shizmoo wrote:I know how you feel trust me. This is game is just pure BS.
What you call "BS", I call "inexperience". The beautiful thing about Crawl is that while it is a very challenging game, completely-unavoidable deaths are an extreme rarity. No matter how badly you feel the game has screwed you over, there is likely something (often very simple and obvious!) you could have done to avoid death. If you want to succeed in a game like this, you need to not treat your deaths as failures or consequences of chance, but rather treat them as lessons. Every time you die, review the actions you took before you died, and think about what you could have done differently. This can take many tries as you familiarize yourself with the game, but if you stick with it you will inevitably find yourself painlessly handling dangerous situations you may have previously believed were inescapable.
shizmoo wrote:Caster: Everything 2-3 hits you in this game rats, kobolds, everything. No matter how set up you are, theres always something that closes the gap by resisting/taking low damage that easily kills you.
Spellcasting characters are more difficult to get off the ground than a melee character, because you have a very small amount of health and magic at the start. This changes dramatically as you learn new and more powerful spells and gain a bigger reservoir of magic. When you first start off, pick up and wield the very first weapon you find (preferably not a club, though), this will help considerably at the start when you don't have much magic even if you don't have any weapon skill. Try your very best to only attract the attention of one enemy at a time, and lure them into explored areas where you can kill them safely. If you can help it, don't let enemies stand next to you.
shizmoo wrote:Melee: Eventually you get outnumbered and surrounded and killed.
If you find yourself outnumbered and surrounded, you're doing something very wrong. While you are less squishy than a spellcaster, you still should only try to attract the attention of one enemy at a time. If you find yourself up against multiple enemies, retreat into a corridor where you can fight them one at a time. Don't rush in to engage the enemy, it might work sometimes but if you keep doing it you will eventually find yourself in a nasty situation, such as running up to kill an orc and entering the line-of-sight of orc priests and wizards. Don't walk towards enemies, let them walk towards you. Try to pull them back into explored areas where you can fight them safely, and soften them up by throwing stones/darts at them as they approach you. If you run into something scary (for example, Sigmund on D:2), don't fight it. Evaluate your situation and try to think of a way to escape. Usually, this will involve going up a flight of stairs and re-entering the floor from a different staircase, and in other cases this can mean skipping the floor entirely.
shizmoo wrote:This game obviously wants you to play overly cautious and only fight battles you have a 100% chance of winning no less which is a very lame.
Yes, this is very true, you do need to be cautious. One of the funnest parts about Crawl is assessing your situation and determining what you can and can't handle. It should be obvious that you shouldn't pick fights with things if you think they can kill you. If you believe you should or need to kill everything you come across, you're playing with the wrong mindset. Your primary objective is not "kill all the dudes", it's "survive and escape with the orb". If you forget that fundamental aspect, you will fail.
shizmoo wrote:The spacing of difficult monsters needs a fix as well (Orc Preist 2 hit smiting on dugeon level 2 is just plain retarded). Its a shame really theres a lot of cool things in this game, but it gets wasted with its setup.
Orc piests are very dangerous, and you shouldn't pick fights with them early on. If you do fight them, fight them one-on-one. Never pick a fight with an orc priest if his buddies are still around. Hide behind a corner so that when he walks around you can immediately attack the priest without giving it a bunch of free turns to smite you. You need to understand that the element of death is
very real in this game, and you
will encounter monsters that can kill you easily.
Whenever you think the game is overly difficult and unfair, always remember that there are many people who can easily go on winning streaks. All deaths are almost absolutely guaranteed to be completely your fault.
Friday, 21st March 2014, 15:55 
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