/tg/Station 13

Bottom post of the previous page:

>playing anything but lanius

DemonFiren wrote:>playing anything but lanius

>Playing something that's gimmick is countered by a tier three O2 generator
>Not playing a rock, and cackling as the entire ship is engulfed in flames, chasing the wounded crew as they try to avoid fiery death

xxxcom2 ufopoo defense (the enema within).

a dump in the dark

Okay realtalk (although I am playing xcom2) hows fortnite, I still dont know if I should look into getting it or not. Is it just battle royale shit plus polish or what?

Played Finding Paradise, the sequel to To The Moon

It was beautiful. I was really impressed with how well the new themes worked and how it touches on completely different points.

Lame jokes and general dorkishness still abounds, but they make pretty decent breaks from all the tearjerking drama

Kel-the-Oblivious wrote:

DemonFiren wrote:>playing anything but lanius

>Playing something that's gimmick is countered by a tier three O2 generator
>Not playing a rock, and cackling as the entire ship is engulfed in flames, chasing the wounded crew as they try to avoid fiery death

> lanius ship
> just throw your starting non-lanius out the airlock and turn the O2 off
> get teleporter and mind control and just start beaming people onto your airless ship

>actually play ftl again
>lose crew on the very first jump I make
>stop playing ftl

Get good dirty boy

the only way to get good in a game mostly based on rng is to cheat

That is 100$ not true. There are people who can regularity beat the game on hard with the bad ships, it is mostly about getting good at risk management, knowing what stratagies work, and when to run away. There is certainly a degree of luck involved but to claim it is all luck is absurd

the way I play the game is predetermined
losing crew forces a restart for me
shitty rng forces a restart for me
anything looking like it might go bad forces a restart for me because I can't look at game over screens

Been playing more FTL since my win and have a 3 run win streak now (and something like I think 6 wins total). I finally got gud, feels great.

DemonFiren wrote:the only way to get good in a game mostly based on rng is to cheat

The ONLY RNG that can actually cuck you are the following
1. Shops literally do not sell any weapons and you never get any from drops, meaning you simply do not have the means to damage the flagship when the time comes (uncommon, especially if you hoard scrap and go to shops whenever possible)
2. You're playing a gimmick ship like stealth cruiser or engi B and get hit in a bad system within your first 10 jumps (especially if it procs a fire/breach).

If you want to drastically increase your win rate, BUY A HACKING BAY. Shit's straight up OP
>deletes any shields
>pierces shields
>cant be evaded
ANY weapon loadout that can deal damage instantly becomes viable against any level of shields if you get a hacking bay. Not to mention that it locks down doors to the hacked room, and the flagship has its shields bay conveniently placed adjacent to its piloting bay and missile launcher bay (meaning that the flagship crew will have a MUCH harder time repairing those systems).

I know overpowered shit, and I know it works.
Thing is I am running a gimmick ship, and I am achievement-grinding, and I am extremely fucking frustrated.

So I started getting into Guild Wars 2 cause I bought it ages ago and it scratches my MMO itch without costing me a subscription.

Now I might be buying the 2 expansions I'm missing... oh well.

Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

Deitus wrote:Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

You'd be better spending your time learning how to code, but whatever! Nethack!

Armhulen wrote:

Deitus wrote:Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

You'd be better spending your time learning how to code, but whatever! Nethack!

>make code
>put it on github
>not in circlejerk
>pr closed

wooooooooooooooow

Deitus wrote:

Armhulen wrote:

Deitus wrote:Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

You'd be better spending your time learning how to code, but whatever! Nethack!

>make code
>put it on github
>not in circlejerk
>pr closed

wooooooooooooooow

>be completely wrong about how things work
>never even attempt to verify your own made up misconceptions
>dont vaccinate yourself and die from disease because youre pretty sure they give you autism

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

PKPenguin321 wrote:

Deitus wrote:

Armhulen wrote:

Deitus wrote:Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

You'd be better spending your time learning how to code, but whatever! Nethack!

>make code
>put it on github
>not in circlejerk
>pr closed

wooooooooooooooow

>be completely wrong about how things work
>never even attempt to verify your own made up misconceptions
>dont vaccinate yourself and die from disease because youre pretty sure they give you autism

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Pkp is right you know. It's just a really bad look at it

of course the admin conspiracy would say that

Don't listen to them dietus coding for this game is a nightmare realm also play elona

Armhulen wrote:

PKPenguin321 wrote:

Deitus wrote:

Armhulen wrote:

Deitus wrote:Should I focus my autism on learning nethack or elona+? Which is better and why?

You'd be better spending your time learning how to code, but whatever! Nethack!

>make code
>put it on github
>not in circlejerk
>pr closed

wooooooooooooooow

>be completely wrong about how things work
>never even attempt to verify your own made up misconceptions
>dont vaccinate yourself and die from disease because youre pretty sure they give you autism

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Pkp is right you know. It's just a really bad look at it

ShadowDimentio wrote:>Want to become a coder
>Make baby's first PR adding a 1 and 2 unit transfer to bottles
>Shitstorm brews about removing droppers and this being unbalanced
>Denied

>Goof PR that lets you make any chem with one click
>It's merged

Coding is a sham and maintainers are a joke

wooooooooooooooooooooow

play elona it's a lot more interesting

Elona has a fucking ton of shit to it and it's so disgustingly autistic it's great but it's less an RL and more like a 2D JRPG Elder Scrolls game.

If you want to learn a classic RL I'd suggest ADOM over Nethack.

CosmicScientist wrote: or am I supposed to be angry at Deitus?

this is usually the correct approach

PKPenguin321 wrote:hacking stuff

best room to hack on flagship stage 1 is the medbay if you have bombs. Especially fire bombs. Just bomb the room, wait for them to break in and start repairing it, then hit the hack button the moment the doors close. Bonus points if you bomb the room again while they're trying to escape.

Screemonster wrote:

PKPenguin321 wrote:hacking stuff

best room to hack on flagship stage 1 is the medbay if you have bombs. Especially fire bombs. Just bomb the room, wait for them to break in and start repairing it, then hit the hack button the moment the doors close. Bonus points if you bomb the room again while they're trying to escape.

I assure you it's the shield bay, for any of the stages. Medbay might be true if you're boarding, but shield bay lets you kill them fast enough that the number of their crew doesn't really matter.

Beam weapons with hacking shields is especially good, as beams never miss, so it's literally just guaranteed damage. Most beams have enough reach to also hit the piloting room and the missiles bay on the flagship as well, and the flagship crew will have a VERY hard time repairing damage to any of these zones due to having to break down the hacked shut shield bay doors every time they move in or out. If you can beam down the piloting room you also instantly lower their evasion to 0, meaning lasers and such can also now do free shots against their unshielded ship.

Also I think I'm at like 6 wins in a row, feels bretty good

a guy at work got me playing ESO. its k.

DemonFiren wrote:>actually play ftl again
>lose crew on the very first jump I make
>stop playing ftl

How?

Doctor Pork wrote:a guy at work got me playing ESO. its k.

I haven't played since the closed beta

Anonmare wrote:

Doctor Pork wrote:a guy at work got me playing ESO. its k.

I haven't played since the closed beta

It's better but you basically need to subscribe for it to be worth it

Been playing final fantasy 14

It's another "Farm party can't even finish the fight without wipe" episode, every day, all day

somerandomguy wrote:

DemonFiren wrote:>actually play ftl again
>lose crew on the very first jump I make
>stop playing ftl

How?

random event, forgot which one, forgot that it requires extremely good luck

DemonFiren wrote:

somerandomguy wrote:

DemonFiren wrote:>actually play ftl again
>lose crew on the very first jump I make
>stop playing ftl

How?

random event, forgot which one, forgot that it requires extremely good luck

Oh was it that stupid spider (or fire) one?

one of those probably

maybe it was spiders on fire

been playing a lot of fortnite br and i'm like tier 90 on the battlepass i can't wait to unlock john wick and then never use him because everyone else is using the skin

also i playedl ike 10 hours of terraria with a friend to celebrate bombing my exam

turns out i can get fucking invested in fishing for stupid crates

Finally modded terraria (held it off because I thought it would be difficult but no, it's easy as fuck) and am playing it with a friend using Thorium and Terraria Overhaul. Would strongly recommend. Incredible fun

more KSP

trying to build the tiniest little spaceplane

disassemble me

That's not a spaceplane, that's a xenon-powered probe built around a glider.

No, I built mine for 130km orbit in quasi-RSS, but it had to be as small as possible.

>kill WOF
>my entire house is corruption
>everything around and below it is corruption
>fuck me fuck me fuck me why we spent 3000 years making it nice
>friend decides to plant hollow to make corruption go away
>everything is fucked forever

so you're not feeling lucky?

Qbopper relocate your base until you get the steampunker and you can buy the Clentaminator, then reclaim the holy land with green (final) solution

Been replaying Invisible Inc and I legitimately cannot complete the final mission because REEE every guard has armour and I have no armour piercing abilities of any description and they all have clustered up patrol patterns that makes evasion not practical

Been playing some space station 13 recently, it's a fun game I'd recommend it

If you pick Seed for your starter, you're genuinely smoothbrained.

I've found my preferred combo starters to be:
Archived Prism/Banks
Internationale/Dr Xu

Programs you need to pick carefully. My preferred power program is either Fusion or Dynamo, depending on what team I am running. Hack program I either use Parasite or Rapier. Rapier is very good if you're using a high-mobility stealth team (and is outright broken when paired with Internationale). Lockpick is a good work horse and Parasite is great for a team that does little hacking. Mercenary is shite, don't get it.

Internationale is the newbie crutch character but she's too good to not use a lot of the time, wireless can and remote console hacking is too good to say no to.
Archived Prism is, in my own opinion, one of the best stealth characters as her holo-disguise can effectively operate indefinitely with sufficient power and the Dynamo power program provides exactly as much power as it takes to maintain her disguise.
Banks doesn't sound too good at first but it's her ability to walk past the red doors with zero effort and stun guards for longer with her paralyzer is what makes her a good scout.
Dr Xu I underestimated for a long time but I eventually came to realise when confronted with a level 5 safe with a Daemon installed on it, being able to just turn it off and nab its contents for basically free is extremely powerful. His shock trap is great for locking down an area and dealing with the pesky armed guards as well.

Qbopper wrote:>kill WOF
>my entire house is corruption
>everything around and below it is corruption
>fuck me fuck me fuck me why we spent 3000 years making it nice
>friend decides to plant hollow to make corruption go away
>everything is fucked forever

rush them fuckin mechanical bosses and get that clentaminator quick (or do it the long way and buy a billion purification bags. if you clean up just your house and around it enough to not be in corruption you should be good enough until you get to the clentaminator)
you playing vanilla or with mods?

I wish I had been recording. Hibana/Echo, supernova only.

Yee haw fully cleared heroic last night

gz

Got Battletech on Tuesday, already put in 16 hours into it.

Stability damage bonus LRMs are brutal. Knocking down heavy mechs over and over again is a great way to get some good salvage, since headshot or pilot incap mechs give a full three pieces of salvage, making it easy to stock your mechbays real quickly.

Disregard light mechs, they aren't worth the meat to operate them when they can get dropped with a single good shot. Yeah they stack evasion easily, but all it takes is one good PPC to rip their leg off.

It's pretty easy to punch the crap out of everything. Rip some armor off a light mech, and you can punch them to pieces easily.

Nothing is as satisfying as punching an assault mech in the head.

sounds like a game worth pirating
especially with how /v/ was annoyed at snowflake-gendered pilots

Its harebrained I threw my money at them. And I barely noticed the gendering thing, then noticed while going "huh neat" at the novelty then moved on with my day like a rational adult. Been having fun though only a couple hours in. And curbstomping mechs is funny.