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Check out my RC file: http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/rcfiles/crawl-0.19/quik.rc Most of it is taken from other players' RCs, but it has lots of stuff and it is mostly commented. You have a bunch of stop += lines in your rcfile that look like they were taken from HDA's rcfile, but stop within that rc...

Since character species is a good stand-in for whether you're likely to want to use a shield or not, it might provide a good point of comparison. Let's look at a breakdown of relevant games*, by species, of players' likelihood of ascending a 3-rune game, _after they have already picked up their thir...

Magipi wrote:Very nice picture. There are half a dozen backgrounds, and all of them are carefully chosen so that the dark red letters cannot be read.

here's the png, apparently imgur is shit now

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Excuse me

If you are going to post dicks' MuMo challenge you should at least post the most recent version

there are crucial things missing from the original image such as the forbidding of bucklers and regen

fukken casuals

Is there a comprehensive guide / documentation for rcfile editing? options_guide.txt , although it barely touches on the information needed to use rcfile Lua. That link is only accurate for trunk, since the devteam has been known to add and remove options at will. For any older version, reference t...

I'd prefer a <more> prompt when the rune comes into view, but I'm not opposed to highlighting either. Stone Soup really doesn't need more default <more> prompts. You can already add one manually, if you would prefer this behavior, by adding this to your rcfile: force_more_message += rune of Zot

I am a bit baffled by the opening post. My winning characters have 31 different skill titles (I hope I did not miscount). Fortunately, we can look at the data for this: !lg * win cv>=0.19 s=title [07:10] <Sequell> 7090 games for * (win cv>=0.19): 1322x Conqueror, 879x Slayer, 443x Axe Maniac, 234x ...

However, because optimal skilling across builds and characters tends to be similar, characters tend to receive the same predicates as they progress: they are "the Conqueror" or "the Slayer" because of the importance of Fighting, I'd sooner see a reform of the underlying skill sy...

Equip an art that has -tele. Swap to Zin and putz around in crypt or something until you can clear your muts. Go knock out the first few floors of a zig for some !mutation. On most characters though, I'd just ignore it. If you're in Zot:5, your character is strong enough to handle it. Read or quaff ...

Hey, look! Another problem that's solved by removing upstairs!

What's the difference between normal and casual modes? Sorry, I couldn't find the answer in this thread. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=309533#p309533 https://github.com/Hellmonk/hellcrawl/pull/19/commits/d7ac38e5bade5baf3beaebe0a844f605a0ac5b04 + //for difficulty levels other than...

One of the problems that came up during an earlier iteration of this discussion is that with respect to screen real estate, finding enough screen area in the primary viewport to display slot binds becomes a problem in console versions of the game. This is one area where the technical limitations of ...

Is it true that the amulets/mutation are both 40 regen rate? One of the examples at the bottom says 20, but the top part says 40, so I assume that 40 is the current value and the example is outdated. 40 for the amulet*, and 40 per level of the mutation. *(_Technically_, 40 per item equipped with th...

8/10 screenshot, but it needs more toolbars and something furry open in at least two of the tabs.

Well, isn't it great that Hellcrawl and DCSS are different games? Everyone can choose what they want to play! To be fair, it isn't unreasonable to state that Hellcrawl's design impetus comes from a desire to correct several serious pacing issues in Stone Soup. In that effort, it has largely been su...

Sure, but in particular it "kills" whatever monster of that type might be in your LOS and it does so irresistibly and in a single turn. Here's a question: Would a scroll of instant KO be a bad item if reading it meant that your character received no experience for the next dungeon floor g...

I think someone in another thread recently brought up the idea of merging short blades and long blades(thus giving currently existing long blades stab bonus instead of riposte, probably dropping a couple of weapons-eg, in this situation both short sword and falchion probably wouldn't need to exist)...

Please tell me how to make custom artifacts in wizmode, giving them chosen properties. Thanks. & o to create a base item (& o = "amulet of harm") & + {item's inventory letter} to create a randart from a base item in your inventory & t {item's inventory letter} c to adjust ...

this is a problem caused by power creep How can we further buff the snake monsterset? Oh tavern, don't ever change. Discussions about making Snake's monsterset more dangerous ought to be based around whether or not Snake's monsterset *needs to be more dangerous*. Beginning this conversation from th...

Go upstairs, rest, buff yourself with heroism, agility, and haste, read teleport, swing your weapon a few times, go back downstairs, your teleport will activate either immediately or within another couple of auts, quaff invis if teleport lands somewhere dangerous, if the landing is really bad read a...

Can someone explain (or direct me to an explanation of) where to go, and how to search for specific characteristics like: species/class 15 runes started with a certain god Join ##crawl on freenode , and send a private message with a valid search query to Sequell. Sequell is a bot that can search mo...

Foobie Bletch wrote:Unless there have been some major overhauls in the codebase (have there been?).

lol

Add this to your rcfile: { function c_answer_prompt(prompt) if prompt:find("Really attack while wielding") and prompt:find("stone") then return true end if prompt:find("Really attack barehanded") then return true end end } This code will automagically answer yes, and pr...

I would unironically play this branch

Is there a way to automatically setup my skills so I don't have to tell the game I only want to train my weapon skill every time I start a new char? You can do this by placing custom Lua within your rcfile/init.txt. If a ready() function exists within the rcfile, DCSS will execute it at the beginni...

Hellmonk wrote:Scoring for wins was bugged in a really hilarious way but I am pushing a fix for that, so you should be able to score points again soon.

Clear bug or fork-topical metacommentary? As the latter, it was worth a good laugh when ascending. Leave it and call it a feature!

I have a game of hellcrawl on cbro that's crashing every time I try to take an exit from holy pan, with the message "Unfortunately, your game crashed. 3???" I left Hellmonk a !tell in ##crawl, but I thought I'd post it here too. edit: The crash dumps are here and here: http://crawl.berotat...

The iteration currently linked in the doc reads as "Equip a launcher as soon as possible and don't ever stop using it. Use summons or other allies. If the species is redesigned to be unable to use launchers, use any of the game's several other forms of direct ranged damage. Don't use autoexplor...

Weird. Must be a system specific thing somewhere, though vanilla crawl is compiling fine. Looks like the error I get is something to do with Lua, so possibly something weird with my setup there: Lua error: global_prelude: bad header in precompiled chunk I spun up a VM with Mint 18.1 64-bit, install...

Hi! Hellcrawl is good, thanks for making it. I guess the latest release doesn't run in a 64 bit OS (I'm on Linux Mint 18)? I can neither play the game after compiling (crash on D1) nor run the provided Windows binary in wine by default (crash on startup), but does run in Wine 32 bit mode fine. I ju...

Played a stairless game on gnollcrawl.tk

It was everything I dreamed it would be

Hellcrawl is best Crawl, Stone Soup might as well be a dead branch

Step 1: Learn Tornado

How on earth can reducing inventory make crawl better??? By reducing the item slots available to characters, you increase the importance item selection has to character survival. Imagine if, instead of having a golf bag overflowing with random junk that *may* aid your survival later, you were force...

I don't know, I don't really trust personal opinion much. I agree that the statistics have a lot of noise in them and it's hard to control for skill/how much effort people are playing with, but I'd still trust it over one person's opinion. personal opinion from players who are capable of 65%+ hyper...

Resurrecting this thread because I had to post about Hollow Knight: It was released 3 days ago, and it's absolutely fantastic. It's like Metroid and Dark Souls had a love child, and abandoned it to raise itself in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind's setting. It's more polished than Momodora: Reveri...

Nice work! I like the idea of reap, but I think it will not be too difficult to ensure you only fight one monster at a time due to kiting and luring. An ability like real needs a powerful downside and some mechanic to mitigate kiting/luring. Perhaps reap could have a chance of activating on any tur...

I hope that this goes without saying, but the correct approach here should include sorting easier species nearer to top-left, and harder species nearer to bottom-right. It's easy to forget this, but DCSS is a hard game for players unfamiliar with its systems! Brand new players are going to select de...

I think it would be awesome to be able to do so. Good news: You can already do this. Add this to your rcfile or init.txt: species += Demonspawn, Vine Stalker, Formicid, Octopode, Demigod, Kobold, Mummy background += Fighter, Gladiator, Assassin, Transmuter The bad news is that if you use this optio...

Well, firstly, I don't get it. I understand that it removed that special stat-dependence forms had, but does Strength still influence their damage in the way it does for all melee attacks? Looking at the diff for the commit, you can see that the get_base_unarmed_damage() function was changed for th...

Also, here's a link to everything on Steam with the Metroidvania tag, sorted by average user reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&tags=1628 There are several titles listed there that are pretty good and haven't yet been mentioned in this thread. Shantae jumps out a...

prozacelf wrote:it may be difficult to acquire

In the spirit of not promoting copyright infringement on this forum I won't post any files here, but search engines seem to have plenty of results.

Good news, OP: Hellcrawl exists and of the things you listed only Airstrike and Nemelex still exist there.

Post in the Hellcrawl thread with something like half a reason and you might be able to make it have none of those things.

This thread is 8 posts in and only minmay is mentioning anything remotely recent Stand the fuck back, I've got this In addition to everything mentioned upthread, especially Cave Story, La-Mulana, and the entire classic Castlevania/Metroid libraries: Axiom Verge Rabi-Ribi Environmental Station Alpha ...

Despite your initial feelings, you become stricken with the *obvious* righteousness of your cousin's cause, and end up changing your name to Warbeogh after taking up a new career in debt collections. In a planar coincidence, you had just converted to Xom before meeting the princess! Two sets of ball...

One other suggestion if this goes in: Have some kind of icon for bezotted monsters. When I play on webtiles I don't like to read the text box or enemy listing unless I have to, so it would be useful to have an icon indicating that a monster is bezotted. A colored aura around the monster tile would ...

Why are you pretending that someone playing the game, or reading this forum, or reading the blog , who learns that something was removed would ever learn any of those things exist (aside from mantis for bug reports, and the post you just made), and that everyone is only choosing to ignore them for ...

If you want to really reduce the importance of luring as a strategy, you have to go for a purely linear game with no upstairs, or you have to make bailing on a floor be of some consequence. There is no other way. As a few other people said this patch basically makes you play like you're playing Hel...

If you eliminate all escape options, then crawl loses all possibility of threat evaluation, and becomes a simple coin flipping contest. Is anyone suggesting this? Suggesting that all escape options need to be tied to consumables implies either that sufficient consumables will be guaranteed to disen...

because you don't want to punish the player when they legitimately want to be running away. Why not? Allowing disengagement methods to exist whose effectiveness isn't tied to forward-exploration based consumable generation trivializes Crawl. Staircase escapes need to go the way of circlelos and ene...

kuniqs wrote:C'mon, it's *FUN*!

i hear if you repeat that three times with the lights off MPA will show up to remove the feature

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