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*Fixed some issues and improved the performance of the Asphalt Mines builders

Oh!  Are there reasons to go there now?  Or is it just a dungeon?

From following unormal on the twitters, it sounds like there is a lot of memory cleanup going on to make the game more efficient and run better under unity.

The implication is that a mobile version might be coming, but the result is probably going to be a cleaner more efficient game for everybody.

It sounds like there are also a bunch of bug fixes.  I am understanding that there is a roadmap for additional features and content, but those are not yet being worked on.

For all the jokes made about the lasgun bayonets there's surprisingly few actual pics of suicide charges using them.

I think the intended purpose is not for suicide charging, but rather for when the green tide finally reaches you despite the constant hammering of your guns.  More last-ditch-defense than desperate offense.

Proselytize never seems to work for me, even as a high ego Priest of All Suns. Is there certain targets that are immune?

I seem to remember it being tied more to level than ego?  you would have a better chance at lower level creatures, but things higher or equal level to you would nearly always resist?

Anyone else know better?  The Wikia site is surprisingly weak, I know there is more knowledge on the game out there but it isnt being documented anywhere that I can find.

I've read combat in Caves of Qud isn't as detailed as DF combat...

So what's it like in this one?

Nothing is.  Closest contender is IVAN, and even it isnt.

This has a HP counter and also various status effects.  all equipment is damageable and degradable, but also upgradeable.  various bonuses and penalties interact in complex ways across most aspects of the game, so there is lots of neat stuff to micro manage and optimize if you like that sort of thing.

You have lots to do in combat with various moves and abilities, so you're not just bumping into something until its HP counter goes down.  That said, its just a HP counter without any real anatomy.

From reading some of the comments here over the course of the limited alpha, and also some things on the twitters:  it sounds like tinkers are a viable class now?  Like, you can get XP from things your turrets kill, and you can disassemble your turrets for parts now?  Is that right?

I tried to play a tinker when I first found this game all those years ago, and it was a real struggle.  After many failures, came back with a paladin and cleaned house. 

It seems like ranged builds should be viable, I have not picked up the new version yet but in the old one there were some good skill trees for the various ranged branches that looked like they would be useful in the mid-late game.

Nooo, Pax Imperia wasn't anywheres near that complex.

Maybe "Stars!" I never played it, but its the right sort of game in the right era.  Also, "reach for the stars 2000" was a thing.

Pemmican is amazing stuff... nutritionally. It is not a tasty substance.

mmmm... beef candles...