Many times in the past I’ve read the change logs and thought that the changes sounded pretty bad, but then when the next release has come out and I’ve played it I’ve realised that the game is much better as a result.

This game is by far my favourite roguelike and the only one I’ve actually played until I could win.

Please keep up the good work and don’t let the negativity in the columns get to you. I there is a very loud minority of players that moan about every single thing they don’t like, while the rest of us are happy with the way the game is developing and normally say nothing.

Battlesphere: not removed.
rMsl: moved from bad spell to cool item ego.
boring wands: removed at last, thank Trog.

Also, battlesphere wasn’t removed.

Patches used to be good. Do you even listen to the comments anymore? This and the last two major updates have had sooo many dissenting opinions but as of yet no reversal on the shit changes like rMsl removal, battlesphere removal, wand removal, high elf removal, shite barachian addition, Ogre fuckery.

If there is one dev that suggested all or the majority of these changes fucking reign them in already. It’s. Fucking. Shit.

i really appreciate your efforts, keep on the good work devs

The more stuff in DCSS, the better the chance that a workable solution to a given situation will present itself. This is why limiting players and removing gobs of useful stuff is a bad thing. That, and it makes DCSS more linear, less interesting, boring, or even outright annoying.

If an increasing number of people are giving up on Trunk and sticking with 0.19, then that SHOULD tell the devs something…

Ignition sounds nice, though. Meh on everything else. I usually cheat, just so I can wander around, take in the scenery, and blow the living crap out of stuff. But reducing defense against missiles to one relatively rare item sounds unwise… Balentius is right, Yaktaurs/Centaurs can easily shred a maxed-out player if they are busy with melee mobs.

Not digging the removals. Nope, not a bit. So we finally got an addition that sounds REALLY cool, Ignition, and had a bunch of stuff removed. One neat thing does not make up for losing 5 or 6 established features, and I don’t really care whether DCSS people are allergic to Tolkien-esque wording or not.

Don’t “simplify” this game anymore! None of us want a “simple” game, because that is boring in an RPG: we want a *streamlined* game that has DEPTH!

So, basically, you’ve eliminated all the best ways of playing a wizard. High elves gave the best mana, repel missiles saves regularly from centaurs, the various wands have helped out in many situations.

I realize that there are some players that walk into the dungeon, play for ~5 minutes and win. For the others (like me), we NEED some of this stuff to survive past level 4 or so…

Really not liking the trend I’m seeing here. I may have to stick with v19 too. Which is annoying since I like new features.

Please reconsider at least some of these changes.

Thanks!

This sounds like I’m going to lose more mutations than I gain, so I’m not entirely sure it’s such a great balance.

I assume DMsl still exists as a spell?

TL;DR: Potions of mutation, cure mutation, and beneficial mutation have been merged into one fairly common potion type that removes 2-6 mutations, then adds 1-3 random and 1 beneficial one. The idea is to make mutations a thing people actually have (if you don’t worship Zin) instead of something people generally avoid ever having.