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Nephilm posted:One Way Heroics is out on steam, for anyone who hadn't heard of it. Thanks. You can also redeem your copy from PLAYISM onto Steam - sign in, hit "My Account", and there will be a serial code that Steam will take.
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German Joey posted:the way i feel about all the, air-quotes, "roguelike-likes," that are basically just platformers and fpses or whatever that have fuckall to do with any gameplay elements from rogue, is what General Jack D. Ripper had to say about communists if you replace the words "precious bodily fluids" with "cred" in that water fluoridation scene from dr. strangelove While this is true, seeing more randomisation and permadeath in other games is a good thing! Those aren't roguelike features but just good game features; somehow the term "good game" with that meaning hasn't caught on.
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Jeffrey posted:I'm gonna make a 4d roguelike where you walk around on a 4 dimensional grid. Just wait until you see my vi keys. a 3D roguelike that allows full movement (like 2d 8-directional, 9 keys with "wait") would need 27 keys so that's just the alphabet and one other key. Making it 4D goes to 81, so each of those keys has the shift and ctrl version. Still leaves you with the numbers, punctuation, and the ctrl-shift-letters for commands, no problem 
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:The old requirement was "be berserking in order to pick it up" but I think the developer changed it to some far more convoluted achievement-related thing because he's in on the circlejerk. Been a while since I've played DoomRL, but I had the impression that the convoluted thing was a way to make it guaranteed to appear (on Nightmare! in the Cathedral) and that picking it up was something more universally doable than berserking. Try dropping your equipment/inventory/etc?
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Poison Mushroom posted:I'm working on Version 1.03 right now, doing a major overhaul of the tables, and normalizing the difficulty somewhat, as well as improving the formatting of the rules pages. Once that's done, and I've let the ideas get tested a fair bit more, 1.04 will probably mostly be class rebalancing, and then I'll likely put new updates on the backburner for a while. I have some other ideas for similar games that have been coalescing since I started S'xsyde, and I wanna give those a shake, too. Is S'xsyde from "six side" or "dSexy's"? The game looks neat. Is there any actual maze or can you just decide how much of each floor you want to explore (11-25 spaces, assuming you leave 11 for the way out)? I think the blacking out rules need fixing: "black out each square in a cardinal direction from all blacked out squares" should probably be "black out each square adjacent to a blacked out square", clarifying "adjacent" if needed.
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The Qud LP in the other thread is making me want Qud to exist. e: More specifically, I'm intrigued by the character creation and it seems the interface/gameplay will be way better than Dredmor. I wanted so much to like that game, but couldn't stand it after making a character, after playing games like DoomRL / DCSS. rchandra fucked around with this message at 04:10 on May 27, 2015 |
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andrew smash posted:Is there an .ini file or something i can edit to get all the poo poo unlocked in doomrl? I built a new machine between now and the last time i played it and i completely forgot that you have to do a boring run before you can play angel games. You need either to download the player.wad or score.wad (I forget which is which) from an install that has them unlocked, but if you're capable of beating angels you can unlock stuff really fast with no trouble - just do a 100% conqueror or a melee run or something.
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ToxicFrog posted:You hear: a door opening, a bunch of formers injured and dead, an injured demon and archvile, and gunfire. Amusingly, this will lead to getting information you shouldn't have (some enemies sound the same). Reminds me of the Juggler/configfile exploit. Knowing left/right is pretty important though.
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ToxicFrog posted:Which ones? I just automatically generated all the "sounds", I didn't use the existing SFX as a reference. It would be really easy to change so that enemies that sound the same on speakers look the same in this mode, though. All the formers sound the same (apparently there are 3 death sounds though - captain/sergeant share #2), nightmare enemies are silent, and a lot of enemies use the same pain sounds - caco/demon/lostsoul/arachnotron/hellknight/baron/bruiser/Cyberdemon use one, revenant/imp/former/JC share one, etc. See soundhq.lua for the exhaustive list. Juggler lets you swap weapons freely (no time cost), but also use a doom-style weapon key freely (number keys 1-0 to choose any of the "normal" weapons). For a while if you used the config file to bind exotic/unique weapons to quickkeys, such as command.quick_weapon("unapalm"), that worked with Juggler too. Pretty sure I heard that was fixed, though.
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ToxicFrog posted:I don't have a lot of time to work on ttymor, but the enthusiasm in this thread keeps me working on it at least a bit each day rather than spending all of my limited laptop time on Factorio. Since Dredmor had the coolest character generation* and the most unplayable interface, I have great hope for ttymor. *not playing Qud until post-alpha.
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I've been really liking Nethack4 for being nethack without as bad interface or as many interface deaths. The other variants change too much. That said it's still nethack so I got a character pretty far and don't really feel like finishing, just like in NAOhack.
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ToxicFrog posted:On the other hand, DoomRL owns and has consumables out the rear end. How do I reconcile these opinions? Maybe the inventory limits and lack of backtracking make DoomRL consumables more tolerable to you?
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Unormal posted:Why doesn't anyone ever confuse us with the URR or Cogmind guys, madjack? I think the thread is saying its time for you to act like proper soulless corporations and begin mass
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9hotonic posted:I've been playing Binding of Isaac for quite a while now, and I'm not super sure if I like rebirth or the original more. Rebirth definitely has way more content and features, but the original felt more like Edmund Mcmillan's work than the remake did, plus the soundtrack was a lot better in my opinion. How do you guys feel about them both, side by side? I like the remake a lot more, it works a lot better (crashing, performance, joystick, controls in general, saving) and just has so much added content and special item combinations (A lot of the paired tear effects needed to be special-cased in). I do really miss the old soundtrack, but that's about it. Enjoying Starward Rogue so far but I need them to improve the joystick support to work with generic ones. It recognizes my awful stick and not my psx controller (Isaac: Rebirth and Jamestown are fine with both).
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:The worst-case situation, at least from a player perspective, isn't "you make a totally crap game and nobody cares." It's that you inject new and interesting features into a game with basic mechanical blunders that suck too much to overlook. Ah, Dungeons of Dredmor. Some would also argue this is true of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
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victrix posted:Don't like it, subjective of course. Several of their trailers also have some hilariously godawful overwrought singing in them, can't remember which game it was. I love those songs and was sad to not be greeted by one at the Starward Rogue title screen.
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Is there a game that combines Sil's documentation improving with more times fighting/killing a monster, with random monster design? I think that's a neat feature but it's pointless if the monster doesn't actually change between games, and I don't enjoy Sil itself.
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doctorfrog posted:If all this sounds quite interesting, it is, but somehow it doesn't manage to be fun. I am a pretty casual player of such games, though, and Deadnaut lies in an intersection of RTS squad tactical and roguelike genres. Thanks for the suggestion, but indeed I don't think it's for me. It's also made by the Zafehouse Diaries people, another game that didn't live up to its potential/hype.
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Unimpressed posted:Eh, you guys are putting down bionic dues like it's the worst game in the world. It's not great by any means, but you could easily kill 10 hours playing it, so if you get it for a few bucks on sale you haven't done too badly. I didn't like the massive piles of stats on the items, but I can't get enough of the opening.
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Rutibex posted:Zelda 2 Randomizer Trying this one out. I've had a bizarre opening, with spell order being Fairy, Reflect, Fire, Shield, Thunder, Life. I didn't set full mixing of terrains - don't really want to have to find palaces in the old random fairy/doll/potion spots, and such. I've been low on life/magic as well, as the containers were getting replaced by stuff like boots/raft. 14+ game overs! Thanks for the links, I wouldn't mind trying FF6 sometime as well. Any recommended settings there? (and why on earth are these people catering to sketch-buggers?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The various randomizer game mods tend to assume that you have full mastery of every technique and glitch in the original game, because they're written by and for the people who have the kind of obsession with the game needed to want to write a randomizer in the first place. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but if you're coming in as a Casual Fan of X Game hoping to re-play it with a fresh spin, you're probably going to bounce off it pretty hard. Sure, but they fix many of the standard glitches (Evade/Mblock, Vanish/Doom, Joker Doom) most of which require the player to go out of their way to exploit - so why leave the one bad enough that it was fixed on the physical cartridges, in which the player can ruin their game/saves without meaning to?
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Unormal posted:This is true and we're considering raising it to $14.99 when we exit Early Access, since our ambitions have increased dramatically since the early "slap on oryx and launch" days. Thinking about getting it now, as always - I know I don't want to play until after Early Access, and I know I do want to play afterwards. Incidentally I appreciate the "everything made since 2004 should work" on graphics card requirements, who wants to look up their card and then try to figure out how numbering systems have changed yet again. But why does it have an extra EULA? Also, the store page says "The price won't change [after leaving Early Access]".
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Unormal posted:We'll be updating the ea page when we make a final decision on it. Since it just makes EA purchase more attractive figure there's no rush to the door to update the text. I decided on Sproggiwood instead! Enjoying it so far, but not a huge fan of the shopping stuff - is it reasonable to just buy the generic upgrades and let adventurers find their own items? e: Sproggibug: when the Archer's first power gets a critical hit, it doesn't come out of the targetting for it even if there are no other foes. rchandra fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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FredMSloniker posted:Can someone give me some advice on how to deal with that vampire wisp boss in Ignis Caverna? If I get up close, he murders me quickly; if I try ranged, he murders me slowly. And the only 'walkthroughs' I can find are YouTube videos, which I refuse to watch on the basic principle of 'I'll learn everything I don't want spoiled in five seconds and have to sit through two hours of Zany Internet Guy to find the cunningly hidden actually useful information'. I'd especially like advice for the Archer. With the archer, I just blasted it repeatedly with the level 3 Shoot Arrow - possibly found a potion of stamina? Beating him with the vampire seemed impossible (and I'm only on Normal!) until I thought of spawning ghosts and using Enthrall to regenerate HP endlessly while meleeing it.
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Another Sproggiwood question - is the wizard intended to be "wizard mode"? The missile/yeti can kill things awfully quickly, and level 2 teleport is essentially invincibility + infinite experience (the decoys give you stamina + exp when enemies kill them, and the spell doesn't even take time).
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Even playing Sproggiwood only on Normal, I had to give up my "don't buy equipment" conduct for the last levels with some classes. I found I was basically startscumming since it was so luck-based which enemies I'd run into for the first few XLs to get options, so might as well actually buy some items. The game does lose a lot when you pre-choose your ideal character path instead of adapting, so I think best is to buy the weakest things you can to survive the first few foes. Looking forward to trying Savage once I finish off the last few classes.Unormal posted:If we wanted to make money, we should have made Sproggiwood generic grimdark crap.
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FredMSloniker posted:Those are the ones that spawn from their own puddles, yeah? I used to hate those things until I realized that you can step on the puddles to disperse them, just like the other jelly puddles, which prevents the respawning. That said, it's still possible for them to get out of control, so yeah, handle them with care. Those are the ones. On Normal they didn't seem all that special but with the extra splashes on Savage I often can't step on them all in time. Sometimes you can use enemies to clear them for you, I'm not good at setting that up yet.
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Terry van Feleday posted:In case you don't want to figure it out yourself, here's how to do it: Thanks, I had figured out A but not B; just trying to be more cautious with movement had indirectly gotten me into better positions for spawning most of the time anyway. Spamming the warriors Dervish and Shield Wall on an out of control infestation until you end up next to the stairs is pretty good.
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What if you were just trying to unlock more classes? Maybe you have to get an athiest win to unlock Priest, or you can just pay $2...
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madjackmcmad posted:
Happy birthday! The last key was probably lurked.
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Your procedurally generated enemies/bosses sound absolutely great! After playing Sil I knew I wanted to see something like that (because of how it does the enemy IDing/documentation).
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:because you can play it for free here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991 Mmm, getting a box of cars from the factory. Also having hitch-hikers steal your commodities, and accidents doing less damage to the truck because of wearing a seatbelt that stays on even during trips to hotels/diners.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Did that guy ever write a trip report or anything? I'd love to see any thoughts he felt like recording. There's an old newsgroup thread. It's a good read.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm slowly proceeding through Invisible Inc. and sort of enjoying the tricky scenarios that emerge, and the opportunities to discover slick ways of getting through them. But I also get the feeling that I'll get to this FTL-like point where the game just starts punishing me for enjoying myself and exploring instead of playing optimally and with Wiki-endowed foreknowledge for the middle and end game. If you're playing on Experienced, you probably can handle the challenges even when you do things the wrong way at first because you didn't know what was coming. On Expert, it's a bit more likely that you will paint yourself into a corner (if you hadn't yet played it on Experienced).
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This is up there with Dredmor's "Congratulations! You have died" for wonderful game-end snark. And it's useful!
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zirconmusic posted:I only like having it there because I think there are people who don't have the means to back a project at a higher tier, but still want to show their support as a backer. No idea if it works or not but I like for people to feel good. $1 backers can also follow your updates. I got in on a group buy of a board game KS, and threw in the $1 so I can see how it develops/delays.
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rt4 posted:I'm on the edge of my seat for so many Kickstarters right now. Anxiously awaiting news from Tangledeep, Jupiter Hell, that turn-based Mechwarrior, not to mention the still under development Caves Of Qud and Cogmind. Hopefully I can finish Sproggiwood (on normal) before one of them hits 1.0 What's the mechwarrior one?
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