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[Cthulhu]

I think the mechanics are cool.  It could do well to make it easier to organize your cards though.  A solution for stacking decay cards is desperately needed.

Also I feel like they should adjust the ratios on mentally attacking hunters.  It has way too many drawbacks for the tiny chance of accomplishing something. It multiplies the negative card, causes new immunities even if you succeed, and always causes immunities if you fail.

I've got this goon squad of invincible motherfuckers following me around now cause it's so fucking impossible to kill hunters.

Spoiler: Fleeting Memories and other useless influences (click to show/hide)

Influences can be used as Trappings.  Fleeting Memories with the third Lore of Moth will get you Disciples if your Cult is Moth.  Better, Restlessness and a Red Secret will get you Disciples for Grail.

Spoiler: Other Hints (get it?) (click to show/hide)

If the target of your monster is currently occupied, you can paint it to suspend its timer.  This will increase your notoriety, but that's not going to matter soon, is it?

[lordcooper]

Spoiler: Other Hints (get it?) (click to show/hide)

If the target of your monster is currently occupied, you can paint it to suspend its timer.  This will increase your notoriety, but that's not going to matter soon, is it?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or simply talk to it.  It's also worth noting that many summons possess the lore aspects required to summon them, meaning you can use them as sacrifices when summoning their replacement.

It's either me being wrong, or dev being somewhat of a liar don't actually having any goddamn windows XP.  Steam sys. requirements say that this woorks on windows XP, but on launch game says that "bla bla InitializeCriticalSectionEx bla not found in DLL KERNEL32.dll". And well... from past expirience and some googling it's appears to be rock-solid sign that it will NOT work on windows XP (with exception of XCOM Enemy Within, somehow. And i don't remember which error it was in it).

Dude, it's 2018.  Update your OS already.  Not only is it locking you out of most modern games, even critical support ended in 2014 so all exploits discovered since then remain unpatched.  That machine better not have an internet connection.

[Biowraith]

Spoiler: Other Hints (get it?) (click to show/hide)

If the target of your monster is currently occupied, you can paint it to suspend its timer.  This will increase your notoriety, but that's not going to matter soon, is it?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or simply talk to it.  It's also worth noting that many summons possess the lore aspects required to summon them, meaning you can use them as sacrifices when summoning their replacement.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can even pause the timers on two summons by talking to one of them about the other.

Spoiler:  Another Hint (click to show/hide)

2 Knock, 2 Edge, 6 Lantern

[nenjin]

Being a cultist is fun, but oh god, the tedium and the UI. It's an overpriced game for what one's getting.

Like I said, some people are ok with it because they value the quality of the narrative. Other people aren't as impressed with its narrative qualities, which subsequently makes the price and grinding mechanics a lot less tolerable. I think I basically said this to Alexis point blank at one point during Sunless Sea development and his stance was "with how much writing I do for these games, I think they're worth the price almost for that alone." (Paraphrasing.)

Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes not. It's a lot easier to agree with him when the narrative isn't being flippant.

[forsaken1111]

At least its less grinding than Fallen London eh

[nenjin]

If Fallen London is grinding, this is trying to keep 4 to 8 plates spinning on sticks at the same time.

[Cthulhu]

HEY OOPS THE THING YOU DID DIDN'T WORK FUCK YOU, HERE'S A PENALTY WAY HIGHER THAN ANYTHING YOU COULD'VE GAINED

Thought I had this one, but was so slowed down by constant fuckups on necessary die rolls I couldn't win before shit piled up

[Chiefwaffles]

God damn are the dice rolls annoying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wanting to test my fancy new summoned prophet-thing, I sent them to destroy basic evidence.

Despite them having Moth 8 and the game assuring me a huge success chance, they fail and generate notoriety. Of course at this moment the hunter starts looking around again. So I out of desperation send a 4 moth disciple to dispose the fanning evidence with a supposed high success rate. They fail. Out of desperation, I just barely summon another Prophet using my backup moth disciple and send them after the evidence. They fail too. Bureau goes straight to convicting me. Game over.

[Warmist]

God damn are the dice rolls annoying.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wanting to test my fancy new summoned prophet-thing, I sent them to destroy basic evidence.

Despite them having Moth 8 and the game assuring me a huge success chance, they fail and generate notoriety. Of course at this moment the hunter starts looking around again. So I out of desperation send a 4 moth disciple to dispose the fanning evidence with a supposed high success rate. They fail. Out of desperation, I just barely summon another Prophet using my backup moth disciple and send them after the evidence. They fail too. Bureau goes straight to convicting me. Game over.

Yeah i've had that happen too (not three times in a row) but having e.g. investigation after investigation can finish you VERY fast. You sometimes have 0 time to destroy evidence and you are just waiting for the end.

[Malus]

Well, I've played 26 hours and gotten two victories. Seen *almost* everything, I think(?). Not going to do the grind again for the third victory. There is an achievement that 0% of players have, but my guess is that it's DLC/patch stuff. I really enjoyed my time with it and I'll be coming back whenever there's new content.

Spoiler: Dice rolls/evidence (click to show/hide)

I have no idea what the exact numbers are for burning evidence with a moth follower, but there's no way the "best" odds are higher than 66%. Moth followers being the only ones good at it, and *also* nuking them on failure is way too brutal. During my last run, I tried to burn evidence with: 1 moth disciple, 2 swindlers, 1 fortune teller, and 2 shifty women. I succeeded once (and it was a shifty woman). Absolutely not worth it, at all. I'd definitely never send a cultist to do it if I have other options. Killing the hunters is far, far more effective -- particularly if you use a high-power summon or a winter disciple (I've never had a winter disciple die while trying to kill someone, but it usually takes a few tries).

Spoiler: Investigation/favor stuff (click to show/hide)

Favors also seem very unreliable. They're quite hard to come by, which is fine, but they don't really last long enough. Even if you're constantly going for the option that generates them, it just doesn't seem likely you'll be able to get one in time. And there aren't many things worse than having your favor expire right before one of your disciples gets snagged. You can talk to a hunter about the favor, but it doesn't actually do anything (and will generate notoriety for exposing yourself). It *will* pause the favor countdown (this seems to go for any card, in any slot, btw, and kind of feels like an exploit, but might be the right decision for UI reasons) but if an investigation starts while you're talking to your hunter, you run into the "fun" two hunter situation that Cthulhu mentioned.

[forsaken1111]

I have had some success tying investigators up by creating an absolute fuckton of mystique cards from painting. They'll sometimes spend so long chewing on mystique that their evidence and my notoriety will expire.

[Il Palazzo]

You can always talk to the moody sort of hunters about dreads.

[Warmist]

I have had some success tying investigators up by creating an absolute fuckton of mystique cards from painting. They'll sometimes spend so long chewing on mystique that their evidence and my notoriety will expire.

I've noticed that too. I've currently want to have EPIC painter build but currently milking money from the reason path (so much money). Waiting for my moth follower to be 3rd lvl.

Spoiler: Investigation/favor stuff (click to show/hide)

<...> It *will* pause the favor countdown (this seems to go for any card, in any slot, btw, and kind of feels like an exploit, but might be the right decision for UI reasons) but if an investigation starts while you're talking to your hunter, you run into the "fun" two hunter situation that Cthulhu mentioned.

Spoiler: Investigation re (click to show/hide)

I think it's intentional. And you can juggle MANY cards that way (e.g. doing summons while keeping the glover & glover in "talk"). But you can only juggle limited amount of cards (e.g. you can have ~3 summons this way) and it feels just like an advanced technique.

Currently i'm not sure how much i've seen but i feel like it has huge potential for mods/expansions etc... Want to run a rpg game on this theme too... Must be too much "Laundry files" on my mind

[Ygdrad]

You can always talk to the moody sort of hunters about dreads.

Spoiler: Other investigator options (click to show/hide)

Or about winter lore(gives both of you dread, which saved me from fascination once), and I think lantern lore(might be another one) for 2-way fascination.

Spoiler: How to deal with notoriety (click to show/hide)

Talking to heart aspect followers about the cult will have them try to consume a random mystique/notoriety card, it's pretty handy.

Gotta think about that PR

[Egan_BW]

I have had some success tying investigators up by creating an absolute fuckton of mystique cards from painting. They'll sometimes spend so long chewing on mystique that their evidence and my notoriety will expire.

"HEY INVESTIGATOR! YOU DON'T WANNA COMPILE EVIDENCE ON THOSE CORPSES! YOU WANNA LOOK AT MY PAINTINGS!
PAIIIIIINTIIIIINGS! PRETTY! LOOK!"