[Announce] PosChengband 4.0.0 Released

[wobbly]

Didn't gain a stat at lvl 5 on a chaos-warrior when my patron destructed nearby enemies, immediately putting me to lvl 6. Here's the message log (apologies for length):

http://angband.oook.cz/screen-show.php?id=3382&ok

[Regalia]

Evasion is just a straight 5-10% damage reduction from every breath. It doesn't actually dodge breaths.

I think (hope ) it's 10-20%.

Base hp feels so low in comparison to damage taken. It's fine if there are 1-2 mobs but as soon as a pack of anything attacks you then you need to teleport away.

That is typically the case, yes. Fighting multiple breathers (or anything really) is something you generally want to avoid. Set your hitpoint warning high and ctrl+arrow at a chokepoint.

And well, I do mean that for the mid-tier monsters that start showing up in areas level 40+ and do 50 dmg, or more, a hit/breath/spell/etc.

Do you have resistances you need? Past dl40 you'd better have resistances to whatever you're fighting (elements+poison+nether are an absolute must imho). If you don't, you should farm until you do.

Potions of critical healing become useless way too fast

They are still good for removing some statuses. Staves of cure wounds heal for 50 and are pretty common at dl40. Pcb4 also has summoning staves which are cheese up until dl40. From what I can fathom, you lack speed. With high speed you can run away behind a corner and heal up even with ccws.

Do you have proper monster detection? Bind detect monsters to a single key and use it all the time. Dig, make the dungeon layout work to your advantage. Pull stronger monsters one by one (again, detection).

Finally, if you detect something too strong (this takes a bit of monster knowledge sadly), don't fight it. Move elsewhere, recall out...

[debo]

Has anyone noticed weirdness around turns passing when taking screenshots?

There is a definite problem with ?Recharging. Now that it asks you for a source device, if you pick a target, go to the 'pick source' menu, and then hit esc, you definitely lose energy (I lose an entire turn every time I do this.)

[debo]

I saw the change to resistances on breaths so I tried to take up demigod evasion to be able to better handle hounds and dragons in the mid-game. But the breaths are still having their effects! From a logical standpoint I don't get how I'm dodging these breaths and then my flasks are getting broken from earth hound shards, or teleported from nexus breath, etc. Is that a bug?

Evasion is just a straight 5-10% damage reduction from every breath. It doesn't actually dodge breaths.

[Destro]

A lot of stuff...

Man I don't understand survivability in this game at all.

Just a bit of background my best char was a level 33 monk who died post-boss in lonely mountain on floor 40 while farming... because I'm dumb. I'm still working on my strategies and improving but it seems so hard to survive.

Base hp feels so low in comparison to damage taken. It's fine if there are 1-2 mobs but as soon as a pack of anything attacks you then you need to teleport away. And well, I do mean that for the mid-tier monsters that start showing up in areas level 40+ and do 50 dmg, or more, a hit/breath/spell/etc. Potions of critical healing become useless way too fast so there is 0 chance of outhealing any damage and potions of healing are gated by RNG so good luck with that. You pretty much need to have a heal from your class or be able to kill everything super fast (Berserker) to have any chance.

I've tried to make mage work so many times and I can get a mage to level 20+ in the wilderness. But as soon I as I take that mage into stronghold (like seriously) I die before I can complete it. Teleporting away works well for a while until you teleport into a pack of mobs and die before you can even make a move. Also, any fast mob that you can't kill fast is a nightmare. I just can't fathom how to make mage work, even after trying so many builds. And fighting against a monster that summons other monsters? Yeah that's impossible. :|

I saw the change to resistances on breaths so I tried to take up demigod evasion to be able to better handle hounds and dragons in the mid-game. But the breaths are still having their effects! From a logical standpoint I don't get how I'm dodging these breaths and then my flasks are getting broken from earth hound shards, or teleported from nexus breath, etc. Is that a bug?

Are monk skills bugged to show up at the wrong levels? Like, my monk didn't get any of his 'low level' skills until he already had genbu stance at level 25+.

Just some thoughts I've had for a while now while playing the game pretty hardcore this past week. Hopefully I can beat this game at least once if I ever get a tier three book other than Harps of Rivendale to drop. I'm going to keep playing monk and try out ninja some more since those seem to be the only viable classes right now, at least from my perspective.

[wobbly]

The default settings in the mogiminator for a red-mage mark every realm's 1st book as @ma which doesn't really work so well.

[Tulip]

Shield master activates don't seem all that useful. Desperation is plain inferior to healing potions. Sanctuary seems far too situation, and only seems useful for delving into a mass of enemies (that don't have dispel magic or psycho spear) to retrieve an artifact.

Some more shield-based abilities like parrying and riposting would be nice.

[Regalia]

I am surprised about this too. So this effectively makes the Spellwarp Automaton form not as magic-resistant anymore?

I think so. I can't think of any pieces of equipment that can cover that gap. It's time to start stacking health.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I'm miffed that magic resistance no longer applies to breaths. So golems are now as vulnerable to breathers as any other character.

I am surprised about this too. So this effectively makes the Spellwarp Automaton form not as magic-resistant anymore?

[Regalia]

I'm miffed that magic resistance no longer applies to breaths. So golems are now as vulnerable to breathers as any other character.

[wobbly]

I quite like the resistance changes. Some things are more dangerous, yesh but long term you have to deal with things like black reavers that will mana storm you anyway & uniques with psycho-spear.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Take a stroll to the Glass castle and tell me how much those Ethereal dragons hurt

[debo]

I've played a few characters reasonably far and I haven't noticed that the resistance thing was that big a change. I haven't been hit by a cyberdemon rocket yet, either

[mewmew]

haven't played for a while, reading the forum it seems the balance was seriously broken with this resistances nerf (what, as if that 'gather a gazillion of resistances not to be one-shot' game wasn't hard already) and with the seeming abundance of accidental permanent race changes (as if stat swapping wasn't bad already)...

well, i have an unfinished character in ~3.4 and can always stick to that version too

[HugoVirtuoso]

thanks for the replies,guys!

so,was anything balanced to counteract the resistance decrease?are high resistances more common now?

ps:i cant imagine surviving an encounter with cyberdemons or spectral wyrms now ._.

Imo, resistances seem to be more common on Amulets and Rings (Well, that's I thought)