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Well the rifle is generally a bit more ammo efficient in terms of the damage:bullet drop ratio, and IMO easier to stun lock multiple enemies easily. I really don't see how anyone with a mouse could fail to hit limbs.

That said you have enough upgrade points to get max damage for basically all the weapons. There's really no worry about not being able to use all the weapons. You'll probably have both the cutter and the riifle at full damage by the 3rd or 4th level
 

samuraigaiden

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I vaguely remember some weapons feeling more useful against some enemies and ammo drops not being so directly tied to what I had equipped.
 

Biscotti

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Ammo drops are definitely tied to what you currently have on you to some degree. That's another reason plasma cutter only is easy mode: 80% of the ammo you find is gonna be plasma cutter ammo so you're constantly swimming in ammo, and whatever ammo you find that isn't plasma cutter ammo can be sold so you're absolutely loaded on credits by the midgame.
On the other hand, having multiple weapons equipped means your ammo drops will be more spread out and you'll generally have less of everything. This can become an issue when 2 or 3 out of your 4 weapons are specialist weapons that only work well in certain encounters.

Whenever the subject is brought up I always highly encourage anyone interested in (re)playing the game to just straight up ditch the plasma cutter and try playing with some other weapons, it actually encourages resource management and varied weapon usage.
I did just that for my impossible playthrough, it's the only way to introduce some challenge.
 

Abu Antar

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
I'm playing Demons Age. What a mess. Two bosser are downed. I have a party of four. Cleric/Wizard/Fighter/Ranger.

I'm playing this out of curiousity. This is self flaggelation, not Dota 2.
 

Kabas

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Freedom Force - Someone in a screenshot thread reminded me that i have it in my library. So far i think it's a cool game.
Pick 4 superdudes/girls from the constantly growing roster of superheroes to complete a mission and try not to wreck the city while doing so. If the city is still intact and it's citizens are still alive when you can get an extra prestige which you can spend on getting extra heroes to your roster. They're pretty expensive and i felt at first that i wasted all my prestige on Man-o'-War and Sea Urchin, but these two with ther electrical attacks proved to be very useful in those levels were you fight against Dr.Mechanical and his robots.
Kinda enjoyed all of the heroes the game let me to try so far. My least favourite of them is probably the Mentor, not because his focus on control abilities suck or anything but more because i am more of a "i quickly close distance, hit them hard and scream for justice" kind of person. I prefer using Alchemiss to him anyway.
Agree with the opinion that this is one of the better implementations of realtime with pause.
 

The Decline

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Started playing ATOM. It's really cool and once I turned on the isometric mode I got kicked in balls by Fallout nostalgia. It's insane how much better the game looks to me in that mode.
 

baud

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RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I helped put crap in Monomyth
Agree with the opinion that this is one of the better implementations of realtime with pause.
:what:
It was the only RTwP I ever played and I didn't had a great time with the gameplay and you're telling me it's one of the best implementation? Though my biggest complain was how it wasn't possible to chain orders (like move there, then shoot)
 

Kabas

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Agree with the opinion that this is one of the better implementations of realtime with pause.
:what:
It was the only RTwP I ever played and I didn't had a great time with the gameplay and you're telling me it's one of the best implementation? Though my biggest complain was how it wasn't possible to chain orders (like move there, then shoot)
By "one of the better implementations" i meant that i didn't found it too awkward to control 4 heroes at the same time. I sometimes loose track of the characters if they're fighting too far away from each other, apart from that i have no big complaints.
 

baud

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RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I helped put crap in Monomyth
Agree with the opinion that this is one of the better implementations of realtime with pause.
:what:
It was the only RTwP I ever played and I didn't had a great time with the gameplay and you're telling me it's one of the best implementation? Though my biggest complain was how it wasn't possible to chain orders (like move there, then shoot)
By "one of the better implementations" i meant that i didn't found it too awkward to control 4 heroes at the same time. I sometimes loose track of the characters if they're fighting too far away from each other, apart from that i have no big complaints.

I found it rather awkward personally, in addition to not being able to chain commands, the way the select button is the same as the move button, so I'd often give a move order while trying to select a hero.
But I mostly played with ranged heroes (I used Mentor in a lot of missions, for example) rather than melee, which maybe explain our respective impressions
 

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I got to the final boss of blasphemous and stopped there. Final boss was tough so I explored more and got a bit upgraded. I then looked up what stuff I was missing, which always kills the magic, but in this case saved me major headaches. I got annoyed that stuff I missed was giddamn impossible or at least very tedious to figure out without looking it up. This is NOT a part of souls games worth emulating. Decided I had explored and gotten as much fun as I could and time to move on. Great game overall. Now playing modded oblivion which Ive always loved despite codex feelings on it. Also simcity 4.
 

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Codex 2014 Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy
A silly dream of mine has come true. I was browsing the Steam Workshop for different things to add to Football Manager 2020, because I got the urge to play it again. I found that someone had implemented the lowest divisions in Sweden. I quickly downloaded it and started a new career as my club. The club I have co-founded in real life. It's hilarious. There's no real staff or players, but the stadium name and stuff is correct. Cross off a childhood dream off the list.

The ascent from division 6 to Allsvenskan is about to begin! I'm also doing my best to get promoted with Boston United in the English Leagues. They start at the lowest division, and I am now sitting in first place in League One. Championship teams with decent squads have approached me, but I have resisted the temptation to move to a bigger club.

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Fenix

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Just almost beat Jupiter Hell on NIGHTMARE, except the last figth, where you apparantly need some WMD weapon, like rocket launcher with toxic cloud mod, or Toxicologist perk, cause summons the Summoner summon (welp) are too numerous, I underestimated it, cause on ULTRAVIOLET this figth is a cakewalk.
Not going to do that again cause there will be no difference except the last 5 min, bleh.
 

Perkel

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Half Life 1 Trilogy in VR via Quest 2 port. About halfway through HL will soon play OF and BS.
 

jackofshadows

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Might and Magic X: Legacy.

Random stumbling at the codex review has prompted me to even install uplay for it. What a nice game. Rolled with 2 fire priests/2 free mages glass canon full crit blast party, having fun.

Unfortunetaly the non-combat parts like Tower of Enigma where I'm atm aren't nearly as fun as they were for the 1-2 times but oh well.

Too many buff/heal shrines around are begging to be abused which encourage OCD backtracking and its taking some fun away.

Still, as I said, a very nice smooth and decently looking game to this day, will finish the run for sure.
 

laclongquan

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Agree with the opinion that this is one of the better implementations of realtime with pause.
:what:
It was the only RTwP I ever played and I didn't had a great time with the gameplay and you're telling me it's one of the best implementation? Though my biggest complain was how it wasn't possible to chain orders (like move there, then shoot)
By "one of the better implementations" i meant that i didn't found it too awkward to control 4 heroes at the same time. I sometimes loose track of the characters if they're fighting too far away from each other, apart from that i have no big complaints.

I found it rather awkward personally, in addition to not being able to chain commands, the way the select button is the same as the move button, so I'd often give a move order while trying to select a hero.
But I mostly played with ranged heroes (I used Mentor in a lot of missions, for example) rather than melee, which maybe explain our respective impressions

have you guys played UFO Aftershock and UFO Afterlight yet? They are, in my opinion, currently the best RTwP tactical combat game.

I did try Freedom Force a while back but quit after one hour I think. The combat did not make me feel very tactical.
 

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