Roguelike Path of Achra - dark fantasy roguelike

[Dark Souls II]

Won my first playthrough playing as a teleporting tree that summons snakes.

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[lukaszek]

did some dudes around agility and fire healing. All is fine until end boss? It appears that my small ticks stacks doom on me and I just die when they reach 100, which is after 2 attacks or so

 

[Haba]

Killed the boss with two turns.

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Pretty gud game, will break it again.

 

[Fedora Master]

Oh Pilgrim of the early ages
Rest not on thine laurels
Until the waters rose
And receded many cycles
Oh glorious Achra

 

[Dark Souls II]

Since starting the game yesterday I'm already on the 7th cycle. I hate this game so much it's like crack cocaine.

 

[Haba]

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This game should really be in the school textbooks for game developers.

With a relatively simple rule-set it enables so many different build combinations that are wildly different.

Slow big fattie that stomps everything to death

Squishy psycho that teleports around killing everything and dying himself

And there are still several builds that I haven't quite gotten to work. Often it is just one item that makes the thing work.

And since the game is upfront about the enemies and items, you can't even blame RNG when you fail. Very good.

 

[whocares]

Our favorite african warlord keeps doing good deeds and got a new prestige class dedicated to him:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2128270/view/523077531348239514

Took a quick break from Lands to add a little celebratory update today in thanks for the huge influx of players this past week due to the sseth video. It's bigger than launch month already. Can't say thank you enough

• Added Struggler prestige class, gain extra attacks when damaged and have a chance to endure any damage dealt to self, will be hunted by Pretas
• Reworked Death Knight a little bit to just deal tons of damage based on armor, removed the Doom stuff
• Master repulsion cost raised to 7

Thank you everyone, again, for being a great community and incredibly chill, I am very energized to continue the work

 

[procrastinator]

My struggle:

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[Fedora Master]

That's A LOT of Healing.

 

[procrastinator]

I started dumping skill points into Fire Healing to apply more Scorch on hit, thought I needed some scaling damage source for the bosses.
But the 2% HP damage on attack sword covered that

 

[Haba]

Men, I don't feel so good... (at 50 HP, all prayers spent...) that Red Demon summon was ill timed to say the least.

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It takes a special kind of a retard to try those "weak" solo builds at higher cycles...

No matter, onwards!

 

[Hoodoo]

Was doing easier cycles to cross off prestiges. Time to get to the Outer Dark

 

[Haba]

It is funny how trivially easy a few summons makes several builds. I did a similar run and won with the wyrm. That is after trying to get through w/o summons for hours. It is really hard to build enough defence to survive. Add in agony-nuke-skellingtons and I never even got hit once.

 

[Haba]

Always. Read. The. Small. Print.

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[Lawful Pacific]

Pressing S and ice beasts will delete everything.

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[Zothique]

This game is keeping my dick hard as I grow closer to the age of 40.

 

[Rieser]

Won my first run as a straight fighter (champion prestige class). Didn't even look at the other stuff so as not to get overwhelmed. Man, this is gonna be addicting.

 

[procrastinator]

Pressing S and ice beasts will delete everything.

Did you bank up skill points for the final boss? Or is there another way to make multiple familiars that I'm missing?

 

[Lawful Pacific]

Pressing S and ice beasts will delete everything.

Did you bank up skill points for the final boss? Or is there another way to make multiple familiars that I'm missing?

Yep, I banked up skill points and used all of them in every boss fight.

 

[Haba]

Sometimes those things just don't make any sense. I tried over and over to make this "get loadsa HP and kill enemies with passives" build to work, but it just wouldn't click. Then on one try, I just stood still.

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End result was the dumbest and easiest run I've ever had. Even pumped my HP up to 20k because fuck you. Not that I'd ever needed it. Didn't even get optimal items, but it it didna mattah!

 

[Rieser]

Turns out that picking a prestige class who automatically recites a prayer each turn, even if charges are empty, whilst being devoted to a god where one of the prayers is a permanent buff to your shield makes your block go brrr and, therefore, also your shield bash. Killed the boss in two turns. Didn't even have a build plan beyond aim/guard, as should be evident by the skills I picked, and didn't bother picking up a new weapon/shield (there are shields that seems like they'd be nuts with a build like this, though).

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[Haba]

Turns out that picking a prestige class who automatically recites a prayer each turn, even if charges are empty, whilst being devoted to a god where one of the prayers is a permanent buff to your shield makes your block go brrr and, therefore, also your shield bash. Killed the boss in two turns. Didn't even have a build plan beyond aim/guard, as should be evident by the skills I picked, and didn't bother picking up a new weapon/shield (there are shields that seems like they'd be nuts with a build like this, though).

Well...

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I am having real difficulty surviving debuffs at 20+ cycles. Especially things like acid are brutal if you don't have a meat wall between you and the mobs.

 

[procrastinator]

I am having real difficulty surviving debuffs at 20+ cycles. Especially things like acid are brutal if you don't have a meat wall between you and the mobs.

How about a plant-based wall?



Also gotta go fast at those cycles, I find:

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Electromancy is really handy at dealing with enemies that you'd rather not face directly, like the Repulsion mini-boss, or the KoMC in this run (he was getting Inflame whenever I summon).

Admittedly, no special Block synergies. Myrmidon's starting shield would've been nice, but then you really need to find a ranged weapon.

Edit: Re-run without summons:

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Edit 2: No summons, no speed, and no healing skills :

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[Snufkin]

This game reinvented awesum button.

 

[Darth Canoli]

super addictive. can't remember the last time I've had this much fun with a recent game. it's like a mix of Conquest of Elysium and Tales of Maj'Eyal. glorious soundtrack, meaningful itemization, fast and to the point gameplay. without having a story per se, I am constantly building upon the existing lore with my actions and the powers I acquire.
magic is like a dark and hostile force, not some kiddy fairytale type of poser casting. I get the same feel of being in a horrible-to-live-in setting as in Dominions and Sacrifice.

I played the demo before and it struck me that although the game was interesting and fun, it was basically like turn based Diablo with tiny levels and I'd be better served playing action RPGs for that particular itch.

Did I miss something or are there elements that aren't present in the demo? The demo was basically about crossing a small roguelite style overworld map and then getting put into a tiny map where you had to kill a few enemies, possibly pick up some rewards and then move to the next roguelite map tile.

that's basically it and part of why I compared it to Dominions and Conquest of Elysium, which also have these small-map battles. it's basically a power fantasy game, getting stronger, crushing monstrosities, getting better and more powerful items.

Is it comparable to Zorbus?
Story was minimal and yet quite interesting toward the end.

In my mind, diablo = retarded itemization (which isn't the case here according to you), bland quests & hub and a lot of walking around, wasting one's time...
So the comparison isn't appealing at all.