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Emalde: May 3, 2007; Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

Tamagod Sushi posted:

Screw saving the princess, it's your

Weekly Dragon's Crown comics update!

You are the best person. :allears:

# ? Oct 23, 2013 00:31

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 09:53

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

No lie, when I was still bad at the game, I would constantly get petrified because I kept mistiming my charged volley shots with her eye flash.

# ? Oct 23, 2013 02:31

mirarant: Dec 18, 2012; Post or die

EU version has been patched to the latest version! :siren:

# ? Oct 23, 2013 13:25

Marogareh: Feb 23, 2011

I really hate that I have to slog through the LoC for infinite respec potions. For being the supposed "real game" it sure is barren. Wish they could just sell them for millions of gold after you beat infernal.

Marogareh fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Oct 29, 2013

# ? Oct 28, 2013 09:08

Lord Chumley: May 14, 2007; Embrace your destiny.

Our group is going to be streaming LoC runs at about 8pm est.

# ? Oct 28, 2013 23:39

EmperorFritoBandito: Aug 7, 2010; by exmarx

^Watching now, and is it just me, or is the Archdemon more of a bastard lately? It seems like he didn't used to teleport quite so frequently.

# ? Oct 29, 2013 03:39

Death Cube K: Mar 20, 2008; You're pretentious, this club sucks, I have beef. Let's fight.

Tamagod Sushi posted:

Weekly Dragon's Crown comics update!

I'm not goona lie, barring update notes, these are the reason I still come to this thread.

# ? Oct 29, 2013 05:03

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

Since Halloween's just around the corner it's treats for all with the

Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Chapter 13- The Elf and a varied diet

Sorry! Amazon-chan
Chapter 8- Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

Get all the back issues here!

Emalde posted:

You are the best person.

Death Cube K posted:

I'm not goona lie, barring update notes, these are the reason I still come to this thread.

Awww, thanks guys! :haw:

# ? Oct 29, 2013 20:04

mirarant: Dec 18, 2012; Post or die

Tamagod Sushi posted:

Hah the dwarf riding pose is the best.

# ? Oct 30, 2013 02:22

Fight Club Sandwich: Apr 29, 2006; you want a piece of me???

Do the items get better as I advance through LOC or is 255 atk and 60 def the cap for equipment

# ? Nov 3, 2013 19:08

Marogareh: Feb 23, 2011

They stay the same aside from the modifiers from floor 9 onwards. Getting a 255-255 weapon without the durability down is stupidly rare though. The only reason to go deeper is to power up the seal of the conqueror and getting infinite respec potions at floor 99.

Marogareh fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 3, 2013

# ? Nov 3, 2013 21:53

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

Sorry for the delay, now with 10% more life lessons and fibre as part of a wholesome reading diet it's the

Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Chapter 14- The Elf and spelling

Admittedly I'm not sure which game that's from :shobon:

Sorry! Amazon-chan
Chapter 9 - I can't help myself

Screw time travel! Get all the back issues here!

# ? Nov 6, 2013 19:50

Rasamune: Jan 19, 2011; MORT
MORT
MORT

Tamagod Sushi posted:

Admittedly I'm not sure which game that's from

Etrian Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_PVPyn6n8

# ? Nov 6, 2013 20:01

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

Rasamune posted:

Etrian Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_PVPyn6n8

Huh that's quite the thing. FOE indeed :haw:

# ? Nov 7, 2013 00:06

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

30% of the public agree, it's not a good week without the

Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Chapter 15 - The Elf and home cooking

Sorry! Amazon-chan
Chapter 10 - Come go with me

Read dem back issues here!

# ? Nov 12, 2013 19:37

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

The Dwarf has the biggest chest of them all.

(Thank you for still doing these by the by. They're a delight.)

# ? Nov 12, 2013 19:40

p.crestmont: Feb 17, 2012

Thanks again for the comics!

# ? Nov 12, 2013 19:57

miguelito: Oct 5, 2012; I'm WILD about
WILDMAN
_{(ask me about sexy shaving)}

Flexing dorf is the loving best.

# ? Nov 12, 2013 20:14

Overlord K: Jun 14, 2009

Bless you for still doing these, Tamagod. :japan:

I should try and gather up my Dragon's Crown crew back up and get back into playing...

# ? Nov 12, 2013 20:23

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

It's the second best time of the week again (the first is Ice Cream Sundays) with the

Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Chapter 16 - The Elf and homecoming

Sorry! Amazon-chan
On Hiatus This Week

B-b-back issues here!

And once again, I appreciate the feedback guys! I'll keep translating until they finish, just for you :glomp:

# ? Nov 20, 2013 19:45

Emalde: May 3, 2007; Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

Who needs to play Dragon's Crown, all I want to do is read fancomics~

# ? Nov 20, 2013 20:02

Quixzlizx: Jan 7, 2007

Thanks for the translations, Tamagod. :tipshat:

# ? Nov 20, 2013 21:50

miguelito: Oct 5, 2012; I'm WILD about
WILDMAN
_{(ask me about sexy shaving)}

Reading them regularly, much much appreciated!!
Thank you!

# ? Nov 21, 2013 21:32

Fight Club Sandwich: Apr 29, 2006; you want a piece of me???

Fight Club Sandwich posted:

Do we know the numbers in the game work? I cant seem to be able to find a damage formula anywhere

Specifically:

No idea whether +STR or +% damage dealt will have a greater effect

Is "+x% damage dealt" strictly superior to "+x% to enemy type" or is one additive vs. multiplicative?

Are there diminishing returns or some kind of cap to stacking "damage taken" items?

For +damage to airborne, what qualifies for the bonus? any flier? any ground thing that i've launched? bosses that have a body but their only hitbox is a head suspended above the ground?

There's +% chance to ignore armor, are enemy armor ratings known (and how they interact with the damage formula)?

Did some testing.

Level 99 Amazon vs. Ronnie with a 244-244 weapon and no offensive modifiers. Hit him 25x at level 0 berserk, yielding 50 data points for each equipment setup. Feel free to skip the boring numbers

code:

Data is presented in the following structure
Damage Modifier: Interquartile Range of damage figures (in hundreds), median of damage figures (in hundreds). 
I was real lazy and only recorded 1-2 digits instead of 3-5.

No equipment: 		09-14, 13
STR+27:			09-15, 13
Damage Dealt +15%:	11-16, 14
Damage to Humans +25%:  12-18, 16
Damage Dealt +27%: 	12-18, 16
Damage Dealt +38%: 	13-19, 17

---
New weapon: 236-255
Bonus 29% as lightning DMG%, DMG to Humans +26%, STR+27, Magic damage +39% (i suspect does nothing)
interquartile, median: 	16-24, 22

plus equips
Damage Dealt +38%:	20-29, 27

Findings:

Specific "vs. enemy" modifiers don't seem to have any special bonuses vs. the general ones. +25% damage to humans does grants roughly the same bonus as +27% damage dealt.
The damage modifiers seem to scale in a linear fashion. Adding a +10% damage accessory will yield the same marginal bonus independent of other +damage accessories already equipped
In general, stat boosters seem less useful than the damage% modifiers, at least at max level
If I had to guess I'd say Magic damage +X% doesn't do poo poo for the amazon and probably only enhances item use
Unlike damage taken which has a cap, there doesn't seem to be any kind of practical cap with offensive modifiers

Fight Club Sandwich fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Nov 23, 2013

# ? Nov 23, 2013 07:15

miguelito: Oct 5, 2012; I'm WILD about
WILDMAN
_{(ask me about sexy shaving)}

Close enough.

# ? Nov 23, 2013 16:04

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

Making your middle of the week just that much better-er, it's the

Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Chapter 17 - The Elf and knocking etiquette

Sorry! Amazon-chan
Final Chapter - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Don't be down, get all back issues here!

miguelito posted:

Close enough.

That there is a thing of beauty :3:

# ? Nov 27, 2013 20:10

Tamagod Sushi: Oct 26, 2009; One Bad Muthapaca

And then there was one. But no worries, because we go out with a bang with the

FINAL Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

A Newbie Adventurer's Picture Diary
Final Chapter- The Elf and fond memories

Encore? Of course! Get all the chapters here!

Once again, thanks for reading and the kind words guys- I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did translating it :haw:

Now to fire up the game again for some Labyrinth of Chaos co-op on the couch

# ? Dec 3, 2013 19:38

Delusibeta: Aug 7, 2013; Let's ride together.

I've mentioned it over in the Vita thread, but Index has announced some sale figures.

Dragon's Crown shipped + downloaded 800k copies worldwide thus far. Best selling Vanillaware game thus far by a country mile (good thing, considering that it's the most expensive game Vanillaware has ever made. By which I mean it cost more than 100 million yen to make. That's about a million dollars. Yeah).

# ? Dec 3, 2013 21:52

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Tamagod Sushi posted:

And then there was one. But no worries, because we go out with a bang with the

FINAL Weekly Dragon's Crown Comics Update!

Once again, thanks for reading and the kind words guys- I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did translating it Now to fire up the game again for some Labyrinth of Chaos co-op on the couch

Thanks a lot for these.

# ? Dec 3, 2013 23:55

toasterwarrior: Nov 11, 2011

Delusibeta posted:

Dragon's Crown shipped + downloaded 800k copies worldwide thus far. Best selling Vanillaware game thus far by a country mile (good thing, considering that it's the most expensive game Vanillaware has ever made. By which I mean it cost more than 100 million yen to make. That's about a million dollars. Yeah).

I still can't believe it only took a million dollars to make this game. VW's got some dudes who really believe in their work to do this much.

And thanks to Tamagod Sushi for all your translations! I enjoyed the comics

# ? Dec 5, 2013 11:11

Fight Club Sandwich: Apr 29, 2006; you want a piece of me???

stuff i hate:

the netcode
the dark room in the labyrinth of chaos
any area with fire rain
that one rear end in a top hat pirate
cooking is dumb
durability down weapons
unrepairable acccessories

# ? Dec 7, 2013 16:27

Golgozor: Jun 20, 2002; Medicine Snakes

Fight Club Sandwich posted:

stuff i hate:

the netcode
the dark room in the labyrinth of chaos
any area with fire rain
that one rear end in a top hat pirate
cooking is dumb
durability down weapons
unrepairable acccessories

Worst netcode in any game ever; the only way it could be worse is if it just didn't work at all!

PSN ID(PS4): Steamshovel_Dan WiiU: Steamshovel (not playing it ATM)

# ? Dec 7, 2013 17:46

Megalixir: Nov 10, 2007; Vanillaware ltd.

Pretty sure you can just grind the 7th Labyrinth dungeon until the +1hp per hit amulet drops with the anti-fire attribute.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 17:53

toasterwarrior: Nov 11, 2011

Golgozor posted:

Worst netcode in any game ever; the only way it could be worse is if it just didn't work at all!

Has there been a Japanese game with good netcode outside of the archipelago? I'm not looking to excuse Vanillaware of course, but I'm genuinely curious since it seems to be a given when dealing with Japanese games.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 18:11

yellowcar: Feb 14, 2010

Golgozor posted:

Worst netcode in any game ever; the only way it could be worse is if it just didn't work at all!

Well there were the times where they straight up broke online co-op after every patch.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 19:05

oswald ownenstein: Jan 30, 2011; KING FAGGOT OF THE SHITPOST KINGDOM

Is this forever going to be a sony exclusive?

I want to play this game something bad, having been a D&D arcade game addict (the first one, not shadows over mystara which my low end grocery store didn't have).

Also the rear end & titties are very appealing. I love me some fanservice.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 19:08

Delusibeta: Aug 7, 2013; Let's ride together.

oswald ownenstein posted:

Is this forever going to be a sony exclusive?

I want to play this game something bad, having been a D&D arcade game addict (the first one, not shadows over mystara which my low end grocery store didn't have).

Also the rear end & titties are very appealing. I love me some fanservice.

Odds of Vanillaware bothering with an Xbox version of Dragon's Crown (or, indeed, any of their games past or future) is pretty drat slim, considering that the format is dead in Japan.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 19:24

Megalixir: Nov 10, 2007; Vanillaware ltd.

toasterwarrior posted:

Has there been a Japanese game with good netcode outside of the archipelago? I'm not looking to excuse Vanillaware of course, but I'm genuinely curious since it seems to be a given when dealing with Japanese games.

BBCP, AH3, P4, Magic Sword, Final Fight and pretty much anything else using GGPO.

# ? Dec 8, 2013 08:45

Megalixir: Nov 10, 2007; Vanillaware ltd.

Final patch info is out and it's huge

http://dragons-crown.com/info/2013/12/ps3psvita.html

Most notably adds an "Ultimate" difficulty accessible after clearing the 9th dungeon of Labyrinth of Chaos, max level cap changed to 255.

Also cleared game data lets people make new characters with all talismans obtained so you're not subject to clearing the story to reach co-op any more.

# ? Dec 20, 2013 09:42

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 09:53

Quixzlizx: Jan 7, 2007

Megalixir posted:

Final patch info is out and it's huge

http://dragons-crown.com/info/2013/12/ps3psvita.html

Most notably adds an "Ultimate" difficulty accessible after clearing the 9th dungeon of Labyrinth of Chaos, max level cap changed to 255.

Also cleared game data lets people make new characters with all talismans obtained so you're not subject to clearing the story to reach co-op any more.

Here are some more detailed patch notes.

quote:

[Bug Fix]
Improved operational stability under certain circumstances.

[Added Features]
If you clear the ninth level of the Labyrinth of Chaos you can now select the �ultimate� level of difficulty at the temple.
When you�re playing on �ultimate� you can access the new automatically generated dungeon �Sky Road of Dreams.�
On �ultimate� difficulty the level cap has been raised from level 99 to level 255.
Both the up arrows and the L button can now be individually used as item shortcuts.
Damage can now be displayed as a total number.
Silhouettes can now be displayed on the foreground to improve visibility.
On a save game with a cleared game it�s possible to skip the initial phase of the story with new characters and start with the search for the talismans.
It�s possible to skip quests that have already been completed once.

[Operational Improvements]
Adjusted skill effects and actions for each class.
Adjusted behavior of NPCs.
Adjusted effects and rules of equipment and items in the Arena.
Made all round improvements to the system in order to enhance operability and ease of use.

My level 99 elf demands XP.

# ? Dec 20, 2013 15:55

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