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@H20Melon : There's not a ton of documentation for the game at the moment, but I can always add support for new things for modders' sake. Right now, you CAN define the stats of your hero units and set up triggers that give them to you at the start, but I'm not sure if that would cover generic units. What you're describing might actually be possible, I'd have to dig into the code and see what (undocumented) scripts you can use to do that.
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larsiusprime posted:Hey everyone! That's pretty neat.  I thought you might save the 50% off sale for Christmas, dropping it this early is great. You might want to add something to the frontpage of http://www.defendersquest.com/ indicating you can get it for 50% off there, I didn't realize it was on sale directly through you until I went to the buy page to check.Is the Kongregate version going on sale, or does Kongregate not do sales? I don't believe I've ever seen them do even a Christmas sale on their games. Then again, Defender's Quest is pretty much the only full game for sale on Kongregate, isn't it? Every other game only has premium upgrades and cash shop items.
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I enjoyed the demo. If the game is 50% off then I guess I can rationalize the purchase.
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Just wanted to say this game is insanely fun and addictive and I'm enjoying it more than anything else I've bought in months.
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Just picked this up. Installed it. Tried to set it to full-screen but it does not support my resolution (1680x1050). It changed my actual native desktop resolution. It also crashed AVG. All of these things make for an irritating initial experience, but I am trusting you guys and your shining reviews. Are you supposed to play this in windowed mode?
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Jelly posted:Are you supposed to play this in windowed mode? That's how I've always played it. Try that and see if you have any problems? Also, everyone should play the demo before purchasing Defender's Quest. There's no reason to blindly buy the game based on our reviews, the demo will provide you with hours of playtime to help you decide whether or not it appeals to you.
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Just a minor hiccup, windowed is totally fine! (edit: Played almost 3 hours, mostly telling myself "just one more battle".) (edit2: This game is amazing.) Jelly fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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Nov 22, 2012 06:37
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larsiusprime posted:@H20Melon :
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Custom naming is fun :]
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I thought this game was fun then I hit new game+. This game is now awesome. I like how the characters are all a little wacky but with the journal you actually learn a lot more of the world. I know its a TD game and all but I like reading stuff.
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Velveteen posted:I thought this game was fun then I hit new game+. This game is now awesome. I like how the characters are all a little wacky but with the journal you actually learn a lot more of the world. I know its a TD game and all but I like reading stuff. It's not until Sidequest #6, Wrenna and the Temple, that you get a feel for why everyone seems kind of 'wacky'.  Living in the pit is awful, the creator of the Exile/Avernum series could write a fantastically hopeless story with the writer of this game. I hope more people in this topic reach that battle.It has one of my favorite exchanges in the game, too. Azra: You want to talk? Wrenna: Words solve nothing. Azra: I hope that's not true, otherwise I kind of picked the wrong career. If an expansion ever does come around, it would be nice to see it featuring around Wrenna, either her past or her future. She's one of the more interesting characters by far. Jesto fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Nov 25, 2012 |
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Nov 25, 2012 10:06
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Wrenna would totally rock as a berserker. 
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Picked the game up during the Steam Sale and I'm loving it so far. There's just so much attention to detail everywhere you look that I'd have to write an essay just to point everything out. My favorite thing is how the harder difficulties shake things up, and how the game keeps opening up in New Game+. And the sweet, sweet music! I can't recommend this game enough. If you liked the demo, you'll get more than your money's worth.
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Velveteen posted:I thought this game was fun then I hit new game+. This game is now awesome. I like how the characters are all a little wacky but with the journal you actually learn a lot more of the world. I know its a TD game and all but I like reading stuff. I really think the game made a mistake in only having the journal in new game+.
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This game has the best written EULA I've ever seen. It's actually comprehensible!
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Yeah, we might flip the journal on for the normal game.
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I'm getting toward the end of play+, and my damage output can't keep up with increasing enemy health. This is further exasperated when enemies have phase, and have limited periods of vulnerability. Am I missing something obvious, or do I just need to level?
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm getting toward the end of play+, and my damage output can't keep up with increasing enemy health. This is further exasperated when enemies have phase, and have limited periods of vulnerability. Am I missing something obvious, or do I just need to level? If you've not beat most of the early stages on extreme or advanced, it wouldn't hurt to go back and do them for the XP bonuses.
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I haven't gotten that far into new game+ yet but I'm pretty confident in saying that the answer to your problem is more rangers. The duration of their phase invulnerability doesn't get longer as you get closer to the end does it? bofa salesman fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Nov 27, 2012 |
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm getting toward the end of play+, and my damage output can't keep up with increasing enemy health. This is further exasperated when enemies have phase, and have limited periods of vulnerability. Am I missing something obvious, or do I just need to level? Towards the end Play+ expects that you probably have six of each class at decent levels, with a bunch of characters who all have their own skills. Some Knights with maxed knockback or armor piercing and armor break, some Ice Mages with slowing and freezing, a Berserker or two with maxed Bleed and so on. Evni+ on your most powerful Berserker placed carefully helps, as does a bunch of Dragons with decent Nom. A ton of rangers with enough arrows to shred the enemies is great, too. If a setup isn't working for you, just reset their skillpoints and reallocate them. Also, Slow Start and Slow End are the best books you can use. PSI Shield will help you maintain a Perfect rating if one or two enemies leak, but you should do everything you can to avoid leaking to begin with. Which battle are you having problems with?
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Is it wrong to skill all heroes of the same type uniformly? All berzerkers specced to bleed, rangers to crit + range, etc.
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The title had me excited, but the sub NES graphics leave me somewhat not.
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Pr0phecy posted:Is it wrong to skill all heroes of the same type uniformly?
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Kharmakazy posted:The title had me excited, but the sub NES graphics leave me somewhat not. Sub NES, really?  The pixel work in this game is actually very well done, screenshots alone doesn't quite do it justice. Download the demo on Steam or play the flash demo to see them in action to see if your opinion changes.http://www.defendersquest.com/play_demo.html
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I am really enjoying this. I think they did a great job with all aspects of the game, and giving you a bunch of options for how to tackle each level. also, the extreme challenges can be really really fun. The best part is you can easily just play for 10-15 minutes at a time when you've got a few minutes to burn (i.e. when waiting for your wife to finish getting ready in the morning before going to work).
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Jesto posted:Sub NES, really? The pixel work really isn't good at all, and the drawings look like they were done by a high school art class. I can play minecraft and dwarf fortress, but poorly hand drawn graphics are just a nonstarter for me. I'm not saying it's impossible for you to enjoy it, I just am not able to.
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Jesto posted:It's not until Sidequest #6, Wrenna and the Temple, that you get a feel for why everyone seems kind of 'wacky'. I just got to this part. Yeah life really sucks there. I like Wrenna and all but I do enjoy Ketta and Slak's banter with each other the most. The best part was Slak talking about his abs and rear end then getting interrupted while Ketta says something along the lines of "thank god the revenants are here." I kind of like everyone in the game even the most boring one, Markos, is entertaining.
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Kharmakazy posted:The title had me excited, but the sub NES graphics leave me somewhat not. I get the impression that you've never actually seen an NES game.
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Yeah, if anything the cutscene art is like an adequately drawn webcomic. Every background in the game is pretty drat nice in my opinion.
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I dunno I think the art looks really amateur, at best. The sprites in particular are really boring and look like something out of a budget F2P RPG, especially how the most customization you get is hair and shirt color. I mean I don't really care since the game is fun and the art isn't offensively bad to me, but I certainly wouldn't dream of defending it. "Adequately drawn webcomic" is a good thing now?
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Schwarzwald posted:I get the impression that you've never actually seen an NES game. I mean, I can keep stating my opinion if you want. These graphics are definitely not on par with SNES era rpg sprites. They may be factually more detailed, but of vastly inferior quality. The worst part for me are those large hand drawn portraits that look like they were ripped from the pages of deviantart. I played the demo. This game might warrant freeware play, but I certainly can't see spending actual money on it. But that's just my opinion. You are certainly entitled to your own.
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Countblanc posted:"Adequately drawn webcomic" is a good thing now? Compared to NES art, sure. Your opinion could be that it's lower quality than NES art, but your opinion would be factually wrong.  - NES - SNES (Der Langrisser, a Strategy RPG, if anyone is wondering. Fantastic game.) - Defender's Quest
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It has crappy art, get over it. If those screenshots in the OP turn you off, don't get it. If you don't care about crappy art because you like deep gameplay that injects a fresh sense of fun into the horribly stale tower defense genre, get this game. I played the demo after I saw a review for Defender's Quest on SteamShots; bought it full price that night, after playing the demo for a few hours straight. If you like tower defense games at all, you absolutely have to at least try the demo.
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Jesto posted:Compared to NES art, sure. Your opinion could be that it's lower quality than NES art, but your opinion would be factually wrong. Yeah. Those sprite in the FF1 Screen look better than the battle sprites for this game. They look like someone drew them in mspaint. In fact, I would be surprised to find out that they weren't drawn in mspaint.
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Kharmakazy posted:Yeah. Those sprite in the FF1 Screen look better than the battle sprites for this game. They look like someone drew them in mspaint. In fact, I would be surprised to find out that they weren't drawn in mspaint.  You've gotta be high as a sequoia, dude. I'm not a big fan of the art direction in this game but the in-game sprites are competently made.
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Kharmakazy posted:Yeah. Those sprite in the FF1 Screen look better than the battle sprites for this game. They look like someone drew them in mspaint. In fact, I would be surprised to find out that they weren't drawn in mspaint. The battle sprites in DQ are much higher quality and actually have detail unlike the FF1 sprites. Edit: My avatar was done in MSPaint and I think it looks pretty good. Even MSPaint can make good art if you try.
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Cowman posted:The battle sprites in DQ are much higher quality and actually have detail unlike the FF1 sprites. Yes. Your horrible avatar looks similar in quality to this games graphics. I don't think this is actually going anywhere so, feel free to tell me how wrong I am in absentia.
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Velveteen posted:I just got to this part. Yeah life really sucks there. I like Wrenna and all but I do enjoy Ketta and Slak's banter with each other the most. The best part was Slak talking about his abs and rear end then getting interrupted while Ketta says something along the lines of "thank god the revenants are here." I kind of like everyone in the game even the most boring one, Markos, is entertaining. Defender's Quest - "Charissa? You named your rear end Charissa?" Markos is a lot of fun, aside from the fact that he does a number on those goddamn armor snails in my game. He's such a straight man that he makes even Azra sound crazy by proximity.
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Kharmakazy posted:Yeah. Those sprite in the FF1 Screen look better than the battle sprites for this game. They look like someone drew them in mspaint. In fact, I would be surprised to find out that they weren't drawn in mspaint. You don't have eyes.
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Kharmakazy posted:I don't think this is actually going anywhere so, feel free to tell me how wrong I am in absentia. Gladly. The sprites are functional. They won't win any awards perhaps, but they're hardly an eyesore. This game is a blast, the developers are cool people, I am very happy with the multiple copies of this game I have bought.
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