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I think medusas might be one of the most poorly designed enemies I've ever seen in a game. Am I gonna have to wall off every marble cave like its a loving quarantine zone?
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Jul 7, 2015 02:00
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Internet Kraken posted:I think medusas might be one of the most poorly designed enemies I've ever seen in a game. Am I gonna have to wall off every marble cave like its a loving quarantine zone? Make them Authentic marble zones. Fill it with LAVA.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:12
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Man I am not enjoying the Martian invasion event. The little guys are fine but I can't kill the saucers, and I can't end the event because once the saucers are up, the little guys don't really spawn anymore so it's just sitting above my house pounding away, and if I die the damaged one flies away and a fresh one takes its place.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:18
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Here is my crazy mess of a base. Like Tamayachi said, I only have a vague idea of what's in most of them. Important crafting materials are in the water chest next to the forge; the rest are just a hodgepodge of everything. And I have a hallow encroachment on the right side that I badly need to push back. I do have a teleporter network at least; one switch to the dungeon, one to the jungle and one to my favorite fishing spot. Medium world. Also, why isn't my chlorophyte farm working? That's been like that for the past .. 30 hours or so. Ended up farming the jungle for the chlorophyte bullets I needed to kill Moon lord reliably. Let me say, Vortex beater with shroomite armor and chlorophyte bullets tears him apart. UFO mount required for maximum fun. Edit: Geomancing posted:Man I am not enjoying the Martian invasion event. The little guys are fine but I can't kill the saucers, and I can't end the event because once the saucers are up, the little guys don't really spawn anymore so it's just sitting above my house pounding away, and if I die the damaged one flies away and a fresh one takes its place. Do you have a good yo-yo? Farm the hardmode dungeon to get one if you don't. I kill the UFO boss while sitting on the second rung from the top of my mushroom farm. Takes a while but is totally painless. Here's my dungeon farm:  I assume you have Plantera's grenade launcher? Just make a big open area like that, buy rocket III's from the cyborg and launch them nonstop. Use a yo-yo or similar for the skulls and stuff. You can easily make a profit on ammo and you get all kinds of great loot. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 02:22
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Nuebot posted:Which ammo have infinite versions now? Musket balls and wooden arrows. 4 stacks of 999 each, crafted at the crystal ball the wizard sells you.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:31
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If you've opened up the Jungle Temple just farm the solar eclipse tablets and fight Mothron in a boss arena, he drops the Eye of Cthulu yoyos pretty often
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Jul 7, 2015 02:32
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Boogalo posted:Are they 1.1 worlds? To fix it, you have to load them with 1.2 somehow. I acquired the GOG version of 1.2, loaded the worlds, quit, then they loaded ok in 1.3. What's your SteamID?
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Jul 7, 2015 02:51
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Internet Kraken posted:I think medusas might be one of the most poorly designed enemies I've ever seen in a game. Am I gonna have to wall off every marble cave like its a loving quarantine zone? Marble caves seem common enough that likely as not wherever you try to build a hellevator you're going to run through (or at least near) one. Which means like a third of the time at least when you try to use it you are going to die. Oh and fun fact, walling it off doesn't help. Medusa gives no shits whether she actually has line of sight to you. If she's on your screen she can stone you and if you're in midair you're dead. If you're not, you might be dead anyway depending what else is going on around you. I have to agree that "if this enemy appears on your screen you instantly die and there is nothing you can do about it short of investing hours in convoluted countermeasures" is a pretty bad design decision. Can't win 'em all, I guess. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 02:53
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Tanith posted:Musket balls and wooden arrows. 4 stacks of 999 each, crafted at the crystal ball the wizard sells you. Sounds like a massive waste of money. Better off spending pocket change on party bullets.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:56
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dis astranagant posted:Sounds like a massive waste of money. Better off spending pocket change on party bullets. He wanted an ammo independent option.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:59
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I wish I pulled this Snowball Cannon outta my loot pile and tried it earlier, it's awesome. Makes me feel like I'm playing that lovely old South Park FPS. Here's my little cabin/lodge type thing I've been messing with. All the NPCs live in a shitbox apartment farther away that I plan to turn into a village eventually. 
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Jul 7, 2015 03:00
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Mzbundifund posted:My favorite part is how the Party Girl decided to move into the exterior Cask Of Amontillado room in the basement. This reminds me. In one of my old worlds around the time of 1.2 I was building a dungeon when I got the message that the Party Girl had arrived. I kept working on it and apparently she decided to go down the hallway of skeleton banners and armor statues, down all the stairs, to come check it out.  She's weird.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:04
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Eric the Mauve posted:Marble caves seem common enough that likely as not wherever you try to build a hellevator you're going to run through (or at least near) one. Which means like a third of the time at least when you try to use it you are going to die. They don't even have to be on your screen, is the worst part. I've been killed in an ice biome because a medusa from a tiny, tiny square of a marble biome was hosed off somewhere I couldn't even see and turned me to stone, causing me to fall through some ice into the water and drown. I love playing the "find the medusa" game before you get killed through stone. Freezing is a lovely status effect too. I don't know why they love completely cutting off your mobility in games where you're entirely dependent on it for your survival.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:06
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dis astranagant posted:Sounds like a massive waste of money. Better off spending pocket change on party bullets. I start routinely going through stacks of musket balls once I get my first gun from the corruption or crimson. It's probably something about the bang noise. Once I hit hard mode I start going through stacks of the hard mode ammo, too. And I'm not talking stacks eventually; I mean I'm shooting multiple stacks of ammo on every outing. At that point having an infinite bag of bullets for "just in case" barely registers on the ammo expense report.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:07
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Eric the Mauve posted:Marble caves seem common enough that likely as not wherever you try to build a hellevator you're going to run through (or at least near) one. Which means like a third of the time at least when you try to use it you are going to die. can't you just wear wings, removing all fall damage I mean, I don't, cuz I got a loving spaceship and all. But couldn't you?
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Jul 7, 2015 03:07
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Excelzior posted:can't you just wear wings, removing all fall damage Doesn't work, you still take fall damage if you're petrified. Jungle/Marble biomes are the worst thing.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:10
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Excelzior posted:can't you just wear wings, removing all fall damage Hahaha! Nope! Medusa's stone attack disables wings or grapples, disables all fall damage reduction, and dramatically increases your fall damage. If you fall more than like 15 blocks, 400 HP is not enough to save you. gently caress you, player! 
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Jul 7, 2015 03:12
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TheBlandName posted:I start routinely going through stacks of musket balls once I get my first gun from the corruption or crimson. It's probably something about the bang noise. Once I hit hard mode I start going through stacks of the hard mode ammo, too. And I'm not talking stacks eventually; I mean I'm shooting multiple stacks of ammo on every outing. At that point having an infinite bag of bullets for "just in case" barely registers on the ammo expense report. Well, for the cost of those 4 stacks of lovely ammo you could have gotten 8 stacks of good ammo and if you run out you have a mirror 
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Jul 7, 2015 03:20
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Is there even a tell for her pertrification attack? I don't know when it's safe to face her and when it isn't. I was wondering what the big fuss about Yoyos were. They were pretty decent, better than swords, but I didn't think they were super powerful. Then I crafted a yoyo bag.  That's just completely ridiculous.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:24
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Ambaire posted:Also, why isn't my chlorophyte farm working? That's been like that for the past .. 30 hours or so. Ended up farming the jungle for the chlorophyte bullets I needed to kill Moon lord reliably. Let me say, Vortex beater with shroomite armor and chlorophyte bullets tears him apart. UFO mount required for maximum fun. iirc chlorophyte growth is based on depth; the deeper it is, the faster it grows. Up at the surface like that, nothing doing.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:26
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Dr. Fetus posted:Is there even a tell for her pertrification attack? Yeah, it looks like this: 
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Jul 7, 2015 03:27
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Hmm if I didn't know any better I'd guess you are being extremely salty over this
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Jul 7, 2015 03:31
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About how long do super rare drops stick around for? I've got a farm set up for the Crimson/Frost keys, but I don't want them to despawn.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:32
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Dr. Fetus posted:Is there even a tell for her pertrification attack? I don't know when it's safe to face her and when it isn't. does not facing her even work? that was the first thing I tried after one of them killed me for the first time and it didnt seem to matter if my back was to her or not.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:35
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Million Ghosts posted:Hmm if I didn't know any better I'd guess you are being extremely salty over this It's a legit bad design. Even if you don't die from fall damage, it holds you in place for like ten seconds or more and as far as I'm aware there's noway to stop or reduce it so you get hosed by anything in the nearby area. If that wasn't bad enough they can happily petrify you immediately after you unpetrify too.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:37
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I'm not really defending it but like if you're that mad just.. turn the game off for a bit?
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Jul 7, 2015 03:39
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Kly posted:does not facing her even work? that was the first thing I tried after one of them killed me for the first time and it didnt seem to matter if my back was to her or not. It's actually the other way around. She can't be facing you. So if you somehow manage to be close enough and fast enough to see her, recognize her petrify animation, and manage to get behind her, you're good. Needless to say, this will basically never happen.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:39
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Kly posted:does not facing her even work? that was the first thing I tried after one of them killed me for the first time and it didnt seem to matter if my back was to her or not. Somewhat? It might be a bit finicky, but most of the time, facing away from her usually prevents petrification. LightningSquid posted:About how long do super rare drops stick around for? I've got a farm set up for the Crimson/Frost keys, but I don't want them to despawn. Until there's too many dropped items in the world. I believe that's like thousands of items before they stop despawning.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:39
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they should make the petrify a projectile or/and give you a kid icarus mirror shield or something.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:43
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No, they should make it so that wearing sunglasses blocks the petrify. Pretend they're mirrored.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:46
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Tallgeese posted:No, they should make it so that wearing sunglasses blocks the petrify. Pretend they're mirrored. Great idea for a TShock plugin.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:53
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dis astranagant posted:Sounds like a massive waste of money. Better off spending pocket change on party bullets. TheBlandName posted:I start routinely going through stacks of musket balls once I get my first gun from the corruption or crimson. It's probably something about the bang noise. Once I hit hard mode I start going through stacks of the hard mode ammo, too. And I'm not talking stacks eventually; I mean I'm shooting multiple stacks of ammo on every outing. At that point having an infinite bag of bullets for "just in case" barely registers on the ammo expense report. dis astranagant posted:Well, for the cost of those 4 stacks of lovely ammo you could have gotten 8 stacks of good ammo and if you run out you have a mirror I just calculated how much it would cost to make both of the endless ammo items if you didn't have any of either, and it comes to just shy of 5 gold total, around 2 for the arrows and 2.75 or so for the musket balls. Not really a bad price for being able to run around shooting your gun/bow literally forever if you feel like it. Especially seeing as how Ranged is the DPS attack stat in the first place.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:57
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Nothing like beating expert skeletron with an army of bees and 10 goons!
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Jul 7, 2015 03:57
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Million Ghosts posted:I wish I pulled this Snowball Cannon outta my loot pile and tried it earlier, it's awesome. Makes me feel like I'm playing that lovely old South Park FPS. 15k rounds from one stack of snow blocks that can be farmed by bombing out a pit in the cold biome. Never stop shooting snowballs.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:02
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I once got killed by an off screen medusa while riding by on a mine cart. I got stoned, fell out of the cart and died before i even knew what happened. Medusas are indefensibly bad enemy design.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:03
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legoman727 posted:I once got killed by an off screen medusa while riding by on a mine cart. I got stoned, fell out of the cart and died before i even knew what happened. Medusas are indefensibly bad enemy design. This same thing happened to me but I fell into lava
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Jul 7, 2015 04:05
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YMMV but I've ridden a mine cart or descended down a hell-rope through marble biomes probably 30 or 40 times and I've never been petrified by a Medusa when I'm just passing through.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:07
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dis astranagant posted:Sounds like a massive waste of money. Better off spending pocket change on party bullets. I wish that there were infinite bags for better ammo (similar recipe, they could increase the bullet cost and I wouldn't care because the convenience would be worth it). No one is seriously going to use musket bullets when they could be using any other ammo type for better results, and when you've gathered enough resources to make a bullet type (let alone 3999 of it), it's not like getting more when you run out is difficult. Dr. Fetus posted:Is there even a tell for her pertrification attack? Yeah. When her snake hair starts moving and lashing out tongues, if you look at the medusa, you'll be instantly petrified. Fun enemy though, I don't get why people are so upset about it.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:08
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Finally, after many many attempts and guides sacrificed, I was able to kill the expert flesh wall solo. Here's how I did it: *Hellstone armor, defense as high as it can go *all the potions. *used mainly a Phoenix blaster and demon scythe for damage, also Molotov cocktails/beenades for days. I also tried large boulder traps at the start for early damage, but may not be necessary. *Fart on a balloon *nurse somewhere in the middle could help like with any boss, but I ended up not needing her. What really helped out though was turning on autopause. Being able to get my bearings on order and plan my moves midnight helped tremendously. Ass_Burgerer fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 04:20
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Falsum posted:I don't get why people are so upset about it. Instakills you from offscreen before you're even aware it exists. As has been said, this is legitimately bad game design, particularly so in a game which offers an ironman mode. Example: I've died three times to petrify, and only survived one other time because i was in my hellevator and unpetrified before i hit bottom. At no point have i ever actually seen a medusa. I have seen medusa guts sometimes when my dragon kills them, but never once saw the living mob. On the plus side, it's almost certainly going to be fixed in a patch.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:21
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