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Quote from: Amperzand on May 28, 2015, 04:51:52 pm

Y'ello?

Pryvyet?

Alright, so I may have thought this was in response to the HFS joke and I was trying to figure out what kind of hellbeast in ADOM would be named hello.

Not sure if you know this, but you actually have multiple quickbars by default--scrolling your mouse over the quickbar, or hitting page-up/-down will move between them. You can also use increasingly convoluted hotkeys ([shift-]+[ctrl-]+[alt-]+[a-b0-9]).

If you want a more interesting shield class (with some good, but not hella, AoE), and are willing to shell out money (even for the Steam version on sale), the donator Stonewarden class dual-wields shields for great results. Once you get Spectral Shield/a good resist spread you basically don't take damage when you block. With Eternal Guard you can do this almost all the time (effect-strippers can turn off block, stun&c. can put Block on cooldown). It's pretty great.

I remember having seen already some people mentionning big lag building up with the time classes, i guess breaking the continuum multiple times have a cost with the game code too

It's been since April i didn't checked what was going on with ToME4 , and a quick look on the website shows that the last news is from April.
Looks like there's still no news for what's the next move, the orc campaign or other things.

At minimum, they're working on a bugfixing 1.3.2. Maybe they'll do an announcement about any bigger plans when they release that?

Quote from: Sensei on June 08, 2015, 06:45:30 pm

Ironically, the dinosaurs themselves are the main consumers of the narcotics.

It always hits the poorest communities the hardest.

The unemployment rate in dinosaur communities is almost 70%.

There's a team of spriters and playtesters working pro bono now. Red couldn't charge without paying them. At least that's the impression I get when I check the fansite.

That's...hum. I'm not sure how I feel about that, honestly. Is there any way to get an estimate of how much money they're still making off Terraria, after however many years?

Quote from: Darkmere on May 26, 2015, 01:15:39 pm

They specifically said that the part to upgrade the light sources is going to work for lots of other stuff as well, in the same update they said the other currencies work for multiple other things. I'm not sure where the hangup is on the whole issue.

Emphasis mine. Isn't the entire game about upgrades? Why does it matter that we're getting light sources better than a lantern on a stick, on an upgrade basis? Is it integrity in video game journalism?

Okay, I can't tell. Am I coming across as like, angry or witch-hunty or whatever? I'm trying not to, but tone and text and all that. Relatedly, I'm clearly not picking up what you're putting down with the gamergate reference. All I'm saying is it's a a weird choice. Making one of your upgrade currencies focus on light is weird, because from a design perspective you're basically saying that all those cool techs that let you fly and shoot lasers have the same weight as a brighter lamp.

Look, honestly I know responding to people to prove you don't care as much as they say is just textbook internet stupidity, but I'm really just trying to make my stance clear. I think game design is interesting, or else I wouldn't care about following Starbound. This a weird game design tidbit. That's all, from me.

Quote from: Darkmere on May 24, 2015, 10:13:59 pm

No I know. it's completely unprecedented. I've never heard of a system where you had to upgrade equipped stuff before. Clearly this experiment is doomed to failure. Folly of the highest caliber.

Plenty of games have upgradeable equipment and technology. It's actually pretty standard, not experimental at all. Don't let that put you off, we're just discussing what we do and don't like about the existing system (which, again, I have not played), you'll soon get up to speed.

I think that's Dark's point, actually. (unless you already knew that, in which case we've hit Peak Sarcasm) My issue isn't that the game has upgrade-able equipment.  I'm for that, especially if it means that the best equipment won't always be some random axe you found in a chest that throws poison or rubber ducks or whatever. My point is making one of four unique upgrade paths be the light source feels kind of weird. If it all they do is provide linearly increasing light, that doesn't seem like something I'd be excited to find in a chest.

Even then, the weird part isn't that you can upgrade your light source. But giving lights their own upgrade currency marks them as something special, on the same level as the matter manipulator or tech cards, seems like a weird choice. It's not a Burn the Chucklefish Heretic kind of problem, it's just an odd and underwhelming design choice.