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Does anyone play Sil? That quickly became my favorite roguelike a few months ago.
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Aug 6, 2013 06:52
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Lawman 0 posted:Whats the goto character type for getting your first sil win? Smithing + enchantment is the easiest way to consistently get to 500 feet, but it kinda runs out of steam. I think the easiest way to actually win is as a stealth based archer. silstreamer on Youtube has put together a (slightly dated but still relevant) serious of videos that will really show you how to play.
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Aug 7, 2013 01:30
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MeramJert posted:Smithing + enchantment is the easiest way to consistently get to 500 feet, but it kinda runs out of steam. I think the easiest way to actually win is as a stealth based archer. Expanding on this a bit, in the Middle Earth canon the only time anyone ever infiltrated Angband and stole a silmaril from Morgoth they did it with stealth. They didn't just power through Angband killing everything, and Sil sort of keeps that in mind by making stealth generally the most powerful thing in the game. And remember, in Sil you get just as much experience for exploration and discovery as you do from killing things. So you can be pretty successful and get pretty far in the game with very little combat skill. I've never had much luck with a pure melee fighter after about 600 or 700 feet.
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Aug 7, 2013 03:58
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Pham Nuwen posted:Yeah, the story of Beren and Luthien makes me think I should be dumping points into stealth and songs. It's been pretty fun watching orc patrols march right past me as I stealth along a wall. I actually can't imagine being able to just walk into the throne room and straight up kill everything. It's probably possible, but there's just so many powerful enemies crammed into a small room that it seems like a generally bad plan.
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Aug 7, 2013 05:53
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Sil is the best. I have a lot of fun even watching other people play
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Aug 14, 2013 06:00
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Song of sharpness is also really good for actually winning the game. You need a sharp blade to actually cut the silmaril out of the crown, so a lot of people just get song of sharpness for a guaranteed sharp blade. And like EvilMike said, it's also really helpful for combat.
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Aug 14, 2013 09:40
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uPen posted:Anyone played Delver? It's billing itself as an 'action roguelike dungeon crawl' but it just looks like minecraft with permadeath. I got the android version for free on the Amazon App of the Day. It seems ok, but the controls are so bad that I can't really get into it.
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Sep 7, 2013 08:55
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Potsticker posted:I really like it, but it's still in a state of being unfinished. While it's a lot better than when I first got it a while back, there's still not that much to do. The controls I feel are perfect, at least for my phone (Incredible 2) and while it'll take some more updates before it's truly compelling, it's an overall average experience. Huh, I have the same phone as you and I think the controls are literally the worst I've ever seen in an Android game.
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Sep 7, 2013 19:01
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voltron lion force posted:Are Sil tiles gonna be a thing anytime soon? Just started messing around with it and it seems really cool but the ascii graphics kinda burn me out. I don't think tiles are planned at all for Sil. You should probably just keep getting used to ascii. A lot of good roguelikes only have ascii.
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Sep 8, 2013 10:17
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voltron lion force posted:Oh Yeah I guess they are planning it long term, I didn't even notice that option!
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Sep 9, 2013 07:53
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Zombie Samurai posted:I've had 4 shields and maxed evasion and lost to the flagship more than once because a drone in the phase 2 power surge obliterated the wrong room. Even planning for the final fight doesn't guarantee victory unless you're picking up the specific counters to its many attacks. Sorry, but you're bad at the game. 
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Apr 11, 2014 04:55
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So is this actually a real game implemented in excel?
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Apr 29, 2014 03:26
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Ugh, I just had the most stupid death in the royal flush of all Pixel Dungeon runs. I decided to try a Battlemage playthrough, and lucked into a Wand of Firebolt + 1 on the 2nd floor of the dungeon, followed by a +2 mail of metabolism on the 3rd floor. By level 15 I had 16 strength, a plate mail + 2, a wand of firebolt + 8, plus a full complement of utility potions, scrolls, and seeds, and a couple nice utility wands. On level 17 I misclicked a firebolt and targeted myself, standing in a field of grass with already low hp. I clicked to move instead of opening my pack to down a healing potion and died immediately, respawned because I had an ankh, and then got promptly chased down a grassy corridor that ended in a locked door by a fire elemental, who was pretty much immune to me now that I literally only had a wand of firebolt and some armor and no other items.
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May 16, 2014 14:54
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Wow, in Pixel Dungeon I just picked up two Rings of Haste -2 on the first two floors and the river crabs were getting 5 turns for every 1 of mine. That's impressively bad luck.
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Jun 12, 2014 10:07
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Are there any good iOS rogue likes these days e: other than pixel dungeon, I’ve already played that a lot fart simpson fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Dec 28, 2018 07:02
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andrew smash posted:Just from what I currently have installed, in order of quality: I have played the heck out of hoplite and have NecroDancer on my phone already. I’m gonna check out the others
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Dec 28, 2018 09:28
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Jazerus posted:except for adom, by some twisted technicality i just started playing adom this week. it’s an adventure game with some roguelike features bolted on imho
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Feb 7, 2021 17:11
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pumpinglemma posted:There are no best three, because it all comes down to what you like in a game. Do you like loot pinata ARPGs? Then ToME. Do you like feeling horribly outclassed as you creep through a hostile dungeon, adapting to circumstances, avoiding the fights you can't win and picking the ones you can? Then Cogmind or Sil. Do you like the occasional "oh poo poo" moment but generally feeling like you're in control and things are going well? Then Dungeon Crawl, Tangledeep or Dungeonmans. Do you like HATING YOUR EVIL TWINS TO DEATH WITH YOUR TERRIFYING MIND LASERS and the "dev team thinks of everything" design philosophy? Then Nethack or Caves of Qud. sil owns but i will never be able to beat it
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Feb 14, 2021 13:02
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Black August posted:Duelists. Try out a ratling one, or a tougher race like dwarf or drakeling. They're a little hard to get rolling but once you do, they just slaughter everything in their way, and wands pick up the slack. ive only been playing it for a week but by far my best run was a hurthling archer. i crowned early and got whirlwind and i felt insanely strong. 2 shot the mummy king guy, i was one shotting liches and vampires in the coc graveyard, easily handling frost giant jarls etc. died at level 17 because i got overconfident and challenged a named shadow wyrm over an artifact in the dwarven halls, and he confused me and then walked up and aged me like 8 times and i died of old age
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Feb 17, 2021 13:22
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i just got doomed for the first time in adom and well, it sucks and isnt v fun if you don't understand the mechanics like i didn't. i got doomed i think at level 3 and survived to lvl 15 but it was like walking through molasses the entire time
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Feb 19, 2021 08:44
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im starting to see some real annoying stuff in adom. when i got doomed i ended up facing literally 8 gigantic packs of stronger than normal jackals just on my walk from the caverns of chaos back to the starting village. each pack took me like 20 minutes irl to kill
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Feb 19, 2021 15:51
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note to anyone else new to adom: if you want to kill hotzenplotz do not let him get into melee range unless you know what you’re doing. i just killed him easily with a level 12 dwarf duelist with 21 toughness and the residual poisoning did my whole hp 3 times over (prayed for healing twice) and i still died
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Feb 20, 2021 16:35
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Awesome! posted:every time i hear people talk about adom i think it sounds like a really bad, unfun game. i also kind of want to try it just to see for myself thats what i did and i see the charm
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Feb 20, 2021 19:02
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Kobold Sex Tape posted:lol owned. artifact guardians are really beefy for their level and dwarven halls is DL 45 i believe so yeah, ouch. fun fact: whirlwind isn't even one of the 4 out of 6 Win The Game archer crowning artifacts I mentioned. it's just merely really good. greater heights of Power await you. im trying an archer again and boy you werent kidding. got thunderstroke this time and it's hilariously easy so far with this massive range and damage
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Feb 23, 2021 16:31
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so uh, in adom i just went to the water dragon cave for the first time ever. i underestimated some of the monsters in there for sure. ran up against a greater water elemental blocking the exit of a hallway and a great dragon turtle blocking the other end of the hallway. the water elemental breathed at me for 97 damage in a single hit, like half my hp. i hit him in melee and it only got him down to 85% hp, so i wasted a turn loading some construct slaying ammo into my crossbow. on the same turn i was loading the ammo, it said he attacked me again and i blocked him, and he instantly died and i escaped the cave. what the heck happened, i can't figure it out. by all rights i should have died in that cave
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Feb 26, 2021 06:00
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yes the giant dragon turtle hit me for like 150 damage in one turn and i had water breathing. i only got away by using a darkness crystal and invis potion to shake him off
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Feb 26, 2021 07:36
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darkforge?
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Feb 26, 2021 09:36
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Jedit posted:The only things you ever bring to the WDC are two charges of controlled teleport and the sense to turn off Auto Pickup. 36 spaces left of the stairs, you're welcome. i did this. second step which i forgot for a while is to bless the tome of donors asap.
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Feb 26, 2021 11:57
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just cleared my first ever greater vault in adom. it was filled with undead and took me like 2 hours irl because the liches kept summoning more guys
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Mar 2, 2021 03:30
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Kobold Sex Tape posted:now that you've done it once you can say you've done it and never ever bother again cuz yeah, that's about right. the worst is when your runed trident fails to return and then a bunch of poo poo gets summoned and you can't get it back easily. augh. i had to just completely give up on a GUV and go win instead when that happened. i temporarily lost thunderstroke AND runed trident because they didn’t return and i had to break out the undead slaying quarrels and teleportation to launch a surgical strike to get them back
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Mar 2, 2021 05:42
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Kobold Sex Tape posted:tome2 is badass and i absolutely never want to play it seriously. for as hosed up as te4 can be holy moly tome2 has some poo poo that makes playing it sound awful. but maaan thaumaturgy is so sick. i load up te2 every once in a while to gently caress around with the RNG spells. hey op do you think my char can survive tower of eternal flames? i haven’t been there ever before and i don’t want to lose my best char yet to some bs im not anticipating  
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Mar 3, 2021 03:49
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oh also i got three artifacts out of that greater vault. a cloak, a helmet, and robe of the master monk. still not worth it imho
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Mar 3, 2021 03:55
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ok i think i have four fire resists, two fireproof blankets but i know where there’s another one i didn’t pick up (why 3?), a blessed ring of ice under my elemental gauntlets, and some demon slaying quarrels as well as runed trident and also just with thunderstroke im +100 to hit, 20d4+64 damage which so far has melted everything in my path. i also have several potions of ultra and extra healing as well as enough piety for probably multiple full heal prayers if needed, and the water orb if im truly boned and an amulet of life saving so do i just go pick up that third fireproof blanket and go to town?
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Mar 3, 2021 04:07
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yeah im a dark elf archer
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Mar 3, 2021 04:08
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yeah maybe you could with this char but im assuming im gonna mess something up so im playing v cautiously
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Mar 3, 2021 04:11
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Jedit posted:just stuff your backpack with junk. way ahead of u
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Mar 3, 2021 10:49
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tower of eternal flames trip report: easy. i two shot acw with thunderstroke and didn’t explore the dungeon at all. only hiccup was that i forgot to actually equip my ring of ice until my boots and bracers burned up, lol!
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Mar 3, 2021 13:46
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i forgot to equip my ring of ice and two inventory slots burned up before i took 5 steps
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Mar 4, 2021 08:55
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ThermosAquaticus posted:Sounds like my best option is to hunt down map fragments and hope I find the blanket/ring along the way then. If I don't I get an artefact pickaxe. btw i just got all the map fragments today. the random drop from a monster one will probably drop soon after finding all the others, so you probably want to autopickup scrolls once that’s the last piece you need
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Mar 4, 2021 13:14
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jesus christ adom just crashed on me and i haven’t manually saved in forever, just always have it running in the background. it took me back to like a week ago in this save and undid my frost giant caves, greater vault, tower of eternal flames, tomb of the high kings, antediluvian dwarven map, and minotaur maze completions, as well as a bunch of smithing. lolll
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Mar 6, 2021 12:50
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