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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on March 21, 2013, 08:52:07 PM

Title: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 21, 2013, 08:52:07 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qstolOa_jA

http://store.steampowered.com/app/233700/

I was doing really good on my first run, then I got diseased and the disease got progressively worse until I died. :maf
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on March 21, 2013, 08:58:27 PM: It's not bad. I just feel like not enough completely random, weird shit happens. Every run kinda feels the same.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 21, 2013, 10:15:36 PM: Yeah, once you've played it a few times, the first few floors feel like "meh". It was still pretty fun, though. What level were you guys playing on? I was doing Normal, made it up to about Floor 12.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 21, 2013, 10:20:25 PM: I got ganked by disease on Level 4 [on EASY]. :dead
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 21, 2013, 10:25:19 PM: Damn son, how diseased did you get? I've gotta like a Lv. 3 disease but it went away pretty fast and it didn't really do much damage. Maybe it's worse if you get diseased early on and you have less health? Then again, I may have had a few health kits then, I don't remember.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 21, 2013, 10:58:09 PM: I don't know what happened exactly, but whatever disease I got kept getting progressively worse [really, really fast] until I just automatically died.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: pilonv1 on March 21, 2013, 11:19:38 PM: Hey I already made a thread!

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=39682.0

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on March 21, 2013, 08:58:27 PM
It's not bad. I just feel like not enough completely random, weird shit happens. Every run kinda feels the same.

Have you seen a Von Neumann Probe yet? You can't get more random than that

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's disintegration beam has a 1 in (sum of your inventory items) chance of randomly one shotting you.
[close]

Some of the door traps are interesting (randomly destroy/recharge items) as well.

Quote from: Joe Molotov on March 21, 2013, 10:15:36 PM
Yeah, once you've played it a few times, the first few floors feel like "meh". It was still pretty fun, though. What level were you guys playing on? I was doing Normal, made it up to about Floor 12.

Are you guys using the Marine? He's pretty OP right now. Engineer is a good mix of fear and awesomeness, plus he's the only way you'll get the recipies you need to survive on harder levels. I tried to go harder levels but it's just brutally difficult without being able to craft stuff. Normal starts to ramp up about floor 8-9. I think the weakest point of the game is the mapping, it's very repetitive.

Been watching some streams on twitch (lethalfrag or Tornis) playing it at lower floors (15+) and there's some crazy stuff going on. I've been streaming my runs too, very much enjoying it
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Fragamemnon on March 22, 2013, 12:53:48 AM: Loving this game. The way the recipes carry over from run to run puts a sort of persistence into the game. Even a "bad" run is salvaged if you get a few decent decrypts and a half recipe or more.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on March 22, 2013, 01:00:55 AM: I kinda don't like the recipes. I feel like it's encouraging me to grind the easy difficulties so I can have a good set of crafting recipes before I try the harder ones. I dunno. I think a good roguelike is self-contained in each run. Like Bejeweled for fucking nerds.

Game's definitely fun though. I just like to complain.
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: pilonv1 on December 27, 2013, 07:02:51 AM: Gold version is $1.74 on Amazon right now, buy it
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: ToxicAdam on December 27, 2013, 08:40:38 AM: marking thread as a reminder
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 27, 2013, 10:08:43 AM: Sweet, for less than $2 why not?
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: CajoleJuice on December 27, 2013, 07:45:48 PM: got this shit
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: hampster on December 27, 2013, 10:31:38 PM: Missed the amazon sale :'(
Title: Re: Sword of the Stars: The Pit [it's a roguelike]
Post by: pilonv1 on December 28, 2013, 05:24:06 AM: Main game is still like $2, and the gold version can be had for less than $10. The amount of hours you'll get out of it is well worth it.