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Sorry guys i betrayed and was playing StS2 instead of a roguelike so the thread croaked.
I got too busy writting achra fanfic, my bad bros
Sorry dudes, I got arrested by the British Crown for playing Elona+ yesterday so I haven't been able to bump the thread
Is DCSS 0.34 good or should I play an old version, noob here
>>559835529Play trunk like a man and accept nucrawl in all it's glory.
Too ill to play.
>>559826246When I eventually get bored of Achra and switch over to Brogue, I will be using the official tiles. I wonder if that will make the liberals in here mad.
>>559836014And wht makes it "nucrawl", did the devs fuck something up
>>559837682The nature of removal is to cleanse both fuckups and unfuckedup stuff.
One, nothing wrong with me
Two, two, two for my family
Sorry for the lack of Achra blogging. I've gotten my ass kicked like 3 runs in a row.
Tips for playing octopedes? Ever since this run where my human found four rings in three floors i've been cursing my lack of arms so i want to be able to survive long enorme as an octopath until i myself in jewelry
Why are defense mechanics in Achra such a joke? I have 75% resistance (maxed out) to lightning, but lightning mages still slice through me like swiss cheese from 20 tiles away.
>>5598376820.34 has doom so it is anti-melee as fuck, but it's a great version if you want to load in a deep elf caster and rush level 9 spells.
>>559858162Have you looked at their abilities?
>>559826246What does /rlg/ think of Brogue CE (the community edition) compared to vanilla?
>>559858162Zap, zap, motherfucker.
Fuck my headache
>>559859375I asked in the last thread and no one cared. The major differences do seem to be qol things and bug fixes as opposed to difficulty changes so I went with CE.https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/wiki/Changes-from-original
>>559826246Uhhhh what happened to the elin thread on jp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffF0e2h4TURoguelikes for this feel?
Are hordes still visible on the map in CDDA?
>>559870586And what happened to the dwarf fortress thread on /tg/?
>>559873562How is Dwarf Fortress even remotely /tg/? I could understand shit like a Master Duel thread because it's a simulation of the YGO card game.
>>559873680It was a comfy version of this thread. Less angsty faggots.Granted, /tg/ was different almost a decade ago before the quest threads started getting spammed everywhere and the mods had to shit on the board for it.
>>559837682Dungeon crawl is the kind of roguelike where for every step forward, the devs make two step backward. Ie change the random rng shaft mechanic with a semi random doom mechanic that seem way too eager to fuck you over in worse ways. I mean I've hit more -3 layers shaft since .34 than I did playing crawl for years, its just stupid. I mean it isnt even fun or challenging, it just feel like a definitive run ender with extra steps the majority of the time and you just rush for upstair to survive.
>>559856482You have +4 stealth aptitude for a reason, you should always invest a lot and straight away. No AC means there are just fights you can't win so being able to avoid them entirely is useful. You also need to invest in a shield as soon as you get one and dodging too. Species with weak defence need to invest more.
Is it truly an end of an era?
>>559888238???
>>559897495Last thread was 404'd before bump limit, and this thread was one thread away from being pruned before that post at a measly 30 posts in.
>>559897893oh lmaothe end of that era was around '18dumbass
dragondragonlike
my best guy is still this goblin after all these hours. am I fucking up somewhere? the legendary humanoids are kinda crap
>>559902169what the hell is this?
>>559902604keeperRLit is arguably a roguelike
>>559903070coolhe's beating out all the new stuff because of the scaling/leveling/veterancy mechanics? that's interesting, maybe the new guys need some TLC before they get jacked too
>>559903070which part is not roguelike
>slaves technically aren't a part of your faction so you can use them to build in hostile areas safelythey didn't really think that through but I'll take it>>559905414when you aren't directly controlling a character/team, turns pass automatically
I think I'm back on my fuck Achra arc. The RNG is too fucking obnoxious not to have some sort of item system.>playing an all life horde spam character>get all the way to the mid boss flawlessly>spawn 1 tile away from the boss>dieBravo game. I truly feel outplayed.
This vibecoding shit is hard bros
>>559907420Are you doing an engine from scratch? Pretty sure there's a pre-built engine that the majority of RL devs already use.
>>559908398I am using unity since it's free and I don't know what I'm doing, I borrowed most of a bsp algorithm from google and made some shitty tiles in paint.
>>559909001>be anon>don't know what you're doing>have a machine do all the work>get a buggy mess that it can't fix>can't fix it yourself because you don't know how>when it's all over, you still haven't learned what you're doingGreat use of your limited time on Earth, amigo
Yeah I think I have some brain tumor (real)I'm gonna die soon and this thread will go with me since nobody else will bump itIt has been a roguelike life
>>559912215I'm supposed to make an engine from scratch for this? That doesn't sound right at all.
>>559913037Who said that? There are pre-existing dedicated roguelike engines, like >>559908398said
>>559913336Then I don't get what annoyed you. I'm writing most of it myself, I have to write python for work. When I said I don't know what Im doing I meant that's why I picked unity.
>>559912645thank god
>>559913512Oh I'm just responding to the "this vibecoding shit is hard" comment, and why would I be annoyed? It's not my project, that's going great..
>>559913654Oh you're one of the anti ai people, explains it. Don't you use AI tools at work for things?
>>559913804>anti-ai peopleI just think it's hilarious how much work people will put in just to avoid learning to do things. And my experience with AI tools is that they're like hiring an acid-dropping retard who can usually spit out the most basic code monkey shit but still needs to be minded constantly lest he start hallucinating functions and forgetting what language or framework he's coding for, so he's actually a net drag on the project's time. Potentially useful in very specific situations, but not even close to living up to the hype.
>>559914513You're literally frothing at the mouth.
>>559914818Ok, so you're retarded. But I guess we knew that already
yeah 100% it's brain cancer likeRoguelikes that I can complete within the few days I have left?
none fuck offnobody cares
This is probably a really dumb question, but what roguelike protagonist do you think is the strongest by the end (victory/ascension) of their games ? I think the player character from Nethack would probably rank high for ascending into a demigod.
>>559916221My elona character sexes gods
>>559870637I dunno, but Heart of Storm is the better LH song IMOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLrxjIkONY>>559917430Just because you fucked the president doesn't mean you have the power to launch the nukes. You're still just a 14 year old girl
>>559917430Built for glurp shitto cock
>>559912645thank God>>559916221a Zigg clearing Dungeon Crawl protag is kind of ridiculoussame with endgame *band characters
>>559912645Do you want your possessions identified?
Imagine living in some tribe where every woman looked like Kitana from mortal kombat
>>559916221I doubt the usual fantasy rl protag has the firepower and speed to match an endgame Cogmind mech
>>559921061I don't think there's anything to suggest that dcss protags could kill the gods in their setting.
>>559924027a 15 rune game will kill at least nine gods, one of whom is a major diety
>>559916221>immune to all elements and explosions>can breath underwater>can fly>has telekinesis>has Invisibility >has short range wallhacks >can travel between parallels dimensions >can move celestial bodies>can create any wand to fuck up any type of opponent >somehow if you kill him he can come back multiple timesThey all kneel to Mina. Bro could probably beat Goku.
>>559916221>demigodMore than that, the Nethack protag becomes the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, War and incites a war in heaven with his arrival, as whoever gets the amulet will be set above all the other gods.
Godlike item roll
>spent hours looking for someone to join my camp in cdda>found nobodyit's a fucking wasteland out there, where are the other survivors?i did find one guy, he wanted to burn down a pizza place but the quest glitched out and he wasn't recruitable
>>559924294Pan/Hell Lords aren't gods and Jiyva has one (1) worshipper
I think I'm done with Achra for now. 7 32 Cycle wins proves I've beaten the game legit plenty. I'm sick of the slot machine rugpull nature of the game. I might as well just re-install Mahjong Soul if I have a craving for luck with a hint of skill style gameplay.
>>559931874I feel you, my poison/plague guy got shreked the other day due to RNG putting the King about two or maybe it was three steps away. Close enough so my summons couldn't block his path in time and he was on top of me before I could apply enough stacks to kill him. I had his health down by 1/3 when he splatted me, if he had been just one or two tiles further away I would have had time to wreck him, or if I hadn't spawned in a corner I could have run away until summons gave me breathing room. Pretty frustrating. I'll probably go back to Nethack, it rewards skill a lot more.
>>559931874>he struggled
>wondering why my walls weren't providing luxury bonuses>i built the outdoor walls instead of reinforced dungeon walls >if I tear it all down the cost to build is not refundedgoddammit.
haven't played cata since 0.H came out what shit have they raped since then? I heard about psycopath and cannibal being removed.
>>559937647Fuck DDA, play BN
>>559938439does BN have the refugee center with the gay muslim woman welder?
Thanks Kevin
>>559938585Inherited from DDA. Is she gay? I thought the one dude was gay, not the welder chick
>>559938816lame. idk she probably is. shit should just be deleted because its unfinished and never will be. I remember playing a save for dozens of hours and drilling down into the refugee center "vault" and finding it was nothing but stone. stopped giving a fuck about any "story" content in cata since.
>>559931874>slot machine rugpull natureI really wouldn't be surprised if there was a way to win Achra 100% of the time with one of the top tier builds. It seems less randomized than DCSS to me. Of course there are bad combos that can occasionally put you in unwinnable situations, but there are other roguelikes where not all games are winnable.
>>559943324Some prestiges are just actively bad/harmful
>>559943324DCSS is infinitely more skill based because of items. You always are given enough tools to get out of fucked up situations. Achra is like playing a perpetually confused, berserked, MuMo who worships the troll god.
>>559943664Yeah, if I had to guess there are probably like ~10 prestiges that are only there for the people who like to experiment with suboptimal setups for novelty and challenge. Of course we probably couldn't all agree if we tried to make a list of those bad prestiges.
>>559944851>You always are given enough tools to get out of fucked up situations.You aren't always given enough tools, though. You can start a game as an Octopode and run into a halberd gnoll on D1 as your first enemy. The only place you can run away is back out the dungeon. I think the general consensus is that the game gets more skill based the further into the run you get, whereas even great players can occasionally splat on D1-3 for no fault of their own.
>>559945242Is this nu-crawl logic? Or maybe playing meme races/ builds only? I'm literally the most horrible Crawl player ever and I never die that early in the run.
>>559945242octopode has high natural stealth and swims
How to fix Achra:1. Show what the mid game and end game boss are on the overworld so players can plan accordingly like StS does. 2. Introduce some kind of item system
>>559946392I'd add: add some more gameplay outside picking builds and spells and items, once you're on the floor you've done 90% of the gameplay decisions
>>559946392>1. Show what the mid game and end game boss are on the overworld so players can plan accordinglyI would be in favor of that sort of change too, but the actual high skill play is to be prepared for all 4 possible kings. That usually means leaving some skill points unspent and only picking 2 schools, so that you can dump points into whichever school helps beat the King once you know which one you're facing. Like if it's the Death King and you're an attack build, you might be forced to pick Master Doom because you're going to get 5000 stacks of Doom from attacking his Doom Skin. Leaving that 3rd school open is the best way to reduce RNG. Alternatively just play a build OP enough that you can kill him instantly, but most builds aren't OP enough to ignore the mechanics like that.
>>559946392StS only allows you to see in advance 1/3 of the game, and in ascension 20 you more or less have to build your deck around every possible Act 3 boss since double boss means it's more likely you meet a boss than not.
Wait, isn't Rift Wizard just a more serious version of Achra?
>>559966873How so?
>>559966976>>559966976>has complex builds>also has items>also has strategic gameplay>also lets you choose your spawn point on dungeon entranceSeems like Achra minus the flaws.
>>5599674303/4 of those are inherently false
>>559969340>>559967430Let me elaborate before i sleep>Complex buildsNo>itemsYeah>Can choose spawnLolno, you mean realm?>strategic gameplayI wouldnt exactly call achra a high IQ game
Games with traps that don't involve pressing 1 button to find them every tile?
>>559970642Nethack if you know what you're doing
>>559969478Sleepy anon is confuse
>>559969478sleepy?cuck
>>559939312>not just using a clairvoyance artifact to look
>>559924751no(i)t a roguelike
>>559979942Why doth the noit go barefoot into the dungeon? Is she stupid?
>>559980037The levitation power comes from the feet, so it would push off your shoes and socks if you were wearing any.
>>559946392It's fine how it is.If you are going to build around one strat, you better make sure it's ironclad or just deal with the consequences.
Imagine noita but she's in a real roguelike (with sex and rape)
>>559966873Rift Wizard is similar to Achra in that it has a lot of chaining effects and gimmicky builds to experiment with. I would say the tactical choices inside a level of Rift Wizard are much more interesting than Achra. You have a much larger variety of options at any given time in Rift Wizard because it has activatable items and no limit on your number of spells.The problem is that the build making in Rift Wizard gets constrained because on 95% of builds you HAVE to take a blink spell, you HAVE to take the chain reaction package (Prince of Ruin, Starfire, Cracklevoid), and you HAVE to take Word of Chaos. If you try to play without the usual crutches then you're usually just being suboptimal. Basically half of your skill points are already decided before you even pick your build. Achra doesn't have so many no-brainer choices because it limits you to 3 schools, whereas in Rift Wizard you get all the schools of magic, and you should really take the good shit from all of them whenever they're relevant.
>>559981912>(with sex and rape)I'm sure there's mods for thatThere's always mods for that
Qamar sex when?
>>559990103Has rlg finally got it's waifus?
>>559995954Who?
>>559916221I'm inclined to say that Caves of Qud protagonist is the strongest no matter what, simply because of precognition and sphynx salt injectors.He's the only rogueliker with canon ability to savescum. Doesn't get any stronger than that.
Tome4 protag is the strongest because it could legally corrupt your save file (the equivalence of shattering an entire universe from within)
>>560000037Do elaborate, i like reading this kind of stuff (why it happens,etc)
>>560006182The game has multiple "time traveling" abilities, which basically copies your save file, then mucks with it when you die or when you activate an ability. But like 99% of stuff in tome4 it's highly unmaintained so it might work 9 out of 10 times and the other time it corrupts your save.Also the game has several "infinite" dungeons like the monster portal in sher'tul or the infinite dungeon mode, and unfortunately whenever you generate a new floor the dev never bothers to clean up old ones so the save file keeps building up. Some data structures in the game more or less just breaks down past a "small" number of floors (like 50). So much for infinite.
>>560006868Interesting, gonna check if there is an wiki article or something becsuse i am a nerd when it comes to save corruption and shit
>>559902169shoulda leveled your keeper as much as you can. and capture high level ranged enemies like elven archers.didn't get much out of the regular dudes myself, would need to micromanage so much to keep them alive for them to level up meaningfully high, and that would take ages because it's so fucking slow. so mostly it was just keeper killing everything with archers supporting and the rest being meat shields. werewolves were okay I guess.
>>559983406You WILL take batformYou WILL take starcultYou WILL take master repulsion
>>560013645You're limited to 3 schools, bro. Even if some of the Achra abilities are OP, you just can't take them every game. In Rift Wizard you can take Word of Chaos and Prince of Ruin every game. That's the distinction I'm getting at. The game doesn't even really function as a roguelike with randomized experiences until you start doing trials. Improvisor is my preferred way to play RW2 nowadays for that exact reason.
wtf when did DCSS remove food?
>>560025452They just replaced it with the zot clock so something can still punish a player for wasting turns without progress but now it's not a random factor of if you find enough food. Definitely part of the speedrun bias of current DCSS design though.
>reading the official CDDA lore documents>constant emphasis about how robots and bionics are LE UNREALISTIC and must be removed from all lore going forward>extremely autistic in depth insistence on using specific real life scientific concepts to explain fictional technology like portal shit>retarded nods to fucking Reddit and snide remarks about Blonald Blumpf and his disinformation campaigns making the Cataclysm worsewhy are trannies like this?
>>559938593IMO they do need some degree of nerfing, but I'd just give them a fat accuracy debuff or something when swinging across z levels>get literally any reach weapon>piss off a ton of zombies>climb up a drain pipe>hold tab for like 20 seconds>there is now 35 dead zombies below me and my weapon is maybe a bit banged up
>>559983406>>560017603For Achra it's astrohunting, crystalform, sometimes astrostoicism (depending on the build), and one of the gods that gives you infinity prayers or a god that buffs your HP/ weapon.
https://github.com/cataclysmbn/Cataclysm-BN/pull/8252
>>560030750>reality bubble size up to 16>current is the equivalent of 4>says 16 doesn't even fit on screendoes this imply the current reality bubble is smaller than a fully zoomed out view?
>>560032371not sure what he means by that, IIRC player sight range with a normal 8 perception is 60x60 tiles and the reality bubble is 275x725 tiles and 5 z levels total (current, +1, +2, -1, -2)
>>560033275*275x275, not 725 lol
Trying to play frogcomposband 7.2 downloaded at https://github.com/Gliktch/frogcomposband/releasesUnzipping the frogcomposband-v7.2.pulla-windows-x86_64.zip and running the exe results in the brief appearance of a white window plus the cursor goes into circle mode for a couple seconds then nothing happens.Can anyone confirm if the executable works (or doesn't work) so I'll know what to tell the dev?
The dungeon collapses!
keeperrl is a bit more shallow than I'd like. I'll try and get one "finished" run in and move on to something else. Cogmind maybe.
How painful it is to learn to play cataclysm if i have never touched a roguelike?
>>560052874Like punching yourself in the balls. It doesn't change no matter how much you play it though.
>>560052874Not that hard, really.
>>560052874don't worry, it's not a roguelike either.
>>560054251What do you mean?
>>560054370The Berlin interpretation didn't mention car travel.
>>560054370It's kind of a meme, but in DDA at least there's no end goal, which is a major requirement to some people's minds. Bright Nights has a win condition where you can close the main portal and stop the bad shit from coming over, so that criticism doesn't apply to it.
>>560054448Minecraft Hardcore mode is likely a roguelike under the Berlin Interpretation
>>560054370the entire devteam, the github, the documentation and everyone playing it does not even recognize the game as a roguelike but as a world simulator/sandboxbecause it is
>>560055883Whales called it a roguelike
>>560055971Whales made cataclysm 15 years ago, by this account diablo is a roguelike because it's a fork of moriaget a grip you weirdo
Dragon Warrior Monsters is a Roguelike. Seethe libtards.
>>560056129How is it not a roguelike? Be specific, please
The Treasure Map system in DQ9 is a roguelike
>>560055883>the entire devteam, the github, the documentation and everyone playing it does not even recognize the game as a roguelikeWhy are you lying?https://github.com/cataclysmbn/Cataclysm-BN/blob/4b86efecb861b4bffaf138cd060b99a29d2e3142/README.md?plain=1#L17>Cataclysm: Bright Nights is a roguelike with sci-fi elements set in a post-apocalyptic world.
>>560052874Pretty hard, but it was my first and I'm retarded, so it's not impossible. BN is easier to learn.
>>560057514>Cataclysm: Bright Nightsoh, you silly billyI'm talking about DDAcarry on
roguelikes need lootboxes, magic the gathering cards and labubus
>>560060408It's a shame the wizardry gacha game is shit.
>>560060479You don't like gollum fighting teenage mutant ninja turtles? What are you some kind of snowflakes?
>>560059287>talking about DDAWHY
>>560060653Wasn't Wizardy full of joke monsters and puns and shit in the 80s? I know the nips didn't catch much of it, but it was there.
>>560061321I misunderstood "Wizadry gacha game" as magic the gathering (yes it's about teenage mutant ninja turtles now)
ok it wasn't brain tumor it was the airconI'll use fanlikes from now on
It's been a minute since I posted a W. Look at this goofy ass build with a meme tier god.
>>560071395Out of my 8 C32 runs, 3 were wormcucks, and 3 were koszcels. I'm trying to keep my builds as varied as possible, but the game forces my hand...
>>560071395Another one. No Worm or Khazer milkers this time either.
>>560078621I always wonder why Crystalform has a different color than the other Ice skills.
>>560071395>carried by koszmar>>560078621>carried by crystalformWhen are you gonna play a real man's melee build?
>>560081738My last "melee" build was a nomad chucking spears behind infinity ball lightnings. If that doesnt't count, my last range 1 meleer was a naked teleporting ape on like cycle 30.
>>560072680>"Haha, couldn't be me">Check Maqbara>Wormcels, Koszcels, SecuCucks and ValrEreshLets as far as the eye can seeFuuuuuck manIn all fairness I know DruidNinhurCult and Anqarak/Horrorform shit blasts from the climb to 32 in the first place.
>>559981912Wish I was cumming in a goth baddie with a cnc fetish rn
Cataclysm isn't a roguelike the same way not cumming inside means you're still a virgin
>>559981912Rift Wizard is Mina if she trve rogvelike.
>>560026936Doesn't this objectively say that people who don't believe snopes or use reddit are in the right since they don't believe the faked video and correctly understood it's a real mi-go?
>>560033275player sight range is 121x121 or so, you can see 60 tiles on either side of youbut it's been a while since I've counted
>>560055883The dev team recognizes Balatro as a roguelike. Just how much is author intent worth, compared to the actual contents of the game?
>>560086347Yes, but in the same way that a fictional universe where aliens built the pyramids and the Earth is 6,000 years old would "mean people who don't believe snopes" are rightThey're right in that universe, where the fantastical and supernatural exist purely because the writers said so.If I write a loredump where videos of Deep Ones are written off as AI fakes that doesn't mean you should start believing every video you see about Cthulhu and Hyperborean White Boys
>>560052874it might be better to pick up a much more basic roguelike first so you can get the fact that using diagonals is required drilled into your head, but the hard part of cataclysm is the crafting and item system so it doesn't really matter
>>560087498Better turn off that fucking diagonal distance simulation fag shit too.
>>560087859amen brother, squarelos forever
>>560089164Oh, no, I actually hate the squarelosI just also don't like the way it interacts with reach and time
>>560081738Here's your melee build bro. Say something nice about it.
>>560081738
I remember the squarelos vs circlelos wars of the early 2010s...a better time>>560089998the diagonal distance shit and squarelos are intrinsically linked, they're the same thing
>>560093240No, no, I know thatI know that the LOS "shape" changes based on if you're calculating diagonal distance with math or as 1I like the round shape LOS. I don't like the range interactions, mechanically. I like the IDEA of the range calcs, but I much prefer to PLAY where diagonal is the same as cardinal
I'm a barbielike in a barbielikeworld
One must imagine Mina happy
>>560103837The gods favor those who sacrifice all in the name of knowledge.
>>560104593gods are pricks fuck them
Trannyclysm is a tranny game now? wtf?
>>560107060>now
Oh nyoh
>>560108549Ouch.
>>560107539Always was
i will get raped by mina
Shame, but I don't really have an outfit for it.
>>560108549>dying to THIS bossShameful display.
>>560108549>LGBTQ flag color monster>TRANS-fix youUh ... Achra confirmed a roguelike
>>560118218Gomen
>>560131750can trans people pay with that 20 pound bill or does jk rowdy burn them when they handle it
lol. Ok that's seriously gonna be my last Worm run forever.......Until I run into another summonslop prestige that doesn't give me a convenient way into specing ball lightning, or stepping a lot. I'll just avoid all of them for a long time I guess.
Today I learned that Angra from Achra is named after Zoroastrian Satan. I sort of thought it was just a "lmao he angry" kind of deal.
>>560134651Most of the god names are taken from mythology or history. A bunch of the prestige classes too.
>>560087028NTA but the way that you write in a roundabout manner is so confusing that I genuinely can't tell what you are actually saying or if it even has anything to do with the post you are replying to.
>>560134651>>560135871Achra itself is named after Jewish mystical shit.https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361900/jewish/Kelipot-and-Sitra-Achra.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qlippoth>The realm of evil is called Sitra Achra (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: סִטְרָא אַחְרָא, romanized: siṭrā ʾaḥrā, lit.'the Other Side') in Kabbalistic texts.
>>560136362Thanks for the (you)I'm concerned that if I call anon a little chudlet conspiracy theorist trying to justify his "I was right all along" extremist viewpoints on an internet forum he'll be upset.I think it's pretty clear to anyone with a working brain that "if aliens existed, ignoring Snopes would be based and smart and cool" is a retarded cope. "IF" they existed, yeah. Dumbass. They fuckin don't, obviously. This is a game about not just the improbable but utterly impossible. It's not "saying anything" at all, no matter how desperate you are to own the redditfags and snopes readers.
>>560107060>you need tinder to light almost anything on fire
>>560138089meds
>>560139370nah, he's right, even if he's sperging hard
>>560139453How can you tell he's right if nothing he is saying makes any coherent sense at all?
>>560138089>They fuckin don't, obviously.Prove it inb4 muh fallacy muh burden of proof etc etc reddit nonsense
>talk about CDDA>a tranny magically appears and starts violently dilating all over the wallsit's like poetry, it rhymes
a rogue bump in the night
>>560139736Your mom sucked me off good and hard (through my jorts) last nightAnd I don't think a kind and loving god would've allowed something that fuckin sexy to happen
I just boughted Siralim Ultimate off Rutracker. Is it a roguelike?
>>560151217Not even close, and it's not even a very good game (I'd even go so far as to say it's barely a game at all.) It's closer to a time-wasting trinket, like an auto-battler or an idler. Almost no gameplay, it's just setting up your little automatic-win machine, and it either works or it doesn't.
Yeah there were some huge Siralim fans in the thread a while back that tricked me into trying it out. Direly tedious gameplay and progression. It's certainly interesting that it exists, semi-unique and somewhat creative. But it's on the same level banal, tepid and uninspired
it's honestly amazing how long this general has endured
>>560154894Yeah, there's hardly any huge tits in here
Someone commission big mina tits
>>560153905Its a collect-athlon game and a "Build experiment" second, repetitive yeah and the artstyle is something
guess i'll play some cataclysm
thinking of trying stone soup again. runs i've won were>human hedge wizard, 3 rune>minotaur fighter, axe and shield, 3 rune>human conjurer, 15 rune + 1 zig>human fighter, sword and shield, 15 rune + 1 zigI have very boring taste but kind of want to mix it up, any recommendations
>>560158872Play a better game like FrogComposband
>>560158872Vinestalker Gladiator or Fighter of Usk. Short blades to trigger bite more often and to take advantage of Usks paralysis and confusion.
>>560159716Do you still try to meme it up with Stealth?
>>560159909Yeah, you have +3 apt I think. Wear medium armor and you can get decent stealth score still plus stabbing damage (which you get a lot of) is calculated using both weapon skill and stealth so get a fair bit of it. Would wear ringmail early then aim for fire or ice dragon armor or a good artifact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gyxzFPzcO0
>>560160953>crystalform even on paragonAnon you have a problem
CDDA needs just one more thing to be feature complete: urinating and defecation, with crafting included. Imagine freezing a shit javelin in a freezer, filling a condom up with poop and freezing it overnight to make a crap cudgel, or sustaining an entire base of survivors slaving endlessly in the fields on your behalf with nothing but pee soup. Let me reconfigure fire trucks to fire from a tank of my warm aged piss. Construct an entire wizard's manse 18 z levels tall out of nothing but my own hardened beef and broccoli fueled festering fecal fondue.
>>560160953You are doing it wrong.
>>560167267How else do you propose I do a mostly pure ant army run on C32? I'm not even sure if it's possible, unironically. I think I'm gonna need lots of backup from other types of summons if I attempt it again. Formus might genuinely be the worst god in the game. >ants summon on game turn>prayers refresh on... when your ant kills something (lol)>when an adjacent ally is damaged by an enemy (might as well say when you breakdance backwards on a pile of glass during a lunar eclipse) >double your ants once a floor (all die in 1 second of fighting a boss)This is why I chose crystalform. To slow shit down and speed up my ant farm.
>>560168240Forest mask does the same thing as crystal form for summoner builds, entangle strips speed.
>>560168184Nicely done. I thought about doing a berserker but chose imp last second for the flexibility bonus. Although I gotta say that Imp + crystalform is actually insane; the game legit turns into fireworks.
>>560168769I'll have to try that at some point since it sounds fun but not on a summoner though.I'd say berserk is key to the antcentric kind of build.
>>560168769>>560169296Woops, forgot this.This was my team in action btw.
>>560151810That exact description describes Path of Achra so it's a roguelike then?
>>560170113Path of Achra's barely a roguelike>translator's note: "barely" means "it is, but I'm going to pretend like it isn't." Antonym of "Practically"
>>560168240Just because it's the ant god doesn't mean you need to build around ants, anon. Here's a briar mage projective link build I slapped together in two minutes just now. Used Formus prayer 1 to get an army on entrance, prayer 2 to buff them and summon more. I straight up forgot to take sustain, literally my only healing was from leveling vigor. My main hand was completely irrelevant to the build, I used it solely because it had a range of 2 so I could be lazy and just tab towards enemies while staying in prayer 2 trigger range.
>>560170113Only retards like Path of Achra
>>560151810So Achra fans will love it?
>>560174271>>560174926Achra is legitimately a roguelike and is also fun. It's unintuitive and unbalanced, but this is true of every single game in the genre that isn't called Rift Wizards. The art is nice, the mechanics and (scant) writing are highly polished, the enemies are challenging without being total horseshit (mostly), it has a surprising amount of gameplay variety, and the short length makes it accessible in a way that most rogues can't match - and it does this without sacrificing build depth or difficulty. It's not the GOAT roguelike or anything, but it's very good at being what it's trying to be.
>>560175560>every single game in the genreA bold and sweeping statement, one which I find hard to credit
>>560175560>implying RW is balanced
>>560175795Being unintuitive and unbalanced is a feature that is inherent to RNG-derived gameplay loops.
>>560176947Nah, you can balance around it
I just understood the joke behind the book named "Self Esteem for Dummies" in CDDA
>>560175560Whats wrong with rift wizard
>>560180118Explain
>dungeon crawling>turn based combat>random loot and shitNGL chat, this feels a lot like a roguelike.
>>560182227Pretty sure it's saying the opposite and Rift Wizard is intuitive and balanced
Anyone ever have problems connecting batteries in 0.H DDA?I'm squatting at a house, in a room with a window leading to a section of a roof, where I placed some solar panels. I had a number of large storage batteries (50k each) placed next to each other, with the intent of swapping some of them in and out of the grid for use in my car. That way, the capacities of each battery got added, and then I just connected the solar array to the batteries. It worked. But then I had a few outings and noticed that my freezer and fridge kept getting toggled off. None of the batteries ever dipped below 40%, all of them are yellow integrity and above. Reading internet discussions, I've come to the conclusion that the appliances "run out" of power when the batteries leave the reality bubble and thus stop supplying power while the appliances are still in range of the bubble. So I figured I'd rearrange my entire room: place a battery in each corner and put the appliances in the middle. But I cannot properly connect the batteries to each other so that their capacities in the power grid would get added, for some reason. For example, say I have two batteries some distance from each other. I connect some appliances to one of them. The appliances show as drawing power from that battery. Now I connect the batteries to each other using a cord. Now inspecting both batteries shows the appliance power draw. But their capacities both show 50k. If I place them right next to each other, it is the expected 100k.I have also tried using the house wiring. Half the room's walls don't have wiring, but I tested on one wall which did, and it didn't work. I also tried it this way: connected the batteries to the wall wiring, and then connected the wall wirings directly using a cord. Same behavior: the input from the solar cells and the power draw from appliances is correct, so there IS a connection, but the capacities are still shown as 50k when the number should be 100k for two batteries. Any ideas?
>>560184730>problems>in DDA?Yeah, but I solved them by playing BN instead
>>560180118the joke is that it's a reference to a real book
hulk punched me into the wall of this lab so hard that the concrete wall broke, revealing the rebar cageserpent is a really hard mutation line, I think it needs higher tier armor for the feet, and an upper-body only survivor armor that doesn't suck
anyone play anything on steamdeck or any other handheld pcs/devices? i will be without a pc(and probably net) for atleast a year so i would like to load up on fun. i haven't played anything seriously in years so i am probably missing out on a lot of major releases.
>>560190779I thought everyone knew it's a real book and there's no joke?
It's over
>>560196056How can it be over when I'm stimming like crazy RN?
>>560174035"Making use of the ant god" is different from "building around ants" thoughI don't want to use the ant god, I want to use the ants.May as well play Eresh or Ikshana.
>>560191124No but I can imagine the main issue being the controls
bossbabylike
Elona is a soulslike
WHY IS THE DEV MAKING THE FEMALE UNITS HOT
>>560214729How?
>>560190779Is ...for dummies an outdated reference these days, do they still print those?
>>560233659We make do with wikihow memes.
>>560215049Interesting shift in the art style. I wonder if they're still 2 frame bobbleheads.
>>560238383The short video on steam shows they have abit more animation i think?
demon is pretty good but im suprised it does not have megaten style demon fusion . The party AI is pretty impressive for this genre.
>>560245129Added to the 'acklog.
Hey what happened to UnRealWorld's site? It's been down for days
>>560251071Works on my machine
>>560251364Actually yeah I just tried it with a VPN and it workedWeird
>>560190779>>560182974>>560233659I know about those books, I mean it just hit me that the idea of a "For Dummies" book, where the title inherently mocks the reader, is hilarious given that it's for Self Esteem of all things, because nothing builds self esteem like being insulted
drooling retard here, is there any way to update C:BN without deleting my current character/world or should I always roll a new one when updating?
I wonder if Achra dev is a based /x/ schizo mystic or if all the language used in his game is Anno Evangelion style salad symbolism for the sake of it.He has VIII of Pentacles at his itch page, he must be fun (or just Jewish)
>>560255002I think he said he just googles words
>>560255002I feel like you don't write nonsense poetry and base your setting and artstyle off of Egypt, Kabbalah, and Lovecraft shit without being a little bit schizo.
>>560256306or correctly use Minor Arcana on your itch pageyou're righthe's Jewishpossibly with Polish roots eventotally a schizolike /x/phile
>>560256306>odds play siralimDont
>>560256306>Evens play AchraYou are now playing a Morlock Zealot of Eris. Have fun.
>>560245129Demon is fun, but I have no idea how to git gud at it. It always kicked the shit out of me with no obvious error on my part.
>>559970642Brogue
>>559970642Cogmind
umI think I accidentally unlocked the super secret hard mode of Achra? WTF happened this run?
>>560268762I dont get it, i see nothing out of the ordinary here
>>560268991>>560268991This is triple my record damage dealt, and close to double my damage taken. The final boss took like a hundred turns of us gruelingly dueling and healing back and forth. I guess this is just the typical Gallus run?
>>560269232Oh i didnt saw those, good job anon!
>>560269232Is that the Death king? He could have been healing from his allies dying. And if you have 63 STR he can't kill you because STR gives Death resist.
>>560260578it feels pretty easy to me so far. what part are you getting your ass kicked at?
Death to gachas
i'm gonna play adom because i've had it on steam for a decade.
>>560268762Why does the game bother displaying healing received? Like yeah no shit I healed about the same as damage taken, otherwise I'd be dead.
>>560278815I feel like a RL gacha would do numbers, maybe. IDK, I don't give a fuck because they are cancer and I hope everyone into them is perma banned on this site.
I'm kinda enjoying Siralim Ultimate. Anything with build autism makes me stim.
WazHack
>>560280221It shows you how bigly divine interventions carried your dumb ass
>>560282635The elements from traditional roguelikes that can be made palatable to a wider audience are what you see in roguelites. A lot of popular games already have a "roguelike" mode by which they usually mean a separate game mode with procgen maps, pick 3 things gameplay, and run based meta-progression. Traditional roguelikes are too harsh and you can't sell like a SSR Nethack class with busted features without fucking up the whole game. More importantly there's basically nowhere to put social/multiplayer featuresThere's things like that one gacha that's basically Slay the Spire but even then you can feel how they sit weirdly with each other
wtf
lizard sisters its overthis game is super janky for some reason. like the fps drops when moving.
>>560290595F
>>560290064>run based meta-progressionIsn't a roguelike element
>>560291902NTA but elaborate or shut the fuck up, I'm tired of this snippity posting style where some faggot says a couple words without explaining anything further, learn how to hold a conversation.
>>560282635eramegaten has a gacha system monster catchers are quite good for gacha type systems. I feel like visting the velvet room feels like a gacha sometimes.
>>560291902But it is an extremely common roguelite "patch" to the genre, because most people used to modern games don't like feeling that they completely wasted their time on a run they lost, hence why a bunch of roguelites have you slowly unlock the full content of the game
>>560292483Can you name a major roguelike that has it? None of the classics do, it originates in modern roguelites. As this guy says: >>560293102
>>560293437TOME lets you unlock classes and races. I quite like that about it. current cata dda experimentals also have certain starts locked behind getting achievements.
>>560294252are the weird mini dungeons in Demon inspired by Tome or inspired by another game?
>>560294252Sure, but those are barely roguelikes ;-)
>>560290064You could make the gacha rolls be for starting characters. Like the free character gets to pick race and a starter class, while a common might be be a specific race/class with a decent bonus item or something, and the SSR is a big titty cat girl who starts with an advanced class from level 1 (imagine the game has class branching as part of leveling) and at least one item that would define a run if you found it on the floor. These characters would be consumable, if you die you lose a stock of it; you might make the higher rarity characters come with multiple stocks, while lower rarity ones are single use.This creates a system where whales can pig out to "Reduce variance" while the remaining 99% of the playerbase can enjoy relatively cheap pulls (since they're all consumable) and a functional roguelike.As for the social/multiplayer features, ghosts could be one way of doing it, if you get a reward for every time your ghost kills a player. It would especially please the piggies every time one of their dead waifus makes a wagie seethe for ending the run... but it might also make piggy mad to die to an early ghost. You could alternatively just do what dcss servers do and have ranked leader-boards where different completion stats are measured, which paypiggies will naturally have an advantage in to justify their spending.The only truly difficult part of making a roguelike gacha is finding a way to make sure enough fanservice is on screen at any given time.
gacha games only work on gooningIf you aren't making goonlikes you should not make a gacha
tell me your dream roguelike idea so I can craete it
>>560295056I want to make a superhero roguelike, sort of like a tile-based cousin of the Freedom Force games. I have plans for it but sadly I have too many coding projects that I need to tend to already. I do love this thing though:https://lonespelunker.itch.io/trash-80-rogue
>>560295056final fantasy roguelike but using the brave/HP system from dissidia ( and its opera omnia gacha which was a turn based game instead of a fighter) as a core mechanic, possibly with both brave and faith + HP, for compelling single unit combat. Just a good ass fantasy game - hopefully something with a more interesting dungeon. Too many empty dungeon rooms where the place u stand does not matter much. Lot of modern TTRPGs have 'end your turn next to a wall, wall run two spaces' type mechanics that feel good.