I just want to say again how much I appreciate this walkthrough. I'm on episode 9 now (killed Tiamat & Vecna), and I'll probably pause - no point in watching the late game until I can actually get a character that far.
I've done a great job of getting my Yellow Mages to around XL 34-36 range - I've gotten around 5 of them that far - but I keep splatting at that point due to overconfidence. Once I can spam Breathe Lightning its hard to avoid hubris. My latest died due to stupidity - walked into Dragon Quest full of confidence but forgot my cure poison mushrooms and thought I could still risk taking out the green dragon room. I should have just skipped that room and failed the Quest.
Oh and thanks to your walkthrough I finally used Trump tower to bring my scrolls of acquisition to DL 98 of Angband. I survived but only got two wands of disintegration (one of which had 395 mana!). Still better than the usual dross I get from reading Acquisition scrolls at normal dungeon depths.
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To be pedantic, I actually think Frost Bolt is more mana efficient. It does one more d8 than Lightning Bolt, for the same cost (3 mp at !Mastery level, 2 mp if you have Dm). But Lightning is still the better choice because 1) it's a little faster for a yellow-mage and 2) far fewer enemies resist it.
I've learned a lot of tactical tricks from your videos. The main one is targeting monsters around a corner with a bolt spell by manually targeting a point beyond the monster - I didn't know you could do that. Also Recall to Warrens Level 1. And of course the Detect Monsters timing trick others have commented on.Leave a comment:
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Thanks for watching!
In terms of spells learned, lightning spells in the first book are the most mana efficient and as long as you're fighting monsters that don't resist it you can get by just fine. In the second book shard bolt is good for enemies that resist the base elements, and plasma bolt is good for stunning monsters. You do have a good point about meteor! I waited until Armageddon book 3 to finish off Camelot but I could have done it earlier with meteor I think. Honestly I forgot it existed. There's no reason not to learn every spell, and that might be better, since you would have more damage type coverage - I'm just lazy and don't want to have to make more than a few macros for casting.
I do slow down a bit once I get to the later dungeons, but yeah I do find it easier to ignore most monsters and skip straight to end of a dungeon, or near it. Finishing off dungeons is the best way of getting stat increases in the early game before potions start showing up, and typically you want to speed through the early game since the loot is so much better later on.Leave a comment:
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These are great, thanks! I’m not really a YouTube guy - whenever I’m watching a walkthrough I think I’d rather be playing the game than watching someone else play. But yours were good.
Thanks to your Yeek Yellow Mage walkthrough I’m playing one now and really enjoying. I’d never given that class a shot before - the benefit of fast casting hadn’t sunk in. I haven’t finished the videos, I’ve gotten as far as Troll Caves so far. I’ll watch the rest today.
One question I wish you had addressed (at least so far) - strategy in which Armageddon spells you choose and which you skip. I found it interesting that in Books 1 and 2 you skipped a lot of spells, and focused almost entirely on Lightning in the early game. I’v always assumed I should memorize every Arma spell. Why not fireball or frost ball? Why not meteor?
Edit: one thing that really struck me about your play style is how willing you were to not deal with things. You quickly descended down stairs without waiting for level feelings, you ignored lots of monsters you could have killed with some time/effort, when a monster looks like a hassle you just teleported it away without second thought, and when the level got messy you just "reset" it by recalling and returning. When you entered Vault you just ninja'ed Sting and left. I definitely need to incorporate more of that attitude in my playing. One of my biggest weaknesses in roguelikes is a compulsion to finish everything.
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And done.
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watching it now!The Yellow-Mage is now done.
Final video here:
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I've reuploaded several videos from the Demigod Warrior playthrough that were corrupted, so hopefully the full playthrough is actually watchable now. Apologies if you're subscribed and got spammed with emails.Leave a comment:
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The Yellow-Mage is now done.
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Decided to start a new playthrough, a Yellow-Mage this time. Hopefully it's different enough from the Warrior playthrough to be interesting.
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Yeah it most likely is due to my crappy internet. Thanks for the detailed post, I'll definitely make some changes if I decide to do more videos.Leave a comment:
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I'm thinking the corruption could be due to low upload bandwidth, maybe? Looking at your videos, 1080p60 is already an option and shouldn't be corrupt.
Of note, MP4 fails if OBS does not encode correctly or suddenly corrupts the video. Any reason why you're using MP4? With MKV, the file is accessible for the most part, like at least > 90% of intended recorded content, should the recording get interrupted in event of a sudden system down. I used to rely on MP4 until I lost complete a great OBS PosChengband recording a few years ago. Once I switched from MP4 to MKV, I never looked back. Maybe try recording only as MKV and check for first upload attempts on YouTube for any differences. Maybe, you'll get better results with MKV.
On my 2014 laptop rig, my most recent OBS settings are:
Video FPS: 48 FPS
Output resolution: 1920x1080
Recording format: MKV
Encoder: x264
Rate control: CRF
CRF (setting): 23
CPU Usage Preset: superfast
Profile: (none)
Tune: (none)
VBR: OFF
Audio bitrate: 160
Audio sample rate: 48 KHz
Channels: Stereo
It is through these settings I get the best balance between quality vs. size of the MKV video file, because of the 2014 hardware.
My 2014 laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P55W-B5220 model with a base 1.7 GHz 4th gen dual core i5, 16GB RAM, Intel HD 4400 integrated GPU, and 240GB SATA SSD. I have a much newer 2020 CLEVO laptop with much more powerful specs normally recording at 90 FPS, which I've put away because I'm a break from it
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My experience is that I had to upload a video around three times on average before the YouTube processing actually worked, and even then half my videos ended up having glitched out video and/or audio, which is incredibly frustrating.
So I would upload a video, wait for it to finish processing (or get stuck/fail in which case I'd have to start over) and then skim through the video to make sure nothing glitched out. First time through something was almost always messed up in the YouTube vid, so I'd have to delete it and start again. I was actually hoping to upload the last two videos on Saturday, but I had so many failures at YouTube's processing stage that I only got them out on Monday, and even then it looks like the second to last one did in fact glitch out, because YouTube still hasn't processed it in HD.
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