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Dungeons of Dredmor |OT| it's roguelike, it has graphics, it's funny and it's $4.49
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jim-jam bongs
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No dramas anyway, my Steam overlay isn't working with DoD. The female sprite just made this game so much easier for me, I'm so used to rolling female characters in RPGs that I actually freeze up trying to name male ones. I made it down to level 3 today before getting murdered by electric octopi shooting lightning balls at me.
On game right click
Properties > Set Launch Options
-opengl
Should work after that.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Thanks!
slaughterking
Member
There are now enemies screaming FUS ROH DAH. :3
jim-jam bongs
Member
I went to check out what the new mini-patch today was and had to share this blog post:
GaslampGames said:A hotfix for 1.0.8 has now been sent to Steam, which fixes the vending machine crashes, the skill selection crashes, the crafting toolkit crashes, (hopefully!) everybodys old 1.0.6 save games, and a few other things. Its not up yet, but when its up we will let you know. Were in the process of building new packages for Desura, and for HiB users.
EDIT: This includes a fix for the OS X version. Steve Jobss ghost has been laid to rest with the ritual offering of a black turtleneck sweater.
EDIT, EDIT: Up now.
EDIT, EDIT, EDIT: OS X users no longer crash. However, and I swear I cant make this up, any OS X user grabbing the newest patch will be attacked by giant pink scorpion Diggles. Weve sent a second fix to Valve, and it should be up in a bit.
(artist's depiction of the current state of the OSX build)
perfect free
Member
I guess the fix made it through. No pink diggles for me, just a normally functioning game. Boring!
Awesome and super nasty in the same line. =/
dragonlife
Member
Wow, so this is a roguelike. I've seen one or two people on my list play it and wondering what it was; but seeing this thread and seeing the OP/store link/watching the trailer, the art made me recall it being on sale a while back. I wish I had bothered to go to its store page when it was.
Will definitely buy if it's on sale during the winter sales, or just after. Doing my best to save all my money for the sales
Will definitely buy if it's on sale during the winter sales, or just after. Doing my best to save all my money for the sales
jim-jam bongs
Member
Yay! Looks like I started playing this at exactly the right time. Also, Realm of the Diggle Gods is the best name ever.
Wow, so this is a roguelike. I've seen one or two people on my list play it and wondering what it was; but seeing this thread and seeing the OP/store link/watching the trailer, the art made me recall it being on sale a while back. I wish I had bothered to go to its store page when it was.
Will definitely buy if it's on sale during the winter sales, or just after. Doing my best to save all my money for the sales
The game is $8 total. Are you waiting for them to pay you to play? I can see waiting for a sale on a $20 game maybe, but not something under $10.
I just am kinda irritated that the launch got busted up (unsure if it's Gaslamp, Valve, or most likely both- Gaslamp is pretty shoestring, the coder was doing his grad thesis while coding this game)
jim-jam bongs
Member
Damn it! Well at least I know I can stop restarting Steam hoping it downloads ;_;
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
The only major problem I have with this game is that its really not random. You get 3-6 of the same rooms every level. Plus the same enemies. After you played it a few times its boring even if you try weird characters.
I wish the levels were more random. Who am I kidding i just want stone soup.
I wish the levels were more random. Who am I kidding i just want stone soup.
Try the smaller floors option if you want more level randomness.
Most likely reason: some monster has hit a trap somewhere.
slaughterking
Member
GaslampGames Gaslamp Games
"Dredmor is now suddenly broken on Steam for everybody. Not sure what's up, but we're choosing to view it as a Good Sign of Things To Come."
Haha, how is that even possible.
"Dredmor is now suddenly broken on Steam for everybody. Not sure what's up, but we're choosing to view it as a Good Sign of Things To Come."
Haha, how is that even possible.
No idea, but I saw Serotonina playing the game and told her to stay in if she wants to continue playing because of the bug. So hey, at least one Gaffer is able to play it right now.
slaughterking
Member
Hm, the game's actually still working for me.
I'll restart steam but I still got the same error just now.
Did you buy the DLC? Maybe its bugged for everyone with the DLC.
slaughterking
Member
Nah, no DLC.
I bought it, maybe the patches included a file for the DLC that made in unplayable.
Sye d'Burns
Member
Not sure why, but I can start up Dungeons on OS X just fine. Is it only the people with the DLC that have this issue?
edit: Bah, I guess I should've refreshed before I posted. I dunno, it's working for me.
edit: Bah, I guess I should've refreshed before I posted. I dunno, it's working for me.
For now the statistics are perfect in that direction, yeah.
You got the DLC or not?
Sye d'Burns
Member
No, I haven't bought the DLC yet. I've been going back and forth over whether to buy the X3 expansion at the same time or not.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Me either, I might just delete it and download the game again, it's only 150mb anyway.
Crazymoogle
Member
Damn this expansion. Installed it on my MacBook Air and now it's ruining my free time on two platforms. I love the thief abilities. Six levels deep now, difficulty rising almost too fast, probably couldn't survive without Golem magic. Fun nonetheless.
lol
So far of new stuff I've seen magic potatoes and weird gems, and gnomes.
The pircacy skill doesn't seem that useful.
Piracy is very useful
Swashbuckling is very damn good until the lower levels.
Mists is pretty good in the lower levels- buffs dodge/sneakiness for 8 turns huge.
The Black Spot is a boss debuffer
The Broadside skill is weak, but it has its uses, it's a free bomb, and bombs aren't just for damaging people.
FIXED: n-dimensional lathe was, in fact, a giant game-crashing exploding bomb
- FIXED: wandcrafting recipes being lost after load/save
- FIXED: crafting tool output not displaying
- FIXED: some crossbows not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: some mittens not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: Axe of Dinglenit was worth 0 zorkmids [RotDG]
- FIXED: Gloriously Regal Belt using description from Bullet Belt
- FIXED: That blasted lever room will only show up once per level. It was getting to be a bit of an issue.
- FIXED: "Cat Ears" helmet was using the wrong art [RotDG]
- FIXED: "Runes" showing up in gem transmutation
- FIXED: Diggle plague just being all kinds of nasty
- FIXED: Chest/helm tooltips switched on character panel
- FIXED: Skills that give primary stats, wouldn't give the correct stats
- FIXED: Mustache Fighting League room would fill with infinite mustaches
- FIXED: very rarely, scripts would spawn an entire horde of monsters off of the bottom of the map.
- FIXED: tutorials showing up twice
- FIXED: took out more broken tutorials
- FIXED: game crashing at start new game screen on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
(Probably.)
- FIXED: Heal-over-Time (HoT) effects being resisted (Fairywodger; Knit Tissue; etc.)
- FIXED: Mysterious portal crashes. [RotDG]
- FIXED: Steam achievements now trigger for expansion skills.
- FIXED: mods will now correctly load rooms.xml and text.xml
- FIXED: last skills in modded-in-skill-tree would crash the game
- FIXED: the amazing exponentially-multiplying Diggle Egg Stacking bug.
- Minor tweaks, balances, etc.
- Corrupted Shrines are now mildly more interesting.
- Better decor on Diggle God Shrines. [RotDG]
- FIXED: wandcrafting recipes being lost after load/save
- FIXED: crafting tool output not displaying
- FIXED: some crossbows not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: some mittens not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: Axe of Dinglenit was worth 0 zorkmids [RotDG]
- FIXED: Gloriously Regal Belt using description from Bullet Belt
- FIXED: That blasted lever room will only show up once per level. It was getting to be a bit of an issue.
- FIXED: "Cat Ears" helmet was using the wrong art [RotDG]
- FIXED: "Runes" showing up in gem transmutation
- FIXED: Diggle plague just being all kinds of nasty
- FIXED: Chest/helm tooltips switched on character panel
- FIXED: Skills that give primary stats, wouldn't give the correct stats
- FIXED: Mustache Fighting League room would fill with infinite mustaches
- FIXED: very rarely, scripts would spawn an entire horde of monsters off of the bottom of the map.
- FIXED: tutorials showing up twice
- FIXED: took out more broken tutorials
- FIXED: game crashing at start new game screen on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
(Probably.)
- FIXED: Heal-over-Time (HoT) effects being resisted (Fairywodger; Knit Tissue; etc.)
- FIXED: Mysterious portal crashes. [RotDG]
- FIXED: Steam achievements now trigger for expansion skills.
- FIXED: mods will now correctly load rooms.xml and text.xml
- FIXED: last skills in modded-in-skill-tree would crash the game
- FIXED: the amazing exponentially-multiplying Diggle Egg Stacking bug.
- Minor tweaks, balances, etc.
- Corrupted Shrines are now mildly more interesting.
- Better decor on Diggle God Shrines. [RotDG]
How do you guys deal with zoos? I found one leveled and went back. I found a great tile that only had one way in and went to town. But some mob died and exploded into like a 4x4 square (8 tiles in a square) of poison killing me.
Also, when I go up a level I teleport random to 3 spots always end up in the same last spot and when I move it just teleports again. I have no debuff either.
Also great place to get mods?
Also, when I go up a level I teleport random to 3 spots always end up in the same last spot and when I move it just teleports again. I have no debuff either.
Also great place to get mods?
Crazymoogle
Member
Billychu, thanks for posting the update list. Unfortunately the update also corrupted my save game, but shit happens.
Sarcasm: The rule of thumb is GTFO
1. If you're a mage or if you have any sort of area effect wand you want to dump charges deep into the pile ASAP before you get hit on all sides. Often times stuff like fire will kill a lot of enemies simply because everyone is packed into the turn-by-turn damage.
2. If you're melee (well, usually even if you're not) backtrack to a point where you can only be attacked from a single direction, and then just go toe-to-toe with everything coming your way. Obviously it helps to use arrows/spells/thrown weapons but just hang in there, fight, and when you're pretty sure you can't take another hit or two, backtrack to the nearest teleporter.
3. Backtrack to teleporters! Key to the GTFO strategy. Closing doors can be wonky. A teleporter will guarantee your survival long enough to eat some food.
4. Summons always help. Golemancy and Promethean Magic let you summon in stuff to take the hits for you. I remember one Zoo where I just would summon, close the doors and wait and see what happened.
5. When nothing comes after you anymore, find some ranged weapons. The dregs of any zoo are always the cagey monsters that move irregularly and like to hit you at range. So they are painfully easy to take out using ranged attacks of your own, but very difficult to take on if you close the distance.
Dunno what that teleport problem you have is. I know one of the jump upgrades causes you to teleport on successful blocks. Initially sounds cool (an escape hatch!) but in reality is very dangerous. You could be fighting in a zoo, teleport out, then take an innocent hit outside...and get thrown back in the Zoo.
Sarcasm: The rule of thumb is GTFO
1. If you're a mage or if you have any sort of area effect wand you want to dump charges deep into the pile ASAP before you get hit on all sides. Often times stuff like fire will kill a lot of enemies simply because everyone is packed into the turn-by-turn damage.
2. If you're melee (well, usually even if you're not) backtrack to a point where you can only be attacked from a single direction, and then just go toe-to-toe with everything coming your way. Obviously it helps to use arrows/spells/thrown weapons but just hang in there, fight, and when you're pretty sure you can't take another hit or two, backtrack to the nearest teleporter.
3. Backtrack to teleporters! Key to the GTFO strategy. Closing doors can be wonky. A teleporter will guarantee your survival long enough to eat some food.
4. Summons always help. Golemancy and Promethean Magic let you summon in stuff to take the hits for you. I remember one Zoo where I just would summon, close the doors and wait and see what happened.
5. When nothing comes after you anymore, find some ranged weapons. The dregs of any zoo are always the cagey monsters that move irregularly and like to hit you at range. So they are painfully easy to take out using ranged attacks of your own, but very difficult to take on if you close the distance.
Dunno what that teleport problem you have is. I know one of the jump upgrades causes you to teleport on successful blocks. Initially sounds cool (an escape hatch!) but in reality is very dangerous. You could be fighting in a zoo, teleport out, then take an innocent hit outside...and get thrown back in the Zoo.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I've been mostly just trying everything out so far, but I did find this page on the Wiki for voting on your faves:
http://www.dredmorwiki.com/wiki/Strategy
They also have this general builds page without the votes: http://www.dredmorwiki.com/wiki/Category:Strategy
KittenMaster
Member
I'm gonna do "Dual Staves" on that vote, since it's very similar to a build I just tried anyway (which happened to be Dual-Staves/Vampirism/Psionics).
I noticed that Vampirism no longer trivializes the first floor, which is a good thing. Climbing to floor 2 is a huge pain though.
I noticed that Vampirism no longer trivializes the first floor, which is a good thing. Climbing to floor 2 is a huge pain though.