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Hahaha! I shouldn't have read that comic while drinking, Logrin, you nearly made me choke to death!

I've been having troubles with the bandits that lurk in the city dungeons, so here's a little comic highlighting the characters I played in the new adventure mode.

It might be a tad bit big.

How do I get my dwarves to actually discover the body? I found my legendary Metalcrafter dead in his bed. He's listed as missing, and although I've sent an entire squad of military dwarves into his bedroom and deconstructed all the furniture around his bed, his death hasn't been reported yet.

My submission for Unu. Enjoy.

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Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!

I like playing on CTF maps, they make for good warmup maps before moving on to something more team-oriented. I like 2fort for it's hectic spam and Death Match style gameplay, it makes it a perfect map to get your blood pumping. Doublecross is a lot better in terms of class balance, the map is set up in such a way that it allows every class to really show their strengths. Turbine is alright, but usually victory goes to the first team that can get sentries set up in the middle. Sawmill however, is pretty terrible if you only need 3 caps to win. There's a reason why hardly any servers run that map, it's way too easy to capture the intelligence. Servers that are set at 7 caps to win makes the map slightly better.

Once I start craving something that requires a little more teamwork, I switch to Control Point maps. I usually find myself willing to play on any CP map except for Badlands. In my opinion, it seems like Badlands was created with the competitive 6v6 in mind. The map is set in such a way that it's a dream come true for soldiers and scouts. Picking any other class with the exception of demo and medic will end up hurting your team unless you already have more soldiers and scouts than the opposing team.

I don't like playing Payload or Attack and Defend maps unless the teams are really well balanced. I find it incredibly boring if the defenders end up completely dominating the offense. It means the match will go on for the full duration without any way to end it quickly. At least with every other gametype, you can end the round quickly and force a team scramble to attempt to balance the teams.

I sort of miss the old 2d adventure mode. I mainly play adventure mode to visit old forts and the 2d version seemed to have better random monster placement. As it stands in the current version, all the baddies tend to gather in the designated meeting halls. If they didn't start there, they'll very quickly make their way there. It would be kind of cool to have battles throughout the entire fort rather than the predesignated hotspots. Also, the 2d version seemed to have a lot more monster populations in general. So yeah, An adventure mode update is needed. I can't wait to hunt down necromancers and their hordes of undead minions!

Two thumbs up for this Let's Play! The stock photos thrown in with the game screenshots was a nice touch as well!

I hope to have time to participate in the next one when you get back from your trip! There's still plenty of Russian steppe to cross!

Quote from: DarkerDark on December 28, 2011, 12:48:01 am

I made it all the way to dungeon level 6 before I made the ultimately fatal decision of taking that trans-dimensional dodge ability. Is that not one of the worst abilities?

You can toggle it on or off with the skill it gives you. Just keep it off and turn it on when you get into trouble.

Also, the game should autosave every time you go up or down a level.

You can toggle the ability?! Huh! I wish I had noticed that before I died a horrible gruesome death. XD

I didn't even notice the autosave either. I'm a very perceptive person.