An even newer update, detailed HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0N12w3csI
CRAWL is an Early Access game that incorporates multiplayer and dungeon crawling in a unique fashion. You and 3 friends (or 3 bots) play together - 1 player is a lone adventurer and the other 3 players are ghosts attempting to fuck you over and then possess your corpse to continue on for their own gains. It has some Rogue-lite elements such as randomized dungeons, random loot and shops, boss creatures.
This seems like a pretty big update (Their last was in February). I have yet to play this game, but Saturday I am getting a bunch of friends together to play, so seeing this update got me even more excited. I doubt they'll get this update out in time for when I'm playing, but it sounds like it should be hitting within a week's time.
Anyone play this yet? It's been in Early Access for a few months now, but I haven't seen much on GAF about it.
Here's a trailer for those that are unaware:What to expect from next update
Just a little update to let you know where we're at with the next update.
Dave had a child, so he took a month off to figure out how to raise a baby- while he was away, I have been making content with a focus on adding more to existing systems (things where I don't need code support from Dave)
Dave is back at work today, so we will soon be able to package up the stuff I've been working on and put the update out
Here is a rundown on the main stuff I've put in since the last update:
-a new large rare statue monster "Gaben"
-a new environment "The Crypt"
-a new regular weapon type "The Battle Axe" which is slower than the swords but very powerful
-5 new "Challenge Gods" which you can select to up the challenge if Crawl is getting a bit too easy for you, or if you're playing against beginners
-a new Tier 3 monster for the Flying Eye chain, to make it a full 4-Tier chain like the others
-2 new types of Magic Staff: "Greater Ice Shards" and "Chain Ice Shards"
-a new "Flaming Magic Bow" weapon
-a new Artifact the "Toad Necklace" which halves all store prices, but intermittently turns you into a frog
-a new unique weapon property: weapons in the store can now randomly be "nauseating" which makes them much cheaper, but curses you to vomit regularly
-fodder blob colors tweaked to better fit the palette
-ghosts now have "spawn" animations where they rise up out of the ground- helps to stop you losing your position when being killed and becoming a ghost
-the first room of each floor now shows the stairs you came down from
-the "Flame Archer Skeleton" now has a flaming head to differentiate himself, instead of the ugly red tint
-new "door close animations" to make it a lot more clear when you are being locked into a room
-"Spell Runes" drawn on spell images in the store are redesigned to represent the effect of each spell instead of just being random runes
-countless tweaks and balance adjustments including:
-------faster projectiles for the hooded haunt
-------tribal shield tweaked to combat bad dominant strategies
-------vampric ring re-tweaked
-------mushroom slime damage increased
-------blobs shooting further, and move speed increased when inhabited
-------spider web attack tweaked to feel better
-------improved feel/funtion for fireball tome
-------improved effectiveness of tears tome
-------"acid blood" reworked to play a lot better
-------scorpion balance tweaks
I also did a lot of prototyping for broader tweaks which won't necessarily go in for this update, but I'm pretty happy with how it all went and can't wait to try some of these whole-game tweaks to make combat encounters more dynamic.
Over the next few days we'll be putting the finishing touches on and doing testing to get this out- if there are significant balance problems that have been annoying you, feel free to mention them here and we might be able to sneak a few more tweaks in if we can find fixes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0N12w3csI
CRAWL is an Early Access game that incorporates multiplayer and dungeon crawling in a unique fashion. You and 3 friends (or 3 bots) play together - 1 player is a lone adventurer and the other 3 players are ghosts attempting to fuck you over and then possess your corpse to continue on for their own gains. It has some Rogue-lite elements such as randomized dungeons, random loot and shops, boss creatures.
This seems like a pretty big update (Their last was in February). I have yet to play this game, but Saturday I am getting a bunch of friends together to play, so seeing this update got me even more excited. I doubt they'll get this update out in time for when I'm playing, but it sounds like it should be hitting within a week's time.
Anyone play this yet? It's been in Early Access for a few months now, but I haven't seen much on GAF about it.