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StrixNebulosa posted:What cliffhanger? IIRC: AI destroys all the corporations, starts killing a lot of people, leaves you hanging. ToxicFrog posted:Apropos of this, I'm feeling kind of burned out on Hades; it's a great game but I've reached the point where I have a bunch more plot that I want to happen but I don't really want to do more runs, especially since a winning run is about an hour long realtime and most of my runs are wins now. Yup this is what happened with me. Every run after a while felt the same, and I still had to beat the game a bunch more if I wanted the "real" ending or the resolution to all the various side-plots. I think I went at it for a bit too long, because it really soured me on the game. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Oh re: Invisible Inc that is the ending, it’s not a cliffhanger?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh re: Invisible Inc that is the ending, it’s not a cliffhanger?
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Apr 10, 2021 21:16
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Broken Cog posted:Eh, guess it depends on how you look at it, I just remember I found it pretty unsatisfying. Though tbf, it's been like 5+ years since I played it last. I mean, it completely changes the status quo and makes the game unplayable from then on as multiple mechanics have to be changed.
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ToxicFrog posted:Apropos of this, I'm feeling kind of burned out on Hades; it's a great game but I've reached the point where I have a bunch more plot that I want to happen but I don't really want to do more runs, especially since a winning run is about an hour long realtime and most of my runs are wins now. Switch to using the Eris aspect rail + Zeus and you can speed up your runs quite a bit. Tho even then it’s still like half an hour for a winning run, so not helping tooooo much. I also eventually got tired of it (possibly before plot ran out? Not sure how much I missed), but that switch gave it a bit more life for me.
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Man Trials of fire is good. Thanks to all who recc'd it in the previous pages.
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One thing I haven't understood yet in Trials of Fire is how much damage does a character need to take in battle to lose health in overworld?
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Jack Trades posted:One thing I haven't understood yet in Trials of Fire is how much damage does a character need to take in battle to lose health in overworld? Your armour provides a buffer of added combat health. One that's gone your real health starts to get affected. I agree there should be better ui for this.
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Osmosisch posted:Your armour provides a buffer of added combat health. One that's gone your real health starts to get affected. I agree there should be better ui for this. Indeed. In battle you can mouseover a character to see his base health (red nr) and armor (yellow nr) if I remember correctly. Damage always lowers armor first.
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Apr 11, 2021 09:25
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StrixNebulosa posted:I mean, it completely changes the status quo and makes the game unplayable from then on as multiple mechanics have to be changed. Yeah, it read to me as a fairly conclusive "oh god what have we done" cyberpunk horror ending - you've gone from a grinding corporate dystopia to the nightmarish reign of a callous synthetic god.
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Walh Hara posted:Indeed. In battle you can mouseover a character to see his base health (red nr) and armor (yellow nr) if I remember correctly. Damage always lowers armor first. That's it. And most of the time, you gain armor by wearing heavy equipment (like helm, shield, armor).
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I completed my first run in Trials of Fire. Am I meant to pick one of the named quests or run a random one again? Is there a continuation to the story?
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Has anyone had the opportunity to try out Quinterra yet? "Roguelike strategy game" isn't a very deep well and I'm intensely curious.
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Hm I am interested but jeez not exactly the most discernible apperance there
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Popete posted:I completed my first run in Trials of Fire. Am I meant to pick one of the named quests or run a random one again? Is there a continuation to the story? You can play what you want. A named quest will always have a similar structure, for instance the same bosses. I think each named quest is independent. There is also the combat run, the boss rush.
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I played a good amount of Slay the Spire, I'm not great at these games but I have a handle on them. I beat my very first run of Trials of Fire pretty easily, like at no point was I ever close to losing. Does the progression scale in anyway? Or do I just need to bump the difficulty up to hard?
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The later quests are supposed to be more difficult. I hope they keep working on the game post 1.0 too - some important gameplay elements were changed a short time ago (and kept changing throughout EA) and I'm sure they're far from balanced atm. The game definitely felt harder in EA whenever I tried it. UI also has some issues. Also, I wish they'd gone with a different art style, maybe even 2D - all the brown just makes it look so boring I'm never excited to launch it despite really liking the actual gameplay. It's just everything else is a bit meh.
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Burning Rain posted:I'm never excited to launch it despite really liking the actual gameplay. It's just everything else is a bit meh. I think the problem is that, as well-designed as the mechanics are, and as perfectly competent the narrative is, there's just nothing there that sticks in my head even when I'm not playing. No wandering thoughts about what kinds of builds might work, or whether a specific combinations of cards is a trap. It doesn't help that Card Hunter has been around since 2013 and, F2P or not, has basically the exact same combat system, including the 'your gear decides your deck' character customization. Gloomhaven does it even better (or will, once the tabletop campaign is finally properly added to the digital edition), including metaprogression and a (kind of) compelling plotline. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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Popete posted:I played a good amount of Slay the Spire, I'm not great at these games but I have a handle on them. I beat my very first run of Trials of Fire pretty easily, like at no point was I ever close to losing. Does the progression scale in anyway? Or do I just need to bump the difficulty up to hard? Yeah, you certainly need to bump the difficulty up to hard. Since you've played STS you're clearly experienced with card and tactical games so it's not that surprising you found it easy. Luckily you can quite easily up the difficulty straight away (unlike say Monster Train).
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Is there a cheat or anything to get all the unlocks? I don't care much about the meta progression and I want more interesting classes.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:Is there a cheat or anything to get all the unlocks? I don't care much about the meta progression and I want more interesting classes. Within the game: Options -> Gameplay -> Unlock Features. No need for a cheat at all.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:Is there a cheat or anything to get all the unlocks? I don't care much about the meta progression and I want more interesting classes. Assuming you try exploring any of the game space you'll unlock the Warlord by playing the game once, the next two classes by playing twice and the remaining three within another game or two. I think it's done a pretty good job of opening things up quickly while avoiding information overload.
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SummonerRL with a nice forward surge on most all fronts: https://nymlus.itch.io/summoner/devlog/241626/summonerrl-v220-released
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Someone recently mentioned a game with procedurally (or randomly) generated skill/talent trees, and that looked interesting to me, but now I can't find the post. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Gerdalti posted:Someone recently mentioned a game with procedurally (or randomly) generated skill/talent trees, and that looked interesting to me, but now I can't find the post. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about but recently Tangledeep released Ronin mode, a mode where all the skills you can learn are randomly generated at the start of a run. IIRC it also includes skills you can't normally get, stuff like monster skills and I think a few skills completely unique to Ronin.
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Gerdalti posted:Someone recently mentioned a game with procedurally (or randomly) generated skill/talent trees, and that looked interesting to me, but now I can't find the post. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Asura was mentioned in a different context so not sure if it's the one you're thinking of, but it does have that: ExiledTinkerer posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/524640/Asura_Vengeance_Edition/ Is Buried Gem Goodness, if eclectic---incredibly "starving, scrappy indie" given the how and where.
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Broken Cog posted:Any interesting roguelikes on the horizon to keep an eye out for? Jupiter Hell and Caves of Qud should be dropping this year, that'll be awesome.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Jupiter Hell and Caves of Qud should be dropping this year, that'll be awesome. Gotta add those two to my wishlist it seems, cheers!
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Glare Seethe posted:Asura was mentioned in a different context so not sure if it's the one you're thinking of, but it does have that: I think it was Asura, thanks!
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Jupiter Hell and Arcanium also joined The Potent Update Club today: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/811320/view/3117029055829277812 Terminals/questing/Proper Exotics/etc~ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1056840/view/3122658555364598383 More...Most Things, than not~ Asura's only Great Flaw is the cliffhanger ending that BEGS for a final Escalation that, alas, may yet not come as their next project isn't yet another expansion for it(lying in graceful repose for awhile now) so much as something of an RPG successor they've been slow simmering on---which could/likely will wind up great if Asura is any indication, but folks'll See as they endeavor...
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Roboquest now also having one of those "Massive, Ground Up Updates" on the heels of the rest of late: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/692890/view/3094511057682338062 Curse of the Dead Gods linking up with Dead Cells shortly and Dandy Ace pulling off a substantial Game Feel update really does have April unusually hopping thus far.
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Hybrid Escalation continues apace~ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1554970/Rogue_Spirit/ quote:Reality and the spirit world are now intertwined: defeat the armies of Chaos to save the people of the Kingdom of Midra from demonic invaders. Even just The Look of this alone compared to somebody even thinking about jousting on this front a mere few years on back is wild.
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ToxicFrog posted:Apropos of this, I'm feeling kind of burned out on Hades; it's a great game but I've reached the point where I have a bunch more plot that I want to happen but I don't really want to do more runs, especially since a winning run is about an hour long realtime and most of my runs are wins now.  (kidding, but it did get a lot more life out of it for me)
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ToxicFrog posted:Apropos of this, I'm feeling kind of burned out on Hades; it's a great game but I've reached the point where I have a bunch more plot that I want to happen but I don't really want to do more runs, especially since a winning run is about an hour long realtime and most of my runs are wins now. what i know the game doesn't count the loading screen animations and interstitial areas towards your in-game run time but at worst that adds a couple of minutes to a ~20 minute run, maybe 25 if you have really tedious heat options like more enemies / more health / first damage ignored what are you doing that takes an hour Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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I was gonna say, my hades runs were basically all 20-30 minutes all the way up to 32 heat
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The Aesthetic Wars rage unto the Not Distant Future, and your spirit is in need of tempering if you don't confuse the titles as is just and proper~ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1323470/GetsuFumaDen_Undying_Moon/
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