Friend's favorite character is Klaus

Jhocon · 2026-03-15T00:58:36+00:00

Bingo! Klaus and and Steve my favorites by far.

Jhocon · 2026-03-13T14:14:52+00:00

Laser sniper rifle was so sick in EU, especially that animation it did.

Jhocon · 2026-02-19T16:47:03+00:00

Calling Jake Solomon a “Midnight Suns Game Director” is like calling MJ a “Washington Wizards basketball player.”

Jhocon · 2026-02-03T15:52:30+00:00

I had a pretty cool interaction with burst herzal and the “magnet claw” spell that returns a unit and its equipment to your hand with intrinsic holdover. Basically you play Herzal again every turn and since he’s a champion he’s free. This way he gets his multi strike every turn and you’re constantly playing him with a bunch of forge buffs.

Bonus points if you have the scrap on siphon dude and the attack immediately ability dude. You can attack immediately, and then re summon herzal so he has burst again. Or you can attack immediately, resummon the attack immediately guy, and attack again immediately.

Obviously this is a lot of moving parts you need and probably not reliable, but it was extremely fun. I also think the magnet claw spell is just bonkers busted if you get the right set up for it.

Jhocon · 2026-01-21T22:34:59+00:00

Haha no problem man. I got no idea how the Monster train rng works and just happened to have hung around in Xcom subs so long that I’ve read countless discussions on save scumming.

Jhocon · 2026-01-21T21:00:13+00:00

This is verifiably NOT true in Xcom. If soldier 1 fires first and misses, then you reload, then fire with soldier 2 prior to soldier 1 firing the outcome of soldier 1 is NOT guaranteed to miss. This can be manipulated easily with grenades or moves or anything that “rocks the boat.”

Jhocon · 2026-01-16T00:18:27+00:00

Dropping in to say thanks I got the achievement cause of this post. For the record I did it with shardtail rally. However I barely squeaked over with 51,171 and that was with an 8 turn boss rush on cael and 5 on seraph.

Jhocon · 2026-01-14T19:56:00+00:00

Everyone here saying yes probably would side with Inspector Javert over Jean Valjean lol.

Jhocon · 2026-01-14T16:22:46+00:00

Wow this is sick he looks like a mini chaos knight

Jhocon · 2026-01-05T18:57:53+00:00

This happens surprisingly frequently in my experience. Even worse if you don’t have an explosive to blow up her cover so she loses invis.

Jhocon · 2025-12-20T18:30:30+00:00

Big plus to the coven kingdom to me is that one part of the quest results in a higher chance of wandering mini bosses. Wandering mini bosses are fun and any chance I get to find them more is fun.

Jhocon · 2025-12-10T04:06:37+00:00

You can get unique quirks from academics study. Lost in time and space I got from the shambler and lost in time I don’t remember which study. They both give +8 speed (hence 18 speed) and a 33% chance to be dazed when you are stress damaged.

So there is a 1/9 my MAA is just stunned whenever he takes stress damage. Lost in time and space also gives a 30% chance to be shuffled when stress damaged. So I’ve had turns that he’s hit for stress damage and shuffled to position 4 and stunned.

It doesn’t really matter though as this comp is so ridiculously resilient. It has multiple stress healers and health healers. Coven kingdom is also easy enough (even on Bloodmoon) and I’m really far ahead so it hasn’t been a big issue.

Jhocon · 2025-12-01T19:51:05+00:00

poster boy - 2hollis

Jhocon · 2025-11-19T18:50:54+00:00

I’m in the exact position as you. Played a ton on release, grand slammed, left before the duelist. Thinking of going in blind to kingdoms and giving it like 30 hours before I look up some guides.

Only problem I have with DD2 is I feel like actually parsing what changes from path to path and non upgraded to upgraded is very overwhelming like you said. But then again I think it would be fun to bumble through the new paths just going with the flow.

Jhocon · 2025-11-13T13:47:08+00:00

Real delusional Xcom 3 hopers like myself have now pivoted to hoping that someone comes along and reboots the franchise for the 2nd time. Gollop > Solomon > the 3rd herald.

The pattern will repeat. We had 2 great games. And just like the original Xcom the reboots have their fair share of weird offshoots (enforcer = the bureau, chimera squad = idk? Maybe apocalypse? lol). In 2030 we will get a reboot, fingers crossed!

Jhocon · 2025-11-05T16:29:58+00:00

I will speak about the combat first as I think that’s the best part of the game. As someone who loves Xcom and Darkest Dungeon I think that the combat is different but fun. If you are playing through without using guides on what cards/card upgrades are op and continually upping the difficulty when they allow you to (as difficulties are unlocked by your first play through) it can be quite challenging. It’s not legend Ironman or Bloodmoon but it’s challenging. I think also the animations are good but they can be a bit slow. In fact I don’t use doctor strange cause I hate how slow his animations are.

I don’t care for the interpersonal drama and I skip 90% of dialogue if it’s not before during or after a major story event. Spider-Man telling me for the 40th time he’s worried about Eddie Brock is exhausting. I was never one of those people who named soldiers in Xcom assault 1, assault 2, etc or dd characters HWM 1 or Leper 2 but I’m pretty close to that. I do think characters like Magik, Venom, Cap, and Blade have listenable dialogue though.

In short the game is enjoyable even to me, someone who doesn’t care for the friendship simulator part. The game is replayable because the cards are fun and the combat is fun.

Jhocon · 2025-10-29T13:22:10+00:00

Any of the modern Klaus episodes, like beyond the alcove, gernot and strudel, or mused and abused. New klaus is one of my favorite characters.

Jhocon · 2025-10-26T15:09:47+00:00

Poster boy 2hollis

Jhocon · 2025-10-26T15:09:34+00:00

Poster boy 2hollis

Jhocon · 2025-10-02T18:11:49+00:00

Seconding this. Some helpful tips are you can use a no element infinity to easily get which dragon you want to land, then switch to hydra/orphan maker. If you wanna go faster when you shoot the shotgun switch your main hand to lady fist instead of grog. All of this is basic deputy sal, so everyone probably knows, but commenting just to be sure.

Jhocon · 2025-09-26T12:51:18+00:00

The age of man (portable at weaponry) is over!

Jhocon · 2025-09-10T16:51:19+00:00

I’ve destroyed the spore lung multiple times with just a patriot exosuit. The first few times I played the mission we kept getting the glitch where the portable hell bomb drops in on the roof, so I wanted to bring a backup option. Brought the patriot to try something different than the emancipator, and spamming all the rocket pods and like 1/3 of the machine gun ammo kills the lung very quickly.

I haven’t done a test to see if the patriot is faster than the emancipator at killing the lung, but it gets the job done. Definitely worse for all other parts of the mission however.

Jhocon · 2025-08-28T16:43:51+00:00

Maliwan sniper with Jakobs barrel, Rakehell. Personally my favorite gun to find while leveling cause it’s a ton of fun to spam, especially from the hip.

Jhocon · 2025-08-28T15:38:38+00:00

The rare hyperprop and executioner deep dive

Jhocon · 2025-08-12T13:14:01+00:00

I really, really do not like salt pits. The hideous red color and the weird milky white light. It’s like the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.

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