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Great flavor and some of the individual enemies sound cool, but having to beat the boss to escape makes it an extremely spoilery set of resistance/equipment/ability checks. Also some of the traps still suffer from the trivial-but-tedious problem (e.g. counting auts instead of tracking tiles you've s...

i wouldn't say i don't like it -- FFIV is probably my favorite video game ever*, so being a bad knock-off of that is actually quite a compliment. it's just that so far, V seems to lack the emotional punch and gameplay "wow" moments of IV, but is otherwise the same basic setup ( towns-have-...

(plain) imps could alternatively be improved by giving them all a stack of like 20+ stones or some other low-tier ranged attack

ok, so I'm playing FFV for the first time and seriously: how is this not just a bad version of FFIV? i mean, it's not the worst FF I've ever played by any means (looking at you, Mystic Quest) but uggggghhhhh i'd so much rather be playing through IV again just got through the part where you meet Cid ...

I just picked the first good melee weapon I found, wore the heaviest armour, completely ignored magic and used some top or mid-tier god who can carry me through early-mid game. You can do this on book starts, too. Trog will carry just about any terrible combo if you can survive long enough to find ...

MfIE and GrEE are my favorite elementalist starts. For the former, you'll have an easy time picking up polearms and poking things over your summoned ice beasts after you've softened them up with icicles. For the latter, you'll basically spam stone arrow (later magma or iron shot) at single targets a...

oh, i missed this in the commit log: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/80501f5a4e5c3517e568668c90651c0e191eab12 fortunately for you, PleasingFungus provided an explanation: Make Hep give innate frail 1 The god is a bit too strong right now; this seemed like the most fun way to weaken it. (I don'...

what nerf are you referring to?

Once you reach a certain point difficulty diminishes and all you have to do is hit the right keys and stay awake for about 10 hours total. When will this glaring, objective and scientifically verified problem be fixed? yes, it is generally accepted that what you need to win at crawl isn't "goo...

I haven't played much Hep, but was similarly annoyed by the positioning of the AI when I picked battlemage and sometimes hexer, though hexer seemed a bit better because you're more likely to want to engage in stabby melee yourself. I won with a NaVM using the knight ancestor which was relatively fan...

players should be able to beat it unspoiled, but probably not on the first try when the thing that kills you on your first try is not "the game is hard and sometimes you die" but "the game gives you places to go way before you're ready, and you're meant to learn you're not ready by g...

or maybe we can just eliminate the "misc" category and let users toggle individual items

those would make sense if the OP was "make all dungeon bats secretly vampires"

I would miss the combos with Ignite Poison and ORT/Meph, but otherwise this is a great critique. If there's a unique and non-tedious place for poison magic I'd argue it's the way the poison status can be converted into various other effects and interactions rather than dealing direct damage. But any...

Obviously you're going to use the +13 as your main weap, but you'll probably carry one of the others as a swap against enemies with hard-hitting cold-branded attacks unless you have some other source of rC, and you'll probably carry the +6 one if you don't have other sources of rF. So I guess I can ...

going upstairs (or closing a door, etc.) and pressing 5 a bunch often does the trick

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all you players, that has no respect for dev team, when there is bad thing that are not in the game crawl, is wanting to put it back. it is stupid reintroduce.

duvessa wrote:remove food
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i'm hearing this to the tune of the Chappelle's Show theme

#1: You're not guaranteed to get GDA, so saving scrolls that could otherwise be helping you now is silly. #2: AC now helps you not die now. AC later won't matter if you die now. (edit: and I'm assuming that this is a character for whom GDA is a good idea in the first place, which is not the case for...

You can minimize Grinder's blink-cheese by luring her into a tight hallway (e.g. a short section with 90-degree cutoffs at both ends). I'm sure I've had lignification run out before I could kill her at least a couple of times, probably because there was too much space around. I once made the mistake...

gosh, that's not at all weird or unintuitive

You can use partial phrases to catch multiple messages that all use the same phrasing. You can also use .* as a catch-all variable for specific words in the middle of a generic message. Try: force_more_message += into view or force_more_message += .* into view e: but as mentioned above, this approac...

goodcoolguy wrote:(extremely tavern voice) I see no reason late game shops should be exempt from rules of shop generation that exist everywhere else in the game. You just want more stuff for free.

this, but unironically

I think the conduct needs to be refined: If I go down a staircase and there is no new down-stairs in view, can I retreat? Once I reach the end of a branch, can I immediately retreat along the same path back to the top floor and start clearing the branch normally? Do the second and third down-stairs ...

Yeah all of these arguments against ghosts in portals really just boil down to arguments against ghosts, period. As long as the feature exists, I don't see why portals should be exempt from it. You're never guaranteed to get each particular portal, much less be able to complete them -- the small num...

re: how monster intelligence affects Conjure Flame, here's the general idea as I understand it: Brainless enemies like derived undead (skeletons, zombies) will always walk into damaging clouds. Everything else will only do so if they're over an HP threshold, but they'll stay in the cloud (or walk to...

What you're missing is that ghosts don't replace content, they add to it. Ghosts always add difficulty, I'm not missing that, I'm saying it's at least not a bad thing. especially to an area where you can't even run much less stair dance. Of course you can run, there's always a portal back out right...

It's not that unusual for portals to spawn where the normal contents are too much for a character to handle, so I don't think the addition of ghosts makes a significant difference here. In fact, one of my best portal experiences was a recent ice cave -- the two-room teleporter layout -- in which a &...

It is almost never worth radically changing your build for a randart. Even moreso when the base weapon type is as crappy (i.e. low-tier) as a mace. High enchantment numbers may look enticing, but if you're going to make a weapon your long-term primary killdudes option you should give a lot more weig...

ugh but then newbs will keep asking why all enemies have only 4 hp

(jk i actually like it, though i suspect the unbroken red/green one next to it may actually be better since it mirrors the player's bar)

There are (sometimes) multiple warnings because eating (some things) takes multiple turns. It's a feature: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/ab6c68d3494c426955e9086b26e634a955c09507 Make eating food interruptible. You get the nutrition once you finish eating; cancelling in the middle means that ...

Considering how many new (and not-so-new) players tend to idealize "pure mages" and go for level 9 spells; and considering how Crawl is in most ways designed to make you play adaptively rather than conform to a pre-decided mold -- I think it's very insightful to frame "good spells&quo...

tl;dr: Good resources provide basic info and rule-of-thumb guidelines, and trust the player to work out the rest. Instead of listing every spell in the game and trying to explain when/how/why you should use it, I would start by describing some common tactical uses of magic and then give examples of ...

if all of these threats are on the third (i.e. not bottom) floors of their branches, you can probably just avoid them

oh my frakking gravy, who even stashes at all anymore Seriously, what is the point? If you're not speedrunning, ctrl-f is the fastest way to find and get to anything anyway. If you are speedrunning, it's a waste of turns to make a stash that you'll almost never be willing to backtrack to...

The thing about energy randomization is that it's bullshit as long as fast player species exist. (Like, there is no "balance" reason for punishing the majority of species choices this way.) But I played Crawl long before it was introduced, and I do believe it's better than letting everyone...

Arrhythmia wrote:it's about justice for the common human!

FTFY

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/a3cd88f795e759b799125f541b0db1989ea58fce
tl;dr: Donald now has might & haste.

But here's the most important line:

Code:: Joseph's tile and description gets Wiglaf's stupid-looking hat

I was really worried this was a Stupid Remove until I read that!

Sar wrote:Well, I hope you aren't arguing that police should "shoot to wound" or anything like that.

That's not the direction we were coming at it from. But I'm curious, why is that a bad thing to argue?

Under the current system, if you want a certain weapon type, you have an incentive to visit dangerous areas earlier than normal to go fishing for a certain desired weapon (orc for battleaxes, depths for demon blades, shoals for glaives) etc. Making the system entirely reliant on RNG would remove th...

so i'm in a facebook conversation about the use of lethal force by police that has devolved to the point where my interlocutor is claiming that a rock is exactly as lethal as a gun and i really wish i could just fsim it and show him the results

If you're at the ending vault, you've already received 99% of what lair has to offer. Go to Orc and come back later.

why is this a thing

and why is it happening to my air elementalist

check any new monster capabilities (and speed !) with Explore mode : Shift + X or Ctrl+X There's plenty of good gameplay advice in this thread already, but I think the thing that has made the biggest difference in my own Crawling is knowing interface features like these -- specifically the fact tha...

my favorite is how you can't close a door without slamming it

I think that would be micromanagey, but I don't really have an alternative. Is there some way to leverage code from a bot (like qw?) to make a more adaptive ally that behaves more like a player would in most situations?

* a yellow monster, be really cautious, you might need some help : a potion, a scroll, a wand or a god ability (like berserk) [...] wouldn't it be best to say only use valuable items like potions and stuff when there is multiple dangerous enemies or if one dangerous enemy has put you in a bad posit...

I think a better version of the OP would be "disallow Mf/Op/Ice-formers from picking up items in deep water", a.k.a. "make deep water the same as lava"

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