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cheetah7071 posted:FR: a visual indicator of brands on weapons. Like a little red circle on the weapon if its fire or something It's been suggested (I know one of the our beloved tiles devs was talking about it a while back), but it'd be quite a lot of work, and very tricky to make it noticeable. Difficult UI problem!
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Angry Lobster posted:Someone knows any good LP for beginners? This game is kicking my rear end like crazy. There are some links in the OP of the Roguelike Megathread, which range from semi-recent to pretty old. They are good if you are just looking for generic advice on what to do. Don't look too deep for specifics, though, since Crawl has had at least a full version or more since many of those LPs, so some advice won't apply well (the one I contributed was during the development of 0.15 and still had item destruction, for reference) That, and some of the advice you could glean from them is terrible advice: Not Floodkiller posted:Against popular opinion and common sense, I've had luck on Formicid Fighters with dumping my early experience into Shields rather than the weapon skills
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Dec 16, 2015 17:00
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Internet Kraken posted:Same reason the first enemy you encounter can be a goblin that stabs you with an electric dagger for an OHKO; RNG. It really is funny. I typically do not have a lot of problem surviving the really early game. My deaths all occur after I've discovered Lair, Orcish Mines, etc., and then get tired of retreating from poo poo. My most recent death is a perfect example - a Level 11 Vampire Unamed Combat Monk (Makhleb). I went down a stairs, and was immediately next to a sleeping 4 headed Hydra. I obviously should have peaced the gently caress out and went back up the stairs. Or consumed at least some potions to buff up. Instead, I figured, "I'll just whap this fucker a bunch of times." What a surprise, I died. (Also, I am a big time potion hoarder. For some reason, I cannot use potions of might, agility, etc. I'm always saving them for that "bigger" fight that I'm sure is coming down the road where I'll need them. And dying in the meantime.)
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SlyFrog posted:(Also, I am a big time potion hoarder. For some reason, I cannot use potions of might, agility, etc. I'm always saving them for that "bigger" fight that I'm sure is coming down the road where I'll need them. And dying in the meantime.) I save potions of might for fighting player ghosts or particularly tough uniques. I don't think I use potions of agility at all, except when quaff-IDing.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:46
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Crawl gets a lot easier once you internalize "better to use it and not need it than need it and not use it" Also re: enemies with dangerous brands, they do get announced when you first spot them these days and if you decide to fight them anyway that's on you. Running is always an option  Also the main way I've gotten better at crawl is by spectating people and asking questions, for the most part this community is pretty chill. I'm always happy to have newbies watch/go spectate people 
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Dec 16, 2015 17:56
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I play better with an audience because if someone is watching I'm a lot less likely to just otab until I find something interesting.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:59
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I pretty much always quaff agility if I'm buffing up to fight a scary unique, because it generally grants a non-zero amount of EV and thus a non-zero chance of negating at least one potentially very nasty attack.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:16
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Thanks for the advice, will watch some of the old lp's and try to get online and spectate people. Also, just finished my last run, I got to the orcish mines (first time!) with a minotaur berzerker, was doing great, killing everything with little effort, antimagical great axe, +4 plate mail and nearly full piety, suddenly, I met an rear end in a top hat called Rupert, who confused me and kicked my rear end. drat my overconfidence 
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Dec 16, 2015 18:17
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The stable release of 0.17 (i.e. not trunk) doesn't have the Amulet changes in it right so I know to avoid playing Trunk
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Dec 16, 2015 18:22
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there's no reason to avoid trunk unless you're really really salty about rmut being gone. there have been a lot of interesting changes other than Lets Get Mad About Amulets in trunk
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Dec 16, 2015 18:27
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I'm going to stay salty about rMut being gone until how mutations work changes too, yes.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:30
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The stable release of 0.17 (i.e. not trunk) doesn't have the Amulet changes in it right so I know to avoid playing Trunk yeah, .17 is the one used in the recent tournament and it doesn't have pakellas/2 floor orc/amulet changes etc
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stay depressed posted:there's no reason to avoid trunk unless you're really really salty about rmut being gone. there have been a lot of interesting changes other than Lets Get Mad About Amulets in trunk You can just play the version you prefer without being mad at trunk, I don't see why it *has* to be extreme like that. I do legitimately feel that removing rMut without fixing malmutate seems like a backwards change, and I have more fun in a crawl with current malmutate and rMut around. E: Removing clarity without changing confusion first also seems backwards to me, but I would play a version with this change regardless apple fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Dec 16, 2015 18:33
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Angry Lobster posted:suddenly, I met an rear end in a top hat called Rupert, who confused me and kicked my rear end. drat my overconfidence Rupert is extremely hardcore if you don't have really good MR. He hits hard, can berserk, and uses angry screaming-based magic to confuse or paralyze you, which can be an outright death sentence if he's right up next to you and goes berserk. Don't fight Rupert unless you know for drat sure that you can kill him handily. He's a great candidate for curare needles and/or powerful wands, if you have any.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:35
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How on earth do I play the tiles version windowed? The only answer I've found says to edit the init.txt, but there aren't really any options to change in the init.txt that have to do with full screen. This really doesn't seem like a feature that needs to be buried this deep.
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Dec 16, 2015 19:16
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Just put these wherever. Adjust height and width to your desired dimensions:code:
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stay depressed posted:there's no reason to avoid trunk unless you're really really salty about rmut being gone. there have been a lot of interesting changes other than Lets Get Mad About Amulets in trunk Someone Awful! posted:yeah, .17 is the one used in the recent tournament and it doesn't have pakellas/2 floor orc/amulet changes etc Pakellas is a good change. Everything else I don't like.
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Dec 16, 2015 19:28
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FireSight posted:I save potions of might for fighting player ghosts or particularly tough uniques. I don't think I use potions of agility at all, except when quaff-IDing. Agility is great, you should use it!
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Dec 16, 2015 19:34
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I would say FR: Salt god that lets you ignore irresistible confusion and malmutate, but they already exist 
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Is there a button to rest until healed? The ? menu lists it as numpad 5 but that just waits a single turn for me. I know this is late, but just push 5 (i.e. not the one on the numpad).
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Speleothing posted:Pakellas is a good change. Everything else I don't like. 2 floor orc is Really Good™ imo
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Floodkiller posted:I would say FR: Salt god that lets you ignore irresistible confusion and malmutate, but they already exist He's even an actual salt god. I should play another Zin game and turn the entirety of pan/hell into salt.
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Dec 16, 2015 19:51
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I always feel like doing Spider with Zin is a complete clusterfuck. Like, he used to give sustenance and rPois but even with that it would be super annoying having to use that ability so much and tanking piety. Plus it was just to stay alive. I don't think you can recite at spiders... can you? Like Zin is great early on but when you get Swamp and especially Spider, it's borderline useless. Am i missing something maybe?
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stay depressed posted:2 floor orc is Really Good™ imo fewer chances for non orc-4 shops, no naturally spawning generic Orcs. as a person who often does orc before lair, ugh.  Humans Among Us posted:I always feel like doing Spider with Zin is a complete clusterfuck. Like, he used to give sustenance and rPois but even with that it would be super annoying having to use that ability so much and tanking piety. Plus it was just to stay alive. I don't think you can recite at spiders... can you? yeah, in spider and to a lesser extent Swamp he's kind of a pain in the butt due to the lack of intelligent creatures you can recite at. Is why I always end up swapping to Zin for end/postgame rather than running him from the start
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Humans Among Us posted:I always feel like doing Spider with Zin is a complete clusterfuck. Like, he used to give sustenance and rPois but even with that it would be super annoying having to use that ability so much and tanking piety. Plus it was just to stay alive. I don't think you can recite at spiders... can you? Could always swap to tso or ely for those sections if you wanted a (slightly) easier time. Might not help a ton, but it is an option.
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Guess i could try running Xom for muts, lock them in with Zin, do orc and d10-15 with Zin and then go TSO for the remaining Lair and Branches or something... (lol)
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Fhqwhgads posted:I play better with an audience because if someone is watching I'm a lot less likely to just otab until I find something interesting. I'm the reverse personally. I try to avoid boring spectators and rush through the game until I find something interesting, which almost invariably gets me killed.
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PleasingFungus posted:It's been suggested (I know one of the our beloved tiles devs was talking about it a while back), but it'd be quite a lot of work, and very tricky to make it noticeable. Difficult UI problem! Would it be possible to put a colored outline around the tile of significant normal enemies? Any enemy that's way out of depth (pings as deadly when inspected) or that is carrying a branded weapon could stand to be highlighted. Would be nice to have as a toggle, especially when wandering into a new area and trying to assess threats.
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Dirk the Average posted:Would it be possible to put a colored outline around the tile of significant normal enemies? Any enemy that's way out of depth (pings as deadly when inspected) or that is carrying a branded weapon could stand to be highlighted. Would be nice to have as a toggle, especially when wandering into a new area and trying to assess threats. OOD enemies are already colored (grey, white, yellow, red) in the visible enemies part of the screen on webtiles/offline tiles. And Enchanted weapons are already visible on enemies by showing a different weapon picture (at least in the early game when it's that much more important to not get caught up against elec/distort/chaos). I think we're getting a bit overkill on the visual indicators here. x - v answers all those questions for you.
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Another protip: Ctrl+X brings up everything visible (with basic description) in a menu, and you can even use it to locate where each visible thing is on the screen!
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PleasingFungus posted:It's been suggested (I know one of the our beloved tiles devs was talking about it a while back), but it'd be quite a lot of work, and very tricky to make it noticeable. Difficult UI problem! Maybe you could just highlight the tile of the monster to be surrounded by a glow if they have a branded weapon equipped? Like a goblin wielding a dagger glows blue for electricity, purple for distortion, green for poison, and so on. Would make picking them out of a crowd a lot easier without being a huge visual change.
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I like the idea that you have to be stabbed in order to know what you've been stabbed with. i.e. the system we have now
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Humans Among Us posted:I like the idea that you have to be stabbed in order to know what you've been stabbed with. it hasn't been that way since like .15 or something though; it always clearly says "is holding a <x> of <brand>" when they first come into view or when you x-look at them
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No i'm actually fairly sure it says 'A goblin wielding an enchanted dagger' and the change was that it says it is enchanted instead of just 'wielding a dagger' E: otherwise lol @ me
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Humans Among Us posted:No i'm actually fairly sure it says 'A goblin wielding an enchanted dagger' and the change was that it says it is enchanted instead of just 'wielding a dagger' if it says "enchanted" it means that it has either a + or a - but not a brand
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Hehe, i'm in lair atm and nobody is wielding daggers, now im curious tho E: Oh hey btw guess what, Hat of the Alchemist still has rMut on it 
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Dec 16, 2015 22:39
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It always told you if a weapon was enchanted. It just didn't say if it was a +/- enchantment or an actual brand. There was a small group of players that argued distortion was fine because you could examine each individual enemy to see if they had a glowing weapon, and if they did you must always assume it was distortion and play accordingly. Because that was a fun thing people totally did for the entire game, right???
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Dec 16, 2015 22:40
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Blork the orc comes into view. He is wielding a dire flail of crushing. it tells you the brand
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Ok apologies, perhaps it's time to get my eyes checked or something 
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