/rlg/ Roguelike General

hey why are we falling down

Shit, looks like some tard mod killed bumping

nah that worked

Oh no OP was too degenerate

Nevermind, false alarm

you cant bump your own thread until it's past a certain age you silly billy

fucking op

Anyone have any runs to post?

I wonder if any of the mods post here

to post runs i would first have to play a rogue like

Keep it in and just change your out of los colour to darkblue.

I've got some degenerate gameplay if you want
managed to get into a cloning vat room and eat a bunch of limbs and got very fast healer on top of my fast healer trait
that will help with the bionic that gives literally -50 health every day

Bad news for the 2 nethack guys that post here.
twitter.com/devnull_nethack/status/908441635746279424

This guy cleared until Zot 4 and also has an +4 executioners axe of holy wrath. I have never done extended before and don't know what is coming for me.

Where should he go next?

why? What would change then?

Zot 5 and get the orb.

In dcss, should I stick to this +5 artifcat weapon that gives me resists, or try to get a +9 of the same weapon with some dmg brand?

weapon switching takes half a turn. That's faster than switching a ring. Switch it out for the resists if you need them.

+5 vs +9 doesnt matter too much
good brand vs bad/no brand matters much more

Weapons are for doing damage. You use the weapon which does more damage, unless i.e. the other has rf and is your only source of rf against a fire damage threat.

Honestly nobody really plays those tournaments anymore. People have been winning nethack and variants back to back for decades now. The goddamn game hasn't been significantly altered in around 20 years.

Thanks for the tips.

Wrong!
Junethack was plenty active this year with over 100 people playing.
The game was just updated for the first time last year and continues to be in development.
3.6.0 actually borked a few things from 3.4.3 but these have been addressed in the current 3.6.1dev but this version is not official yet. It can still be played at NAO and hardfought though.
Many of the variants are being actively developed and expanded as well.
t. will not admit his dying game is dead

Looks like the No CBM painkillers mod doesn't work if you start with a class with CBMs installed right at the start.
Search me.

>Junethack was plenty active this year with over 100 people playing.
Wow user, just wow
100 people you say
That's astounding
you're telling me that in one month 100 people played nethack and variants?
Incredible. It must be the new roguelike reinassance.

Face it, *hacks are the deadest subgenre. Even *Bands have more people playing them.

more people than post in this thread, user
it's just a small community gathering not an international event to stick on the calendar

Yeah. And now the edges are already crumbling.

Wrong again!
Currently 8 people playing angband live
19 playing on NAO

Nope, our last thread reach the bump limit in under 3 days and that timeframe has been getting shorter and shorter for weeks. Average thread about 2 months ago was 4-5 days.
Why must you lie to validate you own beliefs?
I mean yah, it's not the most active genre but there's plenty of us who aren't going anywhere.

I knew taking three points of electronics at the start was a good idea.

I'm talking about the tourney fucknuts

nao is a well-established popular server
angband.live is pretty new and minor
i'd posit that a much smaller fraction of *band players bother with online compared to *hack players (or crawl players but fuck those guys)

Ah well I don't know much about angband tournies.
Yah, kinda comparing apples and oranges. I'm just saying hack isn't as dead as some want to believe.

does angband have "big" tournies?
the only thing i knoow about is the competition on oook which is kind of an always-happening thing, just with a different game each month

>All these kids that don't realize this community was even smaller before the 'mainstream' found out about it, and it's just returning to the natural size

>kids
I doubt the average roguelike player is much younger than 25, with a lot of them being well over 30

I'm 19.

I know what I said.

Also do noobs have a decent chances of getting anywhere in the ladder? Learning the games might be interesting, even if only for the tournaments

I'd love to see a timeline of your version of events.

>do noobs have a decent chances of getting anywhere in the ladder?
I don't know anything about Angband tournies and I still feel fully qualified to answer this with an emphatic "no".

20 years old here
I think many young people get into the genre by the recent use of roguelike as a buzzword. They played some roguelites falsely labeled roguelikes, triggered some older players with their stupidity but still ended up checking out the real classics.

I am in that range but I have to agree that /rlg/ is probably younger.

Worded that badly.

How strong is the competition?
How good do you have to be to see at least little results?

You're certainly right that the majority of people likely discover roguelikes through contact with roguelites falsely labeled roguelikes, but this scenario you've concocted is ridiculous and surely people who've discovered roguelikes as you've described are a minority in the extreme. It's natural for people to be exposed to the concepts of procedural generation and permadeath through roguelites and inevitably end up stumbling onto and into roguelikes as a result; the existence of roguelikes isn't "hidden" and peripheral awareness of their existence is not uncommon.

angband.oook.cz/competition.php
there are literally 12 dumps from 9 players on the current comp's ladder (it's a perma-aggravating balance drake of domination in pcb7)

I think you mean "literally (competitively)".

I don't know anything about angband but I just started playing nethack this year. We had a clan that was competing for the first time against several clans that have been in the tournie for many years and we managed to come in first place.
It was actually a very exciting month

tfw almost 30

omg we have celebrities here on /rlg/.
How long did it take until people stopped recognizing you on the streets?

...

LOL I don't leave the house you tard

Once someone asked me if I was the mumo guy and asked for my autograph
I swear

training for the next tournament already?

The good news is that I successfully opened up the Electronics store.

The bad news is that the Sporting Goods store is now gone.

Nah I don't play roguelikes anymore I just shitpost here.

I would call fake and gay and but this is so specific and stupid that I'm really curios how such a situation can even emerge

ponyposter you are the worst mumo guy

win-win I say. Zombies in running shoes can be really nasty

meant as a reply too

I don't get what the dif between multiple pools and single pool when theh both add up to the same number and both let me spend my points in anything

>both let me spend my points in anything
wrong

both let you spend all your points on starting skills, which are semi-useless temporary buffs -- you can get the same results by raising your skills in-game after character creation
singlepool lets you spend all your points on stats, which are OP, or traits, which are OK
multipool limits that behavior so you can't just take 0 skills and 12 points of negative traits and then dump all the points in stats, which is actually the strongest (but also boringest) way to do character creation

in multipool you can still downgrade stat points into trait points or trait points into skill points
but doing so is stupid and dumb

>you can get the same results by raising your skills in-game after character creation

Grinding? I love grinding!

The only thing I willingly grind is hyper mare cheese

what are some roguelikes that are visually appealing

brogue for ascii, maybe forays
the pretty graphical ones are usually the ones costing money, see tangledeep.

oppai labyrinth is pretty appealing if you know what i mean

Unironically tangledeep

Rice your terminal and play ascii

You will love it extra because you put in the work

>gaining xp is grinding
Roguelikes should just start at max level with all the best equipment.

Forays into Norrendrin actually does this

>Disassemble and reassemble cocksleeves
>Until you rank it up
>Watch your character read "How to Slurp Barbed Dick."
>Until you rank up

Grinding! I love grinding?

there's a 7drl like that
but you're pretty old so the more you progress the more equipment and skills you lose from being a decaying old man

>equipment
yes
>level
fuck no there's all that shit with shrines or orbs or whatever they are

bump

DOOM roguelike is the best.

Does /rlg/ Qud?

too much blood, I get bad dreams of that

no, /rlg/ has patrician taste when Amerifats aren't awake
see

yes but like all nonfree games it inspires lots of shitposting as well

What time do you think it is in America exactly?

time for a crabby patty

krabby*

americans need to wake up every 3 hours and eat something to keep their blood sugar levels up

reminder that you're in a thread full of sucidal failures

Use a better style dude.

Awareness of futility of life is required to be truly human.
Anyone who still clings to belief that life is a good thing is only a beast, no better than cattle.

what about awareness of the futility of posting in roguelike threads

>restaurant kitchen is full of giant cockroaches
Heh.

>Spawn in Military Surplus store
>Duffle Bag and Water Purifier
>Go into first house
>Check basement
>AK-47 and Ammo with Beds

Is this real life?