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[SOLDIER First]

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes.

[Culise]

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes.

Does stealth archer count as a martial class?

[Teneb]

Instead of joining the Dark Brotherhood, you can also kill the recruiter. It actually leads to a whole different (if way shorter) quest chain.

[SOLDIER First]

This is the reason people only use Orcs for the Scarred Witch Doctor archetype, or martial classes.

Does stealth archer count as a martial class?

Are you using a physical weapon?

[Rolan7]

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

I did a smart thing in The Glow, but I don't think I should talk about it.  I got the idea from reading a log, without being spoiled, and it made the area a whole lot easier.  And I don't mean popping two rad-x for 100% radiation resistance, though that certainly helped.

Fallout 1

[Akura]

Carried out a hit on a Khajiit mage travelling with the caravans, by casting a Fury spell on him. It failed to affect him(my Illusion is poor), but it turned him hostile on me, which in turn turned the whole caravan hostile. On him.

While he was distracted by the furry fury, I came up behind and stabbed him through the back of the chest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim. I imagine Festus would find it funny that a spell failure had the exact desired outcome as if it had worked.

[itisnotlogical]

I beat the arcade mode of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody!

It turns out that Spell Cards, when used by the AI in story mode, just mean that the computer can do whatever the hell it wants (with giant projectiles and knockback immunity.) Story mode also forces you to beat the entire game on 3 KOs and three continues, no exceptions. While I appreciate the attempt to mimick the bullet hell games... actually no I don't, it's kinda dumb and makes the game way harder than it should be.

Thankfully, arcade mode is much more sane, and the AI doesn't get magical superpowers or six lifebars. This game's closer to Smash Bros. than Street Fighter in terms of "real fighting games," but it's probably the only one I'll care to play for more than half a second.

TH10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

[ArchAIngel]

So, I just had a badass moment in Warhammer Total War of all things.


I had just Confederated with Zhufbar, meaning I have to deal with AI-forged settlements and make them not shit.


But before I could do that, Oakenhammer, the outpost right next to the undead lands of Sylvania, came under attack from a near-full stack of walking corpses.


It had a tier 3 settlement, and a Ranger Outpost, meaning I fielded 2 units of Longbeards, 2 units of Miners, 1 unit of Rangers with Great Weapons, and 2 units of Quarrelers.


I fought against nine units of Zombies, six of Skeletons, Mannfred Von Carstein himself, a unit of Fell Bats, a unit of Dire Wolves, and a fucking Vhargulf.

I was, in a word, fucked. But I figured, what the hell, autoresolve says I'm fucked, may as well try and see how much damage I can do myself. Set up my front line, Quarrelers in the back, Rangers covering the flank. Cursing the AI for not building WALLS, I stood.


And somehow, seven units held against an army. Held for long enough I managed to not just slay the Vhargulf, a feat in and of itself given I had no anti-Large aside from the RAngers, who were keeping the Dire Wolves and Fell Bats off my ass, but to kill Mannfred himself, and stand off the rotting tide long enough they collapsed without a master.


I can't stop giggling.

Total War: Warhammer, if it wasn't clear enough.

[Akura]

Finished up a few main quests so I could the third word of Unrelenting Force... so I could Fus Ro Dah Commander Maro into the water.

Granted, that didn't do much, but it was still funny.


After doing some more stuff, namely spending all the reward gold on upgrades to the Sanctuary, I go over to Dawnstar, and get caught up in a battle involving a Blood Dragon, frost troll, a giant, me, Shadowmere, a stupid guard, and an even dumber inn-maid. Surprisingly, the inn-maid was the second to last one to die, having tried to stab the giant with predictable results(I finished off the giant).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skyrim.

[hops]

Being able to use Unrelenting Force to environmental kill someone and not just memeing actually feels pretty rewarding when it happens.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Unless you are fighting a dragon and a chicken gets caught in the shout, dies, and causes the entire town to aggro on you. I have had that happen.

[overseer05-15]

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

Note that the Bound Bow has the best DPS of any bow. If you play an archer, dual class into conjurer; you won't regret it.

[Telgin]

After having a less than pleasant experience with fighting the praetorian miniboss as a marine in Aliens vs. Predator (2010), I cheesed the fight big time as the predator.  All you have to do is walk backward in a circle around the pillars while throwing your disc at it.  One hit on the way in, another as it returns to you.  I didn't even get hit in the fight.

The combistick you get after beating it makes the rest of the game a major cheesefest too.  You can one shot everything except bosses by throwing your stick at them, including the combat synthetics that survive hilarious amounts of damage from marine weapons (50 bullets to the chest is just an inconvenience to them).  Kind of weird that the stick magically teleports back to you 3 seconds later and that you can't swing it like in the other games, but at this point I was just happy to be on the delivering end of the cheese instead of receiving end for once.

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: Skyrim reply (click to show/hide)

Do bound weapons count?
(Less damage potential than smithing hijinks, of course, but pretty dang convenient.  Much like summoning creatures to draw aggro.  Conjuration is nice in Skyrim)

Note that the Bound Bow has the best DPS of any bow. If you play an archer, dual class into conjurer; you won't regret it.

I did that with my first playthrough (a stealth archer, aheheh) and yeah, it's pretty amazing.  Like the wiki points out, the glowing arrows actually help a lot with aim-correction too.  And no carrying capacity or ammo concerns!
But apparently an "exquisite" daedric bow with daedric arrows still wins out.  And that's without using the enchanting/alchemy loop to get almost unlimited smithing improvement...  AKA hijinks

As if bound-bow sneak attacks with 100 archery don't already kill almost anything in one shot, dragons a couple.  Smithing is kinda awful busywork, so I think I'll avoid it next time.  I prefer trapping souls or picking flowers~

I talked my way almost to the bottom of a mutant military base, before one of the smart kinds saw me and set off the alarm.  S'alright though.  I found a self destruct and set it for three minutes, plenty of time.  I headed back up- wait what are all these yellow forcefields?

Oh no I can't run through these for damage, they're actually impassible.  Can I shoot the emitter... no...  Oh wait, the scientists!  *backtrack backtrack* Okay now I have a passcard WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOES NOTHING *boom*

Spoiler: Oops another Fallout 1 rant (click to show/hide)

Fallout 1

I kinda hate the yellow forcefields a lot.  You can't interact with them directly at all, even to use an item.  They each have an emitter, but you don't get an option to use skills on it, so I assumed they were uninteractable...  But no!  You can use items, one specific item in fact, the toolkit.  If you pass a pretty difficult repair check, then you'll "temporarily disable the force field".

...Except it doesn't seem to work at all (maybe I saw it flicker once?).  Accounts vary, with one person saying you need to use the field afterward...  But I'm pretty sure I tried that...

Then there's a completely ridiculous "solution".  With high enough science, one of base's many computers turns out to controls the force fields...  Unfortunately, it's been rigged to only play blackjack??  This is after you pass the hacking check, btw.  So you can play blackjack... Which is actually an oddly difficult GAMBLING skill challenge...  until you "win", allowing you to hack through the victory screen.  Okay, that's kinda clever.  Except that doesn't disable the fricken fields either.

Nooo, now you need to hook up a RADIO to the computer, another tough hacking check (or maybe repair).  I guess USB didn't exist and you're having to splice cables, I don't even know.  Whatever, eventually you sync the radio to the computer, and that causes the yellow fields to let you through.

AFAIK there's absolutely no clue for the radio solution, just a control computer that doesn't seem to work.

Considering I'd saved my game after triggering the yellow fields, so I couldn't get back to the control computer, I was rather fortunate that I several bricks of dynamite quantum-stockpiled in my companion's inventory.  I almost didn't have enough dynamite or time, and had to run past all the enemies I'd bluffed before, but it did work out.

(There are also orange damage-fields which are immune to toolkits, explosives, and I think the radio.  I hear they're not a problem with power armor, but I kept having to heal my companion...)

Edit:  Oops, thought this was the death thread.  But actually, my packrat instincts finally did get me out of a potential walking-dead situation, which I think is an own.

[NullForceOmega]

Or, in the simplest alternative, you could have used explosives such as rockets, TNT, plastique, or grenades to blow out the emitters.  *This is how I cleared Mariposa the first time I finished Fallout.