getting good at dungeon crawl stone soup

#Getting good at dungeon crawl stone soup Patch

It seems like the new gargoyle race are super OP except for the lowish health. 12 since July.Īnyhow, here's my feedback based on some personal experience and spending entirely too much time in IRC and the crawl forum. I haven't been too thrilled with a bunch of the changes in. Yeah, this release seems a little quick since the last 'release' was in May IIRC. If the wife ends up out of town next week (as seems possible), I should have time to get at least a couple of good games in Regardless, I'll try to make time to actually play a little in this go-round.

#Getting good at dungeon crawl stone soup Patch

Feels like these two releases were very close together time-wise - haven't the previous releases been closer to a year apart?Īlso - no Stabbing skill? I'll clearly need to spend a bit of time reading over the patch notes. If you want to be on the 'official' team, post here and then put the following in your. Summoning school: per-spell limits and no stair following or pulling.Īs always, I plan on playing in the tournament which starts tomorrow night.Massively overhauled layout generators.A thorough rework of the monster set in Crypt.Here are the instructions for playing online, but the gist is either connect via your favorite ssh client or use webtiles. DCSS now has an excellent webtiles mode which should ease the play of anyone who is not used to the glyphs used in console mode. To compete in the tournament, you will need to play online. Of course since every game counts, it's maybe not that respectable

Last year we were 23rd overall in points out of 127 teams. In general, our 'A' team has been pretty respectable in the tournament. From 20:00 UTC Friday 11 October through 20:00 UTC Sunday 27 October, any 0.13 game played on CAO, CDO, CLN, CSZO, or RHF will count for the tournament. With the tiles support, it really is one of the most approachable rogue-likes I have ever played due to mouse support, auto-explore and the tremendous amount of in-built documentation just a click or key-press away.Īs is customary for their new releases, there is a tournament. So for example, there is a nature god who appreciates when you let bodies decompose, a healing god who likes when you destroy weapons and brainwash heal creatures and a trickster god who likes to mess around with you.Ĭrawl's philosophy is that it shouldn't require spoilers in order to be successful - that isn't to say that experience and spoilers won't make you a better player, but unlike a game of say Nethack where a newbie player has absolutely no chance of success, Crawl's design philosophy can been seen more at and it can be downloaded here. Most characters start out godless but have the ability to join one of 17 religions which give benefits based on conduct that the religion approves of. The big differentiating factor in Crawl is the religion system. Instead, have an image of Vaults 5 after I went in and just stood on the stairs swinging my axe and spamming Qazlal upheavals until everything was dead.Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, also known as DC:SS/DCSS or mostly as Crawl is a rogue-like freeware game similar to Nethack, TOME and Zangband. Wish I could find my morgue file but I think it was lost when I transferred everything to my new computer. My strategy was to charge headlong into battle and let everything on the floor hear the racket of Qazlal's constant thunderstorms and fireballs draw everything to me, then attack everything in sight, hoping I could kill enough to start get massive passive regen from the corpses before I get totally boned. I was lucky enough to get the Powered by Death perk just before they nerfed it as well as some good defensive Demonspawn mutations. My first and, I think, only win was as a Demonspawn Gladiator of Qazlal. You should include the Crawl Wiki (though the data is often outdated, it can still be helpful) and the Knowledge bot(the go-to source for up-to-date info) in the OP. I should get back to playing it again one of these days. The tutorial is great and looking up info online is really pretty unnecessary with the amount of info they pack into just examining spells and enemies and all that. Shame more people aren't playing it, because it's great and pretty accessible and transparent for a roguelike of its depth. Oh shit, someone made a thread for this game.