Squeenix New Crawler "Dungeon Encounters" by Square Enix, budget lower than the rpgcodex server costs

[mediocrepoet]

Absolute scenes when this gets voted Codex GOTY 2021.

Yeah, it'd be terrible if the Codex actually voted for a game as GOTY.

 

[Reinhardt]

Mind - blown. So there are hidden tiles in the game. When i seen lone tile on floor 0 i dismissed it as "probably something to do later - it's japanese gaem after all". But then i returned later and started collecting characters i missed at the start and it looks like one of them is on that lone tile. And then SUDDENLY i was like "i see ONE tile but i missing TWO tiles from level completion! + she's only level 2 - it can't be late game character!"

 

[Reinhardt]

100% mapped first 10 floors. I have 10k geld, probably should visit academy while i still close to teleporter and buy something...

 

[Reinhardt]

Nigga u wot...

 

[Abu Antar]

Look at the numbers when you see encounters. They provide a very good hint about what you should, or should not fight. Welcome to the club, my man.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Lesson: "Don't walk onto higher number encounter tiles, unless you know what you are doing" - learned.

 

[Reinhardt]

it's not numbers, it's letters...

btw missing one tile on floor 12. it's something hidden or i was just careless?

 

[Abu Antar]

it's not numbers, it's letters...

btw missing one tile on floor 12. it's something hidden or i was just careless?

Letters are even worse.

I don't remember floor 12. I think there's nothing hidden.

Check close to the shops, btw.

 

[vonAchdorf]

it's not numbers, it's letters...

btw missing one tile on floor 12. it's something hidden or i was just careless?

It's in prestigious hexadecimal notation (see the battle log).

 

[MpuMngwana]

Completed what I'm generously going to call "story", so I'm in the postgame now I guess. I usually don't do postgames, but mapping all the floors feels like a more natural end point to the game so I'll try to do that. The 9x floors are already much tougher than anything that came before. Also, I've added "lose party by teleporting into a wall" to the list of classic Wizardry "fuck you" mechanics implemented in this game.

 

[Reinhardt]

So yesterday ended with Sudden Ninja Commando From Hell literally 1-shoting my party with direct to hp aoe hit for many thousands of damage...
Guess it's time for men to rescue girls

 

[Reinhardt]

I remembered i saw some ded guy on level 12 so went with party of 3. Brought him to hospital, looted his cool pew-pew 3k random damage magic... and somewhere around that time i had suspicion. I will have to carry my girls to resurection shrine one by one too?

 

[Thac0]

You can save yourself some trouble, but also some excitement, by using smaller rescue parties and skills to avoid combat (there are a lot of them).
Go with 2 guys, pick up 2 girls. Ressurect and equip them. Go with the two girls and pick up the other 2 girls. Ressurect them and your group is at full combat power again after 2 trips down.

 

[Abu Antar]

I only use one member when going on rescue missions.

 

[Reinhardt]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Anything, but money!

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Anything, but money!

FC is 252 is a big number. Earlier lesson was not learned?

 

[Reinhardt]

Earlier lesson was not learned?

no

BUT! We fled! Eat this, big number rat!

 

[Abu Antar]

Ah, learn your lessons or despair. I have done both.

 

[Reinhardt]

Nah, won't bite. Me smart, can't fool me!

 

[Kalarion]

To expand: encounter numbers are done in hexadecimal, which is base-16 and goes from 0 to F, with A through F being the equivalent of 10 to 15. So if you see, for instance, DE, what you're seeing is encounter number (14 x 16 (the D) + 15 (the E)) = 239. IIRC that floor only goes up to the high 2's in terms of encounter number normally. Should be a huge red/caution flag for you (which is not to say I didn't do the exact same fucking thing and get my shit pushed in when I stepped on a DE encounter out of curiosity the first time :D). OTOH around floor 18 or so, you'll get a couple 62 encounters that you can win given good equipment and a healthy dollop of luck. Beating those gives you access to some really nice swords. It seems to me like the general rule is, if you're within 2-3 of the floor's general encounter number (so, for instance, you're on a floor that generally has encounters in the range of 3- and you see a 5- or 6-), you can give them a try and test your luck, with a decent expectation you'll be able to run if you start getting crushed. Anything higher and you're asking to bring the B team in.

I just got to the 21st floor and I'm having a blast. I need to go back and hoover up all the companions now that I have the lesser 'scensions and Wanderer Tracker (or whatever it's called). I saw a couple references to "seeing" KO'd wanderers. Is that something special I'm missing, or was it just referring to tracking the character to their tile through Wanderer Tracker and then getting a corpse instead of a live char?

Anecdotally it seems to me that the best three starter chars are Guyselblanc, Elva and Shunga. Guyselblanc's PP goes up like a rocket the first 20 levels, makes him a perfect fit for any high level magic or accessories you find. His HP is solid too, he's been competitive with Elva all the way through level 25. He's slow though (68 base I think). That hurts a bit. Elva is just a machine- super high HP, tied for highest base speed (72) out of the starters, and competitive with Guyselblanc in PP once he hits his stride in the mid-teens. Shunga is tied with Elva for highest base speed, and has decent PP, but her HP is abysmal... she really is a ninja, hah.

I haven't experimented with all chars yet, but the ones I did try out (Nanga Pahr, Sesspare, Rodovich, Maynasar, Ilke) haven't impressed so far. Right now I'm using Ilke in the fourth slot. Any suggestions from among the starters and the earlier pickups?

 

[Reinhardt]

So looks like wanderers level = dungeon floor where they lost? Combed floor 16 and found another girl. It was worth it! Stole her weapon and kicked her again. YUGE upgrade! Next stop is floor 22 then. Can't wait to see what i steal next.

 

[Thac0]

So looks like wanderers level = dungeon floor where they lost? Combed floor 16 and found another girl. It was worth it! Stole her weapon and kicked her again. YUGE upgrade! Next stop is floor 22 then. Can't wait to see what i steal next.

Usually, you will also get a sort of radar where you can see your distance from lost wanderers at about level 20 to make things easier.
And yeah, they carry sick loot. Some of them have pretty good stat growths aswell, but obviously only cute portraits matter.

 

[Reinhardt]

I hired Maynasar because she reminded me of Lacrymas barbarian wommyn adventurers)))

 

[Thac0]

Maynasar truly is best girl, I funnel all my Mystery Compounds into her.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Maynasar is my strongest character in terms of rapid stat growth. Picked her because she's a weirdo merchant just trying to dig her way out of bankruptcy.