>15 runes
Fucking impossible fuck off
>15 runes
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Even 3 rune is beyond most casuals here
Skill issue. (Almost) any species/background/god combo can ascend with 15 these days.
Another one of my 15-runers, as a NaTm of Chei. Probably the most fun I've ever had in this game:
https://pastebin.com/kzyBxVEM
Slouch BTFOs almost everything. Everything it doesn't kill you can one-shot with 27 in unarmed combat and 30+ strength and dex. I only used defensive spells, no offensive. 64 AC, 40 EV, Lichform, Deflect Missiles, Regenerate, Cblink. Couldn't use Haste due to Chei.
So much fun. I did the whole run on my phone as well!
I never have enough patience to survive as Chei moron on the early levels, you enter Lair and everything around you is sanic the hedgeheg
>Look at my Wizard Mode run
You are not fooling anyone fag
>webtiles
>wizard mode
anon i think you need more INT
>He doesn't know
I've done a 5 rune as Minotaur Breserker of Trog and a 3 rune run as a Gargoyle Earth Elementalist. I grabbed 15 runes but died on my way out of hell as a Deep Dwarf Warrior of Makhleb. Freaking Tormenters.
It's just trial and error.
All right, all right one more. This one more recent. DjWiz of Makhleb. This one was pretty fun, but almost too easy.
https://pastebin.com/X2si3nVT
Djinn means you have no control over what spells you get. You have to play with the cards you get dealt. Oh, and no mana so you have to cast from HP. Makhleb synergizes nicely with Djinns because he gives you HP back each kill.
The Wiz starting spells are great. Magic dart takes out critters at range, and you can kite with Blink and Call Imp. Once Mephitic Cloud becomes castable you're laughing at everything that isn't poison resistant.
In the Lair I got Stone Arrow + Fireball to take out chunkier targets and groups of yaks. Then I got Death Channel so all the dudes who just got fireballed come back to life to serve me. Awesome.
Iron Shot came next and that became one of my staples. Big damage helped take out big dudes while they're confused by mephitic cloud.
Then came CBL, Malign Gateway, and Summon Hydra. These saw limited use. The Mephitic Cloud+Fireball/Iron Shot/Death Channel combo was doing work.
Then my last two spells were Chain Lightning and FIRE STORM. Fire Storm is the absolute nuts. XBOX HUEG damage, AoE, Fire Vortices, and it even damages fire-immune baddies like Orbs of Fire. I basically steamrolled the rest of the game, including the revamped Hell branches because I could basically spam Fire Storm forever. Fire immunity meant I took middling damage if I cast it on myself, and each kill would restore me HP thanks to Makhleb. And everything that died came back to me as spectres thanks to Death Channel. I was basically unstoppable.
Super fun build to play because you never know what spells you're gonna get!
ded gaem
ded genre
Nonsense, still plenty of people Webtilin':
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Can play any version you want. Can run even on the most toastery of PCs. Game is still fun and probably the most accessible classic roguelike.
I liek ogre hunter, be all cunning while throwing a rock upside something's head
You seem well acquainted with DCSS, try any of the variants/forks like kimchi, bloat, and bcadren? What did you think of them?
Everquest had the best ogres and trolls. I don't know why people aren't ripping those off more often.
Best part of them was that they weren't afraid to make them HUEG. The game even has spells for them to slightly shrink so they can navigate dungeons.
Definitely lmao. Luv me dwarves. I feel like the latest is good enough to coexist with older versions, though, rather than get superceded by them. Lots of neat quirks like the cinder acolyte. I guess the one thing in latest I can safely I'm not into is the timer replacement, food was fine, and if they wanted to buff casters, just reduce the hunger casting penalty.
Haven't tried any of the forks myself, but heard good things about them! Definitely worth trying if you're tired of the base game. I know many people never forgave the devs for removing mountain dwarfs.
Cute rat.
I haven't play DCSS in a while but i'm happy to see them finally stopping all those removals and adding some stuff back in, some stuff surely needed to go but some of the classes could have just been reworked.
So the game got gud again? I haven't played it in at least 10 years.
Yep, still in active development. Here's the current trunk changes:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt
Apparently they're removing abyssal knights which makes me sad; my first 15-runer was with a MfAK.
>It's 2030
>Dungeon crawl has finally removed the redunant classes
>There is only one class and one race
>Balance has never been better
I seriously don't get their obsession with removing everything.
They heard someone say perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away and took it a little too seriously.
reminds of this classic
>That was 10 years ago
How much content have they removed in the interest of 'streamlining' since then?
>DUDE lugonu should be a ebin shitty god you take out of desperation after getting banished!
That doesn't really match what's said here
In fact locking gods behind such bullshit is retarded. Imagine if you could only start worshipping Kiku in, say, fucking Tartarus
And yes, btw I DO think that Jiyuva should have altar spawned at EVERY Slime entrance instead of making it a coin flip every time I want a Jiyuva run
>Imagine if you could only start worshipping Kiku in, say, fucking Tartarus
if they buffed him that would be kino. devs should double down on gods like ignis and jiyva
>just play as okawaru for half of the game
thats fucking BORING anon
oka got a huge nerf recently
gods should work like sets
>gods should work like sets
Wym by that?
nu-crawl has a thing where only one item in a set will generate for a run. example, your run only has one of acid, quicksilver or light wands. this makes each run feel different and lets them add more shit without buffing your char too much or flooding your inventory.
they should do this for gods and spells too
A lot of players want to play the god they wanna play
roguelikes are better when you're expected to adapt to the tools available
You sound like dev team material anon. Who cares how regular players want to play, right? This is about Design.
devs are too conservative to do something like that
>Who cares how regular players want to play, right?
why not just wizmode or play seeded if you're going to be a baby? other roguelike communities don't have this problem.
It's exactly the kind of gay shit the devs would do. Other roguelike communities don't have this kind of problem, I agree.
do you quit the game every time you don't get your favorite s branches too? it's the same concept
No it's not. Choosing a god defines your whole character, and people want to be able to try a Nemelex character or whatever when they feel like it. Imagine
>hmm I want to try Nemelex with this or that race
>get to temple
>oh dear, Okawaru spawned so I cannot play Nemelex
>what a fun and interesting decision I now face!
>hmm I want to see if this variant of MiBe (+4 freezing baxe instead of the usual +3 flaming baxe) can take shoals
>go to lair
>oh dear, swamp spawned so I cannot play shoals
>this is an outrage! how could the developer team do this to me. I need to be able to do the same thing every time because I only play through the game once.
Like I said, go tell the devs your retarded idea. It might just be enough to make one of the forks take off
>want to have a Jiyva run since it's a unique gimmick
>forced to run TrMo through Lair X times before getting the desired setup
No
Your argument could've worked if all I cared for was winning or if crawl didn't have hight diverse playstyles (unlike most other roguelikes) but that's not the case. It is not even remotely comparable to things like ADOM or IVAN or CoQ. Only ToME remotely reaches the amount of diversity in gimmicks from the player agency angle. Maybe demon too. You gotta recognise fundamental differences between the games where it's due IMO
Your proposed solution of "just use seed/wizmode" is also kind of a shittt one because things like Jiyva or NuLugonu are sidegrades and aren't fucking game winners considering how fucking rare they can be.
gods aren't a fundamental part of your character build in this game, just as picking heavy or light armor, what type of weapon you use, what spell schools you learn, etc, are products of a lot of things. it's just like artefacts, each game spawns different ones, it would be worse if all the good ones were guaranteed to spawn every run because that would reduce variety.
>gods aren't a fundamental part of your character build in this game
yes they are
no they're not
the fundamental choice is species. for everything else, it depends
Yes, they are. I often play the game and think "I want to try this race with this god". The god choice is the whole reason I make the character. Exclusive gods would be an incredibly annoying change. Now, if I'm on a streak and I find an early altar of a nice god I might take it. But I only play like that some of the time. Often I just want to try a god/race combo.
they're equally important, many people consider gods to be essentially difficulty levels, like if you pick Elyvilon or Xom you clearly just want to lose
Dj of Ely is easy mode
Ngl that anon just sounds like an unfun metagay
single player games don't have metas
the only crawl thing that approaches a meta is speedrunning and if i was a speedrunner why would i want more things to be random, that would just force me to reset more
>gods aren't a fundamental part of your character build in this game
I absolutely disagree, they affect, warp and change the very foundations of gameplay, which is what makes them great. No randart or skill will shake up the gameplay like Gozag, Yred, QazLel, Ru and so on will. Picking between axes or swords is fucking trivial compared to how much of a loud gay Qaz will make you, how many core functions Ru will turn off or how God changes the Gold resource economy
>gods aren't a fundamental part of your character build in this game
yes it is
are you retarded
pick a race/background and then play the game and take the first god you think can work so you don't die early
sounds like a you problem. i don't play the game and think "i want to be a gyre and gymblemancer". stop reading build guides on reddit
Show us your stats then big boy. I'm not the greatest player but I've played for years. I never go on DCSS reddit because it blows ass. I often go into a game with no thought except "I'm gonna play this race, and this god, because I want to see how that combo works out"
babymode streak, ngmi senpai
that's no different than deciding to only use certain spell schools regardless of what drops or using suboptimal items or adopting some other kind of conduct
>Elyvilon
cmon son
Show us your streak then
just because it's a good idea to take the first god you can, doesn't mean it isn't a fundamental part of the build
a chei optm is going to play very differently from a dickmangler optm
>sounds like a you problem. i don't play the game and think "i want to be a gyre and gymblemancer".
>roguelikes
>games that are rooted in TTRPG culture
>yet here he scorns anon for willing to RP in an RPG game by picking specific race/class combos
Wew fuckin lmao
Point and laugh at this faggit honestly
you don't understand. wielding the damnation arbalest and wearing the salamander hide are CRITICAL parts of my rp as frosty the demon archer but they didn't spawn. how could the devs do this to me
Huh?
>you don't understand, people can't just play the game how they want and have played for years because I'm so fucking GOOD I need more Meaningful Choices, it's about Game Design you fucking imbeciles!
Yes.
I got to play a Demonspawn of Jiyva once with a Plutonium Sword. That is more soulful than anything you have ever done
that sounds like a cool run but did you feel compelled to petition the devs to force the sword in every game so you could replay it a billion times on demand?
Except the sword was just garnish you smarmy faggit. The God and the race were what really made the run.
clearly not since you felt the need to mention it as if it were some sort of rp own
SlimeTroll is such a classic that by this point denying its authenticity is just dumb. Adding a meme mutation items can be the Hispanice of life, but guess what, so can be eating sky beast meat by the dozens
>gods aren't a fundamental part of your character build in this game
lol
that's stupid
real men play Ru and switch after the last sacrifice.
ruGODS play as felid, burn all their lives and abandon and rejoin until they are out of sacs
My first win was with a Kobold Stalker. That was such a fun combo.
it's nice to see that the dev team is still fucking retarded. some things never changes.
>Apparently they're removing abyssal knights
For what fucking reason?
IDK man at least we still have Chaos Knights.
DsCK best combo. RNGesus take the wheel.
>fungustard decides to "rework" lugonu
>removes the blink and adds malmutate to banish failure (i.e. basically nothing)
>adds god wrath mitigation which goes perfectly with his stupid fire god
>also removes AK background, guaranteeing people will almost never actually play lugonu
>ignores any criticism
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e63b5e06755426de847c50467f48fc9086cc1eea
>players used to have choices in how they started as AK
>remove all of these options because variance bad
>wtf why do all runs start the same
I don't understand how people can be this fucking stupid
>adding some stuff back in
no fucking way
0.16 and maybe 0.18 were the last good versions
Removing food was retarded
also Yred is the comfiest god
i still liek 0.5.2 the most, though I think going into it 0.15/16 would be the best
What do you liek about 0.5.2 fren?
Earliest version without any game-breaking bugs, item identification was bigger deal, stinger enemies/stat death being a major threat and strategizing around it, more like a "dungeon crawl" as the name suggests. The big problem with the version though is no chei or jivya or new tools like sack of spiders :(, I haven't tried any of the variants though and am anxious to do so
yeah the old versions have their charm and let you break them in hilarious ways
i'd play an old one or trunk, i dont get the appeal of versions like 0.15, all the fun jank was removed long before that
oh i forgot about pakellas and absolute zero, those are design cringekino worth running at least once
I helped
I remember 0.14 being about the point where no one was taking DCSS very seriously anymore. I gave that version a couple tries then forgot about the game for a while.
>Yred with uncapped summons
>Amass a huge army of bone dragons and profane servitors
Fun times, RIP Death Knight background.
>nice Yred run
>just finish Orc after Lair
>decide to dip into Elf
>Soul Pokemon a Deep Elf Demonologist
>GORILLION SUMMONS
Fucking kino
>Removing food
Wait what? Why?
TUM
COUNT
TUM
DRUM
TUM
CUM
how do I even get started with extended? my best run so far was a 5 rune DrEE of Veh who spammed shatter left and right. Most of my runs end in lair or the first s branch though.
My best runs have been 4-5 runes and I am pretty happy with myself since I did it multiple ways. I kinda dont even wanna bother with extended because certain gods favour it much more than the others which doesn't sound very fun.
Fuck the faith get out of jail cards
Best version/fork to play? I used to play in early 2010s but last I heard the current devs have fucked the game into oblivion
trunk, it's fine, don't listen to 4cheddit
or try a fork like bcrawl or the other one starting with B, they still have chunks and shit I think
Idk man, sounds like a case of skill issue to me
>Octopode Transmuter of Chei
ebin
Used to play it all these years ago, my screenshots are still shown on the website..
>burns you terribly
I honestly don't get all the hate, been playing since 0.20 and the only changes I hated so far was removing mutagenic chunks and attacks of opportunity.
15 isn't that hard if you can do 3, try pic related
>Sniper is now +27
sick
Is there still anywhere to download older versions?
I don't like web tiles
https://crawl.develz.org/release/?C=N;O=D
have fun anon 🙂
Is dck even alive? I'm very worried, y'know...
go back to /rlg/
>see this thread
>ahhh, might as well have a run with my favourite character, deep dwa-
>Deep Dwarves were removed in 0.29.
What is this people's problem? I used to reroll DD 50+ times just to get Jyiva from the faded altar to be indestructible, shit was retarded but fun
Please understand sir they were Bad Design
>Merfolk Abyssal Knight
>Stab a large abomination from afar with a spear
>gain 7 levels
>leave abyss and start game from D1
it was the best of times
>you draw a card
>it is the shuffle
demon is another cool game and a good example of how your strategy changes based on drops and losses
Filtered shitter.
I did 15 rune as an ant knight and eventually specced into earth magic by the end of it. It was easy.
I only managed to escape with the orb once on my playthroughs of Minotaur Warrior. Is the game a lot harder when you press auto-explore and only use one weapon?
auto explore is a noob trap, you don't want to be doing it beyond floor 5.
ass backwards
not doing autoexplore is autism that can only be justified on D<5
auto explore is fine, what kills you is tabbing into everything that moves.
only true for old versions. they adjusted most of the vaults that used to be auto-explore suicide so you can't auto-explore into them
this
autoexplore still has its moments
out fucking skilled
Basically all i did was auto explore and try to kill everything in my line of sight. The mutations from those weird ball things in the orb room were really nasty so i always figured i wasn't playing as it was intended
autoexplore is fine for most of the game, you just play it safe on floors with runes, hell branches, or zot
Is it comfy to play on a Steam Deck?
No idea but if you plan on using a cursor you gonna have bad times. You need to memorize around 20-30 hotkeys to play comfortably, nobody uses mouse support cause its slow as shit
they removed deep dorfs
and lava orcs. I will never forgive them.
I used to autistically play this game daily years ago. I remember the updates kept removing fun, what's it like these days? Did they remove starting races at this point?
You can only play Human Fighter and all branches but Dungeon have been removed. Scrolls have been replaced with "fun buttons" because reading is problematic.
Same boat. I got to the point i could do a 3 rune win in an hour realtime
Just heard of this game now and giving it a go. It's surprisingly fun and isn't complicated at all with mouse. Having it on browser is also cool too. I am running a Ghoul necromancer
awesome bro, try worshiping kiku, once you hit max piety he gives you a bunch of strong necro spells
I only play troll berzerker and hit things until I die.
Yes I have never completed this game
Most I got was 14 runes and then I got tormented.com in the Tomb
Honestly fuck the long game, its a boring gauntlet of utter bullshit.
The Golden Path is Dungeon > Lair > Orc > Depths > Vault > Zot in different order depending on your build. These are the fun, well-designed parts of the game. Vault 6 is the most fun floor cause it dares you to teleport and fight your way from the corners since the doors get locked. The rest of the game is just homosexual game of "do you have proper set of resists for this??" Or jerking off for eternity in randomly generated pans and ziggurats
the new hells are pretty fun. pan is still stupid bullshit.
Gozag or Makhleb for a Djinni?
i prefer gozag but ash is better than both of them
I've gotten 15 runes multiple times with a spriggan wizard but they kept nerfing magic over and over again for years. Now there is just one good build and everything else is trash. It is really unfortunate because there used to be a lot more depth
They literally removed all the difficulty, 15 rune games are possible with all class/race combos while joining and abandoning all religions in a single run.
The last decade of "Eliminating White-centric races" to promote diversity and removing in-jokes to "not confuse new players" hasn't helped either.
Why'd they remove centaurs? Did they add the armadillo things and then decide centaurs were too similar?
>they removed the centaur
What the FUCK. And I'm surprised the halfling lasted so long, I don't even remember it existing.
Ok anon show us ur MuMo run.
>both deep dwarf and mountain dwarf were removed
dd and centaur played differently enough that they shouldve stayed
the rest were filler
i think they were considered too easy and degen, which they were, but trolls are allowed so who knows
Sludge Elf Transmuter was my favorite combo. I quit playing ages ago and it looks like the game is somehow even worse now.
Furries in the Discord push their OC's as substitutes for "pure human" or "half human" races, they really, really want to replace Deep Elf with some WoW Draenei rip-off because Elf is too human.
lul, some of the new races and uniques are so fucking dumb
I hate "Vv"
>new super speshul race even though multiple earth races exist already
>overpowered
>impossible to pronounce name (does funguscuck realise that all other uniques have names written in ~english that can actually be pronounced?)
just noticed this post, kek
>looking around the wiki
>zot clock
>they got so buttmad about people not speedrunning the game that they are now introducing forced arbitrary game timers and races built around the clock
god i hate this fucking game, dcss died with the removal of the bee hive and mountain dwarf
they never figured out a good answer for scumming. i think letting players full clear levels was a mistake.
post your top 5 uniques
>Jorgrun
Love this level destroying bro
>Bai Suzhen
My waifu
>Rupert
Local Gigachad, the ultimate test for melee chars
>Royal Jelly
Fuck this thing
>Jory
Dont think he ever killed me but I love the blood xplosion
devs should bring back lamia
>Mara
Hope you've got rF, sucker!
>Crazy Yiuf
iconic vault and gibberish, do you risk banishment for that sweet cloak?
>Mennas
when you see that silence aura you know it's about to get interesting (as a caster at least)
>Boris
FUCKING STAY DEAD DAMNIT
>Donald
somehow hates the game and complains more than Ganker does; has a neat reflect shield sometimes
Poor Boris. Crazy Yiuf's staff never did anything to save him for death by bashing
Dowan and Duvessa, Prince Ribbit, Rupert, Mennas, Nessos.
>Dowan and Duvessa
i always command duvessa to kill dowan
i nut every time she screams in horror
>gastronok
makes you think, is really tempting to gamble at low level, has the based pondering hat sometimes
>grinder
horrifying
>yiuf
needs no introduction
>mennas
all time classic pants shitter, mage griefer, the phial is so lame
>harold
another good kill or be killed unique that can be hard to run from and escalates things quickly
jorgrun is just not the same since they nerfed him
you don't get attacked if you're faster.
Chei is based
>Grinder
Sworn enemy so I love winning fights against him
>Donald
Always good for a laugh
>Gastronok
We go slow here and cool hat
>Robin
Another fun fight
>Arachne
I'm a degenerate
I've a 15 rune mummy victory but I've always dreamed of getting a naga victory. That movement penalty is just so fucking bad in abyss, pan and hells.
Still respectable to me
Honestly only took this win because I found a +10 triple sword of draining
Was on .24 too so I want to go back and do a real NaTm on .16
>Naga of Chei taking 1 step with no enemy in view
SLOUCH
someone post it
The game officially lost its Sovl when the ghosts started getting spawned in gay walled off rooms instead of roaming the level and fucking your shit up
putting down your old zot 5 ghost and winning this time was kino
>check patch logs
>removed x100
Rate my idea: a species based around the humanoid monsters from old world maps. There could be blemmyes that can't wear helmets/body armor but bite and cannibalize enemies, sciapods without shoes that can hop around or block with their large foot, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.develz.crawl&hl=en
>You WILL NOT drink from the sparkling fountain
>You WILL NOT eat the food
>You WILL NOT let the summons or clouds out of your sight
>You WILL NOT find the cursed items
>You WILL NOT have the decks of cards
>You WILL NOT have the potions shatter
>You WILL NOT have the scrolls burn
>You WILL NOT have the Rods
>You WILL NOT have the Wands of Heal Wounds, Teleportation, or Haste
>You WILL NOT fight the Player Ghosts if you don't want to
>You WILL NOT get lost in the Labyrinth maze
>You WILL NOT play as the Dwarf
>You WILL always be flying when having an equipped FLY item
>You WILL choose your Scroll of Acquirement item
>You WILL be given a planned out item build for your species / class combo by the game engine
>You WILL survive for a 15 rune game no matter the circumstances
>You WILL BE HAPPY!!!!!
>>You WILL be given a planned out item build for your species / class combo by the game engine
potions. now.
hellcrawl is breddy gud
Based
Cringe
Shit taste.
This fucking opportunity attack thing sucks. Like, if you're playing something like a felid where you're supposed to kite or run from stuff and they're already made out of paper?
Play Kimchi.
why do i get the feeling that all these new uniques are self-inserts from the devteam?
duvessa is the og self insert
>A master weaponsmith, her flesh melding into steel so smoothly that it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. She entered the Dungeon to search for the secrets of an ancient, long-suppressed cult, said to have exalted metal over flesh. The price of knowledge was her humanity - a price she paid eagerly.
>One of the Stoneborn, formed untold aeons ago with supreme command over rock. Her people shelter deep within the living earth, so whatever has forced Vv into the oppressive openness of the Dungeon must be dire indeed. But whatever it is, she's not talking...
>"Beside the man stands a woman - of sorts. Her emulation of the human gender is only superficial, a courtesy. Likewise the loose drapelike dress she wears is not cloth. She has simply shaped a portion of her stiff substance to suit the preferences of the fragile, mortal creatures among whom she currently moves. From a distance the illusion would work to pass her off as a woman standing still...
>When she turns to the man - slowly; stone eaters are slow aboveground, except when they aren't - this movement pushes her beyond artful beauty into something altogether different. The man has grown used to it, but even so, he does not look at her. He does not want revulsion to spoil the moment."
>-N.K. Jemisin, "The Fifth Season". 2015.
ugh
...
Shroom confusion?
*Summons endless postgame monsters at you from the other side of the room*
>Try to bait into melee range
LOL I BANISH U
You shouldn't even be bumping into these untilt he later stages of the game and by that point you should have enough magic resist on your character for this to not be a problem.
>You feel more attractive to monsters
Is this the monstergirl fucker's potion?
How the fuck does that happen?
fault
Playing the Harry Potter game really makes me appreciate the magic system in DCSS. Probably the most varied and fleshed out of any game.
>Move
>Die
just zerk
Hobgoblins do no damage
fault
just smack em down
I should leave them alone. Natasha respawned in here.
Get some space for Natasha to come after you and leave Yiuf behind. Or fight in that tile.
What's a good char for a first win that isn't just 'walk into enemies until someone dies'? Ideally something that teaches you how to play around with gods/magic decently well.
HOFE, GrEE are both pretty durable and decent with magic
HoMo or KoCk
Tell me more
Hill orc monk and kobold chaos knight
I mean do they live up to their acronyms, this is important
DjCj is an easy caster 3 rune. All you need to do is train spellcasting.
>see this thread
>oh hey i remember crawl
>last game played in 2016
holy shit that was 7 years ago
woah what is this? i just started as a gnoll wanderer and died 30min later figuring shit out, go figure i died to another gnoll.
this is fun as fuck is there more stuff like this with... better controls?
moron start as a Minotaur Berserker like the game tells you to.
it's over