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Dev's site/blog here, with an early gameplay video.

I know basically nothing about this game, saw mention on pixel prospector, checked out the trailer and went, "Holy shit, Herzog Zwei!" Haven't noticed anything about dates, finer points of gameplay, etc, etc, etc. Can't even hear what the videos say 'cause my sound's mostly busted. It's obviously not out for release yet, and they're planning on expanding the test base at some point in the future, but that's all I've got. Other than tentative unbridled enthusiasm, of course.

I'm throwing this out to raise some awareness (becauseholyshitherzogzwei -- people need to know this!) and remind myself I'm somewhat stoked. That, and it sounds like something that DF folks we be interested in, what with the predecessor et al.

Can I get a huzzah?!

Can't say I remember for sure, but there might have been some memory leaks left here and there, heh, before the game went into refactor mode. The game definitely increased in ram usage as you got deeper (and saving took longer and longer ), but that alone shouldn't have been eating up the ram of something capable of running vista.

Necrophysiology is indeed awesome, though, when you can spare the feat for it.

Armor penalties?

Obviously it will make the minishark shoot actual sharks. Sharks which burrow through the land using worm-movement. Landsharks, if you will.

The firing rate will remain unchanged.

My hilarioption is oracle or blood fountain, imprisioned, with as many positive 3s in your scales and as high a dominion as you can fit. Actually, for pangaea, Turmoil 3, Prod/Growth/Luck/Magic 3, temp either neutral or heat 1. Magic is whatever's left over that you can fit. _{This is actually what I usually play when doing comp stomps.}

Alternately, a earth 4 death 3 or so gorgan with whatever scales you feel like. Gorgans just roflstomp most indies in the game and with a lil'kit can turn into a violent army murderer. S'good stuff.

Choice three, for maximum hilarity, is go pheonix with a good 8-10 dominion, get that suicide bomber fire spell, throw it at things until everything's dead. Immortal flying kamikaze bird.

Sauromatia or Niefelheim without using the big blue ones (You'll actually end up with a stronger empire ).

I always vote for 75/50/50 gold/etc, 7-9 indie power, and maxed out magic sites. 15 on hall of fame's nice, too...

Are you throwing in any mods? Love me th'magic site mod, heh.

Gratzie, Akh!

or  v8 or tomb or vestibule, or other choice you think of something!

Go do vault 8. Stair dance to take out the vault guards piecemeal, then have fun inside. Biggest threat to you is going to be golden dragons (The blazes are you doing without rPois?) and titans (airstrike hurts), possibly the yaktaur packs. Shadow dragons are easy to drop so long as you've got rN+++. You're probably able to melee tenticular monstrosities to death, so no big if they make a show. Other than that... It's not that bad, though, so long as you're careful.

[...]i had no fire resistance i couldn't do zot[...]

You don't do Zot 5 without at least rF++ (you want rF+++) and rElec. If you do, you will be murdered unless you, specifically, are blessed by every benevolent god in any and every existence that both is and could possibly be. You are not so blessed. Either an orb of fire or electric golem will kill you. Find at least rF++ and rElec before doing Zot. They don't necessarily have to be going at the same time, but you need both on immediately accessible (read, jewelry or buff spells) swap, for when you run into an appropriate critter.

Focus armor, fighting, and shields. Possibly open maces and flails back up for XP, so you can hit harder.. You might want to start feeding more XP into spellcasting, if for no other reason than getting swiftness and summong butterflies reliable. Repel missiles would also be tremendously useful, even for a heavy armor/shield critter. Swap out that sustenance ring for something useful. Either the pantheism or liberty randarts, probably. Maybe the fire rPois one, but you don't want cold vulnerability going into vault 8 (Golden dragons can breath cold. They will, if you're in there and vulnerable.).

Have you checked the shops that might have food? Dump's saying there might be two of 'em, on orc and vault 4.

S'all I can offer.

E: Oh, except this! See if you can't hunt up a vorpalise scroll... and maybe one of the branding spells. You only need to get it off once, to further improve your already awesome scourge. P.S. Slime will ruin most of your equipment, more likely than not. Don't go in there.