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Requests For Features / Re: Challenge modes ideas - old and new.

« on: March 03, 2012, 17:04 »

Not advocating more about the idea, as it's not that important, as i can understand the reasonning on your first 2 first points as indeed if the challenge are designed with a specifc set of monsters, item and special levels availabilty in mind TYTD would be inappropriate considering it block some special levels and do not spawn the same kind of monster at specific depth.

The 3rd is just a matter of how a player would take the game, playing without achievements given is indeed strange for some people, but i don't see the relevance of your 4th argument in that matter.

At the risk of alienating some of the newer players, this is a rogue-like, so part of the learning process is to go through the live-fire situations and figuring out how best to do it.  It develops better habits than the "watered down" versions that impose additional constraints that are absent.

Because by this logic, "Hey not too rought", "Hurt me plenty", "Ultraviolence" are watered down in comparison to "Nightmare" in term of difficulty.

And more importantly, there's a very important gameplay difference between Nightmare and every other levels that impact the way the player must act : the enemy is able to respawn, leading a player using the tactics he learned from every other difficulties to get into lot of YASD from playing like this, leading by the same logic as those less than "Nightmare" difficulties developping bad habits.

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Requests For Features / Re: Challenge modes ideas - old and new.

« on: March 03, 2012, 10:59 »

Would it be a good idea to enable the "I dont want to die" difficulty in the challenge modes ?
But only to be considered as a training kind of thing, meaning that a victory at such difficulty level would not count at all in giving any kind of medals/unlocks/whatever else, only starting at the correct level of difficuty would have a victory really count.

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Discussion / Re: The new Spider Mastermind...

« on: March 01, 2012, 18:25 »

I found what looks like to be a very good anti-Spider Mastermind build :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Goal : to have some plasma resistance and a weapon dealing lots of damage quickly to avoid staying under fire for too long.
Need : being lucky with finding enough basic mods, but fortunately no need of very rare nano or onyx mods

I decided to go with Technician class, maybe other classes may be better, but i wanted to have that Technical mod guaranteed, as they start with one, and with my goal, Entranchment would be simply marvelous.
2 level of "Whizkids" are required as i needed to max the items with mods.

So i managed to build my required weapon from a Plasma Rifle , by adding 1 Agility and 2 Technical (agility were rather abundant, Technical was rarer , good i had one from the start), into a Hyperblaster.
At "Whizkid" 2, i could add on top of the Hyperblaster a nice Power mod to keep it even more deadly, and oh boy it was, annihilating the strongest monsters rather quickly, even the poor Cyberdemon was standing no chance.
But again, it needs "Whizkid" 2 to be able to unleash such fury, traits points you can't use elsewhere, so that's the price.

Now a Hyperblaster eat plasma ammo, much less than a Plasma Rifle, but still Plasma is not the most common ammo , so it was necessary to have another weapon to spare Plasma when it wasn't needed (corner shots or medium/low level enemies), i went with shotguns, because i just like them.
There i was very lucky to get an Assault Shotgun rather early and 3 Power mods later it was a really great weapon.

Then, i needed to deal lot of damage as i mentionned, so the "Son of a bitch" trait was very important to get extra damage points, i just maxed it to SoB 3

"Trigger Happy" then 2 levels of "Tough as nails" (for the required "Badass") unlocked the Entranchment, that would add 30% of resistance to all damage type if i use the chain fire (SHIFT+F, i didn't found yet how to do with the mouse, shift+right click doing the normal fire).
A fire mode that the Hyperblaster can do, so it was perfect.

That was for offensive power, and Entranchement would make sure that i had at least 30% of resistance against the Spider Mastermind plasma of 2 shots-death.

But it's not enough, i wasn't lucky to find any special item with Plasma resistance (wished i could get Malek armor this time) so i took a Blue armor (that add +20% of plasma resistance) and kept it in my inventory until the end (as they're weak and break easy)
Fortunately, i found some nice mods to improve it, first a Power mod to get it to be as good as a Red armor, then Bulk an Agility that were the last mods i had and got it 200% resistance with a few speed bonus.

And it was on, the Spider Mastermind usually able to 2 or 3 shots the character to death, wasn't that insanely hard this time at range, as with the modified Blue Armor + Entranchment it was 50% of plasma resistance.
And the most excellent Hyperblaster was dealing death , death and death again, ending in the creature defeat.

But to be able to get there, you need to get your character to level 10, so don't avoid the arena and the chained court, you can avoid every other branches as long as you kill nearly everything on every levels.
Though if instead of SoB 3 you go for SoB 2, you can make it at level 9

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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.6G] Screen not centered on player lead into Intuition problem

« on: March 01, 2012, 08:04 »

Hello,

Since playing with 0.9.9.6 there was something i felt strange during the gameplay, but i couldn't put my finger on it until i ran into a problem that made it more obvious when i tried a character maxing Intuition : the screen is not centered to the player character, but depending on which direction you are moving, the center of the screen can be a few tiles behind it.

By example :

See how the center of the screen is behind the character (that is moving, not running, to the left)

And so in the case of an Intuition 2 characters, i couldn't then notice the enemy to the left unless i moved manually the screen to the left  (the minimap being so transparent does not really help) :


Detection problem that of course do not exist in the ASCII version.

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Discussion / Re: The new Spider Mastermind...

« on: March 01, 2012, 01:19 »

On the multiple attempts i did before beating the Spider Mastermind, i noticed that its AI has been changed in a way that makes it completely unpredictable, meaning that corner shooting are not as usefull as they were, and making it so more difficult to get in melee than previous version

Typical spotting :


Expected Spider Mastermind move , leading you to corner shoot :


But more than half the time  instead this is what will happen :


And all of that (unpredictable move, 2 or 3 shots kills) in the lowest level of difficulty, can't even imagine at Hurt me plenty or Ultra-violence.
The Cyberdemon can be difficult, but it's nowhere close to the Spider Mastermind.

That's really the kind of boss fight in which you'd like to have Intuition 2 (unfortunately blocking some other traits) to have corner shooting usefull.

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Discussion / Re: The new Spider Mastermind...

« on: February 29, 2012, 15:11 »

In previous version the major difficulty was to manage to get in melee without being annihilated by plasma at range, get surprised by the boss direction, and in 2 shots your character was dead.
Now that's a complete different story as it can destroy the player as easily at melee or at range, the most funny is that even taking a large medic kit is often not enough to prevent the insta death that follow (you losing a turn to use the medic kit, while the Spider deals plasma/melee death just after).

So now , unless the player is obviously lucky enough to find good plasma-protecting items, the Spider Mastermind is a very hard challenge even at the lowest level of difficulty.

edit : retrying a saved game, it looks like the Trigun (assuming you have maxed every damage bonus dealing traits) + power red armor can beat it , only at melee, and only if you managed to get to melee without having been hit by a plasma (that would then have hit your health and armor level too much to hope anything)
After that, taking large medic kits while shooting+reloading is enough, but it's very close in term of health, the armor got destroyed a turn before the end in melee, the character would have been dead if it had one more turn
So unless lucky enough to find plasma protecting items, it's always going to be solved by how quickly and without being hit you can get to melee.
And even so be sure to have good armor and good damage dealing weapon.

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Discussion / Re: Quick questions thread!

« on: February 29, 2012, 08:00 »

Question about 0.9.9.6 keybindings.lua

In previous version (up to 0.9.9.5) , i used to bind the (regular) shotgun and pistol to the PageUp and PageDown of my keyboard.
So in the keybindings.lua i had :
   PAGEDOWN     = function() command.quick_weapon('pistol') end,
   PAGEUP     = function() command.quick_weapon('shotgun') end,

And it worked very well.


In 0.9.9.6, all i obtain from this is "unknown command" , i have tried with :
   PAGEDOWN     = function() command.quick_weapon('pistol') end,
   PAGEUP     = function() command.quick_weapon('shotgun') end,

or
   ["PAGEDOWN"]    = function() command.quick_weapon('pistol') end,
   ["PAGEUP"]     = function() command.quick_weapon('shotgun') end,

All my other key binding are working, but i'm unable to make those 2 work in 0.9.9.6, is there a solution ?

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Announcements / Re: DoomRL 0.9.9.6 RELEASED!

« on: February 29, 2012, 06:13 »

I'm frankly amazed, not only by the gorgeous graphics that are very Doom-like (and even better than in the videos preview) but the mouse driven interface took me completely by surprise, not having read about it before, i just love it, DoomRL feels incredibly polished.
Everything is nearly so perfect. Only thing i could think is that the minimap may not be bright enough (at least in windowed versino) in the bottom of the screen, it's difficult to see the items/monsters on it sometime.

Thank you so much for this release.

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Discussion / Re: Screenshots: ASCII and Graphics

« on: February 29, 2012, 06:06 »

Not much, but i was so happy to see him with graphics

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Discussion / Re: Shotgun knockback effects reduced in 0.996

« on: February 29, 2012, 06:04 »

I thought the shotgun knockback wasn't functionning at all when i picked the first shotgun.
After 2 level of the SoB trait, it worked, and the double shotgun i got after was throwing people around, so maybe the knockback is more damage related now.

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Bug Reports / [Not Bug]0.9.9.5 content in error.log

« on: January 07, 2012, 05:56 »

Hello

On Window XP playing this recent 0.9.9.5
I sometime save the game and quit, and lately i noticed there was an error.log file generated with this inside :

Timestamp   : 07/01/2012 13:12:21
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message     : Fatal exception encountered

An unhandled exception occurred at $0041D792 :
EInOutError : Access denied
  $0041D792  VDEBUG_init,  line 302 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vdebug.pas
  $0040C714

Despite this error never appeared ingame, and the game has not crashed (yet).