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Internet Kraken posted:I think "force_more_message +=" is one of the more useful rcfile additions, since it sometimes stops you from getting yourself in a poo poo situation because you kept mashing tab. Examples of ones I use; Where do I add this for my offline Crawling? These are borderline necessary additions for the tab-obsessed like myself.
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As a melee ant man, how bad is the amulet of air's InAcc malus? Will this kill me?
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Nov 10, 2016 19:34
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Is it observation bias or did something change with the bonuses that can be be generated on randart war axes? For two games in a row each randart war axe I've grabbed has been +10 or +12 with some really minor if any maluses. It's pretty badass.
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Nov 11, 2016 15:48
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What is up with you fools posting incredible randarts lately? Oka and the floor god have blessed with me crap like an artifact +1 chain mail with rPoison. Weapons I've had more luck but nothing ridiculous.
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Nov 15, 2016 16:14
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Darox posted:Gozag corpse gold should always go directly into your pocket. Ever since the change to the gold aura there's been no reason for it to drop on the floor and the game directly pockets any gold that would be lost to deep water/lava, so having to pick up the gold just adds a bit of extra tedium. Scooping up all the gold after every fight is easier than old corpse 'p'urifying but you have to do it for every encounter and it becomes a huge hassle any time something blocks your autoexplore and you don't want to hang around to kill everything like abyss or pan. I like this idea very much.
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Nov 16, 2016 15:37
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Prism posted:I give up. Stair dance, be careful about aggro'ing the whole floor, and be careful about nymphs and sirens and then aquamancers and gladiators and javilineers. The bottom of shoals is only dangerous if you manage to not clean up around the vaults and then get swarmed by the nasty stuff in there and out. Use the pillars or rock walls to your advantage and just pull manageable amounts at a time. Alligator turtles are surprisingly dangerous. Sea snakes will poison the gently caress out of you if you're not careful. Never fight in the water if you don't have to and don't let enemies sit in the water safely either if you can pull them to dry land. Poison cloud fumigates quite nicely. The Shoals loot generally sucks, I can't remember the last time something good showed up there.
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Nov 16, 2016 19:03
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Motherfuck. I had a great merfolk going, steamrolling the midgame. Cornered by Norris. He berserks. That's real bad. I read tele. Quaff some un-IDed potions hoping for agility or something. It's loving lignification and cancels my tele. drat man, how do you get to mid game with un-ID'd pots?
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Nov 23, 2016 22:39
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Fhqwhgads posted:Tempted to lose the amulet for a +5 amulet of reflection. Good idea/Bad idea? I'd still have 2+1 sources of regen and reflect along with rmsl and Ru's "redirection" ? Or stay with 3+1 regen and rmsl/redirect? Reflection is hilariously strong and lets you chew through places like Vaults and Elf and Orc. If you've already got a shitload of regen I'd go for it.
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Nov 25, 2016 17:52
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Araganzar posted:Quote necromancy but I've been radio silent for a while, wanted to say thanks for the team contributions and for showing up in chat a few times, it's nice to have a little sympathy/distraction when you're grinding out a frustrating game. I played really poorly the last half of the tourney thanks to being on a laptop with a 13" screen and no numpad. I just can't make myself use the keys like b and n to move or I hit the wrong one and splat myself running into trouble. I use a hosed up combo of arrow keys, letters, and numbers but the concept of using the numberpad is totally alien to me. Tab + o is the usualy death sentence for me, especially if I get a nice axe. FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Nov 29, 2016 23:06
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Floodkiller posted:Nope, random! I got Frostbite once and it was awesome. And then I died in Vault 5 again like an idiot. Kids, don't disrespect Vault Wardens and their stair lockout ability. Many a great character has been overwhelmed attempting to stairdance.
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Dec 1, 2016 15:49
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Sojenus posted:all i want for christmas is perfectly resistant rMut or removal of malmutate/addition of a playable crab race You could just play an Octopode and pretend you're a crab? Kinda similar?? But malmutate still sucks and half the time I'm gobbling purple chunks and playing mutation roullette just to get rMut and Clarity. Anything else is a bonus.
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Dec 2, 2016 15:26
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Yeah Rupert is a bad dude. I came back after being reminded that I am in fact a formicid, and he still nearly killed me. Had to blink around for a bit until his berserk wore off and I could actually tank him. How... how did you blink around as an Antman??
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Dec 6, 2016 22:32
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:He's an AK - Lugonu still lets you blink around a bit. Ah, didn't realise that AK got to circumvent that rule. Interesting.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:42
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Fitzy Fitz posted:You know.... Gozag followers should buy things straight from him rather than requesting shops. He's always seemed awkward to me, and I think that's what I don't like about him. It could be cool if he were a constantly shuffling merchant in the sky who can bless you with things at a moment's notice if you've got the coin. Man, that's kinda cool. But I suppose the shop creation is a kind of round about way of doing that? Now I have to do another Mummy Gozag run, thanks.
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Dec 8, 2016 15:19
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Chakan posted:Can I ask why Mummy? Scumming abyss and Pan can't be that much more valuable? Oh, unsure about Abyss/Pan aspect of your question but I just like that you don't have to worry about food and because chunks turn into sweet cash that's all profit baby. And you can use potion petition as a way to get stuff that mummies are normally excluded from. But I guess it's cool being immune to torment, something that's super brutal and very prevalent in the late/post-game.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:19
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jerkstoresup posted:
I liked to put them in a weird grid with spaces between each, preferably in a big open room. Kinda fun creating them in a certain pattern.
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Next time I'll put my shops in a neat square I guess.
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Just lost a promising ant-man that was gifted an early electric executioner's axe and had the shield of the gong and four positive mutations and bunch of other good arts to a goddam hydra in the Lair. Tried to tank through it and it still hosed me up. Crawlers take heed: it's not worth it. Just swallow your pride and switch to some lovely fire-branded hand axe or mace or something. FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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apple posted:This sounds almost cartoonishly uncrawl-like, maybe they should just let you dismiss allies on command Yeah like, "excommunicate" or "send to Orc valhalla" or whatever rather than this giant roundabout way to get rid of guys you don't want. But I haven't played an Orc Jesus in forever.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:15
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I just dodged an OoD by using Uskayaw's line pass on it. Where's my Crawl crown? That's pretty cool but have you ever played tennis with Donald when you both have shields of reflection and endlessly bounce an OoD back and forth? I haven't but still...
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Dec 13, 2016 19:07
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I really don't mean to be a whiny dick to the devs. They're doing great work making a fun game, and I know it's all voluntary. I think we're all in the same boat. I love this game and appreciatethe work that goes into it. But sometimes there are changes and decisions that make you wonder why. I'm not angry by any stretch but Crawl is really gaining a reputation as a game that loves to cut things that look really big, while adding lots of little things behind the scenes that most people never get to see. I'm still irritated at the rMut changes, though because those loving sucked FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Dec 14, 2016 22:00
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I'm legit pulling for you E Equals. When you get a badass start like that and avoid death in an early-ish abyssing it's a sign from the floor god that you are destined for great things.
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I like Mummies  They were my first ever 15-rune.Speaking of, I lose another gently caress-off good Ant-man to a Crypt ending that was filled to the brim with monsters from the Tomb. That was fun! Nothing like getting death cursed to hell and back and then having a Greater Mummy summon all his buds around me. I did play poorly because I was in a tab-fugue and wasn't expecting a Greater Mummy to be at the Crypt end but goddam was I frustrated because I hate doing Tomb and what the hell was Tomb doing in my Crypt?
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Dec 21, 2016 15:59
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I thought we had a good idea a while back about malmutate by turning the initial blasts of it into temporary mutations that go away with enough XP a la draining or stat loss but if you got hit with another malmutate when you had enough mutations it would possibly cement them from temporary to permanent. Obviously needs some work fine-tuning it but I thought it was a nice mix of not punishing people for walking into line of sight of a shining eye or having to tank an OoF while reminding you that you have to avoid being repeatedly mutated in one sitting or else these things will stick with you.
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Prism posted:Yeah, I saw that, but almost everyone seems to be focusing on heal wounds despite that. You couldn't acquire helmets before from an Barmour acquisition? Or can you specify what type you're looking for? Actually, now that I think of it it'd be cool to be able to narrow down an acquire request to an armour slot specifically...
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Dec 22, 2016 18:05
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Honest question here that occurred to me during a run regarding the rMut removal: How come rPoison and rCorr exist? Isn't it the same logic that an entire mechanic of the game can be partially mitigated by simple wearing some gear? Correct me if I'm wrong but none of these things guarantee you're totally immune from the effect it just reduces the chance of it triggering, just like rMut did, so why do they persist whereas rMut doesn't? They're all situational tools that you use in certain situations and are necessary for sections of the game and certain branches, just like rMut was necessary for extended. Note: this is not to be construed as a request to eliminate protection from corrosion and poison in way, shape or form.
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Dec 22, 2016 21:17
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How good is the sword of power?
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odiv posted:Skin mutation at lvl7. That would be really cool. What does Pyschoactive do though? Create shadow creatures around any monster that melees you?
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Piece of advice for crawlers new and old alike: use your identify scrolls on artifact armour unless you're fine with slapping some gear on that has *Contam and then finding some way better armour a few turns later. I haven't found a cancellation pot yet after clearing the dungeon, lair, swamp, snake, and orc
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Jan 10, 2017 16:44
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Give mummies a temporary Mumm-Ra-like transformation ability that can only be recharged by gaining xp. Your image is about a million times more fun than playing a Mummy in crawl. Regarding the random buffs to enemies when you're "luring": is that in trunk right now? It sounds awful and I need to figure out if I should stop with the daily updates.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:22
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Carcer posted:Change Demigods so they're like draconians. At a certain level (7? 10?) One of the gods claims you as their child and you get abilities that related to but not the same as worshiping them. For example, Oka could improve all of your battle related aps, vehemut your magic aps. Chei could maybe give you the ability to inflict slow on other monsters. That's kinda cool actually. It'd be cooler even if A) there were staggered buffs as you leveled up based on whatever god "chose" you like at level 12 they give you something else and level 15 another thing and so on or B) if there was a pantheon aspect to it and the player either got to choose favour from like three gods or they were able to become connected to multiple ones (which isn't as thematic but cool) as you went on. Like, at this level you became connected to okawaru, but the next chance you are influenced by Yred and now you're a necromancer warrior. Anything would make demigods more fun to play than they are now.
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Pray before attacking, pray over corpses I remember back in the day how terrifying centaurs seemed to be to my little minotaur
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Jan 13, 2017 16:35
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Fhqwhgads posted:How much of a trap is the amulet of the air on a tanky sword/board FoFi? How bad is that inacc debuff, really? I asked about this a bit ago and the answer I got was along the lines of "if you can still hit a black mamba fairly consistently you're okay" In other news I lost my second back-to-back tanky antman in the Crypt again. Taken apart by a lovely double team of a curse-toe and skull (with a profaned servitor cheering them on). I would now escalate Crypt to Pretty Tough in my book, not sure what happened recently when I wasn't looking. Also gently caress torment
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Jan 17, 2017 16:51
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great big cardboard tube posted:I haven't played this game in years, my only successful character was a mountain dwarf fighter of okwaru who got really lucky with gifts. Thinking of trying it out again but don't want to spend ages researching / trial and erroring what spells work well in addition to how the game itself works right now. Is there anything I should be playing now that MD is gone or does that attitude basically preclude me from this game? Gargoyle is pretty strong, give that a shot
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Jan 23, 2017 22:02
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Carcer posted:Speaking from experience those blademasters can gently caress you up in a hurry if you're not being careful around them. I cannot stress how correct this comment is. If your murder hole remains in tact nothing can stop you unless you're woefully under prepared. The earth elementalists exist as murder hole breakers and creators of annoying crap that spawns in your way as you're fleeing or attempting to take care of actual threats. These guys are responsible for more elf deaths than I can count.
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Darox posted:Alternative answer, remove glow from the important things and replace the mutation effects with increasingly severe -wiz and reduced mp regeneration. Especially with haste now restricted to just potions the only serious positives it has is limiting invisibility and controlled blink. Give cBlink spellpower and scatter inversely related to that power, making spellpower relevant is a good thing that should happen more (but don't make the beckoning mistake because 200 power is a ridiculous benchmark for any character and even hitting 160 without an enhancer is extremely tough) Invisibility can stay as is because the eventual corona effect of glow is extremely effective at preventing overuse. Haste could probably have it removed entirely now that it's limited, not that it matter much except maybe orb run (give the orb stasis!) Whoa, yet another good suggestion related to glow! Make it something strategically inopportune as opposed to a basic Cancellation Potion check or else "here's your lovely mutations, bud"
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Would it neutralise Petrification too much if you could delay it or hold it off with Curing?
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I play for 15 or bust personally.
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Feb 3, 2017 18:22
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Internet Kraken posted:Does anyone actually use amulets of harm? I did! Until I noticed I was dying a lot more frequently for some reason with it on...
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SKULL.GIF posted:That didn't happen, but a cool new thing was added instead today! Go on...
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Internet Kraken posted:I agree that Crawl has shifted away from arbitrary difficulty in the form of "gotcha!" traps that require prior knowledge to reasonably avoid. A lot of roguelikes have a bad habit of flooding the game with those. They can be funny but most of the time they just gently caress over new players that want to get into the game. Really like these! Keep it up! Also, want to echo the QoL improvements but I feel for a newbie getting into this game now because as a veteran the game keeps getting more difficult, I can't imagine how someone just starting out (or getting back into it) must feel. Also still waiting on the malmutate changes as someone that went down into slime and ended up getting looked at wrong by two shining eyes in the same turn trying to get away from them 
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