Comments on: Trunk updates, 13 December 2015

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:33:36 +0000

Why is shortening Orc to 2 levels considered a good idea?

By: toastedzergling

toastedzergling — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:27:54 +0000

Short Orcs means fewer followers for Beoghites and more randomized health of the ones who do! Ah well, should still be fine/fun.

I’m looking forward to the .18 tournament!

By: graffen69

graffen69 — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:17:01 +0000

Well, since the changes to coding still makes the game unplayable on some window versions still clinging to 0.16-a0-2097 :(

By: WalkerBoh

WalkerBoh — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:31:27 +0000

Luckily old versions are not deleted and are freely available for you to play any time. No one will ever like every change made to the game, but in my mind the improvements vastly, vastly outweigh any negatives that are introduced. Overall I like the direction of Crawl development.

By: Chonchonts

Chonchonts — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:50:50 +0000

It’s could be good to carefully read changelog, there a small amount of objects removed. A lot balanced or replaced.
People love variety, but DCSS is VERY variety. And a lot of mecanisms are new. And you have a new god…
Player are really always complaining…

By: Dissapoint

Dissapoint — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:46:16 +0000

Guys,what are you doing to the game?
Can’t you just make two game options?
1)Crawl classic
2)Crawl Tournament

In the first mode,no stuff would be deleted but new stuff added.
Believe it or not,but people like variety.
Its no good to strip of everything for the sake of efficiency.

Hugely dissapointed to the direction that this wonderful game is taking.Still lurking around for positive changes though.

Regards!

By: Spidey

Spidey — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:24:23 +0000

With the new god I find that I’d like to be able to quiver a wand so I can just us the (f)ire command instead of e(V)oking and then picking the wand. Can we get this as an option?

By: Taxman

Taxman — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:01:58 +0000

Why all the hate for amulet switching?

By: onono

onono — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:23:48 +0000

Ok, good to see amulet of stasis gone. It was one of those items that mostly took inventory space since it could be useful, but I mostly forgot to use. Can’t see how reflection is a substitute though, to me it seems stasis could have been melded with clarity since they both block status effects. Clarity is only useful situationally or with certain builds.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:24:44 +0000

I don’t really see anything to complain about in these changes. They make the game more tense and exciting. I certainly don’t imagine any “huge frustration” from randomized HP, I’m just confused because I seem to remember randomized speeds being removed from some monsters a while ago.

The only change in recent memory that I miss is monster Animate Dead removal. in my experience this spell led to some of the most tense and unexpected tactical turns in my games.

Presumably someone on the Tavern wrote up a proof of how “optimal play” made it’s inclusion irrelevant or tedious.

By: TeshiAlair

TeshiAlair — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:08:41 +0000

Usually I like every change, but “All enemies, including uniques, now have (at least slightly) randomised HP” is a freaking terrible idea.

Orc randomised HP was already a huge frustration.

By: Hackum

Hackum — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:36:20 +0000

I love it. The game is evolving and that keeps me interested.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:43:20 +0000

Woooo, Trunk updates strike again!

By: nimzo

nimzo — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:24:26 +0000

Orcish mines only 2 levels? :( with all this shortening a new branch might be cool

By: Sharkman1231

Sharkman1231 — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:38:26 +0000

Everyone always complains about all these changes. I like that the game changes.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:14:17 +0000

Strange direction this game is taking…