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Stories / Re: Dear God are offensive builds hard
« on: June 27, 2024, 11:34:49 PM »
(forgot to add the screenshot. oops!)
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Stories / Dear God are offensive builds hard
« on: June 27, 2024, 09:55:44 PM »
I got my first win last night so today I did a less serious one. The first few attempts fell flat as I didn't find the equipment I needed to survive in the higher levels (infowar, hacking, propulsion, offense plan, etc.). This one, however, got all the way to -3 Research.
I had explored about half of the map using my current build, which used a lrg. storage unit and plenty of thrusters alongside great scanning and hacking gear. In the middle of the map, though, was a Heavy that blocked off the rest. I geared up some and killed it, but the fight itself and the cleaning up of reinforcements had stripped me of much of my flight and scanning gear.
Thus began the spiral. Reinforcement after reinforcement, errant patrols and endless programmers. The full set of treads that I had resorted to was broken down to nothing, and the only weapons I had left were a pair of gamma bomb launchers. I think I gained ~50% corruption from putting the legs I needed to move forward alone. By the time I made it maybe 40 tiles away from the first encounter, I was at over 90% corruption and putting on whatever I could find. The security was at maximum and I was running into ARC after ARC, destroying the squads with ease but losing more and more integrity. An expert squad came, with a stasis projector, though I killed them without too much issue despite all that. The one that got me, though, had an executioner. I lost the legs, and couldn't put on more without the corruption killing me. The corruption ended up killing me anyway, as programmers went and finished me off.
Most of the score, and most of my mental effort, was concentrated in that last floor. Cogmind truly is a game about stealth and attrition. There's no way in hell you get through the whole complex like that—not without extreme care and a hefty bit of luck as well. I wanted to try, though, which is why I committed myself rather than pulling out. God damn, though! I want a Cogmind where that maybe *is* a possibility. That would be cool. Not the game as it is, yes of course, and I wouldn't ask it to change. But still...
Anyway. Scoresheet is attached, if you're interested, as well as the screen I got on death. 20k score! Went out in a blaze of glory indeed.
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I had explored about half of the map using my current build, which used a lrg. storage unit and plenty of thrusters alongside great scanning and hacking gear. In the middle of the map, though, was a Heavy that blocked off the rest. I geared up some and killed it, but the fight itself and the cleaning up of reinforcements had stripped me of much of my flight and scanning gear.
Thus began the spiral. Reinforcement after reinforcement, errant patrols and endless programmers. The full set of treads that I had resorted to was broken down to nothing, and the only weapons I had left were a pair of gamma bomb launchers. I think I gained ~50% corruption from putting the legs I needed to move forward alone. By the time I made it maybe 40 tiles away from the first encounter, I was at over 90% corruption and putting on whatever I could find. The security was at maximum and I was running into ARC after ARC, destroying the squads with ease but losing more and more integrity. An expert squad came, with a stasis projector, though I killed them without too much issue despite all that. The one that got me, though, had an executioner. I lost the legs, and couldn't put on more without the corruption killing me. The corruption ended up killing me anyway, as programmers went and finished me off.
Most of the score, and most of my mental effort, was concentrated in that last floor. Cogmind truly is a game about stealth and attrition. There's no way in hell you get through the whole complex like that—not without extreme care and a hefty bit of luck as well. I wanted to try, though, which is why I committed myself rather than pulling out. God damn, though! I want a Cogmind where that maybe *is* a possibility. That would be cool. Not the game as it is, yes of course, and I wouldn't ask it to change. But still...
Anyway. Scoresheet is attached, if you're interested, as well as the screen I got on death. 20k score! Went out in a blaze of glory indeed.
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