equinox_code wrote:

love it. jesus I'm such a geek for this game

That's fine but if his YouTube vid has a whooooaaah face expression I can't do it.

This deck IS TOO POWERFUL

I fucking hate it. Sorry, I know I'm being a twat, but twat begets twat.

Sadly it just works. For years now he’s had an editor for his vids, offloads all the work to them, sends them tons of photos they’ve requested etc. The algorithm is a bastard

The irony is that Jorbs is the least youtube man alive, a placid little angel.

suddenly this game is incredible again. I really can't count how many times I thought I was reaching the end point of my enjoyment with it, only for the cycle to begin again anew.

I can't decide between this and factorio; the two games I have played most by a very wide margin.

Finally defeated the heart with defect. Its been a long time coming.... but did it with 3 health left.

Not sure I have the stomach for getting the watcher all the way to heart.

It's the one character where I feel sometimes you just can't win. Brilliant when your plan works and the cards fall your way but more than the other three I often feel completely fucked depending on the how the cards come out.

Yeah - watcher has the best cards. She's also the easiest to mess up, which kind of balances it.

I think she's fun to play when you're learning how she does her thing, but after that it doesn't feel like there's anywhere else to take her. With the other characters it feels like you have to play your cards into your relics, but with watcher her cards are so strong it doesn't matter. Picking the cards that let Watcher do what she does is way more important.

True. with the other characters I still- after over 1000 hours- frequently get these wow moments, where something completely new and original seems to be coming together; some way of manipulating my deck/energy/draw which, in combination with relics + careful play, has the potential to brush aside everything the pool of potential opponents has to offer. Not only does it feel more varied, but also many of the cards belonging to the other characters serve as tools for niche problems you're likely to encounter along the way. watcher cards are so strong that they're almost multipurpose.  

sure, all the characters have cards which are typically strong (footwork, corruption, glacier.. it could be a long list), but they aren't always strong, and there will be countless occasions where it isn't right to take them, given the likely future matchups. I don't think the same could be said-  or at least not to the same extent- of watcher cards, like cut through fate, empty fist, wallop, lesson learned, scrawl, vault, talk to the hand etc etc. sure there are times when I wouldn't take one of those cards, but they are considerably rarer, and most of my successful watcher runs will probably take one of each along the way.

Rage+ was the beaut of the deck. Block on top of block.

Game was just chucking high tier block cards at me from the first fight, one of those runs where you already know its meta so just go with it. Game basically saying 'this one's on me mate'

Third floor was ridiculously easy.

Just completed a heart run with defect on asc3.  Knew the deck was good at the beginning of the third level.  Mummified hand is a crazy good relic for defect.

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