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[lukaszek]

It kind of is, but it depends on character class. Rogues are not very RNG, because all they really need is a decent base amulet and weapons, and you typically won't fail to get that (modifiers barely matter in these slots).

most rng involved with rogue are early cards. What you are looking for is snowball effects for card farming, preferably plenty of spiders. Depending on you luck you can spawn boss 2/3 loops earlier. More enemies also mean better items. With steady income of items I usually wait with boss spawn until I get weapons 2 lvls over mine, honestly it usually means waiting just 1 extra loop

 

[Jaedar]

It kind of is, but it depends on character class. Rogues are not very RNG, because all they really need is a decent base amulet and weapons, and you typically won't fail to get that (modifiers barely matter in these slots).

most rng involved with rogue are early cards. What you are looking for is snowball effects for card farming, preferably plenty of spiders. Depending on you luck you can spawn boss 2/3 loops earlier. More enemies also mean better items. With steady income of items I usually wait with boss spawn until I get weapons 2 lvls over mine, honestly it usually means waiting just 1 extra loop

Maybe? But I always play with bookery and getting to cycle 9 bad cards per turn basically negates any card rng (and the odds of not drawing bookery and not drawing good monster cards is fairly slim).

 

[Angelo85]

My imaginary cat walked all over my keyboard and as a result I visited the Watch by total accident. Found their comments amusing, they're slowly but surely approaching the dark Codex side:

Wow, those developers must be very well connected.

The power of media in a world of brainless masses. This game isn't beautiful, innovative or even great at anything. It's a little autobattle game that belongs more to something you code in a couple weeks to upload on a flash game site or a mobile phone app, but it got advertised and a couple somewhat known streamers picked it up and people without power to make decisions for themselves will buy it.

The more relevant aspect is probably the publishers, Devolver Digital, who are currently riding the populist wave after that weird popular party game Fall Guys went viral. Their Steam profile has 175k followers & they're on a roll I guess.

 

[Serious_Business]

He's not wrong, that sandy cunt. Marketing makes a lot of these games, including the enjoyment that some people get out of them by the imitation factor. Humans function by imitating, it eases them into pleasure and pain. When you see the "overwhelmingly positive" tag on Steam, you think that shit is going to be great. You can't help thinking it even if you don't like it that much. If many people liked it, it must mean that... but we're immune to this on Good Taste Codex. We're all individuals, including the little pricks that do one-liners every post. Those fuckoes are Rpgwatch, fuck 'em. There's a thread with them contemplating with joy that more and more people are getting into "our genre" (rpgs). Gives me conniptions

 

[lukaszek]

oh no, this gaym is doing to well, better start hating it now

 

[Infinitum]

It's a nice little timewaster until you figure out what breaks it wide open. Shame on how simplistic and non-interactive the worldbuilding is though; would love to see a similar concept in something more fleshed out.

 

[Darth Canoli]

What does this thing do in here anyway, is the General RPG forum the new garbage bin?

 

[Haba]

What does this thing do in here anyway, is the General RPG forum the new garbage bin?

If the developers call it an RPG, it belongs to GRPGD. Welcome to the new and improved Codex.

 

[Villagkouras]

I played it all the time until I beat the first boss and haven't touched it since, with no intention to come back at all.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

 

[Latelistener]

I've been stuck in Act II thinking about what am I doing wrong, then read somewhere that you need Necromancer. Unlocked it and completed from the first try without even understanding much about the class. Either I was extremely lucky or the balance is not really good.

Those bonuses from furniture items you can find like +5 Defense or +1 HP are so bland it's painful. I don't even know why they are in the game. They don't provide much at this point and could have been easily replaced with other more interesting mechanics.

Also I was better off not placing most cards at all, reducing my pool to a minimum, since usually they will hurt you more than you gain from them.

Overall, "Overwhelmingly Positive" is a far stretch for this game in my opinion. It's good, just not that good.

 

[Metronome]

I did act 2 with a rogue. You need to get very high attack speed to deal with the mirrors. The 2nd boss still is the most bullshit of them all though. The next ones aren't so bad. I also use to not place many cards but you need enemies to fight for the item drops. If you play too cautiously you gimp yourself and are left wondering why you are underpowered. Early on the warrior does best with large numbers of enemies due to his higher endurance iirc.

Some of it just boils down to the game expecting you to grind for a better camp though.

 

[Latelistener]

Well fuck me I also completed Act III after that with Necro on the first try. I think this class simply owns the game.

Those orbs that require you to fight at least 4 enemies is complete bullshit though. You need 10 of them for Warehouse and 15 for River. This game should've ended already, but here you are, grinding for resources.

 

[Drew]

Those orbs that require you to fight at least 4 enemies is complete bullshit though. You need 10 of them for Warehouse and 15 for River. This game should've ended already, but here you are, grinding for resources.

DO a couple runs with vampire houses placed next to villages and you'll have more of those than you know what to do with.

 

[Metronome]

Those orbs that require you to fight at least 4 enemies is complete bullshit though. You need 10 of them for Warehouse and 15 for River. This game should've ended already, but here you are, grinding for resources.

Yeah, you have to figure out a way to get those deliberately. Usually you need a tile with 4 enemies and a bonus one. The bonus one can be a book, watcher, or vampire. Weaker enemies like spiders work best for the 4.

My way is this. Place a few spider nests in range of your camp crossbows and place vampire mansions so that a vampire will spawn with the spiders. I usually add swamp tiles underneath the connected road so that mosquitos will fill in any gaps to get 5 total enemies. If you can squeeze a guard post in nearby it helps with soaking up some of the damage. Damage is typically pretty light due to the frailty of the monsters though.

A few of these set up will get you several expansion orbs each loop. They will also seriously get in the way of the Lich's palace spawns during the final chapter.

 

[Alpan]

I enjoy this game welll enough, but ... it's just so slow, even on x2 game speed. Is there any way to unofficially speed it up without breaking some other thing, or should I just wait for patches?

 

[Haba]

Speedhack used to work, but then they did something.

 

[Antigoon]

When did they change that? I played it last a few days ago and it was still working on 4x speed.

 

[Haba]

Might be because of my version of Cheat Engine as well. It worked on release but very soon after that it broke.

 

[lukaszek]

Those orbs that require you to fight at least 4 enemies is complete bullshit though. You need 10 of them for Warehouse and 15 for River. This game should've ended already, but here you are, grinding for resources.

DO a couple runs with vampire houses placed next to villages and you'll have more of those than you know what to do with.

also do get watchtowers and place crowds next to your village. Its good not just for orbs farming

 

[Antigoon]

Might be because of my version of Cheat Engine as well. It worked on release but very soon after that it broke.

Cheat engine? Just try to edit the ini. Someone posted that ITT, it worked for me.

 

[Acrux]

Yeah, in variables just change gamespeed from 60 to whatever you want. 120 is 2x speed, etc.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I hate rogulites and card games. Is this game enjoyable?

 

[lukaszek]

I hate rogulites and card games. Is this game enjoyable?

there is demo that is 1/4 of the game and if you chose to buy it, your progress stays

 

[Fenix]

I think this game is 3/5, not mediocre, solid but not stardom. Like, game that were made an masse before, and then AAA titles destroyed them all.
Though, it's not surprising it got high prises today, in age of shitty game (and oter products of culture).