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[boatie]

This looks awesome. It's sort of reminding me of how I hoped the pay version of Spelunky was going to end up

[joey4track]

This looks awesome. It's sort of reminding me of how I hoped the pay version of Spelunky was going to end up

Yeah. Spelunky HD is still possibly my fav game of all time but this does really seem to have the potential to be even greater. We'll see. Hopefully sooner than later

[boatie]

I actually prefer the free Spelunky to the paid one, even after buying it. For me, Spelunky HD ramps up difficulty beyond fun to just masochistic, and the new stuff clutters up what was almost perfect in the original. I still like HD, it's not like it's all of a sudden terrible, but I find myself playing the orignial much more often.

But this isn't the thread for that discussino anyways so whateverrr

[Cthulhu]

Live! 

Small tangent -- I agree that for some reason, while I didn't notice a whole lot of major gameplay differences between free and HD spelunky, HD spelunky seems much harder.

It's got nothing on Catacomb Kids though.

It's out now, in early access alpha.  The first zone is available as well as two classes. 

It's...  Well, it's definitely not bad.  It's lacking on content right now, or I've been too busy dying to see everything there is.  You pick your class and one of five or six dudes, each with a small set of perks and downsides, ranging from starting with a magic weapon to being extra sneaky to tripping over rocks and skulls.  It's a lot like spelunky in that you fight monsters and use physics to avoid traps, but the systems are a lot more complex and thus a lot more dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.  I have gotten the heavy lifting skill several times and used it to pick up several boulders. Not once have I picked up a boulder and not ended up crushed beneath it within 30 seconds.  Combat is similarly brutal, it's dark and chaotic and if you lose track of your place or run into a closed door or otherwise slip up you're probably dead.

There's also dismemberment, though like in real life most injuries that can take off a limb don't give you much time to explore the new you.  I've never survived a dismembering injury.

Anybody gotten farther than I have?

[Oneir]

I've gotten through the first zone a few times, but only in earlier betas. I don't know if it's something with my machine or what, but the last 2 or so versions have just run so slowly I lose interest almost immediately. It's not unplayable, but it's a lot less smooth than earlier builds. I'll take another look at the new stuff once I substantially clean up my computer/whenever a new version comes out.

[Nighthawk]

This game shows so much promise already. I'm really hoping it pulls through early access and does eventually reach completion.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Hey, anyone played Vagante?
It looks very, very similiar & I'm torn about whether to pick up that or CK.
Just learned about both from onefjeff over on youtube.

[Frumple]

Aren't they both still pretty incomplete? It might be better to wait for development to, well, develop more, before choosing. Beyond that, it looks like there's quite a lot of gameplay videos putzing around youtube for both of 'em, for more comparison.

E: Though looking at some videos for vagante, it does look like, while they look fairly similar, they play very differently. V's considerably slower and more deliberate, to all appearances.

[gimli]

Well, I am not into these games usually....but boy..this looks epic! 

[Beggars` Sect]

I check on this every now and then, did so today - and initially freaked out because the devblog has disappeared (and the main page & twitter have been in stasis for some time now). But saw that there`s a new download on Humble - the 0014 build. Neat.

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Fixes
   Regeneration doesn't restore limbs if you have Overheal
   Teleport always takes spell charges, even when Energized
   Can't back away from ledges while shielding   
   Can't descend ledges while backing up with a shield
   Slow fall while casting empty spell      
   Wrong coloration for some corpse's heads   
   Twins flee fights (legit fixed this time)   
   Grumbul Orb-Bearers can flee the floor      
   Having Incantation and Overload causes Vampirism and Haste to rapidly cast multiple times
   Frozen food doesn't thaw over fire      
   Spiked equipment descriptions are wrong      
   Wanderers only hate hammers         
   Ghost spawns underwater          
   Bug drawing helms in ui when picking them up
   Can't break fallen ceiling blocks in collapsing tunnels with weapons
   Gamepad stops working on main menu sometimes (fixed??)

New Stuff
   New Trait: Hungry      
   New Trait: Unstable Caster   
   New shopkeeper menu      
   New ghost menu         
   New class select menu      

Changes
   Improved stats of Claymores         
   Heavy Bat input changed to sprint+attack (same as Dagger Storm)   
   Ghost dialog box redone            
   Shopkeeper dialog box redone         
   Spinning attacks deal less damage per hit   
   Numerous changes to Weapon Skills:      
      Backswipe is now Flourish -- moved to tier 2 Axe Primary
      Parry is a tier 4 weapon skill for Hammers and Swords; removed from Hack 'n Slash
      Spin Cleave removed from axes      
   Numerous changes to Traits         
      Traits no longer occupy Skill Grid space
      Positive and negative traits no longer paired      
      Loud is louder and increases the range of other noises   
      Hunger no longer universal: Moved to new trait      
   Hated weapons now behave like normal carried objects      
   Weapon hatred cannot be unlearned      
   Lucky Boots no longer a starting item      
   Significantly reduced range of Teleport      
   INT increases efficacy of class abilities:   
      Bully gains more Power Orbs from taunt   
      Poet tomes have more charges      
   Teleporting into walls will now kill you   
   Collapsing tunnels will destroy fallen crush traps and boulders   
   -of Removal weapons blink enemies further away, respecting knockback direction
   Using items interrupts blocking with shields   
   Dropping through platforms requires less horizontal pixel precision
   Added telefragging            
   Began adding Unstable spell effects:      
      Heal, Raise Dead, Blink, Magic Blast, Teleport, Infernus, Chain Lightning
   Boulders and Crush Traps break spikes      
   Potions of Extra Regeneration last longer   
   Frozen potion shards have grace period before becoming dangerous
   Reduced potency of "--of Light"         
   Added more descriptions to footwear prefixes/suffixes      
   Can sell items to shopkeepers         
   Killing a shopkeeper will return spent money   
   Humanoid AI dodges slightly less aggressively   
   Decreased LUC requirement for spiked armor to appear, and increased its frequency in general
   Break made slightly more effective      

Next Build TO-DO
   Leaderboards, Co-op, Anticropolis???