Gynovore posted:

Really late in the game, just for fun, make a Doom Star with a Stellar Converter.

StashAugustine posted:

I was doing just fine until the Antarans showed up. They wreck everything, but I've noticed a lack of missiles and point defense. Should I be going for large/slow/tough or fast/weak/numerous ships primarily?

e: I'm basically at the end of the tech tree, aside from Orion and miniaturization not a lot I can do.

Aethernet posted:

Achilles Targeting Unit + Structural Analyser + Heavy Plasma Beams/Disruptors/Mauler Devices. Assuming you have a good computer, of course (75+). Include an Inertial Nullifier and you're good to go.

Alternatively, build ships with five tractor beams, the faster engine tech (forget the name), subspace teleporters and troop pods. Add assault shuttles to taste, including death rays to kill marines if the damper field goes down. Board & capture the Antarans and scrap their ships to steal their tech. This also works on all other ships.

pentyne posted:

Is anyone else having trouble loading the pages on the wiki? My connection is fine and its not a problem anywhere else but it takes a good 5-10 seconds to load a single page.

Gynovore posted:

Mauler Devices hit automatically, and therefore don't require a targeting computer. Also, to board a ship, you need Tractor Beams *or* Subspace Teleporters *or* Assault Shuttles. More than one is redundant.

If I knew as much about particle physics as I do about MOO II, I'd have found the Higgs Boson by now.

theshim posted:

I'm about to start XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Never played any of these, going in blind. What should I know?

theshim posted:

I'm about to start XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Never played any of these, going in blind. What should I know?

Colon V posted:

Check the wiki for some other basic tips, but, the first ones that come to mind:
-Robotanks are both kind of buggy and kind of worthless. Just bring a Rookie instead, they're cheaper, easier to replace, and might actually get better at some point.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Oh and a good pair of skills for Snipers is Squadsight and drat Good Ground. Put them somewhere atop a hill or building and watch them murder anything your team can see.

theshim posted:

I'm about to start XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Never played any of these, going in blind. What should I know?

Ainsley McTree posted:

You have a choice at that rank between squad sight and an ability that lets you move and shoot on the same turn; if you're like me, you might be dumb and think "oh, well, snipers were annoying to manage because I couldn't move and shoot them on the same turn, so I'll take that ability of course!" on your first game, but that is the objectively wrong decision, you want squad sight. No, they can't move, but with squad sight, once they get set up in a good space, they don't really ever have to move (and they can shoot things that can't shoot them back).

Geokinesis posted:

Anything for Fallen Enchantress?

DirtyTalk posted:

Started Fire Emblem: Awakening

Picked Classic Mode because I was told the permadeath made the game.

Lend me your tips!

pentyne posted:

Is anyone else having trouble loading the pages on the wiki? My connection is fine and its not a problem anywhere else but it takes a good 5-10 seconds to load a single page.

Ferrosol posted:

I'm having a similar problem with the wiki. I can't actually load any page except for the front page. Anyway seeing as how I can't anyone have any tips for The Witcher II: Assassin of Kings?

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- Press a movement key twice quickly to roll that direction. Double "S" - roll backwards, is very useful in many of the early fights.
- You can block (parry) with "E". It is hard to block fast opponents. It is easier to block slow opponents but they can still damage you (the block just reduces damage). Blocking uses Vigor (stamina) the same as Signs (spells) so if you have no Vigor you cannot block. Blocking is not that useful compared to dodging at the beginning.
- You can lock onto a target by holding down Alt. There is no "cycle through potential targets" key.
- You will get murdered if you leap into the middle of a group of guys, which is all too easy to do early on. Don't be afraid to do a strategic retreat: attack, roll away, attack - etc. If you are getting closed in then run away a bit. If you are in an enclosed area then it is hard to find space but just keep moving.
- Left mouse button is a quick strike and right mouse button is a heavy blow. You should favor the quick hit early on, but a good way to take someone down quickly is to do a couple of quick hits followed by a heavy hit. Quick hits even work on armored guys: if you try to take someone down just using heavy hits then they will usually counter you. You can do a lot of damage if you attack someone from behind or the side, and the same applies when they attack you.
- Signs are great, even at the start before you increase your skill in any of them. Aard can stun people but it is not that reliable at the start. Yrden places a trap on the group that can completely disable one foe - very useful if you have the space to use it. Igni does not do enough damage at the start. Quen should be your "default" Sign most of the time, since it protects you from being staggered when hit. Note that you do not regenerate health when Quen is active. Axii is good at the start of an encounter to mind control one person to be on your side. You have to power up Axii by holding the "Q" key down, so it is only useful before the fight starts, unless you can run a distance away.
- Use your potions and bombs. They make a big difference and it is easy to make lots of them not too far into the game. You can also find or craft traps.
- As the previous poster mentioned, don't hoard stuff. Collect things you think might be rare, but common stuff like iron ore, timber, cloth is all over. You can leave it where it is until you discover a need to collect it. You will find way more crafting/recipe items than you need so do not hang onto potions, bombs etc. You really are meant to use them - it's what Witchers do.
- Geralt usually uses swords, but there are some good alternative weapons to be found. Don't be afraid to use these weapons, particularly early in the game.
- There are stealth portions to the game. They are quite hard, but forgiving if you fail. Although hard, they are quite doable if you proceed with a lot of patience (not easy in a usually fast-paced game). You can extinguish torches. You can knock guys out if you approach directly from behind and right-click. You cannot stand against the wall and have a guard walk past you like in the movies - they will see you. You just have to wait until they have their back to you - even if they are some distance away - and then rush them. If two guards can see each other then don't even try to knock one out, wait until they split up and do not have LOS. If you watch guards from afar then you can easily see the best time to approach them from behind. You don't sneak right up to them, you get close-ish but not too close, wait for them to turn away (back directly facing you), and then rush them.
- If you have a Witcher 1 save then it imports some Orens (gold) and items, plus it may have minor dialogue influences. The items imported are not that much better than what you start with by default, so do not expect having a Witcher 1 save to make the game easier. Any imported items start in your inventory - not equipped. You have to equip them.
- There's no traditional tutorial. Do the flashback sequences in order because you'll be tossed into the furnace without being able to practice.
- Combat is deadly as the developers openly stated their Demon's Souls influence. One-against-one Geralt is a beast but you're almost always fighting three or more guys. Enemies inflict +200% damage on your flank and certain hits stagger you which means you can be juggled to death in literally two seconds. In tight spaces cast quen (absorbs damage, prevents stagger) and use every bomb and area attack to not die horribly. In open areas use Geralt's speed to your advantage by running circles around enemies, laying traps, casting yrden (creates a paralyzing trap), cast igni or aard to whittle away opponents, and dodge roll behind people to stab them in the back. Understand there's a slight pause between certain actions so be patient and don't jump the gun or you'll die. Simple as that.
- Axii is an underrated spell. Hold down the casting button over an enemy to temporarily mind control them. You have to pull it off from a good distance but in large groups it causes all enemies to target the hypnotized enemy which makes flanking them easy.
- Before going out in the wilderness or a dungeon suck down some potions. You have to be in a relatively safe area to do this and they last about 5-10 minutes. Swallow is an important one because there are no conventional healing abilities.
- Don't horde. I keep reading posts about people hitting the weight limit but this is ridiculous because there's no point in hauling a bunch of junk around. It would be nice if they brought back the storage from the first game but you have plenty of space. Sell weapons and armor you don't need, sell anything labeled "junk" in the menu screen, and sell off any common crafting equipment that you can find by looting a random house like cloth or timber. Brew some potions and bombs when you run low and sell off everything else that's terribly common like monster ingredients.
- You have to keep your formulas to use them despite the fact they're added to the journal. It sucks that they weigh .1 pounds while books (which add an entry to your journal) somehow weigh 0 pounds so hopefully next week's announced patch fixes this oversight.
- Pressing "Z" activates the wolf medallion which highlights objects. It also reveals magical auras and environmental hazards.
- You can double click on a quest in the journal to mark it on the mini-map. Blue and green dots that show up on the mini-map are important NPCs while enemies show up as red dots if you use the wolf medallion to mark them.
- The game is about delayed choices so you won't notice the effects of your actions until later. Be warned about the occasional quick-time-event (they're fortunately rare) and timed dialog choice.

StashAugustine posted:

Dead Space. What should I put upgrades into? Do Rig upgrades stay if you get a new one?

President Ark posted:

-Don't be afraid to restart a mission if an important character (early healers, most female characters) died.
-Avoid using Frederick as a frontline fighter. He's prepromoted, meaning he'll get virtually no experience in the early game. Either use him purely as a pair-up stat stick, hold off until the midgame, give him a gag weapon like a log so he can't deal enough damage to kill things, or second seal him into an unpromoted class
-Donny (the character from Paralogue 1) gets disgustingly strong if you get him past his lovely starting stats. Protip: Surround archers with 3 units + donny, have donny poke them to death while they're unable to attack him.
-A lot of people talk about eugenics stuff or getting Galeforce on everyone in the main FE thread. You can completely ignore this. Min/maxing in this fashion is completely unnecessary except on the absolute highest difficulty and on the hardest post-endgame DLC.

Ferrosol posted:

I'm having a similar problem with the wiki. I can't actually load any page except for the front page. Anyway seeing as how I can't anyone have any tips for The Witcher II: Assassin of Kings?

The Wiki posted:

If it moves, makes a funny sound, has numbers, symbols, letters or anything scrawled in ink, blood or feces, if it opens, closes, locks or latches, if it shows you the wonders of the universe then eats your soul make. a. note. of. it.

Colon V posted:

Deakul posted:

Crap, totally forgot about the wiki, my bad.

thebardyspoon posted:

So in the Persona 3 FES (and the section for 3, I assume most of that stuff applies to FES) section people recommend alot of stuff that seems quite obscure, will the game itself tell me when options like going out at night to the arcade or Elizabeth's side missions open up? I started it back in February, got about 3 hours in and realised I didn't have time for a game like that at the time, now I do.

alcharagia posted:

I just got Wild Arms 3. Tell me about Wild Arms 3.

Deakul posted:

Just picked up the Myst collection on GOG.

I noticed there's RealMyst and the Masterpiece Edition, will I miss much by skipping the original Myst and going straight into Real?
And of course, any useful tips and tricks would not go remiss.

alcharagia posted:

I just got Wild Arms 3. Tell me about Wild Arms 3.

Ainsley McTree posted:

Anything to know for 7 Grand Steps? I've spent a few hours on it and it seems like the trick of the game is striking the right balance between...uh...everything. I'm wondering if there's some basic rules of thumb to know about.

RatHat posted:

Anything for Cthulhu Saves the World?