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enraged_camel posted:Narration was the first thing I turned off. I don't really understand why you're playing this game if you're not going to actually enjoy any of the fun parts.
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RubberBands Hurt posted:"Town events" were one of the kickstarter stretch goals, and I'm hoping there's going to be some substance there beyond the stuff that happens in the recovery areas. Invasions/etc seem likely, both from how much it's been requested and because they're likely going to want to leverage the time passing mechanic. Speaking of the tree, for some reason that Tree is currently a Statue in my game, not sure when it changed or why either.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:33
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enraged_camel posted:Narration was the first thing I turned off. The character speech bubbles are insanely annoying at the wagon, holy poo poo why do they cover up the only important part of that UI.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:35
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Antares posted:The character speech bubbles are insanely annoying at the wagon, holy poo poo why do they cover up the only important part of that UI. How that went through play testing is beyond anyone with eyes!
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Feb 21, 2015 04:02
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I just lost my first character that was over level 2, a level 4. He was a great occultist, and right before he died I started thinking of what I was going to rename him to because he was becoming one of my favorite characters. 
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Feb 21, 2015 05:33
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Night10194 posted:I don't really understand why you're playing this game if you're not going to actually enjoy any of the fun parts. You have to be a special kind of person if you enjoy hearing the same lines over and over.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:23
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:I just lost my first character that was over level 2, a level 4. He was a great occultist, and right before he died I started thinking of what I was going to rename him to because he was becoming one of my favorite characters.  You can rename characters?enraged_camel posted:You have to be a special kind of person if you enjoy hearing the same lines over and over. lol just miserable about everything aren't you
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Feb 21, 2015 07:26
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Chard posted:lol just miserable about everything aren't you Nope. Besides the annoying speech bubbles and the repetitive narration, I like the game quite a lot.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:29
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The guy who narrated this should have been hired for the American male voice in Dragon Age Inquisition.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:59
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Night10194 posted:I don't really understand why you're playing this game if you're not going to actually enjoy any of the fun parts. You enjoy the game pausing every time you press a button to spam the same message at you a dozen times? Because I genuinely want to know how you derive entertainment out of that. I was only able to get an hour with this game before having my masochists shouting "no me! hit me!" everytime i take any kind of damage drained my will to live.
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enraged_camel posted:Narration was the first thing I turned off. The bubbles are a way worse offender. They slow down combat even. They're cool if they don't interfere with the gameplay, but when I have to wait like five seconds to take my turn because my guy said something pointless about how we're all going to die to that pigman with 1 hp, then I start getting annoyed.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:49
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The Mighty Biscuit posted:You enjoy the game pausing every time you press a button to spam the same message at you a dozen times? If you have a Masochist in your first hour you should just dismiss that corpse and recruit fresh fools imo. But yeah, the bubbles are too slow. There's an option to add more time to the barks in the options (  ) if they just made it go to negatives too that would be perfect.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:53
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How do you turn the bubbles off?
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Feb 21, 2015 09:15
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Chard posted:
To great effect. My Crusaders are the Order of Oscar. Unfortunately the founding brother, Oscar The 1st, has passed on, but Oscar The 2nd, Oscar The 3rd and Oscar The 4th are still keeping the effort strong. My Bounty Hunters have been Boba (RIP), Jango and Greedo thus far. My two Jesters are Jay and Shaggy  So on and so forth with silly naming conventions.
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Feb 21, 2015 09:21
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Akumos posted:How do you turn the bubbles off? You can't yet. His sentence was structured in such a way that made it seem like you could, but you can't.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:09
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I didn't really mind the word bubbles until just now. Two unlucky crits, a howl by a ghoul and a drums of doom, triggered a cascade of afflictions, two good, two bad. Both bad ones were masochistic. They absolutely will not shut up, I tried to spam food to heal them out of battle, and it has resulted in me being unable to move my party for a full minute while it cycles through their heal denial word bubbles that I spammed my way through. :/
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Feb 21, 2015 11:20
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You can open up persist.options.json with a text editor and set extra_bark_time to about -150. It's not perfectly smooth or fully readable, but it's a lot nicer than the default pace. You can also adjust the in-combat pacing.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:53
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enraged_camel posted:Narration was the first thing I turned off. They need more lines. I like the narrator in Hand of Fate - he's got a lot more to say and as an added bonus for Brits of a certain age, sounds a lot like Tregard from Knightmare, including Tregard's trademark "Nasty..." when things go really wrong.
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Aw. One of my A-Team bit the dust, rip Bradwardine, died the most inglorious death to a DOT tick after getting crit by a corpse eater. First level four loss, but at least I got to loot the sun ring and berserker charm off his corpse! edit: after upgrading my Vestal to the final ranks of her skills, I'm wagering she's overall a way better healer than the Occultist I've seen suggested earlier in the thread. Guaranteed 7-8 heal with no risk of bleed, and a guaranteed 3 HP all-party heal seems much better than a 0-12 single target heal with a bleed chance. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Aw. One of my A-Team bit the dust, rip Bradwardine, died the most inglorious death to a DOT tick after getting crit by a corpse eater. First level four loss, but at least I got to loot the sun ring and berserker charm off his corpse! It's really getting your Vestal to the AoE heal Rank 5 that makes her stupidly OP. 3 points of healing on all characters for a total of a whopping 12 point heal with no downsides.
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Fully upgraded occultist heals for the same on average. The two big differences between the healers are consistency and other skills. The vestal is much more consistent which is a very strong point in her favor, which is why I think they need to tweak the occultist heal in some way. The other skills and how they work with your party should be why you take one healer or the other. I feel the occultist has the better non-heal options, with back-row aoe(and his super high crit), a pull, and a couple debuff options. Also if you're running low light every time you stun with vestal you get +torch. Occultist has better camp options for an early buffing camp, while vestral has better options for a hp/stress recovery camp. So look at what type of party you're trying to run, and pick the one that fits into it better. I'm really going to have to try that 2xoccultist and 2xhighwayman strat that other guy posted.
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Captain Invictus posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Darkest Dungeon - Don't kill Wilbur The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Darkest Dungeon - Kill Wil  RightClickSaveAs posted:My guess is this is what the Man at Arms is going to be, maybe? Just look at that shield! I love a good tank class. The fact that it says Man At Arms right on the picture may indicate you're right. Captain Invictus posted:That's exactly what I'm saying, though. DD isn't really similar to FTL because in FTL, there can be certain situations that are absolutely hopeless from the start, while I've never had a DD run where I didn't have options or a way out at least. Well yeah, the game has literally no way to lose... Cuntellectual fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Chard posted:
Its easy to miss, when you're in town there's a little... green square button? I think its green. Its right next to their names when you open up their character sheet. On the one hand lots of people avoid naming level 0 heroes because like food animals, they're not gonna stick around and you're gonna be sad if you grow attached. On the other hand there's a certain Oregon Trail style fun to be had from naming a party after all your friends and then seeing who dies first. 
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As much as it is a very silly mechanic, importing a friend list from Facebook would be great for this game.
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Brutor Fartknocker posted:As much as it is a very silly mechanic, importing a friend list from Facebook would be great for this game. 
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Angrymog posted:They need more lines. I like the narrator in Hand of Fate - he's got a lot more to say and as an added bonus for Brits of a certain age, sounds a lot like Tregard from Knightmare, including Tregard's trademark "Nasty..." when things go really wrong. They need no lines. Turn that garbage off. the narration and the speech bubbles are loving awful ideas that are implemented even worse.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:40
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I like the narration but holy poo poo the speech bubbles are awful.
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The Mighty Biscuit posted:They need no lines. Turn that garbage off. the narration and the speech bubbles are loving awful ideas that are implemented even worse. I too wish this game was devoid of flavour and I had a party of generic boring NPCs. Seriously, I can get your grief with the speech bubbles interrupting combat. I get that the narrator can become repetitive when you hear the same lines over and over. These things can be improved though, and cutting them out would rob the game of a ton of its charm. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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The only time the speech bubbles annoy me is at the end of a camp, and sometimes they block the interface in town. Yeah they need to shut up in town.
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Internet Kraken posted:I too wish this game was devoid of flavour and I had a part of generic boring NPCs. I too enjoy hearing bland generic npcs repeat the same canned lines and believe that adding more canned lines to say the exact same thing in different ways would improve the game. (look, i can be a sarcastic rear end too! am i a cool kid now?) I don't see how canned lines are charming.
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The speech bubbles in town would probably be fine if they never covered the UI, and happened 1/10 as often. It's every five seconds or something right now.
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Vanguard Warden posted:The speech bubbles in town would probably be fine if they never covered the UI, and happened 1/10 as often. It's every five seconds or something right now. They also need a larger variety. Right now it's basically "0 stress, I wanna get in there and kill some poo poo" or "not 0 stress, I'm gonna crack if you put me on the team". Yes, Dismas, I'm sure you're going to break down completely if you go on a mission while you have 4 stress. I'm positive that will happen. That said, I leave narration and speech bubbles on because they really add something unique in fights.
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Vanguard Warden posted:The speech bubbles in town would probably be fine if they never covered the UI, and happened 1/10 as often. It's every five seconds or something right now. I love the guy yelling about how much he needs respite when he's only got one bar of stress. We have such sights to show you! 
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The Mighty Biscuit posted:I too enjoy hearing bland generic npcs repeat the same canned lines and believe that adding more canned lines to say the exact same thing in different ways would improve the game. If you can't see how actually giving more character to your party and the setting improves a game then that's your own fault. The party speech tells you a lot more about each class than you'd ever learn from just their bios. There are some generic lines shared by everyone but replacing those wouldn't be hard. I'd enjoy this game a lot less if I was just playing with a soulless party of NPCs I'm sending into meat grinder over and over. Stuff like it obscuring the UI and interrupting combat is a problem that needs to be addressed though. No reason for that to happen.
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Internet Kraken posted:If you can't see how actually giving more character to your party and the setting improves a game then that's your own fault. The party speech tells you a lot more about each class than you'd ever learn from just their bios. There are some generic lines shared by everyone but replacing those wouldn't be hard. I'd enjoy this game a lot less if I was just playing with a soulless party of NPCs I'm sending into meat grinder over and over. But they are soulless. Every single highway man has the same lines as every other highway man. There is nothing unique about any of your lepers. Steve the Plague Doctor and Bill the Plague Doctor are basically the same person.
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The narration owns and everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong I kind of like the speech bubbles but they REALLY need to be passive, i.e. not prevent you from doing stuff or the game from continuing. Fix that and them covering the UI in town and I doubt anyone will be particularly annoyed by them.
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I don't ever use occultists as healers, every time i've tried to rely on them, even with preemptive healing of barely hurt characters it ends up being a giant waste of a turn. It certainly feels like it averages the low end of the healing range more often than mid or high end, and the bleed is icing on the crap cake of a 0 pt heal. Even if the bleed wasn't there it would feel like as much of a waste. Do weald quests just not show up much? I'm up to like week 30 and i've only ever seen two there. I am suffering from a huge lack of deeds. I also do wish there was some kind of class smoothing for the wagon, i've only seen 2 hellions and maybe 3 vestals compared to shitloads of bounty hunters, jesters and occultists. (One reason why i've tried to use occultists as primary healers) Sloober fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Angry Diplomat posted:The narration owns and everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong this pretty much
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The Mighty Biscuit posted:But they are soulless. Every single highway man has the same lines as every other highway man. There is nothing unique about any of your lepers. Steve the Plague Doctor and Bill the Plague Doctor are basically the same person.
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