Unormal posted:

BetterLekNextTime posted:

When can I buy this?

Unormal posted:

I dunno, next summer maybe. I'll be starting to roll out internal friends and family Testflight like next week though. Don't spam the poor roguelike thread for it though. I'll probably put out asks in the Caves of Qud thread or @unormal on twitter occasionally for new inductions.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

See I can't stand that. I like games that hold up to being played even after they've been completely documented and mapped out and studied with nearly academic rigor, and you can't tell if you're playing that kind of game until after the fact.

Klaus Kinski posted:

My last run ended 1 day from the border because ???/jason ran out of people to kill, got bored and hosed off (character spoiler), a++ would recruit again.

Unormal posted:

Unormal posted:

I dunno, next summer maybe. I'll be starting to roll out internal friends and family Testflight like next week though. Don't spam the poor roguelike thread for it though. I'll probably put out asks in the Caves of Qud thread or @unormal on twitter occasionally for new inductions.

Cephalocidal posted:

I bought a lovely 10-key dongle for my surface book so I could crack at it, but if I could just pop off the tablet and play direct that'd be even better.

Cerepol posted:

Is it possible to do UI modding on the workshop?

Unormal posted:

Flip on all the overlay UI toggles in options, it's totally playable via touch; though some of the UI isn't fully converted yet and needs the directional overlay buttons to navigate.


No, not really at the moment. The UI is all Unity side and isn't particularly easy to expose to modders. Might be possible before release, though.

Cephalocidal posted:

Oh nice, title screen change and everything.

Edit: Nope, still too rough for my tastes. Might have issues with the 10-input screen.

Unormal posted:

I still have a year of work left on it at least, so it's still super rough around the edges. It's fully playable now, but that's as high as the bar is so far.

Klaus Kinski posted:

Chainsaw may cost fuel but it's great for plowing your way to the exit during a siege.

Sacrificial Toast posted:

I got the chainsaw, took it into a siege full of fuel, and tried to start it like 20 times unsuccessfully, then died because I had really expected it to do something for me.

Dr. Dos posted:

Any idea if the talks at that Roguelike Club event are going to be recorded? I tweeted at the organizer but haven't gotten a response. I want to hear nearly every talk there.

Angry Diplomat posted:

I think I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again: in DRtC, the Canadian border is an absolute nightmarish clusterfuck of repeated sieges - if you're tough enough to get there you might be tough enough to break through, but you will want a loving massive stockpile of bullets and some very fit survivors. I strongly recommend a survivor with a good shotgun and a high firearms skill, as the combination of the two lets you frantically chew up massive amounts of zombies in a real hurry, which you're definitely going to need to do at least once before the end. Also make sure everyone has a decent, non-breakable melee weapon that they can swing fast and that won't tire them out quickly. Aluminum bats are great because they almost always cause knockdown, aren't enormously heavy, and never break. Sledgehammers are horrifyingly good on a survivor with max or almost-max Strength and Fitness, but on basically anyone else they're practically a death sentence thanks to their weight and exhaustion. But if you do have a swolebeast fitness demon, holy gently caress, a sledge will let you knock down mobs of zombies like Sauron at the start of the LotR movies.

I think there are three or four giant sieges in a row, with one or two opportunities to patch wounds and stock up on ammo in between. The final battle is a little unclear; once you see the Canadian border itself (not the bridge, the actual land border, it's pretty unmistakable), plant your feet directly on it and stand your ground. Your Canadian friends at the border will help you fight, but you'll still have to slug it out with a pretty huge horde for a short time before the winds of fortune turn in your favour. Once it happens - and you'll instantly know what "it" is, I'm not going to spoil it because holy poo poo - just pick off any zombies that come your way and watch as the rest evaporate into a fine red mist. Congratulations, you've won.

That unexpected cameo at the very end though.


Some of the unique characters are pretty hilarious. Almost all of them have some kind of hidden drawback in exchange for being really powerful; the ren faire fencer lady is deadly as gently caress with her rapier and can fight practically forever, but she yells her fool head off the whole time and riles up the zombies. Probably the nastiest unique-character drawbacks are the one you discovered, The Last Bodybuilder being unable to attack because he just grunts and flexes at the zombies instead, and that one anime magical girl who becomes more and more anime before finally exploding without warning, instantly dying and dealing severe damage to your entire party.

Floodkiller posted:

Bought Death Road to Canada based on the commentary going on here, and I'm enjoying it so far. Made it 3 days out from Canada with one person out of four surviving a siege gone wrong, where I got myself backed into a corner and ran out of ammo on everyone. My last guy limps to the car, starts driving, then finds out that a bee flew in. He swats at it, gets stung, and dies

Big Sean posted:

God the anime girl is such a monster though. I've been trying to get through either of the extreme modes and getting her as your first party member when playing rare extreme is just like easy mode for the next few fights until you have to give her up. Still trying to figure out what her exact timer is though.

Dr. Dos posted:

Any idea if the talks at that Roguelike Club event are going to be recorded? I tweeted at the organizer but haven't gotten a response. I want to hear nearly every talk there.

enigma74 posted:

Did you hold the attack button? It has a windup time of a second or so.

Floodkiller posted:

Bought Death Road to Canada based on the commentary going on here, and I'm enjoying it so far. Made it 3 days out from Canada with one person out of four surviving a siege gone wrong, where I got myself backed into a corner and ran out of ammo on everyone. My last guy limps to the car, starts driving, then finds out that a bee flew in. He swats at it, gets stung, and dies

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I keep wanting to pick up DRtC more and more based on posts in this thread. So good job, roguelike thread, you're selling me more games.

Dr. Dos posted:

Any idea if the talks at that Roguelike Club event are going to be recorded? I tweeted at the organizer but haven't gotten a response. I want to hear nearly every talk there.

ExiledTinkerer posted:

I believe so, @KawaiiDragoness on twitter is apparently going to be helming some sort of stream channel on twitch for this purpose whose exact name escapes me.

Unormal posted:

I will say it's very strange to be travelling twice in as many months to international rougelike events. What the heck, future.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I've played 4 hours so far by Steam's clock; in that time I've completed two runs successfully (beating the boss on level 5, but the game makes it quite clear that there's more game to be unlocked) and died 7 times. Like most Arcen games, it has potential but is flawed. It's basically a twin-stick shooter / bullet hell / Binding of Isaac game. Unusually, it gives you a free hit in each room (your shield, which recharges between rooms), and you can actually upgrade that to 2 hits per room, which should be a hint as to how often you end up getting hit despite your best efforts. Whether that's down to bad skill, bad luck with enemy spawns, bad level design, or bad graphical design is hard to say. I will say that while I rarely found myself saying "what hit me?", the game gives me a headache after even moderately extended play. It's very shiny.

In short, I like it so far, but I can't play it for very long and I've been known to make bad decisions. But at $6 for the game (on sale), and I've gotten 4 hours of fun out of it? That's worthwhile in my book. The people in this thread who demand unlimited replayability from every game they buy would probably be disappointed though.

Biggest pet peeve: slow-firing weapons are vastly worse than fast-firing ones even with nominally-identical DPS due to how shot-blocking works and how tricky it is to aim precisely using an analog stick (maybe I'd be better off with keyboard+mouse, but dammit it's a twin-stick shooter). And new weapons are sufficiently rare that if you accidentally grab a bad weapon and then leave the level (so you can't backtrack to grab the old one), you can basically screw over the entire run.

If you do buy the game, the flamethrower mech, which starts with two shield layers and a very useful secondary weapon (as well as a fast-firing flamethrower, of course), is probably the easiest to start with. Look out for the sacrifice room item that gives you 50 energy per enemy kill, which is AFAICT The Best Item In The Game because it lets you spam secondaries with wild abandon. Normally their ammo is only replenished between rooms (like with the shield) and the flamethrower mech can therefore normally only fire its secondary once per room.

EDIT: re: backtracking, you have a sprint button that lets you blitz through rooms in a second or two. This is miles better than indie darling Binding of Isaac. I'll accept that hitboxes aren't super-clear, but at least on Normal I haven't had any trouble distinguishing between gaps I can fit through and ones that I can't.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Shiren's in third place.

Floodkiller posted:

According to the Steam thread, it's likely because the two games ahead of it don't have English translations yet.

doctorfrog posted:

https://twitter.com/SpikeChunsoft_e/status/761087936037130241