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[guessingo]

The new black edition is $5. The old version is the 'demo' on steam.

This a roguelike RPG. It has an interesting twist. You don't actually move around in a dungeon. You pick where you want to go and you have encounters. There is also crafting, own a pub, etc... rather complex character builds. Its very easy to get into and very easy to die.

Company page: http://www.sanctuaryrpg.com/
Steam : ($5, get demo for the previous version) http://store.steampowered.com/app/328760/
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/sanctuaryrpg

new features. they are still developing this

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NEW
Added Vassian race
Added Slythin race
Added Krogg race
Added Distance mechanic to combat
Added Talent system to library
Added Adventure special event
Added numerous side quests
Added Octavius dialogue lines
Added Brother Thomas dialogue lines
Added Johanna dialogue lines
Added Library to town hub
Added Temple to town hub
Added Player Residence to town hub
Added Day and Night cycle
Skeletons are tougher at night
Added hundrecds of new art assets
Added several new music assets
Added mining mechanic to campground
Added thousands more lines of text
Added weapons scaling with your stats
Added three additional perks to assassin class
Added player body type selection
Added six new class perks
Added extra side quests
Added Character graphics customization
Barbarian, Hit Confirms deal 300% damage, up from 50%
Paladin, Critical hits have a 10% chance to cure all status effects
Assassin, Combocount has a 50% chance of going up by 1 on attacks when using a dagger
Wizard, +1 INT every level, but decreases max hp
Druid, Deal bonus damage equal to 33% when combocount is greater than 10
Ranger, Using a bow or crossbow will increase your crit chance by 10%
Typing "?" in combat will bring up affix reference list
Added recruitable Mercenaries to Blacksmith
Using basic fists allows you to increase combo count by double per attack
Added faction allegiances upon character select
Added faction allegiance meter in character screen
Added faction allegiance milestone rewards
Added The Resistance pamphlets
Added The Brotherhood pamphlets
Player gets +10% bonus damage if weapon matches current allegiance
Implemented lootable Wardrobes
Wardrobe levels are capped at 20
Bear Garb grants Offensive perks
Turtle Garb grants Defensive perks
Panther Garb grants Rage perks
Lizard Garb grants Regeneration perks
Wardrobes are dropped by keystone portal bosses
10% Chance to drop in Normal, 25% Chance to drop in Inferno
Once dropped, they are accessible in the wardrobe section
Only one wardrobe can be equipped at a time
Wardrobes can be leveled up via Adornment Shards
Added news ticker to main menu
These shards have a 33% chance to drop in the keystone reward chest
Added new pamphlets and additional writing
Added post tutorial battle enemy graphic
Added new blacksmith mechanic: Imbue Weapon
Imbued weapons receive a 10% damage increase
Weapons can only be imbued once
Imbued weapon's attack glows orange
Added Body Type selection at character creation screen
Added Drinking mechanics to Tavern
Drinking Beer will increase your entertainment willpower
Every time you start drinking while sober, drunk tolerance goes up
If you drink over your limit, you'll be drunk during battle
To relieve drunk status, engage in combat
Added 10% damage bonus to fully stacked kill streaks
Added Entertainment mechanics
Added Clarity to cursed weapons
Added additional backstory lines
Added new screens for certain sidequests
Added Other gender select
Added SFX to augment drops
Added affix references to loot drops with "?"
Added nine more affixes
BLOODRUSH enemies have more powerful bleeds.
CAUSTIC enemies start players with 50% Max HP.
DANGEROUS enemies will wound players up close.
DEMONIC enemies deal more damage, but are melting.
LYNCHING enemies deal more damage when your HP is low.
MASOCHIST enemies gain 1% ATK when they take damage.
MIRRORING enemies gain 5% of your ATK every turn.
OPPORTUNE enemies deal more damage when you\'re bleeding.
RANGED enemies will expose you if you\'re very far away
Added Six additional character slots
Added Wind Up mechanic
Added new weapon affixes
Bashing: Grants 3% chance to STUN on hit.
Cleaving: Deal damage equal to 1% of your current HP per turn.
Coldheart: When enemy is frozen, 10% to re-freeze each turn.
Confirmed: If combo count is 3, deal TRIPLE damage.
Deceptive: Grants 25% chance to shock enemy when you’re bleeding.
Executing: Deal +50% damage to enemies below 50% health.
Furious: Grants +3 to RAGE meter on critical hits.
Icetoad: Rolls with 50% stats, but has 10% chance to freeze on hit.
Lunar: Deal +33% damage during nighttime.
Parrying: Deal 50% of your ATK as damage on BLOCK.
Seeker: Grants 100% chance to bleed both self and enemy on hit.
Serrated: Grants 10% chance to bleed on crit.
Solar: Deal +33% damage during daytime.
Unholy: Drain 5% of your HP per turn, but bleeds enemy each turn.
Added new Charm affixes
Holy: 10% chance to clear all debuffs on you each turn.
Hopeful: Heal for a bonus 15% of your current HP on Heal.
Hunter: Enemies start battle at 90% health.
Jinxing: While CURSED, has a 10% chance to BLEED enemy each turn.
Spudly: 66% Bonus Damage when using a weapon named Potato.
Tetra: Gain 2% FREEZE, 2% BURN, 2% SHOCK, 2% BLEED chance.
Vamp: 20% Lifesteal on hit, but HP is capped at 66% of Max HP.
Vile: Gain 33% bonus damage when poisoned or bleeding.
Voodoo: All damage taken is also dealt to enemy each turn.
Added victory screen weapon graphics
Added combat tips to game manual
Barbarians will regain 25% of their max hp after each battle
Paladins will deal 25% bonus damage to skeletons
Assassins will deal 25% bonus damage when not exposed
Wizards Barrier will not drain mana if their HP is below 33%
Druid's summonable companions will deal 1.5x damage
Ranger's first-turn attack damage will deal 2x during night time
Barbarians get atk reduced by 25% when using ranged weapons
Druids get atk reduced by 25% when not exposed
Assassins get atk reduced by 25% when wearing heavy armor
Rangers get atk reduced by 25% when wearing heavy armor
Wizards get atk reduced by 25% when using axes and polearms
Paladins get atk reduced by 25% when not having a heavy shield equipped
MODIFIED
Modified handcrafting progress bar colors
Modified crafting names
Changed Options to Settings
Guardian now activates with G instead of T
Purchasing heals now cost 999, up from 500
Rebalanced Keystone boss HP and ATK
Rebalanced Keystone boss rewards
Improved Boss cutscene flow
Rebalanced chance of getting gifts in Tavern
Modified Curse enemy affix
Modified ult scroll display
Modified Marketing key to R
Modified skeleton hp roll
Modified kill streak bonus
Improved Keystone boss UI
Modified random boss exp and gold scaling
Reduced chance for enemy charge if plvl < 5
Modified run tutorial
Modified mastery tutorial
Modified intro cinematic
Modified PUNISHING affix
Modified achievement unlock display
Random dialogue now rewards exp
Random dialogue now pauses for less time
Modified Erase all save data wording
Modified no key for detailed perks prompt
Modified chance for random NPC encounters
Champion+ enemies will now enrage more often
Pamphlets now grant exp
Modified lyssa sidequest
Modified vending animation
Modified global enemy scaling
Clarified Empowered affix
Rebalanced Crippling enemies
Removed Survival mode
Skeletons and Robots can no longer be bled
Augments can now be respecced in house
Modified lyssa quest layout
Modified save file structure
Modified wizard MP regen passive
Modified many character perks
Modified many race perks
Modified Flammkin Brick Oven perk
Improved Combat AI
Grapples can only trigger if you\'re close to the enemy
Hit confirm only leads to grapple if enemy is close to the enemy
Increased chance of relevant main stat on weapons
Rebalanced Keystone enemies
Clarified Focus attack
Clarified Training in Colosseum
Gift boxes have a 25% chance of rolling premium
Modified achievements
Modified all subclasses
Rebalanced The Terminal boss fight
Modified slime tutorial display
Reposition now swaps movesets after two
Modified ranger SFX
Accurized health bars
FIXED
Fixed abilities doing very little damage bug
Fixed Quest finished SFX not playing bug
Fixed Enemy charging immediately after Hit Confirm bug
Fixed Enemy guardina immediately after reposition bug
Fixed Grammar issue in randomized backstory
Fixed Focus priority bug in autocombat
Fixed global experience bug
Fixed Chargelot enemy damage bug
Fixed tavern patron display bug
Fixed Virtual Machine running back to town hub bug
Fixed Heat display bug
Fixed Quality spacing issue
Fixed leveling up during crafting bug
Fixed autocombat infinite Virtual Machine fight bug
Fixed arena gladiator graphics bug
Fixed pamphlet event giving two pamphlets bug
Fixed several grammar bugs in act 2
Fixed several grammar bugs in act 3
Fixed options music resuming bug
Fixed Classic character savefile lingering bug
Fixed skeleton not playing music bug in act 4
Fixed Gigantic enemy hint bug
Fixed character select swap graphic bug
Fixed Ragemeter display bug
Fixed premium weapon purchase color bug
Fixed save corruption bug
Fixed numerous discipline bugs
Fixed equipment salvage tooltip display bug
Fixed weapon name display bug
Fixed keystone enemies not rolling adlibs bug
Fixed enemy encounter music bug

Druid Class Tips

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1. read the screen with tips before going into combat. Alot of tips there.
2. When you craft (after you get passed the first boss), its more important to succeed than make a good item. When you succeed you gain a crafting level and you get an item. Most of the time the item is bad, but if you salvage it you get more crafting items, so you get more levels. The tick is to do low and medium ( 1 and 2) until you get close to the end. Then do 3 and 4 to get quality as high as possible until durability runs out. use 2 when you get down to about 10. Don't risk failure.
3. Try lots of different backgrounds. I dont know what the best. As you level you get more skills and more choices of backgrounds and skills
4. weapon type doesn't appear to matter. However, you need to put masteries into them. So when you change, you need to pay gold (and the amount goes up as you get more mastery at the colliseum).
5. I think stat increase on items is superior that armor, damage, (I think, not sure).
6. you can always go down to an easier area if you get low on HP instead of spending gold to rest. Then you can rest against that one. This works well with druid because after level 10-15 you get the ability to put up a barrier (w) that lowers damage by 25%. So you can rest when you do that, then finish off easier opponents.
7. you can turn a profit in the tavern. prices on liquor go as low as 10 gp. So stock up when its low. Might be best to not sell and turn a huge profit on this and wait until you can level the tavern to get better items. Its been a while since I saw patrons.
8. look at the screen if you see anything in green like 'x', '88' it leads to an event. You can randomly get a boss you can't beat and die.
9. just do hardcore at first. you will die quick. pick a new class the next time to try them all out.

[joey4track]

This looks very cool. Going to check this out, thanks.

[Robsoie]

I finally got time to try this, and i have been surprised as it's much more interesting and enjoyable that i thought it would be.

It's using an interesting system indeed very different from what i am used in roguelikes, in fact it reminds me a lot of those adventure gamebook of old time in which you read and went through branching texts and fought monsters with dices.

But it has in the same time much more content and gameplay mechanics than those old gamebooks and has a lot more elements that together makes the game really good.

Though at first i was more thinking "what i am playing" when after creating my character i got that panel, as the game has a lot of humourus parts, though not always really subtile too :




It's a very good game, give it a try, and the potential is really there too if the developer continue to improve it.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

That backstory sounds like what a player would write for a Conan MMO.

[Robsoie]

You know odd players then


Anyways, on my first run, my guy managed to survive enough to reach level 5 , found some nice piece of items, even found some keystone to open a portal to a random dungeon, destroyed in there a giant robot, but near dead he had to retreat from there to heal.

Then, exploring more before going for the 2nd quest he ran into a raven.
And got utterly annihilated by it, after beating down big aurochs, rude skeletons and various other things, a bit disapointed by his heroic performance.

So i re-rolled another barbarian to see if he could get less embarassed.



ok, nothing odd.

[Robsoie]

For the 2 or 3 guys here that are still playing this underrated little gem, you can listen the nicely done soundtrack there :
http://rafaelsmith.bandcamp.com/album/srpg-the-original-soundtrack

old school sounds that goes very well with the game.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Gaze upon me and tremble. I'm in act 2, with the enemy levels cranked up to 5.

I can crush enemies with millions of HP thanks to 'Immolate' which somehow annihilates anything as long as I can continue to re cast it and tank/dodge damage.

Come at me.


Oh, and you can end up owning that tavern, by the way. This game is rad.

[nenjin]

Those backstories would be perfect with the Law & Order "GONG GONG" at the end.

[Robsoie]

Impressive character Mictlantecuhtli, i didn't managed to survive in taking out all the bandit bosses on the 2nd quest, i'm far from getting at that point you are.

It's not even them that destroy my character, but me decided to adventure "just one more time before getting the last bandit camp guy" and running into something that annihilate my character (and using the "classic" gametype and its permadeath do not help )

I was surprised in one of the random event encounter tough, the one related with the tavern, rather hilarious

That said, i'm not sure what's going on with those potatoes references i'm running into during exploration or events and the developer of that game.

edit : those backstories are not really getting any better for my characters

[Karkov]

Posting to watch, the back stories are hilarious and I have a mighty need to play this when I get home.

[Robsoie]

Before going to adventure/boss gate/blacksmith/shop/etc... be sure to check the "illustration" above (as it change from time to time after each action), sometime there's one or 3 chests with a green number, type the number to open it, sometime there's some building with a green X , type X to actually enter it and trigger an "event" , etc...

edit : Oh and some of those monsters are really rude and have no respect.



teached that thing a lesson on kicking things


and i didn't noticed up to then, but the game gives you "hints" when there's a monster encounter


... well ... ok.

[Robsoie]

Looks like my character despite her "odd" backstory is getting very good.

Managed to complete the Act 1 :



then in the middle of Act 2 finally the blacksmith manged to forge something awesome from the bunch of metal scrap i was giving him (1 awesome yes ... but for hundred of crap not corresponding to my weapon skill of chocie i must say)



And finally completed Act 2 after long bunch of battles against hundred of robots with insane amount of health



And not yet started on the Act 3 but the repeated grinding got me too bored to continue.

Some observations

Grind , grind and grind again, that's the secret to not get killed. Go back to locations explored already, do not rush for the next that will appear, you really need to get more levels.

Battles become longer and longer due to the enemies getting a ton more health as the game progress, be sure to "reposition" regularly to break the enemy guarding (extremely annoying game mechanic to me as the enemy is guarding nearly every turns) or it will take even longer, and only hit when they don't have their guard up.

Before getting in a new or a boss area, go fight again some enemies in previous locations, your goal is to have your most powerful "ultimate" ready most of the time you'll get into a new battle.
That gauge only increase , very slowly, so you'll have to hit a lot to get it filled, the 1st ultimate will be completely useless after some point (as at that point of the game the enemy have too much health to even notice its damage), so continue getting the gauge up with weak enemies until you get the higher version that deal absurdly high damage .

This way you'll be able to fight those silly bosses and be able to halve or more their gigantic amount of health in a single turn, lowering a bit the tedium of fighting them endlessly

Heal regularly, as the enemy have an "ultimate" or two gauge too (reposition usually helps to lower it) and can then deal high damage in a burst sometime, so don't get caught with low health when it happens.

Do not overlook the crafting, learn to control that minigame and you'll get some really good items that when you obtain them of really great quality will be better than what you'll find.
Weapons can only be crafted by the blacksmith, so don't hesitate to go give him your metal scrap when possible and hope he'll give you something good (depending on the game stage i guess) or at least that correspond to your weapon masteries.

The grinding part that is dominant in this game reminds me strongly of those candy box 1 and 2 , SanctuaryRPG is really a mix of many genre.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

You don't need to grind at all after you're able to get Immolation [don't choose either of the other magics]. I can beat enemies with millions of health in >10 rounds, no problem, as long as they can't one-shot me. I'm excited to see where this goes, though!

[Robsoie]

I got immolation a lot earlier during the game progression


But since then it have never appear anywhere in my available skills list during a battle.


I wish i could kill things faster, but that's not the case with those skills, take a long time (especially as nearly every turns they're guarding)

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I got immolation a lot earlier during the game progression


But since then it have never appear anywhere in my available skills list during a battle.

"S"