>FAQ and What to Play
FAQ: http://pastebin.com/Q7K91Q34
What to Play?: http://pastebin.com/yfUKx35f
>Webterminal
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http://roguenex.us
>Individual Game Pastas
http://pastebin.com/V7MzidCu
Old: >>137176697
anyone else here playing PRIME?
>>137517727
>>137517918
Yeah, it's the circus animals fork.
2x amphibious=aquatic?!
>>137520283
I just checked that fork and he doesn't let formicids wear four rings and four gloves.
That is insane and insulting.
0/10 worst fork.
>>137520361
>BLAMING
>THE RNG
I never realized how crappy Pikel's MR was
>Unknown command
>>137521497
>tengu
Dude, you're completely fucked.
does anyone ever use /poly successfully
i only ever hear about it when it's "Grinder the Hellion" or "Gastronok the Titan"
>>137521617
I killed him in about 4 hits, he's a plain tengu, not a tengu warrior
I didn't get the usual shitload of XP Pikel usually gives though
>>137521693
I poly electric eels whenever I don't have rElec, it has never made the situation worse.
>>137521693
/poly is a meme wand and it will be removed soon
it's only good to grind more XP
>>137518093
Man, the notes for that fork read like a sad joke.
>>137521732
Wow. Tried the same with Joseph while I was getting BTFO with a draining quartestaff and he turned into a spider. A plain spider. He killed me.
That's how the monsters must feel when I play transmuters.
This does not look good
I just hope this won't be my third splat in the pits
>>137521839
poly is fun when it comes from /random
>>137522093
well i'm sure you'll have no problem if you can ?blink to the edge of LOS and then walk away from the nagas
>Silence
nevermind, What A Noble Sacrifice
>>137522093
>silenced
>surrounded by a bunch of monsters that could oneshot you with that hp even on a 1 vs 1
I think I saw you on xtahua
anyway you're dead
>>137522405
>>137522458
:^^^^^^^)
>>137522675
Holy christ how the hell did you pull that off that's fucking unreal.
does !cancellation end silence
>>137522842
No idea, but it would've meant death if it cancelled my buffs
What's more bullshit it's that Sil blocks Ru's abilities, so i had to clench my asshole instead of just blowing an apocalipse
>>137523169
yeah duh
that's why you don't read silence there
the enemys' spells in Snake aren't very threatening
>>137521497
Pikel's in no way similar to a tengu, the fuck?
>>137516873
just holding my loot chest bruh settle down
>>137524746
>ommel blood
That's pretty cool. What stat does it raise if you drink it? Cha?
>>137521693
>>137524742
poly in dcss is based off of HD
>>137524941
considering thats the high priestess of scabies there I'm guess it will give me a host of horrific diseases?
>>137525234
just do it you wimp
you can pray to seges if shit hits the fan
>>137524742
kobolds and tengu are both humanoid natural races
>>137525370
I copied my folder just for you anon, knowing something like this would happen.
>>137525663
>savescumming
veronica is secretly the pony poster
>>137525663
>savescumming
>>137525797
naw, it was just for fun cause I knew what would happen this time
>>137525663
>everything the ommel produce is good for you
>even their urine and tears
>their blood kills you
what a silly thing.
>you feel a primitive force coursing through your veins
that's endurance.
I guess you could actually farm that by wearing acid resistance and wearing two acid resistance rings and a necklace of elemental protection. That should completely nullify the effects.
>>137526167
-107 health anon
resistance is subtractive and there's no way you can get it that high
>>137520230
Not yet, is it good? Comparable to another RL aside from the theme?
>>137522784
>might, agi, haste, zerk
GULP GULP GULP
>>137525985
>killed by an explosion of a backpack full of gunpowder caused by Ischaldirh the dark archmage while polymorphed into a giant dark frog
>206 points
considering wizmode doesn't end up in the highscores, how the bloody fuck did you end up summoning the worst unique in the game before even reaching D3 of the starting dungeon?
That's gonna be a fun one.
>>137527690
>>/vg/poeg
possessors are pretty sweet
>>137527372
I'm having fun but I'm a badplayer.
I've only gotten to robot town once so far (because the laser eyes psi power is extremely OP and oneshots everything).
I was asking because the OP pic is an anon who won last thread.
It's basically a sci-fi nethack, although there are mechanics that differ between the two.
>>137528225
>polymorphed into a giant dark frog
she found an early book of Scabies, prayed, got a strong polymorph
if you're poly'ed, enemy spawns are scaled to the strength of your polyform and not your base character
Friendly reminder to take regular breaks during your adventures! There is no worse way to die than to die due to silly, tired mistakes
>>137529484
I'll give it a whirl sometime when I feel like it, haven't heard of it before the last thread.
>>137525663
>savescumming
>>137529730
>taking breaks
Who needs breaks? I have coffee.
>>137529774
This is cropped porn.
>>137530474
It's not porn if there's no nudity.
>>137531172
>not playing a class with detection spells
falut
>>137531380
>not playing hardmode
Scrub.
orc general with a +8 mithril halberd one-shotted me in the chest through my +8 valpurium shirt of the jaguar
I just don't even understand this game
I probably had too many scars
>>137532438
wait how is a +8 special material weapon killing through a +8 special material armor weird? Seems like exactly the tool for the job.
When do I stop using an elec whip?
>>137533795
When you find that elec quickblade
PRIME has a lot of joke enemies
Ok, this is probably the most ridiculous otabbing spriggan I have ever rolled. I'm literally just a better Vinestalker at this point, and had one of the easiest Spider rune in my life. I thought the early game was gonna fuck me over from lack of arrows (SpHu with a bow, I was theorycrafting some ways to take advantage of spriggan speed + ranged combat and it's weird that spriggans have such a good bow apt so I went with it) but RNG paid off in the end
>>137534389
Do they randomly blink short distances a-la blinkitis?
>The Mi-Go extracts your brain!
>You are now a brain in a jar.
>Do you want your possessions identified?
>>137534763
You should get Repel/Deflect Missiles so you don't get two shotted by stray ruks
Also, weren't spriggans supposed to be unable to lift big weapons? Does it only apply to triple swords?
>>137533430
mainly because valpurium is a lot better than mithril, and he managed to do it in one shot
>>137537614
double swords are 1.5 handed weapons
spriggans have to use them two handed
>>137538241
I liked bastard swords and claymores, it felt moreDark Soulsthat way
>>137538767
I'm glad the devs didn't listen to people with shit taste like you.
Bring back katanas, niggerdevs.
I was looking for information about how to play Chei ants and I found this
http://mars.kmc.gr.jp/~dis/dcss_wiki/index.php?Formicid%20Fighter%20of%20Cheibriados
Formicids of Chei should be able to wear pretty much armor right?
>>137538767
I preferred it too
Double/Triple swords are dumb
>>137539156
We had an ant of chei a month or two ago that only pumped strength. He was easily wearing CPA and casting pretty easily. Most cheibros can wear anything though. You should be hitting 30 strength.
>>137539971Me too. I liked the sprites for them better as well.
Name things to do in DDA
>>137540537
die
>>137540537
smash stuff and feel smart
>>137540537
Build a mother base.
Build a metal gear.
Play harvest moon, zombie edition.
Mutate yourself into a furry.
Augment yourself until you're so a cyborg. You never asked for this.
REMOVE ZOMBO.
REMOVE VEGANS.
REMOVE FUN GUYS.
Get bored if you take the game too seriously.
>>137540246
Is there anyone who honestly prefers right to left?
>>137542815
>tiles
Well there's your problem, bob.
>>137542815
yes triple swords are obviously cooler than claymores
>>137542815
ye.
>>137542815
Plebs. I only wish the ego/artifact tiles for double bastard and 3more's were cooler. People probably prefer double/3 because that is the way it was originally, and its quite a bit more unique. Even if it is really ugly and kind of dumb.
>>137542975
no bully the tiles
>>137539156
I did a FoTm of Chei once.
From what I remember, you're going to want to dig a lot.
If you fight in killholes wherever you can, you should have enough consumables left over to deal with unexpected bad situations.
>>137542815
Look at this anon, not shaving with 5 blades.
Anon, I bet you play filthy knife eared spellcasters.
one of these abilities is not like the others
>>137545349
>Not shaving with a double edged safety blade
I bet you think your blades need to vibrate too, you dirty double naga.
>>137544240
>Even if it is really ugly and kind of dumb.
You are talking about a game that has floating fetus monsters, upside-down jesters, and a monster that has special dialogue if you are worshipping the crazygod.
>>137545706
Just my shield anon, I love it when it goes PTOANNG.
>>137546132
I know anon. It also has a club that explodes on hit, and a mace that explodes everything like grenades. I know how to suspend my belief and have fun. I still think 2/3 swords look dumb, but its fun and that is what matters.
hobbes' body is pretty good, 2 attacks, high speed, and a surprising number of equipment slots including boots presumably because he's an anthropomorphic tiger and not a regular one.
How do you kill hostile npcs with assault rifles in cataclysm
>>137548165
well since you want to kill them with assault rifles I advise you use them
>>137548165
You find a silo and drop a nuke on them.
im gonna do it
im gonna play slex
>>137551095
play prime instead
instead of dying to poop traps you can die to radiation poisoning because one of the unid potions you were carrying was radioactive
its too late for me
we all die one day
well i did the best that I could
segfault
>>137561443
thanks anon that really cheered me up
We should have an IRC or something, the thread's way too dead
>implying the irc wouldn't be even deader
>implying I know how to use irc
>>137564106
>>137564569
>>137564802
>samefagging
ctrl-q, yes, your life.
>implying
>>137564106
Why don't you make one?
>>137564106
How would that achieve anything? Retarded.
>>137565393
A chat is a different format than a imageboard and a diffeent form on interaction altogether. It'd be a breath of fresh air to the community.
>>137565241
I'll probably do it if I can get off my ass
>>137567187
As long as you're not posting about it here asking people to join, go ahead.
>>137567487
>/rlg/ irc
>but don't post about it in /rlg/
What would be the point anon? I imagine we could just put it in the OP and leave it at that.
>>137567773
fuck off normie ree
I don't like the fast pace of chat rooms
it makes me feel threatened when I try to say things cause everyone's always jumping to conclusions
>>137568626
Are you saying I'm a talkative bitch, you cunt?
>>137568939
pls no buly
>>137568435
dumb frog poster.
>>137568626
Really depends on how fast the chat goes. I can't imagine an /rlg/ chat going fast enough to bury actual discussion.
>>137564106
Because then an IRC clique would form and infect every goddamn thread with IRC faggotry.
It always happens.
>>137567773
Because it's not an /rlg/ IRC.
Part of what defines this thread is that every poster is anonymous. An IRC with nicks is simply not the same thing.
I just don't want people to come by begging for joins to the IRC when it inevitably fails. Other than that, do what you want.
Anyone else love to savescum with Gozag shops until you get shit like this?
>>137572786
>savescum
Why don't you just wizmode up all the artifacts anon?
>>137560467
What potion was that? Might help in debugging this.
>>137573910
fountain quaff
>>137574146
Thanks, will look into the function. Maybe I can find out what's going on there. Can you recover? If everything is working, it should put you back no more than 100 turns (timed autosave feature).
>>137574319
there is no way back
>>137532438
>orc general with a +8 mithril halberd one-shotted me in the chest through my +8 valpurium shirt of the jaguar
I TOLD YOU that the uniques were gonna kick Your teeth in didn't I? But you didn't listen.
No matter what, every unique can and will one shot you unless you haste/slow/run/retreat. You have no idea how much damage the black knight does, the orc officer is basically still in the babbymode realm. The knight does 200 damage per slash.
>>137575198
orc generals aren't uniques anon
the unique is the orc marshall
>IRC
Literally one of the worst ideas in the world
We're already kinda ded right now if we split we'll die completely.
speaking of which, how's that /vr/ thread going
>>137575301
You are right my dear fellow, you are most indeed. Except orc generals are just one step behind the unique and one of the strongest enemies in the game and really strong so I have no idea why you'd think of not doing the whole hastening thing. You pumped your stats and gear too much dude anyway. The orcarshal was around if the general was nearby. They spawn together.
>>137575883
i'm not the one who splatted
i'm just some fucker posting in a 4chan thread about roguelikes
>>137575690
Dead as they get
It got like
Ten posts
It died very quickly for a /vr/ thread honestly it was a little sad
>>137575987
It's alright dude not many people played IVAN so they can't possibly know that
Anyway since this is an imageboard the dude completely faulted by dying a silly unavoidable death with a character he was really invested in will surely read posts tangentially related to him so he can get gud
So my point still stands
>>137576175
>Unavoidable
He could have just walked away. Or, you know, he could have just took a look at the gear of the second strongest orc in the game from afar, since that is a thing you can do, and buff himself before dying a stupid death.
>>137575062
Something is obviously fucked up with the fountains. Just a few hours ago a guy on the server crashed in a very similar way. Quaffed from a fountain, "water gushes forth! etc. Everella drowns. Segmentation fault, core dumped." Seems I never discovered this since I never quaff from fountains...
>>137575883
I had actually already killed the orc marshall in melee and took his magic piss that time, like, way back in UT4
>>137576707
it is hard to test a variant when you add features without testing them one at a time
on that note, many role/race combos segfault on being picked, and picking a JedHumMalLaw segfaults and prevents the game from being started again, "Too many hacks running now."
another question or three: should monsters be able to spawn inside walls or is this a trait specific to F? is there a reason why some floor tiles cannot be moved upon even though they have an object on them, but no monster (tested by "F"ighting that tile)?
>>137576175
>>137576407
Actually I'm now playing even more recklessly than before
I found out you can eat spiders on the world map to train endurance, so things are looking up :3
>>137577143
there's a "trap" that prevents you from moving onto its tile i think
>>137577143
oh, so it seems you got one of the old versions that still have the "missingno bug". That one is OS-specific and happens on some Unices but not on others; I should issue a fix that removes this bug once and for all, but for the time being, try recompiling with the MISSINGNORANGE define set to 2000 (config.h). The default of 10000 can occasionally cause segfaults on initialization.
Monsters spawning in walls: feature, but happens more often with wallwalking monsters (some F can do so).
Tiles not being walkable despite looking like they should be: Try 's'earching while next to one. You'll probably find a "super nupesell nix area", which is a "trap" that simply prevents the player from moving onto it. :)
Still trying to figure out that fountain crash though.
>>137577223
>this is fine
>I'm okay with this
>>137577772
you don't need arms
just pray for a mistress so she can whip everything to death for youor talk to the priestess in the starting town for some healing magics
>>137577518
Alright, fountain crash reproduced locally, it seems the "dogushforth" function isn't working correctly...
>>137577364
that is a cool trap i love it
>>137577518
>old versions
unless your master git branch is significantly behind a development branch which i didnt check for then no
you should consider taking that one guys advice and upgrading to NH4s UI
its such a step forward that once you play with it it is hard to play without
After all the talk about IRC, is there a Discord that 's roguelike-themed?
>>137578353
I do not doubt that there is one, though this is likely not the place to find out quickly.
>>137577909
Is a mistress pet the blessed archon figurine of IVAN?
>>137577909
looks like I'm a werewolf forever now
that sounds kind of annoying
I mean I guess I can eat large ommel bone chests and get all my stats up to the hundreds
>>137578695
it seems lycanthropy is not my only curse
>>137578645
no because blessed archon figurine takes a wish, and is probably much more powerful
mistress pet is just "pray to Nefas without being lawful enough for her to hate you", and the anon in that book just read a book of Nefas so he has the option to pray to her.
>>137578491
I'm not visiting reddit!!11
I'll search for one when this thread dies again.
>>137579015
so instead of searching reddit go ask the ##crawl irc or something
is Ivan beatable
how come I've never seen anyone beat it without savescumming
>>137579204
yeah its beatable
i think i saw a goon beat Oree once
>>137578223
Now, at least one of the potential fountain quaffing segfaults is fixed: https://github.com/SLASHEM-Extended/SLASHEM-Extended/commit/f2ca9b74b5338cb9263ae6d4af1623ef3f6279ec
>>137578854
yeah guys, I'm not really like, asking for advice, even though I know it makes you feel good about yourself or something, I'm mainly just posting these screens and little descriptions of what happened to provide entertainment and such, and it's nice that you want to help me, but you need to realize that you and everyone else on the planet are incapable of helping me. no one can help me because I flat out just don't listen to other people or feel any respect towards any person
so you know it's fine if you want to tell your own stories or play off the jokes I'm telling and stuff, but I don't really need you in any intellectual capacity, if anything you're just sort of irritating when you try to help
>>137579459
Other fountain quaffing "segfault" also resolved; it wasn't a segfault at all, but the Amy stupidly assumed it was. In reality, she tried to recover a game that was still in progress...
Err. Anyway. Fountains should no longer segfault now. Sorry for the trouble; sometimes I'm really stupid...
>>137578695
Stats boosts get reverted with each transformation!
>>137578695
you can also cure lycanthropy at the new attnam priestess i'm pretty sure
>>137579204
I think someone that's not ponyposter won IVAN some years ago but it was an old version and he ate used the ommel cerum exploit
then again cloning sagas in clivan gives you 100 int so it's the same exploit
we should make a server so people can't savescum and use new Ivan for it so people can't use exploits but that's literally autistic
>>137580563
>Making a server with the latest release of a game is autistic
Are you literally retarded?
>>137580563
also ivan isn't console-based so i imagine it would be much more of a pain in the ass to host on a server
>>137580658
no literally, no
>>137580658
Shut up ponyposter
>>137580693
The github has a Linux version, it's not windows native anymore. Roguenexus could handle it.
>>137580842
that's besides the fucking point
we shouldn't encourage making a server to make sure some autistic manchild can play without resorting to exploits and savescumming a fucking game
holy shit I'm mad
>>137581070
but that was your point
>ivan isn't console-based so i imagine it would be much more of a pain in the ass to host on a server
which was directly addressed with
>Roguenexus could handle it.
>>137581070
Alright first off I may be a manchild but I am NOT autistic. A real autistic person wouldn't have savescummed and accepted defeat. Second, this was just a suggestion. And third, holy shit calm down dude. You're gonna pop a vessel or something.
>>137581204
>I am NOT autistic
A person who wasn't autistic would attach no emotional response to whether or not strangers on the internet think they're autistic, and perhaps silently wonder how they or anyone else would even be sure if they were or weren't.
They then might wonder what autism even actually means and why people are so silly.
>>137581196
Well, I *think * he means that he doesn't "want" people to make a server just so people can play without the temptation of savescumming or using exploits. Which in itself is kind of ridiculous and would eventually lead to the same kind of shitposting we get when someone posts an offline crawl win and says that they must have savescummed.
But honestly? I think he really just wanted to stir up shit using a notoriously easy to pick target. Not that I mind, but I do dislike when we get these crazy fits of shitposting out of nowhere. It ruins the quality of the thread.
Anyway how's the crawl circus animals fork? It looks pretty weird.
>>137581427
/rlg/ is more or less my only source of human interaction, so I do care about thread quality and politeness. Then again, autism is just a buzzword nowadays.
The new hepatitis-k god in trunk dcss is kewl yo
You know the worst thing could be that this is just him responding to himself
what if /rlg/ really is a single person
I mean I know it was international autism day a couple days ago, but it doesn't mean you guys have to fling around the word meaninglessly all day today.
>>137581754
>/rlg/ is more or less my only source of human interaction
>NOT autistic
um
>>137581754
> I care about thread quality
Sure how could we forget when you literally posted pony porn for an hour and reported yourself
sure looks like you love thread quality
you're fucking pathetic
>>137581754
>/rlg/ is more or less my only source of human interaction
>>137581914
Well, that and my therapy group. Okay.
>>137581954
Can we please stop this? I already said I regret doing that. I was banned and that was it. None of this is roguelikes.
>>137581914
Yea. I've seen an actual real live autistic person on a bus once and he talked to everyone without inhibition. Loners like our friend are more likely to have schizoid personality disorder
is pony porn roguelikes if it's inside Noxico
>>137579921
>if anything you're just sort of irritating when you try to help
Not that I've ever tried to post any advice for your benefit, but I feel the same every time I read one of your posts.
>>137581647
It's fucking terrible. The movement makes no fucking sense. It's squareLOS with diagonal movement penalties and a momentum system which penalizes you for turning 90' or stopping between moving. Everything about it is retarded, but it's better than SLEX- at least!
>>137582070
>schizo
That would explain why it feels so natural for him to shift between several personas
>>137582070
I have an extreme narcissistic personality disorder that causes me to divert all feelings of disappointment onto society itself, and I sometimes envision that I have the potential to become a figure similar to Adolf Hitler
then I play roguelikes and try to dissociate myself from my extreme desire to cleanse the earth of it's filth.
I wish Hitler was still around, I feel like we'd really "get" each other you know?
>>137582145
>Not that I've ever tried to post any advice for your benefit, but I feel the same every time I read one of your posts.
yes but you have autism
you feel that way about almost everything
>>137582087
I'll read your post if you post about it yea
>>137582239
>I wish Hitler was still around, I feel like we'd really "get" each other you know?
me and you or you and hitler
>>137582145
It seems that every single person who actually likes playing IVAN and its variants ends up becoming an insufferable douche.
That said, veronica is a little bitch.
>>137582385i've never played noxico i was just shitposting
>>137582239
Ingenious, but now you're just plain shitposting.
Also, CLIVAN is a babby variant.
>>137582401
I've never played IVAN though, don't worry about that.
>>137582401
I believe the word you're looking for is "lovable tsundere neko-chan"
>>137582145
There's heaps of cow shit that are better than slex.
Most of them, actually. At least those serve a purpose.
>>137582497
>implying I was ever not funposting
>>137582589
Slex does serve a purpose though.
It exists to endlessly baffle.
I remember a couple dozen turns after stumbling into a trap of some kind or other getting the message: "You no longer feel confused."
No SLEX, no. I'm still incredibly confused.
>>137582589
There are actual heaps of shit in slex, and it's possible to die from stepping into them.
>>137582721
I just wish Amy would just win a regular game of nethack. She wouldn't be able to clean her social stigma, but it'd be something, by god.
It's been weeks since new IA was uploaded
Where's the vod Dicks
Where's the vod
Have you forsaken us
Have we strayed from your glorious path
>>137583037
fuck IA, it's been MONTHS since the last mumo vid
new mumo when
>>137583120
The only MuMo we have tries his hardest to suicide in lair
MuMo is old and busted, we need a new challenge
I already tried to push foodless vampire convict in dynahack but with poor reception
I did have a lot of fun playing it though
>>137582000
Y-Yeah! What a w-we-weirdo!!
>>137583613
>we need a new challenge
The challenge is to play roguelikes without shitposting.
>>137583649
I'm just joking anon it's okay, I'm sure you'll get better when you're ready.
Anyone else remember the glory days of Crawl, back in 6.5 or so, when rolling Mountain Dwarf Fighter was the only option that didn't earn you massive respect for a successful run? Shit's gotten so easy now I had to stop playing; and for every new item/enemy/whatever that gets added the devteam strips 3 things out in return, then removes 1 more mechanic to make it even MORE streamlined and simple to appease the speedrunners.
>>137583657
anon why do you always need other people to act a certain way for you to be happy?
why can't you just be happy?
>>137584863
back then they used to consider the game unwinnable without spoilers
>>137584895
anon why do you always need other people to play a certain way for you to be happy?
why can't you just be happy?
what could pawsibly go wrong? :3
>>137585105
thats a different anon I think, I actually have no problem with other people playing however they want as long as it's fun to them
I do think that maybe savescummers should try Elona+ though! it's a really fun game and I like it a lot :3
>>137585167
You could get killed by hard dudes wearing bucklers.
It can happen man. I've seen it.
>>137584974
It was glorious. Shit was so hard. Every time I got even up to level 13 or so it felt like a glorious victory.
Now I win and it's like "meh, that wasn't too hard". Even doing ziggurats or wandering Pan (oh wait, they just removed Pan, didn't they, can't have anything that those speedrunners won't use) is hardly life-threatening.
And the current array of options for player characters might be unique compared to other RLs, but a lot of them just feel wierd for the sake of being wierd.
>yes I am STILL rustled about dwarves getting removed, fuck the devteam
>>137585321
They removed Pan the unique as in the goat dude.
>>137584863
>>137585321
I mean, I think Crawl has gotten easier recently.
But I think a lot of what your guys are experiencing is just because you've gotten better.
Hador pride worldwide
>>137585597
>5111
>Im drunk
>250' surrounded in a corridor
It checks out!
>>137585394
no the game really is piss easy now
you have to intentionally make bad choices of race and background or actively handicap yourself a la MuMo for it to be hard
back then it was hard to even win at all, unless, UNLESS you were a mountain dwarf with a dwarven axe and a full suit of dwarven armor and a dwarven crossbow with dwarven bolts
>>137585394
Nah, I took a break from Crawl for at least a year, probably close to two, having never managed to get the orb because [refuses to read spoilers].
Decided to download it again a year or so ago and my second run got me the orb despite being totally out of practice. And then I kept getting it, regularly and consistently. It wasn't the same game that would kick my ass with a grin: most of the dick moves were gone, dying from starvation was something you'd have to purposefully be trying to accomplish, even as a spriggan, and the enemies were easier with a more gradual difficulty curve instead of the sudden difficulty spikes that would catch a newbie off guard which you'd find at certain points in earlier versions.
>>137585707
You remember when Sigmund wasn't just a slightly tougher named mob, but the fucking scourge of lower-leveled characters with the most kills to his name of any mob in the game?
>>137585917
It's still like that.
>>137585394
Go read the devblog. Underneath every post for at least the past year are 10-20 replies begging them to not cut still more things from the game, demanding a reason for why the latest batch of cuts is happening, and pleading for them to quit making it easier.
>devs give no fucks and carry on with the madness
Honestly curious as to why I don't see more posting of old crawl stuff since there seems to be so much nostalgia about the versions with MD, SE etc. Why don't you guys just play those versions?
>>137586112
That has approximately nothing to do with the game being easier.
Where is the danger in a regular 3 rune DCSS game now? I've only been playing for a week after a 2 year break, and everything seems to have been fucking babby-proofed.
Absolutely no fear of fire and ice, just rock right in and keep all my emergency scrolls/pots.
Oklob plant in view? Used to be a fucking no-go for me, but now, I just go barrel-assing in and tab the fuck out of it, even on frail mages.
I get that item destruction, corrosion, and permanent malmutation were all kinda shitty to deal with, but at least they made me just a little bit smarter.
>>137586028
Anon pls. Modern Sigmund is easy to shut down with just about any wand, potion, or scroll you might have. Gone are the days of desperately burning a wand dry against him and watching him inexorably advance to your doom.
>to be entirely honest, with the changed rules in consumable destruction and consumable weight--before, fire could burn your scrolls and ice could shatter your potions, and a huge pile of consumables would add up weight fast, so managing your stashes was a LOT more strategic--I don't know why they don't just make everything into wands because hey, they sure love to simplify and there's barely any difference as it stands
>sling
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
>>137586250
I'm also complaining about the simplification, and was doing so prior to that post.
If you consistently have people asking the devs to quit making the game easier over the course of a lengthy period of time, complaining that the game has gotten less difficult with recent versions, that would suggest that there might indeed be a lessening in the difficulty of the game. It's not just me and another few anons here, a lot of people have seen this and dislike it.
>>137585707
>MuMo for it to be hard
The godless/armorless meme conduct /rlg/ likes to throw around, perhaps. A regular MuMo with a god isn't a difficult choice by any means.
>>137586623
Yes but cutting content != reducing difficulty. Cutting can make a game easier, harder, or have 0 effect on the difficulty. You should probably have been more specifiic.
That said, do you play crawl anymore? If so, what version?
>>137586627
>meme conduct
>>137586989
I'm sorry. Years away from the tender arms of /rlg/ have jaded me.
I'm a genius
>we don't sell to your kind here
>UNLESS you push this rock in front of you so I can't recognize you.
also
>dark lady
I hope he means I'm a vampire
>>137586483
Can you throw your ball with that?
>>137586897
I finally threw in the towel when I saw the 0.16 changelog (believe it was that one, maybe I'm thinking of the wrong version). Among other things, the switch to everything being done as square-only rather than circular (for spells and other such things) really stuck in my craw as their rationale when met with a lot of flak about it was "well it makes the game simpler!" As well, it was continuing a trend I'd been following for many months of removal, simplification, and lowering the difficulty. At a certain point that has already been reached, it feels dishonest to call the game Dungeon Crawl.
Crawl was the only RL I was playing at the time, and I actually popped in the thread to see about finding one that was similar to the old Crawl: more difficulty, much more complexity.
Is One Way Heroics still okay to discuss here, or is it too casual for the likes of /rlg/?
>>137587332
>Can you throw your ball with that?
no, it's not even good for that.
Also the curse is acting up again.
>>137586897
desu he was pretty clear that they're doing both
Ah damn
Why did I move towards that floating eye
Grabbing this off of github still compiles easy as pie.
>>137587342
You're probably looking for a 'hack then. Could also try IA/Brogue but they may be too "light" for you. Good difficulty level, however.
>>137587412
OWH is great.
>>137587418
I can't really tell anymore if people are just bitching about removals. He never explicitly said anything about difficulty >>137586112 and it just sounded like the stuff I read every other thread.
>>137587530
>Running into an e
>As a race with infravision
>And with a lightsource
FAULT
>>137587686
>He never explicitly said anything about difficulty
hmmm
>>137586112
>and pleading for them to quit making it easier.
hmmm
>>137587686
Yeah, probably best that I give Nethack a go, it's frankly a bit embarrassing that I haven't ever played it. Thanks for the suggestions.
>>137587702
Yeah, but I really think they should tone down the paralysis. One wrong keypress and you've got 1d100 paralysis going on.
>>137587954
or add a button that just automates boring exploration and stuff right?
>>137587871
Ah, my apologies then. I'm tired.
>>137586627
Regular MuMo or anything Mu (except .5 and earlier MuSu of siffon de mana) is quite hard
>>137588371
well, unless you play a jew
>>137588661
Getting it past early game is hard, moreso with Mu because Mu sucs dick at life.
>>137588371
Won't argue with you that Mummies are a harder race than basically anything else you could choose that's not gimping yourself with a strange playstyle.
However, I firmly believe that with thoughtful playing based on what's been given to you by the time you find an altar or your preferred god, MuMo is not a terribly hard choice. The two * in piety can be very strong depending on your god of choice, and there's nothing stopping you from using that rare, but possible, badass whip/dagger of electrocution you found instead of your crumbling, bandaged fists as a MuMo.
On DDA, if I stick a solar panel on a vehicle tile that has a roof on it, will the solar panel still charge like normal? Or will the panel be "under' the roof tile, preventing it from working? I don't have enough panels to do it yet, but I'm wondering if I'm able to stick solar panels all over the top of the RV i've fixed up.
And somewhat related, how do funnels work on vehicles? Is it like a funnel on the ground where it has to be installed above a water tank to transfer rainwater into it, or is it like a solar panel and I can just stick as many I want wherever I want and they just fill the tank? And like my initial question, I'd like to know if funnels work with roof tiles or if the roof blocks it.
Oh wow, that's shitty.
>>137589131
Forgive me for asking, but...
What game is this, and why would you wish to genocide shopkeepers, and what I can only assume is yourself? (@).
>>137589265
I thought @ killed all humans. I'm a vampire. Completely different.
It's dynahack.
>>137589347
Thanks, I figured it had to be a Nethack fork based on the layout. The 'mobaxterm' in the window name threw me off.
>>137588987
You can put panels everywhere and they will work. Not sure if your funnel has to be over a water tank.
>pray for food
>lol nope god is displeased
>wait until I'm faiting frequently
>THOU MUST RELEARN YOUR LESSON
>die
>find out my magical boots were
>boots of speed of displacement
>can you leave your pickaxe outside
>can you also not enter, you're like, a convict and I can see that
Nah
>>137589525
Unfortunately the prayer system isn't complex enough that god attitude times out faster in dire need.
Are you still trying foodless?
>>137590080
Yep
Tourists were too easy so I thought I might as well try the hardest class and slap in foodless, vegan and vegetarian while I was in.
Vampires are great for foodless in the mid-lategame, but earlygame is awful.
>>137590153
Have you won a tourist?
>>137590186almostI got killed by one eyed sam because I tried to steal from his shop
>>137590230
I almost won an Archaeologist.
Accidentally sacrificed to the wrong altar. Still got top 10 on the server funnily enough.
What's the most fun version of ADoM? Archives say prerelease 5>1.1>any other version but I can't find either of those.
Also, I'd like to play the same version that allowed the Troll Archmage ascension that is sometimes mentioned but I'm not sure what one that is.
>finally seems like I'm surviving in IVAN
>can't buy anything in the shop in the new town
>I guess I need to go pick up some more of that loot in that dungeon I just made it through
>keep seeing messages about some sort of religious fanatic singing
>get exploded before I know what happened
>"high score" list says I got blown up by a veteran kamikaze dwarf
c-cool game
>>137591339
The archives are right because I said so and I am always right!
No but seriously all versions are good. I've won the troll archmage in the latest prerelease that was available at the time, which was about 65 or something. It's way easier in pre5 because they didn't nerf the herbs, but that's kinda cheesing the game. I think I approve of this new method.
>>137592098
oh wait, my bad, it was P60
Right, it was the public release yes
mmh
yes it's the only one that gives that good old ascii feel without the tiles getting in the way.
yeah apparently now that he released p60 as public, there's no torrents for anything newer
I'll grab the changelog to see if there's anything interesting but I don't expect to be surprised
>check the changelog
>- Task 3429 - Prepare ADOM press kit
Oh great the ADOM press kit
what's the adom press kit
>The Creator
>For 2016 we are going to use a PR agency in order to move ADOM more effectively to the main stream.
You know what
I don't wanna know anything more about ADOM anymore
I'll just forget it never existed
> Task 4003 - Adjust sexist remarks
>DOM recently introduced unintentional sexist remarks. The "bitch" references should be exchanged for something else.
>>137592398
hue
people are so easily influenced and manipulated
does no one starve for their art anymore? no of course not that won't get you awkwardly pierced hipster poon
>>137592668
this is what paying for roguelikes gets you anon
>>137592615
I thought you were tricking me
But it is for real
I dont know how to feel
>>137592718
you should feel betrayed and sad
>>137592398
>you feel sad for a moment
Roguelikes were never meant to be "mainstream".
The whole achievement thing in adom is stupid.
>>137592715
honestly the skill bar is the most disgusting part of that image
>>137592715
>tfw you still got to [kissher]
Sexy Slime Shota does it again
>this discussion again
>yet again
Sometimes I ask myself if ponyposter bought a 4chan pass or something. Nigga, if you have problems with people making money off their work, you might as well be angry at the whole fucking world.
What the fuck is your problem?
I don't fucking get it.
>>137592909
>I hate options!
t. dcss
>>137592950
>What the fuck is your problem?
I don't think that reply could fit in 2000 letters.
Found 1.1.0
http://www.adom.de/adom/archive.php3
BUT THEY'RE RUINING OUR GENRE GUYS
>There is a new way to please the cute little girl and her puppy dog.
I thought ADoM was supposed to be boring.
I'd pay to play Sil desu senpai
>>137593129
>Sil desu senpai
Is that a new fork?
>>137593126
>There is a new way to please the cute little girl and her puppy dog.
Are you playing a pedophile?
>>137592950
it's probably the aggressive back-handed tendencies of large corporations that seek to appropriate and commodify every existing thing for a population that doesn't actually want to purchase anything and grows increasingly less materialistic and more cosmopolitan in the midst of an information singularity, disarming the old methods of coercion such as nationalism, conformity, and dick-waving.
there are people who don't even want their dicks anymore!
THEY DON'T EVEN WANT THEIR DICKS
which is to say your hobby is literally under attack simply because it's free and you don't spend enough time spending money or working
>>137593313
>THEY DON'T EVEN WANT THEIR DICKS
THAT'S ABSURD
EVERYONE LOVES DICKS
HE'S A LOVABLE SCAMP
>>137593350
He is a spic.
>>137593234
No, just a joke about an old ADoM pastebin.
>>137593423
I knew Biskup was a pedo, but I didn't know he was also a zoophile.
>>137593407
Olè.
>>137593468
>Olè.
>Olè
>è
I'M SO FUCKING TRIGGERED.
Listen I know my posting gets out of hand, but what happened to ADOM is that I get angry because I used to love the game. Hell, I still think it's good.
But jsut like Qud became a piece of shit after they saw they could make money out of sproggiwood and then shove an electrified rod up Qud's ass to make it just and say it was resuscitated, ADOM was a good game that had done its course and then was brought back from the land of the dead with the simple intention of make as much money he could out of it.
I'm mad at that. I'm sorry I keep shitting up the threads for this reason, it just makes me really really really mad.
Sorry.
I'm going now.
>>137593549Olë
>>137593003
I hate abstractions upon the simulation more than anything else to be honest
there needs to be a game that has brutal, merciless math bound to the laws of thermodynamics, completely hidden from the player as they desperately try to navigate their bumbling rogue through a realistic dungeon without the aid of any sort of menus or text other than what you can have your dude literally read with his eyeballs in game.
just you, your controller, and a dude, when you open your inventory you have to actually watch him stop, drop his pack, and go about actually fucking organizing it with his actual hands like some sort of brain destroying mash up of qwop and an old sierra adventure game
>>137593642
>Olë
Literally having an aneurysm.
Learn to olé
>>137593720olὴ
>>137593685
So, you want incursion?
I never get to post this one
>>137593937
>Incursion
brotitude
>>137593937
>you are threatened
yeah, that screenshot is fucking scary.
>>137593937
>tfw too stupid for Incursion
I just don't get it, even with babby mode wild shape druid the furthest I got was D:4
>>137594279
You must pursue the path of gud
>>137593937
that is literally the exact opposite of what I want
like the thing I dislike most about brogue is that it has -words- in it
it doesn't need words
they could have done it with just symbols, colors
no words at all
>>137594351
I just want to be an awesome roguelike wizard, how do I stop fucking kobolds and shit brutalising me with bolas? (bolases?)
>>137594415
oh yeah I just re-read your post
that would certainly be interesting and nobody would ever buy it
that means it's prefect for open source
>>137594614
>how do I stop fucking kobolds and shit brutalising me with bolas? (bolases?)
dude, incursion is re-dead.
there's no real reason to play it.
>>137594645
that's the thing, everybody would want to play it
>Dude you can literally fuck things in this game
>There's no limit on what you can fuck
>if you enter the correct commands to pull out your dick and go into first person fuck mode you can do it anywhere
>I fucked my dog in this game, it felt like I was 12 years old again, it took me ten tries just to figure out how to line it up properly
>then I ate bread, and I had to actually dig it out of my bag and rub butter on it with the control sticks so my character wouldn't get depressed
>It's like Sword Art Dog Fucking the game
everyone would want to play this game, where the only limitations on the application of it's mechanics is your own imagination and the content and boundaries of the game world itself
literally zero scripted content
people would shit their pants and say it's more dark souls than dark souls
>>137595002
So basically you want a dungeon explorer oculus rift+ the sims management game, singleplayer.
I don't see why anyone would ever want to do that. I mean, you can eat butter already without, you know. A game for it.
>>137593937
This post made me check Incursion repo. Now I'm sad.
>>137595104
a. because art imitates life
b. because life should imitate good art
c. the things people want to escape from in life are things like consequences, mortality, the limitations of their own flesh, their disabilities and disorders and weaknesses and instabilities
nobody wants to not have to eat things that taste good, because that is great
they'll see their dude eating bread with butter and be like you know I should have some bread and butter, and then they'll do things they can't do in real life like making a strange noise to draw attention, and hiding around a darkened corner to stab a goblin in the neck
what you think is that they only want to do things that exceed the boundaries of their reality in order to escape, but they actually need a deeper level of verisimilitude to draw them into a more intricate fantasy, woven into a truly believable reality, all abstraction stripped away aside from the interface of the player and the game itself.
God fucking damnit.
>>137595617
>verisimilitude
is that a word?
>>137595937
Oh well. I shouldnt have put xp in Perception to open that chest. Whats a good minimum Will to resist draining? I had 4 when that wraith drained me to oblivion
>>137596523
yes. perhaps you should look it up. it's not an uncommon term in literature or cinema.
>>137596945
I think I've read it in latin sometime in school but I've never heard it in English.
I learn so much in this thread, about language; about autism; sometimes even about roguelikes!
>>137597030
even smart people have bad hobbies like 4chan
hey are rouge-lite discussions good here too?
>>137519805
>pink windows theme
London?
>>137568626
This thread could make a good irc channel.
Also who the fuck puts their signature on ohayou edits? Fucking scum.
>>137593685
t. idea girl
>>137594415
Hieroglyphics has no words in it.
I don't know how good it is it whether it's worth $10 though.
>>137605690
Hieroglyphika*
stupid phone
>>137595937
haha I literally got in that situation last week with an edain
the solution might surprise youjust walk away
Is there any rouge like with post-apocalyptic setting?
I wanted to try
Cataclysm DDA but the description and pastebin shat on the game so hard that i changed my mind
>>137609792
Caves of Qud, but it's really not your standard post-apocalyptic setting though.
>>137609792
It's not that bad, I'm almost 99% sure there is a mod to remove the meme shit or at there very least there used to be for older versions, admittedly I haven't played it in awhile so I wouldn't know if there is one for the current version.
The mutation and cybernetic systems are pretty good as well as the crafting elements, so it's at least worth giving it a go for those alone.
CoQ is great and it calls itself post apocalyptic, but it's still low fantasy at the same time. It's more like an adventure than it is survival as food and water is extremely easy to come by unless you want to fuck around in a specific biome. There are two versions, the free one that is much older and the new one which is on steam and pay to play, they are both the same game except the pay version just has more stuff and is general;y more polished. I've yet to play the new one so idk if it's worth it.
what do you do about flamethrower assholes in PRIME? They do a ton of damage, melt all your floppy disks, and often seem to refuse to run single-file down a corridor at you.
I guess you can just drop all non-"emergency" floppies on the stairs before going to a new level but that seems tedious as hell.
>tfw cant walk away from archers
Also didnt find a single pot, RNG pls
>>137611368
What you suggested is really all you can do. It helps to pick up a flamethrower yourself after you kill a group.
all the upstairs on d:8 are carefully guarded by erolcha, a two-headed ogre, and a gargoyle fighter ghost
do I even have a chance
>>137612314
Do you have tele?
>>137612838
i have a deck of escape
i did find a teleport scroll but I used it on the floor above getting away from an unseen horror
>>137613221
wait nevermind
i drew it on erolcha and i got an out of deck cart: pentacle and it summoned two pan lords that immediately beat the shit out of her
praise nemelex
>>137614090
You should have taken a screenshot
What should I pick? It's one of my first three or so POWDER games. I'm conflicted because I wanted the barbarian god. I started with rogue stuff, then learned magic missile from my starting book, and THEN found a +1 mithril chainmail. No idea of what to do now, but I'm going crazy if I don't get diagonal movement.
>>137615546
True barbie is doable and a great build, but IMO, powder is better when you play a mage warrior. Xom has the best stat growth, just you need to learn to please all gods. Oh, and you'll learn to hate pax and the ranger one to whole new levels ;D
I avenged you my poor edain.
Would be nice to find some ego weapons now.
There we go!
That's my nigga Tymora!
So this quokka is just a prank bro and i cant kill him?
>>137622697
Why would you want to kill your little dog?
And that's what happens when you tab into a minotaur thinking he's a hill giant.
The ring was slow digestion, too!
>>137623045
Old Quokka was cuter tbf
>>137622697
>>137624771
>>137624934
Act -> Pet
>>137624934
You're a monster, goatposter
>>137625050
The quokka has been pet.
>>137625113
The only monster is my boner for shotegote
pssht
its nothin personnel kid, i just dont like pranks
>>137624771
>>137624934
Why are they so mean in this game, look at how cute this fucker is
>>137625819
>>137593407
Mexicans are spics, mexicans are spaniards' rape babies.
What a noble sacrifice!
awoo
>>137635016
gaoo
i dont get the hype
okay that is pretty good
Aw ye.
Finally.
Aw
yis
Now I don't have to choose between the bag of holding and the magic resistance cloak
>>137638584
>implying this is even a choice
Holding is convenient, sure, but MR is mandatory.
aaaand then the polytrap kicked in
and then a lightning vortex came in
and then the server started shitting itself
I swear it's a curse
Alright, the vortex killed my bat form.
But I'm still in.
What's the best way to deal with this? I already prayed for satiation a while ago and all my shit has been pushed off me when I was a bat with 20 stones of carrying ability, so that's out of the question.
Do I just punch?
>>137640632
You might want to consider changing how you are playing in polytrap territory since it seems to be a death sentence for your character.
>>137641003
It's your only option.
>>137641070
>You might want to consider changing how you are playing in polytrap territory
I literally walk into them when I autoexplore the mines
all the time
I am not going to stop autoexploring
it's way too comfy
I understand that might be the end of me until I find MR
HANDS OF STEEL
I swear to fucking god I will disarm every single poly trap once I get MR
>>137641757
You've got retard, man.
>>137641757
I survived
But I will blame the RNG
jackpoooot
Now I really only need the MR cloak
Fuck. It was gonna happen eventually.
Fuuuck.
>>137644037
You probably shouldn't wear rings if you are doing foodless unless one of those rings is an ID'd slow digestion. Rings increase your rate of nutrition loss.
Oh my god thank you fucking random vampire lord at the bottom of the mine
You saved meI THINK
>>137644237
Oh yeah that's probably a really bad idea.
But -20 AC looked so round instead of -17.
Hmm apparently it was just "blood" and not "vampire blood".
That thing gives 50 nutrition.
>>137644469
Of course it looks nice and that is important, but having even -10 AC in mine's end is overkill unless you plan to do a repeat of >>137623626
Yeah nope
I'm 100% fucked now
Well, I hope someone finds this bones level at least
Oh great
apparently that fucking potion broke my conduct too
Fall.
>tension room full of turrets
Fuck off.
anybody /urr/ in here?
http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/downloads/
it looks kinda sick
Any of you want to try out a mostly forgotten roguelike from 1993?
>>>/vr/3114514
i dont have a grayswandir though
>>137650568
i dont have an image either
making the galaxy great again
>>137649347
status: cant get enough
it is not the worst game i have ever played but it is very very close
i would derive more enjoyment out of goblet quest than this
What's a fun and reasonably powerful race/class for poschengband? Getting bored dying with half-titan monks. I'm not usually much of a spell guy but I've never tried that in PCB, so if they're pretty effective I might give one a go.
>>137656326
shit game would not play
>>137656326
Jelly.
>>137656326
Ninja are fun.
Spellcasters are basically glass cannon blaster mages at endgame and horrifically slow and grindy in the midgame. Try a mage of something offensive (chaos, daemon, armageddon) and sorcery if you want to mess around with one.
>>137656326
ANDROID RUNE KNIGHT
>>137656087
>I would derive more enjoyment out of goblet quest than this
I sincerely doubt that.still salty about the doppelganger nerf desu
>>137658138
Why do I feel like this is a clever ruse?
Hey guys, dunno if this fits in here but I just started playing minecraft on hardcore. Its pretty fun so far just gotta hope I dont get blown up by a creeper lol!
>>137658791
They're fun anon. I swear.
>>137658791
Android Rune Knights actually are very powerful.
Androids level up by wearing expensive gear, and Rune Knights can both enchant their gear (raising the value and thus the level of the Android) and sell enchanted gear at full price (as opposed to the 99% discount that is automatically inscribed on the enchanted gear that mages of Craft can produce).
Also, Androids can spam rockets, one of the only ways to produce enough damage-per-turn to kill the Serpent, and Rune Knights also get lots of neat spells (including Manastorm) as they level up.
They're very strong, yes, but I'm not certain they're very fun.
>>137658468
maybe i am being too harsh
it was more fun than crawl 0.6 at least
>>137659640
ring is the most fun
be a ring
>>137660021
yer a liar m8, I'll smack u up
they don't let you use the best reason for grinding 555
and also you have to grind a lot to use good spells, like "breathe X"
and also useful attack spells are few and far between
you do tend to get huge AC and decent resistances tho
How do I get vi keys in IVAN? I set the config option to "alternate," but its definitely not vi.
>>137661467
Nevermind, there is a third option called "Nethack"!
I don't know why POWDER Is not talked about more, it's pretty cute. Earlier I died to a cursed necklace strangling my character. It has a Nethack vibe to it while being borderline coffeebreak simple.
>>137662648
Also I'm the same guy who posted the other POWDER screenshot earlier, I just changed OS. I did manage to get a barbarian ofown to floor 7 before I died to a spider or some dumb crap like that. That felt pretty dissapointing after the same character tabbed through all this shit
I'm reading in the wiki that eventually you can pick a starting class
>>137656326
uh, monk IS a spell guy. you have to pick a realm on character creation
are you dying because you're ignoring half of your character and only doing melee?
Hedgehogs are fucking terrifying.
captcha: 420
>>137664804
Where are you getting those names from?
>>137665221
What names?
>>137665503
obviously he's wondering how you decided on the name "ivan" for your IVAN character
>>137665503
Anon I acknowledge you're good at naming characters but a little humbleness wouldn't do you any harm
>>137665647
>>137665704
I am a paragon of creativity.
It seems like this chain mail is not really worth using since it burdens me.
Also my mace seems to block attacks better than my shield. Ditch the shield?
>>137666095
the conventional wisdom is that shields are worthless and it's pretty much always better to dual-wield (or use a two-hander)
>>137666095
>Chainmail
>16kg
>Single gauntlet
>2kg
Why are roguelikes so stupid when it comes to weight?
>>137666695
ADOM's rations are still my favorite.
One has to wonder what exactly a large ration contains when it weighs some ridiculous amount and only manages to be as filling as a cooked lizard.
>>137666695
Because no one ever bothered to look up how heavy armor or weapons actually are. A longsword being 2 pounds doesn't sit right with some people, so they're 20 pounds instead because "its badass bro."
>>137666332
Cool. This is a good base type to boot, right?
>>137666695
Probably because the developers don't care.
>>137664804
This guy seems like a loser.
>>137666950
2-3 lb long swords is one of the things I really like about Sil.
>>137666914
The fun is digging through the rocks until you find the single piece of hardtack, obviously
Is it safe to rest here after I kill this thing or do I have to go back downstairs?
>>137668957
the plants stop spawning after you kill it
Does DCSS have randomly generated uniques? Because I'm getting weird names like Utobb and shit as unique monsters, yet they're nowhere to be found when I look for them on the wiki or learndb. I know there's static uniques but do they generate any randomly?
I have a hasted Ommel Tooth mace, a Whip of Thievery, and a +1 Nymph Hair whip. Which is the best choice to use? Should I just keep them all? The mace+WoT was doing work in the underwater caves.
>>137670810
Sounds like a pan lord name.
>>137670810
For panlords, yes.
>>137670909
A general rule of thumb is to hoard anything you can. Why ever get rid of it if there's nothing forcing you to? Just keep everything on you like it's an episode of Hoarders until something better comes along.
>>137670909
Other anons in this thread have used whips of thievery as endgame-tier weapons. The disarm is good plus whips are bugged to never break.
You can buff up that one whip until it's at least +5 and has a good base material and eventually clone it for dual wielding.
>>137671134
Ok. Should I sell some stuff to buy a cloak of fire resistance from the shop in Attnam?
>>137671524
Do you have the belt of levitation? Because if not you need all the fire resistance you can get to avoid dying to land mines.
Also be wary that mines can blow up wands in your inventory.
>>137671837
Then it's good that I decided to buy that.
>>137663313
try zapping a rapier with lightning
then try zapping the rapier itself after :)
>whips are bugged to never break
Looks like they fixed that.
>>137671480
disarm is extremely good, whips never break, and they have a really high size modifier and "roundness" stat (used for blocking attacks,) making it pretty much a foregone conclusion that if you're dual wielding, you can hardly do better than X and a WoT
it also takes only 20 int to harden a whip of thievery into phoenix feather, which is a pretty substantial boost
two-handed weapons are really strong though, so if you happen to find mjolak or something, it's pretty acceptable as an end game weapon once you enchant and harden it
a hasted ommel tooth mace isn't as good as a slowed one, hasting it only makes it rot faster (it can also be eaten by dog type monsters, this is good for a pet but not so useful for yourself, since getting polycontrol on a canine body to stay in it is really difficult and unlikely)
>>137674941
neat. you can still make it pretty damn durable by changing it into spider silk or golden eagle feather
that requires a lot of int though, 50 for GEF and even more for larger items
I think spider silk is just 40 int
>>137675630
also angel hair at 35 int or phoenix feather at 20 int
>>137674941
is that the new version? did you have to compile it yourself?
>Grinder on fucking D:3
>die
More like "Grindr" because he'll bend you over and fuck you in the ass. And no chance to counter him since he paralyzes you and prevents you from running.
>>137676101
https://github.com/attnam/ivan/releases
It's 0505, there's a binary.
>>137676235
oh strange, I was looking for a download link before and only found the source for some reason
I was probably just being lazy and unattentive
Is this too lite for you? And how in the hell is Infra Arcana the only Lovecraft roguelike in existence? It's awful.
>>137676672
What game is that? It looks like a flash game. Looks like another Lovecraft flash game based on the reanimator and you had to gun down zombies.
>>137676672
what game
>>137676672
>>137676931
>>137676970
>filename
it's The Consuming Shadow
>>137676931
>>137676970
read the god damn filename holy shit
is anyone else getting a crash when they try to run IVANv505 in fullscreen?
I'm not really playing this game for the eye strain
>>137676672
Procedural Generation does not a Roguelike make.
>>137676998
>>137677046
Because file names can never be changed, right?
>>137677362
what game
>>137677301
Just tested and yes.
>>137677301
https://github.com/Attnam/ivan/issues/80
Scroll down to the bottom. If you set it in your config file it should work.
>>137676672
>have to buy the game
>literally free roguelikes out there with more content for free
>literally higher quality flash games out there for free
This is worse than the dudes who tried to make paid versions of hex empires and that city builder zombie survival game. Like god damn are you serious?
>>137677674
it's the name that sells it
ecelebs always cash in on personality before product.
>>137678283
It rips off Deanimator, Union City (the zombie flash game series), and has a little Ex Mortis/Lovecraftian horror thrown in. And the UI looks worse than rebuild.
And he wants to charge that much for it? He better be joking.
>>137664616
Nah, I was dying because I was playing like a dumbass, not buying teleport dealies, and not noticing I'd walked into a high level area on the overworld and getting murdered by sasquatches.
Also by spell guy I meant focusing on those as a primary mechanism. Melee with spell support, which monk is (except maybe if you go death? Never tried that), is my go to.
looks like they added acid shields and the Holy Saga to the newest version of vanilla IVAN
you can also mirror SoCMs and SoHMs now
I think mirroring and cloning are functionally the same aside from duration
You can still abuse eating poison monsters on the world map to avoid vomiting and train endurance/agility/Lstr
you can't wish for any ommel stuff, but you can use wishes on holy bananas instead
I guess I should test out trap abuse in towns too
>>137682098
Wrong general?
We know a lot about nethack
>>137680425
>you can still place traps in town, even on the blacksmith's anvil
>you can still bear trap the sumo
>even though the holy saga is added, it is much, much more efficient to SoCM a large chest into ommel cerumen
I don't however, know what the INT requirements for turning something into ommel cerumen are, as, at least in wizmode, you seem to be able to change anything into anything regardless of INT
maybe it's not even possible to turn something into ommel cerumen normally? but I doubt that
>>137682510
ommel cerumen has 0 int requirement i think
>>137683062
eating one large ommel cerumen chest, not even finishing the thing, increased my INT from 10 to 29 btw
>>137656087
how did that death happen? you were almost at full HP...
>H - 29 potions of magic
my pakellas worshipper is rich as fuck right now
i could probably be permanently hasted from now on U:1 until the end of the game just from chugging !magic and recharging /haste
well, if contam didn't exist
>>137686015
Hey man, my old kobold was basicallly hasted as often as he could be. And his little bob's too.
>>137685902
hurled slimify potion
So whats the deal with my dead character giving me gazes and shit?
Im really spooked and i have no idea whats happeningalso page 10 bump
>>137689035
they're trying to save you from their fate by being 2spoopy
So have there been any interesting TOME updates lately?
>>137689212
no the game was always shit and will continue to be shit forever
rocking lamashtu's lair despite doppelganger nerf
How the fuck do you deal retracting your steps in PCB if I don't remember every single ladder I came through I have to wade through a new level even with smaller dungeon levels it's still such a fucking bore.
>gonna teleport player to goodness knows where
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>137690939
you deal by buying scrolls of word of recall once you're descending more than about 5 levels down
or pick a magic school with some kind of stair detection early on
>>137691086
Thanks man, is there a place where you know all this info I tried searching for PCB manual but nothing came up on google.
>>137691316
i don't know if there are any beginner's guides other than the pasta linked in the OP here
but shit like "word of recall teleports you betwen the town and your deepest dungeon level" is carried over from Angband, so you can maybe look up some stuff about that game too
>>137691316
Doesn't PCB have a manual? Press "?" and see what happens. Usually games have manuals in them.
actually yeah pcb has quite a lot of help files
>one mine blows up 2 other mines, doing 79 damage through fire resistance
wew laddeh
Blood diamond roguelike when?
>>137694013
you know about the belt of levitation right
you have to beat the village sumo in a fight
>>137671480
>whips never break
There you're mistaken, my good fellow. It is clear the dude is playing new IVAN, where whips can indeed break rather easily when unenchanted.
>>137677301
Yeah, I found how to fix it in the issues. Go in Ivan.cfg and set full screen from =0 to =1.
It's a silly bug. Don't try to go full screen manually or you'll crash the game.
>>137694206
He told me about it when I talked to him, but up until this point I didn't realize it was basically on the level of [Magic Resistance in nethack in terms of necessity.
Gah, there's no defense against Lamashtu's "teleport your ascension kit out of your inventory" attack. :(
>>137682510
I see you're wizmoding, my good fellow!
No, you cannot wish for ommel cerumen things anymore. That's only for wizmode testing which in itself is a really weird thing to do, since you want to test wizmode to see if things are possible in the game.
You cam also wish for artifacts In wizmode, which you can't do in the regular game. Basically think about wizmode as removing an invisible limit other than giving you infinite wizard powers. It's a little counter intuitive but it works well with the fact that people need to test out everything in that mode and having a hidden block would be a problem.
>>137694508
since i doubt you will consider any suggestions which would actually make the game more playable may i request that you make food-based enemies more likely to drop food objects?
>>137694423
There's a reason it's guaranteed in the starting town. It's also good to travel the overlap from the startown to attnam without having to go through the caves so you can keep the big carnivorous plant alive so you can both train your dexterity and whip skill on the greater carnivorous plants that she ends up spawning, which are even stronger than vesana herself. Luckily they don't spawn unless you spend a ludicrous amount of time there.
>>137694871
Don't acknowledge her anon. Maybe if we ignore her she'll go away.
>>137694871
>grinding
That sounds really lame and gay. I would rather die horribly over and over than grind stats.
>>137694608
wait wait, so if I get a wish in a normal game, can I wish for the holy banana?
and I know I can't WISH for ommel cerumen, or any "Ommel _____" other than bone and tooth, but I can't even change material it?
>>137694823
Okay, will probably do so in the near future.
>>137695829
thanks dude
>>137695715
just checked, you can absolutely wish for holy bananas
I'm guessing you can also SoCM ommel cerumen, though, obviously, you have to use up a precious SoCM on it, and I don't know what the int requirement actually is
>>137696519
confirmed that you cannot SoCM things into ommel cerumen outside of wizard mode
I guess I should start actually playing now
>>137696519
You can wish for holy bananas but you cannot SOCM into ommel cerumen as you cannot socm stuff into gases. You can do both of those things in wizmode. That's why it's wizmode.
They removed every single exploit you can think of in new IVAN. Sagas don't give INT and WIS, can't kickrob bananas in startyown, whips break, can't kickrob the librarian, can't wish for ommel cerumen stuff and you cannot charm the guards if the cathedral.
You can still
1) kill ikiros with traps triggered by someone else
2) kill petrus with mustard gas albeit that's useless unless you want to skip the actual fight with him and get the chaos god ending
3) vomit on the sumo square to break his legs after luring him out (even though that's trickier unless you have a renewable food source)
That's it.
>>137697252
cerumen is ear wax anon, it's a solid
Basically the best earlygame tips now are these
>breeze through UT until vesana, go around until the blue bastards show up and kill two bare handed to get enough unarmed skill to kill the sumo wrestler without his legs. It is a good thing to have seges or mellis cover your ass if you want to do this though. If you don't it will be extremely tricky.
>go to attnam without killing vesana (you can also that by teleporting her or praying to Silva so that vesana gets displaced by the rocks) and sell the booze in the catacombs to the shop for easy cash. If you'd found a mine and some grenades, kill ikiros for RF stuff. Sell his stuff to the town.
>go back to startytown, kill the shopkeeper for his book of mellis. Never look back until you can grab an angel bro.
>when you have an angel watching your ass, go back to startytown and kick serious ass. Grab decos' armor and his beautiful whips, sell his loot to the starting town to get some cash for scrolls.
>You are now more or less ready to take down the frog.
That's it. It's the best way to get ready fast (2/3 days at worst) in IVAN. None of these passages are mandatory. They just ease up things a lot.
>>137697603
Yeah, I'm just saying hat it's one of the banned things. Like gasses and artifacts.
>>137697850
can't you wish for artifacts that don't have a fixed placement
like you could wish for mjolak but not mortifer's god gift mace
IVAN looks okay, but the fact that I have to manually track the time between prayers and praying too early breaks the mood of god is tedious. Is praying every 8 hours (or what was the minimal time) required for normal game? Or it's reserved "break it in the best possible way" game?
>reserved for
When do I stop being crappyoca in Caves of Qud? Golgotha is as far as I have gotten on the main quest (I assume it's the main quest) so far. My most successful characters are all Beguile/Domination Psions who pussy it from afar with Laser and let the big guys I mind control do the heavy lifting for me. Whenever I attempt to make a melee character it just goes bad. Should I just turn off perma death until I learn the game enough and then turn it off when I'm more comfortable with the game?
>>137699406
The game tracks prayer timers for you. Much better than in nethack.
>>137699806
Huh? Either I had a massive brainfart, or this was not feature when I tried IVAN.
>>137700090
It was not in the original IVAN, version 0.50, then was added in variants, and is now re-added to the now continuing IVAN development (get version .505)
>>137694508
Why on earth is that even an attack? It's scary, yes, but so would an attack that instakills you with no save, or an attack that instantly bugs the savefile, crashing the game and making it irretrievable.
Just because it's dangerous doesn't mean it's good.
I hate these fucking worms so fucking much
>>137700349
This is the same person that has black naga hatchlings appearing as early as d2.
Same breath effect as black dragons.
>>137701460
The angband pro strat for breeders is to ditch the level.
>Be android rune knight
>going for that meme shit
>Do thief
>Do 4 levels of stronghold
>30 mins in
>still level 2
>No potions to sell so I can buy shit off shops
Rng wtf man
>>137701567
I just escaped from a breeder level, arrived in this level and didnt see them in the corner of the room before it was too late
>>137700296
One more thing, is there a key to run in the same direction. Looked several times in ? section, but there's only running in terms of speed.
>>137701660
Hit "g"o then select a direction.
>>137701586
If you stair dance you should be able to kill the wargs eventually, even at level 2.
>>137677458
hotline miami
>>137700349
Every time the attack hits, each of the player's items has a 1 in 5 chance of being teleported to a random empty location. What I should have done is dropped everything at my feet that I wasn't wearing, and then pelting her with ranged attacks from that position.
>>137701495
Actually, the earliest disintegrating monsters in slex are level 10; black nagas just have an acid spit attack. There is, however, a level 2 'Z' that can cast finger of death.
>>137699406
New Ivan has a prayer timeout clock that tells you when you last played thankfully. It was a nightmare before.
And no, 3 hours is enough between prayers. If you wanna stay extra safe, 3 and 1 minute. If you get the message that the god is displeased though don't pray again to her or you 'll make her even madder. Sacrifice shit to her altar to see her status, content means you can pray. It's better not to juggle too many gods when you're starting out though. Stick to the neutrals and the slightly chaotic /slightly lawful.
Man you guys want to make me play Ivan again
>>137700349
Amy loves her eppin maymays. Slex a shit.
>>137706851
>Amy
literally who
What can I do with this altar? I have literally no idea what Im doing
>>137707975
You can convert it by sacrificing corpses. With some luck, it will convert.
>>137707975
Drop stuff onto it
>>137707005
You know that idiot who keeps posting about slash em extended and using smileys :)?
She's the developer, Amy Bluescreenofdeath (spork not included).
The living example that a woman that doesn't get her daily dose of dick descends into a spiral of madness.
>>137709305
I feel like your convulsive reactions to such personalities makes you more irritating than the persons themselves.
When you're with a group of people irl do you feel compelled to tell them how bad everything is all the time while making jokes that people don't laugh at?
>Become a 2D-Man knockoff with limbs of expensive fabric replacing flesh ones
>Die to a swift kick in the head from a zombie
Now this is entertainment.
>>137519805
I'm doing a Mummy Summoner right now. Took me quite a few tries, but I rolled one that found a +3 frost spear, a +3 ring of ev and a +2 ring of prot really early on. Between that and a bunch of luck, i've managed to make it to lair.
I've never really gotten this far with a hybrid, only with (mostly) pure casters or fighters, and a necromancer once.
I'm worshipping sif muna obviously. Anyone have any advice? I've leveled polearms and dodging and fighting a fair bit, but not sure where to branch out from here. I found a book of annihilations and book of dreams so far.
Also is Guardian Golem worth the 4 spell levels? Sounds like it'd be potentially useful, but not sure if I can justify the cost
>>137709558
what?
>>137711027
>Sif Muna
But that's wrong. Summoners are hitdudes with buddies they can call up on demand, not mages who deal indirect damage. Okawaru is actually a good choice here.
Look for victory posts on the DCSS forums by XxSu characters; hopefully they have a character dump linked which will really be helpful for you.
Character dumps contain:
>record of what they did (sans movement)
>how they skilled, down to which XL they gained certain skill levels at
>how they geared
and if you know all of that you can do your best to imitate them.I wish I had saved a rant that someone wrote for me when I asked almost exactly the same question. It had a lot of good reasons for not going Sif Muna/advice on how to skill.
>>137711027
Guardian golem inner flames itself at the drop of a hat, and will definitely explode itself right next to you. Its never worth using in a proper sense. Stick with spire + ice beasts. You should probably improve your defenses and melee more, and move up to menagerie or another spell that is worth it later. You want to have some kind of game for when your mob inevitably gets abjured, but you don't really get enough experience for both blasting and melee/defenses. The latter is safer, albeit far more boring and potentially weaker.
>>137716649
>what is t->a
>>137716954
You use it as a weird orb of destruction rather than a body to hide behind. It is absolutely awful with any other summons since it will blow them up.
Things to wish for in IVAN? I just started to clear UT3, and it looks like I'm going Chaotic (Scabies and Mortifier for now). Got flaming sword, body armor and broken cloak of invisibility with repair scroll.
>>137717072
Turox
NPCs eat and drink now. They won't starve to death, but will get debuffs. Keeping them fed will make them like you.
Gates are now loaded from jsons and thus modable
Mutation slot restrictions are loaded from jsons
NPCs will pulp corpses unless told not to
Vehicle fuel and electricity rebalanced (batteries are heavy and small now)
Explosions rebalanced (shrapnel mostly)
Radiation rebalanced (less deadly but more harmful)
>NPCs will pulp corpses unless told not to
One reason to bring NPCs to clean the mess you've made.
I'd rather NPCs to butcher corpses so I won't see corpses everywhere with V though.
>>137718483
>making awoo cry
you monster
>>137717072
wish for:
a. an amulet of elemental protection
b. a wand of cloning
c. a holy banana (gives a shit ton of nutrition, raises stats)
d. scroll of change material (if you need one and haven't found any yet and already have a wand of cloning)
e. a belt of levitation (if for some reason you killed richel decos or the sumo before getting it)
by the way go back and beat the sumo, just get scabies to turn you into a powerful form and eat a bunch of bananas to get to bloated, then challenge him
>>137718483
>>137719683
I died to more often than usual plants spawn before even using the wish, should've gone with my feeling and just wish for artifact or armor to at least see it in action.
god damnit
How to make best use of all this strength? The only melee skill I have is finesse
What's the opinion on ADOM? I know it's loved by many, but the gameplay didn't seem all that interesting to me from what I saw. I like my Roguelikes when I can play as a Magic-Users and use all kinds of crazy spells to fuck around with the game, but caster characters in ADOM seemed to rely more on melee skills with the occasional generic fire/ice/lightning beam spell here and there. Does it ever get more interesting or does ADOM just suck ass?
>eat a piece of mutating meat
>it gave me evolution 1
>now i cant get off the natures mutation wild ride
>>137726538
>Ringmail of the beekeeper
>Doesn't even give rPois
Shit game. Don't eat the meat.
>>137542815
No.
These swords are meme and pretty bad one to be honest.
>>137731554
>These swords are memes
What do you mean, dear anon?
>>137711027
I'd say with mummy summoner of sif muna, just go straight summoning. Don't invest in anything else, because mummies have shit apts and summon kills get you 1/2 XP on top of that, so if you try to hybrid you'll fall behind the difficulty curve, because your summon's can't kill shit and your spear can't kill shit, and you don't have enough XP to level both.
I've won a few MuSu^Sif Muna and MuSu^Kiku, and that's the way I played.
After all, who needs AC/EV/SH/rF/rC/rElec when you have a never-ending horde of summons/snowmen between you and them?
>>137732834
I meant 'MuNe^Kiku'
>>137724458
>wield Glend
>buy Strength when you can access it
>equip rings of damage/strength
>wear items that increase strength
you must become huge
>>137732056
double and triple swords are the true swords
bastard sword/claymore are just the Devs Removing Fun And Good Things meme
I barely managed to kill that fucking cat about 50 turns ago and now she appears again before I have time to rest
To the right is a sleeping pack of polearm gnolls, to the left is unexplored terrain
We hardly knew ye, potion of healing
>>137738165
I killed her and in the process messed up my skilling
One thing I don't like about transmuters is that their early game is almost always the same, and any unexpected deviation either kills the character or harms it long-term
DELETE THIS
That's a nice character I've got here
Would be a shame if I went into the icy caves of death
>>137739162
>game crashed
It's trying to stop me but guess what, it can suck my dick I'm going in anyways
I want to try a human playthrough for dcss, any tips?
>>137739436
Nice artifact
I wonder what the chance of confusion is. Wiki says 1%
>>137739162
>MiGl of Oka
>With boots of ass and +5 slaying
>+9 morningstar of flame that early
>Throwing the game ever
You'd have to be pretty shit to die with that kit. Get that EV up, or use a shield.
>>137739162
Post results
>>137739609
0 is secretly a good apt, the average for most skills is -1
Since as a Hu you have above-average apts for both melee and magic you're best off making a hybrid character.
>>137739765
badwiki is badwiki
i'm pretty sure the chance scales with damage taken
Thoughts on Infra Arcana?
Damn
>>137740831
cool!
good!
fun!
hard!
>>137741128
Use them for a few free points of EV with Dodging, probably
Or just more fighting
>>137741128
abandon oka for ru
wait until he gives the opportunity to sacrifice some skill and then dump both the potions of XP into it just before sacrificing for all that sweet bonus piety
>>137741128
>get magic contamination from a shitty artifact
>rF+ mutation
aaaaaaaaaaaa
>>137739765
It is 1 %
>>137741509
Congratulations on your free win
>>137739873
By hybrid you mean I could make a melee Hu and use a bit of magic?
>>137740831
I dunno why I don't play that game more, I always have a super fun time playing it yet I always end up playing other games I don't really enjoy.
Maybe it's Stockholm's syndrome.
>>137741883
That's how most crawl hybrids work
You could also join Chei and make a straight hybrid who goes around blasting people with magic while wearing heavy armor and casting FIST when he runs out of mana, though Hu is probably not the best race for that
Is it possible for more than 1 metal wall area to spawn? I've been here for a few thousand turns, and the metal area I did find won't give up its secrets. I tried exploring elsewhere, but that only yielded some trap door spiders and ghosts. Should I keep trying in a new area?
Accidentally branded my morningstar with venom, the splat has officially begun
Anyways I'm considering sneaking up to this bitch and stabbing his ass
>>137742864
Never mind, it just took fucking forever for the right path to open up.
>>137742996
Welp he woke up so I guess I'm skipping swamp:3
first rune is here
>>137742996
You'll probably find another brand scroll, don't worry
Also you can't stab him even with the bonus from the ass boot, even an actual stabber character would struggle to do so
>>137743430
You're a level 18 minotaur of Oka with a +9 morningstar and 30/17/7 defenses, more than enough for normal endgame
As long as you could tell him apart from his illusions, he'd have been short work with hero+finesse
That imp has a wand of lighting and there's more gnolls in the way
>>137744180
Mara can still do Mara things though.
I think the only characters who can *trivialize* him are gonna be like nemelex or pakellas worshippers, since the player clone gets their melee and spells but not their inventory of evocables
>>137744180
>anon decides that discretion is the better part of valor and doesn't take on mara, possibly using consumables and piety for very little reward
>Dude you could have easily killed him!
/rlg/, please.
>>137744687
Splatted. GIven that the imp could zap the wand 4 times without running out of charges and a shadow imp showed up in a altar vault while I tried to get away, and I used all my scrolls to no avail, I don't really think it was my fault this time
>>137745025
I was just telling him that Mara wasn't THAT scary for his character and even if he stayed he'd probably killed him if instead of trying to stab him he'd used those turns to buff up
>>137745176
>not my fault
why were you in melee range of the lightning imp in the first place
why didn't you do a 360 and walk away the turn it entered LOS
>>137745609
Because I tried to, but the imp is not normal speed?
>>137745738
imps are speed 10
there's no way he got that close to an actually-running-away player except with a very unlucky random blink
oh shit were you actually resting right next to that corner?
in that case definitely fault
>>137746031
See the water on the map? That's where the imp originally appeared. You may notice it's mostly unexplored, because I literally ran away the moment the imp showed up. He actually hit me with a bolt once, but I rested, which is why my health is near max in the screenshot. I don't know where the few points of damage came from, maybe it was from not fully healing before a monster showed up. The imp then stumbled upon me on a very bad moment.
>>137746608
so you got away from him on a mostly-cleared level and then decided to sit on your ass and wait for him to show up again instead of leaving to the floor above/below
.18 reasons: early D enemies can't use high-level wands
except for uniques like Ijyb
>>137746957
Anon, all the exits are on the other side on the map. The bolt left me at about half health, and I wasn't sure that I'd make it there with health that low
>>137744180
I almost had the same gear, and Lhydra easily munched my face.
must feel bad to be tikbuz, he just gets rekt every time by low level PCs
>>137748554
Does Lerny do regular hydra damage? With 30 AC I'd expect "It hits but does no damage...x10 it hits! it hits but does no damage...x16"
>>137748846
18 damage per head.
GUYS
NEW IA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsutlHZM6kCXon9wAn_jFkA
>>137751628
boi fuck you
>>137751628
How long has there been a roguelite general at >>>/vg/lite/ ?
How come you guys don't just combine threads?
>>137751980
because roguelites aren't roguelikes
>>137751980
Your mother.
>>137752075
Why not? They're randomly generated and have permadeath. Seem like roguelikes to me...
>>137752581
Read the OP.
How exactly do you skill a hybrid in DCSS?
>>137754009
Same way you skill anyone else.
You just have more skills to spread XP over and thus your skilling needs to be more precise. On a MiBe, putting an extra two points into your weapon skill before you need to swap to fighting/dodging/armour might not hurt. On a HuSk, you need to be more on-the-ball with skill distributions.
>>137754009
play ogwz, train 50/50 fighting/spellcasting until 27, no other skills
Hmm
Cataclysm: DDA just got support for OSX
http://ci.narc.ro/view/Cataclysm-DDA/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/
>>137587412
OWH proudly holds the title for "best story in a roguelike", but it's a pretty small game (less than a dollar during sales) and has been around for years and so gets little discussion.
Also just because there's casual features doesn't mean anyone uses them.
>>137757175
>best story in a roguelike
>not Quivering Orc Vulvae
stop shitposting, everyone knows tome4 a best
>>137757175
I'd say it has a pretty good shot at Best Roguelike OST too.
>>137757859
That would have to go to Sil.
>>137757974
>sil
>ost
What
>finally everything clicks and I beat Dungeon Crawl a few times
>quickly start to lose interest
After a certain point the game just gets so samey. And there's so little danger in the late game.
>>137758508
You've never heard the Sil OST?
Go play a songs character right now.
>veronica won't spam pony porn and get permabanned within your lifetime
Why live
>>137765360
Just post some ToME/slex screenshots if you want the thread to thrive, those are even worse
I already wasted two prayers on this asshole, maybe I should have waited until I wasn't satiated
A while ago I almost got aged to death by a ghost bat in two hits
>>137592398
I see someone is still posting my Metal Babble vs. Dosh Knight MS paint artistry.
>>137592668
He'd been starving for his art for the whole development of ADoM and in the process made a enormous contribution to the genre and videogames in general. He did that for almost a decade. When you put that much work into creating something, and then give it away for free, it is entirely your right to try to make a profit off it, ESPECIALLY If you're still trying to improve it and not just selling the same thing that a informed customer could just download for free. And he's still giving it for free, just without the extra bugfixes and interface improvements.
I have no idea how the people in this general can function in the real world if they get so mad about people selling stuff they made.
>>137765962
Even while I was invisible and he was confused, he could still follow me to the next level. Just fuck my shit up.
>>137767337
I have no problem with any of that but having the software closed-source is unforgivable in my opinion.
>>137768017
>>137768030
ADoM's always been closed source. I'd prefer if most things were open source, but if someone doesn't want to share his property, then you can't force him to give it to you without committing a crime.
Open source doesn't always work for videogames, besides. Even in roguelikes. A lot of people don't like the current state of crawl or cata DDA, but nobody bothers forking those mountains of spaghetti code.
Ladies and gentlemen, with the help of our dear host Ru, today we will answer the age-old question about Vaults:5
Will it blend?
>>137770389
>27/28/11
How the fuck
>>137769039
>you can't force him to give it to you without committing a crime
That's a very good thing too.
However it shows that Biskup isn't a principled man and has no respect for the genre since he didn't make the game open source.
Well nowadays it's common knowledge anyway that there's something really wrong with at worst or that he's just an asshole at best.
>>137770604
I will venture a guess and say "randarts."
>>137770389
And the answer is...
Almost
>>137770738
Well, it might not blend, but it sure as hell cooks
>>137770726
Nah, not really
>>137770604
That really isn't all that weird for a V:$ character.
>>137771101
>Sojobo
>Iron Dragon
>Stone giant
Good thing Ru makes you invincible especially as a VS.
Or have they changed that lately?
Making Lerny one-shot itself is hilarious.
>>137771305
>+4 cloak randart
>+5 EV ring randart
I stand uncorrected!
>>137770692
People can disagree. That doesn't make either side morally wrong. Biskup's whole reasoning is a) He doesn't want people to codedive and b) He just doesn't want people to use his code.
Does that make him less generous than the Nethack/Angband team? Yes. Does that make him egotistical? Yes, but not more than is expected of someone in the videogame industry, just more than old roguelike players are accustomed to. Does that make him greedy? Probably not, since he shared the game for free in the first place and it took him about 20 years to make his mind about a paid version
Same thing goes for the PR agency, it's completely normal for a company with any public presence.
Alright, i might be a bit fucked here, didn't plan for this faggot to block the stairs
Gotta pop ?Tele and hope i can pick them off one at a time
New Angband.oook.cz competition:
http://angband.oook.cz/competition.php?showcompo=187
It is a rocketband competition. You can choose your race and class.
>>137771930
>didn't plan for this faggot to block the stairs
That's the only thing you need to plan for in V:$.
However you're a VS so just read tele and take like 2 steps for full health.
>>137771793
The ring is the real treasure here. His swamp dragon armour should be enchanted rather than +0. Again, those kinds of defenses are really common for an area like V:$.
>>137772019
>rocketband
What's that one like?
>>137772512
It is an april fools joke. You and every spellcasting monster have a rocket launcher that does 1000 damage per hit and inflicts self-damage.
>>137772375
Is swamp dragon armour worth using then? Thought it was just fire dragon or gold if you're an ogre
>>137772593
RAWKIT LAWNCHAIR
>>137772817
Swamp dragon armour is pretty decent. I'd much rather have an IDA on that character, but its pretty decent as is. It looks like he enchanted his aux slots rather than waiting for a good body armour, but he has really great aux gear so it isn't the worst. An IDA would tank his EV a bit as well. From the looks of it, he has his rF++ rC+ and MR++ so nothing is missing.
>>137772817
Yes, but he's a Vine Stalker
Here is some MS paint art of my current playthrough of Cata
The forum is pretty dead so I'll start uploading here instead of there
>>137774752
That's a pretty fucking sweet tank-truck-recreational-neet-vehicle.
Have this MS paint painting of a brown yeek as compensation.
>>137774752
Damn anon, your mspaint skills are really nice.
Well guys, V:5 was a bit close at times but overall i picked up some sweet stuff
Now, before i even dare venture into zot, i need to ask my fellow sleep deprived anon for suggestions
>Which boots are better?
>Should i keep rolling with the regen amulet or this randart is good enough?
>Is swamp dragon armor good enough or should i ditch the rPois for another one?
>If so, are the resistances and AC on gold worth the dip in EV? (25/33 versus 33/19)
>Should i just blow all my enchant armor scrolls on whichever armor i choose to go with?
>>137778027
If the boots are your sole source of SInv you definitely want those.
I'd wager the resistances aren't worth losing that much EV, but in any case you'd go from invulnerable to nigh-invulnerable and resistant to a lot of stuff.
Yes, since it's your endgame armor you should use your enchant scrolls on that
>>137779079
Alright, thanks. I'm going with the swamp dragon armor because it's the lightest one i have, and enchanting it to the max brought me to 32/32, which i quite like. I'm gonna keep the regen boots on swap because why the fuck not, i love having six pips of regen
I'm gonna try to get my first win maybe tomorrow, i hope i won't fuck it all up
>>137767337
doing anything for the purpose of reward is petty and shallow
>>137779079
I'd rather have rC than Sinv, especially since one of his randart rings would leave him at rC- otherwise.
Unless he has a ring of rC stashed away somewhere I'd stick with the current boots.
>>137779843
I assume you're a perfectly ascetic monk who has distanced his mind and soul from wordly desires and is now in the path of gnosis
>>137775301
Here is what it looks like in game with the current character. So far I've had good luck with these mutations playing into what I already had going with the character.
>>137776013
Thanks. I spent many business tech courses perfecting my skill.
>>137780370
Even if we do the wrong things we must not consider them to be acceptable for to do so is to abandon rationality. Do the wrong things if you have to, but never forget the meaning of all things. Do not reject shame, do not close your eyes to sin. Never do things for selfish motives, but accept that deep down all motives are selfish.
>>137781320
Within this context: If all motives are selfish, and that anon's criticism was that Biskup was acting for the purpose of reward by selling his game (being selfish, since otherwise the chance that he'd release the source code would at least exist within the realm of reason), then how exactly is Biskup acting worse than anyone else, taking in mind that at wide it wouldn't be considered unusual or wrong for a game developer to profit from his game?
ayy lmao
I kinda wish I hadn't left that venom whip at my stash right now
>>137781881
not that guy but we shouldn't live our lives using other people's behaviour to excuse our own
>>137782308
Just dig a killhole at 7. Your blowgun/wand of draining/penetration jav's should do all the work.
>>137783048
Yes, but the point I'm arguing for isn't that it wouldn't have been good or overall the best for Biskup to release the source, it's that we couldn't reasonably expect him to do so nor should that kind of generosity be expected from roguelike devs to the point that not showing it is seen as a moral failing.
After 8355 slain possessors, that one guy on the oook.cz ladder actually managed a win.
http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=18927
Remember, /rlg/, anything is possible.
>>137783692
He should make a new game that can actually be worth money without it being offensive to to his predecessors to do so.
>>137786216
And I suppose the metric to determine whether it's worth money is your own subjective taste, because in terms of work put into it or critical reception it's definitely worth it. This is one of the only places where ADoM is considered bad, and that's largely due to people not liking Biskup or memes rather than there being anything seriously wrong with the game.
>>137786789
All taste is subjective and critical reception means nothing. The reason that it's not worth money is the fact that it's a roguelike and the fact that it was never made to a professional standard of quality nor was that ever a goal from the outset. To try and backpeddle now and make it into a product makes two things abundantly clear; he has no fresh ideas to work on, and he wants money so he's jumping on the bandwagon when the consumer doesn't even want that wagon to be there. That fucker is just sitting on his own foot because other people made it look acceptable, rather than doing something of value.
>>137789196
>All taste is subjective
I don't know why you would think I argued otherwise.
>and critical reception means nothing
So the assessment of a single clearly biased and resentful person should be trusted above that of the general audience, simply because you say so?
>he reason that it's not worth money is the fact that it's a roguelike
Which is completely meaningless regarding whether it should be sold or not
> it was never made to a professional standard of quality
Which you have no way of knowing, and its quality is subjective in any case
>or was that ever a goal from the outset
Which is irrelevant
> To try and backpeddle now and make it into a product makes two things abundantly clear; he has no fresh ideas to work on
Again irrelevant since the game itself exists and is currently being sold
> and he wants money so he's jumping on the bandwagon when the consumer doesn't even want that wagon to be there
Who is the consumer, what is this bandwagon, how do you know the consumer doesn't want the bandwagon to be there, and if the public in general has an interest in not paying for games that are part of the "bandwagon", why did the game have a succesful launch in steam?
Need help choosing a suit of armor
I have
>+7 ice dragon armor (*Corrode, Regen, rElec)
>+3 scale mail (*Contam, Regen, Int +4)
Neither gets my EV below 16, I'm currently on the bottom of Lair and have 23 strength. 8 armor and 6 dodging in the skill department. I have a randart cloak which gives me rF, so I don't end up particularly vulnerable with the IDA
>>137791217
I'd go with the +7 IDA. Its bonus is much more substantial,, rElec is really nice and the rF- isn't an issue for you. You have enough strength to make it work as well.
>>137791217
Oh wait I forgot I had a +3 ring of evasion
>>137791586
That's what I was thinking. Thanks anon
>>137790202
biskup just shut the fuck up you shill
>>137791705
No problem anon. Keep that EV up.
>>137793658
I don't know what you're talking about anon
>You see here: A Lich.
What do you do?
>>137786789
The only thing I'm mad about is the andork dorkon tile which should not be a tile. It should just be a @. Because the description says that it defies description.
DEFIES
DESCRIPTION
>>137800207
Fucking chop it in half from full HP in one round.
>>137800207
can i fuck it
>>137802208
make it a randomly choose a different tile each frame, from the list of all tiles in the game including items and walls
>>137802208
>>137802781
That would have been a great idea. But nope.
Average tentacle magic dude.
>>137804384
Exactly.
>>137790202
xor me hsals
Zigg:7:16 is apparently the first floor where this happens
though it might have something to do
>>137806106
*though it may have something to do with the spawn type
Nice crit bro. And here goes the daily edain splat.
My first time making it to the swamps. I have only enough spell levels to memorize either Ice Form or Flight, which is more useful?
>>137806602
Good Sil.
>>137806602
just quaff herbs until you get healing
>>137806714
ice form lets you float in water anyways
if you're a transmuter or whatever and you plan on ice-punching things, just stick with ice form
flight is real useful in shoals but doesn't matter too much in swamp IMO
>>137806714
*takes a huge shit*
Whew~
Post your dump so we can see what your character already has, you bimbo.
>>137806714
Ice form
dont forget to take some sort of poison resistance or you gon get btfo
>>137806826
>bimbo
is the rlg bimbo corruption fetish guy back
hi
>>137806791
>quaff herbs
Aha silly anon
I tried but didnt have it
>>137806874
ice form has rpois youbimbo
>>137806878
Kek, no.
I just get tired of calling people retards and idiots all the time, but you gotta be demeaning, yaknow?
>>137781317
>Most damaged: security system
Anon, I'm gonna steal you truck.
time to take it easy
>>137809040
woahholdup
do I even need to take it easy?!
sturdy frame confirmed for best demonspawn mutation
>>137809227
>27 str
>seventh zig
Did you even need Sturdy Frame to wear it comfortably?
>this is with all my skill levels reduced to 23 from ashe's anger
>>137810040
absolutely, there's no way you can cast in this armor without absurd strength or sturdy frame or really high strength+vehumet or wizardry modifiers or something
27 strength and 46 intelligence on their own would in no way be sufficient even with maxed skill levels
try closer to 50 or 60 strength
>ALL of them!
>>137811697
>amulet rework
I guess it does exist after all
>>137813667
Randart QDA?
Yeah, QDA just can't have enchantment values- making it ironically bad compared to its analogue in 'hacks.
8 down
pretty much unstoppable now
will I be able to quit this game if I make it to the end? will I be able to quit roguelikes?
at this point it feels akin to gambling or smoking
Name me a roguelike in which I can play an undead.
Bonus points if it's not shit
>>137816872
Poschengband.
>>137815881
>no rMut or rCorr
can't win
>>137815881
>demonicaveronica
I hope you arent a tranny
>>137817326
Hope he has atleast rMut amulet
>>137816872
are ghouls undead?
if so infra arcana
you can play as undead in tome4, pcb and dcss as well
>>137816872
ToME4
Play ghoul, thy're OP
>>137816945
ye
>>137817482
i mean it depends on what kind of ghoul we're talking about
but i'll settle for it if it has to consume raw flesh to survive
>>137817575
serenade me with how op they are
>>137817667
>serenade me with how op they are
Very, huge HP, they're easy to play believe me.
>>137817667
>serenade me with how op they are
80% global speed.
Can't get any more Obviously Piss than that.
>>137817749
>Needing global speed
Ur living ur life wrong
>>137817667
yeah the ghoul in IA eats corpses to restore health
>>137817698
>>137817749
okay so lots of health and slow
do they have anything to make up for being slow
>>137818226
yeee
in on it
>>137818473
>do they have anything to make up for being slow
Lots of health, quite good abilities.
>get to level 24 or something in IA with an occultist
>end up in a level where the exit is blocked by explosive spores
>psychotic apes, crocodile mummies and a cthonian sprint towards me from the other side of the level when I teleport
>finally a Mi-go shows up and electrifies me to death
>remember I had a potion of descent
Goddamn. How many levels are there?
>>137817450
>>137817326
You can't get mutated in lich form nerds
this is trunk also, newrot can be cured like 20 points with one heal wounds charge, and I have like 56 scrolls of recharging.
rCorr is meaningless, nothing that can corrode you comes with anything dangerous, I was at 72 corr and still wasn't in any extreme danger, you can just read blink, which I also have 50+ of, then zap rods or DoS till the ghost moths are gone
not that that even matters! I never run out of magic with vehumet, I can just spam firestorm literally as long as there are enemies on screen to blast
>>137817326
>>137817450
also: learn to fucking read
>>137820208
Its still not rMut
>>137820020
>>137820208
I know what you don't have
A potion of chill to dilute all that salt you got there
Maybe you really are ponyposter
>>137821045
but I love salt
it's so good
Almost faulted at vaults:2. Iron giants are scary
I have no choice but finish the vaults branch now
>>137823341
fucked
you can't do shit to vaults 5 like you are
>>137823341
Enchant your gloves.
>>137823341
Have you done Orc already? If not you should take a look at the shops, there might be something good in there
Do not be afraid to keep heroism+finesse up at all times during the more intense encounters, piety isn't hard to get back
Don't be stingy with those enchant scrolls, use two on the gloves and the other two on the shield, it's unlikely you'll find a better ego item instead of just a randart
9 down
18 to go
>>137826487
Those muts are giving me a boner.
>>137823341
ENCHANT THE GEEEEEAAAR
>>137827475
RETURN THE SLAB
You know what we need
New DCSS god designs. Like this.
BOOM.
Fucking two headed god pidgeon with holographic shades.
God of exploration.
>>137832324
um thats obviously ash
probably wearing a fursuit since she's a kinky sub into bondage
>>137832684
>Sub
he bounds you
>>137832324
Fun fact that pigeon was made with a fursona generator
>>137832807
That's not a fun fact, I follow the dude's tumblr
I love Iguanamouth
>>137832785
>he
wrong
>>137832785
ash is nailed to the sky or something, permanently stuck in full bondage gear
she's a sub teaching you how to also sub
>>137833145
>A world with no doms
Degenerates and wrong.
ALL OF THEM.
>>137832879
It is though, people send her ridicules fursonas and she drew them. they took something awful and made something cool with it.
>>137833276
the doms are the aliches forcefully penetrating you with giant crystal phalluses
>>137833591
>LCS
TRIGGER WORDS
>>137833276
but anon
>>137806878
I'm here every day anon
Shit I did it again
I was in mine's end and I got blinded so I just spammed ctrl-e until I'd get sight again
And then an elven asshole tore me a new himself while I was elberething
Is a rod of destruction worth 1500 gold?
so i've been gone for a while, went to my cabin in west virginia.
came back and was standing infront of a labyrinth entrance.
went in, popped tele, took me right to the hallway with the door. summon muh demons, and kill the fucker, and boy golly gee am I happy about this loot.
so happy
I also have 5 recharge scrolls
>>137837841
>need 8 cooking to make oxidizer
>just the same level for mutagen
I just wanted to make blunderbuss...
>>137837841
2pak obviously has a fetish for mixed-race qts. Just switch gods.
Fucking breeders no leave me alone
I think Ill just skip their depth as fast as possible in the future
>>137837790
yea
>>137838826
This edain is doin ok
Also found the kite shield of Hador so I dont have to worry too much about finding elemental resists for later
>>137840371
don't you mean the kite shield of HADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRR
>>137840371
Next orc champion to fall to my axe.
He dropped a dwarf mask of brilliance, will be useful as a swap for double fire resist. I would have preferred a better weapon but RNG doesnt like me.
>>137842542
sil is so easy on the eyes
feel free to post more and i'll enjoy it in silence
It's interesting to see that /lite/ gets super salty about /rlg/ but most people here didn't even notice when it was created
>>137845273
There's a /lite/ now?
>>137845262
I concur.
>>137845273
Well we're clearly superior so there isn't really a need to notice them.
>>137845273
well wasn't created from /rlg/ posters
it's mostly people from the nuclear throne general
>>137845467
Yeah
They absorbed the Nuclear Throne and Binding of Isaac generals. If you read the thread previous to the one currently up and search for "rlg" you can see them sperging out in their natural habitat.
>>137845810
I meant "roguelike"
currently there are two threads because they sperged out over the OP saying "rouge"
>>137845810
That's so beautiful. I can't believe we finally got a roguelite thread we can send all the shitposters to.
>2016
>Not playing as a cornac in the orc campaign
YOU'RE A FUCKING SHALORE ARCHMAGE.
>>137845810
Cheers. I will look forward to casually shitpost asking if (roguelike) is a roguelite there.
Anyway we need a new thread soonish.
>>137847656
they already had shitposters arguing that they should just call their genre "roguelikes"
>>137847656
>>137847767
>>137847925
The rouge instead of rogue really elevates it to a higher level.
>>137823341
Anelf annihilatorkilled my dumb ass
Sucks
>>137848283
>44ac 19ev
get more ev next time
ev is the notdie number for LCS
So, who sent this fag over to our General?
>>137847994
>>137848545
It's probably the bimbofag, he pays a visit to both of the threads
God forbid we even think roguelites should be discussed alongside roguelikes
Or that they might be even remotely the same
>>137848783
they are though
honestly I think the "rougelite" distinction is just made up by elitist grognards, they're all the same genre in the end
>>137848989
oh no it's spreading
>page 10
>>137848783
I agree, let's keep them separate, glad to hear we're on the same terms. Happy turn-based dungeoneering, /rlg/.
>>137848783
I visit both threads but I haven't actually posted in /lite/, other than telling them that if they have OWH in their pasta they should have ToME