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Jesus cribblyhumping christ.

I hit super hard mode on the dark souls mod. Yes, it has something beyond hard mode.

1. The wall of flesh equivalent for hard mode was somewhat crazy. I think. There was so much crap flying around the screen I was probably getting <5 FPS. What I was seeing was pretty glorious, though. Also. Multiple forms. Not only multiple forms, but it is in fact two different bosses, each with multiple stages. And unique sub-boss... things. One a suped up wyvern, the other a mage-y thing.

2. The weakest SHM critter I've seen so far (out of two... three, technically) has 17k HP (well... okay, the other one summons buffed up chaos elementals that "only" have like 3.5k, iirc). Can teleport like chaos elementals. Has at least three different projectiles, one kind of mage-ball-y, one a massive chaos-flame breath of doom thing, the last a homing doom missile of some sort. Can inflict poison, bleeding (no regen), confusion, cursed flames, curse and... some other debuffs, too. Each on different attacks. Hits like a goddamn truck. Bloody freaking insane.

3. General performance has degraded so badly I've been pretty much forced to resort to hacking the game to just to survive, as I can dodge goddamn nothing and even with >150 defense, massive health regen, and 300 hp healing potions I cannot tank basically bloody anything anymore. So many projectiles. And/or enemies. If it's not spewing a bazillion bits of dakka at you, it's summoning horde of friends. This game has gone freaking Touhou on me.

... I'm definitely kinda' enjoying myself. Would recommend.

I do know it was buggy and even on Windows 98 as stable as a three-legged bar stool.  I'd be curious to know how you got the game to run at all on a modern machine.

A couple years back the Open Imperium Galactica project started and Digital Reality has given the project their blessings, allowing the game's assets to be modified and downloaded for free. Since the project is more or less completed, I'll be playing that.

Which you seem to be able to more or less find here. I'm... in the process of downloading, haha.

You'd have better luck asking over in Other Games. Pretty sure there's an option to move the thread, somewhere.

Haven't done much with the F2P stuff on steam, though. Played Star Trek Online for a bit, and it wasn't too bad for a few hours, but it wasn't exactly mindblowing or anything.

... how long until they expire? If you can sit on it for a year or two...

Alternately, you might be able to hunt down some sort of trade. Find someone that wants books and has something you want that's more mobile. Or... something. Don't let it go to waste! If nothing else, use the stuff up and donate it to a local library or somethin'.

Hnn... from what I could tell (and can remember) the wings were more for the change to fall trajectory that comes with gliding than any issues re: going splat. The angle change seemed to make it harder for the twins' AI to aim properly.

Hrm. If recently watching an LP says anything (Yrimir's caster run), a good way to deal with the twins is a few gravitation potions, wings, and something ranged. Do the fight in mid air, moving back and forth across the map, dodging most things and blasting away. Took most of the night using crystal storm (and a good hundred+ mana potions >_>), but it wasn't very difficult.

Destroyer... I never remember having much trouble with that one. Just kinda' don't stand inside the body (or at least avoid the head) and bring a piercing weapon and probably an autoclicker (admantine glaive, ferex. Maybe dao of pow.). Make sure to pop the laser thingies for extra healthsies. Cross necklace probably wouldn't hurt even if you're not exploiting the damage tiles. Push comes to shove, farm up a buncha' heart statues (gen new world, spelunk, repeat. Or hack them in, which I'd honestly recommend instead, just to save time.) and set them up on a timer.

Definitely do get wings if you haven't already, though. They do incredible things for your mobility, and make the hard mode bosses a lot more viable.

Well, there's almost certainly a few that abbreviate to SC... sure, they say they're Southern Catholic or something, but I think we all know what's going on here. Bloody starcraft fanatics.

In that scenario? Kefka is the Emperor.