Found another LP on Youtube here...

[Pumpkin]

I never took the mech shrinker; I believed a small help in bullet avoiding wasn't worth some hp. I also very rarely take the "X% chance avoid damage" levelup option. If the mech shrinker also reduce damages, I will never take it (even less than never... ). Maybe it's because I'm playing below my personal challenging level of difficulty, but small dodge helpers aren't worth a currency that can buy me more firepower. (I don't even consider the health/dodge survival-for-survival trade, just health as currency.)

Just my bits of thoughts.

[Misery]

I used to take the shrink thing myself, but I don't anymore.  The damage reduction is nasty.

If I want to go play a game where every enemy takes 10000 years to kill, I'll go play Gungeon...

[Pepisolo]

We'll probably remove the damage reduction on that item, then.

[Pumpkin]

We'll probably remove the damage reduction on that item, then.

Yes, please. *.*
Mech shrink for health? Well, I would give it a try next time I'll meet it. After the next update, 'course.
Question to those around here who already tested it: damage malus aside, does the shrinking have a real impact on bullet dodging?

[Logorouge]

Question to those around here who already tested it: damage malus aside, does the shrinking have a real impact on bullet dodging?

Oh yeah. You can check how tiny the hitbox gets with some F key (F7?), but in practice it allows you to squeeze past tighter patterns of bullets. I don't want to overhype it, but I think it's a huge help. With the damage malus gone, I'll start picking it up every time again.

[Misery]

We'll probably remove the damage reduction on that item, then.

Yes, please. *.*
Mech shrink for health? Well, I would give it a try next time I'll meet it. After the next update, 'course.
Question to those around here who already tested it: damage malus aside, does the shrinking have a real impact on bullet dodging?

Hitbox reduction will always have an effect on that one, yeah.  You have a lot more leeway and are able to get away with more slight mistakes that otherwise would cost you big chunks of HP.  And the game has a lot of bullet-hell to it, so that's good.  Particularly on Hard.  Hitbox size is a major thing when it comes to stuff like that.

[Pepisolo]

I notice another SR series has started (2 episodes currently):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7c3Yh6b0Q

I haven't had the time to watch this one, yet, though.

[Misery]

I'm never going to get tired of these.

Something that's always bugged me though is that typically for Arcen's games it's pretty darn difficult to find LPs of them.  I've looked.  Usually cant find any.  AI War and Bionic Dues in particular would be interesting to watch.  Well, BD as long as the difficulty is raised, that one's kinda dull on Normal.

[Draco18s]

AI War would need to be heavily edited, or played in a style that doesn't need/use Netflix Time.

[Mánagarmr]

I'm never going to get tired of these.

Something that's always bugged me though is that typically for Arcen's games it's pretty darn difficult to find LPs of them.  I've looked.  Usually cant find any.  AI War and Bionic Dues in particular would be interesting to watch.  Well, BD as long as the difficulty is raised, that one's kinda dull on Normal.

AI War would need to be heavily edited, or played in a style that doesn't need/use Netflix Time.

I've been trying to make it work for about 5 years or so. It won't happen. It's just really frigging hard to make an LP that's even remotely interesting to watch and doesn't require more time editing than actually playing.

[ptarth]

I've been trying to make it work for about 5 years or so. It won't happen. It's just really frigging hard to make an LP that's even remotely interesting to watch and doesn't require more time editing than actually playing.

Take a note from TB & Jesse's Terraria youtube epsidoes. Play 2 player coop and do running banter/discussion of events while playing.

[Mánagarmr]

I've been trying to make it work for about 5 years or so. It won't happen. It's just really frigging hard to make an LP that's even remotely interesting to watch and doesn't require more time editing than actually playing.

Take a note from TB & Jesse's Terraria youtube epsidoes. Play 2 player coop and do running banter/discussion of events while playing.

That's what we did for our System Shock 2 playthrough. SS2 isn't even close to as clumbsy as AI War though. But we still did it.