Something's changed in crawl today...
Posted: Tuesday, 16th June 2015, 22:47
So, having spent a fair amount of time on the tavern as well as playing crawl, it seems one of the things that comes up over and over again is outdated information. Things that were once true but have since changed are somewhat harder to unlearn, and can be just as bad for your success in crawl as information that was never true. I figure it would be useful to have a thread which attempts to correct outdated advice/collect recent changes to crawl and the updated advice for how to handle the current version of crawl.
Some examples of recently discussed outdated advice: Cerebov's loot rooms needing Ctele to get into them (they have doors as of about 2 years ago), trolls not being able to use the regen ego on troll leather armor (this exception was recently removed), or things like not being aware that you can check the success rate of monster's hexes against you by looking up their spells in their descriptions (I didn't know this myself until it was mentioned). The goal is not to blame anyone for being out of date because it's quite difficult to stay current with a rapidly changing game, but to help keep us all slightly more accurate over time
There are of course the blog updates that PleasingFungus does with a summary of recent trunk changes, which is WONDERFUL, but I think there's room for a thread about it too. For those who don't know about these, the current latest one is this one: https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/trun ... -june-2015 You can find the older ones there as well.
So, what's changed recently, or not terribly recently, that players should be aware of in order to play better crawl?
Some examples of recently discussed outdated advice: Cerebov's loot rooms needing Ctele to get into them (they have doors as of about 2 years ago), trolls not being able to use the regen ego on troll leather armor (this exception was recently removed), or things like not being aware that you can check the success rate of monster's hexes against you by looking up their spells in their descriptions (I didn't know this myself until it was mentioned). The goal is not to blame anyone for being out of date because it's quite difficult to stay current with a rapidly changing game, but to help keep us all slightly more accurate over time
There are of course the blog updates that PleasingFungus does with a summary of recent trunk changes, which is WONDERFUL, but I think there's room for a thread about it too. For those who don't know about these, the current latest one is this one: https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/trun ... -june-2015 You can find the older ones there as well.
So, what's changed recently, or not terribly recently, that players should be aware of in order to play better crawl?