Below - The Bear and Badger

Paul the sparky

Daft question, but once a spike trap is triggered, does it still kill you if you touch it?

FranticPea

Dunno but I'm not finding out.

Paul the sparky

Found a boss, can't work out how to damage it and the run to it takes ages. That's enough for today.

FranticPea

What's the other icon on a campfire? Spoiler it if u like.

Paul the sparky

Spoiler:

FranticPea

Ah OK cool. Cheers, that helps.

I really like this. Haven't got far but it's really mysterious and compelling.

FranticPea

This is addictive.

Paul the sparky

I think I'm going to be found wanting by it. It's very demanding.

FranticPea

I keep rushing and getting spiked.

Don't rush.

Man I love this thing. It's just perfect, for me.

Dark Soldier

Its a game I'd absolutely fucking adore without the crafting and survival mechanics. As a set roguelike dungeon crawler, it'd probably by my GOTY.

Fair play to it for going a bit different, though.

pantyfire

Paul the sparky wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Does anyone know what the little stone fires does except just light up a small area for a short time? They seem to just burn out after a few minutes. Are they a checkpoint or anything?

Spoiler:

Keep you warm. When they burn out they leave an ember for crafting. They're single use for that life too, bear that in mind when using camp fires etc. as they'll burn out too.

Spoiler:

acemuzzy

So far the main thing ive achieved is accidentally shooting all my arrows :-(

- not even found a baddie yet!

Love the music an aesthetic. Love feeling lost. Am wary of crafting and excessive obfuscation.

FranticPea

I totally know how to spot spikes. It's fairly easy.

I'm still regularly getting spiked.

Kernowgaz

FranticPea wrote:

I totally know how to spot spikes. It's fairly easy.

I'm still regularly getting spiked.

Yes they are I’m quite sure

Spoiler:

pantyfire

Kernowgaz wrote:

I totally know how to spot spikes. It's fairly easy. I'm still regularly getting spiked.

Yes they are I’m quite sure

Spoiler:

you’re ok to touch them if they gone up already

And you can trigger them with your sword and they stay triggered between deaths.

Edit.
I'm not sure they do now.
Some are some anent unless I missed them on previous journeys.

pantyfire

Spoiler:

Paul the sparky

@Panto

Spoiler:

How are you finding it in general? I think it's exactly what I thought I wanted with the no hand holding etc. but I think it's going to be too demanding of me long term. It's not so much git gud but git determined, and I'm not sure I've got it in me.

pantyfire

I'm the same, I like it but it might be just a bit too much.
I'm thinking the thirst/hunger/cold aspect doesn't, in my opinion, need to be in it at all.

g.man

That sort of thing is always a deal breaker for me.

pantyfire

I've got myself in a right bloody mess with this. I did last night on level 4 (I think).
I then died on level three without recovering the bits.
On respawn my body and lantern are split up and I haven't s clue where my lantern is, it just keeps indicating it's below the current level I'm on.
I've died another two times without getting anywhere near the lantern.
Gaaahh

Blocks100

Boy that sounds like fun. Or bad game design. I can't tell.

mk64

this out on anything other than pc and xbox? Would it work on ios?

Yossarian

PC and Xbox so far.

It’s been trumpeted as an exclusive for quite a while now, but whether that’s timed or console or what, your guess is probably as good as anyone’s who hasn’t signed an NDA.

Blocks100

Considering all the complaints in this thread about how small the playable character is, you'd think a Switch release would be a no brainer. But yeah, it was long touted as a Xbox/Windows exclusive, so no chance of it going multiplatform for at least a year or so I guess.

FranticPea

Don't get the complaints about the character size. Unless people are sat 20ft away from the tv.

Kernowgaz

FranticPea wrote:

Don't get the complaints about the character size. Unless people are sat 20ft away from the tv.

Curtis

Now that i've read the Polygon beginners guide which explains the basic mechanics, and death can = progress loop (which the developers should've included from the off, rather than alienate half their prospective audience), i'm thoroughly engrossed in this game!

I'm a massive sucker for ambience and dark, brooding musical scores, which this has in spades, but its still a very tight, top-down explore-em-up.

I've been trying to ignore the comments about the survival aspect being at odds with the progression, but i'll forgo the developers that design choice, for now.

I'm happy to be wrong about my initial impressions, but i do wonder why they made it so impenetrable? There's vague, and there's being wilfully obtuse. And this game is the latter...to its detriment.

Paul the sparky

I doubt there'd be many with the minerals to get the most out of this, but I'd have put money on you being one of them.

How far are you in?

Curtis

I made it to Level 3 with 1 death before i got distracted last night. Gonna play some more later...

Dark Soldier

This has an 'Explorer' mode now. No more perma-death, no more one hit KO traps. If you die you go back to your last bonfire.

I yarred a copy the other day to try it out and put in a few hours. Its a wonderful thing. It feels as if this is what the game should have been on launch. So much so I've just bought it on Steam. Very much recommended.

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