Video game lessons learned the hard way

While were on the Pokémon hype train:

• It's inefficient to breed/EV train just so you can feasibly take on the Battle Tree/Royale. Just grab the nearby Tapu or Ultra Beast and members of your in-game team that compliments it, and use that to earn BP.
• Unique trainers in Battle Tree have more than one mega. Don't overprepare for one, because there's a 50% chance you will be swept by the other. "Enjoy this surprise Mega Lucario!" -Cynthia
• Beast Boost can be Traced. (Fortunately I wasn't on the receiving end of this.)

i certainly was ;_;

Stardew Valley runs on a 28-day-per-season calendar, and not 30/31 days like the HM/RF/SoS games. I planted those cabbages two days too late... :(

edited 1st Dec '16 2:19:04 AM by WillyFourEyes

Let's Plays:

• If there's an unexpected noise in your video, like somebody walks in on you halfway through recording, make sure you remove the noise before you start trying to sync up narration with game footage. Trying to remove specific audio in a program not meant for it is a serious headache.

Skyrim

• If you're a vampire, being blood-starved has a few benefits, but for your own sakes down a Blood Potion or two before the Dragon Priest at the end of the Unearthed quest in Dragon Born, dude has some crazy fire magic

• Do the same with Miraak because the guy WILL abuse the fuck out of Fire Breath, while standing in a pool of Hermaeus Mora smegma, which for whatever reason he's immune to, forcing you to try to make potshots at him with magic while hoping your Dremoras can take out significant hunks of his HP before they melt too

Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank: holy hell, 22000 points will buy you a lot of expensive goodies even in a near-future game. I'm going to be drowned under modern T-72 variants, aren't I.

Pokémon Moon again:

• Learn the catch rate of the version Legendaries before you use that Master Ball on them. There might be something you might want that Master Ball for later. (i.e. Necrozma, one of the Tapus, possibly one of the Ultra Beats...)

Super Mario World:

• Skewers (aka those spiked pillars) can instantly kill you if you get smashed by them

Space Station 13 (Tired of these? I know I've still got lessons):

• Goliaths are still gonna devastate you if you try to melee dance them to death.
• If you're told that something bad is gonna happen with a war declaration, and are told to buy shotgun crates, do it. (Did on this case, but holy smokes, still have heavy casualties on station to take down the whole op team.)
• Being the only medical doctor on the job is suffering.
  • Less so with medical droids doing their job, but when they're haywire...
• You can and will get annihilated still if you're incompetent. (Had a round where the antagonist disarmed me, and nearly killed me off with my own pick. I guess other crew showing up made the antagonist flee, or something else entirely.)
• As a doctor, be prepared for anything. (Including a poor Janitor nearly dying three times in one round, and blood transfusion.)
• Cryo cells fix a lot, but not mutations or lack of blood.

Might I ask what server you play on? I'm assuming /tg/station, but assuming makes an ass out of you and me and we both know how much they love harvesting asses.

And no worries, I don't get sick of reading hilarious SS 13 tales. If you don't learn something the hard way every day, then you aren't playing SS 13 every day.

That game is like a mix between Mafia and Paranoia, with Rogue-like-like pixel graphics. If people aren't dying from various random acts of violence, stupidity, and SCIENCE!, you're doing something wrong.

For the classic Castlevania series: Knock-back is a bitch, avoid those pits like the plague, and crosses are your favorite side weapon. And avoid Castlevania II: Simon's Quest unless you're looking for that Bloody Tears rush.

Space Station 13 (Goonstation)

• Climbing on chairs and then doing body presses to everyone on the escape shuttle is hilarious, oh good God is it ever. It's also a quick way to get brigged right when the round ends.
• Any artifacts that respond to synthetic touch will do so no matter where you are on the screen. Be prepared for your cyborg shell to get trapped in the prison artifact one room over.
• If you're planning on sneaking into/breaking into a room with two entrances, you're probably better off using the frontmost entrance. That way, you don't break into a room while someone enters using the front door.

Pokey Man Son;

The enemy level curve spikes like a bitch during the last stretch and after the third island, whichever it was. Ula ula Island? These names haven't sunk in yet for me. Prepare to grind.

Even worse for the Self-Imposed Challenge known as Hard Mode and/or Nuzlocke. Lost half my fucking team during the Aether Foundation raid and am now working on replacements.

edited 9th Dec '16 8:55:21 AM by Geist-Fox

Dig or Die:

If you have a major project in the game, build a base right there. It's a bitch trying to get anything done, or searching for anything, if you have to haul ass back to your defenses every night, and they happen to be several screens away.

Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank, PBEM multiplayer: picking and deploying your troops is among the most stressful phases of the game, especially when the map is large and everyone has accurate, long-range, see-through-the-fog optics.

Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank, single-player scenarios: When playing a Cold War-era game, remember that no matter how good your anti-tank guided missiles look on paper, a smokescreen laid by enemy mortars will render it totally useless without a thermal imaging system.

Dig or Die:

To survive underground, be more like a mole and less like a person. If you enter the caves unprepared, you are going to get mobbed. Instead, dig through the rock around the caves, within sight of them, and scout from the safety of a tunnel that opens in a safer upper level. Enemies might eventually break through the rock and dirt, but this will buy you the time to find the right resources to fight them off.

Would you recommend that game as it is, or should I wait for a full release?

I'm on the third tech level and I'm still having loads of fun.

Dig or Die:

1. If a weapon doesn't have any kickback, it doesn't have any knockback either. The laser dioesn't have either, so run and gun so the enemies don't catch you.

2. The more knockback a weapon has, the more it's going to shove you around when you fire it. Both the plasma sniper rifle and the rocket launcher are people throwers. You'd best build yourself a firing cradle when you're using them, or you might just wind up falling into a pit and being unable to aim at the enemy. Or worse.

3. Unless you're armed to the teeth with high powered weaponry and armor, you'd best build a base of some kind wherever you're going to be when sundown hits. The monsters come at you from everywhere.

[PROTOTYPE]: Rocket launcher soldiers not only fuck up ALL of your attempts to focus on killing anything else on a given battlefield (especially if that "anything else" should happen to be tanks or Hunters), but given that some missions spawn them in teams of six men or more, you may as well go the hell ahead and exterminate the fuckers with extreme prejudice the minute you find them.

And, hey, it's only fair to use their own rocket launchers against their buddies....

Space Station 13 (Goonstation)

• Artifacts that look conspicuously like cyborg docking stations will proooooooooobably convert you into a cyborg in an incredibly bloody fashion.

Pokémon Moon:

No matter how many times you run away from it you still have to beat the Pokémon that's hiding in a berry pile before you can claim the berries as your own.

Not like Crabrawler is that tough.

Still annoying though. Krabs gets in the way of (or heavily slows down) one trick: soft resetting for the berries we want.