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PaperclipPerfector  8d ago (text post)   2249 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 21, 2025

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That was my experience with Mechanicus, a game that I really enjoyed until I was beating every fight in a single turn. Except it was so easy to fall into that part of character-build-space that you didn't even have the "else, die" to worry about.

I went into WH40K Rogue Trader blind except with the experience of having played Underrail three times and have gotten 3/4 through it on the 'Dominating' difficulty. Underrail is actually not that hard .. if you're an RPG veteran and listen to the advice to optimize and not waffle. Apparently RockPaperShotgun doesn't have such people reviewing Underrail and panned the game for being 'too hard'. Kek.. It's really not.

Unless you're playing on Dominating where you're always one slightest misstep from getting killed and it's actually somewhat tedious.

Rogue Trader - The second hardest difficulty level (with saving) was pleasantly difficult, at first, but got not that difficult as game passed. It's probably pretty doable on the hardest if you don't mind save-scumming a bit.

Underrail has a .. complicated build system but that's nothing to Rogue Trader lol. But RT's is.. not really balanced. There's nothing much in the way of infinity turns like there was at the start I think..

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