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Unormal posted:
Grabbed this one, I will fill out your survey TWICE.
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Yeah, fun but easy, and items are pretty boring. I didn't actually fill out your survey twice because I was too lazy to internetbamboozle the survey site to let me. Sorry, I lied.
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Sep 23, 2014 06:12
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Yeah Sproggiwood is a bit too easy for me, but using it as a gateway drug for roguelikes is a great idea. Good job, Unormal+. There's hope that I'll be able to talk about my nerdgames in real life instead of just with internet people!
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Oct 25, 2014 14:23
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Sounds like a load of horse poo poo to me. 40 dollars is too much period, but then you're talking roguelikes, which is built on a bunch of open source monstrosities that cost no one anything and never will. You're competing with free. Who is going to pay 40 bucks? Edit: Also that site looks like my geocities page I made in 4th grade. alarumklok fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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Dec 17, 2014 19:42
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Is 1.3 the one with tiles? Because I am a piss poor neckbeard and will only play roguelikes with tiles, and I really want to play Sil.
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Jan 4, 2015 20:25
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I'm not quite sure I understand. That's perfect. Ship it. You're done!
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Jan 19, 2015 05:00
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But spending 6 hours smacking bears to get 1% crit feels RIGHT. Also, the roguelike argument is leaking into the steam thread, someone call an exorcist.
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May 5, 2015 02:57
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Even though I'm probably not going to play it anytime soon since TW3 1.07 just dropped, I bought CoQ as a thank you for the Sproggiwood key. Keep making really good stuff, unless you want to make some bad stuff ironically I guess.
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Jul 17, 2015 23:12
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alarumklok posted:Even though I'm probably not going to play it anytime soon since TW3 1.07 just dropped, I bought CoQ as a thank you for the Sproggiwood key. Keep making really good stuff, unless you want to make some bad stuff ironically I guess. The patch took too long to download so I made the mistake of playing CoQ Friday night, and now I'm 11 hours in and haven't touched the Witcher at all. Way to ruin my weekend! I do have a question though: master harvestry and butchery mention chance for special poo poo to drop, but I've never got anything so far. What kind of special stuff are we talking about here?
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Jul 19, 2015 14:07
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Rip four-legged blinking fur-mutant with a shotgun, you were so young, but even a movespeed of like 2084018 can't outrun the Pauli exclusion principle.
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Jul 21, 2015 01:13
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dis astranagant posted:Phasing ran out with him in a wall. Yeah, this one. I  )injected a shade oil injector and was running from a robot. I wasn't paying attention and thought I had another 1-2 turns to get out of the wall, and phased back in, dying instantly.alarumklok fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 01:38
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I think you broke something, unormal. AV/DV and penetration/damage aren't displaying on items anymore since the patch. I turned off and on that option related to it just in case, no effect. Edit: vvv timely as usual. sweet deal alarumklok fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 02:21
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I wanted to make the ugliest chimera but I guess you can't pick the repulsive-as-gently caress defect since it's a mental mutation. 
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Jul 24, 2015 21:56
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Yeah, a "loadout" screen where true kin pick poo poo they requisitioned from their arcology would be neat, and provide more consistent survivability early game and some much-needed wowneato factor to the starting option that doesn't let you shoot mindlasers and fart disintegration gas.
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Jul 25, 2015 19:38
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You can press tab when you're hovering over an item in your inventory to look at it too, and tab to close the description. It's pretty neat.
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Jul 27, 2015 03:26
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Go free to play mobile and use it to fuel full-time gamesmaking. Make sure you burn all bridges at your current place of employment when you quit for the true indie dev experience.
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Jul 29, 2015 21:11
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A little to the left
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Jul 30, 2015 00:59
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omeg posted:Someone mentioned it before but here's how Path of Exile implements evasion (it's a diablo-like but better Here's my making GBS threads on unormal list: 1. Balance. True kin really need some reason to pick them, and not just tinkering since that just makes 2 of 12 castes viable instead of 1 of 12. I confess I have no experience with cybernetics since I've never beat Golgotha, but maybe a more robust or earlier-available version of that? True kin power tapers off pretty quickly even compared to chimera, so some kickin' rad enhanced oculars or Typhoon explosives or something might pick up the slack in midgame and carry them to late. Early game they can be pretty hit or miss, and a loadout option at chargen would help with that. I don't think this is as necessary, since a rough start is something that can be overcome much easier than being godawful in mid-late game. 2. UI. It's already been said a bunch, but a better UI would be nice, specifically for equipment management and the message log. The equipment screen is less functional than the inventory screen for equipment management because you have to select -> remove -> equip new while the inventory screen lets you just straight swap, but blindly. Figuring out what happened last turn in the message log is pretty hit or miss. 3. UI. Screen flashing when you take damage or when you're low on health is a pretty QoL thing but it helps fix the issue of health taking up so little screen real estate and thus being harder to see. 4. Factions. I don't know what your exact plans are here, but something that would be nice is if there is a more static element to each faction. One of my earlier games there were a bunch of Barathrumites milling about near bedrolls at Red Rock and thought that was pretty cool, but I haven't seen anything like that since. Minor settlements like that for some legendaries would really give the impression landscape is sparsely occupied, and it makes it easier to "deal" with factions by trading or offering water or whatever. 5. UI. Tangentially, the ability to mark the map with PoI would be killer as gently caress.
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Aug 1, 2015 15:30
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). I haven't played an evasion-focused character so I can't say how well it works but it seems pretty reasonable.
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MJ12 posted:Another suggestion might be to differentiate mental and physical mutations, mental mutations generally have one effect while physical ones have multiple ones, an active and a passive. Flaming hands might provide Fire resistance, Freezing hands Cold resistance, and for something like Corrosive Gas Generation the passive benefit might be an immunity to breathing in toxins and +Poison Resistance. Enhanced Speed gives its speed boost (I'd cut its weakness) but once every thousand turns you can take a pile of hunger and thirst to double or triple your speed for a short period of time. Tightening carapace might let you trade DV for PV for a short period of time. Stuff like that. This is good. Being able to stand in farts is the best part of gas generation, and more physical mutations should be like that.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:22
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Since Invisible Inc just received a patch, is on sale, and had extended campaign dlc announced, I'd like to tell everyone you should totally check it out if you haven't. It's the only game off the top of my head that has significant random generation but is practically devoid of RNG fuckery. About the only thing I can say about the game that's poo poo is the flaccid ending (so, a roguelike), but other than that it's gold. I suggest playing either on Expert or Expert Plus right off the bat, because it's got 2-3 completed runs in it and you really don't want to waste one of them on pisseasy mode.Unormal posted:Now that the code base is stable (knock on wood), we're going to move to a cadence of weekly "feature friday" patches. Intra-week incremental patches will be made to the Beta branch. These patches may not be individually large, and due to the nature of our work we may not always hit our goal, but we're excited to start to bring new content to Qud on a regular basis! itshappening.gif
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Aug 7, 2015 23:47
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I mean, even though I really liked it, after I beat it 3 times I kind of lost interest. Despite the random levels and items and poo poo, it has very consistent gameplay. You kind of get "the pattern" after that many runs. It also lends itself better to starting at the hardest and working down to the difficulty that fits you, since your inevitable death will unlock new stuff to play with.
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Aug 8, 2015 12:46
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quote:By using “Agony Scent” items obtained in dungeons, the girls will get excited. Video game tie-in to AXE® Body Spray 
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Aug 11, 2015 00:28
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Separate windows looks really dumb too, even if it is pretty functional. Not dumb trumps functionality in game design. I completed a youtube playlist on pygame, I would know.
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Aug 22, 2015 00:12
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Yeah, that's really nice looking. SHIP IT YOURE DONE
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Sep 6, 2015 17:08
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I didn't like it, and ended up returning it a few minutes ago. Units are so fragile that whoever gets attacked first is probably dying outside of low-damage frontliners (especially since it's 100% hit chance outside of cover). This makes combat a game of area denial ala chess, but having 4 different noncustomizable "pieces" (classes) made it play out even more inflexibly than chess does. You can't control start of battle formation either, so have fun losing your veteran deadeye you've been carefully cultivating because anywhere you move him he'll get attacked next turn by something and die. Your main method of influencing the battle are using equalizers, kind of like Heroes spells if this was HoMM. Your starting dozer has a lovely heal which can be used to screw with combat math like pumping a blocking critter in MTG so only one guy dies, and a 1 turn shield that that really doesn't block enough damage to actually save anyone, but whatever. You don't really get many new ones, and I probably found around 5-6 over all 3 runs. Unit and dozer progress is extremely linear with little to no choices involved. Units just level up and get better hp/damage, and the dozer has 4 things you can pick to level. Customization comes from different dozers and new equalizers, but one is locked in at the start, and the others only start showing up (as far as I've seen from the 3 runs I played) with any predictability at the bottom of the map closer to the end of the run. That sounds way more negative than I actually felt, so I will say they nailed the balanced drain of resources, which makes Bedlam play and feel like Banner Saga just felt.
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Sep 16, 2015 23:58
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madjackmcmad posted:I just start throwing rectangles down-- did this randomly sized and placed rectangle fit in the area? No? Toss it out and try again. 10,000 failures? Unthinkable, rebuild the level, try again. The end results are: levels that do what I want combined with deep, crimson-hued shame over inflexible code that only works in that one location. So the coding equivalent of slamming the square peg in the round hole repeatedly until you've worn a big enough hole it'll fit. There's no shame in that, only +piety with Trog.
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Sep 27, 2015 13:59
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Is anyone else playing Forays? How does the game decide when you get feats?
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Nov 8, 2015 20:57
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Dire indeed Renowned Explorers owns bones
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Nov 8, 2015 21:47
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You can also put a hero in an unpowered room to suspend spawns there. It's a neat little trick for the later floors when power gets scarce
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Nov 26, 2015 13:37
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I usually don't do these things but the genre being what it is, hopefully this helps someone find a new game: 1. Brogue - the perfect amount of depth without any unnecessary complexity, brogue is probably my favorite roguelike. Because items are your build, every game is completely different, but you still have immense control over how you want to build by how you use your enchantment scrolls. Complete exposure to every bit of information, down to how many hits you can take from enemies before dying lets you make informed choices and almost completely eliminates that feeling of a bullshit death 2. Dungeon Crawl - basically the Platonic ideal of a roguelike 3. Invisible Inc - I think I've beat this like 6 times on expert plus? I haven't played the DLC yet but it's proof positive that if you get extremely talented devs even the weirdest concepts (turn-based stealth) can turn out amazing 4. ToME4 - a giant amazing slog that I never want to ascend again after beating, even though I did twice more because it's too cool for skool. Having, at minimum, a dozen options when you're in panic mode really makes the game feel tactical. Also gently caress consumables 5. Caves of Qud - my new go-to sandbox roguelike, and the game I'm most excited about the development of. Even though I'm on my AAA game stint right now, I still have CoQ updates on my feed 6. Risk of Rain - this game is pretty great, but gets much better when you get that mutator that lets you pick from a list of same-rarity items when they drop, adding dozens of more hours to the game by letting you make your own builds. You can show off your weird hopping contact damage builds in co-op too 7. Hoplite - extremely elegant mobile game, it's like hexagonal chess where the moves you don't make are just as important as the ones you do. Also Leonidas-ing bombers into lava 8. Dungeonmans - replaces Dredmor for me as my humor roguelike by also being highly modern in design decisions (sorry dreddevs, I'm still excited for Clockwork!) 9. Renowned Explorers - oozes so much personality and uniqueness and also the only game in recent memory where I cause damage by pointing at wolves with a fish-filled speech bubble over my head 10. Nuclear Throne - the coffeebreakest roguelike that ever rogueliked. Only lower than Risk of Rain because it doesn't have co-op
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DraconicImpulse posted:Nuclear Throne does have co-op. Even has two co-op mutations specific for it. However, when a friend and I tried it we kept confusing our crosshairs, since they aren't distinguished. Yeah, I should have specified it has some co-op, local, which isn't a plus for me. I usually play online stuff because it's 3 hours to my nearest gamerbuddy.
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Dec 3, 2015 10:00
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I'll get it out of the way: HSL is roguelike hitler
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Dec 13, 2015 09:44
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I keep doing that too, or hitting 's' and yelling at the nearby goblin "DONT JUST STAND THERE COME AT ME BRO". It's solidified my need for tilesets though: ASCII kills my eyes after 20 minutes
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Dec 14, 2015 11:29
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:You absolutely don't need to do all of the starting dungeons. Do about two of them and if you're playing well and cautiously (which you should be anyways) you're ready for the tier 2s, even on Nightmare. I end up beelining for the other t1 bosses anyway even with the diminishing returns, just because it's no risk low reward. It's that whole tedious-but-optimal vs fun routes game design thing where people will grind when they don't have to. Unfortunately if that was the only needless padding it'd be good, but sandworm is tedious as gently caress, alt sandworm is pol pot, and the entire east is a giant sloggy victory lap. I've beat it twice on roguelike and it's still one of my favorite games because of everything else it does right, but a fork that got rid of the fat would be nothing but good news.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:49
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History will remember this day as the day that the Roguelike War finally went hot; "procedural death labyrinth"s and accusatory "more like an roguelite"s tossed aside for lutefisk cannons and purple-enchanted longswords.
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Dec 21, 2015 10:23
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Every ToME class is loving awesome, except Anorithil, which is loving boring bullshit. Too much popcorn and too much dungeon are definitely 100% my issues with the game though.
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Dec 21, 2015 17:55
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Galaga Galaxian posted:As I've said before I keep wanting to get into TOME but it seems to huge and intimidating. Also if you see any critter even remotely threatening looking, right click that bitch and read his abilities. Getting put in a chokehold by a rare snake you bumpattacked is really embarrassing/awesome.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:10
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I know people say "play one of these simple classes" and stuff, but even those seemed hard to get to grips with.
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There's like 3 classes that could be. I'm going to put money on Corrupter since they have turbo ebola
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Dec 21, 2015 18:17
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Benly posted:In Renowned Explorers, will it calculate my final renown based on total research/gold/status earned or do I have to hoard some for maximum renown? It locks in the renown after every expedition. Spend that poo poo, my man.
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victrix posted:Interesting to me that Tome has been universally criticized for being too bloated everywhere I've read about it, for years, but nothing has changed. Official forums are positive feedback loops for either immense whining or sucking devdick, and as time passes, one or the other will win out. I call it the Hairy Dev Dick Theorem Jordan7hm posted:So everyone up to now should have received their request. If for some reason you didn't, let me know over steam or here. I'll post the next list of roguelikes tomorrow and be on to hand out more keys later in the day. If Kyz does send you some Cogmind keys I'd love one  http://steamcommunity.com/id/alarumklok/
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