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>Are mystery dungeon games allowed in this thread?
Generally yes, most mystery dungeon games(Shiren the Wanderer, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Etrian Mystery Dungeon, etc.) can be considered roguelikes
>Is Elin/Elona allowed?
Yes, they are roguelikes. Please do not post your Little Sister farms
>Is Dwarf Fortress allowed?
If it's adventure mode, yes. But adventure mode is boring. /tg/ has a general for fortress mode playthroughs but you can share here too!
>FAQ
https://l.idrix.fr/J7sOv
>What to Play
https://l.idrix.fr/eYNOh
>Individual Game Pastas
https://l.idrix.fr/wXd8t
>Roguelike Archive (Collection of pretty much every free roguelike there is)
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z
>/rlg/'s "most popular" Cataclysm: DDA fork
https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/releases


>RogueBasin News
12 Feb 2026 - Overworld v2.7.4 released
10 Feb 2026 - Shadow of the Wyrm v1.9.1.2 released
10 Feb 2026 - Cogmind Beta 16.1 "Unchained More" released
10 Feb 2026 - Shamogu v1.4.1 released Itch.io
10 Feb 2026 - Harmonist v1.0.2 released Itch.io
8 Feb 2026 - ZMAngband II.8 Itch
8 Feb 2026 - Cataclysm: Bright Nights v0.10 stable released
6 Feb 2026 - Tales of Kathay v0.11.0 Open Alpha Itch Steam
3 Feb 2026 - ROGUE-FP v3.9.1 Steam gog
2 Feb 2026 - Monster Lily v0.9 "Demo" Steam
1 Feb 2026 - Wizard School Dropout Preview 12 "I'll Believe in Anything" released

>/rlg/'s shared DCSS online account
User: rlgrobin
Password: ownfault (or "robin" on Xtahua)

Roguelike Servers
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>Please do not post your Little Sister farms
I didn't realize those games were so based.
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What is the BEST roguelike
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>>557262126
>Please do not post your Little Sister farms
Okay but why not
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>>557266668
Rogue. You can't get any more roguelike than Rogue.
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Please do post your Little Sister farms
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>>557268912
But you can, rogue isn't a roguelike because it isn't like rogue, it is rogue.
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>>557266878
We have enough threads for gooners on this board.
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Well?
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This was my favorite general 14 years ago. Did DCSS continue with the trend of removing content over time rather than adding?
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>>557278694
Lol.
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>>557280465
The new trend is taking an old race, giving it one new mutation, renaming it, and calling it a new race so regret-index can claim that xe added lots of new features to the game.
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>>557262126
It's nice to make it as OP image though I guess you just grabbed the most recent one.
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>>557278694
>spend a year building a complex chemical reaction machine
>it's still makeshift
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Someone explain how Confusion isn't just an instant game over in Qud. You can't do anything except bump into things or run away if you remember the shape of the map.
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>>557268912
Ackchyually Moria is more roguelike than Rogue itself by Toy's own account.
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Regeneration and Two Heads are just better than the fun mutations aren't they...
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>>557266878
do it
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>>557289062
so just pay attention, or keep some fuckwheat with you to eat. like put it int a box without anything else or something. or just don't get confuged
>>557302307
you just need to move fast somehow (sprint, mlegs, charge, whatever) and have a ranged weapon and it's gg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrk40pZ8Kc8
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did you know you can just do things and not live in fear all the time
crazy
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>>557278694
Wow! Imagine all you will learn by attempting it!
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>>557266668
Cataclysm DDA, Achra, and Elin/ Elona are the holy trinity of mogging the shit out of the rest of the genre.
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>>557307062
More like boring acne ridden e-celeb. How are you a multi millionaire but still have a fucked up face like that? That's like dying on the first floor as a Minotaur Berserker in Crawl.
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>just realized they made triffids toxic to eat since last year
Why is butchering so useless in DDA
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>>557309224
how do you know he's a multi millionaire
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>>557308669
>Achra
This looks like an auto battler (roguelite) for wanking to numbers going up.
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>>557309937
It's the Marvel vs Capcom of roguelikes if that makes sense to you (it probably doesn't).
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PoA: DBZ style
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>>557308669
DDA sucks ass now, proficiencies are the worst
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Found another CRIT base. Almost got did in, was able to kill a brute but it broke me arm. I sent in Cyborg wife to finish off the rest with machine gun. Now was a good time to sort my loot. I basically took one of every clothing item I want, plus a spare. Sorting piles to break down and unload, and fixed everything I wanted fixed before reloading the truck. I'll siphon out the fuel and be off. Not sure where i'm going, hoping to find some more CMBs but might have to lab dive more for that.
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What you believe and what you lose is up to you?
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>>557309937
If you know what you're doing, you *can* play it nearly like an autobattler where all the combat is done for you. That's because character customization involves picking skills and items with certain triggers to activate effects, and a few of the triggers are automatic, like "on entrance". If you only pick automatic triggers then you don't have to do much input in battle. I don't usually play that way, but it can definitely win.

For the record most triggers, like attack, hit stand still, prayer, step, etc. will require player input to activate. You can design your character however you want, and depending how you put your character together, you will use different tactics to fight enemies. Different enemies are more or less dangerous to different builds. That creates a lot of variety in both gameplay and build design, with meaningful differences from run to run. That's why people like it.
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time to learn how to play esper
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miss her
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>storm talisman up and running before lair
Everybody get in the Fucking GarbagE

Holy shit this feels strong
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https://youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc
And I want another one.
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>>557327331
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECuQaaGGfA&list=RDRECuQaaGGfA&start_radio=1
Mogged
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>>557328051
>hank green
>better than cardy
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>>557324327
forgot the explode minds ability
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>>557324327
remember to eat the interdimensional psychic bounty hunter's minds to increase your sparkle
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>>557289062
You should have some AOE stuff to deal with getting swarmed. If you're, instead, being plinked to death by an enemy psyker, you should have put more points into ego. Skill issue.

>>557302307
Yes, but the game is piss easy to break, so just do whatever you want.
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>>557324327
Where's the damage?
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Meehhh
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https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/f/f0/Medic_specialcompleted12.wav
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Plot twist
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What are some good damage abilities for esper in qud?
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Failed my first trve win in the final boss' lair on a summoner build of all things cuz I didn't read the fact that the arbiter applies six million inflame each time you summon. The dev really wanted to make sure that idler and summoner builds were doodoo higher up, huh? I guess it makes sense. Kind of? wm1 builds are honestly way more easy and straightforward for me at least.
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>>557370638
The only stand still/summoner builds that I've gotten to work are the ones that heavily abuse the astral tree because meditate is broken. If you have a ton of patience you can just abuse the astral/ice prestige class.
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>>557370638
Summons don't scale super well, but stand still builds are extremely powerful, probably the strongest in the game.
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>>557370638
I've got a couple to work, imo if you are making them the actual focus and not just a means to an end you really want to go Paragon and super stack buffs on them.
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wew, first win!
Fulsome Fusillade + Polar Vortex is broken.
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TLG or BN?
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Still can't believe there's an entire isekai webcomic based on DCSS.
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>>557289062
You shouldn't get hit in qud like at all when you get your build off the ground. Ideally you see the bad man first and have some way of killing or debilitating him super fast or have a strat to bypass his specific gimmick.There are multiple enemies that can stunlock you, freeze you, insta kill you, teleport you to their abuse chamber, shoot you with their super gun and so on. Engage on map edges to change zones easily if need be. Corners are good since you can easily move through 2 zones in 2 turns what should allow you to escape most pursuers. In the end qud heavily relies on player knowledge. Once you know gimmick of the enemy you can play around that.
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>>557378108
Grats.
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>>557378108
>getting your first win in 0.34 after slippery slime and the Zot 5 rape chamber were added
That's kinda surprising. Of course it had to be a Deep Elf. The new meta is fucking elves, man.
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>>557369628
https://www.qudzoo.com/advice/mutations#mental-mutations

This is a great site. If you like discovering stuff yourself then it might spoil the experience slightly by telling you what the good and bad mutations are, but if you're playing permadeath mode then there is no shame in using outside information.
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Should I start Qud or PoA next?
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>>557399105
PoA
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>>557380136
TLG is better, BN is a boring power fantasy
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>>557408324
>Not being tedious and requiring weeks of IRL time to accomplish things is a "power fantasy"
DDA/TLG is neetcore gaming
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>>557399105
PoA. There's at least two people ITT climbing to cycle 31, and you can be the third!
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Worm Born prestige is conceptually weak because you get martial stats from keeping summons alive. The two ideas just don't work together, but the numbers are really good to make up for it.

I didn't actually get to test my damage because the game put Firebirds in the final area, and I had to take off my damage items to have Scorch removal. I could probably deal 10 million damage in a single hit if I was wearing the poison redeal skirt instead.
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>>557417465
That's perfect solid dmg regardless.
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Finally figured out how to make blood-drinker work. Skeleton fixes* the resist issues.

*does not fix fire, ice, astral, lightning
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>>557412259
BN is a dead fork, give it up ruskie
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>>557432449
Stable 10 is about to be released according to one of the commits from yesterday
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>>557408324
>TLG is better
How do i fix my supposedly "above average" characters running out of breath after running for 30 seconds?
I gained 24 kgs irl and am arguably fat but i can still run for an hour quite decently. What the fuck is wrong with my TLG character?
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>>557432449
Go find another piece of fun to kill off in whatever branch you dev for.
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>>557421916
It is legit 50% hit/block per summon so yeah when you have the guys alive to buff you, you will do a lot of damage. It is really not comfortable playing an attack build that gives a lot of different enemies inflame stacks on summon, though.
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Aim feels like the most broken skill in all of Achra. You could random select your character and still get a win if you went aim + two hand + that psych skill that buffs your range.
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>>557378108
What tileset is this?
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>>557268912
>Rogue. You can't get any more roguelike than Rogue.
NetHack
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>>557444991
No, that's more Nethacky than Rogue
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>the nethack devs thought of everything!
>look inside
>can't do anything clever or interesting at all
>about as basic as Crawl
>b-but you can put butter on your armor to trick a boss!1 *holds up spork*
Pipe down, unc.
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>>557449345
I'm afraid you might be retarded, kiddo
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>pick chaos knight
>no one wants to talk to me
damn....
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I mean I don't wanna die but I've been better.
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>>557442605
It's the offline version with some init.txt edits.
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tile_font_stat_size = 25
tile_font_msg_size = 24
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This is probably the most fun I've had with Achra. Insane damage and block, but with a 1/10 chance of any attack hitting me directly, meaning I still had to pay close attention to my positioning. Good times.
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>>557474089
>7 deaths
Not close enough apparently.
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>>557482278
It's called we win those. This is my first real win, say something nice about it.
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>>557482875
>>557474089
You guys are getting up there in cycles. This is about where the game starts to feel really hard if you let the enemies put any sort of debuffs on you because the stacks are amplified by a crazy amount. Watch out for Scorch especially.
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>>557477596
Well, yes.
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>>557262126
how can i get real good at cogmind?
since the EM nerf and updates that followed it seems that old tactics have been massively nerfed into near uselessness.
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>>557453656
Game name?
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>>557453656
look like ADOM
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>>557490240
Idk, what changed? I last played on beta 16 I think and it was the same as always
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>>557487782
Those and the monks are my most hated enemies.
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>>557396880
>meta is fucking elves
sexy, slutty elves...
really though, how did DECj turn into
>opopoppp
for the first 5+ floors, magic dart wasn't like this in the past
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>>557503467
Really? Magic Dart has always benefitted from spell power. If you start as Hedge Wizard, the same spell is a lot weaker.

The bigger change was just adding low level spell parchments as common drops, instead of only books dropping, so that your DECj always has useful spells available. It makes it a lot easier to use your high aptitudes because the game drops you more spells which tend to be a wider variety of schools.
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>>557506891
I'm just really surprised by killing gnolls on D:3 in 3-4 casts, but I also did take a bit of a break, so I absolutely could be misremembering

parchments feel almost excessive, but maybe that too is
>back in my days...
dementia

I'm really enjoying the orbs, in any case
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>>557508214
I'm not a fan of parchments, doom, or the shapeshifting rework. The orbs would be cool if one of the orb types didn't put doom on you and make you leave halfway through Zot to grind off status effects. I don't think experience should be the method to remove doom and banes.

Parchments also feel like the current devs don't look at magic in the same way earlier devs did. The loot in DCSS has always been highly variable, at least as long as I've played, like some games you find a +10 long sword artefact on D3, and some games you have to clear Lair with a random scimitar you found. Finding books wasn't guaranteed either, so your casters had some hard games and some easy games. Now you just find parchments every game with level-appropriate spells, and you don't have those hard games with bad loot that you have to struggle through. They've moved spells from the domain of highly variable loot into the domain of predictable, expected character progression. I think that's why casters are meta right now (though of course Minotaurs are still easy mode too).
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>>557509651
shapeshifting just feels dead to me; 5 turns to take off a talisman is utterly stupid
like, sure, maybe
>rush ice form, rush blade hands, rush statue form
wasn't a particularly involved strategy, but there was at least a potential for meaningful tactical decisions which is just gone

spellcasters do seem to be strongly favored; parchments, instant first gift from Veh, Jiyva cant eat spellbooks... just feels biased, and doesnt feel like
>struggle early to get strong a bit earlier
at all anymore

but hey maybe my 3 wins are simply enough, even though the strongest one was only 5 runes. not like I am anywhere near consistent anyway
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>>557502839
I probably die more on good runs to the egg that spawns lightning dudes than anything else. The red snakes that give Sickness can also be real motherfuckers
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>>557514578
>egg that spawns lightning dudes
Are you playing summoners? They have an annoying ability that will jump to you if they're hitting your minions.

>red snakes
Those guys can definitely be tough when the game first switches from "early game enemies" to "mid game enemies". They're just a big ball of stats, so you have to know how strong your character is before clicking on that stage.
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>>557493493
>storagemaxxing meta got axed(for the better i'll admit)
>propulsionmaxxing n00b strat got axed
>EMmaxxing got axed
>GOLEMmaxxing is meme tier because you're basically fucked if you spent all your energy and didn't destroy your adversaries yet
>fabmaxxing got axed
>rambomaxxing got axed
>matrix zionmaxxing got axed
>pissing off pierce brosnan feels like death guaranteed if you can't solo COM and AC0(never managed to)
>sigixmaxxing turns the game into a stealth game
The only strat that didn't get axed is infowar with hover, but infowar processors and scanners are difficult to obtain
But heavies that got sensors and EM nerfs are the ones that completely destroy my chances at ever getting to AC0 in newer versions
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By the way this is the enemy that kills me more than any other. I guess some builds just nuke the entire map and never have to worry about it, but even a build with 4 or 5 range like a Jade Pilum can get screwed by these guys attacking at 20 range, if the random map generation decides to leave them an open lane to attack at max range.

Honorable mention to Firebirds being uber fast and applying 200 stacks of Scorch in a single attack. They can even apply Scorch outside of line of sight.
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>>557503467
Elves are indeed sex, but what the game really needs are beastfolk. Let me play as a catgirl already...
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>>557270658
It is possible for something to be like itself because it is possible for something to be unlike itself.
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>>557522194
Is it possible for rouge to be unlike itself?
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>>557523382
>itself
herself.
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>>557523457
post your rouge wiafu picture
your best one
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>>557517293
nta but I haven't played cogmind in a while, seems like these are mostly nerfs to stealth hacker which is understandable since it was by far the strongest build for consistency
I'm assuming it's not just nerfs, what got added?
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>>557516041
>>557518054
>are you playing summoners
Mostly no because I've become tired of forcing blight cult memes to watch the game do things without my input for over a full minute, but their sheer speed still fucks over some of my melee dudes.
I've definitely gotten schmacked by the flower things, too, in the exact way you describe. When you've got 5 of them on the opposite side of the map from you, and you actually have to attack them to kill them, you're generally just fucked. Their King in Yellow impersonation goes hard.
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>>557503467
I played DECj in 0.7, magic dart was always great
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I did an uno reverse on the final boss. The Poison King puts corrosion stacks on me when he attacks, so I used this Hamid Pendant. He puts 1000 corrosion stacks on me instantly, and I get +5 flat damage per corrosion stack. I press my 3rd prayer with 56 grace stacks and he instantly dies to 56 astral damage hits and 56 lightning damage redeal hits. Every single hit gets the +5000 damage from corrosion stacks.
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>>557513998
statue form has always been dogshite though, the slow is so bad
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Does DCSS still have the stupid design of
>cast AOE spell
>of door is closed the spell dissipates faster
And I assume that if line of sight affects this, then the following also occurs?
>cast spell AOE spell
>half of the spell is hidden from view due to how thick the spell is
>that part of the spell now dissipates faster than the part near you
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Other than weapons, or if I want to add some more solar panels, final form.
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>>557531571
Clouds and temp things like foxfires and orbs of destruction still disappear the turn they leave los, if that's what you mean. If you Firestorm at the edge of los the aoe does the normal damage beyond los but the fireclouds and vortexes don't spawn where you can't see.
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>>557531660
Very nice. It does remind of cataclysm lore though. Didnt it mention some monsters in the air that came through the portals that wrecked planes and helicopters during the initial apocalypse?
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>>557533459
I don't remember that specifically, last I looked it was that some giant monsters or some shit had come through the portals, wrecked everything and then either died or fucked off back through the portals. Mostly as an excuse for why you can survive and armies couldn't. No idea idea what it is now.
I also don't think BNs has the exact same lore as DDA now anyway and I don't have the faintest about the other branch.
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>>557518054
>>557516041
>>557487782
True. Casters are so OP in Achra. It's like they don't give a fuck about anything other than your resistance to whatever element they are using. You could have 50000 poise while they have 50000 blind and they'd still be hitting you for 1000+ every turn from 20 tiles away.

Wanna know what else is OP? You turning yourself into an even more broken caster with Aim.
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Finally cleared out the lab with the help of my cyborgfu. Her hand to hand is good enough now where she can send people flying, helped a ton when dealing with a hulk near the bottom. There is one of those diamond coating machines down there and I got some mildly useful cbms out of it, oh and like 40 mininukes so I have a way to beat the game.
Currently I have to expand my car. I found a few welding rigs down there and some of those 3d printers so I'm going to lug those up with me and eventually slap them in the car.
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Idler and summoner builds are z tier, even the "broken" ones. Why? Because you ultimately have to let yeezus take the wheel. On an aggressive character I can actually make decisions that can save my life like moving in certain directions, attacking certain enemies, etc. I might just have to break my self imposed challenge of doing unique builds on every run because all the shit I have remaining pigeonholes me into this god awful playstyle.
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>>557545114
I feel you. I need to get Prisma done for the star, but I keep putting it off because higher-cycle summoning builds are both boring and bad.
I've been trying it with the Death/Fire prestige and your usual blight culting; it's definitely winnable, but dps is a serious problem. Last run I thought I'd give Lizard Head a go to try to shore it up and got BTFO by the snek boss. I think instead I need to just build it like a standard Death sacrifice run, with the helmet that adds doom, and just use the fire damage as a vehicle to add scorch.

That said - the fact that the prestige gives you hits on your own dudes is interesting. I've just been using it with pyrokinesis to ramp up ally deaths, give healing, and add a little damage onto adjacent enemies, but I had another idea. There's an astral chakram that causes units to teleport on hit. What if I took that and splashed Master Teleport to give myself Meditate? I think there's potential there, but it would mean I can never pray again without randomly dumping myself into enemy mobs, so I'm not sure how to reconcile that.
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>>557526476
the new heavy class will also fuck up combat-focused builds
idk how the discord/patreon score topping clique feels about it but to me it feels like Kyzrati just overclocked the game's difficulty because the discord clique is all he interacts with so when he sees them doing meme runs like it's a PS2 children cartoon licensed game he must feel that the game is too easy, you still have farcom and easy modes but the game feels overall harder than it has ever been.
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>>557548583
He's making it even harder? Horrifying. I got filtered hard by that game ~4 years ago.
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>>557525380
I don't have any unfortunately.
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What are you guys doing? Church? Bump the thread!
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>>557557939
Um um um.
Ethonal or gas cell for CDDA? Id love to find an internal furnace but i need to work with what I got. I also have a shockwave generator but that seems dangerous, unlike the chain lightning cbm I have installed which can do no wrong
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>>557563070
did they remove cable chargers and the metabolic interchange?
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Wait in qud if I beguile some i dont get exp for there kills.?
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has anybody here done the Isherwood questlines?
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>>557564281
They are in bright nights. I think there is a that ratchet one laying around the lab too. I also have that cmb that detects cbms so hopefully I'll find some gone ones. I need an autoclave from the lab too.
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>>557565514
>CBM that detects CBMs
you can detect CBMs using a "bionic scanner" item as well, it's not very big either (0.351 L) which is very useful before you're a bionic superhuman
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>>557517293
>EMmaxxing got axed
Still works on most common enemies and it's the go-to for dealing with endgame hunters. Tesla bomb launcher and gamma bomb array are top tier crowd control.
>GOLEMmaxxing is meme tier
Pick up some of the biocells from the zionite cache so you can drop a full biocell to draw from it if you blow your wad early. You can also turn off 1 cannon if you think firing all 3 on a lone target will be overkill.
>fabmaxxing got axed
Authchips are more forgiving than the old system that would lock you out of all the fabs, and you can make authchips yourself with a brute force hack.
>rambomaxxing got axed
There are people who destroy and sterilize multiple maps trying to get Unchained to appear and they end the game with 8 weapon slots.
>heavies
You can usually avoid them completely. The lategame overseers are the only really nasty ones.
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>>557526476
Beta 14 and 15 added Scraptown which has a new alignment and a new ending goal.
Beta 16 added the Unchained, psychopath derelicts who work for MAIN.C and get sent after you if you make enough noise.
16.1 added a few more Unchained and 17 will add the rest.
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>>557557939
I'm slightly burnt out on Achra ATM. Deliberating getting into Elona, Elin, Cataclysm, or Amazing Cultivation Simulator.
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Best roguelike to play while driving? Preferably one that's better when drunk.
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>>557592978
Make Xzibit happy, play Cataclysm and you can drink and drive while you drink and drive.
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limited power
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>>557592978
DCSS with a Xom run
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>>557568770
>8 weapon slots
How??? At this many it doesn't matter how much matter or energy or cooling you have, you'll run out of capacity in a few volleys unless the goal is to abuse penetration(requiring mapgen to have made long thick corridors that hunters can't snipe you) to deal massive cumulative damage or using weapons as juryrigged armor
>biocells
of course but one biocell buys you like what, 2 or 3 volleys worth of time, not enough if rng doesn't wanna cooperate and you failed to hit core for 3 volleys in a row for ONE enemy out of 3 currently aggroed
>EMmaxxing
Yes but corrupted parts suck massive amounts of the great nut's nuts, the main appeal was that EM gave you free parts in exchange of higher energy cost and being useless against programmers just like kinetic is cheaper and has penetration in exchange of needing matter and being useless against hunters
i legit don't understand how people manage to sterilize floors like it's nothing, i know the meta setup but i wonder if its all RNG luck and they had to try multiple times before all variables were favorable for multiple floors in a row
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peepeepoopoolike
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>>557608809
For me? It's cumlikes.
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Bamp
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>>557601279
I don't know much about the game but wouldn't burst dmg be a good thing if used correctly?
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>>557601279
>How???
>using weapons as juryrigged armor
This is part of it. Guns have enough coverage that having 6 or more of them makes them function as your main armor. There's also the weapon mount utility that gives +20 accuracy but doubles weapon coverage. You could use that and fight at maximum range to take full advantage of your accuracy.
>one biocell buys you like what, 2 or 3 volleys worth of time, not enough if rng doesn't wanna cooperate
It's been the same for as long as I can remember. Carry more biocells, control your fights with sensors and jamming so you don't fight 3 at once, maybe use different reactors when you get ones that can generate as much as flux gen. VCR is better than flux gen and has a biocell's worth of storage. If you get enough utility slots to get all the golem utils, you get a second biocell array.
>corrupted parts
Put them on right before you evolve, or put them on and eat the corruption if you need them enough. Corruption is annoying but there are now three utilities to counter it. System restoration module got nerfed because you can't remove or repair it now, but there's also a corruption screen that blocks incoming corruption and a system guard for when you're already corrupted and have to put up with it. I had a run yesterday where I got 40% corruption from a combo of a bad chute and a bad dig that crushed multiple processors. I found so many system restos that I was down to single digit corruption by the time I got to caves.
>sterilize floors
Launchermaxxing and positioning are important. You can set up a base by using Trojan(Mask) on a recycling unit and build up a cache of spares that the recyclers won't mess with, then take your time setting up a nuke build. Launcher loader is like quantum capacitor for launchers, or you can simply stack 2-3 launchers. Lots of spare matter and a tractor beam are required though.
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Is there a guide for playing bright nights if its my first time playing cataclysm or do I have to sift through cdda guides and get the gist of it and just deal with the stuff thats different?
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How do I approach fighting humans with guns in CDDA? I got a couple of missions to kill bandits, and I'm afraid they're gonna swarm me with firearms. So far my killcount is 1400 something, but it's all zombies and wasps and such. I've been using melee and throwing stuff at hostiles, but I don't think that's going to work against guns.
My combat stats are: 9, 12, 8, 9 base stats. 4 melee, 5 unarmed, 4 bashing, 4 dodging, 8 throwing. 3 handguns and 3 rifles, which I almost never use. My character knows aikido, bojutsu, judo, karate and tiger.
For weapons, I use some 9mm handgun in emergencies, but the bulk is my throwing axe, ironshod staff (with bojutsu) and studded gloves for unarmed.
For armor, I have access to stuff you can loot from soldier and cop zombies. I pack the useful stuff I get from zombies into large backpacks and leave them in cleared buildings wherever I fight. I can fix a lot of it. Don't bother to carry most of it to the place I'm squatting at. I wear almost nothing when I actually fight. Just clothes, a leather vest, cut resistant gloves, a baseball helmet and scrap arm guards.
For vehicles, I only have a foldable bike. I could loot a working car probably, but my character can barely drive.
No companions.
I have 5 tailoring, 4 fabrication and quite a few books. I could make something, but I'd have to practice proficiencies for it to not take ages.
Can I get by just cleaning/fixing a ballistic or kevlar vest and wearing an army or motorcycle helmet and then just try to outrange them with an assault rifle or something? I really don't feel like spending days getting stuff from my caches and then training proficiencies to bring the crafting times down, just for 2 missions.
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>70 hours into elin
>still feel like I'm in the tutorial
Amazing game so far tho, pls reply with any beginner tips or tricks, currently working on filling out my party (up to 4/5 rn) after only using my little sister pet for the first 50 hours or so, completely slept on the fact that I could get more companions by just recruiting in my bases and asking them to join me
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>>557638131
Besides gaining platinum coins to go to trainers and getting exp multipliers for skills in towns, Food is the most important part of how fast and efficiently you level up. There are two different types of exp gains from food
First is the flat exp, STAT gain which is raw exp that you will gain from eating
Second is the STAT POTENTIAL which is an experience multiplier, having more potency multiplies all incoming exp for that given skill which decreases every level up in that given skill.
>I don't care too much about great food right now, i just need/am struggling to not starve
Make a sickle and go around random map tiles to harvest mushrooms. When planted on your home base, it only takes one single day to grow into a mature mushroom which you can cook using any recipes you've learned, good for speed grinding initial levels in farming and gives a good amount of food. As your farming increases you will notice that crops you harvest will have a random +stat to them correlating to the seed level. You can selectively breed a given +stat that you want by harvesting a good stat of your choice, and replanting only that.
Also If you haven't saved that dog from the cave Fiana gives you, do that. Should help with your food storage.
>all of my seeds wither as i pick it up
ALL plants, trees, shrubs and whatnot wether planted by you or not will drain fertility, so remove everything that wasnt planted by you directly to be able to plant more seeds. You increase fertility (which lets you plant more stuff) by increasing the home size by talking to your maid for 10 gold bars or hiring farmers or gardeners.
It all returns to food. No matter how much you try to escape the food grind, it will grind you down in the end.
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>>557641197
Thanks for all the tips, I haven't been doing much at my own camps, honestly. I spend a lot more time going from town to town, doing quests at the board and using oren to stock up on food and such. I never did ask anyone to be my maid though, wasn't even aware they gave you special options, thought it was just fluff, will have to look into this more and see what else they have an offer
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Found a clairvoyance artifact!
Unfortunately it's huge, and give -3 to perception while carried, but at least it's not something useless like a glove that irradiates you.
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So did C:DDA get better? I see a lot less bitching about it ITT than I did a year ago.
I used to play it way back - is now a good time to pick it up again?
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>>557643370
Most people play Bright Nights now I believe.
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>boot up Elin
>5 minutes into character creation screen
>feel to overwhelmed and jaded to care about the 5000 pages of lore, tutorials, and mechanics
I don't know how gaymers do it. Games should be like Noita, Path of Achra, etc, where you boot the shit up and you can instantly get into it, then the dev slowly drip feeds the autistic lore and mechanics.
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>>557643370
Less people complain about it because less people play it
It just gets tiresome seeing shitty changes so people just switched forks
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>>557637185
it's like 90% older cataclysm, any guide from five years ago will work, and 10% reading recipe lists, looking at the hitchhiker's guide, and investigating overworld map spawns and doing quests
if you have any questions feel free to ask, I'll check the thread at least once per day
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>>557643137
how does it give you clairvoyance, is it an activated or carried or wielded effect? is it big clairvoyance or small clairvoyance?
the best clairvoyance artifact I found was a ring that when worn would give you small clairvoyance and nether attention, so you'd put it on, get looked at, look through walls to check where the thing was, and then take it off before your balls exploded or you got fungused or hounds of tindalos burst out of the corners to fuck you up
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>>557653432
Small clairvoyance when carried. Can't turn it off, but that's not too bad.
It also gives +4 int when wielded, as well as a "you feel a force pulling you inward", whatever that is. Shoots lightning and causes dimensional fatigue when activated.
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>>557653754
>you feel a force pulling you inward
that sounds like it could be either really really bad or a total nothingburger, I've never heard of that one before

is that dimensional anchoring? try to teleport yourself
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>>557653901
It might actually be teleportation. Got teleported randomly once, for seemingly no reason. That was a while after I tested the activation though, and I had the dimensional fuckery effect active, so that might have caused it instead.
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>>557654205
dimensional stress can teleport you, yes
more worryingly it can hit you with hounds of tindalos spawns or similar levels of fuck you enemies
go step on a teleport pad while carrying the thing and report back
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>>557545114
Pressing space bar to teleport to your foes is kino as fuck but I do hate summoner builds.
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there are two fucking Necropolis spawns near my base what the fuck
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Got myself another new buddy.
She's a brainlet but that's fine.
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>>557662730
yeah she's allowed to be a brainlet with those stats lol
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>>557650809
cool thanks
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>>557662730
>Gay Moron
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>>557664735
Kek.
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>>557664371
the big one is that the good early weapons have been nerfed or changed, the meta last time I looked was cudgels but it might just be rush quarterstaff right now if you do shelter start
if you do something else you'll need to figure it out but it's probably some bashing weapon you can make at 3 fabrication
it used to be knife spear at one point
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Maybe I'll try Elona+ instead of Elin or CCDA.
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Aww yeah. I'm cyberized now. I left on bionic slots so I can't overdo it but at the same time I kinda like having to choose. I have solar panels, chain lightning, joint torsion, some infolink, a scanner for bionics, electro sense which is kinda eh. I swore I found that one that returns metal items to your hand but I dont have it. Debating installing the integrated toolset. Trying to think of some other fun ones to keep an eye out for. I would love to find bionic claws for my cyberwife.
Next order of business is to haul this 3d printer out of here. I found a nanite printer too, what's it do?
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>>557674317
>electrosense which is okay
it lets you see turrets through walls, which really comes in clutch in higher difficulty labs that have the heavier turrets that won't be stopped by armor
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HULK SMASH
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>>557677514
On the wiki it says it can detect bionis, but I also have one specifically for detecting them so I don't know.
The one I have can tell you the exact bionic so maybe that's the difference. Once I finish sorting the loot from this lab I need to repair my car, no idea where all this damage came from but the wheels are really messed up. I'm trying to find a bigger city, so far it's been towns and junk.
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>>557685671
this thing?
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>>557593784
What game is this and what are you even doing?
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>>557692102
It's my WIP and I'm just making lightning effect
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>>557686167
Oh wait i'm a dummy. I have that. The bionic scanner is just a separate toggle on the bionic screen.
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The tutorial slime killed me in Elona.
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>>557707571
You'll get 'em next time, champ.
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Can you use the water purifiers next to water tanks in BN?
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>>557707571
owned
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What roguelike actually has a good hunger system? Hard mode: Don't say, "DCSS because they removed it."
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>>557725847
not a single one, you can go for weeks without food but roguelikes make you die after not eating for a single day
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>>557725847
unreal world
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>>557726526
based
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>>557726526
does this shit even count as a roguelike
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>>557725847
trick question, there are no good hunger systems
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>>557725847
Cogmind, alert is great. It's not a hard clock, the map simply gets more and more difficult to traverse. But even at high alert you can potentially benefit from it. Certain builds have access to actions that can lower it, whereas for some builds it shoots up much quicker if you're reckless. There's also some other mechanics that act as clocks too, most have a similar tradeoff where you can potentially benefit if you play it well.
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>>557707571
don't give up
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>>557262126
Tried the game today for the first time, i got killed by a dumb cultist in the tower. I created a martial art and blood class, and I'm trying to understand the attributes more than anything else. The names used are not very familiar to the games I usually play.
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>>557725847
The best tactics are tried and true ones.
DCSS because they removed it.
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>>557745031
You'll get there.
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>>557725847
Ultimate ADOM
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Lightning poison is so fun bros
>didn't get the thunderblade because i was scared of the fay partisan
this build clears the room in 1 step with that weapon but lightning staff is better for king of many colors
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>>557735703
/rlg/ is 90% cata, so yes
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>>557745031
It says what all the attributes do, but strength is most helpful for increasing encumbrance and weapon damage. Dexterity is most helpful for increasing speed. Willpower is most helpful for increasing damage and healing.

There are secondary benefits too, which will help in certain situations for certain characters. Like strength for minimum speed means you can't get slowed as much. Dexterity for dodge and block gives you flat defenses that are most useful early game. Willpower can help dispel status effects, but this one is not usually relevant because it takes too long to activate.

When in doubt, get enough strength to wear your gear and then go dexterity until you hit 50 or 100 speed. Then put the rest in willpower.
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I keep getting bad mutations
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>>557753196
Look at this shit
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Noooo!
Wtf?
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>>557756448
I went to clear more of the lab while the autodoc worked on her, got an error and came back to her being dead, god damn it.
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the new artifact mutation affects trog gifts
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>>557756448
F
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>>557699490
yeah
you can see robots and shockers through walls, it's baller
very very handy when you're not immune to electricity all the time forever (power armor)
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>>557720438
I don't think so, and they're not even particularly useful for making your own water purifier if disassembled (but it's been a while since I investigated that)
>>557753425
>>557753196
you should stop mutating for a bit and get some health back, mutating too often too quickly will cook your ability to mutate properly
>>557756448
yeah they slowly die if you don't fix them right away
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>>557759150
>mutating too often too quickly will cook your ability to mutate properly
That'd explain it
Is there a way to tell when the cooldown's off, or do I just need to guess it? Does having a high health stat help?
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>>557753041
I don't know if I'll make it here, but at least I've passed the tower.
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>>557759269
I have no idea
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>>557707571
Play Elin instead
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>>557759462
King can be tough depending on the variant and your build, good luck anon
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>>557759150
I already ripped the acid discharge and leaky bionic out of her, she should have been fine.
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>>557759462
By the way when you're at this screen you should really check what damage type the king does.
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>>557759817
I raped him
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>>557759845
it's been a while since I've been a broken cyborg... was the endocrine enervator or power overload bad too?
electrical drain? fuck, I forget
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>>557760442
Congrats, 30 more cycles to go and you'll be done with the tutorial
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>>557760756
Honestly it gets hard way before that.
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>>557761984
True but then I can't make the joke
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>>557756448
Yeah this is why i make a habit of saving the world file from time to time
Had shit like that happen to my companions in a car, error and death. Been saving since then
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>>557735703
It ticks most of the boxes.
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>>557759757
Doesn't Elona+ mog as a general RPG? Elin just seems like an OSHA + rentoid simulator.
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What's a fun BN gimmick run I can do, kind of bored of getting Op really fast
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>>557770694
get really fucking OP and then mutate a bunch of followers into the various thresholds to see how they play
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>>557770694
4 stats start with fragile or something and gun for alpha.
>>557766945
I'll have to start doing that.
>>557760537
There is one that shocks you if you get too much power, I forget the name off the top of my head but I'd only been gone like 2hs though and that was the one I left the autodoc pulling out of her.
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>>557770694
I am NOT allow BN break branch and make grandparent cry!
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>>557776065
The fuck are you talking about, retard?
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>>557270658
Download the source of rogue and change a single bit in non referenced code, I think this is most roguelike roguelike.
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>>557707571
Happens to the best of us, but also definitely the worst of us.
>>557759757
Agreed, Elin is based.
>>557725847
>What roguelike actually has a good hunger system?
Elona+ or Elin
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The loathsome rogueliker
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die
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live
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVaNq9uSJgY
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I like this combination of classes; it reminds me a lot of the gladiator in Path of Exile.
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>>557809828
Going well then?
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>>557810093
Yes, I'm starting to get familiar with the game mechanics, now I want to try out other races.
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>>557769676
The QOL improvements in Elin are great but it's gonna take a while for content density to get close to elonapluscustomxyz. Like where's the piss meter?
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>>557810218
I basically never play the same character more than once in a row unless I died trying to make it work. There are a ton of different things to try.
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Diablo 1
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yeah
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Is there anything like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon on Steam?
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>>557860027
why would you ever pay money for a roguelike
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>>557860156
Because a lot of them are good?
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>>557860156
Because you like roguelikes
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>>557860027
There are some shiren the wanderer games up there. They're good.
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I would like to try multi-classing (at least 3), I am currently in my 4th cycle and I doubt I would do anything, but I would like to get an idea of what it will be like in the future.
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>>557866157
In what way?
You can get some pretty broken multi-classes.
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>>557867917
Doom/Plague, Bleed/Blood and the 2 martials skills for armor & block support
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>>557868107
I guess just try things out until something clicks.
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>>557593784
Add pockets.
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>>557876030
Stop it, Kevin!
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I'm learning more about how things work and spending skill points more wisely. Here, for example, I only spent points on skills that synergized with my current race very well.
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Since my survival style is more about regeneration/healing on attack, I can make good use of this skill, for example when combined with good equipment. I haven't invested much because it's still early days, but I'm trying. Interesting, though.
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Found a city finally in BN. Robofu almost got us killed when she decided to yeet into a massive pack of zeds, I have since changed her combat directives.
I need to expand the car, make the metal master and forge buddy, and then uuuhhhhhh. I guess I technically have what I need for the central lab. Maybe a way to actually get in there. I could go artifact hunting. I'm not sure. What's in the central lab I wouldn't be able to deal with?
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Anyone here read Japanese?
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>>557886328
>what's the most dangerous thing in the Central Lab
flaming eyes looking at you through reinforced glass probably
aside from that:
medium turrets, which have 5.56 but die easy
maybe one or two shoggoths
multiple kevlar hulks at once
a flying polyp or three in melee
opening up a door to end up face-to-face with a pile of root runners and a leech blossom and they fill the doorway before you get a chance to respond
gigantic naked mole rat caving the ceiling in on you
piles of TALON UGVs
evolved mutant maybe (rare)
you can end up with yuggs (make sure you have environmental armor lol) and lepidopterids (big statballs) in the final rooms which can be a real motherfucker
a coilgun will deal with most things and electrosense and a control laptop will deal with the robots
electric immunity is the biggest thing you can find yourself randomly desperately missing
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>>557890374
That doesn't sound so bad. I kinda remember why i ended my last run now. I have everything i could need but there isn't much else to do. I could do special areas I suppose.
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>>557890910
yeah
the various special areas are worth going through once
have you ever been in an irradiation plant? done the Necropolis questline? Isherwood questlines? seen all of the mine variants? Military base? Aircraft Carrier? Municipal Reactor?
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>vored from full health by gold demon 1 stage before the king
Thought I had my first achra win incoming but apparently not today. Is it worth investing in vigor for some extra health padding? I noticed that the lategame enemies started having higher damage than my total health pool and dodge/block seem like they can only go so far.
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>>557887683
I read a little.
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>>557894368
Are you trying to activate kinesis abilities with hits from guard? Cuz I think you get more hits with higher levels of guard. Or you could go Technique and get more attacks instead.
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>>557901823
Yeah, you definitely want to invest some levels in vigor. All the defense types have 10% chance to fail, so you want your HP to be bigger than the "hit" value on the monsters in case they get a clean hit on you.

You should have divine interventions available too, but losing a random prayer kinda sucks sometimes.
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>>557903672
I'm working on strategies and alternatives to do that, yes, trying to take advantage of race bonuses, of course. I'll try to focus on these three classes to understand what works and what doesn't. A "bit" autism here.
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>>557905224
That's fine if you want to focus in and figure this guy out. I always thought Brud needed to go Lightning because points in Lightning school fix his innate negative Lightning resist.
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>>557906261
I'll do something like that now.
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>>557908039
Protip: if you're autistic like me and refuse to get stars on cycles you've already beaten, get the drake god out of the way early. Imp and the Genie, too.
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Don't listen to the Imp slander. Imp has some nice synergy with damage redeal items.
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>>557908608
>elementalist
I mean, yeah, that's literally the only way to make Imp work
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counter spell
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>>557908938
It's not, you just suck
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Lol
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Bone Skirt is good
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>>557919204
The damage redeal items go crazy when you have enough willpower. With 40 willpower it is 100% redeal because the willpower damage bonus applies to it. You can even redeal damage with multiple different items.
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>>557922431
Escape guarantees me steady health regeneration, I will set aside block to give dodge a use, I will invest in Agility and focus on making as many hits as possible.
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>>557922640
Evasion* Time to go dual-weapon
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>>557908938
Acolyte is a good choice too. You can even change the damage type of SELF-damage with Imp to apply effects to yourself. Here I'm whacking myself with every attack and applying Repulsion, Doom, and Plague with self-damage.

Tbh I know what you mean about Imp being a hard race to win with, but that's mostly the early game that is hard. Imp has great scaling vectors if you don't die to a Tethic Monk on stage 2.
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>>557922640
>>557922750
Those evasion stacks might be all the defense you need, assuming you have enough HP to not get one shot. I think you need to fix the inflexibility from your gauntlets though. It is cutting your speed in half.
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i miss dcss
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You just know Gozag would be in the Epstein files.
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>>557922778
Oh, that's actually pretty neat.
Don't get me wrong, I love Achra. I just know from experience that some of the combinations of dudes and gods are way harder than others. I have no idea what Prisma is supposed to do that Formica doesn't do better, for instance.
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>>557943195
The prism god summons garbage minions that scale like ass. Ant god summons high quality minions that can actually kill things. If you use the prism god you're probably using them as fodder so that you can get more 'on prayer' or 'on summon' effects, not actually scaling them to be strong summons.
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armatures are centaur-things which have free rampage and gain regen when they rampage towards an enemy.

Volatile blastmotes is a mine/cloud that explodes when an enemy steps on it, which has knockback.

Place cloud. Step off of cloud. enemy steps onto cloud. Cloud explotes. You are knocked back and damaged by your own spell, creating a gap between you and the enemy.
Rampage towards enemy. Get hp and mana regeneration buff. Cast blastmotes again.
Repeat.

Holy shit this is retarded. I can't tell if it makes me happy.
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>>557943195
The prism guy is easy free infinite prayers and summons. You take it for the prayer/summon/death triggers. Anyone who's tried prayer builds at high cycle knows that feel of running out of charges against the king. The prism prayers are the easiest to recharge.
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>>557948023
I've heard of people doing this with IMB (the knockback spell) too. Armataur is very strong if you can get regen stacks.
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I was about to complete the game when an enemy teleported onto me as I entered the “room” (I didn't have any evasion stacks at that moment). It did 4k damage to me and I died. I'm not sure what happened, but I'll take a look at the log to see how to fix this problem.
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>>557955225
They always spawn in the final boss room.
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>>557955558
That was it. I had an alternative to avoid it. I saw it as very powerful, but I said to myself, with my stacks, what could it do to me? I flew too close to the sun and my wax wings melted.
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>>557956370
Wrong enemy* All I had to do was stay still
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So this iguana comes up and slaps your girlfriend on the ass for 14 damage. How do you respond?
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>>557963321
I chug that potion of might and start slapping him back
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Hello!

The rumors are true. We are making Rift Wizard 3.

There are a few big new features:

Most importantly, we have added a crafting system to the game. Each level contains a few crafting ingredients, each crafting reagent contains some set of tags. Every piece of equipment in the game requires a certain number of tags (some specific, some wildcard) to create. Crafted equipment is by far the most common way to obtain equipment in RW3, and we have folded the passive skill system into the equipment system. Our goal is to make it a bit more challenging to get super powerful synergies online early, and create more situations where you can do something weird and be rewarded for it. There are many, many new pieces of craftable equipment.

Also worth noting are big changes to spell upgrades. There are 100+ new spell upgrades and spell upgrades reworked. Systems wise, RW3 allows players to get 2 upgrades to their spells instead of 1, since SP can no longer be used to buy passive skills. Basically we took the stuff Jacob was doing in the RW2 patches and ran with it.

RW3 also features quite a few new monsters. We scrapped the RW2 variant system and returned to something more like RW1: common monsters plus rare ones.

Lastly, for Rift Wizard 3, we wanted to focus on smaller levels. Where RW2 explored big battles, RW3 explores smaller skirmishes where the player can have a bigger understanding of all the actors involved, and a better intuition of the complete gamestate. Also, we wanted to make room for some bigger, more hand drawn Khoops art.

Speaking of art, it's all totally new. Same artist, new style. See for yourself at the store page:
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>>557967101
Feels like RW2 just came out. Still, all that sounds decent enough. Though I'm not sure I like smaller battles, half the appeal is blowing shit up with crazy combos.
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>>557947818
>>557949385
>can actually kill things
>summons
>kill things
Nyo. Formus is almost strictly better because you get a lot more summons to crunch for whatever effect you're getting from them dying or getting hit. You get a lot less bang for your buck with Ikshana, because she doesn't free spawn. You also get 30 charges of summoning manually with Formus, compared to 5(?) with Ikshana. It's true that you can recharge her by dancing, but Formus gets free charges from your dudes getting hit without any input from you, which is better because taking a (partial) turn to step will fucking kill you against most of the later bosses. In my experience later cycles rely almost exclusively on good action economy.
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>>557967101
I was already a bit iffy about Rift Wizard 2 since it's so similar to 1, but it did turn out to be a good game. This feels like a cashgrab though, in a genre where most games are updated for free for decades, why do we need another release of Rift Wizard with a few changes to the equipment system instead of another patch for 2? Even outside of roguelikes, games like Terraria have received massive content upgrades for free for years. It'll probably be fun because Rift Wizard is a good game, but this just seems like the dev is grubbing for money.
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Gore Tide shenanigans. The damage gets really silly when you scale health. Requires either the skirt or the helmet that reduces inflexibility because these three schools don't have it.
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>>557980820
Nice. I don't think I've ever made bear head work.
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aavarklike
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man I fucking hate leech blossoms, I'm so glad this was only a single root runner pod and I noticed this when it happened so I could shut it off before things really started getting out of hand
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>>557991465
New fungus.
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>>557997606
they're not that bad re:multiplication because they're not added to the overworld spawn pool, but if you're not immune to electricity they're much worse to actually fight

unless you have 40mm grenades, then things get fun
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I'm hungry
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>>557999630
I very rarely use explosives, On glassy characters I did used to like having a smoke grenade loaded for rifles with a launcher attachment though. That was a pretty good get out of jail for ranged stuff.
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>>558009447
>removes your hunger
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Youguyssuckatthislike
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>RW3 soon
>Achraland soon
>still praying for Qud patches
>nothing new to play today
Feels roguelike.
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>>558037060
make a spin wheel of roguelikes, play whichever it lands on, ask for challenges first.
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>>558037060
The op lists newly updated roguelikes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbB4mcyT_SQ
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>>558042196
Not clicking that.
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This is my first time playing and I have no idea what's going on and I think I've ended up in some sort of infinite combo but I don't know what the trigger is.
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>>558049760
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>>558049946
Not infinite, just a big chain. That's pretty much the kind of stuff you'll want to be building for. Might want to toggle the game speed.
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I have not found any infinites in Achra. Imp can get arbitrarily long combos if the RNG keeps hitting the right damage types to redeal, though.
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>>558060015
I think the dev designed it so that there's no true infinites. I've oneshot the King off of hit procs at cycle ~28, though.
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>>558013375
explosives are so hard to use but they're very very fun, especially 40mm grenades
what I end up doing is just stashing every explosive I find, and one day I'll just look, realize I have several hundred grenades, and regear myself to use them
frequently this requires regearing myself to fuck around with the slingshot cannon to train up some launchers skill lmao, but an M79 or Milkor (or if you can find it, the RM802 which is a modern china lake style pump) is a really liberating way to clear out a town of zombies
up there with using Ma Deuce on your technical

very very expensive though
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Something I figured out about Achra is that dual wielding is actually really good. Each weapon gets its own initial attack, and initial attack is the trigger for extra attacks from Technique, Herja, and other sources. So you get twice as many attacks if you dual wield and attack directly.
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forsen
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>>558062593
That's interesting. I still find 2 handing to be much stronger, especially if you buff the range of your weapon.
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Do we still like ToME?
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>>558074392
It's too long. I don't want my permadeath game to be 20 hours long.
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>>558076694
I can't imagine trying to play ToME as a trve and honest roguelike. Even Qud has a more interesting early game, and I refuse to permadeath that glorified JRPG, too.
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>>558076694
>>558079757
niggas what roguelike do you even play
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Test
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Ok, got myself a replacement buddy.
I can fix most of the negatives too, which is nice.
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>kill the final boss and clear the floor flawlessly
>take UNO step towards the exit
>a lone off screen arbiter, who wasn't even listed as an enemy on this floor, instantly teleports behind me and one shots me
Achra is dogshit
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>>558090942
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>>558088238
DCSS, Path of Achra, and Approaching Infinity, currently
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>>558090942
>>558091375
anon, why are you like this

hit the print screen button you fucking degenerate
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Is Dobbel Dungeon any good? It looks kind of fun.
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:)
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>>558096073
>why are you like this
Sorry. It's complicated...
Let's just say I'm on a business trip.
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>>558096073
Some of us can't help pissing and shitting ourselves
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/djcGb0pN6SM
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>>558090942
>>558091375
>I tried so hard and got so far but in the end...
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Fun run, the only flaw: I didn't pay enough attention to inflexibility (I noticed this later), but otherwise I greatly improved the build, immortal and effective.
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>>558100392
If i recall the demo was unbalanced as fuck in that you can hit every node of the "branching" paths rather than being locked to a branch.
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>>558116810
If you're not using Martial or Lightning as one of your trees then it gets a bit tough to deal with inflexibility. There are some other places to get the stat, but they're not nearly as good.
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I wish you could name you characters for PoA.
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>>558128224
You can randomize your name and portrait by selecting one of the categories again.
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>didn't read boss resists
Are you supposed to keep some extra armor effect to deal another damage type to deal with this?
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>>558136103
In my experience, most builds can do plenty of damage so it usually doesn't matter. The only armor swap I do is for the final boss, because I want to have resistance to his damage type.
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Here's another mechanical quirk in Achra. If you have two empty weapon slots, you count as single-handing each Bare Fist, and you get an initial attack for each.

If you wear a Zasadzka Claw (counts as Bare Fist) in your main hand, you will be two-handing that weapon and get a larger STR bonus to damage. If you swap the Zasadzka Claw to your off-hand, you will go back to single-handing, and you will get an initial attack for both your Bare Fist and your Zasadzka Claw.
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>>558141038
I wish I knew that when doing my goku run.
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>>557262126
Anyone ever play Forgotten Mines
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>>558125420
I had only one point of excessive inflexibility, I was pretty balanced... or almost.
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Plaguemancer legit feels like you don't have a prestige class sometimes, but it does activate the plague on Angra Mainyu's 3rd prayer, and you can ignore enemy resists.
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>>558164098
>plaguemancer but no plague chant
but why?
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>>558164742
Because it doesn't do anything meaningful after the enemy resists hit 0. The damage is too shit to work on C32 so I just use it to cut through resists and maybe kill small guys.
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This is the most generic thing you could do with Angra. Baghatar is just +250% damage from the class passive when I have 50 prayer charges missing. The astral damage redeal from the sword ends up being about 4x the original damage.
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Tried a run with no shield, i think i need to focus only on blood, martial and poison
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Goddamn it seeing all these posts make me wanna play Path of Achra again lands of achra when?
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>>558177164
I think those kinesis skills usually aren't very efficient damage sources to level up. You get like 30 or 35 damage for 2 points. It's more efficient to add damage to them with stacks of charge, meditate, sickness, etc. Morbumancy is really good with Toxokinesis and Necrokinesis.
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>>558183471
I understand, but I'm considering whether to have Guard or Heavyweight as support at the early levels. As I progress, the enemies become more and more powerful, and I can't neglect my defense because I can't always find the items I need at the beginning. It's just an observation, I'll consider it, thank you.
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>>558185041
Personally I think Guard is a no-brainer. One or two levels is all you need to kill fast swarmers with counterattacks, and it doesn't have a downside.

The encumbrance penalty on Heavyweight makes it kinda bad. Of course there is the armor prestige class, and Mardok also synergizes with encumbrance. If you actually benefit from encumbrance then it is good, but most of the time I don't take it.
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>>558183024
Lands is not really looking that close to done, but the dev does post updates every now and then. It will probably be closer to March 2027 than March 2026, if I had to guess.
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>>557967101
jesus christ it's been barely a year since rw2 left early access
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It's not exactly RL but slay the spire is also getting a sequel.
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Many times I feel like resuming work on an old mod I was working on for an old video game. It was going to be a sort of roguelike, but it never saw the light of day due to continuous data corruption, and I always had to start over from scratch, improving the structure. I then transferred the same idea to something I was creating with Godot. Working and programming as a hobby don't go very well together; there are too many unfinished projects.
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Finally got past the fourth cycle after ganging up on the king with unending familiars while throwing ice at him from a safe distance.
Onwards to the fifth one! (tomorrow, because it's past midnight already)
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>>558194791
>goes ice
>doesn't take crystal form
Are you trying to be bad?
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>>558195625
I am retarded anon pls understand, I am surprised I even managed to win this cycle at all
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Playing BN for the first time in several years, anyone know what this "Cover: Damage Reduction 12, Block Change 50%" stuff is when looking at a sofa or chair or whatever? I'm assuming that if you are on that tile then you gain these defensive bonuses to simulate your character using the furniture to block attacks?
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>>558198890
Yeah, if you're by furniture gain cover against ranged attacks, and you can crouch to reduce line-of-sight as well, which is handy to move around inside a house without attracting attention through the windows
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>>558201021
Is it just by or actively on the same tile?
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>>558205729
You normally get it by standing next to the furniture.
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>>558194791
Grats. Summon builds are hard mode.
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woah abloo bloo bloo
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Give it to me straight, is elin good? I like autistic games
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Nevermind, looks rad, bought it :)
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>>558218317
I enjoy it quite a lot, it's an incredibly good timesink if you enjoyed getting lost in a rabbit hole of base building > exploring > getting new stuff > expansion similar to the vein of Kenshi. It's a bit confusing since some of the more in depth mechanics are never really explained and the game just sends you off into the deep end immediately after the tutorial without guidance, but once you get your bearings it becomes very easy to see your entire weekend go by in a blink.
If you have any questions that come up, there are a few elin players that still lurk here. Otherwise there's a permanent general with lots of help links in /jp/
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>>558221409
Damn, this is like you were in my mind, i wrote i liked Kenshi and Rimworld and pushed the backspace button, lol. Yes, i found out about the general on /jp/ a few days ago and that ignited my interest for it. Anyway, thanks for the info. Appreciate it.
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Wow /jp/ is a terrible place.
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i didnt know generation could place these places in land that was already visible/seen. i mean, i guess that spot you see when you start a game isnt generated, but still, kinda weird
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>>558211324
On early cycles still most of my wins have been summoners, each shitty summon can almost go toe to toe with enemies and you start with over 20 of them and can summon 5+ more per turn. Oozemancy, vineform+briar mage and necromancer were all silly I don't think I took damage.
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>>558211324
my third cycle was also like that, did a full cult build and it worked out but that will probably stop working around the later cycles pretty fast
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dont lure a flaming eye back to the refugee center it just crashes
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>>558194791
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>>558228809
>will probably stop working around the later cycles
Kinda yes, kinda no. The real problem is that the mid boss and the final boss can both spawn with a ranged area attack that kills 50 summons in one turn. Some bosses can't deal with summon spam and some can, so it's down to luck.

For what it's worth, melee also has to hope they don't get the wrong boss. Horror Giant does way too much retaliation damage for a melee character to tank, and they can get kited by the Ice King too. There are ways to overcome it, but your run gets a lot harder if you spawn the wrong boss.
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Electromancy can kill the final boss all on its own. Prayers turn into attune stacks and heals, and Dumuzi is just an easy god to recharge the prayers. Very, very easy game.
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>>557268912
>The first version is the best!
Products are usually improved over time, the first version is usually raw and experimental. There are exceptions everywhere tho.
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>>558228809
What game is that?
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>>558243783
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2128270/Path_of_Achra/
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>>558230381
true, really depends on what you get between bosses, so far my wins were thanks to getting ones that didn't really have strong counters for my build I swear someday I'll do a build that doesn't use fire or lightning
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Bro what even is the point of defensive stats in Achra? You can have 50000 dodge, armor, and block and enemies just shred you anyway because of the stupid legalistic "hit" mechanic. Give me something I can level to protect against that bullshit. I guess the dev literally only wants you to shit out 6 billion damage every second and not engage with any of the other red herring tier mechanics.
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is it possible for a game with pee fetish to win goty?
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>>558245506
Here, stack dex, inflexibility and fire resist items until you have 75% fire immunity (and everything else).
Take crystal form if you really want to cheese it as that doubles your inflexibility.
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>>558245804
I know about that combo. Also pretty sure even it can still get destroyed by certain monsters. I think it's time to admit that defensive stats are literally useless. Speed, damage, and heals are the only things that matter on higher difficulties.
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>>558245506
If you have 0% resist to a non-physical damage type, then your defenses apply at 25%. Also if you give an enemy 1000 inflame stacks then your defenses won't do shit. It's common for enemies to get inflame stacks on certain triggers like on summon or on step.

For instance, if you just press tab like a monkey, you will get owned by pic related. Every step gives them inflame stacks, and when you step into an adjacent square to them, they get a free attack which will probably one shot you. If you just stand still and wait for them to come to you, they are extremely weak.
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>>558246384
I got killed by the voggite spamming impact. He wasn't even that inflamed. It's just bullshit.
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>>558246323
Voggite definitely is one of the harder mid bosses. He's ranged, and he gets 10% of his damage guaranteed even if he doesn't break your defenses. That's usually like 300 damage per attack. Did you have a lot of defense and low sustain/low damage? Or maybe you got freeze put on you, and he was attacking you multiple times? I can't really give you more advice unless you post your character.
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Alternatively just embrace Health scaling and forget about defenses. It is a viable way to go.
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>>558246323
Low speed, low (intital) dmg.
I don't think I took all that much dmg all things considered.
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>>558243965
Redpill me on this game, looks like good autism
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Mask of Corrosion is fun
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Thoughts on Caves of Qud?
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>>558253401
Just watch the Sseth video if you don't know about this game. He will do a better job hyping it up than I could.
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>>558257913
Okay, thanks.
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>most successful run during 0.34 tourney was a faded altar DECj^Jiv that died in shoals with 1 rune
video games are hard
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This is what good defenses look like.
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>>558257709
A great sandbox RPG masquerading as a pretty subpar roguelike. I highly recommend it, but there's really no reason to play it with permadeath on unless you just hate your own time.
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>>558264841
I like RPGs and sandbox games. I wouldn't play on permadeth mode though, i would just go for roleplay. Might grab it on the spring sales. I'm between Caves of Qud and Songs of Syx (i know they're nothing alike except for the fact that they're both kinda autistic). 23 euros hurts a bit, but it's manageable.
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>>557309937
You're correct. It's not fun. redditors (95% of /vg/) are easily psyop'd into liking unfun slop if they're told it's good enough times.
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Is this a viable build in Achra?
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Finally got another win and of course I had to exploit broken ass aim/ ranged weapons. Not my fault. The dev made me do this because of his shitty design choices.
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>>558276946
I think you're just dumb anon.
You can't even take a screenshot.
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An ideal roguelike would be somewhere in the middle of achra and infra arcana.
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>>558257709
It's a fun dungeon crawler game that advertises itself as this larger than life simualtion game with deep writing, but the writing in question is just ai-generated purple prose but written before AI and the simulation aspect is just an half-assed reputation system
It's really fun and has lots of build variety though, I recommend it
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>>558288471
Infra Arcana is cool until you realize it fucking sucks.
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>>558290731
Game's amazing then you boot it up for a run and your kick misses on floor two and you turn it off again.
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>>557309937
It requires at least as much thought as a 3 rune MiBe win, at minimum.
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>>558205729
I think it's just explicitly listing the chances certain types of furniture and such block bullets
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>>558223172
yeah
>>558299182
so... zero?
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>>558282035
>>558276946
i dont even understand how he got that crop. like. how
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>>558306304
ancient mummy curse, happens to the worst of us
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>>558223172
What's wrong?
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early game beguile is to funny
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>>558299182
DCSS is just an autistic marathon. Are you patient enough to not get over zealous from sheer boredom a few dozen times? Congrats, you win.
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anyone play xedra in cdda? the fuck do i use these artifacts for, how do i know which ones are good
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did they seriously make the roadrollers not work offroad. its a fucking ROADROLLER how can it have zero traction on grass
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>>558309754
>10% offroad
Works for me, are you sure you're not playing the wrong fork?
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>>558307714
He's just not that into you.
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>>558312324
oh im not a casual so i play latest experimental
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>>558309456
>anyone play CDDA
no we've all moved over to BN
are they whales OG artifacts? figuring those out is fun, you typically start by:
carrying it, seeing if it does anything
wielding it, seeing if it does anything
wearing it, seeing if it does anything
activating it, seeing if it does anything
some of them can just set you on fire so watch out for that, and the bad effects typically all have messages that let you know you're being fucked so you can stop doing that before it kills you
>>558309754
lol that is kind of fucked
>>558312324
>10% offroad
if you don't have 90%+ offroad it's not good
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>>558276946
This has to be bait, this build is so bizarre it only makes sense if you wanted to win with that exact build.
There's no way you've pegged 18 wins and you think Aim is "broken" and the "only thing" you can use to get past "dev design decisions"
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>>558314273
>if you don't have 90%+ offroad it's not good
Well it's a road roller, it's not a conventional vehicle in the first place, it's meant to be incredibly heavy and therefore slow, because it's built to flatten the ground for laying roads. It should be able to move over unpaved terrain, but it should be very slow at it
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>>558307714
Follower builds are so cancer to play
>Recruitment RNG
>Follower AI is abysmal
>Enemies will beeline for you no matter what, leaving followers to miserably chase them unless you ring around the rosie or something
>God forbid a follower has a ranged weapon, that's basically a guarantee of being shot in the back
Making your own overpowered super-sludge of doom is fun though
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it's nice to see Path of Asscrack being so popular despite how it used to be treated a year or two ago
btw I am in a new relationship, all is good, no longer missing her
and I've been sober for over 13 months!
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if you're really that tired, just change things.
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>>558322154
are you the zzrut ekranu guy
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>>558323525
he's the tranny dick lover
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>>558323525
no, I'm an anon who dated a tranny, which I must admit was a grievous mistake
I also like Infra Arcana, bcrawl... no wait that's unimportant, I HATE CDDANIGGERS
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Should i get Achra or Jupiter hell
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>>558326962
According to Steam, I have 350 hours in Achra and 8 hours in Jupiter Hell.
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>>558331672
According to me, you have phenomenally shit taste.
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>>558332070
But enough about him playing Jupiter Hell for more than 1 hour.
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Cataclysm is less a survival game and more a roleplaying game.
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it's barely a game.
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>>558325012
Why is bro's post deleted
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>>558326962
Depends on whether you want an engine builder or a trad roguelike. Both are great.
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>>558348262
Jupiter Hell feels like it doesn't have any real character customization, and there aren't many choices to make in combat. Maybe it gets deeper later on idk.
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>>558315543
>build is so bizarre it only makes sense if you wanted to win with this exact build
Is this not literally the spirit of Achra?

>aim isnt broken
What if you tripled your DPS buuuut at the cost of not even being in striking distance of melee characters and being able to shoot casters before they shoot you? It's literally all upsides lmao. Think. Every other viable build has weaknesses that Aim avoids.
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Holy fuck this has been my most broken character by a few light years. Enemies that resisted my primary element by 75% were still instagibbed. The final boss was already dead when the game introduced him. But I am kinda curious at the low damage. Does the game shit itself when a character gets so busted?
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>>558367093
>yu
>crow visage
>crystalform
No, you were just playing Yu + crystalform. Not even the strongest version either, with kairos skirt and aurora chant and that shit.
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>>558367093
Your total damage dealt is mostly influenced by how much you overkill stuff and how many tanky enemies you fight.
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>>558367093
standing still simulator
>when the only game discussed in rlg is a literal idle game
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>>558372871
You could always post something else.
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>>558289038
It's not just purple prose. It's good.
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>play bright nights
>roll 0-skill default John Cataclysm
>fistfight a zombie
>beat it to death, sustained near-zero damage, only 3 pain despite being hit 5 times

what is this baby shit
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>>558384870
>play baby nights
>it's baby shit
Although seriously why wouldn't you win? It's not like the zombie has any skills either.
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>>558372871
There's no functional difference between O-Tab and Space-Tab.
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roguelikes featuring tourette syndrome?
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>>558404140
Mewgenics

Probably that one sex roguelike that I forget name of, too. The one what was made by the brony.
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>>558406207
i bet hellmoo has it
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>>558346496
there's a fag who does that
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>>558384870
tough zombies will be a much closer fight, the baseline zombies are pretty useless
try two zombies, or a zombie and a tough zombie
guarantee you'll lose a fight to a zombie predator
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BN has reenabled ice labs
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>>558417238
Nice, those were super cool
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holy fuck Bright Nights has sinks now
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holy shitttttttt blimps are so good
fucking cumming my pants over here
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>>558420432
they finally let that sink in?
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>>558354120
It does (800h and counting).
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>>558428473
Have you played Achra?
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>>558417348
kek
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test
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>>558417025
Got deleted by someone else.
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>>558433823
theres a friggin ban page you can check
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Achra thread. Achra life.
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>>558452313
I can't wait for it to go on sale. Looks like really good autism. :)
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>>558452482
That's what I've been saying about Cogmind for years and that greedy bastard just won't do a -50% sale.
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>>558453424
bro I don't think it's ever gotten o 50% sale, doubt it ever will
if you don't want to pay that badly, just pirate it
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This is one of the best ways to get cheesed in Achra. The Slagh Rider gets Revenge attacks out of turn order when you kill his allies. I got hit by like 9 free attacks in one turn.
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Bros... I almost remembered how to screenshot again, but it just slipped my mind last second.......
I keep wracking my brain and it just won't come. Oh well, guess I'll just keep on truckin' cuz this is what the sexually aggressive primate wants the dead Malaysian gambling web zone to be. Stay tuned as there are more blog on the way anyway!
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>>558458858
If you're melee or slow you gotta have at least some defences, yeah.
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>finally get a good summoner build going
>final dungeon is filled with blood snakes and the blink samurai
>are you fucking kidding me
>each floor ends in like one or two turns... that least 5 minutes each
>final floor
>spawn in a perfect position
>summons flood the screen
>every tile is occupied... yet the boss is nowhere to be seen?
>somehow he's like glitched into a wall or some shit
>first 5 minute turn of me erupting blood all over the place
>a few blood mages die
>suddenly the final boss appears out of the wall
>asshole blinkmurai somehow does his bullshit where he blinks me 1 tile from the boss (I was behind like 4 layers of blood mages)
>5 minute grueling turns where I'm slowly bleeding out right next to the fucking boss
>both are hp bars are draining at an extremely close pace
>somehow kill him when I was down to 90 HP (was too dumbfounded to screenshot when it got that close)
Fuck. What an insane run.
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>>558460602
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childhood is wanting an ass spread
adulthood is wanting a pussy spread to glaze
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Unarmed is my crutch now.
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H-ra.
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>>557449345
>>the nethack devs thought of everything!
>>look inside
>>can't do anything clever or interesting at all
>>about as basic as Crawl
>>b-but you can put butter on your armor to trick a boss!1 *holds up spork*
>Pipe down, unc.
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>>558465340
Oros is my fav god.
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Oh no...
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>>558472115
I.... I got better!
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It's like I'm playing old DCSS again!
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Dumb Caves of Qud question
Does Dream Smoke's quickness boost work on the Golem? Technically the body isn't mine, right?
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>>558478441
Charge + inflame, my beloved.
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Master Charge is straight broken and is usually the reason to pick Lightning at all.
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now that I think about it thumbs down originally meant "Kill him" in Rome right? And for some time online platforms had a thumbs down button? Good time, we should go back there. In a roguelike
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Try as I might, I haven't been able to properly get into Project Zomboid though I recognize it as a great game.
Any tips to get into it?
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>>558501332
You can get away with alot of bullshit on day 1.
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>>558505378
Elaborate?
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>think I'm finally starting to get the hang of hard mode achra
>suddenly fucking bushes on floor 3 or some shit are on shotting all of my aggressive characters
What the fuck is going on. Why does a fucking plant have 5000 hit on an early level? It's not even powering up with inflame to my knowledge.
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>>558508163
First area is unmodded so it's always easy, the scaling only kicks in afterwards. You can see which stats are boosted, it's the "+cycle" thing in the list of enemies.
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>>558508163
>completely worthless enemies on earlier cycles now come with +10000 inflame on player step
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>>558508163
Don't they have like 10 speed? Just don't get hit.
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>>558501332
It's mostly about playing slowly taking out a zombie or two at a time. Prioritise sheds and garages as they often can contain a good weapons.
Also it's not a roguelike so go ask /indie/ instead.
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>>558515610
eh, i think for me the most important thing to learn was how to break zombies tracking. they move to where they last saw you, and then point to where you are and start wandering, so you need to basically make 3 whole turns when fleeing. going around 4 buildings/a block being an example. otherwise zombies will seem to "magically" find you. if you only "break line of sight" they still get pathed towards you.

but i havent played it in like 5 years so maybe its changed
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Roguelikes where I can romance a girl who is slowly growing into a giant WITHOUT ANY OTHER FETISHES INVOLVED?
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So inital attack in Achra is basically just 2 activations a turn if you dual wield with 0 way to increase it? Seems pretty garbage considering how much happens in 1 turn, especially considering that the inital attack effects aren't nuclear warhead tier either.
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>>558519114
Otherwise they would chain on extra attacks, which you get way more off, really easily.
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>>558519497
I would prefer if it was literally your first swing against x enemy and then all other attacks don't count towards it. You could synergize with attacking hordes with 2 hand weapons if it was like that. It's really boring as it is. And once again, what even is a good inital attack effect? The one prestige that lets you recite a random prayer? That's cute and all, but it's still way too slow and unpredictable for 2 rolls every 5 minutes.
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>>558518736
are there any james bond roguelikes?
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>>558520196
>I would prefer if it was literally your first swing against x enemy and then all other attacks don't count towards it
Is that not what it currently is?
>good initial attack effect
I'm like 90% sure they all just give out extra attacks, which makes sense otherwise they'd loop infinitely. That's the only real difference.
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>>558520705
I wish.
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Last night I stealthily pounded yourr favirite rougelike
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Curious how many days your CDDA run lasts.

I'm finding that there are too many meta progressions, that I'm high tier by the end of day one, and after that am just in an boring and confusing grind for stats as enemies level far faster than I can.
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>>558531595
CDDA sucks. The few remaining fans claim it's harder, but in my experience it's really just a much longer, more irritating slog through proficiency grinding and shit until you eventually get OP and steamroll things anyway
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>>558531595
How are you both high tier and outpaced by the monster scaling? wouldn't high tier mean the monsters don't pose any threat despite scaling?
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>unavoidable boss + unique + 2 or more rares in a tiny room on every escort
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I have made it
>with a woman?
NO! Much more significant


15866573 the Ninja (level 27, 199/199 HPs)
Began as a Kobold Artificer on Feb 25, 2026.
Was the Champion of Dithmenos.
Escaped with the Orb
... and 15 runes
... and 10 gems!

The game lasted 05:52:20 (105954 turns).

the Ninja (Kobold Artificer) Turns: 105954, Time: 05:52:20

Health: 199/199 AC: 32 Str: 11 XL: 27
Magic: 44/44 EV: 48 Int: 16 God: Dithmenos [******]
Gold: 10701 SH: 30 Dex: 38 Spells: 18/26 levels left

rFire + . . (50%) Z - +9 rapier (speed)
rCold + . . (50%) a - +8 kite shield of the Stone Wall {Bane rN+ Regen+ Str+2}
rNeg + + + (0%) J - quicksilver dragon scales
rPois ∞ (0%) T - +2 hat {Will+}
rElec + (33%) y - scarf {Shadows}
rCorr + (50%) X - +2 pair of gloves {Parrying}
SInv . E - +3 pair of boots "Ehon" {+Blink rF+ Dex+4}
Will +++++ r - amulet of the Doge {Rampage Regen+ rCorr Str-2 Dex+8}
Stlth ++++ A - ring of flight
HPRegen 2.13/turn c - ring "Ypaxon" {^Drain rElec MP+9 Int+2}
MPRegen 0.29/turn b - talisman of death

Apparently the ideal sneaky character has enough defensive stats to fight without any stealth at all.
And I guess maybe quicksilver scales are better than I thought.
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>>558531595
lmao what it takes like 2 ingame weeks before anything scales
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>>558428585
Have you played Crusader Kings III?
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>>558537084
Items give too much of a power spike early, but then monsters evolve far faster then the player can level.

Part of that is new items added tending to be best of class, and focus and proficiency dramatically slowing levelling.
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>>558544004
With AC from armor skill it's like a +5/6 ringmail of willpower I think. It's okay for a lot of characters for large portions of the game but I always hope for better artifacts. I'd rather wear Fire Dragon armor and a willpower ring if I get one rC+ pip from auxillary slots and just get a bit more strength you end up way more survivable.
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>>558531595
Unless you're spending 2 months building a log cabin or some shit the player easily outscales the rest of the game.
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Bumplike thread
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yeah
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>>558478441
Scorch can become such BS once you stack enough of it.
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>>558579661
I think charge is more broken, you can slot master charge and Electromancy onto any build that doesn't stand still to hit the speed cap without dumping any dex.
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>>558581348
You could, but it takes time to build up and the most important time to have speed is the first few turns.
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>>558581348
I think Master Charge and 4-5 levels of Fulminant Cult is the most efficient way to cheat the speed system. You get 48 Charge from level 4 Fulminant Cult, and 75 Charge from level 5.
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I always wished Chamakana was good.
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>>558591604
Is it not good? Or is it just competing for skill points? Being able to do a million real hits from out of los with a bunch of methods seems very strong? I'm only on cycle 25 though.
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>>558593486
It just never does enough for the investment. Maybe you can justify 1-2 levels. Sometimes it's nice to jump start your Charge stacks or do enough burst damage to kill ranged enemies, but it's easy to invest in it too much. Levels in Electromancy or Herja will usually scale better into late game.
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>inital attack doesn't recognize your first extra attack on turn
I hate this dogshit mechanic so much. It's so rigid, boring, and franly against the spirit of Achra.
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>>558600552
why would it?
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>>558600995
Inital as an adjective: of, realating to, or occuring at the beginning: first

Attack as a verb: to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with

So my first initiation of combat of the turn, right? Nope. It should say the first time you physically bump into an enemy. Actually that still wouldn't be enough because of retaliation extra attacks. It needs to say something on you physically initiating combat via the tab or numpad keys aka on numpad/ tab press.
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>>558603995
Extra attacks aren't initial attacks. It's just how the game works. You aren't getting initial attacks on extra attacks.
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>>558603995
Oh it's just definition autism. There's only 4 actions you can take in the game: step, stand still, use a prayer, or attack. The last one is what counts as initial attack. If you have an issue with the naming, then sure, but as a mechanic that's what it is.
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>skellington resists
>10000 poise stacks
>150k total armor and block
>Still get killed in one turn by pale dancer
Do martial builds just stop working?
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>>558591604
>>558594245
I feel like something fucky happens with the way the game allocates damage types; I swear Chamakana doesn't proc nearly as often as it should when you have more than one effect happening on step.
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>>558604993
If you have other damage types you probably just shouldn't use it. Normally I use it with a ranged weapon like Jade Pilum, and Herja chain lightnings will activate it too.

>>558604959
They still work, but being strictly melee is a liability. A lot of enemies are extremely dangerous in melee range.
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>>558604959
I also have this one but I'm not sure how pure you want your martial.
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>>558606164
Am I the only one who swaps out armor for better resistances? Especially against the final boss. I don't care about a little bit of armor from Intabah when I can wear 30% ice resist.
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>>558606623
Occasionally.
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>hop into my own vortex for fun
>get trapped
whoops, guess i got to walk back and forth until i can do it again.
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My favorite Achra combo is stacking speed with the speed god
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Do you even get exp for vortexing away enemies in qud?
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This build was a little incoherent, but it still ended up being pretty strong nonetheless. Also it was a pain in the ass to get this jpg to you. Good thing autism is my superpower.
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trying to learn cdda, decided to do an Urban Samurai start with the name Eugene Hayabusa because the idea of a basement dwelling weeb leaving his cum dungeon to save the world is fucking hilarious

I'm guessing early game you just kite shit that is slower than you? Trading blows seems to be a bad idea given how slowly you heal
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>>558616963
>Also it was a pain in the ass to get this jpg
Print screen, box select, and ctrl-V in Paint works fine for me.
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This was a cute way of scaling dodge for free, since Angra puts Sickness on everything and gives Snakeform stacks. Mindsaber is not that great even with 80k dodge, but the build works.
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>>558620690
Yes, use a fast weapon like a cudgel and use obstacles with high move cost to make enemies waste their time moving when you can. A bush out in the open is good enough for 1v1.
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>>558620690
>I'm guessing early game you just kite shit that is slower than you? Trading blows seems to be a bad idea given how slowly you heal
Pretty much

Don't use weapons with less than 0 tohit, and ideally use weapons with AT LEAST +1 or else you'll miss constantly, bayonets are exceptions
Pull enemies onto terrain that has more than 100 movecost like bushes or furniture, you can get free hits as they're stuck recovering the moves they spent getting onto it
If you get grabbed, hit " and switch to run to boost odds of escaping, but don't sprint for more than very short bursts or you WILL burn out more stamina than you can afford to and get the living shit beaten out of you, lack of stamina is the #1 way you'll end up dying as a new player. Waiting (with num5) is another option since it adds an extra chance to break a grab
Tear up cotton stuff and get a jug of bleach from under kitchen sinks to make bleached bandages, they're good

NOT fighting is better than fighting, stealth is king, get a pair of binoculars, a rifle scope, etc and climb up as high as you can (radio towers are best) to find looting locations, then come back at night when the moon is bright and the weather is Clear. Most enemies in towns have awful view distance in the dark on account of being rotting corpses. This changes later on -- predators and nightstalkers will fuck you up. In modern DDA, dogs are just about the only thing that uses scent to find you so don't worry about that. You can use sound (car horns are super loud, hit e near driver seats) to pull all the zombies in your reality bubble away from a building you want to loot
If you can find a working car or bicycle, you've basically won the "survival" portion of the game, it's just a matter of patience at that point.

PS: drop (METAL!) containers full of water on a tile with fire to passively turn it into purified water instead of crafting it, braziers are best because you can set them up wherever but fireplaces and ovens also work
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>>558626129
>In modern DDA, dogs are just about the only thing that uses scent to find you so don't worry about that
What? Did Kevin actually nerf monster scent tracking? Why would DDA's dev team do that?
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>>558626565
I think they removed the flag from all basic unevolved zombies (standard, fat, tough, etc) a few years ago because "humans can't do that". If you sleep in an infested town with the curtains drawn you will 100% without fail eventually get a zombie dog smashing in a window after a day or two to get at you if there's any loaded into the reality bubble though. It's more of a slow burn thing now to make you leave town if you want to sleep.

Don't worry, woodland wights and pretty much all the other zombie animals still have it, your RV is still as unsafe as ever if you pull off on the shoulder of the road to nap through the night.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kObg0NlphU
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>>558628023
Of course it'd be for the sake of ""realism."" Fuckin' lame.
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>>558631778
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/62685

Found it, merged in March 2023. Hunters and their variants definitely still have it but IMO it feels better to have most zombies relying on sound and sight. I guess it could be cool to have wind direction and precipitation come into play when night raiding but ehh.
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>>558621460
I like Priest of Angra so you can tap prayer 3 three times per floor
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>>558642510
That's why I play Zealot. It is stronger with Priest if you have some other way to regain charges but there is an opportunity cost there.
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>>558621460
Wouldn't this be better with Master Repulsion over Poison Skin? You don't need the healing with Angra and sickness on enemy attack can't be contributing that much?
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>>558606164
>>558606491
>jewelled visage
So what if you roll Horror Giant or Pale Dancer (or the king of many colors with retort) it just doesn't work?
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Achra seems like an autobattler ... which is derived from tower defense ... where you build turrets ... turret ... Tourette ... nigga
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>>558650458
Maybe. The extra healing is still helpful, but Master Repulsion would give a ton of block and damage.
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>>558651830
Horror.
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>>558651830
And I have this one for the pale dancer, but I'm not sure if it's martial enough for you.
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>>558218317
>>558220925
It's great, I got into it recently and have ~100 hours. I would recommend going in blind, but after awhile I've started watching content/talking to people about it and learning tons of new stuff from them
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>>558666916
so how does it survive dumping 10 stand ground hits into retort?
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>>558668142
Iirc, it stood 3 tiles away and just killed it using mind diamond.
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>>558666916
>stood still 6625 times
How long did that take you to play?
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>>558668376
Not all that long, you just lean on space for a while at the start of most combats to get your poise and speed up, then tab most stuff to death.
Just got to be careful of the enemies you do that with.
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the tethic monk lunges for your throat...
you die...
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This goofy dude had aura.
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>>558671903
I wonder if Pheonix works with the Fire/Lightning class that does a billion self damage or if it's too much
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>>558607673
It pains me how good the artstyle for cud is when I have zero interest in playing the game. We need more RLs with similar, inspired aesthetics.
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>>557262126
so has Darkgod died of AIDS or what? TOME has been silent for like 3 years now
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This guy is way harder than the king btw.
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>>558680462
the feylings on the main path are pretty shit for most builds too, the resist spread is too much
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No crystal form, no kairos, no crow.
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Inu Greatsword is so hot right now.
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>main hand is the left hand
Achra dev is an occultist
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....Motherfucker there was a barely visible search function here all along? This entire time seven hours i've been scouring this mess of a PhD to find the shit i need and you just fucking let me!?
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>>558686341
owned
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Achraman thought of everything.
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>>558628023
not to defend Spedvin's retardation but I never found scent that daunting anyway, by the time you are close enough for something to sniff you out you are within hearing range and probably about to fight it anyway
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Got shafted by 3 floors.
Went upstairs, onto a floor I had never entered before.
Bees immediately moved to surround me.
Went downstairs on my first available move, and died by the end of that turn, on the floor bellow.

When you enter a new floor, you're supposed to have 1 free turn in which enemies do not move, in order to minimize the inherent unfairness of situations like this. It seems that mechanic does not trigger when you go upstairs, or perhaps floors are "activated" when you are shafted through them. That difference matters for "delver" characters, who may or may not also suffer from this issue.

But, as it stands, this is basically a forced death, unless you would suggest simply clearing floors 3 levels out of depth.
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>>558631778
Remember he only cares about realism when it's to make the game worse. Bows got nerfed into the ground after someone uploaded a video of themselves larping as Legolas on a unicycle shooting down hordes of zombies and this really got his ass chafed for some reason.
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>31st cycle
>astrolith
>spawns this configuration on the first floor
fuark
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>>558699138
scent was for being chased through the town at night, zombies would follow you slowly if they wandered through your scent path
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>>558700271
I fucking lived (I pressed Rogoga again, high IQ tactic)
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>>558700656
I started dumping Vig every time level entering the Void and it saved my ass again, I guess you really need the extra health more than the damage.
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>>558700271
This is why you need something like astrohunting, retaliate damage, or global damage on every melee build.
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>>558699138
>>558700312
This, and it was also a thing when you were stealth-looting houses in a city, which I used to do. I would do a mega-city map and spawn inside a house, and slip from house to house at night.
You couldn't stay too long in any one house, because your scent would build up and sooner or later a zombie would wander close enough to catch wind of you, and start banging on stuff, attracting more.

It was never a big or short-term threat, but it was enough to keep you moving, so it's weird that DDA would nerf it like that.
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>when you just flat out outheal everything else
I'm still annoyed I didn't get the fire staff though, it would have made life much easier.
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Humiliation ritual check
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Holy shit. I'm actually allowed to post normally for once? Here's a fresh character with max rizz straight from my desktop!
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>>558701037
>Agara
>prayed 0 times
Weird build but okay.
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>>558700908
>>558702049
Vengatimind
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>>558704340
I just wanted something to heal my character while they were getting punched in the face.
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>>558700908
Alright time to never touch the game again.

>>558594245
I think going a little bit further early on seems to level out some of the rng against the crazy fast mobs. Maybe it makes you a bit weaker later but not really noticably. Maybe 5 is too much I don't know but it won so it can't be awful.
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>>558708063
i also forgot to put one level in Elecrokinesis for the on hit property because I'm stupid and it still worked
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>>558708063
You're lucky you got Fire King considering your lack of defenses.
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>>558672254
ascii UI + map tiles >>>>>>>
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>>558709498
You can cheese all of them with tengri, as long as you're not getting completely one shot you can just heal back to full with prayer one and go again, at least in my experience.
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>>558710201
Uncs be like
>WOAH LOOK AT THAT DRAGON IM SOOO FUCKIN' IMMERSED
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>>558717273
I don't even see the ASCII anymore, when I look I just see ogre, kobold, yellow dragon, mind flay---OH SHIT
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>>557262126
Where them Lands of Achra at
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>>558708063
>prayed only 4 times
But tengri prayers are free... The aoe one is great to spam
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>>558717273
dragon is capital D
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>>558718047
I don't like using the last one because you can only get stacks back by walking adjacent to enemies which is risky, but also can be hard to do sometimes so it can take a while to get back up to full so you have one less divine intervention to hold onto. Also I don't really know what I'm doing still.
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>>558720438
Hard to do because you kill them before you can get next to them I mean.
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Also whoever said achra takes as much brain power as a 3 rune MiBe was wrong this shit is way easier. Not that it's bad thing it's just a different type of game.
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>>558722175
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>>558723721
Knowing when you can berserk and when you should lure back to stairs is more complex than anything in Achra, sorry bannedbro.
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>>558722175
I think it's just different experiences. Tactically, MiBe is more complex. As much as people like to meme about it, you're not literally only doing the same action every fight. However strategically, Achra is more complex imo. Creating a good build at high cycles requires you to rub two brain cells together, with MiBe you'll basically set up your skills at the start and then maybe adjust them once or twice depending on what you find.
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Oh shit it's almost 7drl season
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NegroidsRL
Spin block after block with ya mans facing opps, cops and social workers to get the famed Khalifa blunt at the end of the road
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TouretteRL
Monsters are always non hostile to you, but as you walk around them you have a chance to say very mean things to them, triggering combat.
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>>558722175
>hit the tab button to kill
>put all your points into strength and dexterity
>put on something that gives you resistance to electric damage
>fight 3 bosses with an optional extra hard boss
>hide around corners until scary ranged units walk up to you
>equip the biggest axe you can find
>get murdered in one turn by an enemy you never saw

which game am i talking about
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>>558734359
Uh ... CDDA?
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>>558740509
Doesn't have tab to kill, or bosses
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>>558734359
>get murdered in one turn by an enemy you never saw
Fault.
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>>558740859
no, he's right. the correct answer was c:dda.

>>558740509
good job!
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>>558749745
What are you counting as bosses?
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Are dodge builds the most powerful in cdda?

As enemies scale up the ability to dodge attacks seems to be more important then armour or blocking, many higher level enemies seem to have scripted attacks which can't be blocked.
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>>558717273
That's a dog you sperg
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>>558751234
I don't think there's really builds per se but encumbering armor is definitely extremely shitty in my experience, the knight larp is cool but it never feels worth it
Can't hold as much loot without hurting your stamina, dehydrates you in summer, slows you down, fucks up your ability to climb, takes a very long time to get the stuff with good resists
I just wear hub arms and legs (or broken down riot armor pieces) over cargo pants with a tactical vest to hold mags plus whatever helmet I can get my hands on
Neoprene arm guards, knee pads, elbow pads, kevlar throat guard are always essential
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They reworked Armataurs again, they're now "Anemocentaurs", another new species with silly gimmicks.
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>>558740859
tab won't walk you towards monsters but it does auto-attack, or wait if there's no enemies in range
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>>558751234
the best armor can do both but yeah, unless you're immune to attacks (heavy power armor) you need that dodge chance
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Crushed against walls is broken.

It should be relative to how many walls you're adjacent to, and use the same mechanics as grab. Just to penalise players who box themselves into one tile gaps.

It causes a stupid stat cascade which can 1tk a player, even if it's a regular zombie and one tile of wall.
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>>558766705
have you tried playing a good fork instead
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>>558768136
I was just thinking that myself.
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>>557270658
>Roguelike isn't a game type
It's a lazy name, we could called Wolfenstein a fpslike. But that'd be lazy.
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>>558763159
That sounds dumb, but they love to make their new species OP so the MLP fan insert is probably strong as fuck.
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>DDA now spergs out when you rewrite files or edit the jsons
Since when has this started happening? This game becomes more and more retarded every time I come back to it.
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>>558780123
Spergs out how?
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>>558780287
Error messages when loading a world.
I can' be arsed to take a screenshot -I already alt-shift-deleted the whole CDDA folder- but it's not me messing up, a message pops up telling you not to rewrite game files when you try.
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>>558780808
>minor obstacle
>alt-shift-delete the whole folder
True roguelike spirit. File permadeath.
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>>558781916
Should have deleted the CDDA folder itself, and played a less retarded fork
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Probably the stupidest PoA build i have done.
Upon entering, i pray once, which deals damage equal to 75% of my max hp (Aslan), giving me a couple thousand stacks of horrorform.
This is immediately converted in to drake form (Azhdaha), which spikes my block and armor in to the tens of thousands.
The problem is drake form sucks, so to deal damage i summon a bunch of trash to be killed, which triggers the Valr racial gimmick, dealing 20% of my block as death damage to a random target, killing everything.
Of course if i take a single point of damage, i lose drake form. This is quite unlikely as i have a bunch of trash minions surrounding me and attacks need to pass two 1/10 rolls to beat my block and armor, but it has happened.
Let me know if you have found any other good drake form builds as this feels way too stupid.
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>>558792548
I wish it was easier to know in what order forms will trigger
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>>558780123
these people eat shit for breakfast, lunch and dinner and still defend that pos
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gagagoogoolike
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>>558781916
I didn't actually delete the game because of that
It went something like this:
>take almost an hour to mod out all the tranny stuff
>finally start a run
>mansion escape scenario
>start in sex room
>try to [e]xamine items, doesn't do anything anymore
>press [V]iew instead
>get bombarded with gorillion near useless items shoved on every compartment
>walk out
>see a pack of ferals
>run 10 in-game seconds
>character is out breath
>alt f4
>shift delete
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Cooking up an unhinged Achra build. Will update you soon.
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>>558802997
you should try bright nights
remember to look for stadiums and such that basically all have blimps
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I just downloaded the monster lily demo
I give the settings a 10/10
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>>558813047
>remember to look for stadiums and such that basically all have blimps
Good to know, anon. BN was my default fork, but played almost exclusively lab challenges.

I'm liking TLG too, despite all the fun (tm) and realism autism. Feels much less bloated than DDA and more like an actual game instead of a sandbox/sim. Give all your character a 0 point Fast Learner equivalent and the grindfest becomes suddenly becomes much more bearable.
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>>558809197
It's burnt, but it almost wasn't. Maybe If I didn't run into a fork in the road where both my fucking options were 75% - 90% resistant to psychic. Asshole game.
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>>558815129
This works a lot better if you go equal points in Aurora Chant and Life Chant to help clear the floor. I also found I didn't need the Zealot prayers because you get prayer 2 maxed on Glory anyway and going all in with Apostle gets you through the early game easier.
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>>557266668
frogcomposband
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>>558815129
>Uhrata of Phoenix
You're just gonna burn yourself for infinity damage as your willpower goes up.
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Cheibriados if you can hear us, please save me. Please save me Chei, please I'm asking you. Please make the dogshit sleep effect in Achra useable.
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>>558814307
Ok the early levels are pretty brutal, it feels really rng dependent
I reached floor 8 once, but a kobold killed me by hitting my big futa dick after a long chase where I used all my consumables
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Trying to make the Humbaba prayer deal damage. I got 17 weapon size and 2200 bloodrage stacks on myself which both multiply the damage of the prayer, but I still couldn't deal enough damage to nuke the king in 5 prayers. Just didn't have enough gas to make it happen. Maybe I put too much into defense, but I needed to pump strength to get my death resist up.
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>>558763159
It's incredible that the DCSS devs made all this effort to replace centaurs with uninteresting OC donut steel gimmick species that no one likes or cares about.
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>>558831984
They would rather have rainbow-colored amoeba men than goblins and ogres.
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>>558832739
While potentially true, Anemocentaurs don't really support that narrative.

>but that sounds like Sea anemone
No, fool

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemoi
The race description says they "trace their ancestry to the four winds themselves"
These are centaurs with an elemental wind infusion. Complaining about this is like complaining about a goblin with a shadow infusion.

The real issue here is that nobody knows what the fuck "Anemoi" means, so this is pretentious bullshit aimed specifically at taking away high movespeed.
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>>558834342
I don't care if they have an etymology for why they called them that. I just think it sounds stupid, and a lot of the dev's new ideas sound stupid. Sure, it's purely based on my own perception, but that's what I honestly think. It's not cool. Neither are the dumb wacky forms they gave us for talismans, or the zany uniques. I don't like their sense of humor.
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>>558836841
It's not a counter to your taste in names, it's a counter to the claim made.

The topic was "anemocentaurs". You responded to this prompt with a complaint about rainbow-colored amoeba men. That complaint is unsubstantiated, at least given the topic. If I stretch, I could say you mistook "Anem" as meaning "anemone" because that's close to a rainbow-colored amoeba, visually.

If the complaint is that it sounds dumb, it DOES sound dumb. It's poor communication. We don't even have to be all "it's subjective" about that, because it's just obvious.

However, the idea put forward was that normal, safe, conservative ideas such as goblins were being ignored in favor of I'm-so-special snowflake garbage, which is less true given in the way you phrased it.
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>>558838090
Okay? I don't think we're communicating here. Nu DCSS still sucks.
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>>558838090
>>558838785
Duality of man.
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Bleh. Here's your dreamcuck build. Not doing another one of those for a while.
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My game will ... idk ... I'm tired boss
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And with that my character select screen is cleared out. On to the prestige screen now.
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>>558857648
Cool
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>>558847283
get some rest
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>>558857648
Good luck with Arborus and Struggler. I think those were the worst prestiges overall lol.
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>>558875949
Struggler is supposed to be a meme, Arborus can be good though.
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>>558884816
They can all be good if you use the good skills, but what do you think is realistically worse than Arborus?
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CDDA niggas, wander spawns yes or no? I like the idea of it on paper but in practice I wonder if they spawn in walls and shit.
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>>558885556
Arborus is infinite summons and that can be useful. There's a reason the wisps got capped. Something like executioner is way worse, your bonuses are mostly flat and the only one that's not triggers specifically on killing an enemy. There's a few others I didn't really like. Anqarak, Doomsayer, Blood-drinker, probably some more. tbf these were all done a while ago so I could be misremembering, but I would take Arborus over any of those, yeah. A bunch of the special ones are pretty shit too, like Suwag or Gallus.
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>>558886201
On of course.
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>you can win a run without killing the king of many colors
Uuuh am I retarded why wouldn't you always just do this?
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>>558896691
king or no balls
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>>558896691
Cause you rolled the variant that hard counter your build and don't want to do it again
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>cycle speed boosted pretas in the third area
yeah okay I guess the meta is to not pick struggler at all until the king of color's boss room and play without a class?
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Holy fuck the Exultite is boring AF in Achra. I guess they wanted you to be aggressive with it? Well there's not really much incentive to. Try writing some on step or attack effects text next time. Geez. This is just a poor man's Topheth in every way.
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>>558903483
Struggler was made to be bad, as a joke
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>>558896691
If I spend an hour making a build I want to stress test it.
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>>558886201
Off, the new sound-based "horde attraction" mechanics are already annoying enough
If you set off any type of bomb there'll be zombies spawning out of thin air for hours... at least I'm pretty sure it isn't actually moving zombies around because I really fucking doubt there's 30 tough zombies hanging out in the middle of a field
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>>558905671
>they brought back Whales' teleporting zombies
Kinda based, but that was also one of the first DDA changes, so I feel like they've now completely lost the plot over there
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>>558903540
The build is kind of becoming somewhat kino last second because I picked up the toothed sword.
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I forgot that Koszmar's retaliations aren't Hits. If they were Hits, this would have been a lot smoother. Also my uno divine intervention was from me being bored and trying to walk towards hordes lol.
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>>558908296
It's still pretty OP even if they aren't hits. Koszmar is on my short list of most powerful races.
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koszmar means nightmare in Polish
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>Caves of Qud
>Vibro weapons match enemy armor
>Hit enemy with Vibrosword, Penetration is set to enemy's armor value
>Use Aggressive Stance for extra Pen

Does this mean
>The hit deals enemy AV+1 penetration
or
>The hit still deals enemy AV penetration only
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>>558914206
C, idfc
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>>558913837
Yeah the dev pulled a lot of names from other languages/mythology
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>Infinite speed/dodge
>kairos broken skirt reapplies Ihra's invulnverability aura every stand still in case they break your dodge
ultimate dumbass build
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>>558911012
The mage that has everything scale off willpower is for sure SSS tier.
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>>558916882
>kairos skirt
>broken
many such cases
the thing needed to be like 5 inflexibility, and even that might not be enough
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>>558922904
It should say: On game turn, all enemies get +1 speed.
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>>558928729
Yeah there's a bunch of ways it could be balanced out. But any way you slice it, it's clearly one of the strongest items in the game right now, if not the strongest.
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Achra should have let the Void equipment spawn rarely on the Path in hard towers so you could take a risk and build around something different.
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>>558935642
You don't always take the towers?
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>>558936159
I mean the equipment in the Void should rarely spawn in the towers so you don't get the fun stuff one area before the Astrolith
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Is death path the most stupidly hard build to do?
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>>558937706
No it's really strong, the doomsayer prestige is excellent. Lots of cursed body, the two summon skeleton skills and a single point in grave chant (free summon on kill) and necrokinesis is all you need.
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>>558937976
The trouble is that you don't get any buffs until after your minions start dying or you start killing, and you have to be close up for that.
I can get it to work if I dip into other branches of power but pure death just seems like a massive pain.
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>>558939717
The strong initial summons quickly kill weak mobs then transfer 1000+ doom stacks onto the tough stuff, I didn't have any trouble at all spamming stand still and Dumuzi prayers. It's not a kill your own allies build.
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>>558908296
Holy fucking kino. Now this is what I wanted out of that shitty Exultite build.
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>>558941905
I also seem to be slightly addicted to phoenix. It's funny because he was one of the last gods I fucked with cuz he sounded kinda weird initially. I don't know why I thought that because he's blatantly pretty OP. Prolly speed read his text and thought prayers always hurt you and you were trying kys yourself over and over with him.
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A rogue(like) bump in the night.
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>>558940039
Aren't you going to end up with unshiftable inflexibility?
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>>558937706
My 2 am and brain barely functioning tier list

Ice = psychic > electric > fire > blood = life > poison ≥ martial > death > astral
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when did Shia LaBeouf get removed from Bright Nights
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he's still in but not showing up on the new guide website after a quick search?
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>>558955251
>>558956418
I'm pretty sure he's been in the Crazy Cataclysm mod since before BN forked
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>>558958640
oh did they get moved to a mod
that would explain why I haven't seen him or the Thriller since I came back
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>>558953109
All the pieces you want don't get transformed.
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>>558959418
Yeah, it was one of the times when they were like "let's remove something from Whales' original" that I was cool with, because moving all the crazy and silly stuff to a mod seemed an appropriate way to deal with the disparity between folks who hated stuff that and folks who loved it.
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>>558959749
>that I was cool with, because moving all the crazy and silly stuff to a mod
If you can't see how this would be the thin edge of the wedge, you a stupid retard.
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>>558959945
Nobody could foresee that Kevin would go full retard on the realism shit. I personally like a bit of realism in my games, and in those days DDA was clearly getting better, not worse.
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>>558960137
Let me tell you, popping a couple of codeine and an aspirin is not going to let you cut yourself open and install cybernetics.
That's that sweet realism for you, and where has it lead to?
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you know what I miss
doing cocaine and meth simultaneously to improve your int so you had a better chance of installing bionics
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>>557262126
Yes hello fellow strugglers
ahem
FUCK CROW FORM
thank you
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>>558960716
Crow form is broken as shit, assuming you have the hp needed for the overflow dmg and healing for it too.
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>>558960827
just remember to uncap frames. I forgot one time and I spent three years on a single turn
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>>558885975
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Roguelikes for headache?
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Roguelikes for heartache?
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>>558973146
MaiDenSnow Eve
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I thought Beith Nochti was supposed to be tanky unarmored, but I'm a little melee gimp hiding in the corner with my 0% resistances.
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>>558973146
https://dungeon.name/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77FQRto-rQ
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>>558937706
>>558939717
I decided to do it with only Death Powers for the Path of Death achievement which I apparently didn't already have. It's just a pure summoner build and I didn't even get great weapons. You can improve it with stuff like Projection from Astral and Plague Chant from Poison and grab other summons but it's not necessary, it scales well with just dumping Cursed Flesh. Dumuzi lets you dump 9 prayers per floor without losing resources and there's synergy with Master Doom giving armor which improves the damage of Prayer 3 which might be worth putting more points into.
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>>558986645
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>>558986807
>Skeleton Archer does 130k damage with Doom
That's neat and all but they're still slow as fuck, aren't they? And Ice King is ridiculously weak to summons because he doesn't have AoE.
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>>558988778
Ice king has Exult, it's not as good as the fire aoe but it's still second best for clearing mobs?

>>558982313
I cheesed it with Asi Malak
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>>558989937
His attack doesn't cleave though. There are plenty of rooms wide enough that he'll be attacking one guy a turn.
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>>558991304
It doesn't need to cleave with exult, he kills one mob and it nukes the rest in an aoe then next turn you fill the gap again with a prayer and another assload of skellingtons. I had over half my Dumuzi prayers left this time so I think it would have been fine even against the fire one. It's not like the game takes that long you can try it out yourself!
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>>558914206
It stacks
Try doing Improved Aggressive + Sharp Overloaded VibroBlade (NOT the Vibrokopesh, its Zero Point thing doesn't charge quick enough to handle overload)
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>>558986645
Interesting.
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My builds keep getting more and more unhinged.
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I LOVE ROGUELIKES
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if you really loved roguelikes, you would let them go.
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Rare Azhdaha build. I'm just turning Sparkform stacks into Drakeform stacks using Priest to double dip. Goblin is not the best race for this, but the speed is useful I guess.
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Summoner builds are ba- ACK
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>drakeform's third prayer doesn't remove stasis
The dev wanted this god to be z tier.
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>>559030292
Too lazy to look it up but I vaguely remember the post on that update basically saying "I was talking with a friend and he likes dragons, here's a quick patch with a dragon god". Probably did it in 10 minutes as an afterthought.
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>>559033129
I don't have a problem with stuff like this, not everything needs to be balanced.
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>>559030292
I think it specifies negative effects. But really all you need is like 100 stacks of it and you get 3k armor/block with fire breathing attacks. It still sucks to be obligate melee, but it doesn't suck THAT bad.
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>>559035431
Stasis should have been considered negative. Would have been allowed for more obscure teleport builds.
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>>559035965
That would have been interesting for sure. You still might be able to get that kind of effect with Tamasa or Kashra prestige to self-purge.
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I am interested in Cataclysm, if the only other roguelike i have played is ElonaPlus, should i try the 'brighest night' fork? I heard it has catgirls and crazy shit
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>>557262126
I LOVE NAQI WOMEN AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
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>put all stats into Vig for the first two areas
>walk the rest of the game
Oh it's that simple.
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>>559036312
That's the one that's generally recommended, yeah. It has catgirls, and if you want more crazy shit there's the crazy cataclysm mod, which is pretty fun. Beware of Actual Cannibal Shia LeBoeuf
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>people will look at this and say
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>>559038021
Really? every review i have seen specifically says CDDA, i had to go out of my way to know bright nights existed
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>>559038274
DDA is the 900lb gorilla that's been around the longest, but it's also become fucking retarded over the past few years. It's the one people are most likely to have heard of, but it's become terrible, grindy, and dull. Name recognition is basically it's only selling point now IMO, and I don't think I'm alone here in /rlg/
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>>559039973
>>559039973
>>559039973
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>>559039992
It's very important for this dying general to have a new thread at 749 posts.
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>>559040103
I'm going to sleep nigga
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>>559040161
Have pleasant dreams with many bitches
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>>559038274
You want to play BN over DDA
And I say this as someone with 4 digits hours in DDA since the start of this decade
BN is fun and crazy, DDA is slow and miserable
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>>557266668
caves of qud
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Does anyone actually like inkwell talisman?

If so, how far can you take it? Think it's enough for a 3 rune win?

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