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[Uristides]

Since it seems a lot of you are more well acquainted with Alexis' work than I am(first of his games I'm playing), what's his post-release support like and how likely is it that future DLCs will touch those QoL issues apart from providing additional content?

[Karlito]

Bleh, just had a 10 hour game come to an end because I didn't notice a timer ticking down until it was too late.

[forsaken1111]

Bleh, just had a 10 hour game come to an end because I didn't notice a timer ticking down until it was too late.

I lost my last one because I had no way to easily generate dread. I kept trying for the nightmare outcome from dreaming and just one dread would have saved me but alas...

[nenjin]

Mmmmmm, I'd say 60% of what people complain about will get addressed. Upending core mechanics is unlikely. I wouldn't expect a ton of DLC either. Alexis has many games under his belt now, some still on going, some still cooking. He and Failbetter (which apparently is not who is made Cultist Stimulator) have said in many of their games that there'd be DLC. Sunless Sea got the one promised in the Kickstarter, and that's it. Fallen London is an ongoing game so there's loose "need to finish this up/expand this" bit all over the place.

Thing is with so many demands on him and a lot of the writing being his...he spreads himself around his games a little thinly IMO.

I think the Steam store page mentions something like two? DLCs for this at least?

If you're that on the fence about $17, I'd say so go play Fallen London for a little bit and see if you like what they're doing. Because there's a lot of similarities between it and Cultist.

[Karlito]

Bleh, just had a 10 hour game come to an end because I didn't notice a timer ticking down until it was too late.

I lost my last one because I had no way to easily generate dread. I kept trying for the nightmare outcome from dreaming and just one dread would have saved me but alas...

Yeah, it was the same for me. I only noticed when the timer was "find dread in 30 seconds or lose", though if I'd had 3 minutes I don't know if I could have done it either.

[forsaken1111]

By the way, the Perpetual Edition is the one being sold right now. If you pick it up before June 7th then you get all future DLC included. After June 7 it will just be the normal edition, same price, but no DLC included

[lemon10]

That and I wish I could move whole stacks of cards.

You can actually move whole stacks by dragging the number in the corner instead of dragging by the middle of the card.

Bleh, just had a 10 hour game come to an end because I didn't notice a timer ticking down until it was too late.

I lost my last one because I had no way to easily generate dread. I kept trying for the nightmare outcome from dreaming and just one dread would have saved me but alas...

Yeah, it was the same for me. I only noticed when the timer was "find dread in 30 seconds or lose", though if I'd had 3 minutes I don't know if I could have done it either.

Dread is annoying, but presuming you catch it in time and don't notice it at the very last second you can deal with it, although wiping out a large stack of it is a pain.

Spoiler: One way to deal with dread that I consider less spoily (click to show/hide)

Dreaming with money always gives you contentment when you use it to buy opium. It says there are some risks to doing so but I haven't noticed them happening. Most importantly this only takes 30 seconds.

Spoiler: Three slightly more spoily ways of dealing with dread (click to show/hide)

There *are* quite a few ways of dealing with dread though, although they are more random.
Dreaming with reason has a decent chance of giving you contentment, although it does have a smaller chance of just giving you dread as well.
Going to the club has a decent chance of giving you contentment, but it does cost money, so you might as well just dream using opium.
The best way of dealing with dread that I have found however is exploring the streets at night. It has about a 1/4(1/3?) chance of getting you contentment with a 30s timer, so if you get one and use it over and over you can wipe out a large stack with it.

[forsaken1111]

In my case I actually needed Dread to combat fascination. I lost due to getting 3 stacks of fascination and going bonkers.

[Cthulhu]

I haven't figured out a good solution to fascination yet, but it comes very rarely anyway.

Very close to winning. So not to spoil, I'll just say I have 6 and seek 36.  And of course I've got a Fascination ticking, and can't find any dread.  Dreaming is risky, it can give you fascination.

I got a dread from an Old Unpleasant Far Off Things token, the temporary moth token that appears occasionally.

Spoiler: Thoughts on things (click to show/hide)

I don't want answers, I'm just thinking out loud.  I haven't figured out a thing to do with Fleeting Memories yet.  I have a feeling maybe I can study them like Lore to produce a usable secret history card.  I'm in desperate need of new expeditions so I really need more secret history cards.

Fleeting memories can't be studied.  Rites that use influence can use them but I don't know any spells that use secret histories.  POssibly if your instrument and lore are big as hell you can use it as a wild card, so to speak, and get a spell off without consuming a rarer influence.

Doctor/Power seems like a pretty easy path.  The marks of the Forge consume gold as your craving (to pay for esoteric fuels for burning your flesh) and Doctor has a clean, reliable source of gold.

Esoteric hint:  The journey isn't one-way.  Once you Know you can come back, and if you Know, then you know what you can get for coming back.

[nenjin]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I haven't figured out a thing to do with Fleeting Memories yet.

Only thing I've found is using them for inspiration when creating art.

[Cthulhu]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Maybe, though that seems like a waste.  The biggest benefit of painting I've seen is that you can sublimate the negative Influences with it.  The painting skill consumes Fascination and Dread and works fast enough that you can do it on reaction to an upcoming event (Clicking on the Time Passes token shows you what's coming next)

Early on you'll go insane a lot, but once you're in deep hunters become the biggest problem.  They're not an immediate threat, but they nip away at you over time and they're very hard to get rid of.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I love this game, I am obsessed with it, I dream about it, I am starting to literally connect elements of lore to real life (incidentally I love that the lore is waaay more literal and to the point than one might expect, underneath the symbolism, especially about numbers.) Yesterday around 4 am I realized how obvious the relationship between Moth and Lantern is, and how natural it is that Lantern should consume Moth. 

My aspirant died of despair, my cop who served Wood, in prison, my pretty young thing went mad from visions and fascination serving Chalice, my second aspirant starved in the service of Heart, begging in the streets, but my doctor, who serves Knock, endures.

Granted he nearly died when a run-away headless gorilla thing took his last health while he was already sick, but it turned out OK.

I have made it past the Door of Horn, I am among those in the Know. I have called on the Maid-in-Mirrors and sent her to destroy evidence, soon I will send her to gather a sacrifice, and the one who calls herself Teresa serves me full-time, sacrificing herself to herself, renewing herself endlessly.

I just figured out my Keys can burgle full-time.

This game is an amazing simulation of the Great Work, the total lack of guidance is an amazing feature.

[nenjin]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Maybe, though that seems like a waste.  The biggest benefit of painting I've seen is that you can sublimate the negative Influences with it.  The painting skill consumes Fascination and Dread and works fast enough that you can do it on reaction to an upcoming event (Clicking on the Time Passes token shows you what's coming next)

Early on you'll go insane a lot, but once you're in deep hunters become the biggest problem.  They're not an immediate threat, but they nip away at you over time and they're very hard to get rid of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's returned to you at the same timer count when you complete d'art. That's the nice thing about making art. Lots of the stuff lying around in wait can be used to make better art, so it sells better, gives more glimmering, etc.. (and gets you noticed more...) and doesn't consume it.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Sometimes you will get a generally incompetent hunter who will only occasionally make and use evidence. Keep those alive and you are virtually safe from them, as long as you periodically send someone or something to destroy the evidence.

[Aoi]

Reading these threads is making me realize I'm just barely scratching the surface, despite what I thought was a pretty good amount of progress in four hours or so. I am happy about that.