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ExiledTinkerer
Nov 4, 2009
The other Hopeful Fellow Traveler due to soon enter unto the fray:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1914580/Spirit_Hunters_Infinite_Horde/

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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

dis astranagant posted:

10 minutes til dawn is more nova drift than vampire survivors. Kinda missing a bunch of the features that make nova drift work but it doesn't have the skill variety to really need them yet. Your movement speed going to poo poo while firing is pretty annoying.

10 minutes til dawn is a big combination of things but also has a number of major flaws. There's a lot of "interesting" decisions to be made each moment ("do I stop firing to become more manoeuvrable?", "do I circle around to pick up xp?", "which enemies do I focus fire on?") but you're forced to make a lot of them and none of them are particularly pleasant to think about or make. It's all pressure, all tension, all the time but without the fluidity that makes those kind of experiences pleasurable. Vampire Survivors tends to have lulls in its action when you've figured out how to make a build and manages to be very satisfying because of that.

It also commits the cardinal sin of there being no good crowd control options and taking damage being incredibly punishing.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Hello Sailor posted:

Lol, BMS's steam shop About This Game section includes "Vampire Survivors with sexy anime waifus". Presumably, the VS dev could get BMS permanently or temporarily removed from the store for that.

I don't think mentioning another game on your store page is bannable? There are a bunch of games describing themselves as "[popular game] meets [another popular game]", for example.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Yeah it's just stating the genre

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Vampire Survivors is still the Dark Souls of Vampire Survivorses

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

Hello Sailor posted:

Lol, BMS's steam shop About This Game section includes "Vampire Survivors with sexy anime waifus". Presumably, the VS dev could get BMS permanently or temporarily removed from the store for that.

No garlic, 0/10. I'll take garlic over titties any day of the week

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

I can't season my food with tiddy.

Bruteman
Apr 15, 2003

Can I ask ya somethin', Padre? When I was kickin' your ass back there... you get a little wood?

goferchan posted:

Just put an extremely fun build together to get the Survive The Bone Zone achievement. Started with the new arcana that triggers gold fever off of picking up gold bags + makes gold heal you, then at level 11 picked up the one that causes healing to do damage to enemies in an AOE. When you're in fever mode, dealing damage to enemies give you gold, which procs the heal, which procs more damage, and so on. It's like a build-your-own evolved garlic except it also synergizes extremely well with the actual evolved garlic. Finished the stage with over 40k gold (and I did not use the cats!)

Used these arcana in a build tonight and finally beat the Bone Zone - picked Poppea, so song of mana default, garlic, whip, santa water, king bible and holy wand. Once I got going, I was near unstoppable. There's that one rough moment 18-ish or so minutes in with all the winged skeletons that hit like a truck, but they were somehow harder than the 2-minute pile on at the end.

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

Bruteman posted:

Used these arcana in a build tonight and finally beat the Bone Zone - picked Poppea, so song of mana default, garlic, whip, santa water, king bible and holy wand. Once I got going, I was near unstoppable. There's that one rough moment 18-ish or so minutes in with all the winged skeletons that hit like a truck, but they were somehow harder than the 2-minute pile on at the end.

Yeah DPS is pretty bad but the survivability is insane, I could stand in huge crowds of enemies with my health not even getting a dent in it. I also like how it makes you keep moving to find more gold bags to keep gold fever up, because if you drop it for too long you're done

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Annointed posted:

I can't season my food with tiddy.

Not with that attitude.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

goferchan posted:

Yeah DPS is pretty bad but the survivability is insane, I could stand in huge crowds of enemies with my health not even getting a dent in it. I also like how it makes you keep moving to find more gold bags to keep gold fever up, because if you drop it for too long you're done
That's the thing I like about VS, it really perfects the carrot part of forcing you to move and invented a whole rakeload of new sticks.

Canuckistan
Jan 14, 2004

I'm the greatest thing since World War III.





Soiled Meat
VS is coming to Microsoft Gamepass later this month. They're going to get a lot more eyes on their game now.

Qwezz
Dec 19, 2010



I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Canuckistan posted:

VS is coming to Microsoft Gamepass later this month. They're going to get a lot more eyes on their game now.

:hellyeah:

Mendrian
Jan 6, 2013

Canuckistan posted:

VS is coming to Microsoft Gamepass later this month. They're going to get a lot more eyes on their game now.

Still bracing for that Konami C&D.

Qwezz
Dec 19, 2010



I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Mendrian posted:

Still bracing for that Konami C&D.

Bracers and Kats :catstare: you say.
Clawing away, eating that Tíragísu.
They can plan, They can scheme
Cats do whatever cats do
And gently caress-up your run...

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.
I'm going to tell my kids someday that this game was Elden Ring

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Canuckistan posted:

VS is coming to Microsoft Gamepass later this month. They're going to get a lot more eyes on their game now.

Now in fact!

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

dis astranagant posted:

BMS is vampire survivors with lootbox weapon upgrades. Weapon levels upgrade a random stat and the first time you pick up a weapon sets its rarity, which is a multiplier for your stat rolls. The big notable one is that legendary weapons get +2 from amount and pierce rolls while everything below gets just +1. There's UI for passives but they're not in the demo. There's also a version of the game sold as "sexy mystic survivors" with outright porn and a different pair of characters in the demo.

Beautiful Mystic Survivors came about because the devs saw people praising the "chest animations" in Vampire Survivors and misunderstood

koshmar
Oct 22, 2009

i'm not here

this isn't happening

goferchan posted:

Beautiful Mystic Survivors came about because the devs saw people praising the "chest animations" in Vampire Survivors and misunderstood

:kiss:

JordanKai
Aug 19, 2011

Get high and think of me.


goferchan posted:

Beautiful Mystic Survivors came about because the devs saw people praising the "chest animations" in Vampire Survivors and misunderstood

:perfect:

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here


:chestkiss:

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

So why is it a dairy plant anyway

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

RBA Starblade posted:

So why is it a dairy plant anyway

Probably some Italian pun.

Infinity Gaia
Feb 27, 2011

a storm is coming...

I thought it was a Diablo Secret Cow Level joke.

serefin99
Apr 15, 2016

Mikoooon~
Your lovely shrine maiden fox wife, Tamamo no Mae, is here to help!

RBA Starblade posted:

So why is it a dairy plant anyway

How else are the vampires gonna get their milk?

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

serefin99 posted:

How else are the vampires gonna get their milk?

If anyone needs strong teeth, it's vampires

Qwezz
Dec 19, 2010



I'm feeling some good vibrations!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvt2hQi-4gQ

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

Begemot posted:

Probably some Italian pun.

Speaking of, apparently the evolved holy water's name is some Italian reference to cum?

Omobono
Feb 19, 2013

That's it! No more hiding in tomato crates! It's time to show that idiota Germany how a real nation fights!

For pasta~! CHARGE!

goferchan posted:

Speaking of, apparently the evolved holy water's name is some Italian reference to cum?
Yup.

Omobono posted:

Also oh god I got the joke about La Borra. That's a loving deep cut in Italian pop culture. 2006, television presenter Antonella Clerici* asks a caller from home a quiz: what has/makes bubbles but is not soap? Intended answer: beer, birra in Italian. Except the caller answers borra, which is fairly close to our word for ---cum---

*yuuup. Because Suor Clerici meaning Nun Cleric wasn't enough this game I swear


E: about the Dairy Plant, in Italian it'd translate to caseificio and I don't really see anything with it. Any puns come from what it is.

Bonus pun: Krochi Freetto; starting equipment cross; passive ability resurrection. What has that set up anything in common with being an Efreet? Nothing.
Krochi Freetto is similar to crocifisso (crucifix) which in Italian can refer to both the item or more rarely to the person getting crucified. Krochi died for our sins.

Omobono fucked around with this message at 16:48 on May 22, 2022

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

This game owns

EthanSteele
Nov 18, 2007

I can hear you

Omobono posted:

Yup.

E: about the Dairy Plant, in Italian it'd translate to caseificio and I don't really see anything with it. Any puns come from what it is.

Bonus pun: Krochi Freetto; starting equipment cross; passive ability resurrection. What has that set up anything in common with being an Efreet? Nothing.
Krochi Freetto is similar to crocifisso (crucifix) which in Italian can refer to both the item or more rarely to the person getting crucified. Krochi died for our sins.

It being homophonous with fritto also means he's cruci-fried, which is why he's that colour too!

I know Poppea is a boob joke which is why she's found at the dairy plant. There's a lot of jokes in this dang game.

TurnipFritter
Apr 21, 2010
10,000 POSTS ON TALKING TIME

The funniest joke is the Laurel

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

how so

koshmar
Oct 22, 2009

i'm not here

this isn't happening

because it's a worthless pickup

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.

It's a lot less worthless if you're trying to off Death for the unlock. Otherwise I'd agree, better just to murder everything faster than it can get to you.

BrianRx
Jul 21, 2007

Evil Kit posted:

It's a lot less worthless if you're trying to off Death for the unlock. Otherwise I'd agree, better just to murder everything faster than it can get to you.

I just read how to do this and it seems insanely unfun. If I'm not a completionist is it worth doing?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

BrianRx posted:

I just read how to do this and it seems insanely unfun. If I'm not a completionist is it worth doing?

No. Even if you want a super OP character Leda is infinitely easier to unlock and probably better overall.

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.

tbh it's actually not that bad to do once you understand the way it works. As mentioned above though it's more of a flex than anything.

Steelion
Aug 2, 2009
i unlocked death by giving myself missingno first

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broken pixel
Dec 16, 2011



I didn’t want to bother with unlocking Death, but I did it last week. You can be semi-AFK if your setup looks good after 3ish minutes, but I did have a chest interrupt my idling a few times.

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