than I killed - mostly contractors, but I did have a 5-shot unrechargeable subverter.  It was the key cloner that really saved me time though.  9 levels of security!)

Heat Signature
(Oh and I got in the top 5% on the daily, probably because the final target was shielded and I didn't loot a way to disable it... hooray for windows :D)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 05, 2020, 03:50:56 pm

So much stuff you can just skip by using an extreme range key cloner. It's great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on May 05, 2020, 04:20:40 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on May 05, 2020, 03:13:59 pm

On the downside I was shaky, *blacklisted*, and suffered glitch sickness.  All the foes were shielded, and called in contractor reinforcements.

On the plus side it was an Offworld Security ship and I had a rechargeable glitch trap and patience.  At some point contractors stop arriving - not paid enough, I suppose.

(Still managed to knock out more than I killed - mostly contractors, but I did have a 5-shot unrechargeable subverter.  It was the key cloner that really saved me time though.  9 levels of security!)

Heat Signature
(Oh and I got in the top 5% on the daily, probably because the final target was shielded and I didn't loot a way to disable it... hooray for windows :D)

Nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 06, 2020, 05:46:13 pm

I nuked the wood elves and claimed their stupid attrition-heavy woodlands despite them having completely confederated into one force. Having to play five siege battles (one for each Athel Loren settlement) was tiresome though, especially since autoresolve hates Skaven.

I've also seen some oddities in this campaign like the dreaded Ordertide not having started yet, Kemmler wandering my lands for no reason (it seems the Tourist Vlad bug gave way to Tourist Kemmler) and Grimgor actually performing well.

Total War: Warhammer 2 (Ikit Claw on Mortal Empires)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on May 08, 2020, 02:37:14 pm

Ben playing a whole lot of TWW2.

I have found Kemmler wandering around by Krok-Gar.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on May 09, 2020, 11:33:57 am

Playing as dark side in KOTOR is fun as hell. I just used force persuade on someone with the line "You like me and want to give me money." Also, that was a follow-up to threatening him. Such great writing (A lot of the dark-side choices in this game are better, but the writers apparently just didn't know what to do on this planet).

I did also agree to sell a hunting trophy for someone who needed the money, and then came back to tell her I sold it but wouldn't be giving her the money. The light-side Jedi I brought with me kept saying things like "That's low, even for you." Just back and forth with them getting upset at my character while I cackled madly. The handful of credits don't matter, and I don't need the dark side points, but that reaction was absolutely worth it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on May 09, 2020, 05:09:43 pm

How are you getting Kotor to work?

II you can run on a computer, but one doesnt seem to, from the research I did on it a few years ago?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on May 09, 2020, 06:24:22 pm

Quote from: pisskop on May 09, 2020, 05:09:43 pm

How are you getting Kotor to work?

II you can run on a computer, but one doesnt seem to, from the research I did on it a few years ago?

I think it's Frame Buffer Effects in advanced graphics options. Probably also had to do 2-3 other fixes. I'm running Windows 7, which seems to be the newest Windows that's compatible with anything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 11, 2020, 10:44:05 am

Got a warning that the battery in my right-hand controller was "critically low", and thought I still had time to finish the round. I didn't; the battery died seconds later. So, with my right hand frozen in place - with a sword sticking straight out - and losing the means to turn around, jump, slow time, swing a weapon in one hand(or both), AND open the Oculus main menu, I tried to finish the round anyway.

Ran over to my weapon rack(luckily I was facing towards that direction), pulled a one-handed sword off it, and began slashing at whatever enemies I could hit. A few died to running right into my outstretched right-hand sword. Despite most enemies coming at me from behind, I took rather little damage overall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on May 11, 2020, 06:49:32 pm

A board game, but in an online version and the board title just says "other games," so.

Playing Resistance: Avalon as the Assassin, a spy/red. I wasn't paying attention to the number of blue-win missions up to that point, so I succeeded a mission in order to get credibility... and the spies immediately lost, as there were now 3 blue missions. I cursed myself and my inattention. My fellow spy did too, naturally.

But wait. At the end of a game of Avalon, if the Resistance ('Good' for you actual Avalon players out there) wins the game, the Assassin has a chance to kill Merlin, a Resistance player who automatically knows who all the spies (AKA red(s) AKA Empire/Imperials AKA Evil AKA "you jerks") are - normally, Resistance players don't know the alignment of other players, only knowing they themselves are blue. If the Assassin guesses the right person, assassinating Merlin, the spies win, as presumably the Resistance is just too demoralized without their mascot half-demon. So, I thought, who had the best record that game of voting against putting spies on missions? This was an online game, so I didn't have the benefit of seeing anyone in person. I made my guess, someone who had consistently voted against missions I or my fellow spies happened to be on, and clicked Assassinate.

And that's how, with shrewd guessing and careful observation, in my first ever Avalon-mode game, I snatched a glorious spy victory from the very jaws of defeat.

Ok, ok, maybe you had to be there.

Oh yeah there's an online version (theresistanceplus.com) and y'all should start playing, since I don't really have any reliable chance right now of getting enough people for a game. My username is Sanctor.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 12, 2020, 02:00:11 pm

Working on a relatively small(62m length) zeppelin-style airship design. So far, everything is going fine. It flies, and even has forward/backwards movement and turning controllable by both player and AI(not installed yet).

Did a combat test to see how much damage it could take before losing altitude. I spawn in a Flashheart, a missile plane normally part of the player_faction but I set it to DWG. Its missiles appear to penetrate the (alloy) outer shell of the balloon without visible damage and taking out a few of the allow plates that separate the individual helium cells. This is entirely inconsequential damage. Another missile salvo blows off part of the landing gear, but that's still inconsequential(I haven't put in controls for dropping altitude to land). Then the Flashheart crashes into the side of the airship, destroying its own engines and AI core, resulting in a kill. My own airship is still completely unarmed, and was flying backwards due to inadvertently setting the spin blocks the propellers are mounted on to spin in the wrong direction.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Screenshot of above airship. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/1lZpZ9F.png)

Just a few small issues before I can consider it done. First is that for some reason some of the (steam) engine components explode upon spawning in, and I don't know why. I would assume that the cranks break from overload but I can run the ship at full power and not come close to their limit. Another is the side gun turrets, which each is two 30mm assault guns on stacked turrets(one turret for azimuth, one side-mounted turret each of elevation), ignoring firing constraints to spin around and shoot directly into the ship.

The has surprising survivability. High altitude + ring shield + sloped hull means that it's actually pretty hard to penetrate even the balloon.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on May 13, 2020, 01:44:19 pm

Finished my heavily modded VH/N Arkhan campaign in Mortal Empires. Was a pretty relaxing romp even if the autoresolve hates Tomb Kings almost as much as Skaven.

Total War: Warhammer II

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on May 13, 2020, 04:28:54 pm

Ahhh, total war autoresolve . . . where the ai can be outnumbered by a factor of five and still siege down your town.

You know, when you play out that same battle manually you can win with when its you who are outnumber by a factor of almost five.



P:

for my own 'own':

I just reached 1700 in my EUIV campaign.  Tidore, an island in the Phillipines, wherein I colonied the hell out of the world.  Castile never got the PU with Aragon, but they still managed to colonize Eastern America, mexico, peru, lat plata, and columbia.

I took california, carribias, Hudson bay, Cascadia, Australia, and (oddly enough) Missouri. Brittain had Louisiana, France had Brazil, an Portugal stole tiny chunks of both carribias and lat plata.  Silly Portugal.

This was my third time through this particular country, so I had a good idea of what I wanted.  I rushed to get improved colonies, took over the phillipines with vassals, made austrailia, pushed the mandate from china and into manchu, took indonesia, conquered auyuthian molluca, bitchslapped uppity japan, found the new world, made 120 ducats a month in trade, and merc-hired my way into a gigantic new world 3 way between brittain/castile and co/me.

We did okay, we actually won.  The big problem I had was  alack of agency and my inability to micro everything.  I had to watch the homefront, mop up the errant islands that castile had colonized, staff the bottlenecks of la plata and africa, keep an eye on my privateers who were also watching for enemy transports inbound, watch a 3 way war over the entire north and central americas, keep the war goals safe, and mind the enemy movements over said area.  including 3k strong stacks skulking around conquered territory.

My professionalism was absolute zero, by choice, and I took no infantry buffing idea groups.  I could hire god to make me clay men, but I couldnt just use god.  My units were garbage by comparison.  I exaggerate:  I was on parity with my tech, but they def had stronger infantry.

Im calling it a win - since all thats left is tedium.  Ive proven I can beat 7 strong countries, so.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chobeat on May 19, 2020, 04:55:36 am

Playing Deep Rock Galactic, just bought a few days ago. I'm at the end of a mission, running back to the escape pod and time is running out. I got stuck with some monsters and took me a while to get rid of them. I notice that I'm ABOVE the escape pod so I do what any good Dwarf would do: I start digging. The problem is: I was above a very tall cave and I'm suddenly falling down, about to crash on the cave below and not make it to the escape pod. Another guy in my squad might have noticed what was happening and threw a zipline with his zipline gun right below me and I manage it to grab it mid air and land safely and complete the mission succesfully. Now I get it why the reviews are so fucking high on Steam.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 20, 2020, 03:49:11 pm

Threw my sword at a guy, and missed. Force-pulled it back, stabbing him through the back. I used his forward momentum from the impact to connect a punch to his face. Judging from the timing of his death scream, it sounded like it was the punch that killed him.

On another kill, I activated Slow-mo and shield-bashed an archer, knocking him up against a wall. I raised my sword and stabbed him in the stomach as he fell down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery. I think I need to find a way to record myself playing it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 21, 2020, 03:55:07 pm

I got the “Harms Way” achievement in Dishonored, in which you have to cause 5 unintentional suicides.

The received wisdom appears to be to possess partygoers at Lady Boyle’s Last Party, but I didn’t have the possession ability at that point in the game - and fuck playing through the first 4 or so missions again just to get it for that point -  so I did it like every other ‘chievo by doing it in the last mission.

Evidently when you use Bend Time 2 to stop time when someone has their gun pointing at you, they will fire it, at which point you can possess them and walk them in front of their bullet, end the possession and end Bend Time 2 to see them shoot themselves from across the room.

Highly entertaining.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on May 21, 2020, 08:46:06 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 21, 2020, 03:55:07 pm

I got the “Harms Way” achievement in Dishonored, in which you have to cause 5 unintentional suicides.

The received wisdom appears to be to possess partygoers at Lady Boyle’s Last Party, but I didn’t have the possession ability at that point in the game - and fuck playing through the first 4 or so missions again just to get it for that point -  so I did it like every other ‘chievo by doing it in the last mission.

Evidently when you use Bend Time 2 to stop time when someone has their gun pointing at you, they will fire it, at which point you can possess them and walk them in front of their bullet, end the possession and end Bend Time 2 to see them shoot themselves from across the room.

Highly entertaining.

That's some Heat Signature-level BS there. Excellent work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on May 21, 2020, 11:29:02 pm

Quote from: Iduno on May 21, 2020, 08:46:06 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 21, 2020, 03:55:07 pm

I got the “Harms Way” achievement in Dishonored, in which you have to cause 5 unintentional suicides.

The received wisdom appears to be to possess partygoers at Lady Boyle’s Last Party, but I didn’t have the possession ability at that point in the game - and fuck playing through the first 4 or so missions again just to get it for that point -  so I did it like every other ‘chievo by doing it in the last mission.

Evidently when you use Bend Time 2 to stop time when someone has their gun pointing at you, they will fire it, at which point you can possess them and walk them in front of their bullet, end the possession and end Bend Time 2 to see them shoot themselves from across the room.

Highly entertaining.

That's some Heat Signature-level BS there. Excellent work.

pulls out Swapper

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 23, 2020, 12:56:26 pm

Building a Shipyard(and its prerequisites, the Dock and Drydock), and using a fishing trolley to build nets on a shallows with kelp can provide a city with absurd amounts of food. That one tile alone is enough to feed about 45,000 people, and it's not even fully upgraded yet. By comparison, putting that much investment into land-based farmland would require more land, time, and workers and probably feed 10,000-15,000 people. Pop growth is partly based on how much excessive food is produced, and now I'm starting have too many workers that I can't improve the landscape fast enough to employ. Kelp is overpowered.

Also discovered a stupid trick. Lakes tiles can have fish resources on them(bonus to food), but lakes cannot build fishing trolleys(nor a Drydock/Shipyard). However, casting Raise Terrain on a lake tile, then Lower Terrain on the resulting land turns it into shallows, allowing the seaside improvements to be used. While lakes don't provide anywhere near the amount of food shallows do, they're still more useful this way. Fishing trolleys can move onto and improve lake tiles.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deity Empires. Essentially, a Master of Magic clone with bits of Civilization. I like how there's a significant degree of logistics involved. Troops(and people) need food and can only carry so much(though you can use supply wagons). Industry requires raw material, or it caps how much production there is that turn. Cities that produce more than enough food or material can export some to cities that don't. One of the biggest complaints I've seen about the game are the graphics, but I honestly don't think they're that bad. Much of the game is moddable, including the graphics.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 27, 2020, 03:31:42 am

Mathel the Squirtle, Elmerthien the Treecko and Magnetar the Magnemite went to the sky to awaken Rayquaza and stop a falling star.
They found a Link Box and also befriended a Lunatone named Mona.

When they reached Rayquaza, Mathel used the Link box on Magnetar, linking all his moves in the order Thunder Wave-> Tackle-> Sonic Boom-> Thunderbolt.
Between Mona's Hypnosis and Magnetar's Thunder Wave, Rayquaza only got one attack out, and it missed. It was beaten up in 5 turns and decided to just stop the falling star.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on May 28, 2020, 05:59:35 am

Thousands of cycles. Hundreds of dopey little lives. Who knows how much dirt was eaten*. All in preparation for this base, achieving my first rocket launch at cycle 245**.

I started on an asteroid that I'm affectionatelyregretfully calling The Icebox: A base terrain of Rime, with the features of Glaciers, Frozen Core, and Geodes. It's cold. 333 cycles in, my residential block (including the bathrooms) are a balmy 22F. You can hear clinking noises every time they shower...

The center of my base is a much more reasonable (and, frankly, normal) 130F... mostly because I'm piping water in from 3 cool steam vents and 1 water geyser, running 10 natural gas generators, 2 electrolyzers, and 12 backup coal generators. From the hottest center of my base, it goes from 130F to 31F in 29 tiles. Trying to aim for passive diffusion sure isn't working.

*Some quick napkin math suggests 3100 tons.
**2.2% of players have this achievement.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oxygen Not Included

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 31, 2020, 11:11:26 pm

Speccing my archer MC with some brawler/fist skill finally paid off. Last fight of an arena attempt, me and my dopey ass pickups in mostly iron armor and crap versus a team decked out in entirely mythril kit, kinda' rough to begin with, but we doin' alright, hanging in there, starting to make gains -- one of the asshole enemies promptly breaks like half my team's weapons and proceeds to try to beat my captain to death with a mythril flail.

But it's okay. Cat person ship captain promptly spends the next three turns after their bow got broken just beating. The. Shit. Out of weapon breaking flail man with their bare catman paws. End of second turn they even triggered their counter push, knocking dead man flailing even further away from the remaining fighters, apparently just so catcaptain could finish them off personally. Which they do.

So we win, after my archer catcaptain beat a man to (near) death bare handed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Horizon's Gate. I'm digging it well enough so far, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 07, 2020, 09:31:17 am

Spoiler: First attempt at a proper spaceship (click to show/hide)

Side:
(https://i.imgur.com/5fQb3m1.jpg)
Rear:
(https://i.imgur.com/y8LamQ9.jpg)

View from the helm:
(https://i.imgur.com/Gdx7cL0.jpg)
I wanted to use the thrust controller for flight control, but you cannot set sustained drives with it for some reason. I also discovered that despite the text saying that you don't collide with them, light blocks do have collisions. They're supposed to only take damage from explosions(and maybe EMP), I wasn't able to move through them and was able to destroy them(easily, even weaker than glass) with my SMG. Note, that is glass in the cockpit window, not light-block. Light-block is used elsewhere.

Primary weapon is a large, spinal-mounted railgun, firing a 3000x500mm(5000x500mm with casing) slug(composition: railgun casing x4, solid body x5, AP head, but I might change it to hollow point) at a velocity of 1,874m/s. It fires about once every 30 seconds or so. According to the shell's stat page, Expected AP for the AP head is 129.8 and kinetic damage is 33726. For a hollow point Thump AP is 32.1 and Thump Kinetic Damage is 45846. Test fire vs a Marauder from about 1.5km away, the AP head put a clean hole through the ship without slowing much. HP vs Marauder disintegrated about a quarter of the top deck.

Secondary armament is 4 pulsed laser turrets each with two independently-pitched laser barrels(for a total of 8 pew-pews), split between two laser banks which I probably need to redesign. Defenses consist of two side-mounted LAMs that also pull from the laser turrets energy banks, as well as three ring shields buffering all six vectors(giving about +3-+4 armor rating each vector). Laser damage is... currently garbage. Probably because the presumed engagement range(over 1km), plus the laser banks don't recharge very quickly for sustained fire.

Ship power is provided by a steam boiler with a boiling chamber of 141.6m³, feeding two electric turbines with a volume of 42.6m³, providing electricity to batteries with a capacity of 427,000 units. These are linked to a few electric motors(set at 50% capacity to increase efficiency) that provide a total 9440 engine power at full charge which is consistently maintained. Overall power draw is around 6100ep, up to around 8000ep, still sustainable during combat. As anachronistic as it sounds, a steam generator is the only thing that can provide enough power.

Flight speed can get up to around 65m/s. It can descend to around 220m-250m ASL before it cannot escape Neter's gravity. The ship holds about 200k materials, used for both fuel and to supply the ammo processors. Apparently the next version will remove ammo boxes creating free bullets, so on-board ammo production or an ammo collier will be necessary. Current ship cost is 143033 materials, which will certainly go up.

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From the Depths. Kind of a shame that probably no faction has actual spaceships that fly as high as this one. Maybe Scarlet Dawn but they scare me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 07, 2020, 11:05:50 am

Defeated an ADVENT battleship with 8 Human rookies in Power Armor and 4 Hybrid rookies in stormtrooper armor, losing only one soldier (human). Everyone had a turbolaser rifle, some people had plasma grenades.

At the end people were panicking from lack of sanity, but they obeyed me enough to shoot the last sectoid.

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X-Com Files (mod for OpenXcom)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 09, 2020, 04:00:42 pm

Ha ha ! It wasn't easy but finally got to the very end and took down that damned Cepheus

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(https://i.imgur.com/avp14EHm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/avp14EH.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/E9PvZpPm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/E9PvZpP.jpg)

After learning to why that thing and its repeated high level summons seemed to never get hurt fast enough to die before my character

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save scumming taught me the secret : do not enter the boss room as soon as you have the key, complete absolutely every single room of a level, you really need all the xp and levelling it gives to have enough health, and sometime enough dps to beat Cepheus, my level 20 character kicked that boss where my level 17 version couldn't hope to.

game : Ziggurat

edit : oh and that game has a random boss that could easily be the pinup of the month !
NSFW obviously :

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(https://i.imgur.com/auKXFqb.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on June 10, 2020, 05:58:09 am

1. Guarantee a 7-card starting hand with a "Discard your entire hand for 5 damage per card."
2. Heal 3 damage per discarded card.
3. Deal 5 damage per discarded card.

Have 12 stacks of #2, 19 stacks of #3. (216 healing and 570 damage.) Oh, and only 120hp anyways.

...I maaaaaay have pulverized the final boss in two turns.

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Excluding the turns your deck is broken for narrative reasons.

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Deck of Ashes... incidentally, it just launched.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 11, 2020, 09:53:40 am

Discovered, first accidentally, then confirmed intentionally, that you can grab an enemy by their wrist and force them to stab themselves in the face.

Face-stabbing is so OP that now even the enemies themselves are doing it!...to themselves. ...with my help.

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Blade & Sorcery. In U7 the only way to strike an enemy with their own weapon was if the handle had a multi-hand/sliding grab point, such as an axe or mace, or a mod weapon with the same type of grab point on the blade. You could grab a single-grab weapon like a short sword by the blade, but the game treated it as if you were holding a terrain or furniture item(like a ledge or crate respectively). And the game would never register contact between an enemy and the weapon they were holding(a different enemy though... heh) without you also grabbing it, so trying to force them to stab themselves would never work.

A patch the other day made U8 far more tolerable. Still some lag when new enemies spawn in, but it's still an improvement.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 20, 2020, 03:38:28 pm

Decided that I would do the latest Palace from start to finish in one in-game day instead of being sensible and backing out halfway through when all my guys ran out of spirit points.

Anyhow, this dungeon asks you to get five things, all of which require a boss fight, not particularly difficult boss fights, except the last one, which involved one of my fighters going down multiple times because they are quite useless, prolonging the blood hard fight.

Anyhow, I manage to get though that with everybody barely hanging on so  I can SURPRISE BOSS FIGHT BITCH.

Long ass fight as well. I had to get everyone recovered in the first round of combat, which didn’t really matter a great deal because they all got hammered again anyway.

I kill the enemies and the game’s like lol it’s not over guy. I have to recover everyone again in terms of health and soul points because why the heck not. This fight is much easier though,

Then I muddle my way through that one and the game is still like dude, this is a JRPG there’s more. Minor recoveries this time, but the fight is still challenging enough that I need to keep recovering during battle.

Anyway, I still managed to get through the entire thing in the first day I was able to in-game, sans final boss fight because you need to come out the dungeon for that.

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Persona 5:Commoner Edition

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2020, 07:47:32 am

Actually succeeded on a quest that Cassandra was certainly trying to prevent success on. I had less than 20 days to produce fear gas mortar shells(this mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2012627964)), which requires, among other resources, 15 psychoid leaves. By comparison, a single snort of yayo uses 8 leaves, while flake and tea require 4. The reward for what I can only assume is Batman villain Scarecrow trying to outsource production was a pair of healer mech serums, which I have immediate need of. In particular, I have one teenage girl dying of a cascading brain deterioration due to a semi-botched resurrection.

My psychoid stocks had just been depleted making yayo, and the first thing that happens is a cold snap that effectively kills any crop production for days. Once the weather changes to my favor, I get the field sown and wait. During this, I research cryptosleep caskets and put the poor girl into one just in case I can't succeed(she's at 25%, death is 100%). Then, I get two tribal raids back-to-back while the bulk of my combat forces are off attacking an outpost quest. Note that Cassandra is supposed to give you some breathing room between raids, but this wasn't even a full day. The first attack is split into two halves; the first half attacks my main killbox entrance and gets eviscerated. The second breaches the walls on the opposite side where I built a mortar bunker, and also gets wiped by the defenders I put there.

The second raid decides to wait before attacking, and three of the six or seven of them get wrecked by mortar shells, prompting the rest to charge... right into the killbox entrance. What I didn't notice was a second group infiltrating through the breach on the opposite side. I had no idea they were there until I got a notice about a fire in my base. Even worse, two of them had occupied the mortar bunker where I had just pulled the operators off of just seconds before. Luckily, they were so busy burning my few corn crops(still hurting from the cold snap) that they didn't react to four guys with rifles forming a firing line.

In total I got four prisoners, one recruited for her exceptional combat skills. The rest were treated and released. One needed two operations to attach a peg leg since his right leg was blown off by gunfire - the first peg-leg attachment was botched badly resulting in near-destruction of the torso. The recruit is a transhumanist; she think's flesh is weak, and is ecstatic about having a wooden hand. Note that she came with it, I didn't give her one. I think I'll replace it with a power claw.


Finally the psychoid was grown enough to harvest - I ordered an early harvest around 70-75% because I had only about 10 days left to fulfill the order. I nearly shot the one guy with 4 Plants skill because he botched several harvests in a row and I don't know why he was on plant-cutting duty. In all I harvested almost 2000 leaves when I needed about 400. Then I was able to manufacture about 7-8 fear shells a day. Once the order is produced, I send it with a single colonist and horse, get there after about a 6-hour trip. I hand over the fear gas shells with about 5 days left. The courier returns with the healer mech serums, and I pull the brain-damaged girl out of cryo and have her immediately inject one. She's going to make it.

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Rimworld. In hindsight, I probably would have gotten it done faster by using hydroponics basins, but I didn't realize at the time that you could grow psychoid in those.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on June 21, 2020, 09:17:56 am

Nah, if you had used hydroponics then Cassandra would have just sent a solar flare your way halfway through growing and killed the entire crop.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 23, 2020, 07:49:51 pm

So there's a for-sale Master of Magic expansion/rebalance called Caster of Magic, and I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it.  After a quick curbstomp on easy as an optimized Nature Summoner to make sure this wasn't Long War style of "balance" (it's not, the difficulties are pretty faithful!) I customized a wizard as Lolth, spider-queen of the Drow.  And I intentionally made her... quirky, in a war the manual very much warned about:

One book of each type (including Life!), plus a Chaos and Death
Omniscient (gives a unique resource multiplier for each separate realm of magic you have, like pop growth/production/mana)
Cult Leader (extra power and obedience from religious structures)
Guardian (Sounds nice, but think xenophobia.  Cities of the starting race get defensive and economic bonuses)
Myrran, starting in the (under)dark world as, naturally, Drow Dark Elves

Seems like an obvious build to maximize Omniscient, so what's the problem?  Well, the manual makes it clear that the endgame is balanced around the more advanced spells, spells you can't get from 1-2 spellbooks.  What I had was an economically explosive early-game powerhouse, with the incredible flexibility of access to every magic school.  But only the lowest tiers of those schools.

Fortunately, dark elf units come with various arcane powers of their own!  It accidentally felt very appropriate for playing a deity rather than a wizard, relying on my racial units much more than I ever did in the base game.  My armies mostly consisted of swarms of warlocks (or apprentices at first) screend by invisible nightblade assassins.  I supported them with practically limitless amounts of low-powered blessings and summoned beasts - including, yes, giant spiders :P  Also illusory warriors.

Life magic let me heal the worthy, Death let me paralyze foes and zombify them.  Nature gave me spiders and awareness of everything within my borders.  Sorcery gave me illusions to distract and eventually turn my foes against each other.  Chaos gave me... uh...  OH yeah I could set my units on fire to protect them from melee.  Enemies can't grab you if you're on fire :P

Things were still getting tricky by the end, though.  The Life-Sorcerer started lifting his cities into the clouds and defending them with lightning-tossing titans.  The Life-Druid met my warlocks with human magicians, cheaper and buffed with holy magic.  The Necromancer... was quite happy to trade me some lovely mid-range spells 8)

Holding the entire underworld and half the surface, I would have won by attrition eventually.  Or equipping some proper "heroes" with artifact gear.  But shadow demons fly, have powerful ranged attacks, and are very tricky to truly kill.  They're not even undead, so were able to benefit from my life magic!  The wizards of life surrendered once I had their capitals under siege.  I like to think I let them keep their little magical utopias (:  World conquest seems a little meaningless for an actual deity, I just needed to make sure these mortals didn't get any ideas.

As for the Necromancer - my shadow demons paid him a visit.  He *really* should have seen that coming, allying with a CE deity.  Also, undead are icky ;;;;)

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Caster of Magic, a Master of Magic expansion

Edit:  Drow Warlocks are pretty amazing because they get a spell Doom Bolt which does considerable guaranteed damage once per battle.  So a full stack of them can theoretically kill one to several of practically any foe!  The only problem is that they are absurdly squishy, and defenders  move first.  Hence my next plan, specializing in Blue magic (sorcery).  Invisible warlocks who fly...  Almost seems unfair, but every magic specialization gets apocalyptic game-concluding spells towards the end.  If one has enough books.  The manual did warn against what I did :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 24, 2020, 06:41:19 pm

Happy to have my first victory vs the AI in the Total Annihilation Zero (http://zero.tauniverse.com/) most excellent mod, it was on the simple, small and balanced 2P - Torkan Passage map (it's a map from the mod own map pack) and it was a non stop war with robots and ground/air vehicles exploding all the time from all the missiles and shots flying around :D

Very satisfying after the AI destroyed me in a couple of previous skirmishes with that amazing mod.

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(https://i.imgur.com/XktFgWL.png)

The turning point of that skirmish was when i finally got enough Ballista (very long range missile launcher) to finally rain enough deluges of missiles on advancing enemy armies to stop them from making incursions into my territory.
With truckloads of Harrassers (lowly tier 1 vehicles with missiles) that were dying in seconds but served as protecting wall against the AI strong units, buying enough time for the slow to reload and slow to fly Ballista missiles to reach their targets.
Helped by a lot of artillery canons too that my commander and various builder units were making.

That allowed me to finally get the AI stopped and i could finally managed to gain a bit of territory (so i could get 2 more metal sources) in the main chokepoints of the map.
While in the back of my base i was building bombers squadrons, that flying over the seas from the map bottom could strike on the back of the enemy base, destroying some factories before the many defense missiles killed my air forces.
This still gave me the upper hand as i had now more troops than the enemy (i had to rebuild a lot of Ballista too, as the AI sometime had own bombers strikes making a huge carnage on my massed Ballista) as it had to rebuild some factories to be able to keep up.

With better economy as i used this AI downtime to replace some metal miner by better versions (and some big thermal plant on the vents) i could then get a bigger factory and make some Varjag squads (tier 2 assault bots with rapid fire plasma) to attack the enemy base from another side while my main armies was attacking from another way.

the AI had some destroyers in the surrounding seas, they still managed to land hits to slow down my Ballistas but in the end, the enemy Commander was in sight and became the focus of my whole troops, after taking a massive amount of shots, missiles, plasma in his face, he finally exploded , giving me the victory.
lots of fun

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on June 25, 2020, 03:57:05 am

Pokémon Firered:

Rival battle before Victory Road. My Lv50 Charizard is out and he sends in Lv53 Blastoise. I switch out to Lv44 Special Wall Vaporeon, who absorbs the incoming Water Gun with Water Absorb ability. Vapereon bites Blastoise repeatedly until the overgrown turtle is close to half health. Blastoise bites in return and sets up Rain Dance. Once rain is in, I switch out to Lv43 Raichu, who after receiving a Bite blasts Blastoise into kingdom come with a 100% accuracy Thunder.

I think I've found my Rival Champion strat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on June 26, 2020, 12:53:59 pm

I usually just start with thunder. pew pew.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on June 26, 2020, 08:56:17 pm

Don't actually know if own is quite the right word, but. Just walked into a fight with like a dozen centaur archers, and won the fight by letting them shoot me in the face until they ran out of ammo. Winning strategy: Load up your giant scorpions with void orbs and let things hit them until your enemy gets tired.

Poor centaurs, though. They unloaded like, probably 150+ arrows into one of my battle scorpion units and almost. Almost, but not quite. Managed to kill one of its figures. Almost killed one, out of two. From one of my two scorpion units. Nearly managed a 1/4th reduction in giant scorpion what was trying to eat their face.

Didn't actually manage it, though. Zero scorpion figures dead, all centaur faces eaten. Whoop whoop.

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Deity Empires. Fight took way too bloody long 'cause I couldn't easily catch the forest walking jerks in the middle of a battlefield full of forests, hence them running out of shots before I ran out of centaur faces, but I lost nothing but HP and managed to kill them all, soooo...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on June 30, 2020, 10:49:34 am

Behold the peaceful hobbits halflings.  A simple folk, their love of food makes them excellent farmers but poor warriors.  They cannot build barracks or armories so even their unique unit, stone-tossing slingers, starts as green recruits.  Sure they tend to pack a few extra people into each unit, but supernatural beasts like manticores and elementals are simply immune to such mundane weapons as... pebbles.

Sure they passively produce some bonus research per pop, but such an pacifistic race is surely no more than a novelty to be conquered and exploited.

So... Life magic spells:
Heroism makes any unit Elite regardless of their experience
Holy Armor has double effect on units with weak defense
Holy Weapon makes those pebbles count as magic
Invulnerability because why not, stack those buffs
All the above is multiplied by the sheer number of bodies on the field, which Halflings have
These spells are easily paid for by their Rollout-esque economy that puts even the insectoid faction to shame, and the insectoids don't even get the advanced temples and mage guilds that grant the halfling's wizard discretionary Power resource.

Not enough, we need to go full Morganite!  Economic behavior!
Sanctify:   Makes a unit forego its wage and produce Power for as long as it lives!  We're the goodies!  They still eat, but hey look at that, we're growing more food than we can ever use! 

*cough* Anyway, I knew I was doing pretty well when I happened to contact another mono-white wizard and was unable to trade spells... because my halflings had passively researched a half dozen "techs" past her. 
Meanwhile the mono-black necromancer lord had the gall to settle an orc colony on my shore.  I let it grow just long enough to capture it and start pumping out Orcish engineers to build a road network.  Rush-building every turn because I'm swimming in economic power.
We don't talk about Rivendell.  See, only halflings get the bonuses of my Guardian perk, and the city was in an inoptimal location for my urban development...

Sorry, there's just something fun about playing "good" factions as total monsters :D  Life magic and halflings...  It's why you don't want to hang out in the Positive Energy Plane for too long in DND 3.5.

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Caster of Magic again
Oh and I'm totally "Gandalf" using the Merlin appearance

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 03, 2020, 09:11:44 pm

Got the "Silent But Deadly" achievement... in a tank. The achievement requires stealth-killing 7 enemies from behind without them being alerted to your presence.

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Halo 2, Halo Master Chief Collection, during one of the Arbiter's missions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 11, 2020, 09:30:36 pm

Be Yarkand.
Pump your goldmine up and collect money.
China wont ally you because the recent changes to the map made them further away.
Escape the chagatai chokehold when Proto-Russia dows their ally they have no business being allied with.
Timmi eats a rebel sandwich, and you eat trans.
China lets you eat Tibet, but gets pissy when they eat oirat and border you.
Give land to tibet to separate you.
China eats rebs as you plot on India.
You eat china and then turn around to eat their successor state.
om nom nom more money please.

Was a harder camplaign than before the 1.3 update, due to having to wait to escape vassaldom and china wanting your stuff and india being more united before i could get to it.
Shaping up to still be an uphill battle, despite my monies.  This is my first early mid-game mingsplosion that I can exploit.  Am excite.

EUIV

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 17, 2020, 11:09:04 pm

I think I won?

I mean, I got my family (myself, wife, son, uncle, mother-in-law, and niece) to safety in Obristan the night before I was presumably going to be disappeared.

*KACHUNK*

Ending 18 of 20.

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Papers, Please

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 17, 2020, 11:10:42 pm

How fortunate for you and yours.

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*hugs*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 17, 2020, 11:16:37 pm

Well... I had to steal 6 Obristan passports from people, so...

Yeah the game is very grey with the morality choices you have to make. Let the woman through whose husband you just approved entry to, or send her back to probably be murdered because you could really do with that extra 5 credits due to wanting the convenience of pressing tab to open the rubber stem- Er... I mean, to pay for the medicine for your sick son because you didn’t buy food yesterday to pad your money were nice to Jorji and some other folk so you got citations. Not because you forgot to cross reference their gender or the expiration dates on their documents and consequently received too many citations, nah...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 20, 2020, 04:53:35 pm

After setting up an undercity that spouted plague like the internet spouts memes, I permanently crippled Itza, and their capital... Itza. I proceeded to ignore them for the next 40 turns, slowly winding my way around the southern and eastern corners of the continent destroying dwarves, dark elves and high elves alike in my disgusting disease-ridden conquest.

About four turns before I'm finally ready to bring all of my power to bear on Itza, they surprise me by pulling out a half decent (and slightly plague-ridden) army and heading toward one of my less-protected settlements. Knowing I can't reach the settlement in time, I grit my teeth and manually play the battle using only the garrison army. Thanks to spell spam and meatshields, I take losses but win pretty handily.

Then they bring a second army and reinforce the survivors from the first.

My garrison is considerably weakened from the last scrap, and this battle goes a lot longer. Knowing I don't stand a chance in a fair fight, I continually summon rats from beneath the earth to flank their already-low-HP main lord. Killing him puts a dent in their army's morale, giving me a glimpse of hope. I spread my forces and keep peppering the enemy with ranged attacks until I'm completely drained of ammo and magic. Somehow, it works. Using a force half the size of the lizardmen army (and with way less than half the armor), I barely manage to hold together my quickly-routing rat troops and send the enemy scurrying. Two turns later Skrolk and his right hand man sweep through the lizard lands like a pox-fueled freight train and gobble them up like... well, like Skaven gobble up their enemies.

They're kinda gross, these rat people. I love them.

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Total War: Warhammer 2 (using SFO Grimhammer mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 20, 2020, 04:55:37 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on July 20, 2020, 04:53:35 pm

After setting up an undercity that spouted plague like the internet spouts memes

I see no difference.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on July 20, 2020, 11:27:38 pm

100%ed Mario Odyssey.

Amusingly, the hardest moon to get was not the Darker Side gauntlet.  No, for me, it was the stupid volleyball moon.  The worst part was that it didn't get hard until you'd spent like 90 full seconds of bouncing the ball around in slow motion, so practicing for it was impossible.  I eventually ended up resorting to the 2-player cheap way to get that moon, and don't even feel bad.

Jump rope wasn't that hard for me for some reason, but I also kind of cheesed it by throwing Cappy to get 2 jumps at a time near the end.  Ended up getting about 160 jumps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2020, 06:20:52 pm

After several long and very frustrating attempts, I looked up a guide to beat Barthendalus*. What I had been doing was using either Fang or Snow for their Sentinel role to tank Barty-boy's Destrudo attack, which was otherwise a total wipe. Unfortunately, every boss battle has a hidden timer that, when it runs out, inflicts Doom; a timer with an instant kill at the end that cannot be stopped by any means.

The guide said instead put Sazh and Vanille in, so Vanille can crap out debuffs and Sazh inflicts physical damage. Lightning handles magic, plus healing via cramming potions down everyone's throat.

It worked. I refuse to believe it worked, but it worked. The guide(or rather, a single post offering advice) said it would take about 6 minutes, 30 seconds and about 20-25 potions. I did it in about 4:30, and took less than 10 potions. I've barely bothered with equipment upgrades.

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Final Fantasy XIII. I'm finding it to be extremely boring. So far it's just endless corridors of endless and excessively long fights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on July 21, 2020, 11:05:57 pm

I have to agree.  The game felt like a colossal waste of time to me, and I sometimes regret forcing myself to complete it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 22, 2020, 09:27:14 am

Quote from: Akura on July 21, 2020, 06:20:52 pm

After several long and very frustrating attempts, I looked up a guide to beat Barthendalus*. What I had been doing was using either Fang or Snow for their Sentinel role to tank Barty-boy's Destrudo attack, which was otherwise a total wipe. Unfortunately, every boss battle has a hidden timer that, when it runs out, inflicts Doom; a timer with an instant kill at the end that cannot be stopped by any means.

The guide said instead put Sazh and Vanille in, so Vanille can crap out debuffs and Sazh inflicts physical damage. Lightning handles magic, plus healing via cramming potions down everyone's throat.

It worked. I refuse to believe it worked, but it worked. The guide(or rather, a single post offering advice) said it would take about 6 minutes, 30 seconds and about 20-25 potions. I did it in about 4:30, and took less than 10 potions. I've barely bothered with equipment upgrades.

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Final Fantasy XIII. I'm finding it to be extremely boring. So far it's just endless corridors of endless and excessively long fights.

Yeah, I feel like Final Fantasy peaked with 6, and with the exception of 8 -> 9, each consecutive game was slightly less interesting.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on July 23, 2020, 08:14:53 am

Quote from: Iduno on July 22, 2020, 09:27:14 am

Quote from: Akura on July 21, 2020, 06:20:52 pm

After several long and very frustrating attempts, I looked up a guide to beat Barthendalus*. What I had been doing was using either Fang or Snow for their Sentinel role to tank Barty-boy's Destrudo attack, which was otherwise a total wipe. Unfortunately, every boss battle has a hidden timer that, when it runs out, inflicts Doom; a timer with an instant kill at the end that cannot be stopped by any means.

The guide said instead put Sazh and Vanille in, so Vanille can crap out debuffs and Sazh inflicts physical damage. Lightning handles magic, plus healing via cramming potions down everyone's throat.

It worked. I refuse to believe it worked, but it worked. The guide(or rather, a single post offering advice) said it would take about 6 minutes, 30 seconds and about 20-25 potions. I did it in about 4:30, and took less than 10 potions. I've barely bothered with equipment upgrades.

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Final Fantasy XIII. I'm finding it to be extremely boring. So far it's just endless corridors of endless and excessively long fights.

Yeah, I feel like Final Fantasy peaked with 6, and with the exception of 8 -> 9, each consecutive game was slightly less interesting.

I've always felt the Enix side of things was much stronger, particularly their non-DQ stuff. Act Raiser (of which there was only one), Ogre Battle, EVO, the Dark Gaia trilogy, Valkyrie Profile, and to a lesser extent, Robotrek (mostly for their equipment system). (No comment on Star Ocean. Never actually played any of them.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on July 23, 2020, 08:22:56 am

Quote from: Aoi on July 23, 2020, 08:14:53 am

I've always felt the Enix side of things was much stronger, particularly their non-DQ stuff. Act Raiser (of which there was only one), Ogre Battle, EVO, the Dark Gaia trilogy, Valkyrie Profile, and to a lesser extent, Robotrek. (No comment on Star Ocean. Never actually played any of them.)

Probably true. Although each individual company was significantly better than they were combined.

Also, Robotrek was a good idea. I can only imagine what it would have been if there was a series that still existed (like dragon quest). Look how much better the follow-ups to Soul Blazer were.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 23, 2020, 03:38:39 pm

Survived all campaigns in the entire game.

Scored about 1200 points and had a very high virtue.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A Legionary's Life.

I'm surprised I didn't suddenly take 15 points of damage from a single strike by a militiaman and die, but hey, I'm not complaining.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 24, 2020, 04:56:02 pm

Quote from: Aoi on July 23, 2020, 08:14:53 am

(No comment on Star Ocean. Never actually played any of them.)

Star Ocean 2 was very good and one of my top RPGs on a system that had several good contenders. I never played the first one, and the third literally ruined the entire series both going backwards and forwards with the stupidest plot twist possible. I'd recommend only playing the second one and leaving it at that.

Spoiler: For the curious (click to show/hide)

In Star Ocean 3 it turns out the entire universe is just an MMORPG that's nearing the end of its' profit cycle and all the protagonists are NPCs; everything they do is just some background event to the actual game people are playing. The last boss is the CEO of the company. It's beyond idiotic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on July 25, 2020, 08:23:03 pm

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on July 24, 2020, 04:56:02 pm

Quote from: Aoi on July 23, 2020, 08:14:53 am

(No comment on Star Ocean. Never actually played any of them.)

Star Ocean 2 was very good and one of my top RPGs on a system that had several good contenders. I never played the first one, and the third literally ruined the entire series both going backwards and forwards with the stupidest plot twist possible. I'd recommend only playing the second one and leaving it at that.

Spoiler: For the curious (click to show/hide)

In Star Ocean 3 it turns out the entire universe is just an MMORPG that's nearing the end of its' profit cycle and all the protagonists are NPCs; everything they do is just some background event to the actual game people are playing. The last boss is the CEO of the company. It's beyond idiotic.

Regarding the spoiler: "That came out at the around the same time as .Hack//Sign, didn't it." (Yep. 2002, and 2003 for SO3.) That kind of an ending was totally fitting for that time.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on July 25, 2020, 10:35:35 pm

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Yeah, but .hack didn't have the game characters somehow leave the game and walk around in the real world, and then when their world was deleted while they were in it somehow reconstitute it because they believed hard enough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 27, 2020, 01:06:53 pm

Finally had the nerve to go all the way and finish all 1000 rooms.

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Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. Only time I came close to dying was one of those rooms that circle back onto itself... while being chased by Specimen 6. Also took a few hits from Specimen 8 because of those rooms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on July 27, 2020, 09:26:25 pm

- be burger king
- roll archipelago on a shuffle map
- start with crappy low gold continent, but expand up north to 5 gem tiles in one city's cross worth of land
- rush to optics, gain surprising monopoly on knowing everyone
- choiciest of tech trades
- first pick of colonial lands
- Meet the cast of this game:  ghandi, fredrick, isabelle, darius, de gualle, churchhill, hammi, gilgamesh, shaka, monte, toke, and ragnar
- oh good, a cadre of warmongers on a large map for them to circlejerk around
- ally with churchhill and darius, two great tech buddies
- betray both as I try to balance the relationships.
- end up sided with ragnar and darius, despite betray darius
- break up monty/shaka/ragnar alliance by getting shaka to convert and getting issabelle to dow
- get dowed by shaka and his stack of longbows.  While I have mech infantry
- found sushi company, settle all of the icelands and profit off of literal nothing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dostoevsky on July 28, 2020, 12:22:52 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on July 24, 2020, 04:56:02 pm

Star Ocean 2 was very good and one of my top RPGs on a system that had several good contenders. I never played the first one, and the third literally ruined the entire series both going backwards and forwards with the stupidest plot twist possible. I'd recommend only playing the second one and leaving it at that.

Spoiler: For the curious (click to show/hide)

In Star Ocean 3 it turns out the entire universe is just an MMORPG that's nearing the end of its' profit cycle and all the protagonists are NPCs; everything they do is just some background event to the actual game people are playing. The last boss is the CEO of the company. It's beyond idiotic.

Star Ocean series has a lot of interesting things going for it, particularly the combat system (for the time) and crafting system (again, for the time). But boy those plots were often pretty out there - 4 had its own weirdness, though 3 probably does take the cake.

Spoiler: Spoilers for 4 (click to show/hide)

There's a somewhat unnecessary portion of the game where you're sucked into an alternative dimension's 1957 Earth, and proceed to make some semi-poor decisions that culminate in destroying the planet utterly. It's kind of used for character development? The main plot itself is fairly pedestrian for a JRPG, typical extradimensional evil god-like entity showing up in the 4th act.

First one is a solid SNES RPG that I remember having a fair number of similarities to 2 mechanically. If you liked the second game I'd suggest giving it a whirl.


As to my own tale, taking down the King of the North (well, the self-styled king of barbarians). Was woefully underprepared for the fight, though the payout of the contract should have told me something dire.

I outnumbered them more than 2 to 1, but each and every one of them was a hulking titan clad head to toe in plate, wielding massive two-handed weapons. Crossbow bolts barely phased them. My champion and beggar, Hugo the Meek, who had previously killed a similar Chosen in single combat, lasted perhaps longer than expected before falling to the king and led to a near-rout. Gottfried the Quiet, the faithful monk and dutiful sergeant, barely kept the line together long enough for the pikemen to wear down their Chosen and the massive champion. The champion felled a new recruit in the process; he was a drunkard anyways.

The King himself was the last left, yet still cut down another 4 men (and one brave warhound) before going down. 2 of the least capable survived with broken legs. Time to rebuild the front line, but could have been far worse.

The payout of 4,500 coins is small compensation for the veteran lives lost - some of the first members to join the company. But the king and his champion did yield a full set of exceptional armor and a two handed mace powerful enough to potentially kill an armored man in a single blow.

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Battle Brothers. Seriously, the gear the champion dropped is pretty ridiculous. 333 armor for -28 fatigue on the body, 276 armor for -14 fatigue on the helm. And the mace ignores 74% of armor while doing up to 107 damage in a single blow.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 31, 2020, 05:01:49 am

Finished off the Queen of Night with a blast of light magic, which is entirely fitting.

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Child of Light. Damn good game, my main complaint is how abrupt the ending is. After defeating the second main villain it immediately throws you into the final boss without any prep time or anything(you cannot spend your level-up points from the penultimate boss, for example).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 02, 2020, 03:02:55 am

Just bagged a whole squad of hunters myself.   
I mean, my team helped - we slid into the building they were in with the utmost stealthiness, like some kind of well-oiled, three headed ganking machine - but it was my trusty shotgun that did for most of them, with my (also trusty!) Caldwell pistol finishing off the last guy after a brief-but-intense shootout in the belly of this disgusting, gloomy building filled with corpse chunks.   
We winged each other, then I ducked around a corner to whip out my six-shooter before ducking back out, fanning the hammer and riddling the water trough he was cowering behind - and him - with bullets.   
I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure we found at least one extra body in that building, too, which suggests there had already been a lot of action going down before we showed up to crash the party. After all that, the monster we'd all actually been sent there to hunt down was dispatched almost as an afterthought. I'm not sure if the poison bombs I dexterously lobbed through holes in the roof when we initially came into the building had any effect, but I'd like to think so.       

Earlier on I managed to take out another enemy hunter with the same pistol, frantically shooting him through a fence, whilst one of my teammates mercilessly hunted down his partner who had sniped the third member of our team from a distance. When we showed up to loot their corpse (I unfortunately burnt the other one with a firebomb, expecting his buddies to show up at any moment to try and revive him) they turned out to be wearing what appeared to be a hoop dress. Seems like an odd choice for traipsing around the swamplands after undead monstrosities, but who am I to judge?
Didn't seem to work out for them too well, though.   

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hunt: Showdown.   
This game was a real unexpected treat. I've been playing it a lot. I'd like to say I'm finally getting the hang of it, but for every match like this that goes well I have about three more that are a total comedy of errors - or ones where I just get plain stomped by experts, haha.   
I'm getting better, though.   

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 02, 2020, 05:31:26 pm

Did the mission I had difficulty on. Using the jackhammer on the end of the long-armed excavator, I chipped away at the top, sweeping away some debris with sharp swings of the arm to keep it from falling on(and damaging) the bottom half of the tower. Once I had most of the tower roof gone and an opening to the inside, I poked inside and started pushing out the walls on the inside, again to keep as much from falling into the bottom half. With both the success and failure meters almost full, I turned off the jackhammer and just slapped out whatever wall sections I could. Finished under time, and with the failure meter(filled by damaging the bottom half) at around 90%-95%.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Demolition Company.

EDIT:

Last (vanilla; the game does support mods) mission of the game, I need to "carefully" demolish a burned-out penthouse on the top floor of a hotel using a long-armed excavator. According to the pre-mission tips, I don't have to destroy the walls facing the street as getting debris on the street below is a fail condition. ...Except highlighting the building parts I need to demolish does mark those walls as an objective.

Regardless, I use the excavator as a ramp to climb to the roof, and plant several Level 3 explosive charges(the biggest) on the corners. This is enough to vaporize the entire penthouse at the touch of a button. Instantly fills the progress bar for mission success. Hilariously, in between the game showing the mission is a success and the mission actually ending, all the debris rains down across the district, instantly filling up the failure bar... but the mission was still considered a full success with no penalty.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Demolition Company. Despite supporting mods and custom maps, I can't seem to find any. Especially odd because it's by the same developers as Farming Simulator(and on a similar engine it looks like) which generally does have a fair number of mods and maps.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 03, 2020, 11:23:16 am

I've been playing Hitman 2, with all of the levels from Hitman 1 added (not the original Hitman, the recent one).

The final level of Hitman 1 takes place is a Japanese hospital, and also you don't get to start with your full gear loadout as an extra challenge. It's great. And I just learned that destroying the replacement heart one of the 2 targets is getting installed counts as killing him without all of the hassle of leaving a body to be found. I just wrapped up a bunch of the high-end challenges because sniping a heart through 3 glass doors is way stealthier than trying to distract and move past guards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 03, 2020, 03:28:42 pm

That’s the way you do the suit only silent assassin one.

Well, it’s the way I did it. With my silverballers.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 03, 2020, 06:19:12 pm

I could have sworn I once got Silent Assassin rating in the original PS2 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on that mission where you infiltrate a Yakuza-owned castle. Supposedly it was impossible without glitching, but I remember I just hid in the truck and the ninjas didn't spot me.

---

Did a stupid game setup, with all tech levels set to 40... which in this game means that right off the bat your starting world produces tens of millions of stuff every second. Managed to grab every planet except the enemy's starting system. Put a lot of ringworlds down, and built a scale-1.2 billion ship armed with a plasma beam capable of one-shotting a star... and an over 7000 second reload time. That's a couple minutes shy of 2 hours. I had to scrap an rebuild because they kept trying to target the enemy scout ships, which are scale 0.6(and they missed) because rebuilding a galaxy-sized ship is faster than reloading the guns. Had to reset their AI to not be normally able to target anything, and could only shoot by giving a force-attack order. Which I did, at the enemy's star.

Surprisingly, their star being shot with an entire galaxy's worth of stars didn't do anything to the enemy planets or ships. Tried several things to break through their mass of ships, but they were building them far faster than should have been possible. They were building scale-2.5 to 4 million on planets with 15-20 slots, and were able to keep pace with me building scale-12 million ships at multiple ringworlds which have 100 slots and a bonus makes every one of those slots actually 10 times bigger(that is, one factory is effectively 10). I could not actually target their worlds, since ships block mouse zooming.

Or so I thought. Found I could rotated the map view level with a star system's plane, and zoom in on planets this way. Over a dozen of those scale-12 million ships, armed with TL40 plasma throwers that fire a friggin' star every 30 seconds turned their guns on these puny planets. That took way longer than it should have.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Ruler.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 03, 2020, 08:11:08 pm

Quote from: hector13 on August 03, 2020, 03:28:42 pm

That’s the way you do the suit only silent assassin one.

Well, it’s the way I did it. With my silverballers.

Got silent assassin, the ninja one (with the sauna), and sniper assassin. Took like 10 minutes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 06, 2020, 11:09:05 am

using Flashpoint Infinity (https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/), i was replaying "Spectromancer : Gathering of Power" that i remembered being really good for a flash card game .

After coming to the end of the campaign i got puzzled in how to beat the last opponent (the council of liches) with its huge amount of health. Previous strategies for past opponents didn't made it there, even if i managed to destroy a lot of the AI health i still was defeated countless times.

Until i won

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Wondering if i was just playing the wrong cards in my deck i checked youtube to see if someone has a better strategy than i had and found one that despite i was using a different character class would work wonderfully as it wasn't linked to the element (and so pack of cards) that is specific/unique to each class but it was all about a specific card from earth and water, in fact it was quite simple.

You do everything you can to increase your earth mana so you can bring a couple more master healer , the goal is to make sure your already provided earth elemental do not die. And you play most of the time the lowly mediation card so it increase all your element mana by 1, increasing then by the same time your couple of earth elemental attack power.
Support that by some good "damage all opponent summon" card and you're set.
It isn't a fast strategy but it is a 100% sure kill one, and with 3 master healers at once it's +9 health for you and +9 health for all your creatures by rounds, only if the AI use a highly damaging anti-creature spell they can be in trouble, most normal creature will never hurt them enough to kill them (only the highest end creatures that attack level is their amount of elemental mana can get very high)

And so the deck did the deed (the fire dragon was there so my direct damage the opponent spell would be more powerfull, as the AI started the duel with 500 health)
(https://i.imgur.com/IUtkYKb.jpg)

For the anecdote, apparently one of the 3 people that developped Spectromancer system was Richard Garriot (the guy behind Magic the Gathering)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on August 06, 2020, 01:27:42 pm

The Chasers were forced down in the Antarctic. But they though they knew what to expect of the X-Com. Humans in heavy armor with turbolasers, right? Wrong.

Some were shot by lasers, but most died from getting bitten in the butt by robodogs. They could not see that coming. They did not even get to fire a shot, they died so quickly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The X-Com Files mod for OpenXCom

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 06, 2020, 08:27:25 pm

Took my army of about 225 men against the royal castle of... the green faction, I didn't bother to learn one from the other and it hardly matters, they're all assholes anyway. They had 120 defenders. So far, I've actually been surprised by the low number of troops defending their towns; most had at most a few dozen, and I've only seen one wandering army during my invasion with more than the 120 defending here, and I've taken much of their territory with minimal difficulty.

As for the attack, my named companions manned the battering ram, a few men manned the catapult, and the rest followed me up the ladder onto the wall. Clearing the wall was easy, except for nearly getting shanked from behind by a knight I thought I killed and also my shield breaking. Pulling out a second sword to replace the shield, I rejoined my companions at the bottom of the wall(they broke through at the same time) and charged the next wave of defenders. Unfortunately, during that charge, my troops were either wiped out or scattered, leaving my to finish the rest of them.

The next wave took the form of a line of archers locked right onto me. I ducked behind a wall, and jumped out, flailing my swords. To my complete surprise, I wasn't (noticeably) shot repeatedly in the face, and all the archers were dead. I charged right into the next wave. Despite taking a javelin to the forehead, I was able to push on by myself to the second wall.

Eventually got ganged up on by too many enemies to fight myself, so I stabbed a catapult operator(shutting it down) and ran back to the first wall. There, my army had finally gotten itself back together, and were able to assist me in tearing through my pursuers. That blob must have been the last of their spawns since I didn't meet much resistance until I reached the great hall were a guy with dual swords and some sleek-looking armor was glitched out and unable to fight back while I cut them apart(not the first time I saw that).

I didn't look at my total kills, but I'm fairly certain I killed at least half the defenders by myself. In contrast, my army only lost 47 men, far less than I expected.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tales of Glory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on August 07, 2020, 04:48:11 am

Finished an Ascended playthrough doing the Bleeding Heart Penance in about...oh, 20 hours. That's about 1/3rd faster than my first playthrough. Having all the Relics and upgrades and not wandering around what to do half the time really sped things up. There were some scrapes and some rage along the way, getting used to the way the penance changes your health pool and how fast you can heal and recover from damage. But when things clicked, oh man, did they really click. Some of the hardest fights, after bashing my face against them and mapping out the moves and timing.....I cleaned house. Several fights went from dead in under 45 seconds to "didn't even have to chug for that fight." There's more of the DLC yet to play as far as other penances go, but I think I'm satisfied with this win for now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blasphemous

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 08, 2020, 08:24:55 pm

I feel pretty good about yesterday's Heat Signature win.  Given only a lethal shotgun, too weak to use melee, and too frail to ever take a hit, the goal was to to assassinate three targets while harming as few others as possible.

A rough combo, what tools did we roll?  A crash trap, useful, and... another crash trap.
okay
The best part is that the crews were mostly equipped with auto-teleporters.  Any time they heard a noise (like say, my only weapon, notably lacking the Silent or Quiet qualities for once) they would instantly teleport next to me from a long range.  Likely getting murderized by said shotgun blast.  This game really makes you *baby* the enemy sometimes.

I decided "screw it for once" and murdered my way through the first couple ships instead, taking massive score penalties.  There were several *very* close calls, even getting wounded by a sentry turret.  A guard almost picked me up to space me, which would have been RIP, but I juuuust managed to recover in time.

Third ship's crew had a combination of shields and armor, of course, so my shotgun wasn't going to be harming anyone.  Oh I forgot, the guards with keys tended to have proximity sensors, so sneaking up behind them was literally impossible. 

Long story short:  I went loud, but I had looted a 3-use sidewinder-teleporter.  So each time I fired, all the nearby guards came to me but I was able to grab a key off one then leave them confounded.  This got me to the emergency escape room.  The room next to it had a window.  I shot the window as my target passed by.

Top 6% - ranked 8 in the world, shortly before the cutoff.  I usually get in the top 20% at least.  Am I... actually good at a video game?

Anyway, new day, what's the first loot we get...  An armour-piercing shotgun against Offworld Security who never wear armor, of course.  And an equally useless acid trap.  And *Defenders* with their BS uncrashable shield-auras, despite this being an Easy Sunday daily. 
Fine, fine.  Only top 34% because I cautiously took my time.

Heat Signature (is still good actually) (despite Defenders)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 08, 2020, 08:34:29 pm

Surprised that you didn't end up shooting your shotgun, having a shield guy teleport into the blast, and dying to the reflection. :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 08, 2020, 11:00:16 pm

The gods favor fools, they say.

The gods also favor those who teleport behind a guard, nothing personnel, and sprint around a corner before they can react~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 12, 2020, 03:13:51 am

I started work as a grim reaper, made it through my seven-day trial period and, when it came time for my performance review, had praise heaped upon me!   
They gave me an award (as if my desk wasn't cluttered enough already) and I even got a freakin' raise! ...Not that there's much to spend your pay on in the after-life, or... wherever this is. In any case, it seems like you can get away with fudging the numbers a bit here and there - though maybe it helped that I sometimes went above quota, sometimes below, so I guess it balances out.   

Mostly, I'm just glad I get to continue existing, even if it is in some weird un-life with only my boss/summoner and his adorable cat for company.   

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Death and Taxes (demo version).   

Kinda tempted to buy the full game, but I might wait for a sale.   

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 17, 2020, 11:55:02 pm

Double-posting 'cause, last night, after watching some Cities: Skylines videos I was feeling kinda inspired so I fired up Sim City 4 and slapped together a city.   
I had just planned on messing around and seeing what kind of hellhole I could create, but as of today I have somehow managed to get my city's monthly budget in the positive. Now, this is a rare thing in the cities I pour heaps of effort into, so I am pretty surprised by this. I didn't even have to turn half of town into a toxic waste dump or raise anyone's taxes... much.   

New city slogan idea: Klepawke, the Place to Be!   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 18, 2020, 07:46:23 pm

Rather than skip several floors and get instantly killed by what I can only describe as a "loose flagstone"(or "dragon"), I simply took the stairs and went down to the next level. Which is filled with ogres that are still probably above my party's effective level. Encounters with just one took several spells which only recover using cheap but limited in capacity supplies to rest. Eventually managed to work out some tactics using per-encounter abilities(usages recover after a battle), but they still hit pretty hard.

Found one ogre who wanted me to kill his psycho ex-girlfriend*. I find the room she's in, and she has help with her. I run out of the room, and only she gives chase. Even then it's a very long fight. The two wizards - myself and an elf with a split personality(the other personality is a dwarf) - and the psychotic priest burn most of our spells, and the fight is long enough that the chanter pulls off several invocations. To explain that last bit, during battle, a chanter, while attacking(or in this guy's case, shooting and reloading his gun), they will chant phrases with various effects, and enough phrases chanted will allow them to cast an invocation spell for significant effect.

Eventually killed the crazy ogre, but not before the fighter goes down with a busted ribcage. I take proof back to the quest giver for a reward; a set of very spiffy, human-sized enchanted clothing that makes absolutely no sense why a depressed ogre in a cursed cave somewhere would have.

*A technically true description.

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Pillars of Eternity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 21, 2020, 09:00:12 pm

I've been wanting to talk about Titanfall 2 (co-op defense gamemode) for a while now. 
It brings me joy

The core gameplay is literally the sort of thing I would daydream about as a young kid.  You're operating this stompy battlemech, right, except that you can hop out of it and you're a wallrunning ninja.  You can have a Spartan Laser delightfully powerful charge-up beam weapon that FLINCHES enemy mechs with the "impact", shredding their armor.  Then vault back over a wall and wallrun/space-jump Metroid style to your next target.

But there are multiple titans stomping down this lane toward the objective!  Strike one in the engine and it falters, but the rest stomp on...  Until my titan swishes in! 

Now, I should describe my titan.  There are about 6-7 classes in the game.  Half of them wield some version of a heavy machinegun.  The Scorch, my brother's favorite, is a pyro.  There's a sniper. 

And then there's Durandal Ronin, blade in hand, glitch-dashing into the fray behind a salvo of quad-shotgun sabot.  Mmph.
The enemy titans turn to face the "greater" threat, and I wallrun and jet-boost on top of one.  Grab purchase, find their core- yoink~
My buddy is outnumbered and outgunned, slashing desperately.  I jet into the cockpit, installing the stolen core for a burst of shields.  "Ronin sword transferred to pilot."  "We are stronger together."  I We perform a length execution sequence on the enemy I weakened, but we're heavily outnumbered.  "Multiple titans in proximity.  Choose our targets."  We back away, blocking autocannon fire with our fricken sword, but it's not looking good- until brother's Scorch DENIES the area that they're trying to push through. 

"Eject.  Eject.  Eject."  I do so, but the enemy mechs are bringing 20-ft autocannons to bear on me as I approach.  I activate the glitch and-

exist in a completely separate reality.  an ethereal realm of vague shadows - no friends, no enemies.  is this the battlefield a year from now?-

And back, at the foot of an enemy titan.  Clambering up it, finding it's air intake, dropping a grenade in.  Leaping away from the core meltdown.

My titan... my sword... has fallen as well.

Literally one minute of using my lascannon on enemy mechs then ninja dodging later...
I call Titanfall directly on a wave of enemies.  Durandal plunges blade first, and goes to work.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Titanfall 2

OH WAIT I forgot to mention I get to play as a DROID!  Big ol' blue-glow for a face.
With a fricken twintail of animalfur behind my head, heck yessss

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 22, 2020, 08:13:07 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 21, 2020, 09:00:12 pm

I've been wanting to talk about Titanfall 2 (co-op defense gamemode) for a while now. 
It brings me joy

The core gameplay is literally the sort of thing I would daydream about as a young kid.  You're operating this stompy battlemech, right, except that you can hop out of it and you're a wallrunning ninja.  You can have a Spartan Laser delightfully powerful charge-up beam weapon that FLINCHES enemy mechs with the "impact", shredding their armor.  Then vault back over a wall and wallrun/space-jump Metroid style to your next target.

But there are multiple titans stomping down this lane toward the objective!  Strike one in the engine and it falters, but the rest stomp on...  Until my titan swishes in! 

Now, I should describe my titan.  There are about 6-7 classes in the game.  Half of them wield some version of a heavy machinegun.  The Scorch, my brother's favorite, is a pyro.  There's a sniper. 

And then there's Durandal Ronin, blade in hand, glitch-dashing into the fray behind a salvo of quad-shotgun sabot.  Mmph.
The enemy titans turn to face the "greater" threat, and I wallrun and jet-boost on top of one.  Grab purchase, find their core- yoink~
My buddy is outnumbered and outgunned, slashing desperately.  I jet into the cockpit, installing the stolen core for a burst of shields.  "Ronin sword transferred to pilot."  "We are stronger together."  I We perform a length execution sequence on the enemy I weakened, but we're heavily outnumbered.  "Multiple titans in proximity.  Choose our targets."  We back away, blocking autocannon fire with our fricken sword, but it's not looking good- until brother's Scorch DENIES the area that they're trying to push through. 

"Eject.  Eject.  Eject."  I do so, but the enemy mechs are bringing 20-ft autocannons to bear on me as I approach.  I activate the glitch and-

exist in a completely separate reality.  an ethereal realm of vague shadows - no friends, no enemies.  is this the battlefield a year from now?-

And back, at the foot of an enemy titan.  Clambering up it, finding it's air intake, dropping a grenade in.  Leaping away from the core meltdown.

My titan... my sword... has fallen as well.

Literally one minute of using my lascannon on enemy mechs then ninja dodging later...
I call Titanfall directly on a wave of enemies.  Durandal plunges blade first, and goes to work.

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Titanfall 2

OH WAIT I forgot to mention I get to play as a DROID!  Big ol' blue-glow for a face.
With a fricken twintail of animalfur behind my head, heck yessss

That sounds fun as hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 22, 2020, 11:30:18 am

Y u gotta make me want to play TF2 like that

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 22, 2020, 12:30:33 pm

That doesn't sound like Team Fortress at all.
/s

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 22, 2020, 02:41:30 pm

What is a titan but a level 4 sentry?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 22, 2020, 02:45:38 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on August 22, 2020, 02:41:30 pm

What is a titan but a level 4 sentry?

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(https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/francisco_de_goya_saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_1819-1823-1024x696.jpg)

Edit: And, on-topic, I knocked out the proud and dying achievements in Heat Signature after a long haitus. I guess I'll go after ghost, as long as I've got it installed.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2020, 07:51:05 am

The first city I settled on a second continent has a very dangerous monster lair nearby: several liches, master liches, skeletal lords, etc. Total strength rating is over 14,000. A few of those decided to attack the city literally two turns after I sent the main force of a bishop, 2 Paladins, and pikemen off to go hunting down other, more manageable lairs. All I had in the city were one unit each of spearmen, bowmen, and priests, plus whatever morons were pressed into service as local militia(these guys automatically have auto-battle active and charge towards the enemy). And one city tower.

Attacking the city was one unit of skeletal warriors(low-tier infantry), skeletal lords(big skeletons, very dangerous), and two liches. The liches are a problem because they can summon ghouls, and can regenerate mana, which means they can continually summon ghouls.

I kept my troops behind the walls. The skeletal lords managed to damage one section by about 1/3 before being cut down by multiple waves of arrows, Holy Burst spells(from me) and holy water from the priests. After that, I realized I could win by simply holding the walls. The liches weren't attacking, possibly because their attack cannot damage my walls, and the ghouls were easily held off by my troops.

Round 2, I was simply able to charge out from the walls and overwhelm the liches.

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Deity Empires. I would have save-scummed before the attack, but my most recent save was just before my prospector found mithril near one of my cities, and that is quite rare. I'd trade a significant city for a mithril deposit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 30, 2020, 09:54:03 am

After a shaky start to the mission where I was humiliatingly downed by a certain type of zombie and one of its symbiotic leech buddies (though while saving me one of my teammates narrowly avoided the same fate, so I feel like they probably understood), I managed to redeem myself against more human enemies by going two-for-two on moving targets with my sawn-off Springfield rifle.   

Somehow, this game manages to make single-shot rifles viable, whilst still challenging to use... and of course, satisfying.   
Nothing like firing a shot at the vaguely-glimpsed figures approaching through the shadows at too lively a pace to be, well, dead, then ducking down behind cover and hurriedly clearing the breech and jamming another bullet in there. You can almost feel your character's hands shaking with adrenaline.   
Or, that moment when a dual-wielding enemy just gunned down one of your pals in an absolute hail of gunfire before backing into a doorway, presumably to reload their pistols, and you stealthily slink around the corner in the hopes of making your one shot count before they can give you the same treatment - and boom! On this occasion, at least, it pays off.   

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Hunt: Showdown.

Damn, I really like this game.   
One interesting thing is that it has two distinct control styles - 'gunslinger' or 'hunter'. The small but important difference is that, with gunslinger pressing R2 on its own will fire your weapon from the hip, whereas with hunter it will initiate a melee attack and to actually hipfire you need to hold L2 (and click the right stick if you want to ADS).   
I find that the hunter option makes me consider each shot a lot more, and I like to think it improves my accuracy as a whole. Hard to say, though. It's annoying as hell when you try to quickly use a medical kit but forget to "aim" and swing a punch instead.   
Currently I actually use the first option on my main PSN account and the other on one of my backup accounts that I kinda practice on - though I often end up doing considerably better in games with the reduced pressure. *sigh*   

   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 30, 2020, 10:33:41 am

Too many controls for a controller? Does it have reverse-consolitis or something?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2020, 08:46:37 pm

A neutral deity decided to walk up and attack, only declaring war after the initial battle was over. Which took place at the same city that was attacked by the undead. Results were the same: lungs replaced with arrows. Except now I have more towers, and the towers can set people on fire(even if they miss!).

Discovered they've settled two cities of their own on this continent. Initial losses were two small cities that weren't particularly important and their associated engineers. One of my smaller wandering armies lost half its force, its only survivors were two heavily damaged paladin units, but they killed off an army bigger than it. They've lost several armies in their attacks, and they've got a force consisting of 6 decently-leveled, buffed, and equipped bishops heading their way. The undead lair that attacked the city? These guys ripped them apart. One is armed with the most expensive magic weapon I've made yet, over 120k mana went into it. They've already melted a few stacks of their elite troops.

They've also got a thunder of dragons(I had to look that up) that I've been raising. One of each color. They're not full grown yet, but all of them are cored(meaning I can resurrect them if they die), so I can throw them into battle without much concern.

I should be worried that they'll launch a full scale attack on my main continent. I've learned that I'm way behind when it comes to army building, as of my last save their army upkeep is more than triple mine. Except, I'd been building up my navy, in preparation for an attack on a different deity. Oh, and since I spent more effort on economic development and, more importantly, research, I maxed out the tech line for ship speed. Kind of hard to land transports when your enemy's warships out-run them. My mainland is protected by multiple battlegroups of galleons more than capable of hitting any tile of coast within a turn(a transport has to wait a turn before disembarking units). I've already sunk multiple full armies being sent as reinforcements to the second continent. For some reason, they don't seem to have their own warfleet.

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Deity Empires. I'm more worried about the other deities deciding to gang up on me at once. There's seven other deities, but I've got about 33% of the total world population.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on August 31, 2020, 09:18:00 am

Quote from: Iduno on August 30, 2020, 10:33:41 am

Too many controls for a controller? Does it have reverse-consolitis or something?

Erm, I think I must have explained that poorly. It doesn't have an overload of controls, in fact the control schemes are rather elegant.   
They're just better suited to different playstyles or priorities. For example, you tend to do quite a bit of melee in this game, so the hunter control scheme is good for that - whacking things with the right trigger is a lot easier and more accurate than using R3 (that is, clicking in the right thumbstick), after all. But of course, that means it takes very slightly more effort to hipfire your gun, since you have to hold the opposite trigger to shoot instead of melee.   
Which can sometimes be a bonus, accuracy-wise, I think.   

The whole "trying to use bandages and punching the air instead" thing I mentioned is only really an issue if, like me, you are terribly indecisive and can't settle for one control setup to use all the time and instead go back and forth and occasionally confuse yourself. :P   
Those moments of control confusion are rare even for me, though. I tend to just forget that things like medkits even have a melee attack option on 'em.   
It's kinda hard to explain, but there you go.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 10, 2020, 04:22:00 pm

I just completed a rescue in Heat Signature on a large glitcher ship full of armored guards who also had emergency shields and non-piercing weapons (and a defender, just in case). I probably should have checked beforehand, because I only brought one armor-piercing blade. I almost, but not quite, managed to complete the mission without an alarm, even though I entered into a room with 4 guards (I cleared it without an issue). My glitch trap only had 3 charges, so I used the last one on the defender on the other side of the door from that room.

When you get rolling in that game, you can pull off some feats, and I'm not even that good at vidya games.

Quote from: Yoink on August 31, 2020, 09:18:00 am

Quote from: Iduno on August 30, 2020, 10:33:41 am

Too many controls for a controller? Does it have reverse-consolitis or something?

Erm, I think I must have explained that poorly. It doesn't have an overload of controls, in fact the control schemes are rather elegant.   
They're just better suited to different playstyles or priorities. For example, you tend to do quite a bit of melee in this game, so the hunter control scheme is good for that - whacking things with the right trigger is a lot easier and more accurate than using R3 (that is, clicking in the right thumbstick), after all. But of course, that means it takes very slightly more effort to hipfire your gun, since you have to hold the opposite trigger to shoot instead of melee.   
Which can sometimes be a bonus, accuracy-wise, I think.   

The whole "trying to use bandages and punching the air instead" thing I mentioned is only really an issue if, like me, you are terribly indecisive and can't settle for one control setup to use all the time and instead go back and forth and occasionally confuse yourself. :P   
Those moments of control confusion are rare even for me, though. I tend to just forget that things like medkits even have a melee attack option on 'em.   
It's kinda hard to explain, but there you go.   

Ah, that makes sense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 13, 2020, 06:49:12 am

Finished the campaign in the best way possible. While my sub-commander was duking it out with the two enemy commanders(and winning, somehow), I quietly dropped a fabricator on the only other moon with metal on it; it was small enough to build a Halley engine on it. Then I retreated my commander to the orbit of a nearby gas giant to watch the fireworks.

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Planetary Annihilation: Titans. I don't think I'm going to use the sub-commander tech again. Jerk keeps stealing all the metal then clogging my base with useless turrets.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on September 14, 2020, 11:38:46 pm

4 Dwarves entered the ice cavern. It was immediately clear it would be a dangerous affair; precious ores and metal veins dangling over a 100 foot drop to the bottom. The intrepid dwarves strung ziplines across the cavern, perching precariously on small islands floating amidst the darkness. Carefully, methodically, they mined paths along the outer edge of the cavern, working their way between egg hatcheries, battling the swarm of aliens until they'd reached the cavern floor. That's when the blizzards started, plaguing them as they recovered gunk seeds shot off their stalks hung high in the cavern ceiling. At the last egg hatchery the found a cul-de-sac and fought off the largest swarm, aliens crawling down the sides of the cavern walls to chew their faces off, while giant stalactites broke loose from the ceiling to smash down into the middle of the fight. They persevered, and once all the resources were safely stowed away, they carefully made their way back to the top of the cavern to call for evac. Their planning paid off; the drop pod arrived a mere stone's throw away from them. There was one beard raising moment when one dwarf nearly fell to their doom while riding the zipline across the cavern and was knocked loose, but was saved by the impromptu platforms the Engineer had built previously. They all evac'd safely and went back to the station to get drunk.

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Deep Rock Galactic.

It was only a dangerous-level mission, so not really that epic or tough but man the whole thing was just cinematic as hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MorleyDev on September 16, 2020, 08:01:17 pm

Join 10 player game, see only set to 1 imposter instead of 2 like was said in matchmaking. I get imposter. Go around pretending to do tasks, build up trust, acting exactly like I'm innocent and doing some sabotages that I go and fix so people never suspect me. Then, when not been seen for awhile make kill, sabotage them away from the kill, and go fix that sabotage as alibi. Let mistrust accumulate amongst everyone else, so that innocents get voted off then the voter of the innocent gets voted off. Slowly wittle it down until only 2 crewmates left because they voted out innocent 3rd. Sabotage to prevent emergency, get a kill and get the win.

Managed to win 9-1 as imposter, booyah. Same lobby, 6 of us stayed so we decide to play. Figure hey get to play relaxing 5-1 next after that stress, surely I won't be imposter twice! Oh, I am. Okay then. Repeat until only 2 crewmates left and body found, get them both arguing to me that the imposter is clearly the other one. Win game.

Turns out I can be bit of a psychopath when I put my mind to it.

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Among Us

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on September 16, 2020, 08:37:12 pm

I got the wrapper off of a now and later and left no paper behind whatsoever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on September 16, 2020, 09:26:29 pm

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on September 16, 2020, 08:37:12 pm

I got the wrapper off of a now and later and left no paper behind whatsoever.

Ah, but the question is: Did you manage to get it off your teeth without ripping the tooth out first?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on September 21, 2020, 09:10:01 am

Down to the last floor, and things were looking dire - I'd only just managed to survive the waves of regular angels, and the Heart was hurting - it wouldn't survive a single round against the Seraph. Speaking of Seraph, he's coming into the final floor only slightly hurt - only down to ~2,000 HP (from his starting ~3,000).

I've only got a single demon on the floor, but he's a good one - a tough double striker, who has been spending all game feasting on morsels to buff his stats. Unfortunately, it's not going to be enough - I can see that I'm only going to inflict about 1,000 damage.

So I have to roll the dice - I cast a random resurrection spell. There's nine units in my graveyard, and only one that might save me. I beat the odds, and pull my champion unit - a giant morsel, which transfers all its stats to whatever eats it. Drop it behind my other demon, and I can see that we're now up to to 1,300 damage - better, but not enough. The problem is that the resurrected unit will 'burn out' after a single turn unless you have a spell in-hand that buffs that stat... which I do.

Cast the spell on the morsel, which ups its lifetime up to three turns. It's buffing the demon in front of it by 100 damage and 40 health each of those turns - which turns into 200 extra damage each turn, since the demon hits twice.

It's enough - just barely. The turn plays out, and I see my final demon get down to single digit HPs just as the final attack goes out. Covenant 20 win!

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Monster Train

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on September 21, 2020, 11:49:37 pm

It was, by far, the largest map I've ever seen. Mine a shit load of Morkite, kill some Fleas, and there's Gold Rush. But oh, also Low O2.

We played for almost two hours on one map, because of the constant stop and wait for air. Along the way, we killed _6_ Detonators.

Based on past experience in cave systems that big, we'd learned you don't just call for evac right from where you are, because we've seen the drop pod be so far away the Mule can't actually reach it in time and it just teleports it, leaving you SOL.

So we retreated back through the cave system a good ways before calling for evac.

And immediately guessed the wrong way and started moving as soon as it arrived. We all start heading the direction we think we should go, before realizing the Mule isn't head back toward our initial insertion point....it's heading back to the bottom.

Panic sets in immediately. Scattered, we scramble to catch up to the Mule for its oxygen. One friend goes down, and I immediately dismiss the idea of rescuing him. We have no resupply, I'm on the last dregs of ammo, AND I'm running low on O2. I grapple gun my ass off past swarms of bugs, racing to catch up to the Mule. I reach it and replenish some O2 when my other friend calls out "Oh god, don't fall in the hole!"

I grapple gun again right into the darkness and as I'm coming off my line, I fall DIRECTLY into said hole, waiting there right in the line of our evac. And right about this moment the friend who shouted out says he's down.

I start falling, and it's a loooonnnnnnggg fall. I hit the wall and take a shit load of damage, about 80% of my life, skip off it and start falling again. I figure this is it, I must have plunged down one of the holes created by our resupply pods that have swiss cheesed the map, and our run is officially boned. But on instinct I take out my grapple gun and fire it at the wall just as it comes off cooldown, locking on. That's when I notice the sheer SIZE of the hole I fell in. I look down.

And straight at the roof of the drop pod. I'm about a meter? above the ceiling of the cavern it landed in, literally grappled at the absolute last second before plummeting to my death. And sitting next to me, on a little ledge just outside the drop pod hole, is my friend who'd fallen in ahead of me.

I rez him and we get in the drop pod. We briefly consider getting my other friend, who is only 40 or so meters away (somehow) with several minutes left until the pod leaves, but the 7th Bulk Detonator of the night making directly for the pod puts paid to that idea, and we just evac.

16k gold and 16k experience for a 2 hour run. And the last second panic grapple was literally the difference between a victory and crashing to my death on top of the drop pod in shame.

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Deep Rock Galactic

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 23, 2020, 02:46:30 am

Kicked dad's butt using Aegis, for the first time ever. It was a close fight, but I won out with the incredible power of... blocking stuff.
Followed it up by getting whooped without even reaching him, but quickly redeemed myself by absolutely smoking him using Exagryph. I viciously hurled all forms of explosive ordnance, including hangover (aka poison) inducing shockwaves from my very-spammable Call ability. I'm starting to like my pal Dionysus quite a lot.

Edit - Aaaand, I just escaped again, this time with Choronacht (bow). Once again, the hangover damage over time was absolutely trucking. Dionysus rocks.

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Hades. It feels good to finally see what lies beyond the gates of the underworld.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 24, 2020, 06:40:11 pm

Learned how to operate a barely functional 3D modeling program to make a decent(in my opinion, which could be wrong) early game combat ship.

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(https://i.imgur.com/lsi9GK7.png)

The basics: Two side-mounted turrets and a spinal-mount triple-barrel heavy cannon. Since they all use the same ammunition, they all do the same damage per shot. Or at least, I think that's how it works, and every weapon lists the same damage on the checklist. Only thing wrong with it is that the doors are technically too low for a full-sized human to enter without crouching, but that doesn't actually stop you from phasing through the wall. I can't fix it either, since no matter how I alter the door, room, and hull meshes there's still part of it in the way.

Spoiler: Design stats; long wall of text (click to show/hide)

Imp-class Corvette by Akura
ATMOSPHERIC SPACESHIP
Minimum Manufacture Quality 1
Estimated Cost 129,000¢ Using Q1 Components
Landing Orientation: Land on Belly, with +Z Up

HULL
Metal Q1 Construction
Armor 4 Absorbs 9%+45hp Damage
Framework 44% of Structure
3,391m³ Volume
29m Length
26m Width
9m Height
535,789kg Mass
299,644kg Equipment
2,800kg Fuel
233,345kg Hull
Model Size
2,090 Faces
3,752 Triangles

ENGINEERING
853m³ Maneuver Drive
Gravity Drive Module Q1
223m/sec² Acceleration
36m/sec² Vertical Acceleration
Power Consumption
0.0414 Terawatts Idling: Life Support, Maneuver Drive, Sensor Powered On.
0.007 Terawatts Holding: Life Support, Sensor Powered On. Maneuver Drive Holding.
34m³ Capacitor
Capacitor Module Q1
Storage 4.22 Terajoules.
20m³ Power Plant
Hydrogen Power Plant Module Q1
Ouput 0.21 Terawatts
Capacitor Fill Time 24 sec While Idling

FUEL
40m³ Fuel Cell
1,412 Units of Hydrogen (H²)
4.0 days at 357.29 Units H² per Real Day Idling
23.2 days at 60.76 Units H² per Real Day Holding

AVIONICS
Command And Control Module Q1
Command Console, Part Id 58
Engineer Console 1, Part Id 59
Fire Control Console 1, Ballistic Weapon Bay Module, Part Id 64
Helm Console, Part Id 57
Sensor Console, Sensor Module, Part Id 60
42m³ Life Support
Life Support Gravity Module Q1
30m³ Sensor
Sensor Module Q1
Orbital Range 29,425m Coverage Radius
3.1pc Warp Signature Detection Range if Equipped with Warp FTL Drive

ARMAMENT
Bay 64, 109m³
Ballistic Weapon Bay Module Q1
3 Cannon Barrels
Targeting Range 28,439m
Example Firing Heavy Arms Ammunition Pi Flawed Q1
One Round Damage 27-90hp, 3m Radius
Full Barrage of 3 Damage 79-270hp, 3m Radius
2 Turrets
Turret - 52
Ballistic Weapon Turret Module Q1
Example Firing Heavy Arms Ammunition Pi Flawed Q1
Damage 27-90hp, 3m Radius
Turret - 55
Ballistic Weapon Turret Module Q1
Example Firing Heavy Arms Ammunition Pi Flawed Q1
Damage 27-90hp, 3m Radius

CREW
4 Crew Stations
2 Turret Gunners

QUARTERS
1 Capt Berths
1 Officer Berths
4 Crew Berths
2 Troop Berths

HOLD
100m³ Storage Space
Room for 1,177 Commodities
Room for 0 TEUs

DAMAGE CONTROL
6,045 Total Hit Points
5,891 Structure Hit Points
4,460 Framework
30 Fuel Cell
75 Hold
1,326 Hull
154 Equipment Hit Points
4 Capacitor
5 Command and Control
5 Life Support
117 Maneuver Drive
2 Power Plant
4 Sensor
2 Turret
15 Weapon

MANUFACTURE
Build time estimate and manufacturing process are based on the original design configuration. This information does not change when modules are installed or systems are refit later.
Estimated Build Time 2 minutes, 23 seconds.
17 Ballistic Weapon Bay Module
2 Ballistic Weapon Turret Module
5 Capacitor Module
5 Command And Control Module
7 Electronic Part
118 Gravity Drive Module
3 Hydrogen Power Plant Module
6 Life Support Gravity Module
7 Mechanical Part
911 Metal
16 Plastic
6 Sensor Module
16 Textiles
Electricity
Fitting Wrench
Glue Gun
Hammer
Sewing Needle
Soldering Iron
Wrench

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Shores of Hazeron, offline designer. I don't actually have an account yet, I'm still designing buildings to make up for the significant lack of the ones provided by Haxus(some of which don't even work). I'm almost done with that, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Blaze on September 25, 2020, 01:10:17 am

Apparently I completed the entire campaign of Dying Light in less than 15 minutes.

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I was in a Be The Zombie PVP match, and when I pounced the 9/10 lives, the credits started, I was booted back to the main menu, and was congratulated for finishing the campaign.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 25, 2020, 02:05:55 am

Quote from: Blaze on September 25, 2020, 01:10:17 am

Apparently I completed the entire campaign of Dying Light in less than 15 minutes.

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I was in a Be The Zombie PVP match, and when I pounced the 9/10 lives, the credits started, I was booted back to the main menu, and was congratulated for finishing the campaign.

That... is pretty hilarious. Did you get an achievement for it, too?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 04, 2020, 12:21:30 pm

Destroyed the asteroid threatening my homeworld, with about 3 hours to spare. Would have done it much sooner, but twice I had to return to my homeworld because I never picked up a beam weapon lens. In the end I took just a few shots to destroy it.

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Shores of Hazeron. And as I was typing this, the ship that was destroyed the asteroid dropped out of a wormhole into the sun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 04, 2020, 07:07:32 pm

I found *too much* resources in No Man's Sky (a game about collecting resources and making stuff out of them). I found 23 alien devices that each gave 1 navigation data, or rarely a piece of information that told where a suit upgrade was, then another 8-ish. I use around 4 on the planets I'm exploring enough to use them on (although the suit upgrade data always gets used).

That's aside from the obscene amount of money I made while exploring the ocean trying to find new animals for a few hours. I'll just assume that planet is bugged, because 2/6 sea animals show up ever.

Finding out that 3/5 of the "junk" items can be turned into nanites (rare-ish currency for upgrades) didn't hurt, either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on October 07, 2020, 01:17:35 pm

Couldn't leave things on a defeat (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg8197779#msg8197779)

So Tar Fields again on Mindustry, with the goal to not only get the thorium ores i needed to unlock the thorium reactor but to prepare my defense to destroy that damned boss that comes if you start wave 31

This time i built a lot more of anti air cannons (the scatter thingy) than i usually make, judging from my past defeat that now it should be enough.

It went well, until wave 30 there's nothing much to fear , some basic defense and guns will be enough to stop any intrusion (the air units being more of a laugh considering how much more scatter cannons i had this time).

Then despite my launch pads certainly had saved enough thorium, i still launched wave 31 to see if that boss would finally give up against my better prepared battlefield.

It was still insanely resilient and managed to destroy a bunch of things, but i had enough scatter cannons left to finally destroy the flying annoyance.

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(https://i.imgur.com/1X38TcK.jpg)

After that up to wave 40 it was again very easy, and i decided to end the game there as i imagine i had way more Thorium saved than i needed and i had other things to do anyways :)

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(https://i.imgur.com/dnkezfI.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on October 07, 2020, 08:14:25 pm

Slay the Spire downfall mod. Endless mode, certain future, guardian, just ascension 1, but still. Stasis engines (Play 3 zero cost cards, get 1 energy, draw one -- one upgraded and thus innate, two more unupgraded in deck), mummified hand, dead branch. Lots of crystal shivs and wards. It was happening occasionally before the end of the first round, but by act 3 take two... I'm infinite, turn one. Every fight since one in the second cycle act 1. Not only do I not run out of energy or cards, I'm massively energy positive by the time the second or third stasis engine gets in play (helped along by a couple +energy bauble beams).

And it's, like. Scaling infinite, so it still wrecks time eater. Plenty of block, strength and dex goes up between kunai and shuriken and momentary boosts+artifact charges. Crystal beam (scales with socketed gems) and well over a dozen socketed gems. This has gotten delightfully silly. It's like a mummified hand/dead branch silent shiv deck, except all your backflips and whatnot also give you shivs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 08, 2020, 05:54:55 am

Successfully built a base so far.

Chose to settle on Howler's Maze since it's only got crabs, which are slow as hell. They're an annoyance with their constant patrols through the settlement, but I'll have a wall up soon to keep them out. I've had one raid from some Reavers. I hid on the roof of my shack until they "left", which is to say they all stopped responding inside said shack. After that cleanup was trivial, and after a few were out they all left.

Farming's getting set up, I can't grow riceweed or cactus but whatever, I can live on meatwraps and foodcubes. This is going to make a great base of operations for my future overthrowing of the Holy Nations and United Cities.

Kenshi

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 08, 2020, 11:24:05 am

I built two Activated Indium Outposts. 40 million units per 10 hours in real time. And growing as I add storage/output.

The Game That Shall Not Be Named.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 08, 2020, 01:08:14 pm

And what would that be

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 08, 2020, 01:20:46 pm

Oh yeah, I guess the No Man's Sky thread had a lot of drama back in early access release?  I forgot about that.

---

I don't have time for a proper story but...  It's been intensely satisfying to roll up to Humanist villas with proper weapons. 
Originally I had to make a careful approach in the dark of night, scouting out their armored car and trying to disable it with single use LASS launchers.  Then clear the building by hand, trying not to get flanked with our flak vests and, heh, tower shields.

Nowadays I can just roll up and minigun the genocidal fucks with several hundred pounds of hullmetal rounds.  Goes through walls, floors, and Nazi cosplayers~
As for the armored car, one of my human allies pilots a fricken mecha with a vulcan cannon, which she uses to thoroughly disavow.

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X-Piratez

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Urist McSpike on October 08, 2020, 09:04:48 pm

Battletech (https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/)

Recent purchase, started playing the campaign.  Story missions advance the story, but you can run around doing other random missions for money, xp & loot.  I'm pretty early, only a couple of story missions along (just found out the identity of my backer).  Anyhoo..

Random mission - Clash of Titans.  They detected an assault mech (80-100 ton range) powering up, and then another assault also powering up nearby.  Your mission is to go in, bait them into fighting each other, then clean up the leftovers.  Negotiate for max salvage, and go in with my lance consisting of 55, 50, 45 & 35 ton mechs.  I end up getting a complete set of 3/3 salvage for a 100 ton Atlas...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on October 10, 2020, 06:54:59 am

First time in Zorbus i managed to kill that kobold tribe leader, i guess my character is much more promising than my previous ones.
It was a very fun battle, my old hippofolk pal unfortunately died, but managed to tame/recruit a lion (that died) , an elephant (that died) and a gorilla (that survived) all helped in the big scale battle i was in.

Running away a lot to hide and recover, closing doors, setting chokepoint to avoid getting overwhelmed (there was a couple of chaman roaming around that were summoning animals to help them).

But finally we fought and destroyed them all, clearing this 2nd floor (and getting some very good loot, no wonder that kobold tribe leader was the bane of many of my previous characters),

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(https://i.imgur.com/GJbWss5.png)

We even managed to discover a hidden room that ended a bit disapointing in term of loot.

Entered a portal to the trading plane and could only buy 2 healing potion (as i was out of them) as everything awesome in the shops are too expensive at my level of finances.

But i recruited a warrior on that plane before going back to the dungeon and going to floor 3, we're both level 3 and less squishy than our usual, hopefully it's going to get better for our survival.

The game is really one of the best roguelike as it feels "alive" with rooms that seems to have each a story behind them and the AI is actually great, they talk, banter , they can be afraid for their life when things do not go their way and run away, they're not in a boring "everyone vs the player" situation and can duke it out between themselves.

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(https://i.imgur.com/l6tPnkp.png)

edit :
lost allies, gained other, the battle with the goblin king and his lackeys was very hard but with good use of shadows we could finally pick them one after another , then run away to rest and come back, until only the goblin king was standing.

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(https://i.imgur.com/wVjAgcA.png)

He was hard but my rapier of cold was harder.
This battle with the goblins nearly felt like an epic boss fight situation , and it's only the 3 floor of the dungeon :D

edit more :
my character reached level 5 (a very first for me in Zorbus) , was disapointed that the skill point i added in melee opened new talents , but i didn't had any talent point to get any of them, looks like i'll have to wait for level 6 to get one.

Anyways, after some battle in a large prison-like area, found a new ally as i was alone (lost many good people and animals so far) .
With the precious help of that unicorn murder machine we managed to destroy a Hobgoblin warlord with his troops using lot of hit and run (the unicorn covered my retreat nicely every time, i wonder how he survived the whole ordeal), rest away and attract enemy to convenient places.

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(https://i.imgur.com/PQYp0KM.png)

Hopefully after all the loot, now that i am very well equipped i should keep that character alive for more floors

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 11, 2020, 05:46:28 pm

Successfully defended against the Reavers. Given they send a lot of men and are pretty well trained (even if their armour and weapons are relatively shit) this is an accomplishment. I got half of them using my 6 MKII harpoon turrets before they even breached the gate. The harpoons made a mess of all the ranged guys, my men took out a few more (they're mostly untrained, so they weren't going to splatter them), everyone but the turret guys got knocked out and they went for the watchtowers, but because the two towers are opposite each other they can actually shoot at targets on the others roof, so the four or so remaining reavers got splattered. Had to deal with the occasional one that'd wake up, but that was easy enough.

Couple of my guys got enslaved, but they were freed before the raiders even left town. Had to redistribute all the stolen weapons which was annoying and they can't go into civilisation until the slave status wears off, but on the whole it was incredibly successful.

Kenshi

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on October 12, 2020, 09:48:59 am

Some Zorbus progress

I knew it would be worth it to gain more level (and so have an ally gaining more too), better equipment and come back to finally fight those 2 crazy women that were too overpowered at the floor they were when i ran into them, they killed many of my allies when i was trying to come back once a while thinking a new level was enough, and it was not.

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After an opening in which i used my nice sling of fire +3 with some good strong bullets of idontrememberwhatitwas to attract them in the dark, while i had told my ally to wait in another room (to avoid the AI from doing something stupid and ruining my plan) i waited for the boost both "terminatrix" got from the potions they drank when they were attacked to finally disappear.

Then once i was ready i attacked again, this time they followed while i was using my sling to give them a hint to where i was, leading them into my ally.

Once ready, battle started, i used a previously found horn to summon some battle spirit to help us, my ally summoned lions or bears and we duked it out, i drank a few boost (a bull strength potion and a heroism potion) , the battle went longer than i thought because the crazy sisters still had a couple of healing potion, but this time our equipment (i gave some good old loot to my ally to help him survive this) and levels were enough, and after drinking some blink potion each women disappeared who knows where.

Fortunately we found them not too far, oddly they didn't landed too far from each other, but this time there was no escape (and with some healing potion of our own, my party was at full health) .

Both women ran away in different direction once they were hurt enough, but running after my own target i finally managed to kill one of them, Marabellix
(https://i.imgur.com/Qj0x70F.png)

Hmm, there's noise of a humanoid dying, i really hope it's not my ally that was stuck with the insane Magyarix that was running away from us.
So i went to check, ready to avenge my good pal and

(https://i.imgur.com/KOE8Yog.png)

Wow, he did it, he finally murdered that vicious murderous murderer

And it was worth it going back to fight them, even if it costed us some good potions, because on Marabellix i found

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(https://i.imgur.com/HTjMjOy.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/nPSi2kX.png)

No wonder many of my allies died so fast , so much poison source there.

Perfectly in time , as i recently drank a talent potion to gain a talent point for my next level up , that should be soon, andi'm going to choose the dual wield one to benefit from those pretty pointy things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 13, 2020, 06:29:13 am

Started a new game because I installed a fair few mods.

Doing an anti-slaver run again since my last one ended prematurely. I've captured slavemaster Grande and shoved him into a cage in Spring. It took an hour and a half IRL of kiting and shooting with my eagle's cross, it depleted all of my ammo, and I only got away because my last shot was enough to cripple the final guy so he couldn't keep up as I made off with his employer, but he's out now.

Kenshi

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: amjh on October 14, 2020, 03:50:34 pm

I fought my enemies drunk. As a result, Dionysus blessed my journey, leading me to my first escape with the spear.

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Hades, drunk IRL

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 15, 2020, 07:58:29 pm

Fired an arrow at an enemy heavy infantry wielding two swords. The arrow deflected off one of the swords, and nailed a pikeman behind him in the head.

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Tales of Glory. I find the bow in this game to be a little easier to use than the one in Blade & Sorcery. At the very least, ToG enemies don't lock on to your arrow with their weapons so that even a simple knife will deflect almost any shot you make.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on October 22, 2020, 10:37:39 pm

Casual boost ship run ended with the last shot in the last fight dealing a bit over 1400 damage (i.e. enough damage to kill the final boss like two or three times over) to the poor drone that was lingering after I one-shot the final boss from full health/shields and then did the same to their starting ally. Boost deck can get pretty crazy :P

Game's For the Warp.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 23, 2020, 05:30:45 pm

I got my first kill against a magma crab in Qud (last time I got very far, you could do most of the game without great equipment). I found a flawless crysteel (second best material in the game?) hat to replace my current one, for a gain of 1 armor, and 3 less penalty to dodge (which will help me get that back to positive). I also found a crysteel mace, but my cyborg hand bones are still slightly better and have no weight (I think), and some other nice stuff to trade to shopkeepers.

Quote from: Urist McSpike on October 08, 2020, 09:04:48 pm

Battletech (https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/)

Recent purchase, started playing the campaign.  Story missions advance the story, but you can run around doing other random missions for money, xp & loot.  I'm pretty early, only a couple of story missions along (just found out the identity of my backer).  Anyhoo..

Random mission - Clash of Titans.  They detected an assault mech (80-100 ton range) powering up, and then another assault also powering up nearby.  Your mission is to go in, bait them into fighting each other, then clean up the leftovers.  Negotiate for max salvage, and go in with my lance consisting of 55, 50, 45 & 35 ton mechs.  I end up getting a complete set of 3/3 salvage for a 100 ton Atlas...

The Atlas is good at being big, and also has a lot of options for different ranged attacks. The downside is you always have 1 weapon in good range, and usually one in okay range.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SOLDIER First on October 23, 2020, 08:07:11 pm

It's an excellent scout mech, too.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on October 24, 2020, 04:10:46 am

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on October 23, 2020, 08:07:11 pm

It's an excellent scout mech, too.

Ah, I see you are a Lyran of culture.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 24, 2020, 08:46:27 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Parsely on October 25, 2020, 08:02:33 pm

Quote from: Teneb on October 24, 2020, 08:46:27 am

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 25, 2020, 08:27:51 pm

Oooh, that's really cool  :o  Congrats, Teneb!

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on October 26, 2020, 10:27:44 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on October 25, 2020, 08:27:51 pm

Oooh, that's really cool  :o  Congrats, Teneb!

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on October 31, 2020, 11:47:31 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaximumZero on October 31, 2020, 03:52:18 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 05, 2020, 10:54:43 am

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

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

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

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 05, 2020, 11:51:29 am

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

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

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 05, 2020, 10:54:43 am

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

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

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

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 05, 2020, 02:54:24 pm

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

Quote from: Lady Deirdre Skye, “Planet Dreams”

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

Quote from: Paean to SMAC, https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/base-facility-hybrid-forest/

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 05, 2020, 03:37:30 pm

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on November 05, 2020, 03:45:00 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 06, 2020, 07:24:44 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 07, 2020, 07:55:38 pm

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

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

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Cataclysm: Bright Nights.

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

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

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Tales of Glory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 17, 2020, 10:08:15 pm

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

Much abuse of the Komaki Tiger Drop was done.

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Yakuza Kiwami

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on November 18, 2020, 07:20:23 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 21, 2020, 07:40:32 pm

Decided to reinstall this, after angrily uninstalling this due to.. well not exactly the changes that were made, but the developer's attitude towards their playerbase in regards to the changes.

First off, those changes suck. They'd be less terrible, but for some reason materials stored in specialized compartments is still used by other devices. Example, the fuel engines can take material from the ammo box, meaning a supply failure in one system will cripple the entire vehicle. Another bizarre change was redesigning the Flashheart plane from a rickety, meme-worthy prop-plane to a jet-powered, unstoppable, death machine.

That said, I made this:

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(https://i.imgur.com/lWHje4x.png)

Pros: Decent speed and handling in space(above 1km). Top speed of around 104m/s.
Effective weapons. The central MAC fires a 300mm {rail casingx5, sabot body, sabot body, sabot head} shell, with an effective AP of around 150. One shot against an Onyx Watch Bastion went clean through, leaving a precision hole that caused the Bastion to take on water. The turrets(using hollow points) can also chew through targets. The side missiles(48 in all) are effective against lighter-armored targets.
Armor. Most areas of the ship are protected by a 3-block layer of metal, often with an extra internal layer of alloy. All fortified with a ring shield matrix throughout the ship, resulting in most armor blocks having an AP of around 48. I've yet to see any impact get through the armor, and it took quite a while before any armor blocks were blown off.

Cons: No atmospheric capability. Below 900m, it's basically sunk.
Weapons. The CIWS turrets(simple-type dual 40mm AA) are garbage against what missiles I've tried them against, and they seem incapable of damaging a Flashheart - to be fair, the Flashheart ignored pretty much everything else I threw at it. It's possible that the simple weapons aren't meant for anti-missile duty. Also, the side turrets aren't as effective as I make them out to be. The lack accuracy, for one. Also, recoil is a thing in space.
Cost. Over 250k materials to build, a decent running cost. I might be able to reduce that by using ACBs to cycle the engines when there's no power draw.

The whole ship is powered by a large steam engine producing over 58k power, about 10k of which is constantly used for the ring shield and heartstone(which will soon be required in all game modes, because). The rest gets used by the engines, mostly during rolls. It uses two AI mainframes. The primary one controls the drives and most weapons. What I'd like to do is have it switch between Point At and Broadside maneuvers based on whether the main MAC is ready to fire, but that's not possible except perhaps through LUA scripting. The other AI handles the CIWS - each AA gun is controlled by both a LWC and anti-missile controller, but I don't know if it's switching properly between the two like it's supposed to.

I'm also seeing a strange bug where it's saying it has one extra block each of ammo and fuel supply than actually exists, from when I had those blocks earlier in the build. The ammo I had initially, but removed when I modified the MAC before adding it back; there was was an extra 50 ammo supply(one ammo box's worth) still there in between. I removed all the fuel, since I discovered(the hard way) that CJEs don't work in space - only ion and steam jets do - and I only used 4m fuel tanks, so it saying there's 50 fuel supply(one 1m fuel block) is particularly puzzling.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 24, 2020, 07:26:52 pm

Caesar 3 with the Augustus (https://github.com/Keriew/augustus) engine.

I finally managed to beat the peacefull mission Lugdunum.

This map seems fun at first, but when you'll try to match the "Prosperity" requirement (the other requirement are very easy) you understand it is pure hatred for a mediocre Caesar3 player like myself that do not plan much ahead in term of city blocks and have some trouble with some of the game mechanics :D

Spoiler: the hell that Lugdunum is for non Caesar3 specialist (click to show/hide)

First Prosperity is a bit special as the way it is calculated it will fluctuate a lot depending on your current city circumstance (made even worse if you're not planning ahead your city blocks very well ) when houses devolve or improve or if you have too many low quality "tents", how things are calculated for Prosperity is explained there :
http://caesar3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/caeforumscgi/display.cgi?action=st&fn=2&tn=1489&st=1#post2
it only change at every start of a year, so make sure you're not losing your housing bonus just at the end of the year and don't throw yourself into big building to kill your end of the year benefices).

Now my problem with Lugdunum is the distance and spacing, the best open space is located extremely far from the only sources of farming (due to there's only 1 entrance to that farm-friendly area), to bring food your guys will have to carry it all over the map before reaching the granary in that nice open space.
Everywhere else there are rocks, natives huts and lots of things that will make it a pain to make some nice housing.
But it's in those places that it's important to make it the nicest as they're the only location in which they're not risking house devolution like the away city blocks that loves to devolve a bit before getting the next batch of food (and hurt your Prosperity a lot if it happens just near the end of the year).

Augustus helped me a lot with the new extra large temples that are built in steps and require tons of material (a feature ported from Pharaoh/Cleopatra) as when i finally managed to complete the Ceres huge temple it allowed my food transporter to move faster so i finally got the away large population block to stop devolving so easily.

Other problem, when your housing improve above the largest insulae into the villa stages , it's like in DF when you have nobles : they don't work, so you suddenly have huge deficiency in your working force and some facilities aren't at their best anymore, failing to produce as fast the items required to keep some house to devolve.
So you build more house and takes care to not have them improved enough to become villa, but it require food for those to not devolve, and if you're not building your perfect house blocks you're going to have a kind of circular problem hitting you all the time. And in the same time you need to have villas too due to how the Prosperity cap is calculated. It's just hell

Fortunately, Augustus again is helpfull with the optional "Global labour pool" features that was ported from the Zeus/Poseidon games and allow to use worker on locations without requiring them to live very close like in default Caesar3 , i think without that feature my dodgy city would have never hit the Prosperity requirement for that map despite my best efforts

Oh, and Caesar3 population age, when they reach a certain age and retire they don't work anymore, but they still need feeding and etc.. as they're still part of your population, and you can then get horrible hit on your work force and can only count on future migrant by increasing your city housing (and dive deeper into the Prosperity management hell) , i think the feature is actually an attempt to make a time limit to the mission, as it makes everything much harder if you take too much your time as you work force is hit very badly if you play very long.
Fortunately Augustus has an optional feature to get the citizen work 10 more years before retiring, i think it helped greatly my slow paced attempts at getting my Prosperity reaching the requirement.

Spoiler: before placing a few more culture improving building to win (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/mExdcDVm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/mExdcDV.jpg)

I wonder if i would have managed with the Julius (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius) engine (basically Caesar3 vanilla) only as i believe i won this one only thanks to some of Augustus engine additions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on November 25, 2020, 10:53:31 am

Quote from: Robsoie on November 24, 2020, 07:26:52 pm

Caesar 3 with the Augustus (https://github.com/Keriew/augustus) engine.

I finally managed to beat the peacefull mission Lugdunum.

This map seems fun at first, but when you'll try to match the "Prosperity" requirement (the other requirement are very easy) you understand it is pure hatred for a mediocre Caesar3 player like myself that do not plan much ahead in term of city blocks and have some trouble with some of the game mechanics :D

Spoiler: the hell that Lugdunum is for non Caesar3 specialist (click to show/hide)

First Prosperity is a bit special as the way it is calculated it will fluctuate a lot depending on your current city circumstance (made even worse if you're not planning ahead your city blocks very well ) when houses devolve or improve or if you have too many low quality "tents", how things are calculated for Prosperity is explained there :
http://caesar3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/caeforumscgi/display.cgi?action=st&fn=2&tn=1489&st=1#post2
it only change at every start of a year, so make sure you're not losing your housing bonus just at the end of the year and don't throw yourself into big building to kill your end of the year benefices).

Now my problem with Lugdunum is the distance and spacing, the best open space is located extremely far from the only sources of farming (due to there's only 1 entrance to that farm-friendly area), to bring food your guys will have to carry it all over the map before reaching the granary in that nice open space.
Everywhere else there are rocks, natives huts and lots of things that will make it a pain to make some nice housing.
But it's in those places that it's important to make it the nicest as they're the only location in which they're not risking house devolution like the away city blocks that loves to devolve a bit before getting the next batch of food (and hurt your Prosperity a lot if it happens just near the end of the year).

Augustus helped me a lot with the new extra large temples that are built in steps and require tons of material (a feature ported from Pharaoh/Cleopatra) as when i finally managed to complete the Ceres huge temple it allowed my food transporter to move faster so i finally got the away large population block to stop devolving so easily.

Other problem, when your housing improve above the largest insulae into the villa stages , it's like in DF when you have nobles : they don't work, so you suddenly have huge deficiency in your working force and some facilities aren't at their best anymore, failing to produce as fast the items required to keep some house to devolve.
So you build more house and takes care to not have them improved enough to become villa, but it require food for those to not devolve, and if you're not building your perfect house blocks you're going to have a kind of circular problem hitting you all the time. And in the same time you need to have villas too due to how the Prosperity cap is calculated. It's just hell

Fortunately, Augustus again is helpfull with the optional "Global labour pool" features that was ported from the Zeus/Poseidon games and allow to use worker on locations without requiring them to live very close like in default Caesar3 , i think without that feature my dodgy city would have never hit the Prosperity requirement for that map despite my best efforts

Oh, and Caesar3 population age, when they reach a certain age and retire they don't work anymore, but they still need feeding and etc.. as they're still part of your population, and you can then get horrible hit on your work force and can only count on future migrant by increasing your city housing (and dive deeper into the Prosperity management hell) , i think the feature is actually an attempt to make a time limit to the mission, as it makes everything much harder if you take too much your time as you work force is hit very badly if you play very long.
Fortunately Augustus has an optional feature to get the citizen work 10 more years before retiring, i think it helped greatly my slow paced attempts at getting my Prosperity reaching the requirement.

Spoiler: before placing a few more culture improving building to win (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/mExdcDVm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/mExdcDV.jpg)

I wonder if i would have managed with the Julius (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius) engine (basically Caesar3 vanilla) only as i believe i won this one only thanks to some of Augustus engine additions.

I really should finish Emperor, this reminds me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 28, 2020, 07:52:34 pm

With a save file with over 200 hours* on it, I've managed to fill out the Field Guide for the main game. The only Digimon I don't have are the ones I need to start a new game for the expansion story, since the items required don't appear in the main game. Fortunately, having completed data on both(which I do) allows you to transfer Digimon between Aiba and Keisuke in a NG+.

The hardest to get, in my opinion, was Lucemon. That requires getting Ultimate-level stats onto the In-Training level Tokomon. Then, to get Lucemon Falldown Mode, you need to boost an entirely different set of stats. Lucemon Satan Mode wasn't as hard to get afterwards. All to turn a floofy hamster into the actual dragon from the Book of Revelations.

Spoiler: I've also discovered a total lack of maturity on my part (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/mt7PDOH.png)
To be fair, that is the digital incarnation of Lust, so she might actually be down for that.

I wonder if it was intentional to be able to do that, though. Lilithmon is exactly tall enough to do this. This is also not the dirtiest screenshot of this game I've seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. And despite filling in the Field Guide, I still haven't finished the Hacker Black-list sidequest, mostly because the actual quest-board entries showing up are entirely luck-based(as far as I know) and it's a minimum half an hour in between searches for them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on November 28, 2020, 11:11:35 pm

Quote from: Akura on November 28, 2020, 07:52:34 pm

Spoiler: I've also discovered a total lack of maturity on my part (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/mt7PDOH.png)
To be fair, that is the digital incarnation of Lust, so she might actually be down for that.

I wonder if it was intentional to be able to do that, though. Lilithmon is exactly tall enough to do this. This is also not the dirtiest screenshot of this game I've seen.

haha boobie go burr

on a lesser note, ive been looking for more quality titles for my switch, how is cyber sleuth?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on November 28, 2020, 11:44:58 pm

It has some memorable missions, enough backtracking in random dungeons to be annoying for me, and some fun monster collecting and breeding. I guess it mostly depends on your expectations for it, but it succeeded well enough in my opinion. You'll probably want to take advantage of the xp/money multiplying 'mons to expedite things. Utilizes some alternative mechanics I prefer over other monster collecting franchises. (Side note: I have no personal attachment to the Digimon franchise so I can't comment on how it fits into the overarching world.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on November 29, 2020, 02:18:02 am

I managed to blast Wulfgar with Ice Form while he was demonstrating Whirlwind sprint.
He failed to stop and went sailing off the mountain.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TES V: Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 01, 2020, 02:50:00 pm

Finished a Vampire Coast campaign with Noctilus (vortex). The last battle was hilariously easy because I had gotten the Sword of Khaine. As a kicker, I never captured any settlement, so it was a single-province run.

Total War: Warhammer 2

Vampirates are indeed top-tier.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on December 02, 2020, 06:20:39 pm

The only time I was ever outright forced to take a city by capture point in order to win was when the possessed dark elf dude got ahold of the sword of khaine. He held the gate by himself while every other unit of his was slain to a man.

Quote from: Mathel on November 29, 2020, 02:18:02 am

I managed to blast Wulfgar with Ice Form while he was demonstrating Whirlwind sprint.
He failed to stop and went sailing off the mountain.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

TES V: Skyrim

That is fantastic.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 05, 2020, 12:03:34 pm

Decapitated an opponent with my katana, and turned away to face another enemy. A split second later, I heard an impact and a death scream behind me. I turned around and saw that the severed head actually hit an enemy with enough force to kill them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery. Using one of the katanas from this (https://www.nexusmods.com/bladeandsorcery/mods/2504?tab=description).

Body-to-body impacts do... interesting damage. I can punch someone in the face and at best knock them down. Except in slow-mo, then they go flying. But I can cut off a person's hand, and slap someone with it and they drop dead. I made a sword even deadlier once by impaling a severed head on it and whacking people with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 05, 2020, 01:39:38 pm

So happy, finally managed to obtain a housing evolve into its highest one , the Luxury Palace, in Caesar3 without crippling my city, using a peacefull city building map.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/xUgdTfY.jpg)
that' the big 4x4 building in there (next to it a housing that evolved into medium palace), it took a lot to finally get those many individual tents to slowly level up into that one, they pay nice taxes too :
(https://i.imgur.com/hpCJeq6.jpg)

the overall town (with many area i made to have a workforce to fill all the jobs, as once you get housing to villa levels, the ones inside are working similarly to Dwarf Fortress nobles : not at all , cutting a lot into your workforce.
(https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNxm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNx.jpg)
Was happy to manage to keep that elusive prosperity above 70 (thanks to that luxury palace that made the prosperity calculation capping rather high)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 05, 2020, 03:55:52 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on December 05, 2020, 01:39:38 pm

So happy, finally managed to obtain a housing evolve into its highest one , the Luxury Palace, in Caesar3 without crippling my city, using a peacefull city building map.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/xUgdTfY.jpg)
that' the big 4x4 building in there (next to it a housing that evolved into medium palace), it took a lot to finally get those many individual tents to slowly level up into that one, they pay nice taxes too :
(https://i.imgur.com/hpCJeq6.jpg)

the overall town (with many area i made to have a workforce to fill all the jobs, as once you get housing to villa levels, the ones inside are working similarly to Dwarf Fortress nobles : not at all , cutting a lot into your workforce.
(https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNxm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNx.jpg)
Was happy to manage to keep that elusive prosperity above 70 (thanks to that luxury palace that made the prosperity calculation capping rather high)

Tried playing that again just now. Now I remember why I prefer Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. Can't place stuff too far away from housing, or else it won't work. Can't place it too close to housing, or else housing won't evolve. Early missions don't give a way to restrict walkers, so the local prefect decides to make his daily patrol towards the outlying farms, causing the housing on the opposite side of the city to burst into flames. Rebuild the plot, and when their new neighbors to arrive to replace the ones who died in the fire, the citizens next door decide the neighborhood is too ugly to live in, causing a ripple effect that results in 80% of your population to collectively say "'aight, I'mma head out."

I'd be more pissed off, but the frustration is making physically sick to my stomach right now.

...Maybe I should do the open-play maps and tell the campaign to go swim in the Cloaca Maxima.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 05, 2020, 07:08:23 pm

I have, somehow, achieved a world record in the pain% category (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLqAkD9sVCk).

It's in a new category, but the previous holder is one of the best runners of the community.


SW: Battlefront II 2005

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 06, 2020, 05:26:13 am

Quote from: Akura on December 05, 2020, 03:55:52 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on December 05, 2020, 01:39:38 pm

So happy, finally managed to obtain a housing evolve into its highest one , the Luxury Palace, in Caesar3 without crippling my city, using a peacefull city building map.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/xUgdTfY.jpg)
that' the big 4x4 building in there (next to it a housing that evolved into medium palace), it took a lot to finally get those many individual tents to slowly level up into that one, they pay nice taxes too :
(https://i.imgur.com/hpCJeq6.jpg)

the overall town (with many area i made to have a workforce to fill all the jobs, as once you get housing to villa levels, the ones inside are working similarly to Dwarf Fortress nobles : not at all , cutting a lot into your workforce.
(https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNxm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/IhwEYNx.jpg)
Was happy to manage to keep that elusive prosperity above 70 (thanks to that luxury palace that made the prosperity calculation capping rather high)

Tried playing that again just now. Now I remember why I prefer Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. Can't place stuff too far away from housing, or else it won't work. Can't place it too close to housing, or else housing won't evolve. Early missions don't give a way to restrict walkers, so the local prefect decides to make his daily patrol towards the outlying farms, causing the housing on the opposite side of the city to burst into flames. Rebuild the plot, and when their new neighbors to arrive to replace the ones who died in the fire, the citizens next door decide the neighborhood is too ugly to live in, causing a ripple effect that results in 80% of your population to collectively say "'aight, I'mma head out."

I'd be more pissed off, but the frustration is making physically sick to my stomach right now.

...Maybe I should do the open-play maps and tell the campaign to go swim in the Cloaca Maxima.

The Augustus engine adds lots of quality of life improvement options and features like those roadblocks to restrict walkers you're mentionning (they ported the feature from Pharaoh/Cleopatra and made them customisable allowing you to decide if some specific type of walker can move through), it makes Caesar3 much more fun to me.

As without those barrages you had to use those big (and sometime impractical) gatehouses making it extra hard to prevent fire in desert maps when those patrols were having their own fun walking very far from the area you wanted them to stay into.
This feature alone makes it worthy to give a try to Augustus (along many good stuff) for Caesar3.

Additionally, the northern maps do not have fire (desert maps have increased fire), so you only have to take care of building collapse with engineer posts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 06, 2020, 07:09:40 am

Well, that might explain it, I've been using Julius, not Augustus. Julius doesn't have roadblocks. I don't remember exactly why I picked Julius instead of Augustus, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 06, 2020, 07:11:59 am

Yes, Julius is more if you want to play Caesar3 exactly like Caesar3 was designed but with a modern OS-friendly engine, Augustus is when you want the Julius modern OS engine AND new features and options that weren't in the original Caesar3.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on December 06, 2020, 09:19:27 pm

I beat Impossible Mode in Dead Space with something like 200 plasma energy, 100 force energy and maybe 10 contact beam energy left over (I picked this up very late so I didn't collect much ammo for it).  I also had enough money to buy enough nodes to max my RIG health, fully upgrade stasis, the plasma cutter and force gun, and about half of the contact beam.

I died 13 times total during the run so it doesn't feel like a great accomplishment, but the resource conservation aspect is really the hardest part of the game so I consider that to be a pretty good result.

A few deaths came from trash necromorphs starting in chapter 2, and at least one was from environmental deaths like the asteroid bombardment on the way to the ADS cannon.  3 deaths were from enhanced brutes, which I learned the contact beam is very good for.  Most deaths were from exploders, which go from annoying on lower difficulties to requiring a level 5 RIG and max health to even survive on Impossible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 10, 2020, 11:47:31 pm

I just faced Sierra with Drowzee, Sharpeedo, Houndoom.  And I defeated almost the entire set with Melmetal.

Obviously I started with something else (Magnezone) but immediately swapped in Melmetal.  Swapping stuns the Rockets, even their leaders.  Melmetal charges Thunderbolt exceptionally quickly with Thunder Shock, so I blasted through her two shields easily.  Then a third Thunderbolt finished off the Drowzee (overkill, probably) and obviously the sharpedo fared... poorly.

Her Houndoom finished it off, but in came my Rhyperior which made short work.

---

What surprises me is that Sierra is so easy, most of the time.  Arlo, my favorite, tends to be more difficult.  It's the "bruiser" Cliff which tends to give me trouble.  That dang Steelix, when I FOR THE LIFE OF ME have no strong fire answers...

Anyway yeah, I almost solo'd Sierra with Melmetal.  While a bit... tired.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pokemon GO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on December 11, 2020, 06:51:58 pm

That's roughly my experience with them as well: Cliff gives me the most trouble and Sierra the least.  For all of them, I usually lead off with something else and switch in to Lucario to abuse their AI stun from switching and then charged attacks.  Lucario charges Power Up Punch very quickly and I can usually defeat every rocket's first two pokemon with Lucario alone because of that.

Crustle, amusingly, is my backup.  It also charges is charged attacks very quickly and is pretty tough, where Lucario is not.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 11, 2020, 07:17:26 pm

Ooh.  I've been used a 98% max-CP Machamp for my fighting (Four Punch Man) but he's very fragile, though fortunately fast and powerful.  So requires very tactical switching.  I love Lucario's look but I never knew it was Steel along with fighting!  No wonder everyone loves Lucario!  I've only found a couple, but I have a trove of ~150 rare candy from when I used to raid, so I'll have to look into that.

And Crustle... oh yeah I have one of those!  Bug/Rock, strange combo.   I'll have to look into that too, because as a Gen 2 main I tend to underestimate bugs that aren't Scyther/Scizor.  Or Shuckle of course, heh.  (It's a funny gym defender and actually has utility in the main games - give it Toxic and have patience).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 12, 2020, 02:12:26 am

I like Lucario
never played any pokemon game but his introduction cutscene in Subspace Emissary made him look really cool

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on December 14, 2020, 03:06:50 am

Ulfsdottir Odin hates the Fiefs of the Black Cross.
At some point a province of hers, in Vestergotland fell under the rulership of the Fiefs.
While Ulfsdottir was currently in a war, helping her niece (whom she did not like) in a Jyhad, defending against one duke from the Fiefs, she saw that the Emperor of the Fiefs was engaged in 4 civil wars at once.
She rallied all her armies, the sat on the horse she stole from the Emperor of the Fiefs, and declared de Jure war on him.
They met in the province they fought over. 10k Norse soldiers, against 13k german soldiers.
Ulfsdottir personaly fought the Emperor of Black Cross, knocked him out with her niece's hammer Kristbani, and diablerised him. His soldiers, horrified at the spectacle, routed.

The battle decided the war.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Princes of Darkness for Crusader Kings II
I am playing as Ulfsdottir, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 18, 2020, 07:28:26 pm

Started the campaign over again, because I was getting absolutely shagged the last time. As such, Act I was a total curbstomp. It mostly came down to learning how to use dragon form better. Before, I didn't even know I could rapid-fire my fire(though doing so causes overheating). I was also trying to blast them from high altitude, which doesn't work. Here, I rushed Rejuvenation and Blood Leech, and bombed them from close range. Blood Leech reverses most of the damage from enemy Grenadiers, and Rejuvenation reduces how long I have to back off to heal from what Blood Leech doesn't.

The only fight that went relatively bad was the isolated island to the north. Due to the arrangement of building plots, I wasn't able to produce an attack force of any size, and so had to bleed the entire territory of its entire population. Including the recruits of mine that defected to the enemy*. Burned them all with dragon fire. For the AI's part, they actually caught me off guard with several landing boat attacks. Including one with a bunch of Troopers insta-capping my only recruitment center with their bullshit Spoils of War ability.

I also kept a slow pace towards the end of the act, so that I could head into Act II with a sizable reserve of gold and research points - another thing that doomed my last attempt. The same turn I took Karsten's capital, I legalized the "medicinal" use of "herbs".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divinity: Dragon Commander. Politically, I'm really pissing off the undead, and especially dwarves. Mostly because their policies are literally everything wrong with this country. The only concession I've given the undead was not taxing the church, which only the elves also support.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 20, 2020, 11:00:31 am

Beat all three levels in a row without dying. The end screen congratulated me for this, saying that the developer herself couldn't manage it. :D

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Samurai Lantern (https://adventurebit.itch.io/samurailantern)

It's not a big or complex game, but it's free and fun. Best comparison I can think of is that it's like Super Crate Box except you have a katana. :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on December 26, 2020, 04:54:49 pm

After dozens of failures trying to get the Defect to even get to the third boss at ascension 8, I easily walked the Ironclad through ascensions 10 and 11. The Timeless never even damaged me.

Hilariously, my 181 damage Body Slam (does damage equal to your block, plus your strength) didn't kill it. I finished the next round with the last base attack left in my deck.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 27, 2020, 02:28:25 pm

So *this* puzzle boss constantly casts Reflect on itself, responds to all physical attacks with an instant cast of Drain which means your melee is more or less hitting themselves.  I know the trick to getting past Reflect, but I don't have it prepared or a ring equipped, and my party is mostly melee.

Fortunately the boss is *too* clever, and casts Reflect on one of my party so it can cast buffs on itself.  This lets my black mage do some damage, at least.  My monk slightly outdamages the draining, my red mage desperately heals, and my berzerker is a liability as is often the case.  Total flustercuck.  My black mage accidentally nukes a party member and later herself when the Reflect wears off at the wrong moment.

Eventually it's just BM and the boss.  Boss is mostly just spamming buffs and making sure the BM constantly has Reflect.  I spend an elixir (first of the game maybe?) but the boss's attacks are just too much for the BM's low HP.  I wander away to wait for the battle to finally end.

I come back to constant spam of "Reflect!  ...Not enough MP!".  Cue sinister laughter...

Spoiler: I like how Krile's casting animation is a giant middle finger (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/5RTvpCI.jpg)

Then the game had me wander through another few screens of enemies with NO MP (so my red mage couldn't even Lance them for emergency mana) to get the dang save point.  Feeling pretty good though.

Final Fantasy V Mobile
Edit:  Fricken heck sorry, I didn't think a phone screenshot would be that large O_O
Edit2: And to further explain - throwing all that melee against the boss must have worn down its MP as it cast all those Drains.  I'm just glad it didn't have Osmose like some enemies (apparently I get to buy that soon - best spell.  Got me through Kefka's magic tower, which I feel was partly inspired by this boss fight)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 27, 2020, 06:39:27 pm

Watched a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au003_QiYSU) on how to cheese Farbor, one of the hardest levels in the game. Did it in a slightly less efficient manner. Would have been slightly more efficient, but I made a few mistakes, such as forgetting to turn one of my shields on. On the other hand, I finished with the enemy having less progress than the video, because I destroyed two of their processors much earlier.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. The plan is, drop two command nodes on the NW island(ignore the SE island). Drop several collectors and two cannons to keep the Creeper at bay. Also drop a mine on the deposit the enemy ship doesn't land on(don't bother destroying the ships), followed by a sprayer to push the Creeper back enough to nullify the emitter. I also added a mortar(as did the video). Once the emitter is gone, move your guns to clear the leftover Creeper.

Next, build a Bertha on the power zone, and relays to the two small islands to the east of yours. Build several collectors and reactors. Once you have a good energy income, build a cluster of cannons inside your base and wait for them to be loaded. I diverged from the video at this point to add a shield set to disarmed but still supplied(which took me a minute or two to turn back on when I needed). Using the Bertha to soften the LZ, move all the cannons just north of their processor complex. Quickly, once the turrets clear the Creeper, build a relay to resupply them(connecting to the small island relays). From here, push out, and destroy the emitter on the NE corner of the complex(I also destroyed the spore tower on the NW corner). Move a charged shield onto the power zone to blow off a large area of Creeper. As you push, use nullifiers to destroy the processors.

The video does it in a little over 14 minutes, and I think my time was about 30 seconds longer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 28, 2020, 10:55:46 am

It's been a long time i have tried to unlock that damned Horror character thing.
But each time i got into the opportunity, i always ended doing something stupid and getting my character killed.
Not anymore.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/etkfWkl.png)

But finally after all those wasted attempts and silly wasted amount of time, i finally unlocked Horror.
Was so happy that i stupidly died in the next level to a rat rushing into me, that i didn't even noticed with some busy explosion around taking my attention.
(in Nuclear Throne)

I think i will not touch this game for a while after that , it's not good for blood pressure :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 28, 2020, 01:20:27 pm

Eliminated the Qing dynasty as the Taiping Heavenly Rebellion using Shi Dakai's sick leadership skills, simple enough. Yet when I westernized I was completely torn apart by the Xinhai Revolution, as all of China was carved up by various warlords. My population went from 112 million to 800,000. Of my once formidable army, only 36,000 loyalists remained - 9,000 stuck on Okinawa and 27,000 in Vietnam. Vietnam had been annexed by the Qing Empire for such time that multiple provinces were majority Chinese (mass emigration caused by the Yellow River flooding). But the situation was bloody dire; the capital had been lost, all of the provinces defected to warlords and the Heavenly dynasty was in danger of perishing.

There were numerous main players. In the southlands, Guangdong had 1,200,000 soldiers and an alliance with the Japanese. In the north, the Beiyang government had 4,500,000 soldiers. The other warlords averaged +800,000 soldiers. The neighbouring riverlander warlords had 900,000 troops each, but in the frenzy of reunification wars had declared war upon one another. This was my one and only chance to return Imperial rule to Tianjing, and so I declared war. I had two allies - Algeria and Brazil, who would take two years to arrive. The Japanese declared war upon me with Guangdong for the Okinawan islands. Even though the Heavenly Kingdom's Navy had remained loyal to me, and I would be able to keep the Japanese off of the islands with it - the Guangdongnese army was a world-ending threat so I gave up the islands without a fight.

The navy instead blockaded the riverland warlords whilst general Shi Dakai held the mountain passes & jungles outnumbered 10 to 1. I mobilised peasant forces to double my army and embarked on a bold march through the riverlands, even launching naval invasions to cut off the enemy troops from their capital. Despite such monumental victories it seemed overall success was impossible...

UNTIL THE BRAZILIAN ARTILLERY CORPS ARRIVED

What followed was a rapid march through the riverlands, striking fast against each one in rapid succession with a bare minimum force needed to seize the capitals and drive the warlords north. Once I had command of 27 million peoples I went to war with Guangdong, which at that point had pushed the Beiyang government north and commanded 2,400,000 men, versus my 560,000. this time unable to call upon the aid of the Brazilians or Algerians - Shi Dakai and the Heavenly Navy once more proved pivotal in cutting Guangdong in half. The war was quick, millions died, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally returned to Tianjing - moving the capital back to her homeland.

In the North, Chinese reunification rebels overtook the defeated warlords I had pushed back, all uniting under the Beiyang government. The Beiyang government itself fell to communist rebels, becoming the People's Republic of China. In the end, the PRC had 57,000,000 people to call upon whilst I had 52,000,000. The Japanese were busy invading Korea and the Russians & Brazilians were busy with the Ottoman Turks in the West. Within five months of the PRC unifying the North and heartlands and the Taiping unifying the Southlands and riverlands, we had a massive showdown which ended the same way it did with Guangdong - Shi Dakai and Deng Feng leading the charge, seizing the enemy's population centres before they could mobilize their forces in full.

In the aftermath of the war, significant warlords still remained, many with foreign protection. But with a population of 82,000,000, Taiping at last emerged as the Heavenly Hegemon of the China. In a few more years - the Hegemon of the East. Maybe in a few decades - the world.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 28, 2020, 02:44:45 pm

What game was this?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 28, 2020, 02:57:57 pm

Victoria II: misery and railroad simulator (https://store.steampowered.com/app/42960/Victoria_II/)

*EDIT
I should add it was using the HPM mod (https://www.moddb.com/mods/historical-project-mod)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 28, 2020, 09:56:30 pm

Turns out that the throne dies pretty quickly if you're dual wielding cluster launchers. Who knew.
Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on December 28, 2020, 10:11:41 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on December 28, 2020, 09:56:30 pm

Turns out that the throne dies pretty quickly if you're dual wielding cluster launchers. Who knew.
Nuclear Throne

Gotta say, I love it when effectively the same post shows up in both 'How did you last own?' and 'How did you last die?'

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on December 28, 2020, 10:42:43 pm

Heh, yeah. Steriods is fun, I should play him more. I play for the guns and often forget to use my character powers, and while it's kind of hard to get used to Steriods' power is pretty much just gun.

That run was bolt weapons + bolt marrow for a long time, but by the time I entered the palace I was running cluster launcher + grenade shotgun, which tore through palace enemies quite well. Right before the portal to the last level I was offered a second cluster launcher, which I passed up. Then the chest before throne was also a cluster launcher so I took the hint and dual wielded them against the throne. It died before it could even get off it's giant green balls attack.

Didn't try looping that run. Maybe later. I'm still not good enough to get to the throne anywhere near consistently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on December 28, 2020, 11:23:51 pm

Always dual wield if the game gives you two guns.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on December 29, 2020, 06:19:31 am

Decided to make a swordsman in adventure mode. With the new ability to add whatever you items you want ( within a budget ) on character create, I gave my human warrior an iron scimitar, and a wooden practice sword.

I proceeded to use my iron scimitar to cripple large animals, and switched to my wooden sword to beat them like a moving punching bag. I was able to get my swordsmanship from Talented to Grandmaster in only like 6 hippos.

From there, I decided I needed to actually fight proper enemies to make the jump from Grandmaster to truly Legendary swords master. For the principle of it.

Effortlessly cut down two ogres, and several big cats that tried to ambush me. The real test was a fortress of goblins.


Nearly got killed on the first engagement. Gobbos had bowmen, so I immediately run to the other side of some trees for cover, while three melee fighters surrounded me. Somehow, I got one hand crippled, then a leg, then my other hand got bitten. I dropped my precious iron scimitar, but was able to scoop it up into my backpack, while simultaneously choking out all the goblins coming after me ( I'd already hamstrung most of them before I got crippled ).

I fled, and after resting, was amazing not permanently crippled. All either muscular or just sensory nerve damage. So it was back into the fort.

I'm up to 37 goblin kills. Not a single one of them can beat me alone, or even 3 on one, an their ranged fighters are missing. Green fish in a barrel ( so far ).



DF. Haven't had this much fun building up a particular skill in a while, and actually being able to survive long enough to use it. I'm hoping for even bigger and nastier opponents to cut down, but actually finding anything in adventure mode is so much harder than it used to be.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 29, 2020, 06:01:40 pm

Spoiler: What do you mean "too many to handle?" (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZHzsnCA.png)

This did take several tries. The tactic that worked was opening with a smoke pellet, and occasionally toss a concussion detonator. Also, quick-fired Batarangs and Batclaws try to prioritize enemies with guns, though that doesn't always work.

I got so much XP for this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Batman: Arkham Origins.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on December 29, 2020, 10:22:44 pm

Successfully completed the first objective of the task "Debut" in a run where I took down two scavs - one of who was a sniper scav (a scav who is spawned on a distant rooftop with a rifle). Also received a good bit of loot, enough EXP for me to reach level 5, and a good deal of praise from the person who I was buddying up with - who had previously gotten shot down when fighting a scav one-on-one (I had been hanging back behind vehicles and terrain so I couldn't even see them).

All in all, a good day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Escape From Tarkov.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 31, 2020, 09:52:30 am

Meta, but... ended up finishing 130 games this year, finally making a dent in the old backlog. Making a list helped a lot in this. As did just sitting down and doing it.

Here's to more backlog purging in 2021.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 11:00:21 am

Dear God! Were all 130 of those games worth it?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 31, 2020, 11:12:57 am

Quote from: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 11:00:21 am

Dear God! Were all 130 of those games worth it?

No.

Here's The List (https://pastebin.com/QsBDKq72). Most games were fine or good, but there's actual garbage in there.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 11:46:01 am

I just skimmed your list. I'm surprised by just how many games I heard about before.

Breaks my heart to see you give teleglitch a 2/5, but I understand perfectly. The game would have been so much better if it actually randomized the loot and room layouts. As is, each run lacks the variation needed to justify permadeath.

How many games do you have left?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 31, 2020, 11:49:54 am

Quote from: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 11:46:01 am

I just skimmed your list. I'm surprised by just how many games I heard about before.

Breaks my heart to see you give teleglitch a 2/5, but I understand perfectly. The game would have been so much better if it actually randomized the loot and room layouts. As is, each run lacks the variation needed to justify permadeath.

How many games do you have left?

Too damn many. The many free games this year didn't help either.

But I have finally had my steam backlog dip below the completed number, so that's nice I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 31, 2020, 11:56:37 am

Was Freedoom that good ? I mean you gave it 4/5
I toyed a bit with the wad but went quickly back into playing another one that interested me more, should i have persevered to see that it was great ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 12:00:33 pm

What's FREEDOM? A Doom WAD?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 31, 2020, 12:04:22 pm

FREEDOOM is literally a free doom clone for purposes of running mods without owning doom.

But I enjoyed its built-in campaign. Simple as that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 03:29:04 pm

Since we're on this topic, I gotta ask: What do you think of Brutal Doom? Specifically the Hell on Earth Campaign?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on December 31, 2020, 04:01:42 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on December 31, 2020, 03:29:04 pm

Since we're on this topic, I gotta ask: What do you think of Brutal Doom? Specifically the Hell on Earth Campaign?

I used to like brutal doom, but eventually I came to feel that it kind of takes away the core doom gameplay, including stuff like the role of melee in dealing with pinkies

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 01, 2021, 04:26:17 am

Brutal Doom is truly great to replay wads you already played enough with their default setup, it gives a more "action" feel (especially in the lowest difficulty in which it actually add more enemies by maps, making things hilariously hectic).

The Brutal Doom author has been working on a big campaign "Extermination Day" specifically tailored for it , using lots of features like vehicles battles and etc... that aren't used in normal maps, it has still not been released but the dev uploaded a beta of it last year :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/forum/thread/extermination-day-beta-001-download

It's a big upgrade to his previously named "Hell on Earth Starter Pack" campaign :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/recurring-nightmare/downloads/brutal-doom-hell-on-earth-starter-pack/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on January 01, 2021, 07:22:27 pm

Hell on earth was quite awesome in my opinion. Especially when you got to hell.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 02, 2021, 03:46:16 am

My favorite part of this Hell on Earth Starter Pack was the level (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwdf0_amZ34&list=PLFK2eL5cls5ZqC3C5ExpCSZ870zih_Hih&index=14) in which you're fighting in a city along with allied soldiers against hellish troops, something so rare in Doom megawad in which nearly everytime you're thrown alone vs monsters.
A bit like a coop level with AI allies in a Duke Nukem3D-like level :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 07, 2021, 09:16:31 pm

Game dumps a boss fight on me rather suddenly and without any particular plot justification. It wrecks me in seconds. Repeat that for multiple attempts for about a week.

Looking it up, the consensus is that this is actually the hardest boss battle in the game considering the point in the game it happens.

I spend a significant amount of time grinding, stocking up on healing items, and making sure everyone has the best equipment I could get them. ...And the boss still wrecks me within seconds. I try again, this time making sure to take a close look at the options for managing party members' AI. This time, it's a very close fight. I burn through almost all my Apple Gels, ALL my Orange Gels, and surprisingly few revive items. Even manage to achieve the Secret Mission objective. Towards the end of the fight, I scan his stats and find he has about 700HP left(out of around 32,000HP). Then the healer gets knocked out just as the mage is casting the finishing attack. I manage to revive the healer less than half a second before the boss dies, saving her from missing out on the experience from the fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tales of Vesperia, Gattuso fight. That was not a fair fight.

Also, why does this game try to access the internet? More than once I've nearly died because my Switch brings up the wifi network search menu in the middle of battle, which locks you out of control until you close the window, which takes several seconds because it insists on searching for networks despite not being able to access any.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kakroom on January 08, 2021, 11:07:48 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on January 01, 2021, 04:26:17 am

Brutal Doom is truly great to replay wads you already played enough with their default setup, it gives a more "action" feel (especially in the lowest difficulty in which it actually add more enemies by maps, making things hilariously hectic).

The Brutal Doom author has been working on a big campaign "Extermination Day" specifically tailored for it , using lots of features like vehicles battles and etc... that aren't used in normal maps, it has still not been released but the dev uploaded a beta of it last year :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/forum/thread/extermination-day-beta-001-download

It's a big upgrade to his previously named "Hell on Earth Starter Pack" campaign :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/recurring-nightmare/downloads/brutal-doom-hell-on-earth-starter-pack/

If you haven't already tried Project Brutality it's great. In any other circumstance I'd describe it as a little overstuffed and excessive, but... it's Doom.

Also Black Edition, which kind of goes in the opposite direction and makes it a little more tactical and focuses on Doom's horror elements.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 09, 2021, 04:01:35 am

Project Brutality 2.03 is great and there is weapon selection/behaviour and different enemies abilities from Brutal Doom so you don't feel you play the same mod with just different cosmetic, the Project Brutality 2.03 (https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/addons/project-brutality) can play on every source port (Zandronum included so you can play with Zandronum better MP support) but Project Brutality 3.0 (https://github.com/pa1nki113r/Project_Brutality) (click on Code -> Download Zip, then play this zip with GZDoom) can only be played on GZDoom (on LZDoom there are lots of errors).

PB3.0 is also a lot more performance heavy than PB 2.03 that play incredibly smooth, so PB3.0 will have a hard time on wads with lot of monsters.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: JimboM12 on January 09, 2021, 07:57:00 am

im doing a tozling run (im only equipped with a sling pack, a scav vest (a fishing vest) with ammo, and a toz shotgun) on interchange and someone turned on the power so all the store alarms go off. i just so happen to be next to ultra medical which requires a special key, so i walk in and unlock it. there i find a ledx (worth tons) which i shove into my prison wallet immediately (a joke amongst tarkov players: all players have a hidden stash of space that can't be looted if they die, so most people put valuables in there) and walk out only to run into a geared chad running up the escalator, probably the guy who opened the power, and i fire from the hip with my toz. i catch him in the face. so i went in with cheapo gear and left with a gzhel (high end armor), a helmet of good quality, a headset of good quality, and a modded m4.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

escape from tarkov. i play it solely for these moments

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 09, 2021, 03:00:43 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on January 09, 2021, 04:01:35 am

Project Brutality 2.03 is great and there is weapon selection/behaviour and different enemies abilities from Brutal Doom so you don't feel you play the same mod with just different cosmetic, the Project Brutality 2.03 (https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/addons/project-brutality) can play on every source port (Zandronum included so you can play with Zandronum better MP support) but Project Brutality 3.0 (https://github.com/pa1nki113r/Project_Brutality) (click on Code -> Download Zip, then play this zip with GZDoom) can only be played on GZDoom (on LZDoom there are lots of errors).

PB3.0 is also a lot more performance heavy than PB 2.03 that play incredibly smooth, so PB3.0 will have a hard time on wads with lot of monsters.

Wow i need to try this out

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 10, 2021, 07:32:43 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/62muZQY.jpeg)

Too many fuckign dags

Managed to beat two of my mates using goblin swordsmen only for most of the game. Ended up having 26 goblin caves but had to tech switch towards the end towards swords/archers/giants because swordsmen alone couldn't cut it against cav and wargs. Pic related the watcher is slapping dags away. My record before this was 5k troops lost for victory; this time my opponents lost 600 and 700 troops respectively, I lost 8k+. This is the goblin way

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 16, 2021, 03:43:07 pm

I was already charging into the room when I realized that I had no backup whatsoever. Managed to kill the two enemies on the point(one of whom was almost certainly AFK) before being shot in the back. All I managed was to delay the enemy capture of the base by only about 15 seconds.


15 seconds was what was left on the capture timer when the rest of my faction got their crap together and was able to retake the point. Followed by completely pushing the NC off the base entirely. I claim partial credit for this victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planetside 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on January 23, 2021, 10:53:10 pm

Took down the Dust King with the aid of mercenaries. Had to haul his dusty ass to Squin to turn in the bounty (fighting off more dust bandits and starving bandits on the way), but the 35k cats were worth it.

Kenshi.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 27, 2021, 01:45:13 pm

Cosmoteer :  https://walternaterealities.itch.io/cosmoteer

I went with the regular mode (not the creative one) and after beating down many enemy ships with my starting lonely vessel on the easier sectors, after getting some more ship to join into my fleet i started to go after harder locations.
Making then more money from the stronger targets and slowly affording some bigger ships to join the fray.

But harder is also costly, lost many ships too, and repairs isn't cheap.
Fortunately bigger targets deliver even more money so you can keep up and add new ships to replace the lost ones (sell the "too expansive to repair" guys , you may then be able to have enough money for a good replacement ship).

So at some point i felt my fleet was powerfull enough and went after the hardest sectors (one of the red "vanguard" difficulty one) .
Destroyed an enemy that wasn't much to my surprise , then faced a bigger vessel

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/AwnrK3Sm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/AwnrK3S.jpg)

My good Constellation class ship (it's one made after the Star Trek one) that served me so well so far was heavily hurt as this enemy wasn't joking at all, oddly the Constellation could still fight tough at a very weak capacity, while my Spork warships (they reminded me of the Homeworld Kadesh "needle" mothership that's why i bought them) with their very nice continous laser were starting to dig into the heavy protections of the enemy juggernault

But while it was going slowly in my favor despite my fleet was getting hurt, what i underestimated was the last enemy ship of that sector, at some point it decided to join the battle instead of flying around.
And wow, it was the biggest warship i saw so far, it annihilated 2 of my Sporks that bravely bought me time to get the FTL drives of my ruined Constellation and the last Spork + my starter ship that was still alive fully charged, so i jumped away to an empty sector to repair.

After that i attacked lesser sectors (though out of one in Professional difficulty, the sectors left were on Veteran and Elite difficulty) to remake some money and managed to build up again my fleet, this time i spared enough money to get some big guns.
Once i felt ready, i went back to the sector that kicked my warship sorry bottoms.

And wow, i didn't expected that, as my fleet jumped right next the huge enemy warship, so while they were not yet all powered up (for the big ships their shields weren't even available yet) the enemy was having a lot of fun shooting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/jGVAdAVm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/jGVAdAV.jpg)

The Umbrage juggernault , the strongest of my ships (and the most expansive one), took the worst spanking with his pants down, as seen in the screenshot (and on the upper top of it) it's a miracle it wasn't fully destroyed as it lost a heavy majority of its components.
Fortunately while the Umbrage was being slowly annihilated, my other warships went back online and delivered a very good beating to the enemy.

After lot of damage in my fleet, the enemy was finally destroyed, we then annihilated the derelict enemy left (the one from the 1st screenshot that despite incapacited was still alive when we ran away)

The big money earned allowed me to replace the lost Umbrage by a Hammerhead shark - like big warship

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/nlyDO4tm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/nlyDO4t.jpg)

Was happy that my starter ship was still in one piece, can't believe it survived the ordeal

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 28, 2021, 05:20:22 pm

Built a semi-automated processing system. A ram drill feeds a shredder, which then spits out whatever nuggets it produces into a pan. After some time passes, I then take that pan and empty it onto a conveyor line that passes the load through 4 sorters(there's five categories to sort, so the last one goes all the way through). Two of these sorters feed gold and iron into smelters, while the cloutium, gems, and shards get put into storage pans for later processing.

The entire setup cost me around 4000 coins. Letting this run for minute or two, and processing the gold and iron into necklaces/swords yields several hundred to over a thousand coins each when sold, not counting the ever-growing pile of gems, shards, and cloutium that I can't use fast enough(or in the case of cloutium, at all yet).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hydroneer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on January 28, 2021, 07:46:34 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 07, 2021, 09:16:31 pm

Game dumps a boss fight on me rather suddenly and without any particular plot justification. It wrecks me in seconds. Repeat that for multiple attempts for about a week.

Looking it up, the consensus is that this is actually the hardest boss battle in the game considering the point in the game it happens.

I spend a significant amount of time grinding, stocking up on healing items, and making sure everyone has the best equipment I could get them. ...And the boss still wrecks me within seconds. I try again, this time making sure to take a close look at the options for managing party members' AI. This time, it's a very close fight. I burn through almost all my Apple Gels, ALL my Orange Gels, and surprisingly few revive items. Even manage to achieve the Secret Mission objective. Towards the end of the fight, I scan his stats and find he has about 700HP left(out of around 32,000HP). Then the healer gets knocked out just as the mage is casting the finishing attack. I manage to revive the healer less than half a second before the boss dies, saving her from missing out on the experience from the fight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tales of Vesperia, Gattuso fight. That was not a fair fight.

Also, why does this game try to access the internet? More than once I've nearly died because my Switch brings up the wifi network search menu in the middle of battle, which locks you out of control until you close the window, which takes several seconds because it insists on searching for networks despite not being able to access any.

I'm super late replying to this, but I just wanted to commiserate. I played through the entirety of Vesperia's main storyline with three buddies who are pretty competent (competent enough to use the silly mechanic to stun the boss) and that fight still sucked. I can't imagine what it's like with only AI companions making dumb decisions all the time.

I played as Estelle, so I spent most of the battle weeping into my controller while desperately trying to repair depleting HP pools. It was traumatizing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 29, 2021, 09:37:04 pm

I seem to have identified a couple of oddly powerful things in this game. 

For one, this stupid Torgue pistol.  It fires a corrosive shot (a situationaly powerful damage type that does DOT) surrounded by 4 explosive shots (of obvious generic use, particularly to grab a second wind by killing a weak ad).  Sure the cylinder holds 5 "shots" (AKA 25 shots).  And it's hard to hit distant moving targets with the gyro-jet rounds.  It's still basically a hand shotgun that's at once sabot and chemical buckshot.

And it was a guaranteed drop from a side mission!  It's level 25 and I'm benching level 35 Jakobs revolvers *and shotguns*, my go-to weapon of choice, because this jerk gun I got many chapters ago makes them nearly obsolete.  (The effect is Roisen's Thorns, with the special text "Where there is pleasure, there is pain.")

The biggest exception would be a remarkable Jakobs revolver which had nearly +400% critical damage.  And the flat damage wasn't too shabby, particularly at the time.  So for a bit my favorite strategy was to melee an enemy, making them stagger predictably, then calmly crit their head.  Usually causing their entire body to mistify.  Or just snipe with it since the Jakobs ironsights are nice and reliable.  That was fun, I wish I was still using that gun :<

The final example is an action ability, and those are supposed to be super powerful and all.  But maybe I spent too much time on Borderlands 2 Newgame+, because I feel like Rakk Attack is beyond fair.  I'm clearing at-level or even slightly overlevel areas while barely firing a single shot.  And it absolutely destroys bosses.

FL4K throws a barrage of flaming Rakk-birds which act as homing dive-bombers.  FL4K can throw them over obstacles because there's a polite delay before they home in.  I've used them as freakin radar.  Unlike most action abilities, you get to save up 2 (3 with a skill option) charges of this, and two is enough to nearly destroy a miniboss if they're the only target!  The charges also recharge on individual timers so there's no penalty for throwing them all out quickly.  Some enemies resist fire, but there's an option to switch to cryo damage (though that would reduce how often I get to throw them).

In conclusion, I think part of it is that I'm just decent at Borderlands, but I'm also a little annoyed that it has me stuck in a mechanical rut.  I'm hoping to loot another legendary (or heck, even epic) Class Mod that lets me justify switching out of the Hunter skilltree.  The other trees are about turning invisible and striking with guaranteed crits, or (my favorite) pointing at a place and having my pet emerge there, mutated huge and radioactive, and fucking shit up.

Pretty enamored with the game, though.  And I'm a synth eeeee
Borderlands 3

Edit2:  Oh, oh, a specific moment I owned (sorta) and the original thing I was going to share: 
There was a cool mech boss in the middle of a big circular arena.  And I fought past its first phases to where it had "an exposed eridium core".  Ans I saw some wiring and stuff midway down it's stalk, so I just fired on that with my explosive-pistol (because it's a big target so all the shots always landed).  And it's chipping away its health, just, slower than I would expect from what the mission NPC claimed.  Also it wasn't attacking me.  So I kept firing these gyrojets into it a while, before casually summoning some rakks who swooped around it a little and did *massive* damage.

I circled around - The boss had a big scary beam cannon pointed away from me.  I was only damaging it at all by doing explosive AOE on its back.  It was half dead and it died super fast to a swarm of firebirds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on January 30, 2021, 02:42:07 pm

Rogue Adventure, inferno run or whatever it is, the current second option.

Game kept giving my assassin masked swordsmen (attacks once for every copy of itself you have, then duplicate and exiles itself, incrementing the number or copies without cluttering the deck; for Slay the Spire folks, think a multiplicative instead of additive claw), also gave me plenty of strength stuff, a nature mage (double strength/resistance), and enough gold to dupe said mage. Also found +max mana skills and had the gumption to halve my max HP and blind myself to use them.

By the end of the run, I was seeing fights where by the second or third turn I was outputting >1k damage, due to double doubled strength catapulting me into the 30s on top of a base of five or six swordsmen.

... for reference, that kills basically everything in the game from full health, including the last boss on what I think was max difficulty. The, like, largest base damage you'll see on a card is sub twenty, and your base cards played per turn is 3. Quite possibly the wildest run I've seen on that game, just straight up broke it over my incredibly stabby knee.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on February 03, 2021, 05:49:08 am

Just won miniLaw: Ministry of Law (https://store.steampowered.com/app/503180/miniLAW_Ministry_of_Law/), the best generic RoboCop simulator I've ever seen.  Some people say it reminds them of Judge Dredd.  Well, maybe in that you're not really unique and didn't have to die to get cybered, but the recent additions of news stories completely captures the RoboCop feel.

The funny thing is, while the character is wearing a power armored exoskeleton with futuristic weapons, the most valuable piece of equipment is the defibrillator that can bring the character back from the dead.

Also...I never blocked an attack.  Not once in my entire playthrough.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sime on February 03, 2021, 08:44:50 am

XCom Long War,  Classic difficulty with Red Fog enabled.   My sole survivor of a UFO scout landing assault mission, an injured scout  with only lightening reflex and no upgraded tech, was surrounded  inside the UFO by a Seeker, a Thin Man and a sectoid.  And yet he managed to escape the UFO into the woods and eventually kill all three to complete the mission.  Soon after my campaign imploded, but it was worth it just for the memories of that mission.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Cthulhu on February 03, 2021, 09:08:41 am

Wasn't recent, but my funniest own was when I killed a famous dead by daylight streamer while he was showing people his unbeatable strategy and made him lose ranking.  He was doing the old claude strategy where you can heal almost as fast as the killer can recover from hitting you, and jumping back and forth between a window in the big grain elevator building.  As he jumped through the window I turned and wiggled my mouse at the door so the red light the killer gives off looked like I was going through, then doubled back and hit him as he jumped back through the window.

Then since he'd pissed me off I didn't take him to the hook to properly kill him, I just stood over his body and waited for him to bleed out while his viewers laughed at him and he whined about losing rank.

Fucker had it coming.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on February 03, 2021, 02:02:31 pm

Were you stream sniping? Otherwise I don't know how you could have possibly known what his reaction was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: George_Chickens on February 05, 2021, 08:07:27 am

stream sniping is a human right

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockeater on February 05, 2021, 10:15:25 am

First time getting to the heart in Slay the spire.

Did it with the Ironclad, started with Juggernaut making putting block an offensive tactic, at some point I think I bought Barricade making every battle get to some point where I have way more block then enemy could dash out, finally got a relic that put barricade in my starting hand and with a couple of body slams the game became a breeze, even attacking helped because I had a lot of rage cards.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 06, 2021, 07:57:11 pm

Quote from: Rockeater on February 05, 2021, 10:15:25 am

First time getting to the heart in Slay the spire.

Did it with the Ironclad, started with Juggernaut making putting block an offensive tactic, at some point I think I bought Barricade making every battle get to some point where I have way more block then enemy could dash out, finally got a relic that put barricade in my starting hand and with a couple of body slams the game became a breeze, even attacking helped because I had a lot of rage cards.

Yeah, that's always a good build.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vector on February 09, 2021, 01:30:13 am

finished Cuphead island one uwu

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2021, 05:04:45 pm

Saw this game was in my update queue, reminding me it still exists. Space battle over Hoth. Battle wasn't going particularly well, so I landed in the enemy Star Destroyer's hangar bay, blew up their life support, followed by their engine coolant tanks, followed by their auto-turret targeting computer(which doesn't give many points, if I remember correctly). Stole a TIE fighter to escape, nearly destroyed their sensor array before being shot down. Pull another X-Wing, die on another attempt on the array. Pull one more, a single blaster shot finishes the sensor array for the win.

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Star Wars Battlefront II, the actual good one. Played it tons on PS2, still fun in 2021, although I can't figure out how to do a boost maneuver to evade missiles on PC. Seeing lots of complaints that this update broke mods and other things, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 09, 2021, 06:25:06 pm

I played it some too recently! I think it's double tap a/d to barrel roll (a good trick) and s to do a flip dodge thing.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Teneb on February 09, 2021, 11:39:37 pm

You fellas have no idea how the dedicated communities to this game are losing their crap over the update.

It pretty much broke it for a lot of people. I got lucky and just need to deal with the stupid huge UI. Spawn hotkey though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 10, 2021, 02:53:35 am

I was reading some news about how a patch broke that swbf2 classic whole game, with a link to that post explaining the mess the guys that made that update did :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/6060/discussions/0/3112520381509166892/

A solution that works for people from what i read is to get the reversion files :
https://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-battlefront-ii/downloads/star-wars-battlefront-ii-reversion-files

And start a new profile (as the old profiles are updated with the new broken patch and would make crash with the older files) to play your favorite mods.
For people that have the steam version (or any other version with some autoupdater thingy), looks like they'll have to play with their steam/whatever offline to avoid it re-updating their game automatically.

Or wait until whoever is still updating the game figure out how to clean their mess

edit : apparently the borked update has been reverted now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on February 11, 2021, 10:38:14 pm

Was playing with my brother and an online friend who haven't put in the 700+ hours I and my usual crew have. We also have a rando.

We were doing the Screaming Bell finale on Legend difficulty. I go in, shove my way past a few baddies on the platform, and clear out 7/9 chains holding the the bell up while fighting off a stream of guys following me. As I'm doing this I glance around and see everyone is scattered, fighting their own battles and losing. Badly.

By the time I break the last chain, my online friend and the rando are already dead. And due to a cruel twist of fate, they both spawn near the end of the level....while there's still a Rat Ogre that has to be slain.

It's me and my brother now. We clear out some trash and start fighting the Rat Ogre. It's taking for fucking ever because we're down two players and I'm a tank, so our damage is pretty low overall. At around the 30% health mark, my brother gets splatted, so it's just me and the Rat Ogre.

I fence and dodge and block and fight that Rat Ogre for probably a minute and a half. I take quite a few punches trying to slip in sneaky hits between his pretty much non-stop attacking. It's down to the wire, a fraction of his health bar left. One more hit and I'm toast. And I say into Discord "What I really need is for this guy to just burn to death, like, now."

As I finish uttering that sentence the Rat Ogre goes up like a burning cinder right before me.

But oh no, this tale does not end yet. I still have to escape, fight through a non-stop horde AND rescue my friends.

I play....probably the most intense and skillful game of tanking I've ever played. Thanks to a buff potion one of the players that died dropped, I was able to maximize what my class can do, and just basically executed everything exactly as I needed to, to survive. It took another 2 or 3 minutes of just straight fighting an entire legendary horde solo, dodging, blocking, knowing when to strike. At one point they almost had me, but things played out such that I was able to blow my special at just before they completely clobbered me, make some space, grab a bomb, perfectly blast the horde apart with it and burn the rest of them to death. I was laughing. I basically felt unstoppable despite being a moment from death.

I manage to free everyone else and we traipse on down to the evac spot.

And I STILL took half the damage of anyone else playing.

Goddamn, what a game.

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Warhammer Vermintide 2. Playing Sienna Unchained.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 12, 2021, 04:24:10 pm

Beat down the main villain(for most of the game). In one try, even. He actually gives a pretty hard fight. He has a super attack that hits almost the entire battlefield, and does enough damage anyone in my party can potentially be one-shot with it. In fact, I think it's sheer luck that none of the times he used it was a total wipe. Also fortunate is that he pauses for about 5 seconds after using it, time enough to get some healing down.

He also commits one of the biggest sins of video game bosses: he heals. Not just a scripted HP boost halfway through the fight, an actual healing spell that is part of his general moveset. Even worse, it's not just healing, it has an attack sequence to it; first it's two or three "hits" that restore about 2500 hitpoints apiece, followed by numerous minor hits to adjacent foes, and finishing up with a large healing effect for around 4500HP. He can use this repeatedly. Nearly impossible to outdamage the healing, the real trick is to interrupt his casting... which is hard because the attacks from his healing spell interrupt your interrupting attacks.

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Tales of Vesperia. You really were the biggest fool of them all, Alexei.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Jopax on February 18, 2021, 11:47:03 am

Finally beat  the Vortex campaign with one of the OG races (had beaten it previously with TK and Wulfhart but those are kinda shorter and easier for the most part), playing as DE and Lokhir no less, someone who's proven to be a fairly tough start for me previously, mostly because your only friends are Skaven and if you want to progress trough the rituals with any speed you gotta turn on them sooner or later. Beating the final battle wasn't the own tho, that one was fairly easy with the amount of broken shit you can cram into a single army, as well as the powers you get trough it.
The own came halfway trough the last ritual when the game goes 'here's six full top tier Skaven stacks dumped next to your ritual city, have fun!'
Four of those stacks beeline it for Oyxl(Oxyl?) which isn't a part of the ritual but is fairly close I guess. The city itself is T4 with second level walls and garrisoned by a low level sorceress of fire and her pretty decent army of spears/shades and a grab bag of RoR troops that were available that turn before the Skaven hit. Some 2.5k troops in total, against their 8k+
The only way to handle it is to disable large army control, which caps both sides to 20 units (so a full stack) and trickles in reinforcements as units get wiped out. This benefits me greatly because of the massive disparity in numbers, but it's not an easy win by any stretch since you still gotta grind trough all those thousands of ratmen. The real problem is the way the game handles those reinforcements for some reason, as it would send in mostly infantry and cannon fodder as replacements for their army, which meant that by the time the really nasty stuff like abominations, globadiers or plague monks came in most of my ranged power had ran out of ammo. Luckily I had 3 of the cav RoRs, which for once, proved useful as they were able to do quick charges to scare off the ranged stuff and buy some time.
Another surprising mvp (as I tend to never use the low tier flying stuff since it's so weak) on my side were the harpy RoR which sniped most enemy siege engines before the catapults could do any serious damage to my troops, as well as picking off the occasional weapons team thanks to their fairly good melee stats compared to stuff like globadiers or warpfire throwers.
By the end I had lost almost 2000 troops while an entire skaven army was wiped and others heavily mauled with some 5-6k losses in total. Fight would've been much easier if I had been able to get a black ark close enough to support, some of those abilities are fairly brutal in siege fights.

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Total War: Warhammer 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Quantum Drop on February 22, 2021, 08:41:01 am

A small empire with around 40-50K military strength called mine a bunch of soulless tin cans. I wonder what their faces looked like when several of my fleets (totalling 1.2 million fleet power) jumped right into their home system and set to work?

Also, I may or may not have Death Starred all of their planets, just for the fun of it.

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Stellaris, with all major DLCs enabled.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 22, 2021, 12:59:05 pm

Formed India as Panjab (née the Sikh Empire). The UK got into a 30 year war that completely drained her, which let me take a few high pop states in India while I was still a primitive (And being Panjab I got access to some decisions that let me add their pops to my accepted cultures). The UK didn't stand a chance after that, once I westernised I militarised to a brutal degree. First war I couldn't raise their war exhaustion at all, so I couldn't demand their retreat from India since that requires the UK to have 25 exhaustion on top of occupying a number of major cities. The second time I warred with them while they were in the middle of another war and had high exhaustion from that. I had to cheat a bit to fix some bugs that came from it (ie the UK didn't retreat from India properly and held onto a few completely isolated provinces). Cheated a couple more times to take the French and Portuguese ports in there because I couldn't be fucked to wait 30 years for warscore to tick up. I was too far away for them to fight me, but since they only had one province in range of me I wasn't able to get warscore high enough for them to accept defeat, so I used the yesmen cheat.

Once I'd taken those two and sphered all the other Indian nations, I formed India. Game bugged out a bit and I think it wound up with the AI in control of India while I was at the same time, because decisions started randomly firing off, but whatever. My goal of a united India came to fruition. I became the second most powerful nation in the world, with the most prestige and manpower. It was just industry stopping me from getting higher, and with time I'd have been able to beat out Germany there. The UK suffered an anarcho-liberal revolt, and between successive lost wars on the home front and me liberating India from them, they dropped to secondary power status.

Victoria 2: Pop Demand Mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on February 23, 2021, 05:34:49 am

Quote from: Great Order on February 22, 2021, 12:59:05 pm

Formed India as Panjab (née the Sikh Empire). The UK got into a 30 year war that completely drained her, which let me take a few high pop states in India while I was still a primitive (And being Panjab I got access to some decisions that let me add their pops to my accepted cultures). The UK didn't stand a chance after that, once I westernised I militarised to a brutal degree. First war I couldn't raise their war exhaustion at all, so I couldn't demand their retreat from India since that requires the UK to have 25 exhaustion on top of occupying a number of major cities. The second time I warred with them while they were in the middle of another war and had high exhaustion from that. I had to cheat a bit to fix some bugs that came from it (ie the UK didn't retreat from India properly and held onto a few completely isolated provinces). Cheated a couple more times to take the French and Portuguese ports in there because I couldn't be fucked to wait 30 years for warscore to tick up. I was too far away for them to fight me, but since they only had one province in range of me I wasn't able to get warscore high enough for them to accept defeat, so I used the yesmen cheat.

Once I'd taken those two and sphered all the other Indian nations, I formed India. Game bugged out a bit and I think it wound up with the AI in control of India while I was at the same time, because decisions started randomly firing off, but whatever. My goal of a united India came to fruition. I became the second most powerful nation in the world, with the most prestige and manpower. It was just industry stopping me from getting higher, and with time I'd have been able to beat out Germany there. The UK suffered an anarcho-liberal revolt, and between successive lost wars on the home front and me liberating India from them, they dropped to secondary power status.

Victoria 2: Pop Demand Mod

wahe guru my dude

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 24, 2021, 04:13:53 am

I keep failing to see the endgame in Stellaris. Normally this is because the game slows down and I get bored because of that.

This time it was because I took over almost the entire galaxy by 130 years in.

Only playing small (To try and keep FPS up), but everyone wanted to be my protectorate. By 2330 there were only three non-FE empires that were out of it, and that was because two of them were in a federation so they have a -1000 malus to accepting any sort of vassalisation, and the third is an uplifted primitive empire I released so I could form a mercantile federation for the trade policy. Also they were a megacorp so they could make corporate buildings in my empire.

Normally "winning" Stellaris isn't an issue for me, it's just that this is the first time I've had the entire galaxy willingly put themselves under my thumb. Fan auth-xenophile slavers works far too well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on February 24, 2021, 11:53:05 am

Quote from: Great Order on February 24, 2021, 04:13:53 am

I keep failing to see the endgame in Stellaris. Normally this is because the game slows down and I get bored because of that.

This time it was because I took over almost the entire galaxy by 130 years in.

Only playing small (To try and keep FPS up), but everyone wanted to be my protectorate. By 2330 there were only three non-FE empires that were out of it, and that was because two of them were in a federation so they have a -1000 malus to accepting any sort of vassalisation, and the third is an uplifted primitive empire I released so I could form a mercantile federation for the trade policy. Also they were a megacorp so they could make corporate buildings in my empire.

Normally "winning" Stellaris isn't an issue for me, it's just that this is the first time I've had the entire galaxy willingly put themselves under my thumb. Fan auth-xenophile slavers works far too well.

Lmao if they insist then who are you to reject their obesiance?
I wonder what the rationale here was. Maybe your Empire just offered a really good deal for all citizens everywhere

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on February 24, 2021, 12:20:06 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 24, 2021, 11:53:05 am

Maybe your Empire just offered a really good deal for all citizens everywhere

Quote from: Great Order on February 24, 2021, 04:13:53 am

Fan auth-xenophile slavers

For 60% of all citizens everywhere :P
Or maybe the Empire offered a good price for the remaining 40%, depopulating the other empires until they offered fealty...

Using Slaver Guilds to do slavery despite being xenophile is a neat trick that I've tried a little in the past, but the way it distributes the slavery on every planet was hard to get used to.  Interesting that you made a trade federation despite not being a megacorp (incompatible with Fanatic Authoritarianism, sadly, since it's technically oligarchy).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 24, 2021, 07:54:45 pm

Took three attempts, but I finally conquered Overgrowth. I was fairly lucky in that after the second attempt, most of the important stuff was still mostly intact. In particular, the power generators and most of the defense grid was still online. Unit manufacturing was all but gone, but that wasn't an immediate concern. By the time the third or fourth wave arrived. I had almost everything up and running, including unit factories. There was one minor mistake I made when I hadn't noticed the power lines powering the titanium mines that fed the cryofluid mixers that fed the impact reactors weren't there, requiring that I bring almost everything offline for a few waves to let the steam generators/batteries build up enough charge to turn the impact reactors* back on.

After that, all I did was build a Fortress, a tier-3 walker with a long range artillery attack. Outranges every gun they had. Managed to destroy most of the defenses on the way and around the enemy core before being destroyed. By which point, I had another Fortress ready to finish off the core. Victory occurred before wave 15.

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Mindustry.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 25, 2021, 02:41:43 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 24, 2021, 12:20:06 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 24, 2021, 11:53:05 am

Maybe your Empire just offered a really good deal for all citizens everywhere

Quote from: Great Order on February 24, 2021, 04:13:53 am

Fan auth-xenophile slavers

For 60% of all citizens everywhere :P
Or maybe the Empire offered a good price for the remaining 40%, depopulating the other empires until they offered fealty...

Using Slaver Guilds to do slavery despite being xenophile is a neat trick that I've tried a little in the past, but the way it distributes the slavery on every planet was hard to get used to.  Interesting that you made a trade federation despite not being a megacorp (incompatible with Fanatic Authoritarianism, sadly, since it's technically oligarchy).

Merchant guilds. Doesn't say so on the civic, but it gives you access to trade leagues and the merchant diplo stance. Also indentured servitude is a really useful slavery policy. Doesn't give you the bonuses other slavery types do, but the slaves are still affected by civic and leader bonuses.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on February 25, 2021, 05:09:58 pm

Thirty septendecillion paperclips.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 27, 2021, 06:20:52 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on February 24, 2021, 12:20:06 pm

Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 24, 2021, 11:53:05 am

Maybe your Empire just offered a really good deal for all citizens everywhere

Quote from: Great Order on February 24, 2021, 04:13:53 am

Fan auth-xenophile slavers

-snip-

Or maybe the Empire offered a good price for the remaining 40%, depopulating the other empires until they offered fealty...

I wonder how possible it would be to just slam all your effort into energy production, then buy all the pops of the next slave-state over in order to weaken them beyond reason. Maybe just throw them all onto a prison planet or something. Does the AI always put a portion of its slave pop up for sale, or is it by need?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 28, 2021, 09:33:28 am

I don't think they do, there was another empire selling slaves but it was barely a trickle, so I doubt they sell X% of their slave pops.

If I had to guess, I'd imagine they sell based on overpopulation and energy needs.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on March 04, 2021, 05:02:30 pm

Earned "Eternal One" (all achievements get) on Slay the Spire.

Last one I needed was an ascension 20 win, which I managed on the Silent with a hilarious shiv deck.

Included:
2x Footwork
3x Accuracy
2x After Image
4x Blade Dance

mostly upgraded, among other things. Mummified Hand was a lucky score. Also Kunai and Shuriken, of course.

Got a tiny bit hairy when I rolled Time Eater as a final boss, but it turns out even he can be quickly ruined when each Blade Dance is generating 4 shivs that do 25 damage apiece.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on March 07, 2021, 11:46:51 pm

I finished Spelunky for the first time, even if I had to use the shortcut to do it, and then lucking out that the shit above Olmec was mostly bombs. I lured him to a corner then blasted a massive hole in the floor and lured him back to it.

My record stands at 1/329.

I am saddened that my earlier attempt, during which I went through the black market while being a criminal, ended in failure in the Temple with a potential City of Gold run when I forgot to jump off a spike trap.

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Spelunky

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 13, 2021, 10:33:43 pm

My super strong, vampire, elephant man killed a hydra with its bare hands. The final strike was suitable dramatic too. A claw right through the thing's chest, to its heart, which caused it to finally bleed out.

DF

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 15, 2021, 09:57:32 am

First attempt to hit an enemy zeppelin with the flare gun, not knowing the flight dynamics of the flare and (in hindsight) at a distance outside where I should be trying aim the flare gun, scored a direct hit. Destroyed all but one, while three British planes were trying to kill me. I killed them instead.

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Warplanes: WWI Fighters(currently just playing the demo). Flying WWI planes in VR, because goddamn I love my vertigo :\. It's actually pretty neat. You can do ground bombing; this is accomplished by taking bomb and throwing it out the cockpit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 15, 2021, 11:22:34 am

My brother got Stellaris on Humble Bundle and we've been playing with two other people *_*
wait I can't take credit for that

On our second run the Khan woke up again, once again *directly* next to us.  We had to surrender again, but we were better prepared and were able to ever-so-slightly delay him at a couple of key systems.  See, being a satrap isn't actually very bad at all, but we wanted to preserve our federation.  Even if we weren't in it.

I'd accidentally let the Subterranean Empire spawn, but had peacefully vassalized them.  I released them, giving them full Federation membership.  Then our envoys desperately buttered up a megacorp until it agreed to join (it was easier once our hive-player had to surrender to the Khan).  So soon the Federation was just me and these two AI, with the horde swelling with the forces of the three other players.  As their levies smashed through my defense, I surrendered as well.

A couple years later the Khan died, mere moments from crushing the megacorp's homeworlds.  His successor released everyone, embracing egalitarian ideals.  Our trade Federation had survived, barely, without us being in it.  We begged our way back in (it took a lot of coaxing to let them accept our hive mind player) and now things are looking pretty gravy.

A nice thing about Stellaris is that there's absolutely no need to backstab these valiant NPC empires, and we have no intention to.  Two of us would feel *awful*, and the other two don't care.  We will prosper together!

(We do kinda dominate Federation politics of course, by colluding as players, but it's in the best interests of all involved.  The AI can be very dumb - like refusing to surrender to the Khan <3)

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 19, 2021, 04:26:49 pm

Not much of an own, since the boss is easy peasy, but I just tried out early-game Zweihander, and... wow. Chunking half of Taurus Demon's HP with a plunging attack and then repeatedly staggering him during the fight for an easy win was unbelievably satisfying. I don't think I'll ever go back to puny daggers after this.

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Dark Souls.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 19, 2021, 04:50:19 pm

DEX builds.

Not even once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on March 19, 2021, 05:00:53 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on March 19, 2021, 04:26:49 pm

Not much of an own, since the boss is easy peasy, but I just tried out early-game Zweihander, and... wow. Chunking half of Taurus Demon's HP with a plunging attack and then repeatedly staggering him during the fight for an easy win was unbelievably satisfying. I don't think I'll ever go back to puny daggers after this.

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Dark Souls.

Seeing how easily you owned that dude, I seriously must ask: Why did you ever think strength weapons were bad to begin with?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 19, 2021, 05:16:37 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on March 19, 2021, 05:00:53 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on March 19, 2021, 04:26:49 pm

Not much of an own, since the boss is easy peasy, but I just tried out early-game Zweihander, and... wow. Chunking half of Taurus Demon's HP with a plunging attack and then repeatedly staggering him during the fight for an easy win was unbelievably satisfying. I don't think I'll ever go back to puny daggers after this.

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Dark Souls.

Seeing how easily you owned that dude, I seriously must ask: Why did you ever think strength weapons were bad to begin with?

I was previously not aware that bosses could stagger, so I assumed I'd be expending my entire stamina bar to swing a giant sword that the big bad would simply power through before following up with a gut punch to my self-esteem. Now that I know I can bully them... everything is different. It's... it's beautiful.

I see now how foolish I was.

Still keeping some pyromancy in my back pocket, though. Just in case I run into something that is difficult to sword. Also because I want to smoke weed erryday cast Power Within and boost my damage to ludicrous levels.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on March 19, 2021, 05:30:49 pm

Do give Great Combustion a try when you meet Quelana. Str weapon damage and stagger at Dex weapon speed!

And you don't have to put levels into damage, which is why I've died a few times to low level invaders in elite knight's armor who just walk up and melt my face off with fire. :v

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loam on March 19, 2021, 09:22:38 pm

Since we're sorta talking DS1 builds, I did one where I almost didn't level anything but Vitality and Endurance - just enough Str and Dex to one-hand a halberd, and some Attunement in the late game. Then I just went Fire reinforcement (later Lightning) + Pyromancy 'cause none of those have stat scaling.

Not saying it was a great build or anything, but it was pretty fun.

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Frying Gwyn with +20 Pyromancy Flame & several Great Combustions was fun too. Like, some seriously OP damage on those things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on March 20, 2021, 01:11:31 am

I think my favorite build in DS1 was a DEX build. I had the wood grain ring, full shadow set armor, parry dagger in the off-hand, and (eventually) +15 bandit knife in the right. It was the first time I tried going without a shield for the whole game and instead rolling or parrying everything, and it was pretty fun.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: methylatedspirit on March 20, 2021, 01:47:17 am

I beat Gravitee Wars by basically turning it into Trickshot Simulator 2010. I played like normal for the first few levels, then I came up with the brilliant idea to max out my units' Accuracy.

Accuracy increases the length of the trajectory preview, so by the time I maxed it out, I just went around gleefully trickshotting my enemies to death, and I managed to get at least Silver on almost every level. I preferred the instadeath methods; launching enemies out of bounds, into shields, and into stars. AI started being a pain by the end, but before that, it was a total massacre. Accuracy is OP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 22, 2021, 08:19:59 am

Using broadhead arrows, I shot two enemies in a row in the neck, decapitating them. The second one, I caught their head out of the air and used it to bludgeon several people to death.

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Blade & Sorcery. The broadhead arrows, along with the bow I was using, are from the Medieval Mega Pack mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 23, 2021, 04:02:47 pm

After about 42 hours of trying, I finally beat FTL for the first time, which was on normal difficulty.  I probably should have dropped down to easy, but never did.

The secret to winning is that you just have to get lucky.  Nothing made my run more successful than getting a free Burst Laser II early on from a random event.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 23, 2021, 04:06:34 pm

I eventually turned off the chasing thing so i could just enjoy the game XD

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 23, 2021, 06:22:08 pm

Quote from: Telgin on March 23, 2021, 04:02:47 pm

After about 42 hours of trying, I finally beat FTL for the first time, which was on normal difficulty.  I probably should have dropped down to easy, but never did.

The secret to winning is that you just have to get lucky.  Nothing made my run more successful than getting a free Burst Laser II early on from a random event.

I started to feel the same way about FTL after a while. There's definitely a notable aspect of skill to the game--putting out fires, targeting the right systems, and all that are important things to learn, but at the end of the day there's just so much RNG deciding whether you live or die. Do the random events give you boons or ruin your day? Do the missiles fired by the enemy ship hit or miss? It's not like many other roguelites, where if you dodge everything you can conceivably have a successful run without any upgrades at all; if FTL decides not to let you win... you don't win.

I'm a huge hypocrite, though, because I stopped playing FTL but I played the heck out of XCOM (which has the same kind of RNG nonsense), so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 23, 2021, 07:01:44 pm

I read somewhere that the developers wanted you to have about a 10% success rate if you knew what you were doing.  It feels like that's about right, but I question why they wanted normal difficulty to be so hard.

There's skill involved for sure, but even the most skilled player will have runs where every other event kills a crew member and no store has useful or affordable weapons.  Many such runs.  Actually, a skilled player probably just avoids most events, which is what I learned to do.  A few are safe, but a disturbing number have a significant chance of losing a crew member or having 3-4 mantis teleport onto your ship while you're still in sector 2 and only have 3 human crew.  Skill doesn't help.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 23, 2021, 07:42:40 pm

Quote from: Telgin on March 23, 2021, 07:01:44 pm

I read somewhere that the developers wanted you to have about a 10% success rate if you knew what you were doing.  It feels like that's about right, but I question why they wanted normal difficulty to be so hard.

There's skill involved for sure, but even the most skilled player will have runs where every other event kills a crew member and no store has useful or affordable weapons.  Many such runs.  Actually, a skilled player probably just avoids most events, which is what I learned to do.  A few are safe, but a disturbing number have a significant chance of losing a crew member or having 3-4 mantis teleport onto your ship while you're still in sector 2 and only have 3 human crew.  Skill doesn't help.

That sounds like 10% for hard. I think it's like 25-50% for normal if you know what you're doing.

It's doesn't feel as obvious as Slay the Spire or any Klei game, but the game just has non-win conditions designed in. Having upgrades you're good with and grinding xp on characters when you get the chance helps a lot.

Once you have better shields than you need for an enemy (real easy for rays), you can go do something else and come back to maxed engines and command. Turn off any weapons that can manage to do damage, and you'll probably get maxed weapon skill as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on March 23, 2021, 07:47:30 pm

I feel like you guys underestimate shitty weapons. Shitty weapons don't do much on their own, but they charge and fire faster than their higher tier variants and they don't use as much power. All you have to do to learn how much they shred is to use the type B Kestrel. Spam is good for breaking through shields.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 23, 2021, 08:06:00 pm

Handed Hans Capon his blue-blooded ass in both the archery duel(with no skill levels in archery) and sword-fighting. Almost beat his ass in the tavern brawl later, but that's scripted to end before the fight can be won.


Also found out I can make decent amounts of money brawling with Milan. After knocking him out, you can rob him in a place almost guaranteed to be free from witnesses. Aside from your wager(the game doesn't remove it from his pockets if you win, it just spawns the winnings in yours), you can strip his clothing and gear, which respawns every day. It's marked stolen, but there's a friendly miller just down the road who will gladly help "store" some "lost, but found" goods. This is in addition to the various stats you train while brawling.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 24, 2021, 01:49:54 pm

I constructed a skeleton!  Technically I constructed a dozen skeletons last week, but the mostly-intact human remains that keep washing up on the river hardly count.  All they needed were "skulls".  Human skulls are bizarrely rare compared to every other bone, but fortunately you can buy replicas.  The constables who buy the "murder evidence" seem more impressed than concerned that the replicas are made of brass.

But these remains weren't human, oh no!  Nothing so nearly-authentic!  Today I did "paleontology" in the most cynical, victorian sense!

So first I went on a dream-safari and captured a bird with seven heads.  This part was actually legitimate science, of a sort.  Then I butchered it, which I felt kinda bad about because it's sentient and very talkative.  Lots of talking animals get casually killed in this game, it's a little weird actually.  But Victorian science, right?  At least this was in the interests of knowledge?

Ha no, the skeleton was way too small so I used a magically warped ruler to make it human-sized.  Then I took it into a slimey bohemian basement in the suburbs where squid-peopled helped me glue an eighth spine on it.  You know, for... science?  _{Why did I do that part?  I think I saw the option and assumed it was useful somehow?}

So I kinda let it sit in that state for a few weeks because it needs 8 skulls, and skulls are the one body part I don't have piles of.  I also just had no idea how to use this thing - clearly it was valuable, or at least expensive to make.  Who would buy it? 

Ah, a bizarrely wealthy author of gothic tales, perfect!  She'd pay in scrip, which meant I could invest some scrip in buying 8 skulls.  Giant bird skulls?  No no, we're long past any sort of authenticity, I bought sabre-cat skulls.  Because they met the buyer's desires of antiquity and menace.  I think the thighs I attached were from a dinosaur, maybe, so that's a nice coincidence of taxonomy.

I don't know of any dinosaurs that walked on three legs with one pincer-arm.  It... it was the best way to balance the antiquity and menace, see, and also I wanted to see if the buyer would go for it.  Apparently limbs are anything-goes with chimera, so it was "fine".  To her credit it was actually very difficult to convince her that this monstrosity ever existed - but apparently some people really want to believe in bygone monsters.

For my trouble I made a decent profit in scrip (after expenses) and a heaping pile of "stygian ivory".  I also reached a market exhaustion level of "Depleted for Two to Three Weeks, But You Certainly Impressed Them".  Those are real-life weeks, ehehe.  That suits me fine.  I'm just... kinda reeling with how incredibly cynical this game's depiction of paleontology is.  Dredging up murder victims really is about as authentic as it gets, here, and even there you have to fake their skulls.

It is pretty funny though, and obviously inspired by real bestiaries (http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast212.htm).  Like, it's fine to recount stories, but it's amazing what was stated as fact:

Quote from: Pliny the Elder

Near the town of Lisbon, mares stand facing a west wind and conceive a foal from it; such colts are very swift but only live three years.

Okay ramble done.  Fallen London

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 24, 2021, 03:01:12 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on March 23, 2021, 07:47:30 pm

I feel like you guys underestimate shitty weapons. Shitty weapons don't do much on their own, but they charge and fire faster than their higher tier variants and they don't use as much power. All you have to do to learn how much they shred is to use the type B Kestrel. Spam is good for breaking through shields.

Oh, sure.  But then I get 3 attempted and failed runs because I don't get any opportunities new weapons at all for 3 sectors, not even weak ones, because no event drops one, no store is selling weapons, or the only weapons the stores are selling are higher tier weapons I can't afford or can't power.

The starting burst laser on the Kestrel and Odyssey are good enough up until sector 3 or so, but then you start running into enemies with 3 shield barriers and your only way to hurt them is with missiles or the artillery beam.  If they have a defense drone you're more or less screwed with missiles, and the artillery beam doesn't charge fast enough or hit reliably enough to knock out their weapons to survive such fights.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 28, 2021, 06:17:31 pm

I beat Dicey Dungeons on the 3rd challenge of the Inventor.

Every single item you have, including the invented item, have 4 charges. Invented item starts out as "turn all dice into 6s", which is great except for weapons that have a maximum or 4 or whatever (one you start with does). When an item runs out, it replaces the invented item with 4 charges, no matter how good it was or how many charges were left. About half of the items you find are not weapons, which can be a problem when you need to kill the enemy to leave a fight. Upgrading an item (I had 1 anvil on the map, 1 in a store, and one possible from a level-up but took the copy and item instead - there was never a blueprint on the map or store) resets it to 4 charges. You're also limited in equipment slots (although the backpack you can refill from is large enough that I can't imagine filling it) during a fight.

I got the vampire final boss, who has a wooden stake in a chest right before the fight. It takes up one of your 6 slots, and several of my best weapons took up 2 slots each. He can also steal health. I took the upgraded ice weapon (on a 6, turn their largest die into a 1, does die plus 1 damage, but 2 slots), an upgraded hammer (does damage equal to the die face, on a 6 disable one enemy equipment), the wooden stake (total of 40 from your 6-sided dice does 5 damage and kills the vampire if it gets them to 0), and a staff (put a total of 8 from various die faces to do 6 damage and disable 1 of their dice, but 2 slots).

I used up my last non-stake item with a 1 to bring him down to 5 health, so I killed him with my absolute last chance. Glad I saved my upgraded items and mostly had weapons that had 4 charges left.

A bit frustrating sometimes, but it's a great game for the $10 or whatever I picked it up for on itch.io.

Quote from: Telgin on March 24, 2021, 03:01:12 pm

Quote from: heydude6 on March 23, 2021, 07:47:30 pm

I feel like you guys underestimate shitty weapons. Shitty weapons don't do much on their own, but they charge and fire faster than their higher tier variants and they don't use as much power. All you have to do to learn how much they shred is to use the type B Kestrel. Spam is good for breaking through shields.

Oh, sure.  But then I get 3 attempted and failed runs because I don't get any opportunities new weapons at all for 3 sectors, not even weak ones, because no event drops one, no store is selling weapons, or the only weapons the stores are selling are higher tier weapons I can't afford or can't power.

The starting burst laser on the Kestrel and Odyssey are good enough up until sector 3 or so, but then you start running into enemies with 3 shield barriers and your only way to hurt them is with missiles or the artillery beam.  If they have a defense drone you're more or less screwed with missiles, and the artillery beam doesn't charge fast enough or hit reliably enough to knock out their weapons to survive such fights.

I've lost against the boss a few times because I can't do enough damage. Especially when the hacking drone hits the weapons.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on March 28, 2021, 11:13:47 pm

Having beaten the game with the Kestrel, Odyssey and Nesasio on normal now, I do now recognize that the game is much less random and doable if you can get past the first 3 sectors.  But the mention of hacking reminds me that I now need to try it with AE content enabled since I have no experience with lanius, hacking or mind control.  Hacking and mind control in particular look like they can be pretty infuriating to deal with, but mind control can at least be countered with your own mind control.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 29, 2021, 07:57:48 pm

Met a cowardly knight along the side of the road who challenged me to a duel. I told him he should focus more on wooing the beautiful women of Bohemia. He agreed and started to walk away.


As soon as his back was turned, I choked him out, then snapped his neck. Stripped his corpse and fenced his shiny armor for quite a lot.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I wasn't sure if the stolen flag disappeared, as it wasn't shown when selling it to Peshek. If it had, I probably would have been better off just keeping the full set of plate.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on March 30, 2021, 08:52:37 am

Henry’s the good guy, right?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on March 30, 2021, 02:08:17 pm

Game offered me to dual wield double heavy machine guns.  How could I say no?  All the damage of double miniguns with far far better accuracy and therefore better ammo economy.

Lil Hunter literally evaporated and got to loop no problem.  Ballguy Mom's final projectile killed me as I killed her.  One day I'll get her without running out of ammo, as that's how she typically ends my run.

Also, apparently the popgun family cannot benefit from recycle gland, in spite of being bullet weapons.  Go figure.

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Nuclear Throne

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on March 30, 2021, 05:22:25 pm

Fought a Rathian with Sword and Shield. I start the fight with a tap to the ankle, just to get her attention. Rathian gives me the usual hello roar. I counter it with Metsu Shoryugeki and instantly stun her, then follow up with a Perfect Rush. She gets up, gets mad, and tries to hit me with a flying tailspin. Metsu Shorygeki. Dunked. Perfect Rush. She gets up and shoots a fireball. Metsu Shoryugeki. Stunned. Perfect Rush.

Repeat again and again until the poor wyvern limps away with too many concussions to count, and is promptly captured.

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Monster Hunter Rise
Dear Gog, I love what they've done to Shoryugeki. In Generations Ultimate, it was a fun move to use if you could place it correctly and time it well. In Rise, it's a counter. And as you can tell from my description, it's hilariously strong.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Burnt Pies on April 01, 2021, 10:39:44 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on March 30, 2021, 02:08:17 pm

Game offered me to dual wield double heavy machine guns.  How could I say no?  All the damage of double miniguns with far far better accuracy and therefore better ammo economy.

Lil Hunter literally evaporated and got to loop no problem.  Ballguy Mom's final projectile killed me as I killed her.  One day I'll get her without running out of ammo, as that's how she typically ends my run.

Also, apparently the popgun family cannot benefit from recycle gland, in spite of being bullet weapons.  Go figure.

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Nuclear Throne

Popguns use similar projectiles to shotguns, and I think they benefit from shotgun shoulders. It is a little bit awkward.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on April 01, 2021, 02:32:52 pm

Quote from: Burnt Pies on April 01, 2021, 10:39:44 am

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on March 30, 2021, 02:08:17 pm

Game offered me to dual wield double heavy machine guns.  How could I say no?  All the damage of double miniguns with far far better accuracy and therefore better ammo economy.

Lil Hunter literally evaporated and got to loop no problem.  Ballguy Mom's final projectile killed me as I killed her.  One day I'll get her without running out of ammo, as that's how she typically ends my run.

Also, apparently the popgun family cannot benefit from recycle gland, in spite of being bullet weapons.  Go figure.

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Nuclear Throne

Popguns use similar projectiles to shotguns, and I think they benefit from shotgun shoulders. It is a little bit awkward.

I'm aware of that part, but I never noticed you can't recycle gland with them.  Probably because it wasn't until recently I've done next to nothing but spam dual bullet builds with steroids.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on April 01, 2021, 06:41:45 pm

Corruption 8, first try. Team was... cleric, bard, druid, into bloodmage, then fallen... i.e. all healer, all the time, or at least as close as I could get to it. First act, well. First act almost killed me. Beat it with three morale left.

Second act? Second act I just flat flawlessed. Flawlessed the whole act, straight.

... third was a bit more mixed, usually losing one guy per fight with some flat losses along the way (bloody conduits), but ultimately. Ultimately, I won the run, with a mono healer spec'd party.

It probably shouldn't have worked, and the cleric coming in as MVP dps in the final boss fight was a little silly (its passive, plus symbiote+mana regen items and one that gives major blessings on active use resulting in like 200+ attack with capped out speed and mana reduction by the end of the fight), but... it did. It did work, ha.

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Astronarch

e: Legend Creatures tells me I can brag about beating the game now :V

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Beat difficulty level five after four or five tries. There's definitely a noticeable jump in difficulty with level 5, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 11, 2021, 05:33:39 pm

Killed something in a live fight. I wasn't entirely confident despite using roughly half of the 450k I made in the ~12 hours of playtime trading and cargo/courier missions to buy a Viper Mk3 and associated equipment. On the Viper's medium hardpoints I equipped multi-cannons, the light hardpoints I put gimballed pulse lasers. Took an assassination mission from the mission board, and traveled to the system.

Wasn't quite sure how to find the target. Screwed up hilariously at one point because the target tried to interdict me and I broke the interdiction without realizing it was him. Eventually found and engaged the target. They had an Adder, which was easy to outmaneuver, and his shields dropped in seconds. I did have to fight him three times; the first two he jumped out at around 15%-20% hull, and when I tracked him down again he was back up to full. Somehow. Didn't run the third time, and it looked like he was taking damage faster. Scored the kill, and headed back for the reward.

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Elite: Dangerous. The money wasn't quite as good, 8k for the bounty, 24k for the mission reward. Minus 1200 for ammo resupply. Cargo and courier missions usually give at least 32k on their own, plus whatever conventional trading I do alongside, plus it's not uncommon for multiple missions to go to the same destination - an exceptional boon for courier missions, as those don't take up any cargo space.

But then again, shooting people in the face is pretty fun.

EDIT: Took three massacre missions at once, one for 3 kills, two more requiring 4 kills. Partially misunderstood how these missions proceed; they also only calculate kills for one mission at a time. Meaning I needed 11 total kills. Anyway, these missions are similar to assassinations, except when you reach the target area, there's three enemy vessels at once. Only, since these were pirates(still in the Pilots' Federation zone), they're not initially hostile unless you have cargo. So, you have to initiate combat by shooting one, which aggroes the one you shoot(the rest leave).

Got bored going 1v1 with them, proceeded to aggro two at once. Still a curbstomp. I think damage got past my shield once, when one of them straight up rammed me. And I'm not even sure if that's caused the 1% damage to my paint(yes, that's something that can be damaged). I may simply have dropped out of hyperspace too close to a star.

Killed them all, turned in the missions, and my money balance has hit over 1 million for the first time.

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Elite: Dangerous. I was also wrong about it not being as profitable as trading. I missed the fact that pirate kills also give you bounty bonds that can be turned in at most stations for even more money.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mini on April 18, 2021, 05:16:33 pm

Paint is damaged slowly just from flying around (space dust, etc), so you might not have even taken any real damage if that is the only thing you had to repair.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 26, 2021, 09:25:28 am

I figured out how to fly using a corpse as a kite.

Grab a corpse. Technically, you could probably do this with a living person, but you don't want to deal with their constant flailing and screaming. It seems best to take them by the throat. Using the gravity spell(which lets you TK bodies), lock on to one of their feet and grab. Aim the limb upwards and a bit forwards, then TK push it away while still holding the body in your hand. Jump to achieve full liftoff. Be mindful of altitude and vertigo.

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Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on April 26, 2021, 07:37:48 pm

Quote from: Akura on April 26, 2021, 09:25:28 am

I figured out how to fly using a corpse as a kite.

Grab a corpse. Technically, you could probably do this with a living person, but you don't want to deal with their constant flailing and screaming. It seems best to take them by the throat. Using the gravity spell(which lets you TK bodies), lock on to one of their feet and grab. Aim the limb upwards and a bit forwards, then TK push it away while still holding the body in your hand. Jump to achieve full liftoff. Be mindful of altitude and vertigo.

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Blade & Sorcery.

Reading your post feels like I'm reading an excerpt from the records of a mad wizard studying various ways to use magic for fun and profit. And it's great.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 02, 2021, 07:35:48 am

Was fighting a Green Alpha Spitter over a drop pod. After a few whacks I get knocked away. The Spitter then uses that special attack where it summons a fireball in the air that shoots multiple smaller fireballs. Then it charges at me... and promptly gets hit in the ass by its own fireball, dies, and goes flying over my head.

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Satisfactory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on May 03, 2021, 06:55:27 pm

I'm trying to 5-star every level in Circadian Dice with the barbarian (and eventually the rest). I've completed every level in easy mode with 5-stars so far. Sunken Ghost Ship, Bandit Raid (which took a pile of gold to get the final star), and Necromancer Tower on hard.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2021, 04:58:17 pm

Fighting a war against the United Empire, playing as a UE-flavored custom faction. Been sitting on a single enemy star system for the entire war; a good, 6-planet star, two star-lanes away from the UE capital.

Prior to starting this campaign, I read a guide the suggested that ships designed with almost nothing but kinetic weapons set for long range - the game itself explicitly states that kinetics are bad for long range and best for melee range. I've got seven destroyers and a corvette configured so sitting on this star system. They're lead by an admiral I accidentally hired(misclicked, was aiming for an administrator) at the very beginning of the game; they're somewhat aberrant, suicidal Craver with a specialty for defense named Storm Libera. As the war dragged on, I've been stacking as many defense skills onto it as possible as Storm leveled up.


The UE's latest and strongest attempt consisted of 10 ships(9 destroyers, 1 scout), with a total firepower slightly lower than my fleet. My fleet is moderately beat up at this point, so they've got a definite advantage. For the opening round, I played Barrier, but they countered with Adaptive Tactics. Despite that, 9 of their ships were obliterated in the first round, and the last didn't last a second into the second round. Their weapons did a total of 466 points of damage. Mine did 9289. My defense efficiency was 89%, meaning that the enemy did only slightly more than 10% of the damage they were supposed to.


Now if only this damn star system's siege defense wasn't so high I could actually conquer it in less than 80 turns(it is currently turn 81).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space. Good news, I have battleships on the way, including a design with over 1000 siege power.

EDIT: Suppressed the United Empire, and kept the Amoeba in check by holding a major choke point and not ever agreeing to open borders. The entire time, there was on faction I had yet to make contact with, though their game score was barely lower than mine. They decided to say hi. ...It was the Cravers. And they had a few fleets with over triple the fleet power I could muster myself.

The first actual battle against them, my fleet was ironically led by Storm Libera. I ordered an offensive retreat. I probably should have stayed and fought, since in the one combat phase I destroyed two of their ships and took only scratch damage. They tried to launch a ground invasion, which failed because I spent over ten thousand Dust on insta-building ground-defense structures on that system the same turn the Cravers made contact.

I also quickly redirected my science efforts, and a few turns and about 30k Dust for buying them, I dropped four Dreadnoughts on their face. They combined their forces into a fleet of nearly 20 ships with a total power of over 10k. That got erased in two combat phases, with my ships being immediately repaired(via Dust). Then the fleet that ran came back and finished off another 16 or so siege ships that had no ship-to-ship combat ability.

After that, I haven't yet seen any kind of threatening force to come out from the Cravers. I think I permanently crippled their force projection, and my counter attacks may have broken their economy. The Cravers can not afford to be pushed back. Also, the increases to tax rates necessitated by the war is now giving me 1-2%/turn progress for an Economic Victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 08, 2021, 10:39:41 pm

Turns out helm of the mad king (increase attack damage and speed when attacked) + war mage's greatstaff (gain a shield = to attack damage when you attack) + bouncing buckler (deal damage per 100 shield gained) on a druid is ridiculously powerful.

Spoiler: victory screen, sizeable 'cause I'm too tired to shrink it (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/mz1VBaF.png)

Spoiler: game (click to show/hide)

Astronarch

E: Had the third item wrong... also, it happened again, on the very next run. RIP corruption 18 :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 09, 2021, 05:48:53 pm

Built a small space warship, which I would classify as a corvette. Biggest achievement with this vehicle is that it can go from sea to space without using build-mode freezing, although the last few edits I did to the AI require to have a small "push" from me to pitch it up a bit out of the water. Top speed is around 120m/s. The ship is pretty tanky, spending several minutes getting pounded by a Steel Strider Norge and only losing a few blocks. For a short while, the repair bots(I disabled avatar repairs for the test) were even able to out-repair the damage. Armor consists of an outer shell with a corrugated liner, followed by a rib structure of heavy armor, with the interior walls behind that, with empty spaces between each layer and all buffed by ring shields. Construction cost is just over 100k materials, which I think is pretty good for a light spaceship as opposed to an oceanic ship.


Main weapon is a forward-mounted laser, but I've having significant issues getting the ship AI to pitch down to engage targets with it. It's easy enough to fly it manually into the laser's targeting envelope. It also has 8 .50cal machine guns it can't aim very well. As well as four missile launchers I'm going to remove because they have no range and keep targeting the ship(I forgot the IFF block); I only built them to test cluster missiles. I definitely need to add a rear AM laser, and possibly a top- or side-mounted laser turret.

Biggest problem with it is its fuel endurance. In combat or heavy maneuvers, it burns about 75 materials/sec, significantly less when idle, and holds 60k in storage. While the engine is fairly powerful, it's not enough to fully power all the thrusters and equipment though it maneuvers just fine anyways.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Depths.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: fatcat__25 on May 09, 2021, 11:30:28 pm

Playing against a radiation deck, the other player attached a trait card to my warrior that made it so I couldn't use a targeted attack that would kill another character. I then proceeded to kill his last priest with the one non-targeted warrior card in the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Card Hunter, a fantasy turn based strategy game made to look like a board game. Unfortunately, the multiplayer playerbase is pretty small at present, so getting very high in rank is very hard. Rebalances on the horizon might make a difference.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 11, 2021, 05:47:52 pm

Won corruption 20. Mad king + clutch war mage (literally from the 3 act boss) turning the druid tank invincible carried it again~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Astronarch. Corruption 20 is remarkably mean, though... odd. It's a 1/3rd, 1/4th, 1/5th penalty, scaling down as you go up the acts, 'cause it starts you off with one less party member. Brutal as hell starting off, but weirdly forgiving as you progress.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 12, 2021, 06:48:00 am

Took about four tries each, but I was able to beat both bonus bosses, Fitzroy and Mother's Corners. I beat Fitzroy first, though he's supposed to be harder than the Corners. In hindsight he was, because I was able to cut out 2/3rd's of the Corners fight in seconds by equipping two Tool Assists and Iron Heart and berserking whichever was closer until the damage I took made that stop working.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Iconoclasts.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mkok on May 12, 2021, 12:38:20 pm

Half the world declared war on me calling me a warmonger (I dont mean to point fingers, but it was not me who enslaved half of Africa and India, and waged war upon China when they refused to buy my drugs, and yet they dare call me the warmonger :-\) So I wrecked their fleets, forced UK, France and Austria to disarm and pay war reparations to me, establishing myself as the undisputed ruler of the seas. And at same time accidentally creating worldwide shortage of clothes and furniture. Who would have though that such a huge fleet of sailing ships would use up so much of the worlds cloth and wood supply  ::)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Victoria 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: methylatedspirit on May 15, 2021, 09:37:24 am

I entered a shrine (Dah Hesho, apparently), its subtitle was "A Minor Test of Strength". Cheesed the shrine. Stabbed robo-guardian-thing a bunch with a Thunderspear, then when its electrical energy ran out, I pulled out my Thunderstorm Rod and zapped it some more. Thing died in less than 15 seconds. That's probably my fastest non-Blessing shrine ever. I think my entry and exit load times were longer than that fight.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 16, 2021, 10:12:29 am

Chucked a brick of TNT out of a window, nearly causing a total squad wipe.

In the same match, an enemy armored car drove around to the back of the chateau I was trying to hold. As I threw the TNT, they dismounted. I don't know if they were getting out to repair, or what, but the explosion destroyed the entire crew and the armored car. That one got the achievement for wiping a squad in under 5 seconds, and the one for destroying a tank.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Enlisted. Essentially, a free-to-play Battlefield, with the schtick that instead of playing as a single soldier, you control an entire squad - you personally possess one with a bunch of AI bots following you and can switch freely or when you die. You never know if the guy you're shooting at is another player or one of their bots... unless they shoot back because the AI is terrible.

It is a Gaijin game, though, so there's almost certainly some Russian bias, or at least anti-German bias; every match I've played as Germany was an incredibly one-sided loss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 20, 2021, 05:49:24 pm

I fulfilled the Oath of the Peach Garden. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei all died on the same day, in the same month and in the same year.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Total War Three Kingdoms. I was playing as He Yi and somehow managed to capture all three of them after a single battle. Needless to say, the yellow turbans did not look kindly upon them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2021, 03:03:16 pm

Took my first province by conquest instead of building a fortress in an unowned one.

Army may have been overkill, 800 adamantine golems with various weapon configurations, all powered by faerie dust(which is the best power source I've seen). Took the local rhinomen's fortress in a few turns of siege. Taking the city next to it took significantly longer. The initial time to assault was over 30 turns, so I decided to add some... "engineers" by binding(which I think means enslaving) some pixies. To build siege weapons and towers for automatons that I assume are significantly larger than an average human. Because that makes sense.

Spoiler: and it does (click to show/hide)

During a siege, units that are not tagged with Beast, Mindless(I assume Lesser Mind as well), or Monster can produce labor points that can be spent on building siege engines(which add random progress per turn) or siege towers(lowers total progress needed to assault). Golems are Mindless, so they cannot build siege engines. Pixies, curiously enough, lack all of those tags. The mental image is still pretty funny.

Pixies also make excellent skirmishers. I also added some mudmen to the siege, because they get a bonus to siege progress. A few times they sent a unit out, only to be immediately reduced to a red smear. Any losses were immediately replaced because my(formerly their) fortress was in the adjacent tile, which gives unit replenishment at effectively no cost. When it came time to actually assault the city, both armies had around 1300 total troops. But only the numbers were equal. The first few rounds of combat, the pixies slaughtered hundreds in ranged combat before being chased back. The golems smashed into their lines. The rhinomen gave dozens of lives at a time just to bring down one golem. Most of them broke and ran. Out their 13 units(of 100 men each), 5 were destroyed completely. I lost one unit: a bunch of zombies I created from one of the troops they tried to get out of the city during the siege.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wizards and Warlords, which I've been playing for the past few days.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on May 25, 2021, 12:49:15 pm

Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on May 20, 2021, 05:49:24 pm

I fulfilled the Oath of the Peach Garden. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei all died on the same day, in the same month and in the same year.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Total War Three Kingdoms. I was playing as He Yi and somehow managed to capture all three of them after a single battle. Needless to say, the yellow turbans did not look kindly upon them.

Nice!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 03, 2021, 07:57:53 pm

Fought a desperate, pitched battle against the Hand of Sajuuk, the enemy command carrier, in the final mission of the campaign. The mission itself is a constant barrage of attacks from all sides, making it very difficult to rebuild your forces, so I had to use what I had.

Already lost about a third of my ground forces against the first enemy carrier, the Ashinta, and I didn't have quite enough resources to rebuild. A combination of cruise missile, orbital laser, and sacrificing half my entire complement of aircraft took about a third of the Hand of Sajuuk's health off. And it kept rolling directly towards me. My carrier and three artillery cruisers engaged the enemy carrier directly. I don't know why, probably its large size, but those artillery cruisers did a lot more damage than anything else.

As a finishing move, I launched all remaining aircraft, ordered all units to engage, and struck a the actual killing blow with a direct hit from the orbital laser into the center of the ship. The ending cutscene(which is done in-engine) had my aircraft doing a flyby of the exploding ship.

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Deserts of Kharak. Was on sale, quite cheap. Still is for another 16 hours at the time of this post.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on June 04, 2021, 05:00:15 am

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 11, 2021, 01:33:02 am

So, one of the toughest monsters in the game spawned in front of me, the grim reaper/death, hovering over a chasm. Because I already had a spell readied to fire, as I was in the middle of a fight already, I just loosed the spell at it, kinda in a half panic "I need to get the fuck out of here" type deal. The grim reaper was stunned and "knocked over" by the spell, fell into the chasm, and died. It must have existed for like two seconds total. I and my pawn both immediately gained four levels, and a steam achievement. I was very taken aback by it to be honest.

I had also dealt with another very tough and very annoying enemy, a giant ogre, by luring it into a fight over a cliff, where it charged right off. And a giant eyeball thing by standing underneath it, making its upward spike thrust attack hit itself right in the eye. So it hasnt been an uneventful night. But I didn't think I'd literally cheat death out of a fair fight.


Dragon's Dogma; Dark Arisen

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on June 11, 2021, 06:23:30 pm

Quote from: Yoink on June 04, 2021, 05:00:15 am

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

Congrats on finding a server with people on it. That's the real own.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 11, 2021, 08:58:00 pm

Got hired to move some paintings around. Simple enough, just had to pick up the replacement painting, deliver it, and bring back the old one.

Oh, but this is a heavily-fortified mansion with cameras and a 24-hour security detail with taser-happy guards with shoot-on-sight orders. And what I'm doing isn't... entirely legal. Or any amount of legal. Whatever.


I have little details on the security. I wake up in the next door parking lot at noon, at the start of the only 6-hour time block I don't have for the guards. I also hadn't marked all the security cameras on the place, so every step is a potential alarm. Luckily, there's a guard watching the car gate, so I mark him and get vision on the guards at all times.

First attempt, I climb a fence near the front and sneak up close to the garage on the opposite end of the property. Amazingly, there wasn't any cameras on that route. I get close enough to use my laptop to hack the camera control panel, shutting them off. I work my way around to the back of the house, the only place I can find a door to get in as all the windows are alarmed against both breakage and glass cutting. Also, what kind of a house lacks a front door? The replacement painting is also in the back, but I actually didn't realize that until I stumbled right on it. I putter a bit trying to figure how to get inside; there's a guard on the side of the house, and one inside who is capable of seeing me as I try to break in. I decide to go for it, pick the lock, and sneak in. Unfortunately, the side guard's schedule moved him to the back of the house, where he noticed the door was unlocked(or perhaps the window I opened to sneak the painting into), and called the cops. I tried to hide in the garage, but the policeman who showed up wandered for a minute before zeroing on my hiding spot and tasered me.

Second attempt, I climbed a rock behind the house to go right over the fence. Picked the back door, snuck in with the replacement painting. Snuck into the garage to so I could hack the cameras, also stole a trombone. Just barely snuck past the guard patrolling inside the house; his schedule keeps him pretty much on the stairs I needed to climb all the time, and it was too risky to wait until he changed positions(it happens after the side guard moves to the back of the house). Got upstairs, switched the paintings. The painting I need to take out fits in my bag, instead of being carried, so that's good. Out I went from a convenient window that opened onto the roof of the garage, which led to a wooden arch that let me walk right over the fence off the property. Mission complete, and one of the most tense jobs I've done.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thief Simulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Yoink on June 13, 2021, 12:29:38 am

Quote from: heydude6 on June 11, 2021, 06:23:30 pm

Quote from: Yoink on June 04, 2021, 05:00:15 am

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

Congrats on finding a server with people on it. That's the real own.

Haha, there are usually at least a couple in my region (Oceania). A lot of them exclusively run a level called Bernie's Resort, though, which I find kind of lame. Half the time it seems to end at the first objective if the attacking team fail to get their janky helicopters in safely.   
I guess it's the "meme map", kinda like Operation Locker in Battlefield 4 or Nuketown in just about every CoD game ever.   

Not that it makes much difference for me, though, since my computer can barely run any of the maps at the best of times.   
Looks like I'll be moving in the near future, though, so perhaps at my new place (actually not new, I lived there years ago with some of the same friends) I'll shell out to get a better set-up.   

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 15, 2021, 05:31:19 pm

Very happy to manage to beat the first boss of Hellpoint after she kicked my sorry bottom so many times.
The secret to work around my miscalculation in when to dodge and when to attack was to grind more axiom and levelup more times, and then increase then my health bar so i could take more hits :D

Beating that "dark witch" thingy or whatever it was opened up a lot, the Observatory sector allows to upgrade items and weapons and craft more stuff.
Found some better armor piece to go along.

With my better equipment, i also went to go hunt the big staff demon guy that appears in the early sector when the clock gets orange, wasn't as difficult as i thought (well that monster way bigger and stronger than any of the early enemy in that sector, but not as strong as the dark witch boss thingy).

Even managed to find a bunch of secret doors (in the early sector there are several of them, make sure to test suspicious walls) that gave me some shortcuts and additional materials and items.
Enjoying that gog freebie so far a lot more than i thought, nice mix of grinding and rewarding results to help you overcome the hard fights.
Oh and don't hesitate to grind some levels in strength to be able to use the "column" weapon, its "hard" but slow attack is fantastic against the big knights that patrol the circular corridor that lead to the 1st boss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on June 19, 2021, 07:35:41 am

Finally, those bastards (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg8287975#msg8287975) are down !

After being destroyed many time by those guys, i decided to travel back to the Observatory and from there try to grind in Port Issoudun , that had some stronger new enemies, as my goal was to try to use the accumulated experience of the game and my improved character to survive for a bit there to see if i could find some better equipment.

And so i did in this sector that had been remodelled by some cosmic horror into an organic hell, managed to get a Thespian Hook drop from one of the bizarro swordsmen , grinded it long enough to unlock its ability (it has only one unlike most weapons so it takes longer to unlock it)  that increase its damage output a lot.
Found also a way to improve one of my previous armor into something better somewhere in that scary place. Improved also my character and some conductors that i was using on  some weapons thanks to all the accumulated axioms.

Then once i felt stronger, i decided it was time to pay another visit to those Arisen Congegrators that are those hated bastardly bosses of the Sohn District.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/KIA6W5W.jpg)

Good i had a lot of healing salves there, as i still needed 2 of them during the fight to help with my various miscalculations.

Opened a lot more paths for my character to travel into, oh joy more insanity :D

game: Hellpoint

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: da_nang on June 28, 2021, 12:25:24 pm

Not sure if I should start a Let's Play thread, but it's a win. Didn't want to clog up the main thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=112358.msg8288722#msg8288722). Spoilers ahead.

Shenanigans Update 3:

Spoiler: Part 1: Jasper (click to show/hide)

Continuing on from Florinia, next up was Corey (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon-reborn/images/f/f3/VSCorey.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/256?cb=20160927182518) the Beryl Ward Gym Leader, widower, and the secret love child of Koga (https://cdn2.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f4/Lets_Go_Pikachu_Eevee_Koga.png) and Cyrus (https://cdn2.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8a/Diamond_Pearl_Cyrus.png). Coincidence? I thought not!

With the in-game TV stating him to be leading a Poison-type Gym with a Crobat (yay, more Poison), clearly I would need some more anti-Poison. Scatman the Grimer and Hiacynth the Trubbish would be useful, I imagined. As would Stolas the Noctowl Prince, Hela the Shiny Beautifly, and Mothra the Dustox.

There was also Vaernima the Munna to consider, but she was a bit on the slow side and I worried about that Crobat. Maybe I could even throw in Chip the Bibarel (inferior Doofie had been traded for Vaernima).

Either way, there was a Jasper Ward and two more bastardized Tangrowths in the way. Thankfully, I have just the 'mon for that: Hiacynth, but also the latest newcomer Dorf Trick the Slugma.

Octavia the Dartrix would sit this one out so I could give Dorf Trick some love. Also Poison against Grass? Hell no. Scatman would keep her company so I could fit in El Capitan the Meowth, Wielder of the Holy Cut, and Winner of Bread.

Hela, Mothra, Hiacynth, and Stolas came with us as backup and for training.

We battled through Jasper Ward, tricky as it was when it was overwhelmed with Beedrills. Eventually we got to Malchous Forest, and Dorf Trick had a blast battling the ancient foe: trees. Always fun setting the forest on fire.

Eventually we got to the Tangrowth and its latest Frenemy and Douche Taka. Got a little bit dicey thanks to Taka's Chatot, but everything burned down easily enough. Dorf Trick the true MVD.

Oh? Oh hi, scary Salamence trainer. Heather, was it? I stole your glory? Nice to meet ya, bye!

We cleared the forest, caught some new and shiny 'mons, picked up an Egg, and did some sidequests to get some elusive Silph Co stickers. Fucking gatekeepers.

Anyways, off to Beryl Ward!

Spoiler: Part 1: Beryl (click to show/hide)

Did a couple of swaps. Pacha and an Egg out, Hela and Stolas in. They were trained enough, I thought.

Same ol' dance really. Battled our way towards the Rhodochrine Jungle and promptly set it on fire.

Well... not before getting caught by a bunch of Nuzleafs. I didn't really see a way to get past the clearly visible trap, so I deliberately sprung it!

We ended up in a wooden cage. Well built, given the many times I body slammed into it. Oh well, at least I had time to hatch the egg--

Who's... Oh, hello Fern, what brought you here? Practicing your bedroom Dom? Well, fuck you, too. I'd find my own way out.

Back to hatching inside the cage.

Huh. It was a Gogoat. Nice.

Oh look, a Chatot... freeing me. Who was this benefactor, I wondered.

Continuing on, I worked my way through the jungle and ashes towards a Library. I healed up, went back and swapped Locomotive the Gogoat out for Stolas. There was too much bullshit, I needed the Prince to deal with the riff raff.

Eventually, I got to Tangrowth, together with ZEL, Taka, and some other Team Meteor guy. Unknown guy got tangled with a non-surprise Heather.

ZEL and Taka? Double Battle!

And holy shit was it tight. I did not expect Glaceon. I had a tendency to run Ice-vulnerable teams. I still won in the end, with a lot of Super Potions and Ice Creams, but Pacha was the last 'mon standing. In the red. Quick Attack came in handy.

In any case, ZEL and Taka ran off, and so did Mr. Mysterio, but not before getting caught by cops in a surprise ambush. And like an episode of Scooby Doo, the mask came off--

Corey.

Unmasked in front of his daughter, Heather.

Keeping up with the dark theme there, eh game?

Daughter ran off crying, Corey smokebombed, and we were off to the Gym.

But not before doing some training, because well inside the Gym I was informed of the Corrosive Mist terrain that Corey uses.

Everything that a Poison team needs.

Oh boy.

Once trained, I took care of some hypnotized police and "accidentally" pushed some buttons. Gamer sense and all that. I found where Corey had been hiding and he went to prepare for battle.

For Corey, I decided to YOLO it. Stolas, Scatman, Pacha, Dorf Trick, Hela, and Mothra.

I opened up with Scatman, hoping to Mud Bomb the opposition. That didn't work out so well and left Scatman with a few HP left.

I then swapped in Stolas the Noctowl Prince, and he Extrasensoried the shit out of everything he could see.

All was going well, until Corey pulled out a fucking Stuntank. You know, Poison/Dark, AKA immune to Extrasensory. That fucker. Even though I had worried about a Stunky/Stuntank play, I completely forgot about it when YOLOing it. Fortunately, I had a backup plan. I switched in Scatman.

As a sacrifice.

Then used to free switch to switch in Dorf Trick the Slugma.

Now see, Dorf Trick knew Flame Burst. The Corrosive Mist terrain didn't like that.

When given his final order, Dorf Trick held out against Stuntank's attack, and lit the mist on fire.

Explosively.

Dorf Trick sacrificed himself to take out Stuntank and the Corrosive Mist.

Now with only Corrosive Terrain, I could safely have Stolas sweep the rest of the Gym.

And see Corey lose the will to live.

Did I mention it got dark?

He took off to Beryl Bridge, released his Pokémon (that poor Crobat... he was your friend, Corey!), and threw himself off the bridge.

Wait...

My badge! You didn't give me my badge!

Fuck.

Spoiler: Part 2: North Obsidia (click to show/hide)

Fine, I guess I'll go loot his corpse--

*KABOOM*

Oh, what now...

Shit was going down in North Obsidia. A Grand Stairway had exploded. I healed up, balanced out the team, and rushed off. A new hole graced the Grand Stairway.

My plot sense tingled.

But first, m'badge. Lapis Ward was right next door, and boy was it full of stuffy rich folk. I saw I was in High Town now. Naturally, there was a scene at the body. Heather ran off, Shelly the Lapis Ward Gym Leader and obvious child was shaken, and Victoria my buddy/rival didn't know what the fuck was going on.

Perhaps some Meteor mooks could elucidate? Oh they would? How nice of them.

Don't mind the creepy ghost taking the body--hey, just wait a minute! I need that! I want the badge! Come back!

Noooo...

Fuck.

Fine. Off I went, chasing mooks, and found a ladder at the new hole. I went down and found Victoria being held hostage by two Team Meteor admins.

Because of course she got caught. Down the tunnels I went, fighting off, and catching finally, some ground and rock types. Took yer bloody time, eh?!

Well below the surface, I came across Mr. Big Scary Obvious Meteor Boss Man. He didn't want to fight, just fill me in on some lore and what I can only describe as his ecofascist monologue. I think it was ecofascist, anyway. Just look at the state of the city: polluted, broken, decrepit, and full of inequality. A Republican wet dream; an ecofascist's raison d'être.

Instead of fighting him, I got to fight off his mooks. Victoria joined in the double battle. It got dicey. Lunatone and Solrock, followed by two Midnight Lycanrocs? We survived by the skin of my teeth. A bit Rock weak with so many flyers. Victoria... I was sure she could pick up the pieces. Octavia the Dartrix helped a lot with Razor Leaf.

Spoiler: Part 2: Lapis (click to show/hide)

Going back to Lapis, still no badge to be seen. I encountered some gangs that I wasn't so sure about "joining". Hence, I stayed out of their territory. For now. Instead, I had to focus on Shelly. In-game TV claimed she was a Illumise/Volbeat Rain Bug Team with a double battle.

Oh boy.

Single battle, I could probably take her on. But double battle? With rain? Shenanigans were afoot. Fire would be fucked. Sunny Day would a bitch to breed. Grass? Dicey thanks to Bug and probably Poison as well. Flying? Bets on Shelly having a Joltik?

Rock would be my first guess, but Rain could fuck that up. Stealth Rock, on the other hand... Tempting, but I would need a Geodude/Graveler for that. Luckily, I caught two.

And their stats utterly sucked. Rock bottom IVs. RNG giveth and RNG taketh away. Curse you!

So, it had come to this. It was time to breed.

Unfortunately, breeding would be expensive, and El Capitan the Meowth was already working two jobs. Pay Day had to be on the horizon though. So I leveled her up, denying evolution until she finally learned Pay Day. Nice. Now you could evolve.

And a big mistake that was. El Capitan, now the Persian, had traded her Pickup ability for Limber. Fuuuuuck.

Thus it began, the hunt for new Meowth slaves trash collectors. I would have a Pickup/Pay Day team, godsdammit. I figured I could run breeding at the same time; Opal Ward had plenty of low-level 'mons, and Day Care was nextdoor in Obsidia Ward.

A few days later, I finally had a team of Meowths. No shiny Meowths, strangely enough, though I caught a few other shinies while I was at it. After buying some Power Items, a Destiny Knot, and an Everstone, I continued on with the breeding.

And eventually, waiting for the goddamn Defense IV to roll, I got greedy. After building a hill of Geodude corpses, I got what I wanted. A perfect IV, Relaxed Geodude with Sturdy. Oh, and two not-so-shabby shinies.

(https://i.imgur.com/ksoReU8.png)

I cleared the boxes, grabbed G280, EV trained him, and christened him as The Mountain.

(https://i.imgur.com/HjHWsHA.png)

With The Mountain, I would create the ultimate hazard play. Stealth Rock + Toxic Spikes. To the Gym!

I brought with me The Mountain the Graveler, Hiacynth the Trubbish, Hela the Shiny Beautifly, Mothra the Dustox, An-Rek the Noibat, and Stolas the Noctowl Prince.

...

Shelly wouldn't come out and play? She was traumatized? Fine, I'd fetch a psychologist from the totally-not-evil orphanage/asylum.

Wiped the floor with a totally-not-torturing-kids orderly, thanks to The Mountain. Eelektross? Not on my watch. Smack Down!

In any case, I was given some advice to take to Shelly. To the Gym! Again!

With Shelly on the mend, maybe, and after solving a puzzle, I faced down the Bug Gym Leader.

This couldn't go wrong.

...

We got wiped out.

It turned out that I hated Struggle Bug. Oh I got the hazard play out, alright, but got absolutely decimated by Struggle Bug. Except for the Mountain, who would only last long enough to setup Stealth Rock thanks to Sturdy, the rest of my team relied heavily on Special Attack.

Struggle Bug lowered Special Attack.

Forest terrain boosted Struggle Bug power.

Her leading with Intimidate Masquerain meant physical attacks were fucked.

What glimpses I got out of her team relied heavily on Special Defense.

Fuck.

Plan B was to switch out The Mountain and Hiacynth earlier and start sweeping with Hela and An-Rek. Didn't work, of course, thanks to Icy Wind and Energy ball from Masquerain, Rock Slide and Aqua Jet from Anorith, and Air Cutter from Yanmega.

So then I figured, I needed to switch to a more physical team. One that didn't rely on Special Attack. Harder said than done and would involve a lot of breeding.

Plan C:

(https://i.imgur.com/Zpdu2ep.png)

I would start with Unfeazant and The Mountain. The Mountain would setup Stealth Rock, and Unfeazant with superior Attack and priority Aerial Ace would murder Masquerain. White Herb from Silph Co would neutralize Intimidate. I would keep Illumise in to maintain the Rain Dance, and I figured her Struggle Bug wouldn't be too damaging.

I figured next up would be either Anorith or Yanmega. If the latter, I would switch in Trash Cloak Wormadam for The Mountain. The Bug/Steel typing would survive any Air Cutter or Rock Slide if Unfeazant can't OHKO Yanmega.

If instead Shelly sent in Anorith, I would switch in Seaking. Swift Swim and superior Attack would mean at most Anorith would be able to deliver an Aqua Jet. Waterfall, however, would kill Anorith.

And then all that would be left would be Illumise, Volbeat, and some other 'mon. Eventually I would switch over to Wormadam/Seaking or, failing that, Growlithe/Furret. Furret would bring in the Sunny Day and provide Growlithe with cover using Follow Me. If possible, Helping Hand would boost Growlithe. Fire Fang would make short work of Shelly's Pokémons.

This, however, would require a lot of breeding, and I would certainly only aim for two 31 IVs followed by 16+ for the rest, along with correct nature and ability.

So since I had the time, I opted to try Plan D: Retrain Octavia the Dartrix to have more Special Defense and Speed EVs, and level her up to obedience level cap. She evolved in the process to a Decidueye and gained Spirit Shackle. The kicker? Her moves were all physical.

I swapped out Hiacynth the Trubbish and Stolas the Noctowl Prince for Octavia the Decidueye and Pacha the Pachirisu. Then I loaded up on White Herbs, and went up against Shelly one more time.

I opened up with Octavia and The Mountain. The Mountain got Stealth Rock off and Octavia Plucked at Masquerain. Despite using a White Herb to stave off Intimidate, Masquerain barely survived, but would perish the next turn. I took the same time to heal up The Mountain.

Shelly then sent out Yanmega to replace Masquerain. Yanmega's HP got cut in half by Stealth Rock but she regained part of it with Giga Drain, which took out the Mountain. Pluck reduced Yanmega's HP even further.

To replace The Mountain, I sent out Mothra who, armed with Light Clay, put up a Light Screen. This turned out to be crucial. Octavia and Mothra weathered the Air Cutter/Struggle Bug combo. Mothra was more or less stuck on healing duty while Octavia handed out non-STAB Plucks.

Yanmega went down, and so did Anorith, though not before killing Mothra with a Rock Slide. Mothra was replaced with Pacha the Pachirisu. Shelly would then reveal her hitherto unknown Pokémon, her Araquanid.

I figured Araquanid was part Water, so Octavia sent out a STAB Razor Leaf. Araquanid survived, but only one turn thanks to Quick Attack from Pacha.

Shelly's last two Pokémon were Illumise and Volbeat.

Plucks and Spirit Shackles were sent out. Pacha sacrificed herself to heal Octavia. Hela the Shiny Beautifly came out and delivered the Air Cutters. Volbeat got treated with some Hyper Potions and Moonlight, but it eventually fell to STAB Spirit Shackle. Illumise got to watch her teammates fall one by one until she eventually was slain by Air Cutter.

(https://i.imgur.com/nrt9TrL.png)

Turned out, Plan C overcomplicated things. Plan D was all I needed!

And now, I finally had my badge.

Spoiler: Game (click to show/hide)

Pokémon Reborn

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on July 05, 2021, 10:54:00 am

Finally completed the Shadowrun Dragonfall campaign and really enjoyed it so much it was sad that it was finished, even if the ending is rather open to a possible sequel (that never happened as the next game isn't a followup to Dragonfall), i'm going to miss the runners that were part of my team.

The very good character development (and their side missions) made them much more interesting than the random runners you were hiring in Shadowrun Returns.

Lesson i learned when building my character and improving it with karma point: do not forget to give your guy/gal some good combat oriented skills, you may imagine to make some kind of hacker extraordinaire, but the amount of forced battles will kick his/her sorry bottom (that fortunately your good teammates can save) if you specialize only in non-combat abilities, much more survivability with a mix of fighter/decker than with a "pure" decker that would become useless in the many fights in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 14, 2021, 07:39:18 pm

Discovered a single-jump, back-and-forth trade run that got me over 600k in profit in a single run in a Type-6. Probably would have been more profit, but I didn't have enough cash to load up a full cargo hold in silver, had to fill the rest with cobalt. The only downside is that one of the stops is a planetary base, so that takes longer to land on/take off from. Still faster than my attempt to use the Type-6 as a mining ship.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elite: Dangerous. I started playing again a few days ago, and left the starter area.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 16, 2021, 02:53:23 am

Scotland Pictland's King Ciniod of house Uib is in a strange situation.  From what I can tell, the kingdom has changed hands between his dynasty and the Circinn dynasty  a couple times, with 200 years where the Uerturio family were in charge.

Ciniod is actually the first King of Pictland since before that time, with the Circinn's holding it for a while.
I'm not sure how, though.

See, there's a tangle - Ciniod is king, and holds a lovely demesne of two counties.  Plus one vassal - an Uib duke who holes the other eight.  Yeah, one vassal with 4x the territory as the king.  How did this come to pass?

It's further complicated since these are feudal societies, not tribes.  So King Ciniod doesn't get to call raiders from the duke's lands.  And, horror of horrors, when the King takes a few losses in retaking ancestral Pictish lands, the duke raises a flag of revolt.  With his chiefs choosing to aid him.

He lost, obviously, because I am King Cinoid.  As a master of finance I hired some mercenaries, and then also promised a lot of usury to some moneylenders.  It's not heresy if it works

And the best part, which I wasn't at all sure about, is that this act of treason voided the scum's rights to the duchy (Petty Kingdom, technically).  Not just for him, but for his family.  Murderers caught in the act can be forced to abdicate to their children, but this poor soul just broke the feudal-
No wait, this isn't feudal, it's tribal.  Hm.  I guess he was just brazen enough, and failed hard enough, that people accept my judgement as victor and king.

Crusader Kings 2

Edit: Ah F me, I'm owned.  No vassals would object because he's literally a traitor, but we don't have laws for revocation of titles.  F!
Edit2: Banishing him (such that his child inherits) is seen as unjustified, this is craaaap.  They'd be LESS annoyed if I cut his head off, even though that's mechanically very slightly better for me: his child still inherits, but he doesn't sit around some foreign court with a pressable claim).
What an asshole.  oh no he fell in the oubliette oh nooooo

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 16, 2021, 06:42:47 pm

Got that above trade run to about 1.5 million credits in profit round trip, but now it's three stops in two systems. First I grab Marine Equipment from what I effectively use as a home base(an industrial station), jump over and drop that off for about 100k profit and pick up some Animal Meat from an agricultural station. Run that over to a planetside refinery station, drop that off for some small cash, load up on 100t of silver, and jump that back to my home base for 1.4 million profit. And once the silver dries up, gold is the next best, followed by cobalt. The whole run takes about 20-25 minutes, would probably be less if I were more willing to violate speed limit laws around stations.

Sure, there's probably more profitable trade runs, tons of guides and 3rd-party tools to find them, but this is one I found myself and I'm quite happy about.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elite: Dangerous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on July 23, 2021, 11:34:19 am

Completed Shadowrun Hong Kong.

Enjoyed it a lot, especially how different it felt from Dragonfall (Dragonfall is still my favorite), as while both campaigns are +/- equally long but it feels Hong Kong had more creative missions (and a lot less combat-focused ones) run so playing it right after completing Dragonfall didn't felt like "more of the same" and the Shadowrun atmosphere of Hong Kong felt really different than the one in Berlin : the stakes aren't the same, the government stuff isn't either, all of this is very well made in the game.

A bit too many teeth in the end of the campaign :D but i was very satisfied the way i got out of that ugly situation, as i guess talking to everyone between mission every time during the course of the game unlocked the possibility for me of getting out those teeth with  the best ending.

That endgame was easier than some of the early fights oddly, but with all their new acquired powers from leveling up, i guess my team became simply unstoppable : Gobbet's power to increase hit percentage, to increase amount of moves by turns, the acidic fog makes her incredible, Duncan insanely good gun skills also dealt a lot of death. Is0bel grenade launcher had some amazing results when there were a few enemies close to each other.
That was my main team everytime (Gobbet, Is0bel and Duncan) and it worked great with my melee oriented machette maniac that was destroying health and armor with his weapons.

During the game missions, i found that the arm magnet cyberware is a bit overpowered, basically your character magnet/catch every grenades sent his way and throw them back to the thrower. And considering how much grenade lobbing there is in this game (as soon as 2 of your guys/gals are close to each other, you can be sure a few enemies will launch grenades) that's a monstrously powerfull ability to have.

Now to try that bonus campaign that follow on the main one and take back your character into the fray. Hopefully Gobbet is still there , she was the best Hong Kong character easily :)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 25, 2021, 10:53:14 pm

Was heading to Old Gas Station to see if I could extract - the flares were present, but so was a Scav. I drop him without much trouble, but then turn to notice one, and then two Scavs. I take a few hits(nothing serious), panic and swap to my TOZ (which I'd looted off of a Scav I'd killed earlier) but manage to get away to heal and notice I'm running low on ammo for both my AK and my TOZ. After a few moments to calm myself, I rush back to Old Gas Station. Drop the second scav with the rest of my AK ammo, then swap to the TOZ and finish the last Scav with a single shot.

Extracted with a whole slew of valuables, including a Power Supply Unit.

Today was a good day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Escape from Tarkov.

Including kills I'd made earlier, this meant I extracted with six(!) Scav kills, and I earned about three thousand experience.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 29, 2021, 01:47:06 pm

I didn't really own, I did nothing here, but it was fucking amazing.

Large tribal raid came, they were sappers and came with stick bombs.

The first thing they do on entering the map is start sapping. They're all bunched up right next to the terrain they're trying to break through.

The stick bomb goes off, knocking out the thrower. Because he was knocked out, he dropped the stick bombs. Because he dropped the stick bombs and the explosion wasn't *quite* over, the rest of the stick bombs detonated wiping out over half of the raid and making them flee.

Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on July 29, 2021, 03:06:48 pm

I can only imagine the thrower's final words were, "WITNESS ME!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 29, 2021, 03:34:53 pm

Came across the guy who robbed an already emotionally unstable young girl, leaving her traumatized, threatened to kill her and her grandmother, and was about kill one of their bodyguards, which would have orphaned two other adorable little girls... assuming he wasn't going to go kill them afterwards(which was actually highly probable). Then he makes the mistake of pulling his sword on me.

So I shot him in the face with an arrow that literally deletes things from existence. Most Yiga will drop a smoke bomb and flee if they're beaten. This guy was not getting that chance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 08, 2021, 11:01:14 am

Finally completed this week epic freebie "A Tale of Plague : Innocence"
And it was really good, a lot better than i thought, as even lowering the graphic and resolution to get it running very smooth on my "NotGamerPC" it was still looking incredibly detailled and superb, nice optimisation. 

The end felt like a classic western movie "cowboys riding into the sunset", except it's winter and your in a wooden cart rolling in the snow (no spoiler don't worry  :) )
But it was a truly fantastic ride up to the end, even if some of the things and twists happening were rather telegraphed, it was a lot of fun (well relatively as some npc do not really have fun in the game) and very interesting things were happening .

I wish it would have followed up on the realism of the first part instead of dwelving too much into "occult magic blood demonic rat virus sorcery" as it felt a lot more immersive in what was a rather amazing well done recreation of medieval time before the game went the magic path. But all in all it was still good and i guess the wizardry thing allowed some gameplay twists to keep things surprising.

The stealth based gameplay was unfortunately mostly railroaded (the environment while looking open is 100% linear unfortunately with lots of various kind of barrier stopping you from going outside the only available oath) and most of the time a bit too easy, but a few moments were memorable and difficult.

The boss fights went to medium to hard in term of difficulty, depending on how fast you can switch ammo (as you need to use some ammo sequence to clear a boss phase and go into the next one) in order to not waste time and get killed by the bosses weapon. 

It's sad there's no replay value, as you can only replay chapters but without  anything (ammo or weapon) you may have unlocked through the game.

And the save system is probably one of the worst console-checkpoint type of crap because checkpoints are forced on you and there's no way to load an earlier checkpoint, so if you did something the game wasn't expecting you to do (or wasted some ammo and ingredient while testing that you notice you would have needed a bit after) and then the game decide to force a checkpoint there , you're good to replay the whole chapter.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sime on August 08, 2021, 12:36:54 pm

Just had my first ever game of SMAC. Played as Deidre on talented level and intended to roleplay her, i.e. the environmentalist strategy bit, but  after accidentally nuking the university faction  I ended up having to cuckold Morgan  and adopt a nuke everything and nerve-staple strategy.  By the middle of the  mid game the apparently appalled AI had but  entirely collapsed and  micro-managing dozens of their captured bases became tedious to the point i just kept clicking turn-end, even through the video cut-scenes.    Finally I reached the end of the game's time span achieving an obviously good score but narrowly missing a transcendence victory, although i  still got  to experience a universal consciousness of sorts in that I had pretty much fallen asleep by then.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 29, 2021, 07:49:44 pm

This is the first time I can remember being 1st place in my team. Am still rather pissed about it, because we lost, despite reducing the other team's score to zero(meaning, they won with what was left their very last spawns). Map was Monastery, Invasion(attacking team has limited troops to capture points, defender has unlimited spawns but cannot recapture).

I just barely managed to stop the takeover of the second or third capture point(a house), by running in and stabbing the one enemy inside. I was, in fact, the only person defending that house, since the respawn point was far away. I managed to hold that house by my lonesome for several minutes, defending with both my sniper rifle and knife, despite the fact there was an enemy tank right outside. Even though I was eventually killed, I bought my team enough time to push back a little. I managed to nail a different tank with TNT, destroying it.

Eventually pushed back towards the last two points, the monastery gate and main tower(basically, it big goddamned castle). Held that for several minutes, and I think the main reason they broke through that was because someone on the other team was almost certainly aimbotting. I say that because at one point he jumped from around a corner facing the other way(with no way whatsoever to see me), and in the span of a single frame he turned and instantly shot me in the head with an SMG while still in the air. Unless that was an actual bot, but I have no reason to think the bots serve as anything more than targets for the other team. Of course, you never can tell which soldier in an enemy squad is the human or the bots in this game.

Defending the last point, someone on my team graciously left a rally point(mobile respawn) near the gate. The enemy, instead of destroying it, tried to camp and farm kills. That failed and bit them, leaving a very good flanking point. As stated above, they were down to zero troops left, but they managed to overrun the point anyway.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Enlisted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Persus13 on August 29, 2021, 10:10:46 pm

Basically any time I'm first place on my team in a multiplayer shooter I always feel like its more reflective of my teammates lack of skill than any talent on my end.

I'm not familiar with Enlisted, what's the pitch on that one?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 30, 2021, 05:23:01 am

Quote from: Persus13 on August 29, 2021, 10:10:46 pm

I'm not familiar with Enlisted, what's the pitch on that one?

Kinda like Battlefield, but the schtick is that you're not controlling one soldier, you have a whole squad. You can switch freely between which soldier you control, and the rest are controlled by AI. Various squad types exist; basic infantry which has a lot of soldiers but only have bolt-action rifles, assault squads which have SMGs, etc. The AI is of course terrible, and my squad usually gets wiped long before I go down.

It's free-to-play, by the same people who made War Thunder(with all the baggage that implies). There's been some rumors for a while that War Thunder was going to have infantry, and I'm guessing that it was actually Enlisted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on September 16, 2021, 02:56:17 am

Nioh

that damned "Hino-Enma" , destroyed my character too many times but i was still keeping at it because i had started to get her various attacks patterns , my only problem was a mix of pressing the wrong key when trying my dodges :D or just not paying attention enough to my timing with attacks and retreat (one of her kick combo attack can randomly add a additional strike after her normal combo so attacking before that random last strike can be nasty if she decide to do that last strike  and waiting can lead into more difficulty) and item use.

So it always ended badly despite i knew i could take that bastard vampiress out if i managed to not make stupid mistakes, because the technique was there now and i was wearing the best i could while maintening low weight to still be on the A tier of agility (so i can move faster and attack/dodge consume less stamina).

Spoiler: damn you (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/PDF35rf.jpg)

But one the many attempts, there was one in which i did less stupid mistakes than usual (i still had to drink all my elixirs to stay alive and was on my last leg in term of health, a single hit and i would have been gone) i did it, no more Hino-Enma

Spoiler: finally (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/qc5sikx.jpg)

That boss fight really left me tired, burn in hell you damned vampiress :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 16, 2021, 03:21:28 am

Congrats, dude. Hino-Enma is a really difficult fight, much more so than Onryoki was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 16, 2021, 04:30:53 am

Managed to complete a Biohazard run, which consists of 5 waves of enemies. Waves 1, 3, and 5 are swarms of 50-60+ zombies, with a wave of cyberdogs and a wave of cannibals in between.

After realizing what a slog I would be going through after (barely) completing the first wave, I started changing how I used my weapons and learned a good deal about what I can do with either hand. I can use swords and grenades fairly equally well in either hand, can't use guns very well in my left, can barely use shuriken at all with my left(and can't reach the pocket with my right). To be fair, shuriken are hard to aim and don't do a lot of damage.

Since ammo was a concern after the second wave(cyberdogs), I took out the third wave with a sword, except for the boss zombies. Nearly died in the fourth wave(cannibals) because I nearly ran out of revolver ammo and I can barely hit them with my assault rifle(bastards are tiny). Final wave was sword again, though one of the final zombies(with a chain gun) took nearly everything I had. The last zombie, a Dead Spacer(hard-to-kill boss zombie that vomits acid all over the floor and attacks by screaming very loudly) died to a grenade.

All in all, made a ton of credits and found some nice gear. Including a shotgun I took into the next story mission... which turned out to be terrible because it's a bitch to pump and load shells into.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dead Effect 2 VR. Making things more difficult is the fact that my Vive trackpads not only lose calibration for sliding(for example, sliding straight up/forward) will simply cease functioning), but it does this even pressing down on the trackpad(ie, pressing left/right sometimes registers as pressing down or center).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on September 16, 2021, 08:59:51 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on September 16, 2021, 03:21:28 am

Congrats, dude. Hino-Enma is a really difficult fight, much more so than Onryoki was.

Thanks, probably 30% of my character deaths are trying to fight her :D

Managed to take out Nue, though it wasn't the final boss of the mission despite it's huge, seemed utterly insanely difficult (until i checked this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_4RqnK4eQ) , that made it a -very- lot easier) , the mask i got in loot made me understand why the game blacksmith allow to switch the appearance of 2 items

Spoiler: sure that mask has some good bonus, but that's the thing of nightmare (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/rk1A1NO.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on September 16, 2021, 12:41:38 pm

Outplayed a katana-wielding edgelord by dumping every single resource I had on his head and stylishly finishing him off literal milliseconds before his giant AoE ice spell obliterated my party. Then I watched, blinking with disbelief, as the game played a completely new anime-style opening before putting me back in control, implying that I had only just made it to the halfway point. I am both terrified and ecstatic that there's so much game left.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tales of Arise

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on September 17, 2021, 03:33:04 am

Quote from: Robsoie on September 16, 2021, 08:59:51 am

Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on September 16, 2021, 03:21:28 am

Congrats, dude. Hino-Enma is a really difficult fight, much more so than Onryoki was.

Thanks, probably 30% of my character deaths are trying to fight her :D

Managed to take out Nue, though it wasn't the final boss of the mission despite it's huge, seemed utterly insanely difficult (until i checked this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_4RqnK4eQ) , that made it a -very- lot easier) , the mask i got in loot made me understand why the game blacksmith allow to switch the appearance of 2 items

Spoiler: sure that mask has some good bonus, but that's the thing of nightmare (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/rk1A1NO.jpg)

Huh. I have never gotten that helmet drop. And yeah, Nue is fairly difficult too if you fight him in melee and don't know about having a roof. The next difficult boss, iirc, is Umi-Bozu, so I'll give you a hint ahead of time: use fire damage (Hyotakko mask is good, if you have the time to let the whole animation play out), and learn the animation for his laser - it's a 1-hit KO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on September 17, 2021, 05:04:19 am

Thanks for the hint, i'll have now to find some fire-based weaponry to replace my current lightning based one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on September 24, 2021, 12:36:38 am

Played through the best fight I've had in a while in DF Adventure Mode.

Made a swordsman character based off of King Fuhrer Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I gave him an iron sword in character creation, and wrestlegrinded all of his combat stats until he had superhuman strength and speed, and superior in most of the others.

I then outfitted him in full iron armour scavenged from various hamlet buildings, and went off to find stuff to kill.


While searching for a cyclops, I stopped at an army in a town, thinking it would be a small band of bandits or a tiny army.


Cue combatants of every colour and weapon type surrounding me and closing in. They weren't aggressive yet, but if I attacked one of them, all of them would swarm. EXCELLENT.


I ran to to one end so they'd be coming from direction. I land one strike, crippling somebody immediately and I proceed to dodge like 5 different arrows and crossbow bolts.



Before the fight, I had 23 noticeable kills. By the end of it, I had 50.



ONE HIT was landed on my guy, who only has adept dodging ( with admittedly superhuman physicals ), and it was from an arrow that couldn't even get through all my armour.

I was dodging arrow fire like an Agent from the Matrix, every step I took towards the bunched up group of like 5 archers was accompanied by arrow fire, all dodged. Every hit I landed was either decapitation or a crippling injury ( when clothes didn't get in the way ).

Spoiler: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Spoilers (click to show/hide)

Really felt like Wrath the Furious after all that.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 25, 2021, 07:07:07 pm

I finally cleared enough missions to unlock the second area in Skatebird.

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(https://i.postimg.cc/19m6mgmK/Untitled.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 26, 2021, 06:08:20 am

Got the "Uncanny Clicker" achievement... by just clicking really damn fast. No tools, no hacks, nothing like that. I wasn't even intending to do it.

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Cookie Clicker, Steam edition. Uncanny Clicker requires you to click 15 times in one second. The human average(according to TvTropes) is about 6/second. My fast click method is to hold down the mouse in one hand so it doesn't move, then alternate my index and middle fingers as fast as possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on September 26, 2021, 04:34:49 pm

Quote from: Akura on September 26, 2021, 06:08:20 am

My fast click method is to hold down the mouse in one hand so it doesn't move, then alternate my index and middle fingers as fast as possible.

Interesting, just tried it. Doesn't seem to work very well on my computer mouse, but it worked a lot better on my laptop trackpad mouse. I think mouse design factors a lot into how fast you can click. My laptop mouse has relatively weak springs, so I think I would have been able to click even faster if they were better.

My favourite method though is to click the laptop mouse with my left hand and the computer mouse with my right. It basically doubles my clickspeed for relatively little extra work.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on September 27, 2021, 03:10:22 am

I tried it too. I only got 8,6cps with two fingers, 8,4cps with one finger.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on September 27, 2021, 03:52:55 am

I got up to 13.2 after a few tries where I kind of tense up all my muscles and start spasming like mad, but it also feels like I'm going to give myself an aneurysm so... not recommended.

"Do you know the world record for most clicks in 5 second? It's 15.4 CPS. Challenge yourself to beat it.
Updated On: 09/27/2021" -https://clickspeedtest.com/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on September 29, 2021, 07:08:07 pm

I got through a round of Minesweeper without using any flags.

(https://i.imgur.com/hv9LcHp.png)

(There's one square left to remove, but I didn't want to trigger the ending sequence yet.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on September 30, 2021, 02:30:39 am

I've never been able to beat that game even with the flags, so what is the ending sequence?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Bumber on October 01, 2021, 11:18:47 pm

Quote from: Enemy post on September 29, 2021, 07:08:07 pm

(There's one square left to remove, but I didn't want to trigger the ending sequence yet.)

Took me forever to realize it's the right-most empty box on the bottom row.

Quote from: King Zultan on September 30, 2021, 02:30:39 am

I've never been able to beat that game even with the flags, so what is the ending sequence?

If it's like Windows minesweeper, it automatically puts flags over all the mines, so you couldn't tell it was done without. (The yellow smiley face just gets sunglasses in that version.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on October 02, 2021, 11:50:23 pm

Looting a police station after having believing I cleared the area of hostiles while still recovering from the wounds taken in clearing it, I was strolling through the back hallway outside the evidence safe with a duffel bag full of various loot.  Unfortunately, "believing it cleared" and "actually being cleared" are subtly different things that hinge on me having misidentified an enemy inside a cell with an enemy roaming outside that I had lured off, as I discovered when I came face to face with a rather irritated Kevlar hulk between myself and the exit.  I had no time to pull out any weapons except for either the one in my scabbard, a jian that would have done no good against an armored foe, or the one on my toolbelt, everyone's best friend in self defense, the mace.  What resulted was a brutal toe-to-toe slugging match between me and said hulk as it hammered me against the brick walls with its fists and I whaled on it with a heavy metal weight on a stick.  I came out of it badly beaten to within a centimetre of my life, with every limb in the red or pink except my right leg, which was broken in several places and desperately screaming for either a splint or morphine, but I came out of it alive.  The hulk's bloody corpse was pulped, I dragged my duffel bag and loot to my van, and I made for home, where I spent the next week recuperating and working on my mobile base for the oncoming winter exploration expedition.  Not bad for only having 3 skill in bashing and dodging (pre-modifiers, including modifiers dropped my dodging to 1.5); the chainmail and MBR vest were likely critical. 

Side note: this also means there's a second Kevlar hulk walking around outside (the one I mistook for this one).  I think I'm going to plan for that with plenty of armor-piercing bodkin bolts when I hunt it down.  Or, you know, just keep trying to avoid it.  Unlike the skeletal juggernauts, they're too fast to outmaneuver while filling them with bolts.

Second side note: Remember, Proper Planning Prevents Perfectly Poor Performance.  There is no excuse for the kind of failure in intelligence that results in going toe-to-toe with any sort of hulk by accident.  By intention and out of fun, on the other hand...

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Cataclysm: Brighter Nights

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 04, 2021, 12:51:38 pm

Took down the Bell Gargoyles. Broke down and summoned Solaire for the fight, who absolutely curb-stomped them, praise the sun. Even without Sunbro, I was actually doing pretty well. Set my halberd on fire, and found my shield blocks a lot more than I thought it would. Also realized my equip load was too heavy, and besides a full suit of chainmail is constantly annoying to walk in with all that clinking.

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Dark Souls: Remastered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on October 04, 2021, 05:10:05 pm

Don't feel guilty. From what I've heard, they're specifically designed to encourage you to use systems like titanite reinforcing or summoning. Summoning is a feature in this fight, not a bug.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on October 05, 2021, 01:15:37 am

You shouldn't feel bad about summoning. That's what those NPCs are there for, after all. Soloing bosses is something you do to measure your own progress. Just don't be one of those guys you see in Dark Souls 3 who summon other players and wait at the bonfire for them to clear the entire level for them before they run to the boss fog. That's just shameful.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2021, 04:51:58 pm

Barely stopped a loss at midgame by slaughtering up the right flank with my FNAB-43 and getting behind the next capture zone, causing enough disruption(alongside a friendly armored car) to allow the rest of the team to capture. We had about 140 points(start with 1000) left, and that capture put us over 600.

Pushed onto the last capture zone of the match, had about 400 points left, and looked like were about to occupy the zone in force for the win... Then the game started lagging. It started lagging hard. Even without trying to move, I was rubberbanding from wall to wall. Probably the same experience the rest of the team was having. Rather quickly dropped to 0 points. Everyone, on their last spawns, rushed the point, carpeted it in grenades, and took over. One enemy with a flamethrower tried burning us out, but the point finished capturing just as I got set on fire.

Placed 2nd on team with Melee Master, Grenade Master, and Best Assaulter squad awards.

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Enlisted. The lag has been pretty bad in this game lately for some reason, and the lag correction is ridiculous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vector on October 06, 2021, 09:10:40 pm

Beat all three major bosses in Get In the Car Loser, Devil Clock on ... didn't get TPK'd on a boss even once.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 12, 2021, 06:20:43 pm

Probably doesn't count because the end result is horrifying, but...

Raided a wreck deep(around 350m-400m) in the northeast area of the map. Heard Reaper roars the entire time. Was able to acquire numerous useful blueprints, including Alien Containment, and two of the three PRAWN arms(I'm missing a fragment for the drill arm... which I desperately need). The torpedo arm is especially good since it also unlocks the Seamoth's torpedo system which otherwise requires magnetite(which I couldn't find besides drillable deposits). Stopped by a cliffside on the way back to gather up some extra resources.

Heard some Reaper roars a little louder, looked up and- oooohhhh shhiiiit. Hopped in my Seamoth and floored it. It followed close behind. I could tell by the roars, which were louder and different. I tried some tricky maneuvers. I banked to the left, then turned a little to the right to see the Reaper miss me by inches... and smack face-first into an Ampeel. Which is what precisely what I was aiming for. Well, as precisely as I can get when I have about a second to plan ahead. Not sure if the Ampeel survived.

While that didn't immediately stop the pursuit, it did distract the Reaper long enough for me to get away. The unfortunate part is that now I hear Reaper roars in the Safe Shallows... which aren't very safe anymore. On the plus side, I should have access to torpedo weapons that might be able to kill it, as gas pods and titanium are very farmable. Also it's nowhere near my base, which was on the opposite side of the map from the wreck.

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Subnautica.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 12, 2021, 07:11:28 pm

Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2021, 09:10:40 pm

Beat all three major bosses in Get In the Car Loser, Devil Clock on ... didn't get TPK'd on a boss even once.

Is that the DLC? I haven't played because I only heard it was on Steam, and didn't bother looking elsewhere until now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Vector on October 12, 2021, 11:56:32 pm

Quote from: Iduno on October 12, 2021, 07:11:28 pm

Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2021, 09:10:40 pm

Beat all three major bosses in Get In the Car Loser, Devil Clock on ... didn't get TPK'd on a boss even once.

Is that the DLC? I haven't played because I only heard it was on Steam, and didn't bother looking elsewhere until now.

No, Devil's Clock is basically a hard-mode you can turn on in the base game. You can get the base game on itch.io for free. The DLC is $10 and I own it but haven't played yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 15, 2021, 07:20:59 pm

Was able to kill a Ghost Leviathan Juvenile. Those have more health than a Reaper Leviathan. Used a combination of nearly 2 batteries' worth of stasis rifle shots and 400 knife slashes.

I wasn't able to kill a Reaper; the one I did engage with torpedoes fled after a single salvo and I lost track of it. At least that sea lane is clear. As is a good chunk of the Lost River, including access to the lower.

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Subnautica. I think the last time I played, I quietly snuck by using Silent Running.

EDIT: Did kill the Reaper Leviathan that had started swimming too close to "safe" waters. Unfortunately couldn't get a screenshot, since I needed my Seamoth's lights to illuminate it, and it was parked 150m away. The corpse had despawned by the time I got back.

Torpedoes were... ineffective. They kept exploding against the previous torpedo's gas clouds.

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Subnautica. I had already shot two fully charged Stasis Rifle blasts before realizing it had stopped roaring.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on October 23, 2021, 08:39:45 am

Finally won a playthrough of World of Horror, even if it was on Sceptic. That mode enables me to just stab the shit out of everything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 23, 2021, 10:49:06 am

As we know, not believing in the supernatural gives you the ability to simply stab away all the horror.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on October 23, 2021, 06:02:08 pm

Got violently reacquainted with Duriel after some 10 years or so since the last time I played Diablo 2.

After dying several times and making considerable use of the corpse retrieval function, I tried wandering off and doing some countess/andy runs for XP. Got another level, tried to see if Holy Freeze could slow him down enough for me to live. This of course did nothing (I was never particularly knowledgeable in D2).

More grinding, not least of which being due to Resurrected remaking the world every time you run your online character, so I had to slog my way through an unknown tomb each time.

Read somewhere that while thawing potions don't prevent or fix Duriel's freeze aura, they *are* useful because a lot of his damage is cold-based. I had no idea. Got another level, put a point in Resist Frost, got ready... And ended up going toe-to-toe with the big boy for a terrifyingly long time, continually gulping down that sweet scarlet drank while slowly chipping away at him with my defensive weapon set. Eventually, it actually worked! A bit anticlimactic, but I was more than ready to be done with that place... So I made sure to run around stomping on all the juicy little maggots out of spite before hopping on the boat to Kurast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on October 24, 2021, 03:45:00 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 23, 2021, 10:49:06 am

As we know, not believing in the supernatural gives you the ability to simply stab away all the horror.

Seeing as the final boss is

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

a salesman who just talks at you

I guess it makes sense that foul murder and skepticism is effective.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on October 24, 2021, 05:51:51 pm

game : Hellpoint

Finally defeated my first cosmic horror "Ozyormy Goija, the Master of Puppets"  , that guy just killed my characters several dozen of times (my fault for always forgetting a healing injection or missing my dodge key or not dodging at the correct time, i blame old age :D ) until i finally googled around to see if there was a way for me to damage that huge mobile thing faster than i did (if i could kill it faster it could work around my bad dodging attempts).

Noticed people mentionning the induction module (that adds some kind of fire effect to your strike) should be very good against that boss.
I took the most damaging fast (because that boss move fast around, my slow but strong Espadon wasn't cutting it there) melee weapon i had, and one that had attack animation i find usefull (the Thespian Hook) and switched its Strength module (strength weapon have a good damage boost from reflex module, and vice versa) as the good high damage it did wasn't enough to damage the boss fast enough) to the Induction one.

Boosted the induction a bit (to +5 ) after grinding more axiom .

And wow, what a difference it did, the boss was on fire most of the time (and so losing health even when i wasn't attacking), that allowed me to kill it before i did too many mistakes. 

So happy to get rid of that dancing huge horror. Will have to try to forge that Ozy gauntlet with that piece looted from him.
Now 2 more to go

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 25, 2021, 07:55:12 am

Beat the Capra Demon and his dogs. It was the second try in total. The first was the "walk into the room and immediately die because I don't know what's going on" attempt from yesterday.

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Dark Souls: Remastered.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: heydude6 on October 25, 2021, 10:55:50 am

Quote from: Akura on October 25, 2021, 07:55:12 am

Beat the Capra Demon and his dogs. It was the second try in total. The first was the "walk into the room and immediately die because I don't know what's going on" attempt from yesterday.

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Dark Souls: Remastered.

That’s amazing dude. Capra can make the toughest of us veterans quiver in fear. I remember grinding dozens of attempts on him back when i was a kid.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on October 25, 2021, 12:41:56 pm

I think I've recommended it before but the Ancient Stone Armor can make Capra Demon a walk in the park, due to the ridiculously high defense and poise making his dogs a non-issue. Just have to be able to wear it and still move around. Anyway, seconding that good job, Akura. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/Themes/darkling/images/post/thumbup.gif)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 25, 2021, 07:16:36 pm

Spoiler: dark souls! might spoil some stuff (click to show/hide)

Hmm, don't you have to get past some forest hunters to get the stone set, though? And buy the crest of artorias...
You could go the other way around with the basin, but that's not much more attractive. Overall that set's not very pre-capra, IMO.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on October 26, 2021, 02:38:42 am

Eh, fair enough. It's been a long time since I've played it, but with the Master Key Capra Demon can be put off for a long while so I usually already had it by the time I felt like dealing with him.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 26, 2021, 03:39:32 am

Capra is optional even without the master key, if you know the right way to go around. ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 26, 2021, 04:25:26 am

Honestly, that fight didn't feel that hard. Once you get around the initial dog attack and get some room to dodge, it's not that bad.

Also did kill the Gaping Dragon in one shot with almost no prep work; had Solaire(who had all but soloed Kirk beforehand) but he didn't even last half the fight. But then, Gaping Dragon is actually very easy once you realize

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it is slow as hell and has no ranged ability.

Grabbed its tail first thing, too.

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Dark Souls again.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on November 02, 2021, 10:43:12 pm

Went after a mysterious (pink) Rathian, which ambushed us in midair and started the battle right from landing.  This would have been bad enough given how it's more powerful and apparently more capable than the regular Rathian I was geared for (mostly low-level Legi armor with some HR Pukei and Rathian armor to pick up poison immunity), but my first clue that we weren't alone in the area was when I took a flying leap with my hunting horn and accidentally landed on a Legiana which was also charging at said Rathian from offscreen, and got between me and her.  Cue three-way battle as the Rathian, Legiana, and I all vied with and against each other.  They both fled in the same direction down the cliffs and I followed, at which point a Tzitzi-Ya-Ku joined the battle by flashbanging all of us in a single blow, then took a flying leap into the fray (thankfully at the Rathian).  One absolutely dizzying battle commenced as I chased the Rathian through that skirmish and several others all across the map, got carted two times out of the maximum of three allowed, until I finally managed to accidentally slay it when I meant to capture it.  Still, since it was a hunt mission, it counted as a victory.  Under the circumstances, I'm fine chalking that up as the closest to a win I could actually get under that kind of situation with my sheer lack of ability.

In retrospect, though, I probably should have used one of those eight dung bombs I was carrying around for precisely this kind of situation.  It was nice letting those three keep each other busy while I was running around chugging mega potions, though.  I think the only thing that could have made the party even worse would have been if everyone's favorite B-52, Bazelgeuse, joined in as well by bombing the entire arena.

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Monster Hunter: World

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on November 04, 2021, 12:02:30 pm

I just won a large scale battle, by killing 4 units.

I was sieging Jericho as Vespasian, and all the rebel Jews were defending the bridge. So I just had skirmished with them over the bridge, while a bunch of riders and a marksman snuck around the back and assassinated the rebel boss.

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Battle for Wesnoth, Pax Romana: The Rise of Vespasian, Trumpets of Jericho

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 09, 2021, 06:18:27 pm

Tracked down a wolf that was responsible for at least three of my deaths and who was camping way too close to my home, and killed it by throwing dozens of rocks at him. Also killed two of his buddies that way, from far enough away that they didn't even aggro. I turned most of their meat into pemmican and am feasting on the rest. All while waiting for my anvil mold to finish firing since I found at least enough tin from a mining excursion to make at least a bronze anvil(not even bothering with a copper anvil).

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Vintage Story. Kinda not liking the recent change to clay firing. I mean, I get it and how it works, but it does mean more busywork just trying to make basic things. The change is that, instead of firing on a regular firepit(like what you cook on), you now must dig a single-block hole, put the unfired item in, put in dry grass(most use about sixteen, larger items like storage vessels need more), then sticks, then firewood. Then light it and try not accidentally set yourself(or any nearby flammables) on fire in the process, then wait about 20 ingame hours. The only clay item that doesn't do this is the clay oven for bread, which is fired from inside it. Oh, and there's bread and pies now.

EDIT: Couldn't find a way to depressurize the compartments around the reactor. Even after removing the door controls, they still automatically open and close. I tried to do something clever; have both the inner compartment and the outer compartments pressurized(and thus doors open), then zap a hole in the wall between them. This... didn't work. However, just as the atmosphere stopped blowing out, I get a notification: "Processed: Door. $1096 credits." Somehow, one of the doors exploded off and blasted into the processor. The only lost-salvage penalty was $123 for a bit of aluminum(probably the bit I cut open). For comparison, that's less than the loose change one would find in their couch.

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

EDIT: First time playing the game through the end of Year 2. Got all 4 candles lit on Grandpa's evaluation.

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Stardew Valley. Looking up the scoring on the wiki, this is actually far easier than I thought. All you need to do at a minimum is have over 1 million in earnings, complete the community center(and watch the scene), and get the Skull and Rusty keys. Fairly simple before the end of year 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on November 23, 2021, 09:49:02 pm

Completely out of estus and around half health, but determined not to have to rest and respawn all the enemies in the whole area, I went down the one last side branch I hadn't gotten all the loot from, guarded by a gargoyle which I'd previously fled from. Turns out, there were two gargoyles suddenly aggroed on me, which I really couldn't deal with without any healing, so I just tried to run past them and miraculously didn't die, dropping down to an earlier area. The two gargoyles followed my down, but couldn't follow me through the window into the main building.

There weren't any items on this side path, but sometimes killing groups of tough enemies will drop some loot, so I decided to try cheesing these two by looping back around to where you're "supposed" to fight them, a ledge which they now cannot get back up to. Through a combination of repeated plunging attacks and arrows, I eventually cheesed the fight.

And for my hard won effort I didn't get anything but the normal amount of souls.

I did it!
but Huh. It's a pointless...

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dark souls 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 25, 2021, 08:17:14 pm

There's several things deeply unfair about a party of level 30+ troll monks. Look out, it's a troll! Run!

oh wait

it accelerates faster than a sports car, can teleport, and attacks seven times a turn averaging about a hundred damage per hit

also there's five of them and their barbarian friend and their pet air elemental

whoops

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low magic age with level adjustment turned off, hohoho

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 26, 2021, 08:31:56 am

It was a very long hunt, as apparantly the starter weapons and ammos aren't exactly good for anything big.

But in near to half a hour following tracks, shooting then following the tracks and blood again  until i could shoot at the beast again, i finally did it.
Took so long maybe because the animal was incredibly resilient (or my starter ammo wasn't really piercing deep enough) as it took several shots.

My first Elk in Call of the Wild.

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(https://i.imgur.com/89vIirc.jpg)

Thank you Elk for your giving, your meat will probably virtual-feed me for a long time :) (that Elk hunt reminded me a lot of my UnrealWorld hunting session, wounding the preys and taking lots of time following them to get another shot until success)

Don't be so sad, later that night while sneaking around i found that another elk was happy making his mating calls, he had less competition ;)

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(https://i.imgur.com/lD7IXe7.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 06, 2021, 12:27:51 am

Only took two first floor deaths to knock off the rust and follow up with a five floor normal difficulty win. Redshift still got it!

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Starward Rogue

If anyone wants a really simple but highly effective trick for Redshift in particular, but also basically everything else, too: Go into controls and bind as many of your movements keys as possible to Fire Main/Primary Gun. There's pretty much no reason to ever stop firing it, and if you set it so moving also shoots, well... it's good stuff.

e: four days and about 11 runs and redshift has perfected terminus on normal, whee

redshift best mech, only mech I can win with lol

time to turn up the difficulty!

e2: ... win with legitimately. Steam cheevos says I've won with four other mechs but I'm pretty sure that's from when I was modding everything I played with with the redshift effect :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 10, 2021, 08:50:44 pm

After all this time of owning the game, and playing plenty of skirmish, never have I actually finished the story campaign. Until today, when I finished the UEF campaign.

Goddamn, what a slog. Took the three attempts. First attempt, I died when the scripted nuclear barrage that occurs as the battle enters the second phase completely bypassed the two anti-nukes(which had full ammo) and sniped my ACU and his new girlfriend(and the superweapon I was supposed to be protecting). Said anti-nukes were also about 50ft away.

Second attempt, I barely survive the first Cybran assault, which consists of dozens of shielded assault bots and four Monkeylords. I was able to take those out mostly because my battleships could hit them at max range. However, when the superweapon is ~40% charged, another wave like that drops. That one, that one just walked over everything. Instead of trying to salvage that fight, I started over.


Third attempt, I intentionally held off completing the first objective until I could build a defensive wall. Although a few section fell to random Cybran air raids, and provided a lot of effective fire at bringing down the Monkeylords. I very nearly stopped the Cybrans from capturing the superweapon's control building, but I think the game bullshits in more engineers to force its capture. Plausible, since the mission doesn't continue until you retake it. Taking advantage of that, I built a new strongpoint, consisting of a T3 shield, several Triads(you don't get T3 land turrets), enough Flayers to prevent the shields from being overwhelmed by suicidal bombers, and a Fatboy. The Fatboy is actually pretty effective in this mission, because although it lacks the direct-damage capability of the Monkeylord, it can spread a lot of damage around.

By sheer luck, this new strongpoint was just outside the next nuclear barrage, which is good because I forgot to build an anti-nuke launcher. When the second Cybran assault arrived,  these guns, plus fire from two fleets on my flanks, in between dealing with both the Aeon and Cybran navies, brought that assault to a quick end. The rest of the mission was a cakewalk after that.

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Supreme Commander, original.

EDIT: Finished all three campaigns now, doing the Cybran second, and Aeon last. The final mission for the Aeon wasn't that hard. I only had to save-scum once because of how hard the Cybrans roll in during the second phase. I was able to prepare for that by building a heavy defensive line consisting of multiple T2 turrets and artillery guns, backed by a delayed-production(due to unit cap) of dozens of T3 bots and artillery tanks. The gun-wall and the first wave dealt with the Cybran attack and my navy cheesed their base.

The final part I thought I would have a problem with - a massive naval attack on my base. But then I saw the enemy commander on the edge of his base, so I sent those dozens of assault troops and artillery directly at him. Mission, and campaign, done.

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Supreme Commander, original. Next up is FA's campaign, I guess.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 20, 2021, 12:05:38 am

Smoosh Thunderabs has conquered the Thur in the name of the Dhib! Mostly!

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Sands of Salzaar. The last city of a faction is remarkably harder to knock down than everything else they had was, even if they're bottled up in a tiny village. All the remaining characters and extra troops, y'know? Still... eventually, I'll get the last one. City killer death stack is finally starting to come together.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SystemsTestCanary on December 20, 2021, 12:20:05 am

Beat the Salvador boss.

ok, kinda cheesed the Salvador boss, but I'll just call it "making effective use of cover."

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Control

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 20, 2021, 05:35:03 am

I feel a bit dumb finding this out, but I discovered that if you have a cultivator with a Mental State-buffing talisman equipped, you can turn it off to reduce their Mental State back to its base value. Why do that? Well, it can take days ingame for their Mental State to go from 90 to 95(Pristine Mind), and even longer to get it to 100, but a few minutes of cultivating to drop it back down. However, lower Mental State raises faster, so after cultivating for a while, you can turn off the talisman, let them have fun for a shorter time, then turn it back on the jump up to Pristine Mind. Especially notable with the Divinity Mind talisman(+45 Mental State), which you can - and definitely should, since it requires a cultivator with exactly 0 virtue/condemnation - get very early in the game(the first world event grants the item needed to discover the place).

I got my starting cultivator from the second Qi-shaping breakthrough to the third(which elevates to Core Shaping) before her qi had even recovered from the breakthrough doing this. It also helps that the breakthrough chance for the third stage was 100% and stayed that way until the breakthrough was achieved.

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 20, 2021, 09:40:38 am

Finally defeated my first boss in Remnant : from the Ashes.
The damned arrow totting teleporting bastard boss named "Shroud"

Reaching the end of the sewers(you can meet Shroud for a temporary fight each time you destroy a totem in the sewers) i finally reached its arena.
There were lots of his respawning minions (in the game strong monsters usually have many minions spawning, not just for extra difficulty but because those may drop ammo when they die, though from what i played for that fight against Shroud there should be no need as you have a resting stone that refill you completely just before entering the arena)

Playing with a Scrapper class (for that fight i had upgraded all my items to +3) my weaponry is mostly designed to kill things at low range, so that battle is a lot of running after that teleporting boss until i finally get not too far from it so i can shotgun his face to oblivion (as my big hammer was useless out of minion 1-hit kill squashing, as the boss never stayed in place long enough for me to get in range of the face caving strikes). 

If you run all the time during that fight it shouldn't be hard (as you'll dodge then more easily the arrows), the main problem is to not get stuck with too much of the minions as the boss from time to time make a scream and shoot several exploding arrows that will rain on you (even despite you have a roof about you) , so make sure to never stop moving. 
How satisfying it was when i finally got his face filled with shotgun shells. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on December 20, 2021, 03:48:22 pm

Ran my first-ever übers today in D2R, after having played the game for several years.

I was running a smiter that was supposed to be just the budget build, but we ended up getting a lot richer than expected while putting it together so I had some things that aren't necessarily considered "budget" by the time we finally had enough levels and keys to attempt things. Buddy was playing a barbarian who was running interference and buffbot duties.


So, really, we were quite overprepared for the whole thing. But better safe than portal-camped! And what was the glorious reward we managed to wrestle from the grasp of the Big Bad Three?

Amazon 11/13

Still though, first torch I've ever seen firsthand, so can't complain!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on December 21, 2021, 08:31:49 am

Still having som fun with Remnant : From the Ashes.

Finally managed to destroy the Earth world boss, on my generated world it was a kind of giant mutated treant (it basically looks like Treebeard with a wooden Cthulhu head) On some other people's world that boss can be a dragon instead.

The thing basic attacks were a feet smash or double fist smash, both creating a shockwave (more or less fast depending on the attack used) that you need to roll over. Rather easy fortunately (you just need to get the shockwave speed) .
But regularly the boss will start to get on its knee and bombard your with exploding shell creating rotting gaz area, while spawning a lot of rot warts minions that you need to either kill or roll/dodge their own self-detonation, giving you a lot of rot status ailment .

The exploding shells are easy to avoid as you need to roll (or maybe sprint) a couple of second after hearing their flying noise (your window to shoot after an explosion is very very short), the minions are way more annoying but if you're lucky the boss can bombard its own minions for you. 

Took a lot of shotgun shells to finally destroy that damned boss (had to pick up several times ammo and refill my stock with a pouch item too) but finally moved past the big ugly.

It's possible to break its legs (but once it's down, it will replace his feet and fist ground smash by a combo of 3 circular large boxing hooks that you absolutely need to dodge) if you want, this change the boss item you get at the end (if you don't break the boss leg you get an item that allow you to craft a strong shotgun, if you break his leg you'll have an item you can use to craft a strong maul) .
So i got a nice new shotgun that is unfortunately having only 1 shell in its mag (so need to reload after each shots) but deliver higher damage than my current shotgun and also deliver some Rot effect to its target. supposedly slow the enemy down.

Got to the next world "Rhom" after going through the nice weirdo tower that appeared in town , looks like a mix between Tatooine and Abydos but with ruined cities and filled with berserked (possibly cannibal from all the bones i see) people that look like they came from the stone age.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Enemy post on December 21, 2021, 02:45:10 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/9bQ0XKn.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/OwqoEcb.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hops on December 22, 2021, 07:49:29 am

Normally, I'm kind of down on myself and my gaming skills, maybe subconsciously thinking that negativity will help me be more competitive, or something. Well, I was watching some Youtube videos about getting better at fighting games and Sajam mentioned that it's a good idea to reward yourself even for small victories, so I was eager to test this out and booted up FOOTSIES.

I was mentally complimenting myself every time I did well, or at the very least commented to myself when I didn't do too bad. ("Well! You might've reacted too slow there, but if you were 2 frames faster it'd have worked, so that's pretty good!") I felt pretty good and my positivity certainly boosted my skills. Whodathunk that being happy makes you play better?

I even got decent scores on the training minigames which half a year ago I'd have thought to be beyond my actual physical limit, showing that I'm able to react to information as fast as 16 frames, which is 4/15th of a second, and I'm able to react on average around 18 frames (3/10th of a second). That'd also be a good benchmark for other fighting games for me to decide whether or not a thing would've been reactable by me.

I then went on to try my hand against the Arcade bots and easily demolished the first three stages. Previously, I'd struggle with even the first bot, but now that I can actually react to whiffs, it was a breeze.

Remember kids, winners use serotonin.

Also, a retroactive own is that I actually won 9 rounds out of 30 rounds (10 games) against an experienced player yesterday. Granted, they were trying to land flashy instakills on me, and did succeed most of the times, but still.

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FOOTSIES

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 24, 2021, 10:56:52 am

While I succeeded in getting a Golden Core at day 30, I had to settle for an 8-quality Core(which is bad. Really bad.). Just I was planning an assault on the map's resident monster, a demon tiger named Blood Jun, it broke through to the next level(becoming much stronger).

I decided to attack anyway, before it could charge up its newly-doubled qi reserves. Nevermind that my crappy Golden Core and recently-adopted puppy were both at half of their qi. I sent them, and two outers with spiritstone bows. While I had intended for Huajuan to get to the beast first, my immortal's crappy artifact smacked it first. While the tiger was faster in the air than my immortal, it wasn't fast enough to land a hit on her. Though the was a few moments where she just stood there and let the tiger slap her around for some reason. Kited the monster around my two outers; their bows were doing more damage individually than both supernaturals combined. Even after one of them quit the battle("waah, I'm too tired!", oh boohoo), I was still able to bring it down because the other outer, a wolfgirl Yaoguai, kept fighting.

That's one problem off my back. Next up is to raise a much better immortal, most likely the wolfgirl, and probably eventually rebirth the first one since she has terrible compatibility with her current law, but 100% with another.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator

EDIT: Found a guide for a trade run that claims you can make 20 million credits per run. It was closer to 30-40 million. Using that money, I was quickly able to afford the Prosperity-class Titan... which is a clear-cut example of Awesome But Impractical. It's slow, barely turns, has negative damage resistance ratings, and the hitbox is so buggy that it extended to every other ship I flew until I exited the game.

But it's cargo space is massive enough that it bumped that trade run to around 60 million per run. Using that money, I built a Halberd-class dreadnought, and loaded it up with all the good shit. All Mk3 weapons that you can research(they're not the best in the game, but still great), except for Mk2 missiles, and every enhancement I could slap on it. Melting through entire fleets with it. I actually got the Bullet Hell achievement(kill 5 ships in one Shotgun attack) by vaporizing almost an entire group of Gunships/Corvettes.

The only thing that stopped me, and it might have been a bug(it's been reported before), was when the game dropped about 20 Asgard-class carriers on top of me. That ate through my shields quick and I had to retreat.

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Starpoint Gemini: Warlords.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on January 06, 2022, 06:15:36 pm

Turn 40, first war of the game. As Jomon, teleported Kami of the Sun with scroll of chain lighting x3 on self and other stuff on top of Bogarus' capital when he finallly remembered about patrol button. -75 heavy cavalrymen, own.
He teleported Virtue with scrolls of fire storm and mass moss body on top of my army. -200 troops and -20 mages, died.
I teleported Kami of the Sun with greatsword of sharpness, burning pearl, amulet of antimagic and other stuff on top of his Virtue with scrolls and 10 mages casting soul slay and paralyze. Lucked out on MR rolls, -Virtue, Bogarus went AI, own.
Spring-heel Jack steals 100-150 gold from me every turn. To tell him "Jack stop stealing my shit" and procure his stealth-giving boots i need to give a commander in a province nonexistant order.  ::) Annoyed.

Dominions 5, Legendary mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ZoddTheImmortal on January 07, 2022, 11:57:03 pm

Killed all the guards in Rattay in with a hired army of knights

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Kingdom Come:Deliverance, with a mercenary spawn mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Salmeuk on January 08, 2022, 02:07:16 am

led a team of 49 other players to victory over a Canadian strike force. We flew two helicopters to their second cap and dug in. Their first logistics vehicle was intercepted by my heavy anti-tank kit and was destroyed. The Canadians built a HAB behind the southern hill and began to send flanking scouts to our west.

I encouraged my squad members to space themselves and marked the snipers I could scout. It was bloody, as any good fight is. We pushed right to their radio but lost that ground, and ultimately our own HAB - once they are on the walls it's almost impossible to take back a compromised spawn.

However, our stalling at this second point allowed the other 40 players to back cap and pull the front line right on up to the enemy. With these Canadian syrup-drinkers on the back foot, I took my squad in a second helo and pushed their final cap. This push was met with minor resistance, and further convinced me that the meta is dead, and that I should take up modding...

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Squad

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on January 11, 2022, 03:08:06 pm

I beat the crap out of Dark Link while only taking 2 hits, using the power of the mighty biggoron sword.  I probably could have beaten him without taking any hits if I was a bit more careful instead of just spamming the attack button.

I used to dread the Dark Link fight as a kid, and would bring 2-3 potions to restore magic power and just use Din's Fire to kill him since I never learned to fight him correctly.  It didn't help that he was halfway through the worst temple in the game either.

To this day I'm still not completely sure what you're supposed to do.  I used to sometimes fight him by trying to use spin attacks, which rarely hit him if you used the quick control stick rotation version, but he usually dodged those.  My guess is that you're supposed to not use Z-targeting when fighting him, or something like that.

But, with the biggoron sword, it doesn't matter.  You outreach him, so while he swings at the same time you do, you can hit him anyway for double the damage of the Master Sword.  I love unlocking it as the very first thing I do as an adult since it makes most fights a breeze.  The loss of the shield sucks sometimes, but not enough to matter.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ZoddTheImmortal on January 11, 2022, 03:29:31 pm

Most of my neighboring player countries immediately went to war with each other.(I was Egypt) The winner of those wars, grew the size of multiple countries. Meanwhile I built my economy and artillery, but looked small, since I was the only one not expanding my border size.
When he attacked me, even though he was producing more infantry, I just stood back and shot him or kited when necessary and eventually won through making more big guns with my better economy.(His huge country was still low moral from his very recent conquests, and not really able to produce much yet.)
All the land he had taken was now mine, so I immediately became the biggest country on that map, and produce the most of the oil.

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Supremacy 1914 web version

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Ant on January 12, 2022, 01:22:38 pm

Spent 6 days walking into center office area of Louisville from a safehouse near edge of LV suburbia. I had 2 spears, a crowbar, lead pipe and hammer on my possessions, few kitchen knifes, 2 beef jerkies and couple of canned foods for projected 2 day trip. Sadly respawns for zeds inside LV are somewhat insane, and in the end I had gone through path of least resistance and still racked up 1 level of carpentry, 2 levels of maintenance, 1 level of long blunt, 2 levels of short blunt and maxed my spear skill- 200 odd zeds dead.

All for a taxi that wasn't all banged up, and a can of gas, first amidst 50ish zeds and second in a trunk of a trashed sedan. All because some mutton-brain thought it nice to steal a 30% all round windowless pickup from my safehouse, he had to tow the bastard off my lawn! MP is !!FUN!!

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Project Zomboid

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 14, 2022, 01:57:59 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 15, 2022, 08:14:01 pm

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

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Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on January 16, 2022, 08:46:32 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 17, 2022, 03:39:05 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 19, 2022, 05:49:51 am

Remnant from the Ashes

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

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

Spoiler: Riphide (click to show/hide)

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on January 19, 2022, 05:18:15 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on January 19, 2022, 10:19:43 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on January 19, 2022, 10:48:20 pm

Quote from: Frumple on January 19, 2022, 10:19:43 pm

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on January 20, 2022, 06:37:34 am

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

Spoiler: finally ! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ylPld8N.jpg)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Murder Dog is a great mod to have in the dark zone, his damage dealing is excellent and helps a lot in getting root warriors killed fast, so if you go to Rohm and meet the blind merchant, make sure to pet his dog to obtain the related summon as a weapon mod.
Murder Dog is a good Dog
(https://i.imgur.com/nb2RjQb.jpg)

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on January 27, 2022, 09:27:58 pm

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, that got stupidly broken.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: axiomsofdominion on January 27, 2022, 09:48:11 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Hanslanda on January 27, 2022, 11:12:43 pm

I wiped the Prison Village without being noticed.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 29, 2022, 03:32:54 pm

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 30, 2022, 11:03:51 pm

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

Spoiler: noita (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/skn2iwN.png?1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on January 31, 2022, 08:51:15 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 01, 2022, 12:45:13 pm

Remnant from the Ashes, managed to win my first adventure (on Earth) in hard mode by taking out the world boss that was generated as the treant.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/SMSvJwW.jpg)

The mid boss that generated in that adventure was Riphide, i still can't believe i survived that one with a few pixel of health left, he was already a pain in normal mode. But i don't think i got so much stress in a videogame battle as i had with fighting Riphide on hard mode.

Difference with normal mode is that enemies have 50/60% more health and deal 50/60% more damage and you get 15% more XP (it's not worth for XP grinding for traits points as you spend more time to kill them than in normal mode) , the main interest of Hard mode, out of the extra challenge is that you gain "glowing fragment" (they don't exist in normal mode) by beating bosses (mid and world bosses).
(there are more higher difficulty levels "Nightmare" and "Apocalypse" with enemies getting even more health and enough damage to one shot your best armor, i guess it's for people that are into masochism :D )

without dlc those glowing fragments are used to buy alternate skins for a few armors (for most other armor or using those fragment to craft a couple new items you need to buy dlc) , not really anything worthy of the achievements of playing on higher difficulties.

There's a hardcode mode when creating a new character if you want, you have only 1 life but in exchange you get exclusive items from beating the world bosses, hardcore items that are shared with all the characters you have (even if your hardcore character dies).
Mentionned previously that when you interact with the merchant's dog that can be found in Rhom, you gain a weapon mod that allow you to summon this amazing dog, this weapon mod is also shared with all your characters, even the ones you'll create after. A must have mod for early game survivability in higher difficulties.
 
 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 02, 2022, 07:38:25 am

Quote from: Frumple on January 16, 2022, 08:46:32 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

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

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

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

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

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

My overpoweredness went in a slightly different direction-- whereas you're oneshotting everything, my void archer is using a ranger bow to fire homing glue arrows with no fletching and splinter tips... the end result is that every shot covers the screen in arrows that stunlock, and I fire like a machine gun. Sure, I may not be doing damage individually, but there's a lot of them.

Oh, and since I'm rocking that berserker helmet too, I basically have a constant damage buff and so much overheal that I'm rocking about 600k/630.

I also highly recommend against the explosive tips. I took those and... holy, lag city.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 09, 2022, 05:59:04 am

Thought I could take the retribution of shooting down a Von Neumann probe.

Hahaha no. That I managed to survive a Berserker probably qualifies for this thread. Using auto-resolve even! Because manually fighting it didn't go so well...

I mean, the planet itself was pretty screwed up, losing its entire civilian population(imperial pop was surprisingly intact), most of the infrastructure, and the climate getting shifted by about 100 points. Nothing some fresh colony ships can't fix. Out of ships, I lost two fairly old Dreadnoughts and one(of three, but one was scanner satellite) defense platforms.

Moral of the story, destroying the probes is just not worth it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sword of the Stars. Strangely enough, it's about turn 240 and I still haven't encountered this round's Grand Menace.

EDIT: Holy crap. I did it. Achievement unlocked: Ritual.

That was one of the hardest goddamn boss fights I've ever won.

Now, whether or not I should have done that ritual instead of banishing him, well...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hollow Knight. Charm setup was Grimmchild(required), Dashmaster(always gotta have that), Unbreakable Strength, Weaversong, and Unbreakable Heart. I'm surprised that Weaversong was so helpful, but the extra hits actually saved me a few times, as it staggered Grimm right when I needed the breathing room.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 11, 2022, 09:12:02 pm

I got a mission to investigate a base subtly called "Destroy the Illegal Facility". Once you investigate, you learn it is indeed doing illegal weapons research and needs to be destroyed.

After the first try of this mission, I learned that we were investigating giant super-lasers that destroy us and are difficult to escape while you get hit. Hilariously, the game suggests trying to lure the enemies into the beams, but we have a 3-on-3 fight with other AI-enemies, so the NPCs don't care enough about me to be trapped, and also computers have better 3-d awareness than human players. After 3 tries, I learned one of the enemies has unlimited healing items, but mostly only uses them on his allies. After 5-7 tries, I managed to finally defeat that healing guy without accidentally flying/running in front of the giant lasers and getting damaged enough that I can't possibly win the fight. I've got a fever and a bottle of whiskey, and took out their team and base pretty easily after that.

Daemon X Machina. It's a weird anime-ish game about fighting in not-Gundams in a post-apocalyptic world. I'm glad to hear they're planning a sequel.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 12, 2022, 05:55:08 pm

It's been a long time i hadn't touched Salt&Sanctuary, mostly because after being one shot by some "normal" small enemies repeatedly a few screens after having destroyed the 1st boss "Sodden Knight" wasn't really my idea of having fun.

Until i read on random place something about that ridiculous difficulty spike.
The reason of this silly one shotting is that despite it looks like it (as you get there by simply continuing to move to the right) , this is absolutely not the next area you should go, there's a NPC that appear temporarly after you clear the boss is supposed to give you a hint about that before disappearing, but i guess i may have pressed the wrong button and skipped its lines :D.

In fact to keep up with the game difficulty curve, the next area is located underground below the fortress you previously explored before reaching the 1st boss that was on its top of it. It's beyond an area that is reached by a door i could swear i had opened before and that had me running into a wall ?.

Reinstalling and giving it a try, indeed it was the way to go, no idea why i missed the whole area after the door i had previously opened (i guess the annoying blur and overall darkness did not really help my eyes)  ... and after some more killing and leveling and skilling up (and getting splashed a few time by some traps i didn't noticed :D) , i finally reached the 2nd boss appropriately named the "Queen of Smiles".

Spoiler: oh and she's also 4 times my character size (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/35m0KXf.jpg)

Let's just say that i got slashed to oblivion by this multi-sword maniac, then i remember how i finally got to beat the 1st boss : my shield, good shield use it instead of your weak roll and jump , you're too heavy anyways with your Paladin armor to do that, so block and block again. 

And i just annihilated Smiling Face without trouble (though it took time as i never had more than 1 hit opportunity at time between my blocks and her attacks) , probably helped because i had purchased a much better shield than the one my Paladin started with (and the skill to allow wielding this upper class shield).

Spoiler: goodnight sweet queen (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/5rnwjZH.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 14, 2022, 04:12:48 am

I'm in the process of moving house, so I don't have my usual loadout, and I'm resting in low-security houses along the way. Tired after a day of clearing corpses off the road, I stop in early to rest... and I wake up in the middle of the night. And my 'middle of the night' means the world around me looks like this:

Spoiler: "The night is dark and full of terrors..." (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gvH6gnw.png)

Yep... pitch black nights.

No way am I going out like that. Since I don't have my normal stuff on me, and exercise is useless because my perks gave me maxed strength and fitness from the start, the only thing I can do is either sit there and wait, or commence to train my sprinting to try and get tired enough again and just sleep through until morning! So train it is. Which is evidently stupidly loud, because very quickly, I hear angry growling. And then pounding on the window. I don't even know exactly where I'm standing in the room, and I'm not even sure if my weapon is drawn. (It occurred to me after the fact that I could just manually wield it.) And then the sound of the window breaking.

I start swinging in the darkness... and hearing crunching noises, squishy noises, and splats. All in all? Six dead, and I survive to another dawn.

Spoiler: "Sprint training, as depicted by another source." (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/RQG5W8m.png)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockeater on February 14, 2022, 12:56:24 pm

Returned to "Slay the Spire" after month of not playing because of frustration with constant failure, needed to start a new save.
Got to third act boss and defeated the first part of the Awakened One in first try with Ironclad, Defeated Donu and Deca with my first silent run
Still didn't get to the stage I was stuck in before, and started to slow down now, but still fighting

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on February 14, 2022, 04:48:46 pm

I decided to take my squad of 24 to Fishman Isle, to grind up some combat experience fighting the fishy hordes. I had a pretty good mix of people of all races (including a skeleton!), weapon types, and skill levels, I had taken on bandits and won, I figured it was time to test my mettle against a new foe. The prospect of possibly taking on the Gurgler King for his bounty and top-tier sword just added incentive, though realistically my team probably wasn't ready for that just yet.

We made our way south of Catun, staying well clear of a Leviathan along the way (those things have thousands of HP per body part in a game where most humanoids top out at 100 or so) and ran across a squad of bandits who challenged us to battle. It went well for us overall; though one person was KO'd and a few others took injuries that slowed them down, the bandits were all defeated. We made our way over to a boulder and set up a temporary camp so the worst-wounded could rest on bedrolls while the rest stood guard. Despite the slowdown I figured we were ready for whatever might come. We were not.

A full half-dozen adult Beak Things came charging in through the twilight, running straight through the boulder that apparently was not the solid obstacle I thought, and began tearing my squad to pieces. My guys jumped to defend themselves, but these creatures have a well-deserved reputation for being the bane of early-midgame teams and several people were downed quickly. Humanoids screamed as limbs were torn away by monstrous jaws, while AoE attacks staggered my best and toughest fighters again and again. Some Beak Things fell as well, overcome by weight of numbers, but for a few gutwrenching minutes I thought I'd have to reload to an earlier save once the last warrior fell and the Beak Things began to feed.

Somehow, we prevailed. Four limping, bleeding humanoids remained standing amidst a pile of unconscious, dying bodies, and they had no time to rest if any were to be saved. The quartet immediately began patching up the most severely wounded (which did not include themselves; several of the fallen were on death's door), while the first of the others to wake up took on the task of finishing off the Beak Things before joining in the emergency triage. Others began to awake, merely knocked out by pain during the battle and not in recovery comas, and began non-vital tasks like splinting limbs or setting out more camp beds to rest on.

All told, maybe half the squad was able to regain consciousness shortly after the battle, though many had damaged limbs and a few were only barely ambulatory. Three squaddies had lost limbs entirely; two an arm each, one (my best medic) a leg. Those three had KO timers running into the thousands of seconds, and for a while I was not at all certain they'd survive given the massive amount of blood each lost. The team was in a pickle; they were stranded far from the relative safety of civilization and were physically incapable of moving to a safer location without leaving at least some people behind to the tender mercies of wild animals. Also they'd be moving at a snail's pace given how bad some of their legs were. I ordered everyone to enter stealth and had the most capable member of the squad (the skeleton, who had been repaired and was functioning nearly as good as normal) drag the Beak Thing corpses far enough away that any scavengers would hopefully be drawn away from us. And then we waited.

A couple of days passed. I rotated the ones resting on the camp beds, trying to get more people up and ready to move. Some folks woke up once they had recovered sufficiently from their injuries. A handful were still down and out. And then I noticed that we had been spotted, by a pack of more than a dozen bonehounds. They were charging straight for us, on an "Attack Others" objective, and I figured this would probably be the end. None of my guys were ready for a fight - indeed, some would only take a single wound before keeling over again. But we couldn't run away. My wearied warriors readied themselves for the last fight of their lives...when suddenly the leader of the wolfpack let out a bark and snatched up my medic's severed leg, running off with it in joy, while the rest of the pack followed hoping to play with the limb themselves. Battle was averted at the very last instant by a canine's desire to play fetch.

I decided (once I stopped laughing) that I had pushed my team's luck long enough. We might not be able to outrun a pack of hounds intent on chasing us, but we could slip away while they were off having fun. The unconscious and the lame were slung over the shoulders of those who could move quickest, bedrolls were packed, and the entire team made for the gates of Catun. We were slow despite the rest, thanks to various injuries reducing stats, but fortune continued to smile on the squad. They limped into the great city of weaponsmiths later that day, unmolested by monsters or bandits, and quickly took over every spare bed in both inns.

I didn't own by slaying hordes of fishmen, or earning a legendary sword through epic battle, or slaughtering packs of monsters. My ownage was getting every single person back from near-catastrophe, alive. Now begins the hunt for quality artificial limbs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kenshi

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 14, 2022, 05:52:00 pm

Salt & Sanctuary

Having recently discovered what would become my new favorite weapon of them all, a giant warhammer, still wondering how the hell my character can even lift it (had to mix/match my armor to be able to get the best resistances without getting over 100% weight, or the character would only be able to walk slowly), i went through a few more bosses and finally landed in "The Red Hall of Cages" .

A very creepy underground location that only purpose is torture and abject murder, but when you wield a giant warhammer of total destruction

Spoiler: you can make things right (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/TtF1Efs.jpg)

Until reaching the boss of that zone, the Tree of Men , that is basically a massive mix of various torture racks on which there are many unfortunate poor souls hanging, and the thing just came to life out of pure evil to destroy you.
By itself, the Tree of Men isn't really hard (though avoid staying near its "legs" or the shockwaves of the thing walking will propel you out of the arena , falling to your death)
The actual difficulty during this fight is to deal with the various flamethrowers that regularly burn the platforms ,  giving you a hard time as you need to dodge the attacks while jumping to non-burning platforms while hammering the boss weak points.

Spoiler: but the satisfaction of victory is great (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/tNgScJd.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockeater on February 16, 2022, 06:05:06 am

Quote from: Rockeater on February 14, 2022, 12:56:24 pm

Returned to "Slay the Spire" after month of not playing because of frustration with constant failure, needed to start a new save.
Got to third act boss and defeated the first part of the Awakened One in first try with Ironclad, Defeated Donu and Deca with my first silent run
Still didn't get to the stage I was stuck in before, and started to slow down now, but still fighting

Didn't have a good Defect run in this game, but now I crushed the third act boss with more then half HP to spare, and it was the Fucking time eater I never thought I would be able to defeat, I think this deck could have done act 4 if i had the opportunity.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 16, 2022, 11:59:33 am

Salt & Sanctuary

After having progressed very nicely since the Tree of Men and beating a few more bosses on my way , i ran into a wall in

Spoiler: the Dome of the Forgotten (click to show/hide)

The Dome of the Forgotten is a tricky place with appearing/disappearing platforms and lots of invisible enemies (Whispermen and Whisperladies) that will slash or electro bolt you happily, fortunately there exist potions in shops (and that can also drop from the whisperpeople loot) to see temporarly the invisible so you're not forced to always slash or strike around where you think they are. 
Some giant armored people were a bit more annoying with the shockwaves around their strikes, making it a bit painful to judge distance (as i still have difficulty to roll consistently, being basically a heavy armored tank ) , but overall the might of my character always prevailed.

At some point i ran into a boss, the "Untouched Inquisitor" that was not really prepared for my current equipment and level, basically the poor guy just got trashed. 
So far the exploration of the rest of the dome was going very smoothly and i made my way to the top of the dome, running into the next boss of the location "The Third Lamb" , that happens to be the pet hippogriff of the inquisitor i previously destroyed.

And wow, the difficulty bump was rather big in comparison to anything else in the dome , after dying a few times to learn the boss rather varied moveset (2 slow different strikes with one that must be rolled backward instead of forward to avoid a surprise hit, a quick beak attack, a quick tail attack, a jump attack+shockwave and several rays of electric sparks ) i started to finally hurt the damned thing without much trouble.

Until the 50% health down (in Salt and Sanctuary, all bosses have new/changed attacks once they reach 50% health) that made the monster attacks coming faster (even doing some combo) and always finishing by some electric sparks flying around to hurt the player, breaking a lot of the distance and timing i had learned for his first 50% of health. 

It killed me many, many times until.

Spoiler: it was the turn of my character to get the last laugh (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/3BZfXza.jpg)

After killing me so much (and so stealing each times all the salt i had accumulated between the closest sanctuary and his arena) , i had enough salts coming back to my inventory (the boss salt rewards + all the salts he stole from my repeated death to him) that i could level 4 more times than normal :D

Very happy to have gotten rid of that oversized chicken

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on February 16, 2022, 03:32:56 pm

@Sirus: Congrats. I've had those days in Kenshi. Good job!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: ZoddTheImmortal on February 16, 2022, 05:37:22 pm

Trained by a specific Olog, til he was 10 levels above his rivals, then sent him in, and he keeping ripping heads off lol

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hedgerow on February 16, 2022, 07:59:13 pm

I totally got a nudie, but she was like, so hot.

Like, I once got waved to in high school and I had to look behind me, cause I didn't know.  Anyway, they laughed.  That was its own win.

Anyway this woman did like, the whole thing.

I don't even have access to those files anymore, but yeah; humble brag.


Edit: Don't do Greenlight with me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 17, 2022, 01:48:32 pm

Finally , after a dozen of more or less stupid death, i finally managed to destroy the Witch of the Lake in Salt and Sanctuary, she was rumoured to be a very hard boss and to me it indeed was.

Took me some googling to understand what type of resistance i needed (arcane and electricity), so at the level i am and the items/loot i found/transmuted i experimented around to get the best i could come without becoming overweight due to the heavy shield i used (as anything with better arcane/electricity resistance would get me above 100% weight and so make my character into a sitting duck).
This is what i came with if it can help someone

Spoiler: The "i fail at rolling" anti-Witch setup (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/6Q1rYSZ.jpg)

Going with 2 handed weaponry and my best armor got me killed too many times as my rolling abilities aren't good , so for the Witch i had no choice but go with shields, forcing me to change my armor parts as i would get too heavy to move.
Head : White/Royalist Armet
Body : Sorcerer's Kunta
Hands : Merchant's Gloves
Legs : Sorcerer's Lungi
From the stats, it seems with what i have it's the best compromise to keep high arcane and electricity resistance to avoid getting one shot (in case i fail to use my shield at the good time).

On my shields the best choice i had was the rather heavy Type 46 Tower Shield , as while some other lighter shields had some better arcane/electricty resistance (the Silver Shield protect 100% against both damage source) they had noticably lower Balance, meaning those magic machineguns spells that the Witch loves to abuse would stagger me most of the time, giving her lots of opening to destroy me
That tower shield balance is good enough to block those machineguns spells fully , while not at 100% resistance so some minimum damage is expected unfortunately (good i have a lot of healing potions in between her spells).
There exist a tower shield that seems to be designed exactly for this fight as it has high balance and 100% resistance to all the witch spells, but i am far from having enough point to unlock its use on the skill tree (as it's of a higher class than my max-Class 3 shield support)

2 rings with one that increase slightly arcane and the other that slightly increase electricity were always good to have.

Now for the weapon, the highest base damaging weapon (base damage is important when buffing with items apparently) and that also happen to still be my highest damage when 1 handed was the normally 2 handed Jaws of Death (a greatscissor) , when used only 1 handed , it does not lose that much damage and as the witch is resistance vs blunt damage , the greatscissor that slash things to death seems to be perfect.
I added to the weapon a charm that i recently found (in Pitchwood) , that buff the weapon with holy damage (holy element being one of the witch weakness).
As i have potions to add fire damage, the other witch weakness, i feel i'm covered on the damage dealing ability.

I have a priest prayer to add holy damage but it only last for 30seconds, that's why i decided to go with the charm.
Because the fire potion is lasting for 60 seconds, so i think it's the best combinaison.

Additionally, i added an alchemist to the sanctuary that influence this region, the presence of an alchemist increase slightly all elemental resistance in the zone)

So it was time to fight, died a couple of time due to various stupid mistakes like pressing the attack button instead of shield blocking one :D
But it all ended with a

Spoiler: Flying Barcelona Greatscissor Attack (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/MQVJo3d.jpg)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 19, 2022, 12:34:41 pm

I didn't expected this after all the trashing the final boss gave to my character in Salt&Sanctuary multiple times , but looks like i was lucky once and the boss decided to only use his grabbing attack once in that fight, and so ... i won !

Spoiler: Victory at last ! (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/LfCFUIJ.jpg)

i then went with the dominion ending (instead of jumping in the well i took the helmet from the scarecrow), making me take the place and power of the final boss, the main point is that it will  add the final boss armor to your collection in the ng+ , while the salvation ending does not.
(https://i.imgur.com/G4ngH4K.jpg)

On ng+ my character can now wear the final boss armor
(https://i.imgur.com/Zh70QsC.jpg)

looks less threatening than the final boss version (oh and none of the supposed power over space and time that was coming with the final boss job :/ )

It does not have that great stats too, seemed to me the main interest is that for a heavy armor its slightly lighter, probably allowing then to wear some weapon/shield without having to invest that much in endurance or being forced to wear a mix-matched lighter armor part .

But considering in ng+ everything hit much harder, i would have expected the last obtainable armor of the game would have been given the best stats...
Oh well, at least Salt&Sanctuary is completed ... but should i be that happy to have wasted so much time on a videogame instead of being productive ?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 19, 2022, 10:38:43 pm

Congrats on the win, Salt & Sanctuary is a great game. Probably my favorite 2D souls-like.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you're really bored, every joinable faction has two different ending texts; one for the well and one for taking the nameless god's place. Also I just really love Jarrett's dialogue in the final dungeon. Everything about the lore just appeals to me.

Oh right, almost forgot. Apparently they're making a sequel, Salt & Sacrifice iirc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 20, 2022, 07:18:48 am

Thank you, it was a very good game and the lore was rather interesting .
I'm going to try to get the 2nd ending by jumping in that well , so far NG+ hasn't been as awfully harder as i thought from various reading, but bosses are noticably more resilient so my "won with a few pixel of health left" in the normal game against some of them does not bode well :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Lukewarm on February 20, 2022, 11:58:58 am

Coming back to Where They Cremate The Roadkill after half a year meant that I'd forgotten what I was doing, or perhaps I never knew. But for the game's duration, going forward is the only option. I did luck out and find a merchant that sold a Bowie Knife, a high level weapon, and an aptly named accessory called "Break the Game" both of which I could afford because I'd been killing everyone and everything I met. With these, I was able to slaughter the remaining quantity of people who had wronged me, then finish the game allowing me to immediately uninstall it. It's a good experience, but not a good game, and my quality of life is significantly improved by never having to think of it again. I'm sure there was some moral or political message to the game, but it was drowned out by the amount of pretentious, meaningless word salad I had to read through.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on February 21, 2022, 04:31:11 pm

Beaten up Freja, Sinner and Iron King without deaths. Now i need to get 400 thousands souls somewhere, because i'm NOT screwing myself over trying to jump down the pit. And fastest way to do so is... kill Iron King few more times. So fucking stressful, trying to not fall down that hole.  >:(

Dark Souls 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rockeater on February 21, 2022, 04:53:06 pm

Slay the Spire
KILLED THE HEART OF THE SPIRE!!!
A defect run, started with Ice scream, got tempest early on and meteor strike in first boss, which basically made me extremely deadly later on, and at some point I got aggregate, put lightning in a bottle on it, and made a massive 40 cards deck, which gave me almost unlimited energy for the game.

I almost lost the fight, which would have sucked because there were several points I could have played better, even early on I used hologram on aggregate instead of sunder which would have probably shaved a round of combat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 21, 2022, 05:28:38 pm

Quote from: MCreeper on February 21, 2022, 04:31:11 pm

Beaten up Freja, Sinner and Iron King without deaths. Now i need to get 400 thousands souls somewhere, because i'm NOT screwing myself over trying to jump down the pit. And fastest way to do so is... kill Iron King few more times. So fucking stressful, trying to not fall down that hole.  >:(

Dark Souls 2.

I was about to recommend farming The Rotten because he's the most fun of the four great souls to fight, then I remembered he was at the bottom of the hole you didn't want to go down. I love Dark Souls 2 but ugh platforming puzzles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on February 22, 2022, 10:59:31 am

Elden Ring is highly unlikely to even launch at my computer, but at least i'm a pro of Dark Souls 2 now.  ;D No death run completed on fourth try. Two tries ended in Iron Citadel, one at Earthen Peak. Still have trouble making a female character that looks like female rather than trap wannabe, altough this one is relatively decent. Behold, a tank!

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Will gather some junk that i skipped then will go on NG+ to try no bonfire run. Should be simple enough unless muscle memory damns me. After that, and servers going up, i will go spook some people in pvp.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on February 22, 2022, 12:34:28 pm

Well, I can't say I've ever done a no death or no bonfire run on any Souls game. Good luck!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 22, 2022, 05:27:21 pm

Got shot in the eye with an arrow. Didn't kill me, or even particularly hurt that much. I pulled it out and threw it back at the shooter, landing it in their eye.

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Blade & Sorcery. Arrows can be pretty effective when thrown, but it works best when you're holding them by the shaft and not the nock. Of course, the default grip for drawing them from a quiver or grabbing them with TK is the nock.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 24, 2022, 03:25:28 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on February 12, 2022, 05:55:08 pm

The reason of this silly one shotting is that despite it looks like it (as you get there by simply continuing to move to the right) , this is absolutely not the next area you should go, there's a NPC that appear temporarly after you clear the boss is supposed to give you a hint about that before disappearing, but i guess i may have pressed the wrong button and skipped its lines :D.

...

Let's just say that i got slashed to oblivion by this multi-sword maniac, then i remember how i finally got to beat the 1st boss : my shield, good shield use it instead of your weak roll and jump , you're too heavy anyways with your Paladin armor to do that, so block and block again. 

I just took out the Sodden Knight earlier and didn't see any hints about where the 'right' place to go next is... though heading into the woods to fight those goblinoids that did half my health in a single hit was a pretty good indicator to say 'COME BACK LATER.' I found. Oof.

On the other hand, I'm taking pretty much the exact opposite route that you did: When in doubt, pack a bigger sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 24, 2022, 04:59:19 pm

Thing for me is that i had no idea there was another path, so after getting constantly one shot-ed i decided to just go play something else.

I wish i didn't abandonned there and looked for another path because the game is really lots of  fun when you follow the correct zone progress.
Since then i'm now +50 hours in that game in NG+1, i'm currently in the Salt Alkymancery (2 more zone to complete the game again) and still having lots of fun.

That said, NG+1 is not as a big difficulty upgrade as i had read previously, maybe because unlike the popular "heavy armor is useless in Salt And Sanctuary" opinion, i decided to insist in using only heavy armor in NG, and now that i'm in NG+1 absolutely nothing is able to one shot me.

Adding Iron Rempart that once upgraded has 100% resist to everything (despite not being the highest class shield, but highest class does not mean best oddly in S&S), NG+1 really does not feel harder than NG was.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on February 25, 2022, 11:23:57 am

Oh, I think the NPC that shows up that gives the hint about where to go is the the guy who asks if you have a quest-- I just met him again (after the Tower of Storms), and the first time, he comments about wanting to head east... then if you talk to him again, he talks about how it looks really hard to the east, so maybe exploring under the tower first is a better idea. I don't think I realized the NPCs had multiple lines when I first encountered him so I probably missed the tip about zone order the first time.

One thing I'm finding quite interesting is that is actually seems quite non-linear. I ended up finding (though not fighting) the Mad Alchemist before the Queen of Smiles, then turned around and fought the Kraeken Cyclops from behind right after the Mad Alchemist. I'm betting a lot of these bosses are actually optional, assuming you know where to go, and you're not terrible at it (Like myself. Or maybe it's because I play KBM, and it feels like the only way to use a shield is to break your wrist first, so I'm pure 2h.)

Edit: And this time, I did the boss in the Dome of the Forgotten, then looped back and did the Hager's Cavern and Mire of Stench. Because I couldn't find the boss in Hager's, despite walking right past the platforms that led to him for about two of the seven hours on my file.

Gravity: The #1 cause of death. Partly related to "Is there a platform down theeeereeeeeee--- nope."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 25, 2022, 04:44:54 pm

About to close out Chapter 4 with pretty much my entire army at or past level 18. My original goal was to get everyone to level 20, and thus promoted with maxed stats, but the Seabats in Balbazak's fight don't quite give enough experience at level 18 to be worth the time. The only characters left are Arthur and Guntz, as well as Domingo(who is already promoted when he joins) and Jogurt, who I still can't figure out how to even recruit(and is explicitly a useless character anyway). Max, and all three healers, have actually already had their promotions at level 20, as the healers still gain 10+ experience per Heal spell, regardless of level.

All I can say is, all this grinding really isn't necessary to complete the game and I don't really know why I'm going through with it.

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Shining Force.

EDIT: Played a medium-sized map as MA Ulm. Started closer than I liked to the one other opponent, Nazca. Oddly enough, we both had the same Pretender, the Great Enchantress.

Went for a dominion push, focusing on pushing divine influence out and erasing the enemy's. I conquered pretty close to the Nazcan capital, and got a huge boost from claiming the Throne of Law - the other two thrones were inaccessible without some way of crossing or entering water. The conquest strategy was simply moving a force forward and dumping most of my gold on building up the provincial garrison. Then I set about building a ton of temples and watched as those black candles disappeared, province by province.

Nearly lost it all when the Nazcan army attacked my main force of about 160 metal bois + garrison with an army of 220, with a combination of their bird-people and undead. The result of that battle: over 120 lost, with only one fatality on my side. Not counting the garrison; as the game doesn't track those losses. The replay of the battle showed just how badly they screwed up. The very first action was a volley from all the archers and crossbowmen that wiped out almost a third of the enemy force. Then their fliers surrounded my main blob. All of whom were in box formation(ie, best suited to defend against flank attacks). They died quickly. The bulk of their undead were smited by one of the commanders, who was also my prophet and therefore could smite undead like it was his job to. The rest fled.

After that, there were only a few, desperate attempts to attack before the last of their dominion was snuffed out.

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Dominions 4.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 01, 2022, 08:58:18 pm

More Disgaea 1 madness:  I acquired the Hyperdrive!

This involves (in this PC release) going through all 100 levels of a max-rank item's world and defeating its Item God 2, without ever leaving the item to save!

You might think that this is a grueling test of endurance where you must fill your inventory with 15 restorative items (and finally the max-rank item).  You'll need to build a highly optimized team with a healer, a mage for range and AoE, a tank, and a brawler for shifting enemies a-la Into The Breach.

Nah one reasonably-ground character is plenty, especially armed with the epitome of swords (which mysteriously grants a massive 5 tiles of ranged attack and a ton of defense).  It helps to have a second character with three accelerators in their teeth (don't ask, they don't explain) to sprint through the item realms.

So why was this a challenge?
BECAUSE each level is so easy.  Item running in Disgaea 1 is extremely easy and formulaic.  The only real break from the monotony is an invincible geo-symbol protecting an exit-guardian, and even that just means an extra 30 seconds or so to throw the symbol or use a brawler to nudge the guardian.  It's the sort of thing you do while watching a TV show, or even a movie.

And therein lies the trap.
Every 10 levels there's a miniboss, but they're optional.  They might not even be on screen from your start.  So you move your Divine Majinn or Thief-With-3-Accelerators to the exit, and reflexively start tapping the button to skip past whatever dialogs-
"Do you want to return to the Overlord's Castle?" [Defaults to yes]

Twice I got to level 80-90 before accidentally returning to the castle because I was too engrossed in a podcast or show.  Mostly it happened much earlier.  Very frustrating.

Regardless, I did it.  Considering I'm playing around with perfected ultimate weapons, I'm pretty sure even Prinny Baal isn't a threat to me anymore.  I could probably even finish the main story if I chose~  This was, I'm almost certain, the most difficult Steam-achievement of the game.

Like... I'm a fan of hypnosis stuff sometimes, but it all feels a little bit silly until you press a button you've been taught to press and realize "that wasn't something I chose to do".  it's kinda cool Scary, it's scary.

Disgaea 1 PC

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My team is the members of 8-bit theater!
Fighter (Divine Majin, my main)
Thief (Thief, 3 accelerators for item-running)
BM (Galaxy Skull, useful for clearing item worlds where the nearest island is more than 6 tiles away with magic artillery)
Ranger (Scout, can randomize geo-tiles once per map.  Rarely used but eventually will wield the Etoire)
BB (Ninja, the fist-using brawler who can nudge guardians off the exit)
WM (Angelic host, completely unused but wields an axe because some axes are hammers)
Deborah (Red Mage, using a sword and with prior practice in all combat magic.  Needs to learn some healing spells)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on March 02, 2022, 12:15:21 am

How fast can you make the play in the PC version of D1? I remember in the DS version, you could skip all the animations, so once you got used to it, you could get through an Item World level in like 10-15  seconds.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 02, 2022, 12:24:55 am

The PC version (like the original PS2 version) still lets you skip the Special Attack animations, but geo-chains still take a long time.  Speeding those up may have been a D2 thing.

But yes, an average Item World level usually only takes 10-15 seconds.  Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer as the main walks over and kills the guardian so the runner can reach the exit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on March 05, 2022, 09:21:47 am

Finally managed to wrap up one of my ongoing dominions 5 games, managed to win on turn 66. Playing as MA R'lyeh sharing a pond with Ys... They were sorta dumb enough to not attack me super early, and so by the time they did attack me I was ready and overran them fairly quickly. By the time I finished eating Ys Ulm had grown gigantic, eating 2 of the other players and was throwing up globals (and spamming lightless lanterns no doubt) with 5 of the 9 players dead at this point the remaining 3 non ulm nations (me, Asphodel, and Scelaria) teamed up on ulm and brought him down. My god was a super greedy high astral high nature high death void lurker which was pretty dangerous to take vs Ys but really paid off in the Ulm war, squishing multiple ulm armies by itself, eventually forcing him to pull back to his forts. Ulms capital defense was absolutely rock hard and our offense stalled out as no one wanted to commit to an actual fight vs it, which left the other players floundering, but I focused my eyes on the remaining thrones and snapped them up, Ulm actually took a throne from Scelaria which was just enough to push me to exactly the number of throne points needed to win when I took it from him and my understanding is the war was so draining and focus grabbing that the other players didn't realize I was going to win until it was too late, asphodel noticed 2 turns before the end of the game, but it was way too late for him.

The game sorta cemented my opinion that water nations are basically a broken mechanic in dominions. I was far far too comfortable and unbeatable in my water lair once I had killed Ys. Which sorta marred the victory a bit. Still, always feels good to win a game against competent opponents. (And Ulm and Asphodel at least were competent and most of the other players seemed fine but are hard to really judge. Some of the other players though really shouldn't have been in the game since it was advertised as not for beginners, but they got winnowed out pretty quickly, mostly by Ulm.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on March 05, 2022, 01:53:36 pm

Killed 5 people in TF2.

In a row.

As Pyroshark.

With an ambush.

In 2Fort.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on March 07, 2022, 02:05:31 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on March 01, 2022, 08:58:18 pm

More Disgaea 1 madness:  I acquired the Hyperdrive!

This involves (in this PC release) going through all 100 levels of a max-rank item's world and defeating its Item God 2, without ever leaving the item to save!

You might think that this is a grueling test of endurance where you must fill your inventory with 15 restorative items (and finally the max-rank item).  You'll need to build a highly optimized team with a healer, a mage for range and AoE, a tank, and a brawler for shifting enemies a-la Into The Breach.

Nah one reasonably-ground character is plenty, especially armed with the epitome of swords (which mysteriously grants a massive 5 tiles of ranged attack and a ton of defense).  It helps to have a second character with three accelerators in their teeth (don't ask, they don't explain) to sprint through the item realms.

So why was this a challenge?
BECAUSE each level is so easy.  Item running in Disgaea 1 is extremely easy and formulaic.  The only real break from the monotony is an invincible geo-symbol protecting an exit-guardian, and even that just means an extra 30 seconds or so to throw the symbol or use a brawler to nudge the guardian.  It's the sort of thing you do while watching a TV show, or even a movie.

And therein lies the trap.
Every 10 levels there's a miniboss, but they're optional.  They might not even be on screen from your start.  So you move your Divine Majinn or Thief-With-3-Accelerators to the exit, and reflexively start tapping the button to skip past whatever dialogs-
"Do you want to return to the Overlord's Castle?" [Defaults to yes]

Twice I got to level 80-90 before accidentally returning to the castle because I was too engrossed in a podcast or show.  Mostly it happened much earlier.  Very frustrating.

Regardless, I did it.  Considering I'm playing around with perfected ultimate weapons, I'm pretty sure even Prinny Baal isn't a threat to me anymore.  I could probably even finish the main story if I chose~  This was, I'm almost certain, the most difficult Steam-achievement of the game.

Like... I'm a fan of hypnosis stuff sometimes, but it all feels a little bit silly until you press a button you've been taught to press and realize "that wasn't something I chose to do".  it's kinda cool Scary, it's scary.

Disgaea 1 PC

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My team is the members of 8-bit theater!
Fighter (Divine Majin, my main)
Thief (Thief, 3 accelerators for item-running)
BM (Galaxy Skull, useful for clearing item worlds where the nearest island is more than 6 tiles away with magic artillery)
Ranger (Scout, can randomize geo-tiles once per map.  Rarely used but eventually will wield the Etoire)
BB (Ninja, the fist-using brawler who can nudge guardians off the exit)
WM (Angelic host, completely unused but wields an axe because some axes are hammers)
Deborah (Red Mage, using a sword and with prior practice in all combat magic.  Needs to learn some healing spells)

Congrats.  I actually fell asleep playing Disgaea 2's Item world on the Playstation (PS2 I think).  More than once, actually.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on March 07, 2022, 03:48:02 pm

Oh for sure.  I have a stupid number of "hours" in the game but at least half are from it helping me fall asleep, like a bedtime book.  I still hate that Steam tracks that stuff and broadcasts it to my contact list, but I got over it.  I run video games while I do other stuff and that's fine.  And if Steam insists on considering me "active" when it knows I'm idle, that's not my concern.

I'm done with Disgaea for a bit, but next time I'll probably go back to 2.  It has a lot of solid improvements over 1, along with new content.  I've also "won" 5 but it has *too* much, maybe, sometimes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on March 09, 2022, 03:37:39 am

I won 3 straight days of tournaments in Praven. I've tried to make my guy very balanced in terms of weapon skills, so he can do well regardless of what kingdom he does tourneys in, so I'm not even that specialized in polearms.

But I have had so much practice with manipulating enemy lancers while on horseback. If there's multiple competing teams, I take out their horses first, so they're still busy helplessly stabbing each other while I take aim and couch my lance.

If it's against 1 person, I always use manual lance stab to take out their horse. It's boring and repetitive, but damn does it work.



Mount and Blade Warband.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on March 11, 2022, 04:51:02 am

Nice!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Laterigrade on March 12, 2022, 04:06:06 am

Quote from: Magmacube_tr on March 05, 2022, 01:53:36 pm

Killed 5 people in TF2.

In a row.

As Pyroshark.

With an ambush.

In 2Fort.

lmao nice
as a gimmick, pyroshark > spy

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 12, 2022, 03:52:07 pm

The plan to get everyone to level 20 before promoting them was a massive success. Kane(spelled "Cain" during the battle, because translation) went down only being able to get one attack out(his Sword of Darkness effect; it missed). Mishaela, whom I've long considered to be the hardest boss in the game, didn't even get a turn to attack - she didn't even get a turn of regeneration. In all my prior playthroughs, that fight was a desperate race to out-damage her regeneration whilst she constantly dumps Bolt 2 on my entire army with her infinite MP.

Bleu the dragon, one of the characters I used to abandon right away, is currently flying around the battlefield murdering most enemies in 1-2 hits, and usually taking scratch damage in return. Because of the way the game calculates experience gain, promoted characters are still considered low level even if their stats aren't, so Bleu especially is still gaining levels and massive stat gains.

The only characters I haven't done this for are the two I still have left to recruit. And those two are actually going to be a little hard since one's a mage and the other is a healer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shining Force.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on March 12, 2022, 08:34:54 pm

Oh... yeah, most of the SF games have something like Bleu, iirc, that your initial impression is probably going to be "Eeehhh", and then particularly once they promote they're an unholy murder machine that can solo wipe like half an end game map. Forget which ones are in which game, though... want to say for two(?) it's the birdonfire and turtle, but it's been over a decade since I played through the things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 27, 2022, 06:20:03 pm

Was trading shots with another tank, lost my radio operator/machine gunner - not sure which, it's the guy in the front-right seat of a PZ.III, the voiceover says "radio operator/gunner" - and tried to back into cover. Notably, the Pz.III backs up slowly. Then an enemy bomber, quite possibly salty that I had just bombed their tank moments before, buries one in the sand a few feet away from me. I pushed it into forward, and barely avoided any damage from the bomb as well as getting shot by an enemy tank. The enemy flew over shooting at some teammates, and as they made another pass, I blew the plane in half with my main gun.

We lost the match, but as the match exited I finished off the tank I had been trading shots with.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

War Thunder. I dunno why I've been playing this the past few days. I hadn't played multiplayer games for, I dunno, nearly a year? They tend to provoke monitor-punching aggression from me after a while... and my monitor would be expensive to replace.


Also, wow did they make research even more of a grind. It takes about 3000-4000 research points to unlock a bottom-tier tank, and I get at most around 500RP for a decent match(the match above was better than decent).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on March 27, 2022, 06:54:49 pm

WT is a game that could be SO MUCH FUN, and yet they insist on making it SO INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE. It's a tragedy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on April 16, 2022, 11:56:54 pm

Hyperbolic geometry fundamentally impossible to understand or navigate any significant distance of could only constrain me for so long; finally after just fifty hours and 7 years the Orb of Yendor was mine.

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HyperRouge.
Note that the significant majority of the playtime was spent exploring various lands, not trying to win. Even then though getting the orb can be really damn tough, and in the end I got lucky for the Orb run and didn't have to go through any tough lands (indeed, I didn't even leave hell) or get any giant roadblocks in the way which can also very much happen.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on April 21, 2022, 05:26:55 pm

Torin the Chosen and Jaer the Wind Mage were hunting down the last bastion of Sharee, a chaotic wizard who had, for no clear reason, cast Doomsday:

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Each turn 4-20 map squares are withered as per the spell Corruption. The caster's cities and surrounding areas are not affected of course. All enemy cities suffer +5 unrest. Cities exceeding their maximal population will shrink at an additional -200 people/turn

This disrupted my idyllic Life-enchanted demesne!  So I summoned forth the Chosen One to literally save the world, fulfill the prophecy etc.  This was my only serious war of the whole run.  I was fine hunting spellbooks and leaving the nodes for lesser wizards to fight over, but they disturbed my ant farm...

She eventually reemerged on a remarkable little island in the cold north.  3x3 with a volcano in the center, her craggy outpost, and three ruins.  Very strange.  I still wonder if one of the ruins was formed midgame, by a failed colony getting overrun - in this case, with sorcery creatures (nagas?).  Whatever the history it now was home to 7 very territorial storm giants.

Banishing Sharee went fine (the worlds are saved, woo!) but of course I had to do the post-game content.  One ruin only had earth elementals, simple brutes which were a joke at this point to the high-level Torin.  The sorcery and undead ones were more interesting.  The undead ruin had 5 vampires and 4 wraiths.  Both are extremely resilient in melee, stealing life.  Torin probably would have been fine, but the vampires had me worried with their special blood-drain.

There's a thing in DND about undead creatures:  They often have extremely poor constitution saves.  This is usually fine because they're immune to poison and "death" effects, being dead.  It can be exploited through a very few spells like disintegrate.  Or in this game: being banished by Life-magic.  Jaer spoke one Holy Word and the undead were no more.

"They all failed their save??  It's a save at -20%, and their saves ranged from 40% to 60%!"
It's at -50% for undead specifically, and I cast Black Prayer first to lower their resistance.  yes, as a Life wizard, this version doesn't prevent Life and Death books from coexisting anymore.

The storm giants may have been watching this, because they used their first turn advantage in classic style:  Gank the mage!!!  Now, Jaer was almost max-level at this point, and buffed by many wards, but I forgot to include elemental armor or resist elements.  It took the full might of their thunderbolts but they did, indeed, gank the mage. 

Annoying, but fair.

What's not fair:  Torin cast Raise Dead to force Jaer back in his body.  Maybe just for one turn: no hit points to speak of, and immune to further healing or raising.  Jaer did however get a turn, and also his custom earrings of reduced Spell Save.  In other word - Holy Word!

...I dunno, I thought the weird island of epic-level encounters was a nice bonus for ending the insane chaos-wizard :P
I don't mess with heroes much in this version, but Life magic certainly helps.  It also keeps the interesting mundane units useful in the endgame, such as a retinue of paladins.  It's pretty sweet having them charge a Great Drake brought to earth by a web spell - and winning!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/9FsYBbL.png)
The game was over many turns ago, the "quit" button even changed to "win", but I was having fun with it.  So much loot~

Caster of Magic for Windows, an optimized Master of Magic fan project for sale on GOG.
The spell list is much expanded and improved: seravy.x10.mx/CasterofMagic/CASTERWIN.html

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 22, 2022, 07:57:13 pm

Took the first, and only available quest from the Hunters' Guild, from an amateur sandworm rancher who wanted me to euthanize his livestock(reason: turns out you can't ranch sandworms).

Not long into the battle(it's just one battle against one worm) I realize that this might have been a bit over my level. I can't really keep up with healing, and normal attack do little damage. I end up burning through most of my skills, and it eventually comes down to Alys, who is at single digit hitpoints and only has her physical attack left. It does 2 points of damage - and possibly only that because she's dual-wielding... and kills it. And scores around 25 thousand experience points for herself, gaining many levels.


Then I reload the save, because everyone needs that experience. One thing I dislike, that's especially prevalent in older games like this but I hate in general, is that your various skills and abilities don't come with a description of what they do. Or for that matter, a name that hints at what they do. One of these, I discover(through trial and error), is a tech called "Saner", which a full-party speed boost. This turns the battle around completely, and I'm able to kill the sandworm without anybody going down. About 5000 experience to all, giving a few levels to everyone.

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Phantasy Star IV, with the Switch's Genesis emulator.

Quote from: Rolan7 on April 21, 2022, 05:26:55 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Caster of Magic for Windows, an optimized Master of Magic fan project for sale on GOG.

Honestly, the list of changes I've seen for that have put me off on buying that, among other things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on April 23, 2022, 05:17:45 pm

I've just finished a Forgotten run in Isaac, and believe me, I'm so damn happy of what I've achieved. I've managed to beat Blue Baby, Mega Satan and Delirium, AND unlocked Huge Growth in one fell swoop. I was the biggest skeleton known to man, with the biggest bone around ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Dodging Delirium's projectiles was impossible, but I managed to not get hit too much through sheer willpower. The boner is a pretty fun character after all.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on April 28, 2022, 06:45:38 pm

I found the wand of 'never die'

I feel dirty with it.

Spoiler: pic (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/gcNy5Pk.png?1)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 29, 2022, 12:40:03 am

Finally unlocked ascension 1 with the Watcher, using a stance changing build with many empty fists, empty bodies, rushdown, mental fortress, and tantrum playing major roles, with a little bit of deva form thrown in because I was lucky enough not to go up against the bloody Time Eater as the third boss.

To illustrate how long this has taken, I got the 5th and final content unlock for the Watcher after this run ended.

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Slay the Spire

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 01, 2022, 08:46:34 am

Decided to try out the latest update with a Conquest run. Update looks good. According to my stats, I haven't played since October 2020, which feels... wrong. I could have sworn I've played it more recently. One notable change relevant to this post, is during Conquest, you have to buy new battalions instead of just spawning for free.

Some... questionable decisions in the research branch left me with my only equipment unlocked being tanks, ammo/medic bags, and night vision goggles. The enemy launched a major counteroffensive on Day 1 - Night, attacking Coast, which I had taken with no resistance. 3 battalion each. And my equipment list? Tanks can't spawn on Coast, and while it was a night battle, Coast has a lighthouse which has a very bright light that passes over the map which makes NVGs less helpful. The other side had APCs, which *do* spawn on Coast, and I had no anti-tank.

Surprisingly, this didn't help them much. By the time my first battalion was depleted, they had nearly lost their second. I had managed to disable one APC by throwing grenades under it while standing next to an ammo drop, but it took over a dozen. The rest of their forces were burned out from having fewer points captured and poor positioning.

Apparently, this setback broke them, as my continued offensive met very little resistance. The heaviest fighting was Archipelago(last map before their headquarters), where I attacked with 3 battalions against 2 defending, lost one taking it. I'm guessing they ran completely out of money by then, because they had one battalion left, which they suicided trying to retake Archipelago. They didn't buy any more, which left their Citadel completely undefended, and I took without it a fight.

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Ravenfield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on May 05, 2022, 01:39:30 pm

Playing the admiral of an early Republic of China starting from 1900, entering the Second Sino-Japanese War after a short victorious campaign against Russia that saw the Czar toppled by Mensheviks and Chinese control cemented over Port Arthur, Manchuria, and Sakhalin.  The IJN decided to launch a naval invasion of the Liandong Peninsula at night in 1908 as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, rather than leveraging their naval superiority (9:6 advantage in battleships).  The result was a complete coordination nightmare: the first encounter the Republican Chinese Navy had with them was when their line of battle accidentally steamed right through the Japanese troop transports in the middle of the night.  The result was an absolute disaster for Japan: their entire fleet of transports was shattered in an instant.  Rather than giving up, they pursued with their entire battleship line.  The Chinese lost the Gansu (Chongqing class, 12300 tons, 4x12" main battery, 7.5" belt) to uncontrolled fires, while the Japanese lost the Hatsuse (13900 tonnes, 4x10" battery, 8.5" belt armor) in the exchange.  The Chinese then withdrew for harbor, their mission complete with the invasion was foiled. 

The Japanese then followed on by separating their battleship line.  Taking advantage, the Chinese fell upon a detached force of three of their Yashimas and two Tokiwa class cruisers with four battleships of their own: three Anhui class (14000 ton, 4x12" main battery, 8" belt) and the Chongqing.  With encounter in the Changshan islands, the Japanese force tried to break south only to be pinned against the Shandong peninsula and shot to pieces by constant cannon fire.  The Chinese in turn lost one battleship to a lucky torpedo: the Chongqing eventually was forced to abandon ship after several hours of trying to seal the breach and drain water.  Those little battleships were good in 1890s, I'm sure, but I'm building 12000 ton raider CAs now; they just don't have the survivability to last in 1908.

Unfortunately, it looks like the game went squirrelly while trying to process a peace and force-quit after the second battle before it saved.  A shame; that kind of 3-1 exchange in battleship hulls would have been very good for me, but it looks like the game has rolled a cruiser engagement instead reprocessing the turn.

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Rule the Waves 2

EDIT:
The second attempt at a Japanese invasion of the Liaodong peninsula came August 26, 1908.  The Japanese this time arrived in Chinese waters late afternoon with 8 BBs, 4 CAs 1 CL, 6 DDs, and 7 TRs.  Opposing them was the Chinese navy with only 4 BBs, 1 CA, 2 CLs, and 11 DDs.  Remembering last time, the Chinese kept the range open until night, fending off the first abortive attempt at a forced landing with minimal losses, then took up night patrol off the coast with their full force anticipating a second midnight run.  The result: a second night engagement where the Japanese and Chinese battle lines ended up thoroughly entangled, even though they were a bit smarter about their limited transports this time.  This time, taking out their landing force involved detaching my only CA and a DD squadron, then sending them off separately to handle the enemy while my battleships kept twice their number busy. 

The result was a complete success: one enemy B torpedoed, one B heavily damaged, one CA sinking due to overdose of 12" HE rounds, and a second invasion force at the bottom of the Yellow Sea.  The remaining six Japanese Bs only lightly damaged.  Of the Chinese ships, three of the four were lightly damaged, one (Guangxi) was torpedoed entering port but survived. The CA Yang-wei was definitely the star of the encounter, at one point fending off three enemy CAs at the same time (armed with 2 10" guns, 14 6" casemates, and 10 3" for lighter enemies) with its 4 9" main guns and 16 5" casemates as it made its final run for Dalian well into the next day.

As a result of redirecting our goals northward, we shifted to aiming for naval support for an invasion of Korea starting in December 1908.  To this end, the Chinese took the offensive with three battleships (the modern Beijing at 14200 tons and the older Chongqing and Guangdong) on anti-convoy operations: who would expect to see a full-body rush with battleships against convoys?  They ran into three Japanese battleships running convoy defense: two modern, state-of-the-art Mikasa class (15000 tons with 4 11-inchers apiece) and the older Iki, another Shikishima class.  The convoy was ripped to pieces, Iki sank to progressive flooding outside Busan, while Mikasa and Sagami ran away with their tails between their legs.

By March 1909, the army and navy were both prepared to embark on an operation in southern Korea, bypassing the North.  Apparently, the army decided the timing and location by throwing darts, because they decided our landing would be near Yeonggwang with an arrival time eight hours before local dawn.  The order of battle for this operation was six Chinese battleships (Beijing, Hong Kong, the repaired Chongqing, Guandong, Guangxi, and Anhui), two CAs (Ching-yuen and Yang-wei), 2 CLs, and 10 DDs.  Opposed to this was theoretically 5 IJN battlewagons (including both Mikasa and Sagami) and assorted lighter ships, but as it turned out, they never were able to contest the landing: the most that happened was that the CA Nisshin took a couple potshots at one of our destroyers and in turn was smacked by Anhui, Ching-yuen, and Yang-wei, which sent it scarpering back into the dark.  A quiet operation is a good operation, but it still would have been nice if the IJN had been willing to show themselves while we briefly outnumbered them for once.  The IJA wasn't much more organized either; they had only just moved into Korea (which started the war), and Korean resistance combined with Chinese regulars meant Korea fell to China within a single month.

The results of these three campaigns:
Shikishima (Shikishima class B, 11800 tons, 4x12" main armament, 7" belt): Torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Liaodong
Iki (Shikishima class B): Heavy damage under constant volleys from enemy fire, sank outside Pusan
Kasuga (Tokiwa class CA): Crippled and sank after learning the hard way that an armored cruiser's belt armor does not stand up to the concentrated weight of fire from four battleships.

Guangxi (Anhui class B): Took a torpedo while entering port in Dalian. Survived and quickly repaired
Chongqing (Chongqing class B): Still ate a torpedo, this time from a destroyer that blasted past out of the dark while rounding southern Korea the night after the engagement with Mikasa, Sagami, and Iki, but it survived in this time.
Wuchuan (Yuzhou class DD): The only Chinese loss of the Second Battle of Dalian, this poor 600-tonner was plugged by a 6" HE round from the Azuma, was unable to control the flooding, and sank.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on May 06, 2022, 04:31:57 pm

I'm glad to see all the love going into Rule the Waves 2, but we really need some pictures of the ships.  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 08, 2022, 08:47:25 am

I feel a small amount of accomplishment by rebinding the helicopter controls so that pitch/turn is controlled by the mouse and roll is controlled by A/D(originally, roll was mouse, turn was A/D). Also inverted pitch.

Now I can actually fly the damn helicopter. And rain missiles down on potentially dozens of enemies. I mean, I still die quickly, because the average lifespan of a helicopter is still far shorter than that of an infantryman. But I can still kill a few of them before going down. Even once or twice managed a second pass, which required learning how to turn(it was harder than it should have been).

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Ravenfield.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 10, 2022, 12:02:11 pm

Jesse finally kicked the source of the Hiss sorry bottom out of what is now her Bureau, victory for the side that is not hollowed out by a resonance-based paranatural entity.
Happy fun time like whe she worked as the janitor assistant of a Finnish mythological hero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahti).

Did all the side quests and optional bosses and really enjoyed all the lore, dimensions and astral planes that were around The Oldest House.

game : Control

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on May 16, 2022, 12:05:32 am

Playing as the Thief on Elimination Round (all enemies have upgraded abilities and 10% more health).

Thief is less disadvantaged by this scenario, since he randomly steals one ability from your enemy each round, in effect giving you an upgraded ability from the start of the run (although, admittedly, one which might not actually work for your build on any given turn).

Strong run, managed to build major momentum by combining a crowbar+ (reduce all timers by your die roll) and multiple timer abilities, including, most importantly for this story, Dodge.

Make my way to the boss, and it turns out that it's Scathach. Her 'thing' is that she only rolls a single die, but the effects of the die are Bad News™ - especially when they're upgraded.... except if you're dodging every turn, which totally negates the first source of damage each turn.

So I'm stealing her crazy attacks, while avoiding nearly 100% of what she can dish out - it's a nice change to be the hard counter, instead of getting hit with it.

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Dicey Dungeons

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 16, 2022, 02:08:33 pm

Sailed to an island intending to fight the raid boss.

See a Sloop getting blasted by gun towers while anchored off shore.

Sail around the island and see ANOTHER ship, this one a brig.

I try some arrrrpee and get on the mega phone saying we're looking to fight the boss of the island.

The Brigantine doesn't respond and starts sailing off.

So we land and talk to the guys from the sloop fighting the boss. They're afraid we're going to gank them and steal the fight. We say no, don't even ally up, and just help beat the raid boss. We grab a couple pieces of loot for our troubles and leave.

As we're casting off we see the Brig come back and start lighting up the sloop.

Part of our crew felt we should intervene, but none of us felt like playing police of the high seas, so we sail away.

A couple minutes later we start a quest, which takes us BACK to that island.

We pull up and see the same Brigantine at the island still, humping the loot they stole from that boat over to theirs. Mind you, this was 10, 15 minutes probably after we left the island.

We debate internally on the boat...and decide these guys need to get lit up.

So we swing in behind their boat and unload about 12 cannon shot into the rear of it. Boat goes down in flames in less than a minute.

Meanwhile, they're sitting on the island taking pot shots at us with their pistols and rifles like that's going to do ANYTHING to help them, while keeping up a constant stream of "Man fuck you guys, you guys fuckin suck, blah blah blah...."

Finally I get on voice chat. "Cry me a fucking river matey, this is piracy!"

They continue to whine over voice chat for another minute until another crewmate of mine gets on the island puts them out of their misery.

Now, I'm not much for wrecking people in PvP for its own sake, but the irony of a crew that just robbed another crew NOW GETTING robbed is hilarious in this game. Matey, do you even know what game you're playing?

NGL though, it was nice to not be on the receiving end of this for once.

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Sea of Thieves.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 17, 2022, 09:55:52 am

Finally managed to complete Prey, what a fantastic immersive game it was, can't believe it's not more talked about as a true masterpiece (out of the weak , fortunately short time between the prologue end and when you finally start to improve your character and its loadout).
The ending i got was satisfying too.

And the final twist after the end credits (good idea to not skip them) was a very nice touch, especially as this twist include your choices and decisions through the game (and of course which kind of ending you choose to pursue) giving you the feeling that what you choose to do really mattered in some way. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on May 21, 2022, 02:25:21 am

I'd conquered most of the world map, solved a significant portion of the flower level (and alphabet zone), including the secret rock and water levels... And, of course, got the main world's orb.

...but there was one early, "simple" level that just would not grok. I'd spent days staring at this thing, softly yelling at the screen in frustration and incomprehension.


And then, finally... I got it. The last obstacle standing in the way of the "complete world map" achievement. I did it. Huz-freaking-zah

...now it's just the secret, actually difficult levels left :P

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Baba is You

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 21, 2022, 04:27:31 pm

Started promoting some people at level 25. Watched Jaha the Baron one-shot a skeleton, an enemy which, a few minutes prior, had been giving me trouble. Kazin the Sorceror's new spells are awesome both in damage and visuals. Also promoted Slade from Thief to Ninja, which lets him use swords. Seeing a guy who used to use knives flip around an anime sword* is hilarious.

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Shining Force 2.

Started a new game after purchasing up from the demo. A few dives in, I replaced my mass driver with a microwave emitter. Filled my ship almost to full, or at least, so full that I couldn't close the bay door because the ore chunks were jamming it open. That was a profitable run, and I didn't even sell everything.

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DeltaV: The Rings of Saturn.

EDIT: Achieved a perfect salvage(>=95%, 100% is generally impossible) on an Atlas-class cargo ship. Despite accidentally causing an atmosphere blowout(a few lights were knocked loose, that's all). And full salvaging every part of all the Quasar thrusters, which I've been seeing a lot of posts about how hard they are(or buggy, but I haven't seen that). It's actually fairly easy; before you cut the fuel connectors, tether the thruster towards the back wall, cut the fuel lines, cancel the tether as the thruster flies out, and rush to the shutoff switch. The massive casing is best tethered forward using the jacks - you may need to remove other hull panels to get them clear.

The ship was worth $14 million. I only caused $39,000 in damage, and it took four shifts, which was about $2 million in fees. Not a bad dent in the debt.

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 03, 2022, 07:13:32 pm

I slayed the spire with The Defect using what I will call a Storm build, in which I had four Storm cards (every time you use a power card (which Storm is) channel 1 lightning), a relic that healed me for 2HP for every power card used, two or three upgraded White Noise cards (draw a random power card, it costs 0 to use this turn) various power cards I picked up in rewards, another relic that allowed me to draw a card from three random cards every turn if I wanted, which was invariably ignored if there wasn’t a power card involved. I also had a couple of boss relics for extra energy.

I had the runic dome which didn’t allow me to see the enemy intention, so when I had the final final boss down to 2HP, I got a bit worried with me having around 45HP left, but it buffed itself so it was cool.

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Slay the Spire

Still have no idea how to really use The Watcher, which is sad ‘cause the other three characters are alright.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 05, 2022, 02:33:38 am

DP ‘cause I’m apparently the best.

Got an 8192 in 4096. Could’ve got a 16384, but I accidentally flicked up when I had another 4096 to upgrade. Ah well, not sure if you can get more than that and it took me too long to get to that point.

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4096

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on June 06, 2022, 05:10:07 pm

After grinding for 3 days and probably over a hundred Countess kills, I finally got the pul rune I needed to upgrade my weapon (Athena's Wrath) in Diablo II: Resurrected.

I'd been cubing up every rune she dropped, but it was intensely frustrating that she dropped only like 3 runes above hel in all of those runs.  I had 2 lem runes, 2 fal runes, 2 ko runes, 3 lum runes and 2 io runes, so I needed like... 1 more of any of those for like 50 runs.  I did the math and saw that I was going to need thousands of thul runes to cube up what I needed, but she almost never dropped anything better than that.  Until, finally, she gave me the pul rune outright.

I hate thul runes now.  Chipped topazes are almost as rare as high runes when you need them, so you end up with gobs of them choking your stash and it starts to make you wonder if it's worth picking them up.  A dozen normal cow runs and just opening every chest and killing everything in sight through act 1 got me like 4.  I think I understand when people say they don't grab anything below like lum.

Oh well, I got it, and my werewolf druid now does almost 4k damage with fury and my act 2 mercenary.  I can honestly say I've never had a melee character in Diablo II that actually felt powerful until now.  Usually by the time I get to hell difficulty, killing even trash enemies is a chore even with crushing blow.

Now I just hate physical immunes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on June 07, 2022, 05:31:36 am

Started the game as Lama Ladonna, the character that gets stronger and faster every 10th level but also makes the enemies stronger. The goal was to last 30 minutes to unlock skull o' maniac and unlock Pugnala Provola by opening her coffin in the Mad Forest.

The curious thing, I never felt like I was in any danger. I ended up having the Death Spiral, Thousand Edge, Hellfire, Soul Eater (say what you want, garlic is a great weapon), La Borra, and, underwhelmingly, the runecaster.
The bats at the last minute were surprisingly easy to survive, but unfortunately weren't soft enough to grant me new arcana.

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Vampire Survivors

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on June 07, 2022, 10:31:30 am

Quote from: SQman on June 07, 2022, 05:31:36 am

Started the game as Lama Ladonna, the character that gets stronger and faster every 10th level but also makes the enemies stronger. The goal was to last 30 minutes to unlock skull o' maniac and unlock Pugnala Provola by opening her coffin in the Mad Forest.

The curious thing, I never felt like I was in any danger. I ended up having the Death Spiral, Thousand Edge, Hellfire, Soul Eater (say what you want, garlic is a great weapon), La Borra, and, underwhelmingly, the runecaster.
The bats at the last minute were surprisingly easy to survive, but unfortunately weren't soft enough to grant me new arcana.

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Vampire Survivors

Dang, I just tried Exdash for the first time, and while I couldn't clear enemies fast enough to keep myself safe in the last minute, the combination of Soul Eater, Bloody Tear, Pummarola, Empty Tome and armor somehow made me regenerate HP faster than I took damage.
Oh, and NO FUTURE is underwhelming.

EDIT:

This was not supposed to be a new post; I wanted to edit the last one. I blame my piece of trash phone.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 07, 2022, 03:08:49 pm

Defeated the final boss. Another game finished.

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Shining Force 2. Man, they really did Sarah wrong at the end. Also, the secret post-credits battle - which pits you against every boss(from the chess king on up) on one map - is much harder than I anticipated, due to every enemy getting many more turns than they should.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on June 08, 2022, 11:27:56 am

My inquisition beaten up War. Then turned him into a frog. Then looted his sword. And then died to a small bunch of centaurs. Too bad i didn't have replays enabled.

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Conquest of Elysium 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on June 10, 2022, 06:12:07 pm

Quote from: SQman on June 07, 2022, 05:31:36 am

The curious thing, I never felt like I was in any danger. I ended up having the Death Spiral, Thousand Edge, Hellfire, Soul Eater (say what you want, garlic is a great weapon), La Borra, and, underwhelmingly, the runecaster.

Garlic is actually fantastic, but primarily for its debuff ability; combo it with Lancet or something with strong knockback like Wand to just stand there... on the other hand, I find its upgrade to be decidedly uninteresting, and pretty much a waste of a support slot. Sure, +aoe is good and all, but there are more useful things.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 10, 2022, 06:44:48 pm

Cleared the debt.

Also, attaching a demo charge to a class II reactor makes for some mighty fine fireworks. And yes, doing that was actually involved in clearing the debt.

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker. The last bit of the story shaves off a huge amount of the debt. Strictly speaking, it's not guaranteed to clear the debt, but it was just enough push me about $6 million beyond the debt, something I can easily make in a decent shift or two.

EDIT: Finally worked through the conversation minigame to complete the first step of the main quest. Helps that my sect leader started with an absurd social skill even before I added the Hedonist trait at start, which is pretty much required to get information out of people. Also helps that one of the three people I needed to talk to was home when I finally had the information confront them.

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator. Also in this run, I killed the demon that spawned on the map around day 25, before the dog arrives. That's the fastest I've ever pulled that off. Unfortunately, I feel I'm falling behind. I only have one inner(my starter), her stats don't work for her Law, and she missed the year's peak time to breakthrough, not that she can get better than a tier 7 core. I did figure out I can easily get new recruits by adventuring to one of the towns on the map, but so far almost nobody is useful for anything more than a slave. Only good potential inner has a 98% compatibility with True Sun; just waiting on his cultivation room next to a giant gingko to be built.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Chiefwaffles on June 17, 2022, 08:16:38 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 10, 2022, 06:44:48 pm

EDIT: Finally worked through the conversation minigame to complete the first step of the main quest. Helps that my sect leader started with an absurd social skill even before I added the Hedonist trait at start, which is pretty much required to get information out of people. Also helps that one of the three people I needed to talk to was home when I finally had the information confront them.

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator. Also in this run, I killed the demon that spawned on the map around day 25, before the dog arrives. That's the fastest I've ever pulled that off. Unfortunately, I feel I'm falling behind. I only have one inner(my starter), her stats don't work for her Law, and she missed the year's peak time to breakthrough, not that she can get better than a tier 7 core. I did figure out I can easily get new recruits by adventuring to one of the towns on the map, but so far almost nobody is useful for anything more than a slave. Only good potential inner has a 98% compatibility with True Sun; just waiting on his cultivation room next to a giant gingko to be built.

You're doing the main quest in ACS? My deepest condolences.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on June 27, 2022, 03:07:42 pm

Short-lived own in Battlefield 3. My kingdom for a box!  >:(

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(https://i.imgur.com/RuLOrT9.jpg)

Of course, jerkass squadmate only spawned on me as sniper and wouldn't give me any ammo.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on June 27, 2022, 06:06:10 pm

I downloaded Tour de France 2021 as part of Sonys new PlayStation Plus shit, and as is my wont in sports games, I was immediately drawn to the “create an athlete in the sport and play their career” mode.

This also meant I had to create a cycling team for some reason, and one of the shirts had a sponsor or something called Magma on the back, so I created the Bay12 Racing Team.

I also won the World Championship in my second season in what was the most boring race imaginable, but the game offers a fast forward feature which was used extensively to make a 280km race a bit more bearable.

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Tour de France 2021

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on June 27, 2022, 07:33:20 pm

I pushed off half a horde of zombies off a cliff at once, using the fire blasts of Dragon's Fury. And got out of it alive.

The bridge was narrow and had no railings, sure. But they did fall because of me and had to recross the parkour again to get to us, that is what counts.

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Team Fortress 2, Zombie Escape.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on June 29, 2022, 01:26:13 pm

I got into the College of Winterhold by sneaking through the Midden Dark and the Midden.

The hardest parts were actually entering Midden Dark, as it is on top of a clif, and killing the Frost Wraith in Midden.

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TES V:Skyrim

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on July 09, 2022, 11:34:28 am

Quote from: Mathel on June 29, 2022, 01:26:13 pm

I got into the College of Winterhold by sneaking through the Midden Dark and the Midden.

The hardest parts were actually entering Midden Dark, as it is on top of a clif, and killing the Frost Wraith in Midden.

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TES V:Skyrim

What happens to the College questline in this case? Does it just skip the entrance initiation? Can you, as a rogue character, just sneak into the College, and then everyone just assumes you're supposed to be there and you end up as Archmage?

Quickedit: This would make the "By right of cleverness. I am Master of the College of Winterhold." dialogue option in Sovngarde at the bridge possibly the most hilarious dialogue option in ES history.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 09, 2022, 02:10:19 pm

In all the various times I've played this game, I don't think I've ever cleared the Fire Cavern with the 10-minute time limit. Beat it in less than five; Ifrit took only about a minute. Not counting the couple of hits before hand, probably could have one-shot him with Renzokuken, which was boosted via a strength junction of 100 Water spells, meaning a +20 to strength which started the game at 8.

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Final Fantasy 8(remaster, Switch version). Would have taken less time, except goddamn it shut the hell up, Quistis!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on July 12, 2022, 04:32:30 pm

Completed all the Work (essentially allows the player to replay the side-scrolling shooting segments) missions on Hard.

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Arrest of a stone Buddha.

I really don't understand what people were finding so difficult about this game. But then again I usually go for a "shoot anything that's an enemy" approach with a lot of action games, so perhaps my aggressiveness meant I performed better?

Anyway, I'd recommend it. Or at least listening to the music that's in it (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1151120/discussions/0/2273701484024186177/).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on July 15, 2022, 08:41:15 am

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 09, 2022, 11:34:28 am

Quote from: Mathel on June 29, 2022, 01:26:13 pm

I got into the College of Winterhold by sneaking through the Midden Dark and the Midden.

The hardest parts were actually entering Midden Dark, as it is on top of a clif, and killing the Frost Wraith in Midden.

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TES V:Skyrim

What happens to the College questline in this case? Does it just skip the entrance initiation? Can you, as a rogue character, just sneak into the College, and then everyone just assumes you're supposed to be there and you end up as Archmage?

Quickedit: This would make the "By right of cleverness. I am Master of the College of Winterhold." dialogue option in Sovngarde at the bridge possibly the most hilarious dialogue option in ES history.

I can't skip the bridge part of the quest. They all treat me like a student, but Mirabelle does not show me around, and Tolfdir did not start his lesson yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MaxTheFox on July 15, 2022, 08:53:41 am

Cleared my first TCL (and endgame dungeon) and got all the sweet loot and mutagens out!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CDDA

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on July 19, 2022, 04:23:49 pm

Full star, beat the demon king. Ended up slowing it down to .1 speed by the end of it, but... still. Frumple can sudoku now, if not very quickly. Frumple has escaped sudoku hell.

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SudokuRPG, which is, uh. It's in the title. It's an RPG you beat by playing sudoku, like 3 bucks on steam, think I got it on sale for a dollar or somethin' like that. Pretty alright overall, especially once I took cheat engine to it and started slowing it down. I was actually kinda' impressed by how just playing the game just kinda' organically guided me through what's probably really basic sudoku strategies.

E: Okay, no, now

Spoiler: I have escaped sudoku hell (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/y1HKaqv.png)

for comparison, a hell board starts off looking like

Spoiler: this (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/cVjTmrv.png)

frumple can sudoku now. frumple is free from sudoku hell

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 21, 2022, 06:48:22 am

Went back to the run I was playing about a year ago. After doing a few quests, I went back to what caused me to stop playing: that Drake in the Devilfire Grove. That one that's always there from the beginning of the game despite being a very late-game boss fight.

Killed it. Took my entire stock of healing items, including a Salubrious Brew I was holding onto for emergencies - which it kinda was, being knocked down to near-zero health, and not wanting to risk holding out for one of my pawns to cast High Anodyne since the Drake was on his last health bar.

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Dragon's Dogma. Oh, and I discovered yesterday that Dragon's Dogma 2 is under development. Squee.

EDIT: Found every Badge of Vows. All 100, minus the dozen or so that require the endgame or the quest leading up to the endgame. Most difficult were #77, which requires using a barrel or three, and #99, which would have been almost impossible if I hadn't handed a Throwblast to my main pawn earlier.

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Dragon's Dogma.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on July 27, 2022, 02:47:08 am

My good streak began with the second battle with Almyrans at Fódlan's throat. I had no advantage of having flying units because I tarained Claude and Leonie in other classes and forgot to switch. I did have plenty of archers though, because I knew Almyrans love their wyverns.
Things got a bit frantic when the first wave of reinforcements arrived, but I've sent a few people, most importantly Holst and Shamir, to defend the stronghold. When Shahid started running like a little bitch, I gave chase as Chaz. I had enough kills, and I was short on time. Even thogh I had a weapon advantage, I expected a tough fight that would cost me the S rating, but lo and behold, Shahid went down ridiculously fast.

The next chapter I've done all battle with S rating first try, that includes the Ignatz/Raphael/Lorenz paralogue.
In the Ailell battle I managed to kick some Knight of Seiros asses, recruit the best waifus (Hapi and Constance), and of coursw finish on time.

Now I'm repeating previous battles for S rating across the board (and also money and exp).

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Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on July 27, 2022, 12:18:54 pm

Replaying through Baldurs Gate to scratch my DnD itch, as I have no group to play with because reasons.

Dwarven Cleric, Chaotic good.

Totally chaotic party of Kivan, Coran, Neera, and Garrick - oh, and Imoen as I just *like* her.

We literally lay waste to everything and everyone who opposes us all the way to the undercity. A combination of chant, haste, and a wild mage ripping reality asunder is just joyous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on July 31, 2022, 05:23:39 pm

Defeated the Dark Bishop and his pet dragon. Lost one of my hired pawns early in the fight, probably petrified(instantly Rifting them) when I was too busy knocking out the dragon. The Bishop revived the dragon, then fused with it. One or two High Comestion spells directly under its chest are enough to kill it(far quicker than a normal Cursed Dragon), and if the Bishop is possessing it, it knocks him down for a long while. Long enough to hit him with a Maelstrom(taking off a lot of his health) and get another one charged as he was getting up.

Did this a second time. Was very low on stamina when casting the last Maelstrom, leaving me exhausted when it fired. At the exact moment, the Bishop dropped two Exequy spells at my location(he can cast four at once, I think), and I was unable to move. Before they hit, my Maelstrom killed him.

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Dragon's Dogma. Still far easier than an Elder Ogre. Screw those guys.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on August 04, 2022, 02:56:31 pm

Picked it up on a whim a few hours ago and still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but... It lets me design custom troop types to recruit, from the equipment and cultures that are available.

And the available equipment and cultures just happens to include "heavily armored orcs dual-wielding giant burning maces while riding an angry bear".

So I opted for that.

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Wizards and Warlords

Quote from: MonkeyHead on July 27, 2022, 12:18:54 pm

Baldurs Gate

Ahh man, that's the good stuff... I remember trying to get a multiplayer party together with some other forumites way back in the way back, via hamachi. ...we managed to all connect and move around a little bit, and then everyone left and we never managed to coordinate another session.

So, the authentic true-to-life D&D experience :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 04, 2022, 04:21:52 pm

We have a thread for wizards and warlords around here, somewhere. It's pretty neat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 04, 2022, 11:17:21 pm

I'm posting something second-hand from many years ago, because I talked to a friend's partner about this a few weeks back so the memory's come back into my head.

Playing SS13 on the Bay12 server. I think I was captain and we had a cult running amok. They'd turned a significant portion of the crew, so me and the HoS were running around trying to suppress it, culminating in us trying to interrogate some suspected cultists (Alas, the number one suspect turned out to be a random innocent who lost his sight to the screwdriver the HoS had been using as an interrogation tool)

Little did we know, the cultists had access to a small arsenal and a mining mech.

They staged a breakin. They drilled through the doors into the bridge and stormed the place, successfully rescuing their brothers-in-Nar'Sie despite our best efforts. I was woefully unrobust, so I wasn't of much use, but the HoS proceeded to go on a cult-chase. They chased them down to the escape bay, where outgunned and outnumbered, they got chucked into space with neither oxygen nor spacesuit.

I knew I was screwed, I couldn't fight for shit and the one person I could 100% trust was sucking hard vacuum. I had a showdown with some cultists in the hallway, only surviving by liberal-and-inaccurate use of my captain's laser (Set to stun), my armour, and the AI locking doors behind me so I could run from the sword-wielding cultists. I got back to the bridge...

And found the head of security. Apparently she'd got spaced and decided she wasn't dying. At all. Under any circumstance. She went into a fight heavily outnumbered, lost, got thrown to the void, and the void decided she was too spicy and spat her back out.

Sadly I don't recall what happened for the rest of that round. I don't remember who won, but I think it was the cult. Still, that HoS was amazing. I think it might have been Hanspanda playing them.


There was also the time when I first joined Baystation12 (The serious RP server that's not really affiliated with the forums any more) during a Welder round. Normal traitor round, but the admins remove the traitors, create an unkillable admin-controlled PC wearing a welding mask with admin powers who goes around turning the station into a horror film. Not something I'd ever encountered before. I joined halfway through, most of the crew was dead, lights were out, comms were down, everything had gone to shit. Being the smart fellow I am, I went to the nearest locker, grabbed a large O2 tank just in case atmo went to shit, and set about working out what the hell was going on.

The Welder found me. I tried to run, but he grabbed me and teleported me into one of the atmo chambers so I was completely isolated. He started fucking monologuing at me like some B-movie villain.

Failing to realise the futility of the situation, I proceeded to yank the O2 tank out of my backpack and set about myself with it. Halfway through the monologue, the tank connected with the Welder's head and knocked him unconscious. Turns out the code had a chance of knocking someone out if you hit them on the head with a large tank, and while he was immortal, the Welder sure as shit wasn't unknockaboutable. I proceeded to beat his unconscious body until he teleported away and I escaped using some tools I'd gathered earlier. Welder came back and finished the job later, but still, I found an immortal entity and proceeded to bash him unconsious. If I remember correctly, I'd bashed his face in so badly it had actually become unrecognisable.

At the end of the round, the admin playing the Welder actually congratulated me on managing to better him by using the most brute-force method applicable.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on August 05, 2022, 04:18:55 am

Ahh, SS13... I remember a round ages ago on the lowpop TGstation server where I spawned in as a mid-round antagonist along with a couple other mooks. Specifically, space pirates.

I had spawned in as the head honcho, one Captain Laserfish, and set about trying to figure out what the heck this role actually entailed... And how our tiny little ship even worked.

My swabbies were a pair of scabrous curs, and while I was trying to work out the primitive combustion generator of our ship so we could have power, one of them simply yoinked one of the suits and fucked off into space while the other snuck up behind me and decided to try and murder me for literally no reason other than I said that we should wait before assaulting the station. He got the drop on me and wrapped his bony fingers around my neck, throttling the life out of me as I lay there helpless.

...

...however, I noticed that I didn't appear to be passing out as quickly as usual. I did a quick self-inspect, and noticed a minor detail we'd all managed to miss. Namely, we were both skeletons. We didn't breathe.

I realized this, but he apparently hadn't yet. I decided to play along and mimed gasping for air a couple times, waiting an appropriate amount of time before using the highly useful "feign death" emote, going limp and "lifeless" in his hands... He held on for a bit longer and then, finally satisfied with his traitorous handiwork, stood up and scoffed "Heh. Nerd." at my motionless body before turning around and starting to fiddle with some of the equipment.

Which I decided was the appropriate time to stand back up and bean him over the head with a toolbox. I got a couple lucky hits in thanks to his slow reactions, what with his shock at my lack of dead-ness, and he was soon flat on the floor trying to choke out things like "Wait", "Stop", and other such empty platitudes... Once I'd incapacitated him, I decided to make sure the deed was done (considering I'd just discovered my own resilience, I figured I shouldn't take any chances). Since I'd already managed to rework some of the piping so the engine could actually work by this point I shoved his body into the combustion chamber, closed the door, and flipped the ignition switch.

The chamber roared into life with swirling flames, charring his bones to blackened soot while I looked on through the door. "I don't be abidin' mutineers on my ship", I sneered.


With that problem out of the way, and with some actual power generation going, I decided it was time to start trying to be a pirate. I was now captain of a crew of one, so it was going to be tricky... I'd have to be sneaky about it.

Now, as a pirate, I was supposed to acquire booty... The most direct and straightforward way of doing so was the credit siphon that would automatically drain cash from the station's digital account. However, I knew that doing so would alert the entire crew to the fact that there were pirates about, and unless Cargo had decided to be industrious for some reason there probably wasn't much money to drain from there anyway.

So I did things the old-fashioned way. Parked my ship a reasonable distance outside the shuttle bay, flew over, bonked my way through one of the windows (that area regularly gets vented anyways, so not actually that suspicious), and simply walked halfway down the hallway to where the ORM was conveniently located, neatly dismantled it, and simply stuffed all the gold, diamonds, and other assorted goodies into a crate that I then flew back out into space with. With the chest safely back on board the ship, I'd already completed the value objective thanks to the generally massive amount of goodies the busy little miners had dropped off.

I could've just sat back and coated my ribcage with rum for the rest of the map and still been "successful". ...buuuuut where's the fun in that? It didn't look like the round was winding down any time soon, and I knew the mid-round antagonists had been spawned in thanks to the admin feeling a bit bored with how peaceful everything was going. So why not keep going?

So I went live. I tuned into the station's comm channels and started going full Arr Yaharr, threatening mayhem and bloodshed if they didn't surrender their valuables to the one, the only, Dread Pirate Captain Laserfish! As expected, most people were completely unenthused/unimpressed with my theatrics, except for the one validhunter who started openly salivating at the thought of free kills... But in his overexuberance, he managed to get himself dealt with before ever finding me, as Sec apparently wasn't too thrilled with him breaking into the armory so he could go pirate hunting.

With no booty payments forthcoming, I leveled a dire curse against those foolish stationlubbers... And set out for a raid.


Now, I'm not a particularly bloodthirsty player generally... Dying is generally pretty lame and boring, so I'd rather not inflict that on someone if I don't have to. But a bit of property damage, terror, and light maiming? That's just good fun! ...unfortunately, I'm actually terribly unrobust most of the time, and while I did manage to spook a couple people and get some good "Yarr!"s in, I promptly got myself captured by the detective and I think the HoP. Strangely, they decided to toss me into a cell to unlive out the rest of my days rather than just smushing me on the spot... Apparently they wanted to show how they were better than filthy, uncivilized pirates.

Alas, it seemed the saga of Laserfish had come to a rather abrupt and embarrassing end... I'm generally not in the brig that often, and as such am completely clueless in the arts of escaping. And with a lifetime (unlifetime?) sentence, they weren't exactly going to just let me out anytime soon. And I'd have to listen to the detective showing up every so often and telling me the poor choices I'd made in life, and how crime never pays.

...that is, of course, if I were a lesser man. A man who was not Dread Pirate Captain Laserfish.

I waited until the detective was out of sight, then slipped out of the handcuffs that'd been left on me. I hid them on my person so there wouldn't just be this huge conspicuous sprite lying around, and then went over to the thematic cot in the corner, and laid down.

This placed me under the bedsheet that'd been provided, neatly concealing the fact that I was no longer cuffed. Then I just lay there motionless, and waited for a chance. A hope.

...and, finally, it came. The detective, apparently wondering if I'd just gone AFK or fully logged out, tried talking to me through the cell door. When I didn't respond, he let himself in and came over to prod me a bit. At this, I leapt to my feet and pulled off the luckiest disarm attempts I've ever had, managing to knock him down just as he'd pulled his baton out. I snatched the baton, gave him a few solid cracks on the noggin, and yoinked his card and comms before leaving him (most likely to perish, sadly) in the cell. I also disguised myself in his coat and hat, and used the current state of chaos in the station as cover while I grabbed whatever loose loot I could find and skedaddled out of there back to my ship. The emergency shuttle had already been called at this point, so there was more than enough chaos to go around.


I sat back comfortably on my ship, splashing rum on my bones and puffing on a cigar... I still had all the booty, having accumulated far more wealth than my objective even called for, along with some of the "bonus treasures" such as the station's parrot. As the survivors shuffled onto the shuttle, I sent one last triumphant broadcast over the station comms:

"Ye shall always remember this day, as the day ye *almost* caught Captain Laserfish!"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 05, 2022, 11:44:30 am

I think I've heard there's a SS13 remake being made, and this time it will probably actually get finished, unlike a lot of remakes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 05, 2022, 07:16:22 pm

Quote from: Iduno on August 05, 2022, 11:44:30 am

I think I've heard there's a SS13 remake being made, and this time it will probably actually get finished, unlike a lot of remakes.

Couple, I think.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 06, 2022, 09:18:11 pm

Was probably overleveled - which does *not* make the game easier, but in fact harder - so the Tri-Faces in Galbadia Garden had Flare. Stocked up on it, gives a great boost to Strength when junctioned.

Also had a ton of Chef's Knives from getting Tonberry earlier than probably expected(you can as soon as you can pilot the Garden), and they refine into 30 AP Ammo(Irvine's second-best ammo) each.

Two bullets were enough to drop Edea. I fired a third to make sure. If only he had that the first time he took a shot at her.

Spoiler: Maybe not(Lore nerdery) (click to show/hide)

Well no, it still wouldn't have worked, since you can't kill a sorceress without someone nearby to receive their power. Even if that was a good plan(which it wasn't, good god) it was still doomed to complete failure.

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Final Fantasy 8. For extra fun, Irvine(or whoever happens to use that setup at the time) has 100 Death junctioned to ST-ATK, and 100 Stop junctioned to speed. I should be using Triple, but I don't have a full stock right at the moment.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 07, 2022, 11:04:11 pm

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

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on August 09, 2022, 06:28:42 pm

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

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

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

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Team Fortress 2. Class Wars

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on August 11, 2022, 07:57:14 pm

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

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Risk of Rain.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 12, 2022, 03:16:50 pm

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on August 16, 2022, 11:31:00 pm

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 16, 2022, 11:51:41 pm

Ah, the Heat Signature incarceration system.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 17, 2022, 08:31:23 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on August 17, 2022, 12:12:41 pm

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on August 17, 2022, 12:41:10 pm

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 18, 2022, 10:17:01 am

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 18, 2022, 11:11:48 am

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 18, 2022, 11:52:26 am

Hellpoint,

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

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

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 18, 2022, 08:46:24 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 17, 2022, 08:31:23 am

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MonkeyHead on August 19, 2022, 04:39:00 am

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

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

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Had two raids by tribals. Pretty big, definitely 30+, and I held them off with 5 men. Four with FN FALs, one with a charge SMG. The only injury was a solitary SKS shot into the lung of a guy which I patched up promptly. The shooter stopped shooting to patch up the hole I gave him, which gave my SMG guy the opportunity to approach and blow his leg off.

Full auto weapons are OP against swarms of enemies. If you miss, you'll hit someone else. If you miss them too, it still provides suppression and sends everyone running for cover.

Heavily modded Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 04:14:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Actually it's between 45-90 seconds for most people, and that's just the "time of useful consciousness" i.e. the time before you start losing cognitive function. Unconsciousness takes a couple of minutes, and permanent brain damage begins at about 5 minutes without oxygen supply.

It depends on how and what you were breathing before getting decompressed but that's how long NASA estimates an astronaut to be able to operate in a completely depressurized environment. Assuming you don't slightly explode due to rapid decompression, that is.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 07:34:58 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 04:14:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Actually it's between 45-90 seconds for most people, and that's just the "time of useful consciousness" i.e. the time before you start losing cognitive function. Unconsciousness takes a couple of minutes, and permanent brain damage begins at about 5 minutes without oxygen supply.

It depends on how and what you were breathing before getting decompressed but that's how long NASA estimates an astronaut to be able to operate in a completely depressurized environment. Assuming you don't slightly explode due to rapid decompression, that is.

Personally I find that doubtful, when someone's successfully strangling you you get about 10 seconds before you go floppy so 60-90 for useful consciousness and 120 for unconsciousness seems very optimistic to me.

Of course, you're gonna die regardless. Your lungs will be torn up simply by the pressure differential between your blood and the vacuum, you'll be at least temporarily blind from the decompression damage to your eyes, your mucous membranes are gonna burst, you'll have bruising everywhere, and if you're orbiting the sun there'll be enough unfiltered radiation to give you a nice sunburn in the brief stint outside.

Actually why do we want to go into space again? I forget.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 20, 2022, 09:26:08 pm

There's less people and more shiny things, mostly. Also it's good to have options if a planet cracking space rock decides to head for the only planet you have access to.

but yeah it's pretty hostile to most forms of life up there, not that it isn't also that down here, just... relatively less so

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on August 20, 2022, 11:24:52 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 07:34:58 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 04:14:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Actually it's between 45-90 seconds for most people, and that's just the "time of useful consciousness" i.e. the time before you start losing cognitive function. Unconsciousness takes a couple of minutes, and permanent brain damage begins at about 5 minutes without oxygen supply.

It depends on how and what you were breathing before getting decompressed but that's how long NASA estimates an astronaut to be able to operate in a completely depressurized environment. Assuming you don't slightly explode due to rapid decompression, that is.

Personally I find that doubtful, when someone's successfully strangling you you get about 10 seconds before you go floppy so 60-90 for useful consciousness and 120 for unconsciousness seems very optimistic to me.

Of course, you're gonna die regardless. Your lungs will be torn up simply by the pressure differential between your blood and the vacuum, you'll be at least temporarily blind from the decompression damage to your eyes, your mucous membranes are gonna burst, you'll have bruising everywhere, and if you're orbiting the sun there'll be enough unfiltered radiation to give you a nice sunburn in the brief stint outside.

Actually why do we want to go into space again? I forget.

With good strangulation, they also squeeze the two blood vessels on the sides of your neck that bring oxygen to your brain. That's what knocks you out so fast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 11:56:12 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 07:34:58 pm

Personally I find that doubtful, when someone's successfully strangling you you get about 10 seconds before you go floppy so 60-90 for useful consciousness and 120 for unconsciousness seems very optimistic to me.

Of course, you're gonna die regardless. Your lungs will be torn up simply by the pressure differential between your blood and the vacuum, you'll be at least temporarily blind from the decompression damage to your eyes, your mucous membranes are gonna burst, you'll have bruising everywhere, and if you're orbiting the sun there'll be enough unfiltered radiation to give you a nice sunburn in the brief stint outside.

Actually why do we want to go into space again? I forget.

Scott Manley has a relevant video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdoMOXvqjbY)...that I did in fact misremember. It is about 5 seconds under explosive decompression, 15s with preparation. It's up to a couple of minutes before you won't recover (unassisted, anyway) from being depressurized, not before you first lose consciousness.

Space is cool and there are cool things there to be found and made and therefore we should do it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 21, 2022, 12:21:57 am

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 07:34:58 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 04:14:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Actually it's between 45-90 seconds for most people, and that's just the "time of useful consciousness" i.e. the time before you start losing cognitive function. Unconsciousness takes a couple of minutes, and permanent brain damage begins at about 5 minutes without oxygen supply.

It depends on how and what you were breathing before getting decompressed but that's how long NASA estimates an astronaut to be able to operate in a completely depressurized environment. Assuming you don't slightly explode due to rapid decompression, that is.

Personally I find that doubtful, when someone's successfully strangling you you get about 10 seconds before you go floppy so 60-90 for useful consciousness and 120 for unconsciousness seems very optimistic to me.

Of course, you're gonna die regardless. Your lungs will be torn up simply by the pressure differential between your blood and the vacuum, you'll be at least temporarily blind from the decompression damage to your eyes, your mucous membranes are gonna burst, you'll have bruising everywhere, and if you're orbiting the sun there'll be enough unfiltered radiation to give you a nice sunburn in the brief stint outside.

Actually why do we want to go into space again? I forget.

There aren’t many people in space to strangle you.

Also, if all it took was 10 seconds of holding your breath for unconsciousness, swimming would be a particularly brutal sport.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuuBluum on August 21, 2022, 12:30:22 am

It's not really the lack of oxygen itself that would get you in space. It's the various other consequences of being in a zero-atmosphere environment that will generally kill you (decompression sickness, among other things), plus the fact that holding your lungs full of air in a zero-atmosphere environment would be... regrettable. Not quite your-lungs-would-explode sort of absurdity, but you wouldn't be holding your breath for long.

It's not the suffocating that'll get 'ya. You can get that well enough on Earth; go try filling a pool with liquid nitrogen and standing next to it while you do. The nitrogen displacement of oxygen will suffocate you right quick. Nah, in space, it's the lack-of-an-atmosphere (or really, lack of pressure) and all the fun things that does to the human body that'll do you in. You won't explode, but it won't be particularly painless, either.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on August 21, 2022, 12:43:55 am

Quote from: Frumple on August 20, 2022, 09:26:08 pm

There's less people and more shiny things, mostly. Also it's good to have options if a planet cracking space rock decides to head for the only planet you have access to.

but yeah it's pretty hostile to most forms of life up there, not that it isn't also that down here, just... relatively less so

Nah, life just sucks at surviving. You might find it odd, considering that surviving is kinda the point of most things living things do, but it's true!
Take a grain of sand for example. Not a lotta things can make it stop being a grain of sand, and it can just sit around for thousands and thousands of years in a variety of environments and keep being sand. Now you try doing that and you'll probably stop being life pretty quick. Well, whether you're trying or not, really.

Earth happens to be one of those very rare points in space which is so incredibly habitable that life can stick around long enough to spread out and basically cover the whole surface of the planet. It's hot and humid and high pressure and the stuff just gets everywhere. Not nearly as much everywhere as the sand and rocks and water and air get, but it's pretty impressive for life.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on August 21, 2022, 03:00:04 am

Dang why does space hate us, why can't it just let us float around in it all naked and stuff?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on August 21, 2022, 08:32:52 am

Quote from: hector13 on August 21, 2022, 12:21:57 am

There aren’t many people in space to strangle you.

Also, if all it took was 10 seconds of holding your breath for unconsciousness, swimming would be a particularly brutal sport.

If you're being strangled it's because the strangulation has also caught those blood vessels leading to and from your head, if you're in space it's because you don't have any air (and thus oxygen) in your lungs. Since if you DID attempt to retain air in your lungs like that you'd die, painfully.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 21, 2022, 11:54:39 am

You’re going to die painfully anyway as the lungs aren’t the only place there’s air in your body.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Darkening Kaos on August 21, 2022, 09:52:57 pm

   . . . . but . . . the probability of being rescued from open space by a passing ship is at the probability of two to the power of 276,709 to one against . . . ;)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 21, 2022, 11:03:40 pm

Quote from: hector13 on August 21, 2022, 12:21:57 am

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 07:34:58 pm

Quote from: Madman198237 on August 20, 2022, 04:14:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on August 20, 2022, 02:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mathel on August 18, 2022, 03:47:49 am

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

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

I mean, in reality I think you get about 10 seconds because that's how long it takes the deoxygenated (Because in vacuum your lungs start scrubbing gas out of your blood) blood to reach the brain, and the brain goes lights out almost immediately when that happens.

Actually it's between 45-90 seconds for most people, and that's just the "time of useful consciousness" i.e. the time before you start losing cognitive function. Unconsciousness takes a couple of minutes, and permanent brain damage begins at about 5 minutes without oxygen supply.

It depends on how and what you were breathing before getting decompressed but that's how long NASA estimates an astronaut to be able to operate in a completely depressurized environment. Assuming you don't slightly explode due to rapid decompression, that is.

Personally I find that doubtful, when someone's successfully strangling you you get about 10 seconds before you go floppy so 60-90 for useful consciousness and 120 for unconsciousness seems very optimistic to me.

Of course, you're gonna die regardless. Your lungs will be torn up simply by the pressure differential between your blood and the vacuum, you'll be at least temporarily blind from the decompression damage to your eyes, your mucous membranes are gonna burst, you'll have bruising everywhere, and if you're orbiting the sun there'll be enough unfiltered radiation to give you a nice sunburn in the brief stint outside.

Actually why do we want to go into space again? I forget.

There aren’t many people in space to strangle you.

Also, if all it took was 10 seconds of holding your breath for unconsciousness, swimming would be a particularly brutal sport.

Alright, made a thread for this with a reply, the thread's been off the rails a little too long and it's a fun conversation.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=180231.0

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on August 22, 2022, 04:49:42 pm

Corp mates and I went gas huffing in a wormhole. One of them had already scanned it and thought it was clear. Big nope. The corp mate 1 starts sucking in gas while corp mate 2 is standing guard and taking down sleepers, when a proteus warps in on top of them. At this point I'm right outside the wormhole. So corp mate 2 is engaging this proteus while the other guy books it. Proteus' shields go down and it warps out, 2 calls this a victory and 1 warps back in to get gas.

Then the proteus returns, as I'm warping in as well. I get there and find 2 engaged with the proteus and an astero, while 1 is once again warping away. I engage the proteus initially, but realize the astero is the one scamming and webbing, so I switch targets. Then 2 goes down, and they turn their guns and web/scram on my caracal. My drones didn't get the memo to switch to the astero, so I give it again. Then I run out of ammo in my launchers. I knew I was dead then as my shields were nearly gone. But miraculously I survive the 35 second reload time and manage to continue firing on the astero. It's shields haven't recharged, and my missiles start tearing up its armor, then it's hull, just as their guns start ripping into mine. Then, my last salvo fires, my cruiser gives up the ghost, and I'm in my capsule. But, the very next second, my missiles complete their damage tick, and the astero pops! It's dead. A "beyond the grave" kill. I warp out, probably just in time, and do a lap around the system before returning to the exit wormhole back to known space, and amazingly, nobody's waiting there for me and I escape.

It's my first pvp kill, and his ship was worth at least twice the combined value of mine and my friends. Corp mate 1 managed to escape with his ship intact.

The proteus though, we made no gains on penetrating it's armor. At all. T3 ships are scary. 2 admits he didn't see the astero uncloak and didn't target it, was panicking, but it wouldn't matter anyway, I realized the proteus was scramming us as well. Even if we'd targeted the astero together, it would have warped out and we still wouldn't have escaped with our ships. At least we escaped with our lives, tho. I probably only got the astero kill because the guy betted he could kill me first, which was technically true.

2 needs to stop flying the most expensive ships into wormholes. A fleet issue vexor. Seriously. The astero had all expensive faction modules though, huge loss there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EVE Online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on August 22, 2022, 11:51:13 pm

Asteros and Proteuses armor tank, their shields are meaningless. Good job getting him.

Also tell corp mate 2 to never buy a faction or Navy ship again unless it's an Astero for scanning/hacking/hunting or he has a REALLY good reason for it, tell him that if he wants to go ratting in wormholes he should be fitting out the cheapest possible ships that can run the sites.

A wormhole isn't clear or safe unless you've rolled every single connection in and out and have your eyes on the signatures window to see new spawns...and even then somebody might, conceivably, be camping covops in there and be waiting for you to feel safe.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 28, 2022, 02:51:07 pm

Was going for an economic victory. Thought I was doing good with getting to 25%, with +1-2% progress each turn with taxes around 15% and about to roll out empire-wide various buildings that boost morale so I could crank taxes up.

Then I get a message that the Automatons, my allies for over half the game, were over 50% to an economic victory, and in subsequent turns gaining 2-3%. Crap. There was one thing, one thing that disputes over money completely justifies always: brutal bloody war.

Built up a few fleets using my already-advanced technology. The ships were... well they weren't too bad, just not as good as I hoped. Heavy defenses, but offensively, they were equipped with 15 top-tier lasers set for long range. This gives them a hell of a punch in the opening phase of battle, but they can't hit crap following that. Still, a devastating first strike combined with high defense means it's hard to actually kill them.

Carved a path and took their capital. Unfortunately, this didn't slow their economy down as much as I thought. Worse, I was being attacked by my other neighbor, the Pilgrims. Discovered during that fight the AI cheats and can invade your worlds even if you have a fleet in orbit.

I put everything into researching Pan-Galactic Society, the research victory. Looking at the Automatons' progress and the time to finish my research, it was going to be very close. Made peace with the Pilgrims, and kept attacking likely valuable Automaton worlds. One I hit was almost nothing but desert worlds, which are best(except for one of the gas giant types) for producing Dust(money), but it still wasn't quite enough.

Then I got an insanely lucky break: the Automatons sued for peace... and offered about a third of their entire empire. That was it. That won the game. All that was left was to just wait out the last few turns. I probably even could have waited for an economic victory, as those worlds they surrendered were bringing in massive amounts of Dust.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Endless Space.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on August 29, 2022, 05:18:35 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/BmSuylL.jpg)

Biggest damage i dealt. And wildly excessive one, because biggest HP in the game is about 640.

Anamnesis

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on August 30, 2022, 04:32:50 pm

Quote from: MCreeper on August 29, 2022, 05:18:35 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/BmSuylL.jpg)

Biggest damage i dealt. And wildly excessive one, because biggest HP in the game is about 640.

Anamnesis

Dang, how did you do that amount of damage with your main character?
Your Main must be swole.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on August 31, 2022, 07:17:24 am

I have no idea both how and when main character becomes totally invincible or why damage was so high this particular time. Usually it was 300-400.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 31, 2022, 04:03:32 pm

Defeated Omega Weapon. Used exactly zero Hero/Holy War items, and exactly zero Megalixers.


Instead, I zombified my entire party before the battle.

Spoiler: Explanation (click to show/hide)

Zombie status gives undead traits to a character: holy weakness, and healing spells/items do damage. It causes an enemy's Drain effect to do damage rather than heal them. Most importantly(for this context) it halves physical damage like Protect does. It also stacks with Protect to quarter physical damage. This changes Omega's Terra Break from a very risky chance of TPK to very survivable.

For healing, I maxed out wind absorbtion, and just Triple-casted Tornado on myself constantly. I think by the end of the battle I had used about a hundred total Tornado spells. Defeated Omega faster than my previous run lasted; it was able to use Terra Break only once. In fact, only Squall went down once the entire battle(Light Pillar); picked him back up, and then he killed Omega with Lion Heart.

Spoiler: Another explanation (click to show/hide)

Omega has a fairly strict AI script; understanding it is critical to winning.

Upon its turn, Omega has a 50% chance of using a normal attack. Otherwise I will work it's way down the following list:

Lv5 Death(only once at the start of battle): Instant Death on all whose level is divisible by 5(Zombie protects against this as well).
Meteor: Ten relatively weak hits, randomly targeting.
Megido Flame: Fixed 9998 damage to whole party. Meaning you must have 9999 HP to survive this.
Gravija: Reduces party's HP by 75%, non-lethal. Obviously, a breather from the previous attack.
Terra Break: 16 random physical hits for massive damage. Can TPK without extraordinary preparations.
Ultima: "Massive" damage to the whole party. Not as threatening as it sounds.
Light Pillar: Fixed 9999 damage to one character. This will kill, no save.

Then is starts over at Meteor.

Omega absorbs all elements, and is probably immune to all statuses except Vit 0, to which it is only resistant. Meaning that Meltdown might fail to inflict it, though Doomtrain will always inflict it(Omega will still heal from Runaway Train's poison-element damage).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Final Fantasy 8.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on September 01, 2022, 02:42:54 pm

I defeated the 3 karamuna bash reaverbots without taking a hit in the Clozer Woods subgate.

That sounds more impressive than it is though, since generally speaking, no enemy in the game knows how to deal with circle strafing.  The only thing that keeps it from being total cheese the whole time is that you can't move while locked onto enemies, and your autoaim also does not take enemy movement into account.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MegaMan Legends

Now, I almost got my goose cooked fighting the Bonnes' airships afterward.  Having a bad combination of buster parts available meant the second phase was harder than I expected due to the difficulty of shooting down the missiles with a slow fire rate.

I really wish the sequel wasn't so hard to find and so expensive.  I never finished it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 01, 2022, 09:28:20 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 31, 2022, 04:03:32 pm

Defeated Omega Weapon. Used exactly zero Hero/Holy War items, and exactly zero Megalixers.


Instead, I zombified my entire party before the battle.

Huh, wasn't a zombie also considered dead for determining game over? I thought all of the other games had that condition. Same as petrified.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 02, 2022, 04:01:19 am

Only in V and VI does that apply. In nearly every other game with the Zombie status, it can actually be beneficial if you play it right.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on September 02, 2022, 04:56:23 pm

Just finished Celeste, what an great game.

Well, except for it being an idiot and constantly dashing in the wrong direction. :/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 07, 2022, 06:05:30 pm

Encountered a random pirate fleet while exploring with some 8-ish Atlas MK. IIs, about as many Eradicators, loads of Colossus MK. IIIs and a swarm of smaller ships. In all it must have been well over twice my DP in pure pirate Decisive Victory Doctrine.

Goaded a scavenger into engaging them, then deployed with them. Scavengers, unsurprisingly, got wrecked about a quarter of the way into the battle, but my fleet won it with a single ship lost, and I recovered that one after. I managed to single handedly take out two of the Atlases, a handful of Eradicators and Falcons, and a host of frigates including a handful of phase ships.

I honestly expected more losses just from them grinding down my CR, but that failed to happen.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 07, 2022, 11:12:21 pm

On March 9, 1957, the sun dawned on the Wenchang Launch Facility of the free and united Republic of China, where a new, heavier R-5 rocket was preparing for its initial launch.  To say the rocket was a bit of a monstrosity would be an understatement.  In the haste to build a vehicle, the CSRA grabbed whatever they could find.  The third stage and scientific payload, reasonably, came from improvements intended for the very first R-1 sounding rockets that had been superseded by the R-2 and later R-3: a U-2000 kerosene/AK20 high-pressure engine.  The first stage came from a brand new engine design for 1956, an RD-211 main stage that also ran on kerosene and AK20 (historically used on the R-12 Dvina and Kosmos 2I).  The second stage is where a rocket scientist's nightmare came in.  There was a severe lack of options for gimbaled engines that could be ignited in flight.  The first of the competing options, the AJ10 engine, required the efficient but highly toxic UDMH and inhibited white fuming nitric acid (FNA with over 95% nitric acid), as well as high-pressure tanks.  After consideration and due to the time constraints, the alternative option was chosen: two S3.42T prototype first-stage engines from the military cruise missile program were borrowed for the first two R-5s.  Due to the military's requirements, these were intended for use on vehicle-mounted ground-attack rockets, and thus the hypergolic igniters could be easily adapted for the R-5's peculiar staging requirements.  Requiring only kerosene and AK27, the engine's availability and resulting standardization in fueling allowed for the rocket to be completed within half a year.  The goal was not to develop a standardized launch vehicle, though the R-5s would likely be serving as such for several years until improved launchers could be developed and built.  The primary goal from our political leaders was to get up there fast and first.

Spoiler: T-00:23, sitting on the launch pad (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/sneftCp.png)

At 11:43:40 local time, countdown completed and the rocket launched.  Initial burn was stable, despite fears that the engines may have been inadequately tested.  The first stage burn continued for 2 minutes and 8 seconds, followed by separation, spin-up on the second stage, and a couple minutes of coasting before orbital insertion could begin.

Spoiler: T+00:17. First stage burn begun (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/IhSBbFd.png)

At T+04:33, one minute to apogee, the second-stage ullage motors ignited, followed quickly by the main engine. 

Spoiler: T+04:42. Second stage ignition successful and orientation stabilized on the horizon (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZqaqjCh.png)

Spoiler: T+04:47. Shot from aft of the second stage showing the ullage and spin motors for stabilization in coast phase, as well as Luzon approaching below (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/Mr8Lmck.png)

Finally, at T+05:48, the third stage was spun up for spin-stabilization and the engine hotstaged, with separation occurring two seconds later as the second-stage engine burned out.  Orbital insertion was successful, and Jinxing 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.  Due to lack of control over the third stage, the resulting orbit was rather chaotic: perigee is at 245.7 km, and apogee at 3,803.4 km.

Spoiler: T+06:50 after final stage burn-out (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/omMIeMO.png)

Let the Soviets with their Sputnik 1 in October and Americans with their Stayputnik exploding in December wail.  Here, Chinese science reigns supreme, the crowning joy of a nation no longer at war with itself.  The golden star's radio signals our triumph to the heavens, and the incoming data from the mass spectrometer will keep the scientists happy.

Long story short: I just beat the Soviets after not playing RO-1 for some time.  But ye gods, that's a horrible franken-rocket.  Using the main engine off a Scud as a second-stage sustainer is frankly a bit weird, but I didn't want to go full historical R-7 this time (even though I did build my second launch pad to handle up to 150t), researching 1958 Orbital Rocketry for RD-0105 would have pushed me too late, I didn't want to use the American engine this time, and the British Gamma-301 couldn't be resized easily. 

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Kerbal Space Program with RSS and RO-1

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuuBluum on September 08, 2022, 12:29:47 am

Nice! I've been mucking around with RP-1 for a good bit. Spent a good deal of time making some historical replicas.

Lemme tell you, the Vanguard rocket sucks. There's a reason why Stayputnik is Stayputnik. After that experience I started a new campaign where I just abandon historical progression and make my own damn rockets. Much less frustrating.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 13, 2022, 05:13:16 pm

My uncle, who is my rival, and also a monk, threatened to burn an artifact unless I let him have it.

I dueled him for it; which involved him throwing dirt in my face, so I threw a pouch of gold in his face, and eventually defeated him for the artifact.

I gave him the artifact, Aged Cheddar, which an ancestor got from a woman claiming to be a Viking cheese maker.

The Aged Cheddar now gives -0.1 prestige per month, but a small health bonus. Apparently it also grants stress relief depending on how long it’s aged.

I think I plan on stealing it from him at some point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings III

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 14, 2022, 03:54:51 pm

Defeated an alien overlord... with the power of music!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earthbound: Beginnings. Then again, considering who said alien overlord is, and the effect this defeat had on him, this doesn't exactly end well for the sequels.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on September 16, 2022, 12:58:46 pm

Quote from: hector13 on September 13, 2022, 05:13:16 pm

My uncle, who is my rival, and also a monk, threatened to burn an artifact unless I let him have it.

I dueled him for it; which involved him throwing dirt in my face, so I threw a pouch of gold in his face, and eventually defeated him for the artifact.

I gave him the artifact, Aged Cheddar, which an ancestor got from a woman claiming to be a Viking cheese maker.

The Aged Cheddar now gives -0.1 prestige per month, but a small health bonus. Apparently it also grants stress relief depending on how long it’s aged.

I think I plan on stealing it from him at some point.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings III

...I swear Crusader Kings II was/is less dumb/crazy/hilarious.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on September 16, 2022, 02:01:53 pm

Sounds like something a secret bear would say, neigh? I mean, no?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on September 16, 2022, 02:18:37 pm

AT Least my Chancellor never disagrees with me... :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on September 18, 2022, 01:23:22 am

In old Miskahmur, I saw the boss behind a door locked by a lever. When I would pull the lever, the door would unlock but a bunch of sharpened fans would start spinning between the lever and the door, requiring one to run quickly before they activate.

I turned on the fans and opened the door and shot the boss, also named Miskahmur. He ran straight at me, into the fans, which cut him up.
I then reset the trap and this time ran through it as it was activating.

Unfortunately, the trap seems to have thrown his body out of bounds, as I could not find it when I deactivated the trap one last time and looked for it.

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Enderal: Forgotten stories

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on September 18, 2022, 02:21:20 pm

Got attacked by Malekith and another army right after I'd taken one of their cities. My one army of daemons, about 40% ranged and the rest melee, versus two full stack of Dark Elves at about 50% mid to high tier ranged.

Held the town center instead of trying to defend the whole city. Malekith and the two wizards did a ton of damage to my forces with their spells because my whole army was crammed into such a tight space. But I held back their forces by constantly shuffling forces around, and prudent use of magic, artillery and defensive tower fire to wipe out by groups of their ranged troops who, like me, had to cram into tight spaces to make the shots the terrain would allow them. Even though it's only normal difficulty I won without getting any units wiped out, so I'm pretty pleased about that.

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Total Warhammer 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 19, 2022, 06:21:28 pm

Got pretty much the golden ending for everyone, except maybe Ullan, but what happened to him was probably for the best for everyone else. Also failed to get a romance, but apparently that's actually pretty hard without knowing the exact dialog options.

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Greedfall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on September 20, 2022, 04:37:31 pm

Managed to "win" my first Frostpunk game, with the scenario "A New Home"

Spoiler: the city started well (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/FCnlKhx.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/kcHDkim.jpg)

Managed to get high Hope and very low Discontent
Out of the Londonner problem that i was happy to defeat with focusing on the Faith path, the cold was getting stronger and stronger, and my bad planned management started to hit me hard in the usual Frostpunk spiral of doom :
People getting more sick - > less people to actively work -> buildings become less efficient -> ressources getting then harder to come -> coal become a problem -> more people getting sick.

But to counter this death spiral i decided to change course, and instead going to a normal faith, i decided to pursue an insane fanatic path to solve the problem of Hope by turning it into complete Devotion (forcing people to worship my character, regularly executing "enemy of the faith" to lower discontent gauge :D ) i managed to survive (barely as i had several very close calls with discontent reaching nearly the max) long enough to reach the day the temperature got back to viable.

The cost was very high

Spoiler: the cemetary was filled with people that thought they could survive in that hellish city (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/HfVACXj.jpg)

And the temperature went worse and worse, going to -150°C !
In then end, on the 46th day it was a victory, the city endured with 15 survivors (i wonder how they did because at -150°C without the heat generator working for several days due to lack of worker and coal...) , led by their insane captain.

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(https://i.imgur.com/lDZQUkE.jpg)

Still a nice game, but marred by those damned small fonts that can go from completely garbled on lower resolution to unreadably small on higher res.
And to add insult to this annoyance, after all the years of the people reporting how annoying of a problem this was the devs finally added a font scaling option to ... the xbox version.
Yeah, a way for those devs to say frack you PC users i guess, but they didn't missed the opportunity to update Frostpunk on PC some time ago so you could have ads for Frostpunk 2 on the main menu, yeah. 
I guess i know then what game i will not buy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on September 22, 2022, 01:21:15 am

After the last success, I decided to take a more relaxed path forward as while I've done Kerbalism and I've done RSS orbits with 1950s engines, I haven't done RO into the 1960s before.  I put a monkey into a stable orbit in October 1961, which was not only the first living complex creature China put into orbit, but also the first living complex creature China put into space at all.  The mission plan was for the upper stage on the lifter to circularize at 500 km and then detach.  The return module and service module would orbit for a day, monitoring for radiation and vitals to verify the effects of space on living beings.  It would then orient using four onboard RCS thrusters using nitrous oxide, deorbit with a single retrograde burn from six redundant light SRBs (four or five being the minimum required), eject the service module, splash down in the South China Sea, and be safely recovered.  Nice and easy, no?

This was where things became a mite bit tricky.  On sending the signal for a deorbit burn over central Africa, everything in the staging monitor went orange and then red: all six SRBs showed an immediate performance loss, with five of the six exploding seconds later.  This left the service module was presumably damaged (thankfully the damage was not modeled and the module was not needed for reentry) and the return capsule tumbling from the uneven thrust of five explosions and a single off-center crippled retrorocket.  After service ejection, the return module was now on track for a perigee at just below the Karman line at 92km.  Fortunately, the return module was designed in theory so that it would passively reorient so its heat shield faced the incoming atmosphere under pressure.  Unfortunately, the mission plan meant it had less than six hours of battery power left; enough for the originally-planned return or mission adjustments as needed, but not enough for repeated aerobraking maneuvers.  As such, I reactivated the RCS and began on-off burns to get the craft under control, burning against the spin only when oriented to lower the craft's perigee further.  With the remaining nitrous oxide left on board, I lowered perigee to around 60k, which proved to be just enough for a safe splash-down but left the craft pointed nose and parachute-first into the atmosphere.  The passive design here fortunately worked as planned - when the capsule hit the atmosphere, it flipped back to put the heat shield between the incoming heat of reentry and the by-now thoroughly discombobulated, very awake, and very panicked monkey before the heat became too great for the initially-exposed components to survive.  With no further issues, the capsule safely splashed down and was quickly recovered. 

As for how off-course the incident ended up being, the original mission plan called for a splashdown in the South China Sea, and the follow-up mission to this one (same craft design, same mission profile, no unexpected highly-exothermic events) accomplished this even better than I had expected by splashing down literally just off the south coast of Hainan and less than 30 km from the launchpad, which may be somewhat decent when using single-ignition unthrottleable SRBs as retrorockets.  This mission, however, ended up a bit over 300 km southwest of Baker Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Island) in the central Pacific.  This unexpected extra distance presumably made the retrieval even more interesting on top of the usual shenanigans entailed by opening a sealed capsule containing a very shocked and very upset primate. 

Still, any landing you can walk (or swim) away from...

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Kerbal Space Program with RSS/RO

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on September 29, 2022, 04:56:20 am

Started a new character/new world. Almost immediately to the left of my start point, I find two Living Trees, inside of which I find, among other goodies, a Finch Staff. Little birdy absolutely murders slimes and zombies, thus relegating the main, minor danger of the very early game to the barely noticeable annoyance they are during the rest of the game right from the start.

Also found enough lead in the first few chests to make an anvil and broadsword, which crafted with the Unpleasant modifier, so now I'm rocking far more damage than I probably should at this stage of the game.

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Terraria.

EDIT: Found an Enchanted Sword in what is mostly a straight shot from a surface cave entrance to close to Hell, at least to the depth I've dropped to with a minimum of extra digging. It's the real sword, the one used for the Zenith. This worldgen has been great.



EDIT2: Different game. Discovered that the trick from the original game where enemies can't see you if they can't see your face still works in the mod. For example, while holding an object that obscures your face. Basically held a biohazard container about the size of a mayo jar up to my face, walked up to a machine gun nest, then double-tapped the trooper manning it in the face with my pistol.

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Half-Life 2 VR Mod.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 01, 2022, 11:56:24 am

I am, finally, getting good at making my own builds. The ships I've been designing are actually doing some good work against the autofits.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on October 01, 2022, 12:30:54 pm

Purified the entire galaxy of life.  Just the purity of the rock golems and some random crystal floating around

Also, wow, can I just say how easy it was to snowball?  The real challange was managing the worlds I took; I eventually just stopped trying to hold new ones.

Stellaris

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on October 03, 2022, 07:28:02 am

While my actual goal was to unlock tainted Maggie, I've decided to finish the run properly and go for The Beast. Dogma was simple; it didn't even use its spin attack, instead it blasted with its beams that I can dodge with ease. I gave it some ol' triple lazers.
The harbringers went down quickly as well, though War landed a few hits on me with its bombs. I got sloppy, that's it. The Beast herself was a bit of a problem, because I had an item that slows down projectiles, and when she sucked up flames, I trapped myself and couldn't avoid damage. Fortunately I was tanky as balls, as Maggie should be. The Beast beaten, tainted Maggie unlocked, the winner is me!

I did it for you, Jesus! Or maybe against you? At this point I have no idea.

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Binding of Isaac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 06, 2022, 08:01:12 pm

Survived one of the most uncomfortable moments in the game: the underside of the rail bridge of Highway 17. In VR. That's running across the narrow strips of broken support beams, while dealing with headcrabs and Combine shooting at me, to disable a barrier, then running back while fighting off a gunship. In VR. I don't do very well with heights in VR.

Managed to do it without dying once. Killed the gunship as well. And got the Targeted Advertising achievement, despite failing to actually pin the trooper to the billboard(he smacked into it, then fell off).

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Half-Life 2: VR mod. Nearly killed myself trying to fire rockets out of the windows of the room with the barrier switch. The mod doesn't like that, apparently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 20, 2022, 03:23:14 pm

Went back to this game after so long, with the intent of finishing it before the new ones come out, and in fact just beat the Champion.

One of my MVPs was Alcremie, who took down both Leon's Dragapult and Haxorus, though I had to revive her to deal with the latter(Haxorus ripped most of my team a new one). Even when she was still a Milcery, I noticed a particular quirk with her: her main attacking move, Draining Kiss, seemed to be far more effective against female opponents than male. On one hand, statistically speaking the only explanation is coincidence rather than any specific thing. On the other, it's part of why I evolved her into the Rainbow Swirl/Strawberry form.

This made the battle against Opal very... interesting, seeing as her ace Pokemon is also an Alcremie that uses Draining Kiss as her main attack. As a result, that battle was the two of them kissing until Opal's finally collapsed, exhausted but, hopefully, satisfied. A scene that becomes a lot funnier when you remember that in this game, gym battles take place in a packed stadium, as well as televised across the region, meaning everyone in Galar watched the baking of the yuri-cake.

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Pokemon Sword.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on October 29, 2022, 07:42:19 am

I was lost to another I's glory.


An almost-fantastic run, which nearly got cocked up in the last moments thanks to some truly horrible luck+timing in the ol' Fascination department. Ended up delving into forbidden magicks to deal with that, but the stain on my soul is worth not having to re-do the several days of work in that run up to that point.

First time attempting this flavor of run, and was very pleasantly surprised at the end to discover that I actually had the specific non-quest items just lying around when doing the rite.

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Cultist Simulator

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 29, 2022, 10:50:56 pm

Fixed my first static translocator. It dumped me in a room some ~9000 blocks away deep underground. Said room had a rich seam of bismuthinite directly in the roof.

My only issue is finding zinc. At least bismuth looks pretty.

Vintage Story

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 31, 2022, 02:17:38 pm

Succeeded in initiating my first Genesis. Got kinda lucky with that. Found a beacon early on that gave me the location of an O2-based Genesis candidate world, and not too far from where I started. It was just a matter of building up the crew then. Unfortunately, lost my captain during the finale. And according to the AAR, what started as a democracy after colonization turned into a tyrannical, isolationist, blood-cult.

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Genesis Alpha One.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 01, 2022, 04:21:52 pm

In Fallout 3 managed to

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take back the Purifier without having to either die or sacrifice someone, all thanks to that Fawkes companion immunity to radiation

Oh and the mission that have you fighting along Liberty Prime on the bridge is definitively the best thing ever in any Bethesda game :D

Spoiler: in case that mission gets stuck (click to show/hide)

There's an area of the bridge in which Liberty Prime may get stuck and so there's no more progression.
To fix that, simply walk back to the Citadel at the beginning of the bridge, then come back, it will have moved Liberty Prime back on track.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 01, 2022, 10:33:13 pm

So I tried the realm mode thing for the first time. Party on whatever it is below highest difficulty, basically got my face knocked in repeatedly for a bit.

Said, okay. This isn't working, let's try solo. Knock the difficulty down a notch, it'd be reasonable for solo run to be harder, right?

... Kudo just goes, "I'm not here to be reasonable, my friend, I am here to fuck."

Straight crushes his way through everything in his path, only once goes down to half health (that, for all of one turn, by that point he had like 30-40 hp worth of healing in his deck). Clean sweep wrecked the whole run, apparently put me sixth (fourth, if you don't count endless runs) on the weekly leaderboard for solo hard mode.

Turns out, solo is probably easier than a party is, and it's a pretty nice experience :P

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Gordian Quest, a deckbuilder that's basically D&D meets Slay the Spire. Has some pretty interesting things going on, including throwing bears at the forces of evil.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 02, 2022, 10:07:58 am

Very happy on my Genesis Alpha One run, entered a system then on my bridge i scanned all the surrounding ones and found out that there were ... 3 genesis candidate worlds !
And 2 of them were filled with O2 , so perfectly compatible with my ship species (a mix of +/- 25% human and 75% arachnoids) that all are requiring O2 to survive.

Even better on some of those systems i also noticed 2 planets were featuring some O2 generating plants (2 Ferns and 1 Palm) that i gathered quickly, allowing me to build another greenhouse that could then provide me with enough O2 to support the 15 crew members requirement of one of the 2 Genesis candidates (the other had a requirement of 18) as i had enough biomass to clone more people.

Spoiler: road to victory (click to show/hide)

Landing the Harvester on the planet showed that it was a world with some nice green grass, and several of my crew had build a mini base camp already (wow they're fast ) , i went to the computer and was tasked to destroy the alien threat that was in a cave system.
And of course i was going alone for some reason despite all the crew that i had on planet already.
Fortunately i had taken, along my weaponry (i liked my Outlaw Shotgun) 3 defense turrets that have been always super helpful to deploy on dangerous planets during harvesting missions.

The caves were filled with some blocked path that i had to destroy with my weapons, but more threatening there were a lot of spider-like aliens, fortunately despite their number they couldn't stand up to my fire power supported by the 3 turrets.

Then i ran into the central area of the caves, a very big spider-like thing with glowing orbs around its body appeared and started attacking along another tons of mini spiders.
They destroyed my 3 support turrets while i was backpedalling like crazy shotgunning as much as i could the big ugly thing that seemed impervious to everything.

But that ugly thing finally went down after a ton of shotgunning its "face", so i could emerge from the cave victorious and surprisingly alive.
Went to the computer to initiate the Genesis project, calling back Earth so they could send their colony ships.

The game then told that centuries moved on while my people were building big dome cities to protect from the massive amount of insects there were, insects that were luminescent and provided light at nights.
Scientists decided to genetically engineer our species so they would have longer ears for some reason, and we could then survive centuries in technological "harmony" with nature.

Hmm, looks like that was the birth of the space elves

Strangely on this run not a single space pirate, soldiers or merchants detected.

Edit : oh something i didn't knew : there's a "Continue+" so after winning your run instead of starting a new game with different options and etc like your new unlocks... you can just continue with your current ship after completing that Genesis project, as after all in the random universe there's a bunch of other planets that are candidate for the Genesis project.
You'll have a bunch of crew members that will have departed to live on the planet you just Genesis-ed , so you will need new clones as you can only bring 4 of the clones you had previously.
Nice way to have a post endgame instead of the classic "play from the start again" roguelike type.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 07, 2022, 05:25:18 pm

Managed to separate the attributes of "looks like ass" and "fights like ass" to some degree. My ships, still at the bottom tier of both garbage and technology, may look downright awful, but they did not lose.

Attacked a giant bee hive.  My fleet was composed of the randomly(?) generated ship I started with, and two I designed. The former was armed with a ton of grenades and muskets, the latter two had ballistae. The grenade ship flew over the hive, while the other two took a position in front to draw the bees off.

This post almost ended up on the death thread. The bees swarmed the first ship, overwhelming the crew in a fight that took minutes. But the bees, they did not kill all the crew, they left many on the ground, screaming for help, screaming for the mercy of death that wouldn't come quickly enough because there was nobody left to help them. The crew of the second ship waited, listening to wails of tortured men. When it was their turn, however, they rallied, and destroyed the bees with light casualties. Meanwhile, grenades were raining on the hive and doing no visible damage. I turned up the gamespeed, and waited until about 3/4's of the ships ammo was gone when the hive finally fell. No ship was considered lost, and the bees didn't do any physical damage to the ship, and I left the battle with an extra $8000 - a lot at this stage of the game.

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Airships: Conquer the Skies. It's been nearly a year since I've played, and even longer since I tried Conquest. Really not liking the supply system. Not only are they slow to fill, ship range is very limited by supplies. Also, it seems when you move a fleet, all the required supplies are completely spent the moment you give the order, meaning if you change your mind, all those supplies are wasted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 09, 2022, 09:52:08 am

Getting power armor was kind of like flipping a difficulty switch since my character was suddenly strong enough to use rifles reliably, but getting the sniper perk sealed the deal.  The game went from painfully hard to hilariously trivial.  Sniper + better criticals is almost cheating.  You can get one-shot kills against many enemy types regardless of damage, including wanamingos / aliens.

The Enclave was trivial.  2 shots with a gauss rifle to the eyes killed every Enclave soldier that I ran into.  Finished the game at level 30 with almost 400 HP that made me able to survive 2 armor bypassing crits from miniguns.

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Fallout 2

The only thing I messed up on was telling K-9 to wait outside while I did the Enclave oil rig, since apparently the turrets didn't like him.  I was kind of surprised since he came from Navarro.  Anyway, I left him outside, and the game didn't give me a chance to collect him as I ran outside after killing Horrigan.  When I got back to San Francisco he was gone.  Guess he got blown up.  :(

Incidentally, K-9's AI seems kind of broken.  Maybe the restoration patch is to blame, but he seemed to be reluctant to attack anything that didn't hit him first.  I rarely used companions in Fallout 2 so maybe that's normal, but Sulik seemed to be more aggressive.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on November 09, 2022, 12:24:31 pm

Decided to see what changes have occurred since I last played *cough* seven years ago *cough*.

Tried one of the new seeds - Don't Dig Up - which puts you at the bottom of the map and forces you to make your way upwards, as well as generally messing with the map generation and making the surface a corrupted nightmare hellscape.

Due to the way the map works, I actually ended up defeating the Jungle boss and the new Don't Starve-themed ice boss before I had the items needed to summon the Eater of Worlds (usually the second boss you'll run into). As a result, I had a full set of summoner clothing and a trio of minion hornets when I finally got to him. He died pretty much instantly, and opened up the way to summon the Wall of Flesh, who also didn't stand a chance.

I actually felt a little bad for it - my first run, I remember the fight being a desperate battle as I was pushed off the side of the map, chugging potions while dodging lasers - this time we didn't even get past a couple of screens, and I never had to use any healing items.

Anyway, hardmode's unlocked, and now the real game begins.

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Terraria

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on November 09, 2022, 05:03:52 pm

Hey now, don't dig up just turns the surface into a corrupted hellscape. It's the zenith seed that turns it into a corrupted nightmare hellscape :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on November 14, 2022, 08:47:36 am

Landed in a randomly-generated sector with an enemy core, the third of a series of such attack maps which included the non-random Overgrowth sector.

Right away, I noticed a huge problem with the map: the only sand, and most of the water, was in enemy-controlled territory. This prevents silicon production, and makes power generation difficult. Lack of silicon makes a lot of things more difficult, especially unit production. Lack of unit production is bad because I can't build Mono or Poly units for quickly mining copper and lead(both are used in nearly everything), and of course, attacking the enemy core.

I did in fact wait for my silicon stockpile to reach the maximum you can bring before launching from the previous map, so I did actually have a limited supply. My first plan, use as much of it as possible building up a mixed ground force to punch as hard as I could, and abandon and relaunch if I ran out of silicon. Then, as I was planning a path of attack, I noticed that most of their defense was anti-ground, with plenty of gaps in their anti-air coverage. I built an air factory and additive reconstructor to produce bombers.

Most of their anti-air guns were basic-tier Duo turrets, which are not good at anti-air. I dealt with those by bombing their ammo supplies, then flying circles around them until their remaining ammo dried up. There was a group of centrally-located Scatter turrets(primary anti-air), and destroyed those by building turrets right next to them. This allowed me to bomb a corridor right to their core. Despite heavy defenses, I was able to distract their air defense for a few seconds as 16 bombers hit the core directly. 3 survived, but the core was destroyed.

Now I have a large map with ample resources that is in no danger of being attacked to build up a strong economy with.

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Mindustry.

EDIT: Shot an arrow at an incoming fireball. Not only hit it, but it deflected the fireball back at the mage who cast it, killing them with a large burn hole in their chest.

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Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on November 22, 2022, 05:56:03 pm

I don't think I'll ever get tired of screaming into the enemy fleet at high speed and unloading four reaper torpedoes into a ship, overloading it, and following up with another four reapers.

Legion (XIV)s are just far too fun.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on November 22, 2022, 07:29:08 pm

I had epic fetus, incubus, and conjoined. Mega satan was carpet-bombed to until he died.

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Binding of Isaac

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on November 22, 2022, 08:18:59 pm

Through sheer force of luck will, I managed to complete a level of 40k:Mechanicus without increasing the awakening level at all. Awakening is a timer that counts up as you do more stuff. But my characters all move quickly (+3 move, +3 hp legs), and 3 fights each with a few scan points (destroying them, even after scanning, lowers awakening by 2/5, and only whole numbers count against you at the end of the mission).

I think I'm getting decent at this game. I just can't manage enough cognition to use the big guns much, so I'm running the 0-cognition gun from the start, a volkite blaster, the best axe, and some of the healing or poking additions you can get for your extra arms.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 25, 2022, 02:55:33 pm

On the gog freebie "Terroir", i just got my first wine award for the best Grenache

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(https://i.imgur.com/G87no7F.jpg)

But the "+0% wine price and +0 Renown" the game decided to give me thanks to that award is rather ... disapointing

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on November 25, 2022, 02:59:27 pm

That is quite funny.

We think your wine is really great, but nobody thinks much of our award so it doesn’t actually mean anything.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on November 25, 2022, 04:44:11 pm

Maybe they remember that a few years before i made them drink bottles of acid so they decided to just say no to anything coming out of my winery :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on November 28, 2022, 04:14:11 pm

Quote from: Iduno on November 22, 2022, 08:18:59 pm

Through sheer force of luck will, I managed to complete a level of 40k:Mechanicus without increasing the awakening level at all. Awakening is a timer that counts up as you do more stuff. But my characters all move quickly (+3 move, +3 hp legs), and 3 fights each with a few scan points (destroying them, even after scanning, lowers awakening by 2/5, and only whole numbers count against you at the end of the mission).

I think I'm getting decent at this game. I just can't manage enough cognition to use the big guns much, so I'm running the 0-cognition gun from the start, a volkite blaster, the best axe, and some of the healing or poking additions you can get for your extra arms.

Managing cognition is definitely the key to the game, but once you get it down the game unfortunately becomes pretty easy.  It's been a while since I've played so I'm trying to remember what kind of loadout I had at the end, but I'm pretty sure I kept a few low or zero cognition weapons as backups even when I was using plasma culverins and robots.  Those weapons are good for making sure the necrons don't get back up without having to waste cognition.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on December 09, 2022, 01:35:27 am

Assassinating the Assassin.  :D

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(https://i.imgur.com/iwW76na.jpg)
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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 12, 2022, 07:49:09 am

Took several tries, but I was able to kill Mold-1. That's been the hardest fight of the game so far.

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Control. Strategy was to use the Charge gun at the base of the boss, which hits all three stalks for massive damage. For the last part of the fight, I levitated around, using Shield to at least partially block its projectile swarm, dodging its slam attack, then landing to recharge, firing as often as possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on December 13, 2022, 06:38:09 pm

Took out a whole three man squad, not only on my own, but without them landing a single shot on me in turn. I also fucked up a lot of bots, but in the end I wound up being overwhelmed by a ceaseless stream of them in heavy armour.

I also experienced what I'll call my "World War I" moment. Dropped deployable cover, whipped out an LMG, and proceeded to burn the entire magazine in a non-stop spray at an advancing swarm of enemies.

Warzone II: DMZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Madman198237 on December 14, 2022, 01:25:41 am

Taking a three-man, solo, without getting hit is one heck of an achievement, bravo. And yeah, the tier three AI are a nightmare. They're just unrepentant bullet sponges.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on December 14, 2022, 02:10:23 pm

Honestly to an extent it was luck. I managed to get the drop on the three of them one-by-one. First ran past me and I shotgunned him. He ran around a corner and I chased, he turned around but before he could fire I caught up and pumped a round into his face. Second was slowly approaching the building the first guy ran through but I'd gone around the side and LMGed him to death, then I figured there'd be a third sneaking around in all likelihood, so I went through a different building and came out onto a road where they were crouching along a concrete barrier. I spotted him just before he spotted me which gave me time to fall back into cover just as he started spraying, then I poked my head out and LMGed him to death too.

Makes up for the round earlier in the day where I killed a guy, knew where the second one was and lobbed a grenade at them and, before the grenade detonated, advanced. For some reason I thought "It's my grenade, it won't hurt me!" and blew myself up without even remotely hurting them.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on December 14, 2022, 02:37:05 pm

(https://i.imgur.com/3pN7rxu.png) tyranny of the freespawn have slain the very hard custom map

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Rusted Warfare, Harkius War mod. The dardamdroe are bae. Like half their units fire smaller units as a weapon, and then the smaller units suicide rush the nearest enemy. There is no ammo, the swarm just keeps coming, it's great

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 02:44:13 pm

I main Eudora because magick.

Everyone else killing eachother endlessly.

I worm my way to the enemy nexus and others join me in the last second, and before the other team can do anything about it, we destroy their nexus and win.

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Mobile Legends

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 14, 2022, 04:20:00 pm

Inadvertently went after the fifth Gym Leader as my fourth gym. Naturally, it was a significantly harder fight. Not helping was the fact that Facade hits hard even without its boosted effect*. Or that my Primeape is horribly built. Fun fact, Cross Chop having an accuracy rating of 80% means it only hits 20% of the time.

Eventually grinded him down.

Now I'm in the middle of curbstomping the vastly out-leveled fourth Gym Leader, who is probably one of the most irritating characters in the franchise and oh god what is wrong with her teeth?!

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Pokemon Violet. And yes, I do realize that Iono's teeth is probably a reference to the sharklike Vtuber Gawr Gura. Probably.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on December 15, 2022, 03:34:46 pm

Seems weird to describe the new pokes game as open world; like sure unlike previous games there's no broken bridges or HMs to roadblock you but you'll invariably end up somewhere you're not the right level for, and type advantage only helps you punch up maybe 5 levels.

I do find this gen fun tho.  Early game isn't a total slog, almost no tutorialing and the first couple routes actually offer a variety of stuff to catch.

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Hatchetman mechs released recently.  A light but sluggish medium mech, supposed to have a melee axe ability but melee isn't in this game.  There's a funny variant that swaps the right hand for a cluster of seven(!) Laser hardpoints, which people wrote off as that arm will just get shot off, as other than that it has only a single missile slot as backup.

Ran mine with an mrm 20 missile launcher, plus a cluster of six small lasers.  Managed to top score/damage in the second match with it, though it's probably all luck and nobody learned to focus its arm yet.

Got in a good spot to core out assault mechs with the mini lasers without them focusing me too much.  700ish damage with 2 kill-most-damage-dealt.

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mechwarrior online

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on December 15, 2022, 04:13:55 pm

There's like 5 hours left on a really nice Heat Signature daily run.  Notable because it's "harm as few people as possible" and starts you with an AP shotgun as your only weapon, but many people are acing it.

IIRC you start with a self-charging crashbeam, and the first ship has a rechargeable cloak.  And a 5x speed boost, which presumably is how some maniac completed the challenge in like 1:10 a couple hours after launch last night.

Anyway I beat it handily.  Crash the telepad on the first ship if you like, but it hardly matters.  As always for dailies: Buy nothing, loot everything!

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Heat Signature

Edit: The crashbeam helps a lot on the first ship to crash the guards with glitchpacks.  They're such a pain on "harm no-one" and "no alarm" missions.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on December 17, 2022, 12:33:10 pm

No rifle, no revolver. Managed to find a bow and single arrow though, and several redundant hatchets and knives. With these tools, I've slaughtered a surprising number of wolves and deer.

The Long Dark

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on December 19, 2022, 07:19:34 pm

Murdered another three-man squad soloing.

They attempted to ambush me on exfil. I downed two of them with by surprise but the last teammate then downed me in turn as I dived for the copter. However, I'd been storing self-revives and revive pistols. The guy had presumably thought "They're down, all is good" and went to revive his teammate. I revived myself and boarded the helicopter. It took off before they realised it, I reloaded and shot at them while I was in the sky. The two of them were around the second guy I'd downed, and none of them had armour so the shots shredded the three of them in moments.

That's what you get for trying to ambush me at the exfil site.

Had a similar incident where someone else boarded my heli, but I was lagging so badly that they got one shot in me before the game caught up and realised I'd dumped a full magazine into them.

Warzone II: DMZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 20, 2022, 04:51:44 pm

Once again, by blindly taking the advice of the Pokemon Center nurse, I ended up at a gym that was about 8 levels above mine. But it was also the Ice-type Gym, which at least half my team is geared to counter. Nobody fainted, though Pawmot only stayed up due to an affection bonus letting him survive a knockout blow. MVP goes to Tinkaton, who, despite being the lowest level of the party, one-shotted both Grusha's first and last Pokemon, the latter being an Ice-Tera Altaria, which was hit by a Gigaton Hammer boosted by a Steel-Tera*. The rest of his team took two turns to knock out.

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Pokemon Violet. Tinkaton is a fun design; it's a blacksmith girl who steals your stuff. Gigaton Hammer is her signature move: 160 base power, 100% accuracy, its only downsides are 5 PP and you can't use it two times in a row. It's not a recharge turn like Hyper Beam, you just have to use a different move next turn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on December 20, 2022, 05:17:00 pm

Those nurses would be out of a job if they didn’t have fainted Pokemon to heal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on December 23, 2022, 10:19:29 pm

Beat Dyson Sphere Program in 9:22, which gave me the beat the game achievement (6.4% of people), beat it under 25 hours (0.7%) and beat it under 10 hours (0.6%).

It uh... took ages to manage (50+ hours probably) thanks to prep time and me failing on my first attempt but I finally got it done with over half a hour to spare (with most of the last 40 minutes being me just flying around in space waiting for things to finish up).

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(https://i.imgur.com/DqtxF0J.png)

Again, Dyson Sphere Program if you somehow missed it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on December 23, 2022, 11:36:42 pm

Impressive! Like with Factorio, I really want to like Dyson Sphere Program but tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer everything there is to do. I'm pretty sure I'm at least six hours into my current file and haven't even left the starting planet yet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on December 29, 2022, 11:59:08 am

I feel like I'm getting the hang of Encased (an isometric fallout-like rpg).

I got to Junktown, met some people, and saw that the sheriff has perhaps not the best stuff (small-town sheriff), but does have a lot of it. My 'former' criminal character had some plans for that, but the sheriff likes to patrol inside and outside his office (patrols seem to be semi-random, making theft more challenging), making it tough to rob him. I took my character (and the 2 following me, which makes this more difficult, perhaps criminal play-throughs should be loners) to the edge of his building, and pickpocketed him when he got to the furthest point away from the building, then snuck inside.

He figured out he'd been robbed, which massively increases his awareness of what's around him and his search area, but it also keeps him from following his normal patrol. By the time he quit looking for the thief, I'd emptied out his office, including his home in the basement. Got some nice equipment, which helps when you've got followers.


I'm also coming up on level 12 with 2 saved-up perk points. I'm thinking increased luck for me and my followers (more lucky finds when looking through stuff, and more crits), +12 to my crit chance (adds an additional 12% chance to crit, ~doubling my current chance), and one that lowers an enemy's hp and damage resistance stat when they get critted.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on December 29, 2022, 08:15:39 pm

The enemy started using their latest flavor of bullshit: massive fighter swarms. My mostly outdated fleets can handle a few dozen, but they were using hundreds at a time. Worse, they had guns that outranged my defense lasers. They didn't outrange main guns, just the lasers, but the main guns have low accuracy against fighters. In fact, their fighters' guns were the same technology as my main guns, just fighter-sized.

My first attempt at repelling them was a dismal disappointing failure that cost me several worlds and many more ships(and a save-scum to undo it). Largely because what I tried were IR lasers, which have massive range, but poor fire rate. And I only put two of those on a single ship; they may as well not have had any. Probably could have used missiles, except the enemy fighters did have missile traps.


Second attempt was simply fighters of my own. Fighters with superior engines, shields, and a pair of IR lasers which aren't as bad on fighters. I was able to put three corvette-sized carriers, carrying 10 fighters each, into battle against two enemy carriers with about 200 fighters total over one of my planets that was under siege. Long story short, in part due to really bad unit AI programming, I was whittled down to 4 fighters against 30 enemy fighters. Using hit-and-run tactics, eventually destroying all of them, and suiciding the rest of my fighters against the carriers. The post-battle screen showed they still had several more fighters they didn't deploy for some reason, but enough damage was done that two of my older frigates could mop up.

With the way clear, I was able to reinforce my troops, and when the enemy attacked again, it was one crippled* carrier and its fighter compliment against 200 of my superior fighters that I brought in via freighter(you have to "disassemble" them to ship, then assemble at their destination). All enemy forces destroyed in seconds, no losses. Booyah.

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Polaris Sector. Now, if only I could figure out how they have spy ships so deep in my territory, far from any fuel source. There is a module that passively regenerates fuel at a star, but I don't think it'd fit on a freighter alongside the cloak, scout, and sabotage modules. I haven't tried myself.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on December 29, 2022, 10:53:41 pm

Quote from: Sirus on December 23, 2022, 11:36:42 pm

Impressive! Like with Factorio, I really want to like Dyson Sphere Program but tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer everything there is to do. I'm pretty sure I'm at least six hours into my current file and haven't even left the starting planet yet.

I feel the need to stress how not normal that time is for me. Being 6 hours in and still on the starting planet is completely fine, because as you say, there is just a shit load to do and figuring out what/how to do it takes hours and hours and hours

My run was also very much not speedrunning kosher, and was done in segments of me spending like 45 minutes putting all the shit together in a copied world, then putting it down the exact same way in the first world in like 5-10 minutes (posssibly cheating using blueprints), then copying the world again and doing the exact same thing.
I did this 21(!) times by the end of the game.


The biggest piece of advice I can give is to make a area at the start that makes every early-mid building and generic building material. Seriously, it saves so so much time and mental effort being able to just walk over and grab literally whatever you need.
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But yeah, I eventually just give up as well. Typically this is around as far as I get in DPS and I haven't gotten much past beating the game in factorio.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 02, 2023, 10:14:18 pm

I seem to have actually gotten better at Brigador. I got stuck near the end of the campaign due to "too many enemies with too large guns" syndrome. After that I switched over to the freelance mode as a relaxing way to blow shit up. But I went back to try some campaign missions and managed to beat "Come Finest Surgeon" as well as a few of the hardsuit missions!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 03, 2023, 11:14:43 am

Oh, yeah, the F-series missions are

Kinda brutally difficult. You’re going to have to rely a lot on picking off foes, avoiding alarms, etc.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on January 04, 2023, 05:37:08 am

I'm really not sure how you're supposed to clear anything with that sledger loadout, but the blue tauro sweetheart works fairly well. Feels like I can clear things pretty dang well with the big laser and EMP grenades, it's just the mission is so brutally long that I wind up tripping up at some point.

So many explosive tuk-tuks. o.o

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on January 04, 2023, 02:52:41 pm

Paired up the Ocean spirit with the Whirlwind spirit, it was a really powerful combo, though ocean had a really slow start.

Whirlwind specializes in control via pushes, and gets a ton of them for free just for existing.  Ocean essentially turns pushes into damage, anything pushed into the water is destroyed and feeds Ocean more energy.  Also Whirlwind's support power boosts range, which helps Ocean hit deeper inland if needed.

The control was so strong there were several turns the invaders couldn't do jack, as the lands they were supposed to hit were totally unoccupied.  Lucky event card deleted two cities and solved one of the harder lands for me.  Late game was just generating fear and trying to get a major power to clear the last inland stronghold, only to destroy all towns doing so, getting the win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spirit Island

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on January 08, 2023, 07:07:06 am

In DF Adventure Mode, built an adventurer that's finally strong enough to kill a Titan who spewed webs. I had to make an elephantman vampire with ultra high stats from wrestlegrinding, and even that was barely enough.

But, it's the first time I've ever been able to beat one of these things without resorting to cheese tactics like throwing from several Z-levels higher with a flying Animal Man adventurer.

And because of how strong my adventurer is, I didn't need to use any weapons to kill it. Simple scratches and bleeding internal organs were enough to make it die of bloodloss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on January 08, 2023, 08:25:43 am

Guided another Auto Company into the 2020s!

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2005823738389345941/E14B973EE549D3B963EB455F216DBC3DABCC0D09/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)

Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 08, 2023, 12:33:19 pm

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on January 04, 2023, 02:52:41 pm

Paired up the Ocean spirit with the Whirlwind spirit, it was a really powerful combo, though ocean had a really slow start.

Whirlwind specializes in control via pushes, and gets a ton of them for free just for existing.  Ocean essentially turns pushes into damage, anything pushed into the water is destroyed and feeds Ocean more energy.  Also Whirlwind's support power boosts range, which helps Ocean hit deeper inland if needed.

The control was so strong there were several turns the invaders couldn't do jack, as the lands they were supposed to hit were totally unoccupied.  Lucky event card deleted two cities and solved one of the harder lands for me.  Late game was just generating fear and trying to get a major power to clear the last inland stronghold, only to destroy all towns doing so, getting the win.

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Spirit Island

Nice. I love the game, but you kind of need to learn how each character plays by playing through once first, before you can figure out what goes together well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on January 08, 2023, 04:16:37 pm

It did take like 3 games to understand exactly how Ocean's... "digestion" worked.  It's supposed to scale by player count, but you can use it whenever for however much energy you need.  Ocean is probably one of my favorites due to how fun it is to see how many invader corpses I can fit onto their spirit board.

That particular game was the first time playing Whirlwind.

Generally I understand it enough to win consistently, I've played other complex board games, plus it probably helped thar my friend initially described it being a lot like the video game Into the Breach which isn't wrong.  I have struggled with Sharp Fangs and Rising Heat, maybe Fangs just needs the event deck in play.

I did try Bringer of Dreams yesterday, along with Teeth as a damage dealer.  Bringer's gimmick is that as a dream entity they don't do physical damage, it's converted to fear and pushes.  Though I got the one major power that actually can damage, it teleports natives somewhere and backs them with defense.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 09, 2023, 11:21:10 am

Probably doesn't count since it's an idler.

Took a couple days on the first run: took Fairies as the tutorial pushes you to(it's free the first round, other races are not), got to around 500 quadrillion coins per second, plus a bonus of around 70 quintillion every minute and a half or so from a combination of Fairy Chanting(500x from your three basic buildings for 10 seconds, Fairies specialize in boosting their general output), Tax Collection(immediate 30 seconds of income at current rate), then furiously clicking for the remainder of Chanting's duration. It took a while just to get enough mana storage for that combo, as the Fairies only ways to improve magic really suck. Eventually decided the run was done when I had 100k gems banked and abdicated. Each gem provides a 2% bonus to income, and the next bit of content is unlocked at 1 billion.

Next run, took Angels, and because of the 100k gems, got roughly back to where I was... in about 15 minutes. Angels specialize in magic. Enough that I'm autocasting Call to Arms(increase all buildings' production based on total number of buildings for 20 seconds) and God's Hand(all buildings gain (120*mana regen rate) for 30 seconds), and still gaining mana. Then, when my mana gets full(takes about 6 minutes), I fire Holy Light which increases clicking gain by 1750% for 15 seconds and seems to affect passive gain(possibly due to assistants acting as auto-clickers, and which Angels have a lack of). Then I set Tax Collection to auto-cast, which as an instant spell, fires all of them. At once. Over 200 times. That's nearly 2 hours of (boosted) income.


Granted, I seem to have hit another plateau now, but I've also accrued over 8 million more gems to regain upon abdication. So I guess I'm playing it right.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Realm Grinder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on January 09, 2023, 12:26:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 09, 2023, 11:21:10 am

Probably doesn't count since it's an idler.

Took a couple days on the first run: took Fairies as the tutorial pushes you to(it's free the first round, other races are not), got to around 500 quadrillion coins per second, plus a bonus of around 70 quintillion every minute and a half or so from a combination of Fairy Chanting(500x from your three basic buildings for 10 seconds, Fairies specialize in boosting their general output), Tax Collection(immediate 30 seconds of income at current rate), then furiously clicking for the remainder of Chanting's duration. It took a while just to get enough mana storage for that combo, as the Fairies only ways to improve magic really suck. Eventually decided the run was done when I had 100k gems banked and abdicated. Each gem provides a 2% bonus to income, and the next bit of content is unlocked at 1 billion.

Next run, took Angels, and because of the 100k gems, got roughly back to where I was... in about 15 minutes. Angels specialize in magic. Enough that I'm autocasting Call to Arms(increase all buildings' production based on total number of buildings for 20 seconds) and God's Hand(all buildings gain (120*mana regen rate) for 30 seconds), and still gaining mana. Then, when my mana gets full(takes about 6 minutes), I fire Holy Light which increases clicking gain by 1750% for 15 seconds and seems to affect passive gain(possibly due to assistants acting as auto-clickers, and which Angels have a lack of). Then I set Tax Collection to auto-cast, which as an instant spell, fires all of them. At once. Over 200 times. That's nearly 2 hours of (boosted) income.


Granted, I seem to have hit another plateau now, but I've also accrued over 8 million more gems to regain upon abdication. So I guess I'm playing it right.

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Realm Grinder.

Yeah, fairies are weird, because their bonus goes to the cheapest buildings that have the least production, but they increase the production by quite a bit. At several points, they're the best. Although I do like angels for quick mana gain (and dislike dislike the factions with slow mana gain). You'll soon be getting multiple reincarnations per day, just trying to get e5 or e10 more gems (you gain them slower the more you have) than you had before so you can abdicate and gain a bunch more.

There's also an option in the settings that lets you change to scientific notation. I'm not sure why idle games like using words nobody knows for large numbers, which also ends up with stupid things like 137.2 Qi money. That's not a concept anyone understands, and you're not avoiding decimals.

I've been playing a lot as well. Except right now I'm on something that requires casting a particular spell 100 times without abdicating. It lasts 10 minutes (unless you foolishly increase how long it lasts). Not a huge deal, I'm also hoping to try for an artifact that requires at least 24 hours offline, and has an x in 864,000 percent chance of finding it, where x is seconds offline this reincarnation. 1% chance is 10 days in a row offline, so I'll be looking at around a 0.15% chance, and maybe a few thousand tries. I've been playing since the end of the Halloween special event, so I'm a bit further than you, though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 13, 2023, 08:56:27 pm

Finished the main story. It took 55.5 hours. The credit reel at the end was nearly an hour long, and for some reason apparently ended with the EULAs of basically every software that Rockstar uses in their office. I don't even understand the reason for that kind of padding. It wasn't even like there was a big number song that was trying to finish.

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Red Dead Redemption 2.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 14, 2023, 01:59:48 am

I got a revolver. Given I hadn't had one for hours and had done a fair bit of scavenging, this meant I *also* had a shitload of bullets.

I still have plenty, but that's a downgrade from a shitload. The wolf population has been demolished, and it'll take them some time to get back up. In the meantime, I have plenty of wolf meat, hides and guts. And some deer got dealt with too.

The Long Dark

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 15, 2023, 06:12:18 am

Pulled in my biggest haul yet, about $246k. Plus got the Blue Gold achievement, which requires collecting and processing 5000kg of beryllium, which is the least common mineral, that only has a few hundred kg per nugget, and will always yeet itself away when the rock that contains it is broken open.

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Delta-V: Rings of Saturn.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 17, 2023, 02:39:35 pm

I'm managing to maintain the balance of power in the sector through sheer gun running.

Every time the Hegemony invades a place, I swap out what I'm doing for smuggling. Supplies, marines and heavy armaments absolutely flood the black market to the extent that Volturn managed to succeed in rebelling despite two suppression fleets and a relief fleet coming in.

Of course, this pisses off the Hegemony but I can just do some bounty hunting to get them happy with me again.

The ultimate goal is to cripple the Hegemony enough that they can't easily take the whole sector on like they usually do. Any invasions on their worlds are gonna be left alone.

Starsector.

EDIT: Three Legion (XIV)s, a Dominator (XIV) and an Eradicator. Managed to take down my first missile artillery station with that. Surprisingly tough fight.

Starsector.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2023, 05:01:41 am

Cleared my first 6-star Raid. In ONE ATTACK.

Okay there was some setup before the attack and my allies got some hits in first. The opponent was a Flying-type Ditto with Impostor, which immediately copied my Iron Hands. First turn, I cheered for an attack boost while Ditto used Close Combat, second turn Ditto used Electric Terrain(which only helps me) and I used Belly Drum. Third turn, I used Wild Charge, which knocked both out, Ditto being taken out at about 90% HP.

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Pokemon Violet.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on January 20, 2023, 01:03:27 pm

Finally managed to fill the screen with so many bullets the game crashed :D

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Stelloop, a pay-what-you-want bullet heaven thing from the folks that did Revita. There's no win condition per se, you're just trying to last as long as you can, but I'm counting it as a win anyway, ahaha.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 20, 2023, 02:30:01 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 13, 2023, 08:56:27 pm

Finished the main story. It took 55.5 hours. The credit reel at the end was nearly an hour long, and for some reason apparently ended with the EULAs of basically every software that Rockstar uses in their office. I don't even understand the reason for that kind of padding. It wasn't even like there was a big number song that was trying to finish.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Was there a skip button?

If the creators or publisher or whoever pulled an AssCreed 3 and made the ending credits unskippable I might just force quit the program and uninstall it once I finish the story.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2023, 04:32:43 pm

Quote from: AzyWng on January 20, 2023, 02:30:01 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 13, 2023, 08:56:27 pm

Finished the main story. It took 55.5 hours. The credit reel at the end was nearly an hour long, and for some reason apparently ended with the EULAs of basically every software that Rockstar uses in their office. I don't even understand the reason for that kind of padding. It wasn't even like there was a big number song that was trying to finish.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Was there a skip button?

Probably, almost certainly, but a lot of games do have something if you wait until the credits are done. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, for example, had an achievement and bonus scene that ties in with the original game, if you sit through the credits.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 20, 2023, 04:50:03 pm

Quote from: Akura on January 13, 2023, 08:56:27 pm

Finished the main story. It took 55.5 hours. The credit reel at the end was nearly an hour long, and for some reason apparently ended with the EULAs of basically every software that Rockstar uses in their office. I don't even understand the reason for that kind of padding. It wasn't even like there was a big number song that was trying to finish.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Huh, missed this which is odd, I loved RDR2's story. The sort-of ending was beautiful, especially since I finished on high honour. Wish I could do it all again without hindsight.

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In the end, Micah... Despite my best efforts to the contrary... It turns out I've won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 20, 2023, 08:20:19 pm

Got in the middle of a family feud. The ever-present Romeo and Juliet schtick, of course, except this time it's Lolio and Yuriette, and I can no longer tell if this game is a parody or not. Running into the opening villain talking about leveling up from beating me doesn't help.

Careful striking put me in a position to pull off a 20-something chain strip, removing all be three foes, out of at least twelve. Unfortunately, the three survivors took my pants and destroyed my hat. Got my pants back after the fight, and picked up a plastic baseball bat better than my magazine, but my hat was gone. The money I got from the sidequest was exactly enough to buy a pair of decent headphones to replace the hat.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Akiba'S'Trip. Undead and Undressed, as apparently there's other games in a in series I just found out about.

Quote from: Great Order on January 20, 2023, 04:50:03 pm

Huh, missed this which is odd, I loved RDR2's story. The sort-of ending was beautiful, especially since I finished on high honour. Wish I could do it all again without hindsight.

I was talking about the post-epilogue credits. The main game credits may have been much shorter but I think I did skip those. And yes, the high-honor end was great.

Spoiler: I definitely did (click to show/hide)

NOT go for the money. Arthur was a dying man, he had no use for it and no chance of getting it to John. Helping John is way more important. And a man in the physical process of actively dying from TB beating the shit out of that smug bastard Micah is undeniably the most awesome moment in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 20, 2023, 08:43:05 pm

I stranded several VIPs on rooftops near their destinations.  They did frustrated little dances but paid the fare.

I directed a police car into a fire, causing a traffic jam and then got paid to resolve both situations.

I rescued someone dangling from a rooftop and dropped them off on a higher rooftop.  They kept dinging my score for the rest of the map, but they did pay.

I had two cop cars constantly dispatched to follow me pointlessly until I accidentally came across a robber. They eventually got the robber, but not before he generated a lucrative medivac mission for me. Jerk tried to shoot me too  >:(

I quickly and efficiently put out several fires, ignoring the "call fire department option".  I get paid more this way~  And letting the fires spread doesn't increase the pay, so I did the job well.

I'm almost to the riot missions I think.  I can't wait to deliver cops to those!  They have parachutes right?  Yeah, surely.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sim Copter
There's a lovely patch that makes the game run great on modern Windows! (http://krimsky.net/patchers/scx_dl.html)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 23, 2023, 09:12:18 pm

Doing a high-tech run this time, and I started with a Scarab.

Took me a bit to get used to it and make a decent build (the default autobuild is crap, I've done two ion cannons in the front-facing turrets, IR pulse lasers in the other three front turrets, and two PD lasers in the back for missiles), but I've managed to take out a fleet of derelicts with just the Scarab now that I know how to use it properly.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on January 24, 2023, 05:10:57 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on January 20, 2023, 08:43:05 pm

I stranded several VIPs on rooftops near their destinations.  They did frustrated little dances but paid the fare.

I directed a police car into a fire, causing a traffic jam and then got paid to resolve both situations.

I rescued someone dangling from a rooftop and dropped them off on a higher rooftop.  They kept dinging my score for the rest of the map, but they did pay.

I had two cop cars constantly dispatched to follow me pointlessly until I accidentally came across a robber. They eventually got the robber, but not before he generated a lucrative medivac mission for me. Jerk tried to shoot me too  >:(

I quickly and efficiently put out several fires, ignoring the "call fire department option".  I get paid more this way~  And letting the fires spread doesn't increase the pay, so I did the job well.

I'm almost to the riot missions I think.  I can't wait to deliver cops to those!  They have parachutes right?  Yeah, surely.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sim Copter
There's a lovely patch that makes the game run great on modern Windows! (http://krimsky.net/patchers/scx_dl.html)

You're my hero. I gotta get that!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 24, 2023, 05:57:03 pm

I think it holds up surprisingly well!
I eventually gave up on dispatching cop cars to my location/searchlight.  Even when the suspect is near a road (they spawn in the wilderness too) the cops are very unreliable about getting out to pursue.  Instead I just collect them off their precint roofs and land very close, then patiently hold the spotlight on the suspect long enough for the cop to figure out what to do.

That's mostly how medics work too, except the medic AI is pretty good at finding patients around corners.  Technically you can find and load up the patients yourself but the medics are useful for their ESP... and supposedly they help patients survive longer in the chopper.

I'm near the final levels and I'll occasionally "warn protesters to leave" for some points, but the game doesn't force me to firehose or tear-gas them.  Sometimes only law-enforcement missions will be available, so I have to handhold the cops, but protests can be ignored with little penalty. 

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 24, 2023, 06:53:18 pm

Managed a Tier 3 Golden Core for the first time, with True Sun cultivator. Season was bad and would not be good for months, and I had not acquired any of kind of Max Qi-boosters; Earth Flux, Ganoderma, Red Ginseng, none of that.

The cultivator started out slightly off because her Luck was a bit low, which was fixed by skills within the True Sun tree that boost stats. I built a cultivation room around a giant gingko tree, surrounded by spiritwood logs. Transcribed the other starting Laws and learned all the Qi- and stat-boosting skills. Ate a spirit stone and the starting Forming Pill, and used the Divinity Mind talisman to get mental state as high as possible. Even then, I did not expect a Tier 3 core; I was going for a Tier 4, and kinda expecting a 5.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on January 25, 2023, 07:06:58 am

Plugged a USB port in on the first try, in what is a obvious contradiction of how its supposed to work. Lets go!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real Life

Quote from: Akura on January 24, 2023, 06:53:18 pm

Managed a Tier 3 Golden Core for the first time, with True Sun cultivator. Season was bad and would not be good for months, and I had not acquired any of kind of Max Qi-boosters; Earth Flux, Ganoderma, Red Ginseng, none of that.

The cultivator started out slightly off because her Luck was a bit low, which was fixed by skills within the True Sun tree that boost stats. I built a cultivation room around a giant gingko tree, surrounded by spiritwood logs. Transcribed the other starting Laws and learned all the Qi- and stat-boosting skills. Ate a spirit stone and the starting Forming Pill, and used the Divinity Mind talisman to get mental state as high as possible. Even then, I did not expect a Tier 3 core; I was going for a Tier 4, and kinda expecting a 5.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Think its about time for me to give this game another run.
Some overpowered mods+optimization stuff+Wudang DLC stuff that I haven't given a go yet thats totally worth a try.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 26, 2023, 04:46:58 am

Lost almost every single ship in my fleet taking on a railgun artillery station, but I took it out and recovered everything bar one Scarab.

Not usually a win, but I'm running with Derelict Operations. The more D-Mods I stack, the cheaper ships are to deploy and the less maintenance supplies they use. Since I've had most of my fleet destroyed and recovered they're now riddled with the things so I can field a larger fleet.

And in the same system as that artillery station was a pristine nanoforge, the first one I've found in literal real life months.

Starsector

EDIT: And I found another pristine nanoforge.

I'm finding almost bugger else in useful colony items (Loads that I rarely ever use that Industrial Evolution adds), just a biofactory embryo and a combat drone replicator, but hey, two whole pristine forges!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on January 26, 2023, 10:58:08 pm

Finally put the time in to beat Furi.
Took me 6 years since I ended up stopping playing a few times, but its a very solid good game throughout.

Still more to do, of course, I could try the next difficulty up or speedrun or try for S-rankings, but I think for now I'll just mark it on my "games completed in 2023" list and move on.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 27, 2023, 06:36:42 am

Fleet composition: 1 Astral, 2 Auroras, 2 Furys, 2 Scarabs, 2 Shrikes, 1 Apogee and my new crown jewel, 1 Paragon.

I can consistently take down Remnants and artillery stations with relative ease and minimal losses. I'm only at ~180/240 of my deployment points too, and that's with the Paragon and Astral both having no D-Mods to reduce their deployment costs.

I don't think I've felt this powerful with a fleet before. It's especially fun just sailing the Paragon (The LGS Panic At The Disco, on account of it being a "Disco Ball" build) into the middle of a swarm of destroyers and frigates and watching the lances, high intensity lasers, graviton beams and tactical lasers tear through everything.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 28, 2023, 12:14:15 am

Quote from: lemon10 on January 26, 2023, 10:58:08 pm

Finally put the time in to beat Furi.
Took me 6 years since I ended up stopping playing a few times, but its a very solid good game throughout.

Still more to do, of course, I could try the next difficulty up or speedrun or try for S-rankings, but I think for now I'll just mark it on my "games completed in 2023" list and move on.

This got me to go back and finish the Onnamusha DLC.  I feel like it's a little harder, but generally less than Furier.  It might even have advantages if I fully utilize the flexibility.

I wanted to see if the end was different with a female Rider.
I also wanted to take the obedient path, but... following my favorite The Edge, and especially following The Beat, I couldn't.  I couldn't do that.

"You've changed, Rider."

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 28, 2023, 08:23:55 pm

Accept contract to smuggle 620 units of drugs.

Complete contract, get paid 105,000 credits.

Buy 620 recently smuggled drugs for 95,000 credits.

Take 620 drugs elsewhere, sell them for 370,000 credits.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: NRDL on January 29, 2023, 12:31:10 am

Was able to beat Roy Jones Jr using Paulie Malignaggi. This boxing game allows you to make fights between boxers with two weight classes worth of difference, so I was able to fight light heavyweight Roy Jones using a welterweight Paulie.

It took 11 rounds of constant body punches and avoiding knockout inducing shots by the skin of my teeth, but I eventually reduced Jones' stamina to the point of being able to rock him. Had to knock him down like 5 times before he eventually couldn't get up.


To put this in perspective, this is Roy Jones. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADOgjevCMDk) And this is Paulie Malignaggi. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhNn1jIB3w) Game does a reasonably good job of simulating their relative strength, weight difference and overall athletic ability. I was on the edge of my seat trying to cheese out this superior opponent.

Fight Night Round 4

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 29, 2023, 03:01:44 am

I recall putting my created boxer who was in the smallest weight class up against Muhammad Ali in one of those games. I managed to go to the last round before getting knocked down, but by that point my boxer was knackered and I couldn’t get the images of the ref together and got counted out.

There was an easy way to cheese the game though, I think you could constantly do this weird ducking/weaving move that didn’t use much stamina, and counter punches did extra damage, so if your opponent happened to throw a punch while you were doing that, you could take them down right quick.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on January 30, 2023, 11:11:45 am

One of my best kills yet. Threw a sword at a guy, the handle hit him in the face hard enough to send him flying backwards with the sword going further ahead. I TK-grabbed the sword and jerked it back towards me, where it nailed him, mid-air, through the chest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blade & Sorcery.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on January 30, 2023, 11:30:33 am

Quote from: hector13 on January 29, 2023, 03:01:44 am

I recall putting my created boxer who was in the smallest weight class up against Muhammad Ali in one of those games. I managed to go to the last round before getting knocked down, but by that point my boxer was knackered and I couldn’t get the images of the ref together and got counted out.

There was an easy way to cheese the game though, I think you could constantly do this weird ducking/weaving move that didn’t use much stamina, and counter punches did extra damage, so if your opponent happened to throw a punch while you were doing that, you could take them down right quick.

Ali!  I have the Heroclix figure they made of him, it was a Convention Exclusive set of the comic where he boxed Superman.

---

Played versus Sweden level 2, as the spirits Thunderspeaker and Eyes Watch from Trees.  Thunderspeaker takes the form of a human avatar to lead the natives in battle, while Eyes is a spoopy defense spirit built around counterattacks, as any defense it forms draws in natives to mount a counter offensive.  Sweden can convert lone natives to its side as towns, has worse consequences if it does massive damage in battle (meaning you shouldn't just write off "lost cause" lands to blight), and starts with an extra city.

The combo ended up quite powerful.  By turn two or three I pull off two big victories in the ravage phase, then Thunderspeaker shifts a couple natives over and wipes a third land with their innate power and Manifest, which leaves the entire northern board entirely clear of cities and towns.

The rest was just blocking further builds and destroying the remaining coastline with another ravage win and a tsunami.

Spirit Island

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on January 31, 2023, 08:56:37 pm

Figured out how to stop the game using like 40% of my GPU power while its just chilling doing nothing in the main menu.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dota 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on February 01, 2023, 01:21:56 pm

... and for the audience that might be interested in how to do that...?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on February 01, 2023, 02:38:30 pm

And also does it work for stopping Read Dead Redemption 2 from using 200% of the CPU power of every PC on earth to do anything in-game?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on February 01, 2023, 08:54:34 pm

Quote from: Frumple on February 01, 2023, 01:21:56 pm

... and for the audience that might be interested in how to do that...?

There are couple of different ways actually.

Spoiler: Random Dota optimization stuff (click to show/hide)

(To change launch options right click on Dota 2 in steam, go to properties, then just type the stuff in the launch options bar).
The one I use is sticking:
+engine_no_focus_sleep 500
In your launch options, which sets the max frame rate of the game all the way down to 2 when its out of focus. It has the downside however of making the game visibly super slow when its out of focus but on your other monitor, presumably a delay of 100 (10 frames/sec) would be much better if this bugs you.

You can also do something like:
+fps_max_ui 30
Which simply sets the max UI (and thus main menu) FPS to 30. (If its still too high something like 10 or 20 would also work).

Or you can even do:
+map_enable_background_maps 0
Which completely disables all the main menu background stuff, but that messes up some after game stuff and is pretty ugly.


On a different optimization note I would also highly recommend:
-novid
In launcher options which just skips the intro video and speeds up getting into the game proper.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 07, 2023, 10:59:50 pm

I just beat the Bubbler rematch in Diddy Kong Racing.  I feel like that's something I could use to get into The Salty Spitoon.

Hate that stupid octopus.  I'll be hearing his laughs in my nightmares.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 08, 2023, 06:07:13 pm

Ate SCP-682 from the inside after it was irradiated and turned giant, thus killing it.

Kill SCP-682 Character AI Bot

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 08, 2023, 06:10:00 pm

I thought the entire point of 682 was that it was indestructible because it evolved too quickly to threats?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eric Blank on February 08, 2023, 11:18:08 pm

Apparently not if you eat it from the inside, thus giving it a debilitating tummy ache

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: King Zultan on February 09, 2023, 03:29:59 am

What is Character AI bot?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 09, 2023, 07:26:14 am

It's a site with one of the more modern chatbots that's far closer to talking to an actual person. Someone made one where you have to try to kill 682 which is surprisingly difficult.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on February 10, 2023, 02:38:11 am

Managed a standard enlightenment victory with the aspirant start and a lantern cult, smashing my way through the game via trial and error and kicking myself when I forget there are things I can do (like subverting lore!) to make things go a bit quicker toward the end point.

Endless dreams of the Stag Door were had, ‘cause evidently my way of dealing with expeditions is to throw calignes and maids-in-the-mirror and red prophets and money at them.

I did manage to keep my job at Glover and Glover for the longest time though, to the point I didn’t have to… deal with… Mr Aldern. I’m not sure it’s worth actually getting promoted beyond that though, since it’s so easy to lose the job if you can’t get rid of notoriety reliably.

I did murder three hunters too, two of whom were named and I accidentally gave the Tenacious trait to (which makes them harder to kill),  and had two of my cultists (one was a seer!) locked up. I know of one way to get a favour to deal with that, but by the time I felt I should try to get it it’s too late.

Anyway, on to a different start, different desires, and different cults. Might even buy the DLC :o

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cultist Simulator

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 11, 2023, 11:41:51 am

Just killed me first "Diamond" ranked prey in TheHunter: Call of the Wild.
After reaching level 37 and having walked for +380 km on foot on the Layton Lake map (The Hunter is probably the best walk simulator of them all as the map are so large and frankly amazing looking even on very low settings for my old PC) , i finally killed my first diamond.

Can't believe it took me that insane amount of gameplay hours to finally get 1 diamond as so far the most i saw was at most gold level.
And what was the prey that was ranked Diamond : one of those damned stealth bastard, a rabbit i mean ... a damn rabbit, meaning the money/xp/weapon score bonus from the rank was barely noticable, oh well still happy i got my medal list getting 1 in front of diamond i guess.

Just my luck, i wonder if i will ever see a "great one" (rank above diamond) in my lifetime considering how much it took to see a diamond :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 11, 2023, 08:00:30 pm

Found a Building 21 card a while back, so me and my friend decided to dive into it. First few rounds went as expected, but we actually managed to exfil a couple of times. One time we barely made it because the wheelson set up outside the lift and minced us while the doors were closing, but we survived long enough for it to count. Managed to get a good few operator kills too.

Warzone 2 DMZ

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on February 12, 2023, 01:06:31 am

Quote from: Robsoie on February 11, 2023, 11:41:51 am

Just killed me first "Diamond" ranked prey in TheHunter: Call of the Wild.

I've got 80 hours* total in this game and I've only seen 2 diamonds and no sign of a "great one". The first diamond was a mallard.....

The second one was a friggin' moose that I stumbled randomly across while trying to clear a few missions before a game update that was going to reset the map. I was next to a lake trying to take a picture of a bear I couldn't find and saw this thing lumbering over to take a drink. I have a skill that lets me estimate the approximate trophy level when spotting things, so I knew when I saw it it had a chance of being a diamond rank (also guessed from the giant friggin' antlers)... and this made me incredibly nervous because messing up the kill by failing to hit a vital organ or taking more than two shots automatically demotes it by one rank to "gold". I ended up spending far too long crawling around in the grass trying to get a good angle, but somehow finally managed to line up a perfect shot that miraculously dropped it within seconds.

One of my best moments in the game, second only to the time I spent hours looking for, stalking and finally successfully taking down an incredibly rare albino (female) elk.


*To be fair, a reasonable proportion of my "playtime" is getting into position in a blind and then sitting around reading for half an hour with the game minimized, waiting for an animal to show up to eat/drink/rest at a need zone. It can be that sort of game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on February 14, 2023, 11:44:06 am

i usually never spend any time in a blind , mostly because i'm often unlucky and nearly nothing comes around them (and sometime those pre-built blinds are terribly located ) , i have more fun just walking around until i either hear a prey or spot some interesting track that i'll follow.
The only times i went into a blind is for trying some of the missions (for the xp as fortunately they are usually not really worth doing) that required being in one at a specific area and killing a specific prey, i just hated those .

Anyways, took me a long, very long time to grind the +3200 shotgun score required (due to all shotgun ammo having extremely low penetration, good luck to hit a vital organ to get your weapon best score, and even with the ammo specific to rank 1 prey you'll still never get more than 25 shotgun score for each kill) but i finally unlocked the last ammo type for that kind of weapon, the 12 GA Slug, and wow what a massive difference it does (as it has huge penetration).
Felt like i achieved something when i shot a Roosevelt Elk (those animals look really great in the game even with my very low visual quality settings)  that immediately died with both its lungs pierced by the slug ammo, something impossible with the previous shotgun ammo i had.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 14, 2023, 06:28:06 pm

Fucking clawed my way to forming Aotearoa. Getting my GDP up was difficult, buoyed only by my gold mines. Kept building, pausing construction to let my debt recover enough to continue building again, repeat ad nauseum.

Then the UK decided it hated me for no reason. Started harming relations. It took 20. Fucking. Years. to pull my relations up with them because I couldn't just bankroll them without burning up all my credit in a matter of months.

Then I formed a council republic because I wanted to. Didn't know that'd upset the whole world including New South Wales who I, again, had to claw my relations up with.

Finally, *finally*, formed it though. It's the year 1911, and the Maori are in their rightful place as the undisputed rulers of Oceania.

Victoria 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 14, 2023, 07:04:17 pm

Survived my first Shapeshifting Tribulation. Xiong Gong, a Bear Yaoguai following the Six Paths Reincarnation Law, trained for over a year before reaching the second breakthrough of the Creed of Asura stage.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Second breakthrough, because for Six Paths, the initial part of each stage massively drops their stats - the start stage for Creed of Asura puts them about as weak as a decent-statted Qi Shaper.

By the time he broke through, he had already high skills, including one that more or less locked his Mental State at 125, no matter how long he cultivated or used Spiritual Breath Chant(mind the Obsessions). The breakthrough put his max qi at 108k.

Left my agency at Mt. South untouched for nearly a year as well, except for sending Xiong Gong to deal with disasters(even weak, a Primordial Spirit is still a Primordial Spirit as far as disaster recovery efforts go), allowing it to accumulate over 2 million belief - which for Xiandao Cultivators converts to skill points. Maxed out his Protection skill, and sent him to the library to study a lot of useful manuals: Reversa Cycle, a few unorthodox manuals, etc. After all that, fed him a Spirit Crystal, Spirit Stone, Qi Regen Pill, used Spiritual Breath Chant to fill up. Then started the tribulation.

Shapeshifter Tribulations are actually five tribulations, one of each element, in this case 5 clouds of 40k qi. It looked to me that most of Xiong's qi was spent recharging his artifact for about 1000 every few seconds. It was doing damage, though. I did stop casting Innate Qi for a while, because I thought it cost too much qi and because I misread the effect for Reversa Cycle. That one is a spell that instantly restores the user's qi, which I had thought had said cost a little over 3000 qi to restore 17k qi, but I was wrong. I left an extra 0 off that. It restores 170k qi, and has no other cost. It's broken as hell. And with it so was the tribulation. And the now-human Xiong Gong has four ears for some reason, two human, two bear.

About halfway through the tribulation, the Seven-Slaughtering Sect, probably thinking that with our only Primordial Spirit-level cultivator tied up fighting a cloud of literally Heaven pissed off at him that it was an easy score. Except both were only Core Shaping-level. The promptly got punched in the face by our resident physical cultivator, their dying bodies thrown into the Hellgate, and one of them definitely going to feed the Crimson Tree that I probably never should have planted.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 16, 2023, 12:51:30 am

Just beat Wizpig, using Pipsy.  Where's my trophy?

I seriously wonder sometimes if Rare play tested this game with actual kids, or if they just tuned it based on the developers who played it for 5+ hours a day as part of development.  I don't think I could have possibly beaten this as a kid.  You have to be almost perfect with getting green boosts on zippers, and on top of that you have to know that you need to let off of the A button afterward to get extra boost out of it.

I'm wondering now if that's a bug.  The game doesn't tell you about it, and only tells you that if you let off of the button before hitting a zipper that you get a boost.  If it's a bug, I'm questioning how you'd beat Wizpig without it.

Ugh, just a few more silver coin races and the rematch with him left.

Diddy Kong Racing

Edit: Finished the game last night, and can now die happy knowing I've avenged my childhood against this game and will never have to race Wizpig ever again in my life.  The rematch wasn't as hard as the original, but still sucked.  I must have screwed up the first 10 seconds of the race 20 times.

Odd that the Future Fun World races were generally a good bit easier than the Dragon Forest races.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 17, 2023, 08:57:44 pm

Pumped a girl full of everything I could give her, as hard as I could. Even to the point of breaking her heart.

And by that I mean I made my first Tier 1 Golden Core. I wouldn't do anything untoward to a woman(plus she does have a boyfriend). So many rare magical drugs were consumed, and millions of points of inspiration were used for the necessary skills, including Remolded Lifeblood which results in a permanent heart injury that there are only two ways to cure: Rebirth, or a single pill whose recipe is very hard to acquire, and I'm not entirely sure about Rebirth. On the other hand, once I have that recipe, she can make it because she's the sect's alchemy specialist. Even better, during the breakthrough, when her qi had fallen to around 25%, a random event fired that fully restored it. The total score was over 185k.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Quote from: Telgin on February 16, 2023, 12:51:30 am

Diddy Kong Racing

Darn it, now I kinda want to play that again. Pretty sure I remember Pipsy being my main, too.

I wonder if it'll end up on the Switch emulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 17, 2023, 10:13:09 pm

I tried to play the game as Diddy exclusively, but after the second or world I kept running into situations where playing Pipsy was just... so much easier.  Her maneuverability makes her almost mandatory for some of the tracks.  Tiptup is probably close, but I found myself relying on her a lot.  I beat Wizpig with her both times.

I'm pretty sure the AI cheats with maneuverability.  I don't know how it's possible for Krunch to make half of the turns he does when driven by the computer, where you need someone like Pipsy to make the turns.

Banjo and Krunch make the hovercraft a lot easier though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on February 17, 2023, 10:57:18 pm

Quote from: Telgin on February 16, 2023, 12:51:30 am

I don't think I could have possibly beaten this as a kid.  You have to be almost perfect with getting green boosts on zippers, and on top of that you have to know that you need to let off of the A button afterward to get extra boost out of it.

You absolutely do, and as a kid it takes you hours and hours and hours and many, many many failed attempts. I 100%'d that game as a kid back in the 90s, and it took months, probably well over a hundred hours of raw gameplay by the end of it.

Iirc there's things you just flat out cannot do without using the chicken, nothing else (well, other than the clock) can go fast enough. Some of the last bits of the collectables are just friggin' insidious.

e: Like, I've forgotten most of that game by this point, but I do distinctly remember being an engine of hate for parts of it by the time I was done. Kid frumple did not understand the profundity of the sunk cost fallacy being a fallacy. Put all that time into the damn thing gonna' finish it *gnashing of teeth*

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 17, 2023, 11:13:35 pm

I was able to get all of the balloons, trophies and T.T. amulet pieces without using Drumstick, but I didn't do whatever it takes to unlock T.T. and I read that was really hard even by the game's standards so I wouldn't be surprised if you needed Drumstick or glitches to do some of them.  Life is too short.  I beat Wizpig and I am happy.

I'd like to talk to the devs who worked on this game and ask them if they let any kids actually play the game when developing it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuuBluum on February 18, 2023, 01:12:23 am

Apparently if you tap A at a particular rhythm to accelerate, it happens to be... considerably uncapped compared to just holding it?

Also notably the game has zero rubber-banding whatsoever.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on February 18, 2023, 05:54:56 am

I don't know if it counts as owning, but it did make me feel like I was a pro, so whatever.
I started the Malta Expansion Arizona campaign, the one with very little building space and plenty of wild dinosaurs, on jurassic difficulty, of course.

Obviously, the lack of starting funds was a problem. I had to hire scientists, refuel the generator, build basic facilities. I had to start making money quickly, so I took a trip to the desert and tranqued a herd of Gallimimuses. From there on it was only getting easier.
The initial trickle of cash, I've managed to upgrade tranq darts, and build a new enclosure. Caught a pair of Metriacanthosauruses and a pack of Coelophysis. Then it got very simple, and I could finally make my own dinosaurs in addition to the captured ones.

There was a period of stagnation when the oldest dinos started dying out. I was sending expeditions FURIOUSLY to keep the ratings from dropping, and fortunately I managed to keep up both time-wise and financially.

In the end I had six enclosures
1. Gallimimus, Amargasaurus, Sauropelta
2. Pachycephalosaurus, Wuerhosaurus, Lystrosaurus
3. Carnotaurus, Coelophysis
4. Baryonyx, Suchomimus, Moros
5. Torosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Struthiomimus
6. Tyrannosaurus

There was no major escapes. A Moros once got out when I was replacing the fencing, but it ran back in before the new fence was completed, so I didn't even have to tranquilize it.

The second the T-rex touched the ground, the rating reached 5 stars. I was just a little over the par time, but who cares about that.

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Jurassic World Evolution 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on February 18, 2023, 06:20:44 am

Quote from: Akura on February 17, 2023, 08:57:44 pm

Pumped a girl full of everything I could give her, as hard as I could. Even to the point of breaking her heart.

And by that I mean I made my first Tier 1 Golden Core. I wouldn't do anything untoward to a woman(plus she does have a boyfriend). So many rare magical drugs were consumed, and millions of points of inspiration were used for the necessary skills, including Remolded Lifeblood which results in a permanent heart injury that there are only two ways to cure: Rebirth, or a single pill whose recipe is very hard to acquire, and I'm not entirely sure about Rebirth. On the other hand, once I have that recipe, she can make it because she's the sect's alchemy specialist. Even better, during the breakthrough, when her qi had fallen to around 25%, a random event fired that fully restored it. The total score was over 185k.

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Damn, nice luck and congratulations. Still a long way to go!
*Grumbles at memories of Lushu ruining my weather*.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on February 18, 2023, 10:19:44 am

Quote from: LuuBluum on February 18, 2023, 01:12:23 am

Apparently if you tap A at a particular rhythm to accelerate, it happens to be... considerably uncapped compared to just holding it?

Also notably the game has zero rubber-banding whatsoever.

Tapping the A button is supposedly a bit faster than just holding it, but I couldn't reliably get it to work so I lived without cheating.

That's interesting about the rubber banding, since I was wondering about that.  The fact that you can get ahead of the AI and stay there made me guess there wasn't any or it was limited, but it sure feels like it cheats in turns and corners.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuuBluum on February 20, 2023, 04:31:32 pm

Didn't think much of the weight of the cargo I was planning on hauling. 750lb of copper ore? Why not?

As it turns out it's a bit much for the dhow. The ship was unstable, to say the least, and a good way of sailing to Gold Rock City the ship almost capsized. Fortunately managed to save things by shuffling the copper around, but boy that was one risky trip.

Life lesson: don't overload your ship.


Sailwind

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 25, 2023, 08:10:40 pm

I really enjoy turning countries into council republics with cooperative ownership. Maybe it's the market socialist in me getting a hard on at the prospect of a country run by co-ops. It's especially great passing it and watching the standard of living start to skyrocket as all the previously downtrodden suddenly find themselves running their own businesses.

Victoria 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on March 09, 2023, 03:36:19 pm

I made it through the dungeon on my 3rd try, killed Baphomet (a summoner/mage demon), and got an amulet that gave me the power to destroy the world.

Used a dagger (lunge, low-medium damage) with accuracy (higher minimum damage) that throws a dagger that also explodes 3 turns later, a glove that gave me more damage, armor that gave me an ability that stuns enemies who hit me for 1 round, a ring that gave my weapon burn (starts a fire in the next location I attack) every 7 rounds, the cultist amulet (take 3 turns to die, which I didn't need, but also heals me when I kill something), and boots that have a quick ability that lets me move in a chosen direction for 3 turns after I act (great for survival and leaving behind explosions). Also, 3 of my enchantments were chance (1/8 turns on average, but only one power of a type can fire each turn) of healing me. Good damage, good healing, and mobility. Good set-up for a roguelike.

Labyrinth of Legendary Loot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: LuuBluum on March 09, 2023, 04:11:44 pm

Finally did a complete game, as Serbia no less. Managed to conquer all of the territory required to form Yugoslavia, and then while I was at it proceeded to conquer the rest of the region. Managed to become a great power, too.

And for sufficient measure, proceeded to throttle Austria into oblivion.

Victoria 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on March 12, 2023, 08:54:20 pm

Worked out the systems enough to modernise my country, drag the GDP up, improve and expand my army, and force Austria to recognise me with the help of my buddy Russia.

Victoria 3

EDIT: I'm getting somewhere with Rimworld's combat now. Past couple of raids I managed to deal with no problem despite being outgunned.

First I had everyone pull out their knives and hide around a corner. Every time an opponent came around (ie when they weren't too busy smashing replaceable stuff) I'd have the all descend on them. Only injuries were some bruises and a single torso gunshot.

About half a day later, another raid. This one I dealt with simply by outranging them - Guy with a Lee-Enfield sniped, and when they got closer the guy with an UMP would finish them off.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 14, 2023, 07:10:14 pm

Teamed up together with best girl and best guy to take down a giant rock monster making a mess of my farm. Earned so many levels in mining during that battle which took two days.

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Sun Haven. After playing it some 5 hours, I'd say my initial assessment of "Stardew Valley but slightly better" was pretty accurate. Definitely some QoL features here that SV could really have used. The main thing SV does better is watering crops; in SH the only large-scale easy watering method I've seen is a late-game spell in the farming skill tree that I'm far from unlocking. Otherwise, it's the watering can, which waters one tile at time; the first waters only 10 tiles before refilling, the second only 15.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 18, 2023, 02:47:42 pm

Finally completed the optional storyline of the spacemarines during a skirmish with an IG ally vs orks in Gladius : Relics of War

Oh we won much earlier as the orks were destroyed, but i selected "one more turn" so i could still try to complete the several quests left to do.
The last quest to conclude the story was a "survive 20 turns" mission and was rather fun

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with nekrons high end troops, that also came each with a high level, spawning regularly and moving to attack the device location that i had moved to my base previously.
It wasn't hard as unfortunately for the necrons i was playing on low difficulty and i had a lot of high level troops after the war with the orks .
But still there were a lot of Monolith and Obelisk coming through, but i was prepared and had many good units defending the path toward my base.

(https://i.imgur.com/MwyN8Ai.jpg)

At turn 6 i noticed something new spawned around my first line of defense, right in front of my fleet of Stormraven.
It was the leader of the necron army, a "Transcendant C'Tan" that according to the quest description was supposed to be some kind of unstoppable very big bad (though from what i remember reading those guys got nerfed hard in lore , going from powerfull masterminds with robotguys as their slaves to being the actual crippled slaves to those robotguys)

(https://i.imgur.com/inCpsFu.jpg)

Well, it was really different from what the story and description told and hyped the poor bugger for, because he was just pathetic, the turn he appeared, my stormravens supported by some devastators that just arrived the turn before (they serves in Gladius as early artillery) obliterated the poor thing in a single turn.

Then a couple of turns later it respawned away on a border of my IG ally, that also obliterated it .. 2 turns later , wow what a non-threat that ultimate threat was.

But in the end we won .

(https://i.imgur.com/6z1BFJq.jpg)

oh well, even the questline victory text makes that C'Tan guy much more powerful than the pitiful thing he was in game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on March 18, 2023, 10:10:33 pm

I played the game and did the quest from the necron side, looks like it has the same end game. If I understand the lore and such correctly, those transcendent C'tan guys aren't suppose to be the big bad guy that you're fighting. They are just little enslaved C'tan shards, and the big bad guy is a bigger non enslaved C'tan shard. He enslaves the local necron forces, including their enslaved c'tan shards. The big bad guy doesn't appear as a unit on the map.

Spoiler: Further thoughts on Transcendent C'tan as a unit I wrote for some reason. (click to show/hide)

The transcendent C'tan are a little bit wimpy though for what they are. They are the "ultimate" infantry unit for the Necrons but stats wise they are a bit meh. They cost twice as much to make and upkeep (although their production cost is only about 30% more) then the next lower infantry, and in exchange they have less armor, probably less damage, but a bit more health. They can skim and thus go over water but the next lower infantry have jump packs and you can cart them around in an airplane anyway so unless your water features are important that's not too much extra mobility. They also get 3 active abilities they can use, but they sorta seem to suffer from the fact that all three are primarily damage dealing abilities and aren't really significantly better then their basic attack, abet they are ranged. They have some cool passives, but just don't seem worth it. They can merge with the obelisks to make the necrons ultimate units... which is an obelisk with the passive and active abilities of the transcendent c'tan, which suffers even more from the abilities being damaged focused since the obelisks base guns are far more powerful. Although it also gets the health of the C'tan on top of it's own, so that's nice I guess. Since I sorta found that in the late game I was gated more by upkeep then by production I didn't really make many transcendent c'tans, preferring to just spam out obelisks and doom scythes (which also sorta suck because of how fragile they are but at least they are fast and killy)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 19, 2023, 08:14:47 am

Ah that explains why it was so disapointing to see how easy i could deal with this enemy in comparison to what the quest description made it appear if the guy refered in the quest is not that ingame unit.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on March 22, 2023, 06:00:45 pm

Killed the goddamn Flood Dragon. Finally. That took weeks, real life, of prep work. Prior to that, I did successfully get my Shendao cultivator to the highest mental state, but that required a bit of cheat-modding so it probably doesn't count. Though to be fair, she was bugged out anyways.

Nobody died. There were some limbs lost, but that's actually quite easy to fix. Only real and permanent damage to the sect was a loss of a few tiles of spirit soil I was growing herbs on.

Main fighters were the dog, a physical cultivator with 72k attack power in his right fist(the only attack secret body equipped), the Shendao cultivator with her divine artifact: a Spirit Crystal Vessel with an attack value of about 63k, the Stand artifact being named Infinite Evil Expelling Vessel, and enough qi recover to be basically invincible. And lastly, four Xiandao cultivators, two Grand Chariot and two Seven-Slaughtering Sword, all armed with T10-T11 Quality 100 Jade or Holy Stone(earth is good vs Flood Dragon) Spear artifacts, 10 in all. Artifact power ratings were 20k-25k, except my second disciple(that is, promoted this whole run), who had nearly 42k. Also had my sect leader on standby to dispel the storm.

Prep work included feeding everyone(except the physical) a combination of Spirit Stone, Spirit Crystal, Spirit Powder, and Shield Pill, and having everyone carry a spare Shield Pill and Divine Powder(physical carried food).


The fight itself, surprisingly, had few moments of any real suspense. Targeted the claws first, then the tail, then the forbidden scale(requires dispelling the storm three times), then the horn, and finally the main body with over 7 million qi. There were moments where I needed to pull fighters off to pick up more Divine Powder, but they were right back in the fight even if they lost an arm or so. The risk of his ultimate attack was... completely nil. He tried, but the only times he gained any charge for it was when he gained 50 points to it when he hit his True Form(main body <75% qi, claws become invulnerable hence killing them first) and two points from a Sanguine Absorption from an unbutchered snake corpse. He lost 30 points of it after I dispelled the storm again.

Unfortunately, the damn thing's corpse crashed right into the kitchen and part of the freezer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 25, 2023, 07:33:26 am

I have attained Stupidity in Loop Hero. Yesterday's attempt, my first time trying this particular build/strategy, resulted in 207 loops before I ended the run because I wanted to use my computer for other things.

Today I have refined the strategy, and have lined up other errands to do while I just leave it looping in the background.


Considering the strategy doesn't benefit from equipping so much as the starting equipment, let alone anything else that drops, it's safe to just ignore until you're ready to pull the plug.

Peak lööps, bröther.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on March 27, 2023, 10:05:40 am

Worked out how to get the economy working properly and stop you from suffering from a massive amount of radicals by constantly pulling up your SoL. Made my first 1bn+ GDP nation. Admittedly that was as the USA so it was much simpler (Helped by me taking almost all of central/southern Africa) but still, 21 average SoL, 1.2bn economy, 200mn+ population, and only 2.5mn radicals with over 100mn loyalists.

Victoria 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on March 27, 2023, 01:08:33 pm

I nuked a large ninja base into the ground.

I brought 12 DC launchers 27 Baby Nukes, and 2 Barells of Nuke. I used up all the Baby nukes on ground floor, levelling most of it. I was in fact surprised when the ninjas there did not surrender on the first turn and I had to hunt the survivors down after I ran out of nukes.

On the basement floor, I used tanks to place the Barells of Nuke, but they turned out to not be very effective (Even a thin Ninja Wall does stop a BoN explosion, even if it is knocked down in the process.). I knew DC launchers would not be effective underground, so I did not use them even though I did recoup 2 Baby Nukes.

In the rampage through the base, I lost one gal, she got hammered by a Ninja Nurse.

I killed 153 hostiles, recovered 72 corpses. 5 foes were knocked unconscious, and 1 surrendered. Total hostiles were 159 (assuming there was no lethal friendly fire on their side).

Unfortunately, the Ninjas did manage to blow up my equipment stash in the underground, so while I won, it will cost me a lot to replace my gear.

Edit: As it turns out, the gal that died was one that had a Stasis Pod assigned, so while she lost stats and armor, she herself will not be missed for long.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 28, 2023, 11:22:51 am

Noticed latest update of The Hunter : Call of the Wild added a free lodge for everyone (to be built on the Layton Lakes reserve) , nice so at least now for people that buy no dlc there is a reason to use that costly taxidermise option when checking a prey you killed and wants to keep as a trophy.

Taking a walk in on Hirschfelden i heard some noise from a red deer.
As they usually make some nice money, i crouched and went under some heavy vegetation cover and started to use the deer-specific caller.

After a while i spotted a rather interesting red deer as it had some huge and very odd horns, i knew this wasn't a normal one.
Observing with my binocs it appears this one was a "mythical" red deer (level 8 animal) , never saw one before in the hundred of hours walking around the 2 massive free reserves of the game.

What a perfect target for a trophy display on the free lodge.
So i aimed my 7mm (one of the best non-DLC rifle, even if its bullets are slightly less penetrating than the Rangemaster .338, it has less bullet drop and better handling) and managed to land a good shot that killed the target nearly on the spot

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(https://i.imgur.com/UO090HB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/afHBrUI.jpg)

So happy for my first mythical (there exist a level 9 for animal that is called legendary but never saw any in hundred of hour) , that for some reason only gave me a gold medal , i pressed enter to move on after checking the prey.
... and noticed that i ... forgot ... to ... taxidermize it, and now it's gone ...

Oh well, probably never going to see another mythical in the game ... but later a herd of european bison paid the price of me being furious at being stupid, and i managed to kill a nice one that got me another gold medal, at least this one i didn't forgot to get it as a trophy

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(https://i.imgur.com/jgXH9B3.jpg)
It's like the bison is telling me "I'm so disappointed in you human"

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: DeKaFu on March 28, 2023, 01:32:34 pm

Quote from: Robsoie on March 28, 2023, 11:22:51 am

... and noticed that i ... forgot ... to ... taxidermize it, and now it's gone ...

I'm sure the moment has long passed now, but for future reference.... the game automatically stores the last unsaved harvest you made, so if you'd gone to the trophy lodge and checked your saved trophies list immediately before killing anything else you still would have been able to save/taxidermize it. Not sure if learning that now makes it better or worse.  :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on March 28, 2023, 04:07:37 pm

I guess that's what they call rubbing salt in the wound, but thanks at least i know there's a way for the next time, if it ever happen again considering how rare those things are  :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on March 28, 2023, 07:51:40 pm

Had a solid silver meteor open up an ancient danger within a week of starting. My guys only had knives, so it was basically a death sentence. Figured I'd ride it out and see if I could survive.

Turns out, it was insects rather than mechanoids. Still, spelopedes (Thankfully no megaspiders) aren't pushovers without ranged weapons or good melee weapons, and I had neither. One of the spelopedes isolated itself and I fell on it with all five tribals. The knives worked surprisingly well, and it was, after a good scuffle, killed. The other spelopede and two megascarabs then ran right past all my guys and towards base. After getting halfway there they went passive, so I figured the AI had broken and set them to fully passive. Guys all went past, then suddenly they got aggressive, except this time the pawns were all split up and there was three things attacking. They, luckily, tried to kill the brawler. He held them off long enough for everyone else to arrive and kill them off. Overall casualties: Everyone cut up, one missing eye, one missing toe, and no deaths. Reward: Power claw, skin hardening techprint, a building to tear down, and whatever's in the caskets.

Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Kagus on March 30, 2023, 04:48:21 pm

After many attempts and more than a couple very close calls, I lead my zombie hordes to victory against the tide of good, finally securing my powers as the superior magick.

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Magicka, solo clear Invasion of Elwenhús challenge

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on April 01, 2023, 02:49:20 am

Leif's trial was a disaster at the first try, but the second time I've persevered.

I knew what I was doing now, so I could build a strategy - I knew that ballistae would hit 100% for high damage, so I tried towaste their ammo with high HP characters assisted by Celine's and Jean's healing, as well as as Veronica's summoned gimp. Even so, Panette/Veronica and Zelkov/Tiki got wrecked. Finally I've sent Kagetsu alone to finish off the archers and clerics down south. He did that easily, then rejoined the rest on the bridge by engaging with Camilla and taking a shortcut.

I was hoping to kill something on the other side of the river with Lyn's Astra Storm, but I had Lyn equipped on Ivy for some reason. Taking Ivy was a mistake, really; not only was she unable to utilize her emblem, but she's also extremely vulnerable to ranged attacks, including ballistae. She's also outclassed as a magic user by Celine and even Jean who can't even cast A grade spells. Her mobility isn't an asset if she has to stay in the back outside of the range of enemies.

Back to the important stuff. Rather than using tanky characters, I've pushed through the bridge with Alcryst and Alear who were almost impossible to hit when hiding in the thicket. Alcryst is surprisingly viable in melee when engaged with an emblem, in this case with Hector.

On the eastern bank I've discovered that the ballistae couldn't hit Alear for some reason. I still managed to get Ivy killed, because I assumed the siege engines would target her shadow clones. Whoopsie.

Leif's mounted magesscared me a little, but I had good old Jean who can tank magic pretty well, as well as counter magic users with martial arts. The first thing I had him do, however, was to get surrounded, and weaken most of the remaining enemies with Ike's special attacks. While others finished off the mooks, Kagetsu/Camilla and Alear/Edelgard focused on Leif himself. Kagetsu had 50% to crit with his wo dao, while Alear could use a wide range of weaponry thanks to his emblems.

Still can't get through Robin/Chrom's trial though.

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Fire Emblem Engage

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 02, 2023, 07:49:29 pm

Getting pretty good a Mobile Infantry combat. Winning melee gunfights, sniper duels, even taking out a few tanks. Almost got surprised by a Bradley, but they didn't notice me and I put an AT rocket into its ammo rack.

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War Thunder.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 08, 2023, 11:29:52 pm

Was doing quite well in my Space Haven game - technically the tutorial game but hey it starts out the same! - with 14 crew members and excesses in basically everything I needed to run my ship and keep my crew fit and healthy.

I was cruising around looking for chemicals and derelicts, but ran into pirates.

“Easy peasy,” says I “I have quite some crew from captured and converted pirates attacking my ship.”

Unfortunately this one has ship weapons and I hadn’t installed shield generators to cover my re-charging of the hyperspace engines. They shot me up a bit, and offered a ceasefire, which I rejected ‘cause I have no idea what I’m doing. They destroyed my ship, which I hitherto did not know destroyed all of my pod bags and shuttle bays, of which I had 6 and 2 respectively, and all 4 of my engines. They stopped shooting me, which makes sense given that my ship was now open to the vacuum of space.

I had enough resources to build a pod bay and a shuttle bay, though I had to dismantle two jukeboxes in order to get the tech blocks, because I was going to raid the scummy bastard pirates what did this to me! Unfortunatelt, everyone was dying due to the whole freezing and suffocating thing that vacuum does.

Or so I thought! One person lived! Luckily someone with some weapon skills, enough to wield a laser rifle, and kited out with an armored vest. Reece, the Revenger. I got set his working priorities to construct and he built the shuttle bay, and coasted over to the pirate ship.

Upon entry, a formal declaration of war was made, because why not, and out the shuttle he popped, faced with two pirates protecting the airlock. Reece ran to cover, taking potshots at these “gentlemen” but apparently couldn’t shoot beyond the pirate’s own docked shuttle, necessitating a quick repositioning as they tried to flank him.

Vitner was the first pirate to fall, sizzled by well placed shots, quickly followed by Jon’s near-death surrender. The door to the cargo bay was opened, revealing a nice long corridor populated by three further pirates, angered at the death of one and the cowardice of another of their crew mates.

Reece retreated behind Jon’s previously occupied cover, and took aim at Dan and Flint. One of them had lasers, but both fell to Reece’s well-placed blasts, followed by another surrender from Chris, who was grazed by a laser shot or something I don’t know he was undamaged according to the HUD.

Reece pushed forward, revealing Ellen, the vicious pirate captain further down the corridor, who was blasted and she surrendered on the floor, too broken to continue the fight.

Unfortunately, Kris got a lucky shot in and Reece, the craven piece of shit, surrendered with barely a scratch on him.

… the pirates offered to ransom him back, however, for some credits and supplies, and Reece once again decided to fight the bastards, and once again surrendered to Kris because Kris is apparently nails.

This went on for a few more attempts, one of which resulted in Jon, Ellen, and Chris’ death, before finally Reece killed Kris and took over the ship.

Unfortunately despite the undamaged nature of the vessel, I couldn’t claim it, so I had to painstakingly replace the hull of my own broken vessel, which is slightly difficult in vacuum because Reece couldn’t sleep or eat or breathe, but we got there in the end, with the aid of some civilian vessels offering to patch up Reece.

Now I have an oversized vessel that I could probably shave a lot of excess hull from to save in hyperfuel, as Reece’s industry skill caps put at 4, and I need 5 to make energy rods to power the ship, and 6 to make hyperfuel so I can actually move the ship.

Reece also can’t grow food, because the only thing he’s capable of is wholesale murder, apparently.

One thing I may be able to do is enslaving people, though it would necessitate declaring war on one faction or another, and then them surrendering to me. I would need someone who can actually make things though, given Reece’s aforementioned shortcomings.

Oh well! A game I thought lost continues for a time, with a not particularly useful crew member and possible murder in the future.

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Space Haven

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on April 11, 2023, 02:30:46 pm

Playing Brazil, and I've reached the point I can take on France and win. I mean, I lost the war, but that was because I had to entice Britain on to my side (France sided with Bolivia) and Britain's fucking useless at invading places they don't already have a front, and to enforce the goal they wanted I'd have had to capture their capital.

Still, kicked France's arse in the Brazilian theater.

Vicky 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 17, 2023, 11:03:15 am

Had some unbelievable luck.

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Planet Hephaestus
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Low
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Rich
 
Features:
Outstanding beauty
Edible plants
Useful animals

Hephaestus's ocean tosses with slow, tall waves, beneath a blue sky. The colonists live in tall cities of steel and glass beneath the planet's open sky, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs. In the first city stands a monument to the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Planets visited: 4

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   1000
Final technology level (Information Age):   2000
Final culture (Post-Scarcity Utopia):   2500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1000
Surviving cultural database × 10:   860
Total:   10360

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Seedship. (https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on April 20, 2023, 09:45:02 am

P-ranked John Gutter and Pepperman in Pizza Tower.

It took about 10 minutes to get Pepperman right, but John Gutter took about 40 minutes.  If the first level of the game took that long, I can only imagine how long some of the later levels would take to get good enough to P-rank them.  John Gutter is about 3 minutes long with lap 2, so screwing up and having to retry is only moderately painful.  Some of the later levels can be closer to 7 minutes, so having to retry them dozens of times sounds like misery.

I think I'm content with my level of achievement here.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 20, 2023, 06:37:22 pm

Finally completed the storyline of Dying Light.
Unfortunately really bad ending sequence (while the game had lots of cool in mission up to then)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Basically the last fight is you being a complete idiot and not shooting the vile sociopathic truly evil bad guy in the face immediately with your mighty shotgun like you wanted to do since "something" happened but the game forcing you to wait and talk for some reason until bad guy is playing you and you stupidly fall into his trick you saw coming from a while.

This to force the player to instead solve that last mission with a stupid quick-time event in which you need to press a combination of button to win or you die and you redo the quick-time event until you win.

But anyways it's done and that bastard is dead.

Still have tons of things to do post-game (the amount of content is rather great), but instead i decided to go for The Following, the enormous (it's even bigger than the main campaign !) dlc  that came for free with the Enhanced Edition and that is the direct sequel to the main campaign.
Driving that buggy around is a lot of fun, that feature specific to The Following is good as the new giant countryside map is much less parkour-oriented and more about exploration.

Oh and the "Bozak Horde" dlc is as garbage and uninteresting as most people reported it to be, i thought a horde mode in a game like Dying Light would be delightfull but they managed to screw it up.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on April 21, 2023, 02:07:03 am

I ran my first settlement since foxes were introduced, prestige 6 difficulty.

Knowing that there will be increased food consumption and fertile soil, I started with a small farm and oil for events. It was a slow start because the first glade I opened had no fertile soil, and the event only accepted luxury resources. I had to tear the thing down to keep it from doing damage. I think it was the one that lowers morale for every 10 amber in storage, so I actually did more harm to myself that way.

I chose cornerstone to prioritize vegetable production, and it paid off when I discovered veggie nodes and fertile ground in other glades. I nearly ran out of food at some point, but once the industry took off, vegetables and flour were my main export

I played a long game with the orders. I took maybe three that involved sending packs of crops, and again, I could only really do that once I've picked, earned and bought enough farming-related cornerstones.

Near the end stagnation hit. I didn't want to open new glades because there were foxes and harpies leaving every storm. Then I realized that at some point I picked the cornerstone that granted me progress for every 60 worth of stuff sold. I had so much veggies and planks that I  could literally buy victory.

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Against the Storm

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Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on April 21, 2023, 08:14:12 am

Quote from: Robsoie on April 20, 2023, 06:37:22 pm

Oh and the "Bozak Horde" dlc is as garbage and uninteresting as most people reported it to be, i thought a horde mode in a game like Dying Light would be delightfull but they managed to screw it up.

I'm surprised you thought it was a horde mode after you played it. I thought it was more a series of challenges that I found interesting but a bit difficult for my tastes.

I didn't get to the Harran Stadium before I started getting bored with the game, admittedly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 21, 2023, 08:30:58 am

well the name "bozak horde" made me think before play it was a "horde" mode, i don't know it seemed to make sense to me :D
The challenge started well, you need to rush through a location to disarm a bomb.
Then crap started : take that weapon and kill a lot of virals. Except that weapon is absolute low damage garbage, virals don't seem to die from hitting them with that garbage weapon (at least if you kept your campaign weaponry , with weapon that can actually deal pain) and seem to only be killable from using your kick crushing skull ability (assuming you picked it with your character) when you climb and wait until a viral climb.

Wouldn't have been too bad if the virals always went to climb after you (so you could just crush their head with your kick one after the other), but instead they often wait and hesitate for a random amount of time, and if unlucky that random amount of time can mean you're going to miss the tight time limit

Maybe it's to be played for after you grinded all the Legends skill tree (good luck with the insane grinding) as it provide melee/weapon/etc... bonus that may then workaround the garbage item Bozak gives you. Fortunately you play that bozak crap with your current character levels so at least you keep your skills but still can't find the fun in what i experienced. 

The Prison DLC is not too bad in comparison, you're trying a speedrun of a whole prison swarming with various type of infected or guards that shoot everything on sight.
My first attempt i played so cautiously it took me 40mn to complete. Checking on some youtuve speedrun, i'm very very far from the top times :D
Be sure to get your best shotgun, i ran into a few armored volatiles (probably because i've got all my survivor levels, as zombies get progressively better version when you level) that i imagine without my best automatic shotgun would have been hell on earth.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 03, 2023, 07:12:59 pm

Finally completed the "The Following" campaign for Dying Light Enhanced Edition.
What a ride that game has been, both the main campaign in Harran and the Followin campaigns have been truly excellent with their own gameplay and game world.

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The last part of The Following was a driving against the clock type of mission on a long distance then a climbing on a tower building at the dam
Took me a few tries (to find the best path for driving my buggy , and finding the best way to climb the tower before the end of the countdown) but finally did it.

It's then in that location that you enter that you'll decide what will be the ending (as at some point you'll be given 2 choices by the sexy woman (https://i.imgur.com/54ajncI.jpg) you'll meet, warning nsfw screenshot )

I went for what seemed to be a bad ending (you detonate nuke, so you die, everyone else die in both Harran and in the countryside).

Checked google for what was the other ending and it looks like it was an even worst ending as you get a boss fight and if you survive you can leave the place ... but soon transform into an infected (so can't even save you friends back in Harran) and start to spread the virus worldwide and kill everyone.

At least the ending i got seemed to have the virus maybe "contained" due to the killing of the whole region by nuke.
Basically the conclusion of Dying Light + The Following is that everyone dies or everyone dies.

Sad thing is that you can't try the other ending without recompleting the whole The Following campaign, as loading the post-end saved game does not allow you to access the last mission again , at least i have still lots of challenge missions to complete both in Harran and in the countryside.

Wish i had selected the other ending so i could have gone through that boss fight.

Enjoyed that game a lot more than i thought.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 05, 2023, 04:51:46 am

Ten years in, total population is 10,000. As the last year closed, one of the most important industrial areas - the steel mill, with direct resource connections for coal and iron, and a train to drop off workers - was finished and began operations. Less than three months of operation, and it's already filled out construction storage and is already exporting the overflow. The only construction resources I'm not producing are mechanical and electrical components, and the former would only require a new factory for it(all research already complete).

Other exports include bitumen, fuel, alcohol, food, and excess construction material. Population happiness is generally over 90% though I keep getting messages about specific residences being unhappy, and there's little I can do about that. Over 75% of the population has university education.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. Also, the chase camera for trains gives an awesome view.

EDIT: Cleared my first sandbox(no tutorial script, no hand-holding) murder case. Got marks for identifying and arresting the killer, but I couldn't find any physical evidence that put them at the crime scene. I also misidentified the murder weapon. Apparently the suspicious-looking goddamn sword just laying on the floor of the killer's apartment wasn't the murder weapon.

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Shadows of Doubt. The killer also left a note with an anagram of their first initial and last name, which was too damn easy to cross-reference with the victim's contact list. The vast majority of murders are, according to some guides I've read, committed by one of the victim's contacts in their address book(kinda true in real life, too). The tricky part is that the address book has only first names, but addresses and phone numbers. Of course, that's enough to find the rest via going to the addresses, or go cheap and use the government database in the easily-accessed Enforcer offices at City Hall.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 05, 2023, 07:13:52 pm

Fourth or fifth run, first win in Path of Achra (demo, which is mostly just the full game from what I can tell). Noticed there was a "punch at long range" ability, and decided I wanted me some of that... and ended up more or less just rolling over absolutely everything. Was pretty great. Major credit to master repulsion (which, among other things, scales my damage with the amount of repulsion buff stacks I have and the Intabah (my armor, which stacks up that buff whenever I deal the right kind of damage), though. Took me straight from "struggling to do enough damage" to "lol everything's dying lmao", ahaha.

Neatest thing about it was personal nostalgia, though -- the very first full win I managed in an Angband varient (Furyband) was basically the exact same archetype, beat the crap out of things at a distance with your mind (except that one was, y'know, a hydra instead of a humanoid). Who'd a thunk, taking the major weakness out of a melee build (i.e. being melee) is apparently a pretty effective thing :V

Spoiler: victory screen (click to show/hide)

(https://i.ibb.co/98GjnTQ/first-poa-win.png) (https://ibb.co/Fxnt6wR)

E: Following up on that, I have done

Spoiler: something ridiculous (click to show/hide)

(https://i.ibb.co/M6ZB5Ry/the-sanctioned-action-is-to-stand-still.png) (https://ibb.co/X8jYkzf)

Won with a minimalist build, one stat, one power, one item, (mostly) one action. It is. Not how the game is intended to be played, and only barely scraped by in the final fight, but. Won it! Enemies were taking like 6 moves to my one by the end and the run took several hours (normal runs take, like... less than an hour, or something like that, they're usually quick), but that's what the minions were for :P

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 07, 2023, 07:41:35 pm

Was doing a corporate theft mission - which bugged out, rendering it unsolvable, a known bug so don't take those cases - when a murder occurred four floors above me. The hardest part of this case, and really the only part with any amount of difficulty, was simply getting to the crime scene, as the Enforcers had cordoned off the entire floor.

I get into the crime scene apartment through the vents, find and examine the victim. Next to them was a business card with a threatening, but non-identifying* message. I scan the card for fingerprints, find one. I already have this person's information, having picked up from the previous murder case where she wasn't involved. Literally within 30 seconds of entering the crime scene I have the killer's name, address, and proof they were at the scene.

All that was left was to buy a set of handcuffs from city hall, confirm she's at home, then sneak into her apartment. Got in just as she was preparing for bed. As soon as she hit the pillow, I pounced and put the cuffs on her. Then I searched the apartment, found a sword, ID'd it, took it(unknown if necessary), then back to city hall to turn it in. Got 5/5 on all points for the case - killer's name, address, evidence, arrest, and murder weapon. Kept the sword, will pawn it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadows of Doubt.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on May 08, 2023, 02:17:28 pm

Quote from: Frumple on May 05, 2023, 07:13:52 pm

Fourth or fifth run, first win in Path of Achra (demo, which is mostly just the full game from what I can tell).

Demo is an old version; 0.4.7. (For anybody looking to try it out though, it's feature complete.)

Makes your minimalist character not possible, as Blood Link doesn't exist.

Kind of grouchy I got all the way to the King of Many Colors, took out the rest of the demons in the zone, with ease, then he drops me from 900 to -600 in one hit.  >:(

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 08, 2023, 05:55:38 pm

Ah, yeah, I went ahead and got the full game somewhere between the initial post and the edit. Forgot to mention that. I'm having a blast with it, but as you noticed game is entirely willing to delete you at times. It's not as bad on 1st cycle, but later ones... I'm up to 9th cycle, and 9th cycle will just straight up murder you if you step in the wrong place if you're not building hyper-tanky or somethin' (and sometimes, it will do it then, too).

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on May 09, 2023, 06:18:46 am

So one thing I can't quite seem to pin down because the action always goes too slow when you want it to hurry up, and too fast when you're trying to catch a detail...

Do the effects of summons only work for that type of summon? Like the death cultists have the effect that allies explode in death damage when they die, but does it work with other summons? Similarly, those super expensive Psi summons have a note about triggering your on-hit effects.

Update:

Anyhow, finally clocked a win. And I smashed the king in ONE TURN once I managed to get within melee distance of him. Technically less than a fifth of one turn if I remembered to pop my prayer, but oh well.

Image incoming whenever I have wifi but: Tengu/Zealot/Dorok, built to combo Pugilism and Fire Healing, with one tier of Immolation, Pyrokenesis and Shamsar for their baseline effects.

Finished it off with around 1200hp, 900 armor, and a high damage of 7500.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on May 10, 2023, 05:30:48 pm

Found an Odyssey in perfect condition, fully armed (Down to having two Longbow bomber LPCs) just floating out and about.

With that I was able to help thrash an incoming Sindrian Diktat expedition.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on May 10, 2023, 08:55:39 pm

Quote from: Aoi on May 09, 2023, 06:18:46 am

So one thing I can't quite seem to pin down because the action always goes too slow when you want it to hurry up, and too fast when you're trying to catch a detail...

Do the effects of summons only work for that type of summon? Like the death cultists have the effect that allies explode in death damage when they die, but does it work with other summons? Similarly, those super expensive Psi summons have a note about triggering your on-hit effects.

The only summons I can think of that cares one whit about what the other types of summons are, are oozes with their related prestige class. The death cultist effect works with any ally, from any source (the biggest problem with it, and why you might have trouble noticing if it's working, is there's a range limitation to how far out the effect will hit). With psychomorphism (that expensive psi summon), the summons and the other part are entirely separate effects; the on-hit thing applies to any ally whatsoever,* the psychomorphs included. Just in general, if the ability does not specify some kind of limitation, there isn't one. Any hit works for effects that specify hit (so projection, psychomorphism propagated attacks, the extra hits from pugilism, whatever), same for attack, same for kill (pointedly, that includes allies you kill!), and so on.

*One intensely powerful combo with that is to just wear one of the summoning weapons (cursed skull, serpent idol, whatever the ice disk spawning one is, opal something) in your main-hand -- if you do that, the summons that spawn from that weapon will be able to also spawn more of themselves with their attacks. If the conditions are right (not enough enemy AoE to stop it from happening), you can fill up 50+ willpower worth of allies in like two turns as the summons self-propagate.

... it's still inferior to mehtar dream stacking for spamming summons, but it's the next best thing, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on May 11, 2023, 02:51:48 am

I won a run mainly through resolve to finish the deed.

I had humans, foxes and harpies. Picked harpies specifically because it doesn't take much to get reputation for their morale, even if they tend to be grumpy if their needs are not met. I also picked ale shipments, which helped to keep humans happy near the end.

One of the first blueprints I got was the teahouse, so.ething that benefits both harpies and foxes. Later got a tavern that let me use the stockpiled beer.

I haven't built a single fox house, basically making them second class citizens, yet they loved me enough to contribute to my reputation.

This being prestige 1 difficulty makes it a little less impressive though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Against the Storm again

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on May 12, 2023, 05:32:11 am

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I finished off the PK storyline. Found the lost colony on Sentinel, demolished (Seriously, the Invictus can finish off an Onslaught with two volleys of Mjolnirs. It's absurdly powerful, I'm expecting a nerfing) the AI fleet guarding the PK itself, snagged an automated XIV Onslaught, Legion, Eagle and Enforcer (Note to anyone who plays, you don't need the automated ship perk to recover these ones), and now I just need to decide what to do with it.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: martinuzz on May 13, 2023, 11:24:19 am

The mass of demons spawning from a fully upgrade infernal gate is so ridiculous, that it allowed my mere reinforcement caravans to kill my opponent's heroes with armies. Just hang back in the back of the map with the reinforcement units so they survive long enough for the Red Blob to have formed. It costs a metric ton of sulfur, but it is awesome.
Watching 5 hatchlings manage to win from the enemy highest level hero was hilarious.

The whole run was crazy. My hero picked up Mesmer's full set quite early (50% of summoned units become permanent), and Creativity gave me Summoning and Potency. I didn't need to recruit any more units after that. I had over a hundred mana elementals at the end of the game, and a good amount of various other elemental summons. All gold and rescources could go to a trading post to buy sulphur for the gate.

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Hero's Hour

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 14, 2023, 02:57:01 pm

A couple days-long(total play time about 12 hours) exploration trip about 1500 lightyears away from my base of operations. A few were First Discoveries, including one planet with a terraform-candidate ammonia world, a number of First Mapped(that is, already discovered, but nobody probed it with the Detailed Surface Scanner) and because I was making about a hundred jumps total round-trip, most systems were simply honked and moved on especially if they were already discovered. One system I discovered had a real prize, a pristine planetary ring with platinum hotspots.

Total income was 18,123,685 credits. Roughly the cost of the Asp Explorer I bought and outfitted for the trip, much of which on the fuel scoop for some reason(I don't think I needed a 5A scoop, given the cost). Yes, I probably could have made that much a lot faster running silver in my Type-7.

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Elite: Dangerous.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on May 19, 2023, 04:30:56 pm

Survived a bear attack and the subsequent 5-6 wolves to the nearest indoor shelter, got the whole deer carcass though which is food for a while. It'll all rot, but at cooking 5 I'll have a good stockpile of rancid food to eat.

The Long Dark

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: anexiledone on May 20, 2023, 11:59:40 am

Not really owning like most of the posts in this thread, but I recently fired up Dynasty Warriors 5 on my PS2 I found while moving. Those games were designed in a way to make you feel like you own, and I love it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 20, 2023, 12:04:21 pm

That may have been the one I put most effort into. You could play as any character of a faction for the story missions, and I think it even had the silly Zhang faction you could unlock after doing all of the other ones, which had every character named Zhang in it working together.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on May 21, 2023, 10:17:36 pm

The Sindrian Diktat had a bounty on pirates. Handily, they've also got a pirate base in their home system. However, I'd seen before (and, presumably, the reason why there was a bounty on pirates) that there were several large pirate fleets - large enough that I'd probably get my ass kicked - especially if I accidentally triggered them close enough together that they all joined in the fight.

So I did a bunch of black market trading on Sindria, the home world. This triggers a Sindrian patrol to chase after me, since they want to scan my fleet for contraband. I run that patrol all the way out to the pirate enclave, where the pirate fleets charge in at me. Luckily, my plan worked out, and when I got to the battle, I saw that there was a Sindrian battleship (as well as some smaller ships) supporting me. I immediately tell my fleet to hide behind the massive slab of metal, missiles, and blasters, and watch it swat the pirates out of the sky.

I didn't get full credit for the pirate kills, but I also didn't lose any ships, and got dibs on loads of salvage, a reputation boost with the Diktat, and a good amount of loot.

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StarSector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on May 22, 2023, 03:08:01 am

Quote from: martinuzz on May 13, 2023, 11:24:19 am

The mass of demons spawning from a fully upgrade infernal gate is so ridiculous, that it allowed my mere reinforcement caravans to kill my opponent's heroes with armies. Just hang back in the back of the map with the reinforcement units so they survive long enough for the Red Blob to have formed. It costs a metric ton of sulfur, but it is awesome.
Watching 5 hatchlings manage to win from the enemy highest level hero was hilarious.

The whole run was crazy. My hero picked up Mesmer's full set quite early (50% of summoned units become permanent), and Creativity gave me Summoning and Potency. I didn't need to recruit any more units after that. I had over a hundred mana elementals at the end of the game, and a good amount of various other elemental summons. All gold and rescources could go to a trading post to buy sulphur for the gate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hero's Hour

Yeah, there is some pretty absurd stuff possible. For instance my last run had me get a mage with summoning 5 (which gives you summon spells and a buff to all summon spell power), level 4 of some spellcasting buff (it increases the strength of every spell you cast past the first and removes the cast time penalty for repeatedly casting the same spell), and echo 4 (which after a delay repeatedly casts any spells you cast at least once and up to like 4 times).

So if a normal person cast summon fire elemental you get like 5 fire elementals. Which is neat, but nothing impressive.
My mage would get 30 on the first cast, then a bonus 35, then 40. It should be fairly obvious, but 105 fire elementals for 11 mana trivializes pretty much every fight you actually get into. (More fun was the goblin+dragonslayer combo for 25 mana which summoned hundreds of goblins and buffed them so that they could kill even a dragon with 20 hits).

Now, having just one strong hero isn't *that* big a deal, but there were also cities with schools on the map that let you teach your weaker heroes skills from the stronger ones once a week.

That meant that every week I could recruit a generic new hero and take them from level 8->18 with the ability to solo any fight they ran into with only a token honor guard and a single spellcast.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on May 22, 2023, 02:59:14 pm

I figured out seismic charge mining. Made over 7 million credits in a single 40-minute session. Would have made a lot more if I had a better ship for it. The AspX isn't that great, and I was only able to haul in 10 tons of Monazite... for over 7 million credits. Only took blowing up one asteroid to do it. Nearly killed myself, going from full shields to 60% hull because I was too close when I cooked the charges off. And then I went down to 50% from hitting a small rock on the way out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elite Dangerous. When I say the AspX isn't great for mining, it can do it, it can equip all the tools, but mine is severely lacking in cargo space, and that's without fitting collector limpets as well.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on May 23, 2023, 02:46:00 am

Pelio II was born to his father, Emir Pelio of Navarra. When he was 3 years old, his father died and he inherited his lands.

Unfortunately, he lost most of them to various holy wars, and was left with just the county of Rennes, in Brittany.
During his childhood, he discovered that his regent was embezzling his money, so he knocked the regent off the balcony and instated his mother as regent. She also started embezzling money, but was a bit more subtle about it.
As an adult, he was vassalized in another holy war by the duke of Normandy.

But he decided not to give up. He raised money and vaged holy war upon the norse pagans that plagued Brittany along with his former liege. He did not win the war, but only because the king of france waged the same war and won it instead. And then the king of France decided to give Pelio II the Duchy of Brittany.

Pelio was overjoyed. But he did not stop there. Now that he had some more lands and subjects, he warred against the norse pagans and the muslims of Hispania and England that claimed provinces in Brittany. And even against Aquitaine, when France split in three due to Gavelkind succession.

He joined the Dominican order, only to steal a Nail of the True Cross from them. He managed that, but was caught in the act by Cuddles, the lunatic bear, and expelled from the order.
He then joined the Benedictine order, and stayed in it until his death. He did break his vows of celibacy though, and became a hedonist instead.

When his first wife died, he married another, a young one. As it turned out, his first son died, so it was all good when a second was born.

Through warring, and some gifts from the kings of France, Pelio II became the arch-duke (duke of Brittany, Penthrive, and Upper Brittany) of all of Brittany. He also had 2 counties in Normandy and a count vassal in Corsica.

For some reason, kings of France really wanted him to become a commander, in spite of his terrible personal skill. But he preferred being their Chancellor.

He died fat and happy at the age of 77, and his son succeeded him on the throne at the age of 18.

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CK2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on May 23, 2023, 04:09:18 pm

Quote from: Akura on May 22, 2023, 02:59:14 pm

I figured out seismic charge mining. Made over 7 million credits in a single 40-minute session. Would have made a lot more if I had a better ship for it. The AspX isn't that great, and I was only able to haul in 10 tons of Monazite... for over 7 million credits. Only took blowing up one asteroid to do it. Nearly killed myself, going from full shields to 60% hull because I was too close when I cooked the charges off. And then I went down to 50% from hitting a small rock on the way out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Elite Dangerous. When I say the AspX isn't great for mining, it can do it, it can equip all the tools, but mine is severely lacking in cargo space, and that's without fitting collector limpets as well.

Is this one of those games where ingame currency can be easily converted into your local currency?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on May 25, 2023, 12:23:59 am

I killed an enemy Long, after they killed… soooo many of my followers, either directly or as a consequence of me using them to defend me.

Spoiler: spoiler on what happens as a result (click to show/hide)

I get a letter I can use to destroy my mentor, the previous character I got from a Power victory, and win the game with a Power victory with this character instead, but I’d rather see what happens if I can make them, particularly since I can’t change my cult aspect anyway.

Now I just need to make sure I don’t lose the game to being arrested, as I have 5 corpses and I think I already have damning evidence against me.

… I may have to murder the investigator.

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Cultist Simulator

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on May 26, 2023, 08:41:04 am

Sacrificed an absurd amount of Peewees (cheaper but fast to build tier 1 Kbots) from a lot of Kbot factories in order to give me room to get 3 Big Berthas and enough (in fact maybe i build too many of them :D ) energy reactors to allow them to fire regularly , then build a squad of awesome tier 3 Kbots (1 Raptor and 4 Cerberus MK2) that unleashed absolute hell on the enemy massive base and got me the victory.

Spoiler: poor peewees, more than 3000 of them got destroyed (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/FIGw9Fx.jpg)

Those tier 3 Kbots were so strong that i wonder how crazy the tier 4 Kbot must be then

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Total Annihilation with the Escalation mod

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 07, 2023, 05:44:49 pm

The goddamn parkour levels. Some parts all but require some kind of glitch jump that I'm not quite sure how to trigger. I don't know how the developers expect you to be able to jump three times your height, but I managed it, including at one point without the glitch jump.

My arms are sore now. I wanted to play a few combat maps, but I can't really swing weapons after that.

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Battle Talent. The game's tooltips say to swing your arms when you jump(hence why mine are sore), but it doesn't elaborate on the method.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on June 07, 2023, 09:59:17 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 25, 2023, 12:23:59 am

I killed an enemy Long, after they killed… soooo many of my followers, either directly or as a consequence of me using them to defend me.

Spoiler: spoiler on what happens as a result (click to show/hide)

I get a letter I can use to destroy my mentor, the previous character I got from a Power victory, and win the game with a Power victory with this character instead, but I’d rather see what happens if I can make them, particularly since I can’t change my cult aspect anyway.

Now I just need to make sure I don’t lose the game to being arrested, as I have 5 corpses and I think I already have damning evidence against me.

… I may have to murder the investigator.

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Cultist Simulator

Every time I read "The Investigator" I'm now stuck thinking of The Expanse.

-it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out-

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Culise on June 08, 2023, 11:00:25 pm

Quote from: Great Order on June 07, 2023, 09:59:17 pm

Quote from: hector13 on May 25, 2023, 12:23:59 am

I killed an enemy Long, after they killed… soooo many of my followers, either directly or as a consequence of me using them to defend me.

Spoiler: spoiler on what happens as a result (click to show/hide)

I get a letter I can use to destroy my mentor, the previous character I got from a Power victory, and win the game with a Power victory with this character instead, but I’d rather see what happens if I can make them, particularly since I can’t change my cult aspect anyway.

Now I just need to make sure I don’t lose the game to being arrested, as I have 5 corpses and I think I already have damning evidence against me.

… I may have to murder the investigator.

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Cultist Simulator

Every time I read "The Investigator" I'm now stuck thinking of The Expanse.

-it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out-

Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you, even with ideas.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on June 13, 2023, 02:32:36 am

I played my first game as Pillar, on a huge 1v1 map against AI. I picked a hero with a focus on fighters. The enemy qas Idyll (a simple modded faction), and there was an independent order town.

At first I focused hard on securing whatever I could on my side of the map. I took over two villages - Earthen and Rogue. Pretty much only dwarven crossbowmen turned out to be useful from these.

I started expanding as soon as the enemy entered my side. Their doomstack was supposedly hard, but it bounced off my castle. Elite units still struggle against a deluge of archers. I pushed into the formerly neutral human castle.

The Order castle wasn't well defended because the enemy tried to invade me again, and I repelled the strike force on my way. The new castle became my new base of operations as I started taking over the middle part of the map. A secondary hero would deliver my Pillar units to the new castle and occasionally pick up resources along the way.

The enemy would consistently send three heroes - the first one was the main force, with a dangerous army thatI could still keep up with; the second hero used hit and run ractics snatching buildings when I wasn't looking, but his army was small enough for my secondary hero to take him on; the third hero was a chump with some obsidian pillars. The last guy would occasionally show up, but castle defenses were more than enough to beat him.

Despite frequent attacks, I could build up a good-sized army and deliver the final push. I took over the Idyll city and hunted down the remaining heroes with no problem. Focusing on weaker units is much more fun in this game than in Heroes, because sieging an enemy castle with a giant swarm of martial artists is so satisfying. A single peasant with a large number underneath can't compare.

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Hero's Hour

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 15, 2023, 06:50:23 pm

Maybe it's because the final level is a very long, which allowed me to accrue a pretty massive amount of bonus pickups. Maybe it was because the long dungeon allowed me to pick up and massively enhance a war hammer and mighty bow, as well as finding a battle axe that was already jacked up.

Either way, the final boss was goddamn easy. For a second there I thought I died, since he was dropping a massive lightning attack while I focused on madly flailing with dual-wielded war hammer and battle axe in the general vicinity of his face, but no, that's how his death plays out.

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Battle Talent. The reward for beating the final boss is the ability to use mods. That's... meh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on June 15, 2023, 07:55:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 15, 2023, 06:50:23 pm

Either way, the final boss was goddamn easy.

I have heard and said this about far too many games. I understand that the further you get into a game, the harder balance gets, but you can also tell when the end-game difficulty was only tested with all/no bonuses at the end.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on June 16, 2023, 12:11:15 am

Quote from: Iduno on June 15, 2023, 07:55:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 15, 2023, 06:50:23 pm

Either way, the final boss was goddamn easy.

I have heard and said this about far too many games. I understand that the further you get into a game, the harder balance gets, but you can also tell when the end-game difficulty was only tested with all/no bonuses at the end.

This reminds me of Dungeons of Dredmor - an otherwise excellent turn-based dungeon crawler - whose final boss I describe in my Steam review as such:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dredmor himself has been balanced against the twink builds. This means that it's possible to have a character that can clear out the entire dungeon but still be unable to actually win the game. Especially classes that are forced to go toe-to-toe with the big man himself - bring massive amounts of dodge and counter or you may as well just go home.

Still a good game (at 120 hours played, I'd certainly hope so!) but it doesn't stop me from being annoyed how they balanced the last boss.

On-topic: My current captain, a Shock Trooper who likes to lead from the front lines, is currently my highest level and longest lasting captain. While working on a high-stakes, high-reward mission ($500k completion reward!) I had to cut through the sector of a faction that I'd repeatedly pissed off, to the tune of -100 reputation. Worse, this sector was also experiencing a Xeno incursion, meaning that not only was just about anything that I'd run into hostile, some would be (very!) high-tier, too.

I tried to cut through as quickly as possible, but still ended up getting intercepted by a hostile faction bounty hunter. While I was given the option to surrender my command for "a quick execution." I decided against that. Several sets of missiles and boarding parties later, and I'd won the battle. Just a couple of more AUs and I'd be out of the sector and safe...

And that's when a gigantic xeno cruiser popped out of the aether, right in front of me. They didn't even bother asking me if I'd like to go quietly, they just started shooting (and accurately, too - damn things knocked out most of my weapons in the first couple rounds of combat!) I had used up many of my crews ship-to-ship skills on the previous bounty hunter, so they were still on recharge.

(Always Sunny) So I started blasting... (/Always Sunny)

Anyway, we closed on the Xeno ship, and finally got within boarding distance. We then proceeded to kill off their crew one-by-one, over no less than half a dozen boarding combats (seriously, I lost count. Apparently every single Xeno crewmember counts as a potential combat fighter, so they're able to send virtually their entire ship against you before they run out of combat crew, unlike a human ship, which can only field its dedicated combat personnel.)

Final tally was that I killed the ship, was awarded $50k in salvage, gained 20 points in reputation with the local faction (bringing me up to a mere -80)... and had to spend most of that reward, as well as roughly two months in drydocks and the hospital, to get back up to 100%.

However, given that running into a Xeno ship has previously been a 100% death sentence, I'll take a pyrrhic victory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Star Traders: Frontiers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on June 16, 2023, 06:30:59 pm

Scored 555m, first time breaching the 500m mark.

Pro Pinball: Timeshock!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on June 21, 2023, 03:38:11 pm

Figured out how to properly powerlevel. There's a specific mob in the final dungeon that drops massive amounts of experience; its whole evolutionary line does except the golden versions which... don't.

Also recruited, in a single attempt after getting it to appear, a nice beastie largely regarded as the main character's best familiar. His name is Dean. Even before fully evolving and at low levels after, he's punching pretty well against the game's bonus bosses, doing damage comparable to Mornstar with a trick that costs less MP and has a faster casting and cooldown(but is physical instead of light). His accuracy is garbage unfortunately, but tricks don't use accuracy.

The only downside to all this is my primary healer... not doing that anymore. I don't know why, but she keeps charging in and getting knocked out. While also forgetting to heal the rest of the team.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. I wanted to be done with this game a week ago, to be honest, but then I found out about the whole bonus boss quest chain. Gotta finish that.

EDIT: Beat the Guardian of Worlds, the game's ultimate optional boss. Was fairly easy. Just the same strategy as all of the preceding bosses; send out Dean, Belly Buster, switch back to Oliver to recharge. Some of the preceding bosses gave me more trouble, particularly Candelabracadaver due to his frequent cinematic attacks.

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Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on June 27, 2023, 02:58:16 am

This time I played as Delirium on a large circular map with four players, each with their territory flanked by two neutral towns. I must say I never liked Delirium all that much because their main mechanics involves turning cultists into other units, necessitating corrupting mines.

I pushed into a neutral territory early, taking the Lament town quickly. As soon as that happened, the first enemy, also Lament, tried to invade the newly conquered territory. He tried to swarm with troglodytes, but I had spells and units well suited for dealing with low tier units. Then I've decided I wouldn't take it any more and pushed towards their castle.

My hero was mainly skilled in plunder, crystal assembly, and logistics, with decent healing. I could easily build up an army of crystal automatons as I went forwards. Yes, instead of depleting my army fighting my way towards the enemy castle I actually gained power. Lament fell quickly.

My next target were the Earthen, dwarves. I never saw them field a respectable army, but even after I took over their castle they kept going after my mines. Thanks to logistics I could hunt their heroes down, but they just kept coming. They had captured a neutral town, that was apparent.

At that point I armed my hero's avatar and sent it on the search for enemies through portals. It encountered elves who somehow managed to do nothing through the entire game. Curious how they didn't even build up their army to any respectable degree. It was just a matter of coming there and exterminating the vermin.

Finally I found the village occupied by the dwarves, and delivered the final blow. I expected it to be much harder, but maybe I'm just that good.

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Hero's Hour

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: BurnedToast on June 30, 2023, 11:32:52 pm

Quote from: Iduno on June 15, 2023, 07:55:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 15, 2023, 06:50:23 pm

Either way, the final boss was goddamn easy.

I have heard and said this about far too many games. I understand that the further you get into a game, the harder balance gets, but you can also tell when the end-game difficulty was only tested with all/no bonuses at the end.

The problem is people expect, and even demand... I guess, I'll call it "win-more" gameplay. When you win, you are rewarded with things that make it easier to win in the future. More money to buy items, unique artifacts that make you stronger, exp to get a higher level, or even just having more HP leftover for the next fight.  So you have a player who starts out doing well - either because he's more skilled or he gets lucky. And that slowly steamrolls into doing better and better and better. And then you have the player who's struggling, can't catch a break, he manages to avoid losing but just barely.

Now ask yourself, how do you balance the end boss?

If he's hard enough to present a challenge for the win-more player, the "barely hanging on" player just loses with no hope.

If he's easy enough that the barely hanging on player can win, the "win-more" player complains it was too easy.

If the difficulty is self-adjusting, everyone complains they can do bad on purpose to make the game easier, because humans love optimizing the fun out of games more than anything else.

There's no answer that makes everyone happy. Most games go with "easy end boss" because honestly most people are bad at video games, and even if good players complain it was too easy they still feel good that they were able to kill him so easily.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Nighthawk on July 01, 2023, 10:28:04 am

Quote from: BurnedToast on June 30, 2023, 11:32:52 pm

Quote from: Iduno on June 15, 2023, 07:55:42 pm

Quote from: Akura on June 15, 2023, 06:50:23 pm

Either way, the final boss was goddamn easy.

I have heard and said this about far too many games. I understand that the further you get into a game, the harder balance gets, but you can also tell when the end-game difficulty was only tested with all/no bonuses at the end.

The problem is people expect, and even demand... I guess, I'll call it "win-more" gameplay. When you win, you are rewarded with things that make it easier to win in the future. More money to buy items, unique artifacts that make you stronger, exp to get a higher level, or even just having more HP leftover for the next fight.  So you have a player who starts out doing well - either because he's more skilled or he gets lucky. And that slowly steamrolls into doing better and better and better. And then you have the player who's struggling, can't catch a break, he manages to avoid losing but just barely.

Now ask yourself, how do you balance the end boss?

If he's hard enough to present a challenge for the win-more player, the "barely hanging on" player just loses with no hope.

If he's easy enough that the barely hanging on player can win, the "win-more" player complains it was too easy.

If the difficulty is self-adjusting, everyone complains they can do bad on purpose to make the game easier, because humans love optimizing the fun out of games more than anything else.

There's no answer that makes everyone happy. Most games go with "easy end boss" because honestly most people are bad at video games, and even if good players complain it was too easy they still feel good that they were able to kill him so easily.

My vote goes to self-adjusting difficulty, mainly because I played through the entirety of Resident Evil 4 (original) without knowing that the difficulty changed based on my performance, and had a great experience. The game never needed to telegraph the fact that it was making slight changes to streamline my experience--it just quietly did so. When I learned that it was doing this after I finished the game, I wasn't mad; I was impressed.

If done well, self-adjusting difficulty only becomes a point of contention when people notice it, and even then, if it's well done, only unreasonable people will actually complain about it. It's impossible to please everyone, yes, but to a large extent that's only because some people are just never satisfied unless a game is perfectly tailored to their skill level and tastes. It's not even worth trying to make those folks happy.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on July 01, 2023, 06:41:19 pm

Self-adjusting difficulty is the way.

Give the player an option for a higher difficulty end-boss if they want one.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on July 02, 2023, 06:04:32 am

Or just let the player tweak settings to their taste; I'm glad more games are letting you adjust things with a finer degree of granularity.

I think it was Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume that basically got everything exactly wrong-- it was a tRPG with items and characters on the map you could miss, performance-based rewards, restricted drops, RNG stats on level, accessories that give bonuses on level, exclusive content based on difficulty, inability to grind, and, ironically, Hard was actually easier if you knew what you were doing because you had the full range of mechanics to exploit.

And if you didn't know what you had to do to get all the good gear and characters, reload with bad stat gains, and suck at press-with-perfect-timing-to-combo actions, it was like getting dragged behind a truck, until the truck says 'Screw you', and backs up over you. Oh, and because it's all cumulative, it's not like you can reload to get out of the hole you're in. (Yeah, I'm still kind of resentful.)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 02, 2023, 12:25:00 pm

Although honestly, I prefer games where the adjustment comes from AI rather than just flat bonuses.

I'd like Skyrim more if I could set the difficulty to easy to die *and* kill, but the AI is more/less intelligent, for example. Their method of just turning the NPCs into major damage sponges that do extra damage is just boring.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 02, 2023, 01:22:51 pm

For Skyrim specifically I think people recommend a mod like this (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8850).  Not sure if it was that one, or a different "deadly combat", but some people do play a kind of Skyrim where you must defend yourself like a fencer rather than chip away at each other's HP.

In general:  A thing I like about many JRPGs is the self-balancing of letting players grind if they want to.  In so many Final Fantasies you can either guess the boss's obscure weakness, have an optimally built team, or just kill cactuars for half an hour.  It's really cool actually.

I specifically bounced right off Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume and maybe I now know why.
the other extreme is Disgaea (1,2 and 5) which feel like crack to me

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 02, 2023, 05:18:09 pm

I haven’t played Fall Guys in at least a few years, played one game of solos (with my cousin).

The idea is you do four rounds of games to whittle down 40 players to 8 for the final, and the winner of that final round gets a crown.

I won the first two race rounds outright, and survived the next two games to get to the final and win it.

Then we played duos and it’s bit trickier…

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Fall Guys

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: MCreeper on July 09, 2023, 01:25:19 am

Rolled three bad events in the capital with Luck 3 in a single turn and prevented them all with 33% chance on each. Although, i didn't have any provinces except capital.

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(https://i.ibb.co/ct3ypXm/Screenshot-10.jpg)

Dominions 5

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 11, 2023, 02:52:45 pm

I screwed up on part 3/3 of a daily challenge and the ship was full of contractors, including an annoying amount of predators.  If you enter their huge proximities, they *instantly* teleport to you with their sword in you.

I threw my wrench against a wall.
then walked into one's proximity.
As I bled out on the floor, the asshole got bopped on the back of the head with a wrench.
I staunched the bleeding, got up, and cleared the daily.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on July 11, 2023, 07:26:26 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 11, 2023, 02:52:45 pm

I screwed up on part 3/3 of a daily challenge and the ship was full of contractors, including an annoying amount of predators.  If you enter their huge proximities, they *instantly* teleport to you with their sword in you.

I threw my wrench against a wall.
then walked into one's proximity.
As I bled out on the floor, the asshole got bopped on the back of the head with a wrench.
I staunched the bleeding, got up, and cleared the daily.

Nice!

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Heat Signature, obviously

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on July 11, 2023, 08:46:23 pm

Took down difficulty 4/first one with a final battle for the first time. For how low-budget-seeming this one is, as bullet heavens go the game goes pretty damn hard. Ended up killing roughly 480 thousand enemies by the end of day 10.

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Psionic Wake. It has pretty big "old flash game" vibes in some ways, mostly on the graphics front, but... probably one of the more enjoyable bullet heaven/arena survival/whatever games I've played to date. The mix of exploration and base building is pretty nice, and it will cheerfully drown most of the screen in bodies to explode, which is great, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on July 11, 2023, 11:19:31 pm

Finally beat Tears of the Kingdom after 105 hours, which was less than I expected.

I beat the final boss without going below half health, but I still found it to be surprisingly tense and engaging since they made the fight actually require some skill and mastery of the game mechanics instead of just making it a slog of stuffing truffles into Link's face during the fight to tank damage.  So, actually, maybe winning without taking that much damage isn't really that much of an accomplishment.  Or maybe you just need midlevel armor to reduce the damage to that level.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 17, 2023, 03:52:47 pm

Richter Belmont tried to resurrect my dad Dracula, but I killed him.  Phew!  Close one!

Never did find my clothes Death stole.  Or Death itself. oh well guess it, uh, died when the castle disintegrated.

Everything's fine, bye forever!!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Shit what about that cryptic lady who was looking for Richter??  Ah well, it's not my fault she decided to hang out past a long double-spiked corridor and through a fine mesh grate and then a magically locked doorway.  I did my fuckin best okay?  I need another nap, I'm tired of the 19th century

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 17, 2023, 05:32:02 pm

Finished the game for the first time, from the Slums, and for some reason the mayor just happily gave me his hat after a 30% speech check as a possessed Supercop.

Also managed my big quest as a changeling at the same time, which requires me having to neutralize (usually murder) one type of NPC after possessing another type of NPC on every floor (15 in all). I think that may be one of the easier ones.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 23, 2023, 10:00:39 pm

Some 8-ish years after its release, I've finally finished Fallout 4's main storyline.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 23, 2023, 10:30:06 pm

Why is that in the happy thread?  All the endings are either sad or bittersweet.
Sorry, I'm in a Discord mood- this probably belongs in the Fallout 4 thread
Ro scrolls a dozen pages down the Other Games list
No Fallout... at all??
JFC FO76 is >5 years old???

Wow anyway congrats on completing the game.  I'd joke "you monster", but it's a roleplaying game.  Sometimes people make objectively wrong decisions, like supporting the Nouveau Brotherhood.  That's part of RP.
Still, I did feel better supporting the Railroad, obviously

sorry I'm full of discourse tonight and *apparently* there isn't a thread for it

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on July 24, 2023, 12:00:39 am

We can change that, if there's Discourse to be had. :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on July 24, 2023, 09:25:31 am

Quote from: Egan_BW on July 24, 2023, 12:00:39 am

We can change that

War never changes.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 24, 2023, 11:49:19 am

Quote from: Rolan7 on July 23, 2023, 10:30:06 pm

Why is that in the happy thread?  All the endings are either sad or bittersweet.
Sorry, I'm in a Discord mood- this probably belongs in the Fallout 4 thread
Ro scrolls a dozen pages down the Other Games list
No Fallout... at all??
JFC FO76 is >5 years old???

Wow anyway congrats on completing the game.  I'd joke "you monster", but it's a roleplaying game.  Sometimes people make objectively wrong decisions, like supporting the Nouveau Brotherhood.  That's part of RP.
Still, I did feel better supporting the Railroad, obviously

sorry I'm full of discourse tonight and *apparently* there isn't a thread for it

There's an FO4 thread, but it's been abandoned since 2018 or something like that, I sided with the Minutemen because they're probably the nicest faction, maybe tied with the Railroad (although the Railroad are perhaps overly focussed on synth liberation and the rest of the Commonwealth can go hang, at least the Minutemen also try to help Joe Public and with me in charge there's gonna be no synth genocide (looking at you Covenant, there's gonna be a synth-hater genocide)), and finally this is the own thread not the happy thread.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 24, 2023, 12:44:47 pm

I didn’t know you could side with the minutemen but I also try to avoid Preston like the plague.

I sided with the Institue and had some trouble with the final mission so just tanked all my PsychoJet, so the character was shouting “FUCKIN’ KILL” quite frequently.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on July 25, 2023, 06:50:57 pm

Oooh I didn't know they had voice lines for that.  I like that.  It's one of my favorite features of Iji as well.

---

I loaded up Decker again, that simple netrunning RPG originally written in Java but nowadays available in-browser via Javascript:
https://palparepa.github.io/decker/
I don't even know how long I've been occasionally playing this for...  It's in a category with LCS, though with less updates.  Both have relatively easy-to-read code though.  Anyway!

I hadn't realized some weaknesses in my traditional stealth-and-programming builds.  Attack rating is used when clearing alarms, and analyze rating is used when installing backdoors.  I'm even keeping enough Defense rating that I can survive a round or two without getting dumped.  My runs tended to end by me getting sloppy and zapped by enough ICE to murder my character from full health...

The big difference is that I've focused on Chip Design over Programming, and diversified my other points.  Having top-end firmware encourages a well-rounded approach by essentially giving flat bonuses to all skills, whereas with Programming I always made a handful of really good, really heavy programs which filled up my mediocre deck.  This time I keep meaning to update my most important programs but I almost don't need to, which feels strange!  I keep spending my home-time on new firmware instead.

Before I started swimming in stat points, I found myself in an unusual situation where I was a crappy hacker, using crappy scavenged programs, but I was still cruising because my *rig* was just that good.  Sorta strange to imagine.  I started conceptualizing it as the rig having predictive, almost instinctual low-level behaviors.  If an AI were involved here, it wouldn't be any particular program- it'd be an emergent system from these various emotion cores chips.

Or perhaps it represents a decking interface so intuitive, so concordant, that training isn't required.  It's like being there in cyberspace.

Perhaps it is both things at once: a sublime fusion of human and synthetic into one being, then back apart, then together again...  on and on~
nostalgia and dreams lead my mind in funny directions sometimes <3

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Decker
https://palparepa.github.io/decker/

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on July 25, 2023, 09:32:25 pm

I have not played that in a long while. I usually stuck with chip design and programming if I recall correctly, but I always had stealth and stealth recovery programs over anything else, though I usually got bored around level 11 stuff.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 25, 2023, 11:42:46 pm

Quote from: hector13 on July 24, 2023, 12:44:47 pm

I didn’t know you could side with the minutemen but I also try to avoid Preston like the plague.

I sided with the Institue and had some trouble with the final mission so just tanked all my PsychoJet, so the character was shouting “FUCKIN’ KILL” quite frequently.

Oh yeah, psycho jet is my go-to drug of choice. Slow mo and damage resist, and a slow-mo scream? Perfection.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on July 26, 2023, 03:52:54 am

100 flights!  We're in triple digits now!

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Kerbal Space Program. There are now 100 unique objects in space that we're tracking. Do asteroids count?  Despite a couple asteroids, most have at least some level of control left.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on July 27, 2023, 02:48:14 pm

The Southern Planters decided to stage a coup and turn the country into an autocracy.

Bad move it turns out, because they weren't the strongest faction - The Rural Folk were. Two years after the coup, Henry Clay was caned and I forced the Planter's head to retire, which meant that suddenly the guys in charge were pro-democracy.

Universal sufferage here I come baybee!

Victoria 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 05, 2023, 05:23:10 am

Finally destroyed that damned lich (the boss of the 1st chapter of Loop Hero)

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(https://i.imgur.com/7KDluw3.png)

that chapter 1 boss has been puzzling me for a long time, as automated battles are mostly all about being lucky or not and the lich is very strong (and doing "pure" damage it means defense is a totally useless stat against that boss), there's a few time i was close with some luck but still the lich prevailed.

This time, my character to my surprise managed to beat the lich while i was still having slightly more 60% of his health still intact, something that seemed impossible considering my previous battle with that boss.
And the answer was being very lucky , because i picked at some point of his level up the trait "Lethal Weakness"

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For each missing 10% of max HP, the Hero has a 0.5% chance attack for 1000% damage.

at that point i had a bit more than 30% of max HP missing, meaning the skill had 1.5% of chance to activate.
And it did, happy to finally get lucky enough :D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on August 05, 2023, 05:45:50 pm

I haven't played that game in a while. I've beaten the lich.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 06, 2023, 12:31:04 am

Managed to beat Loop Hero after a while of flailing against that last boss in it. Turns out stacking slowdown debuffs for everyone and speed up buffs for yourself means that your character doesn't tire himself out and the enemy's slow as all hell. Pretty much river, desert, forest and libraries (For reshuffling the worse forest/desert cards into better ones)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on August 06, 2023, 09:22:25 am

I just won Super Metroid without dying even once. Time 3:33. Item completion 94%.

I was wondering how far I would get if I didn't save. I thought it would be perhaps half an hour in. It turned out, I could complete it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on August 06, 2023, 02:17:23 pm

Congrats!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 06, 2023, 02:58:10 pm

Is good, yeah. Now 100% speedrun :V

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 06, 2023, 07:59:27 pm

Achieved Unity for the first time, via Annexation on all three rivals earning the Illuminati achievement. Did fail the Pacifist achievement, since I (probably, don't remember) making a few raids in the early game.

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Evolve Idle. Third run, as humans.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Aoi on August 08, 2023, 12:33:58 am

Every time I attack, or even walk, I get six free attacks.
Every attack, I get faster, heal myself, and hit six times.
Every hit further heals myself, deals damage, and applies a defensive debuff.
Oh, and my range pretty much covers the entire screen.

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Path of Achra, the 'broken build sandbox' roguelike.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 09, 2023, 06:16:34 am

Finally took down the chapter 2 boss in Loop Hero

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/cMeauNt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/cORgdyk.jpg)

Spoiler: spend enough time on internet and everything is an innuendo (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/lBLZRVd.jpg)

:D

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 10, 2023, 09:14:37 am

She needs to get that checked out.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on August 10, 2023, 10:40:26 am

Managed to beat down the physical manifestation of mortality. Turns out, all it takes is two people with highly enchanted weapons, some armor class increasing charms, and a bunch of healing items (and a goodly amount of time.)

Reloaded to an earlier save afterwards and found the dialog option I'd missed the first time around, which let me get the better ending to defeat the big bad without a fight; but it was nice to see that my INT/WIS/CHA character was able to go toe-to-toe and prevail.

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Planescape:Torment

Bonus: Defeating a turned mage ex-comrade (basically a mini-boss) by just unloading my entire arsenal of memorized spells of magic missile into them. Didn't even need to go to the level 2 spells. Who's the better wizard now?!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on August 11, 2023, 08:45:56 am

Managed to beat the boss of the 3rd chapter of Loop Hero
Was surprised to defeat him on that first time i got to that boss, probably i have been very lucky with loot on this run

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(https://i.imgur.com/GiX4BlN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/sFCS6Kj.jpg)

Funny how my character killed him and his hounds like that when the lore point that his hounds are "doggified" actual black holes and his gun destroy several stars at every shots while my character had some trouble killing some normal enemies sometime in the loops :D

Oh and a reason to use an oblivion card on any bandit camp that spawn (a bandit camp is spawned every 2 village cards used)

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The Brigand ability has a chance to destroy an equipped item each time a Bandit attacks. It does not have to deal damage, or even be targeting your hero to do so.

Was wondering why sometime my items were disappearing (rather annoying when you lose an item with a very good evasion stat)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 12, 2023, 10:25:03 pm

Zero mistake hell board, for the second time. Took 1405 seconds and four tries, heh.

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Sudoku RPG, classic mode, which is... just normal sudoku, mostly. For reference, a hell board looks like this: (https://i.imgur.com/ztDMezK.png)

The last few spots are the most nerve wracking, honestly. The ones where literally all you're doing is counting to finish off the lines. That's the point where you're one miscount or misclick from starting over and doing the whole thing again, and it's just. Easily the roughest part of solving one of those things. Can you count to 9 y/n aaaahhhh

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 13, 2023, 06:59:16 am

I didn't notice the classic mode!  Thanks!
I did fine on Difficult just now, but Very Difficult was kinda difficult.  Was nice to Sudoku a little again~

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 13, 2023, 07:12:57 am

The best tip I have, if you haven't already noticed the functionality (it's easy to miss or forget it's there), is that you can click on the numbers that are already there and it'll highlight all the ones on the board. Easiest way to start a hell board I've found, is to take a minute to go through everything that's already there and see if the lines let you eliminate any possibilities. You usually seem to be able to get at least two or three spots down that way, and sometimes you can actually get down every one for a particular number.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on August 13, 2023, 08:01:56 am

I was *looking* for that feature!!  I half-remembered it!  I was trying by pressing a numkey with no box selected, but that doesn't work.

Thanks, that does indeed help a lot.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on August 16, 2023, 07:16:56 am

I've been playing a lord of the rings total war medieval 2 mod called divide and conquer. It's quite fun, if a bit limited in what it can do because of the base game. I'm playing as Dol Guldur lead by Khamul the Easternling. Sauron's stronghold in southern Murkwood given over to the second strongest ring wraith. It's quite a hard start, you start at war with the elves of Lothlórien and them almost adjacent to the west, only separated by a very crossable Anduin. But you really can't kill them, even leaving aside how Celeborn is an absolute kill pig who can probably defeat your entire starting forces solo, the game has a mechanic where any faction on their last legs will spawn an emergency final stack full of high tier units. And a full stack of high tier elves would be absolutely ruinous to fight and even if you won it'd just thrust you into a war against the dwarves of Moria and likely Rohan as well, so basically you're forced into a tense standoff with them across the river, pouring gold into defensive forces as you attempt to expand elsewhere. But expanding elsewhere brings it's own problems. Beornings to the northwest, Sindar elves to the north, the men of Dale to the northeast, and the men of Dorwinion to the east.

Despite these issues, I was doing well, goblins poured forth from the dark woods, lead by orcs and ring wraiths, they pushed backed the men of the east to the forest river and were threatening to drive Dorwinion into the sea of Rhun. But the most successful war was against the Beornings where a legion of goblins and orcs lead by Khamul himself drive the wild northern men from the woods and eventually lay siege to and captured Beorns home itself. Lightly armored heavy hitting men were weak to the massed arrows of a goblin horde that had grown in the darkness of an elven forest, and other then the direct skinshifting kin of Beorn himself they had a weak will that was easily shattered by the hammer of terror wielded by Khamul. However, once I had taken their capital I was betrayed. The snow orcs of Mount Gundabad came, despite being my allies under Sauron, despite being at war with the same people as me. These fucking snow orcs marched PAST the weak remains of the Beornings that they were at war with to come out of the fog of war and lay siege to the Beorning capital that Khamul was in with the largest army I've seen.

This was a huge problem, if you're under siege it's a win or die situation, there's no possibility of retreat. But despite Khamul being a pretty deadly dude, his army only consisted at this point of around 1200 troops, around 1/3 of them orcs and the remaining 2/3s just goblins. The forces of Gundabad had 3000 orcs, and the orcs of the far north are generally a bit more of a hearty breed, more suited to being warriors then the weaker orcs of the south. So basically not only was I outnumbered three to one, but they had a fairly substantial troop quality advantage over me. And I had to win, loss meant the death of Khamul, who was the only thing holding together the northern front against the Sindar Elves and the Beorning and also my only possible response to the elves of Lothlórien trying to cross the Anduin on mass would be Khamul returning to lead the defense. Loosing this fight could very well mean the end of the campaign. The game gave a power ranking completely lopsided in the snow orcs favor.

Spoiler: The fight took like an hour, almost the entire battle timer and I never sped it up. But in the end I just about managed to pull out a victory. (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/iV9PDFg.png)

Anyone who knows total war probably can guess that Khamul is a heavy cav unit and carried most of the fight himself. Charging into and out of combat over and over to break the orcs. But the difficult part was even the ultimate hammer needs an anvil to dash against and my forces were mostly not up to the task. So the combat took the form of a running battle from the northern edge of the map almost to the southern one (and this was a big map) where I repeatedly teased apart and isolated smaller groups of orcs to crush them, slowly taking apart the enemy army. The biggest victory came when I found a clean charge on the enemy general, and was lucky enough that he died almost immediately to the charge. This made the fight a lot easier and marked the turning point where it went from me slowly loosing the trades I was forced to make to actually starting to break his army apart and start climbing the balance of power bar. It was certainly the longest and hardest battle I've had in this game thus far. Quite a wild fight and likely saved my campaign. Since then I've pulled back from the north slightly, as the snow orcs responded with a second army that is just as large. But it's given me time to pull up reinforcements. And now Khamul leads an army not of 1200 of mostly goblins with some orcs. But one with 700 Uruk and 1500 orcs. And now he'll march north again, to teach Gundabad the price of betrayal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 17, 2023, 03:01:52 pm

Took several times, partly due to me sucking at the fight and not having adequate sundelion-based food, and partly due to console crashes, but I finally beat the Demon King.

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Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the credits, particularly showing the murals of the Imprisoning War, I got the idea that Demon King Ganondorf looks like a fusion of Samurai Jack and his nemesis Aku, and now I can't unsee it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on August 17, 2023, 05:01:35 pm

Quote from: Akura on August 17, 2023, 03:01:52 pm

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Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the credits, particularly showing the murals of the Imprisoning War, I got the idea that Demon King Ganondorf looks like a fusion of Samurai Jack and his nemesis Aku, and now I can't unsee it.

So that's what happened when aku did

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the whole genderbend and seduce

thing, huh. Gannondorf. Makes sense to me.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on August 21, 2023, 07:54:02 am

Mission where I had to look after a pet and face two pretty heavy mechanoid attacks.

Not only did I fend them off without any deaths (Plenty of casualties, but nothing permanent aside from one janissary getting brain damage. Not that I cared, he wasn't *my* janissary), I fended off another two raids almost immediately after. Shotguns are ridiculous in CE so long as you can get in range.

Rimworld

EDIT: 1.14bn points, locked one fragment of tachyolium, time travelled twice (Although I didn't have the fragment then so I went to the future and back), picked up four souvenirs, got quickshot mania for the first time, and managed to get the mystery (It was an extra ball).

Pro Pinball: Timeshock!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on August 24, 2023, 07:52:18 pm

Beat the Swarm monster boss fight at Moth Village. Cut out about 95% of the fight by dropping a flamethrower turret directly into its mouth. Otherwise, the fight would have been a slog of diving over it's projectile wave, tapping it with my pistol(sniper rifle was already out of ammo doing this) for pitiful damage, then diving back. But why do that when you can kill it with fire?

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Black Skylands, released from Early Access a few weeks ago. Last I played was nearly two years ago. There was a significant change in the story, especially the beginning. Not really liking the changes too much so far.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on August 25, 2023, 01:50:45 pm

Managed to get a thirteen orphans finish in mahjong. Tricky hand to get since you need to draw every tile yourself, though you can claim the final tile from another player’s discard.

I almost got it again later. I was two tiles short when someone else won.

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Yakuza Kiwami 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on August 30, 2023, 06:57:18 pm

Playing as the clock girl (looked it up, Ouro Kronii) in Holocure. No collabs or special weapons allowed, so to make it easier just one level of +enemies turned on.

I got the achievement for that, for having haste over +100%, and winning as her (since the achievements were added).

Took max (so many extra points) on the items slots: +coins, lab coat (+exp if you don't get hit), +exp, Halu (more enemies who are also stronger, and you get some coins at the end as a reward), headphones with a 35% chance (at max) to ignore damage and knock all enemies back, and Knight Milk (bigger attacks, and you pick up xp, food, and coins from further away).

I did have the +haste, bigger weapons, and +5/10/15% attack per empty weapon slot stamps. 5 empty weapon slots when you don't allow special weapons.


Edit: Another dumb one today. Couch Potato achievement: don't move at all. It's a Vampire Survivors-like.

So, for a dumb achievement, I used a dumb character. Ceres Fauna has abilities that heal, and ones that do damage to a random enemy when you heal, encouraging you to just run into piles of enemies. Her weapon can't be aimed until it's maxed out , and just kind of floats around you. Then her special ability heals you and makes you invulnerable as long as you're in range of it (which, when you're not moving, and it starts centered on you...), which is great for making bosses accomplish nothing against you.

Took Knight Milk (more pick-up range, which is useful when you can't walk over xp to pick it up), breastplate (damage reduction, and chance to do damage back to the enemy), and nurse's horns (heal when you kill something) before finally getting my xp glasses. BL Books and Spider Cooking are great close-range AOE attacks, so xp falls near you. I also managed the "level 4 times in 1 second" achievement (time spent in the level-up menu doesn't count) when I upgraded my pick-up range and grabbed an xp magnet thing.

I grabbed wamy water for collabs, which work better if you can get to an anvil. The knockback there cost me some levels. I won anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 01, 2023, 07:44:52 am

Level three against a level 5 boss phase spider with two level 3 phase spiders and a small swarm of level 1 hatchlings.

I got a surprise round off, which let me dispense of the regular phase spiders. The hatchlings I managed to splat with liberal use of a cleave and my rogue's two bonus actions and an offhand attack. The boss, however, had 125hp and an attack that would down anyone who didn't have full hp. Despite that, I managed to steadily chip away at the thing until it finally gave up the ghost. Everyone was downed at least once, but being able to throw healing potions was insanely useful.

Baldur's Gate 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on September 01, 2023, 02:42:57 pm

Defeated the Hand of the King on 1BC/New Game+ mode, earning me the "honor" of stepping up to 2BC/New Game++ mode. Major shoutout goes to the legendary weapon I found about halfway through my run, whose special ability changed my weapon from one that you normally have to charge for a second to inflict critical hits to one that just always throws out criticals. The massive increase in damage output allowed me to mostly facetank the boss; beating him in a DPS dual.

For something closer to *me* owning, rather than just my equipment, I managed to flawless The Concierge, the first boss you encounter. This actually required some skill, since I had to stay the hell away from him (in a very small arena), dodging his attacks while I peppered him with arrows. That one earned me an achievement and a golden skin unlock.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dead Cells

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 01, 2023, 08:48:01 pm

Spoiler: an avenged death (click to show/hide)

Quote from: hector13 on August 31, 2023, 10:52:23 pm

Managed to get to sector 8 in very good nick: fully upgraded shield, engines, and reactor, an Ion Blast II that you start of with plus an Ion Stunner and a Hull Beam, as well as two drones(one combat, one beam), and enough scrap leftover to fully upgrade my sensors, doors, and pilot… though I didn’t do the latter because I had an elite pilot, as well as elite Engi engineer, Engi weapons officer, and Human shield officer (who doubled as security) plus one spare Engi to send out for repairing and shooting.

Got through the first two phases of the Rebel flagship fine, only taking a single point of damage in the second phase.

Third phase though… I’m playing in advanced mode and had never got to this point before so didn’t know they had a mind control system.

First they took over my weapons officer, who was blasting away for a bit until they got a lucky shot on the weapons system which basically took it all out, while teleporting guys in on top of that. This meant I was unable to deal with the flagship’s shields.

I was in the process of dealing with all of that as the initial mind control wore off when they did it again… to my pilot. This meant every single shot got through and made pretty short work of my ship… so I regretted a lot not upgrading my pilot system after that.

In the next run in the same ship, I managed to get a Slug as a reward in sector 1. Mofos are immune to mind control. Guess who immediately became my pilot?

[spoiler]Faster Than Light: Advanced Mode[/spoiler]

Managed to win that next run, with the Ion Blast II, a Heavy Ion, and Heavy Laser Mk 1 for weapons, plus a ridiculous number of drones because I just kept getting them as rewards: 1 Defense II (that saved the run at least once on its own), a combat and a beam drone, and enough power in the system to run two of them at a time.

This time I also upgraded my Pilot upon getting to sector 8, not that it mattered since the first phase the hacker drone hacked the Pilot system :| I got through it though, and the tactic of getting through the shields with a combination of drones and ions worked a treat, then switching the ion blast to the enemy system causing me the biggest trouble at any given time (NO MORE MIND CONTROL) meant I could just watch as my ship tore the bugger to bits.

I unlocked the Federation Cruiser as a consequence, so I get to do that as a run for a bit, with the goal of unlocking the variants of it in the mean time.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Faster Than Light: Advanced Mode

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 04, 2023, 07:56:37 am

Honestly, flak is probably one of the best weapons in general, and two flak IIs will shred even the flagship. If you get the opportunity, buy them. Level 4 shields mean nothing compared to a ceaseless wave of shrapnel. Seriously, it's 14 shots with a not too bad cooldown, just target a big room and only one or two will miss.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 04, 2023, 09:24:11 am

Funny you say that, as I just beat the flagship with the Federation Cruiser using two Flak II’s and a Burst Laser II.

The Artillery Beam is also OP, I don’t think I’d have got through the first phase without it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Sirus on September 05, 2023, 10:24:02 am

It is in fact perfectly feasible to beat the entire game using nothing but the artillery beam as far as offensive armament goes. It takes a bit longer, but I have done it and I am not particularly good at FTL. You just have to focus on defense and support tech rather than cramming on the best weapons possible.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 06, 2023, 08:41:22 am

Been playing a neat, cheap little auto-battler card game called Endgame of Devil. You choose monster cards, then they get placed on a 5x5 grid to fight successively harder waves of adventurers. You have to beat the adventurers before their cooldowns reach 0 (most of them have to be beaten in 5-7 turns), after which they steal your treasure. Lose three treasure, you lose the game.

Really simple, really fun. But the thing I love the most is despite RNG, there is a certain element of skill to being able to understand all the mechanics and chain them together to produce combos capable of lasting endless mode. The basic campaign is fairly easy to win with any kind of "theme." But as drops are random, it can be pretty hard to get the "theme" you want. But when you do - you really get the "feel" of creating a proper devil boss's lair. Like you can imagine in your head the toxic swamp when you successfully build a deck based off of toxic treants, toxic worm lairs and giant poison wyrms, with a bunch of murlocs going full mujahadeen in the mist.

Now I'm fairly good at reliably getting what I want. For example, one of the most frustrating decks to try and build is a vampire build. Manservants and vampire bats are fairly common minions. Manservants sacrifice themselves to buff vampires +3 attack, and vampire bats sacrifice themselves to give blood princes +3 attack. As the game progresses your likelihood of rolling legendary, mythic and epic monsters increases. The blood prince is an epic one, but the vampire is legendary. The vampire gains +1 attack every 4 turns, and sacrifices itself to give all of its attack to the blood prince. In theory you can build up a big court of manservants, move into vampires, then unlock your final form blood prince. In practice you end up with a whole bunch of manservants, never roll a vampire, then get a blood prince... If you don't lose in the early game, because manservants suck.

My most painful run, I made it 59 waves in with 5 vampires, each one at >200 attack. I end up losing on the same wave I roll a blood prince, losing one round before the blood prince was about to absorb all the vampires and achieve apotheosis.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZNka1pi.png)

This was my best successful run at a vampire deck. I used a lot of magic items allowing for rerolls and free minions, + a gate that boosted my chance for legendary minions (but NOT mythic). This allowed me to get rid of a lot of the RNG and reliably build up loads of vampires. I got several magic items that gave more attack increases, and set up a sick magic item combo where killing adventurers gave my thunder & toxic, thunder and toxic gave me acceleration (which reduced my minion cooldowns), which caused them to gain attack every turn... Resulting in thick vampire attack buildup. In order to not die I grew some beefy dragons, then began sacrificing them to my four undead kings (unfortunately one of my undead kings got sacrificed by a necromancer... I got rid of the necromancer).

After sacrificing all of my "starter" minions, I ended up with a full blood prince romcom deck. I had the elder blood prince, who had eaten all of the vampires. His lesser gay partner, who was a younger blood prince, but still useful. The three undead kings, the blood princes' harem of succubi who gave +1 attack to all minions around them (including themselves), as well as three engines of woe which gave +3 attack to one random minion. The Undead Kings notably gained +5 attack every time a minion was sacrificed, so they scaled really well.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/rJut1J2.png)

In the end my romcom blood prince deck made it to wave 76. The real prize turned out to be their four time hounds. Even if my blood prince was doing 3000 damage or my undead king was doing 1300 damage, the adventurers get exponentially higher in hit points whilst my guys were increasing linearly in attack points. Time hounds get to attack one more time for every 2 accelerate you have, meaning if you manage to stack up 99 accelerate, the time hounds are effectively doing their attack value x 48. In the end the undead kings and blood princes started struggling to deal with adventurers and I was near-totally dependent on the time hounds; when the time hounds couldn't clear the board in time, it was over.

There is a world where I get enough vampires & attack buffs and produce one giga blood prince who can make it to the end alone. Or a swarm of time hounds, going full hounds of tindalos.

But the real triumph came when I decided to go for a shub-niggurath build. Shub shub the black goat is an incredibly hard one to get running. Shub-niggurath is incredibly rare and spawns one tentacle every 2 rounds (every round if you stack accelerate). Tentacles temporarily gain +2 attack for every 3 tentacles on the board. Shubshub can make tentacles repeat their attack, and this is true if you stack shubs. I started with a balanced composition of toxic worms, undead kings, thunder elementals, thunder & fire dragons and a few werewolves. Aggressively banked my rerolls and then burned through them all until I got the GOATed relic which sacrifices one tentacle, giving its attack points to all other tentacles on the board. Using a bunch of mimic blob things and one orb, I managed to get FIVE SHUB SHUBS who rapidly began overwhelming my deck with tentacles, to the point where I nearly lost the game because I was running out of removals to delete the tentacles. As each tentacle started with 1 attack point, they were functionally useless against adventurers with >2000 HP.

I acquired two slimes, who began devouring my board of monsters. Slimes eat one of your monsters and gain their attack. Slimes are normally terrible as they wildly dislocate your combos, and your game-winning deck can just implode when a slime eats one of your key monsters. But as I had too many shub-nigguraths and tentacles this wasn't a problem. I intended to keep the slimes as any time I've tried to build a slime deck it's usually ended in failure, but after I cleared out the shubs down to one single shub... I realised I had achieved ultimate black goat deathcrawl total chaos blacksun victory

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(https://i.imgur.com/Gmsf2NU.png)

By trimming my deck down to 15 tentacles, one shub-shub and their elder lich caretaker, I could keep effectively doubling the attack of all fielded tentacles every 4 rounds. I soon found out there was a 9999 attack cap, but that was many thousands more than what I needed. I mulled over deleting shub-shub and getting rid of my orb that was sacrificing my tentacles every 4 turns, but for sentimental reasons I kept both, carefully tending to the tentacles so there was always a healthy population of max attack elder tentacles to give life to the baby tentacles.

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And I actually managed to win "endless mode" as apparently it finishes on wave 100. To my regret I didn't take a scientific approach to this, as I didn't think endless mode had an end. Because if I did, I would've recorded the HP values of the final wave adventurers so I can figure out what "upper boundary" I need to get my werewolves or blood princes to in order to win 100 waves.

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The final deck. The population of elder tentacles had reached a sort of equilibrium where it would alternate between peaks and troughs of baby tentacles to elder tentacles. All the while the elder lich tended carefully to the great garden of the black goat.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Frumple on September 06, 2023, 06:27:56 pm

Ever since Luck be a Landlord blew up a bit, that style of game (I think the most common designation is "drafting", or slots based) has seen a handful of new riffs on it. There's at least one other swords and sorcery themed one I'm aware of (though I can't remember the name offhand), plus two or three farming themed ones out at this point.

We'll almost certainly be seeing more going forward, considering they're basically just less exploitative slot machines with some strategy added in, heh.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 07, 2023, 09:36:14 am

Quote from: Frumple on September 06, 2023, 06:27:56 pm

Ever since Luck be a Landlord blew up a bit, that style of game (I think the most common designation is "drafting", or slots based) has seen a handful of new riffs on it. There's at least one other swords and sorcery themed one I'm aware of (though I can't remember the name offhand), plus two or three farming themed ones out at this point.

We'll almost certainly be seeing more going forward, considering they're basically just less exploitative slot machines with some strategy added in, heh.

I'd give it two years before EA or Blizard-Activision try making their own version full of microtransactions. Personally I'm fuming over it

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(https://i.imgur.com/bzh8ydi.png)

Just because in a hilarious stroke of bad luck I managed to make it to wave 76 rolling nothing but vampires. But not a single blood prince. I restart my game and roll 2 blood princes in a row, but no vampires. I just wanted to make one fat vampire boi :[

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: SQman on September 09, 2023, 02:28:09 am

I know Forgitten Realms lore well enough to know what Auntie Ethel was from her name alone. I also know rhat while devils offer fair deals with harsh conditions, hags twist words to cause as much grief and suffering as possible. I had to hunt Auntie down.

I'm a drow wild magic sorcerer; breaking the illusion over the swamp was simple. The problem was that when that happened I was surrounded by redcaps. They were smart enough to target the main spellcaster - me, meaning I spent the entire fight either held by hold person, or dead. That's okay, because in my wisdom I had only prepared utiloty spells (and magic missile). Meanwhile Shadowheart was buffing and protecting the rest, Wyll was blasting with eldritch blast, and Karlach was dealing the real damage, at one point hitting a redcap with another redcap.

Then there were Auntie's masked thralls. Underwhelming, to be honest. One of them kept trying to hit Shadowheart with some spell, but couldn't get through her saving throws.

Finally there was Auntie Ethel herself. Being in her own lair gave her no advantage. Her illusory doubles were easily handled with my magic missile. Wyll and Shadowheart had good rolls on their attacks.
When the hag disguised herself as the captive woman, I had Shadowheart use that crappy divine cantrip on one of them. She hit the poor woman, leaving her with just 1 HP.
When the hag begged for her life, I obviously refused to let her live, and blastes her with my final magic missile.

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Baldur's Gate 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on September 09, 2023, 08:13:24 am

Quote from: SQman on September 09, 2023, 02:28:09 am

When the hag begged for her life, I obviously refused to let her live, and blastes her with my final magic missile.

My barbarian was using a silencing greatsword - I never got to hear the hag beg for mercy, because she didn't have the ability to speak, once I'd closed the distance. (Kudos to the developers for thinking of these things!)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on September 14, 2023, 08:52:35 pm

Quote from: AlStar on September 09, 2023, 08:13:24 am

Quote from: SQman on September 09, 2023, 02:28:09 am

When the hag begged for her life, I obviously refused to let her live, and blastes her with my final magic missile.

My barbarian was using a silencing greatsword - I never got to hear the hag beg for mercy, because she didn't have the ability to speak, once I'd closed the distance. (Kudos to the developers for thinking of these things!)

Ooh, nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 15, 2023, 11:07:50 am

By the point I was at Ethel, I think I was one level overlevelled.

Hag didn't stand a chance.

I'm looking forward to being able to continue BG3, hopefully multiplayer with my brother.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 15, 2023, 08:26:45 pm

Finished the goddamn bouncer missions. I discovered that you can’t die while in Extreme Heat mode, and couple that with the payback ring that increases your damage when your health is low, everything is easy pickings.

Now I just need to finish the game on Legend (easy peasy with my lightsaber) and do the Majima Saga to get a juicy platinum.

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Yakuza Kiwami 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 20, 2023, 10:14:40 pm

Barely scraped a victory against the flagship. Sadly lost my four mantis boarders.

It would have gone better had the last guy on their ship not gone into the wing that broke off right at the end of the first fight, but I still won.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 20, 2023, 10:22:02 pm

This doesn’t bode well for my current game. I have the Mantis B ship with 4 mantis boarders, and a full crew otherwise (one of which is Virus), though I did get stupendously lucky with some weapon drops and have an Ion Blast II, Flak II, and Burst Laser II, with a weapon pre-igniter. Main issue being I don’t have full shields or engines… but my boarders usually get through the enemy ships after one volley anyway.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 21, 2023, 10:48:51 am

Yeah, the flagship turns on an AI if you kill the whole crew which slowly repairs the ship systems. It's better to kill everyone but one.

Boarding's insanely useful in the fight, especially for taking out the weapons, it's just that it's bad to use it the usual way of wiping out the crew.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 21, 2023, 08:37:19 pm

Well I won it with that loadout, though swapped the ion blast for another flak II.

My ship was blown to bits a moment after landing the final blow, too :o still counted as a W though. Somewhat BS that on phase 2 the enemy drones from the power surge are still able to shoot even if you have destroyed the drone controller though.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on September 21, 2023, 08:48:18 pm

Always get stealth. Both power surges can be mostly avoided with it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on September 21, 2023, 08:51:20 pm

I would say stealth is too expensive, but I had 700 scrap at the end, and had upgraded my reactor to max by the end of sector 4. Teleporters are OP.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 10, 2023, 09:42:51 am

A predator was camping the room I needed to loot, my objective was to cause no harm, and I had no sources of crash.  I needed to lure them but my stun gun was too quiet.  I had to use grenades... without harming anyone.

I also had a time limit AND a jammer messing around, but a slipstream let me work fast.  I dropped a grenade and ran, then detonated it just in time to distract the jammer and pull everyone away.  I ran a circuit around a good portion of the ship, zooming past other guards, to reach the target area from the other side.  The predator's insta-kill zone is big!

I got the loot but a guard had wandered too close to my egress.  I dropped another grenade, hid around a corner, and detonated it to lure him safely into the loot room.  Then sprinted through the window he had been gazing out of moments before.

No harm done~  Certain aliums would be very pleased with me.

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Heat Signature daily

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on October 10, 2023, 08:02:10 pm

Except for hearing damage, presumably.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 10, 2023, 08:03:59 pm

Hurt feelings at their failures as guards, possibly damaged future career opportunities.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Eschar on October 14, 2023, 12:02:28 pm

Property damage, not to mention the theft.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on October 14, 2023, 08:57:56 pm

These alliums don't care about property damage or careers, though the hurt feelings are a concern.  I didn't hear about any hearing damage, but I was pretty close to one of those grenades...

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 19, 2023, 01:15:53 am

Motherfucking Fool’s Idol. The fight in and of itself? Easy-fucking-peasy, I did it four times before I died.

Getting back to the fight? Fucking magician bastards have the audacity, the sheer fucking gall to not act the same as they did when I was cautiously making my way through the goddamn level trying to figure out what’s what.

I also liked my “aha!” moment.

Spoiler: actual spoiler for Demon’s Souls (click to show/hide)

walking out the door to the corridor where the boss arena is and remembering that little fucker up the tower… I let you live you little innocuous shit, sitting in a wee corner at the end of a stupidly long balcony and hallway.

Mo-ther-fucker.

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Demon’s Souls

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 19, 2023, 03:09:53 pm

Flattened three people in rapid succession, almost securing a teamwipe.

Warzone 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 22, 2023, 07:20:52 am

Assaulted the Cryptark. Realizing the sheer scope of what I was going up against, I loaded up with dual Smart Guns, grenades, and a shitload of ammunition, about 4000 rounds for each Smart Gun. There was an artifact objective to destroy all 22 subsystems aboard the ship. This included three Advanced Factory modules that constantly produce heavy drones that seem to be capable of phasing through walls to get to you. The ship also had a jammer, and two repair modules, which had to go first.

After hopping from one area of the ship to another, I still had about four subsystems left but I was down to no health whatsoever, having exhausted both my repair kits and every repair station on the ship. Ammo was feeling a bit low, but I could not afford a resupply. Luckily, the only systems that were left were easily bombarded with grenades. As was the main core, which normally does defend itself.

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Cryptark, obviously.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 24, 2023, 02:32:05 am

Finished Demon’s Souls, kind of underwhelming. Don’t think I scratched the surface too much, but beyond that the last six or seven bosses I did were pretty easy and not that memorable, other than the Storm King, that was probably the highlight of the game.

Might do another run at some point; I was going to get to Ed and see if I could get Northern Regalia before remembering I’d have to fight the Firelurker first, and that was one of the two bosses I had the most trouble with. Ah well, onto Disco Elysium.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Iduno on October 24, 2023, 05:59:08 pm

Quote from: hector13 on October 24, 2023, 02:32:05 am

Finished Demon’s Souls, kind of underwhelming. Don’t think I scratched the surface too much, but beyond that the last six or seven bosses I did were pretty easy and not that memorable, other than the Storm King, that was probably the highlight of the game.

Might do another run at some point; I was going to get to Ed and see if I could get Northern Regalia before remembering I’d have to fight the Firelurker first, and that was one of the two bosses I had the most trouble with. Ah well, onto Disco Elysium.

Yeah, having the fight your least favorite boss is only fun in the real world.

To get used to how Disco Elysium is supposed to work, do a run trying to see how quickly you can die. Try everything, read everyone's reactions, but make bad decisions on purpose. Helps you relax and realize you don't need to always need to make the most optimal choice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on October 24, 2023, 06:07:07 pm

I’ve already made many (what appear to be) suboptimal decisions, mostly punching doors and pointing guns at children because that’s how far I got in the time I had left after finishing Demon’s Souls before bed.

I started as the Sensitive build, very much enjoying the tie and the slightly bonkers connections the character draws.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AlStar on October 25, 2023, 10:15:33 am

Defeated the Hand of the King on 2 BC / New Game++, earning me the ability to turn up the difficulty one more notch. (Some new, harder monsters; and the game's gotten downright stingy on between-level healing.)

I was having an excellent run, blasting through the levels taking only minimal damage; such that I was able to preserve my healing potions. Then I stumbled onto some really extraordinary luck - on one of the final levels leading up to boss (so when item levels are their highest, so weapons will have lots of affixes and high base damage), I came across a legendary weapon shrine. Defeating its guardians, I was awarded with a legendary-grade Starfury (a Terraria crossover weapon).

The regular Starfury is decent, but nothing special - its high rate of attack is balanced against the fact that it's not very good against normal enemies, since its attack doesn't cancel their attack animations. Each time you hit an enemy, two stars are spawned, which deal critical damage to random targets on screen - not so great when there's an entire screen of things that the stars might target; quite deadly when there's only a single enemy (like a boss battle.) Legendary Starfury doubles the number of stars spawned with each hit, more than doubling its damage.

It was still a difficult fight - if I hadn't had nearly all my healing charges I might still have lost - I actually chugged one potion while I was standing in a spike pit, since the pit was slightly safer than possibly getting juggled by the boss attacks.

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Dead Cells

Edit: Wow, and just a single day later, I managed to beat the game on 3 BC / New Game+++ mode.

Turns out that having a heavy hitting, fast weapon that deals criticals on enemies who are held (Baseball Bat) and a thrown weapon that inflicts a long-lasting hold effect - even to most bosses - (Boy's Axe) makes for a formidable combo. I even managed to finally scoop up a 'no hit' achievement on one of the bosses that I'd been unable to perfect before now.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on October 25, 2023, 10:15:02 pm

Beat the level that vexed me as a kid. Caddis Fell.

Did the tactic I remembered, bumrush the gems in the west and bridge across the whole north of the lava lake so I could reinforce the walls. With that, I had as much time as I needed.

Spent the next two hours just training up my forces, then demolished the heroes in the south. Dragged all the corpses, mine and theirs, to the graveyard and got a sizeable (20+) number of vampires. Trained them up because since I'd cleared the heroes, I had access to two gems and their expense could be maintained. This was vital, the AI to the north can access 1.5x as many monsters as you and high level vampires can resurrect by losing a level. By having so many high level vamps I could just drown them.

But to make sure, I plopped a load of boulder traps down to thin the AI's numbers and whittle down their vampires levels.

After that it was an utterly graceless and protracted brawl to their dungeon heart, and victory.

Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on October 28, 2023, 07:07:16 pm

About halfway through the mission, the enemy received reinforcements of about half a dozen cavaliers charging from where the mission started. I did not expect that. Although most of my army is already most of the way through the castle, Bartre and Matthew had straggled to loot a room with some treasure, and wouldn't be able to rejoin the main group in time. Also, there was no way to save the supply tent, but thankfully that's not a permanent loss; he just doesn't level up that battle.

It was a difficult effort, Bartre being reduced to 3 hitpoints and Matthew being required to take a hit that reduced him to 1 hitpoint - he killed one of the enemy cavalry in the process. I was able to get Lowen and Dorcas to their aid, with Dorcas literally dragging Bartre out of the fire and taking heavy damage. Then I got everyone in a chokepoint with Priscilla on healing. Lowen, Dorcas, and Bartre were then able to slaughter the entire cavalry force before I could bring back anyone else to help. Nobody died except the smashed tent.

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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on November 05, 2023, 11:45:08 pm

Spoiler: Abogo (click to show/hide)

Abogo entered the sun-lit arena to the cheering and clapping of the crowd.

The fans knew him, adored him. For Abogo their adoration was simply a vehicle, piloted through oceans of blood-soaked sands toward his ultimate aim: his freedom. From slavery to stardom Abogo had fought and bled with honor throughout the many arenas of the Empire. His equipment, carefully chosen, lovingly maintained, the best he could scrape together after the Scollo's take of his winnings. His body, a mass of scars earned at death's door. It had all come to this: his last fight to catapult his renown to every corner of the Empire and finally make the case for his freedom. Should he win, they could not deny him.

He stepped into the circle of stone planters and sweet-smelling flowers and faced his opponent. At such rarefied heights of violence he'd been guaranteed to face only the best fighters. A veteran of the arena like himself, this one armed with the dreaded spear that was couched behind a tall shield. Abogo had fought many similarly-armed opponents throughout his brutal career and he knew this gladiator would test the limits of his skills. The deadly point of the spear, seemingly as effective up close as far away, able to punch through a helmet and into the eye as neatly as an arrow. And the towering shield negating most openings and counters. In the hands of patient, skilled fighter they made for a deadly combo. Abogo couldn't have asked for a more challenging opponent for his final battle. He steeled himself: it was victory or death.

They met in the center of the tiled mosaic. Abogo confidently moved in, slashing his sword in from his opponent's right side, tearing a chunk out of their shoulder armor and biting into flesh. He pressed his advantage, keeping close and driving his opponent back to keep them wrong-footed, hoping to avoid the point of the spear. Again he swung and again he struck home. But quick as lightning his opponent responded, weaving his spear inside Abogo's guard and stabbing through his armor. Alarmed at such a grievous blow, so easily dealt, Abogo leapt back and raised his shield. His foe advanced, darting the tip of the spear at Abogo's face like a viper's strike. Abogo dodged and blocked, throwing up his shield as he moved. He was fully on the defensive now, his breath sawing out of his lungs as he kept moving, trying to create space to recover. The crowd howled their anger, Abogo's life and freedom as nothing in the face of their lust for violence.

The world shrank around Abogo until it was nothing but the shield and spear back lit by the noonday sun. This was the moment everything else had to fall away: the crowds, the pain, the past. Everything had to be laid on the altar of victory.

He stopped retreating abruptly and moved forward slashing into his opponent, slamming his blade past the rim of his foe's shield and into their side. He leapt back and toward his opponent's shielded side, narrowly avoiding the spear's counter thrust.

On and on they went like this each taking a bite out of the other at turns. Attack, block, dodge. Attack block dodge. The steady rasp of exhausted fighters served as the metronome of the battle. Each strike that landed enough to bleed and weaken but not kill. After a minute and a half Abogo was covered in wounds, his life blood pouring out of various punctures, staining his body and what remained of his armor crimson. His life fluttered within his body, threatening to leave him at of its own accord. His foe fared no better, their grandiose breastplate long since torn away by Abogo's strikes, their wooden shield notched and splitting in a dozen places. Both gladiators held their positions several paces apart behind their shields, gasping for air, their limbs starting to shake as their life dripped fromt their bodies. But their eyes remained locked on each other, ready for the next and last clash. Without words they acknowledged the honor of a battle well fought and advanced.

Abogo broke into a charge. At the last moment he brought his shield up high, deflecting the questing point of the spear his foe thrust toward his face. He pushed past the attack, the spear sliding off his shield, and again hammered his blade horizontally across his foe's right flank. The blow was caught by the shaft of the spear but only just, the blade still sliding along his foe's arm, drawing more blood. Abogo didn't relent, moving forward and striking again, all finesse gone, the attack powered by the sheer desire to live. This time his sword struck the shaft of the spear solidly and jarred it from his foe's hand. It fell to the ground with a clatter. The roar of the crowd surged, the tumbling fates of the two gladiators now in free fall driving their excitement to new heights.

Abogo's foe retreated from him behind his shield, all but abandoning their fallen spear. It was then Abogo knew he'd won. Grimly he advanced on his opponent. The veteran gladiator cast around looking for something with which to fight back, but all the amphoras and wood and stones thrown into the arena by the crowd were beyond their reach. Abogo raised his blade as he closed on his foe. One last life, for a life.

He brought his blade down and hewed at his foe's shield, alternating his strikes from different angles. Like the fall of a blacksmith's tireless hammer blows he struck again and again, measured to preserve his stamina while pinning his foe on the defensive. Exhausted and overwhelmed his foe's numb hands eventually lost their grip on the shield and it went tumbling to the side.

With a mighty overhand slash Abogo cleaved into them, and his adversary fell to the blood-soaked tiles with a heavy, wed thud.

The sound of their fall however was swallowed by the triumphant bellows of the crowd raising from their seats, stamping their feet, and setting the air to trembling until Abogo felt the tumult surround him, as though it were trying lift him up. The slave who became a champion against all the odds. A true legend.

Though his vision was greying and his limbs trembled, threatening to collapse underneath him now that the fire of battle no longer sustained him, Abogo raised his weapons and his face up in victory. Recollections of that day would say he looked to the fans of the arena and smiled at their adoration. But it wasn't to the screaming mob he looked, and it wasn't validation or satisfaction that gave him joy. His eyes went to the blue sky above and he smiled at the future it promised.

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We Who Are About To Die

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on November 19, 2023, 08:31:02 pm

Managed the "Kill five cougars with a bow" challenge done, which is a chore because cougars spawn rarely, in only a few locations, they can instakill you, AND it's using a frigging bow.

Cougars got me twice, once because of the bow taking so long to draw. On the final one the cougar actually got me, but I was backed up against a tree so instead it pounced and the animation got cancelled by me slamming into the tree, saving my life. The cougar ran off, giving me an opportunity to draw my bow and gently insert a poison arrow through its eye socket.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on November 22, 2023, 10:42:35 pm

Booted up some CKII.  Took a baltic state and made it great with my starter Chief.

Gen 2 saw my brother inherit estonia and then later all of Iceland through a marriage to saxony.  This brother converted to norse, and began to consolidate alliances with his massive martial skill.  My bookworm character's levy and alliances saved him, and we unlocked religious title revocations just in time to effectively strip him of all Continental holdings.

Rather than remove his infidel ass entirely, I decided that since religious unification and reformation was right around the corner I could take the zealous outcome from the study the stars quest, and release Iceland as an independent duchy, relieving me of the need to keep an eye on that corner of the map and being a neat bit of roleplay.

With any luck, a norwegian king wont exist until he's able to claw together a few boats and Ill have spread my dynastic roots that way.


---

I dont know when it was implemented, but my starting inheritance laws were eldership council.  The council votes on a valid heir, any from my dynasty.  No gavelkind, no gravelkind.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on November 22, 2023, 11:29:55 pm

I think that was added with the expansion of pagan reformation. Might have been Holy Fury?

Either the religion has it, or you can add it during reformation. It's surprisingly easy to control so long as you only have one duchy/kingdom/empire title - if the elders like you, you can vote for your candidate, if the elders hate you, vote for the person you least want to win.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on November 24, 2023, 02:04:30 am

After many, many attempts, I developed a rather brutal technique to liberate my earlier player.

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(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2289579414880659797/F53595B432DCA7EFC49B3F558DB25BE372E299BD/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)

Purple Bamboo as my weapon means I get vigor as I do more damage. Jade Sting means I do lethal poison damage as I do damage. As I heal, I inflict lethal poison damage on all who oppose me.  The only real hard thing is getting into combat before their annoying ranged attacks kill me first. I even brought a bamboo mat to sleep on after fights.
I was nice, I buried all of them.

And as you can see, I finally freed my friend!

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The Matchless KungFu

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on December 04, 2023, 01:57:41 am

Was playing some light roleplay, and in this particular game Holy Rome choose not to explode into border gore.  Then, the Arabs snuck out a state of Syria from the Green Blob, and that Stole Constantinople. 

Deprived of their holy city, the Byzantines then lost the entire title of Empire to Khazaria....  It will be somewhat interesting to learn what happens to said title and the state of khazaria over time ...  Suffice to say the horde isnt going away anytime in the near future.

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(https://i.imgur.com/46fJMKR.png)

Its before 900.  This is what happens when I sit in my corner and play nice.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on December 11, 2023, 02:03:16 pm

Year is like 1023 or something now.  Aztecs landed, and while I still hate my own gripes with the dlc, they do add a 'horde' from the west.

I consolidated lithuania into an empire, and purposely tried not to snowball further.  Went as far as rugen, but only begrudgingly took anything inland that far west.  I did reform the religion since the norse were converting, and orthodoxy was spreading as far as oman down south, and the character who did it was into religion.

The Shia revolt took over the byzantines and became a proto-ottoman emnpire.  the Sunnis of Arabi were splintered into Persia + a million pieces that slowly reformed.  The Khazarian state swooped in and claimed the Throne, but lost the provinces in the succession.  The surviving members of Byzantia are in greece and sardinia - they had sicily and almafi became a power for a while, but then a norse revolt snowballed, spawned adventurers who took all of sicily and then gobbled up Greece and Eventually Denmark.  Some courtiers of Byzantia fled to Nubidia and successfully took mecca from the muslims, forming a large egyptian state.

The mongols Never got past Tibet - they conquered the region briefly before converting to Hindu and settling down on the Asian Steppes.  They continue to exist over there, chilling with about 30k event troops - in what I can only hope is an enlightened despotism.

Francia the empire gobbled up half of Spain, and half of pannonia.  With 70k troops and holding bohemia from me, we went to war.  I had been donating any land outside my empire dejure lands to various benefactors, including Denmark, Finland, Vladimir, and Ruthenia.  This was a slow process that I didnt strive for, and I actively sought to revoke any realm holdings and grant them independence.  As various religions rose and fell, free tribes around me sought to convert.

So, with a huge swath of allies, tribal vassals, tributary states that I subdued so as to protect them from the nomads, and marriage ties to said nomads, We invaded a 70k troop yr970ish HolyRomebutnotreally France and we won.  That was neat.  Then the plague comes and kills all the hardened warriors.

The aztecs landed on Aquitaine and Ireland.  They swept into Denmark taking it from Sicily who took it from my allies.  They even took Paris from Francia at the end, but I used the situation and the pagan ability to raid to kill 65k of their event troops as a non-belligerent by picking good fights.

The real winner of the Aztec invasion of France of me for taking them down from 150k to 70kish in a war I wasnt even a part of while dodging both hostile parties.  I camped a small army offshore and selectively landed to raid both france and aztecs to maintain supply and control hostilities.

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The world is currently split into Francia, a 25kish Sicily, The Shia-ottomans, Hindu Mongols, A (large) free Welsh state competing with the Aztecs in England, Uyymads of most of west africa, an orthodox mecca, me and my collection of tribals, and whatever the hell is going on in india.  The Chinese empire came out once to threaten me about paying tribute, but nothing ever happened as a result of my refusal.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on December 26, 2023, 06:19:22 pm

FUCK the creche. It's a goddamn fucking nightmare on tactician, even with me being one level higher than all the Githyanki there.

I died three times in a row, not helped by hitting 50% chances 20% of the time while the Gith were critting nonstop. I burned through half my accumulated potions of speed on the first fight with the creche leader, her wolves, the two guards, and all the other guards who explicitly. Changed. Their. Patrol. Routes. To. Get. Involved.

Burned through almost all the rest fighting the inquisitor. Counterspell was incredibly useful during both too.

Baldur's Gate 3

EDIT: You know what, Grym can get fucked too. It took TWO hammer crushings after dealing a shitload of damage to kill, and still took two more turns of thwacking with regular weapons, not helped by me having no bludgeoning weapons despite my best efforts. I'm wanting a maul for my Durge paladin, but I can't get anything better than base-plus-minor-spell as far as they go.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Criptfeind on January 02, 2024, 12:04:28 am

I beat snakebird complete. A puzzle game that was free on epic a few days ago. Just sorta picked it up, wasn't sure if I was going to play it, but I heard from someone that it was okay. Turned out to be quite a good puzzle game. Hard as nails sometimes though, or maybe I'm bad at puzzles, took me 13 hours across a few sessions (according to epic) the last session was a six hour one to beat the last like... 8-9 puzzles (out of maybe like 110-120) with three in particular taking up most of the time. The last level was a hell of a doozy that probably took like 2-3 hours alone... At least one hour trying to move a block one space! I eventually managed though.

So yeah, I don't play puzzle games a ton, so take my word with a grain of salt, but seems like a pretty good one if you like hard puzzles.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Mathel on January 06, 2024, 11:20:27 am

Not I, but the party I DM for.

For the third time, they managed to interrupt my plans by sheer luck.

This time, they were being scried on by a particular mage. He was decently powerful, but he did not know them, so the DC was merely 12.
This mage had a friend from uni, who happened to also be a friend of the party. An almost equally powerful mage.

So, the Scrier fails the first attempt, tries again in 24 hours. The party just happens to be visiting his friend  on unrelated business (interrogating an assassin's skull), when he tries again and he succeeds.

So instead of the mage searching for the party and trying to learn the name of one of them so that he could send them a Sending, he just sent it to his friend and arranged a meeting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dungeons and Dragons 5e

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 15, 2024, 11:47:26 am

Just got reminded, somehow, in a manner beyond my understanding, I dropped over 100 damage at level 8. Needless to say, the poor bugger died in a single thwack.

Even now I'm at a higher level, I've failed to recreate this feat. Must have been a crit and a stacked a lot of good rolls from a lot of good dice.

Baldur's Gate 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Funk on January 16, 2024, 07:53:54 pm

i was a living embodiment of the emperors will, cutting down heretics left and right, one after another fell to my chain sword.
An then the oygrn's blocked me hitting the zombies an i fell over..
warhammer darktide.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: AzyWng on January 20, 2024, 12:22:50 am

After a few tries, I beat the foreign pro’s challenge by landing a home run on a Soaring Eagle

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Yakuza Kiwami 2. Substory: Living The American Dream.

Wish I knew what to do with the signed baseball…

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on January 20, 2024, 12:29:45 am

Ah that was a pain.

It’s worse if you’re going for a 100% run though, since you have to do the baseball mini-game a lot, and using a guide so you actually know what pitches (and where!) you’re going to get is a must.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 21, 2024, 11:28:38 pm

I fucked a mind flayer. This game truly has everything.

Baldur's Gate 3

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: pisskop on January 22, 2024, 12:18:45 pm

as in you copulated with a squidman whose reproductive cycle has nothing to do with yours?

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Rolan7 on January 22, 2024, 12:42:33 pm

Trust me, it's for the best she didn't reproduce with the mind flayer.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 22, 2024, 01:53:54 pm

Quote from: pisskop on January 22, 2024, 12:18:45 pm

as in you copulated with a squidman whose reproductive cycle has nothing to do with yours?

Yes. I tugged his tentacles. I'm not making that up either.

EDIT: Playing modded Vicky 3, just a mod that releases every nation.

I was trying to form Germany. It's painful, because you don't have any vassals, nobody's in your market, and everyone fucking hates you all the time. Some reason the mod breaks AI somewhat and they all turn super fucking protective of everyone else.

So, how did I fix that? I beelined military techs, got lasseiz-faire to maximise AI construction, sold off all my barracks to remake them with line infantry (No ability to create ammo at first, so it was horrifically expensive to keep the original army), and just keep. Building. An army.

I had the largest army in Europe, still failed a lot of wars due to the AI getting mysterious defence/offence bonuses despite nothing obvious causing them to gain both, as well as being ganged up on every time I did a war. I had to take out Austria in a 4 year long war, 90% of which was fought in a 5 mile gap between our border and a lake (I was against Austria, Two Sicilies (Who had take 2/3 of Italy), Croatia (Sold off to get TS involved) and Slovakia) and cost 300k lives on my side and about 250k on theirs.

Then was Westphalia.

They were fucking horrific. Large army despite a shit economy, their army was receiving unknown bonuses to the extent they were approaching double my strength, and a complex web of defensive pacts. I never took them out in the end, what happened was I drew them into a war by attacking their allies and kicked them out of the unification race, barely. Then I unified Germany, by which point I'd absorbed so many OPMs and minor powers that my army increased by about 150%. France got involved, England got involved, every other German state got involved, Slovakia, Slovenia Austria, Bohemia...

Still, I had a tough enough army to deal with them, and enough debt capacity to have my army well upgraded and fully mobilised without defaulting. I had to give up on France, Westphalia was still independent because the game ignored them in the unification play for some reason, Austria never got taken oddly enough. So I wound up sans Westphalia and Austria, but I had Bohemia. Basically I was playing fat Germany.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: IncompetentFortressMaker on January 24, 2024, 06:19:44 pm

I just beat The Hand of the King (the final boss) of Dead Cells on Nightmare difficulty (the fourth harder than default). As you might have guessed from the name, that was not easy. I'm impressed with myself, but where the "own" part comes in is that the concept of pogoing an enemy (bouncing off its head with a down attack) does not really exist in the Dead Cells universe; the only weapon I know of able to do it is the Pure Nail, a Hollow Knight crossover weapon. As it happens, The Hand of the King does not know how to handle you bouncing off his head with impunity, even though by that point, he has so much health that (despite the fact that up- or down-attacks with the Pure Nail are critical hits) you'd basically be doing no worse than a mild scratch. So, in this case, it was a probably literal death by a thousand cuts. I hit that guy on the head a lot.
Despite his rather exploitable weakness to being pogoed on, he's not trivial to kill because he has an enormous amount of health, and by that point, getting hit by him in return is very, very painful.
How did I even get to him in the first place, you might be wondering? Well, I happened to get an extremely lucky run in that I found the legendary version of a weapon called Flint (which, despite its name, appears more like a warhammer with a severed hand serving as the head). Normally, Flint's gimmick is that you can charge up an attack to a certain point to make it into a critical hit and also spawn a flaming trail in the direction you're attacking. The legendary version, however, always has charged attacks like this no matter how quickly you make them come out, meaning that all of its attacks are critical hits and spawn flaming trails - thus enabling a legendary Flint to have ludicrous DPS. Even in the penultimate area of the game (this time around I chose High Peak Castle) I was able to kill just about anything in a few hits to the face with that.
Also having a Pure Nail available (it was in my backpack for most of the run) meant I could switch to it when facing bosses I knew it'd be especially good against, such as The Hand of the King.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on January 24, 2024, 10:10:18 pm

Took out a 6 man raid with mixed weaponry (Pistols, rifles and knives) using only one person with a rifle. It was close, twice guys got almost adjacent to her, but two lucky one-hit-kills happened that seriously depleted their numbers, and once two more were down the rest fled, and I got one as they ran.

Rimworld

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: EuchreJack on January 24, 2024, 10:20:57 pm

Quote from: Great Order on January 24, 2024, 10:10:18 pm

Took out a 6 man raid with mixed weaponry (Pistols, rifles and knives) using only one person with a rifle. It was close, twice guys got almost adjacent to her, but two lucky one-hit-kills happened that seriously depleted their numbers, and once two more were down the rest fled, and I got one as they ran.

Rimworld

Wow, congrats!

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 18, 2024, 09:32:17 am

First attempt at fighting the Void Wizard almost got me killed. Used a recall scroll before that happened.


Second time, I brought reinforcements: two Guard villagers(they have far more HP), with full Demonic armor, which is just barely second-best to Quartz, maybe best depending on how you see the set bonuses. Void Wizard didn't stand a chance, even though bringing help makes bosses stronger. I think each companion add 20% and a bit to boss HP. Still almost died because I wasn't paying enough attention to my HP or dodging projectiles, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Necesse.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on February 19, 2024, 06:45:52 pm

While I'm upgrading now, I'd accidentally stumbled upon a pretty good Midline frigate setup. Some custom Centurions, a couple of Wayfarers (More because I started with them), a couple of Vigilances, a Brawler and a couple of kites. They wound up being able to punch up very effectively, a good chunk of which was that they had some EMP ability without compromising overall firepower which made enemy frigates and destroyers immobile. The Vigilances could then, once the target's shield was high, spam the hell out of some Gorgons with surprisingly devastating results. The sheer number they can spew out when their fast missile rack ability is full is really good for tearing ships up.

Now, however, I need to keep pushing up the ranks. The Hegemony is at war with all the factions bar the Luddic Church and *winning*. I need to turn this around singlehandedly.

Starsector

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on February 19, 2024, 09:56:52 pm

Barely beat the Ancient Vulture, solo and on first real try(I had unwittingly summoned her much earlier by accident). I had single-digit HP and my healing potion was on cooldown, but the bird was also down to under 100 HP. Worse, a few of her babies hatched before I could destroy the eggs and were flying right at me. Then the boss made a charge at me, but missed, setting me up to fire several homing blood bolts into her back. Killing her also despawned her spawn.

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Necessee. Ancient Vulture is very hard to beat with melee, but wearing equipment that provides resilience - a bit of extra hitpoints that gets built up by melee attacks - is a lifesaver here. I do need to replace my blood bolt spell, though; I think there's an upgraded form, I have to check the recipe to craft it. Good movement speed bonuses also help here.

EDIT: This happened just after the forum crashed, so it's not so recent. Beat Lilly and her Lyleen. While I went in with the heavy Fire-types Vanwyrm, Incineram, and Felbat(actually Dark, but hits hard enough), the main star was my own pretty Pal flower girl(actually boy) Petalia who could almost solo Lyleen if it wasn't for the time limit. In fact, I had less than a minute left, and very little HP, when I put the last pistol round through Lilly's forehead.

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Palworld. I put it down for a month after hitting a slump where it was getting too slow to level up. Then I picked it up again and discovered that the repeat capture bonus(up to the tenth capture of a species) scales with level so you get a pretty consistent level gain just by catching extra Pals.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on March 31, 2024, 08:34:11 am

Started playing Risk of Rain again (The OG, not the new one) for the first time since something like 2016. Nobody to play it with, so I was going solo. Engineer's my best class by far, and I've managed to get further than ever with him. Got to the divine teleporter and accidentally jumped back for a victory lap instead of progressing. Died when I came under attack from four(!) magma worms and a golem.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Robsoie on April 01, 2024, 08:23:18 am

What an intense game it was, but i finally managed to beat The Evil Within
and only ... 54 deaths :D

Some parts of the game were insane in the visuals, level design and in the atmosphere but in gameplay there were some maddening battles (Laura ... and i learned after finally destroying that abomination that you could avoid that boss battle to start with ... she killed my character so many times )

It was a complete masterpiece, the tension was always present as you felt there was no "safe" area anywhere (even when they were) and trying to stealth around and silently get rid of monsters to avoid wasting precious ammo only to do something stupid and have to run away from angry monsters hoping to find a hiding place to let the rage go away.

Defintively recommended great game, assuming you're not repelled by the horror theme everywhere of course as the game never stop to make you feel stuck in a nightmarish hell in which death just wait around a corner.

Now to get to the sequel when i'll get my breath back.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on April 01, 2024, 03:44:50 pm

Made it to the ship. Didn't get to the boss, but I spent a good 55-ish minutes getting there in all. I was screwed over by the ceaseless Wandering Vagrant spawns, I just couldn't kill them fast enough and I couldn't escape their DPS.

I need to see if some friends want to play this some time.

Risk of Rain (2013)

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Akura on April 04, 2024, 08:01:57 pm

Went crazy in the enemy base, carving through enemies with my knife as they seemed to be more focused on whoever was attacking the objective rather than me. Got the "You got blood on my suit" achievement - 10 knife kills in one life.

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Angels Fall First. Just updated with a crapton of achievements.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: hector13 on April 06, 2024, 07:20:37 pm

Managed to get a score of 118 in Stunt Moles, which means I managed to meet the challenge of getting 110 in that game. Never thought I’d manage that.

I did get quite lucky for specials flying in that gave me higher scores for hits, and the fact there was only one other human playing probably helped too. You lose score for active misses but not actually trying, so the last phase I just waited out.

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Headbangers

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Great Order on April 11, 2024, 05:44:42 pm

I've been running a low-tech/XIV variant fleet and I seem to have come upon a pretty damn good one now. I can fend off fleets larger than mine consistently, all I need to do is hit full assault and the enemy fleet will start getting shredded. I'll usually lose an Enforcer or two, but they're just destroyers and pretty acceptable casualties.

Anyway, it took basically no time to deal with the TriTach crisis, and now I've got an extra 24% accessibility at my colonies. I've also been ripping the other crisis fleets to shreds, I'm just waiting for them to come to a head (And for my atmosphereless colony to grow so I can plonk a fuel manufactory on it and bung my synchotron in to upset the Diktat). Hopefully either the pirate or League one, the first so that I'm able to get a solid bonus and the latter because I've already nicked their nanoforge.

Starsector

EDIT: PL crisis dealt with, they were simple. Lost a few ships but recovered all of them.

The pirates, on the other hand, came at me with such a massive fleet that my capitals started to run out of CR in the battle. Even with the help of a system defence fleet *and* a Hegemony AI inspection fleet it was tough. The enemy just kept shitting out more and more and more and more and more ships. In the end I won, lost a couple of ships and burned through most of my fleet's armour and health, but a victory is a victory.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Telgin on May 07, 2024, 11:55:26 pm

I beat the Final Horizon free DLC for Sonic Frontiers, effectively meaning I merely beat the game and got the true ending.

Spoiler: Rant (click to show/hide)

But... man, what an unbelievably aggravating experience.  It feels like the developers got butt hurt about people complaining that Sonic Frontiers was too easy, so everything in the free update was way overtuned and too difficult.  I actively avoided the miniboss fights because they were incredibly frustrating and weren't necessary.  I spent many minutes chipping away health on a Silver Hammer boss, only for it to just kill me.  It feels like they seriously reduced the mercy invulnerability in this game, presumably because you don't always lose all of your rings when hit.  So... smack.  Lost my rings.  Before I could get control back, smack.  Dead.

Anyway, the real frustration was the Master King Koco trial.  You have to do a boss rush with the three main bosses of the game, with 400 rings and no way to get more.  On top of that, you now have to use Perfect Parries to block attacks.  Up until now, you could just hold the parry buttons and Sonic would automatically parry stuff.  Now you have to time it.

It's abundantly clear that the bosses weren't designed with this in mind.  Their attacks have no obvious cues on when to parry because they didn't need it until now.  You have like a 1/2 second window of timing, and their attacks are fast.  Didn't guess right?  Sucks to be you.  Get good, loser.  What's worse is that for the second of the three bosses you have to get three of these perfect parries right in a row just to damage it in its second phase.  If you get any of the three wrong, you reset the cycle and waste like 15-20 rings.

What's worse than that is that every boss has a pre-fight segment that's unskippable, and also unskippable mini cutscenes during phase transitions.  That second boss I mentioned has a 90 second segment of you running on a track to get to it, which you have to do every single time you fail.  Each attempt can take up to 10 minutes or so overall.

In total, it took me about 5 hours over the course of 3 days to beat the trial, but I got it on the first try today.  I don't even care that the achievement here was just beating it.  I beat it and I never have to do it again!  What a relief!

I'm scared by the fact that this was evidently after they made it easier because it was even harder at one point.

The final battle afterward was trivial by comparison, though I did get spoiled on having to hit a specific part of it to damage it.  That apparently really annoyed a lot of people.  The game does not go out of its way to explain things to you.  Also, much jank.  I can't count how many times I hit a button to combo something and it just didn't work.  Or something else went bizarrely wrong, like Sonic flying through grind rails or catapulting off in seemingly random directions because I bumped the the control stick during a choreographed bounce pad / ring segment.

I like a lot of ideas in this game, but man, it's rougher than sandpaper.  It needed so much more polish.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 08, 2024, 01:06:16 pm

Semi-related, I'm over parrying mechanics. Feels like every game has them now, and when whole bosses are built off of parrying, it feels like it's missed the point of the mechanic. Parries are supposed to be high-risk, high-reward. Not "you must do this or you lose." I just watched some indie game showcase where parrying was a core mechanic. Like, you get a shield to parry with before you even get a permanent weapon, and parrying does damage to the enemy. It instantly killed my interest in the game.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TurboDwarf on May 08, 2024, 01:20:18 pm

parrying existing is the reason why I play wizards in souls games. I can't hit parries, i always do them too early. Sometimes i dip my toes into melee play and get humbled though lol.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: Egan_BW on May 08, 2024, 01:59:49 pm

Parries basically aren't necessary in any souls game, especially because there's a ton of attacks you just can't parry at all. Enemy has to be a humanoid attacking you with a weapon in melee, which doesn't actually happen that often. Not all that many bosses apply, and the little human guys who you can parry, you can also just... stunlock em and kill em.

I much prefer the parry mechanic in Sekiro. If you do it too early you just get a normal block. In that game you probably can't beat it without learning how to deflect, but there's also room for not being perfect at it.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: nenjin on May 08, 2024, 02:42:33 pm

Yeah, Sekiro getting away from the whole concept of "critical attacks" and just moving to posture, and changing parrying to go along with that, is probably the best iteration of the system to date.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: TurboDwarf on May 09, 2024, 01:25:34 am

I've been meaning to play Sekiro for a long time, but have never got around to it. I just don't have a ton of free time anymore, sadly.

Title: Re: How did you last *own*?
Post by: lemon10 on May 09, 2024, 02:12:35 am

Quote from: TurboDwarf on May 08, 2024, 01:20:18 pm

parrying existing is the reason why I play wizards in souls games. I can't hit parries, i always do them too early. Sometimes i dip my toes into melee play and get humbled though lol.

As the others have said parries are very much not needed for melee runs in any of the soulslikes aside from Sekiro. Honestly parrying is kind of a trap since you need to get the timing perfect compared to blocking (no timing window) or dodging (much more generous timing window).
As someone that also sucks at parrying I have beaten all the games with melee chars, dodging/blocking is more than enough.
As someone who has also beaten all the soulslikes with magic (sans blood-borne) melee is generally substantially easier than magic.

Quote from: TurboDwarf on May 09, 2024, 01:25:34 am

I've been meaning to play Sekiro for a long time, but have never got around to it. I just don't have a ton of free time anymore, sadly.

The game is a masterpiece. If you like soulslikes its certainly worth a try when you have some time for games.