Comments on: First release candidate for 0.7.0

By: evktalo

evktalo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:02:14 +0000

Don, there is a new restart_after_game option in the init.txt, which you can set to true. It is labeled as experimental however, as there have been quite a few bugs that have surfaced, and there is not enough time to test and fix them properly before the release.

–Eino

By: Don

Don — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:08 +0000

Guys, I’m loving the new build. One major suggestions I’ve been waiting for: please DON’T make the game turn off whenever you die! I have to start this program like 20 times a day! Thank you :)

By: dpeg

dpeg — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:49:23 +0000

Maynot: No, the LOS shrinks for you and the monsters. Therefore, it’s clearly a great feature for (a) melee fighters, (b) stabbers, (c) spellcasters whose main spells have short range.

Robsoie: Ultimately, there should be some in-game parameters to play around with. Right now, the arena is quite raw, admitted. There is some guidance, however: read up on docs/arena.txt.

re menu: with all the many choices we have now (sprint, arena, tutorial), I wonder if having a name should really bypass that. (No question if there’s a saved game, of course. Then you immediately re-start that.)

By: Maynot

Maynot — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:00:07 +0000

I just encounter the fully upgraded demon mutation of being attuned to the shadows. I have to say this is a very, very bad mutation to get especially for spell casters and archers. Reduction in visibility is always bad.

By: Robsoie

Robsoie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:19:45 +0000

for the arena mode, it is important to know the exact creature name.
It took me a while to understand that the creature “Royal Jelly” name was not :
royal jelly
but was :
the royal jelly

It would be good if there was some ingame selection menu or a selection list instead of having to look on the wiki each time to find an exact creature names.

The arena mode has a lot of fun potential.
Overall 0.7.0 is fun, the only bad point i can see is the addition of the acid splashing walls in slime, like if the difficulty was not high enough already in there.

By: David Gardner

David Gardner — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:58:11 +0000

You don’t name every character individually? I wonder how many people do — it would never have occurred to me to use the same name over and over — the top 100 scores would look a bit clone-y! :) –DG

By: Grue

Grue — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:54:02 +0000

greensnark: that was precisely my problem. I never saw the main menu. But typing the character name all the time is also annoying =)

By: Narretz

Narretz — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:10:46 +0000

Great!
I love the Arena, but it often doesn’t work for any apparent reasons, and sometimes shuts down Crawl completely. Also, it would be nice, if the Arena didn’T close so fast after the fight finished.

By: greensnark

greensnark — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:44:58 +0000

Grue: If you’re starting Crawl with -name grue or a name set in .crawlrc, you’ll bypass the game menu entirely. Try starting without -name and you should see the tutorial option in the main game menu.

By: Grue

Grue — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:07:27 +0000

There is no tutorial option…

By: Epitaph64

Epitaph64 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:20:23 +0000

Glad to see this moving along. Can’t wait for the 0.7.0 release. Maybe I’ll actually beat the game in this version? :)

By: syllogism

syllogism — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:41:00 +0000

there should be a tutorial option in the menu

By: Grue

Grue — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:26:20 +0000

how do I access tutorial? readme.txt suggest Ctrl-T but that doesn’t work.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:30:13 +0000

The Windows installer works pretty well. Although I would ask before creating the start menu item. If asked, I usually answer no for small applications like DCSS. Cheers!