Lladre posted:

The only safe place by a turret is directly ontop of it.

Bonus you get to spin with it.

Bad Munki posted:

Help, I just took a mortar right up the grundle

Bad Munki posted:

Help, I just took a mortar right up the grundle

Bad Munki posted:

Help, I just took a mortar right up the grundle

Suntan Boy posted:

Military ERs are always a special flavor of batshit, in a medical field rife with WTF stories.

My patient one night was brought in from the field by their medic, complaining of abdominal pain for 2 days, and unable to poo poo for 3. He looked ok, other than clearly being profoundly uncomfortable. The medic had tried a short regimen of stool softeners, to no avail, and their aid station had given him a bottle of magnesium citrate to chug, which just made it hurt more. Even when he was alone in the room with one of the staff, dude didn't let on that he knew exactly what the problem was, and it wasn't the steady diet of MREs and dehydration.

"Belly hurts, can't poo poo" isn't particularly unusual for Joe, but it does warrant an x-ray as a matter of course. Woke up the tech, who wheeled the patient off to do their thing. After they came back, the tech pulls us off to the side.

"He's got a dildo or something stuck up there, but it's weird; I can't see any batteries or plastic. Here, take a look."

Gathered around the computer, we start trying to figure out the object jammed in this man's rectum. Completely opaque, so probably metal or ceramic... north end has a blunt taper... measures about 40mm by 45mm...

"Oh gently caress," one of my newbie medics breathed. "That's a 203 round."

"Oh gently caress," the rest of the army folks in the room agreed. "It's a launched grenade," I explained to to nonplussed doctor. After a moment's consideration, "Oh gently caress."

To his credit, the doctor did not stride back into that patient's room like his rear end in a top hat had just tried to vacuum up a chair cushion. He did scoot out of there with a quickness once he'd confirmed what it was, and that there was no way he'd be able to get it out right there. A flurry of phone calls followed: the doctor with the surgeon, the charge nurse with several levels of department and hospital leadership, and myself with EOD. Every conversation went pretty much the same: sleepy disbelief, laughter, "oh poo poo, I/we'll be right there". Fortunately, he was the only patient in the entire building, so evacuating everyone amounted to half a dozen disgruntled staff in the parking lot in the middle of the night.

After some uneventful waiting, the EOD and surgical teams arrived, wheeled dude to the operating room, and got to work. It was reportedly asses-to-elbows with both groups in there at the same time, but they got the round out mostly without incident. "Mostly", because dude's bowels had been corked for 3 days, and all those MREs suddenly had an exit route; the immediate aftermath was best described as "chocolate mousse fired from a blunderbuss". The round was whisked away by the EOD crew, and dude was quietly disappeared after a brief stint in the recovery ward. No idea what happened to either one of them, sadly.

NTC was a weird place.

TaurusTorus posted:

sebmojo posted:

spraying hot uncorked democracy all over the ER

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

The firebreaker is great for having to go "fuckfuckfuck" and saturate an area with damage right away.

Strong Sauce posted:

pretty frustrated with this game right now.. besides the crashing i'm just running into way more toxic people

i was playing with a pub group and there was one guy the whole match kept TKing me. fine no problem, people are dropping bunch of eagle/orbitals and sometimes you get hit... but he never said anything. that was fine too. i just assumed he had no mic and was on console so typing would suck.. whatever

we're in a egg elimination level and we're trying to complete the last egg nest. we're having trouble because 1 guy dropped. this guy during this whole time keeps dying pretty far from where the nest was. instead of spending time to kill the eggs he was trying to go back to get the samples. again, sure no problem... finally we finish the nest and its right near evac. he dies again and we have to reinforce him right by where we are. there's about <4 minutes left. the evac is right where we are, we still have some samples and the supers. no reason to risk it against fire tornadoes and heavies. but i start running towards evac, he goes towards his dead body. uhm. okay i guess i'll go back and hit the evac and they should be back around that time.

finally he types for the first time, "hey why don't you help out?" "*** head". i just stopped, told him to gently caress off, and then left the match. whole time never said anything about TKing me but this.. right after he spent all that time dying to get back to his body while me and the other guy were clearing enemies/egg nest. i've played like 4 matches with this guy already and this was the first thing he says. just tilted me so much.

anyways thanks for reading.

Mordja posted:

Never Not Host

Strong Sauce posted:

pretty frustrated with this game right now.. besides the crashing i'm just running into way more toxic people

i was playing with a pub group and there was one guy the whole match kept TKing me. fine no problem, people are dropping bunch of eagle/orbitals and sometimes you get hit... but he never said anything. that was fine too. i just assumed he had no mic and was on console so typing would suck.. whatever

we're in a egg elimination level and we're trying to complete the last egg nest. we're having trouble because 1 guy dropped. this guy during this whole time keeps dying pretty far from where the nest was. instead of spending time to kill the eggs he was trying to go back to get the samples. again, sure no problem... finally we finish the nest and its right near evac. he dies again and we have to reinforce him right by where we are. there's about <4 minutes left. the evac is right where we are, we still have some samples and the supers. no reason to risk it against fire tornadoes and heavies. but i start running towards evac, he goes towards his dead body. uhm. okay i guess i'll go back and hit the evac and they should be back around that time.

finally he types for the first time, "hey why don't you help out?" "*** head". i just stopped, told him to gently caress off, and then left the match. whole time never said anything about TKing me but this.. right after he spent all that time dying to get back to his body while me and the other guy were clearing enemies/egg nest. i've played like 4 matches with this guy already and this was the first thing he says. just tilted me so much.

anyways thanks for reading.

Chakan posted:

My buddy and I are almost level 30, and we’ve started running level 9’s. With 4 people they feel pretty easy, I was kind of expecting to have to really plan our equipment and everything but it hasn’t been a big issue. We did a drop as a duo onto a planet where the map was occluded and started right next to a big hive, which was tough but once we got our bearings we did alright, and once two more people dropped in everything was almost buttery smooth. It makes sense that they don’t want to force optimal loadouts, but 9’s don’t really feel much harder than 7’s.

Chakan posted:

but 9’s don’t really feel much harder than 7’s.

Chakan posted:

My buddy and I are almost level 30, and we’ve started running level 9’s. With 4 people they feel pretty easy, I was kind of expecting to have to really plan our equipment and everything but it hasn’t been a big issue. We did a drop as a duo onto a planet where the map was occluded and started right next to a big hive, which was tough but once we got our bearings we did alright, and once two more people dropped in everything was almost buttery smooth. It makes sense that they don’t want to force optimal loadouts, but 9’s don’t really feel much harder than 7’s.

Arc Hammer posted:

God the AMR is such a good support weapon. Seven shots semiautomatic with 6 magazines and it can two-shot a Hulk. I'm pretty much using it as a primary on bot missions.

Hwurmp posted:

Democracy fills my sample container

Dinosaurs! posted:

It’s so good, especially with the resupply ship upgrade and paired with stun grenades. I’m interested in running autocannon with a DMR now that the counter sniper got a buff. Being able to take out fabricators again would be huge. The AMR also feels a little light against factory striders except for knocking out their chin guns.

Dinosaurs! posted:

I want to like the laser cannon on bots, but I don’t like how exposed it makes you when you’re staring down a bunch of devs, especially with its lack of stagger. Great against heavy targets, though. I love when someone in the party brings one.