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bathroomrage posted:Plug in a controller with four face buttons, I played it once with the keyboard and never again because fuuuuuck that noise. I'm afraid I don't have a controller designed to work with the computer, and I've never gotten the hang out how to make my PS3 controllers work right on the computer.
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Soft pad casual. Real Necrodancers shell out $500 for a hard pad. 
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 Into Hard Mode we go. Because why am I doing this to myself? Meanwhile, there's a happy lil' Cultist doing a jig. Can you spot him in this video? Part 6, Life 5, 6, and 7, Newgame+ Bling As always, I'll update my OP.
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And just as a heads up for folks, Monstrum is 45% off for today, making it only $9.89 USD. It's a horror game set on a randomly generated ship each game. It's not quite a roguelike, but I figured it'd be worth sharing here anyway
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ousire posted:I picked up Darkest Dungeon yesterday, but I'm quite tempted to grab Necrodancer since it seems unlikely to go much lower. I'm seriously considering Titan Souls, though it's not a roguelike Also grabbed Darkest Dungeon -- very fun. I think it's the first time I've seen sanity systemized in a way that wasn't totally just a second life bar.
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Gonna have to join in on the chorus of goons wanting their shadenfreude via blind spoiler-less Nethack. really all I can think to say on the matter is  Loving pretty much all this stuff, especially since I don't really have the time to play roguelikes much anymore myself.
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Wait what, how is crypt of the necrodancer hard to play with a keyboard? There are 4 buttons!
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TwistedSynapse posted:Gonna have to join in on the chorus of goons wanting their shadenfreude via blind spoiler-less Nethack. Uh, well, I did it. It, uh, didn't go too well the first time round (surprise, surprise) (also made my own thread, hope crossposting here is ok)  NETHACK 4: Run 1, Level 1 - I may have overlooked a key detail here More fun later, next update I do actually play more. Oh god.
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Agent355 posted:Wait what, how is crypt of the necrodancer hard to play with a keyboard? There are 4 buttons! It's not so much that the controls themselves are hard, it's just that playing for more that a short while at a time made my arm start to cramp up.
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Espilae posted:Uh, well, I did it. It, uh, didn't go too well the first time round (surprise, surprise) Note to everyone: This is the best attempt at any game posted in this thread so far.
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ousire posted:It's not so much that the controls themselves are hard, it's just that playing for more that a short while at a time made my arm start to cramp up. Bind the controls to numpad, with up-right being numpad9
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Yeah, don't use the two button combos for items in Necrodancer, since you can rebind those to a actual key if you are stuck with a keyboard. It might take some time to get used to, but its 100% reliable and you are less likely to do stuff like mix up up left and up right.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Note to everyone: This is the best attempt at any game posted in this thread so far. yes seriously you absolutely must read this one, it is incredible.
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ousire posted:It's not so much that the controls themselves are hard, it's just that playing for more that a short while at a time made my arm start to cramp up. Honestly at that point it sounds like your keyboard isn't very ergonomic. Look into a better playing position. Tapping the arrow keys for a few minutes really shouldn't make your arm cramp up at all.
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hito posted:yes seriously you absolutely must read this one, it is incredible. Holy poo poo, you aren't kidding. That was magical.
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Darkest Dungeon is hard, and because I'm bad, it's doubly hard. Can barely survive the first run. It's great.
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Espilae posted:Nethack That was amazing. Thank you.  ADOM Ultra-Ending Attempts Episode 4
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Zoig posted:Yeah, don't use the two button combos for items in Necrodancer, since you can rebind those to a actual key if you are stuck with a keyboard. It might take some time to get used to, but its 100% reliable and you are less likely to do stuff like mix up up left and up right. You guys are a bunch of babies. I'm up to doing all worlds runs with the last few characters in my own personal playtime (updates sometime!) and I've been using bombs, war dums, and every other button combo just fine by being a super cool dude with the arrow keys. The game is crushingly difficult, embrace it, take off the crutches of babbys.
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Wafflecopper posted:That was amazing. Thank you. Treasure Hunter makes it so that when a monster doesn't drop an item on death, there's a 12.5% chance that it drops an item anyway. finally playing a non-Treasure Hunter character after going TH exclusively was a real pain, it took farming the BDC to get a single scroll of danger. Treasure Hunter for life.
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This time it isn't an abortion! NETHACK 4: Run 2, Level 1 - This goddamn dog is the worst By the way guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm getting confident now as I work out the controls, but that only makes me more nervous there's some kind of fuckery just around the corner. Autisanal Cheese fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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If it's any comfort some of the completely awful things that could happen have been removed.or give you warnings.
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Espilae posted:Uh, well, I did it. It, uh, didn't go too well the first time round (surprise, surprise) Feel free to keep crossposting here; I'll throw a link to your thread into the OP. However, I won't be enforcing the spoiler-free thing here due to other people playing/explaining/discussing Nethack for other LPs, so have some caution if you want to stay blind. Also, this is great
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uPen posted:It's a lot easier than Nethack with no spoilers. To be fair, Nethack comes with an easy mode you can use to learn the game (Explore Mode) if you're ok with not getting on the high score list. Something that a lot of modern roguelikes actually don't have -- Dredmor lets you disable permadeath, and ToME4 has an Explore Mode for donators, but I can't think of any others offhand. bathroomrage posted:drat right, game even has a mode for using a dance pad. What exactly does that mode do? I tried it out (on the keyboard, since my pads are still in storage) and all it seemed to do was start me with more gear.
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ToxicFrog posted:To be fair, Nethack comes with an easy mode you can use to learn the game (Explore Mode) if you're ok with not getting on the high score list. Something that a lot of modern roguelikes actually don't have -- Dredmor lets you disable permadeath, and ToME4 has an Explore Mode for donators, but I can't think of any others offhand. Crawl has wizard mode, which is basically the same thing.
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Brogue has a mode that makes you take -80% damage, but also earn -90% score. Also, the Carebear posts/thread is the best thing. That amulet of ESP was pretty lucky, considering that like half the amulets (which are pretty rare in the first place) are generated cursed, and at least one will just outright kill you.
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ToxicFrog posted:To be fair, Nethack comes with an easy mode you can use to learn the game (Explore Mode) if you're ok with not getting on the high score list. Something that a lot of modern roguelikes actually don't have -- Dredmor lets you disable permadeath, and ToME4 has an Explore Mode for donators, but I can't think of any others offhand. It makes the game easier and makes the beats more forgiving. Espilae posted:This time it isn't an abortion! Please never stop. I was wrong in telling you to try Crawl first.
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ToxicFrog posted:To be fair, Nethack comes with an easy mode you can use to learn the game (Explore Mode) if you're ok with not getting on the high score list. Something that a lot of modern roguelikes actually don't have -- Dredmor lets you disable permadeath, and ToME4 has an Explore Mode for donators, but I can't think of any others offhand. ADOM is supposed to have exploration mode when it comes out on Steam too. Which I guess means that the paid-backer version probably also has it.
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Angband's had some cheats for years, including a cheat to ignore death (which just revives you on the spot) and one to know exactly what every single monster can do. Honestly that one should probably be turned on by default, since there are monsters that can kill you dead from full HP in one action if you don't know what you're doing, and learning what they are by dying to each one once is not a fun way to play.
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Brogue has a mode that makes you take -80% damage, but also earn -90% score. AHAHAHA I missed that. I was waiting for an Amulet of Strangulation but when that didn't happen I didn't bother to check for any other signs. He's also already got an iron helmet, so no falling rock insta-deaths. I'm waiting for him to learn how to force-attack so he can kill the dog and take that massive luck penalty. I'm also wondering if he'll try to eat the next rat he kills, since the dog ate it last time and was fine. If he does it might actually prove that a certain Nethack mechanic can actually be learned from something other than spoilers. Wow, this looks like a CIA document. Redacted
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Espilae posted:This time it isn't an abortion! This is exactly what I wanted. The first run was magical. Also the caution around the zombie was interesting! Zombies are pretty harmless in Nethack4, but in Grunthack they're potentially instadeath. Edit: Pretty minor but added spoiler tags just in case. Princey fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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Mzbundifund posted:Joe Moppin' goes out on the town and finds mops, mittens, and mildew in: What happened there, anyway? Is a moose not coded as an animal?
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It's coded as an animal but fairly territorial and ornery. It has no qualms about coming up to you and trampling you dead if it wants to.
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Sage Grimm posted:It's coded as an animal but fairly territorial and ornery. It has no qualms about coming up to you and trampling you dead if it wants to. It is pretty amusing to be see a horde of zombies taken out by a moose that really wants to kill you though.
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Sage Grimm posted:It's coded as an animal but fairly territorial and ornery. And by "fairly territorial" s/he practically means line of sight. I kid, but while moose are jerks though, thank heavens there's no gaggles of Canadian geese.
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Sage Grimm posted:It's coded as an animal but fairly territorial and ornery. It has no qualms about coming up to you and trampling you dead if it wants to. This sounds like what I've heard of moose. I live in the northeast of the States. Driver's ed told me not to stop near moose on the road because they can and will jump on your car and kill you. Oh, and the moose my aunt and uncle got a decade ago tried to charge them after the first two shots didn't kill it. Basically, moose don't mess around. They fit right into a roguelike.
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