And keep the 2D aesthetic as well. Like I get it MUH 3D shit but you're making your modding scene learn new shit just for your game, after carrying your dumbshit for years.
Imagine even thinking of that as an excuse for not doing things you said you'd do. "Muh pleece REEEE" fuck off you unreliable retard.
Nigga what? Like a half hour run is the max amount of time I'm willing to give a game to arbitrarily waste my time, three hour is the length of actual good games. And from the read everything sounds so balls to the wall adversary as if it's designed to grief the players rather than have them enjoy the game. The first game was a resource management game so having a bad run wasn't catastrophic, but it seems like the devs are autists who think players will gladly lose hours of progress because god forbid you want to save a game so the random factors won't fuck you over.
Thank god. I thought Focused Fault was extreme in the sense that it was both the only 3rd boss and somehow had the most opaque mechanic. Even the fourth boss wasn't as bullshit. (It is STILL bullshit, mind, but in a somewhat more predictable manner).
For my part, I think the game is fun in the sense that it pushes you towards discovering very specific team compositions that work and work well, and then you trying to make do with the items you get from your journey. Is it good?
A region generally takes an hour to cross, and you need to cross 3 regions (more like 2.5, as the first region is always half the length), so that sounds about right. That doesn't count any time you spend in the bonus region (Sluice), and time just spent staring at the inn thinking on what to do with the collection of options you have. RNG can and will fuck you over, but I long learned that the game basically punishes you for not bringing meta comps anyway.
I'm starting to wonder if I might have just gotten insanely, ludicrously unlucky on the double Shuffle Ambushes. Those two runs were going extremely well up until that point. I had a couple other act 4 runs that got blasted early, but those were at least partly my own fault, due to taking an early lair that I probably shouldn't have and then death spiraling. It still greatly annoys me how hard it is to recover from a slightly suboptimal victory though.
Have you tried Sergeant? I know his 100% move resist works against Leviathan, who also ignores Immobilize, so I'm hoping it also works against Reach.
Gonna take a guess that this is Runaway.
It could also be your playstyle. I tend to take very mobile compositions that can dance back and forth quite a bit (typically PD/Jester/HWM/MAA, or even Occultist/Jester/GR/HWM), so shuffle ambushes is actually the least bothersome of the lot for me. (I fear frenzied enemies far more, for example).
I have not, but I have taken a Leper with 120% moveres before (lucky inn item, already had innate moveres). No dice. Turn 1 and he gets shuffled to the back by Ravenous Reach and it just spiralled from there. I don't expect bosses to fight fair, but I do expect them to at least obey the rules the game insists it has.
Correct. Everything about her is half-baked (haha funny pun). Her fire DOT is extremely anemic and requires combo tokens to even hurt, it takes ages to get going, and the one skill which she has to convert it to actual damage requires her to be in position 1 and 2. Simply put, you're better off just running Occultist and doing the Chaotic Offering -> The Burning Stars combo, which actually deletes the threat immediately with none of the faffing about.
Pretty close to mine except I've been trying a few different things in place of Jester. Although it's Yellowhand Highwayman for this act, who is less row flexible than Sharpshooter. Plague Doc ended up in the front row and Man At Arms moved last, so I just couldn't get her protected fast enough, then they got a lucky bleed and a bad DBR roll on Highwayman.
Well that's some shit. I wonder if Marked is what allows it to bypass move resist?
Not too sure about this one. Occultists has some good stuff. Curses, especially upgraded curses, are great. Abyssal Artillery and Daemon's Pull are situationally good, but they CAN be good.
This right here is probably your problem lol. I'm not convinced the bonus the path offers is worth giving up all his ranged skills.
No idea. I never had a chance to test it fully, since none of the other team comps I got there used a Leper or Sergeant MAA. Though this one I have at the moment is promising (Occultist/Jester/Flagellant/Leper).
The base skill is bad, I agree, but the upgraded version is quite good, reducing both bleed chance and bleed damage.
Arsonist Runaway on Pos 3 is solid and fun in everything but Act 3, she shines against the Act 2 boss in tandem with PD. Only half her skills are usable, though, a problem she shares with virtually every other character.
In general, I agree. I took Yellowhand specifically to deal with the token generation on Reach with Highway Robbery+ and Double Cross. He's not as broadly useful as Sharpshooter, but I don't think he's as bad as people say either. Yellowhand can still put in work. His lack of position flexibility is annoying though.
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Even though Arsonist is what I've been using, constant risk of self-damage on a relatively low HP character is pretty damn annoying. At some point I want to try her as row 4 Orphan. and just spam Firefly. In general though I just don't find her damage ramps fast enough, and for the fights it does, PD usually has more damage AND have more utility.
Maybe some bullshit AAA game that costs $80 and is half cutscenes because the shithead who made it thinks he's Scorsese.
PD is better in areas she should be bad in than Runaway is in areas she should be good in.
HAHAHA FUCK NO
I guess you can probably just copy the save files to the side and overwrite them if you fuck up, but talk about a game that doesn't respect your time. What happens if a character dies? Can you recuit a new one?
That's a defining characteristic of roguelikes. DD1 has permadeath of characters but you can always just get more. There's no real lose condition except in the highest difficulty which has a time limit to win or you lose.
If you lose a character, you're down a man for the rest of the region but if you make it to the next inn (checkpoint between regions), you get a random one.
