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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
At the moment, I am trying to clear ascension 20.
My chance of winning the game up to ascension 5 is > 50%.
IMHO StS gives the player bad habits in the lower difficulties (and the difficult spike when reaching the heart is not that great).
Some tips stolen from better players than me:
- You really have to play optimal and think about every card to minimize life loss (This could also mean taking a hit early and kill off an enemy faster vs. blocking an early hit and taking massive damage later.)
- The bosses especially can be seen as problem to solve. Look ahead, do you have the right card(s) in the deck to solve the problem?
- The first hall is mostly about about up front damage, in the second you will need some area of effect damage etc.
- Before adding a card to your deck, answer the following questions:
- How high is the chance I can even play this card? (Example: You have 3 energy and a card costs 2 Energy. If you have another 2 Energy card, you know increase your chance of a dead draw, because you can not play both if they appear in the same hand)
- Does this card has any synergy with the cards I already have in my deck or with any artifacts?
- Does this card solve a problem (e.g. boss or enemy) I have? IMHO all the generic advice is not wrong (like having as little cards as is possible), but the point about playing the higher ascensions is really more seeing ‘the whole’ instead of focusing on one aspect. For example, if you have Corruption in a bottle and Dark Embrace, all of a sudden you want to have as many skills a possible… OTOH, if you have two Dropkicks, you want everything which destroys cards to have an endless Dropkick-Engine as soon as possible.
- Take care of immediate problems you know you will face (like the boss of the current hall), instead of speculating on card combinations which might or might not show up in the future. (Exception to the speculation rule: Iron Clad has Limit Break, and it is total reasonable to expect to find some strength boost as an Iron Clad, so LimitBreak is usually the one card which I never think about picking up)
tldr: Picking your strategy and adding/removing of cards must be seen in the context of artifacts, energy and the bosses you will see. Optimize for your next known problem, instead of betting in cards to become available. You can have 1-2 cards for special situations or as speculation, but adding for example another attack card if you already have enough of attack, simply doesn’t solve a problem or makes your deck stronger.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Same for me. I put an unholy amount of time in StS on all platforms and haven’t all achievements yet! :-) OTOH, there are worse ways to waste your lifetime. ;-)
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound: Not finished yet, but having a total blast playing it. Great/responsive controls, level design is great and enemies telegraph their attacks properly, like it should be in an action game
Street Fighter 6: Gave Sagat a try
Slay the Spire: Acension level 18, want to make it to 20 before the 2nd part gets into early access
- Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam 4 months ago:
Fair point, I stand corrected: I didn’t know about their prior practices.
Still, I keep that Stellar Blade itself was one of the best recent game releases I experienced, and the game itself is fun!
- Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam 4 months ago:
Well, the fan service is a factor for sure… (Seriously, I find the discussion quite hypocritical: Sex sells, most actors/singers are quite good looking and most block buster movies have a cast of sexy/good locking people displaying status symbols. That is not even mentioning product placing and other shit going on in popular movies/TV shows.)
- A PS 5 original which is optimized well enough to run on the Steam Deck and some potatoes smoothly
- Responsive controls
- Great enemy design which telegraph their intentions clearly
- No in game purchases or other dark monetization schemes
- A complete game which seems mostly bug free (from what I heard so far)
- Shift Up Corporation seems like a company of gamer which create the games they want to play themselves
Stellar Blade and Shift Up Corporation fully deserve a great start, and I happily payed the full price of admission w/o feeling bad about it.
- Comment on New Virtua Fighter Project Teaser Trailer 10 months ago:
I stand corrected!
- Comment on New Virtua Fighter Project Teaser Trailer 10 months ago:
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- Comment on What are you playing this week? March 25 2024 Edition 1 year ago:
Dark Souls Remastered, haven’t beat it, yet. There is something which always calls me back and this time I am making rapid progress. :-)
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
Thanks, especially the Castlevania DLC for Dead Cells caught my eyes and there is no excuse not to play it for me! :-)
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
I have it on all my phones and Steam.
I love the phone version, because StS works perfect/intuitive with touch controls. I also play it on the laptop with a mouse, no problem. I never used a Switch so cannot comment on it at all.
It really boils down to how you like to play it, but right now it is only a few bucks in the Steam sale, and you can return it within 2 hours, so why not try it on Steam and see if it clicks? (WARNING: It clicked for me after more than 2 hours, at the start I found it a little bit bland.)
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
Thanks, played both and had very good time!
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
I raise to Tetris Attack vs. mode (SNES) ;-)
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
lol … I totally forgot about Kingdom Rush, too many wasted hours of my life. :-)
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
That’s great. I hope there will be a PC port someday. … and thanks to telling me about hte Return to Yarnham event, didn’t even know it exists and now I am looking forward to the Return to Lodran event next January! :-)
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
Stardew Valley is in my library of shame, I just never feel that peaceful when I have the urge to play. ;-)
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
Thanks, looks exactly like my kind of game!
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
lol … I definitely have to give Binding of Issac a try!
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
I was waiting for someone to mention Chrono Trigger, thanks! At the same time it is one of my favorite games of all time, but because of this I always want to replay it when I can fully focus on it. (Which of course, never happens for adults.)
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 year ago:
Nice! I’ll have to play Subnautica! :-)
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