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Weekly Seed #46 [Alpha 9] [Seed: Evasive Action]
« on: June 23, 2016, 11:59:56 PM »
This week's seed: Evasive Action

Let the chase begin.

The Weekly Seed is open to anyone, and we encourage you to to share your experiences, stories, and tactics over the course of your run.

The rules are as follows:
  • The Weekly Seed begins from the date this thread is posted and lasts about seven days.
  • Make sure you are running the correct version of Cogmind (see thread subject).
  • Enter the seed and abort your current game to initiate the seed (more details are below).
  • Verify you are not running the tutorial and that the screenshots below match your game.
  • Play through the game once. This is a friendly event and we are all honest people.
  • When finished, post your scoresheet here (it should be the newest file in /scores) and any other screenshots/stories/strategies you wish to share with the community.
  • If you want to share details about the seed or your approach, make sure you use spoiler tags.
  • Due to the spoilerific nature of this thread, be sure to avoid reading details about the seed if you haven't completed your run.

Good luck and have fun!





HOW TO ENTER A SEED

Press F1 to go to the MENU, select OPTIONS, select Seed, and enter this week's seed:




Select GAME, select ABORT:




If you have followed the steps [Manual seed applied: Evasive Action] should display in the log window.

Congratulations on entering the seed, now get in there!
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Re: Weekly Seed #46 [Alpha 9] [Seed: Evasive Action]
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2016, 07:44:54 PM »
Evasive Action, indeed. This was a crazy run for me. I was playing in front of my son for the first time, hooked up to my dad's TV, so the pressure was on to keep it interesting for viewers who had no real idea what was going on.

My intention was to head straight for the surface, since I didn't want it to drag on for too long, but I did duck into a cave real quick (even though I knew it was cave access) and jumped back out again ASAP.

My build was a heavily weapons-focused treaded nightmare with enhanced targeting, and that was going okay blasting through *everything* (assaults incoming!) until I fell right into a chute in the Factory :/. Worst build to have down there. I tried to shoot them but I was mostly armed with weaker weapons so I could fire sustained volleys, not yet powerful enough to punch through Compactors. Most of my stuff was crushed to bits and I ended up streaking to survive. Wasn't too hard to make it out in that state, and I had a great find while fleeing--Ragnarok! Good thing, too, since that's what saved me while I tried to rebuild.

Still didn't make it far, though, repeatedly running into garrisons and getting the crap beat out of me, so I did the unthinkable: dove into a *garrison* while quite weak in terms of parts... (but still not terrible on integrity)

I came in like this:


And I would've been okay if one of the two patrolling Programmers I rammed to death dropped a power source, but no such luck--the two Grunts I later provoked were the death of me. I had weapons, just not enough power for them :/

Programmers dead :D


All I got out of the deal:


Spoiler: Score: 8,410 (click to show/hide)
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