Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[EnigmaticHat]

Wait, you fight the heart now?

[Iduno]

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

You also have to unlock fighting the heart. If you beat the third boss once, you'll probably figure out what's expected.

[Frumple]

But yes, you can fight the heart, now.

Hell, with mods, you can play as the heart. StS has come a long way.

[Aoi]

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

Why bother? You can just ignore the keys, in which there's only one slight increase in difficulty.

Even if you do bother opening up the heart, taking out the third boss qualifies your run in terms of Ascension level raising, and I don't think you get a score penalty of any kind. The only downside that comes to mind is that it still clocks your run as a defeat (maybe adding a win/loss/partial filter would be good).

[Tiruin]

Wait, you fight the heart now?

YES YOU DO.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS. I AM UNABLE TO FIGHT IT WELL (this was taken last Oct 10)
Also I've no idea about mods and wonder if using any of them discount you unlocking achievements :v

Spoiler: Serious game spoilers through a picture of the boss, with text on how to get there related to "The Heart" (click to show/hide)

I guess part of the relevance to the thread is me getting all the way here?? That counts for meeee!

But you do need to complete all paths with all 3 characters to unlock 'keys', then new game+ for any character to obtain 'keys', each tied to their own specific path (e.g. getting the red key only in rest areas by picking only this certain option), and when finally getting them ONLY ON THAT RUN you will be enabled to fight the heart.
That is if you live from fighting 2 flanking monsters that have bonus to their attack in punching your back and you can only face one way, right before fighting the heart, where there is only a merchant spot before both fights. This was taken from our bay12 discord where I went all on it. Good folks there :3

[Aoi]

Wait, you fight the heart now?

YES YOU DO.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS. I AM UNABLE TO FIGHT IT WELL (this was taken last Oct 10)
Also I've no idea about mods and wonder if using any of them discount you unlocking achievements :v

I did the heart on Ascension 2/3 with basically the same strategy-- lots of poison, lots of dexterity, a few After Images to counter the Beat, a healthy amount of draw cards, Flying Knees, and Blur. A lot of Blur.

[Frumple]

I got no clue vis a vis cheevos and mods in StS. Don't care much about the things so I don't pay attention. Mods are great fun for the game, tho'.

[Iduno]

I love some of the more complicated board/card games, especially when I can make combos. We were playing Space Base (a faster, better Machi Koro) with the expansion. The expansion is mostly balanced, but allows more combinations than the base game, allowing brain-damaged people like me to set up weird rube goldberg machines.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I got the last satellite fairly early this game, so we unlocked the new capital ships with the angled arrows (so they switch between the blue area and the red area, which is not otherwise possible. I also had taken one of the normal arrow cards that lets you choose one of the cards to one side or the other, and promoted it to the red area (so I get the red reward, and get an arrow). We recently found out that while you can only use each arrow once, you can bounce back to that card and use the other arrow. I got 2 of the angled arrows, one of the regular arrows, and my 12 had a 3 points and an arrow to the 11, which was worth 14 money. An opponent rolled a 10, which gave me 3 money and the first arrow and one of the angled arrows, which went to another arrow and some money and the 11 for 14 money, to a 3 money and arrow, so I went back, and...3 points and 36 money total. I had already hit part of that combination earlier, so they knew I was pulling some BS. For reference, the game board goes up to 40 money, and the most expensive card you can buy (usually only buy 1 per turn, spending all of your money) is 42.

The next player also rolled the same thing, netting me 6 points/40 to win, plus more than enough money to buy the 14 points I needed to win. Just setting up a potential combo that could pull that off felt like a win. Having it actually go off was amazing.

Wait, you fight the heart now?

I don't, because I have a mod that gets rid of the keys. It was pretty cool once or twice, then it just got annoying.

Why bother? You can just ignore the keys, in which there's only one slight increase in difficulty.

Even if you do bother opening up the heart, taking out the third boss qualifies your run in terms of Ascension level raising, and I don't think you get a score penalty of any kind. The only downside that comes to mind is that it still clocks your run as a defeat (maybe adding a win/loss/partial filter would be good).

I turned off the keys because there's no purpose to them existing once I quit fighting the heart. It's not very useful, but it feels cleaner.

I got no clue vis a vis cheevos and mods in StS. Don't care much about the things so I don't pay attention. Mods are great fun for the game, tho'.

Mods of any kind disable achievements. If you actually care, there's also apparently a mod that re-enables achievements.

[EnigmaticHat]

Wait does this mean our characters can escape the cycle of life and death?

...nah don’t tell me, I’ll find out myself.

I should probably uninstall my mods.  I understand StS has plenty of great mods but something about modding a game makes me immediately lose interest.  I guess taking the game balance into my own hands makes it feel like the challenge is arbitrary?  IDK.

I maxed out the robot’s ascensions before, but if there’s new content now that + not having played for a year+ might be enough to keep things fresh.

[Frumple]

There's even a new official character, for what it's worth. Though I'm not sure if it's out of beta, yet.

[Yoink]

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada

[Iduno]

There's even a new official character, for what it's worth. Though I'm not sure if it's out of beta, yet.

I don't think so, and the newest update on it was "we were doing bug fixes instead." Probably good, but when I played the beta branch a month ago (I played through the A/B testing they were doing on powers) it seemed like it was in a mostly-ready state. Should be out soon.

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada

Is that new? I've mostly thrown shopping carts, skeletons, boxes, chairs, and the like at them.

[Kagus]

I went into the bathroom at Y'all-Mart, picked up a large, possibly human turd off the floor and threw it at a crowd of zombies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada

Is that new? I've mostly thrown shopping carts, skeletons, boxes, chairs, and the like at them.

Yoink's culture is slightly different from what most humans are used to; he thinks skeletons are turds.

[Yoink]

Nope, I'm pretty sure there were some skeletons in the bathroom as well but this was definitely a bona fide, genuine, 100% authentic turd.

It wasn't terribly aerodynamic, though. I think more of it got on me than on the zombies.

[AzyWng]

Completed the Deadlier Road mode.

While Russell, Clyde, and Merrill didn't make it (they died in the City of Crushed Hopes), Vincent survived - and that's what's most important.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Road To Canada