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Gils posted:I find it odd that in all the love Corruptors get, no one ever talks about their best ability- the power to challenge someone to a duel in the Shadow Realm. ...for one turn, because Flames of Urok + Fearscape require 180 mana to sustain. It's probably not worth taking Cornac for that, because you'll be pushing 20 or more by the time you have the mana to actually use it effectively.
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Wow, it's not even pretending to generate fair escort quests anymore. Anyone have any insight on how I can get her to the portal in one piece? Angry Diplomat posted:I have an important question: where can I find the insanely The music is inside <your ToME install dir>/game/modules/tome-music.team (which is just a renamed zip file), in the data/music/ directory. The specific track you want, based on a quick look at the source, is either Lords of the Sky or Through the Dark Portal. E: oh wait, Tempest Peak. I think you want Driving the Top Down for that. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Jazerus posted:You don't, unless you can get all the way to the end of that line of enemies in a controlled manner - if you've been putting points in Conveyance then you have a shot. She's going to run, and probably she will have a turn or two before she dies, so you could theoretically get between them and her if she can get a little distance and then tell her to wait so that she doesn't run forward into the inevitable Storm Giant boulderthrower/family of storm drakes/etc. that's probably further up the corridor. Also, you have Lightning, which is a beam attack - you could damage them all with one shot of that. Unfortunately, I doubt a Shadowblade has the magic to kill them in one shot - it'd be tough even for an archmage, necromancer, or anorithil to do that, but they could break out other beams/AoEs/etc. A Corruptor could just cast Pacification Hex on the guys close to her and probably have time to kill them all before it wore off. This would be a 100% fail situation for anybody but the classes that are adept at precisely targeted area attacks. Even then the orc pyromancer would mulch her instantaneously if he decided to target her instead of the player. I ended up casting Illuminate to blind the orcs and then Shadow Stepping to the escort's side. It would have worked, too, except that just offscreen in that screenshot there's five giants and giant thunderers. With those odds, I think my only option would have been to hit her with Teleport and hope she landed near the portal. quote:But don't worry, you really don't need absolutely every possible advantage to win with a character most of the time. It sucks that you're losing an anorithil escort, but if you feel like getting back at the game for its bullshit then you can game the next escort you get. Escort class is randomly generated on the spot, so if you crash the game by ending the process you can go back to the beginning of the zone and reroll the class. Make that loremaster an anorithil! None of the loot or encounters will change, just the escort. I don't endorse doing this on a character you genuinely feel could win, since it cheapens it a little, but if you're just trying to learn the game it won't hurt anything. Thankfully I already got Celestial/Light off another Anorithil, I was just hoping to be able to get +1 Healing Light for free. Also, that trick won't work for me because I have it set to save every level transition rather than every zone transition, after a few crashes that cost me a bunch of progress. Jazerus posted:They are attempting to hold off/control a demon. Kill them to fight it. How nasty a demon are we talking? Should I save it for post-Master?
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Shadowblades continue to go poorly for me; if I can survive the first dungeon I completely wreck everything until level 20-25, and then I die and die and die and die and die.  Decided to roll up a Cursed. Is it worth taking the Cursed Aura tree?
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Dodge Charms posted:You might notice that I listed 48 points worth of stuff to buy. Let's see... You start with 2. You get 1 per level, excepting levels that are multiples of 5, and 3 at level 50. So that's 44. Sandworm Heart is +1, Arena and Brotherhood are +2 each. So 49 total. Those are all the references I can find in the code. On top of that, you can get some "bound" generic points in other ways; escorts give you up to +9 in various skills, and Antimagic, Fungus, and Cursed Aura trees each start with 1 point in them.
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Holy poo poo cursed  Started Urkis at level 18, decided, gently caress it, let's do this. He was camping the stairs with two Ultimate Gwelgoroths. I ruined them all and stood triumphant with 18 hitpoints left and three turns of Thunderstorm still on me. Strode off into the sunset with the Thunderstorm DoT bouncing off my Rampage
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Something has gone badly wrong in the Ruined Dungeon. In the northwest chamber, there's a 3x3 area where I take damage from the final guardian's Kinetic Aura. The guardian itself doesn't appear, though. It's not invisible - I can stand in the center of the aura without running into anything (and still take damage).
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Magres posted:Speaking of that place, how do you figure out what the order of the orbs is in ruined dungeon? I always just trial and error it and murder everything that spawns There's three signs in the dungeon that together tell you what order to activate them in. quote:If you can get a hold of DarkGod on IRC, I bet he can fix it for you pre:--- [DarkGod2] idle 1051:03:39, signon: Thu Oct 31 19:13:42
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I just hit 30 as a Cursed for the first time! What should I be looking for in a prodigy? Cursed are Str/Wil, so Superpower is looking attractive, as is I Can Carry The World. On the defensive side, Fungal Blood and Spell Feedback look cool, but I'm not sure how good they are in practice.
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Zereth posted:Don't have wildfire unlocked. How can you check your progress on that anyway? Open the achievement list in game and scroll down to Pyromancer. It'll tell you how much fire damage you've dealt total.
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Garin posted:Oh yeah, I did something I couldn't have been assed to do with other characters that won recently. Holy poo poo  I've never had a character make it past Dreadfell who had enough Mag to equip the Staff. Is this clued anywhere?
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For some reason, when I try to deposit stuff in my vault, weapons and armour aren't listed. Everything else is, though. Anyone else encountered this?
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Made it to the East with my cursed and just cleared the Vor Armoury. How hosed am I if I open that locked door? Will I at least be able to get away with my 1500%+ movespeed?
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:You might get oneshot. If you do not get oneshot you should be able to run to the exit in the bottom left, but opening that door carries a massive risk of getting instakilled for almost every character. If you try to fight hahahahahahahah well I'll look pretty stupid if you prove me wrong, but honestly that fight is hard at Level 50 for most characters. Prepare to look stupid, then  Didn't die once.
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Level 42! Actually, 42 was a while ago, I just didn't notice. Should I be getting Irresistible Sun? I've heard so much about it.
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DancingMachine posted:Gonna try a Cursed out. Time to go read some guides. Hopefully I can get him to the fortress because I got some good cursed-specific artifacts in the vault. My Cursed is currently the closest I've ever gotten to winning. Rampage all day every day
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Perestroika posted:Quite a close call (note how I spiked my two main shields while the mastery is still on cooldown), and I almost died to his spawns after he bit it, too. Afterwards, I even managed to beat off the ambush with not too much trouble. Feeling high on success, I ended up giving the necromancer-quest from Last Hope a whirl. I triggered a boss and was teleported with into some kind of weird hell-dimension. Despite pulling out all the stops, I bit it within three turns, losing my last life. This game... That hell dimension is the Fearscape. You basically have three options for dealing with it: - Wait it out. It's a sustain that also drains 5 vim/turn, so eventually they'll run out. If you stay alive until then, you'll be back in the real world and right next to them. - Dispel it. As a sustain, if you can break the sustain, you'll be kicked out of the fearscape. I believe Disperse Magic works for this. - Kill the caster. Depending on who it is this may be the easiest option or completely impossible. Every turn that you're in the Fearscape you'll also be taking fire damage. So will your opponent, but if they're a demon or have the Flames of Urokh sustain, it will instead heal them.
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Using Irresistible Sun on a brittle ooze is hilarious.ProfessorCirno posted:Age of Ascendancy: They disguise themselves as orcs, fool pretty much none of the actual orc leaders, but dangle enough power and revenge in front of them to get their attention. So, now that I've just finished all four Prides for the first time, it's actually worse than that. The Prides all found out, but none of them realized that the other Prides knew, and all of them were paranoid that if they made a move on the leaders, the other Prides would turn on them. If they had sat down and compared notes things would have been over very quickly. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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My first victory!  Cursed was hella fun, but I was so tanky that the final battle was kind of anticlimactic. The High Peak stair guardians were actually significantly more dangerous - without the Spellhunt Remnants to break sustains I'm pretty sure they would have fearscaped me to death. You can't really wait it out when your opponent has 2000+ vim. Now for Atamathon E: why do you get all these amazing T5 gems when you will never, ever find a blank T5 ring or amulet to put them into? ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Kanos posted:Alchemists can grind gems into ammunition(higher tiers are better)/put them in equipment and mindslayers can use higher tier gems as focuses(though mindstars have largely removed this practice in practical play). I mean T5 artifact gems. I guess they're useful for alchemists with Imbue Item? Seriously though, I'm not sure why they exist otherwise, or why the imbue amulet questline exists. There is exactly one shop in the entire game that sells rings and amulets; antimagic characters can't get to it at all and even magic characters probably won't find any blank T5s there. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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mr. nobody posted:edit: worst moment was when I started an elf archmage and within two mouseclicks I was in some platform world, killed the couple of NPCs that attacked me, could only move on the 8 tiles of the platform I was on, and had no way to reach anywhere else or leave so game over. That's the Abashed Expanse, the Archmage-specific starting zone. The platforms will teleport randomly around, and as long as you're there you have fully controllable phase door even at rank 1, so you shouldn't have any trouble making it to the large platform where the exit is. IIRC, the mage who sends you there tells you most of this if you read the dialogue.
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Ciaphas posted:I managed to unlock Cursed earlier and try one. My guy looked at a weapon and got all You skipped out on Cursed Aura, which is amazing. You need ten points in it before it becomes at all useful - five points in "curse more poo poo" and five points in "make your curses bonuses as well as penalties" - but once you do, holy poo poo. How does 30% resist all for three turns every time you kill something sound? Another 30% resist all every time you move? Enemies you kill rising as your undead thralls? I took AM, Fungus, and Cursed Aura on my winning Cursed, and while Fungus was probably the best of the three, Cursed Aura was good enough that I can't say that definitively.
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, but I decided to decline... whatever mechanic was being presented to me. (I then got murdered by Bill again.) What did I skip out on?
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's not really pink so much as salmon-colored. There is exactly one way to get rare-quality items: every rare enemy you fight (the ones with class levels and salmon-colored names) will drop one. Also, randarts will say [unique] in the item description, and rares won't.
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theshim posted:I...actually did not! Hah! Out of curiosity, what else gives you that slot, or is it just the two? You get the third equipment slot, Telekinetic Grasp, and Beyond the Flesh when you learn any talent with the autolearn_mindslayer property. Looking at the source, that means any talent from the following psionic trees: absorption, projection, psi-fighting, focus, augmented mobility, voracity, finer energy manipulation, mental discipline, grip, psi-archery, greater psi-fighting, brainstorm
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Fibby Boy posted:How come steam achievements don't show up properly? At a guess, because ToME4 has ~1200 achievements, more than any other game, and Steam completely shits itself trying to display them.
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jsoh posted:How do people have so much trouble with the crypt? Just open all the coffins first. Because sometimes the RNG serves up a level 40+ sun paladin vampire lord that counters all attacks for 250 damage/hit, dies at -1000 HP and can keep shields up for roughly infinity turns. The boss of the crypt is trivial. It's always the coffins that kill you.
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Perdido posted:Is there any way to edit addons? Sure thing, the addons are just zip files full of lua scripts. Unzip, edit, re-zip.
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Nikolaos posted:Oh and you only block physical damage unless you take a prodigy to let you block anything as far as I remember. No, as just discussed you block anything that your shield has resistance to. Spectral Shield upgrades that to anything at all no matter what your shield resists.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I don't know about making every enemy unique, but I'd love a mod that cut every map to 25% of its current size and quadrupled XP and loot to compensate. Like Dredmor's No Time To Grind mode? God, I'd love that. Or perhaps just cut out a lot of floors. Cut every dungeon down to one floor, two for dungeons with special boss levels. I guess Dreadfell and High Peak can have one extra level. Maybe.
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Dairy Power posted:I've never found a way around the item bar blocking the bottoms of certain levels. I end up just unlocking the bar and temporarily moving it, which is a complete pain in the rear end. But less of a pain in the rear end than losing a character because I can't see what's going on. If you unlock the tilebar and drag it hard against the side of the screen, it will glow green and "snap" into place; having done that, the game will try to avoid placing tiles under it, although it doesn't always succeed (I play with the tilebar on the right, under the map, and have had issues with half of the rightmost column getting cut off). If it's not snapped the game gives no fucks and will cheerfully put you underneath it.
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Magres posted:
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Galick posted:So I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone and unlock Mindslayer and Solipsist in the same run - to do this, I need to run a Yeek. The problem is, holy mother of gently caress Yeeks are fragile. I've only made it to subject Z twice, if that, and every other time I die somewhere in Norgos' lair due to getting rushed by thirty million yaechs. Any tips on this? Preferred class? I don't have Wildfire unlocked yet, if that's an opinion on what I should use, and the best non-Archmage option seems to be Doomed. I have a lot of trouble with the Yeek early game, but a pattern I've settled into that usually works: - start with the Ritch Tunnels. Play through to the third floor, but as soon as you enter it, leave - if you continue exploring it the Ritch Queen will probably one-shot you from outside your vision radius. - clear Norgos' Lair. Carefully. - finish the Ritch Tunnels. - head to the Complex and Rod out as soon as you arrive, before you get into Z's aggro radius. Return much later and apply beatdowns.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed. You played literally the, bar none, most fragile race in the entire game, who takes a big penalty to their survivability, and then said that you had no survivability. Which has me scratching my head a little! Part of this may be that pre-1.2, careful shield management meant that low HP was rarely an issue. It sounds like in 1.2, shields and especially shield spiking have been nerfed, making it much harder to just tank everything without letting it touch your HP.
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How does a two-hander mindslayer work statwise? Beyond the Flesh lets you use Wil/Cun in place of Str/Dex for attacks, but it doesn't change the requirements to actually wield the weapon in the first place, so you need Str as well as Wil, Cun and Con, which leaves you stretched a bit thin. That was never an issue with psiblade mindslayers because of the different stat requirements for mindstars.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Not all my Yeeks are Zerkers. The only class I can get out of their starting area no problem is Summoner, for obvious reasons. The Yeek starting island is kind of a pain. This is the approach I use, which doesn't always work but does seem to work more often than not. First, hit the Ritch Tunnels. These are generally easier unless the map generator completely hates you, and there's lots of long narrow hallways with turns in them to bottleneck enemies or break line of sight. If you have ranged attacks, use them, because you are way too fragile to depend on melee. Use Dominant Will, too - it takes no time to cast and if it connects it's an automatic kill that also distracts other enemies. And there's no reason not to learn it because it's a prerequisite for Quickened. Once you hit Ritch Tunnels 3, stop. If you keep poking around here the Ritch Queen will see you and her favourite hobby is one-shotting low level characters from outside their vision range. Leave and go to Murgol's Lair. The Lair is harder, with traps and drowning to contend with as well as generally nastier enemies, but some of those enemies will be fighting each other, which takes some pressure off you. Go to the bottom and kill the boss, which is much easier than the Ritch Queen. While you're doing this, put your stat points into Con. Maybe spare a point or two for other stats to unlock new skills as you level, but as a Yeek you're doubly hosed on hitpoints -- once from the racial HP value and again from your lovely starting Con. Triply hosed, if you're playing a class with an HP penalty. So you want to crank Con as soon as possible to at least partially compensate for that and reach the point where you aren't getting instantly killed by everything. Now go back to the tunnels and kill the Queen -- or, if you're not feeling good about your odds, just bail, since you have the Rod of Recall now. When you're done, go the mainland tunnel and activate the Rod to get to the world map without ever fighting Subject Z. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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AndroidHub posted:I've played a lot of rogue-likes and it wouldn't feel right for me without permadeath, I'm getting familiar enough that it's not too big of a deal. The game is balanced around Adventure. Roguelike is a challenge mode. It's not unlimited lives, like Nethack's Explore mode; think of it as getting a free Amulet of Lifesaving at certain level-ups.
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Funnypost Collabo posted:What OS are you on? I guess it's probably an issue caused by a combination of low-end hardware Win8, your specs aren't much higher than mine. I was able to squeeze out 4-5 frames per second with the same graphics settings as you in 800x600 on the non-Steam version, it also takes 5+ minutes to load the main menu when I start it up. 5fps would probably be fine for most roguelikes but it makes a lot of stuff like navigating menus and glancing at enemy talents nearly impossible in TOME I'll test it on my work laptop on the bus home and let you know how it goes, it's a not-terribly-beefy netbook. 1.1 worked fine on it, though. Weirdly, on my personal laptop -- which has a lovely video card but is extremely robust in every other respect -- it runs fine, but takes several minutes to start up. I have no idea why. It's not doing much of anything with the CPU in that time, and I can't imagine why it would be blocked on disk IO because the game simply isn't that big, even if it were loading the whole thing into memory. That just leaves network, but why would it be spending several minutes on network traffic every time it starts up?
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I haven't had a chance to test it on the work laptop yet, but I found out why it takes forever to start up! It is blocked on network; it is, apparently, checking the Steam Cloud status of a great many save, vault, and charball files, including some that no longer show up in the game's save list and dozens that don't even show up in the Steamcloud sync directory. I think 1.2 has horribly broken Steamcloud integration somehow. If you run t-engine from the ToME install directory directly, you don't get Steam integration but it starts up instantly.
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Funnypost Collabo posted:Cheers, I'm looking forward to hearing your results. I've been installing some more games today to see what this thing is capable of running, and I can run New Vegas and the recent XCOM with settings on low at around 20fps, but I'm still stuck at ~5fps in an 800x600 window in TOME, and similarly to you it's not exactly taxing my CPU. If my video card can run New Vegas/XCOM at low settings, I think it should be able to handle TOME at low settings, so I'm starting to think it's something more than a hardware issue Work laptop looks fine with all default settings. Actually looks nicer than my personal laptop -- not sure if I turned some things off on that and forgot, or if it's a side effect of carrying over my config files from many versions ago (work laptop is a clean install). Steamcloud is still totally hosed on both laptops, though, so the problem is in something it's stored in the cloud rather than a cache file issue or something.
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