that post explains a lot.
the quality of Ganker over the past 5 or so years has absolutely plummeted. probably due to an influx of zoomer newbies. it's only going to get worse.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the 2016 election tourists flooding the board. Now every thread is filled with christcucks, trannies and troony-obsessed christcucks.
>elves get shrekt before history finishes generating
God damn it you pansy-ass tree-fricking knife-ears, get your shit together long enough for me to be the one to kick your ass!
>before steam release >"YO THIS GAME IS SO GOOD!!! LE CATS!!! BOATMURDERED!" >after steam release (you are here) >"huh this is just worse rimworld, why did he not launch with the most popular mode ready?" >after adventure release >"wait what do you mean he hasn't changed ANYTHING in adventure for over three years and all those blogposts were just ideas guying?"
>game's too easy now >now
This moron didn't even play the game before this "now". DF threads are comically full of morons who never fricking launched the game, nor even visited the fricking website where you can download every single version of the game for free.
>Frick up the keybinds and forced to shuffle between mouse and keyboard >Can't revert it >Designation cursor not visible when mining >Runs slow as shit even in the early game with 7 dwarves >Adventure mode still not in
I'm still on 0.47.05 until a new version can be played keyboard only.
Thanks. But I only pirated it somewhere near launch. Like
Yeah it doesn't have soul or worldbuilding of DF but at least it'd functional with a lively community.
says. It also lacks the soul.
I really enjoy custom statues and shit in DF for roleplaying purposes.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
RimWorld also has statues with procedural descriptions of events that its creator saw. The latest update even added books.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Rimworld also has the furniture/statues depicting history/etc. You just have to make masterpieces.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I want to make dedicated artwork relating to events in the fortress. My champion striking down the goblins. And in his tomb I will commemorate his life with more heroic art. Perhaps not all true to life.
I was a die hard DF fan that always shat on rimworld but that was around rimworld's release in 2013.
Now a decade later, DF is just a husk and Rimworld is thriving and I made the switch over. DF's potential is forever squandered.
But I still have fond memories of old DF. It was something special. The game itself but also the community. All part of a bygone internet now.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
DF is unsalvagable because its engine doesn't allow for multithreading but Toady wants to add more and more content and mechanics so while FPS death is already an ever looming threat for individual forts but if he doesn't do something about it, it's gonna kill the entire project. >LOS is already being multithreaded!
yeah doesn't help much.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I never played DF because it was mechanically smooth or visually appealing, and Rimworld can't give me what DF did at its peak, so how about I don't bother with either?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You don't need my permission, I don't care what you do.
>Main menu is mouse >Designations are mouse >Plopping down buildings is mouse
You have hotkeys to go into the menu. But then there's that shuffling back and forth to the mouse. Because you can't stay on the keyboard only.
Also the new UI is just worse. You know how the game used to tell you exactly which buttons did what in the menus? That is no more. If you go into the build screen you are greeted with names and empty buttons. You can see the key if you hover over them. But you're not allowed to just see what to press.
And because they moved all the fricking keys. You can't even rely on muscle memory.
On top of that, noticed how even Ascii art got worse? The colours are all fricked now, blue isn't blue anymoee, it's some pastel indigo-violet now and I can't fricking stand it. What THE FRICK Toady.
>On top of that, noticed how even Ascii art got worse? The colours are all fricked now, blue isn't blue anymoee, it's some pastel indigo-violet now and I can't fricking stand it. What THE FRICK Toady.
yes literally this, it was the VERY FIRST THING i noticed outside of the ui shit
updating all of this crap was a mistake
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Is there something detailing what he outsourced when bringing it to steam? I would hate it if Toady actually actively participated in the enshittification of the game. Rather than just go "alright sure whatever" at some point.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The odd thing about Toady is he used to be neutral and apolitical for almost 20 years. And then one day, almost over night, he talked about BLM and trans rights. I don't know if he suddenly got a million dollar check from Blackrock or if old age just turns you senile and susceptable to "feel good virtue signaling" like TotalBiscuit towards the end, but it's definitely strange he just acted like this out of the blue.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The guy who made Liberal Crine Squad was apolotical
Lmao.
You've been conned by a hard communist.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
If you think Liberal crime Squad was a commie game, then you're lacking that media literacy people were talking so much about a few weeks ago.
It is chilling to see, though, that professing allegiance to BLM always seems immediately followed by a drop in quality for any game or developer.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I hope Toady is enjoying his ESG funds.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The fat homosexual gets 25k a month to release an update every two years
Its crazy how despite that he still managed to break the community in half because the wife wanted clout with city slicker canuck trannies.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Anon whatever you do, DONT look up Toad's mommy wife social media. There's nothing there that reveals Toad's latest business decisions and rhetoric.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
...Toady's married? I thought that guy was the most autistic autist ever to aut. Link?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I consider both brothers to be the same person because for all intend and purpose they are. Pic related.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Apparently he is bipolar and has multiple chronic conditions (rumored to be tumors).
>We realized quickly that the main obstacle to care was health insurance. At this point, Zach was limiting his hours with Bay 12 Games so that he could make a small living, and maintain access to the scant amount of public health insurance that was available. He was unable to access certain public assistance, because most of the time he seemed, well, totally normal. He would go months and months without episodes, and every time he needed to renew his benefits, he was constantly trying to convince others that he really was sick. It was this insurance that was the only thin lifeline tying him to the rest of reality. The fear of losing coverage was constant, as the costs of medicine, medical appointments, and everything else that came along with managing a chronic illness would have bankrupted us, even with the generous and unwavering support we had from our families.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Even back then the guy was making thousands a month in patreon and donations through the site, what the frick does he do with all that money? He could get the best insurance plans in the country
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dunno, you know how fricking weird the American healthcare system is.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Zach is his brother. Not Toady
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's good to know there are other disparaged souls out there, unhappy with the state of the game. Problem is, even if he takes criticism to heart (that's a big if, considering we're not his paying customer base), it would take years for him to even get around fixing it. I'll just play the older versions and try out Rimworld until then.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well Putnam, the guy who made the new tileset for the Steam release, is trans so that may have something to do with it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The colours are all fricked now
Used to have my own color pack because I didn't like the harsh vanilla colors, so this is fine in my book. I like the new ones a lot more.
I tried the steam version and refunded it for these exact reasons. I searched for a while for some legacy keybinds/UI option and gave up. I can still play older versions so that's fine, I just wanted to support Toady, the last time I donated to bay12 was 2010. I just can't support this.
>TFW would just generate worlds and read the legends section, imagining stuff like what the forgotten beasts looked like
You really have to be in the right mood to play this game, but my goodness is there nothing quite like it when you are.
This game was shrouded under moronic controls and once the steam release happened people realized that without the needlessly complex barrier the game just sucks compared to Rimworld
>needlessly complex
I've always hated this meme. The game straight up told you what buttons to press to access which menus. In fact it told you fricking everything up front.
I genuinely never understood the UI complaints. Reading the menu explains the menu? It's all right there.
There were of course a few fiddly or complicated ones. Like assigning armour and militia. But that was more about the process involved than finding the buttons.
My complaint was that you had to use the keyboard to select anything on the map. Sure, the new UI is far from perfect, but the fact that you can just hover over a tile and see what's there and then click for details redeems it completely in my eyes.
I honestly miss the old q and v buttons. It helped me quickly find the right workshop without having to perfectly select them. Also checking in in dwarves without clicking their tiny smiley.
Same. I was told the game is too complex and the controls are hard to figure out, but I had then down pretty fast especially after finding a guide
It turned out that all those funny stories about elephants and killer capybaras were in the players' heads...
It reminds me of when I was a kid and my cousin started telling me about Sim City 2000, but he told it in a way that sounded like it was a detailed simulator where mini people walked down the street and got mugged by thieves if there were no police around or things like that. And when I played the game it didn't really simulate anything and after a week my brother and I figured out how to abuse the 'simulation' to always win and that's it...
Most dwarf fortress stories and anecdotes are overexaggerated but real. Overpowered killer fish were definitely a thing.
you joke now, but z**moids will probably start sperging over ascii aesthetics sooner or later just like they shit and pissed themselves over analog videotapes
I have never played Fort Mode, only Adventure Mode on the older free versions, like years ago.
The news that the paid version is somehow worse is staggering.
I had fun traveling around the world, making my guy recruit parties, fighting groups of bandits, tracking down horrors and vampires, dismembering the frick out of anyone, eventually raiding necromancer towers, fighting Forgotten Beasts to the death, raiding vaults filled with Angels like its a MGS mission where the slightest mistake means death.
And you're telling me I can't do any of this shit in the PAID version???
DF is great for making your own fun. I've spent an inordinate amount of time in the arena. Playing as an ogre and wrestle throwing people across the screen, or into walls is very fun. Hell, just pinching a guy as an ogre basically severs the part. Instantly ripping out the throat for example.
Also seeing how many of what it takes to beat something.
>kill a bat with an arrow >bat corpse on the ground >shoot a fire bolt at the corpse >cooked bat gives you more nutrition
>don't want equipment to get drenched >have to cross water >shoot ice bolt across water >freezes water into an ice bridge for you to cross
>want to steal an object >shoot shopkeeper with a wand of trap creation >wand creates a teleportation trap >shopkeeper gets transported to the other side of the map >steal everything you want while the shopkeeper is sprinting back
>Horrible Dorn Beast can kill you via hypnosis >carry a cursed water bottle >dip a potion of invisibility into the cursed water >turns it into a potion of blindness >drink potion of blindness >Successfully kill Dorn Beast
True. I did start playing the game when I was 10 years old in 1998. It does have more keybindings than Elite Dangerous. As a kid I was just fascinated by all the systems-based interactions and I've always liked the ASCII interface. It's not even vague like the overstylized Dwarf Fortress style. Every character of a specific color can only mean specific things, so it's very informative at all times.
Ascii has an initial learning curve when it comes to that. Then it can be easier to tell what's going on at a glance. Especially compared to small tilesets.
I still play Cataclysm with ascii because I can't tell what anything is otherwise. Despite sprites being the default nowadays.
The only advantage that tiles give in modern Adom is that when items are stacked you can see multiple sprites, instead of just the top-most character of the pile. I don't know if I'd consider it cheating, but it's definitely not part of the original feedback. Then again, neither is sound for the most part.
I never really got into ADOM. Something about the static world map I think. I prefer just going down. And maybe up to restock and sell stuff.
CDDA is fine though. Since I get a new map every time.
Somehow I've managed to make it 40 years into my Garithmi colony without a single instance of combat taking place. Just me, my pillbug battery farm, and my elven landlord demanding 103 iron for her brother's birthday.
It turned out that all those funny stories about elephants and killer capybaras were in the players' heads...
It reminds me of when I was a kid and my cousin started telling me about Sim City 2000, but he told it in a way that sounded like it was a detailed simulator where mini people walked down the street and got mugged by thieves if there were no police around or things like that. And when I played the game it didn't really simulate anything and after a week my brother and I figured out how to abuse the 'simulation' to always win and that's it...
Wow you sound autistic. Yes of course people embellished on their stories, that's what people do. Doesn't mean insane things like that don't happen in DF.
>try Song of Styx because of the Seeth video >fiddling with the game >go to build a road, the game automatically sets the terrain path overlay in real time >mfw when
I bought it outside the sale. Frick Dwarf Fortress, toad is a lazy Black person and I am done with that fricking game.
What game?
You aren't fooling anyone homosexual OP.
Rimworld for Gameboy Color.
>WAHH WAHH SPOONFEED ME
No.
>want to talk about a game
>make a post about it
>never elaborate which game it is
>thread barely gets engagement, dies soon
your loss, I guess?
barely gets engagement, dies soon
what were you saying? 🙂
Thread doesn't even have 100 replies, cope.
And you're still engaging with it
CoD tactics
Cannon Fodder
Fifa 1997
Ganker has fallen.
I can't think of something that rhymes with die but billions must do something.
that post explains a lot.
the quality of Ganker over the past 5 or so years has absolutely plummeted. probably due to an influx of zoomer newbies. it's only going to get worse.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the 2016 election tourists flooding the board. Now every thread is filled with christcucks, trannies and troony-obsessed christcucks.
Fortnite Classic Edition
Maiden Rape Assault: Violent Semen Inferno.
Is that some sorta weird fish monster with a giant white eye?
What am I looking at?
I gave your mum the fish monster with a giant white last night, lad.
???
Whats with the tism?
have a nice day back to social media where you belong stupid fricking toddler.
You need to get off the internet. Being a chronic 4chooner isn't good for you, chuddy.
That has to be the dumbest fricking shit you could ever say while on Ganker.
>babyraging at truth
You choose to be mocked then lol
It's a proc-gen world map of old Dwarf Fortress.
Yknow, before Toady ruined the game.
It hurts bros.
if he used real ascii instead of fricking tiles we would have filtered all the redditors
>elves get shrekt before history finishes generating
God damn it you pansy-ass tree-fricking knife-ears, get your shit together long enough for me to be the one to kick your ass!
>before steam release
>"YO THIS GAME IS SO GOOD!!! LE CATS!!! BOATMURDERED!"
>after steam release (you are here)
>"huh this is just worse rimworld, why did he not launch with the most popular mode ready?"
>after adventure release
>"wait what do you mean he hasn't changed ANYTHING in adventure for over three years and all those blogposts were just ideas guying?"
I'm still on 0.47.05 until a new version can be played keyboard only.
Same. The new UI sucks and the game's too easy now, but the controls actively keep me from playing it. What a travesty.
>game's too easy now
>now
This moron didn't even play the game before this "now". DF threads are comically full of morons who never fricking launched the game, nor even visited the fricking website where you can download every single version of the game for free.
I've been playing the game since 2010, get off your high horse you insufferable homosexual.
>Frick up the keybinds and forced to shuffle between mouse and keyboard
>Can't revert it
>Designation cursor not visible when mining
>Runs slow as shit even in the early game with 7 dwarves
>Adventure mode still not in
We'll never get it back
>We'll never get it back
Welp, guess I'll try Rimworld then.
I never got into it. I really wish the game was faster.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504723424
Thanks. But I only pirated it somewhere near launch. Like
says. It also lacks the soul.
I really enjoy custom statues and shit in DF for roleplaying purposes.
RimWorld also has statues with procedural descriptions of events that its creator saw. The latest update even added books.
Rimworld also has the furniture/statues depicting history/etc. You just have to make masterpieces.
I want to make dedicated artwork relating to events in the fortress. My champion striking down the goblins. And in his tomb I will commemorate his life with more heroic art. Perhaps not all true to life.
Yeah it doesn't have soul or worldbuilding of DF but at least it'd functional with a lively community.
I was a die hard DF fan that always shat on rimworld but that was around rimworld's release in 2013.
Now a decade later, DF is just a husk and Rimworld is thriving and I made the switch over. DF's potential is forever squandered.
But I still have fond memories of old DF. It was something special. The game itself but also the community. All part of a bygone internet now.
DF is unsalvagable because its engine doesn't allow for multithreading but Toady wants to add more and more content and mechanics so while FPS death is already an ever looming threat for individual forts but if he doesn't do something about it, it's gonna kill the entire project.
>LOS is already being multithreaded!
yeah doesn't help much.
I never played DF because it was mechanically smooth or visually appealing, and Rimworld can't give me what DF did at its peak, so how about I don't bother with either?
You don't need my permission, I don't care what you do.
>forced mouse controls in nu-DF
What? You can't just play the game anymore with just the keyboard? Say it ain't so.
>Main menu is mouse
>Designations are mouse
>Plopping down buildings is mouse
You have hotkeys to go into the menu. But then there's that shuffling back and forth to the mouse. Because you can't stay on the keyboard only.
Also the new UI is just worse. You know how the game used to tell you exactly which buttons did what in the menus? That is no more. If you go into the build screen you are greeted with names and empty buttons. You can see the key if you hover over them. But you're not allowed to just see what to press.
And because they moved all the fricking keys. You can't even rely on muscle memory.
Grim... what the frick was Toady thinking? Or does he just not give a shit about his non-Steam playerbase?
On top of that, noticed how even Ascii art got worse? The colours are all fricked now, blue isn't blue anymoee, it's some pastel indigo-violet now and I can't fricking stand it. What THE FRICK Toady.
>On top of that, noticed how even Ascii art got worse? The colours are all fricked now, blue isn't blue anymoee, it's some pastel indigo-violet now and I can't fricking stand it. What THE FRICK Toady.
yes literally this, it was the VERY FIRST THING i noticed outside of the ui shit
updating all of this crap was a mistake
Is there something detailing what he outsourced when bringing it to steam? I would hate it if Toady actually actively participated in the enshittification of the game. Rather than just go "alright sure whatever" at some point.
The odd thing about Toady is he used to be neutral and apolitical for almost 20 years. And then one day, almost over night, he talked about BLM and trans rights. I don't know if he suddenly got a million dollar check from Blackrock or if old age just turns you senile and susceptable to "feel good virtue signaling" like TotalBiscuit towards the end, but it's definitely strange he just acted like this out of the blue.
>The guy who made Liberal Crine Squad was apolotical
Lmao.
You've been conned by a hard communist.
If you think Liberal crime Squad was a commie game, then you're lacking that media literacy people were talking so much about a few weeks ago.
It is chilling to see, though, that professing allegiance to BLM always seems immediately followed by a drop in quality for any game or developer.
I hope Toady is enjoying his ESG funds.
I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank
>The fat homosexual gets 25k a month to release an update every two years
Its crazy how despite that he still managed to break the community in half because the wife wanted clout with city slicker canuck trannies.
Anon whatever you do, DONT look up Toad's mommy wife social media. There's nothing there that reveals Toad's latest business decisions and rhetoric.
...Toady's married? I thought that guy was the most autistic autist ever to aut. Link?
I consider both brothers to be the same person because for all intend and purpose they are. Pic related.
Apparently he is bipolar and has multiple chronic conditions (rumored to be tumors).
>We realized quickly that the main obstacle to care was health insurance. At this point, Zach was limiting his hours with Bay 12 Games so that he could make a small living, and maintain access to the scant amount of public health insurance that was available. He was unable to access certain public assistance, because most of the time he seemed, well, totally normal. He would go months and months without episodes, and every time he needed to renew his benefits, he was constantly trying to convince others that he really was sick. It was this insurance that was the only thin lifeline tying him to the rest of reality. The fear of losing coverage was constant, as the costs of medicine, medical appointments, and everything else that came along with managing a chronic illness would have bankrupted us, even with the generous and unwavering support we had from our families.
Even back then the guy was making thousands a month in patreon and donations through the site, what the frick does he do with all that money? He could get the best insurance plans in the country
Dunno, you know how fricking weird the American healthcare system is.
Zach is his brother. Not Toady
It's good to know there are other disparaged souls out there, unhappy with the state of the game. Problem is, even if he takes criticism to heart (that's a big if, considering we're not his paying customer base), it would take years for him to even get around fixing it. I'll just play the older versions and try out Rimworld until then.
Well Putnam, the guy who made the new tileset for the Steam release, is trans so that may have something to do with it.
>The colours are all fricked now
Used to have my own color pack because I didn't like the harsh vanilla colors, so this is fine in my book. I like the new ones a lot more.
I tried the steam version and refunded it for these exact reasons. I searched for a while for some legacy keybinds/UI option and gave up. I can still play older versions so that's fine, I just wanted to support Toady, the last time I donated to bay12 was 2010. I just can't support this.
>TFW would just generate worlds and read the legends section, imagining stuff like what the forgotten beasts looked like
You really have to be in the right mood to play this game, but my goodness is there nothing quite like it when you are.
This game was shrouded under moronic controls and once the steam release happened people realized that without the needlessly complex barrier the game just sucks compared to Rimworld
>needlessly complex
I've always hated this meme. The game straight up told you what buttons to press to access which menus. In fact it told you fricking everything up front.
I genuinely never understood the UI complaints. Reading the menu explains the menu? It's all right there.
There were of course a few fiddly or complicated ones. Like assigning armour and militia. But that was more about the process involved than finding the buttons.
My complaint was that you had to use the keyboard to select anything on the map. Sure, the new UI is far from perfect, but the fact that you can just hover over a tile and see what's there and then click for details redeems it completely in my eyes.
I honestly miss the old q and v buttons. It helped me quickly find the right workshop without having to perfectly select them. Also checking in in dwarves without clicking their tiny smiley.
I just downloaded and tried it, actually unplayable piece of shit now.
>tiny
You can zoom in and out.
That's just extra steps to work around removing the feature
How about not forcing this clickable shit UI on players to begin with?
Same. I was told the game is too complex and the controls are hard to figure out, but I had then down pretty fast especially after finding a guide
Most dwarf fortress stories and anecdotes are overexaggerated but real. Overpowered killer fish were definitely a thing.
I agree. It's not a well made game.
Wohuh original post you got there, contrarian.
keep seething Black person, your game fricking trash
>the contrarian babyrages when he is called out
you joke now, but z**moids will probably start sperging over ascii aesthetics sooner or later just like they shit and pissed themselves over analog videotapes
It's time to retvrn, white man
DF was never good and it will never be good.
It's barely a real game.
The only thing DF has going for itself was the liquids physics system the rest is pointless bloat.
>Tile has 7/7 water
>Tile next to it has less/7
>Flow into the tile and repeat
>Keep keep the surface level
I'm having fun with this game for a year now
>no tower
its shit mang
Tynan Sylvester
I have never played Fort Mode, only Adventure Mode on the older free versions, like years ago.
The news that the paid version is somehow worse is staggering.
I had fun traveling around the world, making my guy recruit parties, fighting groups of bandits, tracking down horrors and vampires, dismembering the frick out of anyone, eventually raiding necromancer towers, fighting Forgotten Beasts to the death, raiding vaults filled with Angels like its a MGS mission where the slightest mistake means death.
And you're telling me I can't do any of this shit in the PAID version???
>I never played the main feature and attraction of the game
Lol wut
Hey man, it's a game about making our own fun, don't look at me weird for doing it
DF is great for making your own fun. I've spent an inordinate amount of time in the arena. Playing as an ogre and wrestle throwing people across the screen, or into walls is very fun. Hell, just pinching a guy as an ogre basically severs the part. Instantly ripping out the throat for example.
Also seeing how many of what it takes to beat something.
>take control of beefed up minotaur
>opponent is a naked unarmed female human
>get hard reading the brutally detailed combat log
Wrestling their clothes off is more sexual
You can do that in RimWorld, too, although you'll need a mod for the minotaur.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2927812651
Is there an autistically detail combat log in Rimworld?
It's is as detailed as combat itself and creature anatomy, as in less than in Dwarf Fortress.
Please, don't ever have sex.
I already had, so now what?
Of course not, normie sex is boring
You should try soulash.
Looks interesting, there's also a sequel in EA. would that be any better?
Its DF adventure mode with only a focus on adventure so you don't have to fort.
personally i'm frickibg livid that the 'release date' for adv mode was a frickin half-baked opt-in beta
What was the last good version?
The one before he added thoses moronic necrosieges and were-mutation outbreaks.
>kill a bat with an arrow
>bat corpse on the ground
>shoot a fire bolt at the corpse
>cooked bat gives you more nutrition
>don't want equipment to get drenched
>have to cross water
>shoot ice bolt across water
>freezes water into an ice bridge for you to cross
>want to steal an object
>shoot shopkeeper with a wand of trap creation
>wand creates a teleportation trap
>shopkeeper gets transported to the other side of the map
>steal everything you want while the shopkeeper is sprinting back
>Horrible Dorn Beast can kill you via hypnosis
>carry a cursed water bottle
>dip a potion of invisibility into the cursed water
>turns it into a potion of blindness
>drink potion of blindness
>Successfully kill Dorn Beast
Cool, too bad it takes like 3 years to learn the basics and to commit half the keybinds to memory.
True. I did start playing the game when I was 10 years old in 1998. It does have more keybindings than Elite Dangerous. As a kid I was just fascinated by all the systems-based interactions and I've always liked the ASCII interface. It's not even vague like the overstylized Dwarf Fortress style. Every character of a specific color can only mean specific things, so it's very informative at all times.
Ascii has an initial learning curve when it comes to that. Then it can be easier to tell what's going on at a glance. Especially compared to small tilesets.
I still play Cataclysm with ascii because I can't tell what anything is otherwise. Despite sprites being the default nowadays.
The only advantage that tiles give in modern Adom is that when items are stacked you can see multiple sprites, instead of just the top-most character of the pile. I don't know if I'd consider it cheating, but it's definitely not part of the original feedback. Then again, neither is sound for the most part.
I never really got into ADOM. Something about the static world map I think. I prefer just going down. And maybe up to restock and sell stuff.
CDDA is fine though. Since I get a new map every time.
Cortana, post the "story generator" of Rimworld
Song of Syx will replace this game within a year.
Started a new town after Sseth reminded me it existed. I expect to die in the second battle once again.
Somehow I've managed to make it 40 years into my Garithmi colony without a single instance of combat taking place. Just me, my pillbug battery farm, and my elven landlord demanding 103 iron for her brother's birthday.
It turned out that all those funny stories about elephants and killer capybaras were in the players' heads...
It reminds me of when I was a kid and my cousin started telling me about Sim City 2000, but he told it in a way that sounded like it was a detailed simulator where mini people walked down the street and got mugged by thieves if there were no police around or things like that. And when I played the game it didn't really simulate anything and after a week my brother and I figured out how to abuse the 'simulation' to always win and that's it...
Wow you sound autistic. Yes of course people embellished on their stories, that's what people do. Doesn't mean insane things like that don't happen in DF.
>try Song of Styx because of the Seeth video
>fiddling with the game
>go to build a road, the game automatically sets the terrain path overlay in real time
>mfw when
I bought it outside the sale. Frick Dwarf Fortress, toad is a lazy Black person and I am done with that fricking game.
>game is better because (unrelated thing)
Polish alone mogs DF. In fact the only mechanic DF has it going on their favor is the physics simulation stuff.
40d was the last time Dorf was good
world activation killed the game