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Are bears now the only enemy in the game that will flee naturally? What have you got against bears that you must paint them so as cowardly?
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Oh man, I just suddenly remembered an ancient version of Crawl where most enemies fled when on low health. That made playing ^1 characters such a pain in the rear end, you had to corner them so they'd turn around and fight you.
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Oct 11, 2014 16:51
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Haha the Shatter Icon is broken xD Awesome lil touch.
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Oct 11, 2014 17:02
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Brannock posted:Oh man, I just suddenly remembered an ancient version of Crawl where most enemies fled when on low health. That made playing ^1 characters such a pain in the rear end, you had to corner them so they'd turn around and fight you. yep! it was terrible! scalded schlong posted:Are bears now the only enemy in the game that will flee naturally? believe so, yeah. iirc, they got their "berserk when fleeing" mechanic shortly before everything else lost the "fleeing" mechanic; it was originally intended to paint them as more aggressive than most enemies... but then they kept the mechanic (since it was kind of unique & distinctive), so now they do end up looking kind of cowardly! poor bears! (pro tip: use ?fear on bears for Exciting Times.)
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Oct 11, 2014 17:20
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Realistically, wild animals will flee when injured. Gameplay-wise, everything should fight to the death. I like the bears though. Mixes it up. I've had them pull me into something more dangerous and then turn around all roided out to fight with their new buddy.
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Oct 11, 2014 17:43
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Got my first Demigod win, as well as my first Transmuter win!code:As for new content, I really love Demigods being able to assign their stats now; it meant I was able to shaft Int for early Dex, then strength for extra punching power in Statue Form. It seems that the innate sustain abilities wasn't working for me, though, so I had to use a ring for it for Tomb. I never really swapped off my amulet of Vitality after I updated the game and converted it from a ring, but that's mainly because I found the hat of the Bear Spirit, which covered the only other amulet I wanted to wear. For the Tomb changes, bennu are interesting, but they seem designed to target lichform casters rather than melee beasts, so I didn't have any trouble with it. Also, the change to greater mummies summoning emperor scorpions wasn't really noticeable with stairdancing, so they only came into play on the Tomb:1 hallway (in which I still punched my way through them pretty easily). Finally, I didn't get to mess around with Hydra Form because Transfigurations/Fen Folio just wouldn't spawn. The only reason I ended up getting Statue Form, in fact, was punching Roxanne to death. A bit disappointing, but them's the breaks. Floodkiller fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 18:14
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Was that amulet of vitality my idea, PF?and is it just a regular drop, like warding?
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Oct 11, 2014 18:30
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BigFactory posted:Was that amulet of vitality my idea, PF?and is it just a regular drop, like warding? It's just the unrand, ring of vitality.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:36
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apple posted:It's just the unrand, ring of vitality. So the unrand ring of vitality is just an unrand amulet now? I assumed he had a ring of regen to start with.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:40
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Arghhhhh loving early manticores !!!!
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Oct 11, 2014 18:45
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Floodkiller posted:It seems that the innate sustain abilities wasn't working for me, though, so I had to use a ring for it for Tomb. Ah, yeah; I didn't add save compat for that change, so demigods started before that commit don't get innate sustain abilities. (It'll show up on the A screen if you have it.) Sorry about that! BigFactory posted:So the unrand ring of vitality is just an unrand amulet now? Yes. BigFactory posted:I assumed he had a ring of regen to start with. I don't know what this means.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:58
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PleasingFungus posted:Ah, yeah; I didn't add save compat for that change, so demigods started before that commit don't get innate sustain abilities. (It'll show up on the A screen if you have it.) Sorry about that! He said his ring converted to an amulet after an upgrade. I assumed he had a pre-regen change save, and that the base regen amulet is now vitality, which would have been neat. This is not as neat.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:16
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BigFactory posted:He said his ring converted to an amulet after an upgrade. I assumed he had a pre-regen change save, and that the base regen amulet is now vitality, which would have been neat. This is not as neat. Oh, I see. Sorry!
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Oct 11, 2014 19:17
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PleasingFungus posted:Oh, I see. Sorry! Make the amulet of vitality a regular drop, not a fixedart! It was a great ring, but it's only a so-so amulet. And it solves your tedium problem. EDIT: Jivya temple is amazing, whoever put that in! BigFactory fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 19:24
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I want to go on record saying I really like how all the unique enemies have titles.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:50
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Here PF, I saved this for you. Here is what entering Vault 5 looks like to an OctoHydra: In other news, I can't play in Chrome anymore because after a few moves it puts this black box on the lower left corner. Shortly after tiles start duplicating all over the place.  I can't inspect it because that whole block is just a tiles map. Any ideas? I don't have hardly any addons loaded in Chrome and it's always worked perfectly.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:53
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Well, after many years of Crawling, finally have my first 15 rune win:code:Statue Form is super great and I really had very few danger spots past the midgame. The exceptions were a.) going down a pan staircase face-to-face with Cerebov without any buffs or forms on and b.) a bit of a rough spot in Tomb (which luckily a lot of people helped me with). I still do feel like high AC characters have it so much easier than EV characters (well really I was both here but y'know) - I can't imagine doing that as someone wearing a robe or leather.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:11
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Araganzar posted:
I have no idea what's happening. I have an unmodified Chrome too and I didn't have a problem with it yesterday; I only had time for a bit of playtime today but it wasn't doing it then, either. Is it just trunk or everything, and which server do you play on?
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Oct 11, 2014 20:28
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The Singing Sword seems to have a thick russian accent. e: which makes this terrifying quote:
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Prism posted:I have no idea what's happening. I have an unmodified Chrome too and I didn't have a problem with it yesterday; I only had time for a bit of playtime today but it wasn't doing it then, either. Is it just trunk or everything, and which server do you play on? Someone in chat said they were having a similar issue. They said to uninstall and re-install Chrome and you won't lose any settings. So I did that and it worked. edit: Spoke too soon. Here is what it looks like now. Hardly an improvement. This is CSZO Trunk. Also doing it on 0.15 and on CBRO. Deleted all extensions and cleared all cookies and history.  I have been thinking about writing special code for the Singing Sword if a spectral Singing Sword is on screen. That's pretty easy to read from the monster list and you could have flavor texts like the two swords singing a duet or having a Devil Goes Down to Georgia battle. Maybe the spectral sword would have a spooky voice or sing gloomy songs. Could even increase the sonic effects which frankly are underwhelming. Araganzar fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 22:39
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Singing Sword duets and musical duels sound amazing. The Singing Sword should also get really huffy and offended if you get mesmerized by a siren or whatever. Don't listen to that... that hack! You call that shriek an alto? My scabbard has a better singing voice!!
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Oct 11, 2014 22:43
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So I'm hopping on the transmuter train to try out hydra form, and I was wondering - is Int 100% of the time the best stat for anyone with spellcasting, like before? Not sure what to raise on my OcTm
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Wolpertinger posted:So I'm hopping on the transmuter train to try out hydra form, and I was wondering - is Int 100% of the time the best stat for anyone with spellcasting, like before? Not sure what to raise on my OcTm If hydraform is your goal, I'd stick to dex. It's single school and spell power just affects duration. Dex will help a lot more. OcTms are particularly sucky.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:20
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How do you open someone like a pillowcase? Don't pillowcases slide off and stuff.
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Oct 12, 2014 00:21
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amuayse posted:How do you open someone like a pillowcase? It's implying cutting the pillowcase open with a knife, not sliding it off.
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Oct 12, 2014 00:27
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Wolpertinger posted:It's implying cutting the pillowcase open with a knife, not sliding it off. Who opens up a pillowcase with a knife, instead of sliding it off?
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Oct 12, 2014 00:34
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Arrhythmia posted:Who opens up a pillowcase with a knife, instead of sliding it off? Angry people with a sword, apparently.
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FR: when you wake up from an enemy's sleep spell (e.g. Aizul), if you are still berserking at the time please log the message "You open your eyes like a pillowcase!".
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Oct 12, 2014 00:43
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"You open the box of beasts like a pillowcase!"
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Oct 12, 2014 00:48
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"Zipper" should be in randart names for daggers.
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Oct 12, 2014 01:01
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resistentialism posted:"Zipper" should be in randart names for daggers. "Laundry day"
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I was going through a bunch of old Crawl things I had on my computer and tripped over this ancient screenshot which is also one of my most favorite: I think it was one of the first times I ran into Nikola and I decided I could sneak up on him and stab him. This ended poorly.
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Oct 12, 2014 01:33
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BigFactory posted:"Laundry day" You gently fold and put the enemy away like a pillowcase...!!!!
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Oct 12, 2014 02:14
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quote:The minotaur wields the +9 dagger of Chilly Death {freeze, rPois rF- rC++ MR+}.  cheetah7071 posted:"You open the box of beasts like a pillowcase!" Can Of Worms fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 02:25
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Can Of Worms posted:You motherfucker man that really sucks, chilly death is awesome.
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BigFactory posted:If hydraform is your goal, I'd stick to dex. It's single school and spell power just affects duration. Dex will help a lot more. OcTms are particularly sucky. Wait, is it no longer the case that you pump str on transmuters because unarmed has insane scaling?
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nrook posted:Wait, is it no longer the case that you pump str on transmuters because unarmed has insane scaling?
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Got troll leather armor on an ogre berserker early and had the time of my life up to having to pick up my first rune. My fuckoff +7 antimagic giant spiked club was fantastic and could just about twoshot anything and everything, but that doesn't matter at all when you lose two thirds of your 200 hp the moment something looks at you. I should have gone with the large shield I found early but twohanding a huge weapon sounded too amazing to pass up on. I have learned a lesson on ignoring defensive skills. How would you guys level up a stabby type character? Pump stealth first then worry about weapons? I did okay with a demonspawn once but by the time I was picking up rune 3 even something like 20 stealth meant I at best got one or two turns before things woke up around me, and once they got to me all those levels in stealth meant nothing :saddown:
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Maxmaps posted:Got troll leather armor on an ogre berserker early and had the time of my life up to having to pick up my first rune. My fuckoff +7 antimagic giant spiked club was fantastic and could just about twoshot anything and everything, but that doesn't matter at all when you lose two thirds of your 200 hp the moment something looks at you. I should have gone with the large shield I found early but twohanding a huge weapon sounded too amazing to pass up on. I have learned a lesson on ignoring defensive skills. being stealthy lets you get in a free kill or two a lot of times, but if you want a dedicated stabber, you need to incapacitate your foes. Blinding, stunning, nets, wands of confusion or paralyzing, etc. A lot of things open monsters up to stabbing besides getting the drop on them. High stealth is fantastic for encounter management, but you can't really be Solid Snake in this game. E: I'd worry about weapons and defenses first. You could always leave stealth on as a slow trickle so you don't ignore it while levelling other things. Dithmenos will get you all of the stealth, if you want to go that route. That's how I got as far as I did with my FeFi. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:being stealthy lets you get in a free kill or two a lot of times, but if you want a dedicated stabber, you need to incapacitate your foes. Blinding, stunning, nets, wands of confusion or paralyzing, etc. A lot of things open monsters up to stabbing besides getting the drop on them. High stealth is fantastic for encounter management, but you can't really be Solid Snake in this game. Sure you can, EE of ashenzari.
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