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Title: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Tormuse on January 12, 2020, 10:19
I still play this game once in a while, and this run was going really well, up until I died very suddenly, in what I'm sure was a very avoidable way.  I guess I neglected to check my hit points; I thought they were at 15, and I was berserk, so I should have been taking reduced damage, so I was not expecting to get killed by a Wraith, but I guess my hp were lower than I thought.  I had four Fairydust, so there was no reason not to heal myself; I was just careless.  :(

Oh well...  I decided it was good enough to post anyway.  :)

-- Berserk! (0.8.5 ) Post Mortem -------------------------------------

  Character name  : Tormuse
  Game type       : Endless
  Nights survived : 16
  Monsters killed : 2736

  STR: 16  DEX: 17  END: 12  WIL: 15
  Speed: 112  HP: 0/165  EN: 61/135
  Base damage: 2d6+7  Weight: 12

-- Graveyard ---------------------------------------------------------

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-- Weapons left ------------------------------------------------------

  Cannon (1/3)  Crossbow (12/60)  Knives (10)  Bombs (5)  FairyDust (4)

-- Kills (2736) ------------------------------------------------------

  15 demons
  152 bulldemons
  1079 beasts
  196 mandagores
  30 defilers
  197 imps
  215 phasehounds
  449 skeletons
  36 wraiths
  18 spores
  111 scavengers
  15 treespirit
  36 treants
  30 townspeople
  63 ice devils
  70 yeti
  24 blizzards

-- Skills (20) -------------------------------------------------------

  Ironman (level 11)
  Running (level 3)
  Sweep attack (level 3)
  Impale attack (level 1)
  Jump attack (level 2)

-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------

 You evade.
 You evade.
 You evade.
 The wraith evades your
 blow.
 You evade.
 You evade.
 The wraith hits you!
 You die!...
 Press <Enter>

-- Achievements ------------------------------------------------------

  Max kills in one turn    : 22
  Longest killing sequence : 23 kills in 2 turns.
  Survived for             : 17091 turns
  Died on                  : Forest
  Reason of death          : killed by a wraith

Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on January 12, 2020, 16:42
The game needs stronger scaling of difficulty :P
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Sereg on January 13, 2020, 09:26
Judging by the other active thread today, it's quite difficult enough - it's just that when Tormuse plays things, they look a lot easier than they actually are =P

Balancing for Tormuse is not balancing for everyone else - something I'll have to be sure to keep in mind as my own current project approaches a release-ready state.

Edit: Decided I'd try to play Berserk! myself - never played before - and the download links seem to be failing for me(I was looking at the Beta Board, the two WIP threads). Is there a better place to get it?
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Tormuse on January 13, 2020, 12:05
Here's the link that Tavana shared with me a while back. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/berserkrl/files/berserkrl/)
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Sereg on January 13, 2020, 16:28
Thanks... got smoked by a scavenger that I couldn't hit to save my life on the very first level =P guess I won't be setting any records anytime soon.
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Tormuse on January 13, 2020, 21:34
Yeah, Scavengers can be troublesome.  :)  I wrote a mini guide for BerserkRL a while back (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8291.msg68885.html#msg68885) that might help you out.  It's a game with unique gameplay that has it's own interesting set of challenges.
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: mihey1993 on January 14, 2020, 01:55
*Sereg mentions having something release worthy*
*waiting intensifies*
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Tormuse on January 14, 2020, 05:08
Reminds me that I haven't played Viridian Abyss (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8367.0.html) in a while.  Maybe I'll have another go at that.  :)
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Sereg on January 15, 2020, 06:37
Yeah, Scavengers can be troublesome.  :)  I wrote a mini guide for BerserkRL a while back (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8291.msg68885.html#msg68885) that might help you out.  It's a game with unique gameplay that has it's own interesting set of challenges.

I'll have to take a look at that guide then - I am currently quite woefully underprepared for Berserk!, lol.

*Sereg mentions having something release worthy*
*waiting intensifies*

Nothing that will resemble a game for a long time yet, though I'll probably have something playable, in the sense that you'll be able to walk around and not much else, pretty shortly*. If you're interested in that just as sort of a snapshot of progress, I can send you a download link via pm, but I probably won't be posting an official development thread until I have something significantly more substantial, which may be a few months or more.

*assuming the Engine I've designed for it works as intended and doesn't take weeks to sort out in and of itself...

Reminds me that I haven't played Viridian Abyss (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8367.0.html) in a while.  Maybe I'll have another go at that.  :)

It's still as unpolished as I left it, but it is a complete game in some sense of the word =P I'll admit I've fired it up myself once or twice while working on the new one... but I definitely plan to offer a much more complete experience next time ;) Still, I'd be interested to see if you (or anyone else) can discover the alternate ending...
Title: Re: [0.8.5|Endless|16|YASD] Very avoidable death
Post by: Tormuse on January 15, 2020, 09:47
There's an alternate ending?  Hmm...