d37def No.16922416[Last 50 Posts]
What are you crawling? Personally I love Caves of Qud, the amount of stuff you can find, skills and mutations among other things, makes it a really fun experience. Sure, you're pretty much fighting koblods armed with bronze daggers in the beginning, but it isn't long before you can start carrying around modified sniper rifles and teleporter units. It's also fairly easy to savescum if you are a filthy casual like me.
By the way, anyone here played Cogmind? I really like the look of it.
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20d661 No.16922449
losing at Dynahack again
I may go for CoQ or ADOM next
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28e259 No.16922476
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7702e8 No.16922483
I need to try Qud again, I wish there was a way to remove the vomit filter though.
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886f91 No.16922497
>>16922416
Reminder that best version of Angband is Zangband
And best version of ToME is ToME SX
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d37def No.16922517
>>16922497
Tome never really did it for me. I dunno, it feels like all the gear you find is fixed too the danger level of the area you are in. In say for example dungeon crawl stone soup, it's entirely possible, although quite improbable, that you'll find a pearl dragon armor on dungeon floor 1. There is also very few ways to grind outside the quest areas, there is no way to grind yourself up to level 30 before entering the first quest area.
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2d22cd No.16922526
>>16922416
Cogmind does a great job with it's intention to make you feel like you can rebuild yourself from scarp anywhere at anytime to suit your situation.
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20d661 No.16922614
>>16922497
pretty fond of regular ol angband myself
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4897a5 No.16922717
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2d22cd No.16922726
>>16922717
Will a game ever come close to it?
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7702e8 No.16922762
>>16922726
Dont worry, Kevin's on his way to fuck it all up.
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2b97a4 No.16922767
>>16922726
No.
I found a mint superbike in the second floor of a car showroom last night. Couldn't figure out how to get it out, so I busted out a motherfucking reinforced window **with a goddamn sledgehammer, eventually* turned on the engine, set it rolling, and dove off. The landing busted the gas tank, so I replaced it with a storage battery and an enhanced electric motor. Added a solar panel on the back, so now it goes 270kph and probably never runs out of fuel.
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2aaf18 No.16922793
Elona+
Keep getting extremely butthurt over spellcasters and ragequitting though
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a9f571 No.16922832
>>16922726
>>16922762
>>16922767
The Kabal™ wants to start neutering endgame content again like theyve been trying for years now. Lets hope they dont get smart this time and do it in one pull without informing anyone.
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493790 No.16922846
ASCII Sector is a great Privateer demake, shame the dev isn't developing it anymore, but there's enough new mechanics to enjoy playing again.
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000000 No.16922911
Casual who hasn't played a roguelike unless Pokemon Mystery Dungeon counts but wants to get into the genre. What's a good one to get started?
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e4a306 No.16922913
>>16922911
DoomRL is really easy to figure out and has a pretty decent amount of depth, especially if you're into Doom. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is another easy to understand one that I really liked and still go back to from time to time.
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7702e8 No.16922916
>>16922832
N-NO. YOU ARENT SUPPOSED TO BE WADING INTO ZOMBIES AND KILLING THEM ALL IN ONE GO
WHAAAT? A DEATHMOBILE!! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! YOU ARENT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT STRONG YOU ARE HAVING TO MUCH FUN! NO MORE ANT MEAT FOR YOU!! TOILETS FREEZE NOW! NOW YOU GET DIRTY! PLEASE LIKE OUR MUSLIM TEENAGER GIRL WELDER IN THE SHELTER WE WERE SO BRAVE TO CREATE.
Meanwhile an NPC survivor with a rusty 9mil is stronger than a zombie hulk .
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20d661 No.16922919
>>16922911
DoomRL, Brogue, Infra Arcana are nice ones on the simple side, but the fact is you can jump into whatever you want if that's what you want to do. You don't have to train up before playing a more complicated one.
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80e24b No.16922990
>>16922911
I guess my advice would be to try whichever one looks fun to you. If you like highly structured and detailed challenges in a well-described game, you might want one of the old school ones like Nethack or ADOM. If you would like to just tool around learning and doing stuff without too much time pressure and can tolerate marrying a bear or panties as a weapon, Elona+ is what you should try. If you want ones that sorta boil the genre down to the bare metal, Stone Soup or the newer TOME versions do that–not that they have no lore or such, but they're light on Nethack-like dev-team-thinks-of-everything cuteness and heavy on basic gameplay. CDDA is great for very patient people who like survival games and apocalypses. An anon's been leaning on Caves of Qud pretty hard recently–I've never played it, but maybe it's a good representative of the genre? I dunno. The talking bears and xir plant beings kinda turned me off of that one.
As a genre, they're pretty much all meaty enough that you'll have plenty to figure out even after playing for a long time. You'll probably have to play with a wiki or be prepared to invest a lot of time into learning how things work, because most of them (as you probabl know) get unforgiving either early on or in the midgame.
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2b97a4 No.16923105
>>16922832
Why are do no-life jackoffs insist on doing do me the favor of freeing up my spare time with this nonsense?
>>16922911
I started with a Nethack fork called SlashEM that adds a lot of goofy shit, and god damn that was fun. I'd play monks, who in SlashEM get limited-use techniques that you'd have to input a button command to execute, like how Sabin in FF6 had to do Street Fighter inputs to do his blitzes. Fairly OP, but when you don't know what the fuck you're doing that's ok.
I must have died a hundred times just fucking with shopkeepers. It was so exciting to get down to the town levels for the first time. I'd get killed FUCK BEES and think THAT WAS SUCH BULLSHIT IT WAS SO HARD TO GET THAT FAR FUCK THIS GAME. And then try again five minutes later, and get a little further, and find some other novel way to get killed.
CDDA was even harder, but I was less frustrated and more confused by what the game was expecting me to do. And yet, I could see that the possibilities for not getting myself killed were endless, so there must be a way to survive. That made it extremely compelling.
>>16922916
>PLEASE LIKE OUR MUSLIM TEENAGER GIRL
Oh I liked her alright. AS A HALAL SAUSAGE.
It was funny getting to the refugee center with the NPCs turned on this time and seeing the tryhardism on display. Gets you thinking that maybe humanity doesn't need to survive the cataclysm after all.
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0b1789 No.16923303
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Been playing dungeons of dredmor and I dislike how the Vegan skill makes clearing monster zoos somewhat boring, what with you having to deal with the debuffs when you attack an animal and risk getting memed on by the remaining non-animals, on the other hand the skill is totally busted.
Not going to try diggle hell until I find a nuke or a nuke bolt.
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2d22cd No.16923309
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34d6d1 No.16923321
Been playing lots of Elona recently (+Custom-G Beautify). For the first time ever i decided to do a crafting run and it was so successful i somehow magically gained combat stats out of nowhere. I really don't fucking know why my dexterity is so high, this game at times is a mystery.
Kept making food out of fish i caught and been leveling only negotiation to ramp up price of my cooked dishes. Now i have to walk all over town to sell my sushi delicacies, on which i managed to acquire a farm, but haven't figured out where to get seeds yet (i'll look up the wiki later, i am just sad i couldn't find Kumiromi shrine yet).
Honestly this game is all in one package when it comes to features and i am not sure i can ever return to other roguelikes. The only other one i liked was DF Adventure mode because of detailed combat system and full random world generation which neither Elona, Adom, Qud or ToME have.
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ce84c7 No.16923342
>>16923321
Raising any skill gives experience for the stat associated with it, and high quality food raises stats more than uncooked or low rank food. Cooking, negotiation, fishing, etc. are all very powerful long term investments and investing in every magic shop lets you buy potions of potential en masse. Elona (particularly +) is basically the power trip at the end of a roguelike where you've maxed your level and are ready to secure a win except it goes on as long as you want it to, although there will always be some content that will hurt even broken characters, like chaos forts and certain friendly NPCs that only exist for postgame players to challenge.
Vanilla Elona and variants close to it like Omake do have an extremely brutal grind though. the platinum coin cost to train skills starts high and scales up and up, and ways to increase stat potential are extremely rare.
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7702e8 No.16923500
Alright I think I'm going to try Qud again. Any tips? The farthest I got was talking to the beargirl thing.
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d37def No.16923515
>>16923500
True human nearly every point into strength and toughness. Focus on axes and dismembering. Get bioscaner as your cybernetic. Remember that willpower is a dump stat.The save folder is at: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\LocalLow\Freehold Games\CavesOfQud if you are a filthy casual like me.
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52154a No.16924202
I've mainly been playing IVAN lately, I feel quite accepting of the deaths it throws at me for some reason.
>>16922911
Pathos is basically a more accessible version of Nethack, pretty decent for an introduction.
>>16922919
IA isn't a bad suggestion aside from it being a bit different, it has more focus on being a sneakass and having to manage sanity instead of hunger.
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a0852f No.16924562
Stoneshard's inability to save outside resting at a tavern makes me want to SHIT
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52154a No.16924569
>>16924562
That sounds retarded, can't even save between floors? That looked kind of promising from the demo.
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51a715 No.16924611
Anyone ever play the Eschalon trilogy? Is it any good?
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886f91 No.16924614
>>16922919
Infra Arcana is actually really hard for a casual, its Call of Cthulhu tabletop adapted into roguelike.
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886f91 No.16924617
>>16924611
Do those even count as roguelikes? I thought those games were like spiderweb games, crpgs-lite.
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a0852f No.16924845
>>16924569
I believe you can actually save outside a town with a campsite, but I guess you only get that ability later on than I've played so far. It's a real pain in the dick not being able to save and quit whenever, but I suppose the devs don't want you locking yourself into a hopeless situation on accident.
The game clearly has a lot going for it, but it's also clearly unfinished. The overwhelming majority of skills aren't available yet (see pic1). No character creation, just four premade characters– three of which are human and one of which is a dwarf. I guess they cover all the basic roles the game currently has to offer. There's also the prologue character, but you don't play as him for long. Gameplay-wise it feels a lot more like a properly fleshed out RPG than say ADOM, which is really just a traditional roguelike with some RPG bells and whistles thrown on. A roguelike with proper RPG mechanics is something I've been looking for, so overall I'm pretty pleased with what's available right now. With more content and tuning existing mechanics I can tell it's going to be really fucking good. Mod support would also be great as the framework is solid.
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52154a No.16924872
>>16924845
>making it a skill to save
That's pretty devious, or just autistic. I'm interested in it too for being a sort of hybrid unlike most just becoming roguelites when they veer off standard, will wait for it to be more fleshed out.
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a0852f No.16924883
>>16924872
As far as saving goes, I guess it's nowhere near as autistic as Fear & Hunger.
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2d22cd No.16925115
>>16924883
Not an RL but pretty fun otherwise.
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f9d13f No.16925711
>>16924611
Played the first one because it's free on GOG. Try it out if you want to judge for yourself, but I found it pretty meh. Movement is painfully slow, the automap is a skill you need to invest points into, combat is pretty meh, and there is no real music. If it wasn't for the slow-ass movement speed it could have been a neat little time waster to get on sale, but as it stands it's not really worth it.
>>16924614
They have turn-based movement, but that's really it. No randomness, no permadeath.
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7702e8 No.16925719
>doing qud
>fucking around with tinker starts
>had a start that ended poorly
>little butthurt but whatever
>roll another
>robotarms
>gaslight kiris
>nuke cell
>shitloads of items
Is this broken or did i just get a champion roll?
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7702e8 No.16925726
>>16925719
hah it also looks like I have the Gaslight longsword too as well as some neat boots and something called a ganglion teleprojector. I'm tempted to copy this save
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7702e8 No.16925774
And some heavy ass thing called a spiral borer that i'm tempted to break down for parts. It weighs a shitload. Whats it do?
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2d22cd No.16926229
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Sorry, you're all wrong. Risk of Rain 2 is the best roguelike. please don't start a what's a roguelike discussion
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7702e8 No.16926273
>>16926229
You just started it though.
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05f167 No.16926284
>>16926229
no, risk of whatever is not a roguelike and you sound like a faggot in your video.
now fuck off with your useless gayms.
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2d22cd No.16926299
>>16926284
Golly gee nigger, just ignore and filter. Fuck me, no wonder threads get derailed all the time. Go fucking play some Toby the Trapper: http://www.gamesofgrey.com/games/trapper/trapper1.2.zip I have no clue who that mongrel in the video is.
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ee17fe No.16926340
I've only ever played Pixel Dungeon and Brogue. I've got a Cogmind alpha build lying around somewhere on my drive, is it worth getting into if you're shit at the genre?
>>16926299
Then why'd you link the underaged furfag, furfag?
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05f167 No.16926366
>>16926340
try cdda.
it doesn't need exceptional skills, it's just a bit complex the first times but after that you will get the hang of it.
it has great replayability potential.
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2d22cd No.16926374
>>16926340
COGMIND looks great, good theme (not that many scifi RLs), and I think succeeds at what it tries to do which is allow you to rebuild your characters on the fly. The game has really changed from Alpha. It's on Beta 9.6 currently. If you don't have a short attention span i.e. you've played other RLs for a non-insignificant time, then it's no different. Find a version and go for it.
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20d661 No.16926400
>>16924614
Fairly easy to play, but not so easy to win.
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1c34cb No.16926766
>>16923321
How the fuck are your attribute potentials so high? I'm level 17 and my total attibute level is like half yours. All my potentials jump between hopeless and bad.
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c4026f No.16926825
>>16926766
Potions of potential or picnic baskets.
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1c34cb No.16926870
>>16926825
Never encountered either of those in the 30 hours spent on my character. Are they special items or something?
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c4026f No.16927049
>>16926870
These potions are rare as fuck, until you get 100+ level in magic shop by investing.
Picnic baskets are made by pot of fusion, but it's kind hard to get all edible items to batch craft them.
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7702e8 No.16927351
>>16926870
If you don't die just doing normal in game shit will raise it. Picnic baskets are great for doing this and if you herb in the meals that go into it it gets even bigger.
Invest in a ranch and stock it with pudits or something and a farm.
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d97777 No.16927951
>>16926825
>>16927049
picnic baskets – you can farm all the ingredients or buy the rest, it makes a huge difference my stats doubled quickly after I started production.
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9da9fa No.16928089
Not sure if everyone is aware, but the guys who made DoomRL made a game called Jupiter Hell, which is basically copyright-friendly DoomRL, with full 3D graphics, sound and music. It's mostly unchanged from DoomRL and has good peripheral support for controls and is native to every platform. It has a few noteworthy changes: the stance system was removed, but in its stead you get the ability to use corners and boxes/barrels for cover, and you can do nothing for a turn to get a cover bonus and aiming bonus. Speccing into dodging while running is still good though. They did clutter the game slightly by breaking bullets out into .44, 9mm and 7.62mm though, but there is a skill one or two of the classes can get which lets you convert ammo into ammo for whichever gun you're holding when you pick it up. Finally, the protagonist is a fully voiced Duke Nukem type instead of a mute. His lines aren't too bad and there are options to make him mute if you so desire.
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9da9fa No.16928090
>>16928089
Oh yeah, and you can turn off the dumb CRT effect too.
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17d2ca No.16928091
>>16923303
I've been playing dredmor again too, anon.
I like it. I think it's pretty fun but it keeps lagging out on the lower floors and I get to spazzy so I accidentally buffer actions and then die.
>>16926374
Can you tell me if in game when people talk about 0b Complex, is it a reference/joke to the PnP rpg Paranoia? Or is literally just a coincidence? I don't want to ruin any possible things, trying to be blind as possible.
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84bf9f No.16932394
I made a thread on 8chan/vg/ if people want to continue the fat/v/ thread without posting in this shithole.
https://8chan.se/vg/res/87.html
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d37def No.16938229
Anyone here played the latest version of DCSS? It feels like the devs take a step back with every step forward. We get nerfed lightning spire, conjured flame and trog, but super useful spells like frozen ramparts, hailstorm and foxfire.
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84bf9f No.16938269
>>16938229
The active thread is currently on Zchan's /v/ (board owned by the fat/v/ board owner).
https://zchan.cc/v/thread/6.html
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7dcec0 No.16938470
>>16926766
Gene engineer cooking onto you're waifu and make it a point to go to sleep at 9PM when possible. If you wake up between 6-10AM, your pets will cook breakfast, which raises potential.
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9f1ae8 No.16938475
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4379bf No.16939806
>>16923515
It's a dump stat until you take 200 damage from a beefy sunder mind.
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64a121 No.16939814
Anyone try Warsim? It seems fun, but fuck paying 8 goybucks for it.
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