"It had been days since the foolish merchant had been seen entering the dungeon. Many slimes and slime-ladies alike expected to hear of his untimely passing, but from the depths of the dungeon comes whispers of a legendary merchant, whose penny-pinching and shrewd business skills helped him evolve into a death machine. His Coin Toss is so fast and powerful that utterly annihilates anything in front of him, and he no longer sells to adventurers. He taxes his enemies for merely standing in his presence. The adventurers are abuzz about him reaching the 50th floor, a feat not so easily accomplished by established groups, let alone one merchant." ~An excerpt from the Book of Efleezlglorp, the God of Merchants~
Merchant can almost clear the first stage at level 3 with 18/27/12/10
The offline generation is a pretty big issue though. It's (((400/hr)*lv)*3(if merchant)) That comes out to 36k after 10 hours offline for me. But currently my merchant hits 38 times per 30 seconds at 4 damage which earns 6 gold per hit. This comes out to 27k per hour if I leave the game running as opposed to allowing offline gen earn for me. 27k is vastly better than 1200.
@schrorob, what makes you think that damage is bugged for Merch? It's working fine. You seem to not understand exactly how percentages work, as the ? beside each stat explains, Greed boost gold acquisition by 5% PER POINT and damage by 10% PER POINT. Damage ends up rounding up to 2 for merch with 8 points in damage (from base level and slime level) 1.8 is a lot more reasonable than 1.5 to round up to two. And a 5% boost on 1 damage isn't going to be a consistent increase. In fact, by the rounding standard, it'd take 16 in greed to get 2 gold off 1 point of damage. Rather than complain about something that isn't broken, simply because it inconveniences you, worry about things like the lack of an auto-save, or that offline generation doesn't work properly (Which is even more crippling for merch since that tripled generation is supposed to be a boon to offset his weakness.)
I'd suggest the next big thing be targeting priorities. It'd make starting with hard runs not so impossible, like my solo merchant. Having them only target one enemy at a time, or only attack the enemy with the highest HP, would help tremendously.
As if the controls weren't garbage, the models weren't stolen and the game littered with all manners of typos, the dev is a massive chode with the maturity of a 12 year old. This game needs someone with REAL talent to fix it up. Maybe Xzibit should start a show called Pimp My Game...
@CYBERNKK I really hate to say it like this, but it is apparent that you are a noob. While it may be difficult to dodge the second boss, his pattern is so obvious, that one only needs him to fire a few time before they can adapt. Perhaps you should play this game after you've played games that aren't so easy that they become effortless.
Any tips for Heroic Shadow Professor? I got to him with 11 hearts, but he ate through those in no time flat. The lasers move extremely fast now, so I know dodging them is paramount, however, the sheer number of bullets on screen is kind of disorienting.
Another thing, grinding the tadpole mode for gems is difficult, so why not speed run Chapter 7? Moving as fast as I could (albeit with a few mistakes), I managed to gain 4,665 gems in 5:20. I think that this way is faster and more efficient since you don't have to switch playing styles.
You guys really don't know your roguelikes. That IS the traditional keyset for old ones. I do have to say though, we're in a modern era and those key movements were hard to memorize back then, just imagine how hard it is now!
@Xachiavelli If you follow all three paths you'll understand why it is assumed that she represents drugs. The protagonist's thoughts, and how each action affects those thoughts, seem to support it. Incredible for such a short game. I really did like it.
I like pope's outlook, but the opposite is also true. When you ignore the voices. When you do as you please, you surround yourself in chaos. And once you've reached the brink, then entire world becomes a blur. Ignoring some voices can be alright, but ignore them all, and you run through the world blind. Amazing game. 5/5
All this nonsense about Genu being tough is just that: nonsense. I defeated both Genu and Epic without the Infinte upgrade and without any rare boost. The key is to let Genu keep his barrier, it blocks most of the little lasers from getting to you anyway. As he fires his large laser, move to a far edge, usually he switches to the lasers on his wings, so move to the opposite corner. Rinse, lather, repeat, and freeze time to do a lot of damage to him fast. Epic is more luck than anything. In my fight with him, I got hit with the laser once and that was the only time he used it. Great game overall and very much worth the effort of beating. 5/5
I've found myself with 28 of the achievements in only 13 games. My highest Golden Goose was 43000, high score is 2.3m, 302 secs. It got to the point where UFO's were spawning in threes, so that I often found myself going from 15, to 2. All in all, a good game, rather tough starting off. I suggest maxing leader movement. Then getting Hive Mind. That combination alone Got me to my first 1m+ game. I think the toughest for me was the three mintues challenge, since I multitask. Juggling between dodging planes and playing my PSP was incredibly difficult.
I hate chainmail too. It might be light, but it's itchy and uncomfortable. the big downsde is that arrows pentrate, though not as much as it would with normal armor... Oh, you guys are talking about the spam. xD I hate that too.
First try in over three months and I got 6028m and the badge was not awarded. It appears that there are errors in the system. This really irks me because I only got one bomb dropped on me the whole time, what are the chances of that happening again?!
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