Comments on: Crawl 0.19: “Dancing Through Memory”

By: gammafunk

gammafunk — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:55:02 +0000

Mac binaries are finally up. If any OS X users have problems with these packages, please file a bug report so we'll know about it.

By: cas

cas — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:03:34 +0000

any word on the mac tiles?

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 04:33:03 +0000

Mac Tiles client still 0.18.1, looks like — anyone know when 0.19 is coming?

By: WimpyRanger

WimpyRanger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:03:39 +0000

It would be nice to see some of the older gods get tweaked to be fun/useful instead of adding 5 new gods on top of them.

By: Jaems Wyrdward

Jaems Wyrdward — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:14:11 +0000

@Gospel: A dwarf dwarf, if you will.

By: Zed

Zed — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 07:45:11 +0000

I’m having super fun with this new dungeon crawl patch. Early snow in the north of Sweden, getting all cozy indoors and making epic DCSS narratives!
Good job, guys

By: mps

mps — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 02:10:48 +0000

Actually, it does not encourage scummy behavior. Food does not achieve any useful purpose in crawl and it’s been that way for a long time. The game plays far smoother and cleaner when you don’t have to feed your guy’s face every 30 seconds.

By: Plutia

Plutia — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:00:20 +0000

@mps encourages scummy behavior, if you wanna play without food, play mummy and have the other hard parts to go with it.

By: mps

mps — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:00:55 +0000

In all seriousness, it is an empirical fact that crawl is better without food. This has been proven in hellcrawl pretty conclusively (btw, play hellcrawl at crawl.project357.org, fam).

By: Brannock

Brannock — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:48:52 +0000

Good catch, Mike! Fixed, thank you.

By: Mike G.

Mike G. — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:02:58 +0000

Yay, tournament!

The “time” links at the top of the tournament overview page are wrong, though – I think they still point to the 0.18 tournament times, since they’re for dates in May.

By: GregB

GregB — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:32:35 +0000

I don’t like some of the changes that have been made in the last two updates, but I appreciate that the versions I prefer are still around for play on the online sites.

By: a****t

a****t — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 05:37:22 +0000

For the next update, we will simply uninstall the game. That way, we can ensure that no new features or fun finds its way into the game. The speedrunner overlords will simply time themselves staring at a blank computer screen.

By: EntropicMage

EntropicMage — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 05:12:08 +0000

I am going to miss sticky flaming sheep.

By: MaxDifficulty

MaxDifficulty — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:55:43 +0000

I love how actively DCSS is worked on and I want anyone who reads this to know that I loved most of this patch, butI was pretty distressed to see that it is nerfing Mummy and Demigod, some of the worst races in the game.

I know the point of races is not balance, but I can’t fathom the logic that lead to the decision to remove Mummy’s self-cleanse or Demigod’s Sustain Abilities.

My only hope is that, with the major adjustment to Kobold and Halfing, the DCSS devs are beginning a much needed overhaul of the races, which Demigod and quite a few others desperately need after all the changes to the game that have happened over the years.

By: mps

mps — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:12:02 +0000

You’ve missed some other exciting and surprising features of .19:

- Food, hunger, hunger costs, and chunks
- Duration spell recasting
- Identification
- Item curses

If you had asked me a year and half ago whether .19 would have all four, I would’ve said “No way!”

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 06:57:35 +0000

I got resolution issue with this version. my resolution was 1366×768 but ingame i can’t alt tab and go back to the game because resolution got screwed up for some reason. it never happen in previous version.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:27:52 +0000

You could think of them as a sort of ‘small dwarf’, if you would.

By: Gospel

Gospel — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:23:37 +0000

So halflings are becoming pseudo-dwarves?