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doomrl is also lenient enough that someone can do an angel of berserk run pretty early on without being an expert. for those not in the know, angel of berserk restricts the character to only using melee weapons in a game where a good chunk of the enemies have ranged attacks.
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So Rogue Empires sent out Steam keys to itch.io buyers and thanks to that I got back into it and... Well I'm not really liking it. I haven't really gotten into the game itself because of the UI. Now the UI is pretty nice by roguelike standards. You can do everything with both keyboard or a mouse and in theory it's all good. But the problem is the graphics. They are also pretty nice by roguelike standards but have this huge problem with contrast. Much of the text is in colors that are nigh unreadable against the background and stuff like items are really hard to spot on the ground and some background objects look like they are items but aren't. This was the problem I had with it back when I first bought it on itch.io and why I never really got into it. The routing is also really bad with mouse controls and it's hard to tell where you can and can not walk.
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Slay the spire has been getting some hype lately and I don't think it has been mentioned here. It's a deck building roguelike that tries some new things compared to dream quest and monster slayers.
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To follow up on DoomRL, i've been playing it on hurt me plenty (whatever is next up from easiest) and managed to complete the arena with 4% health left, so now i've got a pretty bitchin' rocket launcher. Granted i'm only a few levels in (work laptop, playing on breaks) but its super accessible. I worked out corner shooting on my own, strafing is new info but I assume its just "move when you think they'll be trying to shoot you".
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Jan 15, 2018 14:14
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HMP is often easier than ITYTD since the latter gives much less xp early on and takes longer to drop good weapons.
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Jan 15, 2018 14:18
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dogstile posted:To follow up on DoomRL, i've been playing it on hurt me plenty (whatever is next up from easiest) and managed to complete the arena with 4% health left, so now i've got a pretty bitchin' rocket launcher. Granted i'm only a few levels in (work laptop, playing on breaks) but its super accessible. basically if you've just moved then any shots fired at you from an angle that's roughly perpendicular-ish to the direction you just moved will have a higher chance of missing as long as it's an actual projectile. so if you're facing down an enemy then scooting towards them in diagonals or shifting to the sides will improve your chances of not getting hit.
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Jan 15, 2018 14:30
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dis astranagant posted:HMP is often easier than ITYTD since the latter gives much less xp early on and takes longer to drop good weapons. I got a chaingun and a rocket launcher by level 3, so it seems good so far. Then again I have no idea if they're "good".
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dogstile posted:I got a chaingun and a rocket launcher by level 3, so it seems good so far. Then again I have no idea if they're "good". Every weapon type and most variants are good, there's very little wasted design space in DoomRL.
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Axu with another solid update to v0.6.1 https://cynapse077.itch.io/axu-rlquote:The first one is the implementation of "Hands" in the place of a "weapon" and "offhand" slots. The first usable arm contains the main weapon you wield. All the other ones can be attacked with as well, given your Dexterity stat passes a check upon attacking. Having four arms now gives you three extra chances to deal damage when you attack an enemy, which is very exciting! The remaining issue is two-handed weapons only take up one spot for now. I'll get around to that implementation with the next update.
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DoomRL is so good, but I dislike playing it because sound is so important. It is giving me anxiety thinking about it.
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SettingSun posted:DoomRL is so good, but I dislike playing it because sound is so important. It is giving me anxiety thinking about it. There's an unofficial TTL version that converts the sound cues to text, I think.
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Axu with another solid update to v0.6.1 https://cynapse077.itch.io/axu-rl ...sorry. That just felt out of place.
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SettingSun posted:DoomRL is so good, but I dislike playing it because sound is so important. It is giving me anxiety thinking about it. Wait it is? I've been playing sound off this whole time.
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dogstile posted:Wait it is? I've been playing sound off this whole time. Oh yeah, it's the only(?) roguelike with sound cues that tell you where the monsters are / what kind of demons you're about to face.
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Klaus Kinski posted:Slay the spire has been getting some hype lately and I don't think it has been mentioned here. I watched my roommate ply this last night actually and it looks polished and good, but a but bare on content. There's three floors afaik and it doesn't seem too difficult to get to the third. There are two playable characters, which is a bit slim. I'm going to look back into the game in the summer and see if it's fleshed out. Promising, but not quite there yet.
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dogstile posted:Wait it is? I've been playing sound off this whole time. Monsters make idle sounds that give you cues as to what's in the level and approximately what direction it's in (left, right, or above/below/next to you). There are also sound cues for doors opening/closing, and for monsters being injured/dying (more informative than "you hear the scream of a freed soul!" and vital when firing blind). SettingSun posted:DoomRL is so good, but I dislike playing it because sound is so important. It is giving me anxiety thinking about it. Tuxedo Catfish posted:There's an unofficial TTL version that converts the sound cues to text, I think. Yep; it works by replacing the sound library DoomRL loads with one that prints the sounds instead. Source code is here, or you can play it online. In text mode it adds an extra row at the bottom for sounds, in graphical mode it puts them in the title bar. I've only tested it on Linux, but it should work on Windows as well. Not sure about OSX, I don't know enough about dynamic library loading there. If people are actually interested in running this locally, I can upload prebuilt binaries for win32 and linux64, at least. Now that DoomRL is open source I want to add this as a built in feature, but I need to set up a FreePascal development environment first and 
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ToxicFrog posted:If people are actually interested in running this locally, I can upload prebuilt binaries for win32 and linux64, at least. You would be my hero if you did such a thing.
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ToxicFrog posted:Now that DoomRL is open source I want to add this as a built in feature, but I need to set up a FreePascal development environment first and That is indeed very , at least on windows.
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Klaus Kinski posted:Slay the spire has been getting some hype lately and I don't think it has been mentioned here. I really like this game but I'm gonna second that it's rather light on content. Some things I'd love to see: - starting with a few relics in place already so you get a fun deck online quicker, it's very boring to start off with the same defend/slash deck over and over again - the option to somehow recycle or save or otherwise reuse absolutely hilarious combos you encounter without rolling the dice over and over again
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Chakan posted:I watched my roommate ply this last night actually and it looks polished and good, but a but bare on content. There's three floors afaik and it doesn't seem too difficult to get to the third. There are two playable characters, which is a bit slim. I'm going to look back into the game in the summer and see if it's fleshed out. Promising, but not quite there yet. Yeah, this is basically 100% my thoughts. I'm torn on the enemies just having a few set attacks compared to decks like usual, but then I get dq flashbacks of getting otkd by some rear end in a top hat wizard. Also not having the enemy type visible on the map is a bit wtf, that's like the entire point of having a map in a game like this.
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SettingSun posted:You would be my hero if you did such a thing. I'll see about getting it done in the next few days! Going to have to remember how to do windows cross-compilation first, though. dis astranagant posted:That is indeed very I do all my development on Linux, but I'd want to be able to generate windows binaries, and I last touched any sort of pascal 20+ years ago, so. Stupid LD_LIBRARY_PATH tricks may be less elegant but they have the great virtue of already being set up and working. 
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 I started playing this DOS rl called Ragnarok on an online emulator and I drank a potion that stunned me and it asked me to name the potion so I named it stunshit and it spawned enemies and multiple down stairs (I think) on every surrounding tile and I think this is the way my first ever character dies.
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 I blind read a scroll of teleportation and the situation has not really improved. Finally, a new game like Elona
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DisDisDis posted:
Oh man, I remember this game. I'm pretty sure you're just hallucinating. You're probably fine.
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What does the Panic button do?
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does the Panic button do? It booted me to a command line interface or something which prompted me to hit escape which returned me to the game like this  GOTY imo
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DisDisDis posted:It booted me to a command line interface or something which prompted me to hit escape which returned me to the game like this GOTY of what year? 1830? I could believe that.
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Klaus Kinski posted:Slay the spire has been getting some hype lately and I don't think it has been mentioned here. Slay the Spire is great, but echoing everyone that it's a bit light on at this stage (but that's to be expected seeing as it's still in Beta). The game could definitely be lengthened, more character classes would be good (they are planning at least a 3rd at this stage, but I'd like more than that), and more bosses would be good. On the topic of bosses, one thing that really annoys me is that a certain floor 3 (the last floor) boss is basically a hard counter to certain decks, but you won't know you're facing him until it's pretty much too late. Still, quite polished in terms of mechanics, and I have definitely got my money's worth.
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DisDisDis posted:It booted me to a command line interface or something which prompted me to hit escape which returned me to the game like this Hey, the monsters are gone!
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So am I. Gone from the local view, but able to see the whole world map... I was not expecting this deeply existential experience from a DOS roguelike about being a viking and eating people
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Panic button is for when the boss is looking over your shoulder. At least that's what it was in a few old games I've played.
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Hallucinating and Panicking broke the render and I wandered around blindly til I died and now my new character thinks she is seven very rich vikings, when she's aware that she exists at all
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 I love this game, keep going!
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DisDisDis posted:Hallucinating and Panicking broke the render and I wandered around blindly til I died and now my new character thinks she is seven very rich vikings, when she's aware that she exists at all I remember playing this game way back in the day. My brother edited the char file and gave himself like 30,000 hp or something crazy. Then he took a boat into this big lake and was one-shot by a sea-monster / kraken thing which left him at like negative 50k hp. Solid experience.
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DisDisDis posted:Hallucinating and Panicking broke the render and I wandered around blindly til I died and now my new character thinks she is seven very rich vikings, when she's aware that she exists at all Holy poo poo this is amazing. If we ever do another Let's Play Assorted Roguelikes thread this needs to be the headliner.
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Games > Roguelikes - What Does The Panic Button Do?
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Got back from dinner and decided to play more. Here's me approaching one rat The rat is dead and I am alive  The single apple on the world map represents the billion gold urns on the local map (in normal gameplay one apple represents one urn or possibly foodstuff) e: https://classicreload.com/dosx-ragnarok.html here's the browser playable game it was freeware to begin with I believe. hopefully that site isn't mining bitcoins while I play
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More ADOM if I may. So I'm more or less able to get to CoC consistently with my dumb Orc Barbarian, doing VD and PC and just dipping into SMC for the blanket. Reading the guide, I realise that I'm at the stage I need to be thinking slightly more strategically. So, firstly, what stage is considered normal for a crowning, and should I do a chaotic crowning or change my alignment first (for a run of the mill run)? What's the best way of crowning short of finding a vault on a level with an altar? Does stomafillia based crowning still work? Is selling Si and saccing gold the right way? Secondly, does attribute training via herbs still work? The wiki says the following: "As of 1.2.0 morgia and mareilon no longer increase stat potentials." If it works, what's the way to do it, just eat all the morgia I have and play as if nothing happened? Finally, a meta question, given ADOM has been out there forever and it's super spoilery, should questions about ADOM be spoiler protected as above? I really appreciate the help so far, it's made the game much more penetrable and I haven't bounced off it for the umpteenth time.
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To answer one of your questions, they nerfed herb training hard. You can use herbs to raise their stats to their potential but that is the upper limit. This makes certain builds a lot more deadly since not everyone can max Toughness now.
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