[Announce] English Translation for Hengband Touhou Katteban v1.1.95

[ster]

What's the deal with Hecatia? She cycled through all of her forms on my first run but only Otherworld got marked as dead in the unique list, but this run I only saw Otherworld and Earth but both were marked dead.

Assuming this even matters at all for the tiny amount of score it brings.

[Cryomaniac]

For now, I'm trying to add some minor interface things to this mod. For example, I've tried changing monster recall in EN version - it displays separate sections on their own lines instead of throwing everything in a single block of text; I think this looks more readable. The spells and attacks sections still look cramped, though, and it'd be nice to display spell damage as well.

[Cryomaniac]

Fixed, made another release; that was because of logic tied to the English name of the race - 'god' originally wasn't capitalized, and it broke when I changed it to match other races/classes.

[ster]

Can't seem to check my stray god virtues at Reimu (and if there are messages for gaining/losing virtues, they aren't showing up)

[ster]

Whoops, despite being The Summoning Guy I completely forgot you could summon things in this variant since it's usually such a bad idea. That and not having looked up the specifics on when Wave Cannon gets used out of LoS, thanks.

[Cryomaniac]

Omega's very nasty and can deal a ton of damage (kind of similar to Nodens, with guaranteed spellcasting + powerful attacks), but it has its weaknesses as well. First of all, it casts spells at random, and some of them can be rendered ineffective (fire immunity + reflection). Also, it lacks electricity resistance, and if you can get a powerful lightning breather as a follower, it can drop its HP down pretty quickly. You'll still need to spend a lot of resources, especially if you're a close combat character.

[ster]

Well, in the end, I found a broken sword in Assassinate Kaguya, a scarlet gold to repair it with in the postgame floors, and J dropped Crown of Numenor so I could artifact create the broken sword before repairing it. Result doubled my damage in case I wanted to fight Omega and max level marisas forever (I didn't). Definitely worth planning out for in future runs


e: speaking of which, I'm all ears regarding ways to actually kill Omega, that's probably the nastiest thing I've seen in any variant.

[Cryomaniac]

Is there a better way to get broken weapons to repair than <>ing DL1 for broken death swords? Specifically broken sticks, I guess, since the extra effects on axes and spears seem to punch way above their weight class.

Or is it not worth the hassle and I should be artifact creating things with good base types to start to make endgame weapons?

I don't think there's a better way to grind for broken weapons; save them up before you find valuable repair materials. Also, while axes/spears have good proficiency bonuses, katanas have high damage as well and get strong crits as a proficiency bonus, and Hihiirokane Swords deal 7d5 damage and have innate vorpal bonus. You're not getting endgame weapons out of repairing unless you use endgame materials - Hihiirokane is extremely rare (and it's required to repair into Hihiirokane sword); Silver Key is a guaranteed high level quest reward that, among other things, gives strong deity slaying, which works on Oberon, and it boosts dice/sides by 2.

I personally would save Artifact Creation for top tier base weapons, but I think you also can first use Artifact Creation on a broken weapon, then repair it to get extra bonuses as well.

[ster]

Is there a better way to get broken weapons to repair than <>ing DL1 for broken death swords? Specifically broken sticks, I guess, since the extra effects on axes and spears seem to punch way above their weight class.

Or is it not worth the hassle and I should be artifact creating things with good base types to start to make endgame weapons?

[clouded]

MARIPO doesn't have an Amulet of Telepathy as a reward; it's the reward for the second quest in the building (one on one vs Jabberwock)

Ahh okay, thanks.

[Cryomaniac]

Which MARIPO reward is the amulet of telepathy? I bought a bunch of them to see what they were on my first win but I've forgotten now and I can't seem to tell from the source. Won with Yuugi and Seiga so far, playing a Zashiki-warashi archer now. Waiting for the ladder to post the dumps.

MARIPO doesn't have an Amulet of Telepathy as a reward; it's the reward for the second quest in the building (one on one vs Jabberwock)

[clouded]

Which MARIPO reward is the amulet of telepathy? I bought a bunch of them to see what they were on my first win but I've forgotten now and I can't seem to tell from the source. Won with Yuugi and Seiga so far, playing a Zashiki-warashi archer now. Waiting for the ladder to post the dumps.

[Cryomaniac]

Posted a new release on github; it fixes the issues you've mentioned, along with some other I've found.

[Cryomaniac]

Oh, I forgot to complain about stuff. The Lunar Rainbow Market sometimes shows garbled japanese text when I try and visit to exchange cards past midnight and my Three Fairies of Light learned a move at level 40 that shows up as similar jumbled/untranslated text.

I'll take I look; as I said, there's a ton of stuff to translate, and it's very possible I've missed something.

[ster]

Oh, I forgot to complain about stuff. The Lunar Rainbow Market sometimes shows garbled japanese text when I try and visit to exchange cards past midnight and my Three Fairies of Light learned a move at level 40 that shows up as similar jumbled/untranslated text.