Smiting astral demons with my Naqui wife and making uber pilgrim children

become ... roguelike

>install cataclysm bright nights
>dont know what i am doing
>lets try prison start
>master of rats, sounds interesting
>locked in a room with my rat servants,only see boxes of pasta
>how the fuck do i open the door?

>>559046595
This is the intended experience.

Mewgenics

>>559046810
Oh! neat.

>>559046815
I cant stand the artstyle i am sorry

>>559047084
I thought I was the only fucking person on planet earth who couldn't stand that dev's artstyle. Nasty 90s era Nickelodeon gross out humor cartoon ass.

>>559047084
>>559047337
>caring about graphics in your roguelikening experience
Fault.

>>559051226
Artstyle and graphics are not the same thing. I'd rather look at ASCII than binding of nutsack devs works.

>>559051226
Yes? If the game looks like vomit i wont play it

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>not caring about graphics in your ragulike

FTL: Faster Than Light

>>559051785
How do i acquire a semen demon like this?

Noita and Barony are the undisputed GOATs of roguelites BTW.

>>559053123
Show her your list of 15 rune wins, of course

>>559053692
Dammit

>>559046595
prison start is a challenge mode designed to fuck with you
you should just do the default start until you've figured it out

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soon

>>559065134
Explain

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>>559065151
got a new follower, she's coming along nicely
very blind, but the reptilian IR is very nice in the dark when controlling her

gonna wait a day or two before giving her the next dose of serpent serum, she's getting snake dreams so she should hit the threshold soon

>>559067820
Does the snake tail overwrite bad knees?

>>559068115
Snake scoliosis is no laughing matter.

>>559046815
I don't even see people in indie talking about it, which is the intended place for these things in the first place.
I don't care for it and it's 30+ dollars.

>>559068115
bad knees is the opposite of parkour expert, and no, nothing overwrites it
girl is going to be unable to deal with small obstacles forever

>>559074001
>bad knees
>with no legs
These are truly dark days ahead.
Looks like you could cancel it with Feline Flexibility, but that's a post-threshold cat mutation, so obviously incompatible with snake. Joint servo CBM should still work.

Do people play Brogue CE or 1.7.4?

>>559079491
Why? It sounds like the best roguelike ever with real procgen

>Brogue died on 1.7.4
>tome died on 1.7.6
I'm sensing a pattern here

Did next fest have any roguelikes?

>>559083392
There's Monster Lily, I think it was posted a few threads back, haven't seen anything else but I haven't really looked

>>559053171
barony is underappreciated I agree
played it with anon from here and it was fun

>>559080580
Who's in line to die on 1.7.8?

>>559086390
hopefully me (in my sleep)

>>559053171
I wanted to like Barony but I couldn't get past how you were expected to stall each floor to grind skills, e.g. spam cheap spells to level casting or gather all torches on the map to practice blocking against a rat. I want a game to test my skill and not my patience.

>>559092510
Still less tedious than DCSS. Leveling shit in that game is about as grindy as being on a Runescape private server.

Melee characters fucking suck on higher cycles. Good lord. It's literally all negatives with no upsides
>take step
>entire floor inflames
>multiple units tele to you
>die to jobber slop enemies because they randomly are buffed with 700000 dodge or whatever
It's like running across the battlefield in WWI by yourself. I can't believe I used to think summoner builds were bad. Getting to safely sit behind hordes while they buff up and you pepper the floor with small damage? That's heaven in comparison to this nightmare.

>>559102303
Going full true melee is rough, but there's plenty of tools to help fix the gaps in a 90% melee build.

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>teleports behind you
>stands still
>atomizes your friends
>gets poise(?)
response?

>>559077383
yeah

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>>559103979
Thank you, I guess?

>>559103979
tummy slash

>>559103979
>Qamar as cute catgirls
THEY ARE DEMONS, FUCK YOU

>>559104259
>cat women
>not demons

>>559104361
There is nothing in game to indicate they are cat-like, those are horns and spadetails not fluffy cat features

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>>559102303
That's why all the "melee" builds should still have Asi Malak.

>>559104835
Then thats no longer "Melee" my man

>>559105143
Melee weapon, ranged attack. It's good enough for me. Otherwise you will get attacked half a dozen times walking over to all the 20 range enemies. Astrohunting is another option, but that takes away your option of hiding in a corner and waiting for enemies.

>>559105143
having your primary damage source be melee and doing a melee-only conduct are different

>>559105425
>>559105396
Thats like shooting energy waves with your sword, THATS JUST MAGIC WITH AN EXTRA STEP

>>559102303
You also have to pay the most attention to what each floors enemies abilities are because literally anything can kill you.

>>559105760
That's just magic with a COOL step. And most of the fun is in building your character anyway, and you get to use the melee nodes. Like yeah I can hit you once with my ranged attack in a pinch, but come step next to me and feel the fury of 13 counterattacks in one turn.

>Retort punishes melee build
>nothing to punish ranged the same way
???

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>>559106154
Retort does work on ranged. You're thinking of Bully that only works on melee, because it activates melee counterattacks when your melee attacks fail to break armor.

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>>559104174
>Dyslexic ass made me read this as "tummy smash"
i need help

>>559104658
nigga I don't care. It's not even a game.

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>>559107029
Oh boy i cant wait to play Achra roguelike in 2050 and make gold by selling rat pelts
>>559107325
Achra is a game though?

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>>take step
>>entire floor inflames
>>multiple units tele to you
Arbiters hate him! All inflame bullshit avoided with one simple trick! I think all of my melee characters are gonna use this strat if there is room for it in their build.

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>>559102303
We've already been over this last thread, they can work perfectly fine.

Dont fall for Qamar propaganda, they will ditch you for the astral wall and shit

controlling my snake girl into this mine with my starting character following her

jesus fucking christ my original MC is a demon, he's absolutely mulching these zombie miners
you take one step and he's killed two zombies and stepped to engage a third

god I miss eating box

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>combo requires DOS steps without interruption: pray, into wait
>worked for every single floor
>final floor
>spawn the boss on top of me
>pray
>boss hits me while in crystalform
>a bunch of shit dies while I'm spaghetti'ing out
>no prayer points
>boss didn't get hit with the uber freeze from crystalhorror
>die
Horrorform is about as big of a joke as drakeform. Honestly Drakeform is better because at least it doesn't brick and there are lots flexible combos. Also on gimmicky builds it really does feel like a free win/ auto loss depending on how the game wants to fuck you with the boss placement.

Nuclear Throne

>>559119148
Kinda sucks the only viable use for horrorform is to get tons of stacks and then transform them into a different form.

>>559119909
Yeah, what's lame is what your transfer combos really suck.
>Ice form
Really good, but slow AF and fragile as seen from my pic.
>Snake form
I guess? Kinda seems stupid.
>Bat form
Negative synergy / pointless
>Gecko form
You probably get instagibbed
>Jackalform
Definitely Instagibbed
>Drakeform
Might work? Seems like it would potentially just brick the second you get hit. Kinda want to try this retardation out.

It feels like it's too weak and gimmicky as a prestige, but would be too broken to access outside of a prestige. I think it should be half a prestige that you can tap into another prestige with. Like Horror form into transforming into one of the prestige morphs could be fun.

>>559110373
>Aslan
Nope, broke the melee only conduct. Aslan hits at range with the passive.

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>>559119148
>>559119909
Doing it wrong.

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>>559105760
You have to wear this dress, too! It helps with shooting BZOWTs!

>>559120626
You forgot chimera, useless shit

Yeah there's no point transferring stacks from Horrorform. You go right back into Horrorform whether you like it or not when you take damage.

This cataclysm game looks awfully complex, elona rotted my brain with its simplicity


I just want cute blonde girls with guns as companions surviving the apocalypse as we ride a bus

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Built in Kairos Skirt.

>>559138365
>That name
His parents didnt loved him did they?

>>559138365
The random name generation really doesn't work that well.

Astral is putrid dogshit. It's either 0 DPS or 1 DPS + you're forced to play Russian Roulette on Game Turn.

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>>559143224
Gambling is fun but yes, astral is pure dogshit beside one or two skills

You could probably win the game with nothing but 30 levels of Projection though.

>>559133549
Just don't take damage

>>559150174
Projection is actually good

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>>559152762

Psychic is so COOL

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>>559152832
Got me good, you fucker.

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>>559150174
No you couldn't. Could you with only an actually good power like Psychokinesis? Maybe.