The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk - parodic fantasy tactical RPG - now with Back to the Futon DLC

[Desiderius]

Minstrel has a very unusual action economy which feels like it could get really good midgame.

 

[Rafidur]

a quick reckoning of small, simple numbers

My brain can't count past three when scanning items. It goes "there's three things and also two things" then a different process goes "five things!". I would have made a terrible shepherd in unga bunga no maths times.

 

[gurugeorge]

Minstrel has a very unusual action economy which feels like it could get really good midgame.

Did you go melee or ranged with your minstrel? Seems like one could go either way and do pretty well. As I'm enamoured of stuns in the game atm, I'm inclined to go melee with my minstrel.

 

[Desiderius]

It’s got that weird buff that’s got to be good somehow. Hard to pull off the AoE.

 

[Grunker]

So, thanks to ERYFKRAD I've been toying around with this and am ready to start my actual run. Only got one question: Epic or Nightmare?

I usually start all RPGs on the hardest difficulty without a second thought, but my experience with these slightly deterministic XCOM-likes have been that the hardest difficulty can lead to a good amount of tedium because it puts vast restrictions on which strategies you can actually employ, leading to a very one-note play pattern. Is that the case here as well, or can I safely go with Nightmare?

 

[Parabalus]

So, thanks to ERYFKRAD I've been toying around with this and am ready to start my actual run. Only got one question: Epic or Nightmare?

I usually start all RPGs on the hardest difficulty without a second thought, but my experience with these slightly deterministic XCOM-likes have been that the hardest difficulty can lead to a good amount of tedium because it puts vast restrictions on which strategies you can actually employ, leading to a very one-note play pattern. Is that the case here as well, or can I safely go with Nightmare?

You can freely switch the difficulty during a game, so I'd start Nightmare and tone it down if needed. The beginning is the hardest part, as usual.

 

[Grunker]

So, thanks to ERYFKRAD I've been toying around with this and am ready to start my actual run. Only got one question: Epic or Nightmare?

I usually start all RPGs on the hardest difficulty without a second thought, but my experience with these slightly deterministic XCOM-likes have been that the hardest difficulty can lead to a good amount of tedium because it puts vast restrictions on which strategies you can actually employ, leading to a very one-note play pattern. Is that the case here as well, or can I safely go with Nightmare?

You can freely switch the difficulty during a game, so I'd start Nightmare and tone it down if needed. The beginning is the hardest part, as usual.

Cool. GOING IN BOYS

 

[jac8awol]

By the sandals of RNGesus, that was intense. I finally got through that goblin lair after a full day of trying. Had to reload to before combat, make sure I'd done every single bit of content, hit the stores to buy 1 or 2 equipment upgrades and carefully plan consumables. Then on to the battle again and I finally realized you can save and reload during combat. Haha! I did need to reload a few unlucky shots (and disable the random seed holdover! Who the hell thought it's a good idea to make a random number generator non-random??)

Getting past that battle felt good! That's what I want in a game, a challenge that really challenges you!!!!

 

[Grunker]

save and reload during combat

 

[Parabalus]

save and reload during combat

I'm surprised that made it in, guess it's there so you can go through something if you get 'stuck'. Very distasteful though.

 

[KateMicucci]

The healing in this game is degenerate.

It's pretty gay when an enemy will happily eat two AoOs to go stab your elf, or run onto a landmine if he can catch one of your guys in the aoe, but still feels wrong to just undo that by casting the super strong heal spells.

I noticed in my last battle that your guys won't do AoOs if they have their bow out. You can click on the melee button to get them to take the sword out again even if they don't move. Important if you plan to sprint a guy to set him up to do AoOs. Kind of dumb mechanic.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

gay

elf,

I perceive the merest hint of a pattern here.

 

[Bara]

save and reload during combat

Pretty sure rng is seeded so you cant abuse it for that at least.

 

[Grunker]

I've been saving up the books I've gotten so far - any way to divine what they do, or should I just start using them based on impulse? I presume they give some sort of stat bonus

 

[Parabalus]

I've been saving up the books I've gotten so far - any way to divine what they do, or should I just start using them based on impulse? I presume they give some sort of stat bonus

They go into bookcases you find as you explore, nothing to think about really.

 

[Grunker]

I've been saving up the books I've gotten so far - any way to divine what they do, or should I just start using them based on impulse? I presume they give some sort of stat bonus

They go into bookcases you find as you explore, nothing to think about really.

Oh so they're not "consumable"? I thought that was what "read" indicated.

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

 

[Gregz]

I've been saving up the books I've gotten so far - any way to divine what they do, or should I just start using them based on impulse? I presume they give some sort of stat bonus

They go into bookcases you find as you explore, nothing to think about really.

Yes, although there is some back and forth between floors when trying to remember which books go where.

 

[Gregz]

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

The VA tone reminded me of how people bullshit and LARP around during a PnP D&D session. It's not amateur or low budget, it's by design.

 

[Parabalus]

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

The VA tone reminded me of how people bullshit and LARP around during a PnP D&D session. It's not amateur or low budget, it's by design.

Be sure to try all the languages, there is a really different feel to each one.

 

[Grunker]

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

The VA tone reminded me of how people bullshit and LARP around during a PnP D&D session. It's not amateur or low budget, it's by design.

That doesn't explain how strangely rapid the delivery is yapped out. I'm pretty sure it's 50% lack of direction and 50% translation issues. Like for instance, my ranger just said "You got him good!" to which my Wizard stated "And how!" The latter obviously in french was meant to be an affirmative of the rangers statement, but it was too directly translated and the voice actor had no context.

 

[Gregz]

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

The VA tone reminded me of how people bullshit and LARP around during a PnP D&D session. It's not amateur or low budget, it's by design.

That doesn't explain how strangely rapid the delivery is yapped out. I'm pretty sure it's 50% lack of direction and 50% translation issues. Like for instance, my ranger just said "You got him good!" to which my Wizard stated "And how!" The latter obviously in french was meant to be an affirmative of the rangers statement, but it was too directly translated and the voice actor had no context.

Parabalus raises a good point though, I have no idea how you direct quality control across different languages. That's a lot of voice actors. Humor depends a great deal on translation and delivery.

 

[Grunker]

Also, I'm really liking this, just my kind of game. It's weird though. Like, take the voice acting: good actors, great casting for each dude, excellent production quality, great recording, but... it's like they had no direction. They just read their lines at face value. No punctuation, no pauses, no, well, acting. It's so bizarre, especially the rapidity of the delivery

The VA tone reminded me of how people bullshit and LARP around during a PnP D&D session. It's not amateur or low budget, it's by design.

That doesn't explain how strangely rapid the delivery is yapped out. I'm pretty sure it's 50% lack of direction and 50% translation issues. Like for instance, my ranger just said "You got him good!" to which my Wizard stated "And how!" The latter obviously in french was meant to be an affirmative of the rangers statement, but it was too directly translated and the voice actor had no context.

Humor depends a great deal on translation and delivery.

'xactly. Regardless, if this keeps up the gameplay quality and feature ingenuity, I think I've found my GotY

 

[Grunker]

Lol. Dumping me into the Black Knight fight right after the corrupted thief fight so I can't bandage, equip new items to the belt or even level up the Thief seems a little cheap

 

[KateMicucci]

Lol. Dumping me into the Black Knight fight right after the corrupted thief fight so I can't bandage, equip new items to the belt or even level up the Thief seems a little cheap

I raged too but you can heal your party by going into inventory during placement

 

[Grunker]

Lol. Dumping me into the Black Knight fight right after the corrupted thief fight so I can't bandage, equip new items to the belt or even level up the Thief seems a little cheap

I raged too but you can heal your party by going into inventory during placement

Good to know, thx!