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[Telgin]

I tried to play the game as Diddy exclusively, but after the second or world I kept running into situations where playing Pipsy was just... so much easier.  Her maneuverability makes her almost mandatory for some of the tracks.  Tiptup is probably close, but I found myself relying on her a lot.  I beat Wizpig with her both times.

I'm pretty sure the AI cheats with maneuverability.  I don't know how it's possible for Krunch to make half of the turns he does when driven by the computer, where you need someone like Pipsy to make the turns.

Banjo and Krunch make the hovercraft a lot easier though.

[Frumple]

I don't think I could have possibly beaten this as a kid.  You have to be almost perfect with getting green boosts on zippers, and on top of that you have to know that you need to let off of the A button afterward to get extra boost out of it.

You absolutely do, and as a kid it takes you hours and hours and hours and many, many many failed attempts. I 100%'d that game as a kid back in the 90s, and it took months, probably well over a hundred hours of raw gameplay by the end of it.

Iirc there's things you just flat out cannot do without using the chicken, nothing else (well, other than the clock) can go fast enough. Some of the last bits of the collectables are just friggin' insidious.

e: Like, I've forgotten most of that game by this point, but I do distinctly remember being an engine of hate for parts of it by the time I was done. Kid frumple did not understand the profundity of the sunk cost fallacy being a fallacy. Put all that time into the damn thing gonna' finish it *gnashing of teeth*

[Telgin]

I was able to get all of the balloons, trophies and T.T. amulet pieces without using Drumstick, but I didn't do whatever it takes to unlock T.T. and I read that was really hard even by the game's standards so I wouldn't be surprised if you needed Drumstick or glitches to do some of them.  Life is too short.  I beat Wizpig and I am happy.

I'd like to talk to the devs who worked on this game and ask them if they let any kids actually play the game when developing it.

[LuuBluum]

Apparently if you tap A at a particular rhythm to accelerate, it happens to be... considerably uncapped compared to just holding it?

Also notably the game has zero rubber-banding whatsoever.

[SQman]

I don't know if it counts as owning, but it did make me feel like I was a pro, so whatever.
I started the Malta Expansion Arizona campaign, the one with very little building space and plenty of wild dinosaurs, on jurassic difficulty, of course.

Obviously, the lack of starting funds was a problem. I had to hire scientists, refuel the generator, build basic facilities. I had to start making money quickly, so I took a trip to the desert and tranqued a herd of Gallimimuses. From there on it was only getting easier.
The initial trickle of cash, I've managed to upgrade tranq darts, and build a new enclosure. Caught a pair of Metriacanthosauruses and a pack of Coelophysis. Then it got very simple, and I could finally make my own dinosaurs in addition to the captured ones.

There was a period of stagnation when the oldest dinos started dying out. I was sending expeditions FURIOUSLY to keep the ratings from dropping, and fortunately I managed to keep up both time-wise and financially.

In the end I had six enclosures
1. Gallimimus, Amargasaurus, Sauropelta
2. Pachycephalosaurus, Wuerhosaurus, Lystrosaurus
3. Carnotaurus, Coelophysis
4. Baryonyx, Suchomimus, Moros
5. Torosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Struthiomimus
6. Tyrannosaurus

There was no major escapes. A Moros once got out when I was replacing the fencing, but it ran back in before the new fence was completed, so I didn't even have to tranquilize it.

The second the T-rex touched the ground, the rating reached 5 stars. I was just a little over the par time, but who cares about that.

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Jurassic World Evolution 2

[lemon10]

Pumped a girl full of everything I could give her, as hard as I could. Even to the point of breaking her heart.

And by that I mean I made my first Tier 1 Golden Core. I wouldn't do anything untoward to a woman(plus she does have a boyfriend). So many rare magical drugs were consumed, and millions of points of inspiration were used for the necessary skills, including Remolded Lifeblood which results in a permanent heart injury that there are only two ways to cure: Rebirth, or a single pill whose recipe is very hard to acquire, and I'm not entirely sure about Rebirth. On the other hand, once I have that recipe, she can make it because she's the sect's alchemy specialist. Even better, during the breakthrough, when her qi had fallen to around 25%, a random event fired that fully restored it. The total score was over 185k.

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Damn, nice luck and congratulations. Still a long way to go!
*Grumbles at memories of Lushu ruining my weather*.

[Telgin]

Apparently if you tap A at a particular rhythm to accelerate, it happens to be... considerably uncapped compared to just holding it?

Also notably the game has zero rubber-banding whatsoever.

Tapping the A button is supposedly a bit faster than just holding it, but I couldn't reliably get it to work so I lived without cheating.

That's interesting about the rubber banding, since I was wondering about that.  The fact that you can get ahead of the AI and stay there made me guess there wasn't any or it was limited, but it sure feels like it cheats in turns and corners.

[LuuBluum]

Didn't think much of the weight of the cargo I was planning on hauling. 750lb of copper ore? Why not?

As it turns out it's a bit much for the dhow. The ship was unstable, to say the least, and a good way of sailing to Gold Rock City the ship almost capsized. Fortunately managed to save things by shuffling the copper around, but boy that was one risky trip.

Life lesson: don't overload your ship.


Sailwind

[Great Order]

I really enjoy turning countries into council republics with cooperative ownership. Maybe it's the market socialist in me getting a hard on at the prospect of a country run by co-ops. It's especially great passing it and watching the standard of living start to skyrocket as all the previously downtrodden suddenly find themselves running their own businesses.

Victoria 3

[Iduno]

I made it through the dungeon on my 3rd try, killed Baphomet (a summoner/mage demon), and got an amulet that gave me the power to destroy the world.

Used a dagger (lunge, low-medium damage) with accuracy (higher minimum damage) that throws a dagger that also explodes 3 turns later, a glove that gave me more damage, armor that gave me an ability that stuns enemies who hit me for 1 round, a ring that gave my weapon burn (starts a fire in the next location I attack) every 7 rounds, the cultist amulet (take 3 turns to die, which I didn't need, but also heals me when I kill something), and boots that have a quick ability that lets me move in a chosen direction for 3 turns after I act (great for survival and leaving behind explosions). Also, 3 of my enchantments were chance (1/8 turns on average, but only one power of a type can fire each turn) of healing me. Good damage, good healing, and mobility. Good set-up for a roguelike.

Labyrinth of Legendary Loot.

[LuuBluum]

Finally did a complete game, as Serbia no less. Managed to conquer all of the territory required to form Yugoslavia, and then while I was at it proceeded to conquer the rest of the region. Managed to become a great power, too.

And for sufficient measure, proceeded to throttle Austria into oblivion.

Victoria 3

[Great Order]

Worked out the systems enough to modernise my country, drag the GDP up, improve and expand my army, and force Austria to recognise me with the help of my buddy Russia.

Victoria 3

EDIT: I'm getting somewhere with Rimworld's combat now. Past couple of raids I managed to deal with no problem despite being outgunned.

First I had everyone pull out their knives and hide around a corner. Every time an opponent came around (ie when they weren't too busy smashing replaceable stuff) I'd have the all descend on them. Only injuries were some bruises and a single torso gunshot.

About half a day later, another raid. This one I dealt with simply by outranging them - Guy with a Lee-Enfield sniped, and when they got closer the guy with an UMP would finish them off.

[Akura]

Teamed up together with best girl and best guy to take down a giant rock monster making a mess of my farm. Earned so many levels in mining during that battle which took two days.

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Sun Haven. After playing it some 5 hours, I'd say my initial assessment of "Stardew Valley but slightly better" was pretty accurate. Definitely some QoL features here that SV could really have used. The main thing SV does better is watering crops; in SH the only large-scale easy watering method I've seen is a late-game spell in the farming skill tree that I'm far from unlocking. Otherwise, it's the watering can, which waters one tile at time; the first waters only 10 tiles before refilling, the second only 15.

[Robsoie]

Finally completed the optional storyline of the spacemarines during a skirmish with an IG ally vs orks in Gladius : Relics of War

Oh we won much earlier as the orks were destroyed, but i selected "one more turn" so i could still try to complete the several quests left to do.
The last quest to conclude the story was a "survive 20 turns" mission and was rather fun

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with nekrons high end troops, that also came each with a high level, spawning regularly and moving to attack the device location that i had moved to my base previously.
It wasn't hard as unfortunately for the necrons i was playing on low difficulty and i had a lot of high level troops after the war with the orks .
But still there were a lot of Monolith and Obelisk coming through, but i was prepared and had many good units defending the path toward my base.



At turn 6 i noticed something new spawned around my first line of defense, right in front of my fleet of Stormraven.
It was the leader of the necron army, a "Transcendant C'Tan" that according to the quest description was supposed to be some kind of unstoppable very big bad (though from what i remember reading those guys got nerfed hard in lore , going from powerfull masterminds with robotguys as their slaves to being the actual crippled slaves to those robotguys)



Well, it was really different from what the story and description told and hyped the poor bugger for, because he was just pathetic, the turn he appeared, my stormravens supported by some devastators that just arrived the turn before (they serves in Gladius as early artillery) obliterated the poor thing in a single turn.

Then a couple of turns later it respawned away on a border of my IG ally, that also obliterated it .. 2 turns later , wow what a non-threat that ultimate threat was.

But in the end we won .



oh well, even the questline victory text makes that C'Tan guy much more powerful than the pitiful thing he was in game.

[Criptfeind]

I played the game and did the quest from the necron side, looks like it has the same end game. If I understand the lore and such correctly, those transcendent C'tan guys aren't suppose to be the big bad guy that you're fighting. They are just little enslaved C'tan shards, and the big bad guy is a bigger non enslaved C'tan shard. He enslaves the local necron forces, including their enslaved c'tan shards. The big bad guy doesn't appear as a unit on the map.

Spoiler: Further thoughts on Transcendent C'tan as a unit I wrote for some reason. (click to show/hide)

The transcendent C'tan are a little bit wimpy though for what they are. They are the "ultimate" infantry unit for the Necrons but stats wise they are a bit meh. They cost twice as much to make and upkeep (although their production cost is only about 30% more) then the next lower infantry, and in exchange they have less armor, probably less damage, but a bit more health. They can skim and thus go over water but the next lower infantry have jump packs and you can cart them around in an airplane anyway so unless your water features are important that's not too much extra mobility. They also get 3 active abilities they can use, but they sorta seem to suffer from the fact that all three are primarily damage dealing abilities and aren't really significantly better then their basic attack, abet they are ranged. They have some cool passives, but just don't seem worth it. They can merge with the obelisks to make the necrons ultimate units... which is an obelisk with the passive and active abilities of the transcendent c'tan, which suffers even more from the abilities being damaged focused since the obelisks base guns are far more powerful. Although it also gets the health of the C'tan on top of it's own, so that's nice I guess. Since I sorta found that in the late game I was gated more by upkeep then by production I didn't really make many transcendent c'tans, preferring to just spam out obelisks and doom scythes (which also sorta suck because of how fragile they are but at least they are fast and killy)