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Started promoting some people at level 25. Watched Jaha the Baron one-shot a skeleton, an enemy which, a few minutes prior, had been giving me trouble. Kazin the Sorceror's new spells are awesome both in damage and visuals. Also promoted Slade from Thief to Ninja, which lets him use swords. Seeing a guy who used to use knives flip around an anime sword* is hilarious.


Started a new game after purchasing up from the demo. A few dives in, I replaced my mass driver with a microwave emitter. Filled my ship almost to full, or at least, so full that I couldn't close the bay door because the ore chunks were jamming it open. That was a profitable run, and I didn't even sell everything.



EDIT: Achieved a perfect salvage(>=95%, 100% is generally impossible) on an Atlas-class cargo ship. Despite accidentally causing an atmosphere blowout(a few lights were knocked loose, that's all). And full salvaging every part of all the Quasar thrusters, which I've been seeing a lot of posts about how hard they are(or buggy, but I haven't seen that). It's actually fairly easy; before you cut the fuel connectors, tether the thruster towards the back wall, cut the fuel lines, cancel the tether as the thruster flies out, and rush to the shutoff switch. The massive casing is best tethered forward using the jacks - you may need to remove other hull panels to get them clear.

The ship was worth $14 million. I only caused $39,000 in damage, and it took four shifts, which was about $2 million in fees. Not a bad dent in the debt.

Ran into a huge difficulty spike in the Kraken battle. Compared to the previous battles, the Kraken's arms and legs(yes, they're separate unit types - the arms are deadlier) have twice as much HP and hit a lot harder. One even one-shotted the team healer. Granted, she shouldn't be in the line of fire in the first place, but still. Had to rewind the emulator a lot just so I could get back to one of Bowie's turns to cast Egress, since for some reason his turn wasn't coming up.

Decided to try out the latest update with a Conquest run. Update looks good. According to my stats, I haven't played since October 2020, which feels... wrong. I could have sworn I've played it more recently. One notable change relevant to this post, is during Conquest, you have to buy new battalions instead of just spawning for free.

Some... questionable decisions in the research branch left me with my only equipment unlocked being tanks, ammo/medic bags, and night vision goggles. The enemy launched a major counteroffensive on Day 1 - Night, attacking Coast, which I had taken with no resistance. 3 battalion each. And my equipment list? Tanks can't spawn on Coast, and while it was a night battle, Coast has a lighthouse which has a very bright light that passes over the map which makes NVGs less helpful. The other side had APCs, which *do* spawn on Coast, and I had no anti-tank.

Surprisingly, this didn't help them much. By the time my first battalion was depleted, they had nearly lost their second. I had managed to disable one APC by throwing grenades under it while standing next to an ammo drop, but it took over a dozen. The rest of their forces were burned out from having fewer points captured and poor positioning.

Apparently, this setback broke them, as my continued offensive met very little resistance. The heaviest fighting was Archipelago(last map before their headquarters), where I attacked with 3 battalions against 2 defending, lost one taking it. I'm guessing they ran completely out of money by then, because they had one battalion left, which they suicided trying to retake Archipelago. They didn't buy any more, which left their Citadel completely undefended, and I took without it a fight.

Realized the game is pretty much lost when one of the worlds in the middle of my empire is threatening to defect because of foreign influence. Despite said world being one of my main producers of my own empire's influence. And that the foreign power that's influencing them is the Yor... who don't usually go for the cultural victory.

That might explain why I'm still getting beat by the endgame bosses. I never used any grit items.


Also having my Joycon stick drift again isn't helping.

Not mine, but this morning, the usually straight-laced news reporter on the radio gave some background on how 420(today's date is written as such in the US) has been associated with marijuana since 1971.

Then she referred to today as "Hash Wednesday".

A very difficult battle against the only plot-related trainer that uses a full team.

Which leaves me with only my alpha Lucario at half health.

Then immediately drawn into another battle, which borderline cheats a first-strike to one-shot Lucario before I can even do anything.

Yup. Totally fair play there, game.