Can you please check if there is no bug in my sutiation - concerning the quest?
First winner stated sth about the bug.
I mean - if there is a point in running to previously visited places.
Just nedd a comment - "no bug confirmed" ;P
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Ok, need a break. Maybe Im too slow for such energetic game ;P Need to do some work.
Been everythere 2 or 3 times. Killed 6 minotaurs. Now just freaking around ;)
Hope you will put the walkthrough after the end of game.
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If you have completed the ratman's quest and got his reward, you should be pretty close to completing the game.
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Apparently I should. So apparently I am just stupid ;)
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if checking everything behind golden doors is enough than I didn get anything that I could get back to the portal with
if not - please give me a private walktrough. I promise I wont end the game. Just need to know.
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Dang, I ve lost my rythm after the pit and dont know what to do next.
I am an insane dungeon troll now. Just stealing energy, killing and resurrecting others. ;P
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The end goal is to return to where you started the journey.
Of course you can take all the time you want since once you Exit you're out for good. Just remember to finish before others steal your spot ;)
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I'm pretty stuck at this point, can't get away from tough monsters or beat them because of low everything, can't raise things because I keep encountering tough monsters. I think I've died more times this game than the others combined and I don't see it stopping, I had a bad feeling I would have a hard time as a barbarian this time. Starting to feel like Dark Souls except I'm on a time limit and I doubt I'll finish in time if at all.
Can I at least know how many Minotaurs there are?
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Look at me, a level 10 thief with 505xp lol (curse the long string of 500+hp enemies). But honestly, I fought against the minotaurs multiple times only to be concussed the whole time with the absolute worst aim ever apparently (had one at 100hp and spent 6 big health pots only to run out and die without hitting anything). I'm guessing at least you have more places to search (unlike me) I have absolutely no chance of completing this now heh.
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does having two equipment that increase 5% energy every 5 steps stack?
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it doesnt seem like its working, restoring 39 energy out of my 775max
or does it happen on different steps since i got the equipment different times
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Woops, accidently completed the game.
Thanks for the great game Server!
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Did I miss some stuff, like a secret vault?
I assume I can play again, but this time without market items correct?
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You shouldn't have missed anything important. Unfortunately there is no option to restart the quest, but it won't take long until the next one starts ;)
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I remember this guy in the middle of the bottom floor that wanted a Hearth or something. I was searching for it and went to the exit portal by accident. Now I will never know. I also had a brown key and didn't go to the brown door, but the other doors didn't have much behind them.
I know it is early to ask, but when is the next one coming out and what balance changes are you going to make?
I feel like the thief and mage had a bit of an advantage this around due to thief's coin into energy ability and mages' uncapped wizardry that allow them to use scrolls.
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I don't want to reveal everything about the current quest now as most of the people are still playing :p
The games will now come much more often than in the past: I plan to make one in periods between 2 weeks and a month (depending on my free time and people's interest, of course). I plan to implement and experiment with different game modes (besides Hunt for Heart, the current one :) ) - more information on that will be in a steam group announcement sometime soon.
Barbarians will get another unique ability soon (maybe even in the current game) which will help them catch up with mages and thieves.
I would appreciate it a lot if people helped me with ideas and suggestion, even just sharing an opinion is a great help to me - I want to know what you want and don't want to see in Game of sWords. The best way is to post suggestions here since this way other people can show their agreement or disagreement and I can clearly see whether people want the suggested idea to be implemented or not.
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On the second floor there are 3 different NPC's, each for every class I think. One accepts souls (mage); one accepts hearts (???) and the third accepts something else. So I don't think you missed anything there.
I used the brown key on something on the first floor; as I had all squares explored. Treasury maybe? That had like 6 squares with LOTS of stuff.
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Wow, thanks so much for explaining that. I've wasted a long time trying to figure out how I could satisfy the "quests" of the two who don't relate to my class!
As soon as I had the heart of the dungeon, I knew who I needed to take it to! But then, he told me I don't have anything for him...
So, I read the description, and it said the heart of the dungeon contains the soul of the dungeon! And I know who wants souls...
Wait, he doesn't want it either? Whaaaa....?
I guess I'm heading for the exit now :D
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I'm really confused. How were you able to finish without completing the objectives? Does the game let you end and keep you locked out of the quest anyway? Does it count as a win or a fail? Do you have access to the giveaways or not?
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The objective is to find the heart and escape with it, which I did. I just wanted to explore everything before I won.
I do have access to the giveaways
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Not the very last thing, but you're pretty close to the end from there.
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The goal is to find the Heart of the Dungeon and get to the exit portal with it :)
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I was playing the game for so long I forgot going to the exit portal was the goal. I was searching for some dungeon Overlord that may or may not have even existed.
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Are faeries just super hard to hit?, my magey blasts seem to only hit them 30% of the time
p.s is the winner's limit not going to change from 10, i know you did 10 for all classes because there were only 90 players in the beginning but now there are 300(and counting), that's fine if it stays at 10 cause it's your game and it's still fun.
sincerely 'a player that doubtfully will make the top 10'
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I might increase the limit in the nearest future if most of the current spots will be taken too soon.
As for hit percentage - try to keep your concentration as high as possible at all times - defend after using a magic weapon to restore concentration.
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So its a bleeding time now! Got cut like 5 times, resurrected and got cut again... wasted all my healing items already :(
I got orc axe of triumph and i should get 10% hp and ep after i kill a monster, in game it says that i restore 63ep or something but actually i get only 39 every time.
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I have checked the artifact and haven't found any mistakes. I would like to look at a screenshot to see if something is wrong.
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Ill try to remember to make a screen next time, cant do much atm without any ep though.
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Looks like when i kill the monster with 0 ep it substracts the energy for my blow from the energy that is regenerated by the weapon passive. Ill get a shot whn i get to kill something with 0 energy, if i remember.
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22ep is the difference and its what i need to perform an attack. When i have energy it substracts ep for attack and then add the regeneration, but when its zero it works like that.
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Got it working correctly now. Thank you for the screenshots!
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is the rat on the second floor? i've found the stairs and wondering if i should actually explore the second floor yet
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Important message: Items now can not be thrown away by clicking on them. You can now use the following command to drop items, scrolls or coins: /drop amount name, e.g. /drop 5 antidotes, /drop 250 coins
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This is very helpful on second level; I had so much crap and couldn't sell / give it away to anyone :)
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Nice! In a future update you might want to save the dropped stuff on the floor so others that stop by can pick (some of) it up if they want (maybe despawn it after a while if it stays too long).
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Thanks for the idea, Dan! That won't be too simple to implement though and might make the game too easy since people will be finding tons of items each step.
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Hey, glad to see you fishworm :) Good luck in the adventure!
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Are we able to kill flesh bitter? I had resurrected like 5 times or so :'(
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Yup, he can be killed, he just has a certain chance to resurrect upon death, so you have to be a little lucky :)
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Ahh, I love this game :D Right now I'm not only overloaded, but I'm also blind, and disoriented! Whats not to love? I really do like the game :D
Edit: You are overloaded!
You are disoriented!
You are poisoned!
You are bleeding!
You are blinded!
You are cursed!
Well would you look at that! Some player took my soul :c
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How often there are happy hours in the shops? Or are they random too?
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They are random. Each hour there is a 1 out of 3 chance that it will be an hour of mixed prices.
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Bump for winning!
good thing too because i have uni tomorrow.
hints for current players:
Before going down the stairs to the 2nd floor find the Ratman on the 1st floor, he'll tell you to do something
Money is not useless, so before you throw away your life savings for a small energy potion(via trading) listen to this, there's a shop that sells... ENERGY POTIONS! can i get a hallelujah? Amen!(it's right by the stairs to the 2nd floor), i would advise waiting for the shops to get mixed prices(it will say so in the chat) so you can get them cheap.
your level probably won't be your most important thing, your equipment will(= get a good weapon), so check every flippin' wall(and get disorientated,poisoned, bled, blinded and disorientated(mostly disorientated) along the way)
also as a side note the mage ability 'soul devour' to insta-kill people is op
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Congrats!
are you sure energy potions restock in store? I've been waiting for them since yesterday but no still no restock. Or someone take them all very quickly? I don't know...
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i took 13 medium energy potions so that's probably my fault, so good news is they restock
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I bought a lot of energy potions before I went down but it turns out minotaurs are impossible to kill without a ton of life potions as a barbarian. So now I'm screwed, every big monster beats the crap out of me because I miss a lot and they don't, even "escaping" translates into having terrible morale (literally), losing xp and running away with barely any life left if at all.
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7 Right now I literally have 4 health and 0 life potions so I don't see any other choice but dying so I can come back in a few hours with some life. Not even a choice really, it will happen no matter what.
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Yeah that's about what i had, all i can suggest is try trading mage scrolls for health potions in chat(i'm sure you've found some high level scrolls that you can get big health potions for), go back to shop on 1st floor if you got that cash money and restock, check every wall(if you didn't know already, you can check the opposite side of walls for stuff as well) and kill all the monsters you can(even a 10 hp leech can drop a handy 100 attack weapon)
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Congratulations, Novazch! Hope you enjoyed the experience :)
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Why minotaurs have a 100% concussion chance? Its almost impossible to fight them... I've absolutely no idea how first mages killed them when they couldnt even regenerate concentration...
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Concentration is the most stupid thing ever... defending for 5 turns to get concentration and by that time not having hp which means you get like 10 and still cant hit and then 5 more defending turns, then you have concentration but you waste it on misses and need to defend for a million more turns, then you have nothing to heal left and thats it.
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I attack them even with 0% energy and used lots of potions and pray ...
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You cant use high level scroll while concussed. Idk how the system work but with more powerful stick i didnt miss almost at all and killed 2 so far.
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Yup, when I first encountered them I already did 100+ damage per turn with a magic weapon & I made sure to always have near full concentration at the start (and 5+ concussion resistance). I only got concussed twice or so and both times they were down to like 10 health so I could easily finish them off with ranged / melee weapon. Invisibility potion can also help greatly. And like 40 health potions just in case. Oh and brilliant morale probably greatly helped.
Near the end I had 10+ resistance and they generally died before even hitting me (150 magic attack weapon).
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I'm stuck too, I have no life, my abilities are pointless because there's no one around, no potions and no shop in sight. Minotaurs are impossible to beat as a barbarian without potions, he hits a lot, I barely touch him.
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I killed 2 minotaurs but i keep dying on normal monsters, damage is just too high and theres absolutely nobody on that level to ask for help. Its like this time i kill the monster without taking any damage and the next time the same monster literally destroys my health bar.
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Does the wizardry from the mage's 3rd skill count towards scroll limit?
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I don't think so as it only seems to raise it in battle. Didn't check though.
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They're all there, just check Global Stats | Hall of Fame at lower of the page.
http://gameofswords.net/stats/1
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then what information you need about them, their ranks? You can just go to Hall of Fame, use their scores and do some math compared with Leaderboard. Ranking is just about score.
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Hall of Fame shows all the same stats as Leaderboard.
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I know that of course :P Not really sure what scuazmooq want, seem like he want to merge Leaderboard and Hall of Fame into one. but I prefer the system as now, separate tables are good.
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All the winners are moved to the Hall of Fame. Leaderboard is for those who are still playing.
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⚔5 ✧2 ➶3 ☠1
Looks like no one has a soul around here. :P
edit: I now have the better potion talent, but now I don't see how much they regenerate, the number is undefined.
edit2: Could be since I hadn't moved yet, now I see numbers.
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⚔5 ✧4 ➶2 ☠1
And thanks for healing me btw. :)
EDIT : Sorry to Zyon, I accidently stole your golds (forgot that skill and items effected near by player) :/
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Mages 3rd skill is devour soul(instant death) for extra wizardry skill in the next 3 battles, but with 8 alive players around me, I was unable to devour any of them.
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Can someone res me on X1 Y14 on the second level? So frustrating to wait another 3 hours after like 10 minutes from the previous death -_-
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Good luck with that. There are a lot of people killing other adventurers :'(
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Great fun! Here's some feedback / tips from my playthrough. Some minor spoilers, so beware.
General tips:
- Chat range seems to be 3-4 squares; so you can't hear everyone & if you want to talk to others go to the more frequent visited spots.
- Chats / trade offers seem to be bound to the square you made them on. I've made an offer then went to the other side of the map & still had it accepted. You can use this to put multiple offers at different spots on the map.
- Trade what you can't use to other players. Mages are very interested in high tier scrolls which you'll probably never use.
- Explore everything on level 1 before going to the second level.
- Try to find the shop(s) fast; it can be worthwhile to wait for sale & then buy a whole bunch of energy potions.
- The third special ability you get kills other players. :(
Mages:
- Just put all your points in Wizardry. Scrolls are very useful. Regeneration i.e. seems to increase in effectiveness, so eventually those beat big healing potions in terms of health healed.
- I went to the second dungeon level at level 7, almost level 8. I was doing 100 damage per attack & had a few teleport scrolls just in case I needed to exit. Also 20 energy potions, 10 second breath scrolls & 10 resurrection scrolls. I bought in shop but once you can kill everything there you'll find way more stuff then you need to carry. I ended up not really needing any of those scrolls.
- Acceleration & invisibility scrolls can be pretty useful. Also: Don't be like me & keep hoarding like 30+ health potions / 5 explosive vials. Dump stuff :).
Design feedback: (which was really good, just mentioning a few stuff that I noticed :))
- The instant kill third ability is too annoying for other players in my opinion. I'd make this a bit more skill based / less frustrating. Ideally a turn based fight similar to how you fight mobs ;). The same might apply to the mage's second ability; not sure though I didn't get that used on me.
- I'd drop a hint at the start as to where the shop is. I managed to walk by it & had more then half the map explored before I found one of the shops.
- Do more with the middle window? In example: Show per square a list of players that are in that square at that time.
- The second level: I really liked the difference in design between mobs there. Near the end there I experienced power creep; the whole second level wasn't much of a challenge battle wise. Which is not necessarily bad; just that I ended up going through it relatively effortlessly.
- A choice on whether you want to go through a secret passage would have been nice.
- Automatic marking of traps (once visited).
- I really liked the dynamic between the different classes. Very nicely done.
- The automatic acquisition of new skills was very nice. Always nice to discover something new. Possible bug: Giving lots of potions to someone else triggers the heavy drinker skill greatly.
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Thanks for tips. I already know most of them but I couldn't progress well due to insta-killers. I couldn't buy any ep potion since yesterday because it goes out of stock very fast. And I can't find any energy potions. So no luck for me in this quest.
High level mages keep leeching energy of newcomers and don't let them move if they want. Besides I saw mages that play coop. One mage use soul devour, and other mage use with dark magic to revive (makes victim blind, bleed, disorianted, cursed....). So just a message of "Quit the game and don't come back. Then we can suck your energy more" There should be penalty for them or it should not this much overpowered. Currently they are cancer of the game.
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That's horrible :(. I got hit by the third ability once and the mage in question gave me a phoenix blood afterwards (while still taking 600 coins of my corpse though ;)). I agree that needs to be worked out better.
You can find a LOT of energy potions by fully exploring the first level btw (not that it matters if you get killed and have to wait three hours). I traded a lot of acceleration scrolls with non-mages and used those for movement.
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haha, I just got killed second time today with same trick of same person. I decided to quit this quest. Thanks for the annoying game SErVER51. I'll definitely avoid to participate on future quests unless you fix it.
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Sorry to hear that and I understand your frustration. I am already thinking of a solution for that.
If you want to help me improve the game, consider posting a suggestion here
Thank you!
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I actually didn't know how the mage resurrection works so when i grinded for monsters i kept using my kill+res on random players passing by and thought that for them it was like "nothing happened"... now i realize that most or all of them probably died again from all those status effects -_-
There shouldn't be straight killing abilities, safest way i think would be % of current or max hp/ep/coins(/morale/concentration).
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The mage resurrection one is one I'm conflicted about. If you are still around it's probably preferable to get resurrected with a few debuffs (unless it's like all of them?). That beats waiting three hours I guess. And it should not be too easy, having bad things happen to you is part of the challenge.
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Yeah, i got ressed 2 times and quick eye drops + clearing scoll is all i needed to continue. But i actually killed them before resurrecting... i would be pissed off if that happened to me on low levels... or even several times in short period of time.
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Congratulations, Quantum. Hope you enjoyed your adventure!
Thanks for the feedback!
- I see that many high level players return to the starting area and abuse their third ability on novices - I will surely do something about that.
- I'll consider this idea, thank you
- Yes, I think I will make it possible to view list of players at your spot at some point
- Apparently, you played smart and descended into the second level prepared and thus didn't have any problems. Good job!
- Secret walls are considered traps, thus they activate immediately after touching them (I might think of changing that)
- Traps won't be marked on the minimap, it gives another reason to make notes ;)
- Thank you!
- Yes, Heavy Drinker talent is aquired upon sharing potions, so there are no bugs here.
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Can't make notes, very low character limit, could barely write a few things.
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When i first ran out of your potions i realized how deep in trouble i actually am. When i farmed for a decent weapon it seemed that all problems stopped there, but when i ran out of potions again i felt how wrong i am for the second time, and this time i ran our of resurrections as well so... 6 hours for 2 deaths before i got out.
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Yes, it's been extremely frustrating since I went to level 2.
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As a lonely barbarian all I can do now is wait to get killed to revive with some health, move a tiny bit and then die again. I've really enjoyed the previous games but this one is Dark Souls for me. I'm so bummed out.
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A scroll of 'town recall' might be a nice idea for non-mages (that would cost you dearly in terms of XP, but that's preferable to this)..
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I wandered into lvl2 way earlier than id like too, "luckily" i got massacred not far from exit and went back to grind for gear. You can try running away from every encounter if the problem is only in health pots and not energy as well. If you're stuck in the center of lvl2 with no resources left i feel like its a LONG way home. When i ran out of resources i at least had some useful scrolls so it wasn't too bad.
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You are disoriented!
You are poisoned!
You are bleeding!
You are blinded!
You are cursed!
This is what I came back to. As well as Concentration: 1% Morale: terrible
This time the game has been incredibly frustrating to me. I basically hate most of the changes from the previous ones, it made the game so hard if you don't have potions and you're alone as a barbarian.
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I also came back to this set of conditions after a death this morning and being unable to play until about 20 minutes ago. I prematurely ended up on floor 2 as a Barbarian, so needless to say I died again in about 2 minutes. Extremely frustrating.
Can players do this to us if they stumble on us when we're away or what? Seems a bit sub-par to have this many negative conditions out of nowhere.
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Some questions about trade, I made a trade command, is it last forever or I have to type it again when moving to another area? and what range of it, how many square nearby other players can hear my trade?
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Afaik your trade stays on the square you initiated it and will stay there. Radius is about 3 squares i feel.
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Thanks for your answer :D and as SErVER51 told below, it should be 5x5 :D
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Trades and messages disappear after an hour. The trade offer stays at the area where you made it. The range is 5x5 square with you in the middle.
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Very clearly, thanks, and 1 more question, Are all the shops the same? I mean example a shop I found no longer have energy potion, any chance that another shops have it? Or how long for the next restock?
Darn I was killed few time before reach the shop and just found out no energy potion left.
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Hello Steamgifters! It is that time again - adventure time! Join a great adventure with a large amount of treasures!
All of us like playing games, and all of us like winning games. So, how about playing a game and winning games while playing?
Introduction
Game of sWords is a text RPG Adventure where you can explore dungeons, upgrade your hero, find useful items, weapons and artifacts, avoid deadly traps, fight dangerous monsters and interact with other players while searching for treasures (private SteamGifts giveaways links) on your way and trying to complete a quest to get access to a huge amount of private giveaways! Each quest has a limited number of winners split between 3 available classes - Barbarian, Wizard and Thief, so the chances in each giveaway will always be great.
All giveaways have no restrictions, so anyone who finds them can join them!
A lot of giveaways have been contributed by the community members, and I would like to say a big Thank You to everyone who made a contribution! :)
Here is the topic of the previous Game of sWords.
Here is the topic of the second Game of sWords.
And here is the topic of the first one, which started back in November last year.
Important notes about the Game
You hero has Energy Points and Health Points.
Most of the actions require Energy Points. Energy can be replenished using items which you can find everywhere, thus it is important to check everything around you!
Energy also replenishes over time and that time can be reduced with special artifacts that can be found during the adventure.
Note, that the Energy won't be replenishing during the battles (you can only restore it with potions)!
If you lose all your Health Points, you will also lose all the Energy you had plus you will have to wait for a few hours to be resurrected. Energy can not be replenished while you are dead!
Note: If you have problems navigating through the map, you can switch to Simplified Navigation at the bottom right corner.
I highly recommend to visit sWords Library that has a lot of other useful information that will help you in the adventure
What's new in Game of sWords?
It's been more than half a year since the previous Game, and, obviously, it has a lot of changes and improvements! Adventures this time will get even bigger, with more variety in everything: items, monsters, traps, weapons, artifacts, interaction, you name it!
The Game now has sounds which can be activated by clicking a Note symbol at the bottom right corner and a Chat window which can be used to communicate with other adventurers and see what is happening around you!
You can also trade with other adventurers through the Chat using following command: /trade amount item(s) you have for amount item(s) you want
E.g.
/trade 5 small healing potions for 3 small energy potions
/trade 5 acceleration scrolls for 100 coins
The Game also has a new design a a new engine which makes all kinds of interactions happen in real time.
Note: The Game engine is not properly supported by Internet Explorer (you will encounter all kinds of nasty bugs there) and it is recommended to use one of the following browsers: Chrome (perfect), Opera (perfect) or Firefox (great, but the game works a tiny bit slower and sounds sometimes mess up a little).
Current Winners limits: Barbarians:10, Mages:10, Thieves:10.
Winners get access to all giveaways available in the Game! (50+)
Everyone who finishes the Game after the limit is reached (while it is still runnning) gets 1 random treasure as a consolation prize!
All giveaways end in about a week! The Game will last for a week.
Time to start the Adventure!
EVERYONE is invited to play the Game and search for treasures in the adventure! :)
The only requirement is that your Steam account should be more than 90 days old.
Join the official group
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Want to suggest an idea to help me improve the game? Post it here! People can upvote or downvote it, and it will help me see what people do and do not want to be implemented. Thank you!
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