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Malachite_Dragon posted:I for one am completely fine with the mechanics updates as I'm not likely to play this myself, but would still like to know how it works. It's like dwarf fortress- fun to hear about, hell to actually play it is not hell to play dwarf fortress is a battle against the interface; cultist simulator's interface is very clear. the post about "clear on the how, opaque on the why" is spot on. i would compare getting stuck in cultist sim to a timed BABA is YOU puzzle, with all the apocalyptic frustration/oh god it makes sense now that this would entail.
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Reveilled posted:Unfortunately humans as game players prefer to take the moves that seem likeliest to win, rather than the moves that seem most fun, and then get bored as a result, which I see as something of a failure on the part of the game designer, because they should be aware of player behaviour and spend time considering how to make the most fun way to play the game feel like the optimal way, and how to make the optimal way to play fun. this is absolutely the case. for example, the entire Rival system is actually very hard to trigger unless you specifically go for it; a "normal" player will likely never encounter it unless they play as a cop
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May 16, 2019 23:56
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the lorem ipsum offends, and i would not associate loyalty with edge personally but rather with heart also, sulochana's character card is missing an interesting icon that almost everyone else does in fact have.
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i imagine the other one is there so that you don't get locked out of being able to repair mirrors and yeah it's not just the Dancer expansion, if you do the newgame+ ascensions and have a decent eye for early Heart books then sulochana's connections are pretty explicit e: Is this taken posted:The Church of the Bright Edge puts it best: they serve until death, or the resolution of strengths. yeah edge is the loyalty of prison gangs i guess, but soldiers in an army aren't just hanging around until they can build up enough power to kill their sarge and take his position one of the nice things about cultist sim's principles is that they're quite hard to sum up in the single words that define most videogame/RPG pantheons though ee: oh wait though you've got the whole Rebel striving thing as well. maybe i'm wrong then Inexplicable Humblebrag fucked around with this message at 10:31 on May 19, 2019 |
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Automatically writing to a journal file would be pretty good, so you could review it when you're not actually playing, but yeah, its kind of a flaw at present
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May 21, 2019 12:30
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i mean given the Bloomberg connection it's probably grail-themed in this history
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May 22, 2019 21:25
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you can also get a third, moderately poo poo summon that everyone forgets about, but, assuming you're not putting neville to work, can be obtained by working out a couple times and thinking real hard about the results otherwise i guess you need some bookshop help
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May 23, 2019 20:44
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May 30, 2019 22:17
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what the devil are you doing dealing with those give the right gifts to your knockers and you can get hold of much more useful followers without even using influences; just lore.
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Jun 1, 2019 13:13
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i think basically you need to use passion more. that's pretty much it. i think i've gotten more money out of it following the change, but that's a) because i rarely paint with less than 2 passion and b) probably entirely anecdotal.
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Jun 4, 2019 20:11
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i mean i guess there's a chance that might have happened in a very secret history the "exploit", incidentally, is fully intended by game designers. that doesn't mean it's something you need to play with, of course
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Jun 8, 2019 01:09
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the... what? the new upgrade system takes about half as long as the old one, uses less resources, allows the use of non-used-up resources, and keeps your progress if you fail also lol at the representation of British rail
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Jun 10, 2019 10:11
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Tenebrais posted:Oh I know, but the Thunderskin risked it with the Ring-Yew too and got flayed for his trouble. was he an Hour at that point? thunderskin is a god-from-blood after all
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wiegieman posted:Does the lore ever go out and say why immortals having children is such a big sin? Or does it just repeat Crime of the Sky a lot? because otherwise you'd have a colossal, enormous, ridiculous number of immortals kicking about probably Materant posted:It does bring it up somewhere, but I forget where. Putting this behind spoiler tags just to be safe: If two Long have a child, they are possessed of an almost insatiable urge to devour the child. Of course, almost insatiable means that it can be avoided, and those that aren't devoured are immortal in their own right: alukites. We may have already met an alukite, by the by... also mandatory gay cult communism
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PetraCore posted:I wondered if the violet room was a reference to chromotherapy, aka the practice of shining colored lights on people and/or putting them in colored rooms in order to 'cure' certain things. It's a pseudoscience, but that just makes it more fitting, and, well, if you really wanted to expose someone to the healing benefits of violet, restraining them in a room with pure violet walls and no windows would do it. i mean purple is knock is summons is rites, and the chair has armstraps and there's upsetting flint/glass tools in a cupboard. the hospital is described as having an unnatural number of amputations performed there and that being fine because it's better than the people in question walking the streets idk if the implication is shiny lamps also, moth has a heavy implication of shedding the unnecessary (clothes, hair, skin, eyes, fingers, mind) in the process of change, and if you line up your lores vertically you are a psychopath
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Jun 19, 2019 17:24
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ugh im compelled to start another goddamn game of cultist simulator!!!
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Jun 21, 2019 17:38
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man i do not like thinking about what the Ghoul would eat to get that remembrance
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Jun 22, 2019 15:39
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i completed another Lantern victory a few hours ago. i'm kinda interested what the speedrunning community is like considering the completely random expedition outcome is like in this game
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NewMars posted:Expeditions are no longer random in rewards. Unless you're talking about the fact that you can no longer get above a 90% chance not to screw up now. that is the thing i'm talking about i had people gently caress up a "fight the serpent check" four times in a row at 90%!!!!
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Jun 23, 2019 00:09
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oh there's other uses for decrepitude, for winter ascensions 
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Jun 23, 2019 19:01
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TheCog posted:I bought this game based on the LP, and after like 10 hours played, I'm still not sure if I like it or not. The writing is extremely good, the themes are very much my jam, I like the gameplay in theory, but when I'm actually playing it kind of feels like a grind, and I'm just not sure what to make of this whole thing. dlcs do not change the core gameplay so if you don't like the game, don't get the dlcs. well, get the dlcs if you want to support the dev studio i guess i still desperately want an Edge ascension DLC though simply so i can read about my cultist going to sleep with a codec on and going HRGN, COLONEL in their dreams
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Jun 24, 2019 19:26
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Tenebrais posted:No, Fallen London is owned by a different company that Alexis and Lottie left to make Cultist Sim. Wouldn't be surprised if they did shout-outs though. there's some shoutouts in sunless skies to cultist simulator, seemingly - places called Laidlaw's Coffee House, the Desolation of Saliba etc - but I figure that's due to overlapping Kickstarter rewards like 'name a place', 'name a cultist'
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Jun 25, 2019 16:54
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more like Gordian Knock
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Jun 27, 2019 17:25
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Regallion posted:That raises a question: does sex provide knock influence? maybe if you're drunk or clumsy 
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Jun 27, 2019 19:46
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Ephemeron posted:Fortunately, a superficial Knock influence is all that is needed for most summonings. I imagine that quite a few cults incorporated sex (presumably with an emphasis on the penetrative aspect) into their rituals. probably not many involving Longs or, well
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Jun 28, 2019 21:15
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right but how does that relate to Moth also speaking of sex magic i just found out - after a stupid number of hours in this game - that pressing Tab on a stackable card will stack it on your biggest stack
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Jun 29, 2019 16:06
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Tenebrais posted:Sex energy is absolutely a Grail thing. Even Grail cultists' work for your cult is seducing strangers to imprison for sacrifice, and the Names of the Red Grail consider sexual intercourse to be a tribute to her. it was a tongue-in-cheek glib reply to a wall of text indicating that i wasn't really reading or following it, op e: that said i'm not doing very well at following cultist sim things lately, i just completely hosed up balancing the dances on a Dancer ascension between moth and heart
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Jun 29, 2019 18:40
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Reveilled posted:A final note for anyone who is very keen with the eye, who has completed the game and is thinking "Hang on, won't that--": lol and yeah the button on the UI was added quite recently so it makes sense the tab functionality was as well
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dancing also gets rid of dread/fascination. it's pretty handy. presumably you soothe your existential despair with interpretive dance, which i guess is a little more imaginative than doing it to get through college also promoting cultists but that's more "hey do you wanna join a cult i found this cool secret about barbers, also im really scared"
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Artificer posted:Awwww man. Poor Cat and somewhat Eldridge. They didn't have that coming. Still, I suppose its appropriate for the genre that even in the greatest of victories there is terrible terrible loss. eldridge had it coming
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holy poo poo lol "sorry buddy we gotta only give you grapes"
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the principle of Edge is something you need to be particularly careful with. Yeah but he has form in loving up edge rituals so I end up with bizarre grudges against cultists due to their failings over many histories. Clovette, in my games, simply cannot be relied on to disperse notoriety at essential points - that's always Leo's job
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Mzbundifund posted:I killed so many people on my winter run until I realized you could explore with your dedication. absolutely the same
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Jul 1, 2019 21:37
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raw prophets are good slitherdogs and should be rewarded with burgers
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Jul 2, 2019 16:03
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edit the save so you romanced clifton instead
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Jul 2, 2019 23:18
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Cat Caro, a Shattered Risen
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do it from kates point of view "Dear diary, my idiot loving cultists kept loving up so I inflicted even more fascination on them in order to self-sabotage enormously"
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pumpinglemma posted:Oh my god. As it were. I just got it while reading your post... there is a Knock book about this. it was featured prominently in an update.
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