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Gem chat: it seems like 30 is the maximum guild size, so Gem Boys is finally full! I'll boot inactive players that don't play for over 14 days.
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Yeah, I uninstalled heavenstrike and bought FFTactics screw IAP and very heavy RNG. I'd prefer Disgaea, but no dice except ancient emulator stuff. I'll report on chess hack tomorrow , but for now hearthstone it is. I drunkenly spent more on it than any game, so I guess I'm in it for the long haul. It's not too bad.
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Paladinus posted:It's stupid but fun. You can check it in your browser. *closes tab*
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I've been playing loads of mazebert td, but I'm getting burnt out on how long rounds can last, especially combined with how reliant you are on the rng to keep your carry strong. Any other good td games that are similar (fewer towers, predetermined creep lanes)? I don't mind paying, I'm flush with survey credit.
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field balm posted:I've been playing loads of mazebert td, but I'm getting burnt out on how long rounds can last, especially combined with how reliant you are on the rng to keep your carry strong. To me the gold standard is Bloons
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I really like Kingdom Rush but I think they're the only TD games in years with no fast forward button so I vote Bloons as well.
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FadedReality posted:I really like Kingdom Rush but I think they're the only TD games in years with no fast forward button so I vote Bloons as well. It also won't save your progress if the app loses focus (i.e., you exit out and open another app). And it forces you to listen to its music. Drove me nuts.
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Lowness 72 posted:It also won't save your progress if the app loses focus (i.e., you exit out and open another app). And it forces you to listen to its music. Drove me nuts. Yeah there's nothing like spending 10 minutes on a level then getting a phone call, losing focus and losing all progress. Also yeah the music thing is kind of dumb.
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Lowness 72 posted:To me the gold standard is Bloons
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Aug 9, 2015 04:33
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Anomaly Defenders and OTTTD are pretty decent. You'll need a fairly powerful device however.
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Aug 9, 2015 04:35
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Mazebert has a time scepter or something you can equip on a tower to speed up time, and it's something you can eventually use as a starting perk. Yeah, it's kinda dumb.
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Aug 9, 2015 06:54
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Gem chat: That loving rear end in a top hat lion! Its power is so straightforward (deal damage and gain life) that the AI is good at using it and goes for it constantly. Most of the time I still beat the team with the lion in it, but it may still take forever.
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Antti posted:Gem chat: That loving rear end in a top hat lion! Its power is so straightforward (deal damage and gain life) that the AI is good at using it and goes for it constantly. Most of the time I still beat the team with the lion in it, but it may still take forever. Honestly that is my primary Lady sapphira usage. Eat pure damage you armor gaining rear end in a top hat. Course you have to kill like 5-7 lions to get her for free so 
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Aug 9, 2015 09:02
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Toshimo posted:Have you tried Arena yet? It's your ticket to infinite gold/souls/trophies. You should be able to get 8 wins every time. Really? I must suck at it or be really unlucky at getting a decent team with some synergy because I can barely scrape past 2/3 each time.
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Ragingsheep posted:Really? I must suck at it or be really unlucky at getting a decent team with some synergy because I can barely scrape past 2/3 each time. Gems of War arena infoburp: I've found the best luck with going for straight/cheap hitters (targetting is a bonus) and taking out threat cards straight away - this usually means the glass cannon in position 3 (or the rock worm, dear lord the rock worm). Once you've made your picks, it's best to exit out of the arena with the cross button and pick a new home kingdom to make the most of your mana (I.E. if your main hitter is a certain colour, or something is 8 mana to activate, pick a colour or two to get bonus mana on, for example if I've scooped up an rockworm and equip a black dagger I'll choose broken spire so both can activate on two matches instead of three). You can exit out of arena ONCE PICKING IS COMPLETE (never do it mid way or it'll pick for you) without penalty; just pick Arena and you'll be returned to where you were. Changing kingdoms costs 50g, but it's worth it to give you a better shot at the 1500g. Obviously try and cover your colours well (if you don't have a generator) by making use of your weapon swap. I like to use either the black dagger with a blue bonus, or the spellbook without a bonus so I can fill up other creatures on demand. Don't discount a boosted crude club either - every match being a +5 punch in the face for their leader is nice and handy if you'd like to hand them turns matching colours they don't have and chip away at their leader. Usually it's best to chuck your hero in first place as he's usually the best at eating damage and not being that important, unless you have a legendary weapon or other ideas, in which case you don't need to read this anyway. Here are some quick lists (shamelessly stolen from some chap on their forums here) to help with arena and kingdom selection: Top Common Picks • Goblin - nb: no need to boost green if this guy is your first pick. • Reaver • Rock Worm - nb: you shoud boost brown if you're using this one, can pick another brown/other colour if you're feeling frisky • Satyr • Pride Hunter Top Rare Picks • Boar Rider • Frost Giant • Owlbear • Vampire Lord • Warlock • Wolf Knight Top Ultra Picks • Herd Master • Grave Knight • Sacred Guardian • Blade Dancer Mid Common Picks • Centaur Scout • Musketeer • Scale Guard *Becomes top tier when paired with poison spreading troops, ability will do 12 damage for 7 cost* • Skeleton • Golem • Warhound • Lance Knight Mid Rare Picks • Alchemist • Banshee • Bombardier • Dark Maiden * Top tier when paired with Scale Guard* • Dwarf Lord • Deep Borer • Valkyrie • Archon Statue *Top tier after taking 1 point of health damage, deals 13 damage* • Paladin *Becomes low tier after losing some armor, use at your own risk* • Templar • Goblin Shaman * Top tier if common draft was Goblin, Satyr, Reaver or you want to use a green hero weapon* • Night Terror • Wight • Griffon Knight • Sabertooth Lion * Top tier after first ability kill* Mid Ultra Picks • Blast Cannon • Flame Cannon • Stone Giant • Ancient Horror • Treant • Spider Queen • War Sphinx • Knight Corronet Worst Common Picks • Fortress Gate • Ogre • Ghoul • Zombie • Dwarven Miner • Priestess • Glade Warden • Peasent • Serpent *Can be mid tier when paired with a rare/ultra red user or hero weapon* Worst Rare Picks • Steam Turret • Rhynax • Ettin • Pegasus • Star gazer • Acolyte • Mist Stalker • Poison Master *Mid tier when paired with Scale Guard* • Nymph • Siren • Rex Warrior • Dryad • Hippogryph *Mid tier with Flesh Golem or Chimera, still a risky pick* • Revenant Worst Ultra Picks • Black Beast • Berserker • Lamia • Flesh Golem *Mid tier with Hippogryph* • Chimera * Mid tier with Hippogryph or Scale Guard* Kingdom Bonus List Adana: Yellow/Red Broken Tower: Blue/Brown Dominion Fields: Purple/Yellow Forest of Thorns: Green Ghulvania : Red/Purple Karakoth: Purple Khaziel: Brown Khetar: Purple/Blue Mist of Scales: Blue/Red Pan’s Vale: Yellow/Green Pridelands: Red Swords Edge: Blue/Yellow Whitehelm: Yellow Zaejin: Green/Brown Zul’Kari: Purple/Green nb I think the list is missing Dire Wolf and Druid - the former is a pain in the arse to fit into a team and therefore is a situational 'mid' for me, and the latter is a pain in the arse to fight AGAINST but does good damage and so is top/mid. Salt n Reba McEntire fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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mrkillboy posted:Ubisoft's cutesy Robin Hood RPG/village builder Little Raiders: Robin's Revenge has quietly poppd up on the Play Store about a year after its iOS release.
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Moogle posted:Gems of War arena infoburp: Thanks for this. I didn't consider doing this before but the bonus from changing makes a big difference.
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Gems: Anyone got a good PvP deck with no non-story epics/legends that I can use to farm up Rank 1 real quick at the beginning of the week?
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Also Im surpised druid is not on the top of your list. 12-16 damage without any requirements to fill is really strong. Usually just my hero and druid is enough to wreck arena teams. Also for the love of god do not use rock worm if your opponent has a rock worm until they use their ability first. The first skill is unlikely to chain where as the second skill is very likely to chain. I took about 5 uses in a row to learn that lesson. But you can realible get 3-4 uses if you let them almost fill the screen.
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Toshimo posted:Gems: Anyone got a good PvP deck with no non-story epics/legends that I can use to farm up Rank 1 real quick at the beginning of the week? Valkyrie, Griffon Knight, goblin/boar rider , and anything else that you lack colors of you want. Change the board back and forth forever. Edit : oops there was a bit more overlap than i thought Edit: alternative team Lau, tyri/any board control, skeleton, goblin/boar rider/archon statue/whatever. Get big and hit hard. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Toshimo posted:Gems: Anyone got a good PvP deck with no non-story epics/legends that I can use to farm up Rank 1 real quick at the beginning of the week? Lady Saphirra - Whitehelm W/B A very strong carry that does true damage and boosts her attack and health. Atlanta - Divinion Plains Y/P Massive team damage, but expensive to charge. High attack if Saphirra gets knocked out. Raven - Mist of Scales R/U 10 damage, and returns 9 mana if it does a killing blow. This is my team with the addition of Barbearius, but he was a special reward from a weekly event. Fill in with your hero with a green weapon, and you'll do fine. Make Whitehelm your kingdom to boost yellow mana and ride Saphirra to victory. This isn't the only combination that will work, but the required kingdoms are close to the starting point, so its an easy team for new players to get. Barbearius on red/green is a great mana generator for Saphirra, since his damage is boosted by destroying brown gems. If you have an Alchemist (R/B) you can use his ability to generate lots of yellow too. Adana is a good kingdom as well.
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Shwqa posted:Also Im surpised druid is not on the top of your list. 12-16 damage without any requirements to fill is really strong. Usually just my hero and druid is enough to wreck arena teams. Yeah, I put a note at the bottom that a couple of cards were missing - presumably those most recently added like Druid and Dire Wolf. I put it as top/mid - the damage is bloody strong, but the random nature coupled with the cost doesn't give me a reliable way of putting a threat card down quickly. It is a pain in the tits to be against though  On the subject of teams, I've had a lot of fun in pvp with my cheap team of lame arses - I'm using a hero with either black dagger, deepstone or the tome of wizardry, a wolf knight, a dark maiden and either a tyri or a serpent (dictating which hero weapon to use) and broken spire as home. It's a really cheap team with no legendaries and provided you can get the poison out quickly and match carefully / use your explodes and removal carefully the wolf knight will cheerfully rip apart their fancy pants leg-end cards before they can fart skulls everywhere. I've won the majority of my pvp matches with it (rank 1 with a couple of losses, one against a double druid team and some astoundingly tosspot cascades) and it's fun to carefully plan your moves with the removal and exploders. Salt n Reba McEntire fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Just coming in on Angry Birds 2: I'm not surprised at the lives, gems, and other IAP poo poo. I expected it, and I can lube with it. However, the semi-randomised levels, coupled with the fact that the birds are far more specialised, has already stopped me playing. Player skill can be completely negated by the random starting bird selection and role set-ups. It's common for a level to start for instance with a wood and stone tower with a base of ice close to the player and stone on the other side. If your opening hand doesn't have a bluebird and the grey looper, then you may as well quit, because the red guys war cry won't move the base, the yellow gut can't do enough damage to the top, and the egg bomber can't get high enough to stop an egg on it. If you do have a bluebird and a looper, it's an easy level, but if you don't then it's impossible unless you've used a spell. Crap design, which is a shame as the graphics are gorgeous.
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Mourning Due posted:Just coming in on Angry Birds 2: I kinda feel the same way. Also, it runs like rear end on my old loving S4, so no real reason to keep it installed. God I need a new phone. Also, FALLOUT SHELTER THURSDAY!!!
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Fallout Shelter woo!
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Hob_Gadling posted:We made a small game. Mobile gaming is fascinating, and we wanted to take part in it. What better way to dive right in? This looks neat, but the link after joining the beta isn't working to actually download the game. Are you just stealing my personal information to sell to Russian hackers? Because if so, I want a cut.
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New Leaf posted:Also, FALLOUT SHELTER THURSDAY!!! But... it's already out  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vistaconceptsllc.familyfalloutshelter.AOUFMCGRAAAPKNCCI
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:But... it's already out You son of a bitch.
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BobTheJanitor posted:This looks neat, but the link after joining the beta isn't working to actually download the game. Are you just stealing my personal information to sell to Russian hackers? Because if so, I want a cut. That's odd, it worked for me and we've had a bunch of people install the game thus far. Try this link if you've joined already: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakku.chesshack If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll dig deeper into it.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:But... it's already out I thought you were going to link to this one  If the stats are true at least ten thousand people downloaded this loving thing.
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mrkillboy posted:I thought you were going to link to this one OMG!...
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Hob_Gadling posted:That's odd, it worked for me and we've had a bunch of people install the game thus far. Try this link if you've joined already: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakku.chesshack Worked for me. Unfortunately it doesn't run well on my aging GS3, which is somewhat surprising because the graphics aren't too impressive. It has weird scrolling behavior, I end up overshooting by a good amount. Overall it's pretty underwhelming. It doesn't feel like a game. The goal seems to be "keep moving toward these doors on these huge maps", and that's it. Maybe there's more to it if I had played more than a level or two but I was bored enough to quit at that point. Also the scenery was pretty bland. I had a couple ideas to improve it, like making the maps smaller and using fewer, more interesting enemies that are only loosely based on chess, but I think the end result of that would actually turn out to be Crypt of the Necrodancer. So that wouldn't be too helpful. Unless you want to make a clone/pseudoclone of that, I guess, which might not be a bad thing? I thought there was an email to send criticism to on that beta page but I don't see it any more, so sorry if posting it here isn't the desired venue.
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I want in on any goon presence in Gems of War, playing it on the PC cause my tablet is poo poo. Invite code is DEAKUL
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the littlest prince posted:Worked for me. The scrolling problem is known and we're working on it. As for the game, it's strictly limited to chess pieces as a design choice. The only thing you missed were stronger pieces on lower levels. Thank you for your feedback. All of it is welcome, even and especially negative. How otherwise would we know what should be improved?
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I can't wait to see the disappointment in this thread when fallout shelters comes out  It was hilarious to see in the IOS thread how quickly opinions turned against the game. It is a bad game. Edit: holy poo poo this week's gem of war glory reward looks broken as gently caress. 9 mana for explode a gem, half a druid ability, and gain a turn? 
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Moogle posted:Gems of War arena infoburp: I find this strange. With high health and huge damage potential, he clears arena pretty easily by himself. I always take him, and have yet to lose a match when I do. Not that arena is particularly difficult anyway, but still...
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Hob_Gadling posted:That's odd, it worked for me and we've had a bunch of people install the game thus far. Try this link if you've joined already: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakku.chesshack This link did work, thanks. I'm also getting the choppy scrolling issues, on a nexus 6. Looks neat otherwise though, although I don't have much time to mess with it right now since I should be working.
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the littlest prince posted:Worked for me. Unfortunately it doesn't run well on my aging GS3, which is somewhat surprising because the graphics aren't too impressive. It has weird scrolling behavior, I end up overshooting by a good amount. Yeah, this is roughly my experience, too. It runs perfectly fine on my Nexus 5, though. I feel like there needs to be something else there besides 'avoid dying in one hit'.
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Shwqa posted:I can't wait to see the disappointment in this thread when fallout shelters comes out Is this because it falls apart the longer you play, or because actually playing is not as fun as watching Todd Howard talk about it onstage?
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overseer07 posted:I find this strange. With high health and huge damage potential, he clears arena pretty easily by himself. I always take him, and have yet to lose a match when I do. Not that arena is particularly difficult anyway, but still... I like Berserker too. He also pairs up really well with Emperina. Her heal actually heals him to his previous maximum, so the +health bonus effectively stacks per cast.
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