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I almost lived the dream yesterday. Started as Steroids with a Gold Wrench, got a second wrench. Scary Face, Long Arms, and Rhino Skin followed. Buzzsawed Big Dog to death, and with Scary Face, two wrench swings pops crystal spiders. In Area 5, a yeti dropped an Energy Hammer, followed by a chest on the same stage giving me an Energy Sword, so I relinquished my gold wrench. Back Muscle and Plutonium Hunger kept me ammoed up. Death by two simultaneous pouncing rad-dogs in Palace 2 
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The best change from the latest patch: The game actually has an icon in the taskbar now when you alt-tab. Before it was having some weird issue where, if I alt-tabbed out, the game would not have an icon on the taskbar so I had no way to go back to it without doing that weird hold-down-alt-tab window preview thing Win7 has.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:29
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CJacobs posted:The best change from the latest patch: The game actually has an icon in the taskbar now when you alt-tab. Before it was having some weird issue where, if I alt-tabbed out, the game would not have an icon on the taskbar so I had no way to go back to it without doing that weird hold-down-alt-tab window preview thing Win7 has. It's still like that for me.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:31
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It just happened to me again too. It seems very schizophrenic now. I jinxed it, sorry
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Feb 21, 2015 10:42
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Update just dropped!quote:We took a week off for a medical emergency, but now we're back. For this week. But it's a Significant Update, so prepare yourselves! Starting with crowns is cool, it adds a lot of options! Also the new mutation seems great at the start, kinda meh later on. I would rank it in the same tier as euphoria, sharp teeth and the like: nice to have if there are no better options around.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:13
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Update is sweet so far but a couple bugs right off the bat: If you check the 'Q to switch weapons' option in the menu, E no longer works for picking up guns even though that's still what the prompt says. also, hitting Esc -> R or restarting after death no longer jumps right back in as the same character but goes back to the main menu. edit: I relaunched the game and neither of those things are happening anymore. Weird. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 12:35
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CJacobs posted:The best change from the latest patch: The game actually has an icon in the taskbar now when you alt-tab. Before it was having some weird issue where, if I alt-tabbed out, the game would not have an icon on the taskbar so I had no way to go back to it without doing that weird hold-down-alt-tab window preview thing Win7 has. I've found that if i click into another window (say, the task manager) and then click back on nuclear throne, the icon appears I play in windowed mode
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Feb 21, 2015 18:23
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Starting as Robot with crown of guns is really fun.
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Feb 21, 2015 18:27
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Rebel with crown of hatred is my loving poo poo right now
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Feb 21, 2015 18:40
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Crown of blood loving rules
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Feb 21, 2015 20:36
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ninjewtsu posted:Crown of blood loving rules Melting + crown of blood levels up incredibly quickly. He also dies incredibly quickly because I loving suck at this game.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:46
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Impact wrists is a pro pick when running blood. It's like having shotgun
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Feb 21, 2015 20:53
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ninjewtsu posted:Crown of blood loving rules Crown of Blood with Bloodlust feeds you so many +1 healths, as long as you have a safe space you can keep going forever. It's easily the best crown.
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Crystal with Crown of Blood + Bloodlust + Sharp teeth + Scarier Face + Rabbit Paw + Second Stomach + Rhino Skin  e: from one of the devs 
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Feb 21, 2015 21:36
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The crown icon is greyed out for me and I can't access it by left clicking, anyone know how to get around this? e: nvm figured it out, it's kinda obtuse AnonSpore fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 22:34
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Select a character first.
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Feb 21, 2015 22:35
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I've been playing Rogue all the time, so this update makes me happy. The Crown of Blood makes it so you can actually reach level 6 at the end of scrapyard. Crown of Hatred doesn't work with Blast Armor as well as I'd like, though. Probably because Blast Armor is a worse passive than Heat.
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Feb 21, 2015 22:38
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Is it me or does homing bolts function a bit differently now? They seem to track better and can twist and turn quite well. I can't stop playing with crown of blood. I actually play better with lots of enemies and bullets on screen, I enter that zen state of being that bullet hell shooters often require. It does require building your character in different ways, and it makes some mutations so much more effective especially anything that scales with more enemies (bloodlust, rabbit's paw, racing mind etc). Bloodlust/Paw/Stomach/Spirit is a god-tier combo for almost any character in a regular game, it's a power level even further beyond in CoB mode.
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Feb 22, 2015 12:00
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nightwisher posted:Is it me or does homing bolts function a bit differently now? They seem to track better and can twist and turn quite well. Homing bolts plus a heavy crossbow is some hilarious poo poo in crown of blood mode.
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Feb 22, 2015 13:15
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Impact Wrists + Burning Veins + Sharp Teeth + Bloodlust + Plutonium Hunger + Rabbits Paw = A Steroids who dual-wields Grenade Launchers (Upgrading later to a Bazooka + Grenade Rifle) through a Crown of Blood run and has the time of his life. Until a shieldcop spawns in 5-2 right next to me and shoots me in the head
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nightwisher posted:Is it me or does homing bolts function a bit differently now? They seem to track better and can twist and turn quite well. AFAIK Bolt Marrow works exactly the same but now bolt weapons have those trails so you can see what sort of bullshit they get up to.
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Feb 22, 2015 13:28
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Improbable Lobster posted:AFAIK Bolt Marrow works exactly the same but now bolt weapons have those trails so you can see what sort of bullshit they get up to. They don't really "home" in the conventional sense. Seems like they run a per-frame check on whether an enemy is near enough to the bolt, then they just decide to be on top of that enemy- they don't change direction at all. It's a hilarious kludge that really makes it feel unique.
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Are there any other similar games as good as whatever genre you'd call this? Roguelike twin-stick shooter, procedurally-generated twitch shooter, or whatever? Love the game but I'm getting sick of that ice bastard and just wondering if there's anything else out there?
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Feb 22, 2015 22:42
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The closest thing I've played is the binding of isaac, except it's a bad game rooted in RNG and you shouldn't play it.
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Yeah I tried that and didn't like the Zelda 1-style room thing they had going. Also going to the options menu to rebind and seeing "just get joy2key" didn't enamour me of the game.
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The problem with BoI isn't so much that it's rooted in RNG, it's that once you learn the ropes it's a pretty drat easy game.
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Melting with Crown of Blood is an entirely different game. I'm too terrible to get it working well (farthest I got was Big Dog) but it really teaches you to use his special explosions to clear projectiles. Sewers is easily the big hump since it's easy to brush a rat and instantly die plus you run into a ton of ammo problems if you don't have a shotgun or a grenade launcher by the time you get there. Occasionally you hit level 5 by the end if 1_3 which is rad though. I was aiming for the Strong Spirit / Bloodlust combo, but I wasn't able to get it to work reliably.
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Pierson posted:Are there any other similar games as good as whatever genre you'd call this? Roguelike twin-stick shooter, procedurally-generated twitch shooter, or whatever? Love the game but I'm getting sick of that ice bastard and just wondering if there's anything else out there? The most similar gameplay-wise are probably Geometry Wars or Beat Hazard. But though they both feature procedurally generated waves of enemies and 360° twinstick aiming, no one would consider either to be roughlikes. Xenogenesis fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 04:07
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Whoever said Impact Wrist was a great Crown of Blood mutation was absolutely right. Impact Wrist with a shotgun turns every trash enemy into a Slugger projectile.
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Feb 23, 2015 05:28
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So I've heard a small amount of buzz about this game. Someone on my twitter feed can't stop mentioning it. I guess...it's good? Even for Early Access?
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Speedball posted:So I've heard a small amount of buzz about this game. Someone on my twitter feed can't stop mentioning it. I guess...it's good? Even for Early Access? It's one of the games that is the exception to the Early Access curse, in that it's regularly updated and the devs not only constantly communicate with the community but stream themselves developing the game almost every week. Currently they're prepping to do some GDC work so there will be a brief lull in updates, but then they'll be back to it after the start of March. The game is just simple and fun, and despite the occasional bug it's worth money in its current state.
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I just lost an incredible Melting run because I didn't expect there to be two mimics on a level. Is that normal or is it because I took the spawn an extra chest mutation and it spawned an extra mimic? I've never noticed that happening before. e: The best thing ever right now is Crown of Blood Steroids with dual Crossbows, throne butt and homing bolts. Even better later on when you upgrade to two auto crossbows.
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Speedball posted:So I've heard a small amount of buzz about this game. Someone on my twitter feed can't stop mentioning it. I guess...it's good? Even for Early Access? It's probably one of the only early-access titles I've actually been happy with in regards to playability and developer updates. The core mechanics are quite solid and the game is genuinely a lot of fun to play and learn to master and the rapid pace of updates means that each week there's something new to try out. It's not super deep or requires a bunch of wiki reading to get right into it. You get almost a dozen characters to play as with their own unique but relatively simple quirks that require quite different playstyles, a wide variety of weapons and mutations to mix and match, and a good amount of levels and secret levels to play through. Then if you do manage to win, you loop to the start and play a new game+. Or, let me put it this way: If you think that playing as a katana-wielding movie-junkie chicken wildly decapitating sentient crows wielding machineguns in bullet-time like a bloodcrazed poultry max payne before having your own head smashed off by some cracked-up assassin with a iron pipe only to continue flapping and firing in a frenzy, headless, until you stumble on a health kit and promptly bandage your head back on and resume the carnage anew, then you may like this game. nightwisher fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Speedball posted:So I've heard a small amount of buzz about this game. Someone on my twitter feed can't stop mentioning it. I guess...it's good? Even for Early Access? Even if what we currently have was the finished product I'd consider it to be well worth the price. It's a really fun game. e. i suck at it, but so far I'm most successful as Steroids with a melee weapon main hand and a crossbow off hand. Then I like to go for long reach and the mutation that makes corpses fly farther and harder. With this setup I can hit through walls, deflect bullets and snipe on the fly. I still can't get past the crystal level though, those diamonds spam me to death every time I misstep. Ramsus fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 12:38
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If they deleted lil hunter and the loop frog boss from the game, and then fixed the thing where melee enemies can oneshot you from full health through strong spirit sometimes, it would be an absolutely amazing game. At it stands it's just a really good one.
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Best game on Steam.
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Feb 23, 2015 12:46
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Little hunter owns and is the best part of this game. E. I enjoy suffering 
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Seriously the trick to little hunter is to just go all-out aggressive against him, if you keep the pressure up on him he won't fire and he has remarkably little hp. I die more to the loop giant crystal laser than little hunter now.
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AnonSpore posted:If they deleted lil hunter and the loop frog boss from the game, and then fixed the thing where melee enemies can oneshot you from full health through strong spirit sometimes, it would be an absolutely amazing game. At it stands it's just a really good one.  >
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