Vault 5

[Taxman66]

How the heck are you supposed to deal with Vault 5 now with the corners open on the vault?
Can't stair dance because of getting the way barred and can't blink/flee to safety down the hallway; and way too much firepower to stick it out against.

[tabstorm]

If you have ctele, tele to one of the outer corners of the vaults after using mmap.
You can also run partway down the hall and stand somewhere in the middle when you fight the welcoming party, it may or may not make enough noise to bring the enemies in the quadrants out to attack you.
Personally, I just random tele until I land somewhat favorably.
Forgot: You can also take a shaft down and hope for the best.

[Sandman25]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11770

[Lasty]

I prefer to flee to safety down the hallway. About 50-60% of the way down a hallway is usually good enough unless you do very loud things. You can usually just walk past the initial guard arrangement if you aim for a corner, but you should probably have haste up and also be able to deploy scroll of fear in case things aren't so simple in your particular game. If you want, you can fight all the guards in the hallway; if you don't, you can send them packing with fear and then continue on to the end of the hallway and start carving out some territory.

[Lyrick]

Firestorm the warden, slay the welcoming party, go back up to heal and come back a few thousand turns later

[n1000]

After some experimentation I have found that all of the strategies people used to use in V:$ are still the best strategies.

[tabstorm]

Question: Is at least one ancient lich now guaranteed on V:5?

I feel like the past several games I have watched/played have all had at least one.

[Tedronai]

Question: Is at least one ancient lich now guaranteed on V:5?

I feel like the past several games I have watched/played have all had at least one.

I'd like to know that, too. It has been quite a while since I haven't seen an ancient lich in V:5...

[tabstorm]

Well, my last game just had 3, although I died there more due to playing extremely carelessly than anything else. However I feel like they have definitely become much more common there...

[skjarl]

One killed me down there with LCS yesterday.