/rlg/ - Roguelike General

PCB centipede here - should I use the 1.3M I've saved up to dive down to 4500ft and see what I can get out with alive? Clvl 36

You could just spend your money on a staff of detect stairs instead, user.

Or if you really want to get to a dangerous dlvl go run to the entrances to Mine/Olympus/R'lyeh

>removing the IVAN news
Why
We leave all new roguelike news for at least a week
Why did you do that you maniac

Just having 16/16 str/agi is usually enough to kill early game mobs with whatever weapon you can find. Stat progression should focus on the weapon class you want to use.
To make it into the late game you're gunna want to get tinkering 1 so you can mod your equipment. Flaming/freezing/electrified make a big difference in damage on the higher tier weapons.
Cold hands is a great way to get through early and if you level it up it freezes enemies pretty nicely. Sleeping gas is a nice crowd control option.
As far as defenses go DV is great but you will want some AV regardless or the one attack that gets through may delete you.
Make sure your attack pen is high.

Is ring starting equipment unfucked yet?

I unfucked it in pseudo the first time people posted about it being fucked

Is True Human ever worth it compared to muts?

I don't have those, I turned wilderness off after spending two nights trying to get to another town.

Doing Tombs for the first time, none of the debuffs I get from here are permanent right? Unlike bad mutations from slime pits. Also how should I do slime pits? I don't know of an item that grants resistance to bad mutations except for maybe artefacts that I haven't come across yet. Just skip it?

>none of the debuffs I get from here are permanent right

stat reduction will go away as you gain xp.its recommeneded to have every stat at 7 min.Tomb also need some torment form of torment resistnace like statue for and TSO is the recommended god.Be verty careful Tomb is nasty even if you know what you're doing

> Also how should I do slime pits
Zin grants you resistance to mutations.All you need is some rCorr and fight the Royal Jelly buffed in the middle corridors.Read 1-2 scrolls of summonig to fill the gaps beofre you hit it cuz it spawns other jellies

Yes
It's almost impossible to fuck up character creation when you make an OG human.
You get 12 extra stat points... A mutant wouldn't catch up until level 36. Not to mention you get more starting skills better starting items. There are more benefits i wont even mention.

they are a lot less cool though

I have a ring of positive energy, that works against torment, right? I also have a ring of resist corrosion, I can I use it in slime pits. I don't want to abandon Trog for one branch though, he's been quite useful so far. I guess I can rely on his summons when I come across a monster with mutation ability?

I just ate a whole bag of pepperoni and I feel like dying

roguelikes

>still no real classical roguelikes in speedrunning events
Sad!

I honestly can not believe there isn't a complete erotic roguelike in the year 2017.

Maidensnow Eve my dude

Just win a couple of times and go back to playing offline. I only have 20 games myself but the few wins I have are more than enough to prove that I'm legit.

Why are you wearing a gourmand amulet? It's clearly not doing anything useful, just throw that away and wear the regen amulet instead.

>speedrunning turn based games
Sounds barely more exciting than christian porn and a whole lot less amusing.

speedrunning games revolving around RLG is more of an issue I think

>still no roguelike superplay marathon where greaterplayers do slowruns with extensive commentary

I feel this urgent need to torture your butt for using an exclamation point

newfag

What are the chances potion of beneficial mutation spawning?

low

*** LOW HP WARNING ***

You die...

tum is here to save the day!!!

Potions of lignification, yea or nay?

Get better menes

about tree fiddy

Yea, useful for stuff like bee swarms early on

Depends. They're useful specifically to low AC characters and against weak attacks. By the time you reach Lair, they're mostly useless; by the time you reach Vaults, they're 100% useless (for instance, a character with reasonably high AC will have more than they'd get from Tree Form).

I'm definitely a big proponent of their use in the early game, though. They just rapidly become pointless with every new floor.

yeah, rN+++ and torment resistance is totally useless late in the game. uh huh

How good is the Distortion brand once you are high enough XL where the unwield effects are no big deal? Useful for post-end? Better/worse than Elec, Vamp, etc.?

Base weapon type is demon trident.

It's good for crowd control but gets a bit annoying when you blink a single enemy away from you.
Also, banishments don't give you full XP

>come back to crawl after like a year
>hepliaklqana
nice jojo reference xDDD

Thanks, I think Distortion would be an improvement over vorpal...

Being unable to move (and unable to even teleport/blink under normal circumstances) is not worth torment immunity. rN+++ is not impossible to get, especially for the ever-common extended game TSO worshippers.

Lig/Tree Form will fuck you over much more often than it'll help you past the midgame. That's the sign of a useless item, IMO.

Just started playing and I've never gotten to D:13 before. My items are absolute shit though and Trog keeps giving me some javelins and tomahawks. Fuck Trog.

Also, I've never left the main dungeon and am afraid to do so. Where should I go first? I have Lair and Orcish Mines available.

If you're fine on D:13 you'll do peachy in the Lair

but dude, you have an antimagic Executioner's axe before Lair, which is arguably a very nice weapon for the endgame/Zot. Trog believes in you.

Speaking of which, what's your Axes skill at? Because while an Exe Axe is sexy as fuck, it might fuck you over if your skill isn't at least like 10, if not 15. For the time being, you might be better off with an Axe less powerful than your Exe.

In general, you'll want to do Lair before Orc, unless you zero weapons for killing Hydras, which luckily isn't the case with you. Your dire flail will work well (be sure to switch to it at the first sight of a Hydra), so Lair should be your goal. Keep in mind that you might get poisoned in this area -- however, you'll only get basic amounts of poison in Lair and not horribly bad poisoning that'll put your whole health bar in the yellow (Uniques like Sonja are an exception). For most people and in most cases, Lair is fine without poison resistance.

Also, use your identify scroll and ID those glowing grey potions (and any other potions that you haven't ID'd). For now, drop your noise scroll as well: you can just yell with "tt" if you need to create noise (which does have tactical usage from time to time).

How are frogs in trunk?

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But we have that.
Thank god, we have that.

My axe skill is like 17. I have gotten multiple enchant weapon scrolls after the post and used them on the axe. I also ID'd the potions and went to the Lair, in which, I'm doing fine.

Good to know the Hydra thing, I've splatted to Hydras on my earlier "best" runs. Now I know to save the Flail for Hydras.

This one will be by far my best run ever and I'm slowly starting to enjoy the game. I hope I'll be able to get to this point consistently after as well.

Why shouldnt i take teleport as a starter mutation everytime in Qud?

Sure seems like people are playing Qud nowadays! Can you hook me up with the latest torrent?

Doesn't exist, Qud gets updates pretty often.
Any torrents will be horribly out of date.

Well, just put yours up, no?

Im playing the one most recent from tbp

No

Also, it contains the sultans update, so relics, world history etc. are in.

Damn demonic guardian mutation is good

>refusing to share the load with your aralgeean bretheren
I guess this is what PAYING FOR ROGUELIKES does to you.
You sick monster. You should be put down.

is this Elona?

In DCSS, are shields a good idea for unarmed fighters now?

Of course

Anyone knows how to remove the blue filter in qud
it's fucking awful

The price of a movie ticket for a great game. Why don't you go get a job or something, bum? Or you know, play the free version.

The guy actually works on the game and updates it weekly unlike the ASCII no music open-source roguelikes that get updated once every five years.

Oh and almost forgot, kys.

Pick it with clairvoyance too so you can scry on shit you can't see and then teleport to it.

>this is your brain on shilling
Fucking disgusting.

>tfw no dicku

Steam/steamapps/qud/streamingsomething/display.txt

Small k is the background and capital K is the map that you've explored but is out of your view. The rest you can leave as is but also disable the scan lines for more info.

Colorhexa.com, choose a nice background color for k and a bit lighter version of it for K.

>You eat political activism.
>There was something very wrong with that ideology!
>You regain consciousness...

>Ulch! That ideology was tainted!
>You feel deathly sick.

Ohh, totally fucked up the formatting, am on phone.

For more info about the colors, colorhexa.com. The scanlines are a matter of opinion but I've disabled them. I have like five different display.txts for variety, I'm autistic like that.

Why don't you use all your free time working on a game and give it for us free? How old are you anyways? 15?

Yes. 0.17 stopped shields from weakening Unarmed Combat. Shields only negatively UC fighters by removing offhand punches.

How useless are those anyway?

They basically don't matter at all.

offhand punch is like a ~30%ish increase to your total damage-per-aut

chance to use aux attacks is based on str+dex so probably a bigger boost for cheifriends

Most characters end up with ~40 Str+Dex by XL 27 anyways; Chei need not apply.

That said, offhand punch damage apparently isn't based on main-attack damage like the Vinestalker's bite is. According to learndb, the formula for an offhand punch is
> 5 + UC skill / 3 + (6 with blade hands) + (claws mutation level)d3 with claws (does not stack with blade hands)

>can't kill unicorns because muh veganism
>pray
>you feel that god is angry at your pussy ass

VS bite isn't based on main-attack-damage either user, it's a flat amount that increases with the level of the mutation (which increases as VS level).

Offhand punch is related to your total damage output because both are based mostly on UC skill.

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>dirty and uncultured free source scum:
>probably on welfare
>can't even spare a dime for his favorite pastime
>fucks my little pony dolls in his mother's basement

>enlightened and sophisticated roguelike enthusiast:
>pays for games he enjoys
>has a girlfriend
>discusses roguelikes and never shitposts on /rlg/
>has won every roguelike at least five times

I swear to god, your posts read like a Kelly comic.

not wanting to pirate an indiegame is different from being opposed to opensource in general user

if you want to pirate a big roguelike like darksouls made by hundreds of people in a big faceless videogames company go right ahead,

but qud is made by like 2 guys

Qud is made by people who pulled a Biskup and decided to "update" weekly with single bugfixes a dead game, after they saw sproggywood wasn't getting them anywhere.
The game's still unfinished, they literally (metaphysically) slapped a blue filter on a game that hasn't had an ending in seven years, was left in development hell until they found out they could actually get money out of gullible fucks that did not know about the game before and the codebase is still wonky..

250 Mb savegame files.
For a game that's 50 Mb in size.

But it's not a bad game. I like Qud. In fact, I was really happy when I heard they were rebooting it, since I hated not having nothing to do after bethesda.

But the barathrum tower is still fucked after 7 years.

Fuck shiny new tiles and music to grab the easy money, I want to play Qud, not sproggyQud.

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Don't mean to shill or anything but every single time I've had a problem with the game or a question about the game I've gone to Discord or Reddit (lel, ikr XD) and the dev has answered to me within hours. He seems to actually care about the game so I'd happily pay more than ten bucks. Hell, I even bought Sproggiwood for mobile.

Like everyone else I appreciate open-source projects but if a hard working guy wants to get paid for his work that's totally fine as well.

man if they wanted to make money they would just join a real game company instead of making indie roguelikes

it's not like biskup where his game was actually popular/famous enough for him to make dollars from it

The new overlay UI is crappy as well but I appreciate the attempt to make the game more accessible.

ASCII and the old UI will be forever supported though. I wish we could change the font though.

>a big roguelike like darksouls

wow, someone's taken his kiddie gloves [-1] off

That's looks...wrong. So wrong.

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Thank god the confusing shit on the ground can be disabled. The font and the spacing is horrible for ASCII though.

it looks like you already DID change the font user
i dont recognize that @

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most people who complain about the Qud filter doesn't know about the free ASCII version.