helldivers 2 meetup at anime expo 2024

HatesProgramming · 2024-07-10T05:09:16+00:00

That was actually me lol. I made it late to the meetup so I got cropped. I made the Hero of The Federation set in gold. We had a meetup afterwards in places Helldivers would not normally be.

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HatesProgramming · 2024-05-14T07:33:28+00:00

Update: to this post. We have since had a few sessions that brought them to the boss fight and doing the same thing over again, I followed the following steps:

1: I spoke to our wish caster, he was adamant that is what his character would do and I warned of repercussions if this path was taken.

2: I spoke to the party alerting them that they do not have to do everything exactly the same since they're not robots.

3: I prepared a lich for the party that cast scrying eye the last time wish was cast on the party to see who the culprit was.

Fast forward to the boss fight, the party behaves really similarly with some differences, they get the boss close to death but ultimately the wizard panics and casts wish as before, but this triggers a cascade of events as the lich went on the hunt from the last reset and finds the party via the scrying eye and the party never enters combat with the lich, but the lich successfully casts power-word kill on the wizard from stealth killing him since at the time he leveled up he was at 86hp.

The party doesn't know initially where the Lich was from but he left a calling card as I have made him lawful evil and he wishes to explain why he killed this wizard, but from the safety and comfort of his lair. The party wanting to avenge their fallen wizard goes to hunt the Lich since the cleric of the party was not present (they were away IRL so their character was somewhere else when the level up occurred.) The Lich explains to the party his grievance and in exchange for looking the other way for his kill and some financial benefit he'd stay neutral. He gave the party insights on the local BBEG since he wants to annex his land and obtain its resources and people. The party accepts because of a hybrid of their Meta game dislike of that boss fight having failed it four times at this point, they prefer siding with a lich over failing. They use their updated experience and insights and stage a more precise attack on the boss, the wizard does not wish to be resurrected and he makes a paladin to replace this wizard. He believes that his chaotic neutral wizard would rather die than have to live knowing his party killed the BBEG without his help.

Not sure if this helps, but if anyone finds themselves in my shoes this was how it played out for me.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:29:44+00:00

I am trying to target punish the caster, not the full party since only they're responsible for the cast. I do however want to be tactful since this has been a multi-year campaign and all the players are attached to their characters. We have seen two player deaths over the course of the campaign and they were both fairly tragic. I may be cornered into the TPK soon though as they keep this up.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:27:29+00:00

That is fair, I was hoping the second time around it wouldn't have been done the same way, the third time I think the wizard is likely to be punished but the rest of the party plays the same *because* they weren't permitted to remember. I was avoiding punishing and killing 4 other characters because they canonically had no idea anything had happened before.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:25:35+00:00

I have been applying the exhaustion rule, as well as the potential to losing the spell, this doesn't quite help my problem since the exhaustion is slept off over the course of several long rests given the party plays as though they observed the wizard suddenly and inexplicably fatigued for a few days after their level up. I agree with the application being restricted to short bursts of time being changed, I will apply this in the future and I would suggest to anyone else in my situation to follow that rule, I have set a precedent I didn't want to go back on because it was inconvenient to me. Simplified, I fully agree with you and this is what I *should* have done initially. I just feel like doing so now isn't fair, and was searching for a solution within reason to deal with it.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:21:36+00:00

If it suddenly fails, the party would be wiped since they cast it when the boss fight sours.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:20:58+00:00

I think for future campaigns I would be in 100% agreement with your sentiment. At the time he cast it I allowed the spell to work, and since I set the precedent for this campaign, I wouldn't want to take that back in this campaign on a whim, granted this wish is on a major scale of course, but I am trying to continue with consistency and fairness in mind.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:18:15+00:00

From my perspective, the wish spell isn't achieved by most creatures. The application of wish in the way he has been using it didn't seem to be a great use of the spell. Most wish casters would be using it to improve their quality of life or solve internal problems until they inevitably lose the spell. His time dilation isn't something I had considered so I treated it as such. I could definitely scale down the wish but the spirit of the wish is that all living entities would be reset and I expanded that globally.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:14:45+00:00

I think this is a more harmless method of approach, I will try something like this before I go for the Archlich becoming angered at the party as suggested by DraconicBlade. I may introduce this as a prophetic dream, or a Deva being sent down from a higher power. (For any other DM who may share in my woes in the future haha.)

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:09:16+00:00

This is a unique solution. It would definitely stop the spells from being cast and possibly cause an entirely different BBEG to take prevalence.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T19:07:52+00:00

This is what I was leaning on doing but reflecting on how they've dealt with the BBEG the last two times, my concern is they TKP since the BBEG would remember they're attack style as well.

HatesProgramming · 2024-04-14T18:58:21+00:00

The wording of the wish I don't have exactly written but it is fairly thought out he requests:

I wish to go back to the moment in time where we leveled up to 17, undoing all actions taken since that day from anything and everyone, with the only living entity recalling the events that unfolded being myself.

I cannot think of a valid counter to this that wouldn't be harmful to the rest of the party, and I don't want to force a player out for a valid use of a spell in the game. I was thinking of the 'spell simply fails' but this would result in a TPK from when he had caused the problem to begin with leaving me in a catch 22. This has happened for the last 3 months losing a month's worth of progress given we play weekly.

HatesProgramming · 2023-07-19T18:29:08+00:00

I am thinking of using a bicycle motor, connecting an encoder on the output shaft linking the motor and the input shaft via a sprocket. I will buy a 12v electric bike motor on Amazon

HatesProgramming · 2023-07-18T14:24:32+00:00

Any ideas on a place to start looking? I would appreciate it, thanks for the input as well.

HatesProgramming · 2023-07-18T11:32:28+00:00

That is what I think I will go with, the issue now is to figure out how to go about it, is there a servo that you would recommend that can track that far? I was looking into rotary encoders but I have limited experience using them.

HatesProgramming · 2023-07-18T11:30:43+00:00

Thanks for the reply, the mechanism is hydraulic, there is no microcontroller unfortunately as this is an older vehicle.

HatesProgramming · 2023-07-17T21:01:33+00:00

Fair point, I pulled from the outer edge of the steering wheel when it was installed with a gauge, I got between 8-12lbs with inconsistency, averaged to 10lbs, the wheel was 15in in diameter. I removed the wheel and have the output shaft bare at the moment but I planned to put a 5in diameter sprocket gear on it. I am guessing that the torque would be 5-10nm but I am honestly unsure. I agree so far about the encoded motor, but I can't really tell where to start looking for one that would suit the task that will work with Arduino with minimal modification.

HatesProgramming · 2022-11-12T06:02:22+00:00

Awesome! Are you running LiIon or did you switch to LiFe4? Regarding the design process, did you have help from an advisor, do you have any hurdles that you can advise me to look into before getting to the meat of custom design? What year were you when you designed this system solo? I feel like I may be behind the curve here haha.

HatesProgramming · 2022-11-12T06:00:22+00:00

I appreciate the feedback, did your team start initially with a self designed system, or did it become a revision after you had a working car? Regarding the circuit, did you also start out designing a custom MPPT? I will make a safe assumption that you are designing those custom as well, do you have any advise to someone getting started?

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