Niiiice. I'm being really shit with early ascension defect heart runs. Been stuck on ac2 for weeks now.

Mentioned in the rogue thread, but this really is worth keeping an eye on.



In EA, and a little rough in the beginning, but really meaty now I'm into it. Borrows wholesale energy and a few other things from STS, with a clever combo mechanic, and the addition of the tile based play to allow for using attacks to knock enemies into attacking each other and all manner of clever things. 5 levels so far, with 5 classes, and 5 different difficulty levels too. I'm only just getting the hang on the fairly tame settings, and there's some frustrations, but man, sooooo satisfying when you get your moves, synergies etc in a row and wreck some dudes cleverly.

Absolutely passes the "oh, I am doing better now, clearly I have learned things" test. 

It does save progress on each run, but it is also a much longer game to game experience than sts. My longest run, granted with some breaks while afk was about 4 hours. I'll defo get faster, but everything does take longer.

Not a criticism, tbh, it's just different.

I'm completely stuck on Asc14 with Silent. Just can't get anything going.

Lovely. Fights in tight spaces has actually dragged me from this for the moment. It's so tasty, scratches same itch and work in similar ways but with pure added awesome that I can take a break.

I'll be back though.

Totally good idea. It's pretty close, but can see stuff that's not finished yet. Retain and discard mechanics are clearly anaemic right now, for instance.

But it's official for me. Clearly in a tier just below sts on its own now. And the only thing that may change things is weather I'm still hammering it in 2-3 years.

Bump for Muzzy the Moron.

Cheers buddy

So yeah I got this on Android. But still on my first run.

I think I’m finished with this game. I got a dead branch and corruption and I still lost on asc 20. I have no chance of winning this.

Actually I very briefly played in ea on PC I think, but long enough so I've forgotten everything.

I also started playing this a couple of weeks ago, got clears with iron, silent and defect atm, working on wanderer. I tend to just try to get decks I like rather than playing to the cards I find, which I know isn't optimal, but I'm having fun.

So I died on the first boss on my first run, but have got to Act 2 on my (ongoing) second run (as The Silent).  Definitely feeling my way through tactics.  What's general advice on plotting paths through the maps - avoiding fights is tempting cos less risk of losing health, but I guess less upside too / fewer cards gained?  I've ocassionally had choices of like 20 cards from the ? too, which is kinda overwhelming... I've almost certainly made duff choices along the way!  Kinda looking forward to battling onwards though...

Only niggles are android-specifics stuff... the bottom-left draw card pile is rendered exactly where the Pixel 5 camera is, and moving cards up is very close to the swipe action for going to the home screen... and it takes ages to "sync data" each time I start it... but yeah, looks full fat despite all that!

DS gave me some good advice on early runs. Hit as many elites and camp fires as you can on level one. Only upgrade cards at camp fires at level 1 (if you have to heal you probably aren't getting past level 2 anyway).

acemuzzy wrote:

So I died on the first boss on my first run, but have got to Act 2 on my (ongoing) second run (as The Silent).  Definitely feeling my way through tactics.  What's general advice on plotting paths through the maps - avoiding fights is tempting cos less risk of losing health, but I guess less upside too / fewer cards gained?  I've ocassionally had choices of like 20 cards from the ? too, which is kinda overwhelming... I've almost certainly made duff choices along the way!  Kinda looking forward to battling onwards though... Only niggles are android-specifics stuff... the bottom-left draw card pile is rendered exactly where the Pixel 5 camera is, and moving cards up is very close to the swipe action for going to the home screen... and it takes ages to "sync data" each time I start it... but yeah, looks full fat despite all that!

I'm not nearly as good as the hardcore players here but generally I only plot as fair as making sure there are the most camps and at least 1 shop on a route (where the shop comes depends on how much cash I have at the start of the act) I also try to include more elites than regular battles to get more relics (you get cards with elites.)

In terms of decks, you have to find what works. For me I tend to build Defect around getting lots of orbs in the air, possbly linked to static electric power and focus so that if I take hits I'm giving back loads. I also try and side build a lot of 0 cost cards to go with getting the All for one card which will let you use them again. 

For Ironclad, I've only really had big success when I can build a deck around big defence paired with barricade, juggernaut and bodyslam

For the Silent, I mix building strong poison attacks with lots of shivs - envenom with the shive buff is great. 

Really not good with watcher so no main idea but when its worked its usually based around switching stances a lot and using lots of flurry of blows while keeping a few retain cards back for big hits and defense.

Not sure if any of that helps

My only ironclad success atm was great, had multiple cards that dropped my hp each turn + multiple cards that buffed my strength whenever I lost hp to cards, plus some more strength gain items. Halfway through fights I'd have so much strength built up that I'd be twatting things for huge numbers.