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[Dunamisdeos]

That sounds like such a great game, though.

[EnigmaticHat]

There is no better voxel building game out there than FtD... as long as you have time.  Or enjoy the journey of building as much as the destination, cause its gonna be a long journey.

[Man of Paper]

A looooong journey.

[Akura]

Got my first casino ban. Not one of the big three, but still a hell of a lot more caps than what I had.

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Fallout New Vegas.

[Greiger]

@FTD discussion

Clearly I donno how to make armor then.  I did the opposite, I made outer armor heavy and inner armor weak cuz I was under the impression spalling was a major issue.  Also the armor was mostly 3m tall slopes, which looked streamlined but probably did not protect as well as the capital's 1m slopes.  Also the Old capital's AA gun was using flak which if I understand right is more effective against ships than aircraft.   It's entirely possible my ships are a mess because I spend more time experimenting than just looking stuff up.

I think that old capital was using 3 layers thick metal on the main hull, and had 2 layers thick metal on a inner hull that was protecting most of it's vitals.  It also had a extended barrier of armor right at water level that I can't think of the term for.  Best guess from a quick google is slat armor?  Basically just a 2 tile thick wall of armor that was mostly spaced about 3 tiles outside the main hull outside 2/3rds of the ship.  So it sounds like the relatively simple "Just put metal everywhere" design on my old ships is better than the "this sounds smart" design of my new ships.

Also the old ships were designed to be walked around in.  The new ships are all designed as drones from the ground up, so there is little empty space to spread damage out.

[Telgin]

Finally beat Banjo-Kazooie, and I found the game show at the end and final boss to be surprisingly hard.

The game show was difficult because of the visual questions, many of which were extraordinarily obscure shots that could easily have been in two or more levels just by visual style.  The Gruntilda questions are pretty annoying too, since the answers are apparently randomized and you have to remember what Brentilda told you at various points in the game.

The fight with Gruntilda was mostly hard because of how long it went on and how she doesn't give you much time to shoot eggs at the jinjo statues in the final part.  I ended up just tanking the hits so I could aim (the useless camera didn't help), and this fight would have been extremely hard if I hadn't gotten enough jiggies to get double health.  On that note, I'm surprised that it appeared that you only had to get 98 of them to unlock everything, not the full 100, and only had to get in the high 800s for music notes instead of all 900.  I'm also still wondering if I missed something, or if the last extra honeycomb piece you unlock doesn't actually increase your health bar.

[EnigmaticHat]

@FTD discussion

Clearly I donno how to make armor then.  I did the opposite, I made outer armor heavy and inner armor weak cuz I was under the impression spalling was a major issue.  Also the armor was mostly 3m tall slopes, which looked streamlined but probably did not protect as well as the capital's 1m slopes.  Also the Old capital's AA gun was using flak which if I understand right is more effective against ships than aircraft.   It's entirely possible my ships are a mess because I spend more time experimenting than just looking stuff up.

I think that old capital was using 3 layers thick metal on the main hull, and had 2 layers thick metal on a inner hull that was protecting most of it's vitals.  It also had a extended barrier of armor right at water level that I can't think of the term for.  Best guess from a quick google is slat armor?  Basically just a 2 tile thick wall of armor that was mostly spaced about 3 tiles outside the main hull outside 2/3rds of the ship.  So it sounds like the relatively simple "Just put metal everywhere" design on my old ships is better than the "this sounds smart" design of my new ships.

Also the old ships were designed to be walked around in.  The new ships are all designed as drones from the ground up, so there is little empty space to spread damage out.

Torpedo bulge is the armor at the waterline.  And what you're describing on the old battleship is a pretty good wake to make armor.  Spaced armor for HESH and HEAT, torpedo protection, layered metal for those stacking armor buffs.

Also yes the strat I told you there was kinda gimmicky, conventional strat would be like 3 layers of metal and then an inner layer of wood to counter HESH.

I've only ever made like... 3 super practical designs in this game, all ships.  I should put them up on the workshop and show you guys... if they still even work after all the updates...

[Madman198237]

I have no idea how helpful this may be for FTD, but this is how it was done historically, at least on late-WWII US battleships.

A torpedo bulges are technically a form of spaced armor. A torpedo bulge is having the hull far away from the armor belt (sometimes separated by like 5 meters of empty space or more) so that if the ship is torpedoed, the blast demolishes this relatively thin hull plate without taking out a chunk of the main armor belt. This commonly results in a bulge shape on the outsides of battleships or some other warships that needed to possibly resist torpedo strikes.

IRL, there is a thin hull plate on the outside, and a sloped armor belt placed inboard of that hull plate and sloping away from it. Look up the Iowa class's armor scheme as a diagram for a nice visual example. Generally you want a thin plate on the outside to detonate anything with a fuse before it reaches the armor belt, and a nice thick belt covering your ship's vitals underneath that. Similarly, in the US at least, deck armor was usually a rather thin plate serving as the physical deck...or sometimes no armor-grade steel at all...with a "splinter deck" underneath, which is composed of actual armor-grade steel and intended to catch fragments from exploding bombs or shells that had struck the top deck.

[Kagus]

Spoiler: I was wearing this at the time. (click to show/hide)

Ahh, someone who knows how to dress for success! No shades though, but it's all good.

Have you got Early Bird by any chance? That +2 Luck really helps out at the tables, and I quite like the image of some eccentric gambler coming down to the blackjack tables in their pajamas to get some good times while everyone else is waking up.

I played through with Gifted the first time around, but that's honestly just kinda cheating...

[Akura]

Have you got Early Bird by any chance? That +2 Luck really helps out at the tables, and I quite like the image of some eccentric gambler coming down to the blackjack tables in their pajamas to get some good times while everyone else is waking up.

No Early Bird, I didn't take any traits this run. Natural luck is 5, boosted to 7 via Intense Training perks.

I also find the image of some dude entering a casino during breakfast, takes a sip from his trusty Vault 13 canteen, and heads over the blackjack table to clean house, to be pretty humorous.

[AzyWng]

I'm just picturing him getting booted out on his ass after he takes the place for all it'll let him have which admittedly doesn't actually happen in-game and dusting himself off to walk to the next place.

[Akura]

Took at least half a dozen very, very frustrating tries, but I finally did enough chores around the ship to get my shiny from the Lost and Found. Attempts were highly frustrating because of continually getting blocked by parts of the level. Doors, etc, plus the fact that while it gives you a marker to show where to go next, it keeps changing direction and/or objective as you move.

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Not shown in the pic because I'm standing on it, a huge knife as long as Hat Kid is tall.

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A Hat in Time.

[amjh]

Started playing Cytus α. Since I was still getting used to how the game works, I got completely overwhelmed by one of the faster sections in one of the songs. I literally couldn't see what was going on on the screen.

I managed to perfectly combo that section on reflex.

[EnigmaticHat]

I did 2/3rds of a teleporter boss's health without ever touching the ground.  Y'all seen Antman and the Wasp?

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Not to mention I could sprint at about the speed of sound and got significant damage resistance for doing so.

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Risk of Rain 2, monsoon difficulty

[Jopax]

First time doing Elite, finally managed to live trough the entirety of Veteran without issues. It's strange how when you start out your first run towards Burrwitch (atleast in my case) usually takes somewhere between 30 minutes to an hour. This time, it took like, 15 minutes, if even that. I think the biggest thing is how much more movespeed you'll have and that you're mostly geared at this point so you don't waste time picking shit up and just murder your way trough the entire map.

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Grim Dawn