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Jordan7hm posted:On that note, I should have some more stuff for the OP later tonight or tomorrow. I'd like to knock off the roguelike platformers at least. I did make a post for Occult Chronicles that you can add: Geokinesis posted:Occult Chronicles (Currently in Beta)
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EvilMike posted:You really need to specialize in this game. Skill levels are super important, a 1 point increase makes a big difference. High level skills are very expensive to increase, but it's worth it. It's still worth diverisfying, but you can't spread yourself too thin. Cheers for the reply! To be honest, I only want song of mastery because it sounds cool as hell. I definitely see what you mean about not spreading yourself too thing, despite how tempting it is! I think what worries me is, having seen someone else play and get towards the end game, there is a necessity for stealth beyond a certain point or you rapidly get out of depth. Yet at the same time you need to maintain you primary combat stat, evasion, work towards song of sharpness etc. Perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to what you need when. Which abilities do you recommend? I've been getting charge as a cheap attack boost and sprinting seems almost a necessity.
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Aug 14, 2013 16:42
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Sil is awesome, I just found a shortbow that fires glowing arrows and have a badass battleaxe that deals extra damage to trolls. It feels so First Age.
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Aug 15, 2013 01:08
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Good News Everyone---Prospector seems to have risen from the dead as a multi-person effort as opposed to just pretty well the one awesome guy! http://prospector.freeforums.org/prospector-r132-t372.html A couple new builds in the past little while, newest at the bottom via Magellan getting back into his own game at last. Bay12 artist guy Deon (IIRC) is also then seemingly interested in getting the tileset for it rolling again what with it being alive and all. This was always one of the best games, easily so in the spacey-doings sphere, and I'd previously just hoped in silence that it would come back even slightly for ARRP 2013 in late September---now I can dream big!
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Aug 16, 2013 15:47
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Pladdicus posted:Sil is awesome, I just found a shortbow that fires glowing arrows and have a badass battleaxe that deals extra damage to trolls. It feels so First Age. I really like Sil, I just wish the interface felt like it was designed this century. The inventory management is worse than Nethack's, which is quite a feat.
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Aug 16, 2013 16:02
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I'm enjoying Sil quite a bit. The stripped-down mechanics where every point in a stat means a whole lot are really neat. But they also make the standard roguelike elements even crueller than usual. Get hit by fungus cloud three floors in, lose 2 constitution and thus half your max HP forever until you find a specific potion. Equip cursed axe with a negative modifier to strength, have all your attack rolls completely gimped until you learn a specific skill to break curses. Sigh. Guess I should stay away from fungi and <special> equipment until I get the proper skills.
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k stone posted:I'm enjoying Sil quite a bit. The stripped-down mechanics where every point in a stat means a whole lot are really neat. But they also make the standard roguelike elements even crueller than usual. Get hit by fungus cloud three floors in, lose 2 constitution and thus half your max HP forever until you find a specific potion. Equip cursed axe with a negative modifier to strength, have all your attack rolls completely gimped until you learn a specific skill to break curses. Sigh. Guess I should stay away from fungi and <special> equipment until I get the proper skills. They also give you ways to avoid all of that stuff, though. A couple points of Will makes violet fungus way less likely to drain you, along with tons of other enemies that show up deeper. Keen senses (perception ability) lets you see fungus before you step next to it. There are also ways to increase your light radius, including with smithing. And if you can cope with the stat loss, stat potions (and herbs of restoration) are something you're definitely going to find, especially once you hit the mid-depths. For cursed items, there are a couple which suck, but staffs of sanctity (remove curse) are one of the most common types. Lore keeper (which leads to lore master) will identify all curses, and can be taken early. Curse breaking is really just an emergency ability that you should only take if you have a cripplingly bad cursed item that you can't remove any other way... which is pretty rare. Special weapons with slaying brands will glow, and you can see this in the inventory window. So you can pseudo-id these ones safely, at least. Everything here is possible in the early game, so you don't really need to hold out that much, if you want to play it safe.
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Aug 16, 2013 18:01
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Is there a Sil wiki or any sort of source of information for it? I can't seem to find one and despite having lore-master I still don't know what a lot of my inventory does (What does a staff of sanctity actually do?!).
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Aug 18, 2013 12:20
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I don't know if the staves fully describe their effects, but items can be examined once itentified (shortcut key is 'x' when using roguelike keys)
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Aug 18, 2013 12:27
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...damnit. I knew that. I tried it for an amulet of adornment and the description wasn't helpful so I forgot about x when I was trying to work out that staff. Character got wrecked by a giant anyway but good to know for next time.
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Aug 18, 2013 12:48
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Considering my love for Tolkien lore I might just have to grit my teeth and try Sil. That sounds insanely immersive.
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Aug 18, 2013 15:34
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The Rougelike Megathread: This ASCII is insanely immersive.
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Good News Everyone---Prospector seems to have risen from the dead as a multi-person effort as opposed to just pretty well the one awesome guy! That's cool. I'm really bored with generic fantasy settings, so another active sci fi game is welcome. I remember playing this a few years back and finding the core concepts fun, but the implementation kinda wonky and unbalanced. Hopefully with multiple people working on it they can polish up the gameplay and get that Elite feel that it's going for.
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Oski posted:...damnit. I knew that. I tried it for an amulet of adornment and the description wasn't helpful so I forgot about x when I was trying to work out that staff. Amulets of Adornment are 100% useless (adorning is a fancy reference to jewelery). They're slightly less harmful traps than, say, Amulets of Inaccuracy (as seen in Crawl) and Amulets of Strangulation (sometimes seen in *bands I think), but they exist purely to frustrate.
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Aug 18, 2013 19:47
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At least in Sil they're worth identifying for the 100 xp! If you take jewelcrafting and have nothing else to make at a forge for some reason, that's a way to get some free xp.
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Famethrowa posted:Considering my love for Tolkien lore I might just have to grit my teeth and try Sil. That sounds insanely immersive. I've been giving it a go for the last week or so, I'd really recommend it. I don't usually get along with the *bands, but this game doesn't seem even slightly grindy and has a really interesting take on the core roguelike mechanics (combat is actually interesting and tactical). It still has a few issues, but then what game doesn't? E: does anyone know of a sil public server? That'd be great. ..btt fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 18, 2013 |
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Pixel Dungeon got probably its biggest update since adding classes today:quote:Pixel Dungeon 0.5 released! This update introduces new levels of the Demon Halls, new items, monsters and the final boss. Also now you can actually win the game by obtaining the Amulet of Yendor. Here is the list of changes from Google Play: This is still only listed as version 0.5 so I imagine he has lots of stuff still planned. 
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Amulets of Adornment are 100% useless (adorning is a fancy reference to jewelery). They're slightly less harmful traps than, say, Amulets of Inaccuracy (as seen in Crawl) and Amulets of Strangulation (sometimes seen in *bands I think), but they exist purely to frustrate. I know what adornment means but thank you for confirming that it was useless  I know that sometimes adornment things affect charisma so I wasn't sure it it affected maybe grace or something.At least I looked fancy as I was smashed into paste on the floor!
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Aug 19, 2013 01:21
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It's vital to leave a good looking corpse.
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Pixel Dungeon posted:Changed: King of dwarves is now immune to paralysis Oh what  How am I supposed to beat him now?That aside, this game is great and just keeps getting better.
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DalaranJ posted:The Rougelike Megathread: This ASCII is insanely immersive. Or flavorful, or lore friendly, whichever you prefer 
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The Roguelike Megathread: Now with 16x FSAA fonts. EDIT: Anyone tried Full Mojo Rampage? It is supposed to be a roguelikelike(likelike) ala Binding of Isaac. I don't think I want to just dive in as I'm kind of sick of the (boring) recent entries into the subcategory, but if it's good I'll check it out. Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Aug 19, 2013 |
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Aug 19, 2013 16:11
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A guy I know picked it up yesterday, said there was no content yet.
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tentacles posted:That aside, this game is great and just keeps getting better. Does it? I got to Floor 3 once as the Warrior and haven't gotten back there since, though I've only tried it a half-dozen times. How do you know when it's appropriate to search a given wall? That mechanic seems really tedious.
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C-Euro posted:Does it? I got to Floor 3 once as the Warrior and haven't gotten back there since, though I've only tried it a half-dozen times. Dungeon floors are always square and are more or less mostly filled out. You get very quickly used to knowing where secret doors "should" be. Searching also has a 100% chance of succeeding (and you also have a passive chance to notice if you just walk by, I think Rogues may have a higher chance than others). It's not tedious at all once you get used to it. Like most roguelikes, there's a lot of trial and error and learning how to make use of knowledge from past games. This applies especially to ID'ing potions and scrolls: - If there is a "piranha room", there will always be a Pot of Invisibility on the floor. - If there is a boarded up door, there will always be a Pot of Flame to get through it. - The most common potion is Healing, and Swarms of Flies drop them. - The most common scroll is usually Identify. It's generally safe to start reading all your scrolls once you have something to identify and something worth Enchanting (tier 2 weapon or Scale or better armor) - It's generally safe to test any wand you get on a monster you feel like you can kill (if it turns out to be a Wand of Blinking, which teleports you to the monster) because all wands slowly recharge. Etc...
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precision posted:Dungeon floors are always square and are more or less mostly filled out. You get very quickly used to knowing where secret doors "should" be. Searching also has a 100% chance of succeeding (and you also have a passive chance to notice if you just walk by, I think Rogues may have a higher chance than others). It's not tedious at all once you get used to it. Is there a map function or any way to see how a floor is laid out as you explore it?
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C-Euro posted:Is there a map function or any way to see how a floor is laid out as you explore it? Just drag and scroll around, or pinch and zoom out? e: This also removes a lot of tedium as you can click anywhere in the dungeon and your dude will take the quickest route to that space, stopping if an enemy appears.
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precision posted:Just drag and scroll around, or pinch and zoom out?  I had no idea that was possible, this game just got ten times better. Thank you!
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Pixel Dungeon is really good goddamn, this is by far the best roguelike I've played on a mobile device.
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Would you say Pixel Dungeon is more of an iPad game, or would it work fine on a phone?
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ProfessorProf posted:Would you say Pixel Dungeon is more of an iPad game, or would it work fine on a phone? It works fine on a phone in portrait or landscape mode. I played it for months before I switched to an iPhone and it's the game I miss most.
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ProfessorProf posted:Would you say Pixel Dungeon is more of an iPad game, or would it work fine on a phone? Before the most recent update it actually worked better on phones because the icons didn't scale up to your UI.
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Any recommendations for web-browser based roguelikes I can play at work.. Aside from Dungeon Crawl, I am sick of (failing at) Dungeon Crawl. I'm not really interested in telnetting in to like, ADOM or Nethack either, played those all to death too. 100 HOGS AGREE fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 17:49
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http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ Fairly short though.
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Nephilm posted:http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ And not really a roguelike, to be honest. A good game nonetheless.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Any recommendations for web-browser based roguelikes. You'll have to fork over :tenbux: but Desktop Dungeons is incredibly fun right now and maybe one day they'll actually release the standalone client so I can play on my laptop when I'm not sitting in the middle of a hotspot. 
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Nephilm posted:http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Played it already, Candy Box was better. Having finally finished it, I have to agree. It was even a better ending!
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Occult Chronicles is properly released now! Also there is a demo version you can download from the site so you can see what it's like.
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Is there any interest in having a Rogue Legacy thread? We don't seem to have and I wouldn't want to talk about it here because it's very clearly not a roguelike at all (Please don't argue that it is because then the term will have totally lost all meaning).
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