Had a decent ironclad run on asc 17 earlier but cocked it up by picking runic Pyramid after act 2. Got dead branch early so picked up a few fiend fires and was just burning my hand and seeing what would pop up from it. Forgot i needed to cycle to actually draw the fiend fires and just ended up with a full hand and unable to play.

Still made it to the heart but didn't stand a chance.

Still buzzing, haven't felt this pumped about a game since ttf&f expert I think.

nick_md wrote:

ttf&f expert.

Lolwtf madmanskillz

My first was a strength build too mate, ASC 3. I had 3 Demon Form+ with Snecko and 5 energy and just went for it. Smashed the heart in the end.

Such a good feeling.

Could go in the rogue thread too, but just gave this a go. It's in EA. Tried the demo, which is generous, and instantly bought the EA for aus$15. 

Heat Death. Looks awesome, has some neat ideas. No idea on depth, but there's plenty going on at first blush.

Minnesänger wrote:

Ok, hear me out.

Lol. Nice. I haven't been back to mod land in this for ages. Has anyone done a must have anything? Other than yak of course

I have a weird mental block with mods. I can't bring myself to even try them.

equinox_code wrote:

I have a weird mental block with mods. I can't bring myself to even try them.

High five.

The Silent went from being my least favourite to best character in the pack.

I don’t know how you (guys) do it so easily. I suck big time. But that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying this more than almost every other game in the past decade.

hylian_elf wrote:

I don’t know how you (guys) do it so easily. I suck big time. But that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying this more than almost every other game in the past decade.

I’ve watched some vids in the background at work, tbf, which have helped a lot. Not necessarily with exact builds, but more how to approach selection and view the map. I’m at the point now where the most dangerous part is act 1 - if I get through that I’m probably ok.

Without those vids though I’d probably be making even more mistakes that I probably am already. Also…I don’t have kids, which gives me a fair chunk of time to chain runs, which probably helps.

RedDave2 wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

I don’t know how you (guys) do it so easily. I suck big time. But that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying this more than almost every other game in the past decade.

100 percent agree. I've only a few heart wins but it's such a wonderful game. Can be played ontently or even just to while away a bus trip. Getting a good deck going still gives me a buzz. What did edge give this because its a [10] for me.

10 for me too. Edge gave it an 8. But who cares what they think anymore. I take recs from badgers now.

Trying some defect now, and to be honest I'm finding it quite tricky. Only on Asc2 but those Act 2 multi-enemy fights have been rough. Finding it hard to be able to generate enough block or AoE damage and i'm deffo having to think very differently about my card picks compared to Silent and Watcher. Got an OK run going now which I will go back to later, so we'll see, but I can say that, so far, defect is the least intuitive character for how I play.

this is such a great game because it's so hard to give any general advice without a bunch of caveats. that said:

- you probably want to keep some cash aside for orange pellets, when you see it in the shop
- biased cognition, seek, and defragment are almost always worth picking up
- usually hoping to take a sweeping beam and/or ball lightning before the first elite. probably hoping to get these upgraded during act 1 too
- both cool headed and fission have much more utility when upgraded
- it's unlikely your deck would benefit from > 1 claw
- buffer is to defect what bullet time is to silent: it seems good, and probably even is good when starting out, but the more you optimise your choices the less you will end up taking either of these. 

reading that back it's probably common knowledge to all, but again, it's so hard to give advice for this. anyway, with defect the fun really starts when the various parts of you motor for energy generation and card draw start coming together. this is ultimately my favourite aspect for the character, and it's one you can be quite creative with. so... hologram pairs really nicely with turbo or overclock, for example. or maybe a bottled lightning pins aggregate to your opening hand. or maybe you take meteorite/thunderstrike, not because you actually plan to play the card, but rather to feed it to recycle.

tidbits:

- creative AI isn't usually worth taking unless you have mummified hand, regularly play heatsinks early, or plan to feed it/its output to recycle
- echo form will make a powerful deck stronger, but it will also make an average deck weaker. therefore it's likely a better choice at end of act 2 than act 1.
- hello world is possibly the worst card in the game, so don't ever take it. I think it's purpose it actually just a soft nerf to the consistency of creative AI. nobody wants the random element in this to be OP.