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[Akura]

Goddamned idiot AI for my builder trucks, running directly at the enemy despite being able to repair a turret from where they're standing, or charging even faster when I order them to move in the opposite direction.


Also, screw the tech tree design. I don't usually build cyborg units, but you have to research the factory - which I don't have time for because I have to research bigger guns to deal with the ever-increasing swarm of bigger enemy tanks(despite them not plausibly having the resources to build that many) - in order to research bigger tank bodies. After all, the bigger enemy tanks simply laugh off dozens of direct mortar hits while driving right up to a wall of rocket towers and cannon bunkers and one-shotting the trucks trying keep the defenses alive(which they fail at).

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Warzone 2100. I still don't see how they(the NullBot AI) are able to progress in research faster while building more and bigger tanks faster despite having at most about 5 oil wells. I had at least 10 wells, and still struggled to keep a positive balance just researching and building trucks(even from one factory)/defenses.

EDIT: Screwed myself pretty hard. I had thought that if I opened my suit's air tank inside my pressurized base that it would refill. No, it instead blew out, going from around 22k kPa to 100kPa, which is about a minute and a half's worth of oxygen. I don't yet have the infrastructure to refill it the correct way.

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Stationeers, or "How the hell do I in space? Nevermind I died." On the other hand, this is the first time(at least since playing it recently) that I've even gotten to the point I can open my helmet indoors.

[Telgin]

Killed by Ridley in Super Metroid.  I learned then that missiles did much less damage than charged beam attacks to him.

I think I died about 5 times overall, mostly to bosses.  Kraid, Draygon, and Ridley all got me on my first attempts, but I beat Phantoon and Mother Brain on my first tries.  I died a couple of times to trash enemies or environmental hazards.

Considering replaying it again soon.  I think I could do deathless now without too much trouble.

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I hate that I missed this game as a kid.  Such a huge improvement over the original Metroid in every way.  I was genuinely looking forward to playing it each day instead of enduring it like I did for the NES game.  The game was thankfully much less obtuse, though I did have to google a few rooms to confirm that I was missing upgrades so I couldn't progress.

That said, I have to wonder if the manual explains some things that felt unclear.  Like... there's a run button.  Spent a while in that room.  Samus seemed to run plenty fast without it so I didn't even think the button did anything.  Same with horizontal / diagonal shinesparking and beam shields, which I saw people do in speedruns and thought were bugs until I realized there were proper sprites for the animations and particles. The main one though is wall jumping, which I honestly just hate.  First, I assumed the green monkeys were showing me that I had to do it, but assumed I was missing an upgrade that allowed it since it wasn't clear how to do it.  And once I looked it up, it took me a while to get.  I really wish it worked like Mario 64 or something where you just hit the jump button while against the wall.  The tiny frame of holding away from the wall makes it really tedious.  Also, can't hit jump first or at the same time.  Hold away first, or else.

Gravity jump also felt random a lot of the time.  Hit jump at the top of the spin?  Or on the way down?  I never figured out how to do it reliably.  If I got the rhythm down I could keep it going, but it was going to take several tries to get it started, every time.

And on the subject of dying to environmental hazards, man are spikes obnoxious.  It feels like the knockback effect is very random, and I got stuck a time or two, taking huge damage.  Quicksand also really sucks.  It feels like the game just rolls a die when you hit jump.  Sometimes nothing happens.  Sometimes you jump up a bit.  Sometimes you fly at Mach 17 toward the ceiling.

[nenjin]

Playing Super Metroid when it came out was a highlight of my childhood gaming experiences.

My hands still remember the pain of trying to get the wall jump to work consistently. My brother was great at it. Me, not so much.

[Mathel]

I am pretty good at wall jump, but bomb jump is pretty difficult.

[pisskop]

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We're still pre-crusade, though idk how since I thought Kent in southern England was a trigger for it and that's in pagan saxon hands... has been for years.

Sicily, A salerno count start, was going to be a 'make a new empire of the islands'.  It's been a fight the whole way.  I had the origianl duke and his family smothered to death and then got the pope to give me a claim on the sole daughter-heir.  In the 769 starts benevento is a tribuitary of the lombards.  They forced me to make peace, but I truce broke when they walked away and won.

The the byzantines were the main problem.  We fought for sicily, then I cut into the westernholdings.  They started on Africa so I felt I was obligated to cut them off.  The aztecs are enabled, set for 1000ad, thatll be a crapshoot.  Byzantine was having a rough time between me and bulgaria and armenia, and armenia/georgia fell to a bunch of mercs who own the land.

To the west, Uyyamads exploded and a new dynasty reformed after several failed attempts to take malrocca from a tributary who I married to a pretender son.  They were not my vassal, so I kept them safe until it passed into my bloodline, then used a claim of one of their pretenders to integrate it.  Holy Freakin Rome formed, Ruining everyone's fun, but at its weakest is only as strong as I am at my strongest, ~28k troops.  Recently bohemia and pannonia converted, but before that the only notable conversion was serbia.  You might notice that you cannot find the name 'serbia' on the map - that is because the shia pimp slapped them into wallachia.  The saxon bloodline currently holds austrusia, saxony, croatia, pannonia, and pannonia.  I dont know how those freaks are even still alive, between all the petty wars and their zero levies.  According to the game rules that dynasty is thriving and winning!  As mentioned before, saxony has fingers in England, and have control of Kent.

idk what the shia is doing, I dont recall how their event troops work but I killed like 10k of them in a war they declared on me.  They seem to have respawned/regenned.  The shia, in a war for cyprus, tore out most of antolia from byzantine.  They then went after my greek holdings.  From there they went up into the balkans.  Im afraid of how that ends if they keep getting event troops.

Finally, idk what the mongols are doing, nor am I sure why the Abbassids are under the power of the western protectorate.  That last bit is very, very new.  Must be to protect their 50k troops from the 65k shia caliphate in syria, and smeared all over asia minor.

My own dynasty is doing fine.  100 living members from 3 gen1 children.  Many of them have good genes, or at least a bloodline from a matrilinial marriage to some khan or karling.  This ones a eunuch now because of a case of sever gout, but I have sons already.  A shame to lose the beanbags though.  As it sits, I have to figure out what to do about the shia, but long-term I hope to still form my new empire of greece/sicily/sardinia.  Holy Rome completely screwed the european empires up, so I want to gobble up what remains of italy too.  That means taking from the pope and dealing with his revenges.

If montazuma and his boys come knocking at my door, I might convert and just run with that, helping the aztec empire conquer the world.  This whole game has become a shark tank:  everyone around me is strong enough to stab me in the back, and Im utterly surrounded.  My campaign is being threatened.

[EuchreJack]

@pisskop: Heh, that ain't dying, that is just CKII.

You could join the Holy Roman Empire and eat them from within while they defend you from most things outside.

Also, with that many kids, you should be able to ally up.

[Telgin]

Killed by the sheegoth boss in Metroid Prime.

Until that moment I hadn't ever even come close to dying, but it took me a few cycles of its attack pattern to recognize how to damage it, and by that point I'd wasted too many missiles to kill it.  I read up afterward that bombs also work, which explains the bit about concussive blasts damaging its underbelly.  For some reason I thought that meant you could shoot missiles at its belly, which did not work because of the subtle auto aim causing Samus to shoot its back.

I feel like compared to Super Metroid I've probably missed several missile upgrades.  I think I had a max of 35 while fighting it, which is about twice as many as you need if you know what you're doing, but I didn't.

[EuchreJack]

Died because I couldn't find the pharmacy...

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Artist Simulator

[Akura]

Some of the items added in this mod are police gear, such as tasers, zip-tie cuffs, and batons. Tried to do a "nonlethal" Outpost run by tasing and zip-tying enemies. Sadly, very few of my arrests survived... mostly due to physics. The game tends to jerk them hard when I put the cuffs on them, and it's surprisingly hard to get their hands around to put them in the cuffs, resulting a few deaths by blunt force trauma as they smack into the floor at high speed at short distance. And there was that guy whose head I accidentally ripped off trying to pull him away from a ledge with gravity magic. Oops. Gave up when I accidentally dropped my taser and it apparently phased out of existence.

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Blade & Sorcery, with Ghetto's Firearms and other mods.

[Chiefwaffles]

Some of the items added in this mod are police gear, such as tasers, zip-tie cuffs, and batons. Tried to do a "nonlethal" Outpost run by tasing and zip-tying enemies. Sadly, very few of my arrests survived... mostly due to physics. The game tends to jerk them hard when I put the cuffs on them, and it's surprisingly hard to get their hands around to put them in the cuffs, resulting a few deaths by blunt force trauma as they smack into the floor at high speed at short distance. And there was that guy whose head I accidentally ripped off trying to pull him away from a ledge with gravity magic. Oops. Gave up when I accidentally dropped my taser and it apparently phased out of existence.

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Blade & Sorcery, with Ghetto's Firearms and other mods.

Going the extra mile for immersion and realism... heartwarming.

[Mathel]

Playing legendary difficulty, with some extra mods. Sometimes when I try to assassinate a particularly powerful foe in melee, I slash them and drop dead, without them even trying to do anything to me.

This happened once with one of Kematu's Alik'r and several times with Rigel Strong-Arm. With her, I did kill her eventually and found she had no items that should reflect damage.


Skyrim

[Akura]

What started as the simple theft of maple syrup turned into a massive assault on my lair by one of the super agents and his backup. My entire workforce was wiped out, more or less. I had to hide myself in the lab as that was the furthest room away from them. Even then, they almost got in. Only survived because they eventually got bogged down by wave after wave of freshly-bought workers. Despite that, most of the force(they were high level Investigators, plus some average-level soldiers from a normal raid unrelated to the syrup mission) escaped with a ton of evidence. There are bodies everywhere, and most of the base equipment is falling apart since there already was barely enough technicians to keep it running.

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Evil Genius 2.

[pisskop]

 worth buying?



I finished my other ckii campaign.  It wasn't interesting, except for the fact that tenghri reformed and the western protectorate won a crusade for ruthenia.

all of a sudden there were tribuitaries and chinese artifacts everywhere.

While it may have turned interesting I gave up when I single handedly beat the 200k aztec invasion with about 35k worth of troops that I recycled and good terrain balancing and ship abuse.  and this is on 'hard'

my new campaign, a replay, is going well. a notmygenes dynasty member got control of italy and bavaria and the aztec too land all the way to egypt.  theyve been targeting people I go to war with too, negating my ability to harass their event troops with my 20k demesne

[hector13]

I much preferred the first one. EG2 should be called power management simulator.

[Telgin]

Died twice in the Phazon Mines in Metroid Prime: Remastered.  The combat difficulty has suddenly and sharply increased here, with the different beam troopers honestly getting kind of obnoxious to deal with, especially with the bigger turrets backing them up.

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On my first pass through the mines, I made it to the part with the electrified tower with about 150 energy left.  I touched the platform by mistake, which seems to do about 200 damage per second and instantly killed me.  So... repeated that whole section.  The next time, I got to that part with about 250 energy left.  I decided to backtrack to save so I wouldn't have to get a missile expansion a third time if I bumped against the platform, and this time I was killed by the wave beam troopers on the way back.

On my third time through I finally got past the electrified tower, but was on egg shells the entire time since the next save point was a long way past that and I had to fight a lot more of the painfully tough and high damage beam troopers, but thankfully found a spot to farm health so I didn't have to do it again.

Also not a fan of the backtracking in the Phazon Mines.  Twice I got as far as I could before the game gave me a hint to go back to the Tallon overworld and then Magmoor caverns to unlock stuff.  And I can see I'm going to have to go through the mines again because there's at least two red doors I haven't opened yet since I don't have whatever beam upgrade allows it.