Dark Soldier wrote:

Beat Heart. No Asc. Heavy Blade+ had 1094dmg value on last turn.

QFT

Go back... whatever it takes!

800+ runs. 52 wins.

That's gonna get so much worse as a % while trying to get AC17+ wins.

Modifier for Ac17 is normal enemies with tougher move sets.

Highlights include: birds now take 4 hits to ground.

Little furry shield fucks have 10+ shield after first hit, the other bird mask dudes from first section now buff +5 strength per turn.

Its going well.

Second run with ic on Ac17, might do it. Up to act 3. Dead branch again, with all the hot exhaust cards and a couple of other relics that play nice.

Everyone.

I'm confused.  What happens when you die?

I was playing off Steam when I died at the 2nd boss.  Then started Steam and played again.  On continuing, the game put me just before half way on the first floor, I think.  Assuming the steam cloud sync had messed up and it had loaded an earlier save, I then abandoned the run.  It then looked like it was continuing from my 1st game after all, and did something to the score and unlocked some cards.  Looks like I probably shouldn't have abandoned.

Sounds like something fucked up. It’s a pretty straight die and restart

Ok, cool, thanks.

Oh I saw that for my second game.

I bought this on release for Switch, and played a few games here and there, not understanding the fascination you lot have with it. 

But now, only 7 hours playtime later, i'm starting to see the possibilities, the depth, the synergy with the few cards i've been exposed to. The tactics are almost limitless. If only that cruel Mistress named RNG didn't fuck everything up! lol! But if she was kind all the time, the game would have a very short life-span.

Its not new news, but the sign of a truly great game is one that plagues your thoughts, infects your dreams, interupts your daily shower-wank with moments of inspiration.

Its a difficult cunt, and you will fail countless times. Disheartening? Yes! But you learn something new with every defeat. Painful, but progress nonetheless.

On a personal side-note, i adore Dephect. It's full plethora of capabilities are still way beyond me, but i prefer playing 'stack-em-and-pack-em' as apposed to the cagey style of Silent and the balls-out attitude of Ironclad. And i know there is way more to those two than limited experience can truly understand at this point.

What i do understand, is that the game had a year long gestation period in Early Access, and its clear thats exactly what it needed - as it stands now, the game seems balanced to perfection. And again, i'm basing this on my very limited game time. 

End of the day it boils down to this: a bunch of internet friends/fanatics kept crying about this. It looked boring like all card games do (to me), but i gave it a whirl. Didn't see what the fuss was about. But those fuckers kept posting, and enthuisiasm is infectious, even over wifi, so i tried again. Not much luck. So i played some more until i started to see a pattern of enemies i could recognise and know their attack patterns etc (hello Souls), then i started thinking about my deck a little more, and its still waaaaaaaayyyyy too complex for me to fully understand given my limited exposure, but the bait & hook are firmly lodged in my throat.

Yes i'm gonna play now. Thank you Switch.

Just in case anyone is interested.

If you want native DS4 support on the pc (e.g. no Steam controller mapping), make the following changes to the file 'SlayTheSpire\preferences\STSInputSettings_Controller':

{
  "SELECT": "1",
  "CANCEL": "2",
  "VIEW": "0",
  "PROCEED": "3",
  "PAGE_LEFT_KEY": "4",
  "PAGE_RIGHT_KEY": "5",
  "MAP": "8",
  "SETTINGS": "9",
  "LS_Y_POSITIVE": "-1000",
  "LS_Y_NEGATIVE": "1000",
  "LS_X_NEGATIVE": "-1001",
  "LS_X_POSITIVE": "1001",
  "RS_Y_POSITIVE": "1002",
  "RS_Y_NEGATIVE": "-1002",
  "RS_X_POSITIVE": "-1003",
  "RS_X_NEGATIVE": "1003",
  "DRAW_PILE": "-1005",
  "DISCARD_PILE": "-1004"
}

This fixes the buttons and controls being out of sync e.g. X button on the DS4 is now the same as the A button on an xbox pad.
Icons are still xbox, and the in game display is completely foobarred (hence the reason for having to remap the buttons above) but it works the same as an xbox/xinput pad now.

Blur. Excellent card. Nice one. Will pick this back up after first run through FE.

Had another good run and got donuts to 3 quarters dead.

I need to return to the spire but I'm having too much fun painting plastic warhammer men atm. The DLC will get me back at least.

Or face will clear asc17 and then I'll want to join in on that as well haha!